--- > [!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.* --- 01:35.780 --> 01:38.465 [Riv (DM)]: I think everything is good. 01:39.788 --> 01:40.309 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:40.349 --> 01:41.491 [Riv (DM)]: I think we're set. 01:41.591 --> 01:42.072 [Riv (DM)]: I think we're going. 01:42.653 --> 01:43.154 [Riv (DM)]: Fantastic. 01:44.737 --> 01:46.641 [Riv (DM)]: So, I guess we'll do a quick recap of last time. 01:48.104 --> 01:52.472 [Riv (DM)]: Super quick, because let's just sort of jump straight back into where we left off. 01:52.452 --> 01:58.619 [Riv (DM)]: You arrived at Farhaven, the city, after travelling for a few days. 01:59.460 --> 02:07.390 [Riv (DM)]: You have in tow a young girl called Leah who is being transported to Val Miriel so that she can do some work for the Order of the Ravens there. 02:09.152 --> 02:14.038 [Riv (DM)]: While travelling through Farhaven you notice that 02:14.018 --> 02:16.602 [Riv (DM)]: Things seem to be coming to a bubbling point. 02:18.385 --> 02:27.120 [Riv (DM)]: Whether or not it was legitimate or not, the soldiers there had been roughing up some of the local citizens, which you helped intervene and rescue one of them. 02:30.486 --> 02:35.875 [Riv (DM)]: You notice from seeing the painting of a nail on one of the buildings, it looked like 02:35.855 --> 02:41.748 [Riv (DM)]: Some of the freed slaves from Skyreach have already started their work of trying to spread the word and fan the flames. 02:42.490 --> 02:48.864 [Riv (DM)]: And possibly, as a result, that's why the military is starting to cramp down a bit more. 02:49.626 --> 02:52.733 [Riv (DM)]: The person that you saved helped you find 02:52.713 --> 03:08.358 [Riv (DM)]: The ruins outside of the city of Farhaven which had been sent to you in a message from Liliana saying that they've got important information and they want to meet you at the ruins outside of Farhaven. 03:09.119 --> 03:14.788 [Riv (DM)]: So following the road onwards you found the woods and you started getting through them 03:15.950 --> 03:18.777 [Riv (DM)]: The woods are dense and dark and mysterious. 03:19.158 --> 03:32.710 [Riv (DM)]: As you get further and further into the middle you find that the ruined city starts to appear and there are these large sort of like concentric circular walls of buildings sort of almost like the city was arranged in a circular pattern. 03:32.690 --> 03:47.215 [Riv (DM)]: You decided to camp the night there because it was getting dark and there were sounds and you were concerned about the dangers of the woods and the next day you went and explored a bit. 03:47.635 --> 03:49.298 [Riv (DM)]: I believe it had 03:49.278 --> 03:56.606 [Riv (DM)]: Rio had found something in some freshly dug dirt that morning. 03:56.666 --> 04:09.980 [Riv (DM)]: You went out to investigate a bit closer as a group and found that it was none other than the body of Harland Feingold, who was the head of the Feingold Caravan group that you were here to meet. 04:10.941 --> 04:12.803 [Riv (DM)]: And we will pick up directly there. 04:13.183 --> 04:16.146 [Riv (DM)]: So you are in the woods. 04:16.126 --> 04:22.824 [Riv (DM)]: Up against the base of a ruined building and the corpse of your friend at your feet. 04:24.929 --> 04:25.631 [Riv (DM)]: I'll hand it over to you. 04:25.651 --> 04:26.473 [Riv (DM)]: What are you guys up to? 04:32.090 --> 04:38.799 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I vaguely recall it looked like he'd been dead for a few days due to a cut throat. 04:38.819 --> 04:43.185 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, throat has been slashed neatly with some sort of blade. 04:44.206 --> 04:46.029 [Riv (DM)]: And it's probably been a few days. 04:46.129 --> 04:46.329 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 04:48.793 --> 04:50.735 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm gonna eye over the body. 04:51.156 --> 04:54.000 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Any signs of struggle? 04:56.363 --> 04:57.945 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, roll a medicine check. 05:04.928 --> 05:06.271 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, that's good. 05:06.531 --> 05:08.315 [Riv (DM)]: Nice kicking off strong today. 05:08.355 --> 05:11.222 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't look like it, no. 05:11.763 --> 05:12.685 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't look like any struggle. 05:17.715 --> 05:19.179 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, whoever got him did it quick. 05:21.684 --> 05:22.045 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, whoever. 05:22.085 --> 05:24.490 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's a knife cut, it's not a claw. 05:30.578 --> 05:32.141 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um, sussing the hole? 05:32.281 --> 05:37.650 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Was it like it was quickly dug and scraped over or were they actually laid to rest as it were? 05:38.992 --> 05:40.615 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, it looks pretty crude to be honest. 05:40.635 --> 05:44.382 [Riv (DM)]: You know, you can see like, um, yeah, really, really rough. 05:44.562 --> 05:48.829 [Riv (DM)]: Like maybe it was dug with a small instrument, not like a proper shovel or anything. 05:49.250 --> 05:50.933 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and quick job. 05:55.199 --> 06:00.747 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, I'd like to check in the hall, see if there's anything dumped along with his body in the hall. 06:01.968 --> 06:02.189 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 06:02.209 --> 06:04.672 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can dig around a little bit when you roll an investigation. 06:05.693 --> 06:06.274 [Riv (DM)]: For the hell of it. 06:06.735 --> 06:07.055 [Riv (DM)]: Sure. 06:19.933 --> 06:21.595 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it doesn't seem like there was anything in there. 06:27.228 --> 06:31.973 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Quick, clean, taken by surprise and hastily buried. 06:35.337 --> 06:40.363 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is there any other signs around of disturbance? 06:43.447 --> 06:46.890 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: MrTrackerman, what do your elven eyes see? 06:50.314 --> 06:56.121 [JC (Ryo)]: I thought I'd found tracks of a beast last time I was here. 06:56.945 --> 06:57.606 [JC (Ryo)]: Large Beast. 06:58.446 --> 06:59.748 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, this is no work of a beast. 07:02.110 --> 07:04.432 [JC (Ryo)]: Now, can I look around the area to see if I can find some more? 07:04.812 --> 07:06.393 [JC (Ryo)]: Any other tracks, Riv? 07:06.413 --> 07:08.415 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, man. 07:08.555 --> 07:09.456 [Riv (DM)]: Roll investigation. 07:15.141 --> 07:17.083 [JC (Ryo)]: I get advantage, don't I? 07:19.025 --> 07:20.246 [Lacer (Kai)]: Avid enemy. 07:20.326 --> 07:22.308 [JC (Ryo)]: We're in a, we're in a, no, we're not. 07:22.328 --> 07:22.828 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's not a wastage. 07:22.848 --> 07:23.649 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's your favourite terrain. 07:24.510 --> 07:26.091 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Investigation's intelligence knowledge. 07:26.780 --> 07:28.963 [Riv (DM)]: If you want to do survival, that works as well. 07:33.127 --> 07:34.970 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, investigation's intelligence. 07:35.470 --> 07:36.111 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 07:36.131 --> 07:36.411 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 07:36.872 --> 07:37.753 [JC (Ryo)]: Favourite terrain. 07:37.813 --> 07:42.879 [JC (Ryo)]: When you make an intelligence or wisdom related check. 07:43.460 --> 07:43.800 [Riv (DM)]: There you go. 07:43.840 --> 07:44.461 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 07:44.481 --> 07:50.348 [Riv (DM)]: There you go. 07:50.368 --> 07:52.230 [Riv (DM)]: Refugee bonuses doubled. 07:56.463 --> 07:59.266 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, it's Proficiency doubled, not Advantage, sorry. 08:00.908 --> 08:01.289 [Riv (DM)]: That's all good. 08:04.192 --> 08:07.336 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, just roll again, and we'll double the three. 08:09.058 --> 08:09.439 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry. 08:10.040 --> 08:10.460 [Riv (DM)]: That's serious. 08:11.021 --> 08:11.561 [JC (Ryo)]: Remembered wrong. 08:12.423 --> 08:12.523 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 08:12.543 --> 08:12.923 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, look at that. 08:13.904 --> 08:15.026 [Lacer (Kai)]: No difference. 08:16.047 --> 08:18.490 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does that become a plus six instead of a plus three? 08:18.850 --> 08:20.192 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, so it'll be 21. 08:21.488 --> 08:29.997 [Riv (DM)]: Alright um yeah looking around you can see sort of like scrapes in the dirt around that you know 08:30.989 --> 08:33.612 [Riv (DM)]: Clearly this was a very messy, quick job. 08:34.553 --> 08:43.782 [Riv (DM)]: Whoever did this wasn't particularly a strong digger or, you know, it wasn't like someone had taken a lot of time to intentionally bury this. 08:43.802 --> 08:47.126 [Riv (DM)]: It was like, let's just quickly do this, cover it up and hope for the best. 08:47.847 --> 08:55.434 [Riv (DM)]: But with that check as well, you do notice sort of like drag marks and footprints sort of leading away from the area. 08:55.895 --> 08:57.697 [Riv (DM)]: Clearly the body had to have been dragged or something. 08:58.097 --> 09:00.760 [Riv (DM)]: And you seem to see evidence of that. 09:03.102 --> 09:05.524 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 09:05.544 --> 09:07.046 [JC (Ryo)]: Whatever happened, happened this way, guys. 09:07.066 --> 09:07.686 [JC (Ryo)]: Let's go this way. 09:09.308 --> 09:11.069 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll cover him over again. 09:14.012 --> 09:14.693 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 09:16.354 --> 09:28.025 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We think that this happened before or after we got the message to meet him? 09:28.045 --> 09:29.987 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We got the message from Gemma, not from him. 09:31.688 --> 09:33.069 [Riv (DM)]: Liliana, actually. 09:34.431 --> 09:38.755 [Riv (DM)]: You knew that Lili had some sort of clerical powers from discussions with her earlier. 09:40.537 --> 09:44.922 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, this is only a couple of days, so... 09:44.942 --> 10:00.598 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The bloodstripe hasn't started to rot, so... Was there any sign of anything placed upon the top, or was it just a dirt pile and shoved into the dirt pile? 10:01.085 --> 10:02.607 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, just shoved in to do it. 10:02.627 --> 10:04.529 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing on top. 10:04.549 --> 10:06.852 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Whenever we did this, it was either in a hurry or didn't care. 10:07.352 --> 10:08.914 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: But they cared enough to hide him. 10:08.934 --> 10:09.414 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or bury him. 10:11.577 --> 10:14.861 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Which either implies speed or stealth. 10:17.263 --> 10:18.965 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, let's follow the tracks and see what we can find. 10:19.025 --> 10:20.347 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm sure there's gonna be a mess at the end of it. 10:21.748 --> 10:26.294 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just wondering, should we put his body in the cart? 10:26.334 --> 10:28.476 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because it won't decay for ten days. 10:30.430 --> 10:32.333 [JC (Ryo)]: Didn't we leave the cart behind like an hour ago? 10:33.475 --> 10:34.536 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, was it an hour ago? 10:34.556 --> 10:36.199 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 10:36.219 --> 10:38.803 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm not sure how long ago, but... Yeah. 10:38.903 --> 10:39.143 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 10:39.884 --> 10:40.706 [Riv (DM)]: Half an hour, 45-ish. 10:40.866 --> 10:41.206 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 10:42.709 --> 10:49.118 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'd like to mark the closest tree with some druidic notes saying Harland is buried here. 10:49.158 --> 10:54.827 [Lacer (Kai)]: And place some markings around so that we know, or I know, next time if we come back. 10:56.409 --> 10:58.733 [Lacer (Kai)]: Actually, I like to mark it on the map as well. 11:01.075 --> 11:02.918 [Lacer (Kai)]: You mean your, um, your parchment map? 11:03.879 --> 11:04.179 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 11:05.661 --> 11:10.248 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably too zoomed out to get any fine detail like that, to be honest. 11:10.268 --> 11:12.110 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, just, just roughly, roughly. 11:12.531 --> 11:19.200 [Lacer (Kai)]: Outside of, what is it, the direction of, um, was this Val, not Val Miriel? 11:19.781 --> 11:20.462 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Farhaven. 11:20.482 --> 11:20.662 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Farhaven. 11:20.983 --> 11:22.024 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Forest outside Farhaven. 11:22.465 --> 11:25.449 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, the direction of forest outside Farhaven, ruins. 11:25.889 --> 11:26.030 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 11:26.050 --> 11:26.771 [Lacer (Kai)]: Half an hour out. 11:27.732 --> 11:28.273 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, fair enough. 11:29.655 --> 11:29.935 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 11:35.753 --> 11:39.604 [Riv (DM)]: So, are we following the tracks then? 11:42.993 --> 11:44.036 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Best lead we got at the moment. 11:45.360 --> 11:45.460 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 11:47.887 --> 11:52.614 [Riv (DM)]: You can start making your way, picking your way through the ruins and the dark woods. 11:53.035 --> 11:56.180 [Riv (DM)]: It's morning now so things are a bit lighter. 11:56.761 --> 12:05.714 [Riv (DM)]: I'd probably say it's still dim light-ish because just the density of the canopy itself is blocking out a lot of the light but it's lighter than it was the night before. 12:06.295 --> 12:07.397 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of the 12:07.377 --> 12:12.285 [Riv (DM)]: Noises of beasts and creatures that you heard are now less noticeable. 12:12.406 --> 12:14.950 [Riv (DM)]: Seems like they have either gone to sleep or are nocturnal. 12:16.272 --> 12:19.317 [Riv (DM)]: You do hear the odd birds chirping here and there. 12:20.199 --> 12:23.184 [Riv (DM)]: The odd small, you know, furry creature maybe runs across your path. 12:23.645 --> 12:25.969 [Riv (DM)]: But for the most part, it's all the same woods. 12:26.650 --> 12:27.411 [Riv (DM)]: It's all a bit eerie. 12:28.640 --> 12:36.876 [Riv (DM)]: And you can follow the tracks in deeper towards the centre of wherever this city was. 12:36.936 --> 12:39.882 [Riv (DM)]: It feels like you're heading inwards. 12:40.403 --> 12:51.424 [Riv (DM)]: If the buildings themselves are laid out in a circular pattern, you're heading directly towards the centre of wherever the centre of this place is. 12:52.973 --> 12:54.134 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, real quick. 12:54.174 --> 13:04.107 [JC (Ryo)]: According to the explorer, the natural explorer, I know how many, how large they were and roughly how long ago they passed through, so the tracks were tracing. 13:05.108 --> 13:05.929 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 13:06.610 --> 13:07.931 [Riv (DM)]: There were three people. 13:09.633 --> 13:10.955 [Riv (DM)]: And it would have been, yeah, a few days ago. 13:12.497 --> 13:16.642 [JC (Ryo)]: And we're talking, like, humanoid people, not something massive? 13:17.002 --> 13:17.903 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, three humanoids. 13:19.165 --> 13:22.489 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 13:22.509 --> 13:22.609 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 13:25.340 --> 13:29.608 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What are the chances it's that random gang of toughs from the Lost Town? 13:33.514 --> 13:34.256 [Riv (DM)]: That would be wild. 13:35.238 --> 13:36.680 [Riv (DM)]: Don't worry, I'll spring them on you sometime. 13:39.004 --> 13:41.188 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool, so... 13:42.451 --> 14:11.867 [Riv (DM)]: I guess just shout out shout out to me if there's anything that you you know that you want to do as you're getting closer but as far as I'm concerned you're heading inwards um you'll pass through one sort of area of ruined buildings you need to sort of climb up and over top of a few of them um and maybe the next set you can you have to kid downwards along them for a little way before cutting through just because there's no easy way to get through um it's like a perfect place for an ambush still yeah making your way inwards 14:12.269 --> 14:14.432 [JC (Ryo)]: If memory serves, we still have the horses in tow. 14:14.452 --> 14:15.794 [JC (Ryo)]: Are we still trying to drag him through? 14:16.395 --> 14:16.515 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 14:16.535 --> 14:19.880 [Riv (DM)]: You do still have horses, yep. 14:19.900 --> 14:28.432 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just checking the tracks we're following, did it still have the drag marks of the three, or was, like, the kill close to where he was buried? 14:29.613 --> 14:32.477 [Riv (DM)]: Still drag marks, yep. 14:32.497 --> 14:33.198 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Drag him a long way. 14:33.439 --> 14:33.719 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh dear. 14:34.340 --> 14:34.480 [Riv (DM)]: Mm-hmm. 14:36.012 --> 14:39.738 [Riv (DM)]: So you're carrying on for 10 minutes, 15 minutes. 14:40.940 --> 14:44.005 [Riv (DM)]: The angle of the buildings are getting tighter and tighter. 14:44.706 --> 14:48.232 [Riv (DM)]: About 20 minutes following the trail. 14:49.574 --> 14:51.978 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like to cast Vigilance. 14:52.219 --> 14:52.960 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's in the front? 14:53.341 --> 14:54.282 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's taking point? 14:57.187 --> 14:58.589 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Mr Scoutman, probably Roy. 14:59.130 --> 14:59.691 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I guess I am. 15:00.734 --> 15:03.117 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, who's second? 15:03.157 --> 15:09.145 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I think Mr. Scoutman already has advantage on going early. 15:09.986 --> 15:13.290 [Lacer (Kai)]: Actually, I'll just whack this Vigilant Blessing on Vale. 15:17.836 --> 15:20.078 [JC (Ryo)]: Don't think I have anything to Initiative, but I don't remember. 15:28.169 --> 15:28.429 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 15:31.025 --> 15:42.317 [Riv (DM)]: Following the trail for about 20 minutes, you start coming to more densely packed buildings that are sort of ruined. 15:43.715 --> 15:49.000 [Riv (DM)]: It feels like you're getting close to the centre now just in the way that they're laid out, I suppose. 15:50.902 --> 15:51.782 [Riv (DM)]: Some of them are quite tall. 15:52.703 --> 15:56.847 [Riv (DM)]: There are ways you can see that you climb up on top of them and there are like ledges here and there. 15:58.669 --> 16:05.115 [Riv (DM)]: There are big openings between them with windows that sort of look in between the different sort of layers and columns. 16:05.615 --> 16:10.920 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, about 20 minutes in, 16:12.318 --> 16:18.846 [Riv (DM)]: You notice, up ahead of you, in the dim light, there appears to be flickering light. 16:19.787 --> 16:22.070 [Riv (DM)]: Almost like there may be a campfire or something up ahead. 16:27.957 --> 16:37.549 [Riv (DM)]: You don't have direct line of sight, sorry, on it because it's tucked in behind some of the ruined buildings, but just you can tell from the telltale reflections of light on some of the walls. 16:39.706 --> 16:43.511 [JC (Ryo)]: Stop the party and just point in that general direction just to make sure everyone sees it. 16:46.494 --> 16:47.115 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool stuff. 16:47.135 --> 16:52.061 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to unstopper my decanter of unending water. 16:55.185 --> 16:55.605 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm scared. 16:57.428 --> 17:00.712 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nah, just someone might get thirsty, you know? 17:01.392 --> 17:02.414 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, of course. 17:02.494 --> 17:04.296 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing wacky, right, that you're gonna spring on me? 17:05.818 --> 17:08.081 [Riv (DM)]: Not yet. 17:08.101 --> 17:08.481 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 17:11.752 --> 17:18.041 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Probably signal everyone to do a light scatter. 17:18.622 --> 17:19.583 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Get online, as it were. 17:21.106 --> 17:22.668 [Riv (DM)]: Of course you're gonna sort of fan out a bit. 17:22.688 --> 17:25.252 [Riv (DM)]: Do a perception check? 17:27.094 --> 17:28.216 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, absolutely, if you like. 17:28.797 --> 17:29.738 [Riv (DM)]: What are you looking for? 17:32.302 --> 17:34.926 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Danger, I guess. 17:38.070 --> 17:38.451 [Riv (DM)]: Go for it, dude. 17:44.118 --> 17:45.179 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will, yeah. 17:52.866 --> 17:53.166 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright. 17:58.091 --> 18:07.659 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, other than the sort of flickering light of the campfire, you don't see anything else that might seem dangerous. 18:08.520 --> 18:13.905 [Riv (DM)]: You know, you might, with a 20, you might hear the odd rustle of movement. 18:15.337 --> 18:17.139 [Riv (DM)]: But, yeah, other than that, seems okay. 18:21.585 --> 18:28.473 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I would like to try and get... sneak up, get close enough to extinguish the campfire with Prestidigitation. 18:29.835 --> 18:30.876 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 18:30.896 --> 18:31.917 [Riv (DM)]: Um, what are the rest of you guys gonna do? 18:33.940 --> 18:36.964 [Riv (DM)]: You gonna come along with, or is he going to go ahead? 18:39.547 --> 18:41.609 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll continue sneaking my way up. 18:41.629 --> 18:42.270 [Riv (DM)]: I'll hold. 18:43.732 --> 18:43.892 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright. 18:46.505 --> 18:52.912 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, I will hold with Val since I'm not very good at sneaking. 18:55.254 --> 18:56.155 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 18:56.215 --> 19:03.103 [Riv (DM)]: So we've got Rio and Erendor sneaking up and then the rest of the other three staying behind. 19:09.770 --> 19:09.870 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 19:09.890 --> 19:14.335 [Riv (DM)]: Can I get, I assume Leah will stay behind as well unless someone wants to bring her along? 19:17.200 --> 19:20.004 [Riv (DM)]: Bet of her to stay. 19:20.024 --> 19:20.104 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 19:20.124 --> 19:23.249 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so you- You two roll me some stealth checks, eh? 19:31.681 --> 19:33.483 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 19:33.503 --> 19:34.865 [JC (Ryo)]: Worst you've rolled on stealth, I think. 19:37.149 --> 19:37.509 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 19:38.571 --> 19:39.472 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 19:39.492 --> 19:41.014 [Riv (DM)]: Hard for you two to roll band on those. 19:42.243 --> 20:07.862 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway um all right cool so you can start sneaking your way forward um get closer it's sort of you know the group was maybe sort of 20 feet back from behind where the you know the closest ruined wall was you guys are making your way out slowly um you get to the wall that is the most the innermost circular wall now um and you need to head to your left a little bit to find Theranaris opening um 20:07.842 --> 20:12.546 [Riv (DM)]: As you get to the opening and you peer inside, let me describe the scene for you. 20:12.566 --> 20:18.912 [Riv (DM)]: So there is a campfire, and there are a number of tents sort of scattered around, about three tents. 20:19.993 --> 20:27.400 [Riv (DM)]: And the campfire looks like it's been sort of relatively recently freshly maintained, so the fires are sort of big. 20:28.101 --> 20:34.947 [Riv (DM)]: And just spread out around the campfire near the tents, you see a group of people. 20:36.226 --> 20:38.688 [Riv (DM)]: And they all seem to be just seated. 20:40.890 --> 20:41.611 [Riv (DM)]: Staring blankly. 20:43.232 --> 20:44.414 [Riv (DM)]: Heads bowed on some of them. 20:44.474 --> 20:46.235 [Riv (DM)]: Some of them have got like sort of leaning against each other. 20:46.776 --> 20:55.804 [Riv (DM)]: And I think, yeah, from this distance you would pretty easily be able to see that it is the Finegolds minus Harland. 20:59.407 --> 21:05.693 [Riv (DM)]: And Earendor, why don't you roll me a perception check, or one of you guys can roll me a perception check, whoever's in front. 21:07.006 --> 21:14.101 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Wow! 21:14.823 --> 21:15.624 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, pretty good. 21:17.909 --> 21:25.926 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, um, you notice that they appear to all be gagged and their arms are tied and bound behind their backs. 21:40.081 --> 21:42.804 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay, and what do you say you're into? 21:44.806 --> 21:52.354 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm just gonna signal to hold and start moving back towards the rest of the group. 21:52.374 --> 22:08.991 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, as you do that you take, there's a pause there, you feel your dagger pulse with energy as if something, some danger is incoming imminently and I need everyone to roll initiative because something is coming in. 22:10.928 --> 22:21.000 [Riv (DM)]: Something is heading your way and unfortunately for me, I'm not getting a surprise round because that bloody dagger should never have given it to you. 22:24.224 --> 22:24.784 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 22:25.926 --> 22:26.847 [Riv (DM)]: So what have we got? 22:26.867 --> 22:27.608 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What do I roll next? 22:28.389 --> 22:34.976 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, let me just drag you guys into the combat tracker and then you should be able to see your thing pop up. 22:34.996 --> 22:35.637 [Riv (DM)]: Cool map. 22:38.350 --> 22:43.435 [Riv (DM)]: Um, so up the top right, um, Kiwi, is a little... two swords. 22:45.497 --> 22:45.717 [Lacer (Kai)]: Fuck. 22:48.500 --> 22:50.462 [JC (Ryo)]: I hope I haven't burned my nat 20 for the day. 22:50.542 --> 22:51.563 [Lacer (Kai)]: You've got to be kidding me. 22:53.885 --> 22:54.386 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Seriously? 22:55.286 --> 22:57.749 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Advantage on initiative and a four and a five? 23:00.812 --> 23:06.197 [Riv (DM)]: So you guys would probably be like here and here, I would say. 23:15.695 --> 23:19.061 [Riv (DM)]: Um... You three down there. 23:19.081 --> 23:21.846 [Riv (DM)]: Let me drag Lea in, because I forgot about her when I was building the map. 23:24.471 --> 23:24.832 [Riv (DM)]: There she is. 23:24.852 --> 23:26.094 [Riv (DM)]: She can be chilling behind you guys. 23:31.063 --> 23:31.645 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 23:32.166 --> 23:38.918 [Riv (DM)]: You... And then... Let's... 23:43.235 --> 23:45.398 [Lacer (Kai)]: Don't forget your temporary hit points everybody. 23:45.658 --> 23:49.524 [Lacer (Kai)]: Vael gave us some juicy mini shields before. 23:50.706 --> 23:51.907 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got an 8 showing still. 23:53.650 --> 23:55.893 [Riv (DM)]: In terms of vision, can you guys all see everything correctly? 23:57.295 --> 24:01.461 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I can see the light radius around the fire, which is probably accurate. 24:01.481 --> 24:02.643 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 24:02.663 --> 24:04.165 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Outside of that light radius it's pitch black. 24:04.645 --> 24:06.508 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't know if that's meant to be pitch black. 24:06.640 --> 24:08.483 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, good point. 24:08.643 --> 24:14.131 [Riv (DM)]: I think I'd set this up for nighttime originally, so what I'll do is... 24:14.171 --> 24:17.956 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I've got darkvision so I can see darker, but not pitch black. 24:18.637 --> 24:20.380 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Does that make it easier for you to see, Val? 24:21.141 --> 24:31.676 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: No, that just made the fire bright, and everything else outside the fire radius is still pitch black. 24:31.696 --> 24:31.956 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 24:33.472 --> 24:34.433 [Riv (DM)]: Alright cool. 24:34.453 --> 24:51.759 [Riv (DM)]: So I didn't draw walls on this map just because it would make it like super awkward to actually see anything and it would be super ugly but these sort of like ruins that you can see here like these things some of them are quite tall so you can't pass through them and can't see through them so technically you shouldn't be able to like see directly through into the campfire so just just bear that in mind. 24:54.864 --> 24:55.224 [Riv (DM)]: Excellent. 24:55.705 --> 24:57.888 [Riv (DM)]: Alright I think initiative is done. 24:59.310 --> 25:00.132 [Riv (DM)]: Rio you're up first. 25:00.652 --> 25:02.415 [Riv (DM)]: Unbelievable initiative roll. 25:04.505 --> 25:08.189 [Riv (DM)]: So all you know at this point is that you're being attacked from somewhere. 25:09.971 --> 25:13.935 [JC (Ryo)]: So the Fireballs, there's only three of them that we know that are friendly, right? 25:15.757 --> 25:16.558 [Riv (DM)]: No, you recognise everyone. 25:17.199 --> 25:18.400 [JC (Ryo)]: All five of them are friendly. 25:18.580 --> 25:19.481 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 25:19.501 --> 25:20.222 [JC (Ryo)]: You've got... 25:20.242 --> 25:21.383 [JC (Ryo)]: But they're all tied in gag. 25:21.684 --> 25:21.964 [Riv (DM)]: Correct. 25:26.689 --> 25:28.591 [JC (Ryo)]: I want to get advantage point. 25:28.731 --> 25:32.115 [JC (Ryo)]: Where is somewhere close to me that is higher off the ground? 25:32.585 --> 25:34.687 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you could jump up on either this wall or this wall. 25:35.809 --> 25:36.930 [Riv (DM)]: They're probably about 10 feet up. 25:37.831 --> 25:40.474 [Riv (DM)]: And then it will, like, rise up to maybe 20 feet over here. 25:50.665 --> 25:53.409 [JC (Ryo)]: So, and I can see, what, we've got three tents, is that correct? 25:54.109 --> 25:58.574 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 25:58.594 --> 26:00.957 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh, uh, the fine golds, are they all looking in, looking out? 26:00.977 --> 26:01.798 [JC (Ryo)]: Which way are they looking? 26:02.538 --> 26:07.548 [Riv (DM)]: Um, they're probably all, I would say, looking inwards towards the fire, yeah. 26:08.731 --> 26:13.380 [Riv (DM)]: Like, some of them might be lying down, like, sleeping, like, they're all pretty, you know, it looks like they've been like this for a while. 26:15.946 --> 26:19.573 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, uh, the two closest to me, the two on the ends here. 26:19.914 --> 26:20.074 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 26:20.645 --> 26:21.286 [JC (Ryo)]: Are they awake? 26:21.326 --> 26:21.987 [JC (Ryo)]: Asleep? 26:22.007 --> 26:23.109 [JC (Ryo)]: Do they have their whip? 26:23.169 --> 26:24.552 [JC (Ryo)]: Can I see any equipment on them? 26:25.133 --> 26:27.637 [Riv (DM)]: So this is no equipment on any of them. 26:27.657 --> 26:30.162 [Riv (DM)]: They're just in sort of their standard peasant clothes or whatever. 26:31.164 --> 26:34.770 [Riv (DM)]: This is Vaylin, the hunter guy that you would have hunted with a few times. 26:34.870 --> 26:36.473 [Riv (DM)]: And this is Maeve, the old lady. 26:37.856 --> 26:41.462 [Riv (DM)]: And Vaylin appears to just be sitting and staring into the fire. 26:41.803 --> 26:43.125 [Riv (DM)]: Maeve is dozing. 26:43.966 --> 26:49.273 [JC (Ryo)]: I think I have enough movement to stealth walk up to the hunter guy. 26:49.874 --> 27:00.048 [JC (Ryo)]: I want to walk up to him and use my action to cut his ropes, cut his binds free. 27:00.268 --> 27:00.669 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, nice. 27:00.709 --> 27:01.009 [Riv (DM)]: Go for it. 27:01.750 --> 27:03.392 [Riv (DM)]: I won't even make a roll for it because easy enough. 27:03.492 --> 27:05.996 [Riv (DM)]: You should be able to just get in there with a knife or a dagger or something. 27:07.478 --> 27:09.180 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll click my token. 27:09.970 --> 27:12.353 [Riv (DM)]: Will you just use your, oh there you go, I should be able to do it now. 27:12.373 --> 27:14.676 [Riv (DM)]: Will you use your sword or something like that? 27:14.696 --> 27:16.518 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just wondering what weapon you'd have equipped. 27:16.538 --> 27:18.701 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep, just checking my inventory. 27:19.121 --> 27:19.942 [JC (Ryo)]: Use the arrowhead. 27:19.982 --> 27:33.119 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'm gonna, as I walk up, I'm gonna swap to the short sword and the shield, if that's okay with you. 27:35.001 --> 27:35.742 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that should be fine. 27:37.055 --> 27:43.684 [JC (Ryo)]: So yeah, sword and board, no longbows on my back and cutting free with my sword. 27:44.506 --> 27:44.746 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 27:45.747 --> 27:50.014 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah I'm fine with that because sort of as part of your action you can draw your weapons so easy enough. 27:50.174 --> 27:57.024 [Riv (DM)]: You can slice him through and as you come over he kind of like looks up at you and through the gags you can hear him go and he's like shaking his head. 28:01.851 --> 28:03.212 [Riv (DM)]: So it'll be movement and action. 28:03.233 --> 28:04.294 [Riv (DM)]: You've probably got a little bit more movement. 28:06.670 --> 28:08.592 [JC (Ryo)]: Is this a five foot wall? 28:11.336 --> 28:18.885 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I would say it's probably five foot high down here and it increases up here towards about 15 feet up here. 28:18.905 --> 28:19.465 [JC (Ryo)]: So what have I done? 28:19.485 --> 28:22.349 [JC (Ryo)]: I've done 5, 10, 15 foot of movement. 28:23.290 --> 28:24.712 [JC (Ryo)]: I guess I'll move back to here. 28:29.077 --> 28:32.381 [JC (Ryo)]: And I'll just hold my position now, sword and shield. 28:33.082 --> 28:33.302 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 28:37.248 --> 28:40.592 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 28:40.612 --> 28:41.173 [Riv (DM)]: Valoran. 28:46.901 --> 28:53.990 [Riv (DM)]: Does this hit your AC? 28:54.271 --> 28:56.554 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It's the cloaked woman that they ran from. 28:56.574 --> 28:59.578 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That's why they came here. 28:59.598 --> 28:59.898 [Riv (DM)]: It hits? 29:01.400 --> 29:01.660 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 29:03.142 --> 29:04.504 [Riv (DM)]: This is the dagger damage? 29:07.589 --> 29:12.697 [Riv (DM)]: I need you to make me a DC 15 saving throw. 29:17.604 --> 29:21.350 [Riv (DM)]: On... 29:21.370 --> 29:22.111 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, Constitution. 29:23.112 --> 29:24.895 [Riv (DM)]: You should be able to click it in the thing if you like. 29:28.421 --> 29:34.710 [Riv (DM)]: Oof, okay. 29:38.099 --> 29:44.167 [Riv (DM)]: So you take 29 plus 15 plus 5, so 49 damage. 29:45.068 --> 29:52.718 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Include the original 5 from the throwing dagger? 29:56.002 --> 29:56.082 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 29:56.102 --> 29:57.384 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm down, I'm pretty sure. 29:59.847 --> 30:02.250 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Apparently I only have 37 after the dagger. 30:03.243 --> 30:08.912 [Riv (DM)]: You've got 34 plus 8, so that would be 42 total. 30:08.952 --> 30:14.000 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, Valoran falls to the ground and is unconscious at everyone's feet. 30:16.444 --> 30:21.131 [Riv (DM)]: For a... Yeah, well actually, that's it. 30:21.152 --> 30:24.036 [Riv (DM)]: It doesn't matter about what anyone else says because that is the turn. 30:27.962 --> 30:30.727 [Riv (DM)]: Let me just roll something. 30:30.747 --> 30:30.887 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 30:31.762 --> 30:33.247 [JC (Ryo)]: Did we see where that came from? 30:33.970 --> 30:36.198 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, you have to see on your turn, I guess. 30:37.021 --> 30:41.777 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 30:41.797 --> 30:41.918 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 30:43.544 --> 30:43.965 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar. 30:45.920 --> 30:47.382 [Riv (DM)]: What the fuck just happened? 30:47.803 --> 30:57.456 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, all you see is that you had a flash, a feeling of energy that alerted you that you were under attack, that your group was in danger. 30:57.496 --> 31:04.065 [Riv (DM)]: And then beside you, Valoran crumbles to the ground, clutching a dagger that's coming out of his chest. 31:08.431 --> 31:11.174 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's a worry. 31:11.735 --> 31:12.716 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can I identify the source? 31:14.439 --> 31:15.420 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, roll a perception check. 31:17.257 --> 31:18.078 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is that my action? 31:24.827 --> 31:25.708 [Riv (DM)]: If you want to... 31:27.771 --> 31:29.713 [Riv (DM)]: So at the moment you can't see anything just by looking around. 31:29.893 --> 31:36.482 [Riv (DM)]: If you want to try and pinpoint exactly where this person is, then it would be your action to look for them. 31:37.103 --> 31:40.307 [Riv (DM)]: If you want to just get a general idea of the direction, then I'd probably let it be a free action. 31:40.607 --> 31:44.392 [Riv (DM)]: Because it should be fairly obvious to sort of line it up based on angles and stuff like that. 31:47.096 --> 31:47.196 Okay. 31:49.387 --> 31:52.651 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So yeah, get a general lift. 31:53.051 --> 31:53.251 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Cool. 31:53.531 --> 32:01.640 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Roll it. 32:01.660 --> 32:02.401 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 32:02.441 --> 32:04.023 [Riv (DM)]: Looks like it's coming from this direction somewhere. 32:05.564 --> 32:15.495 [Riv (DM)]: The Valoran fell backwards and he's on his back and the dagger you could kind of see had come like sort of, yeah, somewhere this way. 32:24.233 --> 32:35.113 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hmm. 32:35.133 --> 32:37.778 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Would I be able to tell the height of which it came from? 32:37.798 --> 32:39.641 [Riv (DM)]: Not in a 14, I don't think. 32:39.661 --> 32:41.785 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Am I smart enough to guess that from the angle of the knife? 32:42.286 --> 32:44.470 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, probably a bit tricky on a 14. 32:55.756 --> 33:06.309 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can I fire a fireball into the wall at this point? 33:07.751 --> 33:08.311 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can. 33:08.331 --> 33:10.234 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Where the deathmouse is pointing. 33:10.974 --> 33:12.296 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I can't mark it. 33:12.316 --> 33:14.759 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 33:14.779 --> 33:15.160 [JC (Ryo)]: Confirm. 33:15.580 --> 33:16.121 [Riv (DM)]: So what is that? 33:16.141 --> 33:17.262 [Riv (DM)]: It's a... 33:17.282 --> 33:22.168 [Riv (DM)]: If it hits something, then it's a saving throw on my end, right? 33:24.072 --> 33:28.678 [Riv (DM)]: So I think if you cast a spell you'll get a measuring template then you can just sort of stick over if you like. 33:35.526 --> 33:44.797 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: My intention is to, even if I don't hit the originator, I want to collapse the wall, ideally, and break line of sight. 33:47.781 --> 33:48.522 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Cool, so are you happy with that? 33:48.542 --> 33:49.804 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Move it up by one, move it up by one. 33:49.864 --> 33:51.025 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, are you happy with that location? 33:54.751 --> 33:57.054 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I don't know how to move it now. 33:58.115 --> 34:05.684 [Riv (DM)]: Over on the left, you need to pick the little ruler button and then that'll let you move it around. 34:09.549 --> 34:10.410 [Riv (DM)]: Up on the left. 34:10.430 --> 34:11.371 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, there you go. 34:11.591 --> 34:12.052 [Riv (DM)]: Easy peasy. 34:14.355 --> 34:14.655 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 34:17.618 --> 34:17.839 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 34:17.979 --> 34:19.260 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't you describe your Fireball? 34:19.301 --> 34:24.707 [Riv (DM)]: What does your Fireball look like? 34:26.341 --> 34:39.098 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I suppose it is a white sphere the size of a ping-pong ball that expands with explosive force when it contacts my intended target. 34:39.879 --> 34:40.119 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hell yeah. 34:40.860 --> 34:42.863 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: To the full 20-foot sphere. 34:43.164 --> 34:47.269 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you lob your little white ball. 34:47.249 --> 34:49.211 [Riv (DM)]: Goes out into your selected location. 34:49.251 --> 34:52.934 [Riv (DM)]: Massive explosion and the whole area is lit up. 34:54.416 --> 34:58.580 [Riv (DM)]: And you picked a good spot because I need to make a dexterity saving throw. 35:05.426 --> 35:05.526 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 35:09.070 --> 35:12.653 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and... You don't know. 35:13.494 --> 35:14.455 [Riv (DM)]: The, um... 35:15.717 --> 35:17.259 [Riv (DM)]: The wall starts to crumble. 35:18.760 --> 35:20.582 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, why don't you roll damage, sorry. 35:21.283 --> 35:27.970 [Riv (DM)]: Because damage should sort of determine... Oh hell yeah. 35:27.990 --> 35:28.190 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 35:28.510 --> 35:31.874 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so yeah, so the wall does start to crumble with the force of it. 35:31.934 --> 35:37.820 [Riv (DM)]: The top few blocks up here start to sort of shake and give way and collapse inwards down this way. 35:38.220 --> 35:44.627 [Riv (DM)]: And given that, you do see a person appear as they are knocked down from behind their perch. 35:46.683 --> 35:47.664 [Riv (DM)]: And they fall to the ground. 35:53.632 --> 35:56.155 [Riv (DM)]: Let's get rid of your template. 35:56.235 --> 35:58.378 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: No luck to be under the rocks that fell? 35:59.119 --> 36:02.122 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, they sort of like slide down with the rocks as they topple off. 36:02.964 --> 36:06.248 [Riv (DM)]: Let me make a saving throw to see how... 36:06.268 --> 36:06.868 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Cool villain. 36:07.689 --> 36:08.991 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 36:09.011 --> 36:12.876 [Riv (DM)]: Let me make a saving throw for them to see how nicely they land, I suppose. 36:19.015 --> 36:19.756 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they're fine. 36:19.776 --> 36:20.317 [Riv (DM)]: They're on their feet. 36:20.778 --> 36:29.971 [Riv (DM)]: So the explosion comes out, the wall starts to topple, and you just see this black cloaked figure just sort of like slide down with the rubble and land perfectly on two feet, crouch a little bit. 36:31.113 --> 36:37.783 [Riv (DM)]: The head, hooded, just sort of like whips up and you just hear a hiss of anger as they now locked eyes on the group of you. 36:40.647 --> 36:45.715 [Riv (DM)]: I swear, Lenny, if this is you... Alright, Dondar, any movement? 36:50.065 --> 37:00.797 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I don't really know. 37:00.817 --> 37:02.939 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we have line of sight on them still? 37:03.920 --> 37:06.663 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Or they're in the wall you've blocked from us now? 37:06.683 --> 37:07.544 [Riv (DM)]: Probably just see them. 37:07.924 --> 37:18.756 [Riv (DM)]: This wall here is sort of low, so it's sort of like collapsed down to here, and then it goes up to 10 feet up here. 37:21.436 --> 37:30.092 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: My first thought is to bodyblock Val Aran for the damage. 37:31.695 --> 37:33.278 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So I'm just going to move in front of him. 37:33.900 --> 37:35.583 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Cool. 37:39.350 --> 37:41.554 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And I don't know how to move it. 37:41.770 --> 37:43.758 [Riv (DM)]: You need to change... Yeah, there you go. 37:43.778 --> 37:44.140 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 37:44.763 --> 37:45.204 [Riv (DM)]: Perfect. 37:45.405 --> 37:47.695 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 37:48.659 --> 37:49.703 [Riv (DM)]: Next up is Leah. 37:51.190 --> 37:52.033 [Riv (DM)]: Leah's just gonna... 37:53.262 --> 37:55.586 [Riv (DM)]: Leah's token is hostile towards you guys at the moment. 37:55.686 --> 37:56.067 [Riv (DM)]: That's funny. 37:57.709 --> 38:01.095 [Riv (DM)]: I thought that was the mysterious woman. 38:01.996 --> 38:03.579 [Riv (DM)]: Leah's gonna come over to you, Veleran. 38:03.759 --> 38:05.522 [Riv (DM)]: She's absolutely in terror. 38:05.782 --> 38:10.670 [Riv (DM)]: She's reaching into a bag to try and pull out a dagger and she's not really sure what to do. 38:11.011 --> 38:13.996 [Riv (DM)]: She reaches down to you and starts trying to shake you awake. 38:14.997 --> 38:17.802 [Riv (DM)]: She doesn't know how to do medicine checks or anything. 38:19.739 --> 38:20.881 [Riv (DM)]: And that would be her turn. 38:22.363 --> 38:23.284 [Riv (DM)]: Vaeleran, Death Saving Throw. 38:23.304 --> 38:33.499 [Riv (DM)]: That's one fail. 38:34.841 --> 38:36.303 [JC (Ryo)]: That sat on the ten for so long. 38:37.926 --> 38:40.189 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 38:40.209 --> 38:41.131 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, um, Erendor. 38:44.936 --> 38:48.822 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hmm. 38:48.842 --> 38:48.902 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh. 38:53.810 --> 38:55.111 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Sorry, I was checking one thing. 39:01.418 --> 39:10.708 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay, uh... 39:10.988 --> 39:15.072 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I am... gonna do something that I wouldn't normally do. 39:17.275 --> 39:22.500 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I am... hope if I select the right one... 39:23.543 --> 39:26.328 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Going melee. 39:29.194 --> 39:29.354 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Ooh. 39:32.560 --> 39:43.662 [Riv (DM)]: And... Alright, 13 will miss. 39:45.802 --> 39:53.890 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, you dash in through the campsite and out behind, try to get a nice slash in with your rapier. 39:54.471 --> 40:00.417 [Riv (DM)]: A whirl of cloaks meets you and the blade hits nothing. 40:07.103 --> 40:10.847 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well, there ain't a whole lot else I can do. 40:13.029 --> 40:13.750 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I mean... 40:16.042 --> 40:17.785 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Sorry, just to clarify because I've not used it before. 40:17.845 --> 40:18.886 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: How do reactions work? 40:20.008 --> 40:30.583 [Riv (DM)]: I get refreshes on my turn until... Yeah, so a reaction is an ability that can be triggered with a reaction on someone else's turn. 40:30.864 --> 40:35.010 [Riv (DM)]: So, for example, if someone moved out of your melee range, you would get an attack of opportunity. 40:35.130 --> 40:37.133 [Riv (DM)]: That would use your reaction to do it. 40:37.153 --> 40:38.756 [Riv (DM)]: And you only get one reaction per round. 40:39.216 --> 40:44.925 [Riv (DM)]: It comes back when you have your turn. 40:44.945 --> 40:45.025 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 40:45.045 --> 40:45.205 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 40:47.345 --> 40:48.266 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, okay. 40:48.286 --> 40:49.888 [Riv (DM)]: Kai, Mistwalker. 40:53.251 --> 40:58.176 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'd like to bonus action Chalice. 40:58.196 --> 40:58.516 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 40:58.536 --> 41:07.265 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I would like to cast Healing Word on its first level on Vayne. 41:07.285 --> 41:10.148 [Riv (DM)]: Does... are they both bonus actions? 41:11.209 --> 41:13.632 [Riv (DM)]: The Starry Form is a feature, right? 41:13.652 --> 41:15.934 [Riv (DM)]: Do you have to use a bonus action to cast it? 41:16.775 --> 41:19.639 [Riv (DM)]: As a bonus action you can use your Wild Shape. 41:22.483 --> 41:24.166 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so you have to use a bonus action to go onto your form. 41:24.206 --> 41:26.789 [Riv (DM)]: You wouldn't be able to cast Healing Word because that's also a bonus action. 41:27.751 --> 41:28.091 [Riv (DM)]: Oh is it? 41:28.111 --> 41:29.573 [Riv (DM)]: Can I just cast as a normal spell? 41:30.174 --> 41:33.960 [Riv (DM)]: You'd have to use a spell as an action, so Cure Wounds, for example. 41:35.001 --> 41:36.203 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I don't have that equipped. 41:36.744 --> 41:38.086 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, I'll just do Cure Wounds then. 41:38.927 --> 41:41.010 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will not go into Chalice. 41:44.483 --> 41:45.764 [Riv (DM)]: You mean just healing word? 41:46.585 --> 41:47.546 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, just healing word. 41:48.187 --> 42:04.665 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 42:04.685 --> 42:04.926 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 42:07.689 --> 42:08.029 [Riv (DM)]: That's good. 42:08.209 --> 42:10.812 [Riv (DM)]: Eight health to you, Valoran. 42:12.884 --> 42:16.089 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's see, what else can I do? 42:16.109 --> 42:20.194 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think the wrenches still have an action. 42:21.096 --> 42:31.250 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You can't cast a leveled spell, but you can use a cantrip or... No, can I use my action to drag Valoran into cover to over here? 42:32.772 --> 42:33.213 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, you could. 42:34.174 --> 42:37.018 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'm gonna drag his body towards to the wall. 42:39.513 --> 42:40.434 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 42:40.454 --> 42:41.375 [Riv (DM)]: That works, I think. 42:42.637 --> 42:44.619 [Riv (DM)]: Since it's just a short distance, half your movement to do it. 42:45.320 --> 42:45.761 [Riv (DM)]: Easy peasy. 42:49.425 --> 42:50.246 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 42:50.266 --> 42:51.148 [Riv (DM)]: Back to you, Rio. 42:52.409 --> 42:53.450 [JC (Ryo)]: Cool. 42:53.471 --> 42:56.755 [JC (Ryo)]: Bonus action Hunter's Mark on Darling. 42:57.335 --> 42:57.456 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Mhm. 42:57.956 --> 42:58.577 [JC (Ryo)]: Old mate. 42:58.657 --> 42:59.698 [JC (Ryo)]: Hunter's Mark, that one. 43:04.444 --> 43:09.030 [JC (Ryo)]: And then 5, 10, 15 foot of movement. 43:09.905 --> 43:13.339 [JC (Ryo)]: Does this put me into flanking with Erendor or do I need to stand one to the left? 43:14.424 --> 43:19.425 [Riv (DM)]: I would be okay with calling this. 43:22.325 --> 43:24.909 [Riv (DM)]: It's quite a tight space, so I'll be okay calling it flanking. 43:25.610 --> 43:29.896 [Riv (DM)]: Because all three of you are quite squeezed in here to this five feet area between the walls. 43:30.617 --> 43:33.180 [Riv (DM)]: I think technically it needs to be like this, like directly opposite. 43:33.721 --> 43:35.964 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, that's why I said that I need to stand here instead. 43:36.264 --> 43:37.706 [JC (Ryo)]: If I can stand there. 43:37.987 --> 43:39.489 [Riv (DM)]: I would give it to you because it's quite a squeeze. 43:39.950 --> 43:40.971 [Riv (DM)]: I'm happy giving it to you. 43:43.655 --> 43:44.636 [JC (Ryo)]: Sweet. 43:44.656 --> 43:47.380 [JC (Ryo)]: I get two attacks? 43:47.400 --> 43:47.941 [JC (Ryo)]: One attack? 43:47.961 --> 43:48.822 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't even remember. 43:51.704 --> 43:53.728 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, I forgot everything. 43:53.809 --> 43:55.693 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think you've got two now, don't you? 43:56.394 --> 43:57.737 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 43:57.757 --> 44:00.182 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, extra attack. 44:00.202 --> 44:02.507 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'm trying to find extra attack in my abilities, I don't see it. 44:02.527 --> 44:03.189 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, it's on your features. 44:03.469 --> 44:04.271 [JC (Ryo)]: It's in the features tab. 44:04.291 --> 44:05.153 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, no, you're good. 44:08.500 --> 44:08.941 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, there it is. 44:09.402 --> 44:10.865 [JC (Ryo)]: Sweet, so two melee attacks. 44:11.406 --> 44:11.687 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 44:21.100 --> 44:21.661 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, hell yeah. 44:22.461 --> 44:22.982 [Riv (DM)]: First one hits. 44:24.003 --> 44:25.665 [Riv (DM)]: You must have Doran targeted at the moment. 44:29.229 --> 44:30.871 [Riv (DM)]: And second one hits as well actually, yeah, two hits. 44:31.491 --> 44:37.598 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, so two sword damages and two Hunter's Mark damages I believe. 44:39.039 --> 44:39.700 [Riv (DM)]: I think so, yeah. 44:44.946 --> 44:46.888 [JC (Ryo)]: Where'd my Hunter's Mark go there? 44:51.408 --> 44:54.352 [JC (Ryo)]: And... two. 44:56.014 --> 44:56.655 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, hell yeah. 44:56.675 --> 44:57.676 [Riv (DM)]: 23 damage. 45:00.820 --> 45:01.321 [Riv (DM)]: Super good. 45:01.621 --> 45:05.907 [Riv (DM)]: You get two nice swings and she tries to spin again with her cloak. 45:06.427 --> 45:12.696 [Riv (DM)]: And to no avail, the sword slashes through and manages to hit her in the arm on one and in the shoulder on the other. 45:13.316 --> 45:13.717 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, Val. 45:14.738 --> 45:19.204 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's his first turn of the combat as well, so great amateur. 45:19.336 --> 45:22.840 [JC (Ryo)]: No, I used it to... We already had a turn, didn't we? 45:24.662 --> 45:25.503 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm at the top of the table. 45:25.543 --> 45:26.284 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh, okay, yeah. 45:27.025 --> 45:30.930 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I lose all my ambush and stuff because I didn't know where she was. 45:31.070 --> 45:32.692 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh, yeah, first turn, not first attack. 45:32.772 --> 45:32.952 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Got me. 45:32.972 --> 45:36.076 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, it's first turn, I'm pretty sure. 45:36.136 --> 45:36.596 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 45:36.777 --> 45:37.217 [JC (Ryo)]: Ignore me then. 45:38.679 --> 45:39.520 [JC (Ryo)]: Where's Dread Ambusher? 45:39.540 --> 45:41.022 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll just put it in the chat for you. 45:43.625 --> 45:44.506 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 45:44.526 --> 45:46.088 [Riv (DM)]: So that'll be... First turn, yeah. 45:46.348 --> 45:46.508 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 45:47.585 --> 45:51.132 [JC (Ryo)]: So that's your name? 45:51.770 --> 45:52.391 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 45:52.411 --> 45:55.633 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, up close now, you can see this cloak is whirling. 45:56.294 --> 46:01.719 [Riv (DM)]: The inside, it's quite a silky black robe that, like, sort of fully covers us. 46:01.779 --> 46:02.580 [Riv (DM)]: It's not just a cape. 46:03.000 --> 46:04.782 [Riv (DM)]: And on the inside, it's silky red. 46:05.903 --> 46:07.164 [Riv (DM)]: Very, very familiar. 46:07.484 --> 46:11.568 [Riv (DM)]: This appears to be the same one that you saw all the way back in Darmouth that time. 46:11.848 --> 46:21.777 [Riv (DM)]: And up close, you do recognise the face as the woman on the boat on the very, very first, I guess, encounter with the, you know, on the prison ship. 46:21.757 --> 46:24.220 [Riv (DM)]: Hatred behind her eyes. 46:24.560 --> 46:28.846 [Riv (DM)]: She's hissing and her teeth are beard and she's trying to avoid your attacks. 46:29.727 --> 46:30.828 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh fuck, it's you. 46:30.868 --> 46:42.482 [Riv (DM)]: She is going to look back and forth between you two and... 46:45.550 --> 46:49.434 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she's gonna do one attack on each of you, I think. 46:52.197 --> 46:55.441 [Riv (DM)]: Let's see, can she do that? 46:55.461 --> 46:56.783 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, easy peasy, she can. 46:58.064 --> 47:07.375 [Riv (DM)]: So out from underneath the cloaks you see two short swords, one in each hand, and she'll make one attack on you, Riam. 47:10.278 --> 47:10.478 [Riv (DM)]: Nope. 47:11.977 --> 47:13.039 [Riv (DM)]: No way that doesn't hit. 47:13.179 --> 47:13.820 [Riv (DM)]: Have you got 19 AC? 47:13.860 --> 47:16.084 [Riv (DM)]: I said I had my shield. 47:16.264 --> 47:18.488 [Riv (DM)]: You got your shield on, alright. 47:19.069 --> 47:20.472 [Riv (DM)]: If I didn't have the shield, that would hit. 47:20.492 --> 47:23.357 [Riv (DM)]: And one on you, Erendor. 47:26.783 --> 47:27.083 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 47:27.444 --> 47:27.965 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that hit. 47:30.429 --> 47:33.034 [Riv (DM)]: So I need you to make me a constitution saving throw. 47:33.134 --> 47:34.997 [Riv (DM)]: You can click it from the sword. 47:43.718 --> 47:45.360 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, that's a good save. 47:45.981 --> 47:47.584 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You take... 47:47.604 --> 47:51.570 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I will also be using Uncanny Dodge. 47:51.590 --> 47:52.051 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay, nice. 47:57.098 --> 47:57.539 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Jesus. 47:58.561 --> 48:00.544 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, three ones, two. 48:01.705 --> 48:03.308 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, that's a horrible row. 48:04.470 --> 48:06.493 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so let's calculate this. 48:06.573 --> 48:08.896 [Riv (DM)]: So you take three plus nine. 48:08.956 --> 48:09.938 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you take twelve damage. 48:11.681 --> 48:12.662 [Riv (DM)]: Not too bad after all. 48:14.110 --> 48:21.505 [Riv (DM)]: And she is going to disengage and then move feet-to-feet down in this direction. 48:23.610 --> 48:28.059 [JC (Ryo)]: Wait, she's taking this disengage action or she's just running? 48:28.079 --> 48:30.665 [Riv (DM)]: He can do it as a bonus action. 48:30.685 --> 48:30.945 [JC (Ryo)]: Birds. 48:31.807 --> 48:32.348 [JC (Ryo)]: Birds can do that. 48:33.310 --> 48:34.212 [Riv (DM)]: And that'll be her turn. 48:34.816 --> 48:49.640 [Riv (DM)]: So she takes a slash at both of you in a spinning whirl of blades and black material and then she almost appears to vanish directly in between you and she just ghosts directly past you and determined runs down in the direction of her initial attack. 48:50.501 --> 48:51.643 [Riv (DM)]: And that brings us to Dondar. 48:52.985 --> 48:59.295 [Riv (DM)]: You see just a vicious pile of black robes run up directly to your face. 48:59.856 --> 49:00.537 [Riv (DM)]: What are you doing? 49:04.111 --> 49:09.077 [Riv (DM)]: Oh shit. 49:09.097 --> 49:10.579 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Fireball targeting your feast. 49:12.181 --> 49:12.942 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are you serious? 49:12.962 --> 49:13.823 [Lacer (Kai)]: You wanna kill us all? 49:17.768 --> 49:18.048 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Wow. 49:18.969 --> 49:28.341 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: My first instinct is to fly, but... Do I save the spellcaster, or... try and protect everyone behind me? 49:31.885 --> 49:32.426 [Riv (DM)]: It's up to you, man. 49:32.586 --> 49:33.207 [Riv (DM)]: Whatever you want. 49:38.097 --> 49:42.041 [Riv (DM)]: I'm gonna back up. 49:42.061 --> 49:45.004 [Riv (DM)]: Cook, just remember Attack of Opportunity will come if you move out of her range. 49:47.327 --> 49:47.627 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Of course. 49:49.008 --> 50:01.802 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I will not back up. 50:02.483 --> 50:06.687 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay, I am going to fly into the air. 50:09.755 --> 50:11.156 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, you cast Fly on yourself. 50:16.241 --> 50:20.125 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, do you want to just blast in the chat and then we can put the concentration on you? 50:25.070 --> 50:28.353 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so you're concentrating and you fly directly up, I assume. 50:29.894 --> 50:32.957 [Riv (DM)]: So she will still get to attack you as you're flying out of her combat range. 50:35.940 --> 50:38.142 [Riv (DM)]: How far up are you planning on going? 50:40.585 --> 50:49.155 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Um... 120 feet. 50:49.355 --> 50:50.617 [Riv (DM)]: Oh wow. 50:51.718 --> 50:56.263 [Riv (DM)]: I think you could probably go 60, right? 50:56.384 --> 50:58.246 [Riv (DM)]: Because it gives you a flying speed of 60? 51:00.288 --> 51:04.433 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, you can only go 60 man, unless you're dashing, which you can't if you can't spy. 51:07.113 --> 51:10.158 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So I can only go 60 feet per action? 51:10.178 --> 51:11.860 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 51:11.880 --> 51:12.201 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 51:12.221 --> 51:14.124 [Riv (DM)]: The attack comes in as you start flying up. 51:17.168 --> 51:18.230 [Riv (DM)]: Oh! 51:18.671 --> 51:19.071 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 51:20.433 --> 51:21.395 [Riv (DM)]: You are too fast. 51:21.435 --> 51:29.407 [Riv (DM)]: You shoot up like a rocket and her sword just spins and slashes at you, but your feet just a bit lower than what she was expecting. 51:29.527 --> 51:30.349 [Riv (DM)]: Or higher, I should say. 51:31.570 --> 51:33.533 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it catches air and you are up. 51:33.553 --> 51:34.555 [Riv (DM)]: You're 60 feet in the air. 51:35.682 --> 51:36.664 [Riv (DM)]: You're up like a rocket. 51:37.185 --> 51:39.830 [Riv (DM)]: I would actually probably say that the canopy is... 51:42.014 --> 51:44.759 [Riv (DM)]: The canopy is probably something like 30, 40 feet up. 51:44.779 --> 51:46.983 [Riv (DM)]: So if you want to break through the canopy, you can. 51:47.764 --> 51:50.890 [Riv (DM)]: Otherwise, you probably want to be about 40 feet at the base of the canopy. 51:53.182 --> 51:54.464 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Um, okay. 51:54.484 --> 51:56.326 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, I don't want to lose line of sight on her. 51:56.346 --> 51:57.067 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, perfect. 51:57.288 --> 51:58.189 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright, we'll put you on 40. 51:58.770 --> 52:00.272 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, excellent. 52:00.292 --> 52:02.014 [Riv (DM)]: So that brings us to Leah's turn. 52:02.435 --> 52:09.845 [Riv (DM)]: Um, seeing this woman, like, viciously heading in this direction, um, she's going to... what's she gonna do? 52:12.169 --> 52:18.177 [Riv (DM)]: Um... Um... 52:18.197 --> 52:19.980 [Riv (DM)]: I'll make a Marauchi for her. 52:20.000 --> 52:22.463 [Riv (DM)]: Because... yeah. 52:24.653 --> 52:32.241 [Riv (DM)]: She's going to sort of pull out a dagger and stand up beside Vale. 52:34.404 --> 52:35.685 [Riv (DM)]: Looks like your health is reset, Vale. 52:37.787 --> 52:39.029 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh, I'll put it up D&D. 52:39.049 --> 52:41.671 [Riv (DM)]: I think you're on 8, right? 52:42.232 --> 52:49.960 [Riv (DM)]: She's going to stand beside Vale and hold a dagger out in front, sort of like protectively, but she's not going to take her action to come forward and attack. 52:49.980 --> 52:51.522 [Riv (DM)]: She's, you know, you can see her arms are trembling. 52:54.337 --> 52:55.719 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 52:55.739 --> 52:56.120 [Riv (DM)]: Valoran. 53:03.831 --> 53:03.891 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um. 53:03.911 --> 53:04.171 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Let's see. 53:05.213 --> 53:09.099 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just burn here. 53:09.119 --> 53:19.954 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I will step forward and just put a layer to stay clear and get clear and hide. 53:22.959 --> 53:23.179 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um. 53:23.935 --> 53:24.556 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I will... 53:27.959 --> 53:29.721 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Bonus action second wind. 53:30.922 --> 53:31.503 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Self heal a bit. 53:37.349 --> 53:37.549 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cool. 53:37.689 --> 53:37.889 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Nice. 53:43.955 --> 53:47.939 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Seventeen. 53:47.959 --> 53:51.563 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I will take a swing at this cloaked figure. 53:53.990 --> 53:58.396 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Offer up. 53:58.416 --> 53:58.657 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Red move. 54:02.623 --> 54:02.763 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Crack. 54:02.783 --> 54:03.444 [Riv (DM)]: First swing. 54:04.525 --> 54:04.685 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: 14. 54:04.706 --> 54:06.088 [Riv (DM)]: 14 just misses. 54:08.651 --> 54:09.172 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Second swing. 54:14.840 --> 54:15.201 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: 21. 54:15.221 --> 54:15.942 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: 21 hits. 54:17.744 --> 54:22.351 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And I'll make it a pushing attack as well. 54:22.371 --> 54:22.531 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 54:22.551 --> 54:23.693 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Roll damage first. 54:23.791 --> 54:33.263 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Next damage. 54:33.283 --> 54:43.756 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: DC 15 strength save please. 54:43.776 --> 54:43.976 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 54:43.996 --> 54:44.277 [Riv (DM)]: Oh boy. 54:45.318 --> 54:46.299 [Riv (DM)]: We've said three ones in a row. 54:46.559 --> 54:47.501 [Riv (DM)]: You love to see it honestly. 54:48.942 --> 54:49.483 [Riv (DM)]: How far did she go? 54:49.503 --> 54:51.906 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: She pushed 15 feet away from me. 54:52.467 --> 54:52.667 [Riv (DM)]: Oh wow. 54:54.689 --> 54:55.990 [Riv (DM)]: That's a big shove! 54:57.893 --> 55:03.239 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so she shoves and gets tumbled and sort of rolls backwards, yeah. 55:06.002 --> 55:09.987 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm trying to tick stuff off, but the death save thing... Oh, there we go. 55:10.667 --> 55:11.969 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The weird little thing couldn't make it go away. 55:13.851 --> 55:15.233 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: All fixed. 55:16.955 --> 55:19.498 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And I will use the rest of my distance to pursue. 55:23.002 --> 55:23.182 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 55:23.202 --> 55:23.803 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So I have movement? 55:24.143 --> 55:24.223 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 55:25.469 --> 55:26.690 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm just going to Action Surge. 55:26.990 --> 55:27.611 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, hell you do. 55:27.631 --> 55:28.052 [Riv (DM)]: Let's go. 55:29.733 --> 55:32.536 [Riv (DM)]: Her eyes are locked on yours now and you just see seething hatred. 55:33.297 --> 55:34.858 [Riv (DM)]: She is entirely focused on you. 55:35.839 --> 55:37.461 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 55:37.561 --> 55:38.221 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Two more swings. 55:38.241 --> 55:45.929 [Riv (DM)]: 16? 55:46.009 --> 55:46.830 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, 16's good. 55:48.892 --> 55:51.294 [Riv (DM)]: Damage on that. 55:51.775 --> 55:52.415 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Ah, dude. 55:52.836 --> 55:53.136 [Riv (DM)]: Unlucky. 55:55.258 --> 55:55.358 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 55:59.185 --> 56:06.414 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Another one. 56:06.434 --> 56:07.635 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hey, about fucking time. 56:07.655 --> 56:07.855 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Nice. 56:09.397 --> 56:11.239 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm gonna make it a pushing attack as well. 56:11.960 --> 56:12.821 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Okay. 56:15.625 --> 56:18.048 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Do you have another map ready off to the left? 56:20.310 --> 56:23.935 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll do what I'll do. 56:23.975 --> 56:25.176 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just to double the d8. 56:31.501 --> 56:32.883 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 56:33.864 --> 56:34.465 [Riv (DM)]: Just imagine. 56:35.206 --> 56:36.948 [Riv (DM)]: Imagine more beautiful forests and ruins. 56:37.429 --> 56:40.213 [Riv (DM)]: Koso, how much damage was that? 56:40.233 --> 56:42.215 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: 12 plus 9, so 21. 56:42.235 --> 56:43.157 [Riv (DM)]: 21, yeah. 56:43.818 --> 56:44.599 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh wow, okay. 56:44.619 --> 56:46.001 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And a DC 15 strength save. 56:47.362 --> 56:47.983 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alrighty. 56:52.409 --> 56:53.451 [Riv (DM)]: Just not very strong. 56:55.253 --> 56:56.715 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, another 15 feet. 56:59.362 --> 57:05.047 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um, and because I guess I've only moved 15 dig clothes with the distance, so I will continue to pursue. 57:06.028 --> 57:07.870 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Stay in contact. 57:07.890 --> 57:08.230 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 57:10.833 --> 57:12.975 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's my turn. 57:12.995 --> 57:15.917 [Riv (DM)]: Vaeloran determinedly shoving this person away. 57:16.538 --> 57:19.080 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 57:19.120 --> 57:20.261 [Riv (DM)]: That will take us to Erendor. 57:24.345 --> 57:26.247 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh, I am... 57:29.973 --> 57:30.314 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 57:31.537 --> 57:33.842 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Gonna move to here. 57:33.862 --> 57:39.035 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And I will use my action to switch to my bow. 57:42.944 --> 57:45.511 [Riv (DM)]: I think you can drop your sword and pull out your bow. 57:45.731 --> 57:45.932 [Riv (DM)]: Drop? 57:46.132 --> 57:46.333 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 57:46.393 --> 57:47.736 [Riv (DM)]: If I can drop and pull and fire? 57:47.876 --> 57:48.117 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 58:02.153 --> 58:03.495 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, 15 just hits. 58:04.517 --> 58:05.819 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, this is going to be sneak attack as well. 58:06.961 --> 58:18.762 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yep. 58:19.343 --> 58:20.585 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 58:20.605 --> 58:21.186 [Riv (DM)]: 20 damage. 58:23.530 --> 58:24.752 [Riv (DM)]: Just starting to look pretty bad. 58:27.938 --> 58:31.422 [Riv (DM)]: Pinpoint accuracy straight over Valoran's shoulder. 58:31.842 --> 58:33.003 [Riv (DM)]: Smashes her in the other shoulder. 58:34.625 --> 58:35.586 [Riv (DM)]: She stumbles back again. 58:37.048 --> 58:37.909 [Riv (DM)]: Panting heavily now. 58:39.250 --> 58:40.592 [Riv (DM)]: Glaring and hissing and fuming. 58:41.072 --> 58:42.694 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 58:45.056 --> 58:46.037 [Riv (DM)]: That will be your turn. 58:46.518 --> 58:47.199 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 58:47.219 --> 58:47.959 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything else? 58:48.900 --> 58:52.204 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well, I mean, bonus action, can I actually hide? 58:53.345 --> 58:55.127 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, if you jump behind the wall you'll be able to. 58:58.111 --> 59:01.915 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 59:01.935 --> 59:03.216 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, let's say you vault over. 59:03.236 --> 59:06.780 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you vault over and then sort of crouch down behind there and you can chuck a hide. 59:06.800 --> 59:15.389 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And I get stealth advantage. 59:20.894 --> 59:22.816 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 59:22.836 --> 59:24.338 [Riv (DM)]: Erendor vanishes into the ruins. 59:28.047 --> 59:28.347 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 59:28.648 --> 59:32.432 [Lacer (Kai)]: Kai, over to you. 59:32.452 --> 59:35.034 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I used my ability, Twilight Sanctuary. 59:35.955 --> 59:38.058 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 59:38.118 --> 59:38.678 [Lacer (Kai)]: How many feet? 59:38.698 --> 59:42.022 [Lacer (Kai)]: 30 feet, I think. 59:42.042 --> 59:42.582 [Lacer (Kai)]: 30 feet. 59:43.603 --> 59:45.706 [Lacer (Kai)]: I need to get... Am I within range of Vale? 59:46.226 --> 59:47.327 [Lacer (Kai)]: I need to move one more square. 59:48.408 --> 59:52.393 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, get a bit closer. 59:52.413 --> 59:53.774 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is that in range? 59:53.794 --> 59:54.395 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, should be good. 59:55.356 --> 59:56.637 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I cast... 59:57.258 --> 59:59.040 [Lacer (Kai)]: Guiding Bolt, and Third Double. 01:00:01.443 --> 01:00:02.605 [Riv (DM)]: Can you do it as a bonus action? 01:00:05.949 --> 01:00:06.209 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I? 01:00:06.830 --> 01:00:08.632 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is using the ability an action? 01:00:08.952 --> 01:00:11.095 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 01:00:11.115 --> 01:00:12.557 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, it says at the top, as an action. 01:00:13.277 --> 01:00:13.658 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, okay. 01:00:13.778 --> 01:00:14.439 [Lacer (Kai)]: Bonus action. 01:00:14.859 --> 01:00:15.460 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okeydoke. 01:00:15.740 --> 01:00:17.122 [Lacer (Kai)]: What bonus action can I do? 01:00:18.384 --> 01:00:20.306 [Riv (DM)]: Nearly, really. 01:00:20.326 --> 01:00:22.208 [Riv (DM)]: Spiritual Weapon would be your main bonus action. 01:00:25.893 --> 01:00:26.033 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uhh... 01:00:27.768 --> 01:00:28.429 [Lacer (Kai)]: You know what? 01:00:28.750 --> 01:00:30.072 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will cast an... 01:00:31.714 --> 01:00:37.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: I might... 01:00:37.283 --> 01:00:55.410 [Lacer (Kai)]: I might just cast Healing Word at 3rd level and Veil from here. 01:00:55.430 --> 01:00:55.631 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:00:55.651 --> 01:00:56.492 [Riv (DM)]: Wow, super good. 01:00:57.552 --> 01:00:58.373 [Riv (DM)]: All fours, dude. 01:00:58.413 --> 01:00:58.954 [Riv (DM)]: Holy shit. 01:01:03.441 --> 01:01:03.722 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like 16? 01:01:03.782 --> 01:01:07.167 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That puts me back to... Top Yacht, won't it? 01:01:08.249 --> 01:01:08.930 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Not yet, no. 01:01:09.391 --> 01:01:10.052 [Riv (DM)]: I'm going one off. 01:01:16.823 --> 01:01:17.684 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, that's me. 01:01:18.225 --> 01:01:18.666 [Riv (DM)]: Beautiful. 01:01:20.248 --> 01:01:22.632 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, we'll go to Rio then. 01:01:26.898 --> 01:01:33.084 [JC (Ryo)]: To do so, all of this shit in front of me is that raised ground, difficult terrain. 01:01:33.124 --> 01:01:35.827 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you'll need to get around it if you want to get a clear shot. 01:01:36.007 --> 01:01:39.450 [Riv (DM)]: You could get down to here and jump through this spot. 01:01:41.372 --> 01:01:47.658 [JC (Ryo)]: So I won't get there in 35 feet to be able to smack her? 01:01:47.758 --> 01:01:48.899 [Riv (DM)]: No, I don't think so. 01:01:49.139 --> 01:01:50.961 [Riv (DM)]: You'd have to do a bit of climbing to go straight there. 01:01:51.582 --> 01:01:53.023 [JC (Ryo)]: Can I see her from here? 01:01:53.442 --> 01:01:54.103 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, not quite. 01:01:54.403 --> 01:01:55.745 [Riv (DM)]: This wall here is slightly too high. 01:01:56.906 --> 01:01:59.769 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say if you move down, yeah, one square, then you'll be able to see her. 01:02:01.011 --> 01:02:07.037 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, I'll drop my sword and shield on the ground, grab my bow and move fi- oh, no, it's the arrow. 01:02:07.878 --> 01:02:13.545 [JC (Ryo)]: Move, uh, 5, 10, 15, can see her well and- oh. 01:02:14.185 --> 01:02:15.587 [JC (Ryo)]: Not 15 there, 15 there. 01:02:17.169 --> 01:02:20.392 [JC (Ryo)]: I can see her well and true and I'll start shooting arrows at her. 01:02:20.412 --> 01:02:21.053 [Riv (DM)]: Get high for it, dude. 01:02:24.003 --> 01:02:24.524 [JC (Ryo)]: Number 1. 01:02:27.649 --> 01:02:28.911 [Riv (DM)]: Oof, alright, 15 hits. 01:02:30.753 --> 01:02:31.995 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, you don't have any pluses on that. 01:02:32.296 --> 01:02:34.359 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I forgot, sorry, can I equip it? 01:02:35.761 --> 01:02:37.804 [JC (Ryo)]: I unequipped it for the sword on my inventory. 01:02:38.025 --> 01:02:38.886 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, all good. 01:02:41.410 --> 01:02:44.034 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, I mean, 15 hits anyway before the plus 8. 01:02:44.054 --> 01:02:45.135 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's cool, we can take that. 01:02:46.518 --> 01:02:48.120 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, so, damage... 01:02:51.222 --> 01:02:51.843 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, nice. 01:02:53.005 --> 01:02:55.028 [JC (Ryo)]: Plus the Hunter's Mark damage. 01:03:05.043 --> 01:03:05.524 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, shit. 01:03:06.525 --> 01:03:07.627 [Riv (DM)]: You guys are rolling tonight. 01:03:07.667 --> 01:03:08.288 [Riv (DM)]: You're rolling. 01:03:08.308 --> 01:03:08.929 [Riv (DM)]: You're gamers. 01:03:09.810 --> 01:03:10.511 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, what are we talking? 01:03:11.192 --> 01:03:12.354 [Unmatched Speaker]: Damn, Rio. 01:03:13.816 --> 01:03:15.338 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, she's just standing. 01:03:15.779 --> 01:03:16.340 [Riv (DM)]: What do you got? 01:03:17.201 --> 01:03:17.822 [JC (Ryo)]: She's still up? 01:03:17.862 --> 01:03:18.082 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:03:18.102 --> 01:03:18.543 [JC (Ryo)]: She's still up. 01:03:18.563 --> 01:03:19.104 [Riv (DM)]: I'll shoot her again. 01:03:19.124 --> 01:03:19.845 [Riv (DM)]: It's pretty tough. 01:03:26.558 --> 01:03:28.360 [JC (Ryo)]: Still didn't do my classes. 01:03:29.641 --> 01:03:30.102 [JC (Ryo)]: I equipped it. 01:03:34.827 --> 01:03:34.907 [JC (Ryo)]: Hmm. 01:03:34.927 --> 01:03:38.111 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, it's 14 plus 8, I think it is. 01:03:38.151 --> 01:03:51.486 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, yeah, it definitely has. 01:03:51.506 --> 01:03:53.308 [JC (Ryo)]: And Hunter's Mark. 01:03:58.030 --> 01:03:59.231 [Riv (DM)]: Nice, 16 damage. 01:04:00.272 --> 01:04:01.413 [Riv (DM)]: Two arrows come out. 01:04:01.774 --> 01:04:03.295 [Riv (DM)]: She sort of like falls to one knee. 01:04:04.476 --> 01:04:06.238 [Riv (DM)]: Arrows are now starting to just pinprick her. 01:04:06.699 --> 01:04:11.083 [Riv (DM)]: She's like barely barely like barely barely standing at this point. 01:04:11.343 --> 01:04:12.665 [Riv (DM)]: She's looking around. 01:04:12.685 --> 01:04:16.148 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:04:18.410 --> 01:04:22.975 [Riv (DM)]: She is basically on death's door and she is going to 01:04:24.085 --> 01:04:26.108 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, unless there's anything else you want to do on your turn? 01:04:26.389 --> 01:04:28.131 [Riv (DM)]: She is up next. 01:04:28.452 --> 01:04:29.253 [JC (Ryo)]: No, that's all I can do. 01:04:29.934 --> 01:04:30.175 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:04:31.396 --> 01:04:32.739 [Riv (DM)]: She's going to bonus action. 01:04:32.779 --> 01:04:38.888 [Riv (DM)]: Drop a smoke bomb in 20 foot radius. 01:04:40.350 --> 01:04:41.993 [Riv (DM)]: So it pops out like this. 01:04:45.145 --> 01:04:47.247 [Riv (DM)]: So she just chucks it down on the ground in front of her. 01:04:48.729 --> 01:04:53.154 [Riv (DM)]: Smoke, like, pours out instantly, obscuring the area. 01:04:53.955 --> 01:04:55.056 [Riv (DM)]: And she's booking it. 01:04:55.436 --> 01:04:56.117 [Riv (DM)]: She's running. 01:04:57.739 --> 01:04:59.461 [Riv (DM)]: Vael, you will get an attack of opportunity. 01:05:03.605 --> 01:05:03.745 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Okay. 01:05:03.765 --> 01:05:06.248 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Sure. 01:05:06.388 --> 01:05:09.932 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Smoke bomb is advantage because I'm blinded, or...? 01:05:09.952 --> 01:05:12.435 [Riv (DM)]: I think because you're right beside her, you'll be all right. 01:05:18.963 --> 01:05:19.444 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:05:33.955 --> 01:05:34.035 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 01:05:39.348 --> 01:05:40.249 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Eight damage. 01:05:40.269 --> 01:05:41.671 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Finally got a good damage roll. 01:05:43.232 --> 01:05:43.593 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:05:44.954 --> 01:05:58.029 [Riv (DM)]: So she tosses the smoke bomb down, spins her cloak and starts to dart away and you're able to just lunge forward, stab her in the back and she just sort of gets stunned. 01:05:58.089 --> 01:06:05.237 [Riv (DM)]: Your body quivering on the tip of your sword and she just falls to her knees in front of you and collapses forwards onto her face. 01:06:10.600 --> 01:06:18.731 [Riv (DM)]: And with that, the woods go back to silence again after the explosions and the screams of pain. 01:06:18.791 --> 01:06:26.262 [Riv (DM)]: And at your feet lies a woman of your nightmares, Valerian. 01:06:34.113 --> 01:06:34.193 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hmm. 01:06:34.213 --> 01:06:34.313 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um... 01:06:37.482 --> 01:06:38.844 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Practicality starts. 01:06:38.864 --> 01:06:41.729 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm going to start dragging them back to the firelight. 01:06:45.335 --> 01:06:45.435 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Okay. 01:06:45.455 --> 01:06:46.397 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Call out to the party. 01:06:48.581 --> 01:06:51.746 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Security, there were three tracks. 01:06:53.108 --> 01:06:54.110 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Get these people untied. 01:06:54.551 --> 01:06:55.633 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Make sure we're not going to get hit again. 01:06:58.638 --> 01:06:58.798 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:06:59.116 --> 01:07:02.905 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll deal with the mental breakdowns after. 01:07:03.226 --> 01:07:03.387 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:07:04.670 --> 01:07:06.535 [Riv (DM)]: So you can start dragging the body back. 01:07:06.735 --> 01:07:07.898 [Riv (DM)]: What are the rest of you guys doing? 01:07:12.269 --> 01:07:16.720 [Lacer (Kai)]: I whip out my obsidian blade and I go and free up the fine core. 01:07:17.240 --> 01:07:18.581 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:07:18.601 --> 01:07:18.801 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:07:18.841 --> 01:07:24.146 [Riv (DM)]: So as you move around the tent and the campsite, you can see them all sort of like looking up at you. 01:07:24.386 --> 01:07:26.448 [Riv (DM)]: Some of them have got like sort of tears in their eyes. 01:07:26.709 --> 01:07:29.291 [Riv (DM)]: They've been, some of them look like they've been beaten. 01:07:30.772 --> 01:07:31.433 [Riv (DM)]: They're all bound. 01:07:32.133 --> 01:07:33.274 [Riv (DM)]: They look like they haven't eaten much. 01:07:33.875 --> 01:07:36.117 [Riv (DM)]: You can cut their binds. 01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:41.021 [Riv (DM)]: As you, as you sort of, you know, they're all gagged as well. 01:07:41.061 --> 01:07:47.247 [Riv (DM)]: So as you eventually get to Gemma and take off the gag, she's like, oh, oh, oh gods. 01:07:48.577 --> 01:07:50.881 [Riv (DM)]: That woman... is she dead? 01:07:53.806 --> 01:07:58.934 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, do I notice at that range in the forest that she gets... Yeah, you probably would have seen her die. 01:07:58.954 --> 01:07:59.736 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wouldn't... 01:07:59.756 --> 01:08:00.817 [Lacer (Kai)]: I didn't see her die, right? 01:08:00.878 --> 01:08:01.919 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because of smoke bomb? 01:08:02.801 --> 01:08:02.921 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right? 01:08:02.941 --> 01:08:04.644 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, you would have seen Val dragging the body. 01:08:05.385 --> 01:08:06.707 [Riv (DM)]: Unless you, like, immediately dashed. 01:08:08.030 --> 01:08:08.370 [Riv (DM)]: Right. 01:08:08.831 --> 01:08:10.995 [Riv (DM)]: Um, okay. 01:08:11.255 --> 01:08:11.916 [Riv (DM)]: So she is dead? 01:08:13.338 --> 01:08:14.280 [Lacer (Kai)]: She appears to be dead, yeah. 01:08:17.804 --> 01:08:20.588 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, she's down on the couch. 01:08:21.449 --> 01:08:29.481 [Lacer (Kai)]: When I'm fraying them, can I do a quick once-over of like a medicine check or see how healthy they are? 01:08:30.483 --> 01:08:35.370 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can see they look a bit malnourished. 01:08:36.272 --> 01:08:43.382 [Riv (DM)]: There's scratches and raw skin around their legs and their wrists where they've been bound. 01:08:44.243 --> 01:08:47.288 [Riv (DM)]: A couple of them have like very deliberate 01:08:48.483 --> 01:08:53.873 [Riv (DM)]: Um, like knife scars up their arm and like across their chest or something like that. 01:08:54.714 --> 01:08:58.722 [Riv (DM)]: Um, but other than that, they seem to be all right. 01:08:58.742 --> 01:09:01.106 [Riv (DM)]: They haven't had got any sort of major deadly wounds. 01:09:02.168 --> 01:09:02.448 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:09:02.488 --> 01:09:08.079 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to huddle them together closer to the fire and then I cast Rev Healing. 01:09:08.099 --> 01:09:09.641 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 01:09:09.661 --> 01:09:10.002 [Lacer (Kai)]: All right, cool. 01:09:12.479 --> 01:09:13.561 [Riv (DM)]: But it takes 10 minutes. 01:09:14.462 --> 01:09:14.923 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, sweet. 01:09:14.963 --> 01:09:21.133 [Riv (DM)]: So we say you start doing a little prayer of healing as Valerian's bringing the body back and getting the group back together. 01:09:22.556 --> 01:09:24.739 [Riv (DM)]: The rest of you, I assume, wander over to the campsite. 01:09:25.040 --> 01:09:28.986 [Riv (DM)]: Leah trails behind and you have the body in front of you. 01:09:31.126 --> 01:09:39.018 [Riv (DM)]: As you're kind of coming around Erendor to you, you see Liliana, the young bard of the group. 01:09:41.301 --> 01:09:45.588 [Riv (DM)]: She's got tears in her eyes now and she's looking up at you and she just says, I'm so sorry. 01:09:45.848 --> 01:09:46.770 [Riv (DM)]: I'm so sorry. 01:09:46.790 --> 01:09:48.472 [Riv (DM)]: She forced me to send a message. 01:09:49.274 --> 01:09:51.257 [Riv (DM)]: She said she would start killing others if I didn't. 01:09:57.085 --> 01:09:57.927 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: She's dealt with now. 01:09:59.369 --> 01:10:00.070 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I can't blame you. 01:10:00.927 --> 01:10:03.935 [Riv (DM)]: I tried to give you a clue in the message so that you'd know it was a trap. 01:10:04.818 --> 01:10:06.723 [Riv (DM)]: I thought I mustn't have made it obvious enough. 01:10:06.743 --> 01:10:07.164 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sorry. 01:10:08.548 --> 01:10:10.634 [JC (Ryo)]: Was she on her own or were there others? 01:10:11.456 --> 01:10:12.439 [Riv (DM)]: No, it was just her. 01:10:14.984 --> 01:10:18.070 [Riv (DM)]: At this, Gemma will sort of come over as well. 01:10:18.751 --> 01:10:26.526 [Riv (DM)]: You can see her, she's also got sort of red eyes and she's just, she's furious and sad and depressed and just overwhelmed it seems. 01:10:29.071 --> 01:10:33.500 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she comes over and she looks down at the body and just sort of kicks it and then spits on it. 01:10:34.241 --> 01:10:35.203 [Riv (DM)]: She's a demon. 01:10:36.533 --> 01:10:39.339 [Riv (DM)]: I've never seen such darkness behind a person's eyes before. 01:10:40.783 --> 01:10:45.994 [Riv (DM)]: She made me drag my father's body out into the woods and bury it myself. 01:10:47.538 --> 01:10:49.442 [Riv (DM)]: This evil. 01:10:50.905 --> 01:10:51.366 [Riv (DM)]: Oh gods. 01:10:51.547 --> 01:10:54.373 [Riv (DM)]: And she just collapses to her knees and starts crying again. 01:11:02.723 --> 01:11:06.107 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, is healing done at this stage? 01:11:06.768 --> 01:11:18.483 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, we can say the rest of you guys come around the campsite and just start helping out with people, getting them back together and you can carry on and finish your prayer as the wounds start closing over. 01:11:22.287 --> 01:11:28.015 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool, after I finish the prayer, I walk over to the Red Clerk. 01:11:28.195 --> 01:11:29.136 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is she a Red Clerk? 01:11:30.871 --> 01:11:32.133 [Riv (DM)]: You don't know? 01:11:32.995 --> 01:11:39.928 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I walk over to the lady's body, and I pull out the obsidian dagger, and I go for Harlan, and I slid her throat, even though she's dead. 01:11:40.188 --> 01:11:40.569 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:11:45.858 --> 01:11:47.020 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, easy enough to do. 01:11:47.101 --> 01:11:53.352 [Riv (DM)]: There's no blood pumping through her veins, so you just get a nice gash, and you see a bit of red between the wound. 01:11:59.727 --> 01:12:02.230 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll start going over the body. 01:12:03.571 --> 01:12:03.791 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:12:04.492 --> 01:12:12.941 [Riv (DM)]: You can find a number of daggers that are sort of like tucked away and hooked on the inside of the cloak. 01:12:13.722 --> 01:12:15.564 [Riv (DM)]: The two short swords that she was wielding. 01:12:16.225 --> 01:12:18.647 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an investigation check to see if you find anything else. 01:12:20.629 --> 01:12:21.771 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I give him advantage? 01:12:21.851 --> 01:12:22.331 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll help him. 01:12:22.592 --> 01:12:23.052 [Riv (DM)]: You can. 01:12:30.001 --> 01:12:31.883 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Mm, yes. 01:12:31.903 --> 01:12:33.685 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, um, you don't find anything else. 01:12:33.805 --> 01:12:35.687 [Riv (DM)]: Weirdly, she doesn't seem to have much on her. 01:12:38.310 --> 01:12:44.416 [Lacer (Kai)]: Actually, I would like to ritual cast Detect Magic on her body. 01:12:45.337 --> 01:12:45.658 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 01:12:46.599 --> 01:12:47.680 [Riv (DM)]: It's been another ten minutes doing that. 01:12:48.260 --> 01:12:49.862 [Riv (DM)]: Um, nothing magical pings. 01:12:51.404 --> 01:12:51.904 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, okay. 01:12:56.930 --> 01:12:57.190 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um... 01:13:00.410 --> 01:13:08.218 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Kill out one of the short swords and pass it to our young thief friend. 01:13:11.001 --> 01:13:16.526 [Riv (DM)]: She'll take it and as you hand it over she'll say, I'm sorry. 01:13:16.907 --> 01:13:17.868 [Riv (DM)]: I froze up. 01:13:17.908 --> 01:13:18.829 [Riv (DM)]: I should have helped you. 01:13:21.151 --> 01:13:21.932 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There's time and place. 01:13:23.593 --> 01:13:27.017 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's always good to know your limits and that was definitely beyond your limits. 01:13:29.399 --> 01:13:30.180 [Riv (DM)]: Who was that? 01:13:31.612 --> 01:13:35.517 [Riv (DM)]: She seemed to know you or something. 01:13:36.658 --> 01:13:37.659 [Riv (DM)]: She must have planned this, right? 01:13:41.404 --> 01:13:43.266 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Been hunting us for a while, I think, this one. 01:13:48.032 --> 01:13:50.935 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Taking a long look at her. 01:13:50.955 --> 01:13:51.616 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is anything ping? 01:13:53.658 --> 01:13:55.020 [Riv (DM)]: Other than the ship. 01:13:55.507 --> 01:13:57.390 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I need you to roll something. 01:13:57.911 --> 01:13:57.991 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:13:59.493 --> 01:14:00.054 [Riv (DM)]: What would it be? 01:14:00.374 --> 01:14:01.536 [Riv (DM)]: Wisdom, I guess? 01:14:04.460 --> 01:14:06.583 [JC (Ryo)]: Wisdom or Save Throw. 01:14:08.086 --> 01:14:12.452 [JC (Ryo)]: Riv, wouldn't I recognise her automatically due to Favoured Enemy? 01:14:13.445 --> 01:14:15.948 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: This is a bit more than just we've seen her on the ship. 01:14:15.968 --> 01:14:17.870 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you all recognise her from the ship. 01:14:18.271 --> 01:14:20.754 [Riv (DM)]: Vael's trying to see if he can see anything else. 01:14:21.294 --> 01:14:24.018 [Riv (DM)]: A history check, isn't it? 01:14:24.438 --> 01:14:28.443 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, why don't you pick something like history or insight. 01:14:31.387 --> 01:14:34.170 [Riv (DM)]: History or insight or just a straight wisdom saving throw if you like. 01:14:38.234 --> 01:14:43.740 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, going off favoured enemy, I'd at least know 100% if it was the same lady from the boat. 01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:45.202 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it absolutely is. 01:14:46.483 --> 01:14:48.585 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Now that you're up in class. 01:14:48.886 --> 01:14:50.107 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: History seems appropriate. 01:14:50.127 --> 01:14:52.870 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's the same bonus. 01:14:52.890 --> 01:14:56.354 [JC (Ryo)]: Also, I don't know if Erendor's done it, but I've policed up my sword and shield. 01:14:58.176 --> 01:14:58.436 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:14:58.456 --> 01:15:01.540 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I assume you guys go and grab your weapons after you've dropped them. 01:15:01.560 --> 01:15:03.602 [Riv (DM)]: Because of that bullshit, abusive mechanics. 01:15:04.823 --> 01:15:08.207 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Worst case, I go here, I pick it up, and I'm back. 01:15:09.031 --> 01:15:13.297 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, I lost a plus one shield because of that one, so, in another campaign. 01:15:14.419 --> 01:15:15.220 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, true. 01:15:16.442 --> 01:15:20.568 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so, Vale, you feel something. 01:15:23.392 --> 01:15:25.295 [Riv (DM)]: You have very strong emotions tied to this woman. 01:15:26.497 --> 01:15:27.138 [Riv (DM)]: It's confusing. 01:15:27.438 --> 01:15:28.360 [Riv (DM)]: You're not sure what they mean. 01:15:29.321 --> 01:15:30.643 [Riv (DM)]: But other than that, you're not sure. 01:15:30.964 --> 01:15:32.326 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing's coming back. 01:15:33.828 --> 01:15:36.332 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And just to confirm, you said this was the woman of my nightmares. 01:15:36.352 --> 01:15:38.515 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is this the one that I've heard screaming in my dreams? 01:15:39.963 --> 01:15:42.747 [Riv (DM)]: I would say that the cloak seems familiar from your dreams. 01:15:50.538 --> 01:15:51.279 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Nothing on her at all? 01:15:51.319 --> 01:15:52.781 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: No identifying? 01:15:52.801 --> 01:15:52.861 [Riv (DM)]: No. 01:15:53.302 --> 01:16:01.934 [Riv (DM)]: Completely clean. 01:16:02.354 --> 01:16:05.298 [Riv (DM)]: Almost like weirdly lack of positions. 01:16:06.240 --> 01:16:07.962 [Riv (DM)]: Almost like she... yeah. 01:16:09.106 --> 01:16:10.127 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't exist. 01:16:10.147 --> 01:16:11.389 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Must have a camp nearby. 01:16:11.409 --> 01:16:16.054 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:16:19.278 --> 01:16:22.742 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Drag her out into the woods and dig a shallow grave. 01:16:25.185 --> 01:16:25.505 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:16:27.267 --> 01:16:27.848 [Riv (DM)]: So you're doing that. 01:16:28.128 --> 01:16:29.690 [Riv (DM)]: What are the rest of you guys doing? 01:16:29.790 --> 01:16:34.035 [Riv (DM)]: The Finegolds are gonna like, I don't know, collect themselves. 01:16:34.075 --> 01:16:36.818 [Riv (DM)]: They're still kind of stunned and can't really 01:16:38.097 --> 01:16:40.481 [Riv (DM)]: A little bit ashamed of themselves, I suppose, for being caught. 01:16:42.984 --> 01:16:46.630 [Riv (DM)]: You know, they're suffering from malnutrition and they're trying to eat a bit. 01:16:47.932 --> 01:16:49.414 [Riv (DM)]: Collect themselves, get themselves back together. 01:16:50.296 --> 01:16:51.898 [Riv (DM)]: Malnutrition? 01:16:51.918 --> 01:16:52.239 [Riv (DM)]: Do they... 01:16:52.820 --> 01:16:54.883 [Riv (DM)]: I'd like to go through the tents, see if they've got any food. 01:16:55.864 --> 01:16:59.650 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, there's some old crusty food in the caravans that are nearby. 01:17:00.878 --> 01:17:06.125 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, you can get some food off the people and they start having some food. 01:17:06.546 --> 01:17:11.132 [Riv (DM)]: Is it good food or is it like bad, crappy food? 01:17:11.152 --> 01:17:11.672 [Riv (DM)]: It's old. 01:17:12.073 --> 01:17:13.014 [Riv (DM)]: It's old and dry. 01:17:13.795 --> 01:17:14.837 [Riv (DM)]: But it'll do the job. 01:17:16.318 --> 01:17:20.804 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay, alright. 01:17:20.824 --> 01:17:23.528 [JC (Ryo)]: We hanging around here, Kai? 01:17:24.925 --> 01:17:25.466 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 01:17:25.766 --> 01:17:28.990 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm waiting for Vale to collect himself. 01:17:29.291 --> 01:17:31.674 [Lacer (Kai)]: He seems to be in deep thought. 01:17:34.718 --> 01:17:36.320 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll go see if I can get us something fresh. 01:17:36.881 --> 01:17:40.786 [JC (Ryo)]: Then I'll go try and hunt or forage something. 01:17:40.806 --> 01:17:41.888 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:17:42.168 --> 01:17:42.989 [Riv (DM)]: Give us a survival. 01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:52.502 [JC (Ryo)]: Double proficiency, I think. 01:17:55.553 --> 01:17:59.077 [JC (Ryo)]: Do I get extra proficiency if I'm not proficient in it? 01:17:59.738 --> 01:18:00.840 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, nah, you wouldn't in that case. 01:18:02.662 --> 01:18:03.683 [Riv (DM)]: Just double zero or whatever. 01:18:04.004 --> 01:18:05.105 [Riv (DM)]: But 17's still good enough. 01:18:05.806 --> 01:18:07.588 [Riv (DM)]: You can find a couple of rabbits. 01:18:09.731 --> 01:18:10.311 [Riv (DM)]: Handful of rabbits. 01:18:10.352 --> 01:18:12.094 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that you don't find anything big. 01:18:16.119 --> 01:18:18.962 [Riv (DM)]: You do come across a pair of those tracks again. 01:18:20.885 --> 01:18:21.966 [Riv (DM)]: This time quite a bit older. 01:18:24.713 --> 01:18:27.737 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you can go get some rabbits, bring them back, make some rabbit stew or something. 01:18:29.279 --> 01:18:32.543 [Lacer (Kai)]: While that's happening, can I dig a hole? 01:18:33.064 --> 01:18:44.178 [Lacer (Kai)]: Dig a hole in the ground that's about five feet by two feet with the help of Dondar or someone. 01:18:45.099 --> 01:18:46.841 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and like Dornan's here as well. 01:18:47.242 --> 01:18:50.866 [Riv (DM)]: There's tools in the caravan so you can all probably just... Oh, they've got shovels? 01:18:50.886 --> 01:18:51.667 [Riv (DM)]: They've got a shovel? 01:18:51.687 --> 01:18:53.910 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they've got stuff that can help make it easier, so that's fine. 01:18:55.173 --> 01:18:56.936 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I'm going to make them a bath. 01:19:01.163 --> 01:19:01.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:19:01.283 --> 01:19:07.793 [Lacer (Kai)]: So after we dig the hole, I'd like to use my, um, what's it called? 01:19:08.434 --> 01:19:12.441 [Lacer (Kai)]: Decanter of Endless Water. 01:19:13.242 --> 01:19:15.105 [Lacer (Kai)]: And, um... 01:19:15.642 --> 01:19:20.108 [Lacer (Kai)]: I put water on the ground, not in the hole, and I use shape water to heat it over the fire. 01:19:21.509 --> 01:19:24.393 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so you're sort of like waterbending it on top of the fire. 01:19:24.413 --> 01:19:29.780 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, on top of the fire to heat it up and then transfer it into the hole in the ground. 01:19:29.800 --> 01:19:30.181 [Lacer (Kai)]: Beautiful. 01:19:30.461 --> 01:19:31.642 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I don't see why that wouldn't work. 01:19:32.524 --> 01:19:41.395 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, the rest of them just sort of like watch you doing this a bit puzzled, kind of like, I don't know what's going on here. 01:19:41.415 --> 01:19:45.480 [Riv (DM)]: And then when it starts becoming obvious what you're doing, they're like, uh-huh. 01:19:46.996 --> 01:19:54.527 [Riv (DM)]: What's the idea here, Kai? 01:19:56.169 --> 01:19:59.113 [Lacer (Kai)]: You guys look pretty dirty, pretty tired. 01:19:59.133 --> 01:20:02.638 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think maybe a hot bath would help rejuvenate. 01:20:05.262 --> 01:20:08.346 [Riv (DM)]: The ladies are looking around a bit and they're like, yeah. 01:20:09.608 --> 01:20:11.170 [Riv (DM)]: It's a bit out in the open, isn't it? 01:20:11.891 --> 01:20:13.913 [Riv (DM)]: And then Dornan's like, I'm jumping in! 01:20:13.953 --> 01:20:18.378 [Lacer (Kai)]: Dwarf just runs forward, just dives straight in, doesn't even take off his clothes. 01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:20.721 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do they have any tarps? 01:20:20.901 --> 01:20:23.665 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can just stake out some tarps around it for privacy. 01:20:23.685 --> 01:20:25.587 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You can just remove one of the tents over it. 01:20:25.747 --> 01:20:26.568 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we can do that. 01:20:28.190 --> 01:20:29.352 [Riv (DM)]: Dornan's having a good time. 01:20:29.752 --> 01:20:32.075 [Riv (DM)]: You can hear him sort of laughing away. 01:20:32.115 --> 01:20:34.738 [Lacer (Kai)]: Happy now, happy now. 01:20:34.718 --> 01:20:47.850 [Riv (DM)]: Seeing this they're like oh all right I mean it does look nice and looks like he's having a good time doesn't he all right then and then yeah everyone has a bath incredible 01:20:51.442 --> 01:20:52.124 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:20:52.665 --> 01:20:56.596 [Riv (DM)]: As this is happening, Gemma eventually comes out bathed, looking much cleaner. 01:20:56.857 --> 01:21:01.630 [Riv (DM)]: Clothed, I should say as well. 01:21:02.512 --> 01:21:06.784 [Riv (DM)]: And just wanders over to you guys. 01:21:08.114 --> 01:21:14.723 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well... Yeah, I... Of course, I'm absolutely embarrassed that this happened. 01:21:14.843 --> 01:21:18.508 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, I guess the intention originally was to try and get her off your trail. 01:21:19.129 --> 01:21:21.312 [Riv (DM)]: She couldn't find out about the Skyreach mission, obviously. 01:21:21.952 --> 01:21:25.818 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't think she would actually attack us if you weren't here. 01:21:29.542 --> 01:21:30.884 [Riv (DM)]: I should have thought they should use us for bait. 01:21:33.047 --> 01:21:34.669 [Riv (DM)]: But anyway, I guess that's behind us now. 01:21:35.751 --> 01:21:36.852 [Riv (DM)]: What are we doing next? 01:21:36.892 --> 01:21:37.513 [Riv (DM)]: What are you doing? 01:21:45.627 --> 01:21:49.452 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Skyreach is dealt with and things are escalating. 01:21:49.512 --> 01:21:54.239 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're making a bit of space heading north. 01:21:55.440 --> 01:21:59.846 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Basically just getting ahead of the groundswell of bullshit that's about to occur. 01:22:03.291 --> 01:22:03.651 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:22:04.192 --> 01:22:05.694 [Riv (DM)]: So you're heading to Val Miriel then, yeah? 01:22:07.516 --> 01:22:08.418 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's the current plan. 01:22:13.044 --> 01:22:13.204 Alright. 01:22:15.597 --> 01:22:16.798 [Riv (DM)]: He calls over to the group. 01:22:19.302 --> 01:22:20.563 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone opposed to heading to Val Miriel? 01:22:21.725 --> 01:22:22.466 [Riv (DM)]: Eh, shake their heads. 01:22:23.186 --> 01:22:26.230 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, we'll come with you then. 01:22:31.937 --> 01:22:36.503 [Riv (DM)]: It's been a while since we've been to Val Miriel, but yeah. 01:22:36.523 --> 01:22:39.647 [Riv (DM)]: We know a few contacts there, might be able to help out where we can. 01:22:43.137 --> 01:22:49.726 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: In context, I might have a few names I need you to chase up at some stage. 01:22:51.088 --> 01:22:52.189 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, make an ask around. 01:22:54.673 --> 01:22:56.235 [Riv (DM)]: We'll see about that a bit later. 01:22:56.395 --> 01:22:57.396 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, we'll see when we get there. 01:22:59.940 --> 01:23:04.867 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mentioned to Gemma, I've cast a spell on your father's body. 01:23:05.147 --> 01:23:08.211 [Lacer (Kai)]: It won't degrade for ten days. 01:23:09.112 --> 01:23:11.035 [Lacer (Kai)]: Shall we give him a proper burial? 01:23:13.917 --> 01:23:15.719 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I was trying not to think about it. 01:23:17.462 --> 01:23:19.484 [Riv (DM)]: Let's bring his body back and bury him here, right in the centre. 01:23:22.068 --> 01:23:25.893 [Riv (DM)]: Oh gods, it was horrible. 01:23:27.174 --> 01:23:28.276 [Riv (DM)]: She did it right in front of my eyes. 01:23:35.185 --> 01:23:35.766 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's terrible. 01:23:38.910 --> 01:23:39.070 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 01:23:40.191 --> 01:23:41.173 [Lacer (Kai)]: Harland was a good man. 01:23:42.775 --> 01:23:42.895 [Riv (DM)]: Aye. 01:23:44.191 --> 01:23:49.939 [Riv (DM)]: I never thought his heart was fully in it, you know, but he didn't deserve to go like this. 01:23:52.363 --> 01:23:53.204 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, let's go get him. 01:23:54.346 --> 01:23:58.011 [Riv (DM)]: And you can go and bring the body back and have a burial for him as well. 01:24:00.274 --> 01:24:01.576 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:24:01.596 --> 01:24:01.856 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:24:01.876 --> 01:24:03.999 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything else anyone would like to do here? 01:24:04.019 --> 01:24:10.469 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I was just going to say, I'll take the assassin red cloak as well. 01:24:11.049 --> 01:24:11.971 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:24:11.991 --> 01:24:13.573 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It seems familiar. 01:24:13.925 --> 01:24:14.225 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:24:16.088 --> 01:24:17.249 [Riv (DM)]: Just call it Black Cloak. 01:24:18.451 --> 01:24:21.354 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I just called it Red Cloak, Assassin. 01:24:21.755 --> 01:24:23.097 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's fine. 01:24:23.117 --> 01:24:25.039 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:24:26.141 --> 01:24:26.441 [Riv (DM)]: Excellent. 01:24:28.203 --> 01:24:28.524 [Riv (DM)]: So cool. 01:24:28.924 --> 01:24:36.173 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't we take a break here and in 10-15 minutes or so we can come back and you guys can have a think about where you want to go, what you want to do next. 01:24:38.096 --> 01:24:38.276 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:24:40.559 --> 01:24:41.100 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:24:42.081 --> 01:24:43.763 [Riv (DM)]: So, we'll be right back. 01:24:57.631 --> 01:41:50.320 ================ Session Break ================ 01:42:46.342 --> 01:42:58.118 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty, so the morning I guess carries on. 01:42:59.500 --> 01:43:05.008 [Riv (DM)]: People are bathed, cleaned up and starting to put themselves back together. 01:43:05.108 --> 01:43:07.291 [Riv (DM)]: Caravans start getting packed up and the tents are struck. 01:43:08.573 --> 01:43:14.020 [Riv (DM)]: During all this Gemma wanders back over again and says 01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:16.763 [Riv (DM)]: We probably want to think about getting out of these woods before nightfall. 01:43:18.785 --> 01:43:33.041 [Riv (DM)]: The beasts about, the woman, whatever her name was, she mentioned that they come out and hunt at night time and that was why she made me bury the body further away from the campsite so it wouldn't come sniffing around. 01:43:33.101 --> 01:43:43.112 [Riv (DM)]: So probably best idea if we just get out of here, get out of these woods before nightfall, yeah. 01:43:44.813 --> 01:43:46.095 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, we'll get the rest of them together. 01:43:46.857 --> 01:43:49.041 [Riv (DM)]: You guys, you got horses I see? 01:43:49.541 --> 01:43:49.902 [Riv (DM)]: Anything else? 01:43:49.922 --> 01:43:50.543 [Riv (DM)]: You all ready to go? 01:43:54.370 --> 01:43:54.590 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:43:55.412 --> 01:43:59.038 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We need to get to our caravan. 01:43:59.058 --> 01:43:59.379 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Wagon. 01:44:00.481 --> 01:44:02.925 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are we gonna leave that behind or are we gonna get it? 01:44:08.375 --> 01:44:08.475 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh... 01:44:11.408 --> 01:44:12.349 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I mean, we're renting it. 01:44:12.850 --> 01:44:13.911 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Do we want to deal with that? 01:44:16.795 --> 01:44:18.077 [JC (Ryo)]: Did we rent it or did we buy it? 01:44:18.097 --> 01:44:18.818 [JC (Ryo)]: I think we bought it. 01:44:19.739 --> 01:44:20.000 [JC (Ryo)]: Did we? 01:44:20.140 --> 01:44:20.861 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm pretty sure we bought it. 01:44:22.323 --> 01:44:24.085 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I remember Val did some talking. 01:44:24.105 --> 01:44:24.546 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 01:44:24.566 --> 01:44:25.988 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, I think we did. 01:44:26.008 --> 01:44:27.169 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What about the Firegolds Caravan? 01:44:28.111 --> 01:44:31.796 [Riv (DM)]: They've got theirs, yeah. 01:44:32.196 --> 01:44:39.306 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It'll probably take us a while to get our parts and bits and stuff and regroup, unless there's a convenient road. 01:44:40.923 --> 01:44:42.066 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You're a convenient truck. 01:44:42.787 --> 01:44:43.449 [Riv (DM)]: Not super easy. 01:44:44.511 --> 01:44:46.316 [Riv (DM)]: Not like a, you know, paper road or anything like that. 01:44:46.677 --> 01:44:49.864 [Riv (DM)]: But you'll be able to take your time picking your way through. 01:44:52.591 --> 01:44:53.633 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, we gather it and 01:44:54.912 --> 01:44:56.894 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Roll ourselves out a caravan. 01:44:57.675 --> 01:44:58.236 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Convoy. 01:44:58.616 --> 01:44:59.197 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, convoy. 01:44:59.217 --> 01:44:59.637 [Riv (DM)]: Hell yeah. 01:44:59.737 --> 01:45:00.118 [Riv (DM)]: Yeehaw. 01:45:00.959 --> 01:45:01.940 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, sweet. 01:45:01.960 --> 01:45:03.181 [Riv (DM)]: So we head out. 01:45:03.282 --> 01:45:08.988 [Riv (DM)]: It probably takes the best, the better part of a day to get through the woods. 01:45:09.208 --> 01:45:13.413 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say it's starting to get about afternoon by the time you get to the edges of it. 01:45:14.334 --> 01:45:20.481 [Riv (DM)]: Took you about half a day, I think, coming on in to get to the edge of the ruins and then an hour or so poking around and walking. 01:45:20.461 --> 01:45:23.806 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, we can say evening is just starting to hit. 01:45:23.826 --> 01:45:28.432 [Riv (DM)]: Sun's starting to go down as you break your way through the outskirts of the forests. 01:45:30.375 --> 01:45:31.476 [Riv (DM)]: No issues along the way. 01:45:31.556 --> 01:45:32.978 [Riv (DM)]: There were no beasts that came out. 01:45:33.799 --> 01:45:39.647 [Riv (DM)]: You never did find what made those tracks, Rio, but maybe an adventure for another time. 01:45:41.870 --> 01:45:42.351 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:45:42.770 --> 01:45:47.254 [Riv (DM)]: And you can eventually make your way back down onto the main road assuming you're heading in that direction. 01:45:48.616 --> 01:45:54.081 [Riv (DM)]: So you get there, you get to the main road and I guess Gemma just calls a hulk to the caravan and just shouts back. 01:45:54.942 --> 01:45:56.183 [Riv (DM)]: We're heading to Val Miriel, yeah? 01:45:56.403 --> 01:45:59.086 [Riv (DM)]: Just anything you need to do in Farhaven or should we just carry on? 01:46:04.331 --> 01:46:04.931 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Look at Val. 01:46:06.093 --> 01:46:07.794 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think he should probably avoid Farhaven. 01:46:09.896 --> 01:46:11.798 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We may have made a scene. 01:46:14.900 --> 01:46:16.262 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, you definitely did. 01:46:17.204 --> 01:46:18.466 [Riv (DM)]: You'll have to tell me about that sometime. 01:46:19.307 --> 01:46:20.089 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, we'll carry on. 01:46:20.109 --> 01:46:22.192 [Riv (DM)]: We'll carry on until nightfall and we'll take a stop for a campsite, yeah? 01:46:23.214 --> 01:46:26.439 [Riv (DM)]: And okay, everyone carries on off again down the road. 01:46:27.301 --> 01:46:33.010 [Riv (DM)]: Just for a couple of hours before night starts to fall and you can pick a spot off to the side of the road and see if you can camp. 01:46:34.525 --> 01:46:41.674 [Riv (DM)]: The group seems to be starting to, you know, chirp up a bit. 01:46:42.675 --> 01:46:48.883 [Riv (DM)]: I think travelling itself probably makes people feel better, is what they're used to, and just putting that dark place behind them. 01:46:50.545 --> 01:46:52.367 [Riv (DM)]: Gemma has distant looks. 01:46:53.228 --> 01:46:57.914 [Riv (DM)]: She's clearly still mourning, but eyes on the prize, I suppose. 01:46:58.455 --> 01:46:58.836 [Riv (DM)]: Eyes ahead. 01:46:59.476 --> 01:47:02.440 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything you guys wanted to do in the evening? 01:47:04.917 --> 01:47:08.543 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like to make two sets of good berries. 01:47:08.844 --> 01:47:15.055 [Lacer (Kai)]: One set for the four look-alike gold nuts to consume, since that food is not so great. 01:47:18.281 --> 01:47:23.330 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I'll just cast that one for the last 24 hours. 01:47:23.350 --> 01:47:25.493 [Riv (DM)]: Might need to move your microphone back into position. 01:47:26.836 --> 01:47:28.198 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry, it was up, it was up. 01:47:28.419 --> 01:47:29.220 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, nah, you're good. 01:47:30.972 --> 01:47:35.858 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, I'd like to make two sets with good berries, one to consume now, one for the next day. 01:47:36.799 --> 01:47:36.879 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 01:47:36.899 --> 01:47:37.219 [Lacer (Kai)]: Beautiful. 01:47:40.182 --> 01:47:40.783 [Riv (DM)]: Easy enough. 01:47:41.364 --> 01:47:42.845 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone else got anything to do tonight? 01:47:46.490 --> 01:47:46.590 [Riv (DM)]: Nope. 01:47:46.610 --> 01:47:49.032 [Unmatched Speaker]: How many days travel are we looking at? 01:47:49.053 --> 01:47:50.234 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's probably about two days. 01:47:51.675 --> 01:47:51.756 Yep. 01:47:51.776 --> 01:47:54.919 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 01:47:54.939 --> 01:47:57.762 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Are we gonna have one more night before we get there, or...? 01:47:57.782 --> 01:48:00.085 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, it'll be one night and then the next day's travel, I'd say. 01:48:03.423 --> 01:48:05.246 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think Kiwi wanted to say something. 01:48:07.890 --> 01:48:09.231 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Nah, just long rest. 01:48:10.053 --> 01:48:12.076 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, smash your long rest. 01:48:12.476 --> 01:48:16.162 [Riv (DM)]: Should we jump over here? 01:48:19.927 --> 01:48:22.190 [Lacer (Kai)]: During the night, can I do an experiment? 01:48:22.911 --> 01:48:23.693 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can do whatever you want, man. 01:48:25.335 --> 01:48:26.156 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 01:48:27.318 --> 01:48:28.840 [JC (Ryo)]: We get the long rest or are there issues? 01:48:29.242 --> 01:48:29.923 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, you're good. 01:48:29.943 --> 01:48:31.785 [Riv (DM)]: Smash long rest. 01:48:31.805 --> 01:48:38.252 [Riv (DM)]: I was going to say, in terms of resting, when you're in a group this size, eh, unlikely you're going to be accosted by anything. 01:48:38.612 --> 01:48:44.598 [Riv (DM)]: And constantly rolling for evening encounters gets a bit boring, so we'll save that for when you're in difficult, deadly terrain. 01:48:46.060 --> 01:48:46.580 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okie doke. 01:48:46.761 --> 01:48:57.392 [Lacer (Kai)]: That night, I'd like to make a... in combination with my decanter, maybe like 30 feet away from camp, I'd like to do Shapewater. 01:48:58.402 --> 01:49:08.856 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I like to make some water in the shape of a triangular prism. 01:49:11.460 --> 01:49:13.522 [Lacer (Kai)]: So it's just a sloped slab of ice. 01:49:13.642 --> 01:49:21.473 [Lacer (Kai)]: I like to freeze the water and make it frozen but really smooth and mirror-like, so using two effects of shape water. 01:49:22.398 --> 01:49:22.879 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:49:24.002 --> 01:49:29.837 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I step away from that shiny ice cube that's mirror-like. 01:49:30.479 --> 01:49:32.003 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I cast... 01:49:32.945 --> 01:49:33.926 [Lacer (Kai)]: Moonbeam on it. 01:49:35.709 --> 01:49:36.610 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:49:36.630 --> 01:49:41.796 [Lacer (Kai)]: I want to see if the moonbeam reflects off the ice, the mirrored ice. 01:49:41.816 --> 01:49:42.537 [Lacer (Kai)]: Reflects. 01:49:43.098 --> 01:49:43.438 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:49:44.420 --> 01:49:46.182 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not at me, but towards a tree. 01:49:46.482 --> 01:49:46.963 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:49:47.023 --> 01:49:48.164 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just want to see if it works. 01:49:48.645 --> 01:49:48.965 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:49:48.985 --> 01:49:49.726 [Riv (DM)]: Well, let's see. 01:49:50.567 --> 01:49:52.490 [Riv (DM)]: What does moonbeam specifically say? 01:49:52.510 --> 01:49:53.952 [Riv (DM)]: Is it a spell or is it a feature? 01:49:54.492 --> 01:49:54.933 [Riv (DM)]: It's a spell. 01:49:58.517 --> 01:49:58.618 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:49:58.638 --> 01:49:59.358 [Riv (DM)]: So that'd be cool. 01:50:01.742 --> 01:50:01.842 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:50:01.862 --> 01:50:02.142 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:50:08.180 --> 01:50:08.861 [Riv (DM)]: Pale light. 01:50:10.303 --> 01:50:12.226 [Riv (DM)]: It is...gotcha, it's gonna be damage. 01:50:12.987 --> 01:50:14.689 [Riv (DM)]: And this one, this is the one you can like move it, right? 01:50:15.310 --> 01:50:15.550 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:50:16.832 --> 01:50:18.414 [Riv (DM)]: You can use action to move the beam. 01:50:18.434 --> 01:50:19.416 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool, gotcha, gotcha. 01:50:19.656 --> 01:50:20.457 [Riv (DM)]: So it's like sunbeam. 01:50:23.001 --> 01:50:24.583 [Lacer (Kai)]: But it's moonbeam. 01:50:24.603 --> 01:50:25.464 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:50:25.865 --> 01:50:32.855 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just want to see if it refracts off the mirrored ice at 45 degrees. 01:50:33.295 --> 01:50:34.217 [Lacer (Kai)]: If it doesn't, it doesn't. 01:50:34.277 --> 01:50:35.959 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just want to see, experiment. 01:50:37.154 --> 01:50:41.540 [Riv (DM)]: Well, why don't you roll a Wisdom, just a straight Wisdom. 01:50:43.443 --> 01:50:45.325 [Riv (DM)]: And we'll see how clever you can be with it. 01:50:54.037 --> 01:50:55.119 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, it does bend. 01:50:55.159 --> 01:50:57.102 [Riv (DM)]: Let's say it bends a bit because that's cool. 01:50:58.363 --> 01:51:01.348 [Riv (DM)]: So you've got your little five foot, it's like a five foot block of ice or something, right? 01:51:01.928 --> 01:51:02.149 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:51:02.649 --> 01:51:03.591 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:51:04.051 --> 01:51:04.432 [Riv (DM)]: It bends. 01:51:04.652 --> 01:51:06.655 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably not quite where you wanted to aim it. 01:51:07.259 --> 01:51:17.362 [Riv (DM)]: You'd probably need to practice to try and like get the angles correctly and stuff like that so you're you know at this point let's say you're not quite as precise as you would like to be to be able to you know chuck it at a corner. 01:51:17.382 --> 01:51:19.907 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's fine it's the first try the first try. 01:51:19.967 --> 01:51:21.150 [Riv (DM)]: It seems like it works yeah. 01:51:22.109 --> 01:51:23.972 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh that's cool, that's cool. 01:51:23.992 --> 01:51:27.197 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright I play around with that for the night and then have my long rest. 01:51:27.217 --> 01:51:28.159 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah cool. 01:51:28.239 --> 01:51:38.835 [Riv (DM)]: As you're doing this, whenever you cast these sort of like celestial spells, often your starry symbols will flare up over your arms as per normal and you're well used to it now. 01:51:39.476 --> 01:51:48.150 [Riv (DM)]: As you do it this time, one thing you do notice when you cast them, I imagine you cast it once and then you just like you're moving it around and stuff like that, sort of playing with it. 01:51:48.130 --> 01:51:55.657 [Riv (DM)]: When you first cast it, you notice your arms shine with light again and the starry patterns sort of crawl their way up your arms. 01:51:56.438 --> 01:52:00.562 [Riv (DM)]: On your right arm, beautiful white glowing starry patterns. 01:52:00.582 --> 01:52:12.834 [Riv (DM)]: On your left arm, the starry patterns are dark and black up to about your elbow and then they carry on back in the normal silvery white formation. 01:52:14.595 --> 01:52:16.197 [Lacer (Kai)]: So they shine through my clothes? 01:52:17.054 --> 01:52:21.519 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah well I mean you would have noticed it and then maybe pulled back your sleeves or something like that to have a closer look. 01:52:22.881 --> 01:52:30.409 [Riv (DM)]: Because it'll be like on the back of your hand so yeah on the back of your um on the back of your hands you can kind of look at them in front of you yeah. 01:52:30.530 --> 01:52:32.612 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's new is it? 01:52:33.092 --> 01:52:33.913 [Lacer (Kai)]: Definitely new yeah. 01:52:34.995 --> 01:52:36.777 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright okay I'll think about that. 01:52:40.681 --> 01:52:41.102 [Riv (DM)]: Alright cool. 01:52:41.482 --> 01:52:43.464 [Riv (DM)]: Awesome. 01:52:43.484 --> 01:52:46.588 [Riv (DM)]: The next day comes and the carry ring can take off. 01:52:48.070 --> 01:52:52.297 [Riv (DM)]: Along the road, there's a small village you pass through. 01:52:53.839 --> 01:53:00.189 [Riv (DM)]: Just a cluster of houses, a few people that sort of just like watch as you go past a bit suspiciously, but no one says anything. 01:53:01.872 --> 01:53:06.599 [Riv (DM)]: Later on in the day, up ahead of you, you see another caravan heading your direction. 01:53:09.324 --> 01:53:15.934 [Riv (DM)]: Off in the distance, looks like a couple of horses, couple of caravans, and they get closer and closer. 01:53:18.614 --> 01:53:24.625 [Riv (DM)]: Unless there is anything specific you wanted to do, they will just sort of take a wide berth and steer clear from you. 01:53:25.206 --> 01:53:26.328 [Riv (DM)]: Again, sort of just suspicious. 01:53:26.408 --> 01:53:33.400 [Riv (DM)]: Everyone you're running into these days feels quite on edge, you know, and it's evident here again in this little meeting. 01:53:36.205 --> 01:53:38.129 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are they just horses or is it a caravan? 01:53:38.870 --> 01:53:40.032 [Lacer (Kai)]: Horses and caravans, yeah. 01:53:41.750 --> 01:53:45.596 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to do a perception check. 01:53:45.957 --> 01:53:48.161 [Lacer (Kai)]: See how many I can see from where I'm at. 01:53:48.501 --> 01:53:48.802 [Lacer (Kai)]: Go for it. 01:53:49.002 --> 01:53:49.342 [Lacer (Kai)]: Easy enough. 01:53:53.069 --> 01:53:53.690 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:53:53.710 --> 01:53:57.416 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, there's an older man and a woman up on front of the caravan. 01:53:57.977 --> 01:54:06.711 [Riv (DM)]: Two horses and the caravan at the back is just covered with tarp, so you can't really see inside it, but doesn't seem to be anyone else. 01:54:08.767 --> 01:54:09.127 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:54:09.408 --> 01:54:12.051 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just keep my head down when I'm wearing. 01:54:15.214 --> 01:54:16.095 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 01:54:16.115 --> 01:54:16.696 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 01:54:16.716 --> 01:54:23.103 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: At some point during the travel, I'd like to shift up and sit next to Gemma. 01:54:25.986 --> 01:54:26.287 [Riv (DM)]: Easy enough. 01:54:26.327 --> 01:54:32.053 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can jump into her caravan, the leading one, after, you know, a lunch break or something like that. 01:54:32.774 --> 01:54:33.635 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you call her up. 01:54:33.655 --> 01:54:34.696 [Riv (DM)]: She knows you. 01:54:34.716 --> 01:54:35.036 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, welcome. 01:54:35.357 --> 01:54:36.138 [Riv (DM)]: Welcome to Heather's caravan. 01:54:37.359 --> 01:54:38.200 [Riv (DM)]: What can I help you with? 01:54:39.260 --> 01:54:44.709 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A few questions and maybe we can find a bit of information. 01:54:47.173 --> 01:54:53.463 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You obviously have some sort of contacts across the continent that are, shall we say, engaged with the Resistance? 01:54:54.344 --> 01:54:56.107 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or at least prying into Imperial affairs? 01:54:57.690 --> 01:54:59.833 [Riv (DM)]: I have some. 01:55:01.518 --> 01:55:08.789 [Riv (DM)]: Look, I wouldn't call myself a spy or conspir... 01:55:08.909 --> 01:55:09.931 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know what you would call me. 01:55:12.254 --> 01:55:14.818 [Riv (DM)]: I've just... 01:55:14.838 --> 01:55:21.448 [Riv (DM)]: I've tried to get involved where I could, and for the most part that's meant having a few contacts with the Ravens, yeah? 01:55:22.770 --> 01:55:27.677 [Riv (DM)]: They led me to the Mawbreakers and eventually ended up meeting you. 01:55:29.243 --> 01:55:33.490 [Riv (DM)]: Genuinely, we were just merchants for the longest time. 01:55:36.394 --> 01:55:39.198 [Riv (DM)]: But, you know, you pick up context here and there. 01:55:39.859 --> 01:55:48.913 [Riv (DM)]: If what you're looking for is a network of spies all across the continent that we can use, I'm afraid there isn't anything like that other than the Ravens themselves. 01:55:51.678 --> 01:55:54.182 [Riv (DM)]: The Empire, they've clutched this land. 01:55:55.123 --> 01:55:57.006 [Riv (DM)]: No one's been able to really organize anything. 01:55:57.695 --> 01:56:01.259 [Riv (DM)]: I think now is the greatest opportunity to actually try and form something like that. 01:56:05.424 --> 01:56:08.888 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, you've probably got a better starting point than anyone out there. 01:56:10.850 --> 01:56:11.691 [Riv (DM)]: Aye, I'd say so that. 01:56:12.251 --> 01:56:13.373 [Riv (DM)]: I do know a few people here and there. 01:56:15.475 --> 01:56:22.323 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And I'm sure the Ravens have their fingers in many pies, but let's just say they're not exactly an independent entity. 01:56:23.504 --> 01:56:24.445 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They have their own goals. 01:56:25.867 --> 01:56:25.947 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Aye. 01:56:28.137 --> 01:56:29.339 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Handy allies, nonetheless. 01:56:32.163 --> 01:56:36.530 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: When you first saw me, you said there was a poster with my face on it. 01:56:38.593 --> 01:56:43.060 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That wasn't attached to the general search for us, was it? 01:56:45.183 --> 01:56:46.325 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know, to be honest. 01:56:46.585 --> 01:56:48.348 [Riv (DM)]: It seemed to just specifically be you. 01:56:49.429 --> 01:56:51.312 [Riv (DM)]: But it's odd, because I haven't seen it anywhere else. 01:56:51.332 --> 01:56:52.274 [Riv (DM)]: It was just in Darmouth. 01:56:55.258 --> 01:56:56.440 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Did it have a name on it? 01:56:57.331 --> 01:56:57.832 [Riv (DM)]: No, I didn't. 01:56:58.713 --> 01:56:59.274 [Riv (DM)]: Just a picture. 01:57:01.477 --> 01:57:02.458 [Riv (DM)]: I think you've actually still got it. 01:57:03.439 --> 01:57:05.843 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't think I do yet. 01:57:05.863 --> 01:57:06.043 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 01:57:07.906 --> 01:57:14.956 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Next time you're talking with your contacts, just bounce around in a name for me and see if you can find anything about it. 01:57:16.678 --> 01:57:18.701 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Keep it quiet. 01:57:18.721 --> 01:57:23.027 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That might be a dangerous name, but information on it would be good. 01:57:24.128 --> 01:57:25.090 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The name Corvas. 01:57:25.931 --> 01:57:26.832 [Riv (DM)]: Corvas. 01:57:29.005 --> 01:57:29.826 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And what does that mean? 01:57:30.187 --> 01:57:30.988 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Where did you hear that from? 01:57:31.008 --> 01:57:31.429 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I have no idea. 01:57:31.869 --> 01:57:34.273 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Definitely attached to the Red Cloaks in one way or another. 01:57:35.795 --> 01:57:36.837 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:57:36.857 --> 01:57:37.438 [Riv (DM)]: I'll ask around. 01:57:38.700 --> 01:57:39.521 [Riv (DM)]: On the download, of course. 01:57:40.362 --> 01:57:43.807 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Attached to the Red Cloaks, so probably a dangerous one. 01:57:47.553 --> 01:57:47.633 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hmm. 01:57:47.653 --> 01:57:47.933 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 01:57:47.953 --> 01:57:48.414 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Could be important. 01:57:49.836 --> 01:57:54.403 [Riv (DM)]: Well, we'll probably be staying in Val Noren for a little while, so if I hear anything I'll get back to you. 01:57:55.204 --> 01:57:56.987 [Riv (DM)]: What's your plan once we get there, by the way? 01:57:59.330 --> 01:58:06.160 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: At this stage I think we're making it up as we go along, like most of this whole civil war we're building. 01:58:07.181 --> 01:58:10.746 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, seems like that's the way these sorts of things seem to form, yeah? 01:58:12.649 --> 01:58:22.643 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There is a report of maybe a stronghold up at Val Noren, but Empire might be moving that way, they might not, who knows how strong it is. 01:58:22.844 --> 01:58:25.928 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I believe that's where the mawbreakers are mostly going to reinforce. 01:58:26.802 --> 01:58:30.948 [Riv (DM)]: I did hear, I did hear talk of the, the army heading across the plains in that direction. 01:58:31.970 --> 01:58:34.634 [Riv (DM)]: Seems like they've come notice or something. 01:58:37.018 --> 01:58:37.098 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hmm. 01:58:37.118 --> 01:58:39.822 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, winter would be the best time for him to do it while it's frozen. 01:58:40.142 --> 01:58:41.364 [Riv (DM)]: Aye, yeah, the iceberg. 01:58:43.968 --> 01:58:45.070 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Let's have to see how he goes. 01:58:45.110 --> 01:58:48.135 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm sure when we get to Val Miriel we'll hear a bit more info on that. 01:58:48.155 --> 01:58:51.440 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: An army needs supplies and it's probably the biggest supply point in that area. 01:58:52.882 --> 01:58:52.962 Aye. 01:58:54.781 --> 01:58:58.386 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and I imagine they'll have to go through Point Blackrock. 01:58:59.247 --> 01:59:01.430 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 01:59:02.392 --> 01:59:06.878 [Riv (DM)]: I wonder how the people there will accommodate the army. 01:59:07.579 --> 01:59:12.166 [Riv (DM)]: I can hardly imagine there'll be enough supply, especially in the winter for them, but you know what the Emperor's like. 01:59:12.206 --> 01:59:14.048 [Riv (DM)]: If they want something, they'll probably just take it. 01:59:15.390 --> 01:59:16.792 [Riv (DM)]: I wonder if we could try and get there before them. 01:59:18.234 --> 01:59:18.915 [Riv (DM)]: Give them a heads up. 01:59:20.887 --> 01:59:21.307 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Possible. 01:59:21.668 --> 01:59:25.472 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think the ships heading up the coast will probably be there long before we do. 01:59:26.774 --> 01:59:31.780 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: This comes down to what the leaders of any sort of resistance at Val Noren are doing. 01:59:32.761 --> 01:59:37.366 [Riv (DM)]: Interesting times. 01:59:41.391 --> 01:59:42.592 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's about all I wanted to check in. 01:59:42.993 --> 01:59:43.373 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:59:45.596 --> 01:59:46.557 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so... 01:59:48.983 --> 01:59:49.964 [Riv (DM)]: The next day comes. 01:59:51.446 --> 01:59:52.788 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I suppose that evening. 01:59:53.429 --> 01:59:53.849 [Riv (DM)]: Camp again. 01:59:54.731 --> 01:59:56.633 [Riv (DM)]: Last night of camping before you reach the main city. 02:00:00.738 --> 02:00:00.879 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:00:01.640 --> 02:00:04.463 [Riv (DM)]: Any other chats or anything that evening? 02:00:04.483 --> 02:00:05.925 [Riv (DM)]: Any other experiments, Kai? 02:00:09.310 --> 02:00:11.392 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'd like to keep my eye on Vale. 02:00:14.196 --> 02:00:18.822 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to see when he's gonna go to sleep. 02:00:20.152 --> 02:00:24.296 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, I imagine a group of this size, very very easy to take watches. 02:00:25.718 --> 02:00:27.019 [Riv (DM)]: One person can do it at a time. 02:00:28.881 --> 02:00:31.064 [Riv (DM)]: Plenty of people around, it's not going to be very strenuous. 02:00:31.084 --> 02:00:35.208 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, you can find a time when Vale is sleeping off in his tent. 02:00:39.012 --> 02:00:41.095 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'd like to... 02:00:44.218 --> 02:00:47.982 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cast Sleep at 3rd level on Vale, just to be sure. 02:00:50.290 --> 02:00:55.281 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so you creep over to his team and you cast Slate on him inside? 02:00:55.301 --> 02:00:56.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:00:56.704 --> 02:00:57.064 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:00:57.686 --> 02:00:59.790 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think there's a saving throw for this, right? 02:00:59.810 --> 02:01:01.273 [Riv (DM)]: So I think you roll your hit points. 02:01:05.743 --> 02:01:07.967 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I just... is it damage? 02:01:08.408 --> 02:01:09.491 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, roll the damage. 02:01:09.511 --> 02:01:11.134 [Riv (DM)]: That'll tell us how much hit points you need. 02:01:13.966 --> 02:01:14.226 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:01:15.368 --> 02:01:20.976 [Riv (DM)]: Vaeloran was before sleeping gently, maybe slightly restlessly with troubling dreams, maybe not. 02:01:21.597 --> 02:01:22.718 [Riv (DM)]: Now he is out cold. 02:01:24.341 --> 02:01:24.621 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 02:01:24.641 --> 02:01:25.583 [Lacer (Kai)]: He got some good sleep. 02:01:26.003 --> 02:01:26.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: All right. 02:01:26.564 --> 02:01:33.794 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then from there I will cast, um, what is it? 02:01:37.880 --> 02:01:39.222 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll cast Lesser Restoration. 02:01:41.325 --> 02:01:41.425 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:01:45.488 --> 02:01:46.469 [Riv (DM)]: How are you doing this? 02:01:46.489 --> 02:01:47.010 [Riv (DM)]: What are you doing? 02:01:47.070 --> 02:01:48.372 [Riv (DM)]: What are you trying to restore? 02:01:48.412 --> 02:01:51.636 [Riv (DM)]: His eyesight. 02:01:52.997 --> 02:01:53.097 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:01:53.117 --> 02:01:56.482 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you want to describe how you go about doing your retros? 02:01:56.902 --> 02:02:10.319 [Lacer (Kai)]: I place my hand on my necklace, which is my focus, and my other hand I place over his blinded eye, and I focus primarily on the eye and on his head. 02:02:10.759 --> 02:02:12.642 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe it'll help restore some memory as well. 02:02:13.723 --> 02:02:15.445 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I cast Lesser Restoration. 02:02:15.610 --> 02:02:18.195 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll, like, close my eyes and, like, focus really hard. 02:02:19.718 --> 02:02:19.818 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:02:19.838 --> 02:02:26.050 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the, um, the symbols flare again up your arms, black on one side, bright white on the other. 02:02:26.792 --> 02:02:29.397 [Riv (DM)]: Um, there's your hand glowing over top of his face. 02:02:29.818 --> 02:02:31.982 [Riv (DM)]: Um, roll a, I need you to roll a Wisdom. 02:02:33.076 --> 02:02:34.457 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, you could do a religion. 02:02:35.338 --> 02:02:36.339 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, roll a religion. 02:02:36.359 --> 02:02:38.841 [Riv (DM)]: That would probably be the right way to do it. 02:02:38.861 --> 02:02:39.562 [Riv (DM)]: Religion? 02:02:39.882 --> 02:02:40.243 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:02:40.683 --> 02:02:41.504 [Riv (DM)]: Terrible religion. 02:02:41.524 --> 02:02:43.225 [Riv (DM)]: That's wisdom, isn't it? 02:02:43.365 --> 02:02:43.686 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, sorry. 02:02:43.726 --> 02:02:44.246 [Riv (DM)]: That's int. 02:02:45.227 --> 02:02:46.268 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, we need a wisdom. 02:02:46.328 --> 02:02:47.049 [Riv (DM)]: Something wisdom. 02:02:49.351 --> 02:02:51.513 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wisdom is mainly animal handling. 02:02:51.533 --> 02:02:52.134 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just go straight wisdom. 02:02:52.154 --> 02:02:53.275 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just go straight medicine. 02:02:54.155 --> 02:02:55.156 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, just go straight wisdom. 02:02:59.340 --> 02:03:00.601 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 02:03:00.621 --> 02:03:01.362 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:03:03.890 --> 02:03:24.153 [Riv (DM)]: You get the feeling that while this spell you're sure can cure temporary ailments that might be afflicting someone, you probably need more powerful magic to restore physical ailments, like permanent physical conditions. 02:03:26.756 --> 02:03:30.420 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, the spell does not seem to be taking effect in the way that you hoped. 02:03:32.628 --> 02:03:36.734 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar rolls over and loudly proclaims, Fireball healed everything. 02:03:38.657 --> 02:03:39.258 [Riv (DM)]: And he's asleep. 02:03:40.860 --> 02:03:41.982 [Riv (DM)]: He's just calling that out. 02:03:42.202 --> 02:03:42.963 [Riv (DM)]: He's just saying that. 02:03:45.166 --> 02:03:49.392 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, with that roll, I don't think I can give you any more information about it. 02:03:49.432 --> 02:03:54.339 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you just get the feeling that the magic is not quite powerful enough yet to be able to do what you're after. 02:03:56.102 --> 02:03:58.405 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Can't have problems with your eyes if you don't have eyes left. 02:04:00.609 --> 02:04:02.071 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, that's true. 02:04:02.091 --> 02:04:02.331 [Riv (DM)]: That's true. 02:04:03.290 --> 02:04:05.019 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, what else can I do? 02:04:05.663 --> 02:04:08.136 [Riv (DM)]: You've got about one minute, I think, on the sleaze wheel. 02:04:09.466 --> 02:04:15.194 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, well, I leave and then I go. 02:04:15.214 --> 02:04:17.538 [Lacer (Kai)]: How many hours we got to the thing to sleep? 02:04:18.019 --> 02:04:22.425 [Riv (DM)]: Well, before you leave, as you know, the symbols are still glowing on your hands. 02:04:22.445 --> 02:04:25.770 [Riv (DM)]: You're still trying to channel the magic into Valerian's face. 02:04:27.973 --> 02:04:31.659 [Riv (DM)]: The symbols start to die down as you release the magic and your hand comes away. 02:04:32.079 --> 02:04:37.988 [Riv (DM)]: And as it's coming away, you see another hand reach out and just grab yours, just like places it gently on top and just holds it there. 02:04:40.060 --> 02:04:51.498 [Riv (DM)]: And immediately you're sort of struck with a larger than life presence as you look up to a shimmering glowing face of a woman just sort of looking at you. 02:04:52.199 --> 02:04:56.505 [Riv (DM)]: A little bit of concern in her eyes just sort of just looking engaging. 02:04:59.250 --> 02:05:02.495 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is she ethereal or is she like a human? 02:05:02.515 --> 02:05:03.977 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah she seems kind of ethereal. 02:05:04.017 --> 02:05:05.359 [Riv (DM)]: You've seen her before in your dreams. 02:05:07.550 --> 02:05:08.271 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:05:08.291 --> 02:05:16.181 [Riv (DM)]: And before she says anything, sorry, before you can say anything, she says, My child, I sense a darkness has taken root inside of you. 02:05:17.703 --> 02:05:20.627 [Riv (DM)]: Do not fall into the embrace of vengeance and suffering. 02:05:26.414 --> 02:05:34.705 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look into her eyes and I ask her, help me heal him then. 02:05:37.435 --> 02:05:38.056 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's too soon. 02:05:38.076 --> 02:05:40.720 [Riv (DM)]: You need to walk the path. 02:05:42.823 --> 02:05:43.443 [Riv (DM)]: Join the light. 02:05:44.805 --> 02:05:45.847 [Riv (DM)]: Our light should be pure. 02:05:45.867 --> 02:05:47.589 [Riv (DM)]: It should be healing. 02:05:47.629 --> 02:05:49.472 [Riv (DM)]: It should reveal justice to the world. 02:05:52.857 --> 02:05:55.420 [Riv (DM)]: Follow the path and you may get where you are looking to go. 02:06:01.128 --> 02:06:01.789 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I... 02:06:03.136 --> 02:06:03.657 [Lacer (Kai)]: I nod. 02:06:03.677 --> 02:06:05.259 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will try. 02:06:05.299 --> 02:06:07.382 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will try. 02:06:07.402 --> 02:06:07.743 [Riv (DM)]: Fear not. 02:06:09.445 --> 02:06:11.227 [Riv (DM)]: A path will reveal itself to you before long. 02:06:12.489 --> 02:06:15.574 [Riv (DM)]: You must walk it, or else the world will fall to darkness. 02:06:16.034 --> 02:06:22.984 [Riv (DM)]: And with that, a wind just blows in the tent somehow, and she disappears into mist. 02:06:26.221 --> 02:06:32.150 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm a bit stunned because that was very, very out of the blue to me. 02:06:32.550 --> 02:06:39.581 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I retire back to my tent and I pull out that alchemy book and have a read before going to sleep. 02:06:39.901 --> 02:06:40.042 [Lacer (Kai)]: Great. 02:06:40.062 --> 02:06:45.510 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want to roll another medicine check or something to see? 02:06:45.930 --> 02:06:46.972 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, roll another medicine check. 02:06:49.816 --> 02:06:50.157 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:06:50.858 --> 02:06:51.879 [Riv (DM)]: I can't remember what we were doing before. 02:06:51.899 --> 02:06:54.363 [Riv (DM)]: Mine did actually just mean straight intelligence but medicine will do the trick. 02:06:55.004 --> 02:06:55.705 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 02:06:56.900 --> 02:06:57.883 [Riv (DM)]: You're starting to get somewhere with it. 02:06:59.186 --> 02:07:03.958 [Riv (DM)]: I'll send you some notes after the session around alchemy, if you like, and crafting. 02:07:04.921 --> 02:07:08.230 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, sounds good. 02:07:08.250 --> 02:07:10.275 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I just spend the night reading away. 02:07:12.340 --> 02:07:13.002 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:07:15.513 --> 02:07:18.397 [Riv (DM)]: Let me just quickly see if I can pull something up for you. 02:07:18.957 --> 02:07:25.906 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, inside the book, you definitely now know that you're going to need to purchase something called alchemy supplies. 02:07:27.368 --> 02:07:42.166 [Riv (DM)]: And once you have that, certain materials that you can purchase from stores or that you can forage yourself, you start to see connections that you can grind together or pull together to try and start experimenting and tinkering with different things. 02:07:42.186 --> 02:07:42.887 [Unmatched Speaker]: That's cool. 02:07:45.905 --> 02:07:46.466 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:07:48.090 --> 02:07:51.017 [Riv (DM)]: So that was probably like, I don't know, two in the morning, something like that. 02:07:51.398 --> 02:07:53.222 [Riv (DM)]: Kai's creepily wandering around the campsite. 02:07:54.906 --> 02:07:57.112 [Riv (DM)]: As you leave, do you want to roll a stealth check? 02:07:58.695 --> 02:07:59.778 [Lacer (Kai)]: Jeez, okay. 02:07:59.978 --> 02:08:00.640 [Lacer (Kai)]: Stealth check. 02:08:02.746 --> 02:08:03.607 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's go. 02:08:04.027 --> 02:08:05.349 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, dude. 02:08:05.409 --> 02:08:05.729 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes! 02:08:06.891 --> 02:08:07.972 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm clanking around. 02:08:08.012 --> 02:08:11.916 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm probably up because I'd take last watch because I can't really sleep. 02:08:12.557 --> 02:08:20.586 [Riv (DM)]: So as you get up, you just trip over Valeran's feet and you fall out of the tent and just like stumble face first into the ground. 02:08:21.187 --> 02:08:23.830 [Riv (DM)]: Ryo, you see this Kai just like collapsing out of Val's tent. 02:08:24.331 --> 02:08:25.532 [Riv (DM)]: And Val, you definitely wake up. 02:08:27.835 --> 02:08:30.778 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just lie there and I'm like, ugh. 02:08:36.361 --> 02:08:39.065 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm just trying to read something before I say I cast it. 02:08:39.085 --> 02:08:41.549 [JC (Ryo)]: What does this do? 02:08:41.569 --> 02:08:41.889 [Riv (DM)]: Oh no. 02:08:44.693 --> 02:08:46.115 [Riv (DM)]: Kai's started the PvP. 02:08:46.236 --> 02:08:46.676 [Riv (DM)]: Let's go. 02:08:47.778 --> 02:08:49.020 [JC (Ryo)]: Nah, it doesn't do what I was hoping. 02:08:49.601 --> 02:08:50.061 [JC (Ryo)]: Never mind. 02:08:59.876 --> 02:09:02.740 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know when I'll be able to use this spell, but one day. 02:09:04.373 --> 02:09:06.436 [Riv (DM)]: Valoran, thoughts? 02:09:06.616 --> 02:09:07.978 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I just sent you a message. 02:09:08.959 --> 02:09:09.540 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, okay, sorry. 02:09:12.825 --> 02:09:21.677 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I just look at Kai and I'm just like, what the fuck, man? 02:09:21.697 --> 02:09:21.857 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 02:09:29.267 --> 02:09:31.410 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I would probably come awake. 02:09:32.757 --> 02:09:40.787 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I wouldn't normally be that deep asleep, so I would probably come awake, sword in hand, just surging out. 02:09:42.549 --> 02:09:43.390 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:09:43.410 --> 02:09:44.251 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you bolt out of bed. 02:09:44.992 --> 02:09:47.055 [Riv (DM)]: And you see Kai is just like outside your tent on the ground. 02:09:50.880 --> 02:09:52.021 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry, sorry I tripped. 02:09:56.947 --> 02:09:58.329 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'd be a bit confused. 02:09:58.349 --> 02:10:00.672 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think I would just stare at him. 02:10:02.120 --> 02:10:03.703 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is he groggy? 02:10:04.163 --> 02:10:06.186 [Lacer (Kai)]: Would he be really groggy even if I did kick him? 02:10:06.207 --> 02:10:11.415 [Lacer (Kai)]: I had a nice beautiful deep sleep. 02:10:11.435 --> 02:10:16.263 [Riv (DM)]: It's also a very experienced soldier who's probably used to getting up at the crack of dawn, moment's notice. 02:10:17.745 --> 02:10:22.432 [Riv (DM)]: The conversation you had would have probably gone a bit over the minute, so that's why the spell's gone now. 02:10:24.816 --> 02:10:29.123 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I would give him the stare, the full commanding presence stare. 02:10:31.499 --> 02:10:35.244 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, roll Intimidation. 02:10:37.907 --> 02:10:41.592 [Riv (DM)]: Oh no. 02:10:41.652 --> 02:10:44.035 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just like, ignore him and I walk back to my tent. 02:10:45.397 --> 02:11:01.017 [JC (Ryo)]: As he starts walking back to his tent, As he starts walking back to his tent, I'll be like, dude, you should've just asked and I'll cast this. 02:11:02.077 --> 02:11:07.423 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, you know, I just wanted to try something, you know, without anyone knowing. 02:11:09.144 --> 02:11:17.914 [Lacer (Kai)]: You dirty, dirty devil. 02:11:17.934 --> 02:11:22.478 [Riv (DM)]: Someone else's tent flap, like, opens a bit, and you see a tired Facebook guy, like, what's going on? 02:11:22.638 --> 02:11:25.301 [JC (Ryo)]: What's all the racket? 02:11:25.321 --> 02:11:26.422 [JC (Ryo)]: Nothing, nothing. 02:11:26.543 --> 02:11:27.764 [JC (Ryo)]: Just this one being silly. 02:11:27.784 --> 02:11:28.625 [JC (Ryo)]: Go back to sleep. 02:11:28.645 --> 02:11:28.945 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 02:11:31.658 --> 02:11:32.960 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, alright. 02:11:34.302 --> 02:11:39.229 [Riv (DM)]: Unless, Valeran, you wish to murder Kion in his sleep, we can call the evening there. 02:11:40.030 --> 02:11:40.491 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Not tonight. 02:11:40.931 --> 02:11:42.153 [Riv (DM)]: Not tonight, yeah, beautiful. 02:11:43.274 --> 02:11:44.917 [Riv (DM)]: And head on the road tomorrow. 02:11:46.840 --> 02:11:51.005 [Riv (DM)]: And this day, yeah, especially long rest to get yourself back a few years or anything. 02:11:53.489 --> 02:11:55.972 [Riv (DM)]: So today is the last day of travel before you're reaching the city. 02:11:56.253 --> 02:11:58.476 [Riv (DM)]: It'll probably be most of the day. 02:12:00.110 --> 02:12:10.569 [Riv (DM)]: So we'll say towards the afternoon is when you come down off the top of a sort of range of hills and you can view the city sprawling out in front of you. 02:12:10.609 --> 02:12:13.675 [Riv (DM)]: This is easily the largest city you've seen. 02:12:13.695 --> 02:12:17.241 [Riv (DM)]: It is, I think, 02:12:18.487 --> 02:12:23.593 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not sure if any of you would have been here, but regardless, it's a wonderful city. 02:12:24.013 --> 02:12:37.308 [Riv (DM)]: So there is the massive Luminor River itself bisects directly through the middle of the city, and it's built up on either side, not like perfectly symmetrically, but it's kind of relatively even on either side. 02:12:37.808 --> 02:12:47.599 [Riv (DM)]: The river opens out into the gulf itself, and there's a large, the road, you know, there's a large gate that the road that you're on will lead to. 02:12:47.579 --> 02:12:56.457 [Riv (DM)]: From up here you can see four massive, like, colossal structures at the sort of north-eastern end of the city. 02:12:57.439 --> 02:13:04.334 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, north-western end, like sort of the higher end up this way, at the top part of it. 02:13:05.055 --> 02:13:08.963 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of lined up along the top end and yeah. 02:13:10.597 --> 02:13:21.037 [Riv (DM)]: So heading down towards it and the gate, heading towards evening the gate is still open but probably soon to be closed. 02:13:21.097 --> 02:13:27.188 [Riv (DM)]: Gemma mentions that better get a carry on because the gates close at sundown. 02:13:27.168 --> 02:13:33.094 [Riv (DM)]: So the reins are flipped and the horses start picking up speed and yeah, you get to the game. 02:13:33.875 --> 02:13:42.803 [Riv (DM)]: At this point there isn't anyone trying to come through but the gates are, you can tell, just starting to get ready to close, to be closed. 02:13:42.824 --> 02:13:52.433 [Riv (DM)]: There are a few guards that are standing around and they almost look like they want to just like wave your way but 02:13:52.413 --> 02:14:19.990 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of like sigh deeply and then come over to you and say all right then fine last one for the day what's your business and Gemma um will come to the front as she is used to doing and just you'll see them having conversation um coins will exchange hands because everyone is bloody well corrupt um and they will allow you on through um without checking the rest of the caravans um 02:14:21.944 --> 02:14:22.926 [Riv (DM)]: And you're inside the city. 02:14:25.650 --> 02:14:30.938 [Riv (DM)]: Now, this highway that you're on once you get inside carries on pretty much straight. 02:14:31.038 --> 02:14:35.204 [Riv (DM)]: It's not perfectly straight, but it's more or less. 02:14:35.465 --> 02:14:43.497 [Riv (DM)]: And you can see as the city sort of rolls down slowly at a very, very gradual decline towards the river. 02:14:43.477 --> 02:14:52.792 [Riv (DM)]: Far at the end of the highway there is a massive bridge that crosses over the river itself and the road itself carries on the other side, the other side of the city. 02:14:53.774 --> 02:15:02.889 [Riv (DM)]: Once you're inside Gemma will pull the convoy to a slow and just sort of look back questioning and just kind of call out. 02:15:02.929 --> 02:15:05.433 [Riv (DM)]: Right then, where to? 02:15:05.453 --> 02:15:08.758 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want to find a tavern or is there somewhere specific you wanted to head to? 02:15:12.265 --> 02:15:12.746 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't know. 02:15:12.766 --> 02:15:17.797 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If we're in a great rush, we'll have to sort it out, but if nothing else, we're going to need shelter and food for the night. 02:15:19.280 --> 02:15:19.801 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 02:15:19.881 --> 02:15:20.663 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Anywhere you recommend. 02:15:22.086 --> 02:15:22.627 [Riv (DM)]: What are we looking? 02:15:22.647 --> 02:15:23.929 [Riv (DM)]: Are we looking somewhere fancy? 02:15:24.350 --> 02:15:25.352 [Riv (DM)]: Or somewhere rotten? 02:15:25.793 --> 02:15:26.555 [Riv (DM)]: Or somewhere in between? 02:15:28.238 --> 02:15:29.180 [JC (Ryo)]: Where do you normally stay? 02:15:31.445 --> 02:15:32.367 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, we like to... 02:15:33.781 --> 02:15:35.423 [Riv (DM)]: Stay down near the river. 02:15:35.744 --> 02:15:37.626 [Riv (DM)]: There's a nice place down there called River's Watch. 02:15:38.948 --> 02:15:39.909 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's out of the way. 02:15:40.770 --> 02:15:41.992 [Riv (DM)]: It's not too bad, it's not too nice. 02:15:42.933 --> 02:15:44.235 [Riv (DM)]: Good way to stay low, I suppose. 02:15:46.117 --> 02:15:47.099 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Sounds fair for the moment. 02:15:47.579 --> 02:15:48.080 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That'll do. 02:15:48.460 --> 02:15:48.661 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:15:50.303 --> 02:15:50.623 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 02:15:50.884 --> 02:15:53.127 [Riv (DM)]: And you carry on. 02:15:53.347 --> 02:15:58.574 [Riv (DM)]: So to get to River's Watch, you're going to have to cross the bridge because it is on the other side of the river. 02:16:00.496 --> 02:16:01.678 [Riv (DM)]: And as you get here, 02:16:01.962 --> 02:16:05.569 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I should say, as you're travelling through the city, let me sort of describe it for you a bit. 02:16:07.293 --> 02:16:18.756 [Riv (DM)]: So this main road sort of bisects perpendicular to the river and there are two 02:16:18.736 --> 02:16:25.667 [Riv (DM)]: There are two roads that cut this one in the middle as well, going in opposite, you know, perpendicular to this one, all the way up the length of the city. 02:16:26.368 --> 02:16:39.068 [Riv (DM)]: The first one you see, you can see a big signpost on it, kind of like made out of, it's like this stone column with like a plaque on it that's been engraved. 02:16:39.589 --> 02:16:41.672 [Riv (DM)]: And the first road that you pass by 02:16:41.652 --> 02:16:44.958 [Riv (DM)]: Military Way. 02:16:45.479 --> 02:16:47.462 [Riv (DM)]: So that road heading up now towards the northeast. 02:16:48.003 --> 02:16:51.008 [Riv (DM)]: At the end of this road you can see is one of those massive structures. 02:16:51.870 --> 02:17:06.175 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, and the buildings along this road are stone construction, kind of stout, and you know, not super fancy, but they're not run down, it doesn't look like a destitute part of the city. 02:17:07.910 --> 02:17:14.582 [Riv (DM)]: Carrying on along the main highway, you start coming towards another bisecting road. 02:17:14.962 --> 02:17:21.774 [Riv (DM)]: And this one, again, same stone column at the crossroad. 02:17:22.576 --> 02:17:27.184 [Riv (DM)]: This one says Royal Way, but as you get up to this one, it's kind of interesting. 02:17:27.164 --> 02:17:29.047 [Riv (DM)]: There are lots and lots of people. 02:17:29.067 --> 02:17:32.353 [Riv (DM)]: There's a massive crowd sort of like stacked up along the side of this road. 02:17:33.194 --> 02:17:36.139 [Riv (DM)]: There are people like standing up on top of stacks of boxes. 02:17:36.700 --> 02:17:39.445 [Riv (DM)]: There are people hanging out of windows trying to get a view. 02:17:39.485 --> 02:17:45.735 [Riv (DM)]: There are, you know, just throngs of people on either side of the road as well. 02:17:45.855 --> 02:17:51.665 [Riv (DM)]: As you get closer you can see on the other side of the Royal Way you can see again just throngs of people stacked up. 02:17:52.346 --> 02:17:53.408 [Riv (DM)]: As you get closer 02:17:55.025 --> 02:17:56.690 [Riv (DM)]: How would you like to proceed? 02:17:57.031 --> 02:17:59.580 [Riv (DM)]: Are you going to see what's going on or try and avoid them? 02:18:02.368 --> 02:18:03.813 [Lacer (Kai)]: I rolled a perception check. 02:18:04.435 --> 02:18:08.207 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are there people trying to, or do I see anyone? 02:18:08.508 --> 02:18:10.811 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's looking at us? 02:18:11.933 --> 02:18:15.378 [Riv (DM)]: So with 14, no one's paid you any attention. 02:18:15.458 --> 02:18:22.428 [Riv (DM)]: So you're just sort of clattering up behind the crowd at this point, unless you've intentionally tried to stop or avoid or something like that. 02:18:24.070 --> 02:18:25.973 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, everyone's focused on the road itself. 02:18:26.533 --> 02:18:34.144 [Riv (DM)]: And as you're kind of getting closer, you can see with 14, there are people walking up the road, up the Royal Way. 02:18:35.542 --> 02:18:40.310 [Riv (DM)]: So they would, just as you start getting closer now, you can see they start crossing the intersection. 02:18:40.830 --> 02:18:49.124 [Riv (DM)]: At the front there are three horses mounted by fully garbed hands of the Empire. 02:18:49.284 --> 02:18:53.230 [Riv (DM)]: Red cloaks, steel plater, and behind them... 02:18:54.155 --> 02:18:57.420 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Drop off the cart just beside it so I'm out of line of sight. 02:18:58.041 --> 02:18:59.523 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 02:19:00.624 --> 02:19:12.261 [Riv (DM)]: Behind them is just a few rows of soldiers, not red cloaks, normal military looking soldiers, same that you would have seen on the highway, travelling this direction. 02:19:13.062 --> 02:19:22.896 [Riv (DM)]: And then there are a few people in nice sort of clothes, look like sort of nobles, something like that, just a few groups of them wandering up. 02:19:22.876 --> 02:19:38.472 [Riv (DM)]: Um and then eventually as you know just there's probably dozens and dozens of people sort of passing through like this in some sort of a parade I guess you could from is what it's saying to look like um eventually there's a there's a larger caravan that comes through it's more like a 02:19:39.397 --> 02:19:42.961 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know what you'd call it, like a royal cart or something. 02:19:43.461 --> 02:19:48.346 [Riv (DM)]: And on it, you can see a very, very well-dressed man. 02:19:49.407 --> 02:19:52.951 [Riv (DM)]: Smooth hair, that's sort of slicked back. 02:19:53.452 --> 02:19:58.377 [Riv (DM)]: The attire that he's wearing, he's not wearing a crown, but he may as well be. 02:19:58.937 --> 02:20:05.524 [Riv (DM)]: He's got this massive amulet around his neck with a big red jewel in the centre of the amulet. 02:20:06.125 --> 02:20:08.087 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and his clothes are... 02:20:09.130 --> 02:20:10.612 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of, yeah, very rich. 02:20:11.013 --> 02:20:15.720 [Riv (DM)]: And to his side, on his left, is a young girl with blonde hair. 02:20:16.141 --> 02:20:19.325 [Riv (DM)]: It's quite long, comes down to, eh, like her lower back. 02:20:20.127 --> 02:20:23.592 [Riv (DM)]: She's in a pale white gown, also very, very rich. 02:20:24.133 --> 02:20:27.117 [Riv (DM)]: She looks, you know, many years younger than he does. 02:20:27.578 --> 02:20:31.744 [Riv (DM)]: And she's just sort of glancing around the crowd, looking at the people. 02:20:33.507 --> 02:20:36.471 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of smiling here and there, she puts up a hand to wave every now and then. 02:20:36.451 --> 02:20:39.803 [Riv (DM)]: The man is just sort of, he's just sort of staring ahead. 02:20:40.687 --> 02:20:42.915 [Riv (DM)]: He's not paying too much attention to the crowds. 02:20:45.203 --> 02:20:48.435 [Riv (DM)]: And these start, yeah, they pass in front of you. 02:20:52.229 --> 02:20:54.171 [Riv (DM)]: The procession moves on past. 02:20:56.555 --> 02:21:07.208 [Riv (DM)]: Carrying up the back is more soldiers, a few more groups of noble people wandering as well, or some servants, you know, just a large parade and they carry on through. 02:21:07.248 --> 02:21:16.600 [Riv (DM)]: After some time... 02:21:17.440 --> 02:21:22.026 [JC (Ryo)]: I was gonna say, can I move up towards Gemma and just give her a little poke and go, any idea who that is? 02:21:23.789 --> 02:21:26.432 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, um, she nods and says aye. 02:21:27.994 --> 02:21:29.456 [Riv (DM)]: That would be the governor. 02:21:30.177 --> 02:21:31.239 [Riv (DM)]: The governor of Val Miriel. 02:21:32.380 --> 02:21:35.905 [Riv (DM)]: His, um, his family used to rule here before the Empire. 02:21:38.163 --> 02:21:45.753 [Riv (DM)]: But since the Empire has taken control of the land, yeah, just a governor now. 02:21:46.775 --> 02:21:49.438 [Riv (DM)]: Seems to be some sort of parade, I don't know. 02:21:50.239 --> 02:21:52.422 [Riv (DM)]: Could be because we're coming up towards the new year. 02:21:53.303 --> 02:21:56.227 [Riv (DM)]: Could be, well, I guess we'll be as good as mine. 02:22:01.995 --> 02:22:02.095 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Nope. 02:22:02.581 --> 02:22:17.395 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As it's going past, the moment I see the governor with the big red gem on his neck and the young girl beside him, I'm going to side-eye our young thief that we're escorting and see if there's a reaction. 02:22:18.836 --> 02:22:19.056 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:22:19.557 --> 02:22:21.539 [Riv (DM)]: Chuck an insight check on that for me. 02:22:31.548 --> 02:22:31.708 [Riv (DM)]: Nope. 02:22:31.728 --> 02:22:31.828 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:22:34.778 --> 02:22:37.822 [Riv (DM)]: She's a grim young girl, hard to read. 02:22:52.220 --> 02:22:53.882 [Lacer (Kai)]: How long does the procession go for? 02:22:55.163 --> 02:22:58.187 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, probably not like an hour. 02:22:58.347 --> 02:23:00.470 [Riv (DM)]: It probably takes them 10-15 minutes to go past. 02:23:01.271 --> 02:23:04.515 [Riv (DM)]: And then after a while, after they... 02:23:05.879 --> 02:23:06.360 [Riv (DM)]: Hello? 02:23:06.380 --> 02:23:08.122 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How old do they look? 02:23:08.703 --> 02:23:10.846 [Riv (DM)]: The two sort of noble people? 02:23:10.866 --> 02:23:12.348 [Riv (DM)]: The two royal people? 02:23:13.149 --> 02:23:13.469 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:23:13.489 --> 02:23:17.195 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the man's probably like late 40s maybe. 02:23:17.575 --> 02:23:18.396 [Riv (DM)]: Late 40s, 50. 02:23:19.017 --> 02:23:22.262 [Riv (DM)]: And the girl is very young, like maybe late teens. 02:23:24.404 --> 02:23:25.286 [Riv (DM)]: Is it sunny? 02:23:25.406 --> 02:23:26.608 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's the weather like right now? 02:23:31.354 --> 02:23:32.055 [Riv (DM)]: It's overcast. 02:23:36.136 --> 02:23:36.557 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:23:41.564 --> 02:23:42.386 [Lacer (Kai)]: One last question. 02:23:42.826 --> 02:23:51.039 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is the civilians, the townsfolk, are they bowing or are they just doing normal stuff? 02:23:51.400 --> 02:23:53.984 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are they clapping or anything? 02:23:54.885 --> 02:23:56.608 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are they worshipping these people? 02:23:57.432 --> 02:24:01.321 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's an interesting thing to kind of keep an eye out for. 02:24:02.123 --> 02:24:06.213 [Riv (DM)]: Some of them are just kind of just standing and watching, just kind of curious about what's going on. 02:24:06.734 --> 02:24:11.285 [Riv (DM)]: A few of them are sort of like, a few of them do cheer for the governor. 02:24:12.428 --> 02:24:14.513 [Riv (DM)]: And a few of them you can hear some like, 02:24:15.050 --> 02:24:20.785 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, like, get out of here, we don't want you anymore, like, down with the Empire, like, bring back the Order. 02:24:20.805 --> 02:24:23.392 [Riv (DM)]: You can definitely hear a bit of, like, discontent. 02:24:24.154 --> 02:24:28.806 [Riv (DM)]: Um, uh, yeah, but then you can see, you know, there's other people that are like, 02:24:29.579 --> 02:24:30.080 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah! 02:24:30.721 --> 02:24:31.462 [Riv (DM)]: Gov'natalis! 02:24:31.522 --> 02:24:32.344 [Riv (DM)]: Gov'natalis! 02:24:34.447 --> 02:24:36.951 [Riv (DM)]: You know, like, you're the one we follow! 02:24:36.991 --> 02:24:37.893 [Riv (DM)]: We love you! 02:24:38.093 --> 02:24:40.237 [Riv (DM)]: Like, kick these guys out! 02:24:40.317 --> 02:24:44.564 [Riv (DM)]: You know, it's sort of, there's this odd mixture of emotions from the crowd. 02:24:44.664 --> 02:24:45.926 [Riv (DM)]: It seems like it's quite divided. 02:24:46.807 --> 02:24:49.692 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, so some love him, some hate him, and some don't care. 02:24:54.119 --> 02:24:55.722 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, that's it for me. 02:24:59.515 --> 02:25:01.258 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:25:01.278 --> 02:25:13.542 [Riv (DM)]: Eventually the crowd will start to disperse and you can, yeah, when it breaks, you can finally get your way through the road and head on over. 02:25:15.732 --> 02:25:24.761 [Riv (DM)]: So at the end of the road is, yeah, the massive gate, sorry, massive bridge Gemma will mention to you as you're going. 02:25:25.642 --> 02:25:28.505 [Riv (DM)]: She's kind of like, let's say she's pointing things out to you, describing the city. 02:25:29.166 --> 02:25:34.752 [Riv (DM)]: This bridge is called Valina's Bridge and it's a, yeah, it's a massive structure. 02:25:35.072 --> 02:25:45.283 [Riv (DM)]: It needs to be big enough so that ships can go underneath it because this river is used as the key access point to the capital city of Valtorra, Val Luminor. 02:25:45.263 --> 02:25:52.212 [Riv (DM)]: The bridge itself doesn't have any sort of gate or pillars or anything like that to stop movement. 02:25:52.913 --> 02:25:57.599 [Riv (DM)]: It's just high enough so that ships with their sails down should be able to slide on underneath. 02:25:58.981 --> 02:26:01.925 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, it's definitely... you have to climb up quite high. 02:26:06.912 --> 02:26:07.272 [Riv (DM)]: But... 02:26:09.226 --> 02:26:09.606 [Riv (DM)]: That's it. 02:26:10.067 --> 02:26:10.387 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 02:26:10.507 --> 02:26:10.948 [Riv (DM)]: No worries. 02:26:11.428 --> 02:26:20.718 [Riv (DM)]: You can make your way over the top, and as you get down to the other side, you hang a right and follow the river down, back down towards the gulf. 02:26:21.960 --> 02:26:24.102 [Riv (DM)]: Going this way, you pass through a massive market. 02:26:24.662 --> 02:26:25.724 [Riv (DM)]: There are people everywhere. 02:26:26.404 --> 02:26:34.693 [Riv (DM)]: People trying to call out to sell you things, you can see shops with little useless trinkets, you can see people trying to sell fish, you can see people trying to sell 02:26:34.673 --> 02:26:37.136 [Riv (DM)]: Rations and food and all sorts of things. 02:26:38.418 --> 02:26:51.696 [Riv (DM)]: Gemma mentions that this is called the river market, the western side, and across the river back where you sort of come from, as you're heading down this direction, you can see the same sort of market appears to be on the other side of the river as well, just bisected. 02:26:52.156 --> 02:26:54.960 [Riv (DM)]: And that's probably the eastern river market. 02:26:56.037 --> 02:27:00.083 [Riv (DM)]: But carrying on down through, unless there's anything you want to stop and buy, we could do some more shopping. 02:27:01.905 --> 02:27:10.477 [Riv (DM)]: You eventually come to a fairly nice establishment that is near the entrance of the river to the gulf itself. 02:27:10.817 --> 02:27:18.788 [Riv (DM)]: Not quite being on it, like it's not down at the docks, but it's as you get down there, kind of like on a raised up bit of hill. 02:27:18.768 --> 02:27:27.022 [Riv (DM)]: Looking out over the river, there's a nice inn, there's a nice tavern called the River's Watch and that is built so that it looks out into the river. 02:27:28.805 --> 02:27:38.120 [Riv (DM)]: There are stables here that Gemma will go and organise all the horses to be stored and the caravans to be stored as well. 02:27:38.581 --> 02:27:44.691 [Riv (DM)]: I think for, why don't we cross off some 02:27:45.937 --> 02:27:55.993 [Riv (DM)]: Some money for stables... That would be... Five silver per knight per horse in a stable. 02:27:56.694 --> 02:28:09.854 [Riv (DM)]: So you guys had two, so if someone wants to cross off a gold... We'll say it's another gold for storing the wagon as well. 02:28:11.076 --> 02:28:12.518 [Riv (DM)]: And the fine golds will take care of theirs. 02:28:16.008 --> 02:28:16.309 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:28:17.291 --> 02:28:17.592 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:28:17.612 --> 02:28:18.033 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you. 02:28:18.053 --> 02:28:18.574 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you. 02:28:20.979 --> 02:28:21.300 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 02:28:22.382 --> 02:28:25.590 [Riv (DM)]: Heading in to the tavern itself. 02:28:29.198 --> 02:28:31.924 [Riv (DM)]: It is quite, it's like, 02:28:33.575 --> 02:28:55.259 [Riv (DM)]: I guess if you think back to Darmouth where it was a newly constructed city built in the time of the Imperials, you know, flash new wooden sort of colonial looking buildings, this looks like an old, old building, old stone, but very nicely kept, it's very sort of elegant, looks like it's been in the city for years, hundreds of years maybe, centuries. 02:28:55.960 --> 02:28:57.962 [Riv (DM)]: Inside, 02:28:57.942 --> 02:29:00.065 [Riv (DM)]: It's very cosy. 02:29:01.187 --> 02:29:05.733 [Riv (DM)]: There are a charming combination of stone and timber sort of mixed here and there. 02:29:06.414 --> 02:29:09.118 [Riv (DM)]: There are large windows at the front that look out into the river. 02:29:09.739 --> 02:29:14.346 [Riv (DM)]: It's not like completely packed to the brim, but there are a good selection of people. 02:29:14.767 --> 02:29:22.498 [Riv (DM)]: It's not like rowdy, people aren't roaring, but people look generally pretty happy, pretty comfortable. 02:29:22.478 --> 02:29:24.500 [Riv (DM)]: The floors are polished wood. 02:29:25.682 --> 02:29:38.536 [Riv (DM)]: The seatings themselves have got those sort of like upholstered plushy sort of material on it so it's not like you know just your classic rundown wooden hard benches and stuff like that. 02:29:38.956 --> 02:29:52.131 [Riv (DM)]: And there's a really really large fireplace in the main sort of dining area that's burning at the moment and warming the area, warming the cold winter evening. 02:29:53.242 --> 02:30:06.459 [Riv (DM)]: As you come in, the owner comes over, Arik Laris, tall man, dark hair, and talks to Gemma who comes forward and tries to arrange rooms for all of you. 02:30:06.980 --> 02:30:14.149 [Riv (DM)]: Assuming you guys want to stay there, are you happy to just get a room each or do you want to have one big room? 02:30:18.254 --> 02:30:20.397 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm cool to share with someone. 02:30:25.523 --> 02:30:26.624 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, I'm sharing. 02:30:26.644 --> 02:30:28.546 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's fine. 02:30:28.566 --> 02:30:30.688 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, sharing's fine. 02:30:30.708 --> 02:30:33.351 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We seem to get ambushed a lot, so we should probably share. 02:30:36.694 --> 02:30:37.695 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:30:37.855 --> 02:30:39.897 [JC (Ryo)]: Is there a double and a triple? 02:30:41.318 --> 02:30:43.721 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you could probably squeeze into one room. 02:30:43.881 --> 02:30:46.724 [Riv (DM)]: That's not intended for five or six people. 02:30:48.485 --> 02:30:49.506 [Riv (DM)]: But you could if you like. 02:30:50.347 --> 02:30:54.231 [Riv (DM)]: Otherwise you could get two separate ones and be relatively comfortable in two separate rooms. 02:30:57.940 --> 02:31:06.896 [Riv (DM)]: So, yeah, the rooms will be one gold per night, so, depending on how many you want. 02:31:07.037 --> 02:31:09.341 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'll take a room and I'll share with someone. 02:31:09.361 --> 02:31:12.667 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think we can double or triple, make it nice and comfy. 02:31:13.889 --> 02:31:14.891 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 02:31:14.951 --> 02:31:15.933 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'll get the other room. 02:31:16.914 --> 02:31:17.215 [Riv (DM)]: Great. 02:31:18.494 --> 02:31:25.045 [Riv (DM)]: As you're sort of arranging this and chatting about it, you can see the barmaid is sort of just like wandering between the tables. 02:31:25.085 --> 02:31:25.666 [Riv (DM)]: She's spinning. 02:31:25.706 --> 02:31:26.367 [Riv (DM)]: She's very elegant. 02:31:26.387 --> 02:31:27.930 [Riv (DM)]: She almost looks like she's dancing around the room. 02:31:28.791 --> 02:31:31.957 [Riv (DM)]: Long brown hair and a plait that's just flying as she goes. 02:31:33.038 --> 02:31:33.259 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:31:34.160 --> 02:31:38.908 [Riv (DM)]: So you've made it into Val Miriel and you have lodging for the night. 02:31:40.531 --> 02:31:42.274 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything you want to do this evening? 02:31:46.574 --> 02:31:54.064 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like to ask Leah, do you know where we need to meet your new employer? 02:31:56.327 --> 02:31:59.011 [Riv (DM)]: I'll be honest, I wouldn't have a clue. 02:32:00.072 --> 02:32:01.795 [Riv (DM)]: I was told that they would find us, I think. 02:32:03.818 --> 02:32:10.146 [Riv (DM)]: They were supposed to be keeping a lookout for me, and they would approach and find me, but who knows. 02:32:12.049 --> 02:32:15.113 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If they're remotely competent at what they do, they'll find us. 02:32:15.312 --> 02:32:17.655 [Lacer (Kai)]: They probably know we're already here, to be honest. 02:32:18.537 --> 02:32:19.057 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'd hope so. 02:32:19.498 --> 02:32:23.664 [Riv (DM)]: If you would happen to know where it is, I mean, we could just go there directly if you do, right? 02:32:26.188 --> 02:32:29.252 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll look over to Erendor. 02:32:30.434 --> 02:32:30.795 [Lacer (Kai)]: There you go. 02:32:30.815 --> 02:32:32.157 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you have any idea? 02:32:34.099 --> 02:32:35.181 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:32:35.361 --> 02:32:40.729 [Riv (DM)]: Erendor hasn't been here in person, but he may have heard about it, so why don't you roll History? 02:32:46.413 --> 02:32:48.337 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You have to type in that thing. 02:32:48.457 --> 02:32:48.978 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: History. 02:32:54.630 --> 02:32:56.494 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, you probably don't know where it is. 02:32:58.157 --> 02:33:01.464 [Riv (DM)]: Or if you hadn't known, then you've gone into the precise details of it. 02:33:01.484 --> 02:33:05.653 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:33:08.536 --> 02:33:16.855 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, while that's happening, I'd like to ask the lovely barmaid where the nearest temple is, or if there's multiple temples in the city. 02:33:18.097 --> 02:33:18.398 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 02:33:18.879 --> 02:33:21.465 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 02:33:23.335 --> 02:33:25.238 [Riv (DM)]: So her name is Lila Spring. 02:33:25.939 --> 02:33:27.821 [Riv (DM)]: And then she's just coming back from one of these tables. 02:33:28.522 --> 02:33:29.043 [Riv (DM)]: You can stop her. 02:33:29.583 --> 02:33:30.505 [Riv (DM)]: She'll give you a big smile. 02:33:31.126 --> 02:33:34.670 [Riv (DM)]: She's got very clever eyes that kind of like gives you a once over to check you out. 02:33:35.411 --> 02:33:40.498 [Riv (DM)]: And she says, I mean, there is the temple. 02:33:41.360 --> 02:33:43.943 [Riv (DM)]: You don't, are you looking for anything other than the temple? 02:33:45.340 --> 02:33:50.697 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just any places of worship, generally speaking. 02:33:51.258 --> 02:33:52.281 [Lacer (Kai)]: But yeah, the big temples. 02:33:52.342 --> 02:33:53.806 [Lacer (Kai)]: The temple sounds good. 02:33:55.030 --> 02:33:57.237 [Lacer (Kai)]: She laughs politely. 02:33:57.277 --> 02:33:58.962 [Lacer (Kai)]: I assume you're new in town, yeah? 02:34:00.292 --> 02:34:05.218 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've been traveling around, so yeah, not familiar with this town quite yet. 02:34:06.259 --> 02:34:09.123 [Riv (DM)]: Wow, my friend, you are in luck. 02:34:09.143 --> 02:34:13.308 [Riv (DM)]: You're at the religious center of the whole island, I believe, of the whole land. 02:34:13.789 --> 02:34:23.261 [Riv (DM)]: If you head back up that way, look for the Divine Way, top of the road, you'll find the High Sept, one of the largest structures in the city. 02:34:23.741 --> 02:34:24.342 [Riv (DM)]: You can't miss it. 02:34:27.848 --> 02:34:30.131 [Lacer (Kai)]: I nod and I go, oh, thank you so much. 02:34:30.171 --> 02:34:34.215 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I flick her one gold piece. 02:34:34.235 --> 02:34:36.578 [Riv (DM)]: She, um, she like is taken aback. 02:34:36.979 --> 02:34:40.883 [Riv (DM)]: One gold is a massive tip and she just, yeah. 02:34:41.203 --> 02:34:41.544 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you. 02:34:41.644 --> 02:34:42.685 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, you didn't need to. 02:34:43.046 --> 02:34:47.170 [Lacer (Kai)]: Information's free, but... We might come for other information. 02:34:47.731 --> 02:34:50.254 [Lacer (Kai)]: We might come for other information later on. 02:34:50.294 --> 02:34:52.877 [Lacer (Kai)]: Think of it as a down payment. 02:34:53.853 --> 02:34:56.217 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well, thanks a lot Derry. 02:34:56.417 --> 02:34:57.319 [Riv (DM)]: I'll keep an eye out for you. 02:34:57.579 --> 02:34:58.481 [Riv (DM)]: I hope you have a good stay. 02:34:58.741 --> 02:35:04.111 [Riv (DM)]: She just reaches out and pats your arm and then spins on back towards the bar. 02:35:08.418 --> 02:35:11.663 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry, what was the main temple called again? 02:35:11.684 --> 02:35:11.744 [Lacer (Kai)]: DM. 02:35:11.764 --> 02:35:12.665 [Lacer (Kai)]: The High Sept. DM. 02:35:13.226 --> 02:35:15.490 [Lacer (Kai)]: The High Sept. Alright, cool, thanks. 02:35:20.465 --> 02:35:20.966 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 02:35:22.208 --> 02:35:26.837 [Riv (DM)]: So at this point, the sun's going down, it's starting to be well into the evening. 02:35:27.699 --> 02:35:38.039 [Riv (DM)]: Unless there's anything else, I assume we just pass through the evening. 02:35:39.201 --> 02:35:40.283 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alchemy book reading. 02:35:41.285 --> 02:35:42.928 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:35:45.068 --> 02:35:45.268 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:35:46.310 --> 02:35:55.864 [Riv (DM)]: So I guess, yeah, I guess you can just, you can do whatever for a few hours, um, until, if you wanted to drink a bit, get some food, um, eventually retire to the rooms. 02:35:56.926 --> 02:36:00.511 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 02:36:00.532 --> 02:36:02.274 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I have nearly died twice recently. 02:36:03.035 --> 02:36:04.518 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I would like a rest of my life. 02:36:04.538 --> 02:36:04.738 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:36:05.960 --> 02:36:11.849 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's probably the nicest place you guys have been in for a while, so it's a, it's a good place to rest. 02:36:13.010 --> 02:36:13.371 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 02:36:16.135 --> 02:36:17.862 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's bunking with me tonight? 02:36:21.457 --> 02:36:22.281 [Lacer (Kai)]: The barmaid. 02:36:23.064 --> 02:36:24.711 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, okay. 02:36:29.112 --> 02:36:39.724 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, whoever it is, um, before we go to sleep, I like to cast Snare in front of the door, like, on our side after I lock the door, and use up the rest of my robe. 02:36:40.465 --> 02:36:40.565 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:36:40.585 --> 02:36:42.587 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Cause I cut it in half off. 02:36:42.607 --> 02:36:46.672 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay, okay, so in your room is you, me, and the girl. 02:36:47.633 --> 02:36:55.021 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Trap set on the inside of the girl in the room that they're going to be coming to to collect. 02:36:56.282 --> 02:36:58.765 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think the girl's coming. 02:37:01.124 --> 02:37:05.989 [Riv (DM)]: Kai's just freaking everyone out by blasting spells everywhere, eh? 02:37:06.009 --> 02:37:06.190 [Riv (DM)]: Love it. 02:37:06.210 --> 02:37:06.472 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:37:07.598 --> 02:37:08.080 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:37:09.025 --> 02:37:09.447 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 02:37:15.113 --> 02:37:16.495 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 02:37:16.515 --> 02:37:19.559 [Riv (DM)]: So, I guess, yeah, if you guys all head to sleep. 02:37:20.501 --> 02:37:21.302 [Riv (DM)]: Easy peasy. 02:37:21.983 --> 02:37:24.787 [Riv (DM)]: So the rooms you're in kind of furnish similarly to downstairs. 02:37:24.867 --> 02:37:25.909 [Riv (DM)]: The beds are very nice. 02:37:26.289 --> 02:37:31.737 [Riv (DM)]: It's a mixture of stone walls and then interior wood panels that are polished. 02:37:33.039 --> 02:37:34.481 [Riv (DM)]: The windows themselves open out again. 02:37:34.722 --> 02:37:35.743 [Riv (DM)]: Nice big open shutters. 02:37:38.267 --> 02:37:39.889 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:37:41.270 --> 02:37:47.539 [JC (Ryo)]: Knowing I'm sharing a room with Val Aran and knowing he's been getting the shit kicked out of him recently, I would have gone to bed early if possible. 02:37:48.641 --> 02:37:53.227 [JC (Ryo)]: So that way, hopefully by the time they all come to bed, I've sort of had almost my rest. 02:37:53.247 --> 02:37:56.372 [JC (Ryo)]: So that way I'm up like really early to just in case. 02:37:57.473 --> 02:37:58.074 [Riv (DM)]: Keep an eye on things. 02:37:59.597 --> 02:37:59.937 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 02:38:01.570 --> 02:38:02.151 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, awesome. 02:38:02.332 --> 02:38:16.041 [Riv (DM)]: So as the, um, as the evening starts getting, you know, towards its end, and you're all getting ready for bed and stuff like that, um, I think it would probably be... Ah, I'll just roll to see which one it'll be. 02:38:17.605 --> 02:38:18.246 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:38:18.648 --> 02:38:26.221 [Riv (DM)]: Um, the room with Valoran, Ryo, and, um, that's what it'd be, Dondar, I assume. 02:38:27.203 --> 02:38:41.267 [Riv (DM)]: Um, you're in there, getting ready for bed, and then all of a sudden you just hear a and there's a arrow just like lodged in the wall beside you, um, and DM. 02:38:41.287 --> 02:38:44.352 [Riv (DM)]: Fucking knew it. 02:38:44.686 --> 02:38:48.051 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: As soon as you said, wide open shutters. 02:38:49.834 --> 02:38:52.979 [Riv (DM)]: Well, it's well clear of hitting any of you. 02:38:53.019 --> 02:38:59.629 [Riv (DM)]: And hanging from the end of it, you can see a tied bit of parchment. 02:38:59.649 --> 02:39:00.992 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll retreat and grab it. 02:39:01.052 --> 02:39:03.235 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm assuming that's our contact. 02:39:05.527 --> 02:39:06.989 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:39:07.009 --> 02:39:09.112 [Riv (DM)]: Unravelling the note, having a quick look. 02:39:09.132 --> 02:39:18.023 [Riv (DM)]: Simple line of text that just says, Tomorrow night, at midnight, Miriel's rest, a friend. 02:39:22.349 --> 02:39:24.872 [Riv (DM)]: Like it's, I guess, hyphen-signed, a friend. 02:39:29.839 --> 02:39:30.960 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: How edgy are these people? 02:39:31.401 --> 02:39:33.323 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is it Fletched with Raven Feathers? 02:39:35.041 --> 02:39:36.723 [Riv (DM)]: It's not. 02:39:36.863 --> 02:39:38.585 [Riv (DM)]: No, it just looks like a normal arrow. 02:39:41.989 --> 02:39:42.089 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay. 02:39:42.109 --> 02:39:43.971 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Bet it's secretly the woman from the letter. 02:39:44.932 --> 02:39:47.394 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's efficient communication, ain't it? 02:39:48.416 --> 02:39:49.276 [Lacer (Kai)]: Straight to your room. 02:39:51.599 --> 02:39:51.999 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Efficient. 02:39:52.460 --> 02:39:54.662 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Sends a message in more ways than one. 02:39:57.445 --> 02:39:58.787 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:39:58.807 --> 02:39:59.007 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 02:40:02.007 --> 02:40:04.150 [Lacer (Kai)]: You gonna close those windows, Dundar? 02:40:05.433 --> 02:40:07.135 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yes. 02:40:07.155 --> 02:40:08.878 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Closed and locked and bolted. 02:40:09.800 --> 02:40:12.865 [Riv (DM)]: I think that's probably the last time I can get to you guys through windows in your tavern. 02:40:15.529 --> 02:40:16.030 [Riv (DM)]: Good times. 02:40:17.112 --> 02:40:17.552 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:40:18.274 --> 02:40:19.756 [Riv (DM)]: You can head to sleep. 02:40:24.644 --> 02:40:26.547 [Riv (DM)]: Kai, that evening... 02:40:27.775 --> 02:40:35.547 [Riv (DM)]: As you're starting to fall asleep, you're in that strange zone between being awake and being fully asleep and you're not quite sure if you have actually dozed off yet. 02:40:37.090 --> 02:40:42.658 [Riv (DM)]: Looking up at the polished wood ceiling above you, suddenly something weird starts to happen. 02:40:43.359 --> 02:40:48.788 [Riv (DM)]: The wood above you starts to splinter and crack, these big like gouges just 02:40:48.768 --> 02:41:15.653 [Riv (DM)]: Start threading their way across the roof until eventually it just explodes it just bursts upwards and the sky is revealed to you totally clear you can see just stars stretched from from like eye line to eye line across the horizon and you feel a tug at the back of your neck like someone had just like grabbed the back of your shirt and just like yanked you up and you feel yourself flying upwards up through the ceiling and 02:41:17.337 --> 02:41:20.161 [Riv (DM)]: Floating, yeah, just flying up and up faster and faster. 02:41:20.201 --> 02:41:23.365 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of, yeah, being dragged. 02:41:23.406 --> 02:41:30.576 [Riv (DM)]: It's almost like you're on the back of a hook or something, until eventually you're well up above the atmosphere, looking down on the planet. 02:41:32.238 --> 02:41:33.340 [Riv (DM)]: You've had dreams like these before. 02:41:33.380 --> 02:41:36.544 [Riv (DM)]: This feels a little bit different. 02:41:38.380 --> 02:41:40.423 [Riv (DM)]: The stars are a bit darker, a bit duller. 02:41:41.704 --> 02:41:47.052 [Riv (DM)]: There's less of them, so the night itself, the night sky around you is sort of more consuming. 02:41:47.512 --> 02:42:00.069 [Riv (DM)]: And looking down at the surface of the planet below you, you can see the same continents it used to, but now it's almost like part of the world is shadowed by like a massive lunar eclipse or something like that. 02:42:01.150 --> 02:42:05.316 [Riv (DM)]: And you're just suspended there for a while. 02:42:05.296 --> 02:42:11.105 [Riv (DM)]: You can hear your breath, and it almost echoes around you, like it's sort of reverberating in the space. 02:42:12.787 --> 02:42:15.952 [Riv (DM)]: Until eventually, you feel like you're not alone. 02:42:17.254 --> 02:42:23.163 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear a voice, and it says, Child, this world has taken so much from you. 02:42:23.183 --> 02:42:29.713 [Riv (DM)]: I feel your suffering, and your pain, and your lust for vengeance. 02:42:30.494 --> 02:42:33.058 [Riv (DM)]: And it just echoes around you. 02:42:36.194 --> 02:42:37.075 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look down. 02:42:37.115 --> 02:42:39.239 [Lacer (Kai)]: Am I clothed or am I naked? 02:42:40.841 --> 02:42:43.225 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would say you're in whatever clothes you went to bed in. 02:42:44.567 --> 02:42:46.109 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:42:46.129 --> 02:42:47.912 [Riv (DM)]: So I'm not in spiritual form? 02:42:48.553 --> 02:42:52.079 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I sort of am, but I don't know that. 02:42:52.099 --> 02:42:54.442 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the symbols across your arms are definitely a glow. 02:42:54.482 --> 02:42:58.168 [Riv (DM)]: Black on your left, white on your right, and they're just pulsing. 02:43:02.992 --> 02:43:08.099 [Lacer (Kai)]: I ask her, what is she... Are you Selune? 02:43:10.943 --> 02:43:12.805 [Riv (DM)]: You hear a laugh that echoes in front of you. 02:43:13.346 --> 02:43:15.449 [Riv (DM)]: And then it comes from behind you. 02:43:15.989 --> 02:43:17.351 [Riv (DM)]: And it comes from the side of you. 02:43:19.314 --> 02:43:26.383 [Riv (DM)]: And then, directly in front of you, glowing purple eyes just sort of open in the darkness. 02:43:27.713 --> 02:43:29.555 [Riv (DM)]: And they sort of pierce through you, staring at you. 02:43:29.915 --> 02:43:32.778 [Riv (DM)]: And you see nothing else but just these glowing purple eyes. 02:43:34.900 --> 02:43:37.783 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear a voice, the same voice that says, You know me. 02:43:39.625 --> 02:43:41.247 [Riv (DM)]: You've walked in the light all this time. 02:43:42.308 --> 02:43:43.609 [Riv (DM)]: But what is light without darkness? 02:43:45.711 --> 02:43:48.374 [Riv (DM)]: Light pretends to bring justice to the world by exposing it. 02:43:49.114 --> 02:43:54.760 [Riv (DM)]: But deep down we all know, only in the shadows are the truly evil people brought to their knees. 02:43:55.261 --> 02:43:57.703 [Riv (DM)]: Knees, knees, and then he goes around you again. 02:44:01.430 --> 02:44:03.872 [Riv (DM)]: After a moment... Oh, sorry, please. 02:44:03.892 --> 02:44:09.838 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I ask, what do you wish of me? 02:44:09.858 --> 02:44:13.161 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear, ah, that is the right question. 02:44:14.802 --> 02:44:19.406 [Riv (DM)]: The purple eyes appear again in front of you, and the figure steps forward out of the darkness. 02:44:20.447 --> 02:44:22.129 [Riv (DM)]: It looks very familiar. 02:44:22.529 --> 02:44:30.196 [Riv (DM)]: It looks very much like the woman, you know, the female body, the female form that you've seen before, but this is very different. 02:44:30.216 --> 02:44:31.217 [Riv (DM)]: There's something... 02:44:31.197 --> 02:44:33.340 [Riv (DM)]: You can tell something very different about this. 02:44:33.440 --> 02:44:36.885 [Riv (DM)]: The skin is like more porcelain, more white. 02:44:37.466 --> 02:44:39.629 [Riv (DM)]: The eyes, purple glowing, definitely new. 02:44:39.669 --> 02:44:42.013 [Riv (DM)]: And the hair is just black as night. 02:44:42.393 --> 02:44:45.237 [Riv (DM)]: And as it like wraps around her, you notice her clothes as well. 02:44:46.058 --> 02:44:50.986 [Riv (DM)]: This flowing robe, similar, but also just pitch black, dark as night. 02:44:54.170 --> 02:44:56.554 [Riv (DM)]: She says, I can give you what you want. 02:44:57.174 --> 02:44:58.977 [Riv (DM)]: I can give you the power you desire. 02:44:59.311 --> 02:45:01.815 [Riv (DM)]: All you have to do is embrace the darkness. 02:45:02.095 --> 02:45:03.037 [Riv (DM)]: Do not shy from it. 02:45:11.169 --> 02:45:11.910 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hi Oscar. 02:45:12.591 --> 02:45:13.373 [Lacer (Kai)]: Give me some time. 02:45:13.693 --> 02:45:14.394 [Lacer (Kai)]: I need to... 02:45:14.695 --> 02:45:16.217 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm a bit confused right now. 02:45:16.237 --> 02:45:17.539 [Lacer (Kai)]: I need time to... 02:45:20.422 --> 02:45:21.404 [Riv (DM)]: There is no time. 02:45:21.744 --> 02:45:24.008 [Riv (DM)]: And like the face zooms up right in front of you. 02:45:25.230 --> 02:45:27.394 [Riv (DM)]: And you just whispers. 02:45:27.414 --> 02:45:27.955 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look at her. 02:45:28.235 --> 02:45:29.037 [Riv (DM)]: You're suffering. 02:45:29.778 --> 02:45:30.639 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I reject her. 02:45:30.960 --> 02:45:31.621 [Lacer (Kai)]: I reject her. 02:45:33.003 --> 02:45:33.224 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:45:33.244 --> 02:45:34.065 [Lacer (Kai)]: How do you reject her? 02:45:35.347 --> 02:45:36.670 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do I have my symbol? 02:45:36.950 --> 02:45:39.915 [Lacer (Kai)]: My necklace? 02:45:41.161 --> 02:45:42.222 [Riv (DM)]: What's it called? 02:45:42.923 --> 02:45:43.744 [Riv (DM)]: Like your arcane focus? 02:45:44.264 --> 02:45:45.545 [Riv (DM)]: Your arcane focus, yeah. 02:45:46.306 --> 02:45:48.388 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would say you probably do, yeah. 02:45:48.408 --> 02:45:58.798 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I clutch that and I close my eyes and I go, you're not the god I'm looking for. 02:45:58.818 --> 02:46:01.521 [Riv (DM)]: But I can give you such power, power you can only dream of. 02:46:02.242 --> 02:46:03.143 [Riv (DM)]: I know you want it. 02:46:04.123 --> 02:46:07.667 [Riv (DM)]: I know you want to inflict the pain on those that have caused you pain. 02:46:08.588 --> 02:46:10.830 [Riv (DM)]: Join me, that's all you need to do, just reach out. 02:46:12.245 --> 02:46:14.348 [Riv (DM)]: I can give you everything you need. 02:46:15.449 --> 02:46:18.634 [Lacer (Kai)]: I close up, close my eyes, and I yell out, no. 02:46:19.595 --> 02:46:22.479 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I clutch my holy symbol thingy. 02:46:22.799 --> 02:46:23.280 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:46:23.761 --> 02:46:25.483 [Riv (DM)]: Make a wisdom saving throw. 02:46:36.318 --> 02:46:38.160 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry, where are the saving throws again? 02:46:38.781 --> 02:46:39.682 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I see. 02:46:39.702 --> 02:46:40.243 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry, got it. 02:46:45.505 --> 02:46:47.368 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:46:47.388 --> 02:46:49.070 [Riv (DM)]: You close your eyes and you clutch your symbol. 02:46:50.933 --> 02:46:59.385 [Riv (DM)]: The light sort of like starts to glow between your hands and shine, illuminating the area around you until eventually you just feel yourself propel downwards. 02:46:59.425 --> 02:47:04.973 [Riv (DM)]: This like big flash of light comes out and almost like the force of it almost pushes you down. 02:47:05.734 --> 02:47:09.319 [Riv (DM)]: And you just hear a voice laugh. 02:47:09.299 --> 02:47:10.702 [Riv (DM)]: I'll be here waiting. 02:47:11.704 --> 02:47:13.667 [Riv (DM)]: You know how to find me when you want what I have. 02:47:13.727 --> 02:47:23.686 [Riv (DM)]: And just the echoes of that kind of spin around your mind as you launch downwards back down towards the ground and then jolt upright in the bed. 02:47:26.131 --> 02:47:30.379 [Riv (DM)]: Breathing heavily, the roof very much intact above you. 02:47:32.367 --> 02:47:34.890 [Riv (DM)]: And you are, you're left with just your thoughts. 02:47:36.272 --> 02:47:39.796 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wake up, I'm drenched in sweat because I'm like sweating bullets. 02:47:40.757 --> 02:47:47.666 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I try, I put the blanket over my head and curl up into a ball and try to sleep and have a terrible night's sleep. 02:47:48.066 --> 02:47:49.348 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:47:49.628 --> 02:47:53.913 [Riv (DM)]: As you do that, as you go to curl up, the symbols on your arms have started glowing again. 02:47:54.454 --> 02:47:57.598 [Riv (DM)]: Something in your dream must have triggered them, I guess. 02:47:57.578 --> 02:48:05.948 [Riv (DM)]: And you notice on your left arm, where before the symbols were black all the way up to your elbow, it seems like they're not, it's not all the way up anymore. 02:48:05.968 --> 02:48:08.832 [Riv (DM)]: It's like they're sort of three quarters of the way up your forearm. 02:48:09.332 --> 02:48:15.700 [Riv (DM)]: It's like they've sort of decreased a little bit. 02:48:15.720 --> 02:48:15.900 Alright. 02:48:18.684 --> 02:48:18.844 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:48:20.680 --> 02:48:21.822 [Riv (DM)]: That's stressful. 02:48:22.503 --> 02:48:24.385 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of worrying that my arm's black, mate. 02:48:24.405 --> 02:48:25.867 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you have a bad sleep. 02:48:28.191 --> 02:48:30.895 [Riv (DM)]: Probably, I would say you probably don't even get a long rest, to be honest. 02:48:30.915 --> 02:48:34.159 [Riv (DM)]: You're very shaken by that experience. 02:48:34.179 --> 02:48:36.843 [Riv (DM)]: But I think that's fine because you... 02:48:37.184 --> 02:48:38.365 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know if you used spells? 02:48:39.046 --> 02:48:40.228 [Riv (DM)]: I did, I did use spells. 02:48:40.248 --> 02:48:41.991 [Riv (DM)]: Do I get a level of exhaustion? 02:48:42.011 --> 02:48:43.633 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and you do get a level of exhaustion. 02:48:46.077 --> 02:48:50.184 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 02:48:50.204 --> 02:48:50.404 [Riv (DM)]: Bad night. 02:48:50.424 --> 02:48:50.624 [Riv (DM)]: Bad night. 02:48:50.645 --> 02:48:52.247 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you're a bit, you're a bit static-y. 02:48:52.848 --> 02:48:54.431 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know if you're moving the microphone again. 02:48:55.893 --> 02:48:56.715 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, what? 02:48:56.735 --> 02:48:57.095 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sorry. 02:48:57.696 --> 02:48:58.477 [Riv (DM)]: That's all good. 02:49:00.100 --> 02:49:02.184 [Riv (DM)]: The dawn comes and yeah. 02:49:03.826 --> 02:49:05.990 [Riv (DM)]: Let's do this. 02:49:06.030 --> 02:49:09.756 [Riv (DM)]: You can head your way, you can all make your way down to the bottom. 02:49:11.575 --> 02:49:14.578 [Riv (DM)]: There are a few people around in the morning. 02:49:15.980 --> 02:49:20.765 [Riv (DM)]: People cleaning up the dishes and stuff like that, getting everything ready for the day. 02:49:21.285 --> 02:49:25.290 [Riv (DM)]: A couple of citizens are there. 02:49:25.850 --> 02:49:30.255 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything you wanted to chat about together as a group before doing anything? 02:49:30.556 --> 02:49:35.321 [Riv (DM)]: Or are we heading out into the city? 02:49:38.564 --> 02:49:38.724 [Riv (DM)]: Nope. 02:49:39.345 --> 02:49:40.266 [Riv (DM)]: I'll give you one thing. 02:49:40.482 --> 02:49:42.325 [Riv (DM)]: Before we end for the night. 02:49:44.848 --> 02:49:50.596 [Riv (DM)]: As you come down, there's a person just sitting in the tavern, just cross-legged at a table. 02:49:53.640 --> 02:49:56.244 [Riv (DM)]: Staring at the stairs, I guess, as you come down. 02:49:57.105 --> 02:49:59.048 [Riv (DM)]: And... 02:50:00.310 --> 02:50:05.417 [Riv (DM)]: One of you, I imagine probably Kai with the highest perception check, does notice him with eyes on you. 02:50:06.559 --> 02:50:13.008 [Riv (DM)]: And as you glance over in that direction, you can see him just sort of nod his head at you and gesture as if to come over. 02:50:16.913 --> 02:50:18.416 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, quick, quick question. 02:50:18.436 --> 02:50:20.178 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does exhaustion affect my perception? 02:50:22.121 --> 02:50:25.926 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I think, what does it, what does the first level do? 02:50:25.946 --> 02:50:28.630 [Riv (DM)]: It's disadvantage, John. 02:50:29.200 --> 02:50:36.639 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think we'll just use the old one because the D&D... this application doesn't have... 02:50:36.899 --> 02:50:39.666 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think the first level is just disadvantage on ability checks. 02:50:39.798 --> 02:50:41.280 [Riv (DM)]: Disadvantage on ability, I believe. 02:50:41.360 --> 02:50:44.103 [Riv (DM)]: But if you just click it on your character sheet, it'll just do it automatically for you. 02:50:45.625 --> 02:50:51.333 [Riv (DM)]: The new rule set, Player's Handbook 2024, has it just that you get a negative one for every level that increases. 02:50:51.793 --> 02:50:59.403 [Riv (DM)]: And I think we were going to originally do that, but the character sheets, I don't know how to change it to be like that, so... Nah, it's all good. 02:50:59.423 --> 02:50:59.603 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 02:51:00.284 --> 02:51:00.444 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:51:02.046 --> 02:51:03.869 [Riv (DM)]: If you just tick it on it, it should sort it for you anyway. 02:51:04.770 --> 02:51:07.273 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, so you see this man put up. 02:51:08.317 --> 02:51:08.878 [Riv (DM)]: Black Cloak. 02:51:10.180 --> 02:51:11.142 [Riv (DM)]: Gesturing for you to come over. 02:51:11.182 --> 02:51:16.951 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, I tap Vael, Laren, Shaliger. 02:51:17.572 --> 02:51:18.734 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's a guy looking for us. 02:51:19.415 --> 02:51:20.978 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm too tired for this. 02:51:20.998 --> 02:51:22.160 [Lacer (Kai)]: I didn't sleep too well. 02:51:25.245 --> 02:51:27.388 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Guess we'll wander over and take up a seat. 02:51:29.765 --> 02:51:30.986 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is there coffee in this world? 02:51:31.627 --> 02:51:32.167 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You want coffee? 02:51:32.388 --> 02:51:32.848 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, why not? 02:51:34.990 --> 02:51:37.593 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, at least there's tea, right? 02:51:37.613 --> 02:51:40.276 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There is some variant of a bean that is not called coffee. 02:51:40.416 --> 02:51:41.717 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 02:51:41.737 --> 02:51:44.800 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's Joffy. 02:51:45.421 --> 02:51:48.264 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 02:51:48.284 --> 02:51:55.551 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, as you sit down, he just sort of takes you and just gives a slight smile and a nod and just says, hope the travel was all right. 02:51:58.834 --> 02:51:59.755 [Riv (DM)]: Could have been smoother. 02:52:00.983 --> 02:52:01.604 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough. 02:52:01.744 --> 02:52:02.465 [Riv (DM)]: You made it at least. 02:52:03.726 --> 02:52:05.468 [Riv (DM)]: I'm here for that one. 02:52:06.009 --> 02:52:08.311 [Riv (DM)]: Any points behind you to Leah? 02:52:18.162 --> 02:52:19.644 [Lacer (Kai)]: Earlier than usual. 02:52:22.066 --> 02:52:22.987 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Earlier than expected. 02:52:23.428 --> 02:52:25.130 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm assuming you have some sort of token? 02:52:28.774 --> 02:52:29.134 [Riv (DM)]: Token? 02:52:29.174 --> 02:52:29.775 [Riv (DM)]: How do you mean? 02:52:32.118 --> 02:52:33.420 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just gonna hand her over to anyone. 02:52:36.324 --> 02:52:37.767 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:52:37.787 --> 02:52:46.700 [Riv (DM)]: He, um, his eyes go over to Erendor and says, Erendor, you recognize me, don't you? 02:52:47.742 --> 02:52:51.287 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and you do actually recognize this person. 02:52:51.768 --> 02:52:54.392 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and so you can verify who they are. 02:52:54.633 --> 02:52:56.235 [Riv (DM)]: Let me crack open 02:53:00.012 --> 02:53:00.433 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 02:53:00.873 --> 02:53:02.375 [Riv (DM)]: This guy is called Gideon. 02:53:02.856 --> 02:53:03.637 [Riv (DM)]: Gideon Blackthorn. 02:53:03.957 --> 02:53:07.362 [Riv (DM)]: And you do, in fact, recognize him as a member of the Order of Ravens. 02:53:13.470 --> 02:53:18.616 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A whole... faster conversation to Erendor, which is his... the wheelhouse. 02:53:19.357 --> 02:53:19.718 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: His people. 02:53:22.541 --> 02:53:24.003 [JC (Ryo)]: Hey, add a character real quick. 02:53:24.344 --> 02:53:24.484 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Mm-hmm. 02:53:26.489 --> 02:53:33.821 [JC (Ryo)]: Um, we supposed to be delivering this chick to the Order of the Ravens, or to do with that letter we just received in the night? 02:53:34.943 --> 02:53:35.644 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Order of Ravens. 02:53:35.845 --> 02:53:36.866 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The letter must be something else. 02:53:37.467 --> 02:53:37.728 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Maybe. 02:53:40.172 --> 02:53:42.095 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, cool. 02:53:42.115 --> 02:53:44.519 [Lacer (Kai)]: Mmm, it may or may not be connected, but I don't know. 02:53:44.539 --> 02:53:48.947 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know, I didn't see a letter. 02:53:48.967 --> 02:53:52.092 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, I just got a shit memory, so that's just what I'm asking out loud. 02:53:54.012 --> 02:54:00.962 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean, who knows about the letter, but as far as you're aware, you had to deliver her to the Order. 02:54:07.410 --> 02:54:09.313 [Riv (DM)]: Erendor, will you come take a seat? 02:54:12.237 --> 02:54:15.662 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep. 02:54:15.682 --> 02:54:16.543 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I need some joffy. 02:54:17.890 --> 02:54:25.117 [Riv (DM)]: Oh god, that's actually what it's going to be called now, isn't it? 02:54:25.137 --> 02:54:26.379 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:54:26.399 --> 02:54:34.927 [Riv (DM)]: Layla sort of recognising that something is potentially going on just comes over and without a word just gives you guys some drinks. 02:54:37.250 --> 02:54:41.414 [Riv (DM)]: Gideon says, well it's been years, lad, since I saw you. 02:54:41.995 --> 02:54:46.159 [Riv (DM)]: Have you kept up since you left? 02:54:46.915 --> 02:54:48.777 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, lots of things have changed. 02:54:49.658 --> 02:54:53.823 [Riv (DM)]: Um, old man, old man, like 60s maybe. 02:54:56.646 --> 02:54:58.849 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, Sandy, Sandy Brown here with grey. 02:54:59.209 --> 02:55:00.090 [Riv (DM)]: Pokes time to poke through it. 02:55:00.611 --> 02:55:03.054 [Riv (DM)]: Um, got a distinctive scar on his left cheek. 02:55:07.599 --> 02:55:09.321 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Many things have changed since I left. 02:55:10.802 --> 02:55:11.303 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Indeed. 02:55:14.270 --> 02:55:17.776 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll wave the girl over to take a seat as well. 02:55:20.099 --> 02:55:20.199 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:55:20.219 --> 02:55:21.041 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Leah will come forward. 02:55:26.389 --> 02:55:30.135 [Riv (DM)]: She doesn't say anything immediately, but she just sort of takes this guy in. 02:55:31.853 --> 02:55:37.560 [Riv (DM)]: And he leans forward, elbows on the table across, looks at her and says, Ah, well, this must be Leah. 02:55:38.521 --> 02:55:38.922 [Riv (DM)]: Welcome. 02:55:39.443 --> 02:55:41.025 [Riv (DM)]: Hope the travel was alright for you as well. 02:55:43.227 --> 02:55:44.068 [Riv (DM)]: She just, she nods. 02:55:44.809 --> 02:55:45.310 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it was fine. 02:55:46.251 --> 02:55:49.916 [Riv (DM)]: He says, I hear you're the one that's gonna help us with our little problem. 02:55:51.758 --> 02:55:52.479 [Riv (DM)]: I'll do what I can. 02:55:52.519 --> 02:55:54.662 [Riv (DM)]: Excellent. 02:55:55.142 --> 02:55:55.383 [Riv (DM)]: Well. 02:55:57.185 --> 02:55:58.907 [Riv (DM)]: Guess no time's like the present. 02:56:00.254 --> 02:56:06.145 [Riv (DM)]: Unless there's anything else you had to say, I suggest you guys say your farewells now. 02:56:13.338 --> 02:56:15.221 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I did actually have a question for you. 02:56:17.846 --> 02:56:18.667 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Ask, ask away. 02:56:19.649 --> 02:56:22.554 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I've heard word that my father is alive. 02:56:24.257 --> 02:56:24.658 [Riv (DM)]: He's here. 02:56:25.803 --> 02:56:30.290 [Riv (DM)]: Smile cracks his face and he says, I was wondering if you were going to ask. 02:56:30.510 --> 02:56:31.431 [Riv (DM)]: I was wondering if you had heard. 02:56:31.451 --> 02:56:34.536 [Riv (DM)]: I wanted to let him surprise you. 02:56:34.576 --> 02:56:37.180 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 02:56:38.963 --> 02:56:40.645 [Riv (DM)]: Well, he is, he is here actually. 02:56:44.371 --> 02:56:48.517 [Riv (DM)]: Would you like me to take you to him or should I just let him know that you're here? 02:56:48.537 --> 02:56:55.067 [Riv (DM)]: I can hardly believe it. 02:56:56.583 --> 02:56:57.904 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed, it's a long story. 02:56:57.944 --> 02:57:00.467 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe it's better one that he tells you himself. 02:57:08.695 --> 02:57:10.637 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I have no doubt that he'll be able to find me. 02:57:11.838 --> 02:57:12.418 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He always could. 02:57:14.040 --> 02:57:14.400 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Fair enough. 02:57:15.421 --> 02:57:24.190 [Riv (DM)]: I'll give him the heads up. 02:57:24.210 --> 02:57:24.430 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:57:27.970 --> 02:57:29.973 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I guess we better get on our way. 02:57:30.334 --> 02:57:32.296 [Riv (DM)]: Lots of preparations to be made. 02:57:35.842 --> 02:57:36.803 [Riv (DM)]: Leah, you ready to come? 02:57:38.566 --> 02:57:40.829 [Riv (DM)]: She stands and just kind of looks at the rest of you. 02:57:42.932 --> 02:57:45.376 [Riv (DM)]: Says, do you think I'll ever see you guys again? 02:57:50.904 --> 02:57:51.565 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's a big world. 02:57:54.770 --> 02:57:56.813 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've got a feeling we're going to be making a lot of noise in it. 02:57:58.784 --> 02:58:01.990 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I say probably, probably. 02:58:02.030 --> 02:58:07.100 [Lacer (Kai)]: If you're into the work we're into, we'll probably cross paths someday. 02:58:10.887 --> 02:58:11.047 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:58:11.067 --> 02:58:14.394 [Riv (DM)]: Well, thank you for looking out for me along the way. 02:58:16.257 --> 02:58:17.980 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it was nice. 02:58:18.481 --> 02:58:21.467 [Riv (DM)]: Just meeting new people, getting out of the city. 02:58:24.265 --> 02:58:28.972 [Riv (DM)]: She just comes over to you, Erendor, gives you a quick little hug. 02:58:32.077 --> 02:58:37.947 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and with that, she trails along behind Gideon and they head on out of the tavern. 02:58:44.838 --> 02:58:47.522 [Riv (DM)]: And with that, the girl is gone. 02:58:49.223 --> 02:58:51.706 [Riv (DM)]: For whatever task is ahead of her, who knows? 02:58:52.167 --> 02:58:53.609 [Riv (DM)]: But that's that. 02:58:54.330 --> 02:58:55.972 [Riv (DM)]: And you guys have the world ahead of you now. 02:58:57.674 --> 02:58:58.576 [Riv (DM)]: So I think we'll call it there. 02:58:59.977 --> 02:59:01.700 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, sounds good to tell me. 02:59:04.744 --> 02:59:07.147 [Riv (DM)]: Good news is you guys all level up. 02:59:07.167 --> 02:59:09.530 [Riv (DM)]: Hell yeah, level six. 02:59:09.550 --> 02:59:10.652 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 02:59:10.772 --> 02:59:15.298 [Riv (DM)]: So I'll... 02:59:16.983 --> 02:59:23.581 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I'll sync the characters if not tonight then tomorrow morning and you guys can all jump on D&D Beyond and do your thing. 02:59:24.444 --> 02:59:29.558 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I tried to sync across the tonight and it's still giving me the I need to insert a Patreon key thing. 02:59:30.061 --> 02:59:34.607 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I've been meaning to message the guy something to ask, but didn't get to that. 02:59:34.747 --> 02:59:35.768 [Riv (DM)]: I just don't understand. 02:59:35.789 --> 02:59:40.835 [Riv (DM)]: It doesn't make any sense because there's like specifically a button on the application that says allow your players to sync. 02:59:41.176 --> 02:59:44.440 [Riv (DM)]: It wouldn't make sense for them to have to sign up with their own keys and stuff. 02:59:44.460 --> 02:59:46.442 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, that's weird. 02:59:46.583 --> 02:59:47.564 [Riv (DM)]: But anyway, all good. 02:59:47.584 --> 02:59:51.870 [Riv (DM)]: I should be able to blast it for you and give you guys a shout when you're good to level up. 02:59:53.372 --> 02:59:53.972 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 02:59:53.992 --> 02:59:57.537 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 02:59:58.698 --> 02:59:59.319 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Moving on up. 02:59:59.800 --> 03:00:00.180 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:00:00.921 --> 03:00:02.904 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you're in the big city now. 03:00:06.450 --> 03:00:06.690 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:00:08.052 --> 03:00:09.134 [JC (Ryo)]: We rolling hit points now? 03:00:10.636 --> 03:00:11.377 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, why not? 03:00:11.437 --> 03:00:11.898 [Riv (DM)]: Let's do that. 03:00:13.060 --> 03:00:17.186 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, I think this is the first time we've all been together for a level up, in ages at least anyway. 03:00:17.847 --> 03:00:20.631 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, it's been ages. 03:00:21.152 --> 03:00:22.514 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:00:22.534 --> 03:00:23.676 [Riv (DM)]: So why don't we do it? 03:00:25.411 --> 03:00:27.533 [Riv (DM)]: Donda, you're a D6. 03:00:28.794 --> 03:00:29.935 [Riv (DM)]: Erendor, you'll be a D8. 03:00:30.796 --> 03:00:31.597 [Riv (DM)]: Kai, you're a D8. 03:00:32.758 --> 03:00:35.320 [Riv (DM)]: I think Rio, you're a D10 and Valoran, you're a D10. 03:00:35.901 --> 03:00:36.481 [Riv (DM)]: What the hell? 03:00:36.501 --> 03:00:39.765 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I was just looking for my hit dice so I can figure it out myself. 03:00:39.785 --> 03:00:39.945 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:00:41.726 --> 03:00:42.988 [Lacer (Kai)]: Rio is a D10. 03:00:43.028 --> 03:00:45.150 [Lacer (Kai)]: You gotta be kidding me. 03:00:45.170 --> 03:00:46.451 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh, big muddy Valoran. 03:00:47.212 --> 03:00:51.315 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: To be fair, that probably still doesn't balance out. 03:00:51.336 --> 03:00:52.937 [Riv (DM)]: It's making up a little bit. 03:00:56.292 --> 03:00:58.715 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, and I think we just need... D10. 03:00:59.035 --> 03:00:59.315 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:01:00.096 --> 03:01:04.822 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, I was opening D&D Beyond to check if it is a D10 or not. 03:01:06.984 --> 03:01:10.027 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I mean, I am still... You gotta be kidding me! 03:01:10.528 --> 03:01:12.150 [JC (Ryo)]: I gotta have the most health now. 03:01:12.771 --> 03:01:13.932 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:01:13.952 --> 03:01:17.296 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, I'm a little sad that I dropped from having the most health as I did for a while. 03:01:18.097 --> 03:01:20.760 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:01:20.780 --> 03:01:21.220 [Riv (DM)]: Oh wow. 03:01:24.052 --> 03:01:28.358 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got the most health and my character is set up to stay the furthest the fuck away. 03:01:28.378 --> 03:01:28.578 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 03:01:31.462 --> 03:01:32.364 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, interesting. 03:01:33.325 --> 03:01:35.548 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So what you're saying is that DM needs to use minions more? 03:01:36.750 --> 03:01:39.133 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I don't... 03:01:39.153 --> 03:01:40.355 [Riv (DM)]: I'll have to do something. 03:01:40.635 --> 03:01:45.021 [Riv (DM)]: I'll keep it on the level with you guys. 03:01:45.963 --> 03:01:48.727 [Riv (DM)]: I had fully intended on that woman escaping. 03:01:50.289 --> 03:01:52.692 [Riv (DM)]: But you guys did so much fucking damage. 03:01:53.473 --> 03:01:53.974 [Riv (DM)]: There you go. 03:01:54.342 --> 03:01:58.368 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I honestly thought she was gone when you smokebombed, and she still had bonus action disengage. 03:01:58.749 --> 03:02:00.151 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There's no way I could have caught her. 03:02:00.171 --> 03:02:02.795 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't use bonus action disengage again. 03:02:02.975 --> 03:02:04.478 [Riv (DM)]: Bonus action was the smokebomb. 03:02:05.219 --> 03:02:06.381 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, okay. 03:02:06.801 --> 03:02:07.983 [Riv (DM)]: She wouldn't have escaped. 03:02:08.183 --> 03:02:08.704 [JC (Ryo)]: She didn't attack. 03:02:09.526 --> 03:02:09.786 [Riv (DM)]: Was it? 03:02:10.687 --> 03:02:13.311 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: She wouldn't have escaped the floating wizard. 03:02:14.734 --> 03:02:16.096 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, that's true, Dondal would have. 03:02:16.116 --> 03:02:18.439 [JC (Ryo)]: Sixty foot of movement, throw a spell at her, yeah. 03:02:18.820 --> 03:02:18.980 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:02:19.821 --> 03:02:22.105 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: She was, um... She could have used her action to disengage. 03:02:24.464 --> 03:02:27.086 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, everyone can use an action disengage. 03:02:27.146 --> 03:02:29.168 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's just rogues can also use it. 03:02:29.188 --> 03:02:29.849 [Riv (DM)]: True, true, true. 03:02:31.651 --> 03:02:31.731 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 03:02:31.751 --> 03:02:33.692 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, well, that might have gone a little bit differently then. 03:02:35.294 --> 03:02:35.894 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, well, never mind. 03:02:35.914 --> 03:02:36.535 [Riv (DM)]: It is what it is. 03:02:36.555 --> 03:02:39.778 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, she was pretty fucked, to be honest. 03:02:39.958 --> 03:02:43.041 [Riv (DM)]: She was on like, I think she had like three or four health left at that point. 03:02:43.301 --> 03:02:45.723 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah. 03:02:46.764 --> 03:02:53.070 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, she had her work cut out for her because I've got a shit ton of range plus Hunter's Mark. 03:02:53.455 --> 03:02:57.529 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't think she would have gotten out of Erendor's range that round. 03:02:58.834 --> 03:02:59.837 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Gemlighted with a rogue. 03:02:59.938 --> 03:03:01.423 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They could have disappeared pretty quickly. 03:03:01.572 --> 03:03:04.716 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she can go 90 feet per round, I think. 03:03:05.957 --> 03:03:07.158 [Riv (DM)]: So she'll be going pretty fast. 03:03:07.178 --> 03:03:09.381 [Riv (DM)]: But I guess if she's like that messed up, I don't know. 03:03:09.481 --> 03:03:12.104 [Riv (DM)]: It doesn't make sense that someone who's that injured would be able to run for very long. 03:03:13.405 --> 03:03:14.847 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 03:03:14.867 --> 03:03:21.875 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's the fun of D&D, and we were saying this during the break, that the difference between full HP and one HP is honestly nothing. 03:03:22.315 --> 03:03:23.457 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, mechanically. 03:03:23.737 --> 03:03:26.019 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Conscious and unconscious, they're the only two states really. 03:03:26.340 --> 03:03:26.500 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:03:27.188 --> 03:03:31.825 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: A way I've seen people talk about it is think of your hit points as your luck. 03:03:33.692 --> 03:03:36.321 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Your luck, your armor, your ability to dodge. 03:03:36.470 --> 03:03:42.198 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, in the Critical Role system they don't really have health anymore. 03:03:42.379 --> 03:03:50.110 [Riv (DM)]: They have like these armor things and then I think when you take damage you just take stress and you can take three stress and then you die or something like that. 03:03:50.470 --> 03:03:51.091 [Riv (DM)]: It's pretty cool. 03:03:51.812 --> 03:03:52.413 [Riv (DM)]: Pretty cool system. 03:03:54.496 --> 03:03:55.317 [Riv (DM)]: Oh well, all good. 03:03:56.920 --> 03:03:57.200 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 03:03:57.481 --> 03:03:59.203 [Riv (DM)]: Does anyone get anything good at level six? 03:04:02.086 --> 03:04:03.268 [Riv (DM)]: Expertise. 03:04:03.910 --> 03:04:04.511 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll check. 03:04:04.611 --> 03:04:06.114 [JC (Ryo)]: I was just looking at my health. 03:04:06.675 --> 03:04:11.404 [JC (Ryo)]: I am now at 62 if I've done my math right. 03:04:12.226 --> 03:04:14.170 [Riv (DM)]: Oh wow. 03:04:14.190 --> 03:04:14.771 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, that's right. 03:04:14.791 --> 03:04:15.493 [JC (Ryo)]: I haven't missed something. 03:04:16.314 --> 03:04:16.996 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:04:17.016 --> 03:04:20.342 [Riv (DM)]: Well, just make sure you add just the number to your rolled HP. 03:04:22.266 --> 03:04:23.548 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh no, I'm not doing the level up now. 03:04:23.569 --> 03:04:24.330 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll do that later. 03:04:24.749 --> 03:04:25.090 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 03:04:25.951 --> 03:04:30.339 [Riv (DM)]: What I was going to say is like, yeah, man, it's hard with like this many people. 03:04:32.042 --> 03:04:35.669 [Riv (DM)]: You need to have minions, I think, to make fights start to get scary. 03:04:35.689 --> 03:04:38.895 [Riv (DM)]: But like, minions are so fucking boring. 03:04:39.336 --> 03:04:42.261 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I played the last campaign I played. 03:04:42.582 --> 03:04:43.804 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We were fighting lots of dragons. 03:04:44.726 --> 03:04:48.112 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And the problem with balancing dragons is you've got one single creature. 03:04:48.433 --> 03:04:48.613 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:04:48.931 --> 03:04:50.634 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So they get overwhelmed by action economy. 03:04:50.774 --> 03:04:54.460 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So the only way to make them dangerous is to do absurd damage. 03:04:55.242 --> 03:04:58.387 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So they just roll around one-shotting people, which isn't fun either. 03:04:58.988 --> 03:04:59.168 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:05:00.290 --> 03:05:06.180 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So it's, yeah, single creatures are very hard to balance, but packs are also painful as well. 03:05:06.228 --> 03:05:28.843 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah it's just annoying because like all of the suggested fights and stuff like that um in books say add two whatever for every player or add three for every player it's like if you end up in a fight of like 15 guys it's like it's just so boring so boring to go through so and then someone comes in with um what's that stupid third thing in the big circle of death 03:05:31.388 --> 03:05:33.413 [Riv (DM)]: Spirit Guardians? 03:05:33.733 --> 03:05:34.695 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, Spirit Guardians. 03:05:35.096 --> 03:05:39.146 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And then Spirit Guardians just comes in and invalidates packs. 03:05:39.346 --> 03:05:46.362 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You have that one combat where everyone in the party rolls super low initiative. 03:05:47.545 --> 03:05:50.832 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Fifteen hostiles go first. 03:05:51.706 --> 03:05:53.689 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: D&D combat's really hard to balance. 03:05:53.709 --> 03:05:54.791 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's pretty wacky. 03:05:54.891 --> 03:06:04.665 [Riv (DM)]: This woman was supposed to be kind of like that dragon scenario where it's extremely high damage output, but obviously, yeah, action economy. 03:06:06.588 --> 03:06:09.713 [Riv (DM)]: She, yeah, because she one-hit you, right, on the first turn. 03:06:10.434 --> 03:06:14.800 [Lacer (Kai)]: She knocked a veil on your butt, like, the first turn, first go. 03:06:15.101 --> 03:06:18.766 [JC (Ryo)]: She must have had a buff to throwing daggers, because I thought they were a 20-60 weapon. 03:06:18.906 --> 03:06:19.307 [JC (Ryo)]: Poison. 03:06:20.248 --> 03:06:21.510 [JC (Ryo)]: She had a con save. 03:06:23.077 --> 03:06:26.203 [Riv (DM)]: No, but she hits you without having a roll of disadvantage. 03:06:26.523 --> 03:06:29.769 [Riv (DM)]: And she was definitely more than 20 foot away. 03:06:29.829 --> 03:06:30.711 [Riv (DM)]: She was hidden. 03:06:33.596 --> 03:06:37.082 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If you attack from stealth, you have advantage. 03:06:37.603 --> 03:06:39.807 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So this would have counted it out. 03:06:39.827 --> 03:06:40.528 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Ah, gotcha. 03:06:41.892 --> 03:06:44.194 [JC (Ryo)]: This is a shit, a meh level up for me. 03:06:44.234 --> 03:06:49.099 [JC (Ryo)]: I get another favored enemy and another natural explorer terrain. 03:06:49.119 --> 03:06:55.485 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: This is why I've never played a pure ranger past five, because after five it's kind of, oh shit. 03:06:57.086 --> 03:07:01.671 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Six, six, uh, seven I'm not too, at least I get another spell slot at seven. 03:07:01.931 --> 03:07:08.237 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You're playing Gloomstalker though, and Gloomstalker's like, okay, well let's build a fucking overpowered ranger, because the rest of the ranger classes suck. 03:07:09.010 --> 03:07:12.816 [JC (Ryo)]: Seven gets me Iron Mind, which just gives me advantage on Wisdom. 03:07:13.377 --> 03:07:17.603 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think Seven's a good powerbump for most people. 03:07:18.024 --> 03:07:21.609 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Bloomstalker and what's the other one, Horizonstalker or something like that? 03:07:23.652 --> 03:07:27.498 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The newer Ranger variants, like the Tasha's ones? 03:07:27.518 --> 03:07:37.954 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Which are just like incredibly strong because Hunter, Beastmaster and... Oh, those are the other ones, or just like base rangers, they're pretty meh. 03:07:41.562 --> 03:07:45.008 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm looking forward to a couple of higher levels.