--- > [!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.* --- 14:00.534 --> 14:01.315 [Riv (DM)]: Congratulations. 14:02.176 --> 14:04.318 [Riv (DM)]: And that was the first audio in the stream. 14:04.338 --> 14:07.462 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty, cool. 14:07.522 --> 14:09.264 [Riv (DM)]: So, let's do it, let's do it. 14:09.284 --> 14:14.931 [Riv (DM)]: Last time, last time we picked up right after confronting Doric the Blacksmith. 14:15.432 --> 14:24.603 [Riv (DM)]: And we left him there in his house, unconscious but alive, with the head of the captain of the Imperials there in town. 14:25.203 --> 14:27.426 [Riv (DM)]: Left the head by his body and 14:28.030 --> 14:32.658 [Riv (DM)]: Decided basically to leave as quickly as possible to try and get away from any trouble that might be chasing you. 14:34.341 --> 14:41.573 [Riv (DM)]: Rio was feeling frustrated and confused by the confrontation so ran off by himself and by the time the party tried to catch up he was gone, nowhere to be seen. 14:41.593 --> 14:45.400 [Riv (DM)]: So the group sort of waited for a while, an hour or so out of town. 14:45.440 --> 14:52.452 [Riv (DM)]: Eventually Rio rejoined and there were some terse chats and some dark looks. 14:52.432 --> 14:58.342 [Riv (DM)]: Got on the road to start heading north towards Val Noren and Point Blackrock. 14:59.284 --> 15:02.149 [Riv (DM)]: There were storms that just started blowing in from the coast. 15:02.349 --> 15:06.256 [Riv (DM)]: As you're getting further and further north now it's starting to get frozen, icy and cold. 15:07.298 --> 15:15.452 [Riv (DM)]: But Kai was able to create you some good shelter with his magical hut which took away a lot of the trouble of travelling actually. 15:15.736 --> 15:23.226 [Riv (DM)]: Valerian and Rio had a bit of a tense conversation about the woes of being a lone wolf and what that could mean for the party. 15:23.546 --> 15:28.012 [Riv (DM)]: And Kai was feeling some unease, like something was trying to itch in the back of his mind. 15:28.653 --> 15:35.421 [Riv (DM)]: At one point on the road, you heard the sound of horses heading your direction from where you came, from Lighthaven. 15:36.222 --> 15:38.966 [Riv (DM)]: And you thought, oh, excellent, some free horses. 15:39.166 --> 15:44.393 [Riv (DM)]: And so you stood out in the middle of the road, a bunch of soldiers appeared, and you had a quick little ambush. 15:44.373 --> 15:45.774 [Riv (DM)]: Wiped them out and took their horses. 15:47.075 --> 15:47.936 [Riv (DM)]: Which sped up your travel. 15:48.717 --> 15:55.763 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so this turns out to be the remaining soldiers from the compound, the Imperial compound there in Lighthaven, who are now leadless and unsure what to do. 15:55.783 --> 15:58.866 [Riv (DM)]: So they decide to just essentially abandon ship and head north. 16:01.469 --> 16:12.979 [Riv (DM)]: You spent an evening on the road, planning out your disguises for how you could travel, landing on, to disguise yourselves as Imperials, so using some cloaks, some armor. 16:14.326 --> 16:36.334 [Riv (DM)]: And you investigated the black cloak that had been taken from the assassin who captured the fine golds many weeks earlier and after a bit of investigation actually found that it was a cloak of protection which just make sure whoever took that actually has it on their sheet and quit and there was also a magical note found that 16:36.314 --> 16:56.466 [Riv (DM)]: Was determined to actually be a magical item not just magically enchanted to you know disguise a message or something because a dispel magic was not able to actually reveal its contents so there will be some trick that you would need to figure out how to how to read it um further along the road you found there was a barricade 16:56.783 --> 17:15.720 [Riv (DM)]: Blocking the path since you're disguised as Imperials you thought well you know what let's just let's just risk it and go straight through so you walked straight on up to the gates so a few tense conversations and a Imperial Hand of the Empire came out big red cloak and 17:16.915 --> 17:19.058 [Riv (DM)]: Also asked some tense questions. 17:19.719 --> 17:29.673 [Riv (DM)]: Immediately recognized Valoran, or as he would be known here, Corvas, and requested a private conversation while the rest of you were passing on through. 17:29.693 --> 17:43.092 [Riv (DM)]: On the knife's edge, Valoran was able to convince him that, you know, he was here for a reason and an important reason that he shouldn't be interfered with, and the hand 17:43.696 --> 17:51.007 [Riv (DM)]: Clearly knowing that something was off here, resigned himself to Corvus' apparent superiority and let him go through. 17:52.228 --> 17:54.532 [Riv (DM)]: And so he made it through. 17:55.673 --> 18:03.284 [Riv (DM)]: And then it was just a matter of a few more extra days until you arrived at Point Blackrock, which is essentially where we're going to be picking up now. 18:03.645 --> 18:06.369 [Riv (DM)]: It's evening as you're arriving. 18:09.213 --> 18:11.256 [Riv (DM)]: Let me switch the music over to something more 18:12.839 --> 18:13.600 [Riv (DM)]: More on the mood. 18:16.184 --> 18:16.985 [Riv (DM)]: So it's evening, right? 18:19.870 --> 18:34.932 [Riv (DM)]: You're on the top of a sort of rolling hill, looking down on what for better or worse could only be described as a tent city, just sprawling out across the coastline in front of you. 18:34.912 --> 18:58.523 [Riv (DM)]: You can see a storm, heavy black clouds are rolling in from the coast, starting to congeal and consume the massive jagged black rocks that can be seen protruding up from the islands that just stretch out into the distance across the horizon, which are now all connected by a massive frozen pathway, a wall of ice that is now frozen and connected them all. 18:58.503 --> 19:10.261 [Riv (DM)]: Looking down into the town, the settlement of Point Blackrock itself, you can see the main road heads down to the centre where you can see a slightly larger building than all the rest of the tents. 19:10.281 --> 19:12.705 [Riv (DM)]: This one looks like a more permanent one, it's a stone. 19:12.745 --> 19:20.697 [Riv (DM)]: And surrounding it you can see just tents and pavilions, a few buildings here and there of all sorts of colours. 19:20.677 --> 19:26.327 [Riv (DM)]: But massively, massively surrounded now by very out of place looking red tents. 19:26.948 --> 19:30.755 [Riv (DM)]: Almost like the settlement has been infected or something. 19:31.897 --> 19:34.882 [Riv (DM)]: You can see some torches being carried as clearly there is a bit of movement. 19:35.503 --> 19:36.665 [Riv (DM)]: People wandering back and forth. 19:38.549 --> 19:43.377 [Riv (DM)]: Up and down some of the artificial highways that have been created by the layout of the tents. 19:44.892 --> 19:51.462 [Riv (DM)]: And you stand here just now as the wind is starting to hit you on the face, the icy cold from this northern breeze starting to chill its way into your bones. 19:52.203 --> 19:55.288 [Riv (DM)]: And I'll hand it over to you guys to decide what you want to do. 20:07.546 --> 20:08.207 [Riv (DM)]: What's the goal here? 20:08.307 --> 20:12.233 [Riv (DM)]: What's the plan? 20:12.517 --> 20:15.441 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I guess we're trying to get through to Val Noren. 20:18.445 --> 20:20.788 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There's some questions in the private chat. 20:20.869 --> 20:29.180 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think we decided that the disguises were getting a bit too spicy, so we were just swapping back to plain old Mercs for the moment. 20:30.001 --> 20:31.403 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, I just couldn't remember, sorry. 20:38.318 --> 20:44.506 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so we've dothed our Imperial uniforms at this point? 20:44.526 --> 20:45.868 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 20:45.888 --> 20:46.168 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 20:50.874 --> 20:52.536 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Just a plain old dwarf. 20:57.303 --> 20:58.785 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How far away from Val Noren? 21:02.489 --> 21:03.010 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 21:03.985 --> 21:04.966 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Waterways, yeah. 21:04.986 --> 21:05.486 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, a wee way. 21:05.927 --> 21:08.429 [Riv (DM)]: Based on your map, you imagine you've still got a week or more travel. 21:10.151 --> 21:20.480 [Riv (DM)]: But, yeah, it's a difficult road ahead through the icy path, so yeah, who knows how long that might take. 21:25.605 --> 21:30.589 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like I said, it's obviously an Imperial military camp has been set up here now. 21:31.910 --> 21:32.811 [JC (Ryo)]: Appears that way, yeah. 21:35.626 --> 21:38.008 [JC (Ryo)]: We should probably just try and get through as quick as we can, shouldn't we? 21:41.252 --> 21:46.316 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, any information we can get would be nice, but we probably need to not hang around too much. 21:46.937 --> 21:49.500 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Does it look like a patrolled military camp, or are they all just set up? 21:51.001 --> 21:56.006 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like, have they fortified the town, or are they just... 21:56.026 --> 21:59.489 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't appear fortified, nah, just massive numbers of tents. 22:02.252 --> 22:04.134 [JC (Ryo)]: Is there an inbuilt structure, or...? 22:04.694 --> 22:05.295 [Riv (DM)]: Is that again, sorry? 22:05.984 --> 22:07.666 [JC (Ryo)]: Is there anything that looks like an N or? 22:09.008 --> 22:28.076 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah I mean it's difficult to tell from this distance specifically but um there is a main building that clearly looks sort of central to the town um and there are a few other you know scattered smaller buildings here and there um amongst all of these tents too massive sort of you know big circular tents that you could imagine seeing at a fair or a carnival or something like that. 22:31.040 --> 22:35.687 [JC (Ryo)]: Guess we check out the only real permanent structure or unless you guys have another idea? 22:39.532 --> 22:39.872 [Unmatched Speaker]: That's good. 22:39.912 --> 22:40.493 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Low profile. 22:44.737 --> 22:46.038 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Here on totally legitimate business. 22:49.161 --> 22:49.241 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 22:49.261 --> 22:50.342 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, what is our business? 22:53.285 --> 22:55.887 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hunters, mercenaries, summertime traders. 22:58.350 --> 23:00.732 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Whatever puts coin in our pocket and beer in our belly. 23:03.134 --> 23:03.895 [Riv (DM)]: No, sounds good. 23:06.137 --> 23:07.378 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so we're heading down into town? 23:10.295 --> 23:28.675 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 23:30.410 --> 23:30.911 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 23:31.211 --> 23:32.513 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know what these horses are. 23:32.533 --> 23:33.955 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't think they'd be playing wars. 23:33.975 --> 23:37.080 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think they'd just be riding horses from the Empire. 23:37.100 --> 23:37.280 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 23:38.322 --> 23:40.886 [JC (Ryo)]: Are these horses branded Imperial or anything like that? 23:40.966 --> 23:42.528 [JC (Ryo)]: Are there any, are the saddles branded? 23:42.628 --> 23:45.553 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think we did determine they were identifying marks. 23:45.933 --> 23:46.254 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Correct. 23:46.534 --> 23:50.020 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 23:50.040 --> 23:52.283 [JC (Ryo)]: We might want to ditch the horses before we walk into town then. 23:59.873 --> 24:02.297 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, it's got disaster written all over it. 24:03.420 --> 24:03.760 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 24:04.321 --> 24:11.014 [Lacer (Kai)]: Though, if, would it, like, since we're travelling across stuff, no, we can still make speed with horses, right? 24:11.034 --> 24:13.498 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we go on foot, it takes us even longer to cross this. 24:14.520 --> 24:22.675 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, but if we walk into town in our Merc gear, in our normal gear, and these horses have got Imperial tags all over them, we're probably in trouble. 24:23.785 --> 24:25.327 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah, that's a good point. 24:25.347 --> 24:28.552 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And honestly, I don't know how well horses are going to do crossing the ice. 24:29.293 --> 24:31.716 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I imagine it's pretty broken up, horrible terrain out there. 24:33.879 --> 24:35.381 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, this is JC talking, not Ryu. 24:35.401 --> 24:39.987 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, if we cross an ice, we want sleds and dogs, not bloody horses. 24:42.050 --> 24:43.472 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, that's true. 24:43.492 --> 24:47.778 [Lacer (Kai)]: Unless I cast, use one of my spells, get them to walk on water. 24:51.343 --> 24:52.645 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean ice, but okay. 24:53.620 --> 24:56.744 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I know, but I'm sure there'll be some unfrozen patches. 24:56.944 --> 24:58.787 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can't be all frozen, right? 24:58.807 --> 25:00.649 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Water's ice, but not water. 25:04.434 --> 25:05.195 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Good question. 25:05.215 --> 25:08.299 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Does walk on water also mean walk on ice? 25:08.679 --> 25:08.880 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 25:09.060 --> 25:09.641 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What happens then? 25:09.661 --> 25:10.402 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Do you just float? 25:12.404 --> 25:13.486 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or do we still slip? 25:13.786 --> 25:20.234 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I would imagine there is definitely a state of matter, otherwise walk on water would work on mist. 25:21.376 --> 25:22.277 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Whichever. 25:24.316 --> 25:33.528 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um, yeah, I think we're gonna have to be safe as ditching the horses because... Yeah, no way we're riding through an Imperial Army camp on Imperial horses and nobody can ask questions. 25:34.249 --> 25:35.751 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, what do we do? 25:35.931 --> 25:39.075 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we hide them, just tag them here, or do we cut them loose for you? 25:39.115 --> 25:39.495 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cut them loose. 25:40.176 --> 25:40.697 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, cut them loose. 25:41.197 --> 25:41.318 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 25:42.479 --> 25:47.185 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so before we do that, we unsettle them or are we just gonna let them go? 25:47.890 --> 25:48.251 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 25:48.391 --> 25:49.973 [Riv (DM)]: Unsaddle and then cut loose, I think. 25:49.993 --> 25:51.395 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, unsaddle them. 25:51.415 --> 25:53.258 [JC (Ryo)]: Give it once over through all the saddlebags. 25:54.219 --> 25:56.983 [JC (Ryo)]: Just make sure there's nothing useful left on them. 25:57.003 --> 26:00.067 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I imagine you probably would have covered it all, checked it all out by now. 26:00.588 --> 26:05.195 [Riv (DM)]: I think you got a few coin last time and you have a little bits and bobs of supplies and stuff. 26:05.615 --> 26:06.296 [Riv (DM)]: Might be useful. 26:07.358 --> 26:07.658 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 26:07.678 --> 26:10.883 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, like Bill... Can I... Yeah? 26:12.465 --> 26:13.947 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can I roll for perception? 26:14.288 --> 26:15.349 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is anyone following us? 26:17.118 --> 26:19.280 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Since the suspicious incident. 26:19.740 --> 26:21.081 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, roll a perception check. 26:22.122 --> 26:25.545 [Riv (DM)]: As we cut the horses loose like Bill in the Fellowship of the Ring. 26:27.046 --> 26:27.787 [Riv (DM)]: They know their way home. 26:31.030 --> 26:34.893 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so it's night time and storm's rolling in. 26:35.073 --> 26:36.955 [Riv (DM)]: Wind is blowing in the face, it's really really tough to tell. 26:37.195 --> 26:44.922 [Riv (DM)]: Can't see anyone coming up behind you at least anyway. 26:44.942 --> 26:46.703 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, onwards into town then. 26:49.012 --> 26:49.352 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 26:52.295 --> 26:52.536 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 26:53.216 --> 26:57.941 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so are we wandering down just openly confident? 26:58.221 --> 26:59.122 [Riv (DM)]: Who's taking the lead? 27:07.171 --> 27:12.536 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I should probably keep my face down because it's very likely there may be somebody here who knows me. 27:14.758 --> 27:18.242 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The world of things is getting to an area where people would probably know my face, so... 27:19.707 --> 27:21.209 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I might wrap up for the cold. 27:22.731 --> 27:22.852 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 27:22.872 --> 27:25.135 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 27:25.155 --> 27:27.819 [Riv (DM)]: Put up a bit more wrapped clothes and stuff like that. 27:28.400 --> 27:32.125 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Put up a little mask across the face for the frosty. 27:32.586 --> 27:32.886 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, okay. 27:33.227 --> 27:34.869 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 27:35.069 --> 27:40.978 [JC (Ryo)]: I'd push, not push, but nudge Kai in the back and go, you should probably lead. 27:40.998 --> 27:41.478 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 27:41.919 --> 27:42.360 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 27:43.301 --> 27:44.002 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where are we going? 27:44.062 --> 27:47.447 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are we going to the biggest tent or are we just going past? 27:47.467 --> 27:48.769 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are we walking through? 27:50.032 --> 27:59.265 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um, I imagine there'd be, this is like a trade stop, so I'm sure there's somewhere here that has like a big warehouse-esque trade stop. 27:59.286 --> 27:59.406 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 28:00.547 --> 28:17.632 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I will try and find the most non-military looking tent slash area as we get closer to the town and head in that direction based on the appearance of people, what they're wearing. 28:17.652 --> 28:17.833 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 28:17.853 --> 28:18.614 [JC (Ryo)]: It's evening, isn't it? 28:19.054 --> 28:19.515 [JC (Ryo)]: Evening, yep. 28:20.423 --> 28:25.110 [JC (Ryo)]: We should try and find maybe an inn type thing somewhere where we can sleep for the night. 28:26.031 --> 28:26.452 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 28:26.512 --> 28:28.254 [Riv (DM)]: As we're heading down, roll a possession check for me. 28:35.225 --> 28:36.086 [Lacer (Kai)]: Me or someone else? 28:37.047 --> 28:37.708 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone who wants to. 28:38.109 --> 28:38.910 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone who wants to keep an eye out. 28:38.930 --> 28:44.338 [Riv (DM)]: I guess probably you Kai since you're taking the lead and you said you were looking for settlements and stuff like that. 28:46.917 --> 28:47.218 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 28:49.241 --> 28:50.303 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does anyone want to help? 28:54.871 --> 28:56.354 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll run my eyes over the town. 28:57.596 --> 28:58.718 [Lacer (Kai)]: You're singular. 29:00.722 --> 29:02.165 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh boy, okay. 29:04.048 --> 29:05.791 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't find anything. 29:05.811 --> 29:08.436 [Lacer (Kai)]: We just find military tents everywhere. 29:08.905 --> 29:11.448 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I will say that is indeed what you find. 29:11.488 --> 29:20.701 [Riv (DM)]: As the road sort of winds down towards the central more dense part of the town, it is just military tents for this first main stretch of it. 29:20.721 --> 29:22.403 [Riv (DM)]: Imagine you're sort of, you know, you're coming down. 29:22.423 --> 29:31.335 [Riv (DM)]: Every now and then, you know, you can see like essentially just a wall starts. 29:31.433 --> 29:45.612 [Riv (DM)]: Of just red tents that sort of stretch out both in both directions and as you sort of head down the road um you can see far ahead of you you know there's some stuff that looks non-imperial but for the most part the whole town itself is surrounded by these red tents um 29:46.098 --> 29:51.910 [Riv (DM)]: Difficult to tell exactly if there's a tavern or an inn standing out from this far away. 29:52.311 --> 30:02.132 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like to ask if, actually, do I see any soldiers patrolling this tent city? 30:02.956 --> 30:11.307 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so I did mention that from up on the hill, you were able to see some torches moving around as people were wandering up and down through the highways. 30:12.468 --> 30:25.605 [Riv (DM)]: But on that point, I will say, as you sort of first get up in line with these red tents, you hear the classic jostling of armor and chain as a group of soldiers come out, having seen you wandering down into town. 30:26.851 --> 30:33.039 [Riv (DM)]: And leading the way, you can see a tallish, slender woman wearing solid armor. 30:33.199 --> 30:35.181 [Riv (DM)]: She's got a long ponytail that's sort of, you know, plaited down. 30:35.542 --> 30:37.224 [Riv (DM)]: It hangs down her back. 30:38.225 --> 30:39.667 [Riv (DM)]: Sword and shield belted at the waist. 30:40.328 --> 30:41.990 [Riv (DM)]: And several other soldiers were there. 30:42.730 --> 30:45.073 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, she approaches you and just holds up her hand to Holt. 30:47.096 --> 30:47.376 [Riv (DM)]: Holt! 30:49.379 --> 30:52.943 [Riv (DM)]: Travelers, may I know your reason for being here? 30:54.998 --> 31:00.227 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're mercenaries just passing through, hunting, trapping. 31:01.750 --> 31:02.311 [Lacer (Kai)]: Mercenaries you say? 31:03.212 --> 31:03.433 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 31:04.815 --> 31:07.640 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're looking for some lodgings for the evening. 31:09.183 --> 31:11.006 [Riv (DM)]: Lodgings, oh well we might be able to help with that. 31:11.687 --> 31:16.896 [Riv (DM)]: She looks over her shoulder and like there's a soldier nearby who gives a smile and a nod. 31:18.439 --> 31:19.521 [Riv (DM)]: She says, 31:19.720 --> 31:25.086 [Riv (DM)]: It's very, very interesting that you've arrived here at all, to be honest. 31:25.567 --> 31:26.387 [Riv (DM)]: How did you get here? 31:26.948 --> 31:27.889 [Riv (DM)]: Which path did you take? 31:29.972 --> 31:34.777 [Lacer (Kai)]: Around the coast. 31:34.797 --> 31:45.028 [Lacer (Kai)]: We were just traveling from the Darkwood along the coast. 31:45.048 --> 31:45.129 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 31:45.149 --> 31:45.669 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say so. 31:47.451 --> 31:48.192 [Riv (DM)]: Rolled it as F3. 32:03.680 --> 32:04.321 [Riv (DM)]: On the coast, eh? 32:04.441 --> 32:04.641 [Riv (DM)]: Wow. 32:05.883 --> 32:09.288 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I guess we've come at a great time. 32:10.129 --> 32:15.257 [Riv (DM)]: There's plenty of soldiers here to help you, keep you protected. 32:15.918 --> 32:24.751 [Riv (DM)]: It's a bit crowded in town at the moment though, so we've got some special lodging set up for new people who arrive. 32:25.852 --> 32:27.595 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't you let us take you? 32:29.009 --> 32:33.037 [Riv (DM)]: Please, please, after us, follow along. 32:33.638 --> 32:38.327 [Lacer (Kai)]: And she sort of gestures for you to start following. 32:38.447 --> 32:42.796 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're not exactly... We're mercenaries. 32:42.836 --> 32:45.381 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're not here for... 32:45.968 --> 32:47.189 [Lacer (Kai)]: Fighting or anything. 32:47.490 --> 32:51.014 [Lacer (Kai)]: We just need lodgings for the night and then we're just passing through. 32:51.895 --> 32:52.715 [Riv (DM)]: Of course, of course. 32:52.735 --> 32:53.656 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I understand. 32:53.937 --> 32:59.263 [Riv (DM)]: All of the all of the temporary accommodations here in the town are all full up, I'm afraid. 33:00.064 --> 33:02.446 [Riv (DM)]: But like I said, we've got our own lodgings available. 33:02.506 --> 33:04.148 [Riv (DM)]: So why don't why don't you let us take you? 33:05.950 --> 33:06.871 [Riv (DM)]: Please, it's just this way. 33:06.891 --> 33:07.432 [Riv (DM)]: It's not too far. 33:08.493 --> 33:11.436 [Riv (DM)]: And again, she turns and gestures for you to head on through. 33:13.205 --> 33:20.916 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I do an insight check to see how sincere she looks about this? 33:21.960 --> 33:22.141 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 33:23.004 --> 33:23.687 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an insight check. 33:41.268 --> 33:41.709 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 33:42.510 --> 33:45.916 [Riv (DM)]: I will message you on Discord office, alright? 33:45.936 --> 33:50.884 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 33:50.904 --> 33:53.268 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We are 100% getting press ganged. 33:56.253 --> 33:57.615 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: They're not going for it, Chewie. 33:59.118 --> 34:01.461 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: On the flip side, this is a good way to get to Val Noren. 34:05.148 --> 34:07.832 [Unmatched Speaker]: True, but... Fighting against Val Noren. 34:09.719 --> 34:11.402 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 34:11.442 --> 34:12.063 [Lacer (Kai)]: We could be... 34:12.083 --> 34:14.426 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 34:14.446 --> 34:14.907 [Lacer (Kai)]: Be what? 34:15.388 --> 34:16.450 [Lacer (Kai)]: They're sieging the city. 34:16.950 --> 34:18.232 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where do you think we're going? 34:18.272 --> 34:19.134 [Lacer (Kai)]: Trojan horse. 34:25.083 --> 34:26.706 [JC (Ryo)]: I do not trust someone this pushy. 34:28.008 --> 34:28.448 [Lacer (Kai)]: I know. 34:28.649 --> 34:33.476 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, like, as soon as we got here... What's the alternative? 34:34.818 --> 34:36.621 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Kill her and burn down the tents? 34:38.103 --> 34:38.924 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, wait, Alan. 34:39.805 --> 34:45.532 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, the only other option we've got is to, like, walk away. 34:48.295 --> 34:53.881 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I can't remember the exact numbers that we were told coming north, but I think it was, like, in the thousands. 34:54.942 --> 34:55.243 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 34:55.883 --> 34:56.925 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There is no walking away. 34:56.945 --> 35:00.749 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We have been... Yep, she's not Imperial, though. 35:01.410 --> 35:01.650 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is she? 35:01.670 --> 35:03.152 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 35:03.172 --> 35:06.896 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't even know if she's... No, Redcloak was mentioned. 35:07.277 --> 35:07.637 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 35:09.068 --> 35:11.252 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm waiting for a thing. 35:12.054 --> 35:13.897 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, let me mute something. 35:14.378 --> 35:15.440 [Riv (DM)]: They are Imperials, yes. 35:16.362 --> 35:17.003 [Riv (DM)]: Reclose. 35:17.023 --> 35:20.630 [Riv (DM)]: She is not a hand, but yes, they're all, these are all Imperial soldiers. 35:20.730 --> 35:21.712 [Riv (DM)]: These are not town guards. 35:21.912 --> 35:25.018 [Riv (DM)]: These are not like your local guards that are working for the Empire. 35:25.700 --> 35:26.942 [Riv (DM)]: These are soldiers. 35:26.922 --> 35:43.393 [Riv (DM)]: The tents you surmise are here as a military staging ground for thousands, potentially, of people. 35:45.396 --> 35:50.145 [Riv (DM)]: Although, that said, why don't we get someone to just roll me a quick perception check on that note. 35:56.302 --> 35:59.068 [Riv (DM)]: Well, Kai is chatting, why don't we say. 35:59.148 --> 36:01.552 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'm chatting, so I'm not perceiving at the moment. 36:02.174 --> 36:06.442 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: One of the other guys can roll up. 36:06.743 --> 36:07.665 [Riv (DM)]: One eyeball, poorly. 36:08.226 --> 36:09.889 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, bully. 36:11.371 --> 36:12.732 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, lots of tents. 36:12.873 --> 36:13.413 [Riv (DM)]: Oh my god. 36:13.734 --> 36:14.434 [Riv (DM)]: Not that many people. 36:15.555 --> 36:23.664 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so she stands there waiting for you to pass on through and the other soldiers are sort of stepping aside as well and sort of nodding, gesturing for you to carry along. 36:25.286 --> 36:28.029 [Lacer (Kai)]: How many soldiers are with her currently? 36:28.209 --> 36:33.555 [Riv (DM)]: And you can see there are a few more standing here and there behind the tents as well just sort of glancing in your direction. 36:36.518 --> 36:41.243 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm assuming they're stepping in, the guards are forming around us. 36:44.446 --> 36:45.388 [Riv (DM)]: It's all on Kai right now. 36:48.837 --> 36:49.358 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's see. 36:50.440 --> 36:51.503 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look around. 36:51.543 --> 36:53.869 [Lacer (Kai)]: This doesn't look very friendly at all. 36:53.889 --> 36:56.475 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you say this out loud? 36:57.858 --> 36:58.219 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 36:59.701 --> 37:00.682 [Riv (DM)]: What do you mean? 37:00.922 --> 37:02.564 [Riv (DM)]: OK, I get this might be stressful. 37:02.724 --> 37:09.751 [Riv (DM)]: It might seem strange that there are all these soldiers around, but I don't know if you've heard what's been going on in the north. 37:10.652 --> 37:11.353 [Riv (DM)]: We're here under orders. 37:11.493 --> 37:13.455 [Riv (DM)]: We're just making sure that everyone is kept safe. 37:13.755 --> 37:24.245 [Riv (DM)]: And for your best interest, just to keep yourself safe as well, you know, we just need to make sure that we get you nice and safely to some lodgings for tonight. 37:28.750 --> 37:28.830 Hmm. 37:29.755 --> 37:30.296 [Riv (DM)]: Right. 37:36.327 --> 37:49.772 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um okay well I guess we got here all the way down from the Darkwood and that was pretty dangerous and it's getting pretty cold up here so 37:50.393 --> 37:54.217 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah you don't want to be caught out here in the dark with that storm rolling in. 37:54.257 --> 37:58.682 [Riv (DM)]: She gestures over and you can see like the old cracks of lightning starting to roll in. 37:59.904 --> 38:02.747 [Riv (DM)]: Light up some of the peaks of these jagged black rocks in the sky. 38:02.787 --> 38:14.620 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well we have our own sort of um let's say sort of like personal lodgings that we could set up. 38:14.940 --> 38:16.502 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is there a space where we could set up 38:17.292 --> 38:19.737 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's, like, in the open somewhere. 38:19.977 --> 38:20.578 [Lacer (Kai)]: That'd be fine. 38:22.061 --> 38:22.242 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 38:22.843 --> 38:23.704 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't we... 38:24.065 --> 38:24.626 [Riv (DM)]: I'll show you. 38:24.706 --> 38:25.328 [Riv (DM)]: I'll show you a spot. 38:25.488 --> 38:26.330 [Riv (DM)]: Please, come this way. 38:26.670 --> 38:27.532 [Riv (DM)]: I really must insist. 38:28.013 --> 38:33.103 [Riv (DM)]: And as she says this, you know, a few more soldiers join the group and come and stand behind you. 38:36.870 --> 38:37.110 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wow. 38:37.752 --> 38:38.473 [Lacer (Kai)]: Quite the crowd. 38:39.432 --> 38:41.274 [Lacer (Kai)]: I feel very, very protected. 38:41.755 --> 38:43.498 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess I follow. 38:44.178 --> 38:44.599 [Lacer (Kai)]: I hope so. 38:44.639 --> 38:45.901 [Riv (DM)]: Excellent. 38:45.921 --> 38:46.181 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 38:46.842 --> 38:47.343 [Riv (DM)]: Right behind you. 38:47.383 --> 38:49.806 [Riv (DM)]: So do you say you start following? 38:51.308 --> 38:55.233 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I like to observe what they're wearing currently. 38:55.314 --> 38:56.395 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are they are they rugged up? 38:56.495 --> 38:57.897 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are they like in furs and stuff? 38:58.653 --> 39:07.586 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean, it's the standard Imperial soldier armor, but they do have, you know, some warmer clothes, some scarves and stuff like that you see here and there. 39:07.687 --> 39:08.207 [Riv (DM)]: Warmer hats. 39:09.589 --> 39:11.192 [Riv (DM)]: You can tell it gets really, really cold. 39:14.898 --> 39:16.580 [Riv (DM)]: You start heading back along the road. 39:17.642 --> 39:17.902 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 39:17.982 --> 39:19.885 [Riv (DM)]: I see everyone else is in tow as well. 39:20.624 --> 39:24.351 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I just want to chat with you as we walk, just to break the ice. 39:24.632 --> 39:26.575 [Lacer (Kai)]: So how long have you guys been up here? 39:26.856 --> 39:30.643 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've never seen such a big contingency up here before. 39:31.845 --> 39:35.292 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, you're a frequent visitor here to Point Blackrock, are you? 39:36.250 --> 39:41.897 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I just heard rumours and stuff and just thought I'd come by and check it out, see what it's like. 39:42.858 --> 39:43.059 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 39:43.519 --> 39:45.962 [Riv (DM)]: She holds her hands up to her mouth and just blows on them. 39:47.224 --> 39:49.186 [Riv (DM)]: Rubs them a bit to try and warm them, see all the steam coming out. 39:50.088 --> 39:51.730 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, it's been a cold couple of months. 39:52.350 --> 39:56.335 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, we got here, gosh, a couple of months ago maybe now. 39:59.259 --> 39:59.980 [Riv (DM)]: It's been alright though. 40:02.963 --> 40:03.464 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh really? 40:04.585 --> 40:05.186 [Lacer (Kai)]: Couple of months. 40:05.847 --> 40:08.391 [Lacer (Kai)]: What are you guys just camping up here? 40:08.431 --> 40:11.676 [Lacer (Kai)]: Doing some military thing? 40:13.678 --> 40:14.500 [Lacer (Kai)]: For a couple of months? 40:15.141 --> 40:15.621 [Lacer (Kai)]: In the cold? 40:16.663 --> 40:17.304 [Riv (DM)]: She chuckles a bit. 40:19.447 --> 40:20.508 [Riv (DM)]: You ask a lot of questions, don't you? 40:20.989 --> 40:22.772 [Riv (DM)]: You don't really expect me to answer that, do you? 40:23.973 --> 40:28.600 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, not really, but like, just like, lady up here. 40:30.217 --> 40:33.063 [Lacer (Kai)]: Fighting the cold, I suppose. 40:33.083 --> 40:34.266 [Riv (DM)]: Fighting the cold. 40:34.907 --> 40:35.849 [Riv (DM)]: You could say that. 40:36.150 --> 40:36.912 [Riv (DM)]: You could say that. 40:37.874 --> 40:41.041 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, you've gone now to the central part of the town. 40:42.203 --> 40:43.205 [Riv (DM)]: It's sort of a crossroads. 40:43.506 --> 40:45.751 [Riv (DM)]: Four points, so there's the direction you just came from. 40:46.533 --> 40:50.301 [Riv (DM)]: In the centre is a two-storey stone building. 40:51.007 --> 40:55.153 [Riv (DM)]: Which looks, yeah, obviously more permanent than all the other tents. 40:55.173 --> 41:08.590 [Riv (DM)]: To the sides you can see now you've sort of passed the red tents of the Imperials and now there are tents that look like they've been here for a while, like it doesn't look like the sort of tent that someone would just stick up to camp for a few nights. 41:08.610 --> 41:15.900 [Riv (DM)]: They're the sort of tents that, you know, an artisan or a merchant or someone might set up for several months or potentially even longer. 41:15.880 --> 41:21.386 [Riv (DM)]: And a lot of them look dark and cold, like there aren't many people there. 41:23.108 --> 41:29.835 [Riv (DM)]: The stone building itself is sturdy, simple, and there are some lights on in the inside. 41:29.895 --> 41:39.965 [Riv (DM)]: And on the outside of it you can see, evenly spaced around on each wall, you know, square building, on each wall you can see there are two sigils sort of evenly spaced. 41:40.626 --> 41:44.470 [Riv (DM)]: On this first one that you get up to there's like a wolf and a fox. 41:44.450 --> 41:48.818 [Riv (DM)]: As you start heading around the side you can see there's a hawk and what looks like a bear or something like that. 41:49.299 --> 41:58.695 [Riv (DM)]: As you're passing through and start heading around the building to go past it, 41:58.844 --> 42:04.871 [Riv (DM)]: The doors open and out steps a man in full hand regalia. 42:05.472 --> 42:08.876 [Riv (DM)]: Big long cloak, big armour, big plumed helmet. 42:09.897 --> 42:13.361 [Riv (DM)]: And he just watches you as you go past and you see the woman. 42:14.302 --> 42:15.764 [Riv (DM)]: Just nod to him. 42:15.784 --> 42:17.206 [Riv (DM)]: And he nods as well, he nods back. 42:20.089 --> 42:25.155 [Riv (DM)]: Now Veleran, you're all wrapped up, aren't you? 42:25.793 --> 42:26.334 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, yeah. 42:26.414 --> 42:29.677 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hood up and no mask basically. 42:30.078 --> 42:30.598 [Riv (DM)]: Let me roll. 42:34.183 --> 42:34.283 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 42:38.007 --> 42:38.608 [Riv (DM)]: He just watches you. 42:38.728 --> 42:40.109 [Riv (DM)]: He sees eyes sort of following the group. 42:41.811 --> 42:43.173 [Riv (DM)]: Slight cock of the eyebrow maybe. 42:43.333 --> 42:47.818 [Riv (DM)]: It's possibly a strange thing to see a group of people just randomly arrive. 42:49.580 --> 42:50.201 [Riv (DM)]: He doesn't say anything. 42:50.361 --> 42:50.761 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't move. 42:51.022 --> 42:52.223 [Riv (DM)]: Just stays and watches. 42:54.498 --> 43:08.373 [Riv (DM)]: You can see now one of the other side streets that heads off to the west heads down, you know, the road carries on and you can see towards the end there's what looks like a slightly more permanent set of buildings further along down the road. 43:08.513 --> 43:20.607 [Riv (DM)]: Like there might be a tavern down there just from the looks of things because there are some wooden structures and there's like a big, you know, large courtyard at the end of the road with, you know, more buildings spread around there. 43:20.667 --> 43:23.610 [Riv (DM)]: So you get the feeling that down that way might be some more permanent residents. 43:24.974 --> 43:30.693 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we notice any civilians around this area as we go past? 43:31.174 --> 43:34.525 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or does the military presence increase? 43:35.207 --> 43:36.030 [Lacer (Kai)]: Position check for me. 43:47.367 --> 43:57.718 [Riv (DM)]: There are a few people that don't look Imperial, but doesn't seem like there are as many as there should be based on the number of tents that are here. 43:59.821 --> 44:03.344 [Riv (DM)]: There's a tent just over there to the side where someone is just standing at the entrance. 44:04.265 --> 44:09.651 [Riv (DM)]: Older dude who's slightly hunched over just watching you, face grim as death just watching you as you go past. 44:10.272 --> 44:14.877 [Riv (DM)]: Around the corner there's a young woman with a couple of children. 44:14.857 --> 44:21.022 [Riv (DM)]: She's just sort of like ushering the children back inside as you're heading past and she looks over her shoulder as she steps back inside as well. 44:22.063 --> 44:24.785 [Riv (DM)]: But, you know, not too many. 44:25.086 --> 44:26.947 [Riv (DM)]: Not actually that many that you would expect. 44:27.748 --> 44:33.973 [Riv (DM)]: In terms of Imperial presence, also strangely not that many. 44:34.554 --> 44:41.480 [Riv (DM)]: You would expect based on the number of tents there to be thousands of soldiers here, but yeah. 44:41.760 --> 44:44.222 [Riv (DM)]: So far you've probably seen maybe a hundred. 44:47.999 --> 44:49.525 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm, that's strange. 44:50.831 --> 44:54.887 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just, yeah, I just say, not many people around here. 44:57.702 --> 44:59.184 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's gotten quiet recently. 45:00.445 --> 45:01.426 [Riv (DM)]: Shouldn't be for much longer though. 45:02.227 --> 45:05.170 [Riv (DM)]: Hopefully we'll be able to all get back to normal pretty soon. 45:05.230 --> 45:08.754 [Riv (DM)]: She glances up at the sky and carries wandering along. 45:10.155 --> 45:10.455 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 45:11.757 --> 45:18.264 [Lacer (Kai)]: If this weather stays up it's gonna be pretty, pretty bad for hunting creatures and stuff in this weather. 45:19.445 --> 45:19.865 [Riv (DM)]: I agree. 45:20.386 --> 45:20.726 [Riv (DM)]: I agree. 45:23.449 --> 45:23.529 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 45:23.549 --> 45:25.751 [Riv (DM)]: Hate it when hunting is tough. 45:25.771 --> 45:26.452 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, we're nearly there. 45:26.552 --> 45:27.253 [Riv (DM)]: We're nearly there. 45:28.685 --> 45:43.985 [Riv (DM)]: She leads you now further along the road carrying on past the large building to another part of the town that appears more recent, more imperial. 45:44.205 --> 45:45.327 [Riv (DM)]: The tents are red once again. 45:46.268 --> 45:51.515 [Riv (DM)]: And as you step forward into this area, you can see there are actually more people here. 45:52.116 --> 45:53.798 [Riv (DM)]: There are more torches lit. 45:53.862 --> 46:00.849 [Riv (DM)]: And it's kind of more dirty as well, like it's a much more sort of walked area. 46:01.330 --> 46:09.117 [Riv (DM)]: And passing through, it's almost like there's a clear wall where the town stopped and this new set of tents began. 46:09.157 --> 46:23.532 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and so walking through, you can see there's like a bit of wooden fencing around it and a decent number of soldiers, you know. 46:24.389 --> 46:29.516 [Riv (DM)]: 10 soldiers at first and then you can see further along the road maybe another 10, another 20. 46:30.357 --> 46:34.843 [Riv (DM)]: And as you're going down this path you can see looking into the tents there are people. 46:35.524 --> 46:39.008 [Riv (DM)]: People inside the tents that are looking bad. 46:39.609 --> 46:42.393 [Riv (DM)]: They're looking pretty rough. 46:42.453 --> 46:49.502 [Riv (DM)]: You do see evidence of a few chains with a 21 and yeah. 46:51.220 --> 46:54.846 [Riv (DM)]: Some more grim looks passed in your direction as you go down. 46:55.827 --> 47:01.116 [Riv (DM)]: And it's not too long until you get to a tent that is large and empty. 47:01.496 --> 47:04.661 [Riv (DM)]: And she gestures inside and she says, here you go. 47:04.681 --> 47:06.224 [Riv (DM)]: Perfect lodgings, I think, for you guys. 47:06.685 --> 47:13.836 [Riv (DM)]: I bet you're tired after a long journey and from what sounds like some trouble hunting. 47:13.816 --> 47:14.798 [Riv (DM)]: Take a load off here. 47:15.259 --> 47:16.962 [Riv (DM)]: Let us take your belongings. 47:17.062 --> 47:17.763 [Riv (DM)]: We'll take them for you. 47:17.803 --> 47:18.605 [Riv (DM)]: No worries. 47:19.246 --> 47:20.107 [Riv (DM)]: We'll take care of that for you. 47:20.187 --> 47:22.732 [Riv (DM)]: We want everything to be all nice and as easy as possible. 47:23.353 --> 47:23.614 [Riv (DM)]: Please. 47:23.814 --> 47:29.745 [Riv (DM)]: And she holds out her hand for your bags and some of the other soldiers also step forward and put out their hands. 47:31.548 --> 47:33.211 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think so. 47:33.632 --> 47:38.220 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think we'll keep, we don't have much on us, so I think we'll keep them with us. 47:39.635 --> 47:43.619 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I'm sorry, friend, but I really, I really must insist. 47:43.639 --> 47:51.067 [Riv (DM)]: And her hand goes to a sword and draws it slightly and you just hear as like dozens and dozens of other swords are drawn around you. 47:56.673 --> 47:57.334 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 47:57.354 --> 48:01.979 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I guess my initial instincts are right. 48:02.139 --> 48:04.302 [Lacer (Kai)]: You guys aren't so friendly after all. 48:07.545 --> 48:08.166 [Riv (DM)]: She says nothing. 48:08.246 --> 48:09.287 [Riv (DM)]: She just smiles at you. 48:11.056 --> 48:13.499 [Lacer (Kai)]: I haven't even drawn a weapon yet. 48:15.001 --> 48:18.807 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's see, what can I do right now? 48:20.709 --> 48:28.300 [Riv (DM)]: As you were thinking, soldiers start to step forward and they start to grab your bags off you and they go for your weapons. 48:30.883 --> 48:32.185 [Riv (DM)]: What are any of you doing? 48:32.205 --> 48:34.649 [Riv (DM)]: Are you letting them do it or are you going to do something else? 48:35.530 --> 48:37.873 [Riv (DM)]: But there is momentary decision to be had here. 48:42.646 --> 48:49.114 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll staunch up a bit and just scare a soldier down. 48:51.177 --> 48:52.599 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is this what the Empire's come to? 48:55.703 --> 48:56.925 [Riv (DM)]: Say that to the dude in front of you? 48:58.306 --> 48:59.067 [Riv (DM)]: No, I say it to her. 48:59.688 --> 48:59.768 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 49:01.531 --> 49:04.835 [Riv (DM)]: She just, um, she looks past Kai at you as you say this. 49:06.617 --> 49:09.962 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Twenty years of service and I'm gonna get robbed by my own. 49:11.504 --> 49:12.585 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And I'm just gonna spit on the ground. 49:14.455 --> 49:15.476 [Riv (DM)]: 20 years of service? 49:15.857 --> 49:16.298 [Riv (DM)]: What do you mean? 49:20.183 --> 49:21.185 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What do you think I mean? 49:23.288 --> 49:23.809 [Riv (DM)]: Show yourself. 49:26.032 --> 49:26.572 [Riv (DM)]: Step forward. 49:30.158 --> 49:30.739 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Stand up. 49:30.759 --> 49:35.165 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll pull the mask back and the hood back a little bit so you can see the big scar up the side of my face. 49:37.308 --> 49:38.630 [Riv (DM)]: Boy, you are an old one, aren't you? 49:38.670 --> 49:42.876 [Riv (DM)]: Ugly and nasty to beat. 49:42.991 --> 49:46.734 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I'm sorry, friend, but I'm afraid I've got no idea who you are. 49:49.777 --> 49:50.738 [Riv (DM)]: But I will tell you this. 49:53.140 --> 49:54.081 [Riv (DM)]: It's a tough battle over there. 49:54.982 --> 50:00.587 [Riv (DM)]: We need all the recruits we can, and you guys have just joined her Imperial Majesty's army. 50:00.647 --> 50:01.568 [Riv (DM)]: So be pleased. 50:02.088 --> 50:03.109 [Riv (DM)]: You're part of the crew now. 50:03.510 --> 50:04.070 [Riv (DM)]: You're one of us. 50:06.933 --> 50:09.155 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, if you want us to fight, why are you taking our gear? 50:09.255 --> 50:10.416 [JC (Ryo)]: We need our gear to fight. 50:11.240 --> 50:12.962 [Riv (DM)]: It's just a minor precaution. 50:12.982 --> 50:15.326 [Riv (DM)]: We just need to check that you aren't carrying anything dangerous. 50:16.708 --> 50:20.913 [Riv (DM)]: It'll all be given back to you at some point and you'll be outfitted with Imperial weapons and armor. 50:25.620 --> 50:28.464 [Riv (DM)]: The soldiers are carrying on trying to take your stuff now at this point. 50:29.345 --> 50:34.352 [Riv (DM)]: But she does step forward to look at you and she says, You know... 50:38.177 --> 50:38.698 [Riv (DM)]: I um... 50:41.024 --> 50:46.372 [Riv (DM)]: I see in your eyes, there is some... something there, some experience there. 50:49.096 --> 50:51.920 [Riv (DM)]: I've got someone that might be interested to meet you, if what you say is true. 50:51.940 --> 50:54.243 [Riv (DM)]: 20 years in the army. 51:00.292 --> 51:01.614 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've been in service before. 51:02.415 --> 51:05.559 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I guess I could be again, if the pay's right and the conditions are good. 51:09.345 --> 51:09.445 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 51:10.623 --> 51:17.111 [Riv (DM)]: Well, why don't the rest of you just cozy up here inside this tent and I'll take our friend here to go and see the commander. 51:21.837 --> 51:26.703 [Riv (DM)]: Um, literally any of the rest of you, are you doing anything or are you letting yourself be stripped? 51:28.906 --> 51:29.667 [Unmatched Speaker]: I'm not letting him. 51:33.311 --> 51:35.294 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: How about we leave the gear with my crew for the moment? 51:37.476 --> 51:38.858 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We've got trim as solid for now. 51:48.305 --> 51:50.969 [Riv (DM)]: Um, okay. 51:50.989 --> 51:51.690 [Riv (DM)]: You saying this to her? 51:52.511 --> 51:52.691 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yep. 51:53.252 --> 51:53.573 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 51:53.593 --> 51:54.194 [Riv (DM)]: Persuasion check. 52:01.244 --> 52:10.438 [Riv (DM)]: By the way, I should say, just for a bit of a visual. 52:10.458 --> 52:11.539 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What was that? 52:11.920 --> 52:12.000 Oof. 52:16.013 --> 52:19.018 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Can I throw a commanding presence behind that to try and boost it? 52:20.220 --> 52:21.281 [Riv (DM)]: If you can, absolutely. 52:21.301 --> 52:21.742 [Riv (DM)]: Go for it. 52:32.780 --> 52:33.060 [Unmatched Speaker]: Oh, nice. 52:35.744 --> 52:36.185 [Unmatched Speaker]: Seventeen. 52:40.592 --> 52:40.952 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 52:42.114 --> 52:43.236 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Not like they're going anywhere. 52:47.924 --> 52:48.285 [Riv (DM)]: Fine. 52:48.826 --> 52:50.130 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, let's see what the commander says. 52:51.273 --> 52:53.779 [Riv (DM)]: But I will ask the rest of you to wait here. 52:53.819 --> 52:57.389 [Riv (DM)]: And... Don't try to escape, please. 52:58.752 --> 53:04.768 [Riv (DM)]: Rest of you, keep an eye on them, as she says to the few dozen now soldiers standing around. 53:08.427 --> 53:09.749 [Riv (DM)]: Are we in the tent right now? 53:10.770 --> 53:11.492 [Riv (DM)]: Standing outside. 53:12.012 --> 53:16.519 [Riv (DM)]: Up to you if you wanted to go in or not. 53:16.539 --> 53:18.662 [Lacer (Kai)]: But we've got our stuff, right? 53:19.203 --> 53:22.268 [Riv (DM)]: They haven't currently stripped you after a bit of fast talking. 53:23.289 --> 53:25.853 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you're not going anywhere fast without a fight at this point. 53:27.375 --> 53:28.357 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 53:28.637 --> 53:36.068 [Lacer (Kai)]: Since we're going to be here for a while, how about we just stay in the tent and you guys guard the tent. 53:36.108 --> 53:37.270 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're not going anywhere. 53:42.717 --> 53:43.057 [Riv (DM)]: Of course. 53:45.620 --> 53:45.800 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 53:45.820 --> 53:46.601 [Riv (DM)]: Take it easy. 53:47.142 --> 53:47.923 [Riv (DM)]: We'll see what we can do. 53:47.963 --> 53:49.724 [Riv (DM)]: Follow me please. 53:50.605 --> 53:51.346 [Riv (DM)]: She starts wandering off. 53:54.169 --> 53:54.630 [Riv (DM)]: Follow along. 53:54.810 --> 53:55.771 [Riv (DM)]: Back the way you came. 53:56.572 --> 53:57.273 [Riv (DM)]: Back along the road. 53:58.053 --> 54:09.906 [Riv (DM)]: Now, after seeing this and looking closer, yeah, you can see there are able-bodied people, some of them in chains, some of them sort of, you know, just lying inside these tents. 54:11.860 --> 54:14.003 [Riv (DM)]: It's, yeah, dozens and dozens of them. 54:18.350 --> 54:23.438 [Riv (DM)]: Passing back through, I guess before we... As I'm walking with her. 54:23.938 --> 54:24.399 [Riv (DM)]: Say again, sorry? 54:25.120 --> 54:25.881 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As I'm walking with her. 54:26.843 --> 54:27.284 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah? 54:27.304 --> 54:31.310 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Things must be pretty grim up there if you're conscripting civilians for the fight. 54:32.672 --> 54:32.892 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 54:33.493 --> 54:35.516 [Riv (DM)]: Let's just say things haven't been going exactly how we wanted. 54:35.556 --> 54:38.020 [Riv (DM)]: This was supposed to be a quick campaign. 54:39.130 --> 54:40.231 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The ice or the city? 54:40.972 --> 54:41.834 [Riv (DM)]: They're both, to be honest. 54:44.918 --> 54:46.520 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You really think this lot's gonna be any good? 54:46.760 --> 54:51.346 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And there's a nod to some of the civvies in chains that obviously had the shit beaten out of them. 54:52.828 --> 54:56.734 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, not so much beaten, but yeah, they're definitely chained up. 54:56.754 --> 55:04.364 [Riv (DM)]: She says, um... Well, you know, the more bodies the better for the sort of fighting that's going on over there. 55:07.368 --> 55:08.850 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, Valtorra only gets you so far. 55:10.484 --> 55:11.565 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And it gets you to the wall. 55:12.786 --> 55:14.848 [Riv (DM)]: That's right, but it's better than nothing. 55:16.549 --> 55:16.829 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Anyway. 55:22.174 --> 55:23.495 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, maybe we can work on that. 55:23.515 --> 55:27.759 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've got a solid crew here, so. 55:27.779 --> 55:27.919 Yeah. 55:30.161 --> 55:30.701 [Riv (DM)]: A little chuckle. 55:31.963 --> 55:39.529 [Riv (DM)]: It's quite a lot of bravado to say while being imprisoned to be like, 55:40.471 --> 55:42.032 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, we're the ones. 55:42.293 --> 55:42.993 [Riv (DM)]: We're the ones, bro. 55:44.435 --> 55:45.876 [Riv (DM)]: We're going to sort you out. 55:47.397 --> 55:51.521 [Riv (DM)]: But anyway, in good humor, she carries on along. 55:52.242 --> 55:59.108 [Riv (DM)]: Just before we get to the central building, the rest of the party will just go back to you quickly. 55:59.709 --> 56:03.753 [Riv (DM)]: Are you essentially just going to go and sit and wait or is there anything you wanted to do in the meantime? 56:06.295 --> 56:09.718 [Lacer (Kai)]: I want to know how big the tent is that we're going to sit inside. 56:11.183 --> 56:13.926 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, it's big enough to fit you all relatively comfortably. 56:14.666 --> 56:18.890 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say probably 10 feet by 10 feet, something like that. 56:18.910 --> 56:21.233 [Lacer (Kai)]: So it's bigger than my tiny hut? 56:22.734 --> 56:25.036 [Riv (DM)]: I think it's a similar sort of size, right? 56:25.957 --> 56:27.018 [Riv (DM)]: I think that's the size of your hut. 56:27.038 --> 56:29.901 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, can I ask, am I able to cast it? 56:30.241 --> 56:37.208 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, no, I'm not going to do it now, but if I were to cast the tiny hut, would it encompass the whole tent or would it be inside the tent? 56:38.032 --> 56:40.435 [Riv (DM)]: Let's read the spell. 56:41.216 --> 56:41.897 [Riv (DM)]: Do you have it handy? 56:41.917 --> 56:42.758 [Riv (DM)]: Can you chuck it in the chat? 56:42.839 --> 56:45.302 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just, I can't remember if it was a radius or a diameter. 56:46.824 --> 56:47.205 [Riv (DM)]: Hold up. 56:47.485 --> 56:47.906 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I'll pull it. 56:47.926 --> 56:48.727 [Riv (DM)]: I can check your guy. 56:55.636 --> 56:57.379 [Riv (DM)]: Gosh, you've got so many fucking spells, dude. 56:59.221 --> 57:00.543 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, man. 57:00.583 --> 57:01.584 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's a 10 foot radius. 57:01.604 --> 57:03.727 [Riv (DM)]: 10 foot radius is quite big, actually. 57:04.328 --> 57:04.809 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I know. 57:04.829 --> 57:05.349 [Riv (DM)]: That's why. 57:05.830 --> 57:07.212 [Riv (DM)]: It would probably poke out the side of the tent. 57:09.402 --> 57:10.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: Good to know. 57:11.545 --> 57:19.957 [Lacer (Kai)]: So just like cover the tent and then some of it would poke out and it would just look like a funny dome tent, right? 57:19.977 --> 57:23.162 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I don't think the tent can pass through it. 57:23.583 --> 57:26.948 [Riv (DM)]: So the tent would probably just get collapsed and slide off. 57:33.096 --> 57:34.178 [Riv (DM)]: I'm pretty sure, yeah. 57:35.795 --> 57:37.599 [Riv (DM)]: Because it blocks water from coming in as well. 57:37.840 --> 57:39.925 [Riv (DM)]: It's pretty solid, yeah. 57:44.556 --> 57:45.118 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's okay. 57:47.523 --> 57:47.624 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 57:47.644 --> 57:47.784 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 57:47.804 --> 57:48.486 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll think about it. 57:49.147 --> 57:53.618 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we'll chill inside the tent and have a short rest. 57:55.505 --> 57:56.507 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 57:57.909 --> 58:08.284 [Riv (DM)]: The captain carries on leading you back to the house and you now get to the exterior of it, up the stone steps and she holds the door open for you and allows you to pass through. 58:08.324 --> 58:11.209 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Step in. 58:12.250 --> 58:15.435 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The cloak that we saw as we were coming in, was he older, younger? 58:16.677 --> 58:19.121 [Riv (DM)]: Difficult to tell from where you were in this darkness. 58:20.142 --> 58:20.803 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough. 58:22.960 --> 58:26.227 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so inside now, this is dimly lit. 58:26.628 --> 58:28.753 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of cozy and warm feeling. 58:28.773 --> 58:31.439 [Riv (DM)]: There's a fireplace that's quite large, set on one of the walls. 58:32.100 --> 58:36.109 [Riv (DM)]: And you can see sort of 58:36.173 --> 58:39.437 [Riv (DM)]: Scattered around on the walls inside here in this main entrance area. 58:41.018 --> 58:47.165 [Riv (DM)]: There are like etchings and there are a few pictures and paintings of people. 58:47.866 --> 59:00.780 [Riv (DM)]: There are a few, you'd have to go up in close to have a look, but there are a few sort of like notes that have almost been framed and placed up against some of these pictures with just lines of text written underneath them. 59:00.760 --> 59:27.308 [Riv (DM)]: There are some banners now that have been hung clearly recently as they are imperial and there is a large desk set some somewhat awkwardly in the center of a room that used to look like probably what you'd expect to be some sort of living area you know like a a place where people would would relax normally and have drinks and stuff like that um now it looks like it's been repurposed for a um 59:27.288 --> 59:29.831 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know, somewhat of a command presence. 59:30.591 --> 59:40.081 [Riv (DM)]: There are a few stairs that go up on either side of the room to the second story that you don't see as it goes into the doors up onto the, yep, into the other rooms up there. 59:41.142 --> 59:54.435 [Riv (DM)]: But walking in, you can see this same man you saw from before is sort of hunched over the desk and as you step through, he looks up and just kind of takes you in and glances quickly to the woman. 59:54.475 --> 59:55.236 [Riv (DM)]: She says, 59:56.600 --> 59:56.980 [Riv (DM)]: Catherine? 59:57.761 --> 59:58.442 [Riv (DM)]: What's the meaning of this? 59:58.722 --> 59:59.262 [Riv (DM)]: Who is this man? 59:59.322 --> 01:00:06.809 [Riv (DM)]: And she responds, I don't rightly know, Commander. 01:00:06.849 --> 01:00:21.062 [Riv (DM)]: There's a look about him, you know, like someone who's been around the block and he seems to suggest that he's someone of import to the army. 01:00:21.963 --> 01:00:23.204 [Riv (DM)]: I thought you might be interested to meet him. 01:00:25.126 --> 01:00:26.607 [Riv (DM)]: He glances at you and 01:00:27.667 --> 01:00:28.909 [Riv (DM)]: Stands up, takes a closer look. 01:00:30.611 --> 01:00:31.773 [Riv (DM)]: And his eyes slightly widen. 01:00:33.495 --> 01:00:37.781 [Riv (DM)]: And then he just looks down at the desk, shakes his head a little bit, and you hear a little chuckle coming from him. 01:00:41.286 --> 01:00:42.247 [Riv (DM)]: By the gods. 01:00:43.128 --> 01:00:44.190 [Riv (DM)]: Now, isn't that interesting? 01:00:46.953 --> 01:00:47.835 [Riv (DM)]: Step forward, Corvus. 01:00:48.115 --> 01:00:48.876 [Riv (DM)]: Let's have a little chat. 01:00:52.982 --> 01:00:55.345 [Riv (DM)]: And he gestures to one of the seats that's in front of the desk. 01:00:58.261 --> 01:01:03.188 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll pull up a seat and crack my neck and roll my shoulders. 01:01:05.271 --> 01:01:10.098 [Riv (DM)]: He sits down and Catherine, the woman, comes along and just stands behind him. 01:01:12.341 --> 01:01:17.489 [Riv (DM)]: Leans forward and just says, What on earth are you doing here? 01:01:19.131 --> 01:01:27.323 [Riv (DM)]: You've been missing for months. 01:01:27.809 --> 01:01:29.031 [Riv (DM)]: Trying to get back, honestly. 01:01:30.954 --> 01:01:31.395 [Riv (DM)]: Is that so? 01:01:34.199 --> 01:01:35.241 [Riv (DM)]: Back to Val Noren, you mean? 01:01:37.124 --> 01:01:37.284 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 01:01:39.207 --> 01:01:46.559 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Seems I took a little mandated leave as per orders and everything turns to shit while I'm away. 01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:50.685 [Riv (DM)]: You could say that. 01:01:51.927 --> 01:01:53.229 [Riv (DM)]: It is awkward timing, to be fair. 01:01:53.370 --> 01:01:55.453 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe we shouldn't have sent you away. 01:01:57.425 --> 01:01:58.326 [Riv (DM)]: Well, were you successful? 01:02:02.092 --> 01:02:02.633 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hard to say. 01:02:05.297 --> 01:02:05.818 [Riv (DM)]: Hard to say? 01:02:06.820 --> 01:02:08.222 [Riv (DM)]: Did you or did you not make it to the woods? 01:02:10.385 --> 01:02:11.567 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Definitely made it to the woods. 01:02:14.852 --> 01:02:16.956 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's a pretty nasty place. 01:02:17.076 --> 01:02:19.880 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think we need to send a bit more people in there one time. 01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:21.843 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Maybe burn the whole bloody thing to the ground. 01:02:23.967 --> 01:02:24.748 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And what of the others? 01:02:27.108 --> 01:02:28.049 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I see that you are alone. 01:02:30.152 --> 01:02:32.436 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, I had to find a new crew to work my way back. 01:02:33.177 --> 01:02:36.782 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The others were, let's just say, less than fortunate. 01:02:39.927 --> 01:02:40.688 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That is grim news. 01:02:43.372 --> 01:02:45.315 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like I said, burn it to the ground. 01:02:49.581 --> 01:02:50.081 [Riv (DM)]: Interesting. 01:02:51.143 --> 01:02:55.950 [Riv (DM)]: What possibly could have ended the lives of four of the top hands of the Empire? 01:02:57.770 --> 01:02:58.431 [Riv (DM)]: Please, tell me more. 01:03:01.414 --> 01:03:02.435 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Honestly, I wish I could. 01:03:02.455 --> 01:03:07.580 [Riv (DM)]: He just leans forward at this point and looks you much more closely in the eye. 01:03:09.803 --> 01:03:11.084 [Riv (DM)]: He leans back and just chuckles again. 01:03:13.427 --> 01:03:15.048 [Riv (DM)]: Gosh, so it is true. 01:03:15.068 --> 01:03:16.590 [Riv (DM)]: You don't remember anything, do you? 01:03:24.058 --> 01:03:24.759 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Things are foggy. 01:03:25.780 --> 01:03:26.781 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Things are coming back. 01:03:29.410 --> 01:03:30.932 [Riv (DM)]: It's fascinating to see this with my own eyes. 01:03:32.674 --> 01:03:33.915 [Riv (DM)]: Obviously heard stories. 01:03:39.702 --> 01:03:39.783 Hmm. 01:03:39.803 --> 01:03:45.229 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think anyone's figured out what actually causes it yet, but... God, I'm very curious about those woods now. 01:03:45.269 --> 01:03:46.150 [Riv (DM)]: What happened down there? 01:03:48.854 --> 01:03:49.094 [Riv (DM)]: Well... 01:03:49.955 --> 01:03:51.036 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Welcome to go and take a look. 01:03:52.578 --> 01:03:52.999 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 01:03:53.719 --> 01:03:54.220 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 01:03:56.984 --> 01:04:00.189 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sure you probably are aware that you're a very heavily wanted man right now. 01:04:04.836 --> 01:04:05.537 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I am what I am. 01:04:06.599 --> 01:04:07.881 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Give me something to fight and I fight. 01:04:10.345 --> 01:04:13.790 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Unfortunately, the wrong people chose to get in my way. 01:04:17.055 --> 01:04:20.481 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't remember a lot back then, but I'm sure that's what it is and what it always has been. 01:04:24.287 --> 01:04:24.527 [Riv (DM)]: Well, 01:04:25.992 --> 01:04:28.175 [Riv (DM)]: I guess this is fortuitous for me. 01:04:28.195 --> 01:04:43.797 [Riv (DM)]: Our dear friend, our glorious leader, General Gerard himself is leading the assault on Val Noren and I'm sure that he is very keen to catch up with you. 01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:46.481 [Riv (DM)]: So maybe I'll send you as a present. 01:04:49.465 --> 01:04:53.451 [Riv (DM)]: You understand that I can't just let you go though, right? 01:04:57.734 --> 01:05:00.117 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I definitely understand it would complicate it for everyone. 01:05:02.981 --> 01:05:10.892 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That said, if you think I'm the sort to roll over and wander up to the Wall in chains, you know me less than I know myself. 01:05:12.554 --> 01:05:16.440 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, I'm sure the General would be very grumpy if we did that. 01:05:16.460 --> 01:05:19.464 [Riv (DM)]: I think he's got all manner of things to chat to you about. 01:05:19.504 --> 01:05:26.914 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, what fascinating times, eh? 01:05:28.750 --> 01:05:32.499 [Riv (DM)]: I really, really hope I get to speak to you again once your memories return. 01:05:33.607 --> 01:05:34.373 [Riv (DM)]: But in the meantime... 01:05:36.952 --> 01:05:43.662 [Riv (DM)]: I'm afraid we're going to have to hold you until the next crossing, which should be in about a week or so. 01:05:45.065 --> 01:05:58.926 [Riv (DM)]: Unfortunately, a few of the Frostwardens haven't returned from the previous crossings and so we're just, we're just waiting to receive the reinforcements and then we will do hopefully the last crossing. 01:06:01.117 --> 01:06:03.620 [Riv (DM)]: Over to Val Noren, take the city, and this will all be done for. 01:06:03.881 --> 01:06:08.367 [Riv (DM)]: And so, assuming it's not too inconvenient for you, I hope that waiting for a week is okay. 01:06:09.308 --> 01:06:10.490 [Riv (DM)]: And you can go over with the rest of them. 01:06:13.554 --> 01:06:20.223 [Riv (DM)]: For a group this large, I expect we'll need... a few of the Frostwardens, actually, to guide the way. 01:06:23.067 --> 01:06:24.229 [Riv (DM)]: You don't know what I'm talking about, do you? 01:06:25.110 --> 01:06:26.292 [Riv (DM)]: You really don't remember anything. 01:06:28.855 --> 01:06:30.938 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Mmm... bits and pieces. 01:06:33.095 --> 01:06:34.638 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Not a stupid man, I can infer. 01:06:34.658 --> 01:06:42.574 [Riv (DM)]: Do you wanna roll a, um, roll like a god to your history check just to see if anything sort of triggers your memory? 01:06:44.919 --> 01:06:45.780 [Unmatched Speaker]: Let's go! 01:06:45.860 --> 01:06:50.209 [Unmatched Speaker]: Eh. 01:06:53.328 --> 01:06:56.211 [Riv (DM)]: The term Frostwarden seems to resonate with you. 01:06:56.251 --> 01:07:04.600 [Riv (DM)]: You probably surmise that the crossing can be treacherous and Frostwardens are maybe people that specialise in leading people. 01:07:07.884 --> 01:07:09.506 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You said you're losing people out there in the ice? 01:07:10.146 --> 01:07:11.428 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Specialists? 01:07:11.448 --> 01:07:12.008 [Riv (DM)]: We've lost some. 01:07:13.029 --> 01:07:19.116 [Riv (DM)]: It's difficult to guide a thousand or so people at once but 01:07:21.982 --> 01:07:22.703 [Riv (DM)]: We've been making do. 01:07:23.824 --> 01:07:26.426 [Riv (DM)]: And like I said, the next crossing should hopefully be the last. 01:07:26.806 --> 01:07:30.189 [Riv (DM)]: So we've been holding a number of the Frostwardens in reserve for that. 01:07:31.030 --> 01:07:33.952 [Riv (DM)]: But I was counting on a few more of the groups returning, which they haven't. 01:07:34.873 --> 01:07:37.215 [Riv (DM)]: Which is mildly frustrating, but I'm sure we'll make do. 01:07:40.038 --> 01:07:40.958 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, it's late. 01:07:41.199 --> 01:07:41.859 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sure you're tired. 01:07:44.982 --> 01:07:51.027 [Riv (DM)]: Catherine, please show our dear friend Corvas here back to the Press Yards and 01:07:52.458 --> 01:07:53.720 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:07:53.740 --> 01:07:54.841 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe I'll chat to you some other night. 01:07:55.302 --> 01:08:01.169 [Riv (DM)]: I'm very curious to try and pick your brain to see if I can trigger anything, but for now, go and sleep. 01:08:03.653 --> 01:08:06.917 [Riv (DM)]: Catherine comes around and gestures for you to stand and starts to lead you out. 01:08:10.201 --> 01:08:17.711 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: On the way out, I said, I know it's a long shot, but I'd rather get across that ice sooner rather than later. 01:08:19.353 --> 01:08:20.575 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I do have a reliable crew. 01:08:21.297 --> 01:08:22.819 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm good at doing jobs that are in front of them. 01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:26.864 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Maybe not the brightest, but none of them ever are. 01:08:28.707 --> 01:08:30.829 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Definitely find a few of those lost people out there if you needed. 01:08:33.272 --> 01:08:34.053 [Riv (DM)]: Cox's head slightly. 01:08:35.515 --> 01:08:37.678 [Riv (DM)]: You're offering to just go? 01:08:38.759 --> 01:08:43.385 [Riv (DM)]: To walk directly into the hands of General Blackmarsh alone? 01:08:45.228 --> 01:08:45.568 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Freely? 01:08:45.588 --> 01:08:47.871 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I just give him a smile. 01:08:49.533 --> 01:08:50.815 [Riv (DM)]: You've got balls, mate. 01:08:53.174 --> 01:08:53.915 [Riv (DM)]: Well, let me ask you this. 01:08:53.955 --> 01:08:55.356 [Riv (DM)]: How can I trust that you won't just flee? 01:08:59.220 --> 01:08:59.761 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Flee where? 01:09:02.824 --> 01:09:16.758 [Riv (DM)]: Well, maybe you slip the chains as you're doing the crossing and you end up aiding the rebels and Val Noren itself instead of going to the general. 01:09:20.021 --> 01:09:21.763 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I was looking straight in the eye and said, 01:09:23.009 --> 01:09:24.851 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They would know me as well as you do. 01:09:24.892 --> 01:09:30.058 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You'd think for a second they would accept my aid. 01:09:33.142 --> 01:09:33.423 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:09:33.523 --> 01:09:34.765 [Riv (DM)]: Roll something for me. 01:09:34.785 --> 01:09:36.106 [Riv (DM)]: Roll... What do you reckon? 01:09:36.126 --> 01:09:37.488 [Riv (DM)]: This is sort of persuasion-y, right? 01:09:37.548 --> 01:09:38.830 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably not intimidation. 01:09:39.952 --> 01:09:40.372 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:09:40.392 --> 01:09:40.913 [Riv (DM)]: What do you reckon? 01:09:41.113 --> 01:09:41.754 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm not trying to intimidate. 01:09:41.774 --> 01:09:42.655 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just speaking the truth. 01:09:42.675 --> 01:09:42.795 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 01:09:43.276 --> 01:09:43.616 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:09:43.636 --> 01:09:44.798 [Riv (DM)]: Let's do a persuasion check. 01:09:46.651 --> 01:09:50.543 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And I'll throw a Committing Presence behind it, because I am a very Committing Presence person. 01:09:50.563 --> 01:09:50.925 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh yeah. 01:09:51.125 --> 01:09:54.155 [Riv (DM)]: This has been quite a back and forth conversation. 01:09:56.442 --> 01:09:56.522 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh. 01:09:56.543 --> 01:09:58.649 [Riv (DM)]: Boy, I don't know why I always let you... 01:09:58.669 --> 01:09:59.612 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Roll so bad. 01:09:59.652 --> 01:10:00.475 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 01:10:01.788 --> 01:10:02.669 [Riv (DM)]: Still pretty good though. 01:10:02.749 --> 01:10:08.197 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know why I always let you get into these positions where you can just talk your way out of shit. 01:10:08.217 --> 01:10:10.800 [Riv (DM)]: I'm the only talky person in the group. 01:10:10.820 --> 01:10:12.703 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm the fucking flyer with a charisma score. 01:10:15.086 --> 01:10:15.447 [Riv (DM)]: Amazing. 01:10:16.488 --> 01:10:21.515 [Riv (DM)]: He looks genuinely curious about your proposition to be fair. 01:10:22.196 --> 01:10:25.120 [Riv (DM)]: He just leans back in his chair and kind of looks up at the ceiling. 01:10:28.705 --> 01:10:30.107 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe there is something to what you say. 01:10:32.973 --> 01:10:34.054 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:10:34.074 --> 01:10:34.575 [Riv (DM)]: Waiting a week. 01:10:35.176 --> 01:10:36.418 [Riv (DM)]: Who knows what you get up to in that time. 01:10:36.458 --> 01:10:39.822 [Riv (DM)]: And... Gosh. 01:10:41.985 --> 01:10:44.428 [Riv (DM)]: Do you reckon you could face the ice yourself? 01:10:45.290 --> 01:10:47.312 [Riv (DM)]: Or would you want to take a frost warden with you? 01:10:50.797 --> 01:10:52.259 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've got a fairly competent crew. 01:10:52.619 --> 01:10:53.781 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Can you afford to spare one? 01:10:54.322 --> 01:10:54.923 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's the question. 01:10:54.963 --> 01:10:58.668 [Riv (DM)]: That is a tough one. 01:10:58.908 --> 01:10:59.669 [Riv (DM)]: Let me ponder this. 01:10:59.929 --> 01:11:01.191 [Riv (DM)]: Let me ponder this for the evening. 01:11:03.128 --> 01:11:05.631 [Riv (DM)]: I'll chat to some of the other Frostholds, see what they think. 01:11:07.773 --> 01:11:08.334 [Riv (DM)]: I'll get back to you. 01:11:11.977 --> 01:11:12.398 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fair enough. 01:11:13.439 --> 01:11:14.840 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I could use a good night's sleep anyway. 01:11:16.362 --> 01:11:16.682 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Excellent. 01:11:16.923 --> 01:11:17.203 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:11:17.283 --> 01:11:19.085 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I expect we'll speak soon. 01:11:20.246 --> 01:11:20.566 [Riv (DM)]: Catherine? 01:11:21.908 --> 01:11:22.268 [Riv (DM)]: She nods. 01:11:24.010 --> 01:11:24.851 [Riv (DM)]: And opens the door. 01:11:27.033 --> 01:11:27.554 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll step out. 01:11:29.396 --> 01:11:30.537 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: No hood, no mask. 01:11:31.715 --> 01:11:33.559 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Anyone who can see me, just see me. 01:11:35.563 --> 01:11:35.723 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:11:35.743 --> 01:11:36.605 [Riv (DM)]: The wind blasts you. 01:11:36.866 --> 01:11:37.928 [Riv (DM)]: Now it's starting to howl. 01:11:38.730 --> 01:11:40.513 [Riv (DM)]: Almost cut at your skin, it's so cold. 01:11:41.375 --> 01:11:43.339 [Riv (DM)]: But you can start heading back towards your companions. 01:11:44.702 --> 01:11:46.125 [Riv (DM)]: The rest of you guys, what have you been up to? 01:11:46.145 --> 01:11:47.007 [Riv (DM)]: You've just been chilling? 01:11:49.163 --> 01:11:51.745 [Riv (DM)]: You are surrounded by many soldiers just watching you. 01:11:52.346 --> 01:11:53.547 [Riv (DM)]: Making sure you're not up to anything. 01:11:53.567 --> 01:11:54.748 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can't really do anything. 01:11:54.828 --> 01:11:56.930 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can't even do potion crafting, you know? 01:11:57.310 --> 01:11:58.932 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like... Oh yeah. 01:11:59.052 --> 01:12:07.800 [Riv (DM)]: Anytime you go to do anything with your bags, they immediately step forward and be like, no, put that down. 01:12:07.820 --> 01:12:10.722 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm going to be pondering that message. 01:12:12.724 --> 01:12:13.565 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay. 01:12:13.585 --> 01:12:14.586 [Riv (DM)]: What exactly are you pondering? 01:12:15.466 --> 01:12:17.348 [Riv (DM)]: And sorry, by message, which message do you mean? 01:12:18.070 --> 01:12:20.694 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The magical item that did not want to be read. 01:12:20.714 --> 01:12:23.517 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm pondering a way to read it. 01:12:24.759 --> 01:12:24.979 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:12:25.700 --> 01:12:27.283 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want to roll an arcana check for me? 01:12:30.687 --> 01:12:30.888 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Sure. 01:12:34.553 --> 01:12:36.315 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Up the cog every time. 01:12:42.607 --> 01:12:46.012 [Riv (DM)]: Not bad. 01:12:46.032 --> 01:12:46.472 [Riv (DM)]: Not bad. 01:12:47.373 --> 01:12:47.774 [Riv (DM)]: Not great. 01:12:47.834 --> 01:12:55.104 [Riv (DM)]: You're sort of scratching your mind trying to think of something that might remind you of what this could be. 01:12:57.127 --> 01:13:06.339 [Riv (DM)]: You maybe heard of some magical items like this where messages could actually be sent back and forth very rapidly between two different locations. 01:13:06.940 --> 01:13:08.742 [Riv (DM)]: It just requires a trigger of some kind. 01:13:08.782 --> 01:13:12.327 [Riv (DM)]: You need to put something into it, onto it. 01:13:12.307 --> 01:13:16.832 [Riv (DM)]: You need to do something with it and it will just like that click and trigger the effect. 01:13:17.833 --> 01:13:20.055 [Riv (DM)]: But with the sixth thing, you're not quite sure what that might be just yet. 01:13:26.742 --> 01:13:28.344 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Then I will continue to ponder. 01:13:28.725 --> 01:13:28.885 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:13:30.687 --> 01:13:30.907 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:13:30.987 --> 01:13:34.631 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: While making eyes at everyone else to let me burn the place down. 01:13:38.735 --> 01:13:40.457 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:13:43.188 --> 01:13:49.714 [Riv (DM)]: You get led back and rejoin with the rest of the party. 01:13:50.755 --> 01:14:00.743 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, Catherine says to the rest of them, Alright lads, we've spoken with the commander. 01:14:02.325 --> 01:14:07.469 [Riv (DM)]: I think we can, by the sounds of things, give these guys a little bit more lenience than the rest. 01:14:08.810 --> 01:14:12.013 [Riv (DM)]: Don't go too far, keep an eye on them, but I don't think we need to strip them. 01:14:13.613 --> 01:14:15.115 [Riv (DM)]: You all aren't going to escape, I assume? 01:14:16.697 --> 01:14:24.485 [Riv (DM)]: Alternatively, if you agree, we could save us a bit of human watching. 01:14:25.487 --> 01:14:26.388 [Riv (DM)]: Just slip onto these chains. 01:14:27.269 --> 01:14:30.252 [Riv (DM)]: And she just grabs a few chains that nearby, gives them a little clink. 01:14:30.953 --> 01:14:33.376 [Riv (DM)]: Slip these on and we'll all go about our way. 01:14:33.476 --> 01:14:41.545 [Riv (DM)]: You get a nice rest and you don't need us watching you all night. 01:14:42.824 --> 01:14:43.825 [Riv (DM)]: What's her rank? 01:14:44.106 --> 01:14:44.787 [Riv (DM)]: Does she have a rank? 01:14:46.189 --> 01:14:57.445 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she's obviously not superior than the guy you just spoke to, but she's a captain, like higher up than the, you know, most of the soldiers nearby, or all of. 01:15:00.769 --> 01:15:02.071 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's enough, captain. 01:15:03.854 --> 01:15:05.376 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Wait for the orders from the commander tomorrow. 01:15:05.736 --> 01:15:07.058 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: This crew will sit tight for the moment. 01:15:09.081 --> 01:15:09.442 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:15:10.703 --> 01:15:11.785 [Riv (DM)]: She steps forward. 01:15:13.368 --> 01:15:15.391 [Riv (DM)]: You trying to intimidate me, soldier? 01:15:19.557 --> 01:15:20.699 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: No intimidation here. 01:15:22.882 --> 01:15:24.063 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just... 01:15:24.083 --> 01:15:24.744 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I am a soldier. 01:15:24.784 --> 01:15:25.906 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What is my... 01:15:25.926 --> 01:15:26.947 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There's a soldier trait. 01:15:27.328 --> 01:15:27.608 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A feat. 01:15:27.869 --> 01:15:28.470 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Whatever it is. 01:15:28.490 --> 01:15:29.271 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A start trait. 01:15:29.731 --> 01:15:33.958 [Riv (DM)]: Is there a way to see the traits on...? 01:15:33.978 --> 01:15:35.299 [Riv (DM)]: It'll be under features. 01:15:39.586 --> 01:15:41.248 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Say you... hmm. 01:15:42.325 --> 01:15:43.126 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is that the background? 01:15:43.466 --> 01:15:44.287 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The soldier background? 01:15:48.212 --> 01:15:49.033 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It doesn't show backgrounds. 01:15:54.180 --> 01:15:55.842 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I know a soldier can, like, pull rank. 01:15:56.503 --> 01:15:56.883 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:15:58.025 --> 01:15:59.346 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, you definitely outrank her. 01:15:59.667 --> 01:16:00.367 [Riv (DM)]: And you know that. 01:16:00.448 --> 01:16:02.290 [Riv (DM)]: You've been called General Corvus before. 01:16:03.031 --> 01:16:04.873 [Riv (DM)]: And you don't know... You Zerp? 01:16:05.090 --> 01:16:09.214 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you don't know exactly what or why you are called that. 01:16:10.916 --> 01:16:18.303 [Riv (DM)]: But you, like, just with your inherent knowledge that you have just sort of baked into your mind, you know you definitely outrank her. 01:16:18.584 --> 01:16:23.409 [Riv (DM)]: And the conversation that you just had with the commander, he was much more on a level with you than he was to her. 01:16:23.469 --> 01:16:26.832 [Riv (DM)]: He was sort of telling her to do things, whereas he was having more of a conversation with you. 01:16:27.112 --> 01:16:31.277 [Riv (DM)]: Despite the fact that you clearly are, I don't know, you're wanted for something. 01:16:31.677 --> 01:16:33.679 [Riv (DM)]: They don't necessarily trust you. 01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:34.680 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Here we go. 01:16:34.860 --> 01:16:35.741 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Military rank. 01:16:36.422 --> 01:16:41.829 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Posted in chat. 01:16:41.849 --> 01:16:45.133 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm not intimidating, I'm just invoking my military rank. 01:16:47.556 --> 01:16:49.398 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: With the awareness that I am slightly on the Alps. 01:16:49.959 --> 01:16:54.365 [Riv (DM)]: You can invoke your rank to exert influence over the soldiers. 01:16:56.848 --> 01:16:57.068 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:16:58.600 --> 01:17:03.046 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, given that, I feel like that is kind of an intimidation thing. 01:17:05.269 --> 01:17:07.212 [Riv (DM)]: Would you like to roll an intimidation on that? 01:17:08.694 --> 01:17:13.501 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think you can just tell her to bugger off, but we can definitely roll for it. 01:17:13.521 --> 01:17:13.802 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll D8. 01:17:21.533 --> 01:17:23.315 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll throw a D8 behind that as well if you really want. 01:17:23.856 --> 01:17:24.236 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's up to you. 01:17:25.618 --> 01:17:26.059 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Why not? 01:17:26.917 --> 01:17:28.279 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna have a rest anyway. 01:17:28.559 --> 01:17:35.890 [Riv (DM)]: She, um, you know, stands up to you, stands close, looks you in the eye. 01:17:35.910 --> 01:17:41.278 [Riv (DM)]: And she, her head bows slightly. 01:17:42.019 --> 01:17:43.622 [Riv (DM)]: She just says, fine. 01:17:45.224 --> 01:17:45.985 [Riv (DM)]: Fine, have your way then. 01:17:47.347 --> 01:17:49.691 [Riv (DM)]: It'll be your head on the chopping block if you do try to flee. 01:17:50.592 --> 01:17:51.253 [Riv (DM)]: All right, lads. 01:17:52.432 --> 01:17:53.535 [Riv (DM)]: We've got some other work to do. 01:17:54.457 --> 01:17:55.419 [Riv (DM)]: Back to your patrols, please. 01:17:56.683 --> 01:17:58.527 [Riv (DM)]: She starts to head away and she just turns back to look at you. 01:17:59.469 --> 01:18:00.472 [Riv (DM)]: I mean it, no funny business. 01:18:01.535 --> 01:18:05.905 [Riv (DM)]: Or... Yeah. 01:18:05.925 --> 01:18:09.394 [Riv (DM)]: The whole army will come down on you and you do not want that. 01:18:12.395 --> 01:18:12.936 [Riv (DM)]: She wanders off. 01:18:13.256 --> 01:18:16.621 [Riv (DM)]: The rest of the soldiers kind of just look a little bit confused about this. 01:18:16.722 --> 01:18:24.914 [Riv (DM)]: They thought that they just captured a random bunch of mercenaries and now you are being given free reign-ish or at least a lot more lenience than anyone else. 01:18:25.455 --> 01:18:30.442 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of scratching their heads but do what they're told and they wander off and start their patrols again. 01:18:30.763 --> 01:18:35.450 [Riv (DM)]: And so you guys are left in the tent with a bit of breathing room. 01:18:36.231 --> 01:18:40.377 [Riv (DM)]: There are still soldiers nearby wandering around but you aren't shamed up. 01:18:40.397 --> 01:18:41.018 [Riv (DM)]: Still got your stuff. 01:18:43.394 --> 01:18:44.255 [Riv (DM)]: You got a bit of room for chat? 01:18:46.437 --> 01:18:48.820 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Gestured on into the tent. 01:18:48.840 --> 01:18:54.005 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um, I think we need to have a chat. 01:18:54.025 --> 01:18:54.245 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright. 01:18:55.446 --> 01:18:56.267 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What did you do? 01:18:58.690 --> 01:19:00.491 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: May have got us away across the ice. 01:19:01.032 --> 01:19:03.895 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Commanders thinking about it, but we might be able to get a head start. 01:19:04.716 --> 01:19:11.983 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So either that or sit here for a week with our thumb up our ass waiting for the rest of the army to come through and escort us to the wall to be, um, fed to it. 01:19:16.182 --> 01:19:23.051 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So we're leaving without burning down the camp? 01:19:24.753 --> 01:19:25.434 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: At this stage. 01:19:27.897 --> 01:19:29.379 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Typical. 01:19:29.499 --> 01:19:33.284 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If they try to fuck with us, we can, but there's a lot of people. 01:19:34.165 --> 01:19:35.466 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't think you've got enough fireballs. 01:19:36.468 --> 01:19:37.789 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's a lot of snow as well. 01:19:38.290 --> 01:19:39.912 [Lacer (Kai)]: Fire's not going to spread very quick. 01:19:44.380 --> 01:19:48.405 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just so you're all aware, things are probably going to get quite messy from here out. 01:19:49.347 --> 01:19:50.308 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If they're not messy enough. 01:19:55.014 --> 01:19:55.915 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As if they're not. 01:19:56.917 --> 01:19:58.138 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As if they're not messy enough. 01:20:02.684 --> 01:20:05.688 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I guess we better rest up while we can, eh? 01:20:08.052 --> 01:20:12.177 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll sort of reach into my belt, which is the red cloak, and pull it out. 01:20:14.806 --> 01:20:19.051 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So you all know I'm not fully with it up here and I just tap the side of my head. 01:20:21.994 --> 01:20:27.400 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Not a lot's come back, but enough's come in from outside for me to start putting a few things together. 01:20:30.924 --> 01:20:37.391 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm sure you've noticed that this lot, point out to the Imperials, have taken a bit of a special interest in me. 01:20:39.933 --> 01:20:41.455 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Even a blind dwarf can pick that one up. 01:20:43.797 --> 01:20:46.641 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, who's the blind dwarf? 01:20:52.248 --> 01:20:55.372 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll be honest, I have not a lot going on up here. 01:20:55.512 --> 01:20:59.597 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've tried jogging the memory a few times and it's not really working, but they know me. 01:21:01.479 --> 01:21:04.543 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And it turns out that I may be one of them. 01:21:04.563 --> 01:21:08.848 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: May is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence. 01:21:10.731 --> 01:21:11.712 [JC (Ryo)]: I take two steps back. 01:21:16.214 --> 01:21:17.375 [JC (Ryo)]: What do you mean, maybe one of them? 01:21:17.395 --> 01:21:17.596 [JC (Ryo)]: May? 01:21:18.997 --> 01:21:19.638 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: May have. 01:21:21.440 --> 01:21:21.921 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: May have. 01:21:24.103 --> 01:21:31.151 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Seems I may have gone for a little wander into that, uh, dark forest that we did a swing past and, um, everything disappeared. 01:21:35.336 --> 01:21:36.257 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I look towards Royo. 01:21:36.618 --> 01:21:37.999 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Have you spent a bit of time in those woods? 01:21:39.481 --> 01:21:40.682 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You ever hear of anything like that? 01:21:43.285 --> 01:21:43.926 [JC (Ryo)]: Have I, Riv? 01:21:45.880 --> 01:21:48.122 [Riv (DM)]: Not really, no. 01:21:48.443 --> 01:21:50.185 [Riv (DM)]: You would have seen barely any people at all. 01:21:51.826 --> 01:21:54.109 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'm mostly stuck to myself in those woods. 01:21:55.010 --> 01:21:58.314 [JC (Ryo)]: I know going too deep into them is suicide. 01:22:00.476 --> 01:22:03.900 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, you could say I died one way or another in there. 01:22:09.386 --> 01:22:12.529 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: These old people all seem to know me, which means... 01:22:14.956 --> 01:22:19.041 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm doing my best to play the role, but I don't think they're onto me. 01:22:20.403 --> 01:22:23.867 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And if they're not onto me, then that's gonna get pretty apparent pretty quickly. 01:22:25.649 --> 01:22:34.280 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Which is fun, because we're gonna be wandering into a town where the Imperials sound like they want my head, and the Rebels probably know me and would be even just as happy to take it. 01:22:41.349 --> 01:22:42.110 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What to do about this? 01:22:42.410 --> 01:22:43.191 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't know. 01:22:43.981 --> 01:22:48.166 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've just been fighting whatever's put in front of me, which seems to be my way. 01:22:55.674 --> 01:22:56.956 [JC (Ryo)]: I guess what do we want to do then? 01:22:58.037 --> 01:22:58.738 [JC (Ryo)]: Tonight, that is. 01:23:01.060 --> 01:23:04.084 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think we get a good night's sleep, see what tomorrow brings. 01:23:05.826 --> 01:23:13.414 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like I said, I may have got us an early head start across the ice, and get up there without extra complications around us. 01:23:15.301 --> 01:23:15.842 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Boiling Lit. 01:23:17.404 --> 01:23:18.165 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll see what happens. 01:23:24.092 --> 01:23:32.162 [JC (Ryo)]: Before I say what I'm going to say, can I check, can I have a good look at the room, see if there's anything, like anything that looks like a listening device? 01:23:33.944 --> 01:23:35.006 [Riv (DM)]: A listening device? 01:23:35.146 --> 01:23:37.469 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, a perception check. 01:23:37.489 --> 01:23:40.853 [JC (Ryo)]: And I'd like to go back if that's okay. 01:23:41.896 --> 01:23:46.320 [JC (Ryo)]: While we were on our own, would they have let me our ritual cast the tech magic? 01:23:47.281 --> 01:23:48.122 [JC (Ryo)]: Nah, not a shot. 01:23:48.343 --> 01:23:52.286 [Lacer (Kai)]: Probably not. 01:23:52.347 --> 01:23:53.147 [JC (Ryo)]: So perception, you said? 01:23:53.528 --> 01:23:53.728 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:23:58.172 --> 01:23:58.373 [JC (Ryo)]: All right. 01:23:58.493 --> 01:24:02.397 [JC (Ryo)]: While on perception checking, I'd like to cast the tech magic and see if anything pops up near me. 01:24:04.339 --> 01:24:08.663 [JC (Ryo)]: That's obviously not part of the party. 01:24:12.912 --> 01:24:14.257 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm, alright. 01:24:14.277 --> 01:24:16.023 [Riv (DM)]: 30 feet. 01:24:17.809 --> 01:24:20.257 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's bigger than the tent. 01:24:20.278 --> 01:24:21.883 [Riv (DM)]: 10 minutes is quite a while. 01:24:22.244 --> 01:24:24.171 [Riv (DM)]: Were you sort of starting this potentially? 01:24:24.607 --> 01:24:29.653 [JC (Ryo)]: No no no, now, before I say anything else, now I start looking around the tent and cast the technique check as well. 01:24:29.993 --> 01:24:30.634 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:24:30.654 --> 01:24:44.891 [Riv (DM)]: So the tent is just mainly bedrolls and there is a large pole in the centre which is both supporting the top of the tent and is also a convenient place for chains to be dangling from for people who would be placed here to be held. 01:24:46.673 --> 01:24:48.015 [Riv (DM)]: Obviously the chains are currently empty. 01:24:48.715 --> 01:24:50.257 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that there isn't really much else in there. 01:24:52.560 --> 01:24:54.242 [JC (Ryo)]: Does anything in the tent ping magical? 01:24:55.184 --> 01:24:58.769 [Riv (DM)]: I'll tell you in 10 minutes, when it finishes. 01:24:59.490 --> 01:25:06.720 [Riv (DM)]: Because in the meantime, as Ryo starts to sit down... Oh no no no, I cast cast it, I didn't ritual cast it. 01:25:07.061 --> 01:25:08.543 [JC (Ryo)]: I spell slot cast it, so straight away. 01:25:08.743 --> 01:25:09.765 [Riv (DM)]: Gotcha, alright. 01:25:11.307 --> 01:25:19.318 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing within the tent pings, but within 30 feet of you there is actually something outside the tent, which is briefly pinging magic. 01:25:26.470 --> 01:25:29.374 [JC (Ryo)]: Can I tell what it is from here or no idea what it is from here? 01:25:32.017 --> 01:25:33.799 [Riv (DM)]: You'd have to go out of the tent probably to have a look. 01:25:43.090 --> 01:25:46.214 [Riv (DM)]: It's about this time as this conversation is winding up. 01:25:48.156 --> 01:25:55.245 [Riv (DM)]: You do hear a little psst, psst, newcomers whisper through to you. 01:25:57.689 --> 01:26:05.138 [Riv (DM)]: Seems to be coming from outside the tent. 01:26:05.158 --> 01:26:09.083 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Peel back the door a little bit. 01:26:09.103 --> 01:26:10.705 [Riv (DM)]: You don't see anyone directly outside. 01:26:10.785 --> 01:26:15.450 [Riv (DM)]: You look sort of further down, left and right. 01:26:16.672 --> 01:26:17.573 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: To the right of you. 01:26:18.334 --> 01:26:19.455 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I smile to myself. 01:26:19.475 --> 01:26:19.715 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I look down. 01:26:19.736 --> 01:26:20.997 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Do I see footprints in the snow? 01:26:23.240 --> 01:26:27.645 [Riv (DM)]: Only the ones from the soldiers and yourselves earlier. 01:26:29.347 --> 01:26:35.658 [Riv (DM)]: But, you know, you look over to the right the way you came and the closest tent is probably too far away. 01:26:36.179 --> 01:26:38.162 [Riv (DM)]: To the left there is a tent that's actually pretty close to you. 01:26:38.182 --> 01:26:45.976 [Riv (DM)]: And again you hear, hello, hello newcomers. 01:26:45.996 --> 01:26:49.602 [Riv (DM)]: And as you're standing here and you hear this, it seems we're coming from the tent next door. 01:26:52.267 --> 01:26:53.308 [JC (Ryo)]: Does the voice sound familiar? 01:26:54.410 --> 01:26:54.831 [Riv (DM)]: It does not. 01:27:03.468 --> 01:27:08.618 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Low voice so the guards can't hear, but is it being magically pitched or is it? 01:27:09.841 --> 01:27:13.549 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, it seems to just be loud enough to cut through the wind. 01:27:15.272 --> 01:27:15.593 [Riv (DM)]: Spoken. 01:27:20.122 --> 01:27:20.683 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Howdy neighbor. 01:27:32.240 --> 01:27:34.084 [Riv (DM)]: That's my response, howdy neighbour. 01:27:34.626 --> 01:27:35.027 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, sorry. 01:27:35.267 --> 01:27:38.615 [Riv (DM)]: I was just putting on the snow face. 01:27:40.941 --> 01:27:41.662 [Riv (DM)]: The voice comes back. 01:27:43.928 --> 01:27:45.531 [Riv (DM)]: Swing by when you get a moment if you can. 01:27:46.594 --> 01:27:47.937 [Riv (DM)]: Didn't sound like they chained you up. 01:27:57.923 --> 01:28:03.909 [JC (Ryo)]: While the tent flap's open, can I look outside with the Techmagic while it's up? 01:28:04.329 --> 01:28:05.971 [Riv (DM)]: It's coming from the tent next door. 01:28:10.234 --> 01:28:11.115 [JC (Ryo)]: Any guards we can see? 01:28:12.957 --> 01:28:16.380 [Riv (DM)]: There's a few, you know, further along, just patrolling here and there. 01:28:16.921 --> 01:28:19.723 [Riv (DM)]: There's one that's currently walking away from you down the alley. 01:28:23.006 --> 01:28:23.987 [Riv (DM)]: He'll probably be the closest. 01:28:25.389 --> 01:28:26.850 [Riv (DM)]: No one very nearby though. 01:28:29.834 --> 01:28:31.136 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can you see their tent flap? 01:28:31.156 --> 01:28:32.638 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it open, Rio, next door? 01:28:33.039 --> 01:28:34.020 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just quietly answer. 01:28:37.185 --> 01:28:38.006 [Riv (DM)]: Not currently open, no. 01:28:43.574 --> 01:28:44.416 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Can I look around the party? 01:28:46.619 --> 01:28:49.043 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I suppose I should go chat to the neighbour unless anyone else wants. 01:28:49.603 --> 01:28:51.046 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think a lot of us might be a bit much. 01:28:54.030 --> 01:28:55.532 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Though actually I am not the sneaky one. 01:28:57.696 --> 01:28:58.677 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 01:29:01.525 --> 01:29:10.897 [JC (Ryo)]: I was actually going to suggest, you guys have seen me change my appearance a couple of times. 01:29:11.998 --> 01:29:16.685 [JC (Ryo)]: Did you want me to go as a guard and go for a wander, see if I can scout the town out or not worth the risk? 01:29:23.473 --> 01:29:27.178 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can you get away easily, is the question, if you are busted? 01:29:33.942 --> 01:29:37.166 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, you've seen most of my tricks. 01:29:38.847 --> 01:29:39.388 [Unmatched Speaker]: I suppose. 01:29:41.390 --> 01:29:45.294 [Lacer (Kai)]: But I guess you can only, like, run, right? 01:29:45.314 --> 01:29:48.938 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, you don't have any magical means of, like, escape. 01:29:50.540 --> 01:29:53.363 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I don't think... Can you hide as good as Erendor? 01:29:53.383 --> 01:29:54.965 [Lacer (Kai)]: Erendor's been really quiet lately. 01:29:56.667 --> 01:29:58.549 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, none of us can hide as good as him. 01:30:02.258 --> 01:30:04.000 [Unmatched Speaker]: You can run silently though, can't you? 01:30:06.202 --> 01:30:06.762 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I can move. 01:30:12.308 --> 01:30:14.810 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm gonna actually tap Erendor on the shoulder. 01:30:17.753 --> 01:30:21.957 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And just say, I'm gonna sleep next door quietly and just see what the story is. 01:30:25.180 --> 01:30:25.381 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 01:30:26.902 --> 01:30:28.924 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, before you go anywhere, 01:30:30.001 --> 01:30:32.924 [JC (Ryo)]: And I get everyone to get... Oh, we're all close enough anyway. 01:30:34.606 --> 01:30:37.509 [JC (Ryo)]: I drop Detect Magic and cast Pass Without a Trace on the party. 01:30:40.052 --> 01:30:41.774 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's a sphere based on you. 01:30:41.834 --> 01:30:43.136 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's not a lingering buff. 01:30:44.237 --> 01:30:46.720 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, he can just sit close to the wall. 01:30:47.741 --> 01:30:48.421 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know. 01:30:48.522 --> 01:30:49.923 [JC (Ryo)]: All my descriptions have gone. 01:30:49.963 --> 01:30:52.146 [JC (Ryo)]: My game's... Let me refresh. 01:30:54.668 --> 01:30:58.793 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: 30 foot should be enough if you're standing up the wall to cover him as he crosses over. 01:31:01.760 --> 01:31:03.522 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, I mean, I could also Disguise. 01:31:03.702 --> 01:31:05.644 [JC (Ryo)]: Actually, I don't know if I can double up on those two spells. 01:31:08.527 --> 01:31:10.889 [Unmatched Speaker]: Disguise stuff is not concentration, right? 01:31:13.612 --> 01:31:14.372 [JC (Ryo)]: Let me log back in. 01:31:14.392 --> 01:31:20.579 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, one second. 01:31:20.599 --> 01:31:21.139 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is Erendor back? 01:31:22.721 --> 01:31:23.561 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 01:31:23.581 --> 01:31:24.302 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 01:31:24.322 --> 01:31:30.248 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're going to tap you on the shoulder and say you can probably sneak over quietly and see what the story is, find out what the lay of the land is. 01:31:31.645 --> 01:31:37.933 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just remember that we might have a way out of here tomorrow, and, um, excess bodies are gonna slow that down. 01:31:40.116 --> 01:31:41.799 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, disguise someone's concentration. 01:31:41.899 --> 01:31:44.462 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Big complications during the night may make that trickier as well. 01:31:46.024 --> 01:31:47.707 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll keep that in mind. 01:31:47.727 --> 01:31:51.972 [JC (Ryo)]: Otherwise, I could disguise myself as a standard Imperial Guard and walk you to the tent next door. 01:31:53.895 --> 01:31:55.998 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's nice, it's literally next door. 01:31:56.779 --> 01:31:57.700 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And you can turn invisible. 01:32:01.025 --> 01:32:01.365 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You'll be fine. 01:32:02.729 --> 01:32:12.225 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep, I'll have a quick look out, and then if it looks clear, I'll make my way over to the other tent. 01:32:12.245 --> 01:32:15.130 [JC (Ryo)]: Before you go Erendor, there is something magical in the tent next to us. 01:32:18.456 --> 01:32:19.377 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a Stealth check. 01:32:21.902 --> 01:32:22.422 [Riv (DM)]: Roll what, sorry? 01:32:22.983 --> 01:32:27.471 [Riv (DM)]: A Stealth check, assuming you are, um, did you say you're casting Invisibility or are you just going for it? 01:32:29.375 --> 01:32:30.496 [Riv (DM)]: Just going for it. 01:32:30.516 --> 01:32:31.697 [Riv (DM)]: Might as well be invisible anyway. 01:32:33.218 --> 01:32:34.359 [Riv (DM)]: That is a 38. 01:32:34.439 --> 01:32:39.544 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I haven't cast it yet, they told me not to. 01:32:39.844 --> 01:32:40.585 [Riv (DM)]: I thought you were gonna do it. 01:32:40.605 --> 01:32:41.405 [JC (Ryo)]: No, they told me not to. 01:32:42.586 --> 01:32:43.907 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, all good. 01:32:45.329 --> 01:32:52.234 [Riv (DM)]: Like a whisper in the wind, Erendor flashes away and basically disappears out of your sight somehow as he is a shadow pressed up against the tents. 01:32:54.036 --> 01:32:58.740 [Riv (DM)]: Poke your head in through the flap and inside you can see three people. 01:33:00.205 --> 01:33:11.201 [Riv (DM)]: Chained up to the pole, the framing pole, there's a young woman who is like closest to you and looks up. 01:33:11.221 --> 01:33:12.262 [Riv (DM)]: She nods as you come in. 01:33:12.543 --> 01:33:22.076 [Riv (DM)]: There's another sort of middle-aged man over the other side, heavy beard, wide shoulders, and another woman with red hair, slightly older than the first. 01:33:22.797 --> 01:33:26.803 [Riv (DM)]: And as you come in, it's the first one who says to you, 01:33:27.526 --> 01:33:28.668 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, good. 01:33:28.688 --> 01:33:31.072 [Riv (DM)]: They didn't chain you up. 01:33:31.112 --> 01:33:31.552 [Riv (DM)]: Come in, come in. 01:33:31.572 --> 01:33:32.213 [Riv (DM)]: Sit down, sit down. 01:33:32.354 --> 01:33:33.195 [Riv (DM)]: Quickly, let's have a chat. 01:33:33.215 --> 01:33:34.637 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know how long we've got until they come back. 01:33:37.381 --> 01:33:38.443 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I wonder that I have time to sit. 01:33:39.124 --> 01:33:39.705 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Say it fast. 01:33:40.827 --> 01:33:41.027 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:33:42.289 --> 01:33:44.072 [Riv (DM)]: I am ice listener Sailor Wren. 01:33:44.452 --> 01:33:45.354 [Riv (DM)]: I am from Fox Crew. 01:33:45.614 --> 01:33:47.998 [Riv (DM)]: I'm a frost warden. 01:33:49.666 --> 01:33:57.754 [Riv (DM)]: It sounded like you guys are somewhat being taken, held by the soldiers. 01:33:57.794 --> 01:34:00.337 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just very confused that they haven't chained you up. 01:34:00.357 --> 01:34:01.018 [Riv (DM)]: What's going on? 01:34:01.358 --> 01:34:03.360 [Riv (DM)]: Why are you here in the pens? 01:34:07.364 --> 01:34:08.666 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: In the pens, some very bad luck. 01:34:09.587 --> 01:34:12.029 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Not chained up, some very good luck and some very fast talking. 01:34:14.212 --> 01:34:16.534 [Riv (DM)]: That sounds like an interesting story. 01:34:17.712 --> 01:34:21.116 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, as I mentioned, we're Frostwardens. 01:34:23.079 --> 01:34:31.469 [Riv (DM)]: They have us here so that we can guide their troops across the Frostway, but they don't trust us. 01:34:31.790 --> 01:34:33.492 [Riv (DM)]: They think that we'll escape or something. 01:34:33.512 --> 01:34:34.553 [Riv (DM)]: To be honest, we probably will. 01:34:36.175 --> 01:34:38.218 [Riv (DM)]: So that's why they've got us locked up. 01:34:38.198 --> 01:34:41.603 [Riv (DM)]: Listen, we've been planning, we've been planning something. 01:34:42.043 --> 01:34:42.865 [Riv (DM)]: We've been planning an escape. 01:34:42.905 --> 01:34:47.972 [Riv (DM)]: We think that we could slip away, provided we could have some sort of distraction. 01:34:48.713 --> 01:34:50.635 [Riv (DM)]: Burn down their tents or something on the outskirts of town. 01:34:50.836 --> 01:34:52.538 [Riv (DM)]: Get enough noise and commotion happening. 01:34:55.482 --> 01:34:58.206 [Riv (DM)]: Dane here, she nods to the middle-aged man. 01:34:58.727 --> 01:34:59.528 [Riv (DM)]: He's very good with locks. 01:35:00.029 --> 01:35:02.832 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sure that he will be able to help unlock a bunch of these people. 01:35:03.714 --> 01:35:04.875 [Riv (DM)]: We aim to make a break for it. 01:35:05.015 --> 01:35:05.917 [Riv (DM)]: Get across the Frostway. 01:35:06.277 --> 01:35:06.838 [Riv (DM)]: If anything, 01:35:08.118 --> 01:35:32.771 [Riv (DM)]: When can you go and are you waiting just on an opportunity? 01:35:37.498 --> 01:35:37.618 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay. 01:35:38.712 --> 01:35:39.433 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I need to get back. 01:35:41.496 --> 01:35:42.297 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll talk to the others. 01:35:44.580 --> 01:35:44.740 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Alright. 01:35:44.760 --> 01:35:50.869 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll come back to you when I can. 01:35:50.889 --> 01:35:53.833 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And if it's clear, I will make my way back to the other tent again. 01:35:54.394 --> 01:35:56.457 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, easy peasy, slip back out. 01:35:56.477 --> 01:35:57.158 [Riv (DM)]: Back into your tent. 01:36:06.691 --> 01:36:07.352 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, everyone. 01:36:11.804 --> 01:36:19.393 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Seems the Frostwardens are not free either. 01:36:22.416 --> 01:36:25.420 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They're not necessarily working for the Empire willingly. 01:36:27.442 --> 01:36:28.043 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They want out. 01:36:28.684 --> 01:36:29.685 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They have a little bit of a plan. 01:36:33.069 --> 01:36:33.830 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Nothing major. 01:36:34.450 --> 01:36:36.633 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They don't have a way to get out. 01:36:36.673 --> 01:36:38.335 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They need a distraction. 01:36:39.985 --> 01:36:41.867 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Set their side in motion. 01:36:45.271 --> 01:36:54.502 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We could save a lot of people, but... 01:36:54.522 --> 01:36:55.323 [Unmatched Speaker]: There's a lot of risk. 01:37:00.990 --> 01:37:02.652 [Unmatched Speaker]: Or death or glory. 01:37:05.535 --> 01:37:08.018 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If we can convince the... 01:37:09.297 --> 01:37:15.826 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Whoever it is that's in charge here, that we would be better off with a cross warden on the crossing. 01:37:20.452 --> 01:37:22.334 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We might be able to make it work a bit easier. 01:37:24.797 --> 01:37:26.940 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Why settle for one when we can have three? 01:37:29.764 --> 01:37:30.926 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: They're not going to give us three. 01:37:31.807 --> 01:37:32.147 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 01:37:32.488 --> 01:37:34.110 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: They're not going to give us three. 01:37:34.150 --> 01:37:36.553 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We take the three and go. 01:37:38.137 --> 01:37:39.118 [Lacer (Kai)]: What tonight? 01:37:39.138 --> 01:37:43.683 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It will be the three, plus everyone else that's here in change. 01:37:45.325 --> 01:37:46.667 [Unmatched Speaker]: Who said anything else about them? 01:37:52.874 --> 01:37:54.055 [Lacer (Kai)]: So what was their planning? 01:37:54.936 --> 01:37:58.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, their grand plan, Erendor? 01:37:59.821 --> 01:38:05.488 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Their grand plan involves someone else makes a distraction. 01:38:05.508 --> 01:38:07.570 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Someone else takes the risk. 01:38:09.608 --> 01:38:14.974 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They have someone who is good with locks and will try and get as many people out as possible. 01:38:16.956 --> 01:38:20.700 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Make sure the Imperials have no Frost Wardens and no way for the city. 01:38:23.202 --> 01:38:31.171 [Lacer (Kai)]: That works out in our favour, but the only people who can do that is pretty much us currently, because we're not in chains. 01:38:33.173 --> 01:38:33.253 Yep. 01:38:38.903 --> 01:38:47.694 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, the best thing right now is, when it's dark enough, if we were to do this, is you would, I guess you would, free them? 01:38:48.094 --> 01:38:48.575 [Lacer (Kai)]: Quietly? 01:38:48.595 --> 01:38:53.661 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sounds like they would free themselves. 01:38:53.681 --> 01:38:54.842 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They would need to be freed? 01:38:55.643 --> 01:38:58.066 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: No. 01:38:58.086 --> 01:39:00.589 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They would need to be freed before they were able to free others. 01:39:03.052 --> 01:39:07.678 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That would need to be done quietly, and they would need to wait until a distraction is caused. 01:39:08.688 --> 01:39:09.008 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wow. 01:39:14.014 --> 01:39:17.397 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's big risk for big gain to be had here. 01:39:19.680 --> 01:39:20.781 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or wait to die. 01:39:27.048 --> 01:39:28.710 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Mr. Strategy and Planning Man. 01:39:31.693 --> 01:39:32.013 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Thoughts? 01:39:35.778 --> 01:39:37.159 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Upsides and downsides. 01:39:39.282 --> 01:39:46.473 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Upsides would definitely massively reduce the Empire's strength and pushes north, losing the Frostwardens. 01:39:50.119 --> 01:39:52.183 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: This should be a good thing for Val Noren rebellions. 01:39:54.266 --> 01:40:01.177 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Downsides is we'd be making a run across the ice, escorting a caravan of refugees being pursued by an army. 01:40:01.217 --> 01:40:04.362 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: An army without Frostwardens. 01:40:06.198 --> 01:40:21.620 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Whatever speed we would gain with the thrust magic would probably be lost by the amount of extra lifting we need to do, because a lot of these people are probably in no state to march however many days. 01:40:21.740 --> 01:40:23.703 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Quite a few, I'm going to say, looking at the map. 01:40:25.826 --> 01:40:26.607 [Riv (DM)]: To be fair. 01:40:27.188 --> 01:40:29.792 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Two weeks, it looks like. 01:40:30.802 --> 01:40:33.584 [JC (Ryo)]: Also, the Empire's laying siege to Val Noren. 01:40:33.704 --> 01:40:35.406 [JC (Ryo)]: What's, what's the stop? 01:40:35.446 --> 01:40:37.428 [JC (Ryo)]: You know, do we know if there's troops on the other side? 01:40:37.468 --> 01:40:38.889 [JC (Ryo)]: Around the, around the city? 01:40:44.093 --> 01:40:44.794 [Lacer (Kai)]: We know nothing. 01:40:45.194 --> 01:40:47.877 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There is enemy on the other side. 01:40:47.897 --> 01:40:49.858 [JC (Ryo)]: So we still break these crosshordes out. 01:40:50.039 --> 01:40:55.703 [JC (Ryo)]: We run across, try and run across with the Empire on our, on our trail and the Empire in front of us. 01:40:58.626 --> 01:40:59.847 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I think the... 01:41:00.940 --> 01:41:19.995 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry yeah just just to clarify one point so the the guy was saying that there have already been a number of crossings so far to have taken the initial troops over um and that's why the campsite here is so sparse of people because um you know the last group of people left quite recently so there's a skeleton crew of soldiers remaining. 01:41:21.983 --> 01:41:28.173 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, that explains why there's a lack of soldiers early in the main part of the city. 01:41:28.534 --> 01:41:30.257 [Lacer (Kai)]: Valeran, when's the next crossing? 01:41:30.437 --> 01:41:31.439 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you know anything about that? 01:41:32.480 --> 01:41:33.562 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: About a week. 01:41:33.582 --> 01:41:40.393 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're waiting for reinforcements, so the next crossing will be a ways out and with a lot more Imperial soldiers. 01:41:41.735 --> 01:41:46.864 [Lacer (Kai)]: So the chance of them chasing after us would be lower, since they're not ready to cross yet. 01:41:48.066 --> 01:41:48.767 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh, they'll chase. 01:41:53.185 --> 01:41:54.026 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They may not be ready. 01:41:54.788 --> 01:41:56.250 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: This is not something they can let slide. 01:42:01.399 --> 01:42:01.640 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 01:42:02.361 --> 01:42:03.803 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll let you weigh up the odds. 01:42:03.824 --> 01:42:05.446 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's, what's our plan? 01:42:06.027 --> 01:42:14.222 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or do we just wait for tomorrow? 01:42:14.242 --> 01:42:16.746 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Or do we cause a distraction and not leave? 01:42:22.109 --> 01:42:24.832 [Lacer (Kai)]: We would be highly suspicious, you know? 01:42:24.872 --> 01:42:30.699 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're just new people, arrived in the dead of night, then something major happens and we didn't leave. 01:42:30.759 --> 01:42:33.222 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:42:33.242 --> 01:42:33.402 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:42:40.290 --> 01:42:51.002 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We are but weary travellers and we slept through the ruckus. 01:42:52.703 --> 01:42:53.324 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I need to think. 01:42:53.604 --> 01:42:54.465 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll probably have coffee. 01:42:55.607 --> 01:42:56.227 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:42:56.247 --> 01:42:57.349 [Riv (DM)]: You guys want to take a break? 01:42:57.369 --> 01:42:57.909 [Riv (DM)]: Ponder that. 01:42:58.690 --> 01:43:00.693 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, at this stage, we'll take 15. 01:43:00.713 --> 01:43:03.576 [Riv (DM)]: I feel like I've left you with a bit of a conundrum. 01:43:05.599 --> 01:43:06.720 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not ready for this. 01:43:06.740 --> 01:43:10.585 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I still think my idea would work the best. 01:43:14.109 --> 01:43:15.270 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think you've... What's your idea? 01:43:15.310 --> 01:43:16.111 [Lacer (Kai)]: What was your idea? 01:43:17.913 --> 01:43:21.698 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Put everyone in the Bag of Holding and fly the Bag of Holding? 01:43:22.117 --> 01:43:27.264 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So if you don't let us back out in ten minutes, we die. 01:43:28.506 --> 01:43:30.629 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, well in ten minutes Flying wears off and I die. 01:43:33.634 --> 01:43:36.618 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Ah, so the last thing I do before hopping in is make you invisible. 01:43:39.783 --> 01:43:40.203 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Could work. 01:43:44.850 --> 01:43:45.190 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess. 01:43:45.611 --> 01:43:46.993 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, that's an option. 01:43:47.293 --> 01:43:49.757 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll put that on the table and we'll have a break. 01:43:50.238 --> 01:43:51.820 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll have a break and we'll ponder. 01:43:52.019 --> 01:43:53.120 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 01:45:33.050 --> 02:11:54.612 ================ Session Break ================ 02:12:07.113 --> 02:12:25.420 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:12:26.622 --> 02:12:27.764 [Riv (DM)]: So, thoughts? 02:12:29.186 --> 02:12:29.666 [Riv (DM)]: What are we thinking? 02:12:29.706 --> 02:12:30.367 [Riv (DM)]: What are we pondering? 02:12:32.791 --> 02:12:33.492 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's messy. 02:12:35.243 --> 02:12:45.418 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's like a, I would guess across that super hard terrain, even with a warden, who I'm guessing is basically just like an ice bender. 02:12:46.680 --> 02:12:49.204 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's probably like two weeks travel. 02:12:51.667 --> 02:12:59.339 [Riv (DM)]: Just based on the map, you probably like, it looks like probably 10 days, based on how fast you normally travel. 02:12:59.379 --> 02:13:01.202 [Riv (DM)]: You normally travel a hex in about two days. 02:13:01.803 --> 02:13:02.984 [Riv (DM)]: That's hard terrain. 02:13:03.305 --> 02:13:03.445 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:13:04.927 --> 02:13:05.848 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Which is gonna blow it out. 02:13:07.509 --> 02:13:10.832 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And how many prisoners do you reckon we have in this camp? 02:13:11.073 --> 02:13:12.254 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Do we have a rough idea? 02:13:14.576 --> 02:13:21.242 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm wondering if a rough... we would have had a li- not like a head count but a... A tent count? 02:13:21.262 --> 02:13:24.064 [Riv (DM)]: Could be on the order of 50 to 100 probably? 02:13:26.707 --> 02:13:33.853 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So if we did a breakout, like a large-scale breakout, we would need to escort 02:13:34.508 --> 02:13:49.768 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: 50 people across two weeks of the worst terrain in the world, freezing, starving because there wouldn't be supplies, while being pursued by Empire soldiers who would be very, very unhappy with the whole process. 02:13:51.390 --> 02:13:52.692 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think we should take them though. 02:13:53.273 --> 02:13:54.855 [Lacer (Kai)]: I recommend let them run wild. 02:13:56.497 --> 02:13:57.258 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Run wild where? 02:13:57.438 --> 02:13:58.580 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're just going to get rounded up again? 02:13:58.760 --> 02:14:00.803 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What's the point of breaking them out if they're just going to get rounded up again? 02:14:00.863 --> 02:14:03.486 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's not like they can run off into the wilderness, it's a frozen tundra. 02:14:04.968 --> 02:14:07.672 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The only food in Warped is the town. 02:14:13.382 --> 02:14:19.531 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think we need to chat to the Wardens, if they are Wardens, and say the realities of the situation. 02:14:21.875 --> 02:14:32.292 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We can take U3, and if there's no others, then that means the Empire has to make the crossing without a Warden, which will fuck up the Empire, but it will also fuck up all the conscripts, if they care about them. 02:14:34.887 --> 02:14:46.119 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or we can probably get one of you out tomorrow with the crossing if I can sweet talk the commander because they did half offer one. 02:14:46.139 --> 02:14:56.750 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So would you rather be free but have got nowhere to go or would you rather be force marched to attack people you'd rather not attack? 02:14:57.851 --> 02:15:01.435 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well would the civilians, the wardens are slightly in between their 02:15:02.765 --> 02:15:05.369 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Because they could make the crossing easily, that's what they do, that's their thing. 02:15:06.390 --> 02:15:14.622 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: But, yeah, getting a lot of non-specialists across is going to be a challenge. 02:15:15.723 --> 02:15:22.833 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll just call them civilians. 02:15:22.853 --> 02:15:28.001 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think we need to have a bit of a chat with them, find out what the capabilities are and explain the realities of the situation. 02:15:29.142 --> 02:15:31.185 [Lacer (Kai)]: You want to pop next door, quickly? 02:15:31.672 --> 02:15:39.626 [JC (Ryo)]: Also, I don't mean to be cynical, but, um, we just, they wanted to, the Imperials wanted to tie us, chain us up. 02:15:39.646 --> 02:15:41.929 [JC (Ryo)]: So they said, they said they don't want to guard us. 02:15:42.991 --> 02:15:48.040 [JC (Ryo)]: And then they left no guards posted out the front and we were able to go next door and talk to people that were trying to talk to us. 02:15:48.881 --> 02:15:49.883 [JC (Ryo)]: Something doesn't feel right. 02:15:52.360 --> 02:15:54.844 [Riv (DM)]: You're right about that. 02:15:54.864 --> 02:15:55.665 [Riv (DM)]: There are soldiers around. 02:15:55.805 --> 02:15:57.067 [Riv (DM)]: There are people patrolling around. 02:15:57.928 --> 02:16:01.113 [Riv (DM)]: Earendor just rolled a 40 on herself. 02:16:01.173 --> 02:16:04.398 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The magic that was detected, we know what type that is, right? 02:16:04.418 --> 02:16:05.840 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Because detect magic tells you what type it is. 02:16:06.701 --> 02:16:07.342 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm, abjuration. 02:16:08.845 --> 02:16:09.285 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Which is? 02:16:10.307 --> 02:16:11.509 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like shielding protection magic. 02:16:12.570 --> 02:16:13.552 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Okay, so it's not pollution. 02:16:16.516 --> 02:16:17.578 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What are they protecting? 02:16:20.041 --> 02:16:21.844 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: From the snow. 02:16:25.857 --> 02:16:34.073 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If there was any sort of disguise spell that would be under illusion or... Actually, I always get mixed up with Elder Scrolls magic, so it's... Is illusion a thing in D&D? 02:16:35.415 --> 02:16:36.497 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 02:16:36.517 --> 02:16:37.219 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's a school of magic? 02:16:37.559 --> 02:16:40.505 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I think so, isn't it? 02:16:40.645 --> 02:16:41.286 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like disguise stuff. 02:16:41.346 --> 02:16:42.348 [Lacer (Kai)]: What is disguise stuff? 02:16:42.368 --> 02:16:45.334 [Riv (DM)]: Is that the... Yeah, no, illusions are a school. 02:16:47.103 --> 02:16:48.385 [Riv (DM)]: This is a bit of homework for us. 02:16:48.425 --> 02:16:56.997 [Riv (DM)]: So you've got conjuration, evocation, illusion, divination, abjuration, enchantment, and then one more. 02:16:57.017 --> 02:16:57.578 [Riv (DM)]: What's the seventh? 02:17:00.482 --> 02:17:01.343 [Lacer (Kai)]: Divination. 02:17:02.024 --> 02:17:02.865 [Riv (DM)]: Conjuration? 02:17:02.885 --> 02:17:04.067 [Riv (DM)]: Did you say conjuration? 02:17:04.087 --> 02:17:05.449 [Riv (DM)]: Necromancy. 02:17:05.469 --> 02:17:05.849 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, necromancy. 02:17:05.869 --> 02:17:06.230 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 02:17:06.270 --> 02:17:07.732 [Riv (DM)]: That's the seventh one. 02:17:07.752 --> 02:17:07.972 Yep. 02:17:09.775 --> 02:17:10.556 [Riv (DM)]: Good shout. 02:17:11.237 --> 02:17:11.777 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Not illusion. 02:17:11.918 --> 02:17:13.600 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll assume to take another word. 02:17:19.216 --> 02:17:21.299 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um... 02:17:21.319 --> 02:17:24.885 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I guess I could try Slipknot's Door, but I'm not very stealthy. 02:17:29.212 --> 02:17:30.454 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How far away is the next tent? 02:17:31.456 --> 02:17:34.200 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can we just nip under the, uh... Like, ten feet. 02:17:34.701 --> 02:17:37.205 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, it's probably within ten feet. 02:17:37.225 --> 02:17:39.469 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Nip under the canvas and then nip under theirs? 02:17:41.744 --> 02:17:44.748 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm assuming that the canvases are, like, torn, right? 02:17:45.349 --> 02:17:49.395 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you can't really, like... You'd have to literally, like, worm your way through, right? 02:17:49.415 --> 02:17:50.277 [Lacer (Kai)]: You'd have to, like, crawl? 02:17:51.058 --> 02:17:51.218 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 02:17:51.599 --> 02:17:52.219 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they're nailed down. 02:17:52.239 --> 02:17:54.162 [Riv (DM)]: You'd have to pull up some pegs or something like that. 02:17:56.986 --> 02:17:59.490 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I can send you across while I make you invisible. 02:18:00.391 --> 02:18:01.573 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, it might be safest. 02:18:03.216 --> 02:18:05.659 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just cause... Yeah. 02:18:05.739 --> 02:18:08.283 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Unless anyone else feels they could explain the situation. 02:18:09.385 --> 02:18:10.266 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's not very sneaky. 02:18:10.668 --> 02:18:12.150 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not as eloquent as you. 02:18:14.873 --> 02:18:16.635 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Not as eloquent as Corvus. 02:18:22.202 --> 02:18:26.707 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I could take my armor off, which will make me not have disadvantage on stealth. 02:18:28.910 --> 02:18:32.014 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: My stealth is still terrible. 02:18:32.034 --> 02:18:35.578 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Just to point on that Riv, do we know the name Corvus? 02:18:36.487 --> 02:18:37.628 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The rest of the party? 02:18:37.989 --> 02:18:41.573 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Or is Vael... We have no idea. 02:18:42.674 --> 02:18:43.475 [Lacer (Kai)]: They would have heard. 02:18:43.856 --> 02:18:46.119 [Lacer (Kai)]: We heard, but we don't know who he is. 02:18:46.719 --> 02:18:47.861 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you've heard it before. 02:18:47.881 --> 02:18:51.925 [Riv (DM)]: Like, you would have heard it all the way back at Skyreach when the hand that you killed called in there. 02:18:52.927 --> 02:18:53.567 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, yes. 02:18:53.868 --> 02:18:57.212 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, but I don't think you would recognize the name from anywhere. 02:18:57.232 --> 02:18:59.855 [Riv (DM)]: Unless you would... Nah, I don't think you would have gone to Val Noren. 02:19:02.718 --> 02:19:04.581 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's fucking... Why would you go there? 02:19:05.041 --> 02:19:05.802 [Lacer (Kai)]: Freezing cold. 02:19:08.330 --> 02:19:10.714 [Riv (DM)]: For the gold, the ladies. 02:19:12.276 --> 02:19:16.603 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll switch off my armor so that I don't have disadvantage on stealth. 02:19:18.245 --> 02:19:18.425 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:19:18.446 --> 02:19:22.412 [Lacer (Kai)]: How long does the invisibility last, Erendor? 02:19:22.432 --> 02:19:22.832 [Lacer (Kai)]: An hour. 02:19:23.794 --> 02:19:24.735 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's heaps long. 02:19:25.016 --> 02:19:25.596 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, plenty of time. 02:19:25.917 --> 02:19:27.620 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:19:27.780 --> 02:19:27.940 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:19:27.960 --> 02:19:29.783 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're gonna just talk to an invisible guy. 02:19:32.006 --> 02:19:33.308 [Lacer (Kai)]: Then you can just keep your armor on. 02:19:33.489 --> 02:19:34.771 [Lacer (Kai)]: It doesn't matter if you're clanking. 02:19:34.791 --> 02:19:37.054 [Lacer (Kai)]: He's like, I can't even see you. 02:19:38.907 --> 02:19:43.973 [Lacer (Kai)]: And you're literally 10 feet next door. 02:19:44.634 --> 02:19:45.255 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:19:45.275 --> 02:19:46.636 [Lacer (Kai)]: You could go anywhere. 02:19:48.919 --> 02:19:49.460 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just disappear. 02:19:49.940 --> 02:19:54.185 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fuck you guys, I'm out. 02:19:54.205 --> 02:19:57.029 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, armor on, armor off? 02:19:57.189 --> 02:19:58.671 [Riv (DM)]: Armor off, just to be quieter. 02:19:58.691 --> 02:19:58.911 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:19:58.971 --> 02:20:00.713 [Riv (DM)]: Let's make a stealth check with advantage then. 02:20:05.299 --> 02:20:08.222 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I am so good at stealth, but at least I don't have disadvantage. 02:20:09.805 --> 02:20:11.129 [Lacer (Kai)]: For the first time. 02:20:15.383 --> 02:20:16.145 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wow. 02:20:18.553 --> 02:20:20.580 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm obviously waiting until there's no guards around. 02:20:20.620 --> 02:20:22.245 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not doing any of those. 02:20:22.310 --> 02:20:26.935 [Riv (DM)]: Guard starts heading sort of in this direction, passes by a tent, stands at the entrance for a little while. 02:20:27.276 --> 02:20:29.658 [Riv (DM)]: There's a couple of guys down there as well standing at the entrance facing away. 02:20:30.399 --> 02:20:33.503 [Riv (DM)]: Dude turns around, starts heading back as he's passed back on by. 02:20:33.543 --> 02:20:34.984 [Riv (DM)]: Pick your moment to come out. 02:20:37.327 --> 02:20:42.132 [Riv (DM)]: Rest of you hear a bit of a ruffle as the tent flap gets caught on his sleeve. 02:20:42.793 --> 02:20:44.655 [Riv (DM)]: Bit of a 02:20:44.635 --> 02:20:51.685 [Riv (DM)]: But the wind is loud and covers the sound luckily. 02:20:51.985 --> 02:21:00.017 [Riv (DM)]: Obviously there's no vision so this would be a pure sound check and because of the howling storm outside the DC is not too difficult here so we're all good. 02:21:00.257 --> 02:21:11.453 [Riv (DM)]: You slip around into the next tent the um the people inside the three people sort of get startled but as the tent flap just like opens and then closes somehow by itself and it's like who's there? 02:21:14.200 --> 02:21:15.602 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Can I just look them over real quick? 02:21:15.962 --> 02:21:16.824 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, absolutely. 02:21:16.844 --> 02:21:17.845 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We'll look this up and check. 02:21:18.306 --> 02:21:22.512 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Did we get a description of the scene? 02:21:22.532 --> 02:21:22.632 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:21:22.652 --> 02:21:26.257 [Riv (DM)]: So there are... 02:21:26.277 --> 02:21:27.819 [Riv (DM)]: I see everything. 02:21:28.660 --> 02:21:33.027 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so these look like very hardy sort of experienced people. 02:21:34.569 --> 02:21:37.833 [Riv (DM)]: Healthy looking, you know, not your average civilian. 02:21:38.635 --> 02:21:40.377 [Riv (DM)]: There are two women. 02:21:40.508 --> 02:21:45.759 [Riv (DM)]: One of them is fairly young with dark blonde hair up in sort of like braids. 02:21:46.881 --> 02:21:52.352 [Riv (DM)]: And she's kind of got like, I don't know what you'd say, somewhat dreamy look in her eyes. 02:21:52.452 --> 02:21:52.773 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 02:21:53.955 --> 02:21:56.440 [Riv (DM)]: She doesn't look like super serious like a fighter or anything like that. 02:21:57.201 --> 02:22:01.470 [Riv (DM)]: There's a dude, middle-aged guy, quite wide shoulders, quite strong looking. 02:22:02.227 --> 02:22:03.009 [Riv (DM)]: Heavy brown beard. 02:22:03.450 --> 02:22:06.496 [Riv (DM)]: And there's another woman who's slightly older than the first. 02:22:06.857 --> 02:22:09.162 [Riv (DM)]: She's got green eyes that are quite sharp and piercing. 02:22:09.222 --> 02:22:11.346 [Riv (DM)]: She's currently looking around to see what's just happening. 02:22:12.048 --> 02:22:15.375 [Riv (DM)]: And her red hair is sort of like pulled down into a bun behind her. 02:22:19.523 --> 02:22:36.524 [Riv (DM)]: I will say on a 20, the first woman closest, the younger one, has got very, very nice looking boots that to the average eye might just look like a normal pair of boots, but to your natural 20, they look fancy. 02:22:36.604 --> 02:22:45.835 [Riv (DM)]: They haven't appeared to have been scuffed even though, you know, I mean, she's been out here wandering around in the snow for forever. 02:22:49.038 --> 02:22:49.619 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Keep it quiet. 02:22:53.123 --> 02:22:54.184 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've had a bit of a discussion. 02:22:54.765 --> 02:22:54.865 [Riv (DM)]: Oh! 02:22:55.285 --> 02:22:55.666 [Riv (DM)]: Oh gosh. 02:22:55.986 --> 02:22:56.627 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, sorry. 02:22:57.127 --> 02:22:57.608 [Riv (DM)]: Very close. 02:23:01.733 --> 02:23:04.416 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Things are a bit more complicated than it might have first appeared. 02:23:07.199 --> 02:23:10.083 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: From what I understand, you guys want to do a mass breakout, right? 02:23:11.664 --> 02:23:12.225 [Riv (DM)]: That's correct. 02:23:15.329 --> 02:23:16.530 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Do you have the cake? 02:23:18.451 --> 02:23:31.065 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Do you have the capabilities to escort, feed, and warm 50 to 100 people across two weeks of hell terrain while being pursued by Imperial soldiers? 02:23:35.670 --> 02:23:37.312 [Riv (DM)]: In our sleep is what we do. 02:23:43.839 --> 02:23:44.880 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Can you stay ahead of them? 02:23:48.185 --> 02:23:50.829 [Riv (DM)]: You ever look outside as you're coming by? 02:23:50.889 --> 02:23:52.071 [Riv (DM)]: What's the weather looking like? 02:23:54.775 --> 02:23:55.477 [Riv (DM)]: Cold hell. 02:23:56.478 --> 02:23:57.099 [Riv (DM)]: Storm's rolling in? 02:23:58.101 --> 02:23:59.102 [Riv (DM)]: I thought I could feel that. 02:24:03.029 --> 02:24:04.611 [Riv (DM)]: If I'm right about that, the storm will help. 02:24:04.972 --> 02:24:08.978 [Riv (DM)]: It'll make our crossing tough, but if the soldiers have no shot, they will be able to chase us. 02:24:16.990 --> 02:24:18.914 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm being told to insight check these people. 02:24:19.736 --> 02:24:22.683 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: People that aren't in the tent. 02:24:24.106 --> 02:24:25.028 [Riv (DM)]: Metagaming. 02:24:26.171 --> 02:24:32.946 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an insight check. 02:24:32.966 --> 02:24:33.066 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:24:33.086 --> 02:24:35.151 [Riv (DM)]: They appear confident and upfront with you. 02:24:40.649 --> 02:24:46.338 [Riv (DM)]: She Says, the closest one who had introduced herself as Sela earlier. 02:24:49.023 --> 02:24:50.866 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, of course, this is what we do. 02:24:51.006 --> 02:24:58.438 [Riv (DM)]: So I'm not sure if you're the same one that came by before, but this is Falk's crew. 02:24:58.779 --> 02:24:59.359 [Riv (DM)]: Nice to meet you. 02:25:00.762 --> 02:25:05.830 [Riv (DM)]: It's just the three of us here in our crew, but some of the other crews have got a few more members. 02:25:05.810 --> 02:25:11.260 [Riv (DM)]: Every winter we take large groups of merchants back and forth across the bridge. 02:25:12.442 --> 02:25:16.269 [Riv (DM)]: We've got havens set up along the way that only we know about with supplies. 02:25:17.031 --> 02:25:19.936 [Riv (DM)]: We can take shelter in the bad weather. 02:25:20.196 --> 02:25:29.353 [Riv (DM)]: We know all the ways to avoid the treacherous parts of the crossing and only we do because here's the trick. 02:25:29.333 --> 02:25:31.196 [Riv (DM)]: The Frostway changes every year. 02:25:31.216 --> 02:25:32.899 [Riv (DM)]: It never freezes in the same way. 02:25:33.700 --> 02:25:37.346 [Riv (DM)]: But we've got the skills and experience to find and navigate it. 02:25:39.529 --> 02:25:40.951 [Riv (DM)]: You can make it across by yourself. 02:25:41.232 --> 02:25:41.812 [Riv (DM)]: Some people have. 02:25:42.994 --> 02:25:43.715 [Riv (DM)]: But it wouldn't be easy. 02:25:44.417 --> 02:25:46.700 [Riv (DM)]: And you'd end up just going in circles if you try and do it by yourself. 02:25:49.444 --> 02:25:51.127 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Do the Imperials have another crew locked up? 02:25:51.568 --> 02:25:52.008 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or are you in? 02:25:53.451 --> 02:25:55.594 [Riv (DM)]: As far as I'm aware, we're all here in the camp. 02:26:02.763 --> 02:26:03.624 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: One last question. 02:26:04.345 --> 02:26:06.867 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You can obviously smooth the way, make it easier for travel. 02:26:08.349 --> 02:26:09.550 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Can you unsmooth the way? 02:26:09.590 --> 02:26:14.916 [Riv (DM)]: As in... like, magically? 02:26:16.698 --> 02:26:19.301 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, it's not what we do exactly. 02:26:21.744 --> 02:26:23.205 [Riv (DM)]: But, let's put it this way. 02:26:23.686 --> 02:26:24.647 [Riv (DM)]: We don't exactly need to. 02:26:25.928 --> 02:26:29.472 [Riv (DM)]: The weather and the cracking and shifting ice will do that by itself. 02:26:31.915 --> 02:26:32.095 [Riv (DM)]: Fair. 02:26:36.614 --> 02:26:38.396 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Are you just guides or are you fighters as well? 02:26:41.179 --> 02:26:42.101 [Riv (DM)]: Most of us aren't fighters. 02:26:42.761 --> 02:26:43.322 [Riv (DM)]: We don't need to. 02:26:43.682 --> 02:26:50.751 [Riv (DM)]: If we're doing our jobs correctly, we avoid the hunting territories of the monsters and the passage is as smooth as can be. 02:26:52.653 --> 02:26:53.654 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Handy with a bow at least. 02:26:54.556 --> 02:26:55.036 [Riv (DM)]: Some of us are. 02:26:55.937 --> 02:26:57.880 [Riv (DM)]: Personally I'm not, but... 02:26:59.602 --> 02:27:03.246 [Riv (DM)]: But old Dane over here, he knows his way around a few weapons. 02:27:04.559 --> 02:27:07.183 [Riv (DM)]: She said he's the scout of our party. 02:27:09.227 --> 02:27:10.148 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I was thinking long term. 02:27:11.891 --> 02:27:17.340 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Some of your capabilities versus Imperial scouts trying to find their way over might be quite handy to have. 02:27:20.525 --> 02:27:21.226 [Riv (DM)]: That's an interesting idea. 02:27:21.987 --> 02:27:25.453 [Riv (DM)]: You propose to stack up an ambushes? 02:27:28.032 --> 02:27:29.514 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Anything we can slow them down. 02:27:29.554 --> 02:27:33.159 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: In another week they're going to come with wardens or not. 02:27:33.179 --> 02:27:34.941 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're going to cross the flow in force. 02:27:38.025 --> 02:27:43.372 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I have no idea what the situation is at Noren, but I would imagine reinforcements aren't going to be good. 02:27:43.412 --> 02:27:53.805 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll take it back and we'll think about it, clear up a few questions, thank you. 02:27:54.746 --> 02:27:57.870 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 02:27:58.458 --> 02:28:05.366 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Another alternative, I'll throw it out there, is I may have sweet-talked my way across tomorrow with a small party. 02:28:08.170 --> 02:28:13.997 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If the option was available to get one out, and only one, would you take it? 02:28:17.041 --> 02:28:17.741 [Riv (DM)]: Just one of us, you mean? 02:28:18.783 --> 02:28:23.769 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:28:23.789 --> 02:28:23.889 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:28:23.909 --> 02:28:24.390 [Riv (DM)]: It would be tough. 02:28:25.851 --> 02:28:27.233 [Riv (DM)]: And to be perfectly honest, 02:28:28.765 --> 02:28:34.372 [Riv (DM)]: What makes us as effective as we are are each of the members of our crew. 02:28:35.153 --> 02:28:36.895 [Riv (DM)]: We're not so great solo. 02:28:37.276 --> 02:28:38.437 [Riv (DM)]: Each of us plays a different part. 02:28:41.381 --> 02:28:44.905 [Riv (DM)]: One of us might be able to help somewhat, but you need all three of us. 02:28:45.967 --> 02:28:48.290 [Riv (DM)]: Or at least you need a whole crew, if not us, one of the others. 02:28:51.434 --> 02:28:51.714 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Noted. 02:28:53.736 --> 02:28:54.958 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We'll talk it out and we'll get back to you. 02:28:56.812 --> 02:28:59.156 [Riv (DM)]: She just says to clarify. 02:28:59.456 --> 02:29:04.844 [Riv (DM)]: It seems you're unfamiliar with us Wardens. 02:29:06.006 --> 02:29:07.829 [Riv (DM)]: I am the ice listener. 02:29:09.251 --> 02:29:14.780 [Riv (DM)]: I've been trained to feel and recognize the vibrations and cracks in the ice. 02:29:15.360 --> 02:29:19.647 [Riv (DM)]: Whenever the frost wave begins to shift, I'm good at smelling it out. 02:29:19.627 --> 02:29:20.669 [Riv (DM)]: Dane here, he's the scout. 02:29:21.249 --> 02:29:33.748 [Riv (DM)]: He's good at venturing abroad, checking for pathways ahead, checking for the old pathways with the new ones, seeing what's what, and also keeping an eye out for any of the nasties that might be out there waiting. 02:29:34.529 --> 02:29:38.015 [Riv (DM)]: And finally our leader, she nods to the redhead woman, Liza. 02:29:38.095 --> 02:29:40.438 [Riv (DM)]: She's the pathfinder, the most experienced of us. 02:29:40.819 --> 02:29:44.284 [Riv (DM)]: She knows the ins and outs of the Frostway like the back of her hand. 02:29:45.833 --> 02:29:50.218 [Riv (DM)]: She alone might be able to get you across, but you really want all three of us. 02:29:57.387 --> 02:29:57.768 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fair enough. 02:29:59.129 --> 02:29:59.990 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We'll see what we can do. 02:30:00.051 --> 02:30:04.816 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And I'll just slip out of the tent and back into the other one. 02:30:05.417 --> 02:30:12.826 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cool. 02:30:12.846 --> 02:30:13.427 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Welp. 02:30:13.627 --> 02:30:16.532 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They think they can get everyone mobile if we needed to. 02:30:19.536 --> 02:30:24.344 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That said, it's still going to be a bit of an operation, doing a distraction and breakout. 02:30:29.592 --> 02:30:31.315 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Benefits are high, risk is high. 02:30:41.217 --> 02:30:43.780 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm a much more whatever. 02:30:45.361 --> 02:30:51.508 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We'll discuss and put it to a vote I think because that's the potential to get messy. 02:30:52.509 --> 02:30:54.511 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll look over at the dwarf and say I know what your vote is. 02:30:55.412 --> 02:30:55.833 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fireballs. 02:30:57.615 --> 02:31:02.620 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How do you feel about assassinating the general? 02:31:06.084 --> 02:31:09.267 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't think he's the one that would go down quickly and easily. 02:31:09.736 --> 02:31:11.678 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: He is a very high-ranking hand. 02:31:14.121 --> 02:31:14.942 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: He's no pushover. 02:31:16.925 --> 02:31:18.787 [JC (Ryo)]: You were inside that, um, structure. 02:31:18.847 --> 02:31:20.770 [JC (Ryo)]: How stable does it appear to be? 02:31:21.671 --> 02:31:22.412 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Solid stone. 02:31:25.736 --> 02:31:26.096 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hmm, damn. 02:31:26.697 --> 02:31:30.101 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Probably the most stable structure in the camp, which is why it's there. 02:31:30.802 --> 02:31:32.524 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We built for a long-term thing for traders. 02:31:35.628 --> 02:31:36.469 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got my, um... 02:31:36.685 --> 02:31:41.973 [JC (Ryo)]: One last explosive arrow left, I was just spinning it in my fingers going, yeah, so much for this idea. 02:31:42.193 --> 02:31:43.174 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll put it back in my bag. 02:31:43.835 --> 02:31:46.139 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What was the name of the Warden's crew, Riv? 02:31:46.159 --> 02:31:46.940 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They were the Fox crew. 02:31:48.041 --> 02:31:48.542 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fox crew. 02:31:48.742 --> 02:31:49.624 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 02:31:49.644 --> 02:31:54.190 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think back to the stone building with the sigils carved on the outside. 02:31:55.813 --> 02:31:58.216 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And I imagine amongst the bear and the wolf there was a fox. 02:31:58.396 --> 02:32:00.259 [Riv (DM)]: Absolutely, yep. 02:32:00.279 --> 02:32:01.020 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 02:32:01.040 --> 02:32:03.644 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: This place would have been the Frost Warden's HQ. 02:32:03.884 --> 02:32:05.106 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It ain't going down easy. 02:32:05.778 --> 02:32:06.960 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Foundry server connection lost. 02:32:07.621 --> 02:32:12.588 [Riv (DM)]: No. 02:32:12.608 --> 02:32:15.132 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do the Wardens know anything special about that building? 02:32:18.257 --> 02:32:19.158 [Riv (DM)]: Good deduction, by the way. 02:32:27.550 --> 02:32:28.632 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm trying to log back into Foundry. 02:32:33.379 --> 02:32:33.439 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um. 02:32:35.056 --> 02:32:36.677 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I look at Erendor. 02:32:37.258 --> 02:32:37.758 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's your vote. 02:32:41.041 --> 02:32:48.428 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I could easily get somewhere else in the camp and set off a distraction. 02:32:50.410 --> 02:32:54.954 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Especially if I get that arrow lent to me. 02:32:56.875 --> 02:33:02.380 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, I was thinking of just lobbing at 600 feet the other way. 02:33:02.400 --> 02:33:04.422 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't actually need to hit anything. 02:33:05.515 --> 02:33:06.416 [JC (Ryo)]: This is a good point. 02:33:06.596 --> 02:33:07.297 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, actually. 02:33:09.138 --> 02:33:13.382 [JC (Ryo)]: I was also hoping to lob it at the captain, but... 02:33:13.442 --> 02:33:15.925 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It'd be more fun if you did. 02:33:15.965 --> 02:33:19.028 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, but if it won't blow up the building. 02:33:21.550 --> 02:33:25.173 [JC (Ryo)]: But that said, I've still got some gunpowder in my inventory, Riv. 02:33:25.834 --> 02:33:29.537 [JC (Ryo)]: How big of an arrow could I make with what I've got? 02:33:29.557 --> 02:33:30.318 [Riv (DM)]: How much have you got? 02:33:31.419 --> 02:33:34.662 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We have a heavy crossbow, by the way. 02:33:35.738 --> 02:33:38.603 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll wait for someone to open the door to the captain. 02:33:38.623 --> 02:33:43.071 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I just threw the door into the inside of the room. 02:33:44.453 --> 02:33:46.757 [JC (Ryo)]: Um, I've just got it in my inventory as gunpowder. 02:33:47.118 --> 02:33:47.498 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:33:48.039 --> 02:33:49.382 [JC (Ryo)]: So I'm not sure how much that is. 02:33:49.702 --> 02:33:50.944 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't remember when I picked it up. 02:33:50.964 --> 02:33:52.487 [JC (Ryo)]: I know I still got a shit ton of views left. 02:33:53.268 --> 02:33:53.709 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:33:54.550 --> 02:33:58.978 [Riv (DM)]: I feel like you got some gunpowder recently and it was a small amount like a vial or something like that. 02:34:00.663 --> 02:34:03.206 [Riv (DM)]: Like, this wasn't the stuff all the way back from the ship, I don't think. 02:34:03.906 --> 02:34:05.808 [JC (Ryo)]: No, I don't think the gunpowder's from the ship, no. 02:34:05.828 --> 02:34:07.190 [JC (Ryo)]: This last arrow is. 02:34:07.670 --> 02:34:07.890 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:34:09.552 --> 02:34:11.314 [Riv (DM)]: You'd probably have to spend a bit of time to make a new arrow. 02:34:13.176 --> 02:34:13.856 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want to do it that way? 02:34:16.920 --> 02:34:27.210 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I look to Erendor and say, the sneaky skills might be handy, but one person with mixed capabilities, and I gesture to the other tent, 02:34:27.460 --> 02:34:30.365 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cracking 50 to 100 locks on their own is going to take time. 02:34:31.748 --> 02:34:34.032 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You might be better off speeding up that process if we're doing it. 02:34:40.183 --> 02:34:43.488 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I wonder if our water bender could help. 02:34:45.712 --> 02:34:46.093 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Excuse me? 02:34:48.031 --> 02:34:52.737 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, if you put water in a lock and freeze it, what happens? 02:34:52.757 --> 02:34:54.099 [Lacer (Kai)]: It depends on the lock. 02:34:54.119 --> 02:34:58.885 [Lacer (Kai)]: It might just freeze the lock and then you wouldn't be able to pick it, you know? 02:34:58.905 --> 02:35:01.788 [Lacer (Kai)]: It depends on the lock. 02:35:01.808 --> 02:35:05.413 [Lacer (Kai)]: I need to be able to see to put the water into the location. 02:35:08.597 --> 02:35:13.903 [Lacer (Kai)]: If I fuck it up, then I freeze all the prisoners in their locks not getting out. 02:35:13.923 --> 02:35:17.768 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, I think 02:35:18.642 --> 02:35:30.017 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The long process here is going to be cracking the locks on this many people, so the distraction has to be long and drawn out, or we need to crack as many people free as we can before shit gets loud. 02:35:31.639 --> 02:35:32.681 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm leaning to the ladder. 02:35:33.822 --> 02:35:34.002 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 02:35:35.364 --> 02:35:37.888 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, with all the guards wandering around, that'll be hard. 02:35:41.553 --> 02:35:43.435 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We really need to draw them away somewhere. 02:35:46.199 --> 02:35:52.105 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, are we going with the break these guys out free plan? 02:35:54.687 --> 02:35:57.330 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think that seems to be the general consensus. 02:35:57.610 --> 02:35:58.872 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Everyone's looking for a bit of mayhem. 02:36:01.294 --> 02:36:08.761 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, then I guess we should let our neighbours next door know that it should be going down tonight. 02:36:09.482 --> 02:36:11.464 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We need to have a plan first. 02:36:14.465 --> 02:36:18.972 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We can't go off half-cocked running across this city under martial law. 02:36:21.635 --> 02:36:35.515 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And then I look across and I go, unless... We've got a pair here that are pretty good at starting chaos. 02:36:37.859 --> 02:36:39.461 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You think you guys could pull that shit off again? 02:36:41.304 --> 02:36:44.168 [Riv (DM)]: What, the dwarf and the moon? 02:36:45.329 --> 02:36:49.837 [Riv (DM)]: Are you talking about that? 02:36:49.857 --> 02:36:51.360 [JC (Ryo)]: I was trying to figure out who you were talking about. 02:36:51.380 --> 02:36:53.043 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I was like, what? 02:36:53.063 --> 02:36:54.065 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The legend lives on. 02:36:55.588 --> 02:36:56.509 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're gonna try that again. 02:36:56.550 --> 02:36:57.111 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:36:57.992 --> 02:36:59.996 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Have we witnessed any crossbows? 02:37:01.499 --> 02:37:02.380 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I think you still got one, right? 02:37:03.683 --> 02:37:05.927 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: No, I mean, that's an army camp. 02:37:05.987 --> 02:37:06.828 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's full of crossbows. 02:37:06.848 --> 02:37:09.413 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hmm. 02:37:11.182 --> 02:37:14.426 [Lacer (Kai)]: Have we seen any non-human soldiers along the way? 02:37:14.466 --> 02:37:18.932 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I'm pretty sure this is a human encampment, right? 02:37:21.656 --> 02:37:23.578 [Riv (DM)]: Most, yeah, mostly human probably. 02:37:26.022 --> 02:37:36.135 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we know generally speaking these humans don't have darkvision, so even they'll need to shoot us and they'll need to be line assigned with some sort of line source. 02:37:37.617 --> 02:37:40.581 [Lacer (Kai)]: And it torches all the way through this town, isn't it? 02:37:42.535 --> 02:37:44.818 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, but torches are limited. 02:37:45.159 --> 02:37:46.020 [Lacer (Kai)]: Limited range. 02:37:46.901 --> 02:37:51.848 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fireball is lying from the back of a moose riding through the dark outside the walls even. 02:37:53.290 --> 02:37:53.971 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's true. 02:37:55.633 --> 02:37:56.354 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's no walls. 02:37:56.835 --> 02:38:00.700 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There's just this... Outside the tent line because we need to draw them away. 02:38:01.722 --> 02:38:02.443 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, I could do that. 02:38:02.503 --> 02:38:04.145 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It's a tent city with one structure. 02:38:07.270 --> 02:38:07.550 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:38:08.692 --> 02:38:09.673 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can do that. 02:38:12.826 --> 02:38:14.128 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Where's our distraction force? 02:38:14.769 --> 02:38:15.890 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Look at Erendor. 02:38:16.972 --> 02:38:22.739 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Think you could, uh, get the other guy sneaky and crack as many locks as you can? 02:38:27.946 --> 02:38:28.026 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 02:38:28.046 --> 02:38:28.587 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Look to Ryo. 02:38:30.169 --> 02:38:32.873 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cross with explosive arrows in the right place, possible? 02:38:34.435 --> 02:38:38.260 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I've only got the one, but yeah, I could make some more to take time. 02:38:40.771 --> 02:38:46.677 [JC (Ryo)]: To make the two that I had, it took me like two or three days, and that was with the other guy's help. 02:38:47.738 --> 02:38:48.458 [Lacer (Kai)]: Don't have the time. 02:38:51.641 --> 02:38:53.944 [JC (Ryo)]: Do we have any steel? 02:38:53.964 --> 02:39:04.934 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, I can always transform to look like a guard and go and cause some mischief as well. 02:39:06.356 --> 02:39:06.556 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Fair. 02:39:08.117 --> 02:39:09.799 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I can fabricate keys. 02:39:11.770 --> 02:39:15.977 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, there's a bunch of chainmail and stuff in your bag of holding, which would be steel. 02:39:17.580 --> 02:39:18.221 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Would you look at that? 02:39:19.383 --> 02:39:20.305 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: When you say fabricate? 02:39:21.427 --> 02:39:22.809 [Lacer (Kai)]: You need a forge though, don't you? 02:39:23.430 --> 02:39:24.372 [Lacer (Kai)]: You're gonna eat up the steel. 02:39:24.572 --> 02:39:26.977 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I can use magic. 02:39:27.037 --> 02:39:28.079 [Lacer (Kai)]: Transmutation. 02:39:30.122 --> 02:39:30.743 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's new. 02:39:30.763 --> 02:39:32.446 [Riv (DM)]: Never heard you do that before. 02:39:32.827 --> 02:39:33.588 [Riv (DM)]: Fabricate's pretty cool. 02:39:33.608 --> 02:39:36.934 [Riv (DM)]: So you take like existing material and you can transform it into a different shape. 02:39:38.804 --> 02:39:44.030 [Lacer (Kai)]: Question is, do you know the right key shape to be able to open these locks? 02:39:46.132 --> 02:39:48.455 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, they say they have someone very good with locks. 02:39:50.597 --> 02:39:51.778 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Someone could describe a key. 02:39:52.399 --> 02:39:53.760 [Lacer (Kai)]: We have someone pretty good with locks. 02:39:55.422 --> 02:39:57.885 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So we're going to need a bit of time to get these keys made. 02:39:59.567 --> 02:40:04.832 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Are there any chains in our tent with a lock presently that have been left unattended? 02:40:05.433 --> 02:40:08.136 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, there are a few chains dangling from the tin pole. 02:40:10.276 --> 02:40:14.322 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hell yeah, you can use the chains to make the keys. 02:40:14.342 --> 02:40:19.029 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I didn't imagine there'd be too many different types, so... Can't hurt to give it a test. 02:40:19.950 --> 02:40:20.191 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 02:40:20.812 --> 02:40:22.754 [Unmatched Speaker]: You would think they'd use the same key, right? 02:40:22.774 --> 02:40:23.936 [Unmatched Speaker]: To lock up all the prisoners. 02:40:24.918 --> 02:40:25.599 [Unmatched Speaker]: Just for ease. 02:40:25.619 --> 02:40:26.560 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It would make sense. 02:40:28.823 --> 02:40:31.608 [Lacer (Kai)]: You wouldn't have like a hundred keys to lock up a hundred prisoners. 02:40:31.648 --> 02:40:32.749 [Lacer (Kai)]: That'd be so painful. 02:40:35.794 --> 02:40:36.655 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That would be insane. 02:40:38.457 --> 02:40:41.119 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That sounds like exactly what they've done. 02:40:41.139 --> 02:40:44.242 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Here's one for you, and one for you, and one for you. 02:40:44.362 --> 02:40:47.205 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm gonna ask you to hold on to your keys. 02:40:49.948 --> 02:40:54.932 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so we're gonna mess around with the fabricate then. 02:40:55.933 --> 02:40:58.676 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, so Erendor, you know, locks. 02:40:59.276 --> 02:41:02.979 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You think you could pick one here and then give him an idea of the shape? 02:41:05.782 --> 02:41:07.924 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Give it a shot, see if I can work out the bedding. 02:41:08.377 --> 02:41:10.319 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:41:10.499 --> 02:41:11.320 [Riv (DM)]: This sounds fun. 02:41:11.861 --> 02:41:13.062 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so how are we going to do this? 02:41:13.122 --> 02:41:18.088 [Riv (DM)]: It'll be a Thieves Tools check with your proficiency bonus. 02:41:18.688 --> 02:41:24.174 [Riv (DM)]: So, and I believe two times your proficiency bonus now because you'll have expertise with your Thieves Tools, I think. 02:41:24.895 --> 02:41:25.936 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Am I imagining that? 02:41:25.956 --> 02:41:27.618 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh, Thieves Tools plus nine. 02:41:28.139 --> 02:41:29.400 [Riv (DM)]: Oh gosh, there we go, look at that. 02:41:30.161 --> 02:41:32.143 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, roll d20, add plus nine. 02:41:33.004 --> 02:41:36.628 [Lacer (Kai)]: Before you do that, do you want some magical assistance? 02:41:37.368 --> 02:41:42.053 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just to make sure you get the keys right. 02:41:42.073 --> 02:41:51.143 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, look, I mean, if you really feel like it, but, uh... Like, keys are very, like, it's not, not an easy thing to make. 02:41:52.745 --> 02:41:56.229 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, it's a, it's a manacles key. 02:41:56.329 --> 02:41:58.572 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It's not going to be a complicated key. 02:42:00.053 --> 02:42:03.417 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I guess, oh, I trust you. 02:42:03.678 --> 02:42:04.118 [Lacer (Kai)]: I trust you. 02:42:05.532 --> 02:42:09.181 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, I hope not, because I can't make things that are... well, fuck me. 02:42:14.916 --> 02:42:16.079 [Lacer (Kai)]: How's that lock working? 02:42:20.049 --> 02:42:22.596 [Riv (DM)]: It's... so he can unlock it. 02:42:22.981 --> 02:42:24.623 [Riv (DM)]: Like, it is a very simple lock with a 10. 02:42:26.244 --> 02:42:32.971 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, it's a simple lock for this campsite, like, you know, mass produce basic manacles, essentially. 02:42:33.351 --> 02:42:34.793 [Riv (DM)]: So he could easily unlock it with a 10. 02:42:35.773 --> 02:42:38.216 [Riv (DM)]: Reproducing it is possibly going to take a bit of time. 02:42:38.376 --> 02:42:40.538 [Riv (DM)]: You'll be able to do it, but it might take, you know, a few hours. 02:42:43.781 --> 02:42:45.383 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, because we're going to test and adjust, eh? 02:42:47.305 --> 02:42:49.647 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean, it's a 10. 02:42:51.162 --> 02:42:56.030 [Riv (DM)]: If we rolled high, it probably would have been done quite quickly, but it's just going to take a bit of time. 02:42:56.231 --> 02:42:57.252 [Riv (DM)]: Your fingers are cold. 02:43:02.962 --> 02:43:05.767 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, it's only just kind of gotten dark, isn't it? 02:43:06.809 --> 02:43:09.013 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you would have arrived here sort of early evening. 02:43:10.615 --> 02:43:11.517 [Riv (DM)]: You could spend a few hours. 02:43:18.989 --> 02:43:30.279 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I pull out my decanter of endless water and I try the Dondar's suggestion of trying to break a lock with shape water. 02:43:32.921 --> 02:43:43.651 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I kind of like dunk the lock in some water and then I click my finger, I suppose, and freeze it. 02:43:43.671 --> 02:43:46.954 [Riv (DM)]: So the water freezes into a solid cube with the lock inside it? 02:43:48.605 --> 02:43:52.069 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was trying to just have the water inside the keyhole. 02:43:52.089 --> 02:43:55.392 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, I thought you were saying you were dunking the whole lock into it. 02:43:55.933 --> 02:43:58.015 [Riv (DM)]: So you're going to put it into the keyhole itself and then freeze it. 02:43:58.376 --> 02:43:58.856 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:43:58.876 --> 02:43:59.997 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, and see what happens. 02:44:01.098 --> 02:44:05.323 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just to test out exactly what's... to show Dondar what would happen. 02:44:06.384 --> 02:44:13.232 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Before you fully expand it, are you able to very gently turn it and pull the key shape made of ice out? 02:44:13.252 --> 02:44:14.813 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, I can try that. 02:44:14.833 --> 02:44:16.435 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can try that. 02:44:17.056 --> 02:44:19.780 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Though I don't know if that works because I don't know if locks work that way. 02:44:22.003 --> 02:44:35.183 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, I would try and hold the shape of the water and shape it into the lock of the key and try and hold its shape and then try and pull it back out to have a watery shape of the key. 02:44:36.192 --> 02:44:36.633 [Riv (DM)]: Beautiful. 02:44:37.153 --> 02:44:37.414 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 02:44:37.494 --> 02:44:45.985 [Riv (DM)]: So it doesn't work that easily because with the little tumblers inside a lock, I believe each one needs to be pressed up individually. 02:44:46.346 --> 02:44:48.489 [Riv (DM)]: If you try and push them all at the same time, they all lock together. 02:44:49.050 --> 02:44:52.815 [Riv (DM)]: That's why you can't make a tool where you just stick a little rod in and they all go and just like pop open. 02:44:53.476 --> 02:44:53.576 [Riv (DM)]: DM. 02:44:53.596 --> 02:44:55.298 [Riv (DM)]: Well, actually, you can do that. 02:44:55.939 --> 02:44:56.019 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: DM. 02:44:56.059 --> 02:44:57.441 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean, that is a key. 02:44:58.012 --> 02:45:00.416 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: There's a key, and there's a bump key. 02:45:00.716 --> 02:45:02.900 [Riv (DM)]: The key pushes each one in individually though, right? 02:45:03.781 --> 02:45:04.182 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:45:04.202 --> 02:45:11.133 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The spontaneous pushing of them doesn't really matter, it's that they all need to be at separate, individual heights. 02:45:13.176 --> 02:45:14.358 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: But a bump key can do that. 02:45:15.540 --> 02:45:17.944 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We don't have a bump key. 02:45:18.683 --> 02:45:22.748 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, a bump key is just a piece of metal. 02:45:23.729 --> 02:45:27.794 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Medieval locks as well aren't high-tech tumblers. 02:45:28.094 --> 02:45:28.515 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Exactly. 02:45:29.115 --> 02:45:29.896 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: There's no tumblers. 02:45:29.936 --> 02:45:31.758 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: These would be very simple manacle locks. 02:45:32.840 --> 02:45:34.201 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Nothing out of one. 02:45:34.722 --> 02:45:37.365 [Riv (DM)]: Honestly, I love this. 02:45:37.745 --> 02:45:38.907 [Riv (DM)]: You're negotiating with the DM? 02:45:38.927 --> 02:45:39.748 [Riv (DM)]: This is peak D&D. 02:45:40.048 --> 02:45:40.489 [Riv (DM)]: This is great. 02:45:42.171 --> 02:45:43.392 [Riv (DM)]: So it's not impossible. 02:45:43.372 --> 02:45:45.260 [Riv (DM)]: Um, but we're gonna need a roll for it. 02:45:45.380 --> 02:45:46.766 [Riv (DM)]: So, um, yeah. 02:45:46.886 --> 02:45:47.931 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, I will roll. 02:45:48.152 --> 02:45:48.975 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll roll whatever. 02:45:49.055 --> 02:45:52.690 [Riv (DM)]: Straight spellcasting, so it'll just be your wisdom modifier. 02:45:58.728 --> 02:46:00.571 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, 15 is what I was looking for. 02:46:01.332 --> 02:46:09.684 [Riv (DM)]: So the first one you push it in and it just like freezes in there and snaps off because, you know, tumblers were at the wrong place or I don't know, they don't have tumblers, whatever. 02:46:09.945 --> 02:46:11.527 [Riv (DM)]: The key slot, the key slot. 02:46:11.547 --> 02:46:22.423 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, but you feel like actually, you know, that kind of, you felt something sort of jiggle or move in there so you tried a second time and on the second time the manacles pop open and the key itself, because of your magical Shakewater Ice, 02:46:22.403 --> 02:46:29.316 [Riv (DM)]: It becomes like rock hard but rock solid essentially and you're able to just slide it out and you've got a perfectly shaped key that fits the manacle. 02:46:31.039 --> 02:46:32.862 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, here you go Dondar. 02:46:33.122 --> 02:46:34.244 [Lacer (Kai)]: This is what you're looking for. 02:46:34.525 --> 02:46:35.467 [Lacer (Kai)]: It lasts an hour. 02:46:38.272 --> 02:46:40.075 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Couldn't you just make a heap of those? 02:46:41.354 --> 02:46:44.579 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can you do one at a time? 02:46:44.599 --> 02:46:45.741 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I can make two. 02:46:46.261 --> 02:46:48.284 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I can shape it and then I freeze it. 02:46:49.406 --> 02:46:50.788 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I can make two, I think. 02:46:50.988 --> 02:46:51.730 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maximum two. 02:46:53.012 --> 02:46:54.233 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess two is better than none. 02:46:55.916 --> 02:46:59.581 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So the question becomes, if I make it with fabricate, how many can I make? 02:47:00.302 --> 02:47:03.007 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Because it sounds like I can only make one object. 02:47:04.449 --> 02:47:09.336 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Whether or not I made a template that we could then snap all the keys off of? 02:47:10.058 --> 02:47:13.083 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: But that'd be up to the DM as to whether that'd be allowed. 02:47:14.105 --> 02:47:16.509 [Riv (DM)]: You convert raw materials into products of the same material. 02:47:16.529 --> 02:47:20.956 [Riv (DM)]: For example, you can create a wooden bridge from a clump of trees, a rope from a patch of hemp, clothes from a flexible wall. 02:47:21.677 --> 02:47:22.759 [Riv (DM)]: Choose the materials you see within range. 02:47:22.939 --> 02:47:25.864 [Riv (DM)]: You create a large or smaller object contained within a ten-foot cube. 02:47:25.984 --> 02:47:27.727 [Riv (DM)]: Damn, you can make some big shit, dude. 02:47:28.529 --> 02:47:29.971 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:47:30.071 --> 02:47:32.455 [Riv (DM)]: Or eight connected five-foot cubes. 02:47:33.987 --> 02:47:41.899 [Riv (DM)]: Given sufficient quantity of material, if you're working with metal stone, other fabricated objects can be no larger than medium, contained within a five foot cube. 02:47:41.919 --> 02:47:44.844 [Riv (DM)]: Quality of the fabricated objects is based on the quality of the raw materials. 02:47:45.164 --> 02:47:46.286 [Riv (DM)]: Can't create magic items. 02:47:47.227 --> 02:47:47.608 [Riv (DM)]: You know what? 02:47:48.449 --> 02:47:57.523 [Riv (DM)]: Dude, if you can create eight connected five foot cubes and like make a bridge, you can absolutely make a big row of keys and just like snap them off. 02:47:57.864 --> 02:47:58.264 [Lacer (Kai)]: And snap them off. 02:47:58.284 --> 02:48:00.788 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If he's working with metal, he can only do a single five foot cube. 02:48:02.489 --> 02:48:04.393 [Lacer (Kai)]: A five-foot cube is a lot of keys, dude. 02:48:04.413 --> 02:48:06.897 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You are working with metal, stone, or another mineral substance. 02:48:07.138 --> 02:48:10.484 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: However, the fabricated object can be no larger than medium. 02:48:10.504 --> 02:48:13.149 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Which is still a fucking big cube. 02:48:13.510 --> 02:48:17.477 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can make a hundred keys, dude, as long as you've got the material, the amount of metal. 02:48:17.738 --> 02:48:24.210 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So how much, how many keys do we have material for? 02:48:24.933 --> 02:48:26.155 [Riv (DM)]: Sure, I'll just go there. 02:48:26.275 --> 02:48:28.137 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How much chain have we got? 02:48:29.079 --> 02:48:32.403 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You know how much armor we've got and whether or not we want to spend it. 02:48:32.704 --> 02:48:35.568 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You were going to use the manacles, right? 02:48:35.588 --> 02:48:38.231 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're going to use the manacles, but keys are really small. 02:48:38.632 --> 02:48:41.496 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We've got like four sets of chain mail as well. 02:48:43.318 --> 02:48:49.246 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, like two chains would probably be enough to make a key easily and anything that's joining them. 02:48:49.887 --> 02:48:51.209 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Chain is like heavy, dude. 02:48:51.229 --> 02:48:52.891 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You can make like multiple keys. 02:48:52.911 --> 02:48:54.754 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, two links of chain. 02:48:55.190 --> 02:48:57.953 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, to link for Calathilion, you meant two armor chain set. 02:48:57.973 --> 02:49:01.538 [Lacer (Kai)]: When you said two chain, I thought I was like, a whole armor set, that's a lot. 02:49:01.878 --> 02:49:07.365 [Riv (DM)]: So with just the manacles alone, the chains and the manacles, you can make as many keys as you want, essentially. 02:49:07.405 --> 02:49:11.209 [Riv (DM)]: You can probably make like 50 easily. 02:49:11.229 --> 02:49:12.330 [Lacer (Kai)]: Roll a D100. 02:49:15.875 --> 02:49:17.136 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay. 02:49:17.156 --> 02:49:19.459 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: As many as we have people for then, I guess. 02:49:20.401 --> 02:49:28.430 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If we're freeing a hundred people, ten keys is the most we'd need. 02:49:28.650 --> 02:49:33.315 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I was gonna say, like, there's no diminishing returns here, right? 02:49:34.737 --> 02:49:41.785 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You give me more keys, I go invisible, I run past, I throw a key at someone in every tent that I see someone. 02:49:42.585 --> 02:49:43.446 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep, exactly. 02:49:43.647 --> 02:49:44.708 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And they can free themselves. 02:49:44.768 --> 02:49:49.233 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:49:49.293 --> 02:49:50.374 [Lacer (Kai)]: That is a good plan. 02:49:51.485 --> 02:49:51.946 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Good work. 02:49:53.568 --> 02:49:55.651 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And then chaos as they all leave. 02:49:56.492 --> 02:49:57.874 [Riv (DM)]: I think it would be reasonable. 02:49:57.914 --> 02:50:02.080 [Riv (DM)]: There are five sets of manacles and chains in the tent here. 02:50:03.362 --> 02:50:07.208 [Riv (DM)]: I reckon you could probably make 10 from each one. 02:50:07.268 --> 02:50:18.184 [Riv (DM)]: So you could make 50, chuck in a bit of chainmail, chuck in a bit of chainmail and I'll let you get like another 25 per thing of chainmail. 02:50:20.881 --> 02:50:24.146 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't even need the Gmail anymore. 02:50:24.166 --> 02:50:25.088 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So what, 35 keys? 02:50:26.770 --> 02:50:33.881 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: More like 50 easily, but 50 is enough for people to crack out and then crack out their neighbours. 02:50:34.242 --> 02:50:36.986 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, exactly. 02:50:37.006 --> 02:50:38.448 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, here's your keys. 02:50:41.273 --> 02:50:41.773 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Holy shit. 02:50:41.793 --> 02:50:43.837 [Riv (DM)]: So this is going to take 10 minutes to cast. 02:50:43.857 --> 02:50:48.063 [Riv (DM)]: So do you feel like giving us a little description of what your Fabricate looks like? 02:50:48.604 --> 02:50:49.285 [Riv (DM)]: This is the first time using it. 02:50:51.121 --> 02:50:51.882 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, it is. 02:50:52.702 --> 02:50:53.103 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Ooh. 02:50:55.605 --> 02:50:58.307 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I don't think it'll be anything particularly special. 02:50:58.368 --> 02:51:21.128 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I imagine the metal will glow, probably white-hot, which might be noticed, but the manacles will just flow and reform and cool instantly into the shape we desire, which I imagine is 02:51:21.580 --> 02:51:28.810 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: A single rod with 25 keys off of each side with a small tag. 02:51:30.372 --> 02:51:30.572 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 02:51:31.453 --> 02:51:31.634 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 02:51:31.654 --> 02:51:35.940 [Riv (DM)]: So you're sort of like metalbending, so that's like flying through the air between your hands. 02:51:37.502 --> 02:51:45.713 [Riv (DM)]: Spread it out on the ground and it sort of like starts to slide its way along, forming keys as they sort of grow, like trees might grow from the ground in a rapid speed. 02:51:47.615 --> 02:51:48.837 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's a good 02:51:49.728 --> 02:51:50.109 [Riv (DM)]: Beautiful. 02:51:50.349 --> 02:51:51.170 [Riv (DM)]: And so before you... Do it work? 02:51:51.751 --> 02:51:57.559 [Riv (DM)]: You've got a rod with 50 keys attached and poking at one of the keys now as you sort of pick up the rod, very easy. 02:51:57.579 --> 02:51:59.402 [Riv (DM)]: It's just like a tiny little bit of wire connecting it. 02:51:59.422 --> 02:52:05.611 [Riv (DM)]: You can just give it a few little twists and bends and you just snap it right off. 02:52:05.631 --> 02:52:08.035 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Now that we've run out of manacles, let's hope they work. 02:52:11.139 --> 02:52:14.424 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, Erendor can pop next door, literally, and test it out. 02:52:14.444 --> 02:52:15.786 [Lacer (Kai)]: We've got three guys next door. 02:52:22.077 --> 02:52:33.012 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, well, I guess we, uh, give our distraction force. 02:52:33.032 --> 02:52:44.288 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I am, I think, yeah, it's gonna take a while for you guys to start freeing these people, so how, when do you want us to go and start causing a bit of mayhem? 02:52:47.339 --> 02:52:51.985 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Once people start getting unlocked, it's going to accelerate quickly. 02:52:53.167 --> 02:52:57.493 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, so should we... Is there another edge of the camp? 02:52:58.655 --> 02:52:59.376 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Where are we meeting? 02:53:01.799 --> 02:53:03.561 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That is a good point, that is a very good point. 02:53:04.182 --> 02:53:06.606 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The ward isn't going to head straight for the ice, I would imagine. 02:53:07.547 --> 02:53:17.160 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we will charge from the far side of the camp and do a big loop while burning the place down and head towards the ice. 02:53:18.254 --> 02:53:19.175 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 02:53:19.195 --> 02:53:24.822 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Are you guys able to move through the camp quietly until you need to start making noise? 02:53:25.203 --> 02:53:29.268 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And we'll go on the sound of explosions and fire? 02:53:31.390 --> 02:53:38.098 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, I can technically just transform into a cat or a mouse or a fox and just flip out. 02:53:40.581 --> 02:53:41.763 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What can the fireball throw do? 02:53:41.783 --> 02:53:42.724 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Can it turn invisible? 02:53:43.024 --> 02:53:44.346 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or you can fly actually instead. 02:53:45.254 --> 02:53:47.377 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If you fly straight up... 02:53:47.397 --> 02:53:48.960 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The flyer could be his exit plan. 02:53:49.861 --> 02:53:50.482 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, that's true. 02:53:52.766 --> 02:53:55.050 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll let the Chaos crew... 02:53:55.070 --> 02:53:56.232 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Okay, how best to do that, Chaos? 02:54:00.579 --> 02:54:07.650 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, Dondar, how are we gonna... vacate the tent premises without being detected? 02:54:16.355 --> 02:54:19.902 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we... hmm. 02:54:19.922 --> 02:54:20.423 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Good question. 02:54:22.006 --> 02:54:26.916 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, how much more, how many more times can you cast that invisibility thing, Erendor? 02:54:30.323 --> 02:54:30.824 [Lacer (Kai)]: Only once. 02:54:32.347 --> 02:54:33.870 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, you'll need that, sure. 02:54:34.671 --> 02:54:34.772 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:54:35.894 --> 02:54:37.477 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hmm. 02:54:37.497 --> 02:54:37.958 [Unmatched Speaker]: Right. 02:54:42.359 --> 02:54:49.589 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I mean, you could launch from here and the guards might chase you, but it's also where the highest concentration of guards are right now. 02:54:50.270 --> 02:54:57.040 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess, but if you fly straight up, the light won't penetrate that high and the sky is dark, so you won't see us very well. 02:54:58.302 --> 02:55:04.812 [Lacer (Kai)]: If I were like a little cat or a little mouse or something, Dondar could just carry me. 02:55:05.152 --> 02:55:07.495 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just jet out of here until you're ready. 02:55:11.041 --> 02:55:12.062 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we, um... 02:55:13.763 --> 02:55:15.346 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Individually, can we tell time? 02:55:15.386 --> 02:55:19.913 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we have a concept of how long an hour is? 02:55:22.117 --> 02:55:30.150 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean, um, like, not super precisely, but, yeah. 02:55:30.170 --> 02:55:35.038 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, I think in the skies world, yeah, most people would use, like, the positions of the sun and the moon and stuff like that. 02:55:36.260 --> 02:55:36.961 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is the moon out? 02:55:37.803 --> 02:55:39.906 [Riv (DM)]: Possibly, but black skies overhead. 02:55:43.767 --> 02:55:45.970 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll know it's been an hour when we can see Vale again. 02:55:45.990 --> 02:55:57.328 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I mean, if you're trying to work out a signal to start, I'm pretty sure we'll know when to start when things start catching on fire and exploding. 02:55:58.150 --> 02:56:00.313 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, you'll know, but do we know? 02:56:00.333 --> 02:56:04.780 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we know how long is enough time if we're separated? 02:56:06.920 --> 02:56:09.703 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: How long the distraction should last or when to start it? 02:56:10.244 --> 02:56:11.345 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: When to start, yeah. 02:56:11.825 --> 02:56:12.686 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You guys just kick it off. 02:56:13.567 --> 02:56:14.869 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Build your explosions and make our move. 02:56:16.230 --> 02:56:16.531 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:56:16.851 --> 02:56:19.654 [Lacer (Kai)]: But you want to start freeing some people before we even start, right? 02:56:20.475 --> 02:56:21.016 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we can. 02:56:21.036 --> 02:56:23.058 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you have a head start. 02:56:23.338 --> 02:56:26.922 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We don't have any sending capabilities, do we, within the party? 02:56:28.284 --> 02:56:29.124 [Lacer (Kai)]: I do. 02:56:29.245 --> 02:56:31.988 [Lacer (Kai)]: I do, but I have it tomorrow. 02:56:32.148 --> 02:56:33.349 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll have it ready tomorrow. 02:56:35.311 --> 02:56:36.893 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's not something I use. 02:56:39.202 --> 02:56:42.607 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I mean, the stealthy is great, but that could go south at any time. 02:56:42.627 --> 02:56:46.131 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think we'll just start it, and you guys do. 02:56:46.272 --> 02:56:46.892 [Lacer (Kai)]: We start it. 02:56:47.113 --> 02:56:47.653 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll start it. 02:56:48.414 --> 02:56:49.256 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then you start. 02:56:50.998 --> 02:56:51.839 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:56:51.859 --> 02:56:52.660 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sounds like a plan. 02:56:52.780 --> 02:56:53.722 [Lacer (Kai)]: And we meet on the ice. 02:56:57.627 --> 02:57:07.220 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You guys are, well, one of you will be animal form and mobile, and the other one can fly, so it should be fairly easy to find the crew of people, like the 50 to 100 people running away. 02:57:08.722 --> 02:57:08.922 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:57:09.340 --> 02:57:10.041 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Even in a blizzard? 02:57:11.763 --> 02:57:12.283 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:57:12.304 --> 02:57:13.365 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would hope. 02:57:13.385 --> 02:57:19.752 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I would be able to smell them and transform into, like, the snow wolf or something. 02:57:20.653 --> 02:57:28.383 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The sending stones that we have, do they allow communication between each other or just to the, uh... 02:57:28.403 --> 02:57:29.724 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm forgetting his name. 02:57:29.744 --> 02:57:33.389 [Riv (DM)]: They were, like, one-to-one links back to... Just to their peers. 02:57:35.731 --> 02:57:38.014 [Riv (DM)]: Which are back with Tylos at the castle. 02:57:43.580 --> 02:57:44.621 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:57:44.641 --> 02:57:46.103 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we better get going, Dondar. 02:57:46.123 --> 02:57:49.447 [Lacer (Kai)]: Shall we... fly up into the sky? 02:57:51.148 --> 02:57:58.797 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I could suggest to a soldier that they are under attack. 02:57:58.817 --> 02:58:01.640 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And have him raise the alarm somewhere else. 02:58:05.845 --> 02:58:06.886 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I think that'd be too soon. 02:58:07.186 --> 02:58:12.372 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You know, we don't have... Well, I can wait and do it. 02:58:15.085 --> 02:58:16.127 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I think you could just throw a Fireball. 02:58:17.890 --> 02:58:23.680 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, it's just that... Then, they'll go for the Fireball. 02:58:26.144 --> 02:58:27.145 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How big is the camp, Riv? 02:58:27.887 --> 02:58:28.127 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Feet. 02:58:29.449 --> 02:58:31.052 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh, um... 02:58:32.855 --> 02:58:33.696 [Riv (DM)]: Good question. 02:58:33.756 --> 02:58:36.340 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably... maybe a thousand feet across? 02:58:37.542 --> 02:58:38.183 [Riv (DM)]: Like it's decent. 02:58:38.203 --> 02:58:39.445 [Riv (DM)]: Damn, son. 02:58:39.465 --> 02:58:42.590 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, it's like, in the grand scheme of things, a thousand feet isn't that far. 02:58:42.770 --> 02:58:43.932 [Riv (DM)]: Fuckin' metric. 02:58:43.952 --> 02:58:44.793 [Lacer (Kai)]: 300 meters. 02:58:45.234 --> 02:58:46.376 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's about 300 meters. 02:58:46.496 --> 02:58:48.980 [Riv (DM)]: Like three football fields across. 02:58:49.000 --> 02:58:51.524 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's probably reasonable, yep. 02:58:51.544 --> 02:58:52.906 [Riv (DM)]: And is it red tents all the way around? 02:58:53.667 --> 02:58:55.390 [Riv (DM)]: Surrounded by red tents on the outskirts, yeah. 02:58:55.410 --> 02:59:01.579 [Riv (DM)]: And then you've got your main cluster of, um, standard local tents in the center, yep. 02:59:04.563 --> 02:59:08.928 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And on which side is the generals' quarters? 02:59:10.530 --> 02:59:13.633 [Riv (DM)]: The commander that Valewinder spoke to... 02:59:13.653 --> 02:59:14.194 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yes, commander. 02:59:14.354 --> 02:59:15.055 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:59:15.876 --> 02:59:21.282 [Riv (DM)]: He's at the Frosthearth, the Warden's place, in the very, very centre of the town. 02:59:25.707 --> 02:59:25.767 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh. 02:59:26.628 --> 02:59:28.029 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So not with the red tints? 02:59:29.711 --> 02:59:32.715 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: No. 02:59:32.735 --> 02:59:33.175 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Curious. 02:59:33.696 --> 02:59:33.996 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:59:35.815 --> 02:59:38.718 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want me to sketch you guys a little map? 02:59:38.738 --> 02:59:39.879 [Lacer (Kai)]: That could be helpful for... 02:59:41.800 --> 02:59:42.921 [Lacer (Kai)]: The question is, would we know? 02:59:43.062 --> 02:59:44.002 [Lacer (Kai)]: We only just got here. 02:59:44.443 --> 02:59:45.484 [Lacer (Kai)]: Would we know? 02:59:45.504 --> 02:59:46.905 [Lacer (Kai)]: Would we know? 02:59:46.925 --> 02:59:48.567 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, it's flat and open. 02:59:50.428 --> 02:59:53.071 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I guess it is night, but there would be fires. 02:59:53.131 --> 02:59:56.454 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We would have a rough idea of what it looks like. 02:59:56.514 --> 02:59:59.396 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I suppose we would have a rough estimation. 02:59:59.817 --> 03:00:01.278 [Lacer (Kai)]: A very rough map. 03:00:01.298 --> 03:00:02.239 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: There's no walls. 03:00:02.920 --> 03:00:05.502 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm imagining it does look more or less like 03:00:06.443 --> 03:00:11.130 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The image on the Point Blackrock screen. 03:00:12.151 --> 03:00:18.500 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, um... Let me... Let me do something for you guys. 03:00:20.843 --> 03:00:21.304 [Riv (DM)]: Here we go. 03:00:23.347 --> 03:00:26.771 [Riv (DM)]: I'll just actually whip up a quick scene for you in Foundry so you can see it. 03:00:27.332 --> 03:00:28.714 [Riv (DM)]: Because I did draw a sketch for this place. 03:00:29.315 --> 03:00:32.760 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I was going to suggest to a soldier that he is under attack. 03:00:33.901 --> 03:00:35.083 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And to raise the alarm. 03:00:35.570 --> 03:00:38.414 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: From a point the opposite way to which we're going. 03:00:39.576 --> 03:00:41.679 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So they all go their way and we all go our way. 03:00:45.364 --> 03:00:47.547 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And fireballs could eventually help with that. 03:01:04.492 --> 03:01:05.053 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 03:01:08.645 --> 03:01:19.279 [Riv (DM)]: Pidding and we are gridless. 03:01:39.323 --> 03:01:40.405 [Riv (DM)]: Huzzah. 03:01:40.505 --> 03:01:45.173 [Riv (DM)]: Just ignore the names of the places over to the left because you don't know about them yet. 03:01:45.253 --> 03:01:48.718 [Riv (DM)]: But other than that, this is roughly the outline of the place. 03:01:49.880 --> 03:01:50.982 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I've taken off my glasses. 03:01:51.062 --> 03:01:52.064 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I can't see the lames. 03:01:53.967 --> 03:01:56.832 [Riv (DM)]: So Blue Tents is sort of like the more or less permanent merchant tents. 03:01:57.453 --> 03:02:00.097 [Riv (DM)]: Frosthearth, straight in the centre of the crossroads that you passed through. 03:02:00.598 --> 03:02:04.504 [Riv (DM)]: You guys are currently up in the press yards up here to the north. 03:02:04.484 --> 03:02:06.568 [Riv (DM)]: And then all of the red tents are the surroundings. 03:02:07.369 --> 03:02:08.731 [Riv (DM)]: Obviously, these are not to scale. 03:02:09.172 --> 03:02:10.535 [Riv (DM)]: It's just more indicative. 03:02:12.298 --> 03:02:12.899 [Lacer (Kai)]: Good to know. 03:02:13.139 --> 03:02:14.502 [Lacer (Kai)]: Blast all the outer ring. 03:02:14.742 --> 03:02:15.583 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's all we need to do. 03:02:16.305 --> 03:02:17.627 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, whereabouts did you say we were? 03:02:18.929 --> 03:02:22.155 [JC (Ryo)]: You're up in the press room. 03:02:23.519 --> 03:02:28.105 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay, so the people we need to get out are the blue tents, is that right? 03:02:29.166 --> 03:02:30.948 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: No, they're in red tents too. 03:02:31.249 --> 03:02:33.091 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, sorry. 03:02:33.371 --> 03:02:37.016 [Riv (DM)]: Essentially what's happened is the Empire rocked on up here. 03:02:37.657 --> 03:02:41.822 [Riv (DM)]: It's been used as a staging ground, so that's what all these red tents are surrounding. 03:02:42.743 --> 03:02:49.712 [Riv (DM)]: They have been sending their soldiers across in groups, so there have been four crossings made so far, which the Frostwardens have done. 03:02:50.418 --> 03:03:15.750 [Riv (DM)]: The Empire is struggling in their fight with Val Noren and so they have been taking basically any able-bodied person including the Frostwardens prisoner so they don't flee or whatever so they can use them and bring them across for the next assault as essentially to be used as cannon fodder in the fight and so all of the people that are you know available or possible to fight are with you at the moment in the press yards along with the Frostwardens. 03:03:18.599 --> 03:03:20.250 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, and where is the ice? 03:03:21.256 --> 03:03:23.732 [Riv (DM)]: To the north, up to the northeast. 03:03:24.657 --> 03:03:25.858 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're basically right beside it. 03:03:26.139 --> 03:03:27.580 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, that's easy. 03:03:27.801 --> 03:03:34.028 [Riv (DM)]: If you jump back and have a look at the Valtorra map, I'm not super happy with the map. 03:03:34.088 --> 03:03:35.990 [Riv (DM)]: It's not perfectly accurate to what I have in my mind. 03:03:36.010 --> 03:03:38.032 [Riv (DM)]: I think I'll probably adjust it at some point. 03:03:38.412 --> 03:03:40.895 [Riv (DM)]: Point Blackrock is closer to the coast than I've drawn it here. 03:03:42.657 --> 03:03:45.320 [Riv (DM)]: Or rather, the coastline is closer to where Point Blackrock is. 03:03:46.381 --> 03:03:49.585 [Riv (DM)]: The land there is, I guess, more island-y sort of stuff. 03:03:53.362 --> 03:03:57.648 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, if we're on the north and we want to be running north, I'll suggest starting the fires on the south. 03:04:00.052 --> 03:04:01.975 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's exactly what I was thinking. 03:04:02.595 --> 03:04:12.330 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can scooch to the left and then we just do a big counterclockwise run around the whole encampment. 03:04:20.421 --> 03:04:21.563 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, it's an idea. 03:04:22.859 --> 03:04:23.220 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Sure. 03:04:24.702 --> 03:04:29.168 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do you have anything to contribute to the chaos, apart from... Me? 03:04:29.268 --> 03:04:30.289 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Elk screams? 03:04:30.710 --> 03:04:31.010 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:04:31.751 --> 03:04:41.245 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I can, before I transform, I can whip up a, um, what's it called, a moonbeam and let it follow behind us. 03:04:42.326 --> 03:04:45.611 [Lacer (Kai)]: While we run, I can just laser the ground. 03:04:46.332 --> 03:04:47.754 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, throwback to the spiders, eh? 03:04:48.635 --> 03:04:49.997 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:04:52.036 --> 03:04:54.979 [Riv (DM)]: Does, um, Wild Shape, does it break your concentration? 03:04:55.859 --> 03:04:57.060 [Riv (DM)]: Nope. 03:04:57.261 --> 03:05:02.185 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You can't cast while you're shaped unless you're, like, fucking murdered because they're broken. 03:05:03.426 --> 03:05:03.947 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: But, yeah. 03:05:04.367 --> 03:05:05.668 [Riv (DM)]: Keep up existing concentrations. 03:05:06.629 --> 03:05:07.270 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:05:07.290 --> 03:05:08.090 [Riv (DM)]: That's cool. 03:05:08.110 --> 03:05:08.551 [Riv (DM)]: Didn't realise that. 03:05:08.571 --> 03:05:14.136 [Riv (DM)]: That's really cool. 03:05:14.156 --> 03:05:14.736 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty, folks. 03:05:15.017 --> 03:05:15.597 [Riv (DM)]: Let's make a move. 03:05:17.879 --> 03:05:18.680 [Riv (DM)]: What is the first up? 03:05:18.700 --> 03:05:20.001 [Riv (DM)]: What's first up on the agenda? 03:05:22.124 --> 03:05:28.214 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think we need to slip away in Dondarrinae so we can start the chaos. 03:05:32.480 --> 03:05:35.645 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, should we start heading southeast? 03:05:39.331 --> 03:05:39.612 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it? 03:05:39.832 --> 03:05:46.242 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or are we going northwest so we can go past the thing that would do a big loop around the camp? 03:05:46.829 --> 03:05:49.072 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we can start down at the south. 03:05:49.834 --> 03:05:52.758 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You want to pull them away from where we are as much as possible? 03:05:52.858 --> 03:05:55.542 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we want to start south, like where we entered at the beginning. 03:05:56.744 --> 03:06:02.092 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or even if you started like over here on the east side and ran south. 03:06:02.112 --> 03:06:02.853 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hmm, southeast. 03:06:02.873 --> 03:06:04.996 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: People away that way and around. 03:06:05.637 --> 03:06:06.679 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, that's a good idea. 03:06:07.380 --> 03:06:11.446 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we should just go north first and then make our way to like here. 03:06:13.169 --> 03:06:14.811 [Lacer (Kai)]: So if we head north out of the camp. 03:06:15.145 --> 03:06:20.956 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then make our way down on the outskirts to here and then start blasting. 03:06:21.958 --> 03:06:25.424 [Riv (DM)]: So just my benefit, are you planning on stealthing away or are you just going to blast your way through? 03:06:25.464 --> 03:06:30.233 [Riv (DM)]: And then once you get to here, you will start fireballing teams or something like that? 03:06:31.876 --> 03:06:38.368 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was thinking of stealthing out first and running on the outskirts because it would be faster just running the outskirts of the camp. 03:06:40.238 --> 03:06:48.129 [Lacer (Kai)]: All the big encampments I think would be too risky for me to like run through between all these tents. 03:06:52.155 --> 03:06:54.358 [Lacer (Kai)]: And risk getting shot. 03:06:54.378 --> 03:07:04.052 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright, unless you just want to start ghosting it up from the beginning. 03:07:06.192 --> 03:07:07.794 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I mean, Fireball has a long range. 03:07:08.315 --> 03:07:10.699 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You don't have to be within... That's what I mean. 03:07:11.180 --> 03:07:11.460 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 03:07:11.881 --> 03:07:16.948 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or maybe you do. 03:07:16.968 --> 03:07:19.172 [Riv (DM)]: Your Fireball's like 120 or something, isn't it? 03:07:19.192 --> 03:07:20.033 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it is. 03:07:20.053 --> 03:07:22.697 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:07:22.717 --> 03:07:28.125 [Lacer (Kai)]: And if we're out of range, they only see you, I guess, the initial casting while we're in the darkness. 03:07:28.907 --> 03:07:32.712 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then we just run around the camp. 03:07:32.732 --> 03:07:34.495 [Lacer (Kai)]: And not risk getting shot. 03:07:35.740 --> 03:07:38.124 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fireball, Fireball, Balls and Firebolts. 03:07:39.346 --> 03:07:40.348 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You don't want to burn all your slots. 03:07:41.169 --> 03:07:41.610 [Riv (DM)]: That's true. 03:07:46.278 --> 03:07:49.223 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, you guys need to make a move. 03:07:49.243 --> 03:07:51.507 [Riv (DM)]: I think enough chatting, you guys gotta do something. 03:07:52.468 --> 03:07:53.911 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, how are we gonna get out of here Dondar? 03:07:53.931 --> 03:08:01.123 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are we gonna fly up straight up or are we gonna try and work our way north out of the camp first? 03:08:04.124 --> 03:08:07.990 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm pretty sure there's a fair few soldiers patrolling. 03:08:09.893 --> 03:08:11.115 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, we might as well. 03:08:12.998 --> 03:08:15.121 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: One less level 3 Fireball if we fly. 03:08:15.141 --> 03:08:19.248 [Lacer (Kai)]: How long does your fly last? 03:08:20.329 --> 03:08:20.850 [Lacer (Kai)]: One hour. 03:08:22.197 --> 03:08:23.138 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry, 10 minutes. 03:08:24.139 --> 03:08:27.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is Fly Concentration by any chance? 03:08:27.283 --> 03:08:27.343 [Riv (DM)]: DM. 03:08:27.363 --> 03:08:27.443 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 03:08:27.463 --> 03:08:27.644 [Riv (DM)]: DM. 03:08:27.664 --> 03:08:27.844 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, okay. 03:08:28.625 --> 03:08:28.905 [Riv (DM)]: Right. 03:08:30.928 --> 03:08:36.114 [Riv (DM)]: To be, not to be a Debbie Downer, but have you checked if you've got Fly prepared? 03:08:39.398 --> 03:08:41.000 [Riv (DM)]: You fuckin' Debbie Downer. 03:08:42.261 --> 03:08:43.142 [Riv (DM)]: I was just checking a thing. 03:08:43.723 --> 03:08:47.968 [Riv (DM)]: I will also however point out that you've currently only got 9 of 10 spells prepared. 03:08:49.028 --> 03:08:52.413 [Riv (DM)]: So you could just tick that one on and we could forget about that. 03:08:53.474 --> 03:08:57.780 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, I think it's been unprepared the entire time we've used it, so. 03:08:57.800 --> 03:08:57.900 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:08:59.983 --> 03:09:01.565 [Riv (DM)]: Next time. 03:09:01.585 --> 03:09:02.627 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, let's just tick that one on. 03:09:02.827 --> 03:09:04.229 [Riv (DM)]: There we go, 10 out of 10 prepared. 03:09:04.349 --> 03:09:10.357 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 03:09:10.377 --> 03:09:12.860 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, it's, yeah, either I disguise or we fly. 03:09:12.901 --> 03:09:16.926 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Nighttime flying, why not? 03:09:19.943 --> 03:09:21.345 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do you want to fly or should I fly? 03:09:26.312 --> 03:09:33.422 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, technically, if you cast Fly me, I can carry Dondar, or does that not work? 03:09:35.685 --> 03:09:37.968 [Riv (DM)]: You can carry someone if you can carry them. 03:09:39.610 --> 03:09:41.273 [Riv (DM)]: Do you think you were able to carry Dondar? 03:09:41.413 --> 03:09:42.154 [Riv (DM)]: What's your strength? 03:09:43.636 --> 03:09:45.278 [Lacer (Kai)]: My strength is pretty good. 03:09:45.639 --> 03:09:46.701 [Lacer (Kai)]: My strength is 16. 03:09:47.882 --> 03:09:50.366 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Should I just carry him as a mouse? 03:09:52.169 --> 03:09:53.471 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, how about that? 03:09:53.491 --> 03:09:58.478 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll transform into a mouse and then I'll just hop in your pocket just to make for ease. 03:10:00.682 --> 03:10:03.446 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I think that would be the less talking way of doing it. 03:10:04.347 --> 03:10:04.567 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:10:05.689 --> 03:10:08.293 [Riv (DM)]: And what are you planning on doing when you get there? 03:10:10.433 --> 03:10:16.022 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I believe the elk will return and we will ride. 03:10:16.864 --> 03:10:20.730 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think with 10 minutes of fly speed, you can fly Dash, right? 03:10:21.772 --> 03:10:27.402 [Lacer (Kai)]: Will you be able to make it here in 10 minutes if you're just flying in the sky in the darker night? 03:10:27.422 --> 03:10:28.964 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: 300 meters. 03:10:29.365 --> 03:10:30.828 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, in like 20 seconds. 03:10:31.949 --> 03:10:32.290 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 03:10:33.890 --> 03:10:34.411 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, sure. 03:10:34.791 --> 03:10:35.071 [Lacer (Kai)]: Why not? 03:10:35.111 --> 03:10:35.672 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Let's do that. 03:10:35.952 --> 03:10:36.573 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Let's do that. 03:10:37.414 --> 03:10:41.318 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Should we start fireballing from flying, or...? 03:10:44.261 --> 03:10:44.882 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I guess you could. 03:10:45.142 --> 03:10:46.023 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You could. 03:10:46.063 --> 03:10:50.167 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If you get hit, then... We're gonna fall and die. 03:10:50.207 --> 03:10:51.949 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's a good point, let's not. 03:10:52.670 --> 03:10:56.594 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, we're just gonna fly there and then... What, are we doing the Elk thing again? 03:10:56.774 --> 03:10:59.797 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll do the Elk thing and we'll be on the outskirts camp. 03:10:59.937 --> 03:11:00.598 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, we're going. 03:11:01.038 --> 03:11:01.859 [Riv (DM)]: That's the plan. 03:11:02.440 --> 03:11:03.441 [Riv (DM)]: How many Wild Shards have you got? 03:11:04.349 --> 03:11:10.057 [Riv (DM)]: You fly up into the air. 03:11:10.137 --> 03:11:12.500 [Riv (DM)]: Kai, are you saying in human form? 03:11:13.121 --> 03:11:15.824 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I'm a mouse in Anthony's pocket right now. 03:11:15.844 --> 03:11:17.086 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, you switch into a mouse. 03:11:17.827 --> 03:11:22.954 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar flies straight up into the air and now you get a good look at the layout of the campsite as you go over. 03:11:23.054 --> 03:11:25.377 [Riv (DM)]: You see all the torches, you see the few people wandering around. 03:11:25.898 --> 03:11:29.783 [Riv (DM)]: As you sort of like launch your way up out of the tent, 03:11:29.763 --> 03:11:39.237 [Riv (DM)]: I assume you probably wait for soldiers to walk in the other direction so that you can sort of sneak up and fly straight up without them watching, so I think that's fine, I don't think we need to roll there. 03:11:39.958 --> 03:11:41.741 [Riv (DM)]: And so you're heading over the top. 03:11:44.184 --> 03:11:47.129 [Riv (DM)]: Let me just roll a few perception checks to see if anyone just happens to be looking up. 03:11:48.310 --> 03:11:50.974 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's all, we forgot we were in the tent and the tent is about flying. 03:11:50.994 --> 03:11:56.142 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Does he just burst out of the tent? 03:11:57.927 --> 03:12:01.018 [Riv (DM)]: I assume you stepped out onto the street and then we're done. 03:12:01.038 --> 03:12:01.138 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:12:01.158 --> 03:12:03.868 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He either stepped out or... Oh, I nearly just spat out my drink from that. 03:12:06.397 --> 03:12:10.030 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He either stepped out or knifed my way through. 03:12:14.887 --> 03:12:15.287 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 03:12:16.529 --> 03:12:17.930 [Riv (DM)]: Two people saw you. 03:12:18.130 --> 03:12:21.333 [Riv (DM)]: I rolled five perception checks and two people rolled an 18 and a 19. 03:12:21.994 --> 03:12:31.863 [Riv (DM)]: So as you're heading over, you start to say about over the edge of the blue tents, a few people look up and you hear some yells from below like, what's that? 03:12:32.363 --> 03:12:34.845 [Riv (DM)]: Is that a bird? 03:12:34.865 --> 03:12:35.626 [Riv (DM)]: No, it's too big. 03:12:36.267 --> 03:12:42.092 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, you're flying straight over, hearing these yells beneath you, and you're now on the outskirts of the tents. 03:12:44.536 --> 03:12:45.017 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alrighty. 03:12:45.898 --> 03:12:46.719 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are you ready, Dondar? 03:12:47.680 --> 03:12:51.565 [Lacer (Kai)]: I prepare my moonbeam. 03:12:52.106 --> 03:12:53.007 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:12:53.107 --> 03:12:54.129 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let me cast that. 03:12:56.051 --> 03:12:57.293 [Riv (DM)]: Are you landing before doing this? 03:12:58.214 --> 03:12:58.755 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'm landing. 03:12:59.115 --> 03:12:59.556 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm landing. 03:12:59.616 --> 03:13:00.297 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would hope so. 03:13:00.477 --> 03:13:05.303 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm not gonna transform out into, like, an elk out of his pocket. 03:13:06.224 --> 03:13:07.746 [Lacer (Kai)]: Kai transforms back into his human form. 03:13:10.630 --> 03:13:11.351 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:13:11.371 --> 03:13:11.531 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 03:13:11.551 --> 03:13:14.475 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will, when you're ready, Dondar, I will prepare a 03:13:15.198 --> 03:13:16.580 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's go all out, hey? 03:13:16.780 --> 03:13:18.542 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll do a level 4 Moonbeam. 03:13:25.931 --> 03:13:28.614 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, yeah, 120 feet away from us. 03:13:29.815 --> 03:13:32.178 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will shoot out a Moonbeam at the 4th level. 03:13:32.559 --> 03:13:33.960 [Riv (DM)]: He's gonna let drop it in the middle of the tents? 03:13:38.926 --> 03:13:42.411 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, sorta, but like closer to... 03:13:42.651 --> 03:13:44.513 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna guess closer to... 03:13:44.965 --> 03:13:51.016 [Lacer (Kai)]: If they're like in the middle of the tent, I'm guessing they wouldn't put the what's it called? 03:13:51.216 --> 03:13:54.502 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, if we're here, I'll drop it like here. 03:13:58.108 --> 03:13:58.208 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 03:13:58.228 --> 03:13:58.990 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or not, like left. 03:13:59.330 --> 03:13:59.891 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let me ping. 03:13:59.911 --> 03:14:00.272 [Lacer (Kai)]: How can I? 03:14:00.292 --> 03:14:01.074 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, yeah. 03:14:01.835 --> 03:14:01.955 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 03:14:01.975 --> 03:14:02.356 [Lacer (Kai)]: Here-ish. 03:14:04.359 --> 03:14:07.024 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then as that's happening, I transform into 03:14:07.477 --> 03:14:11.543 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's the color of our surroundings right now? 03:14:12.024 --> 03:14:15.089 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it white like snow, or is it like the darker night? 03:14:15.449 --> 03:14:16.171 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nah, we're all snowy. 03:14:17.553 --> 03:14:18.815 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, but it's dark, right? 03:14:18.835 --> 03:14:25.705 [Lacer (Kai)]: So if I turned into a white moose, I'd camouflage better with the surrounding environment. 03:14:26.086 --> 03:14:28.329 [Riv (DM)]: I think so, yeah. 03:14:28.349 --> 03:14:29.992 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's what I was getting, yeah. 03:14:30.112 --> 03:14:33.838 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'll turn into a white moose, the same color as the snow, under my feet. 03:14:34.662 --> 03:14:35.163 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 03:14:37.346 --> 03:14:41.974 [Riv (DM)]: You grow antlers, you grow four legs, and you are now an elk. 03:14:42.755 --> 03:14:43.176 [Riv (DM)]: Or a moose? 03:14:43.977 --> 03:14:46.321 [Riv (DM)]: We'll say elk, eh, because I don't know if there's a moose. 03:14:46.341 --> 03:14:46.681 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, yeah. 03:14:46.762 --> 03:14:48.685 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, it's the same same, but different. 03:14:48.705 --> 03:14:51.149 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:14:51.169 --> 03:14:51.329 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 03:14:51.349 --> 03:14:52.070 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, an elk. 03:14:52.090 --> 03:14:53.833 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean an elk, yeah. 03:14:53.853 --> 03:14:58.240 [Riv (DM)]: And your moonbeam is going off in the middle of the tents at this point? 03:14:58.962 --> 03:14:59.302 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:14:59.943 --> 03:15:02.405 [Riv (DM)]: Massive bright light pierces down through the sky. 03:15:02.425 --> 03:15:07.570 [Riv (DM)]: The clouds part and the moonbeam just pours and smashes down into the ground again and again. 03:15:07.911 --> 03:15:11.374 [Riv (DM)]: Are you trying to hit people or are you just kind of trying to make it look scary? 03:15:13.056 --> 03:15:14.617 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can't see people at 120 feet. 03:15:14.637 --> 03:15:16.079 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think there's too many tents. 03:15:16.179 --> 03:15:21.344 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll just try and hit like a tent and pause a bit of damage and just like swing it around a bit. 03:15:22.765 --> 03:15:23.206 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 03:15:24.547 --> 03:15:25.248 [Riv (DM)]: Let's look at moonbeam. 03:15:25.328 --> 03:15:27.450 [Riv (DM)]: I imagine that it probably doesn't... 03:15:28.730 --> 03:15:31.874 [Riv (DM)]: Actually like damage buildings because it's just like Moonlight. 03:15:32.815 --> 03:15:34.357 [Riv (DM)]: Radiant damage, yeah. 03:15:34.377 --> 03:15:35.698 [Lacer (Kai)]: It does radiant damage. 03:15:35.718 --> 03:15:36.359 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 03:15:36.619 --> 03:15:37.861 [Lacer (Kai)]: It just cause pain. 03:15:38.281 --> 03:15:38.481 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:15:38.501 --> 03:15:39.182 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cause pain. 03:15:39.282 --> 03:15:40.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: So it's like a fourth. 03:15:40.484 --> 03:15:48.093 [Lacer (Kai)]: If anyone who like is gets trapped in it, a turn, they'll get, they'll need to do a Constitution DC 15. 03:15:48.113 --> 03:15:48.253 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:15:48.853 --> 03:15:51.396 [Riv (DM)]: You can just roll damage a bunch of times. 03:15:55.261 --> 03:15:56.222 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:15:57.350 --> 03:15:58.391 [Riv (DM)]: Oh wow, that's some good rolls. 03:15:59.373 --> 03:16:00.794 [Riv (DM)]: That's some really good rolls. 03:16:00.814 --> 03:16:01.976 [Lacer (Kai)]: How many times do you want to roll? 03:16:02.617 --> 03:16:05.781 [Riv (DM)]: Just, I don't know, like, why don't you just roll like... Three times? 03:16:05.801 --> 03:16:06.742 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just roll like three times. 03:16:06.762 --> 03:16:07.703 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, three or four, something like that. 03:16:07.723 --> 03:16:08.985 [Riv (DM)]: And we'll just sort of spread them out. 03:16:09.005 --> 03:16:11.227 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just kind of curious to see if you're going to be one-hitting people or not. 03:16:14.652 --> 03:16:17.735 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, but are you targeting Imperials or are you nuking freaking random prisoners? 03:16:18.556 --> 03:16:20.158 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm targeting the Red Camp. 03:16:20.339 --> 03:16:20.919 [Lacer (Kai)]: The Red Camp. 03:16:20.939 --> 03:16:22.662 [Lacer (Kai)]: Prisoners are all in the Press Yards, dude. 03:16:23.182 --> 03:16:26.226 [Lacer (Kai)]: They're up, up... We're in the Military Zone. 03:16:28.315 --> 03:16:31.098 [Lacer (Kai)]: So yeah, I'm trying to hit people but I can't see them. 03:16:31.299 --> 03:16:32.640 [Lacer (Kai)]: They're like 120 feet into the tents. 03:16:32.660 --> 03:16:34.242 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's a little drop of them there. 03:16:36.165 --> 03:16:38.007 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I just swing it about like crazy. 03:16:38.988 --> 03:16:40.230 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Are we trying to be stealthy? 03:16:41.311 --> 03:16:47.158 [Lacer (Kai)]: We are making a fucking ton of noise and we're going to be on the outskirts of the town. 03:16:47.599 --> 03:16:49.001 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean, yeah, the tent city. 03:16:49.421 --> 03:16:56.550 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we're out of eye view of people because I think, what's the human night vision range? 03:16:57.273 --> 03:16:59.076 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're out in the in the dark. 03:17:00.197 --> 03:17:23.770 [Riv (DM)]: Oh it's like uh it's there's nothing there is no dark vision range for a human it's just um it depends on like the amount of light so I would say there's a dim light and amongst the teams but outside the team it's pitch black because it's um it's all right so we're just outside the the light the light sources we're going to skirt the light sources yeah 03:17:25.555 --> 03:17:27.778 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, so we're being stealthy? 03:17:29.241 --> 03:17:30.122 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, sort of. 03:17:30.883 --> 03:17:35.109 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't have to be seen, we just have to cause damage, you know. 03:17:36.511 --> 03:17:38.314 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, either we're distracting them or we're not. 03:17:38.635 --> 03:17:47.648 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You are faking a rebel attack on the southern end of the camp by making your numbers seem bigger than what they are by attacking from darkness with big fucking explosions. 03:17:48.229 --> 03:17:49.591 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep, so we've already started. 03:17:49.791 --> 03:17:50.893 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we're not starting. 03:17:50.973 --> 03:17:51.293 [Lacer (Kai)]: So why the elk? 03:17:51.834 --> 03:17:53.457 [Lacer (Kai)]: Why the elk if we're not going to be seen? 03:17:53.497 --> 03:17:54.398 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we can move faster. 03:17:54.658 --> 03:17:55.039 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 03:17:56.909 --> 03:17:57.310 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 03:17:57.610 --> 03:18:00.895 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because, yeah, while I'm concentrating, I can run. 03:18:00.955 --> 03:18:02.057 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can run 80 feet. 03:18:02.137 --> 03:18:04.501 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think, wait, what's my movement speed of an Elk? 03:18:05.702 --> 03:18:06.343 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I can... 03:18:06.604 --> 03:18:07.205 [Riv (DM)]: It's 50 feet. 03:18:07.806 --> 03:18:08.907 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you can go... Yeah. 03:18:09.468 --> 03:18:10.069 [Lacer (Kai)]: And you can be... 03:18:10.169 --> 03:18:10.750 [Lacer (Kai)]: If I'm dead. 03:18:10.790 --> 03:18:11.051 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:18:11.812 --> 03:18:12.072 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:18:12.953 --> 03:18:15.858 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I am disguising myself to look like an Elf. 03:18:17.160 --> 03:18:20.605 [Riv (DM)]: Just be careful on your concentration. 03:18:22.323 --> 03:18:25.271 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That is not a concentration, that's an action on a spell slot. 03:18:26.113 --> 03:18:26.956 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm no longer flying. 03:18:29.041 --> 03:18:30.786 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: He's riding the orc. 03:18:30.907 --> 03:18:34.356 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, but you wanted to keep your flying online anyway though, right? 03:18:36.241 --> 03:18:36.923 [Riv (DM)]: So you could escape? 03:18:39.080 --> 03:18:42.105 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I don't think that was the idea, but... No. 03:18:43.367 --> 03:18:43.668 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay. 03:18:44.570 --> 03:18:46.353 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, casting... 03:18:46.453 --> 03:18:51.041 [Riv (DM)]: It's still on you anyway, because Disguise Self is still... it's not Concentration, so it's all good. 03:18:51.742 --> 03:18:51.922 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:18:52.283 --> 03:18:52.684 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, actually. 03:18:53.605 --> 03:18:54.186 [Riv (DM)]: Bro, it's not good. 03:18:54.206 --> 03:18:55.088 [Riv (DM)]: It's not prepared, I don't think. 03:18:59.616 --> 03:19:00.076 [Riv (DM)]: Unfortunate. 03:19:00.397 --> 03:19:03.282 [Lacer (Kai)]: On another thought... 03:19:03.532 --> 03:19:04.032 [Riv (DM)]: Oh well. 03:19:04.613 --> 03:19:07.255 [Riv (DM)]: I will not be an elf. 03:19:07.736 --> 03:19:08.857 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, let's do moonbeams. 03:19:08.877 --> 03:19:11.739 [Riv (DM)]: So you're going to be able to launch 10 moonbeams over the next minute. 03:19:12.880 --> 03:19:13.841 [Riv (DM)]: They start pulling down. 03:19:13.881 --> 03:19:18.646 [Riv (DM)]: I've rolled a few checks to see if they're hitting people, I've rolled a few checks to see saving throws. 03:19:19.086 --> 03:19:24.871 [Riv (DM)]: You can start hearing screams as people just like, some people are getting hit, sometimes they miss. 03:19:24.891 --> 03:19:27.954 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, screams of horror and terror and pain start calling out. 03:19:28.735 --> 03:19:31.317 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar, what are you doing? 03:19:31.457 --> 03:19:32.458 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Time to get to work. 03:19:36.995 --> 03:19:38.097 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, it's fireball time. 03:19:38.558 --> 03:19:40.102 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so you're just gonna start launching fireballs? 03:19:42.627 --> 03:19:43.850 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I mean, that would seem wise, yeah. 03:19:44.391 --> 03:19:44.572 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yep. 03:19:45.353 --> 03:19:45.935 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Cool, alright. 03:19:46.696 --> 03:19:50.565 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I think... Generally spaced. 03:19:52.108 --> 03:19:54.193 [Riv (DM)]: Oh my god, these guys are rolling like shit. 03:19:56.030 --> 03:19:56.570 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 03:19:57.411 --> 03:20:01.335 [Riv (DM)]: One person spotted a fireball coming from that direction to the south. 03:20:01.715 --> 03:20:03.236 [Riv (DM)]: And you just hear him call, Over there! 03:20:03.277 --> 03:20:04.818 [Riv (DM)]: We're under attack from the south! 03:20:04.878 --> 03:20:05.378 [Riv (DM)]: Come on! 03:20:05.438 --> 03:20:06.660 [Riv (DM)]: Get together! 03:20:07.901 --> 03:20:08.982 [Riv (DM)]: Massive explosions. 03:20:09.042 --> 03:20:10.483 [Riv (DM)]: Tents start catching on fire. 03:20:11.224 --> 03:20:14.727 [Riv (DM)]: Moonbeams pouring down from the sky, incinerating a few people. 03:20:15.207 --> 03:20:19.591 [Riv (DM)]: Someone, you know, steps out into the darkness just as they come out of the tent. 03:20:19.611 --> 03:20:21.953 [Riv (DM)]: A moonbeam hits them and they just immediately evaporate into dust. 03:20:22.894 --> 03:20:24.295 [Riv (DM)]: You guys all hear this commotion. 03:20:24.476 --> 03:20:26.037 [Riv (DM)]: So what are the rest of you guys doing? 03:20:26.017 --> 03:20:30.343 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: While they would have been heading out, I would have slipped my armor back on. 03:20:31.925 --> 03:20:33.727 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We passed out some keys. 03:20:36.611 --> 03:20:39.455 [JC (Ryo)]: I want to use my smoke powder arrow. 03:20:40.537 --> 03:20:40.897 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 03:20:42.079 --> 03:20:42.880 [Riv (DM)]: Bri, I'll launch it. 03:20:44.662 --> 03:20:46.965 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm going to launch it in that general direction. 03:20:47.766 --> 03:20:49.088 [JC (Ryo)]: All right. 03:20:49.108 --> 03:20:51.171 [JC (Ryo)]: Erendor, you've got prestigitation, right? 03:20:51.231 --> 03:20:52.953 [JC (Ryo)]: That can create a spark, create fire. 03:20:53.815 --> 03:20:54.876 [JC (Ryo)]: Indeed. 03:20:55.025 --> 03:20:56.547 [JC (Ryo)]: Sweet! 03:20:56.587 --> 03:20:57.788 [JC (Ryo)]: Get the arrow ready to draw me. 03:20:57.889 --> 03:20:58.910 [JC (Ryo)]: Light this fuse for me, will ya? 03:21:00.612 --> 03:21:02.174 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You also all have tinder kits. 03:21:03.536 --> 03:21:04.977 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He's drawing an arrow. 03:21:05.278 --> 03:21:06.860 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He's pre-drawing. 03:21:11.505 --> 03:21:13.408 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Click my fingers and the fuse ignites. 03:21:14.109 --> 03:21:16.071 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And Wooshka, send it that way. 03:21:16.793 --> 03:21:25.043 [Riv (DM)]: It launches out, easily able to make the distance, lands into the thing, into the, um, into the cluster of red tents down there. 03:21:25.063 --> 03:21:30.589 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 03:21:31.891 --> 03:21:37.017 [Riv (DM)]: Um, perfectly, perfectly landing amongst some of the more dense set of tents. 03:21:37.037 --> 03:21:40.100 [Riv (DM)]: And now let's do, um, ah, we don't need... That is not the damage. 03:21:41.242 --> 03:21:41.342 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:21:41.362 --> 03:21:42.043 [JC (Ryo)]: That was attack. 03:21:43.444 --> 03:21:45.687 [Riv (DM)]: You gonna do your force damage? 03:21:48.097 --> 03:21:48.599 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 03:21:48.619 --> 03:21:56.807 [Riv (DM)]: Another explosion, this time over on the southwestern part of the campsite. 03:21:57.395 --> 03:22:02.904 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, you start to hear commotion nearby as some of the soldiers start, you know, saying, what was that? 03:22:03.264 --> 03:22:04.727 [Riv (DM)]: Quickly, we need to go and see what's going on. 03:22:05.127 --> 03:22:14.262 [Riv (DM)]: If you sort of like poke your head out of the tent, you see Catherine, the captain from earlier, she comes bursting out of a larger tent further along down the way. 03:22:14.823 --> 03:22:17.728 [Riv (DM)]: She starts calling out instructions for people to gather up to form up. 03:22:17.888 --> 03:22:18.549 [Riv (DM)]: We're under attack. 03:22:19.250 --> 03:22:19.951 [Riv (DM)]: Get to the urge. 03:22:20.552 --> 03:22:23.537 [Riv (DM)]: And they all start running off in that direction. 03:22:23.720 --> 03:22:30.026 [Riv (DM)]: There's a bit of chaos as soldiers are running past, and after not too long, most of them are gone, from what you can see. 03:22:33.209 --> 03:22:34.871 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, I'm just into Erendor. 03:22:35.592 --> 03:22:36.052 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Go time. 03:22:38.154 --> 03:22:39.075 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Right into the next tent. 03:22:39.816 --> 03:22:52.849 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I will flip out and I'll actually unfold my little red cloak, wrap it around my shoulders, and then start making my way through the tents as well, throwing out keys, and if any soldier, like, is still hanging around, I will 03:22:53.487 --> 03:22:56.450 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Military man, tell him to get south, we're under attack. 03:22:58.972 --> 03:22:59.913 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 03:22:59.933 --> 03:23:00.253 [Riv (DM)]: Let's see. 03:23:01.234 --> 03:23:03.216 [JC (Ryo)]: Just quickly, how many of these keys did we end up making? 03:23:03.236 --> 03:23:04.457 [Riv (DM)]: 50. 03:23:06.519 --> 03:23:08.281 [JC (Ryo)]: Would I also be releasing them? 03:23:08.541 --> 03:23:10.943 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Maybe we'll split them up if you're still going to be around here. 03:23:11.484 --> 03:23:15.187 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, disguise self, look like an Imperial Guard. 03:23:16.569 --> 03:23:17.329 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 03:23:17.349 --> 03:23:22.254 [JC (Ryo)]: And start running around, letting people out. 03:23:23.175 --> 03:23:23.275 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:23:24.638 --> 03:23:27.806 [Riv (DM)]: It's possibly confusing, but excellent. 03:23:27.926 --> 03:23:35.163 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll walk in and be like, I'll be like, I'm not, this is a disguise, get out of here, get out of here and start unlocking people. 03:23:35.384 --> 03:23:37.569 [JC (Ryo)]: So I'll let other people go. 03:23:37.629 --> 03:23:39.694 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Unlock people, give someone a key. 03:23:41.024 --> 03:23:42.125 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: People aren't stupid. 03:23:42.165 --> 03:23:43.426 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They can infer from what's going on. 03:23:43.446 --> 03:23:44.247 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 03:23:44.267 --> 03:23:47.210 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Someone throws a key at them, they're gonna go, hmm, this looks like an escape. 03:23:47.610 --> 03:23:48.351 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:23:48.691 --> 03:23:51.034 [Riv (DM)]: You start passing the keys around, you start unlocking people. 03:23:51.454 --> 03:23:54.697 [Riv (DM)]: Other people take keys and they start passing them down the line to unlock others. 03:23:55.658 --> 03:23:59.802 [Riv (DM)]: The group of Frostwardens that you would have very, very early on freed, they pop out. 03:24:00.263 --> 03:24:01.003 [Riv (DM)]: They're ready for this. 03:24:01.604 --> 03:24:08.010 [Riv (DM)]: They know where people are and they start heading down as well and they start calling out instructions to the people that they know. 03:24:07.990 --> 03:24:12.998 [Riv (DM)]: These are people that they've spent their lives with, working with, and they work well. 03:24:14.100 --> 03:24:24.457 [Riv (DM)]: Other groups of people that look like similar, similarly experienced and as strong as the other Frostborns, see them as well, starting to take charge, directing people, telling them to head north, head north, meep just past the icefall. 03:24:25.900 --> 03:24:27.543 [Riv (DM)]: People start, you know, gathering around. 03:24:27.563 --> 03:24:32.631 [Riv (DM)]: Now crowds and crowds are starting to pour out of the tents as more and more people are released. 03:24:34.062 --> 03:24:37.075 [Riv (DM)]: And it's flowing pretty nicely actually. 03:24:37.116 --> 03:24:41.957 [Riv (DM)]: There is one soldier that pops out at one point and just sees a horde of people coming down towards him and he's like, what? 03:24:42.178 --> 03:24:42.560 [Riv (DM)]: What's going? 03:24:42.620 --> 03:24:42.781 [Riv (DM)]: No! 03:24:43.243 --> 03:24:43.785 Back! 03:24:43.900 --> 03:24:45.141 [Riv (DM)]: And he just essentially gets trampled. 03:24:45.321 --> 03:24:52.269 [Riv (DM)]: Just a crowd of like 20 or 30 people just trample over top of him, kicked on the ground and eventually knocked unconscious. 03:24:53.090 --> 03:24:57.154 [Riv (DM)]: And the crowd just runs, just heads north. 03:24:57.755 --> 03:25:07.605 [Riv (DM)]: You see a few people sort of popping into tents to try and find supplies, find bits of leather armor, warm things to wear, anything like that, any supplies they can grab ahold of on their way out. 03:25:08.406 --> 03:25:12.490 [Riv (DM)]: And at the southern edge of the campsite, 03:25:12.740 --> 03:25:17.307 [Riv (DM)]: There was one soldier that spotted a fireball and groups of soldiers start heading in your direction. 03:25:17.808 --> 03:25:19.331 [Riv (DM)]: You start to see Dondar and Kai. 03:25:19.511 --> 03:25:23.437 [Riv (DM)]: You start to see crowds of soldiers starting to make their way through the tents in your direction. 03:25:23.678 --> 03:25:24.379 [Riv (DM)]: What are you guys up to? 03:25:24.419 --> 03:25:28.906 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, I'm moving out of sight, moving out of sight. 03:25:28.966 --> 03:25:30.208 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can't speak. 03:25:30.228 --> 03:25:31.069 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can't see. 03:25:31.230 --> 03:25:36.959 [Lacer (Kai)]: But that's why I'm moving away from them while I'm trying to get the moonbeam closer to them. 03:25:37.740 --> 03:25:39.523 [Riv (DM)]: So you're like in this direction? 03:25:40.600 --> 03:25:43.063 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm trying to loop, like... 03:25:43.404 --> 03:25:46.488 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I assumed we had started from there and we were heading southwest. 03:25:47.129 --> 03:25:49.232 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, yeah. 03:25:49.933 --> 03:25:55.621 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can't draw while it's paused, so... Yeah, I was going to try and draw, but I can't. 03:25:55.641 --> 03:25:58.785 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You should be able to, but... Yeah, yeah. 03:25:58.805 --> 03:26:00.087 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're heading back. 03:26:00.107 --> 03:26:01.629 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I would have gone the other way. 03:26:01.649 --> 03:26:02.811 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, wait, are we going this way? 03:26:03.331 --> 03:26:06.616 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I thought we were leading them away from where everyone was running. 03:26:06.656 --> 03:26:09.159 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I thought we were doing a clockwise loop. 03:26:09.199 --> 03:26:12.544 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're doing like a mega loop. 03:26:13.946 --> 03:26:14.967 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that was the plan. 03:26:15.288 --> 03:26:18.172 [Riv (DM)]: So you start running in this direction then, following the purple line. 03:26:18.993 --> 03:26:24.881 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, let me delete. 03:26:25.703 --> 03:26:27.465 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so go this way. 03:26:29.605 --> 03:26:39.230 [Riv (DM)]: A few people start to gather up at the edge and there were a couple people that spotted you so we'll just get a few shots at disadvantage because it is dark for them. 03:26:39.270 --> 03:26:43.842 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And they're probably out of range anyway because the crossbows are only like 80 feet. 03:26:43.862 --> 03:26:45.186 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 03:26:45.206 --> 03:26:46.028 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or 83, 20 or something. 03:26:48.320 --> 03:26:53.728 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Did you say people had started... Did you say people had started to cluster at the edge? 03:26:54.248 --> 03:26:55.951 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, people are gathering up. 03:26:55.971 --> 03:26:57.273 [Riv (DM)]: A few people are taking some shots. 03:26:57.753 --> 03:27:01.058 [Riv (DM)]: One lucky person actually managed to hit you, I think, on a 15. 03:27:02.500 --> 03:27:09.490 [Riv (DM)]: Look at their roll on disadvantage, so... How much health you got, Kai? 03:27:11.053 --> 03:27:16.040 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I am looking for our... Do we still have our temporary hit points from this morning? 03:27:16.060 --> 03:27:16.961 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh yeah, we do. 03:27:16.981 --> 03:27:17.702 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, should still hit. 03:27:18.340 --> 03:27:21.065 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Pretty much always expect the morning to be starting with. 03:27:21.246 --> 03:27:21.486 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:27:22.448 --> 03:27:23.230 [Riv (DM)]: Better play to the elk. 03:27:23.250 --> 03:27:23.971 [Riv (DM)]: I don't see why I wouldn't. 03:27:24.933 --> 03:27:25.815 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it carries over. 03:27:25.835 --> 03:27:28.601 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just transformed, so it carries over. 03:27:28.621 --> 03:27:32.529 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have, let's see, 13 plus 10. 03:27:32.569 --> 03:27:32.969 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have 23. 03:27:33.030 --> 03:27:35.775 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's an elk. 03:27:38.810 --> 03:27:44.396 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, you take 11 damage as a crossbow, hits you in the flank. 03:27:45.117 --> 03:27:45.938 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, okay. 03:27:45.958 --> 03:27:48.040 [Riv (DM)]: Bro, that dude, that dude is a legend. 03:27:49.661 --> 03:27:52.504 [Riv (DM)]: You can spot well, you can shoot well, and he does maximum damage. 03:27:53.946 --> 03:27:54.467 [Riv (DM)]: Goddamn. 03:27:55.047 --> 03:27:57.310 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can I see who it was? 03:27:57.590 --> 03:28:00.233 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can see the group like up there now, clustering around. 03:28:00.253 --> 03:28:01.474 [Riv (DM)]: There's a few torches and stuff like that. 03:28:02.675 --> 03:28:03.676 [Riv (DM)]: All three into him. 03:28:03.957 --> 03:28:04.377 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, nice. 03:28:04.597 --> 03:28:04.918 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 03:28:04.978 --> 03:28:06.319 [Riv (DM)]: Feel free to roll them. 03:28:09.168 --> 03:28:12.331 [Riv (DM)]: You're aiming for a 14, 14 death. 03:28:12.972 --> 03:28:15.294 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, cool. 03:28:16.936 --> 03:28:17.377 [Riv (DM)]: Did it work? 03:28:18.037 --> 03:28:19.959 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you want to roll all three. 03:28:21.761 --> 03:28:22.962 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You can split target, I'm kidding. 03:28:23.122 --> 03:28:23.243 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 03:28:24.424 --> 03:28:24.644 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry. 03:28:27.787 --> 03:28:28.929 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Sorry, I'm just having a moment. 03:28:30.170 --> 03:28:33.653 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He's alright. 03:28:33.673 --> 03:28:35.175 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh, nice, easy hit. 03:28:37.130 --> 03:28:39.473 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so you got 4d6 damage on him. 03:28:44.359 --> 03:28:44.759 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Uh, cool. 03:28:44.919 --> 03:28:47.002 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And ones are twos. 03:28:48.083 --> 03:28:49.285 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Does that apply automatically? 03:28:49.945 --> 03:28:50.106 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yep. 03:28:51.227 --> 03:28:53.470 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think it will apply automatically, but we can figure it out. 03:28:54.571 --> 03:28:55.552 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay. 03:28:55.572 --> 03:28:57.695 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I have a trait that makes my one rolls twos. 03:28:58.215 --> 03:29:01.619 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yep. 03:29:01.640 --> 03:29:02.901 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Uh, cool. 03:29:13.799 --> 03:29:14.079 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 03:29:14.560 --> 03:29:15.361 [Riv (DM)]: Fourteenth fire damage. 03:29:15.762 --> 03:29:16.523 [Riv (DM)]: Fifteenth fire damage. 03:29:18.806 --> 03:29:23.151 [Riv (DM)]: Two flaming, scorching rays of fire go flying out behind you. 03:29:23.632 --> 03:29:31.082 [Riv (DM)]: Smash this guy twice in the chest, you see him sort of stumble to the ground as other people just get up to him, trying to support him. 03:29:31.462 --> 03:29:35.948 [Riv (DM)]: Other people are starting to fire crossbow bolts out at you, but you're too fast, you're too far away at this point. 03:29:36.969 --> 03:29:39.773 [Riv (DM)]: The bolts just land harmlessly to... 03:29:39.753 --> 03:29:40.695 [Riv (DM)]: In the snow. 03:29:40.735 --> 03:29:49.188 [Lacer (Kai)]: Other people now around the... Can I try and move the moonbeam towards the biggest cluster of soldiers headed our direction? 03:29:50.050 --> 03:29:50.911 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, there's probably... 03:29:50.931 --> 03:29:54.998 [Riv (DM)]: I mean all this probably took place over a minute, I would guess. 03:29:56.781 --> 03:29:57.963 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is moonbeam one minute? 03:29:58.243 --> 03:30:01.769 [Riv (DM)]: It's one minute, yeah. 03:30:01.809 --> 03:30:04.393 [Lacer (Kai)]: I keep thinking it's more than one. 03:30:06.736 --> 03:30:07.600 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, it'll definitely be one minute. 03:30:07.620 --> 03:30:09.167 [Riv (DM)]: It'll be so strong if it's longer than that. 03:30:09.449 --> 03:30:10.694 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, it's one minute. 03:30:10.714 --> 03:30:11.619 [Riv (DM)]: So you can do 10. 03:30:11.659 --> 03:30:14.552 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, why don't you roll some more damage and see if you hit that cluster of people. 03:30:19.730 --> 03:30:20.131 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 03:30:21.092 --> 03:30:23.115 [Riv (DM)]: That would definitely kill the one guy who had already taken a hit. 03:30:23.136 --> 03:30:28.685 [Riv (DM)]: A few of them will also die and scream in pain as their flesh starts to melt away from the radiant light. 03:30:28.885 --> 03:30:32.972 [Riv (DM)]: A few of them still stay standing but like it's clearly in agony on death's door. 03:30:34.454 --> 03:30:35.996 [Riv (DM)]: Their health is like on average around 24. 03:30:37.339 --> 03:30:38.841 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 03:30:39.482 --> 03:30:43.789 [Riv (DM)]: So there was one more person as you're coming around this side here who actually spotted you. 03:30:44.410 --> 03:30:46.834 [Riv (DM)]: So I've been rolling as we're going so we'll get another shot out. 03:30:50.543 --> 03:30:51.364 [Riv (DM)]: A natural one. 03:30:52.145 --> 03:30:53.688 [Riv (DM)]: It whiffs and also lands in the snow. 03:30:55.190 --> 03:30:57.693 [Riv (DM)]: Coming around now, up along the western side. 03:31:00.177 --> 03:31:01.499 [Riv (DM)]: I'll do a couple more perception checks. 03:31:02.881 --> 03:31:03.322 [Riv (DM)]: Terrible. 03:31:04.223 --> 03:31:04.644 [Riv (DM)]: Terrible. 03:31:05.926 --> 03:31:06.486 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, natural 20. 03:31:06.607 --> 03:31:08.349 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, one more dude can see you. 03:31:13.537 --> 03:31:14.438 [Riv (DM)]: A 7 I think. 03:31:14.458 --> 03:31:15.279 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, it's a plus. 03:31:15.860 --> 03:31:17.502 [Riv (DM)]: I think it's like a plus 3 or something. 03:31:17.603 --> 03:31:19.926 [Riv (DM)]: So what's your AC as an Elk is? 03:31:20.429 --> 03:31:20.730 [Riv (DM)]: D10? 03:31:21.892 --> 03:31:25.358 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, I will actually double check what his plus is because that might be right on the line. 03:31:26.741 --> 03:31:29.746 [Riv (DM)]: It is a plus three on his crossbow, so I think that one actually is going to hit you. 03:31:31.971 --> 03:31:32.812 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 03:31:32.932 --> 03:31:33.674 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let me have a look. 03:31:39.304 --> 03:31:40.426 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, he seized. 03:31:40.446 --> 03:31:40.727 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 03:31:41.649 --> 03:31:42.370 [Riv (DM)]: D10 plus one. 03:31:46.737 --> 03:31:48.682 [Lacer (Kai)]: How much health do you have? 03:31:48.702 --> 03:31:49.824 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, I have 2 HP. 03:31:49.845 --> 03:31:52.230 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have 12 HP as an Elk. 03:31:52.250 --> 03:31:54.436 [Riv (DM)]: Because you had your team temporary? 03:31:54.456 --> 03:31:57.102 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, yeah. 03:31:59.242 --> 03:32:01.565 [Riv (DM)]: So I'm two arrows sticking out of each one. 03:32:01.585 --> 03:32:05.349 [Riv (DM)]: Another bolt right in the flank, this time it's a little bit closer up to your chest area. 03:32:07.031 --> 03:32:10.716 [Riv (DM)]: Alright cool, and now at this point you're well up and around past the Imperial tents. 03:32:11.297 --> 03:32:20.087 [Riv (DM)]: All of the soldiers have been running in this direction and so you're pretty much scot clean I think at this point now as you're starting to head up around. 03:32:20.327 --> 03:32:28.337 [Riv (DM)]: You actually do see, you pass by some of the larger buildings, you can see there's a few wooden structures and there's a large open courtyard area with 03:32:28.317 --> 03:32:30.980 [Riv (DM)]: What look like market stalls and teams and stuff like that. 03:32:31.661 --> 03:32:33.864 [Riv (DM)]: All very quiet and abandoned at this time of the night. 03:32:34.745 --> 03:32:37.669 [Riv (DM)]: Plus potentially because people are not there at the moment. 03:32:40.212 --> 03:32:42.135 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we see anything that looks like a food store? 03:32:45.840 --> 03:32:50.405 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a perception check. 03:32:50.425 --> 03:32:52.468 [Riv (DM)]: Perception. 03:32:57.983 --> 03:33:00.146 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 03:33:00.166 --> 03:33:03.231 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, there's lots of these small little stalls in the market. 03:33:04.012 --> 03:33:07.257 [Riv (DM)]: Any one of them could be a food stall, to be honest, but there are no people there. 03:33:07.317 --> 03:33:09.460 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, a food store, like a storehouse. 03:33:10.222 --> 03:33:13.066 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, he's talking storage, like a granary or something, right? 03:33:13.086 --> 03:33:13.346 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:33:14.648 --> 03:33:16.431 [Riv (DM)]: Um, hmm. 03:33:18.014 --> 03:33:20.437 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sitting here, aware that you can see the map. 03:33:20.477 --> 03:33:25.243 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hey, I can only see what you say I can see. 03:33:26.384 --> 03:33:32.892 [Riv (DM)]: You can see what clearly looks like a tavern, because we all know what taverns look like from the outside, and you can see what looks like a general goods store. 03:33:34.754 --> 03:33:38.639 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Taverns and stores aren't going to feed a few hundred soldiers, so never mind. 03:33:40.201 --> 03:33:43.044 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If there was a granary or something, I was going to firebomb it. 03:33:44.226 --> 03:33:46.789 [Lacer (Kai)]: It would look like just a big tent, that's what it would look like. 03:33:47.444 --> 03:33:54.071 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Don't worry, the Imperial Army's not getting any supplies through because we have an army of hobgoblins killing them all. 03:33:54.091 --> 03:33:54.731 [Riv (DM)]: That's true. 03:33:54.931 --> 03:33:56.753 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 03:33:57.334 --> 03:34:00.577 [Riv (DM)]: We go on past now and we get close to rejoining. 03:34:01.178 --> 03:34:17.434 [Riv (DM)]: As you have looped back around, you can see the last remaining stragglers from the Press Yards starting to flee out north across the ice fields and beginning the long and treacherous journey, the potentially final crossing of the Frostwardens for the season. 03:34:19.827 --> 03:34:24.956 [Riv (DM)]: Who knows what's ahead, but I think we should have a whole last session for the crossing, because it could be fun. 03:34:25.477 --> 03:34:28.903 [Riv (DM)]: So why don't we end the session here, and we'll see what happens. 03:34:28.923 --> 03:34:29.444 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hell yeah. 03:34:30.165 --> 03:34:34.934 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I would have been carrying out Re-Guard, and as soon as we were clear of soldiers, would have folded the cloak back in. 03:34:35.315 --> 03:34:35.976 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Nice. 03:34:36.236 --> 03:34:37.539 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Re-Guard, pushing people along. 03:34:37.879 --> 03:34:38.200 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 03:34:38.580 --> 03:34:40.063 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Re-Guarding as needed. 03:34:40.297 --> 03:34:45.462 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, holding up the rear and you hear the clattering of hooves on a few rocks and bits of ice he has behind you. 03:34:45.722 --> 03:34:55.992 [Riv (DM)]: An elk and a dwarf in their chaotic ways, in their natural ways, rejoin with the rest of you. 03:34:56.152 --> 03:35:07.563 [Riv (DM)]: You know, the frost warden, the female seller, is hanging back as well with you and she stops as you kind of look back at the rest of the group here and she says, Wow, that went well, didn't it? 03:35:08.664 --> 03:35:09.645 [Riv (DM)]: Who are you people? 03:35:11.549 --> 03:35:12.228 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Uh... 03:35:16.257 --> 03:35:18.120 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The Bloody Nails. 03:35:18.180 --> 03:35:19.281 [Riv (DM)]: Cut to end script. 03:35:19.301 --> 03:35:20.343 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, there we go. 03:35:20.363 --> 03:35:22.286 [Riv (DM)]: And credits roll. 03:35:22.306 --> 03:35:23.487 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We're using that name again. 03:35:23.888 --> 03:35:24.569 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Excellent. 03:35:24.609 --> 03:35:25.350 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Amazing. 03:35:25.490 --> 03:35:26.131 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Amazing. 03:35:26.151 --> 03:35:26.552 [Riv (DM)]: Too good. 03:35:28.014 --> 03:35:28.534 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 03:35:28.655 --> 03:35:29.035 [Riv (DM)]: Let's do it. 03:35:29.055 --> 03:35:30.077 [Riv (DM)]: Let's call it there. 03:35:30.097 --> 03:35:30.477 [Riv (DM)]: Fun times. 03:35:30.918 --> 03:35:38.008 [Riv (DM)]: I wasn't expecting an elk-dwarf combo again, but... Hey, you need chaos, you go to what works. 03:35:38.028 --> 03:35:38.509 [Riv (DM)]: Good times. 03:35:38.729 --> 03:35:41.613 [Riv (DM)]: There's gonna be one very angry commander. 03:35:41.773 --> 03:35:42.254 [Riv (DM)]: In the morning? 03:35:42.835 --> 03:35:43.596 [Riv (DM)]: Or maybe not even in the morning. 03:35:43.636 --> 03:35:44.357 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe right now. 03:35:44.894 --> 03:35:49.180 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't think I can pull off the, no, I'm totally on your side much longer. 03:35:50.302 --> 03:35:53.847 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, well, yeah, I don't know. 03:35:53.867 --> 03:35:56.010 [Riv (DM)]: I think he implied to you that he knows you weren't. 03:35:56.190 --> 03:35:58.553 [Riv (DM)]: There was, there have been some talks about you. 03:35:59.595 --> 03:36:00.837 [Riv (DM)]: Words getting around here. 03:36:01.297 --> 03:36:08.428 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We're all waiting for the session where Corvus learns who he really is and we find he's an enemy. 03:36:10.551 --> 03:36:12.994 [Lacer (Kai)]: He's the last boss. 03:36:13.295 --> 03:36:13.816 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Truly is. 03:36:14.277 --> 03:36:15.719 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: A transgender empress. 03:36:16.541 --> 03:36:17.162 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Imprisoned. 03:36:17.683 --> 03:36:18.605 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: She was with you the whole time. 03:36:19.466 --> 03:36:19.847 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yes. 03:36:19.867 --> 03:36:23.033 [Riv (DM)]: That felt like a good twist. 03:36:25.156 --> 03:36:25.357 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Alright. 03:36:25.417 --> 03:36:25.718 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Good time. 03:36:25.738 --> 03:36:30.426 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Both the big bad and the real treasure were the friends we had along the way.