--- > [!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.* --- 22:05.258 --> 22:28.836 [Riv (DM)]: We'll do super quick from last time. 22:30.605 --> 22:43.095 [Riv (DM)]: The um I guess it was there wasn't actually a ton that happened because we were kind of more just like wrapping things up but it was I guess just basically off the back of um Liberating the City. 22:44.645 --> 22:51.737 [Riv (DM)]: You had met with the king in his chambers and he gave you a bunch of rewards which I hope you guys have tracked yourself on your sheets. 22:52.919 --> 22:58.869 [Riv (DM)]: One of them was a nice dagger made of the rich reynite steel that the city is known for. 22:59.590 --> 23:04.799 [Riv (DM)]: A ton of gold, I think there were a few greater potions in there, greater potions of healing. 23:05.620 --> 23:07.243 [Riv (DM)]: And... 23:08.827 --> 23:09.187 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 23:09.748 --> 23:31.878 [Riv (DM)]: Berberis went and interrogated some of the prisoners, told them to take a warning message to the Empress, and Kai went to the Cathedral of St. Evelines and tried to purify his cursed armor from the Dread General Blackmarsh, which led into a bit more of something than what he was expecting. 23:33.039 --> 23:37.365 [Riv (DM)]: Turns out it was fairly evil, fairly cursed, and he got ripped into a 23:37.345 --> 23:41.230 [Riv (DM)]: Battle with himself, his own darkness I suppose. 23:42.032 --> 24:05.665 [Riv (DM)]: Overcoming that allowed you to purify the steel and take it to Helda who was touched by the moon in some way, some divine fugue state where she in like a magical haste crafted new shield for Kai where you're able to lock your moonstone in place into one of the slots on the front. 24:07.130 --> 24:07.751 [Riv (DM)]: Did you... 24:08.191 --> 24:10.053 [Riv (DM)]: I gave you that item, a Lacer. 24:11.134 --> 24:11.355 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes. 24:12.136 --> 24:15.119 [Lacer (Kai)]: The Moonlight Shield. 24:15.780 --> 24:15.940 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 24:16.320 --> 24:18.823 [Riv (DM)]: And the second version of it as well, I think? 24:19.864 --> 24:28.954 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, you quickly... after I had the Girl Socket, the Gem, and the Moonstoner thing, we replaced it pretty much straight away. 24:29.475 --> 24:29.695 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 24:30.805 --> 24:31.507 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, awesome. 24:32.549 --> 24:36.920 [Riv (DM)]: So that all happened at midnight of that evening. 24:37.582 --> 24:43.617 [Riv (DM)]: I think what we'll do, we'll just go straight to the next day unless, Lacer, unless you wanted to do anything specifically that evening? 24:45.149 --> 24:55.642 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not really, I have like how many things of, I have three point, no four point, I think I have four points of exhaustion so I'm pretty messed up. 24:55.863 --> 24:58.406 [Riv (DM)]: Yep you're on death's door, yep cool. 24:59.187 --> 25:11.022 [Riv (DM)]: Alright so let's just go to the next day then, if you have got any resources missing from your character you can all just smash a long rest on it now and we can look at what we're doing this day. 25:13.178 --> 25:32.503 [Riv (DM)]: I think basically I don't want to necessarily be like and what do you guys want to do because um they're you know big open world and uh kind of just sort of putting you on the spot but I think what we should do is I'll tell you a bit about what you gather from from what's happening now in the city so 25:32.483 --> 25:33.544 [Riv (DM)]: They obviously need to rebuild. 25:33.884 --> 25:45.977 [Riv (DM)]: The prisoners are going to be marshalled and start helping with rebuilding the city, helping to reinforce the walls, get its sovereignty and structural defenses back up in place. 25:46.798 --> 25:56.989 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of the people will start to help as well, they're trying to get back to civilization, they're trying to open up shops, trying to find people who were lost, all that sort of a thing. 25:56.969 --> 26:06.089 [Riv (DM)]: You'll gather from talking to a few of the people, maybe you chatted to Beric or maybe you chatted to Captain Erendir from the keep. 26:07.071 --> 26:14.286 [Riv (DM)]: They are planning to, at this point, give the soldiers, the loyalists, a bit of a rest and in about 26:14.266 --> 26:32.747 [Riv (DM)]: Five-ish days, the Mawbreakers had agreed to take an early contingent of soldiers and loyalists to Val Miriel as part of the agreement with Talos, the governor in Val Miriel, to help with their resistance. 26:32.727 --> 26:37.658 [Riv (DM)]: So that's roughly what their plan is sort of maybe in about five days is when the Mawbreakers would leave. 26:39.242 --> 26:44.555 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, I guess you've got a bit of time in theory to figure out what you guys want to do. 26:44.615 --> 26:47.501 [Riv (DM)]: So any thoughts? 26:47.521 --> 26:49.065 [Riv (DM)]: What are you guys thinking as a group? 26:56.352 --> 27:05.801 [Riv (DM)]: And if there's any projects you wanted to do, if you wanted to leave right away, if you had any chores or errands in the city, yeah, let me know. 27:06.902 --> 27:07.363 [Riv (DM)]: We can do them. 27:08.884 --> 27:14.349 [JC (Ryo)]: So JC wants to punch the shit out of the Elven bitch who cast Modified Memory, but Ryu doesn't remember shit, so... 27:14.830 --> 27:15.771 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed, he does not. 27:20.655 --> 27:23.758 [JC (Ryo)]: About the only thing on Ryu's mind is finding Corvus to kick his ass. 27:25.280 --> 27:25.380 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 27:27.706 --> 27:28.026 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 27:28.547 --> 27:29.569 [Riv (DM)]: I want to find Corvus. 27:30.049 --> 27:30.590 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone else? 27:37.460 --> 27:41.566 [Vael (Berberis)]: Okay. 27:42.567 --> 27:51.840 [Lacer (Kai)]: Kai would like to get a body once-over by Alaris to check on his health after being impaled by General Blackmarsh. 27:52.867 --> 27:55.353 [Lacer (Kai)]: Days before, or a day before, yeah. 27:56.576 --> 27:57.558 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just don't feel right. 27:58.982 --> 28:06.319 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so the next day you make your way down to St. Eveline's where you know that Ilaris has been spending her time. 28:07.430 --> 28:14.724 [Riv (DM)]: In discussions with her, she lets you know that she's actually planning on heading out with the Mawbreakers again. 28:14.784 --> 28:19.213 [Riv (DM)]: She has found a home with the Mawbreakers, specifically with Barak and his crew. 28:19.233 --> 28:20.796 [Riv (DM)]: So she will be leaving in a few days as well. 28:20.836 --> 28:24.223 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, is there anything specifically you wanted to talk to her about? 28:25.300 --> 28:30.947 [Lacer (Kai)]: Being impaled by a cursed sword. 28:31.007 --> 28:31.327 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 28:31.468 --> 28:33.931 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know if it's cursed, but an evil sword. 28:34.692 --> 28:37.635 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I wanted to check out my scar, my wound. 28:39.438 --> 28:40.519 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I take off my armor. 28:42.321 --> 28:44.284 [Lacer (Kai)]: And she can do a, I don't know. 28:44.504 --> 28:45.305 [Lacer (Kai)]: She's a doctor, right? 28:45.325 --> 28:47.848 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know what she is, but I know she does healing. 28:49.263 --> 28:52.570 [Riv (DM)]: She, um, yeah, she bends down and takes a closer look at it. 28:53.432 --> 28:59.585 [Riv (DM)]: Um, she waves her hand over top of it and you see, uh, over top of the wound and you see her hand starts to glow a little bit. 29:00.186 --> 29:04.094 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, eyebrows sort of concentrating as eyebrows furrow. 29:06.118 --> 29:08.824 [Riv (DM)]: And she says to you, I don't, 29:09.293 --> 29:10.394 [Riv (DM)]: I don't sense any corruption. 29:10.414 --> 29:18.502 [Riv (DM)]: It appears the wound itself was near deadly, but it doesn't appear to have any lingering effects. 29:18.522 --> 29:20.324 [Riv (DM)]: I think you can put your mind at rest. 29:23.427 --> 29:24.608 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, that's a relief. 29:25.989 --> 29:29.533 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I think about the sword that's in the bag of holding. 29:30.354 --> 29:34.778 [Lacer (Kai)]: And forgetting to purify that too. 29:39.550 --> 29:40.431 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 29:41.173 --> 29:41.733 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thank her. 29:45.259 --> 29:45.499 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 29:46.962 --> 29:47.302 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 29:47.342 --> 29:57.118 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or do I notice many clerics around the- in St. Avelines currently? 29:57.558 --> 30:00.343 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I'm meant to train these people, I remember. 30:02.566 --> 30:06.132 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or at least attempt to convince some people to 30:08.508 --> 30:09.912 [Lacer (Kai)]: Be trained, I suppose. 30:09.952 --> 30:11.998 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 30:13.041 --> 30:23.631 [Riv (DM)]: So Marius, I think when you'd spoken to him, he was a little bit hesitant about it just because, you know, the city is fairly 30:23.611 --> 30:42.480 [Riv (DM)]: I would say that there are probably more and more people starting to come here now as the city is starting to calm down. 30:42.460 --> 30:54.662 [Riv (DM)]: More people are probably coming to the cathedral and holy places of worship to find solace and I guess just like rest and try and shake off the months and months of stress and pain and suffering. 30:54.702 --> 31:00.773 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, there are probably more civilians entering here just for places of prayer. 31:00.753 --> 31:08.081 [Riv (DM)]: More of the wounded have been starting to leave and probably a few more clerics have started to show up as well. 31:08.141 --> 31:14.909 [Riv (DM)]: So would you like to say that Kai spends a bit of time here just talking with the clerics and starting to teach them some of the word? 31:15.489 --> 31:17.011 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe a bit of training as well? 31:18.012 --> 31:18.833 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'll do that. 31:19.033 --> 31:21.215 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll do that while I'm just... yeah. 31:21.596 --> 31:22.417 [Riv (DM)]: Anything specific? 31:22.457 --> 31:24.499 [Riv (DM)]: What do you reckon Kai would want to do? 31:27.382 --> 31:28.324 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ryan, show off. 31:28.744 --> 31:32.411 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 31:33.312 --> 31:47.517 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was going to try and teach them direct spells that they do not have, such as the Moonbeam spell that I have, so I will link that in the thing, in chat. 31:50.973 --> 31:58.654 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess I'll spend a spell slot to demonstrate and I'll give them notes on how they could cast this spell. 32:00.203 --> 32:05.332 [Lacer (Kai)]: And tell them that they will need some belief in the moon goddess, and then that's about it. 32:06.274 --> 32:09.519 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean, yeah, that's all I can think of. 32:09.539 --> 32:15.269 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think, you know, people will step back and sort of gasp in awe at this sort of display. 32:16.191 --> 32:21.180 [Riv (DM)]: You'll find a lot of your average clerics don't see a lot of really like actual powerful magic. 32:21.560 --> 32:23.764 [Riv (DM)]: Most of them are fairly low level and 32:23.744 --> 32:31.475 [Riv (DM)]: Haven't had a lot of direct access to the gods themselves, so seeing high-level mages like this is quite thrilling, I think. 32:34.199 --> 32:37.283 [Riv (DM)]: Technically you can't teach people clerical magic. 32:37.363 --> 32:42.350 [Riv (DM)]: Clerical magic gets taught by the gods themselves, so yeah. 32:42.370 --> 32:45.134 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you have to try and convince them to believe in the gods. 32:45.154 --> 32:45.955 [Lacer (Kai)]: Exactly, yeah. 32:45.975 --> 32:49.380 [Riv (DM)]: So I think you talk to them about Solunar and you try and form that connection. 32:49.360 --> 32:52.245 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, maybe some take to it, maybe some don't. 32:52.766 --> 33:01.442 [Riv (DM)]: But I will say that your companion, your first acolyte, Arlyn, will be with you this whole time and helping. 33:01.742 --> 33:12.381 [Riv (DM)]: And hearing that your group is looking to leave soon, she will assure you that she will stay and try to continue your work now that she also has a connection to the Goddess. 33:13.728 --> 33:23.271 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I like to focus on her more so that she can learn more and then also try and pass on the teachings across to anyone who believes. 33:24.955 --> 33:26.298 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'll spend my time doing that. 33:27.341 --> 33:27.501 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 33:29.118 --> 33:39.289 [Riv (DM)]: Alright um Rio what time like how how urgent is um as do you think Rio is feeling about wanting to leave and chase after Corvass? 33:39.309 --> 33:44.315 [Riv (DM)]: Is it like I think let's let's get the fuck out of here guys we need to go instantly or is he happy to chill in the city a bit? 33:45.917 --> 33:49.801 [JC (Ryo)]: That's just what he wants to do next he's not like you know chomping at the bit to go do it. 33:51.503 --> 33:57.049 [JC (Ryo)]: Now quick question, did we level up at the end of last session or near the end of last session? 33:57.653 --> 33:59.636 [Riv (DM)]: You're levelled up after the fight with Black Marsh. 34:00.057 --> 34:00.899 [Riv (DM)]: That's when you hit level 9. 34:02.361 --> 34:05.526 [JC (Ryo)]: Right, okay. 34:05.787 --> 34:07.971 [JC (Ryo)]: Brian's got something new he'd like to try. 34:07.991 --> 34:09.453 [Unmatched Speaker]: Oh yeah, totally. 34:11.296 --> 34:16.986 [JC (Ryo)]: If I'm reading this spell correctly, I can do it in multiple locations, but I can only do it in each location once a year. 34:18.449 --> 34:23.357 [JC (Ryo)]: Does this place, is this like all year round snow, or can they grow crops around this area? 34:24.502 --> 34:25.263 [Riv (DM)]: Good question. 34:25.844 --> 34:29.669 [Riv (DM)]: So the snow will recede like in the lowlands. 34:29.709 --> 34:31.852 [Riv (DM)]: The mountains will probably have snow always. 34:32.793 --> 34:38.601 [Riv (DM)]: But in the front area, like out past the walls, you'll notice villages and farms and stuff like that. 34:39.101 --> 34:42.686 [Riv (DM)]: Mostly like earth root sort of potatoes, that sort of thing. 34:42.967 --> 34:48.274 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think you would find a whole lot of wheat and stuff like that this north. 34:50.076 --> 34:51.598 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, but they can grow something. 34:51.618 --> 34:52.399 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 34:53.459 --> 35:00.894 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll find out who I need to talk to in the castle and get them to take me to where a good chunk of their farmland is. 35:02.256 --> 35:10.552 [Riv (DM)]: I think as you go up, Ayana probably says that I could do with stretching my legs, I'll show you the way. 35:11.514 --> 35:14.961 [Riv (DM)]: And she will take you there herself. 35:15.093 --> 35:16.935 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, she leads you through the city. 35:16.996 --> 35:22.022 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, it's a good way, but you've got plenty of time out through the city gates. 35:22.884 --> 35:29.793 [Riv (DM)]: So you head out, you can see where the docks are that sort of lead down to the frozen, shattered, broken ice that's in the ocean. 35:30.314 --> 35:34.439 [Riv (DM)]: And you head east, further around to the eastern side of the walls. 35:34.679 --> 35:35.901 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, western side of the walls. 35:36.362 --> 35:40.307 [Riv (DM)]: And that's where the crops and the farm outhouses and stuff are. 35:41.468 --> 35:46.394 [JC (Ryo)]: OK, and I'll ask her to take me to like the central part of a good chunk of it. 35:46.414 --> 35:50.900 [Riv (DM)]: I think you'll find there's like a convergence of a few different roads that all sort of meet in the central area. 35:51.100 --> 35:53.583 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of farms around that, so that sounds like a good place. 35:56.066 --> 35:56.166 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 35:56.186 --> 36:04.917 [JC (Ryo)]: And I'm just going to be like something, I'm just going to go like something's been telling me I can do something new and I am going to cast Plant Growth. 36:08.001 --> 36:08.742 [Riv (DM)]: Plant Growth. 36:12.451 --> 36:13.592 [JC (Ryo)]: Focusing on enrichment. 36:19.858 --> 36:19.939 [Riv (DM)]: Mmm. 36:19.959 --> 36:20.539 [Riv (DM)]: 365 days. 36:20.559 --> 36:21.640 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, okay. 36:23.162 --> 36:25.344 [Riv (DM)]: So do you choose one of them? 36:25.364 --> 36:25.764 [JC (Ryo)]: Correct. 36:26.065 --> 36:26.545 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 36:28.027 --> 36:32.231 [JC (Ryo)]: It says the casting time, but it doesn't say... Oh, so it's eight hours. 36:32.251 --> 36:34.914 [JC (Ryo)]: So I need to stay there for like a good chunk of time. 36:36.235 --> 36:36.395 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 36:37.056 --> 36:38.357 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's a day trip. 36:39.164 --> 36:39.825 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, awesome. 36:39.845 --> 36:45.710 [Riv (DM)]: So so you're spending eight hours essentially out here in the fields enriching. 36:46.110 --> 36:52.656 [Riv (DM)]: What do you think Rio does to do this to achieve it? 36:52.736 --> 37:01.905 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm not sure, to be honest, probably walking around and like trying to like tending to the ground magically and talking, walking around and chanting, I'm guessing. 37:02.746 --> 37:07.450 [Riv (DM)]: So it's like a magical thing rather than a natural rangery thing, you reckon? 37:08.645 --> 37:10.473 [Vael (Berberis)]: It is verbal and semantic. 37:12.581 --> 37:15.574 [JC (Ryo)]: Walking around and talking and moving my hands around, I guess. 37:16.136 --> 37:16.377 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 37:17.285 --> 37:17.726 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah awesome. 37:18.006 --> 37:21.550 [Riv (DM)]: I think you'll find Ayana actually stays to watch you for a little while. 37:23.052 --> 37:25.195 [Riv (DM)]: She probably hasn't seen outside these walls in a while. 37:25.816 --> 37:32.744 [Riv (DM)]: She's enjoying the fresh air but she will eventually leave you to it and just sort of wave as you see her wander off and leave you to your own devices. 37:34.546 --> 37:38.531 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah awesome so you can complete doing that and head back, you probably get back quite late that night. 37:39.513 --> 37:43.157 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah just to try and help the city come back next time. 37:44.403 --> 37:45.324 [JC (Ryo)]: Next time crops kick in? 37:45.664 --> 37:52.810 [Riv (DM)]: It's going to be super valuable considering the stress of the food stores and stuff like that in the city that they've been under. 37:53.091 --> 37:58.415 [Riv (DM)]: Having been cut off essentially from all trade for a good three or four months, they're going to need it. 37:58.515 --> 38:00.637 [Riv (DM)]: So I think that's going to be awesome. 38:00.777 --> 38:01.918 [Riv (DM)]: That's going to be excellent for the city. 38:02.819 --> 38:07.983 [JC (Ryo)]: This is also assuming that the Empire doesn't come back in before the next set of crops can go through. 38:08.364 --> 38:08.524 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 38:10.325 --> 38:12.507 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's an interesting thought. 38:12.527 --> 38:13.228 [Riv (DM)]: What will they do? 38:15.588 --> 38:16.189 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 38:16.209 --> 38:17.270 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 38:18.791 --> 38:19.372 [Riv (DM)]: How about Erendor? 38:19.392 --> 38:22.175 [Riv (DM)]: What do you reckon Erendor would get up to over the next few days? 38:24.337 --> 38:33.747 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Now that there's a little bit of less urgency, I'll probably be spending a bit of time looking to see if any signs of a nest. 38:34.348 --> 38:42.116 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm not aware of a nest in the city, but see if anything stands out. 38:44.238 --> 38:45.139 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 38:47.667 --> 38:48.748 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 38:48.768 --> 38:51.090 [Riv (DM)]: So there... 38:51.110 --> 38:52.771 [Riv (DM)]: I wonder how you would find this. 38:54.333 --> 38:56.074 [Riv (DM)]: How do you go about searching for it, do you think? 38:56.735 --> 39:00.438 [Riv (DM)]: Are you going to talk to people or are you just going to go looking for where the obvious places might be? 39:02.720 --> 39:06.523 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Initially, probably looking for the slightly more obvious places. 39:06.783 --> 39:07.744 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 39:07.764 --> 39:17.252 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: But then thinking back to in Val Miriel, it wasn't super obvious initially being 39:18.245 --> 39:24.152 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Relatively well hidden behind or access to through another venue. 39:25.834 --> 39:42.095 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So I'm expecting not in the most sketchy other areas of town, but looking for any businesses that may have a bird or a raven of some kind anywhere in their vicinity or otherwise just looking for people watching others. 39:43.616 --> 39:43.797 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 39:43.817 --> 39:44.618 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 39:44.798 --> 39:46.480 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an investigation check. 40:01.343 --> 40:02.465 [JC (Ryo)]: So Nat 20, good work. 40:03.867 --> 40:04.528 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 40:04.548 --> 40:06.911 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nat 20, first roll of the season. 40:06.931 --> 40:07.492 [JC (Ryo)]: Good work, man. 40:09.636 --> 40:10.497 [JC (Ryo)]: Rolled it privately, man. 40:10.517 --> 40:11.799 [JC (Ryo)]: We have no idea. 40:11.819 --> 40:12.800 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, fucking hell. 40:12.820 --> 40:14.002 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We were there. 40:14.303 --> 40:15.665 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: How can I make that? 40:15.725 --> 40:16.186 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: There we go. 40:16.746 --> 40:17.407 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I rolled a 1. 40:17.608 --> 40:18.369 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He rolled a 1! 40:18.389 --> 40:20.172 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: But reliable talent means it's a 10. 40:21.073 --> 40:21.654 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Plus my 11. 40:22.135 --> 40:25.039 [Riv (DM)]: No way! 40:25.913 --> 40:28.563 [Riv (DM)]: So you guys should remember that for the future. 40:28.603 --> 40:31.453 [Riv (DM)]: Make Erundor do all the investigation checks. 40:32.316 --> 40:35.367 [Riv (DM)]: Do I want to be mean and say that natural one means it's a failure anyway? 40:36.106 --> 40:37.909 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Look, you can do what you want. 40:39.351 --> 40:41.876 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Because I have no knowledge of a nest in this city. 40:41.956 --> 40:44.600 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I actually don't know if there is one or not. 40:44.620 --> 40:46.283 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I cannot remember from previous conversations. 40:47.204 --> 40:48.667 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think Erundor wouldn't know. 40:49.088 --> 40:53.735 [Riv (DM)]: I think in all his travels he probably wouldn't have actually come this far to the north to check it out. 40:55.558 --> 40:59.565 [Riv (DM)]: I would say on a 20, even though it's a 1, you would find 40:59.545 --> 41:23.730 [Riv (DM)]: When you're in the graveyard which is um there's quite a large graveyard over on the previously held imperial side of the city um poking around you you know a few of the tricks and trades of the of the ravens um you find a crypt um that has like tiny little raven symbol sketched sort of like embossed down on one of the corners telltale you have to like rub a bit of snow 41:23.710 --> 41:30.058 [Riv (DM)]: And moss that's built up on it, but clear sign to indicate that there must be something here. 41:30.979 --> 41:47.739 [Riv (DM)]: You poke around a bit, we don't necessarily have to go through all of it, but ultimately what you find after figuring out how to sort of unlock the door and get down, find another secret entrance underneath the crypt itself, it looks like it's been long abandoned, and not just for like a few months. 41:48.940 --> 41:52.705 [Riv (DM)]: You go down into sort of this under, like it's, you know, 41:52.685 --> 42:02.100 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of similar to the one in Val Miriel itself where it's like a section of rooms and buildings and walls and stuff like that underground all made with stone walls. 42:03.342 --> 42:10.253 [Riv (DM)]: Long abandoned like dust and cobwebs that looks like have been built up for many years like couple several years potentially. 42:10.774 --> 42:15.722 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah unfortunately looks like it has been abandoned yeah. 42:32.746 --> 42:33.467 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So be it. 42:33.747 --> 42:36.529 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I will leave and make sure everything gets locked up on my way out. 42:38.731 --> 42:38.991 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 42:46.678 --> 42:48.980 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 42:49.000 --> 42:49.361 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 42:50.542 --> 42:54.325 [Riv (DM)]: So Berberis has got an interesting thing here. 42:55.326 --> 42:58.969 [Riv (DM)]: He, I mean, he hasn't been with this group for a while. 42:59.930 --> 43:02.432 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, for as long as everyone else. 43:04.859 --> 43:10.304 [Riv (DM)]: But through, I think, some of the previous conversations, it sounded like he was keen to stick with the group. 43:10.624 --> 43:12.646 [Riv (DM)]: Is that still what he's sort of feeling and thinking? 43:14.568 --> 43:24.117 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, well, I'm definitely chasing the trouble with the Red Proof now that I've run into a bit of undeath with them. 43:24.157 --> 43:28.601 [Vael (Berberis)]: And this crew seems like a group that might run into them a bit more. 43:30.603 --> 43:34.427 [Vael (Berberis)]: They're my bait and my chasing hounds. 43:34.576 --> 43:36.559 [Vael (Berberis)]: To find out where this shit's coming from. 43:37.059 --> 43:37.981 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 43:38.001 --> 43:40.484 [Riv (DM)]: So Red Priest, they're quite high up on his mind, is it? 43:42.186 --> 43:42.326 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mm-hmm. 43:42.346 --> 43:50.858 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, initially not, but then they started swinging around Undead, which got a very high spike of interest. 43:50.878 --> 43:52.360 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 43:52.380 --> 43:52.760 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, cool. 43:52.780 --> 43:54.202 [Vael (Berberis)]: I want to know where this shit's coming from. 43:56.165 --> 43:56.245 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 43:56.265 --> 43:56.685 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 43:56.805 --> 44:01.832 [Riv (DM)]: Anything that Berberis would do, do you think, over the next few days in the city? 44:02.757 --> 44:17.593 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'd probably be ripping through the old Imperial camp, trying to find where the priests were headquartered, looking for any and all evidence of anything of interest pertaining to a set of red priests. 44:18.485 --> 44:35.903 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think so what would happen, you would potentially interrogate a lot of the prisoners again and you would find out that they kind of just appeared one day and they didn't seem to take up residence, they just kind of came and then they vanish. 44:35.883 --> 44:57.677 [Riv (DM)]: Um so I don't think Berberis would find like anything written down or anything like that which was evidence or clues or anything um more than what you had already been given which was I think the at one prisoner who had told you the the other day that he thinks he saw someone who dressed in a similar way with the empress in Val Luminor on on some ceremony DM. 44:59.220 --> 44:59.400 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah DM. 44:59.420 --> 45:00.201 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah DM. 45:00.221 --> 45:03.667 [Vael (Berberis)]: The fact they're just reporting in and out says a lot DM. 45:03.687 --> 45:03.747 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm 45:06.899 --> 45:07.580 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 45:08.541 --> 45:26.061 [Riv (DM)]: So let's say that a few days go by and on the fifth day you get word that the Mawbreakers are getting ready to head out and it's an opportunity for you guys to come, assuming that you wanted to come along at the same time? 45:29.445 --> 45:31.067 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, now to character. 45:32.309 --> 45:35.252 [Vael (Berberis)]: My thinking is they're going to be running down the coast to Val Miriel. 45:36.380 --> 45:40.225 [Vael (Berberis)]: And there's a Darkwood right there, right up against the coast. 45:44.431 --> 45:45.433 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, exactly. 45:47.977 --> 45:58.051 [Vael (Berberis)]: And the boat is going to be moving a lot faster than us walking or a general on foot with troops moving. 45:59.673 --> 46:01.916 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, so we could literally beat him to the wood. 46:02.397 --> 46:04.480 [Vael (Berberis)]: Assuming... Maybe match time. 46:05.658 --> 46:07.860 [Vael (Berberis)]: How long did it take us to get from the Darkwood to Val Noren? 46:07.961 --> 46:10.924 [Vael (Berberis)]: It would have been like a week or two, wouldn't it? 46:10.944 --> 46:11.845 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, I think a week or two. 46:12.405 --> 46:14.908 [Vael (Berberis)]: Or from Lighthaven to Val Noren, yeah. 46:14.928 --> 46:23.297 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, but there's the general noise way back through all those crazy ice adventures that we did across the mountain. 46:23.317 --> 46:24.719 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He just takes a number of horses through. 46:28.523 --> 46:35.631 [Riv (DM)]: So it took you roughly seven days to get from Lighthaven to Point Blackrock. 46:36.961 --> 46:43.417 [Riv (DM)]: Then there were, I think it was five or six days across the Frost Way, maybe seven days. 46:44.619 --> 46:46.183 [Lacer (Kai)]: Seven days. 46:46.203 --> 46:52.138 [Lacer (Kai)]: But that's with the help of the Frost Wardens. 46:52.579 --> 46:54.784 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think he's got a Frost Warden this time, does he? 46:54.764 --> 46:58.107 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, but he does have boots of icewalking. 46:59.008 --> 47:00.069 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, but he's got a team. 47:00.209 --> 47:01.250 [Lacer (Kai)]: He's got a group of people. 47:01.430 --> 47:10.419 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I remember he said Blackmosh should take a bunch of people with him to the thing, to the Darkwood. 47:11.059 --> 47:15.343 [Vael (Berberis)]: Either way, we've been here for about a week, so he's probably halfway to the Darkwood now. 47:16.544 --> 47:22.830 [Vael (Berberis)]: Boats would travel significantly quicker, so we'd probably break even, I would guess. 47:23.722 --> 47:29.472 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean, I think Barret can just tell you based on what he's travelled these coasts many times. 47:29.752 --> 47:35.702 [Riv (DM)]: It's a bit tricky to get out of Val Noren when it's all frozen, but it'll be probably, I mean, well, let's look at the map. 47:35.742 --> 47:36.704 [Riv (DM)]: I think it's like 700 miles. 47:36.764 --> 47:37.405 [Riv (DM)]: I measured it earlier. 47:40.931 --> 47:42.354 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, 600, 700 miles. 47:42.955 --> 47:45.198 [Riv (DM)]: It's going to be about roughly a week. 47:45.599 --> 47:49.746 [Riv (DM)]: Boat travels, his particular ship travels a hundred miles a day. 47:52.426 --> 47:54.448 [Vael (Berberis)]: You could probably break even if you wanted to head that way. 47:57.853 --> 48:01.417 [Vael (Berberis)]: Either way, we jump out of the Darkwood or we ride it all the way to Val Miriel. 48:01.577 --> 48:04.201 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's up to you guys. 48:04.221 --> 48:07.545 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think boat is better. 48:07.785 --> 48:14.333 [Vael (Berberis)]: The wood sounds fun and interesting for a man with a wooden stick and an interesting plan. 48:15.562 --> 48:16.003 [Riv (DM)]: Awesome. 48:16.183 --> 48:17.064 [Riv (DM)]: All right, let's do that then. 48:17.245 --> 48:32.929 [Riv (DM)]: So you get word Baraka's gathering up the rest of the Mawbreakers who've been making a place for them here in the city and they start trekking out along with about 50 loyalists from Val Noren. 48:33.702 --> 48:35.324 [Riv (DM)]: Other groups will be going as well. 48:35.684 --> 48:39.228 [Riv (DM)]: There are multiple more Breaker ships that arrived here, about four. 48:40.890 --> 48:42.311 [Riv (DM)]: Barak, you can go with him. 48:42.492 --> 48:45.695 [Riv (DM)]: The rest of the other ship captains will be taking other groups of Loyalists as well. 48:46.676 --> 48:55.145 [Riv (DM)]: Marius will come to sort of see you off as you go and you start to make your trek out of the city. 48:55.366 --> 49:02.173 [Riv (DM)]: You're going to actually have to head out to the north because Barak will let you know that when they arrived they had 49:02.272 --> 49:07.220 [Riv (DM)]: Hitting their ships up further around the coast, up along the north so that it wouldn't attract Imperial attention when they arrived. 49:08.282 --> 49:08.582 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh, Riv? 49:09.183 --> 49:10.185 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 49:10.205 --> 49:13.971 [JC (Ryo)]: Um, before we leave, because we're a couple of days, aren't we? 49:13.991 --> 49:17.276 [JC (Ryo)]: We're not just one or two, it's not just the one day we've spent now, isn't it? 49:18.358 --> 49:26.471 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so unless you had asked them to leave earlier, they had told you that Beric was going to leave in about five days from the evening of the Liberation. 49:27.472 --> 49:28.494 [JC (Ryo)]: Can I do one other thing? 49:28.934 --> 49:29.916 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, definitely. 49:30.098 --> 49:37.811 [JC (Ryo)]: Now, I think I've already asked Erendor this to show me, just to see what's in his Thieves Toolkit. 49:40.536 --> 49:40.616 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 49:40.636 --> 49:49.291 [JC (Ryo)]: Could I potentially scrounge up a Thieves Toolkit, getting bits and pieces from various shops that are opening up? 49:49.311 --> 49:51.735 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, definitely. 49:52.137 --> 50:00.047 [Riv (DM)]: It would be like there wouldn't be a place that you could buy a completed one where they just have one ready to go because, you know, of course, the city is kind of in shambles at this point. 50:00.387 --> 50:09.038 [Riv (DM)]: I think with Erendor's help, you can start pulling together lots of different bits and pieces and maybe even getting a few things custom made. 50:09.638 --> 50:11.320 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't we roll both of you guys? 50:12.962 --> 50:14.504 [Riv (DM)]: Should we say investigation checks? 50:16.326 --> 50:17.588 [Riv (DM)]: We'll see how you go. 50:29.296 --> 50:35.282 [Vael (Berberis)]: It should be able to just tick at the bottom, the globe. 50:36.063 --> 50:40.347 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, I'd done that in one of my windows, but I had it duplicated so it was in the other one. 50:42.810 --> 50:48.196 [Riv (DM)]: I'm juggling three because of all the different annoying things. 50:49.937 --> 50:50.558 [Riv (DM)]: Awesome. 50:50.578 --> 50:53.481 [Riv (DM)]: So at 27, that's really, really good. 50:54.693 --> 50:57.178 [Riv (DM)]: I think you easily find all the things you need. 50:57.218 --> 50:59.061 [Riv (DM)]: You ask for a few things to be custom made. 50:59.522 --> 51:02.828 [Riv (DM)]: I think it probably sets you back about 20 gold altogether. 51:03.049 --> 51:04.171 [Riv (DM)]: Totally. 51:04.191 --> 51:04.271 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 51:04.291 --> 51:09.040 [Riv (DM)]: So you can find that in the compendium and drag it over. 51:12.698 --> 51:13.859 [Lacer (Kai)]: Would I also do something? 51:16.121 --> 51:16.281 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 51:16.461 --> 51:17.802 [Lacer (Kai)]: After two, three days. 51:17.822 --> 51:21.365 [Riv (DM)]: It's funny how as soon as I say you're leaving, that's when you guys are like, oh, by the way. 51:21.385 --> 51:24.088 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was waiting for a break the butt in. 51:24.128 --> 51:26.129 [JC (Ryo)]: I try not to talk over people. 51:26.170 --> 51:27.010 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 51:27.070 --> 51:30.713 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then fast forward like a couple of days real quick. 51:30.733 --> 51:41.963 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I was like, oh, I just want to go let Hilda see the shield because she asked to see it after I attuned to it the night before. 51:43.023 --> 51:47.128 [Lacer (Kai)]: And say that the goddess watches over her. 51:47.148 --> 51:49.371 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 51:50.853 --> 51:56.700 [Riv (DM)]: I think she's still quite shocked by it because she doesn't really have a memory of making it. 51:57.301 --> 52:00.445 [Riv (DM)]: She's got a blackout of memory that evening. 52:01.666 --> 52:07.714 [Riv (DM)]: Looking at it, I think she finds things like styles in the crafting. 52:07.694 --> 52:09.839 [Riv (DM)]: That seemed familiar to her. 52:10.039 --> 52:11.763 [Riv (DM)]: I guess that looks like the sort of thing I would do. 52:12.285 --> 52:16.995 [Riv (DM)]: But there are also parts of the shield that she was like, I probably couldn't do that if I tried. 52:17.236 --> 52:25.956 [Riv (DM)]: Like I wouldn't have a clue how to make this intricate little, you know, circular socket that sort of winds in a specific way that can just sort of 52:25.936 --> 52:27.599 [Riv (DM)]: Lock that moonstone in place. 52:28.741 --> 52:29.703 [Riv (DM)]: So she's very confused by it. 52:29.723 --> 52:34.311 [Riv (DM)]: She spends a bunch of time just poring over it, trying to learn from it, I think. 52:35.753 --> 52:40.862 [Riv (DM)]: And appreciates the time that she gets looking at it and learning it from you. 52:41.383 --> 52:51.100 [Riv (DM)]: Are you trying to talk to her about the gods specifically? 52:51.535 --> 52:54.058 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just saw she was interested in it. 52:54.138 --> 52:55.720 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can assist her if she wants. 52:55.760 --> 53:02.589 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can give her enhanceability for an hour while I pick up some of these broken armors and swords and cast mending on it. 53:03.610 --> 53:10.598 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I could, yeah, I can burn her enhanceability to enhance her intelligence, I suppose. 53:12.140 --> 53:12.861 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 53:12.881 --> 53:14.403 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't we roll something for her? 53:15.224 --> 53:16.165 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we'll do that. 53:16.185 --> 53:18.488 [Riv (DM)]: She's probably got a plus two modifier, right? 53:19.312 --> 53:22.017 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I'll give her, yeah, Int and I can give her Guidance. 53:22.097 --> 53:23.079 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can give her Guidance. 53:23.199 --> 53:23.599 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, nice. 53:23.980 --> 53:27.546 [Riv (DM)]: The Enhanceability is Advantage, eh? 53:27.566 --> 53:28.448 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah yeah, Advantage. 53:28.588 --> 53:30.592 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I can give her a plus 4 with Guidance. 53:31.553 --> 53:32.595 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh, nice. 53:33.056 --> 53:34.018 [Riv (DM)]: And then put it on there. 53:37.083 --> 53:38.265 [Riv (DM)]: Aw, huge. 53:38.498 --> 53:40.301 [Riv (DM)]: Um, 23, right? 53:41.342 --> 53:41.763 [Riv (DM)]: 23's pretty good. 53:41.783 --> 53:42.103 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 53:42.343 --> 54:01.510 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think she, um, she gets a blast of inspiration after spending a bit of time, um, and starts, like, making some sketches, um, rapidly, trying to, trying to keep a record of this, and, um, she says, you're like, oh, I think I might know a way that we can replicate some of this for some of our other soldiers in the future. 54:01.890 --> 54:03.713 [Riv (DM)]: This could be game-changing against the Empire. 54:04.739 --> 54:05.881 [Lacer (Kai)]: Could be, could be. 54:06.301 --> 54:07.323 [Lacer (Kai)]: You're the Master Smith. 54:08.744 --> 54:09.485 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wouldn't go that far. 54:09.626 --> 54:11.288 [Riv (DM)]: I try, but... 54:11.308 --> 54:12.209 [Riv (DM)]: The Master is Torgard. 54:16.996 --> 54:17.877 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 54:18.298 --> 54:18.618 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 54:19.860 --> 54:20.100 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 54:23.044 --> 54:24.486 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so... 54:24.635 --> 54:37.691 [Riv (DM)]: As we start to go, as we start to trek out of the city, you go back to your living quarters and collect some of your stuff as you go to catch up with the guys, the group. 54:38.552 --> 54:48.904 [Riv (DM)]: And as you start to head out, along the way, as you're sort of walking through the city, you see off to the side, there's a figure just leaning against the building, clearly 54:48.884 --> 54:52.849 [Riv (DM)]: Having placed herself in the way that you guys were going to go. 54:52.889 --> 55:00.760 [Riv (DM)]: You recognise Ayana wearing this similar sort of tight black fitted sort of statesman like clothing. 55:01.401 --> 55:06.027 [Riv (DM)]: She's got fur cloak on this time to keep warm as it's a little bit chilly out here this morning. 55:06.988 --> 55:14.959 [Riv (DM)]: And she just sort of, you know, nods to you guys in recognition and sort of gestures for you guys to wander over to her. 55:19.107 --> 55:20.089 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's she looking at? 55:21.652 --> 55:22.794 [Riv (DM)]: You. 55:23.135 --> 55:28.605 [Riv (DM)]: She's clearly placed herself out of the way and put herself in your way so that she could get your attention. 55:31.711 --> 55:32.032 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 55:33.054 --> 55:33.916 [Lacer (Kai)]: We head on over. 55:34.817 --> 55:36.300 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 55:37.362 --> 55:37.723 [Riv (DM)]: I think 55:38.783 --> 55:40.507 [Riv (DM)]: I think you find it a little bit odd. 55:40.567 --> 55:46.481 [Riv (DM)]: You've had plenty of times to, you know, plenty of time to talk to her up to this point. 55:46.782 --> 55:50.992 [Riv (DM)]: Why is she meeting you out here away from the keep? 55:52.014 --> 55:56.725 [Riv (DM)]: I think these thoughts kind of just go through your mind as you come over, but anyway. 55:57.650 --> 56:00.052 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do I remember who Ayana, is this Ayana Wen? 56:00.953 --> 56:01.153 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 56:01.654 --> 56:03.396 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the advisor to King Marius. 56:03.616 --> 56:07.460 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right, the silverish hair with black clothes, half moon glasses. 56:07.500 --> 56:09.822 [Riv (DM)]: Half moon spectacles on the tip of her nose, yep. 56:09.842 --> 56:11.624 [Riv (DM)]: She's still wearing the glasses now. 56:12.805 --> 56:16.328 [Riv (DM)]: The only sort of difference to her tie now is just the cloak that she's wearing for warmth as well. 56:17.930 --> 56:25.497 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you can see the same ponytail is still pulled up very, very tight and the hair goes down to sort of the middle of her back. 56:25.477 --> 56:29.363 [Riv (DM)]: She's got nice black gloves on now as well to keep her hands warm in the cold. 56:30.785 --> 56:35.893 [Riv (DM)]: As you come over, she just says, I heard you were leaving with the Mawbreakers as well. 56:38.617 --> 56:39.318 [Lacer (Kai)]: It seems so. 56:39.799 --> 56:40.740 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're headed. 56:41.301 --> 56:43.364 [Lacer (Kai)]: We've got some loose ends to tie off. 56:44.746 --> 56:45.006 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 56:45.727 --> 56:46.328 [Riv (DM)]: Sounds interesting. 56:47.550 --> 56:48.331 [Riv (DM)]: Anything I can do to help? 56:49.173 --> 56:50.134 [Riv (DM)]: What exactly do you have to do? 56:51.481 --> 56:57.591 [Lacer (Kai)]: Some of us want to chase after our... not exactly friend, I guess. 56:58.091 --> 57:08.848 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, we came up with General Corvass, but he... turned... he became turncoat to us through Black Marsh's magic, so... 57:10.212 --> 57:12.935 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm actually trying to figure out what to do from here. 57:13.596 --> 57:21.766 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, we did catch wind that he was headed down back to the Darkwood, so we might try and catch him down there by boat. 57:23.649 --> 57:24.790 [Lacer (Kai)]: With the Mawbreakers, of course. 57:26.132 --> 57:28.395 [Riv (DM)]: The Elusive General, eh? 57:28.415 --> 57:29.776 [Riv (DM)]: That is indeed one loose thread. 57:29.977 --> 57:31.118 [Riv (DM)]: It would be good to wrap up. 57:33.501 --> 57:34.823 [Riv (DM)]: What do you plan to do when you meet him? 57:36.124 --> 57:36.625 [Riv (DM)]: If you meet him. 57:39.760 --> 57:40.861 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 57:41.302 --> 57:46.287 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I look to Erendor, Ryo, and who else is with me? 57:46.507 --> 57:49.029 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is, um, Berberis with us? 57:49.129 --> 57:50.411 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think whole group will be with you. 57:50.591 --> 57:51.692 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you guys are getting ready to go. 57:52.413 --> 57:57.498 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look to the others for assistance. 57:57.518 --> 58:00.661 [JC (Ryo)]: Start spinning like two arrows in my fingers and like, yeah, he dead. 58:05.146 --> 58:06.026 [Riv (DM)]: So you aim to kill this man. 58:06.987 --> 58:08.569 [Riv (DM)]: There's just one way to go about it. 58:08.650 --> 58:12.214 [Riv (DM)]: They sure might not be more beneficial to try and glean some information. 58:13.435 --> 58:14.296 [Riv (DM)]: Could be useful hostage. 58:17.899 --> 58:18.280 [Lacer (Kai)]: Could be. 58:18.380 --> 58:19.261 [Lacer (Kai)]: What do you have in mind? 58:22.444 --> 58:23.645 [Riv (DM)]: My affairs are here in the city. 58:25.967 --> 58:27.889 [Riv (DM)]: What you do with your errands is up to you. 58:27.989 --> 58:29.230 [Riv (DM)]: I merely offer advice. 58:30.732 --> 58:33.915 [Riv (DM)]: But that's actually not why I wanted to talk to you all. 58:36.106 --> 58:42.234 [Riv (DM)]: It's sketching that you showed us a few days ago in King Marius's chambers. 58:43.376 --> 58:46.099 [Riv (DM)]: Sketching of the design that you took from that priest's back. 58:46.880 --> 58:47.601 [Riv (DM)]: Can I see that again? 58:49.724 --> 58:56.513 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure, I stick my hand into the bag holding and present the... One of the copies? 58:57.073 --> 58:58.295 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, one of the copies, yeah. 58:58.315 --> 59:00.578 [Lacer (Kai)]: I made multiple copies, yeah. 59:02.600 --> 59:03.541 [Riv (DM)]: Did you make multiple copies? 59:03.581 --> 59:04.222 [Riv (DM)]: I thought it was just one. 59:05.503 --> 59:15.253 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh no, I spent one the night after, I'm pretty sure, after Berberis asked me to make copies from the copy of the copy to make more copies. 59:15.874 --> 59:17.115 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 59:17.275 --> 59:21.099 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm pretty sure I would have even sent one of the copies with the messengers. 59:21.119 --> 59:22.240 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, you did. 59:22.341 --> 59:22.541 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 59:22.761 --> 59:24.383 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, that's right. 59:24.663 --> 59:26.024 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 59:26.044 --> 59:28.607 [Riv (DM)]: So do you present a copy or the original? 59:29.701 --> 59:37.219 [Lacer (Kai)]: A copy since I think my calligraphy is pretty good so I can make them very similar. 59:37.960 --> 59:38.121 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 59:40.506 --> 59:42.190 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 59:42.431 --> 59:45.939 [Riv (DM)]: She pulls it out and starts glancing over it again. 59:45.999 --> 59:48.064 [Riv (DM)]: And again, 59:49.529 --> 59:56.624 [Riv (DM)]: Kai, you noticed when you had the initial session, you noticed something on her face when she looked at it. 59:56.704 --> 59:59.109 [Riv (DM)]: She had a reaction but didn't say anything. 01:00:00.592 --> 01:00:08.027 [Riv (DM)]: This time you can clearly see that she is concentrating, her brows are furrowed and you start to see 01:00:09.256 --> 01:00:12.061 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, why don't we roll? 01:00:12.783 --> 01:00:14.506 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone who would like to roll? 01:00:14.606 --> 01:00:17.852 [Vael (Berberis)]: If it helps, I'm sitting here with 19 passive insight as well. 01:00:18.173 --> 01:00:18.433 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:00:18.634 --> 01:00:20.557 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've pretty damn good insight. 01:00:21.399 --> 01:00:22.701 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's my passive insight? 01:00:23.623 --> 01:00:24.344 [JC (Ryo)]: 16 for me. 01:00:25.286 --> 01:00:25.627 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have 19. 01:00:25.707 --> 01:00:26.308 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have 19. 01:00:26.328 --> 01:00:30.015 [JC (Ryo)]: 20 passive perception. 01:00:33.742 --> 01:00:58.939 [Riv (DM)]: I think for um yeah cool for maybe should we say the guys with the 19 passive insight um you see tinges of concern and maybe a bit of stress um starting to cross her face as she's pouring over it and she um she looks back up at you and just uh and says 01:01:02.108 --> 01:01:02.508 [Riv (DM)]: 100%. 01:01:04.130 --> 01:01:07.293 [Riv (DM)]: You weren't lying when you said you took this from the back of one of those red priests. 01:01:09.555 --> 01:01:09.735 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 01:01:09.956 --> 01:01:22.428 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, if your soldiers recovered her body from the temple of Torgar down in the crypts, you would know, I suppose, because her body should be still down there. 01:01:23.869 --> 01:01:27.913 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I must admit I haven't gone to inspect it myself. 01:01:28.045 --> 01:01:28.966 [Vael (Berberis)]: I've been here for a bit. 01:01:29.407 --> 01:01:30.408 [Vael (Berberis)]: I drink, I swear. 01:01:30.448 --> 01:01:33.131 [Vael (Berberis)]: I may not be the nicest fella, but I've ever lied to ya. 01:01:34.533 --> 01:01:34.974 [Riv (DM)]: That is true. 01:01:37.216 --> 01:01:38.458 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she nods to you, Berberis. 01:01:40.521 --> 01:01:41.622 [Riv (DM)]: She sort of deflates a bit. 01:01:42.183 --> 01:01:48.130 [Riv (DM)]: She's normally a very proud woman, very sure of herself, and she just sort of deflates. 01:01:49.628 --> 01:01:50.870 [Riv (DM)]: And a big sigh. 01:01:51.411 --> 01:01:59.684 [Riv (DM)]: Almost like some barriers that she's held in a social sense. 01:01:59.984 --> 01:02:01.506 [Riv (DM)]: She just sort of lets drop. 01:02:02.969 --> 01:02:04.711 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear her say... 01:02:08.357 --> 01:02:08.758 [Riv (DM)]: The world. 01:02:09.298 --> 01:02:12.123 [Riv (DM)]: This world currently resides on a knife's edge. 01:02:13.044 --> 01:02:14.286 [Riv (DM)]: More than you could possibly know. 01:02:16.021 --> 01:02:18.345 [Riv (DM)]: One wrong move and it shall fall to darkness. 01:02:18.905 --> 01:02:20.288 [Riv (DM)]: And it is because of this. 01:02:21.089 --> 01:02:24.795 [Riv (DM)]: Despite what you've done for the city, I cannot fully trust you yet. 01:02:27.138 --> 01:02:31.144 [Riv (DM)]: So there may be things in what I'm about to tell you that are missing or incomplete. 01:02:33.548 --> 01:02:39.617 [Riv (DM)]: I know that it is unfair considering what I just said, but I need you to trust me. 01:02:41.160 --> 01:02:41.961 [Riv (DM)]: Can you do that? 01:02:47.712 --> 01:02:48.153 [Lacer (Kai)]: I know it. 01:02:49.735 --> 01:02:53.160 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We will take your words under advisement. 01:02:55.344 --> 01:02:57.066 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Trust must be earned. 01:02:58.128 --> 01:02:59.711 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We will remember, we will heed. 01:02:59.771 --> 01:03:03.236 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Excellent. 01:03:05.219 --> 01:03:06.521 [Riv (DM)]: And likewise right back at you. 01:03:07.222 --> 01:03:09.345 [Riv (DM)]: So I think that... 01:03:09.365 --> 01:03:10.287 [Riv (DM)]: I think that this may work. 01:03:11.749 --> 01:03:13.011 [Riv (DM)]: What do you know of the shattering 01:03:17.243 --> 01:03:17.623 [Vael (Berberis)]: Nothing. 01:03:18.204 --> 01:03:19.646 [Vael (Berberis)]: Everyone of us probably know nothing. 01:03:21.929 --> 01:03:23.991 [JC (Ryo)]: I definitely don't know. 01:03:24.171 --> 01:03:25.353 [Vael (Berberis)]: Our characters might. 01:03:25.533 --> 01:03:26.094 [Vael (Berberis)]: We don't. 01:03:26.114 --> 01:03:26.354 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:03:26.554 --> 01:03:27.415 [Lacer (Kai)]: I personally don't know. 01:03:27.455 --> 01:03:28.477 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can we roll history? 01:03:28.857 --> 01:03:29.438 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or religion? 01:03:29.898 --> 01:03:36.887 [Riv (DM)]: I think Berberis... Actually, you know what? 01:03:36.907 --> 01:03:37.768 [Riv (DM)]: Berberis probably can as well. 01:03:37.948 --> 01:03:38.889 [Riv (DM)]: All of you can roll history. 01:03:43.315 --> 01:03:45.377 [JC (Ryo)]: Is there any point with Ryan rolling history? 01:03:46.893 --> 01:03:48.696 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, why not? 01:03:48.716 --> 01:03:50.498 [Riv (DM)]: Oh actually no, definitely yes. 01:03:51.820 --> 01:03:53.082 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean come on, you know my backstory. 01:03:53.102 --> 01:03:55.085 [JC (Ryo)]: What's the point of me rolling history on something? 01:03:55.986 --> 01:04:00.032 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: All I'm seeing Kai is that you are absolutely certain you know what this is. 01:04:01.053 --> 01:04:02.695 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I know exactly what it is. 01:04:02.715 --> 01:04:05.239 [JC (Ryo)]: How the fuck have you got a negative six? 01:04:06.518 --> 01:04:09.404 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, wait, wait. 01:04:10.887 --> 01:04:15.136 [Lacer (Kai)]: Should I have a rolled long rest for those multiple days, Riv? 01:04:15.958 --> 01:04:18.503 [Riv (DM)]: You would get one level of exhaustion removed for each day. 01:04:18.563 --> 01:04:20.187 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, I think you can remove all your exhaustion. 01:04:21.089 --> 01:04:23.734 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, because I'm rolling at disadvantage right now, I think. 01:04:24.524 --> 01:04:26.428 [Riv (DM)]: I think you just get, like, a negative modifier, right? 01:04:26.488 --> 01:04:33.201 [Vael (Berberis)]: When you... Yeah, you'd go that far unless you've had, like, negative one intelligence. 01:04:33.221 --> 01:04:36.488 [Vael (Berberis)]: Not just minus one intelligence, like, minus one intelligence. 01:04:37.169 --> 01:04:37.930 [Vael (Berberis)]: In which case you are dead. 01:04:38.852 --> 01:04:40.816 [Riv (DM)]: Rio, you can roll history as well. 01:04:42.179 --> 01:04:45.385 [Lacer (Kai)]: Should I roll again after doing all those long rests? 01:04:51.676 --> 01:04:52.157 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:04:52.197 --> 01:04:52.597 [Riv (DM)]: What did we get? 01:04:52.637 --> 01:04:54.641 [Riv (DM)]: So, Berberis, 12. 01:04:55.181 --> 01:04:58.306 [Riv (DM)]: And then for the other guys, 17, 16, 11. 01:04:59.788 --> 01:05:04.996 [Riv (DM)]: Rio and Earendor, you actually recall hearing something fairly recently. 01:05:05.698 --> 01:05:15.152 [Riv (DM)]: There was a folk story that Liliana from the Fine Golds Caravan, the Fine Gold Caravan Company, that she had told you a long time ago. 01:05:16.853 --> 01:05:27.510 [Riv (DM)]: And this actually happened in game so technically you players would have heard this as well but I guess at the time it was sort of a little throwaway story. 01:05:31.096 --> 01:05:37.246 [Riv (DM)]: So I think you guys do roughly remember the mythology based on that folk story. 01:05:39.349 --> 01:05:44.397 [Riv (DM)]: Regardless, you see Ayana, she says 01:05:46.098 --> 01:05:49.343 [Riv (DM)]: Did you know that there was a time before magic was in this world? 01:05:49.964 --> 01:05:52.708 [Riv (DM)]: Very few could wield the arcane arts. 01:05:52.808 --> 01:06:04.706 [Riv (DM)]: There were a few clerics who had communications with the gods but, um, and you see she sort of like clicks her hand and a sphere of light just like appears and starts to float around her. 01:06:05.687 --> 01:06:07.250 [Riv (DM)]: Magic itself was very rare. 01:06:09.613 --> 01:06:15.582 [Riv (DM)]: Similarly with the creatures and aberrations that you now find crawling the world. 01:06:17.013 --> 01:06:21.818 [Riv (DM)]: About 2500 years ago, the barriers between the realms of existence themselves were broken. 01:06:23.180 --> 01:06:25.382 [Riv (DM)]: Creatures, monsters and magic into the world. 01:06:26.203 --> 01:06:33.491 [Riv (DM)]: A farmer that you knew one day, plowing the fields, as mundane as the next, could suddenly call flames from his hands. 01:06:36.314 --> 01:06:37.675 [Riv (DM)]: It was a time of absolute chaos. 01:06:38.456 --> 01:06:40.118 [Riv (DM)]: For about 500 years, 01:06:40.604 --> 01:06:57.180 [Riv (DM)]: The time was known as the Chaos Wars and these were led by cunning evil creatures who sought to break the shattered barrier permanently and in doing so would unleash a darkness to the world that could not possibly be imagined. 01:06:58.241 --> 01:07:00.783 [Riv (DM)]: They're known to myth as the Chromatic Dragons. 01:07:01.804 --> 01:07:09.632 [Riv (DM)]: Children speak of them in stories but I assure you they were all too real and even more terrifying than the children could imagine. 01:07:10.996 --> 01:07:25.836 [Riv (DM)]: Civilizations fell, the great cities were sundered, until the remaining peoples of the world formed a final united front, led by seven champions, blessed by the gods themselves, and closed shut the shattered portal. 01:07:28.659 --> 01:07:36.750 [Riv (DM)]: You see she pauses here for a moment and just moves a stray strand of hair back behind her ear. 01:07:41.894 --> 01:07:46.423 [Riv (DM)]: That happened about two millennia ago, but where does that leave us now and why am I telling you this? 01:07:47.666 --> 01:07:56.343 [Riv (DM)]: Well, you may see an empire rising, the oppression of your fellow kinsmen suffering, soldiers on your doorsteps. 01:07:58.126 --> 01:08:01.894 [Riv (DM)]: We see seeds of chaos that are all too familiar. 01:08:04.085 --> 01:08:12.075 [Riv (DM)]: The civilization falling overnight, citizens turning against their own, and monsters leaving their dens and attacking people on the roads. 01:08:13.477 --> 01:08:15.540 [Riv (DM)]: We believe the agents of Chaos are at work again. 01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:23.030 [Riv (DM)]: Despite what we thought, we now believe that they may not have all been destroyed or banished at the end of the Chaos Wars. 01:08:25.813 --> 01:08:26.634 [Riv (DM)]: And why am I telling you this? 01:08:28.717 --> 01:08:29.818 [Riv (DM)]: They are coming beyond measure. 01:08:30.139 --> 01:08:31.020 [Riv (DM)]: They could be anyone. 01:08:32.283 --> 01:08:35.947 [Riv (DM)]: The reason I am placing faith in you is because you showed me this. 01:08:36.368 --> 01:08:38.871 [Riv (DM)]: And she taps the drawing. 01:08:40.292 --> 01:08:42.955 [Riv (DM)]: The first true bit of evidence that we have actually found. 01:08:46.279 --> 01:08:48.682 [Riv (DM)]: She pauses again for a moment and just looks back over the sketch. 01:08:51.845 --> 01:08:52.446 [Riv (DM)]: I ask you this. 01:08:54.408 --> 01:08:55.810 [Riv (DM)]: Earn yourself my trust. 01:08:56.667 --> 01:09:01.055 [Riv (DM)]: In your travels, if you find anything that points to more information like this, bring it to me. 01:09:01.716 --> 01:09:02.798 [Riv (DM)]: Find these red priests. 01:09:03.880 --> 01:09:05.062 [Riv (DM)]: Gather the information. 01:09:06.885 --> 01:09:09.189 [Riv (DM)]: It may very well be the most important thing you could be doing. 01:09:10.531 --> 01:09:20.228 [Riv (DM)]: But be warned, if what we fear is true, you cannot let it be known that anyone is aware of their presence, or it could lead to accelerating their plans. 01:09:27.025 --> 01:09:27.546 [Lacer (Kai)]: What say you? 01:09:30.009 --> 01:09:33.715 [Lacer (Kai)]: At this time, I say, do you have a safe space? 01:09:34.776 --> 01:09:36.058 [Lacer (Kai)]: A safe magical space? 01:09:38.642 --> 01:09:39.283 [Lacer (Kai)]: You mean right now? 01:09:39.303 --> 01:09:40.364 [Lacer (Kai)]: That we can go to? 01:09:40.384 --> 01:09:40.865 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, right now. 01:09:42.968 --> 01:09:44.150 [Riv (DM)]: For what reason, Kai? 01:09:45.251 --> 01:09:46.093 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look to Berberis. 01:09:46.874 --> 01:09:48.977 [Lacer (Kai)]: You know that head we took of the Red Priestess? 01:09:49.958 --> 01:09:53.303 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have speak with dead about the spell. 01:10:01.535 --> 01:10:13.332 [Vael (Berberis)]: Seems incredibly dangerous to use with someone who traffics in undead, but I'll look to her and say, your call. 01:10:15.275 --> 01:10:29.736 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I look to her and I ask, is this a good idea, Ayana, if we cast Speak with Dead on the priestess's head? 01:10:31.555 --> 01:10:33.177 [Riv (DM)]: I'm conflicted. 01:10:33.217 --> 01:10:37.261 [Riv (DM)]: It could be way to gather information. 01:10:38.803 --> 01:10:49.054 [Riv (DM)]: On the other hand, if somehow they are able to communicate with the spirits of their own dead, could let them know that someone is delving. 01:10:50.396 --> 01:10:55.842 [Riv (DM)]: How confident are you, Kai, that this might work? 01:10:58.100 --> 01:11:02.905 [Lacer (Kai)]: I believe if I pray to my goddess, I think I could make it work. 01:11:04.206 --> 01:11:15.116 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just don't know if there's a safe enough space to like cut off any magical means of eyes prying on us while we're doing, when I'm doing this type of magic. 01:11:23.805 --> 01:11:23.905 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:11:27.665 --> 01:11:30.791 [Riv (DM)]: Let's try it. 01:11:30.811 --> 01:11:31.393 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like right here? 01:11:31.813 --> 01:11:34.920 [Riv (DM)]: Like... Maybe somewhere slightly more secluded. 01:11:34.960 --> 01:11:37.324 [Riv (DM)]: And she smiles a little bit. 01:11:38.106 --> 01:11:39.729 [Riv (DM)]: She passes you back the sketching. 01:11:43.096 --> 01:11:44.559 [Lacer (Kai)]: I say keep it. 01:11:44.579 --> 01:11:46.062 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've got multiple copies. 01:11:48.303 --> 01:11:49.145 [Riv (DM)]: Excellent. 01:11:49.206 --> 01:11:52.856 [Riv (DM)]: She clicks her hand and it just vanishes into sparkly dust. 01:11:53.778 --> 01:11:54.360 [Riv (DM)]: Follow me please. 01:11:54.881 --> 01:12:03.325 [Riv (DM)]: And she turns and just starts to walk around the corner into a sort of secluded side alley where there definitely are no people watching. 01:12:03.305 --> 01:12:29.886 [Riv (DM)]: She sort of claps her hands together, rotates her hands and like pulls them aside drawing this line of purple energy between them that she sort of rotates like she's turning a big wheel that she then just sort of pushes forward, slaps onto the side of the wall of the building that you're against and the wheel continues to turn and as it turns it starts to glow and open as it increases in size. 01:12:29.866 --> 01:12:36.435 [Riv (DM)]: Um, she walks up to it and just like pushes against it and it sort of falls inwards. 01:12:38.098 --> 01:12:40.641 [Riv (DM)]: Um, she stands back and just gestures for you guys. 01:12:42.083 --> 01:12:42.544 [Riv (DM)]: Please enter. 01:12:48.913 --> 01:12:49.734 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I... 01:12:52.578 --> 01:12:53.239 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's pretty cool. 01:12:54.241 --> 01:12:56.464 [JC (Ryo)]: Insight check. 01:12:56.484 --> 01:12:57.185 [JC (Ryo)]: She being genuine? 01:12:58.467 --> 01:12:59.248 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an insight check. 01:13:07.784 --> 01:13:11.588 [Riv (DM)]: She seems same as usual, yeah. 01:13:11.608 --> 01:13:11.888 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 01:13:13.670 --> 01:13:19.796 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm stepping on in because anyone who can pull off magicka with that level is not someone you say no to. 01:13:19.976 --> 01:13:20.156 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 01:13:21.057 --> 01:13:22.118 [Vael (Berberis)]: You should say no. 01:13:22.959 --> 01:13:23.199 [Riv (DM)]: Once. 01:13:25.721 --> 01:13:25.922 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:13:26.242 --> 01:13:26.622 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 01:13:26.722 --> 01:13:29.265 [JC (Ryo)]: I give her a look up and down before I go in, but yeah, in I go. 01:13:31.427 --> 01:13:32.048 [Riv (DM)]: You intervened. 01:13:32.068 --> 01:13:33.289 [Vael (Berberis)]: You did reveal Dreeves, didn't you? 01:13:35.070 --> 01:13:35.631 [Riv (DM)]: Say again, sorry? 01:13:37.197 --> 01:13:38.538 [Vael (Berberis)]: Did reveal her ears, didn't she? 01:13:39.179 --> 01:13:40.500 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, not right now, no. 01:13:44.164 --> 01:13:45.626 [Riv (DM)]: She, um... 01:13:46.246 --> 01:13:47.788 [Riv (DM)]: Still appears human. 01:13:49.089 --> 01:13:51.111 [Riv (DM)]: Inside is a very simple landing, very minimal. 01:13:51.732 --> 01:13:52.433 [Riv (DM)]: Marble floors. 01:13:53.013 --> 01:13:55.556 [Riv (DM)]: It's maybe 30 feet long. 01:13:56.717 --> 01:14:01.922 [Riv (DM)]: Couple of, like, pots on either side of the room with just some trees growing out of them. 01:14:02.343 --> 01:14:05.466 [Riv (DM)]: And a door on the far side of the room. 01:14:05.446 --> 01:14:07.951 [Riv (DM)]: Nice big ornate wooden thing. 01:14:08.613 --> 01:14:11.158 [Riv (DM)]: Double doors, nice silvery door handles. 01:14:12.100 --> 01:14:15.828 [Riv (DM)]: She comes in behind you and closes the door that you entered. 01:14:16.008 --> 01:14:16.649 [Riv (DM)]: She closes that. 01:14:17.431 --> 01:14:18.493 [Riv (DM)]: And she says, 01:14:20.127 --> 01:14:21.148 [Riv (DM)]: Welcome to my tower. 01:14:21.188 --> 01:14:32.322 [Riv (DM)]: This is my personal space and so you will forgive me if I don't allow you any further into the tower, but here I've made a space that we can communicate. 01:14:32.582 --> 01:14:35.425 [Riv (DM)]: We are entirely cut off from the rest of the world, no one will bother us here. 01:14:36.547 --> 01:14:37.548 [Riv (DM)]: Kai, please go ahead. 01:14:40.211 --> 01:14:45.257 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you have something I could cover my face, I think, when I use this? 01:14:46.874 --> 01:14:52.200 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't want the corpse to be able to see what I look like. 01:14:57.826 --> 01:14:58.247 [Riv (DM)]: How do you mean? 01:14:58.888 --> 01:14:59.468 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cover your face. 01:15:00.129 --> 01:15:01.230 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just a mask or something. 01:15:02.632 --> 01:15:05.135 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or should I make one? 01:15:05.275 --> 01:15:07.197 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can just use shape water and put it over my face. 01:15:07.217 --> 01:15:11.582 [JC (Ryo)]: I throw you the Red Cloak of the Hand of the Empire and go, here, throw this half over your face. 01:15:11.984 --> 01:15:12.725 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I do that. 01:15:13.547 --> 01:15:19.156 [Lacer (Kai)]: I make a makeshift cloth mask with the cloak of the Red Cloak. 01:15:20.257 --> 01:15:23.963 [JC (Ryo)]: While he does that, I'll throw Disguise Self on myself as well to change my hands completely. 01:15:23.984 --> 01:15:27.950 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, let's tell everyone, you don't want this head to recognise you. 01:15:27.990 --> 01:15:35.983 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm sure we can stand behind it and organise a bit of backlighting behind the person asking questions. 01:15:36.892 --> 01:15:39.377 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, actually, what questions do you want to ask, Ayana? 01:15:39.717 --> 01:15:41.701 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, I'm not entirely sure. 01:15:41.781 --> 01:15:43.665 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know what these red priests are. 01:15:43.845 --> 01:15:46.110 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, are there five questions? 01:15:46.170 --> 01:15:51.460 [Lacer (Kai)]: We have five questions the goddess has told me that we can ask before we can't ask anything more. 01:15:55.708 --> 01:15:56.089 [Unmatched Speaker]: Indeed. 01:15:56.590 --> 01:15:57.111 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 01:15:59.420 --> 01:16:03.625 [Riv (DM)]: Finding out who it serves would be the key objective as far as I'm concerned. 01:16:05.267 --> 01:16:10.793 [Riv (DM)]: Learning where their place of headquarters would be another key thing. 01:16:13.136 --> 01:16:13.837 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, that's two. 01:16:13.857 --> 01:16:15.318 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe what their plans are. 01:16:19.643 --> 01:16:20.264 [Riv (DM)]: How about yourself? 01:16:20.304 --> 01:16:21.305 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything you wish to learn? 01:16:23.187 --> 01:16:23.708 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 01:16:23.828 --> 01:16:25.330 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look to Berberis. 01:16:26.151 --> 01:16:28.093 [Lacer (Kai)]: I want to know their links to the Empire. 01:16:28.782 --> 01:16:29.844 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Link to the Empire. 01:16:30.565 --> 01:16:31.767 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Core Combat Weakness. 01:16:34.190 --> 01:16:36.234 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, very smart. 01:16:37.636 --> 01:16:39.298 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, let's go with that. 01:16:41.742 --> 01:16:44.787 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can anyone ask these questions, or does it have to be me? 01:16:46.510 --> 01:16:47.451 [Riv (DM)]: It has to be you, I believe. 01:16:49.394 --> 01:16:51.297 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I take my... 01:16:51.749 --> 01:16:58.797 [Lacer (Kai)]: I open the bag of holding and I pull out the decapitated head of the Red Priestess. 01:16:59.618 --> 01:17:09.790 [Vael (Berberis)]: Before you start the ritual, I'm just going to reach into my bag and pull out a little bit of dust and let it run through my fingers. 01:17:10.671 --> 01:17:13.154 [Vael (Berberis)]: And hey, Mr. DM. 01:17:14.796 --> 01:17:17.319 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah? 01:17:17.339 --> 01:17:20.963 [Vael (Berberis)]: How does the world feel about what we're about to do? 01:17:24.267 --> 01:17:24.988 [Vael (Berberis)]: The world? 01:17:26.789 --> 01:17:34.857 [Vael (Berberis)]: I receive an omen from an otherworldly entity consulting with the spirits of nature, the essence of the world soul. 01:17:36.799 --> 01:17:37.580 [Vael (Berberis)]: We about to fuck up. 01:17:40.983 --> 01:17:43.366 [Riv (DM)]: So I give you like a vibe or something, right? 01:17:43.386 --> 01:17:44.567 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, I linked it in the chat. 01:17:44.587 --> 01:17:45.227 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, there we go, cool. 01:17:49.191 --> 01:17:52.114 [Riv (DM)]: I would say in this particular case, indifference. 01:17:53.461 --> 01:17:56.124 [Riv (DM)]: You probably get the feeling that you are not on the world anymore. 01:17:58.167 --> 01:18:00.750 [JC (Ryo)]: Fair enough. 01:18:00.830 --> 01:18:01.370 [JC (Ryo)]: Before... 01:18:02.492 --> 01:18:06.096 [JC (Ryo)]: I'd like to do something else before Kai casts the spell. 01:18:06.977 --> 01:18:08.199 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, go ahead. 01:18:09.780 --> 01:18:11.002 [JC (Ryo)]: I think you've done this before. 01:18:11.042 --> 01:18:12.924 [JC (Ryo)]: I can do this now as well. 01:18:12.964 --> 01:18:16.809 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm just trying to figure out which one you need. 01:18:16.869 --> 01:18:20.413 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got Enhanceability. 01:18:21.136 --> 01:18:24.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I thought you meant you could speak with the dead also, and I was like, oh yeah, go ahead. 01:18:24.383 --> 01:18:27.470 [JC (Ryo)]: No, I have enhanceability, I'm like, which one do you work? 01:18:28.031 --> 01:18:33.784 [JC (Ryo)]: And I'm pretty sure speak with the dead, once one person uses it on that dead, the spell will never work on that thing again. 01:18:33.804 --> 01:18:38.976 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have pretty high wisdom. 01:18:39.985 --> 01:18:44.311 [Lacer (Kai)]: But, I don't know, like, this is my first time. 01:18:44.331 --> 01:18:46.794 [JC (Ryo)]: Are we going to need charisma or wisdom to try and talk the talk? 01:18:46.814 --> 01:18:48.977 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think you're making any persuasion checks. 01:18:49.198 --> 01:18:53.924 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm not persuading, I just ask questions and the corpse answers if it knows or if it doesn't. 01:18:54.204 --> 01:19:02.175 [Lacer (Kai)]: It either answers or not, I just get five questions and the answer is based on their soul, if they know, if they have knowledge or not. 01:19:02.976 --> 01:19:05.740 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, so enhanceability would be pointless then? 01:19:06.665 --> 01:19:07.386 [Lacer (Kai)]: I suppose. 01:19:08.427 --> 01:19:09.849 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I don't... 01:19:09.869 --> 01:19:12.913 [Lacer (Kai)]: Unless you Enhance Ability of the Dead, I suppose. 01:19:12.953 --> 01:19:15.557 [Lacer (Kai)]: If I bring it back, if it can remember better. 01:19:15.577 --> 01:19:16.818 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, no. 01:19:16.878 --> 01:19:21.184 [JC (Ryo)]: You just get to... You Advantage on one of your six stats. 01:19:25.650 --> 01:19:26.351 [Lacer (Kai)]: Leave it for now. 01:19:26.691 --> 01:19:29.635 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think it would help that much, but... 01:19:30.796 --> 01:19:37.367 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, anyone else want to do something before I set up this ritual circle? 01:19:43.757 --> 01:19:44.178 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm back, sorry. 01:19:44.198 --> 01:19:51.570 [Vael (Berberis)]: It just started raining and I had to go and open doors. 01:19:51.590 --> 01:19:51.850 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nope. 01:19:52.111 --> 01:19:56.618 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I start burning some incense that I had from my pouch. 01:19:58.167 --> 01:20:11.833 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I start incanting some words I didn't know before that were taught to me by the goddess, and I cast Speak with Dead on the head of the red priestess that is on the floor. 01:20:14.318 --> 01:20:14.679 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:20:14.879 --> 01:20:19.348 [Riv (DM)]: Can you just go over everything that you've prepared? 01:20:20.813 --> 01:20:23.116 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just lit a bit of incense. 01:20:23.437 --> 01:20:28.984 [Riv (DM)]: So I mean in terms of like what sort of setup you've done like you said you would put on a red cloak or something like that? 01:20:29.445 --> 01:20:33.150 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah I put on a red cloak over my face to cover my face. 01:20:34.452 --> 01:20:35.914 [Riv (DM)]: Oh so you just have like draped over your face? 01:20:37.035 --> 01:20:46.308 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess it's like you know like when you go to the desert and you see the desert raiders and you kind of wrap it around your face to prevent sand and dust and stuff. 01:20:47.509 --> 01:20:48.711 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just the eyes are showing. 01:20:49.822 --> 01:20:52.512 [Riv (DM)]: In Rio you've got Disguised Selfa, the rest are you. 01:20:52.532 --> 01:20:55.523 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think the rest of us will just be standing behind so it can't get us. 01:20:55.824 --> 01:20:56.948 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:20:56.968 --> 01:20:58.012 [Vael (Berberis)]: Since it has no neck. 01:20:58.333 --> 01:21:01.384 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:21:04.165 --> 01:21:06.187 [Riv (DM)]: The spell starts to take hold. 01:21:06.207 --> 01:21:17.357 [Riv (DM)]: The circle on the ground that you've magically sketched out just kind of pulses, just briefly, faintly once, and then and just like erupts into bright white light for a moment. 01:21:18.998 --> 01:21:26.185 [Riv (DM)]: These lights just sort of like spiral and circle themselves in and just hit the head that is lying in the center of it. 01:21:26.785 --> 01:21:30.648 [Riv (DM)]: The head shakes and like almost animates as it tilts up. 01:21:30.789 --> 01:21:33.531 [Riv (DM)]: Its mouth hangs open and you just hear a breath like 01:21:33.511 --> 01:21:39.621 [Riv (DM)]: As the eyes slowly open and just turn to look at you, Kai. 01:21:42.165 --> 01:21:43.167 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just a little bit shocked. 01:21:44.409 --> 01:21:44.949 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's working. 01:21:46.352 --> 01:21:46.852 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's alive. 01:21:47.954 --> 01:21:48.796 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or I think it's alive. 01:21:51.039 --> 01:21:56.548 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I ask, who do you work for? 01:22:01.456 --> 01:22:08.348 [Riv (DM)]: Um, can you make a deception check with advantage since you have wrapped yourself? 01:22:10.699 --> 01:22:10.960 [Riv (DM)]: Sure. 01:22:24.254 --> 01:22:33.124 [Riv (DM)]: Their voice comes back very kind of croaky and hollow, almost like it's being whispered down through a very, very long hallway. 01:22:33.624 --> 01:22:39.270 [Riv (DM)]: And you just hear it say, Empress Morgana Eventide. 01:22:39.310 --> 01:22:44.416 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's bad. 01:22:47.919 --> 01:22:51.223 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where does... 01:22:52.013 --> 01:22:53.836 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where are you located? 01:22:54.156 --> 01:22:56.539 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where is your main base of operations? 01:23:09.117 --> 01:23:10.459 [Riv (DM)]: How specific should I be? 01:23:13.744 --> 01:23:14.304 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can roll. 01:23:14.645 --> 01:23:15.626 [Lacer (Kai)]: Roll if she remembers. 01:23:18.951 --> 01:23:21.835 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, taking this bit... 01:23:23.907 --> 01:23:30.016 [Vael (Berberis)]: The corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are antagonistic towards it or it recognises you as an enemy. 01:23:31.798 --> 01:23:32.760 [Riv (DM)]: That's what the answer should be. 01:23:32.780 --> 01:23:36.485 [Riv (DM)]: Hence the deception check. 01:23:38.869 --> 01:23:43.055 [Riv (DM)]: The voice comes in and just whispers, Valveria. 01:23:47.842 --> 01:23:49.244 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd tell Dondar to write that down. 01:23:49.504 --> 01:23:50.826 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have no idea where that is. 01:23:58.822 --> 01:24:09.037 [Lacer (Kai)]: I speak to, I whisper to Berberis so we know that they're working with the Empire. 01:24:09.277 --> 01:24:13.664 [Lacer (Kai)]: We need like another question to like fill in your question that you want to ask. 01:24:18.931 --> 01:24:20.093 [Riv (DM)]: Those pings are going crazy. 01:24:20.333 --> 01:24:22.236 [Vael (Berberis)]: I haven't got any pings. 01:24:23.798 --> 01:24:26.382 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm typing the answers up so that we actually have them. 01:24:31.103 --> 01:24:32.526 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, let me ask this question. 01:24:32.586 --> 01:24:36.673 [Lacer (Kai)]: What weaknesses do the Red Priests have? 01:24:48.414 --> 01:24:50.378 [Riv (DM)]: Give me a moment to ponder this. 01:24:58.053 --> 01:24:59.455 [Lacer (Kai)]: She's going to say clerics. 01:24:59.976 --> 01:25:01.138 [Lacer (Kai)]: Clerics are okay. 01:25:14.141 --> 01:25:17.287 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hmm. 01:25:17.307 --> 01:25:17.547 [Unmatched Speaker]: Uh. 01:25:25.778 --> 01:25:26.399 [Riv (DM)]: What's the word? 01:25:26.419 --> 01:25:27.940 [Riv (DM)]: I want to give you like one word. 01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:33.745 [Lacer (Kai)]: Radiant or something, I don't know. 01:25:33.765 --> 01:25:39.551 [Riv (DM)]: No, well you found when you were fighting her that she wasn't particularly affected by radiant energy. 01:25:39.571 --> 01:25:47.298 [Riv (DM)]: Like it wasn't like she wasn't vulnerable to it. 01:25:47.438 --> 01:25:50.400 [Riv (DM)]: I think she probably will just say knowledge. 01:25:53.904 --> 01:25:55.465 [Riv (DM)]: She's not going to tell you her weakness. 01:25:56.963 --> 01:25:58.645 [Lacer (Kai)]: Knowledge, hey. 01:25:58.665 --> 01:26:02.590 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:26:02.610 --> 01:26:05.293 [Lacer (Kai)]: Looks like we'll need to find out more about these red priests. 01:26:12.361 --> 01:26:12.561 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um. 01:26:14.744 --> 01:26:15.805 [Lacer (Kai)]: Two more questions. 01:26:25.297 --> 01:26:26.498 [Lacer (Kai)]: Actually, what 01:26:26.900 --> 01:26:33.329 [Lacer (Kai)]: What are plans of the Red Priests and the Empire? 01:26:42.682 --> 01:26:48.911 [Riv (DM)]: Maintain control of the citizenry until the time is right. 01:26:56.422 --> 01:26:56.502 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 01:26:58.642 --> 01:26:59.744 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, that makes sense. 01:26:59.884 --> 01:27:05.935 [Lacer (Kai)]: That explains why this battle up north was so important. 01:27:07.218 --> 01:27:07.919 [Lacer (Kai)]: Why Val Noren? 01:27:08.280 --> 01:27:13.629 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, it looks like we need to start some uprising. 01:27:15.092 --> 01:27:16.695 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, one last question people. 01:27:19.039 --> 01:27:19.941 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's make it a good one. 01:27:31.868 --> 01:27:33.370 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look at Ayana. 01:27:33.610 --> 01:27:38.117 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've asked all the questions that you wanted. 01:27:38.217 --> 01:27:39.238 [Lacer (Kai)]: Was there one more? 01:27:49.974 --> 01:27:56.543 [Riv (DM)]: It's a tough position to put me in as a player. 01:27:58.970 --> 01:28:03.896 [Riv (DM)]: How can I design a question that I then have to answer? 01:28:03.956 --> 01:28:06.620 [Riv (DM)]: That's true. 01:28:08.322 --> 01:28:18.635 [Lacer (Kai)]: Berberis, was there anything you wanted to ask before we run out of time? 01:28:19.176 --> 01:28:21.299 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've only got 10 minutes on this spell. 01:28:21.839 --> 01:28:23.121 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm thinking, I'm thinking. 01:28:26.847 --> 01:28:28.008 [Lacer (Kai)]: It doesn't have to be Berberis. 01:28:28.028 --> 01:28:30.971 [Lacer (Kai)]: It could be Erendor or Ryo. 01:28:31.932 --> 01:28:35.296 [JC (Ryo)]: So we've asked them what the weaknesses are, where they're based. 01:28:35.336 --> 01:28:40.081 [Vael (Berberis)]: This may be a waste, but we're not doing anything anyway. 01:28:40.881 --> 01:28:41.062 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep. 01:28:41.842 --> 01:28:43.524 [Vael (Berberis)]: Who does the Empress serve? 01:28:46.387 --> 01:28:47.188 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look at Ayanna. 01:28:47.568 --> 01:28:51.793 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does she... How does she react to that question? 01:28:52.413 --> 01:28:53.074 [Riv (DM)]: She just nods. 01:28:54.725 --> 01:28:58.511 [JC (Ryo)]: We could also ask how many Red Priests there are? 01:28:58.531 --> 01:29:06.303 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's also a good question too. 01:29:06.383 --> 01:29:07.184 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's more important? 01:29:12.813 --> 01:29:15.838 [Vael (Berberis)]: I personally want to know how far this goes. 01:29:17.253 --> 01:29:17.654 [Vael (Berberis)]: Okay. 01:29:18.435 --> 01:29:18.675 [Vael (Berberis)]: But... 01:29:18.695 --> 01:29:21.819 [Lacer (Kai)]: It doesn't... We'll find out when we beat them into the fucking ground. 01:29:22.480 --> 01:29:24.122 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can always find another Red Priest, right? 01:29:24.483 --> 01:29:24.883 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hopefully. 01:29:25.684 --> 01:29:27.247 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we're gonna hunt these people down. 01:29:28.909 --> 01:29:29.790 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, okay. 01:29:30.090 --> 01:29:31.552 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will ask the question for you. 01:29:32.193 --> 01:29:33.936 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who does the Empress serve? 01:29:36.659 --> 01:29:42.207 [Riv (DM)]: Mouth hangs open again and says, Kara's off the Crimson Shadow. 01:29:42.227 --> 01:29:45.291 [Riv (DM)]: And then it just like, kind of dissolves into sludge. 01:29:46.553 --> 01:29:46.753 [Riv (DM)]: Off. 01:29:48.455 --> 01:29:49.176 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm so sorry. 01:29:57.524 --> 01:29:58.385 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look at Ayanna. 01:29:58.525 --> 01:29:59.406 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm sorry I made a mess. 01:29:59.746 --> 01:30:01.068 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wasn't expecting that to happen. 01:30:03.029 --> 01:30:09.716 [Riv (DM)]: She looks very shaken and she just says, no problem and waves her hand and it just like cleans and disappears entirely. 01:30:14.120 --> 01:30:16.723 [Riv (DM)]: Well, that was certainly telling. 01:30:18.627 --> 01:30:21.871 [Vael (Berberis)]: I know, right? 01:30:21.891 --> 01:30:24.214 [Vael (Berberis)]: Okay, to elaborate on that name, what was the name again? 01:30:24.935 --> 01:30:25.616 [Riv (DM)]: Karazoth. 01:30:26.657 --> 01:30:34.366 [Riv (DM)]: Um... K-A-R-A-Z-O-T-H. Karazoth the Crimson Shadow. 01:30:34.967 --> 01:30:39.152 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I was about to say, you cannot forget the suffix to that name. 01:30:39.172 --> 01:30:40.634 [Lacer (Kai)]: The Crimson Shadow? 01:30:40.674 --> 01:30:43.217 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:30:43.237 --> 01:30:44.899 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sounds... gruesome. 01:30:45.800 --> 01:30:47.402 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does that name mean anything to you? 01:30:50.993 --> 01:30:54.457 [Riv (DM)]: She, um, yeah, she's looking pretty grim. 01:30:55.338 --> 01:30:57.161 [Riv (DM)]: Face has gone a bit more pale. 01:30:57.181 --> 01:31:03.649 [Riv (DM)]: And you see she's, um, got a hand that she's just pressing her thumb and finger into her eyes. 01:31:05.672 --> 01:31:07.033 [Riv (DM)]: I am very familiar with that name. 01:31:09.917 --> 01:31:16.425 [Riv (DM)]: We saw that he had died with the rest of them, but apparently he managed to slither away while being eradicated. 01:31:16.866 --> 01:31:19.549 [Riv (DM)]: Karazov was one of the lieutenants from the Chaos Wars. 01:31:21.267 --> 01:31:32.181 [Riv (DM)]: If the priest was not being deluded, or if the priest was telling the truth, then our worst fears have been confirmed. 01:31:37.948 --> 01:31:39.570 [Vael (Berberis)]: When you say, ow... 01:31:42.314 --> 01:31:48.642 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yes, there has been an ow and a we and a us multiple times. 01:31:49.027 --> 01:31:51.269 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just gonna lean back against the wall and cross my arms. 01:32:00.418 --> 01:32:00.918 [Riv (DM)]: Roll insight? 01:32:02.980 --> 01:32:03.981 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, don't worry about it. 01:32:04.001 --> 01:32:04.802 [Lacer (Kai)]: You're fine. 01:32:04.882 --> 01:32:06.944 [Riv (DM)]: She looks very conflicted. 01:32:12.490 --> 01:32:16.013 [Riv (DM)]: I... Look. 01:32:20.009 --> 01:32:26.422 [Riv (DM)]: The order that I come from is old and we follow rules. 01:32:28.446 --> 01:32:32.634 [Riv (DM)]: If I were to tell you any more than I have, the rules would be broken. 01:32:33.436 --> 01:32:36.341 [Riv (DM)]: Already what I have told you is potentially risking everything. 01:32:37.063 --> 01:32:42.253 [Riv (DM)]: If word of this gets out, if they, if Karazov learns of us, 01:32:46.705 --> 01:32:47.526 [Riv (DM)]: Could mean that the... 01:32:48.046 --> 01:32:49.848 [Riv (DM)]: It could mean the end of everything we've been working towards. 01:32:51.950 --> 01:32:55.053 [Riv (DM)]: I said it's not fair for me to ask you, but can you just trust me? 01:32:59.357 --> 01:33:00.598 [JC (Ryo)]: That who's been working towards? 01:33:03.901 --> 01:33:04.501 [Riv (DM)]: Me and my order. 01:33:07.905 --> 01:33:08.405 [JC (Ryo)]: What order? 01:33:10.627 --> 01:33:13.810 [Riv (DM)]: As I said... 01:33:15.916 --> 01:33:17.858 [Riv (DM)]: This is one of those things that I just need you to trust me. 01:33:22.503 --> 01:33:22.744 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 01:33:22.884 --> 01:33:25.247 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's forget about who you work for. 01:33:25.647 --> 01:33:32.835 [Lacer (Kai)]: You're obviously not working for this Karazoth, the Crimson Shadow. 01:33:32.855 --> 01:33:34.477 [Riv (DM)]: You know what? 01:33:35.118 --> 01:33:36.599 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a persuasion check. 01:33:37.921 --> 01:33:39.002 [Riv (DM)]: I'll give you guys advantage. 01:33:39.623 --> 01:33:41.385 [Riv (DM)]: 20? 01:33:41.405 --> 01:33:43.007 [Riv (DM)]: 20? 01:33:44.088 --> 01:33:44.168 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:33:45.346 --> 01:33:47.369 [JC (Ryo)]: Don't tell us what we need, just tell us if we get dead. 01:33:49.131 --> 01:33:49.371 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:33:49.391 --> 01:33:52.636 [Lacer (Kai)]: You're asking, I'm not rolling because I'm not asking this question. 01:33:53.217 --> 01:33:55.440 [Riv (DM)]: Two of you can roll or one of you can roll with advantage. 01:33:55.560 --> 01:34:00.867 [Lacer (Kai)]: Whoever's asking this question... What did you want rolled? 01:34:01.428 --> 01:34:01.968 [Riv (DM)]: Persuasion. 01:34:06.695 --> 01:34:07.836 [Vael (Berberis)]: You guys don't have a face anymore. 01:34:08.557 --> 01:34:10.780 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, I have neg two persuasion. 01:34:13.122 --> 01:34:14.265 [Lacer (Kai)]: Advantage or normal? 01:34:14.746 --> 01:34:15.808 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm a half face. 01:34:15.929 --> 01:34:18.835 [Riv (DM)]: If one of you is rolling, you got advantage, or two of you can roll separately. 01:34:22.544 --> 01:34:23.025 [JC (Ryo)]: You or me? 01:34:23.566 --> 01:34:24.388 [JC (Ryo)]: Lacer, flip a coin. 01:34:26.954 --> 01:34:28.197 [Lacer (Kai)]: You do you. 01:34:28.678 --> 01:34:29.239 [Lacer (Kai)]: You do you. 01:34:30.522 --> 01:34:31.705 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nah, I roll with advantage. 01:34:48.982 --> 01:35:18.060 [Riv (DM)]: She um she again you see her um uh her reconstructed posture deflate again as she realizes that well she realizes a lot of things um that would be difficult to explain but she she turns away from you um and just like walks towards the the closed double doors shoulders slump a bit and she sighs again and she just kind of looks up 01:35:19.610 --> 01:35:21.093 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know if I have the strength anymore. 01:35:21.113 --> 01:35:24.239 [Riv (DM)]: This may be the wrong thing. 01:35:24.259 --> 01:35:29.690 [Riv (DM)]: I could be dooming us all, but I don't... 01:35:29.710 --> 01:35:34.901 [Riv (DM)]: I... Just get the feeling something is telling me that you all may be the key. 01:35:37.646 --> 01:35:38.648 [Riv (DM)]: With the backstall... 01:35:39.455 --> 01:35:58.036 [Riv (DM)]: Turn to you, she gets her hands and sort of crosses them in front of her body and almost in a way that you would see someone like taking off their shirt or whatever she just sort of spirals her hands around her body and up as you see this trail of sort of purplish smoky magic kind of start to encircle up her body. 01:35:58.077 --> 01:36:07.167 [Riv (DM)]: Her features, like she becomes slightly taller, slightly more angular. 01:36:07.147 --> 01:36:09.991 [Riv (DM)]: Her posture sort of straightens out again. 01:36:10.272 --> 01:36:24.213 [Riv (DM)]: You see as the smoke reaches her head, the hair itself kind of stays very very similar but you see the ears start to elongate and her cheekbones and jaw also become angular as she turns to face you. 01:36:25.074 --> 01:36:31.985 [Riv (DM)]: Slightly larger than average eyes, very sharp purple irises staring at you. 01:36:32.425 --> 01:36:34.909 [Riv (DM)]: She reveals herself as an elf. 01:36:37.302 --> 01:36:48.254 [Riv (DM)]: And she just says... Me and my order are the last remnants of the elves on Valtorra. 01:36:48.274 --> 01:36:53.841 [Riv (DM)]: And we have been working for the past century to try and uncover the truth of what this empire is about. 01:36:58.446 --> 01:36:59.687 [Riv (DM)]: I will tell you no more than this. 01:37:00.328 --> 01:37:01.369 [Riv (DM)]: For now. 01:37:01.568 --> 01:37:06.495 [Riv (DM)]: But in me showing you this, know that I have placed a great deal of trust in you. 01:37:06.515 --> 01:37:11.863 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sure you have heard what has happened to my people on this continent. 01:37:14.046 --> 01:37:16.189 [Riv (DM)]: We're persecuted, hunted, killed. 01:37:16.530 --> 01:37:19.414 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sure there are many of us in those dungeons under Val Luminor. 01:37:20.976 --> 01:37:26.985 [Riv (DM)]: If word were to get out that there are more of us still working in the shadows. 01:37:29.159 --> 01:37:30.140 [Riv (DM)]: It would be Doom for us all. 01:37:31.241 --> 01:37:32.082 [Riv (DM)]: More than myself. 01:37:32.683 --> 01:37:33.224 [Riv (DM)]: For everyone. 01:37:33.244 --> 01:37:34.225 [Riv (DM)]: Potentially for the whole world. 01:37:36.728 --> 01:37:37.368 [Riv (DM)]: And so now you know. 01:37:42.955 --> 01:37:43.756 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was just shocked. 01:37:43.976 --> 01:37:46.258 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just went, Ryo! 01:37:46.899 --> 01:37:47.580 [Lacer (Kai)]: She looks like you! 01:37:47.600 --> 01:37:49.242 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean, you look like her! 01:37:49.302 --> 01:37:51.204 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I point to the ears. 01:37:51.765 --> 01:37:58.272 [JC (Ryo)]: Like, no disrespect or anything, but... Drops the sky itself, takes off the hood and the bandana. 01:37:59.467 --> 01:38:01.389 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I already knew about you, Rio. 01:38:01.429 --> 01:38:04.513 [Riv (DM)]: We actually had a chat the other day. 01:38:04.533 --> 01:38:07.656 [Riv (DM)]: I am deeply sorry. 01:38:08.017 --> 01:38:08.497 [Riv (DM)]: Genuinely. 01:38:08.698 --> 01:38:12.542 [Riv (DM)]: And she comes over and places her hand on your shoulder. 01:38:13.083 --> 01:38:13.643 [Riv (DM)]: I am very sorry. 01:38:13.663 --> 01:38:14.925 [Riv (DM)]: I had to take memories from you. 01:38:16.346 --> 01:38:25.457 [Riv (DM)]: I opened up to you because I thought that you may have been one of us, but it turns out you're a bit of a perplexing story. 01:38:30.770 --> 01:38:32.933 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, all I know about myself... 01:38:32.953 --> 01:38:33.815 [JC (Ryo)]: Wait, you did what? 01:38:36.639 --> 01:38:39.704 [Riv (DM)]: I foolishly revealed myself to you in the keep. 01:38:42.067 --> 01:38:46.354 [Riv (DM)]: Because I had assumed that you were a colleague of mine pulling a prank on me. 01:38:49.458 --> 01:38:52.283 [Riv (DM)]: It turns out that, in fact, you were not. 01:38:53.484 --> 01:38:57.250 [Riv (DM)]: You were someone that had been left behind by the looks. 01:38:59.170 --> 01:39:03.234 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and so I had to take your memory and, and for which I am deeply sorry. 01:39:05.496 --> 01:39:06.817 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, left behind's right. 01:39:06.937 --> 01:39:12.142 [JC (Ryo)]: All I know about myself is this damn, all I have about myself is this ring and I show her the ring this time. 01:39:14.244 --> 01:39:15.325 [Riv (DM)]: You, you hold the ring out? 01:39:15.445 --> 01:39:16.806 [Riv (DM)]: Is it like on, on your finger? 01:39:16.866 --> 01:39:24.012 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I actually turn it around so she can see the symbol on it instead of keeping it in my, in the palm of my hand hidden. 01:39:25.274 --> 01:39:29.177 [Riv (DM)]: She, um, kind of looks down and glances at it for a moment. 01:39:30.406 --> 01:39:32.171 [Riv (DM)]: Looks back up at your face and back down. 01:39:32.973 --> 01:39:42.036 [Riv (DM)]: Rio, can you roll a strength saving throw with disadvantage? 01:39:50.960 --> 01:39:57.188 [Riv (DM)]: She, um, she steps back from you and with both hands just like pushes the air forward. 01:39:57.809 --> 01:40:03.296 [Riv (DM)]: You feel a force hit your entire body as you're slammed against the back wall of the room. 01:40:03.416 --> 01:40:10.986 [Riv (DM)]: Your arms and legs just pinned to the side, unable to move as she telekinetically holds you up against the wall and she just says, where did you get this? 01:40:17.815 --> 01:40:18.055 [JC (Ryo)]: What? 01:40:18.876 --> 01:40:20.899 [Riv (DM)]: Speak before I tear your limb from limb. 01:40:22.938 --> 01:40:24.901 [JC (Ryo)]: This is the only thing I've ever had on me. 01:40:25.101 --> 01:40:25.742 [JC (Ryo)]: I know nothing. 01:40:27.305 --> 01:40:27.826 [Riv (DM)]: What do you mean? 01:40:28.006 --> 01:40:28.587 [Riv (DM)]: Specifics. 01:40:28.647 --> 01:40:29.869 [Riv (DM)]: Tell me exactly what you mean. 01:40:33.815 --> 01:40:39.604 [JC (Ryo)]: All I can remember is waking up in the Darkwood with the clothes on my back, a bow by my side, and this on my finger. 01:40:41.006 --> 01:40:45.633 [Riv (DM)]: She reaches out to the air and clenches as you feel the force tighten even harder. 01:40:45.693 --> 01:40:49.900 [Riv (DM)]: You find it starting to be difficult to breathe as it goes around your neck. 01:40:49.920 --> 01:40:51.342 [Riv (DM)]: Are you lying to me? 01:40:53.465 --> 01:40:54.787 [Riv (DM)]: Are you working for the Empire? 01:40:54.807 --> 01:40:58.791 [JC (Ryo)]: Fuck no! 01:41:01.174 --> 01:41:01.835 [JC (Ryo)]: Fuckin' help! 01:41:03.237 --> 01:41:04.639 [Riv (DM)]: What are the reasons you guys don't have this one? 01:41:04.659 --> 01:41:14.731 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, so... Shillelagh has empowered by giving her some very meaningful looks. 01:41:14.751 --> 01:41:16.493 [Riv (DM)]: Are any of you taking actions against her? 01:41:16.513 --> 01:41:19.877 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, I... 01:41:20.279 --> 01:41:23.463 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm about to pop Hold Person as soon as she casts another spell. 01:41:24.565 --> 01:41:25.927 [Lacer (Kai)]: If she does another spell. 01:41:28.170 --> 01:41:33.057 [Vael (Berberis)]: Okay, um, yeah, so... Ithilmara is not fatal, but there is definitely an edge of, drop it. 01:41:33.597 --> 01:41:33.798 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:41:34.539 --> 01:41:42.750 [Riv (DM)]: She kind of looks out at you all and, um, as she sees you starting to, like, act, um, and she starts to cast another spell as she waves her hand in the air. 01:41:43.110 --> 01:41:45.133 [Riv (DM)]: Um, you can cast Hold Person if you like, Kai. 01:41:47.136 --> 01:41:47.957 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh, sure. 01:41:50.333 --> 01:41:52.041 [JC (Ryo)]: Can I try and throw silence at her? 01:41:53.607 --> 01:41:55.049 [Riv (DM)]: Um, potentially. 01:41:55.069 --> 01:41:57.693 [Riv (DM)]: We have to sort of resolve the initiative here. 01:41:58.294 --> 01:41:59.215 [Riv (DM)]: Everything's happening quite quickly. 01:41:59.235 --> 01:42:02.540 [Riv (DM)]: I think you're probably pretty well restrained. 01:42:03.381 --> 01:42:09.830 [Riv (DM)]: Kai, you go to cast Hold Person and she just, in the middle of casting her other spell, clicks a counterspell and deletes your Hold Person. 01:42:10.471 --> 01:42:18.882 [Riv (DM)]: She finishes casting her spell and the four of you, minus Ryo, find yourselves teleported into the air above Val Noren. 01:42:18.922 --> 01:42:20.745 [Riv (DM)]: You're about 2,000 feet up. 01:42:20.962 --> 01:42:35.899 [Riv (DM)]: Rio, inside the tower, she like pulls you off the wall and with her hand opens up the door that you entered, swings open and she walks out with you sort of floating, closes the door behind you and you just see it vanish as she has removed you from her personal space. 01:42:36.860 --> 01:42:40.545 [Riv (DM)]: The rest of you are just falling and you can see like the full city below you. 01:42:40.585 --> 01:42:44.269 [Riv (DM)]: We've got what, 11 seconds? 01:42:44.519 --> 01:42:47.102 [Riv (DM)]: Something like that, you know, probably more than 11 seconds. 01:42:47.122 --> 01:42:49.725 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know how it's like thousands and thousands of feet in the air. 01:42:49.765 --> 01:42:52.187 [Riv (DM)]: You're not going to hit the ground for a couple of minutes, probably. 01:42:52.227 --> 01:42:58.735 [Riv (DM)]: She continues to hold you up against the wall, Rio, as she walks forward. 01:42:59.515 --> 01:43:01.978 [Riv (DM)]: Tell me the truth. 01:43:02.919 --> 01:43:04.060 [Riv (DM)]: Are you being honest? 01:43:04.621 --> 01:43:07.204 [Riv (DM)]: And Rio, roll a persuasion check. 01:43:09.506 --> 01:43:11.809 [Riv (DM)]: With advantage, actually, because you are telling the truth. 01:43:18.353 --> 01:43:19.054 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, thank fuck. 01:43:19.074 --> 01:43:26.225 [JC (Ryo)]: I thought that was a three and a five. 01:43:26.265 --> 01:43:26.545 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:43:26.806 --> 01:43:29.490 [Riv (DM)]: She starts walking towards you as she's holding you up against the wall. 01:43:31.673 --> 01:43:34.417 [JC (Ryo)]: My whole life I've just been hiding from the Empire. 01:43:34.457 --> 01:43:36.480 [JC (Ryo)]: Why the fuck would I work for them? 01:43:39.683 --> 01:43:41.486 [JC (Ryo)]: I've been betrayed, timer. 01:43:41.706 --> 01:43:44.411 [JC (Ryo)]: I've been betrayed just because of what I look like. 01:43:44.491 --> 01:43:46.795 [JC (Ryo)]: Why the fuck would I serve them? 01:43:46.815 --> 01:43:47.997 [JC (Ryo)]: Assuming I can actually breathe. 01:43:48.979 --> 01:43:51.664 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think she's not trying to suffocate you. 01:43:52.465 --> 01:43:55.390 [Riv (DM)]: You can see tears are starting to well up, her eyes are going like red. 01:43:56.572 --> 01:44:01.581 [Riv (DM)]: The whole demeanor of professionalism and knowledge and experience has just vanished at this point. 01:44:01.621 --> 01:44:02.282 [Riv (DM)]: She is rage. 01:44:02.863 --> 01:44:05.387 [Riv (DM)]: She is grief. 01:44:05.924 --> 01:44:22.120 [Riv (DM)]: Hearing this, hearing you, hearing your responses, she drops to her knees in front of you and her hands go to her sides and you just fall to the ground in front of her as the spell sort of stops affecting you. 01:44:22.280 --> 01:44:35.813 [Riv (DM)]: What do you do? 01:44:40.973 --> 01:44:41.294 [Riv (DM)]: Rio? 01:44:43.197 --> 01:44:43.918 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're falling. 01:44:45.460 --> 01:44:49.327 [Riv (DM)]: While Rio ponders what he does, the rest of you guys just falling? 01:44:49.547 --> 01:44:51.871 [Riv (DM)]: What are you guys feeling about this? 01:44:52.151 --> 01:44:53.273 [Riv (DM)]: What are you doing? 01:44:56.278 --> 01:44:57.701 [Vael (Berberis)]: Out of character, I have suspicions. 01:44:57.941 --> 01:44:59.403 [Vael (Berberis)]: In character... 01:45:02.388 --> 01:45:07.116 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, I bumped my tower and the whole fucking thing froze up. 01:45:12.226 --> 01:45:15.569 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I guess I just mean if there are any actions you guys would take. 01:45:16.671 --> 01:45:16.871 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep. 01:45:17.351 --> 01:45:20.054 [Vael (Berberis)]: I would do my... Oh yeah, you go ahead. 01:45:20.074 --> 01:45:22.577 [Vael (Berberis)]: Prepping a Misty Step for when I am 30 foot from the ground. 01:45:22.757 --> 01:45:24.078 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep. 01:45:24.098 --> 01:45:24.218 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Cool. 01:45:24.238 --> 01:45:26.120 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Erendor? 01:45:26.140 --> 01:45:30.925 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm considering putting Longstrider on someone else to make them fall 10 feet per second faster. 01:45:36.111 --> 01:45:38.813 [JC (Ryo)]: Don't one of those two have Feather Fall? 01:45:39.194 --> 01:45:40.495 [JC (Ryo)]: Kai or Dondarr? 01:45:42.449 --> 01:46:03.006 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't have it but I plan to summon my um what's it called my familiar my raven and turn into a mouse and get my raven to catch me yeah you're falling you're falling you see the ground is starting to get closer um back on the ground um 01:46:04.015 --> 01:46:07.320 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana is on her knees in front of you Ryo, you've just been dropped to the ground. 01:46:08.261 --> 01:46:11.646 [Riv (DM)]: Her head is sort of like bowed and she's waiting for you to say something. 01:46:12.186 --> 01:46:26.086 [Riv (DM)]: As the rest of you are starting to fall down like directly above, you get to within 120 feet and she like without even really blinking eyes just kind of like lifts one finger as she casts Feather Fall on all of you and you're just like drifting down. 01:46:26.807 --> 01:46:32.875 [Riv (DM)]: You were probably planning to do something with your raven but you feel the magic grip you all as the Feather Fall encompasses you. 01:46:36.871 --> 01:46:37.612 [Riv (DM)]: Rio, what do you do? 01:46:40.615 --> 01:46:43.519 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, because I just swapped back from phone to PC. 01:46:43.659 --> 01:46:44.500 [JC (Ryo)]: I missed a little bit there. 01:46:44.720 --> 01:46:45.862 [Riv (DM)]: You alright? 01:46:45.922 --> 01:46:47.063 [Riv (DM)]: So your companions are falling. 01:46:47.183 --> 01:46:50.347 [Riv (DM)]: She's just cast Feather Fall on them to, you know, as they got within range. 01:46:50.728 --> 01:46:53.611 [Riv (DM)]: But she's still on her knees in front of you as you've just been dropped from the wall. 01:46:54.893 --> 01:47:00.339 [Riv (DM)]: As you're gasping for breath and you see her, she's just like head bowed, like shoulders slightly shaking. 01:47:00.539 --> 01:47:02.341 [Riv (DM)]: And you see tears running down the front of her face. 01:47:04.464 --> 01:47:05.685 [JC (Ryo)]: What did you do to my friends? 01:47:05.725 --> 01:47:06.186 [JC (Ryo)]: Where are they? 01:47:07.752 --> 01:47:08.193 [Riv (DM)]: They're fine. 01:47:08.353 --> 01:47:08.954 [Riv (DM)]: They'll be here soon. 01:47:09.334 --> 01:47:10.436 [Riv (DM)]: And she just, like, points up. 01:47:14.602 --> 01:47:15.143 [JC (Ryo)]: I look up. 01:47:15.163 --> 01:47:15.924 [JC (Ryo)]: Do I see them? 01:47:16.585 --> 01:47:17.967 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:47:18.047 --> 01:47:18.889 [Riv (DM)]: They're about 100 feet up. 01:47:21.753 --> 01:47:23.456 [Riv (DM)]: Just, like, slowly drifting down above you. 01:47:30.366 --> 01:47:31.768 [JC (Ryo)]: So you know what this ring means? 01:47:34.617 --> 01:47:35.358 [Riv (DM)]: She looks up at you. 01:47:36.700 --> 01:47:42.287 [Riv (DM)]: The rest of you now just sort of like drop around, unless there's something else you've done to move yourself. 01:47:43.469 --> 01:47:46.032 [Riv (DM)]: You land now back into the alleyway. 01:47:47.755 --> 01:47:50.859 [Riv (DM)]: She looks up at you and just says, Do you not? 01:47:52.661 --> 01:47:53.402 [JC (Ryo)]: Riv, add a character. 01:47:55.125 --> 01:47:57.688 [JC (Ryo)]: Because I've got a fucking horrible memory. 01:47:59.103 --> 01:48:04.830 [JC (Ryo)]: Did I get told what this ring is back on the boat after we blew up the fucking bridge? 01:48:05.271 --> 01:48:07.133 [JC (Ryo)]: Something tells me I found out what it was. 01:48:08.075 --> 01:48:08.295 [Riv (DM)]: Nah. 01:48:09.857 --> 01:48:11.199 [JC (Ryo)]: So I don't know what the symbol is still? 01:48:11.539 --> 01:48:11.859 [Riv (DM)]: You do not. 01:48:14.763 --> 01:48:17.146 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, so I'm gonna press it for what the sym- what's the sym- what is it? 01:48:17.326 --> 01:48:17.707 [JC (Ryo)]: What is it? 01:48:25.537 --> 01:48:25.617 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:48:27.048 --> 01:48:29.150 [Riv (DM)]: It is hope. 01:48:30.952 --> 01:48:31.472 [Riv (DM)]: That's what it is. 01:48:35.897 --> 01:48:36.517 [JC (Ryo)]: Hope of what? 01:48:39.280 --> 01:48:41.262 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: This has been a very strange day. 01:48:44.485 --> 01:48:46.587 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You're not the one who just fell a few thousand feet. 01:48:48.749 --> 01:48:49.430 [JC (Ryo)]: You guys okay? 01:48:50.311 --> 01:48:54.054 [Riv (DM)]: I am sorry about that, but let's just say my emotions overcame me for a second. 01:48:54.094 --> 01:48:54.675 [Riv (DM)]: Are you alright? 01:48:56.866 --> 01:48:59.931 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I go to the nearest wall and I throw out my breakfast. 01:49:02.174 --> 01:49:02.976 [Riv (DM)]: Just all over the ground. 01:49:04.198 --> 01:49:07.322 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm used to it because I'm used to looking through eyes that are flying around up there. 01:49:09.846 --> 01:49:10.648 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm still not happy. 01:49:14.474 --> 01:49:17.098 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I've been asking you to trust me. 01:49:18.120 --> 01:49:19.341 [Riv (DM)]: Now I'm asking you to forgive me. 01:49:19.702 --> 01:49:21.625 [Riv (DM)]: That was very badly managed. 01:49:24.980 --> 01:49:27.924 [Riv (DM)]: If this is true... She looks at you, Rio. 01:49:28.124 --> 01:49:33.191 [Riv (DM)]: You... Oh. 01:49:33.712 --> 01:49:34.814 [Riv (DM)]: There's only one way to find out. 01:49:36.536 --> 01:49:36.936 [Riv (DM)]: For sure. 01:49:38.719 --> 01:49:40.942 [Riv (DM)]: I'm going to be breaking all of the rules today, aren't I? 01:49:41.823 --> 01:49:42.484 [Riv (DM)]: She looks up again. 01:49:44.587 --> 01:49:45.368 [Riv (DM)]: Such a strange day. 01:49:46.129 --> 01:49:49.013 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I hope you all didn't have any plans for today. 01:49:52.351 --> 01:49:54.334 [Riv (DM)]: Would you like to care to gather around? 01:49:54.354 --> 01:49:56.938 [Riv (DM)]: I will be shortly transporting us somewhere. 01:50:00.042 --> 01:50:00.783 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, where? 01:50:01.084 --> 01:50:05.069 [Riv (DM)]: She stands up and just sort of like holds her arms out to gesture for you to gather around closer. 01:50:05.550 --> 01:50:06.792 [Riv (DM)]: Please, you need to be close to me. 01:50:09.295 --> 01:50:11.278 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The Mawbreakers are expecting us. 01:50:12.260 --> 01:50:15.064 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Is anyone able to alert them that we will not be joining them? 01:50:16.486 --> 01:50:17.848 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got a general to go and kill. 01:50:17.868 --> 01:50:19.590 [JC (Ryo)]: Where the hell do you want to take me now? 01:50:21.764 --> 01:50:23.006 [Lacer (Kai)]: Still, like, holding my throat. 01:50:25.129 --> 01:50:25.650 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, sure. 01:50:26.331 --> 01:50:30.177 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll send a message to Barak with my sending. 01:50:30.357 --> 01:50:30.958 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll just say... 01:50:30.998 --> 01:50:35.145 [Lacer (Kai)]: The Bloody Nails will not be joining you today. 01:50:35.185 --> 01:50:36.928 [Lacer (Kai)]: Head out without us. 01:50:40.814 --> 01:50:41.455 [Riv (DM)]: A few moments go by. 01:50:41.995 --> 01:50:42.837 [Riv (DM)]: You hear the voice return. 01:50:44.279 --> 01:50:44.359 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 01:50:45.761 --> 01:50:46.843 [Riv (DM)]: Is everything alright, Kai? 01:50:51.717 --> 01:50:54.880 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, uh, I send another message. 01:50:55.321 --> 01:50:56.562 [Lacer (Kai)]: I go, all is fine. 01:50:56.902 --> 01:50:58.945 [Lacer (Kai)]: We will meet up soon enough. 01:51:01.187 --> 01:51:02.789 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just some things we need to work out. 01:51:05.011 --> 01:51:05.452 [Riv (DM)]: Very well. 01:51:06.312 --> 01:51:07.173 [Riv (DM)]: Stay safe, my friend. 01:51:08.495 --> 01:51:09.175 [Riv (DM)]: I hope to see you soon. 01:51:12.519 --> 01:51:12.879 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 01:51:12.899 --> 01:51:13.780 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll leave it at that. 01:51:13.800 --> 01:51:14.701 [Lacer (Kai)]: Leave it at that. 01:51:15.262 --> 01:51:15.762 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we're good. 01:51:18.706 --> 01:51:19.126 [Lacer (Kai)]: So be it. 01:51:19.627 --> 01:51:20.087 [Lacer (Kai)]: Step forward. 01:51:22.328 --> 01:51:24.771 [Riv (DM)]: How close does she want to hug her or something? 01:51:24.851 --> 01:51:27.214 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, she just needs you to sort of be within like a five foot area. 01:51:29.156 --> 01:51:51.863 [Riv (DM)]: She sort of turns slightly and she sort of pirouettes on the spot, hands reach out again forming these nice sort of lines that she's been doing, creates a sort of spiralled line around her that sort of curves up into the air above and then it sort of expands, covers all of you and then she like brings her hands in, snaps them in and the spirals kind of 01:51:51.843 --> 01:51:53.408 [Riv (DM)]: Pull and contract around you. 01:51:53.468 --> 01:52:02.697 [Riv (DM)]: They don't force or tug you in any way, but as they pass through you, you find yourselves like getting shifted. 01:52:03.925 --> 01:52:09.172 [Riv (DM)]: It's like, imagine you're looking across a very long distance, across the plains. 01:52:09.252 --> 01:52:12.897 [Riv (DM)]: You can see hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles to mountains. 01:52:13.558 --> 01:52:28.819 [Riv (DM)]: Imagine that space compresses, so the mountains like appear right in front of you and you haven't moved, you haven't physically walked anywhere, but the distance between you and those mountains has just shrunk and you along with it. 01:52:28.799 --> 01:52:30.561 [Riv (DM)]: This happens. 01:52:31.122 --> 01:52:34.506 [Riv (DM)]: You see land, you see trees, you see mountains. 01:52:35.447 --> 01:52:39.051 [Riv (DM)]: Almost like your vision compresses as you see along this portal of land. 01:52:39.311 --> 01:52:51.305 [Riv (DM)]: It's this very weird kind of like psychedelic effect as the whole space compresses and you immediately look around and you're standing somewhere different. 01:52:51.325 --> 01:52:53.608 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does it make me feel more sick after falling? 01:52:54.837 --> 01:52:56.382 [Riv (DM)]: Like a constitution saving throw. 01:52:57.225 --> 01:52:57.587 [Riv (DM)]: We'll see. 01:52:58.329 --> 01:52:58.991 [Riv (DM)]: Oh no. 01:52:59.011 --> 01:53:00.416 [Riv (DM)]: It is a bit dizzy feeling, yeah. 01:53:04.350 --> 01:53:04.611 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:53:06.457 --> 01:53:07.581 [JC (Ryo)]: All of us or... 01:53:08.033 --> 01:53:08.774 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, just Kai. 01:53:08.954 --> 01:53:09.775 [Riv (DM)]: He was the only one that said. 01:53:11.878 --> 01:53:20.450 [Riv (DM)]: On a 14, I think that you probably do feel a bit dizzy, a little bit nauseous, but you just managed to kind of hold it in. 01:53:20.631 --> 01:53:23.294 [Riv (DM)]: Especially, you've been quite exhausted the last few days. 01:53:23.675 --> 01:53:26.599 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you're okay. 01:53:27.693 --> 01:53:30.858 [Riv (DM)]: You find yourselves all in a very different place. 01:53:32.201 --> 01:53:34.004 [Riv (DM)]: And I think we'll take a break here. 01:53:34.445 --> 01:53:44.201 [Riv (DM)]: So you guys can have a moment and go and get a drink, some noms, and we'll come back to a completely derailed story after the break. 01:53:44.662 --> 01:53:50.692 [JC (Ryo)]: I literally just wrote in the group chat that I didn't mean to hijack the story. 01:53:50.712 --> 01:53:53.397 [Riv (DM)]: Oh boy, okay, I'll switch off the thing. 01:55:23.438 --> 02:18:31.630 ================ Session Break ================ 02:21:08.378 --> 02:21:08.698 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:21:10.501 --> 02:21:13.386 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you find yourselves somewhere new. 02:21:17.512 --> 02:21:19.755 [Riv (DM)]: Climate is warmer is the first thing you notice. 02:21:20.156 --> 02:21:26.185 [Riv (DM)]: You don't have that cold, biting wind that you've gotten so used to up in Val Noren. 02:21:27.633 --> 02:21:33.819 [Riv (DM)]: Eyes slightly adjust to the brighter light here, there's no longer a perpetual overcast cloud. 02:21:34.460 --> 02:21:37.964 [Riv (DM)]: It's actually quite a nice day where you have a look around. 02:21:39.045 --> 02:21:52.999 [Riv (DM)]: You're standing on a dock in a harbour, quite a nice looking dock actually, like big white stones, massive, huge, like looking back out behind you, they could probably hold 02:21:52.979 --> 02:21:54.101 [Riv (DM)]: Hundreds of ships. 02:21:55.003 --> 02:21:56.827 [Riv (DM)]: And there are a couple in the harbour. 02:21:57.348 --> 02:22:05.263 [Riv (DM)]: About two or three very elegantly carved ships that look old and run down. 02:22:07.828 --> 02:22:15.443 [Riv (DM)]: Different sort of style to the very, how would you say, rustic style of the Mawbreakers. 02:22:16.857 --> 02:22:26.370 [Riv (DM)]: There is also another ship, slightly smaller, a bit more kind of plain and vanilla, with red sails. 02:22:27.551 --> 02:22:36.283 [Riv (DM)]: This ship looks newer, less rundown, and it is currently docked a few sort of bays down from you. 02:22:36.263 --> 02:22:41.588 [Riv (DM)]: Looking around at the city you can see the dock, the buildings themselves nearby you. 02:22:42.709 --> 02:22:44.351 [Riv (DM)]: Beautiful, elegant buildings. 02:22:45.432 --> 02:22:49.896 [Riv (DM)]: White stone, a couple of them have nice sort of like swirling spirals coming off the top. 02:22:51.158 --> 02:22:56.703 [Riv (DM)]: The balconies, very intricate, like sort of white silvery steel. 02:22:57.724 --> 02:23:03.570 [Riv (DM)]: Railings, all the windows, there isn't like a single window that doesn't have some sort of flair to it. 02:23:03.685 --> 02:23:11.580 [Riv (DM)]: It is marred by a century of abandonment. 02:23:11.600 --> 02:23:15.007 [Riv (DM)]: There are vines and trees growing up through the stones. 02:23:15.608 --> 02:23:22.842 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of the buildings themselves are being choked by these bushy vines and brambles and stuff like that that are growing through. 02:23:22.822 --> 02:23:51.124 [Riv (DM)]: Um growing up through the you know some of them poking into the windows themselves a lot of the um wooden parts of the of the exteriors have started to rot some of them have fallen away um you stand there and uh Ayana takes a few steps forward and just kind of looks around taking it all in and um she kind of sighs well 02:23:52.910 --> 02:23:55.793 [Riv (DM)]: It's been a while, but it is nice to be home. 02:23:57.194 --> 02:23:59.136 [Riv (DM)]: Welcome, my friends, to Ithilmara. 02:24:01.278 --> 02:24:01.859 [Riv (DM)]: Follow me, please. 02:24:02.459 --> 02:24:04.842 [Riv (DM)]: And she starts to lead you forward. 02:24:05.262 --> 02:24:07.765 [Riv (DM)]: Anything you guys want to do immediately upon arriving? 02:24:11.088 --> 02:24:14.051 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are the ships, like, on water or are they flying? 02:24:14.471 --> 02:24:18.175 [Lacer (Kai)]: Flying ships, like how we were on a flying ship way back? 02:24:19.032 --> 02:24:21.256 [Lacer (Kai)]: Were you on a flying ship? 02:24:22.057 --> 02:24:22.177 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 02:24:23.379 --> 02:24:24.441 [Lacer (Kai)]: Were we on a flying ship? 02:24:25.002 --> 02:24:30.933 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I think you've been taking the same trips as Mondar. 02:24:31.574 --> 02:24:34.579 [Lacer (Kai)]: Didn't we fight harpies on a flying ship or am I tripping balls? 02:24:34.599 --> 02:24:37.103 [JC (Ryo)]: That was a normal ship, man. 02:24:37.123 --> 02:24:38.205 [Riv (DM)]: Harpies were flying. 02:24:38.776 --> 02:24:40.439 [Vael (Berberis)]: The ship was sailing. 02:24:41.300 --> 02:24:44.366 [Vael (Berberis)]: It was definitely sailing because armored people went overboard. 02:24:45.568 --> 02:24:48.092 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just feeling a bit sick, guys. 02:24:52.199 --> 02:24:55.205 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, no, so a couple of ships. 02:24:55.325 --> 02:25:02.978 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll pull out my pipe of smoke monsters and puff out an owl and it'll fly up and turn into my familiar and go do the big circle scout. 02:25:03.667 --> 02:25:04.088 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, nice. 02:25:04.308 --> 02:25:07.452 [Riv (DM)]: Um, the... 02:25:07.472 --> 02:25:07.853 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 02:25:07.893 --> 02:25:08.774 [Riv (DM)]: And you look through his eyes? 02:25:10.596 --> 02:25:11.037 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mm-hmm. 02:25:11.498 --> 02:25:13.100 [Vael (Berberis)]: As we're following, I'll pop in and out. 02:25:13.120 --> 02:25:13.641 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:25:13.661 --> 02:25:15.062 [Riv (DM)]: Is this sort of like a bit of flavour you've got? 02:25:15.343 --> 02:25:17.225 [Riv (DM)]: You're summoning the familiar from the pipe? 02:25:17.586 --> 02:25:17.886 [Riv (DM)]: It's cool. 02:25:18.026 --> 02:25:18.367 [Riv (DM)]: I like that. 02:25:19.148 --> 02:25:20.830 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 02:25:21.051 --> 02:25:22.513 [Riv (DM)]: You pop in and you have a quick look over the city. 02:25:23.113 --> 02:25:25.977 [Riv (DM)]: Um, so yeah, just back on the ships. 02:25:26.198 --> 02:25:28.841 [Riv (DM)]: Um, so yeah, so they're docked in the water. 02:25:29.302 --> 02:25:33.167 [Riv (DM)]: Um, the two or three, um, clearly, Elvish ships. 02:25:33.147 --> 02:25:40.636 [Riv (DM)]: Old and run down, lots of like sort of rot started to gather in them now and the sails have you know tattered to pieces. 02:25:40.976 --> 02:25:55.813 [Riv (DM)]: There is that one ship with red sails that clearly looks imperial um which looks newer um like you don't see anyone on board it and you don't see anyone around but yes but that is there. 02:25:57.245 --> 02:26:02.614 [Riv (DM)]: From the bird's eye view, you see the city just carries on and land for miles. 02:26:03.716 --> 02:26:07.202 [Riv (DM)]: Deeper inside you can see a much larger set of structures. 02:26:08.263 --> 02:26:13.111 [Riv (DM)]: Clearly there's a central confluence of the city with a large keep or something. 02:26:14.494 --> 02:26:23.168 [Riv (DM)]: A few slightly larger buildings scattered around the side, plenty of smaller homes. 02:26:23.148 --> 02:26:31.780 [Riv (DM)]: The city is laid out in a much more organized and sort of intricate and careful way than your classic sort of ancient human city that you've been to so far. 02:26:33.803 --> 02:26:36.767 [Riv (DM)]: Clearly designed intentionally from the get-go. 02:26:37.248 --> 02:26:49.105 [Riv (DM)]: The streets might be circular and curved around and everything is nicely in its place, but a very clear theme of abandonment and nature starting to reclaim 02:26:49.085 --> 02:27:08.346 [Riv (DM)]: It is built up into the forest so behind you you can see the massive sort of inlet, huge ocean lake that's coming in that the city's built up against and to the other side just dense forests as far as the eye can see and those trees have started to sort of engulf the city and encroach upon its boundaries. 02:27:14.153 --> 02:27:16.375 [Riv (DM)]: Following Ayana in, 02:27:18.228 --> 02:27:20.773 [Riv (DM)]: She's kind of taking it all in as well. 02:27:21.735 --> 02:27:23.398 [Riv (DM)]: Clearly been sometimes since she was here. 02:27:25.021 --> 02:27:25.943 [Riv (DM)]: Just sort of looking around. 02:27:26.124 --> 02:27:35.983 [Riv (DM)]: Every now and then she will wander over to a building, just stand in front of it and just sigh as you see she's staring off into the distant past, reminiscing. 02:27:36.807 --> 02:27:41.775 [Riv (DM)]: She leads you down through the city, clearly heading towards the central parts of the buildings. 02:27:42.536 --> 02:27:51.549 [Riv (DM)]: Every now and then she might take a slight detour as she clearly is wanting to go past some park or some area that maybe she misses. 02:27:53.993 --> 02:28:01.925 [Riv (DM)]: I will have everyone in the group apart from Rio make a constitution saving throw. 02:28:01.945 --> 02:28:04.810 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh oh. 02:28:04.830 --> 02:28:05.751 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's bad. 02:28:09.207 --> 02:28:30.338 [Lacer (Kai)]: While this is happening, do I notice any religious worship-like theme to any of the structures, buildings, if they worshipped any gods? 02:28:31.027 --> 02:28:35.291 [Riv (DM)]: You can make a... You can make... What would you make? 02:28:36.432 --> 02:28:41.478 [Riv (DM)]: How about a perception or investigation to see if you spot anything first? 02:28:42.939 --> 02:28:44.741 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'll try and perceive. 02:28:44.801 --> 02:28:45.281 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:28:52.148 --> 02:28:52.389 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Cool. 02:28:52.849 --> 02:28:53.169 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Alrighty. 02:28:53.430 --> 02:28:59.616 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: At any places we go past where there is elvish writing, 02:29:00.743 --> 02:29:03.248 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Any signs or buildings or anything like that. 02:29:04.310 --> 02:29:16.112 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I would like to attempt to read it, knowing that I know Elvish, but vaguely only things that I have from my early childhood. 02:29:16.173 --> 02:29:19.579 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably been a few decades since you really actively used it, eh? 02:29:22.242 --> 02:29:31.177 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Just enough that she knows that I've some rudimentary knowledge of the language. 02:29:31.197 --> 02:29:35.304 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, so you sort of like read it out, out loud, like... Yep. 02:29:35.324 --> 02:29:36.266 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 02:29:37.088 --> 02:29:38.650 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, let's go through a couple of these things. 02:29:38.670 --> 02:29:43.198 [Riv (DM)]: So, Kai and Berberis in 16. 02:29:43.619 --> 02:29:46.123 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so... 02:29:48.314 --> 02:29:54.182 [Riv (DM)]: You all start to notice this humming sound in your ears. 02:29:54.742 --> 02:29:57.847 [Riv (DM)]: You kind of reach up and try to hit your ear a little bit maybe. 02:29:57.867 --> 02:30:03.774 [Riv (DM)]: A little bit of just, I don't know, some damage or something from fighting you've done recently. 02:30:03.814 --> 02:30:07.459 [Riv (DM)]: But as soon as you cover your ear you notice it's actually not in your ear. 02:30:07.479 --> 02:30:09.722 [Riv (DM)]: Is it in your head itself? 02:30:09.762 --> 02:30:11.104 [Riv (DM)]: Are you imagining it? 02:30:11.725 --> 02:30:15.570 [Riv (DM)]: As you get sort of further into the city, 02:30:15.550 --> 02:30:16.792 [Riv (DM)]: That's to get a bit more intense. 02:30:17.994 --> 02:30:20.778 [Riv (DM)]: Eryndor and Dondar, you take 12 points of psychic damage. 02:30:21.639 --> 02:30:30.391 [Riv (DM)]: Berberis and Kai, you take half of that, you take 6. 02:30:30.411 --> 02:30:33.576 [Riv (DM)]: The perception check, I think... 02:30:35.412 --> 02:30:42.318 [Riv (DM)]: You wouldn't notice anything at this part of the city in particular that looks super religious. 02:30:42.558 --> 02:30:50.345 [Riv (DM)]: I think what you would notice is, I mentioned earlier to Berberis he saw some larger buildings further into the city sort of scattered around in the periphery. 02:30:51.246 --> 02:30:58.152 [Riv (DM)]: You probably get the feeling that they, one of those or some of them might have been built more intentionally for religious worship, if any. 02:30:59.314 --> 02:31:01.516 [Riv (DM)]: But you haven't noticed anything specifically where you are. 02:31:01.776 --> 02:31:05.419 [Riv (DM)]: If you wanted to go and investigate some of those larger ones you would have to trek over to there to check them out. 02:31:05.399 --> 02:31:11.058 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does his owl take psychic damage as well? 02:31:11.078 --> 02:31:11.479 [Riv (DM)]: Um, no. 02:31:12.322 --> 02:31:12.844 [Riv (DM)]: No it does not. 02:31:17.853 --> 02:31:45.463 [Riv (DM)]: Um cool and yes and so so you read things out um Erendor um you see like the name of a tavern it's called the um the the verdant rose is this tavern um that you guys are currently wandering past a couple of bright big stained glass windows with um this you know red red uh rose symbol on each one um the door itself is circular as opposed to standard um standard sort of door 02:31:45.443 --> 02:31:53.295 [Riv (DM)]: Run down again though, you can see the, funnily enough, roses are growing up around it and starting to encroach upon it. 02:31:54.396 --> 02:31:59.844 [Riv (DM)]: You sort of, you know, mention that to her and Ayana sort of looks over at you and cocks her eyebrow. 02:32:00.585 --> 02:32:01.947 [Riv (DM)]: You know a bit of our language, do you? 02:32:01.967 --> 02:32:05.212 [Vael (Berberis)]: I correct his pronunciation. 02:32:07.836 --> 02:32:13.324 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I am glad to see that while my people have less of the land, the language has not. 02:32:15.194 --> 02:32:16.275 [Riv (DM)]: Where did you all learn? 02:32:20.881 --> 02:32:21.582 [Lacer (Kai)]: My parents. 02:32:23.425 --> 02:32:25.487 [Lacer (Kai)]: A long, long time ago. 02:32:25.548 --> 02:32:27.730 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: My mother. 02:32:29.793 --> 02:32:37.643 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Last we know, she's been captured by the Empire and is held below Val Luminor, as many others are. 02:32:38.825 --> 02:32:41.168 [Riv (DM)]: Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear that. 02:32:46.717 --> 02:32:51.484 [Riv (DM)]: There must be something that we... We must do something about that. 02:32:51.844 --> 02:32:52.225 [Riv (DM)]: And soon. 02:32:52.265 --> 02:32:53.346 [Riv (DM)]: Particularly... 02:32:55.369 --> 02:32:56.691 [Riv (DM)]: Particularly given what we now know. 02:32:56.711 --> 02:33:01.738 [Riv (DM)]: When did you hear of this and do you know how long she's been there? 02:33:01.758 --> 02:33:04.202 [Riv (DM)]: Are you sure she's still alive? 02:33:07.086 --> 02:33:08.468 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You know as much as I know now. 02:33:10.751 --> 02:33:10.851 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay. 02:33:11.033 --> 02:33:17.502 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It was some weeks ago that I found out and that news could be old. 02:33:19.344 --> 02:33:21.347 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: There's very little certainty we have. 02:33:22.468 --> 02:33:23.630 [Riv (DM)]: Do you have anything of hers? 02:33:23.910 --> 02:33:27.395 [Riv (DM)]: Any trinket or item or some picture? 02:33:27.435 --> 02:33:33.042 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm afraid not. 02:33:34.726 --> 02:33:35.847 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: She vanished one day. 02:33:36.709 --> 02:33:44.158 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: My father and I spent years looking, trying to find any trace and if anyone has anything it will be him. 02:33:46.361 --> 02:33:47.162 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:33:47.182 --> 02:33:50.407 [Riv (DM)]: I could potentially try to see her. 02:33:50.647 --> 02:33:58.277 [Riv (DM)]: I could scry upon her if I were to get some item of her or some knowledge of her appearance. 02:33:59.639 --> 02:34:01.982 [Riv (DM)]: It could let us know if she is okay. 02:34:03.430 --> 02:34:04.752 [Riv (DM)]: Do you recall what she looks like? 02:34:05.454 --> 02:34:08.099 [Riv (DM)]: You could try to describe her maybe? 02:34:08.139 --> 02:34:11.244 [Riv (DM)]: Or do you believe that your father may be the key? 02:34:15.272 --> 02:34:17.396 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I believe my father will be the key. 02:34:17.456 --> 02:34:20.502 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I was very young when she vanished. 02:34:21.744 --> 02:34:21.844 [Unmatched Speaker]: Okay. 02:34:25.773 --> 02:34:30.158 [Riv (DM)]: If you do manage to find more, I would be happy to help. 02:34:30.298 --> 02:34:32.841 [Riv (DM)]: I'll scry upon her and do what I can. 02:34:34.823 --> 02:34:36.965 [Riv (DM)]: But that... 02:34:36.985 --> 02:34:37.186 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 02:34:38.007 --> 02:34:38.868 [Riv (DM)]: We do need to do something. 02:34:38.888 --> 02:34:39.708 [Riv (DM)]: We need to free our people. 02:34:42.612 --> 02:34:45.475 [Riv (DM)]: You have my thanks. 02:34:45.495 --> 02:34:51.301 [Riv (DM)]: Can I get the four of you guys to roll another constitution saving throw as you walk for another 30 minutes or so deeper into the city? 02:34:53.043 --> 02:34:53.704 [Riv (DM)]: Not you, Rio. 02:35:00.333 --> 02:35:01.695 [JC (Ryo)]: Are we aware we're taking damage? 02:35:04.680 --> 02:35:06.884 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think we would feel the pain in our brain. 02:35:06.904 --> 02:35:11.772 [JC (Ryo)]: Can I mention this to her? 02:35:12.673 --> 02:35:13.174 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:35:13.194 --> 02:35:16.720 [Riv (DM)]: You should roll your one as well. 02:35:16.760 --> 02:35:18.763 [Riv (DM)]: Roll my... Constitution save. 02:35:19.925 --> 02:35:25.531 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just gonna say, I'm not feeling... On the second one I was immediately gonna stop and deal with this. 02:35:25.611 --> 02:35:26.953 [Vael (Berberis)]: My brain is hurting. 02:35:28.234 --> 02:35:31.198 [Vael (Berberis)]: One can just be a pain in the head, you get that. 02:35:31.218 --> 02:35:31.338 [Riv (DM)]: Twice. 02:35:31.879 --> 02:35:34.141 [Riv (DM)]: Max damage, let's go! 02:35:37.425 --> 02:35:40.188 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar, you take half of that, the rest of you take 24 damage. 02:35:41.369 --> 02:35:41.850 [Lacer (Kai)]: Goddamn. 02:35:42.390 --> 02:35:43.251 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I take another 12. 02:35:45.734 --> 02:35:49.138 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do I notice that Rio, nothing's happening, not getting these... 02:35:49.557 --> 02:35:50.660 [Lacer (Kai)]: Headstabs. 02:35:51.041 --> 02:35:52.184 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we all get it at the same time? 02:35:52.485 --> 02:35:58.583 [Riv (DM)]: I think that it would go through the Arcane Ward, by the way, if that's annoying to update. 02:35:58.603 --> 02:36:00.067 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's psychic damage. 02:36:00.087 --> 02:36:04.680 [Riv (DM)]: It's happening directly into your conscious. 02:36:06.213 --> 02:36:07.895 [JC (Ryo)]: Do I notice this happening to the guys? 02:36:08.335 --> 02:36:10.137 [JC (Ryo)]: It's automatically taking it off. 02:36:10.298 --> 02:36:11.399 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's okay. 02:36:11.479 --> 02:36:12.640 [Riv (DM)]: Don't worry about it. 02:36:12.660 --> 02:36:13.161 [Riv (DM)]: It's all good. 02:36:13.481 --> 02:36:15.143 [Riv (DM)]: It'll be a pain probably to change it. 02:36:15.944 --> 02:36:25.895 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think this time, especially as the rest of you start to grimace in pain, Ryo, you sort of look around, you see your companions like clutching their heads, toppled over. 02:36:26.336 --> 02:36:29.579 [Riv (DM)]: Well, starting to sort of like lean over as they're holding themselves in pain. 02:36:30.881 --> 02:36:31.822 [Vael (Berberis)]: Hey, what's going on guys? 02:36:32.042 --> 02:36:32.963 [Vael (Berberis)]: You okay? 02:36:33.567 --> 02:36:38.815 [Vael (Berberis)]: On the second one, I immediately stop and just slam my staff into the ground and go, right. 02:36:40.357 --> 02:36:41.599 [Vael (Berberis)]: Everyone else is getting that too. 02:36:43.281 --> 02:36:44.183 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 02:36:44.203 --> 02:36:51.794 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I will react and cast aid on... That's fourth. 02:36:52.034 --> 02:36:53.256 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, I can do fifth level. 02:36:53.436 --> 02:36:55.059 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's do fifth level. 02:36:57.682 --> 02:36:58.424 [Vael (Berberis)]: Anything you're forgetting? 02:36:58.464 --> 02:37:00.807 [Vael (Berberis)]: Not... 02:37:01.040 --> 02:37:03.328 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, Ayana turns around as this is happening. 02:37:05.555 --> 02:37:10.191 [Riv (DM)]: She looks at you guys sort of clutching yourselves in pain and she's like, oh, I'm so sorry. 02:37:10.392 --> 02:37:11.816 [Riv (DM)]: I forgot. 02:37:12.057 --> 02:37:14.104 [Riv (DM)]: I'm a boy. 02:37:15.164 --> 02:37:25.863 [Riv (DM)]: When my people left, we place enchantments upon the whole island so that the Empire would not be able to come in and occupy. 02:37:25.883 --> 02:37:36.362 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone not an elf will be suffering severe, shall we say, 02:37:37.777 --> 02:37:39.098 [Riv (DM)]: Psychological pain. 02:37:40.840 --> 02:37:42.681 [Riv (DM)]: Staying here long term would be unbearable. 02:37:45.324 --> 02:37:49.347 [Riv (DM)]: It was quite a crafty enchantment, I may say so myself. 02:37:49.747 --> 02:37:52.990 [Riv (DM)]: And look, it appears to have actually worked. 02:37:53.411 --> 02:37:57.894 [Riv (DM)]: And she, at this, you know, where you've stopped, she's like pointing down a side street. 02:37:58.375 --> 02:38:04.981 [Riv (DM)]: You can actually see about three or four soldiers with red cloaks that are just like toppled over in the street, leaning against the wall. 02:38:05.041 --> 02:38:07.783 [Riv (DM)]: One of them's like clearly just like sort of 02:38:07.763 --> 02:38:13.756 [Riv (DM)]: You know, rolled up in pain on his knees on the ground, just holding their heads, just dead. 02:38:14.518 --> 02:38:18.366 [Riv (DM)]: Their skeletons are starting to show through as their flesh is like rotted away. 02:38:18.466 --> 02:38:20.471 [Riv (DM)]: They're clearly, you know, maybe a year or two old. 02:38:22.656 --> 02:38:24.339 [Riv (DM)]: I imagine those were the ones that came on that ship. 02:38:26.464 --> 02:38:27.426 [Riv (DM)]: Well, um... 02:38:30.528 --> 02:38:31.670 [Riv (DM)]: Let's move quickly. 02:38:32.911 --> 02:38:34.694 [Riv (DM)]: There isn't a whole lot I can do. 02:38:34.714 --> 02:38:39.381 [Riv (DM)]: If you're able to not be humans, that could help. 02:38:39.401 --> 02:38:44.568 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was about to say, it only affects non-elves and I will just immediately shift into badger form. 02:38:45.330 --> 02:38:50.297 [Riv (DM)]: As you shift into a badger form, that pressure, that weight that's just been pressing on your brain immediately disappears. 02:38:53.301 --> 02:38:55.945 [Lacer (Kai)]: I see that happen and... 02:38:56.836 --> 02:38:58.863 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess I turn into my mouse. 02:38:58.943 --> 02:39:02.334 [Lacer (Kai)]: I summon my raven because I see the owl is still out and about. 02:39:03.418 --> 02:39:07.993 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I turn into a mouse and I get carried by my raven. 02:39:10.640 --> 02:39:11.762 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:39:12.063 --> 02:39:17.673 [Riv (DM)]: As this is happening, Ayana sort of like turns around and says, oh, hello little one. 02:39:17.834 --> 02:39:19.797 [Riv (DM)]: And there's like a blackbird that's flying down. 02:39:20.178 --> 02:39:24.667 [Riv (DM)]: And she like holds out her hand, little blackbird, orange beak, just like lands on her finger. 02:39:24.967 --> 02:39:27.212 [Riv (DM)]: And it's just like tweeting, just tweeting at her. 02:39:27.232 --> 02:39:29.496 [Riv (DM)]: And she's like, I know, I know, yes. 02:39:30.638 --> 02:39:31.319 [Riv (DM)]: Very impressive. 02:39:31.540 --> 02:39:32.682 [Riv (DM)]: Very impressive. 02:39:32.662 --> 02:39:33.643 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, is that right? 02:39:33.904 --> 02:39:35.906 [Riv (DM)]: And you're just like having a conversation with a Blackbird. 02:39:36.667 --> 02:39:40.152 [Riv (DM)]: She leans over, she turns around to the rest of you and just says, come on, let's go quickly. 02:39:41.013 --> 02:39:44.717 [Riv (DM)]: We don't want you guys to be suffering for too long. 02:39:45.238 --> 02:39:45.979 [Riv (DM)]: We should be through it soon. 02:39:46.900 --> 02:39:48.362 [Riv (DM)]: And she picks up the pace, goes a lot faster. 02:39:52.347 --> 02:39:52.668 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 02:39:53.048 --> 02:39:58.395 [JC (Ryo)]: I hang as close to Erendor and Dondar as I can, just in case they need some healing. 02:40:01.018 --> 02:40:02.280 [JC (Ryo)]: Don't know how you're feeling, guys. 02:40:06.614 --> 02:40:06.834 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:40:08.096 --> 02:40:13.101 [Riv (DM)]: Before we get to the destination, just one more for Erendor and Dondarr. 02:40:14.603 --> 02:40:15.865 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, great. 02:40:15.885 --> 02:40:17.126 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, you guys have aid though. 02:40:17.306 --> 02:40:25.616 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've given Erendor and Dondarr extra 20 to their HP pool. 02:40:31.723 --> 02:40:31.883 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:40:31.903 --> 02:40:33.004 [Lacer (Kai)]: And myself, yeah. 02:40:33.385 --> 02:40:35.507 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, 8 damage. 02:40:46.405 --> 02:40:48.327 [Riv (DM)]: So I take any damage? 02:40:48.347 --> 02:40:49.388 [Riv (DM)]: You do your con save. 02:40:50.168 --> 02:40:50.369 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:40:57.555 --> 02:40:58.276 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, just 8 damage. 02:40:58.596 --> 02:40:59.497 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 02:40:59.537 --> 02:41:03.060 [Riv (DM)]: She rapidly picks up the pace and you can follow her through the winding and twisting streets. 02:41:04.181 --> 02:41:13.750 [Riv (DM)]: She starts taking you towards, not the main central confluence of buildings, but there is a separate sort of larger set of buildings off to the side. 02:41:13.790 --> 02:41:15.872 [Riv (DM)]: This one in particular. 02:41:16.308 --> 02:41:20.392 [Riv (DM)]: Looks... quite... how would you describe it? 02:41:21.073 --> 02:41:22.014 [Riv (DM)]: Quite elegant, probably. 02:41:22.134 --> 02:41:25.078 [Riv (DM)]: It stands out a bit than the rest of the buildings we've been going past. 02:41:25.418 --> 02:41:31.224 [Riv (DM)]: Very tall, narrow spires, you know, up hundreds of feet into the sky. 02:41:31.244 --> 02:41:34.868 [Riv (DM)]: There's clearly, you know, looking platforms up at the top. 02:41:36.910 --> 02:41:38.792 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of looks arcane-ish, I guess. 02:41:39.013 --> 02:41:42.096 [Riv (DM)]: Looks like potentially somewhere where a 02:41:42.076 --> 02:41:43.838 [Riv (DM)]: Arcane practitioners might reside. 02:41:43.898 --> 02:41:51.968 [Riv (DM)]: She takes you up to the base or the steps that lead up into the set of buildings at the ground level. 02:41:53.970 --> 02:42:02.360 [Riv (DM)]: You see she looks up and just, you know, a thousand emotions cross her face as she sees somewhere that she's clearly spent a lot of her life. 02:42:03.081 --> 02:42:11.070 [Riv (DM)]: And looks over, quickly gestures for you to follow her inside, and takes you inside the building. 02:42:11.050 --> 02:42:27.810 [Riv (DM)]: Um yeah it's run down in here as well um clearly century century of of neglect um takes you through a few corridors to a room quite deep into the back um into the back of the of the building. 02:42:29.039 --> 02:42:31.382 [Riv (DM)]: It's a large, wide, circular room. 02:42:31.442 --> 02:42:35.908 [Riv (DM)]: There is a sort of dais in the very centre of the room. 02:42:36.709 --> 02:42:42.296 [Riv (DM)]: It's raised up, sort of like a circular table, almost made entirely of pure white stone. 02:42:43.617 --> 02:42:49.765 [Riv (DM)]: You can see the base, sorry, the top of the table has got this circular 02:42:49.745 --> 02:43:01.543 [Riv (DM)]: Quite ornate engraving the whole way, quite deep carved engravings that sort of spiral and circle their way into the very center where there is a small circular slot 02:43:02.907 --> 02:43:07.211 [Riv (DM)]: The room itself is sort of wide and plain, there isn't really much in here. 02:43:07.791 --> 02:43:18.001 [Riv (DM)]: The sides of the walls have got carvings into them I guess, just depicting moments in time, things that have happened. 02:43:18.021 --> 02:43:30.872 [Riv (DM)]: There's carvings of people talking, carvings of people fighting large beasts, there's trees, there's all sorts of things like that carved in this circular room. 02:43:32.489 --> 02:43:38.496 [Riv (DM)]: She turns to you, Rio, and says, Are you ready? 02:43:41.019 --> 02:43:51.252 [Riv (DM)]: This will show once and for all if what you have said is true, or even if what you believe to be true was true. 02:43:52.133 --> 02:43:55.337 [Riv (DM)]: I'll tell you this before we go too much further. 02:43:55.377 --> 02:43:57.940 [Riv (DM)]: If this doesn't work, 02:44:01.193 --> 02:44:04.357 [Riv (DM)]: I may have to take drastic measures. 02:44:08.782 --> 02:44:14.649 [Riv (DM)]: But... Why don't we just see? 02:44:15.850 --> 02:44:21.998 [Riv (DM)]: So please, as you like, place your ring in the very centre of the dais. 02:44:27.044 --> 02:44:28.045 [JC (Ryo)]: You want me to do what? 02:44:29.155 --> 02:44:29.595 [Riv (DM)]: Your ring. 02:44:30.176 --> 02:44:32.459 [Riv (DM)]: Please take it off and place it in the center of the dice. 02:44:40.928 --> 02:44:42.049 [JC (Ryo)]: I take it off and look at it? 02:44:45.613 --> 02:44:45.813 [JC (Ryo)]: Mm-hmm. 02:44:45.873 --> 02:44:46.974 [JC (Ryo)]: What's gonna happen? 02:44:49.257 --> 02:44:59.027 [Riv (DM)]: It will prove beyond any shadow of a doubt if what you're saying is true and if what I am hoping is the case. 02:45:01.268 --> 02:45:07.877 [Riv (DM)]: We may... We may find ourselves in a better position than we were before. 02:45:11.942 --> 02:45:13.324 [Riv (DM)]: I'll tell you this, everything will change. 02:45:20.173 --> 02:45:23.597 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay, I'll place the ring where she pointed at. 02:45:25.906 --> 02:45:26.467 [Riv (DM)]: You can drop it in. 02:45:26.887 --> 02:45:31.432 [Riv (DM)]: It's sort of, you feel like a magnetic tug as it gets close to it. 02:45:32.834 --> 02:45:37.079 [Riv (DM)]: The top of the ring, do you want to describe to the group what it looks like? 02:45:37.419 --> 02:45:39.342 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not sure if we have before, right? 02:45:40.983 --> 02:45:42.005 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't think so. 02:45:42.025 --> 02:45:44.087 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got to find the photo I sent you, Jesus. 02:45:45.729 --> 02:45:50.074 [JC (Ryo)]: Just look down, it's on your finger. 02:45:52.720 --> 02:45:54.202 [Riv (DM)]: I believe I have it if you want. 02:45:55.304 --> 02:45:59.450 [JC (Ryo)]: I know you have it and I don't remember if I saved it locally I'm just scrolling up at the moment. 02:46:00.612 --> 02:46:04.398 [Riv (DM)]: I can chuck it in Foundry if you like or do not want the people to see. 02:46:05.279 --> 02:46:07.262 [JC (Ryo)]: I was gonna throw it in general. 02:46:10.547 --> 02:46:11.489 [JC (Ryo)]: Just describe it. 02:46:12.190 --> 02:46:13.292 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah you should describe it. 02:46:16.056 --> 02:46:20.162 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay so there's a you know I had to find it to remember what it looked like guys give me a second. 02:46:20.783 --> 02:46:25.350 [JC (Ryo)]: So on this ring there is a square symbol. 02:46:26.712 --> 02:46:30.398 [JC (Ryo)]: Inside the square symbol there is two separate circles. 02:46:31.820 --> 02:46:45.762 [JC (Ryo)]: The inner circle has got red spirals going out to a red circle on a blue background and then there's a yellow spiral going out with yellow spirals going out with four stars around the outside. 02:46:48.863 --> 02:46:51.487 [JC (Ryo)]: And it looks like this. 02:47:00.440 --> 02:47:05.207 [JC (Ryo)]: The only other person who's seen this was the lady on the Mawbreaker ship. 02:47:05.247 --> 02:47:06.929 [JC (Ryo)]: I haven't shown any of you guys this. 02:47:08.151 --> 02:47:10.013 [Riv (DM)]: The Alaris, do you mean? 02:47:11.836 --> 02:47:15.041 [JC (Ryo)]: No, on the Mawbreaker ship after we blew it up and she said she didn't know what it was. 02:47:16.703 --> 02:47:18.786 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that lady, the one that you nuked. 02:47:20.403 --> 02:47:23.132 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, the friendly one. 02:47:23.714 --> 02:47:26.403 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, it's probably Lorian, right? 02:47:26.423 --> 02:47:28.270 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, my stepmom. 02:47:28.550 --> 02:47:28.992 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:47:29.012 --> 02:47:30.497 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, yes, that one. 02:47:31.642 --> 02:47:34.064 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think she probably wouldn't recognize it. 02:47:34.525 --> 02:47:35.646 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's what it looks like. 02:47:35.886 --> 02:47:43.853 [Riv (DM)]: And the design here clearly seems to be mirrored in the engravings on the stone top. 02:47:45.055 --> 02:47:47.577 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana has appeared skeptical this whole time. 02:47:47.617 --> 02:47:50.840 [Riv (DM)]: As you approach the dice and you see that symbol, you already know. 02:47:51.581 --> 02:47:53.002 [Riv (DM)]: You already know what this is. 02:47:54.684 --> 02:47:55.524 [Riv (DM)]: There's no shadow of a doubt. 02:47:55.544 --> 02:47:58.307 [Riv (DM)]: You've seen this symbol every single day of your life. 02:48:00.093 --> 02:48:07.944 [Riv (DM)]: You place it in and the top part of the ring, the part with the symbol, clicks down onto the inside of this little indentation. 02:48:09.046 --> 02:48:10.928 [Riv (DM)]: You feel that magnetic target as it slots in. 02:48:11.089 --> 02:48:18.439 [Riv (DM)]: As soon as it slots in, the little symbols that are on the outside of the dais, they start to glow as well. 02:48:18.419 --> 02:48:19.701 [Riv (DM)]: They start to light up. 02:48:20.803 --> 02:48:25.109 [Riv (DM)]: Little bits of stone where the symbols sit pop out, they turn, they pop back in. 02:48:26.211 --> 02:48:30.136 [Riv (DM)]: Parts of stone start to move and circle along the base. 02:48:30.597 --> 02:48:33.041 [Riv (DM)]: It's almost like an engine starting to light up. 02:48:33.061 --> 02:48:38.028 [Riv (DM)]: All these different little components and compartments popping out, twisting, turning back in. 02:48:38.088 --> 02:48:46.080 [Riv (DM)]: This sort of culminates in the light of these symbols making their way up to the top part of the dais. 02:48:46.060 --> 02:48:50.988 [Riv (DM)]: The engraving starts to light up and the circles that sort of, you know, come inward. 02:48:52.050 --> 02:49:02.247 [Riv (DM)]: It's like water being poured into this engraving as it just slowly fills up the grooves, making their way to the very centre where the ring sits. 02:49:03.712 --> 02:49:13.893 [Riv (DM)]: As soon as the light hits the ring, just this large pulse and all of the carvings around the sides of the room, they themselves also light up. 02:49:14.494 --> 02:49:19.324 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana, you just hear her gasp as soon as this starts to happen. 02:49:19.304 --> 02:49:26.100 [Riv (DM)]: She drops to her knees and you sort of take a step back as unsure what's going on. 02:49:26.160 --> 02:49:36.064 [Riv (DM)]: The engine in the centre here starts to spin, everything's glowing, everything's sort of ramping to this confluence and then it just sort of slams back down. 02:49:36.044 --> 02:49:56.922 [Riv (DM)]: Like super heavy noise booms out the all the um light from the engravings that flash another time um and the space behind the dais so there's like i said this big large empty room directly behind where you're standing sort of on the far side of the room you see reality itself just tear just 02:49:58.437 --> 02:50:25.002 [Riv (DM)]: Like a zip opening and it splits open just like rapidly goes and it just almost tears open um the edges of the tear and space is kind of glowing this faint greenish sort of yeah dark greenish sort of color um and you can you know just see spaced either side of it but through it on the inside you can see green forest pastures you can see a land beyond 02:50:26.568 --> 02:50:32.096 [Riv (DM)]: Um, if you look back over your shoulder you see Ayana just tears pouring down her face with this. 02:50:36.342 --> 02:50:36.522 [JC (Ryo)]: What's? 02:50:36.843 --> 02:50:37.043 [JC (Ryo)]: What? 02:50:37.323 --> 02:50:37.664 [JC (Ryo)]: What? 02:50:40.548 --> 02:50:41.269 [JC (Ryo)]: J-just what? 02:50:44.414 --> 02:50:44.834 [Riv (DM)]: It's true. 02:50:46.196 --> 02:50:47.939 [Riv (DM)]: Oh my gods, it's true. 02:50:50.242 --> 02:50:50.502 [JC (Ryo)]: What? 02:50:51.804 --> 02:50:52.565 [Riv (DM)]: We thought you were dead. 02:50:54.128 --> 02:50:54.448 [Riv (DM)]: It's... 02:50:57.061 --> 02:50:57.622 [Riv (DM)]: It's a miracle. 02:51:00.685 --> 02:51:04.569 [Riv (DM)]: You... You are a descendant of the royal bloodline of my people. 02:51:05.970 --> 02:51:12.137 [Riv (DM)]: You were thought to have been wiped out and our hope locked from us, but here you stand. 02:51:12.878 --> 02:51:16.101 [Riv (DM)]: I... We are gonna have a lot to talk about. 02:51:17.763 --> 02:51:24.790 [Riv (DM)]: She, um, she kind of comes over to you and nails in front of you and just like grabs your hand, um, and just presses her forehead to it. 02:51:29.123 --> 02:51:31.586 [JC (Ryo)]: What are you talking about? 02:51:32.867 --> 02:51:33.347 [Riv (DM)]: That ring. 02:51:33.387 --> 02:51:34.068 [Riv (DM)]: That symbol. 02:51:35.610 --> 02:51:37.992 [Riv (DM)]: That is the symbol of the royal house of my people. 02:51:38.052 --> 02:51:43.298 [Riv (DM)]: Only a true descendant would be able to open that gate. 02:51:47.702 --> 02:51:48.363 [JC (Ryo)]: What have I opened? 02:51:48.383 --> 02:51:48.803 [JC (Ryo)]: What gate? 02:51:48.843 --> 02:51:49.464 [JC (Ryo)]: Where does that go? 02:51:49.484 --> 02:51:53.308 [Riv (DM)]: That is where my people went. 02:51:56.258 --> 02:51:59.182 [Riv (DM)]: And it has been locked to me for a century. 02:52:01.805 --> 02:52:03.006 [JC (Ryo)]: That's where the rest of the elves are. 02:52:04.228 --> 02:52:04.468 [Riv (DM)]: It is. 02:52:08.192 --> 02:52:08.393 [Riv (DM)]: Well. 02:52:11.216 --> 02:52:13.339 [JC (Ryo)]: Why the hell was I dumped in the freaking woods? 02:52:14.961 --> 02:52:16.523 [Riv (DM)]: These are the questions we're going to have to answer. 02:52:19.246 --> 02:52:21.829 [Riv (DM)]: But I need to get you in there. 02:52:22.890 --> 02:52:24.392 [Riv (DM)]: You don't know how valuable you are. 02:52:28.186 --> 02:52:28.747 [Riv (DM)]: Will you come? 02:52:29.869 --> 02:52:30.570 [Riv (DM)]: At this she stands. 02:52:30.951 --> 02:52:47.460 [Riv (DM)]: Her previous, I guess, presence of authority and, you know, confidence has sort of dissolved to she's more asking you, will you come with her? 02:52:54.815 --> 02:52:58.499 [JC (Ryo)]: I just look at everyone else and I'm like, I have no idea. 02:53:03.625 --> 02:53:05.908 [JC (Ryo)]: I look back at her and I'm like, can they come as well? 02:53:07.970 --> 02:53:08.771 [Unmatched Speaker]: Road trip! 02:53:11.394 --> 02:53:13.096 [Riv (DM)]: If they wish to, they may. 02:53:13.136 --> 02:53:14.617 [Riv (DM)]: It's your choice. 02:53:16.039 --> 02:53:16.840 [Riv (DM)]: It's your choice now. 02:53:23.654 --> 02:53:27.059 [Vael (Berberis)]: Is there a coming back to get information? 02:53:27.840 --> 02:53:29.662 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, yes, can we come back? 02:53:31.004 --> 02:53:31.605 [Riv (DM)]: We can come back. 02:53:33.547 --> 02:53:36.191 [Riv (DM)]: There may be people who have opinions about you. 02:53:36.211 --> 02:53:49.729 [Riv (DM)]: I would be surprised if anyone would be allowing you to relinquish yourself back, but there are ways back, yes. 02:53:52.173 --> 02:53:55.697 [JC (Ryo)]: How do you know, if you haven't been able to go there, how do you know we can come? 02:53:55.717 --> 02:53:56.618 [JC (Ryo)]: I am so confused. 02:53:59.121 --> 02:54:00.943 [JC (Ryo)]: If you can't get there, how do you know we can come back? 02:54:01.584 --> 02:54:02.245 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I came back. 02:54:04.307 --> 02:54:07.431 [Riv (DM)]: We have ways to cross the boundary back to this plane. 02:54:08.512 --> 02:54:10.174 [Riv (DM)]: Getting to there is the tricky part. 02:54:12.837 --> 02:54:15.360 [Riv (DM)]: Look, you must have many questions. 02:54:15.580 --> 02:54:16.541 [Riv (DM)]: I have many questions. 02:54:17.903 --> 02:54:19.024 [Riv (DM)]: They can all be answered. 02:54:21.552 --> 02:54:31.945 [Riv (DM)]: For the sake of your friends though, and she looks around at those of you sort of suffering from the psychic anguish, how about we go through and we talk about it on the other side? 02:54:34.328 --> 02:54:37.612 [Riv (DM)]: There are people more important than me who can explain everything to you. 02:54:42.779 --> 02:54:44.962 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm just looking at everyone. 02:54:48.646 --> 02:54:50.749 [JC (Ryo)]: Shall we go? 02:54:50.982 --> 02:54:51.703 [Vael (Berberis)]: Badger shrug. 02:54:52.645 --> 02:54:53.126 [Vael (Berberis)]: Stomp through. 02:54:55.069 --> 02:54:56.632 [Riv (DM)]: Badger blasts on through. 02:54:56.672 --> 02:54:58.696 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Alright, let's go. 02:55:00.379 --> 02:55:02.864 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Who else could say then what happened to the elves? 02:55:04.286 --> 02:55:07.211 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You're half-elf, let's find out what's going on. 02:55:09.355 --> 02:55:12.501 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Who knows if I'll even be able to tell what happened after this. 02:55:13.848 --> 02:55:18.317 [Riv (DM)]: You step on through and it doesn't feel like opening a door, it doesn't feel like anything. 02:55:19.018 --> 02:55:27.154 [Riv (DM)]: You just walk and one moment you are on a landis in Ithilmara and the next minute you're standing in a dense, vibrant forest. 02:55:27.715 --> 02:55:30.861 [Riv (DM)]: As soon as you pass through, and I assume you take the ring with you, yeah? 02:55:32.680 --> 02:55:34.582 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, assuming it can be picked up. 02:55:34.682 --> 02:55:36.164 [JC (Ryo)]: I was definitely not leaving that behind. 02:55:36.184 --> 02:55:37.325 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, you can pop it up. 02:55:37.585 --> 02:55:39.928 [Riv (DM)]: You can grab it, place it back on your finger and pass through. 02:55:40.448 --> 02:55:44.232 [Riv (DM)]: As soon as you pass through, the TS starts to close up behind you. 02:55:44.413 --> 02:55:49.438 [Riv (DM)]: You look over your shoulder and it zips itself back up and it was like it was never there. 02:55:50.379 --> 02:55:59.649 [Riv (DM)]: And you look around and it is bright, dense, vibrant forest and you notice all sorts of oddities. 02:55:59.769 --> 02:56:01.371 [Riv (DM)]: There are 02:56:01.570 --> 02:56:08.286 [Riv (DM)]: Trees with just big clumps of pink candy floss-like looking flowers. 02:56:09.188 --> 02:56:17.908 [Riv (DM)]: You can see a squirrel that has the shell of a turtle on it that just jumps from one tree to the other. 02:56:17.888 --> 02:56:30.383 [Riv (DM)]: You look up at the sky and it's not blue, it's green or purple and there are just like veins of energy passing around through it and it almost seems to shift colour, you can't quite focus on it. 02:56:31.104 --> 02:56:40.856 [Riv (DM)]: As you start to walk forward you see the ground in front of you, the hill that you thought you were walking up, actually you're walking down the hill now? 02:56:41.357 --> 02:56:42.599 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, you were just walking up it though. 02:56:42.639 --> 02:56:47.845 [Riv (DM)]: And you look out ahead across the landscape. 02:56:51.571 --> 02:56:57.526 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, I think what we'll do is leave that here. 02:56:57.988 --> 02:57:06.610 [Riv (DM)]: I think we'll pause the session and we'll pick back up next time when I have a time to properly design the Fey Realm. 02:57:06.590 --> 02:57:10.093 [Lacer (Kai)]: DM's like, wasn't expecting to come here today. 02:57:10.113 --> 02:57:10.914 [Riv (DM)]: Nope, I definitely wasn't. 02:57:10.954 --> 02:57:15.738 [Riv (DM)]: I wasn't expecting you to give me another chance at all. 02:57:16.058 --> 02:57:18.060 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, I know what's here. 02:57:18.140 --> 02:57:22.844 [Riv (DM)]: Roughly, I wasn't expecting to come here for dozens of sessions, maybe. 02:57:26.187 --> 02:57:26.687 [Riv (DM)]: Good times. 02:57:26.767 --> 02:57:32.852 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I want to give this some proper justice, so I think we should come back and we can properly explore. 02:57:33.773 --> 02:57:35.955 [Riv (DM)]: We can properly explore next time. 02:57:36.813 --> 02:57:37.354 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just wow. 02:57:37.695 --> 02:57:38.155 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just wow. 02:57:38.356 --> 02:57:38.877 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 02:57:38.917 --> 02:57:42.443 [Riv (DM)]: That was a fucking rollercoaster. 02:57:43.765 --> 02:57:44.747 [Riv (DM)]: That's D&D guys. 02:57:44.947 --> 02:57:49.916 [Riv (DM)]: I had like designed encounters in the forest. 02:57:49.976 --> 02:57:56.087 [Riv (DM)]: I like built maps and stuff and like here we are in a completely different realm. 02:57:56.590 --> 02:58:00.016 [JC (Ryo)]: I genuinely didn't mean to hijack the session, guys. 02:58:00.217 --> 02:58:00.998 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm serious. 02:58:01.058 --> 02:58:01.880 [JC (Ryo)]: I did not mean that. 02:58:02.982 --> 02:58:09.454 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: All you've done is you've chosen where we're going for the next few sessions and you've set us on a path. 02:58:10.816 --> 02:58:11.097 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:58:11.117 --> 02:58:11.577 [Riv (DM)]: That's awesome. 02:58:11.878 --> 02:58:12.219 [Riv (DM)]: That's it. 02:58:12.239 --> 02:58:13.681 [Riv (DM)]: This is D&D at its finest, man. 02:58:13.721 --> 02:58:16.827 [Riv (DM)]: Making choices and we just do it. 02:58:18.477 --> 02:58:23.047 [JC (Ryo)]: And, yeah, I was not expecting you to give me another shot at her, so. 02:58:24.049 --> 02:58:30.604 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I wasn't intending to either, but the, um, I felt guilty just saying no to you guys. 02:58:30.624 --> 02:58:32.588 [Riv (DM)]: I was like, ah, make a persuasion roll. 02:58:33.175 --> 02:58:34.938 [Riv (DM)]: And I was like, in my head, they can roll a 20. 02:58:34.999 --> 02:58:35.700 [Riv (DM)]: No one can roll a 20. 02:58:35.720 --> 02:58:36.822 [Riv (DM)]: You guys all suck at charisma. 02:58:37.103 --> 02:58:37.824 [Riv (DM)]: Rolled a 19? 02:58:38.285 --> 02:58:39.006 [Riv (DM)]: Plus one? 02:58:39.167 --> 02:58:40.249 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, fuck. 02:58:42.253 --> 02:58:42.633 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, here we go. 02:58:42.754 --> 02:58:44.537 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, that's why I was like, don't tell me the number. 02:58:44.557 --> 02:58:45.238 [JC (Ryo)]: Don't tell me the number. 02:58:45.258 --> 02:58:46.541 [JC (Ryo)]: Because you're like, oh, it's charisma. 02:58:46.621 --> 02:58:47.443 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm not going to get it. 02:58:47.463 --> 02:58:48.244 [JC (Ryo)]: It's impossible. 02:58:48.545 --> 02:58:50.188 [JC (Ryo)]: It's going to say 25. 02:58:50.438 --> 02:58:58.149 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: There are times that I kind of wish we didn't know the passing stat and that we rolled blind to use that we don't even know. 02:58:58.189 --> 02:59:01.854 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, we can do that sort of thing if you like. 02:59:01.874 --> 02:59:09.966 [Riv (DM)]: I think it's quite fun to mix stuff up but sometimes when you don't know sometimes it's also fun at the moment to be like you need this because it makes it kind of exciting as well but yeah no totally. 02:59:09.946 --> 02:59:17.042 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was about to shame the shit out of them for being like, we're an organization that has been hunting this for centuries and you bring us the first lead. 02:59:17.503 --> 02:59:20.229 [Vael (Berberis)]: The first lead is tattooed on the back of an obvious fucking bad guy. 02:59:20.249 --> 02:59:20.750 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, come on. 02:59:22.033 --> 02:59:23.035 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Open your eyes. 02:59:23.636 --> 02:59:25.440 [Vael (Berberis)]: They're walking around with it. 02:59:26.365 --> 02:59:31.414 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I mean, they, like, do you expect that they've just been out there trying to kill the Red Priests? 02:59:31.855 --> 02:59:32.797 [Riv (DM)]: And like, finally? 02:59:32.837 --> 02:59:34.360 [Riv (DM)]: Because it's not like it's just visible. 02:59:34.420 --> 02:59:35.221 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Are they trying to kill them? 02:59:35.261 --> 02:59:36.824 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Are they just trying to get them out of their clothes? 02:59:36.965 --> 02:59:38.608 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Like, you're not seeing this otherwise. 02:59:38.628 --> 02:59:44.779 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, it's not like they're trying to hide it. 02:59:45.907 --> 02:59:53.056 [Riv (DM)]: Well, the, yeah, the, like, dragon iconography, I think, has probably been very well hidden. 02:59:54.738 --> 02:59:56.420 [Riv (DM)]: The, yeah. 02:59:56.440 --> 02:59:57.642 [Vael (Berberis)]: I have a question for you, Riv. 02:59:58.663 --> 03:00:02.027 [Vael (Berberis)]: We got given the name of, the full name of the Empress. 03:00:03.689 --> 03:00:05.772 [Vael (Berberis)]: Is her full name common knowledge? 03:00:07.034 --> 03:00:09.017 [Vael (Berberis)]: Her last name? 03:00:09.217 --> 03:00:15.065 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, probably not to most people other than maybe like nobles and stuff like that. 03:00:15.146 --> 03:00:17.148 [Riv (DM)]: I doubt the common folk would know her full name. 03:00:17.869 --> 03:00:18.671 [Vael (Berberis)]: So was it Eventide? 03:00:18.891 --> 03:00:19.432 [Vael (Berberis)]: Eventide? 03:00:19.472 --> 03:00:21.455 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, Morgana Eventide. 03:00:21.515 --> 03:00:22.736 [Vael (Berberis)]: Eventide. 03:00:22.796 --> 03:00:26.502 [Vael (Berberis)]: That doesn't sound like a human last name. 03:00:30.127 --> 03:00:32.350 [Vael (Berberis)]: That sounds a little elvish. 03:00:35.722 --> 03:00:38.384 [Vael (Berberis)]: And she has stayed young for far too long. 03:00:40.226 --> 03:00:41.607 [Vael (Berberis)]: I have suspicions. 03:00:43.209 --> 03:00:56.380 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and the Speak With Dead wasn't expecting that, and also wasn't expecting to do Speak With Dead right in the presence of an elf who is deeply invested in also knowing this information. 03:00:56.561 --> 03:00:59.964 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, gosh, it was just one thing after another in this session, wasn't it? 03:01:00.424 --> 03:01:01.445 [Riv (DM)]: I was like, you know what? 03:01:02.106 --> 03:01:03.687 [Riv (DM)]: Over the break, I was like, 03:01:03.667 --> 03:01:06.511 [Riv (DM)]: Let's accelerate the lore in this next arc. 03:01:06.691 --> 03:01:09.655 [Riv (DM)]: Like, I've dripfed you guys hints and clues and stuff like that. 03:01:10.095 --> 03:01:14.941 [Riv (DM)]: It's like, let's give them some stuff so that, you know, you've got plans and goals or whatever and you know what's going on. 03:01:15.522 --> 03:01:17.785 [Riv (DM)]: First session is like, here are all the things. 03:01:21.009 --> 03:01:21.850 [Riv (DM)]: Oh my god. 03:01:23.272 --> 03:01:24.233 [Vael (Berberis)]: Gotta give us Hooksterbite. 03:01:24.614 --> 03:01:25.695 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, exactly. 03:01:26.536 --> 03:01:30.902 [Vael (Berberis)]: That question was, who does the Emperor serve, was like, that's a little too clean. 03:01:31.382 --> 03:01:32.644 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's gotta be more here. 03:01:32.978 --> 03:01:34.239 [Riv (DM)]: Well, that's the thing, right? 03:01:34.319 --> 03:01:38.464 [Riv (DM)]: Like, you asked her, who does the priest work for? 03:01:38.644 --> 03:01:40.486 [Riv (DM)]: Well, currently she is working for the Empress. 03:01:41.987 --> 03:01:44.730 [Riv (DM)]: But that doesn't necessarily mean the Empress is her master. 03:01:44.770 --> 03:01:49.435 [Riv (DM)]: And you kind of got that clue from earlier in the Stoneheart, right? 03:01:49.455 --> 03:01:54.420 [Riv (DM)]: When she said to Blackmarsh, well, the Empress isn't actually the one we're talking about right now, is it? 03:01:57.724 --> 03:01:59.506 [Vael (Berberis)]: That was a little bit too clean of an answer. 03:01:59.526 --> 03:02:01.448 [Riv (DM)]: I was like, yeah, there's more to it. 03:02:01.468 --> 03:02:02.749 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that was a good follow-up. 03:02:06.290 --> 03:02:09.073 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well, here we go. 03:02:09.093 --> 03:02:09.194 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wow. 03:02:09.214 --> 03:02:13.519 [Lacer (Kai)]: We travelled, like, literally, like... 03:02:13.539 --> 03:02:13.859 [Lacer (Kai)]: I know. 03:02:14.280 --> 03:02:16.562 [Lacer (Kai)]: Months worth of travelling in one session. 03:02:16.622 --> 03:02:19.105 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:02:19.766 --> 03:02:25.393 [Vael (Berberis)]: On the world map, I've placed little markers at Val Noren and Glimmerforge to indicate teleport circles. 03:02:25.954 --> 03:02:26.294 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, nice. 03:02:27.496 --> 03:02:27.876 [Riv (DM)]: That's cool. 03:02:28.649 --> 03:02:36.642 [Vael (Berberis)]: I know the red axe near Darmouth was the bridge, I cannot, the one north of Val Miriel was the mine, why do we have red axes on Ithilmara Island? 03:02:37.523 --> 03:02:47.519 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you um, so this map that you've got was the map that, I think you bought it in Darmouth, doesn't necessarily know a lot about the world. 03:02:47.939 --> 03:02:53.408 [Riv (DM)]: When you met with Talos in the, you know, under the keep with 03:02:53.388 --> 03:02:54.310 [Riv (DM)]: His daughter Valania. 03:02:54.630 --> 03:02:58.937 [Riv (DM)]: I had said that there was like a large map he's got up on the wall and you're like, what's on the map? 03:02:59.018 --> 03:02:59.779 [Riv (DM)]: And I was like, oh fuck. 03:03:00.821 --> 03:03:05.148 [Riv (DM)]: I have like a separate map to this with more stuff on it. 03:03:05.168 --> 03:03:13.141 [Riv (DM)]: These were just other cities that you had seen on the island that your current map wouldn't know about because that last one was like secret, elvish cities in the forest. 03:03:14.043 --> 03:03:16.667 [JC (Ryo)]: And the one that's in the sand is a city as well, isn't it? 03:03:16.868 --> 03:03:17.769 [Riv (DM)]: It's something, yeah. 03:03:18.450 --> 03:03:19.412 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's something, yeah. 03:03:19.780 --> 03:03:24.625 [Vael (Berberis)]: And the FF north of Darmouth, that was, we tried to walk towards a tower and we couldn't get to the tower. 03:03:24.845 --> 03:03:26.186 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it was a weird tower. 03:03:26.307 --> 03:03:27.568 [Vael (Berberis)]: Which we never followed up. 03:03:28.168 --> 03:03:28.329 Yeah. 03:03:30.491 --> 03:03:32.012 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, we never left the tower. 03:03:33.193 --> 03:03:34.995 [JC (Ryo)]: That's what's really going on here. 03:03:35.476 --> 03:03:37.298 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 03:03:37.318 --> 03:03:42.122 [JC (Ryo)]: And then we all wake up and we're still on the prison boat. 03:03:42.843 --> 03:03:43.824 [Riv (DM)]: I wouldn't do that to you. 03:03:43.844 --> 03:03:44.725 [Riv (DM)]: That'd be super dumb. 03:03:45.447 --> 03:03:49.393 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, that would be road trip to find Riv and beat him up in person. 03:03:49.413 --> 03:03:49.493 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 03:03:49.513 --> 03:03:50.895 [JC (Ryo)]: How could you do that after three years? 03:03:50.955 --> 03:03:53.759 [Vael (Berberis)]: So the old didn't sail into the west. 03:03:55.502 --> 03:03:56.243 [Vael (Berberis)]: Slightly disappointed. 03:04:00.869 --> 03:04:01.731 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy though. 03:04:01.791 --> 03:04:05.656 [Lacer (Kai)]: Rio has been holding that ring for three years. 03:04:06.197 --> 03:04:08.220 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean, in terms of our time. 03:04:10.483 --> 03:04:11.725 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:04:11.825 --> 03:04:13.007 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm trying to figure it out. 03:04:14.354 --> 03:04:20.181 [Vael (Berberis)]: I read a lot of fantasy, and whenever something comes up in your stories, I'm like, hmm, what series is he doing? 03:04:22.244 --> 03:04:23.666 [Vael (Berberis)]: I've already pinned you down on a couple. 03:04:24.066 --> 03:04:26.990 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the true answer is many, many. 03:04:27.170 --> 03:04:28.953 [Riv (DM)]: It's an amalgamation of many stories. 03:04:30.675 --> 03:04:37.223 [Vael (Berberis)]: I've never been able to find it, but it's the Thor, you know, Behold My Stuff meme. 03:04:37.692 --> 03:04:38.913 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:04:38.993 --> 03:04:41.816 [Vael (Berberis)]: But it's the DM saying, behold my homebrew and all the stuff. 03:04:42.056 --> 03:04:43.958 [Vael (Berberis)]: Just all these fucking fantasy shit. 03:04:43.978 --> 03:04:45.380 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep. 03:04:45.460 --> 03:04:46.621 [Riv (DM)]: It's Lord of the Rings. 03:04:46.701 --> 03:04:47.862 [Riv (DM)]: It's Wheels of Time. 03:04:48.343 --> 03:04:49.824 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:04:49.944 --> 03:04:50.805 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:04:51.105 --> 03:04:51.366 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:04:52.627 --> 03:04:53.027 [Riv (DM)]: That's cool. 03:04:54.189 --> 03:04:56.731 [Vael (Berberis)]: And she said they were based in Val Solis? 03:04:58.012 --> 03:04:59.314 [Vael (Berberis)]: Where are you based? 03:04:59.434 --> 03:05:01.636 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um, with the, the Speak With Dead. 03:05:01.656 --> 03:05:02.317 [Vael (Berberis)]: Was it Val Solis? 03:05:02.337 --> 03:05:03.598 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, Valfyria. 03:05:04.253 --> 03:05:06.156 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The mountains in the centre of the continent. 03:05:06.176 --> 03:05:07.298 [JC (Ryo)]: The mountains in the middle of the map, yeah. 03:05:07.318 --> 03:05:09.281 [Riv (DM)]: A few of you sharp-eyed people noticed it. 03:05:10.503 --> 03:05:12.206 [JC (Ryo)]: I started looking, I'm like, where the hell is it? 03:05:12.226 --> 03:05:16.392 [Riv (DM)]: I'm like, oh, there the fucking thing is. 03:05:16.412 --> 03:05:19.037 [Riv (DM)]: I think you guys would probably, like, your characters would all know about this. 03:05:19.137 --> 03:05:20.479 [Riv (DM)]: I'll tell you what, I'll bring you over to here. 03:05:20.539 --> 03:05:22.222 [Riv (DM)]: This might make it more obvious for you. 03:05:23.964 --> 03:05:24.245 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, a volcano. 03:05:24.265 --> 03:05:25.186 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep, that makes sense. 03:05:25.206 --> 03:05:26.969 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:05:27.009 --> 03:05:28.251 [Vael (Berberis)]: The giant evil volcano, gotcha. 03:05:28.592 --> 03:05:29.974 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yep. 03:05:33.751 --> 03:05:34.973 [Vael (Berberis)]: Care of the load. 03:05:37.857 --> 03:05:38.138 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, cool. 03:05:38.158 --> 03:05:41.042 [Lacer (Kai)]: Gonna need a journey to the volcano to destroy the ring. 03:05:42.845 --> 03:05:46.090 [Vael (Berberis)]: Now I'm immediately going, hmm, what series is that from? 03:05:47.872 --> 03:05:51.278 [Vael (Berberis)]: It wouldn't be full of underground prisons, would that volcano? 03:05:54.322 --> 03:05:55.424 [Riv (DM)]: You'll have to go and see. 03:05:58.008 --> 03:06:00.872 [Riv (DM)]: All the spirits of long-dead dragons. 03:06:01.898 --> 03:06:07.405 [Riv (DM)]: Tomb in their own pain. 03:06:08.065 --> 03:06:15.214 [Riv (DM)]: So sort of the timeline backstory of the world itself, did that all sort of click? 03:06:15.254 --> 03:06:16.436 [Riv (DM)]: That made sense? 03:06:18.358 --> 03:06:19.399 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:06:20.500 --> 03:06:21.221 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's pretty standard. 03:06:21.602 --> 03:06:23.424 [Vael (Berberis)]: Big evil bad got buried. 03:06:23.764 --> 03:06:24.666 [Vael (Berberis)]: Big evil bad coming back. 03:06:25.266 --> 03:06:27.649 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 03:06:27.669 --> 03:06:30.893 [Riv (DM)]: So kind of the key... 03:06:33.353 --> 03:06:33.847 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 03:06:37.049 --> 03:06:37.409 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 03:06:38.411 --> 03:06:43.416 [Riv (DM)]: It was kind of the key thing that, like, brought Chaos into the world, essentially. 03:06:43.657 --> 03:06:46.500 [Riv (DM)]: Shattering of the realms, um, magic. 03:06:46.600 --> 03:06:47.561 [Riv (DM)]: Conjunction of the speed. 03:06:48.302 --> 03:06:48.903 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, right. 03:06:49.223 --> 03:06:50.084 [Riv (DM)]: It's the same sort of idea. 03:06:50.104 --> 03:06:50.765 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What if you were to call it? 03:06:51.105 --> 03:06:52.087 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:06:52.107 --> 03:06:58.034 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and now, so she was essentially saying that she believes the agents of Chaos, i.e. 03:06:58.054 --> 03:07:00.016 [Riv (DM)]: the Chromatic Dragons, some of them survived. 03:07:00.737 --> 03:07:06.904 [Riv (DM)]: Um, she's familiar with Karazoth, um, apparently appear to be working to break it open again. 03:07:06.884 --> 03:07:16.379 [Riv (DM)]: But that sort of explains all of the ancient structures that you've seen throughout the world, right? 03:07:17.201 --> 03:07:27.137 [Riv (DM)]: Like the pillar in Lighthaven that's clearly thousands of years old, just remnants from the old world from thousands of years ago. 03:07:30.745 --> 03:07:37.613 [Vael (Berberis)]: The Lost Pillars are just Pillars of Stone, they're not skyscrapers that everyone just calls Pillars of Stone. 03:07:38.013 --> 03:07:39.275 [Vael (Berberis)]: Like in so many series. 03:07:39.655 --> 03:07:40.897 [Vael (Berberis)]: What's that, um, Shannara? 03:07:41.538 --> 03:07:42.038 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's all that. 03:07:44.621 --> 03:07:47.965 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know if you ever, have you read the Shannara series, Riv? 03:07:47.985 --> 03:07:48.766 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think so. 03:07:49.727 --> 03:07:50.588 [Riv (DM)]: Shannara. 03:07:50.608 --> 03:07:57.456 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's hilarious when you realise that the magical stones are literally just, like, D&D dice. 03:07:58.998 --> 03:07:59.098 Yeah. 03:07:59.720 --> 03:08:08.193 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, it's, you know, it's one of those post-apocalyptic fantasies where, you know, magic happens to the real world and it all goes to shit. 03:08:08.213 --> 03:08:09.155 [Vael (Berberis)]: And then they're running around. 03:08:10.537 --> 03:08:16.527 [Vael (Berberis)]: You don't, it's not explicitly told, but after a while you realise that it is actually, like, post-apocalyptic fantasy. 03:08:17.709 --> 03:08:20.092 [Riv (DM)]: This is the Terry Brooks one. 03:08:20.112 --> 03:08:21.795 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep. 03:08:22.349 --> 03:08:23.332 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's not great. 03:08:23.452 --> 03:08:24.775 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's good trophy fantasy. 03:08:24.916 --> 03:08:33.198 [Vael (Berberis)]: But yeah, it was hilarious once you actually read the description of the magical Elfstones and you're like, this is just like a D8, a D10, a D20. 03:08:33.218 --> 03:08:33.358 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:08:34.902 --> 03:08:35.484 [Riv (DM)]: Dude was a fan. 03:08:35.524 --> 03:08:37.269 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:08:37.289 --> 03:08:37.810 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's cool. 03:08:40.304 --> 03:08:40.625 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 03:08:41.947 --> 03:08:42.227 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 03:08:42.247 --> 03:08:42.828 [Riv (DM)]: There you go. 03:08:42.948 --> 03:08:43.970 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that was certainly a trip. 03:08:44.891 --> 03:08:45.332 [Riv (DM)]: But I love it. 03:08:45.933 --> 03:08:46.454 [Riv (DM)]: Keep doing that. 03:08:47.575 --> 03:08:48.056 [Riv (DM)]: Keep doing that. 03:08:48.417 --> 03:08:54.026 [Riv (DM)]: Whenever you guys push the story instead of me, putting train tracks in front of you, it makes me super happy. 03:08:54.246 --> 03:08:58.372 [Riv (DM)]: And also stressed because I have to, like, come up with... Dramble. 03:08:58.393 --> 03:08:59.394 [Riv (DM)]: I just have to, like, mix it up. 03:08:59.434 --> 03:09:00.376 [Riv (DM)]: But no, it's cool. 03:09:00.576 --> 03:09:00.896 [Riv (DM)]: It's fun. 03:09:01.177 --> 03:09:05.704 [Riv (DM)]: Because, like, you know, from where I am, like, I have... 03:09:05.684 --> 03:09:32.265 [Riv (DM)]: I've got my world notes and then I've got ideas about stuff I haven't like fleshed out and written properly but I've got a lot of ideas about roughly what things are and my thing is always like well I will flesh it out properly when we go there so I'm discovering this right now at the same time as you because while I might know roughly you know about the city I knew about the portal here and I knew that the ring activated the portal and maybe at some point if Rio happened to find someone who could tell him about it we would go there and discover it 03:09:32.245 --> 03:09:52.498 [Riv (DM)]: So I roughly knew that but you know I don't know all the details until we get here and actually look at it so yeah it's cool I think it's awesome fun for me as well yeah all right well oh well I might get off