--- > [!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.* --- 11:18.566 --> 11:20.687 [Riv (DM)]: Fantastic. 11:20.908 --> 11:24.310 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone got any opening words for the stream that we normally seem to have? 11:26.871 --> 11:27.952 [Riv (DM)]: Say a catchphrase Kiwi, do it. 11:30.874 --> 11:31.494 [JC (Ryo)]: Fireball! 11:31.854 --> 11:32.415 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, perfect. 11:33.435 --> 11:33.776 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 11:35.156 --> 11:38.999 [Riv (DM)]: Let's, I think we can probably get cracking straight into it with a 11:40.923 --> 11:42.384 [Riv (DM)]: Pretty short recap. 11:43.164 --> 11:46.946 [Riv (DM)]: The last session, we can kind of recap the last couple of sessions. 11:47.046 --> 11:51.969 [Riv (DM)]: So, you'd entered the city, Sumara. 11:52.389 --> 11:55.831 [Riv (DM)]: A bit of political happenings went on. 11:56.451 --> 12:04.015 [Riv (DM)]: You met Illithia, who is the current meridian of the Circle of the Weave, the magisters in the city. 12:05.675 --> 12:07.877 [Riv (DM)]: She has had some history with Ayana. 12:08.917 --> 12:10.499 [Riv (DM)]: And called the council. 12:11.240 --> 12:13.302 [Riv (DM)]: Council was mixed and conflicted. 12:13.422 --> 12:18.747 [Riv (DM)]: Many of them were very thrilled and excited to see that the Silmara bloodline had returned. 12:19.928 --> 12:21.570 [Riv (DM)]: A couple were not so much. 12:24.092 --> 12:35.098 [Riv (DM)]: Some were disbelieving entirely and it was suggested that the test would be to unlock the Vault of Memories, which only someone from the Royal Bloodline would be able to do. 12:35.778 --> 12:47.664 [Riv (DM)]: So you did so, opened the Vault and Lyanna suggested you go down to uncover knowledge, do your trials, test yourselves and 12:49.965 --> 12:50.326 [Riv (DM)]: Down you went. 12:51.106 --> 12:52.408 [Riv (DM)]: Had a bunch of stuff to do. 12:52.768 --> 12:57.394 [Riv (DM)]: There was some fights, there was some memories you encountered, or visions. 12:59.917 --> 13:03.902 [Riv (DM)]: There was a chamber you came to where there was a bit of a test of faith. 13:04.923 --> 13:06.345 [Riv (DM)]: Test your bonds between your allies. 13:08.107 --> 13:12.511 [Riv (DM)]: And eventually you've come to this ginormous chamber, vast beyond comprehension. 13:14.072 --> 13:26.902 [Riv (DM)]: The ceiling itself is hundreds of feet up and kind of you can as you look up there's almost like this silvery kind of glowing mist or energy that's just sort of spiraling around almost like clouds. 13:27.762 --> 13:33.227 [Riv (DM)]: Huge columns holding up the ceiling and just these ginormous statues kind of around in the 13:33.887 --> 13:39.312 [Riv (DM)]: The edges of the room in the corners, statues of ancient looking kings and queens. 13:39.893 --> 13:44.837 [Riv (DM)]: There's a large statue of a tree where the proportions just don't make any sense. 13:45.478 --> 13:49.501 [Riv (DM)]: And one of the statues you walked past, the eye blinked open. 13:50.526 --> 13:54.388 [Riv (DM)]: And you turn to see as it was actually not a statue. 13:54.609 --> 14:00.572 [Riv (DM)]: It was the head of a ginormous serpentine-like creature. 14:01.132 --> 14:03.934 [Riv (DM)]: The head is about the size of a house. 14:04.695 --> 14:10.658 [Riv (DM)]: The wingspan as it sort of like unfurls on either side, easily two or three hundred feet wide. 14:10.938 --> 14:14.780 [Riv (DM)]: This creature is immense and it just towers over you. 14:15.821 --> 14:16.882 [Riv (DM)]: Eyes looking down. 14:18.357 --> 14:23.207 [Riv (DM)]: And I will throw it to you, what do you do in the first instance as this creature unfurls before you? 14:25.961 --> 14:26.861 [Lacer (Kai)]: How close are we? 14:28.581 --> 14:31.102 [Riv (DM)]: I would say 40, 50 feet away. 14:32.382 --> 14:35.843 [Riv (DM)]: It's not across the other side of the room but you're not right up touching it. 14:36.343 --> 14:54.866 [Riv (DM)]: It's sort of like one of those things where if you imagine the camera is panned to the side and you guys are walking across the frame from right to left and just in the background behind you there's just this big statue of like a dragon's head and as you go past in front of its face just one of the eyes opens and the eye itself is as tall as you are. 14:55.586 --> 14:59.429 [Riv (DM)]: And then it just sort of picks itself up and wings unfurl and it looks down at you. 15:09.297 --> 15:12.380 [Riv (DM)]: What is your first thought or reaction there? 15:15.262 --> 15:15.843 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hello there. 15:20.486 --> 15:24.930 [Riv (DM)]: Let me... Let me give you a little bit of a visual. 15:27.183 --> 15:28.383 [Riv (DM)]: You can get a feel for the scale. 15:30.004 --> 15:30.604 [Riv (DM)]: Oh shit. 15:31.865 --> 15:32.925 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar calls out hello. 15:33.585 --> 15:38.507 [Riv (DM)]: You see these big like glowing silvery eyes just like take you in. 15:39.047 --> 15:40.067 [Riv (DM)]: It looks around at you. 15:41.528 --> 15:42.448 [Riv (DM)]: Sniffs at the air a bit. 15:43.649 --> 15:44.569 [Riv (DM)]: And it speaks. 15:44.929 --> 15:49.911 [Riv (DM)]: The voice comes through rolling and rumbling, almost echoing and shaking the entire chamber. 15:50.791 --> 15:52.972 [Riv (DM)]: Little mice in my hole. 15:55.573 --> 15:59.734 [Riv (DM)]: It has been a long time and I am so hungry. 16:00.234 --> 16:03.095 [Riv (DM)]: And it's like head comes down towards you, it's mouth opening a bit. 16:04.355 --> 16:08.337 [Riv (DM)]: This sort of like smoky energy start to pour out of its mouth. 16:10.437 --> 16:10.837 [Riv (DM)]: What do you do? 16:16.839 --> 16:18.779 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think mice are going to be much of a meal. 16:22.620 --> 16:24.641 [Riv (DM)]: His head like stops right in front of you all. 16:26.367 --> 16:27.507 [Riv (DM)]: And he just, like, sniffs again. 16:30.028 --> 16:31.609 [Riv (DM)]: You hear a bit of a, like, rolling chuckle. 16:34.370 --> 16:35.150 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, good. 16:36.550 --> 16:36.931 [Riv (DM)]: Good. 16:39.271 --> 16:40.272 [Riv (DM)]: Not fickle creatures. 16:41.312 --> 16:42.012 [Riv (DM)]: And what's this? 16:43.133 --> 16:45.333 [Riv (DM)]: I smell the blood of Silmara. 16:46.754 --> 16:48.034 [Riv (DM)]: You see, and he, like, sniffs again. 16:48.754 --> 16:49.075 [Riv (DM)]: No. 16:50.695 --> 16:51.876 [Riv (DM)]: There are two of them. 16:53.296 --> 16:53.836 [Riv (DM)]: Mmm. 16:54.456 --> 16:55.957 [Riv (DM)]: This was unforeseen. 16:58.578 --> 17:03.397 [Riv (DM)]: Big like claw comes forward crashes on the ground as he like sort of starts to stand up. 17:04.772 --> 17:29.744 [Riv (DM)]: And then kind of like rises himself up into full height almost like he's stretching his wings out and as he lifts up you kind of see so as you see from the image um silvery metallic scales big like glowing silver eyes um it's a single one of its tooth would be the size of you um it's its hand its claw would just be able to swat a house away as if it were nothing um 17:31.538 --> 17:54.287 [Riv (DM)]: As he sort of stretches himself up into full height um you can see there's this big black symbol um like a big circular symbol on his chest it almost seems to be like burned in and there are these like tendrils sort of like lightning scars that sort of um come out from the central circle area um black as night sort of like stretches a bit and 17:56.007 --> 18:19.369 [Riv (DM)]: This sort of silvery misty glow starts to encircle him and almost like a cloud passing through the room he becomes obscured and after a few moments the cloud starts to coalesce where it like circles almost like a mini tornado and standing in front of you is what appears to be a 18:20.841 --> 18:22.045 [Riv (DM)]: Human-sized person. 18:23.128 --> 18:26.057 [Riv (DM)]: He's shrinking down into his... 18:27.122 --> 18:32.266 [Riv (DM)]: Into his humanoid form you can see an ancient looking old man. 18:33.326 --> 18:36.609 [Riv (DM)]: Elven ears pointing out through his long long silvery hair. 18:37.329 --> 18:40.352 [Riv (DM)]: Massive beard that goes all the way down his front. 18:41.612 --> 18:45.135 [Riv (DM)]: Eyes are still glowing silver as he's sort of like looking between all of you. 18:45.896 --> 18:47.537 [Riv (DM)]: And his eyebrows super long as well. 18:48.417 --> 18:50.419 [Riv (DM)]: He looks almost frail in this form. 18:52.020 --> 18:54.181 [Riv (DM)]: Still sort of dense muscles and... 18:55.062 --> 19:08.866 [Riv (DM)]: Clearly strengthened with age but he is leaning heavily on a gnarled wooden staff and the silver robes that he's wearing sort of parted up at his chest and you can see that same black mark has burned into his chest here as well. 19:11.547 --> 19:15.768 [Riv (DM)]: And he looks around at you and says, welcome, welcome to the vault. 19:19.333 --> 19:21.974 [Riv (DM)]: Forgive my rudeness before. 19:22.375 --> 19:24.236 [Riv (DM)]: I thought it would be funny to give you a bit of a fright. 19:25.676 --> 19:26.477 [Riv (DM)]: I meant nothing of it. 19:26.497 --> 19:27.277 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can say that again. 19:28.338 --> 19:28.658 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 19:29.378 --> 19:31.539 [Riv (DM)]: It's been a long time since I've seen any mortals. 19:34.781 --> 19:36.402 [Riv (DM)]: Or had any conversation at all, for that matter. 19:38.843 --> 19:42.145 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I presume that you have many questions. 19:45.506 --> 19:50.210 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, but first, how might we address you, oh wise one? 19:53.592 --> 19:54.893 [Riv (DM)]: You need not call me wise one. 19:57.535 --> 19:59.237 [Riv (DM)]: My name is Praetor Varanus. 20:02.639 --> 20:09.204 [Riv (DM)]: Before we get into this in any sort of more depth or detail, please follow me. 20:10.566 --> 20:13.588 [Riv (DM)]: I have something I need from you as well. 20:15.111 --> 20:17.996 [Riv (DM)]: And he turns and starts to get deeper into the chamber. 20:20.460 --> 20:21.422 [Riv (DM)]: Will you follow him? 20:23.185 --> 20:24.206 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's no choice. 20:24.786 --> 20:27.588 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can just poof back into a giant dragon and squish us. 20:29.529 --> 20:29.809 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 20:31.010 --> 20:31.590 [Riv (DM)]: You can follow him along. 20:31.910 --> 20:33.131 [Riv (DM)]: He doesn't lead you for too far. 20:33.231 --> 20:35.072 [Riv (DM)]: Just kind of deeper into this chamber. 20:35.893 --> 20:42.477 [Riv (DM)]: To an area where there is a much wider open section of the stone between some of the columns. 20:42.997 --> 20:45.179 [Riv (DM)]: And he stops here and kind of like looks around. 20:46.159 --> 20:46.720 [Riv (DM)]: Looks up a bit. 20:47.640 --> 20:48.341 [Riv (DM)]: Nods to himself. 20:49.081 --> 21:17.359 [Riv (DM)]: Grabs his staff and just like slams it two times on the floor and steps back and you hear this grinding sound like rumbling as the stone itself starts to lift up and this dais sort of like a large maybe 30 by 30 foot section of stone just pops up a foot or so and even in the center of the stone another large dish starts to form as well and within the dish you can kind of see this like swirling silvery liquid 21:20.454 --> 21:21.054 [Riv (DM)]: Step forward. 21:21.674 --> 21:25.035 [Riv (DM)]: I wish to see the paths of fate that led you here. 21:26.375 --> 21:26.575 [Riv (DM)]: Come. 21:27.015 --> 21:28.436 [Riv (DM)]: Any sort of like gestures for you to step up? 21:30.096 --> 21:32.637 [Riv (DM)]: Memory is unreliable, especially mine. 21:33.337 --> 21:35.737 [Riv (DM)]: Though I have time to learn its shape. 21:36.237 --> 21:39.198 [Riv (DM)]: To pass it, we must first uncover the falsities. 21:39.958 --> 21:40.818 [Riv (DM)]: Show me what you have done. 21:41.319 --> 21:43.819 [Riv (DM)]: I will see, and together we shall both see. 21:46.680 --> 21:48.020 [Riv (DM)]: And if you step up, 21:50.175 --> 21:52.216 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you mean all of us or just one of us? 21:52.696 --> 21:54.217 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think he's sort of gesturing for all of you. 21:54.417 --> 21:57.498 [Riv (DM)]: He's just standing, he's up on the dais now and he's standing to the side of the dish. 22:01.860 --> 22:03.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, wait, this is like Harry Potter. 22:06.922 --> 22:09.023 [Vael (Berberis)]: Never call the DM on his stolen lore. 22:13.104 --> 22:14.085 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What are you talking about? 22:14.245 --> 22:18.347 [Riv (DM)]: You see his like crinkled black hand and a dark ring on his finger? 22:18.487 --> 22:18.827 [Riv (DM)]: No. 22:24.452 --> 22:35.797 [Riv (DM)]: You step up onto the dais and you see visions start to play out on the surface of the liquid that's sort of pooling and swirling in here. 22:38.102 --> 22:44.084 [Riv (DM)]: It kind of reminds you of the visions you saw as you're heading down into the vault the first time in that large sort of spiral circular chamber. 22:45.124 --> 22:49.865 [Riv (DM)]: Lots of flashing, different chaotic things you can't really quite keep up with. 22:49.965 --> 22:53.166 [Riv (DM)]: But one starts to materialize as you look down there. 22:53.687 --> 23:01.049 [Riv (DM)]: Large massive trees and there's a small little home carved of like wood planks. 23:01.169 --> 23:01.749 [Riv (DM)]: It's sort of 23:03.049 --> 23:09.535 [Riv (DM)]: Not super well put together, like it's been sort of modified over time and fixed up and fixed again. 23:10.636 --> 23:17.642 [Riv (DM)]: And as you kind of look more closely at this vision, it's almost like you become immersed there. 23:17.662 --> 23:22.907 [Riv (DM)]: You're no longer just staring down into a dish, you're almost like standing in the wooden house itself. 23:25.242 --> 23:27.263 [Riv (DM)]: Rio, you immediately recognize this. 23:28.203 --> 23:30.504 [Riv (DM)]: This was the home that you grew up in, in the Darkwood. 23:31.245 --> 23:41.249 [Riv (DM)]: You see this tiny tiny little bed that you slept in and you can tell by the size of the bed that this current point in time was when you were a young child. 23:44.990 --> 23:49.412 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything that you would imagine that this house would hold? 23:50.152 --> 23:54.114 [Riv (DM)]: Since it's your backstory, feel free to describe any part of it that you think would be there. 23:57.433 --> 23:58.913 [JC (Ryo)]: The one I grew up in in the Darkwood. 23:59.254 --> 23:59.454 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 24:09.877 --> 24:11.997 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, I've got something else screaming in my ears. 24:12.057 --> 24:13.198 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm waiting for it to shut up. 24:14.478 --> 24:18.639 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay, so it's a small room. 24:19.860 --> 24:20.840 [JC (Ryo)]: It's a mess. 24:22.627 --> 24:24.869 [JC (Ryo)]: All sorts of random stuff all over the place. 24:25.229 --> 24:39.759 [JC (Ryo)]: There's tools and attempts at skinning animals and drying out leather and all that type of stuff. 24:39.940 --> 24:45.944 [JC (Ryo)]: It is actually a little home in a treehouse. 24:46.744 --> 24:48.326 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 24:48.386 --> 24:49.807 [JC (Ryo)]: Very high up in the Darkwood. 24:51.946 --> 24:54.547 [JC (Ryo)]: But yeah, it's just straight up mess, just stuff everywhere. 24:55.267 --> 24:56.208 [JC (Ryo)]: Kid that doesn't clean up. 24:58.469 --> 24:59.269 [Lacer (Kai)]: It doesn't have to. 24:59.489 --> 25:01.070 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's no one to look after. 25:02.590 --> 25:12.875 [Riv (DM)]: And as Kratos Varanus had said earlier, that memory is unreliable and to correctly pass it you must find the falsities. 25:13.355 --> 25:14.875 [Riv (DM)]: There's something wrong with the vision. 25:16.536 --> 25:17.797 [Riv (DM)]: There's something out of place. 25:18.037 --> 25:18.997 [Riv (DM)]: What do you think that might be? 25:19.977 --> 25:21.158 [Riv (DM)]: Feel free to come up with anything. 25:26.297 --> 25:34.222 [Riv (DM)]: Like it could be as simple as there's a desk at the window but that desk wasn't there or you have a massive shield on the wall but it wasn't there either or something like that. 25:35.663 --> 25:37.284 [Lacer (Kai)]: There was a sock underneath the bed. 25:37.304 --> 25:54.976 [JC (Ryo)]: The windows and the doors are all open. 25:55.966 --> 25:57.367 [Riv (DM)]: Never left them open. 25:57.707 --> 25:59.248 [Riv (DM)]: So you always made sure to keep them closed. 26:00.329 --> 26:01.110 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, actually, no. 26:02.551 --> 26:03.732 [JC (Ryo)]: There's actually a window there. 26:04.252 --> 26:05.133 [JC (Ryo)]: There was never a window. 26:05.153 --> 26:06.394 [JC (Ryo)]: I didn't want any light to get out. 26:06.634 --> 26:06.814 [JC (Ryo)]: Right. 26:07.354 --> 26:07.494 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 26:08.235 --> 26:08.455 [Riv (DM)]: Great. 26:08.475 --> 26:10.317 [Riv (DM)]: So, yeah, so you can see out through the window now. 26:10.897 --> 26:15.720 [Riv (DM)]: You're tall up amongst the canopies and you can see down into the wood and there's a small creature darts by. 26:15.781 --> 26:19.123 [Riv (DM)]: But clearly this is wrong because there were no windows where Ryo grew up. 26:21.228 --> 26:21.928 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright, excellent. 26:22.028 --> 26:32.395 [Riv (DM)]: And as you sort of notice this falsity, you see the old wizened man off to the side just kind of nods with approval. 26:33.335 --> 26:34.656 [Riv (DM)]: And the vision shifts and changes. 26:34.676 --> 26:40.439 [Riv (DM)]: There's a village now, deep, deep within the Whispering Woods. 26:40.499 --> 26:41.760 [Riv (DM)]: Only one of you recognises it. 26:43.132 --> 26:45.176 [Riv (DM)]: Erendil, you're five years old and you wake up. 26:45.616 --> 26:47.800 [Riv (DM)]: You crawl out of bed looking for your mother and your father. 26:48.481 --> 26:50.505 [Riv (DM)]: Your father is frantic in the next room. 26:51.146 --> 26:52.829 [Riv (DM)]: He's calling out. 26:54.071 --> 26:54.813 [Riv (DM)]: Your mother is missing. 26:56.068 --> 26:57.810 [Riv (DM)]: You're a little bit confused at five years old. 26:57.830 --> 26:59.131 [Riv (DM)]: You're not quite sure what's going on. 26:59.151 --> 27:02.214 [Riv (DM)]: Is she just late coming back from an early morning walk or something? 27:03.795 --> 27:07.038 [Riv (DM)]: Your father leads you out onto the street and there's a bit of a commotion going on out there. 27:07.479 --> 27:21.211 [Riv (DM)]: Other concerned villagers, the dense, dense woods that you're so familiar with from the Whispering Woods here, almost seem to be pressing in and suffocating you now as your realization that something horrible has happened starts to dawn upon you. 27:23.032 --> 27:27.414 [Riv (DM)]: What's the falsity, do you think, that Erendor sees here that doesn't seem right? 27:35.678 --> 27:36.819 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: There's too many people. 27:38.820 --> 27:41.061 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: There were never this many houses around us. 27:43.362 --> 27:45.123 [Riv (DM)]: We stayed a bit more isolated than this. 27:45.643 --> 27:45.923 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Right. 27:48.100 --> 27:52.742 [Riv (DM)]: So okay cool so was the your family sort of stayed outside of the village maybe a bit more? 27:53.722 --> 27:56.484 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah towards the outskirts of the village. 27:56.944 --> 28:06.068 [Riv (DM)]: Okay no people and would there have been any indication at all of what had happened to your mother or was she just gone with no tracks? 28:14.131 --> 28:14.751 [Riv (DM)]: Simply gone. 28:16.212 --> 28:16.472 [Riv (DM)]: Great. 28:18.084 --> 28:23.849 [Riv (DM)]: The vision shifts and turns again and the dragon smiles once more. 28:27.552 --> 28:28.152 [Riv (DM)]: You're on a boat. 28:28.933 --> 28:29.894 [Riv (DM)]: All of you recognize this. 28:31.952 --> 28:37.558 [Riv (DM)]: You are yourselves trapped within jail cells, the bars pressing in upon you. 28:38.559 --> 28:53.835 [Riv (DM)]: There's a man sitting at the far end of this under-deck cabin, sitting with his back against the wall, sitting in a chair just watching you all, holding a large spear, big red cloak, Hand of the Empire. 28:54.775 --> 28:59.237 [Riv (DM)]: And a woman, also in the regalia of the hands, walks past you. 28:59.597 --> 29:01.757 [Riv (DM)]: You can see a dog off to the side, panting. 29:03.098 --> 29:09.160 [Riv (DM)]: You see Neros for the first time in a long time that you guys can remember, also with you in the cell. 29:10.300 --> 29:18.063 [Riv (DM)]: Over to the side, just as the woman starts to head up the steps to the top deck, you hear Berendor's just... 29:19.103 --> 29:24.865 [Riv (DM)]: Doing something, like he's up against the back of the wall, pulling at something or scratching at something. 29:25.326 --> 29:38.791 [Riv (DM)]: The large and loud storm rocking outside shakes you a little bit from your feet and the big cracks of lightning blast and almost like light up there, the underground here, the under cabin here, through the windows. 29:39.591 --> 29:40.592 [Riv (DM)]: The man at the back of the room 29:41.952 --> 29:45.055 [Riv (DM)]: Um, gets up and heads out to leave as well. 29:45.675 --> 30:02.750 [Riv (DM)]: There's a big crack of lightning and after a moment, hearing, you know, shouts and screams from up on top, um, the woman, Hand of the Empire, came crashing and tumbling down the steps to lay in front of you, um, in between each of your jail cells. 30:04.427 --> 30:07.569 [Riv (DM)]: This was the first time, this was the beginning of the campaign. 30:07.729 --> 30:12.793 [Riv (DM)]: This was the prisoner ship that was taking you down south to Darmouth. 30:13.413 --> 30:14.334 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with this vision? 30:19.498 --> 30:20.939 [JC (Ryo)]: If my memory's any good, two things. 30:25.122 --> 30:27.663 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, there was no, Berbera shouldn't be there. 30:29.665 --> 30:32.807 [JC (Ryo)]: And one of them was a hidden, a hidden hand. 30:33.848 --> 30:34.068 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hmm. 30:35.605 --> 30:39.254 [JC (Ryo)]: Only the guy, only the one that was walking around we knew was a hand. 30:39.294 --> 30:42.722 [JC (Ryo)]: The one that was in the shadows, we didn't know who, they were hidden. 30:43.624 --> 30:43.825 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 30:45.063 --> 30:46.643 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't remember a dog either. 30:47.363 --> 30:47.984 [JC (Ryo)]: I remember the dog. 30:48.324 --> 30:50.284 [Riv (DM)]: I remember the dog. 30:50.744 --> 30:50.924 [Riv (DM)]: Good. 30:51.024 --> 30:51.464 [Riv (DM)]: Dammit. 30:51.484 --> 30:52.184 [Riv (DM)]: Can't forget the dog. 30:53.105 --> 30:55.105 [Riv (DM)]: We'll sort of hand wave the Berberus thing. 30:55.745 --> 31:00.986 [Riv (DM)]: You recognize Valoran with you in this prison cell, and Berberus is with you because he is here viewing the vision as well. 31:01.926 --> 31:07.827 [Riv (DM)]: But he's not, you know, you can tell he's an observer of the vision rather than necessarily being a part of it. 31:08.227 --> 31:10.288 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, I think you're mostly correct. 31:11.308 --> 31:11.828 [Riv (DM)]: The woman... 31:12.728 --> 31:41.492 [Riv (DM)]: um was the outlier here um she in that first session she was actually dressed up in the regalia of the hand but you're right to identify that she wasn't actually hand of the empire she was something else um as you later found out um she was an eye of the empire an assassin um and she was not the one that was struck by lightning was she because she no it was it was a guy i remember as a guy because we tried to get out a rope or a belt to hook around the the shoulder bit 31:42.204 --> 31:42.385 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 31:43.287 --> 31:45.092 [Lacer (Kai)]: To pull them in, to grab the key. 31:45.253 --> 31:45.594 [Riv (DM)]: That's right. 31:47.075 --> 31:47.675 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, excellent. 31:48.036 --> 31:49.517 [Riv (DM)]: The vision shifts and turns again. 31:50.197 --> 31:55.081 [Riv (DM)]: You're down deep underground in a temple, in a cave now? 31:55.762 --> 32:00.345 [Riv (DM)]: And you come through a chamber and there are a couple of dead goblins. 32:00.846 --> 32:05.870 [Riv (DM)]: And you can see a young girl, kind of small in stature, with kind of dark muddy hair. 32:06.530 --> 32:14.737 [Riv (DM)]: She's got a big chain around her neck tied to a post and she's got a dagger and she's just stabbing a goblin dead on the ground as you enter the cave. 32:16.039 --> 32:22.326 [Riv (DM)]: This is the girl you recognise as Nia, who later turned out to be Vallania Miriel, daughter of Tarlis Miriel. 32:23.967 --> 32:24.688 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with this vision? 32:27.251 --> 32:28.151 [Riv (DM)]: She was captured. 32:30.234 --> 32:31.315 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she was barely alive. 32:31.795 --> 32:32.536 [Riv (DM)]: Or barely breathing. 32:33.156 --> 32:33.497 [Riv (DM)]: That's right. 32:34.017 --> 32:35.159 [Riv (DM)]: She was in a cage. 32:35.599 --> 32:36.119 [Riv (DM)]: He was not. 32:36.640 --> 32:39.423 [Riv (DM)]: He was not in any state to be fighting the goblins. 32:40.895 --> 32:41.596 [Riv (DM)]: Vision shifts again. 32:42.236 --> 32:43.157 [Riv (DM)]: You're outside. 32:43.477 --> 32:46.380 [Riv (DM)]: The nice autumn leaves are sort of falling. 32:46.820 --> 32:48.602 [Riv (DM)]: There's a goblin in front of you. 32:49.803 --> 32:50.984 [Riv (DM)]: Lenny the Goblin. 32:52.425 --> 32:59.432 [Riv (DM)]: He cut his bonds and he runs off into the woods after vowing never to harm people again. 32:59.792 --> 33:00.493 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with this vision? 33:03.976 --> 33:04.636 [Lacer (Kai)]: Someone's missing. 33:06.298 --> 33:07.559 [Riv (DM)]: You do get the feeling someone's missing. 33:10.741 --> 33:19.924 [Riv (DM)]: I can't remember her name. 33:20.284 --> 33:20.784 [Lacer (Kai)]: Should I say? 33:20.804 --> 33:28.106 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does anyone else have the notes? 33:28.286 --> 33:34.428 [Lacer (Kai)]: There was another goblin, female goblin that we captured, it was Ellie the female goblin. 33:34.448 --> 33:36.449 [Riv (DM)]: That's right, Ellie the female goblin. 33:37.449 --> 33:40.390 [Riv (DM)]: Ellie and Lenny, together, both ran out into the woods. 33:42.168 --> 33:44.790 [Riv (DM)]: You're in a dark, dark cavern beneath Tumbler's Crag. 33:44.970 --> 33:53.415 [Riv (DM)]: There's a fully grown skeleton highlighted in the moon that's sort of piercing down through the cracks of the top of the cave and there's a silver locket clutched in the hand. 33:54.896 --> 34:06.584 [Riv (DM)]: A ghost manifests behind you screaming in rage pouring from her right before the instant that a psychic whale will drop several of you to the ground. 34:06.904 --> 34:07.625 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with this vision? 34:16.303 --> 34:18.284 [Riv (DM)]: Feel free to ask questions as well if you want. 34:19.325 --> 34:22.386 [Riv (DM)]: I remember the fight, I don't remember the part leading up to it. 34:26.188 --> 34:28.890 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, this is the Potheret Carry quest. 34:30.531 --> 34:31.251 [Lacer (Kai)]: Was it a locket? 34:31.932 --> 34:33.172 [Vael (Berberis)]: It was a ring, not a locket. 34:33.993 --> 34:39.216 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought it was a locket, the one that Erendor Mage had to push Shub away. 34:39.816 --> 34:40.576 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it might have been. 34:40.837 --> 34:41.677 [Riv (DM)]: It was a locket, yep. 34:42.561 --> 34:44.362 [Lacer (Kai)]: This was Salla the Brave. 34:44.382 --> 34:45.302 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's right. 34:46.542 --> 34:51.704 [Lacer (Kai)]: But I remember it was, this was in Tumbler's Crag. 34:54.025 --> 34:55.625 [Lacer (Kai)]: And her sister was like this old lady. 34:55.685 --> 34:57.486 [Lacer (Kai)]: That was Tara or Tara. 34:57.786 --> 35:09.510 [Lacer (Kai)]: We were meant to save the wife of the apothecary that was found in the same crevasse or whatever thing was. 35:09.790 --> 35:09.970 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 35:18.235 --> 35:22.480 [Lacer (Kai)]: But I do remember those shades that spawned as well during the outfight. 35:23.081 --> 35:26.726 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, poison that melted stuff. 35:26.746 --> 35:28.869 [Riv (DM)]: Feel free to roll an investigation check if you like. 35:28.929 --> 35:29.810 [Riv (DM)]: I'll see what I can give you. 35:36.178 --> 35:36.298 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 35:38.528 --> 35:40.270 [Lacer (Kai)]: I remember mushrooms. 35:40.350 --> 35:41.430 [Lacer (Kai)]: I remember mushrooms. 35:42.071 --> 35:42.331 [Riv (DM)]: Mr. 35:42.351 --> 35:43.412 [Riv (DM)]: Reliable Talent over here. 35:44.993 --> 35:45.874 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 35:46.295 --> 35:46.955 [Riv (DM)]: The skeleton. 35:46.975 --> 35:48.957 [Riv (DM)]: There's something wrong with the skeleton. 35:51.259 --> 35:52.820 [Riv (DM)]: You go and, you know, kind of look over. 35:54.942 --> 35:57.964 [Riv (DM)]: Fully grown adult skeleton lying highlighted in the moon. 35:58.825 --> 35:59.946 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, she was a little child. 36:00.647 --> 36:01.387 [Riv (DM)]: That's right. 36:01.447 --> 36:04.210 [Riv (DM)]: Erundor wanders over and kneels down by the skeleton and... 36:06.666 --> 36:08.027 [Riv (DM)]: Berberis? 36:08.628 --> 36:09.428 [Riv (DM)]: Berberis? 36:09.468 --> 36:10.109 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Maybe Valoran? 36:10.169 --> 36:11.650 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 36:11.690 --> 36:18.036 [Riv (DM)]: Yes, Salla was a child when she died, as Tara Lee, you know, her sister had went missing. 36:23.500 --> 36:32.288 [Riv (DM)]: The loud crumbling and crashing of stones falls behind you as Skyreach is burning and collapsing to the ground. 36:34.387 --> 36:43.913 [Riv (DM)]: Barrack lies at your feet on death's door bleeding out and a hand of the empire lies defeated once thought immortal and undefeatable. 36:44.513 --> 36:47.996 [Riv (DM)]: There's a rusty nail driven into his chest. 36:51.878 --> 36:52.759 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with this vision? 36:54.540 --> 36:55.720 [Riv (DM)]: It wasn't in his chest. 36:57.482 --> 36:57.862 [Riv (DM)]: Where was it? 36:58.963 --> 36:59.583 [Riv (DM)]: His forehead. 36:59.763 --> 37:01.244 [Riv (DM)]: That's right, very good. 37:02.366 --> 37:04.873 [JC (Ryo)]: I was going to say Barrack was technically dead, but... 37:05.053 --> 37:08.682 [Riv (DM)]: He was dead, yeah. 37:08.802 --> 37:10.968 [Riv (DM)]: You did some bullshittery to bring him back to life. 37:13.052 --> 37:19.453 [Riv (DM)]: You're creaking, you're sort of swaying from side to side and you hear creaking and moaning of a wagon. 37:20.674 --> 37:24.595 [Riv (DM)]: Nice cool breeze from outside, you can smell the salt on the air of the ocean. 37:26.395 --> 37:33.997 [Riv (DM)]: There's a young girl in here with you, dark black hair, she's short, small in stature, got a little cloak pulled around her for the warmth as the winter is coming. 37:35.257 --> 37:39.938 [Riv (DM)]: Erendor, you feel a little hand slip into your pockets and pull something out. 37:40.818 --> 37:43.019 [Riv (DM)]: You obviously, as an expert thief, 37:44.499 --> 37:46.780 [Riv (DM)]: Notice and see that she pulls a bag of gold from your pocket. 37:54.842 --> 37:56.923 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: She took the dagger, not the gold. 37:58.583 --> 37:59.503 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That's right, very good. 37:59.743 --> 38:00.644 [Lacer (Kai)]: Didn't you give it to her? 38:00.704 --> 38:02.084 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought you actually gave it to her. 38:02.104 --> 38:03.705 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Originally, she took it originally. 38:05.305 --> 38:06.205 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Or tried to at least. 38:08.166 --> 38:09.886 [Lacer (Kai)]: This is little Lia, right? 38:10.226 --> 38:10.706 [Riv (DM)]: It's Lia. 38:10.726 --> 38:12.687 [Riv (DM)]: I wonder what she's up to. 38:16.492 --> 38:23.135 [Vael (Berberis)]: Last we heard, she was involved in a major fucking document heist that set a city afire. 38:23.555 --> 38:24.236 [Lacer (Kai)]: That is right. 38:25.176 --> 38:27.938 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, and went to martial law. 38:28.298 --> 38:30.039 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, she was in trouble. 38:30.119 --> 38:30.799 [Riv (DM)]: She was a bad girl. 38:32.840 --> 38:37.422 [Riv (DM)]: It's cold, it's dark, the woods are dense and they're pressing in around you. 38:38.583 --> 38:39.063 [Riv (DM)]: You... 38:40.859 --> 38:47.501 [Riv (DM)]: Creep through the stones of this old ruin and you come upon what you're looking for. 38:48.101 --> 38:48.621 [Riv (DM)]: Campsite. 38:49.201 --> 38:58.343 [Riv (DM)]: You can see the Finegold sitting around the campsite, clearly bound or held captive. 38:59.164 --> 39:04.325 [Riv (DM)]: And Harland Finegold propped up against the stone dagger in his chest. 39:10.096 --> 39:12.300 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, I wasn't there, but I had this one. 39:12.601 --> 39:13.182 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, go for it, man. 39:13.743 --> 39:14.204 [Riv (DM)]: Say again? 39:14.545 --> 39:17.009 [Vael (Berberis)]: We didn't find... We found his body by digging. 39:17.987 --> 39:20.689 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, that's the body that Harland was in the ground. 39:20.730 --> 39:23.952 [Vael (Berberis)]: The body was in the field, not propped up from memory. 39:23.972 --> 39:29.718 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, we don't know this because she could have killed him and left him there to die out and then buried him later on. 39:29.798 --> 39:32.180 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're not remembering what happened, we're remembering what was. 39:32.200 --> 39:33.641 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, this is our memories. 39:34.001 --> 39:34.882 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, it's our memories. 39:34.902 --> 39:35.943 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, we found him in the ground. 39:35.963 --> 39:39.126 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, this is the one you stabbed Rio in the night. 39:40.247 --> 39:41.288 [Lacer (Kai)]: You stabbed his body. 39:43.054 --> 39:55.856 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, his throat had been slit and he had clearly been tortured and buried away from the campsite so as to not attract the dangers of the woods, the creatures to the campsite. 39:58.427 --> 40:00.588 [Riv (DM)]: You're in a dark room with no windows. 40:01.409 --> 40:03.349 [Riv (DM)]: There are some candles lit. 40:03.390 --> 40:06.731 [Riv (DM)]: There is a large wall with a big map of the continent spread across it. 40:07.412 --> 40:14.595 [Riv (DM)]: And Vallania Miriel is with you, sitting here, just tapping her feet, looking slightly anxious as she has brought you here underneath the keep of Val Miriel. 40:15.396 --> 40:24.580 [Riv (DM)]: You hear footsteps approaching, many footsteps, and the door opens and Tarlis Miriel enters flanked on either side by two guards of the Miriel keep. 40:25.220 --> 40:28.102 [Riv (DM)]: And he's looking angry and frustrated with his daughter. 40:30.439 --> 40:31.099 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with this vision? 40:34.521 --> 40:35.801 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you remember the two guards? 40:35.921 --> 40:37.662 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't remember guards with him. 40:38.502 --> 40:38.662 [Riv (DM)]: Nope. 40:40.823 --> 40:41.704 [Riv (DM)]: That's right, no guards. 40:42.324 --> 40:44.425 [Riv (DM)]: The two guards vanish and the vision changes. 40:46.656 --> 40:56.744 [Riv (DM)]: You're in the River's Watch tavern, looking out in a nice early morning, looking out across at the river itself, of the Luminor River, I guess, that bisects the city of Val Miriel. 40:58.386 --> 41:12.937 [Riv (DM)]: Gemma Finegold is standing at the window in dark black clothing, in mourning from her father having been recently passed, and she's chatting to Valoran, telling him that 41:14.368 --> 41:23.733 [Riv (DM)]: Korvas, which is the name that Valoran had been searching for, was in fact a well-regarded, well-known general from the northern city of Val Noren. 41:26.055 --> 41:26.935 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with this scene? 41:38.141 --> 41:40.923 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know if she wore black, but maybe... Hmm... 41:44.621 --> 41:44.941 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh... 41:47.422 --> 41:48.883 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know if she knew... 41:48.903 --> 41:53.125 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think she was looking into the name. 41:53.225 --> 41:54.805 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think she knew the name. 41:55.185 --> 41:55.646 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 41:57.486 --> 41:59.507 [Riv (DM)]: This is a tricky one, and I'll give it to you as a freebie. 42:01.308 --> 42:10.352 [Riv (DM)]: Valania, ah sorry, Gemma and Valoran never had this conversation because I accidentally spoiled it when I was doing a recap from the previous session for something that didn't happen. 42:14.413 --> 42:18.196 [Riv (DM)]: So, moving on from that one, it was an imaginary conversation. 42:18.576 --> 42:22.218 [Riv (DM)]: I think we hand waved it and said that, well, you had the conversation that morning or something. 42:22.438 --> 42:23.579 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, good times. 42:24.599 --> 42:32.764 [Riv (DM)]: Serenity Plaza, the marketplace, lots of people in the corners with their own little stalls and stands set up. 42:34.119 --> 42:43.643 [Riv (DM)]: Big group of soldiers come walking through harassing the people in the markets, knocking over chests and um yeah harassing the market keepers. 42:44.664 --> 42:51.246 [Riv (DM)]: Massive fire explosion bursts right in the middle of the soldiers, several of them go up in flames, two fire elementals start wreaking havoc. 42:51.767 --> 42:52.607 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with this vision? 42:54.708 --> 42:55.328 [Riv (DM)]: It was only one. 42:55.348 --> 42:59.430 [Riv (DM)]: I think it might have been two, right? 42:59.450 --> 43:00.030 [Riv (DM)]: I thought it was two. 43:00.050 --> 43:02.411 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, I thought that was correct. 43:02.811 --> 43:03.292 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's two. 43:03.672 --> 43:03.852 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 43:07.642 --> 43:14.583 [Lacer (Kai)]: But the fire elementals didn't come with the guards at the time. 43:15.104 --> 43:28.826 [Lacer (Kai)]: It was like this massive fire burst in the plaza when we were there, and then we had to fight two fire elementals around a fountain before the guards came. 43:29.426 --> 43:29.586 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep. 43:29.926 --> 43:30.667 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, yep. 43:32.747 --> 43:33.967 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, the guards weren't there originally. 43:34.727 --> 43:35.928 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they were not there originally. 43:35.948 --> 43:37.288 [Riv (DM)]: What was happening before the guards arrived? 43:39.312 --> 43:41.433 [Lacer (Kai)]: There was a protest. 43:41.493 --> 43:42.033 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's it called? 43:42.253 --> 43:44.354 [Lacer (Kai)]: Someone was spilling nonsense or something. 43:44.754 --> 43:47.294 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, a crazy street preacher. 43:47.474 --> 43:47.755 [Riv (DM)]: That's right. 43:47.775 --> 43:57.937 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's a dude up on a platform calling out and... And Donda cast his minor illusion with a nail. 43:57.977 --> 43:58.718 [Riv (DM)]: With a nail. 43:59.678 --> 44:00.098 [Riv (DM)]: That's right. 44:03.557 --> 44:09.240 [Riv (DM)]: You're inside a blacksmith, clearly a blacksmith by all of the weapons on the walls and the hot forge in the background. 44:13.502 --> 44:16.043 [Riv (DM)]: Dhorik, the dwarven smith, stands behind his anvil. 44:16.523 --> 44:19.024 [Riv (DM)]: The party is confronting him for betraying Ryo. 44:19.904 --> 44:24.266 [Riv (DM)]: Hugor standing to the side, glowering silently, staring at you. 44:27.308 --> 44:28.088 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with that vision? 44:30.929 --> 44:31.930 [Riv (DM)]: Who's standing to the side? 44:32.983 --> 44:34.624 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hugor, the child. 44:34.644 --> 44:35.804 [Lacer (Kai)]: The prince wasn't there. 44:36.544 --> 44:37.124 [Lacer (Kai)]: He wasn't there. 44:37.405 --> 44:39.465 [Lacer (Kai)]: The apothecary's apprentice. 44:40.065 --> 44:41.006 [Riv (DM)]: That's right, good memory. 44:41.086 --> 44:45.187 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, unless you're just reading from your notes, in which case, you cheeky cheeky blighter. 44:45.807 --> 44:47.748 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, that was a straight up, like, who? 44:47.808 --> 44:48.308 [JC (Ryo)]: No, he wasn't. 44:49.609 --> 44:50.749 [Riv (DM)]: That's right, Hugor was not there. 44:50.789 --> 44:56.711 [Riv (DM)]: He had long since left after Ryo had done some things for him. 44:56.731 --> 44:57.552 [Riv (DM)]: Scared the shit out of him. 44:57.792 --> 44:58.532 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, that's right. 44:59.835 --> 44:59.995 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 45:00.475 --> 45:01.715 [Lacer (Kai)]: He didn't turn up for days. 45:01.775 --> 45:02.415 [Lacer (Kai)]: He was gone. 45:02.475 --> 45:02.996 [Lacer (Kai)]: We didn't even... 45:03.536 --> 45:07.176 [Lacer (Kai)]: I kind of felt bad for him, but we didn't search for him afterwards. 45:07.456 --> 45:07.696 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 45:09.477 --> 45:09.997 [Riv (DM)]: It's freezing. 45:10.557 --> 45:15.938 [Riv (DM)]: The wind is blowing a gale, ice and sleet is like carving into your skin, Kai. 45:16.958 --> 45:27.800 [Riv (DM)]: As you stand outside on the frostway, you can see far, far in the distance behind you the glowing lights of Point Blackrock and the campsite that you had set ablaze not two nights... not one night earlier? 45:28.960 --> 45:29.200 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 45:31.175 --> 45:34.357 [Riv (DM)]: You are doing a ceremony, you're performing a ritual. 45:35.238 --> 45:42.963 [Riv (DM)]: You're calling upon the goddess of the moon and there is a large crowd of refugees around you to witness the miracle, all of them watching in awe. 45:43.864 --> 45:44.484 [Riv (DM)]: What's wrong with this video? 45:46.746 --> 45:56.293 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, I thought we were in a cave type thing, a cabin, a safe, a safe space that the, um, 45:58.087 --> 45:58.550 [Lacer (Kai)]: What is it? 45:58.751 --> 46:01.649 [Lacer (Kai)]: The snow people. 46:03.431 --> 46:04.112 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Frostwarden? 46:04.412 --> 46:05.352 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, the Frostwardens. 46:05.412 --> 46:24.005 [Lacer (Kai)]: We were, yeah, we were trying to get, we've saved the Frostwardens and transported a whole bunch of captives towards Point, no, from Point Blackrock to that Val Noren, to Val Noren. 46:24.205 --> 46:28.508 [Lacer (Kai)]: But I only, I tried to do a ceremony but I only garnered the attention of like 46:29.933 --> 46:32.696 [Lacer (Kai)]: I didn't do the ritual in front of a mass crowd of people. 46:33.456 --> 46:35.859 [Lacer (Kai)]: I asked them to come to me, and then only one lady came. 46:38.661 --> 46:39.222 [Riv (DM)]: Do you remember her name? 46:40.863 --> 46:42.024 [Lacer (Kai)]: I sure do. 46:42.625 --> 46:47.630 [Lacer (Kai)]: It was Lady... No, I don't, but I've got it in my notes. 46:51.253 --> 46:54.997 [Lacer (Kai)]: In my notes, I wrote... Let's see. 47:00.392 --> 47:00.732 [Lacer (Kai)]: Arlen. 47:01.473 --> 47:02.173 [Lacer (Kai)]: Lady Arlen. 47:03.514 --> 47:07.616 [Riv (DM)]: Her name was Lady Arlen, now known as Lady Arlen the First. 47:08.737 --> 47:12.779 [Riv (DM)]: She was the only one who came. 47:12.839 --> 47:15.860 [Riv (DM)]: The frozen wastes beckon you as you're trudging through deep snow. 47:16.421 --> 47:19.522 [Riv (DM)]: You can see the Frostwardens with you, leading the way. 47:20.883 --> 47:27.947 [Riv (DM)]: On their cloaks and armor, the vicious sigil of the bear, as they are the bear crew. 47:29.628 --> 47:30.128 [Vael (Berberis)]: The bear crew. 47:31.133 --> 47:31.974 [Riv (DM)]: Which were they? 47:37.300 --> 47:41.784 [Vael (Berberis)]: They weren't the bear crew, because the bear crew was the first crew that went. 47:41.804 --> 47:42.665 [Lacer (Kai)]: We found them dead. 47:42.946 --> 47:44.067 [Lacer (Kai)]: We found them dead, didn't they? 47:44.287 --> 47:44.487 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 47:44.768 --> 47:47.110 [Lacer (Kai)]: Amongst the worms? 47:48.612 --> 47:52.476 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, I think the bear crew was the one that got fucked up by the worms. 47:53.113 --> 47:56.358 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, amongst the other Imperial soldiers. 47:57.800 --> 48:03.628 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They took the Imperial soldiers the risky way and tried to lose as many as they could. 48:04.123 --> 48:04.463 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 48:04.863 --> 48:05.203 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 48:05.603 --> 48:10.805 [Riv (DM)]: Let me actually double check my notes, because... You got it right, they weren't Bear Crew. 48:10.825 --> 48:11.565 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just looking... 48:12.946 --> 48:13.766 [Riv (DM)]: Which were the ones? 48:13.786 --> 48:15.647 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, they were the Wolf Crew. 48:16.087 --> 48:17.407 [Riv (DM)]: They were Wolf Crew, correct. 48:17.547 --> 48:17.907 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 48:18.507 --> 48:21.348 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, but the ones we went were Fox Crew. 48:22.609 --> 48:24.709 [Riv (DM)]: Fox Crew were the ones, yeah, I think that's right. 48:24.829 --> 48:31.011 [Riv (DM)]: And then there was the dude you found on the island, who was the last surviving member of Fox Crew. 48:32.072 --> 48:32.692 [Riv (DM)]: The Hollow Isle? 48:33.813 --> 48:38.676 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, Fox Crew was with Lisa, Stella, and Old Dane. 48:38.816 --> 48:39.216 [Riv (DM)]: No, you're right. 48:39.236 --> 48:40.617 [Riv (DM)]: Fox Crew were the ones that took you over. 48:40.637 --> 48:43.719 [Riv (DM)]: Wolf Crew were the ones who got attacked by the... Yeah. 48:43.819 --> 48:45.880 [Lacer (Kai)]: And we saved Kaelen from dying. 48:46.000 --> 48:46.420 [Riv (DM)]: That's right. 48:46.700 --> 48:46.860 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 48:47.681 --> 48:48.181 [Vael (Berberis)]: Alright, cool. 48:49.202 --> 48:53.464 [Vael (Berberis)]: Don't mind me, I'm just judging the AI's temporal... 48:58.522 --> 49:02.207 [Vael (Berberis)]: It knows that the tails have spines on them, but it can't put tail to tail behind a pillar. 49:02.327 --> 49:05.931 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, but it's also tail gets thinner and tail gets thinner. 49:06.331 --> 49:07.533 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 49:07.693 --> 49:09.215 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hey, it's a magic dragon. 49:09.315 --> 49:09.575 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 49:09.876 --> 49:10.516 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's like a genie. 49:10.556 --> 49:17.785 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He has a separated tail with... And there are giant sized swords and shields behind us as well. 49:18.116 --> 49:19.658 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, maybe there are giants that live down here too. 49:19.958 --> 49:21.640 [Riv (DM)]: You never know. 49:21.720 --> 49:24.342 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe his spines he can like flex and shift in different directions. 49:25.804 --> 49:32.811 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe he can transform into a giant old man and then practice with the sword since he's had a hundred years to himself to do whatever. 49:32.831 --> 49:33.292 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 49:33.312 --> 49:36.355 [Lacer (Kai)]: He seemed to have slipped into a fantasy. 49:37.003 --> 49:38.204 [Riv (DM)]: Good old AI arte. 49:38.845 --> 49:39.465 [Riv (DM)]: Hey, it does the job. 49:39.745 --> 49:41.226 [Riv (DM)]: It does the job. 49:41.987 --> 49:42.347 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 49:43.148 --> 49:44.409 [Riv (DM)]: You're on a big wide street. 49:44.549 --> 49:50.454 [Riv (DM)]: There's a burning, broken building behind you that had just been shattered with a clench of a fist. 49:51.815 --> 49:54.537 [Riv (DM)]: Dread General Blackmarsh stands in front of Valoran. 49:54.878 --> 49:55.838 [Riv (DM)]: Valoran is on his knees. 49:57.820 --> 50:02.864 [Riv (DM)]: Blackmarsh raises his hand, there's a ring glowing with a green gemstone set in it. 50:03.264 --> 50:09.549 [Riv (DM)]: He crushes the gemstone and the green energy flows from his hand into Valoran's face and Korvas stands up to face you. 50:11.811 --> 50:15.773 [Vael (Berberis)]: One, it was purple, and two, Valoran never fucking kneeled. 50:18.235 --> 50:20.157 [JC (Ryo)]: Valoran's a bitch, he's gonna die like one. 50:20.557 --> 50:21.658 [Riv (DM)]: Hey, hey, hey, hey. 50:22.378 --> 50:22.979 [Riv (DM)]: When were you there? 50:23.759 --> 50:24.420 [Riv (DM)]: Absolutely spot on. 50:26.596 --> 50:27.296 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What about the bitch? 50:27.876 --> 50:28.196 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Damn. 50:30.637 --> 50:33.278 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can feel the passion of Valorant's spirit. 50:35.298 --> 50:40.019 [Riv (DM)]: You're in a nice landing room. 50:41.099 --> 50:45.440 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana, the Archmage, stands before you, having just revealed herself to be an elf. 50:46.261 --> 50:52.602 [Riv (DM)]: And she is pinning you all up against the wall as she's stepping forwards to Ryo to investigate his ring. 50:55.155 --> 50:56.056 [JC (Ryo)]: She sent them flying. 50:56.076 --> 50:57.336 [JC (Ryo)]: I was the only one on the wall. 50:57.376 --> 50:58.797 [JC (Ryo)]: She teleported us. 50:58.817 --> 50:59.738 [JC (Ryo)]: We were never there. 51:00.018 --> 51:02.039 [JC (Ryo)]: That's right. 51:06.361 --> 51:15.107 [Riv (DM)]: And this last vision fades and you see the dragon in his elven form smiling and nodding. 51:15.127 --> 51:17.048 [Riv (DM)]: He's been engrossed by these stories. 51:20.510 --> 51:23.531 [Riv (DM)]: And he almost like breathes deeply and just says, 51:26.508 --> 51:27.169 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you for this. 51:28.850 --> 51:31.572 [Riv (DM)]: The threads of fate are very confusing to me. 51:31.993 --> 51:34.255 [Riv (DM)]: I see many things. 51:35.356 --> 51:39.679 [Riv (DM)]: I've lived down here for more time than you can possibly imagine. 51:40.820 --> 51:46.665 [Riv (DM)]: It's hard to keep track of what happened in the past, the present, even the future sometimes. 51:48.527 --> 51:53.551 [Riv (DM)]: This has grounded your thread, and now I feel I know you better. 51:57.092 --> 51:58.914 [Vael (Berberis)]: Are these visions appearing in the pool? 51:59.154 --> 52:02.277 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or is it just... Are they reflecting? 52:02.478 --> 52:04.700 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are we staring into a massive silvery pool? 52:04.720 --> 52:07.523 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or are they like kind of like projecting like a... 52:09.354 --> 52:31.351 [Riv (DM)]: yeah so they like technically you do just see them sort of as visions across the pool but as you sort of focus on them it immerses you in it and it feels like you're there like the whole vision sort of surrounds you oh so it sucks us in like spiritually in a way kind of yeah like i don't think you you actually physically were moved or anything by it but um yeah it's certainly playing an illusion around you 52:33.090 --> 52:33.670 [Riv (DM)]: Immersion. 52:34.051 --> 52:34.431 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 52:35.552 --> 52:40.234 [Vael (Berberis)]: If I look into a pool and look for silver scale, do I see anything? 52:41.415 --> 52:42.356 [Riv (DM)]: Silver scale? 52:43.236 --> 52:43.396 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 52:43.416 --> 52:44.337 [Riv (DM)]: How do you mean? 52:44.357 --> 52:46.478 [Riv (DM)]: Do you mean like an actual silver scale from the dragon? 52:47.159 --> 52:51.461 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just looking for a hint of a vision from him instead of just seeing ours. 52:52.422 --> 52:53.062 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, very good. 52:53.082 --> 52:55.784 [Lacer (Kai)]: Honestly, it's passed a little bit too. 52:56.284 --> 52:56.925 [Riv (DM)]: Roll something. 52:57.905 --> 52:58.566 [Riv (DM)]: What would this be? 52:59.306 --> 52:59.927 [Lacer (Kai)]: Arcana. 53:01.372 --> 53:05.155 [Riv (DM)]: Give me something that you feel like you could do to see. 53:07.977 --> 53:15.823 [Vael (Berberis)]: I personally would go with insight because basically I'm doing an insight check via the memory thingy. 53:15.843 --> 53:17.544 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, you're seeing if it goes both ways. 53:17.724 --> 53:19.686 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, I want to see if it goes both ways. 53:20.766 --> 53:21.487 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, go for it. 53:22.427 --> 53:23.308 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you want us to help you? 53:24.589 --> 53:24.929 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 53:27.891 --> 53:30.133 [Riv (DM)]: Roll it with advantage because it was an awesome idea. 53:30.954 --> 53:31.234 [Vael (Berberis)]: Okay. 53:32.374 --> 53:33.835 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I guess I can give you inspiration. 53:33.855 --> 53:34.595 [Riv (DM)]: You can use it now. 53:36.395 --> 53:38.556 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, I currently... Actually, I'm human. 53:38.996 --> 53:44.117 [Vael (Berberis)]: I can give myself inspiration, which I just did anyway, so... 53:44.157 --> 53:46.977 [Vael (Berberis)]: I keep forgetting that being a human, I can inspire myself, but... Yeah. 53:47.838 --> 53:49.258 [Riv (DM)]: Let me roll something for the dragon. 53:51.919 --> 53:53.559 [Vael (Berberis)]: Learn my inspiration and say I used that. 53:55.560 --> 54:13.829 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah so so yeah okay fantastic so visions are just chaotically chaotically appearing across the top of it and the ones that kind of immersed you were the ones that kind of hooked you in because they were very very deeply related to your story that has brought you this whole way here um but other visions are popping in and 54:15.029 --> 54:32.069 [Riv (DM)]: I think there's a moment of he relaxed himself slightly too much and his caution or his restraint cracks just for a second and a big flash red color splashes across the pool and immediately you see this vision of 54:33.170 --> 54:39.614 [Riv (DM)]: Two ginormous dragons clashing in the air above hordes and hordes of people. 54:40.675 --> 54:42.936 [Riv (DM)]: There is uncountable numbers of people. 54:42.956 --> 54:45.057 [Riv (DM)]: It could be a hundred thousand, it could be a million. 54:45.938 --> 54:51.281 [Riv (DM)]: There is a massive, like, you've seen these cracks in space throughout your journeys. 54:51.821 --> 54:58.165 [Riv (DM)]: You see one of these but at an unbelievable scale, the size of a city, and it's cracking open. 54:58.745 --> 55:02.368 [Riv (DM)]: You almost see this like deep red warmth starting to glow out of it. 55:04.890 --> 55:09.614 [Riv (DM)]: The two dragons you see in this version are clashing above it in the sky as the hordes below are fighting. 55:09.634 --> 55:12.216 [Riv (DM)]: There are smaller monsters on the ground, smaller wyrmlings. 55:13.036 --> 55:17.440 [Riv (DM)]: It appears to be nations fighting creatures from another realm. 55:19.681 --> 55:21.123 [Riv (DM)]: This silver dragon 55:21.863 --> 55:26.525 [Riv (DM)]: And Red Dragon just snapping at each other's neck, slashing. 55:27.446 --> 55:49.377 [Riv (DM)]: You see at one point the Red Dragon, its claw starts to glow with this evil looking dark black energy and he just like pierces it and slams it straight into the chest of the Silver Dragon and you just hear this deep deep evil chuckle as the Red Dragon like flaps his wings and disengages and starts to fly away as you just hear the voice come rumbling back. 55:50.597 --> 55:52.817 [Riv (DM)]: So long, Praetor. 55:52.977 --> 55:58.378 [Riv (DM)]: And he sort of flies back down towards the rift as the silver dragon starts to fall out of the sky. 55:59.079 --> 56:04.920 [Riv (DM)]: And at this, the old man just sort of like slams his stuff on the ground again and the vision immediately evaporates. 56:06.960 --> 56:11.181 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of a crease, a frown on his eyebrows as he looks at you. 56:12.661 --> 56:13.641 [Riv (DM)]: I just give him a smile. 56:14.481 --> 56:15.241 [Lacer (Kai)]: What was that? 56:17.662 --> 56:17.842 [Riv (DM)]: That? 56:19.148 --> 56:26.794 [Riv (DM)]: It was a memory that I have not thought about for a long time, yet one that haunts me every day when you see his hand almost like unconsciously goes to his chest. 56:28.355 --> 56:31.757 [Riv (DM)]: The symbol, does it look familiar? 56:34.980 --> 56:36.901 [Riv (DM)]: Another interesting question. 56:39.163 --> 56:43.666 [Riv (DM)]: Roll another insight check or history check for memory or one of these. 56:45.107 --> 56:47.529 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm... 56:48.025 --> 56:52.328 [Vael (Berberis)]: Putting two and two together because I have low intelligence but reasonable wisdom. 56:54.690 --> 57:02.535 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll go Insight and I'm thinking back to the symbol of, what's his name, the destroyer, the destroyer, the dude. 57:02.555 --> 57:09.120 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, you mean, um, Kharazoth? 57:09.480 --> 57:10.020 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 57:10.241 --> 57:11.682 [Lacer (Kai)]: Kharazoth the Crimson Shadow? 57:12.102 --> 57:14.203 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, there was a symbol of something somewhere. 57:14.443 --> 57:15.104 [Vael (Berberis)]: I need my notes. 57:17.360 --> 57:21.803 [Riv (DM)]: Are you... Yeah, okay, so you know what? 57:22.423 --> 57:26.686 [Riv (DM)]: It's not a very hard check because, and you're pretty much already there. 57:26.726 --> 57:27.847 [Riv (DM)]: You have seen the symbol recently. 57:29.448 --> 57:37.113 [Riv (DM)]: The flesh on the back of a woman who you had killed was filled with these sort of symbols, right? 57:37.153 --> 57:38.073 [Riv (DM)]: Carved into her skin. 57:38.994 --> 57:45.118 [Riv (DM)]: The symbols definitely evoke a similar design in a similar foreign language that magic could not reveal. 57:47.278 --> 57:51.422 [Riv (DM)]: It's not the same symbol, but it's clearly evoking the same sort of patterns. 57:52.322 --> 57:53.203 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, same language. 57:57.847 --> 58:03.552 [Vael (Berberis)]: I just look at him and say, it's a memory you may not want to remember, but it may be one that you need to. 58:05.453 --> 58:09.857 [Vael (Berberis)]: And I'll pull out the parchment with the perfectly copied acting. 58:11.248 --> 58:12.409 [Riv (DM)]: And just toss it to him. 58:13.049 --> 58:27.014 [Riv (DM)]: You can see he appears slightly angst by you having peered into his past without permission, but a smile cracks on his face and he just has a little chuckle. 58:29.816 --> 58:30.976 [Riv (DM)]: I suppose I deserved that. 58:32.156 --> 58:34.637 [Riv (DM)]: I did, after all, just go digging through your whole past. 58:36.318 --> 58:36.698 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough. 58:37.238 --> 58:38.179 [Riv (DM)]: And he pulls open. 58:38.699 --> 58:39.019 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hmm. 58:39.780 --> 58:40.600 [Riv (DM)]: Where did you find this? 58:42.109 --> 58:42.810 [Riv (DM)]: It seems recent. 58:42.910 --> 58:43.670 [Riv (DM)]: You sketched it yourself? 58:46.333 --> 58:49.735 [Riv (DM)]: As he hands it back to you? 58:49.855 --> 58:50.236 [Vael (Berberis)]: Copied. 58:51.036 --> 58:53.018 [Vael (Berberis)]: And I indicate to Kai. 58:53.939 --> 58:54.900 [Vael (Berberis)]: Master scribe here. 58:56.481 --> 59:00.144 [Vael (Berberis)]: Taken from the back of a cultist, I guess you'd call them. 59:01.625 --> 59:02.426 [Lacer (Kai)]: Red priest? 59:05.596 --> 59:06.436 [Riv (DM)]: Red price? 59:06.917 --> 59:07.657 [Lacer (Kai)]: She was in red. 59:09.838 --> 59:10.658 [Lacer (Kai)]: And bald. 59:10.858 --> 59:11.738 [Lacer (Kai)]: She was bald. 59:12.679 --> 59:15.460 [Riv (DM)]: One that you've seen alive recently? 59:17.161 --> 59:18.381 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, but we killed her. 59:20.262 --> 59:21.502 [Vael (Berberis)]: In the realm of the material. 59:23.163 --> 59:27.325 [Vael (Berberis)]: Might be time to step out of the past and have a look at the present. 59:31.206 --> 59:32.707 [Lacer (Kai)]: We spoke to her. 59:33.247 --> 59:33.587 [Lacer (Kai)]: Her... 59:35.549 --> 59:36.249 [Lacer (Kai)]: Her soul? 59:36.569 --> 59:37.510 [Lacer (Kai)]: We spoke to her soul. 59:39.451 --> 59:47.274 [Lacer (Kai)]: And she relinquished some disturbing answers to our questions. 59:48.115 --> 59:52.977 [Lacer (Kai)]: What does Kharazoth the Crimson Shadow mean to you? 59:55.009 --> 01:00:10.705 [Riv (DM)]: At the mention of the name, you see his hands go white as he clenches the staff tighter and exhales heavily from his nose and like actually plumes of silver smoke go out of his nostrils. 01:00:10.725 --> 01:00:15.831 [Riv (DM)]: I know the name all too well. 01:00:17.532 --> 01:00:18.173 [Riv (DM)]: You just saw him. 01:00:21.375 --> 01:00:22.275 [Lacer (Kai)]: That was him? 01:00:23.056 --> 01:00:25.617 [Lacer (Kai)]: You were fighting him in the skies? 01:00:25.937 --> 01:00:27.798 [Riv (DM)]: And he left me with this to enjoy. 01:00:27.878 --> 01:00:29.919 [Riv (DM)]: And he pats the symbol on his chest. 01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:32.000 [Riv (DM)]: A death curse. 01:00:32.561 --> 01:00:35.022 [Riv (DM)]: One that I will never be able to leave from. 01:00:38.624 --> 01:00:39.704 [Lacer (Kai)]: I am a dead dragon walking. 01:00:43.206 --> 01:00:44.266 [Lacer (Kai)]: You are still a dragon. 01:00:44.727 --> 01:00:45.647 [Lacer (Kai)]: A mighty dragon. 01:00:45.667 --> 01:00:47.428 [Lacer (Kai)]: In here, yes. 01:00:49.380 --> 01:01:01.549 [Riv (DM)]: Your family, any sort of points of finger to you Ryo, they were kind enough and clever enough to bind me to this place. 01:01:02.189 --> 01:01:14.138 [Riv (DM)]: The magic here, the arcane nature of this root of the World Tree is unlike anything that mortals can comprehend. 01:01:15.088 --> 01:01:18.009 [Riv (DM)]: They were able to bind my soul, my essence, to this place. 01:01:18.649 --> 01:01:21.330 [Riv (DM)]: While I remain, the curse has no effect on me. 01:01:22.170 --> 01:01:26.031 [Riv (DM)]: Were I to leave, I would die within hours. 01:01:28.452 --> 01:01:31.813 [Riv (DM)]: And so here I am, cursed to wander these halls for the rest of my time. 01:01:33.274 --> 01:01:34.094 [Riv (DM)]: But it's not so bad. 01:01:34.114 --> 01:01:44.217 [Riv (DM)]: I get to meet interesting adventurers like you, and your family, have always been kind to me, and in return, 01:01:46.297 --> 01:01:47.437 [Riv (DM)]: My life is yours. 01:01:48.018 --> 01:01:49.998 [Riv (DM)]: I have served your family for generations. 01:01:51.299 --> 01:01:53.659 [Riv (DM)]: Knowledge, what I can grant, I do. 01:01:54.780 --> 01:01:59.741 [Riv (DM)]: Tactics, strategy, even just someone to bounce ideas on. 01:02:00.562 --> 01:02:01.202 [Riv (DM)]: I am here to help. 01:02:05.423 --> 01:02:09.185 [Riv (DM)]: But as for you, you appear to have been driven hard. 01:02:10.045 --> 01:02:13.446 [Riv (DM)]: Get it, a prophecy by enemies, maybe by your own choices. 01:02:15.582 --> 01:02:19.226 [Riv (DM)]: I would like for a moment to be the one asking you something for a change. 01:02:20.046 --> 01:02:21.828 [Riv (DM)]: What is it that you all want? 01:02:25.211 --> 01:02:29.756 [Riv (DM)]: It seems that you've had a tumultuous ride to get here. 01:02:32.959 --> 01:02:34.120 [Riv (DM)]: I want to flip that on its head. 01:02:34.720 --> 01:02:35.401 [Riv (DM)]: What are you after? 01:02:35.441 --> 01:02:36.142 [Riv (DM)]: What do you want? 01:02:58.123 --> 01:03:02.064 [Vael (Berberis)]: Personally, the dead walk the north. 01:03:02.944 --> 01:03:05.745 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'd rather them stay dead and less walking. 01:03:08.965 --> 01:03:11.286 [Riv (DM)]: The necromancer in the ruins of Valoran. 01:03:12.266 --> 01:03:12.626 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 01:03:14.007 --> 01:03:15.027 [Riv (DM)]: I've seen rumblings of this. 01:03:18.548 --> 01:03:19.088 [Riv (DM)]: Anything else? 01:03:19.108 --> 01:03:20.428 [Riv (DM)]: What have the rest of you... 01:03:25.988 --> 01:03:28.249 [Riv (DM)]: You, he nods his head to you, Ryo. 01:03:28.689 --> 01:03:30.770 [Riv (DM)]: And you, to you, Erendor. 01:03:33.812 --> 01:03:39.394 [Riv (DM)]: What do you intend to do, now that you have learned recently who you are and what your family means to these people? 01:03:40.134 --> 01:03:41.275 [Riv (DM)]: What do you intend to do about that? 01:03:42.475 --> 01:03:43.816 [Riv (DM)]: You have the ring. 01:03:44.837 --> 01:03:45.777 [Riv (DM)]: Do you mean to wear the crown? 01:03:54.938 --> 01:03:58.880 [JC (Ryo)]: Only known for a couple of days, I haven't decided. 01:03:58.900 --> 01:04:00.761 [Riv (DM)]: That is fair enough. 01:04:02.021 --> 01:04:08.344 [Riv (DM)]: And while there may not be any immediate pressure for you to decide, know that it is a decision you will have to make at some point. 01:04:09.584 --> 01:04:11.725 [Riv (DM)]: The people here, many have lost hope. 01:04:12.305 --> 01:04:13.366 [Riv (DM)]: You could be a beacon for them. 01:04:15.107 --> 01:04:18.188 [Riv (DM)]: But it is not something that you should feel pressured or forced into doing. 01:04:30.823 --> 01:04:32.384 [Riv (DM)]: Eam, turn to Earendor. 01:04:33.565 --> 01:04:34.925 [Riv (DM)]: I see a woman in a tower. 01:04:35.986 --> 01:04:36.406 [Riv (DM)]: Your mother. 01:04:37.347 --> 01:04:38.347 [Riv (DM)]: The Empress holds her. 01:04:38.367 --> 01:04:38.907 [Riv (DM)]: Valdo Minol. 01:04:39.748 --> 01:04:40.128 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 01:04:40.188 --> 01:04:40.448 [Riv (DM)]: I know. 01:04:42.309 --> 01:04:43.450 [Riv (DM)]: What do you intend to do about this? 01:04:51.634 --> 01:04:51.894 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I... 01:04:55.990 --> 01:05:01.712 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: To be honest, I had pretty much given up hope of ever seeing her again. 01:05:01.732 --> 01:05:10.194 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Like, how could we ever make it into Val Luminor and find her? 01:05:12.195 --> 01:05:24.399 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: But, having found out the bloodlines of this place, maybe there is someone here that would be willing to help. 01:05:27.603 --> 01:05:28.963 [Riv (DM)]: I simply don't know enough yet. 01:05:30.544 --> 01:05:31.944 [Riv (DM)]: There is knowledge to be found here. 01:05:33.385 --> 01:05:36.326 [Riv (DM)]: There also is knowledge to be found in your own kin. 01:05:38.086 --> 01:05:40.267 [Riv (DM)]: I see you have walked the path of the Raven. 01:05:41.187 --> 01:05:47.349 [Riv (DM)]: Are there those among you who know those streets, know their way around the city, who lean on them for resource? 01:05:59.013 --> 01:05:59.373 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Thank you. 01:05:59.713 --> 01:05:59.973 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll... 01:06:01.694 --> 01:06:03.055 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll make whatever connections I can. 01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:16.800 [Riv (DM)]: How about you, dwarf? 01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:17.901 [Riv (DM)]: You've been awfully quiet. 01:06:19.782 --> 01:06:20.442 [Riv (DM)]: What drives you? 01:06:23.763 --> 01:06:25.264 [Riv (DM)]: What are you hoping to get out of your travels? 01:06:28.646 --> 01:06:29.606 [Riv (DM)]: Probably a pedestal. 01:06:32.987 --> 01:06:33.867 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The one stool. 01:06:37.488 --> 01:06:42.130 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I will not rest until it stands in the Hall of Glimmerforge. 01:06:44.750 --> 01:06:45.531 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And the Purge. 01:06:48.011 --> 01:06:49.232 [Riv (DM)]: You wish to liberate your people. 01:06:50.212 --> 01:06:50.512 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I do. 01:06:52.632 --> 01:06:54.693 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That is primarily why I'm here. 01:06:56.810 --> 01:06:58.051 [Riv (DM)]: A good direction to be traveling. 01:06:59.311 --> 01:07:05.634 [Riv (DM)]: What steps have you taken so far to ensure this liberation comes to be? 01:07:09.535 --> 01:07:10.996 [Riv (DM)]: And what steps do you feel you need to take? 01:07:14.477 --> 01:07:17.218 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I have amassed this mighty crew. 01:07:18.019 --> 01:07:18.399 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Indeed. 01:07:19.359 --> 01:07:26.082 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: To, when fortune favors, bring back to my home 01:07:27.627 --> 01:07:28.448 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And Unleash Hell. 01:07:30.829 --> 01:07:34.091 [Riv (DM)]: I ask the rest of you then, will you support this dwarf in his endeavors? 01:07:39.895 --> 01:07:41.776 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look to Dondar. 01:07:42.057 --> 01:07:52.323 [Lacer (Kai)]: What do you mean by Unleash Hell? 01:07:53.444 --> 01:07:54.705 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The Empire have taken 01:07:57.384 --> 01:07:58.244 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Our holy city. 01:08:00.926 --> 01:08:01.186 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And... 01:08:03.867 --> 01:08:04.607 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I would like it back. 01:08:04.988 --> 01:08:05.508 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That'd be nice. 01:08:06.528 --> 01:08:06.708 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Um... 01:08:09.370 --> 01:08:12.051 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: This is the... And the traitors within. 01:08:12.071 --> 01:08:18.254 [Lacer (Kai)]: This is the first time you've ever spoke about anything. 01:08:18.754 --> 01:08:19.475 [Lacer (Kai)]: About your... 01:08:20.795 --> 01:08:22.116 [Lacer (Kai)]: Your city, holy city. 01:08:24.357 --> 01:08:26.678 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well... No one ever asked. 01:08:28.739 --> 01:08:29.239 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: But you're right. 01:08:31.581 --> 01:08:36.645 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I have not revealed it willingly before. 01:08:39.988 --> 01:08:43.571 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, it's a whole other step in the path of revolution that we're already on. 01:08:45.392 --> 01:08:48.815 [Vael (Berberis)]: After all, the Empress does serve the Crimson Shadow himself. 01:08:51.093 --> 01:08:51.874 [Riv (DM)]: That is true. 01:08:52.054 --> 01:08:53.315 [Riv (DM)]: She's just a puppet. 01:08:54.335 --> 01:08:59.819 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the rumbling come from the throat of the Praetor. 01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:01.960 [Riv (DM)]: And he kind of just glances at you, Donda. 01:09:02.600 --> 01:09:02.941 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 01:09:03.561 --> 01:09:04.842 [Riv (DM)]: Traitors indeed, eh? 01:09:05.802 --> 01:09:09.024 [Riv (DM)]: And he gives you a look before his eyes turn to the rest of them. 01:09:11.226 --> 01:09:13.067 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed, so we come now to the Empire. 01:09:14.508 --> 01:09:18.330 [Riv (DM)]: This Empress and the shadow behind her. 01:09:20.734 --> 01:09:22.054 [Riv (DM)]: What do you intend to do here? 01:09:22.154 --> 01:09:22.955 [Riv (DM)]: What do you want to do? 01:09:23.495 --> 01:09:24.135 [Riv (DM)]: What can you do? 01:09:30.417 --> 01:09:31.917 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think we need help with this. 01:09:32.397 --> 01:09:39.419 [Lacer (Kai)]: We know she is very old, very powerful, but that's all we know. 01:09:39.439 --> 01:09:41.600 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We have a name. 01:09:45.261 --> 01:09:46.221 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Is it one that you know? 01:09:46.241 --> 01:09:48.562 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Morgana Eventide. 01:09:50.268 --> 01:09:50.648 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hmm. 01:09:52.229 --> 01:09:52.929 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I do know the name. 01:09:53.830 --> 01:09:56.931 [Riv (DM)]: It has been cried throughout many threads of fate. 01:09:59.453 --> 01:10:02.634 [Riv (DM)]: Unbelievable anguish and sorrow follows that name. 01:10:04.395 --> 01:10:06.136 [Riv (DM)]: But, alas, watch. 01:10:06.596 --> 01:10:12.719 [Riv (DM)]: He sort of like waves his hand over the dais and the basin and visions start to appear. 01:10:13.400 --> 01:10:18.162 [Riv (DM)]: You can see a big crowd of people in a city. 01:10:19.620 --> 01:10:28.282 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of stretched out, a big, what would you say, a split down the middle of the people allowing a pathway to be clearly walked. 01:10:28.342 --> 01:10:33.622 [Riv (DM)]: You can see a white dress draping down the stones as a person's walking. 01:10:33.983 --> 01:10:38.403 [Riv (DM)]: But as you try to focus on the person, like your eyes can't quite connect to it. 01:10:39.403 --> 01:10:47.885 [Riv (DM)]: It's almost like it's blurred or as soon as your eye looks at it they become unfocused and your eyes are drawn to some other part of the vision, to some person behind or the river beyond. 01:10:48.966 --> 01:10:55.473 [Riv (DM)]: He waves his hand again and there's a worn-out estate up on the countryside somewhere. 01:10:56.654 --> 01:10:57.855 [Riv (DM)]: The stars look different. 01:10:58.295 --> 01:11:02.940 [Riv (DM)]: The position of the moon and the angle of the stars are not familiar to you. 01:11:04.342 --> 01:11:07.125 [Riv (DM)]: There's a, you know, a burned... 01:11:07.745 --> 01:11:33.093 [Riv (DM)]: Clearly a burned or ruined house and upstairs with the roof cracked and the moon shining in you can see that there's a person kneeling with a circle drawn and runes and symbols the runes and symbols on the ground here like on the floor are glowing and almost like breathing and you try to look at the person you just can't quite focus on her your eyes will divert over to the bed or to the closet nearby. 01:11:34.593 --> 01:11:37.274 [Riv (DM)]: He does this a few more times, just kind of shifting through different memories. 01:11:37.814 --> 01:11:39.075 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, every time you just can't spot her. 01:11:40.396 --> 01:11:41.956 [Riv (DM)]: She is very elusive. 01:11:43.697 --> 01:11:46.438 [Riv (DM)]: I have been unable to gather much about her. 01:11:46.738 --> 01:11:47.339 [Riv (DM)]: I need... 01:11:47.839 --> 01:11:48.559 [Riv (DM)]: I need something. 01:11:48.579 --> 01:11:50.080 [Riv (DM)]: I need to know more about her. 01:11:50.380 --> 01:11:50.780 [Riv (DM)]: Anything. 01:11:51.660 --> 01:11:53.341 [Riv (DM)]: What items does she possess? 01:11:53.921 --> 01:11:55.862 [Riv (DM)]: What... What are her goals? 01:11:55.882 --> 01:11:57.303 [Riv (DM)]: Who does she surround herself with? 01:11:58.183 --> 01:12:01.765 [Riv (DM)]: If you're able to bring me more of this knowledge, I may be able to crack these visions. 01:12:03.753 --> 01:12:06.255 [Riv (DM)]: Like waves his hand and makes him disappear almost in frustration. 01:12:15.403 --> 01:12:16.364 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We have an item. 01:12:19.206 --> 01:12:21.228 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we? 01:12:21.368 --> 01:12:21.668 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Don't we? 01:12:23.129 --> 01:12:23.790 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I have an item. 01:12:24.831 --> 01:12:27.653 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, yeah, go ahead. 01:12:29.215 --> 01:12:31.937 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That lets us speak to... 01:12:34.595 --> 01:12:38.057 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Or... Wasn't Isamor a parchment? 01:12:38.737 --> 01:12:40.598 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, no, you mean the thingy stones. 01:12:41.339 --> 01:12:43.980 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, no, he means the assassin's paper. 01:12:44.120 --> 01:12:46.081 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, the assassin's paper. 01:12:46.102 --> 01:12:46.782 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that thing. 01:12:46.822 --> 01:12:52.505 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was thinking about sending stones, and we're going to talk to someone who knew more about the emperors. 01:12:53.045 --> 01:12:54.686 [Lacer (Kai)]: But, yes, wrong. 01:12:56.327 --> 01:12:57.768 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yes, we have a note that 01:13:00.484 --> 01:13:02.005 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is that related or am I mixing threads? 01:13:02.605 --> 01:13:03.506 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let me see this note. 01:13:04.326 --> 01:13:06.728 [Lacer (Kai)]: We have no idea who it links to, but yeah. 01:13:08.529 --> 01:13:10.850 [Lacer (Kai)]: Someone close to her. 01:13:11.070 --> 01:13:11.891 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's true. 01:13:13.572 --> 01:13:15.313 [Lacer (Kai)]: This was on one of the Red Priests. 01:13:15.493 --> 01:13:18.975 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh no, this was the... What's it called? 01:13:20.328 --> 01:13:21.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: The black cloak. 01:13:22.130 --> 01:13:23.732 [Riv (DM)]: The woman from the prison ship. 01:13:23.752 --> 01:13:23.972 [Riv (DM)]: Woman. 01:13:24.313 --> 01:13:24.493 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:13:25.394 --> 01:13:26.595 [Riv (DM)]: One of the first NPCs you ever met. 01:13:27.356 --> 01:13:29.779 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And who was supposed to be... Communicates in blood. 01:13:30.239 --> 01:13:30.620 [Riv (DM)]: Exactly. 01:13:31.801 --> 01:13:32.782 [Riv (DM)]: Do you hand over the note? 01:13:33.663 --> 01:13:33.943 [Riv (DM)]: I do. 01:13:34.204 --> 01:13:36.526 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, he grabs it and kind of looks at it, turns it over a little bit. 01:13:37.347 --> 01:13:40.931 [Riv (DM)]: Holds it between his hands and his hands glow with silver energy. 01:13:41.999 --> 01:13:46.084 [Riv (DM)]: And his eyes light up even more as he tilts his head back and kind of just looks up at the ceiling. 01:13:47.025 --> 01:13:54.072 [Riv (DM)]: The energy and the mist and cloud that sort of seem to be swirling in the rooftops starts to churn a little bit harder. 01:13:57.216 --> 01:14:02.001 [Riv (DM)]: He hands a note back to you after some moments go by and he says, 01:14:05.098 --> 01:14:09.859 [Riv (DM)]: The recipient of this, on the other end, is in the city of Val Luminor. 01:14:10.660 --> 01:14:15.121 [Riv (DM)]: They are currently within the Citadel, I believe. 01:14:20.242 --> 01:14:21.863 [Riv (DM)]: That was all I was able to pierce, but... 01:14:23.079 --> 01:14:31.986 [Riv (DM)]: Whoever owns the other end of this magical communication device does appear to be very close to the Empress indeed. 01:14:33.287 --> 01:14:34.929 [Riv (DM)]: You said you found it on the body of an assassin? 01:14:36.790 --> 01:14:38.211 [Riv (DM)]: One of these eyes of the Empire? 01:14:38.231 --> 01:14:43.356 [Riv (DM)]: I would wager that this is potentially controlled by the head of their order. 01:14:45.037 --> 01:14:48.540 [Riv (DM)]: Someone who reports directly to the Empress herself. 01:14:56.462 --> 01:14:57.042 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's a worry. 01:14:57.462 --> 01:15:02.345 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just trying to think if we have any more information that he may not have on her. 01:15:04.926 --> 01:15:08.207 [Vael (Berberis)]: Probably not a lot, but... Yeah. 01:15:08.467 --> 01:15:13.570 [Vael (Berberis)]: I believe she came on a boat out of the... Was it west or east? 01:15:13.830 --> 01:15:14.610 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think it was west. 01:15:15.310 --> 01:15:16.291 [Riv (DM)]: It was east. 01:15:17.071 --> 01:15:17.832 [Vael (Berberis)]: East. 01:15:18.552 --> 01:15:19.392 [Vael (Berberis)]: Came out of the east. 01:15:19.612 --> 01:15:21.853 [Vael (Berberis)]: She has always been young. 01:15:21.873 --> 01:15:25.235 [Vael (Berberis)]: Despite being incredibly old. 01:15:28.158 --> 01:15:42.447 [Vael (Berberis)]: She is known by the denizens of the Underdark in some way shape or form because the Spider Queen or Spider Princess had some level of interaction with her at some point. 01:15:45.609 --> 01:15:49.572 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we have communication with the Spider Queen person? 01:15:49.592 --> 01:15:51.693 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can message her. 01:15:51.853 --> 01:15:54.195 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I was about to say not directly but we could message. 01:15:54.944 --> 01:15:56.706 [Lacer (Kai)]: I consent, I consent. 01:15:57.266 --> 01:15:57.987 [Lacer (Kai)]: But then again... 01:16:00.249 --> 01:16:11.178 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If you're going to do that, I would recommend opening with, uh, we haven't forgotten about our deal and we will soon get some nice tasty livestock delivered. 01:16:11.578 --> 01:16:12.959 [JC (Ryo)]: Didn't we organize that anyway? 01:16:12.979 --> 01:16:16.262 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm pretty sure we did, we... 01:16:17.752 --> 01:16:19.113 [JC (Ryo)]: The guy in that town. 01:16:19.153 --> 01:16:24.015 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We should make sure some more gets delivered. 01:16:24.315 --> 01:16:27.617 [Riv (DM)]: I have a question for Vale, the player, not the character. 01:16:29.718 --> 01:16:32.279 [Riv (DM)]: Valoran had a number of visions. 01:16:33.140 --> 01:16:35.841 [Riv (DM)]: Do you think he would have shared any of these with the rest of the party? 01:16:37.102 --> 01:16:38.683 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think so, unfortunately. 01:16:40.297 --> 01:16:42.078 [Vael (Berberis)]: He was very, very closed in on that. 01:16:43.018 --> 01:16:47.600 [Vael (Berberis)]: There would have been no talk of a woman in red gems and screaming. 01:16:47.980 --> 01:16:48.100 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep. 01:16:51.121 --> 01:16:55.483 [Lacer (Kai)]: All Valoran talked about was the Black Forest. 01:16:57.264 --> 01:16:58.244 [Vael (Berberis)]: Even then he didn't talk much. 01:16:59.965 --> 01:17:03.586 [Vael (Berberis)]: Because he was a babysitter character while the new players got used to the game. 01:17:03.626 --> 01:17:06.668 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um, okay. 01:17:08.528 --> 01:17:16.610 [Vael (Berberis)]: Would an item of one of her chief lieutenants that probably would have been in her presence and done many dark deeds in her name help? 01:17:19.531 --> 01:17:20.571 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we've got many things. 01:17:21.391 --> 01:17:26.792 [Lacer (Kai)]: I pull out the Dread Scythe from that. 01:17:28.413 --> 01:17:29.213 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or Dread's Hunger. 01:17:29.493 --> 01:17:32.894 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have them in both hands, these terrible looking weapons. 01:17:35.107 --> 01:17:37.748 [Vael (Berberis)]: These are nasty fucking things. 01:17:38.128 --> 01:17:39.169 [Riv (DM)]: Just careful. 01:17:40.789 --> 01:17:45.331 [Riv (DM)]: But also... You pull it out. 01:17:46.532 --> 01:17:48.373 [Riv (DM)]: And you sort of like offer it to him. 01:17:49.113 --> 01:17:55.076 [Riv (DM)]: And he takes a step back and just holds up a hand and says, I do not need to inspect that closer. 01:17:55.816 --> 01:17:57.377 [Riv (DM)]: I am well familiar with it. 01:17:58.957 --> 01:18:00.618 [Riv (DM)]: I was around at the time of its creation. 01:18:02.188 --> 01:18:06.730 [Riv (DM)]: In fact, you just saw its creator not long ago in the vision. 01:18:09.292 --> 01:18:10.292 [Riv (DM)]: That is an evil blade. 01:18:10.912 --> 01:18:11.753 [Riv (DM)]: How came you by it? 01:18:14.394 --> 01:18:15.675 [JC (Ryo)]: We killed this previous owner. 01:18:16.555 --> 01:18:17.616 [JC (Ryo)]: Most recent wielder. 01:18:18.316 --> 01:18:18.976 [JC (Ryo)]: And who was this? 01:18:21.558 --> 01:18:22.518 [JC (Ryo)]: General Blackmarsh. 01:18:25.079 --> 01:18:26.120 [JC (Ryo)]: It was Blackmarsh, wasn't it? 01:18:27.020 --> 01:18:28.361 [Riv (DM)]: Tell me more about this Blackmarsh. 01:18:29.363 --> 01:18:32.746 [Riv (DM)]: Was he wielding the sword and using it effectively? 01:18:35.408 --> 01:18:36.209 [Vael (Berberis)]: He was wielding it. 01:18:36.429 --> 01:18:37.931 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think it was wielding him a little bit. 01:18:38.491 --> 01:18:44.536 [Vael (Berberis)]: He was definitely supported by these red priests that seemed to follow the Shadow. 01:18:46.698 --> 01:18:48.420 [Riv (DM)]: And tell me more about him specifically. 01:18:49.120 --> 01:18:52.183 [Riv (DM)]: This blade I know has a toll and attacks on those who wield it. 01:18:52.363 --> 01:18:53.865 [Riv (DM)]: Did he look healthy? 01:18:57.055 --> 01:19:02.096 [Vael (Berberis)]: As healthy as an eight foot tall giant with the ability to disintegrate stone with his mind could be. 01:19:04.977 --> 01:19:10.198 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The vision you saw before where the building exploded behind us. 01:19:12.379 --> 01:19:13.019 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That was him. 01:19:15.980 --> 01:19:16.220 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes. 01:19:17.480 --> 01:19:19.441 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean he wasn't so healthy last time we saw him. 01:19:19.741 --> 01:19:22.061 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well yes, that happens. 01:19:23.182 --> 01:19:24.622 [Riv (DM)]: Was he surrounded by undead? 01:19:26.550 --> 01:19:28.392 [Riv (DM)]: Definitely he was calling on them. 01:19:29.533 --> 01:19:30.513 [Riv (DM)]: And he himself? 01:19:33.936 --> 01:19:35.578 [Lacer (Kai)]: Did we hack his head off and throw it in the bag? 01:19:36.759 --> 01:19:38.280 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, we left it in the city. 01:19:39.749 --> 01:19:42.750 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think he himself was undead. 01:19:42.790 --> 01:19:46.252 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, I was probably the closest to relating to undead. 01:19:46.272 --> 01:19:48.753 [Vael (Berberis)]: He was definitely trucking with undead and involved with undead. 01:19:48.893 --> 01:19:51.554 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think he himself was undead. 01:19:52.874 --> 01:19:55.376 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, because when he walked into my... 01:19:55.556 --> 01:19:59.717 [Lacer (Kai)]: He avoided my spirit guardians during our battle. 01:19:59.957 --> 01:20:02.859 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, he was wary of radiant damage, but... 01:20:03.899 --> 01:20:04.279 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't... 01:20:04.660 --> 01:20:08.203 [Lacer (Kai)]: He had an undead aura, but he didn't seem undead himself. 01:20:08.623 --> 01:20:09.924 [Lacer (Kai)]: If that makes sense? 01:20:10.244 --> 01:20:12.126 [Riv (DM)]: You roll a history check or something. 01:20:15.228 --> 01:20:16.449 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh no, that's what I'm saying. 01:20:16.549 --> 01:20:17.930 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's what I remember. 01:20:18.551 --> 01:20:19.551 [Riv (DM)]: You roll a history check. 01:20:25.136 --> 01:20:26.717 [Riv (DM)]: You rolled a history check as the Bag of Holding. 01:20:28.278 --> 01:20:29.119 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, yeah. 01:20:29.139 --> 01:20:30.340 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was in the... 01:20:30.400 --> 01:20:31.100 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry. 01:20:31.761 --> 01:20:32.462 [Riv (DM)]: What's your int mod? 01:20:32.482 --> 01:20:32.862 [Riv (DM)]: Is it 4? 01:20:34.362 --> 01:20:38.845 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, my history is plus three, so... Ooh, okay. 01:20:39.986 --> 01:20:40.286 [Vael (Berberis)]: All good. 01:20:41.006 --> 01:20:44.108 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just trying to think, would I have gotten any hint of him if he was undead? 01:20:44.328 --> 01:20:45.949 [Vael (Berberis)]: Given that I am... 01:20:45.969 --> 01:20:49.431 [Lacer (Kai)]: I remember asking this, he seemed... not undead. 01:20:49.912 --> 01:20:52.073 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't you roll as well, Valoran? 01:20:53.814 --> 01:20:54.214 [Riv (DM)]: History? 01:20:54.234 --> 01:20:57.156 [Riv (DM)]: This is gonna, yeah, this is gonna determine a plus one, potentially. 01:21:00.245 --> 01:21:26.615 [Riv (DM)]: Oh man you guys have been struggling tonight damn um okay all good i'm gonna do a roll for our friendly silver dragon here to see if he can connect some dots for you um he wants a 15 he's got a plus four to his intelligence so i'll add the plus four into his mod automatically and i'll roll it here on the table for you here we go nat one 01:21:33.695 --> 01:21:37.116 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we just like scrape it? 01:21:37.556 --> 01:21:41.298 [Riv (DM)]: I was going to chuck him a plus one as well if you had got your history check. 01:21:41.718 --> 01:21:43.219 [Riv (DM)]: I just scraped by. 01:21:45.139 --> 01:21:46.740 [Riv (DM)]: At the talk of the undeath. 01:21:48.384 --> 01:21:59.587 [Riv (DM)]: And also you see like he coughs his head a little bit and his eyes sort of flash a little bit and you can tell he's reviewing memories and visions again internally. 01:22:01.168 --> 01:22:10.651 [Riv (DM)]: You're starting to gather this being in front of you has literally spent multiple millennia down here just engrossed in visions of the world. 01:22:11.211 --> 01:22:14.072 [Riv (DM)]: His brain doesn't work the same way as normal people's does anymore. 01:22:15.643 --> 01:22:33.002 [Riv (DM)]: The past, the present, and the future are kind of all the same to him and it's a struggle to kind of keep anything straight so him just trying to like remember something oh sorry one of you guys trying to remember something from the past is like him trying to remember something from the future potentially or trying to remember something that's currently happening on the other side of the planet um so 01:22:34.443 --> 01:23:00.565 [Riv (DM)]: He's very often confused by what he sees and it's difficult to thread everything together which is why he likes to use this like these pathways these threads of fate that that he's been talking about to try and traverse this this massive spider web of memories um and the the basin here clearly helps him with that um so you see him kind of trying to connect a few things and he um sort of moves out the undead um 01:23:02.535 --> 01:23:04.316 [Riv (DM)]: And the Black Blade as well. 01:23:05.116 --> 01:23:16.101 [Riv (DM)]: You mentioned that the Empress arrived as a young child from the East and that she hasn't seemed to have aged since. 01:23:17.842 --> 01:23:21.924 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's what we've heard from creatures much older than us. 01:23:23.524 --> 01:23:24.325 [Riv (DM)]: And she serves Kharazoth. 01:23:30.600 --> 01:23:44.444 [Vael (Berberis)]: According to the spirit of the priestess, who was very direct about it, went to the question of a little bit of necromancy of her own. 01:23:48.325 --> 01:23:54.127 [Riv (DM)]: Well, there are those who can tap into dark magic and 01:23:55.726 --> 01:23:58.847 [Riv (DM)]: Prolong their life indefinitely, but at a cost. 01:23:59.708 --> 01:24:08.411 [Riv (DM)]: They need to pour their soul into an object, an object that becomes as precious to them as their very own life, or indeed it holds their life. 01:24:09.612 --> 01:24:11.052 [Riv (DM)]: Have you heard of such a being before? 01:24:15.679 --> 01:24:16.799 [Lacer (Kai)]: First to my knowledge. 01:24:18.400 --> 01:24:19.640 [Riv (DM)]: Valorant the player has. 01:24:20.961 --> 01:24:25.202 [Vael (Berberis)]: And probably also Berberis the character considering his obsession with undead. 01:24:25.943 --> 01:24:28.483 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe, but yeah. 01:24:28.503 --> 01:24:28.964 [Riv (DM)]: Roll something. 01:24:29.104 --> 01:24:30.244 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably a pretty low DC. 01:24:32.345 --> 01:24:34.586 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think Dondar might have read something, maybe. 01:24:35.906 --> 01:24:36.647 [Riv (DM)]: What am I rolling? 01:24:39.592 --> 01:25:04.458 [Riv (DM)]: Uh you tell me pick pick pick something that you think makes sense is it a history maybe or an arcana or um insight maybe insight into yourself yeah just because it's my highest score but also it's a wisdom check not a yeah thing but wisdom and need are always very hard to balance as well yeah i mean you 01:25:05.523 --> 01:25:12.028 [Riv (DM)]: Beerus is a very wise fellow and you just get a gut feel as these words come from Mr. Varanus over here. 01:25:13.669 --> 01:25:13.809 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ugh. 01:25:15.290 --> 01:25:15.630 [Vael (Berberis)]: Fuck. 01:25:16.911 --> 01:25:17.651 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's in character. 01:25:23.355 --> 01:25:24.276 [Riv (DM)]: Gun lich. 01:25:26.698 --> 01:25:27.138 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 01:25:28.479 --> 01:25:29.980 [Riv (DM)]: Kharazoth was known to... 01:25:32.564 --> 01:25:37.586 [Riv (DM)]: Spread that dark knowledge to his followers and it appears he is doing it yet again. 01:25:38.186 --> 01:25:40.087 [Riv (DM)]: It's very bold of him to have come out. 01:25:42.788 --> 01:25:50.732 [Vael (Berberis)]: And also it would explain why it's very hard to get a look at her because she'd be running some glamour so you can't see what she actually looks like. 01:25:52.255 --> 01:26:02.482 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed, it depends on the power and the cunning of the Lich, but her powers could potentially be beyond what you could possibly imagine. 01:26:05.224 --> 01:26:12.289 [Riv (DM)]: One thing to look into, Lich's forms usually degrade and wither over time. 01:26:13.409 --> 01:26:21.515 [Riv (DM)]: How she has been managing to keep young and presentable to the hordes of people in her empire, that I am not sure. 01:26:23.224 --> 01:26:24.305 [Riv (DM)]: But it is worth looking into. 01:26:27.307 --> 01:26:38.555 [Riv (DM)]: But this is a grim omen and all the more reason for you to tread with caution is not to be reckoned with without proper preparation. 01:26:40.956 --> 01:26:41.577 [Riv (DM)]: Do you understand? 01:26:41.597 --> 01:26:44.879 [Riv (DM)]: Fireball. 01:26:47.201 --> 01:26:48.261 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think that's enough. 01:26:50.935 --> 01:26:51.596 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nowhere near enough. 01:26:52.256 --> 01:26:53.637 [JC (Ryo)]: Two fireballs? 01:26:53.657 --> 01:27:01.284 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think we need to scroll a fucking meteor to have a chance, and even then only if we landed in the right place. 01:27:02.385 --> 01:27:05.948 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: A thousand dwarf mages with a thousand fireballs? 01:27:09.511 --> 01:27:14.515 [Vael (Berberis)]: Or, if we can find the right item, one single little boot heel. 01:27:14.535 --> 01:27:14.615 [Vael (Berberis)]: Hmm. 01:27:20.048 --> 01:27:24.490 [Riv (DM)]: Well, speaking of the Empress and her master, this Kharazoth. 01:27:27.230 --> 01:27:28.291 [Riv (DM)]: We thought him dead. 01:27:29.051 --> 01:27:41.055 [Riv (DM)]: We thought after the Chaos Wars, and the sacrifice of the Seven, that he was sundered, along with the rest of his ilk, my brethren, traitors to our kind. 01:27:42.455 --> 01:27:49.778 [Riv (DM)]: That he has survived is an even darker omen, for that means that he was successful in his lifelong goal. 01:27:51.467 --> 01:27:59.011 [Riv (DM)]: While our little Lich here prolongs her life by placing her soul into an item. 01:28:00.732 --> 01:28:07.416 [Riv (DM)]: She can be killed, should the item be destroyed before she has time to reform. 01:28:09.097 --> 01:28:15.100 [Riv (DM)]: Kharazoth was obsessed for his entire existence of pursuing this similar sort of magic. 01:28:15.920 --> 01:28:20.383 [Riv (DM)]: Only instead of placing his soul into an item, he places it nowhere. 01:28:22.165 --> 01:28:23.685 [Riv (DM)]: He cannot be killed. 01:28:26.006 --> 01:28:32.067 [Riv (DM)]: It works in much the same way as a lich except there is no item to destroy and so he will always return. 01:28:32.767 --> 01:28:34.688 [Riv (DM)]: That must be how he survived. 01:28:37.308 --> 01:28:46.090 [Riv (DM)]: He um puts his like hand to his forehead at this and he's clearly like the gravity of this is weighing on him. 01:29:00.637 --> 01:29:00.837 [Riv (DM)]: Well... 01:29:05.540 --> 01:29:06.061 [Riv (DM)]: I had hoped... 01:29:07.121 --> 01:29:09.423 [Riv (DM)]: I had hoped that this would not be necessary, but... 01:29:11.985 --> 01:29:17.028 [Riv (DM)]: Since he was successful, I suppose it is good that I had spent my time researching. 01:29:18.589 --> 01:29:23.733 [Riv (DM)]: As soon as I'd learned of his mission, I sought out to find a way to counteract it. 01:29:24.754 --> 01:29:26.715 [Riv (DM)]: And I did encounter such a path. 01:29:28.700 --> 01:29:32.061 [Riv (DM)]: I know a spell, an enchantment that I can place upon an item. 01:29:33.581 --> 01:29:40.203 [Riv (DM)]: We can craft something, a weapon, some sword, some arrow, something that suits the wielder. 01:29:41.583 --> 01:29:41.943 [Riv (DM)]: A nail? 01:29:42.723 --> 01:29:44.164 [Riv (DM)]: A nail would work just fine. 01:29:45.704 --> 01:29:48.725 [Riv (DM)]: I need a soul anchor. 01:29:50.045 --> 01:29:52.066 [Riv (DM)]: I can bind them together into an artifact. 01:29:53.986 --> 01:29:57.227 [Riv (DM)]: The wielder of this artifact can slay Kharazoth. 01:29:58.403 --> 01:30:04.166 [Riv (DM)]: Cast his body down to the ground and penetrate it with this item. 01:30:04.826 --> 01:30:12.069 [Riv (DM)]: If he dies with this item inside him, there is a way to kill him. 01:30:13.290 --> 01:30:26.356 [Riv (DM)]: Or, if you were to bind the soul of a mortal to the item before pressing it into him, and then the mortal was to be killed, it would permanently destroy Kharazoth. 01:30:32.913 --> 01:30:33.934 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sounds complicated. 01:30:37.698 --> 01:30:39.200 [Riv (DM)]: Sacrifice is great and real. 01:30:41.402 --> 01:30:48.430 [Riv (DM)]: But from all of my time and all of my research, it is the only thing I've found that could possibly destroy him forever. 01:31:07.273 --> 01:31:09.714 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think we're a long way off getting our hands on England. 01:31:11.715 --> 01:31:11.995 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:31:14.256 --> 01:31:16.697 [Riv (DM)]: How about we take a break on that note? 01:31:17.198 --> 01:31:20.099 [Riv (DM)]: You want to take... You want to take 15 minutes? 01:31:20.119 --> 01:31:20.419 [Riv (DM)]: 20 minutes? 01:31:20.439 --> 01:31:22.000 [Riv (DM)]: 20 minutes, yeah. 01:31:22.680 --> 01:31:23.421 [Riv (DM)]: You can ponder that. 01:31:25.602 --> 01:31:28.843 [Riv (DM)]: And probably just a short second side of the session. 01:31:29.503 --> 01:31:32.845 [Riv (DM)]: See, but you guys can have a think about what you want to do and yeah. 01:31:34.172 --> 01:31:38.256 [Vael (Berberis)]: Although, I don't know if you saw my message, Ruf, but there's a part of me that just goes, hang on a second. 01:31:39.077 --> 01:31:40.458 [Vael (Berberis)]: Ruins of Valoran? 01:31:42.720 --> 01:31:43.121 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe? 01:31:43.601 --> 01:31:45.803 [Riv (DM)]: Slip of the tongue, maybe? 01:31:46.384 --> 01:31:46.724 [Riv (DM)]: Who knows? 01:31:46.744 --> 01:31:47.144 [Riv (DM)]: We'll see. 01:31:49.447 --> 01:31:51.388 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Is he just getting his timelines mixed up? 01:31:52.229 --> 01:31:52.610 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Indeed. 01:31:54.852 --> 01:31:55.372 [Riv (DM)]: Great. 01:31:55.572 --> 01:31:56.153 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 01:31:56.353 --> 01:31:57.074 [Riv (DM)]: Let me switch. 01:31:57.074 --> 02:21:32.853 ================= Session Break ================= 02:21:32.853 --> 02:21:35.477 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, we are officially live, so here we go. 02:21:35.497 --> 02:21:38.101 [Riv (DM)]: Don't say anything to compromise yourselves. 02:21:45.412 --> 02:21:46.332 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, what were we up to? 02:21:46.352 --> 02:21:47.913 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Fuck you, Zuckerberg! 02:21:49.674 --> 02:21:56.596 [Riv (DM)]: We were discussing with the Silver Sage, Mr. Praetor Varanus. 02:21:56.896 --> 02:21:58.677 [Riv (DM)]: I'll type that out for you. 02:21:58.697 --> 02:22:03.358 [Riv (DM)]: Praetor Varanus. 02:22:04.659 --> 02:22:06.699 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, some big revelations. 02:22:06.739 --> 02:22:10.141 [Riv (DM)]: You learned that the Empress is very likely to be a lich. 02:22:10.541 --> 02:22:13.662 [Riv (DM)]: Which means she's undead, which does open vulnerability corridors. 02:22:14.942 --> 02:22:20.324 [Riv (DM)]: And you learned about Kharazoth the Crimson Shadow and his soul weakness. 02:22:21.984 --> 02:22:31.247 [Riv (DM)]: I think to pick up, I think Praetor Varanus wants you to, what does he say? 02:22:31.287 --> 02:22:35.468 [Riv (DM)]: He says, what are the next steps for you? 02:22:40.269 --> 02:22:42.050 [Riv (DM)]: Specifically you, Ryo. 02:22:43.920 --> 02:22:45.421 [Riv (DM)]: I sense a lot of tension in you. 02:22:46.421 --> 02:22:49.022 [Riv (DM)]: You are uncertain about your path and your place in the world here. 02:22:49.042 --> 02:22:53.103 [Riv (DM)]: I also sense conflict from above. 02:22:54.864 --> 02:22:58.425 [Riv (DM)]: There are those in the Elven society that do not immediately accept you. 02:23:04.347 --> 02:23:05.748 [Riv (DM)]: What do you intend to do? 02:23:05.808 --> 02:23:06.668 [Riv (DM)]: What do you want to do? 02:23:08.202 --> 02:23:08.442 [Riv (DM)]: I... 02:23:09.603 --> 02:23:12.726 [Riv (DM)]: I don't want to influence or shift or push you in any way. 02:23:13.086 --> 02:23:14.968 [Riv (DM)]: I feel like that has happened to you too much already. 02:23:15.588 --> 02:23:20.512 [Riv (DM)]: I want you to... be open and comfortable with deciding for yourself. 02:23:21.173 --> 02:23:23.615 [Riv (DM)]: And I may be here to advise and help you. 02:23:28.038 --> 02:23:30.881 [JC (Ryo)]: Everything's been a blur since I found out who I truly am. 02:23:30.901 --> 02:23:33.583 [Riv (DM)]: I can imagine. 02:23:36.098 --> 02:23:44.586 [JC (Ryo)]: It would be nice to have somewhere to stay, but I have things I need to, I have loose ends that need to be tied up. 02:23:47.749 --> 02:23:49.210 [Riv (DM)]: Do you wish to speak of these loose ends? 02:23:56.256 --> 02:23:57.337 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, Korvas for one. 02:24:00.680 --> 02:24:01.861 [JC (Ryo)]: The Empire in general. 02:24:08.795 --> 02:24:10.556 [JC (Ryo)]: And then after that, I don't know. 02:24:14.738 --> 02:24:15.678 [Riv (DM)]: How about in the short term? 02:24:18.179 --> 02:24:26.143 [Riv (DM)]: I noticed the current commander of the Elven forces was proving to be troublesome. 02:24:26.943 --> 02:24:27.783 [Riv (DM)]: It's Kaelen Vayne. 02:24:29.844 --> 02:24:31.725 [Riv (DM)]: Do you have an intention of how you wish to deal with him? 02:24:35.447 --> 02:24:36.447 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, I don't know him. 02:24:36.587 --> 02:24:38.108 [JC (Ryo)]: I've met him the once for five minutes. 02:24:45.815 --> 02:24:46.915 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, what do I say? 02:24:46.935 --> 02:24:50.777 [JC (Ryo)]: I can't kill, you know, I don't know. 02:24:52.597 --> 02:24:56.098 [Riv (DM)]: Do you wish to take the seat? 02:24:56.598 --> 02:24:58.339 [Riv (DM)]: Do you wish to take power in the city? 02:24:58.719 --> 02:25:00.680 [Riv (DM)]: Or do you wish to leave it to others? 02:25:01.120 --> 02:25:02.720 [Riv (DM)]: That's probably some place to start. 02:25:04.801 --> 02:25:06.401 [Riv (DM)]: Because that would define your path forward. 02:25:06.461 --> 02:25:11.243 [Riv (DM)]: If you do not want anything to do with the people here, you can simply leave and the conflict disappears. 02:25:16.688 --> 02:25:19.689 [JC (Ryo)]: It's nice to have a home, but... 02:25:21.409 --> 02:25:25.129 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, if there's a chance my parents are still alive, I've got to try and find them. 02:25:26.490 --> 02:25:28.050 [JC (Ryo)]: I know I've got an auntie I've got to go find. 02:25:28.070 --> 02:25:32.091 [Riv (DM)]: There is a home for you here, I believe. 02:25:32.511 --> 02:25:37.031 [Riv (DM)]: The people, once your presence is revealed, would revere you. 02:25:37.171 --> 02:25:37.892 [Riv (DM)]: They would adore you. 02:25:38.652 --> 02:25:39.812 [Riv (DM)]: You would spark hope in them. 02:25:41.432 --> 02:25:42.272 [Riv (DM)]: It could be good for the world. 02:25:42.292 --> 02:25:45.453 [Riv (DM)]: It could be a return for the elves to the mainland. 02:25:50.383 --> 02:25:54.226 [Riv (DM)]: There are some political challenges that you'll need to face if that is the path you wish to go. 02:25:54.246 --> 02:25:58.570 [Riv (DM)]: I have no interest in politics. 02:26:02.233 --> 02:26:03.153 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe that decides it then. 02:26:10.739 --> 02:26:11.140 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 02:26:12.401 --> 02:26:13.221 [JC (Ryo)]: I will not be staying. 02:26:13.982 --> 02:26:15.083 [JC (Ryo)]: I do not want to stay here. 02:26:17.801 --> 02:26:18.902 [JC (Ryo)]: Not at the moment. 02:26:19.102 --> 02:26:20.183 [JC (Ryo)]: Maybe later in life. 02:26:22.786 --> 02:26:23.166 [Riv (DM)]: Very well. 02:26:30.412 --> 02:26:34.696 [Riv (DM)]: As I said, I will not try to influence your decisions. 02:26:35.777 --> 02:26:36.498 [Riv (DM)]: Your path is your own. 02:26:43.151 --> 02:26:48.813 [Riv (DM)]: We've spoken of a great many of things, many directions you can take, you can face. 02:26:49.353 --> 02:26:52.495 [Riv (DM)]: Perhaps best it is now time for you to ponder these. 02:26:53.495 --> 02:26:55.816 [Riv (DM)]: I will be here if you wish to return and speak. 02:26:56.876 --> 02:26:58.937 [Riv (DM)]: I will help in whichever way I can. 02:27:01.058 --> 02:27:04.940 [Riv (DM)]: This Kharazoth problem. 02:27:08.261 --> 02:27:10.382 [Riv (DM)]: Have you thought on this in terms of 02:27:14.893 --> 02:27:16.893 [Riv (DM)]: Do you think that this is an approach you wish to take? 02:27:17.493 --> 02:27:21.314 [Riv (DM)]: If it is, we possibly need to start making plans for crafting the weapon. 02:27:40.017 --> 02:27:43.718 [JC (Ryo)]: If we need a weapon to kill, kill it, yeah, we need to do something. 02:27:48.657 --> 02:27:52.839 [Riv (DM)]: I mentioned there was a soul stone anchor that was required. 02:27:52.859 --> 02:27:59.121 [Riv (DM)]: I'm aware of one that exists deep in the Vale of Eternal Night to the north of here. 02:28:03.822 --> 02:28:10.845 [Riv (DM)]: If you wish to pursue this, that may be a next step that you could consider taking. 02:28:17.205 --> 02:28:17.965 [JC (Ryo)]: That's what we need. 02:28:18.345 --> 02:28:20.046 [JC (Ryo)]: I looked at everyone else. 02:28:20.266 --> 02:28:21.426 [JC (Ryo)]: Sounds like we have to go get it. 02:28:26.507 --> 02:28:27.927 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Vale of the Eternal Night. 02:28:29.128 --> 02:28:34.349 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That was where Kaelen's son... MIA. 02:28:35.109 --> 02:28:38.310 [Lacer (Kai)]: Did his son die or just disappear? 02:28:38.850 --> 02:28:43.491 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I was about to ask, did we have confirmation whether it was MIA or KIA? 02:28:44.531 --> 02:28:45.051 [JC (Ryo)]: MIA. 02:28:48.340 --> 02:28:50.741 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, he might well be still alive. 02:29:03.084 --> 02:29:05.485 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, we'll need some weapon eventually to deal with it. 02:29:06.225 --> 02:29:06.425 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um... 02:29:07.425 --> 02:29:10.787 [Vael (Berberis)]: It'll be a long time before we're capable of putting it to use, though. 02:29:11.808 --> 02:29:12.188 [Lacer (Kai)]: We are. 02:29:13.509 --> 02:29:19.412 [Vael (Berberis)]: Even just the fraction of being able to be in a position where we could get there is... 02:29:21.073 --> 02:29:22.394 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's a task. 02:29:22.574 --> 02:29:23.715 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's a task beyond tasks. 02:29:25.076 --> 02:29:25.356 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hmm. 02:29:25.736 --> 02:29:27.437 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Guessing there may not be an issue. 02:29:31.319 --> 02:29:32.500 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Or do you mean figuratively? 02:29:32.680 --> 02:29:35.262 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, I mean, once we have the weapon, putting it to use. 02:29:36.803 --> 02:29:37.143 [Vael (Berberis)]: The... 02:29:37.520 --> 02:29:42.802 [Vael (Berberis)]: The level of enemy we're dealing with there is just an astronomical gap. 02:29:43.042 --> 02:29:46.043 [Vael (Berberis)]: Let's not even pretend that we could consider it. 02:29:50.025 --> 02:29:51.946 [JC (Ryo)]: You know how Ayanna was treating us like toys? 02:29:52.526 --> 02:29:52.766 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 02:29:54.887 --> 02:29:57.048 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, this is even worse. 02:29:57.688 --> 02:30:01.569 [Vael (Berberis)]: Even with the weapon, the chance... We're good. 02:30:01.589 --> 02:30:04.671 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, we're not bad, we're good. 02:30:06.480 --> 02:30:08.661 [Vael (Berberis)]: Speak for yourself. 02:30:09.721 --> 02:30:19.165 [Vael (Berberis)]: Just dealing with a minion of the Shadow is a great task. 02:30:21.606 --> 02:30:27.629 [Vael (Berberis)]: Getting our hands on him and being in a position where we could one, put the weapon to use, and two, take him down. 02:30:27.649 --> 02:30:32.971 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're gonna need a pretty big power-up arc. 02:30:33.051 --> 02:30:34.192 [Vael (Berberis)]: This is no montage shit. 02:30:35.837 --> 02:30:39.238 [Lacer (Kai)]: What we're saying is we need training, Praetor. 02:30:39.258 --> 02:30:41.399 [Lacer (Kai)]: We need time, training, we need strength. 02:30:43.640 --> 02:30:45.140 [Vael (Berberis)]: Assuming we can get this Soul Anchor. 02:30:47.581 --> 02:30:48.642 [Vael (Berberis)]: Which we can, because we could. 02:30:51.663 --> 02:30:52.743 [Lacer (Kai)]: How would we find it? 02:30:52.803 --> 02:30:54.864 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we find it or do we craft it? 02:30:55.304 --> 02:30:56.125 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's the question. 02:30:56.865 --> 02:30:58.465 [Lacer (Kai)]: Find it in the Vale, I'm sure. 02:30:58.546 --> 02:30:59.406 [Vael (Berberis)]: It'll be obvious. 02:31:00.386 --> 02:31:02.347 [Vael (Berberis)]: Magical item, guarded by all the bad things. 02:31:05.361 --> 02:31:06.162 [Vael (Berberis)]: Is that where it is? 02:31:07.163 --> 02:31:14.008 [Vael (Berberis)]: Crafting the weapon would be, one, I imagine a process, and two, once we have it, I don't think we want to be walking around the world with it on us. 02:31:17.251 --> 02:31:20.794 [Vael (Berberis)]: Because a weapon of that power is a whole other thing. 02:31:23.176 --> 02:31:24.797 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: No one would know we'd have it. 02:31:27.499 --> 02:31:29.100 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, if... 02:31:30.422 --> 02:31:32.063 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, you don't want to drop it down the back of the couch. 02:31:33.873 --> 02:31:43.316 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, we don't want to lose the bag of holding, but... How long would it take to make this weapon if we had you all the materials? 02:31:48.217 --> 02:31:50.218 [Riv (DM)]: Some months, I believe. 02:31:52.118 --> 02:31:54.099 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we better get these materials then. 02:31:54.379 --> 02:31:55.359 [Lacer (Kai)]: Months is a long time. 02:32:04.508 --> 02:32:05.108 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's a start. 02:32:05.588 --> 02:32:07.429 [Vael (Berberis)]: It'd be something better to have than not have. 02:32:07.909 --> 02:32:09.309 [Vael (Berberis)]: But, yeah. 02:32:11.009 --> 02:32:21.411 [Vael (Berberis)]: Wrapping my head around the practicalities of even beginning to use it is a bit beyond us mere mortals at this stage. 02:32:23.292 --> 02:32:23.692 [Vael (Berberis)]: Very well. 02:32:26.112 --> 02:32:28.913 [Vael (Berberis)]: Still, crafting is a start. 02:32:30.313 --> 02:32:30.493 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:32:32.494 --> 02:32:33.636 [Riv (DM)]: You should go and rest. 02:32:34.457 --> 02:32:37.783 [Riv (DM)]: You have a great deal of things to consider, I believe. 02:32:38.344 --> 02:32:42.431 [Riv (DM)]: I will be here when you wish to speak further or for any advice you seek. 02:32:43.874 --> 02:32:45.016 [Riv (DM)]: I have one more vision to show you. 02:32:47.941 --> 02:32:50.843 [Riv (DM)]: Doubt that you seem to have for yourself, young Silmara. 02:32:52.464 --> 02:32:52.925 [Riv (DM)]: Troubles me. 02:32:53.765 --> 02:32:59.069 [Riv (DM)]: There's something I believe it would be helpful for you to see come. 02:32:59.890 --> 02:33:04.834 [Riv (DM)]: Chester's for you to step back up onto the dais and he starts like sort of swirling the liquid again. 02:33:06.435 --> 02:33:07.436 [Riv (DM)]: Vision stuff flashing. 02:33:08.336 --> 02:33:16.703 [Riv (DM)]: And another vision pops up now and you immediately feel it start to wrap around the group and you all see there are two hooded and cloaked figures. 02:33:19.435 --> 02:33:39.102 [Riv (DM)]: Um standing in in front of a short gnome gnomish looking man and the slightly shorter cloaked figure hands over a bundle to the the gnomish man um and you kind of see some murmuring discussions happening between them um eventually you you hear the words as the gnome says well 02:33:40.197 --> 02:33:40.817 [Riv (DM)]: What do I call him? 02:33:41.978 --> 02:33:45.659 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear the voice reply, his name is Riordan. 02:33:46.600 --> 02:33:48.241 [Riv (DM)]: You should probably just call him Rio though. 02:33:49.601 --> 02:33:51.282 [Riv (DM)]: Save the anonymity. 02:33:54.574 --> 02:33:54.874 [Riv (DM)]: Farewell. 02:33:56.035 --> 02:33:59.819 [Riv (DM)]: And she very lovingly reaches out a hand and pats his head. 02:34:00.539 --> 02:34:09.427 [Riv (DM)]: And the two of them turn to get away out into the shadows, leaving the gnome just sort of looking down into the face of a young child Ryo. 02:34:09.447 --> 02:34:16.554 [Riv (DM)]: And as the vision starts to fade, the dragon says and turns to you, 02:34:17.946 --> 02:34:19.967 [Riv (DM)]: Your mother called you Riordan. 02:34:19.987 --> 02:34:22.449 [Riv (DM)]: I imagine that's not a name that you recognize. 02:34:24.250 --> 02:34:25.150 [Riv (DM)]: He waves his hand again. 02:34:25.831 --> 02:34:28.532 [Riv (DM)]: More visions start to flash across the basin. 02:34:30.253 --> 02:34:41.600 [Riv (DM)]: You see a glorious looking soldier, Elven, standing shoulder to shoulder with great vast humanoid creatures, blue skin, massive wings. 02:34:42.640 --> 02:34:49.807 [Riv (DM)]: Immense entities that are inconceivable are standing and floating behind energies of the gods clearly. 02:34:49.827 --> 02:34:51.929 [Riv (DM)]: A great battle is occurring. 02:34:52.729 --> 02:35:06.282 [Riv (DM)]: The root that is piercing the ground in front of them, stretching up into the sky and into the cosmos beyond is shattering as this battlefield between cosmic horrors you can't even begin to wrap your head around is taking place. 02:35:09.050 --> 02:35:15.433 [Riv (DM)]: The dragon says, That was Riordan Silmara, first of his name. 02:35:16.814 --> 02:35:22.077 [Riv (DM)]: He was the one who bound your people to this sundered root of the world tree. 02:35:23.157 --> 02:35:29.620 [Riv (DM)]: He was the one responsible for keeping the cosmos in balance and saving it from a dark fate. 02:35:31.681 --> 02:35:32.522 [Riv (DM)]: Your mother clearly... 02:35:34.308 --> 02:35:36.889 [Riv (DM)]: Thought that you were going to bring great things. 02:35:37.549 --> 02:35:40.391 [Riv (DM)]: We had a great deal of love and faith for you. 02:35:40.411 --> 02:35:50.895 [Riv (DM)]: I hope that gives you some measure of reprieve in your sorrow and lack of hope. 02:35:56.077 --> 02:35:57.338 [JC (Ryo)]: I must ask you, Great One. 02:35:59.619 --> 02:36:02.780 [JC (Ryo)]: You knew of Erendor's mother in the tower. 02:36:05.092 --> 02:36:07.014 [Riv (DM)]: I saw the visions when you were coming down. 02:36:08.054 --> 02:36:11.857 [Riv (DM)]: Until you arrived in the vault, I was not entirely sure. 02:36:12.698 --> 02:36:15.740 [Riv (DM)]: Like I said, the memories and visions I see are confusing. 02:36:16.341 --> 02:36:17.702 [Riv (DM)]: You have solidified some of them for me. 02:36:21.305 --> 02:36:28.030 [JC (Ryo)]: You just said my mother had... Has she passed or is she still alive? 02:36:28.070 --> 02:36:28.931 [JC (Ryo)]: Are you able to tell? 02:36:28.951 --> 02:36:31.833 [Riv (DM)]: Are you sure you want to see? 02:36:35.267 --> 02:36:36.869 [Riv (DM)]: If they're still out there, I'd need to know. 02:36:36.889 --> 02:36:49.202 [Riv (DM)]: It's Wills' hand, the vision comes back, and it immediately, you recognize it as the same vision that you saw as you were stepping down into the first chamber of the vault. 02:36:50.162 --> 02:36:51.283 [Riv (DM)]: Two figures crouched. 02:36:52.003 --> 02:36:55.907 [Riv (DM)]: The male, your father, Ratha, holding Rennaya in his arms. 02:36:56.107 --> 02:36:57.007 [Riv (DM)]: She's clearly wounded. 02:36:57.628 --> 02:37:02.632 [Riv (DM)]: And a tall figure, immense, black armor steps into view. 02:37:03.532 --> 02:37:06.835 [Riv (DM)]: Evil longsword that just plunges through, straight through both of them. 02:37:15.422 --> 02:37:16.923 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's right, they were in the sword. 02:37:18.957 --> 02:37:23.600 [JC (Ryo)]: Am I able to recognize the sword as the one in the bag? 02:37:24.760 --> 02:37:26.481 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah, it was Blackmarsh. 02:37:27.122 --> 02:37:27.702 [Riv (DM)]: The same sword. 02:37:37.007 --> 02:37:38.108 [JC (Ryo)]: At least we got their killer. 02:37:39.969 --> 02:37:41.069 [JC (Ryo)]: That's it, I'm quiet now. 02:37:46.272 --> 02:37:47.553 [Riv (DM)]: Think on this, Riordan. 02:37:48.968 --> 02:37:49.629 [Riv (DM)]: Do not lose hope. 02:37:51.212 --> 02:37:55.358 [Riv (DM)]: Your mother believed great things were to come from you and I believed that as well. 02:37:56.219 --> 02:37:59.665 [Riv (DM)]: Your mother was wise and a very, very close friend of mine. 02:38:02.657 --> 02:38:03.738 [Riv (DM)]: Go. 02:38:03.978 --> 02:38:05.319 [Riv (DM)]: Have the rest of the evening to yourselves. 02:38:05.939 --> 02:38:11.623 [Riv (DM)]: Think, ponder, plan, and if there's anything else you need from me, I will still be here. 02:38:14.405 --> 02:38:26.712 [Riv (DM)]: Slams his staff a couple of times on the ground, and another platform sort of pops up, gestures for you to stand on it, and if you guys give the nod that you're happy to leave. 02:38:29.394 --> 02:38:30.455 [Riv (DM)]: Without any more questions... 02:38:33.254 --> 02:38:33.594 [Riv (DM)]: All good? 02:38:33.774 --> 02:38:34.394 [Riv (DM)]: The platform? 02:38:37.416 --> 02:38:43.198 [Lacer (Kai)]: He didn't ask what we need to get for this bindy tool weapon. 02:38:43.338 --> 02:38:45.578 [JC (Ryo)]: We need a soul gem so far, that's all he's told us. 02:38:46.179 --> 02:38:48.199 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, he didn't say where, do we have to go where? 02:38:48.419 --> 02:38:50.240 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, he said north. 02:38:50.680 --> 02:38:52.321 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, we gotta go north, okay. 02:38:52.481 --> 02:38:53.201 [Riv (DM)]: Soulstone Anchor. 02:38:54.242 --> 02:38:58.283 [Riv (DM)]: In the north, with the Unseelie Port and the Vale of Eternal Night. 02:38:58.303 --> 02:39:00.724 [Lacer (Kai)]: He said multiple materials, just one material? 02:39:01.672 --> 02:39:05.062 [Riv (DM)]: If you bring him the Soulstone Anchor, he can craft into any weapon you want. 02:39:06.747 --> 02:39:07.008 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:39:09.505 --> 02:39:09.825 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 02:39:10.365 --> 02:39:23.170 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess I'd like to touch my shield and see if I can do a ping, if I can feel any resonance for the other moonstone, since we're in a weird space. 02:39:23.310 --> 02:39:23.690 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:39:24.230 --> 02:39:27.431 [Riv (DM)]: I think you don't get any response. 02:39:27.451 --> 02:39:29.532 [Riv (DM)]: You're in a different plane of existence. 02:39:29.572 --> 02:39:35.494 [Riv (DM)]: As far as you can tell, there is no pull in any direction on this plane. 02:39:37.515 --> 02:39:38.155 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's good to know. 02:39:40.183 --> 02:39:42.544 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Wait, what can he see? 02:39:45.046 --> 02:39:46.907 [Lacer (Kai)]: He can see everything. 02:39:49.148 --> 02:39:50.109 [Riv (DM)]: You mean the dragon? 02:39:50.889 --> 02:39:51.210 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 02:39:53.591 --> 02:39:56.393 [Riv (DM)]: Do you mean like literally or how do you mean? 02:39:57.473 --> 02:39:58.214 [Riv (DM)]: What's your question? 02:39:58.814 --> 02:40:00.675 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He has insights into the world. 02:40:01.776 --> 02:40:04.958 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can he see if an individual is alive or dead? 02:40:06.245 --> 02:40:07.987 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh he can he can try to. 02:40:08.007 --> 02:40:10.369 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Are you looking for your girlfriend? 02:40:10.709 --> 02:40:27.603 [Riv (DM)]: So the this is the this is the sundered root of the world tree it's um like magic it doesn't even make sense to call it magic it's this is the this is what birthed the cosmos so time and space is all walked here there there is no like definition 02:40:28.103 --> 02:40:42.694 [Riv (DM)]: Of understanding what's going on and he's been immersed down here for thousands and thousands of years so his mind has become quite warped by it um he sees things he just sees stuff he sees visions that are presented to him as they sort of cycle through 02:40:43.414 --> 02:41:09.432 [Riv (DM)]: The cosmos and come down into this um into the root and he might see something that he thinks was happening in the past but maybe it's actually a vision of something from the future um it's very hard to keep track of it all but when you guys come down um the visions sort of like align themselves around you and so it gives him some clarity that's why he went through the whole exercise essentially see your whole journey to reach this place um that allowed him to sort of anchor what he knows in in reality 02:41:12.328 --> 02:41:14.169 [Riv (DM)]: Is that sort of an answer? 02:41:15.849 --> 02:41:16.170 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Maybe. 02:41:18.971 --> 02:41:19.951 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can I ask him a question? 02:41:20.951 --> 02:41:22.612 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the platform stops floating up. 02:41:25.593 --> 02:41:28.234 [JC (Ryo)]: I was going to say, can we rest down here instead of going back up? 02:41:30.855 --> 02:41:32.476 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I've got two questions, but yeah. 02:41:32.916 --> 02:41:34.276 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll wait for Dondar. 02:41:34.336 --> 02:41:35.297 [Riv (DM)]: Go for the questions. 02:41:38.318 --> 02:41:39.118 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can you tell... 02:41:40.550 --> 02:41:42.411 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If someone in my past is alive? 02:41:44.752 --> 02:41:45.372 [Riv (DM)]: I can try. 02:41:46.373 --> 02:41:47.233 [Riv (DM)]: Who are you looking for? 02:41:47.733 --> 02:41:48.173 [Riv (DM)]: Your brother? 02:41:51.235 --> 02:41:51.795 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hvedra. 02:41:53.356 --> 02:41:53.676 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:41:55.577 --> 02:41:55.777 [Riv (DM)]: Come. 02:41:58.298 --> 02:42:01.599 [Riv (DM)]: He gestures for you to follow over to the dais. 02:42:06.561 --> 02:42:10.083 [Riv (DM)]: And waves over top of the basin and visions start to flash. 02:42:15.140 --> 02:42:25.788 [Riv (DM)]: You see some tunnels, candles, or probably actually not candles, they're more like torches that sit in sconces along the wall. 02:42:27.049 --> 02:42:27.710 [Riv (DM)]: And there are... 02:42:29.845 --> 02:42:35.826 [Riv (DM)]: A group of three dwarves' backs turned to you, sort of just passing down. 02:42:36.486 --> 02:42:41.787 [Riv (DM)]: And you can see there is some long brown hair trailing down the back of one of them. 02:42:41.967 --> 02:42:43.247 [Riv (DM)]: That seems familiar to you. 02:42:43.267 --> 02:42:52.049 [Riv (DM)]: Does this answer your question? 02:42:54.809 --> 02:42:56.009 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is that... when is that? 02:42:56.270 --> 02:42:56.850 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is that now? 02:42:56.870 --> 02:42:58.810 [Riv (DM)]: I believe it is now. 02:43:04.102 --> 02:43:05.303 [Riv (DM)]: And Kiwi, question to you. 02:43:05.923 --> 02:43:09.005 [Riv (DM)]: If there are any other details that you would like to add to the scene, feel free to. 02:43:13.908 --> 02:43:15.108 [Riv (DM)]: What do you think Dondar would see? 02:43:21.211 --> 02:43:23.893 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: God, that is a question I had not considered. 02:43:24.573 --> 02:43:25.894 [Riv (DM)]: Hey, I love flipping it on you guys. 02:43:25.914 --> 02:43:27.615 [Riv (DM)]: You guys are allowed to tell the story as well. 02:43:31.394 --> 02:43:31.754 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hmm. 02:43:35.958 --> 02:43:38.080 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, very short. 02:43:38.100 --> 02:43:39.060 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Very long brown hair. 02:43:40.121 --> 02:43:41.362 [Riv (DM)]: Mm-hmm. 02:43:41.422 --> 02:43:42.643 [Riv (DM)]: What is she doing at the moment? 02:43:45.586 --> 02:43:46.326 [Riv (DM)]: What is she doing? 02:43:46.527 --> 02:43:46.707 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:43:46.727 --> 02:43:48.328 [Riv (DM)]: What do you think she's doing at the moment? 02:43:49.649 --> 02:43:56.575 [Riv (DM)]: She appears to be heading down some tunnels lit by sconces, but maybe she's heading in a certain direction you probably recognize. 02:44:00.278 --> 02:44:00.418 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I... 02:44:02.955 --> 02:44:03.475 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I don't know. 02:44:04.395 --> 02:44:06.596 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I had assumed her dead. 02:44:08.297 --> 02:44:08.637 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I don't... 02:44:13.078 --> 02:44:18.860 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If she is alive and with dwarves, I do not know where she is going. 02:44:18.900 --> 02:44:20.340 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is she the captive? 02:44:21.360 --> 02:44:22.521 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Doesn't seem to be. 02:44:25.502 --> 02:44:26.282 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That is troubling. 02:44:33.633 --> 02:44:34.433 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Shuffling indeed. 02:44:34.453 --> 02:44:36.955 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:44:39.296 --> 02:44:43.718 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How... No. 02:44:45.419 --> 02:44:46.419 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm not sure I want to know. 02:44:48.980 --> 02:44:49.321 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you. 02:44:51.842 --> 02:44:55.203 [Riv (DM)]: Seems you also have pasts you need to uncover. 02:44:58.005 --> 02:44:58.145 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:45:02.307 --> 02:45:02.667 [Riv (DM)]: Very well. 02:45:05.122 --> 02:45:05.642 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone else? 02:45:08.323 --> 02:45:15.826 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, and I step forward and I present the Moonlight Shield that was crafted recently. 02:45:17.027 --> 02:45:19.168 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I place my hand on the Moonstone. 02:45:19.848 --> 02:45:30.012 [Lacer (Kai)]: I seek to fulfill Selune's prophecy, but to do so, I need to find a third Moonstone, one such as this. 02:45:33.030 --> 02:45:33.410 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:45:34.752 --> 02:45:38.976 [Riv (DM)]: You appear to have one Moonstone and yet you search for only one other? 02:45:40.597 --> 02:45:41.939 [Riv (DM)]: Do you already know where one of them is? 02:45:41.959 --> 02:45:52.829 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, there was another one at the High Sept in the... 02:45:56.052 --> 02:45:57.794 [Lacer (Kai)]: It was with the High Priest. 02:46:01.954 --> 02:46:05.077 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who was called, who was named Aldia? 02:46:05.277 --> 02:46:06.398 [Lacer (Kai)]: High Priest Aldia? 02:46:06.458 --> 02:46:06.878 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's right. 02:46:08.419 --> 02:46:10.801 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think in Val Miriel. 02:46:10.861 --> 02:46:11.582 [Lacer (Kai)]: Val Miriel? 02:46:11.762 --> 02:46:12.262 [Riv (DM)]: That's right. 02:46:12.943 --> 02:46:13.523 [Lacer (Kai)]: The High Sept. 02:46:15.025 --> 02:46:20.629 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, I saw a moonstone there that was encased at the time. 02:46:20.649 --> 02:46:24.172 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Ice fishing boys! 02:46:26.554 --> 02:46:29.116 [Riv (DM)]: So two you know of and one you do not. 02:46:30.864 --> 02:46:32.005 [Riv (DM)]: The shield will point the way. 02:46:35.348 --> 02:46:39.911 [Riv (DM)]: I believe you must just return to the material plane where it likely currently resides. 02:46:42.553 --> 02:46:45.336 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are there more than one Moonstone? 02:46:45.896 --> 02:46:48.058 [Lacer (Kai)]: As in, not like, more than three? 02:46:48.398 --> 02:46:49.159 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's my question. 02:46:49.239 --> 02:46:50.179 [Lacer (Kai)]: Were there more than three? 02:46:50.200 --> 02:46:53.022 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or are there only three in the world? 02:46:56.365 --> 02:46:57.946 [Riv (DM)]: It's not a question I know the answer to. 02:46:57.986 --> 02:47:00.808 [Riv (DM)]: There's possibly one that you need to discuss with your god. 02:47:02.809 --> 02:47:07.251 [Riv (DM)]: If it were up to me, I wouldn't be so cruel as to make more than three. 02:47:08.452 --> 02:47:12.554 [Riv (DM)]: Falling into the hands of the wrong people would be very diabolical. 02:47:13.075 --> 02:47:16.236 [Riv (DM)]: But, who are we to understand the gods? 02:47:18.998 --> 02:47:20.379 [Lacer (Kai)]: I understand, I think. 02:47:21.299 --> 02:47:22.920 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You are much better for that than we are. 02:47:25.182 --> 02:47:25.522 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Maybe. 02:47:25.802 --> 02:47:25.982 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes. 02:47:28.413 --> 02:47:34.155 [Lacer (Kai)]: My next question is, how does time flow in this chamber? 02:47:34.175 --> 02:47:41.317 [Riv (DM)]: Do you mean in relation to the outside world? 02:47:42.798 --> 02:47:43.018 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes. 02:47:45.439 --> 02:47:49.740 [Riv (DM)]: It more or less travels along the same path. 02:47:50.620 --> 02:47:55.262 [Riv (DM)]: When I was having visitors, they would come and go with the same regularity that you would expect. 02:48:01.435 --> 02:48:03.236 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, that's good to know. 02:48:04.477 --> 02:48:13.724 [Lacer (Kai)]: Next time we see you, would you want us to bring you something back from the outside world, since it's been at least a hundred years since you last spoke to people like us? 02:48:19.408 --> 02:48:20.829 [Riv (DM)]: You should ask Ayana to come. 02:48:23.491 --> 02:48:26.793 [Riv (DM)]: I always enjoyed her company, she was a good... she was a good time. 02:48:30.407 --> 02:48:31.027 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can do that. 02:48:31.147 --> 02:48:32.208 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can pass the message. 02:48:34.188 --> 02:48:34.969 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd have to bring her. 02:48:39.990 --> 02:48:41.871 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that, I'm quite happy. 02:48:42.131 --> 02:48:42.931 [Riv (DM)]: I don't need for much. 02:48:47.073 --> 02:48:49.594 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, if you ever want to play chess, we know someone. 02:48:50.994 --> 02:48:53.775 [Riv (DM)]: I assume that's a good point. 02:48:54.915 --> 02:48:56.036 [Riv (DM)]: Young Master Grumble. 02:48:57.416 --> 02:48:57.856 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Indeed. 02:48:58.417 --> 02:48:59.297 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He's a funny guy. 02:49:00.636 --> 02:49:13.007 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: an avid player very well 02:49:19.355 --> 02:49:25.299 [Riv (DM)]: If there is nothing else, then... Actually, there's only one last thing. 02:49:26.259 --> 02:49:32.303 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is there anything we need to prepare to go north of the city? 02:49:34.929 --> 02:49:38.211 [Lacer (Kai)]: In search for this soul stone. 02:49:39.492 --> 02:49:44.135 [Riv (DM)]: I suggest speaking to the people above in the city. 02:49:44.335 --> 02:49:52.640 [Riv (DM)]: They will have a much better understanding of the intricacies of the court of the Unseelie. 02:49:52.941 --> 02:49:55.602 [Riv (DM)]: Their plans and their tactics and the layout of their keeps. 02:49:56.463 --> 02:49:57.483 [Riv (DM)]: They will be able to assist you. 02:49:59.625 --> 02:49:59.885 [Lacer (Kai)]: All right. 02:50:07.562 --> 02:50:07.843 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:50:09.806 --> 02:50:11.128 [Riv (DM)]: Platform starts to rise. 02:50:15.194 --> 02:50:17.177 [Riv (DM)]: And instead of... No wait! 02:50:21.320 --> 02:50:21.861 [Riv (DM)]: It's nothing. 02:50:21.881 --> 02:50:22.902 [Riv (DM)]: I just wanted to make you stop. 02:50:22.942 --> 02:50:23.442 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sorry. 02:50:23.542 --> 02:50:28.506 [Riv (DM)]: It like goes up and down and up and down. 02:50:28.946 --> 02:50:30.267 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, no, it's rising again. 02:50:32.528 --> 02:50:33.049 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, man. 02:50:34.330 --> 02:50:37.292 [Riv (DM)]: No more vast maze of chambers. 02:50:37.812 --> 02:50:39.894 [Riv (DM)]: The platform leads you straight up through the ceiling. 02:50:40.014 --> 02:50:42.495 [Riv (DM)]: The roof above you almost just like opens up. 02:50:42.576 --> 02:50:47.119 [Riv (DM)]: It crumbles away as you pass straight on through it and then it seals again back beneath you. 02:50:47.779 --> 02:50:48.680 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, it just rises up. 02:50:49.100 --> 02:51:00.608 [Riv (DM)]: An elevator for minutes, a few minutes at a time until eventually lifts you back up and you come to kind of more familiar walls and 02:51:03.085 --> 02:51:07.349 [Riv (DM)]: I believe you eventually will get to that familiar sort of first set of stairs that bring you down. 02:51:07.409 --> 02:51:15.297 [Riv (DM)]: The lift will just pop up, kind of align itself with the ground as the stairs come down to meet where you're standing. 02:51:15.757 --> 02:51:22.224 [Riv (DM)]: You look up and you can see the opening that leads up into the basement of the Royal Citadel. 02:51:23.811 --> 02:51:37.989 [Riv (DM)]: You head up the stairs, you see the whole sort of engine contraption that Ryo activated earlier to open the vault is still there as you kind of step up and out of it. 02:51:39.291 --> 02:51:44.757 [Riv (DM)]: It starts to turn, twist again, grind as the entranceway starts to close behind you. 02:51:46.319 --> 02:51:50.545 [Riv (DM)]: The whole sort of dice itself, the whole contraption just slides back into the ground as if it were neither there. 02:51:51.085 --> 02:51:55.511 [Riv (DM)]: You just find yourself in this sort of like alcove, this chamber off to the side. 02:51:57.530 --> 02:52:07.496 [Riv (DM)]: You kind of look around at each other, a lot to ponder, and as you go to leave, you notice there is a sort of glowing blue orb in the entrance to this chamber. 02:52:07.516 --> 02:52:12.179 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of floating, hovering, flickering a little bit of light. 02:52:12.839 --> 02:52:17.282 [Riv (DM)]: And as you approach it, it starts to coalesce into an image. 02:52:17.302 --> 02:52:18.683 [Riv (DM)]: It's sort of like... 02:52:20.545 --> 02:52:21.125 [Riv (DM)]: Hologram. 02:52:21.385 --> 02:52:22.606 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, kind of like a hologram. 02:52:22.646 --> 02:52:37.410 [Riv (DM)]: You see, probably about waist height, from waist to head, you see an image of Ayana, sort of flickering as she's kind of like, tilts her head like, have you got a, ah good, alright. 02:52:38.631 --> 02:52:40.991 [Riv (DM)]: My friends, I've spoken with the council. 02:52:42.212 --> 02:52:43.292 [Riv (DM)]: We will leave you be this evening. 02:52:43.692 --> 02:52:45.133 [Riv (DM)]: There will be no more questions tonight. 02:52:45.373 --> 02:52:46.033 [Riv (DM)]: No more demands. 02:52:47.180 --> 02:52:49.141 [Riv (DM)]: Ellie and I will return to the Locus Arcanum. 02:52:50.042 --> 02:52:56.647 [Riv (DM)]: And as she says this, you see almost like someone is holding some recording device. 02:52:57.047 --> 02:53:03.351 [Riv (DM)]: You see the camera or the view just sort of like flip slightly and you see Alithea's head pop into frame and she just waves a little bit. 02:53:04.512 --> 02:53:07.114 [Riv (DM)]: We will return to the Locus Arcanum. 02:53:07.894 --> 02:53:09.015 [Riv (DM)]: The Royal Citadel is yours. 02:53:10.076 --> 02:53:11.217 [Riv (DM)]: Take whichever rooms you wish. 02:53:11.717 --> 02:53:12.898 [Riv (DM)]: Eat, rest, talk. 02:53:14.430 --> 02:53:17.513 [Riv (DM)]: When you're ready, and only when you are ready, come and find us. 02:53:18.854 --> 02:53:30.884 [Riv (DM)]: And you see, like, her face, which has always been quite serious to date, in all the times that you've known her so far, softens, and she says, I know what we've asked of you. 02:53:31.325 --> 02:53:32.506 [Riv (DM)]: I know what I've asked of you. 02:53:34.908 --> 02:53:39.872 [Riv (DM)]: I do deeply apologize for how I've imposed upon you. 02:53:42.763 --> 02:53:45.885 [Riv (DM)]: I won't deny that part of it was selfish. 02:53:48.027 --> 02:53:51.369 [Riv (DM)]: You've reunited me with someone that I care a great deal about. 02:53:53.150 --> 02:53:55.472 [Riv (DM)]: And I will forever be thankful to you for that. 02:53:57.413 --> 02:53:58.894 [Riv (DM)]: So please, I ask no more of you. 02:54:00.015 --> 02:54:02.436 [Riv (DM)]: Only come when you feel like you're ready. 02:54:04.057 --> 02:54:04.878 [Riv (DM)]: Take the night to yourselves. 02:54:07.758 --> 02:54:18.600 [Riv (DM)]: And with that, you see she kind of turns and starts to head out and you see Illithia comes with her, Link's arm, and they start to head away. 02:54:24.464 --> 02:54:31.966 [Riv (DM)]: Leaving you in the Royal Citadel, technically, rightfully yours to do with whatever you wish. 02:54:33.047 --> 02:54:38.468 [Riv (DM)]: You can sleep here and talk, you can make food, you can relax. 02:54:39.528 --> 02:54:39.929 [Riv (DM)]: Fireball. 02:54:40.089 --> 02:54:40.989 [Riv (DM)]: Entirely up to you. 02:54:41.249 --> 02:54:42.469 [Riv (DM)]: You can try to fireball. 02:54:44.550 --> 02:54:46.631 [JC (Ryo)]: Before the party goes anywhere, I turn to everyone. 02:54:47.531 --> 02:54:51.272 [JC (Ryo)]: Please don't call me Ryu Dunn, just call me Ryu. 02:54:52.814 --> 02:54:54.836 [JC (Ryo)]: Certainly, your highness, Ryu. 02:54:55.597 --> 02:54:56.078 [JC (Ryo)]: Drop that. 02:54:57.519 --> 02:54:57.880 [JC (Ryo)]: Please. 02:54:58.600 --> 02:54:58.861 [JC (Ryo)]: Just... 02:55:00.623 --> 02:55:01.343 [JC (Ryo)]: I need time to think. 02:55:07.170 --> 02:55:09.893 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll give him the little courtly bow with the hand. 02:55:09.913 --> 02:55:10.714 [Vael (Berberis)]: Sorry, I shouldn't laugh. 02:55:10.774 --> 02:55:11.835 [Vael (Berberis)]: Let's go find a garden. 02:55:15.231 --> 02:55:25.220 [Riv (DM)]: I think there are lots of little mini gardens here, some like internal so you might find you head down a hallway and there's like this nice little internal garden you can see you walk out. 02:55:25.541 --> 02:55:32.047 [Riv (DM)]: It's open to the sky above, surrounded by fountains and trees and cute little pathways and seats. 02:55:32.988 --> 02:55:35.150 [Riv (DM)]: Definitely a nice tree that you can curl up at the base of. 02:55:39.116 --> 02:55:39.576 [Vael (Berberis)]: For the night. 02:55:40.577 --> 02:55:51.621 [Vael (Berberis)]: Someday, some point, probably tomorrow or within the next week, I would like to head over towards the district with the plants and the trees and the people that grow the things. 02:55:53.461 --> 02:55:56.002 [Vael (Berberis)]: But that's not a day job, that's something I would like to do. 02:55:57.263 --> 02:55:57.563 [Vael (Berberis)]: Totally. 02:55:58.223 --> 02:56:01.564 [Riv (DM)]: The Greensward Canton, yeah, Circle of the Roots. 02:56:05.005 --> 02:56:05.185 Cool. 02:56:05.425 --> 02:56:06.826 [Riv (DM)]: What do the rest of you guys get up to tonight? 02:56:09.977 --> 02:56:13.398 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm going to find a room with a balcony that it can see the moon. 02:56:15.279 --> 02:56:20.860 [Riv (DM)]: And the moon is definitely out tonight, as you recall the meeting of the Confluence began when the moon rose. 02:56:22.041 --> 02:56:22.701 [Lacer (Kai)]: I remember. 02:56:23.361 --> 02:56:25.402 [Lacer (Kai)]: What does a faint moon look like? 02:56:25.502 --> 02:56:26.842 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because this isn't the same. 02:56:27.102 --> 02:56:27.742 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's pink. 02:56:28.823 --> 02:56:31.203 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:56:31.384 --> 02:56:32.824 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe there are more than one moon as well. 02:56:33.153 --> 02:56:36.095 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say there's probably, why don't we say there are three moons of different sizes. 02:56:36.116 --> 02:56:36.876 [Riv (DM)]: There's three moons? 02:56:37.196 --> 02:56:37.417 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 02:56:38.257 --> 02:56:39.178 [Riv (DM)]: They can be as many as we want. 02:56:39.198 --> 02:56:43.702 [Riv (DM)]: Does a moon have a moon? 02:56:44.643 --> 02:56:47.065 [Lacer (Kai)]: I get triple the power now in this realm. 02:56:47.845 --> 02:56:49.206 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, or maybe you have less power. 02:56:50.567 --> 02:56:51.889 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, maybe you have none. 02:56:51.909 --> 02:56:53.350 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's no real moon here. 02:56:54.671 --> 02:56:57.814 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, they're fake moons, because it's the Fey Realm. 02:56:58.534 --> 02:57:00.035 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's not your moon, it's a different one. 02:57:00.696 --> 02:57:01.737 [JC (Ryo)]: That's no moon. 02:57:03.778 --> 02:57:05.198 [JC (Ryo)]: My goddess is the goddess of the moon. 02:57:05.398 --> 02:57:06.759 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's literally the Fey Realm. 02:57:07.039 --> 02:57:08.619 [Vael (Berberis)]: One of them could be made of cheese. 02:57:13.501 --> 02:57:15.281 [Riv (DM)]: One of them is just constantly screaming. 02:57:15.301 --> 02:57:21.163 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You're just lucky there's a vacuum between it and you so you can't hear us. 02:57:21.523 --> 02:57:26.984 [Riv (DM)]: Wasn't it like the Mighty Boosh or something where the moon has a face and it's just always screaming? 02:57:27.764 --> 02:57:28.625 [Riv (DM)]: What does Erendor get up to? 02:57:28.685 --> 02:57:29.685 [Riv (DM)]: How's Erendor feeling? 02:57:32.603 --> 02:57:41.008 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I would like to try and find Ryo shortly after people start wandering off. 02:57:42.869 --> 02:57:44.090 [Riv (DM)]: Is he able to find you, Ryo? 02:57:45.590 --> 02:57:49.432 [JC (Ryo)]: Ryo was actually going to ask Arendor if he wanted to go get something to eat, go find a kitchen. 02:57:52.054 --> 02:57:52.234 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:57:53.435 --> 02:57:53.855 [Riv (DM)]: Perfect. 02:57:56.903 --> 02:58:23.329 [Riv (DM)]: Great yeah um easy enough you find your way down through the hallway along the way you see like pictures and paintings and tapestries that tell stories and Ryo and yourself as well Erendor you just can't help but be captivated I think by histories that neither of you had known um but eventually you find a kitchen um stocked with food somehow and make whatever you like to eat 02:58:27.683 --> 02:58:32.325 [Riv (DM)]: As you walk in to the kitchen, actually, the fireplace automatically alights. 02:58:43.950 --> 02:58:45.451 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Could spend a long few days, hasn't it? 02:58:47.011 --> 02:58:48.232 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, it's been a lot to take in. 02:58:58.878 --> 02:59:00.719 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Anything I can do to help you. 02:59:01.719 --> 02:59:02.479 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You know that, right? 02:59:06.881 --> 02:59:07.301 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 02:59:09.502 --> 02:59:10.042 [JC (Ryo)]: No, I do. 02:59:12.943 --> 02:59:14.844 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, this entire group's been pretty good. 02:59:16.044 --> 02:59:17.445 [JC (Ryo)]: Still gotta get used to Berberus, but... 02:59:20.746 --> 02:59:21.346 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He seems good. 02:59:24.067 --> 02:59:26.288 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, don't let him hear you say that, though. 02:59:29.179 --> 02:59:30.060 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Love to see him catch me. 02:59:38.726 --> 02:59:40.947 [JC (Ryo)]: Anyways, we gotta get your mother. 02:59:42.008 --> 02:59:43.229 [JC (Ryo)]: We can't let the Empress kill her. 02:59:48.393 --> 02:59:53.076 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Who knows what she's... Who knows what the Empress has gotten out of her already? 02:59:53.596 --> 02:59:55.198 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What information does she have? 02:59:56.807 --> 03:00:01.350 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Is it purely just not wanting to return her, but then why is she still alive? 03:00:04.712 --> 03:00:07.814 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So many questions and we have no answers. 03:00:14.538 --> 03:00:15.799 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I don't know if I can trust... 03:00:17.560 --> 03:00:18.961 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I don't know who I can trust here. 03:00:20.662 --> 03:00:22.183 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Even Ayanna, honestly. 03:00:22.644 --> 03:00:24.605 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Like, what do we actually know about her? 03:00:27.080 --> 03:00:28.081 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: She's brought us here. 03:00:28.342 --> 03:00:30.124 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What are her agendas? 03:00:32.588 --> 03:00:37.154 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: She's told us things, but even if half of that is true, that gives me less reason to trust her. 03:00:37.174 --> 03:00:43.222 [JC (Ryo)]: Outside of our group, I don't know if I can trust any of them here at the moment. 03:00:58.819 --> 03:01:04.642 [JC (Ryo)]: If this is what you want to do, grab the ring, I don't take it off, I just show it to him. 03:01:04.882 --> 03:01:08.303 [JC (Ryo)]: If this is what you want, I just point at everything, you can have this. 03:01:11.405 --> 03:01:12.685 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I don't want that. 03:01:16.067 --> 03:01:16.947 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We're in the same boat. 03:01:17.267 --> 03:01:23.790 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You say you have no interest in politics, and... Fuck, me neither. 03:01:25.780 --> 03:01:28.602 [JC (Ryo)]: I've been on nothing but a vengeance path my whole life. 03:01:28.802 --> 03:01:29.922 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, what I remember. 03:01:31.183 --> 03:01:32.564 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: But I won't be a good leader. 03:01:33.284 --> 03:01:33.664 [JC (Ryo)]: Not now. 03:01:33.684 --> 03:01:41.749 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, all that I've got in my head is getting back at Korvas right now. 03:01:46.912 --> 03:01:47.792 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Fuck, that's right. 03:01:47.812 --> 03:01:48.432 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We need to work. 03:01:48.452 --> 03:01:49.333 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What is he even there for? 03:02:09.917 --> 03:02:20.939 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I know you don't have an interest in ruling here, but... And I don't expect you to stay here. 03:02:21.519 --> 03:02:28.501 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I hope we can find anything, any information about Kaelen's son. 03:02:29.441 --> 03:02:30.421 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He was a son, right? 03:02:31.421 --> 03:02:31.661 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:02:31.881 --> 03:02:33.001 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Fuck, it's been a long few days. 03:02:34.342 --> 03:02:36.162 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If we can find anything... 03:02:38.624 --> 03:02:40.786 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Even just let him know what's happened. 03:02:42.928 --> 03:02:45.210 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It may appease him somewhat, and... 03:02:47.613 --> 03:02:49.735 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If there's a way we can unite the people here... 03:02:52.517 --> 03:02:53.899 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: There's a chance, but... 03:02:55.880 --> 03:02:56.401 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Even then... 03:03:01.125 --> 03:03:03.848 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: This whole thing just feels completely insurmountable. 03:03:08.288 --> 03:03:09.569 [JC (Ryo)]: I think it's a good starting point. 03:03:15.954 --> 03:03:17.636 [JC (Ryo)]: Sounds like we need to help Dondar as well. 03:03:18.096 --> 03:03:18.736 [JC (Ryo)]: He's got a brother. 03:03:18.977 --> 03:03:19.817 [JC (Ryo)]: He's never said a word. 03:03:21.339 --> 03:03:21.579 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:03:27.163 --> 03:03:27.884 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, that's right. 03:03:27.904 --> 03:03:36.431 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He had, um... the ritual cast teleport circle thingamajigo that Ayanna... 03:03:38.078 --> 03:03:40.801 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I set him up with in Val Noren, wasn't it? 03:03:41.281 --> 03:03:43.543 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And he had one in Glimmer Forge. 03:03:44.784 --> 03:03:45.865 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, because he grew up there. 03:03:48.988 --> 03:03:50.449 [JC (Ryo)]: That's a good thought. 03:03:50.469 --> 03:03:52.011 [JC (Ryo)]: We should find out if this place has one. 03:03:52.031 --> 03:03:54.773 [JC (Ryo)]: It'd make getting back here a lot easier. 03:03:58.176 --> 03:04:00.278 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep, sure would. 03:04:02.981 --> 03:04:04.342 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, there's just too much. 03:04:06.685 --> 03:04:07.865 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll just slump across the table. 03:04:07.885 --> 03:04:08.746 [JC (Ryo)]: This is too much. 03:04:25.070 --> 03:04:25.391 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 03:04:28.892 --> 03:04:30.032 [JC (Ryo)]: Um, yeah, add a character. 03:04:30.052 --> 03:04:32.313 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't think Ryo has much more else to say. 03:04:32.993 --> 03:04:33.453 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep, yep. 03:04:35.110 --> 03:04:35.690 [Riv (DM)]: You have some drink? 03:04:35.970 --> 03:04:36.470 [Riv (DM)]: Some food? 03:04:36.850 --> 03:04:37.471 [Riv (DM)]: Ryo doesn't drink. 03:04:38.411 --> 03:04:39.431 [Riv (DM)]: Erendor drinks? 03:04:40.011 --> 03:04:41.331 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe it'll be his first time. 03:04:41.612 --> 03:04:41.872 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:04:43.692 --> 03:04:45.352 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Erendor does not drink much. 03:04:47.733 --> 03:04:50.334 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: This is a time that that changes. 03:04:52.454 --> 03:04:53.014 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:04:53.054 --> 03:04:53.694 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:04:54.575 --> 03:04:56.015 [JC (Ryo)]: I've never tried this stuff, shall we? 03:04:57.415 --> 03:04:59.316 [Vael (Berberis)]: Royal Wine Cellars. 03:05:00.056 --> 03:05:00.416 [JC (Ryo)]: Just saying. 03:05:01.860 --> 03:05:02.600 [Riv (DM)]: Exactly. 03:05:03.300 --> 03:05:04.761 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I doubt we'll find anything better. 03:05:05.661 --> 03:05:13.403 [Riv (DM)]: And it was there in the kitchen of your ancestral home that you both shared a drink together for the first time. 03:05:14.464 --> 03:05:16.164 [Lacer (Kai)]: At least it's aged for a hundred years. 03:05:16.845 --> 03:05:18.105 [Lacer (Kai)]: Aged for longer than a hundred years. 03:05:19.505 --> 03:05:20.085 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's for sure. 03:05:20.106 --> 03:05:20.346 [Lacer (Kai)]: Damn. 03:05:21.126 --> 03:05:21.886 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's vinegar. 03:05:24.487 --> 03:05:24.987 [Riv (DM)]: Could well be. 03:05:25.027 --> 03:05:26.167 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know the difference. 03:05:26.567 --> 03:05:27.528 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:05:28.648 --> 03:05:29.768 [Riv (DM)]: Fantastic. 03:05:30.789 --> 03:05:31.149 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar? 03:05:31.849 --> 03:05:32.229 [Riv (DM)]: How about you? 03:05:32.249 --> 03:05:33.550 [Riv (DM)]: What do you get up to in the evening? 03:05:35.430 --> 03:05:35.690 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Drink. 03:05:36.371 --> 03:05:36.611 [Riv (DM)]: Drink? 03:05:36.911 --> 03:05:37.411 [Riv (DM)]: Find a room? 03:05:38.731 --> 03:05:40.652 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Find a room, drink, meditate. 03:05:40.972 --> 03:05:41.132 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:05:42.113 --> 03:05:42.553 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Go to sleep. 03:05:43.753 --> 03:05:44.714 [Riv (DM)]: Any thoughts on the family? 03:05:46.294 --> 03:05:48.415 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, all the thoughts are on the family. 03:05:48.635 --> 03:05:48.835 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 03:05:51.169 --> 03:05:56.434 [Riv (DM)]: You go to bed, potentially concerned, but definitely busy. 03:05:57.996 --> 03:06:08.286 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and eventually you'll find yourself starting to drift off for your own errand or eventually maybe you separate and go and find separate rooms and just feel... 03:06:09.704 --> 03:06:18.187 [Riv (DM)]: Definitely out of your comfort zone, definitely that weird feeling when you're sleeping in someone else's house, but it's also kind of familiarity, a lot of it. 03:06:19.127 --> 03:06:35.532 [Riv (DM)]: You know that someone directly related to you chose to place this statue there, and chose to place this small little planting of dangling vines over the wardrobe. 03:06:37.420 --> 03:06:49.186 [Riv (DM)]: I think it gives you a little bit of comfort knowing that even though it feels so unfamiliar, someone so deeply and closely related to you has spent so much time here. 03:06:50.547 --> 03:06:58.431 [Riv (DM)]: And with that, you're all able to drift off to sleep, have a long rest, and have a well-deserved level up as well. 03:06:59.311 --> 03:07:01.372 [Riv (DM)]: Pushing us all, I believe, to level nine. 03:07:02.813 --> 03:07:03.173 [Riv (DM)]: Ten. 03:07:03.333 --> 03:07:03.893 [Riv (DM)]: Ten, sorry. 03:07:03.913 --> 03:07:04.514 [Riv (DM)]: Ten, ten, ten. 03:07:04.554 --> 03:07:05.314 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 03:07:06.115 --> 03:07:06.375 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wow. 03:07:09.110 --> 03:07:09.490 [Riv (DM)]: Very good. 03:07:09.831 --> 03:07:10.171 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 03:07:10.851 --> 03:07:12.353 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, I think we'll end the session there. 03:07:13.053 --> 03:07:23.801 [Riv (DM)]: What I think you all probably should do, and you might already be doing it in a separate channel that you guys are hiding from me, but probably what I would recommend is... And stay on. 03:07:23.961 --> 03:07:24.262 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:07:24.722 --> 03:07:26.103 [Riv (DM)]: Make a list. 03:07:26.443 --> 03:07:33.269 [Riv (DM)]: I think after going through this, even myself with all the notes and stuff, I didn't quite... 03:07:33.809 --> 03:07:36.471 [Riv (DM)]: I think there's a lot of stuff to do right? 03:07:36.511 --> 03:07:38.152 [Riv (DM)]: There are a lot of things going on. 03:07:38.552 --> 03:07:42.015 [Riv (DM)]: I guess when you've been playing the game for what's it been like three years now? 03:07:42.035 --> 03:07:47.958 [Riv (DM)]: There are a lot of loose threads so maybe make a list and just have a think about where we want to go and what you want to do. 03:07:48.679 --> 03:07:57.045 [Riv (DM)]: But that was essentially the intention of the session was give you guys a chance to think and actually ground yourselves and yeah figure out where we want to go. 03:07:58.566 --> 03:08:02.189 [Riv (DM)]: I think there are some very short-term immediate things, and then definitely some longer-term things. 03:08:02.770 --> 03:08:06.474 [Riv (DM)]: Like, you know, CR 20 ancient red dragon sort of problems. 03:08:07.575 --> 03:08:12.019 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, CR 20 ancient red dragon leech. 03:08:13.640 --> 03:08:14.221 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:08:14.361 --> 03:08:15.903 [Vael (Berberis)]: That is not bound by a flat tree. 03:08:16.947 --> 03:08:44.738 [Vael (Berberis)]: Considering that the dragons uh effectively dragons minions minion was a struggle enough yeah well that's one thing i was looking at um is he an ancient dragon or is he a great worm you'll have to find out eh because ancient dragons are a whole nother fucking story great worms are like one step below Tiamat kind of thing yeah well yeah we got it we got a long way to go 03:08:46.180 --> 03:08:48.443 [Vael (Berberis)]: Like at level 10 you are effectively a demigod. 03:08:48.723 --> 03:08:48.883 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:08:49.484 --> 03:08:51.927 [Vael (Berberis)]: But there are levels to this. 03:08:52.327 --> 03:08:53.268 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, there are five of you. 03:08:53.328 --> 03:08:54.330 [Vael (Berberis)]: We are not on that level. 03:08:54.550 --> 03:09:00.657 [Riv (DM)]: It's actually been a while since I looked at the Red Dragon character sheets, or monster blocks rather. 03:09:02.882 --> 03:09:04.203 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah it's gonna be fun. 03:09:05.004 --> 03:09:13.209 [Riv (DM)]: I yeah so I was actually very tempted to um give you guys a little bit of a scuffle with the dragon at the start. 03:09:14.150 --> 03:09:20.914 [Vael (Berberis)]: As soon as he started explaining the size I just went no yeah this is either a runaway or a talk there is no fight. 03:09:21.855 --> 03:09:28.980 [Riv (DM)]: I thought it might have been fun for you guys to just actually have your first fight with a dragon just so you can kind of see the sort of actions and stuff they do to like oh my god 03:09:29.320 --> 03:09:44.049 [Riv (DM)]: yeah to like prep you for stuff that's coming but i think you would have immediately seen through it um and it probably wouldn't have been that fun we'll just waste it i mean an ancient red dragon is gonna have lesser red dragons hmm 03:09:45.515 --> 03:10:12.305 [Vael (Berberis)]: yeah it's um it's quite funny comparing power levels i actually think silver dragons are the most powerful type of dragons you have no idea like there's the sigh of relief when you said silver yeah yep i was like oh yeah yeah i'm glad you did because i don't know the dragon types that well all i know is metallic is the safest for us generally metallic is generally good 03:10:13.007 --> 03:10:16.064 [Vael (Berberis)]: Chromatic or colored is generally real fucking bad. 03:10:17.027 --> 03:10:20.028 [Lacer (Kai)]: I saw the image when he pulled the dagger. 03:10:20.048 --> 03:10:21.128 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought it was white. 03:10:21.188 --> 03:10:22.449 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was like, it's white. 03:10:22.469 --> 03:10:24.610 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was like, oh, we're so fucked. 03:10:24.630 --> 03:10:28.011 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, I looked at the silver sage and went, oh, thank God. 03:10:28.171 --> 03:10:28.431 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:10:29.431 --> 03:10:29.951 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:10:29.971 --> 03:10:39.455 [Riv (DM)]: Silver dragons are usually like really high ranking representatives of their order and they integrate themselves with powerful people and help advise. 03:10:39.535 --> 03:10:43.316 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, they're very, very good, benevolent creatures. 03:10:45.838 --> 03:11:02.600 [Riv (DM)]: Um yeah yeah no I think it was the right choice to skip it and just go on to memories um I wanted the session to feel kind of like uh we've done a bunch of shit here is where we've come from um here's like all the shit we've done so far 03:11:04.280 --> 03:11:06.161 [Riv (DM)]: And now, let's figure out where we go. 03:11:06.882 --> 03:11:10.384 [Riv (DM)]: And this guy, Praetor Varanus, is sort of like an anchor point for you. 03:11:10.564 --> 03:11:11.465 [Riv (DM)]: You can go and talk to him. 03:11:12.125 --> 03:11:18.931 [Riv (DM)]: Although, challenging thing for me, how do you make someone that in theory knows everything without, like, just giving you guys all the answers? 03:11:19.511 --> 03:11:20.412 [Riv (DM)]: That's what I was trying to do. 03:11:20.432 --> 03:11:21.312 [Riv (DM)]: I was trying to do that. 03:11:21.392 --> 03:11:22.333 [Riv (DM)]: I know, right? 03:11:22.353 --> 03:11:23.374 [Riv (DM)]: You were being a bit cheeky. 03:11:25.095 --> 03:11:26.937 [JC (Ryo)]: That's why I only asked one question. 03:11:29.158 --> 03:11:32.160 [JC (Ryo)]: I was always going to ask about my parents to find out 100%. 03:11:33.562 --> 03:11:35.383 [JC (Ryo)]: Even though I think he did tell us that last session. 03:11:38.319 --> 03:11:39.760 [Lacer (Kai)]: So what do I get at level 10? 03:11:40.141 --> 03:11:42.762 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we can end the session with rolling your hit dice. 03:11:43.062 --> 03:11:44.303 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, oh yeah, good, good call. 03:11:44.323 --> 03:11:44.663 [Riv (DM)]: Let's do it. 03:11:44.783 --> 03:11:46.244 [Riv (DM)]: Chuck your, chuck your hit dice in. 03:11:46.404 --> 03:11:47.565 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm trying to decide. 03:11:47.665 --> 03:11:49.006 [Vael (Berberis)]: Actually, I think I'm both a D8. 03:11:49.046 --> 03:11:50.427 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just trying to work out what I do. 03:11:50.527 --> 03:11:52.428 [JC (Ryo)]: I was going to say, what if people want to multiclass? 03:11:52.868 --> 03:11:58.932 [Riv (DM)]: Well, if we're on the D8, regardless, unless you're a Donda or you multiclass like a fighter or something. 03:11:59.900 --> 03:12:01.341 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh god, way to fuck with me. 03:12:01.421 --> 03:12:03.223 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, Ranger is a D10. 03:12:03.283 --> 03:12:04.103 [Riv (DM)]: If you take Ranger... 03:12:04.163 --> 03:12:04.804 [Riv (DM)]: I'm a 10. 03:12:04.864 --> 03:12:07.065 [Vael (Berberis)]: Nope, that's why I need to... 03:12:07.866 --> 03:12:13.490 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think if I go Druid I get 3rd level spells, which I don't believe I have. 03:12:13.871 --> 03:12:17.633 [Riv (DM)]: You'll get 3rd level spell slots regardless, you just might not have access to the spells. 03:12:17.653 --> 03:12:21.016 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't have access to 3rd level spells unless I go to a 5. 03:12:21.296 --> 03:12:22.937 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just seeing if there's anything in there that I'd like. 03:12:25.072 --> 03:12:28.593 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright, Dundas, Kiwi's gone back to full retard mode. 03:12:28.793 --> 03:12:29.353 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What am I doing? 03:12:29.373 --> 03:12:30.193 [Riv (DM)]: Just roll a d6. 03:12:30.993 --> 03:12:31.494 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: A d6? 03:12:31.694 --> 03:12:31.914 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 03:12:32.634 --> 03:12:36.495 [JC (Ryo)]: Are you staying wizard or are you levelling something else up? 03:12:36.595 --> 03:12:37.635 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know what that means. 03:12:38.175 --> 03:12:39.636 [Lacer (Kai)]: It means are you going to multi-class? 03:12:39.676 --> 03:12:41.976 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are you going to be wizard something or are you cool wizard? 03:12:41.996 --> 03:12:43.437 [Riv (DM)]: You can be wizard fighter. 03:12:43.457 --> 03:12:43.937 [Riv (DM)]: Reroll once. 03:12:44.437 --> 03:12:45.237 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, reroll once. 03:12:48.824 --> 03:13:08.068 [Riv (DM)]: Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 03:13:17.567 --> 03:13:27.056 [Riv (DM)]: Your mind wanders back to the Emberblade that seemed to have some kind of an awakening or some kind of introspection. 03:13:27.076 --> 03:13:35.363 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, as you go to sleep that thought crosses your mind again and you kind of look over at the closet nearby where you've placed it and you ponder it. 03:13:35.804 --> 03:13:39.007 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, sorry, I didn't want to forget that. 03:13:39.887 --> 03:13:40.548 [Lacer (Kai)]: Glowing, is it? 03:13:42.972 --> 03:13:43.592 [Riv (DM)]: There's something there. 03:13:44.132 --> 03:13:48.053 [Riv (DM)]: Something to look into anyway. 03:13:49.214 --> 03:13:51.914 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, is that everyone's health? 03:13:52.094 --> 03:14:10.038 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think as tempting as it is to go an extra point in Ranger so I can move it an extra 10 feet and outrun the Ranger, I'm probably going to go Druid, I think, just looking at the spell options and getting deeper in Druids is probably not a bad idea. 03:14:10.618 --> 03:14:11.518 [Riv (DM)]: Which one are you taking, Kai? 03:14:13.939 --> 03:14:14.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, Cleric. 03:14:14.780 --> 03:14:16.401 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can finally fly again. 03:14:16.601 --> 03:14:19.683 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, nice. 03:14:19.743 --> 03:14:21.464 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, getting closer to those high level spells. 03:14:21.945 --> 03:14:24.506 [Riv (DM)]: As soon as you start multi-classing you lose access to all the good shit, eh? 03:14:24.887 --> 03:14:27.568 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, but I like having- It takes longer to get there, doesn't it? 03:14:28.449 --> 03:14:28.849 [Lacer (Kai)]: It does. 03:14:30.430 --> 03:14:34.213 [Lacer (Kai)]: But I'm playing for fun, I'm not playing for super OP. 03:14:34.233 --> 03:14:37.034 [Lacer (Kai)]: If I wanted to go OP I'd just go pure Twilight. 03:14:39.107 --> 03:15:06.020 [JC (Ryo)]: and have those high level spells and stuff but i like variety yeah sweet all right i think that's everyone rolled perfect cool because if you were pure cleric what would you have access to huh you were pure cleric what would you be up to level two i'll be a level 10 i'll be a level 10 cleric do level five spell slots 03:15:06.967 --> 03:15:09.988 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep, and I'd have other features. 03:15:10.368 --> 03:15:11.049 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let me look it up. 03:15:11.689 --> 03:15:13.090 [JC (Ryo)]: How far are you into clerics so far? 03:15:13.790 --> 03:15:14.470 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm only six. 03:15:15.490 --> 03:15:19.072 [JC (Ryo)]: So you'd get Blessed Strikes and Divine Intervention just now.