--- > [!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.* --- 17:28.750 --> 17:39.266 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool, we're live. 17:41.869 --> 18:00.430 [Riv (DM)]: So, as a recap for last time, because there was actually quite a lot of lore gathering and planning, so you could probably talk through it, because I don't think we quite landed on what we were going to be doing exactly next, so we can kind of talk through it and then we can get into finishing off the plans. 18:00.471 --> 18:01.992 [Riv (DM)]: So, you woke up? 18:03.053 --> 18:14.063 [Riv (DM)]: After Asleep in the Royal Citadel, they had left you to your own devices and given you full reign of the Citadel, as is technically your right, as Ryo is the rightful descendant. 18:15.424 --> 18:28.635 [Riv (DM)]: Had a bit of breakfast, Kai cooked everyone some food, Ryo was I think hungover was how I read that, you were in the bathroom and you groggily came out, is that right? 18:29.490 --> 18:31.591 [JC (Ryo)]: No, you just fell asleep in the bathroom. 18:31.731 --> 18:32.071 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, okay. 18:32.131 --> 18:35.312 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't want to necessarily canonize you getting super drunk and having a hangover. 18:36.193 --> 18:36.793 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no. 18:37.833 --> 18:40.434 [JC (Ryo)]: Went to the bathroom to go to the bathroom, passed out in the bathroom. 18:40.634 --> 18:40.854 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 18:41.615 --> 18:42.615 [Riv (DM)]: Very good. 18:43.735 --> 18:45.136 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, a few little bits and pieces. 18:45.176 --> 18:46.957 [Riv (DM)]: Dondarr woke up screaming from a nightmare. 18:48.017 --> 18:49.998 [Riv (DM)]: He had a nice look out over the balcony across the city. 18:50.658 --> 18:54.742 [Riv (DM)]: And then just came down the Bridge of Recollections and started exploring the city itself. 18:55.062 --> 18:56.604 [Riv (DM)]: Had a few interactions with some people. 18:57.125 --> 19:01.409 [Riv (DM)]: And I think there were starting to be sort of rumours spreading around the city that were growing. 19:01.809 --> 19:07.615 [Riv (DM)]: Some people had seen lights up in the Citadel that night and people were sort of gossiping a little bit like, what is going on? 19:07.735 --> 19:10.698 [Riv (DM)]: We've never seen people up there for years and years and years. 19:12.799 --> 19:20.065 [Riv (DM)]: There was a little bit of rumour that I think one person said a daughter of Silmara has returned or something along those lines. 19:20.085 --> 19:33.117 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, other than that you sort of chatted with some people, learned about the local food operations, how they've been splicing material realm plants with fey realm plants so that they can live here better. 19:33.837 --> 19:37.020 [Riv (DM)]: Picked up some of your items that you had commissioned, Donda and Kai did. 19:37.740 --> 19:38.721 [Riv (DM)]: And then you did a bit of shopping. 19:38.821 --> 19:40.783 [Riv (DM)]: You went to a magic store. 19:42.564 --> 19:44.105 [Riv (DM)]: There were some potions there that you could get. 19:44.125 --> 19:45.406 [Riv (DM)]: There were a couple of magic items. 19:45.546 --> 19:52.791 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think there's anything super powerful that piqued your interest apart from, I think there was the wand that Dondarr bought. 19:54.332 --> 19:58.795 [Riv (DM)]: You got the woman, Arcanist Levvel, to have a look at the Ember Blade. 19:59.235 --> 20:05.898 [Riv (DM)]: And she told Eryndor that you should use this to channel your magic because there's more to this than meets the eye. 20:07.079 --> 20:09.140 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, sort of discuss that a little bit. 20:09.160 --> 20:11.221 [Riv (DM)]: Put aside your component pouch and use the sword. 20:13.442 --> 20:14.623 [Riv (DM)]: Had another look at Dread's Hunger. 20:14.763 --> 20:17.104 [Riv (DM)]: You were contemplating whether or not you leave it or destroy it. 20:18.124 --> 20:19.245 [Riv (DM)]: Ryo tossed it in the Bag of Holding. 20:20.145 --> 20:20.846 [Riv (DM)]: Not letting go of that. 20:21.866 --> 20:27.034 [Riv (DM)]: And then you just, you learned a little bit about the Vale of the Eternal Night itself, sort of the politics. 20:27.334 --> 20:37.429 [Riv (DM)]: You learned about the Hunt, which is sort of their main martial faction, and some of the history of the conflicts between the Vale denizens and Sumara. 20:38.610 --> 20:44.092 [Riv (DM)]: A couple of thousand years ago there was a vast, vast war that was ongoing. 20:45.152 --> 20:52.314 [Riv (DM)]: They were encroaching upon the Shining Peaks and the then ruler of Sumara 20:54.555 --> 20:57.877 [Riv (DM)]: I believe they would have told you her name was Alessandra Silmara. 20:58.497 --> 21:05.081 [Riv (DM)]: She went alone into the Vale, returned with the head of the leader of the hunt, and the war ended. 21:06.042 --> 21:14.887 [Riv (DM)]: And not long after that, the Star-Vailed Queen rose in the Vale of the Eternal Night, the Archfey who now rules that court. 21:18.645 --> 21:27.047 [Riv (DM)]: You, after the discussion with the Arcanist, you went down into the Greensward and you spoke with Warden Silvarus. 21:27.307 --> 21:30.028 [Riv (DM)]: Learned a lot about more of the flora here. 21:30.048 --> 21:34.789 [Riv (DM)]: And I think some of the conversation was around the Vale as well. 21:34.809 --> 21:36.010 [Riv (DM)]: I think she probably actually told you 21:37.150 --> 21:39.252 [Riv (DM)]: The most around that stuff. 21:39.633 --> 21:44.718 [Riv (DM)]: In terms of the history, she also told you that the Queen's name is Mirileth. 21:45.819 --> 21:57.331 [Riv (DM)]: And she told you about Asha Vayne, the son of Cailin Vayne, who went missing around 60 years ago in a border skirmish that started to, you know, some of these skirmishes started to crop up a bit more after the elves. 21:57.911 --> 22:07.983 [Riv (DM)]: From Vellator returned to Sumara, Calen Vane started putting out patrols because for reasons I imagine he was starting to feel anxious or nervous. 22:08.904 --> 22:10.746 [Riv (DM)]: These patrols will cause in conflicts again. 22:12.806 --> 22:17.850 [Riv (DM)]: You learned about Caer Nystral, the Dawnless City, which is sort of the mirror to Sumara. 22:17.911 --> 22:20.493 [Riv (DM)]: It's the main city within the Vale of Eternal Night. 22:21.193 --> 22:24.676 [Riv (DM)]: Very likely where all of this is taking place and where you want to be heading. 22:25.397 --> 22:29.440 [Riv (DM)]: And then you went to catch up again with Ayana and Illithia. 22:32.282 --> 22:59.647 [Riv (DM)]: I and Ayana suggested well so first of all you found them um sort of relaxing I think and much more casual clothing like the weight of 40 years had just been taken off for an evening and Ayana suggested that one way you could get there would be by taking these Zephyr Cuffs um that you would allow you to glide from the tops of the Shining Peaks all the way to the Vale um you'll just have to 23:01.458 --> 23:03.539 [Riv (DM)]: Find them, provision them from somewhere. 23:03.779 --> 23:09.782 [Riv (DM)]: And she sent a message to someone ascending saying that there are some available if you wanted to buy or rent them. 23:11.463 --> 23:15.625 [Riv (DM)]: And that was roughly where we left off. 23:16.006 --> 23:24.630 [Riv (DM)]: We were still in the Locus Arcanum, up in the Aetherian Canton, discussing what we want to do, talking with Ayana. 23:24.850 --> 23:27.011 [Riv (DM)]: Illithya is in the kitchen making a bit of breakfast. 23:30.244 --> 23:31.665 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so why don't we pick up from there. 23:31.785 --> 23:44.816 [Riv (DM)]: Have you guys thought a bit about how you want to approach this, with the goal being find Arsha Vane and find the Soulstone Anchor, which we assume both are in Caer Nystral. 23:48.279 --> 23:50.961 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it Caer Nystral or Nystral? 23:51.922 --> 23:53.343 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, let me type it in the chat for you. 23:55.865 --> 23:56.546 [Riv (DM)]: Caer Nystral. 23:57.547 --> 23:58.928 [Unmatched Speaker]: Oh with an N, right, gotcha. 24:18.824 --> 24:19.564 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so what are we thinking? 24:19.584 --> 24:44.832 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well, I don't know about you guys, but, uh, glidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingidingiding Well, I don't know about you guys, but, uh, gliding there definitely seems, uh, gonna be a bit faster than walking. 24:44.852 --> 24:45.092 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's true. 24:45.112 --> 24:45.432 [Lacer (Kai)]: Definitely true. 24:45.452 --> 24:47.033 [Lacer (Kai)]: How are we gonna, are we just gonna jump off the mountain? 24:47.213 --> 24:48.273 [Lacer (Kai)]: How do these things work? 24:51.545 --> 24:52.245 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana was wrong. 24:52.846 --> 24:54.266 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, pretty much that. 24:54.707 --> 25:10.454 [Riv (DM)]: You put one cuff on each of your wrists and on each of your ankles, and when you dive, if you activate them, you will glide at a fairly fast speed until you hit the ground or something happens to knock you out of your flight. 25:10.714 --> 25:15.616 [Riv (DM)]: I would recommend not, don't fly into a tree on the side of the mountain. 25:15.636 --> 25:16.517 [Riv (DM)]: It would probably be good. 25:17.852 --> 25:20.913 [Riv (DM)]: We might need some practice first. 25:20.973 --> 25:37.040 [Riv (DM)]: Do note that they need to be charged up with magic so I imagine the ones that they have in reserve have already been charged up but if you wanted to hold on to them each day you would need to charge them by casting some magic into them, spending a bit of your energy. 25:38.761 --> 25:40.042 [Lacer (Kai)]: Have you tried before? 25:40.142 --> 25:40.902 [Lacer (Kai)]: Have you given it a go? 25:42.078 --> 25:43.780 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, many, many years ago. 25:43.800 --> 25:47.963 [Riv (DM)]: It was great fun up there in the clouds, but I'm too old for that now. 25:49.925 --> 25:52.568 [Riv (DM)]: And at this, um, you just hear Olyphia sort of chuckle in the kitchen. 25:53.829 --> 25:55.790 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can't really tell with your elven blood. 25:56.111 --> 25:58.152 [Lacer (Kai)]: You look only like... what? 26:00.334 --> 26:01.836 [Lacer (Kai)]: How old does she seem to us? 26:02.780 --> 26:06.864 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, um... She probably has never told you her age, has she? 26:07.725 --> 26:08.586 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, she doesn't have to. 26:08.646 --> 26:10.468 [Lacer (Kai)]: We just wanna... Like, as a... 26:10.488 --> 26:12.971 [Lacer (Kai)]: Compared to a human, like, I'm only 17, right? 26:13.171 --> 26:16.615 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah Compared to other humans, she probably only looks like 60, right? 26:17.732 --> 26:19.413 [Riv (DM)]: Well, even younger than that. 26:19.473 --> 26:22.274 [Riv (DM)]: So she's got long sort of grayish silver hair. 26:22.334 --> 26:23.974 [Riv (DM)]: Like it's not gray from age. 26:24.655 --> 26:32.898 [Riv (DM)]: It's almost, it's not quite the same sort of shining texture that the Silmara hair has, but it is also silver, which is... Natural silver hair. 26:33.018 --> 26:37.700 [Riv (DM)]: Natural silver that is like not super common among elves, but it's not unheard of. 26:38.240 --> 26:39.320 [Riv (DM)]: And she's got very smooth skin. 26:41.181 --> 26:45.142 [Riv (DM)]: She holds herself in a very dignified way that clearly tells of age. 26:45.282 --> 26:48.583 [Riv (DM)]: I would say she probably looks like late 30s, early 40s maybe. 26:48.603 --> 26:49.623 [Riv (DM)]: Holy shit. 26:49.643 --> 26:52.524 [Riv (DM)]: With like a really good skincare routine. 26:52.624 --> 26:58.585 [Riv (DM)]: She's got little glasses on the tip of her nose and no piercings, no tattoos. 26:58.605 --> 26:59.825 [Riv (DM)]: She wears a few rings on her fingers. 27:00.646 --> 27:05.567 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, she says, I'm actually 700 years old. 27:08.227 --> 27:15.451 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, in my eyes, I haven't seen many old people and you don't look old at all. 27:15.611 --> 27:18.013 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd say you only look like 30. 27:18.033 --> 27:20.854 [Riv (DM)]: Oh stop Kai, you'll make me blush. 27:22.615 --> 27:23.256 [Riv (DM)]: Does she blush? 27:23.876 --> 27:24.116 [Riv (DM)]: No. 27:30.202 --> 27:32.102 [Lacer (Kai)]: So question about these Zephyrcuffs. 27:33.023 --> 27:34.323 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we need to attune to them? 27:34.524 --> 27:35.764 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like to use them? 27:35.784 --> 27:40.826 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or because I know some of us have like maybe a few attuned items already. 27:41.187 --> 27:41.827 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not sure. 27:43.928 --> 27:45.308 [Riv (DM)]: Zephyrcuffs do require attunement. 27:45.348 --> 27:45.629 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 27:51.191 --> 27:51.531 [Lacer (Kai)]: All right. 27:51.631 --> 27:55.193 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look to everyone who's who's fully attuned to stuff currently. 27:55.713 --> 27:57.694 [Lacer (Kai)]: I know I can attune to one more item. 28:00.102 --> 28:01.003 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That would be me. 28:03.704 --> 28:04.404 [JC (Ryo)]: What have you? 28:06.085 --> 28:07.726 [JC (Ryo)]: Just flash the braces, that's all I got. 28:11.548 --> 28:12.689 [Lacer (Kai)]: We all turn to Dondar. 28:13.429 --> 28:15.371 [Lacer (Kai)]: Dondar's got, does he have a whole bunch of stuff? 28:15.851 --> 28:19.473 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let me have a look, I don't think so. 28:20.352 --> 28:21.333 [Lacer (Kai)]: He had the cloak, right? 28:21.373 --> 28:24.995 [Lacer (Kai)]: He's got, like, the black and red cloak. 28:25.555 --> 28:27.536 [Riv (DM)]: Local protection is attuned. 28:28.657 --> 28:30.998 [Riv (DM)]: He's got Pigs of Elvenkind, which don't require attunement. 28:33.900 --> 28:35.661 [Riv (DM)]: Mariner's gloves, which don't require attunement. 28:42.144 --> 28:44.846 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, he's also got the Medallion of Thoughts, but that doesn't either. 28:47.047 --> 28:48.408 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna look at my stuff, actually. 28:48.428 --> 28:48.828 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hold up. 28:52.022 --> 28:52.882 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, I see how it is. 28:53.003 --> 28:55.244 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Everyone else's stuff doesn't require attunement, just mine. 28:55.664 --> 29:00.106 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, I've just got my cloak. 29:00.186 --> 29:01.407 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's all I have that's attuned. 29:01.887 --> 29:02.907 [JC (Ryo)]: I've only got the braces. 29:02.947 --> 29:03.568 [JC (Ryo)]: That's all I've got. 29:03.588 --> 29:04.348 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got one thing. 29:05.048 --> 29:12.412 [Lacer (Kai)]: I raise up my shield and my, eventually, the tattoo vial once I spend an hour to attune to that. 29:13.552 --> 29:14.593 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, you've still got the Dagger of Warning. 29:14.853 --> 29:16.434 [Riv (DM)]: I thought that we'd left it with Leah. 29:16.594 --> 29:17.054 [Riv (DM)]: No, that's right. 29:17.074 --> 29:17.774 [Riv (DM)]: She'd given it to you. 29:17.794 --> 29:18.695 [Riv (DM)]: She gave it back. 29:19.075 --> 29:19.315 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 29:20.448 --> 29:21.789 [Riv (DM)]: I think she's feeling a little bit guilty. 29:22.390 --> 29:23.570 [Riv (DM)]: It's super powerful now. 29:23.590 --> 29:24.371 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 29:24.391 --> 29:24.491 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep. 29:24.511 --> 29:29.875 [Riv (DM)]: I mean... A Starfall shield didn't require achievement, did it? 29:30.436 --> 29:30.736 [Riv (DM)]: Nah. 29:31.617 --> 29:33.018 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, none of those fey items did. 29:33.038 --> 29:34.699 [Riv (DM)]: They're not technically magic items. 29:34.979 --> 29:35.159 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 29:35.179 --> 29:36.380 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's just an hour at each end. 29:36.500 --> 29:37.321 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's not a major thing. 29:38.282 --> 29:38.862 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, exactly. 29:38.882 --> 29:41.584 [Vael (Berberis)]: You could do a little bit of short race if you want to switch up. 29:42.025 --> 29:42.205 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 29:42.905 --> 29:44.267 [Vael (Berberis)]: In transit while in the air. 29:44.287 --> 29:45.828 [Unmatched Speaker]: Mhm. 29:45.888 --> 29:46.128 Yeah. 29:49.561 --> 29:54.926 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm a little worried because, as I said before, the most dangerous words in D&D are fall damage. 29:57.308 --> 29:57.989 [Lacer (Kai)]: How do we stop? 29:58.610 --> 30:05.496 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we're flying at super speed, like, gliding, gliding, do we, like, what do we do, Ayana? 30:06.517 --> 30:10.861 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we just, like, bury our heads straight into the ground to stop? 30:13.505 --> 30:15.887 [Riv (DM)]: You won't be going at breakneck speed. 30:15.907 --> 30:18.609 [Riv (DM)]: You won't be going as fast as a bird plummeting from the sky. 30:21.331 --> 30:27.136 [Riv (DM)]: When you're high up and you're really, you know, if you angle yourself well, you can probably get up to about 60 or so miles per hour. 30:28.456 --> 30:32.159 [Riv (DM)]: But as you get closer to the ground, the cuffs will naturally start to slow you down. 30:32.600 --> 30:37.183 [Riv (DM)]: If you sort of fan your arms out and try and angle your body, it'll catch and start to slow you down. 30:37.203 --> 30:39.745 [Riv (DM)]: Just gotta make sure you flare out at the right time. 30:41.666 --> 30:42.287 [Riv (DM)]: Don't fall asleep! 30:44.657 --> 30:45.858 [Riv (DM)]: That's for sure. 30:45.958 --> 30:46.900 [Riv (DM)]: And don't faint. 30:50.964 --> 30:53.727 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sounds like you've seen some funny things happen. 30:55.169 --> 31:02.357 [Riv (DM)]: Well, it helps being able to have a spell or two up your sleeve if you have to rapidly stop someone's descent. 31:08.032 --> 31:08.332 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 31:08.732 --> 31:17.377 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where do we find this person that you've messaged to so we can give these a try? 31:18.444 --> 31:25.366 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, there's someone over in the circle of blades that will be able to outfit you. 31:25.966 --> 31:40.531 [Riv (DM)]: If you head up onto the second tier of the Ironswood Canton, and she sort of like describes the place that you need to go through up onto the second tier, hang a leaf at that building and you'll eventually come up to a building that's built into the side of the top tier. 31:41.551 --> 31:48.476 [Riv (DM)]: It's sort of like a little mini armory that I know someone who works there and they owe me a favour. 31:51.197 --> 31:52.698 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just grumble a bit. 31:52.999 --> 31:57.582 [Lacer (Kai)]: We might bump into Caelan because we were walking into his territory. 31:59.683 --> 32:00.103 [Riv (DM)]: Possibly. 32:00.724 --> 32:02.105 [Riv (DM)]: He seems to keep to himself. 32:02.145 --> 32:03.105 [Riv (DM)]: He tends to keep to the keep. 32:05.147 --> 32:10.330 [Riv (DM)]: But if he does, give him a smile, give him a wave, or better yet, maybe just avoid him. 32:13.187 --> 32:14.208 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe we should just fight him. 32:17.109 --> 32:17.870 [Riv (DM)]: Wouldn't recommend that. 32:20.091 --> 32:29.157 [Vael (Berberis)]: Out of curiosity, the blades, the circle, when they join up, do they swear an oath to the city or the crown? 32:29.177 --> 32:31.838 [Riv (DM)]: I wouldn't say it's an oath. 32:34.340 --> 32:35.080 [Riv (DM)]: There isn't a vow. 32:38.345 --> 32:44.028 [Riv (DM)]: They sort of, they take a vow to, you know, work with the Circle and protect the city. 32:45.569 --> 32:54.613 [Riv (DM)]: The people of the city are the heartblood of, you know, nothing formally or legally binding necessarily. 32:55.754 --> 32:59.716 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was just curious who was their commander-in-chief. 33:01.256 --> 33:04.338 [Vael (Berberis)]: Assuming that is Cailan, but I just wondered if he answered upwards. 33:05.117 --> 33:08.459 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, yes, no, Cailin Vane is the meridian of the Circle of the Blades. 33:08.579 --> 33:09.479 [Riv (DM)]: He is their leader. 33:09.499 --> 33:14.782 [Riv (DM)]: Um, it has been known for people to leave a circle and join another. 33:15.042 --> 33:20.885 [Riv (DM)]: In fact, um, and she looks at you, Eryndor, your father used to be a very high-ranking member of the Circle of the Blades. 33:22.145 --> 33:32.370 [Riv (DM)]: He met your mother at court, and as part of the arrangement, and as part of the agreement, when he married into your family, he had to leave the circles behind. 33:35.698 --> 33:35.978 [Unmatched Speaker]: What? 33:35.998 --> 33:38.980 [Riv (DM)]: I think you might have got the wrong person. 33:39.680 --> 33:41.741 [Riv (DM)]: Isn't your dad the old dude in the video? 33:41.761 --> 33:42.442 [Riv (DM)]: Did I say Earendor? 33:43.102 --> 33:43.262 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 33:43.362 --> 33:44.763 [Riv (DM)]: Oh sorry, I mean Rio. 33:44.923 --> 33:46.144 [Riv (DM)]: She is looking directly at Rio. 33:46.924 --> 33:50.886 [JC (Ryo)]: Also, we haven't told everyone who Earendor is other than, um, Ayana. 33:51.427 --> 33:52.107 [JC (Ryo)]: Ayana knows. 33:53.027 --> 33:53.788 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ayana knows, yeah. 33:54.108 --> 33:55.229 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, we're not talking to Ayana. 33:55.289 --> 33:56.529 [JC (Ryo)]: We're talking to the other bird, aren't we? 33:56.809 --> 33:57.630 [Lacer (Kai)]: We are talking to Ayana. 33:57.650 --> 33:58.751 [Lacer (Kai)]: This is, this is Ayana and Illythia. 33:58.771 --> 33:59.651 [Riv (DM)]: The other bird's in the kitchen. 33:59.771 --> 34:00.712 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, Illythia's just sitting there. 34:00.732 --> 34:01.332 [JC (Ryo)]: Illythia's just sitting there. 34:01.352 --> 34:03.093 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm gonna go make, I need another coffee then, sorry. 34:06.034 --> 34:08.095 [Riv (DM)]: You can go and hang out with Alithia and she can help you. 34:08.476 --> 34:10.237 [Riv (DM)]: Have some joffy, by the way. 34:11.157 --> 34:12.738 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, do they have fey joffy here? 34:12.938 --> 34:14.359 [Riv (DM)]: I've absolutely got fey joffy. 34:14.399 --> 34:17.020 [Riv (DM)]: Why, you know, it's a way of life. 34:19.061 --> 34:21.743 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hell yeah, I'm gonna go get some joffy too. 34:21.923 --> 34:25.185 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's been a while since I had some joffy, see what the difference is. 34:27.100 --> 34:28.281 [Riv (DM)]: You wanna get some? 34:29.662 --> 34:30.923 [Riv (DM)]: Here's the interesting part. 34:32.765 --> 34:43.393 [Riv (DM)]: As they were splicing the joffy over here in the Feywild, they managed to find a way for it to give this sort of like effect where it makes you more alert in the morning. 34:43.413 --> 34:46.015 [Riv (DM)]: It's a good way to perk you up. 34:46.335 --> 34:48.117 [Riv (DM)]: The stuff on the Material Realm doesn't have that. 34:51.520 --> 34:51.800 [Riv (DM)]: i.e. 34:51.860 --> 34:53.281 [Riv (DM)]: they made it caffeinated in the Feywild. 34:56.340 --> 34:59.462 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I thought you meant like you gave us like plus one to perception or something. 35:00.082 --> 35:04.204 [Riv (DM)]: No, remember way, way back Joffy was like coffee except it's decaf. 35:04.224 --> 35:05.405 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, yeah. 35:05.645 --> 35:06.946 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, yeah, I remember it was decaf. 35:07.186 --> 35:07.346 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 35:07.706 --> 35:08.787 [Lacer (Kai)]: Have it as caffeinate. 35:08.987 --> 35:10.328 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, that's pretty dang cool. 35:10.448 --> 35:12.349 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they figured out a way to make it caffeinated over here. 35:13.549 --> 35:19.693 [Riv (DM)]: You get your drinks, you come back, Illythia kind of comes over and sits on Ayana's lap on the couch. 35:21.474 --> 35:25.356 [Riv (DM)]: As you kind of start going about getting sort of doing your preparations and stuff, 35:26.560 --> 35:38.904 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana will, like, actually look at you here indoors and say, by the way, um, last night I was doing a bit of a, I was having a bit of a think and I was chatting with Illy here. 35:38.924 --> 35:44.406 [Riv (DM)]: And I'm not sure how you want to play it because it's kind of sensitive. 35:44.426 --> 35:47.507 [Riv (DM)]: I was scrying on your mother. 35:48.488 --> 35:53.329 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I, I actually know her fairly well, so I would expect to be able to see her. 35:53.729 --> 35:55.470 [Riv (DM)]: Problem was I couldn't see her. 35:58.293 --> 35:59.554 [Riv (DM)]: The question is I have for you. 35:59.574 --> 36:09.021 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want it to be known wider than this group? 36:09.141 --> 36:19.129 [Riv (DM)]: The only reason why I ask is because I know your mother chose to leave and become part of the human society. 36:19.710 --> 36:21.991 [Riv (DM)]: She wanted a quieter life. 36:22.252 --> 36:23.733 [Riv (DM)]: I fear that if we were to 36:26.045 --> 36:44.373 [Riv (DM)]: Make it more known what has happened to her that due to the nature of the fragility of your family's line it might become a big thing and she could be, if of course hopefully we do manage to free her, she could be dragged back into elven society which may not be what she wants to do. 36:48.495 --> 36:54.197 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: She... She left this society but 36:57.997 --> 37:01.058 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I don't doubt that she would choose this over a cell. 37:06.561 --> 37:23.388 [Riv (DM)]: Do you think it best then that we make it known what is what we believe has happened so that we could potentially try to get more resource or is it something that you wish to deal with yourself? 37:23.869 --> 37:26.550 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I don't know that we can do it without the resources. 37:30.268 --> 37:30.548 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 37:35.651 --> 37:44.616 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, with your blessing, then I will, or I suppose Illithia here will raise it at the next confluence. 37:48.898 --> 37:49.178 [Riv (DM)]: Thanks. 37:51.517 --> 37:58.180 [Riv (DM)]: And on that note, I really really need to be getting back to the material realm. 37:59.240 --> 38:03.362 [Riv (DM)]: I fear old Marius is probably looking for me and wondering where on earth I've gotten to. 38:05.643 --> 38:09.444 [Riv (DM)]: So, I imagine I've got a few days. 38:12.406 --> 38:13.946 [Riv (DM)]: Please come back from the Vale. 38:14.867 --> 38:17.948 [Riv (DM)]: It would be rather inconvenient if I were to be trapped here. 38:21.560 --> 38:23.401 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, look at Ryo. 38:23.561 --> 38:26.222 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're in the kitchen and we just barely hear that. 38:28.023 --> 38:30.524 [Lacer (Kai)]: Probably should go back and talk to the others. 38:31.705 --> 38:32.425 [Lacer (Kai)]: Without Joffy. 38:32.805 --> 38:33.005 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 38:33.585 --> 38:39.128 [Riv (DM)]: It's a, you know, it's not so big a room that you couldn't just hear people chanting across the room. 38:39.148 --> 38:41.029 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: There is an engine in the Citadel. 38:42.909 --> 38:43.190 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: There is. 38:43.210 --> 38:50.573 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If you need, we... As I'm saying this, I stop and look towards Ryo. 38:52.029 --> 38:54.452 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I assume we could send her back. 38:57.676 --> 38:58.137 [JC (Ryo)]: Can we? 38:59.178 --> 38:59.619 [JC (Ryo)]: You can. 38:59.819 --> 39:04.104 [JC (Ryo)]: You've got the... Yeah, can we from this one or do we have to go back to the other one? 39:05.806 --> 39:06.147 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know. 39:06.367 --> 39:07.789 [Riv (DM)]: You came from this one. 39:09.311 --> 39:10.072 [Riv (DM)]: Requires a bit of... 39:13.468 --> 39:28.343 [Riv (DM)]: you can kind of direct where you arrive on the other realm depending on the the gate itself the world gates are kind of attuned to certain locations like the one in Ifilmara was more or less attuned with 39:29.499 --> 39:35.701 [Riv (DM)]: Sumara, I think due to your lack of experience, it landed us just a little bit far away. 39:36.541 --> 39:39.342 [Riv (DM)]: But if you, I can possibly talk you through it. 39:39.362 --> 39:42.823 [Riv (DM)]: I can try to get you to be able to direct it more in a specific location. 39:46.464 --> 39:48.905 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, if you need to go back. 39:51.446 --> 39:54.307 [JC (Ryo)]: I was sort of hoping you'd help us, but if you have to go. 39:55.187 --> 39:57.848 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so she sort of looks at Illithia. 40:00.010 --> 40:02.471 [Riv (DM)]: I think I can probably wait a few days. 40:04.833 --> 40:16.780 [Riv (DM)]: There's some things I need to deal with here and I do want to see you return from the Vale if anything were to happen to you and you're taking too long to return. 40:17.621 --> 40:21.923 [Riv (DM)]: I would like to be nearby in case I have to come and help. 40:23.784 --> 40:26.346 [Riv (DM)]: So why don't we look to do it when you return? 40:29.428 --> 40:29.628 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 40:30.985 --> 40:33.767 [Lacer (Kai)]: In the meantime, we met Grandpa Varanus. 40:34.227 --> 40:35.308 [Lacer (Kai)]: He says he misses you. 40:37.270 --> 40:37.350 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Ah. 40:38.851 --> 40:39.231 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That's nice. 40:39.311 --> 40:41.313 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I believe he asked you to visit as well. 40:43.514 --> 40:43.634 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 40:44.955 --> 40:47.657 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe we, um, do that at the same time then, when you get back. 40:47.918 --> 40:48.998 [Riv (DM)]: I would love to see him again. 40:49.779 --> 40:50.379 [Riv (DM)]: How was he doing? 40:50.620 --> 40:54.142 [Riv (DM)]: Was he, his, um, any sort of gestures to his chest? 40:54.923 --> 40:55.863 [Riv (DM)]: Is that looking alright? 40:56.384 --> 40:57.785 [Riv (DM)]: Hasn't, hasn't progressed? 41:00.313 --> 41:08.537 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, we don't really have much of a reference point, but um... As sprightly as ever, I can only assume. 41:08.557 --> 41:09.698 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That's good. 41:09.718 --> 41:11.339 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Gave us a hell of a fright on the way in. 41:13.920 --> 41:14.700 [Riv (DM)]: He does like to do that. 41:15.441 --> 41:22.244 [Riv (DM)]: Hey, you would as well, wouldn't you, if you'd been in a vault with no one to see for thousands and thousands of years? 41:24.065 --> 41:24.425 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 41:24.445 --> 41:25.326 [Lacer (Kai)]: Gotta have fun somehow. 41:25.946 --> 41:26.907 [Lacer (Kai)]: He was a bit tired. 41:27.287 --> 41:29.528 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He was kinda like- What's life without a bit of theatrics? 41:30.872 --> 41:32.914 [Lacer (Kai)]: He was doomscrying for a hundred years. 41:34.956 --> 41:38.459 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I imagine there's a lot he's doing down there. 41:38.479 --> 41:46.106 [Riv (DM)]: There's a lot of knowledge to be found in that vault, and he spends a lot of time archiving and organizing and reading. 41:47.207 --> 41:49.489 [Riv (DM)]: That vault was there long before he was. 41:54.514 --> 41:56.736 [Lacer (Kai)]: He gave us a mission, though. 42:00.102 --> 42:02.084 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed, the veil, I assume, right? 42:03.365 --> 42:08.029 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, he asked us to look for... What was it again, Ryo? 42:08.049 --> 42:13.754 [JC (Ryo)]: That was a... soul gem? 42:13.814 --> 42:15.575 [JC (Ryo)]: Gem of some description we have to go get? 42:17.957 --> 42:18.337 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 42:19.438 --> 42:19.599 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 42:20.619 --> 42:24.323 [Lacer (Kai)]: You heard anything the likes of a soul gem in the veil? 42:26.224 --> 42:27.165 [Riv (DM)]: Let me roll for her. 42:30.238 --> 42:31.759 [Riv (DM)]: He sort of, like, looks up. 42:33.480 --> 42:34.440 [Riv (DM)]: No, nothing specific. 42:34.601 --> 42:36.522 [Riv (DM)]: There are a few things I've heard of in my time. 42:36.542 --> 42:41.405 [Riv (DM)]: Schemes relating to souls, but I don't know of anything specific in the Vale, I'm afraid. 42:44.526 --> 42:55.913 [Riv (DM)]: If it is as powerful as our friend was leading you to believe, I imagine it's probably well protected deep within, um, deep within the Veiled Citadel. 42:59.893 --> 43:00.253 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 43:06.519 --> 43:08.941 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, he told us the queen. 43:10.482 --> 43:14.986 [Lacer (Kai)]: She doesn't like combat. 43:15.366 --> 43:21.031 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I wouldn't call it combat, but I'm guessing she doesn't like war. 43:21.211 --> 43:22.152 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is that what he told us? 43:22.873 --> 43:23.013 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 43:24.235 --> 43:26.136 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I've never met her myself. 43:26.496 --> 43:27.596 [Riv (DM)]: Very few have actually. 43:28.757 --> 43:34.619 [Riv (DM)]: But I would say from experience she seems to be pragmatic. 43:35.700 --> 43:42.863 [Riv (DM)]: The conflicts between our two courts dropped to basically nothing when she rose. 43:43.763 --> 43:46.584 [Riv (DM)]: And I imagine from her side she's been trying to keep it that way. 43:49.285 --> 43:53.027 [Riv (DM)]: But someone like that, it's always hard to know their motives. 43:59.389 --> 44:07.853 [Lacer (Kai)]: Knowing this, do you think we could go on a diplomatic mission to establish some sort of peace between the two courts? 44:09.974 --> 44:11.734 [Riv (DM)]: That is uncharted territory. 44:14.315 --> 44:20.298 [Riv (DM)]: Do you mean, she looks at you Ryo, how diplomatic are we talking? 44:21.338 --> 44:24.820 [Riv (DM)]: Do you mean to step into your role in proper? 44:29.021 --> 44:30.061 [JC (Ryo)]: Wasn't planning on it. 44:32.682 --> 44:37.383 [Riv (DM)]: Unfortunately, I can't predict what would happen were your presence to become known in the Vale. 44:40.263 --> 44:52.686 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sure that there are many people over there that have a sort of, how do we say, grudge, for lack of a stronger term. 44:53.466 --> 44:56.887 [Riv (DM)]: Many people hold your family responsible for what happened to them. 45:00.729 --> 45:02.770 [Riv (DM)]: Their veil being enshroud in darkness, that is. 45:07.972 --> 45:11.794 [JC (Ryo)]: I guess the question to be asked is can the Shroud be lifted? 45:14.335 --> 45:16.976 [Riv (DM)]: Well, that is a bit beyond me. 45:17.856 --> 45:23.679 [Riv (DM)]: That veil has been there since the time of your ancestor, your namesake. 45:25.139 --> 45:26.280 [Riv (DM)]: From what I understand and 45:26.952 --> 45:31.714 [Riv (DM)]: Most of the detail is lost to history, or possibly lost within the Vault. 45:34.596 --> 45:44.921 [Riv (DM)]: As the World Tree was sundered, part of the realm itself fractured and the sky fell. 45:46.161 --> 45:56.186 [Riv (DM)]: And with it, night descended upon the Vale as a sort of, you know, causal catastrophe. 46:00.568 --> 46:06.050 [Riv (DM)]: It was either that or the cosmos itself being ripped to pieces. 46:07.230 --> 46:11.352 [Riv (DM)]: But I'm sure there are people who live there that still just feel the wound. 46:18.414 --> 46:26.217 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you think the circle of the scroll have anything written down from way back then? 46:27.672 --> 46:29.013 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I'm sure there are bits and pieces. 46:31.035 --> 46:42.285 [Riv (DM)]: There will be collections of fragments of texts, but the problem with collecting any sort of history from that long ago, I'm sure you'll find many different documents that all slightly contradict each other. 46:42.845 --> 46:49.431 [Riv (DM)]: History is written very much so from the perspective of people, and people's perspectives vary widely, don't they? 46:50.972 --> 46:51.733 [Lacer (Kai)]: They sure do. 46:52.768 --> 47:00.113 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, it means we have two options, and I look to Erendor and Rhyr and Dondarr. 47:00.613 --> 47:09.718 [Lacer (Kai)]: Should we go see the Circle of the Scroll, or should we go back and see Grandpa, um, what's his name, Varanus. 47:09.919 --> 47:10.879 [Lacer (Kai)]: Grandpa Varanus. 47:11.279 --> 47:17.023 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm sure the Vault will help us, maybe. 47:20.835 --> 47:27.022 [JC (Ryo)]: If we go back into the vault, will we go straight to the end this time, or do we have to go through all the, uh, trials again? 47:30.105 --> 47:31.606 [Lacer (Kai)]: It recognizes us now, doesn't it? 47:31.787 --> 47:32.908 [Lacer (Kai)]: How did you do it back then? 47:33.889 --> 47:34.670 [Lacer (Kai)]: With the princess. 47:36.572 --> 47:37.012 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 47:38.236 --> 47:56.310 [Riv (DM)]: Whenever I visited with your mother she was she seemed to have a feel for it she could I don't know some relationship that she had with the vault itself and she managed to find ways to coax it into rapidly getting us from one place to the other. 47:57.891 --> 47:58.992 [Lacer (Kai)]: Did you have to fight stuff? 47:59.412 --> 48:02.214 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like I couldn't imagine you guys fighting like golems and things. 48:03.395 --> 48:04.396 [Riv (DM)]: Not unless we wanted to. 48:04.416 --> 48:07.398 [Riv (DM)]: There were times when we wanted to have a little bit of fun though. 48:10.425 --> 48:10.945 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's fair. 48:11.326 --> 48:11.886 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's fair. 48:13.607 --> 48:14.828 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, up to you, Rio. 48:15.248 --> 48:16.008 [Lacer (Kai)]: What do you want to do? 48:17.329 --> 48:18.570 [Lacer (Kai)]: We kind of need answers. 48:23.612 --> 48:24.233 [JC (Ryo)]: Or clues. 48:26.274 --> 48:31.237 [JC (Ryo)]: I would rather start with the circle of the scroll before we try the vault again. 48:31.257 --> 48:37.180 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 48:41.397 --> 48:44.540 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's check out the map. 48:44.820 --> 48:52.986 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, circle or scroll from what I remember, what you guys told us, is to the north of, northwest of where we are. 48:54.207 --> 49:00.672 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we could do like a triangle, we could head to the scroll, whether Memorium or Nemorium? 49:00.892 --> 49:02.374 [Lacer (Kai)]: How do you pronounce that? 49:02.614 --> 49:03.274 [Lacer (Kai)]: Silent Im. 49:05.516 --> 49:06.357 [Riv (DM)]: Nemorium, Cain. 49:07.468 --> 49:17.116 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, Namorium Canton, we could head up that way and then shoot back down to the Ironsward for those Zephyr Cuffs. 49:18.817 --> 49:19.938 [Lacer (Kai)]: Makes it one big trip. 49:22.620 --> 49:23.841 [JC (Ryo)]: How big is the city, Riv? 49:23.881 --> 49:27.124 [JC (Ryo)]: Is it going to take us like a full day to do a lap of the city, or? 49:27.924 --> 49:28.845 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's decent. 49:28.865 --> 49:31.067 [Riv (DM)]: It would probably take a few hours going back and forth. 49:32.282 --> 49:35.483 [Lacer (Kai)]: How do you get around the city quickly, Ayana? 49:35.583 --> 49:36.803 [Lacer (Kai)]: This city's just too big. 49:38.663 --> 49:40.184 [Riv (DM)]: Well, most people just walk. 49:41.124 --> 49:41.964 [Riv (DM)]: Just walk? 49:42.264 --> 49:43.404 [Riv (DM)]: This is going to take forever. 49:45.245 --> 49:47.545 [Riv (DM)]: Some of us have the advantage of not needing to walk. 49:49.866 --> 49:53.527 [Riv (DM)]: And she sort of like glances over at her staff propped up against the wall. 49:56.407 --> 49:58.988 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's she looking at, propped up against the wall? 49:59.028 --> 49:59.408 [Lacer (Kai)]: Her staff. 50:00.557 --> 50:01.017 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, stop. 50:01.037 --> 50:02.998 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought it was like a broom of flying or something. 50:13.445 --> 50:15.646 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we better start walking. 50:16.126 --> 50:17.227 [Lacer (Kai)]: Better start walking then. 50:20.311 --> 50:22.772 [Lacer (Kai)]: I like to... are there windows in this place? 50:22.852 --> 50:27.095 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I'd rather it's like a round, roundish building, right? 50:27.115 --> 50:27.675 [Riv (DM)]: 100%. 50:27.715 --> 50:34.959 [Riv (DM)]: The entire room you're in, like the whole half of the wall is just crystal glass looking out across the city, looking down. 50:34.979 --> 50:39.541 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I'd point up at the sky. 50:39.941 --> 50:45.224 [Lacer (Kai)]: What time is it, roughly, based on the color of the sky, even though it's brighter today? 50:45.244 --> 50:46.665 [Lacer (Kai)]: What did you wake up? 50:48.078 --> 50:52.124 [Riv (DM)]: I hate this question. 50:52.765 --> 50:53.546 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, exactly. 50:53.567 --> 50:55.690 [Riv (DM)]: The time is whatever you make of it here. 50:56.511 --> 50:58.514 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably been a few hours since you woke up. 51:00.687 --> 51:02.508 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe like four or so hours into the day. 51:03.308 --> 51:06.509 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, so it's still before before midday. 51:06.529 --> 51:17.152 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably about midday because you came over from the Citadel, went up into the Aetherian Canton, you went down to the Greensward, now you've come back to Locus Arcanum. 51:17.172 --> 51:18.612 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, it's probably probably about midday. 51:18.992 --> 51:19.852 [Lacer (Kai)]: So it's lunchtime. 51:19.992 --> 51:27.674 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we're taking a break here and then we'll head up to Namorium Canton to, I guess. 51:29.255 --> 51:29.655 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nor are you. 51:32.330 --> 51:32.550 [Lacer (Kai)]: What? 51:33.931 --> 51:34.552 [Lacer (Kai)]: Silent M's. 51:34.792 --> 51:37.034 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, Nemorium, right? 51:37.354 --> 51:38.115 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nemorium? 51:38.435 --> 51:38.595 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 51:38.916 --> 51:39.116 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 51:39.957 --> 51:41.158 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: To make all of the M's silent. 51:42.319 --> 51:50.005 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, is that what you meant by, uh... Is that, so all the M's in that, that thing are silent, are they? 51:50.386 --> 51:50.586 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 51:50.626 --> 51:51.967 [Lacer (Kai)]: So it's like... No. 51:56.731 --> 51:57.492 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, just the first one. 51:58.352 --> 51:58.513 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 51:58.533 --> 51:58.773 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 52:02.170 --> 52:04.632 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 52:06.073 --> 52:06.473 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's see. 52:07.934 --> 52:09.896 [Lacer (Kai)]: So looks like we have to hit up. 52:10.556 --> 52:11.597 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who do we have to hit up? 52:12.318 --> 52:13.218 [Lacer (Kai)]: Which warden? 52:21.284 --> 52:23.566 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just going to make a couple of rolls. 52:25.187 --> 52:26.328 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, this one's on 20. 52:26.448 --> 52:27.269 [Riv (DM)]: That's really good for you. 52:29.350 --> 52:31.412 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're going to find Elro Gemflower. 52:38.615 --> 52:39.496 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 52:42.357 --> 52:53.244 [Riv (DM)]: You can see she kind of like looks at Illithia and Illithia gets up and wanders over to the door, pokes her head out, like you can hear some murmuring, some discussions going on out there. 52:53.264 --> 53:05.651 [Riv (DM)]: A few moments pass and Illithia comes back in and she says, we actually have, we have some griffins available. 53:08.153 --> 53:08.333 [Riv (DM)]: Well. 53:09.828 --> 53:14.935 [Riv (DM)]: They weren't exactly available, but I've requested for them to be available for a short time. 53:15.796 --> 53:22.565 [Riv (DM)]: There are some writers who have agreed to take you to the to the base of the Nemorian Canton. 53:23.967 --> 53:25.329 [Riv (DM)]: They could fly to the top if you wanted, but 53:26.570 --> 53:28.011 [Riv (DM)]: I recommend taking the elevators. 53:28.051 --> 53:28.851 [Riv (DM)]: It's a fun experience. 53:30.552 --> 53:40.877 [Riv (DM)]: They'll be here shortly and best not to wait as they are busy and have other things to be doing today but should help you on your way. 53:48.900 --> 53:51.982 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we better make haste if they're gonna be here any moment. 53:55.022 --> 53:55.282 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 53:56.342 --> 53:57.003 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 53:57.223 --> 53:59.263 [Riv (DM)]: Anything else as we start to head out? 54:01.864 --> 54:02.124 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 54:03.244 --> 54:03.664 [Riv (DM)]: Very good. 54:04.205 --> 54:07.245 [Riv (DM)]: So you can head back out through the Locus Arcanum. 54:07.486 --> 54:17.548 [Riv (DM)]: Illithia wanders with you, and then Ayana stays behind you just here, she starts to clean up some of the dishes as you head out of the room and she waves at you, and just says, well, be safe. 54:19.109 --> 54:20.029 [Riv (DM)]: Hope to see you again shortly. 54:20.049 --> 54:21.309 [Riv (DM)]: We always are, aren't we? 54:21.730 --> 54:23.010 [Riv (DM)]: Oh sure, I'm sure you are. 54:25.107 --> 54:30.451 [Riv (DM)]: Like when we were going through the Briar Shade. 54:31.892 --> 54:35.255 [Riv (DM)]: I may have been a little girl, but I remember. 54:36.816 --> 54:40.599 [Riv (DM)]: She kind of like, she kind of like looks at you, Clay. 54:42.040 --> 54:45.603 [Riv (DM)]: Making a deal with a fey creature like that was very very foolish by the way. 54:47.945 --> 54:48.666 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't remember. 54:50.466 --> 54:52.267 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, you mean that guy with the top hat? 54:52.527 --> 54:52.767 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 54:53.587 --> 54:53.887 [Riv (DM)]: Grin. 54:54.047 --> 54:54.567 [Riv (DM)]: That's the one. 54:56.788 --> 54:58.649 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is this Ayano or Illithia? 54:58.769 --> 55:04.491 [Riv (DM)]: Because you said Illithia, so I'm kind of like... Illithia's like just saying to sort of lead you out of the room, and Ayano is just saying her farewells. 55:05.311 --> 55:07.072 [Riv (DM)]: And as you've said, like, we're always careful. 55:07.092 --> 55:08.412 [Riv (DM)]: She's like, eh, are you? 55:10.413 --> 55:16.435 [Riv (DM)]: But either way, she comes over and, you know, gives you all a quick hug, and you can head out. 55:17.781 --> 55:18.622 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm alive, aren't I? 55:18.782 --> 55:19.602 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess I'm okay. 55:20.943 --> 55:21.783 [Riv (DM)]: Keep it that way, please. 55:23.944 --> 55:26.225 [Riv (DM)]: All right, good luck, and hopefully see you soon. 55:27.526 --> 55:27.786 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 55:28.267 --> 55:32.809 [Riv (DM)]: Illithia can lead you down through the halls, and outside there are two griffins that have landed. 55:33.369 --> 55:42.514 [Riv (DM)]: There are people in blue coats with, it's not like full-blown martial armor, but they've got sort of ornamental-ish armor. 55:42.914 --> 55:46.276 [Riv (DM)]: They look like potentially mage guard or something like that. 55:47.016 --> 55:49.457 [Riv (DM)]: And then after a few more moments, a couple more come down and land. 55:50.037 --> 55:52.257 [Riv (DM)]: But there's four of them. 55:52.777 --> 55:54.137 [Riv (DM)]: You can hop on the back with the rider. 55:54.398 --> 55:58.638 [Riv (DM)]: Donda probably hops on with another you, with like two of you. 55:58.718 --> 56:01.099 [Riv (DM)]: So, two on one and four on the others. 56:01.779 --> 56:01.979 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry. 56:02.799 --> 56:04.560 [Riv (DM)]: Three on three of them and then two of them on one. 56:05.740 --> 56:07.280 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is Ayana and Illithia down there? 56:07.800 --> 56:08.760 [Riv (DM)]: Illithia's with you, Senor. 56:08.780 --> 56:11.361 [Riv (DM)]: If Ayana stayed back to clear up. 56:13.343 --> 56:17.685 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm going to yell out, you two should get married before Ayana goes back, you know? 56:18.325 --> 56:18.945 [Lacer (Kai)]: Think about it. 56:21.246 --> 56:22.586 [Riv (DM)]: Valith looks at you and just sort of chuckles. 56:25.107 --> 56:27.128 [Riv (DM)]: We've known each other for centuries, you know that, right? 56:29.309 --> 56:35.211 [Riv (DM)]: Marriages, kind of the least on our minds. 56:35.891 --> 56:38.812 [Riv (DM)]: It's trivial compared to what we've been through together. 56:39.914 --> 56:43.516 [Lacer (Kai)]: I yell out, I can make it happen by the power of the gods. 56:48.560 --> 56:49.480 [Riv (DM)]: That would be interesting. 56:50.721 --> 56:58.046 [Riv (DM)]: An old god blessing the union of two women in the elven society from a different realm. 56:59.066 --> 56:59.286 [Riv (DM)]: Wow. 57:00.507 --> 57:00.907 [Riv (DM)]: We'll see. 57:01.928 --> 57:02.869 [Riv (DM)]: We'll see how this all goes. 57:02.889 --> 57:04.870 [Riv (DM)]: For now, there is work to do. 57:05.851 --> 57:06.811 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep, think about it. 57:06.971 --> 57:07.632 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll be back. 57:09.611 --> 57:10.571 [Riv (DM)]: Jump on the back of the Gryffins. 57:11.051 --> 57:13.792 [Riv (DM)]: They, um... Oh, Kiwi's in the chat! 57:14.972 --> 57:15.492 [Riv (DM)]: Elf Wedding! 57:15.512 --> 57:37.218 [Riv (DM)]: I'm feeling like a Kiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwi 57:40.353 --> 57:43.457 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, you can see tears coming out the side of his eye. 57:43.477 --> 57:45.799 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, dammit. 57:46.460 --> 57:47.281 [Riv (DM)]: Dondarr, Dondarr's good. 57:47.781 --> 57:48.382 [Riv (DM)]: He's a brave lad. 57:49.423 --> 57:56.071 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, so, um, absolutely magnificent views as the, the griffins take off and, and soar between the spiring towers of the city. 57:56.091 --> 58:00.556 [Riv (DM)]: Um, sort of they go down into the Hearthstone Commons and go right past the Royal Citadel. 58:00.996 --> 58:04.741 [Riv (DM)]: Looking down now, you can see that balcony that you were standing at earlier this morning. 58:06.183 --> 58:07.184 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, absolutely stunning. 58:07.284 --> 58:11.089 [Riv (DM)]: And the heartstone is quite something to see from this view. 58:11.269 --> 58:11.609 [Riv (DM)]: Like it's 58:12.811 --> 58:20.955 [Riv (DM)]: It looks like stone but not quite like it's almost too natural to be stone but it's got that like white grayish pale petrified look to it. 58:21.415 --> 58:22.016 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, very cool. 58:22.636 --> 58:30.060 [Riv (DM)]: They take you over and you start heading towards that waterfall that's slicing down through the mountainside. 58:30.820 --> 58:33.902 [Riv (DM)]: It's just like a sheer cliff on that side of the caldera. 58:36.149 --> 58:47.239 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and as promised the griffins will come down and land you at the base of that cliff nearby where you can see clearly there are like groups of people sort of heading in the direction over you know a couple of roads. 58:48.160 --> 59:00.292 [Riv (DM)]: There are these massive big like sections of stone that slide up and down the wall and as you land here and start to look you can kind of look up there's um there's one big section of stone sliding down as you as you're here. 59:00.772 --> 59:05.797 [Riv (DM)]: I mean you can see it's like hollow on the inside in there, you can see figures inside it sort of just standing there looking out. 59:06.978 --> 59:10.300 [Riv (DM)]: These are like these massive big magical elevators that are just constantly moving. 59:11.001 --> 59:26.374 [Riv (DM)]: And you can head over towards one of the elevators as it lands and along with a big group of other people you can see there are like there are some elves, there are some pixies, a few sort of like what do you call them, the faun-like creatures. 59:27.215 --> 59:33.778 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of them are like sort of heads down, sort of like going about their business, looks like maybe they're off to work or something. 59:33.798 --> 59:41.480 [Riv (DM)]: A couple of them maybe sort of writing something down on some paper, or going through some some notes, some scrolls in their bags. 59:41.500 --> 59:45.442 [Riv (DM)]: They look like all people that would probably work here in the circle of the scroll. 59:46.717 --> 59:49.661 [Riv (DM)]: You jump into the elevator. 59:49.901 --> 59:52.705 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I haven't actually necessarily given a name for these things. 59:53.686 --> 59:55.188 [Riv (DM)]: If anyone has an awesome name, let me know. 59:55.208 --> 01:00:00.755 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, these stone elevators, quite big, can fit probably a few dozen people at once. 01:00:02.817 --> 01:00:11.041 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah it's like sort of vibrates and shakes a bit and starts to slide back up the cliff face. 01:00:11.081 --> 01:00:18.045 [Riv (DM)]: And it's kind of interesting as well there are there are like these little handles, bronze handles sort of bolted into the side of the wall. 01:00:18.065 --> 01:00:30.291 [Riv (DM)]: And you can see there are a few pixies that have flown over and just like grabbed onto the handle because as the elevator is designed to lift you know they either land on the ground or they're just gonna have to fly up anyway so it's a bit more convenient for them to just like hold on to it and get a free ride. 01:00:31.723 --> 01:00:33.745 [Riv (DM)]: Eventually it goes up and up, super high. 01:00:33.765 --> 01:00:37.729 [Riv (DM)]: This is probably the highest point of the city that you would have been to by the time you get to the top. 01:00:38.269 --> 01:00:42.893 [Riv (DM)]: And up the top there are people going all directions. 01:00:44.855 --> 01:00:47.337 [Riv (DM)]: And I guess you probably don't know where to go. 01:00:47.698 --> 01:00:54.084 [Riv (DM)]: So why don't we, yeah, should we do like some investigation checks or something like that? 01:00:54.104 --> 01:00:57.747 [Riv (DM)]: So you can maybe ask people or figure out where you're heading? 01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:05.724 [Lacer (Kai)]: You said we noticed some people with some scrolls or scribbling notes and stuff, right? 01:01:05.785 --> 01:01:06.305 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or carrying. 01:01:06.866 --> 01:01:08.287 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's ask one of those people. 01:01:08.507 --> 01:01:14.474 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm sure if we're headed towards the circle of scrolls, they must work here. 01:01:14.594 --> 01:01:15.755 [Lacer (Kai)]: They must know where to go. 01:01:15.775 --> 01:01:15.855 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 01:01:17.657 --> 01:01:18.638 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, yeah. 01:01:18.678 --> 01:01:19.899 [Riv (DM)]: You can start asking around a few people. 01:01:20.300 --> 01:01:22.042 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of people are sort of like, 01:01:22.652 --> 01:01:27.835 [Riv (DM)]: You know, very, very preoccupied and trying to sort of hurry about their day. 01:01:29.436 --> 01:01:30.437 [Riv (DM)]: So you can ask around a bit. 01:01:30.697 --> 01:01:33.979 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an investigation check with advantage. 01:01:34.579 --> 01:01:36.880 [Riv (DM)]: Two of you can maybe go and try and grab a couple of people. 01:01:39.302 --> 01:01:40.483 [Riv (DM)]: Investigation. 01:01:41.623 --> 01:01:42.184 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's go. 01:01:42.204 --> 01:01:43.324 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, let me. 01:01:44.265 --> 01:01:45.105 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's normal. 01:01:45.265 --> 01:01:45.926 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let me roll again. 01:01:47.508 --> 01:01:48.550 [Riv (DM)]: You can just roll one more time. 01:01:49.090 --> 01:01:49.891 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:01:51.293 --> 01:01:53.837 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, very good. 01:01:54.438 --> 01:01:56.781 [Riv (DM)]: You find an older fawn woman. 01:01:57.402 --> 01:01:58.524 [Riv (DM)]: She's a bit hunched over. 01:01:58.664 --> 01:02:03.591 [Riv (DM)]: She's got long fur coming off the back of her legs that dangle down almost to her hooves. 01:02:05.192 --> 01:02:21.038 [Riv (DM)]: And she's got a big bag and you can see some scrolls poking out the top and she's breathing heavily as she's just hopped off the elevator with you and heading in the direction and yeah you call out to her and she turns and looks at you and oh how can I help you young folk? 01:02:21.618 --> 01:02:22.279 [Riv (DM)]: What are you after? 01:02:24.580 --> 01:02:31.042 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're looking for a way to search the archives of the circle 01:02:33.290 --> 01:02:38.213 [Riv (DM)]: Well, there is a main public archive that members of the public are welcome to access. 01:02:38.793 --> 01:02:40.694 [Riv (DM)]: I'm actually heading there that way myself. 01:02:40.794 --> 01:02:42.074 [Riv (DM)]: I work as a librarian. 01:02:44.316 --> 01:02:45.276 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, come along if you like. 01:02:46.237 --> 01:02:46.957 [Lacer (Kai)]: How convenient. 01:02:47.257 --> 01:02:49.818 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm Kai, and this is my friends. 01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:50.779 [Lacer (Kai)]: These are my friends. 01:02:51.399 --> 01:02:52.020 [Riv (DM)]: Good, good, yes. 01:02:52.040 --> 01:02:53.820 [Riv (DM)]: Nice to meet you all. 01:02:54.341 --> 01:02:56.942 [Riv (DM)]: And she sort of starts trotting along in the direction. 01:02:57.182 --> 01:03:01.564 [Riv (DM)]: So, carved over into the side of the wall there are like all sorts of big openings. 01:03:01.584 --> 01:03:02.305 [Riv (DM)]: Some of them have like 01:03:03.205 --> 01:03:06.367 [Riv (DM)]: Actual stone structures that have been built out as well, tall pillars. 01:03:07.287 --> 01:03:14.090 [Riv (DM)]: You can see there are stairways that go down the side of the cliff face as well and they sort of like curve around and go into different openings. 01:03:16.451 --> 01:03:21.914 [Riv (DM)]: All these openings are like dotted around the cliff face and the elevator itself as it was sliding up. 01:03:21.954 --> 01:03:27.237 [Riv (DM)]: It would have stopped at a few of these locations along the way as well as there are sort of openings all the way up. 01:03:28.637 --> 01:03:29.858 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she leads you. 01:03:30.278 --> 01:03:31.959 [Riv (DM)]: This one is at the very, very top level. 01:03:33.460 --> 01:03:36.761 [Riv (DM)]: And you go inside and big massive landing area. 01:03:37.861 --> 01:03:39.122 [Riv (DM)]: People wandering in all directions. 01:03:39.142 --> 01:03:48.584 [Riv (DM)]: You can see people that look like workers and also plenty of people that kind of just seem to be maybe browsing or chilling or relaxing here. 01:03:50.264 --> 01:03:52.305 [Riv (DM)]: They maybe are on their day off or something like that. 01:03:53.085 --> 01:04:11.369 [Riv (DM)]: There is a central sort of desk or dais area and behind this you can see just rows and rows of shelves and stairways that go up to other sections, stairways that go down into doors that disappear into unknown rooms. 01:04:12.169 --> 01:04:18.070 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you can head up to the desk, the woman who is with you just sort of waves as she carries on into a back room somewhere. 01:04:19.350 --> 01:04:27.396 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and there is a, um, there's an elven man, um, hard to judge exact his age, but he's looking oldish. 01:04:27.616 --> 01:04:33.460 [Riv (DM)]: Um, he's got round glasses on his nose, um, sort of like brownish hair that is tied back in ponytail. 01:04:34.281 --> 01:04:43.528 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and he's currently just all like writing, and as you, um, come up to the desk, he looks up at you over the top of his glasses and just says, Yes, how may I help you? 01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:49.121 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna grab Rio and go, it's up to you, buddy. 01:04:58.302 --> 01:05:00.523 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, what's that damn town called again that we want to go to? 01:05:04.724 --> 01:05:05.164 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, what? 01:05:05.184 --> 01:05:10.945 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, Caer Nystral, the Dawnless City, the Heart of the Vale of Eternal Night. 01:05:14.154 --> 01:05:18.937 [JC (Ryo)]: We're looking for any information about the Caer Nystral, the... 01:05:20.918 --> 01:05:22.219 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, Riff, I'm out of it. 01:05:22.439 --> 01:05:23.220 [JC (Ryo)]: You're all good. 01:05:23.240 --> 01:05:25.781 [JC (Ryo)]: Looking for information about that city. 01:05:27.742 --> 01:05:30.264 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, interesting. 01:05:30.684 --> 01:05:31.825 [Riv (DM)]: May I ask for what reason? 01:05:36.828 --> 01:05:37.788 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, curiosity. 01:05:37.808 --> 01:05:40.310 [JC (Ryo)]: Hmm. 01:05:40.350 --> 01:05:42.391 [JC (Ryo)]: I'd like to know my history, like to know the history. 01:05:44.737 --> 01:05:47.077 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of the information around Caer Nystral and the Vale in general is fairly well protected. 01:05:47.097 --> 01:05:48.778 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not sure if we have anything publicly available here. 01:05:48.798 --> 01:05:50.098 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not sure if we have anything publicly available here. 01:05:50.118 --> 01:05:52.258 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not sure if we have anything publicly available here. 01:05:52.278 --> 01:05:53.719 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not sure if we have anything publicly available here. 01:05:53.739 --> 01:05:56.559 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not sure if we have anything publicly available here. 01:05:56.579 --> 01:05:58.579 [Riv (DM)]: It's not often a request that people come looking for. 01:05:58.599 --> 01:05:59.479 [Riv (DM)]: Is it important? 01:05:59.499 --> 01:05:59.579 [Riv (DM)]: Why? 01:05:59.600 --> 01:06:00.880 [Riv (DM)]: It's not often a request that people come looking for. 01:06:00.900 --> 01:06:01.460 [Riv (DM)]: Is it important? 01:06:01.480 --> 01:06:01.560 [Riv (DM)]: Why? 01:06:01.580 --> 01:06:02.820 [Riv (DM)]: It's not often a request that people come looking for. 01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:03.840 Is it important? 01:06:03.860 --> 01:06:03.940 Why? 01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:05.821 [Riv (DM)]: It's not exactly something people just research on a whim. 01:06:05.841 --> 01:06:10.501 [Riv (DM)]: It's not exactly something people just research on a whim. 01:06:10.881 --> 01:06:14.462 [JC (Ryo)]: It's not exactly something people just research on a whim. 01:06:14.707 --> 01:06:20.849 [JC (Ryo)]: We've been tasked with, uh, going there to retrieve something, so any- Excuse me? 01:06:22.969 --> 01:06:24.409 [Riv (DM)]: You intend to go into the Vale? 01:06:28.971 --> 01:06:29.671 [JC (Ryo)]: That's the idea? 01:06:29.691 --> 01:06:31.891 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 01:06:32.851 --> 01:06:32.952 [Riv (DM)]: Um. 01:06:34.412 --> 01:06:35.592 [Riv (DM)]: Asked by whom, I ask? 01:06:36.832 --> 01:06:38.673 [Riv (DM)]: Is our Lord Caelan aware of this? 01:06:43.456 --> 01:06:44.316 [Lacer (Kai)]: He definitely is. 01:06:44.917 --> 01:06:48.899 [Lacer (Kai)]: We have to see where his son went also, so any knowledge is better. 01:06:48.919 --> 01:06:52.761 [Riv (DM)]: His son was killed 60 years ago. 01:06:54.262 --> 01:06:55.643 [Lacer (Kai)]: His body was never found though. 01:06:58.905 --> 01:07:00.145 [Riv (DM)]: His eyes are narrow, hey you. 01:07:01.946 --> 01:07:08.430 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a persuasion check, or a deception check, depending on how you are feeling. 01:07:09.821 --> 01:07:12.163 [Riv (DM)]: That's why I paused, I was checking what my deception was. 01:07:12.784 --> 01:07:16.427 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna, I'm gonna roll, do I get advantage, or is it normal? 01:07:16.927 --> 01:07:20.770 [Riv (DM)]: It probably should be deception, to be honest, because Caelan definitely didn't tell you to do this. 01:07:21.451 --> 01:07:21.791 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 01:07:22.532 --> 01:07:24.754 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh yeah, no, we're definitely lying right now, but who's wrong? 01:07:25.454 --> 01:07:27.095 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, deception, holy crap. 01:07:27.156 --> 01:07:28.957 [Riv (DM)]: Well, Rio, Rio is the one speaking. 01:07:29.738 --> 01:07:30.298 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you're speaking. 01:07:30.318 --> 01:07:30.959 [Riv (DM)]: So I think it has to be Rio. 01:07:31.719 --> 01:07:32.020 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:07:32.040 --> 01:07:32.940 [Riv (DM)]: Can I give you an advantage? 01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:36.003 [Riv (DM)]: Unless someone wants to contribute something, but you would need to, um, you would need to speak up. 01:07:37.169 --> 01:07:40.071 [Lacer (Kai)]: Didn't I speak so I could... Can I give him an advantage? 01:07:43.114 --> 01:07:43.454 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or nah? 01:07:45.276 --> 01:07:47.958 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nah. 01:07:48.058 --> 01:07:49.579 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I was gonna say the same thing. 01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:52.642 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I was gonna say, yeah, of course you know. 01:07:53.523 --> 01:08:01.750 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm going to speak up and, as you can probably tell by looking at us, we're not from around here. 01:08:02.938 --> 01:08:10.423 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So, unlike most of the members of this society, we are comparatively expendable. 01:08:12.545 --> 01:08:14.186 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hmm. 01:08:14.206 --> 01:08:18.769 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So, the loss of us is less impactful to this society. 01:08:20.730 --> 01:08:24.172 [JC (Ryo)]: And we're just trying to understand what we may be getting ourselves into. 01:08:24.192 --> 01:08:26.474 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:08:27.655 --> 01:08:30.897 [Riv (DM)]: He, um, kind of looks at you, Erendor. 01:08:35.835 --> 01:08:45.925 [Riv (DM)]: I guess you don't exactly look Sumaran, do you? 01:08:45.945 --> 01:08:48.147 [Riv (DM)]: Roll Deception with advantage. 01:08:50.761 --> 01:08:52.282 [Lacer (Kai)]: I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 01:09:17.236 --> 01:09:17.696 [Lacer (Kai)]: Young man. 01:09:18.356 --> 01:09:19.857 [Lacer (Kai)]: Dondo's like, I'm 60 years old. 01:09:19.877 --> 01:09:20.877 [Lacer (Kai)]: What are you talking about? 01:09:21.977 --> 01:09:23.497 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I wish I was 60 years old. 01:09:23.837 --> 01:09:24.138 [Riv (DM)]: Gosh. 01:09:25.078 --> 01:09:30.939 [Riv (DM)]: Once you get to my age, you feel every single bone in your body at all times. 01:09:31.239 --> 01:09:32.139 [Riv (DM)]: I couldn't recommend it. 01:09:33.740 --> 01:09:35.200 [Riv (DM)]: Um, 16 isn't too bad. 01:09:35.220 --> 01:09:36.740 [Riv (DM)]: Um, 16 isn't too bad. 01:09:36.760 --> 01:09:39.261 [Riv (DM)]: Let me, um, let me roll for this guy. 01:09:39.281 --> 01:09:45.522 [Riv (DM)]: Let's see how, um, how like strong his principles are this morning. 01:09:48.282 --> 01:09:49.603 [Lacer (Kai)]: We should have brought him some Joffy. 01:09:49.964 --> 01:09:50.904 [Lacer (Kai)]: Some Fae Joffy. 01:09:52.386 --> 01:09:53.086 [Riv (DM)]: Rolled a 10 on the die. 01:09:53.106 --> 01:09:54.047 [Riv (DM)]: What would his mod be? 01:09:54.888 --> 01:09:56.749 [Riv (DM)]: He probably wouldn't be getting a plus 6 from anywhere, so. 01:09:59.572 --> 01:10:02.014 [Riv (DM)]: Well, okay, very well. 01:10:02.554 --> 01:10:05.657 [Riv (DM)]: It's, it's very, very, very unusual. 01:10:05.677 --> 01:10:07.398 [Riv (DM)]: Um, okay. 01:10:09.020 --> 01:10:10.421 [Riv (DM)]: Fine. 01:10:10.441 --> 01:10:10.561 [Riv (DM)]: Um, 01:10:12.243 --> 01:10:19.806 [Riv (DM)]: Silvana, you see, like, stands up and, like, gestures to someone who's wandering past, like, do you mind, um, do you mind mending the desk? 01:10:19.926 --> 01:10:24.028 [Riv (DM)]: I just have to lead these folk into a restricted area. 01:10:25.194 --> 01:10:52.733 [Riv (DM)]: And he will lead you off down one of these side stairs into a new room behind a door that he pulls out a big like key massive like big bronze thing slides in and as that satisfying clicking sound as a couple of mechanisms go within the door slides open swings open I should say um and he will pull a candle from like a you know a what would you say like an indentation in the wall where there 01:10:54.076 --> 01:11:01.778 [Riv (DM)]: Oh boy, you know, there's a slot in the wall where you would store things and he pulls a candle out of it and he leads you down into the darker, deep parts of the hall. 01:11:03.779 --> 01:11:12.781 [Riv (DM)]: More rows and rows of scrolls and books down here and he kind of like looks up at a label on one of them and he's like, oh no, where would they have put them? 01:11:13.681 --> 01:11:19.863 [Riv (DM)]: I remember I was here, like 200 years ago it would have been, I feel like I remember seeing, just all like mumbling to himself. 01:11:21.223 --> 01:11:28.526 [Riv (DM)]: Kiwi's very distraught about the dwarven slander. 01:11:28.646 --> 01:11:43.053 [Riv (DM)]: He eventually, like a light goes off in his head and he's like, ah that's right, down here, and he actually heads off in the opposite direction there, just come right back where you, right the way you went and off down to another side part of this room. 01:11:43.840 --> 01:11:46.521 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look at the side label on one of the aisles. 01:11:46.741 --> 01:11:48.262 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think we're in the wrong section. 01:11:48.522 --> 01:11:51.223 [Lacer (Kai)]: It says Arcane Elven Toilets. 01:11:52.624 --> 01:11:55.305 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's in a language that you definitely can't read, by the way. 01:11:56.185 --> 01:11:58.786 [Riv (DM)]: I can read Elvish. 01:11:59.207 --> 01:12:00.287 [Unmatched Speaker]: What language is it in? 01:12:00.427 --> 01:12:01.527 [Unmatched Speaker]: It's not Elvish. 01:12:03.048 --> 01:12:04.069 [Unmatched Speaker]: I do have a couple of others. 01:12:04.609 --> 01:12:05.329 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Let me check. 01:12:05.369 --> 01:12:08.390 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He's just going to go through and quickly check what each of us knows. 01:12:08.951 --> 01:12:10.891 [Riv (DM)]: No, neither of you, unfortunately, can read this one. 01:12:14.468 --> 01:12:18.700 [Lacer (Kai)]: Damn, if only I had my spell from 2014 rolls, if I could. 01:12:22.687 --> 01:12:30.070 [Riv (DM)]: He eventually will take you to some old dusty shelves that he sort of like blows dust off a big cloud and starts like rifling through papers. 01:12:31.430 --> 01:12:33.171 [Riv (DM)]: What information specifically are you looking for? 01:12:33.551 --> 01:12:44.014 [Riv (DM)]: We can sort of do a couple of rolls here to see what we can find and sort of hand wave the roleplay as he's digging through stacks and stacks of scrolls and leafing through books to try and find some stuff. 01:12:44.534 --> 01:12:45.995 [Riv (DM)]: What information are you after? 01:12:49.214 --> 01:12:53.156 [JC (Ryo)]: Creation of the city, relations between the two cities. 01:12:55.977 --> 01:12:58.639 [JC (Ryo)]: Any detailed notes on the last encounter? 01:13:01.580 --> 01:13:04.482 [Lacer (Kai)]: The beginning of the veil, how the veil became to be. 01:13:05.122 --> 01:13:15.347 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm going to give, I'm going to actually cast enhanceability for, I'm guessing, intelligence at, maybe let's do it at a higher level. 01:13:15.527 --> 01:13:16.308 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's do it at... 01:13:17.943 --> 01:13:19.604 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think I should be able to give this to two people. 01:13:19.885 --> 01:13:21.626 [Lacer (Kai)]: Should I give it to the old dude and someone else? 01:13:23.408 --> 01:13:24.950 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, you'll probably want to give it to the old dude. 01:13:26.852 --> 01:13:27.753 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'll do that. 01:13:27.773 --> 01:13:27.853 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 01:13:29.715 --> 01:13:34.660 [Riv (DM)]: And we'll get you to roll, um, it would be another investigation check. 01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:36.121 [Riv (DM)]: You can get it with advantage. 01:13:41.030 --> 01:13:48.032 [Lacer (Kai)]: Since this is Ryo, I'm going to give you enhanceability as well, Ryo, for... something might come to you, yeah, for intelligence. 01:13:49.052 --> 01:13:57.675 [Vael (Berberis)]: I would imagine also a layout, aka map, and references to any sort of gem capable of scoring souls. 01:13:58.775 --> 01:13:59.615 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, the soul gem. 01:14:00.475 --> 01:14:02.236 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, the whole purpose of going there. 01:14:03.400 --> 01:14:03.700 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:14:03.720 --> 01:14:04.060 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:14:06.442 --> 01:14:09.563 [Riv (DM)]: So we've got enhanceability on intelligence. 01:14:09.583 --> 01:14:10.344 [Riv (DM)]: Who did we put that on? 01:14:10.364 --> 01:14:12.785 [Riv (DM)]: We put that on the dude and we put it on... 01:14:12.805 --> 01:14:14.886 [Lacer (Kai)]: The dude and... Or should I do it on Dondar? 01:14:14.906 --> 01:14:18.748 [Lacer (Kai)]: Has Dondar got really good knowledge on stuff? 01:14:20.709 --> 01:14:22.530 [Lacer (Kai)]: Whoever wants it can have it, yeah. 01:14:22.550 --> 01:14:25.211 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar's got decent investigation. 01:14:26.752 --> 01:14:27.773 [Riv (DM)]: Mine's not too bad either. 01:14:28.673 --> 01:14:29.053 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah. 01:14:30.074 --> 01:14:31.615 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, since Dondar's 01:14:33.141 --> 01:14:34.942 [Lacer (Kai)]: Look in some way, I'll give it to Erendor. 01:14:35.943 --> 01:14:37.104 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, there you go, Erendor. 01:14:37.544 --> 01:14:37.764 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:14:38.065 --> 01:14:39.065 [Lacer (Kai)]: Enhance your ability. 01:14:40.266 --> 01:14:44.409 [Riv (DM)]: So, um... Erendor, you can roll with advantage. 01:14:44.709 --> 01:14:46.210 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh wait, I can give it to a bunch of people. 01:14:46.230 --> 01:14:47.171 [Lacer (Kai)]: I did it at fourth level. 01:14:47.671 --> 01:14:47.992 [Lacer (Kai)]: I go, I can... 01:14:48.072 --> 01:14:49.393 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you can give it to three people. 01:14:50.193 --> 01:14:53.155 [Lacer (Kai)]: Above level two, so one, three, four... 01:14:53.776 --> 01:14:54.616 [Lacer (Kai)]: So yeah, three people. 01:14:55.077 --> 01:14:56.618 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, I guess... Do you want it, Rio? 01:15:01.283 --> 01:15:02.964 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'm going through the papers, I guess. 01:15:03.644 --> 01:15:03.944 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure. 01:15:04.504 --> 01:15:12.186 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wave that and give everybody an hour of enhanced ability for intelligence. 01:15:12.766 --> 01:15:13.126 [Riv (DM)]: Amazing. 01:15:17.328 --> 01:15:25.410 [Riv (DM)]: So, Erindor is going to be rolling with advantage unless two people want to roll separately. 01:15:26.446 --> 01:15:40.257 [Riv (DM)]: You're going to be getting a plus 4 just innately to the skill roll as well due to the old man helping you and all of you being given enhanceability and sort of fanning out to do some searching as well. 01:15:40.277 --> 01:15:43.659 [Riv (DM)]: 15 on the die will get you something. 01:15:44.400 --> 01:15:51.023 [Riv (DM)]: 20 will get you a decent amount, 25 will get you a lot, and 30 will get you probably everything that is in the archives. 01:15:52.083 --> 01:15:57.265 [Riv (DM)]: And not everything necessarily is in the archives, but everything that is available, to be said. 01:15:58.525 --> 01:15:59.706 [Riv (DM)]: So, um, yeah. 01:16:00.826 --> 01:16:01.486 [Riv (DM)]: Roll it when you're ready. 01:16:02.247 --> 01:16:03.187 [Lacer (Kai)]: Here we go, Nat 1. 01:16:06.208 --> 01:16:08.049 [Unmatched Speaker]: Oh shit, it's huge. 01:16:08.429 --> 01:16:10.810 [JC (Ryo)]: I was going to say, you have advantage because, yep, they're off. 01:16:13.017 --> 01:16:15.199 [JC (Ryo)]: Only one die went out, that's all, on my screen. 01:16:16.159 --> 01:16:18.941 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The other one went out as well, but it went a few seconds later. 01:16:19.281 --> 01:16:22.384 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It was a seven on the other one. 01:16:23.504 --> 01:16:24.365 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Wow, good job. 01:16:24.485 --> 01:16:26.346 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That's 29 plus the four. 01:16:26.527 --> 01:16:28.208 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I did promise a plus four. 01:16:28.408 --> 01:16:28.948 [Riv (DM)]: There you go. 01:16:29.048 --> 01:16:29.529 [Riv (DM)]: Damn! 01:16:31.510 --> 01:16:32.150 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 01:16:32.490 --> 01:16:33.751 [Riv (DM)]: So let's go through it then. 01:16:33.911 --> 01:16:34.831 [Riv (DM)]: Creation of the City. 01:16:36.391 --> 01:16:42.353 [Riv (DM)]: So again, you find multiple conflicting, like, historical accounts from people. 01:16:44.413 --> 01:16:57.017 [Riv (DM)]: And there are also some very biased people, like, um, elvish supremacists and stuff who think that, you know, the Vale is a blight upon the land and all of their complaints are negligible or, you know, 01:16:57.897 --> 01:16:58.998 [Riv (DM)]: Invalid. 01:16:59.598 --> 01:17:04.540 [Riv (DM)]: You get some potentially more sympathetic people as well and as aggregating a lot of these different accounts. 01:17:06.181 --> 01:17:17.807 [Riv (DM)]: You start to pull together a picture of the events of Riodan, first of his name, the champion of the elves who saved the cosmos from disaster. 01:17:20.142 --> 01:17:36.785 [Riv (DM)]: He was an ordinary elf, an ordinary adventurer, hero of the realm, but, well, I shouldn't say hero of the realm, just like your typical sort of dude who thinks he's greater than he actually is, you know? 01:17:37.525 --> 01:17:42.446 [Riv (DM)]: Someone aspiring to greatness who came from the lower classes. 01:17:44.547 --> 01:17:45.627 [Riv (DM)]: He somehow managed to 01:17:47.257 --> 01:17:52.559 [Riv (DM)]: You know, build up a great reputation during this cosmic disaster that was ongoing. 01:17:54.259 --> 01:18:07.563 [Riv (DM)]: He was able to get the support from gods and celestials to come and aid in the battle and eventually became like the central focus of huge armies that spread across the realms. 01:18:08.733 --> 01:18:16.339 [Riv (DM)]: There was this big sort of a huge moment in this in this war where 01:18:19.910 --> 01:18:21.811 [Riv (DM)]: It was kind of, it was make or break it. 01:18:22.451 --> 01:18:26.492 [Riv (DM)]: Back in this time, the World Tree physically extended into every realm. 01:18:26.893 --> 01:18:30.474 [Riv (DM)]: It had its roots that kind of burrowed through the actual cosmos itself. 01:18:31.434 --> 01:18:33.335 [Riv (DM)]: And the World Tree was under attack. 01:18:33.355 --> 01:18:34.295 [Riv (DM)]: It was being corrupted. 01:18:34.315 --> 01:18:35.496 [Riv (DM)]: There was something going on. 01:18:35.516 --> 01:18:36.976 [Riv (DM)]: The details are kind of unclear. 01:18:37.136 --> 01:18:38.817 [Riv (DM)]: The historians probably don't actually know. 01:18:38.837 --> 01:18:38.897 [Riv (DM)]: And 01:18:44.098 --> 01:18:59.335 [Riv (DM)]: And the way that Riordan realized that he had to save the cosmos and essentially all of creation was the world tree needed to be sundered so that it was no longer physically material in the actual realms themselves. 01:19:00.777 --> 01:19:07.063 [Riv (DM)]: And during a great battle he managed to call on some ancient celestials and gods maybe. 01:19:08.365 --> 01:19:15.212 [Riv (DM)]: People say that he swelled to the size of cities upon cities and with his 01:19:16.153 --> 01:19:38.092 [Riv (DM)]: you know he wielded two swords and with a great slash of two he managed to sunder the tree so the roots broke apart um and you know simultaneously other events were occurring and the world tree itself sort of retracted from reality um this was like a calamitous event 01:19:39.093 --> 01:19:54.450 [Riv (DM)]: And as the world tree itself was sort of retracting like that part of reality sort of broke and here in the Feywild at least above the Shining Peaks and as we know that root is still, well the tip of the root is still buried in the cold area here. 01:19:57.033 --> 01:20:10.977 [Riv (DM)]: Reality sort of shattered and the sky itself, like a part of the sky itself fell and crashed on the Northern Vale, which at that time wasn't known as the Vale of Eternal Night, it was just a Vale that held some other sort of minor fey court. 01:20:12.658 --> 01:20:26.322 [Riv (DM)]: It caused a, you know, catastrophic, catastrophic damage to the Vale, and with it, it brought eternal darkness, it sort of like wreathed it in this, yeah, this dome of eternal night. 01:20:27.916 --> 01:20:30.037 [Riv (DM)]: Causing a huge crater to be formed. 01:20:31.977 --> 01:20:43.461 [Riv (DM)]: So that's sort of the origin of the veil and as you're sort of looking through you you read up about Caer Nystral, the Dawnless City, sort of the mirror to Sumara, the Shining City. 01:20:45.443 --> 01:20:51.227 [Riv (DM)]: Caer Nystral was sort of built by the denizens of the Vale who felt like they were wronged by those bloody elves. 01:20:51.547 --> 01:21:01.154 [Riv (DM)]: Oh and I should say as well, as part of the Sundering, Riordan bound his bloodline to the World Tree, irrevocably. 01:21:01.955 --> 01:21:03.716 [Riv (DM)]: It was part of what had to be done. 01:21:03.736 --> 01:21:10.301 [Riv (DM)]: The details are also vague here, but they say something was done and that is why the Silmara family 01:21:11.121 --> 01:21:13.303 [Riv (DM)]: has been bound forever to the World Tree. 01:21:13.323 --> 01:21:25.310 [Riv (DM)]: It's why they can control the World Gates and it's why they have been held with esteem, I guess, as the royal family for thousands and thousands of years. 01:21:26.150 --> 01:21:26.871 [Riv (DM)]: Baitaca Nystral. 01:21:26.891 --> 01:21:28.792 [Riv (DM)]: So the denizens of the Vale, they 01:21:30.865 --> 01:21:31.465 [Riv (DM)]: There was like a... 01:21:32.426 --> 01:21:41.092 [Riv (DM)]: I guess they kind of came together and in the shadow of the Shining City there, the Rudgers grew and eventually they built their own city which they called the Dawnless City of Caer Nystral. 01:21:42.593 --> 01:21:45.495 [Riv (DM)]: That was built in the crater that was formed when the sky fell. 01:21:46.775 --> 01:21:49.057 [Riv (DM)]: Um... Yeah, god damn. 01:21:49.117 --> 01:21:53.480 [Riv (DM)]: And on a 30 I probably should give you a rough sketch of what the map looks like. 01:21:54.901 --> 01:21:58.183 [Riv (DM)]: Um... Let me... 01:22:00.902 --> 01:22:07.303 [Riv (DM)]: I can drop it and let me have a look at the map I wrote and let's see if there's anything in here that you probably shouldn't get access to. 01:22:21.506 --> 01:22:23.126 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, would people have this much detail? 01:22:23.866 --> 01:22:24.467 [Riv (DM)]: Possibly not. 01:22:24.987 --> 01:22:26.407 [Riv (DM)]: You know what, I can probably 01:22:28.516 --> 01:22:29.600 [Riv (DM)]: He starts getting the rubber. 01:22:29.620 --> 01:22:31.085 [Riv (DM)]: Erase that, erase that. 01:22:31.105 --> 01:22:32.449 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, literally. 01:22:35.870 --> 01:22:46.158 [Riv (DM)]: You know what, let's actually go to a break soon and when we come back during the break I'll put the map in a scene for us so I can show you after I've tweaked it just a touch. 01:22:47.899 --> 01:22:48.279 [Riv (DM)]: Wonderful. 01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:57.506 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, there's a very rough scratch scratched out map that someone at some point in time who had risked getting to the Vale was able to return and draw. 01:23:01.190 --> 01:23:11.501 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah I'll mention you so it's like a very almost perfectly circular city with a large large wall built out of like black steel, stone and vines. 01:23:12.262 --> 01:23:12.422 [Riv (DM)]: The 01:23:13.623 --> 01:23:20.812 [Riv (DM)]: There's a, and this is built down in the crater, sort of outside the outer wall is what's known as the Barrow-Ring. 01:23:21.953 --> 01:23:27.239 [Riv (DM)]: Maya and webs and barrows, this is where the old ones live. 01:23:31.082 --> 01:23:33.284 [Riv (DM)]: Deep things, hags and the like. 01:23:34.125 --> 01:23:41.932 [Riv (DM)]: And then inside the city there are sort of like these inner concentric rings of tiers of the city. 01:23:41.992 --> 01:23:46.537 [Riv (DM)]: So the inner part right on the inside of the wall is called the Lower Warren. 01:23:46.977 --> 01:23:52.622 [Riv (DM)]: This is where all of the lesser beings live. 01:23:52.903 --> 01:23:53.423 [Riv (DM)]: All of your 01:23:57.258 --> 01:24:03.700 [Riv (DM)]: The quiet things, the redcaps, the quicklings, boglets, spriggans, that sort of thing. 01:24:05.180 --> 01:24:08.301 [Riv (DM)]: Inside that, you have the muster yards. 01:24:08.321 --> 01:24:10.002 [Riv (DM)]: This is where the hunt mostly reside. 01:24:10.042 --> 01:24:13.523 [Riv (DM)]: This is the martial court, the martial part of the court you've got. 01:24:14.043 --> 01:24:22.245 [Riv (DM)]: This is where most of their armories and barracks and stables and kennels for their animals would live. 01:24:22.925 --> 01:24:45.592 [Riv (DM)]: And then the whole city is sort of built up on like a rising peak as it starts to grow up out of the centre of the crater and inside sort of the inner part of the mustyards it leads up to the court tiers where there are tiers of like these rings of buildings which are where the lesser fae, sort of like the lesser arch fae live, the more noble people. 01:24:46.632 --> 01:24:50.854 [Riv (DM)]: And leading all the way up in the centre is the Veiled Citadel. 01:24:51.554 --> 01:24:55.235 [Riv (DM)]: Black obsidian walls soaring above the rest of the city. 01:24:58.876 --> 01:25:01.097 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, what else? 01:25:01.737 --> 01:25:02.738 [Riv (DM)]: What else were you guys looking for? 01:25:03.238 --> 01:25:06.219 [Riv (DM)]: I need to give you probably a bit more, maybe one more thing on a 30. 01:25:08.900 --> 01:25:09.920 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's the most important thing? 01:25:09.940 --> 01:25:12.321 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we want to find out how the veil came to be? 01:25:14.627 --> 01:25:15.627 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I sort of told you that, right? 01:25:15.647 --> 01:25:16.527 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We found out that. 01:25:17.208 --> 01:25:17.768 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, yeah, yeah. 01:25:17.808 --> 01:25:22.609 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean, I was going to ask how we could, like, dispel the veil. 01:25:23.409 --> 01:25:29.350 [Lacer (Kai)]: But, um, how about this, um, soulstone thing? 01:25:30.130 --> 01:25:31.570 [Lacer (Kai)]: That seems pretty important, right? 01:25:33.011 --> 01:25:33.871 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 01:25:38.232 --> 01:25:38.412 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:25:38.432 --> 01:25:39.452 [Riv (DM)]: Did you want to have a look for that one? 01:25:44.616 --> 01:25:50.298 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know, I'm concentrating on this enhanceability spell, so I don't think I'm looking at the moment. 01:25:50.698 --> 01:25:54.139 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, um, okay. 01:25:56.439 --> 01:26:05.021 [Riv (DM)]: Soulstones, so soulstone anchor, that term, soulstone anchor, um, you don't find anything specifically about that. 01:26:07.787 --> 01:26:10.188 [Riv (DM)]: However, the term soulstone itself does come up. 01:26:11.229 --> 01:26:24.637 [Riv (DM)]: There was some text that mentioned that there are some beings, some entities that are too powerful to be properly destroyed, like there are certain 01:26:25.457 --> 01:26:39.300 [Riv (DM)]: Archfey, who, when killed, unless they are in the presence of a particularly bound or hated item, they will actually just rematerialize in some other plane and then come back potentially even stronger than before. 01:26:39.760 --> 01:26:55.103 [Riv (DM)]: Some entities cannot be destroyed and need to be bound, and so there are these soulstones, which you read about, where rather than killing an entity, they would have their soul actually trapped in it in their material form, destroyed. 01:26:57.585 --> 01:27:16.298 [Riv (DM)]: The Soulstone Anchor itself, again, like I said, nothing really specific about that, but it's likely, if you were to put two and two together, that the Soulstone Anchor that Praetor is aware of in the city is probably one of these, potentially a very powerful one, considering what he is needing it for. 01:27:24.673 --> 01:27:25.607 [Unmatched Speaker]: What do you guys find? 01:27:32.307 --> 01:27:34.028 [Riv (DM)]: I think that was, that was roughly what you're after, eh? 01:27:34.048 --> 01:27:42.673 [Riv (DM)]: So, history of the Silmara family and the, um, forming of the Vale, rough idea about the city, soulstone anchor, it's probably a day. 01:27:43.194 --> 01:27:44.475 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say that's probably about what you find. 01:27:45.135 --> 01:27:45.315 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:27:45.835 --> 01:27:45.935 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:27:45.955 --> 01:27:51.139 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and this, this would have taken probably a good couple of hours as well, so, um, yeah. 01:27:51.159 --> 01:27:51.279 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:27:51.539 --> 01:27:58.163 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess while they're doing that, can I attune to my, um, my... tattoo? 01:28:01.904 --> 01:28:09.526 [JC (Ryo)]: Was there was there anything on the um on the uh on that last foray to where the guy lost his son? 01:28:10.946 --> 01:28:25.569 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm so that wouldn't be here in like the ancient archives um you'd probably actually have more luck going and talking to people just talking to people about it around the city like you could go and talk to someone over in the irons ward um because it only happened 60 years ago. 01:28:28.130 --> 01:28:29.930 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah it's not that not that long ago. 01:28:32.033 --> 01:28:32.253 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um... 01:28:33.834 --> 01:28:34.935 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna ask the librarian. 01:28:34.995 --> 01:28:36.276 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry, what was your name again? 01:28:36.296 --> 01:28:37.557 [Lacer (Kai)]: I didn't quite get that. 01:28:38.858 --> 01:28:40.139 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, my name is Aron. 01:28:42.301 --> 01:28:43.161 [Lacer (Kai)]: How do you spell that? 01:28:43.362 --> 01:28:44.623 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm not very familiar. 01:28:44.663 --> 01:28:51.027 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, I understand some Elvish, but... Is that with a double A, or a...? 01:28:51.308 --> 01:28:54.490 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it's a double A. Aron. 01:28:57.319 --> 01:28:59.781 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. 01:28:59.941 --> 01:29:00.761 [Lacer (Kai)]: A-A-ron. 01:29:07.165 --> 01:29:10.167 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, librarian. 01:29:12.949 --> 01:29:24.497 [Lacer (Kai)]: So he must be pretty high up to let us into the restricted area or one of the restricted areas. 01:29:29.038 --> 01:29:32.822 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, um... Hmm. 01:29:34.003 --> 01:29:46.515 [Riv (DM)]: I think the key thing that convinced him was Erendor saying that, well, we're not from around here and were we to go and cause mischief it wouldn't tie anything back to you. 01:29:46.535 --> 01:29:47.896 [Riv (DM)]: And he's like, oh, alright. 01:29:48.837 --> 01:29:50.038 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 01:29:52.669 --> 01:30:00.556 [Lacer (Kai)]: Once I've attuned to the, what's it called, the tattoo, I'm going to ask him, do you mind if I make a copy of this map? 01:30:04.840 --> 01:30:10.286 [Riv (DM)]: At that, he's a little bit unsure about just giving out records. 01:30:10.306 --> 01:30:12.228 [Riv (DM)]: Would you like to roll a persuasion check? 01:30:12.268 --> 01:30:12.368 [Riv (DM)]: Sure. 01:30:13.028 --> 01:30:14.970 [Riv (DM)]: And how do you convince him? 01:30:15.010 --> 01:30:15.591 [Riv (DM)]: Why do you need it? 01:30:16.937 --> 01:30:20.840 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, if we're gonna head out to the Vale, it'd be good to know where we're going. 01:30:21.680 --> 01:30:29.326 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, there's so much detail on this map, I don't think I'm gonna be able to remember everything just by one look. 01:30:30.266 --> 01:30:31.287 [Unmatched Speaker]: Okay, roll a persuasion. 01:30:37.832 --> 01:30:38.152 [Unmatched Speaker]: All right. 01:30:48.201 --> 01:30:51.544 [Riv (DM)]: He tells me that like these are restricted records for a reason. 01:30:51.584 --> 01:30:53.045 [Riv (DM)]: I can't just be giving them out to people. 01:30:55.146 --> 01:30:57.448 [Riv (DM)]: But if you have a look, try to memorize it. 01:30:57.468 --> 01:31:01.631 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe you can scratch it down or something when you're well, well away from the library. 01:31:03.292 --> 01:31:03.632 [Lacer (Kai)]: All right. 01:31:08.136 --> 01:31:13.920 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just trying to think if I've got any spells that I could help me remember these type of things. 01:31:21.260 --> 01:31:21.921 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's see. 01:31:34.450 --> 01:31:34.670 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:31:34.871 --> 01:31:35.151 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:31:36.172 --> 01:31:41.316 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will attempt to remember what parts of the map look like. 01:31:41.616 --> 01:31:41.756 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:31:42.417 --> 01:31:42.697 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:31:42.717 --> 01:31:42.917 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:31:47.649 --> 01:31:52.540 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, why don't we... What sort of scribe? 01:31:55.166 --> 01:31:56.469 [Vael (Berberis)]: With the ability to copy things. 01:31:57.952 --> 01:31:58.133 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 01:31:58.773 --> 01:32:26.318 [Riv (DM)]: Well yeah I think he's he's a little bit like he's a little bit hesitant about even allowing you to copy stuff I think um considering it's like restricted knowledge and they you know they sort of covet it right it's it's their value they wouldn't necessarily like you wouldn't be able to go into like some um archives here say you know some protected section of library and ask the librarian until you just like write some stuff from I don't know a map of like the pentagon or something like that. 01:32:30.961 --> 01:32:36.445 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you can get a good look at it anyway, and get a rough enough idea. 01:32:37.166 --> 01:32:40.949 [Riv (DM)]: Alright cool, so I think that's probably it for about what we can research. 01:32:41.249 --> 01:32:43.251 [Riv (DM)]: Where are we heading next? 01:32:43.271 --> 01:32:45.173 [Riv (DM)]: Were we going to Ironswood next? 01:32:45.902 --> 01:32:47.504 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we're going to the Iron's Ward. 01:32:48.466 --> 01:32:48.926 [Lacer (Kai)]: All right, cool. 01:32:50.088 --> 01:32:50.268 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:32:50.368 --> 01:32:51.209 [Riv (DM)]: Everyone happy? 01:32:51.630 --> 01:32:53.092 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing else to follow up with here? 01:32:53.132 --> 01:32:53.272 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:32:53.713 --> 01:32:53.933 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:32:54.214 --> 01:32:54.574 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:32:55.355 --> 01:32:57.979 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll just thank Arun or Ayruun. 01:32:58.600 --> 01:32:58.780 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ayruun. 01:32:58.800 --> 01:32:59.541 [Riv (DM)]: Ayruun for his help. 01:32:59.801 --> 01:33:00.682 [Riv (DM)]: Ayruun, yeah. 01:33:01.424 --> 01:33:01.824 [Riv (DM)]: Ayruun. 01:33:03.546 --> 01:33:04.786 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, cool. 01:33:05.187 --> 01:33:05.527 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 01:33:05.547 --> 01:33:12.669 [Riv (DM)]: He leads you back up through the halls and um, shoos away Silvana as he gets back to the desk and she scamps away. 01:33:13.609 --> 01:33:15.530 [Riv (DM)]: Um, great. 01:33:16.090 --> 01:33:16.810 [Riv (DM)]: You can head back out. 01:33:16.910 --> 01:33:21.892 [Riv (DM)]: You can head down one of those elevators and um, actually I think 01:33:22.732 --> 01:33:24.673 [Riv (DM)]: You could probably walk all the way around the top. 01:33:25.133 --> 01:33:30.256 [Riv (DM)]: I think that the top of the Memoriam Canton probably connects with the top of the Ironsward, like the top tier of it. 01:33:30.976 --> 01:33:35.518 [Riv (DM)]: So you could probably walk around the top level and continue enjoying the nice views. 01:33:38.080 --> 01:33:44.663 [Riv (DM)]: You maybe get a little bit disoriented at first because the directions that Ayana had given you on how to get here were from the perspective of the Aetherian. 01:33:45.043 --> 01:33:48.665 [Riv (DM)]: So you have to go and like find a landmark that she had pointed out and then 01:33:49.405 --> 01:33:51.365 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of trace the steps from there to get to where you're heading. 01:33:52.066 --> 01:34:04.469 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, sort of up into the the second tier there is like a it's sort of it's not like a big like important key garrison or something. 01:34:04.509 --> 01:34:07.829 [Riv (DM)]: It's not like the place where the main military might would go. 01:34:08.190 --> 01:34:18.092 [Riv (DM)]: It's sort of like more of a side building or a side shop where and as you sort of approach and start getting closer it's 01:34:19.349 --> 01:34:20.781 [Riv (DM)]: It's the sort of place where, you know, 01:34:24.160 --> 01:34:26.441 [Riv (DM)]: More specialised equipment would be stored here. 01:34:26.942 --> 01:34:31.605 [Riv (DM)]: This would be where they would have more protected like magical items or... 01:34:32.665 --> 01:34:35.887 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's an arcane armoury or arcane armourer? 01:34:36.468 --> 01:34:37.448 [Riv (DM)]: Something like that, yeah. 01:34:37.729 --> 01:34:40.830 [Riv (DM)]: Like you would imagine in the garrison itself there would be. 01:34:40.850 --> 01:34:44.573 [Riv (DM)]: This would be where a lot of the weapons would be stored. 01:34:45.053 --> 01:34:46.514 [Riv (DM)]: But this is more off to the side. 01:34:46.534 --> 01:34:48.155 [Riv (DM)]: It's more specialised equipment. 01:34:48.455 --> 01:34:51.297 [Riv (DM)]: If we go back to the Pentagon analogy. 01:34:51.657 --> 01:34:52.998 [Riv (DM)]: No, let's not do that. 01:34:53.291 --> 01:34:54.731 [Lacer (Kai)]: This is the spec ops side. 01:34:54.831 --> 01:34:56.192 [Lacer (Kai)]: You get the special stuff. 01:34:57.152 --> 01:34:57.952 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:34:58.552 --> 01:35:08.275 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you can you can you can get inside and there is actually someone here waiting for you who is starting to look a bit impatient. 01:35:09.075 --> 01:35:14.916 [Riv (DM)]: And as you come in, he's like, oh, gosh, finally, I didn't think that you weren't going to show. 01:35:14.996 --> 01:35:15.817 [Riv (DM)]: I'm busy today. 01:35:16.437 --> 01:35:17.177 [Riv (DM)]: That woman, I swear. 01:35:18.217 --> 01:35:20.578 [Riv (DM)]: And as you come in and you see, this is 01:35:21.658 --> 01:35:22.159 [Riv (DM)]: Can you guess? 01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:26.764 [Riv (DM)]: Warden Caron from earlier yesterday. 01:35:27.084 --> 01:35:30.628 [Riv (DM)]: The guy who cuffed you and took you to the holding cells. 01:35:31.760 --> 01:35:34.723 [JC (Ryo)]: Is this the guy that I got Ayana to do the shocking hands thing, Ayana? 01:35:35.063 --> 01:35:35.323 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 01:35:35.483 --> 01:35:39.827 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, this is it. 01:35:40.588 --> 01:35:44.791 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so he is short, short brown hair. 01:35:44.811 --> 01:35:48.395 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, he's wearing the same old armor that you saw yesterday. 01:35:48.415 --> 01:35:53.199 [Riv (DM)]: Nice big silver breastplate, reddish cloak in the style of the Circle of the Blades. 01:35:53.219 --> 01:35:55.040 [Riv (DM)]: He's got a spear leaned up against the wall. 01:35:56.302 --> 01:35:56.662 [Riv (DM)]: And he's like, 01:35:58.833 --> 01:35:59.073 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:35:59.093 --> 01:36:03.936 [Riv (DM)]: Well, look, Ayana said that you were after some some cuffs. 01:36:04.976 --> 01:36:06.237 [Riv (DM)]: I just had a quick look. 01:36:06.257 --> 01:36:07.097 [Riv (DM)]: We do have a handful. 01:36:11.259 --> 01:36:17.182 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know if I should just be giving them out, but I do. 01:36:18.503 --> 01:36:20.724 [Riv (DM)]: Well, then I can't just be handing these out to anyone. 01:36:20.764 --> 01:36:22.585 [Riv (DM)]: They're property of our circle. 01:36:24.430 --> 01:36:31.393 [Riv (DM)]: But, I did make a bit of a fool of myself yesterday and as such I do owe Ayana a favour. 01:36:33.154 --> 01:36:35.175 [Riv (DM)]: Do you, you do promise to return them, right? 01:36:35.935 --> 01:36:37.716 [Riv (DM)]: Like, you'll only be gone for a couple of days? 01:36:38.636 --> 01:36:39.217 [Riv (DM)]: Bring them right back? 01:36:39.277 --> 01:36:40.417 [Riv (DM)]: No one will even notice that they've gone. 01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:47.500 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: A couple of days and they'll be back. 01:36:48.641 --> 01:36:52.943 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And at that point, we may even consider trying to purchase some. 01:36:54.453 --> 01:36:55.273 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm, okay. 01:36:57.014 --> 01:37:01.915 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I need to point you in the direction of someone else to manage that sort of thing, but it's possible. 01:37:05.176 --> 01:37:07.817 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, we'll either be back in Heroes or we won't be back at all. 01:37:08.938 --> 01:37:09.518 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's true. 01:37:10.938 --> 01:37:11.518 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, no. 01:37:11.838 --> 01:37:12.459 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, we'll be back. 01:37:12.479 --> 01:37:13.339 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll be definitely back. 01:37:14.602 --> 01:37:16.584 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What are you... where are you... hitting? 01:37:16.924 --> 01:37:20.728 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay, look, one or two of us might not be back, it depends on how hard they hit the ground. 01:37:21.568 --> 01:37:22.069 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, that's true. 01:37:22.089 --> 01:37:22.910 [Lacer (Kai)]: But we'll bring the cuffs back. 01:37:23.090 --> 01:37:23.310 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh boy. 01:37:23.330 --> 01:37:32.618 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's what we meant, like, we need a bit of practice, because this is all new to us, like, we don't wanna just, like, kinda like, splat to the ground, like, how you gonna be back if you're kinda dead, right? 01:37:32.878 --> 01:37:35.921 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, what's the chances of all of us going splat at what same time? 01:37:37.783 --> 01:37:39.224 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If it's only the short one, it's okay. 01:37:39.925 --> 01:37:40.085 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:37:41.545 --> 01:37:41.945 [Riv (DM)]: You know what? 01:37:42.706 --> 01:37:43.327 [Riv (DM)]: I don't want to know. 01:37:43.347 --> 01:37:44.868 [Riv (DM)]: I don't want to know what you're doing. 01:37:45.088 --> 01:37:48.010 [Riv (DM)]: So, look, let's just get this over with. 01:37:48.091 --> 01:37:51.533 [Riv (DM)]: I'll try to make it look like they aren't missing or something. 01:37:52.274 --> 01:37:53.675 [Riv (DM)]: People probably won't come looking for them. 01:37:54.336 --> 01:38:00.501 [Riv (DM)]: It's been a while since anyone has actually been using these since we've stopped patrolling the northern forests anyway. 01:38:00.601 --> 01:38:01.682 [Riv (DM)]: So, alright. 01:38:01.702 --> 01:38:03.403 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, how long ago was that? 01:38:03.423 --> 01:38:05.525 [Riv (DM)]: Hm? 01:38:05.565 --> 01:38:06.366 [Riv (DM)]: Since we stopped patrolling? 01:38:07.127 --> 01:38:07.347 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:38:08.548 --> 01:38:10.469 [Riv (DM)]: Well, roughly 60 years ago. 01:38:11.590 --> 01:38:12.490 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sixty years ago? 01:38:12.510 --> 01:38:17.573 [JC (Ryo)]: Speaking of the Northern patrols, have you ever gone on any yourself? 01:38:18.873 --> 01:38:19.634 [Riv (DM)]: I'm a bit too young. 01:38:20.354 --> 01:38:32.000 [Riv (DM)]: Um, the, yeah, the patrols were kind of called off, at least towards the Vale, because of what happened with, um, Commander Calen and, and, well, his, his son. 01:38:33.341 --> 01:38:34.742 [Riv (DM)]: The tensions were starting to get too high, and 01:38:39.025 --> 01:38:39.725 [Riv (DM)]: Pull back patrols. 01:38:39.966 --> 01:38:41.467 [Riv (DM)]: Keep it more close to the city now. 01:38:42.287 --> 01:38:42.947 [Riv (DM)]: What did happen? 01:38:44.869 --> 01:38:46.690 [Riv (DM)]: Wow. 01:38:46.710 --> 01:38:47.190 [Riv (DM)]: I wasn't there. 01:38:47.330 --> 01:38:57.676 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know all the details, but from what it sounded like, their patrol got a bit too close to the edge of the forest, and there was a hunt patrol there at the same time. 01:38:58.577 --> 01:38:59.097 [Riv (DM)]: Wrong time. 01:38:59.898 --> 01:39:01.459 [Riv (DM)]: And they clashed and fought. 01:39:03.969 --> 01:39:07.491 [Riv (DM)]: In Winnie Survivors, we sent out searching parties. 01:39:07.611 --> 01:39:10.693 [Riv (DM)]: We found a lot of dead people, dead on both sides. 01:39:12.314 --> 01:39:19.738 [Riv (DM)]: From the look of some of the sigils on the centaurs of the hunt, one of them looked like quite an important person as well. 01:39:22.779 --> 01:39:28.122 [Riv (DM)]: But plenty of bodies that we were expected to be there were missing. 01:39:28.963 --> 01:39:32.745 [Riv (DM)]: Could have been, you know, we just assumed that it was a massacre and 01:39:34.718 --> 01:39:44.344 [Riv (DM)]: Bodies got dragged away by creatures in the Vale, but we'd never found Caelan's son's body, so he refuses to believe. 01:39:45.725 --> 01:39:50.027 [Riv (DM)]: He's kind of become bitter and given up hope, but there are people that wonder. 01:39:51.368 --> 01:39:52.089 [Riv (DM)]: No body was found. 01:39:55.311 --> 01:39:56.752 [Riv (DM)]: But since that time, especially since 01:39:58.265 --> 01:40:04.007 [Riv (DM)]: Such high-ranking members of the hunt were appearing to be killed in the ambush as well. 01:40:06.868 --> 01:40:13.851 [Riv (DM)]: Tensions were going to escalate very rapidly, and so Caelan decided to pull back. 01:40:15.211 --> 01:40:15.751 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's fair. 01:40:16.492 --> 01:40:18.512 [Lacer (Kai)]: Save your people from fighting, prevent death. 01:40:21.033 --> 01:40:22.474 [Lacer (Kai)]: Explains why you're so bitter about it. 01:40:24.075 --> 01:40:24.255 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:40:24.595 --> 01:40:26.616 [Riv (DM)]: He blames himself, I think. 01:40:27.036 --> 01:40:27.836 [Vael (Berberis)]: Family or duty. 01:40:28.497 --> 01:40:28.737 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:40:28.757 --> 01:40:40.101 [Riv (DM)]: I can't imagine what it's like to be responsible, or at least to believe that you're responsible for sending your son to his death, but that sort of explains a bit of his demeanor. 01:40:43.442 --> 01:40:43.742 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:40:44.303 --> 01:40:49.244 [Lacer (Kai)]: Talking about the hunt, do they fight honorably, or are they the sneaky type? 01:40:50.685 --> 01:40:53.486 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do they do, like... You're saying I'm not honorable? 01:40:54.447 --> 01:40:58.129 [Lacer (Kai)]: Talking about the hunt, I'm not talking about you. 01:40:59.470 --> 01:41:01.271 [Riv (DM)]: I guess let's put it this way, you'll hear them coming. 01:41:05.774 --> 01:41:09.416 [Riv (DM)]: Like... Yeah, they are the hunt. 01:41:10.777 --> 01:41:14.800 [Riv (DM)]: Most of their rank, at least their patrols, are made of four-legged creatures. 01:41:15.220 --> 01:41:19.903 [Riv (DM)]: Centaurs and wargs and displeaser beasts and that sort of thing. 01:41:21.188 --> 01:41:23.329 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, that explains why it's called The Hunt. 01:41:23.349 --> 01:41:25.489 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you hear, like, pretty much a stampede. 01:41:25.529 --> 01:41:26.809 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is that what you're saying? 01:41:27.729 --> 01:41:27.929 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:41:28.169 --> 01:41:29.310 [Riv (DM)]: They move fast. 01:41:29.750 --> 01:41:31.170 [Riv (DM)]: They carry, cover a lot of ground. 01:41:33.411 --> 01:41:36.251 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 01:41:36.271 --> 01:41:37.131 [Vael (Berberis)]: Okay. 01:41:37.231 --> 01:41:38.011 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's good to know. 01:41:38.852 --> 01:41:41.212 [Vael (Berberis)]: I imagine there will be lots of blowing of horns as well. 01:41:41.232 --> 01:41:44.173 [Riv (DM)]: Blowing of horns, howling of wolves. 01:41:47.693 --> 01:41:49.094 [Riv (DM)]: I've chased a few foxes in my time. 01:41:50.354 --> 01:41:50.594 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hmm. 01:41:52.223 --> 01:41:53.123 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, let me give you these cuffs. 01:41:53.604 --> 01:41:54.444 [Riv (DM)]: And he heads out the back. 01:41:55.504 --> 01:41:58.566 [Riv (DM)]: Comes back with a sort of like a long chest. 01:41:59.066 --> 01:41:59.706 [Riv (DM)]: Here's a set. 01:42:01.047 --> 01:42:03.768 [Riv (DM)]: Lays it out, pops it open, there's a bit of like straw inside the chest here. 01:42:05.189 --> 01:42:08.050 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, there are five sets of cuffs. 01:42:08.570 --> 01:42:12.012 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of, each one is like maybe a couple of inches wide. 01:42:12.712 --> 01:42:12.852 [Riv (DM)]: And 01:42:14.955 --> 01:42:18.797 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do the wrist ones look different to the ankle ones or it doesn't matter? 01:42:18.817 --> 01:42:20.298 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it doesn't really seem to matter. 01:42:21.338 --> 01:42:23.959 [Riv (DM)]: You couldn't accidentally put one on the wrong one and it doesn't work. 01:42:24.059 --> 01:42:32.744 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was thinking, yeah, I was thinking if we put the ankle ones on Dondarr's wrists and the wrist ones on his thing so he goes to fly it like flips him upside down. 01:42:32.964 --> 01:42:33.284 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh boy. 01:42:33.724 --> 01:42:34.464 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:42:35.425 --> 01:42:39.226 [Riv (DM)]: So each cuff has got like a blue gem sort of studded into it as well. 01:42:39.586 --> 01:42:42.487 [Riv (DM)]: And as you pick it up you can see the gem is sort of like pulsing a bit. 01:42:42.667 --> 01:42:44.307 [Riv (DM)]: It seems like they have been charged. 01:42:44.747 --> 01:42:49.809 [Riv (DM)]: And he points it out and says that this is how you can tell if they are currently charged and ready to use. 01:42:50.909 --> 01:42:57.291 [Riv (DM)]: And if you ever want to, you know, if you want to reuse them you need to just expend a bit of your magic and charge them up. 01:42:58.271 --> 01:42:59.732 [Riv (DM)]: And they also like click together. 01:42:59.752 --> 01:43:07.374 [Riv (DM)]: So like a set of four, almost magnetically like attached, they go and they form up together into quite a long band now. 01:43:07.774 --> 01:43:11.676 [Riv (DM)]: And then when you want to use them, you can pop them off into each section and chuck them on your wrists. 01:43:12.836 --> 01:43:13.876 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's pretty handy. 01:43:14.997 --> 01:43:21.019 [Lacer (Kai)]: How much magic do we have to put in for them to charge for use in terms of spell slots? 01:43:22.213 --> 01:43:41.172 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah he's like I'm not a magic user myself but from what I gather from when I've spoken to the people who do um and he sort of explains what his concept of how much energy it would be because they don't have concept of spell slots in this world but it's a second level spell slot you need to spend into it. 01:43:41.593 --> 01:43:43.295 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh it's expensive okay. 01:43:46.457 --> 01:43:48.860 [Riv (DM)]: He says, you must spend one second-level spell slot. 01:43:51.924 --> 01:43:52.524 [Lacer (Kai)]: Understand. 01:43:52.965 --> 01:43:55.568 [Lacer (Kai)]: Per set of cuffs, I'm guessing. 01:43:56.409 --> 01:44:04.198 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we'll need five second-level, equivalent of five second-level spell slots for everything to be charged. 01:44:04.659 --> 01:44:06.341 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's, yeah, that's quite a lot of energy. 01:44:11.685 --> 01:44:14.666 [Lacer (Kai)]: But that being said, how long does the charge stay? 01:44:14.906 --> 01:44:20.989 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, if you were to drift, I mean glide, for how long? 01:44:22.170 --> 01:44:25.271 [Riv (DM)]: So it will work until you touch the ground. 01:44:25.711 --> 01:44:28.693 [Riv (DM)]: It won't run out of energy mid-flight. 01:44:28.713 --> 01:44:31.854 [Riv (DM)]: The enchantment will last as long as you need it to. 01:44:32.654 --> 01:44:36.496 [Riv (DM)]: But the enchantment, the energy will run out after about a day. 01:44:37.136 --> 01:44:40.418 [Riv (DM)]: Mechanically, after a long rest, they will reset. 01:44:42.489 --> 01:44:44.150 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, I see, I see. 01:44:44.170 --> 01:44:46.052 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think I get the gist of it. 01:44:46.112 --> 01:44:52.858 [Lacer (Kai)]: So the idea is you charge it up for the whole day and you can use it all day and not just one flight and then I need to charge it up again. 01:44:52.878 --> 01:44:57.342 [Lacer (Kai)]: That would be pretty, pretty really, really expensive in terms of my arcane energy. 01:44:58.768 --> 01:45:02.529 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, so, no, no, so, sorry, like, it would be... One flight per charge. 01:45:02.609 --> 01:45:03.729 [Riv (DM)]: It would be one flight per charge. 01:45:03.749 --> 01:45:06.690 [Riv (DM)]: So when you use it once, then that's it, that's it for the day. 01:45:06.750 --> 01:45:08.831 [Riv (DM)]: So it's the sort of thing we need to kind of plan out when you want to use it. 01:45:09.171 --> 01:45:12.572 [Riv (DM)]: Most of the time you can just have them sitting in your bag, like, innate, right? 01:45:12.732 --> 01:45:13.132 [Riv (DM)]: No power. 01:45:13.152 --> 01:45:18.253 [Riv (DM)]: And then you're thinking, well, a couple of days from now we've got this heist or this mission and we're going to need to fly. 01:45:18.653 --> 01:45:25.195 [Riv (DM)]: So on that day we're going to charge them up in the morning and we're going to use them that day and then leave them inert or whatever for when you're not using them. 01:45:25.815 --> 01:45:28.836 [JC (Ryo)]: So we can't charge him the night before a long rest and have all our spell slots. 01:45:28.856 --> 01:45:30.397 [JC (Ryo)]: We have to burn spell slots to use them. 01:45:30.677 --> 01:45:31.957 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 01:45:32.958 --> 01:45:38.400 [Riv (DM)]: So it's like you're using a choice to expend some resource to use it for something that could potentially be... To gain a resource. 01:45:38.720 --> 01:45:38.960 [Riv (DM)]: Right. 01:45:39.020 --> 01:45:41.121 [Riv (DM)]: Because it's a super useful thing. 01:45:41.201 --> 01:45:46.103 [Riv (DM)]: Like, um, Featherfall just lets you drift down directly. 01:45:46.403 --> 01:45:47.523 [Riv (DM)]: You can fly with this thing. 01:45:47.543 --> 01:45:49.644 [Riv (DM)]: Like you can make up some big distance. 01:45:50.685 --> 01:45:51.525 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 01:45:52.317 --> 01:46:00.039 [Lacer (Kai)]: When you mean fly, you mean you can not just glide down, you can gain... Well, yeah, like glide down, like a flying squirrel. 01:46:01.299 --> 01:46:02.379 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, okay, so just glide. 01:46:02.399 --> 01:46:03.760 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just like a magical wingsuit. 01:46:04.000 --> 01:46:08.220 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I was thinking, when he meant fly, I was like, we can get... Nah, just a... What is it? 01:46:08.240 --> 01:46:09.501 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can we get altitude as well? 01:46:09.541 --> 01:46:11.461 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's what I was like, we can get altitude? 01:46:11.521 --> 01:46:12.121 [Riv (DM)]: Hell yeah! 01:46:12.461 --> 01:46:15.082 [Riv (DM)]: No, I think we're saying to spend more powerful spell slots for that. 01:46:16.245 --> 01:46:16.626 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 01:46:17.827 --> 01:46:21.432 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Why don't you just use fly first and go straight up as far as you can. 01:46:21.452 --> 01:46:22.874 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, now that's big brain. 01:46:24.155 --> 01:46:25.257 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That's big brain, I haven't thought about that. 01:46:25.277 --> 01:46:27.900 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And then keep gliding north and keep on going. 01:46:28.461 --> 01:46:29.082 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Keep on going. 01:46:30.887 --> 01:46:32.727 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, how fast do you go with fly? 01:46:34.088 --> 01:46:37.709 [Riv (DM)]: It's like, is it your, I think it's your normal movement speed is what you get, right? 01:46:38.369 --> 01:46:45.511 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah I was thinking on how fast you'd go with falling, as in fall damage, because you can fly very fast. 01:46:45.531 --> 01:46:47.011 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh, Tark Payne's flying speed of 60. 01:46:47.251 --> 01:46:49.452 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: 60, yeah, about twice your movement speed. 01:46:49.692 --> 01:46:50.792 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh yeah. 01:46:50.832 --> 01:46:52.712 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think fall damage is a weird one. 01:46:52.953 --> 01:46:54.073 [Vael (Berberis)]: Falling is technically 01:46:55.313 --> 01:47:01.337 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, you could fall like 500 feet or is it 600 feet in a turn or something? 01:47:01.818 --> 01:47:06.961 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, it's basically if you fall, you hit the ground. 01:47:06.981 --> 01:47:09.283 [Vael (Berberis)]: I thought you'd fall before the turn. 01:47:12.350 --> 01:47:16.913 [Riv (DM)]: Well, so the math is like 10 meters per second, right? 01:47:18.113 --> 01:47:21.355 [Riv (DM)]: However, so what, that's 30 feet per second? 01:47:21.375 --> 01:47:24.937 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, instantly plummets up to 500 feet on the turn the fall begins. 01:47:25.597 --> 01:47:29.540 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, that's what, that's like 500, so you're like... Yeah, 500 feet a turn, yep. 01:47:29.840 --> 01:47:30.080 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 01:47:31.000 --> 01:47:33.962 [Lacer (Kai)]: And that's, a turn is six seconds, so you're literally, it's like... 01:47:35.929 --> 01:47:36.309 [Lacer (Kai)]: A lot. 01:47:36.949 --> 01:47:43.772 [Lacer (Kai)]: So if it was gliding, I thought it would be like flying in real, like glide super fast with- Oh, it'd actually be a lot faster than 10 minutes per second. 01:47:43.792 --> 01:47:46.914 [Riv (DM)]: That's how much you're accelerating, but you accelerate until you get terminal velocity. 01:47:46.954 --> 01:47:48.094 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So yeah. 01:47:48.274 --> 01:47:48.554 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 01:47:48.595 --> 01:47:53.377 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So with fly, what that's 60 foot, it's 10 minutes going straight up. 01:47:53.477 --> 01:47:54.317 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: 83 feet per second. 01:47:58.199 --> 01:48:00.019 [Vael (Berberis)]: So roughly 90 Ks an hour. 01:48:00.900 --> 01:48:01.080 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:48:01.803 --> 01:48:06.887 [Riv (DM)]: With these cuffs, you'll go about 60 miles per hour, sort of diagonally, horizontally. 01:48:08.268 --> 01:48:15.393 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Cool, so you can get an altitude of about 1800 meters, with fly going straight up, and then just glide. 01:48:16.313 --> 01:48:18.175 [Riv (DM)]: It's a cool idea, I hadn't thought of that, I love that. 01:48:18.955 --> 01:48:22.158 [Riv (DM)]: And I wonder what happens if you use fly while you're gliding. 01:48:23.138 --> 01:48:25.520 [Riv (DM)]: Use gliding concentration? 01:48:27.273 --> 01:48:38.680 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it probably should be, but then that becomes dangerous because like if you have to cast another concentration spell and you're not thinking about it while you're gliding, then you kill yourself. 01:48:38.700 --> 01:48:38.980 [Riv (DM)]: You fall. 01:48:39.540 --> 01:48:40.601 [Riv (DM)]: You just fall straight down. 01:48:41.422 --> 01:48:43.883 [Riv (DM)]: I think it probably should be concentration to be honest. 01:48:45.444 --> 01:48:46.805 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that makes sense. 01:48:47.145 --> 01:48:49.647 [Riv (DM)]: Cause yeah, cause otherwise, what happens when you fly when you're gliding? 01:48:49.827 --> 01:48:52.029 [Riv (DM)]: You could just like go horizontally forever maybe? 01:48:52.149 --> 01:48:52.429 [Riv (DM)]: I dunno. 01:48:52.609 --> 01:48:53.570 [Riv (DM)]: Not quite sure, I haven't thought about that. 01:48:53.630 --> 01:48:55.992 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not forever, until the fly spell ends. 01:48:56.072 --> 01:48:57.773 [Lacer (Kai)]: Fly something like what, is it ten minutes? 01:48:58.334 --> 01:48:58.534 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:48:58.554 --> 01:48:58.714 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:48:59.214 --> 01:48:59.435 [Riv (DM)]: Mhm. 01:48:59.855 --> 01:49:00.095 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:49:00.595 --> 01:49:00.996 [Riv (DM)]: Interesting. 01:49:02.097 --> 01:49:03.178 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, all good. 01:49:03.618 --> 01:49:04.018 [Riv (DM)]: Um. 01:49:04.859 --> 01:49:06.040 [Riv (DM)]: To a break, we go. 01:49:06.100 --> 01:49:09.302 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, if you go to a break, and um. 01:49:09.683 --> 01:49:10.763 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, dinner sounds good. 01:49:11.224 --> 01:49:11.424 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 01:49:11.444 --> 01:49:13.586 [Riv (DM)]: See what we do afterwards. 01:49:13.746 --> 01:49:14.146 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:49:14.366 --> 01:49:16.688 [Riv (DM)]: I'll check a map on screen and catch you guys in a bit, eh? 01:49:18.259 --> 02:20:22.447 ================= Session Break ================= 02:21:33.714 --> 02:21:34.214 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty, cool. 02:21:34.575 --> 02:21:38.918 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so I've chucked the city up, so you can see it. 02:21:39.778 --> 02:21:44.982 [Riv (DM)]: That's sort of roughly the sketch you'll get, so you can see a big crater, a bunch of concentric walls, that sort of thing. 02:21:45.142 --> 02:21:48.484 [Riv (DM)]: The main antler gates are there, the main entrance, then a couple of other smaller gates. 02:21:49.425 --> 02:21:59.252 [Riv (DM)]: And there, the Midnight Procession appears to be like some big large avenue that rises above the other parts of the city, directly up to the upper courts. 02:22:00.917 --> 02:22:01.357 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:22:01.417 --> 02:22:02.858 [Riv (DM)]: So, where do we go from here? 02:22:03.038 --> 02:22:08.860 [Riv (DM)]: We are, um, we come back to this one. 02:22:09.200 --> 02:22:15.362 [Riv (DM)]: So, we're, we've probably just left, um, Karen behind, um, back in the Ironsward. 02:22:15.602 --> 02:22:17.042 [Riv (DM)]: Are we good to head out? 02:22:19.723 --> 02:22:22.984 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, do we need to get anything else, Rio, to prepare for this thing? 02:22:23.024 --> 02:22:30.507 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we need to have a meeting with the Circle about what's happening, or do we just leg it out of here? 02:22:31.976 --> 02:22:32.736 [Lacer (Kai)]: Straight to the Vale. 02:22:35.017 --> 02:22:36.058 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, we could do either or. 02:22:36.078 --> 02:22:41.821 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, these things aren't charged and it's, what, mid to late afternoon, Ruth? 02:22:42.721 --> 02:22:43.921 [Lacer (Kai)]: You said they were charged, right? 02:22:44.442 --> 02:22:45.982 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm pretty sure you said they were charged. 02:22:46.062 --> 02:22:46.283 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, sorry. 02:22:46.783 --> 02:22:48.564 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think they would have been charged this morning already. 02:22:52.685 --> 02:22:55.807 [JC (Ryo)]: All right, well, do we want to go now or do we want to leave first thing in the morning? 02:22:56.547 --> 02:22:57.988 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well, if we do that, we're going to charge them again. 02:22:59.697 --> 02:23:02.498 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, do you want to spin the level 2 spell slot? 02:23:03.678 --> 02:23:08.839 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean we all have some sort of capability to charge one up ourselves, don't we? 02:23:11.300 --> 02:23:12.080 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we kind of do. 02:23:12.100 --> 02:23:12.680 [Lacer (Kai)]: I do believe so. 02:23:13.160 --> 02:23:14.260 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, yes we do. 02:23:14.780 --> 02:23:17.201 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, actually literally every one of you have spell slots. 02:23:17.921 --> 02:23:20.322 [JC (Ryo)]: Damn, that's crazy. 02:23:20.382 --> 02:23:20.982 [JC (Ryo)]: We do now. 02:23:23.522 --> 02:23:26.143 [JC (Ryo)]: We didn't with Vael's old character. 02:23:26.163 --> 02:23:26.903 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, Vaeloran. 02:23:28.231 --> 02:23:32.093 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's also the small matter of, you know, leaving the city, climbing a giant mountain. 02:23:35.055 --> 02:23:36.676 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hmm. 02:23:36.696 --> 02:23:54.925 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you'll be able to go, um, like I think Karen and Ayana probably would have mentioned to you like the best place to do it would be actually go to the Shivering Vale, like the river, um, and follow it up into the mountain and that will take you to a place where you can get to the backside of the peaks and see the vale out beyond to the north. 02:23:55.426 --> 02:23:56.867 [Riv (DM)]: So it'll be like up by ping on the map. 02:24:01.150 --> 02:24:05.131 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, so, or maybe then we head up that way, make camp and then jump in the morning? 02:24:07.292 --> 02:24:09.052 [JC (Ryo)]: Instead of jumping at night and uh... 02:24:10.333 --> 02:24:10.813 [JC (Ryo)]: In the dark. 02:24:11.333 --> 02:24:14.614 [JC (Ryo)]: In the dark and don't know what we are jumping into and harder to see. 02:24:14.634 --> 02:24:16.535 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, right now it's gonna be like... 02:24:16.555 --> 02:24:17.275 [JC (Ryo)]: There's no night time. 02:24:18.515 --> 02:24:20.076 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it's gonna be... yeah. 02:24:21.936 --> 02:24:24.237 [JC (Ryo)]: I, for some reason, thought there was a day-night cycle. 02:24:24.937 --> 02:24:26.197 [Lacer (Kai)]: We couldn't tell what time. 02:24:26.437 --> 02:24:26.977 [Lacer (Kai)]: Remember the... 02:24:27.158 --> 02:24:27.958 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just remember... Yeah. 02:24:27.998 --> 02:24:28.818 [Lacer (Kai)]: You just stopped telling me. 02:24:29.703 --> 02:24:32.689 [Lacer (Kai)]: What time did you wake up is what time of year did you wake up? 02:24:32.869 --> 02:24:34.552 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:24:34.572 --> 02:24:37.959 [Riv (DM)]: So in the Feywild like the there isn't necessarily a day-night cycle the um 02:24:40.567 --> 02:25:08.233 [Riv (DM)]: It is very dependent upon like the current ruling fae of the court like their mood often affects the ambience um and yeah and you could go from between courts and the whole environment just like drastically shifts like if you were to head back into the briar shade where you came from um it obviously felt like it was nighttime then because everything was just black and white and grayscale but if you um if you went over to the gossamer woods it's all nice and bubbly and 02:25:09.711 --> 02:25:13.132 [Riv (DM)]: Pink and orange and glowing, so yeah, it sort of just depends where you are. 02:25:15.713 --> 02:25:18.655 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, do we have everything we need right now? 02:25:21.216 --> 02:25:25.357 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or do you want to see Grandpa Varanus one last time? 02:25:25.378 --> 02:25:26.498 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or are you good? 02:25:27.859 --> 02:25:28.899 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, I think we're good then. 02:25:33.258 --> 02:25:33.999 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:25:34.519 --> 02:25:44.029 [Riv (DM)]: So we can head over to the, we can just probably circle around the top of the top tier of the Ironswater game all the way back over to the Nemorium. 02:25:44.870 --> 02:25:46.351 [Riv (DM)]: Who has been messing with my map? 02:25:53.353 --> 02:25:53.573 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:25:54.393 --> 02:25:59.676 [Riv (DM)]: You head over, you come out onto the sort of very, very top facing cliff. 02:25:59.976 --> 02:26:10.961 [Riv (DM)]: Eventually you can trace along the edge till you get to the river, and then follow the river north, deeper into the mountains, and eventually you get to some sort of big tarn. 02:26:10.981 --> 02:26:11.281 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry? 02:26:13.042 --> 02:26:17.204 [JC (Ryo)]: Dead, we want to find out more about the last patrol, about the Guy's son. 02:26:18.665 --> 02:26:21.146 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, we probably should ask... Oh, he didn't really... 02:26:21.286 --> 02:26:23.066 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's not really public knowledge, right? 02:26:23.326 --> 02:26:26.467 [Riv (DM)]: Only... Yeah, Caeryn kind of told you a little bit about it. 02:26:26.587 --> 02:26:26.947 [Riv (DM)]: Told it. 02:26:28.948 --> 02:26:30.508 [Lacer (Kai)]: Told us his body was never found. 02:26:30.628 --> 02:26:31.669 [Lacer (Kai)]: Everyone got massacred. 02:26:32.409 --> 02:26:33.689 [Lacer (Kai)]: Everyone else... Yeah, but he wasn't there. 02:26:34.730 --> 02:26:35.050 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:26:37.030 --> 02:26:39.551 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you want to go and hit up Caeryn Veen? 02:26:40.591 --> 02:26:41.071 [Lacer (Kai)]: See his... 02:26:42.972 --> 02:26:46.593 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't think he'll tell us anything, but maybe if we can find some older guardsmen? 02:26:48.002 --> 02:26:52.524 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm sure if we strike a deal, if we can actually find out what happened to his son, he might... 02:26:54.764 --> 02:26:55.185 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 02:26:56.065 --> 02:27:01.907 [Riv (DM)]: You think, um, if he knew, he would probably have done something with Valoram? 02:27:03.147 --> 02:27:03.487 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:27:04.548 --> 02:27:07.849 [Riv (DM)]: So, it's probably likely he doesn't, based on what you've been hearing from people. 02:27:07.869 --> 02:27:08.089 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:27:08.889 --> 02:27:09.469 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He's not gonna help. 02:27:09.489 --> 02:27:14.311 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Silvarus and Ayanna have advised to not let him know what we're doing. 02:27:15.371 --> 02:27:16.632 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, that's true as well. 02:27:23.963 --> 02:27:26.945 [JC (Ryo)]: It's actually a ploy from them to steal power from you, Ryo. 02:27:29.186 --> 02:27:29.887 [JC (Ryo)]: Throw you the ring. 02:27:30.067 --> 02:27:30.927 [JC (Ryo)]: Fuck this shit, I'm out. 02:27:32.949 --> 02:27:33.529 [JC (Ryo)]: Gonna be a farmer. 02:27:35.450 --> 02:27:36.130 [Lacer (Kai)]: In the Feywild. 02:27:38.667 --> 02:27:39.648 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, I'll teleport myself. 02:27:39.848 --> 02:27:42.389 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll open the gateway and then throw him the ring and jump through. 02:27:42.409 --> 02:27:43.930 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't think that's how it works, dude. 02:27:43.950 --> 02:27:44.530 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll throw it back through. 02:27:44.550 --> 02:27:45.811 [Lacer (Kai)]: But then you are trapped forever on the other side. 02:27:45.831 --> 02:27:46.091 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's fine. 02:27:46.111 --> 02:27:46.831 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll stay in the normal world. 02:27:47.452 --> 02:27:48.332 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll throw it back through. 02:27:51.694 --> 02:27:53.475 [Riv (DM)]: But then you are trapped forever on the other side. 02:27:54.755 --> 02:27:55.196 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's fine. 02:27:55.376 --> 02:27:56.136 [Lacer (Kai)]: Stay in the normal world. 02:27:58.557 --> 02:28:00.438 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just wait for all those rifts to open up, eh? 02:28:02.880 --> 02:28:04.541 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hey, I know where a number of them are. 02:28:06.842 --> 02:28:06.942 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:28:07.839 --> 02:28:11.752 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, so we're heading up this waterfall following the river. 02:28:11.773 --> 02:28:11.853 [Lacer (Kai)]: Mhm. 02:28:13.803 --> 02:28:14.524 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 02:28:14.604 --> 02:28:15.284 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 02:28:16.225 --> 02:28:17.626 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does the river attack us? 02:28:18.467 --> 02:28:20.028 [Riv (DM)]: No, not this one. 02:28:20.309 --> 02:28:23.371 [Riv (DM)]: The source of the river is this big tarn, a big mountain lake. 02:28:25.313 --> 02:28:35.082 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, you can kind of stop for a little bit to take in the sights, but better carry on moving so you get around the circumference of the lake and get to the other side. 02:28:35.402 --> 02:28:37.924 [Riv (DM)]: And before you, the world just sort of like opens up. 02:28:37.984 --> 02:28:40.706 [Riv (DM)]: You're very, very high up in the mountains and below you can see 02:28:41.567 --> 02:28:44.671 [Riv (DM)]: The plains down at the foothalls of the Shimmering Peaks here. 02:28:45.051 --> 02:28:54.001 [Riv (DM)]: You can see far below the big circular Liar's River that circumnavigates the entire peaks. 02:28:54.421 --> 02:28:57.285 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the entire mountain range that you're on. 02:28:58.587 --> 02:29:01.509 [Riv (DM)]: Far in the distance, you can see a shroud of nighttime. 02:29:01.769 --> 02:29:04.371 [Riv (DM)]: It's just a wall of black. 02:29:05.932 --> 02:29:08.074 [Riv (DM)]: It's not like a black wall. 02:29:08.094 --> 02:29:10.515 [Riv (DM)]: It's almost like sort of shimmering and moving a little bit. 02:29:10.535 --> 02:29:17.400 [Riv (DM)]: Like, yeah, like kind of like oil and water or something sort of constantly shifting and shaking. 02:29:19.322 --> 02:29:33.154 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah you're up high you can you could potentially look up and try and climb up a higher peak behind you if if you want or you could just start you could find a boulder or something to stand on but yeah this is probably about as good a place as any. 02:29:35.096 --> 02:29:37.018 [JC (Ryo)]: Should we put on your stool? 02:29:47.628 --> 02:29:50.309 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does Dondar give you his stall to Erendor? 02:29:52.089 --> 02:29:54.789 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not gonna, um, I'm not gonna make that choice for Kiwi. 02:29:55.069 --> 02:29:56.030 [Riv (DM)]: His stall is precious to him. 02:30:04.511 --> 02:30:13.973 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna ask, um, what, what's his name has given us the Zephyr Cuffs, right? 02:30:17.725 --> 02:30:19.145 [Lacer (Kai)]: Should we attune to them now? 02:30:21.886 --> 02:30:22.806 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Probably a good idea. 02:30:23.326 --> 02:30:28.648 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Otherwise it probably won't work and you'll just go swan-diving onto the ground in front of you. 02:30:28.688 --> 02:30:30.028 [Vael (Berberis)]: Definitely go swan-diving. 02:30:30.088 --> 02:30:34.929 [Vael (Berberis)]: It'll take an hour so we can make camp when we need a break, do it then. 02:30:36.430 --> 02:30:39.771 [Vael (Berberis)]: Unless we're just going to walk up to the top of the hill and jump straight off. 02:30:40.451 --> 02:30:41.591 [Lacer (Kai)]: Aren't we at the top of the hill now? 02:30:43.932 --> 02:30:44.112 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 02:30:44.312 --> 02:30:45.572 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think we had to climb a big mountain. 02:30:46.550 --> 02:30:49.332 [Riv (DM)]: Well, so you're kind of already up in the mountains. 02:30:49.672 --> 02:30:50.692 [Riv (DM)]: That's what I, yeah. 02:30:52.613 --> 02:30:56.075 [Lacer (Kai)]: All right, I'm gonna, give me 10 minutes, I'm gonna put up the dome. 02:30:56.095 --> 02:31:13.926 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna cast, um, what's it called, Leomin's Tiny Hut as a ritual, so give me 10 minutes and I'll blend it into the colour of the surrounding mountains. 02:31:16.577 --> 02:31:31.357 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah so like um we we are when you came up into the peaks um oh the color is all 02:31:33.738 --> 02:31:58.525 [Riv (DM)]: You would have come out this way right and you would have climbed well well up into the mountains as you came and then the caldera just sort of like sits in the top part here of the mountains and so when you um you would have taken the lifts up this way you would have been already quite high up um up in the ridge lines and if you wanted you could climb up to the like top of one of these peaks um but even just here you're already like massively high up in terms of altitude yeah 02:31:59.620 --> 02:31:59.880 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 02:32:00.361 --> 02:32:05.907 [Lacer (Kai)]: How long do you reckon it's going to take as we look up into the highest peak? 02:32:10.411 --> 02:32:11.773 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, a couple of hours probably. 02:32:11.793 --> 02:32:13.515 [Vael (Berberis)]: A couple of hours? 02:32:15.657 --> 02:32:20.542 [Vael (Berberis)]: I just recall when the initial discussion of the bands were discussed, it was about 02:32:22.702 --> 02:32:24.983 [Vael (Berberis)]: I see a great many things missing from the map, including Silenars. 02:32:25.443 --> 02:32:29.764 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um, it was discussed that people, like, climbed to the tallest beach and jumped off them to glide around with them. 02:32:29.784 --> 02:32:30.384 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mm-hmm. 02:32:30.924 --> 02:32:33.085 [Vael (Berberis)]: The higher you go, the further you will go, for sure. 02:32:34.426 --> 02:32:35.726 [Vael (Berberis)]: How far do we need to go? 02:32:36.786 --> 02:32:38.647 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's a good question. 02:32:38.667 --> 02:32:39.087 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 02:32:41.478 --> 02:32:45.564 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Did anyone here actually bother to ask anyone how far away? 02:32:45.584 --> 02:32:49.729 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, if we can see, we can probably look over and go, that's no way. 02:32:50.450 --> 02:32:53.815 [Riv (DM)]: You can see where the shroud begins. 02:32:54.876 --> 02:32:56.839 [Riv (DM)]: So it probably looks like 02:32:58.657 --> 02:33:03.860 [Riv (DM)]: Not quite a day's travel, maybe a good chunk of a day's travel, three quarters of a day, half a day, that sort of a thing. 02:33:05.281 --> 02:33:22.632 [Riv (DM)]: Based on the height that you're at, and I think, honestly, Karen could have mentioned to you as well, because, to be honest, this is a bit of a recreational activity for some of these guys, so they are well versed with how far they can actually fly from the peaks, because they just kind of do it for fun. 02:33:24.193 --> 02:33:26.275 [Riv (DM)]: Every thousand feet you can glide 02:33:28.188 --> 02:33:29.068 [Riv (DM)]: About five miles. 02:33:30.489 --> 02:33:35.191 [Riv (DM)]: So half a day's travel is 12 miles-ish. 02:33:36.632 --> 02:33:44.315 [Riv (DM)]: So if you're a couple of thousand feet up, you'd probably get most of the way there and you're easily a couple of thousand feet up. 02:33:44.415 --> 02:33:56.080 [Riv (DM)]: So I think if you do a little bit of math like that, you probably put together that you won't be able to glide all the way to the edge, but you'll be able to get most of the way there and then maybe an hour or so travel once you land. 02:33:58.236 --> 02:34:02.577 [Lacer (Kai)]: So if we climb up halfway up the mountain and jump, we'd get pretty much all the way to the edge. 02:34:03.317 --> 02:34:09.278 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean I can actually, um, para- para-dropping directly into the city? 02:34:09.978 --> 02:34:11.099 [Vael (Berberis)]: Probably not a good idea. 02:34:11.239 --> 02:34:15.060 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I thought he meant edge of the forest, edge of the, what's it called? 02:34:15.220 --> 02:34:17.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, no, edge of the middle of the city. 02:34:18.320 --> 02:34:19.160 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're not gonna get this. 02:34:19.180 --> 02:34:22.321 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, send, send Dundarr straight up an extra two thousand foot. 02:34:23.801 --> 02:34:25.462 [Lacer (Kai)]: And he can fly extra with his bicycle. 02:34:25.482 --> 02:34:26.682 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And he can go an extra ten miles. 02:34:27.834 --> 02:34:32.295 [Riv (DM)]: I would recommend probably seeing where you're going to land. 02:34:33.355 --> 02:34:38.696 [Riv (DM)]: Otherwise, you know, hitting a tree when you go into the darkness might not be the best idea. 02:34:41.177 --> 02:34:42.337 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That's why someone's a dwarf. 02:34:43.597 --> 02:34:43.877 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: True. 02:34:45.618 --> 02:34:50.679 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, I'm dragging the cuffs onto all of your sheets so you can see what they do and you can attune to them. 02:34:55.300 --> 02:34:55.560 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you. 02:34:56.100 --> 02:34:56.280 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:34:56.300 --> 02:34:57.300 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty, everyone should have them now. 02:34:59.273 --> 02:34:59.793 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:35:00.694 --> 02:35:01.855 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's check these out. 02:35:08.159 --> 02:35:09.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not proficient. 02:35:34.305 --> 02:35:38.991 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, if we're going to need an overnight to attune to the things, um... No, it's an hour, attunement. 02:35:39.011 --> 02:35:39.852 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't need overnight. 02:35:39.872 --> 02:35:42.455 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I thought attunement was 24 hours for some reason. 02:35:42.475 --> 02:35:42.855 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, no. 02:35:42.935 --> 02:35:44.217 [JC (Ryo)]: It's just a short rest. 02:35:54.692 --> 02:36:07.000 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, yeah, I've just put up the dome, the colour of the mountains, and we're going to, I guess, sit inside and talk, chat while we attune to these Zephyr Cuffs. 02:36:08.401 --> 02:36:08.681 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:36:09.042 --> 02:36:09.382 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 02:36:11.363 --> 02:36:11.603 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 02:36:11.783 --> 02:36:23.051 [Riv (DM)]: Unless there is anything that you wanted to sort of any additional last planning or discussions, why don't we fast forward to having been attuned and you can find a spot to jump. 02:36:24.258 --> 02:36:24.978 [Riv (DM)]: Who's going to go first? 02:36:25.818 --> 02:36:27.039 [Riv (DM)]: Or are you all going to go at the same time? 02:36:27.159 --> 02:36:29.319 [Riv (DM)]: Or how's it going to work? 02:36:30.899 --> 02:36:34.760 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are we jumping from here or are we climbing up higher, Ryo and people? 02:36:37.601 --> 02:36:41.221 [JC (Ryo)]: Does it look like we sort of hit where we want to hit the edge of the darkness? 02:36:42.601 --> 02:36:45.082 [JC (Ryo)]: We should be high enough for that or do we need to get a bit higher? 02:36:45.602 --> 02:36:46.322 [Riv (DM)]: You'll get close. 02:36:46.482 --> 02:36:47.322 [Riv (DM)]: You'll get pretty close. 02:36:49.903 --> 02:36:50.463 [JC (Ryo)]: Sounds good then. 02:36:52.342 --> 02:37:07.749 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah it's pretty it's like if you if you plan it out um you can you can knock off a whole day's travel with these if you if you went up a couple of thousand feet if you're up on top of like a mountain range or something or did some clever magic to get you high up you could do a whole day's travel. 02:37:11.611 --> 02:37:16.473 [Riv (DM)]: Alright um cool so talk me through it what the 02:37:21.040 --> 02:37:25.343 [Vael (Berberis)]: Given the speed of the things, if we want to be near each other, we should probably all jump at the same time. 02:37:26.464 --> 02:37:26.684 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep. 02:37:28.545 --> 02:37:33.369 [Vael (Berberis)]: Also, people should read the item and just be aware of the constraints and potential issues. 02:37:35.750 --> 02:37:35.890 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:37:36.531 --> 02:37:38.532 [Riv (DM)]: Key one being concentration. 02:37:38.592 --> 02:37:39.373 [Riv (DM)]: Be careful of that. 02:37:43.220 --> 02:37:47.904 [Riv (DM)]: It's not actually on the text, I haven't updated it, but yeah I think we make it so that concentration is required. 02:37:49.425 --> 02:37:53.048 [Riv (DM)]: Don't like bang your head on something on the way down and fall unconscious, wouldn't be good. 02:37:55.470 --> 02:37:58.573 [Vael (Berberis)]: Extreme weather and collisions, not good. 02:37:59.113 --> 02:38:03.157 [Vael (Berberis)]: Also being not prone, restrained, or having your speed otherwise reduced to zero. 02:38:06.319 --> 02:38:10.803 [Vael (Berberis)]: So if someone grapples you, your speed is reduced to zero, and you both die. 02:38:12.610 --> 02:38:14.871 [Lacer (Kai)]: So don't grapple each other while flying. 02:38:14.891 --> 02:38:16.552 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean gliding. 02:38:16.572 --> 02:38:19.974 [Riv (DM)]: Well, actually... You could probably grab each other and it'll be fine. 02:38:19.994 --> 02:38:23.436 [Riv (DM)]: It's more like your horizontal velocity drops to zero, right? 02:38:25.678 --> 02:38:29.880 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um, no, when your speed reduces to zero, you just fall, I think. 02:38:29.900 --> 02:38:32.642 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 02:38:32.682 --> 02:38:35.924 [Vael (Berberis)]: Because if you grappled then your speed is zero. 02:38:35.944 --> 02:38:37.325 [Vael (Berberis)]: Because you can't move. 02:38:37.585 --> 02:38:37.805 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 02:38:38.671 --> 02:38:44.721 [Riv (DM)]: So it'd be like if something was able to somehow like catch you or something like that when you're flying, like stop your movement then the enchantment ends. 02:38:49.043 --> 02:38:49.603 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:38:50.144 --> 02:38:56.368 [Vael (Berberis)]: You'd think they'd call it a safety mechanism, whereas if you're not unconscious that the glide would still kick in, but no. 02:38:57.609 --> 02:39:02.632 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, you'd think you'd, like, slow your fall so you can just fall down softly, even if you're, like... 02:39:02.652 --> 02:39:03.853 [Riv (DM)]: Magical parachute or something. 02:39:04.773 --> 02:39:08.175 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, like a safety, a safety fall. 02:39:08.596 --> 02:39:08.896 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:39:09.176 --> 02:39:09.476 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:39:10.037 --> 02:39:11.017 [Riv (DM)]: But, nope. 02:39:11.197 --> 02:39:12.818 [Riv (DM)]: Possibly it could be augmented. 02:39:12.838 --> 02:39:18.322 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I don't know if you know any clever enchanters who could tweak the item for you. 02:39:19.030 --> 02:39:19.770 [Lacer (Kai)]: These are special ones. 02:39:19.790 --> 02:39:22.612 [Lacer (Kai)]: These are Daredevil, Daredevil Zephyr Cuffs. 02:39:23.072 --> 02:39:24.814 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, no safety features. 02:39:25.214 --> 02:39:26.054 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Safety's removed. 02:39:26.455 --> 02:39:27.275 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:39:31.238 --> 02:39:31.938 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:39:33.079 --> 02:39:36.821 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, I'm gonna billow my cloak and prepare to jump. 02:39:37.862 --> 02:39:40.223 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 02:39:40.323 --> 02:39:42.224 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm just gonna make sure everything's nice and secure. 02:39:42.244 --> 02:39:43.445 [JC (Ryo)]: Everything's tucked away. 02:39:44.366 --> 02:39:48.028 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does everyone have some sort of safe-fall mechanism 02:39:49.535 --> 02:39:56.698 [Lacer (Kai)]: If not, I can attempt to fly and catch people, I suppose. 02:39:57.719 --> 02:40:05.102 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know too much about... Would we... Is it a long rest or a short rest that you can do spell preparation? 02:40:06.083 --> 02:40:06.383 [Vael (Berberis)]: Long. 02:40:06.643 --> 02:40:07.223 [Vael (Berberis)]: Long rest. 02:40:08.304 --> 02:40:09.584 [Riv (DM)]: Well, it depends on the class, actually. 02:40:09.624 --> 02:40:10.404 [Riv (DM)]: I think on... 02:40:10.424 --> 02:40:13.646 [Riv (DM)]: I think wizards can do short rest changing on a couple of their spells. 02:40:18.335 --> 02:40:35.960 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm going to tell everyone, since I've been worshipping this goddess of Siluna, she's given me the ability to walk in the night, allowing me to fly for a minute when I'm in, and requires me to activate it when I'm in dim light. 02:40:37.821 --> 02:40:44.163 [Vael (Berberis)]: Before we go to jump, I'm going to use my druidcraft to do weather sensor. 02:40:45.083 --> 02:40:45.824 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hmm. 02:40:47.044 --> 02:40:47.284 [Vael (Berberis)]: All right. 02:40:50.688 --> 02:40:55.689 [Vael (Berberis)]: A timely harmless sensory effect that predicts what the weather will be like at our location for the next 24. 02:40:55.909 --> 02:40:58.169 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm guessing that it's close enough. 02:40:58.549 --> 02:41:00.610 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, totally fine. 02:41:00.710 --> 02:41:13.632 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so um the you get like a very nice orb that starts to circle and dance around you um it sort of pulses a little bit but for the most part it glows gold. 02:41:13.712 --> 02:41:18.713 [Riv (DM)]: You get the feeling that there might be some gentle winds but you're not gonna get a storm or anything. 02:41:20.171 --> 02:41:21.031 [Riv (DM)]: It just blows in. 02:41:21.672 --> 02:41:24.813 [Riv (DM)]: And, you know, you've never seen weather in the time that you've been here. 02:41:24.873 --> 02:41:27.174 [Riv (DM)]: There hasn't been massive snowstorms or anything like that up here. 02:41:27.434 --> 02:41:29.114 [Riv (DM)]: It just kind of is the way it is. 02:41:31.275 --> 02:41:31.655 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough. 02:41:32.255 --> 02:41:32.435 Yep. 02:41:38.998 --> 02:41:40.838 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, I always wondered what it's like to fly. 02:41:41.839 --> 02:41:45.100 [Vael (Berberis)]: And is there a little bit of a cliff or are we just on a hill? 02:41:46.588 --> 02:41:47.308 [Riv (DM)]: You can find one, yeah? 02:41:47.389 --> 02:41:52.491 [Riv (DM)]: Or you could find like a tall boulder or something that's rolled down and it's like sort of sticking out of the side of the mountain. 02:41:53.531 --> 02:41:59.815 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just gonna jump up on it, turn to the party, give him both middle fingers and then just jump off backwards. 02:42:00.135 --> 02:42:01.015 [Vael (Berberis)]: Okay, nice. 02:42:01.455 --> 02:42:04.097 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know what he means by doing those finger... 02:42:06.206 --> 02:42:06.687 [Lacer (Kai)]: Symbols. 02:42:07.087 --> 02:42:09.751 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, the finger symbols have been around for a long time. 02:42:09.771 --> 02:42:11.974 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm sure they exist in some version in fantasy. 02:42:12.595 --> 02:42:16.840 [JC (Ryo)]: If you hear Ryu, you're like, you cunt, and jump after you're doing the same thing. 02:42:17.261 --> 02:42:22.007 [Riv (DM)]: Ra jumps right after, and Donda follows not long after. 02:42:22.328 --> 02:42:23.670 [Lacer (Kai)]: I cast Guidance and I jump. 02:42:24.610 --> 02:42:27.611 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's like, oh my god. 02:42:28.931 --> 02:42:29.251 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:42:30.012 --> 02:42:39.834 [Riv (DM)]: Immediately you feel the cuffs start to tug at your wrists and your ankles and they almost like force your arms to be spread out like you were gliding, like you had flaps between your arms. 02:42:40.535 --> 02:42:41.455 [Riv (DM)]: And you are 02:42:42.675 --> 02:42:47.118 [Riv (DM)]: Sooning through the air, the wind starts to like splash through your face. 02:42:47.638 --> 02:42:51.460 [Riv (DM)]: You almost have to squint your eyes to avoid the wind from drying them out too quickly. 02:42:52.080 --> 02:42:54.202 [Riv (DM)]: And you're moving faster than you've ever moved in your life. 02:42:54.622 --> 02:42:56.643 [Riv (DM)]: You're just, you're hooning down. 02:42:58.590 --> 02:43:02.575 [Riv (DM)]: The, um, at first it takes, you know, it's a little bit awkward to control it. 02:43:02.615 --> 02:43:07.541 [Riv (DM)]: You start to roll in the air, um, struggling to sort of control it properly. 02:43:07.561 --> 02:43:10.384 [Riv (DM)]: But after, you know, after a few minutes you start to control it. 02:43:11.105 --> 02:43:12.226 [Riv (DM)]: Um, just get the hang of it. 02:43:12.266 --> 02:43:17.532 [Riv (DM)]: You can find that you can tilt your wrists and your ankles, maybe bend your leg a little bit and it sort of adjusts your angle. 02:43:19.591 --> 02:43:21.113 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, you start getting comfortable with it. 02:43:21.133 --> 02:43:23.015 [Riv (DM)]: After a while it actually starts becoming kind of fun. 02:43:23.896 --> 02:43:29.883 [Riv (DM)]: Berberus is well out in front with Rio, not far behind. 02:43:30.484 --> 02:43:35.089 [Riv (DM)]: But the most, you know, you're all sort of within a close enough range that you could almost call out to each other. 02:43:36.951 --> 02:43:41.553 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and you can see this dark shroud ahead of you just approaching as you get closer and closer. 02:43:41.973 --> 02:43:45.275 [Riv (DM)]: Below you, you head over top of the Liar's River, passes on behind. 02:43:45.615 --> 02:43:54.800 [Riv (DM)]: And as you look back, as soon as you pass over the Liar's River, the peaks from where you came from immediately disappear like hundreds and hundreds of miles away in the distance. 02:43:55.340 --> 02:43:57.061 [Riv (DM)]: Somehow there's just like this weird warping effect. 02:43:59.262 --> 02:43:59.662 [Riv (DM)]: Jesus. 02:44:00.643 --> 02:44:04.385 [Riv (DM)]: I'll get a perception check from anyone who wants to make it, from two of you actually. 02:44:05.313 --> 02:44:08.794 [Lacer (Kai)]: I want to squint my eyes and perceive if anything sees us. 02:44:08.814 --> 02:44:09.874 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'll be one of them. 02:44:09.894 --> 02:44:15.195 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, I won't. 02:44:15.235 --> 02:44:18.916 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, no, I'll let you all do a perception check because you're all kind of a little bit separate at the moment. 02:44:18.936 --> 02:44:20.277 [Riv (DM)]: You aren't necessarily together in a party. 02:44:31.199 --> 02:44:33.040 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:44:33.780 --> 02:44:34.040 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:44:36.853 --> 02:44:37.734 [Riv (DM)]: Berberis is out in front. 02:44:38.454 --> 02:44:40.656 [Riv (DM)]: He's enjoying himself, I think. 02:44:41.076 --> 02:44:49.602 [Riv (DM)]: He's got his arms back, his gray hair is flying back in the wind, and he's got his eyes fixed on that darkness ahead, eyes on the prize. 02:44:51.323 --> 02:44:52.785 [Riv (DM)]: Kai, Erendor, and Rio. 02:44:54.025 --> 02:44:59.387 [Riv (DM)]: As you're sort of like, you know, you're following Berberis, keeping your eyes on him, maybe you're sort of glancing back at each other. 02:45:00.708 --> 02:45:17.754 [Riv (DM)]: As you're looking back to see where Dondar is, you look over your shoulder and when the distance behind you sort of coming off from the east around the corner of the mountains, you can see like a dot that's just sort of like over there in the sky. 02:45:19.287 --> 02:45:20.287 [Riv (DM)]: You kind of, huh, that looks weird. 02:45:20.888 --> 02:45:23.368 [Riv (DM)]: You look back at it and it's like, oh it's a bit bigger now. 02:45:24.569 --> 02:45:27.430 [Riv (DM)]: And you see that there is actually something heading towards you. 02:45:27.990 --> 02:45:31.591 [Riv (DM)]: And as it starts getting a bit closer, you can see it's got wings. 02:45:32.091 --> 02:45:33.152 [Riv (DM)]: And it's like, oh it's just a bird. 02:45:35.212 --> 02:45:38.333 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna whistle and go, wait, something's on our, is it behind us? 02:45:38.494 --> 02:45:39.594 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's something's on our tail. 02:45:40.114 --> 02:45:41.154 [Lacer (Kai)]: Whoever's closest to me. 02:45:42.775 --> 02:45:46.296 [Riv (DM)]: It's really far away, but those wings are huge. 02:45:47.177 --> 02:45:48.217 [Riv (DM)]: This thing must be massive. 02:45:49.163 --> 02:45:54.125 [Riv (DM)]: You can see now, the wings are like flapping, and it is heading straight in your direction. 02:45:57.167 --> 02:45:58.267 [Riv (DM)]: Great dragon or something? 02:45:59.808 --> 02:46:01.609 [Lacer (Kai)]: I didn't know there was dragons in the Fey realm. 02:46:03.289 --> 02:46:03.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or something. 02:46:05.310 --> 02:46:10.553 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, um, if we're gliding, are we able to um, 02:46:13.125 --> 02:46:19.718 [Lacer (Kai)]: Put our arms closer to our body to increase our rate of speed or gliding speed. 02:46:21.093 --> 02:46:26.615 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you could, if you wanted, you could tilt your head right down and aim yourself straight for the ground, if you wanted. 02:46:29.455 --> 02:46:32.116 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm trying to go for distance and speed, but yeah. 02:46:32.636 --> 02:46:39.738 [Riv (DM)]: So you kind of, maybe you need to sort of like judge how far you are from your destination and how far this thing is gaining on you. 02:46:40.278 --> 02:46:43.499 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want to roll an intelligence check? 02:46:43.799 --> 02:46:44.900 [Riv (DM)]: Just a straight intelligence check? 02:46:47.020 --> 02:46:50.141 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I might fuck up here, but okay, I will. 02:46:51.492 --> 02:46:52.153 [Lacer (Kai)]: Intelligence. 02:46:58.024 --> 02:46:59.187 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, not too bad. 02:46:59.207 --> 02:47:02.032 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so you're probably 02:47:04.249 --> 02:47:05.830 [Riv (DM)]: Several hundred feet up in the air now. 02:47:06.371 --> 02:47:12.475 [Riv (DM)]: You've been traveling for a while, for hours at this point, when you notice this speck approaching. 02:47:13.496 --> 02:47:19.520 [Riv (DM)]: And there's probably maybe another half an hour to go until you get the gut feel that you might be landing. 02:47:20.281 --> 02:47:22.302 [Riv (DM)]: And this thing is rapidly approaching. 02:47:22.402 --> 02:47:24.244 [Riv (DM)]: Like it's not going to be on you in minutes, but 02:47:25.043 --> 02:47:32.271 [Riv (DM)]: You're kind of, you know, you're eyeballing it, you're seeing how long it's taking to, you know, get bigger and bigger in your vision and approach. 02:47:33.332 --> 02:47:36.616 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably going to encounter you before you reach your destination. 02:47:38.958 --> 02:47:43.403 [JC (Ryo)]: And we're doing 60 mile an hour according to the item. 02:47:43.423 --> 02:47:43.543 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 02:47:50.922 --> 02:47:58.986 [Riv (DM)]: It's got big, big wings and now you can see sort of, it's probably actually still too far right to exactly see what it looks like. 02:48:02.648 --> 02:48:04.109 [Vael (Berberis)]: We don't want to fight this in the sky. 02:48:07.710 --> 02:48:08.731 [Vael (Berberis)]: At all more likely. 02:48:10.952 --> 02:48:18.173 [JC (Ryo)]: Well is it below us like open field or forested or? 02:48:18.694 --> 02:48:21.014 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah what terrain are we playing over? 02:48:21.174 --> 02:48:40.438 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah so it's um it's a continuation of the plains that are around the footholds of the peaks um but the forest is starting to become sort of sparsely dotted now so as you as you look down you can see little patches of trees here and there and Akita View, the Vale of Darkness is right in front and you can see like sort of dense forests um that's starting to peak out. 02:48:40.998 --> 02:48:43.880 [Riv (DM)]: From around the edges of the Vale, so, right below you would be... 02:48:45.421 --> 02:48:50.724 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, we were going to be aiming for the edge of the darkness, so are we that close to the edge of the darkness already, are we? 02:48:51.745 --> 02:48:53.166 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you're getting there pretty close. 02:48:53.186 --> 02:48:59.910 [Riv (DM)]: You were going to probably not quite make it exactly there, but maybe be within an hour or half an hour or so of the edge was your sort of guess. 02:49:00.070 --> 02:49:00.791 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 02:49:00.811 --> 02:49:03.032 [Vael (Berberis)]: For the best, we don't want to be touching down in thick forest. 02:49:07.855 --> 02:49:10.397 [JC (Ryo)]: I guess I yell out, let's get down before this thing gets us. 02:49:13.530 --> 02:49:13.690 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 02:49:13.890 --> 02:49:14.211 [JC (Ryo)]: All right. 02:49:20.322 --> 02:49:21.783 [Riv (DM)]: Aim yourself down a little bit. 02:49:22.463 --> 02:49:28.565 [Riv (DM)]: You probably, you're still heading forwards, like you're not going to go strictly vertical down because, you know, it's still gaining on you. 02:49:29.306 --> 02:49:38.029 [Riv (DM)]: But it sounds like what you want to do is start to reduce your descent a bit more so that you can get closer to the ground if this thing were to catch up to you. 02:49:38.629 --> 02:49:39.089 [Riv (DM)]: Very wise. 02:49:40.050 --> 02:49:40.810 [Riv (DM)]: It's gaining on you now. 02:49:41.270 --> 02:49:41.690 [Riv (DM)]: It's stuck. 02:49:41.710 --> 02:49:42.351 [Riv (DM)]: More vertical. 02:49:42.651 --> 02:49:42.811 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:49:43.291 --> 02:49:45.492 [Riv (DM)]: Another 10 minutes go by and you can look back and it's 02:49:46.550 --> 02:49:47.190 [Riv (DM)]: It's now visible. 02:49:47.310 --> 02:49:53.512 [Riv (DM)]: It is a huge, it looks like a bird, but like massive, like bigger than a house. 02:49:53.592 --> 02:49:57.853 [Riv (DM)]: It's wingspan has got to be, you know, 30 or 40 or 50 meters wide. 02:49:58.814 --> 02:50:03.635 [Riv (DM)]: Huge talons, like it's a beak that could just snap you up in one bite. 02:50:05.936 --> 02:50:08.556 [Lacer (Kai)]: How many feet is it away from us currently? 02:50:09.617 --> 02:50:13.958 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably about to get, catch up with you in the next five minutes or so. 02:50:15.953 --> 02:50:22.760 [Riv (DM)]: Because you're traveling forward very fast and it's also traveling very fast, but it's just a little bit faster, so it's just slowly gaining on you. 02:50:26.103 --> 02:50:28.866 [Riv (DM)]: So now's probably the time when you want to think about something, to do something. 02:50:34.811 --> 02:50:40.257 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think we probably want to get to the ground and spread out and prep. 02:50:41.636 --> 02:50:44.097 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'm going to yell out. 02:50:44.237 --> 02:50:46.898 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm going to fog cloud once we head down to the ground. 02:50:47.218 --> 02:50:49.039 [Lacer (Kai)]: At least it'll give us cover from above. 02:50:49.059 --> 02:50:53.921 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 02:50:55.162 --> 02:50:55.422 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:50:57.623 --> 02:50:58.623 [Riv (DM)]: So you aim yourself straight down. 02:50:58.643 --> 02:51:00.864 [Riv (DM)]: We're heading for the ground, aren't we? 02:51:00.984 --> 02:51:02.125 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, how far? 02:51:03.558 --> 02:51:04.558 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, do we wanna glide for another few minutes? 02:51:04.578 --> 02:51:05.359 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, two, three minutes, or? 02:51:05.379 --> 02:51:05.819 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:05.839 --> 02:51:06.359 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's five minutes. 02:51:06.379 --> 02:51:06.759 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:06.779 --> 02:51:07.280 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:07.300 --> 02:51:07.660 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:07.680 --> 02:51:08.040 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:08.060 --> 02:51:08.460 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:08.480 --> 02:51:08.840 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:08.880 --> 02:51:09.240 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:09.260 --> 02:51:09.621 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:09.641 --> 02:51:10.021 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:10.041 --> 02:51:10.441 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:10.461 --> 02:51:10.881 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:10.941 --> 02:51:11.301 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:11.321 --> 02:51:11.681 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:11.722 --> 02:51:12.142 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:12.162 --> 02:51:12.582 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:12.602 --> 02:51:13.022 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:13.062 --> 02:51:13.462 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:13.482 --> 02:51:13.902 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:13.922 --> 02:51:14.303 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:14.323 --> 02:51:14.683 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:14.703 --> 02:51:15.103 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:15.123 --> 02:51:15.483 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:15.503 --> 02:51:15.883 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:15.903 --> 02:51:16.283 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:16.303 --> 02:51:16.664 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:16.684 --> 02:51:17.044 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, yeah. 02:51:17.064 --> 02:51:17.584 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, almost, yeah. 02:51:17.624 --> 02:51:19.825 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's almost, almost, almost, almost, almost, almost, almost, almost, almost, almost, almost, almost, 02:51:20.172 --> 02:51:20.892 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, all right. 02:51:21.012 --> 02:51:22.673 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're doing concepts, not details. 02:51:23.354 --> 02:51:23.594 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:51:24.694 --> 02:51:25.435 [Riv (DM)]: Time to cut it close. 02:51:25.575 --> 02:51:26.155 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. 02:51:26.255 --> 02:51:26.815 [Riv (DM)]: We aim down. 02:51:28.376 --> 02:51:32.879 [Riv (DM)]: Looking back, it is now within shouting distance. 02:51:32.939 --> 02:51:34.359 [Riv (DM)]: You're heading straight for the ground. 02:51:34.880 --> 02:51:36.981 [Riv (DM)]: It's diving down right behind you as well. 02:51:37.721 --> 02:51:47.225 [Riv (DM)]: And you get close and immediately feel the cuffs around your wrists and ankles like flare out as they will automatically engage and slow your descent before you come crashing to the ground. 02:51:48.146 --> 02:51:49.066 [Riv (DM)]: And you land gracefully. 02:51:49.826 --> 02:51:56.810 [Riv (DM)]: Couple of you maybe like go into a little roll or something and get up onto your feet and you look back and you just hear this big like shriek as you look. 02:51:57.650 --> 02:52:00.871 [Riv (DM)]: Huge talons outstretch coming straight down towards you. 02:52:02.552 --> 02:52:04.333 [Riv (DM)]: Got a round to decide what you want to do? 02:52:04.353 --> 02:52:06.694 [Vael (Berberis)]: Rough distance at the moment. 02:52:10.893 --> 02:52:11.653 [Vael (Berberis)]: Like actual distance? 02:52:12.634 --> 02:52:15.834 [Riv (DM)]: Uh and within one round it will it will be able to get to you. 02:52:16.774 --> 02:52:22.075 [Riv (DM)]: So that's um uh well I could tell you it's probably about somewhere between 60 and 100 feet. 02:52:24.176 --> 02:52:24.456 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:52:26.916 --> 02:52:27.136 [Vael (Berberis)]: Sweet. 02:52:27.196 --> 02:52:29.097 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm gonna turn around and slap it with an earthbind. 02:52:30.457 --> 02:52:34.278 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh okay um do you mind posting the details for that in the chat? 02:52:35.638 --> 02:52:37.218 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 02:52:38.259 --> 02:52:39.119 [JC (Ryo)]: I'd like to try and get a 02:52:40.440 --> 02:52:44.323 [JC (Ryo)]: I get two longbow shots, so try and aim for its head or aim for its eyes. 02:52:45.464 --> 02:52:46.464 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 02:52:47.265 --> 02:52:49.366 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's probably quite strong, but it's worth a shot. 02:52:49.586 --> 02:52:50.747 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, no, absolutely. 02:52:50.767 --> 02:52:52.729 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 02:52:57.992 --> 02:52:58.893 [Riv (DM)]: This is what we're talking about. 02:53:03.995 --> 02:53:05.495 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably not quite the same scale. 02:53:05.796 --> 02:53:07.176 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's bigger than the city. 02:53:07.196 --> 02:53:10.937 [Unmatched Speaker]: Sorry, I'm on the wrong one. 02:53:13.918 --> 02:53:18.759 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're all on the wrong one. 02:53:18.820 --> 02:53:20.620 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's half the size of Sumara. 02:53:21.400 --> 02:53:22.881 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Ah, that's just a blank square for me. 02:53:23.901 --> 02:53:24.701 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, no, really? 02:53:24.761 --> 02:53:26.122 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe you need to smash a reload. 02:53:26.562 --> 02:53:27.922 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing. 02:53:28.022 --> 02:53:31.703 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I've got enough with the box around it, but you must log in to access this game. 02:53:32.284 --> 02:53:33.364 [Lacer (Kai)]: It looks like a rail in the car. 02:53:36.485 --> 02:53:38.306 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm guessing it's a Roc of some sort. 02:53:39.186 --> 02:53:41.467 [Lacer (Kai)]: This is me speaking, not Cae, but yeah. 02:53:41.527 --> 02:53:41.807 [Lacer (Kai)]: Roc. 02:53:42.088 --> 02:53:42.448 [Lacer (Kai)]: Those are grey. 02:53:42.468 --> 02:53:45.809 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, game is very, very log-backing because the gamers decided to log me out. 02:53:48.050 --> 02:53:48.270 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:53:48.410 --> 02:53:51.032 [Riv (DM)]: Choose one creature you see within range, and the range is 300 feet. 02:53:51.572 --> 02:53:51.992 [Riv (DM)]: Easy. 02:53:52.092 --> 02:53:53.733 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, that's why I was hoping to go as far as I can. 02:53:53.753 --> 02:53:54.593 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, yeah. 02:53:54.613 --> 02:53:55.854 [Riv (DM)]: Give it a bit more distance if we need it. 02:53:56.614 --> 02:53:57.074 [Riv (DM)]: I'll succeed. 02:53:57.094 --> 02:53:59.595 [Riv (DM)]: Strength saving throw, as flying speed is reduced to zero. 02:53:59.836 --> 02:54:00.316 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:54:00.336 --> 02:54:00.796 [Riv (DM)]: What is your DC? 02:54:00.816 --> 02:54:01.276 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, 17. 02:54:01.296 --> 02:54:02.357 [Riv (DM)]: I will roll. 02:54:06.904 --> 02:54:07.705 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's a long shot, but. 02:54:08.366 --> 02:54:09.147 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, it's a really good idea. 02:54:09.187 --> 02:54:11.771 [Riv (DM)]: So, um, tell you what it needs to roll. 02:54:11.831 --> 02:54:12.432 [Riv (DM)]: What did you say it was? 02:54:12.452 --> 02:54:13.393 [Riv (DM)]: Did you say six? 02:54:14.234 --> 02:54:14.755 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, seventeen. 02:54:15.015 --> 02:54:15.456 [Riv (DM)]: Seventeen? 02:54:15.716 --> 02:54:16.898 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, you've got a pretty decent DC. 02:54:17.979 --> 02:54:18.199 [Riv (DM)]: Um. 02:54:19.421 --> 02:54:19.962 [Riv (DM)]: Max Wisdom. 02:54:20.442 --> 02:54:20.743 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:54:26.898 --> 02:54:36.405 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, the binds of energy burst up out of the ground and try to latch around its ankles to pull it, but it's able to just like screech and rip them away. 02:54:37.006 --> 02:54:37.506 [Riv (DM)]: The rolls an 18. 02:54:37.526 --> 02:54:39.187 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's pretty good. 02:54:39.528 --> 02:54:39.728 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:54:40.568 --> 02:54:41.529 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, very, very close though. 02:54:41.749 --> 02:54:42.710 [Riv (DM)]: Good. 02:54:42.770 --> 02:54:45.252 [Riv (DM)]: And Kai, you said you were doing Fog Cloud, was it? 02:54:45.612 --> 02:54:47.453 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will Fog Cloud after Rio shoots. 02:54:47.874 --> 02:54:48.074 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 02:54:48.514 --> 02:54:49.375 [Riv (DM)]: Rio, take your shots. 02:55:04.876 --> 02:55:06.517 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, 15 hits and 22 hits. 02:55:13.101 --> 02:55:13.641 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, nice. 02:55:14.082 --> 02:55:15.022 [Riv (DM)]: Makes damage on that one. 02:55:19.104 --> 02:55:20.505 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, and makes damage on that one as well. 02:55:22.006 --> 02:55:23.047 [Riv (DM)]: Rolling like a god over here. 02:55:24.508 --> 02:55:27.569 [JC (Ryo)]: Um, I was aiming, like sort of trying to aim for the eyes. 02:55:27.629 --> 02:55:32.012 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know whether you wanted to change the AC for, uh, DC for that or... Um... 02:55:34.202 --> 02:55:36.884 [Vael (Berberis)]: Specific points is always harder for the smaller. 02:55:37.004 --> 02:55:39.685 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, if you're doing a specific point, it's plus five to the AC. 02:55:40.446 --> 02:55:40.806 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:55:41.046 --> 02:55:47.570 [Riv (DM)]: So, we can say that the, if you were aiming both shots for the eyes, the first one would have missed, the second one would have hit. 02:55:48.833 --> 02:55:49.774 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, that's what I was doing. 02:55:49.994 --> 02:55:51.135 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:55:51.195 --> 02:55:52.096 [Riv (DM)]: So the second shot... 02:55:52.156 --> 02:55:52.777 [Riv (DM)]: I did call it out. 02:55:53.397 --> 02:55:54.138 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, absolutely. 02:55:54.198 --> 02:55:58.282 [Riv (DM)]: So, first one goes by and it just sort of like moves its head slightly to the side. 02:55:58.362 --> 02:56:08.391 [Riv (DM)]: But unfortunately, there's a second arrow coming right after it and it moves its head right into position of your second shot and it goes straight into the eye and you just hear this dreadful screech. 02:56:09.132 --> 02:56:09.972 [Riv (DM)]: Blinded in one eye. 02:56:10.873 --> 02:56:16.577 [Riv (DM)]: Unable to perfectly see now and maybe even struggling to gauge distance, it takes a good chunk of damage. 02:56:16.597 --> 02:56:21.540 [Riv (DM)]: So was that 13 damage, did you have any Hunter's Mark or anything like that? 02:56:21.660 --> 02:56:24.762 [Riv (DM)]: Oh no you don't have your Dread Ambusher, it's like a different ability now eh? 02:56:25.603 --> 02:56:28.105 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I can choose when I want to throw it on. 02:56:28.245 --> 02:56:28.505 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 02:56:29.065 --> 02:56:30.206 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, perfect. 02:56:30.286 --> 02:56:31.727 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:56:32.248 --> 02:56:32.428 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:56:32.828 --> 02:56:35.310 [Riv (DM)]: Clyde bursts a fog cloud all over the party. 02:56:35.990 --> 02:56:41.294 [Riv (DM)]: Um, 20-foot radius and this is... No, this is third level, so it's a 40-foot radius. 02:56:41.394 --> 02:56:41.794 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh, nice. 02:56:41.954 --> 02:56:43.976 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, and it's one action to cast it. 02:56:44.496 --> 02:56:44.836 [Riv (DM)]: Perfect. 02:56:44.896 --> 02:56:45.196 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:56:45.856 --> 02:56:47.917 [Riv (DM)]: Blind in one eye, fog cloud appearing. 02:56:49.037 --> 02:56:56.800 [Riv (DM)]: The rock is going to try and gauge where you were standing and come in with a swoop attack to try and pick one of you guys up. 02:56:57.080 --> 02:57:01.581 [Riv (DM)]: But it's going to be, it's going to first need to succeed on a perception check to try and spot you. 02:57:03.082 --> 02:57:06.063 [Riv (DM)]: With the fog cloud up and being blind, I'm going to make this a DC 17. 02:57:09.835 --> 02:57:11.616 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, yeah, I'll roll it on the table for you to see as well. 02:57:13.097 --> 02:57:15.638 [Riv (DM)]: Um, does it actually have perception as an ability? 02:57:18.460 --> 02:57:19.240 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh, it actually does. 02:57:21.002 --> 02:57:22.222 [Riv (DM)]: Um, here we go. 02:57:23.263 --> 02:57:25.744 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I make my familiar appear as well? 02:57:26.925 --> 02:57:30.627 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, the rockeroll's a terrible perception check, he's got a plus eight. 02:57:32.188 --> 02:57:37.351 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, um, so the, you see him come in and... Would it be at disadvantage because he's only got one eye? 02:57:39.534 --> 02:57:41.635 [Riv (DM)]: I bumped to the DC of the check. 02:57:42.276 --> 02:57:45.658 [Riv (DM)]: Like normally I shouldn't need to make a check at all to do this little bit. 02:57:46.119 --> 02:57:49.521 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah I put the DC at 17 because he's blind in Fog Cloud. 02:57:49.601 --> 02:57:50.862 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah no he misses. 02:57:51.202 --> 02:57:58.548 [Riv (DM)]: So he comes swooping in through the fog where he thought you were standing and his talons just clutch nothing as he goes past. 02:57:59.068 --> 02:58:01.090 [Riv (DM)]: You hear a screech in frustration and it starts to 02:58:01.750 --> 02:58:24.949 [Riv (DM)]: Take off again and fly and now he's sort of he's flying up and he's starting to flap his wings heavily to try and starting to blow the fog cloud away and unfortunately the fog cloud does start to eddy and disappear um but that would be it's round and so we'll go back to you guys to take a turn if you look around you're probably um it's probably a good 10-20 minute sprint to the edge of the veil 02:58:32.925 --> 02:58:37.608 [Riv (DM)]: And also, if you want, you can, you should call out actions for Dondar as well. 02:58:39.209 --> 02:58:43.871 [Vael (Berberis)]: Are we going to initiative, or are we just going to devolve into a no you go, no you go, no you go? 02:58:45.192 --> 02:58:47.653 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, why don't we do initiative, eh? 02:58:47.793 --> 02:58:48.854 [Riv (DM)]: Just simplify it. 02:58:48.974 --> 02:58:50.374 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, totally, that's fine. 02:58:52.275 --> 02:58:59.799 [Riv (DM)]: I'll just drag you all onto here, and then... That should be... who are we missing? 02:58:59.980 --> 02:59:00.640 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 02:59:03.550 --> 02:59:03.910 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:59:07.132 --> 02:59:09.214 [Riv (DM)]: So you can all roll the initiative, I'll do it with Nonda. 02:59:10.454 --> 02:59:14.057 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we get advantage for initiative with, um, Erendor's dagger thingy? 02:59:14.077 --> 02:59:15.918 [Lacer (Kai)]: Should do, right? 02:59:18.660 --> 02:59:18.940 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:59:20.061 --> 02:59:21.662 [Riv (DM)]: Or is it only if you are under surprise? 02:59:22.720 --> 02:59:23.440 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's only for him. 02:59:23.881 --> 02:59:24.981 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can never be surprised. 02:59:25.021 --> 02:59:25.982 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, it applies to all of us. 02:59:26.422 --> 02:59:26.902 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, we can't. 02:59:26.942 --> 02:59:28.143 [JC (Ryo)]: No, he gets the advantage. 02:59:28.183 --> 02:59:29.383 [JC (Ryo)]: We just can't get surprised. 02:59:29.403 --> 02:59:30.864 [JC (Ryo)]: He can't get surprised. 02:59:31.104 --> 02:59:35.526 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, it's new, if you saw what I linked in the thing. 02:59:35.546 --> 02:59:38.207 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The 2024 rules gave it a significant buff. 02:59:42.229 --> 02:59:43.970 [Vael (Berberis)]: It was an advantage I should rule in, couldn't it? 02:59:45.191 --> 02:59:45.411 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 02:59:48.052 --> 02:59:49.533 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, everyone has advantage on initiative. 02:59:50.630 --> 02:59:53.071 [Riv (DM)]: Everyone in the party, not just on surprise rounds. 02:59:55.493 --> 02:59:57.554 [Vael (Berberis)]: How do I re-roll with advantage? 02:59:57.614 --> 02:59:59.115 [Vael (Berberis)]: I guess I just roll a d20 and work it out. 02:59:59.135 --> 02:59:59.295 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:00:01.416 --> 03:00:02.217 [Vael (Berberis)]: I just rolled a d20. 03:00:03.177 --> 03:00:03.778 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, um... 03:00:04.638 --> 03:00:05.338 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm sorry, 28? 03:00:05.419 --> 03:00:10.762 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, dude, you are insane. 03:00:11.202 --> 03:00:14.644 [JC (Ryo)]: I've just cut off my sheet twice to roll initiative and I won't do it again. 03:00:17.045 --> 03:00:17.405 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, shit. 03:00:17.966 --> 03:00:20.087 [Riv (DM)]: If you just roll another d20, we'll take the highest. 03:00:21.717 --> 03:00:21.837 [Riv (DM)]: 23. 03:00:21.857 --> 03:00:24.018 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, we got, did we get an initial 20? 03:00:24.498 --> 03:00:25.039 [Riv (DM)]: Sheesh. 03:00:25.639 --> 03:00:26.059 [Riv (DM)]: Very nice. 03:00:26.779 --> 03:00:28.180 [Riv (DM)]: I'll um, I'll update your initials for you. 03:00:29.781 --> 03:00:32.042 [JC (Ryo)]: I have a plus 11 if I'm reading my sheet right? 03:00:33.142 --> 03:00:33.303 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:00:33.723 --> 03:00:34.523 [JC (Ryo)]: So... 03:00:35.464 --> 03:00:36.404 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you should be 23. 03:00:36.424 --> 03:00:39.285 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, and I rolled a 1 on the first one, shit. 03:00:39.525 --> 03:00:40.226 [JC (Ryo)]: So yeah, take the 8. 03:00:40.266 --> 03:00:40.386 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 03:00:40.406 --> 03:00:41.807 [Lacer (Kai)]: 8 and 11 is 19. 03:00:41.827 --> 03:00:43.267 [JC (Ryo)]: 19 for real, yep. 03:00:46.781 --> 03:00:48.882 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, perfecto, that's everyone I think. 03:00:48.942 --> 03:00:52.004 [Riv (DM)]: So, um, top of the round, Erendil gets to go first. 03:00:56.826 --> 03:01:00.808 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh, I'm going to innate spell casting Longstrider on myself. 03:01:03.490 --> 03:01:03.710 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:01:04.990 --> 03:01:05.371 [Riv (DM)]: Excellent. 03:01:07.492 --> 03:01:08.592 [Riv (DM)]: That is your action, yep. 03:01:09.313 --> 03:01:09.573 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:01:11.234 --> 03:01:11.634 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And... 03:01:13.830 --> 03:01:22.058 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The Direction- I'm basically just going to try and have a look at- That's 10 minutes of 600 rounds of combat. 03:01:22.438 --> 03:01:23.499 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh yes, oh I know. 03:01:29.325 --> 03:01:30.266 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's gonna be a late night. 03:01:34.329 --> 03:01:36.972 [JC (Ryo)]: You'll be the only one that can outrun it too with your bonus action dash. 03:01:38.284 --> 03:01:38.784 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Potentially. 03:01:41.645 --> 03:01:46.567 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Main thing I want to do at the moment is just take stock of where everyone in the party is. 03:01:47.247 --> 03:01:57.631 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I want to just know exactly where everyone is so that when it's coming in for a direction I can call out to whoever is that way as I see it come back or head in that direction. 03:01:59.531 --> 03:02:07.194 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so with the idea being that you want to make a run for it and then you can keep an eye out and sort of direct them? 03:02:08.509 --> 03:02:11.632 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It's more than anything, I just want to give someone warning if it's heading towards them. 03:02:11.812 --> 03:02:12.073 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:02:12.653 --> 03:02:13.054 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 03:02:13.274 --> 03:02:21.281 [Riv (DM)]: I think you're all probably pretty closely clustered up when you would have seen the danger, you would have gathered together in the sky and then all come down and landed so that Kai could pop out the fog cloud. 03:02:21.321 --> 03:02:24.004 [Riv (DM)]: So, let's say you're all within five to ten feet of each other. 03:02:24.024 --> 03:02:31.530 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:02:31.550 --> 03:02:34.313 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is that Kiri? 03:02:35.575 --> 03:02:36.356 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Sorry, no, that's me. 03:02:36.596 --> 03:02:39.058 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, just me dying a little bit. 03:02:42.561 --> 03:02:44.382 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep, okay, no further action at this point. 03:02:45.724 --> 03:02:45.984 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, cool. 03:02:46.004 --> 03:02:47.225 [Lacer (Kai)]: You're gonna hide or something? 03:02:48.166 --> 03:02:48.886 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hide in the fog. 03:02:51.748 --> 03:02:53.370 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet, okay, no further action. 03:02:53.650 --> 03:02:55.071 [Riv (DM)]: That will then go to Berberos. 03:02:57.073 --> 03:03:02.717 [Vael (Berberis)]: I know it failed last time, and I'm probably throwing it at a strong creature, but it's too good not to cast. 03:03:02.758 --> 03:03:04.179 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm gonna slap another earthbind into it. 03:03:10.402 --> 03:03:18.028 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, he rolled a six. 03:03:19.650 --> 03:03:22.372 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, I want you to describe the magical effects. 03:03:23.772 --> 03:03:25.094 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, yellow sounds boring. 03:03:25.194 --> 03:03:26.615 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's going to be big green vines. 03:03:27.737 --> 03:03:29.919 [Vael (Berberis)]: Wrap around it and start dragging it down. 03:03:30.660 --> 03:03:38.549 [Riv (DM)]: Bursting up out of the dirt, like thick gnarly dark brown roots, like leaves sort of falling off it as it comes up. 03:03:39.070 --> 03:03:40.411 [Riv (DM)]: Grip onto each talon. 03:03:41.092 --> 03:03:54.883 [Riv (DM)]: And it sort of like screeches with surprise as it's currently focused on flapping its wings to try and blow the fog cloud away as these two big roots and vines just come pouring up out of the ground, grabs its ankles and just immediately start tugging it down to the ground. 03:03:55.603 --> 03:03:59.947 [Riv (DM)]: Its flying speed goes to zero and so it descends very very quickly. 03:03:59.987 --> 03:04:05.111 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably a couple hundred feet up in the sky so it is 60 feet per round. 03:04:05.791 --> 03:04:08.613 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah so give it a couple rounds and it'll be on the ground. 03:04:10.054 --> 03:04:10.335 [Vael (Berberis)]: Also 03:04:11.734 --> 03:04:16.180 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a 03:04:30.623 --> 03:04:33.565 [Vael (Berberis)]: Griffin just tearing us apart because we're all melee characters. 03:04:34.406 --> 03:04:34.526 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:04:34.566 --> 03:04:36.248 [Vael (Berberis)]: And was just like, we need fucking with mine. 03:04:36.268 --> 03:04:37.669 [Vael (Berberis)]: So I always have it just in case. 03:04:38.189 --> 03:04:40.671 [JC (Ryo)]: I guess the real question is, is it within 300 feet? 03:04:40.711 --> 03:04:42.733 [JC (Ryo)]: Otherwise you can't hit, you can't use the spell. 03:04:42.933 --> 03:04:48.197 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, yeah, well it Yeah, nah, we Yeah, we, um, checked before. 03:04:49.058 --> 03:04:51.820 [Riv (DM)]: I actually, it's not in, I think it's in the player's handbook. 03:04:52.340 --> 03:04:54.202 [Riv (DM)]: Is this like a spell from Tush's or something like that? 03:04:55.083 --> 03:04:55.263 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um... 03:04:56.043 --> 03:04:58.524 [Vael (Berberis)]: I thought Earthbind has been around for a long time. 03:04:58.864 --> 03:05:02.345 [Riv (DM)]: Oh it's in Xanathars, which is fine, we use Xanathars. 03:05:02.865 --> 03:05:07.986 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah it's in like, it seems like it's in things like Elemental Evils, Players, Companion. 03:05:09.006 --> 03:05:10.207 [Riv (DM)]: It's in a couple of module books. 03:05:11.007 --> 03:05:13.407 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah it's funny, it's not in the actual 2024. 03:05:13.668 --> 03:05:17.429 [Riv (DM)]: But all good, it's in Xanathars, so let's look specifically what it says. 03:05:17.949 --> 03:05:19.089 [Riv (DM)]: Concentration 1 minute. 03:05:21.064 --> 03:05:25.888 [Riv (DM)]: Loops of creature, saving throw or its speed is reduced to zero for the spell's duration, which is one minute. 03:05:26.268 --> 03:05:27.570 [Riv (DM)]: Everyone creature descends. 03:05:27.590 --> 03:05:28.590 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, no save. 03:05:28.851 --> 03:05:30.992 [Riv (DM)]: So for one minute, it's just going to get tugged to the ground. 03:05:31.012 --> 03:05:35.516 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think it's just because they're usually strong, so your stable sucks, Bill. 03:05:35.977 --> 03:05:36.637 [Riv (DM)]: Exactly, yeah. 03:05:36.737 --> 03:05:40.901 [Riv (DM)]: And because it's only really useful in few situations, let's actually not make it useless. 03:05:40.941 --> 03:05:49.268 [Riv (DM)]: So in shock and surprise, you can see it's now starting to beat its wings, not to try and blow the fog away, but to try and save itself as it is getting tugged to the ground. 03:05:50.959 --> 03:05:51.639 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, fantastic. 03:05:51.679 --> 03:05:54.320 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's worth noting that its flying speed is reduced. 03:05:54.540 --> 03:05:57.280 [Vael (Berberis)]: It can still move on the ground with its normal walking speed. 03:05:57.520 --> 03:06:06.402 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah So that's my action with my I'm assuming I'm close enough to reach, uh, Arroyo? 03:06:06.422 --> 03:06:09.083 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, yeah, easily, easily. 03:06:10.263 --> 03:06:14.524 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um, I will just, uh, yeah it's not concentration either. 03:06:14.544 --> 03:06:17.645 [Vael (Berberis)]: And my last second level spell, actually, 03:06:20.188 --> 03:06:35.555 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm going to burn a third level, because I have third levels, and I'll step over towards Royo, and I'm just going to reach out with one finger and just lightly touch his bow and burn a third level magic weapon, and turn his bow into a plus two weapon. 03:06:36.255 --> 03:06:37.195 [Vael (Berberis)]: You beat me to it. 03:06:37.456 --> 03:06:37.836 [Vael (Berberis)]: Amazing. 03:06:39.757 --> 03:06:40.657 [Riv (DM)]: Your ranger spells a level 10? 03:06:42.607 --> 03:06:42.727 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm? 03:06:43.167 --> 03:06:44.468 [Riv (DM)]: Is it a new ranger spell at level 10? 03:06:45.608 --> 03:06:48.009 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um, it's a spell slot. 03:06:48.069 --> 03:06:49.229 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's only a second level spell. 03:06:49.249 --> 03:06:49.889 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's only a second. 03:06:49.909 --> 03:06:50.710 [Vael (Berberis)]: I've had it for ages. 03:06:50.770 --> 03:06:51.590 [Vael (Berberis)]: I've just never used it. 03:06:52.110 --> 03:06:52.510 [Riv (DM)]: Very nice. 03:06:52.930 --> 03:06:53.150 [Riv (DM)]: Right. 03:06:54.871 --> 03:06:57.031 [Vael (Berberis)]: So yeah, I'm just burning it at third level. 03:06:57.612 --> 03:06:57.852 [Vael (Berberis)]: Cool. 03:07:00.312 --> 03:07:00.633 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, nice. 03:07:00.653 --> 03:07:01.713 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so plus two at level three. 03:07:03.513 --> 03:07:05.854 [Vael (Berberis)]: So turn his bow into a plus two bow. 03:07:06.654 --> 03:07:07.235 [Riv (DM)]: Fantastic. 03:07:07.355 --> 03:07:08.355 [Vael (Berberis)]: For one hour. 03:07:09.925 --> 03:07:10.305 [Vael (Berberis)]: Alright. 03:07:10.465 --> 03:07:13.846 [Vael (Berberis)]: And little green vine will just wrap up around his bow, with a little flower on it. 03:07:14.826 --> 03:07:15.106 [Vael (Berberis)]: Awesome. 03:07:15.767 --> 03:07:16.887 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, any movement? 03:07:17.607 --> 03:07:26.309 [Vael (Berberis)]: Or are we... Just moving as far away from the bird as I can, so that it cannot run me down and break the concentration. 03:07:27.190 --> 03:07:31.851 [Riv (DM)]: I think because it had swooped right down beside you guys, I'd say it's probably only about 30 feet away. 03:07:32.691 --> 03:07:33.131 [Riv (DM)]: That's alright. 03:07:33.211 --> 03:07:38.572 [Vael (Berberis)]: I have 40-figure movement now, so however far away it is, the max I can get with my 40-figure movement. 03:07:38.872 --> 03:07:39.232 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 03:07:39.252 --> 03:07:42.093 [Riv (DM)]: So you're actually running away from it? 03:07:42.313 --> 03:07:48.674 [Vael (Berberis)]: Not running, but getting as far away as I can so that it can't charge me to break the concentration on the... Yeah, cool. 03:07:48.915 --> 03:07:49.415 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty, sweet. 03:07:49.435 --> 03:07:49.995 [Riv (DM)]: We go to Kai. 03:07:51.855 --> 03:07:58.157 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna starryform Archer and fire a... What's it called? 03:07:58.537 --> 03:08:00.037 [Lacer (Kai)]: A starrybolt at him. 03:08:01.120 --> 03:08:01.300 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 03:08:01.881 --> 03:08:02.641 [Riv (DM)]: And 19 will hurt. 03:08:05.483 --> 03:08:06.123 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okieoke. 03:08:07.424 --> 03:08:09.806 [Riv (DM)]: Got to take the damage off for Ryo's bow shot before. 03:08:13.068 --> 03:08:13.749 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, that sucked. 03:08:14.709 --> 03:08:15.790 [JC (Ryo)]: Only one damage, not two. 03:08:18.232 --> 03:08:18.412 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:08:19.413 --> 03:08:21.374 [Riv (DM)]: Um, Starry Form. 03:08:21.694 --> 03:08:23.275 [Riv (DM)]: Oh right, so yeah, so you're going to your Starry Form. 03:08:23.415 --> 03:08:24.656 [Riv (DM)]: Which one, which form are you going to? 03:08:24.716 --> 03:08:25.577 [Riv (DM)]: Is this the dragon one? 03:08:26.361 --> 03:08:27.182 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, the Archer form. 03:08:27.302 --> 03:08:27.682 [Lacer (Kai)]: Archer. 03:08:27.742 --> 03:08:28.183 [Riv (DM)]: Very nice. 03:08:28.223 --> 03:08:28.603 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, cool. 03:08:28.683 --> 03:08:31.265 [Riv (DM)]: And so that gives you a free, um, damage rolls. 03:08:31.285 --> 03:08:31.546 [Riv (DM)]: Free. 03:08:31.906 --> 03:08:33.127 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, damage roll. 03:08:33.607 --> 03:08:36.690 [Lacer (Kai)]: Then I'm gonna yell out, do we want to fight this here? 03:08:36.710 --> 03:08:41.995 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can give protection if I take a minute to cast the Tiny Hut again with a spell slot. 03:08:42.655 --> 03:08:43.736 [Lacer (Kai)]: And we can actually fight it. 03:08:47.439 --> 03:08:48.220 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does anyone yell out? 03:08:53.262 --> 03:08:54.282 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're not outrunning it. 03:08:54.762 --> 03:08:57.003 [Vael (Berberis)]: We've got 600 rounds of combat, we're fighting it. 03:08:57.703 --> 03:08:59.143 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'm gonna use a third of the time. 03:08:59.163 --> 03:09:00.103 [Lacer (Kai)]: We gotta kill it or scare it. 03:09:01.524 --> 03:09:11.666 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where I am, I'm gonna cancel my, what's it called, Fog Cloud, dispel my Fog Cloud, and I'm gonna start casting my Tiny Hut. 03:09:13.246 --> 03:09:16.307 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, I think it's a one minute, huh? 03:09:16.327 --> 03:09:17.407 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, run one minute casts. 03:09:17.427 --> 03:09:18.967 [Lacer (Kai)]: I need 60 seconds to cast it. 03:09:19.007 --> 03:09:20.748 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna run 30 feet. 03:09:22.048 --> 03:09:32.028 [Riv (DM)]: away from the bird and try and cast tiny hunt okay yeah no no problem so you can kneel down start casting it so that's going to be uh 10 rounds 03:09:32.882 --> 03:09:33.082 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:09:34.102 --> 03:09:37.923 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, the next is the bird. 03:09:38.903 --> 03:09:41.424 [Riv (DM)]: And so it is being dragged down to the ground. 03:09:41.864 --> 03:09:50.186 [Riv (DM)]: I think because it was only sort of 30 or so feet up and it gets dragged down 60 feet per round, it will just immediately get dragged down onto the ground on its turn. 03:09:51.286 --> 03:09:57.207 [Riv (DM)]: Frustrated, it almost tries to hop up and flap again to get back into the air, but again the vines just tug it straight back down to the ground. 03:09:57.627 --> 03:09:59.147 [Riv (DM)]: For the next minute, it's not flying. 03:09:59.768 --> 03:10:01.568 [Riv (DM)]: So it's like screaming in frustration. 03:10:02.268 --> 03:10:09.835 [Riv (DM)]: And it will just start running towards you because even though you know the vines are still sort of attached to its legs it seems like it's only stopping it from going up into the air. 03:10:09.855 --> 03:10:14.379 [Riv (DM)]: So it starts running towards you and you see it's not actually that fast on the ground. 03:10:15.280 --> 03:10:20.245 [Riv (DM)]: It probably makes it about 20 feet towards you is about the speed that it's running at. 03:10:21.766 --> 03:10:28.112 [Riv (DM)]: And I guess it will dash again to double its movement speed so it will go 20 feet and then 20 feet again and that will be all of its action. 03:10:29.202 --> 03:10:36.907 [Riv (DM)]: So I think for those of you who had like backed up, you're well out of its range still, even though it's slowly starting to make its way towards you. 03:10:37.387 --> 03:10:38.928 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so then I think we go back to Ryo's turn. 03:10:39.889 --> 03:10:41.330 [JC (Ryo)]: Sweet, how far from Ed to me? 03:10:42.511 --> 03:10:43.651 [JC (Ryo)]: Broad away from me. 03:10:44.572 --> 03:10:48.635 [Riv (DM)]: After a move 40 feet, I would say it's probably very very close, within like maybe 10-15 feet. 03:10:52.100 --> 03:10:53.201 [JC (Ryo)]: Ah, shit, I thought I had a bit more. 03:10:54.341 --> 03:11:01.104 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say, yeah, I think it landed on the ground, like, somewhere between 30 and 60 feet, so bang it somewhere in the middle there. 03:11:07.747 --> 03:11:10.368 [JC (Ryo)]: Just reading something real quick. 03:11:19.610 --> 03:11:23.133 [JC (Ryo)]: So only everyone's backed up except for me and Dondarr, yes? 03:11:24.474 --> 03:11:24.774 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes. 03:11:30.699 --> 03:11:37.225 [Riv (DM)]: And just want to point out, you saw it move, it's very slow, so in theory you could all start running and you would make a lot of ground. 03:11:39.287 --> 03:11:43.370 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah except someone's trying to cast a hut, he's not going to be able to move if he stays casting it. 03:11:43.731 --> 03:11:45.272 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 03:11:49.766 --> 03:11:50.706 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, I fuck it. 03:11:50.866 --> 03:11:55.128 [JC (Ryo)]: I back up my four fifty-five feet because it's first turn of combat. 03:11:55.148 --> 03:11:57.289 [JC (Ryo)]: I get the extra ten movement. 03:11:59.929 --> 03:12:05.091 [JC (Ryo)]: I reach for my bow and then think and I drop this instead. 03:12:11.933 --> 03:12:17.875 [JC (Ryo)]: And it says I can leave a path back pretty much. 03:12:18.276 --> 03:12:18.956 [Riv (DM)]: Hmmm. 03:12:22.338 --> 03:12:23.759 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so you're going to do Overgrowth? 03:12:24.560 --> 03:12:47.958 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm going to do Overgrowth, drop it so the 55 feet I run back, if I'm the first person between me and the monster, which I'll probably actually be further back than Kai and Berberis right now, basically from the front of where Kai is, I'm assuming he's the closest, to the monster, I'm going to drop it so the 100 foot ends at Kai's feet. 03:12:48.322 --> 03:12:52.226 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep 03:13:07.747 --> 03:13:25.351 [Riv (DM)]: Fantastic, so yeah you can immediately see now this um very frustrated bird trying to run along the ground towards you um now more vines starting to pop up and it is slowed right down it is it is moving at a crawl now fantastic and so and you run further as well you run over to where Kai is? 03:13:26.451 --> 03:13:27.471 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah I'll run behind Kai. 03:13:27.731 --> 03:13:28.571 [Vael (Berberis)]: Cool, alright. 03:13:28.611 --> 03:13:36.453 [Vael (Berberis)]: I just want to note for people that I have locked it down for one minute it is 10 minutes to the forest 03:13:38.067 --> 03:13:41.109 [Vael (Berberis)]: That means for nine minutes it is going to be airborne and tearing us apart. 03:13:41.530 --> 03:13:43.551 [Vael (Berberis)]: I do not believe we are running from this thing. 03:13:46.053 --> 03:13:48.815 [JC (Ryo)]: I did that to buy us some more time so we can get into this damn hut. 03:13:51.717 --> 03:13:51.897 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 03:13:51.917 --> 03:13:57.842 [JC (Ryo)]: Because now it's going to take him, instead of moving 40 feet, he'll have to move, he'll only be able to move like 10. 03:13:57.922 --> 03:14:00.784 [Vael (Berberis)]: The hut is going to take 10 rounds of combat, I believe. 03:14:03.626 --> 03:14:05.667 [Vael (Berberis)]: So, just be aware of the numbers. 03:14:06.967 --> 03:14:09.141 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, plant growth doesn't do damage, it's not spy growth. 03:14:13.078 --> 03:14:16.819 [Unmatched Speaker]: I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 03:14:42.953 --> 03:14:43.993 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Though that's not a guarantee. 03:14:45.974 --> 03:14:49.075 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: For some reason I expect he would do that after attacking. 03:14:49.595 --> 03:14:55.777 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I always think he's going to fireball, airburst fireball something or, so he doesn't burn the vines away or whatever. 03:14:55.797 --> 03:14:59.278 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh he says he's going to polymorph it to a mouse. 03:14:59.538 --> 03:15:01.599 [Lacer (Kai)]: He's going to try and polymorph the thing. 03:15:02.319 --> 03:15:04.440 [Riv (DM)]: Where did he say that, did he type it in the chat? 03:15:05.320 --> 03:15:05.541 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:15:05.901 --> 03:15:06.482 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, our chat. 03:15:07.043 --> 03:15:09.407 [Riv (DM)]: In our... Oh, in your Facebook chat. 03:15:09.508 --> 03:15:11.070 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Your old invited chat, yes. 03:15:12.453 --> 03:15:14.116 [JC (Ryo)]: Type it in game, man, so that way Riff sees it. 03:15:15.750 --> 03:15:17.531 [Riv (DM)]: Polymorph fourth level spell. 03:15:18.291 --> 03:15:19.012 [Riv (DM)]: Does he have Polymorph? 03:15:19.292 --> 03:15:19.772 [Riv (DM)]: He does. 03:15:20.032 --> 03:15:21.833 [Riv (DM)]: He's got all of his spell slots. 03:15:21.853 --> 03:15:23.674 [Riv (DM)]: He's got two fifth level spell slots. 03:15:23.694 --> 03:15:24.114 [Riv (DM)]: He is. 03:15:24.194 --> 03:15:25.395 [Riv (DM)]: He's locked and loaded this boy. 03:15:25.415 --> 03:15:27.355 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, here is how it works. 03:15:27.395 --> 03:15:31.517 [Riv (DM)]: You attempt to transform a creature you can see within range into a beast. 03:15:32.138 --> 03:15:33.919 [Riv (DM)]: You must make a wisdom saving throw. 03:15:33.979 --> 03:15:37.400 [Riv (DM)]: Is there a restriction on the type of creature you can polymorph? 03:15:39.201 --> 03:15:39.321 [Riv (DM)]: No. 03:15:39.441 --> 03:15:40.582 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't look like it. 03:15:42.202 --> 03:15:42.482 [Riv (DM)]: Good. 03:15:45.439 --> 03:15:47.661 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, I think it can't be like a construct or something. 03:15:48.661 --> 03:15:53.685 [Riv (DM)]: It doesn't look like there's a restriction, it's just any creature and a construct counts as a creature, so I think it works. 03:15:54.045 --> 03:15:54.805 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so... 03:15:54.885 --> 03:15:57.547 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It transforms a creature with at least one hit point, you can see. 03:15:57.647 --> 03:15:58.848 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, anyone you can see. 03:15:59.068 --> 03:16:01.009 [Riv (DM)]: So, and it's a beast, and what did he say? 03:16:01.029 --> 03:16:02.190 [Riv (DM)]: Did he say a toad or something? 03:16:02.731 --> 03:16:03.151 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: A mouse. 03:16:03.551 --> 03:16:04.052 [Riv (DM)]: A mouse. 03:16:04.152 --> 03:16:04.772 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 03:16:07.628 --> 03:16:09.789 [Riv (DM)]: The stats are replaced by the stats of the beast. 03:16:10.369 --> 03:16:12.330 [Riv (DM)]: It remains its alignment, personality and creature type. 03:16:12.851 --> 03:16:13.831 [Riv (DM)]: Hit points and hit die. 03:16:13.951 --> 03:16:14.391 [Riv (DM)]: Interesting. 03:16:14.872 --> 03:16:16.553 [Riv (DM)]: It also enhances the speed. 03:16:17.173 --> 03:16:18.974 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:16:19.954 --> 03:16:22.195 [Riv (DM)]: It actually may not be good. 03:16:22.516 --> 03:16:25.297 [Riv (DM)]: It gains temporary hit points equal to the hit points of the beast form. 03:16:25.377 --> 03:16:28.659 [Riv (DM)]: These temporary hit points vanish when the spell ends. 03:16:28.999 --> 03:16:30.760 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yes, but it's concentration up to an hour. 03:16:32.861 --> 03:16:33.221 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah. 03:16:34.032 --> 03:16:35.413 [Riv (DM)]: The Svelte ends if it has no temporary points. 03:16:35.653 --> 03:16:36.654 [Riv (DM)]: Wow, that's actually interesting. 03:16:36.954 --> 03:16:38.916 [Riv (DM)]: They've changed how Polymorph works. 03:16:39.276 --> 03:16:41.858 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's a bit different. 03:16:41.918 --> 03:16:49.164 [Riv (DM)]: I think it actually probably makes more sense this way because like now you're transforming, you get those temp HP on top of your normal HP and if those disappear, you revert back. 03:16:49.224 --> 03:16:50.025 [Riv (DM)]: I think it's probably better. 03:16:50.045 --> 03:16:51.186 [Lacer (Kai)]: Same as Wild Shape now. 03:16:51.246 --> 03:16:52.967 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's how Wild Shape works now as well. 03:16:53.027 --> 03:17:00.273 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's more clear because what the damage does when it goes over the zero health boundary, it kind of doesn't become a thing anymore. 03:17:00.673 --> 03:17:01.494 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, fantastic. 03:17:02.014 --> 03:17:03.895 [Riv (DM)]: So, I want one of you guys to roll it. 03:17:03.915 --> 03:17:09.818 [Riv (DM)]: I've given you all access to Dondarr's character sheet, so I want you to cast the spell and I'll get the good dude to do the saving throw. 03:17:10.899 --> 03:17:12.500 [JC (Ryo)]: He's logged into Forge, let him do it. 03:17:13.260 --> 03:17:14.461 [JC (Ryo)]: Right here, he's in Forge. 03:17:14.581 --> 03:17:14.901 [Riv (DM)]: Oh nice. 03:17:15.002 --> 03:17:17.443 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah Kiwi, if you want him in, cast the, click the Polymorph spell. 03:17:18.744 --> 03:17:21.105 [Lacer (Kai)]: He's gonna be like, where do I click again? 03:17:22.606 --> 03:17:23.346 [Unmatched Speaker]: I hate Forge. 03:17:23.847 --> 03:17:24.887 [Unmatched Speaker]: Where are all my buttons? 03:17:25.047 --> 03:17:27.109 [Unmatched Speaker]: Oh, we tease. 03:17:39.289 --> 03:17:39.669 [Riv (DM)]: Standing by? 03:17:39.689 --> 03:17:46.555 [Vael (Berberis)]: He probably doesn't know where to find the character suit. 03:17:46.836 --> 03:17:48.237 [Vael (Berberis)]: It depends if you don't paste it on mobile. 03:17:50.278 --> 03:17:51.039 [Riv (DM)]: One of you guys just grab it. 03:17:52.220 --> 03:17:54.222 [Riv (DM)]: You should see if there's something available to you. 03:17:55.429 --> 03:17:57.270 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm just trying to find it in this list. 03:17:58.090 --> 03:18:00.031 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It's fourth level, you can just search for it. 03:18:00.051 --> 03:18:00.431 [Riv (DM)]: He's done it. 03:18:00.451 --> 03:18:00.851 [Riv (DM)]: He's done it. 03:18:00.971 --> 03:18:01.931 [Riv (DM)]: He's done it. 03:18:01.951 --> 03:18:02.912 [Riv (DM)]: There we go, alright. 03:18:03.732 --> 03:18:04.252 [Riv (DM)]: Fantastic. 03:18:06.993 --> 03:18:08.194 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, here it is. 03:18:08.314 --> 03:18:08.854 [Riv (DM)]: I'm going to click it. 03:18:08.914 --> 03:18:09.434 [Riv (DM)]: DC 16. 03:18:09.554 --> 03:18:15.857 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just checking if he's got any like magical resistance or anything like that. 03:18:15.877 --> 03:18:19.538 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just trying to think if a bird would have high perception and high wisdom. 03:18:21.110 --> 03:18:27.419 [Riv (DM)]: It's got very, very high perception, but not necessarily related to wisdom. 03:18:27.980 --> 03:18:28.821 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, here we go. 03:18:32.140 --> 03:18:33.221 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, and look at that. 03:18:33.682 --> 03:18:34.463 [Riv (DM)]: Wow. 03:18:34.643 --> 03:18:35.664 [Riv (DM)]: A terrible roll. 03:18:35.684 --> 03:18:37.426 [Riv (DM)]: He's got a plus zero to his wisdom. 03:18:38.147 --> 03:18:41.810 [Riv (DM)]: So, the bird turns into a mouse. 03:18:42.351 --> 03:18:50.600 [Riv (DM)]: And you don't even see it because it is just hidden amongst the vines and growth of roots that are starting to pour up out of the ground from the plant growth. 03:18:51.205 --> 03:18:54.207 [Riv (DM)]: And that change is for an hour, is it? 03:18:54.527 --> 03:18:54.707 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:18:55.167 --> 03:18:56.208 [Lacer (Kai)]: Until he takes damage. 03:18:56.829 --> 03:18:59.370 [Lacer (Kai)]: Unless the Roc gets real smart and starts damaging himself. 03:18:59.390 --> 03:18:59.630 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:18:59.650 --> 03:18:59.870 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:18:59.890 --> 03:19:00.111 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:00.131 --> 03:19:00.371 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:00.391 --> 03:19:00.611 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:00.631 --> 03:19:00.851 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:00.871 --> 03:19:01.231 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:01.251 --> 03:19:01.471 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:01.491 --> 03:19:01.712 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:01.732 --> 03:19:02.012 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:02.032 --> 03:19:02.452 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:02.472 --> 03:19:02.692 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:02.712 --> 03:19:03.493 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:03.513 --> 03:19:03.733 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:03.753 --> 03:19:03.973 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:03.993 --> 03:19:04.213 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:04.233 --> 03:19:04.613 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:04.653 --> 03:19:05.374 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:05.394 --> 03:19:05.874 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:05.934 --> 03:19:06.254 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:06.274 --> 03:19:06.635 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:06.655 --> 03:19:07.395 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:07.415 --> 03:19:07.735 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:07.755 --> 03:19:07.975 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:07.995 --> 03:19:08.396 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:08.416 --> 03:19:10.517 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:10.537 --> 03:19:10.977 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:10.997 --> 03:19:11.237 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:11.297 --> 03:19:11.618 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:11.838 --> 03:19:12.078 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:12.098 --> 03:19:12.318 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:12.338 --> 03:19:12.638 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:12.758 --> 03:19:13.039 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:13.059 --> 03:19:13.519 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:13.539 --> 03:19:13.919 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:13.939 --> 03:19:14.219 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:14.239 --> 03:19:14.519 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:14.539 --> 03:19:14.760 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:14.780 --> 03:19:15.080 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:15.120 --> 03:19:15.380 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:15.420 --> 03:19:15.680 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:15.700 --> 03:19:16.541 [Riv (DM)]: It's crazy. 03:19:16.561 --> 03:19:16.781 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:16.821 --> 03:19:17.081 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:17.101 --> 03:19:17.341 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:17.361 --> 03:19:17.581 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:17.601 --> 03:19:17.982 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:18.002 --> 03:19:18.222 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's crazy. 03:19:21.375 --> 03:19:22.636 [JC (Ryo)]: What, you want to put it in the Bag of Holding? 03:19:22.936 --> 03:19:24.557 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. 03:19:24.597 --> 03:19:27.158 [Lacer (Kai)]: Put it in a bottle, in a Bag of Holding, or something? 03:19:27.318 --> 03:19:27.538 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 03:19:27.799 --> 03:19:29.479 [JC (Ryo)]: It'll die in ten minutes, there's no air in there. 03:19:30.020 --> 03:19:30.260 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:19:30.720 --> 03:19:33.642 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, it'll die in less than ten minutes, because it'll start taking damage. 03:19:35.763 --> 03:19:36.123 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mm-hmm. 03:19:36.283 --> 03:19:38.364 [Vael (Berberis)]: Actually, no, you probably don't take damage until you run out of air. 03:19:40.385 --> 03:19:44.067 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, no, if we attack the mouse, it is no longer a mouse, it becomes a giant fucking bird again. 03:19:44.508 --> 03:19:45.568 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, that's why I said catch it. 03:19:45.588 --> 03:19:46.769 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mine doesn't do any damage. 03:19:48.127 --> 03:19:56.931 [Vael (Berberis)]: It doesn't have a mouse stat block, it just is a giant fucking bird with bird stat block with a mouse model. 03:19:57.011 --> 03:19:58.632 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So, uh, let's run? 03:20:02.474 --> 03:20:03.675 [Lacer (Kai)]: Should we run or should we catch it? 03:20:04.578 --> 03:20:08.882 [Vael (Berberis)]: I believe we should make space for one hour and avoid touching it in any way, shape, or form. 03:20:09.322 --> 03:20:10.523 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, let's just go. 03:20:11.424 --> 03:20:20.051 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Worst case, some other random bird attacks it, or a cat-like thing attacks it, and gets a surprise. 03:20:21.232 --> 03:20:24.855 [Riv (DM)]: Well, so bear in mind as well, it's also still very trapped in the vines at the moment. 03:20:24.975 --> 03:20:32.461 [Riv (DM)]: I guess the mouse can make its way through it, but the mouse has probably got very small movement speed, so you've got a good couple of minutes to get way away from it anyway. 03:20:34.255 --> 03:20:35.156 [Lacer (Kai)]: I tell you what I'm going to do. 03:20:36.437 --> 03:20:38.078 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are we still in combat? 03:20:38.158 --> 03:20:41.681 [Riv (DM)]: If you're running, I think we can drop combat. 03:20:41.802 --> 03:20:50.289 [Riv (DM)]: Even if it does manage to get through the plant growth and somehow figures out which direction you've run, even though it's a mouse in the grass and can barely see, there's no way it's catching up to you. 03:20:50.369 --> 03:20:51.630 [Riv (DM)]: You can leave it behind in the dust. 03:20:52.791 --> 03:20:53.592 [Lacer (Kai)]: If you wanted to. 03:20:54.332 --> 03:20:56.815 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to click my finger and summon my bat. 03:20:58.243 --> 03:21:04.645 [Lacer (Kai)]: To go and try and grab the mouse and fly it as high as it can, all the way up, once it, like, thousands of feet. 03:21:04.685 --> 03:21:04.765 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:04.785 --> 03:21:04.865 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:04.885 --> 03:21:04.945 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:04.985 --> 03:21:05.045 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:05.065 --> 03:21:05.205 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:05.225 --> 03:21:05.285 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:05.325 --> 03:21:05.405 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:05.465 --> 03:21:05.525 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:05.545 --> 03:21:05.605 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:05.625 --> 03:21:05.765 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:05.785 --> 03:21:05.885 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:05.905 --> 03:21:05.965 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:06.065 --> 03:21:06.145 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:06.165 --> 03:21:06.225 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:06.245 --> 03:21:06.305 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:06.325 --> 03:21:06.385 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:06.405 --> 03:21:06.545 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:06.565 --> 03:21:06.625 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:06.645 --> 03:21:06.705 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:06.885 --> 03:21:07.005 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:07.025 --> 03:21:07.125 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:07.146 --> 03:21:07.226 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:07.246 --> 03:21:07.306 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:07.326 --> 03:21:07.386 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:07.426 --> 03:21:07.486 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:07.506 --> 03:21:07.566 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:07.586 --> 03:21:07.746 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:07.786 --> 03:21:07.866 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:08.646 --> 03:21:08.766 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:08.786 --> 03:21:08.886 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:08.906 --> 03:21:09.026 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:09.066 --> 03:21:09.246 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:09.286 --> 03:21:09.386 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:09.406 --> 03:21:09.506 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:09.526 --> 03:21:09.586 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:09.606 --> 03:21:09.666 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:09.706 --> 03:21:09.866 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:09.886 --> 03:21:09.966 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:09.986 --> 03:21:10.106 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:10.126 --> 03:21:10.286 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:10.306 --> 03:21:10.386 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:10.406 --> 03:21:10.546 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:10.586 --> 03:21:10.666 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:10.686 --> 03:21:10.787 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:10.807 --> 03:21:11.607 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:11.627 --> 03:21:11.687 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:11.707 --> 03:21:11.787 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:11.807 --> 03:21:11.887 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:11.947 --> 03:21:12.167 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:12.207 --> 03:21:12.267 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:12.307 --> 03:21:12.367 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:12.387 --> 03:21:12.447 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:12.467 --> 03:21:12.607 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:12.627 --> 03:21:12.707 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:12.727 --> 03:21:12.787 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:12.807 --> 03:21:12.867 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:12.887 --> 03:21:12.987 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:13.007 --> 03:21:13.167 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:13.187 --> 03:21:13.327 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:13.387 --> 03:21:13.467 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:13.507 --> 03:21:13.587 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:13.647 --> 03:21:13.707 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:13.787 --> 03:21:13.967 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:13.987 --> 03:21:17.068 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:17.108 --> 03:21:17.248 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:17.288 --> 03:21:17.388 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:17.408 --> 03:21:17.488 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:17.508 --> 03:21:17.608 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:17.628 --> 03:21:17.708 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:17.728 --> 03:21:17.808 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:17.828 --> 03:21:17.888 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:17.909 --> 03:21:18.089 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:18.129 --> 03:21:18.189 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:18.209 --> 03:21:18.269 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:18.289 --> 03:21:18.429 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:18.449 --> 03:21:18.549 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:18.589 --> 03:21:18.669 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:18.689 --> 03:21:18.809 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:18.829 --> 03:21:18.909 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:18.969 --> 03:21:19.129 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:19.149 --> 03:21:19.229 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:19.249 --> 03:21:19.369 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:19.389 --> 03:21:19.449 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:19.469 --> 03:21:19.529 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:19.589 --> 03:21:19.649 [JC (Ryo)]: No! 03:21:21.610 --> 03:21:21.690 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:21.730 --> 03:21:21.810 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:21.830 --> 03:21:21.910 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:21.930 --> 03:21:22.010 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:22.030 --> 03:21:22.150 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:22.170 --> 03:21:22.270 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:22.290 --> 03:21:22.390 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:22.430 --> 03:21:22.530 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:22.550 --> 03:21:22.670 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:22.690 --> 03:21:22.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: No! 03:21:24.393 --> 03:21:27.354 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, but it's still under... what's your one called? 03:21:27.374 --> 03:21:32.316 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's no reason to complicate it and break the polymorph on the... Just run? 03:21:32.396 --> 03:21:33.036 [Vael (Berberis)]: Just go. 03:21:34.657 --> 03:21:40.059 [Riv (DM)]: Kai summons his bat and the rest of you have this heated conversation as you're running. 03:21:40.879 --> 03:21:41.599 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, we're leaving. 03:21:41.739 --> 03:21:43.320 [Vael (Berberis)]: It is no longer a bird, we are out of there. 03:21:44.060 --> 03:21:45.401 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, what are you doing with your bat, Kai? 03:21:47.121 --> 03:21:48.922 [Lacer (Kai)]: They don't want me to go and grab it and... 03:21:49.665 --> 03:21:50.165 [Lacer (Kai)]: Airdrop it. 03:21:50.246 --> 03:21:52.607 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wanted to airdrop it, but... Yeah. 03:21:52.667 --> 03:21:55.209 [JC (Ryo)]: Break Polymorph and then it gets its big movement flying speed back. 03:21:55.229 --> 03:21:55.890 [Lacer (Kai)]: But, but no, it's... 03:21:55.990 --> 03:21:59.833 [Lacer (Kai)]: Break Polymorph when it hits the ground after flying a thousand feet in the sky. 03:21:59.853 --> 03:22:01.714 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's gonna take tons of damage. 03:22:01.734 --> 03:22:05.917 [JC (Ryo)]: And it will only take the damage to the Polymorph, not... Yeah, no, it rolls over. 03:22:06.137 --> 03:22:06.798 [Lacer (Kai)]: It rolls over. 03:22:06.818 --> 03:22:13.363 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because it's only temporary hit points. 03:22:13.443 --> 03:22:17.906 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anything over, it gets rolled over to the... to its regular hit points. 03:22:17.926 --> 03:22:19.347 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Excess damage carries over to its normal form. 03:22:19.960 --> 03:22:20.160 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:22:21.601 --> 03:22:22.401 [Lacer (Kai)]: And we've got an hour. 03:22:22.582 --> 03:22:27.164 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can get the bat to fly like half an hour up into the sky and then drop it. 03:22:27.184 --> 03:22:27.805 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Let's just go. 03:22:28.005 --> 03:22:30.486 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Or let's just go and not fucking think of it again. 03:22:31.047 --> 03:22:31.207 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:22:31.347 --> 03:22:33.708 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna get the bat to fly it into the sky. 03:22:33.928 --> 03:22:36.490 [Lacer (Kai)]: To try and find it, grab it and fly it into the sky. 03:22:37.010 --> 03:22:37.190 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 03:22:37.210 --> 03:22:39.972 [Lacer (Kai)]: To grapple it and fly it into the sky for half an hour and then drop it. 03:22:40.032 --> 03:22:41.233 [Riv (DM)]: How does the, how does the bat work? 03:22:41.293 --> 03:22:43.234 [Riv (DM)]: Is it a familiar or is it like... 03:22:43.714 --> 03:22:45.175 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's, it's familiar, yeah. 03:22:45.195 --> 03:22:47.897 [Riv (DM)]: So is it the sort of thing you can just give it an instruction in the air? 03:22:47.917 --> 03:22:48.277 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:22:48.677 --> 03:22:49.717 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, telekinetically. 03:22:50.537 --> 03:22:52.058 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll tell them to do that too. 03:22:52.098 --> 03:22:56.339 [Lacer (Kai)]: Find the bat, grapple it, and fly it half an hour into the sky before dropping it. 03:22:56.739 --> 03:23:00.579 [Riv (DM)]: And you do that, you tell it the instruction and then you guys all just start booking it? 03:23:01.300 --> 03:23:02.120 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then we book it, yeah. 03:23:02.140 --> 03:23:02.900 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 03:23:03.020 --> 03:23:03.540 [Riv (DM)]: You start running. 03:23:04.100 --> 03:23:06.921 [Riv (DM)]: And behind you can see the little bat just flies over. 03:23:06.941 --> 03:23:09.241 [Riv (DM)]: It spends a little bit of time trying to find the mouse. 03:23:09.261 --> 03:23:10.161 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, what did you say? 03:23:10.181 --> 03:23:11.942 [Riv (DM)]: I told it not to damage it, just to grapple it. 03:23:12.582 --> 03:23:13.662 [Vael (Berberis)]: The bat has two strength. 03:23:14.680 --> 03:23:18.203 [Vael (Berberis)]: And not really grappling setups, but you can try. 03:23:19.083 --> 03:23:19.704 [Vael (Berberis)]: You can try. 03:23:20.644 --> 03:23:28.650 [Riv (DM)]: You see over the shoulder as you look back, you know, takes a minute or so, the bat's like kind of struggling to find the mouse, but eventually it actually does spot it. 03:23:29.070 --> 03:23:33.113 [Riv (DM)]: And you see the bat swoop down to the grass, and there's a little bit of a struggle on the ground. 03:23:35.454 --> 03:23:37.315 [Riv (DM)]: Let me roll a quick strength check. 03:23:38.456 --> 03:23:38.696 [Riv (DM)]: Bat. 03:23:39.937 --> 03:23:40.298 [Riv (DM)]: Not great. 03:23:41.478 --> 03:23:43.840 [Riv (DM)]: Mouse is also not great, but mouse has got terrible strength, so. 03:23:44.979 --> 03:23:45.219 [Unmatched Speaker]: Okay. 03:23:46.760 --> 03:23:59.125 [Riv (DM)]: A couple of minutes go by as you're running and you look back, the bat starts to ascend and you can see something wriggling in the paws of the, um, of the bat. 03:24:01.005 --> 03:24:03.306 [Vael (Berberis)]: The mouse is trying to escape every six seconds. 03:24:03.987 --> 03:24:04.587 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:24:05.327 --> 03:24:05.867 [Riv (DM)]: That's true. 03:24:05.907 --> 03:24:09.809 [Riv (DM)]: The mouse is trying to break free and the mouse is also biting the bat. 03:24:10.989 --> 03:24:12.770 [Riv (DM)]: So I'm going to roll an attack roll. 03:24:14.814 --> 03:24:16.795 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, actually, you guys probably don't know what's happening. 03:24:17.496 --> 03:24:18.377 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know what's happening. 03:24:18.877 --> 03:24:21.719 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, I am just double-dashing with Longstrider. 03:24:22.159 --> 03:24:23.060 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm just, I'm going. 03:24:23.080 --> 03:24:23.540 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're all running. 03:24:23.680 --> 03:24:24.321 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're all running. 03:24:28.904 --> 03:24:30.806 [Lacer (Kai)]: If my bat takes one HP, it dies. 03:24:30.966 --> 03:24:34.889 [Vael (Berberis)]: I, I have... 22 passive nature. 03:24:35.169 --> 03:24:36.930 [Vael (Berberis)]: I know exactly what's fucking happening. 03:24:38.791 --> 03:24:39.612 [Vael (Berberis)]: And I am running. 03:24:41.108 --> 03:24:44.630 [Riv (DM)]: Mouse finally rolls in a hit. 03:24:45.210 --> 03:24:46.310 [Riv (DM)]: Rolled a natural 18. 03:24:47.751 --> 03:24:48.491 [Riv (DM)]: I'm gonna roll... 03:24:50.212 --> 03:24:52.153 [Riv (DM)]: This damage dice is probably a d4 for a bite. 03:24:52.233 --> 03:24:57.415 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, what's what's my armor class for my bat? 03:24:59.596 --> 03:25:02.478 [Riv (DM)]: And your bat has probably got like a couple of health or something, right? 03:25:02.658 --> 03:25:03.898 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably got one, one. 03:25:04.079 --> 03:25:06.039 [Riv (DM)]: It's familiar, it's got one HP. 03:25:06.380 --> 03:25:07.220 [Riv (DM)]: One HP, okay. 03:25:09.651 --> 03:25:12.372 [Riv (DM)]: As you're running, you've kind of been running for maybe a few minutes now. 03:25:12.672 --> 03:25:14.253 [Riv (DM)]: I rolled a bunch of terrible rolls for the bat. 03:25:15.274 --> 03:25:17.595 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry for the mouse attacks. 03:25:17.935 --> 03:25:19.196 [Lacer (Kai)]: How high did it get to fly? 03:25:19.977 --> 03:25:28.242 [Riv (DM)]: So I rolled five rolls, they were all bad, and bat moves at fly speed 30. 03:25:29.262 --> 03:25:30.203 [Riv (DM)]: Half because it's grappling. 03:25:30.223 --> 03:25:33.585 [Riv (DM)]: Half because it's grappling, dashing, so 30 each round. 03:25:34.365 --> 03:25:36.126 [Riv (DM)]: So five times 30, 150 feet up. 03:25:38.064 --> 03:25:47.910 [Riv (DM)]: As when the light goes through and you see the bat disappear and a mouse is now falling out of the sky behind you. 03:25:48.991 --> 03:25:49.712 [JC (Ryo)]: Riv? 03:25:49.892 --> 03:25:50.072 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:25:51.753 --> 03:25:54.615 [JC (Ryo)]: Would it have even been able to get off the ground with Earthbind on it? 03:25:56.076 --> 03:25:58.157 [JC (Ryo)]: Earthbind was never dropped. 03:25:59.338 --> 03:26:03.100 [Riv (DM)]: Earthbind stops it from having a flying speed and it's, the mouse isn't flying. 03:26:04.569 --> 03:26:04.789 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:26:05.630 --> 03:26:05.890 [Vael (Berberis)]: Shit. 03:26:05.990 --> 03:26:08.052 [Vael (Berberis)]: The bind was on the mouse, not on the bat. 03:26:08.592 --> 03:26:08.833 [Vael (Berberis)]: Which... 03:26:09.894 --> 03:26:10.174 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:26:10.934 --> 03:26:23.405 [Riv (DM)]: Um, so... Let me roll some damage dice, because the... 150 feet, it is... D6 for every 10 feet, so 15 D6. 03:26:23.705 --> 03:26:26.047 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I'm not gonna roll those all manually, so I'll just roll them here. 03:26:26.067 --> 03:26:28.149 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, 15 D6. 03:26:34.775 --> 03:26:43.359 [Riv (DM)]: The mouse takes 39 damage, and immediately... As we see it start falling, a mage hand slaps Kai. 03:26:44.500 --> 03:26:46.521 [Lacer (Kai)]: You don't see this, what are you talking about? 03:26:48.182 --> 03:26:52.664 [Unmatched Speaker]: Whoa, no, I mean, you probably would have been able to see it, like, struggling behind you if you were looking, but... 03:26:54.528 --> 03:26:58.469 [Riv (DM)]: The mouse hits the ground and the rock immediately changes back. 03:26:58.929 --> 03:27:01.470 [Riv (DM)]: You've probably got about three or four minutes ahead of you of running. 03:27:02.190 --> 03:27:03.851 [Lacer (Kai)]: But is Earthbind still on it? 03:27:04.551 --> 03:27:07.712 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's not... Has it been ten minutes? 03:27:07.732 --> 03:27:08.693 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is Earthbind ten minutes? 03:27:08.973 --> 03:27:11.393 [Lacer (Kai)]: Did it happen to fall back in the middle of the plate, Boris? 03:27:11.413 --> 03:27:12.934 [Riv (DM)]: Earthbind is a minute, right? 03:27:13.234 --> 03:27:13.554 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:27:13.594 --> 03:27:13.874 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:27:14.714 --> 03:27:15.735 [Riv (DM)]: So unfortunately not. 03:27:16.315 --> 03:27:17.535 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 03:27:17.555 --> 03:27:17.775 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:27:18.336 --> 03:27:21.176 [Riv (DM)]: I'm gonna roll a perception check for the rock to see if it figured out... 03:27:21.196 --> 03:27:21.857 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does it fall prone? 03:27:21.917 --> 03:27:22.617 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does it fall prone? 03:27:23.432 --> 03:27:47.253 [Riv (DM)]: Absolutely yeah um it's got a plus eight kind of struggles to see where you're going so you get to run for another few rounds you look back over your shoulder it's like dusting itself off i need to take off its damage as well um okay you can see it's like you know shaking out one of its wings it's clearly been injured a little bit from that fall but it 03:27:48.047 --> 03:27:51.248 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't look too bad, it's a massive bird and it only fell a little bit. 03:27:53.509 --> 03:27:54.249 [Riv (DM)]: So you keep on running. 03:27:54.269 --> 03:27:56.149 [Vael (Berberis)]: Probably takes more damage than that when it dives on a prey. 03:27:56.790 --> 03:27:56.950 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:27:58.310 --> 03:28:12.054 [Riv (DM)]: You look back and eventually it's going to clock where you are as it sort of takes off up into the air and now immediately, yeah, easy peasy this time, 14 plus 8, spots you and it is now soaring towards you. 03:28:13.895 --> 03:28:14.235 [Riv (DM)]: What do you do? 03:28:16.383 --> 03:28:17.503 [Lacer (Kai)]: How far is it from us? 03:28:18.264 --> 03:28:21.104 [Lacer (Kai)]: We were running for, weren't we running for a couple of minutes? 03:28:21.144 --> 03:28:22.605 [Riv (DM)]: You were running for a good few minutes, yeah. 03:28:23.885 --> 03:28:27.366 [Riv (DM)]: It moves at 120 feet per round, dashing, so 240. 03:28:29.086 --> 03:28:29.567 [Riv (DM)]: Gonna be tight. 03:28:33.268 --> 03:28:34.728 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um, I'm... 03:28:35.547 --> 03:28:44.595 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm going to use my high nature skill and go, animals don't like fire, and turn and yell to Dondar, Dondar, fireball. 03:28:44.615 --> 03:28:48.578 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 03:28:51.400 --> 03:28:53.962 [Riv (DM)]: This will require Dondar to stop or around. 03:28:54.203 --> 03:28:57.525 [Riv (DM)]: He won't be able to dash, so he will be slower. 03:28:58.746 --> 03:29:00.848 [Riv (DM)]: I'll stand with him. 03:29:01.008 --> 03:29:02.510 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I guess. 03:29:04.736 --> 03:29:05.676 [Riv (DM)]: I will... 03:29:05.736 --> 03:29:12.859 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got a free long cast, I've got a free long strider as well, so I'll touch Dondarr on the head to give him a little bit more movement speed. 03:29:13.259 --> 03:29:13.679 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, good. 03:29:14.380 --> 03:29:21.822 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just hoping that there's enough shock going into the creature to clear it off. 03:29:21.882 --> 03:29:24.844 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:29:24.864 --> 03:29:27.444 [Riv (DM)]: Kiwi, if you can hear, do you want to chuck a fireball? 03:29:28.065 --> 03:29:29.205 [Riv (DM)]: We know you want to chuck a fireball. 03:29:29.845 --> 03:29:34.067 [Riv (DM)]: And also tell us what level you want to cast that as well, maybe you can upcast it to do more damage. 03:29:39.357 --> 03:29:43.078 [Riv (DM)]: He does seem like he's in chat, like in Discord chat, so he can probably hear us. 03:29:44.919 --> 03:29:47.020 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yes, hit it, hit it, scare it. 03:29:47.100 --> 03:29:47.420 [Vael (Berberis)]: Hit it. 03:29:48.620 --> 03:29:50.001 [Vael (Berberis)]: Big blast of fire right in his face. 03:29:56.443 --> 03:29:58.524 [Vael (Berberis)]: The grabbing and the mousing is probably confusing. 03:29:58.864 --> 03:30:00.245 [Vael (Berberis)]: Fire is something it knows. 03:30:09.968 --> 03:30:12.810 [Riv (DM)]: Alright Kiwi, what spell, what level are you going to cast at? 03:30:12.990 --> 03:30:14.532 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, fourth level. 03:30:14.872 --> 03:30:15.512 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, hang on. 03:30:16.813 --> 03:30:21.677 [Riv (DM)]: Before you roll it, let me just type something in the chat. 03:30:27.101 --> 03:30:27.662 [Riv (DM)]: How do I do this? 03:30:29.323 --> 03:30:30.464 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, they've changed what these buttons do. 03:30:32.385 --> 03:30:34.127 [Riv (DM)]: Here we go. 03:30:34.167 --> 03:30:34.427 [Riv (DM)]: What was it? 03:30:34.447 --> 03:30:35.808 [Riv (DM)]: Here we go. 03:30:39.719 --> 03:30:42.062 [Riv (DM)]: None of you should be able to see that, eh? 03:30:42.082 --> 03:30:44.064 [Riv (DM)]: Can't see anything. 03:30:44.204 --> 03:30:44.685 [Riv (DM)]: No vision. 03:30:44.925 --> 03:30:45.105 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 03:30:45.285 --> 03:30:45.866 [Riv (DM)]: No, all good. 03:30:45.886 --> 03:30:46.206 [Riv (DM)]: Perfect. 03:30:46.887 --> 03:30:48.349 [Riv (DM)]: Um, cast your, cast your damage. 03:30:49.810 --> 03:30:51.792 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can we even cast that far? 03:30:51.872 --> 03:30:52.213 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we're 03:30:54.739 --> 03:30:55.699 [Riv (DM)]: So it would start flying. 03:30:55.799 --> 03:30:57.480 [Riv (DM)]: It's going to start flying towards you, right? 03:30:57.820 --> 03:31:00.441 [Riv (DM)]: And so eventually once it gets in range, I think Donda can stop. 03:31:01.141 --> 03:31:03.202 [Lacer (Kai)]: 150 foot, that's pretty good. 03:31:03.502 --> 03:31:03.662 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:31:04.082 --> 03:31:04.642 [Lacer (Kai)]: Got a big range. 03:31:04.662 --> 03:31:09.284 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because we were double dashing for a couple of minutes, we were like at least how many meters? 03:31:09.705 --> 03:31:11.205 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's like 60 meters around. 03:31:11.505 --> 03:31:13.686 [Vael (Berberis)]: This thing moves incredibly fast in the area. 03:31:13.766 --> 03:31:15.687 [Vael (Berberis)]: This thing's four times faster than us. 03:31:19.342 --> 03:31:19.962 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. 03:31:20.002 --> 03:31:20.822 [Riv (DM)]: Roll the damage there, Kiwi. 03:31:22.003 --> 03:31:29.204 [Riv (DM)]: I'll do a saving throw for it. 03:31:29.224 --> 03:31:30.824 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh, it failed its saving throw. 03:31:32.425 --> 03:31:33.185 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 03:31:34.025 --> 03:31:35.885 [Riv (DM)]: So I'm going to reveal a message. 03:31:36.626 --> 03:31:37.226 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, sorry, let me... 03:31:37.246 --> 03:31:39.646 [Riv (DM)]: There we go, reveal that. 03:31:40.766 --> 03:31:41.567 [Riv (DM)]: Failed its saving throw. 03:31:41.627 --> 03:31:42.967 [Riv (DM)]: So the full 32 damage 03:31:46.740 --> 03:31:49.301 [Riv (DM)]: Berberus, give yourself a heroic inspiration. 03:31:50.901 --> 03:31:53.342 [Vael (Berberis)]: I already have it because I'm human and I never fucking use it. 03:31:53.562 --> 03:31:54.662 [Riv (DM)]: Aw, what? 03:31:55.502 --> 03:31:57.603 [Vael (Berberis)]: I walk around with an inspiration in my pocket. 03:31:57.783 --> 03:31:58.363 [Vael (Berberis)]: I just forget. 03:31:58.903 --> 03:32:01.543 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, okay, well you... Do I get two? 03:32:01.703 --> 03:32:08.305 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think we let them stack, but you would, you do feel very clever and inspired, so if you have a look in the chat, I'm going to reveal a message to you. 03:32:09.947 --> 03:32:14.672 [Riv (DM)]: This was the amount of damage that you needed to deal in one round to scare it off. 03:32:15.393 --> 03:32:17.355 [Riv (DM)]: So if you just scroll up you can see there's a 50. 03:32:18.416 --> 03:32:20.978 [Riv (DM)]: I typed it before the damage came through so you know I wasn't fudging anything. 03:32:21.599 --> 03:32:27.725 [Riv (DM)]: However, because it's rate of fire, fire damage counts as double. 03:32:28.786 --> 03:32:31.108 [Riv (DM)]: So with the 32 that actually equates to 60. 03:32:33.296 --> 03:32:36.940 [Riv (DM)]: It's not actually 60 damage, but you know, like for fire damage you only need to do 25. 03:32:37.580 --> 03:32:51.754 [Riv (DM)]: So with a pierced eye, with an arrow still sticking out of it, with its traumatic experience being transformed into a mouse, and finally with a fireball exploding directly on its face, singeing its other eye, 03:32:53.096 --> 03:33:05.787 [Riv (DM)]: This rock decides that this meal is starting to become a bit too difficult and it's kind of flying at you and it just starts to swerve away and flap off in the other direction, screeching. 03:33:06.148 --> 03:33:10.852 [Riv (DM)]: It looks back, it's like one eye is kind of like glaring at you, if a bird could glare. 03:33:11.652 --> 03:33:14.515 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll stick two more arrows into it as it turns its head. 03:33:14.815 --> 03:33:15.896 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm aiming for the other eye. 03:33:16.176 --> 03:33:16.817 [Riv (DM)]: Shoot, shoot. 03:33:18.939 --> 03:33:19.940 [JC (Ryo)]: Can I get the other eye? 03:33:31.671 --> 03:33:33.453 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I think you get it. 03:33:33.513 --> 03:33:34.715 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, nice. 03:33:35.015 --> 03:33:35.736 [JC (Ryo)]: Either of those hit? 03:33:36.277 --> 03:33:37.198 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, they both hit. 03:33:38.860 --> 03:33:39.981 [Lacer (Kai)]: You're going for his eye, right? 03:33:40.421 --> 03:33:41.182 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm going for his eye. 03:33:46.810 --> 03:33:47.732 [Lacer (Kai)]: What does the Roc do? 03:33:47.752 --> 03:34:03.172 [Riv (DM)]: It is um well yeah so it's it's turned and flown I think um I think in this case I'm gonna say that it just like heavily damaged and did some additional damage to it on top of what it normally would do 03:34:03.782 --> 03:34:09.005 [Riv (DM)]: There aren't like rules saying that you can shoot someone in the eye but make them permanently blind because it's like... 03:34:09.045 --> 03:34:11.086 [Riv (DM)]: Into a bogged down mess if you start playing. 03:34:11.106 --> 03:34:24.453 [Riv (DM)]: Exactly, that starts being really really difficult mechanically so I think one eye is cool and I gave you the effect for the bonus to the perception check or whatever but I don't think you can just like blind a creature by shooting him twice in the eye because that makes combat kind of tricky. 03:34:25.074 --> 03:34:25.794 [Riv (DM)]: So these are... 03:34:25.814 --> 03:34:26.354 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hold on! 03:34:26.454 --> 03:34:28.916 [Lacer (Kai)]: You hit the same eye twice Ryo. 03:34:28.996 --> 03:34:31.917 [Unmatched Speaker]: Every round I shoot one arrow at every target's eye. 03:34:32.077 --> 03:34:32.397 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:34:32.417 --> 03:34:32.958 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay JC. 03:34:33.698 --> 03:34:35.419 [Lacer (Kai)]: If you can do it to creatures, they can do it to you. 03:34:35.439 --> 03:34:36.319 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's gonna be happening to you. 03:34:36.399 --> 03:34:39.260 [Unmatched Speaker]: I know, that's why I'm laughing my head off, because... 03:34:39.920 --> 03:34:41.761 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's got two arrows in the same eye. 03:34:41.821 --> 03:34:49.884 [Riv (DM)]: Huge amount of damage, and you do, you pepper it as it starts to fly away, it screeches, it looks back at you in frustration and maybe with a little bit of like, 03:34:51.488 --> 03:34:53.289 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe a little bit of revenge in that screech. 03:34:53.549 --> 03:34:53.909 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 03:34:55.629 --> 03:34:57.250 [Riv (DM)]: Or not revenge, what's the word? 03:34:57.450 --> 03:34:59.991 [Riv (DM)]: Like a, I'll be back for you, or something. 03:35:00.311 --> 03:35:03.252 [Riv (DM)]: Like, keep your, anyway. 03:35:03.532 --> 03:35:07.313 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you successfully brighten away the rock. 03:35:07.713 --> 03:35:14.355 [Riv (DM)]: And you are able to continue running until you get to this big black shrouded wall. 03:35:16.116 --> 03:35:18.337 [Riv (DM)]: And do you, what do you do when you get there? 03:35:18.437 --> 03:35:19.337 [Riv (DM)]: Do you push on through? 03:35:23.398 --> 03:35:25.120 [JC (Ryo)]: It's definitely not tailing us anymore, is it? 03:35:25.981 --> 03:35:27.422 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, it's flying away. 03:35:30.105 --> 03:35:30.645 [Riv (DM)]: Goodbye, Roc. 03:35:32.587 --> 03:35:35.690 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, we can... We don't have to charge in. 03:35:35.710 --> 03:35:37.933 [JC (Ryo)]: We can go in at a normal pace, I guess. 03:35:37.953 --> 03:35:40.115 [JC (Ryo)]: I suppose. 03:35:53.833 --> 03:35:56.534 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just going to say, nice fireball, Dondarr. 03:36:06.097 --> 03:36:07.558 [Vael (Berberis)]: So grand everyone, take stock. 03:36:08.698 --> 03:36:10.279 [Vael (Berberis)]: We didn't burn too much there. 03:36:10.299 --> 03:36:13.219 [Vael (Berberis)]: A little bit, a little bit. 03:36:14.240 --> 03:36:14.860 [Lacer (Kai)]: But what do you expect? 03:36:14.880 --> 03:36:16.641 [Lacer (Kai)]: That was a giant, a house-sized bird. 03:36:19.022 --> 03:36:21.425 [Vael (Berberis)]: Do we walk straight in or do we take a breather? 03:36:21.565 --> 03:36:22.747 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think we need a breather. 03:36:22.767 --> 03:36:24.148 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's not really going to help most people, is it? 03:36:25.470 --> 03:36:26.471 [Vael (Berberis)]: Nobody's a short rest class? 03:36:26.932 --> 03:36:28.433 [Vael (Berberis)]: No short rest spell class? 03:36:31.497 --> 03:36:32.638 [Lacer (Kai)]: Umm, not. 03:36:33.659 --> 03:36:37.224 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes and no, but I didn't burn anything that needs short rest. 03:36:41.580 --> 03:36:53.589 [Lacer (Kai)]: But what I will do is I'm going to re-summon my bat with my wild companion thing and let it rest on my head, on my cloak. 03:36:54.349 --> 03:36:57.271 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just going to say, what did we learn today? 03:37:00.273 --> 03:37:01.334 [Vael (Berberis)]: Big birds are scary. 03:37:02.215 --> 03:37:03.756 [Vael (Berberis)]: Leave well enough alone. 03:37:08.900 --> 03:37:12.923 [Vael (Berberis)]: Also, bats aren't great at carrying mice. 03:37:15.305 --> 03:37:17.166 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I realised that today. 03:37:17.186 --> 03:37:25.012 [Vael (Berberis)]: How long has it been, by the way? 03:37:25.032 --> 03:37:32.298 [Vael (Berberis)]: It was like a ten minute run from when we first hit the ground, wasn't it? 03:37:32.538 --> 03:37:34.839 [Vael (Berberis)]: We were flying for quite a while. 03:37:34.859 --> 03:37:36.921 [JC (Ryo)]: You were flying for a couple of hours, probably, yeah. 03:37:37.997 --> 03:37:39.038 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean from when we hit the ground. 03:37:39.778 --> 03:37:40.438 [Vael (Berberis)]: About 10 minutes. 03:37:40.899 --> 03:37:42.500 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, it's been about 10 minutes since we hit the ground. 03:37:43.360 --> 03:37:46.482 [Vael (Berberis)]: Royo still has 50 minutes of a plus-two bow. 03:37:48.503 --> 03:37:48.723 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh! 03:37:49.563 --> 03:37:50.424 [JC (Ryo)]: That's right. 03:37:50.924 --> 03:37:52.585 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, so that was a 30 and a 32. 03:37:53.826 --> 03:37:54.026 [JC (Ryo)]: Nice. 03:37:54.846 --> 03:37:56.267 [JC (Ryo)]: And then a 9 and a 12. 03:37:57.928 --> 03:38:01.010 [Vael (Berberis)]: Tap him on the shoulder and say, well, lead the way. 03:38:03.831 --> 03:38:04.932 [JC (Ryo)]: Your guess is as good as mine. 03:38:07.447 --> 03:38:13.508 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll go back to the map that someone sketched that doesn't really give us anything, any real direction does it? 03:38:15.169 --> 03:38:17.789 [JC (Ryo)]: That's just a bit of the city, yeah. 03:38:19.190 --> 03:38:21.810 [Vael (Berberis)]: This is a city, we've still got a lot of forest to get through yet I guess. 03:38:21.930 --> 03:38:22.230 [Vael (Berberis)]: Correct. 03:38:22.510 --> 03:38:22.690 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:38:22.910 --> 03:38:25.071 [Riv (DM)]: Well, you actually have got no idea right? 03:38:25.111 --> 03:38:27.871 [Riv (DM)]: You wouldn't even know how to find the city, in theory. 03:38:28.872 --> 03:38:32.312 [JC (Ryo)]: Did we happen to see the city before we got to the ground? 03:38:33.033 --> 03:38:34.913 [Riv (DM)]: It's fully enshrouded in darkness. 03:38:38.072 --> 03:38:40.233 [Riv (DM)]: Like the landscape here was just a black void. 03:38:42.733 --> 03:38:47.114 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, there's definitely one way to find and that's to get attention. 03:38:48.655 --> 03:38:49.855 [Vael (Berberis)]: If we haven't already been seen. 03:38:53.496 --> 03:39:01.238 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just wondering if that big bird was like a pet beast of these people that we're headed to. 03:39:01.258 --> 03:39:05.699 [JC (Ryo)]: Hopefully not, but it came from behind where we were, so. 03:39:07.495 --> 03:39:08.555 [Lacer (Kai)]: It could be part of the hunt. 03:39:08.595 --> 03:39:10.176 [Vael (Berberis)]: It could be on patrol, you know? 03:39:10.436 --> 03:39:10.936 [Vael (Berberis)]: We don't know. 03:39:11.716 --> 03:39:12.736 [Vael (Berberis)]: Now, here's a question. 03:39:13.396 --> 03:39:18.137 [Vael (Berberis)]: Do you just wander uninvited into Fae territory, or do you wait for an invite? 03:39:20.618 --> 03:39:21.538 [Vael (Berberis)]: But they're Fae. 03:39:21.718 --> 03:39:22.898 [Vael (Berberis)]: Fae are tricky, right? 03:39:25.719 --> 03:39:26.299 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, yeah. 03:39:26.639 --> 03:39:27.379 [Vael (Berberis)]: This is the Fae. 03:39:27.399 --> 03:39:28.599 [Vael (Berberis)]: This is the land of bullshit. 03:39:30.020 --> 03:39:31.680 [Vael (Berberis)]: I believe we went through this several sessions ago. 03:39:33.820 --> 03:39:36.601 [Vael (Berberis)]: And this is the dark, the dark forest. 03:39:37.873 --> 03:39:39.394 [Vael (Berberis)]: This is the most bullshit of the bullshit. 03:39:39.414 --> 03:39:40.936 [Vael (Berberis)]: This is where the bullshit begins. 03:39:42.837 --> 03:39:43.758 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right, what do we remember? 03:39:43.978 --> 03:39:51.245 [Lacer (Kai)]: We remember there was like the hunt that was a group of centaurs, wolves and stuff that patrol at high speed. 03:39:52.666 --> 03:40:00.893 [Lacer (Kai)]: So at this stage I'm gonna put my head to the ground and put my ear to like a rock and see if I can hear any tremors. 03:40:03.195 --> 03:40:05.497 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, and this is before we've passed through, yeah? 03:40:06.297 --> 03:40:09.840 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, this is just before the forest because sound travels through ground. 03:40:10.020 --> 03:40:12.182 [Lacer (Kai)]: I realize sound travels through ground really well. 03:40:13.683 --> 03:40:13.923 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:40:14.844 --> 03:40:15.464 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 03:40:15.805 --> 03:40:16.745 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a position check. 03:40:22.410 --> 03:40:22.630 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:40:22.850 --> 03:40:23.271 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, great. 03:40:23.291 --> 03:40:29.135 [Riv (DM)]: You put your ear down to the ground and find a nice bit of like feels kind of solid dirt or stone or something like that. 03:40:29.856 --> 03:40:30.276 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:40:30.677 --> 03:40:32.738 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, nice and dense. 03:40:34.019 --> 03:40:34.860 [Riv (DM)]: Wait for a few moments. 03:40:35.542 --> 03:40:36.602 [Riv (DM)]: Meh, you don't seem to hear anything. 03:40:39.123 --> 03:40:40.323 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, we're good for now. 03:40:41.724 --> 03:40:48.466 [Lacer (Kai)]: In the meantime, has anything appeared near us or taken notice or invited us? 03:40:48.986 --> 03:40:56.228 [Riv (DM)]: Behind you is the warmth of the shimmering peaks across the nice beautiful rolling plains with a few patches of trees behind you. 03:40:56.669 --> 03:41:03.251 [Riv (DM)]: Those shimmering peaks gleaming in the distance and ahead of you is just a black void you can't see through. 03:41:05.944 --> 03:41:10.287 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's a part of me that's like, we just set off a giant fucking flare in the sky. 03:41:10.307 --> 03:41:14.250 [Lacer (Kai)]: It was definitely loud. 03:41:14.990 --> 03:41:16.671 [Vael (Berberis)]: Something's gonna come and investigate. 03:41:16.691 --> 03:41:19.934 [Vael (Berberis)]: If there's anyone out here watching then they know we're here. 03:41:23.956 --> 03:41:25.277 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look at the black void. 03:41:25.518 --> 03:41:29.060 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we see any trees, like, of this dark forest? 03:41:29.640 --> 03:41:31.121 [Lacer (Kai)]: And if there are, what do they look like? 03:41:31.942 --> 03:41:33.303 [Riv (DM)]: You can't see through the void. 03:41:35.681 --> 03:41:36.562 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's a black void. 03:41:37.042 --> 03:41:37.863 [Lacer (Kai)]: Even with Darkvision? 03:41:38.323 --> 03:41:38.523 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:41:40.544 --> 03:41:48.570 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna use my Familiar's skill and use its, um, Blindsight for 60 feet. 03:41:49.450 --> 03:41:49.570 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:41:50.711 --> 03:41:57.096 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, I mean, the, so the, I guess the Familiar can detect the presence of, of things. 03:41:57.256 --> 03:41:59.517 [Riv (DM)]: Does it, like, does it give you the, it's a bat, right? 03:41:59.537 --> 03:42:01.298 [Riv (DM)]: So it can kind of, like, echolocate or something like that? 03:42:01.419 --> 03:42:02.539 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it's echolocate. 03:42:02.559 --> 03:42:03.420 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, like, Daredevil. 03:42:04.463 --> 03:42:07.824 [Riv (DM)]: You feel like you kind of sense the ground just carries on ahead of you. 03:42:07.864 --> 03:42:15.066 [Riv (DM)]: There's a big boulder sticking up out of the ground over there and you can feel the trees starting to get a bit more dense, maybe about 30 or 40 feet out. 03:42:15.086 --> 03:42:20.127 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it feels like the land carries on. 03:42:20.147 --> 03:42:21.907 [Riv (DM)]: There's just a wall between you and it. 03:42:23.508 --> 03:42:24.988 [Lacer (Kai)]: You know what's the cool thing about this? 03:42:25.948 --> 03:42:29.229 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it's just a bonus action and it just overlays over what I see. 03:42:29.369 --> 03:42:30.669 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't go blind or deaf. 03:42:32.150 --> 03:42:32.490 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, nice. 03:42:32.970 --> 03:42:33.850 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is that a new thing? 03:42:34.676 --> 03:42:34.996 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:42:35.316 --> 03:42:35.817 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 03:42:35.857 --> 03:42:36.977 [Vael (Berberis)]: So the, yeah. 03:42:38.898 --> 03:42:45.120 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm going to turn to the party, but mostly Ro and Erendor. 03:42:46.481 --> 03:42:49.362 [Vael (Berberis)]: So we'll need to make a decision about how we want to do this. 03:42:50.823 --> 03:42:58.646 [Vael (Berberis)]: We just wander in there gungho, or we, we're talking to people to try and find what we need. 03:43:01.427 --> 03:43:02.688 [Vael (Berberis)]: Now's the time to make that choice. 03:43:06.438 --> 03:43:07.239 [Vael (Berberis)]: Are we ambassadors? 03:43:07.259 --> 03:43:08.700 [Vael (Berberis)]: Are we adventurers? 03:43:08.720 --> 03:43:10.822 [Vael (Berberis)]: Or are we just here to stir shit? 03:43:11.842 --> 03:43:12.863 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or are we assassins? 03:43:12.943 --> 03:43:14.464 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are we going for an assassination? 03:43:23.251 --> 03:43:24.392 [Vael (Berberis)]: This is where we make the choice. 03:43:24.492 --> 03:43:26.814 [Vael (Berberis)]: Do we either announce ourselves or we walk in? 03:43:28.756 --> 03:43:29.696 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's a fair point. 03:43:32.619 --> 03:43:33.880 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I will turn. 03:43:37.143 --> 03:43:43.706 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: To Rio, and... We know what we want from them. 03:43:44.926 --> 03:43:47.467 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We know what we need from the lands they have. 03:43:51.249 --> 03:43:52.549 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What do they want? 03:43:57.351 --> 03:43:58.352 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What could they want? 03:44:11.629 --> 03:44:12.950 [JC (Ryo)]: Revenge, a way out. 03:44:17.694 --> 03:44:18.554 [JC (Ryo)]: Could be either, couldn't. 03:44:28.642 --> 03:44:31.824 [Lacer (Kai)]: We did hear the rumors that the queen didn't want to fight. 03:44:39.968 --> 03:44:44.430 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We need to go into this keeping our identities. 03:44:47.391 --> 03:44:47.891 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Unknown. 03:44:53.254 --> 03:44:54.474 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: As a third party. 03:44:57.996 --> 03:45:04.498 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Acting as an intermediary between the two courts. 03:45:08.480 --> 03:45:08.820 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Mm-hmm. 03:45:10.298 --> 03:45:14.059 [JC (Ryo)]: As we're having this discussion, I swap out from that blue robe and put my normal robe back on. 03:45:20.061 --> 03:45:20.661 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's a good point. 03:45:20.801 --> 03:45:27.482 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna doff my yellow robe that I got from the shop and put that in my bag. 03:45:32.864 --> 03:45:35.724 [Vael (Berberis)]: We should probably be also, we're having this conversation, but we're not shouting it. 03:45:35.744 --> 03:45:37.205 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're just kind of huffing. 03:45:39.102 --> 03:45:44.845 [Lacer (Kai)]: So should we announce that we're envoys of the Shining City? 03:45:44.865 --> 03:45:49.027 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can we seek parley or seek a treaty? 03:45:49.047 --> 03:45:49.468 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 03:45:50.708 --> 03:45:53.450 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Do we really wish to be calling it the Shining City? 03:45:55.491 --> 03:45:57.732 [Vael (Berberis)]: These guys are kind of pissed about being in the dark. 03:45:58.713 --> 03:46:01.814 [Vael (Berberis)]: But they choose to stay in the dark, which in itself raises questions. 03:46:03.915 --> 03:46:05.076 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's true. 03:46:06.333 --> 03:46:06.673 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 03:46:07.193 --> 03:46:08.914 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we walk with a white flag? 03:46:10.975 --> 03:46:11.695 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or something? 03:46:11.715 --> 03:46:12.835 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Simply wait at the border. 03:46:13.415 --> 03:46:18.277 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Like, if there's anyone in the region, they will have seen that. 03:46:22.819 --> 03:46:26.180 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If they've seen that, I have no doubt that word is going back. 03:46:29.113 --> 03:46:33.895 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, if we're gonna wait here, should I, just as a fail-safe, should I ritual cast the dome? 03:46:34.116 --> 03:46:34.956 [Lacer (Kai)]: It lasts eight hours. 03:46:34.976 --> 03:46:38.158 [Lacer (Kai)]: It doesn't hurt to have some sort of fallback point. 03:46:39.458 --> 03:46:40.059 [Lacer (Kai)]: Shut up, Cam. 03:46:40.999 --> 03:46:49.563 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'm gonna start, I'm gonna make a small campfire, and then try, can I make an, try and make an improvised torch to try and walk into the darkness, see if that does anything? 03:46:50.144 --> 03:46:51.745 [Lacer (Kai)]: You don't need to, I lend you my dagger. 03:46:54.606 --> 03:46:55.867 [Vael (Berberis)]: What's so special about a dagger? 03:46:57.304 --> 03:47:03.169 [Vael (Berberis)]: Walking into the darkness seems simple, but it could also be technically invasion, if we aren't invited. 03:47:03.189 --> 03:47:08.114 [JC (Ryo)]: I just want to see if we can see in the darkness at all, whether we walk back. 03:47:08.134 --> 03:47:09.835 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, up to the edge of the... 03:47:11.096 --> 03:47:14.119 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's a clearly defined line in the sand, the darkness. 03:47:15.080 --> 03:47:16.941 [Vael (Berberis)]: You don't define a line in the sand without a reason. 03:47:16.961 --> 03:47:19.624 [Vael (Berberis)]: At least my thinking, anyway. 03:47:20.164 --> 03:47:20.384 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:47:20.624 --> 03:47:22.606 [Vael (Berberis)]: In that case, no, I don't cross over into it, then. 03:47:23.107 --> 03:47:24.127 [Vael (Berberis)]: You don't cross into it? 03:47:25.638 --> 03:47:30.640 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can stand near it and pee. 03:47:32.220 --> 03:47:35.001 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Grab a stick and then draw a line on your side of the darkness. 03:47:36.021 --> 03:47:36.241 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:47:37.802 --> 03:47:50.946 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, Ryo, I show you as soon as I unsheath my dagger, it has continual flame cast on it, so it glows a bright light to 20 feet radius, and then dim light from additional 20 feet. 03:47:50.986 --> 03:47:54.087 [Lacer (Kai)]: So it's sorta like a torch, but it doesn't cast any heat. 03:47:59.233 --> 03:48:03.255 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I just figured holding a flaming stick would be less intimidating than holding a knife in the air. 03:48:03.275 --> 03:48:06.057 [JC (Ryo)]: I just figured holding holding a flaming stick would be less intimidating than holding a knife in the air. 03:48:06.077 --> 03:48:07.018 [Vael (Berberis)]: I come to you in peace with a burning knife. 03:48:07.038 --> 03:48:08.359 [Vael (Berberis)]: I come to you in peace with a burning knife. 03:48:08.379 --> 03:48:10.560 [JC (Ryo)]: No, I thought he was using it like a torch, but yeah, I sheathed it back. 03:48:10.580 --> 03:48:13.242 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I thought he was using it like a torch, but yeah, I sheathed it back. 03:48:13.262 --> 03:48:15.983 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I thought he was using it like a torch, but yeah, I sheathed it back. 03:48:16.003 --> 03:48:17.704 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, I thought he was using it like a torch, but yeah, I sheathed it back. 03:48:17.724 --> 03:48:25.349 [JC (Ryo)]: No, I thought he was using it like a torch, but yeah, I thought he was using it like a torch, but yeah, I thought he was using it like a torch, but yeah, I thought he was using it like a torch, but yeah, I thought he was using it like a torch, but yeah, I thought he 03:48:26.388 --> 03:48:27.489 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'll set up the dome. 03:48:27.689 --> 03:48:30.730 [Lacer (Kai)]: I spend ten minutes to ritual cast Learman's Tiny Hut. 03:48:33.031 --> 03:48:37.153 [Riv (DM)]: And, uh, sorry, were you, you were gonna look through with a torch? 03:48:39.434 --> 03:48:39.494 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 03:48:39.534 --> 03:48:40.895 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought he didn't want to look at all. 03:48:44.107 --> 03:48:44.387 [Vael (Berberis)]: No. 03:48:45.107 --> 03:48:46.528 [Vael (Berberis)]: Do not look through. 03:48:46.608 --> 03:48:51.489 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was thinking looking's probably okay, crossing would be my take on it. 03:48:52.049 --> 03:48:53.069 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's fine. 03:48:53.489 --> 03:49:07.512 [Lacer (Kai)]: Once the dome is up, I'm going to sit in doom, because I can't move anywhere, and I'm going to send my bat 100 feet out from the dome and do a circle around the place and see what I can see, since I can telekinetically see what it sees. 03:49:10.593 --> 03:49:11.513 [Riv (DM)]: You're gonna send it, like, through? 03:49:11.754 --> 03:49:12.274 [Riv (DM)]: Have a look around? 03:49:12.394 --> 03:49:13.916 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I'm gonna send it through, yeah. 03:49:14.276 --> 03:49:16.158 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:49:21.422 --> 03:49:22.743 [Riv (DM)]: The bat can pass straight through. 03:49:27.507 --> 03:49:29.629 [Riv (DM)]: And you're looking through its eyes at all point in time, right? 03:49:30.110 --> 03:49:30.270 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 03:49:30.290 --> 03:49:31.351 [Riv (DM)]: So you might kind of see it, yeah. 03:49:31.571 --> 03:49:32.151 [Riv (DM)]: You get to experience. 03:49:32.171 --> 03:49:32.332 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 03:49:33.052 --> 03:49:33.893 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:49:34.554 --> 03:49:36.195 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a d100 as it passes through. 03:49:38.157 --> 03:49:39.858 [Lacer (Kai)]: Why do I feel like this is a bad idea? 03:49:39.918 --> 03:49:49.686 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the bat passes through, nothing happens. 03:49:52.068 --> 03:49:58.834 [Riv (DM)]: On the other side, it is... Yeah, it is a different world. 03:50:02.439 --> 03:50:04.906 [Riv (DM)]: The current landscape just kind of continues. 03:50:05.508 --> 03:50:08.376 [Riv (DM)]: Except now everything is like a different hue, a different colour. 03:50:09.589 --> 03:50:10.689 [Riv (DM)]: Perpetual twilight here. 03:50:11.109 --> 03:50:14.310 [Riv (DM)]: You kind of look up and see the sky is dark. 03:50:14.670 --> 03:50:16.731 [Riv (DM)]: There are stars twinkling constantly. 03:50:17.931 --> 03:50:20.452 [Riv (DM)]: The trees start to look different. 03:50:21.592 --> 03:50:24.313 [Riv (DM)]: Silvery needly sort of trees. 03:50:24.333 --> 03:50:27.614 [Riv (DM)]: Like what sort of trees are happy to live forever in eternal darkness? 03:50:27.654 --> 03:50:29.274 [Riv (DM)]: They're different. 03:50:30.034 --> 03:50:31.895 [Riv (DM)]: Further in, like sort of more like a hundred feet or so is a 03:50:33.115 --> 03:50:38.981 [Riv (DM)]: Traveled across, you can see things start to become more mossy and kind of more ancient. 03:50:39.282 --> 03:50:49.312 [Riv (DM)]: You can see a bit of bioluminescence here and there, some mushrooms and vines with like glowing flowers dangling from them. 03:50:52.056 --> 03:50:56.537 [Riv (DM)]: It's not, it's not kind of like ominous and menacing in the same way that the Briar Shade was. 03:50:56.817 --> 03:51:04.600 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of like a beautiful darkness, um, and yeah, and then Ikeda View, the landscape just continues on. 03:51:04.640 --> 03:51:07.260 [Riv (DM)]: You can see there are some mountains far off to the west. 03:51:08.221 --> 03:51:16.503 [Riv (DM)]: Um, there's a, as you gain a little bit of altitude, you can see there's actually a little bit of a river flowing, pure black water, and 03:51:18.498 --> 03:51:29.408 [Riv (DM)]: One key feature that the bat sees is a beacon shining right afar in like miles in the distance. 03:51:29.428 --> 03:51:33.751 [Riv (DM)]: There appears to be a ginormous black orb floating in the sky. 03:51:36.647 --> 03:51:37.348 [Riv (DM)]: It looks like a moon! 03:51:37.748 --> 03:51:42.593 [Riv (DM)]: There's a moon, except imagine a moon that is in a perpetual eclipse. 03:51:43.274 --> 03:51:47.518 [Riv (DM)]: But you know how when you look at our moon during an eclipse you can see the glow of the sun behind it? 03:51:47.959 --> 03:51:50.441 [Riv (DM)]: Here's what this looks like, except it's glowing with white light. 03:51:50.902 --> 03:51:58.650 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I can actually... drag... Oh, I actually can't... One second... Can I drag you? 03:51:59.752 --> 03:52:00.112 [Lacer (Kai)]: Here we go. 03:52:00.192 --> 03:52:00.533 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 03:52:01.434 --> 03:52:10.782 [Lacer (Kai)]: Whoever's close to me, I am saying this, what I see, as the bat is flying. 03:52:11.823 --> 03:52:21.351 [Riv (DM)]: And there's a luminous silvery beam that is touching the ground and shooting straight up and connecting with this glowing moon in the sky. 03:52:21.371 --> 03:52:25.195 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's probably about what you see. 03:52:28.687 --> 03:52:37.970 [Riv (DM)]: As the bat passed through, the warmth of the shining peaks left you immediately and you entered a cold realm. 03:52:42.532 --> 03:52:43.772 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wow, so different. 03:52:44.152 --> 03:52:52.335 [Lacer (Kai)]: So once the bat has hit about a hundred feet from my thing and just beginning to lose that connection, I tell it to circle back. 03:52:54.337 --> 03:52:56.098 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, easy enough, it comes back. 03:52:56.299 --> 03:53:00.062 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you did see that there's no sign of civilization nearby. 03:53:03.265 --> 03:53:11.051 [Riv (DM)]: And also, as the bat is coming back, it also can't really see through the veil, the black shroud. 03:53:11.191 --> 03:53:11.912 [Riv (DM)]: It can't see out. 03:53:21.522 --> 03:53:25.025 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wow, okay, and I'll send it back and let it rest back on my head. 03:53:25.566 --> 03:53:25.666 [Unmatched Speaker]: Mhm. 03:53:29.530 --> 03:53:29.770 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 03:53:30.751 --> 03:53:32.973 [Riv (DM)]: Um, so what's the plan here? 03:53:34.594 --> 03:53:41.020 [Riv (DM)]: I think we probably wind down and end the session, but I'm just sort of thinking, what's the rough plan, given that description? 03:53:43.803 --> 03:53:45.685 [JC (Ryo)]: So the bat saw nothing on the other side at all. 03:53:47.350 --> 03:53:48.731 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, it saw all that stuff. 03:53:50.332 --> 03:53:52.213 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: From inside, it can't see out. 03:53:52.874 --> 03:53:59.978 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, when it was returning back to the barrier, it can't see through it until it passes through the dark barrier. 03:54:00.398 --> 03:54:04.581 [JC (Ryo)]: So even if someone was standing right on the other side of that barrier, they wouldn't have seen what just happened. 03:54:05.242 --> 03:54:05.402 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nope. 03:54:06.082 --> 03:54:06.222 Nope. 03:54:08.364 --> 03:54:08.864 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 03:54:12.077 --> 03:54:15.921 [Vael (Berberis)]: In that case, we can wander in and go boldly. 03:54:16.161 --> 03:54:19.124 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think trying to sneak is just saying, hey, we're being sneaky. 03:54:21.386 --> 03:54:22.447 [Vael (Berberis)]: Sneaky is untrustworthy. 03:54:22.947 --> 03:54:25.810 [Vael (Berberis)]: If we're going to go, we go bold if we're going to try and play that level. 03:54:27.253 --> 03:54:30.274 [JC (Ryo)]: We got an eight-hour dome of supposed safety. 03:54:30.314 --> 03:54:31.675 [JC (Ryo)]: Maybe we should long rest and then go? 03:54:31.935 --> 03:54:33.716 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, you want to rest up first? 03:54:34.216 --> 03:54:37.297 [Vael (Berberis)]: I would like to enter the Doom Forest, fully prepared. 03:54:39.318 --> 03:54:40.078 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hell yeah. 03:54:40.238 --> 03:54:42.819 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hey, it's not the Doom Forest, it's the Forest of Doom. 03:54:43.800 --> 03:54:45.140 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I want my level three slots back. 03:54:45.661 --> 03:54:47.041 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe they just really misunderstood, you know? 03:54:47.061 --> 03:54:48.902 [Riv (DM)]: Who knows? 03:54:48.942 --> 03:54:50.923 [Vael (Berberis)]: That is very possible, but they're fae. 03:54:52.788 --> 03:54:56.991 [Vael (Berberis)]: Misunderstood is the whole Causus Belli, the reason for being. 03:54:57.231 --> 03:54:57.391 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:54:57.531 --> 03:55:07.717 [Riv (DM)]: I guess there was a long history of grief and strife between the two courts here and a conflict not so long ago. 03:55:08.537 --> 03:55:10.558 [Riv (DM)]: I'll drag you all over into this picture now. 03:55:10.598 --> 03:55:16.342 [Riv (DM)]: So I imagine like after Kai had popped the bat back through, he could have mentioned like, oh, you know, it's fine. 03:55:16.422 --> 03:55:18.443 [Riv (DM)]: You can go and have a look if you wanted to. 03:55:18.543 --> 03:55:20.424 [Riv (DM)]: So what do you say? 03:55:20.444 --> 03:55:20.584 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:55:24.365 --> 03:55:25.145 [Riv (DM)]: Or something to that effect. 03:55:33.049 --> 03:55:35.130 [JC (Ryo)]: Into the Shadowlands, boys, there's Moonrise Towers. 03:55:39.733 --> 03:55:42.274 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's sorta like that, but it's a whole land. 03:55:45.695 --> 03:55:48.057 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so I guess like... 03:55:48.844 --> 03:55:54.713 [Riv (DM)]: You weren't necessarily sure how you would find the city once you get to the Vale, but now that you're here, well. 03:55:56.916 --> 03:55:57.136 [Riv (DM)]: Shining. 03:55:57.156 --> 03:55:57.817 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of obvious, right? 03:55:57.837 --> 03:56:00.721 [Riv (DM)]: There's a little bit of a beacon, maybe, to point us in a direction. 03:56:01.022 --> 03:56:03.125 [Riv (DM)]: Who knows if it's the right one, but yeah. 03:56:04.704 --> 03:56:05.244 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's a trap. 03:56:05.544 --> 03:56:05.985 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's a trap. 03:56:06.385 --> 03:56:08.125 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:56:08.885 --> 03:56:09.446 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. 03:56:09.906 --> 03:56:16.568 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, we can do our long rest and yeah, decide how we want to proceed from here. 03:56:16.828 --> 03:56:21.850 [Riv (DM)]: So it sounds like you guys are thinking more like want to do it as an envoy or something? 03:56:21.870 --> 03:56:22.250 [Riv (DM)]: Like what? 03:56:22.630 --> 03:56:24.151 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, like an envoy. 03:56:24.191 --> 03:56:25.791 [Riv (DM)]: How do you imagine that works? 03:56:25.811 --> 03:56:32.333 [Riv (DM)]: Do you walk up to the gate and just knock and be like, hey, we are... We don't even have paper, we don't even have paperwork. 03:56:32.614 --> 03:56:33.814 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's just all word of mouth. 03:56:36.145 --> 03:56:37.086 [Lacer (Kai)]: How are they going to believe this? 03:56:37.106 --> 03:56:39.729 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Who else would have the audacity to do this? 03:56:40.990 --> 03:56:46.735 [Vael (Berberis)]: And I mean, technically, we are an envoy from the royal family of the elves. 03:56:47.436 --> 03:56:47.837 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hmm. 03:56:48.277 --> 03:56:48.697 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well, yeah. 03:56:49.478 --> 03:56:49.999 [Vael (Berberis)]: Technically. 03:56:50.019 --> 03:56:52.021 [Vael (Berberis)]: You just don't tell me we are the royal family. 03:56:52.041 --> 03:56:53.282 [Vael (Berberis)]: Technicalities fucking matter. 03:56:55.062 --> 03:56:56.503 [Vael (Berberis)]: There is no deception in that statement. 03:56:57.443 --> 03:57:00.424 [Vael (Berberis)]: There is also not entirely truth in that statement. 03:57:01.104 --> 03:57:03.685 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's all over the truth, but there's no lie. 03:57:04.346 --> 03:57:07.467 [JC (Ryo)]: There's no lie, we're just not telling them the royal family's come for a walk. 03:57:08.007 --> 03:57:13.209 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, just delivered us straight to their front door. 03:57:15.282 --> 03:57:28.414 [Vael (Berberis)]: My thinking is sneaking in is saying, hey, we're here to do dodgy things, and that instantly inspires mistrust when we get caught, because trust me, we will get caught, because their main group is called The Fucking Hunt. 03:57:30.536 --> 03:57:30.936 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean. 03:57:30.957 --> 03:57:35.901 [Vael (Berberis)]: Alright. 03:57:35.921 --> 03:57:39.104 [Vael (Berberis)]: We either do this with balls or with blood. 03:57:39.585 --> 03:57:39.785 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 03:57:40.350 --> 03:57:42.531 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I don't know if we can take on that much yet. 03:57:42.611 --> 03:57:44.131 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think we can take on the hunt. 03:57:44.151 --> 03:57:48.492 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're going to get fucking decimated if it's what the recount was. 03:57:49.772 --> 03:57:57.194 [Lacer (Kai)]: Massive group of centaurs, wolves and whatever you name it roaming at high speeds through the forest. 03:57:59.375 --> 03:58:00.235 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's a wild hunt. 03:58:01.995 --> 03:58:07.497 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I guess have a chat amongst yourselves and have a think about what the approach could be. 03:58:09.177 --> 03:58:16.299 [Riv (DM)]: Just, yeah, try to imagine how would they take it, you know? 03:58:18.500 --> 03:58:25.322 [Riv (DM)]: Also, remember that you don't have your charismatic player anymore, or character rather. 03:58:28.963 --> 03:58:29.283 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:58:33.264 --> 03:58:38.146 [Riv (DM)]: Lots of things to ponder, but I like the idea of coming at it more openly. 03:58:40.546 --> 03:58:42.367 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 03:58:42.387 --> 03:58:51.091 [Riv (DM)]: I guess what I'm sort of thinking is like, try to imagine from their perspective, the last contact was a bloodshed. 03:58:52.211 --> 03:58:53.312 [Lacer (Kai)]: About 60 years ago. 03:58:53.612 --> 03:58:56.953 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, 60 years is nothing for the time of these people. 03:58:58.074 --> 03:59:06.698 [Riv (DM)]: The group of people never sort of weird looking appear, you know, they don't look like they are locals. 03:59:08.130 --> 03:59:09.391 [Riv (DM)]: It could work, absolutely. 03:59:09.591 --> 03:59:24.984 [Riv (DM)]: I think you just need to think about what leverage you could have, what you have to bargain, why should they listen to you, and also think about the fact that you do have a Silmara with you, two even, and is that something you're willing to use as part of the bargaining? 03:59:25.004 --> 03:59:26.185 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, we can trade one. 03:59:27.166 --> 03:59:28.247 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:59:28.287 --> 03:59:30.589 [Riv (DM)]: What would you do if they find out? 03:59:31.730 --> 03:59:32.550 [Riv (DM)]: Or do you want them to find out? 03:59:32.631 --> 03:59:33.011 [Riv (DM)]: Or, yeah. 03:59:33.071 --> 03:59:34.192 [Riv (DM)]: Lots of things to ponder, I think. 03:59:38.730 --> 03:59:40.451 [Riv (DM)]: And also the fact that they're the fucking Fae. 03:59:41.151 --> 03:59:41.471 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:59:43.972 --> 03:59:44.832 [Lacer (Kai)]: How bad can it be? 03:59:44.852 --> 03:59:48.113 [Vael (Berberis)]: Alright, very good. 03:59:48.153 --> 03:59:48.834 [Vael (Berberis)]: How bad could it be? 03:59:48.854 --> 03:59:54.856 [Vael (Berberis)]: I realise it's my natural disgust for Fae bullshit into my character, so that's just gonna work. 03:59:54.896 --> 03:59:59.917 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: How bad it could be is that we end up handing over the Shining City to them. 04:00:01.938 --> 04:00:06.240 [JC (Ryo)]: So TPK TPK TPK TPK TPK TPK TPK TPK TPK 04:00:09.559 --> 04:00:18.707 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't see how we could hand over the city to them anyway, because that ring requires still the blood as well for it to activate anything. 04:00:18.907 --> 04:00:19.387 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 04:00:19.768 --> 04:00:22.750 [JC (Ryo)]: Who says I don't have a long-lost fucking cousin 15,000 times? 04:00:22.790 --> 04:00:34.140 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, do you remember when the long-lost Queen of the Olves, or the long-ago Queen of the Olves, disappeared into the forest for a while and then came back with the head of their king and then after had a child? 04:00:36.284 --> 04:00:37.025 [Lacer (Kai)]: Remembering that bit? 04:00:37.205 --> 04:00:38.526 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I do remember that bit. 04:00:40.347 --> 04:00:43.750 [Vael (Berberis)]: And Faye totally don't have a history of, like, swapping twins and shit like that. 04:00:48.073 --> 04:00:51.055 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, their queen absolutely of course is not. 04:00:54.152 --> 04:00:57.594 [Vael (Berberis)]: Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy 04:01:23.141 --> 04:01:24.602 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, it's the fae. 04:01:24.722 --> 04:01:27.543 [Vael (Berberis)]: If you're not out to get us, what are you doing? 04:01:29.403 --> 04:01:30.604 [Vael (Berberis)]: They always want something, hey? 04:01:31.164 --> 04:01:31.344 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yep. 04:01:32.805 --> 04:01:33.245 [Vael (Berberis)]: Alrighty, cool. 04:01:33.265 --> 04:01:33.825 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's just a bad thing. 04:01:33.885 --> 04:01:39.067 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, I read a lot of fantasy and, you know, people are always just like, Tolkien, Tolkien was a fucking bastard. 04:01:39.087 --> 04:01:42.328 [Vael (Berberis)]: I know that's a hot take, but he made elves nice. 04:01:42.628 --> 04:01:43.549 [Vael (Berberis)]: Right, yeah. 04:01:44.169 --> 04:01:46.350 [Vael (Berberis)]: And it destroyed so much good lore. 04:01:46.830 --> 04:01:47.030 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 04:01:48.692 --> 04:01:49.653 [Vael (Berberis)]: It made them boring. 04:01:49.713 --> 04:01:55.355 [Vael (Berberis)]: It made them fucking hippie tree folk that like light and fancy and happiness. 04:01:56.016 --> 04:02:00.758 [Vael (Berberis)]: True Fae is when fucking she gets handed the ring and turns evil. 04:02:00.838 --> 04:02:01.578 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's Faeae. 04:02:02.038 --> 04:02:03.859 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's what they should be. 04:02:07.361 --> 04:02:08.281 [Riv (DM)]: Grumble, grumble, grumble, yeah. 04:02:08.761 --> 04:02:09.141 [Riv (DM)]: Very good. 04:02:09.482 --> 04:02:09.742 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 04:02:09.782 --> 04:02:10.462 [Riv (DM)]: Well, exciting. 04:02:10.902 --> 04:02:12.343 [Riv (DM)]: I'll switch us off.