--- > [!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.* --- 32:41.695 --> 32:42.395 [JC (Ryo)]: Surprise round. 32:43.356 --> 33:08.663 [Riv (DM)]: Okay it is officially live um cool so I want to do a bit of a quicker um recap this time because I want to actually ask you guys some questions so just as a super super quick one we started off last time in Sumara um we were just buying up a few loose ends we were chatting with Ayana and Alithea getting a bit of information um they sent you in the direction of 33:09.403 --> 33:18.505 [Riv (DM)]: finding some Zephyr Cuffs which would allow you to very very rapidly fly over to, or at least close to the start of the Vale of the Eternal Night. 33:20.745 --> 33:37.608 [Riv (DM)]: Before that though you went over to, and I thought it was quite good research, you went over to the Namorian Canton, went into the archives, convinced some old codger to let you into the restricted area and had some crazy good rolls to get some info that I was able to dump on you guys. 33:38.388 --> 34:04.613 [Riv (DM)]: um and then yeah and then essentially after that you took flight flew for dozens of miles um and were encountered by a very large bird in the air who was chasing you down um before the bird was able to catch you and grab you and potentially take one of you off to his nest to eat um you flew down to the ground for it and had a bit of a scuffle um eventually managed to dissuade it from coming after you 34:05.073 --> 34:23.667 [Riv (DM)]: that your food was going to be too difficult for it to eat after all that, but not before some shenanigans occurred as per normal, such as transforming it into a mouse, which was fantastic, run away, and then lifting it up into the air and dropping it from hundreds of feet to kill it in one shot. 34:23.687 --> 34:30.492 [Riv (DM)]: Well, unfortunately, the mouse can bite, and it bit the bat, the bat transformed back and poofed away, and 34:32.113 --> 34:33.314 [Riv (DM)]: The Roc came back after you again. 34:34.034 --> 34:41.519 [Riv (DM)]: And it was after a very, very well-placed fireball, I believe, from Dondarr that it was finally taking enough damage to scare it away, and it flew off. 34:42.440 --> 34:46.462 [Riv (DM)]: That was basically where we left off, right on the border of the Vale of the Eternal Night. 34:47.343 --> 34:51.686 [Riv (DM)]: It's this big, like, swirling, constantly moving black void ahead of you. 34:51.926 --> 34:56.449 [Riv (DM)]: It's almost like wind, like dense wind that's just moving in all directions. 34:58.150 --> 35:00.152 [Riv (DM)]: And you can't see through it, and... 35:00.972 --> 35:05.457 [Riv (DM)]: As Kai sent his bat through to have a look, found out that you can't see back out of it as well. 35:06.038 --> 35:12.466 [Riv (DM)]: But the bat was able to let Kai see what lay beyond, and it was pretty much what we see on the screen at the moment. 35:13.006 --> 35:18.092 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of like old gnarled trees, silver leaves, sort of like silver pine trees. 35:19.073 --> 35:43.545 [Riv (DM)]: um big black river carving off into the distance and that silvery moon or black moon with a silver glow and a lunar beam connecting it to the ground far far in the distance um and you i believe you decided to make a camp here and uh do a long race and yeah for what you're gonna do does that sound about right 35:45.817 --> 36:12.159 [Riv (DM)]: um indeed it does yeah so in that case um i want to actually before we go too much further i want to actually just sort of collect what we what we're thinking like what what do we know about where we're heading what are the plans um what information have we gathered like what yeah let's just make sure we're going and informed i guess so i'm just i'm curious to see what you guys are currently thinking 36:19.313 --> 36:21.715 [Vael (Berberis)]: Bold of you to assume that we've done any thinking. 36:26.640 --> 36:28.141 [Riv (DM)]: In terms of the information though, right? 36:28.181 --> 36:34.967 [Riv (DM)]: So like what do we know about the denizens of the Vale of the Eternal Night and what do we know about its history and all that sort of thing? 36:38.057 --> 36:48.320 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well, I mean, given the information we've collected at the library, we have a bit of information regarding the formation of Caer Nystral. 36:50.801 --> 36:59.224 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We have some potential thoughts maybe regarding the ruler of it and the Sumaran royal lineage. 37:00.804 --> 37:02.645 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And are they the same? 37:02.845 --> 37:03.405 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Are they not? 37:05.094 --> 37:32.998 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: uh has there been mingling historically we've got a bit of general information regarding the layout of the city should we manage to actually get there but given the name of the patrols and what we know of of the members of the patrols being the hunt i do not particularly like our chances of getting there undetected hmm 37:36.679 --> 37:38.099 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I have all souls, everything. 37:39.780 --> 37:40.320 [Riv (DM)]: Usually does. 37:40.760 --> 37:42.880 [Riv (DM)]: Sometimes doesn't. 37:45.301 --> 37:51.803 [Riv (DM)]: How do you feel like... What's the question I'm trying to ask? 37:52.283 --> 37:53.203 [Riv (DM)]: What tensions are there? 37:56.924 --> 38:00.125 [Riv (DM)]: Do you feel like you're walking into enemy territory, or is it neutral territory? 38:03.723 --> 38:07.104 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's definitely enemy territory, and it's hostile. 38:07.764 --> 38:09.964 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, so that's the vibe you're going for. 38:11.164 --> 38:13.445 [Lacer (Kai)]: We've already got attacked by a big bird, so, you know? 38:13.465 --> 38:16.825 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, but the bird is not one of the denizens of the city. 38:17.505 --> 38:18.766 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's just a random bird. 38:19.186 --> 38:19.946 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't know that. 38:19.966 --> 38:21.966 [Lacer (Kai)]: It could be Queen's pet bird, big bird. 38:22.006 --> 38:22.466 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't know. 38:22.486 --> 38:29.508 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so you're approaching it as hostile territory. 38:29.688 --> 38:30.328 [Lacer (Kai)]: Kai will be. 38:30.388 --> 38:31.888 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know about everyone else. 38:32.715 --> 38:32.875 [Vael (Berberis)]: Okay. 38:33.575 --> 38:35.836 [Vael (Berberis)]: Maybe not hostile, but unfriendly. 38:35.856 --> 38:36.577 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 38:37.597 --> 38:39.858 [Vael (Berberis)]: With a hint of hostile. 38:40.338 --> 38:40.498 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 38:41.719 --> 38:43.660 [Riv (DM)]: Um, what about sort of alignment? 38:43.760 --> 38:59.107 [Riv (DM)]: Like, do you think, have you got a gauge for whether they are sort of chaotic, or lawful, or just neutral, or maybe don't have a gauge? 38:59.127 --> 39:01.628 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I personally think there's gonna be a bit of a mix. 39:14.067 --> 39:29.639 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wasn't doing the research, but when we came across the draft of the Dawnless City and they were talking about all the denizens, like the Redcaps, Kai has no idea what those are, so, um, yeah. 39:30.935 --> 39:41.393 [Lacer (Kai)]: they don't sound nice but rio may have asked them i don't know okay cool yeah no that's good 39:43.975 --> 39:47.419 [Riv (DM)]: Last question, and this was a question for Ryo specifically. 39:48.620 --> 39:50.643 [Riv (DM)]: How's Ryo feeling about all of this? 39:51.424 --> 39:59.653 [Riv (DM)]: I feel like Ryo's possibly been a little quiet maybe over the last day or so? 39:59.673 --> 40:02.256 [Riv (DM)]: Is it more he's trying to... 40:03.875 --> 40:07.396 [Riv (DM)]: and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun. 40:34.412 --> 40:51.750 [JC (Ryo)]: um doesn't know what he just had absolutely no idea what to do right push out of water sort of thing oh yeah out of water in a frying pan that's you know 5 000 degrees yeah that's what he feels like right now okay yeah cool 40:54.715 --> 40:55.335 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, awesome. 40:55.655 --> 41:01.338 [Riv (DM)]: So with that then, I think we pick up after eight hours of rest. 41:02.179 --> 41:12.744 [Riv (DM)]: Obviously the sky on the time of the day doesn't appear to have changed at all, but you have the day to yourselves to decide what to do. 41:13.244 --> 41:14.305 [Riv (DM)]: How do you wish to proceed? 41:21.008 --> 41:21.268 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well... 41:24.175 --> 41:25.116 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We can't go over it. 41:27.577 --> 41:28.117 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Over what? 41:29.338 --> 41:30.398 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The barrier. 41:30.458 --> 41:32.239 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I mean, we can't go under it. 41:33.120 --> 41:34.620 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I highly doubt we can go around it. 41:35.781 --> 41:36.721 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It only leaves one option. 41:42.264 --> 41:42.704 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's that? 41:43.585 --> 41:44.025 [Lacer (Kai)]: Through it. 41:45.066 --> 41:45.746 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Gotta go through it. 41:50.562 --> 41:50.822 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 41:51.762 --> 41:54.783 [Riv (DM)]: So, shall we all pack up our stuff and make our way through? 42:00.085 --> 42:00.385 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure. 42:00.546 --> 42:04.507 [Lacer (Kai)]: Before we do that, I'm gonna cast aid on... 42:06.968 --> 42:11.129 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess, Berberus, myself, and... Ryo? 42:12.510 --> 42:13.490 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, at... Aid? 42:13.510 --> 42:14.450 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, aid. 42:14.470 --> 42:15.951 [JC (Ryo)]: Is that the same as Baldur's Gate? 42:16.671 --> 42:16.951 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 42:17.251 --> 42:17.552 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 42:17.572 --> 42:18.592 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, no, don't give it to me. 42:19.205 --> 42:19.765 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, you don't want it? 42:20.265 --> 42:20.965 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll give it to... 42:21.125 --> 42:22.886 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've probably got the most hit points in the party. 42:22.906 --> 42:23.586 [Lacer (Kai)]: Give it to someone else. 42:23.866 --> 42:27.527 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll give it to Erendor at... Let's burn a massive one. 42:27.547 --> 42:29.187 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's do a 5th level aid spell. 42:33.908 --> 42:35.389 [Lacer (Kai)]: What is this? 42:35.629 --> 42:36.989 [Lacer (Kai)]: Why is it giving me a healing roll? 42:42.430 --> 42:43.851 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, do I have to roll for hit points? 42:44.071 --> 42:44.571 [Lacer (Kai)]: What is this? 42:50.706 --> 42:52.908 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, it's automatic, but it told me to roll. 42:53.709 --> 42:59.495 [Riv (DM)]: Did you cast it at 5th level? 43:00.296 --> 43:00.836 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I did. 43:01.697 --> 43:09.345 [Lacer (Kai)]: So Berberus, myself, and Erendor will gain additional 20 hit points for the day to our max hit points. 43:11.086 --> 43:11.946 [Riv (DM)]: So you guys all put that on? 43:13.127 --> 43:17.409 [Riv (DM)]: And I just saw your comment as well around the rearrangement of the city name. 43:18.050 --> 43:18.670 [Riv (DM)]: That's crazy. 43:18.930 --> 43:24.553 [Riv (DM)]: I definitely didn't intentionally do that. 43:26.234 --> 43:30.457 [Lacer (Kai)]: So it boosts me up to 98 hit points for now. 43:37.400 --> 43:38.161 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, alright. 43:38.981 --> 43:40.002 [Riv (DM)]: Everyone happy to move on through? 43:42.698 --> 43:46.261 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Um, I am going to cast Find Familiar. 43:47.522 --> 43:49.083 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ooh. 43:50.484 --> 43:51.425 [Lacer (Kai)]: Before we go in. 43:52.606 --> 43:53.747 [Lacer (Kai)]: As a ritual, or? 43:55.589 --> 43:56.409 [Lacer (Kai)]: As a spell slot. 44:00.112 --> 44:01.854 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, what does your familiar look like? 44:05.116 --> 44:05.977 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, that's a good question. 44:09.279 --> 44:09.880 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Uh, a bat. 44:13.070 --> 44:14.691 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, taking a leaf out of my book. 44:14.711 --> 44:16.791 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh yeah, forgot about that. 44:17.992 --> 44:19.052 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's a rat, one of them. 44:19.972 --> 44:21.333 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, a bat. 44:22.293 --> 44:24.094 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Small black bat. 44:25.414 --> 44:25.634 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 44:25.894 --> 44:28.195 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it comes with you. 44:28.255 --> 44:29.536 [Riv (DM)]: Perches on your shoulder or something like that? 44:30.376 --> 44:31.496 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yep. 44:31.516 --> 44:32.337 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Thanks for my shoulder. 44:33.417 --> 44:36.418 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Seeing this, perched on shoulder. 44:36.962 --> 44:40.363 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm going to get my mage hand to mimic it and perch on my shoulder. 44:45.024 --> 44:46.424 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it black as well? 44:47.544 --> 44:48.424 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can you change the colour? 44:51.625 --> 44:55.286 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'll just put a fireball on my shoulder, how about that? 44:58.066 --> 44:59.487 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay, you're the one losing hair. 45:01.267 --> 45:06.548 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll druidcraft behind the mage hand to make it sound like it makes bat noises. 45:10.308 --> 45:11.590 [Lacer (Kai)]: in order to save the world. 45:20.745 --> 45:23.406 [Riv (DM)]: and need you all to make constitution saving throws. 45:23.866 --> 45:25.127 [Riv (DM)]: I'm joking, I'm messing with you. 45:25.907 --> 45:37.132 [Riv (DM)]: You pass through, it feels like there is a little bit of tension as you go through, like it's not like just passing through normal air, like there's a little bit of sort of push to it. 45:37.572 --> 45:48.177 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of cold as well as you pass through, it sort of seeks the warmth from your body, and as you pass all the way through, you know, there's a moment where your vision is completely obscured by this whirling black 45:48.957 --> 45:51.178 [Riv (DM)]: — and of course, of course, of course. 46:05.407 --> 46:08.329 [Riv (DM)]: You see precisely what Kai had described to you the night before. 46:09.710 --> 46:16.115 [Riv (DM)]: Black rolling hills, silvery trees, and this big black moon in the distance. 46:16.875 --> 46:24.901 [Riv (DM)]: The only kind of primary light source on the land as it is glowing with a sort of silvery light and almost like going to rotate a little bit. 46:25.781 --> 46:27.823 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, with a lunar beam connecting it down to the ground. 46:32.052 --> 46:33.794 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, the landscape rolls out in front of you. 46:34.214 --> 46:36.175 [Riv (DM)]: Are we going to — what's the plan here? 46:36.195 --> 46:40.879 [Riv (DM)]: Are we going to start travelling, or how are we going to do this? 46:47.725 --> 46:53.609 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm not sure, but I click my finger and I summon my bat too, which is black and white. 46:53.670 --> 46:54.951 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, kind of like Pepper. 46:55.371 --> 46:56.792 [Lacer (Kai)]: Spot splotchy. 46:58.641 --> 47:02.204 [Lacer (Kai)]: and have it rest on my head, my hood. 47:05.967 --> 47:06.367 [Riv (DM)]: Very cool. 47:06.867 --> 47:09.770 [Riv (DM)]: Soon we're going to have a whole party of familiars. 47:09.790 --> 47:11.571 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: A whole menagerie. 47:15.054 --> 47:18.156 [Lacer (Kai)]: I asked Berberis, you want to summon your little owl too? 47:19.637 --> 47:20.878 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure, you're always out and about. 47:23.040 --> 47:23.260 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 47:26.198 --> 47:29.379 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess, good time to ask, Ryo. 47:30.140 --> 47:38.623 [Lacer (Kai)]: How we, since you're, this is kind of like, you're kind of like the, the king of your, your place, what, what's now? 47:40.323 --> 47:41.784 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I, I kind of whisper it. 47:42.084 --> 47:48.467 [Lacer (Kai)]: What do you, how do you want to do this, since we're going to this place? 47:54.189 --> 47:54.409 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh... 47:58.932 --> 48:01.834 [JC (Ryo)]: Honestly, I was going to keep my mouth shut and let you guys do the talking. 48:03.615 --> 48:11.781 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, so you want us to keep your privacy about your position? 48:12.681 --> 48:14.703 [JC (Ryo)]: These guys have a hatred with the elves. 48:15.944 --> 48:16.644 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm a fuller. 48:19.926 --> 48:22.108 [JC (Ryo)]: Probably shouldn't say too much if we can help it. 48:23.409 --> 48:27.752 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, so— We don't want to be drawing too much attention to ourselves. 48:29.240 --> 48:30.741 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun. 48:55.028 --> 49:07.912 [Lacer (Kai)]: Have some sort of story, you know, like we just can't be just random people wandering up to their their castle demanding stuff, right? 49:09.873 --> 49:23.938 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know Adventuring parties recruited by the Elven City to restore relations and try and find all this stuff Just throwing ideas out now 49:25.457 --> 49:26.037 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sounds good. 49:26.397 --> 49:28.458 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we can walk and talk, right? 49:29.799 --> 49:30.599 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, absolutely. 49:32.100 --> 49:33.660 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So these are elves we can lie to, right? 49:36.982 --> 49:37.422 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 49:38.763 --> 49:40.723 [Lacer (Kai)]: This world has lots of weird magics. 49:46.806 --> 49:48.387 [Lacer (Kai)]: What are your thoughts, Erendor? 49:51.168 --> 49:51.828 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, I mean... 49:54.043 --> 50:21.648 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: we are from the point of view of sumara we're expendable we're not from this world ignoring some minor facts they don't particularly care about us do they that's why we've been offered a generous payment for reaching out to try and restore relations and 50:26.240 --> 50:34.542 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hey, look, if it just so happens that while we're there we can get something for us, so be it. 50:35.623 --> 50:35.883 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hmm. 50:37.823 --> 50:55.128 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, from how we know it as we're talking, this whole realm, this world, is like under attack as well, so if we're gonna try and repair relations, should we try and recruit them as well to fight with us against... 50:56.127 --> 50:58.108 [Lacer (Kai)]: You know, the Crimson Shadow? 50:59.108 --> 51:02.709 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, do we tell them about that stuff, or is that on a need-to-know basis? 51:02.829 --> 51:03.829 [Lacer (Kai)]: You reckon that would help us? 51:05.650 --> 51:08.730 [JC (Ryo)]: If they have no ties to the other plane, why would they care? 51:09.631 --> 51:13.772 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Because this plane will— Because his wrath will pass plane boundaries. 51:15.052 --> 51:21.474 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then, if we lose the material plane, this plane is on the menu also. 51:24.315 --> 51:29.439 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Do you think that Karazoth will be sated with a single plane? 51:29.820 --> 51:34.483 [Lacer (Kai)]: Fair, fair. 51:35.184 --> 51:43.050 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe we should ask them when we do meet her, if they know anything about the previous shattering and what went on. 51:43.070 --> 51:45.032 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hmm. 51:48.595 --> 51:52.138 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think they're all forgetting one very important thing. 51:53.559 --> 51:54.600 [Vael (Berberis)]: What's that, Berberus? 51:57.102 --> 52:01.546 [Vael (Berberis)]: Our interactions here on the Fae Realm, we've dealt with Fae and we've dealt with Elves. 52:01.946 --> 52:02.827 [Vael (Berberis)]: Elves are not Fae. 52:03.287 --> 52:04.768 [Vael (Berberis)]: We are going to be dealing with Fae. 52:06.249 --> 52:08.952 [Vael (Berberis)]: Think back to every Fae interaction we've had in this Realm. 52:10.733 --> 52:12.455 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, they've been messed up. 52:13.315 --> 52:16.718 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought they were funny, but you know, like, you know? 52:16.738 --> 52:19.921 [Lacer (Kai)]: I like the Backwoods Pond. 52:19.961 --> 52:21.362 [Lacer (Kai)]: The Backwoods Pond was pretty cool. 52:22.064 --> 52:24.226 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're talking pixies that'll melt your brain. 52:24.286 --> 52:28.650 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're talking powerful creatures that'll play your soul for chess. 52:29.730 --> 52:32.353 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're talking trading memories for passage. 52:32.953 --> 52:33.814 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't remember that. 52:34.254 --> 52:35.635 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're not dealing with elves here. 52:36.396 --> 52:38.858 [Vael (Berberis)]: Or if we are, they're a very small amount. 52:42.221 --> 52:45.203 [Vael (Berberis)]: We'll start thinking about what you have to trade, because they're going to start asking. 52:46.444 --> 52:47.886 [Vael (Berberis)]: And it isn't going to be material trade. 52:49.135 --> 52:57.538 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe we should have a codeword, so if things are going to go down we need to yell it out so we can do a surprise combat thing, like get ready for battle. 52:59.159 --> 53:01.560 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I can offer you an NFT for my chair! 53:03.641 --> 53:04.301 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What's that? 53:05.662 --> 53:07.703 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, this is not a material trade. 53:10.724 --> 53:13.325 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It's a non-fungible token. 53:14.868 --> 53:16.570 [Lacer (Kai)]: So NFT is our code word, hey? 53:18.171 --> 53:18.572 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright. 53:19.132 --> 53:20.113 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 53:20.433 --> 53:21.574 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: To fireball the party. 53:25.658 --> 53:41.832 [Lacer (Kai)]: As we're talking, I like to look around and see if anything moves, and have the — look around with my bat's perception in terms of Blindsight with its ultrasonic echolocation. 53:43.543 --> 54:11.686 [Riv (DM)]: um yeah roll a perception check um and have we started traveling yeah we've been walking i guess like slowly i suppose uh and the direction we're heading i assume we're just heading towards the the lunar beam in the distance the giant beam of light that says hey come here cool um all right cool roll perception and then i'll have um someone roll a survival check as well do i roll perception through my familiar if i'm looking through its eyes 54:13.298 --> 54:15.619 [Lacer (Kai)]: Was it my perception through the Familiar's? 54:15.639 --> 54:19.341 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, it depends on where it's looking, yeah. 54:20.181 --> 54:22.822 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cause I'm using that, you know, that shit ability? 54:25.304 --> 54:34.248 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I'm looking through the Familiar's eyes, but it's the Familiar's eyes that I'm looking through, so is it my eyes, or is it the — I'm confused now. 54:35.368 --> 54:39.070 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Are you looking through the Familiar's eyes with the Familiar's eyes looking through your eyes? 54:42.210 --> 54:45.853 [Riv (DM)]: No, don't confuse me even more. 54:45.873 --> 54:47.114 [Riv (DM)]: So who is looking? 54:47.174 --> 54:51.097 [Riv (DM)]: Are you just looking, or you've gone into your bat and you're looking through the bat? 54:51.698 --> 54:52.118 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 54:52.258 --> 54:55.161 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, if you're looking through the bat, then you use the bat's perception. 54:56.442 --> 54:56.662 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 54:59.744 --> 55:00.505 [Lacer (Kai)]: How do I do that? 55:01.346 --> 55:08.311 [Lacer (Kai)]: Click the familiar, but there's no thingy thing. 55:08.431 --> 55:09.252 [Riv (DM)]: It's just the wisdom. 55:09.952 --> 55:11.734 [Riv (DM)]: It'll be like a plus zero, probably. 55:13.143 --> 55:14.044 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, it's just their wisdom? 55:14.064 --> 55:16.205 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's a plus one, so... 55:20.128 --> 55:24.312 [Vael (Berberis)]: If you had the tab as well, also on the creature there is skills. 55:26.693 --> 55:30.957 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, because I'm trying to look through blindsight, but it doesn't have skill. 55:31.877 --> 55:35.860 [Vael (Berberis)]: Like when I pull up my owl, I have plus five to perception through my owl. 55:38.062 --> 55:40.624 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, no, I don't have... yeah, no. 55:41.350 --> 55:43.491 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, it doesn't obviously have Perception as a skill. 55:45.111 --> 55:45.971 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 55:46.371 --> 55:46.751 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 55:47.252 --> 55:52.453 [Riv (DM)]: That's probably not great at long distance viewing, the echolocating, close range stuff. 55:53.033 --> 55:54.313 [Riv (DM)]: So, doesn't get to see much. 55:55.254 --> 55:55.934 [Riv (DM)]: Um, great. 55:56.014 --> 55:59.075 [Riv (DM)]: As we start travelling, and I assume, are we not going stealthily? 55:59.095 --> 56:00.415 [Riv (DM)]: Because we kind of want to be found? 56:00.635 --> 56:02.475 [Riv (DM)]: Or are we going to try and be stealthy? 56:02.635 --> 56:04.536 [Riv (DM)]: It'll just depend on how fast you guys move. 56:07.645 --> 56:11.247 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think we have to be trying to sneak because at some point we're going to get busted. 56:12.147 --> 56:15.848 [Vael (Berberis)]: You either move fast or you move quiet or fast. 56:15.968 --> 56:18.289 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool, going fast then. 56:18.309 --> 56:23.231 [Riv (DM)]: So let's get someone to roll us a survival check for us as we start travelling across this dark landscape. 56:24.332 --> 56:25.872 [Lacer (Kai)]: Clink, clink, clink. 56:31.895 --> 56:33.796 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, pretty good. 56:36.620 --> 56:38.403 [Riv (DM)]: Damn, you got a plus nine for your survival. 56:38.704 --> 56:39.044 [Riv (DM)]: That's great. 56:41.405 --> 57:06.602 [Riv (DM)]: So the um this first leg of your travel was a success you pass through and sort of like down into a valley and you get kind of close to sort of like the riverbed and you manage to start following it along um the river's quite interesting as you get close to it it's it doesn't it's not normal water you can tell that immediately it's clearly black black liquid um 57:08.345 --> 57:14.330 [Riv (DM)]: There's almost — there almost seems to be stars swirling in it as it's sort of like passing down along over top of the rocks. 57:14.350 --> 57:17.612 [Riv (DM)]: You can see, I think, shimmering light piercing through here and there. 57:19.234 --> 57:26.459 [Riv (DM)]: Um, almost — it's almost like the sky fell and it is draining away in a river at the moment, like the night itself. 57:27.600 --> 57:28.861 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, cool. 57:28.941 --> 57:31.123 [Riv (DM)]: First — first level check was a success. 57:31.223 --> 57:32.384 [Riv (DM)]: Let's go for a second one. 57:34.778 --> 57:40.542 [Lacer (Kai)]: As we're walking along the river, I'd like to use shape water to move some water up to see if it moves like actual water. 57:40.902 --> 57:43.063 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, uh, yeah, absolutely not. 57:44.184 --> 57:45.605 [Riv (DM)]: You could not even... 57:45.625 --> 57:46.445 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does it... couldn't move it? 57:46.705 --> 57:47.706 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nah, couldn't even move it. 57:48.827 --> 57:50.107 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's not water, people. 57:50.848 --> 57:51.848 [Lacer (Kai)]: The river's not water. 57:51.868 --> 57:53.429 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can you walk on it? 57:54.850 --> 57:59.273 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can't even move it with shape water, so, like, just a small... cup. 57:59.313 --> 57:59.993 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, so can you walk on it? 58:01.014 --> 58:04.336 [Lacer (Kai)]: If I can't move it with the cantrip, how am I gonna walk on it if it's not water? 58:08.697 --> 58:10.018 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So it's solid or it's not solid? 58:11.259 --> 58:12.120 [Lacer (Kai)]: Go and find out. 58:16.483 --> 58:16.783 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure. 58:17.363 --> 58:19.265 [Lacer (Kai)]: If you give me ten minutes, I will... 58:20.165 --> 58:22.287 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I will... Can I have my familiar try and land on it? 58:24.328 --> 58:24.609 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, yep. 58:27.911 --> 58:30.113 [Riv (DM)]: So you're just gonna, like, fly the familiar down into the water? 58:30.993 --> 58:31.233 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 58:32.294 --> 58:32.494 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 58:32.995 --> 58:33.255 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 58:34.050 --> 58:34.890 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, close to the edge. 58:34.910 --> 58:38.451 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I can fish it out if it's... Yeah, sure. 58:38.711 --> 58:40.351 [Riv (DM)]: Can you roll me a d20? 58:42.692 --> 58:43.672 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: D20. 58:48.533 --> 58:52.394 [Riv (DM)]: Wow. 58:53.294 --> 58:56.335 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, I don't quite... Oh no. 58:57.170 --> 59:09.880 [Lacer (Kai)]: it's either really good or really bad uh i don't really want to it's yeah okay it's complicated um yes you just lured a water beast out of the not water 59:11.621 --> 59:21.288 [Riv (DM)]: So the bat, like it does actually go and submerge in the water and it comes up and you can tell the water sort of like drips down off it. 59:21.648 --> 59:31.856 [Riv (DM)]: You can see it almost looks like the age itself or the life force of the bat is almost being like stripped away like some of the hair on the bat 59:33.497 --> 01:00:02.940 [Riv (DM)]: goes a little bit gray and you can tell that it's like struggling a bit to try and fly again to to lift up and off um up out of the water um but on a natural 20 uh that's all that happens it gets out comes back it manages to get out and come back yeah um but you can tell as it comes and lands um back on your shoulder that it's sort of like it's shivering but not because it's cold like there's something there's something wrong with the bat oh god 01:00:05.668 --> 01:00:09.311 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can I tell what is wrong? 01:00:10.412 --> 01:00:13.114 [Riv (DM)]: How would you... Tell me how you could figure it out. 01:00:13.154 --> 01:00:15.016 [Riv (DM)]: What would you like to do to investigate it? 01:00:17.318 --> 01:00:18.159 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's a good question. 01:00:20.701 --> 01:00:26.286 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The Familiar is... Is it an ethereal being, or...? 01:00:27.787 --> 01:00:31.090 [Riv (DM)]: No, I believe it's actually a physical beast when you use Find Familiar. 01:00:42.661 --> 01:00:43.482 [Lacer (Kai)]: The spirit isn't it? 01:00:43.562 --> 01:00:45.322 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought Find Familiar was a spirit. 01:00:45.822 --> 01:00:50.643 [Riv (DM)]: It's not like actually like... A spirit that takes an animal form. 01:00:50.923 --> 01:00:52.283 [Riv (DM)]: It's got like physical form though, right? 01:00:52.744 --> 01:00:54.744 [Vael (Berberis)]: Like it's not... 01:00:54.824 --> 01:00:58.245 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's a beast form, but it is a Celestial Fail Fiend. 01:00:58.605 --> 01:00:59.285 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's right. 01:00:59.325 --> 01:01:03.986 [Riv (DM)]: What I was meaning is like it, for all intents and purposes, looks like a physical beast. 01:01:07.441 --> 01:01:10.162 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So, a voice in my head says Arcana check? 01:01:12.442 --> 01:01:13.042 [Riv (DM)]: Um, okay. 01:01:13.202 --> 01:01:13.662 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, sure. 01:01:13.702 --> 01:01:14.602 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an Arcana check. 01:01:15.483 --> 01:01:16.323 [Riv (DM)]: On a really, really high. 01:01:24.184 --> 01:01:24.464 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:01:25.085 --> 01:01:25.685 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 01:01:28.025 --> 01:01:34.626 [Riv (DM)]: Arcana probably isn't quite the right... Hmm... 23's a good roll, though. 01:01:34.647 --> 01:01:37.007 [Riv (DM)]: Let me think. 01:01:41.116 --> 01:01:50.258 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I don't think you quite are able to gather it from there. 01:01:50.318 --> 01:01:51.799 [Riv (DM)]: I'd probably give it to you on a 25. 01:01:52.859 --> 01:01:53.559 [Lacer (Kai)]: What can you tell? 01:01:53.579 --> 01:01:55.120 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can't tell anything, Jondar? 01:01:57.921 --> 01:02:01.461 [Lacer (Kai)]: Your bat just looks older than it was a minute ago. 01:02:01.481 --> 01:02:03.302 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, what can I see? 01:02:05.503 --> 01:02:06.424 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Just by looking at it. 01:02:06.584 --> 01:02:08.825 [Riv (DM)]: It clearly looks unwell. 01:02:09.365 --> 01:02:11.726 [Riv (DM)]: Like something has been affecting it. 01:02:11.746 --> 01:02:12.446 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, it's unwell. 01:02:12.886 --> 01:02:13.407 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll check. 01:02:13.667 --> 01:02:14.847 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll have a crack. 01:02:14.867 --> 01:02:16.048 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I do a medicine check? 01:02:17.748 --> 01:02:18.068 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:02:18.128 --> 01:02:18.809 [Lacer (Kai)]: Go for it. 01:02:19.429 --> 01:02:20.950 [Lacer (Kai)]: Since I'm a medicine man. 01:02:24.351 --> 01:02:24.571 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:02:25.431 --> 01:02:26.172 [Riv (DM)]: Medicine's pretty good. 01:02:27.232 --> 01:02:28.193 [Riv (DM)]: 24 is pretty good as well. 01:02:29.628 --> 01:02:29.828 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:02:29.848 --> 01:02:31.069 [Riv (DM)]: Your bat's just wrinkly. 01:02:31.149 --> 01:02:31.890 [Lacer (Kai)]: Your bat's wrinkly. 01:02:32.050 --> 01:02:35.232 [Riv (DM)]: Well, yeah, you do see, um... Wrinklier. 01:02:36.132 --> 01:02:43.977 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you do see, like, some of the fur has gone grey and it's still shivering a little bit, shaking, even though it's, um, it's not actually that cold. 01:02:43.997 --> 01:02:47.920 [Riv (DM)]: You can kind of, like, touch it and it's, um, skin doesn't feel like it's cold. 01:02:48.620 --> 01:02:51.182 [Riv (DM)]: Um, it clearly appears to be slightly more feeble. 01:02:51.662 --> 01:02:58.007 [Riv (DM)]: Um, it has suffered a curse, um, for all, um... 01:02:59.683 --> 01:03:04.267 [Riv (DM)]: Until the curse is removed, it's going to have disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws. 01:03:05.568 --> 01:03:06.248 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's bad. 01:03:07.950 --> 01:03:09.151 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's really bad. 01:03:11.112 --> 01:03:12.333 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay guys, beach is closed. 01:03:13.674 --> 01:03:15.856 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:03:15.896 --> 01:03:17.357 [Lacer (Kai)]: Looks like the river's off-limits. 01:03:19.099 --> 01:03:21.721 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Most of this realm is gonna be off-limits, to be honest. 01:03:23.678 --> 01:03:36.829 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, yeah, I — Soluna's given me a spell to remove these ailments, but my smart brain didn't prepare it today, people, so yeah, don't dunk — dip your toe in the river. 01:03:36.849 --> 01:03:38.751 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:03:40.673 --> 01:03:41.754 [Lacer (Kai)]: Very good. 01:03:42.614 --> 01:03:46.418 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm glad it came back to me, because I was gonna dip my hand in and fish it out. 01:03:47.462 --> 01:03:54.307 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was gonna, I was tempted to like dip my finger into the water to see what it was like, like to touch it, but yeah. 01:03:54.347 --> 01:03:55.048 [Lacer (Kai)]: Go for it. 01:03:55.288 --> 01:03:57.169 [Unmatched Speaker]: What's the worst thing about it? 01:03:57.289 --> 01:03:59.471 [Riv (DM)]: No. 01:04:00.051 --> 01:04:00.531 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 01:04:01.272 --> 01:04:05.495 [Riv (DM)]: So the next leg of the journey goes pretty well as well. 01:04:06.416 --> 01:04:08.617 [Riv (DM)]: We'll keep the 19 that Booburus had just rolled. 01:04:09.798 --> 01:04:12.080 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, we're near the river, yeah? 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:13.521 [Riv (DM)]: Just down by the riverbank, yeah. 01:04:14.541 --> 01:04:20.187 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like someone to help me look for tracks, if anything follows the river or whatever. 01:04:20.207 --> 01:04:24.692 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, roll a perception check, and if someone helps you, you can take advantage. 01:04:25.133 --> 01:04:26.074 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's gonna help? 01:04:26.635 --> 01:04:27.355 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, cool. 01:04:28.837 --> 01:04:34.403 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because normally rivers, I think, are like highways usually, but you can't drink from this. 01:04:35.124 --> 01:04:36.005 [Lacer (Kai)]: First highways. 01:04:41.091 --> 01:04:41.412 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, wow. 01:04:41.552 --> 01:04:41.752 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:04:42.173 --> 01:04:42.474 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:04:42.554 --> 01:04:43.055 [Lacer (Kai)]: Incredible. 01:04:43.195 --> 01:04:44.036 [Lacer (Kai)]: Thanks, Arendor. 01:04:44.677 --> 01:04:47.623 [Riv (DM)]: What do we see? 01:04:47.683 --> 01:04:51.630 [Riv (DM)]: You've come down this way, and Berberis had led you down what appeared to be the kind of 01:04:52.543 --> 01:04:53.683 [Riv (DM)]: Most straightforward route down. 01:04:53.703 --> 01:05:02.967 [Riv (DM)]: You save a whole lot of scrambling and picking your way through brambles and thorns and trees and things like that, so that's why you manage to come down to the riverbed. 01:05:03.787 --> 01:05:17.372 [Riv (DM)]: Unfortunately, with a 28 perception, if you look across the way you can actually see there's just, like, between the trees over on the other side of the river, you can see there's actually a faint carving of a path or a road 01:05:19.453 --> 01:05:22.195 [Riv (DM)]: over the river on the other side of the bank from you. 01:05:22.295 --> 01:05:28.158 [Riv (DM)]: Just sorry, I should say it's sort of like a few hundred feet away, up above the river, across the other side of the valley. 01:05:29.839 --> 01:05:35.582 [Riv (DM)]: But it is on the other side of the river that you would actually need to cross if you wanted to get to the road. 01:05:36.282 --> 01:05:47.248 [Riv (DM)]: In order to win your perception as well, you do hear... Just listening and looking, you do hear a faint wolf's howl coming from somewhere in the distance. 01:05:49.749 --> 01:05:51.309 [Lacer (Kai)]: I whisper, you hear that, guys? 01:05:52.710 --> 01:05:54.030 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's things around. 01:05:56.711 --> 01:05:57.731 [Lacer (Kai)]: And there's also a carving. 01:05:58.531 --> 01:06:00.132 [Lacer (Kai)]: A carving, not a fire, right? 01:06:01.712 --> 01:06:02.833 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just going by the image. 01:06:03.513 --> 01:06:04.773 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 01:06:05.573 --> 01:06:08.014 [Riv (DM)]: So that's sort of like a torch down on the road. 01:06:09.634 --> 01:06:12.155 [Riv (DM)]: When I say carving, I mean, like, the road. 01:06:12.175 --> 01:06:14.596 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, a road, yeah. 01:06:14.616 --> 01:06:16.376 [Lacer (Kai)]: A road carved on the side of a hill. 01:06:16.676 --> 01:06:17.737 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, a road. 01:06:18.197 --> 01:06:18.837 [Lacer (Kai)]: I see a road. 01:06:20.117 --> 01:06:20.997 [Lacer (Kai)]: across the river. 01:06:21.017 --> 01:06:22.998 [Lacer (Kai)]: We will crash a boat to make a bridge. 01:06:23.018 --> 01:06:26.479 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't even want a drop of that water to touch me. 01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:28.759 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just get cursed straight away. 01:06:45.616 --> 01:06:49.962 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If you could put that water in a vial, you could have cursed water to throw on people. 01:06:54.328 --> 01:06:55.750 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's a good idea. 01:06:56.671 --> 01:06:59.094 [Lacer (Kai)]: But... cursed grenades? 01:06:59.936 --> 01:07:00.296 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah! 01:07:05.949 --> 01:07:23.030 [Riv (DM)]: I want to do it but like I don't want to do it at the same time because it's not water because the shape water didn't move the water So I will just mention Berberis rolled a 19 on the next survival check and so he has spotted a way forward that continues on this side of the bank 01:07:23.671 --> 01:07:38.387 [Riv (DM)]: um up you probably need to go scramble up uh side of the little um cliff but then from there it looks like there's some easier terrain you don't necessarily have to cross the river but um you did see a road which would potentially bypass a whole lot of survival checks if you were to get across 01:07:52.774 --> 01:07:54.755 [Riv (DM)]: So, what do we want to do? 01:07:55.555 --> 01:07:58.517 [Vael (Berberis)]: You said there's, like, hills on either side of the river? 01:07:59.077 --> 01:08:06.561 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, because it's sort of like a valley that comes down to meet basically where the river is, so it will sort of hill-y drain on either side. 01:08:06.581 --> 01:08:10.203 [Vael (Berberis)]: A decent-sized one ahead, nearby, somewhere. 01:08:10.823 --> 01:08:13.865 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We should have recharged our bracelets before we took the long rest. 01:08:14.726 --> 01:08:19.308 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was just going to say, we can just recharge the bracelets anyway and then just jump off a hill and glide over the river. 01:08:20.254 --> 01:08:23.076 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, there would be a hill high enough to allow you to do that. 01:08:24.677 --> 01:08:27.678 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess, should we recharge the bracelets now? 01:08:29.099 --> 01:08:29.679 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or later? 01:08:32.401 --> 01:08:34.082 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, it's just a second level spell slot. 01:08:34.202 --> 01:08:37.684 [Lacer (Kai)]: We should be able to do it as we go. 01:08:37.704 --> 01:08:43.467 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, as long as we're going to use them within a reasonable time frame, because otherwise they lose their charge. 01:08:43.848 --> 01:08:46.749 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, do they lose their charge, like, after a day? 01:08:48.966 --> 01:08:52.488 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I thought it just stays charged until it's used the next time. 01:08:53.068 --> 01:08:54.148 [Lacer (Kai)]: But, let me read. 01:08:54.628 --> 01:08:55.369 [Lacer (Kai)]: What does it say that? 01:08:59.490 --> 01:09:02.431 [Vael (Berberis)]: Uh, the charge lasts until you finish a long rest. 01:09:03.872 --> 01:09:08.474 [Vael (Berberis)]: So, it's not like we could charge them while we're resting anyway, because that's an action and that would break the long rest. 01:09:10.394 --> 01:09:12.055 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's an action you can expand it. 01:09:13.135 --> 01:09:16.397 [Lacer (Kai)]: The charge lasts until you finish... 01:09:16.957 --> 01:09:17.597 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, right. 01:09:19.860 --> 01:09:21.502 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, okay, it implies one day. 01:09:21.722 --> 01:09:28.387 [Riv (DM)]: It essentially allows you to spend a second level spell slot for a super supercharged fly spell. 01:09:30.409 --> 01:09:36.053 [Riv (DM)]: When normally fly would be a level 3 spell slot and only wizards would be able to cast it. 01:09:36.093 --> 01:09:37.354 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, we can fly? 01:09:37.414 --> 01:09:40.157 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought it was just glide. 01:09:40.437 --> 01:09:41.398 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you know what I mean. 01:09:44.789 --> 01:09:50.791 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: In terms of the distance and how long it lasts, if you've got the height and... Yeah, I get you, okay. 01:09:50.811 --> 01:09:52.212 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That's the level trade-off. 01:09:52.952 --> 01:09:53.132 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 01:09:57.193 --> 01:09:57.533 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 01:09:58.174 --> 01:09:59.294 [Lacer (Kai)]: So what's the plan again, sorry? 01:10:03.875 --> 01:10:11.438 [Vael (Berberis)]: We find ourselves a decent-sized hill that will give us enough height to glide over the river, and we climb the hill, charge our braces, and then glide over the river to the road. 01:10:12.428 --> 01:10:15.089 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Provided there's a landing spot visible on the other side. 01:10:16.570 --> 01:10:18.331 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I don't really want to be landing on a tree. 01:10:19.271 --> 01:10:20.332 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Are we on a road? 01:10:21.393 --> 01:10:22.553 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Are we on a road right now? 01:10:23.173 --> 01:10:23.354 [Vael (Berberis)]: No. 01:10:24.014 --> 01:10:25.234 [Vael (Berberis)]: The other side of the river has to road. 01:10:26.515 --> 01:10:27.816 [Vael (Berberis)]: Which is why we're trying to cross the river. 01:10:29.016 --> 01:10:29.477 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okie doke. 01:10:30.317 --> 01:10:32.958 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is there any chance of a bridge closer? 01:10:35.320 --> 01:10:35.920 [Riv (DM)]: You haven't seen one. 01:10:39.442 --> 01:10:43.145 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I guess we're gonna get some gr— Is the river state parallel to the road? 01:10:44.566 --> 01:10:49.650 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: To the... Yeah, is the river state parallel to the road? 01:10:49.670 --> 01:10:57.375 [Riv (DM)]: You probably can't quite see the whole way, but from where you see at the moment, you know, the road seems to stay down at the lower part of the valley. 01:11:01.438 --> 01:11:03.360 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we better find some elevation. 01:11:05.058 --> 01:11:05.238 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:11:05.478 --> 01:11:07.539 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, really, really easy. 01:11:07.619 --> 01:11:10.321 [Riv (DM)]: For the distance that you need to travel, you don't actually need to get that much elevation. 01:11:10.761 --> 01:11:16.444 [Riv (DM)]: You could probably just go up the hill behind you a couple hundred feet and you'd be sorted. 01:11:17.805 --> 01:11:22.587 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And then a tentacle will come from the cursed water a couple hundred feet and snatch us down. 01:11:23.064 --> 01:11:25.585 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, this whole arc has been making you guys terrified of rivers. 01:11:27.186 --> 01:11:35.529 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so you're just sort of scrambled down to get to the Valley Bed, so you can just head back up if you wanted, charge up your cuffs and jump across very, very easily. 01:11:37.169 --> 01:11:38.590 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I guess that's the plan. 01:11:38.610 --> 01:11:41.951 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna scramble up the hill the way we came. 01:11:45.477 --> 01:11:46.038 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 01:11:46.098 --> 01:11:47.359 [Riv (DM)]: Who's gonna spend the spell slots? 01:11:48.300 --> 01:11:53.183 [Riv (DM)]: It can be all the same person or it can be lots of different people, as long as there are five second level spell slots that get spent. 01:11:54.204 --> 01:11:58.928 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was going to do my long rest that I didn't do before to replenish my slots. 01:12:00.229 --> 01:12:01.710 [Vael (Berberis)]: I have not replenished. 01:12:01.770 --> 01:12:03.031 [Vael (Berberis)]: Why did you not replenish my slots? 01:12:09.010 --> 01:12:11.471 [Riv (DM)]: Oh no, it wiped your temporary health points as well by the looks. 01:12:12.031 --> 01:12:14.752 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, that's not working out then, but it's not clearing my spells. 01:12:14.792 --> 01:12:16.432 [Vael (Berberis)]: Wait, where's my spell slots gone? 01:12:18.153 --> 01:12:21.814 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I had to close my character window and re-open it, because they vanished. 01:12:22.614 --> 01:12:23.734 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, mine vanished too. 01:12:24.134 --> 01:12:25.955 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just — oh, maybe I'll reload. 01:12:26.335 --> 01:12:29.916 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just looking at character sheet, I can see them all there, so yeah, maybe just reload. 01:12:30.276 --> 01:12:31.116 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, mine's good. 01:12:31.656 --> 01:12:37.718 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I opened Vale there and then I closed it and I reopened and then they disappeared, and it had no spell slots. 01:12:39.987 --> 01:12:46.490 [Vael (Berberis)]: I have limited, so I'll burn one on mine. 01:12:46.510 --> 01:12:48.771 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll burn one. 01:12:49.712 --> 01:12:51.993 [Vael (Berberis)]: We should all charge our own. 01:12:52.173 --> 01:12:52.993 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll burn a level two. 01:12:53.353 --> 01:12:55.394 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, actually, everyone should have a second level. 01:12:55.414 --> 01:12:56.595 [Riv (DM)]: You're all spellcasters, eh? 01:12:57.035 --> 01:12:59.056 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, look at that. 01:12:59.176 --> 01:12:59.956 [Riv (DM)]: How convenient. 01:13:00.617 --> 01:13:01.117 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 01:13:02.057 --> 01:13:03.198 [Riv (DM)]: You all line up on top of the cliff? 01:13:04.446 --> 01:13:04.966 [Riv (DM)]: Look at each other. 01:13:04.986 --> 01:13:07.308 [Riv (DM)]: I hope that you've judged the distance correctly. 01:13:08.329 --> 01:13:11.011 [Riv (DM)]: Probably don't quite want to land in the river, but... 01:13:12.132 --> 01:13:12.432 [Riv (DM)]: Probably... 01:13:12.713 --> 01:13:16.035 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, you just did this yesterday, so you've probably got the vibe down. 01:13:17.416 --> 01:13:19.338 [Vael (Berberis)]: So we've got a bit of breathing room? 01:13:19.358 --> 01:13:22.020 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're not landing right on the shoreline? 01:13:22.681 --> 01:13:23.001 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:13:23.041 --> 01:13:24.742 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That bird's totally not coming back. 01:13:25.803 --> 01:13:28.024 [Riv (DM)]: and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun. 01:13:45.253 --> 01:13:47.194 [Riv (DM)]: and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun. 01:14:06.005 --> 01:14:07.226 [Riv (DM)]: And a visible bridge takes form! 01:14:34.673 --> 01:14:44.293 [Riv (DM)]: we're on the road and uh i assume we're just booking it because we're not too worried about stealth right is that a dirt road or is it we're not printing but we're not 01:14:44.808 --> 01:14:46.209 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think there's any point in sneaking. 01:14:46.229 --> 01:14:48.231 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 01:14:48.491 --> 01:14:52.014 [Riv (DM)]: It's not like paved, it's not cobbled or anything, but it seems reasonably well-maintained. 01:14:52.794 --> 01:14:55.637 [Riv (DM)]: And you can see, as you look down, there are plenty of prints. 01:14:55.817 --> 01:15:00.881 [Riv (DM)]: There are hooves and paw marks and all sorts of things like that. 01:15:00.901 --> 01:15:03.463 [Riv (DM)]: You can see some fairly large clawed paws as well. 01:15:05.324 --> 01:15:08.687 [Riv (DM)]: But, you know, like hundreds and hundreds and dozens and dozens. 01:15:09.127 --> 01:15:13.711 [Lacer (Kai)]: I like to put my hand down to the clearest paw mark and see how big they are compared to my hand. 01:15:14.288 --> 01:15:17.871 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean there are a few that are sort of smaller, as you sort of look around a little bit. 01:15:17.971 --> 01:15:19.072 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an investigation check. 01:15:21.694 --> 01:15:22.394 [Riv (DM)]: Or a survival check. 01:15:22.614 --> 01:15:24.095 [Riv (DM)]: Survival, probably, for this one. 01:15:25.716 --> 01:15:25.997 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:15:28.879 --> 01:15:29.860 [Riv (DM)]: I can survive. 01:15:31.481 --> 01:15:32.902 [Riv (DM)]: That was all about track and prints. 01:15:35.443 --> 01:15:50.905 [Riv (DM)]: yeah very good um after sort of um sort of scrambling around a little bit in the in the dirt you do find a ball print that is like easily twice the size of your hand oh geez there's some big 01:15:51.943 --> 01:15:59.148 [Lacer (Kai)]: a pawprint, so it's like a big, legged, legged... do I see some sort of pattern? 01:15:59.188 --> 01:16:00.849 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it like four legs? 01:16:01.229 --> 01:16:01.870 [Lacer (Kai)]: Two legs? 01:16:02.110 --> 01:16:03.591 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or like six legs? 01:16:04.472 --> 01:16:08.775 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Could it just be a funny elf with a stick with a footprint on it? 01:16:11.176 --> 01:16:12.297 [Lacer (Kai)]: Never know. 01:16:12.717 --> 01:16:18.561 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd just say there's something big around here that takes this road that has four legs. 01:16:19.082 --> 01:16:20.883 [Lacer (Kai)]: I assume four legs, but I could be wrong. 01:16:22.606 --> 01:16:23.346 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:16:23.406 --> 01:16:24.526 [Riv (DM)]: Let's get another Survival Check. 01:16:29.247 --> 01:16:30.048 [Lacer (Kai)]: Go on, Dondarr. 01:16:31.508 --> 01:16:31.808 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Meow? 01:16:32.268 --> 01:16:32.448 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What? 01:16:34.048 --> 01:16:36.649 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does someone help Dondarr with a Survival Check? 01:16:38.489 --> 01:16:40.370 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, has Dondarr gone retarded again? 01:16:48.772 --> 01:16:49.952 [Riv (DM)]: Aww, good. 01:16:50.984 --> 01:17:08.710 [Riv (DM)]: um yeah i mean so you're on the road now so the uh the hazards that you may have encountered um are actually gonna be much much easier to avoid you do notice um a little while on this leg sort of look up across uh sort of rising up into the foothills here off to your right 01:17:09.790 --> 01:17:13.771 [Riv (DM)]: They're like pretty massive mushrooms, or they look like fungus. 01:17:14.051 --> 01:17:19.613 [Riv (DM)]: There's sort of spore clouds that are misting in the air, almost seeming to glow a little bit. 01:17:21.633 --> 01:17:23.414 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, they're off, out of your way. 01:17:24.254 --> 01:17:26.575 [Riv (DM)]: Not on the road, but you can just carry on past them if you wanted. 01:17:30.436 --> 01:17:31.316 [Riv (DM)]: At least you wanted to check them out. 01:17:34.737 --> 01:17:37.819 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh man, you're tempting me with... 01:17:37.900 --> 01:17:41.042 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's always the mushrooms, man. 01:17:41.062 --> 01:17:43.023 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nah, I'm done with mushrooms. 01:17:44.164 --> 01:17:46.346 [Lacer (Kai)]: I learned from Berberus to not touch anything. 01:17:46.666 --> 01:17:51.310 [Lacer (Kai)]: He told me not to touch anything and don't look at anything, because they might just mess you up. 01:17:52.050 --> 01:17:53.891 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Don't even think about touching or looking at it. 01:17:54.392 --> 01:17:56.153 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wanna, but like... yeah. 01:17:57.094 --> 01:17:59.316 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Keep your eyes on the heels of the person in front of you. 01:18:00.036 --> 01:18:02.338 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just gonna keep walking and looking ahead. 01:18:03.660 --> 01:18:06.741 [Riv (DM)]: You hear, um, you hear that howl of the wolf. 01:18:07.021 --> 01:18:07.721 [Riv (DM)]: This time closer. 01:18:10.601 --> 01:18:13.582 [Vael (Berberis)]: Direction-wise, is it this side of the river or the other side of the river? 01:18:14.142 --> 01:18:14.762 [Riv (DM)]: Your side of the river. 01:18:14.942 --> 01:18:16.283 [Riv (DM)]: Seems to be coming from behind you. 01:18:18.023 --> 01:18:18.303 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Ooh. 01:18:19.143 --> 01:18:19.923 [Riv (DM)]: One wolf? 01:18:20.804 --> 01:18:20.964 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep. 01:18:26.745 --> 01:18:28.045 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I wonder if he'll be friends with me. 01:18:30.548 --> 01:18:38.754 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wanna know, as we get closer to the moon-like structure attached to the moonbeam, does it get brighter? 01:18:39.055 --> 01:18:41.737 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does the surroundings get brighter as we get closer? 01:18:45.223 --> 01:18:46.724 [Riv (DM)]: Not, like, massively. 01:18:46.825 --> 01:18:47.966 [Riv (DM)]: Like, yeah, a bit. 01:18:48.046 --> 01:18:58.296 [Riv (DM)]: Like, the moon is, like, sort of casting light, but in the same way that, like, if you were to drive in a certain direction, like, the moon light itself isn't going to get a hold of it, right? 01:18:59.076 --> 01:18:59.297 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:18:59.317 --> 01:19:00.177 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:19:00.197 --> 01:19:00.678 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, cool. 01:19:02.873 --> 01:19:30.707 [Lacer (Kai)]: so wolf is coming behind us and it doesn't actually take that long until you start to hear the rumble of many many steps do you do you want me to set up the dome quickly takes me a minute this is probably the people we're sort of looking for the hunt you're talking about the hunt right um okay 01:19:31.608 --> 01:19:33.068 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who wants to talk to them? 01:19:33.108 --> 01:19:38.509 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I can give you some enhanced ability from my goddess. 01:19:40.810 --> 01:19:43.170 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Only those of royal blood should address the hunt. 01:19:46.231 --> 01:19:47.091 [JC (Ryo)]: Do not bring that up. 01:19:48.011 --> 01:19:50.172 [JC (Ryo)]: I just slap him across the fucking face. 01:19:52.152 --> 01:19:54.133 [JC (Ryo)]: Just fucking hard as I can. 01:19:54.153 --> 01:19:59.834 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, thank goodness there's no one of like that here. 01:20:05.298 --> 01:20:06.499 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right? 01:20:06.519 --> 01:20:08.100 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can roll an unarmed attack. 01:20:10.402 --> 01:20:13.384 [Riv (DM)]: It's up to Riho if he wanted to actually do any damage. 01:20:19.950 --> 01:20:21.431 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, all good. 01:20:21.691 --> 01:20:24.113 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, now all of you can now hear the thundering. 01:20:26.408 --> 01:20:27.208 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna... 01:20:27.868 --> 01:20:35.010 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna give Enhance-Ability Charisma to Berberus, cause he seems to know a whole lot about fey BS. 01:20:36.691 --> 01:20:38.891 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know anything about all the noise of this bullshit. 01:20:41.352 --> 01:20:45.293 [Vael (Berberis)]: The person with minus one charisma, yep. 01:20:47.234 --> 01:20:51.595 [Riv (DM)]: That howl again, the thundering now closer, they seem to probably just be around the bin. 01:20:52.955 --> 01:20:54.316 [Riv (DM)]: Any last preparation? 01:20:54.416 --> 01:20:55.896 [Riv (DM)]: How are you gonna be received? 01:20:59.318 --> 01:21:03.880 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll just turn to the group and say, we did not pray, we did not run. 01:21:04.800 --> 01:21:08.801 [Vael (Berberis)]: Last thing you want to do while being chased is run, because that makes you pray. 01:21:09.902 --> 01:21:10.102 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:21:10.982 --> 01:21:11.162 [Riv (DM)]: Oh shit. 01:21:11.242 --> 01:21:11.902 [Riv (DM)]: Stand aground. 01:21:13.623 --> 01:21:16.184 [Riv (DM)]: The first thing you see coming around the corner, uh, 01:21:17.227 --> 01:21:19.529 [Riv (DM)]: It is a wolf-like looking creature. 01:21:20.209 --> 01:21:21.871 [Riv (DM)]: You've seen something like this before, actually. 01:21:22.611 --> 01:21:30.938 [Riv (DM)]: Many, many, many, many weeks ago, on the road to Darmouth, you encountered a bunch of wargs in the evening. 01:21:31.999 --> 01:21:34.801 [Riv (DM)]: As they attacked your camp when you were sleeping with the Fine Golds. 01:21:35.562 --> 01:21:38.544 [Riv (DM)]: This one is about three or four times the size of one of those wargs. 01:21:38.884 --> 01:21:39.445 [Riv (DM)]: It is huge. 01:21:39.505 --> 01:21:41.587 [Riv (DM)]: It stands probably higher than you stand tall. 01:21:42.267 --> 01:21:48.488 [Riv (DM)]: — its entire head probably twice the size of yours, and its mouth could easily snap your head in one go. 01:21:49.908 --> 01:21:54.269 [Riv (DM)]: It comes around, it sort of like skids a little bit as it like first comes around the corner and looks at you. 01:21:54.949 --> 01:21:59.070 [Riv (DM)]: It pauses a moment and looks back over its shoulder as you hear this thundering of many, many steps. 01:21:59.710 --> 01:22:06.071 [Riv (DM)]: And coming around the corner you see a whole throng of hooved creatures. 01:22:06.791 --> 01:22:09.452 [Riv (DM)]: At first you think they're just riders, people riding 01:22:10.695 --> 01:22:19.723 [Riv (DM)]: on a dozen or so horses, but as they start getting closer you see, nope, the upper body is attached to the lower part of the horse. 01:22:19.843 --> 01:22:28.191 [Riv (DM)]: These appear to be centaurs, all got sort of armor on, carrying spears, and they are just heading straight for you. 01:22:29.019 --> 01:22:57.022 [Riv (DM)]: um they come around the corner and as they start hitting you up you can see there's one really big one out in front slightly taller than the rest of them he's got sort of grayish like more gray um here um sort of longer um ponytail that's sort of strung down his back he's got an eye patch across his face covering his bad eye um this whole group just encircles you and they sort of start to hands forward slightly out showing i'm not holding a weapon yeah 01:22:58.494 --> 01:23:03.117 [Riv (DM)]: Weapons down, pointing directly in your direction as they start to gather up. 01:23:03.277 --> 01:23:06.439 [Riv (DM)]: And I think, why don't we, just for a bit of excitement, let's put this on. 01:23:08.020 --> 01:23:10.961 [Riv (DM)]: You are encircled as they're all now facing in. 01:23:11.222 --> 01:23:13.183 [Riv (DM)]: There's a completely unbroken circle. 01:23:13.483 --> 01:23:14.904 [Riv (DM)]: Spears down, pointing in your direction. 01:23:15.604 --> 01:23:18.286 [Riv (DM)]: And this big grey one just sort of like presses through the group. 01:23:19.326 --> 01:23:25.690 [Riv (DM)]: And you can hear, and almost like, well you can kind of see the giant warg just circling around the outside as well, saliva dripping from its mouth. 01:23:26.468 --> 01:23:28.890 [Riv (DM)]: and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun. 01:23:55.229 --> 01:23:57.310 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: that a beauty could come to love, right? 01:23:58.731 --> 01:24:02.352 [Riv (DM)]: I guess anyone could love anything if you get to know it. 01:24:02.992 --> 01:24:03.273 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:24:03.613 --> 01:24:09.715 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, he... What's your first response when he speaks in this guttural language you don't understand? 01:24:10.896 --> 01:24:14.918 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Lundar takes out a pipe, puts it in his mouth, and looks relaxed. 01:24:15.858 --> 01:24:22.081 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, I mean, as soon as you go to reach for something in your pocket, a spear comes through and just like jams into your arm and whacks you. 01:24:26.228 --> 01:24:28.009 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, that's disappointing. 01:24:28.149 --> 01:24:33.412 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't actually hit you to do any damage, but it does, like, knock your arm away to stop you from going into your pocket. 01:24:33.472 --> 01:24:34.953 [Riv (DM)]: Do you continue to try reaching in? 01:24:34.993 --> 01:24:36.594 [Riv (DM)]: Because he did technically fail to hit you. 01:24:38.155 --> 01:24:38.355 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: No. 01:24:38.896 --> 01:24:43.658 [Riv (DM)]: But this guy, this centaur beside you, kind of got, like, an aggressive look on his face. 01:24:43.859 --> 01:24:45.640 [Riv (DM)]: You just hear him, like, sort of yell something at you. 01:24:48.121 --> 01:24:51.843 [Riv (DM)]: I feel you probably catch the meaning of without needing to necessarily even understand the language. 01:24:53.264 --> 01:24:54.385 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'll scowl, but I won't. 01:24:55.691 --> 01:24:59.977 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: in order to save the world. 01:25:16.778 --> 01:25:21.761 [Riv (DM)]: The tall grey one speaks again, this time in kind of stunted, broken common. 01:25:22.522 --> 01:25:24.803 [Riv (DM)]: And you just hear him say, Who are you? 01:25:25.443 --> 01:25:26.164 [Riv (DM)]: Why are you here? 01:25:32.267 --> 01:25:35.689 [Vael (Berberis)]: Travelers, we're seeking the city — what's the name of the city again? 01:25:36.629 --> 01:25:37.490 [Vael (Berberis)]: Caer Nystral. 01:25:38.650 --> 01:25:39.671 [Vael (Berberis)]: The Dawnless City? 01:25:40.391 --> 01:25:41.572 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep, the Dawnless City. 01:25:43.082 --> 01:25:47.324 [Vael (Berberis)]: This is why the face should not be the person who has no memory or brain at the moment. 01:25:51.305 --> 01:25:53.726 [Riv (DM)]: There are no travelers in this land without our knowing. 01:25:55.347 --> 01:25:56.087 [Riv (DM)]: How did you get here? 01:25:57.147 --> 01:25:58.588 [Riv (DM)]: And what is your intention in the city? 01:26:03.110 --> 01:26:03.950 [Vael (Berberis)]: We walked upon our feet. 01:26:07.371 --> 01:26:07.851 [Vael (Berberis)]: Intention? 01:26:11.539 --> 01:26:12.219 [Vael (Berberis)]: A bit of everything. 01:26:12.480 --> 01:26:14.081 [Vael (Berberis)]: A bit of trade, a bit of adventure. 01:26:16.082 --> 01:26:17.223 [Vael (Berberis)]: Maybe a little diplomacy. 01:26:21.485 --> 01:26:29.891 [Riv (DM)]: You see the grey-haired one look to his side at the one beside him on his right hand. 01:26:31.252 --> 01:26:32.692 [Riv (DM)]: They share a look. 01:26:32.833 --> 01:26:33.793 [Riv (DM)]: Something passes between them. 01:26:35.774 --> 01:26:36.595 [Riv (DM)]: Where did you come from? 01:26:45.223 --> 01:27:11.610 [Riv (DM)]: the material plane far far away you just you just shift through the planes and come here upon our lands look at you you and you i see elven features upon you you lie we did snow for a while we needed to get some supplies 01:27:14.493 --> 01:27:15.353 [Vael (Berberis)]: Alright, um... 01:27:16.514 --> 01:27:17.534 [Lacer (Kai)]: I pinch my ears. 01:27:17.594 --> 01:27:19.635 [Lacer (Kai)]: They're like, I don't have elven ears. 01:27:22.975 --> 01:27:30.738 [Riv (DM)]: The people that live here in the Fae are probably very, very good at telling the subtleties, you know? 01:27:31.158 --> 01:27:37.800 [Riv (DM)]: Back on the Material Plane, if you don't quite take after your elven heritage, most people probably don't pick it, but... 01:27:38.638 --> 01:27:45.603 [Riv (DM)]: You're living in the land where this is where elves are naturally born, so very likely they will have spotted it. 01:27:46.003 --> 01:27:49.365 [Riv (DM)]: Let's get a persuasion check from someone. 01:27:50.105 --> 01:27:50.686 [Riv (DM)]: Probably... 01:27:51.827 --> 01:27:53.047 [Riv (DM)]: Probably Berberis is the diagnosed. 01:27:53.067 --> 01:27:53.788 [Lacer (Kai)]: Berberis. 01:27:53.848 --> 01:27:57.310 [Lacer (Kai)]: I had enhance ability, didn't I? 01:27:57.770 --> 01:27:59.431 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, you did, with Charisma. 01:28:00.072 --> 01:28:01.032 [Lacer (Kai)]: Put that at like a... 01:28:02.473 --> 01:28:03.134 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's advantage. 01:28:08.963 --> 01:28:09.303 [Vael (Berberis)]: Told you. 01:28:11.585 --> 01:28:14.767 [Riv (DM)]: People do not just come to our city for trade and diplomacy. 01:28:15.407 --> 01:28:16.068 [Riv (DM)]: Speak truth. 01:28:16.228 --> 01:28:17.108 [Riv (DM)]: What are your intentions? 01:28:20.170 --> 01:28:22.072 [Vael (Berberis)]: It is truth, trade, and diplomacy. 01:28:24.934 --> 01:28:31.758 [Vael (Berberis)]: The shiny ones wanted us to see what we could do about getting a truce back, I guess. 01:28:33.359 --> 01:28:37.162 [Vael (Berberis)]: And I'm not lying when I say that there is something in 01:28:38.045 --> 01:28:39.785 [Vael (Berberis)]: The city that we need. 01:28:39.805 --> 01:28:41.346 [Vael (Berberis)]: That we all need. 01:28:41.366 --> 01:28:43.726 [Vael (Berberis)]: The world needs. 01:28:45.126 --> 01:28:46.467 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The worlds need. 01:28:46.547 --> 01:28:48.067 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The planes need. 01:28:48.247 --> 01:28:48.687 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: All of them. 01:28:52.828 --> 01:28:59.129 [Riv (DM)]: The, um, again, the look between the main centaur and his right-hand man. 01:29:06.291 --> 01:29:07.071 [Riv (DM)]: Very interesting. 01:29:10.847 --> 01:29:11.568 [Riv (DM)]: Present your weapons. 01:29:12.849 --> 01:29:15.972 [Riv (DM)]: We'll take them and hold them, and we'll escort you to the city. 01:29:18.995 --> 01:29:19.976 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I keep my shield? 01:29:20.456 --> 01:29:20.636 [Riv (DM)]: No. 01:29:31.146 --> 01:29:32.768 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess at least we'll be safe, right? 01:29:32.948 --> 01:29:34.610 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we're getting escorted to the city. 01:29:38.639 --> 01:29:41.821 [Vael (Berberis)]: We have your word of our safe passage? 01:29:43.081 --> 01:29:43.521 [Riv (DM)]: Of course. 01:29:44.322 --> 01:29:46.563 [Riv (DM)]: The hunt rules these lands. 01:29:48.123 --> 01:29:49.444 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing happens without our say-so. 01:29:52.465 --> 01:29:52.885 [Vael (Berberis)]: I see. 01:29:56.887 --> 01:29:58.808 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's not like we really have an option. 01:29:59.448 --> 01:30:03.230 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, no, like, I guess I would like... 01:30:04.047 --> 01:30:10.909 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to surrender my weapons that he can see, I suppose, but not the bag I'm holding. 01:30:16.251 --> 01:30:17.791 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:30:17.811 --> 01:30:20.692 [Lacer (Kai)]: So do we temporarily mark off our weapons? 01:30:23.093 --> 01:30:24.133 [Riv (DM)]: Don't worry about it for now. 01:30:24.433 --> 01:30:27.614 [Riv (DM)]: That'll be a pain if we have to go and cross everything off the character sheets. 01:30:28.474 --> 01:30:30.315 [JC (Ryo)]: Do you want to just unequip everything? 01:30:31.192 --> 01:30:31.432 [Riv (DM)]: Nah. 01:30:31.752 --> 01:30:32.172 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, it's fine. 01:30:32.212 --> 01:30:32.952 [Riv (DM)]: We can remember. 01:30:34.313 --> 01:30:39.214 [Riv (DM)]: The, you know, the weapons get kind of bundled together, tied up into a set. 01:30:39.234 --> 01:30:42.135 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll hand him my shield when they go to take my stick. 01:30:42.195 --> 01:30:44.736 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll say, would you deny an old man his walking stick? 01:30:47.657 --> 01:30:48.177 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, God. 01:30:48.637 --> 01:30:50.877 [Riv (DM)]: I'll give you another persuasion check for that one. 01:30:54.596 --> 01:31:08.947 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: As a number of my weapons, my daggers are under my cloak, I would like to hand over everything except for the Renite Steel Dagger, pulling the other dagger from the same location-ish as the Renite Steel one. 01:31:09.007 --> 01:31:12.370 [Riv (DM)]: Do it with advantage, Bebris, because you've got your enhanceability. 01:31:16.733 --> 01:31:20.877 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Not that it matters anyway, like, any would— It's the sword from one side and one dagger from the other. 01:31:22.013 --> 01:31:25.354 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, Erendor, you can roll a Sleight of Hand check. 01:31:32.937 --> 01:31:33.297 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 01:31:34.257 --> 01:31:34.637 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 01:31:35.277 --> 01:31:36.198 [Riv (DM)]: Absolutely perfectly. 01:31:36.238 --> 01:31:40.719 [Riv (DM)]: The centaurs sort of come around gathering your weapons, chucking them in this sack, playing them up. 01:31:40.899 --> 01:31:42.860 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of splits between the two main guys. 01:31:44.500 --> 01:31:48.002 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, Erendor, you are able to maintain control of your Rheneite Steel Dagger. 01:31:48.922 --> 01:31:49.362 [Riv (DM)]: The wiser. 01:31:50.963 --> 01:31:52.283 [Riv (DM)]: and Berbera's Honest Sixteen. 01:32:18.272 --> 01:32:19.593 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna yell out. 01:32:19.693 --> 01:32:20.314 [Lacer (Kai)]: How far? 01:32:20.334 --> 01:32:22.575 [Lacer (Kai)]: About half a day's ride from here. 01:32:24.396 --> 01:32:26.138 [Lacer (Kai)]: Goddamn. 01:32:26.158 --> 01:32:27.799 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: These centaurs aren't giving us a ride? 01:32:29.700 --> 01:32:30.621 [Lacer (Kai)]: Pack marching. 01:32:30.701 --> 01:32:31.802 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're pack running. 01:32:32.042 --> 01:32:33.443 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, they're pack marching. 01:32:33.503 --> 01:32:34.744 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I do not say that out loud. 01:32:34.784 --> 01:32:36.365 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I imagine it would not go down well. 01:32:36.565 --> 01:32:38.446 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they're not horses. 01:32:38.466 --> 01:32:41.428 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna say, I don't know they're centaurs. 01:32:41.448 --> 01:32:43.650 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna say, so many horse people. 01:32:46.090 --> 01:33:03.460 [Riv (DM)]: at this um you just get like a dark glare from one of them hey you could transform and we could ride as old yeah but what about everyone else i only can do it for an hour yep okay cool um so you start they start 01:33:05.176 --> 01:33:06.858 [Riv (DM)]: in the direction of the glowing moon. 01:33:08.640 --> 01:33:13.385 [Riv (DM)]: After sort of an hour or so, you meet another large party similarly equipped. 01:33:13.405 --> 01:33:16.409 [Riv (DM)]: This time there are a couple of different wargs. 01:33:17.070 --> 01:33:17.650 [Riv (DM)]: You see a few 01:33:20.186 --> 01:33:30.469 [Riv (DM)]: People on horseback this time as well, like big black horses with sort of like slightly faintly glowing red eyes, people with sort of plate mail armor on, big tall helmets and swords over their shoulders. 01:33:30.489 --> 01:33:40.791 [Riv (DM)]: Some sort of words are spoken between the two parties, but they carry on off in their other direction that they were heading, and your party continues heading in the direction that you're going. 01:33:44.052 --> 01:33:58.196 [Riv (DM)]: As you travel along, you actually pick up, there's a little bit of a discussion and argument going on between the two main centaurs here, the older grey one and his right-hand man. 01:33:58.216 --> 01:34:04.978 [Riv (DM)]: You can hear them just sort of like, not like aggressively arguing, but there's a very heated discussion going on. 01:34:05.018 --> 01:34:08.619 [Riv (DM)]: And just to confirm, none of you, I assume, speak Sylvan, right? 01:34:09.902 --> 01:34:19.090 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nope, but I wanna use my insight to discern how, how, who's, who's, like, what's the feel. 01:34:20.050 --> 01:34:22.793 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can we see our languages on the sheet? 01:34:23.393 --> 01:34:27.316 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, it's on the main, the first, like, your first character. 01:34:28.037 --> 01:34:30.039 [Lacer (Kai)]: Elvish, Giant, Goblin, and Druidic. 01:34:30.099 --> 01:34:35.143 [Lacer (Kai)]: I got Common, Dwarvish, Elvish, and Druidic, yeah. 01:34:36.304 --> 01:34:38.386 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, um, roll an insight sheet. 01:34:43.140 --> 01:34:43.800 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, no. 01:34:43.820 --> 01:34:45.401 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, I can't tell what that means. 01:34:45.481 --> 01:34:46.141 [Riv (DM)]: Language is weird. 01:34:46.161 --> 01:34:47.202 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of backs are turned to you. 01:34:47.402 --> 01:34:50.543 [Riv (DM)]: You're also sort of puffing a bit from the exertion of running along the road as well. 01:34:52.604 --> 01:34:53.344 [Lacer (Kai)]: They're too tall. 01:34:53.564 --> 01:34:54.545 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can't see their face. 01:34:54.625 --> 01:34:54.845 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:34:56.407 --> 01:34:58.769 [Riv (DM)]: A few more hours go by, and you're starting to get exhausted. 01:35:00.791 --> 01:35:14.244 [Riv (DM)]: Get the feeling, I think, if you hadn't rolled so well on your initial two survival checks, your progress would have been slower, and so this would be calling for constitution saves to see if you end up getting exhausted. 01:35:14.724 --> 01:35:19.429 [Riv (DM)]: But because you managed to make such good ground actually on the first leg of the journey, I think 01:35:19.949 --> 01:35:26.874 [Riv (DM)]: Just as you start getting closer to this floating moon in the sky is when your exhaustion starts to kick in. 01:35:27.635 --> 01:35:29.916 [Riv (DM)]: You start to arrive at your destination. 01:35:37.361 --> 01:35:40.384 [Riv (DM)]: The city is set in a crater. 01:35:41.182 --> 01:35:58.859 [Riv (DM)]: When you start getting closer and closer to this glowing beam of light with the moon suspended above it, all of the flora sort of disappears and becomes a barren wasteland, and the road starts to wind its way up into this sort of jagged peak ahead of you. 01:36:00.872 --> 01:36:08.356 [Riv (DM)]: You don't know it until you get to the top of it, but as soon as you crest the top of that sort of peak, you realize it's not a natural formation. 01:36:08.636 --> 01:36:13.938 [Riv (DM)]: It is the edge of a massive, giant crater, miles and miles across. 01:36:14.679 --> 01:36:22.343 [Riv (DM)]: And nestled right down in the center of the crater is the city of Eternal Night, Caer Nystral, the Dawnless City. 01:36:23.583 --> 01:36:26.645 [Riv (DM)]: You can see the road sort of winds its way down towards it, and 01:36:28.144 --> 01:36:50.517 [Riv (DM)]: Circling the entire city is this great sort of black wall that's just wreathed in thorns and brambles and the key entryway as you can see on the road that you're heading down this massive massive gate of two like sort of huge almost like trees growing out the top on either side that appear to be they kind of look like handlers 01:36:51.477 --> 01:36:55.380 [Riv (DM)]: from a deer, except they are these big, gnarled, brambly trees. 01:36:56.441 --> 01:37:00.243 [Riv (DM)]: This is the Antler's Gate. 01:37:01.064 --> 01:37:14.293 [Riv (DM)]: You can see the sort of different tiers of the city, so there is sort of these concentric rings of different boroughs within the city itself, raising up into a very, very central — sort of like, you know how a crater, when it 01:37:15.834 --> 01:37:23.584 [Riv (DM)]: When a crater forms there's always like a little divot in the center of it where the land is melted and rise up into a little central region. 01:37:24.044 --> 01:37:31.613 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so there you can see there is a black citadel built on the sort of raised up part of the very very center of the crater. 01:37:34.245 --> 01:37:38.566 [Riv (DM)]: The road winds all the way down and the party that you're in is sort of pushing you there. 01:37:39.346 --> 01:37:48.828 [Riv (DM)]: And looking sort of to the side here, still on the outside of the walls, you can see the landscape becoming sort of kind of nasty, for lack of a better word. 01:37:49.088 --> 01:37:50.289 [Riv (DM)]: Giant spiders. 01:37:51.749 --> 01:38:03.212 [Riv (DM)]: You can see sort of unnatural mounds of dirt that look kind of like barrows, like the sort of these large areas where you would normally actually bury lots and lots of bodies. 01:38:05.012 --> 01:38:34.005 [Riv (DM)]: There are mushrooms now that are sort of glowing with phosphorescence and there are things moving out here often too quick to see and because of the sort of awkward light here it's quite dark but this weird contrasting shimmering white light from the moon above makes it kind of difficult to like focus on anything but yeah you can see things moving out there things skitter or small very narrow like spindly things peeking up from behind rocks and glaring at you 01:38:37.155 --> 01:38:40.077 [Vael (Berberis)]: Charming neighborhood, I say to the centaur leader. 01:38:41.397 --> 01:38:42.838 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, no response. 01:38:45.359 --> 01:38:47.461 [Riv (DM)]: It isn't too long though, actually, after you say that. 01:38:48.021 --> 01:38:50.022 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of, you may be like halfway down the crater. 01:38:51.683 --> 01:38:53.084 [Riv (DM)]: They stop. 01:38:53.184 --> 01:38:56.225 [Riv (DM)]: The leader, the grave-haired one, stops and 01:38:59.190 --> 01:39:00.611 [Riv (DM)]: Discussion takes place. 01:39:01.452 --> 01:39:06.075 [Riv (DM)]: The two sort of kind of just like lock eyes a bit. 01:39:07.155 --> 01:39:14.320 [Riv (DM)]: And the other one, the right-hand man, just sort of you see him like kind of relent or something, like you can see his shoulders, like the fight goes out of him. 01:39:15.381 --> 01:39:20.505 [Riv (DM)]: The grey-haired one barks a few orders, and the rest of the centaurs sort of like salute, 01:39:21.415 --> 01:39:21.695 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, shit. 01:39:53.953 --> 01:39:55.054 [Riv (DM)]: We are, after all, under your protection. 01:39:55.134 --> 01:39:57.335 [Riv (DM)]: We shall follow your lead. 01:40:23.683 --> 01:40:23.823 Hmm. 01:40:24.543 --> 01:40:25.064 [Riv (DM)]: Tried to keep up. 01:40:25.984 --> 01:40:28.665 [Riv (DM)]: He spots a way out into the Barrow Mounds. 01:40:29.346 --> 01:40:31.287 [Riv (DM)]: And now this is, this is tough going. 01:40:31.307 --> 01:40:44.813 [Riv (DM)]: You have to sort of like pick your way between large spiderwebs that, you know, some of the actual threads themselves are thicker than your fingers, sort of stepping over them here and there and trying to avoid these nasty looking mushrooms. 01:40:46.514 --> 01:40:55.075 [Riv (DM)]: As you get a bit deeper into these barrows you can see, like, there's a little opening over there and this little mound and a couple of glowing green eyes are just staring out at you watching. 01:40:55.956 --> 01:40:59.776 [Riv (DM)]: This does not look like a hospitable place for you. 01:41:00.957 --> 01:41:04.237 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna whisper to Erendor, can you hear what the spiders are saying? 01:41:10.358 --> 01:41:10.618 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: No. 01:41:13.579 --> 01:41:13.819 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay. 01:41:17.818 --> 01:41:39.967 [Riv (DM)]: They lead you deeper in, and you probably — you circle around the city, maybe 45 degrees or so from the counterclockwise, from the Antler Gates, and you come to a very, very large mound of a kind of built-up stone opening, ancient-looking stone here. 01:41:45.007 --> 01:41:53.249 [Riv (DM)]: The two centaurs stop at the entrance and kind of wait for you to catch up and get your breath. 01:41:54.649 --> 01:41:55.229 [Lacer (Kai)]: Slow down. 01:41:55.630 --> 01:41:56.690 [Lacer (Kai)]: You walk too fast. 01:41:59.030 --> 01:41:59.430 [Riv (DM)]: It's fine. 01:41:59.470 --> 01:42:00.971 [Riv (DM)]: We have reached our destination. 01:42:02.511 --> 01:42:03.832 [Riv (DM)]: You go first. 01:42:05.272 --> 01:42:05.792 [Riv (DM)]: You'll follow. 01:42:08.193 --> 01:42:08.993 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's he pointing at? 01:42:09.673 --> 01:42:09.993 [Riv (DM)]: All of you. 01:42:13.833 --> 01:42:14.333 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's safe. 01:42:15.053 --> 01:42:15.674 [Lacer (Kai)]: One by one. 01:42:17.314 --> 01:42:17.934 [Riv (DM)]: No questions. 01:42:18.635 --> 01:42:18.895 [Riv (DM)]: Enter. 01:42:23.797 --> 01:42:24.237 [Vael (Berberis)]: In we go. 01:42:24.817 --> 01:42:27.378 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll just nod my head and then step through the door first. 01:42:28.258 --> 01:42:29.659 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, I still at least have my stick. 01:42:30.782 --> 01:42:37.547 [Lacer (Kai)]: Lucky for me, I guess I walk in and cast Guidance on myself. 01:42:38.248 --> 01:42:41.070 [Lacer (Kai)]: What components does Guidance require? 01:42:41.090 --> 01:42:41.430 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nothing. 01:42:41.610 --> 01:42:42.511 [Lacer (Kai)]: Verbal and Semitic, apparently. 01:42:59.987 --> 01:43:24.439 [Riv (DM)]: um give me a sleight of handshake all right he starts talking and i'm like shush will you yeah just to just to try and muffle the sound on him yeah stop making so much okay no that's great with with rio's help you can take it with advantage oh cool nice distraction i'll roll again uh 01:43:30.702 --> 01:43:31.222 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh better. 01:43:32.823 --> 01:43:34.963 [JC (Ryo)]: That was sitting on 20 for so long on my screen. 01:43:35.163 --> 01:43:36.744 [Lacer (Kai)]: I know, me too, I saw it. 01:43:36.784 --> 01:43:40.084 [Riv (DM)]: Awesome. 01:43:40.125 --> 01:43:42.625 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think you managed to get away with it. 01:43:44.206 --> 01:43:57.029 [Riv (DM)]: The tunnel leads down, it gets colder and damper, and darker as well, until eventually you do start to see a bit of sort of faint greenish light glowing up the tunnels as you get deeper and deeper in. 01:43:58.633 --> 01:44:11.460 [Riv (DM)]: You hear some voices chattering their way up the tunnels towards you, and you enter a large sort of cavern, maybe sort of 30 or 40 feet wide. 01:44:12.480 --> 01:44:19.924 [Riv (DM)]: Cobwebs again everywhere, the whole floor is just blanketed with cobwebs, large boulders and mushrooms spread aside around the cavern area. 01:44:20.564 --> 01:44:27.008 [Riv (DM)]: In the very very center of this room you can see a big like fire pit with a huge cauldron above it. 01:44:27.568 --> 01:44:28.449 [Riv (DM)]: Um, it's just bubbling. 01:44:28.629 --> 01:44:31.410 [Riv (DM)]: It's like this green sort of liquid that's popping and gurgling. 01:44:31.970 --> 01:44:39.954 [Riv (DM)]: You have all this steam just, like, lifting up into the ceiling and passing through some racks in the, I guess, bramble above or something like that. 01:44:40.915 --> 01:44:47.418 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and there is a figure that is just, like, hunched over, currently stirring the pot. 01:44:48.099 --> 01:44:52.021 [Riv (DM)]: It looks up as you walk in, and you see—you hear, like, a... 01:44:53.561 --> 01:44:53.962 [Riv (DM)]: It's okay. 01:44:55.530 --> 01:44:57.091 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm going to whisper to Erendor. 01:44:57.471 --> 01:44:58.711 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you remember the sea hag? 01:44:59.512 --> 01:45:04.074 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm getting the same vibes. 01:45:04.494 --> 01:45:08.195 [Riv (DM)]: You see this croonish figure. 01:45:08.295 --> 01:45:13.577 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of hard to see through the steam and the mist from the cauldron. 01:45:15.198 --> 01:45:24.642 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear a voice start to be like, and then you see the two centaurs come in behind you as well. 01:45:26.288 --> 01:45:29.991 [Riv (DM)]: and, as the centaurs enter the room, the voice just stops for a moment. 01:45:34.314 --> 01:45:42.901 [Riv (DM)]: The figure comes around the cauldron, and as it does, like, you know, through the steam and the mist, you're sure that you see this, like, 01:45:44.293 --> 01:45:58.843 [Riv (DM)]: Ancient, old, hideous, like, creature, this woman, this boils and broken skin and arms twisting in wrong directions and claws the size, like, the length of your forearm. 01:45:59.064 --> 01:46:02.686 [Riv (DM)]: But as this figure sort of comes around the cauldron, you can see... 01:46:03.967 --> 01:46:33.083 [Riv (DM)]: You must have just been mistaken, it must have been like a trick of the um of the light or something because it's an old old woman she's got like sunken lids um she's got a hood up like quite a frayed patch sort of cloak um sort of scraggly like gray hair pouring around her face um but you know she just appears some old old lady just hunched over and just sort of like hobbling her way over she kind of rubs her hand together and says oh what have we got here 01:46:33.783 --> 01:46:34.645 [Riv (DM)]: What are these then? 01:46:35.948 --> 01:46:42.823 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear the Gray Centaur speak again in the language that you don't understand. 01:46:44.531 --> 01:46:58.022 [Riv (DM)]: And the old woman, nice old woman, kind of like listens and nods, and you see a slight smile, signed a form, and the smile grows wider as the centaur speaks. 01:46:59.583 --> 01:47:02.645 [Riv (DM)]: She says, Oh, good, good. 01:47:03.826 --> 01:47:06.088 [Riv (DM)]: I imagine you all have a story to tell. 01:47:07.129 --> 01:47:12.013 [Riv (DM)]: Well, what are you all doing here? 01:47:13.280 --> 01:47:16.561 [Riv (DM)]: And what are we going to do with you? 01:47:20.503 --> 01:47:24.305 [Riv (DM)]: I think, why don't we take a break? 01:47:25.005 --> 01:47:27.666 [Riv (DM)]: It's been, I think we've been going for nearly two hours. 01:47:29.287 --> 01:47:36.690 [Riv (DM)]: Take a break and see what we do in this situation when we get back. 01:47:42.073 --> 02:21:42.125 ================= Session Break ================= 02:22:44.846 --> 02:22:45.106 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 02:22:45.546 --> 02:22:46.446 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, good luck with that. 02:22:46.827 --> 02:22:48.267 [JC (Ryo)]: Um, okay. 02:22:49.407 --> 02:22:51.588 [JC (Ryo)]: Let me... Hey look, they're both ugly. 02:22:51.608 --> 02:22:52.389 [JC (Ryo)]: They're made for each other. 02:22:54.269 --> 02:22:55.990 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So is Centaur Dex bigger than... 02:22:57.704 --> 02:22:58.845 [Riv (DM)]: All right, all right, all right. 02:22:59.045 --> 02:23:00.967 [Riv (DM)]: What, what? 02:23:01.007 --> 02:23:03.729 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What, gore is okay, but sex isn't? 02:23:03.829 --> 02:23:04.169 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay. 02:23:05.250 --> 02:23:07.031 [Riv (DM)]: The... old woman. 02:23:07.772 --> 02:23:08.512 [Riv (DM)]: Standing in front of you. 02:23:09.333 --> 02:23:19.261 [Riv (DM)]: Um... Let me just, um... After that coldly we ground myself back in the immersion. 02:23:20.902 --> 02:23:21.282 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:23:23.244 --> 02:23:25.926 [Riv (DM)]: So she's... she's come around the cauldron, and... 02:23:28.541 --> 02:23:53.275 [Riv (DM)]: exchanged a few words with the centaur and she sort of takes you all in because you're good looking over she says um ah so caradoc here informs me that you're from the shining city how interesting well sorry what did you say their name was again yeah caradoc caradoc 02:23:54.269 --> 02:23:55.689 [Riv (DM)]: Chara — he didn't introduce himself. 02:23:55.930 --> 02:23:56.710 [Riv (DM)]: So rude. 02:23:58.250 --> 02:23:59.331 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It's a language barrier. 02:23:59.391 --> 02:24:00.791 [Riv (DM)]: That's completely fine. 02:24:02.132 --> 02:24:03.392 [Riv (DM)]: Please, please, take a seat. 02:24:03.732 --> 02:24:13.015 [Riv (DM)]: And she, like, gestures with her hands, and a couple of chairs just sort of materialize out of the roots from the ground, like, hit you in the back of the legs and sort of, like, force you to sit. 02:24:13.335 --> 02:24:17.577 [Riv (DM)]: And, like, vines and brambles start to wind their way up your legs, locking you in place. 02:24:19.217 --> 02:24:21.498 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, technically we're from the material realm. 02:24:23.454 --> 02:24:28.296 [Vael (Berberis)]: Indeed, yes, you look like it. 02:24:30.757 --> 02:24:33.858 [Riv (DM)]: Well, why have you come here? 02:24:35.199 --> 02:24:41.882 [Riv (DM)]: Caradoc, he told me you were from the Shining City and that he thought that I might have use of you. 02:24:42.042 --> 02:24:44.002 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I will see that for myself. 02:24:45.363 --> 02:24:47.624 [Riv (DM)]: Explain, what are your intentions in the city? 02:24:54.051 --> 02:24:55.632 [Vael (Berberis)]: Just look at the rest of the party, look back to her. 02:24:56.653 --> 02:24:57.854 [Vael (Berberis)]: We need something from the city. 02:25:00.516 --> 02:25:03.098 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, something to trade, something to bargain perhaps. 02:25:04.279 --> 02:25:06.781 [Riv (DM)]: I have some no small sway over the city. 02:25:07.722 --> 02:25:08.663 [Riv (DM)]: Perhaps I can help you. 02:25:14.768 --> 02:25:15.829 [Vael (Berberis)]: Potentially, potentially. 02:25:17.930 --> 02:25:18.691 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's a few things. 02:25:23.042 --> 02:25:24.483 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're after a soul anchor. 02:25:24.623 --> 02:25:25.944 [Vael (Berberis)]: Is it a soul anchor or is it a soul stone? 02:25:27.784 --> 02:25:28.425 [Riv (DM)]: Soul anchor. 02:25:28.845 --> 02:25:29.425 [Riv (DM)]: Soul anchor. 02:25:29.665 --> 02:25:30.826 [Riv (DM)]: Soul stone anchor, actually. 02:25:33.427 --> 02:25:34.128 [Riv (DM)]: All of the above. 02:25:36.409 --> 02:25:41.552 [Vael (Berberis)]: We were informed by certain powers that be that we could find one here. 02:25:44.113 --> 02:25:45.214 [Riv (DM)]: Someone roll an insight check. 02:25:45.234 --> 02:25:47.675 [Riv (DM)]: You can roll an insight check, Berberis, as you're the one speaking. 02:25:55.634 --> 02:26:04.718 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh, damn, you've got really good insight as well. 02:26:04.798 --> 02:26:06.739 [Riv (DM)]: You get a flash here. 02:26:08.460 --> 02:26:18.144 [Riv (DM)]: This is an ancient, ancient creature who just went from being 100% confident and sure of herself. 02:26:18.725 --> 02:26:23.047 [Riv (DM)]: You can tell that she's probably not buying any of your bullshit. 02:26:23.829 --> 02:26:28.972 [Riv (DM)]: If you were going to be saying any bullshit, she is the power here, at least in this heaven. 02:26:29.572 --> 02:26:35.295 [Riv (DM)]: But when you say soulstone anchor, you see a flash across her face of genuine surprise. 02:26:36.635 --> 02:26:38.596 [Riv (DM)]: Or shock. 02:26:39.617 --> 02:26:45.480 [Riv (DM)]: And she quickly composes herself, and the sort of grin stretches back across the face again. 02:26:45.500 --> 02:26:52.143 [Riv (DM)]: You see her just say, soulstone anchor did you say? 02:26:53.057 --> 02:26:55.918 [Riv (DM)]: Where did you hear that there is one in the city? 02:26:55.958 --> 02:26:56.878 [Riv (DM)]: Who did you hear this from? 02:26:59.178 --> 02:27:00.879 [Vael (Berberis)]: Parties that prefer not to be named. 02:27:01.219 --> 02:27:02.959 [Vael (Berberis)]: Probably for everyone's benefit. 02:27:05.059 --> 02:27:07.640 [Vael (Berberis)]: I nod to the divine instead of rapping this. 02:27:07.820 --> 02:27:08.980 [Vael (Berberis)]: Are these strictly necessary? 02:27:10.800 --> 02:27:13.241 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, just for my safety. 02:27:13.401 --> 02:27:14.641 [Riv (DM)]: I'm an old lady, you see. 02:27:15.581 --> 02:27:16.902 [Riv (DM)]: You guys are strangers here. 02:27:17.782 --> 02:27:18.602 [Riv (DM)]: From a different realm. 02:27:19.935 --> 02:27:20.955 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just taking precautions. 02:27:21.616 --> 02:27:22.496 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're unarmed. 02:27:23.476 --> 02:27:26.577 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You are no more an old lady than I am a tomato. 02:27:28.698 --> 02:27:29.899 [Riv (DM)]: Just back on the Soulstone. 02:27:32.019 --> 02:27:36.061 [Riv (DM)]: Did this person who wished to be unnamed tell you who had it? 02:27:39.662 --> 02:27:40.523 [Vael (Berberis)]: It might be here. 02:27:40.723 --> 02:27:44.164 [Vael (Berberis)]: We had slightly more pressing concerns due to our need for it. 02:27:48.184 --> 02:27:58.187 [Riv (DM)]: So let me get this straight, you thought that you would just walk on up to the city and ask for 02:28:15.784 --> 02:28:16.144 [Riv (DM)]: Or what? 02:28:16.364 --> 02:28:17.965 [Riv (DM)]: Ask for a soulstone? 02:28:18.005 --> 02:28:19.226 [Riv (DM)]: Do you know what a soulstone is? 02:28:22.128 --> 02:28:26.430 [Vael (Berberis)]: We figured it wouldn't be easy, but, uh, we are people of many skills. 02:28:28.212 --> 02:28:29.973 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm sure that there are things the city needs. 02:28:34.375 --> 02:28:39.158 [Vael (Berberis)]: We are people that definitely have proven capabilities of doing things that need to be done. 02:28:39.178 --> 02:28:45.362 [Riv (DM)]: Do you wanna, um, roll a persuasion for us? 02:28:47.725 --> 02:28:53.430 [Vael (Berberis)]: as well as the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun itself. 02:29:21.161 --> 02:29:21.861 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What is going on? 02:29:21.901 --> 02:29:24.423 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Why is that that dice is smaller than my mouse? 02:29:24.443 --> 02:29:28.665 [Riv (DM)]: I was like, time for a reload. 02:29:28.945 --> 02:29:31.767 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because it's a two. 02:29:31.987 --> 02:29:33.488 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:29:33.508 --> 02:29:43.214 [Riv (DM)]: The sort of vines themselves start to grow a bit higher up your legs and brambles sort of sprout out of them and sort of dig into all of your legs. 02:29:43.254 --> 02:29:43.694 [Riv (DM)]: Your take 02:29:45.087 --> 02:29:46.148 [Riv (DM)]: for piercing damage. 02:29:47.289 --> 02:29:50.111 [Riv (DM)]: As the vines sort of press into you and she just sort of chuckles a little bit. 02:29:51.592 --> 02:29:56.635 [Riv (DM)]: I just want to make it very, very clear so that you are aware where you sit right now. 02:30:01.158 --> 02:30:01.719 [Vael (Berberis)]: Is it clear? 02:30:03.980 --> 02:30:04.520 [Vael (Berberis)]: Quite clear. 02:30:05.461 --> 02:30:06.582 [Vael (Berberis)]: I just thought you might have heard. 02:30:06.602 --> 02:30:10.164 [Riv (DM)]: A soulstone. 02:30:10.945 --> 02:30:13.827 [Riv (DM)]: It's a very, very powerful artifact. 02:30:16.012 --> 02:30:17.930 [Vael (Berberis)]: I have very powerful need. 02:30:21.657 --> 02:30:24.618 [Riv (DM)]: The vines continue to sort of creep their way up your back. 02:30:24.638 --> 02:30:27.018 [Riv (DM)]: You can feel it like going up your back and over your shoulder. 02:30:27.718 --> 02:30:32.979 [Riv (DM)]: It starts to sort of like tear away any sort of bits of, you know, covering. 02:30:33.139 --> 02:30:37.840 [Riv (DM)]: If like, you know, you had your hoods up, sort of starts stripping back the hood. 02:30:38.080 --> 02:30:40.641 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, Erendor, Ryo, your hoods get pulled back. 02:30:40.701 --> 02:30:42.921 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think the rest of you guys wear hoods. 02:30:43.081 --> 02:30:47.982 [Riv (DM)]: The old woman just kind of like walks forward and starts inspecting you guys all a lot more closely. 02:30:49.421 --> 02:31:18.443 [Riv (DM)]: we are we are up against some uh potentially uh powerful opponents powerful indeed deed you like just walking down the line but like touching you like a finger down the side of the face um sort of she grabs a chunk of your hair um rio just like sniffs it what hair it's all in the bandana yeah the bandana's gone you said the hood was gone yeah i probably pulled it all away 02:31:20.596 --> 02:31:22.337 [Vael (Berberis)]: All right. 02:31:22.397 --> 02:31:27.358 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm sure you've heard, even tucked away here in the End of the Wilds. 02:31:27.638 --> 02:31:29.459 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm sure the word has gotten around. 02:31:29.479 --> 02:31:33.640 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, many words, many time. 02:31:34.781 --> 02:31:35.941 [Vael (Berberis)]: What word are you referring to? 02:31:36.942 --> 02:31:41.563 [Vael (Berberis)]: This is not a word that people would be shaking off if they had heard it. 02:31:43.004 --> 02:31:44.184 [Vael (Berberis)]: Go on, tell me. 02:31:45.765 --> 02:31:46.865 [Vael (Berberis)]: The Shadow is returned. 02:31:49.306 --> 02:31:49.846 [Vael (Berberis)]: The Shadow? 02:31:51.523 --> 02:31:57.324 [Lacer (Kai)]: the Shadow of the Crimson Sort. 02:32:05.686 --> 02:32:19.408 [Lacer (Kai)]: I like the insight check to see if anything, if she recognizes when we said that. 02:32:21.254 --> 02:32:22.195 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, yeah, roll insane. 02:32:28.399 --> 02:32:37.886 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, um, no, like, you don't see any particular surprise or, like, it doesn't appear to be new knowledge to her. 02:32:38.447 --> 02:32:48.534 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I think, um, she just sort of smiles and says, Oh, you're referring to those worms back on the material plane, are you? 02:32:52.663 --> 02:32:57.908 [Riv (DM)]: — and realized that people — that people even thought that they were gone. 02:32:58.809 --> 02:33:00.210 [Riv (DM)]: I thought that it would be common knowledge. 02:33:00.670 --> 02:33:02.272 [Riv (DM)]: It shows how tucked away I've been here. 02:33:02.292 --> 02:33:04.374 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 02:33:05.455 --> 02:33:10.880 [Lacer (Kai)]: The question is, has anything strange been happening around your woods lately? 02:33:10.940 --> 02:33:13.862 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, odd rifts opening up? 02:33:16.445 --> 02:33:17.966 [Riv (DM)]: There's always strange things happening. 02:33:20.499 --> 02:33:24.823 [Riv (DM)]: It's interesting how you think that you are in a position to be asking questions. 02:33:29.127 --> 02:33:35.192 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, I'm gonna divulge to you that in the Matera Plane, rifts are starting to open. 02:33:35.693 --> 02:33:39.256 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ones very similar to the first shattering. 02:33:41.217 --> 02:33:42.679 [Lacer (Kai)]: The signs are appearing. 02:33:44.961 --> 02:33:45.261 [Riv (DM)]: Wow. 02:33:46.342 --> 02:33:47.283 [Riv (DM)]: It sounds terrifying. 02:33:49.177 --> 02:33:57.183 [Riv (DM)]: She wanders back down the line again and she grabs a chunk of your hair, Ryo, and just like rips it out. 02:33:57.604 --> 02:33:59.065 [Riv (DM)]: Just a, you know, handful of strands. 02:34:04.870 --> 02:34:06.871 [JC (Ryo)]: If you wanted some hair all you had to do was ask. 02:34:09.974 --> 02:34:14.037 [Riv (DM)]: He walks back and sort of gets the hair and just like smells it. 02:34:17.645 --> 02:34:19.286 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: How long's it been since you washed your hair, Ryo? 02:34:19.306 --> 02:34:21.768 [JC (Ryo)]: A couple of years. 02:34:22.669 --> 02:34:23.029 [JC (Ryo)]: Thought so. 02:34:29.133 --> 02:34:29.293 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 02:34:30.394 --> 02:34:33.956 [Riv (DM)]: This is a fascinating turn of events. 02:34:34.957 --> 02:34:43.163 [Riv (DM)]: Karadoc, young lad, um, this seems to sort of just like stands up straight as he's addressed, like, looking a little bit uncomfortable. 02:34:45.958 --> 02:34:46.578 [Riv (DM)]: You've done well. 02:34:47.619 --> 02:34:49.860 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think you even realize what you brought. 02:34:50.280 --> 02:34:52.141 [Riv (DM)]: Yes, they are from the City. 02:34:52.761 --> 02:34:53.942 [Riv (DM)]: They are from the Shining City. 02:34:55.843 --> 02:34:58.444 [Riv (DM)]: This one is something much, much more. 02:34:59.344 --> 02:35:00.185 [Riv (DM)]: She points at Yuriyo. 02:35:04.907 --> 02:35:05.047 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 02:35:06.348 --> 02:35:15.052 [Riv (DM)]: I had heard whispers through the strings that maybe your line was not extinct. 02:35:16.789 --> 02:35:19.011 [Riv (DM)]: But here you are. 02:35:20.132 --> 02:35:21.072 [Riv (DM)]: Proof after all. 02:35:23.394 --> 02:35:26.817 [Riv (DM)]: Do you come here to flaunt yourself in front of me? 02:35:27.658 --> 02:35:28.659 [Riv (DM)]: Show disrespect? 02:35:29.880 --> 02:35:30.600 [Riv (DM)]: Unannounced? 02:35:31.941 --> 02:35:38.507 [Riv (DM)]: You who caused the night to fall in my lands so many thousands of years ago? 02:35:38.527 --> 02:35:41.969 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm fifty years old, I don't know what you're talking about. 02:35:41.990 --> 02:35:45.052 [Riv (DM)]: Of course not. 02:35:46.526 --> 02:35:48.166 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm just an orphan from the material plane. 02:35:53.188 --> 02:35:54.348 [JC (Ryo)]: Let me be straight with you all. 02:35:57.049 --> 02:36:01.770 [Riv (DM)]: I don't believe for a second that you've come here under simple diplomatic pretenses. 02:36:03.311 --> 02:36:06.732 [Riv (DM)]: Tell me what you're after, who you came to see, and we can be done with this. 02:36:08.582 --> 02:36:13.524 [Riv (DM)]: And then maybe we can make a deal, because I think there's something that you might be able to do to help me. 02:36:14.424 --> 02:36:18.586 [Riv (DM)]: But first, I want to know... all of the cards on the table. 02:36:25.249 --> 02:36:29.911 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: All of the cards on the table... 02:36:29.971 --> 02:36:31.531 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Anyone over there still have a pack of cards? 02:36:32.752 --> 02:36:33.492 [Lacer (Kai)]: I still got mine. 02:36:34.312 --> 02:36:35.053 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I got mine! 02:36:35.913 --> 02:36:36.393 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You sure? 02:36:36.413 --> 02:36:37.914 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I don't want yours, yours were the bloody ones. 02:36:38.987 --> 02:36:40.368 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yes, you gave them back. 02:36:41.148 --> 02:36:41.768 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh yeah, I did too. 02:36:42.648 --> 02:36:45.370 [Riv (DM)]: Vines grow up again, you'll take another four piercing damage. 02:36:46.130 --> 02:36:53.873 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I don't know how you got them, but you did give them back. 02:36:53.913 --> 02:36:54.573 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look at the vine. 02:36:54.833 --> 02:36:56.094 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is this really necessary? 02:37:00.075 --> 02:37:02.076 [Vael (Berberis)]: So far, we have been nothing but honest. 02:37:03.257 --> 02:37:04.697 [Vael (Berberis)]: We have spoken truth. 02:37:05.417 --> 02:37:06.758 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we have not lied at all. 02:37:07.845 --> 02:37:10.466 [JC (Ryo)]: and happily tell you everything, but it's a long story. 02:37:11.786 --> 02:37:16.587 [JC (Ryo)]: A more comfortable chair would be nice, because I don't know if we'll still be standing by the time we get to the end of it otherwise. 02:37:17.127 --> 02:37:22.309 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, once we tell all our cards, we're going to be dead by the time all these brambles, like, cover us and smother us. 02:37:22.709 --> 02:37:23.809 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, we won't get to the end. 02:37:24.289 --> 02:37:24.989 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's too long of a story. 02:37:25.009 --> 02:37:25.469 [Lacer (Kai)]: Exactly. 02:37:25.829 --> 02:37:26.370 [Lacer (Kai)]: Exactly. 02:37:27.890 --> 02:37:29.190 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Maybe she wants the short version. 02:37:29.270 --> 02:37:30.271 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Finish on a cliffhanger. 02:37:31.751 --> 02:37:35.612 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:37:39.452 --> 02:37:42.597 [Riv (DM)]: So... you haven't told any lies. 02:37:45.322 --> 02:37:48.867 [Riv (DM)]: You... turn up... to a city. 02:37:50.430 --> 02:37:51.131 [Riv (DM)]: That probably isn't true. 02:37:51.151 --> 02:37:51.692 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, wait, wait, wait. 02:37:53.055 --> 02:37:54.596 [Lacer (Kai)]: We didn't turn up at the city. 02:37:54.956 --> 02:37:59.859 [Lacer (Kai)]: We were escorted to the city, and our weapons were taken away from us. 02:38:00.460 --> 02:38:02.961 [Lacer (Kai)]: We didn't just turn up. 02:38:03.201 --> 02:38:06.924 [Lacer (Kai)]: We had diplomatic — a reason for diplomacy. 02:38:07.124 --> 02:38:10.466 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yet, we're being treated like prisoners. 02:38:11.467 --> 02:38:20.872 [Riv (DM)]: Well, Caradoc here tells me that you made no attempt to hide yourselves, and then you just yourselves said that you intended to come here, openly, for diplomacy. 02:38:20.892 --> 02:38:21.513 [Riv (DM)]: So what is it? 02:38:22.502 --> 02:38:28.724 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, well, shouldn't we be treated as people, not prisoners? 02:38:29.304 --> 02:38:31.244 [Lacer (Kai)]: This is not how you treat diplomats. 02:38:32.185 --> 02:38:41.287 [Riv (DM)]: The last time people from your city met people at my city, the war nearly started again. 02:38:41.387 --> 02:38:42.108 [Riv (DM)]: Not our city. 02:38:42.948 --> 02:38:45.268 [Riv (DM)]: It's very rich coming from you, young Silmara. 02:38:48.849 --> 02:38:50.650 [JC (Ryo)]: I said I'm an orphan from the Material Plane. 02:38:51.385 --> 02:39:17.254 [JC (Ryo)]: we're all from the material plane that's true um okay roll a persuasion check rio we we did visit silmara and they tasked us with coming here but we're not from there uh persuasion you said is that with advantage since we're all talking or not or she doesn't believe 02:39:18.085 --> 02:39:21.446 [Riv (DM)]: She's going to walk forward and like place her hands on either side of your head. 02:39:24.467 --> 02:39:27.448 [Riv (DM)]: You feel like kind of start to get a little bit of a headache. 02:39:28.609 --> 02:39:32.690 [Riv (DM)]: She like closes her eyes and just takes a big deep breath through her nose. 02:39:36.551 --> 02:39:38.612 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, very curious. 02:39:38.632 --> 02:39:41.713 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I see. 02:39:41.753 --> 02:39:42.754 [Riv (DM)]: So that's how you survived. 02:39:44.874 --> 02:39:46.195 [Riv (DM)]: That girl was clever after all. 02:39:49.630 --> 02:39:51.091 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, fine. 02:39:52.491 --> 02:39:53.612 [Riv (DM)]: So maybe you don't know. 02:39:53.632 --> 02:40:04.838 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe you aren't all aligned with the wants of those disgusting elves back in their shining peaks. 02:40:07.559 --> 02:40:08.079 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:40:10.160 --> 02:40:17.484 [Riv (DM)]: Well, as I said, this is very, very curious because maybe we can help each other. 02:40:19.189 --> 02:40:22.470 [Riv (DM)]: I take it that you wish an audience with the Queen? 02:40:26.611 --> 02:40:30.273 [Vael (Berberis)]: I believe that was where we're heading before Caradoccy diverted us. 02:40:31.893 --> 02:40:32.993 [Riv (DM)]: I'm curious what your plan was. 02:40:33.013 --> 02:40:39.876 [Riv (DM)]: You thought that you could just waltz on up to the city and get an audience with the ruling Archfey of the Vale of the Eternal Night? 02:40:43.117 --> 02:40:47.278 [Vael (Berberis)]: Not exactly familiar with the etiquette out here, unfortunately. 02:40:48.220 --> 02:40:52.101 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think any of us have— The wolves and the spiders don't really discuss. 02:40:53.681 --> 02:40:56.442 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, none of us particularly said we had a great plan. 02:40:56.462 --> 02:40:59.122 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I don't think. 02:40:59.883 --> 02:41:02.443 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: But that was the general gist of it, yes. 02:41:03.423 --> 02:41:10.945 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I guess we are fortunate to have come across someone who may— If I may ask a question— Sorry, go. 02:41:10.965 --> 02:41:13.426 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, you go. 02:41:13.786 --> 02:41:14.686 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, no, no, you were talking. 02:41:16.348 --> 02:41:32.331 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, simply that we may in fact have been fortunate to come across someone who may be able to create introductions, should opportunities and benefits align. 02:41:36.792 --> 02:41:37.292 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 02:41:37.312 --> 02:41:41.753 [Riv (DM)]: Do you guys want to answer over at you, Ryo? 02:41:45.488 --> 02:41:48.209 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, when was the last time someone from the Material Plane? 02:41:52.471 --> 02:41:53.791 [Riv (DM)]: Someone from the Material Plane came here? 02:41:57.733 --> 02:41:58.813 [Riv (DM)]: To the Vale? 02:41:58.953 --> 02:42:00.174 [Riv (DM)]: Willingly came here. 02:42:00.994 --> 02:42:03.555 [Riv (DM)]: Centuries, if not millennia. 02:42:05.936 --> 02:42:07.076 [Riv (DM)]: To the...Vale Wild? 02:42:07.196 --> 02:42:08.377 [Riv (DM)]: Probably about a hundred years ago. 02:42:12.187 --> 02:42:19.930 [JC (Ryo)]: That led us to assume that we would most likely get an audience, as no one from our realm has been here for so long. 02:42:21.291 --> 02:42:21.391 [Riv (DM)]: Ah. 02:42:23.651 --> 02:42:24.472 [Riv (DM)]: You're banking on that. 02:42:24.512 --> 02:42:25.632 [Riv (DM)]: You are curiosities. 02:42:25.772 --> 02:42:27.693 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I guess that is fair. 02:42:27.713 --> 02:42:28.733 [Riv (DM)]: You are curiosities. 02:42:30.814 --> 02:42:34.436 [Vael (Berberis)]: Very, very bold curiosities as well. 02:42:34.576 --> 02:42:36.556 [Vael (Berberis)]: Unique and interesting opportunities. 02:42:37.597 --> 02:42:37.917 [Riv (DM)]: Unique? 02:42:38.637 --> 02:42:38.897 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 02:42:39.578 --> 02:42:40.698 [Riv (DM)]: And very interesting. 02:42:42.444 --> 02:42:42.844 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:42:45.145 --> 02:42:45.585 [Riv (DM)]: I do... 02:42:46.545 --> 02:42:50.266 [Riv (DM)]: I do believe that you are strangers here. 02:42:51.406 --> 02:42:55.508 [Riv (DM)]: After what I've been able to gather, you do seem to be telling the truth. 02:42:57.588 --> 02:42:59.369 [Riv (DM)]: How about I tell you a little truth as well? 02:43:00.749 --> 02:43:11.212 [Riv (DM)]: The Queen, as she so likes to call herself, she is an evil, evil woman, oppresses us here. 02:43:13.562 --> 02:43:20.304 [Riv (DM)]: She has no respect for the powers of those of us who have been around since the beginning. 02:43:24.106 --> 02:43:27.407 [Riv (DM)]: I think, personally, that it is time that she is taken down. 02:43:27.427 --> 02:43:31.048 [Riv (DM)]: I've been thinking about this for some time. 02:43:32.669 --> 02:43:33.329 [Riv (DM)]: Caradoc here. 02:43:34.009 --> 02:43:37.150 [Riv (DM)]: He's in on my little plans, some of them at least. 02:43:38.911 --> 02:43:41.072 [Riv (DM)]: Always keeping my eye open for opportunities. 02:43:42.812 --> 02:43:44.453 [Riv (DM)]: See, the Queen doesn't like me that much. 02:43:45.454 --> 02:43:54.882 [Riv (DM)]: She thinks that I am just to be relegated out here into the Barrow Ring while she sits on my ancient homeland. 02:44:01.147 --> 02:44:03.749 [Riv (DM)]: I think that you can potentially help me get close to her. 02:44:05.270 --> 02:44:06.211 [Riv (DM)]: How do you feel about that? 02:44:11.452 --> 02:44:13.273 [JC (Ryo)]: That is our intent to get close to her. 02:44:13.973 --> 02:44:24.596 [Riv (DM)]: Good, good, well... She is a... For all her faults and disrespect, I would not... 02:44:26.537 --> 02:44:30.378 [Riv (DM)]: I would not lie or pretend that she has not got some Morrigan power. 02:44:32.359 --> 02:44:40.742 [Riv (DM)]: I've been working on a way to try and strip that power from her, to weaken her, so that some of us may come in and 02:44:42.335 --> 02:44:43.815 [Riv (DM)]: to take her down off her throne. 02:44:45.736 --> 02:44:49.257 [Riv (DM)]: But it would require her taking down her guard first. 02:44:51.277 --> 02:45:00.679 [Riv (DM)]: I think that she would be quite taken by the lot of you, strangers from a far-off land who just turn up boldly to ask questions about soulstones. 02:45:00.759 --> 02:45:03.120 [Riv (DM)]: Now that's very, very interesting, isn't it? 02:45:05.200 --> 02:45:11.682 [Riv (DM)]: If I were to give you something to deliver to the Queen, would you do it for me? 02:45:15.294 --> 02:45:41.826 [Riv (DM)]: She steps away and steps back like a little bit and her hand just like reaches up into the air and she plucks from nothing like a little vial of this sort of dark greenish like green and black liquid um that she holds up looks up at it through it swirls it around a little bit this this is a little concoction i've been working on for a few centuries 02:45:44.519 --> 02:45:51.545 [Riv (DM)]: If this were to break and cover her, she would be temporarily weakened. 02:45:52.305 --> 02:45:53.986 [Riv (DM)]: Then I would be able to come in that. 02:45:54.827 --> 02:45:56.248 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I can then deal with her. 02:45:57.409 --> 02:46:04.535 [Riv (DM)]: She, um, in her other hand forms and just creates like a amulet out of sort of wood and roots out of nothing. 02:46:04.575 --> 02:46:08.938 [Riv (DM)]: It just sort of like materializes in her hand and she slots a little vial into it. 02:46:10.359 --> 02:46:13.762 [Riv (DM)]: She holds it up as an amulet, says, well, 02:46:15.939 --> 02:46:19.623 [Riv (DM)]: All you need to do for me is wear this. 02:46:20.604 --> 02:46:22.506 [Riv (DM)]: It probably won't raise any suspicion. 02:46:25.009 --> 02:46:33.698 [Riv (DM)]: And once you get inside, have an audience with her, toss it at the ground at her feet, and then I will do the rest. 02:46:35.820 --> 02:46:36.341 [Riv (DM)]: How does that sound? 02:46:36.361 --> 02:46:37.322 [Riv (DM)]: That's quite simple, isn't it? 02:46:39.526 --> 02:46:42.187 [Vael (Berberis)]: Quite simple, if you're able to make us introductions. 02:46:42.887 --> 02:46:44.008 [Vael (Berberis)]: Are you coming with us? 02:46:45.008 --> 02:46:45.829 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, no, no. 02:46:46.589 --> 02:46:47.989 [Riv (DM)]: No, I would be stopped long before. 02:46:49.670 --> 02:46:50.250 [Riv (DM)]: Why is that? 02:46:51.411 --> 02:46:53.212 [Riv (DM)]: Like I said, the Queen doesn't like me very much. 02:46:53.792 --> 02:47:01.875 [Riv (DM)]: She tolerates our presence out here in the Barrow Ring, but she doesn't deem us worthy for her shiny obsidian city. 02:47:05.670 --> 02:47:34.361 [Lacer (Kai)]: um just a weird question if you don't like it here why don't you just move and go somewhere else do you expect someone to leave their own home the place of their bloodline exactly i don't know if you're being oppressed and stuff and everything's bad i would just go somewhere else why not wish for change i don't know i like the simple life you know 02:47:36.417 --> 02:47:38.518 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's why you adventure throughout the land. 02:47:39.759 --> 02:47:39.959 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 02:47:40.980 --> 02:47:42.321 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Almost dying every day. 02:47:42.341 --> 02:47:43.882 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So here it is. 02:47:43.902 --> 02:47:45.043 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He's killing us every second. 02:47:45.743 --> 02:47:46.664 [Riv (DM)]: A simple deal then. 02:47:47.645 --> 02:47:51.087 [Riv (DM)]: You do this thing for me, and I help you get what you need. 02:47:51.107 --> 02:47:52.348 [Riv (DM)]: This soulstone? 02:47:52.528 --> 02:47:54.649 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I can probably help you track it down. 02:47:57.231 --> 02:48:00.153 [Riv (DM)]: All you have to do is help me take down the Queen. 02:48:03.215 --> 02:48:04.136 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's the catch? 02:48:05.648 --> 02:48:06.549 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, what do you mean? 02:48:06.709 --> 02:48:07.269 [Lacer (Kai)]: What catch? 02:48:08.530 --> 02:48:15.755 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ever since we've come to this fae — fae — so-called fae realm, everything seems to have some sort of catch. 02:48:18.717 --> 02:48:20.659 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Aw, you misjudge us. 02:48:21.599 --> 02:48:23.401 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How is that different to the material realm? 02:48:24.101 --> 02:48:24.641 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Exactly. 02:48:25.302 --> 02:48:25.882 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Exactly. 02:48:25.902 --> 02:48:32.367 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Look, you said you would help us truck down the soulstone anchor. 02:48:33.932 --> 02:48:38.874 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Would we be welcome to take it with us at that point? 02:48:41.236 --> 02:48:41.636 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Of course. 02:48:42.136 --> 02:48:45.438 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And to safely leave the Vale of Eternal Night? 02:48:46.318 --> 02:48:55.442 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I assume that is what you call this place on your side, not just what those pretentious pricks in the Shining City call it from their side. 02:48:59.184 --> 02:49:01.165 [Riv (DM)]: You have sweet words, young half-elf. 02:49:03.620 --> 02:49:06.802 [Riv (DM)]: I can promise you that I will not stop you from leaving. 02:49:09.723 --> 02:49:11.244 [Lacer (Kai)]: With the soulstone anchor? 02:49:12.765 --> 02:49:15.346 [Riv (DM)]: I will not stop you from leaving with the soulstone anchor. 02:49:17.207 --> 02:49:17.607 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alive. 02:49:19.769 --> 02:49:20.689 [Riv (DM)]: What do you think I am? 02:49:21.429 --> 02:49:22.350 [Riv (DM)]: You think this is some trick? 02:49:23.927 --> 02:49:24.347 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 02:49:25.447 --> 02:49:32.529 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just very distrustful of everything and everyone ever since journeying around here and there. 02:49:33.089 --> 02:49:35.509 [Riv (DM)]: What have I possibly done to make you distrust me? 02:49:36.510 --> 02:49:38.710 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The simple life has made him suspicious. 02:49:39.430 --> 02:49:40.110 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I distrust everyone. 02:49:40.130 --> 02:49:50.992 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Within minutes of being in this plane, a friend of ours was hit with gossamer dust and de-aged rapidly, so please forgive him. 02:49:51.853 --> 02:49:53.433 [Riv (DM)]: Those pixies are nasty wicks. 02:49:54.562 --> 02:50:00.565 [Lacer (Kai)]: You would know that already, I assume, if you've seen the memories of our dear friend here. 02:50:00.585 --> 02:50:03.967 [Riv (DM)]: I wasn't looking for those memories in particular. 02:50:06.549 --> 02:50:13.453 [Riv (DM)]: But, tell you this, do this thing and the reward will be even greater than you fully know. 02:50:14.073 --> 02:50:16.275 [Riv (DM)]: The Queen is preparing for another war. 02:50:19.236 --> 02:50:22.098 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think that we should be caught up into all that. 02:50:25.871 --> 02:50:27.252 [JC (Ryo)]: Which war is she preparing for? 02:50:28.492 --> 02:50:29.552 [Riv (DM)]: All of your people. 02:50:30.753 --> 02:50:38.495 [Riv (DM)]: She thinks that the Shimmering Peaks belong to all of us. 02:50:38.515 --> 02:50:41.556 [Riv (DM)]: She wishes to expand the eternal night. 02:50:44.557 --> 02:50:44.817 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hmm. 02:50:46.218 --> 02:50:52.520 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, I don't— Well, I have no interest, personally. 02:50:55.800 --> 02:50:57.781 [Riv (DM)]: I like, I like these lands where we are. 02:50:57.801 --> 02:50:58.621 [Riv (DM)]: I'm comfortable here. 02:51:01.742 --> 02:51:02.342 [Riv (DM)]: Insight check? 02:51:04.003 --> 02:51:04.623 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an insight check. 02:51:06.563 --> 02:51:11.405 [Lacer (Kai)]: As he's doing that I'm gonna ask, if these were your lands, how may we address you? 02:51:11.425 --> 02:51:17.667 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, you may call me Imregrith. 02:51:19.528 --> 02:51:21.989 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sorry, how do you spell that? 02:51:22.570 --> 02:51:23.250 [Riv (DM)]: Imrageth. 02:51:23.590 --> 02:51:26.131 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, I don't think she liked it. 02:51:26.191 --> 02:51:26.672 [Lacer (Kai)]: Imrageth. 02:51:26.792 --> 02:51:31.634 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Are we still bound in the vines at this point? 02:51:31.654 --> 02:51:33.555 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, are we still taking damage? 02:51:34.015 --> 02:51:34.856 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna be dead soon. 02:51:34.876 --> 02:51:39.078 [Riv (DM)]: Only when you displease her. 02:51:39.118 --> 02:51:40.958 [Riv (DM)]: 24 insight, really, really good. 02:51:41.639 --> 02:51:44.740 [Riv (DM)]: What part were you trying to get insight on, Ryo? 02:51:46.381 --> 02:51:47.722 [JC (Ryo)]: That she has no... 02:51:49.611 --> 02:51:56.036 [JC (Ryo)]: and the power to take over from the Queen. 02:51:57.537 --> 02:52:02.721 [JC (Ryo)]: Or if she's just straight lying to us about not caring if the City of Dark expands or not. 02:52:10.007 --> 02:52:36.525 [Riv (DM)]: she is um definitely spinning some tails right now on a 24 you um yeah you get that the feel that a lot of what she said may not necessarily have been the truth but the other thing you do know is when a fae makes a deal they are bound to the deal which is why i have the wrong words for caradoc 02:52:41.634 --> 02:52:44.256 [Riv (DM)]: Well, do we have a deal then? 02:52:44.656 --> 02:52:45.777 [Riv (DM)]: She holds up the amulet again. 02:52:45.797 --> 02:52:52.781 [Vael (Berberis)]: We'll lay it into the Queen's presence once we are able to enter her presence. 02:52:54.162 --> 02:52:54.562 [Riv (DM)]: Excellent. 02:52:55.423 --> 02:52:56.763 [Riv (DM)]: Great, who wishes to wear it? 02:52:58.404 --> 02:52:59.105 [Riv (DM)]: Is it cursed? 02:52:59.645 --> 02:53:03.047 [Riv (DM)]: No, no, it's just a — look, it's just wood and roots. 02:53:04.108 --> 02:53:08.791 [Riv (DM)]: I wouldn't go touching the vial if I were you, or at least I wouldn't try and get any of the liquid on yourself. 02:53:10.562 --> 02:53:13.565 [Riv (DM)]: But if you throw it at her, I will come and do the rest. 02:53:15.087 --> 02:53:19.371 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And the effects of the content should be near instantaneous? 02:53:20.052 --> 02:53:21.333 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It should be pretty quick, yes. 02:53:21.373 --> 02:53:22.214 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It will weaken her. 02:53:22.534 --> 02:53:22.895 [Riv (DM)]: Good, good. 02:53:25.177 --> 02:53:28.580 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It wouldn't be the same liquid that's in your local river, would it? 02:53:29.922 --> 02:53:31.063 [Riv (DM)]: No, no. 02:53:35.812 --> 02:53:36.592 [JC (Ryo)]: Give it to the dwarf. 02:53:36.652 --> 02:53:41.953 [JC (Ryo)]: No one will look down that far to see it. 02:53:42.194 --> 02:53:42.794 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll carry it. 02:53:43.654 --> 02:53:44.834 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:53:45.094 --> 02:53:46.655 [Riv (DM)]: She goes to place it on your neck. 02:53:49.135 --> 02:53:50.215 [Riv (DM)]: Ties it behind you. 02:53:52.536 --> 02:53:53.056 [Riv (DM)]: Very well. 02:53:54.196 --> 02:53:55.917 [Riv (DM)]: She holds out her hand to you, Berberus. 02:54:03.099 --> 02:54:04.579 [Riv (DM)]: I'm still in a chair with vines. 02:54:05.493 --> 02:54:10.275 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think the vines probably haven't yet sort of trapped your arms. 02:54:11.916 --> 02:54:14.117 [Riv (DM)]: Or if they have, they at this point release you. 02:54:18.219 --> 02:54:19.099 [Riv (DM)]: Can I stand up? 02:54:19.439 --> 02:54:21.300 [Riv (DM)]: Or is it just your arms? 02:54:21.420 --> 02:54:22.181 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, sure. 02:54:22.261 --> 02:54:28.003 [Riv (DM)]: I think now that she has laid out her cards, she releases the vines from all of you. 02:54:29.984 --> 02:54:33.186 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll stand up and I will touch my staff. 02:54:34.629 --> 02:54:39.192 [Vael (Berberis)]: And I will spend an action to spin a black rose out of it. 02:54:41.433 --> 02:54:43.574 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You flirt. 02:54:44.355 --> 02:54:47.397 [Riv (DM)]: The old woman sort of rubs her hands together in anticipation. 02:54:51.019 --> 02:54:51.920 [Vael (Berberis)]: Pass the rose over. 02:54:54.141 --> 02:54:54.861 [Vael (Berberis)]: Gift for a gift. 02:55:00.084 --> 02:55:02.426 [Riv (DM)]: She lifts it to her nose and smells it. 02:55:04.198 --> 02:55:06.199 [Riv (DM)]: So, I assume Caradoc here will 02:55:34.502 --> 02:55:36.424 [Vael (Berberis)]: Ascort us into the city and make arrangements. 02:55:37.425 --> 02:55:37.805 [Riv (DM)]: He will. 02:55:38.486 --> 02:55:40.968 [Riv (DM)]: Caradoc, be a dare and give them back their... arms. 02:55:42.930 --> 02:55:48.596 [Riv (DM)]: Caradoc, um... he's probably... kind of looking a bit like... 02:55:52.022 --> 02:56:16.298 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: like a touchest bit of disturbed but kind of still standing at attention like um you know he's gonna do what he's told i expect with uh they're not quite complete common fluency there's some elements that they haven't quite 100 understood at the moment but the overall understanding hmm 02:56:18.944 --> 02:56:24.208 [Riv (DM)]: The weapons are laid back out on the ground, and you are able to go and re-equip yourselves. 02:56:26.129 --> 02:56:30.372 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: As I do so, I would like to make sure that he sees that I still had the dagger. 02:56:33.994 --> 02:56:36.516 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You, like, sort of flash it? 02:56:36.536 --> 02:56:37.396 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Just a little bit. 02:56:37.476 --> 02:56:41.959 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I pull that side of my cloak a little bit further back so he sees it before I grab it. 02:56:41.979 --> 02:56:46.942 [Riv (DM)]: You hear him go, like, sort of almost involuntarily steps forward towards you. 02:56:49.684 --> 02:56:49.924 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh. 02:56:51.084 --> 02:56:51.805 [Riv (DM)]: Very clever. 02:56:54.325 --> 02:56:54.786 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Sometimes. 02:56:56.046 --> 02:56:57.326 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, young Caradoc. 02:56:57.967 --> 02:56:58.507 [Riv (DM)]: Lead them away. 02:57:00.707 --> 02:57:03.468 [Riv (DM)]: You can take them the rest of the way, actually. 02:57:03.728 --> 02:57:04.889 [Riv (DM)]: You should probably go with them. 02:57:05.189 --> 02:57:07.690 [Riv (DM)]: Just to make sure that they fulfill their end of the bargain, yes? 02:57:08.690 --> 02:57:09.530 [Riv (DM)]: Caradoc nods. 02:57:10.050 --> 02:57:10.911 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 02:57:11.151 --> 02:57:12.491 [Riv (DM)]: As you wish, my mistress. 02:57:13.892 --> 02:57:14.092 [Riv (DM)]: Come. 02:57:14.232 --> 02:57:14.512 [Riv (DM)]: Follow. 02:57:14.732 --> 02:57:15.332 [Riv (DM)]: Follow closely. 02:57:15.432 --> 02:57:15.912 [Riv (DM)]: Stay close. 02:57:17.433 --> 02:57:18.133 [Riv (DM)]: I will escort you. 02:57:19.705 --> 02:57:20.966 [Riv (DM)]: Look at no one, speak to no one. 02:57:21.446 --> 02:57:21.887 [Riv (DM)]: Eyes down. 02:57:23.488 --> 02:57:28.592 [Riv (DM)]: You will appear to be prisoners, or escorts, under our control. 02:57:29.033 --> 02:57:29.473 [Riv (DM)]: Understand? 02:57:30.734 --> 02:57:32.416 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Business with weapons, why not? 02:57:33.456 --> 02:57:33.737 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 02:57:33.897 --> 02:57:34.938 [Riv (DM)]: Understood. 02:57:35.618 --> 02:57:36.659 [Riv (DM)]: Don't make them too obvious. 02:57:39.021 --> 02:57:42.424 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know, a shield that's kinda like, big, you know? 02:57:44.460 --> 02:57:45.861 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, they don't want to carry it. 02:57:47.322 --> 02:57:48.322 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It's bulky. 02:57:48.502 --> 02:57:48.742 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Wait. 02:57:49.623 --> 02:57:50.503 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Force you to carry it. 02:57:51.624 --> 02:57:54.386 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone ask questions, I will do the talking. 02:57:54.426 --> 02:57:54.566 [Riv (DM)]: Come. 02:57:54.626 --> 02:57:55.026 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:57:55.446 --> 02:57:55.847 [Riv (DM)]: Understood. 02:57:56.287 --> 02:58:01.130 [Riv (DM)]: She waves a wrinkled hand at you all and she says, Good luck! 02:58:02.370 --> 02:58:14.077 [Riv (DM)]: As you start to be led up out of the tunnel and you look back and you see a glimpse of something ancient and dark, gnarled, go back to her cauldron. 02:58:21.227 --> 02:58:27.048 [Lacer (Kai)]: As we exit the tunnels, I'm gonna whisper to Caradoc and ask him, who else supports your cause? 02:58:30.409 --> 02:58:37.251 [JC (Ryo)]: There are many of us. 02:58:37.451 --> 02:58:39.591 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are the powerful ones like her? 02:58:43.932 --> 02:58:44.712 [Riv (DM)]: I will not answer this. 02:58:45.533 --> 02:58:46.273 [Riv (DM)]: You want that answer? 02:58:46.433 --> 02:58:46.933 [Riv (DM)]: Go ask her. 02:58:49.162 --> 02:58:50.025 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nah, I'd rather not. 02:58:51.471 --> 02:58:52.294 [Riv (DM)]: That was too scary. 02:58:54.422 --> 02:58:55.185 [Riv (DM)]: Good instincts. 02:58:56.489 --> 02:58:56.669 [Riv (DM)]: Come. 02:58:57.789 --> 02:58:58.790 [Riv (DM)]: He continues to lead you. 02:58:58.870 --> 02:59:01.091 [Riv (DM)]: His other guy there is with you, too. 02:59:01.571 --> 02:59:04.252 [Riv (DM)]: He's also quietly in the room. 02:59:04.292 --> 02:59:06.913 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How long he's lived in Russia. 02:59:07.493 --> 02:59:09.433 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, man. 02:59:10.094 --> 02:59:17.936 [Riv (DM)]: I was thinking, I'm going to try and do a Russian accent for these guys, so I'm stoked that you picked off on that. 02:59:18.016 --> 02:59:18.396 [Riv (DM)]: It's great. 02:59:19.417 --> 02:59:21.197 [Vael (Berberis)]: It was definitely broken Eastern European. 02:59:21.237 --> 02:59:21.517 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 02:59:23.498 --> 02:59:25.563 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: in order to save the world from destruction. 02:59:36.848 --> 03:00:04.837 [Riv (DM)]: you're given like a you know you're not quite as tersely sort of followed and taken now now that there's some sort of an idea of a plan here so you have maybe a little bit of space to discuss to yourselves if you if you wished to um but the yeah the two centaurs lead you back down through the barrow um the barrow ring towards the main antlers gate once we clear the barrows and on the main road 03:00:06.465 --> 03:00:09.008 [Vael (Berberis)]: I would like to move up next to Caradoc. 03:00:12.812 --> 03:00:17.517 [Vael (Berberis)]: Uh, your mistress mentioned that they stick pretty hard to their deals. 03:00:18.758 --> 03:00:19.879 [Vael (Berberis)]: Does that apply to you as well? 03:00:21.321 --> 03:00:21.841 [Vael (Berberis)]: What do you mean? 03:00:24.504 --> 03:00:26.506 [Vael (Berberis)]: When the deal is made, do you stick to your deal? 03:00:28.455 --> 03:00:29.055 [Vael (Berberis)]: to your bargains. 03:00:29.075 --> 03:00:30.856 [Riv (DM)]: To your bargains? 03:00:30.876 --> 03:00:31.656 [Riv (DM)]: I don't make deals. 03:00:32.656 --> 03:00:33.196 [Riv (DM)]: No magic. 03:00:33.697 --> 03:00:34.617 [Riv (DM)]: No funny business. 03:00:34.717 --> 03:00:35.097 [Riv (DM)]: I ride. 03:00:35.157 --> 03:00:35.457 [Riv (DM)]: I hunt. 03:00:35.957 --> 03:00:36.297 [Riv (DM)]: That's it. 03:00:37.538 --> 03:00:38.638 [Riv (DM)]: But I am honourable. 03:00:38.838 --> 03:00:39.758 [Riv (DM)]: I keep to my word. 03:00:39.798 --> 03:00:41.719 [Riv (DM)]: If I make a promise, I keep my promise. 03:00:43.659 --> 03:00:44.240 [Vael (Berberis)]: Interesting. 03:00:45.640 --> 03:00:46.720 [Vael (Berberis)]: What was the promise made? 03:00:47.681 --> 03:00:48.541 [Vael (Berberis)]: That we would come with you? 03:00:50.981 --> 03:00:52.982 [Vael (Berberis)]: That we'd be under your protection and come to no harm? 03:00:55.463 --> 03:00:56.303 [Riv (DM)]: Yes, exactly. 03:00:58.317 --> 03:00:59.438 [Vael (Berberis)]: I brought you to no harm. 03:00:59.478 --> 03:01:00.479 [Vael (Berberis)]: What the Mistress does is up to her. 03:01:00.499 --> 03:01:00.699 [Vael (Berberis)]: I see. 03:01:28.586 --> 03:01:34.087 [JC (Ryo)]: I just sort of nod and just sit back with the rest of the group. 03:01:37.748 --> 03:01:40.589 [Riv (DM)]: You get taken to the Adler Gates. 03:01:41.269 --> 03:01:41.769 [Riv (DM)]: Enormous. 03:01:42.329 --> 03:01:49.231 [Riv (DM)]: A wall looming above you, stretching off far to either side of the city that is ringed. 03:01:50.711 --> 03:01:53.632 [Riv (DM)]: The gates themselves, at this time, are currently open. 03:01:54.552 --> 03:02:04.857 [Riv (DM)]: And there are many mounted people around, some of those same black horses, red glowing eyes, heavily armored knights on their backs. 03:02:05.417 --> 03:02:10.180 [Riv (DM)]: And you do get a few sort of odd looks in your direction, but 03:02:11.080 --> 03:02:18.603 [Riv (DM)]: um with uh with Caradoc and his right-hand man as well as a few other centaurs from the original party who have come down now to surround you. 03:02:19.363 --> 03:02:40.171 [Riv (DM)]: Caradoc just sort of like nods to one of the knights and speaks briefly and sylvan quickly the knights just sort of like jerks his head very on in but you do get a lot of looks sort of following you it's a group of people who are very odd looking in this part 03:02:42.172 --> 03:03:07.500 [Riv (DM)]: you push on through um the inner part of the city here the lower warrens actually we can jump back to why don't we jump back to this oh man i got logged out again oh no a moment i mean i got logged out to the um observer account instead of the gm account oh no gm 03:03:09.388 --> 03:03:14.515 [Riv (DM)]: We jump back over to the city sketch and you can kind of get an idea of where you're being taken. 03:03:14.535 --> 03:03:19.721 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the Lower Warren. 03:03:19.741 --> 03:03:21.724 [Riv (DM)]: In here there are 03:03:24.202 --> 03:03:27.905 [Riv (DM)]: and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun itself. 03:03:48.884 --> 03:03:58.632 [Riv (DM)]: And everywhere you look down the streets, you can see little, little creatures, um, sort of like, you know, skittering about. 03:03:59.432 --> 03:04:05.517 [Riv (DM)]: Groups of them, a lot of them sort of like look over in your direction and sort of like follow you with evil eyes and glaring. 03:04:06.017 --> 03:04:11.381 [Riv (DM)]: You can see a group of these little, uh, down, down Lomtec Alleyway you can see a group of about five, 03:04:12.162 --> 03:04:13.442 [Riv (DM)]: **Captions by Project readOn** 03:04:42.285 --> 03:05:00.546 [Riv (DM)]: You carry on in through the Lower Warren until eventually you start rising up a bit and there — so you're on the Midnight Procession, which is like this large, big avenue that here in the Lower Warren it was a road, but now it starts to rise up into kind of a — almost like an arched rising. 03:05:00.606 --> 03:05:01.047 [Riv (DM)]: A ridge? 03:05:01.628 --> 03:05:01.828 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 03:05:02.963 --> 03:05:09.008 [JC (Ryo)]: As we go past the goblins, can I — I'd like to use my druidcraft to make their dice, sprout flowers. 03:05:10.489 --> 03:05:15.793 [JC (Ryo)]: Is that how it works? 03:05:16.254 --> 03:05:19.056 [JC (Ryo)]: Instantly make a flower blossom, no, never mind. 03:05:20.077 --> 03:05:25.741 [Riv (DM)]: Well, if you like, why don't you roll something to see how well you can do it. 03:05:25.781 --> 03:05:26.862 [JC (Ryo)]: That's not how it works, so... 03:05:26.882 --> 03:05:29.104 [JC (Ryo)]: I think we can make a bloom. 03:05:31.198 --> 03:05:31.818 [Riv (DM)]: Let's see what it says. 03:05:31.838 --> 03:05:32.038 [Riv (DM)]: Bloom. 03:05:32.058 --> 03:05:36.639 [Riv (DM)]: You can make a flower blossom, seed or a pod open, or a leaf bud bloom. 03:05:38.139 --> 03:05:39.679 [Riv (DM)]: Just roll a straight Wisdom check. 03:05:52.182 --> 03:06:00.303 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you sort of reach out with your senses, looking for maybe some seeds that had blown or scattered around down the alleyway, but unfortunately you don't find any. 03:06:01.932 --> 03:06:02.656 [Riv (DM)]: That was a good try. 03:06:04.627 --> 03:06:05.793 [Riv (DM)]: Um, okay, cool. 03:06:09.006 --> 03:06:12.887 [Riv (DM)]: Leading on up through, now this sort of bridge is starting to arch over, you can look down. 03:06:12.907 --> 03:06:22.549 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of these buildings on the inner tiers now are made out of black stone or black steel almost, a lot of sharp and angular roofs. 03:06:23.449 --> 03:06:37.933 [Riv (DM)]: And looking down off into the distance you can see just numerous numbers of these big kennels, almost looking like large stables, but you can see lots of shapes sort of like snarling and howling inside, jumping over each other. 03:06:39.434 --> 03:06:41.099 [Riv (DM)]: These are the muster yards. 03:06:44.288 --> 03:06:46.594 [Riv (DM)]: Rising up higher, you get up into the Cortes. 03:06:48.483 --> 03:06:59.373 [Riv (DM)]: The buildings become less harsh, less sharp and angular, but still, you know, again it feels like a different, a whole different style. 03:06:59.953 --> 03:07:04.377 [Riv (DM)]: More black, like pure black stone with spired roofs. 03:07:06.339 --> 03:07:08.160 [Riv (DM)]: More sort of elegant, I guess you could say. 03:07:08.180 --> 03:07:12.704 [Riv (DM)]: And the people here as well, you see a lot more sort of elven-looking people. 03:07:13.625 --> 03:07:16.669 [Riv (DM)]: Definitely not the sort of elves that you'd find from Sumara. 03:07:16.689 --> 03:07:23.118 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of these have got darker skin, almost dark blues and dark purples, a lot more angular features. 03:07:27.163 --> 03:07:31.389 [Riv (DM)]: You can continue being escorted through without problems. 03:07:33.789 --> 03:07:41.993 [Riv (DM)]: Until eventually you get to the top of the Rise and you see the Black Citadel, the veiled Citadel itself in front of you. 03:07:42.813 --> 03:07:47.175 [Riv (DM)]: The lunar beam you can see is coming directly from the spire at the top of the Citadel. 03:07:48.196 --> 03:07:52.038 [Riv (DM)]: It's shining straight up into the sky, the moon directly overhead. 03:07:53.338 --> 03:07:56.120 [Riv (DM)]: Thousands, unknown amounts of distance above. 03:07:56.240 --> 03:07:59.181 [Riv (DM)]: It could be close, it could be far away, impossible to tell. 03:08:02.997 --> 03:08:08.019 [Riv (DM)]: You go up the last set of steps and get to the entrance. 03:08:08.600 --> 03:08:10.420 [Riv (DM)]: Huge big double black doors. 03:08:11.381 --> 03:08:15.042 [Riv (DM)]: Some words are exchanged and the doors creak and crack open. 03:08:15.523 --> 03:08:26.528 [Riv (DM)]: You are escorted now by the same two guys, the same two centaurs, Caradoc and Right Hand Man, along with a dozen or so other centaurs from the hunt, all of them wearing the same sort of 03:08:28.760 --> 03:08:45.409 [Riv (DM)]: Uniform, like it seems like they have got, uh, you know, leather armor with like a sash or something across it, with like a sigil, um, the group that is escorting you appear to all have the same sigil, um, and you've probably noticed throughout the rest of the city that there have been a few different sigils as well. 03:08:45.709 --> 03:08:50.232 [Riv (DM)]: Seems like there are maybe two different organizations or clans or something like that. 03:08:52.473 --> 03:08:55.575 [Riv (DM)]: But you're taken up inside the keep, um, it's kind of a 03:08:57.354 --> 03:09:02.536 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of an odd place to find, to be honest, in and amongst all of this darkness. 03:09:03.156 --> 03:09:07.097 [Riv (DM)]: Inside, it's like walking into an alien world. 03:09:07.357 --> 03:09:12.739 [Riv (DM)]: Polished black marble stone floors, a vaulted ceiling. 03:09:13.459 --> 03:09:25.008 [Riv (DM)]: Chandeliers that are sort of just floating in the air, and hallways that go off in numerous directions, sort of lined with elegant black steel. 03:09:25.988 --> 03:09:41.460 [Riv (DM)]: And what makes this even more odd is that you're being escorted by a dozen poved gentlemen, their feet making clip-clopping sounds as they walk you through the halls on the dark black stone floors. 03:09:44.618 --> 03:09:52.085 [Vael (Berberis)]: All right. 03:09:53.606 --> 03:09:54.907 [Vael (Berberis)]: My memory's shocking because I'm old. 03:09:55.167 --> 03:09:56.628 [Vael (Berberis)]: What was the queen's name again? 03:09:57.709 --> 03:09:58.250 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Mereleth. 03:09:58.890 --> 03:09:59.351 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mereleth. 03:10:00.292 --> 03:10:00.572 [Vael (Berberis)]: Easy. 03:10:00.892 --> 03:10:01.813 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll try to remember that. 03:10:03.995 --> 03:10:05.196 [Lacer (Kai)]: The Star-Vailed Queen. 03:10:07.538 --> 03:10:08.779 [Riv (DM)]: You're taken deep into the Citadel. 03:10:12.518 --> 03:10:24.844 [Riv (DM)]: Until eventually you come to, obviously, the landing area for the, probably, one of the most important rooms in the Citadel. 03:10:25.324 --> 03:10:42.113 [Riv (DM)]: The doors here are larger, more ornate, and there are a few people around, a few guards outside, but Caradoc sort of just stops here and says, um, we wait. 03:10:43.984 --> 03:10:44.766 [Riv (DM)]: She knows we come. 03:10:45.047 --> 03:10:45.768 [Riv (DM)]: She already knows. 03:10:47.994 --> 03:10:51.603 [Riv (DM)]: We will be requested inside when the time is right. 03:10:52.565 --> 03:10:53.267 [Riv (DM)]: But for now we wait. 03:10:56.134 --> 03:11:17.459 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna ask Caradoc, um, is there like a change room or something that we can like make ourselves look presentable after all this running and blood since we're gonna come before your queen or your current queen so you look more presentable like wash up maybe take 15 minutes or something 03:11:23.235 --> 03:11:37.123 [Lacer (Kai)]: Think about it, you ran us through the black forest for a couple of hours, we were sweating, then you dragged us towards the lady, and then the thorns made us all bleed and we're all bleeding. 03:11:37.903 --> 03:11:39.164 [Lacer (Kai)]: Look what we look like right now. 03:11:42.246 --> 03:11:43.667 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not sure if you're joking or not. 03:11:45.728 --> 03:11:46.848 [Riv (DM)]: Are you serious? 03:11:46.928 --> 03:11:49.450 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I just want to clean up. 03:11:50.168 --> 03:11:51.008 [Riv (DM)]: You look fine. 03:11:51.028 --> 03:11:52.349 [Riv (DM)]: You look like you've been on a hunt. 03:11:52.969 --> 03:11:53.350 [Riv (DM)]: It's good. 03:11:54.370 --> 03:11:55.291 [Lacer (Kai)]: I feel dirty. 03:11:55.311 --> 03:11:57.952 [Lacer (Kai)]: A dirty hunt? 03:11:58.653 --> 03:12:00.333 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Are you saying that Caradoc looks dirty? 03:12:01.114 --> 03:12:01.914 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I can't tell. 03:12:02.575 --> 03:12:02.955 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 03:12:03.035 --> 03:12:03.895 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is he wearing clothes? 03:12:04.716 --> 03:12:05.536 [Lacer (Kai)]: He's got, like, armor on. 03:12:06.417 --> 03:12:07.077 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How rude. 03:12:07.997 --> 03:12:08.258 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:12:09.718 --> 03:12:10.479 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know what... 03:12:10.899 --> 03:12:11.579 [Lacer (Kai)]: He looks fine. 03:12:11.599 --> 03:12:13.280 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can't believe you, Kai. 03:12:13.480 --> 03:12:13.981 [Riv (DM)]: Honestly. 03:12:14.021 --> 03:12:17.362 [Riv (DM)]: You're saying that I am not presentable in my current look. 03:12:18.895 --> 03:12:19.696 [Riv (DM)]: I always look like this. 03:12:20.496 --> 03:12:21.336 [Lacer (Kai)]: I didn't say that. 03:12:21.537 --> 03:12:24.218 [Riv (DM)]: But I am just back from hunt, as are you. 03:12:26.700 --> 03:12:34.244 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I think what he means is that he doesn't stand up to the hunt as well as someone like yourself does. 03:12:35.905 --> 03:12:41.688 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I do not know how long until we are requested to enter the chamber, though you may have some time. 03:12:43.149 --> 03:12:43.770 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, that's fine. 03:12:43.790 --> 03:12:44.290 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna... 03:12:45.400 --> 03:12:48.603 [Riv (DM)]: Don't you, you uh, or magic people, right? 03:12:48.883 --> 03:12:52.287 [Riv (DM)]: Surely you can just wave your hands and magic it all away, I've seen this before. 03:12:52.887 --> 03:12:55.070 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I, can I do that, or will I get attacked? 03:12:56.951 --> 03:12:57.292 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 03:12:59.073 --> 03:13:00.315 [Riv (DM)]: You promise no funny business? 03:13:01.816 --> 03:13:05.240 [Lacer (Kai)]: I put my hand on my shield, I promise no funny business. 03:13:07.557 --> 03:13:08.137 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's okay. 03:13:08.517 --> 03:13:09.898 [Vael (Berberis)]: Carrot up can't harm us anyway. 03:13:11.058 --> 03:13:11.958 [Vael (Berberis)]: We are under his protection. 03:13:13.319 --> 03:13:14.879 [Vael (Berberis)]: Second in command to me, though. 03:13:14.899 --> 03:13:16.259 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's true. 03:13:16.279 --> 03:13:17.660 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, but I look at everyone else. 03:13:17.740 --> 03:13:21.561 [Lacer (Kai)]: I looked at all the, what, 20 hooved attendants. 03:13:21.961 --> 03:13:23.421 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are they immaculately dressed? 03:13:24.742 --> 03:13:25.662 [Lacer (Kai)]: How are they dressed, Riv? 03:13:26.482 --> 03:13:34.304 [Riv (DM)]: Well, so the people that you've seen inside have all been sort of of this elven look. 03:13:34.344 --> 03:13:36.585 [Riv (DM)]: The only centaurs are the ones that have brought you in. 03:13:37.735 --> 03:13:41.838 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are the elven people dressed well or they look like they just came from a hunt as well? 03:13:42.639 --> 03:13:45.581 [Riv (DM)]: Oh no, no, these are people who are stationed here in the Citadel. 03:13:47.523 --> 03:13:57.490 [Riv (DM)]: Very, very pristine black armor that sort of shapes — it sort of follows that same sort of angular style of the — similar to the buildings outside. 03:13:58.531 --> 03:14:00.533 [Riv (DM)]: Sharpie points on the shoulders. 03:14:01.854 --> 03:14:02.054 [Riv (DM)]: Right. 03:14:03.706 --> 03:14:04.046 [Lacer (Kai)]: All right. 03:14:04.407 --> 03:14:12.013 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, I promise you, Caradoc, I won't do anything funny besides fix my clothes and maybe heal us up a little bit. 03:14:15.216 --> 03:14:16.817 [Lacer (Kai)]: And clean our clothes. 03:14:16.937 --> 03:14:17.758 [Riv (DM)]: I watch you closely. 03:14:18.899 --> 03:14:19.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, you watch. 03:14:21.821 --> 03:14:28.968 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I cast a combination of Prestigitation and Mending on all of us who need it. 03:14:29.028 --> 03:14:31.670 [Lacer (Kai)]: I decline all of the cleaning and treatment. 03:14:33.088 --> 03:14:37.770 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, you wanna... Oh, I s- I decline all the cleaning, healing, and treatment. 03:14:38.070 --> 03:14:38.450 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's fine. 03:14:39.731 --> 03:14:40.031 [Vael (Berberis)]: Right. 03:14:40.111 --> 03:14:40.891 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mellydrew bear. 03:14:41.331 --> 03:14:42.071 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't need treatment. 03:14:44.292 --> 03:14:50.235 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just trying to insight check this, like, from my po- I'm not gonna insight check, but I think I understand. 03:14:50.295 --> 03:14:51.035 [Lacer (Kai)]: I get your drift. 03:14:51.075 --> 03:14:53.776 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe I shouldn't clean myself and I should just look like a dirty bum. 03:14:54.684 --> 03:14:58.945 [JC (Ryo)]: and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun. 03:15:23.423 --> 03:15:30.107 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We could also just start making some of the random cards that are here smell of skunk as well. 03:15:32.469 --> 03:15:35.391 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I think you might get into trouble. 03:15:36.572 --> 03:15:38.873 [Riv (DM)]: There's too many casters in this group, I'm telling you man. 03:15:42.275 --> 03:15:44.657 [JC (Ryo)]: Half are full casters and two of us are half casters. 03:15:46.875 --> 03:15:49.717 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, um, yeah, I'm tempted to heal myself. 03:15:50.198 --> 03:15:58.445 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think I'll heal myself and anyone else I'm just gonna do a prayer of healing I think to top up anyone everyone who took eight damage, right? 03:15:59.185 --> 03:16:02.668 [Lacer (Kai)]: So it's eight times five is forty damage. 03:16:02.768 --> 03:16:03.329 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I need... 03:16:03.589 --> 03:16:06.450 [Riv (DM)]: Remember some of you would have had the Temp HP? 03:16:06.810 --> 03:16:08.830 [Riv (DM)]: That's not Temp, it wasn't Temp. 03:16:09.170 --> 03:16:09.870 [Vael (Berberis)]: Increased Max. 03:16:10.230 --> 03:16:12.611 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, it was Increased Max. 03:16:13.471 --> 03:16:16.971 [Vael (Berberis)]: I decided on Temp because it was easier to track that way. 03:16:16.991 --> 03:16:21.672 [Vael (Berberis)]: While they're doing that I'll just smile the character. 03:16:21.952 --> 03:16:23.873 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was a hunter myself at one point. 03:16:25.213 --> 03:16:26.313 [Vael (Berberis)]: I understand what it's like. 03:16:27.373 --> 03:16:28.714 [Riv (DM)]: Very good, from where? 03:16:29.714 --> 03:16:30.654 [Vael (Berberis)]: And what did you hunt? 03:16:32.881 --> 03:16:40.123 [Vael (Berberis)]: Initially animals, but over time my part of the woods started to become affected with the unliving. 03:16:40.303 --> 03:16:45.064 [Vael (Berberis)]: So I shifted over from hunting game to hunting the dead. 03:16:47.344 --> 03:16:48.004 [Riv (DM)]: Dangerous business. 03:16:48.484 --> 03:16:49.384 [Riv (DM)]: We have dead here as well. 03:16:50.665 --> 03:16:51.045 [Vael (Berberis)]: We do. 03:16:54.806 --> 03:16:57.946 [Vael (Berberis)]: Is that a recent thing or a regular thing? 03:16:59.286 --> 03:16:59.787 [Riv (DM)]: Spirits. 03:17:00.927 --> 03:17:01.747 [Riv (DM)]: Always been around. 03:17:03.652 --> 03:17:04.292 [Riv (DM)]: Some of them nasty. 03:17:04.552 --> 03:17:05.393 [Riv (DM)]: I stick to the hunt. 03:17:05.993 --> 03:17:07.394 [Riv (DM)]: I like the woods and the trees. 03:17:09.775 --> 03:17:10.335 [Riv (DM)]: Fair, fair. 03:17:12.276 --> 03:17:12.456 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well. 03:17:13.536 --> 03:17:18.338 [Vael (Berberis)]: Unfortunately, I didn't have that option because my woods and trees became full of them, so. 03:17:19.739 --> 03:17:21.100 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sorry to hear that. 03:17:22.300 --> 03:17:23.121 [Riv (DM)]: Very sorry to hear that. 03:17:23.261 --> 03:17:24.241 [Riv (DM)]: Woods are for hunting. 03:17:27.322 --> 03:17:31.304 [Vael (Berberis)]: I get the impression that he is a very low NPC. 03:17:31.604 --> 03:17:31.784 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:17:34.695 --> 03:17:35.656 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 03:17:35.776 --> 03:17:36.997 [Riv (DM)]: You can all clean yourselves up a bit. 03:17:37.397 --> 03:17:42.842 [Riv (DM)]: Is everyone else going to accept the cleaning other than Berberus? 03:17:42.882 --> 03:17:45.944 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I'm going to pretend I'm going to not clean. 03:17:45.964 --> 03:17:49.767 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just going to be a dirty, damaged person. 03:17:49.787 --> 03:17:52.089 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so you are doing the healing as well then? 03:17:52.649 --> 03:17:56.452 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'm trying to find my Prayer of Healing, which seems to have disappeared from my spell list. 03:17:57.453 --> 03:18:00.435 [Lacer (Kai)]: Which I used to have, but it's not here anymore. 03:18:02.096 --> 03:18:02.677 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Sing it for us. 03:18:04.185 --> 03:18:08.030 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, we all definitely stink of, like, poop and skunk right now. 03:18:08.751 --> 03:18:11.494 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, it's second level? 03:18:11.514 --> 03:18:13.256 [Riv (DM)]: You can just type up the top search bar. 03:18:14.958 --> 03:18:16.981 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have to scroll to look through? 03:18:17.401 --> 03:18:18.282 [Riv (DM)]: No, no, just type. 03:18:18.563 --> 03:18:20.545 [Riv (DM)]: There's a search bar at the top. 03:18:21.481 --> 03:18:22.242 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can't do it. 03:18:22.302 --> 03:18:23.503 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't have it prepared. 03:18:23.623 --> 03:18:23.823 [Lacer (Kai)]: What? 03:18:24.064 --> 03:18:24.384 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 03:18:25.125 --> 03:18:25.525 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 03:18:26.866 --> 03:18:33.753 [Riv (DM)]: Kai goes to try and figure out—remember how to ask the goddess how to heal, and he's like, where? 03:18:34.574 --> 03:18:36.836 [Riv (DM)]: I've forgotten the ritual today, or something. 03:18:37.857 --> 03:18:40.220 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I just say, I fucked up, guys. 03:18:40.280 --> 03:18:42.282 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The goddess will not be pleased with you. 03:18:44.187 --> 03:18:45.989 [Riv (DM)]: What's this? 03:18:46.129 --> 03:18:46.309 [Riv (DM)]: Aura? 03:18:46.369 --> 03:18:47.270 [Riv (DM)]: The rest of the centaurs. 03:18:47.350 --> 03:18:48.931 [Lacer (Kai)]: Actually, no, I can do Aura. 03:18:48.992 --> 03:18:58.300 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry, I'll do Aura of Vitality for the whole minute, which is 2d6 times 10 rounds. 03:18:58.660 --> 03:19:00.502 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I just cast it and times it by 10. 03:19:09.441 --> 03:19:10.581 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you want me to roll ten times? 03:19:11.402 --> 03:19:17.544 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or, actually, I'll just roll 2d6 another, what's it called, another nine times. 03:19:18.044 --> 03:19:20.765 [Riv (DM)]: You don't need to worry about it, it'll easily heal everyone up, 100%. 03:19:22.925 --> 03:19:25.066 [Riv (DM)]: So just over time, how long does it take to cast? 03:19:25.106 --> 03:19:25.446 [Riv (DM)]: One minute? 03:19:25.466 --> 03:19:26.327 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, over a minute. 03:19:26.347 --> 03:19:26.807 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, over a minute. 03:19:26.827 --> 03:19:30.968 [Riv (DM)]: You can slowly just sort of emanate this healing light. 03:19:31.108 --> 03:19:31.408 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:19:32.489 --> 03:19:33.789 [Riv (DM)]: Everyone's wounds start to seal up. 03:19:34.689 --> 03:19:36.590 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, so everyone's healed but we still 03:19:37.788 --> 03:19:40.550 [Lacer (Kai)]: in order to have the evidence of our damage. 03:19:41.270 --> 03:19:48.354 [Riv (DM)]: The rest of the centaurs in the group start to filter away, leaving just Caradoc and his right hand man. 03:19:48.374 --> 03:19:51.016 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Should ask if any of them need healing. 03:19:51.814 --> 03:19:52.394 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, Kai. 03:19:53.735 --> 03:20:05.241 [Riv (DM)]: And then, as you come to finish your minute of aura, you hear the doors go big, large, booming sound as they slowly start to open by themselves. 03:20:05.801 --> 03:20:06.901 [Riv (DM)]: You see there's no one beyond. 03:20:11.664 --> 03:20:20.028 [Riv (DM)]: You kind of see Caradoc and his right-hand man sort of look at each other and sort of maybe gulp a little bit nervously. 03:20:21.140 --> 03:20:23.641 [Riv (DM)]: You sort of like nod to each other and start to walk in. 03:20:25.502 --> 03:20:34.787 [Riv (DM)]: You are, you will follow in and the throne room beyond is a long, so it's like a long chamber, 50, 60, maybe like 100 feet long. 03:20:36.067 --> 03:20:46.773 [Riv (DM)]: And as you come down a set of stairs into the room itself, it sort of splits the stairs, you have to go on one way or the other, so you probably, they take you. 03:20:47.493 --> 03:21:05.083 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, I think it'd be kind of neat if they split and you go half and half on either side, so half of you go down one side of the stairs, the other half go down the other, each with a centaur leading, because directly down the center of the room is water that's coming out of a fountain in the very, very center of the hall here. 03:21:05.883 --> 03:21:08.545 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: A sort of bluish— A water or a cursed water? 03:21:09.285 --> 03:21:11.046 [Riv (DM)]: Bluish black water, yeah. 03:21:11.566 --> 03:21:14.328 [Riv (DM)]: That's just sort of pouring up out of the fountain. 03:21:15.112 --> 03:21:22.238 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna try and shape water and see if that moves just like the river water, just to plop it up and then drop it and see if it works. 03:21:23.199 --> 03:21:24.240 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, nothing to grab hold of. 03:21:24.420 --> 03:21:25.201 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't seem to be water. 03:21:25.641 --> 03:21:29.144 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, so it's just somatic, so no verbal or material. 03:21:29.164 --> 03:21:31.326 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, so it's not water. 03:21:31.647 --> 03:21:32.567 [Lacer (Kai)]: I know it's not water. 03:21:33.088 --> 03:21:33.248 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:21:34.066 --> 03:21:51.661 [Riv (DM)]: Walking down the length of the room you can see at the far end there is a raised platform with sort of a medium height banner around it with stairs that would lead up to it and then just a single huge stone throne currently empty. 03:21:52.402 --> 03:22:13.883 [Riv (DM)]: and beyond at the edge of the room just massive big panes of glass stained with designs and pictures that seemed to almost like tell a story or something and the light of the moon, the black moon, is just pouring through these windows and shining the sort of like blue radiance across the room. 03:22:16.047 --> 03:22:43.402 [Riv (DM)]: um the centaurs sort of lead you into the central part of the the room here directly in front of this raised dais um and wait and wait a bit longer they kind of you know they don't look particularly concerned necessarily but man just waiting nothing until eventually you um you feel 03:22:44.944 --> 03:22:48.776 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of, like, wind, almost, blow into the room. 03:22:48.797 --> 03:22:50.542 [Riv (DM)]: A little bit of gusts. 03:22:50.562 --> 03:22:51.786 [Riv (DM)]: Do I feel like we're being watched? 03:22:53.388 --> 03:22:57.051 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, like, yeah, 100%. 03:22:58.412 --> 03:23:21.806 [Riv (DM)]: At first you kind of feel like you're maybe just imagining it, but then you, you know, the wind, definitely there's gusts coming from somewhere and your hair starts to feel like it starts to get moved, until eventually you feel, you see this just mist start to just pour in through across the side of the room and starts to coalesce up on the dice in front of you and that swirls and swirls and 03:23:22.727 --> 03:23:29.128 [Riv (DM)]: Finally, Prolis is into the figure, standing up in front of the throne, looking down at you all. 03:23:33.009 --> 03:23:33.529 [Riv (DM)]: Take a knee? 03:23:35.249 --> 03:23:35.530 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:23:36.190 --> 03:23:37.130 [Riv (DM)]: You take a knee, okay. 03:23:38.110 --> 03:23:38.570 [Riv (DM)]: Miraleth. 03:23:39.250 --> 03:23:39.550 [Riv (DM)]: Follow. 03:23:39.910 --> 03:23:42.351 [Riv (DM)]: The star-veiled queen stands before you. 03:23:44.771 --> 03:23:47.652 [Riv (DM)]: She... kind of looks a bit... 03:23:48.687 --> 03:23:49.068 [Riv (DM)]: Elven. 03:23:50.429 --> 03:23:52.532 [Riv (DM)]: Um, Elven, but wrong. 03:23:53.292 --> 03:23:54.173 [Riv (DM)]: She's tall. 03:23:54.274 --> 03:23:55.895 [Riv (DM)]: She's probably ten feet tall? 03:23:56.436 --> 03:23:56.977 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe more? 03:23:57.878 --> 03:24:08.230 [Riv (DM)]: Um, very standard Elven features on her sort of greyish pale skin, um, sharp ears, um, long arms. 03:24:10.153 --> 03:24:15.835 [Riv (DM)]: She's got pitch black eyes that are just sort of taking you in, glancing across at you. 03:24:17.315 --> 03:24:23.037 [Riv (DM)]: Her mouth held entirely neutral, no ounce of emotion crossing her face. 03:24:23.677 --> 03:24:25.878 [Riv (DM)]: She's wearing a long white gown. 03:24:26.538 --> 03:24:53.708 [Riv (DM)]: um that seems to almost shimmer a little bit and maybe even move of its own accord um and as she sort of turns her head to take you in you see the gown it actually sort of swirls a little bit and changes color it switches over to a black color um you know here at the same time also sort of changes black a few more moments go by and again it sort of like swirls a little bit and it's just it seems to be sort of switching between this white and this black 03:24:58.514 --> 03:25:00.636 [Riv (DM)]: A few moments go by and she takes you in. 03:25:03.217 --> 03:25:05.159 [Riv (DM)]: And then she speaks to you. 03:25:07.321 --> 03:25:12.725 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear her say, I saw you coming. 03:25:15.947 --> 03:25:16.668 [Riv (DM)]: It is good to see you. 03:25:17.048 --> 03:25:19.069 [Riv (DM)]: Welcome to my halls. 03:25:22.432 --> 03:25:24.914 [Riv (DM)]: Tell me, why are you here? 03:25:24.934 --> 03:25:27.856 [Riv (DM)]: It is very, very unusual. 03:25:29.803 --> 03:25:33.485 [Riv (DM)]: for people to come into our lands from the Peaks. 03:25:34.505 --> 03:25:40.769 [Riv (DM)]: The recent hostilities have made such meetings impossible. 03:25:42.570 --> 03:25:46.752 [Riv (DM)]: And so the unspoken agreement has been to keep to ourselves. 03:25:48.573 --> 03:25:49.513 [Riv (DM)]: So tell me, why are you here? 03:25:49.533 --> 03:25:54.196 [Vael (Berberis)]: We came for several reasons. 03:25:55.396 --> 03:25:56.897 [Vael (Berberis)]: We came seeking an item of power. 03:25:58.525 --> 03:26:04.510 [Vael (Berberis)]: to discuss those hostilities and to maybe seek an end to them. 03:26:05.971 --> 03:26:08.534 [Vael (Berberis)]: But along the way we ran into some trouble. 03:26:10.976 --> 03:26:17.021 [Vael (Berberis)]: Queen Miralith, it appears that you have traitors in your kingdom. 03:26:17.041 --> 03:26:20.624 [Riv (DM)]: A slight smile falls at the corner of her mouth. 03:26:22.666 --> 03:26:22.786 [Riv (DM)]: Oh? 03:26:24.287 --> 03:26:24.768 [Riv (DM)]: Do tell. 03:26:28.460 --> 03:26:32.443 [Vael (Berberis)]: And I will just carefully show the necklace, but I will not grab it. 03:26:33.404 --> 03:26:39.569 [Vael (Berberis)]: At the same time keeping a very strong eye on our centaur guards. 03:26:41.251 --> 03:26:48.316 [Riv (DM)]: They, um, yeah, you can see a quick little side-eye from Caradoc, but it doesn't say anything. 03:26:52.400 --> 03:26:53.661 [Vael (Berberis)]: We were waylaid on the way in. 03:26:56.280 --> 03:26:58.061 [Vael (Berberis)]: and the power of the Sun. 03:26:58.081 --> 03:27:01.884 [Riv (DM)]: They learned of the power of the Sun. 03:27:23.257 --> 03:27:26.078 [Riv (DM)]: That old crone's still snapping away. 03:27:27.498 --> 03:27:28.839 [Riv (DM)]: I, of course, am aware of her. 03:27:30.379 --> 03:27:32.620 [Riv (DM)]: Her lust for power is insatiable. 03:27:35.661 --> 03:27:36.341 [Riv (DM)]: Let me look at this. 03:27:36.782 --> 03:27:41.343 [Riv (DM)]: And she raises her hand and it just, the item drifts away from your hand over to her. 03:27:42.463 --> 03:27:44.164 [Vael (Berberis)]: Be careful, she wanted it smashed. 03:27:44.244 --> 03:27:46.865 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'd imagine it's not good for you. 03:27:48.198 --> 03:27:54.460 [Riv (DM)]: As it sort of floats across the room, up towards where she's standing above you on the throne, it just starts to deconstruct. 03:27:54.620 --> 03:28:00.381 [Riv (DM)]: The wood, the roots, just like peel away and they just sort of drop and materialize into dust and sort of blow out of the room. 03:28:01.682 --> 03:28:05.643 [Riv (DM)]: Or maybe actually they get blown into the river and get swept away. 03:28:05.763 --> 03:28:06.323 [Riv (DM)]: I think that's better. 03:28:06.343 --> 03:28:11.885 [Vael (Berberis)]: You're getting your eye on the centaurs ready to jump if they move. 03:28:12.465 --> 03:28:12.605 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:28:14.353 --> 03:28:40.740 [Riv (DM)]: um yeah no they are frozen still yeah yep i think you get the feel they potentially are in a bit of a tight spot here um the vial comes over and it just floats in front of her she looks at it she says hmm i suppose it looks like she's improved it a little bit it's still crude and she just like negligently waves her hand and it just vanishes well 03:28:41.932 --> 03:28:45.975 [Riv (DM)]: I appreciate this token of trust. 03:28:45.995 --> 03:28:53.202 [Riv (DM)]: It would have very, very easily betrayed me. 03:28:54.102 --> 03:28:58.126 [Riv (DM)]: Although I do wonder, did you make a deal with her? 03:29:00.788 --> 03:29:03.670 [Vael (Berberis)]: I promised to see it into your presence. 03:29:04.131 --> 03:29:05.312 [Vael (Berberis)]: Didn't promise to use it. 03:29:06.833 --> 03:29:08.274 [Riv (DM)]: How carefully did you speak the words. 03:29:09.295 --> 03:29:12.076 [Riv (DM)]: If you have reneged on your deal, she would already know. 03:29:12.096 --> 03:29:15.558 [Vael (Berberis)]: It has been seen into your presence? 03:29:19.140 --> 03:29:19.421 [Riv (DM)]: Clever. 03:29:24.123 --> 03:29:26.045 [Riv (DM)]: She must be... losing her edge. 03:29:27.586 --> 03:29:28.806 [Riv (DM)]: You manage to pull that one over here? 03:29:29.887 --> 03:29:31.408 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe she truly thought that... 03:29:34.798 --> 03:29:42.839 [Riv (DM)]: that you would have the same sort of bloodlust or just open expectation for violence, lust for power. 03:29:43.600 --> 03:29:44.240 [Riv (DM)]: Very curious. 03:29:44.340 --> 03:29:45.740 [Vael (Berberis)]: Greed got the better of her. 03:29:46.600 --> 03:29:52.341 [Vael (Berberis)]: Though, me now, I'm thinking back, and I have some slight concerns. 03:29:54.081 --> 03:29:57.642 [Vael (Berberis)]: Not on the worry, but on the fact that she took some of Ryo's hair. 03:29:59.342 --> 03:30:00.022 [Lacer (Kai)]: And our blood. 03:30:00.142 --> 03:30:01.283 [Lacer (Kai)]: She's all got our blood. 03:30:02.083 --> 03:30:03.943 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, yeah, that's a worry. 03:30:05.055 --> 03:30:10.296 [Riv (DM)]: Speaking of thoughts for power, you mentioned you came seeking an item of power? 03:30:14.037 --> 03:30:25.960 [Riv (DM)]: You're very bold to turn up and request such things, diplomacy and items of power, but I can't say that I'm not a little bit, maybe slightly impressed. 03:30:27.680 --> 03:30:28.500 [Riv (DM)]: But what is it that you seek? 03:30:30.421 --> 03:30:31.721 [Vael (Berberis)]: I say fortune favors the bold. 03:30:34.449 --> 03:30:37.110 [Vael (Berberis)]: The Crimson Shadow moves on the Material Realm again. 03:30:37.130 --> 03:30:38.970 [Vael (Berberis)]: Indeed. 03:30:39.370 --> 03:30:46.072 [Vael (Berberis)]: We've been informed by powers that be that to deal with him we require a Soulstone Anchor. 03:30:50.653 --> 03:30:53.414 [Vael (Berberis)]: Trap him and destroy him properly. 03:30:54.654 --> 03:30:58.775 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an Insight shape over us. 03:31:01.838 --> 03:31:06.160 [Vael (Berberis)]: I have a very strong suspicion that a soulstone anchor is the only thing keeping this realm intact. 03:31:09.581 --> 03:31:11.322 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, another great insight check. 03:31:12.643 --> 03:31:22.727 [Riv (DM)]: When you say the word soulstone anchor, you know when you're talking to someone and like you say something that just is like truly 03:31:24.404 --> 03:31:48.749 [Riv (DM)]: unexpected um and they almost have this like taken aback expression where it's kind of like whoa well what on earth um she has that momentary expression it's sort of like her eyebrows raise and she she kind of has like a almost coy smile like like what what do you mean soulstone ankle like where does that term even come from like it's just kind of like pure like shock like 03:31:49.896 --> 03:32:14.671 [Riv (DM)]: but but not in like a horrified way it's kind of more in like a humorous way like she's i think she finds it kind of funny that you just spoke those words um and as you do um she just like has this momentary break in composure which sort of just resolves itself into a slight smile on one side of her face um and she continues to speak 03:32:16.425 --> 03:32:17.585 [Riv (DM)]: anchor, you say. 03:32:17.605 --> 03:32:19.266 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, curious. 03:32:19.506 --> 03:32:20.826 [Riv (DM)]: And who told you about this? 03:32:22.147 --> 03:32:27.468 [Riv (DM)]: And she starts to — she kind of gets up from the throne and starts to walk down towards you. 03:32:30.169 --> 03:32:34.030 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um, the party preferred not to be disclosed. 03:32:34.850 --> 03:32:40.192 [Vael (Berberis)]: I get the impression that those that know would not need to ask. 03:32:44.513 --> 03:32:44.713 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hmm. 03:32:48.747 --> 03:33:05.923 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's also the other small matter of returning peaceable relations with the city and, um, was it the — I look back to the party — was it the son of that fricking arrogant Blade Lord went missing? 03:33:09.926 --> 03:33:10.567 [Vael (Berberis)]: Just other things. 03:33:11.007 --> 03:33:12.689 [Vael (Berberis)]: But that was definitely the priority. 03:33:15.438 --> 03:33:44.732 [Riv (DM)]: she um she's now came to the edge of the raised platform and she starts to slowly walk down the stairs and you can see now she's like getting closer this um sort of shifting down and these these black eyes it's kind of like a terrifying visage but kind of beautiful in a way um like a haunting sort of alien otherworldly kind of a way and as she kind of comes closer you kind of feel the immensity of her presence 03:33:46.802 --> 03:33:50.243 [Riv (DM)]: And she kind of takes you all in again now as she's closer. 03:33:50.263 --> 03:34:01.765 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, well... You don't wish to announce the presence of the one who told you about it. 03:34:03.286 --> 03:34:06.346 [Riv (DM)]: You can probably make an educated guess, considering your present company. 03:34:07.647 --> 03:34:08.927 [Riv (DM)]: She's walking closer still. 03:34:11.069 --> 03:34:17.591 [Riv (DM)]: And before she gets to you, she actually veers off and starts walking towards Paradoc. 03:34:20.292 --> 03:34:22.433 [Riv (DM)]: I would really like to know the name, though. 03:34:24.453 --> 03:34:25.153 [Riv (DM)]: It's important to me. 03:34:25.313 --> 03:34:28.294 [Riv (DM)]: Before we, you know, favor for a favor. 03:34:28.314 --> 03:34:30.095 [Riv (DM)]: Before we go too much further here. 03:34:32.479 --> 03:34:46.660 [Riv (DM)]: And as she gets to Caradoc, you see he sort of like straightens up, kind of, you know, at salute, at attention, and she reaches out a hand and just, you know, you can see her hand, it kind of looks like a normal 03:34:47.541 --> 03:34:55.170 [Riv (DM)]: Melvin Hand long and slender fingers, um, great grey pale skin, quite long, um, as she is quite a large person. 03:34:55.870 --> 03:35:08.664 [Riv (DM)]: She just reaches up and her hand just sort of slides in up under his chin and into his head and she just like squeezes her hand and Caradoc just collapses to the ground, instantly dead. 03:35:09.640 --> 03:35:33.877 [Riv (DM)]: and as soon as she does that the mist again she just disappears into a big cloud of mist and reappears directly behind the other centaur who immediately is like no my lady please i didn't and she just reaches up grabs either side of his head and just turns it 180 degrees backwards and he also collapses to the ground the soulstone anchor tell me who told you 03:35:35.660 --> 03:35:42.026 [Riv (DM)]: All measure of friendly humor, patience is gone. 03:35:42.306 --> 03:35:45.588 [Riv (DM)]: You can see the eyes are dark and black and almost flashing. 03:35:49.171 --> 03:35:50.793 [Riv (DM)]: Energy starts to crackle between your fingers. 03:36:08.530 --> 03:36:16.514 [JC (Ryo)]: So, there was some old guy who was losing his marbles, but this isn't one. 03:36:18.155 --> 03:36:19.195 [Lacer (Kai)]: One on the death's door. 03:36:20.976 --> 03:36:22.837 [Lacer (Kai)]: They call him the Silver Sage. 03:36:27.099 --> 03:36:28.280 [Riv (DM)]: How would he know? 03:36:28.300 --> 03:36:35.443 [Riv (DM)]: I guess the Vault probably gave him a glimpse at some point. 03:36:38.138 --> 03:36:38.978 [Riv (DM)]: Does anyone else know? 03:36:44.101 --> 03:36:45.542 [Lacer (Kai)]: Know of what exactly? 03:36:45.562 --> 03:36:47.563 [Lacer (Kai)]: You mean the Soulstone Anchor? 03:36:48.363 --> 03:36:48.583 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 03:36:48.883 --> 03:36:49.984 [Riv (DM)]: Who else have you told about it? 03:36:55.126 --> 03:36:55.527 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. 03:36:55.767 --> 03:36:56.607 [Lacer (Kai)]: I haven't told anyone. 03:36:57.227 --> 03:36:57.848 [Lacer (Kai)]: Only we know. 03:37:00.489 --> 03:37:00.689 [Riv (DM)]: Good. 03:37:03.551 --> 03:37:04.071 [Riv (DM)]: In that case... 03:37:08.272 --> 03:37:12.194 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, I get your erstwhile assassin. 03:37:14.794 --> 03:37:16.615 [Vael (Berberis)]: She did ask what we were coming into the city for. 03:37:17.315 --> 03:37:21.857 [Vael (Berberis)]: Didn't really leave us in a room to negotiate, though her methods were much more crude than that. 03:37:22.437 --> 03:37:23.698 [Vael (Berberis)]: That was fucking cool, by the way. 03:37:24.778 --> 03:37:25.979 [Vael (Berberis)]: You told her? 03:37:29.420 --> 03:37:31.861 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's hard to say no when you're getting strangled by thorns. 03:37:39.839 --> 03:37:42.541 [Vael (Berberis)]: Admittedly, we don't know what the fuck we're here for. 03:37:42.641 --> 03:37:44.822 [Vael (Berberis)]: I said we were bold, I didn't say we were smart. 03:37:46.303 --> 03:37:46.844 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's true. 03:37:46.864 --> 03:37:47.084 [Lacer (Kai)]: Amen. 03:37:50.866 --> 03:37:55.329 [Riv (DM)]: She, um... She starts to walk back up to the platform. 03:37:56.390 --> 03:37:58.991 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, energy now is just sort of bubbling off her. 03:37:59.312 --> 03:38:05.816 [Riv (DM)]: You can see, like, deep, crackling energy sort of sparking from her fingers, um, tracing along the ground. 03:38:08.197 --> 03:38:08.438 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 03:38:10.015 --> 03:38:13.716 [Vael (Berberis)]: I assume that this is an item you would rather not part with. 03:38:18.797 --> 03:38:22.598 [Riv (DM)]: This is an item I would rather no one know about. 03:38:24.379 --> 03:38:29.360 [Riv (DM)]: So the fact that you are here asking for it so boldly 03:38:32.044 --> 03:38:37.027 [Riv (DM)]: You can see, um, she almost, like, jerks slightly as, um, her hand, like, raises. 03:38:37.127 --> 03:38:41.030 [Riv (DM)]: You can see the lightning forms even more, like, brightly and more powerfully. 03:38:41.050 --> 03:38:43.091 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and she, like, twitches and jerks. 03:38:44.052 --> 03:38:48.234 [Riv (DM)]: And the robes immediately flash through black and white, black and white a few times quite quickly. 03:38:50.456 --> 03:38:50.576 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 03:38:53.578 --> 03:38:53.918 [Riv (DM)]: I... 03:39:00.682 --> 03:39:11.393 [Riv (DM)]: I wish it would be so easy to just kill you where you stand Something stays my hand What is it? 03:39:11.413 --> 03:39:15.237 [Riv (DM)]: There's something about you Why do I stay my hand? 03:39:18.240 --> 03:39:23.185 [Riv (DM)]: She turns and approaches you again Something you're not telling me 03:39:26.560 --> 03:39:35.945 [Riv (DM)]: Any other day, someone from outside, even someone from inside, comes and speaks those two words. 03:39:37.666 --> 03:39:40.928 [Riv (DM)]: The words alone would mean death instantly. 03:39:42.248 --> 03:39:45.830 [Riv (DM)]: For that secret is one secret that I will never allow out. 03:39:47.551 --> 03:39:48.672 [Riv (DM)]: Why do I stay my hand? 03:39:53.194 --> 03:39:54.915 [Vael (Berberis)]: The impending destruction of all reality? 03:39:56.057 --> 03:39:57.518 [Vael (Berberis)]: of all realms, all planes. 03:39:59.679 --> 03:40:03.562 [Riv (DM)]: The planes are constantly being destroyed and remade and recreated. 03:40:05.583 --> 03:40:06.144 [Riv (DM)]: I care little. 03:40:11.828 --> 03:40:16.911 [Riv (DM)]: She walks up in front of you, Ryo. 03:40:18.572 --> 03:40:19.092 [Riv (DM)]: Who are you? 03:40:22.715 --> 03:40:24.416 [JC (Ryo)]: Just an orphan from the Material plane. 03:40:31.893 --> 03:40:37.794 [Riv (DM)]: If that's the case, then I can just strike you down and kill you right now. 03:40:41.775 --> 03:40:42.455 [Riv (DM)]: Saves my secret. 03:40:44.276 --> 03:40:50.657 [Riv (DM)]: She starts to raise a hand, crackling with energy towards you. 03:40:59.699 --> 03:41:00.499 [JC (Ryo)]: Got this ring though. 03:41:04.121 --> 03:41:05.142 [JC (Ryo)]: I show her the ring. 03:41:05.883 --> 03:41:06.823 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't take it off, though. 03:41:07.444 --> 03:41:09.566 [JC (Ryo)]: I keep my hand closed. 03:41:09.586 --> 03:41:09.666 [JC (Ryo)]: Hmm. 03:41:11.547 --> 03:41:13.649 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:41:15.791 --> 03:41:16.511 [Riv (DM)]: She looks down at it. 03:41:21.855 --> 03:41:21.956 [Riv (DM)]: Ah. 03:41:24.738 --> 03:41:25.759 [Riv (DM)]: It explains a lot. 03:41:29.181 --> 03:41:29.842 [Riv (DM)]: What do you mean? 03:41:33.535 --> 03:41:37.156 [Riv (DM)]: That explains why there was a part of me that didn't want to kill you. 03:41:37.176 --> 03:41:44.518 [Vael (Berberis)]: We did mention diplomacy. 03:41:51.180 --> 03:41:59.703 [Riv (DM)]: The Mist forms again, and she again just manages and reappears on the throne, this time sitting down, legs crossed. 03:42:03.508 --> 03:42:04.508 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Can you teach us that? 03:42:04.949 --> 03:42:06.429 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That's really awesome, though. 03:42:06.509 --> 03:42:07.029 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Like, really. 03:42:08.170 --> 03:42:08.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: What are you talking about? 03:42:08.850 --> 03:42:09.510 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can teach you that. 03:42:10.631 --> 03:42:11.531 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can teach you that. 03:42:13.291 --> 03:42:14.112 [Riv (DM)]: Where do we go from here? 03:42:15.552 --> 03:42:20.854 [Riv (DM)]: You hold a secret that I cannot let out this room. 03:42:22.094 --> 03:42:24.815 [Riv (DM)]: And yet, I have no desire to kill you. 03:42:27.116 --> 03:42:29.257 [Riv (DM)]: You want something from me? 03:42:31.358 --> 03:42:32.218 [Riv (DM)]: Do I want something from you? 03:42:32.864 --> 03:42:33.024 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 03:42:34.285 --> 03:42:34.725 [Riv (DM)]: Possibly. 03:42:35.505 --> 03:42:36.166 [Riv (DM)]: Possibly I do. 03:42:40.568 --> 03:42:41.428 [Riv (DM)]: Where do we go from here? 03:42:41.448 --> 03:42:44.990 [Vael (Berberis)]: I understand. 03:42:45.010 --> 03:42:46.911 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's how all negotiations start. 03:42:49.552 --> 03:42:52.094 [Vael (Berberis)]: You argue back and forth until everyone's equally unhappy. 03:43:02.132 --> 03:43:03.693 [Riv (DM)]: We have a few problems. 03:43:06.414 --> 03:43:06.814 [Riv (DM)]: We have this. 03:43:07.954 --> 03:43:16.157 [Riv (DM)]: You raise your hand and you see a sort of black crystal form in the air, about probably the size of your palm. 03:43:17.178 --> 03:43:25.221 [Riv (DM)]: It's black, it's multifaceted, and you can see it's slightly translucent and there's a bit of red sort of glow from inside. 03:43:27.882 --> 03:43:28.382 [Riv (DM)]: You want this. 03:43:28.402 --> 03:43:29.903 [Riv (DM)]: I... 03:43:33.462 --> 03:43:42.144 [Riv (DM)]: Well, there isn't anything I hold more tightly, and so I will not just be giving it to you. 03:43:46.605 --> 03:43:52.206 [Riv (DM)]: We have a traitor in the city that you were so kind to inform me about. 03:43:53.327 --> 03:43:55.307 [Riv (DM)]: I already knew about her, but... 03:43:57.245 --> 03:44:01.588 [Riv (DM)]: I guess I wasn't aware that she was quite so bold or quite so ready. 03:44:02.188 --> 03:44:03.709 [Riv (DM)]: We will have to be dealing with her. 03:44:05.310 --> 03:44:06.250 [Riv (DM)]: And then we have you. 03:44:07.491 --> 03:44:08.872 [Riv (DM)]: Silmara line returned. 03:44:10.493 --> 03:44:11.794 [Riv (DM)]: Keys to the World Gate. 03:44:12.514 --> 03:44:14.315 [Riv (DM)]: Keys to the Vault of Memories. 03:44:18.698 --> 03:44:19.418 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I will say, uh... 03:44:21.630 --> 03:44:28.555 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm blanking on, uh, his name, uh, Caradoc, I believe it was, did say that there were others that were in on this as well. 03:44:28.575 --> 03:44:29.276 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He said there was many. 03:44:29.896 --> 03:44:31.217 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He said there was heaps of them. 03:44:31.838 --> 03:44:31.938 [Riv (DM)]: Ugh. 03:44:33.019 --> 03:44:33.459 [Riv (DM)]: Cowards. 03:44:33.919 --> 03:44:34.880 [Riv (DM)]: They don't know what they want. 03:44:36.662 --> 03:44:39.864 [Riv (DM)]: Once their crone falls, they will fall in line. 03:44:40.524 --> 03:44:41.445 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not worried about them. 03:44:42.166 --> 03:44:43.727 [Riv (DM)]: They have been misled by a lie. 03:44:47.990 --> 03:44:50.312 [Vael (Berberis)]: I get the feeling the majority of them just follow power. 03:44:51.795 --> 03:44:53.176 [Vael (Berberis)]: or where they think the power is. 03:44:54.397 --> 03:44:55.678 [Riv (DM)]: Possibly I've been too absent. 03:44:59.641 --> 03:45:05.125 [Riv (DM)]: But, if I were to give you this, what do you want it for? 03:45:08.648 --> 03:45:10.770 [Vael (Berberis)]: As we said, the shadow's moving again. 03:45:12.011 --> 03:45:17.295 [Vael (Berberis)]: We understand that he's transcended leech doom, I guess. 03:45:17.895 --> 03:45:19.917 [Vael (Berberis)]: He has no phylactery and keeps returning. 03:45:24.252 --> 03:45:24.472 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:45:26.114 --> 03:45:29.737 [Vael (Berberis)]: Need to trap his soul to deal with it permanently otherwise. 03:45:31.158 --> 03:45:35.362 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, I know you said the realms come and go all the time, but we seem to be quite attached to ours. 03:45:35.382 --> 03:45:38.465 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's where my house is. 03:45:39.886 --> 03:45:40.647 [Vael (Berberis)]: Where I keep my stuff. 03:45:41.228 --> 03:45:41.608 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And mine. 03:45:44.871 --> 03:45:45.892 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I've got one there too. 03:45:48.897 --> 03:45:51.079 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm going to let us take this to a roll. 03:45:51.099 --> 03:45:52.259 [Vael (Berberis)]: Any two of you can roll if you wish, persuasion. 03:45:52.279 --> 03:45:54.461 [Vael (Berberis)]: Or one person can roll it with advantage. 03:46:19.747 --> 03:46:20.487 [Lacer (Kai)]: I didn't say anything. 03:46:20.588 --> 03:46:21.268 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm not rolling. 03:46:24.570 --> 03:46:25.410 [Riv (DM)]: I'll try one. 03:46:25.730 --> 03:46:30.593 [Riv (DM)]: Don't tell me you've all dump-stepped your charisma. 03:46:30.673 --> 03:46:32.234 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, mine's above average. 03:46:32.754 --> 03:46:33.855 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or above normal. 03:46:33.975 --> 03:46:34.956 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wouldn't say above average. 03:46:35.816 --> 03:46:36.437 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll roll one. 03:46:42.600 --> 03:46:43.240 [Vael (Berberis)]: You did roll one. 03:46:43.260 --> 03:46:44.321 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, you did. 03:46:44.341 --> 03:46:44.761 [Vael (Berberis)]: I said one! 03:46:50.409 --> 03:46:56.231 [Lacer (Kai)]: As they're doing that, I'm gonna ask, what is that soulstone that you hold actually do? 03:46:56.251 --> 03:47:09.434 [Riv (DM)]: If you don't already know, then I hesitate to tell you. 03:47:10.957 --> 03:47:22.165 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, I know we need it for it to be forged into something, but in its current form, what's its actual use in your possession? 03:47:23.226 --> 03:47:25.808 [Riv (DM)]: Let's get the second persuasion check. 03:47:27.389 --> 03:47:28.270 [Riv (DM)]: Who's doing it? 03:47:28.790 --> 03:47:32.072 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought Berberis was talking, so I didn't... 03:47:32.172 --> 03:47:35.575 [Riv (DM)]: I recommend someone with the best charisma. 03:47:38.179 --> 03:47:40.681 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would let you use your inspiration. 03:48:05.032 --> 03:48:07.193 [Vael (Berberis)]: in order to create a new world. 03:48:36.304 --> 03:48:55.937 [Riv (DM)]: hmm okay not fantastic not the result we were looking for um you're gonna have to you're gonna have to do some things to be fair we don't really know what we want to do with it other than trap the shadow in it 03:48:57.826 --> 03:49:06.293 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know if we break it afterwards or whether we just toss it in an ocean or bring it back to you so you have a powerful gem full of a giant immortal dragon soul. 03:49:06.433 --> 03:49:06.834 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know. 03:49:06.854 --> 03:49:11.578 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The guy could be swung either way. 03:49:11.798 --> 03:49:12.418 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Like, really. 03:49:12.598 --> 03:49:15.120 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I mean... We're playing as long as we're in the center of it. 03:49:15.341 --> 03:49:15.581 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:49:16.201 --> 03:49:22.967 [Lacer (Kai)]: As long as our home is safe, right? 03:49:24.648 --> 03:49:26.990 [JC (Ryo)]: Stop the shadow, kill the evil Lich Queen. 03:49:28.448 --> 03:49:32.389 [JC (Ryo)]: You know, normal day-to-day stuff. 03:49:34.730 --> 03:49:36.871 [Riv (DM)]: I think it's time we made a deal. 03:49:38.951 --> 03:49:39.392 [Riv (DM)]: Settle this. 03:49:43.193 --> 03:49:45.594 [Riv (DM)]: We have something that I want. 03:49:47.474 --> 03:49:55.737 [Riv (DM)]: And, potentially, because of your closeness, something you could do for me. 03:49:56.733 --> 03:50:02.097 [Riv (DM)]: In return, I will consider options for this gestures to the Soulstone. 03:50:05.500 --> 03:50:07.001 [Riv (DM)]: I need someone to deal with her. 03:50:07.021 --> 03:50:11.705 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think I should do it directly myself. 03:50:12.306 --> 03:50:14.067 [Riv (DM)]: That would probably look bad. 03:50:14.087 --> 03:50:18.651 [Riv (DM)]: Give credibility to her claims. 03:50:20.192 --> 03:50:26.257 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, if you deal with her, then that is one step in your favor. 03:50:28.468 --> 03:50:29.449 [Riv (DM)]: Story her in her coven. 03:50:32.772 --> 03:50:33.072 [Riv (DM)]: Next. 03:50:35.574 --> 03:50:37.956 [Riv (DM)]: I want access to the Vault of Memories. 03:50:39.057 --> 03:50:40.838 [Riv (DM)]: And you can get me inside. 03:50:46.743 --> 03:50:47.624 [JC (Ryo)]: Royal visit? 03:50:48.824 --> 03:50:49.205 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I like. 03:50:52.778 --> 03:51:00.263 [Riv (DM)]: And in return, I will tell you about this, which he gestures to the stone again, just sort of like hovering and circling in the air above him. 03:51:02.265 --> 03:51:08.249 [Riv (DM)]: It is a soulstone, a soulstone anchor, and as you may guess, it holds souls. 03:51:09.170 --> 03:51:10.691 [Riv (DM)]: A soul, usually. 03:51:12.352 --> 03:51:13.412 [Riv (DM)]: There aren't very many of them left. 03:51:14.513 --> 03:51:19.697 [Riv (DM)]: They were forged before any can remember, potentially back at the beginning of creation itself. 03:51:21.882 --> 03:51:28.544 [Riv (DM)]: There are entities that were deemed mistakes by creation. 03:51:29.244 --> 03:51:30.985 [Riv (DM)]: Entities that could not be destroyed. 03:51:33.126 --> 03:51:35.166 [Riv (DM)]: So the soulstones were created. 03:51:37.047 --> 03:51:37.507 [Riv (DM)]: Trap them. 03:51:38.587 --> 03:51:39.148 [Riv (DM)]: Take them away. 03:51:39.208 --> 03:51:40.128 [Riv (DM)]: Put them in a little box. 03:51:41.488 --> 03:51:43.549 [Riv (DM)]: Protect the precious little creation. 03:51:46.350 --> 03:51:49.151 [Riv (DM)]: This one that I hold so dear 03:51:50.177 --> 03:51:53.258 [Riv (DM)]: is, unfortunately for you, currently occupied. 03:51:53.278 --> 03:52:03.243 [Riv (DM)]: An entity within is not one that I wish to see released. 03:52:04.363 --> 03:52:06.104 [Riv (DM)]: That puts us in a bit of a bind, doesn't it? 03:52:08.625 --> 03:52:10.986 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, I'd say it does. 03:52:18.910 --> 03:52:19.130 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, 03:52:19.459 --> 03:52:22.320 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're open to alternative matters in dealing with the Shadow, but... 03:52:26.441 --> 03:52:32.982 [Riv (DM)]: If Praetor Varanus told you that this was going to be the only way, then I would believe him. 03:52:39.444 --> 03:52:45.385 [Lacer (Kai)]: He didn't say that I was the only one in this... place. 03:52:48.330 --> 03:52:52.512 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I can assure you, this is the only one that you're close to getting your hands on. 03:52:56.274 --> 03:52:56.675 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 03:52:57.115 --> 03:52:57.875 [JC (Ryo)]: So close. 03:53:03.538 --> 03:53:05.079 [JC (Ryo)]: Will you get me inside the Vault of Memories? 03:53:06.660 --> 03:53:08.821 [Riv (DM)]: I need this answer before I tell you anything else. 03:53:12.769 --> 03:53:21.617 [Vael (Berberis)]: Under assurances that no harm will be offered to the sage, he was quite strict about his security. 03:53:23.418 --> 03:53:25.440 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, you don't need to worry about that. 03:53:27.021 --> 03:53:27.962 [Riv (DM)]: Me and him go way back. 03:53:32.206 --> 03:53:35.609 [Vael (Berberis)]: And no damage to the vault itself? 03:53:35.669 --> 03:53:39.172 [Vael (Berberis)]: I understand, but we need to be safe ourselves. 03:53:41.058 --> 03:53:51.225 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Would you have objections to us confirming with the sage that he would welcome your presence beforehand? 03:53:53.687 --> 03:53:55.688 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Or do you plan this to be a surprise visit? 03:53:57.369 --> 03:53:57.490 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 03:53:59.971 --> 03:54:04.234 [Riv (DM)]: It is always nice for a lady to knock and surprise an old friend unannounced. 03:54:06.636 --> 03:54:08.237 [Riv (DM)]: But if it must be, then you can let him know. 03:54:15.475 --> 03:54:17.056 [Vael (Berberis)]: with desuspicious eyes. 03:54:18.937 --> 03:54:23.660 [Vael (Berberis)]: And so is it just getting to the Vault you need help with, or entry? 03:54:25.201 --> 03:54:27.142 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, I could get to the Vault any time I wished. 03:54:28.423 --> 03:54:29.583 [Riv (DM)]: Entry is the tricky part. 03:54:32.165 --> 03:54:33.726 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we can go right now, right? 03:54:34.086 --> 03:54:35.627 [Vael (Berberis)]: No, I'm just like, hmm. 03:54:35.687 --> 03:54:44.412 [Vael (Berberis)]: Because I remember the story of that ancient Silmaran queen that came across the border and then stayed around for a while. 03:54:47.623 --> 03:54:49.043 [Riv (DM)]: And what happened next? 03:54:52.024 --> 03:54:56.885 [Vael (Berberis)]: Just judging from what I'm understanding of the Silmarans, they tend to get around a bit. 03:54:56.905 --> 03:55:02.447 [JC (Ryo)]: A little bit of a smile. 03:55:06.648 --> 03:55:08.128 [JC (Ryo)]: What do they say happened to her? 03:55:13.229 --> 03:55:14.430 [Riv (DM)]: I'm trying to remember the story. 03:55:14.450 --> 03:55:15.790 [Riv (DM)]: I can't remember if I told you everything. 03:55:17.435 --> 03:55:25.557 [Vael (Berberis)]: I can't remember the full details of the story, but I had a strong suspicion that the royal family here was a bit of Silmara in blood. 03:55:26.917 --> 03:55:40.000 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I vaguely recall that she ventured in alone for a period of time and came back carrying the head of the previous ruler. 03:55:40.541 --> 03:55:42.761 [Riv (DM)]: And she died some years later in Sumara. 03:55:45.322 --> 03:55:46.642 [Riv (DM)]: That's the stories they tell, isn't it? 03:55:47.069 --> 03:55:57.392 [Riv (DM)]: I suppose if we are to come to a deal, and I were to consider giving you this, then I need to tell you about the entity within. 03:56:15.988 --> 03:56:19.729 [Riv (DM)]: My name is Marileth. 03:56:19.749 --> 03:56:45.795 [Riv (DM)]: I have been around longer than I care to, but for the longest time my body was torn asunder and I was a spirit wandering aimlessly through the forests, tormented, laughed at, harassed, tortured by this nasty being. 03:56:47.166 --> 03:56:53.071 [Riv (DM)]: Malareth, an arch-devil from the Hells. 03:56:56.314 --> 03:57:01.878 [Riv (DM)]: It was about two thousand years ago when I saw an opportunity. 03:57:01.898 --> 03:57:11.606 [Riv (DM)]: A young lady entered our woods with a goal to end a millennia-long war. 03:57:13.288 --> 03:57:14.569 [Riv (DM)]: She was not going to be able to do it. 03:57:15.193 --> 03:57:20.057 [Riv (DM)]: but I met her and we spoke and we made a deal. 03:57:21.499 --> 03:57:32.048 [Riv (DM)]: I would help her end the war and topple the hunt and in return I get her body and become the ruler of this realm. 03:57:38.634 --> 03:57:39.175 [Riv (DM)]: The entity 03:57:41.201 --> 03:57:46.722 [Riv (DM)]: We tracked down together, destroyed his body, and placed him in the stone. 03:57:48.982 --> 03:57:53.183 [Riv (DM)]: The difficult thing with these archdevils is that they cannot truly die. 03:57:53.203 --> 03:57:58.764 [Riv (DM)]: If you were to kill them here, they simply reform back in the Hells. 03:58:00.524 --> 03:58:03.265 [Riv (DM)]: Which is why the Soulstone was a perfect place for him to sit. 03:58:03.925 --> 03:58:07.546 [Riv (DM)]: He sort of like pokes it, like a little bit, sort of surreptitiously. 03:58:07.566 --> 03:58:09.526 [Riv (DM)]: Or aggressively. 03:58:15.778 --> 03:58:16.218 [Riv (DM)]: And so... 03:58:19.039 --> 03:58:20.860 [Riv (DM)]: There's the end of the story. 03:58:21.080 --> 03:58:25.061 [Riv (DM)]: There's the other half. 03:58:25.081 --> 03:58:26.421 [Riv (DM)]: I am Merelyth. 03:58:27.882 --> 03:58:29.002 [Riv (DM)]: And also Alessandra. 03:58:40.626 --> 03:58:41.406 [Riv (DM)]: If we were to make a deal... 03:58:45.818 --> 03:58:49.681 [Riv (DM)]: It would mean releasing Maloreth from the stone. 03:58:50.983 --> 03:58:57.248 [Riv (DM)]: And I don't wish to see him sneaking around, returning at some point. 03:58:57.288 --> 03:58:58.729 [Riv (DM)]: I don't want to be watching my back. 03:59:00.110 --> 03:59:01.552 [Riv (DM)]: We would need to destroy him for good. 03:59:09.058 --> 03:59:10.800 [Vael (Berberis)]: Some sort of soul-trapping you say? 03:59:16.008 --> 03:59:17.629 [Vael (Berberis)]: Hmm, look at the party. 03:59:19.150 --> 03:59:20.551 [Vael (Berberis)]: Don't we have a sword that does that? 03:59:23.913 --> 03:59:24.093 [Vael (Berberis)]: What? 03:59:26.655 --> 03:59:27.675 [Lacer (Kai)]: Did you say soul trapping? 03:59:28.316 --> 03:59:28.716 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:59:28.756 --> 03:59:31.578 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: General Blackmar had a sword. 03:59:32.118 --> 03:59:32.999 [Vael (Berberis)]: What does his sword do? 03:59:33.019 --> 03:59:37.242 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh no, it reanimates. 03:59:37.282 --> 03:59:38.422 [Vael (Berberis)]: It doesn't trap souls, does it? 03:59:39.963 --> 03:59:41.004 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:59:41.244 --> 03:59:41.924 [Vael (Berberis)]: I know. 03:59:42.285 --> 03:59:42.605 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 03:59:44.787 --> 03:59:46.048 [Vael (Berberis)]: Nope, nope, remembering wrong. 03:59:46.828 --> 03:59:47.468 [Vael (Berberis)]: Hmm. 03:59:47.608 --> 03:59:47.968 [Vael (Berberis)]: Shame. 03:59:48.429 --> 03:59:48.949 [Vael (Berberis)]: Interesting idea. 03:59:49.009 --> 03:59:50.690 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't think it tracks souls from memory, does it? 03:59:51.950 --> 03:59:55.112 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well... Well, there are souls inside it, we know this. 03:59:55.792 --> 03:59:56.192 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Hmm. 03:59:57.513 --> 04:00:00.694 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Or at least the remembered torment of them. 04:00:01.675 --> 04:00:12.880 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm trying to remember the exact thing, is it the... Is it Dreadtunga? 04:00:13.480 --> 04:00:13.740 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 04:00:15.702 --> 04:00:20.983 [Riv (DM)]: I think that — because it sort of consumes essence, I guess. 04:00:25.384 --> 04:00:31.265 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I love the idea, but... No. 04:00:31.525 --> 04:00:37.827 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of like, you know, the soulstones themselves are like this ancient artifact for dragon souls. 04:00:37.887 --> 04:00:42.668 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know if a sword could have just been created by a dragon that could do the same thing. 04:00:47.075 --> 04:01:05.966 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just thinking out loud here, we've got an issue where if we have something that can true death a devil soul, it can probably true death the dragon soul. 04:01:11.102 --> 04:01:12.723 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's a way to permanently kill the devil. 04:01:12.743 --> 04:01:16.624 [Vael (Berberis)]: Unfortunately, however, it would require you to go to hell and destroy his body before it reforms. 04:01:39.054 --> 04:01:43.657 [Lacer (Kai)]: That sounds easier than killing Karazoth, to be honest. 04:01:44.757 --> 04:01:45.658 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Say the name! 04:01:45.678 --> 04:01:48.660 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm pretty sure she knows. 04:01:48.720 --> 04:01:49.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: She already knows. 04:01:49.580 --> 04:01:50.621 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: No, she knows! 04:01:51.141 --> 04:01:52.182 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Don't say the name! 04:01:55.486 --> 04:02:00.067 [Vael (Berberis)]: As soon as you said devil soul, I went, fuck we're going to hell. 04:02:00.087 --> 04:02:01.428 [Vael (Berberis)]: Feel like a trip to the hells. 04:02:02.868 --> 04:02:04.008 [Riv (DM)]: So here is the deal. 04:02:05.289 --> 04:02:09.290 [Riv (DM)]: You, at some point, when I come calling, allow me into the Vault of Memories. 04:02:11.350 --> 04:02:12.470 [Riv (DM)]: I will give you the soulstone. 04:02:13.731 --> 04:02:22.813 [Riv (DM)]: And in return, if we, once we release Merylreth, if he flees back to the hells, you go and destroy his body. 04:02:30.483 --> 04:02:33.264 [Lacer (Kai)]: How do we get to the Demon Realm or the Hells? 04:02:34.145 --> 04:02:35.065 [Riv (DM)]: I can open you a portal. 04:02:36.286 --> 04:02:40.508 [Riv (DM)]: Although your friend here, the young Silmara, can actually take you. 04:02:41.689 --> 04:02:49.273 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sure that, against the customs of your people, to allow simple plane-shifting, surely you would prefer to go through a World Gate. 04:02:50.633 --> 04:02:52.234 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just gonna rub my head. 04:02:52.694 --> 04:02:54.035 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's getting complicated. 04:02:56.285 --> 04:03:01.006 [Riv (DM)]: Planeshifting, bad news at the moment because the realms are weak, right? 04:03:01.046 --> 04:03:10.829 [Riv (DM)]: So if you were to planeshift, the Sumaran elves are worried that the damage would sort of exasperate the already weak areas between the realms. 04:03:11.249 --> 04:03:14.090 [Riv (DM)]: The World Gate allows you to planeshift without causing any damage. 04:03:15.310 --> 04:03:18.511 [Lacer (Kai)]: I didn't know elves had a World Gate, but okay. 04:03:19.528 --> 04:03:27.814 [Riv (DM)]: Well, yeah, I guess that you don't necessarily know if it does or not, but, um, Merileth will tell you that... She didn't say anything about getting back. 04:03:28.694 --> 04:03:29.055 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:03:29.355 --> 04:03:30.356 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, how do we get back? 04:03:31.777 --> 04:03:33.978 [Riv (DM)]: Well, there's something for you to figure out. 04:03:36.760 --> 04:03:36.960 [Vael (Berberis)]: Right. 04:03:37.321 --> 04:03:39.922 [Vael (Berberis)]: Um, just a random thing on the Vault. 04:03:41.383 --> 04:03:44.426 [Vael (Berberis)]: It responded to the Ring or the Blood. 04:03:45.397 --> 04:03:54.541 [Riv (DM)]: And you see like a little bit of sadness shine through I think as this conversation has gone on you've got the feeling that while the spirit of Miralef is here speaking to you 04:04:14.712 --> 04:04:17.673 [Riv (DM)]: Little bit of Alessandra probably glimpses through every now and then. 04:04:18.474 --> 04:04:19.054 [Riv (DM)]: That's your wish. 04:04:19.874 --> 04:04:20.074 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:04:20.735 --> 04:04:22.575 [Riv (DM)]: The... like, okay, so I think... 04:04:23.956 --> 04:04:35.601 [Riv (DM)]: I think that's the deal, and we should probably stop thinking about bringing the session to a close, it's starting to get late now, but... We need to kill two very powerful entities. 04:04:36.413 --> 04:04:45.339 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, let's call it for you, and you guys can have a ponder about the deal, but um, just to sort of like— Well, three if we include the dragon. 04:04:45.880 --> 04:04:46.120 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:04:46.800 --> 04:04:49.783 [JC (Ryo)]: Gotta kill the devil, gotta kill the dragon, gotta kill the Lich Queen. 04:04:50.613 --> 04:04:58.183 [Riv (DM)]: Hey, I mean, what good is any campaign without going on a visit to the Hells, eh? 04:04:58.203 --> 04:04:59.164 [Riv (DM)]: You gotta go to the Hells. 04:05:00.105 --> 04:05:01.647 [Riv (DM)]: Exactly, we're going on a world tour here. 04:05:07.154 --> 04:05:09.456 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So the nails go into your feet. 04:05:09.476 --> 04:05:10.836 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Feet the nails, party boss. 04:05:11.897 --> 04:05:15.539 [Riv (DM)]: There's a little bit of an insight into this entity in front of you. 04:05:17.220 --> 04:05:18.821 [Riv (DM)]: Like, she's an archfey, right? 04:05:18.861 --> 04:05:22.543 [Riv (DM)]: She is the head of this court. 04:05:23.284 --> 04:05:24.625 [Riv (DM)]: She one-hit Caradoc. 04:05:24.705 --> 04:05:26.426 [Riv (DM)]: Let me have a look at his stat sheet. 04:05:28.327 --> 04:05:29.768 [Riv (DM)]: He's got like, he's got over 100 health. 04:05:31.072 --> 04:05:51.441 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not rolling dice for her if if like things had gotten bad it's not like a fight that you guys try to have because she literally just sort of instantly yeah like she's effectively fighting a god she's essentially a god right like if she wanted to like you could be dead with a click of her fingers 04:05:52.458 --> 04:06:14.155 [Riv (DM)]: um but there was something holding her back and it was this tension within her the sort of black and white that's shifting back and forth um i think alessandra sort of recognized her ancestry um and kind of hold her you know hold her hands a bit and made her delve a bit more maybe there's a different way through this but 04:06:14.916 --> 04:06:16.837 [Vael (Berberis)]: Saying it wasn't my calm and cheeky grin. 04:06:16.857 --> 04:06:19.458 [Riv (DM)]: There's definitely a little bit of that to it. 04:06:19.479 --> 04:06:21.980 [Riv (DM)]: I think she did appreciate the boldness. 04:06:22.100 --> 04:06:25.482 [Riv (DM)]: She's not like Imragroth. 04:06:25.982 --> 04:06:29.724 [Riv (DM)]: I think she's got a bit more charm and personality. 04:06:30.825 --> 04:06:38.949 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, that's the sort of the tension between the two of them, the flashing of colours. 04:06:42.129 --> 04:06:47.132 [Riv (DM)]: But you can see though, the terror, she doesn't want this entity being known about. 04:06:47.352 --> 04:06:53.475 [Riv (DM)]: Like, if someone knows about the soulstone, they could release the demon and that devil is coming for her. 04:06:53.876 --> 04:06:56.257 [Riv (DM)]: It's like probably the only thing that she actually fears. 04:06:59.327 --> 04:07:04.654 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna ask her, how strong is the devil inside compared to you? 04:07:04.674 --> 04:07:12.243 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because you just deleted those two centaurs in front of us, and we can't do that. 04:07:12.964 --> 04:07:17.970 [Lacer (Kai)]: And you want us to kill the devil that you're afraid of, potentially. 04:07:18.768 --> 04:07:20.769 [Riv (DM)]: You don't... don't fight him. 04:07:21.830 --> 04:07:24.672 [Riv (DM)]: When the devils are reforming, they are weakened. 04:07:25.633 --> 04:07:27.133 [Riv (DM)]: They are... helpless. 04:07:27.694 --> 04:07:31.276 [Riv (DM)]: You go to where he's reforming and you destroy his body before he's at full strength. 04:07:34.218 --> 04:07:34.859 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, so... 04:07:34.899 --> 04:07:39.141 [Riv (DM)]: If he were to finish reforming, he would be coming here. 04:07:39.161 --> 04:07:42.363 [Lacer (Kai)]: How... do you know how long that takes? 04:07:42.824 --> 04:07:43.644 [Lacer (Kai)]: If he were to reform? 04:07:43.964 --> 04:07:46.226 [Lacer (Kai)]: It varies by the strength of the devil. 04:07:47.297 --> 04:07:50.578 [Riv (DM)]: This one... hmm... hard to say exactly. 04:07:52.138 --> 04:07:54.579 [Riv (DM)]: Some... few weeks? 04:07:54.719 --> 04:07:55.359 [Riv (DM)]: Months, perhaps? 04:07:58.240 --> 04:07:58.520 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 04:07:59.201 --> 04:07:59.981 [Riv (DM)]: That's good to know. 04:08:00.001 --> 04:08:01.521 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:08:01.821 --> 04:08:04.422 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Imagine we can discuss this when time unfreezes. 04:08:05.443 --> 04:08:05.723 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:08:06.463 --> 04:08:06.623 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 04:08:09.055 --> 04:08:17.627 [Riv (DM)]: yeah so yeah i don't know it's a hard one it's a hard one it's a really really tough situation because like look at it from my perspective this 04:08:18.583 --> 04:08:22.204 [Riv (DM)]: This Archfey isn't just going to give this stone away, knowing what's inside it. 04:08:22.845 --> 04:08:24.405 [Riv (DM)]: It needs to be a really good reason. 04:08:26.406 --> 04:08:34.269 [Riv (DM)]: And also, like, she didn't kill the two centaurs because they worked for the Crone. 04:08:34.969 --> 04:08:36.050 [Riv (DM)]: She already knew that they did. 04:08:36.070 --> 04:08:39.291 [Riv (DM)]: It's because they heard the word soulstone. 04:08:39.411 --> 04:08:43.192 [Riv (DM)]: She just immediately slaughtered them because, you know, it doesn't matter who they were. 04:08:44.013 --> 04:08:45.113 [Riv (DM)]: They can't know that word. 04:08:45.133 --> 04:08:46.234 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:08:50.042 --> 04:08:51.983 [Lacer (Kai)]: And that's why the hag has to die. 04:08:52.003 --> 04:08:54.785 [Lacer (Kai)]: The hag has to die, yeah. 04:08:55.225 --> 04:09:09.133 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And as the final thing from Erendor of the Session, I'm going to get Kai's attention and think — and mention... We should probably let Praetor know. 04:09:11.274 --> 04:09:11.534 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure. 04:09:12.195 --> 04:09:15.096 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will message him sometime. 04:09:15.437 --> 04:09:17.398 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, not right now, but sometime I will. 04:09:19.346 --> 04:09:20.826 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, have you got Sending? 04:09:21.827 --> 04:09:22.527 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, I've got Sending. 04:09:22.787 --> 04:09:23.367 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, very nice. 04:09:25.188 --> 04:09:26.988 [Vael (Berberis)]: It all seems fairly simple to me. 04:09:27.569 --> 04:09:46.214 [Vael (Berberis)]: We kill a Crone, we release a Devil, we go to Hill to kill the Devil, we come back, we arrange a Royal Procession of Diplomacy where the Queen of the Night Elves and the King of the Day Elves meet up in the Shining City and visit the vault of their ancestors. 04:09:46.815 --> 04:09:47.655 [Vael (Berberis)]: I mean, it all works out. 04:09:48.426 --> 04:09:49.226 [Vael (Berberis)]: Who's the king? 04:09:49.266 --> 04:09:50.146 [Vael (Berberis)]: Happy Uncle Dory! 04:09:50.586 --> 04:09:54.367 [Riv (DM)]: It sounds pretty neat and tidy, doesn't it? 04:09:54.447 --> 04:09:55.127 [Riv (DM)]: As simple as that. 04:09:55.167 --> 04:09:58.868 [Riv (DM)]: You want to complicate anything? 04:09:59.268 --> 04:10:00.268 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, exactly. 04:10:00.348 --> 04:10:02.449 [Lacer (Kai)]: When you put it like that, indeed it does. 04:10:03.849 --> 04:10:05.309 [Lacer (Kai)]: Assuming everything goes well. 04:10:07.230 --> 04:10:12.211 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, um, the son of the Cairan's son. 04:10:15.617 --> 04:10:18.259 [Vael (Berberis)]: in the middle of the forest. 04:10:18.459 --> 04:10:21.982 [Vael (Berberis)]: They learned of soulstones uninturbed in the middle of the forest. 04:10:46.729 --> 04:10:46.869 [Vael (Berberis)]: Hmm. 04:10:47.830 --> 04:10:55.075 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, when it comes to negotiations, I'm sure we could smooth things over with the return of a beloved son. 04:10:55.095 --> 04:10:57.276 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh. 04:10:58.237 --> 04:10:59.418 [Riv (DM)]: That is why I kept him around. 04:11:00.158 --> 04:11:00.819 [Riv (DM)]: For a time like this. 04:11:05.176 --> 04:11:08.600 [Riv (DM)]: I just thought I'd mention it so it was in my head. 04:11:08.781 --> 04:11:10.603 [Riv (DM)]: There was one of the other things, right, that we were after? 04:11:11.263 --> 04:11:11.724 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:11:13.045 --> 04:11:13.546 [Riv (DM)]: He's around. 04:11:13.646 --> 04:11:17.491 [Riv (DM)]: You probably actually walked past him in the halls without knowing it. 04:11:18.812 --> 04:11:21.816 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 04:11:21.836 --> 04:11:22.216 [Riv (DM)]: Fun times. 04:11:22.637 --> 04:11:23.297 [Riv (DM)]: Gosh, man. 04:11:28.113 --> 04:11:30.274 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How many times do we almost die to that? 04:11:30.414 --> 04:11:32.875 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, pretty coupled, honestly. 04:11:32.955 --> 04:11:34.956 [Riv (DM)]: Like, things go in a few different ways. 04:11:36.016 --> 04:11:38.918 [Riv (DM)]: I was so curious if you would have actually done the amulet thing. 04:11:39.318 --> 04:11:40.138 [Riv (DM)]: Like, genuinely didn't know. 04:11:40.438 --> 04:11:46.921 [Riv (DM)]: Like, I guess, I think I'd trust you guys not to just, like, immediately fall in with, like, a clearly evil hag. 04:11:49.142 --> 04:11:56.285 [Vael (Berberis)]: The choice between a hag who lives in a fucking hole in the ground outside the city, or the queen of the fucking night, 04:11:57.905 --> 04:11:59.265 [Vael (Berberis)]: Who am I going to fucking ally with? 04:11:59.285 --> 04:11:59.565 [Vael (Berberis)]: Come on. 04:11:59.786 --> 04:12:03.207 [Riv (DM)]: Well, to be fair, the Queen of the Night could be just as evil, right? 04:12:03.547 --> 04:12:05.347 [Riv (DM)]: Like, she's the Queen of the Night. 04:12:05.367 --> 04:12:06.988 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, but she's much more powerful. 04:12:07.188 --> 04:12:07.428 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:12:07.988 --> 04:12:13.109 [Riv (DM)]: I guess the thing is as well, like, she's lawful evil, if anything. 04:12:14.130 --> 04:12:16.210 [Riv (DM)]: The Hag is, like, chaotic evil. 04:12:16.390 --> 04:12:18.951 [Riv (DM)]: Like, you'd rather be on the side of the lawful person. 04:12:20.992 --> 04:12:21.492 [Lacer (Kai)]: You know what? 04:12:26.193 --> 04:12:30.737 [Lacer (Kai)]: When we encountered the hag, I thought it was actually the queen disguised as the hag. 04:12:30.817 --> 04:12:32.239 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's what I had in mind. 04:12:32.499 --> 04:12:34.020 [Lacer (Kai)]: All the way up to the throne room. 04:12:34.120 --> 04:12:37.283 [Lacer (Kai)]: Then I was like, even then I was kind of like, was that just a test to fuck with us? 04:12:37.423 --> 04:12:38.384 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I thought it was a test. 04:12:38.404 --> 04:12:40.746 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was like, is this the queen, like, fucking with us? 04:12:40.766 --> 04:12:42.808 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's like, hmm. 04:12:42.888 --> 04:12:44.850 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Would Riv be that complicated? 04:12:44.870 --> 04:12:46.251 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, you might. 04:12:48.657 --> 04:12:53.338 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: and the power of the Sun, and the power of the Sun itself. 04:13:15.103 --> 04:13:33.590 [Vael (Berberis)]: what can go wrong yeah i tell you what it's pretty disarming from from my side when you're just honest about stuff it's like well okay what do i do now you lie about it every time you lie about it there's a chance for it to up yeah just come out and say no we want this thing what do you want for it yeah you go oh 04:13:35.407 --> 04:13:35.807 [Vael (Berberis)]: Okay. 04:13:36.547 --> 04:13:41.109 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, man, there's, like, there are so many ways that you could have approached this. 04:13:41.129 --> 04:13:46.511 [Riv (DM)]: Like, so you could have come in and just try to sneak into the city, right? 04:13:46.751 --> 04:13:51.773 [Riv (DM)]: Like, we need to get the guy, we need to get the stone, we could sneak over the walls, get in, get into the vault somehow. 04:13:51.793 --> 04:13:53.954 [Riv (DM)]: Like, that could have been a heist session. 04:13:54.774 --> 04:13:57.355 [Riv (DM)]: Um, it would have been — Not with my clanky armor. 04:13:57.375 --> 04:14:01.957 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you could have had encounters with those little redcaps out on the street, um, which would have been fun. 04:14:01.977 --> 04:14:03.098 [Vael (Berberis)]: And we had creatures around. 04:14:03.198 --> 04:14:03.438 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 04:14:04.158 --> 04:14:05.260 [Riv (DM)]: No way. 04:14:05.300 --> 04:14:06.782 [Riv (DM)]: But hey, I mean, you guys are level 10. 04:14:07.103 --> 04:14:08.245 [Riv (DM)]: You could probably figure it out. 04:14:08.285 --> 04:14:12.090 [Riv (DM)]: You've got disguises, some of you can go invisible, you can fly. 04:14:12.110 --> 04:14:18.380 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Disguise, invisible, pass without trace, minimum roll 9, sorry, minimum roll 10 with... Fireball! 04:14:18.400 --> 04:14:19.041 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Fireball! 04:14:20.299 --> 04:14:22.681 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: whatever it is on stealth, plus 13 on stealth. 04:14:22.721 --> 04:14:26.783 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So the minimum I can roll on stealth with pass without trace is 33. 04:14:26.824 --> 04:14:27.424 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: 33. 04:14:27.484 --> 04:14:32.167 [Riv (DM)]: And I'm pretty sure Dondar could upcast fly, so like a bunch of you could just fly. 04:14:33.248 --> 04:14:35.429 [Riv (DM)]: While some of you may be like, wild-shaped or something. 04:14:35.470 --> 04:14:39.212 [Riv (DM)]: Like there would be so many ways that you could sneak into a city like this once you're level 10. 04:14:39.232 --> 04:14:41.614 [Vael (Berberis)]: Like you guys are... Yeah, that's hard. 04:14:43.515 --> 04:14:53.037 [Riv (DM)]: Like heroes of the realm now, and it's not the sort of item that you can just go and ask someone about because literally one person knows about the item and she's not the one that you want to just go and ask. 04:14:53.457 --> 04:15:00.459 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, um, but you know, there's spells like Locate Object, like that you could scry potentially, like there are ways that you could try to crack it down. 04:15:01.239 --> 04:15:02.159 [Riv (DM)]: And so there was a path. 04:15:02.399 --> 04:15:08.081 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, the other path was like you, um, you actually go along with what the hag says. 04:15:09.421 --> 04:15:11.462 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I still want to know how she knew about the soulstone. 04:15:12.262 --> 04:15:12.422 [Riv (DM)]: Who? 04:15:12.842 --> 04:15:13.062 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Who? 04:15:14.308 --> 04:15:17.869 [Riv (DM)]: in the middle of the land, and of the world. 04:15:43.961 --> 04:15:59.660 [Vael (Berberis)]: okay no the ancient hag and her coven i remember the words of the deal yes i know i was like um yeah there was i actually built a map and chucked a bunch of tokens on in case you had 04:16:01.107 --> 04:16:05.669 [Riv (DM)]: We're on the amulet at Miralith and it would have been some fucking anime stuff, dude. 04:16:06.009 --> 04:16:22.017 [Riv (DM)]: It's like I created like a kind of token for Miralith as like an actual mechanical thing like once she gets weakened by it I actually gave her some stats because prior to being weakened she's kind of unkillable but 04:16:23.037 --> 04:16:47.107 [Riv (DM)]: When she's weakened there were actually stats and there were going to be some like level a spells being thrown around and then the the hags would have come through and there would have been like this big fight and then it's like you guys kind of decide like who you're actually going to back now in this fight so that could have been a possibility oh man lots of fun but i think um yeah i think it's always fun to just sort of uh sometimes just simple way forward speak your way talk your way through it 04:16:48.743 --> 04:16:53.525 [Vael (Berberis)]: You said that she was a like a fae... What's her rank again? 04:16:53.605 --> 04:17:02.848 [Vael (Berberis)]: She's basically... Archfey Archfey is the kind of thing that as a warlock you swear to an archfey if you go back to the fae. 04:17:03.488 --> 04:17:05.028 [Vael (Berberis)]: Like literally a fucking god. 04:17:05.568 --> 04:17:06.649 [Vael (Berberis)]: Like godlike power. 04:17:07.389 --> 04:17:10.650 [Vael (Berberis)]: Especially here in her realm, in her seat of power. 04:17:10.850 --> 04:17:11.090 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 04:17:12.471 --> 04:17:12.731 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 04:17:13.331 --> 04:17:13.871 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh yeah. 04:17:14.611 --> 04:17:16.672 [Vael (Berberis)]: Like walking into heaven and punching god in the face. 04:17:18.174 --> 04:17:22.255 [Vael (Berberis)]: It sounds amusing, but probably not going to end well. 04:17:22.275 --> 04:17:22.855 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 04:17:22.875 --> 04:17:23.655 [Riv (DM)]: Very, very good. 04:17:23.735 --> 04:17:24.176 [Riv (DM)]: Fun times. 04:17:24.776 --> 04:17:26.416 [Riv (DM)]: Stakes are raised. 04:17:30.117 --> 04:17:30.677 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's it. 04:17:30.917 --> 04:17:31.197 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 04:17:31.477 --> 04:17:31.878 [JC (Ryo)]: Question. 04:17:32.198 --> 04:17:32.378 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:17:34.258 --> 04:17:35.098 [JC (Ryo)]: So, is that my grandmother? 04:17:36.819 --> 04:17:38.339 [Riv (DM)]: Great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, yeah. 04:17:38.359 --> 04:17:38.899 [JC (Ryo)]: Something like that. 04:17:39.199 --> 04:17:40.600 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, couple of greats in there, okay. 04:17:41.100 --> 04:17:41.360 [Riv (DM)]: Five. 04:17:42.240 --> 04:17:42.740 [Riv (DM)]: She... 04:17:43.380 --> 04:17:44.721 [Riv (DM)]: So, she's probably like... 04:17:47.673 --> 04:17:49.795 [Vael (Berberis)]: to the Throne, and of the Throne to the Throne. 04:18:15.466 --> 04:18:16.067 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think anymore. 04:18:17.049 --> 04:18:19.735 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, because the thing doesn't recognize her. 04:18:19.895 --> 04:18:21.599 [Vael (Berberis)]: Damn it, Royo's not getting any out there. 04:18:21.659 --> 04:18:24.424 [Vael (Berberis)]: He's not going to be able to abdicate and get enough. 04:18:24.865 --> 04:18:26.048 [Riv (DM)]: He's not trying to run away from it. 04:18:28.888 --> 04:18:32.870 [Lacer (Kai)]: When that hag bound us, I was ready to frickin' Guiding Bolt the shit out of her. 04:18:33.011 --> 04:18:35.112 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was like, but I didn't know how strong she was. 04:18:35.132 --> 04:18:37.053 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was tempted to fight. 04:18:37.313 --> 04:18:47.880 [Riv (DM)]: It would have been, well, there was another thing that could have happened, like, um, I was curious, like, how far you would go with the hag if you wanted to just fight her, because it's like, clearly, clearly evil. 04:18:48.300 --> 04:18:49.401 [Riv (DM)]: Um, maybe we just fight. 04:18:50.401 --> 04:18:52.723 [Riv (DM)]: Kai Guiding Bolt. 04:18:53.703 --> 04:18:56.305 [JC (Ryo)]: Jayce, uh, Ryu, unarmed strike with, uh, 04:18:58.152 --> 04:19:03.253 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nah, I would have thrown you a heavy crossbow from Bagger Holding. 04:19:06.934 --> 04:19:10.374 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I guess you would have had to have gotten all your weapons from dudes. 04:19:11.914 --> 04:19:14.835 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I actually made a map for that as well. 04:19:15.515 --> 04:19:17.736 [Riv (DM)]: Would have been an interesting fight. 04:19:18.476 --> 04:19:25.977 [JC (Ryo)]: She's, like, you know, if Emerald Death was as — sorry? 04:19:27.127 --> 04:19:28.108 [Vael (Berberis)]: in order to save the world. 04:19:49.223 --> 04:19:49.383 Yeah. 04:19:49.703 --> 04:19:49.883 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 04:19:50.303 --> 04:19:50.744 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, cool, cool. 04:19:50.844 --> 04:19:51.104 [Riv (DM)]: Fun times. 04:19:51.124 --> 04:19:53.405 [Lacer (Kai)]: Interesting politics and stuff. 04:19:53.825 --> 04:19:54.045 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 04:19:54.245 --> 04:19:56.526 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's always happening in anywhere you go. 04:19:56.546 --> 04:19:59.007 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:19:59.588 --> 04:19:59.788 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 04:19:59.868 --> 04:20:01.048 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, I think I'll run off. 04:20:01.669 --> 04:20:02.109 [Riv (DM)]: Fun times. 04:20:02.129 --> 04:20:02.889 [Riv (DM)]: Thanks for coming along. 04:20:03.689 --> 04:20:04.050 [Riv (DM)]: Did you? 04:20:05.470 --> 04:20:05.770 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 04:20:06.811 --> 04:20:07.851 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll update you real quick tomorrow. 04:20:08.632 --> 04:20:09.712 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Just remember everyone. 04:20:09.732 --> 04:20:11.173 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: 31 hours, 37 minutes, 30 seconds. 04:20:11.193 --> 04:20:11.373 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 04:20:11.853 --> 04:20:13.894 [Lacer (Kai)]: Be prepared tomorrow, whatever's happening. 04:20:14.114 --> 04:20:14.374 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 04:20:15.234 --> 04:20:15.455 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What? 04:20:15.595 --> 04:20:16.295 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What's happening tomorrow? 04:20:17.835 --> 04:20:19.084 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Worldgate Stock Quest. 04:20:19.729 --> 04:20:20.555 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: The way is open.