--- > [!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.* --- 00:01:00.452 --> 00:01:10.938 [Riv (DM)]: I'll give a bit of a longer recap so we can kind of flesh out the whole sort of arc as we're kind of coming to the end of this sort of section. We went off to the Vale. 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.780 [Riv (DM)]: So we started off originally back in the city of Sumara. 00:01:17.661 --> 00:01:29.268 [Riv (DM)]: And after learning a bit of the politics, we'd found out that Asha Vayne, who was the son of Caelan, who he's on the Confluence, one of the leaders of the Sumaran people, had 00:01:30.608 --> 00:01:34.270 [Riv (DM)]: Presumed killed on a skirmish, you know, decades earlier. 00:01:36.251 --> 00:02:09.389 [Riv (DM)]: The Warden Sylvaris, one of the other leaders, the leader of the Greensward, kind of just had a feeling that something, I don't know, doesn't seem right. Body was never found. Doesn't really seem like the Queen's style. And so she suggested that potentially there's more to the story. And this was happening at the same time as After You had met with the silver dragon Praetor'Varanous in the Vault of Memories. He had explained how there was a weapon that could potentially be created to kill the Crimson Shadow, which would require a Soul Stone. 00:02:10.410 --> 00:02:19.455 [Riv (DM)]: And he believes that he had seen or heard of a memory somewhere in the vaults of a Soul Stone existing in the Vale of Eternal Night. 00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:25.522 [Riv (DM)]: Feeding two birds with one scone, you decided to go to the Vale. 00:02:27.543 --> 00:02:33.386 [Riv (DM)]: Totally an insane phrase to just rip that out, but hey, we love it. 00:02:36.228 --> 00:03:03.625 [Riv (DM)]: Heading over to the Vale, you sort of, as prep before going, you went to read up on a bit of the history, so you learned about the World Tree and how after it had been sundered during a cosmic war, You know, thousands and thousands of years ago, the night fell, and that is what caused a crater inside the Vale of the Eternal Night, which is where the city, Caer Nystral, was built. 00:03:07.206 --> 00:03:14.449 [Riv (DM)]: To get there, you had taken or I guess borrowed some of the Zephyr Cuffs, which would allow you to fly from the mountains. 00:03:16.330 --> 00:03:19.431 [Riv (DM)]: You avoided a rock on the way, and after 00:03:21.216 --> 00:03:34.425 [Riv (DM)]: Exploring through the Vale, you got taken not directly to the city, but you got taken to an ancient hag, an ancient crone, Ymrageth, who gave you a poisoned amulet intended for the queen. 00:03:36.166 --> 00:03:49.315 [Riv (DM)]: As she was saying, she was letting you know or giving you her perspective that the queen is evil and is planning a war. And she thought maybe she is the right one to lead instead. 00:03:50.924 --> 00:03:59.649 [Riv (DM)]: Well, that plan didn't go very well for her because pretty much immediately she was told to the Queen that she was a traitor. 00:04:02.290 --> 00:04:20.120 [Riv (DM)]: In this meeting, the word Soulstone came up. You asked the Queen about it and she immediately killed your handlers, Caradoc and the other centaur, just for hearing the word itself and after asking or finding out why. 00:04:21.336 --> 00:04:46.530 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, I guess right after she very nearly killed you all as well, with only the, I guess, appearance of Ryo's ring holding her, she let you know that the Soul Stone is important to her because it holds the archdevil Maloreth, who was her tormentor for generations and thousands, well, thousands of years, I guess. 00:04:49.131 --> 00:04:51.125 [Riv (DM)]: And so she... Struck a deal with you. 00:04:53.686 --> 00:05:05.714 [Riv (DM)]: If you take her to the Vault of Memories, she will release Maloreth's soul from the stone. He will go back to the Hells and begin reforming, a process that takes some time. 00:05:07.355 --> 00:05:15.160 [Riv (DM)]: And you must go to the Hells and destroy his body before he reforms as part of the deal. 00:05:19.873 --> 00:05:24.657 [Riv (DM)]: You met a dude named Evrath within the Citadel. 00:05:26.078 --> 00:05:43.272 [Riv (DM)]: Had a bit of a bonding experience one evening. You went to leave the city, got caught pillaging a shop, and went and killed the Crone. Burned down her barrow and fled back across the Vale of the Eternal Night. 00:05:45.814 --> 00:05:53.170 [Riv (DM)]: While fleeing, Evrath met up with you. Found you somehow in the middle of the night with a small girl, Ellessa, in tow. 00:05:54.210 --> 00:06:03.535 [Riv (DM)]: Evrath woke up and he was revealed to be Asha Vayne, the son of Caelan. 00:06:04.795 --> 00:06:15.140 [Riv (DM)]: All memories of his experience in the Vale completely wiped. It was as if he was back on the battlefield where he was originally taken. 00:06:17.280 --> 00:06:30.651 [Riv (DM)]: Making way back, you got across the bridge after a quick chat with Grumble, the Annihilator. He gave Ellesa a bit of a looking over and played a game of chess with her, I believe, which I think she won. 00:06:32.913 --> 00:06:36.475 [Riv (DM)]: And he let you pass. 00:06:37.797 --> 00:06:40.799 [Riv (DM)]: You made your way up through the mountains, and I believe we pick up here. 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:46.804 [Riv (DM)]: Looking down across the city, Asha and the girl in tow 00:06:48.240 --> 00:07:18.321 [Riv (DM)]: And a bunch of paths ahead of us. A bunch of different options, I guess, of what we could do. So before handing it over to you guys to decide what you want to do, I guess, I think what I'll just say is when you sort of like get up to the top of the ridge and look down across the city, you just kind of see like a weight or a sigh of relief come from Asha as he looks down You know, upon the city. 00:07:22.384 --> 00:07:36.095 [Riv (DM)]: He looks back, you know, sort of looks to the side to look at you all and he's like, well, this could potentially be a bit awkward if what you say is true. It's been nearly 60 years. 00:07:40.258 --> 00:07:41.880 [Riv (DM)]: I guess I better go and see my father. 00:07:43.501 --> 00:07:55.812 [Riv (DM)]: He like reaches up and flips up a hood and just says, It's probably better to not cause too much of a fuss at the moment until we go and see what's going on. What are your plans? 00:08:00.452 --> 00:08:09.596 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: In all honesty, I think we should not split until we are in somewhere. 00:08:11.617 --> 00:08:15.038 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We should get you somewhere and we should bring your father to you. 00:08:17.619 --> 00:08:21.401 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He's not going to believe this. 00:08:24.182 --> 00:08:29.324 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And the memories you have of him, he has changed since then. 00:08:31.668 --> 00:08:32.628 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He believes you're gone. 00:08:35.952 --> 00:08:36.513 [Riv (DM)]: Changed how? 00:08:40.491 --> 00:08:43.072 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: How do you think losing your son would change someone? 00:08:45.933 --> 00:08:54.256 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Some find him better at times, but what can you expect? 00:08:56.367 --> 00:09:00.330 [Riv (DM)]: Wow. To be fair, he was a gruff bugger even in the best of times. 00:09:03.152 --> 00:09:22.980 [Riv (DM)]: Well... You think we go somewhere and you bring him to me? I thought you're saying it's true and from what I know of him, I hardly think that he will just agree to come with you. All right. 00:09:18.728 --> 00:09:19.849 [JC (Ryo)]: Something tells me he'll come. 00:09:23.101 --> 00:09:30.484 [Riv (DM)]: Well, personally, I was planning and I thought it might be kind of funny to just waltz on straight to the Palisade Eternal and 00:09:31.556 --> 00:09:54.306 [Riv (DM)]: Bang into his office, give him a bit of a surprise, but we can do it your way. Do you want to roll a persuasion check, Rio? 00:09:44.823 --> 00:09:47.004 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, no, no. Come with us. Let's go for a walk. 00:09:56.787 --> 00:10:00.128 [Riv (DM)]: And it is persuasion, right? You're not deceiving him, you're not trying to... 00:09:59.765 --> 00:10:01.686 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, I'm definitely not trying to deceive him. 00:10:01.944 --> 00:10:03.225 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, roll a persuasion check. 00:10:02.504 --> 00:10:18.153 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, but he's seen the ring, right? 00:10:05.228 --> 00:10:07.849 [JC (Ryo)]: I'd be better off deceiving him. Better bonus, but... 00:10:09.024 --> 00:10:12.715 [Vael (Berberis)]: Is it with advantage because he is receiving a direction from his liege lord? 00:10:13.112 --> 00:10:16.674 [JC (Ryo)]: I was going to say, I don't think we've told him that that's me yet, though. 00:10:13.710 --> 00:10:14.590 [Riv (DM)]: True. 00:10:18.253 --> 00:10:19.113 [Lacer (Kai)]: He's seen the ring. 00:10:19.115 --> 00:10:22.182 [JC (Ryo)]: He hasn't, no. Not since he's gotten his memory back. 00:10:20.934 --> 00:10:21.154 [Lacer (Kai)]: Really? 00:10:25.635 --> 00:10:26.716 [Riv (DM)]: Correct, he would not have seen it. 00:10:27.789 --> 00:10:32.716 [JC (Ryo)]: And remember, I've always got it with the symbol emblem down in my palm. 00:10:33.389 --> 00:10:33.967 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's true. 00:10:35.973 --> 00:10:56.452 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think he actually kind of narrows his eyes and starts looking at you a bit mistrustfully. And he says, I appreciate you coming and getting me out, but what do you mean? Take me where? This is my city. I can just go home. 00:10:57.772 --> 00:11:01.818 [JC (Ryo)]: I just point at the Royal Citadel. Let's go over there. 00:11:04.676 --> 00:11:07.598 [Riv (DM)]: What, you want to go into the Royal Citadel? No one's allowed in there. 00:11:09.170 --> 00:11:10.311 [JC (Ryo)]: Trust me, we'll be allowed in there. 00:11:11.373 --> 00:11:13.176 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got just the biggest grin on my face. 00:11:18.786 --> 00:11:30.694 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, you know what, I'm gonna roll for him because he doesn't really trust you on a persuasion 11. However, he's now a little bit interested. Hmm. 00:11:30.390 --> 00:11:31.559 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Ah, it's a curiosity roll. 00:11:32.456 --> 00:11:32.656 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 00:11:34.932 --> 00:12:00.526 [Riv (DM)]: He rolled a three, which is basically meaning his survival instincts are not doing very well and he's going to go with his curiosity that's been piqued. We'll see if it kills the cat. So he just says, all right, all right, lead the way then. We'll see what's going on. I will keep my hood up though. He like kind of pulls it up, makes it deeper. Make sure it's like deep enough to cover his face. 00:11:58.836 --> 00:12:01.298 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, trust me, you and me both, and I do the same thing. 00:12:02.868 --> 00:12:15.956 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm going to turn towards Kai Dondarr. Can we get a message to Ayana and ask her to probably come to the Citadel and to bring him? 00:12:17.914 --> 00:12:24.100 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, can we get Ayana and... Shit, what's his name? Khazador? Carador? Khazamon? 00:12:25.829 --> 00:12:27.951 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, you want, um, what's her name? 00:12:27.332 --> 00:12:27.670 [Riv (DM)]: Kaelen. 00:12:28.131 --> 00:12:28.871 [Lacer (Kai)]: Caelyn Vayne. 00:12:29.485 --> 00:12:29.850 [JC (Ryo)]: That one. 00:12:30.732 --> 00:12:39.738 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure, I do that. I stand to the side and I quickly send off a message to Ayana saying, We're back. 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:46.062 [Lacer (Kai)]: We have Caelyn. Meet at Citadels. We have another visitor. 00:12:48.263 --> 00:12:49.624 [Lacer (Kai)]: Increase security. 00:12:55.404 --> 00:12:57.426 [Riv (DM)]: I assume you mean Asha, not Caelan? 00:12:59.944 --> 00:13:00.665 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, we have Asha. 00:13:00.203 --> 00:13:00.452 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, yeah. 00:13:00.725 --> 00:13:02.407 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, sorry. Yeah, we have, yeah. 00:13:04.450 --> 00:13:06.372 [Lacer (Kai)]: Did I say, did I say bring Caelynn? 00:13:07.092 --> 00:13:08.373 [Riv (DM)]: You said we have Caelan. 00:13:09.015 --> 00:13:10.197 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, we have Asha, yeah. 00:13:09.454 --> 00:13:10.635 [Riv (DM)]: We have Caelan tied up. 00:13:11.378 --> 00:13:12.460 [Lacer (Kai)]: We have Caelynn, yeah. 00:13:11.935 --> 00:13:13.116 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And if you want him back... 00:13:12.556 --> 00:13:19.240 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. Yeah. All right. The reply just comes back. Nice and simple. 00:13:21.822 --> 00:13:22.323 [Riv (DM)]: That was quick. 00:13:23.683 --> 00:13:24.324 [Riv (DM)]: Hope all went well. 00:13:25.596 --> 00:13:26.557 [Riv (DM)]: I'll see what I can do. 00:13:28.458 --> 00:13:31.559 [Riv (DM)]: He was looking quite grumpy the last time I saw him. 00:13:35.001 --> 00:13:35.381 [Riv (DM)]: That's it. 00:13:37.828 --> 00:13:43.653 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I relay that back. She's gonna meet us there. Let's go to the Citadel. 00:13:45.455 --> 00:13:49.038 [Lacer (Kai)]: Your dad was kinda grumpy. Aye, Nishin to Asha. 00:13:51.610 --> 00:13:54.592 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah. Well, what else is new? Alright. 00:13:56.100 --> 00:13:58.541 [Riv (DM)]: Let's go to the Citadel. I'm going to enjoy seeing you all get kicked out. 00:14:02.404 --> 00:14:04.151 [Vael (Berberis)]: Before or after we ride the one so long? 00:14:06.276 --> 00:14:06.656 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: During? 00:14:10.272 --> 00:14:12.733 [Lacer (Kai)]: That wine was pretty good. I remember having a sip of that. 00:14:13.833 --> 00:14:17.215 [Lacer (Kai)]: That royal wine aged for centuries. 00:14:19.030 --> 00:14:24.392 [Riv (DM)]: All right. So we, unless there's anything else you wanted to do on the way through, we can 00:14:25.464 --> 00:14:36.889 [Riv (DM)]: Go down through the city and head towards the Royal Citadel. We're keeping the girl in tow, I assume. OK. 00:14:31.741 --> 00:14:39.444 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, that's who the... Let me just mark off a message spell. 00:14:32.483 --> 00:14:35.624 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yes, I am actively keeping an eye on her. 00:14:41.471 --> 00:14:51.215 [Riv (DM)]: I think she's she's probably she'll try and grab one of your hands or something to stay kind of attached and look like she's close to you so that she doesn't. Well. 00:14:52.275 --> 00:14:53.816 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 00:14:54.436 --> 00:14:56.960 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's she going to attach herself to? 00:14:57.548 --> 00:14:57.888 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 00:14:57.681 --> 00:14:58.062 [Lacer (Kai)]: Asha? 00:15:01.231 --> 00:15:03.492 [Riv (DM)]: Probably Rio, I would say. 00:15:03.225 --> 00:15:04.749 [JC (Ryo)]: No way am I holding her here. 00:15:06.174 --> 00:15:08.215 [Riv (DM)]: Well, so she reaches out to grab your hand. 00:15:06.235 --> 00:15:06.596 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you... 00:15:10.566 --> 00:15:11.048 [JC (Ryo)]: Not happening. 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:20.604 [Riv (DM)]: You see a slight frown and a tiny little pout of her little lips, and she goes for Earendal's hand. 00:15:25.825 --> 00:15:26.209 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll take it. 00:15:31.192 --> 00:15:35.477 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a Wisdom saving throw. No, I'm joking. 00:15:34.796 --> 00:15:35.617 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh my god! 00:15:35.734 --> 00:15:37.084 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ha ha ha! 00:15:36.158 --> 00:15:36.418 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Wow. 00:15:43.124 --> 00:15:43.965 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. All right. 00:15:45.246 --> 00:15:46.107 [Riv (DM)]: We head down through the city. 00:15:49.531 --> 00:15:50.492 [Riv (DM)]: So, we... 00:15:52.568 --> 00:16:07.432 [Riv (DM)]: I assume there's, yeah, so I think we would have come from like the northern side. So we would have to pass down through the great big stone elevators over on the Namorian Canton. So yeah, head down there. 00:16:09.013 --> 00:16:13.414 [Riv (DM)]: Make your way down through the commons and eventually to the Bridge of Recollection. 00:16:14.555 --> 00:16:19.456 [Riv (DM)]: There are sort of, you know, the collection of sort of, you know, 00:16:20.620 --> 00:16:28.262 [Riv (DM)]: Almost ceremonial soldiers standing at the entrance of the bridge and you walk up to them. 00:16:29.623 --> 00:16:31.723 [Riv (DM)]: And Ryo, you've got your hood up, right? 00:16:33.104 --> 00:16:34.624 [Riv (DM)]: As you approach, do you stay hooded? 00:16:35.956 --> 00:17:03.756 [JC (Ryo)]: No, as I approach, I let the hood start falling back. I nod as I walk past and say, gentlemen. 00:16:41.206 --> 00:16:53.283 [Riv (DM)]: They, recognizing you from the earlier days and also having heard What has been happening from the council, as these guys are the ceremonial protectors. 00:16:54.584 --> 00:17:02.430 [Riv (DM)]: Only the briefest of glances at you, and a slight nod. And they do allow you to pass on through. At this. 00:17:05.333 --> 00:17:06.773 [JC (Ryo)]: If that's even the correct term for elves. 00:17:05.352 --> 00:17:40.181 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they don't... Well, so there's one woman and a male on the other side, but they're... As you're passing through, Asha just kind of stops. He's all got his hood up and he's kind of like having his head bowed just to, you know, make really sure that these guys don't see him. But like, you know, so he pauses and kind of like looks around a little bit and then carries on and like hurries up just to catch up with you and he's like, and you just hear him whisper under his breath, What on green earth was that? Why did they just let you pass? 00:17:41.976 --> 00:17:42.770 [JC (Ryo)]: Told you it'd be okay. 00:17:44.443 --> 00:17:45.984 [Riv (DM)]: Who are you? Who are you people? 00:17:47.692 --> 00:17:48.259 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You people. 00:17:48.042 --> 00:17:48.799 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What's Earth? 00:17:50.976 --> 00:17:53.879 [Riv (DM)]: It's just a turn of phrase, you know, what you stand on. 00:17:56.490 --> 00:17:57.655 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, I get you. 00:18:04.528 --> 00:18:04.788 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 00:18:05.849 --> 00:18:07.230 [Riv (DM)]: So you lead on, you carry on leading. 00:18:09.192 --> 00:18:18.940 [Riv (DM)]: You get up to the first sort of landing, you know, the... Oh, yeah, so there's actually an interesting point. So there's like this... 00:18:19.948 --> 00:18:48.416 [Riv (DM)]: Like walkway sort of bridge that carries on. It gets to the base of the hearthstone itself, the sort of petrified stone. And then the stairs kind of circle and spiral up all the way around it. And at one point, sort of maybe halfway up, there's like this massive big like stone arched door that you kind of pass on by. But yeah, carrying on pass up there, you get to the top and you get that beautiful view looking back across the city now. 00:18:50.632 --> 00:18:53.533 [Riv (DM)]: Then, yeah, you can freely go into the Citadel itself. 00:18:54.894 --> 00:18:56.654 [Riv (DM)]: Where do you go? What do you do when you get inside? 00:19:00.928 --> 00:19:09.959 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, we've had a bit of a wander around in here, is there? Like a... Not like a dining room, but sort of like, you know, a business room type style thing? 00:19:10.604 --> 00:19:19.455 [Lacer (Kai)]: A meeting room? Is that what you're talking about? 00:19:11.561 --> 00:19:14.124 [JC (Ryo)]: A meeting room with a big desk and lots of chairs, something like that? 00:19:14.780 --> 00:19:18.045 [Vael (Berberis)]: Some sort of giant cavern of space with one big chair at the end. 00:19:19.495 --> 00:19:20.496 [Lacer (Kai)]: And a round table? 00:19:22.189 --> 00:19:23.041 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The stalactites. 00:19:22.360 --> 00:19:47.271 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so there isn't like a throne room. That was never really the way that the society worked. The only place that the royals would ever actually sit in a place of, I guess sort of, well, in a place that indicated their station was actually on the council itself. So during the Confluence, when all of the levitating buildings sort of meet, 00:19:49.044 --> 00:20:20.341 [Riv (DM)]: Each of the councillors get their own seat and the royal who doesn't necessarily always need to be in attendance because they aren't a like political leader necessarily like they don't drive the direction um but they do have a spot there and it's like a neutral spot um that would be the only place where where a royal would would ever sit um so yeah no no throne room in the citadel itself but you can absolutely find a room that um you could um if not already set you could easily set it up um there will be A space with like a large table. 00:20:21.621 --> 00:20:28.365 [Riv (DM)]: Fireplace eternally burning in one side of the room. Even side of the wall, maybe beautifully large windows looking out across the city. 00:20:29.785 --> 00:20:31.346 [Riv (DM)]: You can, yeah, you can pile in here. 00:20:37.669 --> 00:20:43.452 [Riv (DM)]: The Asha is just looking like kind of stunned at this. I think this would be the first time he's ever been inside this building. 00:20:44.552 --> 00:20:51.218 [Riv (DM)]: He may have been up to sort of veterans in the landing areas and stuff like that, but he would have never been taken into the personal quarters like this. 00:20:54.401 --> 00:21:01.667 [Riv (DM)]: And he, yeah, I guess so if you lead him into the room, he will come in and just stop, like, hood goes back. He's like, all right. 00:21:05.310 --> 00:21:12.336 [Riv (DM)]: I appreciate you taking me. I truly, truly do appreciate you taking me from there. But someone has to start explaining what's going on. 00:21:17.860 --> 00:21:19.926 [Riv (DM)]: From my perspective, you're a bunch of outsiders. 00:21:22.332 --> 00:21:23.616 [Riv (DM)]: How are you here? 00:21:26.080 --> 00:21:27.321 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well, we walked in first. 00:21:31.522 --> 00:21:38.105 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It was a bit of a journey to get here, but yes, we are outsiders. 00:21:39.125 --> 00:21:42.066 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Technically all, but also not for some. 00:21:43.407 --> 00:21:55.532 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It's a confusing story. I doubt we'll get through all of it before your father arrives, but I'm sure we can give you the cliff notes. 00:22:02.692 --> 00:22:14.646 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well, so did you say he's on his way? Alright, well, I guess we wait then. 00:22:08.844 --> 00:22:09.965 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, he's on his way. 00:22:15.329 --> 00:22:16.479 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, have a seat, relax. 00:22:15.827 --> 00:22:23.296 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone got something to drink up your sleeve as well? And he'll go and grab a seat and kick his feet up onto the table. 00:22:27.797 --> 00:22:41.122 [Lacer (Kai)]: I grab him. I grab a cup of water and I cast Shape Water so that it tastes... No, Prestigitation. So it tastes like that elven wine. I don't want him drunk. Okay, try some of this. 00:22:43.508 --> 00:22:50.950 [Riv (DM)]: Are you, like, do you just do it really obviously, or? Okay. 00:22:47.124 --> 00:22:49.248 [JC (Ryo)]: Is the kitchen from where we were the other day nearby? 00:22:47.367 --> 00:22:53.012 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh no, I'm in the kitchen. I had to go to the kitchen, so I do it in the kitchen. I walk off into the kitchen. 00:22:53.671 --> 00:22:53.851 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 00:22:54.257 --> 00:22:58.524 [JC (Ryo)]: If the kitchen's nearby, I'm sure we left a bottle or two on the table. I'll go looking for one. 00:22:59.213 --> 00:23:00.453 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. 00:23:00.420 --> 00:23:01.651 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You're only done to finish it all. 00:23:00.553 --> 00:23:11.056 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can go get your drinks. And Kai gives your non-alcoholic one. He, like, he takes it and kind of smells a little bit, swirls around. 00:23:12.632 --> 00:23:17.174 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, that's good. Yeah, very good. Wow. What is this? Where'd you get that from? 00:23:18.313 --> 00:23:19.055 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's just water. 00:23:20.540 --> 00:23:21.563 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I laugh a little bit? 00:23:22.452 --> 00:23:27.544 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay, you cheeky bugger. Look, I pour in a glass of the real stuff and pour myself a glass of water. 00:23:28.659 --> 00:23:35.802 [Riv (DM)]: He takes another drink of the water and he kind of like looks at it and shrugs. It's pretty good, actually. And he sets it down and grabs the other one. 00:23:39.524 --> 00:23:39.824 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 00:23:40.141 --> 00:23:45.332 [Vael (Berberis)]: Do we have any sort of ETA on how long it will take for people to arrive? 00:23:48.152 --> 00:24:08.888 [Riv (DM)]: Um, well, so you were given the message. That's basically all the info you, um, that you had. I think you could probably assume that Ayana is a, she's a gal that works fast, but ultimately it depends on Caelan and how, how easily she could convince him. Um, what are you, what are you thinking? 00:24:10.089 --> 00:24:11.112 [Lacer (Kai)]: You want me to send a message? 00:24:10.112 --> 00:24:25.196 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was just wondering if I had time to duck down to the greens ward, but if it's going to be potentially soon, then I might just sort of chill. I'm going to do that later, in no rush. 00:24:20.100 --> 00:24:20.396 [Riv (DM)]: Mm. 00:24:26.164 --> 00:24:28.726 [JC (Ryo)]: Has someone been keeping an eye on Ellessa? 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:40.690 [Lacer (Kai)]: She's still holding Erendor's hand. I don't know. 00:24:33.476 --> 00:24:34.437 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's probably a clone. 00:24:35.677 --> 00:24:36.958 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: She's inside the vault right now. 00:24:38.060 --> 00:24:39.300 [Vael (Berberis)]: I just can't get in without permission. 00:24:40.951 --> 00:24:42.753 [Lacer (Kai)]: Check if the ring's still in your hand, Ryo. 00:24:45.578 --> 00:24:48.260 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I didn't let her get near it, but yeah, is the ring still there? 00:24:50.152 --> 00:24:55.735 [Riv (DM)]: A perception check. No, it's still there. You're all right. 00:24:56.796 --> 00:25:00.458 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. No, she's actually just standing at the window at the moment, staring out. 00:25:03.020 --> 00:25:04.100 [Riv (DM)]: Got sort of a different look on her face. 00:25:05.821 --> 00:25:10.564 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. Okay. So, yeah, totally. 00:25:07.976 --> 00:25:09.077 [JC (Ryo)]: Can I wander over to her? 00:25:12.278 --> 00:25:18.161 [JC (Ryo)]: I keep my right hand slightly clenched so that way she can't try and slip the ring off. 00:25:19.742 --> 00:25:23.204 [JC (Ryo)]: And I just go, when was the last time you were here? Or the last time you saw this? 00:25:25.892 --> 00:25:45.040 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she kind of turns to look at you. I think the few words that she has spoken so far has kind of seemed like quite a young child, you know, particularly around Asha. 00:25:46.321 --> 00:25:54.184 [Riv (DM)]: But here, you get, like, the sense of something... 00:25:55.904 --> 00:26:04.653 [Riv (DM)]: So you look in her eyes and you get a sense of something that has walked this world for a long time. And she just says, a while. 00:26:06.395 --> 00:26:14.504 [Riv (DM)]: And for like just that fraction of a moment, you're not looking into the face of a girl. 00:26:20.500 --> 00:26:22.662 [JC (Ryo)]: You don't intend on destroying all these people, do you? 00:26:25.528 --> 00:26:39.1000 [Riv (DM)]: Her face just like becomes a little bit kind of upset. And she's like, what do you mean? Why would I do that? It's a beautiful city. 00:26:35.553 --> 00:26:37.154 [JC (Ryo)]: I just stare at her and go, very well. 00:26:43.539 --> 00:26:48.844 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, we've added character. I'm under absolutely, 100% guaranteed that she's the Evil Queen. 00:26:52.696 --> 00:26:53.637 [Vael (Berberis)]: People subject. 00:26:53.051 --> 00:26:54.552 [Riv (DM)]: Hundred percent? 00:26:53.056 --> 00:26:53.436 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yes. 00:26:55.712 --> 00:26:58.856 [JC (Ryo)]: Out of character, yeah, this is John talking, not Ryo. 00:26:59.364 --> 00:26:59.852 [Riv (DM)]: Ha ha ha! 00:26:59.501 --> 00:27:01.523 [Vael (Berberis)]: She's got a rider. 00:27:00.660 --> 00:27:01.621 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Who the fuck is John? 00:27:03.582 --> 00:27:04.763 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, my name's John, sorry. 00:27:05.563 --> 00:27:05.683 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh. 00:27:07.384 --> 00:27:10.085 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh my god, is that what the J in the JC stands for? 00:27:11.111 --> 00:27:11.972 [JC (Ryo)]: Mm-hmm, initials. 00:27:13.152 --> 00:27:17.436 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think she's got a rider. I don't think it's her, but she's got a ride along. 00:27:18.1000 --> 00:27:19.997 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe it's an avatar. 00:27:22.284 --> 00:27:25.192 [Vael (Berberis)]: We talkin' god power here. We can do whatever the fuck they want. 00:27:26.552 --> 00:27:27.300 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I know, I know. 00:27:28.501 --> 00:27:29.735 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Except kill a demon. 00:27:33.249 --> 00:27:45.419 [Riv (DM)]: So you guys can hang out, unless there's anything specific you wanted to sort of finish off here in terms of discussions. But after a bit of time, you'll get a message, Kai. And it's from Ayana. 00:27:47.141 --> 00:27:59.572 [Riv (DM)]: And it says, Finally convinced the old Kodja. We're coming down from the top. Do you want to come and let us in just so that we don't startle anyone? 00:28:04.528 --> 00:28:05.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll be on my way. 00:28:06.911 --> 00:28:12.397 [Lacer (Kai)]: I... Yeah, I tell you that. 00:28:07.868 --> 00:28:10.730 [JC (Ryo)]: Probably better if I go. Actually, no, do you tell us that? 00:28:12.537 --> 00:28:14.579 [Lacer (Kai)]: I go, they're on their way. Do you want me to let them in? 00:28:16.914 --> 00:28:17.395 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll do it. 00:28:18.323 --> 00:28:18.664 [Lacer (Kai)]: You sure? 00:28:19.996 --> 00:28:27.902 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. Okay. I just look at Kai and then just, you know, slightest little head nod at the girl. 00:28:33.846 --> 00:28:37.068 [JC (Ryo)]: Then, yeah, I'll wander off to the entrance to bring them in. 00:28:39.332 --> 00:29:07.008 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. So, Kai would have relayed the message to you. When she says, coming in from the top, you recall that the way that you had first actually entered was from the top platform, where the council meets. There are stairs that come directly down through the Citadel. And there's actually a nice, cheeky little floating elevator for people who know how to use it. Yeah, but... 00:29:08.012 --> 00:29:11.234 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so you were to surmise that that's what they meant, so you can go over there. 00:29:13.076 --> 00:29:24.144 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of crack open the doorway to the large sort of cylindrical chamber. And just, if you wait there at the bottom for a bit, you can hear footsteps approaching, sort of just echoing down around through the tower. 00:29:25.385 --> 00:29:38.478 [Riv (DM)]: Until eventually, you see three people coming down. You see Ayana leading the way, directly behind her, Caelyn. And behind Caelynn you see Illythia. 00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:49.945 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana comes down and she just kind of smiles at you. She actually comes over and gives you just a quick hug. And you hear her just kind of gently say, How did it all go? Are you all right? 00:29:53.840 --> 00:30:03.643 [JC (Ryo)]: Some things have happened I probably can't say. I'm probably being scryed on. I can't say for the moment. 00:29:59.451 --> 00:30:01.132 [Riv (DM)]: You think you're being scraped on? By who? 00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:07.641 [Riv (DM)]: Well, do you want me to do something about that? 00:30:11.146 --> 00:30:13.726 [JC (Ryo)]: For the moment I wouldn't try. 00:30:15.147 --> 00:30:18.328 [JC (Ryo)]: We are dealing with something ridiculously powerful. 00:30:20.644 --> 00:30:33.868 [Riv (DM)]: Eyebrows furrow a bit and you see she kind of like holds herself up a little bit. She looks over her shoulder and you see her eyes lock with Illythia's and something passes between them. Illythia, you just see like a nod. 00:30:35.184 --> 00:30:48.195 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana will gesture for Caelan to follow and as Illythia comes up as well, Ayana just kind of like winks at you and points her and she says, she's the backup. 00:30:50.616 --> 00:30:53.197 [JC (Ryo)]: Please, just don't do anything. 00:30:56.641 --> 00:30:59.664 [Riv (DM)]: Is there something I need to know before walking into this? 00:31:08.623 --> 00:31:11.524 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, I'm in a should I, shouldn't I tell her anything at the moment. 00:31:14.436 --> 00:31:22.058 [Riv (DM)]: You see Caelan, he's standing in the corridor now. I mean, just like, tapping his foot a bit, impatiently, looking back at you. He goes, You! 00:31:25.060 --> 00:31:25.700 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, me? 00:31:25.199 --> 00:31:30.981 [Riv (DM)]: Surprise. Yeah, I think it's disgusting that they're letting you stay in here. Outsider. 00:31:32.642 --> 00:31:34.142 [Riv (DM)]: Look, let's get this over and done with. 00:31:33.182 --> 00:31:40.764 [JC (Ryo)]: If you... 00:31:34.762 --> 00:31:38.023 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana didn't give us many details, but she made a convincing case. 00:31:40.224 --> 00:31:40.524 [Riv (DM)]: Lead on. 00:31:40.844 --> 00:31:45.546 [JC (Ryo)]: I just need you to calm down for two minutes and I've got a present for you. Trust me, please. 00:31:46.724 --> 00:31:51.287 [Riv (DM)]: The only present you could give me would be leaving, child. 00:31:51.227 --> 00:31:54.428 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, that'll probably happen too. Just hang on, okay? 00:31:57.130 --> 00:31:57.990 [Riv (DM)]: Let's get this over with. 00:31:59.372 --> 00:32:02.554 [JC (Ryo)]: I look back at Ayana and I'm like, can you block Scrying? 00:32:03.913 --> 00:32:04.234 [Riv (DM)]: Of course. 00:32:07.997 --> 00:32:09.418 [JC (Ryo)]: Can you do it, please? 00:32:11.258 --> 00:32:15.500 [Riv (DM)]: Sure. Do you want me to do it right here, or...? There's a limited area I can cover. 00:32:17.542 --> 00:32:20.984 [JC (Ryo)]: Is there a small, small side room that would cover the spell? 00:32:22.496 --> 00:32:24.197 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, we can cover a room easily. 00:32:25.467 --> 00:32:27.468 [JC (Ryo)]: All right, Caelyn, two minutes, please don't move. 00:32:33.003 --> 00:32:35.144 [Riv (DM)]: See, he crosses his arms, just leans against the door. 00:32:36.385 --> 00:32:37.045 [Riv (DM)]: Rolls his eyes. 00:32:39.284 --> 00:32:40.764 [Vael (Berberis)]: I wander over to him with a cup of wine. 00:32:43.029 --> 00:32:47.812 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, so I'm imagining that's still out in the corridor at the moment, so you come in down pass. 00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:50.863 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm assuming we're like a 10-minute walk away or something. 00:32:51.780 --> 00:33:01.385 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean, probably a few minutes inside the Citadel, yeah. Yeah, Berberis, you can come and find them if you like and wine. Are you just sort of like passing on by? Just doing a drive-by? 00:33:00.270 --> 00:33:03.511 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just sort of hanging around seeing what's going on with everyone coming in. 00:33:01.405 --> 00:33:04.146 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 00:33:03.771 --> 00:33:07.672 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll give him a cup of the good stuff. 00:33:04.915 --> 00:33:05.756 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I just... 00:33:08.248 --> 00:33:08.468 [Riv (DM)]: Mmm. 00:33:09.956 --> 00:33:21.685 [Riv (DM)]: He initially looks a little bit suspicious of it, but I think he kind of respects something about you, Berberos. You're a very honest-looking person, you know? You wear the world on you, quite literally, and I think he kind of respects that. 00:33:22.745 --> 00:33:31.452 [Riv (DM)]: He takes it and kind of, like, hesitantly sniffs it and then gives it the old, eh, smells alright, and starts having a bit of a sip. 00:33:33.517 --> 00:33:34.774 [Vael (Berberis)]: Let them play, it'll be worth it. 00:33:36.535 --> 00:33:37.436 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well... 00:33:38.788 --> 00:33:40.529 [Riv (DM)]: Guess you can never complain about a free drink. 00:33:44.164 --> 00:33:49.906 [JC (Ryo)]: So I give her a head nod to join us. 00:33:44.371 --> 00:33:45.592 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana starts following you. 00:33:50.555 --> 00:33:51.616 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, she comes. 00:33:54.837 --> 00:33:56.939 [Riv (DM)]: All right. And so are you leading them back to the room? 00:33:58.549 --> 00:34:02.470 [JC (Ryo)]: Just a side room where she can cast whatever prevents scrying is. 00:34:03.282 --> 00:34:05.824 [Riv (DM)]: You don't want to go to the room where everyone is? Is it a different room? 00:34:06.251 --> 00:34:09.412 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, just a little side room. Just have a quick chat with these two. 00:34:10.052 --> 00:34:18.437 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. Yep, Ayana and Illythia come in and together they start moving around the room, drawing sort of sigils and like sending them up into the corner. 00:34:19.457 --> 00:34:27.261 [Riv (DM)]: Takes a couple of minutes, but after a bit of time, they kind of, after circling, they meet back in the center and finish off the spell by sort of locking hands. 00:34:28.402 --> 00:34:31.544 [Riv (DM)]: And then they're done. And they turn to look at you. 00:34:36.708 --> 00:34:40.730 [JC (Ryo)]: Right, so we had a very, very interesting time. 00:34:43.192 --> 00:34:52.957 [JC (Ryo)]: There is a little girl with us. She is going off the name Ellessa, but she is really looking through the wiki to find her damn name. 00:34:57.520 --> 00:34:58.040 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry Riv. 00:34:58.668 --> 00:35:19.928 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, you gotta... Evrath was the soldier who turned out to be Asha. 00:35:09.560 --> 00:35:11.731 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Surely she's in the room with us anyway. 00:35:14.772 --> 00:35:15.813 [JC (Ryo)]: Evereth, is that her? 00:35:19.676 --> 00:35:20.857 [JC (Ryo)]: I reckon now Mirileth. 00:35:21.189 --> 00:35:22.310 [Riv (DM)]: You're looking for Mirileth, yep. 00:35:22.438 --> 00:35:44.396 [JC (Ryo)]: That's the one, Mirileth. So I tell them about Mirileth and who she is and who she was, and that she is in Elissa's using her as a projection or as something, and that she's ridiculously powerful and I don't want to, you know, her to kill everyone, and I don't really want to let her in the vault either, but I may have no choice. 00:35:48.381 --> 00:35:52.664 [Riv (DM)]: So is there anything you don't tell her about your adventure or you basically give her the recap of everything? 00:35:56.168 --> 00:36:07.592 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, I could leave out the part about the hag. I mean, I just, you know, I look at, the first thing I would say is how long does this spell last that you just casted? 00:36:00.076 --> 00:36:11.911 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 00:36:08.352 --> 00:36:15.735 [JC (Ryo)]: So I have an idea how much I can talk. All right, so I tell them everything. 00:36:11.951 --> 00:36:13.893 [Riv (DM)]: We can concentrate on it for some time. 00:36:16.477 --> 00:36:16.697 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 00:36:18.099 --> 00:36:18.980 [Riv (DM)]: I think her... 00:36:18.176 --> 00:36:18.696 [JC (Ryo)]: From when... 00:36:18.373 --> 00:36:21.986 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think the defining thing River's probably asking about is the Soul Stone. 00:36:23.109 --> 00:36:23.651 [Vael (Berberis)]: The knowledge of. 00:36:27.180 --> 00:36:29.803 [JC (Ryo)]: We haven't told her about the Soul Stone from the dragon, have we? 00:36:32.248 --> 00:36:32.908 [Riv (DM)]: Don't think so, no. 00:36:33.365 --> 00:36:45.996 [JC (Ryo)]: No. Seeing as what Mirileth did to the last person that knew about the Soul Stone, I won't say Soul Stone, but I would say that there is a valuable stone that we need. 00:36:49.597 --> 00:37:01.304 [Riv (DM)]: OK, cool. I think Ayana's jaw drops and hits the ground when you explain how Mirileth came to be. 00:37:02.396 --> 00:37:12.642 [Riv (DM)]: And the duality of her being. Ayana would never have met Ellesandra in person. 00:37:13.822 --> 00:37:23.508 [Riv (DM)]: She would have been a little bit before her time, but she would have heard the stories for sure. Yeah, and so she takes this all in and then she says, 00:37:23.076 --> 00:37:32.980 [JC (Ryo)]: So yes, she's ridiculously powerful. I don't want her to kill everyone, and I don't want to lose you two for no reason, so don't set her off. 00:37:34.912 --> 00:37:40.517 [Riv (DM)]: I am very familiar with the Star-Veiled Queen and her dealings and her powers. 00:37:41.758 --> 00:37:42.639 [Riv (DM)]: You brought her here? 00:37:45.521 --> 00:37:55.951 [Riv (DM)]: What possessed you to do such a thing? How can you trust her? What happened when you... How did you get back to the city? 00:37:49.447 --> 00:37:51.088 [JC (Ryo)]: We don't. Oh, I don't. 00:37:57.832 --> 00:38:05.525 [Riv (DM)]: I don't believe we showed you one of the teleportation sigils. To allow Dondar to bring you home, I was kicking myself after you left. 00:38:05.740 --> 00:38:09.183 [JC (Ryo)]: What a maid thing. 00:38:07.225 --> 00:38:17.408 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 00:38:09.303 --> 00:38:11.805 [JC (Ryo)]: I show her the Zephyr Cuffs because I'm still wearing them. 00:38:14.447 --> 00:38:16.188 [JC (Ryo)]: We borrowed these before we left. 00:38:17.428 --> 00:38:18.828 [Riv (DM)]: To leave, how did you return? 00:38:21.412 --> 00:38:22.152 [JC (Ryo)]: It's been a long walk. 00:38:23.870 --> 00:38:24.450 [Riv (DM)]: You walked back. 00:38:24.694 --> 00:38:26.596 [JC (Ryo)]: And we used these to fly a good chunk of the way as well. 00:38:28.551 --> 00:38:32.252 [Riv (DM)]: That's good, that's clever. So did you go past... 00:38:33.668 --> 00:38:34.009 [Riv (DM)]: Grumble. 00:38:35.256 --> 00:38:35.596 [JC (Ryo)]: We did. 00:38:36.836 --> 00:38:37.699 [Riv (DM)]: And you let her pass? 00:38:38.778 --> 00:38:39.838 [JC (Ryo)]: He did let her pass. 00:38:40.506 --> 00:38:41.068 [Riv (DM)]: What happened? 00:38:43.721 --> 00:38:44.761 [JC (Ryo)]: Just scrolling down. 00:38:49.984 --> 00:38:51.805 [JC (Ryo)]: They played a game of chess. 00:38:54.006 --> 00:39:03.151 [JC (Ryo)]: And Grump hurrayed once over. And he said to us that she's a threat, but she's not. And she's made an agreement with Grumble. 00:39:05.652 --> 00:39:07.824 [JC (Ryo)]: And if she steps out of line, there will be consequences. 00:39:08.970 --> 00:39:09.995 [JC (Ryo)]: But that's all I know. 00:39:12.024 --> 00:39:12.604 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 00:39:15.066 --> 00:39:28.056 [Riv (DM)]: Well, it does alleviate some of my concern. If he let her pass, well, she'll be foolish to try and break her deal with him. 00:39:31.698 --> 00:39:34.721 [Riv (DM)]: It's possible, then, that she doesn't have malicious intent? 00:39:36.782 --> 00:39:39.184 [Riv (DM)]: What did she... why did she want to come, do you know? 00:39:40.804 --> 00:39:41.925 [JC (Ryo)]: She wants to get in the vault. 00:39:43.872 --> 00:39:44.753 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, I see. 00:39:46.255 --> 00:39:52.902 [Riv (DM)]: Well, Ryo... Yeah, it would make sense she would know him. 00:39:47.570 --> 00:39:49.852 [JC (Ryo)]: And she was talking about our friend in the vault as well. 00:39:54.003 --> 00:40:03.292 [Riv (DM)]: Ryo, I hope you understand. This is not something that I can help you with. It's not a decision that I can make. It's entirely yours, as you are the only one who can open it. 00:40:06.035 --> 00:40:06.716 [Riv (DM)]: Have you thought about it? 00:40:10.656 --> 00:40:22.423 [JC (Ryo)]: There's no way she could open it. If she would have the bloodline, all she would need would be the ring, wouldn't she? And, you know, I'm holding my hand up. 00:40:21.572 --> 00:40:28.334 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I... To be completely honest, I have no idea. 00:40:22.603 --> 00:40:24.044 [JC (Ryo)]: Or am I not thinking correctly? 00:40:29.614 --> 00:40:43.898 [Riv (DM)]: I don't really know how the magic works. I don't think anyone truly does. Would it recognize her as a spirit? Would it require her old body? Is this her old body still? I don't know. I just don't know. 00:40:44.804 --> 00:40:48.046 [JC (Ryo)]: This doesn't appear to be her old body, but she has her old body. 00:40:50.180 --> 00:40:50.820 [Riv (DM)]: How would we know? 00:40:52.044 --> 00:40:55.347 [Riv (DM)]: Could be, it couldn't be. There's all sorts of tricks that could be played here. 00:41:00.431 --> 00:41:14.684 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I guess we better go and reunite our... Who, Caelynn? 00:41:04.999 --> 00:41:12.064 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, let's go to the, let's go and, oh, and don't, you haven't told him, have you? 00:41:15.236 --> 00:41:15.817 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, Kaelen. 00:41:19.184 --> 00:41:20.748 [JC (Ryo)]: Good, good. Wanted it to be a surprise. 00:41:23.332 --> 00:41:36.323 [Riv (DM)]: Well, yeah, let's hope it's a good one. Okay. Let's go make sure that our Meridian out here has not torn the place up from impatience. 00:41:38.004 --> 00:41:43.549 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe he's the one we should really be worried about. What's a little girl gonna do compared to a man like him? 00:41:45.130 --> 00:41:45.370 [Riv (DM)]: Come on. 00:41:46.404 --> 00:41:47.134 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, let's go. 00:41:46.471 --> 00:41:49.233 [Riv (DM)]: And she starts to lead out. All right, cool. 00:41:50.634 --> 00:41:54.521 [Riv (DM)]: Caelyn has finished his drink by this point. Berbers, are you keeping them company? 00:41:57.304 --> 00:42:00.186 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. All right, sweet. And you can lead the way. 00:41:59.623 --> 00:42:04.987 [Vael (Berberis)]: We're just talking shop with regards to the effectiveness of local militias. 00:42:05.931 --> 00:42:08.954 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, cool. Anything specific that you wanted to mention? 00:42:10.195 --> 00:42:11.136 [Riv (DM)]: Or is it more of a yarn? 00:42:10.632 --> 00:42:23.382 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm just getting a rough idea of how their structure works and explaining how the structure back in Val... Fuck. 00:42:22.112 --> 00:42:26.276 [Riv (DM)]: Val Aran? Do you mean up near... Yeah, yeah, Val Aran. 00:42:23.703 --> 00:42:25.244 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, the northern city, fuck. 00:42:26.856 --> 00:42:37.336 [Vael (Berberis)]: How that worked. Just discussing militias and forming and leadership structures, getting ideas for totally not forming an army event. 00:42:32.237 --> 00:42:33.157 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What do you mean, Noren? 00:42:35.424 --> 00:42:38.267 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. Yep. 00:42:41.930 --> 00:42:42.311 [Riv (DM)]: Amazing. 00:42:44.132 --> 00:42:45.834 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think he kind of... 00:42:47.936 --> 00:43:06.736 [Riv (DM)]: Uh... I suppose, yeah, I mean, he mentioned some details just around the structure of how there's like a ceremonial royal guard who are stationed around the city in the kind of key areas who protect the nexuses, also the royal citadel itself. And then there are the skyguards. You've met them before. 00:43:07.937 --> 00:43:11.599 [Riv (DM)]: They, you know, defend from the sky. Yeah. 00:43:12.720 --> 00:43:13.841 [Riv (DM)]: And the griffins and wyverns. 00:43:16.423 --> 00:43:26.134 [Riv (DM)]: And then the palisade eternal themselves have Not so much like, not necessarily a standing army, but that's where the military forces, that's where they do most of the training, at least from a martial perspective. 00:43:28.276 --> 00:43:33.039 [Riv (DM)]: All right. Yeah, cool. We lead the way down the hallway. 00:43:35.381 --> 00:43:36.642 [Riv (DM)]: You get to the door, Rio. 00:43:43.267 --> 00:43:43.788 [Riv (DM)]: Do you go first? 00:43:45.929 --> 00:43:47.912 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes. Yes, I'll go first. 00:43:48.740 --> 00:43:49.040 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 00:43:50.941 --> 00:43:54.884 [Riv (DM)]: Into the room. You see Ellessa still standing by the window looking out. 00:43:56.285 --> 00:44:03.889 [Riv (DM)]: The rest of you guys are kind of all mingling, I assume. And has anyone else taken a seat or is Asha the only one sitting down? 00:44:08.531 --> 00:44:09.062 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, be sitting. 00:44:10.193 --> 00:44:10.373 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 00:44:11.674 --> 00:44:13.095 [Riv (DM)]: Asha's there. He's still got his feet up on the table. 00:44:17.168 --> 00:44:31.008 [JC (Ryo)]: As I walk through the door, and just before Caelan walks through, and I just feel like, I told you I had a pretty nice... And I walk out of the way, I walk out of the way so you can see. 00:44:27.852 --> 00:44:28.872 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, come on, come on. 00:44:32.113 --> 00:44:43.116 [Riv (DM)]: Let's get this over with. And then the glass drops from his hand as he looks upon the figure arrogantly sitting in the seat across the room from him. 00:44:44.257 --> 00:44:46.577 [Riv (DM)]: And Asha just says, Hi, Father. 00:44:49.538 --> 00:44:56.320 [Riv (DM)]: You see Caelan just like go ashen grey. He looks at you, Ryo. Looks kind of around the rest of you. Asha! 00:44:57.548 --> 00:44:58.909 [Riv (DM)]: What's going on? What is the meaning of this? 00:45:00.830 --> 00:45:15.280 [Riv (DM)]: Asha just slowly stands up. Well, to be honest, I don't really know. But if you thought I was dead, I'm not. And honestly, Father, I'm a little bit disappointed in you. You really think that they could kill me? 00:45:17.822 --> 00:45:18.702 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't you come look for me? 00:45:21.784 --> 00:45:43.072 [Riv (DM)]: Caelan is all ashen-faced, pale. He slowly starts to walk across the room. And you see Asha like looking tensed up, his face is a little bit starting to become a bit more grim. That kind of like arrogant visage that he's had pretty much this whole time since returning to the city starts to become more brittle. And Caelan just grabs him in a big hug. 00:45:45.633 --> 00:45:51.715 [Riv (DM)]: And you just hear him, yeah, just like talking to him quietly. Like, I'm so sorry, like, I thought you were dead. 00:45:53.515 --> 00:45:56.276 [Riv (DM)]: Eventually, I think Asha's gonna sit back and like push him away, like... 00:45:57.740 --> 00:45:58.040 [Riv (DM)]: Father. 00:46:02.063 --> 00:46:02.603 [Riv (DM)]: I'm back now. 00:46:06.386 --> 00:46:07.306 [Riv (DM)]: We've got a lot to discuss. 00:46:10.509 --> 00:46:12.090 [Riv (DM)]: But that can be later. 00:46:15.052 --> 00:46:20.936 [Riv (DM)]: You see, Kaelyn kind of like looks, I guess, directly back at you, Ryo. 00:46:22.477 --> 00:46:24.278 [Riv (DM)]: And just says, what is the meaning of this? 00:46:26.940 --> 00:46:27.420 [Riv (DM)]: How did it happen? 00:46:31.524 --> 00:46:32.364 [Riv (DM)]: You said it was a present? 00:46:33.465 --> 00:46:34.805 [Riv (DM)]: You playing games with my son? 00:46:40.126 --> 00:46:41.472 [JC (Ryo)]: It was a roll on the tongue. 00:46:42.717 --> 00:46:44.124 [JC (Ryo)]: I thought you'd be happy to see your son. 00:46:52.032 --> 00:46:53.753 [Riv (DM)]: He, um, is to walk towards you. 00:46:58.235 --> 00:47:00.076 [Riv (DM)]: And we'll stop in front of you. 00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:05.642 [Riv (DM)]: Places a hand on your shoulder and just says, I'm sorry. 00:47:09.125 --> 00:47:09.765 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sorry, Ryo. 00:47:12.107 --> 00:47:13.548 [Riv (DM)]: I guess I'm just in a bit of shock. 00:47:17.630 --> 00:47:31.420 [Riv (DM)]: How did you find him? Okay. 00:47:23.650 --> 00:47:24.493 [JC (Ryo)]: Interesting story. 00:47:27.041 --> 00:47:30.431 [JC (Ryo)]: And a bit of a long one. Maybe best for another time. 00:47:35.460 --> 00:47:37.601 [Riv (DM)]: You see a strange expression come over his face. 00:47:39.661 --> 00:47:55.566 [Riv (DM)]: He's always kind of like looked at the group of you with a little bit of disdain, and in particular you. A lot of like borderline disgust, I think. And something's shifted now. 00:47:56.646 --> 00:47:59.767 [Riv (DM)]: He's kind of, he looks uncertain of himself. 00:48:02.368 --> 00:48:03.568 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, a little bit uncertain, I think. 00:48:06.868 --> 00:48:23.555 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want to roll an insight check, Rio, to see if you can spot something? Alright, that's pretty good. 00:48:27.957 --> 00:48:35.200 [Riv (DM)]: I think you see a glimpse of... almost like a barrier. 00:48:36.484 --> 00:48:46.367 [Riv (DM)]: That he's had erected for a long time started to shatter. Like his worldview has changed slightly. 00:48:48.487 --> 00:48:58.530 [Riv (DM)]: You see, you saw a man who believed he was sort of head of the station, commanding and protecting the people of Sumara. 00:49:01.731 --> 00:49:07.665 [Riv (DM)]: And you were kind of an outsider, a nothing. And potentially a threat as well. 00:49:08.785 --> 00:49:12.527 [Riv (DM)]: You see a little bit of that starting to unravel as he looks at you. 00:49:16.590 --> 00:49:19.571 [Riv (DM)]: Possibly even a little bit of respect starting to shine through. 00:49:22.653 --> 00:49:44.666 [Riv (DM)]: He steps back. You can see he's kind of just, you know, absolutely mind boggled. And he says, is there anything else? You need from me right now, I much desire to catch up on the last few decades that I've missed with my son. 00:49:48.048 --> 00:49:49.069 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything else you need from me? 00:49:50.116 --> 00:49:53.358 [JC (Ryo)]: At the moment, no. Go and reconnect with your son. 00:49:54.738 --> 00:50:00.421 [JC (Ryo)]: You have done a wonderful job protecting the city, and I will be relying on you again, I'm sure of it. 00:50:02.658 --> 00:50:05.080 [Riv (DM)]: He, yeah, he steps back a few. 00:50:07.768 --> 00:50:10.049 [Riv (DM)]: He will bow slightly, just at the hip. 00:50:10.907 --> 00:50:11.427 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, no. 00:50:11.329 --> 00:50:12.270 [Riv (DM)]: Or at the waist, rather. 00:50:11.607 --> 00:50:12.568 [JC (Ryo)]: Fine. No need for this. 00:50:12.290 --> 00:50:16.751 [Riv (DM)]: He looks over at Ayana and Illythia. 00:50:12.628 --> 00:50:13.188 [JC (Ryo)]: No need for this. 00:50:17.411 --> 00:50:35.496 [Riv (DM)]: Bit of a nod. Ayana's just got a raised eyebrow, and Illythia has a very subtle, slight smirk. Nods at them. And then looks at Asha, who... Asha's a bit of a wreck of emotions, I think. He's frustrated, he's sad. 00:50:36.504 --> 00:50:38.945 [Riv (DM)]: He's happy, relieved. 00:50:40.746 --> 00:50:44.268 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, Caelan just holds out his hand. Asha will go to him and they leave. 00:50:46.310 --> 00:50:54.875 [Riv (DM)]: On the way out, Asha will just stop and to the rest of you and just say, I'm sorry for my attitude earlier. 00:50:57.676 --> 00:51:00.598 [Riv (DM)]: I'm very grateful. And I hope we see you again soon. 00:51:03.740 --> 00:51:04.240 [Riv (DM)]: Don't be strangers. 00:51:07.508 --> 00:51:09.309 [Lacer (Kai)]: As he says that, can I cast Message? 00:51:11.769 --> 00:51:20.532 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to say to Asha, get your memory checked out at the Luminary. You seem to have pieces missing. You might be cursed. 00:51:23.673 --> 00:51:29.797 [Riv (DM)]: You see, yeah, to just throw a bit of more emotion into the mix, you see now a slight of concern start to creep in. 00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:36.702 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, he does not in your direction. And yeah, and he will follow his father out of the room. 00:51:37.765 --> 00:51:47.064 [Vael (Berberis)]: As Caelan's walking out the door, I'll just sort of clap him on the shoulder and lean in and just sort of say, sometimes we need a bit of change to make things happen. 00:51:50.311 --> 00:51:51.052 [Riv (DM)]: I think you might be right. 00:51:54.712 --> 00:51:57.273 [Riv (DM)]: Well, hopefully see you soon. 00:51:58.414 --> 00:51:58.694 [Riv (DM)]: Farewell. 00:52:00.715 --> 00:52:01.436 [Riv (DM)]: And off they go. 00:52:02.736 --> 00:52:08.820 [Riv (DM)]: Leaving you, leaving you alone in the room, Ayana, Illythia, and Ellesa. 00:52:12.362 --> 00:52:22.187 [Riv (DM)]: If after that, you know, a few minutes after they've gone, Illythia just like has a very, very gentle chuckle. And she's like, oh, wow. 00:52:23.268 --> 00:52:37.611 [Riv (DM)]: I can't say. Despite as heartwarming as that was, I didn't enjoy seeing Caelan get put in his place a bit there. And Ayana just comes over and just sort of like gives her a gentle nudge like, hey, don't be rude. Maybe he's growing. 00:52:40.273 --> 00:52:43.235 [Riv (DM)]: And she'll lift his hand, well, we'll see. Give it a couple of days. 00:52:45.296 --> 00:52:51.940 [Riv (DM)]: And they turn back to you all and essentially wait for you to explain. 00:52:55.140 --> 00:52:55.700 [Riv (DM)]: What's next? 00:53:01.536 --> 00:53:05.384 [Vael (Berberis)]: I just look at them and say, what do you know about hell? 00:53:07.749 --> 00:53:09.132 [Vael (Berberis)]: And then go back to drinking my wine. 00:53:09.674 --> 00:53:12.631 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh, what, freeze cut and, uh, end sesh? 00:53:11.945 --> 00:53:21.787 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, yeah. I was about to say, yeah, boom, and we go to break. Perfect time. Oh, I love it. 00:53:22.908 --> 00:53:23.088 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 00:53:23.065 --> 00:53:23.424 [JC (Ryo)]: Mic drop. 00:53:25.272 --> 00:53:37.843 [Riv (DM)]: Um... Yeah. Alright, cool. So, um... Few things, right? Few things to do. 00:53:39.125 --> 00:53:46.992 [Riv (DM)]: Um... Yeah. I guess Ayana will say... Um... 00:53:53.284 --> 00:53:57.226 [Riv (DM)]: And I, yeah, so I assume you're genuinely asking about Hell? Or is it? 00:53:56.968 --> 00:53:57.820 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm curious. 00:53:58.247 --> 00:54:04.970 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah? Okay. I think Ayana will say that... 00:54:06.331 --> 00:54:10.554 [Riv (DM)]: I know probably as much as the next. I haven't been there myself personally. 00:54:14.084 --> 00:54:14.389 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Why not? 00:54:14.296 --> 00:54:14.576 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 00:54:14.429 --> 00:54:15.445 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I hear the summers are lovely. 00:54:16.517 --> 00:54:17.638 [Riv (DM)]: Well, yeah, there's that. 00:54:18.958 --> 00:54:19.879 [Riv (DM)]: It's a complicated place. 00:54:20.879 --> 00:54:21.860 [Riv (DM)]: Why do you need to know? 00:54:25.355 --> 00:54:36.327 [Lacer (Kai)]: We might need to go there someday. I look at Ryo. 00:54:30.260 --> 00:54:32.862 [Riv (DM)]: I feel like that requires some context. 00:54:41.416 --> 00:54:43.719 [Vael (Berberis)]: Deals were made. Journeys were had. 00:54:45.682 --> 00:54:47.144 [Vael (Berberis)]: Bargains need to be fulfilled. 00:54:49.477 --> 00:54:53.260 [Riv (DM)]: I see, and her eyes quickly flick to the girl standing at the window. 00:54:57.768 --> 00:55:03.152 [JC (Ryo)]: We made a deal. We're going to have to go to the Nine Hells and kill some guy. 00:55:03.792 --> 00:55:10.738 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, you didn't. 00:55:06.895 --> 00:55:08.816 [JC (Ryo)]: I say, we had no choice. 00:55:10.116 --> 00:55:11.818 [Vael (Berberis)]: Dealing with the end of everything. 00:55:12.1000 --> 00:55:13.801 [Vael (Berberis)]: What's a trip to hell? 00:55:15.382 --> 00:55:22.908 [Riv (DM)]: Making deals with Faye, honestly. You really are a bunch of children, aren't you? 00:55:20.100 --> 00:55:21.210 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We're new to this place. 00:55:24.149 --> 00:55:26.811 [Riv (DM)]: And Lothi's like, hey, now it's your turn to stop being rude. 00:55:24.245 --> 00:55:25.842 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I've been a very bad dwarf. 00:55:27.672 --> 00:55:28.072 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah. 00:55:27.798 --> 00:55:29.440 [Vael (Berberis)]: We are blunt tools. 00:55:30.654 --> 00:55:34.592 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. Well, hey. At least you're very effective. 00:55:36.673 --> 00:55:47.416 [Riv (DM)]: And she genuinely looks, you know, we're rubbing each other a bit here, but I think she's looking very, yeah, she's looking quite impressed with what you've achieved here. 00:55:49.496 --> 00:55:53.077 [Riv (DM)]: She says, well, normally I would say it's a no-go. 00:55:54.598 --> 00:56:06.790 [Riv (DM)]: We wouldn't allow anyone to travel to the Hells for the reasons as we've explained, but you can take yourself. There's a World Gate here at the base of the Hearthstone. 00:56:08.411 --> 00:56:09.612 [Riv (DM)]: I can show you how to use it, Rio. 00:56:10.913 --> 00:56:15.856 [Riv (DM)]: You're the only one that can drive it, but if you point it in the right direction, you could take yourself to the Hells. 00:56:17.665 --> 00:56:18.574 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, go to hell, Rio. 00:56:20.219 --> 00:56:29.585 [Riv (DM)]: I will just point out, though, I was needing to head back to the Material Plane to make sure that our friend Marius isn't up to no good. 00:56:33.068 --> 00:56:37.719 [Riv (DM)]: Ideally, Before you go, because, you know, there's a slight chance that you don't come back. 00:56:39.520 --> 00:56:40.221 [Riv (DM)]: Wouldn't be good, would it? 00:56:42.236 --> 00:56:51.099 [JC (Ryo)]: If you want to head back, of course. I thought you'd want to spend more time here, and I just gestured towards... Illythia. 00:56:48.867 --> 00:56:53.870 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I would love to, but the job isn't done. 00:56:55.131 --> 00:56:57.853 [Riv (DM)]: And, you know, it's not like it's goodbye forever again. 00:56:58.934 --> 00:57:01.476 [Riv (DM)]: As long as you fulfill your promise and don't die. 00:57:04.703 --> 00:57:06.824 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, that's the general plan. 00:57:07.992 --> 00:57:08.272 [Riv (DM)]: Good. 00:57:08.213 --> 00:57:12.023 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What was it that arrogant man said? 00:57:13.186 --> 00:57:15.111 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Do you really think that they could kill me? 00:57:17.924 --> 00:57:19.626 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Did he say they or fey? 00:57:24.103 --> 00:57:26.044 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so where to next then? 00:57:29.126 --> 00:57:32.428 [Riv (DM)]: Are you going to, like how, what sort of timeline are you working on? 00:57:36.536 --> 00:57:37.697 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's a good question. 00:57:38.260 --> 00:57:40.041 [Riv (DM)]: And what are you planning to do about... 00:57:41.202 --> 00:57:43.403 [Riv (DM)]: In her eyes, glance towards the little girl again. 00:57:46.723 --> 00:57:48.004 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's also a good question. 00:57:52.046 --> 00:57:54.228 [Vael (Berberis)]: Now I just, I did crack another bottle of wine. 00:57:52.068 --> 00:58:03.839 [JC (Ryo)]: So Elissa, will you be joining us for the visit to the Hells? 00:57:57.411 --> 00:58:06.636 [Riv (DM)]: She turns and looks at you. A shake of her head. 00:58:14.789 --> 00:58:15.530 [JC (Ryo)]: What is your plan? 00:58:16.871 --> 00:58:17.672 [JC (Ryo)]: What are you going to do? 00:58:21.624 --> 00:58:22.484 [Riv (DM)]: You know what I'm going to do. 00:58:24.185 --> 00:58:24.785 [Riv (DM)]: Well, we agreed. 00:58:35.432 --> 00:58:43.028 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. We have a few things to take care of first. Are you okay to wait a little bit? 00:58:44.324 --> 00:58:45.061 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Holy fuck. 00:58:54.660 --> 00:59:13.665 [Riv (DM)]: She says... Yeah, I think there's another moment where you see she kind of like becomes more serious again. The child mannerisms sort of disappear for a moment. And she says... 00:59:17.386 --> 00:59:21.567 [Riv (DM)]: Remember why you must go to the Hells. 00:59:23.428 --> 00:59:32.788 [Riv (DM)]: There's no point in going. Until I do what I must do. And I will not be doing what I must do until you fulfill your end of the bargain. 00:59:46.336 --> 00:59:49.519 [JC (Ryo)]: All right, we have a few little things to take care of first, if that's okay. 00:59:52.536 --> 01:00:04.100 [Riv (DM)]: Can I spend time here in the big, big city and in the castle up here on the mountain? Are there places I can play? Any trees to climb? 01:00:10.936 --> 01:00:15.720 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm sure there'd be something here for you to hang around with. 01:00:22.304 --> 01:00:23.607 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 01:00:25.251 --> 01:00:27.556 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. Is it alright if I run around and explore? 01:00:44.261 --> 01:00:46.803 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think Eirinor would be happy to show you around the Citadel. 01:00:54.485 --> 01:00:58.138 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to insight check Erendor to see what his reaction is. 01:01:00.752 --> 01:01:01.959 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, roll insight. 01:01:14.292 --> 01:01:19.534 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Honestly, even if you'd rolled a three, you would have heard my sigh from across the room. 01:01:23.075 --> 01:01:29.858 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: But, hey, I can tell you I sure as shit do not trust her to be left running around by herself. 01:01:32.159 --> 01:01:35.660 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: So if someone's gonna do it, I guess it'll be me. 01:01:41.077 --> 01:01:42.717 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. I think at that. 01:01:42.372 --> 01:01:46.683 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was going to say, I'll come with you. 01:01:42.797 --> 01:01:43.358 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. Yeah. 01:01:47.746 --> 01:01:48.387 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just in case. 01:01:49.588 --> 01:02:00.664 [Vael (Berberis)]: While this is all going on, Burbus is making a big show of being a drunken idiot, but I'm going to cast the side-eye of our friendly mages. Give them a very intent, oh shit look. 01:02:04.896 --> 01:02:10.559 [Riv (DM)]: Ayana's usually very well composed, as you know. And you can see there's a bit of grimness going on. 01:02:15.182 --> 01:02:21.765 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the little girl is going to hop up and kind of start dancing over to the door. And she starts to head out. And she's like, come on, come on, I want to see. 01:02:25.127 --> 01:02:30.130 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear the footsteps starting to pat down the corridor away. 01:02:27.533 --> 01:02:28.188 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep, off I go. 01:02:30.931 --> 01:02:40.986 [Riv (DM)]: And she's just like poking her head Into rooms, looking around. If she like comes into a living area where there are like big couches, she'll run inside and start jumping around on the cushioned couches. 01:02:42.467 --> 01:02:53.550 [Riv (DM)]: There's that sort of exposed open area in one of the central chambers that has a tree growing up under the open sky that I believe Berbera said she slept under one evening. 01:02:54.830 --> 01:02:58.111 [Riv (DM)]: She runs out into here and she starts trying to climb up the branches. 01:02:59.772 --> 01:03:00.892 [Riv (DM)]: She's been a handful. 01:03:03.872 --> 01:03:28.122 [Riv (DM)]: And while you are out, Ayana sits down at the table and Illythia joins her and she just like runs her fingers through her hair and she's like... 01:03:17.660 --> 01:03:25.626 [Vael (Berberis)]: I look at her and say, I have faced down things beyond death, and that, that fucking terrifies me. 01:03:28.142 --> 01:03:32.764 [Riv (DM)]: I don't want to imagine what could happen if we make the wrong move here. 01:03:35.564 --> 01:03:38.405 [JC (Ryo)]: Or them both a glass of wine, and myself one finally. 01:03:40.295 --> 01:03:41.056 [Vael (Berberis)]: Grumblepasta. 01:03:42.316 --> 01:03:45.420 [Riv (DM)]: Crumble past it. That's the only reason why I'm entertaining this. 01:03:46.888 --> 01:03:48.248 [JC (Ryo)]: How strong is Grumble? 01:03:51.046 --> 01:03:52.007 [Riv (DM)]: How strong is the sun? 01:03:54.570 --> 01:03:55.672 [Riv (DM)]: It's an unmeasurable question. 01:03:58.051 --> 01:03:59.472 [JC (Ryo)]: That gives me a lot more comfort. 01:04:01.164 --> 01:04:06.796 [Vael (Berberis)]: The question is what does she want in the Vault? We know nothing about what the Vault is. 01:04:10.820 --> 01:04:14.181 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I could only speculate. You probably well know as much as me. 01:04:16.962 --> 01:04:26.265 [Riv (DM)]: I guess, well, part of her would have been inside before. Maybe she left something that she needs to get. 01:04:27.845 --> 01:04:32.627 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe there is something that she's learned that she needs more information about. 01:04:33.867 --> 01:04:37.088 [Riv (DM)]: Vault has many memories kept within. 01:04:39.589 --> 01:04:43.110 [JC (Ryo)]: We only scratched the surface with the half dozen odd rooms we went through. 01:04:43.652 --> 01:04:43.992 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:04:45.353 --> 01:04:55.702 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe she's looking to place a magical curse deep inside the root which will tear the city down and crumble it away a century from now. 01:04:58.405 --> 01:04:58.865 [Riv (DM)]: Honestly? 01:05:00.947 --> 01:05:02.068 [Riv (DM)]: Don't know which is the most likely. 01:05:12.776 --> 01:05:32.363 [JC (Ryo)]: Anyways... Like I said, I don't have a choice. 01:05:13.816 --> 01:05:18.348 [Vael (Berberis)]: But the ends may justify the means. We need that rock. 01:05:20.292 --> 01:05:21.012 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed, we do. 01:05:23.613 --> 01:05:27.054 [Riv (DM)]: I say again, Rhea, it's your call. You're the only one who can open it. 01:05:32.683 --> 01:05:35.064 [JC (Ryo)]: I had to agree with it or she would have killed us all at the time. 01:05:36.917 --> 01:05:49.460 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's fair. It's a tough position. Okay, so let's talk plans then. She sits up a bit, straightens her clothes and her robes, brushes her hair back. 01:05:50.756 --> 01:05:51.716 [Riv (DM)]: Let's think about this logically. 01:05:53.737 --> 01:05:55.357 [Riv (DM)]: What needs to be done, and what is the timeline? 01:05:59.739 --> 01:06:04.140 [Riv (DM)]: If we wish to create this weapon, we need to get the stone. 01:06:05.420 --> 01:06:12.743 [Riv (DM)]: She has a stone, I assume, and from what I gather, what she just said, she's not going to give you the stone until you let her into the Vault. 01:06:15.223 --> 01:06:17.064 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so that sounds like Vault is first. 01:06:24.910 --> 01:06:26.012 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know. 01:06:27.334 --> 01:06:36.588 [Vael (Berberis)]: She won't give us the stone until she's in the vault, but there is something in the stone that she needs dealt with before she will probably hand it over. 01:06:38.611 --> 01:06:46.876 [JC (Ryo)]: I look at Berberis and go, I haven't said exactly what this stone is, just in case she does what she did to the other two that were in the room last time we said their full name. 01:06:49.032 --> 01:06:59.381 [Vael (Berberis)]: I would be very... I look at the two of them. And I just look at the two of them and the look in my eyes should be enough to indicate that they do not want to know too much information about it. 01:07:01.924 --> 01:07:03.507 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Let's read Harry Potter, you'll figure it out. 01:07:07.081 --> 01:07:08.735 [JC (Ryo)]: That's some random Dwarven book, is it? 01:07:09.579 --> 01:07:09.779 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yes. 01:07:11.191 --> 01:07:13.513 [Vael (Berberis)]: She's very protective over information about it. 01:07:15.534 --> 01:07:19.037 [Vael (Berberis)]: Very intensely. Dangerously so. 01:07:20.578 --> 01:07:21.058 [Riv (DM)]: Understood. 01:07:24.762 --> 01:07:27.304 [Riv (DM)]: Well, be that the case. 01:07:29.324 --> 01:07:31.985 [Riv (DM)]: She must value getting into that vault very highly then. 01:07:34.590 --> 01:07:43.577 [Vael (Berberis)]: Enough to leave her seat of power in some way shape or form and come here herself or some aspect of her. 01:07:46.479 --> 01:07:46.880 [Vael (Berberis)]: Which is 01:07:47.980 --> 01:07:53.123 [Vael (Berberis)]: Not knowing a huge amount about this realm, probably still a massive indicator. 01:08:02.028 --> 01:08:06.110 [Vael (Berberis)]: But, like my old man used to say, sometimes you just gotta suck it and see. 01:08:09.188 --> 01:08:12.390 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, and hopefully prepare first. 01:08:15.371 --> 01:08:19.133 [Riv (DM)]: It's not just... 01:08:15.775 --> 01:08:17.036 [Vael (Berberis)]: How do you prepare for that? 01:08:21.995 --> 01:08:23.156 [Riv (DM)]: I guess, I don't know. 01:08:24.997 --> 01:08:27.318 [Riv (DM)]: I just keep coming back to the fact that Grumble let her in. 01:08:30.099 --> 01:08:31.040 [Riv (DM)]: We keep a close eye on her. 01:08:32.721 --> 01:08:39.345 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe, maybe that was it. Maybe he believed that you would protect us From her. 01:08:42.433 --> 01:08:46.284 [Riv (DM)]: So I guess we just make sure that you don't let her out of her sight. 01:08:47.928 --> 01:08:55.795 [Vael (Berberis)]: The only thing I can think of, if her intentions were malicious, she would have struck long before this in a more direct way. 01:08:57.777 --> 01:09:05.944 [Vael (Berberis)]: Not to discount the defenses of your wonderful city, but the Hunt fucked with the borders, not her, as far as I understood. 01:09:09.036 --> 01:09:11.037 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. Well, that's the thing. She... 01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:22.906 [Riv (DM)]: Since she came into power, the conflict has been, for all intents and purposes, non-existent. 01:09:26.408 --> 01:09:29.871 [Riv (DM)]: It's... 01:09:33.133 --> 01:09:33.633 [Riv (DM)]: I just don't know. 01:09:34.674 --> 01:09:37.476 [Riv (DM)]: Bloody Fae. And I say that as a Fae myself. 01:09:38.552 --> 01:09:40.373 [Riv (DM)]: We can all laugh, I suppose. 01:09:47.332 --> 01:09:53.516 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's a question for discussion, which is probably for another time. All of them are from the Material Realm. Are you really fine? Anywho. 01:09:55.042 --> 01:09:57.703 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, elves are from Fae. 01:09:55.177 --> 01:09:55.717 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mission to hand. 01:09:57.903 --> 01:10:03.347 [Riv (DM)]: Elves are Fae, right? If you have a look at the... Yeah. 01:10:02.401 --> 01:10:08.604 [Vael (Berberis)]: Huh? It's your world, but they come from... Are they coming from the Material Realm or escaping here? 01:10:04.807 --> 01:10:05.688 [Riv (DM)]: Discussion for another time. 01:10:08.785 --> 01:10:12.207 [Vael (Berberis)]: Or are they leaving here and then going to the Material Realm on an elven holiday? 01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:14.101 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:10:13.387 --> 01:10:14.468 [Vael (Berberis)]: Slumming it with the Pollards. 01:10:15.581 --> 01:10:29.887 [Riv (DM)]: So, in this world, this city is the homeland. Like, the elves are from the Fey Realm, and they've set up places on the Material Realm to go through, to sort of, like, have commerce with the people of the Material Realm, yeah. 01:10:28.196 --> 01:10:29.276 [Vael (Berberis)]: Plummet with a pause, yep. 01:10:31.488 --> 01:10:40.852 [Riv (DM)]: So, like, they've got their capital city, Ethelmara, that you would have gone through earlier, but that was only their, you know, place of power in the Material Realm. This is where they're from. 01:10:42.482 --> 01:10:43.322 [Vael (Berberis)]: Thought it was the other way around. 01:10:42.532 --> 01:10:47.575 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:10:47.084 --> 01:10:52.746 [Vael (Berberis)]: So they didn't escape from Val Lertora, they withdrew. 01:10:53.519 --> 01:10:54.180 [Riv (DM)]: Exactly, yeah. 01:10:54.387 --> 01:10:56.168 [Vael (Berberis)]: Didn't flee into the west, they went home. 01:10:56.902 --> 01:10:58.263 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, that's right. 01:11:01.705 --> 01:11:21.586 [Riv (DM)]: Illythia just, she'll speak as well and say, by the way, and it's possibly... We'll speak in more detail when your friend returns, but we did call another Confluence, as agreed, to discuss his mother. 01:11:24.408 --> 01:11:42.360 [Riv (DM)]: The Confluence agreed that something must be done. And, well, for the first time in a long time, we're starting to consider loosening the binds on our agents on the other side. 01:11:44.536 --> 01:11:53.743 [Riv (DM)]: They, by design, are anonymous. None of them know who any of the others are. Even Ayana here. 01:11:54.964 --> 01:12:00.329 [Riv (DM)]: She was also anonymous. It was to my chagrin that she chose to go. 01:12:01.510 --> 01:12:05.173 [Riv (DM)]: When the Emerald Ceremony happened, they were all cloaked and hooded. 01:12:06.254 --> 01:12:10.657 [Riv (DM)]: None of them even saw or were able to say goodbye as they were passing through. 01:12:11.998 --> 01:12:17.754 [Riv (DM)]: This was by design. If any of them were captured, It would protect the others where they interrogated. 01:12:20.395 --> 01:12:29.661 [Riv (DM)]: There is a record of who they are and I control it as the Meridian of the Arcanas, uh, Locus Arcanum. 01:12:33.803 --> 01:12:42.668 [Riv (DM)]: They've agreed to unlock it and so I should be able to find some agents there who can help us free Eirieneth. 01:12:44.388 --> 01:12:45.289 [Riv (DM)]: Val Luminor. 01:12:48.330 --> 01:12:51.512 [Riv (DM)]: So hopefully a bit of good news on otherwise grim times. 01:12:54.828 --> 01:13:02.876 [Vael (Berberis)]: Are the Owls prepared to move militarily, or is it purely support of this base, this time? 01:13:04.219 --> 01:13:05.780 [Riv (DM)]: That is up for discussion. 01:13:07.180 --> 01:13:10.582 [Riv (DM)]: I think yes, but we have to be careful. 01:13:12.023 --> 01:13:27.931 [Riv (DM)]: We could pull the trigger and I believe if Ryo, I believe if you were to make your case and potentially get Caelyn on your side, you could convince them to return to the world in full. 01:13:29.032 --> 01:13:32.334 [Riv (DM)]: However, we just have to be careful when we play that hand. 01:13:33.674 --> 01:13:34.675 [Riv (DM)]: There's no going back from that. 01:13:36.496 --> 01:13:43.700 [Riv (DM)]: Personally, I feel like the smarter choice would be to play it slower to start with, as if we were to 01:13:46.240 --> 01:13:53.666 [Riv (DM)]: Enter in full force, the enemy would immediately know and we would need to be prepared for a war. 01:13:56.929 --> 01:14:00.852 [Riv (DM)]: But again, I believe that choice is mostly up to you. 01:14:04.572 --> 01:14:23.998 [JC (Ryo)]: There is guaranteed to be a war in Valtora against the Empire and the Red Priests and the Empress. 01:14:17.092 --> 01:14:18.192 [Riv (DM)]: For sure, there will be. 01:14:19.353 --> 01:14:21.913 [Riv (DM)]: The question is when and how we start it. 01:14:23.648 --> 01:14:24.049 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm late. 01:14:24.238 --> 01:14:25.118 [JC (Ryo)]: It's already started. 01:14:25.412 --> 01:14:26.114 [Vael (Berberis)]: Already started. 01:14:28.199 --> 01:14:30.420 [JC (Ryo)]: There's one city in full open revolt and 01:14:28.315 --> 01:14:46.740 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I don't know how many wars you've seen, but if we were to return and join the war immediately, things would change. 01:14:30.901 --> 01:14:34.202 [JC (Ryo)]: Another one trying to organize a uniting of all the others. 01:14:48.088 --> 01:14:48.748 [Riv (DM)]: Are you ready for that? 01:14:50.456 --> 01:14:56.639 [Vael (Berberis)]: We definitely need to build numbers first, though at the same time those numbers need support to stabilize. 01:14:59.293 --> 01:15:16.960 [Riv (DM)]: Yes, I agree. Hence why I was thinking that the agents might be the way to go. There's a network of them across the cities, I assume. They can coordinate, they can help you communicate with the leaders of the cities, and in particular, 01:15:18.560 --> 01:15:22.204 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone that we have stationed in Val Luminor will know the workings of the city. 01:15:23.786 --> 01:15:27.450 [Riv (DM)]: They can potentially help you get Eirieneth out. 01:15:31.836 --> 01:15:33.498 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Elves in Glimmerforge? 01:15:35.339 --> 01:15:36.360 [Riv (DM)]: I wouldn't be surprised. 01:15:38.276 --> 01:15:43.939 [JC (Ryo)]: We had no idea Ayana was an elf, and she was there in Val Noren the entire time. 01:15:46.589 --> 01:15:47.210 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, well. 01:15:47.789 --> 01:15:50.596 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm willing to bet you don't have any amongst the hobgoblins. 01:15:52.244 --> 01:15:54.185 [Riv (DM)]: Well, you never know. 01:15:52.617 --> 01:15:53.244 [Lacer (Kai)]: NPCs laughing. 01:15:54.245 --> 01:15:55.525 [Riv (DM)]: It was ultimately up to them. 01:15:56.759 --> 01:15:58.220 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is there one named Linnie? 01:15:56.986 --> 01:15:57.446 [Riv (DM)]: Who knows? 01:15:58.766 --> 01:16:07.149 [Riv (DM)]: You might have already met a few on your travels. Not hobgoblins, I mean, but you might have already encountered a few elves without knowing it. 01:16:05.672 --> 01:16:08.539 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, but we did, we have encountered a few hobgoblins. 01:16:12.010 --> 01:16:12.691 [Riv (DM)]: Well, then. 01:16:12.280 --> 01:16:14.184 [JC (Ryo)]: We also met with a Spider Queen. 01:16:17.009 --> 01:16:18.432 [JC (Ryo)]: The name eludes me, but yeah. 01:16:19.012 --> 01:16:19.453 [Vael (Berberis)]: There's a... 01:16:20.634 --> 01:16:21.555 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know anything about that. 01:16:23.164 --> 01:16:28.368 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 01:16:23.722 --> 01:16:24.384 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, you know nothing. 01:16:29.084 --> 01:16:31.768 [Vael (Berberis)]: I don't know anything about the Hobgoblins either. I shouldn't mention that. 01:16:33.893 --> 01:16:50.967 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. So is there, just to move this along, is there any final sort of discussions or questions you want to have? Or should we do a bit of a fast forward? We could do a long rest and you have the evening to kind of think about what you want to do. 01:16:53.868 --> 01:16:54.208 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:16:55.289 --> 01:17:01.351 [Riv (DM)]: How do you want to do it? There are a bunch of sort of like outstanding errands and things like that. 01:17:02.592 --> 01:17:45.220 [Riv (DM)]: For example, because I think we'll come up and we'll have a session break here in a second, but just to have a think about how we want to go, we've got Hell Mission. Well, Vault, Hell Mission. We've got a bunch of random tasks in the city to do, like you've still got the Zephyr Cuffs, which are technically on loan. If you want to return them or not, Ayana wants to return to Val Noren, which will require activating the World Gate. You've also still got some loot that you haven't, I believe, properly decided what to do with. So there's the Grimoire that you found, all those gems, and then there's the Crystal Ball. I don't know if those have been divvied yet. 01:17:45.700 --> 01:17:51.395 [JC (Ryo)]: To my knowledge, none of that's been divvied out. Not even the arrows, the short sword plus one, all of that stuff's still sitting in the box. 01:17:52.504 --> 01:17:59.029 [Riv (DM)]: So we've got all that. You've got the timeline on Korvas. 01:18:00.149 --> 01:18:09.276 [Riv (DM)]: You don't know exactly when he's arriving, but I assume probably over the next week he'll be arriving at the destination of the Darkwood. So there's a few things to consider. 01:18:11.588 --> 01:18:16.831 [JC (Ryo)]: Do we have a choice to go to the Darkwood? I'm pretty sure Mirileth's not going to let us leave the Feywild. 01:18:18.603 --> 01:18:20.424 [Riv (DM)]: Well, yeah. 01:18:19.800 --> 01:18:31.585 [Vael (Berberis)]: Still weak. We'll go to hell in and out. Quick trip. How long can it take? 01:18:23.772 --> 01:18:39.638 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so... 01:18:24.595 --> 01:18:30.018 [JC (Ryo)]: And for all we know, the week, rough week we've spent in the bloody Feywild has been like three years out there. 01:18:27.069 --> 01:18:28.143 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: 30 minute mission, in and out. 01:18:30.058 --> 01:18:30.478 [JC (Ryo)]: We don't know. 01:18:32.726 --> 01:18:36.287 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think Riv did mention it would be time shenanigans with the Fae Realm. 01:18:33.640 --> 01:18:34.080 [JC (Ryo)]: We don't. 01:18:36.907 --> 01:18:47.352 [Vael (Berberis)]: I could be wrong. Personal mission, I want to head down to the Green Court at some point and have a chat, but that's... 01:18:40.424 --> 01:18:41.705 [Lacer (Kai)]: It might be a dice roll. 01:18:47.876 --> 01:18:52.478 [Vael (Berberis)]: Personal, large scale. 01:18:48.932 --> 01:18:49.132 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:18:53.358 --> 01:18:59.061 [Vael (Berberis)]: What we got, did we need to do the Vault before Hell or Hell before Vault is probably our big question. 01:18:59.704 --> 01:19:01.205 [JC (Ryo)]: It's Vault before Hell, isn't it? 01:19:00.260 --> 01:19:00.527 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Vault. 01:19:00.936 --> 01:19:02.937 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's Vault. Yeah, Vault before Hell. 01:19:02.282 --> 01:19:02.462 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah. 01:19:03.627 --> 01:19:05.589 [JC (Ryo)]: She needs to clear the stone first. 01:19:03.652 --> 01:19:09.424 [Riv (DM)]: She's not gonna... Yeah, she's not gonna release the soul until she's been in the vault. 01:19:03.844 --> 01:19:28.719 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You can hear you. 01:19:11.686 --> 01:19:15.808 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, that's going to be a clusterfuck no matter where we do it, but. 01:19:17.507 --> 01:19:19.746 [Vael (Berberis)]: I say we just, like I said, suck it and see. 01:19:21.921 --> 01:19:25.224 [JC (Ryo)]: So, Erendor and Kai are with the little shit. 01:19:27.703 --> 01:19:29.764 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alyssa. Yeah, we're with Alyssa. 01:19:29.112 --> 01:19:33.654 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, that one. 01:19:33.418 --> 01:19:36.551 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Who knows how far off we are? We went to the tree, from there I don't know. 01:19:37.752 --> 01:19:46.515 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're still running around. I'm just casting Prestigitation to clean up any mess she's done, putting all her muddy boots on all the couches and stuff that she's been jumping on. 01:19:45.852 --> 01:19:48.254 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, true. 01:19:48.881 --> 01:19:53.904 [JC (Ryo)]: So we should really get Dondarr to find this teleportation circle. 01:19:55.140 --> 01:19:57.362 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Don't doubt do this, don't doubt do that. 01:19:56.280 --> 01:19:56.580 [Riv (DM)]: Mm-hmm. 01:19:57.908 --> 01:20:02.039 [Vael (Berberis)]: If nothing else, it's good for him to go down and learn it into his book. Do some book learning. 01:20:01.359 --> 01:20:01.619 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 01:20:03.082 --> 01:20:03.483 [Vael (Berberis)]: Nerd. 01:20:05.980 --> 01:20:13.386 [JC (Ryo)]: I was going to say, I don't know how burnt people are. I'm apparently a freaking fool, so I don't know if others need a long rest or not. 01:20:10.604 --> 01:20:15.869 [Lacer (Kai)]: And we just... Yeah, we had one. 01:20:13.406 --> 01:20:16.729 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't remember. 01:20:13.555 --> 01:20:14.696 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We just had one, didn't we? 01:20:15.909 --> 01:20:17.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: We just kind of ran back. 01:20:17.464 --> 01:20:17.654 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:20:17.890 --> 01:20:21.393 [Lacer (Kai)]: We flew back in the morning after we had a long rest. 01:20:22.393 --> 01:20:22.813 [JC (Ryo)]: Ah, okay. 01:20:24.356 --> 01:20:28.319 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, yeah, I've only burned to level three. 01:20:24.515 --> 01:20:25.776 [JC (Ryo)]: So just whatever we've burnt today. 01:20:28.439 --> 01:20:38.468 [Lacer (Kai)]: Casting, ascending, that's about it. But I need to go to the Loom, the Fundament Canton at some stage for some crafting. 01:20:40.984 --> 01:20:46.246 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Wanda has been trying to attune his wand for the last three sessions, but it hasn't really worked out yet. 01:20:46.788 --> 01:20:47.809 [Lacer (Kai)]: It only takes an hour. 01:20:48.647 --> 01:20:53.289 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I know, but there's never been an opportunity to do it. 01:20:51.576 --> 01:20:58.678 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, what? Oh, I mean, you could have done it when you were doing the long rest the previous evening. 01:20:57.318 --> 01:20:57.599 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:20:57.731 --> 01:20:58.852 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, okay, let's say we're done then. 01:20:59.378 --> 01:21:00.558 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah, 100%. 01:21:02.019 --> 01:21:07.780 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, did you want to have a look at the book and the crystal ball? 01:21:09.731 --> 01:21:10.892 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cast identify. 01:21:12.580 --> 01:21:13.226 [Vael (Berberis)]: Period, isn't it? 01:21:12.968 --> 01:21:14.390 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Uh, yeah, sure. 01:21:17.423 --> 01:21:19.684 [Riv (DM)]: Because you'd already cast Identify, right? 01:21:18.153 --> 01:21:28.763 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What the fuck is this? 01:21:19.784 --> 01:21:20.544 [Riv (DM)]: So you know... 01:21:21.724 --> 01:21:30.613 [Riv (DM)]: I think this would have been when you weren't here, Kiwi. So the crystal ball, I think I've put it in the bag, right? 01:21:30.024 --> 01:21:30.264 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Sorry. 01:21:31.364 --> 01:21:33.485 [JC (Ryo)]: Crystal Ball, we've got that in the... 01:21:32.452 --> 01:21:34.613 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's a scryball, a scrying ball. 01:21:34.386 --> 01:21:35.427 [JC (Ryo)]: It's a Scrying Ball, yeah. 01:21:36.118 --> 01:21:44.025 [Riv (DM)]: Correct. So you can cast Scrying with it just as much as you like, which is kind of insane. 01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:45.219 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, is that anyone? 01:21:44.686 --> 01:21:46.908 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah. 01:21:46.173 --> 01:21:46.413 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 01:21:48.186 --> 01:21:49.141 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Longest you will attend. 01:21:48.561 --> 01:21:48.781 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it? 01:21:48.575 --> 01:21:50.536 [JC (Ryo)]: You just have to, you just have to attune, but yeah. 01:21:48.801 --> 01:21:52.543 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, it's a detunement. Okay. 01:21:53.824 --> 01:21:54.184 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ooh. 01:21:56.096 --> 01:22:01.140 [Riv (DM)]: And then the grimoire was a spell book that you weren't able to read. 01:22:03.660 --> 01:22:06.204 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's the freaky book. Made of skin or something. 01:22:05.463 --> 01:22:14.770 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah, it looks like it's made of skin. It's got a face on the outside of it and there are like creepy fingers kind of curling around the edges of the book, like holding the pages together. 01:22:13.335 --> 01:22:15.899 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, the one that gives you heebie-jeebies. 01:22:15.832 --> 01:22:16.359 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Looks cute. 01:22:16.551 --> 01:22:23.176 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. So yeah, if you wanted to have a look over there, just let me know. 01:22:27.592 --> 01:22:32.094 [JC (Ryo)]: If we're going to talk about the stuff in the bag of holding, does anyone want the short sword plus one or can use it? 01:22:35.295 --> 01:22:35.576 [JC (Ryo)]: Vale? 01:22:36.596 --> 01:22:41.061 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh, I have an amazing stick. I have no need. 01:22:40.017 --> 01:22:41.598 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, that's right. Yeah, you got a crazy stick. 01:22:42.021 --> 01:22:44.364 [Vael (Berberis)]: I've got a fucking ridiculously hoping stick. 01:22:44.471 --> 01:22:50.596 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think the only person who can use it, that needs it, is you, Ryo. 01:22:50.682 --> 01:22:54.524 [JC (Ryo)]: I just wanted to make sure before I asked for it, someone else could use it. 01:22:56.581 --> 01:23:00.444 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess Eredor could dual wield two swords if he wanted to. 01:23:02.312 --> 01:23:02.713 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Unlikely. 01:23:03.468 --> 01:23:07.891 [JC (Ryo)]: Doesn't his thing have to be a dagger in the offhand for half of his kit? 01:23:08.539 --> 01:23:09.520 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: For Nick, yes. 01:23:12.194 --> 01:23:14.316 [JC (Ryo)]: No, not for Nick, I mean just as a rogue in general. 01:23:12.216 --> 01:23:12.767 [Lacer (Kai)]: But it doesn't... 01:23:17.188 --> 01:23:17.945 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Who the fuck is Nick? 01:23:18.531 --> 01:23:22.595 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: In general, yes. I could go for a feat for it. 01:23:28.284 --> 01:23:32.466 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, there's nothing stopping you offhanding a short sword. 01:23:33.527 --> 01:23:37.489 [Riv (DM)]: But it's just harder as a rogue without the feat. 01:23:38.692 --> 01:23:43.320 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I was going to say, I thought they were martial. I thought he was finesse, not martial weapons. 01:23:46.752 --> 01:23:47.053 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't. 01:23:46.754 --> 01:23:46.982 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yes. 01:23:49.295 --> 01:24:01.087 [Riv (DM)]: All right, so do you guys want to take 10-15 now and then we will tick off the errand list On the next half and figure out what we're doing. 01:23:59.651 --> 01:23:59.932 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure. 01:24:01.107 --> 01:24:10.054 [Riv (DM)]: There's also, I'll just throw into the mix, the Dwarves, right? 01:24:12.364 --> 01:24:13.065 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Woven Magic. 01:24:13.757 --> 01:24:16.479 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. So yeah, lots of paths we could take. 01:24:17.720 --> 01:24:22.825 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, anyway, Deathmouse, Lysa, you guys all good? Is there anything you wanted to finish off the session with? 01:24:24.760 --> 01:24:30.203 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I just want to say that every single time you say errand, it's really throwing me off. 01:24:24.966 --> 01:24:26.528 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, the girl is just like, 01:24:28.416 --> 01:24:36.979 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. Just, like, triggers you. Yeah. The girl's just, like, hanging from a chandelier at the moment, just, like, spinning in circles. 01:24:39.167 --> 01:24:42.028 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I am actively using my Mage Hand to spin her faster. 01:24:42.321 --> 01:24:50.804 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, no. Disaster. She's just laughing, like, faster, faster. Awesome. 01:24:50.381 --> 01:24:54.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just making the flames change colour with prestidigitation. ================= Session Break ================= 02:12:35.214 --> 02:12:37.635 [Riv (DM)]: All right. We're live now. 02:12:38.995 --> 02:12:39.135 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:12:43.792 --> 02:12:45.853 [Riv (DM)]: We've got plans or we're making plans. 02:12:49.315 --> 02:13:04.641 [Riv (DM)]: What are we going to do? So I think you're still, unless we want to skip forward a little bit, we're still in the room with Ayana and Illythia. And I think, yeah, I think you guys need to just sort of decide what direction we're heading in. 02:13:08.783 --> 02:13:12.204 [Riv (DM)]: Or items or grimoires or exploring the city. 02:13:18.852 --> 02:13:19.169 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Wow. 02:13:26.761 --> 02:13:31.595 [JC (Ryo)]: Let's get Dondarr to this teleportation circle while the other two keep Ellissa entertained. 02:13:37.988 --> 02:13:43.312 [Riv (DM)]: So should we do city errands? The teleportation circle will be at the Locus Arcanum. 02:13:44.654 --> 02:13:48.637 [Riv (DM)]: So Illy, you can take you there to get that transcribed. 02:13:55.262 --> 02:13:59.946 [Riv (DM)]: What else did you want to do? You wanted to go and see Sylvaris, Berberis? 02:14:00.708 --> 02:14:00.996 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mm-hmm. 02:14:02.488 --> 02:14:06.612 [Riv (DM)]: And Kai, you wanted to go to Circle of the Dawn? 02:14:08.388 --> 02:14:14.192 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not the Dawn, the Loom. Loom is the artifact crafting canton, right? 02:14:14.868 --> 02:14:15.189 [Riv (DM)]: Right. 02:14:16.273 --> 02:14:19.916 [Lacer (Kai)]: I need to do something with those hag arms, hag forearms. 02:14:16.590 --> 02:14:16.911 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:14:20.996 --> 02:14:21.316 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:14:24.360 --> 02:14:25.882 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. Should we do that? 02:14:25.828 --> 02:14:30.616 [JC (Ryo)]: Are we going to split completely or are we going to try and stick together as a two and a three man? 02:14:26.703 --> 02:14:27.424 [Riv (DM)]: You guys want to do that now? 02:14:33.652 --> 02:14:34.939 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Esserana's Hag Arms. 02:14:36.308 --> 02:14:42.548 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well, Erendor wants to, uh, go visit old, uh, Karnas Lavelle at the Diminished Trove. 02:14:37.235 --> 02:14:37.663 [Lacer (Kai)]: NPCs laugh. 02:14:45.396 --> 02:14:45.896 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:14:49.278 --> 02:14:49.558 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:14:52.339 --> 02:14:55.180 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. We're splitting up. Who wants to go first? 02:14:59.300 --> 02:15:00.200 [JC (Ryo)]: Who's staying with the kid? 02:15:07.652 --> 02:15:09.413 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Well, I guess the kids come in with me then. 02:15:12.408 --> 02:15:15.843 [Riv (DM)]: All right, sweet. What are you off to the Magic Shop for? 02:15:18.458 --> 02:15:28.203 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I... two things. Since I didn't get a chance to have the amulet looked at properly last time, we were so rudely interrupted. 02:15:29.404 --> 02:15:42.054 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I would like to have Lavelle have a look at that, and I would also like to let them see the Ember Blade. Now, after last time they saw it. 02:15:43.388 --> 02:15:45.769 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. 02:15:47.350 --> 02:15:51.972 [Riv (DM)]: Are you okay to sort of hand wave, or would you like to play it out? 02:15:52.739 --> 02:15:53.580 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Happy to hand wave. 02:15:54.233 --> 02:15:54.753 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. 02:15:56.033 --> 02:16:03.096 [Riv (DM)]: So Arcanus Level, she's a more elderly lady. You can go and see her. So you've got the little kid in tow as well. 02:16:04.317 --> 02:16:17.334 [Riv (DM)]: Probably knew she, I mean, she probably caught an eyebrow at one point, seeing as you didn't have a child last time, but... She doesn't ask questions. She's here for business. What about the amulet? 02:16:22.237 --> 02:16:25.479 [Riv (DM)]: I think that, yeah, let me see. I'll give it a roll. 02:16:28.880 --> 02:16:31.822 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, fuck. I rolled a 19. 02:16:32.842 --> 02:16:35.184 [Riv (DM)]: On the dice, so huge bonuses. 02:16:39.244 --> 02:16:50.768 [Riv (DM)]: So there aren't like any other magical properties that you don't already know about. Like what's listed on the item is accurate. Actually, sorry, let me check one thing. 02:16:52.188 --> 02:17:04.894 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, because the only reason that I'm kind of feeling not so great about it is when we were showing it at the... Oh my god, I'm blanking on the name of it. 02:17:06.374 --> 02:17:16.259 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Where all the floating buildings and what's-his-face was looking at it and trying to recognize it. Mentioned Underdark. 02:17:17.272 --> 02:17:17.732 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:17:17.599 --> 02:17:19.380 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That makes me uncomfortable. 02:17:20.434 --> 02:17:25.937 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. 02:17:30.680 --> 02:17:33.201 [Riv (DM)]: I... Total lie. 02:17:34.422 --> 02:17:45.348 [Riv (DM)]: There is more to it than what is currently listed on the thing. I think she isn't quite able to discern exactly. She finds that there is... 02:17:46.788 --> 02:17:56.913 [Riv (DM)]: There's some sort of dormant or latent power that was sort of imbued in it, and it doesn't feel arcane in nature. 02:17:58.413 --> 02:18:11.139 [Riv (DM)]: It feels like some different entity, some greater entity might have sort of imbued it. You know, it doesn't have the typical hallmarks of like an enchanted item. 02:18:13.408 --> 02:18:22.556 [Riv (DM)]: Isn't able to pierce through to find out exactly what these additional features are, but I think she just says be careful with it. 02:18:23.797 --> 02:18:31.003 [Riv (DM)]: In terms of the whole Underdark thing, I don't know how much she would know about it, to be honest. 02:18:36.107 --> 02:18:37.228 [Riv (DM)]: I guess she did roll a 19. 02:18:39.430 --> 02:18:40.331 [Riv (DM)]: I think maybe she... 02:18:43.456 --> 02:18:48.618 [Riv (DM)]: Has a memory that gets recalled or she's seen some other item or something like that. 02:18:49.859 --> 02:18:51.019 [Riv (DM)]: There's definitely something. 02:18:54.120 --> 02:19:00.223 [Riv (DM)]: The magic is definitely from from the deep places, whether it was created there or. 02:18:58.780 --> 02:19:00.542 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Makes sense considering who we got it from. 02:19:01.283 --> 02:19:01.643 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:19:03.924 --> 02:19:09.847 [Riv (DM)]: So, yeah, is it we looking for kind of something else more specific or just confirmation that. 02:19:07.468 --> 02:19:23.041 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: No, no, like... No, I mean, that kind of matches, like... Yep, it's from that place, it's not from somewhere else and just happened to come through from someone. 02:19:12.468 --> 02:19:12.648 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:19:16.548 --> 02:19:16.868 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah. 02:19:24.642 --> 02:19:27.104 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, kind of matches what I was expecting. 02:19:27.833 --> 02:19:38.617 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I guess the new information is that there is more to it. This expert enchanter isn't able to uncover what those things are. 02:19:40.738 --> 02:19:44.620 [Riv (DM)]: And she feels a little bit nervous about it. So maybe just be cautious. 02:19:45.252 --> 02:19:45.852 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Cuckoo Cuckoo. 02:19:46.624 --> 02:19:57.987 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. With the Ember Blade, immediate, immediate revelation that it has grown and changed since she last saw it. 02:19:59.868 --> 02:20:02.608 [Riv (DM)]: She can tell that something has awoken within it. 02:20:05.769 --> 02:20:08.610 [Riv (DM)]: I think she recommended you to start channeling your magic through it. 02:20:08.084 --> 02:20:08.584 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: She did. 02:20:09.350 --> 02:20:15.852 [Riv (DM)]: And clearly that has changed something. Yeah. And she sees all of the new powers that it has given you. 02:20:18.824 --> 02:20:21.226 [Riv (DM)]: And she's kind of like... 02:20:24.107 --> 02:20:25.568 [Riv (DM)]: Still haven't changed your mind on selling it? 02:20:27.656 --> 02:20:33.779 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, I can assure you, if I ever decide that I want to, you're top of the list. 02:20:34.914 --> 02:20:37.516 [Riv (DM)]: She rubs hands together. Amazing. She'll hold you to that. 02:20:40.298 --> 02:20:43.680 [Riv (DM)]: Was there anything around the blade that you wanted checked out in particular? 02:20:45.005 --> 02:20:50.388 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh, nothing in particular. I just wanted to show her, considering it was on her recommendation. 02:20:50.956 --> 02:21:01.762 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. Yeah, cool. That is good. And I think that kind of warms you to her a bit. And she's kind of pleased that she was able to help uncover a bit of mystery there. 02:21:04.544 --> 02:21:05.704 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. All right. 02:21:06.805 --> 02:21:11.528 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a perception check to see if you spot the little girl getting up to mischief. 02:21:23.144 --> 02:21:38.093 [Riv (DM)]: She's just kind of, yeah, you catch her at one point. She's wandered over to the side of the wall and she's sort of digging through a little box, pulling out, there's like a box here of vials of liquid. And yeah, and you spot her doing it. 02:21:39.634 --> 02:21:49.500 [Riv (DM)]: And as you do, as you go over to her, the lady's like, she kind of laughs a bit. She says, oh, that's a, that's a box of defunct potions. 02:21:50.836 --> 02:22:07.570 [Riv (DM)]: They're all kind of mislabeled. Don't really know what each one is. I'd be a bit careful with those. It's sort of like a help yourself expired potion box. 02:22:01.228 --> 02:22:02.117 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmhmhmhm. 02:22:03.286 --> 02:22:04.771 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Free potion for the kiddies! 02:22:07.670 --> 02:22:09.732 [Riv (DM)]: You can stop here from pocketing one. 02:22:11.124 --> 02:22:30.920 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I will allow her to take one. We'll find out what she uses it for later. 02:22:14.515 --> 02:22:15.036 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. 02:22:20.184 --> 02:22:27.491 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I guess she holds on to it and I don't think she's going to drink it. She'll just hold on to it for now. 02:22:28.992 --> 02:22:30.433 [Riv (DM)]: She's got a bit of a cheeky smile. 02:22:31.715 --> 02:22:32.095 [Riv (DM)]: We shall. 02:22:33.356 --> 02:22:36.999 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. Should we do the Fundament Canton now? 02:22:40.140 --> 02:22:41.841 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's me. 02:22:41.263 --> 02:22:41.724 [Riv (DM)]: There's you. 02:22:42.421 --> 02:22:54.007 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, sure. I would like to head to find, to seek Master Artisan Fenian. Is it? 02:22:55.541 --> 02:22:57.002 [Riv (DM)]: At the Blacksmith, you mean? 02:23:06.944 --> 02:23:11.726 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought that an artisan would be better. Like, would a blacksmith help me with the haggard? 02:23:11.114 --> 02:23:15.198 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I'm not sure. I'm just, I'm wondering who you're after. Oh, you're after Meridian. 02:23:16.739 --> 02:23:17.500 [Riv (DM)]: Meridian Fenian. 02:23:18.149 --> 02:23:18.509 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:23:19.808 --> 02:23:21.729 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh, okay. 02:23:25.050 --> 02:23:26.751 [Riv (DM)]: How would you go about trying to find him? 02:23:28.353 --> 02:23:33.976 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll go down and I'll ask the city guards how I would find or arrange a... 02:23:35.872 --> 02:23:41.050 [Lacer (Kai)]: A simple meeting with the Meridian Fenian. 02:23:43.518 --> 02:23:44.478 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, um... 02:23:48.440 --> 02:23:49.140 [Riv (DM)]: I think that... 02:23:50.408 --> 02:23:55.351 [Riv (DM)]: Just roll a persuasion check for me. Let's see how well you're able to talk your way through. 02:23:57.132 --> 02:24:09.480 [Riv (DM)]: Just bear in mind that you can't really just walk up and ask to meet the leader unless, you know, you're... Like if you're all like Rio with you, maybe, or something like that. 02:24:09.388 --> 02:24:14.274 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, right, because I'm a random person. Um, sure, I'd like to... Yep. 02:24:11.861 --> 02:24:14.823 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. Look at it from their perspective, I guess, right? Bunch of guards. 02:24:15.835 --> 02:24:21.561 [Lacer (Kai)]: If not, I would try and find, yeah, a, um, either an apothecary or... 02:24:16.064 --> 02:24:16.444 [Riv (DM)]: Dude's like... 02:24:21.862 --> 02:24:27.688 [Lacer (Kai)]: In the Fundament Canton, they'll have places that do alchemy and stuff, right? 02:24:29.704 --> 02:24:41.629 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, so no, not so much alchemy. If you're looking for alchemy, you're probably more likely to find it in Greensward or even Aetherian, like more likely to be the mages. 02:24:41.600 --> 02:24:42.181 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 02:24:42.830 --> 02:24:46.051 [Riv (DM)]: The Fundament game is all about like physical architecture and construction. 02:24:46.105 --> 02:24:47.427 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, it's architecture. 02:24:46.311 --> 02:24:50.733 [Riv (DM)]: It's the, yeah, these are the ones who've designed and maintained the city. 02:24:47.987 --> 02:24:48.308 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 02:24:50.913 --> 02:24:51.993 [Riv (DM)]: They build the aqueducts. 02:24:53.334 --> 02:24:57.296 [Riv (DM)]: They, you know, design the enchantments of the floating structures and things like that. 02:24:53.674 --> 02:24:53.834 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah. 02:24:57.656 --> 02:24:57.816 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:24:58.680 --> 02:24:59.000 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 02:24:58.712 --> 02:25:14.437 [Riv (DM)]: Like, the nexus is like this big, like, floating, like, permanently scaffold structure with, like, gears clicking and turning and clocks that are spinning and stuff like that. Yeah, it's very much a machine-y kind of canton. 02:25:14.364 --> 02:25:25.214 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess I would have asked the guards where I'd find a place to, I guess, craft magic items. I guess they would have told me go back where I came. 02:25:24.380 --> 02:25:24.660 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:25:25.976 --> 02:25:31.037 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, you probably would have wanted to go with Erendor to see the Diminished Trove Lady, right? 02:25:31.840 --> 02:25:32.941 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right, yeah. 02:25:32.538 --> 02:25:34.178 [Riv (DM)]: If you're looking for enchantments. 02:25:36.464 --> 02:25:40.127 [Lacer (Kai)]: I actually want to do like two things. I would like to go back to the... 02:25:41.620 --> 02:25:44.282 [Lacer (Kai)]: A tattoo shop to purchase a tattoo needle. 02:25:45.903 --> 02:25:47.384 [Lacer (Kai)]: And some holy water. 02:25:46.022 --> 02:25:54.404 [Riv (DM)]: OK, yeah. OK. Holy Water you'll probably get from Luminary Canton. 02:25:58.072 --> 02:26:08.620 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or I can just get... As in... 02:25:58.917 --> 02:26:01.097 [Riv (DM)]: And what do you mean by holy water? 02:26:04.676 --> 02:26:05.497 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What are with holes in it? 02:26:10.116 --> 02:26:20.121 [Lacer (Kai)]: Because I can craft it if I had silver powder with the ceremony spell, but let me check. 02:26:21.085 --> 02:26:30.886 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think you'll find it's unlikely that you would find shops just selling holy water here. They're not a particularly religious society. 02:26:27.924 --> 02:26:28.425 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 02:26:30.365 --> 02:26:33.007 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, they're not religious. So I'll look for... 02:26:32.548 --> 02:26:35.650 [Riv (DM)]: Their religion is the World Tree. There might be. 02:26:35.328 --> 02:26:35.588 [Lacer (Kai)]: True. 02:26:35.810 --> 02:26:50.402 [Riv (DM)]: There might be some people who are kind of like heretic-ish and there are little pockets of them that worship the actual cosmic gods. But yeah, officially the city is... Yeah. 02:26:46.200 --> 02:27:03.426 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it's the World Tree that I've seen the tree everywhere. So I guess I would have gone to the tattoo place in the Intherian Canton and asked if I could purchase powdered silver, like maybe a hundred gold worth of powder. So if not, I'd go back to that shop that Erendor's at. 02:27:04.948 --> 02:27:06.329 [Riv (DM)]: Roll investigation check. 02:27:08.807 --> 02:27:10.668 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh no, this is not good. 02:27:14.151 --> 02:27:15.611 [Riv (DM)]: Oh no, yeah, your investigation is not good. 02:27:16.831 --> 02:27:26.234 [Riv (DM)]: So the tattoo place doesn't sell silver powder, unfortunately. And they're not sure exactly where you would find it either. 02:27:28.014 --> 02:27:32.536 [Riv (DM)]: Here in the Feywild, precious metals like this are a little bit more complicated than 02:27:34.136 --> 02:27:40.099 [Riv (DM)]: Back on the material realm. It's not that they don't exist. You could potentially find someone. 02:27:41.604 --> 02:27:42.684 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just rare, maybe. 02:27:41.720 --> 02:27:44.702 [Riv (DM)]: But, yeah, metal's complicated. 02:27:46.766 --> 02:27:47.486 [Lacer (Kai)]: Interesting. 02:27:46.863 --> 02:27:51.846 [Riv (DM)]: For fae creatures, metal is a bit of a tricky one, which you could potentially try to learn about. 02:27:51.728 --> 02:27:54.729 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's OK. I might have to go back to the Material Realm to find it. 02:27:55.790 --> 02:28:00.412 [Lacer (Kai)]: But can I see if they've got any tattooing needles that I could purchase? Just one. 02:28:00.980 --> 02:28:04.103 [Riv (DM)]: 100%, yeah, this was the place that you got your previous tattoo from, right? 02:28:04.433 --> 02:28:04.653 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:28:05.284 --> 02:28:07.605 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah, 100%, like five silver, easy. 02:28:08.775 --> 02:28:10.096 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okey-doke. No problem. 02:28:11.096 --> 02:28:15.197 [Lacer (Kai)]: By the Needle, thank them and I'll head to the shop Erendor's at. 02:28:16.893 --> 02:28:26.100 [Riv (DM)]: Just as you're digging through the crate of expired potions, tiny little magical doorbell rings and Kai walks in. 02:28:30.362 --> 02:28:31.542 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorry, was it five silver? 02:28:30.384 --> 02:28:30.684 [Riv (DM)]: What are you? 02:28:33.142 --> 02:28:33.702 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, cool. 02:28:35.343 --> 02:28:38.744 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hello, hello. Fancy seeing you here, Erendor. 02:28:41.508 --> 02:28:46.823 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Quick nod while I go back to making sure that she's not gonna drink any right now. 02:28:47.754 --> 02:28:48.585 [Riv (DM)]: Juggling a child. 02:28:48.284 --> 02:29:16.004 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, have a quick look at that and then I would head to the counter and ask if I could. I suppose I'm going to explain to the lady at the desk that I would like to help to purify a specific item that we got from the... Where did we go again? The... 02:29:19.461 --> 02:29:20.247 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Elevaternal Knight. 02:29:20.788 --> 02:29:34.911 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, the veil. From the veil. Yeah, so I'm gonna dip my hand into the Bag of Holding and unwrap these two hag arms and ask her if we could purify these. 02:29:40.170 --> 02:29:51.397 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean, she kind of like wrinkles her nose a bit and steps back and she's like, quite nasty, quite nasty. What have you got there? Put them on the bench. You can lay them out. 02:29:52.577 --> 02:29:57.080 [Riv (DM)]: She pulls down one of her, sort of like a little magnifying glass thing to look at them a bit closer. 02:29:59.621 --> 02:30:03.864 [Riv (DM)]: Looks like a pair of arms. So what exactly can I do to help here? 02:30:05.220 --> 02:30:17.513 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like to harvest the bones from the arms, or mainly just the hands, so I can use them for an augury spell that I've learnt recently. 02:30:18.614 --> 02:30:26.803 [Lacer (Kai)]: But besides that, I was wondering, since these arms came from a powerful hag that's hopefully long gone, 02:30:28.728 --> 02:30:35.010 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was wondering if there was any other use for it, like if we could use the skin to make hand wraps or something. I don't know. 02:30:35.832 --> 02:30:36.381 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Discourse. 02:30:36.190 --> 02:30:37.931 [Lacer (Kai)]: Something... I don't know. 02:30:40.826 --> 02:30:41.110 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 02:30:42.216 --> 02:30:49.064 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: At this, uh, Erendora's going to turn around and just, like, mouth open, what the fuck? 02:30:50.195 --> 02:31:08.392 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hey, these are precious. I guess they're... Rare precious materials now, I suppose. You don't just come across arms of a, I don't know, super old hag that's been practicing dark magics for long before I was born. 02:31:09.613 --> 02:31:25.564 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then the flesh and the skin are really tough. They're really hard to cut through. I'm guessing they would be able to turn into some sort of magical item that could empower strength or something. I don't know. I'm not too sure. I'm just wondering. What they could be used for. 02:31:32.946 --> 02:31:45.716 [Riv (DM)]: I was starting to wonder if a psychopath had just walked into my shop when you were asking to turn some skin into hand wraps. 02:31:33.921 --> 02:31:35.938 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: An alternative to Grounds Target Penis. 02:31:47.518 --> 02:31:52.562 [Riv (DM)]: I see what you're getting at. You were wondering if there's any latent energy still lingering in the tissues. 02:31:53.444 --> 02:31:53.744 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes. 02:31:53.663 --> 02:31:56.125 [Riv (DM)]: Well, it is possible. 02:31:57.946 --> 02:31:59.708 [Riv (DM)]: It depends entirely upon how the 02:32:02.789 --> 02:32:04.750 [Riv (DM)]: NPCs in Sumara. 02:32:15.258 --> 02:32:15.738 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure. 02:32:17.099 --> 02:32:28.878 [Lacer (Kai)]: I could... Cast a spell on them to prevent them from rotting for 10 days if you wanted me to, unless you know of a spell like that? 02:32:29.920 --> 02:32:36.195 [Riv (DM)]: If you don't do it yourself, I would certainly find a colleague who would be able to do it. Best to keep these things well preserved. 02:32:38.306 --> 02:32:38.807 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure. 02:32:40.949 --> 02:32:44.112 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's that spell that I had that could... 02:32:49.304 --> 02:32:52.746 [Lacer (Kai)]: This is a problem when you have too many spells and you can't remember which one it was. 02:32:53.821 --> 02:32:54.504 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Mm-hmm. 02:32:55.871 --> 02:32:58.203 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: They preserve the Hag-I-Am spell. 02:33:01.533 --> 02:33:05.315 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, that one. But I'm trying to find it. Yes. 02:33:14.054 --> 02:33:15.503 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh, Gentle Repose? 02:33:17.444 --> 02:33:46.740 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's just hard to remember that one. Yes, the question is, do I even have that in my spell? Where is it? Oh, it's a second level spell. Yes, I would like to cast Gentle Repose with two pieces of copper on the arms, and I will draw out a ritual circle. And I spend 10 minutes casting Gentle Repose to prevent these arms from going bad 02:33:48.452 --> 02:33:49.253 [Lacer (Kai)]: For 10 days. 02:33:48.688 --> 02:33:51.710 [Riv (DM)]: All right. Cool. Is that a ritual, is it? 02:33:51.734 --> 02:33:53.035 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it's a ritual cast. 02:33:55.032 --> 02:33:55.412 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 02:33:56.893 --> 02:34:08.861 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. Easy. Yeah, it can be done. The copper sort of starts to almost start smoking and it sort of circles and unwraps the arms and almost like forms into the flesh. 02:34:10.142 --> 02:34:12.704 [Riv (DM)]: The copper doesn't degrade and so the arms will not either. 02:34:14.104 --> 02:34:16.146 [Riv (DM)]: Until the magic fades. All right, cool. 02:34:17.271 --> 02:34:17.992 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure, yeah. 02:34:17.507 --> 02:34:24.212 [Riv (DM)]: She takes them, kind of like tosses them over her shoulder a bit as she walks out to the back room and you're placing them down somewhere. 02:34:26.134 --> 02:34:31.718 [Riv (DM)]: All right, cool. You can come and check in later. Nice. 02:34:30.404 --> 02:34:30.645 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure. 02:34:32.168 --> 02:34:36.879 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess I go over to Erendor and help keep an eye on our little companion. 02:34:38.764 --> 02:34:38.984 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:34:40.085 --> 02:34:40.405 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 02:34:41.466 --> 02:34:52.735 [Riv (DM)]: Berberis is making his way down to Greensward Canton. Past all of the bioluminescent forests and the druidic groves, the plantations. Where's Berbera's heading? 02:34:54.729 --> 02:35:00.954 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm seeking out, I can't remember the name, the Meridian of the Green. 02:35:02.363 --> 02:35:02.964 [Riv (DM)]: Sylvaris? 02:35:03.376 --> 02:35:04.297 [Vael (Berberis)]: That's it, Sylvaris. 02:35:04.685 --> 02:35:07.928 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:35:05.478 --> 02:35:07.160 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm several Scotchessians, it's been a long week. 02:35:11.448 --> 02:35:37.127 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. Yeah, you were here actually a day or so earlier. You went down and you found her in her home, sort of like the Nexus itself is like a very hard to distinguish between whether it's a building or part of the landscape, like trees just like growing into it and out of it. I think since you were here already, you possibly have an okay time getting in this time as opposed to Kai. 02:35:41.768 --> 02:35:42.748 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, you know what? 02:35:44.329 --> 02:35:48.130 [Riv (DM)]: I think they would probably direct you. She's currently out at the moment in the fields. 02:35:49.470 --> 02:35:55.492 [Riv (DM)]: Probably pretty close to the tree. I think you planted a tree from memory? 02:35:55.833 --> 02:35:56.023 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yup. 02:35:56.832 --> 02:36:09.476 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she's out by the tree. And so you can head out there and find her. All around you. This is in the middle, like the nexus, or I should say a confluence of several paths that meet here in the middle of these 02:36:10.480 --> 02:36:20.067 [Riv (DM)]: Crops and fields and there are people out here sort of tending to them. They're all quite happy and simple folk and yeah she's out here as well. She hears and sees you approaching, turns. 02:36:24.932 --> 02:36:26.694 [Vael (Berberis)]: Howdy, howdy. How goes the growing? 02:36:28.732 --> 02:36:34.276 [Riv (DM)]: Well the tree seems to be holding its own well so far. I keep an eye on it every day. 02:36:36.222 --> 02:36:43.368 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was curious how a material tree would grow here, but I guess it's all the same same, just a slightly different setup. 02:36:44.452 --> 02:36:47.114 [Riv (DM)]: Well, that's the thing. We've always had problems. 02:36:48.495 --> 02:36:58.543 [Riv (DM)]: At least when it comes to food. Yeah, we shall see with this tree. Maybe something about your magic in particular will give it a bit of an edge. 02:37:00.996 --> 02:37:06.902 [Vael (Berberis)]: I think the issue would be the day-night cycle, but we'll see. 02:37:04.568 --> 02:37:04.828 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:37:06.922 --> 02:37:15.551 [Vael (Berberis)]: Actually, we just returned from a little trip up north. I'm sure you'll be hearing details of it soon enough. 02:37:16.672 --> 02:37:18.273 [Vael (Berberis)]: This word trickles down through the council. 02:37:20.676 --> 02:37:24.480 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, some details, if you haven't heard already. 02:37:20.964 --> 02:37:21.364 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:37:26.410 --> 02:37:26.830 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing yet. 02:37:29.053 --> 02:37:33.898 [Riv (DM)]: I recall when last we discussed you were very interested in the Queen. 02:37:35.700 --> 02:37:43.168 [Riv (DM)]: I assume you were successful in your travels? Did you find what you were looking for? 02:37:44.620 --> 02:37:55.051 [Vael (Berberis)]: To some degree, we found information, found trouble, found a bit of both, and brought a bit of both back, but we'll see. 02:37:56.580 --> 02:37:56.980 [Riv (DM)]: That's good. 02:37:58.182 --> 02:38:01.725 [Riv (DM)]: Anything that we can rub old Caelyn's face in? 02:38:03.359 --> 02:38:07.804 [Vael (Berberis)]: He's actually in a great mood at the moment. He's had a wonderful reuniting with his son. 02:38:09.213 --> 02:38:16.500 [Riv (DM)]: You might as well be saying the sky is falling. That guy in a good mood. Hmm. 02:38:14.072 --> 02:38:15.172 [Vael (Berberis)]: Well, as good as he gets. 02:38:18.213 --> 02:38:24.335 [Vael (Berberis)]: Suffice to say, he might be a little bit more amenable to the idea of things changing. 02:38:26.948 --> 02:38:31.230 [Riv (DM)]: It is good news. 02:38:30.757 --> 02:38:35.579 [Vael (Berberis)]: I discovered something while I was up north. 02:38:31.570 --> 02:38:32.430 [Riv (DM)]: What can I do to help you? 02:38:35.619 --> 02:38:38.220 [Vael (Berberis)]: I thought you might like to take a bit of a look at it. 02:38:40.165 --> 02:38:45.394 [Vael (Berberis)]: Maybe give me a bit of assistance with some adjustments and I'll pull out the big fancy stick. 02:38:49.041 --> 02:38:50.244 [Vael (Berberis)]: Staff of the Woodlands. 02:38:50.798 --> 02:38:51.179 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:38:52.639 --> 02:38:52.859 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:38:58.148 --> 02:38:58.708 [Riv (DM)]: Quick roll. 02:39:01.269 --> 02:39:01.489 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:39:02.689 --> 02:39:11.472 [Riv (DM)]: She doesn't recognize it. There's a chance she did, but she doesn't recognize this particular one. She sort of like gently takes it from you and looks it over. 02:39:14.172 --> 02:39:20.574 [Riv (DM)]: It's powerful. You can feel that, right? 02:39:17.148 --> 02:39:18.929 [Vael (Berberis)]: Mm-hmm. Very much so. 02:39:20.594 --> 02:39:21.474 [Riv (DM)]: It almost hums. 02:39:22.535 --> 02:39:27.296 [Riv (DM)]: It's like... Yeah. It's like it's almost waiting to... 02:39:28.864 --> 02:39:44.231 [Riv (DM)]: Release its energy into the world. It's growing. It's yearning. Yeah. 02:39:36.577 --> 02:39:42.920 [Vael (Berberis)]: It's proven itself quite useful on the way back. It's definitely got a few fun little tricks inside it. 02:39:47.100 --> 02:39:47.520 [Vael (Berberis)]: My... 02:39:51.701 --> 02:40:01.284 [Vael (Berberis)]: I was going to say, my issue with it, unfortunately, is a little bit more frivolous, I would guess. And I pull out my old staff of the flowers. 02:40:01.977 --> 02:40:02.100 [Riv (DM)]: Mm. 02:40:04.966 --> 02:40:10.167 [Vael (Berberis)]: I grew quite attached to this old toy. It was given to me by someone quite important. 02:40:12.188 --> 02:40:12.528 [Vael (Berberis)]: And, uh... 02:40:13.652 --> 02:40:25.984 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm loath to discard it in favour of something more powerful purely because of sentiment, but it is hard to pass up on what this other one can offer, and I gest it to the staff of the woodlands. 02:40:28.707 --> 02:40:37.876 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm curious if someone with your expertise in making things work in weird ways in terms of nature would know how to graph these two together. 02:40:43.073 --> 02:40:46.534 [Riv (DM)]: Let me have a look at this other one. She also grabs the staff of flowers. 02:40:47.574 --> 02:40:53.816 [Riv (DM)]: And this is one that you can use. It's like a normal quarterstaff except you can use it to grow blossoms or something. 02:40:54.060 --> 02:40:55.483 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yeah, it's like 10 charges. 02:40:55.576 --> 02:40:55.917 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:40:56.585 --> 02:40:58.209 [Vael (Berberis)]: Flowers just pop out of it, ornamentally. 02:40:57.977 --> 02:40:58.697 [Riv (DM)]: Get them back a day. 02:40:59.411 --> 02:40:59.612 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep. 02:40:59.518 --> 02:41:09.956 [Riv (DM)]: The enchantment is quite similar actually. It seems to grow every day. So that's... Good news, it means they're compatible. 02:41:13.357 --> 02:41:18.259 [Riv (DM)]: I can teach you. I think it's probably better if you do it yourself. I can help guide you. 02:41:21.140 --> 02:41:31.622 [Riv (DM)]: I detect in both of them a yearning to become or almost return to the nature from which they were sprung. 02:41:34.523 --> 02:41:36.784 [Riv (DM)]: I think there's a way that you could try and speak to them. 02:41:37.900 --> 02:41:48.389 [Riv (DM)]: And with this one, and she taps this off the woodlands, you've noticed its willingness to revert back to its original form, don't you? Could become a tree. 02:41:48.085 --> 02:41:51.167 [Vael (Berberis)]: Oh yeah, it's coming quite handy actually. 02:41:48.409 --> 02:42:20.750 [Riv (DM)]: You should try sitting with them for a few hours, meditate on them, in the same way that you might sort of cultivate a new sapling, allow them to be together to Join the energies together. And then when you feel an understanding, a binding between them, make this one into a tree. And you might find that they splice together. 02:42:24.868 --> 02:42:25.748 [Vael (Berberis)]: Definitely worth a shot. 02:42:27.232 --> 02:42:33.755 [Riv (DM)]: Just listen to them. They will let you know. I think from what I'm hearing from them... 02:42:37.444 --> 02:42:55.596 [Riv (DM)]: It seems compatible to me. Unlike to work with any other type of stuff, but this one, they almost seem related. Cool. 02:42:44.796 --> 02:42:47.117 [Vael (Berberis)]: That was my thinking. They're both within the same school. 02:42:50.939 --> 02:42:53.240 [Vael (Berberis)]: I appreciate your insight. I will definitely give that a go. 02:42:55.616 --> 02:42:56.757 [Riv (DM)]: Hey, let me know how it goes. 02:43:00.789 --> 02:43:01.615 [Vael (Berberis)]: And I give up. 02:43:01.060 --> 02:43:06.764 [Riv (DM)]: She's quite a lot like you, by the way. 02:43:07.916 --> 02:43:36.092 [Riv (DM)]: She's a slightly shorter Elven woman, slightly shorter than you. She's got long brown hair, dark skin. But similar to you, she's just covered in leaves and branches and stuff like that. Her hair is like a mess, a tangle of branches and leaves. She clearly just prefers it that way. Yeah, and I think you see fondness for you growing across her face. And she gives you a smile. And I think she genuinely, you pick up, she genuinely wants to see how it goes. 02:43:37.472 --> 02:43:47.318 [Riv (DM)]: I think you probably get the vibe that she could probably just do it. But, you know, I think she likes the idea of helping to grow or helping other people to grow, you know? 02:43:48.484 --> 02:43:49.165 [Vael (Berberis)]: Yep, that's fair enough. 02:43:49.539 --> 02:43:57.124 [Riv (DM)]: Impossible to gauge your age. She could be centuries older than you. She could be younger than you. But, you know, that's how it goes. 02:43:58.752 --> 02:44:05.458 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'll just give her a nod. I appreciate your insight. She'll give it a bit of time and see how it goes. 02:44:07.416 --> 02:44:07.656 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:44:07.539 --> 02:44:12.704 [Vael (Berberis)]: I'm sure I'll see you at the soon-to-be-called council, because events are afoot. 02:44:14.603 --> 02:44:17.847 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, well, there's been more and more of those happening these days. 02:44:19.008 --> 02:44:19.729 [Riv (DM)]: Look forward to it. 02:44:20.580 --> 02:44:21.300 [Vael (Berberis)]: This change. 02:44:23.032 --> 02:44:30.300 [Riv (DM)]: Well, things don't change down here. No matter what happens up there, we still grow and they still need us to. 02:44:33.187 --> 02:44:48.876 [Vael (Berberis)]: We shall see. When the gates are open again to the material realm, maybe you'd fancy a holiday. I'm sure the northern groves of Vell Torah could be interesting once we deal with the bloody undead, but that's another story. 02:44:50.692 --> 02:44:54.215 [Riv (DM)]: Careful, don't make promises they might actually take you up on. 02:44:57.408 --> 02:44:59.733 [Vael (Berberis)]: Got to go out and see a few different things. 02:45:02.443 --> 02:45:04.144 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well, I'll look forward to it then. 02:45:06.328 --> 02:45:08.252 [Vael (Berberis)]: Give her a nod and back on out. 02:45:09.509 --> 02:45:09.749 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:45:11.090 --> 02:45:11.491 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 02:45:14.533 --> 02:45:17.216 [Riv (DM)]: Rio and Donda, what have you guys been up to? 02:45:21.688 --> 02:45:28.914 [Riv (DM)]: Donda, you went to the Locus Arcanum, I believe, to inscribe the teleportation circle. 02:45:30.776 --> 02:45:32.577 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That does sound like something I would do. 02:45:35.378 --> 02:45:39.462 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. Okay, that's fine. I think Illythia can take you there and help you with that. 02:45:40.502 --> 02:45:40.822 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Cool. 02:45:45.126 --> 02:45:47.648 [Riv (DM)]: Ryo, I guess I could... Say again, sorry? 02:45:45.145 --> 02:45:45.946 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How did we go? 02:45:48.527 --> 02:45:49.168 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How did it go? 02:45:50.972 --> 02:46:00.318 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, yeah, it just takes, once you see a circle, it just takes a small amount of time just to write it into your spell book so that you can remember it. 02:46:00.696 --> 02:46:12.600 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Let's hope nothing else is on my mind. 02:46:01.299 --> 02:46:10.966 [Riv (DM)]: I don't believe you need to make a roll for, actually, it's worth checking. I don't think you need to make a roll for if you can, yeah, something like that. 02:46:05.932 --> 02:46:07.390 [JC (Ryo)]: It's one minute of studying, isn't it? 02:46:10.986 --> 02:46:11.526 [Riv (DM)]: Teleport. 02:46:17.070 --> 02:46:19.912 [Riv (DM)]: No, it's not teleport, it's like spell circle or something, isn't it? 02:46:26.936 --> 02:46:28.818 [Riv (DM)]: You've got any spellbook, don't you? What is it called? 02:46:34.162 --> 02:46:35.162 [Riv (DM)]: Teleportation Circle. 02:46:37.884 --> 02:46:38.985 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, let's look. 02:46:48.531 --> 02:46:49.152 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it doesn't say. 02:46:55.872 --> 02:46:57.258 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: After studying it for one minute. 02:46:59.404 --> 02:47:00.554 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's pretty quick. 02:47:01.068 --> 02:47:03.271 [Riv (DM)]: It just goes straight into your memory. You don't even need to add it to your spellbook. 02:47:04.392 --> 02:47:16.108 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. Easy peasy. Easy peasy. So that then gives Rio a bit of time to burn. And you're alone, I guess, to ponder. What's Rio up to? 02:47:24.228 --> 02:47:35.838 [JC (Ryo)]: Just trying to figure out how, if there's, he doesn't think there's a way, but just pondering how he could possibly break this deal to not let her into the vault, but he thinks he's fucked either way. 02:47:42.478 --> 02:47:44.660 [Riv (DM)]: Well, that time is coming. 02:47:45.821 --> 02:47:46.761 [Riv (DM)]: Soon to make the decision. 02:47:45.987 --> 02:47:51.192 [JC (Ryo)]: Otherwise I would have taken Ayana to the teleport thing so she can go back. 02:47:53.307 --> 02:47:54.868 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, okay, you do want to do that now. 02:47:56.996 --> 02:48:01.377 [JC (Ryo)]: Need to do that before we go into the vault in case we end up from the vault straight to the Hells. 02:48:02.034 --> 02:48:02.574 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:48:04.076 --> 02:48:09.000 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. So I think, um... She's probably... 02:48:10.016 --> 02:48:19.021 [Riv (DM)]: A little bit like, oh, you know, she needs to get a few things ready. She needs to say goodbye to Illythia. Why don't we do that a bit later on? 02:48:20.082 --> 02:48:27.246 [Riv (DM)]: She says that she's going to retire back, collect her things, and... Yeah. 02:48:24.603 --> 02:48:26.164 [JC (Ryo)]: Of course, I ask if she's ready to go. 02:48:27.806 --> 02:48:48.826 [Riv (DM)]: No, I think she is. She probably won't stick around for the Confluence. She won't stick around for the Vault. Unless you need her to, but... She's getting an itch to go back. So yeah, why don't we say that the group all reconvenes back at the Citadel. Ayana and Illythia come as well. 02:48:50.007 --> 02:48:54.269 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, if you guys are all ready, you can head down to the gate. 02:48:58.172 --> 02:49:04.075 [Riv (DM)]: So the way to get to the gate, and she leads the way, is... 02:49:06.564 --> 02:49:29.883 [Riv (DM)]: We've all been through here before many times. You keep down the spiraling stair around the outside of the Hearthstone and that massive arched stone gateway into the side of it. It opens up. She kind of casts a quick spell and the massive big stone doors, these got 20, 30 feet tall, they sort of like grind and open up. 02:49:34.980 --> 02:50:26.838 [Riv (DM)]: I think she's holding hands with Illythia as she's coming down. Both of them are starting to look a little bit sad. I think Illythia is, you can kind of sense she's dragging her feet a bit, trying to make it, you know, last as long as possible. We enter this massive cavern that kind of looks like it's another room from inside the Vault of Memories, similar sort of walls. There are these large stone and arched Pillars, kind of like runes on them, sort of just faintly glowing. And in the center there is a kind of similar structure to the one that you saw back in Ithilmara, so much larger and much grander. If the one back in Ithilmara was like just a tiny little portal, this is a massive, like massive gateway. 02:50:28.018 --> 02:50:31.259 [Riv (DM)]: Dozens of people could go through this at once, maybe even hundreds. 02:50:32.780 --> 02:50:41.123 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, there is... Similar to previous, there is a little stone dais with a slot that appears to fit your ring. 02:50:47.992 --> 02:50:50.094 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wonder if Arendelle wants to give it a go. 02:51:00.052 --> 02:51:08.281 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: As interesting as it would be, I don't think I'm there. Or are we all there? 02:51:06.205 --> 02:51:07.786 [Lacer (Kai)]: Aren't we? I thought we all reconvened. 02:51:08.927 --> 02:51:09.708 [Lacer (Kai)]: Aren't we all back? 02:51:09.380 --> 02:51:14.503 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, I imagined you'd all reconvened at the Citadel because Ayana needed a bit of time to get her stuff. 02:51:14.607 --> 02:51:15.108 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yep, okay. 02:51:15.464 --> 02:51:37.216 [Riv (DM)]: And so by that point you would have all returned, yeah. So yeah, no, we're all here. The girl was here. Yeah, and you're all here. Ayana's got, like, more of a satchel. She's switched out her blue, silky Aetherian robes for her previously worn, sort of, tight black leathers. Her hair is done back up in the ponytail. She's got her half-moon glass on. 02:51:39.216 --> 02:51:42.058 [Riv (DM)]: And her ears are no longer elven looking. 02:51:44.661 --> 02:51:53.568 [Riv (DM)]: You can actually see her eyes starting to get just the faintest bit of red as she's standing there waiting, holding tightly to Illithia's hand. 02:51:57.031 --> 02:51:58.432 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, you're all here. 02:52:04.536 --> 02:52:28.176 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are we going back to? OK. We just have some loose ends in the Material Plane that we need to tidy up as well. 02:52:13.819 --> 02:52:14.062 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: No. 02:52:45.124 --> 02:52:46.604 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so what are we doing? 02:52:45.412 --> 02:52:46.703 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Welp, where we at? 02:52:47.845 --> 02:52:50.185 [Riv (DM)]: Is Ryo doing it or is Erendor doing it? 02:52:51.124 --> 02:52:58.760 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, no, I go to Ayana. Is it the same as the other one to turn this thing on? 02:53:00.168 --> 02:53:03.129 [Riv (DM)]: Should be much the same. Just place the ring and it should respond to you. 02:53:05.129 --> 02:53:09.571 [Riv (DM)]: Although you need to direct it with your mind. 02:53:10.611 --> 02:53:14.072 [Riv (DM)]: Easiest would probably be to go to Ethelmara again. 02:53:15.340 --> 02:53:25.823 [Riv (DM)]: As you know of the gateway on that side. If you... How much focus do you think you have at the moment? 02:53:30.144 --> 02:53:38.067 [Riv (DM)]: Part of driving this, and this will be good practice for you, part of driving this is your ability to concentrate on a particular location. 02:53:39.447 --> 02:53:42.328 [Riv (DM)]: And so that it will open us up the portal to the right place. 02:53:43.456 --> 02:53:46.859 [Riv (DM)]: If you're familiar with the place, with the location, it should be fine. 02:53:51.204 --> 02:53:54.085 [JC (Ryo)]: Let's do Ethelmara then, because I know of it. 02:53:56.587 --> 02:54:07.897 [Riv (DM)]: Well, you know of the gateway there, and so that will give us a guaranteed chance. You could open it directly to Vaelenoran, as you had spent a bit of time there, but it wouldn't be as guaranteed. We can go to Ifilmar, and I can get myself home. 02:54:08.370 --> 02:54:12.832 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I don't have to open it gate to gate? Or is there a gate in Vaelenoran? 02:54:11.420 --> 02:54:11.600 [Riv (DM)]: No. 02:54:14.308 --> 02:54:21.294 [Riv (DM)]: It's not a gate in Vaelenoran, but as you would recall when you opened it to come here, there was no gateway when we arrived, was there? 02:54:24.552 --> 02:54:29.844 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, we spend a fair bit of time at Val Noren. I'll send you straight there if you want to go straight there. 02:54:31.122 --> 02:54:34.104 [Riv (DM)]: You can try it if you like. It's just my life if it goes wrong. 02:54:36.612 --> 02:54:36.796 [Lacer (Kai)]: NPCs. 02:54:39.088 --> 02:54:41.110 [Riv (DM)]: She smiles a little bit. It's not that serious. 02:54:42.331 --> 02:54:43.732 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, we can try Vaelenoran. 02:54:46.296 --> 02:54:56.383 [Riv (DM)]: So what you need to do, focus on the area and try and focus on the part of Val Noren that you feel most familiar with. 02:54:58.064 --> 02:55:21.430 [Riv (DM)]: The more familiarity, the better. You need to concentrate on it when you place the ring in and almost sort of just channel the image of that place into the gateway. You'll feel the power starting to hum and draw upon you as it tries to validate who you are, tries to Get your impression while that's happening. Pass it the image of where you wish to go. 02:55:24.484 --> 02:55:26.506 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. 02:55:26.693 --> 02:55:38.059 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 02:55:26.926 --> 02:55:37.916 [JC (Ryo)]: I start to focus on Vaelenoran, specifically on the farmlands where I spent all day channeling that spell. 02:55:38.860 --> 02:55:39.380 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:55:40.824 --> 02:55:43.855 [Lacer (Kai)]: How about I give you some guidance from Saluna? 02:55:47.884 --> 02:55:51.426 [Riv (DM)]: Very good. Yeah, that is a place that you would be very familiar with. 02:55:52.787 --> 02:55:53.888 [Riv (DM)]: Amazing. Okay, cool. 02:55:53.781 --> 02:55:59.159 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I spent eight hours channeling and walking around that area while I was casting it, so... 02:56:00.112 --> 02:56:00.292 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:56:02.434 --> 02:56:04.015 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. All right, sweet. 02:56:07.877 --> 02:56:08.518 [Riv (DM)]: Place the ring in. 02:56:09.839 --> 02:56:11.100 [Riv (DM)]: I'll get you to roll me a d100. 02:56:15.156 --> 02:56:16.617 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: 100 worlds we could end up in. 02:56:30.080 --> 02:56:33.141 [Riv (DM)]: And you can do a d4 for guidance on top of it. 02:56:34.500 --> 02:56:35.678 [JC (Ryo)]: But I wrote the funny number. 02:56:35.762 --> 02:56:40.323 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, just in case you, if you didn't want to change the 69, that's all good. 02:56:37.707 --> 02:56:38.552 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ha ha ha ha! 02:56:41.363 --> 02:56:55.668 [Riv (DM)]: Amazing. All right, cool. Yeah, so the ring goes in, the sort of like, you almost feel like a tug at your essence. It feels like it's kind of scanning you or drawing some sort of energy from you or something. 02:56:56.952 --> 02:57:04.896 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, this huge sort of stone structure that's behind the dais starts to glow. All the runes like whirl into life. 02:57:06.377 --> 02:57:10.598 [Riv (DM)]: And the central part, it's sort of like a, how do you describe it? 02:57:11.799 --> 02:57:22.604 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of like an arched block of stone and a big seam runs down the center and it splits open. And as it splits open, you can see 02:57:23.784 --> 02:57:28.645 [Riv (DM)]: It is very similar to the portal that you came through this time to get to the Feywild. 02:57:30.206 --> 02:57:32.867 [Riv (DM)]: There is a different world through it. 02:57:35.967 --> 02:57:38.728 [Riv (DM)]: Colder. Yeah, it's snow. 02:57:40.629 --> 02:57:42.029 [Riv (DM)]: Looks like you were bang on. 02:57:43.269 --> 02:57:46.890 [Riv (DM)]: You can actually see those fields now sort of swaying in the wind through it. 02:57:48.871 --> 02:57:51.752 [Riv (DM)]: And Ayana takes a deep breath, sighs. 02:57:53.368 --> 02:58:04.331 [Riv (DM)]: She turns to face Illythia, embraces, gives her a big kiss, and you hear Illythia say, Keep in contact this time. 02:58:05.372 --> 02:58:13.314 [Riv (DM)]: I'll be expecting to hear from you and I'll see you very soon. Ayana nods and she goes invisible. 02:58:15.195 --> 02:58:19.616 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear the footsteps as they sort of pass away from you, goes through the portal. 02:58:21.432 --> 02:58:25.415 [Riv (DM)]: You see the footsteps start to just appear in the snow out in the fields through and beyond. 02:58:26.435 --> 02:58:28.517 [Riv (DM)]: And the footsteps kind of turn to face you. 02:58:31.118 --> 02:58:36.542 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and you do hear a voice that's going to say, Thank you, Rio. It's okay. You can close it now. 02:58:41.793 --> 02:58:46.147 [JC (Ryo)]: I guess I start to pull away and drop my focus. 02:58:47.529 --> 02:59:00.070 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you need to take the ring out. You take the ring out and... Yeah, the big stone arch in the central room just kind of grinds closed again and the portal disappears. And Ayana is gone. 02:59:03.772 --> 02:59:06.854 [Riv (DM)]: You see Illythia's eyes have gone slightly red as well. 02:59:09.436 --> 02:59:20.944 [Riv (DM)]: Faint tear rolling down the side of her cheek as she wipes away quickly. Stands up, takes a deep breath, holds her chin proudly. All right. 02:59:23.332 --> 02:59:23.892 [JC (Ryo)]: We'll be back. 02:59:26.584 --> 02:59:32.770 [Riv (DM)]: Well, it's good that you're able to prove you're able to use it with a bit more practice. 02:59:34.552 --> 02:59:34.752 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:59:35.793 --> 02:59:39.136 [Riv (DM)]: We'll need you to be able to so that we can send more. 02:59:50.167 --> 02:59:51.448 [Riv (DM)]: The, yeah. 02:59:52.888 --> 02:59:56.890 [Riv (DM)]: The little girl has been watching this all with a bit of a fascinated look on her face this whole time. 02:59:59.871 --> 03:00:03.332 [Riv (DM)]: But she hasn't done anything alarming. She's still just holding on to this little glass vial. 03:00:07.940 --> 03:00:10.435 [JC (Ryo)]: You let her steal? There a door. 03:00:15.304 --> 03:00:25.450 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was there. It wasn't stealing. It was a free-for-all-to-take box of funky potions. Mostly expired. 03:00:27.662 --> 03:00:30.567 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Some unknown effects. 03:00:29.036 --> 03:00:29.557 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dangerous. 03:00:31.088 --> 03:00:33.072 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Moderately dangerous at worst. 03:00:31.481 --> 03:00:32.202 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Expired. 03:00:35.797 --> 03:00:37.520 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Moderate caution advised. 03:00:36.150 --> 03:00:38.896 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Expired cloning spell. What could go wrong? 03:00:41.940 --> 03:00:42.220 [Lacer (Kai)]: So... 03:00:43.492 --> 03:00:44.738 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we need to hold a meeting? 03:01:01.892 --> 03:01:02.781 [Riv (DM)]: Ultimately up to you guys. 03:01:15.384 --> 03:01:27.854 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, the portal's closed. It's pretty cool that you can just think of somewhere and then you'll open a portal to a place you know. Is that right, Ryu? 03:01:29.220 --> 03:01:30.201 [JC (Ryo)]: That's what it feels like. 03:01:32.617 --> 03:01:37.361 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we could technically go to your old home, that dark forest, right? 03:01:38.902 --> 03:01:40.764 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we need to at some stage. 03:01:43.412 --> 03:01:45.253 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, we could. 03:01:47.652 --> 03:01:48.653 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can we get back, though? 03:01:50.658 --> 03:01:57.944 [JC (Ryo)]: You can bring us back now, can't you? Donda. 03:01:56.805 --> 03:01:57.365 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can I? 03:02:01.176 --> 03:02:03.322 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He can't cross plane boundaries with that. 03:02:01.924 --> 03:02:02.084 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh. 03:02:04.344 --> 03:02:05.608 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: He can travel within a plane. 03:02:04.495 --> 03:02:05.096 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:02:04.826 --> 03:02:05.266 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:02:06.567 --> 03:02:14.631 [Lacer (Kai)]: We need to go back to Isilmara, somewhere with one of these gates, these engines, or whatever you call it. 03:02:06.841 --> 03:02:07.151 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh-huh. 03:02:16.524 --> 03:02:29.181 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, I'm not exactly sure why I learnt it if I can't get there within the... Yeah, I don't know what that's about. 03:02:24.517 --> 03:02:36.863 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can use them. You can use teleport within this realm. I mean, this plane, I mean. If you're anywhere within this plane, back to where Ayana showed you that teleport circle. 03:02:31.224 --> 03:02:31.364 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:02:37.149 --> 03:02:39.835 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I thought that teleport circle was also cross-plane. 03:02:41.625 --> 03:02:46.348 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know. I'm not that type of magic guy. I'm sure Dondarr would know. 03:02:48.696 --> 03:02:50.263 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's the sort of thing Dondo would know. 03:02:51.936 --> 03:03:09.884 [Riv (DM)]: Teleportation circles are not cross realm. And as you're saying this, Illythia just says, speaking of teleportation, I'm going to go and have a drink. And she quickly sketches out a circle on the ground and starts to teleport away back to the Locus Arcanum. 03:03:11.276 --> 03:03:14.477 [Lacer (Kai)]: What the hell? You could just do that? That's so lazy. 03:03:16.066 --> 03:03:20.348 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, burning like a fifth level spell slot. 03:03:16.508 --> 03:03:18.315 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: You expect her to walk? 03:03:21.484 --> 03:03:25.727 [Riv (DM)]: Hey, it's easy than walking and she's, yeah, she's, hey, she's sad, she's loud. 03:03:22.125 --> 03:03:23.465 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm done for the day, time to go home. 03:03:28.141 --> 03:03:36.644 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm guessing that's what you're gonna do, Dundar, right? Whenever you need to just go, you're just like, I'm just gonna draw a circle and just disappear. 03:03:37.996 --> 03:03:40.438 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I've got Misty Step. What do I need a circle for? 03:03:41.284 --> 03:03:42.644 [Lacer (Kai)]: That only gets you 30 feet. 03:03:44.181 --> 03:03:47.163 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, 30 feet to the bar, 30 feet back to my room. 03:03:49.127 --> 03:03:52.008 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's hella convenient. Or a very small bar. 03:03:54.200 --> 03:04:00.623 [Riv (DM)]: So I think technically you would have probably left the chamber first because Illythia would have had to close the doors behind you. 03:04:02.364 --> 03:04:21.932 [Riv (DM)]: She heads off and then, yeah, you guys can head back up to the Citadel and I think we'll probably, we should call it here, but I just want to end on something, on a decision, like so that we know what we're doing next time. 03:04:02.692 --> 03:04:03.132 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 03:04:11.832 --> 03:04:12.721 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hold it there. 03:04:23.172 --> 03:04:33.422 [Riv (DM)]: So what have we thought? We've been thinking about this for a little bit. Have we come up with a conclusion? You're now alone. You don't have any other people with you apart from yourselves and the girl. 03:04:36.845 --> 03:04:40.849 [Riv (DM)]: She doesn't seem impatient necessarily. She, for all intents and purposes, just seems like a child. 03:04:43.511 --> 03:04:44.192 [Riv (DM)]: Having a grand time. 03:04:47.092 --> 03:05:09.867 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like to ask Ellessa, how soon do we need to go to fulfill this promise we made to you? Well, she's been waiting all her life for this to happen, so I guess a little bit longer shouldn't be too much. 03:04:58.174 --> 03:04:58.721 [Riv (DM)]: It's up to you. 03:05:01.964 --> 03:05:03.565 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It has an eternity to wait. 03:05:11.068 --> 03:05:16.592 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we need to tie up loose ends in the material plane before coming back, 03:05:19.296 --> 03:05:26.662 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's an extra week or two if you've been waiting all your life to kill a demon? 03:05:29.459 --> 03:05:30.420 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, she doesn't have to. 03:05:31.285 --> 03:05:32.766 [Lacer (Kai)]: I know we do, obviously. 03:05:32.633 --> 03:05:32.880 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:05:38.310 --> 03:05:40.152 [Lacer (Kai)]: That was the agreement, right? So... 03:05:40.696 --> 03:05:47.762 [JC (Ryo)]: The problem is, if we go back to the Material Plane, the only way to get back here is through Ithilmara, and we've got no way to get to Ithilmara on our own. 03:05:49.963 --> 03:05:53.306 [JC (Ryo)]: There was no teleportation circle, so Dundar can't get us to Ithilmara. 03:05:55.424 --> 03:05:56.445 [Lacer (Kai)]: We could ask Ayana. 03:05:57.585 --> 03:06:02.189 [Lacer (Kai)]: We could always teleport back to Val Noren and ask Ayana to take us there. 03:06:02.814 --> 03:06:05.596 [JC (Ryo)]: Did we hit a teleportation circle in Vaelenoran? 03:06:05.891 --> 03:06:07.132 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, there is one there. 03:06:08.196 --> 03:06:12.750 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can we just go directly to Elthamara from your gate? 03:06:08.253 --> 03:06:08.893 [Lacer (Kai)]: Dondarr's got it. 03:06:13.336 --> 03:06:14.177 [Lacer (Kai)]: We will all die. 03:06:15.577 --> 03:06:19.400 [Lacer (Kai)]: Except for our little princeling here. 03:06:15.599 --> 03:06:15.860 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Why? 03:06:21.476 --> 03:06:22.557 [JC (Ryo)]: Arendelle is fine as well. 03:06:23.442 --> 03:06:23.946 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Uh, no. 03:06:24.880 --> 03:06:25.882 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, did you get hurt as well? 03:06:25.214 --> 03:06:26.584 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It, it, yep. 03:06:27.303 --> 03:06:27.544 [JC (Ryo)]: Whoops. 03:06:28.716 --> 03:06:35.618 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we go there, we're gonna kind of, we didn't really ask about that, we should have asked Elysia before she kind of went home. 03:06:37.579 --> 03:06:43.580 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess that's something for tomorrow, I guess, maybe. Ithelmara will like, kill us all except for you. 03:06:45.240 --> 03:07:04.934 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Why? Well, that's unfortunate. 03:06:47.242 --> 03:06:52.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: Didn't you feel it? That was an anti, that was a racist spell. 03:06:52.940 --> 03:06:55.871 [JC (Ryo)]: There's a damage to anything non-elf spell that was going on. 03:06:53.060 --> 03:06:53.334 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah. 03:06:55.141 --> 03:06:56.541 [Riv (DM)]: It was a bit racist. 03:06:59.822 --> 03:07:16.607 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:07:03.780 --> 03:07:07.971 [Lacer (Kai)]: Didn't you see all those, all those Empire, um, hands? 03:07:09.114 --> 03:07:11.240 [Lacer (Kai)]: They were just all, they just all died. 03:07:12.779 --> 03:07:14.100 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, my heart bleeds for them. 03:07:16.987 --> 03:07:20.728 [Riv (DM)]: Donda's got two circles, one in Val Noren and one in Glimmer Forge. 03:07:23.688 --> 03:07:26.950 [Riv (DM)]: What he learned when he first got the spell here. 03:07:25.261 --> 03:07:25.952 [JC (Ryo)]: That's right. 03:07:27.150 --> 03:07:40.716 [Riv (DM)]: Technically what you could do, if you went back, you could use a teleportation circle to get to Vaelenoran, get Ayana to teleport you back to Ithilmar and make a dash for the gate and then come back through. Wanted to? 03:07:41.420 --> 03:07:54.576 [Lacer (Kai)]: We should ask if they have any talismans that protect us against the spell in Ithilmara, like a token of some sort that protects us from the damage. 03:07:56.626 --> 03:08:06.000 [Riv (DM)]: All right, so in terms of the plan then, because I really need to get you guys to land on something we can't keep. I'm in an R-ing forever. 03:08:05.592 --> 03:08:08.834 [JC (Ryo)]: Honestly, unless we have a choice, we have to go into the vault. 03:08:10.054 --> 03:08:13.296 [JC (Ryo)]: Or face the wrath of this ancient Fae creep. 03:08:13.060 --> 03:08:14.601 [Lacer (Kai)]: She just told us we had time. 03:08:20.279 --> 03:08:27.922 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, we need the stone. She won't empty the stone until we get in the vault. And then from the vault, we need to get to the Hells, which I'm assuming she's going to send us there. 03:08:29.823 --> 03:08:31.624 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't think we've asked her how we're going to get to the Hells. 03:08:32.401 --> 03:08:40.268 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We need to use the, yeah, the World Gate engine thing. 03:08:34.491 --> 03:08:36.212 [Lacer (Kai)]: This, that engine that we just... 03:08:42.500 --> 03:09:04.166 [Riv (DM)]: That's correct, you could use the gate. What does Boobrus always say? 03:08:44.292 --> 03:08:59.507 [Lacer (Kai)]: But we know nothing about the Hells. I think even if we do do go down that route, we still need to spend some time to prepare. Like, we know nothing about the Hells. I feel like we just walk into... What happens if the Hells, like, all on fire? We go there and we just all burn to death. 03:09:04.186 --> 03:09:09.528 [Riv (DM)]: Just let it rip. 03:09:12.428 --> 03:09:18.352 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so what do we think then? So I'm getting the vibe... Well, I don't know what vibe I'm getting. 03:09:25.848 --> 03:09:28.722 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We're hoping that we don't have to make a decision. 03:09:26.198 --> 03:09:39.368 [Riv (DM)]: Like... Mm-hmm. 03:09:27.068 --> 03:09:40.094 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Only one person here, yeah, only one person here is able to get us into the Vault. If that person says no, then we're not getting into the Vault. But that fucks everything else. 03:09:42.875 --> 03:09:46.796 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Otherwise, I feel that the Vault should be one of the sooner things we do. 03:09:47.544 --> 03:09:48.547 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, that's what I said. 03:09:48.577 --> 03:09:55.320 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And, yeah, the reforming of the being that is currently in the Soul Stone 03:09:48.928 --> 03:09:52.740 [JC (Ryo)]: We've got no choice. We need to go to the block. We've got to get stuck. 03:09:56.860 --> 03:09:58.121 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Will take some time. 03:10:00.883 --> 03:10:05.808 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: From what Star-Veiled Queen said. 03:10:07.169 --> 03:10:17.117 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Some time is better than no time and or instantly, but does not really specific how much time do we have, who knows. 03:10:18.238 --> 03:10:20.640 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Should do it pretty quickly afterwards, I would say. 03:10:22.508 --> 03:10:43.264 [Lacer (Kai)]: We could do that. How about we call a meeting, discuss what we're going to do, go to the... Was that on the table at all? 03:10:29.613 --> 03:10:31.995 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Let's hand wave that and say we're in the meeting now. 03:10:34.878 --> 03:10:40.803 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we want to go rescue Dondar's people or do we want to go into hell? 03:10:46.308 --> 03:10:48.150 [JC (Ryo)]: That was brought up a session or two ago. 03:10:46.508 --> 03:10:46.708 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What? 03:10:51.253 --> 03:10:54.897 [JC (Ryo)]: We also got Vaeleran that we need to go kill or stop. 03:10:54.556 --> 03:10:54.756 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:10:58.761 --> 03:11:02.324 [JC (Ryo)]: But I'm pretty sure we're roped into the Vault and off to the Hells. 03:11:04.747 --> 03:11:06.108 [JC (Ryo)]: I can't see a way out of that. 03:11:08.256 --> 03:11:19.548 [Lacer (Kai)]: I feel it might be beneficial to go back to the Circle of the Scroll to look up some stuff about the Hells before we even go there first, before you even go to the Vault. 03:11:18.404 --> 03:11:20.945 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, we could do homework. We could do homework first, yeah. 03:11:22.904 --> 03:11:23.957 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Sounds like we're going to have... 03:11:24.787 --> 03:11:30.630 [JC (Ryo)]: But I don't see us going back to the Material Plane. I don't see us going to Glimmer Forge or to the Darkwood. 03:11:31.690 --> 03:11:34.732 [JC (Ryo)]: It's Vault and then Hells is what I see. 03:11:38.316 --> 03:11:46.618 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess, yeah, Praetor'Varanous did say the sooner is better. It's going to take him some while to craft that divine weapon. 03:11:51.052 --> 03:11:57.778 [Riv (DM)]: And what would you do with a little girl in the meantime if you went back to the Material Plane? Would you bring her with you? 03:11:59.432 --> 03:12:23.944 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Are you sure that's a good idea? 03:11:59.524 --> 03:12:02.352 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You mean instead of the Vault or after the Vault? 03:12:00.822 --> 03:12:01.082 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hey. 03:12:03.263 --> 03:12:12.743 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wouldn't mind bringing her with us to the Material Plant. She would have a blast, and she would Hopefully help us because like who's gonna go to hells if we're all dead, right? 03:12:14.732 --> 03:12:21.412 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, so you're talking about bringing, well, you know who. Into the material realm. 03:12:23.393 --> 03:12:24.853 [Riv (DM)]: You don't think that sounds like a bad idea? 03:12:25.532 --> 03:12:36.079 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think it's a bad idea considering if the world burns it's gonna be worse anyway. Yeah, what's the worst that can happen? 03:12:32.495 --> 03:12:48.360 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:12:32.548 --> 03:12:34.269 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What's the worst that could happen? 03:12:35.570 --> 03:12:39.453 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: She doesn't just pick up random men to be her slaves. 03:12:39.916 --> 03:13:00.162 [Lacer (Kai)]: She might have to fight a dragon, you know? No, but still. 03:12:44.308 --> 03:12:54.219 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, there's always option F for fucked. 03:12:48.299 --> 03:12:51.001 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Or option G for Grumble. 03:12:52.021 --> 03:12:54.243 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm sure Uncle Grumble could look after her. 03:12:54.299 --> 03:12:57.582 [JC (Ryo)]: I got two smoke powder arrows. I could just light them and hold them in my chest. 03:12:59.124 --> 03:13:12.391 [Riv (DM)]: Well, don't do that. 03:13:00.786 --> 03:13:02.067 [JC (Ryo)]: There goes the bloodline. 03:13:02.744 --> 03:13:08.157 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You could abdicate and just make her queen. 03:13:05.711 --> 03:13:06.752 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, blood, man. 03:13:10.062 --> 03:13:10.844 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Blood transfusion. 03:13:12.651 --> 03:13:31.014 [Riv (DM)]: Not to throw any more kindling on the fire, but the discussions around what we're doing with mobilizing the elves to help Pre-Irondor's mother needs to be also considered. And that is potentially high priority as well. 03:13:35.928 --> 03:13:40.169 [JC (Ryo)]: Hopefully we can use, where's his name, Caelan to organize that now. 03:13:43.550 --> 03:14:01.695 [JC (Ryo)]: Hopefully we've got numbnuts on. 03:13:47.605 --> 03:13:53.002 [Riv (DM)]: OK, cool. So I want to end on a decision. So what are we doing? 03:13:55.486 --> 03:13:58.328 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We're on the highway to hell. 03:13:59.571 --> 03:14:00.412 [Riv (DM)]: Is it Vault? 03:14:01.132 --> 03:14:01.813 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess it's... 03:14:01.955 --> 03:14:03.536 [JC (Ryo)]: Hell's Homework into Vault. 03:14:04.904 --> 03:14:07.165 [JC (Ryo)]: And then if we are straight to the Hells, probably. 03:14:07.838 --> 03:14:15.546 [Lacer (Kai)]: Probably not. We might have to pick up our stuff, our gear, or gear up for the Hells after we do Vault, and then to the Hells. 03:14:15.949 --> 03:14:24.152 [JC (Ryo)]: No, we don't. Once she lets him out of that rock, we need to get to his body before he's fully brought back. Otherwise, we'll have a worse fight. 03:14:21.652 --> 03:14:22.072 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's good. 03:14:23.754 --> 03:14:26.216 [Lacer (Kai)]: But what... But we don't know... Yeah, okay. 03:14:27.274 --> 03:14:33.136 [JC (Ryo)]: So we need to have whatever prep we're going to do needs to be done before the vault, because the more time he has after he gets out 03:14:35.304 --> 03:14:37.585 [JC (Ryo)]: I reckon it's going to make the fight a million times worse. 03:14:38.560 --> 03:14:43.182 [Lacer (Kai)]: The stronger he'll be, even if it's not fully reformed. Yeah, that's fair. 03:14:43.128 --> 03:14:48.290 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, because Mirileth told us we need to kill his body before he's reformed. 03:14:43.202 --> 03:14:52.627 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 03:14:48.870 --> 03:14:53.052 [JC (Ryo)]: So we do not want to fuck around once he's out of the gym. 03:14:54.007 --> 03:15:03.172 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you're right, we do need to do Hells homework, gear up, go to the Vault, and then straight to the Hells. Is that what you're saying? Or proposing? 03:15:03.876 --> 03:15:09.939 [JC (Ryo)]: That's the only viable path I can see without Mirileth probably nuking us from where she is. 03:15:15.342 --> 03:15:18.363 [JC (Ryo)]: Unless someone can see another path, that's the only option I see. 03:15:19.360 --> 03:15:24.072 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Look, the only thing missing from that plan so far is going to the Winchester, having a pint, and waiting for this all to blow over. 03:15:25.464 --> 03:15:25.845 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:15:25.700 --> 03:15:31.387 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, sounds like a plan. 03:15:25.807 --> 03:15:27.328 [JC (Ryo)]: I would love that to be plan A. 03:15:33.684 --> 03:15:33.924 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:15:34.864 --> 03:15:36.005 [JC (Ryo)]: Vale, you got any input? 03:15:34.965 --> 03:15:35.405 [Riv (DM)]: Very good. 03:15:37.576 --> 03:15:40.383 [Vael (Berberis)]: Nope, sounds good. I'm falling asleep in my chair here, so... 03:15:41.187 --> 03:15:41.728 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, Meta. 03:15:43.192 --> 03:15:44.213 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. Okay, cool. 03:15:45.815 --> 03:15:46.415 [Riv (DM)]: We'll do it that way. 03:15:49.218 --> 03:16:00.448 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, don't get me wrong, Riv, I would love to go, okay, sweet, I know the Darkwood really well, teleport Darkwood and go chasing down Valoran, but something tells me some little thing's not going to let me do that. 03:15:54.616 --> 03:15:54.836 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:16:02.579 --> 03:16:02.919 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:16:02.616 --> 03:16:03.977 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hey, you could ask me nicely. 03:16:06.156 --> 03:16:07.697 [JC (Ryo)]: I said little thing, not smelly thing. 03:16:11.703 --> 03:16:16.745 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. No. Cool. Sweet. So let's do that then. We will do Vault next time. 03:16:21.227 --> 03:16:43.867 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. Should be fun. Are you guys excited? What are you... Well, that was part of the big... Yeah. 03:16:25.624 --> 03:16:38.662 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're all gonna die. Hey, maybe we'll take her with us to Hell. 03:16:28.695 --> 03:16:34.720 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm just hoping I haven't destroyed the city. She's not going to go and blow up the freaking world tree or whatever. 03:16:38.963 --> 03:16:39.644 [Lacer (Kai)]: That would be fun. 03:16:41.356 --> 03:16:42.379 [JC (Ryo)]: Something tells me she is... 03:16:43.543 --> 03:16:43.784 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry? 03:16:44.467 --> 03:16:58.128 [Riv (DM)]: That was part of the big reason why she wanted you guys to do this, because like a deity or a... See my deity from one plane going into a different plane of existence and causing chaos is a bad look. You don't want to start an interplanar war. 03:16:59.672 --> 03:17:00.352 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, we do. 03:16:59.684 --> 03:17:03.588 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's true, but there already is one happening. 03:16:59.809 --> 03:17:02.391 [Riv (DM)]: So that's why she wouldn't do it herself. 03:17:00.372 --> 03:17:25.060 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is it? 03:17:03.628 --> 03:17:06.130 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's an extra one? 03:17:05.013 --> 03:17:16.520 [Riv (DM)]: Well, yeah, you don't want to have a second one happening, though. Can you imagine the King of the Hells finds out that some chick from the Feywild came in and just killed one of his lieutenants? She would be like... 03:17:16.821 --> 03:17:20.084 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, she could be part of our extraction plan. 03:17:17.356 --> 03:17:18.598 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, no, it'll be much better if... 03:17:20.225 --> 03:17:21.766 [Lacer (Kai)]: She doesn't have to go and do the killing. 03:17:20.644 --> 03:17:20.884 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:17:21.846 --> 03:17:23.428 [Lacer (Kai)]: She can just be there to help us out. 03:17:24.306 --> 03:17:28.012 [JC (Ryo)]: It's gonna be much better if Five from the Material Plane go in there and kill one of his lieutenants. 03:17:29.094 --> 03:17:40.787 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, it's, but there are like people, like demons and stuff like that doing that sort of thing all the time anyway. It's, I think it's different when one, yeah, one of the ruling powers doing it, I think, is a bad look. 03:17:34.348 --> 03:17:37.250 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: She's already had us kill one deity. 03:17:43.800 --> 03:17:58.911 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can take her and she can secure the engine for our extraction. I don't know.