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Ep. 77 Moving On - Bellum Draconis
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Our group start to come together as they set about helping Alpha.
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Fellowship of the Tabletop Introduction
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This, what happened yesterday, but we do have to move on at a certain point and just forget about it. Like, you know, who cast a silent spell? Ha ha ha. We don't really know. We could just kind of forget about it and move on.
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So all the stuff that came after that...
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are a live play 5e D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Aerith in the Kingdom of Drolak. Joining me for this week's episode, we have Will, who plays the dragonborn druid Baal Valkon. I like meat. Oh god, Ian, who plays the Tiefling Warserer, Nyx Karel. I hate that you make me follow him. Callum! That's the second episode in a row.
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I just come out with nothing. Callum who plays the war-forged Artificer Alpha. I look like a twat. That wasn't me, you said that. Will who plays the human cleric, Emron. I like meat. Daron who plays the high-elf Artificer, Reigns Haddow. I can't measure my screensaver properly. My, what, my, no, no. Screen cover, screen cover, I was trying to find classic Callum. This is 1995. I'm watching it background.
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I was watching it bounce around. Donk, donk, donk. I'll try the first shade of the calendar, the bad vibes spectacular. I like the, do you remember the pipes? Yeah, the pipes. The pipes are legit. I like the cube that bounce around the screen. I like the stars. I like the stars. I like to find the Enterprise. My name is Mark and I'm playing the Druid Ha- Oh no, I'm not fucking out.
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I tried to get us back on track, I missed it the last time, I'm playing a character. And, but last but not the least, we have our wizarding warden, our master of mayhem, the OG DnD of DnD, messed that up, anyway, fuck. Don't you master daddy!
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Bonjour! I felt less of a twat as that went on. But you introduced Will Halt, the beta Will first. Oh my god. You introduced beta Will first and it just went completely downhill. Is it because we've all eaten? Just do him last. That'll be enough by now. Do him last. We've all eaten, the food's settled and now he does. I can't do him last. This is episode... This is our second... Oh he's doing him first. Our second episode into an all day that we're doing listening at the moment. We are in person again and it feels good. Hence why the silliness is at...
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100% really and it's wonderful. Giddy off each other's energy. Ian's just made some awesome pork and that's not a euphemism but it is. We've all cobbled Ian's meat. I like the sauce. Everyone's bearing and having a great time so the next couple of weeks we're just gonna get progressively drunker I think so be aware that's probably on the cards so just if you hear this opening slur or get any worse than it did this episode then Christ and
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we are standing behind his low counter now neat and fixed after the ramblings of the party many many moons ago we see old gal waiting pensively for someone to enter you enter he looks straight at you
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Oooh, stick a blaster on it! That diskie in the air that looks like some sort of moon want doing shit, but that idiot halfling was drawing 13 over and over and over, talking about some sort of 13th kingdom. Turns out that's some sort of prophecy, superstitious kind of shit about when a 12th kingdom gets announced, the 13 will appear and then the 13 shall rise and everyone will heed the call and unity and peace and prosperity will befall the land.
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Sounds like bullshit to me. Nix and Seth were chatting tactics, passing blame, swapping spells, talking about blowing up heads and shit. Alpha and Rangestone did some talking as well about wrestling with some sort of mortality. Nix jumps on in and finds some sort of plan with the Halfling's help about finding some dwarf lady called Hope.
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Meanwhile, Emron's just making a big fucking statue to his god. Baal apologizes to Seth and turns out they's a little bit linked together too. Reigns suggests that Alpha might be evolving in some way, hence why he's got some sort of funky-ass cannon on his shoulder now. It's really touching family moments until it gets third wheeled by Nyx, what a bitch!
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Ball reveals his sleepy tattoos to Alpha while talking in some sneaky, sneaky, draconic language. Emron stares that bitch out. And finally, Emron finds out a little bit more about what the fuck is going on!
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He asks the halflings about Clan Shadowshield, finding out a little bit more about them. They're from Shadowman, by the way, some dwarvensmith, so he wants to do some sort of smithy shit. He finds out that Gelnoth is based at the Tell House, Tall House, which is a quarter of a mile out of Snakerun, and not all of the followers of the Uprisqr are with Alito. It's a mix of many different religions. Oh, thank fuck for that!
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It also does a little bit of helpful stuff for us, does Emron, when he finds out that we need to get ourselves equipped fully from Snakerum before we move on. So he's done some really useful shit. Finally, Alpha decides to get in touch with his feminine side through memory runes. He don't make a connection with a sweaty bitch in a fancy courtyard. A voice from behind her calls, Princess, oh that makes sense now, and it sounds like rain, but it's off bitch. An arrow goes whizzing past his head. He feels pain in his back and he falls to the ground.
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Oh well. You look like a lobster. Well done. There's no other way. I've got to respect the craft. So we find ourselves still in that familiar desert scene. A number of hours have passed but we are still stood on this post-war field of battle. Everyone is in line for a long rest. Alpha
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you return to this space again. That memory continues to sort of flash through your short-term memory quite regularly for about over the next hour or so. Is there anything you want to do in that time while it is basically you and the halflings still awake?
Desert Journey and Leadership
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I will
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I do some spell prep for what it's actually worth for an artist. I will go up to Rollo and say...
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I am a being who does not require much sleep, Rollo, so if you and your compatriot wish to rest, then please feel free to do so in safety. You don't sleep! I enter a state of low energy usage, I think would be an accurate term. Don't we all? Gabe's never come out of that state, have you, Gabe? He just sort of smiles.
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Perhaps he is a similar construct to myself, that. I'd say more advanced version. But it takes one look. He ain't advanced. Be that as it may. If you wish to rest, then it is your decision. But I understand the apprehension. Well, thank you very much, little man. Can I ask? How are you faring in this heat?
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Not well, if honestly dictates. My, um, constructive body does not bode well with intense heat, it would seem. I've never experienced heat like it, so this is an unusual aspect to myself. You won't find many people walking around with metal on round here.
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It is quite logical, especially seeing as what happened to one of the upkriska when our dragonborn friend decided to introduce more heat into that person's situation. He's scary. He is... complicated. Is he your leader? No. We do not have a leader as such.
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attempt to communicate between each other. It makes sense you don't have a leader because you are not following anyone, are you? We like to go with the majority, but it seems to be the majority doesn't exist anymore. Everybody seems to have their own intentions aside from possibly myself and Rains at this point. You need a leader, I think. I'm the leader of me and my brother, and we work just fine.
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a leader. I don't know which one of us could be a leader. Could you do it? No. Why? I lack the confidence in such a statement. My experience is minimal in such escapades. I always wish to travel and do enjoy going new places, but a leader takes more than just
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Aspirations, they have to be charismatic. You're not charismatic, is that what you're saying? I have never been called charismatic. I think you're quite charismatic. You're a character. I am a construct. I don't know what that means, aren't we all? Well, I am a construct of wood and metal. You are one of flesh and bone. Right. Let me put it to you. Out of the two of you.
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Why is it that Gabe is not the leader as opposed to yourself? He knows about seven words. I do know more words than that, but you are the ones to decide so much of your actions because you know what will happen. You know the world that exists around you.
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I know this part. I know nothing of the world. Possibly Baal or Seth might make a more suitable leader for our group purely based on their knowledge of the area we're currently in. Right. So not many of you know Dralak? No. I could be your leader. Are you part of our group? He looks around. Currently, yes.
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Will you stay with us and fight with us? Absolutely not. Then perhaps it is not an appropriate idea. I believe you're leader for the next couple of days. I believe you would be a priority within our group. If you wish to put it to the group, then by all means. I don't believe the suggestion would go well, but I will not deter you from such a procedure.
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Well, I think you need a leader. I think you could be a good one. I shall consider it. I have other priorities at the moment, however. He's going to kind of rub his hand. He's still wearing like the cloak, but he's just kind of rubbing his hand across his chest. You alright? Yes. Just an odd feeling.
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Reef locks. One could say that, did the consequence of an action.
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There's something that has been fused to my body and I'm unable to remove it. It might be connected to my current state, but I am unsure at this stage. Like a disease? That is an apt description, yes. I am diseased. It is uncomfortable.
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Oh, not one of those, I hope. One of what? I daren't say. I'll let you go. But... Please, like, don't let us get killed in our sleep or nothing. I will stay nearby. Okay, not too close. As you wish. Disease. Understandable. I don't think it's contagious, but as you wish.
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Right, you are. And he sort of just nods and walks away. No, so yeah, that's fine. For the rest of my patrol then, I'm going to be staying probably only within like 10-4 of Rolo and Gabe. Okay. Just kind of patrolling around them. Okay. Did anyone else expect Rolo to say, I got a cream for that? Also, did anyone else think of the Age of Empires with Rolo and the priest? Rolo... I keep thinking about chocolate.
00:15:35
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I want to go up to a mask and make this the last one. I am the last rule. So, Alpha, do you want to make a perception check for your watch then? And then let me know who you want to wake up afterwards. Okay. 50. 50. You spend, I think it's an hour you've been asked to only watch for. You spend most of that time in the same sort of pattern of watching. You're used to the sounds, you know that if you hear anything,
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you will be alert because you're so used to silence at night here. Occasionally you look up to the object in the sky and over the course of that hour you just watch as the moon sort of moves behind it and eclipses it, or it eclipses the moon. I'm not sure which way round that happens. Does the object in front of the thing eclipse the thing behind it? Yes.
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The object in the sky, the new object eclipses the moon. And by the end of your watch, that's sort of the state of things. There is this single source of light where there had been two and the moons were separate. Otherwise nothing happens.
Emron's Dream Discussion
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Who do you wake? Well, yeah, Nick is already awake anyway. He doesn't sleep.
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I'm assuming he's just going off with his spell book and whatnot. I will approach Nix. That was so... We got smooth. That was so organically done. I honestly didn't think that was where you were going. I was so organically done. Can I congratulate you? Really smoothly, I think. I like to think. Do you wish to take Nix? Or shall I wake Emrah?
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Say no now. Don't say no. Fuck you, middleman. Nope, that's fine, that makes sense. Because, like you, I also don't sleep. For whatever reason that is. Yes, fine, do whatever you need to do, power down. You feeling okay, everything good? No, in all honesty. I am feeling what I can only be described as tired. It is unusual, and I feel I do need
00:17:51
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Two powered out. You've also got this shine onto you, like you've got some kind of, I don't know, like this shit is weird because you don't sweat, so, but you do, you look a bit shinier than usual.
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Good night. It is. Very well, Nix. Good night. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Nice. Don't stop moving. Updating. So in this time, before we sort of find out what Nix is doing, and Nix, I imagine you'll want to take a lion's share of the watch because you don't need to necessarily sleep.
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Yeah, it's three quarters like a watch, but I'm still flicking through my book, adding to mine and putting runes in place and practicing and stuff, but yeah. Okay, but as sort of that process is happening and you wake up and you mark that reduced light for a moment as you also look up and see this eclipse. And when something happens to you during this time you are asleep, you dream again.
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It's that image that you've encountered a couple of times now. You're surrounded by darkness. You are reaching up to a source of light and you are slowly ascending towards it as you feel this force pulling you back down. That happens. You expect the dream to end there as it has done for the past few nights, but it continues. You find yourself on this platform instead. You reach this light, you climb out of it and it is a platform.
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miles and miles above Eryth. The wind is pummeling at you from all directions that you are forced to really focus on your center of gravity and your balance. You're not really holding on to anything but you are just trying to stay on your feet.
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You look over the platform, Aerith sits below you, or at least what you understand Aerith might be. It's really hard, your reference for Aerith is what cartographers have envisaged, and seeing it actually from height, it looks a bit different, like kingdoms are in different proportions, etc. It's not flat, go figure.
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Take that, Flat Earthers. Go figure, you bunch of bastards. Flat Earthers. Nice. You have at that core, though, that fear and threat that you will fall at any moment. And that is hard for you to be able to harness. And it's impossible to shake off, given how close to a perilous height you are.
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You look up. This platform sort of falls, comes down on a number of chains. Above you is this towering labyrinth that goes up further than you can tell. It's made of steel. It's made of chains. There are winged creatures. Next to you on the platform are three different forms. One a human, one a dragonborn, and one a dwarf.
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It's difficult to make out their details. All you can really ascertain is their figure, their form, and it's surrounded in these glows of gold and white. Unable to hear anything because of the wind, unable to move freely, yet you feel this divine purpose pulling you, willing you to ascend the tower. You tune into that.
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It's Alito's voice, or at least what you attribute to Alito's voice. It's willing you to climb. Is this some sort of competition? The other forms are responding in similar ways to you. Are you in danger? You're not sure. Are you Emram? Are you Tilwa? Are you something else entirely? You're not sure. There is a moment
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of lucidity and you're able to decide what happens next. What would you do? I'd try and ascend or try and go higher. There is no obvious point to climb. So is it? There are chains on this platform that tether it to the tower. Okay. But you are unaware of your form. So there's towers in, so that there's a platform and chains and it's suspended from this tower. This tower's floating in the sky. Yeah.
00:22:38
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I'm going to move towards one of the chains and try and climb it. Okay, I need you to make a strength saving throw as you are trying to wade through impossible wins to get there. Okay. Ten. Ten. You take one step and this boot appears in your vision heavier than anything you can imagine.
00:23:01
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It's broader than you, or at least the form you recognize as Emron when you're walking and awake. It takes a step, another step, and it is this dense plate mail, another step. And as you attempt to take your fourth, you just feel this gust underneath your legs and you fall onto your back and you're just staring up at this tower.
00:23:28
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And then this winged creature appears really far in the distance, but it casts the glowings like a, like it gets in between you and a light source and it projects the shadow down upon you. And you just see sort of like the Batman figure when it does the bat call, but that picture that winged creature and just slowly coming towards you.
00:23:48
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And the point is that that shadow gets really close. You are thrust awake again around that campfire. You are you, but you are feeling heavy. You are feeling breathless. You sort of touch your face and you can still feel the cold air as the wind has been hitting you.
00:24:11
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you're awake. And Nix, you are just interrupted from this moment of flicking through and pairing spells to this gasp and Enron shooting up. You alright? Yeah, just a very weird dream. Very strange. I don't know whether I was and Enron would look up to where the platform is. I don't know whether
00:24:41
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I was there, or? There? The moon? Nick's trying to follow your gaze as you look up and go, I'm there. No, I'm there. I'm that thing into the sky. I was above everything. Right. I think. And it was strange. There was a tower. And Alito's voice telling me to climb. Like a sky tower?
00:25:11
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I don't know. Was it suspended in the air? I don't know. The platform seemed to be hanging from the tower, but I couldn't see what the tower was on. Whether I don't know. And I just, this voice and purpose taught me to climb and I knew what I had to. And I started and I fell back and I saw this
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something on wings descending down towards me but because of the light I couldn't see it properly even as it came closer and I woke up but I've had I've had a dream like it before oh this is now the same dream well the star of it was the same this continued on I was yeah it's never got to this point before
00:26:11
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Er, well, I don't really dream any more, so... I... I mean, have you ever been to a Sky Tower? No. Did you eat something funny before you fell asleep? No, I don't think that... Alito's trying to tell me something. I don't know what.
00:26:39
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I don't know what he wants me to do. I can help you with this. Aaron. And then Nix is going to grab the cracked old girl's crystal orb and he's going to give it a shake. Don't forget I fixed it. It's not like marble. Oh, you fixed it. I fixed it now. It's the most marble inside, don't forget. Shit. Well, there you go. So he's going to breathe on it, kind of mist it up and then kind of use the sleeve of his jacket to clean it up, shine it up.
00:27:04
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and then he's going to kind of peer into it and just think of the question, what does this dream mean? Can I roll something for it? Why are you rolling? You're now dying slowly over 30 days. Do I get anything?
00:27:26
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Nothing happens. Ah, it seems like the dream means that you need to climb the tallest steps that you find in front of you. Inside check. Yeah, go for it. Your old deception. Yeah.
00:27:48
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Ooh, bad. It's 10. That's what I mean, my path is 15. Yeah, so you know his bullshit. Yeah. I'm not going to call him that because I know he's next and that's why I call him that. Okay. Maybe you have to go on a big journey and at the end of it, you find your god, this Alito, and you become like the best friends ever. But I've already found Alito. Well, maybe physically.
00:28:17
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Oh, to meet your own... Spear on spirit, as it were. To meet a god, I think that's... Well, why else would he be talking to you? Look, look, this is from the orb, not from me. I'm not gonna dismiss what you're saying, it's... Maybe you're right, maybe.
00:28:35
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Maybe Alito is showing me a path. Yes, yes. Alito is lighting up a path that you must walk in order to prove your faith and allegiance to him. I need to find out more about him criskering their Alito faith. That was a jump to a crisker. I didn't see that one.
00:28:56
Speaker
Yeah, sure. And that leads us through to Snakerun because the Kriska is housed there. There might be a tower in Snakerun that you need to climb. Well, there's a tall house just outside of Snakerun that Rola was telling me. That's where the Kriska are based. Maybe not walk in there by yourself, given... I mean, I didn't do any harm to them, so
00:29:21
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Do they know that? Or do they see you walking around with us and going, well, we better kill him or capture him? Well, what will be all be? Right. OK, fine. That's an interpretation. Are you going to try and go back to sleep now? Do you need me to stroke your hair or sing you a song? I don't know. No, it's all right. I'll say it for a bit. Just maybe...
00:29:51
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Think about what's happened, then I'll wake whoever's next. Oh, so you're relieving me of my watch? Cool. I mean, unless you want to watch again. I mean, I'm just here. I feel a bit disturbed when you just sat there and watched us all sleep. I don't tend to watch you guys because that would be weird and that's not who I am. And I haven't got to that point yet where I'm on that board of a night where I have to sit and stare at you all.
00:30:21
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but you just kind of like woke up, you know what I mean? No, no. Not in a good way. Not in a, hey, I've met someone in a cool tavern sort of dream and we went and had our wicked way with each other. You woke up. I mean, it would be good. If you ever dreamt like that, have you got a special someone in your life? Have you ever had anyone in your life? Silence says yes. Who is she? Or he? Or them? Or it?
00:30:49
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What do you make of? Alpha, nah. No, yes. It's just, oh, earlier, whatever, whatever concept of time it is now. That just went south rather quickly, didn't it? Yes, but I do think that at a certain point we need to accept it and then move on. Like, I feel like we've got this plan to go to Snake Run, find this Hope, and Hope will then give Alpha what she needs. Who's Hope? Hope's a cleric in Snake Run. Oh. Yeah.
00:31:15
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I've got this plan, you see, and Nick's points to his mind. I've got this formulated plan. No, it wasn't given to me by a deity that I have to go and cry some steps up to the big old sky towers and all that. But this is a great plan. We found a cleric in Snakerun. Her name is Hope, and she will fix Alpha. And she's definitely in Snakerun.
00:31:34
Speaker
Yes. Well, at least that's where the last known presence of her was. She's very, very highly regarded. So she might not know Snakerun. The last known presence was Snakerun, so it makes sense that we go there.
00:31:47
Speaker
Well, I mean, of course, I don't think we can last. Rolo said that he doesn't think we're equipped for desert. Exactly. So, you know, we should get some supplies as well, which you're really good at. So we could just like enter Snake Run and then you go and get your supplies and then we go and take Alpha to go and see Hope and then she touches him or does whatever a cleric does. Bam, he's back to normal. Then we come up with another plan and on our way to Scorch Helm. It is all in here. I've got it. I see it now. Didn't see it before.
00:32:15
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I never really consider myself as a leader. I'm certainly not saying that I'm a leader of this group, especially not with you guys. I mean, come on, that would be a stupid job and I'm not really up for the task. But I feel like at least we have a plan of attack for the next stage, which I think is quite important, given that when we don't have a plan, we just descend into fucking this.
00:32:34
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what happened yesterday. But we do have to move on at a certain point and just forget about it. Like, you know, cast a silent spell. We don't really know. We could just kind of forget about it and move on.
00:32:47
Speaker
It's all the stuff that came after that. There was a surprising amount of fun things that happened afterwards, but hey, we all lived to tell the tale and it could be something that we all laugh about with a drink in the future. Just like, remember that time we almost killed Alpha? Remember that time you burnt this bitch alive? You know, it's just fun story to tell around a tavern table. You going to sleep?
00:33:10
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I think I might just go and lie down from it, yeah. Yeah, okay, cool, right. I'm gonna, I need just motions to go back. No, don't watch sleep. Unless you want me to watch you sleep, this is a weird request thing now that I'm not attending to your needs. He's gonna roll over to his back towards me. Did you have a nightmare? Throw your backs towards Nick. I can straight care if you want, everyone.
00:33:40
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Ooh, what's this iron trophy here? Oi, get your hands off. Nice. So, everyone goes back to sleep. Yeah. And, Nix, you continue to do the watch. Is there anything else you want to do, or are you happy to rob perception for your watch? No, I'm good. Can you rob perception for me? Oh, yes, of course, sorry. B-ding as it came off my beer glass. For a 16. 16.
00:34:09
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Yeah, you have somewhat of a distracted watch anyway because you've got two things at least you're thinking about, that is thinking about tomorrow, thinking about your spells, thinking about keeping everyone safe while it's your responsibility to do so. That's why I said it's second, it's the second priority. I do marvel every now and again at this object in the sky and this eclipse and you are,
00:34:33
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And times overwhelmed with just how big the world is suddenly becoming, how scary and how otherworldly things are happening around you and experiences you are having recently. And you reflect on that for a bit. You reflect on where you were 48 hours ago, where you were 72 hours ago in front of a dragon.
00:35:01
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there has been more colossal moments in your life in this week than there has ever been.
00:35:09
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otherwise the watch passes without incident. Cool, Nick's eyes just get wider as these thoughts infiltrate his mind. Oh shit. Who do you wake? We only need perhaps one more. Rains would wake naturally because he only needs four hours sleep, so at that point whether he's woken or not, Rains would wake. We'll say at this point, Rains, as your active time, you know, is coming to a pass and you just want to sort of vibe out, Rains awakes.
00:35:35
Speaker
You had a dream tea? No, it's just I don't really sleep. We enter like a trance as the Elven King and it's done. I don't need any more trance.
00:35:49
Speaker
Tranced up. Cool. Well, nothing's happened really. I've just been watching and guarding, but not watching you sleep. Like that's a weird thing that's happening around in the mud. I just want you to know that I don't watch people sleep. That's just weird. I didn't think you did. That's cool. I'm just letting you know. You don't do you? Nothing. No.
00:36:11
Speaker
Just to let you know, nothing's happened. We're all good. I kept you safe. There's a couple of things on the horizon where I was just like, oh, it's a little bit of trouble. But then I was like, my sheer presence must have scared them because they never came any closer. So you're welcome and everything is good. Well, that's really good, Nix. Thanks. Yeah. The other said that when I was out,
00:36:40
Speaker
when I was out the other day that a big uh illusory snake thing tried to eat me yeah you didn't know it was an illusory thing no you went to quite a lot of lengths to try and save my life oh that's my understanding of it well yeah why why why wouldn't I you'd do the same for me yeah and um
00:37:06
Speaker
I tried to when you were falling NC. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so thank you. You're welcome. This is what we do though, right? I feel like we're, despite recent events, in it for the long haul, and we should just act like a crew.
00:37:31
Speaker
and a crew have each other's backs, or so I've been taught. So if you are in any danger in a future, you can rest assured that I will do anything within, until he looks at his hands, my powers to make sure that you remain breathing.
00:37:50
Speaker
And in turn, if you should be sent flying by a giant tower through there. Yeah, that's likely to happen again. I will send my- Allutionary things. It's just weird. I don't like the desert. I mean, Shadow Man has deserts, but they're like cold deserts. They're not like this. This is horrible. Sand gets everywhere. Of course.
00:38:19
Speaker
But I've got your back. Oh, I guess. Good. Aye aye. Well, yeah, you're welcome. And thank you for saving my life and making sure that I remained breathing because I don't want to die just yet.
00:38:33
Speaker
You, in turn, are also welcome next week. Yeah, look at this. Teammates. Yeah. Crewmates. I feel like we need a sign or something, maybe a secret handshake. I don't know if you have anything from your shadow-mend life, but, you know, we could have like a cool little, hey, high five. And we, maybe just me and you to start out with and we can kind of test her on it and find out if it's cool. And if we feel like it's cool, we can then put it to the group and we could be like, yeah, as a crew, we've got our own secret kind of handshake thing.
00:39:01
Speaker
Rainstorm can't surround. Just see if anyone else is awake. You want a secret handshake? No, I would like a cool, like a job well done high five slash handshake slash just a, like a thing, like a thing that we do and people are like, whoa, where did they learn that from? That's so cool. And then before you know it, like, you know, everyone's trying to do it, but they can't because we were the ones that came up with it.
00:39:30
Speaker
And I feel like we could test it on it first, me and you, because we're, you know, obviously the coolest members of the group. And then afterwards we could give it to the rest of the crew.
00:39:39
Speaker
I don't know, I'm just trying to think of ways to get us all closer. We've been a little bit adrift at the moment and a little bit unease and a lot of things are happening and I've just never been put in such a situation where so many big things happen to me all at once and I just want to make sure that we all kind of get on the same page. No, no, it's good. It's good because like when I when you said yesterday about not that I was getting a little heated because I thought I was going a bit south and 7 bar we're cooking people and I don't I want that's not my bag. I don't like to cook people. We shouldn't treat people as a collective whole.
00:40:05
Speaker
But you were right about we don't have time for this distraction. We have to do things. And when I leave my rent about I'm going to save Alpha, it was because you said good things that made a lot of sense to me. So yes, we're going to wake up tomorrow. We're going to go to Snakerun now. I thought we were going to go to Skorshell, but hey, I'm up for cool and changing the play on the slot. Snakerun seems to have this cleric that you talked about. Hope, yeah. I feel like it's a good plan. We have a plan.
00:40:31
Speaker
and I'm totally down for a secret handshake. Just saying, just I'm down for it. Yes. Okay. I'll workshop it in my head and then I'll come up with it and then we can kind of just go through the steps. This is a good point because I only need four hours of trance and then you don't sleep. So we have a natural point to work on our handshake.
00:40:48
Speaker
Good. Plan. We've got plans. I feel like plans is a good thing. I feel like that's the main thing. Right. Okay. I'm going to go and, uh, and it'll motion like read through his book and. Yeah. It's right to take a Rubik's Cube out here and I'm going to flick through the iconic school. Are you staying? Are you watching? Yeah. Yeah. I'll watch me and me and the squirrel and NC will pop out of the bag holding. NC? NC suits.
00:41:14
Speaker
Cool. That thing's full of tricks. Sentient. I know. Right. Good to know you got my back. I feel like this is... I feel like some good things can come out of sticky situations. On you saying full of tricks, NC is going to do its new party piece. It's only picked up sentient words of speech and it's going to go, I am older. It's done that for a while. It's all it can say. It can talk now.
00:41:43
Speaker
I'd never know what to do when a sentient mechanical being... That semi-sentient. Oh. And Nc will give Rains an offended look and Rains will come... Sorry, sorry. Yep. Upon Nc making that statement, Alpha, you sustain
00:42:02
Speaker
Three points of lightning damage. And you are woken out of any low resonant rest you are in. Almost like you have just licked a battery that sort of...
00:42:18
Speaker
level of shock. I know, that's, yeah. We all did that. Yeah, this morning. Any awareness to my end? That's what I need to get off. You just, you just, no, yeah, you would see in the corner of your eye, alpha just go from this static mode to a sudden jolt and it's almost like you are hurt. It's also that moment like, you know, when you're falling, you're just falling asleep and we all experienced that falling sensation. You like have that accompanied with a mild sense of burning. You are like avidly awake at this point.
00:42:48
Speaker
Will I have had the long rest or am I in between? Awkward. Good question. He rolled on it. I don't know just yet. We haven't completed the full night. So we're now in a position where Nick's... Exhausted! Level 3! No, no, no. Nick's, you have returned to your non-active way of resting. You are about to take watch and you've just noticed your boy bolt up. Your boy... Alpha? Yes?
00:43:18
Speaker
I thought you were doing your power down, your rest cycle. I was. Sorry, I had an odd sensation. So yeah, sensation just overcome me. Okay. Are you okay? I'm not sure. I feel, I mean, I feel like I've just been hit by something. Feeling pain.
00:43:47
Speaker
Was there any specific location I would have felt it or just like a general... Some in your core, but you definitely heard, you've definitely heard NC's recited voice in the moments that you then felt that. It was just as NC spoke a pain here, obviously gesturing just to his stomach. Here's what? Alpha, why you been over?
00:44:16
Speaker
That's like weird stomach would normally do. Okay, okay.
00:44:20
Speaker
Okay. Well, there's nothing in your stomach. It's like, but there's nothing there after. It's just just metal. I know. I know. But for want of any better description, that is where it seemed to stem from. Is it just metal? And, and it ties in with, with NC. Yeah. I mean, Alfred, your, your anatomy could be coincidental. You have a relay cortex in your brain and you've got a memory room in your chest. And the rest of you is just as MRI made you it's, it's, it's forged armor. It's forged metal. There's nothing else.
00:44:52
Speaker
Perhaps. Perhaps an oddity or perhaps even linked to the necrotic status. You said NC said something. You didn't dream that. NC just said it. It was a timing situation. It could have been completely coincidental. Which is a point of reference as to when I felt the pain.
00:45:22
Speaker
I tried so hard to say now. I've got Will over my shoulder. I can just hear him. I can just hear him over there. I'm trying to be genuinely concerned. And I've just got Will. I can just hear him. I can just hear him over there. Just for you guys out there in the listening world, while Danny was telling...
00:45:45
Speaker
Callum, where the pain was, Mark was holding up his book and on it was written, ass, in big capital letters. Because we're juveniles, that's broken us. But then Callum's trying to carry on seriously, but every time he twitters, he's got this mustache and it's just kind of vibrating a little bit. It's gone now, the ass sign is gone. It's gone. So you heard NC and you were in pain? Yes. Yes.
00:46:15
Speaker
And she speaks with... it just repeats what that Magnus said. Have you got that obsidian still on you that we took from Magnus? Yes, absolutely. I'm going to reach into my satchel and I'm going to pull out obviously the obsidian stone that was at the centre of Magnus's. And no change, no pulsing coming off that thing? Make a perception check. My best perception check.
00:46:42
Speaker
19. Yeah, it just feels like a piece of mineral, yeah. Yeah. There doesn't appear to be any change. Okay. Do you want me to tell NC to stop? Stop speaking? I don't know. I mean, squirrel doesn't need to speak, no offence, NC. And you can speak through written text by kicking teacups. As an experiment, I think the opposite would be interesting.
00:47:09
Speaker
Okay, NC, I've never tried this before. It's like when your pet starts doing something, you're not sure how to get him to do it again. MC, speak. NC processes something, turns to alpha, and I am older. This is saying two points of lightning damage. And yeah, you will see the same reaction kind of jolt.
00:47:35
Speaker
Whoa, whoa, okay. Okay, it does appear that that is somewhat of a trigger. NC, we cut that out. You understand me? NC will run, drop down the arms, just kick Rains's leather strap that he has when he's not wearing his armour, and it will just come out affirmative. Okay, he understands that. Good. That is not something I would like to pursue much more. But I wonder why.
00:48:06
Speaker
something to do with I don't know I mean we're talking a lot about subtext and subconscious here you powered down when we found Magnus something happened to you and something happened between you and Magnus I don't know maybe maybe there's something in
00:48:24
Speaker
something in the memory of Magnus or something in what Magnus was saying in his voice, because all NC is doing is, it's a mimic, that's not NC's voice, it's just mimicking a sound at third, it's mimicking a... Magnus did have a control over my actions to a certain degree. I remember our combat with the guard Drake. He was able to initiate me to attack certain beings with my weapon.
00:48:55
Speaker
It was completely involuntarily. Okay, well, little Magna thing, here I ask. No, he's not. I'm going to look very morningly down at the stone instead of my hand. Yeah. You've got a fucking episode. Well, look, you...
00:49:20
Speaker
Rains are going to glance at the cart. So their cart has the animals that were pulling it bolted. There were never animals. So it's like a tiny cart that they pull themselves. It's not like a horse and cart cart. Correct. Yeah, that was my thought. Yeah, same. It's an oversized barrow, but fit for halflings. So it looks like a wheelbarrow that a big human would be pushing around. Okay.
00:49:47
Speaker
Look, you're gonna have to, I don't think we can carry you on that thing, so you're gonna have to either walk or jump on, if Seth is willing, one of his magic discs. I will walk for what I can.
Preparing for Snakerun
00:50:00
Speaker
But that means you're gonna need to rest, Alpha, so... I don't hear discs. I'll get some rest, I'm gonna... I'll make sure NC doesn't say anything again. Thank you. I will attempt to resume my power down status.
00:50:17
Speaker
I love that I've got a voodoo doll now. It's like, I just want to have an outfit. Wake up time. Uh, Raynze, would you please make a perception check for your watch? Certainly. It is a 12. So you are getting dawn over the...
00:50:41
Speaker
phase that the period of your watch you are you are seeing dawn rise and what's really remarkable this sunrise is you watched as the moon has set you watch as the disc in the sky the object in the sky this moon-like sphere in the sky stays static the sun begins to rise and it almost looks like a mirror to the sun on the horizon for the first time in
00:51:10
Speaker
Weeks is a cloud.
00:51:16
Speaker
in the direction you are heading. You see a cloud for the first time. Otherwise, the watch passes without incident. One second. No, this is better time to do it now. Go for it. Yeah, as the sun rises, because I've just seen the map that... Is there any... Is the road on the horizon? Because I know that we would... You're on... You're on a road that is running between Snake Run and Steelhorn. That's the patrol that the Acrisca found the brothers on.
00:51:42
Speaker
So we have a more steady path than we have in the previous days. Just follow a road. As you all begin to wake, anyone who went through the night without interruption, please make a constitution saving throw straight roll. Anyone apart from Nix who went through the night and woke up at any point,
00:52:03
Speaker
Not for watch. So that is Enron and that is Alpha. Can you make a disadvantage, please? Yours is a straight roll, Raines, you had a full night's sleep. Yours is a straight roll. Oh, straight constant. Yours is at advantage because you're resistant to fire damage. Yours is at advantage, Baal, as well, for the same reason. Sorry, if that's not clear. Does everyone know what they're rolling? Yes. Great. Okay.
00:52:29
Speaker
Okay. Um, did anybody roll? Well, next, what did you roll? 17. Great. Bob. 11. Great. 18. Great. Seth got 12. Great. 18. Great. 10. Okay. Um, all of you, but Emron, have a restful night, recover everything you need to recover. Your health is restored. Emron.
00:52:55
Speaker
Here. I need you to roll any dice. You have odds. You don't recover any spell slots. Evens. You have two stacks of exhaustion. Okay. Do you have any currently? 11 that's odds. You do not recover any of your spell slots. They stay as they are, but you do not receive exhaustion. I recover my hit points. Hit points back up. Yep. But no spell slots. Damn it.
00:53:25
Speaker
Okay, it is the morning. As you all begin to awake, the brothers, well, Rolo, wakes you all, passes around what they have provisioned for their own trip out, so you've essentially got some sort of dried fruits and vegetables, and says, I reckon if we keep good pace, we'll be there before sunset this eve.
00:53:53
Speaker
Thank you for not killing me and my brother in my sleep. I would love it if we get back unharmed. We've been talking and I think we need a leader to get us there and I'm willing to put myself forward but I don't know any of you and you're quite scary.
00:54:10
Speaker
Anywho, just spitballing, just an idea. We're going to get going. Love if you could just continue to help us get home, and just smiles at you all expectantly, and they start walking north. And you are all left. I'm following them. Yeah, you immediately start to follow. There's five of you. If anyone wants to speak or say anything before you start.
00:54:33
Speaker
Seth would also start walking just like a step or two behind Emron. Okay. But would have nodded like, yeah, he can be the leader. Okay. I'm going to wait until, like, Emron's 30-foot in company, and then I will start to follow. Okay. Reigns won't move until Alpha moves. As soon as Alpha moves, Reigns will stay a safe distance behind Alpha just to keep an eye on him, and we'll start moving as well. Okay. And Baal's going to hang around for Nyx. It's so nice for us to be unified.
00:55:03
Speaker
I was going to say, I'm just going to run towards the front of the group and just kind of like jolly, jolly, walk, walk. No idea what the fuck that is.
00:55:19
Speaker
Never said that in my life. Jolly jolly walk walk. I've got a... Nix is doing a jolly jolly walk walk today. Akidoki. He's in good spirits. So... Yeah, good spirits. You begin that stroll and it looks like the only people who are willing to walk side by side are Nix and Baal and Rains and Alpha. Otherwise there is a bit of a distance between them Ron and Seth or are you able... Just literally like a step or two. Okay, so you're able to be audible with each other if you want to. I would say to Alpha at one point noticing that there seems to be some...
00:55:47
Speaker
A deliberate kind of almost like child petulant child of like not following Enron. I will say at some point you got to keep up Alpha we can't befallen behind people in this desert. I am comfortable with this distance.
00:56:00
Speaker
Oh, you being a little bitch, and I'm here for it. I am here for it. Someone's going on the noise step. This is great. Yeah, knowing he can't force Alpha to move up quicker, Raynes will just... Okay, I'm letting it fall in. Loving it. You can force him, just NC. You've got a little control bolt. I can't be a squirrel cattle pro. You've got a little droid control bolt. Nice. Good God.
00:56:27
Speaker
So we'll assume you're walking, so if any conversations want to happen, feel free to say. There is just this palpable silence within the group. Yeah, I'm going to speak for Cerf, but there's a very much a willingness to get the fuck out of the desert and be somewhere that isn't constant rolling hills of sand. I think that moment is becoming quite sick and just bored of the banality of the surroundings of the quiet and wanting to just
00:56:54
Speaker
make tracks as quick as possible to our destination so we can just have some space and get out of the silence.
00:57:13
Speaker
because this plan has kind of come into fruition here and he knows where we're heading. He feels like it's a little bit lighter today. It takes about 10 minutes for you all to get back to the road. The story rings true with how the halflings told it. They were out prospecting and they called for help and a patrol from a chrisca on the road, came out to meet them.
00:57:34
Speaker
As soon as you hit that road, it is a welcome comfort underfoot. You are able to traverse like your body intended. You're able to experience this world. You just feel lighter, so much lighter than you have done over previous weeks. Does that mean I can take my sandals off? Yeah, you definitely don't feel the need for it now. And actually, they become a bit of a hindrance. It's like wearing football boots on tarmac. You're actually having to walk a bit more careful. That's a very good energy. Right? So the morning progresses.
00:58:05
Speaker
And up until this point, you've sort of been a guide through this space. We haven't felt that urge to now because the road exists. You do, however, approach midday sun and the rolling dunes begin to flatten. You've noticed through that period of that morning, the terrain is becoming flatter. You approach the midday sun.
00:58:33
Speaker
And you can now see down this road a mile, two miles of clarity. Behind you it's still a bit uneven, but it still vast sands through eastern to your west. They're for reference on the map. Listeners, we've got a map of Dralak and they are one hex south
00:58:55
Speaker
I'm so sorry. No fingerprints on the TV. As soon as you get out of the turn, I'm afraid you build up on it. It's like Drago reborn. Danny, I dated a liquor screen. It's an in-joke. It's an in-joke. I saw your finger go into it. I did feel the need to tell you. Ian being a little bitch. There you go. Love you. My bad. Don't. It's not your bad. It's my own hang-ups.
00:59:20
Speaker
fingerprints on screens. Modern day phones, it's hard for me. Right. I've got a laser pointer somewhere. So the players have a map of Dralak and they are one hex south of the town of Snakerun, which is the equivalent of 15 miles. That is what they are making up today. At this point in mid-day where you can see ahead of you for a fair distance, you do spy other road users now at this point.
00:59:46
Speaker
And there is what looks like a sizable patrol of someone about one mile, one and a half miles ahead of you. Just putting that on your radar now. That's going to very quickly, I would have, as the sun slowly starts to rise, remove the abciscara robe and stash that away in its entirety and stuff it into a satchel so it is very much not being worn and not in view.
01:00:11
Speaker
He learned his lesson, but aside from that, you just keep pace with him, run silently, stoically. Everyone's going to be about to speak to you. Who said that? Sorry. Yeah, of course, if you wish to try and- Sorry, I was waiting if Danny had any more description he wanted to do. Okay, jump in. So everyone's sort of, he's had the silence and he decides to sort of like try and sort of fill it up. So, what we reckon, plan is, once we're in a snake run, he says to
01:00:38
Speaker
I think Nick's had an idea to find this Hope person, a cleric. We spoke to Rolo and it's a dwarf with a tattoo on her face with a star on the temple.
01:00:51
Speaker
Oh, I'm glad you've got a description because when Nix was telling me last night, honestly, it's hard. It could be anyone. It could be anyone. Hi. Oh, that fucking written down. She's a dwarf. Blonde hair. Lots of tattoos. Drunk was one of the first words. So Nix and I thought perhaps a tavern or a place, a tea room. I don't know if you've heard of them. No. She might frequent a tea room. I don't think it's alcohol they drink here. I think it's some kind of drug.
01:01:20
Speaker
So it's something to be aware of. So I don't know if this town is going to be filled with layabouts and louts if you have my opinion. I think Rolo suggested that it might be a place we can also get equipment and you seem to imply that we're not exactly well equipped for
01:01:36
Speaker
No, you're not. It's good that we have that option there as well. I know that I can cast a spell on myself to hide my appearance should we worry about the compatriots from before recognizing us.
01:01:51
Speaker
Do you have any ability like that or just the rest of the others that you travel with, the ones from your homeland? Do they have the ability to hide how they look? I know Alpha can. Rean might be able to. It might be one of his spells, I don't know. But yeah, only Alpha and mainly it was because obviously he sort of stands out in a crowd if you...
01:02:13
Speaker
OK, do you think it might be... Oh, Alfie, you got close there. Had you run so fast with your little metal feet? Do you think if you was... That was a short joke made by Darren.
01:02:34
Speaker
Do you think it's wise that we travel this one big group, or perhaps we stagger our entrance? I know that the toll road, or the tower room, or the house. The toll house. That's the one. Is the other side, so we don't have to pass the cristrapid. There might be some inside the town. Perhaps, but we might also be overthinking this entire thing. Maybe they come across Benditsi in the deserts all the time, and we are but one of many.
01:03:04
Speaker
Who knows what's gonna happen? I mean, that patrol up there, I mean, is that, is that purple to you? I can't tell in this heat, in this, whether it's this... It's just shivering, it's just a calm way to get out of this bloody heat. One thing we might be good to, to decide upon is perhaps a meeting place if everything goes south, and let's be honest,
01:03:25
Speaker
It probably will, given our track record so far. Given the bar, might try to set something on fire. Yeah, or I'll punch someone. So maybe a landmark or something outside of the town, in case we get separated, that we could re-meet up at dawn or I don't know.
01:03:42
Speaker
Right, no, it's a good plan. Aside from that though, I don't have any other ideas. Once we're close so we can talk to side, what to do, whether we need to split our resources to get equipment and that kind of stuff, or we all go as one blob around town. This group approaching, as you say, I don't know. I can't tell them, are we just overthinking it or should we be waiting? Let's just see what happens.
01:04:05
Speaker
And yeah, Seth's going to be now eyeing it. He didn't really notice it on the mirage of the horizon, but he's going to be concerned eyeing it and it will be, his hand will be down by his spell book, holding onto a tab, just not setting anything, but just flavored to what being aware of danger approaching. Rolo is sensitive to the nerves that have just sort of appeared. And you two being the front, just sort of,
Akrisca Patrol Encounter
01:04:31
Speaker
You feel this small pouch being thrown back out of you and he just turns and says, put those on, put those on now and just don't say a word, all right? What is it? What do you get? And he's gonna open up the- There's just a bunch of orange wrist wrappings or linen wrappings. Put them on your wrist, just pass it back, put them on. Oh, fuck, he's gonna look at everyone. Okay, I suppose, just do it.
01:05:02
Speaker
Don't know what this means. He's going to wrap one round his wrist and then turn around and apologetically look at the others and kind of wave them towards them. Yeah, he's going to be a passing back and kind of whoever was next in the... Emron. Oh yeah, sorry. Give one to Emory and then turn to whoever's behind Nix and just hand them over to Nix.
01:05:29
Speaker
Put these on. Apparently. On our wrist. Cool, makes sense. Rollo said, bow. Yes, very well. Who's behind me? That's 30 feet behind you, isn't it? Eek. Alpha and reins. Next. Catch. Yeah, okay. Darren, Darren mind catching something there.
01:05:56
Speaker
So that was wonderful, I loved it. I'm Wolfenbruch. I was down with this problem. Yeah, no, exactly. I wanted everyone to know at home what you were doing because it was fucking brilliant. It was wonderful. Okay, fine, but a range of glance forward so everyone else has put them on. I assume they're like just orange, kind of like Ultimate Warrior style. Ultimate Warrior style, do they come all the way down in different neon colours? They would if you were a halfling.
01:06:24
Speaker
But even on a normal person, I like to like that, I guess in the middle of the forearm. So Rains will see that and we'll just, okay, fine. Alpha, everyone else has done this. I suggest you do the same. Very well. Yeah, Alpha, Alpha. So that's going to look back at everyone and be like, shit.
01:06:39
Speaker
and said to everyone, everyone agree with something for once. He marked the day down in the diary. Now we look like a proper crew. Rolo, what does this signify? That we're a crew. We're not like your slaves or anything like that. That we're a proper crew. No, if you were slaves, you'd have our collars. No, so what you... It'll make sense when we get to snake run, but...
01:07:05
Speaker
If it looks like you're one of Vossen's lot, if it looks like you're a mercenary band, the Kriska won't bother you. Oh right, okay. Or at least they will be less suspicious. That's quite a big group and if they are of Kriska, just don't do anything stupid. So that makes us, the bands make us look like we're Vossen's crew. Yeah. You'll understand more when we get to Snakerun. It'll make sense there. I trust you, Leader, don't worry.
01:07:32
Speaker
I'm the leader. Seeing a patrol ahead, Reigns would have gone, come on Alpha, as if we're not hanging back anymore, the time for petty point scoring is over. Oh, hide him. What? We don't get very many metal men that might be interested. Please have a blanket in the car. Put him on the car. Alpha, change your appearance. I can hide myself.
01:07:55
Speaker
And, yeah, I'll cast the sky itself. What do you look like now, my person? I look like the same kind of female elf that we saw back in, and I can't help but coin it now, Dragon's Den. Damn! Alpha looks hot! Deborah Meaden has just tasted it. Deborah Meaden, you turn into Deborah Meaden! That's your eye, El! It's Deborah Meaden's canon.
01:08:18
Speaker
So you now look like this female elven is born. You never really got to see a lot of the intricacies of the details, so you're having to fill it in with other references from female elves that you've seen.
01:08:31
Speaker
It doesn't really look like the most organic representation of that. It looks a bit makeshift, but you also seem to look a bit like a seasoned grizzled veteran, like Scard and Miss Shapen. Almost like...
01:08:49
Speaker
A little bit like how Seth's facial composition rests, right? You are having to put together multiple bits of information that don't make it look like one clean face. Yeah. Look like you're ready to make a good investment for some solid returns. It's like patchwork stuff. Sort of, yeah.
01:09:08
Speaker
So as you all done these and this distance now becomes imminently and more and more reduced, you're about a quarter of a mile apart and you are seeing unmistakably purple cloaks and shimmering silver white suits of armour. They're moving at quite a pace. They've marked you on the road and they're beginning to just sort of, most of them are mounted. They begin to sort of
01:09:35
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increased their speed towards you be about a quarter mile away. Rains will just turn to alpha and say just remember anything that you don't have is an illusion and isn't there so don't be touching your hair or anything like that because you ain't gardening. Feels weird to be saying that to someone else. Very good reminder Rains thank you. So this distance now closes to 200 feet. By that
01:10:01
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Seth will reach down and he'll kind of be fumbling a little bit and he'll pull off one of the bookmarks he's got. And it kind of, the red smoke kind of just swells in the air randomly for a minute. He just kind of holds it and just kind of pushes it on his face as he's going to cast this guy's self as well. And he's going to aim to look like a friend of his, another soldier. So kind of like dark black hair, kind of dark features
01:10:28
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um we're kind of quite tan skin a little bit shorter than he currently is and a little bit stockier as well so um yeah just just to yeah look different because he knows he is a an instigator and a and a crisscross person that he might be looking for so he's gonna yeah put that on and then just continue walking uh looking down at the ground okay and i just want to do anything i'm happy to see how this plays out
01:10:55
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Okay, so the distance now reduces and you see us as Rollo raises a hand to the chris square and you get within about 20, 15 feet of the vanguard, the individual at the front of this patrol who just goes and at that point they seem really interested until they get quite close and they see, they seem to respond to the orange wrappings that you're all wearing.
01:11:21
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And this individual just mounted, goes side by side with the car, and everyone just comes to a company stop for a second. This individual reaches over and says, ah, Dendi blooms, is it? I don't suppose you've seen the lost patrol out here?
01:11:37
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And Rolo replies, no, no. We've been looking for some killtrad, but I didn't have much luck. Luckily, these vipers have been worth their money in salt. Is that the expression? I don't know. But no, you lost the patrol, did you? And he's playing it really cool, quite inspiringly so. And the one who's speaking just marks Rolo's words and begins to look around the group with suspicion.
01:12:04
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There are moments where they sort of dwell on some of you, but you are not... You get the idea that you don't match descriptions of anyone they're looking for. They look at you with suspicion, but they are acknowledging of those orange wrist wrappings. And then there is a sly look between a couple of them that you notice. No one really says anything.
01:12:28
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and the one who had spoken from the aquisca, they number about 17, 18, just says, well, I'm sorry to hear your venture was without reward. Take care, and they continue marching past. As they march past, one of them just double takes. Ball.
01:13:01
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And you notice as the horse that that one is in just about faces and just says, hang on a minute, Dragonborn. And that is where we're going to end this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop Bellum Draconis. Didn't disguise Baal. We went for Alpha, but we didn't go for the Dragonborn that he and them. Wow.
01:13:31
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Oh shit, indeed. Well, to find out, you're going to have to tune in and listen next week as I almost sneezed into the mic and it's still there into my nose. Thank you very much for tuning in, making us a party every day. We love you for it. If you wanted to keep up to date with the podcast, thanks for taking my photo. I love doing this live. Oh, could you imagine if that worked? I thought you were just wanting a picture of me for your own personal gain.
01:14:00
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