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Ep. 137 Suppin on Dreams - Bellum Draconis
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The hot sun beating down on our exhausted party, do they spy an Oasis in the distance?
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Bohemian Rhapsody Reference
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Magnifico.
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I'm just a poor boy. Nobody loves me. He's just a poor boy.
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Spare him his life from his monstrosity. do do dooo do to Easy come, easy go. Will you let me go? Bismillah. No. Let him go. Bismillah. We can totally do this.
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Let him go.
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Oh, man. Oh, man. We've been missing a trick all the time. Fuck me. Let him go. No, no, no, no. I assume this is Bohemian Rhapsody now.
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loving it. i'm having the best time. Do the whole thing.
Fellowship of the Tabletop Introduction
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Belum Draconis. We are a live play 5e D&D 2024 podcast set in the magical homebrewed world of Aerith in the kingdom of Dralak. Joining you for this week's episode, we've got Will who plays the Dragonborn Druid Balvalcon.
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it's main i'm drinking guinness we've got the edge lord callum who playd the war forged artificer alpha i have a whiskey woo e and plays the thflling warsarer ni corral hi it's me i'm the problem it's menight but like eric i'm right time i'm drinking banta I spent a while calling you Clemron, didn't I? I remembered that. Oh, yes, Clemron.
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That's his evil brother. That's his twin. When anyone dies, he's like, no, I'm his brother, Clemron. Excellent. My name is Mark, and I'm playing the human blade singer Seth Farah-Rever.
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And by last, but by no means least, is our Chronicle Conjurer, our Curator of Chaos, the Chieftain of Challengers, the Cunnilingus Commander of Combat. LAUGHTER
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You've made someone snort hard there. There's snorting going on. Is that you, Will?
Humorous Anecdotes and Reflections
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I give that two snorts. I've practiced that before to make sure I didn't laugh and it didn't work.
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Dungeon Master Danny! Well du rock oh done, done. It was either your nose that made that noise or you just farted and laughed. I couldn't stop myself.
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um so the don I'm looking back at them and they all, I can see them all very clearly. Now the have testicle tickling fantasy foreskin quartermaster of quests are queef Lord, edgelord spectators of our sex gulper. Oh God. I can just see them all popping out in bold.
00:03:24
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I put the, I put the rude ones in bold. So I know to expect them. It doesn't help. The thing is, I know it's going to happen and I still... Anyway. um I like to think of the times when you come up with these things. I think it's like 3am and you sit right up in bed and you're I must write this down.
00:03:43
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i i imagine i'm imagine you're sat at the dinner table be like... Just giggle to yourself. Cards on the table. it's It's usually as I'm putting my children to bed. They're asleep. And I'm like, I've got to do this.
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Quickly get my phone out. find the Find the dock I've got them all in. I'll use some of these and then I'll... what it oh Can I ask what the title of that dock is? It's called... So I can find it quickly. It's literally called Hello Everyone and Welcome to this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop.
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sorry i said Do you not get a warning? Say warning, file name too long. No, funnily not. Google Docs just don't give a fuck.
Beach Arrival and Character Antics
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and Speaking of not giving a fuck, we find ourselves at the beach.
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Not just any beach. The beach Goldview. Near the docks. And all we see is a Rather jovial-looking, long-bearded, grey-skinned, long-toed old girl walking down the beach. But funnily enough, the footprints that he leaves don't even look particularly human because of the length of his long and gnarled toes.
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He takes in the view of the sea, the waves lapping against the coast, also lapping against enormously long toes, and he's not in a mankini. He yeah continues walking down the beach, picks up a small pebble, compares it to the orb, and then begins.
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I don't even need to buy flip-flops. They just do the trick for me.
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Oh, impy immortality! Alpha tries to revert to his usual form, but realizes that shit's gonna hurt. Ball gets Nix to read his mind, and it's porn. It's just porn.
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Nix's first watch goes without much incident, but he does notice a perimeter of tiny spiders in Ball's watch at the stroke of midnight. All 12-leggy legs of that thing in the sky done do line up in a light behind the moon or with the moon there.
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Emron had his sky-wet dream, and instead of doing a watch, just trains for the whole fucking watch instead. Seth starts writing in his book, which goes all chamber of secrets, but keeps him waiting How can I be better, he asks.
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And then a sigil appears and it grows and it drops out of the book. And then the sigil turns gold and it becomes egg-like.
Backstory of Nithravar Kinalix Umbrafeth
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And then a creature appears out of the egg. And it's a toothy, gross, fucked up kind of thing. And it's all like Crelius Crimson.
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And Seth's tone turns out belongs to someone else. Oh, Titties, this creature thing's called Nithravar Kinalix Umbrafeth or some shit. And it seems to know a little bit about Nyx.
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Pa's like, I don't like it. I'm going to cook a bitch. And then Nyx brain fucks Seth to try and get to the bottom of what on earth is going on. But Seth's got no idea. Turns out he done stole the book from a dead Krellius on the Battle of the Blight.
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And after a little bit more chat, Nithravar's like, let's just clip the fucking clock.
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The sun rises on Scorch Helm's Eastern Road as you near the end of your journey to Beach Barrow Port, almost entirely rested from the ambush of the chitinus-like insectoid creatures that you fought yesterday, and that rolling fatigue that some of you are still carrying from the conclusion of the Jewel of the Desert Champions.
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Oh, fuck, I am exhausted. Exhaustion free, baby. yeah. That's me prompting you all just to... Well rested. Just double check those exhaustion levels. God, dang it. Today is a fine day for a travel.
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The sky is cloudy and covering the sun from its piercing heat, and the wind blows this briny breeze off the sea from the north as these craggy, sandy buff bluffs that you've been traversing for two days begin to make way for more savannah-like plains.
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Clip-clopping at a speedy pace and a well-maintained road, this is some of the most comfortable travelling conditions you've experienced since leaving Sleetgart just over a month ago.
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um going to interrupt today's context setting to issue an apology to every single player at this podcast.
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It would appear ah number of months ago have didn't completely give an entire list of names to a party. I told that party when they read a list of names, they will hear that name only once and it contains 13 names.
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In my haste, or perhaps nerves, or perhaps just drunken stupor, I only announced 12s and then proceeded to tell the entire party that there were 13 names, therefore accidentally gaslighting them for a number of months. took the shit out of us.
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I like to think you were gaslighting Callum. And that's so okay. You gave us hell. ah we We were also given hell in character by that bloody... all right Oh, hell yeah. I feel life was like... I have a perfect memory.
00:08:51
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I don't remember this 13th name. No, I feel like this is justice for Alpha, really, more than anything. and Because I didn't give a shit. I assumed Callum had misheard and I was here for it.
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But we all made notes. In your defence, I assumed the same thing. We all wrote it down and no one us counted. note just said Callum is a fuck-up and I've been on that. like When Danny announced them, I also wrote them down, but none of us thought to count after Danny had sent them.
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So, listener, for your benefit, this happened in... Callum, I'm going to need you here. ah Which episode was it? 116? We found the names out. so it's been a while, guys. We're talking, like, yeah this this is, like, January stuff, like, when this came out, and we've been holding on to this live for six months.
Game Mechanics and Planning Mishaps
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I think it's 117. think it's 17, 117. I was close. I was very close. Yeah. Not quite. We've since remedied this situation and at some point Alpha will magically remember the 13th day.
00:09:57
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Oh look, a little dove has come down from the sky. What is it, dove? This is an important lesson that that DMs make mistakes sometimes too. And as recompense for accidentally... If he gets a level up.
00:10:10
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Absolutely not. Something arguably more powerful. For accidentally misleading you for a number of months... I give you a token that you can use at any time.
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um was just like, ah he only tells the truth, but I always lie bullshit like we've had before. and No, genuinely, this is an apology. You fuck on me, I fuck on you. now Is this one token or? Here's how it goes. Here's how goes.
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At any point between now and Christmas,
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you may turn any dice you roll into a crit. Or any dice I roll into a critical failure.
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Now is this Callum or do we get one each? No, one for the party. Okay. So you may want to save it for a really benign moment, or you may wish to save it for a world-changing moment. I'm up 10 gold cheaper. I'm up for just giving this token to Callum and letting him keep hold of that because... Oh, because you've got the all or nothing coin.
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Fuck you. I want Yeah.
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Are you clear? at any point in the game, you can cash that in as we'll call it that egg on Danny's face token.
00:11:30
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That's useful. like yeah For a dead saving you call a death saving throw. release anything yeah yeah yeah fool we Before the next year's Christmas special airs, you have to redeem this token.
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I will never remind you of this. But you've to be careful. If we give it to Callum, he will forget about it like his goblin army. So please just bear that in mind. It's true. I've forgotten about the goblin army. just feel like... I'm letting them have their independence. I just feel like after all this time, Callum's the one who's ate the most shit over this non-mistake. He also accepted it the easiest, though.
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He was like, yeah, probably. That sounds like a thing I do. It does sound like a thing I would do. Missing out missing out a name is definitely yeah something I would only have six months to use this. I like the ah the poetry as well of Danny going, I will never repeat this.
00:12:20
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yes Now, back to our game. You press on through the sunrise this morning, two preparation dyes still available to you, and with an extra companion in tow as you struggle to unburden yourselves from your new Quazit stowaway.
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Nithrifar Kainelax Umbraket. I hope I pronounced that right, Mark. Yeah, yeah, Baal, as the guide of our adventure, you estimate that in these conditions, if they continue, you would see Beach Barra Port by this afternoon. Mm-hmm.
00:12:57
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What, may I ask, are the party doing on the travel this morning?
00:13:07
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Oh, wow. Emron is um looking over the yeah the letter that we got, that we found in the, or Alpha, sorry, found in the ruins of the dead mummy snake or whatever worm it was.
00:13:21
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Emron's just looking over that um because obviously it makes reference to someone in Beach Barrow Port. um And he sort of looks at it and goes to the others that are in the back. Is it just Nixon Alpha in the back with me?
00:13:37
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ah Yeah, I'd be in part. yeah I've been traveling up ah Yeah. Isn't Baal usually on the elephant? ah Seth, you're on the reins of it.
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I've been beside Seth. ah unless I can be sat at the back. like you know yeah If we pull open the back sheet, so it's almost like you know like those little carts, like the Western carts. I imagine we've opened the sheet so you can see we we can sit it in the back and stillll see your backs and talk to you, I imagine, maybe. ah Cool, cool, cool. cool cool So everyone's sort of looking going...
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So I wonder if this ah this fella in Beatsborough Port might be a good person for us to try and seek out just to get a lay of the land when we get there.
00:14:26
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Is this the Emron fella that we were told about? You're Emron. We are talking to Emron. I'm Emron. No, no. So McBenners is the one we got to rescue, but it was the...
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the um and em everyone sort of looks through the through the letter, this Dernak, the person who hired Dernak is in Beach Barrow Port.
00:14:49
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So he might be someone, obviously, that we could seek out to try and work out what's going on. Because all the only information we've had is McBenner was in the port watching what the McCrisker were doing, and then they haven't heard from him.
00:15:03
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So I feel like it's a bit unwise of us to just go in there unprepared if you what mean. One could almost make the argument as well. However, we do not know this particular individual that you are claiming we go to. How can we be confident that he may be trustworthy of our goals?
00:15:25
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Well, I'm hoping that as a member of Clan Shadow Shield, ah can go up to this ah Master Sandrope and hopefully impart upon the fact that, you know,
00:15:38
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Dernacky's unfortunately passed away. We can hopefully try and fu fulfill whatever he was being hired to do. By the way, what's going on around here then? Didn't it say in the letter what he was trying to do? Well, he was trying to find an oar and we've agreed to go back because Nick's now quite interested in going to find out this. Yep, yep, yep. On the way back, we're going to go have a look.
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But yeah. And he didn't have a map or any of this stone with him. No, I don't think that. Alpha, you had a look through his stuff. Indeed, I'm afraid there was no remnant of any kind of amber stone that he seems to mention.
00:16:18
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But he says that he's found it and he's the dead one. so Yeah, he's located a ah vein of rare amber stone that we spoke of, as well as shards of crystal that might serve your designs at the Sailmaker's Guild.
00:16:29
Speaker
But hasn't said where they are. But I think we can assume they're in the tunnels where these wormyworms... Found him. It's logical sense that they are somewhere within caverns on the cliffside. He does say these unforgiving chasms where the sun is cruel. yeah
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It is not a guarantee, but it is more information than what we have.
00:16:55
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It just... It was for the Salesmakers Guild. what Amber, Crystal, this is...
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The ship they must be designing for this. I've got to see this. I mean, if Nixie's right, if if they're doing it for the sailmakers, then maybe this stone and this crystal, if they're putting it into the sails, maybe it's it can be imbued with magic, don't know, to catch...
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wind really strong and he emeralds sort of looking at nix for like the naval vernacular of whatever he's trying to say it's a fucking flex emeralds that's what it is he's gonna imbue it with amber for a fucking flex to to make that son of a bitch shine on the sea this is someone with power And wealth. Anyway, he sounds like someone potentially that could be a good way of saying, and you know, if the Krissker say, what are you doing here? We say, ah, i can show my guild mark and say, here from Clan Shadow Shield, seeking out um Master Sandrope on business.
00:18:02
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We've got the letter. Go from there. ah That's a bit better than saying we've caught one of your own points to Seth and we're here to deliver him. Yeah, I just figured it's a good way of us getting in. If if if anyone asks us why we're there, we've got a reason why. i can say we're from Clan Shadow Shield.
00:18:20
Speaker
This is the contract brought in. We're trying to get some more information before we try and fulfil the end of the contract that Dernak can't keep. Because he's dead.
00:18:33
Speaker
It does make it difficult to keep the contract. but it do It does, yeah. it was made with My apologies, Emron, please. No, no, no, go on, go on. I would just... What makes them think if... that we aren't the ones that killed Durnak? Well, there's Clan Shadow Shield. I can vouch that taking, you know, arms against a fellow clan he would be abhorrent.
Travel Challenges and Oasis Encounter
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Perhaps we should have taken an instant as well. Sorry, left Alpha, Emron just interrupted you. That was very rude. What did you want to say? Are you feeling okay there, Nix?
00:19:15
Speaker
I haven't felt this good for a while. not going to lie to you. How are you feeling? like You've had a lot of stuff happen to you. like You've changed your personality. You've got new magic to you now. like the did Is that you forever? Can you change back?
00:19:29
Speaker
I believe, according to um what I recall from the princess, i I can change back within seven days of when I changed originally.
00:19:41
Speaker
To be fair, you do have good memory. You remembered those 13 names. Yeah, Savvy. Ah, yes, actually, I do. Could you can't just remind us all of those names? A light bulb pops out of Alpha's head.
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How does it feel? like Do you feel different? Are you still alpha? i am still alpha, but the energy that moves within me is of one more natural.
00:20:15
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Your magic is different because none of your artificiary works. Yes, very true. I'm afraid at the moment all of that has expired.
00:20:26
Speaker
Does your gun still work? Yes. If I had a bullet to fire, yes. We've been there. get I don't think it needed a bullet. Oh, no. Or is it because the artificiary magic meant you need bullets, but now you do need bullets?
00:20:36
Speaker
Exactly. Yes. I could probably make or something. By all means, it would be handy to have a sum of the world's case scenario. Why would you offer and then decide to think about it? Well, no. I need to work out. All right, Alpha. Unfortunately, can't make something out nothing.
00:20:55
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but need to think about whether it is possible for me to do so somehow. I love a sassy alpha. This is going to be a good day.
00:21:04
Speaker
Perhaps it is the princess. So you're our alpha. At least you're not just shouting there going, princess, princess, because that was really weird. That landed us in a lot of shit. still don't recall that. That did land us in a lot of shit.
00:21:19
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Unless about that.
00:21:23
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I'll dart to Nick's. yeah And he looks around and Barl's kind of recollecting as well, cooking, shorty and sort of... Nick's face is just tinging with a little bit red as he remembers a silent spell.
00:21:39
Speaker
So anyway, does this sound like a plan for us to get into? If just in case, I figured, being as we were so well organised recently, that us having a plan before we get to the place is probably good.
00:21:50
Speaker
I believe it's a good avenue to pursue, but perhaps not reveal all our cards so quickly to this guildmaster. No, but what mean if the upcrist were like, stop, you can't come in here because we're dicks, we then have enough a reason to get in.
00:22:03
Speaker
have a question. And Nyx raises his hand up and looks back at everyone. We're all sat within like 10 feet of each other. yeah who's going to Are we all clan Shadow Shield or just you and we're like your foot just soldiers?
00:22:16
Speaker
Just me and we've I've like hired you out. Oh, we're mercer at mercenaries in this whole fantasy. I figured that way. It's it's it's easier to sell than you trying to pretend you're ah guild member. I like this. like little bit of roleplay.
00:22:30
Speaker
Sorry, Bar, Nick spoke over you. Sorry, didn't hear you. No, no, it happens. i I was just asking, what's my going rate? ah next is the good Nick's to pay you in kind. Oh, am I the leader of the mercenaries? Yeah.
00:22:43
Speaker
Yeah. Hey. So he dishes out. Seth can't speak. Alpha's anything can happen, mate. And yeah. i Do we need to worry about the quosets room?
00:23:01
Speaker
And also this at that eyes open up very, very wide. It's been hanging like a bat. I think that's what Danny put it last underneath, underneath the, um, the, the kind of the seat of the, of, of, of our trunks is carrying and he's been hanging there kind of slowly swaying. And then at the mention of cause of the eyes kind of open up and then continue to open up. So there's like the size of the, the creature's head, but it doesn't move.
00:23:28
Speaker
Well, I mean, we could pass it off as like, I don't know, Alpha's got sorceress power or it could be your familiar or Seth's. I don't know.
00:23:41
Speaker
We could just put it in a bag. Is it even awake? Hello? That seems rather... I imagine Nick's like kicking it with his heel. Just poking it. you sort of have to lean over thick wagon and under because it's sort of underneath Seth's seat.
00:23:58
Speaker
And then as it's sort of is mentioned, Seth describes, its just sort of leaning around. my tail, Seth. I'm going under. Yeah, it just it just meets your stare, Nix.
00:24:09
Speaker
Good morning.
00:24:13
Speaker
it's about A shield of shadow. Curious.
00:24:18
Speaker
Yeah, it's on board. Nick comes back up. He understands that we're the Shadow ah shadow Shields. Clan Shadow Shield.
00:24:30
Speaker
Okay, good plan, just in case you'll Chris Grah stop us from going in. But we're mercenary. Is your Clan Shadow Shield? I am. Yep. I don't have to lie.
00:24:42
Speaker
Savvy.
00:24:45
Speaker
What do you think, Seth?
00:24:48
Speaker
Seth looks at you and ah his mouth kind of moves a little bit and then he kind of looks looks down towards like the the base of the seat and frowns again and then just holds the reins and and continues clip-clopping.
00:25:04
Speaker
Yeah, I don't need to read your mind. His cheeks are red. Don't need to read your mind for that. Seth's on board.
00:25:14
Speaker
Oh, wow. Did you did he did you like speak telepathically to him as you said he's in? he just said more with his eyes. Okay. They're dark and brooding, going to have a thousand tails.
00:25:26
Speaker
At this, Nithravar, his eyes going to open up and he's going to suddenly appear on Seth's shoulder and he's going to be staring at the eye patch and the missing eye and then look to Nyx and then stare back at the missing eye and then back to Nyx.
00:25:46
Speaker
Kind of doing this. set Nix is now staring at Nifrothar, but I'm blinking. just
00:25:53
Speaker
think we've got a staring competition going on.
00:25:57
Speaker
Strange. In my generation, purality comes from the multiplicity of more than one. Here, you mention it with only one.
00:26:10
Speaker
and don't have any idea clue what you said. I don't understand. That's beyond me. Simplicity, I see. you said eyes. Seth only has one.
00:26:24
Speaker
i see past disabilities.
00:26:29
Speaker
Ah, you two are pass-through of planes, I see. Seeing through the sands of time itself. Curious. does not break because there is nothing to break a shield of shadows interesting yeah um about the shield of shadows when we get to our destination and we put on this performance not so much a performance because he is uh and nick's points to emron a clan shadow shield member uh but when we when we put forward this
00:27:03
Speaker
this unit, this front, you're not going to say anything and do this weird thing that you're doing to us? Like, is this a is this you're doing this just to us or is this something you put out there into the world?
00:27:14
Speaker
Because that's kind of something we need to know about if that's the case. World is an interesting term. i can see through many dimensions and times, see. Which dimension do you wish me to change?
00:27:27
Speaker
Is there a dimension where you shut Ah, time is a river. Swim, swim, and some do drown.
00:27:37
Speaker
And then he's going to turn and almost whisper into Seth's, but bear in mind he's got like a thousand needle teeth and he's going to turn them really close and they each kind of twitch a little bit and he's hes really close to Seth's. Seth hasn't moved, still facing forward and he's just going to say, why do you carry blades if not to cut?
00:27:54
Speaker
Why do you carry magic if not to command? A weapon used is a promise unbroken.
00:28:04
Speaker
And he's looked back towards the rest of the group with his large, unblinking eyes. Mainly at Nick's, staring back, and unblinking.
00:28:13
Speaker
I feel like I can beat it, guys. We have tried. Huh? No, el Alpha, I'm talking about the staring competition and Nick breaks eye contact to look at Alpha. Alpha! I win!
00:28:28
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yeah
00:28:32
Speaker
And then it's going to just reappear underneath, hanging like a bat again with his eyes closed underneath the... ah And at that, you see a single, Nix, you see a big ah single bead of sweat dripping down Seth's face ah that he doesn't wipe away as he continues to clip-cop.
00:28:48
Speaker
and I think it likes you, Nix. It's only weird creature. like i have a type.
00:29:02
Speaker
So we all look to Baal. Speaking of your type, Baal, what are you doing? Baal was there kind of taking in what what this creature was going for or saying occasionally. He was like, he's umming and ahhing because he knows...
00:29:16
Speaker
Like it's odd, it's weird, but he can't get rid of it. And he's just thinking, I wonder if I tried to kill it now, if it would stay dead. And he keeps going to to chime in, but the conversation happens. We kind of stopped and goes, nope, do you know what?
00:29:31
Speaker
Nevermind. And he's just going to continue kind of spin himself back around on the top of trunks and continue to navigate the way or keep his eyes peeled really on the horizon. Cause as you said, there's going several hours to get there.
00:29:43
Speaker
um It's relatively peaceful, but our journeys do not seem to be without incident. So he's keeping his eyes peeled for ah for exactly that.
00:29:56
Speaker
Then you press on till the midday sun without any incident. The roads here are particularly well kept, of course, to control the roads and they are in a perfect state of condition. They are not broken, they are not they are wide enough and they seem to not um yield to Trunks's weight or the weight of the wagon at all.
00:30:24
Speaker
As you pass through the midday period, however, and and you're sort of enduring a bit more heat than you're used to this day,
00:30:33
Speaker
Seth, wonder if you could just make a menual animal and manual handling, an animal handling check for me, please. ah Manual handling. I've got my PPE for manual handling. Make sure you lift what you need.
00:30:44
Speaker
Keep back straight. I haven't done my COSH training yet either. I'm looking for manual handling. Animal handling. course, not problem. Can I cast guidance? Yep.
00:30:56
Speaker
as i'm next to you yeah what's that as a d4 no d6 no one d4 uh so nix will just kind of tap you on the shoulders he notices that you're having to have a grip harder or you're just something's changed in the way that you carry in the reins and he'll just you're right bud and nix will slap you on the shoulder and cast some guidance your way nice i rolled a 19 plus the three that makes it 22 yeah you're fine
00:31:24
Speaker
the cool morning sort of misprepared your body a little bit and you you all got a bit comfortable with with sort of a ah manageable 25 degree heat and then when this cloud break happened around midday it's just it's hard to concentrate a little bit set in that heat and you don't know if it's just you getting tired but trunks is getting stronger and and pulling more like a like a dog that doesn't behave on leash and you're you're
00:31:55
Speaker
You're actually working quite hard to maintain the speed that you want to maintain and maintain control, despite Bile's every effort. It's not really... Bile, you're not really noticing that Seth is losing control. You just feel like Seth has got this in hand because...
00:32:11
Speaker
Trunks appears to be following the road, but and you're not because your sort of your center of gravity is on Trunks, you're not like breath the bent you're not really feeling that ah the throwing of the weight as it sort of oscillates. But because you guys are further back and you you're away from that pivot point, you notice that Seth is driving this a bit chaotically as you're all sort of shaking from left to right a little bit.
00:32:35
Speaker
But despite all that, Seth, you're still able to maintain a good um handle of the reins, so to speak.
00:32:47
Speaker
His pace, however, gets quicker and quicker as though he's being chased. And you can't help but look around and notice there isn't anything around you. But the speed at which he's moving is just pulling quicker and quicker than you can handle.
00:33:04
Speaker
Seth, you you're holding on to everything that controls chunks now with with complete strength and everything you're doing to sort of yank him back and control him to slow down isn't working.
00:33:14
Speaker
It's like he's honing in on something. It's like he's found another gear. he's He's in full sprint at this point. And, Bal, could you just make a dexterity saving throw just because this is getting a bit harder for you to maintain your balance? There's no saddle on him.
00:33:32
Speaker
Let's go. Riding him bareback, baby. Ah, it's a seven.
00:33:37
Speaker
So you all watch as Baal sort of slips to the side and very ungraciously, you you do enough to stay on him, but you're like, your one hand is holding the rope and you're sort of dangling beside him, occasionally grabbing his tail and you're sort of twistering around the side of this elephant trying to stay on, mounted.
00:33:58
Speaker
You're able to pull yourself up. It's not enough for you to fall. Right. And as you sit on trunks, your eyes begin to focus, Barl, instinctively, like
00:34:15
Speaker
there's a sort of primal response in your core. If you could make a constitution, just a straight constitution check for me. Yeah, of course. Let's just see.
00:34:27
Speaker
I have a plus two to constitution, which, wow, rolled well. It's a 21. You're feeling ah a compelled sense towards a certain direction, like like birds must feel when they're migrating south, like they just instinctively know they need to do this thing.
00:34:41
Speaker
Like moths to a flame, like something primal in you is in tune with trunks and you want to sprint as fast as you can eastward.
00:34:55
Speaker
As you sort of scan as to why you have that instinct, you see on the horizon and oasis.
00:35:04
Speaker
It's about half a mile away and it's about maybe a quarter mile in diameter lined with these really lush palm trees. This isn't out of nowhere. this you know you You've sort of been in this state between desert and savannah for for a couple of hours and you are seeing palm trees, but you're not seeing this big lake almost of ah of water.
00:35:28
Speaker
And you see this and and you are pulled, Baal, and this is clearly where Trunks is heading to the point where Seth even veers off road at certain points and you're really having to, with all your strength, yank him back onto the road at least.
00:35:40
Speaker
You know you can't control his speed, but at least you can try and get him to stay on level terrain.
00:35:46
Speaker
and This gallop, almost, if if if elephants have these the same equivalent speed settings as horses, um continues to the point where you all now can just sort of see this beautiful oasis around you.
00:36:03
Speaker
It doesn't feel like Trunks is stopping.
00:36:07
Speaker
You're maybe about 300 feet from the edge of the water and the speed hasn't changed. And, Bal, you can feel like adrenaline pumping, but not a fear, but like a of um you in both your most sort of high-hormoned moments. You're pumped with testosterone and you're you're you're really turned on, for want of a better phrase. ah All of your systems are saying you want to be in that water and you're not particularly amphibious yourself.
00:36:37
Speaker
And you notice, well, I won't say unless people want to, but what do you do in this situation? I was just, um, is Baal... Is he likening this to something that he's experienced before?
00:36:51
Speaker
Or is this a new feeling? I know you say it's kind of like an innate, natural kind of response. But is this the first time he's felt this? Or is this something that he can kind of liken to a previous experience?
00:37:04
Speaker
It's the first time you've felt something like... You've never been horny for an oasis before. that's That's never happened. But this doesn't feel... unnatural in the same vein like this this feels like um you in
00:37:22
Speaker
when you've been an animal before and you've been a predator this is the like the the satisfying moment of capturing prey or when you've been chased this is the success the the successful feeling of eluding what's chasing you when you when you've been uh prey itself it's sort of like you just have this connection to animals and you're you're able to empathize in this moment so heavily it's actually causing a hormonal response for you in which case uh i'm dropping off the back of trunks and i'm world shaping into what kind of creature uh i'm just going to quickly double check the ones that i have the one that make am i still kind of running along the sand
00:38:05
Speaker
if you currently you're on trunks about to leap off. Yeah, but if it would be the sand heading towards the oasis, wouldn't it? Yes. the fastest creature that he's got is a warhorse. um I've got a camel as well, but it's 10 feet slower. But if that's how he's feeling, it's going to be, i imagine it will be, yeah warhorse and going full gallop.
00:38:25
Speaker
Okay. So you will see Baal leap off, turn into a warhorse and slowly is making a distance between himself and Trunks at an ever-growing speed.
00:38:36
Speaker
Could I um um make a... Sorry. Could Nithravar make his way... and Could he perch on top of the warhorse? Yeah. Would he be able to kind of... There's probably enough reaction time there to sort of have him fly over and and sort of mount to the warhorse.
Transformations at the Magical Oasis
00:38:54
Speaker
Just kind of perch upon it, obviously weightless, but I'd like him to perch on him if possible. Yeah, absolutely. There'd be no saddle or anything, obviously, because when Bile transforms, when he wild shapes, his gear and stuff just melds into the new form. it's Yeah, there's nothing of... probably wouldn't feel these tiny needle-like claws just in your skin.
00:39:14
Speaker
And he wouldn't reject it either. Nivithar just holds on.
00:39:18
Speaker
I'm sort of imagining this us in the back, like, whoa, Seth, what's what's going on? And then suddenly watching Baal get off and run off, like, What the fuck's he doing? It's like someone's driving towards a dead end at 70 miles an hour and no one's telling their driver to do anything about so like He's holding on the reins, trying to pull back heavily on the reins with one hand and reaching his hand to like whoever's nearby. Nick's probably just going to hit him, hitting him, hitting him, hitting him on the arm. like yep Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. I see this. I see this. Can someone put trunks to sleep? Someone do something or we jump it off?
00:39:51
Speaker
You have about 80 feet to the water edge, and it's that's about six seconds if anyone wants to do anything. Five. Seth's just going to hold his breath. I'm jumping off. Three. Oh, God. Two. Here we go. i I'm jumping off. Just when it feels it's at that terminal point.
00:40:09
Speaker
Trunks just slams his feet into the sand, skids, and you all sort of hit, the car hits the back of Trunks and propels him a little bit more. And you just skid through the sand, and you're at at the rate where you're also sort of burying yourself in the sand at the same point.
00:40:25
Speaker
And it's almost like a comical stop right at the water edge.
00:40:31
Speaker
And Trunks just starts guzzling this water like he hasn't drunk in days. Baal, you arrived moments earlier, and the first thing you are compelled to do is just drink.
00:40:42
Speaker
Emron.
00:40:45
Speaker
Yep. You sustain four points of bludgeoning damage as you leap off a very fast-moving cart yeah into the sand. And you you're about 60 feet away from the group at this point. But you just watch as as Trunks and War Horse Baal are just guzzling this water.
00:41:04
Speaker
And you look upon this this beautiful, lush oasis, and you can feel coolness sort of coming out of the water. The air around you feels cool. You're cooled again like you were this morning. and What kind of water is it?
00:41:17
Speaker
It's clear, fresh water. Not salty air? No, absolutely not. There is a so small sort of plumage of flowers around in the sort of grass so that is at the base of the palm trees. And there's this really nice exotic aroma.
00:41:31
Speaker
And there's this sort of amber sheen to the basin that sits in a rocky sort of bowl almost that this oasis is filled in. What would be the appropriate way to describe a surface of water?
00:41:50
Speaker
And you begin to look around this oasis and there's no other people around, but you can just see birds coming in and and deliberately making a stop here, despite not necessarily like any fish in this water or means to hunt.
00:42:09
Speaker
Is there anything you wish to do? But it's impossible. you You don't want to stop drinking. Like, you know, a kid who's been running for hours and just guzzles of two pints of squash in one one breath, you know? and And now I have a horse's stomach, so... Yeah, absolutely. and this thing There was an oasis here.
00:42:25
Speaker
This thing tastes delicious. Like, this is ice, cool, not ice, but this is this is cool, crisp, clean water. It's satisfying every every drink. Evian.
00:42:39
Speaker
This episode is sponsored by Volvic. Yeah. Everyone obviously um jumped off and is... As he's sort of trudging towards the others and he's seeing, like...
00:42:51
Speaker
um trunks who we've we we've fed and watered and and bar and that something doesn't sit right with him um can i sort of try and like i'm he's looking around like looking like this doesn't feel right to him that ah because what he sees like this you see this is weird like trunks has never done this before it's not like he was like dying of thirst i don't know can i make a check or something sort of does something feel wrong what sort of skill would you use to do that do you think oh I suppose I'm like, maybe I'm trying to perceive, like, steve like is yeah i'm like yeah don't am I going to see, like, bones of something that's been stuck there because it's been charmed by the water?
00:43:28
Speaker
like Yeah, I'm looking at it. looking for dangers or illusions or incantations. Yeah, or something that makes like like makes it, is dis is just is this too good to be true? Okay. There must be, yeah. Then, yes, feel free to make a ah perception check as you squint to your brow and surely don't believe your eyes.
00:43:47
Speaker
Oh, that's a dirty 20. This looks like a freshwater oasis, as far as you can tell from scanning. While that's happening, Nith has just crawled up onto the head of of the of the horse ball and is speaking into one of his ears with his long needle teeth and he's just saying, Do you remain yourself or does the beast wear you as much as you wear it?
00:44:12
Speaker
Fascinating. and when you return, are you whole or have you left some part of yourself in the beast? And it's just kind of ah along that that turn of kind of in introspective questioning, he just keeps nittering away in the ear constantly, constantly at it while whilst he's drinking.
00:44:33
Speaker
Is Horstball able to kind of take himself away? not Not obviously take himself away from the drinking, but obviously. Yeah, you can consume maybe litre of this water in this time.
00:44:50
Speaker
And you feel so healthy. You feel so refreshed after doing so. and as you sort of Do that moment where you just sort of catch your breath after all the guzzling.
00:45:01
Speaker
And you didn't really listen to what the Quazit was saying. And it's sort of like you're slowly processing again what's what's just happened. Why on earth did I feel I needed to sprint towards this?
00:45:14
Speaker
Why did I feel I needed to be a horse? But that was really satisfying that I did all those things. I feel amazing right now.
00:45:23
Speaker
Can a wisdom saving throw? shit. There we go. I knew it. I knew everyone was right. Vindication. Okay, Bile. Wisdom saving throw, please. ah It is 14.
00:45:38
Speaker
No, no, no, no, no. I'm a mummy. I'm a mummy.
00:45:46
Speaker
As this water slowly begins to make its way into your system. Sorry, just to pause there, Danny, a second. I've just found a few other measurements that might be of use. It's 200 bottles of eye drops, 2.4 shots of tequila, or one and a half full power super soakers.
00:46:01
Speaker
That's a lot water. How many shots Big capacity. or classic British ink
00:46:12
Speaker
It's the Super Circle one that I like. I mean, ink pot, as a British person, I now understand because it's now sounded British, of course. That makes sense. You're welcome. Yes, absolutely. it's Sorry, Danny, please continue.
00:46:22
Speaker
Now we have a sense of how much water is is going i can't even picture an ink pot. Like, anyway. Well, you are the youngest one here. I'm just a millennial, guys.
00:46:36
Speaker
The rest of you are joining in on the typewriters this evening. Ting! Ting!
00:46:43
Speaker
So as you consume this water and it begins to make its way in your bloodstream, the 22 ink pots worth of water. 200 eye drop bottles.
00:46:59
Speaker
You're taken back to a particularly fond memory in your past.
00:47:06
Speaker
You're a boy.
00:47:13
Speaker
Possibly one the happiest times you can ever recall.
00:47:21
Speaker
What's the memory, Will?
00:47:26
Speaker
If it is from kind of deep childhood, it will be in Sleekard. It will be a part of life.
00:47:39
Speaker
Druidic kind of upbringing there under Galefather Sleet. And it probably, i imagine it would be something like sitting ah around with fellow kind of, um I don't even know what you'd call them, acolytes.
00:48:00
Speaker
It's not quite acolytes. ah But young young Druids learning the craft, learning the ways. He's just kind of
00:48:09
Speaker
inherited his gift because with with Baal it was slightly different. It was it was through Galefar that his kind of wildfire kind of spirit came to him as well. So that's that's the connection that he's got there.
00:48:24
Speaker
So it would have been the following weeks as he's learning to work that out and he would have puffed this kind of small, tiny like ah serpent, almost like, I suppose, like a baby serpent, if you like, that's there around with him. And he's sitting around a fire, learning to kind of control this, working out how it's all going with with older dogs druids there kind of practicing the craft really and just it'll be that sense of innocence and excitement and crackling fire in this vast cave that should feel kind of i should feel almost kind of like empty with how big it is but it's just filled with warmth and and
00:49:10
Speaker
joy and dragonborns and a matriarch. And there is that familiar sound of your mother's wings.
00:49:23
Speaker
She's leaving her lair in the dead of night to survey her kingdom. And that Arctic breeze that's so cold, but the stone around you so warm from her hearth.
00:49:37
Speaker
You're hit with this wave of nostalgic joy.
00:49:45
Speaker
You gain inspiration.
00:49:50
Speaker
And five temporary hit points. Ooh. I wasn't expecting that. Question for the sort of wiggle out of that memory. you don't do that quickly. You try and stay in that moment of happiness for a really long time.
00:50:11
Speaker
You find yourself back in your form again. They're no longer the horses. Sorry, Nix, you were asking a question. um I assume that Trunks is also getting a hit.
00:50:25
Speaker
Of this happiest memory of its time and possibly an inspiration. and all You can just sort of see his tails going so affectionately in direction. Oh, yeah. and Get it, Trunks.
00:50:38
Speaker
He's almost doing a little head wobble as he's guzzling. and yeah like Picture a dog when their belly's being scratched. Their legs are a bit out of their control a little bit. He's just sort of wiggling with joy.
00:50:50
Speaker
That's just cute. I was listening as a, and that was a question as a fan more than anything else. I was, yeah. And the fans appreciate you asking that question.
00:51:02
Speaker
Trunks is good, man. Trunks is that the NPC of winning here. The heart of the party. When he when he dies, I'm literally going to rage quit. I swear to God. It's not an if, it's a when. and um Not if I rage quit first.
00:51:15
Speaker
ah But, Bile, you're back amongst your friends. Very, very ah quenched.
00:51:25
Speaker
Yeah, I think he'd be kind of on his knees at the water's edge, just kind of staring out into it and just this kind of... almost like tinged with sadness, but ah definitely a smile on his face.
00:51:40
Speaker
Probably not speaking. Emron, how do you respond here? Because you're sort of surveying this for any sort of trick or or danger, and you're just seeing your friend having a really good time.
00:51:52
Speaker
Emron sort of comes over, are you feeling all right?
00:52:01
Speaker
Are you feeling okay?
00:52:04
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. Good.
00:52:11
Speaker
ah how do you feel about us moving on? Uh, and a kind of look into the oasis. i We've, yeah, but we've got places to be, don't we?
00:52:30
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Just, just, you know,
00:52:35
Speaker
um and I'm looking around like, Are there other other animals drinking from the Oasis? Yeah, almost.
00:52:46
Speaker
Make a nature check yeah if you're interested to sort of learn a bit more about how they're responding.
00:52:53
Speaker
Wow. A 17. Whoa. It must be animal nature to, in a desert like this, when they come across a fresh water supply,
00:53:10
Speaker
they will consume, consume, consume as much as they can to hydrate them for as long as possible before they venture on. And this looks like that. You're there long enough that you're seeing migrating birds stop, consume an awful lot and fly off with a lot more energy and zip. Okay.
00:53:27
Speaker
So yeah they are actually leaving. Okay. Yeah.
00:53:31
Speaker
Trunks has just taken so long because he's an elephant and there's a lot of belly space. Baal doesn't and like look like he needs to keep... You don't feel Baal as though you need to keep
Introspection and Personal Revelations
00:53:40
Speaker
drinking and drinking. like Yeah. you're full do you Do you think this is a good place for us to stock up our water skins then?
00:53:48
Speaker
Definitely.
00:53:50
Speaker
In fact, were is it worthwhile?
00:53:57
Speaker
ah Yes. Try some, Emron. Okay.
00:54:02
Speaker
Not in a creepy way. No, it sounds creepy. I'm me. I'm good. I'm fine. I'm i'm really good.
00:54:14
Speaker
Danny, I'm going to reach down. Can I, like, cast Detect Magic on the water? you can't on the water, you can cast Detect Magic in a vicinity. Yeah, yes sorry, that's what I meant.
00:54:25
Speaker
I want to cast Detect Magic just to try and see if I can... You don't learn anything particularly pertinent to the water, though, that's the thing. So it's a radius, isn't it? Yeah, it's for the radius, and you sense the presence of magical effects in 30 feet of you.
00:54:39
Speaker
If you sense such effects, you can take the magic action to see a faint aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears the magic, and if an effect was created by a little spell, you learn the spell school of magic.
00:54:51
Speaker
you learn You receive conjuration? um From who? From where someone's coming from? In the direction of Nithrafar and it's Seth.
00:55:04
Speaker
um
00:55:07
Speaker
You feel evocation from the direction of Alpha.
00:55:13
Speaker
Unless I'm not mistaken, those are all the magical effects that are currently active from any other party. Yeah. And nothing from anywhere else around me.
00:55:24
Speaker
Not in the 30 foot radius. Foot radius, okay. Okay.
00:55:30
Speaker
Nithravar's climbed up onto Seth's shoulder and just says, power and hesitation are like oil and water. Choose which one you'd rather drown in. ah that, Seth nods and jumps into the water.
00:55:43
Speaker
Splash. It's cool. And you you feel like that that midday sun that's been warming you up so much, you just feel that temperature drop to such a satisfying drop, like leaping into a cold pool in like 30 degree heat.
00:55:56
Speaker
You feel great. I should also say that he's taken off the spell book, obviously, and derobed the heavy. was going to say, he's wearing any metal armor there. No, he doesn't have any armor. He hasn't come back up. He hasn't come back up.
00:56:08
Speaker
isn' that It's not deep. It's maybe a foot deeper. It's like deepest point in the center. Oh, man, I've hit the bottom hard. I've gone head first. He's literally gone full dive. Nose is now broken as well. It was just breathing back. yeah so take it out Take three points of bludgeoning damage. Seth's done.
00:56:31
Speaker
ah Not far off though. know it Was it three points, Danny? Three. Thank you kindly. I did deserve that. And yeah, and then Seth will just come up and, you know, you'd expect his skin to look cleaner now that he's washed, but it's exactly the same. That's just the mottled nature of his skin.
00:56:46
Speaker
And he just kind of has a toothy grin and grins towards Baal and the rest of them and just kind of splashes around for a little bit, like ah like a child. What's interesting, as you'll observe Seth having a really good time, Seth comes back up with a drenched face.
00:57:05
Speaker
Some of that really deep scarring that trellises over Seth's face looks finer, looks thinner. Some of the skin appears less swollen.
00:57:19
Speaker
It's still there, it's still scarred, but you know you received those wounds a year, 18 months ago, Seth. As Seth comes out with that water, it looks like he received those wounds four, five years ago.
00:57:33
Speaker
ah What about the, is your arm showing, Seth? If he's butt naked. I'm not butt naked. No, no. He's got, he's got, he's got his left his undershirt on.
00:57:45
Speaker
Just wondering, if your arms were out, Nix would ah notice that you look younger, but would just wonder what the old Prego mark praygo mark would be doing well he's got like it's like a cotton white shirt on underneath so wet it would just go kind of clingy in the bit see-through so you could could more than likely see the tattoo through the sleeve unless i'm mistaken yeah yeah and um if anything it just stands out because okay it's black it's black on a white or you know overlay cool
00:58:18
Speaker
But no, your scarring looks like it's healed a bit quicker. Not that you'd see that, Seth, but everyone like sees that when you re-emerge. Damn, Seth! You look good!
00:58:30
Speaker
Seth wouldn't notice because he's just splashing around just grinning. um But Nithravar sat on the back of trunks and it's just like with his tiny little claw hands quickly, quickly clapping them together. Like, like a helicopter, like almost so fast it looks like they're moving in slow motion, but you hear
00:59:00
Speaker
Okay, and you know scoops up some water and takes a drink. Make a wisdom saving throw, please. I will.
00:59:12
Speaker
That's 19.
00:59:15
Speaker
You take this drink and you feel...
00:59:20
Speaker
utterly refreshed. You feel strong sense of of divinity initially and and and pride and you feel like your cause has just been reinvigorated.
00:59:32
Speaker
And then that passes.
00:59:37
Speaker
And you're remembering yourself younger. You're remembering
00:59:44
Speaker
your happiest moment that you can recall. avidly like you're getting a chance relive it not as a dream but you're there what's that moment look like
01:00:03
Speaker
is it his happiest moment or it his happiness as a child want to check sort of how old it's your happiest moment happiest moment I think for Emron it comes back to a time when he when he found Aledo or Aledo's power found him.
01:00:22
Speaker
Um, where did that happen? It takes him back to a time. He was, was working at a, a friend's, um, blacksmith shop, uh, a friend who'd been injured, who, who, who looked after him as a, when he was a sort of a foundling sort of training and a friend of an injured and had an order to complete. And everyone like, Oh, I'll, I'll step in. I'll help out.
01:00:45
Speaker
And, as he was working at the shop, um he was there, he was he was working at night and and hammering away. And then someone came into the shop and and everyone didn't know the person.
01:01:00
Speaker
And this person walks in and until the people follow him. And this person sort of had this almost business man attire. Um, and I'm thinking like badger from like firefly kind of like kind of style.
01:01:19
Speaker
And he's sort of like, Oh, well I was hoping that, um, this place will be shut up by now. And everyone's very confused as as this guy sort of speaks for what we told your friend that he had to, uh, fail this order.
01:01:36
Speaker
It wasn't going to happen. i thought our message was very clear when we, uh, set about him. And it becomes very clear to Emron that his friend wasn't injured in accident, but like this man or this person for whatever reason had attacked him.
01:01:52
Speaker
And Emron, you know, being a young, you know, full of life man is like, don't know what you're doing here, but you know, you can piss off.
01:02:04
Speaker
And the man says, nah, we're going to have some, uh, have some business here. And so they, everyone's set upon by these guys. they Everyone's, you know, 16, 17, he's, you know, young prime of his life.
01:02:19
Speaker
Fuck me, is that his voice at 16? Fuck me. Is that hard time around? Jesus. It's all, it's all that, it's all the smoke. Do you want to go to prom?
01:02:30
Speaker
but Gives you, gives you, gives you six. Fuck's sake, mom. Leave me alone. I've got to room. Smoke at six to your dear. Anyway, you're ruining your story. Um,
01:02:46
Speaker
Mom, I don't know shit. Why is he scoffing? Come wipe my ass. Emerald doesn't have any parents. He was an orphan. Who's going to come to parents evening then?
01:03:05
Speaker
Guys, don't spoil his happiest moment. No.
01:03:09
Speaker
So sorry, that's my fault. So he's set upon... So he's set upon, and... He gets, like... Where's the happiness coming? Beaten to the ground.
01:03:22
Speaker
And as he's... Where is this going be happy? He sort of sees this this little sigil carved into the the the anvil that he's been working at.
01:03:33
Speaker
And it's a Valido. And e as he looks at it, he suddenly feels this warmth through him.
01:03:42
Speaker
And it's this warmth infuses into his... into his blood.
01:03:50
Speaker
And then he sort of rises up and, and seizes the, the metal that he was forging and swings it at these people. And in that moment, he, he's there defending against these people who have come to do him harm.
01:04:11
Speaker
And he feels for the first time because of his origins, he feels, like he has more purpose than just what came from his profession, but like there is someone with him.
01:04:23
Speaker
Someone's giving him strength, infusing him with more of a purpose than he had at this point.
01:04:32
Speaker
And he feels this connection to a leader. Cause before this point he, he didn't have magic, didn't have spells, but yet In this moment, when he was knocked to the ground
01:04:48
Speaker
for standing up to these people, he then felt this energy, felt this strength, this righteousness that would go on to guide him to where he is and take him to the pool.
01:05:05
Speaker
and Do you feel inspired? you feel fully healed? That's fucking beautiful. Do you have five temporary hit points? Thanks. As that warmth of the forge just sort of ah is around you and that smell of metal smoking just fills your nostrils for a second, wakes you out of this sort of stupor and you're there just kneeling over an oasis more with wet with a wet hand, water in your beard.
01:05:38
Speaker
And em everyone's smiling. like he's He's been quite serious since... like since Reigns left and he's actually smiling with this big beardy grin.
01:05:55
Speaker
You were right, pal. This is some good shit.
01:06:02
Speaker
There's some excellent trippy fucking water to here. Makes you really happy. Come and get some. I'll kind of crawl over his shoulder to the other two. Seth's going to face plant down into the water and just take a big mouthful um open gob in the in the water, underwater.
01:06:21
Speaker
make a wisdom saving throw please seth as you consume this water i should have predicted this uh wisdom saving throw i got a plus force that should be where you tank it that's 14 but i'm gonna use no no that's fine i use 14 You used that token you gave us. A one-off All the abuse I took for that. That's what you wanted your crit for.
01:06:56
Speaker
Yeah, I want some trippy water, bro. Just twisting the nuclear Give me that good vulvic shit. 14. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Sorry, Daddy, you were about to start. Like whale...
01:07:06
Speaker
like a whale twirling in the water to sort of scoop some to drink and then I imagine you swallow it and then lie back on your back just sort of floating in the calmness
01:07:19
Speaker
you just feel every wound on your body just lift off you your calloused hands feel soft again your skin feels lighter
01:07:34
Speaker
You blink and you can see out of both eyes. All of your senses sort of return.
01:07:46
Speaker
Your arm feels lighter. Your muscles feel less developed, like you haven't gone through rigorous, rigorous battles to a time before all of that.
01:08:04
Speaker
and you are overcome with a sense of joy.
01:08:10
Speaker
You feel the happiest you have ever felt. You are reliving your happiest moment. What does that look like for Seth? Who can look at it with now with both eyes again. Oh, shit. ah That's odd at first for him to have that kind of depth perception back again.
01:08:26
Speaker
um And it's a decision he made ah many moons ago when he finally... ah spoke to his mum and had come up with a decision, a choice, a purpose in his life where he was going to join.
01:08:44
Speaker
he was going to move across the sea to Sleetgaard and um start a new life there away from the the troubles he was facing at home, away from the troubles the the kingdom was facing and start a new life with the Sleetgaard surge.
01:09:00
Speaker
And that having, having that, that clear purpose, um, is, is that is the happiest he's felt having a clear, you know, it's, it's almost like, I imagine it kind of blitz, blitz Britain,
01:09:17
Speaker
the call to arms, the undead, all that shit from before. But this is just when it was just at the very beginnings of it. And it was the the right thing to do, the only thing to do. And that was so clear. it was so black and white, so obvious. What was the good and what was the bad?
01:09:32
Speaker
Good guys, bad guys, bad guys, good guys. I'm going to be with good guy. and And that was so straightforward in his mind and having that purpose, having that that single-mindedness, it was the happiest he's been.
01:09:46
Speaker
And so he sort of relives that to the kind of walking to the boats where he walked away from his parents, sad, but excited and happy at this new adventure. You shake off this just nomadic young man who went from town to town in the Hentis Empire, town to town in Sleetgaard, just trying to find purpose. And for once you feel like you understood why you're here and what your role in the world is.
01:10:15
Speaker
You return to that because there's been a lot of ambiguity since that moment, you know, for you. And right now you are in a far more ambiguous set of circumstances than you've ever been. You linger there for so long, holding on to everything you can. And as you lose sight in one eye, that feeling stays with you as you look upon your friends.
01:10:46
Speaker
ah just dripping dripping wet as he kind of turns, kind of on his knees, kind of sat in the water and kind of looking back over at them. There is that slight kind of like there's ah something. And yeah, as he sees Nix grinning and waving, he will just lift a slow but very, very tattooed hand and just kind of wave back towards Nix and the others. And and yeah, he'll he'll also smile again, um thinking this is this is nice.
01:11:14
Speaker
before realizing that Nithrava sat on his shoulder ah doing the exact same thing, but with like eyes the size of its head, all these nasty-ass teeth, and just a single claw ah waving, kind of trying to mimic the same thing, but not really getting it right because it's moving too fast and or too slow.
01:11:32
Speaker
and And that unnerves him. But there's the yeah, there's a moment of niceness.
01:11:39
Speaker
Nix, you look upon all of your friend's in a complete state of relaxation, other than you and Alpha, usually the first to partake when substances are being advertised.
01:11:53
Speaker
This is the happiest you've ever seen Baal, full stop. Not the most euphoric, but, you know, in terms of joy, pure joy, this is this is a tender moment you're seeing, and an emotion you've never really seen of him.
01:12:12
Speaker
what are you How are you navigating this? I think what really... Because he's seen Baal. He's seen Baal. And there's a deep connection there. I think what really is the... um
01:12:27
Speaker
What sets this scene apart for Nyx is seeing Emron smile and seeing in Seth break his guard of staunch.
01:12:39
Speaker
army man. Um, cause he, he feels warmth seeing Baal's kind of utter joy, but it's almost a shock in a nice way.
01:12:54
Speaker
But that just, oh my God, I don't think I've ever seen Emron smile. Um, so he does, he wanders over and he sits close, probably on the other side of Baal if Emron's on the right
01:13:10
Speaker
feeling Feeling good? Just ah across the bow for you there and looking over at Seth.
01:13:20
Speaker
Whatever this is, this is... This is...
01:13:27
Speaker
ah yeah ha ah want to say godly, but it's I don't want to put anyone off. But this is... This is a special place.
01:13:38
Speaker
Try it, Nick's. what do i mean I'd love to know what happy memories you have. Because this is... Happy memories out. I've taken drugs before. I've i've been on Keltrad before.
01:13:51
Speaker
No, but this was ah it was like I was there. I could smell the smoke. i could I could feel my weapons slam into the skulls of these men. Are we talking about like a fake memory, like an ah an illusion a thing you want to be?
01:14:11
Speaker
no no, no, no. This happened way back when, way back when. And it's real? Like what you're experiencing? Not real, but I haven't thought about that. Well, I've thought about it, but...
01:14:22
Speaker
To remember it like that, it's like it's...
01:14:27
Speaker
It's like you could literally taste it like it was there. and Same for you, but all this happened to you. Yeah. Like a memory? someone says, like it's almost like you're reliving it.
01:14:39
Speaker
It's not just... It's not an illusion. It doesn't feel like an illusion. Maybe it is, but you can smell it. You can feel it. It's a real memory, like something that actually happened to you, not a made up one.
01:14:54
Speaker
No, it's mine. i It's real. i can I can tell. Everyone, I don't think I've ever seen you smile. And I don't think I realized that until this very moment.
01:15:06
Speaker
And look at Seth. Look at Seth right now.
Group Reflections and Future Plans
01:15:09
Speaker
He's freer than we've ever seen him. Nyx, Nyx. I mean, you know, you've you've taken Keltran and I frowned upon that, but just, I think we could all do with feeling like this.
01:15:22
Speaker
is Given what we've been through. Barl's scoop his hands into the water and look Nyx in the eyes and just say, you deserve it, Nyx.
01:15:34
Speaker
Nix will look you in the eyes and and Nix's eyes are shining a little bit here. ah ah Just not crying, but like just shining with some like like he's trying to almost hold back, but he's not really.
01:15:52
Speaker
And he'll just kind of gently put your hands, his hand over yours and just push it away. I'm not ready to see
01:16:05
Speaker
people from my past. Yeah.
01:16:12
Speaker
But I will, and Nix will take out his water skin. Maybe in the future. And he'll just empty the water that was... Actually, no, he'll drink the water that was there. for me I see M1's face. M1's face almost dropped that smile to go, what are you doing? That's just stupid.
01:16:31
Speaker
He'll drink the water, realising he was about to make mistake, empty the water skin, and he will fill his water skin up with the water. That's maybe for ah future me.
01:16:42
Speaker
but That's a good idea, Nick. We should make sure we refill our water skins here, because... This is good stuff. Bile's going to take a couple of glass vials, some of the empty ones, because he's got a couple leftover he's kind of used, if you like.
01:16:57
Speaker
And I'd like to fill three glass vials with it, not the water skin. um Have you got any spares of those, Bile? ah Well, now I look dumb, because I would have taken a glass vial.
01:17:14
Speaker
Well, I can make them. ah Give me an evening. give In fact, fuck it, give me an hour. i could make one right here. a second but Do we want to rest here for a bit?
01:17:25
Speaker
Yes.
01:17:28
Speaker
Yes, I do. We could take some lunch. I mean, if you're willing to... Take a full night's rest. Not. look No. we Oh, then fuck it. Now, we should jog on. Like, if we can't get a full night's rest, because I'm exhausted, and we can't get rid of that.
01:17:47
Speaker
Does this water get rid of that? i Nicks, have a go. Get in. Like, get in like Seth has. You don't have to drink it. don't Look how look look how let set good Seth looks without
01:18:02
Speaker
I'm doing everything I can to keep my past at the far back of my mind and focusing on what we've got in the hearing now. I'm okay. Just don't swallow. That's not my style, baby.
01:18:15
Speaker
Nix will give you a wink. Everyone's like, what? I just don't drink the... Come. what's Alpha, what are you doing?
01:18:32
Speaker
Is it spicy? Yeah. Fizzles. oh Alpha, what are you doing? Alpha's kind of stood back at this point. He's watching everybody dive into and partake in this water and coming out just in this euphoric state ah aside from Nix ah who he's keeping still things to himself.
01:19:00
Speaker
Um... He's going to take a gradual pace to the edge of the oasis. Alpha kind of can't consume liquid. He has no orifice to kind of do this anyway, so he's going to kind of just put his hands into the water a little bit, did i run through his hands,
01:19:18
Speaker
um
01:19:20
Speaker
almost splash his face with it a little bit. He can't consume He's not expecting anything to happen. um He remembers what his happiest memory was anyway. doesn't need a...
01:19:32
Speaker
this magical oasis or whatever it is to, um, remember such a thing. Um, as he overhears people start talking about trying to, uh, take some of it with us. Um, he does, um,
01:19:50
Speaker
start to rummage through his bag and remembers all the way back in snake run. I think it was, um, I purchased a jug so I could infuse it with alchemy jug, and I'm actually going to offer it up because I can't use it at the moment.
01:20:08
Speaker
I'm going to offer it up to the group. If you wish to take some with you, you are more than welcome to use this. Well, that's fucking useless to me now, Alpha. Where were you like five minutes ago when I was dumping the water that I was going to drink and filling it with this fucking...
01:20:22
Speaker
elsa But, Alpha, it's just a jug. How can we keep it in? It's cooked. Oh, well, I mean, yeah. Let's just use that. Great.
01:20:35
Speaker
No, no, Nick, you may get a good idea. Obviously, we need to fill the water skins as well. It's just, for some reason, I've never noticed. Alpha, where do you keep that thing? In a bag of holding the reins? Oh, shit.
01:20:47
Speaker
It's only a small jug. It's... many liters does hold? Have you got a boot, Alpha? Have we never seen this before? Did you include a boot on this guy? have boot. I have boot space. Lift up the back.
01:21:00
Speaker
How much does it hold, Alpha? Because you have a perfect memory, so you know how much holds. Well, theoretically, i only have magical version of it, and it can hold eight gallons of fresh water. Which is what what What would that be in other perspectives there, please, if you could advise? How many gallons was it? Eight gallons of fresh water it can hold.
01:21:22
Speaker
It's about three ah medieval wineskins. Okay. A medieval wineskin would roughly hold around 2.5 gallons of liquid, allegedly.
01:21:35
Speaker
Normally from the animals of sheep or goats. And our water skins hold up to four pints, so... Well, you know, for pints... yeah you could go to skin Can you convert that to gallons? Our water skins probably hold four pints. Alpha, are you going to just walk straight in there? Like, you know.
01:21:53
Speaker
No, I don't think so. Is it still an alchemical drug? Is it still magical or not? No, I'm not an artificer anymore, so it's not magical. It's just a normal drug. Because I know you know your memories, but it's real interesting as fuck if you connect with the memories of what's in you.
01:22:10
Speaker
That's interesting. Hmm.
01:22:13
Speaker
Did I do that right, Alv, Emron? Like, is that an artificious way of mind of thinking? Artificia. I say it's artificia, but is that the artificia? I've had trouble saying this word for so long, and I'm glad other people have struggled on this. It's canon. I've never said it before.
01:22:29
Speaker
Artificia? Artificia's way of thinking? Nothing to do with fishing. Nothing to do with fishing. Artificia's way of thinking? bor What? Getting him to use...
01:22:41
Speaker
so fight a memory What memory will trigger for him? Nothing to do with art history, mate. I mean, don't fucking ask me. That's a Reigns question. He's not fucking here. Thank you for that, Emron. That's a bit blunt. Speaking of, anyone got any?
01:22:57
Speaker
alpha's going to take nix's points and solid as it actually is and yeah alpha's just going to take a stride in into it i i like it i didn't even think of this i like this idea i'm going to try and he's literally because he can breathe underwater he's just going to sit down cross-legged and try and submerse himself in the water the very deepest point that it actually is about a foot as a deepest point, and you've got to go about quarter an eighth of a mile to the center of this oasis to reach that point.
01:23:31
Speaker
but I'm going to hang around everybody else. I'm going to lie down in it. Do we just watch you just walk off into the distance and then just facepalm into the water? And it's getting very far. so you Oh shit, can he propel himself? No, he can breathe underwater. I remember this.
01:23:46
Speaker
And as you lie down and submerge yourself below the water, take a deep breath if that's what you're supposed to do. don't really understand how your breathing works. I don't breathe.
01:23:58
Speaker
You would do the equivalent of that. And you just see this watery glaze over your eyes. That's where we're going to end this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Temple. You bellicoponics. Cheeky bastard. You motherfucker. That's not motherfucker. Danny's got to write a memory quick.
01:24:14
Speaker
Hey, you can filter it around and say, no, it's still half as water. Well played. Well played. That was glorious. Aw, tub girl. Will. Can't put that in the chat. Speaking of, I'm going to just roll through this into the end. Roll with it.
01:24:31
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