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Lich Please! Episode 18 - Uladore Unwrapped
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Introduction and Campaign Recap Overview
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to the Lich Plead podcast as always I'm here with Alex and it is again just the two of us we've got a relatively special episode planned today yes yes a different episode today um yeah because we were made aware
00:00:21
Speaker
that people don't know what we're talking about when we talk about our campaign. Which, we have had conversations about, do we need to explain things more?
Detailing Campaign Sessions for New Listeners
00:00:30
Speaker
And then we record a week later and that's completely gone ahead by the time. Yeah. Pretty much. So we're going to do an episode which we have coined, Other Door Unwrapped. We are going to take you from session one to session 30, where you guys currently are, and we will call.
00:00:52
Speaker
remember that has happened. But the big plot point we will talk in detail about. Yeah, right. Session one, I guess. Session one started with a relatively big event.
Session One: Coronation and Character Introductions
00:01:11
Speaker
The yeah, the correlation of King Jessamah the 26th of his name.
00:01:18
Speaker
that's the one um of house nadiga king of men king of elves king of dwarves king of all dragon man drag he's got so many more titles that i'm forgetting it's it was kind of meant to be kind of a denarius tagarian satire thing i mean you probably picked up on that um i wouldn't say you wouldn't have other people would have but yeah yeah um i think
00:01:46
Speaker
Finnan went to the coronation. Finnan was, yeah, Finnan was the first character introduced at the coronation. Finnan is the only current character that we have that attended the coronation. Yes. Because the rest of you didn't. Yeah, none of us did. Finnan was the first, introduced first at a coronation.
00:02:10
Speaker
Yeah, and then Finnan left and went to the airport, I think. Is that what happened straight away? Finnan just left. Kind of. You and Astra met outside the city coming in.
00:02:20
Speaker
Yeah, me and Asram were second and third outside of the hall trying to come in because they wouldn't let me in because I looked like a bandit. Not on purpose.
00:02:41
Speaker
stop life racism guys um it's not racism you turned up in batter oh yeah with like random miscellaneous weapons on your bag like a bag on your shoulder and was like hi would i come into the city please um uh look at your get up mate yeah um so me and uh that's how me and astra met outside the thing uh we got in
00:03:10
Speaker
through god this is trying to test my memory i think astra got us in i definitely didn't astro did get you in yeah um then we went to the guild hall you did astra um where you met with everyone else yeah we met everyone else uh i think the others are already there
Guildhall Arrival and Adventuring Party Formation
00:03:40
Speaker
I kind of arranged it that you all arrived by happenstance at the same moment. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah, so we all got there at the same time. But I'm trying to remember what everyone else did before the Guildhall.
00:04:00
Speaker
Um, other Shara and, well, not going to put them in because they're dead. Um, the other two were at the inn, the, the unicorn, the, um, the Prancing Unicorn, something like that, some kind of unicorn inn. Yeah. Um, and then they left, joined you guys and then you all kind of arrived at the same time. Um, and then obviously Mike wasn't playing at that point. Yeah. He's not with Casey or Fionn. Yeah. Um.
00:04:36
Speaker
Yeah, so we all met in the tavern. This is long ago, but I'm struggling. You all met at the Guildhall. You signed up for an adventuring party together and you were told the caravan would leave the next morning. Yes, I had to go give a note to Tuber.
00:04:59
Speaker
You did. Do I know what the note was? No. Do I still know what the note was? No. You know, I've never... Did I remember about the note? No. Honestly, not once have I thought about the note since we left that. Like after session one, I've never thought about that note ever again. Me neither. Honestly. Yeah. The note will come in to play.
00:05:25
Speaker
I hope so. I don't know what the note's about, but I hope it does. Yeah, deliver the note to Tuba. Tuba is the leader of the Legion of Hope, the Adventuring Guild you're members of, and also the brother of the current leader of House Dormai, which is the house that you serve in Okra, the sort of minor sort of region.
00:05:55
Speaker
Um Yes, yes, that's that's tuba a friend or friend of dan Um friend of dan trainer of dan trainer of dan. Yes for seven Years a bit less than that. Oh, yeah from 18 to he's 25 so like six years, whatever Because a year of traveling and blah blah and whatnot. Um Yeah, so
00:06:24
Speaker
We signed up, we got to the caravan, had some convos with people.
First Job: Caravan Protection and Ambush
00:06:29
Speaker
Ah, before all of that, the guy came into the Guildhall, the annoying guy, the T-faire. That's the one. He made it to the Guildhall, annoyed us, basically, and then left the Guildhall.
00:06:50
Speaker
Yeah, and then we went off to the caravan to do our job, basically. Yeah, talk to some people at the caravan. God, I don't remember any of their names. And Elise was one of them, I think. Yep, she was. There was also Elmar. Elmar, yeah. The blacksmith.
00:07:18
Speaker
Yeah. And then there was some other sort of miscellaneous people that you kind of spoke to whose names I have not remembered because they were irrelevant characters that were just there to kind of talk to you and sort of tell you about where they were going and just kind of recommend PCs.
00:07:36
Speaker
Oh no, there was Strong Song. He was the leader of the caravan. He was the merchant to Vaxey. Yes, yes, yes. I forgot about that. He would have been an interesting NPC for you to keep alive. Well, stuff happens.
00:07:52
Speaker
stuff does certainly happen stuff does happen so we we we left to the caravan we went uh i don't know how far we actually got relatively probably um before the first encounter which was bandits i think you'd had a night's sleep if i remember correctly yes yes we had enough time to to rest traveled for a full day and then a bit of a day
00:08:18
Speaker
Yeah, and then our first encounter, which wasn't bad, let's see then, it was goblins. Yeah, that was like a broken tree, stopped our caravan from moving, we got there, goblin ambush. Killed them quite well, honestly. Yeah, did Dan hit any? God. I don't think he did. I think that was a contention point, and that's why Dan was like, we've got to go after the goblin.
00:08:48
Speaker
Don't you didn't kill any you might have hit one, but didn't kill anyone. I can say that much you didn't kill okay, okay? So yeah, we killed some goblins one of them ran away and one did it got tracked and we decided to to leave the caravan and follow the goblins a Bold a bold move. Yeah. Yeah
00:09:17
Speaker
long-term listeners will know a move that did not pay off. I mean, if you're not, you will soon learn that it did not pay off very well at all. It was really quite a poor idea. You know, you guys got some fun stuff out of it in the end.
00:09:32
Speaker
yeah cool stuff happened but um it was still like a bad thing is um i would like to say this now um it i don't think it should be on me because this is my first time playing with you as a dm i have no idea how what you would do
00:09:50
Speaker
other people knew you for a long time they should have figured that out i'm just putting that out there now they should have realized that's a valid point that's a valid point they should have figured it out i i didn't know i was just like cool clearly he wants us to go after the goblins let's go after the goblins um so yeah you always do what you want fuck me do whatever you want
00:10:14
Speaker
Yeah, so we went after the goblins to their first goblin cave, I guess, or hideout or whatever you want to call it. It was literally a cave in the side of a mountain, I think. Yeah, so that was literally session one. We killed the goblins and we went towards the cave. We didn't kill them all in session one, did we? Or did it go to session two before we
00:10:42
Speaker
I think I think session one yeah you just did the first encounter and headed towards the cave and then after the session two that the cave came back and I ended it on using the devastation of the caravan.
00:11:00
Speaker
yes yes so yeah session one went to the cave uh just a goblin cave with a few like npc's in there um went in obviously killed some goblins uh did we kill the npc's uh there was one i think you did kill him one we killed because he kicked someone um i think yes the other one we let go
00:11:27
Speaker
Basically cleared out the goblin place. This is where I started testing the limits of how much I can get away with. With regards to things
Goblin Cave Conquest and Consequences
00:11:38
Speaker
I can do in combat, this is the very first session. I was like, hmm, let's try some things.
00:11:46
Speaker
Yeah, cleared the cave, went well, found some stuff, lore related, I think. That is where we found the first Squishy McSquimish stuff, as I'm gonna say. You found, I think you just had amulets at that point. You just found the amulet squishy. You hadn't had any letters. Yeah, yeah. You found the first letter and the next one that you were told to go to.
00:12:12
Speaker
Yeah. We didn't find any buttons, did we? Was that that session? It was that session where the button trilogy, the button chronicles were born in that very session. The birth of the buttons. That's actually a good way to put it, the birth of the buttons, yeah. Yeah, session two, birth of the buttons. Yeah, cleared out the cave quite easily. I don't think anyone went down. Maybe.
00:12:44
Speaker
So yeah, cleared that out. Session two. Left, after looting left, got backed. I think that's where Toadstool Tonic started as well. I think it was Toadstool Tonic at that point. Cause I did search for alcohol, I think. And that was there. So yeah. That's the session that Dan's merchant instincts were born. It's the session where the alcohol instincts were born. I could say that much. Um,
00:13:12
Speaker
Yeah, left the cave. And we got back to the caravan and basically everyone was dead. A few people were alive. Don't be dramatic. Yeah, well, like three people were alive, right? You had like four wagons, two full of people, two full of stuff. Yes. By the end, you still had two wagons. Yes. Just...
00:13:41
Speaker
one of them was full of stuff and one of them was full of bodies and then the people walking behind yes yes um so maybe you lost three quarters of the caravan yeah something like that yeah it was awful um we uh
00:14:00
Speaker
We met back up with the caravan and that was the end of session 2. Most people were dead. We lost stuff. We did a very bad job basically. So we went back to town. To the city we were taking them to. You had it added on to Fallien. Fallien, yes. The important city. Where? You remained for quite a while.
00:14:24
Speaker
We did, so we went there, the session three, we weren't there and the fallout of our failures happened. Basically kind of shunned, wasn't gonna get paid. People didn't like us, it was awful. We were told you had a debt to pay off to the Guild now, so you would work for free for the next couple of jobs to pay that debt off, which ended up being one job because it was a particularly big job. Yes, yes. So yeah, we dealt with that fallout at the Guild Hall.
00:14:55
Speaker
people are reasonably annoyed. I think that's where, or was it in Night's Mountain School where the repeat NPCs came in.
00:15:05
Speaker
Elsa and Silda. Oh, the repeat NPCs happened in, happened in Night's Camper. They aren't two story. So Silda and Elsa are twins that are you guys is adventuring consultants. Yes. So if you have questions, you can contact them. It's just a way for you guys to have, I guess for me, if you require an idea of what to do, I can be like, well, in world, this is an idea. This is what you can do, which you've not needed. Um, yeah.
00:15:35
Speaker
I also had an idea of it to serve as like a law guide if you could you know you could convince Fildar to tell you stuff which was you again have not been needed yeah
00:15:47
Speaker
But yeah. But yeah, Silver is just exists and is ready to help if you need him. Pretty much. You missed that tear joining when you went to the Guild. Yes, yes. Ah, he did join in session three. So yeah, we made it to the Guild. Bless you. We got there.
New Job Offer and Tier's Introduction
00:16:07
Speaker
I think so. We lost the party member who started and I think that's just how it is.
00:16:13
Speaker
yeah so tier came we got into the guild hall we're like oh we're going to give you guys a new party member so okay cool um miss the six foot five half elf paladin uh pale and kind of weird yes and half elf um was there uh uh no not a half elf
00:16:40
Speaker
double elf yes yeah come on my bad my bad yeah so so we got there uh got introduced to tear i arm wrestled him i lost tradition um just regular dan happenings uh bullied the small person who was annoying me
00:17:05
Speaker
which has happened a few times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tend to do that. You do. Everyone, everyone suspected here. It was cool. He was going to get paid for the next job, obviously, because he didn't lead to the death of things. And then we got approached by the Lord of the place. He were.
00:17:30
Speaker
Lord of the place with Finnan's uncle Finnan's uncle Lord Arabala that's the one and he wanted us to go kill these goblin camp this goblin camp that he was he that was nearby because um
00:17:45
Speaker
people were there and people died there and it was a problem and he wanted us to do it. And he would pay us because it wasn't a guild thing. I think he said he'd pay us or whatever, or just something. He said the job wasn't from him. It was like handed down to him from his boss. So he kind of like subcontracted it out to you guys. So the payment wouldn't be from Lord Araballabar from like, I forget the name of the house, the principal house of the region that you're in, the Elton region. The Lord of Elton is what his title is.
00:18:15
Speaker
Ah, yes. So yeah, we got that job offer. I think we stayed the night in the tavern. You were given free lodging in the tavern for as long as you needed by the Lord. Yes, by the Lord. So I went to the tavern, met an NPC who
00:18:38
Speaker
I think his... Someone related to him. Daughter and grandchild. That's the one. His daughter and grandchild were killed in the caravan. Who I just I remember vividly describing to you guys as like this little dwarven girl was like running after like with the carriage and like she was climbing over it and you're like oh that's so cute everyone's like that's amazing and then you came back and... Yeah, yeah.
00:19:09
Speaker
So yeah, we met him. Very poor interaction, obviously. People pushed and pushed their interaction to a point, they're no longer in the party or in the campaign, they pushed and pushed interaction with that poor man who I was trying to make it evidently clear, wanted nothing to do with you guys.
00:19:32
Speaker
yeah yeah um so that went awful uh got our food i think we had the rats for the first time you the ratwurst and the rat stuff yes yes uh we had rats for the first time and then we
00:19:51
Speaker
Just went to sleep. And Dragon's Breath for the first time. Oh, was that Dragon's Breath? Okay, yeah. Dragon's Breath, which knocks basically everyone out from shotting it. Yeah, yeah. That's kind of what it does. It's a very, very strong alcohol, kind of like a bird your throat is going down. Yeah, very strong. And then we, yeah, we went to sleep and woke up and left to kill the goblins for session four, I believe.
Battle Against Goblins and Strategic Combat
00:20:20
Speaker
Something like that. The timeline of sessioners might be a bit off, but in terms of what happened... Yeah, this is just the rough time, right? Yeah. You then immediately went off to hunt some goblins. You had, at this point, I believe, been given your quest in the town of Ewan, but you were like, we'll do this. Rest and head off. Yes. And you wanted to hit the stonehenge place on your way.
00:20:49
Speaker
So you'd look like a plunder route that would hit everything you needed to do. So you headed to the goblin camp. This I think was probably your first hard fight. Yes, yes. Like where it was like, you guys somehow like, it was a rough fight because it was three goblins, a bugbear and two direwolves.
00:21:12
Speaker
yeah yeah it was it was it was off it was our the toughest fight we had by that point but it was i mean you guys dealt with it pretty easily yeah it went it was like mobbed 13 people first and then pretty much um and astra's uncanny ability to constantly hit in our 20s yeah honestly uh so far i think astra's roles through then was like the best
00:21:39
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. So, cleared that. Got some, that was when we got some squishy mixed squamous law, I think. It was. That was when I thought I would be like, yes, I'm going to give them a nice little goblin letter. They're going to have to go and translate it. It's going to be like a mystery for them to work out. And Finan goes, I speak goblin.
00:22:01
Speaker
I completely forgot that it was one of the languages that he'd been taught in like Lord school or something. And I was like, damn, yeah, I gave him the translation. But I think in a way that worked out better because it immediately got you guys interested because you then went
00:22:20
Speaker
the you completed that goblin camp fine moved on you went to Stonehenge where you immediately got another bit of lore that I think really sort of kick-started things off did we not uh loot some some chests and stuff first and take them back to fallow yeah you found chests marked with that were supplies that were being stolen yeah yeah took it back to fallow and got some money i i had some more toast or tonic
00:22:48
Speaker
No me and Juliet. Yeah, this yeah, so before so we went back to failure after they go there the goblin camp Did some chess stuff got some loot. This is when I think I sold The wine for the first time at the time we met Bertrand as well We should talk about Bertrand. Yeah, the button you tell me you tell me about Bertrand. What?
00:23:17
Speaker
He's an interesting guy. Can you define Bertram? I feel like it's kind of like Doc's Estrange vibes. It's the way I go with Bertram. Just a bit of a weird fellow. Really? You could give him that much intelligence? Not as smart. No, not as smart. Not as smart. No. But he's a bit mysterious. He's a bit weird. So yeah, we met Bertram. He pored you like a glass of butter and was like, hey, I have a drink.
00:23:46
Speaker
Yeah, that did happen. We had some convos. He told us about the order of the buttons. I think that's what it's called. The grand order of the arcane button. That's the one. He talked about that. Now he gave us a separate quest, like a side quest to help with, where he wants us to find these special buttons that can teleport us to different realms. What's the most important fact about them?
00:24:17
Speaker
The one time you start, you can't return, so... Yeah, they'll get you there, they will get you back. Yes, give them straight to him, basically, and don't use him, which we haven't found any yet.
00:24:31
Speaker
It's fine by me. I don't plan on going to another realm. So, totally fine by me. We'll say a wild of the shallow deck. No, that's fine. Yeah, so we spoke to Bertram. He gave us some button beer, which tasted nice. And told us about a language, buttonish, in which we are still learning. 26 sessions Wednesday.
00:25:02
Speaker
I've been run, roll off for like 10 sessions. I know. It's infuriating. So yeah, we left with the extra side quest. I think no one had bought any gear or anything yet, like extra. So we're all still, yeah, we're all still base. And then we just went to the journey to Yuan. Yuan, not Yuan, Yuan. Yeah.
00:25:32
Speaker
No, you're forgetting something, your favorite. Secacy. Oh, God, I totally forgot about no more, do you? I think some people were missing for this session. So I was like, oh, I'll run a nice beach spell session. It was like a spa. You were going to go and have fun. And then I made up some things of like, I looked online for some like just like mystical fantasy ingredients and like,
Gnome Trafficking Resolution
00:26:00
Speaker
face masks and things and some of them were like Fairy wings and I'm just like reading out the ingredients you guys in character and you were going that's a little that's fucked up and then The gnomes that were held in in rooms with the door knob just slightly too high that they couldn't reach And then you're like, well, let's break the gnomes out Yeah, it was like a whole Gnome trafficking situation, I guess they were paid
00:26:30
Speaker
Oh, they were paid, yeah. Gosh, that's how we thought it was. We thought it was a non-trafficking situation, I think. So we went to free them, and then we basically gave them the building to run, Naomi and Juliet. They opened a foot spa. And they opened a foot spa. Yeah, it was cool. And you're not allowed to visit them.
00:26:56
Speaker
No, we haven't. You were in Falyard not long ago. Yeah. I think it was you. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Oh, wait, no, you're up into Falyard in ages. We went to Falyard... We went after Ewan, I think, to do armour stuff, and then we just basically led straight away. You did. I remember, I remember, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So you were there very briefly, yeah.
00:27:24
Speaker
Yeah, so we left Phallion and made our way to Ewan for the Slard quest. But before that, we hit some goblins along the way. No. No, you hit the... Yes, we hit Stonehenge. Stonehenge. It's not actually Stonehenge. It's a tower, but it looked like Stonehenge on the map. No, before that.
00:27:52
Speaker
before that you had the oh god it's that one okay yes yeah yeah so we went to the first ruins an underground crypt type thing and that is where we found the first prophecy
00:28:13
Speaker
Yes. Well, yes. First that you knew altogether the second one overall. Yes. Second one overall. First we all knew as a group. Found that property. I'll quickly explain this because we didn't mention it at the time because Alex wasn't privy to it. Session one, one of the characters was given a sort of vision in which they were read this prophecy to basically it kind of went
00:28:40
Speaker
A second star will fall on the first one. You need to ensure that Robin Queen rises with her, she'll bring destruction and death and everything. And all of this. So you then found a counter prophecy. Yeah. Which only two of them basically knew as a counter prophecy. Yeah. So we thought it was an actual prophecy.
00:29:09
Speaker
And we're like, oh, a bunch of spooky stuff happened. And we found that prophecy and killed some things and left, basically. And that was an introduction to the first, I would say, I would say I have done a Game of Thrones in where I have killed off the mate, like the most pivotal character, the most important character for this little plot quest thousands of years ago.
00:29:36
Speaker
Yes, the important character is dead for this. King Nathaniel. Having him alive would make good lives a lot easier. So straight after the prophecy is when I Lordived. That's the first time
00:29:57
Speaker
If you tested me on lore before that, which luckily we never had the opportunity to be tested on lore before that, the most lore diving I'd done was probably like Okra and the dawn, like the ages, dawning second, third, fourth. That's about it. Because they are relatively confusing. Yeah, so that is when I lore dived deep for the first time.
00:30:23
Speaker
and just kept doing it, basically, to memorize things after the prophecy, because I wanted to figure it out is the whole reason I lordived. Yeah, so we left. We left there. And then we hit a goblin place, I think. And then Ewan. How many goblins? No, we've only done... You did the tower, which was our first Tales by a Combat session.
00:30:51
Speaker
Was the tower after the slant though, wasn't it? Oh, the tower was after the slant, correct. No, you're right. Was there a goblin before the slant? I don't think that I... Yes, yes there was. Yeah, because it was right outside you and you decided to do that first before going into town. Yes, yes. And found more letters for the arrival. More letters. Yes, yes.
00:31:17
Speaker
Talking about the arrival. You know what the arrival is now at this point. I know. I'm quite sure. To be honest, never really gets talked about in the conspiracy free group chat. I just kind of assume everyone knows.
00:31:34
Speaker
What it is. Great. That's good. Yeah, it's not like it's awfully complicated. No, that's quite clear. Yeah, everything else is quite. Yeah. So then we left that we went to you and and this is the slard
Slard Investigation in Ewan
00:31:52
Speaker
one. So we spent two weeks in you and two in game week. Yes. Two in game weeks. Five, six sessions, maybe.
00:32:01
Speaker
I would say a sizeable chunk of the campaign was sent in and around Ewan, but so far. Yeah, yeah. So I went to Ewan, did some, so, yeah, got there, told them we were from the guild. Actually, did we? Yes. Yeah, we told the main people we were from the guild and then stayed, yeah, stayed at the lodgings.
00:32:27
Speaker
had a look around town at the start. The first thing we did, I think, look around town. To see just about the Slards and stuff. Well, we didn't know they were Slards at the time.
00:32:40
Speaker
You just know the things are popping from people's chests and people were dying. Yes. Yes. Um, so we looked around, uh, went to many establishments. Uh, we went to a, uh, merchant's shop, a, yeah. Tavern, obviously. And then we went to a, uh,
00:33:11
Speaker
a brothel, which I would like to stay for the record. I did not originally plan to exist in town, but when the question is asked and people are like, there's probably a brothel here, let's ask and find it. There was one, but I didn't wanna make it a straight brothel because that's boring and I'm not boring. It had to be a diversification. So it was a circus and a brothel. Different sides, different sides. Left for the brothel, right for the circus.
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think Dan went to that. No, he did. I don't think Dan did either. I think Dan went when you'd arranged a meeting with Sarah. Yes. Because the only two people that didn't go were Willa Shara and Tier who went to pray. Yes, yes.
00:34:04
Speaker
and then Dan left. That was the meeting that was conducted in the circus side of things, rather than the brothel side. Yeah. Went there, had some conversations about it. Found out that one of the employees customers had died. Yes. I spoke to that employee. Tried to figure some things out. Went to the library, I think.
00:34:33
Speaker
You did? Did some library research. You want us to go back to AMRAC, the handle of Doctor? Yes, went to AMRAC, Doctor Man. He told you about them. He told us they were slards. Yes, he told us they were slards. We went to the library to search about slards and stuff. And then some... I don't remember how we figured this out. Ah, I do. When we went to Grumble's place,
00:35:05
Speaker
The Shara casted Detect poison and magic something like that. Not magic. Poison and disease. Poison and disease. That's the one. And we found out there was poison somewhere. You have poisonous. Yes. And that happened to be the slard eggs we discovered after some stealing and stuff. So. Yeah, so we we lured him out.
00:35:32
Speaker
to speak to him to collect some things. Well, he lured us out basically, but we wanted it as a distraction. Two of the others stayed behind to loot the shop to find like the slard eggs and stuff and whatnot. And then in the forest, he turned into a slard with the rest of us there. And this is where he had been taking the people who had to turn into slards with the tadpoles and the eggs.
00:36:02
Speaker
And we obliterate him. We destroyed the man because of Tia. This is the famous Tia fight that I think we've spoken about a couple of times. Yes, this is the immaculate Tia fight where he used a compelled a duel on this slard in which the slard is forced to fight him and we will just battle him whilst Tia just held the damage. And I don't think Tia really got hit that much because
00:36:31
Speaker
The Slade was like struggling and tied down. I think someone used- I think his tear then grappled him. Yeah, yeah. Basically- He was still trying to fight tear and then you go just like hitting him because he was prone. Yeah, basically the Slade straddled. Killed him, killed off the tadpoles, went well. Went back to Amrak to tell him about the Slade and went, there's probably more Slades. And then we devised a plan to hold a concert
00:37:02
Speaker
were filming performing and we would scan people to find out if there were slards because obviously we couldn't let people know we were searching for slards so we just held a concert scan the people and basically if we found out they were slard kill them basically um pretty much yeah so we'd just quickly interject there um because friday recently did this ah this part
00:37:30
Speaker
They worked out that Grumbles was a Slard on the way out of town as they were following him out and attacked him in town. They were then convinced that Amrak was also a Slard. Convinced. Walked into his thing. Some of them wanted to talk to him trying to figure it out first. Do some checks. Someone disagreed and immediately threw an axe at Amrak. Amrak, who I shit you not was on one hit point,
00:37:57
Speaker
then through a level, like a chromatic orb at them. Because he was like, nah, fuck this worm. Because he's a wizard. Amrak's a wizard. I don't know if that's made clear. They're scholars, they're wizards.
00:38:11
Speaker
Yeah, damn. Um, wow. That's one way to do it. Yeah. Yeah. So I was shocked. I was like, you can't, he's like a little, he's like, for those who don't know Amrak, he's like, he's a loxodon. He's like a little old man. He's got like a huge beard. He doesn't hear too well. He trumpets because he gets scared sometimes.
00:38:32
Speaker
Yes, the trumpeting, yes. But yeah, so that's very good. Every group has some kind of concert or some kind of event.
00:38:43
Speaker
Yes, via art inspiration. You welcome, guys. Yeah, so we had a concert, scanned everyone, found who the Slards were, and had a big fight, which went really well. I don't think anyone really were close to dying.
00:39:06
Speaker
No, everyone was pretty okay. Yeah. Yeah, some people got it got rough for some people because you want most of you were in like some some people had to hide on a roof and do nothing or session But some people were in the in the fray in the combat getting stuff done Yeah, but yeah, it went well It was very well
00:39:30
Speaker
There were six lads. You also had the archers on the roof who, if they rolled above 15, could do 30 points of damage a turn. I think that helped you guys out in just making things like, it was still a really tough fight. And it still really helped you guys think about what you were doing. Yeah, it was difficult. You did really well. Yeah, but we came for him. And then,
00:39:55
Speaker
Our debt got cleared because it was a big thing. So they cleared our debt from the guild. Obviously, Tyr got paid because Tyr wasn't in debt. And then I think after arrest, we went, we left to go to the tower.
00:40:17
Speaker
the tower which was our first house by a session which yes first house by a session um which is very little yeah so we got to the tower for the first session and it was full of wait no wait i don't think it was our first house by a session no it definitely was our first was it was it not the slard fight because of
00:40:40
Speaker
the big slard fight because that's when we could. Oh, yeah, you're right. Yeah, because the tower was definitely our first slide. Tell us by a session, I think. No, it wasn't. No, you're right. It wasn't. Yeah, I think it was the slard fight. Yeah, no, now I think about so much, but I'm just wrong.
00:41:05
Speaker
Yeah, no, yeah, it was the big one. The big sludge fight was our first one. Big sludge fight was our first one. Yeah, and then the tower one was our second, so we got to the tower. There's a necromancer person at the back and a bunch of skeletons, basically. Do you remember what Markie had on his back? It's not an oracle, he has creatures. No, it was Marco Vorogoth.
00:41:33
Speaker
That's the one. What are the chaos creatures? Oh, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, so we went to the tower. This one was difficult. And it was a six hour session, bear in mind. It was long. And none of us really noticed, so you can sort of...
00:41:53
Speaker
discerned from that how high concentration and how stressed it was for some people. Yeah. So we got there and we started fighting basically straight away. Started at the front. It was going well with just killing skeletons. Walked up them stairs and people started to get battered. That man at the back was a sniper with those spells. He was killing everybody.
00:42:20
Speaker
I think Astra went down, Tear went down. I think Lila went down. Yeah. Finnan, I don't know. Nashara, no, because Nashara was underground. Didn't partake in the fight. Dan didn't go down, did he? Dan didn't. He got very close, so I remember doing the maths after the session. Dan took the second most amount of damage, which is understandable because he has like the most health and joint and highest AC.
00:42:51
Speaker
Basically, Dan doesn't go down often because he's got second wind and stones endurance. Basically, I can negate and get health back a lot, so it's helpful. And I guess to an extent Axon Surge as well. Yeah, even Axon Surge helps just for things like getting to people and killing people quick enough that I don't take damage.
00:43:16
Speaker
So yeah, like Dan doesn't go down often. He takes it. He gets hit a lot. Like just, he gets hit a lot. Like you are. Yes. I want to hit someone else. Like realistically, it makes very little sense for them to be like, Oh, there's a huge Goliath. Right.
00:43:35
Speaker
I'm going to fire a spell at the guy who's hit me with a crossbow over there. Yeah. So yeah. But yeah, I tend to not go down. I got very close to that session. I think the lowest I was on like 4 HP. But healing potions and whatever kept me fine. Very interesting combat. Very creative. Killed people.
00:44:02
Speaker
it definitely forced you guys with him being at the back and firing spells to really think about where you were positioning yourself with the walls and stuff yeah it's actually the reason that i um but rugby tackled that skeleton to the bottom floor so that i could go upstairs like underneath and avoid getting hit um because that man was using lightning
00:44:26
Speaker
and things and electricity and I would have been absolutely cooked if I got hit by one of them spells. Like I would have just died. So yeah. Yeah, because metal armour is not the way to do things when electricity is involved. So I wanted to not get hit and I just dropped him, dropped the skeleton down, crushed him and went up basically, went underneath and then went upstairs.
00:44:52
Speaker
Got to the guy at the top now the reason combat went so long not but not just like obviously There was a lot of things to kill and we wanted to kill him, but it took me so long to finish off this guy It took ages because I was the only person up there by that point
Tower Battle with Necromancer
00:45:08
Speaker
Whilst everyone else killed off the skeletons on the roofs in the towers, I made it for the guy. And it just took me so long to roll a dice to hit him. It got there so, so long. His AC wasn't dramatically high either. No, it wasn't. My rolls were just sucky. The my rolls were so bad. It got to the point that all the skeletons got cleared and Astra had enough time to get all the way up to me.
00:45:38
Speaker
and next to me, Astro Lashara, one of them, right before I killed him. Yeah, right before I killed him, like one hit before. Genuinely, it was really bad. I was on low health for ages, but he didn't hit me either, so it was just a bunch of misses. Yeah, and then we killed that necromancer.
00:46:01
Speaker
Grab some loot that was about I say grab some loot the loot was already grabbed From before it was yes, you're in the fight by someone. Yeah Went to set up camp next next to the tower for long rest and stuff This is into the next session now because obviously after six hours of combat we went straight to sleep Yeah
00:46:28
Speaker
Yeah, I went to set up camp outside. I had talked to some people, had some convos. This is where the double elf started in. This is the spawn of double elf. I don't know how the conversation came up. Actually, I do. That's a lie.
00:46:49
Speaker
They were talking about something People are being suspicious of each other and then Tia went to go toilet like as character and then getting intense I think conversations are getting intense. Yes, so Tia went to in character go for a piss Dan joined him
00:47:11
Speaker
And then we were talking about, because they were talking about like their backgrounds and what races they were like to, because everyone was suspicious of each other, basically. And then Dan, what did I say? I was talking to Tia and I was like, if there are half-elf and I'm bigger than them, does that make me a double elf? Yeah, something like that. Yeah. So I went, does that make me a normal elf? Because obviously they're half-elfs.
00:47:39
Speaker
Tierra agreed and then Lila says she was a regular elf and we had double her height so I was like, ah, that makes me into a double elves and Tierra just agreed outright. And that's where that session was the start of the double elf stuff. Yeah. And the start of Tierra and Dan's amazing friendship. Yes. Yes.
00:48:07
Speaker
Yeah, so that session ended and we headed back to... Where did we go? I'm going to say we went back to Falligan. Because I wanted to get here. You weren't there long, you sold some stuff. Yeah. That was the sword from the Necromancer. Oh, the cursed blade. The cursed blade. And I had picked up
00:48:36
Speaker
in Ewan off a Slard or off something, half plate armor, something. I can't remember where I picked it up, but I picked it up. Yeah, you got it off somewhere. Yeah. And Tyr got a new shield. So his AC was 90 and I was like, yeah, let's go back to Phallion so I can get new armor because I want a 19 AC. Like I've got the half plate armor, I just need it to be resized to get my 19 AC. But you're still getting hit a lot.
00:49:03
Speaker
Yeah, like I don't think it's made much of a difference when I really think about it. It's maybe I get hit less like once per 10 hits or something. Like one per 10 attacks, do I get hit less probably? Which like is decent. It's like your fighting thing with like a plus seven. Yeah, yeah. Kind of like it's kind of irrelevant at that point. If I roll like a 15, you're getting hit. Yeah, basically. Yeah, so you went back to Falian.
00:49:33
Speaker
And we did all the armor stuff, sorted that all out, picked up a new quest. I think, first, back in when you were having your campfire session, you were told by Lila about the property that she received. I thought it was after she passed out, which was back at Phallion, I think. Yes.
00:50:00
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So it happened at the campfire after you'd left Falian. Yeah. So that was Ewan. You had the, she passed out in Ewan at the celebration. Are you defeating the Slards? Oh, darn. Yeah. Yes. Yes. I also forgot that, but you had the conversation at the campfire where she revealed that her, about her conflicting prophecy with yours. Yes. Yes.
00:50:28
Speaker
So then we had two prophecies at this point, didn't know which one to believe. So we went back to Phallion, did all the armor stuff, took up a new quest which is to kill, which we're doing right now, this quest.
00:50:46
Speaker
to quell some angry spirits, angry forest guardians and stuff. And then we headed out for a new crypt thing. Yes, a new crypt thing. This is a very big one, this crypt stuff. This was a huge session lore-wise. Yes, yes. So we made it to this crypt.
00:51:12
Speaker
And we got there, and it was just a few pillars and a statue. That was it. And weighing scales. Yes, and weighing scales. And there was a note in the weighing scales, I think, or on the statue or somewhere. A plaque or something. A plaque, yeah. And it had a little, like, riddle thing. I figured it out. It was very easy. Got fire, water, earth, and air.
00:51:42
Speaker
put it in the scales, two in each scales. It opened. It was like a balance is all or something the riddle was. Yeah. There were like the elemental symbols on the- On the- That was immediately when, oh, well, this is obvious. Yeah. Open the scales. And there was like a whole underground crypt again. Kind of crypt. A burial place. So yeah, I guess it's crypt.
00:52:12
Speaker
Went downstairs. There are some things in a room, but not much in the first room. So we went into the second room after a few like divine senses and detects good and evil and whatnot. And the second room had a clay golem. Clay gladiator. Clay gladiator, that's the one. But essentially a clay golem, I think it would just re-skin to be a little cooler.
00:52:40
Speaker
Yeah, and we got actually battered by this thing. Me and Tear ran in with Astra. This thing, the people who were listening at home, did three attacks with a spear, our shield bash.
00:52:59
Speaker
Yes. Which I ended up removing because I got rid of the shield bash. I kept the three attack because that's fun. Because it put his AC too high and it was just an extra attack that I thought was just too much damage. Yeah. So we went in, me and Tyr and Astra were hitting it. Astra hand up him, literally fist inside the golem. I think Tyr did the same. I think it got stuck.
00:53:28
Speaker
Yes, Astra got stuck. Tyr got hit a lot, and then Tyr got downed. And then I got hit a lot, and I got downed. Then Tyr got brought back up from Finland, I think, maybe. Yeah, yes. Yeah, so Tyr got brought back up. I was still down. And this is the session in which I rolled a natural run on the death saving throw.
00:53:58
Speaker
um after a succeed so i was about one turn away from like probably dying um from death yeah and luckily the thing got killed it would have been permanent because no one had yeah no one had remember fire yeah so i would have just died um luckily the the golem got killed and i got picked up just in time um
00:54:24
Speaker
Yeah, it was close. Because I'm pretty sure I rolled a death saving throw just to see what I'd get. And I'm pretty sure I failed. So I just would have died. Yeah, I think you did fail, yeah. Yeah. And then we checked out this room, which was like a bedroom. I had some books. And this is where all the lore came in, like most of it. All of my hours of death I think could be the bit that's difficult to explain.
00:54:54
Speaker
Yeah, a little bit so Let's see in sections if you don't understand this bit don't feel too bad because I think that some of you guys Kind of struggled to get exactly what was happening while you were there Yes, so I've got to remember this now. This is the thing with not taking notes. You have to remember everything I remember it. So if you get stuck I can fill in blanks and
00:55:22
Speaker
So we started by searching the room, obviously. There was stuff. I don't think insanely good stuff. There was just stuff. Then we went to the books.
00:55:34
Speaker
and I wanted to search for a bunch of books. Dan can't read Elvis, so he had to have Astro walk along with him and read it for him, basically. Yeah, but you pretty much worked out there with the books, the dates were on the spine for the books. Yes, yes, the dates are on the spine and it went from the second age to the start of the fourth age is what I want to say.
Crypt Prophecies and Lore Discovery
00:55:58
Speaker
it was it was a long time i can't remember the exact time span but i wanted to like really express the how far this guy could see into the future so for for context king this is king nafaniel's grave thing basically like his crypt um and all of his books and prophecies were written here like stuff he predicted and whatnot and you can figure that out because he died
00:56:24
Speaker
third age, I think, and the books were written long past that. No, he died in the second age. He died in the second age and the books were written past that. So we were reading some books, we read the most recent book, which is where we got the third prophecy. The siblings prophecy. Yes. Which told you that you needed to be aware of the siblings
00:56:51
Speaker
the chaotic rise will spell blah blah blah yes um we read some other books about uh jesameres i think some of the jesameres and not jesameres uh nazigaz yes you found that big book yes um about you too i think right dad has that book i think so yeah it just basically talks about all of them in rough detail a chronicle of like some of the kings yeah yeah uh which is where i figured out that
00:57:20
Speaker
All of these were accurate because all of the stuff in the law was basically the same as that. So they were like accurate and he was good at this. Some other random books, which just had stuff in. Basically, The Third Prophecy is the most important book that we reread in there. Which I don't know if you remember this bit of law, but, Jessima of Jessima, Nathaniel only wrote one prophecy.
00:57:49
Speaker
yes yes which is the siblings one that you now have and the rest were sort of warped by other people who wanted to i guess in later years were worried about certain things so began to change prophecies to suit their need to be like i think this is what people need to be aware of this is what i'm changing prophecy to yeah basically um
00:58:15
Speaker
So this one's probably the most accurate one so far of the three we've got. It's likely to be true. Likely, I'm still pessimistic. He told you it was real.
00:58:28
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I know. Still pessimistic. He can tell us what I want. Like wrong. You can just be inaccurate. So I'm like 85% sure that this is likely to be the correct prophecy, right? But it's good to be cautious. So yeah, exactly. We got that prophecy and we left and that was the end of that session. Rested.
00:58:51
Speaker
The campfire had some talks about the prophecies and went into a new session. Into the next session, next week, obviously, which we went into the room next door, which was full of spiders. It was. It was. And Tyr is incredibly scared of spiders. He had to roll to not be frightened, like Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate.
00:59:19
Speaker
he natural 20 which he asked for i didn't i didn't yeah put this on him he he was like i want to do this and i was like uh okay yeah very understandable yeah yeah and he natural 20 so he was fine basically yeah he was for that fight yeah and then we we just beat the shit out of these spiders i think i don't think they really put up much of a fight i think they actually got battered to my memory had a search around that room there wasn't really much there um there wasn't no so you had it out
00:59:49
Speaker
Yeah, we left, we rested. Skeletons. Skeletons? You fought skeletons. Yes. Wait, before we left- I reached them relatively easily. There was no, you had your, so you beat the skeleton, you had a short rest, went in, fought skeletons, there was no real issue. And then you went into the next room where the armour
01:00:16
Speaker
Yes. Cause Dan immediately walked up and went, Oh, I want to use this seeing orb and put blood in it. And the armor came alive and was like, no, the King has forbade anyone to use this. Yes.
01:00:28
Speaker
Yes, yes, yes. You immediately tried again with another one. Another armour came alive. You eventually managed to put that down. Very simple. Yeah, I don't think you struggled. So I remember I had a problem with this because I wanted to try something really badly, but I can't remember what I wanted to try, but I wanted to try something. And then the thing just got broken. Everyone decided to just break it and I was like, ah, fuck.
01:00:57
Speaker
We could have done something. I can't remember what it was now. I did want to try something really big that I thought would work, which is why I kept putting my blood into the fucking bowl. Yeah, but it kept bringing over our life. Yeah. So that we just destroyed the thing. Oh, well, I guess. Yeah. And then we caught the session there. And I think that's when
01:01:28
Speaker
we had a special guest the next session i think yes yes correct yes from a previous campaign for you guys yep came back joined us for one they live in new zealand so it's very difficult to join in but they had the morning off working decided to wake up at five am to join us which
01:01:48
Speaker
you after giving some credit for. Yeah, absolutely insane. Fair enough. Yeah. Yeah. So a special guest. We went through and did some stuff. Again, I think you went and then you reached the golden doors, the golden doors. I think the pretty, the next big notable thing that happened.
01:02:15
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, we opened the doors and we went into the, uh, there was a tomb. I think it was a tomb. I think I'll call it something. Yes. Um, and that was Nathaniel's and his ghost was there. Basically his, his spirit, his ghost is whatever. Um, yeah. So, so we got there and we went to speak to him basically.
01:02:47
Speaker
But before he spoke to him one of our members tried to steal some fake gold that was there nearly got caught nearly got us killed Yeah, it would have been rough. It would have been a difficult fight I think what would annoy you more is if I told you after that you would have got a bunch of law from him I think that would have made you angrier
01:03:05
Speaker
I knew I would have got law from that's why I wanted to talk to him when I was sitting there when I was sitting there and like, yeah, let's talk to him. And then people like Robin things like, fuck, we're not going to be able to talk to him. Like I know I've been I've been a player in your hands campaign long enough to know that if we fight him, we're never talking to him. And I'm not finding out this really important law. I want to know. Yeah. So, yeah, luckily the roles were good and we got away with it. All for fake gold, a lead painted in gold.
01:03:38
Speaker
But yeah, so we had a talk with Nathaniel and we asked him a few questions. I think it was five we got. You got five questions. Do I remember the questions? No. There was one about being accurate. Yes, and you told you that yours was accurate.
01:04:01
Speaker
There were some he couldn't answer, mainly because I didn't want to give you that information yet as a DM, but cosmic laws forbade him from answering. We asked who the siblings were and he said, no, but I can tell you that you guys might have met them. I think I said some or all of you have met some or all of them. Yes, yes. It really doesn't help that much.
01:04:27
Speaker
no but then from that like everyone thought they figured out who the siblings were um yeah were any of you right no god no i was very skeptical i still i i i was still baffled from that comment uh what else was there what else did we ask i think i asked the most questions which is is the thing um i don't think anything else was majorly sort of groundbreaking apart from that
01:04:56
Speaker
I asked about one of the Nartigars. I can't remember what I asked, but I asked something. And yeah, that was it. And then he disappeared. We had a look around, look at some of the gold and bloody blonde, whatever, it's two. And we left.
Conversations with Gods and Decisions
01:05:15
Speaker
And we just did. Yeah, well, we walked out the tomb and went to rest, basically.
01:05:24
Speaker
I think that was about two months ago? A month and a half? Honestly, I couldn't tell you. They all kind of blend into one in my mind. I don't know what... You did something... Because then I want to say that we had two character deaths next. But I feel more recent. But I think it's correct. No, so we had the... We spoke to God first.
01:05:53
Speaker
We had a session. Oh, you did. We spoke to some gods. So before all that, it was, we got out and we set up camp where we had, we went to where we had our camp set up. And there were, I was trying to be forced into persuading Astra to give us backstory about her life. It didn't happen for out of character reasons, but we can ignore that.
01:06:22
Speaker
Yeah. Oh and then the rat man came. The rat man came. Squeaks drummer. Squeaks drummer. Squeaks drummer came, didn't like him. Nobody liked Squeaks drummer. Nobody liked him, basically told him to fuck off. He was on his way to the king because he was meant to be his jester or something, advisor or something. He was, yeah. No, simply jester.
01:06:51
Speaker
Yeah, we had not cared. We told him to leave, basically. He left. And then we spoke to gods. So Lila and Nashara, who had been speaking to gods, spoke to Orytheli, god of destruction, and told him to speak to me, in which I was allowed to ask two things. I think you were.
01:07:20
Speaker
When I got told this, out of character, I knew what I wanted to ask. In character, I knew what Dan had to ask. So I was burning with pain on the inside. It's basically- What did you want to ask? Let's see, what did I want to ask? Definitely something to do with King Nathaniel and the Crips, I think.
01:07:45
Speaker
A is the crypt locations. If there's more crypt locations or if he's notoriously very accurate and B was going to be something related to the Chaos Gods and their creation and future creations and blah blah whatever. What I actually asked was
01:08:09
Speaker
Is the Raven Queen real, like a real god, or goddess? And what was the second third? I think the second one was about if his property is accurate. No, I asked a stupid question, I think.
01:08:27
Speaker
um wow i don't remember i think that's how it we led to the conversation of the volcano because i asked a stupid question maybe have you killed anyone or something like that it must have been stupid yeah something that didn't help me um and then yeah and then or if i showed me his powers and then i was like oh can you destroy that volcano and i killed three thousand five hundred and forty two people um
01:08:54
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I I got out of that and then Finan spoke to you or a fella as well. Yes. Yep Tia went into his tent and prayed don't know what happened. Oh Prayed
01:09:14
Speaker
I can't remember. You also spoke to Elaz? Is that when you got Elaz? No, that wasn't the Elaz session. So we'd spoken to Arafeli and then I was like, OK, cool. I believe in praying now. So I prayed a bit. This is like around the time I'm praying to God's. And then after all of that stuff, I think it was like the end of the session.
01:09:39
Speaker
It was session ended and next session we woke up to plant two characters are dead Yeah because of stuff Different of opinion not relevant to this conversation basically stuff happened and two characters are dead Lila and Shara died so the wonderful Theon to our
New Characters Join: Fionn and Eleni
01:10:04
Speaker
party
01:10:04
Speaker
Yes, we added Fionn, and we got Eleni. I think that's Eleni. Eleni, yeah. Yeah. Is it? Or is that Casey's character? No, Casey's character is... No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh.
01:10:26
Speaker
Yeah, Northine, Northine. That's the one. So you've got to learn it. I've met so many new people this week, their names are just flying around my head. So I went through like a rolodex of which is the most non-human name in my brain right now. And Northine was like the one.
01:10:42
Speaker
nice um yeah so you met Eleni she just spawned from the sky uh was a traveler was a companion of uh i was about to say starian finan um was companion of finan a very odd same person really basically um yeah
01:11:00
Speaker
uh found out about that she joined the party and then we met the scholars of esnari um my favorite law reference moment because i got it so quick i was so happy with myself and like it was fucking amazing do you remember who you met from the from the ward from the college though grog not grog um that's not his name grog is someone else gorgug
01:11:24
Speaker
Yeah, Gorgug is a pretty different character. Gorgug is the greatest wizard of the age. Gorgug, yeah. Had some convos. They knew about some prophecies. They were going to tell the king. Their prophecy was about the siblings as well, so it was the same. But we didn't get much information otherwise because they didn't want to tell us, basically. They did tell you who the siblings were, or they gave you a prophecy about the siblings.
01:11:52
Speaker
They did. Yes, they gave us a little prophecy about the siblings that hints that they're the chaos gods, basically. Raven Queen included. Yeah. And that is the session. Dan rolled a natural 20 on religion and prayed to Elaz in the evening. And I woke up a god, Elaz. And I got a conversation. We talked about alcohol, mostly.
01:12:21
Speaker
she is a patron of intoxication? Yes, I leaked all of the bad things Aurifeni did and the fact that he was still awake and didn't want us to wake anyone else up because he will be able to run it. I don't know the aftermath of that because I haven't spoken to her since so couldn't tell you.
01:12:41
Speaker
So yeah, and Elaz gave me a boon. A boon, which basically means I'm good at alcohol stuff. I find 10% more alcohol. I get 10% more money when selling alcohol. There was one more, about 10%. You can't get drunk with Dragon's Breath. Yeah, I can't get drunk with Dragon's Breath. Doesn't knock me out, whatever. And there was one more. I can't remember. It doesn't really matter.
01:13:11
Speaker
Yeah, it's fine. It was I think you hit the main three there. Yeah. Yeah. So got that boom. That was cool. And then we left for
01:13:23
Speaker
the Goblin Camp, where you picked up the wonderful Norphine. I think Cleric. Yes, a Cleric.
Defeating Goblin Leader and Uncovering Lore
01:13:32
Speaker
Went into a Goblin Camp and Casey wanted to slash Norphine, immediately paid off by healing you guys more times than the other Cleric had done in the entire length of the campaign, up to that point in one combat. Yes, we dealt with some goblins, some hobgoblins outside. We went into this house
01:13:51
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um where we stayed for like a night uh to rest up and have some convos had a good time yes um
01:14:01
Speaker
We all talked, got to know Norphine, did some like in-character stuff. Tyr had, this is very big arc for Tyr because Norphine's been introduced and they're both believers in Trir, or Tyr, whatever you want to call it. Tyr, yeah. Yeah, Tyr. And which causes a problem for Tyr because stuff happened. We got some minor background information on Tyr, AKA he's wearing House Kael's armor.
01:14:32
Speaker
Doesn't really help at all, but we know he's wearing House Kale's armor. Yeah. Got some background lore, spoke to people. I gave you the opportunity to rope to find out why that was important. Why it was relevant to House Kale, and I don't think any of you managed to pass that check. I doubt it. But yeah, and we
01:14:58
Speaker
did some just role playing and some conversations. There was a smart book. That was interesting. Yeah, we long rested. We woke up the next day and went to get the rest of the goblins. So we went down to the basement of the house to just check out the whole house the next day. And that was an entrance. There was a secret entrance to the goblins lair, in which we found
01:15:25
Speaker
We opened, we snatched their leader, grappled it to the floor and we beat the shit out of their leader. If you remember back to the Gabe episode we did speak about.
01:15:40
Speaker
Yes, yes. Yeah, so beat the shit out of the leader, arcade him from top ropes with a shield. Beat the shit out of him, killed the rest of the goblins, and looked around for some loot. Got another letter from Squishy, I think. Yeah, pretty much saying the arrival was his mum coming. Yes, yes. And then we left the goblin camp.
01:16:07
Speaker
And that brings us to our most recent session, which was arriving in the town of
Cliffhanger: Tyr's Mysterious Creature
01:16:16
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Bail. Bail, yeah. The new town we're at for the new quest, which we haven't started yet. We're just in the town having a look around. You've not done too much. You've done some investigating. Done some investigating. Tears going through a bit.
01:16:35
Speaker
which pains me because Dan doesn't know anything of it and Dan can't help him. Oh well, I guess. Well, I think we can talk about this another time. There was a major cliffhanger that we ended on, which I think you want to talk about.
01:16:53
Speaker
Yeah, Tyr got a dog. Tyr came, more random creature thing. So we ended this final session. Now we're not going to play for a month or two coming back before, after the break and everything. We're not playing for the new year. We're recording this currently on the 15th of December. So I wanted to find a good, annoying cliffhanger to empty on for Alex. Yeah.
01:17:22
Speaker
Yeah, so Tyr has a monster pet thing that's there, and I have no idea why, and I'm not going to know for a month.
01:17:37
Speaker
So yeah. So you said dog at first. I think a dog is misleading. This is a black dog-like creature. It's got like a... almost like a hyena mane going down the center of its neck. That's like purple. It's got swirling purple eyes. So it looks weird, is what it looks like. Yes, yes. It's a weird dog. Yeah. And that's the campaign. That's... we caught up.
01:18:06
Speaker
We are session. Yeah, we've caught up fully. Yeah, yeah Yeah, that's everything have some yeah, we'll talk very briefly about our plans going forward With the podcast. Yes. Yes. We've got some fun guests coming up Yep fungus in the new year that we've we've booked tentatively Hopefully that they materialize. I'm very excited for some of them. Yes. Yes
01:18:36
Speaker
We're going to be carrying on. We'll have some repeat guests from previous episodes. Oh yeah, we're going to have some repeat guests where we're going to focus fully on maybe some topics that you guys want us to cover, like how to make combat engaging, how to make disengaging, how to make that engaging, which we will really delve into.
01:18:57
Speaker
and really try to answer that question on like tips, strategy, things we employ to get that flowing nicely. And then we will have obviously our normal episodes. Currently right now we won't be recording for like another month, but we have got all the episodes out until we need to record again. So you're fine, you'll get episodes. We've pre-planned everything. We've done a, I would say so, a cracking job at recording.
01:19:27
Speaker
Yeah. Our editor might disagree. They are currently struggling to edit an episode right now. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So, uh, hi editor, which we're talking about you right now while you're struggling. We're having a great time. We're both here laughing. Yeah. We are. I don't know if we will,
01:19:50
Speaker
played D&D before we record next, I'm not sure, depends on me recording. I think it's likely recording won't happen before we play. Yes, yes. Yeah, I think that's about it. Thank you for like listening to us chat shit for the past couple of months.
01:20:11
Speaker
Yeah, basically, thank you. And we will continue to church it for the next, as long as possible, really. Yeah, basically. And then once we've finished ArcOne with the UgoDoor campaign, which won't happen for a while, every time we think about it, it's going to be longer. It is, it is, it is. We'll do my pirate campaign, which we'll talk about when it starts.
01:20:37
Speaker
and we'll really try to do our best to sort of explain as we go along what happens in that and not sort of as someone said it's like watching an adventuring a party without having watched the main campaign which is an understandable bit of feedback there we will definitely try and explain more and go into more detail yeah pretty much but yeah that's uh that's everything
01:21:06
Speaker
Thank you very much for watching and we will see you, I mean for you guys next week, for us in the new year. Yes. Goodbye everybody. Yeah. Bye.