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Ep. 162 Puppet Master - Bellum Draconis
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The aftermath of the King’s downfall forces the party into motion. As the group gathers what remains of their fallen foe, Delmond Trase urges them to flee before the consequences catch up. The Undying Champions make a desperate escape from the castle
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Festive Opening & Premature New Year Jokes
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Welcome back to the Fellowship of the Tabletop listeners and a very Merry Christmas to you all. Before we dive in in today's episode, a small heads up, you might hear the occasional reference to New Year's celebrations 2026.
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Don't worry, we haven't leapt through time, you haven't skipped an episode and everything is exactly where it should be. We just got a little too festive prematurely when recording.
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Now grab a warm drink, settle in and enjoy the a adventure.
Introduction of Hosts & Characters
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Well, hello, everyone. New Year to you, and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship Tabletop, Elimdrakunis, where you're a live-play 5e 2024 D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Aerith in the kingdom of Trelak. Joining you for this week's episode, New Year, New Kingdom, we've got...
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Pew me who plays the rules consultant human cleric Emron. We killed the king you know. We've got the Yule log apple pie smashing edgelord Callum who plays the warforged charterfisser Alpha. Mmm cinnamon.
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Ian who plays the tiefling warcorer Nyxcordal. Ding dong the king is dead. Will, who plays the Dragonborn Druid Val Valkon Top of the Coronation Toyers Darren, who plays the Half-Orc Barbarian Thorex Unjari Happy new monarch, Sleek God My name is Mark and I am playing the Human Bladesinger and Kingslayer Seth, Pharo Reaver and by last, but by no means least it's disappeared so I'm going pick one at random because got them all here The Taint Tactician The Tamer of Terrors The Tyrant of Trials And the Temptor of Testicle Tickling Dungeon Master hi Danny as the world slowly implodes upon Sleetgaard, we see old Gal walking through streets and every now and then as chaos encapsulates the space around him, he walks without a care in the world and every now and then just ducks down as vicious death ah zooms over his head and continues to walk down unencumbered by the danger that and and ah
Battle Recap & Strategic Escapes
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surrounds him. He looks at us, listener, and begins.
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Seeing the future's a lonely life. Ooh, Regicide! King Leopold beckons the group in and Seth's all reasoning with him and Leopold's all like, I got the information I need, bitch. And Seth's like, I'm gonna mindfuck you. And Leopold's like, good evening, Nix Carell. I know who you are. and i know your fucking ways. And Seth tries to barter and almost let slip some vital information. a And Delmontre is like, give me Alpha. No, sorry. Leopold's like, give me Alpha. And you can take Delmontre. And Alpha's like, with all due respect, King Leopold, fuck you. And shit gets really fucking heated. Leopold commands Alpha's execution or he will kill Delmon Traith. Seth is like banishment, bitch, and takes Delmon off the map. King Leopold's like, well, fuck you all. I'm drawing my sword. Showtime, bitches. And corrupts the minds of Baal and Alpha. A voice aids Emron's strike against the king with ah a subtle... Hit harder, bitch. And he does. Ball snaps back out of his trance and Seth breaks Del Montrese's chains. Nyx makes an escape route by shattering some windows. And Alpha shadows it even further, but actually blasting Nyx because he's all like, Nyx, you're an enemy of mine. Get fucked. The party gets cronkin' and smash shit up. Ball starts to cook a bitch. Neopold propels Nyx out. out of the fucking window and leeches some life out of a sleep guard guard. Seth goes to fucking town and kills the king. Seth, he's all like, I'm sorry, but not you, not you, bitch. Nyx uses his brand new cape to fly like a fucking hero and the guards are all like, oh shit, that was the only thing controlling them, boys. Ball's all like rooted in rage and he just
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toasts the body of the dead king and turns him mostly to ash. Emron's like, loot that body, loot that body, gets a crown and sword, fuck that guy. Delmontrace fireballs the defenders. Seth tells Nyx to fly with Delmontrace and get away and then he slays some more shit because he's fucking awesome. Nyx hears the stone golems going crazy outside and fucking up all the villagers in Sleekard.
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There's a spiky stone golem outside. He's like some sort of titan dragon shit. It's all kicking off.
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You stand in the throne room, no perceivable enemies in this room, however. The courtyard below, the castle wider, and the city at large are in a state of peril.
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You know your exits, four the same as your entrances, and one hidden escape told to you by Sebastian.
Throne Room Tactics & Debates
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What do you choose to do as one steel defender still with a trace of life continues to pummel away as we resume our initiative order?
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Nix. It's your turn. So there's only one stone defender left. Nyx has just taken in the horrifying scene of Goldview getting pummeled.
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And if I remember rightly... The end of the episode brought the big monstrous contraption that we saw in the Jewel of the Desert Championship.
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And that monster is crashing down the gatehouse and on its way to the castle. About 200 feet to the north of where you currently are.
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And the body of King Leopold,
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what's left of it?
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It's basically turned ash now, as it's been continually burnt by Baal. And was King Leopold wearing his crown throughout that whole battle?
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and combat Throughout the battle, but now it's been taken by Emron. Okay, cool. Emron, can you just put the crown on? That might be a conduit for these things.
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um And with that, he's going to look at Seth and go, yep, we'll get Delmond Trace out, but trust me, it's a lot worse out there right now than it is in here. And with that, he's going to raise a hand up at the clockwork stone thing. Is it standing above? ah Because I assume they're quite tall.
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It's taller than Alpha. Brilliant. That's amazing. So I've got line of sight. yeahp um I'm going to just shoot an Eldritch Blast in its direction. Great.
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man man up ma man up ma Get him, man. Get him good. Get him trying to subtly pour water into whiskey. I'm trying to do what you're talking. It's not working. You just take a piss. It's not wee. I swear. The whole time through that thought. Why are you weeing on Callum? I know he farted, but why are you urinating on I'm putting out King Leopold. I'm putting him out. Oh, God. So that was a natural one. We'll miss.
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Okay, cool. Ow. And he's going to...
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Keep talking, ignore me. I'm good. 11 on the second. Well awesome, miss. Yeah. And that's the... He's going to make movements towards Del Montreux, so he's got 30 feet of movement. he has He's no longer flying because that was only a minute with that cape. so Yes, you'll sustain. It's still up, though. It's not been a minute. It hasn't been a full minute yet.
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Oh, I can't choose to end it. It's 10 rounds. No, you get four minutes. No, one minute of flight, and you still have about 42 seconds left. You can land and walk, but... No, but I've still, it's going to be, is yeah yeah, I can't destroy them. Okay, fine. So I hover over to Delmontreis. Yep.
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Just kind of in front of him. That's good for a podcast. What was it? How would you describe what you've just done to us? It's ah kind of like and his hands are up in the air, like an Egyptian pose, kind of moving his head to left and right as he puts them sass towards Delmontreis.
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It's a weird situation to be that Nyx has found himself in because for so long he was told to hate on the Upchriska. Then he kind of liked the Upchriska. Then he made a friend with a girl called Sholi in the Upchriska. Then they went back to hating the Upchriska. And now we've got the leader of the Upchriska right here that
Escape Through the Tunnel
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we were meant kidnap. So there's a lot of things going through Nyx's head right now. Hence why he's linked his mind with Delmon's. And that link is still up.
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um So, yeah. Yeah, that's the end of my go. All right. Alpha. Alpha.
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I'm going to still try and take down this clockwork stone golem thing.
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Firebolt. Disadvantage. To begin with, yeah I will be rolling with Disadvantage. Isn't it solely the one that you cooked? Shulzi, yeah, she was. yeah what No, she's alive.
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Yeah, no, she's dead now. She's died. She got found out and killed. dead she's too Yeah, but you didn't cook her. No, I didn't. He did initially, wouldn't be first matter. Horrifically maimed, but not killed.
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Scar for life. But they were still, Nix and her were friends. There was a thing there. She saved us. Horrifically maimed but not killed was what Seth was going for with those peasants. Yeah. Got it all wrong. I didn't even have to search on my notes to bring up their name. So that must have been something for Nix. It was close but not quite accurate. Are you done yet, Callum? Yeah, yeah. Just on your drive-bys already today. Just piss in a cup and shut up. We're not letting you room. Go on, Callum. What did you roll? Put us out fucking misery. 14 to hit with Firebolt.
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Miss. Miss. um And...
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thought you rolled all this. I had. I've just realised I've not rolled disadvantage. imagine it's like it in in Moonlight. How did you miss? He was six feet in front of you. I missed disadvantage on the um ah turret roll. Well, that's 12 to hit with the turret roll. Miss. Miss.
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That's fine. I'm still going to stay there. I'm going to stay strong. Miss! Let's back back again, Seth. Let's use the word strong, Lucy. All right, Val. Your turn. Corpse standing in front of the smouldering, ashy corpse of the king. He's going to take several deep breaths and calm himself down somewhat. Look down and see that there's just probably the breastplate and whatever's left of the armour left.
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Take a few deep breaths in and kind of take in his surroundings now. See Nyx is flying. He's back in the room because I swear last I saw he was being flown out of the room, but he's fine. There's a something there being fought. He kind of snaps out of it, looks down at the corpse and thinks...
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I was able to revive something. I don't know if I'd be able to revive that. He's going to get his bag of holding out and he's going to sweep the remains and armour of the king into his bag of holding. Everything comes out a bit dusty that we pull out going forward. That's his action. He's just going to do what he can. Scoop the remains of the king into his bag of holding. Okay.
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Any movement? ah If I manage to sweep all of those, yeah, he'll kind of, he'll look back over, hear that people are like, right, we've got to move. He'll make his way over towards Nyx and over to the window and probably just quickly say to Nyx, see, they're pretty good, aren't they?
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And a small smile will cross his face as his eyes are still molten gold with the previous rage. And that's his turn. Okay, thank you. It's the Stone Golem's turn. It's going to take ah two hits at you, Tharok. That's fair. as the Other than the fireball it received, the one that's really been wailing on it. So, a natural one on the first hit. Nope. And a 19 on the second.
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Meats and Bates. 19? Beefy boy. That's max damage for a 16 points of bludgeoning damage and you are knocked prone. It's harsh because some barbarian... them raha ah but It's just wailing relentlessly towards you. So back the top round, Emron.
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Okay, Emron's going to turn around see that the thing is still wailing on Tharok be like... We need to go for the stables. Use the exit that... Sebastian suggested that I was going to like look and be like, he's a bit unsure. It's a bit rip presumptuous. puts Puts the crown on his head. What the fuck?
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That's what I was told to do by Nix. No, I didn't. Yes, you did.
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Everyone is putting the King of Sleepguards crown on his head. Because maybe it'll stop the Steel Defenders. It took a lot for you to do. I'm really glad. Everyone's looking very confused. but It's like, free my hands. Nick is like miming it after to you with a big grin as well. and Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't even fit. Probably just sits at a jaunty angle.
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Yes, and you're wearing an unsized crown for your head. Everyone's like, gestures with his hands and like, there's been pleas for this. I don't know. We need to get to the fucking stables.
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And I'm going to, can I attack yep the creature? Yep. While wearing the crown. Oh no, he's taking the crown off. Look at me, I'm the king now. No, put the crown, keep the crown on, man. I'm going to hit, look at me, look at me, I'm the king now. Right, I'm going to hit the steel defender.
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if Fucking hell! 11. Miss. sucking That's my go done. Thanks. Bye. Thank you. It is Delmontrace's turn. And Delmontrace is going to just continue to look out the window. And then he's going to turn.
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ah And... Fuck off. He's going to just unleash a firebolt at the direction. If he kills this thing... Fucking steals our XP.
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I rolled a natural 20. Yeah, you did. Yeah, sure. Prove it. yeah I can see it. Rolled a natural 20. Picture didn't happen. to ten ten ten ten
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a to And we'll kill it. hu As it rolls to final damage. And just unleashes this firebolt that just coolly breezes past your ear, Alpha. And just ignites this creature.
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And just says... Go on. Sorry. We gotta run. Now. To the stables. That's where we there's a good escape route that nobody else knows about. Lead on.
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Side note, on your map, outside one of the windows is a guard. That's a hell of a shift for him to be What were you doing with the King killed? Wow. Did you go home that night? Babe, you were so long. Like, what happened at work? Well, where'd you believe? It's been a day. I'd like to think he's fallen asleep out there and he'll come back in and be like, what the fuck? Nah, he's still on his patrol. He's working his way down. In theory, The guard would have headed north to inspect the smashed window that you popped out popped back in. But it's sort of below this level.
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Huh, what's happened here? yeah ah know it Must have been have been wind. Like a Metal Gear Solid guard. We have nothing but there now. We're talking 28 seconds past, you know.
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It's kind of just her seeing two things happen really quickly. If we're still in initiative order, would it be Seth next? and We don't need to stay initiative order. If you're all... Are you all dashing towards... You're saying the stables. are you sure at's the right place?
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That's what we were told, wasn't it? It works. We were told to go to the han Houndmaster's kennel. Houndmaster's kennel. And there's a wall with the ring. Okay, so what Seth's going to do is... is going to I have still
Nyx's Temptation in the Treasure Room
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haste. Yep.
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And I'm going to instigate Bladesong. Yep. I have 50 feet of movement. I'm going to dash and take 100 feet of movement. Yep. Every turn I'm going to scout ahead of the group, yeah kind of back and forth, back and forth, check the route is clear the whole way. This is kind of a held action. If anything upon the way um is hostile or there is a difficulty or there is a ah problem, he'll stop and wait for the others, but he's just going to keep scouting ahead and coming back. If he can get to the Houndmaster's kennel without interruption, and he's going to go there and then start searching for the hole for the ring to go in to open up this fabled...
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ah Secret exit. Gotcha. That's the whole aim, but if it's just we step outside and there's a fucking huge steel contraption down, well, we're going to have to fight it. Gotcha. And win. And win, as always.
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So, darkness is gone. Imprisoning me. And the bombfire is gone. Imprisoning him. ah So, Seth, you dash down, and you see...
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Speaker
It's straight in front of you this gargantuan colossal creature that the last few surviving members of Sleekguard's personal guard are caught in a direct fracas with.
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Speaker
To the east of you however are the car the corpses of slain Mastiffs and the Houndmaster behind which is an open door to the Houndmaster's hut. And I would... I can... Ah he's smarter than me.
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We could put two and two together and realise that's the direction. It has all of the sort of tropes that suggest dogs are raised here. Okay. Seeing that, he's going to draw his shadow bone. No, it's not. He's going to fuck off. He realises that we need to leave and is going to dash again, keep moving as far as he can into there. And while he's waiting for everyone else to catch up, he'll be looking for that entrance to open the door.
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Speaker
With the ring. Yep. In the back chamber. That's right. So as you move in, it's a very humble sort of working spot. There are leashes, there is dog food, there is sort of the smell of um stale meats.
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Speaker
And you push through and and into the back room, there is just a small store. But along the wall to the eastern edge, There is just this artwork on the wall, this sort of engraved um lineage almost, but just in ah iconography form rather than literally like drawing a family tree.
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And it just has three beings underneath what is clearly an image of Kling Leopold's sleep guard. And there is a circular recess in the wall there.
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And at this point, you all, if you're following Seth, I'm just driving downstairs in this point where he's start nipping back and forth.
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So um you said I had some seconds of flight remaining. So when Seth moved on, did everyone else move on? and Everyone went down to the kitchens.
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OK. I'm on my way out. Farrakhan's on my way out. Okay, and what did Delmontrese do? Leopold you hold well kind of just sticks with the pack, but you're going in different directions. So what does Alpha and what does Baal do?
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Alpha's getting the fuck of there. Yeah, Baal's heading out. ah So Wolof followed Alpha, Baal and Tharok. You're heading to the kitchens. ah Yeah, I'll tell you why in a minute.
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Speaker
And Nick's curl? With the location of the treasure room, was that directly above the throne room?
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Speaker
Not directly above. You were told top floor. And how many seconds would you say I've got flight? I'd say you've maybe got 18 seconds of flight left.
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Speaker
Three rounds. So it's how many... If I can move in three rounds. One. You can dash. Technically, I could do it. And dash. Yeah. I want to fly up to the treasure room.
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Yep.
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And peek in at the window.
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Staring through the window. Just to see. Just to see. This is like an opportunity of a lifetime. An unguarded treasure room in nicks really see... Alright.
00:21:10
Speaker
Just hold those traps over there, alright? Look at traps. So many traps. As you black come up to the top floor,
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there is clearly three rooms in the top floor. And as you kind of like scour through and you can look in certain windows, you can see one is clearly a ah rookery. Ah!
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One is a barracks and armory that's just holding equipment for guards people. But the northern room, which has the smallest windows, as you sort of scan past, can see piles of gold, locked chests, knickknacks, treasures, sculptures, pieces of art, etc.,
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As he peers into the small window, is there... yeah To the gold. Yep. um
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Speaker
Is there anything... Can I make a history check? Because this is... This is the... The crowning...
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Speaker
Treasure trove... Of the Sleeky Gods... Is there anything of myth that I can recall that I can see in the the treasure room?
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Speaker
Anything you can see or anything you're expecting to be there? Anything that i can see just through the window. I'm expecting gold and in some ways a lot of the other things. But is there something that catches my mind's eye? Because we would have talked about such...
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treasures and and pontificated about it on the ship of the esmeralda and stuff and so that's kind of like what's just traveling through his mind while there's this uproar going on and as he's got this free time and he's just put his head like up to the window his eyes really like to it. um Is there anything like out of the ordinary?
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Speaker
Because he's used to seeing so far what you've mentioned. um And yeah, it's just, is there anything there? There's lots of interesting things in there as you look in there, but they're all immaculately displayed. So it's not like you can just see obvious piles. Things are in glass cabinets. Things are on plinths. There are things that are hung, certain artworks. There are rugs that are, that are a particular value that are laid on the floor. Then there are locked chests,
00:23:42
Speaker
and there are small piles of gold spread in different parts of the room. Through the window, it would be impossible for you to know exactly the value of those treasures therein, or the contents of what's in chests or what's in display cabinets.
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Okay. And his breath has almost fogged up the window at this point. There's the sweat from the battle and the heat kind of hitting the glass and it's just kind of fogging up. And he's just like... oh oh, I will come back one day for you There is more value in that room than you have seen in a singular spot ever.
00:24:19
Speaker
You know that for certain. Yeah. Like eyes have gone Scrooge dick McDuck. Why? I imagine you're like pants against me. Yeah, but he's also highly aware that he ain't got long left. Yeah, maybe two turns left to flight. ye Yep, yep, yep. He's also highly aware of that. So he's going to, with logging, like he put the hand to the glass, like the fucking, um the Titanic rose put in sexy glass. He's going to put his hand to the, sweaty hand to the glass and then just kind of push off from it and use that to propel down um to where ah Seth is.
00:24:53
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Okay.
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And then go, holy shit! as he sees the fucking gargantuan monster of the mechanical masterpiece in front.
00:25:07
Speaker
Seth, as you inspect the walls, clearly there's a recess there. Do you place the ring? It does, yeah, places the ring, isn't it? And as you do, the floor piece, a large stone slab in the floor just clicks up and out of place.
00:25:24
Speaker
Reach down and put your fingers around it, see if he can ah lift it up any further, jimmy out of place. We're talking like... but Like a big stone slab. Yeah, he puts back behind it and try and flip it to make to open the space up.
00:25:37
Speaker
expecting there to be weight there is none this is a false um it is this is a small wooden board that made to look like stone fully flips it like hard by accident yeah it's going to be stone and there is a there is a ladder that leads down to a tunnel okay with any additional movement he's got um he'll run back out into the courtyard and shouts over the the noise of the the colossus and the guards and the shouting and the screams of death in the city Over here. I found it. I found it quickly.
00:26:04
Speaker
To Tharok, Alpha, Bal and to... Dalmondrace. Thank you. Dalmondrace. And I imagine you'll begin to run in the kitchens. What are you doing? I've grabbed a sharp knife off the side. Are the two commoners still there? Yeah, passed out. Because it it has been maybe 15 minutes at best. Okay, I'm going to free their bonds.
00:26:26
Speaker
And I'm going to lower them so they don't drown into the sewer to hide them. Okay. So that they don't get murdered by the robots coming to look for them. Okay. Down on the poop sheet. And he hopes they're okay.
00:26:37
Speaker
hopes they're Okay. And then shuts the grate so and makes it so that it doesn't look like it's... And puts something on it so it's not obvious and then gets out of there. Okay. And you just feel closer at a moment to to to a leader as you do that generous act.
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And you feel like slightly vindicated. not not and
Emergence to a Burning City & Sparrowhawk's Absence
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Not entirely, but you feel as though I did a terrible... Well, I was part of a terrible thing and I've been part of terrible things, but that was an act of charity.
00:27:08
Speaker
Got to try and save somebody at least. Absolutely. And then do you cross across? And then i and and then i run out and probably see the the the back end of the others running into the... yeah Into the Houndmasters. Houndmasters. Tharrock was happening. well While this was happening, Tharrock would not have gone into the Camelmasters... It wouldn't have gone to the Camelry, however we want to call it, until he'd made sure Delman Trace was in there. He'd go in not almost as a He was running with but whoever was running Vanguard that wasn't Seth because he couldn't keep up with Seth. Yeah, he doesn't want Delmon he wants de one tra in front of him. So once he knows that Delmon Trace is in, he will also... So that's why um Baal or Alpha then?
00:27:47
Speaker
it would be alpha because I imagine, and unless correct me if I'm wrong, because Baal, as he's running, he sees this massive thing. He's going to slam his fist into the floor and cast Entangle as a first level spell um on a 20 foot square around this thing. And if it encamp if if it gets the guards as well, he doesn't give a fucking shit at all. um So it's a 20 foot square.
00:28:11
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um on this thing, I need a strength 17 from anything and everything within there.
00:28:28
Speaker
16. Is that the big thing? Big thing. So massive vines spring up from the floor and entangle it It's restrained. And then two guards will be affected with a 8 and a 7.
00:28:39
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Cool. All of them restrained these vines spring up from the floor after he's pounded his hand into the floor. and That area is a difficult terrain as well. It's a concentration spell. um But he's you know after he's done that, he's going to continue the sprint after Alpha, after Delmond, after Seth.
00:28:54
Speaker
Great. Thank you very much. Nice. So that leaves us. We're just Nix.
00:29:04
Speaker
On your descent from the top floor, you heading straight through? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Straight through to Seth. um Fucking perplexed at the massive construction.
00:29:17
Speaker
So, yeah. All the way. It sounds like everyone has made for the tunnel. Mm-hmm. And you descend, you descend for ah down a ladder that takes a long time. It's complete darkness to head down into this tunnel is stuffy. This tunnel is cobwebbed beyond comprehension. This has not been used in a very long time.
00:29:40
Speaker
And eventually Seth, it levels out as the person i imagine is going down first and you're walking along a small stone waterway. And it goes in one direction and there are no sort of off channels. The air is incredibly close.
00:29:55
Speaker
And a lot of the time you're struggling for for a good breath of air while you guys are running down. Add your increased heart rate, your increased breathing rate as you're trying to flee what's happened in the castle.
00:30:09
Speaker
It's sheer dark. So if anyone doesn't have dark vision... I will probably... You'll need to roll 1d8 worth fire damage as your wings will explode at the end of their use as well.
00:30:21
Speaker
And I will have forgotten about that. it will have happened before you landed, to be honest. There was very little time. Oh, okay. Anyone who doesn't darkvision or all it means to make a light needs to make that light now.
00:30:32
Speaker
Or someone. Yeah, I'm just going to grab a quick coin for my satchel and cast a light on it. Okay. but I've got it to 180 feet. There it is. Good old walks. Puff me to the light on over there. says So like, ah. Ah. From that coin, that's enough for... Is dim light or bright light?
00:30:52
Speaker
I get 20 feet of bright light and 20 feet of dim light centered on yeah myself. Yep. Can we code whatever you want? Thanks. So in this small tunnel, Seth's still at the Vanguard, Seth, you can only see about 10 feet ahead of you from this light that's being emitted.
00:31:06
Speaker
And you head, and you you know you're heading due west at this point. Okay. And you're running for maybe,
00:31:17
Speaker
well, you've been running for maybe three or four minutes. So you're approaching a mile at this point. Is there anything you want to do? No, every now and then though as he gets ahead, the haste wears off, the Blade song continues, he gets ahead, he'll take a little pause and just stop him, just wait and try and listen with his good ear down the tunnel just to think if he can hear anything, alarmed noises or...
00:31:41
Speaker
scraping metal anything that might give the impression that they're in danger I'm in danger um and then as as the next and up probably Tharok and Delman Trace who are following up next as they get close to pick up the pace again and repeat that three or four times just to stay alert on what's ahead um But no, he'd keep going. and then when that fails, he'll stop the pause and just sit into a jog.
00:32:01
Speaker
um i imagine he's quite tired from suddenly being able to almost double your movement speed. There's a dip after the hasten. It only lasts for the minute. And you'll feel ah a level of exhaustion. at this point, you are a fair distance from everyone else.
00:32:13
Speaker
You're also caked in cobwebs as you're kind of the first person running through. But your limbs, as well as being tired, are now a little bit sticky as you're moving. It's really hard to make out sound wise anything further down the chamber because all you're hearing is the six people behind you panting the smashing of their equipment against the sides of the walls. This is a very thin, narrow chamber.
00:32:34
Speaker
But eventually they catch you up because your haste wears out.
00:32:39
Speaker
We've got to keep going. Are we all good? Yeah, we need to try and get out of here because we've got to get to the outside the city gates where i we said we'd be... Then why are we stopping? Let's go, let's go.
00:32:56
Speaker
Just need a second. Someone else, can you take point? I'll do it. Okay, This is damn cobwebs. Trace, remember we saved you, you're with us.
00:33:07
Speaker
Don't try anything. I'm fucking warning you, don't try anything. He just nods. Doesn't say anything, but just nods, catching his own breath at the same time.
00:33:18
Speaker
With passive insight, do I kind of... do i What is your passive insight? My passive insight is ah a tasty 17. Oh, dang.
00:33:31
Speaker
Damn, Daniel. You already suspect him. well Don't fucking try anything. and like, even though it's dark in the tunnel, there's light coming from his torch, light is now somewhat emitting from Baal as well.
00:33:47
Speaker
Nice. You still get that same sensation. Okay, cool. All right, let's go. Zerok, take the lead. ah Follow the flame, and I'll ignite the sword just so there is a point for people to follow.
00:34:00
Speaker
and Then we follow again, and you run for another five minutes near sprint. everyone's going to stay behind Delmontrace aware of like what is the running order so it is Tharok congratulations you've PR'd your mile and Tharok's just checked Strava sorry he's like just checked in with a selfie as well yeah who's behind Tharok Seth would be behind yeah who's behind Seth after knowing after after not and trusting necessarily that Delmont's on board Bile's going to keep him in his sight at all times
00:34:35
Speaker
So Delmon. Single file. So would you have Delmon next? Wherever Barl is, he's behind Trace. Okay, so we'll say Delmon, then Barl. Who's behind Barl? ah Alpha or Lee, far behind Barl.
00:34:46
Speaker
Alpha? Then is it Nyx or is it Emron? I don't know where i arrived. and Well, i imagine Emron was last because he was... You stopped for a breather at that point. It was easy enough to switch a route.
00:34:56
Speaker
Emron's made sure Nix is ahead because Emron can see in the dark he doesn't need to worry about. Okay. Nice. Nix and then Emron. I'm always making sure that ah my awakened mind is connected to Delmon. So every six minutes I can see him. He has no choice. it It's like, bam. There's reasons. Hello. Mindfuck. Just in case he tries shit. But you know, all good.
00:35:17
Speaker
okay So he's always got a link in with my mind. yep um So he can talk to me when I can talk back. I'll give you gold, Nix. touch ah How much gold? Shit.
00:35:31
Speaker
And you keep running. And now you're hitting mile three. And at this point, I need you to automate constitution saving throws. If you want to keep a ah sprinted pace... in the game. All day.
00:35:43
Speaker
All day! All day! ah Come on guys where Where's your endurance Where is your endurance We'll go we'll go down our running order thoroughup Natural 20 for 19 Excellent Baal 18 Alpha 6 Nyx nineteen excellent downmon trace
00:36:05
Speaker
eighteen alpha six nix Natural one. Emerald. Natural 20 for 22. All day. oh good but if you want to stay as a pack, you've got to move to Nyx's speed now. So you begin to notice, Tharok, that as you're setting quite a pace, people are falling behind that aren't as physically apt as you.
00:36:31
Speaker
Do you keep going at your current pace or do you kind of pace adjust? He's not raging. He will turn immediately and go, what the fuck? Come on. Can I carry Nick's? Sure. I'm going to carry Nick's. What the fuck?
00:36:44
Speaker
How big is the space room? Is he looking pretty tight? It's a small service tunnel. So it's about three foot wide, five foot tall. Okay. I'm going to carry like a baby. You're going camel ball.
00:36:57
Speaker
It's always an option. That's going to slow you down so that the the average speed of the party will slow down. But it'll be faster than Nick. because that then It'll be faster than Nick's going at a snail's pace. I see Nick sort leaning against the wall and then one sort of just scoops him up.
00:37:10
Speaker
Okay. To try and keep the pace a little bit faster. i mean, Alpha's running out of batteries as well here. Yeah, I gotta say, I'll fucking carry him. Seth will turn to Tharok and to to the group and and kind of go we should go ahead and scout.
00:37:25
Speaker
You guys just catch up when you can. Keep going, Tharok, come on. And he's going to kind of urge Tharok to just keep our pace and and then we can we can we can keep track further ahead and scout ahead. farak wanting action is just going to grunt at that and and and so and take off in the same direction as seth okay well yeah yeah either way do you want is he going front i'll happily go back yeah if you want if you're not taking the lead i'll let you go off in front yeah the guy without that okay he'll take off but you got the torch behind him flaming swords He'll take off at the sprint at the sprint again and continue the pace, trying to, again, find the entrance, find the end of this tunnel of doom, yeah this enclosed space, and find an exit, find safety, find Sebastian, find an out, yeah and get the fuck out of here. and The quicker can find that, the quicker he can get the group out. That's just thinking.
00:38:11
Speaker
And it's getting difficult now because you're you're five miles in and near every breath you're inhaling at the front is a cobweb, right? Or it's just dense air. It gets to mile right?
00:38:24
Speaker
We must be well outside the time city. Good 10k, man. Yeah. I'm holding Nick's like a bodyguard. You are feeling a breeze now. You push on for maybe 200, 300 feet and you're seeing moonlight.
Confrontation with Delmontre
00:38:42
Speaker
You are seven miles out of the city and you arrive at the exit about a minute and a half before the rest of the party.
00:38:53
Speaker
Seth Tharok you see six stabled horses, or hitched horses, not stabled, in a small graveyard.
00:39:04
Speaker
And as you sort of step out and look back east, you see a city, a skyline, a blaze, much like Scorch Helms was a month ago.
00:39:17
Speaker
But amongst these horses, there is no Sparrowhawk.
00:39:23
Speaker
may have run because he thought the city was going to pop well he might have run into the city because he thought that he was getting a pot farak it's just farak and seth here at this point yeah farak will go fuck and what he will do is is he will extinguish the sword as we come out into the moonlight he other other horses how are the horses are they skittled are they are they how no resolute they're resolute okay they're fine farak's going to immediately turn his attention to the ground for tracks to see if there's any sign that someone else has taken off that sparrowhawk was here and another set of horses were gone make a survival check during that uh seth will have just spent most of the time peeling off all the thick layer of cobwebs off his mouth of his nose off his eyes off his hair just to kind of get his eyes right to give him back his move kind of wipe as much of it off him as he can and um
00:40:13
Speaker
And then we'll be looking up where when Tharuk looks down, Seth will be looking up, looking to the steel nightmare in the sky. Has that changed? Looking to the immediate surroundings. Are we in danger? Are we safe?
00:40:26
Speaker
Or is there something lurking in the shadows? This is just an an exit into the city. Is this ah an ambush? Where is Sebastian? I'm checking for the hairs the back of the neck kind of feeling of fuck are we, have we walked into something here? And just be kind of searching around. Okay. So kind of keep his vigilant senses going. Yeah.
00:40:43
Speaker
Darragh, your roll. My fourth one of the night, a natural 20 for 24.
00:40:50
Speaker
It's quite muddy, so you're able to kind of find the prints you need. In this cluster, it's difficult because horses have been like grazing a little bit and there's lots of hooves on hoove prints, but as you kind of look around and look for the incoming tracks, there were definitely seven sets of horse tracks coming in, but only six horses are here and there is no exiting tracks.
00:41:11
Speaker
Hmm. I'll just say to Seth, Seven came in, no more have gone out. Whatever has happened, is he's come in here and not gone back the it came. What, so he's still here? Either that or he's gone that way.
00:41:27
Speaker
And they'll nod towards the city. there are There are no exiting tracks. ah Wait, no, that can't be right. Where the fuck are the exiting tracks? Your Majesty, are you here? We are, we did it.
00:41:39
Speaker
We've got him. Shout yourself. It's me. Seth and Therok, the others are coming, they're slow. Are you here? And say to the, hoping maybe it seems invisible or he's hiding or he's up a tree somewhere underground.
00:41:56
Speaker
Kind of slow voice whisper that to the surrounding area and look to see if anything moves or... No response. Fuck.
00:42:08
Speaker
And then five more faces... come out of the tunnel. Will you put me down now, please? Okay. Thank you. And everyone else exhausted, but you feeling like you had a ride for the last two miles, feeling pretty energetic. PB!
00:42:24
Speaker
He's not here. The horses are, but Sebastian is not. What did he say? Like, we'd go through the plan anyway? Does that mean he's he's he's already gone to the camp? Farron will then say, look, seven tracks... For those of you who haven't explained it to he's catching you guys up. Seven tracks in, there not when one go out, but there's only six horses.
00:42:43
Speaker
What? seven tracks in they've not gone out there's only six horses bar's gonna look around bar's gonna see what he can spot on top of what tharok has just everyone's gonna try and investigate as well because he's looking for signs of any demons or like scorching from like a portal that we saw in the city yeah look around no means make an investigation check yeah um how does nix look in terms of like wellness.
00:43:10
Speaker
Not in terms of like your mental, mental acuity, but just kind of like, are you obviously bleeding? You've been heated out two windows. He's all right, you know. he's he's Especially after that, the worst you saw him look was a moment ago when he almost collapsed while running, clutching his chest like he had a bad really bad stitch. But now he's had that rest thanks to um everyone carrying him.
00:43:35
Speaker
ah You look over him and you go, oh actually, ah you're surprised considering everything that's happened. He'd take a tip out of his water skin, still recovering as well, and then hand it over over to you. He was thinking of offering it to Alpha, but doesn't drink. so Thanks.
00:43:53
Speaker
We made it. yeah i do deserve je Yeah, we did. ah Hey, um it's nice talking to you. Yeah. It's nice to talk again, too.
00:44:06
Speaker
We're not out of the woods yet. No. um and I'm keeping a ah weather eye on um our new guest.
00:44:14
Speaker
those what do you what did you What have you seen? What have seen, Danny? With a roll of n t three
00:44:25
Speaker
You study the tracks impressed in the mud.
00:44:32
Speaker
And you follow the journey of each seven horse.
00:44:39
Speaker
And there is a clear point.
00:44:46
Speaker
When they all arrived at this waiting point, they then would meander in a small radius. But one set of hooves arrived at that set point and just disappeared.
00:44:57
Speaker
No more prints were made after its arrival.
00:45:03
Speaker
It's like one of these horses is just gone.
00:45:08
Speaker
Doesn't make sense. What if he did that thing that you did, the pass route trace thing?
00:45:16
Speaker
Why? Because he doesn't want to be tracked. And leave the rest of the horses? He had to do something that he had to do. ah There's a lot going on. Like he he, essentially, his city is... Well, I mean, look at it.
00:45:32
Speaker
It's possible. I know I would be pulled towards helping. But why would he cast that now here and then go from this point? That does not make sense. Maybe he knew that there were enemies after him? is He's incredibly secretive. If the enemies were after him, why would he leave the horses right here where we would come out? Because he knew that we would need them.
00:45:53
Speaker
That's right. He gave us a job. We have not finished that job yet. We have to take these horses to Goldport Keep. He was to meet us here. How long was he going to wait?
00:46:04
Speaker
We take night. Until dawn. It's not dawn, it's night. he said He said he'd wait until dawn, or if it all went to fuck, we said there were signals that we'd do, and if need be, we'd then meet back with meet at the keep and go from there. No signal was sent, but this could mean it went to fuck. Danny, I rolled a 17 on search signs of demons, having been there.
00:46:25
Speaker
Oh, motherfucker, demons. No sign. There's no abyssal activity. No final activity. No singeing anything. We can't stay here, though. It's not safe. We need to leave.
00:46:36
Speaker
i need ten minutes. He's got...
Horseback Escape to Goldport Keep
00:46:40
Speaker
He's got... Alpha, he's got... I know, i know.
00:46:47
Speaker
We have to assume that that Sebastian would be smart enough not to endanger everything that he's got on him and would head and realise that the greater good is he's got to get to the keep.
00:46:58
Speaker
Well, he's been taken. The prince end, as Ball says. As Seth sits down, he's going to thumb through his book and he's going to find um the spell Phantom Steed, realising we only have six horses and there are seven of us.
00:47:09
Speaker
um and he's going to start casting and developing like the 3D printing he did before him and Nithraa, build the horse from the ground up, layer of of red mist at a time until the horse is fully formed. It'll take 10 minutes though.
00:47:22
Speaker
As you're doing that, going to come over to you and he's just going to say under his breath, I don't think it's necessary, I don't think we should be giving Delmond his own horse. But he can't exactly walk. He can go on the back of one of the sight-lighter riders, Baal maybe. Baal threatened him enough, stick him on Baal's horse.
00:47:39
Speaker
Trace? Yes?
00:47:46
Speaker
We know... a lot of what the fuck is going on, we do not know everything. we know you're important, we know you know things we are not completely on opposite sides we have saved your life
00:48:14
Speaker
we need you if you fuck us over from this point
00:48:26
Speaker
Bar's gonna look down at his bag of holding.
00:48:30
Speaker
There will be nothing left of you to mourn.
00:48:34
Speaker
This I vow on my mother.
00:48:43
Speaker
I understand.
00:48:46
Speaker
Maybe we could start with introductions. We've not formally met.
00:48:54
Speaker
You hear in your head. Delmon hears in his head. Yeah. so I disagree with that. By all accounts, you've been keeping a watchful eye on me. You know way more about us than we know about you.
00:49:11
Speaker
You hear back in your mind. Yes.
00:49:15
Speaker
Can we drop that?
00:49:19
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:26
Speaker
do i he looks at him and i want to make an insight check that okay do it a disadvantage because this was a ah ah mind communicated thing not vocally you tell from the inflection of his voice yeah no it's not so much to ah just as someone saying okay to that intelligence save that's not right inside insight check at Disadvantage, yeah?
00:49:53
Speaker
Yep. It's harder to tell from a mental slip. Create six. Leave him. man film he'll those Then he'll let you go. No, he won't. No, he won't. You believe him when he says okay.
00:50:14
Speaker
Thanks. That's a hard one to play.
00:50:21
Speaker
Sebastian is safe.
00:50:24
Speaker
How do you know? Are you saying it in his mind or are saying out loud? loud. How do you know? His disappearance is my assurance that whatever you choose to do next, I walk away.
00:50:42
Speaker
What do you mean, your assurance? He is being held by the up-criss-crack. Insight check. Go it. I don't believe this one sebastian bitch for a second. 20 non-natural. You believe this bitch. I believe this bitch in every word he says.
00:51:04
Speaker
Wait, so just to clarify, Sebastian was taken by your people? To make sure that I get to walk. And where is he now? In one of our locations. Where is that location?
00:51:19
Speaker
I'm not going to say. Okay. Detectors.
00:51:23
Speaker
But it's in Slidgard, yes? I'm not going to Detect thoughts. Detect thoughts. Detect thoughts. All the questions are happening. Seth's clear that's happening. He's going to keep probing with just other questions. It's my last fucking third level.
00:51:38
Speaker
um I won the surface shit first. Okay.
00:51:44
Speaker
Yeah, and Seth will keep kind of just little niggly, proby questions. He's not expecting a response. but as a means to distract him from distraction keeps it on his mind keeps on his mind a little bit as well because every now and then he flicks his eyes to to nix as he continues to probe yeah Steph understands he's seen me do this so many times and he's done on himself yeah he knows my looks the surface that you're receiving back is um thoughts along the line of I meaning Delmontre is not worried because he's no longer on Aerith oh fuck
00:52:20
Speaker
oh they'll never they'll never guess dogg deeper that kind of just floats around fucking hell I mean he fucking like knows what I can do I'm diving deeper can you make a wisdom saving throw please 14 fuck
00:52:45
Speaker
he knows and pushes you out doesn't he who good try I'd be concerned too. He's not on Aerith, Nick says to the rest of the group. What the fuck does that mean?
00:52:58
Speaker
We're holding him. He's safe. Why? you're listening into everything that we fucking say and do and have captured him from here, why did you not send your own people to rescue you? why
00:53:15
Speaker
Because look what happened when I invited you.
00:53:21
Speaker
invited because they wanted Leopold Sleepport dead and his blood is not on his hands it is on ours correct
00:53:34
Speaker
look we have a fucking plan I know Sparrowhook I've travelled with it we have to follow this through we have to deal with what this means for Sparrowhook once we're done with this fucker And then if he has to walk free to bring Firehawk back, then so be it. But not until we have done what we need to, and that we get to where we're going.
00:53:54
Speaker
What's the chances that you're following us to where we're going? I assumed you were taking me. Yes, you are coming.
00:54:05
Speaker
We don't. If we're parting ways here. i No, we're fucking not. wondered what your plan was. You said assurances. Was that to kick in once we got outside the Goldview?
00:54:17
Speaker
Or is that just to make sure that you're safe and you'll be complacent complicit to where we're going? When you are satisfied with me and what I have to say and you let me go, the next day your prince will return to you at Goldport Keep.
00:54:36
Speaker
Not prince anymore. Well, I think technically Helena is earlier in the list. Now she will be the queen. So we have an accord here.
00:54:46
Speaker
You follow us. yeah We get what we need. And you get what you need. Correct.
00:54:58
Speaker
And Nyx will look to the rest of the group. We don't have a choice but to trust him. No, we're not trusting him. We've got a choice. We don't have a choice right now, but if he does betray us, then we do what we said we're going to do, which is we kill this fucker. kabbi you can't... He can't die.
00:55:14
Speaker
Then we leave here now. Okay. horses The horse, the Phantom Steed is formed by that point, if it is. Seth would have mounted gestured to the other horses. Farrakh's going to walk to one of the other horses and is just going to gesture back to... to... to... to Delmontreith. We need to get him on a horse and we need to go now.
00:55:38
Speaker
Is Delmontre carrying himself comfortably or still quite battered? He looks like he was feigning a lot of injury. He looks quite healthy now.
00:55:50
Speaker
Tosser. Okay. Nick holds out its hand. Being a person who deals, deals. We're having a chord. I imagine you have lots of questions.
00:56:03
Speaker
Many
00:56:07
Speaker
But they can be arsed on the way. then everyone gets on a horse. Yeah, what's the alignment while we're getting on fucking horses?
00:56:16
Speaker
How do you mean? I know the way to Coldport Keep. No, no, what's the alignment? The countdowns, whatever's happening. Okay. Well, you can either hear my answer now or when I am forced to tell the truth.
00:56:34
Speaker
Let's go with the Force to tell the truth thing. We'll ask him twice and compare answers. You will find my answer will not change. To any of your questions.
00:56:46
Speaker
Not here. It's dark. We don't know if we're being followed. The city is burning. We aren't out of the woods yet. Despite literally also being in the woods. He knows how this ends.
00:57:00
Speaker
Like a cunt Prego, he knows...
00:57:05
Speaker
We don't have a choice. Then let's dive in. Tell me Trace seems quite sad at what you just said. Tell me I'm wrong, Trace.
00:57:21
Speaker
It's... It's strong language for someone who...
00:57:28
Speaker
All in time.
00:57:31
Speaker
Wherever suits your needs best. Then get on a fucking horse, Tiffdras. magnanimous of you. Let's clip-clop. yeah as As they're doing that, Farak's going to just ride up alongside Alpha, and he's going to say, if you have the means to get word to your little army or whatever it is, I suggest they're put on alert.
00:57:50
Speaker
Goblins, apparently, he'll say, Alpha looks back at him. Alpha is still kind of... He's gazing off in the distance because he trusted Sparrowhawk with the princess and then he keeps glancing over to Delmontre. Defragging.
00:58:08
Speaker
yeah Yeah, defragging, rebuilding. As you're doing that, he will then go, Alpha, Goblins, we need them on alert. Okay. Yes, they are somewhat further past Goldport Keep.
00:58:21
Speaker
or yeah We will will be heading in the right direction. Didn't say they were at the keep? Oh, yes, of course. If you have the means to communicate with them, as I said, alert. They don't communicate with me at the moment, but I shall talk to them when we arrive. Plus, the stones you gave them won't work because they stopped working, wouldn't they?
00:58:39
Speaker
And they ceased to function when I took on the princess's power. So they'll they'll stop. You'll have to make them again. Indeed. Okay, let's go. Bar, do you think maybe Pass Without Trace might be worth it so we don't leave tracks if you can now or not?
00:58:54
Speaker
I can. I've got the power to. I just figured it might be worth us if we're going to get out of here and not leaving tracks behind with us for a bit. Just like Sparrowhawk. Yeah.
00:59:08
Speaker
Baal will breathe fire into his hands, it at his feet and cast it on the horses, all of us, but not Delmontrace. Oh, as in his horse, but not him.
00:59:20
Speaker
Correct. Oh, Nagy. It's centered on Baal anyway. Correct, there is. Yeah, you're right, it's the new one. But wait, hold on I think the wording of the spell might be of my choice. Let me just double check.
00:59:34
Speaker
Oh, if so then. Because if so, I'm still keeping that sassy fucking shit going on. ah You and each creature you choose, not Delmontre, you little fuck But his horse, though, right? Leave no tracks. His horse, yeah, it's fine.
00:59:48
Speaker
His horse absolutely fine, but not him. Nice. Sorry, I thought it was just like a... ra i like a It is a radius thing, but I get to choose. That's nice. It is nice. It is nice. And Bart's not nice.
00:59:59
Speaker
He's cross. He's grumpy, but he's actually swinging himself up on the back of Nix's horse and not getting on his own. Do you have a silent ride to Goldport Keep?
01:00:11
Speaker
it is It is approaching sort of late night now. It's maybe about six hour ride. So if you wanted to press on through the night, you'd just have to risk some exhaustion. If the horse was being left, Farah wouldn't want to leave any trace. So he would untether it and just... I think we'd it with us.
01:00:28
Speaker
Because then the person carrying two horses, you can swap horses and keep it going. two goods Falco's about to let this horse go nods at the very sensible suggestion and will just tether that horse to his own. Okay.
01:00:41
Speaker
Emron's going to ride literally next to Delmontreys. He's not showing you any sign that he will bolt. Emron doesn't care. He's literally riding knee to knee with Delmontreys. Like when the traitor's arrested and the guards literally like... yeah yeah I'm not letting him like more than several feet away from me. Seth's horse naturally has an ethereal. I think it was canon at the other time. It was a slightly pinky colour because I said white and red and that makes pink. um So he would ah ride ahead again, take on the position of scout being an alert soldier, etc. um And also it means that... Well, it's still passed without trace. and never Once you leave the 30 feet radius, is it not... As long as you're in 30 feet with me, you're fine. If you're over 30 feet, you don't have... You wouldn't know the weight.
01:01:25
Speaker
No, but I was aiming just to... scan to head You can ride south. you know In the old version, it used to be... He'd be at the very front of that and may accidentally once or twice sneak out into it. But the idea is to be out front and just keep an eye on it. It'd be a central focus point because I imagine the the
Journey Reflections & Listener Engagement
01:01:40
Speaker
horse, it's not in the rules anyway, but would let off a very...
01:01:43
Speaker
slight ethereal light given that it's not real horse to be a focus point for people to kind of follow yeah and then would be directed by Bol or any other navigators. Yeah well Farrakh obviously and in getting Sparrowhawk to and between Sleetgard and Dralakh has travelled these lands before so would be willing to take up front as well and just lend his knowledge of traversing this area to Seth.
01:02:11
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too the Yeah, and he'd take that and and listen to any suggestion he had but leads to allow the horse to to lead um the others. And Biles behind Nix, just on the horse and holding on tight, tighter than usual. And his head, instead of being pressed the side, is kind of snout down, forehead into the back of Nix as he's riding the horse.
01:02:40
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Yeah, Nix is feeling... same sort of vibe as Baal I think there's this um slow kind of
01:02:55
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gaining of the knowledge that we might have just been played and the consequence of that is pretty huge and so that's kind of deflated somewhat the um heroic uh ending he probably had the the dramatization of the killing of the king and maybe thinking about writing a play for it and starring in it as seth and ah it's all kind of starting to ebb away as that kind of realization has really taken effect it's like what have we done um yeah and as that thought echoes across the wind as you continue your evening journey south
01:03:44
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That's where we're going end this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Benham Draconis. This feels like less of an exciting ending than the others we've had. Happy New Year! Happy New Year! New Year's resolution? Let's not kill a king this year. Not this year. No deal. Can we break gum on Trace's legs?
01:04:04
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Oh yeah. That'd be nice. Well, ah you said he wanted to walk away. What about his legs? He don't have legs. He don't have legs. Brick all his fingers he can't cast spells. However... You need fingers to type websites in, don't you? To type websites in. You need fingers to touch apple pies, Callum would know. And if you wanted ask him about it... What the hell is wrong with you? He's just cocked. LAUGHTER
01:04:29
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Sorry, I forget you use it like a dipstick you do in normal. How deep is the pie? Use my dipstick. Can we just get back onto topic, Ian? We are so glad that you joined us for this 2026 year, which began 2019 and now it's 2026. on. So...
01:04:45
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which is mad because we began in twenty nineteen and now it's twenty twenty six like come on that's crazy so Instead of the Debbie Downer, we've ended this episode. We'll end it with thanks for staying with us and joining us as we begin this new year. We are very glad that you are with us. And if you wanted to poke us and enjoy us in our individual lives, you can do so by finding us on our X pages. I'm at I Rolled1. Mark's at. Hey, CD RolledDM. Darren's at. Page06.
01:05:15
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