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Speaker: Emron, you receive a message from Alpha who has not left the forge in two days. pe Boo, boo, boo, boo. What's that, Alpha? Someone stuck down a well? LAUGHTER
Speaker: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship at the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are a live play 5E 2024 D&D podcast set the magical homebrood Earth and the kingdom of Earth and the kingdom of Earth and the kingdom of Drellac. Joining you for this week's episode, we have PB, who plays the roos consultant human cleric Emron.
Speaker: Hello. The apple pie smashing edgelord Callum is no longer here. and He is having a reboot of the third Windows NT.
Speaker: But he ah plays the Warforged Shardfist Alpha, but he's not here. I realized halfway through reading this that he's not here today. Fuck you, Callum. ah Ian, who plays the Tiefling Warsor Enix Corral. Hi, guys.
Speaker: We've got Will, who plays the Dragonborn Druid Balvalkon. Too many pies in the system, buddy. Darren, who plays the half-orc barbarian Thorex and Jari. Mr. Kipling has fucked it. My name is Mark and I'm playing human bladesinger, but Seth Fire Reaver, and last but my name is least, is the fable fonderer, the flux forger, the father of freakouts, the furry friendly felch fanatic and fun-sized fiend of fornication folklore, Dungeon Master Danny. Fuck yeah.
Speaker: There's a of left in that. That was lot of left. for Speaking of a lot of F's, speaking of a lot of F's, old girl is sat outside a rather large building, holding what can only be described as the model of a large wooden dick.
Speaker: And he stares implicitly at him, fondling his ball in his pocket, and then looks to us and begins... bit of varnish and that should step right in there.
Speaker: Ooh, dragons, dragons and dragonkin. Sebastian confirms Helena's coronation. Turns out Valkyret will have ascended. Bile gathers his brood to inspire confidence and recruit some help, but It turns out that he's not as inspiring as he perhaps hoped. Wren suggests maybe sending some of Valkyreth's egg-eggs, if she's got any, to Lucian Bly's brain. And Bal tries to summon his wildfire spirit to contact Valkyreth if he can, and his wildfire spirit resembles Valkyreth almost exactly. He is somewhat successful at summoning him, but it ain't gonna work right away. Ghostwing's there. He says he has to go, because Valkyreth and Jandralicar are now at ascendancy, and he feels somewhat degenerate. Like, uh, this is the end of of his journey, perhaps? So he fucks off to the east, possibly forever. Alpha plows on with his work. Drago tries to have a heart-to-heart with Syangar, but it sounds kind of like a conversation between gravel and gargling marbles. Drago suggests that someone should become the new conduit for Akiva if all goes to shit, and Syangar eventually relents and says that he will take the amulet. And finally, it's time to question some tilwa.
Speaker: There is a momentary freeze of time as the first question to Tilwa is asked. What was the last decision you came to that was rejected?
Speaker: The inhalation of breath from all who remain of what the winged watch once was drains the room like a vacuum. As eyes begin to adjust to to the sheer nova of light emanating from Tilwa, dozens of heartbeats begin racing in synchronous beats.
Speaker: Tilwa speaks. The time limit begins.
Speaker: We were rejected. We could not unify. Though I did not hear the divisive request set by Veritas, emrond and delmond Emron and Delmond opposed Drago and Helena.
Speaker: Prego took no side and tended to the injured dwarf. a moment letter A moment later, a battle of words led to a battle of blades.
Speaker: The grand chronomancer needed not lift a finger, as an impossible decision pitted friend against friend.
Speaker: Emron near killed the daughter of Sleetgat in this fury. Drago in turn destroyed Emron.
Speaker: Delmon's magics then disintegrated the dragonborn. Prego fled.
Speaker: Tilwa's magic is slowly beginning to dissipate. Emron, if you wish for Tilwa to have longer, I need you to make a constitution saving throw to repel your return to your body, please.
Speaker: I will um make the constitution saving throw. Let's have a look.
Speaker: That is... that one.
Speaker: Oh, shit, I'm muted the whole time. ah Damn it. I was saying like, Nyx is going to place a hand on Tilwa's shoulder, having sensed that the magic has started to wane and cast Guidance. Oh, oh, thank you. Thank you for saying I'm muted.
Speaker: You're going to cast Guidance on Tilwa. Yes. Or Emron, whomever is like... Emron's form isn't here. Yeah, so it would be Tilwa then. Correct. yeah So whatever you roll, Will, you need to deduct one d four okay Oh, what?
Speaker: Oh, Ian. Fuck. So I rolled 16, and with my modifier, that's 18. But then I rolled 4 on a D4.
Speaker: So it goes down to 14. To 14.
Speaker: You wager you have maybe 20 more seconds, and I will resume the clock if there is a second question now. to our looks around the room.
Speaker: You didn't hear the question? You didn't hear the decision? I did not. what What could is it have been about? The the outcome of of what?
Speaker: I wish I knew, but it changed them. they They feuded, and in that last breath, the lights begin to fade.
Speaker: And Emron slowly returns to his feet as this bright nova of light gives way for the candlelight of Goldport slash Snake Run Keep.
Speaker: So i as Em... i i'm wrong sorry i'm sort of okay As Emron sort of returns the wings fade, he suddenly reaches, and so his feet touch the floor, his sort of knees buckle under him from the strain of keeping Tilwa sort of there for longer than he needed that than normally can. And he sort of he's breathing really hard.
Speaker: well now That felt different. I hope you guys got some answers because that oh that that left a sting.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We got some answers, more more questions, I guess. But it sounds like whatever it is, what whatever this decision is, whatever happens, that's turned ally against ally. Well, it turned you against us, us against you. And kind of motions out to Drago and his anyone else of his kind of ah original group that's there.
Speaker: I mean, to be fair, it sounds like everyone was going after Helena. Sounds right. I would strike back for that.
Speaker: But why would i why would I go after Eleanor? That don't make sense. no I don't know. was very confused. It was hard to listen.
Speaker: Either way, I won't be going up there this time around. So I guess that negates that instance. What do you mean? i thought I thought after we all do our relevant things, we join the Bridget crew afterwards. is that Was that not the plan?
Speaker: I was pretty sure that I was told that I was not allowed to go up this time. That's what Tilwa said. You shouldn't be up there. Yeah. Oh, so I didn't get that from Tilwa. You're okay with that now, Drago? No, I'm not okay with that. But but you're not going up.
Speaker: I just heard that someone dear to me died the last time. So if I don't go up and Helena doesn't go up,
Speaker: I'm confused. what why Why won't Drago go up with there?
Speaker: You... No, of course you wouldn't know. Tilwa told us that... Basically, he said... i asked him last time what they would do differently, and he pointed at Drago and said him not being there, not being above, and then obviously just now told us why which I don't know if you heard. you do you know what Tilwa has just no said to us, Emma? No.
Speaker: Sometimes I do, but that time it felt different. Like, I don't know whether he tried to stay longer. in it It's all a bit fuzzy. So I don't quite. Well, he basically said that, that,
Speaker: Whatever this decision that was made, yourself and Delmond were one side and Helena and Drago were the other side and words turned to actions, turned to fighting and the Grönamansa didn't even have to do anything. yeah yeah I killed you.
Speaker: Yeah, and then you got blitzed by Delmond. That's an important note to make during an intense fight.
Speaker: Drago would just kind of give a knowing look over at Emron. Well, you know, yeah I mean, different cycles. We're all different then, aren't we? um But what about if what about if we make like a ah deal now and say that we won't fight? I just can't see any reason why we would.
Speaker: Yeah, i to be fair, I don't have any quarrel with you whatsoever. i've gone In fact, i've got out of everyone of your group, I choose you as the leader. You're the natural one.
Speaker: All right, well, what if it was a case of, i don't know, any points to Syngar? ah For some reason or another, something happens if Elmron gets his way and Syngar has to die. And the other way around, if... Well, there we go. And if and if the Drago side is that your god, Elmron, has to die, like... I killed the god.
Speaker: Well, I'm clutching at straws, yeah, but you you can't just stand here and say, oh, let's make a pact not to... act on anything. You have no idea what... There's clear lines here. Anyone on this side, Thiago points behind him to the OG party, dies at the hand of anyone on that side, points forward at the new party.
Speaker: I'll kill him. I just don't understand... a situation where Drago is is's a hero of the blight. I think Emron points at that the the OGs and goes, these people are far more qualified to handle this situation than than us. i don't To clarify, when you're pointing at the OGs, you're pointing at Drago, Syungar and Ren.
Speaker: Yeah. yeah um you know They are that they're far more powerful and they've they've proved that. Why aren't we should be putting our best foot forward? And that to me says, if anything, send them, not not not me. if If I'm the issue, then I don't go and Drago does.
Speaker: The Red Rook stands and just kind of places herself next to Baal, following Baal's line of inquiry closest to
Speaker: think for a second what possible topic or situation could you imagine where you two are diametrically opposed and would would kill each other for your favorable outcome like what could that be i mean i would assume that would be something to do with akiva and alito but it involved delmontrace and helena
Speaker: Farok's obviously been incredibly quiet during all of this, but he's going to step forward and he's going to, having listened to all of this, he's just going to step forward and glance around at everyone in the room and he's going to go, how many other times did Leopold Schliegardt die?
Speaker: I don't think we know. Delmond wanted him dead. Emron could have been convinced to that logic that delmont that Leopold needed to go. And perhaps Helena was there, present, when her father needed to go and said that that should not happen.
Speaker: We don't know. But it is a logical logical thing that Leopold is something that would have put Helena and potentially Emron on different sides. And of course, if Helena was on a different side, that would probably mean that Drago was on that side as well.
Speaker: Baal?
Speaker: Is Helena a devout follower of a god?
Speaker: Not that I'm aware of. She is. like Yeah, she is. yeah Which god? Tyrionni. Tyrionni! And you you follow Akiva?
Speaker: Yes. Emron, you follow Aledo, and I'm pretty sure Delmontrese was of the same faith, right? Yes. ah no um And then Emron looks around, is the other dwarf still with his Dany? Yes.
Speaker: um Yes. And Emron points across to him and goes, and you're a follower of Vatinis, aren't you? It's fucking gods.
Speaker: And 40...
Speaker: Sets of eyes all turn to this one very shy ah priest of Vatinus sitting quietly in the corner of this common room.
Speaker: And he stands trembling, sweating, and just nods profusely.
Speaker: I mean, that would be it. that that's It's got to be it. It's the gods. It's something to do with the gods. Either... either bring some reducing power of some, maybe eliminating them altogether or, or favoring some over others. It's got to be it, right?
Speaker: Surely that, that, that, that's what would fire you up, Emron. And, and certainly if it was something against the gods for yourself, Drago, would that? No, I know. I don't give a shit about the jo gods. I follow Akiva, but I don't kill for him.
Speaker: But if anything happened to Helena, I could be known to react. But the three of, you know, Vatinis, Tiriani and Aledo, they're the triumvirate. they have They've worked in or they've existed in sort of cohesion for for age. I mean, I don't know about Vatinis or Tiriani, but obviously Aledo was or apparently was...
Speaker: and Asimar who then ascended to Godhood, but I don't know about the other two, but I can't see why the three would be in conflict. They've worked in balance to try and, they don't cross over in their areas of godliness, if you know what I mean.
Speaker: and Another piece of the puzzle would be someone else wanting a seat at that table. I mean, yeah. I mean, we all kind of know a devil who wants a seat at the table, who's already made a pact, a deal with us to get a seat at the table.
Speaker: Well, there you go. It's got to be to do with the gods. It's got be, surely. So obviously Prager, not as powerful as his brother, wants to become powerful.
Speaker: How to that? Rather than becoming a a devil fiend god, he becomes a god on the other side of it. I mean, that would make sense, maybe.
Speaker: Rooker just turns and eyes up Seth.
Speaker: And during that, Seth's been kind of itching his gone eye socket underneath the furrowed brow finger deep in his under his eye patch. And when there's a moment of silence, then Redrick looks to him. He'll just kind of look up, look at him, look at Redrick. Look, sorry, sorry, her.
Speaker: Apologies. And um then look at Emron for a little bit too long. And then a little smile will be on his face. you know, Emron, in the nicest possible way, and I respect you as a brother now, but don't you remember when you used to flip-flop quite a lot when, you know, you tried to biff me on the head a few times?
Speaker: I'm just going to say, out of all of us, you're the most likely person to to you you know to try and biff someone in the group. So maybe it was just, you know, questionable models up there. Maybe he asked that you guys a question that ah there was a disagreement on like with slaves or something. You know? Like literally what happened the other day. I'm just saying it's it's kind of on point for you. But no, it could be gods. I get It could be gods. Could also be you, bro. LAUGHTER I'm just saying all cards on the table.
Speaker: I just remember not too long ago when you tried to you tried to hit me on the head pretty hard. And I like it now, brother. I like it now because now I understand you. I understand where your line is. But maybe something, I don't know, maybe the bond wasn't the same last time.
Speaker: Like you said, Therok, maybe we didn' they didn't kill the king last time. And maybe that had changed things. Maybe that put some moral questions on the table that Imran knew they were your red lines. We're not going to cross.
Speaker: Maybe it was something like that. you may Maybe you're right. maybe Maybe, okay, I won't go up. Drago goes up. We eliminate me from the equation. Drago is much better fighter than me. So if one of us has to go up, it's Drago. True. No.
Speaker: i mean I mean, true, in in a fight, you know, it's going to be going to be close, but, you know, ultimately... It does sound it was close.
Speaker: But I appreciate what you're saying, Emron. However, I still think you're the strongest one in your group, and it wouldn't feel right. You're also part of the dream.
Speaker: Yeah, but the needs of the many, Drago. If the collective is stronger without me causing conflict, and Seth's right, I do have a hard line, and sometimes that does put me in conflict with others. So until maybe...
Speaker: It's all well and good, putting this forward plan into place, but we've got to do it without looking into the past or what happened. I'm fucking done with the past. I'm done with what happened.
Speaker: Choose your best fighters. Go up there and save the fucking planet. This is what we do. I mean, we we could die in the hells before we forget that. So, you know, that's... It's all well and good. don't mind all this. We failed last time.
Speaker: We won't fail this time. And if we do, it sounds like it's the final time anyway. All I'm saying is all this questioning is very good. It's all well and good. And I admire that you and your party are really doing your due diligence and trying to dot the I's and cross the T's. But at a certain point, actions have to take the course.
Speaker: And I'm fucking done. But we also have to assume we succeeded sometimes because the chronomancer reverted things when we won. So there are times when we did work together. Clearly something happened in that last time that caused it to to to go wrong before we actually won.
Speaker: But Drago's right. we can We can if and but about this for as long as we want. Ultimately, we've got to get there first. And who knows? Some of might be dead by the time we get there and it'll be a mute point.
Speaker: Let's just go. Let's just get everything sorted and fucking get into gear. Actions first. You've all done a lot of talking.
Speaker: As Seth would say, who do we kill? How do we find them? or I can't remember the the exact words you used to say, Seth. No, that's that's quite accurate, actually. That and also there was my other catchphrase, Clip Clop, which we could always bring back. It's been quite a few days since I said it.
Speaker: Emron, you receive a message from Alpha who has not left the forge in two days. What's that, Alpha? Pretty much. Someone stuck down a well?
Speaker: And there's probably only an hour left of daylight today. And tomorrow lunchtime, on our estimate, the group who are leaving to sail, they need to leave at lunchtime tomorrow to make it to the ship in time.
Speaker: And we've got to find a hell gate, haven't we?
Speaker: Is that right? is that still the plan? It depends how quickly Karsthan can get back from... Karsthan is still on route to the meeting with Shondra the car. So we've got to wait for Karsthan to get back if he does come back. coal We've got a whole ship to get ready and prepare.
Speaker: ah still need to talk to Valkareth, who I believe is on her way. Has... has some
Speaker: as a then Have we got all the portions we asked someone to go out and buy? or um Yes, Sparrowhawk returned this morning with all of the things in the the shopping list and all of the equipment needed to finish the the pocket portals that that you and Alpha been working on.
Speaker: Okay, okay, okay. um blap Last thought of kind of ah how things are going to work. I've been thinking it through, and you know, Red Rook, you've given me a kind of a sending stone to communicate with.
Speaker: If possible, if each group has got two, we can send one message to say, be prepared, prepared. we're we're going to start things and so that the other groups know that, you know, what time is imminent as soon as you hear the next message, that means that, I mean, I guess we're the ones that start it. The second message means that Euron is dead and the the we're we're sending the thing through so the second group can...
Speaker: coordinate strikes, things like that. I feel like two two stones each, if possible. So so i've I've got one that goes to Drago, so we could give, because we're in the same team to hell, so we could give one of ours to someone else. But they you literally get to send and receive one message a day, that's it.
Speaker: Okay, well, we need two then. One saying, get ready. As soon as you hear the next message, it's go time. Because we've got six-second window. These stones. Does the message come out of the stone or into your mind?
Speaker: Goes into your head, I believe. if
Speaker: We are, of course, all Beholden to Delmontrace's timeline, the moment he activates that obsidian stone, that brain light. Yeah, do we find out when he does that? Like, is it a thing of he pushes the button and the sky turns a different colour? Is there any obvious cues that we could be looking for? Is there a big sound? Is there a big sound? Or a big party kind of like, but
Speaker: Imagine we'll know when the entire legion of the vile plane appears in Aerith ready to destroy us all. I think there'll be signs. Detecting a lot of sarcasm in answer. You could have just said yeah that, yes, you'll find out there's an obvious signal. But yeah I still appreciate you.
Speaker: Asat. Uh-huh.
Speaker: Well... Well, perhaps now is a good opportunity to consolidate your last evening here. Your last evening together.
Speaker: Shit. yeah It's not going to be our last evening together. That's very doom and gloom. No, no, no, no, no. We don't consolidate our last evening here. We celebrate.
Speaker: And we take the time to really think about how we all came to be here in this one place all together. Everyone from different backgrounds, everyone with their own different stories. And we just take a moment to celebrate that.
Speaker: Not consolidate. Not last evening. We take a moment to celebrate this save point. Bookmark, if you will. Because we're all going to be okay. We'll all circle back here and we'll have a party that ends all fucking parties.
Speaker: Am I right? Carstine could probably like bring his big mansion thing and could have a feast have a great. So we need to we need to make sure we've distributed all our resources and everyone's got what we need Yeah.
Speaker: Perfect. Agreed.
Speaker: Okay. He's too positive. We had people die last time. is is very perky, yeah. um
Speaker: Drago. With Alpha's call, Alpha continues to work without your aid. yeah So far, Emron.
Speaker: Okay, I can probably yeah send him some help in a moment if need be. Drago will go periodically and check in. I've got a new spell I can use to, you know, help them out. It's fine.
Speaker: Oh, shit. Okay. Is it caffeine? You weren't here last time. Jago's been cracking that whip. there is ah There is... It's Dirion's Helpful Homunculi. It lasts for eight hours and it creates a group of helpful spirits which allow... which are proficient in arcana and set artisan skills and a allow... What fuck are you doing? Get in there, man. Get in your shit, Mononculus.
Speaker: Can they clean men? Fuck you. I'm just imagining now Merlin in the old yeah cartoon of yeah the Sword in the Stone.
Speaker: It's one of the new where Heroes of the Forgotten Realms spells. All right, flex. Yeah. Okay, it's still straight out of Sword in the Stone though. Yeah. I was going Fantasia. If you're crafting an item, the spirit spirits function as assistants for your crafting.
Speaker: Luminaire and Mrs. Potts. Yeah. Maybe... The seven dwarves. the The birds from Snow White. Is it useful for Team Hell Team to have a chat before we go down? there just I'd like to get some more ideas from Drago about what we're going to be up against, maybe.
Speaker: what we can do to get ready. More conversation. Well, no, it's...
Speaker: fine Yes, of course. i mean, not right now. We've got some time. I think we've got wait for Karstian to get back. Awfully. If Karstian doesn't come back, um how do we get back from the get and you still have to go.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. We're not coming back.
Speaker: And we'll go. You're getting Prego, and Prego's getting you out. Oh, yeah. but Oh, yeah. Good point. Okay. In that case, it's fine. What, you've forgotten the fucking plan, Emron? Jeez. My head really ah God. Okay. You spoke to Tilt-Wire for too long.
Speaker: We're meant to be saving fucking Aerith. Would you like a checklist? Yes, please. All right. Actually, that would be really handy, actually. yeah Okay. could Fuck it. I'll make several copies. A simple list of what we need to do in what order. That'd be great. Thank you. we We are really functional. Nick's just talks to Drago. We're really on it. We're on this. I just want you to know what you're seeing right now. This is just a quinky dink.
Speaker: Barl's getting to paper in the background and just licking his finger and penning checklist, literally with boxes. I would like Barl to make both a little question. list with like a little quest drop down menu. Honestly, we've got this. You don't have to worry. And everyone is the best. He's going to go down there with you and he'll know what he's doing. He'll find Prego. We'll talk to him. You might not want to do that. And we got this.
Speaker: We got this. Yeah, we got it. I killed a king as well, bro. We're all good. Don't worry. killed a fucking king. Honestly, i got i got confused by the all the chicken in the mansion before. And I wasn't really paying much attention after that.
Speaker: ah It was a lot of food. And it was really tasty. I don't know what the recipe was. I must ask him when he returns. Seth, as you're but finishing these sentences, you're just kind of looking around the room for eye contact and you you catch Barrowhawks and realize...
Speaker: what you said at the beginning of your your your opening there, and he's meeting you quite sternly again. Yep. Okay. ah Tell me more about how you killed a king.
Speaker: i You know, I don't think we... Listen, ah we'll talk later. Okay, it's not a big deal. ah um Sparrowhawk clears his throat.
Speaker: and slowly bodies leave the room until it's really just the hell team left and Bal and Nix and Tharok.
Speaker: I'll put my foot in it. ah I'm sorry. It's fine. I was just trying to show off.
Speaker: Drago, do you think...
Speaker: Are you of the opinion that we're going have no access to Kiva or a leader while we're in L?
Speaker: Zero. You go in with what's on your back and that's it. So it might be worth us trying to prepare ourselves spiritually before we go down.
Speaker: whether that's using the priest of Votinus, your own spells and that kind of stuff, and call upon the gods to bless our weapons and armor before we go down there to shield ourselves as best we can.
Speaker: What? no I'm not going to meditate. no, no, no. no Look, it's... You don't have to meditate, Seth. It's fine. But a simple ceremony is to asking the gods to watch down upon us and, you know,
Speaker: They're gods. They listen. But didn't he just say they're not it's not going to work down there? It's like going underwater and expecting to breathe. But that doesn't stop us from calling asking them to to to to to bless our weapons, bless ourselves before we go down there.
Speaker: That's what i'm saying. You don't have access to all that. Like holding your breath. Like holding your breath. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly like that. Okay, we're going to hold our breath. Big breath. God breath. early condom before you fuck the hell.
Speaker: Or Nick. I know what he's talking about now. get that. I get that. Thank you. was confused before. Do either you have a book?
Speaker: A book in general? so I can cast a spell into a glyph in a book. that you could then open up and you could then use that spell when I'm not there, if things get tricky for you while you're on the boat.
Speaker: I could store a spell in a glyph. Can't you take that with us? We could use it, but going to hell. yeah but I don't know whether it would work for us. ah The condom thing, yeah, of course.
Speaker: But I'm willing able to go. Is this making any sense to you? No. I'm just thinking which one I'm going to stab first. You're right, Seth. Fuck it. We'll take it with us. Why not? Let's see what happens.
Speaker: If I cast it down here, if I cast it up here, maybe it'll work down there.
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, you know, now's as good a time as any to experiment. Not really, because we're just either it'll work down there it won't. It won't take a fucking hammer, sword, axe, potions.
Speaker: That's what you've got. And you'll be battling more than monsters down there. You'll be battling yourself. You'll be battling the fear. You'll be battling the terrain.
Speaker: Whatever you go in, as soon as you enter, you are stripped there. Whoa.
Speaker: Steal yourself with your blade.
Speaker: Follow my lead. We'll be okay. All right, let's fucking go. I'm ready now.
Speaker: Bloody good talk. Okay, I'll cast, I'll make something for you and Nick Spar, just in case you need it. Yeah, i i you know, all that talk about like not having anything. I want everything.
Speaker: Everything, Emron. Are you leaving in the morning, yeah? Yes. We'll leave by midday tomorrow, I think. By midday tomorrow. It's on his list. i will It's literally right here and he'll point as he's kind of copying out the checklist for another team.
Speaker: like the glasses, by the way. I will have something for you two just in case. And it's a if it all goes a bit piton, you can it. We haven't really talked about a three thing.
Speaker: Three way. Open it up. Not in that way. What, tonight? Oh, okay. They're going to talk about fucking Emeron Walks Away from the show. Technically four ways because he's always got his god with it. um Right. Okay.
Speaker: Fuck it. Let's just get ourselves ready. Yeah, I thought that's what we were doing now by discussing. We're not doing that now? Well, no, because we're just talking now and Drago gets really annoyed when just stand here talking. so I've got a migraine.
Speaker: Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'll go look at my book. Sort out the portions, get your spells ready. yes don't need yeah hit Take this checklist as well. Just literally follow it from the top down. okay And do we tick them off as we do them?
Speaker: I mean, you don't have to. Just fucking do what it says. Clear as day. And hand it over. And it'll literally say exactly what we need to do. Can you write that out for us as well? Just so we all know. Oh, fuck me. I'm not speaking out. I'll put it in the group chat. Step one.
Speaker: Get your shit together. Step two, say goodbye to sexy Nicks. I don't know if that's there. Step three... Because I'm sexy! Step three, have goodbye sex, but you're going to together. Why... why oh my No, no, no, that's my list. Sorry, my list. I'll take that back. it' What about this really graphic drawing of Nicks naked? Is it for you or is that part of the... Hey, just so you know, that's to scale.
Speaker: It's a bit small. Yeah. It's not the size of the boat. It's the motion of the ocean. It's the force you ram it in with. yeah Oh, that too. but Also, and quite clearly am the taker.
Speaker: The cabin boy. Right, I'm going to go get ready and I'm leaving too.
Speaker: I think this conversation needs to end because I'm looking at Drago's head and it looks like his vein in his head is about to burst, particularly if you keep talking about your penis, Nick. I don't know who you are. Stop it.
Speaker: I gave you McBennett's book, if you recall, the his touching fine tribute to you.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Hmm. Awkward. So, Tharok, Drago. Drago, Tharok. Tharok's rather new to our group, but he's immeasurably good.
Speaker: And yeah you should be very thankful that he's here, Drago. Be very thankful that he's here. I'll get you back, Tharok. Don't worry about this. Fuck him. Fuck that dragonborn.
Speaker: ah really don't like him. Me or him.
Speaker: and Ah.
Speaker: Tharuk, are you good to prep something special tonight? Sure. That could be arranged. Last meal before we save the world and then, I don't know, we could have something even more special when we come back. Like Nick says, all of us together.
Speaker: Yeah. Yes. Oh, I love you. But it would be good to do something, something for tonight.
Speaker: that I can do that. Yes. That's,
Speaker: I'm good at hitting things and cooking things and nothing to hit at the minute. So cook it is.
Speaker: It sounds as though we move into this moment of dispersal with the remaining few hours of free time of the day. Emron and Alpha, we cut to a montage of you working with a series of ah spirited homunculi finalizing the last parts of the pocket portal.
Speaker: We cross to the kitchens where Tharok was pulling out all of the stops. the small satchel of exotic herbs and spices that you've been carrying for a number of months there included.
Speaker: You visit your traps, collect fresh game, rabbit, etc. This is to be your culinary pies de resistance, if you will.
Speaker: We cut to Seth, who's applying
Speaker: What little balm for kind of skin abrasions you have left from all that you've been carrying. You're flicking through parts of your discovered book.
Speaker: It has been silent again, and you don't miss the noisy companion you once had.
Speaker: You do some light exercises.
Speaker: You jokingly look out.
Speaker: You mark the friends that you see here, the sense of belonging you finally had after all of these years,
Speaker: and accept that this may be the last time you look upon them like this, or ever again.
Speaker: We cross to Bala Nix,
Speaker: before we swiftly move on because of explicit content warnings. yeah
Speaker: And then everyone regathers this this few hours of industry moving into the night where indentured servants have been making this keep clean again, along with the help of the remaining of the winged watch, of the kind of extended party that has formed here.
Speaker: And last, into the hall where Therok has prepared a feast.
Speaker: Drago and Sayangar,
Speaker: brothers from another dimension who spent years searching for each other on the eve of separating once again.
Speaker: Is there anything the two of you would say while you have your private moment?
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: And Sayangar opens the door for fear of needing to say anything of emotional relevance to his brother. And you step in and are met with a ah wave of the excitable smells.
Speaker: A feast is laid out and in this scene, it looks like a slice of normality. Friends new and friends old.
Speaker: Existing as though you have already won. Just for a pocket of time here, just for a moment. As though all is right in the world again. There is laughter. Nyx's never-ending bottle of booze is coming in clutch here and keeping indentured servants, druids, priests, soldiers of Sleetgard, all in high spirits.
Speaker: And then focus turns to alpha. And alpha produces this small wrapped kind of linen tray and places it on a table in front of the hearth.
Speaker: And there are these two ornate jars,
Speaker: no bigger than sort of a jam jar in size.
Speaker: Metallic, with gold etchings along the ants outside.
Speaker: One a sphinx of the moon and one a sphinx of the sun.
Speaker: He walks... and hand one hands one to you, Seth.
Speaker: The other he gives to Baal.
Speaker: He instructs you to open those jars.
Speaker: Yep, Seth opens the jar. Mm-hmm, definitely. Inside, there is just this blue light
Speaker: Faint, still.
Speaker: And he comes up to yours, Seth.
Speaker: And he puts his finger in it like this, pokes it down.
Speaker: And while in yours, a metallic finger pops up.
Speaker: Cool.
Speaker: You did it. Don't let Nick see this, because the first thing he will put through it will not be his finger. I thought as much.
Speaker: Can I borrow both? Good work. No, of course not. I wouldn't want to break it. I get it. This is good work. Good work, Alpha. This is really good work.
Speaker: I think.
Speaker: yeah It will do what we need.
Speaker: And maybe there's creativity to be found too. I'm not sure quite how many objects can pass through before before it stops working. i'm not about he does
Speaker: I don't wish to risk over using it just in case. Reigns' diagrams didn't have those sorts of details.
Speaker: But it's done.
Speaker: The artistry here is beautiful.
Speaker: He smiles and looks very proud of himself. Yeah, I think Reigns would be proud of you, Arthur.
Speaker: So do I.
Speaker: And then people return to their food. They mark some smiles around the room from those really in the know of what the significance of this means that one part of the puzzle has completed and you are one step closer to achieving this.
Speaker: People finish their plates. People begin to retire.
Speaker: until it is just... the Undying Champions.
Speaker: Seth, do you have your bottle?
Speaker: My what? You know the bottle. with this The one they just gave us? You could use that one. It can be any bottle, right?
Speaker: Can it? I don't know. I don't know the fucking game. Really, even though you forced us to play it so many times. Yeah. I thought you were the little finger device that Alpha made. Oh, no, no, I've got that. It's safe, yeah.
Speaker: Okay, no, no. oh Yeah, I got a got one. And he pulls out a nondescript a glass bottle of hoot-chubbed God knows what that he's procured from somewhere and um kind of holds it up almost almost sacredly and kind clears his throat to those around, takes a swig of it and puts it ah wherever would be kind of most central, and most communal to the group, be it on a different table, different area, or whatever, put it down there and then step back from it and just stare at it and wait.
Speaker: The significance of this moment isn't kind of missing any of you. This is the exact same spot where Delmontrace was Zone of Truth, where you kind of learnt of this final chapter. You are you were in the space where everything became revealed again.
Speaker: but I'll pick up the bottle.
Speaker: And if you think, all those months ago,
Speaker: sent on a little mission through the desert, that we'd be here.
Speaker: that's a at the end, not the end, an end, that'll start a new beginning.
Speaker: It's fucking ridiculous, isn't it?
Speaker: Ah.
Speaker: Nix, how the fuck you're alive through all of this shit? I have no idea. know. Well, I'm going to thank some of it. Yeah. Shh, shh, shh, shh. I'm going to put finger your lips. The bottle thing, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. You can take the bottle. There you go. And he'll hand it over to you in a really kind of semi-patronizing way. Thank you.
Speaker: um I don't know what to say in this moment because I don't really want to look back on where have we've been, especially not my journey to get here.
Speaker: But I am alive, Nixie Undying, and that is definitely because of you all here. And i
Speaker: Can't even begin to describe how lucky I feel to know all of you. And for a guy who is rather unsure in this world, I'm really glad that I found my place with you all.
Speaker: ah Sorry if I brought some dramas into your lives. I like to think it's more chaos than anything. But you're all still here.
Speaker: And
Speaker: I hope that, know that we'll continue this afterwards. And what a party it will be, right? Once we've gone and done our thing, we've got many new friends and many more more members. But really, there's only one Undyne Champions. And we all know who we are, right? We fly our colors.
Speaker: We look after our own. we hoist the sails and we'll go off into the sunset and follow us, follow our new journeys.
Speaker: But I love you all. And I'm very blessed.
Speaker: Who else wants this thing?
Speaker: far It's nice to hold it and not have some horrible dark secrets that I need to tell you guys, to be honest. This is the first time where I haven't had to, well, I could just literally bear all. You can ask any question. You guys know me. You know heart and soul of me.
Speaker: The darkest depths and the highest highs. Sorry, Tharok, you wanted the bottle? Sure, yes. I'm really glad you're here too, Tharok. I'm so glad that we managed to find you.
Speaker: Like it was, it was crazy. And did I think we needed a new member? Probably not. Am I glad that we got a new member? Yes, absolutely. I mean, yes, it's true. You don't have the history that we all had and the fights that we have had. And, but you were there in the pit, in the, in the, in the jewel of the desert, right?
Speaker: i Sorry, you want this? Yes. Thank you. As Nick says, he's right. I was there. And as a son of two Keltrad farmers of a dwarf and another orc, I didn't really have much hope for where perhaps things would go in this world.
Speaker: I fought at the Ember Scar, and that is where I lost the majority of my family, including of all the other members of my caravan who we'd walk across the deserts with.
Speaker: That led me to the Winged Watch. and just trying to find a place where I could enter the great orcish plains of Vaikra.
Speaker: It's common for people of our race to not fear death because we genuinely believe that what comes next is better.
Speaker: And had it not have been for Shef and Baal, I would have died in that pit. It was not part of your mission to bring me back to life, but you did.
Speaker: I'm very lucky that I met McBenna when I did. And I'm very lucky that I met all of you when I did.
Speaker: It's a strange thing to have lived your life simply, feeling you had no purpose, and then feeling incredibly lucky to be a part of something so special.
Speaker: I genuinely do not fear death. It doesn't stride in me. I believe my mother and father and everyone else we lost at the Emberscar will wait for me on the other side in Valkyrie.
Speaker: But I am very happy that when I do find my time there, whether it's coming soon or whether it's many years from now, that I was a part of this group.
Speaker: Because the stories that I will tell will be the greatest stories ever told on that great orcish plane.
Speaker: We fight, we win, we save Earth.
Speaker: For it is not just us that are undying. It is this place that we call home.
Speaker: Thank you, truly, humbly, for letting me join you.
Speaker: My life has meaning thanks to all of you, which is an incredible thing. considering we've only been together a few, well, weeks, months.
Speaker: So many of those worlds, it dawned on me, I'd probably die on that pit, getting you two through those games. And yet, it is this Steph, and it is this Nick's, just Nick's, that saved my life.
Speaker: Who's your favorite? You're the new one of the group. think You can't talk the bottle thing. oh fuck Just wondering who the fuck you just talked. Oh, who's my favorite? Well, um okay. yeah can i twenty You're new to the group. So we it's a complicated question for us to answer because we're kind of in the fabric of it all. Yeah, it's fine. like You're weaving yourself into the fabric. Who's your body body?
Speaker: I mean, you keep talking while I have the bottle, which means you're slipping down on my estimations, but I do like you, Nix, and I'm quite happy that you saved my life, and I'm very happy for you to take my ship. Did i save your life? You did. You and Seth were the ones in those games. Remember, I turned to you and said, you get the eggs, and I got fucking turned to a stone by a basilisk. andeph And Seth, well, there's more Seth than you, but Seth poured a potion in my mouth that meant I didn't die.
Speaker: Well, Chef should be favourite, really. Well, Chef is my favourite, so there you go. There's the answer to that pro question. We all knew it, Nick, so you're the only one stalling for time. well Why are you fucking talking? wo What's the point of the bottle? Do we break the bottle? just Yeah, I kind of feel that this game has gone to shit.
Speaker: I kind of feel that just this game has gone to shit. Alpha, there's no fucking point giving it to you. Who wants it? LAUGHTER Give me the fucking bottle. Sorry, Alpha, that was a blindside. I didn't mean to do that. you go. LAUGHTER
Speaker: ah My turn now. Fuck you. ah what Thank you. Just takes it off Alpha. Alpha like inhales to speak and Baal just goes.
Speaker: I'll ask you what you think in a minute when I fucking want to. ah How do you follow that? I'm all flustered now. Fuck. when When I met you all, I was cast out of what I thought was my new home and where I thought I belonged and all that shit and I lost it all.
Speaker: Thanks to you, actually. And thanks to myself. Thanks to the group. fucking lost it all. And through our journey and through our adventures, ah found a new family,
Speaker: um a new sense of adventure, I suppose, and a new purpose, which has led us to this point. And I think you've both summed it up relatively well so far that Yeah, I'd go as far to echo Unix and the fact that we are kind of a a family. i do love each of you individually, some of you more, perhaps, than others. You're talking about me, guys. I'm talking about you. Can you stop talking? I got the bottle.
Speaker: ah
Speaker: I know that we'll
Speaker: and know that we'll win, because we have to.
Speaker: It's not gonna be easy.
Speaker: I'm not an idiot. I...
Speaker: I hope we all come back.
Speaker: But I'm very aware that we might not.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: Yes, complete the mission, but... Look after yourselves.
Speaker: And he'll be looking at Tharok, Seth and Emron in particular.
Speaker: Alpha Nix, I'll keep you alive. I'll fucking bring you back.
Speaker: You will not die on my watch, but I can't save all of you and I'm particularly worried about the hells.
Speaker: So please just look after yourselves because
Speaker: we're family now as fucked up as we are, as dysfunctional as we are. We're a group. We're together. And fuck it. We're undying. You have to come back.
Speaker: And he'll kind of, he'll put the bottle on the table from that.
Speaker: Farrakh will pick the bottle up and we'll go I've given this some thought.
Speaker: And I'm going come with you. I'm your favorite. Why does this guy keep fucking talking when he doesn't have the bottle? You are right at the bottom of the fucking list right now, Nix.
Speaker: And he'll go, I'm coming with you. I had a real thought about it and a thought that goes on fire and a cake that sets me on fire might not make me a very good thing to have in the hells. So, I'm coming with you.
Speaker: More on the merrier.
Speaker: Can you sail under the command of a pirate?
Speaker: Find me the pirate and thou's she. Me! I know you mean you and you keep talking when you don't have the fucking bottle. Here.
Speaker: Emron?
Speaker: Emron takes the bottle.
Speaker: Everyone's said pretty much what I echo.
Speaker: We have been through a lot. We have come through adversity and I'm going to use a blacksmithing metaphor here. Sometimes you have to heat the metal, reforge it over and over again.
Speaker: And through the reforging, it can become stronger through the layers, through our scars, We are stronger and we've been stronger together.
Speaker: And now we're going to be apart. But as long as we keep hold of what we believe in, long as we keep holding our faith in each other, as Baal says, we will come through.
Speaker: But at the end of the day, the mission has to be completed.
Speaker: I've faced death several times now with this group. If I have to face it again, long as the mission is done, I'll be happy.
Speaker: I just know that if some of us don't come back, The group will keep going on. And he looks to Baal and Nix. And ultimately, in despite all of this adversity, it is artwarming that you two have at least found some joy and happiness in everything together. So if we don't come back, at least you two need to make sure you keep going.
Speaker: Oh, I'm wrong. Oh, we should get him to officiate. You think? He'd be great. Officiate what? I could marry you right now if you wanted to.
Speaker: Oh! Barl!
Speaker: Barl's eyes are really That's a face that says no. That's a face that says no. I'm not saying no. Maybe we should talk about this later. You can't just spring this on Dragonborn. Fuck. Fuck. And he's starting to heat up. What do you mean, officiate? Marriage? Did you want to marry?
Speaker: ah mean... Did you think about it? Have you thought about it? Do I have to think about it? don't have to think about it. You have to think got ring. was kind of just, yes. i've got a I've got a ring. Oh, can we do this?
Speaker: I can do it right now. Fuck, Seth hasn't said anything. Yeah, I was going to say, maybe we give Seth the bottle first and then we'll give Seth the bottle. But I'll get myself ready and we can, would you like to be married? I can marry you in the morning. Do you want to do now? Can we do it on the sunrise? Oh, we can do it on the sunrise on the ship. I don't want there to be goblin piss and shit. On the ship.
Speaker: on the show He's not going to be there at the ship. I'm not to be there. We've got to do it this morning. oh you Get the slaves to clean a room. Get the slaves to clean the room. or no I like the idea of doing it on the ship. I've always wanted to do it on the ship.
Speaker: We could do it on the ship. We could do it again. We could do it before you go. Okay. Okay. a Okay. On the ship. no No, no, no. I'm not going to be there. We're to it here. Look.
Speaker: It has to be on the ship. And we're not doing it here. If Nick's wanted to be on the ship, we're fucking coming back. So we'll do it then. you can't get a guy's hope up like that and say we'll i it later we do it later. When you do it twice, you can get married twice. I'm just saying. That's true. Can we? That's true. what we different no seems so No, no, what i no. no i just what Why can't you come to the ship? We'll be going before you. Fuck it. Let Seth talk and then you're marrying us right here, right now. What? No, no, no, no, no. want some romance.
Speaker: Everyone gives the bottle to Seth.
Speaker: Oh, right. Well, I feel like I'm on the spot a bit now. I'm like slowing slowing something down. But I did, on the eve of me becoming like an important person in Sleetgaard, which, ah you know, I'm still quite proud of.
Speaker: Thank you. ah I was penning through my my book. And, ah well, I've got a bit of an announcement to make. The book is...
Speaker: is not mine. ah might have found it quite a while ago and ah just kind of picked it up. if you can Actually picked it up and then kind of picked it up.
Speaker: Someone much more important than me had this book. Someone much more powerful than me had this book and they had died or was dying and I saw an opportunity. I'm not proud of it, but I don't know her name.
Speaker: She summoned one of the portals to get the armies through to fight the blight. And she died. And I took this. But she'd ridden something near the back.
Speaker: I assume it must have been something for the troops, for her for her comrades in arms before they they plunged through. And it just seemed quite accurate for what what we are what we were and what we are. And I just thought I'd read this and then, you know, I'll be done.
Speaker: so I can't think of anything myself to say. It clears his throat and pens to this back page. And it is in beautiful kind of cursive handwriting, very unlike the the spider scribbles of Seth.
Speaker: ah We were a seed. an idea thrown to the rocks on a harsh existence. We are all of us broken in some way by the lives we have lived and that which we have seen.
Speaker: And yet the seed grew and blossomed and bloomed in a haphazard manner. ah Many times we came close to the end. Many times it felt we could not continue.
Speaker: Every time we pulled through. The winds howled, the rain poured, and yet we endured. Our tree.
Speaker: Our sapling. Like the sapling needs light, we needed a purpose. We needed a North Star. We have found it in adversity, in violence and in tension.
Speaker: Our tree is bent and crooked, misshapen and misaligned. Yet we endure. And even if our bows are hewn, our roots hacked, we will endure.
Speaker: We must endure. And he just very ah solemnly closes the book again and just ah puts the bottle back into the middle of the table.
Speaker: And as you
Speaker: sit
Speaker: reflecting on Seth's words.
Speaker: Everyone says their piece and the bottle is placed
Speaker: without a holder.
Speaker: Your eyes go back to Seth after a few moments
Speaker: in admiration of the reading. And you notice that
Speaker: a number of your arms are glowing white
Speaker: The tattoos that mark your pact with Prego the Majestic are illuminating.
Speaker: The last time you saw this happen was when Baal held the egg of Valkyraeth, and then again, when Seth looked upon an army with loyalty to Sleetgard.
Speaker: But those of you still bound to Prego, those of you who still hold those tattoos, they are slowly glowing away from you.
Speaker: And as the white lights fill this room, your arms begin to burn.
Speaker: so we're going to end this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. Oh, shit. Fuckity, fuck, fuck. Is Prego fucked? Are we going to have a wedding on a boat?
Speaker: Are we going to have a wedding this before you go? Are we going to have at a wedding episode? Are we having a wedding episode? Can't be a full episode. for I need an hour to perform the ceremony. That's it. It's all I need. Nick's can talk.
Speaker: okay Um... I loved that. My favorite bit, Drago and Saegar saying goodbye.
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