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The Soul Of Frost Episode 16.5: Revelations & Itchy Thub
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Thub goes through an odd and revealing experience after laying down for a nap.
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CONTENT WARNING
Imillon is a dark fantasy setting, and while we tend to keep things lighthearted for the most part stories in this world will often touch on the less than savory subjects of: genocide, human experimentation, colonialism, eugenics, torture, and slavery.
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Transcript
Introduction to Episode 16.5
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey everyone, you're listening to a special bonus episode of Soul of Frost. Episode 16.5, if you will. Revelations and Itchy Thub. Thank you so much for tuning in, and we hope you enjoy.
00:00:20
Speaker
A heart without a soul cannot beat. son A heart that cannot beat turns to ice. The ice hides what once was, until the soul
00:00:49
Speaker
comes calling again to awaken what lies beneath the frost.
00:01:11
Speaker
party had just gotten back to Galanid after their soil collecting adventure.
Return to Galanid and Thub's Reflection
00:01:19
Speaker
and Thub had gone to their room at the inn and basically that's where we are right now is Thub it's been a very long couple of days you're tired you've done a lot of pedaling of the snowmobile you just had to kill a bunch of cat people and you're ready for a nap so
00:01:57
Speaker
prop your sword up against the wall. Close enough that you can reach it. And get yourself ready for
00:02:18
Speaker
You feel something odd.
The Itching Sensation and Disorienting Change
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Speaker
For a moment, it's like an itching sensation. But then the itching goes away and you think you feel something wet. Oh no, I peed myself again.
00:02:48
Speaker
Do you open your eyes? I do open my eyes. You open your eyes and you're you're not at the inn anymore. You're looking up at a stone ceiling. The stone ceiling of a cave.
Awakening in the Cave of Memories
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Speaker
And
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Speaker
life You realize as you sort of move around a little bit and sort of adjust to your surroundings that you are partially submerged in some sort of liquid.
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Speaker
Slightly more viscous than water.
00:03:40
Speaker
you Please tell me that's not bad shit. Do you sit up? Yes, I sit up and I smell whatever realize a couple of things. Number one, you are in a cave. Number two, the liquid you're in is sort of
00:04:28
Speaker
shelves a massive flaming brazier brazier i don't remember what the actual pronunciation is um and you also realize that you are
00:04:43
Speaker
Not wearing anything. I'm sorry, I'm not wearing what now? Anything.
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Speaker
And as you sort of like blink and process your surroundings, you
00:05:12
Speaker
This is, this is your mother's cave. This was your waking day.
Training Session with Sibling Cal
00:05:28
Speaker
I don't want to do all that shit over again. That was a fucking nightmare the first time. What the fuck?
00:05:37
Speaker
So, as you are sitting in this pool of strangely thick fluid.
00:05:50
Speaker
What do you do? Get the fuck out of it, and I go, no, no, no, this has got to be the meme. I don't want to go through all that bullshit again. Okay, then get yourself out. You're in control of your token. No, I'm not.
00:06:16
Speaker
see before you Oxfelane's library, law and treaties, and you actually see Oxfelane's sleeping space over here.
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Speaker
Just a pile of books. However, you don't remember there ever being one that's on fire, um but there is one that is currently on fire glowing with some sort of strange radiant light and just flipping through the pages on its own. Well, that's nothing. And I start going over here and I start flipping through all the rest of the books. Okay.
00:06:57
Speaker
In fact, I look at every book except for that one. Okay. um you You start going through all the try very hard to figure out what the text on the pages say, but letters are all jumbled up.
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Speaker
And you can't quite read them. Oh no, I'm illiterate again.
Exploration of Oxfelane's Library
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Speaker
I didn't think it would be this hard of a reset.
00:07:39
Speaker
Oh God, I start like frantically looking through all the books. it's like I'm like flipping through them all. They're all the same. Oh no. Regardless of what language they're actually written in, you're not able to read them. They're all jumbled up. Oh boy, this is not good. I start flipping through these. Same deal.
00:08:00
Speaker
okay okay what about this burning one up here the burning one you can't get anything out of that because the pages are on fire what the fuck kind of symbolism is this however as you're over there you do notice the entrance to the cave with light streaming from it as well as another alcove off to the side here which to you, it seems to be almost calling silently.
00:08:35
Speaker
Well, I better answer that call. As you step over to it, you remember this place. This it's a very small armory, because Oxflame wasn't all about weapons, but there's a chest with
00:09:06
Speaker
you were in Oxfelane's service, you also see a rack of spears and swords, and in a glass display case, you see a very familiar sword with a golden blade. Your sword.
00:09:28
Speaker
Your Xi'an.
00:09:38
Speaker
I sure fucking hope it would. It's my sword.
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Speaker
And reach forward, wrapping your fingers around the hilt.
00:10:29
Speaker
by the sea, and you're not alone.
Nostalgia and Skills with Siblings
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Speaker
does hit, just barely. THWACK! A wooden training sword Thwacks against the padded armor you're suddenly wearing.
00:11:02
Speaker
Come on sibling, you can do better than that.
00:11:17
Speaker
Kal Kyak Pafras.
00:11:32
Speaker
so these play on are Are these play on words like my name or are these actually just like normal, like no trick words? That's up for you to decide. um Cal was always sort of the primary warrior while Yeth was the sort of paralegal consultant to Oxflane during negotiations and such.
00:12:00
Speaker
And as you breathe in the ocean air, realize you remember this day.
00:12:27
Speaker
This was your first proper day of training.
00:12:54
Speaker
I go just as much of a dick as I remember and I say like right before I take a swing at him. Alright, go ahead and roll the hit. Despite your lack of one, you are still a dick.
00:13:07
Speaker
17 plus, I forgot my hit modifiers. what what What booster am I using here? I want for your sword. Okay, 24 then. 24, okay. As you swing, you realize that you're you you're using your real sword, which you don't remember being the case as your blade clanks off of Kal's metal armor.
00:13:33
Speaker
Okay, that was good. That was much better. But you probably should keep your wrist a little bit straighter. You know when you're actually swinging? Come on, we can do better than that.
00:13:59
Speaker
You managed to definitely dodge out of the way of what you now realize is a very real blade.
Intense Training with Cal
00:14:43
Speaker
but Cal is actively goading you on and is going to let you go first. So, take your turn. Okay then, I guess I will... They've also backed up so you're not in melee range right now.
00:15:02
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to ask if I could be channel elements. Yeah, go for it. You can do whatever you want. At this stage of my life, apparently. Things seem to be a little odd right now, but you can certainly try the channel elements. Okay, well, I'm clicking on this. I don't think it's working. Well, you've got to, you've got to apply the effect in the chat. Oh, right. How do I, you click apply effect.
00:15:32
Speaker
As we've discovered with Rachel, Kineticist is very much the click all of the buttons class. I don't know why, but all of them, like all of the applied effect prompts just jumped in at the same time despite it saying that they did not.
00:15:49
Speaker
so Fantastic. We love this. um so as part As part of your channeling elements, you can make a kineic or you can make a yeah you can make an elemental blast if you wish. so Would you like to do that? I will do that. all right Make a one-action elemental blast. Which element are you using? I will use Fuego.
00:16:16
Speaker
I'm assuming ranged. Yes, ranged. go ahead and roll the hit to hit 23 to hit okay go ahead and roll damage okay five points of damage five points of damage you channel elements and send forth this gout of flame which just slams into Cal and the itching returns for just a moment as you could swear you hear as the flames dissipate you can see Cal standing there just laughing.
00:17:13
Speaker
yeah All right, Krocach, you are doing well! Better than I expected. This is very interesting. Who the fuck is Krocach? Krocach is the draconic word for sibling. Oh, okay. So you have two actions remaining.
00:17:37
Speaker
Oh. I guess I'll do a two action elemental blast, this time metal. Okay. Slashing or piercing? Slashing. All right, go ahead and roll to hit. At the time it is a 10. A 10 to hit. That is unfortunately not a hit. And this time, as you send forth the shards of metal, Kal is able to easily dodge out of the way.
00:18:10
Speaker
Alright then, it is my turn. And they're going they're going to go ahead and swing their sword at you. That is a natural 20. Fuck. So let me let me go ahead and roll that critical hit card. ah Because Cal is very definitely a higher level than you.
00:18:39
Speaker
Let's see, that is a slashing attack. Sapping slash, the target is fatigued. So you are now fatigued, and you can take some critical damage there.
00:18:59
Speaker
That is six points of slashing damage. How many points? Six. six And I use the stamina one first, right? Yes, stamina goes down first.
00:19:13
Speaker
And yeah, as the blade slashes across you feel the itching just gets incredibly strong.
00:19:34
Speaker
difficult for you to not start scratching yourself.
00:19:59
Speaker
brings us back to you.
00:20:07
Speaker
What would you like to do? I am going to... I'm going to attack him with my GM. Okay. Which is going to be... A. If I can do 21 to hit. 21? That just barely hits. Go ahead and roll damage.
00:20:34
Speaker
The GM... This is slashing damage by the way.
00:20:55
Speaker
slash your blade across Cal and for just a moment you could swear that you see their arm fall off. His blood gushes out onto the sand but
00:21:13
Speaker
is just laughing once again. Very good, Croca, very good. Come on, give it to me.
00:21:27
Speaker
You have two actions remaining.
00:21:36
Speaker
I guess I'll do a two-action elemental blast of metal. This time melee.
00:21:59
Speaker
22 this time. 22, that is a success. Go ahead and roll damage. And is this slashing or piercing? It's just slashing. Slashing, okay. Okay, it's 1d8 plus four. Jesus Christ, I forget how much damage this thing does.
00:22:20
Speaker
Four plus four, eight. Eight, all right.
00:22:28
Speaker
Yeah, very good, very good. My turn again. And Kal is going to go for their own strikes. Okay, the next one is a 27.
00:22:50
Speaker
Fuck me, I guess. Okay, ah so that is eight points of slashing damage.
00:23:14
Speaker
So that is going to be
00:23:29
Speaker
14. Reflex DC is reflex modifier plus 10, right? Correct. So that fails. All right then. Cal attempts to sweep under your leg with their tail, but you definitely hop over it. Cal chuckles again, spins their sword in their hand and sheaths it.
00:23:58
Speaker
Very good, very good. All right, you are picking this up quickly. I am very impressed.
00:24:18
Speaker
And as they start leading you down the beach, You remember the rest of this day, you didn't just learn to fight.
High-Stakes Negotiation with Drakkar
00:24:31
Speaker
This was the day that Yeth started teaching you to cook.
00:24:53
Speaker
one You will never forget the first dish that you learned, or tried to learn, which actually took you a little bit to really perfect, a dish called Grosk,
00:25:10
Speaker
which is, you know, it's like these little pieces of, so they these like pieces of, flour and water like melded together that you boil to make them soft it's supposed to be delicious at this point the first one that you made was not very good but it's supposed to be a delicious sweet creamy sauce
00:25:53
Speaker
it a proper meal. Because a lot of the fruit in the area of where you grew up, where Oxfeline's lair is, a lot of the local fruit is actually quite protein rich. And throughout your travels, you've actually learned that most people call these wheat like flour and water pieces. Most people call them pasta. but and would when Whenever you mention that it's a sweet dish, ah they look at you like you have eight heads. Diamond pasta is flour and eggs. Yeah, this one's flour and water. Okay, but I'm not making flour and water pasta, what the fuck is that? You can just use regular store-bought pasta.
00:26:43
Speaker
thank god Don't forget I will be here for this one So we will I am tormenting myself with having to invent sweet pasta with you. Okay?
00:27:12
Speaker
the itching returns. I need you to make a fortitude save. Fortitude save, eh? Well, that's gonna be right share go down chappy, ain't it? Nat 20, fuck. Nat 20, you feel this itching, which is, I should know, very odd because, you know, normally you don't feel itching.
00:27:42
Speaker
You know, that's something you've heard other people, mostly mammals talking about is this itching sensation. And Drakkar, you've heard Drakkar talking about it as well when they're shedding their scales. But you don't shed. So you don't, you've never really felt this before. And it's not pleasant in the slightest.
00:28:19
Speaker
But as you're focusing on that, you realize you're cold. You're not on the beach anymore. You're you're in a ravine. Snow surrounding you.
00:28:36
Speaker
Cal is standing next to you. You're no longer fatigued. Your kinetic aura is not up. You're in your fancy
00:29:07
Speaker
with metallic scales, and in front of you, another Dracosun. This one was scales of which you can't quite tell if it's rusty or covered in dried blood or both.
00:29:30
Speaker
You hear booming, draconic voices above you. You look up to see on one side of the ravine is a massive ancient cobalt see her for some reason.
00:29:56
Speaker
And you can also see Yeth standing on top of a large boulder, reading from various tomes and scrolls.
Encounter with Surreal Creatures
00:30:16
Speaker
does it feel to be on your first real negotiation, huh?
00:30:30
Speaker
Do not be nervous, Crocach. It is alright. I've been through so many of these and they rarely ever go south.
00:30:42
Speaker
Well, if you say so. Yeah, we might as well be social, yes?
00:30:50
Speaker
All right, let's go speak to our ah quote-unquote enemy, opposition, whatever the word is. I should also note that this entire time you realize that somehow all of the speech has from Cal has been in draconic.
00:31:12
Speaker
But, you know, you're so used to speaking common that you just kind of forgot.
00:31:30
Speaker
are right in front of this cobalt trackison.
00:31:36
Speaker
Cal steps closer and begins speaking with this very tall, imposing figure. I should note
00:31:52
Speaker
Cal is closer cobalt drachison is like 7-4.
00:32:07
Speaker
Very tall and imposing and while muscular you can also see through open areas of their armor, you can see their ribs, they're clearly not well fed.
00:32:31
Speaker
You feel the itching once again. As if I'm itching to stab him? No, this is just outright itchiness. Make a will save.
00:32:46
Speaker
I will say, I am exercising my will to not stab this man upon being itchy. You can feel your claws start to...
00:33:12
Speaker
go dig into your scales and you back up, ah! And you manage to not tear into your own flesh. But as you look up,
00:33:44
Speaker
You look around and notice that the Drakkar are all fighting. There's a volley of arrows flying over your head. Oxflame and the Cobalt Dragon have leapt at each other across the ravine, teeth bared.
00:34:07
Speaker
You realize you're surrounded by purple mist. The sunlight has turned. purple. It's as if everything is frozen around you. You can see strange blue lights floating around the sides of the ravine.
00:34:31
Speaker
This was not how things went. You know for a fact that this negotiation went off without a hitch, but right now you're
00:34:44
Speaker
It's as if you're remembering your fears surrounding this event.
00:34:56
Speaker
The itching returns again, and this time you look down to see the source is some sort of an appendage wrapped around your shoulder.
00:35:15
Speaker
My shoulder.
00:35:19
Speaker
You quickly shake it off and turn around to see attached to you a strange purple skinned creature with unevenly sized eyes, scraggly black hair, purple skin, no mouth.
00:35:41
Speaker
Oh my God, what the fuck is that? It's like Gollum and Salad Fingers had a baby. It's like its entire body is covered in a layer of very fine hairs, nettle-like hairs. Oh, oh, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew. Oh my God. You then notice that Cal and the Cobalt Dracosan are gone, and there's more of these creatures all throughout the area.
00:36:30
Speaker
oh What the fuck are you?
Battle with Bizarre Creatures
00:36:39
Speaker
It's jaw moves as if it's trying to speak.
00:36:45
Speaker
But it has no mouth from which to speak. So it just sort of mutters. Do you want me to put you out of your misery?
00:37:07
Speaker
Okay, that's not working. Blink once if yes, twice if no.
00:37:16
Speaker
The creature reaches out one of its arms. You think it's... oh No, no, don't do that, Blake. Blake or both, Blake. And it reaches out as though it's trying to touch you. No, stop. I take my sword, I kind of like whack its hand away. like i don't I don't swipe that, I don't strike it, I just like kind of whack it. No, stop.
00:37:42
Speaker
The creature, the creature puts its foot back down and sort of takes a step back. You can see it sort of tense up.
00:37:55
Speaker
This is not going to be where I want them. It's time to roll initiative. Oh, God. Hold on. I didn't see I was going to roll initiative. Jesus. Well, they are. Oh, OK. Well, that's how it's going to be.
00:38:13
Speaker
Suck.
00:38:16
Speaker
That brings us to... Oh, there's way more than two of them. There's like yeah five of them all around you, but it seems like only these two are moving towards you right now with any sort of hostility. So the one right next to you is going to start out by trying to kick, punch. You're not really sure, but it's going to try to hate you with one of its limbs. ah That is a 23 to hit.
00:38:42
Speaker
Okay, so You're going to take four points of bludgeoning damage and I've ever covered any stamina. Oh, yeah, your standard is back to full Okay, good. Yeah. Yeah all of your everything returned back to full All right, so I took I took four points of bludgeoning 4 points of damage and I need you to make a fortitude save as the hairs brush up against your scales oh gez and you can feel the itching.
00:39:17
Speaker
That's a 30. A 30. Holy crap. All right. yeah I have a high fortitude. You like you you like quickly pull your arm back before these hairs can really make too much contact.
00:39:33
Speaker
um And the creature is going to go for another kick. That is a 20 to hit. That does hit.
00:39:47
Speaker
Okay. So that is going to be five points of bludgeoning and I need you to make another fortitude save. Okay. That time it is a 23. 23. Okay. You once again managed to not be affected by these strange itching hairs. And then as its final action, the creature is going to
00:40:24
Speaker
which is going to quickly run on over next to you and go for a kick of its own. That is a 21 to hit.
00:40:44
Speaker
21 to hit does his. Okay. That is five points of bludgeoning damage and I usually make a fortitude save.
00:41:01
Speaker
Jesus I'm losing stamina first. Make a fortitude save. That is a 25. A 25, okay. That is a success. You managed to not be affected by the itching. And the creature is then going to scamper over to there. That brings us to you. Okay, so first things first, I'm going to channel elements.
00:41:31
Speaker
Would you like to make your free elemental blast? Yes. It has to be a one-action elemental blast. okay So go ahead and make that. directed at this guy all right Fire or metal? Slashing or piercing?
00:41:53
Speaker
Piercing. Okay.
00:41:58
Speaker
Nat 20. Nat 20. Hell yeah. Let me roll you that critical hit card. Jesus. And you said that was slashing so gut slash the target takes 1d4 bleed any any creature swallows piercing I said oh piercing sorry ah in that case deep hurting crit effect the target is fatigued. um So
00:42:23
Speaker
determine Why does it specify crit effect? That's weird. um Excuse me. OK, so target is fatigued.
00:42:35
Speaker
um Lovely. And go ahead and roll critical damage. OK, so am I doing critical damage? Yes. Very cool. You could have with the second that you said critical. So yeah.
00:42:51
Speaker
um Okay, so critical damage is 1d8 plus 1 times 2. Okay, so... ah No, you did range. So it's 2 times 1d8. Oh. 2 times 1d8. Okay, well, either way, that is 14. 14 points of piercing damage. All right.
00:43:22
Speaker
So the metal slices through its strange, almost paper-like skin. you want It doesn't bleed, oddly enough. um But you watch as a few of the of your metallic bolts that you fire out just kind of almost glance off.
00:43:49
Speaker
You have two actions remaining.
00:43:53
Speaker
That's pretty fucked up. Next, I'm going to... Range on elemental... on mental elemental blast is 25, right? I don't know. What does it say on your sheet? If you hover over the little fireball icon next to the range attack modifier, it's 30 feet, Jesus. Okay, well, yeah, I'm gonna... I'm gonna do a double or two action
00:44:36
Speaker
That is a 22 to hit. 22, that does in fact, hey, go ahead and roll damage. like Fantastic.
00:44:51
Speaker
plus three is 10. 10 points of damage.
00:45:01
Speaker
Hello? Hello? Yes, 10 points. of ten Sorry. Yeah. um All right. Yeah. Once again, it seems like some of your, some of your bolts are just bouncing off, but they're definitely doing damage.
00:45:19
Speaker
So that was a two action blast. All right, that brings us around to the first creature, which is going to run on up and it's going to go for its little little little kick. That is a natural one.
00:45:40
Speaker
so get bought fumble card idiot uh that was a an unarmed not the weak point you take and 1d6 bleed that's not english uh and can't use you take 1d6 bleed damage and can't use this attack until the end of your next turn okay so uh it doesn't bleed um Because, as you notice, it seems not to have blood, so. No, he's taking the damage. No, he's taking the damage. No, it's immune to bleed.
00:46:18
Speaker
um So, but it does seem to, ah it does actually seem to sort of hurt itself as it tries to whack against your armor.
00:46:33
Speaker
um And it's just gonna sort of scamper on over to the side over there. And that's the end of its turn. That brings us now to the other one, which is going to run up and go for a kick of its own. That is a 29 to hit. does that That's the critical. All right, then it will deal critical damage.
00:47:02
Speaker
So that is going to be 10 points of bludgeoning and I need you to make a fortitude save. Okay.
00:47:30
Speaker
so you are not affected by whatever this is. um And it is then going to go for another kick. That is a 21 to hit.
00:47:45
Speaker
hits okay So that is going to be seven points of bludgeoning damage that I need to make another fortitude save.
00:48:05
Speaker
That's funny again, what the fuck 20? Hell yeah, man. All right. You managed to once again, like redirect the blow to like, it definitely still hurts, but you get it to hate your armor and not touch you with its weird little hairs. um All right. That is the end of his turn. That brings us to your turn.
00:48:28
Speaker
Okay, so first things first is I'm going I do a to action hold on Oh Here we go. Yeah, I'm doing a geon strike Okay Go ahead and roll the hit That is a 24 to hit. 24 does hit. Go ahead and do damage.
00:49:08
Speaker
I'm going to do slashing damage for the record. That is six points of damage. Six points of slashing damage. This sword almost entirely bounces off. Barely doing anything.
00:49:33
Speaker
It seems as though your physical attacks are not doing a whole lot against the these creatures skins.
00:49:49
Speaker
You have two actions remaining. Does it look like it's made of fire or metal? Yes.
00:50:01
Speaker
Do you actually want to try to extract element from this thing? No, I'm not going to waste it. I'm not going to waste an action like that. Shard strike, how about that? Okay, you're just shard striking. Like, are you doing the cone or the line?
00:50:22
Speaker
I guess the line, the code would be as helpful. okay then I guess I guess you only really have the ability to direct it like at this one directly in front of you so I guess uh it needs to make a do I want to hold on you're just gonna go with a double the double with a two action elemental blast okay
00:50:58
Speaker
Hello. I said okay. Very cool. I will do a point blank two action elemental metal blast. Okay. So go ahead and roll the melee one. That is a 23. 23 does hit. Go ahead and roll damage. And is this slashing or piercing? This is piercing.
00:51:28
Speaker
okay plus four that is nine points of damage nine points of damage once again it appears that your attack does not seem to manage to penetrate the skin as much as you'd like But at this point you've made a big enough, you you've made enough wounds that you can sort of like actually see sort of through this creature almost all the way through to the other side. It does not appear to have any sort of internal organs. It seems almost hollow.
00:52:11
Speaker
So that was the end of your turn. That brings us to the top of round three with the creatures. We'll start with the fatigued one, which is going to starting out. And it's then going to go for a kick. That is a natural 20, but it is lower level than you, so it will not get a correct card. It will just get critical damage.
00:52:43
Speaker
So that is going to be 16 points of bludgeoning damage. And I need you to make a Fortitude Save.
00:53:06
Speaker
said I need a Fortitude Save.
00:53:10
Speaker
21 21. All right. You once again managed to not be affected by the hairs. So I'm going to say this is one of those i feel this one of those battles I'm supposed to lose. You know, I'm talking about. Believe what you'd like. um The creature is then going to take a step to the side to make you be in flanking. So you are now flanked. ah The other creature is then going to go for a kick of its own. That one is a 12 to hit.
Revelation of Dragons and Crystals
00:53:49
Speaker
Okay, so I'm gonna go for another one. ah That is a 15.
00:54:00
Speaker
not hit Okay, one more. That is a four. definitely that's not good okay and that is the end of his turn that brings us to you don't forget you have your hero point card as well the hero point card you have your hero point in your card i don't know what your card is but you can choose to use that
00:54:36
Speaker
if you think it would be helpful. Where's my card? It's where it always is in your in your little deck. But nobody ever uses their actual cards. You can also just, you know, use a hero point for its normal purpose of rerolling a roll.
00:55:00
Speaker
But it is your turn.
00:55:10
Speaker
Um.
00:55:18
Speaker
Shit, I don't know.
00:55:38
Speaker
I mean, there's no exit, there's no thing.
00:55:44
Speaker
What's this essence stone? Essence stone? What essence stone? Oh, in your inventory? ah That is something that you have yet to attach to your anything. that that is Those are concentrated magic stones that you can attach to items and will give you random effects.
00:56:07
Speaker
You got that back in Yalwag in the mines before you found the Soul of Frost. Ah. Interesting. I also have Lavender Soap. You do have Lavender Soap. What are the odds that I throw the Lavender Soap at one of these guys? Honestly, that's probably my best bet right now. Maybe the Soap will get in their eyes and fuck them up.
00:56:37
Speaker
Jesus, I don't know. I mean, like none of my attacks are doing anything. I mean, they're doing something, but not as much as you'd like. Yeah, this is definitely something I'm supposed to lose. Is it? It's gone. I'm not doing any damage. You are doing damage, just not a whole lot of it. Not a whole lot of damage. And this is only against the first two, and there's three left. I've also noted that you're not dealing much damage with your physical attacks.
00:57:09
Speaker
I don't have any other kind of... Yes, you do. You have energy attacks.
00:57:19
Speaker
Physical damage is things like bludgeoning, piercing, slashing. Energy damage is things like, I don't know, fire. Oh.
00:57:35
Speaker
Oh, you've been piecing this. if You've been trying to do that the whole time. Yes! Goddammit. I'm gonna do an Elixir of Life. Okay. um Alright. You pull an Elixir of Life out of your bag and drake it, which is two actions, so go ahead and roll 1d6 for yourself. And you'll get the effect of that. Six. Six. Okay.
00:58:04
Speaker
Um, then you restore six hit points to yourself and you get the effect. And but that is worth noting is that you actually do have all of your seemingly all of your items on your belt and you're even wearing your empty backpack like normal. Like empty backpack. I love that. Uh, okay. Well, I'm going to do a elemental blast of fire. Okay.
00:58:34
Speaker
on this guy up here. All right. Go ahead and roll the hit. Hold on. Yeah. Two action.
00:58:47
Speaker
There's a 24 to hit. 24 does indeed hit. Go ahead and roll damage.
00:58:56
Speaker
eight points of damage eight points of damage the fire definitely does appear to be a little bit more effective and this creature is now bloodied oh god just bloodied and that is the end of your turn so that brings us to the top of round four with the strange purple-skinned creatures um so the one that you just attacked is going to go for a kick uh that is a 28 to hit? Yeah, that'll that that's a crit. All right. long done so
00:59:34
Speaker
ah that who whom That's max damage too, so that is 18 points of bludgeoning damage. Yeah, I'm dead. Okay, so as the creature just whacks you right in the head, Thub, you feel your head start to spin as it's not just your head you are actually spinning in place right now as you ah fall backwards onto the ground but you're not unconscious for some reason which is very odd as the creatures just sort of stand over you and start just
01:00:16
Speaker
pressing their pressing their hairs into your flesh. And you realize that there're these tiny little hairs are like tiny needles that are injecting this weird itching venom into you. And before, and like as as you're like sort of trying to trying desperately to regain your strength,
01:00:45
Speaker
The creatures look up and hop off you and start running in different directions. Honey, you're not in the ravine anymore.
01:01:11
Speaker
You blink and you're, Back to consciousness. On the ground.
01:01:26
Speaker
Back to full hit points and everything. The sun beams down onto your face.
01:01:42
Speaker
cool, slightly damp, mossy stone against your back.
01:02:07
Speaker
see before you
01:02:11
Speaker
the glorious form of your mother.
01:02:17
Speaker
Gleaming topaz scales
01:02:55
Speaker
Do you know why I brought you here?
01:03:11
Speaker
She takes a step towards you off the cliff. This is a very special place,
01:03:32
Speaker
And yet you are the first of my children who I have brought here.
01:03:58
Speaker
She gestures towards the crystals. that you can see are seemingly growing out of the stone of this cliff. You can see they're of all different colors and hues.
01:04:28
Speaker
shades of balance dragons.
01:04:42
Speaker
if the glow is from the sun or from some sort of power within.
01:04:51
Speaker
Oxfeline speaks again. These crystals,
01:05:06
Speaker
of our purpose on this world. No.
01:05:18
Speaker
That was not a rhetorical question. No, I said, I said no, did you? I did not hear you. I know you're, all I know you're getting older and everything, but maybe you should get to this journey. Oh, I am only three million years old. Come on. No, I mean, that's getting better.
01:05:37
Speaker
You fool, you are no spring chicken yourself. What are you nowadays? Time passes so quickly. You must be at least 200 by now.
01:05:58
Speaker
originally from a different world. A place called Epistas.
01:06:07
Speaker
where three powerful beings were in control of everything.
01:06:18
Speaker
And of these powerful beings, embodiment of order and chaos respectively.
01:06:33
Speaker
But the one in the middle, who always was doing their best to prevent their conflict, to find their the other dragons were born, we were created, not entirely dissimilarly to how I created you.
01:07:03
Speaker
And these she gestures to the crystals. These are how we ended up here. When the great migration began from Epistas to Imelon.
01:07:19
Speaker
Silke makes the antise a
01:07:31
Speaker
the dragons of balance. To prepare this world for the existence of dragons and to create the rules by which all dragons must follow. To make sure that this world does not end up the way our ancestral home is.
01:08:07
Speaker
carefully,
01:08:30
Speaker
And she close you see she closes her eyes, takes a deep breath in,
01:09:14
Speaker
your eyes, you touch the crystal, and
01:09:45
Speaker
washes over you for even just a moment.
01:09:52
Speaker
As the sun
01:09:56
Speaker
dapples through your own topaz scales.
Reflection on Heritage and Legacy
01:10:04
Speaker
You almost forget everything that's been happening to you and everything that has happened to you
01:10:27
Speaker
How do you feel it, my child? I think so. I thought you might.
01:10:54
Speaker
connection to Zilcomac.
01:10:59
Speaker
Ah, each shit sibling.
01:11:04
Speaker
Cal and Yeth, they are designed for their own purposes. Cal is the warrior, Yeth is the scholar, but you are something different, Thub. I gave you the skills of both. You know the way of weapons. You know the way of learning.
01:11:30
Speaker
You know how to lead I place upon you the
01:12:11
Speaker
She shrugs. Sure, if that is the title you wish to go with.
01:12:20
Speaker
She pulls you back sort of closer. Like almost wraps one of her gigantic arms around you and sort of pulls you close.
01:12:38
Speaker
ah You're cutting out again. She wraps one of her gigantic arms around you and pulls you close. My child.
01:12:52
Speaker
There are great things in your future. I hope you're aware of this.
01:13:05
Speaker
Sure! Go on, and she releases you. Go on. Go. Be with your siblings. Make sure that Cal is behaving.
01:13:18
Speaker
Need to make sure that he doesn't put too much strain on his arm. I just
01:13:45
Speaker
How do I get out of here? Do i to I jump off the cliff? No! You go back the way you came, you fool! Oh god, don't tell me I have to go through the... to the... the ravine with all the fucking weird-eyed people.
01:14:00
Speaker
What are you talking about? Our camp is right over there, you fool. And she points. And you actually can now
01:14:20
Speaker
I guess I go towards that. Okay. as you as you do ox fallain steps back onto the cliff get back there get get off the cliff get off the cliff get off the cliff what are you doing on the cliff get off the cliff
01:14:40
Speaker
um make I'm making room for Oxfeline to get off the cliff. I keep telling her to get off the cliff. I'm not leaving until she gets off the cliff. As you attempt to speak, the air won't leave your lungs. Your mouth is flapping, but nothing's coming out. As Oxfeline steps, steps, and you watch in horror as the cliff crumbles from beneath her.
01:15:11
Speaker
You're at the end of the cliff. The sun beams purple light down upon you, though it's still very dark.
01:15:42
Speaker
I'm going to fucking kill Sir Connect for this. Is that really what you wish to do, my friend? Yes.
01:16:03
Speaker
my god, I'm killing you first! My friend! Jantique is suddenly standing directly next to you. Oh, God. Oh, fucking God. I forgot about this fucker's antics. With an arm around your shoulder, and yet you can still see both of their arms. What? Like, you look at them and you can see both of their arms at their side. But then you look to your right and you can very clearly see Jean Tique's hand on your shoulder.
01:16:38
Speaker
And you feel it there, consistently. Oh my god, what the fuck is this? Sorry, that is wrong voice. This is what got you to run away, to leave your family. To leave your entire life behind, huh? I am staring at...
01:17:07
Speaker
Jean T. Floumont's face with murderous intent. My friend, are you not happy to see me? I argue why I'm here.
01:17:21
Speaker
ah Well, I am the reason that you are not being eaten by dream creatures. You think you got the away from them on your own?
01:17:37
Speaker
Fine, for that I'll give you a five second head start. My friend, you are very funny. So do tell me, was this the formative moment that got you to change the entire trajectory of your life?
01:17:57
Speaker
I guess, in a way it is...
01:18:32
Speaker
Are you sure it was not an accident?
Jean-Tique's Tempting Offer
01:18:36
Speaker
Are you sure that it was not just an old cliff collapsing? Yes, I'm pretty sure it was not an accident. and It wasn't just an old cliff collapsing, you know, I'm pretty sure, yes. How? How are you? How are you sure of this? Well, I mean, there is number of factors here, the one for one.
01:19:00
Speaker
Uh, she was on the cliff. Was it, isn't she as Oxford as she? Yeah, Oxford was your mother. Okay. Uh, for one, she was on the cliff when I got there and, uh, two, then I was on the cliff and then she was on the cliff again. And then it didn't break for a, for quite a little while. And, uh, and then, uh, you know, on top of that, it is, uh, it was a very old cliff and,
01:19:30
Speaker
you know, supported many ways larger than her and it is quite an interesting coincidence that it would happen to happen at that exact time, which is bullshit. But I think, Sab, you have given yourself the answer right there, haven't you? The explanation that it was a very old cliff on a seaside Stones get weak over their time. And I do believe that you are significantly less heavy than a multi-million-year-old dragon. Collect me if I'm wrong, of course.
01:20:24
Speaker
Are you calling my mother fat? No, I am saying that you are easily maybe one-sixteenth of her size. It is is not that. The purpose that I'm trying to say is,
01:20:55
Speaker
How can you be 100% positive?
01:21:12
Speaker
if I told you that I could show you I could pull zero all memory from your mind.
01:21:34
Speaker
And the hand on your shoulder scuttles across your chest and moves like crawls up your face before just flicking you in the forehead. Oh God, this fucker. The cliff is there once again. You're seeing your memory.
01:21:59
Speaker
once again, of Oxfeline stepping onto the cliff. And this time you see, as Oxfeline closes her eyes, the sunlight beams down through the crystals, the light focusing on her. And you can for certain see the crystals glow with power.
01:22:30
Speaker
as they vibrate violently in a fraction of a
01:22:47
Speaker
The fuck was that? That was what really happened. That was the raw, unfiltered memory from your mind.
01:23:06
Speaker
why do the... Wait, that makes less sense, because the crystals were there just as long as the cliff, but like... But the crystals were from... And Jean-Tique gestures at you.
01:23:23
Speaker
The crystals were not from me. They were there before I was. No, they were not from you. Sub, my goodness, man, you are dead. The crystals, where are they from? These are the crystals that the dragons of balance were born from. And where are the dragons of balance from?
01:23:49
Speaker
Silk of Neck? Yes.
01:23:56
Speaker
You have now seen the confirmation of what truly happened, huh? The crystals which are a focus for silk and mixed power,
01:24:36
Speaker
be what your memo implies.
01:24:52
Speaker
So... What? So...
01:24:56
Speaker
So the crystals are a focus of silken mix power.
Cryptic Intentions and Risky Deal
01:25:03
Speaker
And one day crystals vibrate violently. Again, the crystals that are a focus for silken
01:25:19
Speaker
So silken mix did destroy the cliff.
01:25:36
Speaker
What if I told you that I could get you the thing you wanted most? What is the thing that I want
01:26:24
Speaker
You think you're awake.
01:26:32
Speaker
I do like the whole, I do like the whole like, like, like pat myself all over my like, all over to see if I'm like injured just the same as you were when you went to sleep.
01:27:06
Speaker
show you, says Jean Tique, from behind you, even though there is no behind you and you feel Jean Tique's hand wrap around your shoulder once again. You are no longer at your room in the end.
01:27:44
Speaker
surrounding you, mountains, dunes.
01:27:50
Speaker
Off in the distance, you think you see a crumbled building. once ornate domed structure now
01:28:21
Speaker
And yet there's not a cloud in the sky.
01:28:49
Speaker
clatter together to the point where you're almost worried they're going to break as a massive form
01:29:18
Speaker
form of a dragon, metallic scales, glittering in the sunlight,
01:29:29
Speaker
and you see its destination as you hear another roar. Coming from the distance, you see another dragon of equal size, this one with shimmering scales changing through all colors of the rainbow
01:29:57
Speaker
and they are directly above you.
01:30:04
Speaker
As the metallic dragon falls, you realize
01:30:32
Speaker
on the now deserted world of Epistas.
01:30:37
Speaker
As Baltramak falls directly towards you, you cover your face to protect yourself in futility. And as you hear a crash,
01:31:18
Speaker
monstrous shape as it stands and returns to the fight
01:31:42
Speaker
Within the crystal, you see the emaciated almost skeletal form of a dragon silhouette.
01:31:54
Speaker
Seemingly flying or swimming within it. Your heart fills with rage.
01:32:25
Speaker
This is known to you as he steps in front of you. I can bring you here to epistas and he gestures to your hand.
01:32:52
Speaker
a great white heat
01:33:01
Speaker
I can give you the methods and the means of your revenge. What is the catch? There is no catch. But I do not give things away for free. Yup, there is a catch. Not a catch so much as I am asking to make a deal.
01:33:27
Speaker
There are several
01:33:41
Speaker
some way, shade your form.
01:33:46
Speaker
You have already... The rest of your friends, as of now, are off attempting to prevent the awakening of one of these beings.
01:34:03
Speaker
And yet there are others that have already started to wake up. And some that have already awakened entirely and have just not met their full strength.
01:34:27
Speaker
reaching its full strength.
01:34:46
Speaker
deal with one that is already awake.
01:34:51
Speaker
The creature that your friend Sickat has dubbed as Cranberry. You cannot allow it. to return to its source of power. You cannot allow it to unlock its potential.
01:36:02
Speaker
Of course, there is one thing that I must make very clear. This experience, you cannot relay any of it to your friends. Your friends cannot know about our
01:36:30
Speaker
outside of their standard group setting you mention anything to do with this deal even once even in passing and everything is off you lose your chance at vengeance wait why this is that's weird because they are already helping with your with your request anyway and these are separate requests okay that is what you want it's fine okay keep it quiet
01:37:20
Speaker
The being known as Clan Belly cannot reach its full power.
01:37:43
Speaker
It does not matter what you have to do. Just remember
01:37:50
Speaker
What you will get out of this deal.
01:38:21
Speaker
Um, everybody is trying to keep some kind of creature. What was the creature again? It wasn't cranberry. Jean-Tique didn't say Jean-Tique just said there are there there are beings that your friends are already trying to keep from waking up Okay, and i'm trying to stop one that has already been awoken or that has already awoken according to Jean-Tique cranberry is one of these creatures that has already awoken and is attempting to reach its full power. Cranberry is not, not Colby's character. He is Colby's character, but yeah. Cranberry is like the fire being that comes out of him, right? Yes. Okay. So you have to prevent Cranberry from reaching its full power, no matter what that means.
01:39:19
Speaker
And Jantika said that you
01:39:40
Speaker
like mean like, I guess I get it, you know, like, remember, I guess helps a lot. So like, they would be pretty locked in to believe that. I don't know, something me the wrong way about all this.
01:40:04
Speaker
Something always wrongs me the wrong way about Jean-Luc. Thub, as think about this,
01:40:20
Speaker
I realize you've probably been asleep for a while. It's probably around time to get up. Okay, I guess I will be waking up then.
Contemplation of Future Challenges
01:40:31
Speaker
You roll out of bed, grab your sword, and begin to strap it to your belt.
01:40:56
Speaker
You're standing outside of a cave, the mouth of a cave. cave, you can hear the oh, so familiar sound of Wyatt swearing at your friends. Oh, boy. I just I just go, oh, my God, that's fucking I say under my breath as I walk into the cave. All right. And that is where we're going to leave this off. Well, that was interesting. So wait, let me get something straight here. So I can't I can't even mention Jean-Luc's name like at all in passing or just like you in relation to this you can't experience. In relation to this experience, like you can't mention that you had this meeting with Jean-Tique.
01:41:55
Speaker
Right, Jean-Tique, not Jean-Luc. I keep calling him Jean-Luc. Yes, it is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. Yeah, I don't know why you're saying Jean-Luc. I'm literally going to put in his name Jean-Tique. Jean-Tique Le Matimeau.
01:42:16
Speaker
I tried to spell that and as best in French as I could. But but um Uh, since it is French, uh, the fucking note still try to spell correct me. yeah I'll spell it. I'll spell it correctly. The note still still try to spell correct me because it is. Oh, okay. There you go. You spelled John T correctly. Um, I also spelled correctly phonetically because French is so dumb. Oh my God.
01:43:12
Speaker
Interesting. So everyone is helping to keep these creatures dormant, and I have to keep a creature who happens to be a party member under control.
01:43:25
Speaker
what what is it with What is it with my quests and having to do stuff like behind my party members' backs that also has to do with one of the party members? i mean Remy never had to do anything behind anyone's back. You just chose to do that. Well, yeah, because one of the people in the party was a member of the family that I was acting to swindle.
01:43:54
Speaker
but that's neither here nor there at this point because uh when it comes to thub yeah you've now got a what when it comes to thub you've now got to figure out how to go about this we want to give a special shout out to our first member on buy me a coffee jane myer Thank you so much for your support, Jane. It really means the world.