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Ep. 07 Not a Claude in the Sky – De Profundis
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Transcript
Introduction and Character Introductions
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Elf ear. Elf ear. Elf ear. Elf...th...th...th...th...th...th...th...th. Not fun. You need a drink.
00:00:33
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Hello, welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, my name is Ian. My God, have you caught any of that? Hello, well done. Hello, welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop. My name is Mark, I am the DM. With us, we have Ian. I'm keeping all of that in as well. That's fine, you can have a double play. That's fantastic. Hi, I'm Ian. I play Drago. You should know this by now. I know. If not, if this is your first episode when you jump in,
00:00:59
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There are six other episodes for you to listen to beforehand. You'll figure it out. Please go back. We also have Callum who plays Shader. Hello Callum. Hello. Greetings adventurers. He's back. I haven't returned. Welcome back man. How was your travels around the world? We made up so much good for you. That's all I've heard. You're the Indiana Jones now of this party. I'm still okay with that. We did lie a lot about you. It's fine though. We also have Will who plays Elvay. Hello Will.
Mystery Character and Episode Recap
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Hi.
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Great, thank you very much. I'm sure to be sure to the point I'm going to make a set for you. Looks like you. Oh, there you go. There you go. Thank you very much. And also, we have a new addition. Obviously, we're missing our bald counterpart, Darren today. Do you know that? Because he is... You can't hear his hair. But he doesn't have bald jokes about him. He's going to hear this episode and hate you. I'm sorry. Darren, if you're listening, I'm very sorry. We have a new player joining us for this session.
00:01:52
Speaker
and sessions moving into the future. Try to introduce yourself. Hello, my name is Danny, character yet undisclosed.
00:02:02
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for suspense reasons. Can we just call him like the new kid? Like reset, he gets called new kid. He didn't even go here. He could literally. Because two of you have actually been here for the session, it's unfair to make one of you guys do it. Many of us, well, you wrote my notes and Ian, I'm not sure. He didn't write notes. You write diary entries, I don't know. I edit this damn thing, so you know all of that. Okay, so last episode as a quick recap. Sorry, my dice is stuck in my tray.
Confrontation with Eric Hass
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We were outside the cave in the island of Fullholt.
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Check it out. Elphir had just been downed again, so the party saved his ass and went into the cave and through... Oh, was it like a castle type thing? It's in ruins, wasn't it? It's in ruins, wasn't it? It's in ruins. Then we went down to the basement that was below, to the Gajur Castle, ruined.
00:02:51
Speaker
So we took on some beholders and we slapped them down and then Althea and Robin came across this locked door and wanted to try and open it and open it. They did not, despite numerous attempts. Drago getting bored of this, went into the next room and came across the main plot point of Shader laying unconscious on a table with Eric Hass, the big bad, standing over him
00:03:16
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chanting some dark, dark words. We're not entirely sure what was going on there, but it was a pretty bad state of affairs. So Drago withdrew his sword, challenged Eraqas, you guys bundled into the room, you guys being Robin and Elthea, and a fight ensued. Talia. Talia was there as well. Ahhh. You always forget that. I always forget Talia. It's forgettable. Forget the fantasy. Brilliant. She bundled into the room as well. And the fight ensued. Elthea was downed.
00:03:46
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Was Talia down? No, Talia was fine. Or was it just you? Yes, again, just at the very end of the fight. I've got problems. At the very end of the
Post-Battle Reflections and Mysteries
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Speaker
fight. Eraqus was slain, as were all the other big bads in the room. And we find ourselves, Drago, a very, very unhealthy Dragonborn with one hit point. I'm not sure what Robin was doing. And Talia was pretty okay, I think. Elthea's down. And we just find ourselves in a room, shaded out unconscious on the table. A lot of death around us.
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And that's when we pick up. And as the body of Erika starts to slowly kind of dissolve into this shadowy ash and falls away through the stone mark of the floor, a silence kind of comes across, dust starts to physically and metaphorically settle down as you
00:04:28
Speaker
Well, the breathing body of Shay on the table. You see Elphir downed. Making death saving crew? Oh, make a death saving crew. Make the first one, please. 18. Pass that one. You look around. Talia instantly runs over towards where Elphir is and starts trying to sort you out herself. She rolls a three and fails with her medicine check and unable to bring you to. She's there, unsure of where the real damage comes from with you, and she starts passing. I don't know what to do. I don't know where this is coming from. Someone help!
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and she starts panicking more and more. Robin, at this point, has gone straight over to Shader and starts inspecting his body driver. What would you like to do? I would go over, because the chance to help Elthea up again is another notch that I need for myself. So I'll go over to Elthea and I'll try and calm Talia down. It's OK. I've done this many times. I'm getting quite good at it now. And I'll roll a medicine check.
00:05:19
Speaker
and do a three as well now okay fail that please let me fail that's a hard fail so robin at this point is going to kind of wander over and uh please step aside let me uh let me let me have a go at this please entirely it very matches over his shoulder trying to help it so he'll be rolling with advantage on this one
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was a 12 followed by an actual 20. With almost a second lady reaching into a pouch, chews up some loose leaves and kind of pushes it into your mouth and squishes it a couple of times and your body starts to kind of return to a less frigid, frigid, rigid state as your body relaxes from this, this, um, necrotic, necrotic damage. Absolutely. So you are now, you are now stable. At that point Robin is instantly kind of sorted you out and looks over to, there's a long,
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stone wall along the far left side of the room, which is if you'd walked in the entrance to the left.
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And it goes the entire length of this room, and it's on it as an alcove built into it, again made of stone. Upon this are lots and lots of dusty tones, books, runes, scrolls and the likes, dotted all the way along it covered in cobwebs. Robin is instantly drawn away to these and starts kind of fingering through them. Looking over at the body of Shader, I'm sure about what we're ready to do. He looks at one book in particular, a really thick, black spine book. He pulls out this massive book,
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looks at it for a second, looks back over towards Shader and opens it up and starts just thumbing through the notes of that. Okay, seeing that elf is stable, I'll get up and I'll look at Shader's body and see if there's any way to wake him up, maybe slap him across the face a little. Shader! Shader, this is embarrassing for you. Wake up. Wake up, Shader. Robin, you have got any idea what's going on.
00:07:11
Speaker
stopping him and shaking him a little bit. He doesn't seem to stir at all. As Robin looks over to you, he goes, try it. And then all of a sudden, this black mist starts to seep out of the book. And the book literally, his body, his shoulder, his arm is pulled in one piece at a time until he disappears into the book. The book just slams shut on the floor with a little of steam rising off it. What the hell just happened there? And that, can I please ask the three of you? I don't know.
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Elphir,
Elf Ear's Insight and Claude's Arrival
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Danny for now, and Ian, just to give you a minute, with... shade art? Ooh, damn! That's as to what's happened for that. That's okay. That's absolutely fine. Good to have you back. Good to be back. So the last thing you knew, well you didn't know actually, you were stood in a field, on the Audra Islands, meeting the rest of the party again. You were then grabbed by some weird kind of demonic... That's right, you're creatures that just pulled you up and you kind of moved through the shadow out of view. You ended up at this...
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but you have no memory of this whatsoever. You know nothing about it. However, in this time period that's passed, you've had a series of visions that have come to you. You see plush velvet. A great beard appears in front of you. Following it up, you see a friendly face. He smiles down at you and passes you to a younger one as your sister. You stare into her face for some time. The image shifts and you see her lying dead on the streets of Ornden, your home city.
00:08:41
Speaker
A ship on the sea, black liquid all around and a tower sinking into the mud. You see a kind face of an old man, and smoke from a nearby settlement, you ride quickly. You see a dragonborn and a small child with a wooden sword, a girogar shattered and a black cloud forming. You see a broken city, a cold stare at a hostile home.
00:09:09
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You see the dragonborn face of Belprachs. The murderer or your sister? It's panting in fear. And is it with fear in his eyes? Leave now! I was mistaken!
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Your axe drops from the thud on his neck, again and again. This image replays. You see a base, cold, nebulous and green eyes staring out. You see a shadow, a creature standing towering over a forest. It's engulfed in shadow. It's tall, thin, black horns protruding from its skull. In an instant,
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It turns its head to look at you. You hear something. It's distant at first and it becomes this cacophony of noise, a screaming in your head that seems to reverberate through your very soul. Your father turns and hugs you. Loss, regret, sorrow, but absolution in his eyes. You see a ship.
00:10:15
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sea shanty. You see a prison far off in the distance. You are waiting, waiting for something, for a signal. You turn over and open your eyes. You're home, formed and warm and cosy, forgetting the sorrows of the past. You blink again. Your eyes open and you see a cold wooden table and you
00:10:47
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the ground as Robin has just seemed to have been sucked into this book, sucked into its essence almost. And that's just happened. This happened just at the same time. Almost like you've switched. Almost like you've switched! Look at that! Shouldn't have described what happens to you now.
00:11:04
Speaker
Then, basically, as Robin dives into this book, my eyes will just sharply open up in a big intake of breath, almost like I've just been trapped, kind of, under the ocean or drowned or something like that. I literally, like, real struggling to breathe shape. I was just going to lurch myself up and just... It's a really rapid breathing, climatising to what he's just been through, where he is now, and what the hell's going on. Chill, chill, it's okay. It's okay. You know, you're okay.
00:11:36
Speaker
So, you okay? That's a bit weird. You just woke up. Where am I? You're in this place called Fall Hold. There was this big thing over here, this big creature. Did you not see it? Yeah. I saw nothing except the past and possibly the future. I don't know. That sounds intense. Yeah, the vision.
00:12:11
Speaker
You were unconscious on this table. There's a man stood over you with a book. He was chanting some dark shit. It was very dark. We killed him. Dark shit. We saved your life. Elthi is down again. Right, again. Robin opened a book, has been swallowed by a book, and you've just woken up. That is the situation as we know it. It happened pretty much at the same time. Did you do that? No. No, no, I didn't, but I pray he's not gone to the same place I was. Where were you?
00:12:40
Speaker
In difficult to mention, I saw a forest of an area void, darkness, of nothing but visions of creatures and places we've been to. It was bizarre. My life flashed before my eyes, but still darkness everywhere. Maybe we should wake Elthir up. He's been in lots of forests in his time.
00:13:06
Speaker
Was it part of the Oscar in the islands? Do you know? Too indistinguishable to kind of tell. It was a forest. I couldn't tell. Maybe we should wake Elthea up. Tommy's already gone over and he's like, doo, doo, doo. Pause that thing. Hold his nose. Good, good, good. Pause down the 2D4 plus 1 potion that she had. I think Robin gave to her quite a few sessions ago.
00:13:37
Speaker
Yay! The 2D4 plus one, yeah? That's correct. That's six points of health. Look at that. I don't know if you splotter to life. She's still holding her nose, by the
Visions and Claude's Background
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way. Thank you, Charlie. You can let go of me now. I've never done that before, so don't do that. Ah, well, we're all still alive then, so we won. Just about. Yeah, it's about very, very just about. You look a bit worse for wear.
00:14:07
Speaker
Hopefully we... Where's Robin? In the book. Of course he's in a book. Shader, you're back with us. I am. I'm still trying to get my head wrapped around it in a book so yeah, I'm back. You were in a book. I wasn't in a book. I'm trying to figure out why he's gone in a book. Shader on the table. Robin opened the book. Book swallowed Robin. Shader woke up. You woke up. This is where we're at.
00:14:33
Speaker
I don't have a clue what is going on and I'm getting angry about it. I'll walk over to the book that Robert... Don't open the book! And I open the book.
00:14:50
Speaker
page is the first one you open up you flinch thinking maybe the same thing will happen to you nothing's there it's a blank page you turn blank next page blank blank blank but then in the middle of the book the central kind of spine of it you open up you see scrawled across both sides of the double sheet of it when the kingdoms crumble Grazad shall return Grazad G R A Z apostrophe Z T Trevor what do you see nothing just and I hold a book
00:15:21
Speaker
references the kingdoms that they talked, that they, um, Halia? Halia? Halia, thank you Talia. Thank you. Uh, I'd like to search, uh, are we okay to search the room? Are you, do you feel well enough for us to take him up to search the room? Yeah, you gotta do what you gotta do. I'm gonna search the room please. Okay, can you get him a station check please? Am I helping? I've got 14.
00:15:44
Speaker
14, lovely. Throughout the book there's lots of these tones that are written, many of them very old, written in these languages you can't even really seem to discern as you search through them. You do come across on the far right side of it, quite close to the end, kind of propped up against all this stick that seems to just draw you towards it ever so slightly, albeit let's call that a rod, you'd recognise that as a rod. But is it made of metal or wood? It's made of wood.
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Speaker
Aside from that, you don't really know its properties or what it can really do, but it is a rod that you would recognize that normally has some capabilities at the moment. Can I make an arcana check? Can I indeed? 17. Okay, yeah, it's fine. You have found the rod of the pack.
00:16:35
Speaker
look up and you've also managed to come across in the kind of stacked up on site surrounded by dust like this hasn't been touched in years it seems a stack of about 18 gold coins
00:17:08
Speaker
He was still in concert with his agent. My internal monologue, how come what? Yeah, Muha is just going, Muha ha ha ha ha. Where Eric has disappeared, is there, like, his robes on the floor, or is it just his body dissipated? Drago would have recognised it very similarly to the way in which that being the simulacrum kind of just disappeared on the island. It was like that. It was a more kind of spectacular kind of death, if you will, destruction of it, of this figure. But it's done the same kind of thing. It's kind of almost dissipated into nothing.
00:17:25
Speaker
My Mad Plan by Eric Hester-Lunatic.
00:17:38
Speaker
and fallen from this room, from this round, so to speak. Okay, well I closed the book that I'm holding, that Robin's a part of, and I put it in my bag on the side.
00:17:48
Speaker
Do I have a satchel? Yeah, I do have a satchel. Thanks for reminding me. It must be empty. I put the book in my satchel and I kind of tapped the book. We've got you Robin. That's fine for now. You're fine. For all intents and purposes, Robin is our book. That's Jago's train of thought right now. Our friend is a book. That's it.
00:18:12
Speaker
Does he have the writing on it? Oh, I might have been that thought in your head, come on.
Exploring the Ruins and Planning
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Speaker
Drago takes the book out. Do a little sketch to the blank pages. Just draw a big dick on me. Fine. Drago draws a crude penis on one of the pages. Who studies it for a minute? Does the text kind of seep in or does it stay on the text? The text, the penis.
00:18:41
Speaker
Yeah, it's not Harry Potter book. It just does stay on the page. It does stay on the page and the ink slowly dries. That's what I was just thinking, that Harry Potter don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. So I re-close it and put it in my bag and I'll go to Shader. So Robbie's a book. And you look like a hippo. I'm worse for wear. We should get back to Helio. Tell him that we've defeated Eric Cass. I think we should.
00:19:05
Speaker
We have an hour, maybe an hour, yeah we can wait now. Shader needs to acclimatise. I'm fine, I don't, I'm fine, but I think you guys need to rest. I don't mind going back to the boat with Hayley, what about you Shader?
00:19:23
Speaker
And she just hits the table, pulls up the chunk off and starts to create bonfire on the floor and starts her little father. She says thanks, we're just happy that she can do that spell now. And starts studying her father's book of spells. I think we should fill J-9 with the goings on since you're absent. We'll take the short rest then.
00:19:42
Speaker
So yeah, we kind of settle down onto the floor, leaning against the table, leaning against the sides. It's really quiet in the space now that everything's been killed. You settle down and start kind of bandaging up your wounds.
00:19:58
Speaker
Wounds are licking, I'm not a dog. You just think I'm sitting in the corner licking the wounds that's just happening. I like to think that he's quite more foolhardy than that, just gets bandages out maybe. Like you know how in The Last of Us, one bandage on your arm cures all the wounds. I think it's kind of like that. What's going on? Are there any books that look, so obviously I've had a quick glance
00:20:39
Speaker
possibly there is a book that describes a series of religions that might be of interest the religions before the Unmending by Sir Eitwick and then L-O-R-C-A-N-E you got anything interesting? a book on religions
00:21:06
Speaker
Not for you, maybe. Shader, you don't remember anything. You have no notion of where you are, where you were. No. No, I remember all of us walking along an island. Next thing was blackness. A lot of information. Or at once. And then waking up, staring at the ceiling.
00:21:35
Speaker
Yeah, just Eric has a person who seems to have kidnapped me and you guys are taken care of. You're welcome, by the way. I haven't heard you say thank you yet, so I'm just telling you you don't need to. You're welcome. Good. We saved you. Again. Again? We always save you. Save for you, Elthea. You're welcome as well. Thanks. Again. I'm pretty sure we've saved each other, so it's one of those things.
00:22:06
Speaker
It seems that you're quite the hero, Drago. Some people say that. Is it me or is his head getting bigger? It's pretty big out. I'm a dragon, but I'm a pretty big head.
00:22:19
Speaker
book yeah do I recognize any so I'm looking for similar symbols to the religions and gods of your realm of our world because basically I'm just don't see because if he knows him that's fine yeah if he doesn't he's gonna be a bit guess he's gonna his continuing thought process that I will continue with what he's thinking yeah you kind of thumbs through the
00:22:44
Speaker
of religions that don't recognise the symbols are totally different to anything you've seen. You pen all the way to the back and even then, none of these names, none of these gods, none of these stories are reminding you of anything that you've ever heard of before. The stories feel similar, you know, good, triumphant, over evil. But there's no corresponding symbol that's transparently okay?
00:23:11
Speaker
I think a bit more about that. We'll be allowed to travel out of every long rest. I'll show you how you're doing. No, I'm fine. I'll do you. I'm feeling better. This book's... I need to shut it more. Tallyo. Hmm? Everyone ready to leave? Oh, yes. We should go and investigate that door. Maybe you can kick it in for us. Which door is this? The door that Robin and I couldn't open.
00:23:35
Speaker
i can help okay it needs your talent you walk out of the room and take a left to show up left and you see a well trodden corridor with scuff marks where you've been trying to break into this lock uh you see an iron door in front of you would you like to try and kick it in yes okay could you give me a strength check please i certainly can everyone watches how is a 18 you absolutely thought
00:24:04
Speaker
It has a DC of like 26, but I was trying my luckiest at the last time. Ridiculous. It's a fucking iron door. Hit it with your sword. You know, doors aren't, I mean, anyone got a lock pick? I can try and pick the lock again. Talia, have you got
00:24:37
Speaker
Shada, do you have a key on you by chance? No. You didn't slip it into your pocket. He will actually pat himself down. He's a good place to hide him. I'm pretty sure he pat himself down. He doesn't find anything. He does, however, find a potion of hill giant strength that he actually forgot that he had. But we could have used this on a door. Why the hell not? Why not?
00:25:06
Speaker
You're just so disappointed. Can't we just take Shader, hold him like the toys do? I mean I'm pretty sure if you hit the door enough times it'll break. You could do a strike check and help him. You can hit it together. You're both strong. Kick it together. Go on then, we'll get that. Have an advantage. Let's just see if we can do it together. You want me to roll?
00:25:32
Speaker
We're going to count at three, and nod, and run at it, and shoulder it together. With the dwarf and dragonborn. You can take the top half, I'll take the bottom half. Right, okay, I like it. Let's go for it. No! That's an eight. Roll again.
00:25:52
Speaker
And that is a seven. So less than I had my first time. Both of you, comedically, as you run down the corridor, running down, boom, you both jump off, landing, gallop on top of each other in a pile. This door is not budging. I hate this door. That's the reason why I didn't try and open it the first time around.
00:26:12
Speaker
Can we just try attacking it? Because she'll be able to break things. I think, out there, this door is closed. This is a door that does not want to be open. Do you have any other ideas that does not involve kicking, shoving, getting my sword into it? Can I look through the keyhole? Oh my god. Can I see through the keyhole? You can.
00:26:29
Speaker
I wish to shadow step into the room. Okay, shadow step into the room. Where the fuck has me gone? Why is everybody getting sucked into the room? And then do you see shadow that they just disappeared? Yeah, and going from the other side, you're in an empty room that happens to have on one side a mirror that has, it's just there on the side of the wall, a large, large mirror. Can I unlock the door from the inside? You cannot unlock the door from the inside. I fear if you are a door now,
00:26:57
Speaker
Can you tell us? Cos I've already got a friend in a book. What's going on? I'm not... I'm in the room. He's in the room. No, he's not the door. I am the door. Are you the door? No, there's a mirror in here. OK. Shall I touch the mirror? Open the damn door. Can I... Is it easy to open from the inside? No, it's the same, it's just got a lock on it. Hang on, can I push it? Maybe it's open from the other way.
00:27:30
Speaker
What happens when you look in the mirror? I don't know. Try. I'll look in the mirror. You look into the mirror and what appears in front of you is your reflection. That for a second is just your reflection before then it starts to move on its own volition. It steps out. If you know it's you within the mirror, I'm looking back at you.
00:27:51
Speaker
Okay. Does it feel any- is it going anywhere? It's just staring directly at you, waiting. Are you me? I'm a part of you. The mirror responds. Interesting. Very. It responds. This is probably the best conversation I'm going to have. In quite a while.
00:28:16
Speaker
Can we hear that? Can I listen into the keyhole and see if I can... He gets asked me three things about this space. He gets to ask him three things and turn to you. I just nod. Why is the mirror here? That's a shit question!
00:28:39
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to help people like you who are coming here. Eric has just been using me for other means, but that's my main purpose. You better go to the door. All right then, Drago, what question should I ask? How do we get our friend out of a book? Our friend's trapped in a book. How do we get him out? That's a very good question. What would I do not have the answer to? As I mentioned, I'm just about the best. It's in the room. See, Drago, you see?
00:29:05
Speaker
Sorry. Oh, that's important. This is the final question, Shader. You got any ideas? She's got one question. Aside from trying to acquire more questions. No, no, that never works. Everyone always tries that. It never seems to work. If people do ask that, I do cast Fireball note.
00:29:28
Speaker
Can I quickly search the room for the key to the door? Yeah, you can have a look. Ask him how to open the door. There's nothing else around. It's just an empty empty room. Ask him what Eric has wanted.
00:29:43
Speaker
Ask him if Ericas is dead. He gets annoying, doesn't he? Ask him to open the door. What was Ericas doing? Ericas? He was attempting in some way or another to summon some sort of demon. He's tried it once before on Traitor's Bay. Failed miserably, you see. And now this was his second attempt to try and do it. He needed a living corpse. He needed your friend to be that corpse for him. Unfortunately, he didn't get to the end of his incantation in time. And the first time was when? Traitor's Bay.
00:30:11
Speaker
Unfortunately, you work with some rather shady folk, if you get my saying, and you accidentally summoned a pack of rabid wolves instead. You were those shady folk. That's another question, unfortunately. I got four out of you. I tried to get another. You tried. It was good. I may take your fourth question. Technically, it was a repeat of a previously asked question, and that's why I let you have it. Just as that's kind of ending,
00:30:35
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One face drops from its rather jovial version of the outfit
Preparing to Leave the Island
00:30:38
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to a more serious and he looks down for a second and the face then starts to warp and shift and change almost like when you're switching between two analog TV channels and kind of moves across and suddenly you see a face that you recognise but you're not really sure where you recognise this face from.
00:30:54
Speaker
And he just says, I wanted you to experience that. There are things in shadows. I wanted you to see what shadows could do, because I hope you will be able to use the shadows yourself one day. Cloak yourself in it, become part of it. You will work in the darkness, as so many of us do, to serve the light. And then the face just disappears, and it's just a regular mirror. And all you can see is your actual true reflection looking back at you. And the door does just...
00:31:25
Speaker
I'm going to keep going. I'm going to open a full fan. If you open it, yeah, I'm pushed up against it. So I'm going to open to step the size. Yeah, okay. I need to take two points of four. No, don't fall. You just kind of tumble through the door. Look around, you can't just see this mirror in an empty room with cobwebs in the corners. I stand in front of the mirror. I... You see yourself. Damn it. Well, that was interesting. I wanted to talk to myself. Some say you do all the time. Anyway, we should get out of here.
00:31:54
Speaker
This place is freaky. What did that last bit mean? I think I understood it. You're going to work in the shadows. Well, you can see what I do with shadows. They keep your secrets until they start sampling off down the path. I guess we follow. Yeah, we should probably not let her wander alone. We went through one set of rules to find the beholder. We didn't go through the other set unless you wanted to move on.
00:32:18
Speaker
You wouldn't ignore it. There was another door. With a DC of 30. If you want to try, there is another door there. If you want to try, you're more than welcome to. If you want us to. It's up to you. It's your call. It's yours. Come on Robin. I pat my satchel and I walk after something. I like Robin as a cloak. I like it. I heard he answered when we wrote it. This is a star. How are you?
00:32:40
Speaker
four yourself back past the bodies of these zombie beholders, past the stench of ruin. You bring yourself into the cave where you start to bring yourself up and up and up and into a morning light that you can now see. You realise now it's been a bit of time, been down and about fighting and the morning has just broken the time in which you said you'd meet Helia in the cove. Should we go meet with Helia? She'll be, wasn't it the next day? Wasn't it?
00:33:08
Speaker
Yeah, hopefully she'll be. We will wait for her or she should be there for us. Well, we don't know what's happened to the island since we killed Eraqas. We might have helped it. Right, so you start making your way down this long, winding, thin, etched-out path that's always been cut by humans, I mentioned last time. Oh, possession. Please, actually, I've got you. Down, down and down until you start to come to a...
00:33:28
Speaker
It starts to come to the clearing, the grass starts to open up slightly. You do see a boat that's been pulled up, which is Hayley's boat. You notice the other end of the design of it. You see Hayley stood there. But right next to her, finally, took a buck and a while, is this unknown figure that stood next to her with an axe out, held to her throat. Danny, would you like to describe what they see?
00:33:50
Speaker
You see a hunched back human, sort of a gormless vacant expression. A pale white skin and a bald head with a black beard that's sort of graying. It's got bits of sand and seaweed stuck in. The body is covered in scarring wounds or the bits of flesh that you can see. He's got a lazy eye and he's wearing a rusty thick metal plate of armour with a black tabbard which has a white star on top of it. And Hayley's there like
00:34:16
Speaker
I told you it was the birds! Drag it with Joseph's sword. Oi!
00:34:22
Speaker
What do you think you're doing? Hello. Don't hello me. Get your axe away from her throat. And I'm walking towards you. Are you Ericas? No. We just killed Ericas. Get your blade away from her throat. This was the people I was talking about. The same as me. The people that I said were looking for Ericas. I'm talking you to them. I have. I don't understand. Are you Ericas again? Ericas is dead. Ericas is dead. Yeah. Oh, the master will be happy.
00:34:52
Speaker
Blade, put your blade away. I have an axe, I'll put the axe down. I think that's fine. So you're not Eric Ass? No. Surprisingly not, no, he's dead. Have you got his head? No, his body disappeared. Who are you? I've come to kill Eric Ass.
00:35:22
Speaker
Have you got any proof of his death? Our friend's in a book. That sounds lovely. I can't read.
00:35:32
Speaker
but perhaps we can read it for now I need to see his body to remove his head and sprinkle my magic water on him okay that sounds sadistic weird sexual whatever but he is dead like his body literally vanished when I killed him I think this is a trick and I lift my axe back up to the girl oh okay okay hey I tell you what put the axe down
00:36:01
Speaker
We'll go and show you where Eraqas is... died. slain. Yeah. Okay. Okay, just put the axe down.
00:36:17
Speaker
What do I see? Tarja is a small ginger girl with a very large book in a pouch and she seems to want her right hand at this time is glowing with kind of fire and she's kind of got a spell prepped almost the same way that all these characters have their kind of their hands on their weapon so to speak. You see a dragonborn?
00:36:37
Speaker
So you see Dragonborn Strago, he's a silver dragon. He's about seven and a half feet tall. Built, muscular built. He looks like he's ready for combat at all times. It's like Mark says, you see this massive greatsword in between my hands.
00:36:53
Speaker
It slightly has a shimmer and a glow towards it. It doesn't wear any armour. He's just got some kind of combat shorts on. Other than that, he's better chested, he's got a satchel on. And yeah, he's kind of that silverish appearance, but he's got these blue veins that kind of extend through his body from his arms all the way up through to his neck. And as you look up towards his neck,
00:37:15
Speaker
You see that the blue becomes deeper, like he's ready to unleash any icy, icy breath at any point, and he is staring fury into you. Hard eyes, straight at you, not blinking, not moving, ready to kill you. Just after I go, right shoulder behind him, back a few steps, you see a large, slim elf, um, elf he looks described. So you see, elf there, who's mouth.
00:37:39
Speaker
a foot and a bit shorter than Drago he's quite he's very live for an elf he's wearing simple brown clothes just normal traveling clothes he has a staff along with a bow and some daggers but he doesn't seem to be he's not wearing any armor and he appears to be incredibly relaxed but his his fists have this sort of there's almost almost a shimmer of of there's flicking sort of shadows around his fists and he stood there looking completely
00:38:09
Speaker
And then you look into his eyes and the eyes are incredibly dark, incredibly dark. They're almost like little bottomless wells in his face at this time. Lovely, thank you very much. And then almost off to his right shoulder, you see two figures, one of them being Talia, this young ginger girl who's wearing just a basic traveler's kick clothing really with a green shawl over it, a white shawl underneath, and kind of traveling shoes and boots really, and this large book that she has in a prime spell on her hand.
00:38:39
Speaker
From Dan, the hype team, further, we see Shader, the dwarf, let's just describe what they see. The shortest member of the group is basically a four-foot-nothing dwarf. He's just wearing some simple kind of light armour, nothing too heavy for him, he does like his winning ability. But what's very disturbing, he's got a very bold red cloak fastened by a golden button just at the front of it there. He's got a shield in his left hand and a black axe.
00:39:08
Speaker
in his right which he's given off. You can clearly see even in the daytime it's like shards of lightning that are coming away from both the axe and from Shailard's hands at the same time. And then the woman that you're currently kind of holding up so to speak again is wearing very simply simple clothing. She's got a nice thick and kind of almost wax and brown poncho thing which rests over her shoulders and a matching kind of hood that she found you in.
00:39:35
Speaker
Underneath that, she's the collection of kind of brown clothing. She's a simple person wearing relatively simple clothes, really. A mixture of grays and browns and some black boots as well. And her hair is kind of tied back, tight brown here. I'm going to give you one more chance. Put your axe down. I told you I'd bring you here. I did bring you here. So I'm going to look at you, shade up, and say, highlight your pet.
00:40:02
Speaker
No, I know. Oh, you mean it. Oh, you mean the dragon. I like him. I'm entirely going to put the hand over it. I wouldn't say that if I knew you. You just call me Bet. I don't know. You have a final, and I'm getting closer each time. Sit, sit. Trying to make you talk so I can get close enough to strike. I've heard of these lizards before, but they're only like this snake, but this one.
00:40:26
Speaker
Listen he's quite old I rage and move as close as I can for combat and Final time human and my blade is out in front and I'm going to strike unless anything happens Oh
00:40:48
Speaker
What the response really is? I just stand there and you'll watch as my axe leaves my hand and a flash of like golden light shines through it and it sort of floats on its own in front of me and forms a barrier. I strike down this axe. Okay, I don't know what really happens when you strike that kind of weapon down.
00:41:15
Speaker
What is it that you can't ask? What is that? Is that, um... That'd be a spiritual weapon. Yeah, I thought so. Yeah. Now the blade's away from Black Magic, Halya. So there's no longer a blade at Halya's... No, there isn't. Excellent. So I'm going to sort of go round from Dravid right to his left, because I assume Halya's on this side, and that goes there. Yep. So that I can move Halya away. Individual. Okay, roll to hit, please. This spiritual weapon. Oh! Shit!
00:41:43
Speaker
Natural one. That's a natural one. Can you roll another, uh, 20? 13. Okay, that's fine. As you, as, as you there and you see this weapon kind of float again in front of you, you try to swing at it. The blade just kind of shifts its position. So even if you wanted to hit it, you know what happened. If you did, but it just misses you're going to draw it. It's always kind of stuck in the sand for a second. As you draw it back out of the sand, you stand there looking back at it. Perhaps we could all just.
00:42:09
Speaker
calm ourselves. It appears we were all here in a common purpose. He was here to kill Eraqas. We've killed Eraqas. Yes, but he also held a blade at our colony. You know what I mean? He's not done it anymore though, so that's... I'll hold a blade to your throat and see how you like it. What are you doing here? I... well, I forgot. No, wait. Your master sent you to kill Eraqas and sprinkle water on it. He's dead. Do you know he can't know the master? He can't know the master. Why is your lizard speaking?
00:42:39
Speaker
I'm going to have to walk away for a bit because I'm going to be here this man. I won't be intimidated. I don't know how to be intimidated. I'm... no. This isn't intimidation. This is fact. He's not a lizard. He's a dragon ball. He's a dragon. Yes. He's a dragon. But he's tiny. I thought dragons were huge. What swallowed cities and... No, dragons aren't that big. I'm going to headache.
00:43:12
Speaker
Formerly, Sir Coldheart, the Royal Executioner of Sleep Guard, but then the law changed and I'm not too sure, but I can't do my that job anymore, so I'm here trying to find Eric.
00:43:39
Speaker
You just said something about knowing Ericas is dead. Well, we believe he's dead, yes. We've got some of his books. You hear a small voice. I can't believe it. But they're his books. The books we took from Ericas. But I can't. I don't know. I need his
Claude's Motivations Revealed
00:43:56
Speaker
head. OK. There wasn't no head. Claude, we killed Ericas and he dissipated into nothing. I have nothing to help you here. What proof do you need?
00:44:09
Speaker
I need his head or his body. How about our word? Where are you going to once you kill him? You just tried to attack me with your shiny sword. And I will attack you again very, very soon. I don't think you will. You didn't do very good just then. So I'm going to just walk over to Drago and we go back to the claw and just, we're going to Drago going, could we not just get one of the heads from that room, have the dead bodies in and just give him that?
00:44:37
Speaker
Well, that's how I'm feeling right now. Well, that's great, that's great. Claude, tell us why we should keep you alive. I'm trying to go get a head.
00:44:44
Speaker
It's very interesting to see now, from your perspective, you see this tall, slim creature who just sit and talk to the lizard man. He just kind of nods, drago says about, give him his own head, and then you see the thinly tall one just kind of walk off into where you assume Eric has. Okay. I'll turn to Talia and ask, you're from our three islands, right? Me? No. What? You're not from me, right?
00:45:13
Speaker
I'm not. You're funny looking. What about you, the other person's name? Helia. Helia. You're all a Srinroy. I am, yes. Well, what are many dragon bunnies round here? Little lizard men? What, think they're dragons? You think if I know enough about Drago, you don't call him a little lizard man. He thinks about a dragon. Drago. Drago. I mean, he's not a dragon. No, he is a dragon. Oh, I can show you how many of a dragon I am.
00:45:37
Speaker
We've not seen Rene and Ozeran for quite some time, nor in Sligard, which is probably why you don't know of them. But there are some of them, you know, we have heard of them, we have stories. Have you ever been to the Sanguine Lands? They've got all these books on it. I never. No, you don't read, do you, of course. Oh, this is pointless. Claude, are you from Austrian islands? No, it's disgusting. Hey, it's my own land you're talking about. So your plan was to come here?
00:46:12
Speaker
back to work. Where's work? Well, I move around quite a lot for work. Sometimes it's in, oh, I forget the names of the places. Oh my God. I put it as an elf here has come back round down the steps. The, the elven figures have reappeared, um, carrying what looks like some kind of weird hemp sack, uh, with, um, I don't know. There you go. Here's his head. What? Thank you tall human. Elf here. He's an elf.
00:46:44
Speaker
What's that? We've seen them too. I don't know if I... It's fine. You get it a lot probably. Yeah, probably it's fine. There's his head. I just found a look. Inside you see the head and kind of the missing jaw of this head that has kind of no eyes but the flesh is still kind of rotting
00:47:07
Speaker
the face is kind of a light, kind of pale, pale other than living kind of looking face but still has kind of flesh on it.
00:47:16
Speaker
One moment please. And I'll walk a bit up the beach or the cove with my axe sort of still burying me in case anything approaches and I'm going to hold up the head and speak to my amulet and ask in abyssal if this is the head of Eretas. Okay. As you speak those words into the amulet, the amulet just doesn't say or make a
00:47:48
Speaker
Do we see and hear this you've moved further down? Can you make perception checks? Jesus natural one natural one you don't natural one you don't 19 thank God here him making tongues. You don't speak draconic. Do you he's booked? I see but I might have heard it before but it just basically sounds like a horrible language. Yeah
00:48:15
Speaker
You do have those and you see him look down for a second. He holds the head up. You do see this and you're not sure what he's being said. You can see he's holding something. What do you lfi see? He's talking in a... It's a language. I don't know. I've heard of it. It's not the language most people speak. Excuse me. Yeah?
00:48:44
Speaker
I would like it if you brought me his real head. Well worth trying. I'll have you know you've not convinced me that you're not his followers of Veracast and I will probably harm you if you don't give me some true answer. Okay, that's all I needed. I drag and breath at him. I'm going to...
00:49:04
Speaker
Use my dragon fear on you I can expend the use of my breath to roar forcing each creature of your choice I can hear you. Sorry guys. You're all gonna have to you get to change Oh all on you my friend Claude cloud to make a wisdom saving throw DC is 13
00:49:25
Speaker
Natural one. Natural one. Okay, you are frightened of me for a minute or until you take any damage. So you can't then obviously move towards me anyway here before we move away. Just try and hit me now. This is, um, I've just roared the shit out of, out of my breath because you've really, really pissed me off. Your rage has subsided as well. You did say you... Yeah, I did rage. Excuse me. Thank you. I need to turn around. You see my spiritual axe is right behind you.
00:49:54
Speaker
You better run, cos I'm going to kill you. Called perhaps, perhaps we can... Yeah, the axe will probably make an attack. Brilliant. Since I've been here. Can you attack me if you've... Can you attack me if you've burned? Is it me that's doing the attacking? I guess I am ordering this new weapon. Well, that won't be fair. He's got disadvantage on his attack rolls and can't approach it. There's no reason why the weapon can't. I'll roll to it, please.
00:50:24
Speaker
We won't put this in an initiative or a gist yet. It depends how things go. If he does attack, I'm probably going to weigh in. Sorry, no. I'll punch you, driver. Also, Danny, you've got a point of exhaustion. I should have mentioned it. That's for a bit, but if it checks saves, then I've got a natural one anyway. And I've never loved a point of exhaustion. A natural 20 on the...
00:50:50
Speaker
We've had it so, um, we'll bring damage. That will hit. And, yes, I assumed it would. That will hit so bad. We'll damage and... I'd appreciate it. There you go. Thanks mate. Uh, 12 points... normal damage, but 17 points of psychic damage. Of force damage. It's 12 out of 17. Force points, yeah. Force points. How much in total? 17. 17. Okay, cool.
00:51:15
Speaker
the sword just on its own, and it just cuts through, not deeply, but cuts through a decent substantial bit of your chest, and you're almost unsuspecting that as it roars, your chest has been exposed open, as the axe almost, as you roar, cuts through you. Nothing's going to sign to himself.
00:51:33
Speaker
I'm going to respond by charging you down and blade over my head. Just before you do that, after that move, can you make a constitution saving throw for me please?
00:51:48
Speaker
You've heard this massive glottal, ice-filled roar fly out of this creature that you've never seen before. You instantly take steps back. You command your spiritual weapon to attack him. It does a decent cut across him. But as that happens, the white haze that you've already been kind of battling through this time subsides and overtakes you. And you just, your eyes kind of roll back in your head and you just fall in a clump on the ground. Still breathing, but you've just kind of fallen into it.
00:52:21
Speaker
Can I ask for everyone to leave except Claude? Hey, Daddy. Hey. Welcome to the game. Thanks, man. So this white haze that's been, it's just exhaustion, lack of food, everything else like that. It's nothing particularly negative, but you're in this place and something weird happens whilst you're not really, not really with it when you're unconscious. You see a series of visions that kind of come into your mind.
00:52:48
Speaker
You see a sword rest on your shoulder. You stand to applause and to a smiling friend that pats you on the back. It's a grey beard with strong shoulders. He nods his head. His expression morphs into us from a smile to a cold, knowing nod. The world melts and you're in the rain, axe in hand.
00:53:07
Speaker
with a sobbing man tied to a block at your feet. You swing the axe, it floods into the ground. You look down and see leaves and mulch of the shadow-viewed forest surrounding you. You peer through the trees, you smile. These forests you know quite well, reminding you of a simpler time and a better time. Through the trees you see a face, cold, nebulous with the green eyes that are staring out black.
00:53:35
Speaker
creature standing now, standing towering over the forest engulfed in shadow, tall and thin, with these black horns protruding from its skull. In an instant it turns its head, and stares at you. You hear something distant at first, and then it slowly becomes a cacophony of the screaming in your head, which kind of reverberates dying into your very soul.
00:54:01
Speaker
to fight. Down near and it's warming, being a comfort chair, you're a knock at the door, a letter arrives, your eyes filled with tears, sadness surrounds you, purposelessness you pace the room, anger fills your being, then sorrow, then defeat, you follow a caravan to blickmaw, you lead a lord to gold view, you intimidate a man in black mouth, the rain pours,
00:54:25
Speaker
You see drink, a tavern, warmth, security, more drink, a floor, a kick to wake. Then you see the face of a dragonborn. You now know what a dragonborn kind of is. You've seen one before, but you see a different one, different colour, staring at you, panting. Leave now, I was mistaken. Our face disappears. High haven, guard duty.
00:54:52
Speaker
And you're waiting. And waiting. And waiting. You follow a path. You're a click. In the woods. Your faces jump out from the leaves. Undead. Screaming. Gasping. Thousands of them swarming. You're dragging. Dragging. You're clawing. Clawing and falling. Down. Down. Down into darkness.
00:55:15
Speaker
You see a settlement burning. Screams of those inside. Creatures attack, two creatures slaughtering. A young girl with blond hair stares through the ash, wooden sword in hand, defiance in her eye. She sprints off. You see a black swirling cloud of shadow grow and grow and grow until it encompasses your vision. A familiar stone, falling rain. Purpose returned. You awake on hard stone floor.
00:56:00
Speaker
This sword strikes Drago in an instant.
00:56:08
Speaker
You're about to kind of jump for it when suddenly you see Claude's eyes roll back in his head. It just seems to just collapse onto the floor. Okay, I'd rush over to him. Okay, he's still breathing. He's still... I would just search the body. Okay.
00:56:22
Speaker
I take his head off his body and give that to him because that's what he's after this whole time now. Maybe it's just a misunderstanding. I need him. Okay, and then you just watch Drago storm off and kind of take a breather. Danny, what does he find on Claude's body? Are you looking anywhere in specifics? I'm looking at Claude's. Can you roll an investigation for me as well, please? And the image you just create with your hand is more like you were taking fun of him. So my investigation check is 22.
00:56:53
Speaker
I'm going to have the entire list of my three. Maybe we'll assume you've got your regular kind of character stuff you'll have. You've got your 50 gold. And actually you've got about 17 gold on you. You've got your annular. So I'm not actually taking it. I'm actually looking for identification things. I don't need to tell me everything. It's just so I'm aware of what you've got. Healthy is not literally looting your court. He's actually searching for anything that actually tells us
00:57:23
Speaker
Okay, so on the satchel that you find, you've got a series of spent rations and empty water skins. There's a shield that was on my back underneath a cloak. Does it again have the star symbol on? Shields just wouldn't. Okay. Yeah, you see the amulet around my neck, a massive pouch of components, the mail itself that I'm wearing, the tabards that you saw on the front.
00:57:51
Speaker
It doesn't appear to be anything, really. A couple of, well, a document of registration. What does that say on it? What's that registering you as? This has happened. The Academy stuff. Yeah. So it's an official letter from the Hailstorm Academy that says I am a student in training. Okay.
00:58:21
Speaker
and as well as that you find a notebook with scribbles on it that looks loosely like writing but it would take a while for me to yeah no no you could you can see it's common just everything is very badly spelt they're like some of the kids and a little pouch of bird feet the heraldry on your tunings does that look old and warm or is it new it's pretty neat okay
00:58:49
Speaker
I just wanna know where it is. And I make sure he's not lying, like he's been drowning the surf. She's checking, checking he's not lying there.
00:58:57
Speaker
with his face just like drowning in this wet sand, maybe. I assume his weapon's formed at the floor as well. I've seen that has, yeah, I guess it's no longer. Yeah, it's a different version. That's what I was hoping it would have been on the floor. Should we go up to the sword? Should we go up to the axe? I was interested. If we go to the axe, it looks like your standard run-the-mill axe. There's nothing particularly special about it. The effect that seemed to have been holding it previously has dissipated and disappeared as Claude fell.
00:59:31
Speaker
I'm still going to pick it up, I'm going to put my shield back on my back and the actors are just going to be in my left hand. Okay. Elliot, where did you find this man? I went to the place I told you I'd go, the little alley crop round the back to stay clear of all this fuckery that was happening here. And there was a bit of a storm last night over the cold gulf and this man just appeared on the island, strangled
00:59:55
Speaker
from the edges I agreed to him I said hello there are you doing you seem to be in trouble and he just told me in no intense in certain terms he had his axe out and said you take me to the full halt I need to find Eric ass do it and I said was a stupid fucking time to do it now it's the middle of the night it's raining it's a
01:00:21
Speaker
Yes, I offered him food and water, he didn't take any. In the morning came, the storm subsided and I, you know, got my boat and he travelled over there. And, well, that was it really. Then we appeared and then he just, he had some tinkling rocks fall in, thought it was a trap and then his axe was out, then you lot appeared. So I really know. Well, he doesn't look, did you give him his dues? He looks like a sleep guardian. Now, so hit the symbol on his chest, that ringing bell for you? It's the academy, yes.
01:00:54
Speaker
I know a little bit about that. Sleepguard, that's the, is that the mainland? Just to the south, yeah past the cold gulf. Two days, two days sailing.
01:01:07
Speaker
I guess, I mean, we defeated, as far as we're aware, Eric has. His body did disappear, so he could be alive, he could have used magics to escape, or he could be dead, as we've said, but this person is clearly, do you want him on your boat, or will we leave him behind? I mean, he doesn't seem like a, he just seems a bit dim. He doesn't seem like a bad person. He's nice, but dim. I mean, he just wanted to do what he,
01:01:34
Speaker
We're told what the master is told them to do. I don't know what this master is. I don't know what this sounds like. So is it best, could you take us to the mainland from here? Or do you want to go back to the Alderman Islands and see what's happened there? I'm not going back there again. I mean, I can if you want. Well, no, it's up to you. Well, because you wanted us to defeat Erica to see whether it would return the people of the island. It's whether you want to go back. I'm fine with anything, really. I'm not ever going to step back on the island. Nothing. They won't be the same again. I can take you back there if you'd like. I'm happy to take you to mainland. I'm happy to take you to...
01:02:03
Speaker
for me to get to the mainland just to work out where we are. Because I haven't heard none of these places so far and I'd like to know where we are. I'm interested in this Academy. Hailstorm Academy. From the look to it, I think it's some kind of Magic Magicians Academy. It's a name that sounds familiar. It rings something in my head from, well, a while ago now. What do you mean a while ago? I think when you were
01:02:28
Speaker
way back when with Bell practice. There was something that was whispered to me in a dream. Oh. Find the hailstorm surge. The name is far too coincidental to just ignore. It's certainly a place that would derive. To this point, there are things we need to find. Okay. I know that name, the surge. The fight, the undead. Yes, the Emberscar Blight, they fight the undead, the hailstorm surge.
01:02:57
Speaker
I have no relation, I have no inclination to who or what that actually is. They're one of the armies of the sleepguard empire. They're one of the armies. Oh, so the sleepguard's the ten kingdoms together, isn't it? No, that's one of them. Oh, so sleepguard's one of the kingdoms? Yes. Okay. We call them kingdoms, yeah. We'll explain, yeah, so each of the kingdoms, I know the realm is as a whole, the kingdoms are separate. Okay, that's fine. So sleepguard's the whole realm? No.
01:03:20
Speaker
No, one of the kingdoms. Fire of the Stone is the whole realm and there are 11 separate kingdoms that you have heard of. I thought there were 10 and then the 11th is the Blight because they didn't want it to be actual kingdom. So 11 and the 12th. Oh the 12th, so there are 11 kingdoms and the 12th is the Blight.
01:03:39
Speaker
Claude does the story and Claude does then kind of come to and just kind of really wait for your incredible, you don't really have the power to kind of stand up the energy that you had in all the adrenaline's kind of worn off you now. I help Claude sit up. Do you have any food? Yes. Now I have some food. Get out some rations. So perhaps we could start things off better than we just did. That would be nice. So it's the little dragon going to attack. Right.
01:04:07
Speaker
Don't call him little. I'm away. He isn't trying to get bored. I could go into a lot of detail about how Dragonborn knows. Probably won't remember them. No, you're probably not. Don't call him a dragon. Don't call him a little. Just call him Drago. Dragan. Or Drago. Or Drago. Ignore the dwarf. There's just one letter less.
01:04:37
Speaker
Big dragon, he might like it. Little dragon, he might get a bit angry about... Big dragon sounds like a porn name. Big dragon. I'm starring big dragon. Enter your hole, starring big dragon. Okay. This is gonna confuse me. So, well, I think a lot of things confuse you, don't they? No. Lots of things I do know about and I tend to know them.
01:05:13
Speaker
Shado has also been feeling very intellectual around this person. So, right, as far as we know, Eric has his body disappeared, so there's no head to give you. What did you give me just then? That's just the head I found, because I figured it would shut you up. I'm sorry. I'm very rude. I'm sorry. You were being rude as well, to be fair. There was a bit of miscommunication on all sides.
01:05:40
Speaker
Yeah, dragon skills. Dragon skills, yeah. Elf and ear skills. Okay, let's not get too racist. You said your name was Elf-ear. Yes. Elf-ear. Elf-ear. Elf-ear. No, elf. T-H. Not fun. You need a drink.
01:06:00
Speaker
As this continues. I love this new character. For those that don't know this, when we started our first arc of this campaign, we had these exact conversations with these exact characters in the second episode. We figured out Drago sounds like dragon elf. It sounds like elf ear. And I love that it's all come full circle and it's all coming out again. As the air seems to be, the tension in the air apart from Drago seems to dissipate slightly, Hayley gets a bit impatient and she starts kind of prepping her boat.
01:06:30
Speaker
and kind of getting stuff all ready for it. Our friend's going to take us to the main line. Do you want to come with us and maybe we can... I need to make sure that Eric Ass is dead. Do you want, shall I take you to where we killed him? Okay. Okay, I'm going to take him in. Okay, is anyone else going with or just the two of you?
01:06:48
Speaker
I'm out of here, so you have to call me if you... Do you want to come with me, Shader, or...? No, I think you'd be fine. I think you'd be best if I stay with Drava. Do you want to help, erm... Yes, sorry, Tally. Oh, Tally's just going to say, I'll stay here, too. Okay, so if you guys help Haley get the boat ready, we'll be quick. Okay, as you do start going over, Tally does then shout to Drava. Are you going? Hello? Going to where? They're going to prove that the thing we killed is killed. But there's no proof. With Claude.
01:07:16
Speaker
I don't get it. Who's going? Healthier and the other one, the hunchback. The new guy! I will come with you. I'm not leaving Healthier alone with a guy who is probably going to kill him. Okay, I'm not going to go because I don't want to die. Fair enough. I'm going to stay here.
01:07:35
Speaker
And as Shader and Tyler go to try and help Haley with the boat, she comes to me and slaps your hands away, get off, don't touch that, doing it wrong. And everything you do, she then redoes correctly in her eyes, even though you look at it and go, that's exactly what I did. She's just done it again. That's what's kind of happening is you try to help, you're kind of like, I'll just stand here. You're getting a bit turned on, Shader? Slightly. It's a bit of a weird buzzword, you've never seen
01:08:02
Speaker
of interest he throws javelins at people he's into some kind of weird shit because him and Eric has to have a safe word just saying now the visions for visions
01:08:20
Speaker
So as you follow the path up with Elfia and Drago on this path you see this kind of well cut out path it takes you through the rock leading to early corners, corners, corners, corners, corners round and then opens up into what feels like a natural kind of bridge which has the cliffs on either side you can hear the roaring sea and off in the distance you catch your make out the mainland of the Osran Islands
01:08:50
Speaker
you see this cave front in front of you and the massive ruins of the castle behind you that have all the kind of denapidation fallen on themselves on this kind of jet of land and you can see bits of the castle have fallen away as the sea has eroded underneath this castle. However there's a cave that seems to draw down towards the bottom area of this. As you follow through you pass a sea
01:09:12
Speaker
out the masks to Claude. These masks, are they familiar to you? You're walking to a room and you see a series of masks, stone masks, in a corner with kind of half crescent moon eyes. Are they attached to the walls? They're separate, they're down, yeah you could pick them up if you wanted to. I will make a check, probably, it's a mystery check would be most. So. 14.
01:09:37
Speaker
You look deep into these masks and you realise these cover a face. They're used to put over a face to pretend to be something else. Well what my superior knowledge of this place is telling me is that these are things what you put over your face to hardly
01:10:11
Speaker
I'd like to thank you for the food you provided me with earlier. I'm about to do something, please don't think I'm being rude. Okay. And my eyes are going to just glow white as I'm going to use eyes of the grave. Okay. So I should be getting a ping if there's any undead within 60 feet.
01:10:31
Speaker
okay and it's going to use it as like sporadic points throughout no problem i'll kind of sum you up for the whole lot of them as you pin your way through you get nothing nothing nothing nothing all the way through however you do get this kind of like interference in that it doesn't feel as clean as you're used to it being on uh when you've been practicing it previously it feels like there's this little haze underneath it almost like an
01:10:58
Speaker
We don't know what that's about, but apart from that, you see nothing, but no, there are no pins for the front. You follow through a series of rooms. You come across a pair of dead creatures with this massive eye that seems to be bleeding pus out of its side. As you walk past that room, you see another room, which is reeking of body parts. You recognize the state of decay, and these are similar to those of a head you were given. As you walk through into one final room, you see a long table with books all on the side, shafts of light coming through.
01:11:30
Speaker
sconces on the beach, which seems to be the final room. You get a sense from this. This is the kind of place you were meant to be. So this is where Erichas died. Having known what I know about his previous attempts of John Foolery, does this look like his handiwork? Whose handiwork, sorry? Erichas.
01:11:55
Speaker
kind of set up he would have. He has books and you know he looked at books. Many people look to look at books. Apparently it's a very well-read kingdom of those things. Yes, it does look. I think that Eric has been here. No, shit. You hear that echo? Echo, echo. I'm told I've got to address you in a certain way but I've already forgotten
Mysterious Conversations and New Quests
01:12:24
Speaker
Dragon. I'm having a bit of trouble with this one. I'm not surprised. Do you get that often? From simple-minded folk, yes. You can hear just around you the triple of water as it falls through the outside of the castle walls dripping onto the floor as the rain starts to seep in. Where did you face
01:12:51
Speaker
I point at the point of the floor just beside the table.
01:13:00
Speaker
almost a black-ish charcoal-y effect that's on the floor around where Elph is puttin' to. Okay. I'm gonna scoop up what other charcoal I can. It's literally just like a powder. It's like a powder, it's just like it's etched into the ground so slightly. I do believe he's not here, but if he has not got a head to take, I think he might still be around.
01:13:30
Speaker
Oh. What do you know of Eraqas? You seem really interested in him. I know I need to kill him. Why? The master says so. But why does the master want him dead? We do not question the master. Who is the master? I cannot tell you. Where is your master? I'm everywhere.
01:13:55
Speaker
No, I don't have a master. So it's not the dwarf what we met. He's not your monster.
01:14:08
Speaker
We have someone called a zookeeper back in Clay Peak. Well, maybe it was another place I've been. And he had little animals. You've got any means to shunt this man out? Is your master an actual person or is it a god? I don't know.
01:14:26
Speaker
This is a waste of time, so you believe that Eric Kass is here, or has been here, and he's no longer here. I saw a door, have you checked behind the door? In the first room, no we haven't checked that door yet. What have we just tried? Eric Kass, are you behind the door? It's probably a bit far. Maybe when we go back again.
01:14:50
Speaker
to remove his head and his head's not here. That's a shame. So that makes me think that he's still got his head on. Yeah. And possibly the rest. Yeah. Yeah. Now, you're a man of the world, aren't you? I don't know. I'm no sleep guard. I've been there. Do you know the Order of Whisperers? The Order of Whisperers? Yeah. Sounds a bit weird to me. They'll fear why you're even entertaining this fool. Like spies.
01:15:18
Speaker
We were just told to find the order of whispers. Whispers. Sounds like you better do it quietly. By someone called Thargeston. Thrace that. Oh. Your handwriting's important. No, you spelled it to us. T-H-R-A-G-E-S-T-A-M. T-H-R-A-E. A-E, sorry. I could ask the master for you. The master might know... Sorry, I just did a weird thing with my A-thing. I mean, he's a demigod.
01:15:46
Speaker
There's demi-god. He's demi-god. Master my note. Master note everything. Yeah right, go on ask him. I have to wait till tomorrow. Ah of course you do. Let's go back to that room then. I'll try and go start rubbing his turbo. I'll go constantly rubbing his temples like he's got a massive migraine going on. Are you feeling okay?
01:16:12
Speaker
Are we leaving? Are we staying? We're walking back. Will you allow me to touch you as we go past? I'll have to ask this. Do you get told off if you don't? Right, it's happened. Yes. Dragga looks at you, fury in his eyes. If you lay a single finger on me, I'm going to break your hand.
01:16:38
Speaker
I'm dying, I'm dying. So you keep asking about him being hungover. He likes to, his temper runs close to the surface. Oh my gosh. I'm going to cast Healing Word on him because I think he's unwell. Okay. And I'm going to touch him today. Okay. You recover 14 points. So what you basically see is this small hunchbacked, a hive man, bald look over at you.
01:17:07
Speaker
And what do you do? How do you pass that? The light comes out of the amulet and I sort of just guide it in his direction and like, floats like a globule and then hits you in the side and then restorative energy sort of fills your veins. This is the amulet you've got around your neck and you've kind of died out towards and it handles your grip points. So how many, what's that again? You've got like 14. As that happens you go to this door, you've moved over to this door, did you go to response or do I go?
01:17:37
Speaker
No, I'm just freaked out. I'm just freaked out and angry. That's all Drago is right now. Freaked out and angry. So as you approach the door, Alfred, you go, are you gonna... So this isn't the mirror room. No, this is the other door. Yeah, but within the demon mask room. Yep. So previous is the demon
Exploring the Corridor and Closing Interactions
01:17:52
Speaker
mask room. I try to open the door. You try to open the door. The door does open.
01:17:56
Speaker
Surprised, surprised, it's a wooden door, it opens fine. Down you see a long corridor. There are sconces on the side of the city, none of these are lit and you get a sense of the smell and you're very high perception, I'll tell you this as well, that there's no footprints on the ground, the smell of the air is quite stale, no one seems to have been here in a while. You've got darkvision, haven't you? Yeah. You look down the tunnel, you can see the...
01:18:17
Speaker
The tunnel shrinks down, down, down to rubble at the far end. You can see it on the far right side, a series of pickaxes, wheelbarrows that are tipped up against the side, again covered in cobwebs and dust. These haven't been touched in, you reckon, at least two or three decades probably. You look at this and assume...
01:18:36
Speaker
kind of mine, although digging for something down here. But this entrance is now colored. And there's now the doors on this corridor. It's just one corridor. There's not even like, it's not built in stonework, it's just a cave. Well, Cloud, I don't think he's down here. Have you tried looking? Well, go on, you've got that. All right. Oh, thank God. And I shut the door. So he's in the corridor. Yep. And you shut the door. I don't cast light.
01:19:00
Speaker
You have light and you can see that long corridor at the end you see what I've just explained. That could spend hours just to annoy you all looking around. No, it's fine. No, it doesn't annoy me. Not him. I walk out. I open the door and go, he does that. And just look for any traces that link to the room where we found, what were they for? Yeah, would you want to look for that religion? Well, more of a general investigation. Yeah, go for it.
01:19:24
Speaker
So you look around, you see a series of axes on the side, pick axes that you use for digging. You see a couple of the tippy things, what we just called wheelbarrows. Wheelbarrows, thank you. And the end of the corridor is kind of broken. No, the lights are working. Is there no other passage out? It's just one corridor of the lease down to that one. I'll grab a pickaxe and I'll head back to the door. OK, lovely. So you head back to the door with Elfie. What are we doing? Well, we're going to the entrance of the cave now. Oh, we've just been shut in, so. No, no, I opened the door to let you mount the corridor on.
01:19:52
Speaker
I believe he's not here. No and I'm sorry about driver shut the door I knew he did that. I'm by the entrance now. I thought he just wanted to shut the door. He also pushes you through. I met someone who didn't like doors once. He just wanted to run at every door they saw. He does that too. What happened to him? I took his head off.
01:20:18
Speaker
Bernie the Brave, they call him. Wasn't very brave in the end. He cried a lot just before it happened. They do that. Not all the time. Some of them can be real mean. You must have killed a lot of people in your time. I have. I have. Yeah. Is this why you're working for SleepDart? I don't work for...
01:20:48
Speaker
you master what you see. Do I have to do any sailing? I didn't know where we were last time. I lost an awk because I got hungry and I tried to hit a seagull and I lost the rod. So you were without a paddle? I was and then I had to do this and then I got very tired and then I got on that beach and I still got seaweed in the beach. Poor thing. Have you seen my axe?
01:21:17
Speaker
Yeah, Shailar's got it for you, looking after him. Oh. He's a fan of axes. It's a dwarf thing. Yeah, I've heard the dwarves say, like, serious. Yeah. No, they're not very lucky. OK. No. OK. All right.
01:21:35
Speaker
Hayley has fully prepared this shit for us. She's a bit concerned because there's a lot of us, but she seems to have spoken to you about where she's going to put people on it, to sit it, even it out. And she's very aware. This middle way needs to be clear. You're back on this one. Everyone listening, I need to get from this end to this end very quickly. So no one stood along here. I wouldn't need you in the fucking balls or face. It's very clear about this is the most kind of persuasive, not persuasive, but kind
01:22:00
Speaker
to the point she's been in. Can we help? No, just sit there, Elthea. You sit there. She points to the middle of the boat. Shader, you go to the back of the boat, please. Just sit back there. Drago, even him out. Go to the front, please. Axe wielding maniac. You can sit opposite Elthea for me, please. Talia, darling, would you just sit? I'm just tipping it like you don't wear a thing anyway, darling. All right, everyone's ready. Are we good to go any final work? No, fuck this. And she pushes the boat out, jumps on the back. And for those of you that haven't traveled to Shader and Claude, they haven't traveled that before.
01:22:30
Speaker
she just, like it's a savant, it's a weird boat that seems to just kind of tip onto these two arms that stick out into the water, it leans back on itself, she leans from the front but facing backwards, a series of ropes and pulleys, she kind of activates and pulls, swings from one end to the other of a very small boat, very tight, like I think of it like a big canoe, pretty much, that seems to just fit, everything seems to flow, everything seems to look like it's about to break, but never does, and she seems to handle this thing perfectly, it takes off into the water, you can see it dragging quite a bit.
01:22:59
Speaker
And we'll leave it there. Sorry for the accident. No, that's awesome. Thank you very much for staying with us on this long and extended episode. I hope you've enjoyed it very much. Big, big shout out to Danny. Just seamlessly joining the group, I'd say. I love your character. I think he's going to add much needed.
01:23:15
Speaker
comedic elements to the group. And he made me hit a killing, but yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, me as Drago. Drago almost killed him. Seems like a right passage. This whole time. Yeah, if it is. So, thank you very much. I won't keep you here much longer. If you want to keep in touch with the podcast at all, and you are more than welcome to, we do endorse that. You can follow us at our combined Twitch page, which is at the fellowship.
01:23:36
Speaker
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01:23:57
Speaker
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