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Ep. 64 Baal Valcon - Bellum Draconis
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Show Introduction and Banter
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You're not RDM! Get out of here! You don't have the power anymore! Speaking of which, at last, by no means least, our Maestro of Magic, our Commander of Combat, our DMD of DND, Dungeon Master, Danny!
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Hello everyone
Setting the Scene: Eryth and Kingdom of Dralak
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and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are a live play 5e D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Eryth in the Kingdom of Dralak.
Humorous Insect Question
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Would you rather eat a cockroach you found in your house or eat a worm that just crawled out underground from outside? And to answer this question, I'm going to ask each of our players. Joining us for this week's episode, we have Darren who plays the high-health artefact of Rains Haddow. Fuck no, I'll probably take the worm, I think.
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That's shit. Will who plays the human cleric, Emron. Worm. Callum who plays the warforged artificer, Alpha. Definitely the worm. Slimy yet satisfying. Ian who plays the tiefling warlock, Nyx Carell. I'll be honest, I didn't listen. What are you talking about? Everyone's just saying worm. She didn't miss much, she didn't miss much. And Will who plays the dragonborn, something or other.
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ball valkon i'll take darren's worm any day and by last i'm sorry we get satisfied
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Get out of here! We don't have the power anymore. Speaking of which, our last by no means least is our Maestro of Magic, our Commander of Combat, our DMD of DND, Dungeon Master, Danny! Bonjour, everyone. Bonjour. Wow. Did you write that out, Mark? Did you write out that ass kiss that you just gave to Danny right there? Of course I fucking did. I'm expecting some respect. Have you also noticed how our respect for you now, you no longer have any hold over it? It's completely gone. Wait, we had respect for Mark? Obviously respect.
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As things have shifted around slightly, we aren't going to Danny, our chronicler. We're actually going to go to Cal... No, we're not really done. Can we? Can we? Can we? Can we? Genuinely, right then, my bowel.
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We're going to not go to anyone here at all, actually. We're going to go to a character. We pan over the dunes of Dralak to the caravan of the merchant Vassan's traveling convoy that continue through the dusty meandering paths. Deep in the convoy, there is a faint glow that emanates from one of the curtained windows. Peeking behind,
Recap of Previous Adventures
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we see old Gel melt over his orb.
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But strangely, for the first time, he sees you, the listener, enter.
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Oh, titty biscuits! What kind of stuff happened last week, let me tell you! So, our adventurers done did leave in the caravan, and they gone stumbled in some alligators, though they weren't no alligators, they was druids! And, uh, there was a big ol' pool, which they descended down a narrow tunnel, and they was told to reveal their truths to the mother.
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What the
Personal Visions in the Tunnel
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fuck does that mean? Well, I'm about to tell you! When what they did is they walked down this big ol' corridor and each of them see some crazy-ass shit. We saw Alpha pretty much naked in some sort of mis-a-maze. There was an Alpha, who the fuck knows who that was? Rains! Had some straight-up Macbeth shit! Like looking at descendants of people that came before him. Uh, Emron, angel, crazy, holy boy stuff going on with the lady. What?
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I don't even know what that was. Uh, Maroda, oh shit, she got angry and done did punch the wall when she saw an orc, and Nix, I done told you that's a ragnia. He done see some big old spiders. Anyways, they get themselves down the end of that tunnel, they seize, uh, well, some sort of little wisp, like a will-it-a-wisp-style thing, and he done do some telling them some things, and reveal another companion.
Introduction of Prago the Majestic
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Some purple-robed, half-elf motherfucker called Prago the Majestic?
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He's been following us for a long time. Well, I kind of knows this anyway, but I just choose not to tell you. Anyway, nowadays in the lair of Sean Dralica, some big, powerful, skeleton-y bitch, and she done tell them what Daze needs to do is they needs to return her children.
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and a party start deciding amongst themselves when a very handsome looking dragonborn fella with a incredible voice he's probably my favorite addition to the group he kind of steps up and uh oh shit next on eat something he got more powerful that's about it find out what happens next i just got to go see what's in my orb oh my god nice that was so good that was beautiful oh titty biscuits titty biscuits
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I would put it to play. I would imagine that you go to some sidekick and the very first thing they say is, oh, I'll take these biscuits. So one by one, you're ushered back through the tunnel of truth. And again, you're met with those same reflections. And again, you share those reflections back. And what's interesting, when Baal was given the chance to walk through
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The reflections are hidden. They're not sort of broadcasted like all of yours were to your fellow party members, almost as though the tunnel trusts Baal implicitly. You return to that danty chamber at the other side. Don't earn any clothing, Alpha, that you removed.
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I forgot that you did that entirety of that exchange, but naked. Yes, Emerald was kind enough to be there. I was carrying his clothes. I mean, he's like a kendall. That's it. To be fair, there isn't. Yeah, you didn't bash in a dick.
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No, no. Why would he need such a thing? We've said several times there is no gender specification to Alpha. So assuming Alpha gender. Poor Alpha. He can't give it to anyone or take it from anyone. Maybe just a few slight modifications and things could change, but I'm upgradable. There we go.
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And with the upgrade, Fleshlight, you ascend the steps that took what seemed ours to descend only minutes ago. And
Arrival at Desert Oasis
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you return this time to the surface of the deserts through the same oasis door you entered, but time seems to have passed a bit more drastically. It seems to now be sunset. Around you, the alligators rescind that threatening
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portrayal that they were offering when you first arrived. And as you hit that surface, you see a sort of makeshift tents and rugs have been laid out and a small bowl of fruit is gathered in the center with a campfire, but it's really decorative. Well, not decorative, but not lit because it's still exhaustingly hot. The guide who has been shepherding you to and from Shondralakar's chamber.
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raises a hand one last time towards this camp that has been erected for you. What would you like to do? First question, is Marota with us or is she still there?
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Rains
Reflecting on Past and Future Plans
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is going to walk over to the fruit bowl and is quite hungry, hasn't eaten in the best part of the day, is going to turn to, I'm really sorry, One Shot Will, I can't remember the name of your character and Rains hasn't actually been told it yet, so he'll just go, are we allowed to eat this? Oh yes, it's been laid out specifically for you.
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help yourself. Okay, I will. Raines is going to help himself with some of the food that's just going to survey the campsites to see what's been put on for them. There's very little outside of just some a platter of fresh produce and then the alligators who still appear to be
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what you initially thought were sunbathing and feeding, but really they are a guard, a sentinel that are blocking and watching this entrance to what you have experienced below. And while you're tucking in, it's really interesting. The food you have become temporarily accustomed to in Sleet Guard that has this very cereal-based quality, wheats and oats and stuff that will grow in a seasonal climate, not unlike
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one we podcast from. But in what you're savoring here are flavors that you haven't tried in months. Really, you're tapping into taste sensations you haven't experienced since the sort of lavish
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decadent meal plans that would have no doubt been served to you at a younger age in royal chambers. The flavors are exotic, they are sweet, they are spiced. This is certainly the most sensory response you've had to anything you've eaten in, well, almost a year now.
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Thank God that shadow menu and died was like chewing on granite guys. Um, this stuff is actually pretty good. I Said shadow men died. That's what we're from. I meant to say sleep God. It's been a very very long day and I'm but but but remains remains this stuff is good and model of going over and joined him sort of dumped down his pack and that kind of stuff and well
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I probably does make a bit of a different fare than one from a sleep guard. So yeah, it'd be nice to taste something from a bit more back home, if you know what I mean.
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Morota strolls over and sort of gives the platter a curious look and sort of points at a couple and says, don't eat too many of those. Turn your piss bright blue. Those are really good and just sort of going through and then lobs this quite hairy pear almost straight at Nyx. He says, this one, it's good for the, you know, horns.
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Nick's catches it and with a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, just starts eating it. But quite stoic and silent. Just kind of taking in the vibe and everything that's just transpired.
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And as you do, there's this heat to the fruit as well, that specifically those that would be resistant to heat can really enjoy some of those flavors that a human would probably struggle with. And while Morota is sort of munching on what looks like an orange grape, just shouts across to Baal, who's presumably followed us into the camp. Are we okay? Is this for us? Are we safe here?
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You have the protection of the sovereign mother here. There's nothing you need to be worried about there. And he's also going to take in Nyx as well, that's eating this fruit and go, interesting, not even flinching. I made a tough stuff, Ball. Ball? Bow, sorry. Not a problem. I see there's going to be some
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intended miscommunications there. Fortunately, my intellect is that that doesn't overly concern me if you wish to misname me, so be it. It's more your character that I'm interested in.
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More of this is what I'm interested in, as Nix holds up the empty, fuzzy, peach. Peach, pear. Fuzzy, peach. Pear. Fuzzy, pear.
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I feel like that. You'll love this. Both will say as he goes to, yeah, big zip, he's going to go to the kind of the platter and pick out something that he knows to be kind of of equal, if not more strength in the kind of heat region and just go over it and hand it to you and kind of take you in a bit before stepping back to the rest of the group kind of arms folded.
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kind of unoblivious to the more leveled look or the interested look. Nyx will take the fruit and just chomp on down on that one, whichever fruit it was. Alpha, take his fruit. You having some of this? I'm afraid I have the, not the capability for Christ's sake. I'm afraid I do not have the capability to eat. Who's Christ?
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Okay. Well, you know, just stand there being naked and awkward. So, uh, good, good, good point, perhaps you want to get, you know, dressed. Um, what was that about alpha? No one asked you to get naked. It appears I have misinterpreted the term bearing yourself to the mother. I thought it took quite literally, apparently not. I see.
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so he's just going to walk over to everyone grab his clothes start getting dressed again just not really giving a crap everyone sat down having heard that um from uh bal that were one of the protectors sort of he's he's taken off his chain mail he's gotten comfy that kind of stuff um so we should probably start thinking about
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what our plans are. If we're to go to sleep garden single-handedly or you know six-handedly or however many of us are actually going to go do this, overthrow the abcrisco and retrieve the dragon children, we should probably start thinking about what the fucking plan is.
00:15:05
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I don't like the plan of leaving Marotta behind. Nick says as if he's been dying to have this conversation. Marotta flicks another grape up into her mouth, lying down, catches it. I'm fine. I might not be. There is another point of intrigue on that, and that's... Apparently you stink of a crisper, Marotta.
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Oh, right. Their words, not mine. This was going to come out sooner or later. Yeah, I worked with them for a decent spell. It was one of the easiest ways to, you know, get out of Drolak at the time. They were a promising adventure. They weren't really fussy with who they were recruiting, as long as you just, you know, did what I thought was mercenary work. But, you know, it turned out to be an illegal occupation. Yeah, I at the time.
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I wasn't to know. I actually didn't intend on leaving the Epichristra. It's weird. I have this gap in my memory where I was intended to go travel to Sleet Guard to do this thing about a group of people with, I don't remember the word, but it was like, we had to go to this, I think it was like
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bar or a pub on wheels and we had to kidnap someone or something. I don't really remember. All I remember is when I left to go and do that and I got a bit down the road, something stopped me and the rest, the next thing I know I'm back in Scorch Hill, I'm doing my own shit again. But I was with them for a few years.
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And I assume, Baal, that the stench is still lingering to the... Can we not use the word stench around Marota, please? Well, I'm only using the word... Past is past, but stench, the connotations, she doesn't stink. Everyone has their own stench. I assume the scent, Baal, lingers long enough for there to be no path for which Marota is coming with us.
00:17:27
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Oh, it won't get past the sovereign mother. Not a chance. I don't really want to, you know, be the reason that this potentially really exciting deal breaks down. So I'm happy to play nice. I'm home. Like this is fine for me. You're really okay with it.
00:17:51
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I get to sit here and wait by an oasis with a bunch of not alligators. I feel pretty safe. It's just the last time there was some kind of cryptic block or an attempt to stop you getting something. You stabbed that person in the throat. Oh my, would you let it go, Ray? You heard my methods. You heard my rationale. Like the guy was going to put Olgill into slavery.
00:18:22
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If we're leaving her behind, do you think now's the time to bring that up? I think now's a good time, isn't it? Just let it go. You had a very good speech down there. Nyx points down to the water, where it almost seemed like you were ready to be a leader. And now you're dragging up the pass.
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to have a go at someone we're going to leave behind. I'm just a bit more or fail with the international politics of what the of Chris could stand for. Nick's might not count much to someone that doesn't matter to the heart of the person. You can lead past mistakes. It doesn't make you who you are today. And I would say that murder illegally occupied as long as you occupied, it would say that we wrote to saved your life enough times for you to give her the benefit of the doubt to save my life.
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Yes. In my life. All of our lives, as Nix looks around the group. Maybe sometimes you've got to look at the heart of the person first, Raines, and leave their past discretions just like that, in the past. We've all done things we're not proud of here. Run off. Raines are continuing through. In my...
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limited opinion and everyone sort of laid down. He's got a bottle of wine out. He's relaxing now. Feel free to share this by the way, Nix. In my limited opinion, what's past is past at this stage and
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everyone is entitled to change their ways if they do come about to realize what they were doing was wrong. So whilst we may want to judge Marotta for what she has done, I'd rather us think about what she's done for us more recently and consider the fact that she has done right by us. Has she done wrong? Fair enough. But what she's done recently
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Surely everyone deserves a chance to wipe the slate clean, no matter what they've done. Can I just say, I don't believe I've done anything wrong. And we've talked about this, like our perceptions of right and wrong are different. I just want to say that.
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Nix's shoulders visibly kind of relax after everyone's statement as well, as if that he was trying to gear up for something and he's just kind of, and he was nodding kind of over profusely, eyes wide. Here's what I'll do. I will stay here and I will meditate on the actions that I have taken in the last few weeks and I will
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consider their implications more widely for however long it takes for you to get back from this little trip. I still don't know the fact that you've got to stay here. If we actually get back, let's not forget that. I don't think for that reason they would have asked us to do this if it wasn't in our wheelhouse. Ball, what do you know about what we're likely to find or
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How many people have come before us on this task?
Baal Joins the Quest
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Some have come before. No one really fitting the bill. But I've heard good things about this troop. I'll be honest, I've not been taken on board with all of the information.
00:21:59
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All I know is that I'm due to accompany you and lend some of my skills to your aid. And if that helps the sovereign mother, so be it. And are you handy in like, you know, scrap if this, I mean, really, that's what everyone's fishing for here. If I'm not going, they need someone who can, you know, hurt some things. Of course, I have many things at my disposal, which will help
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most of the time. I'm convinced. You'll have to wait and see. Do you doubt me? No. Do you doubt the sovereign mother? Right now, no. Then have faith. I'll keep your friends pretty. Morata just looks at the rest of the group.
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Did everyone else feel like that was a bit strange? That was a bit strange. I thought he was talking about me. I had assumed as such as well. Baal gives a little wink over to eunuchs and there's a big toothy dragonborn grin to the rest of the group. My tail has a slight shade of red to it, especially at the tip. Baal's not a bottom.
00:23:24
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Fed mixes. Well, I have a question, if I may. Ask away. It's obviously eggs and hatchlings that we're to recover, but the Obcisca seem to have dealings with far bigger dragons than hatchlings, just as far as you and your mother and what she can see. How deep does this go?
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And that is a question that I can't help with. Like I say, I've had my own dealings, not much with the abcriscara, but I know little of their ways. And, well, simply that they must be stopped, what they've done before, what they intend to do, it is not good.
00:24:26
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Not good for the sovereign mother, not good for my mother. Probably not good for sleep guard either, judging by what we saw. Right, so we've got to overthrow an illegal occupation. We ain't going to be able to overthrow them. For mental rebellion, free sleep guard and rescue some dragon afterlings. More complicated than that.
00:24:47
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in terms of the UPCRISCR, in terms of the geopolitics, I can fill you in there. They came to shadow men, not Lombax, seeking political aid and rectifying their occupation of Sleet Garden. My father and grandfather were very happy to give it to them.
00:25:05
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which probably means that they have crisquers roots in sleek God now run deep. People are calling Helena queen that that's more of a rebellion. I have it on good authority from my time in shadow man that old Leopold is still alive and is being kept in the sanguine lands as a hostage for Helena's compliance. So
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it runs deeper than that. And as well, any control they have over the dragons means that any attempt to remove them could see Goldview turn to ash. So I think in terms of the geographic political sphere, whilst I want to see the of Chris Regan, because I believe the world's going to be a safer place for it and Shadow Man is going to be much safer for it, with Helena rightly where she belongs and
00:26:00
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If that's her on the throne or a further return to her, then so be it. That ain't the skin in the game here. It's beyond our control. What we're doing is trying to stop whatever is happening with these dragons. Because, well, reasons I just said, whatever it is they're up to, it's that they're playing with things beyond their comprehension. At least, to my knowledge, they're playing with things beyond their comprehension.
00:26:30
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We have tales of dragons in Shadow Man, and ain't none of them taking Khan to be and put it down to someone's pet. To help paint the rest of your picture reigns, the Epchiscra own about a third of Dralak too. When did that happen? Recently, the Scorch Helm have had a change in leadership.
00:27:00
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You can see that Reins is visibly disturbed by that to see that their reach has spread in the time it's taken them to get around the world. They're growing quick. Reins will look at Enron with a concerned glance as if to say, my understandings of the political
00:27:28
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spectrum that we're involved in is more complicated than we first thought.
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Everyone will look over to Reigns and give him a sage nod and reassuring nod. We have a task in front of us. We know what that is. Anything else that comes of it, or anything else we have to do to achieve it, that's just what we've got to do. So we can worry about the geo, whatever, my politics that Reigns was talking about, or we can just deal with the task at hand.
00:28:24
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do what is right by these folk who have, you know, put all this on for us and just do all we got to do. And don't forget the reward. Aye, we should really talk about what's being promised. There was some stuff, whatever comes, comes, but, you know. I can vouch for their rewards. I feel certainly more powerful from it all.
00:28:53
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I've never seen that thing that you had to consume. Like with many things that we're tasting right now, it was pretty good. And the after effects is Nick's looks at his hands and this is almost kind of.
00:29:08
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crackle of blue, no, purple energy. That's just this, like, imagine a lightning bolt, just not lightning bolts, but lightning just, you know, when you come near a plug that's live, the wires are live, and you can almost kind of feel this surge of electricity that's jumping between the open wires. You see that surge jumping between his fingers as he's looking at his palms. Yeah, back of vouch for them. Nyx holds up his hands.
00:29:39
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Jazz hands. All good. And this is what they gave me before we even done anything. You'll be fine. Oh no, I don't doubt it. So we've got a lot of money on us. Some of that we have to obviously use to pay off all his debt.
00:30:06
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the rest we should use to help. Shopping! Make our job easier. Shopping! What I would suggest though, from... Shopping?
00:30:18
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my knowledge this is, what we don't want to do is go strolling into Goldview and start splashing around several thousand gold because that will almost certainly put us on the radar of the Uprisca without a shadow of a doubt. Is that where we're going next, Goldview? Well, no, that was my next question. I'd sooner say, like, Snakerun is down the road a few weeks, well, a week tops. Have the Uprisca reached Snakerun? Because I assume... Not overtly.
00:30:45
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I'll explain on the road a little bit about how Scorch Helm is... Oh, I'm not coming. I'll explain when you get back. How... It's a quick, quick outcry. So, how long will it take us to get back to the Keep near Goldview? So, it's about two days to get to the border, which is where you're expected to head for Shondralica. And then it's probably about two to three days hike from there to get to Goldport Keep.
00:31:15
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So okay, so about five days. So yeah, any local places we could go to that you know more also would be useful for us to
00:31:27
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spend what we've got, some of it now before we get into sleep guard. Because I know from experience back in Shadowman that if a bloke came down to certain parts of some of the cities and started splashing around gold, every fucker knew straight away who he was. I can move us in circles where we'd hide in our wealth quite easily.
00:31:57
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I love this idea. I think we should frequent the local markets, especially as our coin purse is way heavier now than they did before. Yeah, yeah, I'd go with that. Probably not for Reins. Apart from Reins, yeah, sorry. Oh, no, mine's pretty damn good. It weighs the same as before.
00:32:18
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There we go. Probably less, even given your upbringing. Silver spoon is still there. I can see it. You need to remove that sometimes, but the sun is setting as Nix looks towards the sky. Maybe now's a good time to get a rest. I agree. I mean, I mean, you know, nighttime being a good time to sleep because we can't all see the dark. So, you know, Nix does have some good ideas, doesn't he? I mean. Yeah.
00:32:46
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We're just going to take the hint and just sort of find a space away from the center of this and just begin to stretch out a bit. Is there anything anybody else wants to do before? Tell you what, Nix, you can keep watch, lad. I'd like a word with Alfa at some point. Yeah. What if I want to sleep? Nix, we've been traveling for like a week. Don't think we haven't noticed that you don't really sleep.
00:33:18
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm just trying to, I think it's one of those things that, you know, when you have an illness and it takes a while to get over, I think for whatever reason right now, I just can't sleep. And then I just got to go over it and I'll fall asleep again. I mean, I can help if you want, you know, as a friend, you don't need to punch me. That's okay. Really put your hands down to help you relax.
00:33:45
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or Bach and like, don't know if that will make me sleep, but I'm up for exploring that further. Maybe not on our first night. I'm just going to, and Nick's will just leave the sentence hanging in the air and find his usual side of camera, side of camera. And as the camera just pans and he's just walking off, he's just trying to do what he's done before and find a quiet area. Once he's found that quiet area book orb.
00:34:14
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Um, from old gal book from you and Ron and the M road that was given from Alfred. That Maro to stole from alpha and given to Nick. Um, all three of them laid out in front of him and he's just ahead in the book again. Nice. And then one would light the fire.
00:34:35
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How are you going to light the fire out of interest? How are you going to light the fire out of interest? With flint and tinder. Get them out of your box. Baal is going to kind of snort a little bit, open his mouth and just cast bonfire and breathe fire into the space and create this magical bonfire in front of you.
00:34:56
Speaker
Oh, that's pretty thankful. Sure. Sure. If you want to drag a board to do that in the campaign. Um, never thought that, of course, of course. Nick's Nick's has too cool. Nick's has taken himself aside. Emron and, uh, Bauer measuring twigs over a fire. Uh,
00:35:24
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reigns in alpha as we sort of look over to you and you get a moment of isolation together? I think alpha just before you do come over reigns, if everyone's kind of cleared off and found their own space using his magical tinkering, alpha would kind of have almost kind of recreated a miniature hologram in like one of the puzzle cubes just of the elf.
00:35:49
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that was actually seen in the reflection when we was down in the tunnels and would probably be studying it quite closely. So every kind of variance of muscle, every scar, anything that you could kind of see with this ethereal form, Alpha's got a very intense trance going against it. You good, Alpha?
00:36:18
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He hesitates a moment and just picks his head up away from the cube. Yes. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. You know, it's a funny thing. What you're doing right there, it took me years to learn how to do that. Like since I was in father keeping, we're talking a very long time. Yet you were able to do that from
00:36:45
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I don't know what we call it. Was it the birth that happened? How do you, how do you phrase your, your inception birth? I call it the day of my sentience. The day of sentience. Since day one, you've been able to, you've been able to do that. Raines will glance at the, the, the, the cube. And I'm right in thinking, Daniel, that we all saw the elf, didn't we? And we were behind alpha. So it's a rain sore as well.
00:37:14
Speaker
I've mentioned it several times about your ancestry being part me with the ability to understand artificery, like years of knowledge of mine that I had to just there for day one. And I also mentioned many times about whoever's memories could be inside that room inside your chest. And you were never asked about who that could be, Alfred, and I'm just
00:37:44
Speaker
I'm just wondering how you process and what you saw down there, that's all. It is taking some very deep processing. Seeing an image of what potentially could have been another part of myself is perplexing. Well, I can tell you that
00:38:10
Speaker
I don't know how much I trust these dragons, but I trust them a whole lot more than you, Chris, and I certainly trust that what we saw down there was the truth, that that tunnel was as advertised. Which means you've learned something about your ancestry today, something that I've never known, something we've never known, and that's part of it's me, another part of someone else.
00:38:40
Speaker
Don't know who, but it's your ancestry to Elvin, Alfred. I am... El... Elvin. It's not who you are. It's in the way that I have my father's eyes and I have my grandfather's hair color. It's just part of the fabric of those who have come before you.
00:39:08
Speaker
like physical memories, your DNA, it's a... it's part of your awakening, it's part of your sentience, but it's... it's complicated how ancestry works, but um... I think I do understand, while it is a part of myself, it is not something that would necessarily define who I am, or what I could potentially be. Right, and I've told you about
00:39:38
Speaker
Grand Maester Berenius, the one who helped me and Imran build you. He may have known who that was, but obviously he's gone. So do you want to know? If information were to present itself, I would most certainly pursue it. Well, we'll keep that in mind.
00:40:08
Speaker
And if anything else happens, we'll pursue it, right? Yes, of course I will. And you ever want to talk about those feelings and I guess I'm always here to listen to you, Alfred.
00:40:38
Speaker
I know. I feel that any one of our current group would be willing to talk to me if I should so need it, but at this moment in time I feel self-processing is all that is required.
00:40:56
Speaker
There is a part of me that I was unsure of, was unknown. This is a part I wish to pursue further, perhaps as the answers lie within me, as well as maybe even my predecessors. And he's going to clutch down to his pocket where he's still got like
00:41:18
Speaker
what he deems as the heart of Magnus, he's still clutching onto what he retrieved from that vile, acidic creature. There may be more clues present as to my origins, and perhaps I'm just incapable at this moment of piecing them together. Just for one's worth,
00:41:47
Speaker
I'm sure there's parts of Magnus, there's infrastructure that has informed you somewhere down the line, directly or indirectly. While looking at the craftsmanship of you, your actual physical being is unmistakably got traces of Imran. It's his forge hand. There's no mistaking that for anyone else. The artificery, that's me. And of course, inside that memory room, there's this elven folk.
00:42:16
Speaker
There's lots of little pieces there, Alpha, but the whole comes together. And the one thing I'm convinced through these past six months since we've been out from Shadow Men is that the whole isn't anyone else. The whole is just you. You understand? No, this is rather confusing. So imagine you are a
00:42:43
Speaker
Do you remember how when we were testing your perfect memory, we had like these jigsaw puzzles, like those things where like you have to put pieces together and you were able to like perfectly take pieces out of your figuring it out and putting them back because you had, you had a perfect memory, right? And all of us, we're the, we're the small jigsaw puzzles, but when you put it all together, the complete picture is, is, is you.
00:43:10
Speaker
Do you see what I'm saying here? It's don't focus on all the, don't worry too much about the little pieces and just appreciate that you're you. Don't forget that, I suppose. And I know I'm more guilty than anyone out of, I guess, a mixture of protection and fear of sometimes telling you what to do, but you're you.
00:43:39
Speaker
that that's all i'm trying to say is don't think that you're made up of anyone else when you just beneath all that you just you i see so conversations and actions that i have taken possibly under other influences such as yourself and run and nyx emerota they are all a part of me yeah we're all shaped by the world around us but our responses to that they'd
00:44:08
Speaker
They form from us. I suppose I just wanted to make sure you were okay and not too perturbed by what you saw down there. That's all. I think it is something I will be able to process in time. However, maybe there are other ways I could embrace this new side of me.
00:44:32
Speaker
And as he does say that, Reigns, he would actually see a slight glimmer just kind of come over Alpha's constructed body, like emanating from his chest. It's a slight glimmer, but it kind of takes away from his metallic form just a little bit. It's very, very brief. It looks like a little flash. Interesting.
00:45:02
Speaker
final thing from the offer that that can and i yours really packs a punch in he is well trained yeah that's that's some that puts the art and artificery just in the flyouts press stuff I will pass on your messages to him I'm sure he will be pleased yeah you you do that I'm gonna get a bit more to eat and I'm gonna I'm gonna
00:45:32
Speaker
I'm going to meditate, trance, sleep, basketball, as you could call it that. Of course. And as... Here if you need to talk, Alpha, and Reigns will walk off. And as Reigns takes those steps, you see just reflecting on Alpha's skin, hide, not really sure, chassis. Yeah.
00:46:00
Speaker
the bodywork, the glow of this impressive bonfire that Baal is tending quite beautifully. And you will take the precautions you need to transition into an overnight rest.
00:46:17
Speaker
The entire evening goes without incident. And you get the sense, as well, those of you who do take watch, that the alligators form a wide perimeter around the oasis. And
Emron's Unsettling Dreams
00:46:28
Speaker
there's this secondary protection around you. A couple of things happen, though, overnight. Emron, you don't have the most comfortable night's sleep. It didn't occur to you that you felt that something was missing when you emerged back out of the layer.
00:46:48
Speaker
But your dreams are full of you in darkness reaching towards this light that you can't quite reach. It wakes you from a spell. You fall back asleep. And it's a similar theme dream again, you surrounded by darkness pulling you down, reaching up endlessly and aimlessly towards the source of light. And you have three or four of these. And as dawn strikes, that is the point in that fifth or sixth incarnation of that dream that you do reach the light.
00:47:17
Speaker
and you awake and then you feel this faith restored in you, and not necessarily faith, but you feel this holy purpose within you once again that puts that regular weight back on your shoulders that temporarily lifted throughout the course of the last 24 hours.
00:47:38
Speaker
And nicks, although you don't sleep in some of those sort of hyper-focused moments, we're looking into the ball, looking into the gem. Similarly, you spot insects moving towards you. And again, you didn't realize this at the time, but you felt much lighter over the past couple of hours. And now this reoccurring theme of these, they're hard to really give it an identifiable name.
00:48:08
Speaker
Eight legs on some, six on the other, wings on another, but not insects that are common. Just find themselves upon your person, up your sleeve, in your pockets, etc. And then as dawn breaks for you, you feel
00:48:28
Speaker
an incredible sense of adrenaline overcome you. You awake feeling like you've had the best nights. You don't sleep. You sort of detrans as though you've had like the most meditative night. And as a result, you level up. You are level five. And for Nix, what does that look like? Tell us. So for also, I'm the king of bugs, apparently.
00:48:54
Speaker
Come, my beautiful critters, I have taken a level. So with Nix being the OG Warlock of the group, but never really having much through line with whichever deity is tied to Nix because he failed that challenge so long ago.
00:49:22
Speaker
his meeting with old girl and old girl passing. Oh, not so much freely passing. Nick's managed to get that cracked all seeing orb from old girl and kind of feeling a sense of hero worship and also that sense of old girl can see into the future. If I could see into the future, what happened to me doesn't need to happen again where he fucking
00:49:51
Speaker
fell off the cliff with Marota. That horrific period in Nick's life. So he dived deeper into the orb, having found that he doesn't need to sleep, has spent ages and sleepless nights just kind of drilling into anything that emanates from it, became akin to the sorcerers magic from that. And because over the last
00:50:14
Speaker
period from his last level up, he's just dive deeper into it, old girls come back into the mix again. And he's, he's just watched what he's doing. He's got the book back from Emron. And he's starting to put two and two together. And he's starting to realize that these magical items that he holds enable him to imbue himself with magical prowess that's not really needed or powered by a God. So he's kind of forgotten.
00:50:41
Speaker
about that part of himself and dive deeper into the sorcery for that reason. I've taken a level in sorcery, so I'm a level two sorcerer now with my level three warlock in backup. I've gained a
00:50:55
Speaker
a cool thing, I've came to some more spells that I can choose from, which I will keep to myself until the time comes to which to use those. But Nick says, is aware of these spells that he's written down in his book, everyone gave him, and he's starting to trying to
00:51:13
Speaker
He spends his evenings tracing out rituals, spiritual shapes, anything in the ground. And these shapes, he's constantly working through until there's one that particularly works with this spell that's written down. And he feels like he can channel the spell through whatever shape he is. And it's an all-night process of just the same spell, different shapes, same spell, many different shapes, and then trying to figure out what components are needed, whether he has them, whether he doesn't, if he needs to buy some.
00:51:42
Speaker
So he's gotten along with his cool new spells. Trying to find it in my thing.
00:51:52
Speaker
he's got the ability to have sorcery points from the font of magic. Particularly, I have two sorcery points that I regain when I finish a long rest, and I can use these sorcery points to gain additional spell slots or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional sorcery points as a bonus action. I'm not sure if this came at this level, but in my infernal legacy, because with Nyx being a tiefling and all
00:52:21
Speaker
up with the devil. I've got a couple more things. Now this could have happened last level, but I'll mention it here. So he's always had hellish rebuke, but two more have appeared in my list of thaumaturgy, which I can use as a conjure, and darkness at second level spell. So those have appeared in my wheelhouse.
00:52:45
Speaker
Yeah, nice. There we go. Nice. And yeah, you certainly feel this enhanced state of yourself. Yeah, as the sun rises. It's like a wild magic, you could say. Everyone's typing in chat right now. I can't read it, but they're all laughing at me. So something
Nyx's Experiment with Sorcery
00:53:00
Speaker
I've said has triggered the group listeners, just so you know. Yes, there's some wild magic stuff. This happened when I first took sorcery spells. I don't know if I mentioned it, but I've got wild magic surge. This is a good view to know, Danny, that once per turned the DM
00:53:13
Speaker
can have me roll a d20 immediately after I cast a Sorcerer's Spell of first level or higher, and if I roll a 1, roll on the Wild Magic Surge Table to create a magical effect. I've also got Tides of Chaos, which I have actually used before, which is once per long rest, I can gain advantage on one Attack Roll, Ability Check, or Saving Throw. There you go. Nice.
00:53:37
Speaker
It wasn't you at all Ian, that was beautiful. What unfortunately was happening for you whilst that was happening was that a series of magical phrases for basically sorcery bullshit as a throwback to folly has been appearing in the chat.
00:53:57
Speaker
It's random pockets filled with dragon's teeth as well and they started circling around him as low as the critters and he almost levitated from the ground. It's great. Just for you listeners, whilst Ian was describing that, appearing in the chat box was water fountain of fuckery, tap of twattery, which is my personal question, wild magic fuckery, sink of suck-a-ma-dick-um and nonsense of deez nuts were all appearing in the chat whilst Ian was describing that. No, you said it wrong.
00:54:26
Speaker
It was sink of suck my dick DM. See Mark, Mark's hung around just to show that. That's what he's still here for. Also, just so you know, Ian, your tides of chaos. If Danny asks you to roll on the wild surge magic table, you get your tides of chaos back. Oh, yeah.
00:54:46
Speaker
Sick! But you could turn into a plant pot. The DM could have you roll on the Wild Magic Table after you cast the first level spell or higher, you then regain the use of this feature. So rather than just once per long rest, if Danny asks you to roll on the Wild Magic Table, you can get your Tides of Chaos back. Honestly, because we use D&D Beyond here, listeners,
00:55:09
Speaker
As you know, with Drago, like you go into the features and traits, there's maybe two bullet points. Right now, I've got features and traits and I have to scroll down at least four times on my mouse wheel to get to the bottom of this list of shit that Nix has or can do. So bear with me as I learn.
00:55:29
Speaker
Graduation from the comfort of the barbarian. Yeah, you've got some really, really, really hard. That's really easy. Easy classes there. Source from warlock. Really easy classes. It's a good job that Nick seems like he's unsure and he's learning. You've got to make it clear if you're casting something that's from your warlock pool or your source. So I know whether or not that's going to cause the effect. Thankfully, it's all written here for me. So I will start doing that. Beautiful. Thank you for that.
00:55:57
Speaker
You are very welcome. Thank you for the level up and making me the most powerful leveled person in the group. Not most powerful person. Will's also level five, sorry. I'm like, you get the back end of things, Will. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Not most powerful member of the group, for sure not. But in terms of level, I spent so long at the start of this campaign, the least leveled character is pretty cool to be the most. You chose to be that. And you're not the most, it's Will's also. Nick didn't know his warlock ship. You didn't know how to use the India Beyond.
00:56:28
Speaker
Anyway. Harsh. Would someone please roll a d20 for me?
00:56:35
Speaker
As the strongest Avenger, I will, of course, roll a D3. Go on, Thor. D20. Want me to put a hammer down? I'll put that down. I have rolled a 3, Danny. 3. Thank you, Will. So, I have a table in front of me about a series of things that you may encounter while you're in this part of Dralak. Where are we going? We're going back
Farewell to Marota and New Adventure
00:56:57
Speaker
towards Sleepguard. Okay. Because it's only two days' journey.
00:57:03
Speaker
I think it's the plan. And then we can go from there and we can shop in places that aren't Goldview. Sounds good. So you're already ahead out in the direction of the YbKriskra. Is Marota staying here now? She has certainly sat there waiting as though she is not part of this journey. Nick's looking down, walks over to Marota. I guess this is goodbye then.
00:57:33
Speaker
as he's kicking the dirt, where he's not looking you in the eye, he's just looking down at the ground and kicking bits of dirt with his feet and sand. You're just going to be like a couple of days. Don't be, you know, dramatic about it. Fine. A bit of separation will do us good, you know.
00:58:07
Speaker
Yep, yep, yep. Hey, this is what you wanted. I am. And so Nix will turn at that. I'm going to be here. I'll be fine. And with that, go on, everyone, sorry. Everyone's going to go to the motor and go, I know we haven't seen R2R all the time, but you have on occasion done REAP bars.
00:58:37
Speaker
And that's all right. So you look after things here and you know, if we do need your help, we'll get you a message and you can come and get our asses out of the fuck. And we'll be all right. Morita offers a handout to you. Everyone will take the hand. And then she pulls you in very close. Please don't let him die. I'll keep him out of trouble.
00:59:02
Speaker
And she'll push you away, though. It was just a sort of quick tap of shoulders and nothing else. Yeah, that's fine. And then we're all toddled off, ready to go. Make sure we've got everything packed, everything. And then she looks at Alpha. Alpha's going to turn, face Marota. Don't lose that boomerang. I shall hold it close, quite dearly, until I throw it at somebody.
00:59:31
Speaker
then it will go away. But if I do it right, it will come back as well. That's how they work. I shall remember your teachings, Miroda. Thank you. And then she turns to Rains. Bye. See ya. Bitch. And then she just turns and picks up what's left of the fruit platter from last night.
01:00:00
Speaker
And as you all begin to make your preparations and travel in that north westerly direction, the ashes and embers from the fire stoked by Baal that night settling down, the alligators migrating back towards the oasis as the heat ramps up once again. The first beads of sweat drip from horn and ear and beard.
01:00:29
Speaker
and whatever Alpha does when he gets too warm. That is where we're going to end this week's episode of Bellum Draconis.
01:00:54
Speaker
That's your first official DM episode. Yeah, there was a lot of firsts in this. A lot of firsts. That was cool. That was so cool. Thank you, Danny. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for steering this ship.
01:01:13
Speaker
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01:01:39
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01:02:07
Speaker
Not quite as smooth, but I'll get there. You can put it in in post, just re-record it in post. With John Cena's theme over the top of it. Until next time, guys!