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World of Ae'oene Ep. 7: Whispers on the Road
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The adventure has taken a turn and the road home is no different. Whispers in the dark are nothing to ignore and don't breath in the green air. Wait, did they actually return the horse??
This is an adult show and contains explicit content.
This episode has the following content warnings: General Violence, vivid panic attacks
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Our cast:
- Curtiss Woosley as the GM
- MJ Guenther as Thalira Grimstone Eku'Lanathi
- Sapheara as Maeve Strongheart
- Rennie Armas as Kaldin
- Jack Baldwin as Jellen Ykalle
Additional credits:
- Show graphics by Sentic GFX
- Show editing by Mark Hitchen
- Intro/Outro music composed by Ryan Muns, Owner/Operator of Eyes On The Moon Studios
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Transcript
Episode Start and Introduction
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Destabilizing Foundations, Episode 7.
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The World of Aeon contains stories with mature themes.
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Content warnings are in the episode description.
Welcome and Episode Excitement
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the World of Aeon Stories of Legend.
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Welcome back to Destabilizing Foundations as well as we are recording, I believe, episode seven.
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Crazy.
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I can't wait to hit 10.
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What a milestone that's going to be.
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Oh, my gosh.
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So exciting.
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As you guys know, I've got my cast with me today.
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All four of them.
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We're not split up.
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Don't worry.
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Cast.
Group Dynamics and Humor
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Say hi.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Thanks for listening.
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Do you have plans?
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Yeah, we just hate each other.
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Always.
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Oh.
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We always have plans.
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It's mysterious.
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New parties with every other episode.
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Always conspiring.
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Always conspiring against the DM.
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We just established this.
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It's always the players against the DM.
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It's players against DM.
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Yeah, that's right.
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That's right.
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I always forget about that.
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Maybe that's why I lose all the time.
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4v1.
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Outnumbered.
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Just outnumbered.
Recap and Game Show Introduction
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Either way, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for sticking with us all the way through six episodes into the seventh.
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Well, technically, I guess it'd be eight episodes because the prequel.
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Regardless, if you remember last episode, we just recorded the other day, so it's pretty fresh in our minds.
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What a doozy that was.
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It's the first, I think.
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real look into maybe what some of the story is going to look like for you guys uh considering we've got a you guys have really good characters and they're really funny which i think is gonna be good for the future um but either way i do have a surprise for everybody today and that is uh we're kind of finding a rhythm for our intros here so we've got another game show for you guys
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Oh no indeed.
Trivia Game and Character Insights
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But this time the game show we're not I'm so sorry cast I can't invite you guys to the game show.
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But if you could go backstage and bring out Talira, Calden, Yellen and Maeve I would very much appreciate that.
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Gotta talk to that guy again?
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Jeez.
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He's always stealing the spotlight.
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She's not going to see me.
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I come up to her knees.
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You come up to her knees.
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I'm at her ankles.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Well, contestants, please come on down to the Destabilizing Foundation character trivia.
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It's going to be fun.
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You guys are going to be answering questions about each of your party members, gaining points, and whoever at the end has the most, if there is any to be had at all, will gain inspiration.
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Oh no.
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Was I supposed to study for this?
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I suddenly am not sure I know anything about any of us, including myself.
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Who are you again?
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What is my name?
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What is your name?
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Talira, I know that!
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Okay.
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I'm glad you confirmed it for me.
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Speaking of Talira's name, if we could, I'm going to ask a question.
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The way this is going to work, I'm going to ask a question.
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You all are going to get five seconds to think.
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And then I'm going to go through the three remaining people that it's not about.
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And you get to give me your answer.
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And I will tell you if you're correct or not.
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After all three have answered, we will have one question about each character.
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You're going to start with Talira.
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Talira.
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So, Talira, if you could please try not to say the answer out loud until we're done.
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I appreciate it.
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But for the rest of you, what is Talira's full name?
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Buzz.
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Talira Grimstone Eculanathi.
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Ding, ding, ding!
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You're not supposed to say if it's correct or not.
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Ha ha ha ha ha!
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All right.
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You didn't tell me that.
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You told me not to answer.
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I did not answer.
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I followed directions as told.
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Were we all supposed to answer and then?
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Yes, I'll answer and then I'll reveal whether it's true or not.
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Now we know.
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Okay.
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Well, I did have it written down.
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Unlike your hand, you just keep all of our names written down on your hand.
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No, I like to keep a full portrait and full first and last name in my pocket at all times, so I don't forget who's who.
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Just in case you got this.
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Could you show that to us, Yellen?
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Oh, I mean, yeah, sure.
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Definitely.
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I don't think I want to know what I look like.
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Maeve, did you know the answer?
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No.
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No.
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Can someone cast on the truth so I can know for sure Yellen's telling the truth?
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Sorry, I already used that spell today.
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Taped out, I'm afraid.
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Obviously, Calden gets a point.
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Yellen, do you actually get a point?
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Well, I do have it written down.
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There you go.
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He does.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Yeah, he does.
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Wow.
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Look at that note taker.
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We love that.
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Fantastic.
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OK, two points.
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One to Calvin and one to Yellen.
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Congratulations.
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That'll be my only point.
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Next up, this one's kind of more of a guess that maybe you guys don't actually know.
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So
Interrogation Conclusion and New Information
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this has a chance of getting no points for sure, because I don't even know the answer.
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We're going to have to have Yellen give the answer.
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Obviously, after everybody gives their answer, what is Yellen's favorite fruit?
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Peach.
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I'm also going to go peach.
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Does that count?
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Or is it a berry?
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Calden says blackberry.
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Does that count as a fruit?
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Blackberry?
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Yeah.
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Blackberry is a fruit, yes.
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It works.
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All right.
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And Maeve, what did you go with?
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I also am going with Peach.
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Okay, Yellen, are any of those correct?
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You know, I do like Peaches.
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Personally, I'm a fan of white Peaches.
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So I'll give Peaches a point there.
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All right.
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Point to Thalira and Maeve.
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I win!
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I do believe we are currently all tied at one point.
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Yes.
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I am winning with everyone else.
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Yay.
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I like doing group things with Talira.
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She's got the spirit.
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She does have the spirit.
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On to the next one.
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This one's going to be about Maeve.
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And everybody just saw it for the first time, with the exception that Talira saw it a couple episodes ago.
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What instrument does Maeve carry?
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Well, she has a lute.
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It was a lute.
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Yellen?
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I just wrote down instrument.
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I'm going to say a fiddle or a lute.
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Maeve, what instrument do you play?
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And if it's multiple, give us all of them.
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That way there can be multiple answers.
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It is... Give me a second because I'm really good with instruments, obviously.
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Got to look at her inventory.
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Mm-hmm.
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I'm just going to say it's a loot.
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It technically is not a loot, but for purposes of keeping things nice and easy, it is a loot.
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That's so fun because you've always said it was a loot.
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I heard too.
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Is it a technicality or are you retconning this on us?
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It's a loot.
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It is a loot.
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I have said it's a loot.
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It is a loot.
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It's technically not a loot, but it's a loot.
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So all three of you get points then?
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Yeah.
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It is a loot.
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It's a loot.
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It is Schrodinger's loot.
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Schrodinger's loot.
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All right, and last but not least, we've got one about Calden, which unfortunately, Calden, I think that puts you uneligible for the win, as everybody is currently... Yes, I knew I wouldn't.
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It's fine.
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Unless nobody knows anything about me.
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That is true.
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That is true.
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But we're going to ask, what is...
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the meal that Calden ordered specifically at the Split Stump Tavern.
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There is a detail that is required to get this point.
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A T-bone.
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Is that your final answer, Talera?
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It was a T-bone, it was blue rare, and he ordered it for me.
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Because I won.
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Maeve, what is your answer?
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I know there was blue meat.
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Yes, I think it... No, yeah.
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No.
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So our friend Calden has iron deficiency, so it was definitely on the blue, the steaky, meaty.
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He really wants bloody meat consistently.
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So...
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He loves bloody meat.
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I'm not sure what he's doing with it, but he loves it.
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Give me my bloody meat.
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What is your answer?
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I do remember a blue bloody steak.
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And then there were drinks for everyone, I believe.
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Alcoholic drinks for everyone except for Yellen.
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Okay.
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Well, we do have to have only one winner.
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So, Calden, I'll let you tell me which one was the most accurate.
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I guess it was Talira, although she did just say that I ordered that for her.
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I ordered a separate meat for her, and I got the food.
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And Yellen did include the drinks, and Talira did not.
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Damn it.
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He did include the drinks.
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And I included why.
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It is a half a point for everyone.
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That's true.
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We all win.
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We're all winners today.
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Everyone proved they knew something about Calden.
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Maeve proved that she knew multiple things about Calden.
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I do pay attention to my comrades.
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I think the best solution here is... I think the best solution here, given how close everything was, is just to give you all inspiration because of how great the last six episodes have been.
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My plan all along.
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The last six episodes have been amazing and audience, if I could give you inspiration, I would too, just for listening this far.
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So again, thank you all.
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On that note though, I'm really curious what's going to happen today, given where we left
Chase and Capture of Verutha
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off.
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So let's get right into it.
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Last we left off, we had ended the interrogation with Hess having found so many new pieces of information.
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Specifically, also after hearing about Verutha is guilty in working alongside this unknown entity.
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in providing some of these children to the Mistborn, the mysterious creatures or folk of the Misty Wood.
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After having enough evidence to at least go question her, you go to her house to find it empty, ransacked and hurriedly packed and left, finding a very obvious hurried trail stretching out, going alongside the main road into the town.
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You all quickly take chase after wrapping up a quick loose end or two.
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And after four days of constant chase, exhausting chase, you finally are able to catch up to her as she had wild shaped into a panther.
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As she was trying to cross a river, or was it a leopard?
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Either way, details.
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It was a leopard.
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It was a leopard.
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It was a leopard.
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Yep.
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There was a leper.
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She said leper at first.
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Thanks for calling me out.
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As she was crossing the river.
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Extra inspiration.
Rift Chaos and Spike Unleashed
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As you all caught up to her, Maeve went ahead, teleported in front of her using her spectral steed, went to stop her as she turned downstream.
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Chase ensued and you finally caught up to her and were able to finally get the questioning you needed after Thalira was able to grab a hold of her and get her grappled and essentially not able to do anything.
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Around this time, also a rift at the nearby...
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bridge over this river from the same road that you had been parallel with this entire chase, a rift opened that you, at least Talira and Maeve, had previously seen with the fire, little fire sprite, and a giant metallic steel spike came flying through it, piercing into the bridge, taking up the entire opening of the rift that you can visibly see.
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Of course, that happened after you're done questioning Maeve, in which questioning was hard.
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You managed to get some answers, but she was very stubborn.
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Although...
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truthful in her words, as if she really wasn't lying.
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She was just rather withholding information.
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And finally, through an act of kindness with Yellen, helping her to maybe find the path that her mother took to the afterlife, she finally opened up, giving you a lead, the name of her betrothed.
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And we rejoin our little party of crazy adventurers at the side of the river.
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is verutha's dead body head set i think maybe you set the head next to the body are you holding it um it would be next to the body i don't really like to hold heads that much i don't think so so yeah head next to the body rift sizzling about half a mile down the downstream
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With new leads, new questions, and discoveries to be met.
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So, what are y'all's next steps?
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Talira, as the head falls, you see her axe.
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She drops her axe on the ground.
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And she finds the nearest tree...
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And just starts punching it.
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She is... not happy about what just happened.
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Hey.
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Calden goes and stands near her.
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As she, like, at the tree, punching, once all of that just... the tension...
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leaves her, you see her just lean against the tree.
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I don't like killing.
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Cal then puts a hand on her back.
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I was going to say shoulder, but I don't think that's possible.
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Probably not, no.
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I know.
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It's never easy.
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She was very bad.
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She was a horrible creature, and she deserved worse.
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I know.
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I know.
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But you're strong.
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There was no fight.
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This doesn't change you.
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You're still Talira.
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You're still just.
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It is not the first time I have killed and it is not going to be the last time.
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It is never easy.
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That's good.
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It's better when it's not.
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It says something about you when it is.
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If it ever gets easy.
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You need to tell me it's time to... I need to give you my axe.
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You know I've always got your back.
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Whatever you need.
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Okay.
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There is a big thing going through that rift.
Dealing with the Rift
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We should probably figure it out.
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Yeah, I think it would be a good idea for that to be our next... focus... at the moment.
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You and Maeve... You said you interacted with one of these before.
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Yes, let's go to the others.
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Who has the sending stone?
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I do.
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Does it only talk to the boat captain?
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Yes.
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Shit.
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A professor could help.
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Sorry, how far away are we from the other town?
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Do we go in that direction or not that direction?
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Are you talking about Orlanus?
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Yes.
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This would have put more distance between you and Orlanus.
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You were going parallel of the coast of the Creole Gulf.
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To go to Orlanus, you'd have to go directly through the mountain path, which is a long mountain path.
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She couldn't even lead us the right direction.
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How did you guys deal with one of these rifts before?
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Talira built it a house.
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Sorry?
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Oh, yes, I chopped down wood...
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And then I moved the logs around the rift, but the rift was very small and it was low to the ground and it was much easier to build a house.
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This is not going to be so easy.
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Then we met the professor and the professor was able to close the rift for us.
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I can try one of my spells, but I can't guarantee or do anything.
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It didn't last time.
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Do you have something that is specifically designed to dispel magics?
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It's a one-time use kind of thing.
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Oh, okay.
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How far away are we from it?
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You are currently about, I believe it was half a mile.
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Is there...
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Any energy signatures that are coming off of it towards us, like heat or wind or anything like that that we can feel?
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Yeah, you can't feel anything by any means, but you can see the brightness from the ring around it where it is entering into this plane.
00:20:04
Speaker
And almost from this distance, you probably can't see anything.
00:20:08
Speaker
But Talira and Maeve have the experience to know what that sounds like and what it looks like.
00:20:16
Speaker
We are days from town where the professor is.
00:20:22
Speaker
What happens if this thing is left?
00:20:24
Speaker
Did he say?
00:20:25
Speaker
Well, it is a rift and you can travel in and out of.
00:20:33
Speaker
So people would get into the elemental plane.
00:20:39
Speaker
Currently, the spike you see is still through the rift.
00:20:45
Speaker
That's why you can see the light around.
00:20:48
Speaker
I mean, it's not actually the base of whatever this is, but it is where it is entering the space or this plane.
00:20:57
Speaker
And that is still there, so it's still light sizzling around it as if it is still technically entering through the portal, through the rift.
00:21:07
Speaker
and it's not moving anymore because it's impaled through the bridge into the bottom of the riverbed.
00:21:13
Speaker
But it is a little bit above the bridge.
00:21:17
Speaker
So just if that gives you any more details, that would be useful.
00:21:21
Speaker
I guess we've got our one shot then.
00:21:24
Speaker
I think it might be best to prepare for battle in case something does come through if we are to fail.
00:21:33
Speaker
Um...
00:21:35
Speaker
or as we get close regardless, then if we do fail this, or if I fail this one, might be best to make another house to stop people from getting close.
00:21:49
Speaker
Just a larger house with no roof on it.
00:21:54
Speaker
I can try.
00:21:56
Speaker
Might take a little more time, but do we have the time?
00:22:02
Speaker
I guess we'll have to deal with that when it comes to it.
00:22:05
Speaker
Yes.
00:22:07
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:08
Speaker
And I do have to spell magic if we could try that as well, or if it would help it at all.
00:22:14
Speaker
That might help quite a lot.
00:22:16
Speaker
Yeah, you're like, what, level four max spell slot?
00:22:23
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:26
Speaker
That would also help.
00:22:27
Speaker
If I fail, that would be next job.
00:22:29
Speaker
So do you all start approaching it then?
00:22:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:31
Speaker
Yes.
00:22:33
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:35
Speaker
You all start walking down.
00:22:38
Speaker
As you all approach this half-mile walk towards the bridge, you see the bridge is wider and bigger than you probably would have maybe expected.
00:22:45
Speaker
It's what would be like three lanes wide of like a wagon.
00:22:51
Speaker
And sure enough, about 30 feet roughly above it,
00:22:56
Speaker
is where this rift begins and a giant spike piercing through, splintering through the wood into the riverbed.
00:23:03
Speaker
And this spike, probably a solid 20 feet wide at the rift.
00:23:12
Speaker
It's narrowing down quite literally like a spike, like I had described it.
00:23:17
Speaker
As you get nearer, you can start to hear the sizzling of this almost electrical sound.
00:23:22
Speaker
Almost like lightning.
00:23:23
Speaker
Ooh, that was crisp.
00:23:26
Speaker
That was good.
00:23:27
Speaker
That was a real good one.
00:23:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:32
Speaker
What a good distraction.
00:23:33
Speaker
I feel like that's going to be a thing on the show now.
00:23:37
Speaker
I forgot my liquid death today.
00:23:41
Speaker
I know.
00:23:43
Speaker
I know.
00:23:44
Speaker
But yeah, and you can say as you get closer, it very much, you can't confirm it obviously without testing it or touching it, but it straight up looks like stainless steel.
00:23:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:54
Speaker
Do we know what stainless steel is?
00:23:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:58
Speaker
I was curious about that also.
00:24:02
Speaker
Probably.
00:24:05
Speaker
It probably wouldn't be named stainless steel in Aeon, but there would be similar very, very, very expensive alloys that would only be like in the super rich.
00:24:20
Speaker
So would I have interacted with it before?
00:24:22
Speaker
Would I know about it?
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah, maybe.
00:24:27
Speaker
A little hint about Caldon, I guess.
00:24:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:30
Speaker
Is Caldon rich?
00:24:32
Speaker
Some you didn't expect to hear about Caldon.
00:24:35
Speaker
Where's Eve?
00:24:37
Speaker
Also, does Caldon show any kind of reaction like he knows what this is?
00:24:41
Speaker
Wait, what?
00:24:46
Speaker
There you go.
00:24:48
Speaker
I mean, he would have been walking up to this with a pretty, like, concentrated...
00:24:54
Speaker
look on his face anyway but as as we got closer and it became more obvious what sort of material this could be made of he definitely would look he wouldn't have looked necessarily alarmed that might be too strong of a word but somewhere between alarmed and confused i guess if you were paying attention if you weren't necessarily looking it might just look the same
00:25:21
Speaker
Sure, you can perception against Calvin.
00:25:24
Speaker
I think it would be insight, I think, not perception.
00:25:28
Speaker
Yeah, it would be insight.
00:25:30
Speaker
Can I just keep my... Well, what's your insight?
00:25:36
Speaker
Let's see.
00:25:39
Speaker
Talira is just fascinated by this metal sticking out of... Can she see herself through it?
00:25:48
Speaker
Um...
00:25:49
Speaker
This would make a really good axe.
00:25:52
Speaker
With a 17, what is your role, Renny, if you're trying to do anything?
00:26:00
Speaker
I don't think he was trying to hide anything.
00:26:03
Speaker
It was just subtle.
00:26:04
Speaker
Okay.
00:26:05
Speaker
17's a pretty good role.
00:26:06
Speaker
I'll allow you to tell me what more maybe she might be able to get out of that.
00:26:12
Speaker
I think Maeve might have been able to read the alarm.
00:26:16
Speaker
I think that would have been the most subtle of the emotions.
00:26:20
Speaker
Does Maeve know what type of metal this is?
00:26:26
Speaker
I mean, you probably wouldn't know what it is, but it probably wouldn't be the first time you've seen steel that looks like this.
00:26:36
Speaker
Obviously not in this necessarily specific case being a giant spike, but as far as the shine of stainless steel and the reflectivity and things like that, you might have seen something.
00:26:47
Speaker
But it's also, you could probably mistake it for just really polished steel.
00:26:52
Speaker
That's true.
00:26:53
Speaker
Okay.
00:26:54
Speaker
If you don't really know what you're looking at too well.
00:26:56
Speaker
So we're quite close now to it?
00:27:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:01
Speaker
You guys can approach it at whatever pace you would like.
00:27:05
Speaker
Okay, I think we should prepare in case something comes out of this portal.
00:27:10
Speaker
Kalden, I know you like high places, so is there a tree, a specific tree that you might find you'd have the best advantage point in case we are ambushed?
00:27:21
Speaker
Yeah, I can climb up that one.
00:27:23
Speaker
It's kind of overhanging a bit.
00:27:26
Speaker
Sounds good.
00:27:28
Speaker
Talira, you have your axe.
00:27:32
Speaker
Axe and shield.
00:27:37
Speaker
And we have Yellen's good attitude.
00:27:43
Speaker
Yep, always here.
00:27:44
Speaker
100%.
00:27:44
Speaker
Right behind you.
00:27:46
Speaker
Oh, my gosh.
00:27:55
Speaker
Okay, Yellen, since you do have that,
00:28:00
Speaker
backup spell.
00:28:01
Speaker
Maybe say a little bit back, but in case I fail, you'll have to step in and I'll go behind you.
00:28:07
Speaker
Okay, yep.
00:28:10
Speaker
So, places.
00:28:12
Speaker
And I take out my loot.
00:28:14
Speaker
That's exactly how you scurry, like a gecko.
00:28:17
Speaker
Yes, exactly.
00:28:18
Speaker
Thank you.
00:28:18
Speaker
I was going to say, just imagine a gecko scaring up.
00:28:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:27
Speaker
Maybe you consider how strange it is that he climbs trees like that.
00:28:34
Speaker
Seems normal to me.
00:28:36
Speaker
Calvin is so cool and aloof.
00:28:39
Speaker
Why does he climb trees like that?
00:28:41
Speaker
What the fuck?
00:28:46
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:47
Speaker
So you cast a spell magic?
Dispel Magic Success and Bridge Damage
00:28:51
Speaker
Yes, with my loot.
00:28:52
Speaker
So I play a little tomb.
00:28:55
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:57
Speaker
And what level are you casting it out?
00:28:59
Speaker
Just to make sure.
00:28:59
Speaker
Third level.
00:29:01
Speaker
Third level.
00:29:04
Speaker
Okay, so you need to make a ability check using your spellcasting ability.
00:29:09
Speaker
So...
00:29:12
Speaker
Yep.
00:29:13
Speaker
Let me know what's your role.
00:29:14
Speaker
I know what I'm doing, I swear to God.
00:29:16
Speaker
I don't think any of my abilities allows me to aid other people.
00:29:21
Speaker
I think I'm a very selfish individual in that regard, unfortunately.
00:29:25
Speaker
And I think Talira, she's very...
00:29:32
Speaker
one track with her abilities.
00:29:34
Speaker
10 plus a level on the spell.
00:29:38
Speaker
So it is... That's the DC that I'm setting.
00:29:41
Speaker
You have to make a roll a d20 and add your spellcasting modifier.
00:29:46
Speaker
I think I might be able to cast 8 on you.
00:29:48
Speaker
Let me double check.
00:29:49
Speaker
Yes, I'll cast 8 on you.
00:29:52
Speaker
Yay, what does that do?
00:29:54
Speaker
Wait, never mind.
00:29:55
Speaker
8 is not what I thought it was.
00:29:56
Speaker
Depressing.
00:29:58
Speaker
Guidance would probably work if anybody has guidance.
00:30:01
Speaker
I have guidance.
00:30:02
Speaker
But I'm casting the spell.
00:30:04
Speaker
Can't do that at the same time.
00:30:06
Speaker
You can cast guidance on yourself before you cast the spell.
00:30:11
Speaker
If DM allows.
00:30:12
Speaker
If DM allows.
00:30:13
Speaker
Or Yellen.
00:30:15
Speaker
Pretty sure Yellen has guidance.
00:30:17
Speaker
I don't think I have.
00:30:18
Speaker
That's what I was looking for.
00:30:19
Speaker
That's what I thought aid was.
00:30:20
Speaker
You're a cleric without guidance?
00:30:22
Speaker
You're a clerk.
00:30:23
Speaker
What?
00:30:24
Speaker
I do have guidance.
00:30:24
Speaker
You're a clerk?
00:30:27
Speaker
I will cast guidance.
00:30:29
Speaker
You do have guidance?
00:30:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:32
Speaker
Yes.
00:30:33
Speaker
Okay.
00:30:36
Speaker
20.
00:30:36
Speaker
Roll.
00:30:39
Speaker
That's depressing.
00:30:42
Speaker
Plus guidance.
00:30:45
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:30:45
Speaker
DC is 19, by the way.
00:30:47
Speaker
Yeah, no.
00:30:47
Speaker
It wasn't that.
00:30:50
Speaker
Well, we have inspiration.
00:30:51
Speaker
That's true.
00:30:53
Speaker
We do have inspiration.
00:30:55
Speaker
For the record, this is a great time to bring this up because our audience does not also know what the homebrew table rules are of inspiration in this.
00:31:02
Speaker
Do you all remember from the checklist I had given you?
00:31:05
Speaker
Because we also went over it in our session zero.
00:31:08
Speaker
Just before you use it, I want you to remember what the uses for it are because it's more the normal D&D inspiration.
00:31:15
Speaker
It's more akin to the new heroic inspiration rules, right?
00:31:19
Speaker
It can be generalized out much more.
00:31:23
Speaker
So the rules for inspiration are that A, you can use it as normal inspiration to re-roll a roll, or if you all...
00:31:34
Speaker
You can have up to two inspiration at a time.
00:31:36
Speaker
And if you all have two inspiration, you can then essentially cash in all of your inspiration together to get either an ability score improvement or a feat.
00:31:48
Speaker
Oh.
00:31:50
Speaker
You get a training montage, essentially, during some downtime that you get to be able to get one, essentially, train for a new skill.
00:31:59
Speaker
Do we want to just see if Yellen can do this?
00:32:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:03
Speaker
All right.
00:32:05
Speaker
That's why I want to go ahead and bring it up.
00:32:07
Speaker
I will step back.
00:32:07
Speaker
Audience, if you like that, feel free to use it at your own tables.
00:32:11
Speaker
You can cast Guidance on him?
00:32:13
Speaker
Yes, I will cast Guidance on him.
00:32:16
Speaker
All right.
00:32:20
Speaker
I scratch your back, you scratch mine.
00:32:21
Speaker
It's all D&D.
00:32:24
Speaker
That dice went under the table.
00:32:26
Speaker
Uh-oh.
00:32:28
Speaker
Oh, hey, that's pretty good, though.
00:32:31
Speaker
Plus Guidance.
00:32:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:35
Speaker
24.
00:32:36
Speaker
Hell yeah!
00:32:38
Speaker
24.
00:32:39
Speaker
Damn.
00:32:39
Speaker
Alright.
00:32:41
Speaker
Alright.
00:32:42
Speaker
I didn't think you guys were going to pass that check.
00:32:44
Speaker
That's good.
00:32:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:46
Speaker
So, describe to me what your dispel magic looks like to try to dispel this gate between planes.
00:32:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:56
Speaker
So, as I kind of open my hands and I start to say my prayer...
00:33:03
Speaker
my holy symbol appears, which is all of the little circles in front of it.
00:33:08
Speaker
And they all kind of converge into one.
00:33:10
Speaker
And as it does, the plane closes.
00:33:14
Speaker
Nice.
00:33:15
Speaker
I love that.
00:33:16
Speaker
As, as you dispel this, the electricity, the crackling starts to fade and the light starts to fade.
00:33:23
Speaker
And as it does, it moves in on itself and you can stop seeing the light because it moves into the spike.
00:33:32
Speaker
Shearing it off.
00:33:35
Speaker
And when it finally closes, the connection to whatever the rest of it was is gone.
00:33:40
Speaker
And the amount of weight at the top side now holding on to nothing else tips it and it falls in, crashing into the rest of the bridge and pulling up dirt from the riverbed as it destroys half this bridge with a super loud crash and thump.
00:33:58
Speaker
A massive splash of water as it is now damming up a portion, the right side portion of this entire river.
00:34:08
Speaker
We're going to need to move that very fast.
00:34:09
Speaker
We're going to need to fix that.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah, we are.
00:34:15
Speaker
Now, water is still passing over the left side because, like I said, it gets thinner.
00:34:19
Speaker
But it is damming up the right side, causing essentially flow to get quicker on the other side.
00:34:26
Speaker
Okay, Talira, that sounds like you're up.
00:34:31
Speaker
Oh, shit, okay.
00:34:34
Speaker
What am I moving exactly?
00:34:35
Speaker
Is it the biggest spike thing?
00:34:37
Speaker
The big spike thing, yes.
00:34:40
Speaker
Excellent.
00:34:42
Speaker
And she's like, okay, where is our rope?
00:34:51
Speaker
I toss my rope because you guys hadn't used mine yet, I don't think.
00:34:56
Speaker
Cool.
00:34:57
Speaker
Talira is going to tie together some kind of rig to hoist the big metal spike.
00:35:07
Speaker
And I will make sure I'll go.
00:35:12
Speaker
Can I try without going big lady first?
00:35:16
Speaker
And then if it doesn't succeed, she'll be I can I can try again.
00:35:20
Speaker
Big lady or will I only get one shot at this?
00:35:23
Speaker
Okay.
00:35:23
Speaker
No, you can do that.
00:35:24
Speaker
So ability checks will get harder every consecutive time you try if you don't change anything about the way you're doing it.
00:35:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:35:32
Speaker
But since you would be going big lady, you just get a retry.
00:35:35
Speaker
But nice.
00:35:36
Speaker
When we get like close to it, like if we're close to touch, does it have any sort of like, again, energy, like electromagnetic energy, anything that we like feel coming off of it as we get close to it, like before touching it or anything?
00:35:53
Speaker
No.
00:35:53
Speaker
Okay.
00:35:53
Speaker
It seems like a giant piece of metal.
00:35:55
Speaker
Okay.
00:35:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:57
Speaker
It seems very mundane, to be honest.
00:35:59
Speaker
It's even a little bit cool to the touch almost.
00:36:02
Speaker
Not like cold, but like as if it hasn't been heated, you know, like at all.
00:36:06
Speaker
Is there any way we can take some of this?
00:36:09
Speaker
This is like the best material.
00:36:12
Speaker
This would make so much money.
00:36:16
Speaker
I'm sure we can bring her back to the town with us if we're able to.
00:36:21
Speaker
It's huge.
00:36:21
Speaker
How are you going to... How big is this thing against... It's like, what, 20 feet?
00:36:28
Speaker
It was 20 feet wide at its base, and it was piercing from about 30 feet, 20 to 30 feet above the bridge, down through the 10 foot under the bridge, like into the river.
00:36:40
Speaker
This thing has to weigh more than a ton, at least.
00:36:44
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:36:45
Speaker
I chose stainless steel for a reason because I work with it.
00:36:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:50
Speaker
With everything I do for my career.
00:36:53
Speaker
It's heavy as fuck.
00:36:55
Speaker
Maybe not.
00:36:56
Speaker
Stainless is not fucking light.
00:36:57
Speaker
Okay.
00:37:00
Speaker
I'm going to... It's also very hard to work with.
00:37:06
Speaker
Perfect.
00:37:07
Speaker
I'm going to cast Bardic Inspiration on Talira.
00:37:11
Speaker
Excellent.
00:37:12
Speaker
And...
00:37:15
Speaker
And go, I believe in you.
00:37:18
Speaker
You've got guts.
00:37:22
Speaker
All right.
00:37:24
Speaker
Let's do this.
00:37:25
Speaker
And Talira, yeah, takes the rope and creates some kind of grip for it around her pack.
00:37:36
Speaker
And tries to... Should we help?
00:37:39
Speaker
I'm scared.
00:37:40
Speaker
Should we use a hole or two?
00:37:43
Speaker
She's not the smartest.
00:37:45
Speaker
Maybe.
00:37:47
Speaker
I just did an estimate on the weight.
00:37:50
Speaker
Fucking hell.
00:37:52
Speaker
How many tons are we talking?
00:37:54
Speaker
Like 10?
00:37:54
Speaker
1,538,790 pounds.
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah, that's not what we mean.
00:38:00
Speaker
Her feet are just like in the mud and she's on a treadmill.
00:38:05
Speaker
She pops blood vessels in her eyes and now her eyes are like red.
00:38:11
Speaker
I think it would be easy just to reroute the river at this point.
00:38:15
Speaker
It might be.
00:38:16
Speaker
It will have to be cut into lots of pieces.
00:38:19
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:38:21
Speaker
If you melt it, then it can be transported.
00:38:27
Speaker
Stainless is not meltable very well.
00:38:31
Speaker
It will ruin the metal generally.
00:38:33
Speaker
I also don't recommend even almost attempting to use it for weapons.
00:38:36
Speaker
It's not very flexible.
00:38:39
Speaker
Very brittle.
00:38:42
Speaker
When thin and stuff.
00:38:44
Speaker
Yes.
00:38:44
Speaker
So it would not make a good axe.
00:38:46
Speaker
That is the bad metal.
00:38:47
Speaker
Why would you have this metal?
00:38:50
Speaker
It wouldn't make a good axe.
00:38:52
Speaker
Stainless is very, very hard metal.
00:38:55
Speaker
But when thin and you hit it from like the weak point.
00:39:00
Speaker
It's brittle.
00:39:00
Speaker
Yeah, it's brittle.
00:39:01
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:39:01
Speaker
But for like a hammer.
00:39:03
Speaker
Right.
00:39:03
Speaker
But if you made like a really thick, solid hammer on all sides and then, yeah, that thing's going to hurt like hell.
00:39:11
Speaker
It would make a terrible sword because swords need to have an amount of flexibility in the metal.
00:39:16
Speaker
Yeah, that's why you would use, what, spring steel?
00:39:20
Speaker
Yeah, depending on whether you're going to do, because like Damascus is folded and there's all different kinds of alloys.
00:39:28
Speaker
My blacksmith friend works with forge-welded Damascus, and they've made some of those beautiful knives and swords, yeah.
00:39:37
Speaker
It's all about what other minerals that you melt into it to make the different alloys.
00:39:41
Speaker
That way it's flexible.
00:39:44
Speaker
Stainless is the opposite of flexible.
00:39:46
Speaker
Right, yeah.
00:39:46
Speaker
Talira does not know this at all.
00:39:48
Speaker
Of course not.
00:39:49
Speaker
It's excellent for dishware and cooking pots.
00:39:56
Speaker
Oh.
00:39:57
Speaker
Yes, so I don't think we're going to be able to move it.
Debating the Spike's Fate
00:40:00
Speaker
Anybody have a shovel?
00:40:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:04
Speaker
Just like on you for some reason.
00:40:05
Speaker
I have an X. Yes.
00:40:09
Speaker
No shovel.
00:40:10
Speaker
All right.
00:40:12
Speaker
Well, we're gonna have to dig somehow.
00:40:17
Speaker
Is there anybody around?
00:40:19
Speaker
Or like any like settlements or like anything like that?
00:40:23
Speaker
Let me see.
00:40:24
Speaker
What do I have in my inventory here?
00:40:27
Speaker
Was Verruta wearing armor to where you could take an armor plate and just start using that to dig through the mud?
00:40:33
Speaker
That's a good question.
00:40:34
Speaker
She was wearing no armor.
00:40:36
Speaker
That's kind of what I figured.
00:40:38
Speaker
So as far as like another settlement, if you guys do look in visuals, if you remember you were given a regional map for having the contract.
00:40:48
Speaker
Now that visual map lacks a lot of names for towns because I don't have them yet.
00:40:53
Speaker
Because that is a point that actually...
00:40:56
Speaker
As a world building opportunity, I wanted to give that to audience members if we got to a point where we're going to other towns for audience members to start giving us options, for instance, like on Patreon and things like that.
00:41:08
Speaker
But in the fact that we don't have that yet, if you guys do travel to a town that is not named on there, I will allow one of you all to name it.
00:41:15
Speaker
If, of course, you want to.
00:41:16
Speaker
If not, then I'll obviously name it.
00:41:18
Speaker
I have no problem doing that.
00:41:22
Speaker
Look at me.
00:41:22
Speaker
All right.
00:41:22
Speaker
So where on this map are we?
00:41:24
Speaker
Are we on the the hollow one?
00:41:27
Speaker
The so the river you guys see where Navo is.
00:41:31
Speaker
So you see where Navo is.
00:41:33
Speaker
There is a river that goes right next to it.
00:41:35
Speaker
That is not the one you all are at.
00:41:36
Speaker
That's the river that runs near Navo.
00:41:38
Speaker
Navo.
00:41:40
Speaker
The rivers that are on this map are generally larger than the one you're in.
00:41:43
Speaker
So it is not pictured.
00:41:44
Speaker
It is about halfway between the river next to Novoa and the next river to the left on the coastline, about halfway in between.
00:41:53
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:54
Speaker
So this river would just lead back into the Gulf.
00:42:00
Speaker
It does.
00:42:00
Speaker
It goes.
00:42:01
Speaker
Well, then that's not.
00:42:02
Speaker
It comes right down.
00:42:03
Speaker
That's not important necessarily for us to worry about.
00:42:06
Speaker
It'll make a lake here, but it's not like we're cutting off water to a civilization anywhere.
00:42:15
Speaker
No.
00:42:15
Speaker
You guys can tell, by the way, the river obviously very quickly, mind you, starts to divert itself.
00:42:21
Speaker
And it does start to be pushed onto the shore on the left side a little bit.
00:42:24
Speaker
And it looks like it may affect the bridge a little bit.
00:42:26
Speaker
Well, the bridge is already broken.
00:42:28
Speaker
As it starts to wear down sediment.
00:42:30
Speaker
Yeah, the bridge is dead.
00:42:32
Speaker
Precisely.
00:42:33
Speaker
It'll settle itself.
00:42:35
Speaker
This is looking like not a problem.
00:42:38
Speaker
You are... Do we want some of this metal?
00:42:42
Speaker
I'm not quite sure for what other than to try and sell it, but I don't know that anyone in Nevoa would be able to afford it.
00:42:49
Speaker
That is true.
00:42:51
Speaker
We take it back to the city?
00:42:54
Speaker
Oh, if you have a way of getting it, it's hard.
00:42:57
Speaker
You can't just cut it.
00:43:00
Speaker
Well, then.
00:43:02
Speaker
Bye-bye, metal.
00:43:03
Speaker
The good news is probably nobody else can come and take it either.
00:43:06
Speaker
So if we find a way to transport it later, we can probably just come back.
00:43:11
Speaker
True.
00:43:11
Speaker
And maybe Siobhan knows how to take care of it.
00:43:14
Speaker
And that would be good for her.
00:43:17
Speaker
So I think we should grab the body and make our way back to town.
00:43:25
Speaker
Did we promise to bury the body?
00:43:28
Speaker
Actually, no, we did not because she just kept on talking before any of us promised to do that.
00:43:34
Speaker
Actually, I promised, but I wasn't under the zone of truth.
00:43:41
Speaker
I'm pretty sure that happened before the Zone of Truth, though.
00:43:45
Speaker
No, during the Zone of Truth, I said something about agreeing to bury her behind her house with her family.
00:43:54
Speaker
Though I think the children's graveyard might be a more suitable place for her.
00:44:05
Speaker
Hmm.
00:44:06
Speaker
We've already done her kindness by sending her on our way to her mom or whatever.
00:44:11
Speaker
It's not us to judge her in the afterlife.
00:44:15
Speaker
It's not up to us.
00:44:17
Speaker
Speaking of that, Yellen, the spike appearing through this rift right after she died interrupted your rites, your ritual, and had distracted you.
00:44:37
Speaker
What is it?
00:44:38
Speaker
How, what does it look like?
00:44:40
Speaker
And what do you do for the dead to help find their way?
00:44:47
Speaker
If I'm, if I was distracted or.
00:44:50
Speaker
Like if you're going to go back and like restart.
00:44:53
Speaker
Oh man.
00:44:54
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:56
Speaker
Well,
00:44:58
Speaker
You see as Yellen takes out, or it probably would already be there.
00:45:01
Speaker
He has a lantern out.
00:45:03
Speaker
It's probably been knocked over, so he picks it back up.
00:45:06
Speaker
And almost through the smoke coming out of the lantern, a path is being unveiled.
00:45:16
Speaker
That's cool as shit.
00:45:19
Speaker
That is super fucking cool.
00:45:21
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:45:23
Speaker
And he's, he kind of, he says a few words and at the end he's like, I don't wish you luck for what you did.
00:45:32
Speaker
Maybe you'll find your way.
00:45:34
Speaker
I like it.
00:45:36
Speaker
All right.
Return to Navoa Planning
00:45:38
Speaker
Very cool.
00:45:40
Speaker
As you all gather the body, pack it up onto Jackie, maybe, or if you respawn your spectral steed, um,
00:45:51
Speaker
I assume you all begin your trek back to Navoa, correct?
00:45:54
Speaker
The steed never left.
00:45:57
Speaker
Spectral steed never left.
00:45:58
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:00
Speaker
So it took us four days to get here racing.
00:46:06
Speaker
Was that correct?
00:46:07
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:09
Speaker
Correct.
00:46:10
Speaker
How long would it take on the return then?
00:46:16
Speaker
Assuming you're going to stop and rest at night and take full resting and not racing.
00:46:22
Speaker
Yeah, I would probably say double the time because you're going to stop to actually sleep.
00:46:27
Speaker
You're not going to travel probably quite at the same speed.
00:46:29
Speaker
So I'm going to just make an assumption to say double the amount of time.
00:46:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:34
Speaker
So one night as we are camped then, unless anyone has something they want to bring up prior to that time skip,
00:46:45
Speaker
No.
00:46:47
Speaker
She gave us a lead with her betrothed or whatever.
00:46:52
Speaker
She didn't know when he was arriving and it's going to be more than a week by the time we get back.
00:46:58
Speaker
He may have come and gone.
00:47:02
Speaker
That is true.
00:47:04
Speaker
Maybe he's waiting at her shop, however.
00:47:06
Speaker
That'd be convenient, but convenience hasn't really decided to grace us with its presence very much.
00:47:14
Speaker
But she also didn't know where, to my knowledge.
00:47:18
Speaker
Also, I'm going to... Is there a way to not make the body smell bad?
00:47:25
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:47:25
Speaker
I'll cast Gentle Repose on it.
00:47:27
Speaker
Thank you.
00:47:28
Speaker
I'll have done that.
00:47:29
Speaker
Thank you.
00:47:30
Speaker
I was going to say that, but my mic was off.
00:47:33
Speaker
After it started smelling.
00:47:37
Speaker
Flies started to gather, and it's like, oh, shit.
00:47:39
Speaker
He's like, oh, I forgot.
00:47:41
Speaker
Sorry, guys.
Camping, Moose Hunt, and Bonding
00:47:46
Speaker
So if we're camped, you know, Calvin's actually going to go out and go hunting for some fresh game.
00:47:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:58
Speaker
Yeah, roll me a survival check to see how well that goes.
00:48:01
Speaker
All right.
00:48:03
Speaker
A 23.
00:48:03
Speaker
Damn.
00:48:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:08
Speaker
What do you want to catch?
00:48:10
Speaker
What do you want to catch?
00:48:11
Speaker
Did everybody else want some?
00:48:14
Speaker
Yeah?
00:48:15
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:48:17
Speaker
Talira is never going to say no to fresh meat.
00:48:21
Speaker
I think these are colder, more mountainous areas.
00:48:28
Speaker
Is that correct?
00:48:29
Speaker
That would be correct.
00:48:31
Speaker
It's very much like, frankly, around Oregon and all that, but then Pacific Northwest.
00:48:37
Speaker
Oh, well.
00:48:38
Speaker
Those mountainsides.
00:48:39
Speaker
We don't have these, but I was thinking maybe moose, something akin to moose.
00:48:45
Speaker
Yeah, that would be there.
00:48:45
Speaker
So, like, same mountain range if you go up into Canada, where the moose are.
00:48:48
Speaker
Like, all similar to this area, so.
00:48:51
Speaker
It is very large.
00:48:54
Speaker
And a lot of meat we're going to have to cure.
00:48:56
Speaker
Well, we're feeding a talira, so.
00:48:59
Speaker
That's fair.
00:49:00
Speaker
He went for the biggest thing he could find.
00:49:03
Speaker
Yeah, that's true.
00:49:04
Speaker
So, here's my question.
00:49:05
Speaker
How did you get it back to camp?
00:49:09
Speaker
I... After successfully killing it, which...
00:49:15
Speaker
modern day hunters would be so pleased, especially taxidermists, because Calden doesn't leave a mark with how he kills things.
00:49:24
Speaker
Nice.
00:49:26
Speaker
So it goes down.
00:49:29
Speaker
It's, we can try and see if he can drag it back, but more than likely he would make his way back to camp and be like, Talira, I caught food, but I'm going to need your help.
00:49:44
Speaker
It's enough for all of us, so.
00:49:46
Speaker
Mommy, help.
00:49:49
Speaker
Darling, could you pop on over?
00:49:52
Speaker
And then you just see Talira, fireman carrying a moose back to camp.
00:49:56
Speaker
Drag the carcass back.
00:49:58
Speaker
That's badass.
00:49:59
Speaker
I love that.
00:50:00
Speaker
Be a dear.
00:50:02
Speaker
Not that one, though.
00:50:04
Speaker
Not this.
00:50:05
Speaker
This is mousse.
00:50:07
Speaker
You all get it dressed, start curing the meat, and get a campfire going to start cooking it.
00:50:13
Speaker
It starts smelling really good.
00:50:13
Speaker
Does anybody have any seasonings or anything or herbs that you would put on the meat?
00:50:18
Speaker
Or is it just going to be straight?
00:50:19
Speaker
Does anybody have the salt of deliciousness?
00:50:23
Speaker
I was just curious.
00:50:24
Speaker
Nope.
00:50:24
Speaker
I don't know what some of you all may have added to your inventory.
00:50:26
Speaker
Does anybody have prostitutations?
00:50:28
Speaker
Because if you have prestidigitation, you can also flavor it.
00:50:32
Speaker
Oh, I do have that.
00:50:35
Speaker
I don't.
00:50:35
Speaker
I have some holy water we could put on it.
00:50:37
Speaker
I don't know how that would taste.
00:50:39
Speaker
I have holy water too.
00:50:40
Speaker
Make it spicy, but not for us.
00:50:47
Speaker
as you all start to eat it, obviously moose, they're herbivores.
00:50:52
Speaker
They're going to eat a lot of leaves, twigs, even bark and aquatic plants.
00:50:57
Speaker
As you start to eat it, you almost, you taste a sweet kind of tart flavor.
00:51:04
Speaker
And Talira, you've recognized this and probably Calvin as well with some of the adventuring you've done and then having to get fresh meat.
00:51:11
Speaker
You taste this in bear a lot when you know, when you've like,
00:51:16
Speaker
caught them mid-foraging and they were eating like blueberries.
00:51:22
Speaker
Seems the moose might have ingested some while trying to eat on a bush.
00:51:26
Speaker
There must be some blueberries around here.
00:51:32
Speaker
I don't know how you know that.
00:51:35
Speaker
It tastes like it in the meat.
00:51:37
Speaker
Oh.
00:51:37
Speaker
Yeah, you can tell by the meat.
00:51:41
Speaker
Natural meat flavoring.
00:51:43
Speaker
Oh.
00:51:43
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:45
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:46
Speaker
With fresh game, the flavor of the meat, the accents to it changed depending on what the animal has eaten recently.
00:51:54
Speaker
Fun fact.
00:51:55
Speaker
Thank you for explaining that weird feller in the sky.
00:52:01
Speaker
The voices are in my head.
00:52:03
Speaker
It just beams down.
00:52:05
Speaker
It's like the Teletubbies sun face.
00:52:10
Speaker
You're sitting there eating meat facts.
00:52:13
Speaker
Fun fact.
00:52:13
Speaker
Fun fact.
00:52:17
Speaker
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
00:52:19
Speaker
But yeah, as you guys are kind of like cooking this and you start to eat and chilling out around the campfire, it's it's a beautiful night.
00:52:27
Speaker
There's a soft breeze coming off the coast that, you know, you can't see from here, but, you know, it's not far away.
00:52:32
Speaker
And it's a somewhat clear night looking through the hazy, sulfur-filled atmosphere.
00:52:39
Speaker
The sparkliness of the atmosphere not really visible at night except around the haze around the three moons.
00:52:45
Speaker
But the piercing of bright stars still make their way through for you to be able to tell the difference in them.
00:52:53
Speaker
With the emerald, the purple, and let me... Oh, God, I don't want to get this wrong.
00:53:02
Speaker
I want to make sure I get the colors of the moons right.
00:53:07
Speaker
Yeah, you see the three moons with two of them, the largest and the smallest, overlapping each other completely, essentially giving a full small moon of a deep purple that is overlapped by a rich green.
00:53:22
Speaker
And then the middle one further along the horizon, the one that
00:53:29
Speaker
makes a path around the planet once a year while the others move quickly through the night.
00:53:36
Speaker
The middle one being almost like a bright violet, almost like UV, like a UV light.
00:53:45
Speaker
Giving a very serene, calm, very relaxing atmosphere as the crackling of the fire sits around.
00:53:54
Speaker
Is this like night one or is it a few nights after?
00:53:57
Speaker
Have we had a long rest since now?
00:54:00
Speaker
We'll say this is night one.
00:54:05
Speaker
Rude.
00:54:06
Speaker
So Verutha at least is not getting too smelly.
00:54:09
Speaker
She's not stinky yet.
00:54:11
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:54:12
Speaker
Well, he's cast gentle repose, so.
00:54:14
Speaker
Right.
00:54:16
Speaker
She'll be all right.
00:54:16
Speaker
She's frozen and aging.
00:54:18
Speaker
So does everyone want to tell spooky ghost stories around the campfire or talk about boys?
00:54:24
Speaker
Who are you and what have you done with Kalden?
00:54:30
Speaker
He's acting so weird.
00:54:34
Speaker
Is this funny?
00:54:38
Speaker
He's let his hair down.
00:54:39
Speaker
The voice is changing again.
00:54:45
Speaker
That is so funny.
00:54:46
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:54:47
Speaker
His voice is changing again.
00:54:51
Speaker
He's a chameleon like that.
00:54:53
Speaker
Don't you guys still have that wine as well?
00:54:56
Speaker
Do you still have the wine?
00:54:58
Speaker
I mean, yes, I kind of like threw it in front of her to Aura Farm a little bit.
00:55:02
Speaker
I said, you forgot something.
00:55:04
Speaker
Then I picked it back up.
00:55:06
Speaker
It didn't break?
00:55:07
Speaker
That's amazing.
00:55:08
Speaker
What is this bottle made of?
00:55:10
Speaker
I threw it in the mud.
00:55:11
Speaker
What is this Aura Farming?
00:55:18
Speaker
I'm surprised you don't know.
00:55:18
Speaker
You do it all the time, Thalira.
00:55:21
Speaker
I do?
00:55:22
Speaker
What do I do?
00:55:23
Speaker
You just get a lot of Aura, you know?
00:55:28
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:30
Speaker
I think it means that you're really cool.
00:55:33
Speaker
She does not understand.
00:55:35
Speaker
She is so confused.
00:55:37
Speaker
The fact that aura farming is like... Canon.
00:55:40
Speaker
It is now canon.
00:55:41
Speaker
Is a canon like... I didn't even mean to say aura farmers.
00:55:51
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:55:54
Speaker
A little bit of player bleed into the...
00:56:02
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:56:06
Speaker
I'm going to have to have NBC use that term now.
00:56:08
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:56:09
Speaker
Just the BBEG.
00:56:12
Speaker
A quick reminder, how old is Yellen?
00:56:19
Speaker
Yellen's like 27.
00:56:21
Speaker
That's pretty, I feel like that's pretty old to be using the kid's slang, dude.
00:56:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:27
Speaker
Is that late Gen Z or, no, is that late Gen Z or is that, or late millennial or early Gen Z?
00:56:35
Speaker
No, it's the late Gen Z, yeah.
00:56:37
Speaker
Because I think I'm close to the cutoff for millennial.
00:56:41
Speaker
It's either me or one below.
00:56:42
Speaker
It's 1996.
00:56:42
Speaker
That's how old I am.
00:56:43
Speaker
Yes.
00:56:49
Speaker
I mean, I was born four years after that.
00:56:52
Speaker
Gosh, yeah.
00:56:52
Speaker
Yelen's over here just trying to stay hip.
00:56:54
Speaker
He's sitting there saving kids all the time.
00:56:56
Speaker
Hello, fellow kids.
00:56:57
Speaker
I'm just trying to look here.
00:57:00
Speaker
Aura.
00:57:01
Speaker
Hello, men.
00:57:02
Speaker
I am Talira.
00:57:04
Speaker
I am here to form Aura.
00:57:09
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:57:11
Speaker
Great storytelling, guys.
00:57:16
Speaker
So, I guess Yellen pulls out the wine?
00:57:20
Speaker
Yellen pulls out the wine?
00:57:22
Speaker
Yes, I did not say Aura Farm.
00:57:24
Speaker
Here is the wine.
00:57:29
Speaker
What is derailing?
00:57:30
Speaker
What does everyone wear to bed?
00:57:34
Speaker
We never described this.
00:57:36
Speaker
Does Maeve or Talia wear like a cute little nightgown?
00:57:39
Speaker
Have you been poisoned?
00:57:43
Speaker
Howl would he be able to see what you're wearing, okay?
00:57:47
Speaker
You wouldn't have to ask.
00:57:52
Speaker
He maybe supped of some of the wine.
00:57:54
Speaker
Drunk Calvin's just like, hey girl.
00:58:02
Speaker
Can you just imagine Talira wearing a really pinkly... Yes!
00:58:11
Speaker
This is what I needed.
00:58:13
Speaker
She does not wear that, but the image just broke me.
00:58:22
Speaker
She doesn't take her armor off, but she puts the nightgown over top.
00:58:26
Speaker
Yes!
00:58:29
Speaker
I love that.
00:58:35
Speaker
I had it in my head that Talira just wore a giant muumuu.
00:58:42
Speaker
No, what I really want is Punky Doodles to just doodle Talira wearing the fucking armor and like a lacy pink negligee.
00:58:50
Speaker
That's all I want.
00:58:52
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:58:53
Speaker
Maybe it's famous enough for Punky Doodles to do this.
00:58:57
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:59:00
Speaker
It's so funny.
00:59:01
Speaker
Oh my god.
00:59:02
Speaker
Someone slide into their DMs.
00:59:04
Speaker
We'll make this a clip for social media and I will DM it to them.
00:59:13
Speaker
Oh, that's great.
00:59:16
Speaker
Good job.
00:59:16
Speaker
Calden wears the same.
00:59:21
Speaker
We all do at this point.
00:59:22
Speaker
That's how we aura bomb.
00:59:26
Speaker
Oh my lord.
00:59:28
Speaker
Yellen provided.
00:59:30
Speaker
Yeah, Yellen's going like full Ebenezer Scrooge.
00:59:32
Speaker
He's got like a little hat and everything.
00:59:38
Speaker
As you all are sitting around this campfire, taking it all in, getting ready to get a good night's rest.
00:59:46
Speaker
I had something and it just left me.
00:59:48
Speaker
Give me a second.
00:59:49
Speaker
Nothing happens.
00:59:50
Speaker
It's a perfectly normal night and you guys get a full night's rest.
00:59:54
Speaker
Well, we should probably do watches.
00:59:57
Speaker
So just in case.
01:00:00
Speaker
Didn't need to.
01:00:01
Speaker
Nothing happened.
01:00:02
Speaker
We all got to sleep the whole night.
01:00:04
Speaker
That's great.
01:00:08
Speaker
Thank you.
01:00:08
Speaker
Was that what you were going to say?
01:00:10
Speaker
Fun fella.
01:00:14
Speaker
Um, yes.
01:00:18
Speaker
No.
01:00:23
Speaker
Damn it.
01:00:26
Speaker
Yeah, so your guys' amount of time here so far in this peninsula, having spent four days of travel, you had spent a day in Navova.
01:00:37
Speaker
And now you're at the end of your fifth day away from Novoa, essentially.
01:00:43
Speaker
Yeah.
01:00:43
Speaker
It took four days to catch up.
01:00:45
Speaker
Someone should... So this is now six days into your travel.
01:00:50
Speaker
Aeon's weeks are five days long.
01:00:52
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
01:00:54
Speaker
As Yellen, you hear from the sending stone in your pocket.
01:00:57
Speaker
Five?
01:00:57
Speaker
Hello?
01:00:59
Speaker
I thought they were longer than five.
01:01:01
Speaker
I thought they were ten.
01:01:04
Speaker
You are correct.
01:01:05
Speaker
You are correct.
01:01:06
Speaker
I am...
01:01:07
Speaker
You are correct.
01:01:09
Speaker
They are ten.
01:01:09
Speaker
They're an even seven.
01:01:11
Speaker
Five weeks in a month.
01:01:13
Speaker
Ten days in a week.
01:01:14
Speaker
You are correct.
01:01:15
Speaker
I got those two mixed up.
01:01:16
Speaker
Thank you.
01:01:19
Speaker
Regardless, six days into the first week, you hear the sending stone.
01:01:23
Speaker
Hello.
01:01:26
Speaker
Yellen?
01:01:28
Speaker
Yes.
01:01:28
Speaker
Hello.
01:01:28
Speaker
Yellen, are you there?
01:01:30
Speaker
I am here.
01:01:30
Speaker
Hi.
01:01:33
Speaker
Just wanted to check in.
01:01:34
Speaker
It's been...
01:01:37
Speaker
A little over half a week, and we understand that you all had asked for two.
01:01:40
Speaker
Just want to check in the timeline.
01:01:43
Speaker
Is still on point for two weeks.
01:01:45
Speaker
We are at the point where if it needs to be a week, we can begin to head there now.
01:01:51
Speaker
But if not, then it will be the two-week mark.
01:01:54
Speaker
We probably will need the two weeks.
01:01:57
Speaker
We got a bit derailed.
01:02:01
Speaker
You don't think so?
01:02:04
Speaker
No, I just think it was a bit meta.
01:02:07
Speaker
It's not as funny you use the word derail.
01:02:10
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:13
Speaker
All right.
01:02:14
Speaker
Two weeks is fine.
01:02:14
Speaker
Just wanted to check in because we are at the turning point where we could.
01:02:19
Speaker
So we will plan to be there at the two week mark then.
01:02:23
Speaker
All right.
01:02:24
Speaker
Sounds good.
01:02:24
Speaker
Thank you again.
01:02:27
Speaker
Absolutely.
01:02:27
Speaker
Best of luck to you.
01:02:29
Speaker
Thank you.
01:02:29
Speaker
Same to you.
01:02:33
Speaker
Was that your girlfriend?
01:02:35
Speaker
No, that was the ship captain.
01:02:39
Speaker
Someone sounds jealous.
01:02:40
Speaker
What did he have to say?
01:02:42
Speaker
He was checking to see if a week would be all right or if we still needed the two weeks.
01:02:47
Speaker
And I said we needed the two weeks because we've got to get a bit derailed giving chase.
01:02:54
Speaker
Right, yes.
01:02:55
Speaker
Well, we do need to go to the other town on the other side of the thing as well.
01:03:00
Speaker
And that takes about a week.
01:03:01
Speaker
That is true.
01:03:05
Speaker
So should we tell them
01:03:10
Speaker
We should probably ask if they can pick us up and drop us on that side, but at that point I'm not sure if we'd have a lift home until they're back again.
01:03:17
Speaker
That is true.
01:03:21
Speaker
Logistics are annoying.
01:03:23
Speaker
Do you think we should ask for another week, potentially?
01:03:26
Speaker
If we think we need the time, then yes.
01:03:30
Speaker
Unless they are going to the other side.
01:03:34
Speaker
I believe they're meeting us back soon.
01:03:36
Speaker
Where we were originally, where they dropped us off.
01:03:40
Speaker
Yeah, it would be best if we meet them there and they can take us to the other side and then come back.
01:03:47
Speaker
So you want to see if they can meet us in Orlanus?
01:03:51
Speaker
Yeah, if they can meet us at... Sorry, that was my automatic cat feeder.
01:04:01
Speaker
I've been having, it's okay, and I apologize.
01:04:03
Speaker
I've been having whisper whispers with somebody at the table.
01:04:09
Speaker
Ghosts.
01:04:15
Speaker
It's the ghost that gives us fun facts about Moose.
01:04:18
Speaker
Exactly.
01:04:19
Speaker
Yeah.
01:04:21
Speaker
I just had to confirm what I already knew just to confirm before I make a mistake.
01:04:26
Speaker
So speaking of which, Maeve, as you're taking the point of logistics and making things organized and we're staying on task as Maeve usually does, kind of talking quietly around this campfire to everybody, Calden.
Calden's Anxiety and Urgent Move
01:04:45
Speaker
Back of your head.
01:04:47
Speaker
You feel the burning.
01:04:49
Speaker
A little familiar area that you feel a burn sometimes.
01:04:52
Speaker
Back of your head, you just hear a whisper.
01:04:57
Speaker
I'm getting closer.
01:04:58
Speaker
Fuck.
01:05:01
Speaker
What was that?
01:05:03
Speaker
Galdon?
01:05:03
Speaker
You alright?
01:05:04
Speaker
Talira?
01:05:06
Speaker
What's going on?
01:05:08
Speaker
We need to move.
01:05:09
Speaker
We need to go.
01:05:09
Speaker
Now.
01:05:11
Speaker
We can't stay here.
01:05:13
Speaker
Where we are now?
01:05:14
Speaker
We need to go.
01:05:15
Speaker
We're going.
01:05:17
Speaker
Okay, we are going.
01:05:20
Speaker
What did you hear?
01:05:20
Speaker
What happened?
01:05:21
Speaker
What did you see?
01:05:22
Speaker
Did you see something?
01:05:23
Speaker
He just shakes his head.
01:05:26
Speaker
No, um, no, no.
01:05:29
Speaker
Catherine, do you want to ride moss with me?
01:05:32
Speaker
What?
01:05:34
Speaker
Do you want to ride moss with me?
01:05:37
Speaker
Uh, sure, yeah, sure.
01:05:40
Speaker
I pack everything up.
01:05:41
Speaker
Yeah, Talira is just basically like scooping shit up and just chucking it in bags.
01:05:48
Speaker
Doesn't care what it looks like.
01:05:50
Speaker
Speed run.
01:05:51
Speaker
Yeah, making sure all the fires are put out and everything like that.
01:05:53
Speaker
Let's do it.
01:05:56
Speaker
All right.
01:05:58
Speaker
Y'all get up and you begin to move through the night.
01:06:01
Speaker
Cutting down your time a little bit as far as how many days it's going to take to get you there.
01:06:07
Speaker
Do you all stop the next night?
01:06:09
Speaker
Calden, do you feel alright to stop here?
01:06:11
Speaker
Calden is so wired.
01:06:14
Speaker
Calden, we need to sleep.
01:06:16
Speaker
We cannot go without sleep.
01:06:18
Speaker
If we have to take shifts, we take shifts.
01:06:22
Speaker
We can't.
01:06:22
Speaker
We can't.
01:06:22
Speaker
We're not safe out here.
01:06:23
Speaker
We can't.
01:06:23
Speaker
It's too open.
01:06:25
Speaker
You know I will keep you safe.
01:06:27
Speaker
No.
01:06:28
Speaker
No, you can't.
01:06:31
Speaker
Why are you scared?
01:06:34
Speaker
We keep going then.
01:06:36
Speaker
What is happening?
01:06:38
Speaker
We can't be out here.
01:06:40
Speaker
Where is Calden at this point?
01:06:43
Speaker
Like, is Calden en masse or is Calden standing?
01:06:46
Speaker
Hmm.
01:06:49
Speaker
If he was offered the ride en masse, I don't know.
01:06:52
Speaker
Because he would have been very, very antsy while en masse.
01:06:56
Speaker
Did Maeve get really freaking annoyed by that and kick him off?
01:07:00
Speaker
I was going to say, Talira also would offer...
01:07:04
Speaker
Wait, no, Talira was walking, basically, jogging alongside the horses.
01:07:09
Speaker
Yeah, so Talira was probably next to Caton the entire time.
01:07:13
Speaker
I just picked that horse specifically because it was a stronger horse, so I thought he'd feel more secure on a horse that wasn't overweight.
01:07:23
Speaker
Jackie, I think, also is carrying our corpse.
01:07:26
Speaker
Yeah, true.
01:07:29
Speaker
Jackie's got Yellen and the corpse.
01:07:37
Speaker
It's like in the Red Dead Redemption games where you just have it like draped over behind you.
01:07:43
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:47
Speaker
Do we have her head like tied to the saddle like Geralt does with his trophies?
01:07:54
Speaker
Yeah, really.
01:07:57
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:06
Speaker
He might still... I think he would have hopped off because he's got so much energy.
01:08:11
Speaker
He needs to be moving.
01:08:12
Speaker
He needs to feel like he's in control of moving.
01:08:15
Speaker
Well, I would let him have the reins of the horse if he really wants.
01:08:20
Speaker
And at this point then, Talira would stop and she would go down to one knee.
01:08:26
Speaker
So she's eye to eye with Kalden.
01:08:30
Speaker
Probably still a little bit taller, but, you know, closer.
01:08:33
Speaker
Eye to forehead.
01:08:37
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:39
Speaker
And hold out her hands.
01:08:41
Speaker
Look at me, Kelden.
01:08:43
Speaker
Look at me.
01:08:46
Speaker
Am I bigger than them?
01:08:49
Speaker
Am I stronger than them?
01:08:50
Speaker
No.
01:08:51
Speaker
No.
01:08:52
Speaker
No.
01:08:53
Speaker
Could I rip one of them in half if I needed to?
01:08:55
Speaker
No.
01:08:57
Speaker
No.
01:08:57
Speaker
I bet you I could.
01:08:58
Speaker
You saw what I did to that table.
01:09:00
Speaker
It's not a fucking table, Talira.
01:09:04
Speaker
No.
01:09:05
Speaker
They are flesh and blood.
01:09:07
Speaker
That is much easier to break than a table.
01:09:10
Speaker
Talira, when you first met Calden, he seemed kind of like this.
01:09:22
Speaker
Just very anxious, always looking over his shoulder,
01:09:26
Speaker
shut down really didn't, didn't express much other than just anxiety.
01:09:35
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:36
Speaker
So you're recognizing this.
01:09:40
Speaker
Calden, breathe in.
01:09:44
Speaker
Hold my hand.
01:09:46
Speaker
Breathe in.
01:09:48
Speaker
What do you hear?
01:09:49
Speaker
Something's coming.
01:09:52
Speaker
What do you hear right now?
01:09:55
Speaker
Not in your head.
01:09:56
Speaker
What do you hear?
01:09:58
Speaker
Crickets.
01:10:00
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:02
Speaker
Tell me something you see.
01:10:04
Speaker
Moss.
01:10:07
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:08
Speaker
What do you feel?
01:10:10
Speaker
You.
01:10:12
Speaker
Good.
01:10:13
Speaker
Where are you?
01:10:16
Speaker
In the woods.
01:10:16
Speaker
In the woods.
01:10:18
Speaker
Where are they?
01:10:20
Speaker
Are they in here?
01:10:21
Speaker
I don't know.
01:10:23
Speaker
I don't know.
01:10:24
Speaker
And you will not know.
01:10:26
Speaker
It is okay.
01:10:27
Speaker
We are here.
01:10:29
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:29
Speaker
We are here.
01:10:32
Speaker
And they are flesh and bone.
01:10:35
Speaker
If I'm making camp, we should do it quickly.
01:10:39
Speaker
I will keep watch.
01:10:40
Speaker
I will... I'll take first... I will keep watch in tent.
01:10:45
Speaker
No, you sleep.
01:10:47
Speaker
I will take watch by you in tent.
01:10:49
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:51
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:52
Speaker
Well, I start setting up again.
01:10:54
Speaker
Alright.
01:10:57
Speaker
You all begin setting up camp again.
01:11:01
Speaker
Do you light a fire?
01:11:03
Speaker
I'll kind of go to it and I'll look at Cal and be like, fire?
01:11:07
Speaker
Yes?
01:11:07
Speaker
No?
01:11:08
Speaker
It makes no difference.
01:11:11
Speaker
No fire.
01:11:13
Speaker
All right.
01:11:14
Speaker
You all are able to set up camp.
01:11:17
Speaker
This night being a different night.
01:11:20
Speaker
A little bit higher wind coming off the gulf.
01:11:25
Speaker
As is normal.
01:11:27
Speaker
As a lot of systems move across, and this is the receiving end.
01:11:31
Speaker
With that wind comes a little bit crisper and colder of a temperature.
01:11:35
Speaker
A little brisk outside.
01:11:39
Speaker
As you go to sleep throughout the night, you just hear the whispering and whistles of the wind through the branches and thistles of the trees.
01:11:48
Speaker
But you are able to have a peaceful night.
01:11:50
Speaker
For the remaining two nights, I believe it is.
01:11:56
Speaker
Actually, you guys went all the way through the first night, so it would have, you'd be probably down to just one left.
01:12:02
Speaker
Or no, I said it was eight, so you're, no, you're down to like six left, sorry.
01:12:06
Speaker
For the remaining six, I'm going to have each of you roll me a d20.
01:12:09
Speaker
16.
01:12:09
Speaker
19.
01:12:09
Speaker
8.
01:12:09
Speaker
7, 8, 19, 16, right?
01:12:11
Speaker
Yes.
01:12:11
Speaker
Interesting.
01:12:26
Speaker
Let me pull something up.
01:12:27
Speaker
Is that a good interesting or a bad interesting?
01:12:35
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
01:12:35
Speaker
Whatever could you mean?
01:12:36
Speaker
Anyway, we did have a long rest, though, so I need to redo my speed.
01:12:44
Speaker
You did get a long rest to get rid of the exhaustion you would have had.
01:12:47
Speaker
Let's see.
Encounter with Toxic Fog
01:12:54
Speaker
Where did it go?
01:12:55
Speaker
It said not today.
01:13:02
Speaker
Cool.
01:13:03
Speaker
Okay, with the roll you all got, you will get advantage on this, essentially.
01:13:13
Speaker
I need two D100s.
01:13:15
Speaker
Ooh.
01:13:16
Speaker
Everyone want the pressure.
01:13:19
Speaker
I'll do it.
01:13:20
Speaker
Here's one.
01:13:21
Speaker
I'll do the other one.
01:13:23
Speaker
No.
01:13:26
Speaker
12.
01:13:26
Speaker
And 75.
01:13:26
Speaker
12 and 75.
01:13:28
Speaker
And 75.
01:13:28
Speaker
Yeah, we'll go with that one.
01:13:31
Speaker
That is the better of the two.
01:13:44
Speaker
As you all start traveling throughout the next couple days, you get through the first, or I guess it'd be the third day, fine.
01:13:51
Speaker
Fourth day, fine.
01:13:52
Speaker
Things eerie.
01:13:54
Speaker
Party a bit quieter, given the unknown that might be around.
01:14:01
Speaker
On that fourth day, as you're traveling along, this time following the road, because why not?
01:14:09
Speaker
Why wouldn't you?
01:14:11
Speaker
The look ahead begins to look hazy and almost like a shade of green.
01:14:22
Speaker
Like a mist almost or like a smoke?
01:14:31
Speaker
Something like in there, in that realm.
01:14:35
Speaker
Not hazy like looking through the haze of heat on the asphalt type of thing with rift, like
01:14:41
Speaker
Almost like it's a light cloud of something, but it's more of like a tinge of green.
01:14:45
Speaker
Almost like fog, but it's greenish.
01:14:48
Speaker
Green fog?
01:14:50
Speaker
It's toxic gas, guys.
01:14:53
Speaker
I thought Marufa was not going to decompose.
01:14:58
Speaker
What could you mean?
01:15:00
Speaker
We found a laboratory for a necromancer.
01:15:06
Speaker
Awesome.
01:15:10
Speaker
Ooh.
01:15:11
Speaker
Uh-oh, stinky.
01:15:12
Speaker
I don't know what you can be talking about.
01:15:13
Speaker
What is that?
01:15:15
Speaker
I don't know.
01:15:17
Speaker
How... Does it... Does it extend very far, like, wide?
01:15:28
Speaker
It extends across the entire road and appears to be moving diagonal kind of slowly towards you.
01:15:33
Speaker
It's moving?
01:15:34
Speaker
Towards...
01:15:35
Speaker
Yeah, so it's coming, it seems to be originating on the side of the road nearest the gulf.
01:15:42
Speaker
And the wind is, of course, kind of taking it across the road, but it also is kind of moving towards you.
01:15:47
Speaker
And not necessarily that the entire cloud is moving, more that it's like expanding.
01:15:50
Speaker
Fuck that, fuck that, fuck that, fuck that.
01:15:54
Speaker
Very slowly.
01:15:55
Speaker
That does not look good.
01:15:56
Speaker
Anybody can dispel or wind or... And Talira just starts blowing at it.
01:16:03
Speaker
Yeah, it's very slow.
01:16:04
Speaker
Like, you could easily outrun it type of thing.
01:16:06
Speaker
Like, very, very slow.
01:16:07
Speaker
Can I try to see if there's anything, like, inside of it?
01:16:10
Speaker
Or... Yeah, if you want to roll me a perception check as you, like, tenderly get a little closer.
01:16:15
Speaker
Yeah, that probably would be a thing to do.
01:16:18
Speaker
Probably perception.
01:16:20
Speaker
Perception.
01:16:22
Speaker
18 as well.
01:16:24
Speaker
I'll let the smart people do that.
01:16:27
Speaker
Yeah.
01:16:28
Speaker
Two 18s, that's plenty.
01:16:30
Speaker
As you kind of get closer, you can start to feel almost like a burning sensation at the eyes as you know, okay, maybe I should probably stop here.
01:16:39
Speaker
And you really squint and you look in there and you see the outline of a covered wagon.
01:16:46
Speaker
Stopped.
01:16:47
Speaker
Someone's in there.
01:16:49
Speaker
Do they need help?
01:16:51
Speaker
That does not seem good.
01:16:54
Speaker
I don't think they're causing it.
01:16:57
Speaker
Do I think they're causing it?
01:16:58
Speaker
I'm going to call out to them.
01:17:01
Speaker
With an 18 perception, you can see it's not coming from there because otherwise it'd be moving.
01:17:06
Speaker
You can't see that that's the origin because it'd probably be thicker there.
01:17:09
Speaker
You can still see origin seems to be off to the right of the path.
01:17:12
Speaker
I'm going to... Hello?
01:17:14
Speaker
Is there anyone in there?
01:17:15
Speaker
Are you all right?
01:17:16
Speaker
Hello?
01:17:19
Speaker
Nothing but silence and the eerie sound of the wind.
01:17:22
Speaker
And we just see a wagon.
01:17:23
Speaker
We don't see people.
01:17:26
Speaker
Or humanoid shapes?
01:17:28
Speaker
Not from where you're currently at, no.
01:17:32
Speaker
What do we think this fog is?
01:17:37
Speaker
Do we think it's toxic?
01:17:39
Speaker
Probably?
01:17:40
Speaker
I don't know.
01:17:42
Speaker
Can I... I mean... How are the flora and fauna around it?
01:17:46
Speaker
Is everything dead?
01:17:47
Speaker
Is there any birds flying through it?
01:17:51
Speaker
There are no birds flying through it, and it's staying pretty low to the ground, like it's a heavier air molecule.
01:17:59
Speaker
But no birds flying through it.
01:18:01
Speaker
You do notice that the grass on the right side of the road that is in this fog cloud is dead completely.
01:18:12
Speaker
If there's someone in there, I have to take a chance.
01:18:15
Speaker
Does anyone want to come with me?
01:18:17
Speaker
I'll go.
01:18:18
Speaker
I'm going to cast aid.
01:18:20
Speaker
I'm going to use aid for real this time.
01:18:24
Speaker
I can give up to three creatures 20 temporary hit points.
01:18:30
Speaker
Your hit points increase by 20 till the end of the duration.
01:18:35
Speaker
Is that max hit points or is it temporary hit points?
01:18:38
Speaker
Your max hit points increase by 20 because I'm casting it at a fourth level.
01:18:42
Speaker
Oh, wait.
01:18:43
Speaker
Hang on.
01:18:43
Speaker
Wait.
01:18:43
Speaker
That's not right.
01:18:44
Speaker
That's not 20.
01:18:44
Speaker
My level is aid.
01:18:48
Speaker
A to second level, so it'd be 10.
01:18:53
Speaker
Half as much.
01:18:54
Speaker
Still good.
01:18:56
Speaker
Did you say you did that for all of us or a specific person?
01:18:58
Speaker
I missed it.
01:18:59
Speaker
So I can do it for up to three people.
01:19:01
Speaker
I think do it on yourself.
01:19:03
Speaker
Maybe.
01:19:04
Speaker
Yeah, so I'll do it on myself.
01:19:05
Speaker
I'll do one on Thalira.
01:19:08
Speaker
Cool.
01:19:11
Speaker
And me or Maeve?
01:19:13
Speaker
Whichever one of you guys wants to come.
01:19:15
Speaker
I'm going to be going in.
01:19:17
Speaker
I'm going to come in too.
01:19:19
Speaker
I do have something else that might help.
01:19:24
Speaker
What type of damage do we think this is?
01:19:27
Speaker
Would it be necrotic or poison?
01:19:30
Speaker
Don't know.
01:19:31
Speaker
Could be either.
01:19:33
Speaker
Could one of us do maybe a nature check to see if this is something or survival to see if this is something we've encountered before?
01:19:42
Speaker
I will tell you that
01:19:45
Speaker
Nature and survival, I think nobody could succeed on this because those roles imply that maybe at some point you would have experienced it firsthand.
01:20:00
Speaker
What about Arcana?
01:20:01
Speaker
Read about it is possible.
01:20:02
Speaker
So rating about it would be possible through a history check.
01:20:06
Speaker
I'll try it.
01:20:09
Speaker
I'll try.
01:20:09
Speaker
We'll see if she has.
01:20:11
Speaker
Why not?
01:20:14
Speaker
She has a bit of a headache and gets a 13.
01:20:19
Speaker
I got a nat 20.
01:20:21
Speaker
Jeez.
01:20:23
Speaker
Yeah.
01:20:23
Speaker
I got an eight.
01:20:24
Speaker
15.
01:20:25
Speaker
Wow.
01:20:27
Speaker
Yeah.
01:20:28
Speaker
I'm going to give this to Maeve because she's gone a natural 20.
01:20:30
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:20:31
Speaker
Sure.
01:20:32
Speaker
Yeah, Maeve, with your history, your backstory, your father being who he was and your upbringing, wanting to become an adventurer,
01:20:42
Speaker
Not that like studying and schooling was a forte or something that you focused on a lot, but it was definitely something you took in mind specifically for researching things that you might come across.
01:20:54
Speaker
And frankly, where you came from isn't terribly far from this area of Nitro-Tare.
01:21:01
Speaker
I mean, the country at least.
01:21:02
Speaker
Where you're from, maybe not right across the street, but still, the country is not far from this peninsula of Nitro-Tare.
01:21:12
Speaker
So you actually, when researching this area, did read that there is a flowering fern that when given the right nutrients in the ground, flowers.
01:21:25
Speaker
And when it flowers, it releases toxic gas.
01:21:29
Speaker
Can I roll before I say anything?
01:21:32
Speaker
And it's specific to this peninsula, the Genoa Peninsula.
01:21:36
Speaker
It's not found anywhere else in the world.
01:21:38
Speaker
Am I able to look for that plant?
01:21:41
Speaker
If I can see it in there.
01:21:42
Speaker
If you want to go searching for it.
01:21:44
Speaker
I just.
01:21:44
Speaker
Where I am.
01:21:45
Speaker
Go look for the origin.
01:21:46
Speaker
Can I. Where you currently are, given the perception checks that have already been had.
01:21:50
Speaker
I'll just add, give you that because they were high.
01:21:53
Speaker
You cannot see it from where you're currently at.
01:21:55
Speaker
Okay.
01:21:57
Speaker
It is too shrouded in acidic fog or poisonous fog.
01:22:01
Speaker
Okay.
01:22:04
Speaker
Hey guys.
01:22:05
Speaker
I was reading about this plant that, given the right nutrients, tends to excrete this poison gas around this area.
01:22:18
Speaker
So I feel like if we find this plant and destroy it, it might clear everything up.
01:22:25
Speaker
But we also might get poison.
01:22:28
Speaker
Or do we just want to avoid it?
01:22:31
Speaker
We don't have.
01:22:32
Speaker
to kill the plant and get rid of it.
01:22:34
Speaker
We just need to not poison ourselves.
01:22:37
Speaker
It can kill other people.
01:22:38
Speaker
It looks like it might have already done so.
01:22:41
Speaker
Oh, shit.
01:22:42
Speaker
Yeah.
01:22:43
Speaker
And animals.
01:22:44
Speaker
Yes, we need to kill this thing.
01:22:47
Speaker
Yes.
01:22:48
Speaker
Are you able to describe what it looks like?
01:22:52
Speaker
Yeah, it is a medium fern with
01:23:01
Speaker
purpley blue underneath its leaves.
01:23:06
Speaker
The top leaves are normal.
01:23:07
Speaker
I wasn't colorblind.
01:23:09
Speaker
Cut that out.
01:23:11
Speaker
The leaves are quite jagged.
01:23:12
Speaker
That's my line.
01:23:15
Speaker
The leaves are quite jagged.
01:23:18
Speaker
So if you find a fern with jagged leaves with a purpley blue under hue on the bottom half of the leaf, possibly that.
01:23:29
Speaker
Did your reading tell you how far out the fume can extend and if it's just toxic to breathe?
01:23:41
Speaker
No.
01:23:44
Speaker
It's very hard to determine how far something airborne can go.
01:23:49
Speaker
So there's no clear radius.
01:23:53
Speaker
But it's still quite dense.
01:23:56
Speaker
Wouldn't that indicate that it's closer rather than far?
01:24:00
Speaker
I think the denser it is, the closer it would be.
01:24:04
Speaker
With a natural 20, yeah.
01:24:06
Speaker
You would know that it being denser, especially with the wind coming off the coast, it is not far.
01:24:12
Speaker
And something you could also read is how...
01:24:15
Speaker
How dense, I guess, would be, I don't know if that's the right word, but how dense or how, that's the right, how concentrated the fumes coming out of it would be would depend on the amount of iron that the plant consumed in the soil.
01:24:29
Speaker
Because that's what causes it to flower is at a very high concentration of iron in the soil.
Plant Removal Strategy
01:24:34
Speaker
So the amount determines the concentration of fog.
01:24:38
Speaker
I can go in first and try to find it.
01:24:44
Speaker
I am very good at holding my breath.
01:24:46
Speaker
Okay.
01:24:48
Speaker
I can also hold my breath a fairly long time.
01:24:53
Speaker
I think the person who is the fastest or is better at spotting things would be the best to go in.
01:25:01
Speaker
I think...
01:25:03
Speaker
Removing the plant should be our priority and then seeing if everyone's okay.
01:25:09
Speaker
Does it just need cut from the roots?
01:25:13
Speaker
Yeah, I just rip it up.
01:25:16
Speaker
Give it a good yank.
01:25:19
Speaker
I go over to it and I stick my arm in first to see.
01:25:23
Speaker
Before you do that, I cast resistance to poison.
01:25:27
Speaker
Ooh, nice.
01:25:30
Speaker
Hell yeah.
01:25:32
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, especially with resistance to poison, you can feel like it burns a little bit, but it's not going to cause actual damage to your skin.
01:25:42
Speaker
But it's like a burning sensation, like a really severe sunburn that somebody's just rubbing your arm with.
01:25:47
Speaker
Okay.
01:25:50
Speaker
I like.
01:25:55
Speaker
Do that sort of thing.
01:25:57
Speaker
And I go in.
01:26:00
Speaker
How would you like me to go about the roles for tracking this plant down?
01:26:05
Speaker
That's going to be probably, if you give me a survival check, if it's good enough, you can find it with one check.
01:26:11
Speaker
But if it's not good enough, then it's going to require a little bit of role play to earn another survival check.
01:26:18
Speaker
A 15.
01:26:18
Speaker
15.
01:26:20
Speaker
I would say that's probably, this isn't terribly hard to find.
01:26:23
Speaker
As you go in, you get a little closer and with a covered wagon, it's hard to see a whole lot.
01:26:29
Speaker
Do you go up to the wagon in the middle of trying to find this or not?
01:26:32
Speaker
I do glance at it, but I think the priority is to get the gas to go away and then we can address whatever's happening there.
01:26:41
Speaker
Okay.
01:26:42
Speaker
Yeah, taking a glance at it when you're a little closer as you're trying to find the source, you do notice that there is a singular Clydesdale at the front that is keeled over and fallen to the ground.
01:26:54
Speaker
Actually, can I do, I guess I'm medicine, boy, I'm not good at that, to see if it's dead.
01:27:03
Speaker
I mean, if you'd like to, if you want to go over to it, you can do a medicine jack, but if you want to just see if it's breathing, that's just a perception.
01:27:09
Speaker
Okay, yeah, I'll do perception then.
01:27:11
Speaker
From here.
01:27:15
Speaker
23.
01:27:15
Speaker
23.
01:27:18
Speaker
From this distance and where you're at, it doesn't appear to be breathing.
01:27:21
Speaker
You can't see any movement in the chest.
01:27:25
Speaker
And yeah, as you go to the edge of the road, there's a section of now dead.
01:27:34
Speaker
You see the trees aren't dead, but the bark does appear to be a little miscolored currently, at least this height at which you're at in it.
01:27:46
Speaker
And just about 10, 15 feet into the woods on the side of the road, you come across a fern.
01:27:58
Speaker
It's about the same height as you.
01:28:00
Speaker
Very jagged leaves, although not sharp, just looking like they are.
01:28:05
Speaker
And indeed, as they sprawl out, you can see a little bit of purplish undertone on the underside of the leaves.
01:28:13
Speaker
And from the center of it, sprawling out like a lily, is a very bright yellow and orange flower that is just cascading fumes out of it.
01:28:27
Speaker
I take one of my actual metal daggers.
Gas Emission Stopped
01:28:31
Speaker
One second.
01:28:34
Speaker
Right next to it, laying on the ground, is a deer with a large arrow pierced through it.
01:28:44
Speaker
And you see blood-stained ground all around it, giving the soil the iron content to make it flower.
01:28:53
Speaker
I figured there was blood involved, yep.
01:28:55
Speaker
Well, the blood's already soaking into the ground, though.
01:28:58
Speaker
I'm still going to cut the plant.
01:29:02
Speaker
Yeah, no, just a little detail.
01:29:03
Speaker
Oh, okay.
01:29:05
Speaker
It's like too little too late.
01:29:07
Speaker
I don't... Explain it.
01:29:08
Speaker
Yeah, no, no, absolutely.
01:29:11
Speaker
Just given the detail of what caused it.
01:29:12
Speaker
Okay, cool.
01:29:15
Speaker
Yeah.
01:29:16
Speaker
I, like, go as far to the, like, base of it at the ground that I can.
01:29:22
Speaker
Okay.
01:29:24
Speaker
Okay.
01:29:25
Speaker
Yeah, you're able to cut it very cleanly and easily.
01:29:29
Speaker
It's not hard.
01:29:31
Speaker
It doesn't have like a super hard like base to it like some bushes do.
01:29:37
Speaker
It's very, very easy, almost like fleshy.
01:29:40
Speaker
Not fleshy, but I can't find that word.
01:29:43
Speaker
It's just easy to cut through.
01:29:44
Speaker
Ew, that made it worse.
01:29:47
Speaker
Yeah, it did.
01:29:47
Speaker
It's like a flesh plant.
01:29:48
Speaker
It's like butter.
01:29:48
Speaker
Yeah.
01:29:52
Speaker
So super normal.
01:29:53
Speaker
It's not the right word.
01:29:54
Speaker
It's so not the right word.
01:29:56
Speaker
I can't think of the right word, though.
01:29:59
Speaker
Oh, my gosh.
01:30:00
Speaker
It's like cutting through a head of lettuce.
01:30:02
Speaker
There we go.
01:30:04
Speaker
How quickly does the gas dissipate?
01:30:07
Speaker
It immediately stops billowing.
01:30:09
Speaker
Okay.
01:30:10
Speaker
I'm going to quickly head back out to not be in the gas run to where my people are.
Wagon Investigation and Mysteries
01:30:20
Speaker
To where my people are.
01:30:21
Speaker
To where your people are.
01:30:23
Speaker
To where my people are.
01:30:25
Speaker
All right.
01:30:27
Speaker
As Kaladin rejoins, holding this, frankly, really pretty yellowish-orange flower that's seemingly somewhat similar to a lily.
01:30:35
Speaker
I think I found it.
01:30:36
Speaker
Is that the plant?
01:30:41
Speaker
Yes, I mean, there was smoke billowing from it.
01:30:46
Speaker
Someone was hunting a deer and it died next to it.
01:30:51
Speaker
That would explain the iron content.
01:30:53
Speaker
Would have made a flower.
01:30:56
Speaker
Did you see anyone in the cart?
01:30:59
Speaker
I just saw a dead horse.
01:31:02
Speaker
I'm going to run in to check the cart.
01:31:06
Speaker
Yeah, is it dissipating from around the cart yet?
01:31:10
Speaker
The cart area, yeah.
01:31:13
Speaker
Yeah, it slowly, as the wind pushes the remaining of the cloud further into the mountainside, and eventually you give it a couple minutes and it'll dissipate enough for you to be able to go in and look.
01:31:23
Speaker
I think regardless, I'd just cast Resistance on myself and hold my breath and run in because I know it's dissipating anyway.
01:31:29
Speaker
Time might be off the air soon.
01:31:31
Speaker
Yeah, that's fine.
01:31:32
Speaker
You'd feel a little burning.
01:31:36
Speaker
I see you feel a little burning as it's dissipating, but it wouldn't be enough to actually cause harm.
01:31:42
Speaker
I also go back in now that I know that the plant isn't spewing more.
01:31:48
Speaker
Yeah, and as you all approach the wagon, you see the back is full of crates, almost packed to the brim.
01:31:56
Speaker
And as you go around, you do see a driver still kind of sitting with his head just slumped to the side, appearing dead and motionless.
01:32:04
Speaker
Can I do a medicine check on him to see if he's maybe alive?
01:32:08
Speaker
Dead, dead.
01:32:11
Speaker
You can certainly try.
01:32:12
Speaker
Alrighty.
01:32:14
Speaker
This is going to be zombies, isn't it?
01:32:16
Speaker
I know it could be true.
01:32:19
Speaker
That's a tan.
01:32:19
Speaker
I love male zombie.
01:32:23
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, from what you can tell, at least, he's not breathing.
01:32:27
Speaker
You check for a pulse and it's not there.
01:32:30
Speaker
Can you resuscitate him or something?
01:32:34
Speaker
I can try.
01:32:35
Speaker
How long does it look like he's been dead?
01:32:37
Speaker
Can I have discerned that?
01:32:40
Speaker
With a 10, you probably wouldn't be able to tell accurately.
01:32:42
Speaker
Can I roll a medicine since I did perception before?
01:32:45
Speaker
Yeah, you can.
01:32:47
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
01:32:48
Speaker
You do notice.
01:32:49
Speaker
Well, it's not a lot.
01:32:50
Speaker
It does appear that there are some blisters on his skin as well.
01:32:53
Speaker
Never mind.
01:32:54
Speaker
It was a nine.
01:32:56
Speaker
Yay.
01:32:58
Speaker
I'm just going to look around and see if I can see, hear any movement or see anyone while I yell out if anyone's still alive.
01:33:04
Speaker
Nobody says anything and no movement seems to come by.
01:33:10
Speaker
I can't revive him with a spell, unfortunately.
01:33:14
Speaker
I feel like too much time has passed.
01:33:18
Speaker
If only we'd gotten here sooner.
01:33:21
Speaker
That is not something we could have helped.
01:33:24
Speaker
What we need to do is let the family know.
01:33:27
Speaker
Is he from... Should we hook up to the car and take him back?
01:33:34
Speaker
Maybe.
01:33:35
Speaker
If we are headed that way, what direction was he coming from?
01:33:41
Speaker
He was going towards Nivella.
01:33:44
Speaker
So his family would be in Olanus, most likely.
01:33:47
Speaker
Unless he was returning, we don't know.
01:33:49
Speaker
Either way.
01:33:52
Speaker
This road does not go to Orlanus.
01:33:54
Speaker
Remember, this is the road that travels along the coastline to some of the other towns that are a pretty good distance away.
01:34:01
Speaker
I might look in the back and see if there's anything that might identify him or where he's from.
Peach Crates Discovery
01:34:11
Speaker
Yeah, you look through the back and do you try to open some of these chests?
01:34:15
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
01:34:15
Speaker
These crates.
01:34:16
Speaker
Politely open them.
01:34:18
Speaker
Politely?
01:34:19
Speaker
Yeah, you're able to... None of these chests seem to be locked.
01:34:23
Speaker
Sorry, other crates.
01:34:25
Speaker
You can peel the top board off of one and the very first one you peel off, there is a big thing of peaches in there.
01:34:32
Speaker
Are they poisoned peaches now?
01:34:35
Speaker
Yeah, I wouldn't eat those.
01:34:37
Speaker
We were told where they get their imports, weren't we?
01:34:41
Speaker
I don't recall.
01:34:43
Speaker
Wherever they get their imports is where he's from, though.
01:34:47
Speaker
Oh, that's right.
01:34:48
Speaker
That's where it was.
01:34:49
Speaker
Bark.
01:34:54
Speaker
I'm sorry.
01:34:54
Speaker
I just cut out my porcelain over there.
01:35:01
Speaker
No, it was he was from Bark.
01:35:04
Speaker
That was the name of the town.
01:35:07
Speaker
Oh, God, now I got to name one of those.
01:35:09
Speaker
Okay, let me get to my calendar, to my map and put it on there.
01:35:12
Speaker
B-A-U-R-Q-U-E.
01:35:15
Speaker
Yeah.
01:35:21
Speaker
With a silent S at the end.
01:35:23
Speaker
For flavor.
01:35:24
Speaker
With a silent P somewhere around there.
01:35:26
Speaker
With a silent S. P at the start.
01:35:28
Speaker
Listen, y'all.
01:35:28
Speaker
Yeah, it has to have a silent P. Right at the start.
Naming the Town
01:35:32
Speaker
It's P-B-E.
01:35:34
Speaker
P-B-E-C-Q-E.
01:35:38
Speaker
Silent S. I want you all to know you just named the largest city on the side of the peninsula.
01:35:44
Speaker
Fantastic.
01:35:46
Speaker
Not us.
01:35:46
Speaker
Your dog.
01:35:49
Speaker
We.
01:35:49
Speaker
Oh, no.
01:35:50
Speaker
I already did name that.
01:35:51
Speaker
I didn't update that.
01:35:51
Speaker
That's going to have to be the town that's nearby it.
01:35:53
Speaker
Okay.
01:35:56
Speaker
That's okay.
01:35:58
Speaker
Okay.
01:35:59
Speaker
That is so funny.
01:36:00
Speaker
I am actually updating the map right now.
01:36:03
Speaker
so I don't forget that uh continue though if we can't find any identifying here they may know about the hook and barrel if he has a shipment of peaches he's bringing in yeah okay well should we just store Barufa here as well and get Moss to carry the cart
01:36:25
Speaker
I think that might be a good idea for now, yes.
Peach Burning Consideration
01:36:29
Speaker
I agree.
01:36:29
Speaker
It will slow us down, but it doesn't make any sense to try and carry two bodies otherwise.
01:36:35
Speaker
That is true.
01:36:37
Speaker
That is true.
01:36:39
Speaker
We may want to burn the peaches outside of town, though, in case they're toxic.
01:36:46
Speaker
That's probably a good idea.
01:36:49
Speaker
Is there a way someone is able to detect potentially any kind of poison or disease in this food?
01:36:56
Speaker
That is not in my skill set.
01:36:57
Speaker
Cough, cough, paladin, and cleric spell.
01:37:01
Speaker
Cough, cough.
01:37:04
Speaker
Cough.
01:37:07
Speaker
I don't think that is in my skill set, unfortunately.
01:37:11
Speaker
I don't think it's in mine either.
01:37:12
Speaker
It should be a prepared spell, isn't it?
01:37:14
Speaker
Or am I thinking, is that not in the 2024 rule set?
01:37:18
Speaker
Oh, no.
01:37:19
Speaker
I don't.
01:37:21
Speaker
I definitely don't have it if it is.
01:37:23
Speaker
Same.
01:37:25
Speaker
Yeah, it's a level one divination cleric druid paladin ranger.
01:37:29
Speaker
Nice.
01:37:31
Speaker
Action or ritual.
01:37:33
Speaker
It's always prepared, so they always have it available.
01:37:39
Speaker
Or is it just in their list and they can choose to have it that day?
01:37:42
Speaker
It's in the list.
01:37:42
Speaker
Okay.
01:37:43
Speaker
Yeah, it's in the list of things you can prepare for the day.
01:37:46
Speaker
Tomorrow then they would be able.
01:37:49
Speaker
Okay, well, I think we should get going while there's still daylight and then camp another night as long as you're okay with that, Calden.
Return to Novoa and Conclusion
01:37:57
Speaker
I guess it makes no difference.
01:37:59
Speaker
So you guys are hooking Jackie up to the cart then?
01:38:03
Speaker
Moss.
01:38:03
Speaker
I thought we were hooking Moss up to the cart.
01:38:05
Speaker
Moss.
01:38:06
Speaker
Yeah, we were going to do Moss.
01:38:07
Speaker
Oh, okay.
01:38:07
Speaker
That makes more sense.
01:38:08
Speaker
So, okay.
01:38:09
Speaker
So you hook Moss up and you all begin taking off for the remainder of your days.
01:38:14
Speaker
Luckily, just like the other small portion did with Jalera and Maeve and then your four-day speedy race through, it is uneventful.
01:38:26
Speaker
And you were able to make it...
01:38:27
Speaker
very peacefully back to Novoa.
01:38:29
Speaker
And we will end as you will walk through or walk past rather the sign saying, welcome to Novoa and up to the, um, the horse barn place.
01:38:43
Speaker
I can't remember the name.
01:38:43
Speaker
I'm really bad with words today.
01:38:45
Speaker
Stable.
01:38:45
Speaker
Stable.
01:38:46
Speaker
Thank you.
01:38:47
Speaker
Um, you guys walk back up to the stable to kindly return.
01:38:50
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Jackie.
01:38:50
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I think this is the first time I've actually returned a horse.
01:38:54
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I promised we would return her.
01:38:57
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Achievement unlocked.
01:38:59
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Do we get like one of those steam badges?
01:39:02
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Return the horse in D&D.
01:39:04
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Achievement unlocked, return the horse in D&D.
01:39:06
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Yeah.
01:39:06
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Kept your word.
01:39:13
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That is so funny.
01:39:14
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Either way, audience, thank you so much for listening.
01:39:18
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I hope you enjoyed this episode.
01:39:21
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And listen to the next one because we're about to record it.
01:39:26
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But hopefully see you guys next time.
01:39:27
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Can't wait to see you all in the Discord, socials, all the other places we are because we are doing our best to make ourselves as available to you as possible as we try to create this content.
01:39:37
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And frankly, this lovely story.
01:39:39
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I don't know if it's lovely, but this good story for you all to enjoy.
01:39:43
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See you next time.
01:39:44
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Bye.
01:39:45
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Bye.
01:39:51
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We want to say thank you to our cast, myself, Curtis Woosley as the GM, MJ Gunther as Talira Grimstone Echelanothi, Sephira as Maeve Strongheart, Rennie Armis as Calden, and Jack Baldwin as Young Yakal.
01:40:03
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Additional thank you to our graphics by Sintiq GFX and our intro and outro music composed by Ryan Moon's owner and operator of Eyes on the Moon Studios.
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you