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Ep. 145 Dragon Ball Baal - Bellum Draconis
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What is better than one dragon……TWO DRAGONS
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Introduction and Character Setup
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We're all millennials, except Ian, he's a boomer. Right.
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Belem Draconis. We are a live play 5E 2024 D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Aerith in the kingdom of Dralak. Joining you for this week's episode, we have Darren who plays the half-orc barbarian Tharaxunjari.
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Did somebody say Dragon Ex Machina? Will, who plays the Dragonborn druid Bal Balcon? I work out! Ian, who plays the tiefling war-sor-o-nyx-gorel. Hello.
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The apple-pie-loving edgelord Callum, who plays the war-forged artificer Alpha. This is a shocking development. Pube, who
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plays... Pube, who plays the human cleric. Everyone... Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. My name is Mark or Michael, if you're AI, and I'm playing the human blade singer, Seth Farah-Rever.
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And by the last, but by no means least, is the dungeon deity, the dispenser of doom, the dictator of dice, the delighter in danger, the come dump heffalump dungeon master Danny.
Minecraft Talk and Game Preparations
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Chicken jockey. Come dump heffalump. That's Lava. No, it's chicken.
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Lava chicken. Oh, you've ruined that. I did. Oh, because it's a it's a it's a ah Minecraft thing, isn't it? is that minecraft thing But by the time you're listening to this, listeners, that film is going to be gone. Nah, it's going to have a resurgence.
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Back in theatres right now. go and watch it. chicken just because you work for my lover william minecraft that's your surname we all need all that oh they'll find me unmasked you want to know he's like where is our lovely little old man where is he this unworth seway that fucking shit a lovely little old he's he's under the desk where you left killing alpha ah Try it again. going to load up Stellaris. You guys just let me know when done.
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and You do that all the time, don't you?
The Beginning at Goldport Docks
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And speaking of Stellaris, we find old Gal on the docks of gold but port no ah ah the dos of Goldview staring up at the stars, looking up at the so celestial panoplia of stars he sees above his eyes.
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And there's a moment of calmness, of zen, casting shadows across the docks. He feels the orb vibrate slightly in his pocket. He pulls it out.
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It twinkles in his eye. And he speaks.
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Ooh, psych! Shondralikar shoots skyward warning shot and everybody gets knocked prone. Baal decides to revive the dragon again, and he is referred to as a defiler and an exile by Shondralikar, who immediately says, I should have killed you, bitch!
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And he tells everyone to kneel, and Baal's like, guys, we should probably kneel. We should probably do that thing. And the group's like, yeah, okay,
Dragon Confrontation and Battle
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let's kneel. And Emron's like, no, I kneel for no fucking dragon, bitch! Baal is pleading for clemency and it doesn't work.
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ah Emron gets fucking slammed and downed and Alpha rushes to his aid and helps him. And Nyx is like, hey, I'm the party face. I'll try and do some persuady persuading.
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And he does the flippy flip of the all or nothing coin. Baal starts getting palpitations. It's like some sort of heat in the air heading towards Chandralekarh.
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And it started when Nixie Nix started talking, strangely enough. But his argument seems to work with the all-or-nothing coin. Chandra LaCarre gives Baal two choices.
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Well, he can choose to have two of his companions die now, or the entirety of his brood wiped off the face of Aerith before Baal's own demise.
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Emran puts himself forward nobly as a volunteer for death. Tharok volunteers himself, but is convinced otherwise to look after the group, and Seth whispers to Baal that this is a chance to end his curse. So Baal chooses Seth and Emron.
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But it turns out that Shondralikar was just fucking tricking and he starts charging up a but big old lightning bolt to kill everybody. But then suddenly a gargantuan shape blocks out the moonlight and the words you will not harm the shepherd are spoken.
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There is a sharp gust as you all are forced to just check your footing. The sky splits again, not with lightning this time, but with fire.
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A second roar tears across this basin, deeper, younger, but thunderous with the righteous fury.
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From the west, where the desert meets the edge of a horizon the horizon, a golden blaze streaks through the sky. This trail of molten light.
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This form that has appeared glints off radiant scales
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as this gold-scaled dragon comes into view and descends towards this stony platform, wings outstretched like banners of flame.
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Chandra Lekar utters one word,
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in both confusion and fear.
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Gale fire!
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This oft-dry desert wind now carries a blistering wave of warmth that prickles your skin and makes the very stones beneath you sweat almost.
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Baal, the aching sensation on your chest, the lightheadedness, the ah struggling for breath, immediately passes. and is replaced by this rush of adrenaline
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to the value of 20 hit points being recovered on your part, specifically. At the moment, you have advantage in all strength and constitution roles.
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You, the party, are sandwiched on this rocky plateau between the colossal mass of Chandra Lekar to your east and the slimmer and longer form of this familiar golden matriarch.
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Well, familiar to Baal anyway, but this can't be your mother, surely? The golden voice repeats in bated breath, You will not harm the shepherd.
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It booms across the basin like a bell tolling for judgement. The golden dragon's eyes blaze with this inner fire as they lock onto the elder blue dragon, unflinching even in the face of this raw, crackling rage that Chandra Le Car is summoning.
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The two dragons then rise into the air in almost a tandem unison, their wings beating gusts so powerful that they shake that stone you stand on and force you to shield your faces as dust is sort of bursted up into your face.
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They spiral upwards towards this sort of twilight scene, circling each other in this wide, slow arc, this sort of standoff in the sky.
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And all around them sparks from one and embers from another drift down to the platform that you're standing on.
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As both these draconic giants prime an enormous breath of their own Fire meets lightning. There is a moment of silence before a sonic boom and the sky explodes in this elemental conflict. I need you all to make dexterity saving throws as as the every single matter piece of matter around you just flips.
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Holy shit.
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Nyx, what'd get? Two. You're prone. Three, sorry, three, three, three. You're still prone. Yeah, no. Alpha, what'd you get? 17. You're prone. Baal. Eight. You're prone.
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Tharok. 21. You remain resolute and stood. Emron. 11. You're prone. And Seth. 18.
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You're prone.
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Those of you who are knocked prone, I also need you to make wisdom saving throws.
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Barlet disadvantage. It's a bad day to be exhausted. 12. twelve Piss off a dragon. 12 for Nyx, thank you.
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Nyx, you are under the fear condition. You are scared. Fuck. You're scared anyway. Which of the dragons though you are fearful of. Oh, man.
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Is that the frightened condition? Sorry, Danny. The frightened condition. Alpha. Thirteen. You're frightened. Baal. Fifteen. You are not frightened. Emron.
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Fourteen. You are frightened. Seth. Sixteen. You are not frightened. And it takes a while for that frightening condition to shake off. It's not sort of a couple of seconds later and you're you're feeling it.
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Those of you who were unsuccessful in those roles genuinely are fearful. They're all because you weren't knocked off your feet. you know Your will was resolved the entire time. Flame and lightning are colliding in midair and a series of sort of bursts and lights that...
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A series of bursts light up the desert around you, like ah like almost like a
Strategic Decisions and Magic Chaos
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second dawn. The golden dragon darts like a comet, diving forward with this blistering roar, talons crashing into that blue dragon, Chandra Le Car.
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Chandra Le Car answers in kind, wings folding in this brutal dive, draws open and leashes a forked lance, and this lightning, the trail sort of follows through as the two are locked in what looks like quite a deadly duel.
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Around you, the space and trembles and thunder now begins to echo as lightning meets heat from cliff to cliff as these Titans wage war. This is no longer a standoff. This has become a battleground.
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And though these behemoths fight above you, you stand in this wreckage in this scene below where there are occasional falling debris. There is this crackling of energy. There is this unstable magical aura from these two giants interlocking.
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sort of swelling around you like a riptide. Those of you are um magically attuned, which is everyone, bar Therok in this party, are just sort of feeling the the the magical essence around you, just erupting in your tummy like butterflies.
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How do you proceed as a party in this moment? Do you seek to secure the chamber? Do you look amongst the dead for for scraps of information? What of the eggs? um Do you somehow aid or interfere with the dragons now spilling their fight into the desert?
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What would you like to do? Having not fallen, and just this being the that most amazing thing that Farrakh has ever seen, like the most awe-inspiring, incredible thing he's ever seen, and with this not frightening him and him having a very kind of borderline romantic ah view of combat he he is watching this like a fireworks display he's like yeah and it's just watching this fight standing up while everyone else is down he's literally just watching the flashes and ha ha every time of a flash farrakh is just he's he's excited by this this is this is turned into something spectacular for him well well what do you want to do you gotta call the run here
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I'll make that choice for you. Not now. It's not for me. It's for us. but what's What's the what'sster rules of engagement here?
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i don't know if that is my mother. I don't know who it is. I cannot leave. I canno't i can't leave her to it. I have to help.
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Barlow's going to just charge towards, because he is not frightened, not aware perhaps of the other ones, the fight, if it's directly above him. So you're in this basin, right? You're in this rocky plateau in this huge basin that you have to cross to get here.
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the The fight is happening all around you and it's sort of spilling out into the desert. It's no longer looking like it's going to it's in the temple. like You'd have to go back and out of the temple to to to try and catch up with it. It's...
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It's hard to get an idea about where they're going to stop, but it's they're certainly occasionally landing, propelling themselves off the desert floor sort of in a mile radius around you. They're really taking in their space. These are huge, huge creatures.
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Okay. Bo kind of ah panic. Stay around the group. Can anyone else fly?
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seth's go Can you fucking fly? Yes!
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With me. And Bal is going to activate his Cape of Exploding Flight. Are there any sources of flame nearby? If not, can I bonfire in front of me and do Or does it have to be... You'd have to generate at least one.
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That's fine. Everything's been sort of been snuffed out in these huge winds. Seth's going to run over to Nyx and just kind of... lift his eyebrows and nod his head and kind of hold his arms out, almost like but looking for a hug and nod his head.
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Oh, okay. We're doing this. like this my app Am I still frightened? and No, that's now beginning to wear off. Okay. um Emron?
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Emron gets up. Let's make us fly and let's go Twat Shondrolika. you i can I can carry Seth? Can you not cast fly on on several of us?
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No. You can't twin it in any way?
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That's about getting a little bit better. Before we get too far ahead of ourselves. No. I've got quicken spell and subtle spell. Before you get too far ahead yourselves, Balaz, you cast your cantrip to summon your bonfire to then draw the energy out of it.
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I need you to roll a d100, please. Ooh, how exciting. What a rarity. Let's see if I fuck this up. ah Wild Magic Surge.
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Yeah, buddy. That is a 12.
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Okay. So, you go to cast this, and you're not sure if it's the adrenaline in the moment, but It doesn't quite form exactly how you are used to it forming. It does eventually happen, but it's sort of chaotic to begin with. The bonfire doesn't really take shape. The flames misbehave for a few seconds. And and as that happens, there is sort of this um
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crack of magical energy that just sort of reverberates around you. Your height changes by
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Four inches. You grow four inches taller. Yeah, baby. What part of him grows four inches? In all all of his form. ah you just You just watch as the person who's stood He's my Fantastic.
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It's probably barely barely noticeable in this scene, but you just, for a second, just do that, and everything just feels slightly stretched.
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Okay. ah Yeah, even so, that's going to happen. I mean, Meta will want to grab someone and take them with him, but Baal's not doing that. that's he's he's It only lasts as long as it lasts. He's going to get himself up as high as he can. This is a really fucking stupid idea, ah but is he's going to be action dashing, and his wildfire spirit is going to... I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. As soon as Barl takes flight um ah with an apologetic look at everyone else, he'll grab Seth and cast fly on himself and let's go. Okay. Can you roll D100, please, as well?
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I've already given myself the fire damage as well from the exploding cape. Cool. 61. 61. ah sixty one
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For the next minute, the same sort of effect happens for you. You you you cast your spell and it just doesn't look good it misbehaves for us for a few seconds. And you're hit again with this sort of cackle of magical energy.
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And for the next minute, your your voice booms three times as loud when you speak.
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Hold on tight, says Seth, even though it's really close by. Seth, yeah, you've done it. Right in ear as Purple Energy is. shoots down from my tiefling horns and those ephemeral rings in that purple hue shoot out from behind my back.
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and ah And with that, we take flight and I'm just following Baal's lead on this one. Okay. Nithravar's on my shoulder and you just hear Nyx Nithravar go, I think they heard that across the veil.
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Probably.
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Emron, Tharag. Everyone looks the other two and be like, well, what the fuck are we meant to do? Because we can't get out of here. We've got a bloody boulder in the way of a getting out of here, and we're stuck.
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How high up do they actually have to go? oh he's going to hit his Transformer powers. How do you mean? but would ah ah that Because everyone's flying up to kind of get out. of Up and out. like they They're over the other side of the basin from the yeah temple there.
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How far is it up to the top? Of what? yeah the The top of this basin thing. Oh, like because of Jolico sort of breaking this and all the debris has been falling, you have become the top of this plateau. So it was a chamber originally and now it's sort of been broken But it's surrounded by cata by a chasm, isn't it?
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Yes, but then it's surrounded by a huge chasm. Like yeah picture a satellite dish. And we had a very small bridge we had to cross and bunghole. Has that gone now? ah Well, you haven't inspected it but you can you can you can see the brave you You basically have 360 vision now around this basin.
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and Just like the end of GoldenEye little bit. Yes. Nice. Fuck yeah. I mean, em everyone looks... Any ideas, Alpha? Any magical sorcery things you can do?
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I'm afraid I cannot fly. The proportion is something that deludes me. Looks like we're fucking hoofing it, and everyone sort of wearily sort of picks himself up and goes, right, okay. Let's go see if we can get out of here. Otherwise, this is... We need to move, otherwise we will be crushed.
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We don't stay for show. No, well, the other three have fucked off and we're now split up. This is always good for us, Lop. Do you do this often? Do you often split and dishes happen? Yes, we often split up and things bad things happen. Yeah.
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Right. Come on, let's go try and get the fuck out of here. Everyone's just sort of looking around at the debris around them. Yeah, and about the 16 of Chris' crew bodies, ah dismembered parts, egg yolk everywhere, and then the the the few remaining intact eggs.
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And then looks at one of the eggs, wonders whether he she should just push off the cliff just for, you know, a fall. Alpha's going to look at Emron, ah look at the eggs, look back at Emron and thinking, this a situation where we need leverage? Oh, maybe.
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But where we could take the eggs. Yeah, that's I believe there's three eggs left in there. Three, I think. There is three eggs and three of us. Okay, let's take some eggs.
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Fucking men in black. Hold on, that fucking dragon lied to us. Just so I understand, that fucking dragon lied to us and we're going to do something other than just crush these fucking The going to kill us regardless. The dragon was going to kill us. I say fuck these eggs.
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I mean, whether it was going to kill us or just going to kill Seth and myself. Well, not literally. I've only just thought through what I just said. I say they are a bargaining chip. yeah ah that This fight could kill us anyway.
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This fight could quite possibly kill our companions. We can use the eggs to ransom fine and possibly send Shandrolika away. You haven't got a bag of holding or anything like that that's useful out now? No? ah Do I look like the type of person who'd have a bag of holding? I have a giant axe and a belt that gives me a massive of beard.
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I mean, I figured you might want something to to carry stuff in rather than just, you know... Oh, I can carry egg. Yes, that's fine. Give egg. Wait. Okay. And as they're gathering up the egg, he's going to pick up the arm of McBenna, and he's just going to, with all sincerity, turn to them and go, just holding out this arm.
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You are from Shadow Men, yes? You two? Yep. Yes. He was from Shadow Men, too. You will help give him good send-off. Yes? Shadow Men send-off. I mean, that's just an arm.
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He'll glance at the arm and go... It is the arm of my friend and he spoke often about his home with Shadow Men. I mean, our previous few roles, we don't really need a body there, so you don't have We could do it without him if you don't want to carry that with you.
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If this was Rey and Lemron, I would appreciate the same being done for him. Yeah, I mean, we said but we sent Marota off without a body. I mean, she didn't have one, but, you know... But we still then treated Marota with dignity in her memory.
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Okay, we'll carry around this limb with us respectfully. You never know, it could come in handy. Look,
Party Debates and Dragon Negotiations
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I will... It's been five years and that's the best thing you said.
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All right. We'll the limb to his belt and go, all right, fine, but I don't want to be carrying around the decaying limb for too long. I would just like to do the funeral rite at some point. if That's okay. Okay. like Give me an hour, we can sort it.
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I mean, while we're here, they're fucking off. I'm going to look at it. Is any of the armor in good condition? Make an investigation check. Make an investigation check for me. Okay.
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Is it 10? So you sort of... There's a lot of blood and gore everywhere. I'm used to that. You're sort of having to... youre not really fancying getting particularly dirty at this point. So you're sort of just kicking it or using like the hilt of you your hammer just to like move pieces bits and pieces.
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And then you see a familiar foe amongst the dead.
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You see the mostly intact body of Captain Yor, who you fought in a desert when you were first meeting Bal and Seth. And if you recall, Captain Yor had this particularly um impressive maul, which is currently underneath parts of his leg.
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Yeah, i'll I'll grab that. Pick that up. And as you continue searching, a lot of stuff is sort of charred and burnt, scorch marks over a fair amount.
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You also see... couple of bodies of non-Armored individuals and there's this quite striking spear amongst them.
00:24:46
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Grub spear, we'll just put out that we' good we'll grab grab the lot for everybody, it's fine. and With a 10, that's about all you find in in a couple minutes of searching. That's cool, it's alright. We've got a whole loot room back in the temple to go look through, it's fine.
00:24:58
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Fucking shot this place out. Good thinking, that one. They know where we are. um Okay, right. Let's take the eggs and let's... you know We still had stuff to go look for. i mean, they're going to come back, right? what What do we think?
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ah yeah I do not know who... I don't really know them. I matched them 20 minutes ago. or i don't Not that long ago. i don't I can't answer that question. Oh, my God. Did you see that spark? We just need to help.
00:25:24
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What the fuck can we do, Alpha? There's two fucking dragons having a big of pissing match. Those three have flown off... They pitch fire and light. I don't know how we can help. all they think The only thing I know is that three of my friends are out there trying to do the same, and I have no right to expect any less of myself.
00:25:42
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You can stay here and loot these and people as much as you wish there and run. Those three flew off. We didn't really discuss as a group. I mean, talk about impulsive. We've been doing really well on that, and they're flowing off. So, you know, and nearly just died, Alpha. In fact, nearly died three times now. Yeah, three times now in the last, like, hour.
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So, you know... Sure. Try not to get hit. I won't. Let's go. Come on. Okay. Come on. Farrah will then just kind of step in and go and just try and like, wait, wait, wave wait.
00:26:12
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i I sense tension. I sense you are not feeling great about things, Metal Man. It's okay. I'd understand it. I'd feel the same. But he's going to look at the weapons that Emron has just picked up and gone. This is good steel.
00:26:24
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Good steel can be used to hit things really hard. I'm pretty good at that. This spear is good. It can be really good for poking things or throwing at things. I think your friend here is actually helping and securing the advantages that we have in front of us. Oh, yeah. and total until like I can have a look at these at some point. mean They might be quite good. and If not, we can flog them.
00:26:42
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Ah, see? I actually think he is helping. We can't get up there. I can't fly. You can't fly. He can't fly. Let's do what we can do, yes? The Akriska left a lot of stuff back in that temple. Might be useful.
00:26:53
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If you wish to go and check... I'm with you, big man. ah I'm sorry, Emron, yes? I'm with you, Emron. Yes. Good, right. Let's go. Let's take these eggs, and Emron's got the stuff on his back. Danny, are they just... Am I just counting them as... Unidentified Maul, unidentified spear at the moment.
00:27:07
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Thank you very much. um That's just for weight purposes. I'm just putting them in now. Mm-hmm. And then a 60 kilogram egg. Oh, it's in pounds this game, isn't it? Yeah. Mark, could you tell us how many bags of grass that is? I can't. I'd say roughly 60 kilograms is about 120 to 126 pounds. that sterling? they'd be more like 60. I don't actually know that.
00:27:32
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ah don't know you know that And making it topical for August, as we are currently in, that would be roughly, i would say, about 16 to 17 bags of runner beans.
00:27:44
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How many pounds? 16 to 18 bags of runner beans. I told you. why why did you and you not will It's kilos. kilos to the pound.
00:27:57
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knock two point two pounds to the kilo you double it Double 60. 120. Just put 120 in, dude. That's close enough. or we could just Google it. We have the internet. you could Or you could have Googled it. Who knows? 16 bags runner beans. Okay.
00:28:13
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Cool. ah Thank you. ah Unit converter. unuch convert Unit Unit. Darren, I'm going to give you the... I need to give some stuff because that's too much weight for me.
00:28:30
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Ooh. really Yeah, can you take two eggs, Darren? Farrah will look at that and then he'll kind of see the eggs and he'll go, can't I take the big mole? Oh, yeah. Oh, he's only £10.
00:28:42
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Oh! Okay, ah well, I'll take that and an egg. £120. Okay, give me egg. Sure, why Here you go. Cheers. I don't understand why we don't smash these fuckers, but sure, I'll take the egg. We're going to do it when Shondralikar's looking and then we can, like, you know... Oh, fuck you, Bill Yes, I like it.
00:29:03
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why why were we i why why we Why did that blue drag... I don't understand what's happened just now, but this fight... Chandra Lekar, we've got a history. She's clearly got pissy. Anyway, let's just fucking go.
00:29:16
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So you're heading back over the bridge, which... Well, if we can get through. Yeah, so you sort of return to that channel, and just from the sheer seismic movement that's happened over the last 20, 30, 40 minutes...
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forty minutes everything sort of dissipated and that the the quality of rock that was and made this chamber doesn't match the quality of rock that that is its foundation.
00:29:41
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And so you can begin to move back along that bridge and that bridge, if you recall, is broken in parts and under that seismic activity it's still broken but because you're ascending rather than descending you'll be able to do it quite controlled.
00:29:54
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So as long as you're moving single file I presume you're not going to try and make this any riskier. No, I'm not running. I have the energy. And you're moving at a bit of a slower pace as well, given the fact that you're carrying that slightly extra weight.
00:30:05
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and Is your intention to head directly the route through the temple as well, or are you hoping once you get to the end of the bridge that you might see more of the temple? End of the bridge, let's see what so we're see where we're at because it took us a while to get across it because we' we're running at quite a pace.
00:30:19
Speaker
Great. And see what bloody flying team is going to do. so Red arrows. there Thank you for the segue. A great segue. As we do dooo did ah just shift our focus now five hundred six hundred feet into the basin as Baal is leading the charge. Baal, Seth, and Nyx, you look down, you cannot see the ground. Occasionally when there are sparks of lightning or or embers that fall, they they sort of extinguish before they get to the base of that basin, that depth of that basin.
00:30:52
Speaker
But I imagine you're not looking down an awful lot, or at least, Baal, you won't be. You're about a third of the way over to the... desert, a cliff once again, with the terrain levels back out to something you could walk on.
00:31:06
Speaker
And it's quite clear from your flight that um with the determination you're flying with, I imagine your focus is purely on the dragons. And occasionally you guys are sort of and encountering sort of turbulence, not winds, but sparks or embers.
00:31:22
Speaker
And I need you all to sort of do something about that. I'll treat you as a bit of a cluster with Baal just at the Vanguard. um But you can opt to try and be evasive, but you're having to yeah having to evade, and you could do that by magical means, via skill means, via intelligent means, however you want to do this.
00:31:42
Speaker
But your if you carry it on your current flight path, you would encounter the undesirable elements, let's say.
00:31:52
Speaker
How would you want to proceed? it's It's also super windy, so you're moving at half the flight seat speed you are already moving at. ah regarding the the air that's coming towards us, the turbulence and the the dirty air, as it were, Nix would, um because it's instantaneous and not relying on concentration,
00:32:14
Speaker
as he's following close behind Baal to kind of get that slipstream. And also with a lot of worry um in his face, um he's doing this because this is what Baal's instantly said with me, ah are cast in front of Baal, Gust, to try and create this clean air.
00:32:33
Speaker
um And I can do it constantly. um Just fire this kind of corridor of of clean air in front of him. And so at least we won't get pushed back from any any force of nature. I can't do much about the elements ah because that's what I'll be doing.
00:32:49
Speaker
um Sure. first you First time you cast Gust, I need you to roll a d100. Cool. cool
00:32:59
Speaker
This is D100 every time I cast a spell is starting to... I'll be casting this a lot, so let me know how many times you want this. We'll do this the first time we'll see all the outcomes. Okay, this is 94.
00:33:15
Speaker
As you go to cast Gust, again, something misbehaves in this magic. Everything is sort of warped by the the the union of these two dragons feuding at the moment. And your spell just sort of, some of the energy sort of gets absorbed and that concentration is lost.
00:33:28
Speaker
And you cast Gust and you feel that rush of wind begin to leave your fingers. And then you look at your fingers and they grow size. Oh, fuck me. As you've cast Enlarge on yourself.
00:33:40
Speaker
Oh, Jesus Christ. You're now twice the size, carrying Seth in less of your grip with ah with your other hand. My other hand would be out in front.
00:33:53
Speaker
So that first gust is able to, yes, deal with some of these stray embers and sparks that are likely to hit your group. And then you said you proceeded to do a second one. Do you change that course of action now? ah No, I wouldn't i'd because I'd still have the ability to.
00:34:09
Speaker
And even though I'm aware that things have changed in proportion of my body, I'm still kind of single-mindedly focused on bile and there's a lot of panic going through. So there's just this almost constant...
00:34:23
Speaker
purple energy that's it starts from the horns and it's slowly taking over my body as i'm constantly pulsing out these arcane uh abilities of mine one with the concentration held as flying and then the other is gust is just i'm just trying to get baal where he needs to be i'll consider that a success baal or seth what would you like to do and this this first wave of this Nithravar, on the behest of Seth, will be skittering around the now enormous Nyx and Seth, casting um the cantrip mending.
00:34:57
Speaker
um Just for those embers that do manage to get through, or those things that tear clothing or affect armor, it's been skittering around and just looking to repair. I know this is a minute to do it, but that's the concept that he's going around and just kind of, the stuff that gets through, he's going to deal with, basically.
00:35:13
Speaker
I need you to roll d100 for
00:35:16
Speaker
Okay, that's going to be ah fine.
00:35:24
Speaker
should have prepped that, really, because I knew I was going to be rolling a spell. And it didn't roll me D1. It rolled me 81. ah eighty one
00:35:35
Speaker
Okay. Nidrifar managed to cast that one minute spell in one second and you immediately get to take another action. Go. What is it? Sure. Cool. Okay. and He would then also um look to cast...
00:35:49
Speaker
um
00:35:53
Speaker
No, he wouldn't. and ah Seth would be looking at the winds, at the gusts, at the moats of air, etc., um and try to kind of just tug Nix one way or the other, depending to try and help him avoid certain areas of um of kind of... ah high pressure wind or from the the the position of where the ash or the ash or embers are, try and get him away from those. Because you can see his mind is just on Baal, trying to get him around those mini tornadoes that gust up and just kind of poll pull his body one way or the other to get him around them.
00:36:27
Speaker
It's a particular It's a nature check. so Okay, yeah go for it. Because it mentions in it about being able to recall information about the weather. So I thought that was a fucking stretch. But anyway. here It's more like predicting...
00:36:40
Speaker
What danger is going to happen if there's a sudden gale, if there's such a gust, if it's like being being ah contingency planning? Sure. I got 22. Seth's a fucking weatherman.
00:36:51
Speaker
And you were there and you were able to sort of take cues from elsewhere in the basin. Where are other ah incoming prevalent winds um causing embers to sort of come towards you unexpectedly? And you're able to plan and navigate and just sort of like a rudder for Nix kind of just...
00:37:05
Speaker
position him appropriately. And Nick Nithravi just whispers into Nick's ear, and the hot air will be coming down from the south over the next day and into the evening and slowly
Mysteries and Future Plans
00:37:15
Speaker
pushing eastwards into the evening. Nice. Please keep your seatbelts on at all times on Nick Bowen 47.
00:37:21
Speaker
Nick's ear is now the size of your face, Seth. So, you know, it's quite a big cavity there to speak into. ah Moving on to Baal. Gaping. Yeah, so Baal at the vanguard, he's not too worried about the fire coming his way, um but he will have his kind of, if if he sees like bursts of lightning and other kind of ah debris and things like that, the shield is going to be raised.
00:37:44
Speaker
So it's going to be a combination of being on his guard for things like that. So keeping an eye out for kind of anything that's firing his way, but also kind of shield up to bounce that off. But if it is like embers, things like that, it's that's comfort to him. Even if it's damaging, it's still comfort to him.
00:38:02
Speaker
and So that's his intention, just darting at the at the front there. Go ahead just make an athletics check for me. Still at advantage. Ooh, yes. Just, again, just predict it. Because you're you're having to push against quite strong wins a lot of the time as well.
00:38:17
Speaker
Yeah, it's an 11. Nice. Nice. So this sort of pattern continues as you guys spend almost 30 seconds in this continuous um
00:38:30
Speaker
approach. Nick's casting Gale to try and just spearhead and like you say, almost increase that length of that slipstream even to make it easier for Baal. Seth continuing to weatherman his way through this like a geography teacher wannabe.
00:38:46
Speaker
Niverifar just being almost like on first aid, making sure nothing gets too scorched, nothing gets too damaged. And Bal just sheer strength that you now have discovered buffeting large elements of these are away.
00:39:02
Speaker
and you get to about two thirds across now. And the the again, the dragons have been changing directions so much. You guys have just and gone for the shortest distance across this basin, really. And it's unpredictable where they're going to land.
00:39:14
Speaker
But in this focusing bar, it's clear that the golden dragon is actually losing. that Oh, shit. That Chandra Le Car is overpowering the golden dragon.
00:39:29
Speaker
Largely because of this, the most vocal screams are coming from, from the golden dragon. And
00:39:39
Speaker
just like, if you're watching a wrestling contest, you can see the one who's being pinned or thrown down to the the floor the most, you know,
00:39:47
Speaker
So you continue to move across before eventually you're able to meet land again. And you are now almost a mile away from these guys who are going completely the opposite direction. You sort of cross northeast the shortest distance across this basin. These guys headed due west out of the the this part of the temple. so you guys are properly split at this point.
00:40:09
Speaker
You make land on the sand, as it were. and again, you're what youre now that you're not concentrating on flying, is there anything you three would like to do to to try and um predict where the next stage of their combat is going to be, um to intercede, interfere, etc.? Is there anything you wish to do?
00:40:27
Speaker
Yeah, if Baal's intention here is not to try to fight Shondranakar, that can't... He's not... he both wouldn't kind of physically or mentally be able to, but his intention is to provide aid to, um yeah, to provide aid to this golden dragon, whoever it may be.
00:40:54
Speaker
So the hope was if at any point they passed within kind of 60 feet and he's able to, to be an offer, um, a healing word just to buffer, it's not going to be much.
00:41:06
Speaker
Um, but, he that's kind of the initial intent at the moment if they don't get close enough then he is he's rushing where he can best predict he will be able to get within that that range that distance i know it puts him in really fucking stupid place um i think that's what he'd do sure nick seth anything you're wanting to do here We're on the floor now, did you say? You're on the floor. You've landed. You're back on the sand.
00:41:38
Speaker
Nixwood's... Has it been 10 minutes? Have I still got fly? ah You still have fly. you only been about two minutes to cross this basin. Okay. I wouldn't, even though i would put Seth down so I could gain some more momentum.
00:41:52
Speaker
You're still enlarged. Yeah. Woo! Nix would hover, ah not fly high, just hover above the sand because it actually gives him a quicker speed um and would book it following Baal.
00:42:08
Speaker
just with a massive sense of trepidation of what's the plan
00:42:17
Speaker
ah so as as bal's charging the wings dissipate in a small kind of explosion around him you see him flinch a bit just taking three points of damages that's kind of negated now uh but he is just scrambling rushing forwards and he just shouts over his shoulder to you
00:42:34
Speaker
Do not try to attack Shondral Kar. It will not work. We just, I just need to help. I just need to try to help is all he's basically shouting. And at this point as well, Seth, that comes through in Draconic. That doesn't come through in the common tongue, not intentionally.
00:42:53
Speaker
It's just, that's where he is now. I would shout that back to you in common. Seth, just like, he's, he just wants us to try and, not fight Sean Dralica.
00:43:07
Speaker
He needs to do something. He's emotions are but fucking heightened right now. So, At the mention of not fighting Chandra LeCart, Seth's going to frown, deep frown. And actually, for the first time ever, both him and Nithra do the same face and turn towards Nyx for a second and then look back to where Baal is. Baal, are you running? you waiting? What's the aim? No, he's not waiting. He's charging to be as close as he can to the Golden Dragon.
00:43:40
Speaker
think this conversation's happening at high speed. Yeah, chasing the dragon, friend.
00:43:45
Speaker
Yep. ah Seth's going to be running alongside. He's got stuff he wants to do, but none of it's really plausible at this distance at the moment. So, yeah. Also to aid the speed, his wildfire spirit is bamfing him every six seconds, an extra 10 feet.
00:44:04
Speaker
Okay. And Nick's enlarged flight form is keeping up with you. And I imagine just occasionally just tapping Seth in the back to give Seth another couple of five foot five to ten feet of movement.
00:44:16
Speaker
Yeah, I'm making sure that ah Seth is keeping up with us because Nick's is using Seth almost like emotional support, guess. Yeah.
00:44:27
Speaker
Picture this this scene as you're you're sprinting out into this unknown desert and it is complete twilight and there is glowing sparks of ah fire falling from the sky. This looks like a meteor storm, but just sort condensed.
00:44:44
Speaker
And there is this booming sound overhead, somewhat muffled for you guys who are just approaching the temple, but so still the same. And these swirling sands is hitting you every now and again as the dragons just change direction.
00:44:57
Speaker
until you're you you're running for maybe 15 minutes and you guys are ah ah full sprint, well, as close as you can in in in that much time. What do you cover in 15 minutes?
00:45:10
Speaker
ah What is that? God,
00:45:16
Speaker
I'm trying to then convert it back to... Miles is ridiculous. um You cover about um a mile and a bit in that time walking into the sand and in these this this to quite aggressive wind before both dragons fall to the ground. not At the same time, Chandralakar almost vertically spearing this golden dragon into the sand.
00:45:43
Speaker
And you sort of see, as that the as you continue to run towards it, the sand begins to dissipate. There is just one huge claw from Chandralakar on the face of the golden dragon, bear pushing it into the sand, and the other pushing it sort of mid-end.
00:46:01
Speaker
just below its wing point of its belly into the sand and its teeth, her teeth are bare to go looking at that neck.
00:46:10
Speaker
You are within audible range, Nix, even so because Nix's voice is three times as loud. there anything you want me to say are we getting there quicker?
00:46:23
Speaker
Uh... Baal is not in any right state to respond. He's sprinting forwards. ah Okay. From trying to read the emotions of Baal and the desperation that's creeping through, Nix will just shout in Draconic at the top of his massive voice, Stop!
00:46:46
Speaker
But still running forward. Well, flying forwards. And just this one eye from Shondralakar looks away from the neck of the golden dragon and out towards the desert, where there is this twice as large tiefling with wings, ah a small burst of flame every six seconds as Baal's appearing.
00:47:06
Speaker
And then this handicapped man with this tiny closet and slightly behind. as you'll begin to enter into the range. I cast Mage Armor. Just throw out there. Well, I think Nithra Vaz is going to poke poke me in the boob and the armor's going Can you roll a D100 for me?
00:47:27
Speaker
I can. I find a button on D&D Beyond now for it as well. so I'll do that instead of what I did before.
00:47:40
Speaker
a good number, isn't it? You said they said that was a good number, so...
00:47:45
Speaker
I need Nyx. I need Baal. How many first level spell slots do you have left, Seth? I have ah two first level spell slots remaining. Okay, just bear that in mind.
00:48:01
Speaker
Every ally around you, Seth,
00:48:05
Speaker
takes eight points of necrotic damage. Oh! I'm not sure what Nivirfar's health is. You'll have to confirm for me. One. Nivirfar decays in this and then reappears and you lose a first level spell slot.
00:48:21
Speaker
Yeah, I've ticked it off. Nix, you lose eight points. Yep. Bile, you lose eight points. Seth, you recover eight, eight and one. You recover 17 hit points.
00:48:32
Speaker
Baller, I'll do that again. yeah Please don't.
00:48:39
Speaker
But your mage armor also appears. Thank you. but that's Again, this similarly regular spell that you're used to used to using just misbehaves.
00:48:53
Speaker
And almost you like your hands, one hand feels hot, one hand feels shocked as you're casting it. And then the necrotic sort of spills out of you accidentally. Like you weed yourself a little bit.
00:49:06
Speaker
And you all appear in range. And this eye just looks up at you from Shondrala Carr, blood dripping from her mouth, wounds all over this golden dragon's back that you can see.
00:49:23
Speaker
Nyx is just going to hover down now and put his feet on the ground and the emphymoral rings going to show as they disappear. And Nyx is just going to place an overly large tiefling hand on Baal's shoulder and just try and whisper towards you.
00:49:45
Speaker
Try and calm. You've got attention, but you need to calm your mind. Just say what you need to say and you'll feel this kind of touch of purple energy kind of just go through your body as you felt this before. I've got guidance on you. Hence why I had to drop fly.
00:50:03
Speaker
You get one D4 to any ability checks using your chosen skill. Next, can you roll D100 please? Ah, piss!
00:50:13
Speaker
Instant death touch. That's what I've done. 66. Power would kill.
Temple Exploration and Resolutions
00:50:17
Speaker
power would kill
00:50:23
Speaker
66. Yeah.
00:50:27
Speaker
The devil rises. Execute order 66. Oh no. And you touched Baal at that point. Oh. Yep. ye
00:50:38
Speaker
Bala I need you to make a wisdom saving throw please oh I'm sorry that's alright no don't worry I'm good with wisdom saving throws so this is going to be an incredible roll you do have guidance go no guidance doesn't help for the saving throw it was a really shit roll on my part it's a 12 overall and what's your remaining points uh 44 you are asleep
00:51:07
Speaker
cool As you go to inspire your partner, Nyx, and just in that moment of touch, that spell misbehaves and you send him to sleep.
00:51:21
Speaker
As he just collapses to the ground.
00:51:27
Speaker
What would to next? I'd slap his face, ah kneel down next to him, go, no, no, no, no. no no no no Does that do anything? Six seconds later, you reawake, Bob. Jesus. Sustain one point of bludgeoning damage.
00:51:43
Speaker
Okay. Nithravar's going to look at the Chondrala car and be like, that demon lizard caused you to fall into a slumber.
00:51:53
Speaker
Attack!
00:51:56
Speaker
But Seth's just going to look to the other two first.
00:52:01
Speaker
yeah um you're You're awake again. Okay. and Scrambling up to his feet now, and it looks like this is the kind of... ah Such a beautiful image.
00:52:12
Speaker
Such a awful, beautiful image that I'm currently, ah yeah, seeing. ah Bail is there. He's exhausted after charging, after he's run all this way. He it just wants to help. But like now he's here at this point, he is just kind of screaming in draconic manner.
00:52:38
Speaker
Stop, please stop. Just end this madness. Not for me. Don't do that for me. Let them go. I pledge myself to you again. i will do anything. Just please stop.
00:52:55
Speaker
Please. um And he will kind of...
00:53:04
Speaker
drop to his knees at that point in front of them.
00:53:17
Speaker
And we zoom away. Ah, you mother...
00:53:24
Speaker
As Alpha, Emron, and Tharok, a while back from this moment, re-enter the temple.
00:53:36
Speaker
You cross the bridge relatively unscathed. the The seismic activity has stopped. The winds here have really died down because they're centered to somewhere else at the moment.
00:53:46
Speaker
You enter the temple. And again, you have that regular, and that already traversed route of returning, should you want to, or there are other paths you wish to explore, then feel free.
00:53:59
Speaker
ah Do you head back out to the exit, or do you continue to explore? Everyone's going to like... We should probably wait here because they've gone running off into the desert. They're have to come back here. If we go trying to find them now with them flying, going to have no luck whatsoever.
00:54:19
Speaker
So Farrakh holding these two eggs is like, so we're just going to stand here and wait? No, no, no. We can't. The time it took you to cross the bridge, you saw the pinning happen.
00:54:30
Speaker
that makes sense. But how far away are they? About a mile. But we've we've got to leave. We'll have to lose sight of them. There's no idea. Emron's point is that once they leave the temple, they've got to somehow work out where the temple is, bearing in mind where, yeah, Emron's like, we can't get to them right now, but they know we're here.
00:54:51
Speaker
They've got to come back here to get us.
00:54:55
Speaker
If we leave this temple, we've then got to work out how to get there. There's a room we could put these eggs in while we search the rest this temple and work out what the oprysco were doing here other than fucking up a dragon over there.
00:55:11
Speaker
Okay. It's up to you. out If you want to go after them, you can, but you know you've got to run. They're about a mile away, mate. For the first time in my life, i I feel indecisive. I feel like my heart wants to do one thing and my brain wants to do another.
00:55:31
Speaker
I must stick with the logical choice. You are correct. We can't catch up with them. They are too far away. No. If the old Chris Gru is here, and the newer dragon was here, perhaps they had some way to ah control it, or tame it, or at least make it listen.
00:55:50
Speaker
ah Perhaps there's some kind of magical artifact within here that we might be able to find that will help the situation. There's all sorts. So if we put these two dragon eggs in the armory that Seth and I found...
00:56:01
Speaker
Okay. where am i so i show up to What? We have three eggs. I'm carrying one. and there' one So everyone sort of shows them where the armory was. but Yeah, so you you'd return back down the stairwell, taking head west, and you're back into that yeah room again.
00:56:19
Speaker
Okay, so let's leave them here. Um... Cool. And then... any rooms we didn't look into? Yeah, there was the one ah after here, rather than going up the stairs, there's a corridor we didn't take.
00:56:32
Speaker
Right, okay. And just on that, Alfred's off to try and find out what's in that room. Not listening to any other the kind of reads at the moment. It's a place we've not checked. He's hoping there's answers for something. something Sure.
00:56:44
Speaker
Not even checking the traps or anything like that. Farrok? Farrok is going to be looking for traces of his friend, McBenner. Farrok knows that McBenner himself was... was ah adapt in particularly passing through places of danger of other other ah a ranger and knows that Farok's original mission was to track down the Obkriska presence. So Farok's pathway to finding out about what the Obkriska were here is going to be retracing McBenn's steps because it may also provide answers as to what happened to him and as to whether that was an arm or whether there might actually be an armless McBenn is still out there somewhere.
00:57:22
Speaker
Sure.
00:57:25
Speaker
I suppose make a make a survival check if you're trying to look for for his tracks and his his any breadcrumbs he might have left.
00:57:40
Speaker
ah That's a 10.
00:57:45
Speaker
You look around and ah right like you're stepping over bones everywhere. You found his hand in that chamber where the dragon was it was in the dragon wasn't it if I remember it was it was amongst the gore yeah and quite rightly you know he's a skilled ranger he would leave no trace of his his route in he would want to remain undetected and certainly looking around and with that role you didn't find anything that sort of alludes to his presence
00:58:25
Speaker
Fuck fuck it, fuck it. He'll just go, my friend was here and I can't find any fucking trace of him because he's not leaving a trace. Apart from leaving his fucking arm in a dragon. Let's keep looking around these, what what are the rooms we've got? see what else we can find. And Emron's off to follow Alpha.
00:58:41
Speaker
So, you have one ah ah two options. As you head back to that crossroads, you could head due east and there's a sort of a corridor that continues eastwards into a a larger room you you can just spy.
00:58:55
Speaker
Or there's a corridor to the south, which is a bit more less hewn and um ah architectural, more rustically carved, if you will.
00:59:08
Speaker
Looks more like a catacomb, like a natural formed cave rather than a man-made tunnel. That makes sense. Which one do you want to take, Alfred? Do we take the big room first and catacombs or...?
00:59:21
Speaker
The nearest one. And I'm assuming that's the room to the east. Yes. Yeah, yeah. I'm literally barging in there. I'm not shoulder barging the door down, but I'm opening it with haste.
00:59:36
Speaker
So, you sort squeeze through this corridor, and again, you're moving over the piles of these sort of bones, carapaces of these old, decaying Yuan Tei. You enter into this gallery, and this gallery depicts a very base um interpretation of Sol and Selen.
00:59:57
Speaker
In your sort of framing of it, there are far more sophisticated understandings of of the moon and sun goddesses. ah but This is very much sort of cave drawings on walls and ah different sort of moon cycles. and and then there's equivalent of hieroglyphics. there There is some sort of symbol that is unique to them that isn't translatable. It's a drawn image and that's sort of scattered throughout the wall.
01:00:24
Speaker
And there are these purple bloodstains over everything as well. Everything's incredibly worn here. But as you enter into this room, all three of you, are you following suit?
01:00:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. The lights, as they have been under, the torches have been lit in every room you've encountered so far. In this room, They begin to go out one by one, and there is this movement of bones in the chamber around you that sort of echoes the shape of a very large snake contorting.
01:01:07
Speaker
And again it's getting about 30 feet within you now, but it's sort of like meandering like a snake would. Is there anything you would like to do as you're seeing these bones sort of... Can I see a target? Not yet. Make a perception check to see if you can study it closer.
01:01:26
Speaker
Fifteen? Yeah, eventually at one point the sort of the bone distribution isn't as dense as it is in other places and you just see this very sort of almost like a cannon-sized body, this blue-scaled snake just sort of moving through.
01:01:47
Speaker
It's a very, very long snake. I cast Sacred Flame. Okay. And just before you roll initiative...
01:01:58
Speaker
We're going to jump back to the other party.
01:02:05
Speaker
Keeping on our toes here, Danny. You split. I'll keep the drama going. and ah You awake, Baal. You let out this cry of desperation.
01:02:19
Speaker
I need you to make a persuasion check. You have guidance, right? Guidance did take hold. Okay. ah Come on, my guy. Come on.
01:02:30
Speaker
come on It's not been good rolls so far tonight. Come on. But let's get a d four on top of what I have rolled, which puts it at 21.
01:02:48
Speaker
The claw, Shangelica's enormous claw that is pinning the head of this golden dragon into the sand just lifts up. She begins to step towards you and it's about 40 foot ah distance to you and she she makes that in a millisecond of movement.
01:03:09
Speaker
And you'll just sort of feel the thud of each pore as it hits the sand. And she just stands over you almost, blood spit gaping out the side of her mouth.
01:03:23
Speaker
just takes one very firm look at you and then you sort of see in the distance this gold dragon wriggling back to its feet.
01:03:34
Speaker
This is in draconic. Is my kingdom.
01:03:46
Speaker
This creature died yeah
01:03:53
Speaker
Galefire died.
01:04:02
Speaker
What trickery is this? This is directly to you, Bal.
01:04:14
Speaker
Okay.
01:04:17
Speaker
Uh, just so that I've got locations sorted. And cause I know that my wildfire spirit was kind of bamfing me there. He's directly stood in front of this thing. Yeah. You are stood looking upwards about 20 feet to the mouth of Sean, Sean, who is over you.
01:04:33
Speaker
This just sort of encompassing all of your vision from like nine o'clock to three o'clock going forward and then behind you can just sort of make out and set the nicks of a slightly wider angle can just see that this gold dragon is just rolling onto its feet behind very slowly, very pained.
01:04:50
Speaker
Yeah. Um,
01:04:56
Speaker
going to be able to do that subtly, so I won't do that. He will just look up into the face of Shondra Lekar. Yeah, of Shondra Lekar. And again, in Draconic, still he's still kind of on his knees there.
01:05:12
Speaker
He will push himself up to his feet. And I mean, this is kind of the first time that he's actually properly looked into Shondra Lekar's face when it was...
01:05:25
Speaker
There in the temple, he was on his knees, he was his face was down. this isn't He's not looking up in defiance.
01:05:33
Speaker
He's tears streaming down his face, but he's just going to kind of look up the first time into its face and just say,
01:05:46
Speaker
i don't know.
01:05:52
Speaker
i don't know. i just know.
01:05:57
Speaker
This is not how things should be.
01:06:07
Speaker
squabbles between the kingdoms. There is something bigger that is fighting all of us. And surely, i know that whoever that is has come into your kingdom. i I understand.
01:06:25
Speaker
i know the rights. I know what it means, but just for once, can we not just put this aside,
01:06:39
Speaker
but focus on a common enemy? And his eyes all look up further than Shondralikar, hopefully, to... Is the disc in the sky kind of above us? Yeah, with with all the tendrils going out, and yo relatively the one that's relatively close that is...
01:06:58
Speaker
that landed just south of Scorch Helm is pretty prevalent too.
01:07:10
Speaker
Yeah, and whilst...
01:07:13
Speaker
would be There's no clever way of doing it.
01:07:17
Speaker
Whilst he's saying this, he'll have his wildfire spirit not necessarily by his side, but he'll have it by his friends. Yeah. So it won't be kind of hovering around him, curling around him. He'll kind of separate himself from it and it'll kind of drop back to where his friends are.
01:07:34
Speaker
And as you make...
01:07:37
Speaker
Make a persuasion check.
01:07:42
Speaker
Oh shit. Is guidance a one-off or do I get it for a while? It's up. constant. While I'm next to you. um It's four minute anyway, but I'd keep you topped up. um as as As I'm talking, during all the anything draconic speak between the big dragons, Nyx has connected his mind to Seth and is translating silently towards him.
01:08:03
Speaker
Before you finish your role, sorry, Seth, do continue. i was just going to say Nithraval would be giving awkward, ah, ah, yes, yes, back at each of that. um Unnecessarily, as Seth shakes his head. Sorry, intending to check.
01:08:17
Speaker
Nice. That moment took more than a minute, Nix. So would you like to recast guidance? Yep. Oh, motherfucker.
01:08:29
Speaker
Do it. Do it. Yeah. Yeah. yeah it's It's the only thing Nix can do. it's ah It's an act of love. He's going for it.
01:08:39
Speaker
Casting guidance.
01:08:42
Speaker
Seth would also... Nithravar tell Seth to cast another spell also. um
01:08:53
Speaker
it It would only happen, though, if there was any sign of aggression from Shondralikar. So can I prepare it? Do you interpret... Did you you interpret the advance? I think, yeah, I think that's probably going to be it. Yeah. Um, uh, Nithrava's, well, Seth's going to cast rope trick and Nithrava's going to snuck into his bag and, uh, uh, Seth won't a clue what he's doing. And suddenly this rope will just come kind of fire out of, of the satchel by his side.
01:09:19
Speaker
Um, hopefully, which is my last second level spell slot. Um, but it's eight feet in the air into a pocket dimension. Um, it's a, it's, it's a, As it goes up, Seth goes, oh, it's clever in his head because that's like a route out. That's a way, a safety net, a backup, if this all goes wrong for Baal.
01:09:41
Speaker
Then let's say you probably cast those things simultaneously and there is no challenge. The feuding between the dragons has reached an interval.
01:09:54
Speaker
The sort of magical layer is undisturbed for a moment. So as you cast those two spells, it is without impact of anything greater.
01:10:06
Speaker
Oh my God. It's a simple guidance spell and I shit myself. Val, the outcome of your persuasion roll with guidance.
01:10:18
Speaker
14. And as you gesture it to the thing in the sky, and being a common enemy,
01:10:31
Speaker
A weaker, much weaker voice from behind Shondralakar, but just as loud.
01:10:40
Speaker
ah steel nightmare.
01:10:54
Speaker
And Shondralakar takes a step back from you, Barl.
01:11:02
Speaker
and sort of rests her belly in the sand and brings her head down to the party's level.
01:11:20
Speaker
These deserts are my kingdom.
01:11:25
Speaker
I will protect it from all of those who would interfere
01:11:33
Speaker
But my biggest enemy
01:11:38
Speaker
ah the last few moons has been you, Exile.
01:11:48
Speaker
You
01:11:52
Speaker
the Kriskra.
01:11:57
Speaker
One are taking my children and one are slaughtering them.
01:12:05
Speaker
We have no common enemy.
01:12:12
Speaker
i am no friend of the Ibkrisgra.
01:12:16
Speaker
You know that.
01:12:20
Speaker
Surely.
01:12:26
Speaker
All I hear is deceit.
01:12:33
Speaker
And who are you? There is this booming sort of energy back in her as she turns this time. And her tail just sweeps over the heads of all of you, very, very narrowly on purpose, missing you.
01:12:47
Speaker
And all three of you can just see this very, very injured track and gold-scale dragon. dragon.
01:12:57
Speaker
Very proudly stand up.
01:13:08
Speaker
I am not my mother.
01:13:12
Speaker
I am not Galefire.
01:13:18
Speaker
I mean you no harm, Chondralaka.
01:13:27
Speaker
You must let the shepherd go.
01:13:39
Speaker
And she turns back to you, Shondralika turns back to you.
01:13:49
Speaker
There will come a time, exile, where I will have my vengeance for what you have done.
01:14:04
Speaker
Do you understand?
01:14:09
Speaker
Chandra LaCarr, her gullet, cackles in this blue energy once again, and these sparks ripple up from her belly. And her horns just sort of pull energy towards her mouth, and she lets out this singular, incredibly powerful, exhaustive bolt of lightning directly towards the object in the sky.
01:14:32
Speaker
And it travels. It travels and travels, gets smaller and smaller, like a balloon fading in the horizon.
01:14:40
Speaker
There's no sign of impact.
01:14:46
Speaker
And she sort of presses off and begins to beat her wings.
01:14:57
Speaker
I want you out of my kingdom, exile.
01:15:02
Speaker
Not just my lair.
01:15:06
Speaker
You have a week to leave these sands.
01:15:12
Speaker
or suffer the consequences.
01:15:18
Speaker
This is a mercy.
01:15:25
Speaker
I care deeply for your mother.
01:15:29
Speaker
Whatever this creature is.
01:15:36
Speaker
And a respect for her memory.
01:15:40
Speaker
I will not kill you today.
01:15:48
Speaker
And there is this swirl of sands as these wings begin to flap.
01:15:57
Speaker
<unk>raakka ascend And into the night.
01:16:08
Speaker
And you just hear this colossal roar far in the distance.
01:16:15
Speaker
Emron, Tharok, Alpha, mid-battle, there's just this shake of the chamber, which we'll return to in a moment.
01:16:26
Speaker
It is you three, and this now standing, wounded, golden and dragon about 100 feet away from you.
01:16:37
Speaker
the cold dragon just slowly slithers now. The the form is so much different from Chandra-l-Kar. This is a much longer, slender dragon that just has that core strength.
01:16:50
Speaker
The hands on the sands aren't as impactful as slithering. Just moves closer.
01:17:01
Speaker
Thank you. Spoken in common.
01:17:11
Speaker
You saved us.
01:17:14
Speaker
You've saved me twice, Shepard.
01:17:23
Speaker
Baal kind of pauses at that ah look of confusion.
01:17:34
Speaker
Your name?
01:17:37
Speaker
Valkyraeth the Sleet.
01:17:42
Speaker
And there is a ripple in the sands around her as she bellows her own name.
01:17:52
Speaker
Bile drops to his knees in reverence. His wildfire spirit just takes on this incredibly excitable, imagine like a puppy that's seen its owner, if you like, and just beams it towards Bile.
01:18:09
Speaker
um Valkyreth and through Baal's energy it's going to cast a third level cure wounds as it makes contact um with Valkyreth the kind of the flames igniting and pulsing through the wildfire spirit and it's a touch spell obviously but I can do it through the familiar um at this range so Valkyreth heals 32 points of damage as I spunk my final third level But Baal is just there on his knees kind of weeping, but it doesn't entirely seem out of sadness.
01:18:54
Speaker
And the weeping kind of almost evolves into a little bit of a laugh, somewhat maniacal in a way, and he just falls onto his back and he's just like, I don't understand.
01:19:13
Speaker
And he kind of, he stops for a second, looks at Nyx, looks at Seth.
01:19:19
Speaker
You know who that is, right?
01:19:23
Speaker
No. Are you okay?
01:19:28
Speaker
That's Valkyret.
01:19:32
Speaker
This is who we saved.
01:19:36
Speaker
This was from the Jewel of the Desert Champions. This is Valkyraeth. And he'll kind of laugh somewhat kind of crazily to himself there within the sands.
01:19:55
Speaker
Baal, honey? ah want to stand up and shake it off and
01:20:05
Speaker
for He does so and it kind of comes like he he comes back over himself. That sounded gross, right? His usual demeanor.
01:20:17
Speaker
i didn't mean shake it off like that. i just just Just molten. Yeah. ah Get a towel. ah he He kind of, his demeanor kind of, it returns somewhat.
01:20:29
Speaker
And he goes, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense.
01:20:38
Speaker
Sense will be made another time. thank you, Mr. Dragon Dude.
01:20:51
Speaker
Boss shoots look at Nyx. Valkyreth. Sorry? one Born from ashes.
01:21:00
Speaker
You remember? There's a lot going on in my head right now, and a lot has taken place over the last minute or so, so I can't organise my thoughts.
01:21:12
Speaker
I'm just very happy that you're not dead.
01:21:20
Speaker
Right. Oh, sorry, go ahead. No, Seth was just going to do a thumbs up towards the dragon. and
01:21:30
Speaker
You...
01:21:33
Speaker
You, you, you shouldn't be here in this kingdom.
01:21:39
Speaker
No.
01:21:42
Speaker
And I know you were here for me. I know you're here to protect us. You say the shepherd. Well, there is so much to be caught up on and so little time.
01:21:55
Speaker
You are the shepherd.
01:21:58
Speaker
That is the name you were given by my teacher.
01:22:05
Speaker
Your teacher.
01:22:08
Speaker
Was he true to his word? He was.
01:22:15
Speaker
Varl's going to turn to Seth. Lucian. Lucian. Blightbane.
01:22:22
Speaker
The person i left in charge of Valkareth. What? Hold on. The egg. He's the egg.
01:22:34
Speaker
You were the egg! Seth's going to cast Minor Illusion and form the image of an egg, point to that and look at Baal, and then point to the fucking dragon and look at Baal, and then look back to the point back to the egg, kind of like, to compare the two.
01:22:51
Speaker
It doesn't make sense. This is what I'm saying, but...
01:22:58
Speaker
And he's goingnna he's going to approach Valkyret as well. Now, I know that Valkyret is absolutely massive in comparison, but he's just going to kind of just lean into, i don't know, what what size is he in comparison to Baal?
01:23:12
Speaker
she Sorry, what size is she in comparison to Baal?
01:23:17
Speaker
From tip of tail to tip of horn, she's maybe 120 feet long.
01:23:28
Speaker
awesome that helps and then like ah a frame though a much thinner frame about about 30 feet yeah yeah yeah he's just gonna like a hug a leg basically
01:23:49
Speaker
i and it's so I'm so confused. you you You were the egg that was just saved a mere, what, two days, if that, ago from the Jewel of the Desert Championship.
01:24:04
Speaker
I am three centuries old.
01:24:11
Speaker
I'm confused.
01:24:14
Speaker
A story for another time. i must return. To the egg? Is that like your home? Is it a portal? Is it some sort of other... Nyx, darling.
01:24:27
Speaker
Not now. time Not the time. Not the time. I must return home, Baal.
01:24:36
Speaker
But I will never take my mother's place until the throne of Sleekart is confirmed.
01:24:48
Speaker
Every kingdom, every ruler, every dragon, as you know. While no one sits upon Sleek God's throne, I cannot take my mother's place.
01:25:09
Speaker
Is there going to be Seems stupid. Is there going to be a quick and easy way to contact you? Am I going to need to send messengers?
01:25:23
Speaker
I'm assuming you're going to Mother's Lair to take our students. Eventually. Once Sleetgaard has chosen a new ruler.
01:25:37
Speaker
Until then, I cannot. and I will roam the spine of Aerith until that day comes.
01:25:46
Speaker
I see.
01:25:49
Speaker
Is there a way to contact you?
01:25:54
Speaker
Watch for wings.
01:26:01
Speaker
Watch for wings.
01:26:08
Speaker
I have too many questions. For now.
01:26:17
Speaker
See what you can do. You and your friends.
01:26:26
Speaker
About finding Sleetgaard's king.
01:26:31
Speaker
formally stating its heir. Then I may return.
01:26:40
Speaker
The steel nightmare is coming.
01:26:46
Speaker
And I can't draw power until I am home. you understand?
01:26:54
Speaker
and think so.
01:26:59
Speaker
But...
01:27:03
Speaker
I have only a week left on these sands.
01:27:09
Speaker
I'll see what I can do.
01:27:13
Speaker
Not if it puts you in danger again. There are other leads.
01:27:20
Speaker
Right. I will slow her as best I can.
01:27:29
Speaker
Barl will kind of, this conversation's been happening in common, I'm assuming. But Barl will slip into Draconic now.
01:27:41
Speaker
And he will just say, not for me, Valkyriez.
01:27:52
Speaker
You are the future of our kingdom.
01:28:00
Speaker
I will restore you to your place
01:28:04
Speaker
as best I can.
01:28:08
Speaker
And I will serve under you
01:28:12
Speaker
until I am no more.
01:28:19
Speaker
Keep an eye on Goldview.
01:28:27
Speaker
It's wonderful to meet you, Shepard.
01:28:33
Speaker
Thank you.
01:28:36
Speaker
Painfully, she begins to flap her wings
01:28:43
Speaker
and slowly ascends into the night sky, before taking one final look up at the object in the sky.
01:28:55
Speaker
Looks back at you, Baal, and Seth, and Nyx, and heads north-west,
01:29:06
Speaker
back towards the mountains in Sleekard. And that's where we're going to end this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop. Bellam Draconis.
01:29:19
Speaker
They all got fucked by the lizard in the end.
01:29:23
Speaker
snake.
01:29:26
Speaker
They're all dead in the team. We're going to go back and the rest of the party is going be dead in the belly of a snake. So that's how Magnus went. Ah.
01:29:38
Speaker
And what was the other one? John. Yander. Yander. Yander, that was it, yeah. Yander. Yander and Magnus. I am older.
01:29:50
Speaker
Well, I don't know to say that. Well, speaking of being older, we've been we've we've we've gotten or follow we've aged through this episode, but... How might we want to... and I've got nothing.
01:30:03
Speaker
Age ourselves in our social media usage because we still use X, which, as we all know, is no longer relevant. But if you did want to find it, it's at Fellowship Table. We do have a website, which is thefellowshipofthetabletop.co.uk.
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01:30:16
Speaker
Check that out. That's a far better source of information out there where you can find blogs and you can find character descriptions and you can also link into other episodes that we produce, both main campaign and sister campaigns. It's a great source of truth for everything.
01:30:30
Speaker
um Will, what else do we have? ah We've got Blue Sky. We're at Fellowship Table.
01:30:39
Speaker
Thanks, pubes. i
01:30:45
Speaker
I feel like we should explain. We should explain this because we'll have to drop it because we can't keep it up. A while ago, i um realized that ChatGPT has a deep research mode. It just we' just dropped it just now when we were recording. Anyway, so I typed in, ah do a deep search deep dive search into Fellowship of the Devil Talk because I'm a narcissistic asshole.
01:31:04
Speaker
um And so I compiled this over about 10 minutes and it came up with a really long report on everything. um ah The first thing he did was a table with our names in it. uh, and what roles we played. It was Danny dungeon master.
01:31:15
Speaker
Um, uh, it said Callum war for the artifice alpha, and then it said puby and then it was Emron. Um, I think it's because it is poo bear and things from the transcript was a puby.
01:31:27
Speaker
I was also Michael and, um, our, our resident will, AKA Balvalcon was Willie. Um, So it just given a real dick twist to our names, which I think was correct.
01:31:38
Speaker
Then later down in it, it did also mention that apparently we refer to us. ah We are self depreciating humor, which is true. And that we refer to ourselves as a bunch of fucktards, which I don't, I don't remember doing that yet.
01:31:50
Speaker
it doesn't sign. It doesn't mean that it's not true. That's where comes That's where PV comes from. sort that's where pb comes from
01:31:59
Speaker
So if you wanted to go one step further and follow us on X, you can do so. I'm at iRolled1. I'm only you going to do this one more time, Will, I promise. But you can follow Pubey at... Fuck you all.
01:32:12
Speaker
You can follow Willie at... ah Fellowship NBCVC. Michael can be found at... Hey, see you, old DM. Darren can be found at... Aaron Page 06.
01:32:24
Speaker
ah Apple Pie Smasher Thon 2000. Callum can be found at The D20 Gamer. And our VIP of the D&D Dungeon Master Danny could be found at Total Party Thrills. Until next time, guys.
01:32:41
Speaker
Farewell! Farewell!