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C1 Ep. 22 The Journey Back Chapter 1
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This week on Eberron Renewed Therudak, Dex, and Berric find out exactly what happened to Jacob, and decide where to go next. Join us for another exciting episode of Eberron Renewed.
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Introduction to Eberron Renewed
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Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Terry Pratchett. A hat full of sky.
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
Recap of Previous Episode
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I am your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode of Eberron Renewed. Gentlemen, what happened last time? We hate you. You f***ed us. We need to talk about that. Well, you know... It's a miracle you're still at the table. Okay, so starting from the beginning, I believe last episode was when we were finally brought to the...
00:01:20
Speaker
No, no, no. At the end of the two episodes ago, we were brought to the council thing, and this time we were given their task. Yes. We were sent to find the Horde of Vrak, a black dragon who taught the druids to look for a missing piece of a planar gate, I believe. Yeah, the keystone. And so, but we were told, explicitly told, with no wiggle room,
00:01:50
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do not steal anything do not take anything from the horde except the keystone we which i which was actually made of wood by not stone a person that exists in the world not an infallible all truth telling entity yeah eat one
Temptations in the Dragon's Hoard
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So we go, we get into the hoard, Theradak is able to provide an offering that allows it to open up. His very best stone. Yeah, that was awesome. Okay, so first room, empty room with some food on a spit. We're invited to eat. By a mysterious voice that we can't place. And that won't answer any follow-up questions.
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So despite Theradek's hunger, he controls himself. Yes. And I think we just knocked on the door, right? Yeah. Yeah. And it opened. And I was so close. Theradek was so close to taking just one bite just to see what might happen. Second room is...
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A library of all knowledge, apparently, including all sorts of important, personally potent things that Barrick would really like to know about his family and his past and the creepy magic that he wields. Yeah, for all we know, there was a book called The Complete Compendium of Every Decision Made in the Lineage of Barrick Rowan.
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and uh and yeah there was probably a book called coping with lycanthropy the annotated journals of uric roan mother of barrick yeah i would say that uh barrick was probably at least to my mind the most tempted of us who really had to think about whether or not to
00:03:45
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get a book. And I decided to have Dex be pretty vocal about talking him out of it. And I almost didn't do that. I'm still having a hard time balancing Rogue and who Dex has become. And I chose the wrong one.
00:04:07
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And then, the final room. Okay, so it was an orb. Like a basin of water. I thought there was an orb in a basin. It was just a basin of liquid on a stand. Shimmering blue water, I think. It was definitely casting out light. You didn't say that. And we were told that basically, looking into it, we could find the location
Implications of Resisting Temptations
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in any plane of any person was that is that correct and i think it and we could find them and we could see them like we could save them and could say and pull them back we could undo them undo any harm that had come to them right right so i mean we're talking for dex that was not just jacob and uh draconos but also i mean a little bit of backstory that hasn't come up yet organically his brothers were all possessed by the quarry
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nor was it limited. It didn't say we each get one. Right, I could have pulled over. We were given temporary godhood. Yeah, and so I chose to mope in the corner instead of, because I wasn't gonna, Dex wasn't gonna walk past that until it was gone. We let Saradak knock because he hadn't gotten to.
00:05:19
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And he did. Yeah. And obviously all of these things were tests. Right. And clearly each of them was a trap. Yeah. Each of them was designed for one of us. It would seem to tempt one of us. And so we weren't tempted when we were tempted. We did not act on those temptations because we're very, very careful to not spring traps. Right.
00:05:47
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And so then, it turns out, the only thing we really weren't supposed to do was take all of the riches that ultimately, comparatively, we... well, maybe more than the food. But the other two... You never know what that food might do for you, though. That's true. We had no idea what that food would have done if we were eating it. That's magical food. You might have become immortal. Yeah, well...
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Wouldn't have been that big but uh-huh. Are you serious? Did you have a reward in mind? Oh, yeah, you son of a You we can talk about all this on number on review you we will. Oh, yeah, it's coming up We're on reviewed that that aired the week before this episode. So Spoilers, we haven't recorded it yet, but it's gonna be the the geek pantheon roast of Eric Strimble. That's right He might not live through it. So anyway, so
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So we get the Keystone and we go back and we set the Keystone and the druids all like join hands or forces
Jacob's Return from the Shadow Plane
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at least. Yeah. Spell binding to cast a spell. Right. And the portal opens, but the shadows don't get through like they normally would. The bad guy. Tries to maybe something tries to, but he's unable to. And then who does come out? Jacob. Heavy. Who's last and we don't know.
00:07:03
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transom and he looks terrible and has clearly aged how much did you say he's about mid 20s okay and he was how old before cuz I don't 11 okay yeah so it doesn't bode well for 14-15 years nope all right well that's enough of that that's her that's where it ended with Jacob should back up that's where it ended and said
00:07:27
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We have to find Graham. Oh, thank you for remembering because I was going to be like, I don't know, where's the beef? I haven't eaten for 15 years. Please give me food. Okay. So we are going to.
00:07:42
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naturally, as a cliffhanger of that style kind of warrants, pick up where we left off. So you all are at Greenheart in the towering woods with all the druids. And Jacob is there with a locket around his neck looking very thin, not emaciated like he has survived. He seems hardy enough to hold his own in a fight. You stole the locket. Yes, a little turd.
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um that's what you get that's what you get uh okay i guess the first thing i think is we need to um
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One of these druids is going to have the sort of ability to do a scan of Jacob and see if there's any magical maladies, if there's any something that we need to fix in him besides just general health stuff. Well, Beric has detect magic also. This is true. Oh, sure. I didn't know if that was to that level or not. I don't know if it will detect disease. I would detect magical auras on him, essentially, and be able to identify
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What kind of aura they are so I'd be able to identify if there's a disease like a magical disease Maybe but I'm not sure like I could probably look at you and tell that you have lycanthropy That's because I'm a bear I mean the druids begin approaching Jacob to like examine him and like ask him who he is why he just came out of the bar and they have a lot of questions sure and
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I've seriously been struggling since the last session to figure out whether this enormous thing is sufficient to pull Barrick out of the horribly traumatic thing that just happened to him. Okay, I've forgotten his name, the Brewer. Farlin. Farlin, thank you. Farlin, these are your people, so can you call them off for me? Can you fill them in? Yeah, yeah. Hey, give them some space.
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Come over here. Jacob finally seeing the dwarf. Farlin, what are all of you doing here? This doesn't look like the Faded Forest. What's happening?
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I guess it's me. All right. Because you're still not sure. You weren't there. Yeah, there. That is just like my age now. That's so weird. Yeah. All right. I say. All right, Jacob, we've been we've been trying to find you. You're right. This isn't the fate of force. We're in we're in Eldean reaches now. We we traveled this far, basically following a mixture of following clues and orders to try to
00:10:25
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We'll recover you, but also figure out this shadow thing because we think it's going to be some doom and gloom for the world. You're right. You're in the Eldean reaches. This is the towering forest. Where have you been?
00:10:46
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I honestly don't know. I was pulled through the gate in the faded forest. And how are you guys so young? Like I figured you should be, I mean, this was like 15 years ago that I was taken. I mean, I can't speak to that. I can only say that since you left, it's only been two weeks.
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What's really funny is that I'm a half-elf, so I'm not going to age very fast. Dex will never age. He doesn't know me, so. So he's going off of Ireland. Who's a dwarf? He doesn't know you're a changeling, so. Right. Anyway, there was something about Graham's locket
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that once I was in wherever I was, it made the creatures there vulnerable to me. It hurt them to touch me and attack me. So I survived. I fought. I killed.
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did whatever I could. I mean, I was in hiding, but I was never prisoner.
The Locket and the Silver Flame Connection
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As soon as we crossed through whatever
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It is the deal with Graham's locket protected me. Yeah. Well, okay. Um, you don't need that protection any longer. Cause you're here now. Uh, would you mind if we took a look at the locket? We're not taking it from you. We're borrowing it to, we want to figure out what it is that protected you. You're safe here now. We can even leave the forest to get you back into, uh, uh, Zanderar. No, it's, it's okay. Um, and he takes the locket off and passes it to you. I look at Barrick.
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Barak sort of steps up from where he's been leaning against the tree that he's been sulking by and comes over and takes the locket and I'll use my detect magic ability to see what kind of magic is on the locket. You drop the locket on the ground as you recoil from just almost a blinding light coming off of this because you're a vampire.
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When I detect magic on it, okay. Yeah, when you hold it, look at it, go to detect magic, and all of a sudden it's too much. It's not just I look at it and it's blinding. Okay. What the hell was that? The auras. Jacob quickly snatches the lock it up off the ground. Incredibly strong. Puts it back. Can I make an arcana check in regard to this? Sure.
00:13:29
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Ooh, that bodes well. 22. I mean, you definitively know that this is divine in nature.
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And given your, your background, um, I'll give you a little bit more. It seems extremely familiar in tone in terms of magic. Like, so it's silver flame. Yeah. Um, but it can't be too divine cause I touched it and it was fine with me. Maybe I can throw foreign all that bad. Um,
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Jacob kind of, once his mind has started settling down, looks at you Theradac. He's like, who are you? What are you doing here? I'm Theradac. I've been traveling with your- I'm sorry, what? I am Theradac. Oh, okay. I have been traveling with your friends. Okay. Where's Draconos? Well, if you haven't seen him. Yeah.
00:14:34
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Well, Giacono's got pulled through a gate about a week ago. And we assumed he was where you were the same. Okay.
00:14:48
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the same man that took you, the same thing, that took you, showed up, and when Draconos got, because he didn't physically move Draconos through, right? Draconos just got. No, he grabbed Draconos. Yeah, he grabbed him. Also grabbed Draconos, so we assumed he was where you were. No, I mean, like I said. Big place, lots of hiding. I damaged him as soon as we were on his turf, and so, unless Draconos had something that would have reacted the same way,
00:15:18
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That armor the Drac crafts may have taken off. You both turn and look at Theradak wearing Jaros' armor. Oh yeah, absolutely. Then I... I mean, I cannot see beyond the range of the light that was being cast. Like, it was utter, complete, impregnable darkness.
00:15:41
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Um, and, and everything that existed there was darkness. So even with your, I mean, I'm assuming the locket projected a bit of light. Uh, yes. But even, even in that you really didn't see anything. I could, I could see a couple dozen feet out from the locket shy. Eric produces curse bringer and says, you have any insight to add to this?
00:16:07
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It seems that the item in his possession contains an energy needed to battle the darkness. It seems to be... Does it seem that way because he just told us? I f***ing hate the curse bringer. Nevermind. It seems to be the only thing that can harm them in their home.
00:16:32
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You mean it's the light? That thing that you got all pissy with my father for attempting to access directly? Yes. I cut him off.
00:16:48
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We don't want you here right now, Eric. I have to talk to Graham. I have to figure out what this locket is, who she is. I'm happy to know that not that much time has passed because honestly, at a certain point, I figured I would never
00:17:15
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get the answers that I needed because I had been gone too long. But you are much older. Yes, it has been 15 years of darkness.
Planar Travel Preparations and Mechanics
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I mean, my eyes hurt right now being in this forest and you all know. I mean, it's it's nighttime. The fact that you can see anything. Yeah. Well, he's going to hate daylight. Who is this Graham?
00:17:46
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She's a kind old lady from our hometown. She partially raised me and I stole from her this locket, which I would feel bad about if I didn't also know that I'd be dead right now without it. So I hope she forgives me now.
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Did Barrick ever tell me about the box or the photograph or any of the things that he's kind of sussed out a little bit about Graham's past? I don't think you did. I mean, at least you certainly didn't around the table.
00:18:22
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No, it probably hasn't until this point seemed relevant. Okay, so I think Dex would say, why do you think Graham had this thing? We were just looking for a locket, I thought. I didn't realize it was... Well, when I went to talk to her and ask her about Jacob back when we first took this job,
00:18:44
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She had a box that bore a similar magical signature, and I presume it's the box that this was in. She also had a number of books on the silver flame, so I'm inclined to believe that she was at some point a cleric of the silver flame in some capacity.
00:19:04
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Well, that sounds important. Thanks for telling me now. It's only now that it seemed important. Well, you've got me there. Farlin has also, I mean, he called to come over. So he's been standing in this circle and says, well, I
00:19:22
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I have a means to get back to Miss March quickly. If we, we need to get there. I, I followed you all on the train because of everything that happened when you disappeared Jacob and wanted to get the lay of the land from you all, but that's not how I've been traveling between the forests, um, to, to make my reports to the, the Druids here. So we do have a means to get back. What is it? Um,
00:19:53
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How familiar are any of you with, not the type that Jacob did, but like, okay, planar travel? Nope, you're gonna have to drug me. You are gonna have to drug Dex. I mean, basically, time works differently in each of the planes. And so, the Druids can cast a spell to open the portal to a plane that is guaranteed to shift time in such a way to where it may take us
00:20:20
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the same amount of distance and travel time that it would here, but only minutes will pass in this world. So we would age normally, obviously in all of that, but it would be like almost instant.
00:20:40
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How many times have you done this? Dozens. I mean, it's... No problems. Um, well, I mean, entering another plane, there's always the chance that you'll run into a creature that lives there or something like that and have to fight it off. Of course. But nothing like what Jacob's been through.
00:20:58
Speaker
What plane? Yes, I was wondering. Well, like I said, we the spell allows us to tap into the temporal nature. So there's a handful of planes that time works the way that we want to. None of them are none of the scary ones, not my bar, not the plane of fire, the plane of ice. But and obviously not the realm of dreams.
00:21:23
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Uh, the, the worst one that I've been through and the one that requires the most vigilance is dolar, which is the plane of the dead. I mean, that doesn't sound great guys. I mean, you just, you have to keep your result, keep moving because the plane wants you to become apathetic and just accept your fate. But I've made it through twice now.
00:21:44
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And, I mean, Dex, unless you think that your resolve is worse than mine, then... I knew it. I knew it. I was just about to say... I feel like you can handle this. I was just about, well, you know, I mean, if Arwen can do it, then we'll be fine. We kid each other. We're on the same team now. So you don't know which plane until you step in? That's correct, Theradak, but...
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Like I said, dollar is the worst option.
00:22:14
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And if you know anything about the plane, there are some planes that are worse than Dolar. So, um,
Entering the Azure Sky Plane
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here, um, this is Jeff wondering if Eric is planning on taking us to Dolar or if he's going to know anything about D and D or if he's going to Dolar or if he's going to be, uh, he's going to roll a dice to figure out where we go. Oh man. All right. Let's, I kind of want to go to Dolar because it might be, there might be something revealed about my weird, creepy sword. All right. I'm going to need, I'm going to need.
00:22:46
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I mean, when you get stock decks into going in there, because right now all he knows is planes equal very bad things because he's not familiar with any of this, even being from where he's from. Jacob, why is it so urgent that we talked to Graham? Well, I mean, these things I could see.
00:23:06
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tears in the plane opening up and I would run towards them thinking that it was a means to escape and I would just see creatures from this plane pouring out of these tears and they would close before I could get close enough and luckily this tear opened up literally in front of me but then the creature that pulled me through the first time showed up out of nowhere
00:23:34
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And without the the locket, I probably couldn't have made it out, but I was able to cause him enough pain to cause him to retreat. But I know that these things are escaping their plane and based on my interaction with them, that's not great for us. And so if if this locket
00:23:58
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holds the key to fighting back against these creatures and taking the fight to them, then I feel like Graham's the only one with that knowledge that we know.
00:24:10
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All right. Well, here's the thing. Like I don't want the world to end. It's where I keep all my stuff. And so, but I don't understand. I mean, how long, okay, Jeff, how long is the trip back to missed March from? It means that we could feasibly like boat airboat. Um, I mean, if you could get an airboat, probably
00:24:36
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Three or four days. Okay, that is too long. Dex would know that. Probably. Yeah. Safely. I mean, he's a swashbuck. He knows we're on a boat. All right. Well, then, um, fellas, it seems like this is the thing we got to do. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Eric, it seems like you were already on board for it. Uh, well, it might get us some answers. True. Let's do it. All right. Farlin.
00:25:08
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Take us to your teleporter. All right. Let me, I mean, we need to go talk to the head druid and he'll, he'll get the rest of the druids on board with, uh, starting the ritual to get us, to get us through. Um, and I mean, this is kind of one of those, once we go in, it shuts behind us. So I mean, make any preparations that you need to, if you want to rest up before we head out, um,
00:25:39
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Do that. I'm trying to think. I'm in okay shape. We rested up before. Yeah, I think I'm solid. I've spent a couple of my hit dice, but that's all.
00:25:49
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Yeah. Cause we rested up, uh, before we went to the hoard and we haven't had any battle since then, have we? Okay. So we're good. And once, once we get in there, I'll, I'll know which plane we're in because I I've hit every single one that is possible. So, you know, I got a question. Um, how do we get out? Uh, I mean, not, uh, how do we, okay. Okay.
00:26:19
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Is there a way to send a message? If it takes multiple druids to open one of these portals, do we have a time limit? Are we like, we're going to open it in 0800 hours? No, no. The archways that exist in our plane exist in the other planes as well. That's how we're able to pass through. So it'll be a matter of just going the same direction we would go to get to the Fated Forest and get to that archway. And then I'll be able to perform the ritual to get us back to this plane.
00:26:48
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because that's an easier ritual to perform because we'll be returning to our home plane. Okay, fine. That's good. I wanted to make sure that we weren't on a time cruise. It's just harder to get to a plane that you're not from. Because we tend to... sometimes we daily down. So if any of you are extra planar creatures in disguise, really need you to tell me now because you'll be stuck there if not. I'm pretty sure I'm not, but a lot's happened to me lately. I don't know who my father was. I don't know.
00:27:18
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I'm good to go. Um, okay then. Um, well, I'll go talk to the Druids and if you all are ready, they should be able to be ready in an hour. Okay. Oh, apparently I need a short rest. Well, that's what it is for some rocks. Gotta be some pretty rocks in the forest somewhere. Uh, where are we going? Where are we going guys? What do you think?
00:27:49
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, it's gonna be somewhere with a fight, but. Barrett takes a minute, steps away during the hour of preparation, summons Cursebringer, sticks him in the ground, sits down in front of him, says, you were saying about growing. Oh, are you ready to talk now? For the moment. The power possessed in that locket is immense and pure.
00:28:19
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And if wielded the way this locket wields it, can utterly destroy the most powerful agents of the darkness. And it seems to be the only way to do that.
00:28:37
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So I'd like to come back to the fact that you have a problem had a problem with my father seeking to use the same power to do this, but you seem really excited about this
The Angelic Confrontation
00:28:47
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one. So what's the downside here? He wished to use it in a diluted form. It was not pure. It was not perfect. What does that mean? Are you about to say you don't know? I cannot explain it anymore clearly.
00:29:08
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The way that he meant to use the light was... deluded. And deluded by what? Mixed with what? The way that he intended to wield it was diluted. Dex starts to walk up to Beric to chat with him and sees him sitting cross-legged on the ground looking at his sword, just rolls his eyes and turns around. Okay, so third axe, looking for the sweetest L'Rock he can find to replace his...
00:29:34
Speaker
to replace his lost best stone. He's really anal about having 20 in his pouch. So go and give me a perception roll. 14, 14. You, you find one, like the best one that you can find is, is kind of middle of the pack. It has a place in your pouch, but it it's no replacement for what you gave up.
00:30:01
Speaker
There that will take that and open his pouch and stick it in there with the rest and hopes for a better one eventually. All right, Barry could ask Chris Bringer. Do you know anything? Do you know anything more about the locket? Are there more of them out there? I I.
00:30:26
Speaker
I only know what you saw and how to interpret that with my knowledge. Are there more of you out there? I am one of one. There's only one of me. Ah, so the word we would use would be no. That's how we would express that.
00:30:58
Speaker
Don't know why that tickled me so much. Have any previous wielders of you told you that you are terrible at conveying useful information? I have been told that my communication skills are somewhat lacking, but I come from a more formal time. You are terrible at conveying useful information to the point that the information you do convey is so cryptic as to be not useful. If you know
00:31:27
Speaker
I am speaking of, then it is quite useful. Then the thing is, I don't know what you're speaking of and you seem unwilling to tell me. By the way, Dex learned goblin during this conversation. Whenever you want, you can have someone interrupt me and tell me the Druids are ready. Yeah. I enjoy it when it happens. I really do.
00:31:54
Speaker
Yeah, Farlin approaches and says, all right, they're about three-fourths of the way through the ritual. So we have about 15 minutes before it's time to go. Like I said, time passes differently there. So we still need to get there as quickly as we can, but a few hours wasted there will relate to seconds in this world. So.
00:32:25
Speaker
But I'm heading to the, the planer door when you can join me whenever you're ready. All right. I'm going to walk behind him, but very slowly because of his little legs. Uh, Barrick dismisses curse bringer and he goes to find a druid. Okay. He pulls the druid aside and says, I need a couple of things from you.
00:32:50
Speaker
One, anyone here have a sword or a spear or anything? Yeah, we have lots of swords and spears. I mean, we're warriors. So can I take one with me? I guess. Yeah. And this druid, it's the same female shifter that was with Farland, just kind of shrugs and hands you this Ashwood spear that she had with her. Secondly, they have
00:33:21
Speaker
I think you must. Do you have any silvered weapons?
00:33:25
Speaker
Um, yeah. Uh, in fact, she kind of reaches into her pouch and you notice that there's a seam near the top of the Ashwood spear and she hands you that a spear tip with a little bit of wood. Sweet. Um, yeah, I mean that, that will just snap off and, um, it's, it's built to accept multiple, um, heads. So this is a much cooler weapon. Does it talk back?
00:33:52
Speaker
No? Excellent. What? Barrick tucks the extra spearhead into his belt under his cloak. Okay. And then goes off to join the others with a spear. Motherfucker. I actually was going to do this before you just did that, I promise. Do you have any wooden stakes? Some garlic. No, but while I'm walking with Farlin, because Farlin has seen me bear out, I just ask him, I say, so what do you know about how
00:34:27
Speaker
Um, I'm not saying I'm going to use it or gather it, but after knowing what happened to the fellas that turned him into what turned me into what I turned into, I figured I may as well be ready. Well, um, I mean, it requires very, very powerful magic. Um, I mean, I, I think the only person that could undo it here is our head druid, the one that sent you to rax hoard. Um, sure.
00:34:47
Speaker
Cures for lycanthropy.
00:34:57
Speaker
But I mean, also silver flame obviously would have means to cure it and not in a stab stab death way. That's what I'm concerned about is their their way to cure it is, you know, kill me. Here's the thing, I'm not concerned about finding the person, the magic to do it. I think that I just want to when I walk up to them and say, hey, I'm a bear sometimes and I'd like to fix that. I want to have all the proper accoutrement.
00:35:20
Speaker
Anybody that's educated will know that a werebear is, I mean, mostly good. Like we, some of our druids here, uh, consciously take the bite from a werebear. Right. And I get that. And I'm, as of right now, stoked, but Barrick seems to have trouble with it. And I just, I need.
00:35:42
Speaker
If it starts going south between me and Barrick, which it could. I mean, here's the thing. You're going to have a pretty good indication of if you're going to turn against your will and go feral. But what that means is that the bear consciousness takes over. So if you get to some woods somewhere or just away from people,
00:36:06
Speaker
You're going to forage for a while, eat some berries, poop, not where you eat, though. And then. But near the pope in the woods. And then you'll turn back and be fine. It's just if you turn into a bear in the middle of a city.
00:36:22
Speaker
A regular bear would be terrified and lashed out, and that's what you would do. And so it's not that you go crazy, rabid creature. You just, you literally turn into a bear for a while. Well, I can't believe I'm about to say this, but.
00:36:41
Speaker
Thank you, Farlin. You have set my mind at ease. Listen, Dex, we give each other grief a lot, but this is a serious thing. I've seen some people not handle it so well, so I get it. And I hope that you learn to deal with it, and if not, I hope you find somebody that is willing to help you.
00:37:03
Speaker
And it seems like you're with a good group of people that would never betray your trust and stab you in the back. So perhaps with a spear. All right. All right. Cool. Thanks. Thanks for all. All right.
00:37:17
Speaker
Well, here we are, and you see similar positioning that the Druids were in to open up the portal to the bar. Just semi-circle in front of the gate chanting as the gate starts to
00:37:34
Speaker
Reality starts to flow within the gate. And it begins to turn a bright, shining light. It occurs to Berwick, as we're standing here, that we had some problems with striking some of the creatures that we've faced. And so he goes ahead and just swaps out the socketed heads of the spear to the silver one in case that's useful against those things.
00:38:05
Speaker
Does Dex have the wherewithal to recognize? And you identify silver from steel? That's cool. Barak's new silvered weapon. I mean, is there a market like steel is dull, silver is not? It looks really shiny and new, but... Okay. I mean, after some wear and tear, you'd probably know. Although the half is starting to turn black. Yeah, there is that. Hey, Dex, Barak looks like you got a silver tip on that
Facing the Angelic Council
00:38:31
Speaker
thing. Wait, did that really just happen?
00:38:37
Speaker
Oh. You all can give me perception checks to note that the weapon is silvered. I'd almost, I shouldn't have brought it up.
00:38:46
Speaker
Because I'd almost rather notice it when it does do something in battle. And then I'm like, what the fuck? Okay. And we can just drop it. Yeah. I think that's what I'd... Yeah. I say good riddance to bad rubbish on your demon sword, on your ghost sword. All right. He had some problem with my father. That's what I know so far. And he doesn't like my mother very much. So all of this has gone really, really well since I left home. It's been really awesome. Your sword sounds like my uncle.
00:39:13
Speaker
Okay, so Once the light starts shining through the archway Farlin looks to you all expectantly like are you ready to go? Jacob kind of as will be
00:39:27
Speaker
looks at you all like he just did this and wasn't a huge fan so he's nervous but willing to trust your all's lead and I see still views you as the town cops so well Dex nod that the locket around Jacob's neck to reassure him you were in the worst place and made it and now you're with us
00:39:51
Speaker
Okay. So Farlin leads the way and just, um, kind of, kind of like a lot of in, in a lot of forms of media when going through a gate where you could just walk through Farlin kind of hops through it, um, and disappears through into the light. Barrick walks through it. Yeah. So does decks. Um, so, uh, where's, uh, you know what, actually, can we,
00:40:20
Speaker
Farley went first, and then you went, I'm going to go after, I'm going to send Jacob on before you and I go ahead. I'll go last. Battleaxe at the ready. Okay, so you all walk through and are assaulted by wind. Okay. And you just see the most brilliant, clear sky you've ever seen.
00:40:50
Speaker
And they're also ground? That's a good question. Yes, not a lot of it. But yes, it seems that this plane is floating on a piece of land that is floating in the sky.
00:41:05
Speaker
There's no turtles holding it up? How about we ever survive? And Farlin is standing out on the edge and just kind of sighs and shakes his head. Welcome to the Azur sky. Farlin looks at all of me and says, the technical name of this plane is Surani, which we call the Azur sky. But it
00:41:37
Speaker
Gravity works pretty different here. If you were to just jump straight up right now, you'd probably go about 25 feet in the air. Um, I wouldn't recommend it because coming back. Thank God. Yeah. Barrick Barrick is in mid like gathering himself.
00:41:54
Speaker
Uh, just cause you might not come straight back down and then it's a long, long eternal drop. Um, but if you, if you look as, as you all look around, as Farland begins pointing out, there's other floating land masses. Um, it says we, we can pretty easily jump from one to another as long as we don't extend ourselves too far. Um, bigger issue that we're going to need to look out for his, uh, this is the, uh,
00:42:23
Speaker
Angelic plane and so Last time I was here. I had running with some Some solars that told me not to come back. So we just need to what would you do? I didn't do anything. They just they they think only angels deserve to be here. And so
00:42:44
Speaker
Yeah. So luckily, we're not going to have to fight anything. Unfortunately, if we do, we're going to die. So have you ever fought an angel? Because I can tell you it's not great. Wait, you fought an angel? Yeah, you did not die. Well, because they said if you ever come back here, we'll kill you. So yeah. Well, they didn't say they'll kill everyone with him.
00:43:14
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, you could take that chance. I wouldn't love it. All right. All right. So awesome. We we have quite a few miles to cover and we're going to be jumping the whole way. So let's go. So everyone give me dexterity. Well, you can give me athletics or acrobatics.
00:43:40
Speaker
Um, it says, okay, see that small land mass over there. It's about to float in between us and that bigger one with like an old ruin fortress on it. The one that's about to come in between us, isn't big enough to hold all of us. So you're going to basically need to land and then immediately jump onto the next one. Cause we have a small window that this thing is going to be in between us. So. I'll go first. No.
00:44:07
Speaker
hate jumping puzzles question every game i play i hate jumping puzzles i'm still trying to figure out how this is gonna work but it's like a video game okay yeah it sounds like i'm just gonna be rolling a bunch of dex checks i think that's what we're doing all right yeah acrobatics yeah um well mine's acrobatics i guess that's that's a raring start for farlin he just rolled a one so um oh this is so bad grabbing can i grab him
00:44:30
Speaker
Um, let him give a dexterity saving throw to see if he can catch himself. This is all so bad. Okay. He manages to, to catch himself because he just realized that his stride was wrong and he just kind of slid and stopped. And he's like, okay. Um, try number two, promise I've done this before.
00:44:54
Speaker
Okay, he launches himself and you see him arc high into the air. And he kind of starts flailing partway through the jump, realizing that he may have misjudged a bit. And so he hits the side of the platform and kind of grabs on. And that's when you really take a look and notice the underside of these things aren't
00:45:20
Speaker
dirt or roots or anything. They're actually crystal that are floating in the air. And so he has a handhold on some of the more jagged parts of the crystal and he starts climbing up and he says, go ahead and jump. I'll be gone by the time you get here. One at a time, gentlemen. Ah, that's an 11 11. So good. I've got good.
00:45:45
Speaker
If you've got something then I just think that there's a chance that if I come up short I should be able to use my 15 foot long blade that we've proven can go into rock. Yeah You got above a 10. So you kind of match Farland stride for stride and then halfway through realized his mistake and You managed to grab like your legs are dangling Unsupported and you caught the bottom of this crystal And have to climb up. So give me an athletics check to climb up
00:46:17
Speaker
Uh, that's an 18. Okay. So you managed to climb up. Um, thank God. I got a 19 strength all of a sudden as you're flying through the air Farlin once again, barely makes it. The short dwarf legs aren't great for jumping. So the larger one with the ruined fortress, he catches on the side and then begins climbing up. Um, so who is jumping after decks? I'll go. Okay. Seven.
00:46:44
Speaker
Okay. Basically the way that I envisioned this whole thing is you have three.
00:46:53
Speaker
narrative-based, so you describe how it functions. Get out of jail free cards. So since you got under a 10, you have the opportunity to use one of those. So whatever ability you think would be fitting, you can use in this moment mid-jump to either retreat, which will be an easier task, or try to use it to go ahead and skip ahead to the platform that you were intending to. Is the one we're jumping to have ruins on it? No, it's just a flat piece of land.
00:47:22
Speaker
Uh, in that case, seeing that I'm clearly going to come short, I misty step to the platform. Okay. So, uh, Barrick teleports mid jump and safely lands on the platform just as Dex is taking off. So Dex, give me another roll to go, go to the fortress. Oh, that's a, that's a 25. Okay. So back flips, back flips, back flips the whole way. Um, I just do it's one like long toe touch.
00:47:52
Speaker
Splits in the air and I'm just the whole until right before I land because I don't want to, you know, crack myself down a bit. Okay. Are you going to go next there? What about Jacob? Jacob is not gone. So are you going to want him to go first? I'll let him go. Okay. Okay. Yeah. That's a 22 for Jacob. So I guess I need to clear the space for him to land. Yes. So just as he's landing, bear takes off.
00:48:20
Speaker
Uh, that would be a 10, 10. So you land near the bottom on the edge. Give me enough. Athletics check to climb up 11. Okay. So you do manage to climb up. Um, no modifier for strength. So you get bit by a bear or by decks. I'll make you strong. Um, there it at go and take off.
00:48:52
Speaker
14 14 Okay. Yeah you you land on the edge. So you need to climb up So give me an athletics check 11 11, okay
00:49:08
Speaker
Wait, what check athletics 17. Okay. Um, so yeah, you scramble up easily just as Jacob is taking off and he's successful. Successfully makes it with 17, uh, to the fortress. There it act. You are last one. So go ahead and hop on over. It's an 18, 25.
00:49:32
Speaker
Okay. So you do the awesome superhero pose as you land. Um, and you all are amongst some, some old ancient, uh, just ancient ruins that have a lot of angelic icon, iconography, winged creatures, things like that. So unless you all want to do any investigation with these ruins, you all can continue on or actually Dex wants to Dex has a thought. All right. Question.
00:50:00
Speaker
Does this iconography of winged creatures count as Dex having seen an angel? No. Okay. Then Dex is ready to move on. It's just a picture. Who is it? Farron? Is that his name? Farron? Farron.
00:50:16
Speaker
Farland have you seen this before have you held to this there's stuff like this everywhere I mean, this is the plane of angels. So these guys love pictures of themselves. Have you explored any? No, I just passing through hop from platform to platform just point a to point B. Okay We could proceed okay again
00:50:40
Speaker
makes his jump, um, to another Baron platform, but this one's a little bit bigger. It can hold all of you. So that's 26, 26. Okay. 13, 13, 18. Okay. Um, Oh yeah.
00:51:05
Speaker
Okay. We have 16. So Eric, you're, you've jumped and are about to land on the side. Um, give me a dexterity saving throw. Seven. Um,
00:51:22
Speaker
All of a sudden you feel very strong muscular arms wrapped around you as you all of a sudden mid-air change direction. And you look and see just the most painfully beautiful man with long, gorgeous strawberry blonde hair carrying you through the air. Are we learning what Eric is into? And he just kind of gives you a stern look and says, why have you come here?
00:51:52
Speaker
making our way from one place to another we were told this was the fastest way to get back to the town we're after our home is not a place for creatures like you
00:52:05
Speaker
What do you mean, creatures like? Oh no. Well, I couldn't agree more. We saw this happen. Yeah, once you turn around, you see something flying away with Bear. Like just cradling him in his arms like some sort of baby child. Well, not standing still.
00:52:24
Speaker
Yes, flying away like Superman with Lois Lane. Yes. Okay. Well, no, not quite like more arms around Beric's chest, like baby Bjorn sort of thing. Well, I couldn't agree more as I'm much more inclined to stay on the ground when the option is available. Why should I believe a creature that carries such darkness with him as you? Okay.
00:52:52
Speaker
Uh, what, um, in a flash, you all of a sudden realize you've stopped moving as your perspective flips around and you're looking into the eyes of this creature as he holds you. Up as you all have stopped in the air and you all can see in the distance, just this change and says, do not lie to me. Foul being.
00:53:19
Speaker
Barrick is genuinely at a loss. I cut back to, okay. Farland, what? We need to get Barrick. What can we do? I mean, the only thing we can do is try to gain the attention of other angelic beings so we can be regrouped. Because if he takes off with Barrick,
00:53:41
Speaker
I mean, I can't jump that far. I clearly I was struggling even with the jumps we were doing. You might be able to jump that far decks. You were doing toe touches and stuff, but we still have speaking stones.
00:53:57
Speaker
You can't access yours, can you? Uh, I don't know what, I don't know what action is required for that. I think it means a free action to turn it on, but would you all have had them on? Oh, I assume we haven't turned them off. Okay. You would be hearing a weird echo thing then as you were talking and then hearing everybody else talk through the speaking stone. I mean, also if he's got his arms around my chest under my arms, then I'm free to, then my hands are free to. Yeah.
00:54:22
Speaker
Cause here's the thing, you thought of that. That's true. I don't, I can't be like, now I'm like, well, this turns a speaking stone on. I mean, there's a lot of, I assumed it was like a walkie talkie where it's always on, but somebody has to initiate a conversation. Right. I'm just saying we have a means of communicating over distance. Right. Okay. So, so, so, so I'll be honest during that. I forgot what Farland told us. I mean, we could do actions to gain attention.
00:54:49
Speaker
of the creatures that live here but like i said they're not a huge fan of this guy um so okay i put farlin into my bag of holding and farlin's dead um all right cut back to you i will
00:55:12
Speaker
I am not lying to you, but if you know something about this, then I would be extremely happy to listen to you tell me something about it because, uh, my conversations with whatever it is that you sense in me have not been illuminating. Why do you speak so cryptically?
00:55:41
Speaker
Sorry, uh, wrong. I've been in bad company for this. Uh, okay, fine. Eric's so tired of everything right now. Eric holds up a hand, summons the sword, says, do you know anything about this? Cause I don't. There's no response. And then he releases it. Does, does, does curse bring or say anything? Uh, your sword does not appear. What are you doing? Why are you doing that with your hand?
00:56:08
Speaker
I will drop you. What are you doing? Please don't do that. Uh, normally when I close my hand, there's this black sword that appears and I was going to ask you if you knew anything about it, but it doesn't seem to be working here. But I was able to cast a spell.
00:56:36
Speaker
Oh, he shakes you, kind of like, answer my question. Why are you here? And why have you brought the darkness with you? The first question, we were in the towering woods on Eberron. And we're trying to get to a town on Eberron called Mistmarsh. And we're in a terrible hurry.
00:56:58
Speaker
because apparently there's some kind of awful invasion from my bar coming and we were told that the fastest way to get from
00:57:11
Speaker
The towering woods to Miss Marsh was to take a shortcut through another plane. And we didn't intend to come to this plane, but the person who cast the spell for us, this is where we ended up. You said you came from the towering wood?
00:57:29
Speaker
Yes. And he turns you in the air to where your back is facing the platform that you intended to land on. Cut back to Farland going, Oh, shit. And you just feel a wind of rush as it give me a wind of right. Take another stab at that. You just feel a rush of wind. A rush of rain. No, Eric, get it right. As give me a dexterity saving throw.
00:57:59
Speaker
14 14 you managed to realize just before you would have been slammed into the ground by this angel that it was about to happen and kind of squirm out of the way to roll on this platform as we're moving at terrible speeds
00:58:15
Speaker
Barak says, not really. Do you know anything about a sword called curse bringer? Cause it's really important to me that I find out something about it and he won't tell me anything. Um, as, as you land and this angel is back in front of you, you just see him look down and go Farlin, I told you not to come back. I'm compounded.
00:58:35
Speaker
Okay, so where's where a barrack in the Angel now in relation? They're on the ground in front of us. Yeah, they're okay back to the platform. Yes. Yes. Okay. You are all together I say I say Sir, I can't summon the sword
00:58:54
Speaker
was way too funny visually okay I say are you happy I don't know he's not answering any questions either so okay sir first thanks for shut up thanks for bringing our friend back who are you well my name's Dex Barrick Rowan by the way
00:59:14
Speaker
Eric, you don't just shut up. He seems very angry and also strong. My name is Dex. I'm from Eberron. I guess we can be pretty general at this point. You don't... Listen, we're just trying to set things right and we need to get back. Listen, we're trying to travel quickly, so we came here. We didn't know we were gonna end up. Farley didn't tell us he wasn't supposed to be here. Truth be told, I don't like him much either. I need him to get me where I'm going and then I plan on not talking to him ever again.
00:59:45
Speaker
Farlin just kind of like, I hope the silver flame chop your head off. Farlin, I am trying to establish rapport. So listen, if you could just let, we're trying to stop the darkness from taking over our world. And if you have a problem with that, then you're a big old dickhead. Or any information about what you sense in me. I have a problem with whoever you are,
01:00:14
Speaker
bringing this thing into my home for the record this thing means barrack listeners oh yeah um i say i say well he's he's a good guy he's helping us fight the darkness this is true that may be i really what a creature as duplicitous as that thing is would make you believe but i assure you
01:00:37
Speaker
that there is nothing but darkness in him. What thing? You. Yes, what is that? There's the cryptic talking again. Talk like a person. What do you mean this thing? I don't know what you're saying I am. I look at you and I see nothing but darkness.
01:00:58
Speaker
I think I'm a half elf. Are you saying I'm something else? Quiet. Have you all ever seen him exhibit any abilities that harness the darkness? Uh... Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Has he ever seemed to step into a plane of darkness and appear somewhere else? I don't remember that. I do all of those things. I need you to- Son of a bitch! Son of a bitch! What is going on?
01:01:23
Speaker
Look, and I cast Minor Illusion and create a little shadow puppet. I need you to explain to my high counsel what your intentions are here. Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, can you make the locket do the thing it did when Beric touched it? Can we show them that we're working with some light here? I don't know what the locket does. I cast daylight out of my ribbon weave.
01:01:49
Speaker
Just just to show them that we have these Elements of light that we're working with it doesn't that it doesn't hurt Barrick when it when it envelops him I don't know what to do. I just want for this angel to shut the fuck up and let us move on Did you just cast daylight? That's really cute Don't know what the purpose was we're actually no I was hoping I was I was hoping that some sort of light magic would ping off of the locket and make something happen honestly it didn't and
01:02:19
Speaker
I don't know I just I'm tired of you two going I don't know you don't make sense you don't make sense you don't make sense you don't make decks not Jeff it's tired of this this who me yeah you what you yeah who me so fellas shut up third base yeah sir angel what do you have a name can you tell me can I use it what do you want me to call you yeah Gabriel
01:02:41
Speaker
Gabriel You can call me Gabe Gabe, huh? If you don't want us here, let us pass We'll be gone and I can I can promise you I can promise you I know you can't trust Farlin. I don't blame you. Like I said, he's not our friend He's he's art. He's our guide getting us from A to B Barrick will never set foot in your plane again. I I mean
01:03:05
Speaker
I know Farlin enough to not trust him. I don't know who you are, so I don't know what you think your promises mean to me. But yeah, I'm going to take you back to our capital. God, these angels are real. Can't you just go with us to where we exit and you will see us leave and we will not be back? I didn't see you enter. You might be trying to escape now. Are you coming with us? Because it seems like you would be extremely good at dealing with what we're trying to deal with. That's also true. I mean,
01:03:36
Speaker
It's not my call to make, guys. I found you. I found a creature that embodies everything that we swore to fight against. And so, yeah, you're coming with me. Fine. Can you at least make it where we don't have to jump everywhere?
01:03:51
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I'll get your rides and he snaps his fingers and a few more. You see in the distance, large angels come flying in to grab you all. And they picked each of you up. Do any of you resist? Eric is entirely beside himself because everything he thought he understood about the magic that he did.
01:04:14
Speaker
assumed that it was tied to the same thing that gave him access to the sword but he can cast spells but you can't summon the sword so he has no idea what's going on. So no. Let's go get this over with. Yeah Dex is just so pissed at this missive nature of his angel that he's just gonna whatever at this point he obviously can't get out by himself and this angel's not gonna let them leave this rock and clearly can kick all their asses so he's just like fine just don't just
01:04:43
Speaker
Is there anything we can do where you're not like just cradling me like a baby while we fly? I got an idea. Why don't I turn into one of you guys and you can just throw me like a dart and I'll glide with these wings that don't actually work. That was not in character by the way. I know it started out that way we were established. Are neither of you very persuasive?
01:05:06
Speaker
Yeah, I could have rolled it well actually no I I didn't take into I took into deception and into intimidation not persuasion So I just have a plus three. I'm charismatic, but
01:05:20
Speaker
What Barak is going to try to persuade this guy to do is tell him something. I would love to be practical for the team here, but Barak is like, this thing knows something and Barak desperately wants to know anything. Well, he's already called the other angels, so it's not like we can convince him to take a sound. That ship has sailed here. So yeah, you all fly for a few minutes. I mean, you are traveling very quickly with these angels.
01:05:41
Speaker
And you see in the distance as it starts to grow larger a very, very large piece of land with just, I mean, imagine a city created and inhabited by angels and that's what this thing is.
01:06:00
Speaker
And after a moment, you all are dropped in a fairly large courtyard with a, what looks to be council of three angels, um, sitting, waiting for your arrival. Um, and you see an extremely old bearded angel sitting in the highest seat, looks directly at Barrick and says, I never thought I'd see someone like you again.
01:06:32
Speaker
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01:06:53
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01:08:13
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01:08:34
Speaker
I'm talking again, and it's a little bit better. Okay, so there are these three brothers, and they're all traveling together, and they find a genie, and each of them is gonna get three wishes. This is a great joke, I'm gonna finish it later. Okay, so a termite walks into a bar, and asks, is the bartender here? Okay. Ah, ha ha. Well, I've got it. Is the bartender here? Nice, good. Test, test, hello, hello. Okay.