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Ep. 47 What Once Was And What Will Be
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Part 2 of the Season 1 Finale.
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Gratitude and Special Episode Announcement
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Everyone. I wanted to take a second and say again, super big thanks for listening through 40 something episodes of our silly gameplay. It means the world to us that you guys have stuck with us this long and we're not going to keep you for too long.
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I really, really want to get you get into the episode, but it is, and we've been, we've been jonesing to release this episode for a while.
Merch Store Launch
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It is something different. It hits hard. Um, so yeah, quick update. Uh, we just released our merch store, the store that has some of the first offerings for season one of the hired swords.
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You can find it at thehired.store.
Season 2 Hype and Sharing Request
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T-H-E-H-I-R-E-D.S-T-O-R-E. If you want to check it out, that would be cool. We got some fun stuff on there. If nothing else...
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Thank you guys so much for listening and if you enjoy the show, be ready for season two. It's coming in hot and tell a friend. It means everything to us to be able to share this and to see people enjoy it is, it's incredible. Thank you so much for this journey that you've been on with us and I'm looking forward to continuing it down the road.
Introduction to The Hired Swords
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Alright, let's go ahead and get into it and hold on to your butts.
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You're listening to the Hired Swords, a 5e Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast. I said it real for once.
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Thank you, everybody, for listening to The Hired Swords. Welcome back. I am your Dungeon Master, Mike. And with me, we have Blaze. Sup? Lovely. We have Mikey. Aero. Derek. Hey. Ash is here. Hello. As always. And so is Starbuck again. With her flashy,
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With her flashy. I was trying to think of a good sound. I can't think. You just have to let your emotions come out in the vocal range. Well, I did. And that's where we got Ricky Beep Beep Beep. Got it. Got it. And if you don't know their characters by now, Krigs is, or Blaze is Krigs, Mikey's, Joxer, Derek's, Daven, Ash is Gwyndolin, and Sturbuck has been playing Solrin. It's actually pronounced Daevon. You guys have been pronouncing it wrong this whole time.
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for 50 episodes or something. No, that's not true. Dave on.
Battle and Krigs' New Ability
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Yeah, so when we left off, we were we had a very large battle where we kind of took we had an ultimatum for the chief kind of led by Sariah and her party and then. Closely supported and kind of co led by our our group of adventurers here. The conversation got a little
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got a little heated and whenever the chief was going to turn his back on everybody and just walk away from it an arrow struck near him another arrow came in and did some damage and we had a battle the battle ensued fighting on both sides hunters choosing sides for the chief or against him fighting each other
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and just kind of almost well not almost basically chaos just kind of everybody fighting each other and our group here trying to eliminate the chief as well as protect themselves from the other hunters and we ended with Krigs using a magical ability he had received recently to finally end the Chiefs reign in Wild Hill so with the chief having fallen
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he was struck with this magical power that came from the energy of the wilds as it wrapped itself around him in vines and fungi and mushroom growing from him and growing out of his mouth as he falls down and kind of ends his life laying on the ground with these growths of plant life coming from him. His body began to decay immediately.
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And as we as you stand and look at him, it's like his body is already decomposing, becoming a part of nature. Like the spell has kind of started to bring him in to be a part of the wilds. Even after right after he died, the mushrooms and vines are growing from him. His body almost looks like a planter filled with fungus and vines having burst from him as he lays there deader.
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than dead. The hunters, you see the hunters surrounding you, their eyes wide, they're looking around trying to figure out what to do, kind of everyone kind of losing the sense of what they were doing, fighting against each other. You can see that the weapons have kind of, you know, the tense and tenseness of battle and combat has kind of loosened and lessened as they have
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kind of started to look around and try to figure out what has happened and what happened to the chief and they then you see some beginning to strengthen up again as if they're about to strengthen their attack and the fighting amongst the hunters becomes even more severe and they are
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They're just fighting is swinging and as we come around I'm going to call out to Gwendolyn as you stand over beside Tomba He stands he sits leaning up against the tower of testing up to the north of where this battle has happened only only a good 30 feet away from the battle itself not not far away having if you remember a kind of
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kind of lead the battle after being hit with an arrow and some attacks from direwolf Gwendolyn.
Gwendolyn Comforts Tomba
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He kind of fleed and ran and kind of started in the fetal position kind of calling out confused and you had seen a glow under his shirt that is no longer glowing and he's starting to kind of blink and look around himself as you stand there looking at him. What are you going to do?
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Tell them to just breathe. It's all right. Are you all right? I don't... I don't know. I... Where?
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What is happening? Here, calm down. I can help you, but you have to trust me. I mistrust you, but please. Who are you? What's going on? This is chaotic. What is happening? I hold his face so I could sit still and stare in my eye. I want to stare into his eyes. Okay. I said, come with me. I can help you. And I pick him up and I head to Hurley's. Okay.
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Make a persuasion check. Okay. I was very worried there for a second. And go ahead and do it with advantage as his panicking has got him really hoping for some sort of help, some sort of assistance. Has a four.
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Okay. You grab his face and you begin to speak to him and his eyes get wide and he kind of increases his panic a little bit and he says, I don't know. So you're just going to like grab him and try to take him. All right, that's a grapple then as he tries to fight you to get away because he couldn't calm him down. But I just want it. Yeah, strength. Add your strength to it. I'll do his.
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14 you got a chance 9 plus 1 is a 10
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So, yeah, you're able to kind of drag him kicking and screaming away from not screaming necessarily. He's just like a little panic mode. So you've kind of got to pick him up. And it's almost like it's almost like a scared little kid or or something who who is like just not wanting to go to the doctor and not wanting to go into the dentist chair or something. And you're like, I know this is going to be good for you. I'm just going to take you anyway. As he's like,
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I bet I don't know. I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's going on. Somebody somebody has to help me. What's going on here? And he's just in full panic mode. I can cure you. Just just please let me help cure me. Am I sick? I'm not sick. I don't know what's happening. And he's you're taking him. He's just kind of the whole way. OK. And so as she does that, Craig's make a perception check. Okey dokey.
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14 okay so as you as you look around use you notice pretty much a hundred percent of the hunters who were fighting their eyes are on you now and there there is there's one over near sovereign who steps away from her and makes his way towards you
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The ones who were right there near you, they're just kind of confused and they don't know what's going on and they've kind of let down their guard. So these other ones that were fighting against them, shoved them out of the way and they come at you.
Krigs' Vision and Hunters' Fear
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And as they start to come at you, your vision turns green. And you hear in your mind, you hear
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It's okay. You asked for this. And it's the voice that the elk had spoken to you with before. And as you kind of blink through this green, you see swords being lifted. And as everyone else, everyone else make perception checks as well. That's a nat 20. Okay. 14.
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uh 14 plus my wisdom 16 okay go in not you because you're walking away you already were on that um correct yeah she's like i got you just stealing the half just my baby now
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Oh gosh. So you all see, you all realize that the hunters that were near you have completely lost interest in you. The ones that you were fighting against and they're starting to beeline towards Krigs. Starting with Joxer, what would you like to do?
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Because you rolled the highest percentage. Yeah, so from what I can tell, it looks like they're probably going to attack Krigs. Well, they have lost interest in you, and they're starting to head away from you towards where that ruckus is happening, where the chief was killed.
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have a small dilemma because I just knock someone unconscious and I feel a little bad. But I also should probably... Yeah, no, I think seeing that I'm not in immediate danger, I'm probably going to use a healing potion on the guy that I knocked out.
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Okay, there was focusing on the mage. Okay, so as you kind of give that guy his, you know, kind of force this healing potion down his throat, these other guys all kind of start past you. And as they start past you, Daven, what was your role for perception? 14. Okay, so Solrin.
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You see all of these hunters heading towards Krigs and as they make their way towards Krigs, they're sprinting, they're running, they're starting to run towards him. As Joxer kneels down, he starts pouring this potion. You get this sense of purpose, this sense of opportunity. What are you going to do?
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She's going to meet, as soon as that guy leaves her, like disengages with her, she sees that they're all going for Krigs, and she is going to bolt towards that epicenter. I'll remind her you're still a dire wolf. She's going to do anything she possibly can to protect him. Okay. And you are a dire wolf? Yeah. So I'm faster than them. Right. So you run into that space.
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And as you get into that space, Krigs, what are you doing as you see them all start to approach you like that? After that moment you had, you asked for this. Very clearly they look hostile, I'm assuming. I am going to take my shield and hold it in front of me and grip my war hammer a little tighter.
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And, uh, just kind of whisper to myself, I, I am soft for an ember oak, uh, kind of re accepting that that's my actual name and whatever happens happens. Okay. So as, uh, sovereign because of you can move so, so much faster as you, you approach there, right. As these.
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Hunters have started to come down and you you've approached krigs. Are you putting yourself between krigs and the hunters or what is your approach? Yeah, so like they're coming so we're in front of the longhouse right now, right? Yeah, yeah the tower um and So they're coming in from all three sides, right? Correct out in the courtyard. Mm-hmm. She is going to
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Is the door open? To the tower? From when the chief, yeah, from when the chief tried to retreat. He never made it to the door. She's going to try and like, she's going to try and like body throw him back and like put her herself in front of him. OK, make a and just like growl, like, yeah, make a krigs. She's going to do that. Are you going to resist that?
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resist her getting between me and the other people. Yeah, and shoving you back. Yeah, probably. OK, so you guys make contested strength checks to see if she can push you away. That's my dire wolf strength. I got an 18 plus whatever the dire wolf. You got a 15 plus. Four 19 plus three.
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nice so i got 21 okay so craig you make a you make a good solid stand but she shoves you back and you stumbled backwards into the guy behind you who falls over falls down and and he he was one who was who was raising his weapon against you but he has fallen and
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and Solrin, as this direwolf begins to, she looks back at you and barks like she said, barks at you and growls at you and looks back at these hunters. Daven, seeing that scene play out in front of you, what are you doing now? There's a whole bunch of them between me and them. Correct. Not thinking I could safely fight through them. I'm going to try and give them aid how I can, so I'm going to use a bonus action and cast a spiritual weapon, and I'm going to put it just like right next to them, kind of like give them another side of protection.
Solrin's Transformation
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OK, all right, I'm right next to the way from. Yeah, then I'm going to move away from the danger zone. OK, and there's no attack of opportunity, even though there's a couple right near you because they have completely focused their attention on Krigg Alder now. And so as Solrin steps in between you, Krigs, the hunters now descend upon your where you are. And as they do, their weapons
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slice through Solrin as This dire wolf and there She saw and make a couple of attack rolls for me as you attack back at these guys as they come after you I'm just gonna remind you that dire Solrin has 4 HP. Yes, I know 14 is the highest Okay
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So you're able to slice out at one of them with your claws and strike at them, ripping away some of their armor and leaving behind the kind of big gash in their leg. And then just then a sword comes down through your back and just takes away that
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That dire wolf form and the electricity that dire wolf form begins to sparkle around you That was left as it as it fades out and just as that dire wolf form fades Solrin more weapons became became begin entering your body and Everyone you can see as this happens and in Krigs as you watch this happen you feel
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the wind begin to blow and shift and change and you feel the you can see leaves beginning to blow off the trees as the wind picks up and you could feel almost a rumble in the earth as this sparks an electrical energy and current from this from this this dire wolf
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begin to coalesce and almost engulf Sauron's form. And you just didn't notice the eyes of the hunters growing big and backing up and looking as Sauron's body lays limp and lifeless, but behind you stands
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the great elk of the wilds and as this elk is standing behind you it is it is the form it is a near ethereal form but it's not that greenish bluish color as it was before it is it now looks like a live living elk creature and again you hear the voice in your mind you asked for this and the elk lowers its head and when it does when it lowers its head
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Sauron's form shifts again and changes and the electricity sparks and sparkles and cracks and begins to spread across the ground causing these hunters the hunters that were sprinting towards you they all stop in their tracks and they stare they look at the elk they look at this lightning storm happening at your feet across Sauron's body as the form then takes the shape again of a direwolf this time the direwolf is more blue than gray still has the
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The hair, the fur on its back standing up, it's still laying there. And it almost looks it's kind of got that same ethereal transparency that that great elk did. And where Sauron's body lay now, a fully gigantic dire wolf stands up. Howls turns and runs back towards the elk.
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looking back over its shoulder at you as the elk and the dire wolf run into the forest together, begin to gallop towards the forest. And as they do, the hunters begin to drop their weapons and they look at you, Krigs, and they look around, not knowing what to think, not knowing, not understanding what just happened. And that's where we sit in that moment right now. What are you guys going to do?
Krigs Questions Hunters' Allegiance
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I think Jox here after pouring that potion down is gonna be like, just stay, don't move. And then he's gonna stand up and I guess feeling that tension and seeing everybody who, you know, had gone over to Krigs. I'll probably start heading towards Krigs in that event as well. Okay. I'm going to drop my shield.
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I'm going to drop the green and teal kind of wrapped Warhammer and just stand there myself completely disarmed. This is over now. This is finally finished. You understand now that things were happening here, that none of you took two seconds.
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to even think for yourself why things were happening. Haven't you done enough? You saw for yourself. You saw for yourself what's happening in the wilds, the great ones. There are evils and darkness out there that you've all been contributing to. Knowingly or unknowingly, this is over now.
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You can kill me if you want, right here, right now, much like you. I wouldn't put it past any of you at this point, but that's just gonna make the darkness rise faster. This has to end now. As you finish saying that, I think that a
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a presence kind of comes off the wind. And I think that it like, I think that it like stirs everyone's clothes and kind of like sweeps across everyone's faces. And you just hear Sauron's voice and it says, no, no, no, be free. With that voice without
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Any magic words, my cloak is going to pop its wings. And I will be standing there with two blue jay wings, not having some of them just at the sound of the voice. Everyone, meaning all the all the hunters that are standing nearby, they all look at you and having felt something on the breeze as well.
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They look at your wings, they look over at Joxer and Daven and at everybody and most of them look confused. They don't understand. The dwarven leader, the one who was leading the ones fighting for the chief, he steps up to you and he says,
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I haven't seen anything like that for a very long time. I once fought alongside men who called the arcane out from wherever they wanted, anytime they wanted. But to see something that obviously makes no sense without the arcane now, after the war, and in Wild Hill of all places,
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I don't understand what any of us are doing here anymore. What was this all about? What was the chief doing that kept this kind of power at bay and was it wrong or was it right for him to do so? That is the question I am asking myself. I think that's the question all of you are going to have to ask yourselves.
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It's clear that all of the chief's choices up to this point have created a lack of balance. There's nothing correct of whatever purpose he had on what he was trying to accomplish. I think all of you need to rethink what you plan on doing going forth.
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As you finish saying that, hunters start to come from all over, from all around, and you see them kind of reaching in pouches and in their belts, and you notice they're pulling out their coins, the hired swords' coins.
Hunters Abandon the Chief
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They're all walking towards where the chiefs decomposed
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plant-life covered body corpse lay and one by one they begin to tossing their coins down on his body. As these hired sword coins begin piling up dozens of them after as these these men who had just finished this combat begin to lay them there at this nature covered grave and
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The last one to do so is that dwarven leader. And he looks at it, and he looks at all of you, and he just says, I thought I wanted to fight for something. I'm not for this. He tosses it down, begins to walk away, and they kind of start to disperse.
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And you've kind of feel like maybe you've seen the end of the hired swords and Wild Hill. Gwendolyn. You drag, half drag Tomba towards Hurley's place. I don't see that. As he struggles, make one more persuasion check as you're trying to convince him that you're doing this for his own good. See if you can get him to sit in that dentist's chair.
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2008 He doesn't hyperventilate as much but he's still rejecting your But you you arrive at Hurley's and you arrive at that back door that is closed currently
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Are you going to the knick-knack shop or Hurley's house? I kind of want to go through the knick-knack shop to get Slim. So you get to the knick-knack shop and even before you arrive there you see Slim has been standing out on that front deck of the knick-knack shop watching all of this happen.
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And kind of mouth open wide like shocked at what's been going on and as you walk up the steps With Tomba, he says what? I'm sorry. What what can I do? How can I help him? I Need to see hardly I I need to know who this is or what this is Okay, um, let me see and he he
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It says, bring him inside, please. Bring him inside. Gwyndolin starts to take a step, and that's when she feels the wind that just happened. She feels something, but she can't tell what it is because she knows she's got to get this manic halfling into the door, so she kind of pauses and then just pushes on, just go through the door. Great. Okay. When you feel that wind, you do get a sense that
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what you're doing is right, what you're doing is good. And it almost, while you push on, it's almost like you're pushing on because you're now even more confident in what you're doing, that you're doing the right thing. And so you push into the doorway as Slim begins to move back. He's already halfway to the door to go out the back to ask for Hurley. And as he does, as he leaves,
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Toma begins to claw at his chest at that and kind of reach down and start to grab these. I think I know. And he reaches behind him and he breaks the necklace that was on his chest, a chain. And when he does, the
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Speaker
this orange gem kind of falls down out out from under his shirt down onto the ground where he had he had been just wearing it under his shirt there and just clanks across the ground and it's just a gemstone wrapped in in this like gold thread on this chain and you see the little light pulsing of magic in it and Toma just kind of sits and breathes. What was that?
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Gwendolyn starts looking around. Okay, he's I don't I don't know it. It wasn't what I I didn't it wasn't mine. I didn't I don't I don't have that. I don't know why I'm wearing that. It's not mine. Where am I in? Am I still in the shop? You're right in the middle of the shop. Yeah. Nobody else is in there. But
00:31:39
Speaker
I sit Touma down and part of me wants to reach towards this gym, but I am a bit afraid. Okay. If you want to make some kind of check, like looking at it without touching it, do an arcana or an investigation, whichever you prefer, investigation or arcana. I don't think I want to do that yet. I think I want to cure Touma first. Okay.
00:32:06
Speaker
Because I think Gwendolyn is interested, but she is more worried about him. Great. Because he was so sus for the longest time. So I'm going to try to reach out for the jewel, but instead I am going to try to cure Tomba. And by doing that, I'm going to reach out and start speaking in Elvish and cast Cure Wounds on him. Okay. For how many points? We're going to find out. We're going to find out.
00:32:39
Speaker
What is this one here? Let's do it at level three. How's a nine? Okay. So as you reach out and you grab him, he kind of kind of panics a little bit, but then you touch him and he kind of kind of calms down into your touch and settles in. And as you cast that spell,
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he kind of, he looks at you and you make eye contact with him and you see just kind of the panic starting to fade. As time goes on, you can see he's kind of starting to calm down a little bit and he looks down and you can see where his leg had been kind of mauled by somebody who was a direwolf. You can see how it begins to, the flesh starts to kind of reform and reshape and he becomes fully himself again, fully whole, no longer,
00:33:32
Speaker
Injured in any way and he's his breathing has slowed. He started to calm down and he he's just like Still looks very confused and just about now the door opens and Slim says some says Hurley is not able to come to come in here This the place wasn't built for him to be able to be mobile into the building But if you would like to go meet him In his home, he says he he could see you
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Oh, Tomba, you look as if you're doing slightly better. Are you okay? And Tomba says, I think so. Slim, I do remember you, Slim.
00:34:16
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What has happened? What is going on here? And Slim looks at him and looks at you, Gwen, and just, again, just confused and just doesn't, you know, just isn't sure what, why Tomba is acting this way. It doesn't make any sense. And Slim says, do you, the chief, the chief was killed, Tomba. Did you see he died? And Tomba says, I,
00:34:47
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I didn't, I didn't know. Um, should I, should I feel something for him? I, I, I'm confused. Earlier. I noticed you have so much strength that I didn't know that you had before. How, how, how, how did you become in possession of this? How did, how, how do you not remember? Well, I, I remember, I mean,
00:35:17
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I remember time at the mission. I remember learning how to fight and how to be agile and dexterous and strong. I remember using weapons and learning that and going to war and fighting alongside several men and dwarves and elves alike. I remember all those days where it gets cloudy.
00:35:47
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where it gets cloudy is after I got here to this town. I thought I was heading back to my family. I don't know what I'm doing here. What? Gwendolyn looks back at the stone. Slim, do you have any towels or rags or napkins that I can use to pick this stone up?
00:36:15
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slim. Yeah, of course I do. And he turns and runs back to the counter and he comes back with a little kind of handkerchief. He sets it down on the ground and he grabs the chain that the gym is attached to and sets the gym down in the handkerchief and and kind of folds it up. And Tomba looks when you can see when Tomba looks at that he's just kind of he's got this look of disdain towards that that gym.
00:36:41
Speaker
Let's go speak with Hurley. I grabbed the gym from Slim and I helped Tomba into Hurley's home. Okay. About this time, the rest of you, you've realized that Gwendolyn is no longer there. In Tomba either, they've run off together somewhere.
00:37:05
Speaker
Is there anything you'd like to do once you've realized that? This has come after the hunters have all thrown their coins down and this is all happening simultaneously and now you're at the point where it looks like whatever was going on here has settled down. The chief's body looks infested and overly decomposed.
00:37:33
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was much older than he is? No, it looks like the magic ground kind of reclaimed him. I just wanted to make sure I understood that difference. Yeah, the magic did it to him. It feels more like not necessarily he was something you didn't know he was. Then I'd walk over and see that and look over at Craig's
00:38:02
Speaker
Well, this is new. Yeah, I suppose it is. This is this is what you found in in the forest. I imagine this new power. You saw, right? You saw the you saw the great elk and you saw Solran you you win. I'm not.
00:38:30
Speaker
It's not just me, please. You saw that. Yes, yes, this time. In the forest, I didn't, but this time I did. Did you see where they went? I'll point in the direction that I could imagine, kind of off from the building. Yeah. They went straight through there until essentially I couldn't see them. He finishes talking. I've already taken off.
00:39:00
Speaker
OK, towards the forest. Big old wing flap and all of the the nature around the ground, the chief, everything you just see. Just a big puff of wind take off all around in a big circle as I try to make it up, make it as fast as I can that direction. Before all of this happens, back when Krigs was giving his speech and it looked like all of the swords were kind of giving in and throwing in their coins.
00:39:30
Speaker
Daven wants to try and sneak off and go into the Tower of Testing. All right. Make a stealth check as you go that direction. All right. Ooh, it's not great. It is a 11. Okay. You're having to brush past people. People definitely see you going towards the Tower of Testing.
00:39:56
Speaker
No one gives a crap. It doesn't seem like anybody cares that you're headed that way. But if anyone's wondering where you are, someone there could say, oh, he went in the tower. Okay. He's going to go up to the door and open it if it's unlocked. Yeah, it's indeed unlocked. You can go in. You're going to try to sneak inside. You can make another stealth check against the people in there. Sure. There's still people inside? Yeah, a few.
00:40:24
Speaker
Okay. Oh, that's much better. Uh, that's a 22. You're muted. My bad. You sneak in through the door and you're able to tuck yourself behind kind of in the shadows until you can kind of get back behind where the tables and chairs are and crouch down there and be hidden. As you look around, make a perception check as you look around in the tower. Sure. Seven.
00:40:53
Speaker
OK, you hear voices coming from what seems to be upstairs, female voices, and they're just kind of chatting, not chatting. It's kind of heightened, like a little bit of panicked chatting with each other, talking with each other. And then. That's about it. You don't really see any other people here.
00:41:16
Speaker
All right. I wanted to kind of snoop around a little bit and see if I can find anything that gave me more details about the chief and maybe what he had going on.
00:41:25
Speaker
Okay, as you just to remind her this this space you're in right here, you see this all the tables are on the right hand side of the room. And across this giant rug that runs down the middle of the room, this kind of like carp red carpet towards this throne sitting area that the chief sat on across that way is a few there's a few bookshelves some tables that have like books and papers and stuff open, and some, some more tables beyond the bookshelves as well as that's where the stairs are that go up to the upstairs area.
00:41:56
Speaker
Okay. I'd like to look at the stuff that's open, like the papers and books and stuff that he was using. So you make your way up to the tables there. Go ahead and stealth towards the tables again, because that is all the way across the room. So 23 success. So you, you sneak yourself through, you know, shadow to shadow kind of furniture, piece of furniture to piece of furniture, make yourself, you know, you know, I imagine probably a dive tuck and roll around the center there where you, where the,
00:42:24
Speaker
where the carpet is, doing some of that stuff. And you get to the table and make an investigation check as you search for stuff on the table.
00:42:39
Speaker
Okay, so with the 16, you're digging and you're looking and you're finding a lot of requests for jobs and they seem to be coming, they're just letters and people writing
00:42:54
Speaker
for stuff from all over. There's jobs to go to Lavarith and do stuff. There's jobs to go to Ironwood and do work there. There's jobs, there's just jobs for all kinds of different stuff. And most of it's uninteresting. You do see two jobs that are a little more interesting because they specifically mention, they specifically mention elder guardians or elders of the wilds.
00:43:23
Speaker
And they specifically say that they need elements from these whatever they're calling guardians or elders. So they're needing something like blood or scrapings of hoof or antler or something like that. And it's signed, it's just simply signed Sower. One word, Sower, both of them are.
00:43:51
Speaker
Devin's just going to kind of shake his head a little bit and say, of course. And he's going to pocket both of the letters. OK. All right. Where are you headed next? I would like to try and sneak upstairs. Sure. Make a stealthy stealth stealth. That's 21.
00:44:15
Speaker
21. So you get to the stairs and I got to roll against that when you're getting close at five is not going to do it. So you're you get up to the stairs. And again, you're just kind of, you know, back against the wall kind of sliding up the stairs gently and carefully. And as you do, as you get up the stairs there, you get to like the second level, the second layer of the of the
00:44:44
Speaker
the tower here and that second level you see a few a few beds and some other things that are like like bedroom type items or some case some crates with different like just clothes in them and things like that and just looks like people a few people live up here one of the beds is right as you come up the steps it's right there it's a double bed and you can see around the corner there are two more single beds with a divider in the middle
00:45:16
Speaker
And do I see anybody at this point? Oh, yeah, you do. You see two women sitting. It's like a couch thing that sits by an end table that they are just kind of talking and chatting. They are sitting there talking and you can kind of overhear them
00:45:33
Speaker
asking like what they're going to do and they're just why I say we pack everything and we just we just go right now we leave immediately and the other ones like but if we leave immediately where would we go we have nowhere to go I don't know what we're going to do and they're just kind of arguing back and forth
00:45:50
Speaker
So judging by the layout that I see, I'm coming upstairs kind of on what looks like a west side and they're kind of on in almost like a separate room with a divider in between. So they probably can't see me immediately. You don't know. You don't think they see you and they're, they're pretty involved in their conversation too. Okay. I see a couple of chests over there by the bed. I'm going to just sneak up to those quietly as I can. Okay. Yeah. So when you go to those chests, uh, make a investigation check on both of them.
00:46:21
Speaker
That is a 16 plus my investigation three 19. All right. You can see that one of them is locked and the other one, it has a lock on it, but the lock is open and kind of hanging out of that one is like some sort of article of clothing that has been kind of clumsily tossed in there. Okay. If I open it up and kind of shuffle through it, is it just all clothes?
00:46:49
Speaker
Yes, that one is all clothes. You see, it's mostly men's clothes, shirts and pants and things like that. That would be, you would imagine, they're bigger size, like a man you assume the chiefs. Then the other one is locked. Correct. I don't have thieves tools.
00:47:13
Speaker
Daven not really knowing what the heck he's doing. He's just gonna try. He pulls out his dagger and he's just gonna stick in the hole and start like wiggling it around and see if he can get it to unlock. All right, make a very difficult sleight of hand check. A very high difficulty class sleight of hand check. I did roll a 19, plus two, 21.
00:47:32
Speaker
OK, so as you kind of wiggle your dagger inside there and you just kind of wiggle it, it does go with the loud clank and you hear the talking on the other side of the wall stop. Even though the lock is open, but it seems like they've stopped on the other side, they've stopped chatting and they're listening now. Devon freezes in place for a second.
00:47:55
Speaker
And then without being quiet at all, he's just going to quickly pull off the lock, flip open the lid and grab what's inside and then dimension door out of there. Okay. All right. So you open the lock and when you do inside this, uh, inside this box is a couple of some things wrapped in
00:48:19
Speaker
wrapped in some sort of cloth, like burlap cloth. And so you grab both of those. And just as you stand there holding them, these two women come around. One of them looks like she's been in tears crying. The other one is holding a small bag that looks like she's been filling full of stuff. And as you stand there and look at them, they make eye contact with you as you step into your dimension door and poof, you're out of there.
00:48:49
Speaker
Okay. I, uh, dimension dored kind of the same direction that I saw the giant elk and dire dwarf go off of. So I'm kind of like, so I can come back from that direction. Okay. All right. That sounds good. Um, all right. So Gwendolyn, we're going to come back to you. Okay. As you, as I put Daven back over here. Uh, all right. So Gwendolyn, you have made your way into Hurley's now.
00:49:18
Speaker
and you walk into that same dark back room and he's already sitting in the room beyond this back storage area and the curtains are open to the windows and the lights still shining in from the daylight and he's looking at you as you approach and he looks at Tomba and he says, he says, what is it that you come here for?
00:49:48
Speaker
He works for the Chief sometimes, no? I don't think he remembers working for the Chief. Harley, meet the real Tomba. Tomba, the pleasure is mine. I am Harley. We have not had the pleasure of meeting. I have heard of you. The Chief has told me that you work. You work well for him, assigning the jobs that we need.
00:50:19
Speaker
I do not believe the chief has been following our arrangement. So perhaps you know something of this. And he looks over to Slim and Slim goes, sir, the chief has been killed. There was an uprising among the hunters led by Sariah as well as some of her men and these. And she points to Gwendolyn and Hurley goes, that's kind of
00:50:47
Speaker
I would be lying if I said that it was completely unexpected, but he unfortunately is a foolish man who I knew would convince the wrong people that he was not who this town needed him to be. Seems that this happened.
00:51:09
Speaker
I just merely hope it does not destroy this town completely. So what is your story with your friend Tomba here? Tomba, is everything okay? Tomba says, yeah, go ahead. I was... Tomba, I need you to tell him what you just told me. We need to make sense of this. And if Tomba does talk, I'll start to unfold the jewel.
00:51:38
Speaker
Yeah, Tomba, after you say that, he looks up at Hurley and he says, I don't know you. I remember being on the road here to Wild Hill. I remember being invited to make some gold for my family and then I was going home back to Glenn to see them and
00:52:03
Speaker
Somehow I never left it and I think it has something to do with that." And he points at the necklace and Hurley says, bring that to me. I walk on the street with it. And he finishes unfolding the cloth. As it sits in your hand, he finishes unfolding the cloth and he looks at it and he says, the chief must be dead or he would still be under his control.
00:52:34
Speaker
control. Yes, Tomba seems to have been charmed all this time. Normally that magic wears off, but when you have an artifact that can contain that, and part of the charm is to never remove it, eventually the wearer becomes completely unaware that they have any reason to resist at all. I turn around. Tomba, what year do you think it is?
00:53:04
Speaker
What year is it? It's the year the war ended two years ago, which means he starts to kind of count. He's like, I'm confused. I feel too old for it to have been as long as I feel like it's been.
00:53:32
Speaker
Hurley, what year did the war ended? The war... I remember... I remember the Empire split into separate states in 1479. And two years... I just turn around in amazement and just look at Tomba.
00:54:00
Speaker
You've been here for quite a while, Tomba. Where were you headed? I said I was coming here to earn a little gold, and then I heard you could fight for gold here. Then I was going to go back to Glint and buy a home for my family. Hurley, did you make this? Gwendolyn is angry.
00:54:30
Speaker
I... I did not make... something. Who made this? How did you know that this could control someone? It's... it's a gemstone. Judging from his... judging from his... what he is suffering from, his loss of memory, his obvious serving against his own will, it is obvious he has been charmed by something. And this, I can see the magic still pulsing inside of it. It is...
00:54:58
Speaker
It is something that has been enchanted in some way. I do not enchant. I just make the deals to sell the enchanted products to the buyers. I am not the one who does the enchanting. If he says that this happened at the end of the war, a couple of years after the war ended, then this existed before I started trading in this way, in this town anyway.
00:55:29
Speaker
It's likely the chief... It's likely the chief had it made somehow. Had a plan. It's possible he used it on other people. Before even this. Maybe that's how he was in the position he was in. Can I tell that... No. I know he's probably telling the truth. If you want to make an insight check, you can. This is in fact D&D. D&D. Brought to you by D&D.
00:55:59
Speaker
Is that what we're playing? Brought to you by DICE sometimes. Wait, so what is Southers of Catanin? Wait, this isn't Chutes and Liners? Dang. Has a 19. Finally a good roll for... Yeah. Very well. Hurley... Hurley doesn't seem to be... His tone and everything, he doesn't seem to be being dishonest with you.
00:56:29
Speaker
You get the feeling he does know more than what he's told you all, but not necessarily about this particular situation. Just as a whole. He seems the type to only reveal the information he's ready to reveal.
00:56:47
Speaker
I Gwendolyn turns around. So then can you get Tomba some water, please? Of course. Possibly a meal. I'll pay for it. Oh, don't worry about that. And he turns and he runs back into down the hallway and into like a back room in the house. I send Tomba. Tomba, can you go with him? I think you need something to eat. It'll help with the wounds.
00:57:17
Speaker
He just kind of looks at you and looks around and he scratches the back of his head and begins to kind of walk and you can see starting to make some sense of everything from the look on his face as he walks back and follows slower than Slim did, but he does follow Slim back into that kitchen. And I close the door slowly. Okay. And I turn around.
00:57:44
Speaker
Hurley, and as she's talking, the lisp is going to go away. Hurley, you're going to tell me the truth. You know more than I think you think I know. I know what you know that you think I don't know. I think you think I know you think I do. I think you know. Nailed it. I think.
00:58:13
Speaker
That's probably how Gwendolyn would talk. I need to know everything. We discussed this earlier. No. What we decided was there are answers we both need and there are answers only you need. Let us discuss all of the answers at the same time once you have found the ones that we both need.
00:58:45
Speaker
How do you know? Listen, the virus, the darkness that was invading this town seems to have been vanquished. I believe it was caused mostly by one man and his desires for riches and power. The answers I seek
00:59:15
Speaker
are the darkness, the illness, the curse that is damaging these wilds that border our town? I believe the answer is you seek are there, not in my mind or my heart like you think. How can I believe you?
00:59:38
Speaker
How am I supposed to live in a town where animals are being slaughtered for magic in a town where I thought I was just passing through to find my father? I need more answers now than ever. What is this stuff you carry? It was my father's.
01:00:06
Speaker
What does it do? It helps heal. What is it made of? I don't know, but it was passed down to me. She kind of stutters and just looks at it. Every bit of magic that is usable in this world comes from something, somewhere.
01:00:37
Speaker
When you use that magic, you take part in whatever stripped that resource from where it first began and put it in your magical item so that you can cast your spells. Whether it's a gem, whether it's parts of an animal, whether it's plants or metals or anything.
01:01:08
Speaker
That's what we do. We harvest, we enchant, we use, or we sell. You don't sell it. You use it. But does that make you better than me? I, I guess not. I'm not saying you are bad. I'm not saying that we do these things wrong. But you're not saying I'm good. And Glennon starts to get up while he's talking.
01:01:39
Speaker
I am not saying you are not good. I'm saying you are not better than anyone else. She kind of just stares at the door. I guess we'll see. And she goes and she picks up the gym and she just walks out and goes to check on Tomba. Okay, Tomba's in the kitchen eating and he's kind of talking with Slim and Slim. You can hear Slim kind of telling him
01:02:08
Speaker
everything that had been going on and just unpacking like, okay, so basically the chief, he ran this thing here where these men would come to fight and Toma would be like, yes, that's something like what I thought. That's what I knew. Yeah, I remember that. He's like, yeah, but you would give them the jobs. You would assign them to them. He's trying to explain and Toma's like, I vaguely, kind of. You kind of walk in on that conversation.
01:02:38
Speaker
You, sir, are soaring through the sky and you're, you're flying towards the woods. Jock, sir, you are, what are you doing at this moment? I, uh, he just bolted left. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I probably would have been up. Okay. And then looked over at this point, looked over to where I thought Daven was. And Gwen.
01:03:09
Speaker
And then I don't see anybody and then I left him there. It's like the little puppy left in Costco.
01:03:16
Speaker
Yeah. He's a John Travolta gif, just like. Yeah, that is a good gif. No, we're not going to start that now. Yeah. Thank you everybody for listening. I probably would look down to where, I guess, Salrin was attacked and like,
01:03:47
Speaker
kneel down and maybe like just kind of sit next to that spot. It's still warm. It's charred. It's still warm. It's almost like there was a campfire there and they like pulled all the coals and stuff off, but it's still warm and charred from the lightning, from the just sheer energy that transformed Solrin. And it's nice.
01:04:14
Speaker
I'd imagine that I'd probably just like put my hand in like that spot and just hold it there for a minute. Thank you. And then look up towards the statue and I'm assuming there's literally no one that everybody scattered. There's no Sariah or anybody. Right. Yeah, you don't really see anybody as everyone's kind of just kind of moved on from here.
01:04:44
Speaker
Um, and you can kind of hear folks talking in the distance to each other, just like as they are walking, just in some heavy, heavy conversation, you know, about what has happened, but nobody you recognize.
01:05:00
Speaker
Yeah, after sitting there a minute, I probably just move to the steps in front of the tower of testing there and just sit on the steps. I would have no idea where and what was going on here. You're just waiting on your parents to pick you up from school. They're late again. There's just a lot to really take in. Yeah.
01:05:28
Speaker
Cool. And after a little bit, Davin just appears suddenly holding two burlap wrapped items in his, in his arms. He just kind of appears in front of you a little, a little distance, right? You had to kind of close to the statue. I wanted to do, no, I wanted to do it kind of like off the same direction that the, um, the great elk ran off to. So that was kind of far away from the group. Oh yeah. Yeah. You are. Yeah. You're what is it? 500 feet. Yeah.
01:05:55
Speaker
So I want to kind of do off in the distance, see if I can take a look at these things without the view of everybody. Yeah, you are. Yeah, you're you're probably just even with where all the kind of the buildings and stuff are at the the nobleman's barracks area, kind of over by not not near the Bogota.
01:06:19
Speaker
The bogus shack, because it's it's at the far end of that kind of block, but you're at the block nearest the tower of testing there. You can kind of tuck in between a couple of buildings there if you'd like. Sure. I'll do that. And I'll just say to myself, you're a rusty dolphin. And I'm going to pull it open and look inside and see what I grabbed. OK, as you unroll them, you see a a couple of weapons. One is a rapier.
01:06:49
Speaker
Kind of an ornate handle. It's very very nice looking handle the handle has It has like it's like etched flame etched into the handle part that ornate handle that kind of guards the hand I think it's actually called the guard that part there has some like like flame kind of encrusted on it and the other one is just a a short sword and
01:07:16
Speaker
with a just a kind of T like cross hilt and make a make a investigation check on both of these things. Oh, 16. I always forget my investigation. It's four. So 20 total. Pretty good. As you look at them, you they look familiar a little bit. OK. And you kind of run through your memory of being here.
01:07:45
Speaker
And you think you're not so sure about the rape here, but you are confident that you saw a halfling woman fighting with that sword. Weeks ago when you fought these large insect like creatures. So mad. Excuse me. Our little halfling friends that left town.
01:08:15
Speaker
and Mariahs. I knew it. I knew I should have followed. But I don't know anything right now. You're not there, bro. He charmed him out of town, basically, or something along those lines. Oh, my goggles. Okay. That was just going to take a deep breath of frustration. Well, I'm kind of sort of feel bad that the guy was dead. But now I don't really feel bad.
01:08:44
Speaker
He's going to wrap them both back up. We'll then he'll he'll bring them back to town, start walking back to where everything was happening. OK, I think he'd back randomly jocks or would have a moment where he'd be like, oh, God, he had wives. OK, and he might walk inside and like now they're single. Yeah.
01:09:09
Speaker
Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'd probably like knock on the door that I open to walk in. Hello. Is anybody here? You hear a female voice call out.
01:09:35
Speaker
What is it? What is it? We don't want any trouble. We're just... We'll get out of town. We will leave. I promise. We don't want any trouble. I don't... Don't worry about that. I just want to make sure that... It's two of you, right? It's only two of you? Yes. There were three, but she had left town for a couple days. She's not here. Okay.
01:10:05
Speaker
You're okay. I want to make sure that you're okay. We're going to be okay. I was telling the truth. We are going to leave town. We know that he has been killed and we just don't want any trouble. I don't think anybody here wants any trouble.
01:10:34
Speaker
You don't need to leave town. I mean, unless you just want to get out. Well, I don't know what we would do here. Who are you? My name's Jock, sir. Just, I guess, just a hired sword. Okay, I'm Nadeen. This is Marybeth.
01:11:02
Speaker
We have, we've been here with the chief for a while now, but you know, we, we don't really have anything to do with him gone. So we were just going to go back to our families if that's no trouble for you. And perhaps Dharma, perhaps Dharma can, we can find her along the way and ask, tell her that she doesn't have to come back either. We,
01:11:29
Speaker
If you guys had, I just wasn't sure if you had another place to go, so if you do, then by all means. Nadine says, well, I do. Mary Beth, not as much, but she can come with me and Dharma as well. When the chief rescued us, we were together. We've been together a long time.
01:11:54
Speaker
You say rescued you. Yes. Well, he rescued Dharma from some slavers, but we were just kind of just lost, broken. We didn't have anywhere to go and he just brought us in and took care of us. We took care of him as well. We served him and made, you know, serve the
01:12:21
Speaker
the meals and the mead to the hunters as well when they would come through. So it was an arrangement, I guess you could say. Well, I hope you prefer being free. I'm glad that he was able to help out someone in some need, I suppose.
01:12:41
Speaker
Well, yes, it's interesting to go from one form of servanthood into another, but we'll move on from here. We're back to our families, those who have it, and otherwise we've kind of become a family of our own.
01:12:55
Speaker
That's good. If you need anything, I'll be down here. But otherwise, I don't think there's any need for you rushing out that no one's coming in to, I guess, find you. A few of my friends may end up doing some searching in this house if it comes down to it. Well, we don't have much here. Most of it belonged to him.
01:13:25
Speaker
We have no interest in any of it. I don't know really what he spent his time doing. We were too busy to notice, to pay any attention or to care. So please have your way here. Okay. Well, if you need anything, I'll be outside. I just wanted to make sure that nothing was wrong in here. Okay. And they, she turns away from like the railing. She was kind of talking down towards you from upstairs and, and
01:13:55
Speaker
You can kind of see before you turn to head out the door that they are packing. They're packing travel bags with what seems to be their clothing and things like that. Okay. Not ready to try to search the building since they're in there, but I'll just, I guess, go back to sitting on the stair. Okay. Krigs, as you're flying above the
01:14:21
Speaker
the forest you make your way down all the way to the forest what are you what are you doing with a with speed like with a very frantic and frenetic trying to see if I can spot in that direction any traces of the great elk or the dire wolf of Sauron in that direction make a perception check
01:14:55
Speaker
14 you as you fly and you you look and you're trying to notice anything that looks like maybe the the elk or or or Solrin her in her dire will form you're not really making anything out you don't see anything but you can hear and
01:15:16
Speaker
You can hear that same breeze, that same sound coming through around you as you fly over the wilds. And it's almost like beckoning you to descend. I look for an opening. I'm still searching, but I find an opening that I can kind of fit through without too much issue and
01:15:42
Speaker
bring myself down in this and just in a clearing and have an open spot in the forest as best I can find. All right. So you find your way to this open clearing, you land and you begin to look around and you see this green pulsating energy kind of pulsating through the forest similar to what similar to the spell that you had cast or the or the prayer that you had prayed into the wilds.
01:16:12
Speaker
just a day or two ago, it's still pulsating through. And as one of these pulses kind of shift through the woods, you see the form of this dire wolf.
01:16:29
Speaker
more blue than gray, almost like a silver along the top of its neck, along the back. You see its eyes glowing a sharp blue with a sparkle of lightning cracking into these big direwolf eyes. It opens its mouth and as it does, you see that lightning strike from tooth to tooth, kind of like instead of saliva, it's this crackle of lightning.
01:16:58
Speaker
and Salrin, would you like to speak to Krigs at all in this moment? And you don't see the mouth moving of this direwolf or whatever, you hear a voice in your mind and it's Salrin's voice. It's okay. I am part of the wild now.
01:17:22
Speaker
This isn't what I asked for. I hope you know that. This is not the outcome I wanted. It's not all about you. You know, I feel you were right. It isn't.
01:17:48
Speaker
We've started to heal what has been done to the wilds and to the forces of this world. But I can't stop here. But I'll do my best to make sure that nothing undones what we've done here, what we did today.
01:18:18
Speaker
What? What? I don't know if you know the answer for this, but what does this mean for you? Is your life just this now? Do you have no choice? This was my choice. This was my choice. This was my choice.
01:18:48
Speaker
I think I'm just gonna bow. Properly bow. I don't know. It feels like I've fought battles, I've fought in war, I've had scrums in bars, I've had scrums in alleys, I've fought for the sake of fighting and fought for things I believed in, but never once do I think I've actually met anyone that
01:19:20
Speaker
thought entirely for what's right and chose the most difficult choice. And I'm just going to bow in absolute reverence to that. She howls.
01:19:42
Speaker
And at the end of it, she'll paw up to you and nose your head up so that you're no longer bowing, which she can do, because I think she might be taller than you now. Oh, yeah. And you hear again, don't mourn for me.
01:20:15
Speaker
I got what I wanted. I got to be the hero, even if it was just for a moment. And in the end, the wilds came to me and asked if I would give myself to them. And it was the easiest choice.
01:20:43
Speaker
I can never say thank you for the ultimate sacrifice. The wilds came to you. I don't know. It's been a lifetime thinking of tactics and battles, but some of this
01:21:11
Speaker
I just have to pretend like it makes sense whenever it very rarely does. No matter how many years it seems I've been alive, I'm still dense. Go now. There's so much more for you to do. And whenever you all want, you can come back and I'll find you.
01:21:43
Speaker
I'm gonna hold you to that promise. I don't know how you think you could. And she's gonna howl again and then take off. I just stand there laughing.
01:21:58
Speaker
And she just weaves in and out of trees and takes the longest route and parkours over massive boulders and downed trees. It puts on a show. She's absolutely showing off. She is awesome.
01:22:19
Speaker
I stand there kind of laughing actually for the first time in a while feeling some kind of relief and happiness and that there is some kind of light at the end of the tunnel of everything that we faced in that moment as she runs off. It reminds me so much of the spirit I've seen in Gwen and the tenacity I've seen in Joxer and
01:22:43
Speaker
The confidence I've seen in Daven and just feel comforted that no matter how far from here we actually get, I still have those that hopefully will stick by my side that have those qualities. I'll just kind of laugh and smirk as I take off and kind of watch the trailing lightning go off in the distance as it
01:23:06
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gets further and further away and I fly back towards Wild Hill and that light just gets in the horizon a little too far for me to see. And as she runs off and just as that vision of what you could see of the light fades, there's this crack of thunder. As she makes her way out of whatever plane or
01:23:36
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realm the Wilds exists in and crosses into where she will do her most good until needed again. And we see Krigs flying back towards Wild Hill, contemplating and processing what just happened, what was just done for him. We see as he flies over Daven, rolling up two weapons that belong to friends
01:24:05
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that they thought had made it out but turns out they may have lost. He flies over, jocks her sitting on the front steps of the tower, thinking, processing, what's now, what's next. We see Gwendolyn standing in the kitchen staring at Tomba, wondering how somebody could be so different yesterday than they are today, and wondering about herself, what
01:24:34
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What did Hurley mean? What was he saying? And then we see the wilds and the trees begin to move underneath us faster and faster. And as they do, and you can see the mountains start to form in the horizon, and suddenly you can see trees beneath us began to become, the further we get out, they engulfed in this encroaching black mist.
01:25:03
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that's swirling and twisting around them. Some of it lapping up above, almost like waves crashing against the cliff. And this black almost heavy, dense fog has descended upon a large portion of the wilds and is moving its way towards Wild Hill.
01:25:28
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further south towards the rest of the forest and that's where we end season one.