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Ep. 136 NITHRAVAR - Bellum Draconis
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In the depths of adventure, Seth finds a new companion.
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A Mysterious Voice & Corellius's Tome
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Speaker
Corellius! Corellius Crimson, where are you? I can feel your presence. No. Oh, no, this is wrong. Ah, this is very wrong.
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Speaker
You are not him. are you to carry his tome, his work, his legacy? This book bears the mark of Corellius! Corellius!
Podcast Introduction & Host Anecdotes
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Speaker
Hello everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Belem Draconis. We are a live play 5E 2024 D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Aerith, in the kingdom of Dralak.
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Speaker
Joining you and I for this week's episode, we've got Pooh Bear, who plays the human cleric, Emron. I enjoyed our last episode on the edge of this chasm. Speaking of edges, the edgelord Callum, who plays the war-forged artificer, Alpha. Oh, that was good one. That broke me. Thank you, Will.
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Speaker
Speaking of breaking, we've got Ian who plays the Tiefling Wars for a Nyx Corral. ah
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Speaker
Ah, yep. Speaking of groaning, we've got Will who plays the human Dragonborn druid Balvalcon. Trembling Quim. Yeah, we've got me. um my My name is Mark and I am playing the human blade singer Seth Faroree. And by last, but my no means least, is our Queller of Quagmires, the quintessential Quirkmaster, our quartermaster of quests, and our Queeflord, Edgelord, Dungeon Master, Dany.
00:01:45
Speaker
I don't know how many times we've done this thing where we record these episodes, like, you know, in the hundreds, right? yeah This is the first time genuinely I'm looking at Mark laid back, swigging what looks like a bottle of Prosecco. It's a full bottle of Prosecco, yeah.
00:02:00
Speaker
Yeah, 100%. so Whilst very casually doing that entire intro. And from someone who really struggles to do that intro, the three times I've attempted it, I am so jealous, so envious of how casual you made that look.
00:02:13
Speaker
so Well, when you do something over a hundred times, you should be good at it. That's what my wife says to me. but you know
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Speaker
i haven't broken into double digits yet, so it's okay.
00:02:28
Speaker
10 year anniversary maybe we'll see. oh Anyway it's almost empty now it's more a prop it's more a prop than anything else now really. And speaking of props we see old Gail propping up a bar a coffee house if you will but He sat opposite what looks like a blind old man who sits just kind of staring off into the middle distance, bit of drool dripping onto the wooden oak table that sits between them.
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Speaker
A layer of smoke fills the air above as old girl rolls from one hand lackadaisically to the other. The orb, before looking up at us.
Battle with Beetle Bugs
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Speaker
Ooh, carapist calamity. There's some big-ass beetle bugs erupting from around the floor. Alpha starts fucking shit up by blasting a big old lightning bolt.
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Speaker
And those buggy bugs do some spitting of some acid. Bile tries to cast a new spell, but it's Nix who goes full clutch with a chromatic orb. That's my arachnia. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker
Seth kills and decapitates a bitch, but brings out a big old swarmy swarm and then gets beat Emron gets deep-throated, but Alpha channels reins and casts some magic missiles at a bitch and cooks him.
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Speaker
Then Alpha decides to go rummaging in the corpse and brings out a head, all like fucking... Oh, here's a dwarf head, by the way, and finds a letter in the corpse as well in some sort of satchel which talks about a guildmaster's sand rope...
Discovery of Durnak Ironstrad's Head
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with some sort of Sailmaker's Guild, and it turns out that this poor old Dwarfy Dwarf had been looking out for some amber stone and shards of crystal in the nearby area that seems very, very valuable.
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Speaker
And that poor old Dwarfy Dwarf was none other than Durnak Ironstrad from Clan Shadow Shield. o
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Speaker
As the light begins to fade from some of your summoned incantations...
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Speaker
You're left resting, recovering, you' catching your breath, really, from what were two quite near-death experiences for some of you.
Debate Over Rest & Urgency
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Speaker
This is the first time, really, you've taken the time to stop on this journey, and Trunks, even before he was bitten, looked exhausted. thanks to some medical intervention from yourself, Bal, that's sort of been appeased.
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Speaker
However, I still have to ask you the question, do you want to continue to journey on and risk more levels of exhaustion for all of you?
00:05:12
Speaker
Yes, please. No, we're long resting. 100% no. split, split. chiefly it would push trunks to a to a ah limit you do have two preparation die available Nix will lose the ability to speak soon and it's entirely up to you I think we need to rest guys personally in which case you take the long rest here on this cliff top now that it's for now all immediate dangers have been have been dissipated
00:05:49
Speaker
What like to
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Speaker
Emron takes the the letter that that Alpha read out and and studies it.
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Speaker
I can't say I knew this. Iron Stride, the name doesn't ring a bell.
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Speaker
But it seems like there's someone in the beach barrow port that might at least... Be a good contact point for us, this ah Master Sandrope.
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Speaker
So at least we've got a starting point in the town, as it were.
Encounter with Amber Stones
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Speaker
but i mean, am I the only one that heard there's deep riches? and I noticed that as well. i mean it's but Below our feet, though, like in the caverns below us.
00:06:39
Speaker
Yep. If we weren't about to go and try and rescue someone, maybe on the way back we could investigate it. okay Cool. Okay, so it's more like we're not ignoring it, but we'll return back to it if if the situation ah comes up.
00:06:55
Speaker
Given that we're meant to be going to rescue someone who's not been heard from a while, and we're at times of the essence a little bit, not worth us wasting a day to go find it now. On the way back...
00:07:07
Speaker
Savvy. We might have time because I'd be interested in finding this sort of this rare amber stone. That's not... When they say rare, Keltrad's not rare around here, is it? And he's looking towards Baal for his knowledge of Dralak.
Setting Up Camp & Watch Duties
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Baal kind of nod, look around. Not a fucking clue.
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Speaker
Seth, do you know, is Keltrad rare? It would be not considered rare around here, is it? He's going to wipe the icor and sweat and sand from his face as he continues to hack at the head of the creature he's just going to shrug and then continue hacking. Okay, right. Well, look, from what we've been given to understand, this amber stone might not, hopefully isn't Keltrad because that's just fucking shit, but let's see. I don't know everyone.
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Speaker
If you have it the way I have. this It's a trip. I'm good, thanks. I'm glad we've got not not got any with us at all. Nick just kind puts his hand into his pocket and shoving it to the back out of Emron's view. His head just starts twitching. His nostrils flare.
00:08:16
Speaker
Right. Do we need to set a watch? We do, don't we? You're also down a tent. You might want to do something about your half of your struggle to sleep. Yeah, if if we stay in long rest, Alpha can still go around and basically cast Mending on so many bits of the tent so the poles he can put back together, he can repair. everyone help cast Mend. We can repair the tent.
00:08:41
Speaker
As long as it doesn't impede our long rest because it counts as casting spells. Oh, those cantrips were okay.
00:08:48
Speaker
Barl's definitely going to reattune to the Pearl of Power um for overnight. So just spend an hour, basically, um short resting and reattuning to that.
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Speaker
And happy to to chat if others are. But yeah, that's his that's his focus at the moment. Do we have a watch order before we move into the watch? I'm more than happy to take the first one. ah Guys, do you mind if I take first watch? Because when I when i sleep, I ain't getting up again.
00:09:17
Speaker
No, that's fine. um So what, you take two hours. Yeah, I'm knackered. So if you want the best of me, now's the time. I'll take the second. I'd like to take and watch around midnight if that's possible.
00:09:30
Speaker
Right. Well, if I can take second, I can attune or reattune to this item that I have will be very useful for the morning. but um Okay, that's fine.
00:09:40
Speaker
Then Seth and then Alpha, you... I can still monitor from my load status mode. Okay, that's all right then. So you can just be on hand if need beer.
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Speaker
That does our eight hours, is it? Two hours each? No, is that, or is it an hour? eight Yeah, two hours each. Two hours each? Yeah. Baal's also going to kind of go around like ah probably about 30 feet out from the camp and just be using his band of sand, his kind of new new-ish ring.
Baal's Trench & Nyx's Reflections
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And he's just going to dig a trench ah basically around. Because i can shift. I'm assuming if the dirt or the ground is loose-ish, basically make like almost like a moat, but like a ditch that's only five feet down, but kind of around them as well.
00:10:24
Speaker
um just as ah as a means of maybe extra cover or maybe kind of if something's trying to creep up um sneakily to just an extra kind of precaution if you like.
00:10:35
Speaker
It doesn't take you very long because a lot of the um creatures you just defeated were burrowing the area so that it was almost like partially sown land anyway, partially plowed land anyway. So it was ah it's a relatively easy task you had to perform to do that.
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Cool.
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Speaker
Anybody want to do anything before you will move into your rest? Everyone will prepare some rations and and make sure we've got some food available for everybody and get from there. but That's about it. Oh, ah just quickly. ah If anyone's able to create some water, it would save me up a few well parts of my energy for...
00:11:14
Speaker
For the next few days, I'm more than happy to create more of these peppers, and he'll kind of reveal the the remaining good berries that he has, um the spicy kind of good berries that he's created. but I will be able to work on something for the morning. I'm happy to. Water-wise.
00:11:29
Speaker
Yes. Okay, that that's good, because what we've got today is, so that'll be fine, yeah. Perfect, because I can, well, as long as I've got time to prepare, i can... I mean, choose a few different things on the morrow. If anyone thinks of anything that might be quite useful for tomorrow, there's a few bits and bobs that I can do, some skills that I have.
00:11:49
Speaker
um Just before Alpha goes into his long rest, Danny, I think because he's kind of um expelled... a lot of energy, um and he kind of went there to try and um dispense negative thoughts of Reigns and whatnot. um Just before we do actually go into rest, I'm going to disable again the sorcerer class and take an hour to move back to Don't you have to wait seven days?
00:12:15
Speaker
um No, I can only use it once a week, I think the thing. week?
00:12:22
Speaker
once per week Well, actually, i i think i I can create something that will create water, but i' must revert back to my previous form, my previous knowledge.
00:12:36
Speaker
This energy that flows through me does not have the capacity in order to create such an item. Are you able to change back? Haven't you already used the item once?
00:12:49
Speaker
I believe i was advised i can change once a week. But you have changed. That's a good point. This is Will saying as well, but if the item is once per seven days, you have changed. You have to wait seven days to do it again.
00:13:08
Speaker
Possibly.
00:13:11
Speaker
I may have misinterpreted what he said. You can attempt it, but yes.
00:13:20
Speaker
I will, well... Yeah, I'll attempt Sorry, Caleb, just so you can. No, no, you're right. I've misinterpreted it where it's like I can pop into this form and then I come out of it a bit later on. But I'm stuck as a sorcerer for a week now, aren't I? Activating it is a, yeah, I think it'd be. Right, okay. So I will attempt it for an hour and then obviously i kind realise that the energy isn't flowing right as it did before.
00:13:42
Speaker
Make a concentration check. Not concentration, sorry. Constitution check. Oh, reduce your constitution more. Roll for nuclear fallout. but but Well, I got a seven. That's not great.
00:13:55
Speaker
That's your new con score, or seven. So you evoke the same ah sort of incantations as before and you channel your energy into this obsidian stone and you make that connection.
00:14:13
Speaker
There is a light emanating between you and it. You're at that point where you you feel like you could step back into your your older self.
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Speaker
But it's going to hurt, you think. Oh, no. no If attempt to do it now, you feel like vice take if I step forward, this is going to hurt a lot. Level one. I am going to break whatever the hell I'm doing, then I am breaking it.
00:14:45
Speaker
I'm going to feel the resistance, um the threat, and possibly like a sense of impending doom that might just kind of overwhelm me. Your toast is burning. You want to get it, but there's a fire around the toaster, you know? Yeah. I love that analogy. Yeah. So I will say for now, will try and do it. And then almost in like a panic, I'm going to,
00:15:05
Speaker
drop the piece of obsidian on the ground. Um, and no, no, no. Even if no one's around, I'm talking to myself at this stage. No, no, that, that, that will not work. That will not work.
00:15:20
Speaker
There was, there was a lot of resistance. Okay. And if Alpha could breathe heavily, he would be breathing heavily. like Mm-hmm.
00:15:30
Speaker
If Baal is kind of sidled up next to Nick, as I imagine he kind of would be for this, if he's kind of seeing what's going on there with Alpha, he'll go, I'm assuming this is what happened after the night of the ship.
00:15:47
Speaker
ah What happened on the night of the ship? Well, no, afterwards I went separate. Oh, withve said with Alpha. Yeah, this is, I've not seen this before. Sorry, as Nick shakes his head because you bring up the night of the ship and like awful memories come flooding back to him.
00:16:06
Speaker
ah So he shakes his head. Oh, you mean in between where Alpha went on and and spoke to the chicken wizard.
00:16:18
Speaker
Yeah, well, that's that's what I was kind of part filled in with. I didn't realise. And he kind of motions to Alpha as he's kind of... Yeah, well, I guess we've never really... haven't had chance to sit down and talk about it.
00:16:30
Speaker
So Alpha found... ah yeah i miss I'm going to piece together my lack of knowledge here. That's right. Honestly, Nick, you told me about the obsidian thing. I just i was just saying I've never seen that. that's I mean, he blasted lightning out of him. He did toasted, and he'll point to the the headless one that Seth beheaded um previously.
00:16:57
Speaker
He toasted that thing from... I've not seen him do that before. So this, the obsidian changes him. Yeah. So he's essentially got the gifts, I believe, of the memory room that contained i am older.
00:17:13
Speaker
And memory rooms are just, created from memory? from I'm not the one to ask for that one. I would point you towards Emron.
Seth's Tome & Demonic Encounter
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Speaker
ah All I know is that it's it's like an internal power source that keeps our friend ticking and alive, and it contained the essence. or It looked like a real fucking life thing.
00:17:36
Speaker
There was a lot going on but it seems like Alpha can tap into an inner power from a being... who is no longer part of this world, but may be contained within this rune.
00:17:51
Speaker
And I left after that. I think Alpha carried on talking and that Ogremorph, who's a chicken wizard, might have been able to extract said, I am older into something a little bit more tangible that Alpha can control as opposed to it controlling alpha and it seems like he's i recommended that he tapped into it when we were on the car ah approaching the bridge uh because i i got the sense that a battle could be taken over and alpha just lost reins and he was emotionally charged and alpha has this thing where he can go like super mad and like his eyes turn red and he goes on like a killing spree and me and marota
00:18:34
Speaker
um We used to make light of it and try and find a trigger word to make him go big, bad and kill everything in sight, which sounds horrendous, but it was funny at the time, i swear.
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Speaker
and
00:18:50
Speaker
He looked like he was close to that kind of unstable state again where you just don't know if he can contain himself. So I just suggested that he tap into the the the gift from Ogramor to maybe change himself into a little bit more of the I am older character.
00:19:07
Speaker
part of himself in the hopes that that would simmer him and calm him down. But he did confess that might not have been the case. But as you've just mentioned, super powerful. So some wins.
00:19:24
Speaker
And it's still him. It's not. I haven't had a chance to speak to him. And I'm worried if I tap into his head, what I'll find.
00:19:36
Speaker
Right. Or you could talk with your mouth. Yeah. use somebody But i I'll be honest, but this is the like the only downtime that we've had. ah And you've you've come over to speak to me and ah I'll choose you any day.
00:19:53
Speaker
But yes, when the opportune moment arises, I will go and have a word. I don't know if Emron and him need to... They've got a lot of stuff to work out with Reigns and everything. like We all we all do um It's been a crazy fucking ah day or a couple of days.
00:20:12
Speaker
I'm really tired. You've been in his head and he'll kind of motion his head over to where Seth is. Is Seth still hacking away at like dead bugs? He, it's bit like, um, Starship Troopers. No, ah he's, um, he's finished hacking and will have just been moving them at busy work, moving them, uh, away, the husks away from where we're going to make camp just to keep himself busy and move with a couple of things away. And then eventually would have come back over and taken upon,
00:20:42
Speaker
Whoever offered out water, splashed water on his face, cleaned out his eye hole and plonked down and would be kind of and passively listening to conversation, but just kind of sat slumped, soared still kind of out in the dust, in the sand, just listening.
00:20:56
Speaker
Cool. So i'm I'm, sorry, to answer your question, I'm nearby. Yes. I'm with you. I'm with you. Okay. He'll kind of, Baal will take in the group again then and just kind of look around. Yeah.
00:21:09
Speaker
Quite a lot of change, it seems. Yeah, the dynamic shifted somewhat. um But... Not to go down the the dark negative route of it all, we just come out of a fight and I think we've never worked as well as that. um it It seems like we've got a... We found a common course and ah a goal. And Nix will look up to the sky to the big old moon.
00:21:38
Speaker
I don't know. I feel like we're... It's not smooth sailing, but we've got a heading and a direction. I feel like maybe we're flying under one flag. To take a positive out of a navigative series of situations that have befallen us, some ah warranted and some not so warranted.
00:21:58
Speaker
But yeah, I've been in ah been his in his head, as ah Nix will carry on that conversation thread.
00:22:09
Speaker
because he's just not talking at the moment and for whatever reason. Seth, I'm saying this out loud. And so I find that if he needs a mouth, why not me? Hey.
00:22:23
Speaker
Right.
00:22:25
Speaker
That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I don't do it to you guys unwillingly or try not to. I'm still new to this power of being able to tap in.
00:22:39
Speaker
um i'll try and ask for permission i don't know i don't what's the general consensus permission after mind fucking someone or do you do that before is it like well it depends like if i
Nithravar's Presence & Group Reaction
00:22:52
Speaker
don't know them and i feel like it will give our situation an advantage i don't mind peering in but i feel like and you can see someone's thoughts Yeah, I can tap in.
00:23:04
Speaker
Like I can read like a surface level thoughts and I feel like I can probe deeper. But that's when they're almost their consciousness comes awake and they're noticing that my consciousness is in there. But I can get like a surface or read like emotions and they don't seem to know.
00:23:23
Speaker
Like I said, I'm still fairly new to this. Could you read my thoughts? ah Like, so this is where one of those blowing of the lines where I feel like I need to ask permission.
00:23:37
Speaker
Yeah, I'll give you permission. Okay. ah Sure. Let me just check my my little... We're going to fucking do this.
00:23:50
Speaker
ah Okay, this is going to... Okay, i'm umm I'm awake enough. I feel a little bit magically inclined enough for this. This will be burning my last level spell slot. Is this a sorcerer spell?
00:24:04
Speaker
ah This is a warlock spell. Okay. And is this but is this part of your long rest? It's within the eight hours because there are rules about long rest. We haven't started the long rest yet. ah Okay, that's right. I was sorry i was just checking.
00:24:15
Speaker
Yep. Okay, so... um Yep, so... Baal, you'd see Nix's horns as always when he taps into this power, starts to purple energy, kind of crackles from them and he closes his mind and ah closes his eyes, not his mind. He opens his mind, closes his eyes and opens his mind.
00:24:37
Speaker
And at first, as I cast the tech thoughts, I'm just going for a general read of your thoughts. ah So can i can Learn what's on your mind right now as a as a surface.
00:24:58
Speaker
Yeah, I'll willingly fail the save as well if I feel like any thanks to a wisdom mental penetration. No, he'll will no i certainly know I don't need that. and ah ah I can get that regardless. Oh, because you yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25:10
Speaker
Okay. ah In which case, it is filth. Like, utter filth. You see and hear yourself, basically, ah going across his mind and all the kind of various different things ah that he would...
00:25:27
Speaker
kind of be be thinking to do to you and with you at this point and you just see a wide smile spread across his face okay I'm not going to probe any deeper than that because Nyx's cheeks has just turned a slight red on his blue skin ah but he will lean in and just softly kiss you and then pull you in there's a slight bite on your bottom lip tasty is it ah like how long does the connection last as well Did text thoughts last for a one minute? Okay, cool.
00:26:00
Speaker
So you're constantly just flooding my mind with pornographic images, aren't you? Pretty much. Yeah, that's exactly what Bart's doing.
00:26:08
Speaker
Nice. Yeah. um Yeah. yeah And, but then there's like an element as well, kind of like, as he's, he's purposefully trying to this. He's literally trying to do it to kind of ah like the purposefully for you and kind of as like a, like a mental joke as well for him.
00:26:27
Speaker
um But that, that you also get this small kind of a thought that he's trying to push away and kind of focus on this thing as well.
Resource Management & Alpha's Transformation
00:26:36
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um If it's,
00:26:38
Speaker
Yeah, it's not it's not nefarious in any way, shape or form, but his mind is... feel something slipping away, like that thought just kind of being pushed back. Yeah, where it's like, no, I don't want to think about that right now.
00:26:52
Speaker
Probe deeper. He's thinking the cogs are turning. Ian doesn't want to do this. However, Nyx is going to probe. So you need to make a wisdom saving and throw for me. 14.
00:27:06
Speaker
fourteen As I chase that thought. 20 non-natural. ah You know that I've tried. You know that I've tried to probe into your mind. There's prep day if you want to reduce his roll.
00:27:20
Speaker
No. Danny, stop. Stop it, Danny. He'll kind of he'll feel that. He'll pull away a little bit. Smile and go. There's a wink.
00:27:32
Speaker
and this shru And a Fantasy 7 cloud shrug.
00:27:38
Speaker
yeah and yeah he won't be offended by it in any way shape or form but um we teased you he teased you so seth's been watching this whole thing awkward no he hasn't been he's he's been yeah anyway sorry carry on we move into the periods of the long rest there's nothing else communal people want to do If there is time just before we do, I just yeah i would tell the party, ah more specifically Baal, that obviously due to the restrictions of the obsidian, I can't create the object that I was hoping to make that would actually give us water.
00:28:19
Speaker
I just wanted to advise him of for that before any... I'll sort the water out in the morning. ah Without breaking away from Nyx's face, he kind of puts a thumb up towards you, Emerald.
00:28:32
Speaker
love it ah nice yeah Yeah, because people don't have any social... Africa has no social manipulation. He's still about to, you know, exchanging, playing tonsil tennis. Just leave him alone, leave him alone.
00:28:46
Speaker
it's a nice kiss it's not like tearing each other's clothes off like and it's not gonna be i'm not gonna go over you i'm like the weird friend that people have uh they have nice embrace moment i'm just there in the back going hey what color eyes are you got at the moment uh white okay we're good envy Okay, we'll move into long rest.
00:29:11
Speaker
So, Nyx, your watch is first. Please go ahead and make a perception check for me.
00:29:19
Speaker
Sure thing. but Oh, God, I've got the minus four. Am I still blessed? No. No. yeah Worth a try.
00:29:31
Speaker
ah can perceive you. 13.
00:29:38
Speaker
thirteen
00:29:41
Speaker
So you spend a lot of your watch looking out over the canyons below you and
00:29:55
Speaker
it's a very silent night. There's no wind. It's a heat now you're used to.
00:30:08
Speaker
and as you look around the floor, the, There's lots of motion in the sand from like tiny creatures, like nothing threatening, but like worms and and flies and things like that, particularly given all of the really grossness that's just sort of spread everywhere. And all these maggots that are coming out of the the sort of lava forms of what these creatures would, you know years in the future, grow up to be as big as.
00:30:37
Speaker
And nothing's able to get within sort of a foot of you. You stand there in the sand and everything's trying to move around you because a small little perimeter of tiny spiders just guards your feet.
00:31:01
Speaker
al Otherwise, your watch passes without incident. there's anything you want to do at this time where it's just you,
00:31:12
Speaker
um
00:31:15
Speaker
He's going to just hold a hand out to one of the spiders and see if it does anything, crawls up his out hand or anything like that. Yeah. like Not in a threatening way, just almost as if as you would do to any kind of animal or bug.
00:31:34
Speaker
Hold your hand out. It doesn't really show affection back in any way. It just sort of climbs up into your sleeve again, underneath your cuff, and it's gone. Okay.
00:31:46
Speaker
After that failed experiment, Nyx is going to take out Old Girl's Orb, his tome book, which I just can't remember what that bloody book is called, but the one that I've got for my patron. yeah um at It's just called the great old one spells.
00:32:06
Speaker
And as always, old girl's orb, if he sat cross-legged in between his feet is old girl's orb and then the book on his lap. And he's just doing what he used to do when he couldn't sleep.
00:32:19
Speaker
But now he's, he's really tired and he's just, it's more of a habit right now. And, um, yeah, that's what he's doing. You study that orb and it's a silent night and you just try your best to not get distracted by the smell of the slowly rotting carcasses around you.
00:32:38
Speaker
Lovely.
00:32:42
Speaker
You wake Pyle next. Oh, amazing. I'm almost giddy to go to sleep,
Celestial Reflections & Emron's Challenge
00:32:47
Speaker
Pyle. I come dancing over to you. hey it's your turn, darling. i am out.
00:32:54
Speaker
I'm going to sleep. Please don't disturb me. Right. Yeah, thank you. ah and oh come oh, oh. Shakes his head and comes too. Alpha begins to animate.
00:33:06
Speaker
ah i' I'm not animated. Just to clarify, even though I'm in a long rest, I'm still seeing and hearing everything okay within my own perception type of thing, just for your records.
00:33:17
Speaker
you reckon he could film us? Perfect memory. the I'm saying this to Baal. Do you reckon he could film us? As in like... Film us?
00:33:29
Speaker
What, like record what we're doing? Oh, yeah, never mind. Do you reckon he could make a sonnet on us? I'm going to sleep. Okay. I didn't think you did sleep, but okay. Fair enough. I i do now.
00:33:42
Speaker
i do This is another thing. Ever since the book, we've got a lot to catch up on. I know. Look, that we've had no time and you asked about Alpha. No, haven't. Oh, God, I'm so sorry. You don't have to say sorry. We've got time.
00:33:55
Speaker
i don't plan on going anywhere. i hope you don't. No, but I i thought that you always lay awake whenever we... Okay. Yeah, I know. I know. I know. this is It's been a crazy fucking couple of days since the boat.
00:34:10
Speaker
Everything's changed. I'm more powerful. I'm more perceptive. um' I've got new spells, and I sleep now. it's ah so I'm trying to figure out. I promise you...
00:34:21
Speaker
Fuck Nix that's a big deal know it's a big deal ah don't know if it's good or bad I promise you when I do find it out You'll be the first to know I'd love to talk about it But I just feel like I've i i've been tired Like I haven't slept In months Kind of tired I'm with you i'm with you i'm with you But just so you know Big spoon and he points at himself Always Right off you pop Tap your bum as you go away
00:34:53
Speaker
And Barr will take his watch. Is there anything you'd like to do where just you and sort of alpha? He'll probably look around. i like to think of semi-alpha. ah He'll look around at the group ah now and just kind of take everyone in. There's been a lot of changes. Yeah.
00:35:16
Speaker
he His wildfire spirit won't be with him anymore because that only lasts an hour or so. So that will have dissipated during ah Nix's watch, but it's definitely on his mind somewhat. and he's casting his mind back um to the events that happened when he left the group that that brief amount of time. And he's just kind of mulling over those a little bit, mulling over changes, mulling over everyone, mulling over ah his place now, arguably within this group, mulling over what Prego said.
00:35:46
Speaker
about him being the heart.
00:35:50
Speaker
And then wiping it from his mind and paying attention to the watch and making sure that the group is safe.
00:35:59
Speaker
you want to make a perception check for me? Cool. I've got my shield with me. So I get it. Natural 1 or natural 20. So 27. Nice. like
00:36:11
Speaker
You don't really spy anything that's at all threatening, but with a 27...
00:36:17
Speaker
ah your Your watch is the the leg of the night that would end on midnight, right? Where the moon is in its zenith.
00:36:31
Speaker
And there's this lunal moment that happens every night where the the regular moon passes behind the object in the sky, the moon-like object in the sky. And it happens about about midnight every night.
00:36:50
Speaker
And with the perception check of 27, you sort of naturally look up because you don't always see this, you're not always awake for this. You watch it happen.
00:37:00
Speaker
And as it does, for a split second, where everything is perfectly aligned, all 12 legs sort of carry the light of that moon as it sprawls all around Earth.
00:37:20
Speaker
like a like a thin bioluminescent ah vein running down each of them. The most prominent one, the one that's landed in Dralak, that you know can see a larger scale than the other 11, that makes sense.
00:37:41
Speaker
And then
00:37:43
Speaker
15, 20 seconds later, the second moon appears, or the the regular moon, reappears from behind this object. And that's gone.
00:37:55
Speaker
And your watch passes without incident.
00:38:01
Speaker
Okay. ah Yeah, he'd make his way to Emron, shake him awake. Emron all sort of stir...
00:38:11
Speaker
Thanks, Barl. Anything Atman or worthy of note? Nothing down here.
00:38:20
Speaker
Okay, that's a cryptic way of saying yes. Well, no, just
00:38:29
Speaker
when the moon went behind it.
00:38:32
Speaker
What did you see?
00:38:36
Speaker
It was almost like it was glowing, I suppose.
00:38:43
Speaker
What, like the metal reflecting or...? I don't know.
00:38:50
Speaker
Okay, and everyone sort of looks up and stares.
00:38:55
Speaker
Might be worth us watching again few other nights. Just have a look. Well, when the moon goes behind, we'll keep eyes to the sky. Good to know.
00:39:09
Speaker
He'll place a hand on your shoulder. and kind of give you a nod rest well you too goodberry and kind of load one out towards you i'm all right thanks so i'll sort out the water for the morning don't worry thank you no problem sleep well he goes in for big spoon and i everyone will sort of climb out of his tent and go and sit by the fire sort of um taking a moment sort of stocking up with a bit of wood just to keep it going um
00:39:42
Speaker
What's worth mentioning before you say too much more is you didn't need waking. I didn't need to wake you when bar came to wake you, you were awake.
00:39:52
Speaker
You were sweaty. You'd had the same dream again, up until the same point you had the last, uh, evolution or the next, the next few moments.
00:40:07
Speaker
Climbing through the manhole and yeah, building into that, that street.
00:40:15
Speaker
But when you wake up, it's almost like something was whispered to you.
00:40:23
Speaker
You couldn't make it out.
00:40:28
Speaker
Fucking edgelord is actually Danny. a Fucking edgelord right now. Or maybe you could. Maybe maybe you could. Or maybe you could. um You just felt something murmured behind you. In the language, maybe you didn't understand or just your senses were focused elsewhere, but someone tried to communicate something just before you woke up.
00:40:51
Speaker
Okay. but you still have that sense of vertigo from from falling. You have that that sort of um app panting, that...
00:41:01
Speaker
what am I trying to say? Your pulse is raised from climbing up, right? All of the physiological symptoms. flight and flight kind of reaction. But not just like being jump scared or seeing something that's raising your adrenaline. You've actually performed those actions in your dream. You woke up, your arms feel tired.
00:41:17
Speaker
You feel the the cold wind against your face as you wake up still sort of... um Like, you know, when you walk into a hot house after being outside in the cold, like that sensation on your skin, you were there, you lived it. You didn't just... Didn't dream it, yeah. Exactly.
00:41:34
Speaker
Okay. And we'll sort of get out of the tent and he'll he'll have this this strange sense and he'll be trying to grasp hold It's almost like's like trying to catch smoke in your hands, this vision. He's trying to pick out the details that the more and more he tries, it tries to slip away from him. So he...
00:41:51
Speaker
sort of looks around, goes and checks on trunks and does a quick circuit of tense and that kind of stuff to make sure that, that everything's okay.
Seth's Book & Nithravar's Return
00:41:59
Speaker
And then when he's sort of satisfied, he'll, um, he'll start to sort of look at the moon and he'd be very aware that this time of night is quite, um, important in regards to Aledo because it's when Aledo fought the demons many, many times ago and died essentially.
00:42:17
Speaker
um, So he'll start to go through that those steps of DeVito, just trying to re-centre himself and just try and use that meditation and that that form of what is essentially prayer, but it's it's its yeah the stylized movement and training of of of the Aledo's training.
00:42:38
Speaker
Just going through that. um And yeah, he'll just start to do that for for at least the first hour of his watch. of his of his
00:42:50
Speaker
And you get distracted every now and again because of the putrid smell now that's that's sort of spilling out around camp. We did move the bodies away because i know Seth mentioned we've moved.
00:43:02
Speaker
Okay, yeah. But the A lot of fluids were exhausted here, right? and and there is there is lots of flies around. it doesn't It doesn't deter you from what you're doing, but it makes it that little bit more challenging.
00:43:19
Speaker
Yeah. Like trying trying to dance in heavy rain, like it's just it's just weightier. And Emron almost embraces that challenge. he He likes the fact that it's hard. He likes the fact that it is it is difficult. he He wants to be able to try and push through to to to have the distractions and and concentrate. he He's very aware now with with everything that's happened, Emron's very aware that the stakes are that much higher, that it's no longer just about, oh we're going to go to this place do this tournament. It's like, I know there are there are demons. and These are the same demons that Aledo fought
00:43:54
Speaker
you know, many, many centuries ago. and it's almost like now he's got to now face the same things that Aledo face. And he, and he knows he needs to be better and stronger than what he is right now. Um, and he's embracing, trying to embrace that. And rather than trying to fight and question his connection, he's trying to embrace it far more than he was.
00:44:17
Speaker
Okay. make a perception check for your watch? A disadvantage because of yes just how difficult it is to concentrate with with this scene.
00:44:29
Speaker
That's a five. No, that's not. That's a three with my exhaustion level. You're not really looking out beyond the reach of the darkness and you're focusing more your spiritual ah protection because your spiritual...
00:44:48
Speaker
performance perhaps than really being sensitive to wider dangers. But you'll watch passes without incident. And you are able to wake Seth.
00:45:02
Speaker
I'll go over to the non-Love Shack tent and wake Seth up. Joke's on you, he's loving himself. now
00:45:13
Speaker
a up Seth wakes and um just gives you like a like a shoulder shoulder pat. It was like a fact as, as a way of thanks. Um, and when they make way out, probably to the side of the fire, kind of, usually the flames up a little bit. It's the dark, darkest part the night now, I imagine.
00:45:32
Speaker
And, um, they'll warm his hands in the fire. And, um, Again, jostle the fire, put bit more wood on to get a bigger flame. And he's going to out of his spell book and try try one last thing before he gives up on it all.
00:45:47
Speaker
He's going to turn to the page that he's been writing on before and the words have been um like leaking off. He's going to get a bit of cold charcoal again and he's just going to look around for a second and make sure there's no one there. Obviously, there isn't.
00:46:01
Speaker
And then he's just going to try writing, hello, question mark.
00:46:08
Speaker
After a second, the charcoal gets absorbed into the page
00:46:23
Speaker
and then reappears.
00:46:34
Speaker
The word
00:46:38
Speaker
Why? With a question mark.
00:46:45
Speaker
ah Seth's going to start sweating in his palms profusely at that. His breath's going to quicken and he's going to underneath write why, what? question mark
00:47:02
Speaker
The words disappear.
00:47:05
Speaker
It's maybe five minutes before anything comes back, but something does.
00:47:18
Speaker
Useless with a full stop.
00:47:24
Speaker
Fuck now. Okay. Uh,
00:47:30
Speaker
a
00:47:32
Speaker
Seth's going to take that a bit personally, I think, and um ah assume, but in his mind, go back to how how useless he felt and and in the fight just that just happened and how weak he was.
00:47:46
Speaker
um
00:47:50
Speaker
ah Fuck it, he's going to write, i'm how can I make it better? Question mark.
00:47:58
Speaker
and I know you say it takes five minutes. He'll be staring at the page, unmoving, unblinking for the entire time until something else appears it it each time.
00:48:12
Speaker
takes maybe an hour staring at this page.
00:48:23
Speaker
before your charcoal reappears and it doesn't form words.
00:48:32
Speaker
It sort of forms
00:48:38
Speaker
a circular shape, like a sigil, but not of something holy or not of rather something um and heraldry.
00:48:51
Speaker
more of a magical symbol you don't recognize and you haven't seen anywhere else in this book.
00:49:03
Speaker
Okay. And then that symbol begins to lift off the page and it is it's just a black floating thin layer of charcoal.
00:49:21
Speaker
And it sort of rolls onto the sand by the fire that which you sit. It's maybe the size of like a coaster, no bigger.
00:49:34
Speaker
And then it begins to grow to about the size of a dinner plate in the sand.
00:49:43
Speaker
And there's just this black, scorched icon.
00:49:53
Speaker
Is it the same icon that was in the book? It's the same image or is it different? It's the same one, just scaled up. Okay. Okay.
00:50:07
Speaker
He would have stood up at that point. The minute kind of lifted off the page, he stood up. um But when it settles back down again, and if it feels like it's not going to move anymore, nothing else is going to change, he's going have a good look at it, and then he's going to start poring over the book, trying to find some reference, just searching every single page to see if there's anything like that symbol in the book. He knows there isn't, but he's going to look anyway in case something's changed. um just just to try and find some connection. He's no idea what the symbol is. So he's going to hope the book might give him some information.
00:50:45
Speaker
so he's going to be just searching page by page by page by page through the book from the beginning through to the to the second kind of second, third where the book kind of stops being used by its previous owner and then just the blank pages after that as well.
00:51:00
Speaker
And the first rotation through every page, you see nothing. You sort of turn it round, try again. On that second rotation, as you're turning page page page page, page, page, there is just this humming sound coming from below your feet.
00:51:19
Speaker
It's turning into a more high-pitched screech. At this point, Alpha, you're you're definitely aware. It's not enough to wake those in deep slumber, particularly with exhaustion.
00:51:35
Speaker
And then this charcoal sigil begins to turn golden.
00:51:41
Speaker
And it begins to grow a third dimension and raise up and form about the size of like an ostrich egg.
00:51:57
Speaker
And then Mark, a creature appears
00:52:02
Speaker
and looks at you.
00:52:07
Speaker
And speaks to you.
00:52:10
Speaker
And says what?
00:52:13
Speaker
The egg cracks. And this face appears out from it facing Seth. ah These long, really long claw-like hands reach out and kind of pierce and peel it open.
00:52:27
Speaker
And the first thing Seth sees are these absolutely massive black eyes that seem to have within them the pupil a pearlescent
00:52:37
Speaker
galaxy almost or sun or star within each of them and they seem to just have this depth to them that are engrossing and terrifying in equal measure. ah Out come these kind of dual wings and this this face of just ah what looks like a thousand...
00:52:56
Speaker
thin needled teeth that sit lipless in its more two wings, long arms and almost bedraggled and haunched up legs. Like that of a baby that are not actual baby legs, like they get pulled up because of their weakness and this long, um,
00:53:14
Speaker
a sinewy, leathery tail follows behind it, but everything is wrapped in a ethereal slash blackened dust, almost.
00:53:27
Speaker
The main thing you get is the sense, oh as Seth sees it, is its grin, its smile, its malevolence, its glee that seems to um come out of it it. It kind of steps out and so perches on the remainder of this egg which puffs into nothingness and it just stands on the sand.
00:53:43
Speaker
looks not at Seth, but just kind of through him, through to the sand beyond and all his, uh, for all intents and purposes and says, Crelius, Crelius Crimson, where are you? I can feel your presence.
00:54:00
Speaker
No. Oh, no, this is wrong. Ah, this is very wrong. You are not him. are you to carry his tome, his work, his legacy? This book bears the mark of Corellius, of the Grey Harvest, that stubborn clutch of fools who brought themselves to the architects of fate.
00:54:19
Speaker
And yet, it's you that's holding it, fumbling with its power you don't understand. Speak, mortal! How did you come to possess this? Did you pilfer it from his corpse, or did he give it to you with his final desperate moments, thinking you could carry the weight of its failure?
00:54:35
Speaker
Do you even know what you hold, or does it lie heavy in your hands like a stone in the sea, dragging you to the depths of the ocean? Crellius was a brilliant mind, a wild storm of the intellect and arrogance. Why, what purpose did he see in you? Answer me, I shall find my own truth in the echoes of this tome.
00:54:54
Speaker
You tread in the pages of greatness and ruin. But which path did Crellius see for you, I wonder? Or perhaps are you just the next fool in a long line who thinks you can hold the control of the Grey Harvest?
00:55:08
Speaker
And Seth is just going to... open mouth, stare back.
00:55:16
Speaker
And there's no, there's no fear. There's no, he recognizes the voice, but he just, he's just, what the fuck in his, in his, in his mind. ah he he He's then going, this thing is then going to kind of look around, looks a bit, listen, like a quasit, some might say, and but with a weird twist on it.
00:55:39
Speaker
He'll look around. Is anyone else in the vicinity visually? Alpha's probably staring right at you at this point. ah Yeah, in all fairness, I think I've had my rests and if Alpha could replicate your face, I think he kind of would be doing, just like staring at you, jaw dropped type of thing.
00:55:59
Speaker
This thing flies, little wings put straight over towards you, comically small almost, and its massive eyes are like the size of half your face each. sta Its head is like the main part of its entire form, really.
00:56:12
Speaker
and stares directly at you, Alpha, and really like like literally like inches away from your face. Not in an aggressive way, but just an inquisitive way. And then, you, you clockwork husk, a jumble of gears, pretending at sentience.
00:56:26
Speaker
Do you dream of purpose, little machine? Or are you just another puppet pulled by strings of a master long gone?
00:56:35
Speaker
ah That seems oddly personal for an introductory question. The mortal realm is simple to perceive, young one.
00:56:44
Speaker
I'm sure it's... I'm sorry, who are you? Nifrava, kindlex umbrakeith. Nifra, hi, I am Alpha, and we're going to kind of raise a hand almost handshake, and going to be really awkward and clumsy because of how close he is, and this hand is going to kind of feed in between my face and his as I try and offer a handshake to this creature.
00:57:07
Speaker
this creature He's going to try and ah
00:57:14
Speaker
he's going to try and take your hand, but then think the better of it. And then he's going to look quickly over his shoulder towards the desert. And there's fucking nothing there except the sand and the stars and the darkness.
00:57:27
Speaker
And he'll just look for they look directly back at you and a little bit closer whisper. Did you feel that shiver? That was your reality noticing me. Ha ha ha.
00:57:39
Speaker
I'm afraid it wasn't something I noticed.
00:57:43
Speaker
I'm very confused. ah Seth, what is this thing? What's going on? And kind of just leaning my head little bit towards the left and just trying to look around and try and engage a little bit with
Nithravar's Cryptic Remarks & Group Tension
00:57:55
Speaker
Seth. Is this your pet?
00:57:57
Speaker
He's still just sweating profusely and has hasn't moved.
00:58:01
Speaker
He's just staring at this thing like eyes wide, part concerned, part wonderment. Fair enough. Okay. Is there anything I can help you with?
00:58:16
Speaker
ah he The Nithravar, as his name is, is just going to ah look. He's looking at you, but again, you get the impression he's looking through you. ah It's just going to pass through you ah and then through and then at the other side. And was just he's just looking out towards the desert again, but looking kind of down towards the ground, almost like he's looking through part of the earth to something else.
00:58:38
Speaker
Um, and just stares there for a few seconds. He doesn't respond. Alpha is going to kind of stand up, go next to him. and Just so the level pegging going to try and gauge exactly where it's looking. he's kind of following the line of sight, just basically into the ground, into nothing that Alpha can actually say, are you looking for something?
00:59:05
Speaker
ah He pulls out a long sinewy finger claw and kind of points towards just sand pretty much. He goes, look. Look. The seams of reality, the seams of reality are dying and fraying.
00:59:21
Speaker
How curious. This realm is a candor of the wind and I am the storm. and he's going to turn around and fly back towards Seth. Seth's going to run away at this point. um and And he lands near where the ah and the the kind of sigil mark on the floor.
00:59:38
Speaker
But Seth has has run a few steps away and is cowering behind a tent or a dune or just something nearby. Alfred still doesn't know what to do at this stage.
00:59:50
Speaker
Seth, what do what do we do with this thing? Do we, is it our guest? Do we entertain it? do we destroy it? ah He's going to nod at that profusely. Destroy it.
01:00:01
Speaker
Nod, nod, nod.
01:00:04
Speaker
um Okay. You've nodded at me saying destroy it. um I'm going to aulate cast fireballs at it. Okay. This will wake everyone else up in camp.
01:00:17
Speaker
Cool. This is going to go well.
01:00:24
Speaker
21 to hit. yeah Sorry, it's just 20 to hit, and I apologize. That will hit. Okay, so that's 11 points of fire damage that I'm probably going to regret.
01:00:40
Speaker
You hit this creature, and this creature disappears, disintegrates. You contact it, it screams for a second, and it falls to pile of ash.
01:00:56
Speaker
Oh, well, that was... Sorry, I won't follow you, though. ah That was interesting. and Everyone's going to come bursting out the tent, sort of hammer and shield, because obviously this woke us all up.
01:01:11
Speaker
What's going on?
01:01:14
Speaker
There was um a thing here, and I burnt it. i i think it was... um A friend of Seth's, maybe?
01:01:24
Speaker
So you you set on fire a friend of Seth's? Well, it was some kind of small black-winged creature. um Seth seemed to be adamant that I attempt to destroy it, and I did. Where the fuck is Seth?
01:01:41
Speaker
Oh, he' he's over there, sweating profusely. ah ah ah As, and when you've come out and you're asking those questions, Seth's been um ah pounding the sand with his feet getting closer in the in the thick sand.
01:01:54
Speaker
and Not thick sand, but the sand that your feet sink into. I imagine it's like that. um And he's just kind of padding quickly, as quick as he can, over through up the dune or whatever towards Alpha. And around that time, when you ask that question, he's going to go in and hug Alpha really tight.
01:02:09
Speaker
But you can feel his whole body shaking with fear. um as he hugs you. He's kind of got a smile on his face, and but hes he's he's, yeah, shaking. Alpha will absolutely return you a hug. news is all about the shaking, but he's going obviously kind of grasp you and hold you. Are you all right, Seth?
01:02:28
Speaker
but While you're embracing Alpha, you feel two tiny hands, one on the front of your forehead, one on the back of your head, also embracing.
01:02:40
Speaker
God, that's creepy. Oh, God.
01:02:46
Speaker
Seth, what have you done? As you pull away, Nithrawa is just perched on Seth's shoulder. It just seemed your laws of physics seem optional.
01:02:59
Speaker
What the whi fuck are you? and So apparently I didn't burn the creature. I didn't destroy it. There it is. What are you?
01:03:10
Speaker
What I am is what I walk, and where I walk logic falters and truth fractures. He is Nithravar, I believe. Nithravar kynlex umbraketh.
01:03:23
Speaker
Nithravar vailix umbraketh. Nithravar kynlex umbraketh. Kynlex umbraketh. Sorry. Right. but So, are you a friend are you an enemy?
01:03:35
Speaker
This air tastes like ignorance. How refreshing.
01:03:41
Speaker
How did it appear, at Alpha? What what happened? this a Is this a demon thing? I couldn't see ah full the details. It appeared next to Seth.
01:03:55
Speaker
Seth, what caused this? What is it? ah A trembling hand reaches down and pulls around his tome, his book, and he's just going to point towards it.
01:04:11
Speaker
Okay. Do we see anything in the book or is it blank pages, Danny?
01:04:17
Speaker
ah The book is shut at the moment, but it's Seth's usual yeah book. So you summoned it. Every word on that page cries out for understanding, and yet they are doomed sit in silence. What tragedy, what penitence.
01:04:38
Speaker
Seth's going to shrug his shoulders and and he hasn't boy he's going to shrug one shoulder because he doesn't want to move the shoulder where this thing is sat upon him. ah doesn't want to look at it directly and is just staring back at Alpha and Emron.
01:04:53
Speaker
Almost like, you know, like as a kid, you get handed an animal like, hold this and I'll take a picture. And they're like oh! like ah like an an owl on your shoulder like fuck it's it's it's like that but with a fully grown man a fully grown soldier man alpha's going to look at the creature just my friend seems a little bit nervous about your presence may i um may i put you to the floor and i'm going to gesture out my hands and not in a threatening way or anything like that but i'm just going to try and gently you would retrieve an animal kind of grab it off his shoulder just so i can and put it on the floor
01:05:27
Speaker
As you go to scoop it, it just changes form into a tiny frog in your hands.
01:05:41
Speaker
Danny, can I use like a ah history or arcana to try and work out what, whether I've heard or know about this creature? ah you need to tell me which of those you'd rather do. Are you looking at you trying to think about its um magical properties?
01:05:55
Speaker
No. Are you trying to think about of the key things you've heard it Yeah. Or what this is about? I'm trying to identify with like, yeah, and I'm trying to think about like, is the way it's acting or the way the creature is described or appears, is it something I would go, okay, that's definitely this kind of creature or is it definitely something that's this kind of creature? Make a history check then.
01:06:19
Speaker
i Meanwhile, Nixon, Val, you've been awakened by all this as well.
01:06:26
Speaker
while i'm hopping out the tent kind of doing up his belt and pulling trousers on one pant by the other all too easy to say nix is coming out wiping his mouth but i'm not doing that He's wiping his ass instead. Plucking his bum.
01:06:47
Speaker
Nix will just follow. He's very tired. Nix did not want to wake up here. like I feel like Bala would have force him, push him, and and just kind of coax him to wake up because...
01:07:01
Speaker
ah level two exhausted what's going on so it's very much like big bags under his eyes and horn's droopy tail between his legs just like what's going on fortunately seth was the last person and this happened in the second hour of seth's watch so you'll have fulfilled the conditions of a long rest you'll have those horns hard tail up let's go but ah You're a short motherfucker and nobody likes you. While Emron's been staring I was just going to say, the the outcome of your role, Emron, is that this is definitely demonic in in Creature.
01:07:40
Speaker
um after The nuances that were lost on you. Okay, that's fine. um Sorry, Seth's turn. Seth, yep. Sorry, it was just Nithravar was going to, while Emron was looking at Nithravar, Nithravar was going staring back at Emron, kind of matching his stare.
01:07:59
Speaker
And like when his eyes moved to a different part his body, his his head would move to kind of catch his eye wherever wherever it kind of went. Still as a frog. Yeah. Oh, shit, still as a frog. Yeah, yeah. and um Does he speak the same?
01:08:13
Speaker
Doesn't speak as as a frog. i Doesn't speak, okay. No. Okay, Emron sort of lifts his hammer. It's a demon. It's a frog.
01:08:25
Speaker
Yes, it is a frog. It's changed its shape. It's a demon. Why is Seth carrying a demon as a frog?
01:08:36
Speaker
ah Seth, can you talk yet? Or are you still... The frog hops out of Alpha's hands. sits on the book that Seth has discarded on the floor and reverts back to its quasit form.
01:08:53
Speaker
Ah, fuck, it's not! it's fucking demon. It's a demon. It's back to normal now. Nix, the tethered soul, tell me, does your patron dangle you like a marionette or do you dance willingly to their tune? Either way, the chains shine brightly for all to see and they are deliciously heavy.
Divine Challenge & Negotiations with Nithravar
01:09:11
Speaker
What the fuck? That's quite deep cutting straight off the bat. Column A, column do you always just know what's going on with us?
01:09:23
Speaker
The fuck are you? Seth's going to look at each, all the or or four of you in turn, a few seconds longer than is comfortable in silence, and then just looks back to Seth. Who are these interruptions?
01:09:35
Speaker
Friends of yours, Seth, or just noisy distractions? Speak quickly before I decide which. Seth's still just... but You know, Taskmaster, I'm literally thinking little Alex Horne, almost like flinches away from him whenever he talks a little bit.
01:09:49
Speaker
and Looks to Barl... You there! Stop gawking! I see your curiosity, your suspicion. Do not presume to judge me when you are the very essence that reeks of uncertainty.
01:10:04
Speaker
Alpha, is it immune to fire damage? Well, I did chuck a bit a firebolt at it. but us he's Whilst he's replying, just flame upon the creature. Okay, go for it.
01:10:18
Speaker
Roll to hit. Cool, it is a 19 to hit. That hits. Go ahead, roll damage. Tasty. ah It's 10 points of fire damage.
01:10:30
Speaker
You whip, you make contact, it screams for a second and falls and just coats the book it's standing on, Seth's book, in a pile of ash. Ah, problem solved. Cool, I'm going back to bed then.
01:10:43
Speaker
thought I did that earlier. What? I've already burnt it once and it just seemed to come back. Okay, I'm not going back to bed then. Seth, do you want to be able to talk to us?
01:10:56
Speaker
just going to scroll to the back of his spell book with shaking fingers and, and just right out with kind of a shaking hand. i don't think I can.
01:11:08
Speaker
And so with that, Nick's is going to brush your mind telepathically that familiar sense of for Krell magic entering your mind. I mean, like we normally do you hear
01:11:24
Speaker
in the thoughts. I, I really don't know. But Seth, why are they always this unsufferable? Or is today special? Send them away or I will. i Listen, I don't know.
01:11:35
Speaker
Nix, I don't know what's happening here, okay? It sounds like this is answering a couple of questions on who's taking the party line every now and then. it seems like this demon thing is tethered to you in some way.
01:11:47
Speaker
ah Are you telepathically listening to us?
01:11:52
Speaker
What, me? um No, I am because you did the thing to... Hey, it's okay. we Your friends are here. like we can We can fix this.
01:12:04
Speaker
out Talk to me. What do you want to say to the group? I'll be your voice. Tell them I don't know what the fuck's going on, but this thing ah just came out of the book when I wrote to it and the book wrote back and then and then it came out of the sand and now it won't die.
01:12:23
Speaker
and And it seems to know everything about me. Nix, you feel something tugging at the side of your boot.
01:12:32
Speaker
It's him. As you look down. Yeah, Alfa's right. We can't kill this thing. And Nix will repeat back verbatim what Cephas said.
01:12:43
Speaker
Do not test me, little mortals. My patience is as thin as the veil that brought me here. In Alino's name, I banish you. I'm going to use my yeah channel divinity ah ability. Can you make a constitution saving throw, please? Stop trying to hit the thing.
01:12:59
Speaker
Yes, it can. It rolled an 18. Oh, fuck. It will take... ah um ah it will take
01:13:14
Speaker
um It will take three points of radiant damage as I um invoke Aledo to smite it. Awesome. Could you make a wisdom saving throw in return?
01:13:26
Speaker
Of course. Ooh. Wisdom off.
01:13:34
Speaker
Dirty 20. o
01:13:38
Speaker
It pulls a rather grimacing face at you at your attempts to do this, an attempt to sort of instill fear, but you shrug it off. And then it just looks back towards Seth.
01:13:50
Speaker
Seth looks back at it for the first time ever, and then quickly averts his gaze in the thrift of our turns to Emron. Ah, the pious one.
01:14:01
Speaker
You reek of desperate prayers and hollow faith, clinging to a god that hears you no more than a fart on the wind. Tell me, does your does your deity even remember your name, are you just one more cog in its divine indifference?
01:14:22
Speaker
um ah fuck it I'm invoking Tilwa and I'm going to hit it with my hammer. I'm just going full angel form on it. Use all of your resources. everyone yeah it's yeah Standard Emron, i like okay for it ill yeah i'm goingnna just step away from that arrow Our minds are still linked, FYI, Seth.
01:14:48
Speaker
So, Emron's... He's gone full... um Full Tiloire. Look at how pissed him off.
01:15:00
Speaker
but Next, we're going to have Rage Alpha. it' Getting the band back together.
01:15:07
Speaker
lighting bolt <unk> into hit That's an 18 to hit. That will hit. Please roll damage. You guys have rolled all your good rolls this thing. I will. ah That's 8 points of bludgeoning damage.
01:15:22
Speaker
It breaks dissipates into ash yet again around your hand. I was also going to add on some more damage to that but that's fine.
01:15:32
Speaker
It's dead. Okay. And it takes oh it takes three points of radiant damage alongside that as well. um The pile of ash on the floor will take the radiant damage. Good. ah Seth's going to collapse to his knees and ah Nick, she's going to hear in your head, I think it's the book. I think it's because I took the book. The book should have stayed and I took it. And I think it's connected to that or who had the book before me.
01:15:57
Speaker
Okay, and Nyx will relay that to the group, but also just crouch down next to you and put a hand on your shoulder at the same time. He's quivering like a shitting dog at this point. and Emron slash Tilda sort of turns, sort of glowing in his radiance.
01:16:14
Speaker
Where is the book from?
01:16:17
Speaker
ah Seth will say to Nyx, I found it ah on a battlefield.
01:16:29
Speaker
Nithrava reappears on Nyx's shoulder with a hand on Nyx, reciprocating what Nyx is doing to Seth. I see now. You are all equally lost, clinging to the shell of a leader. How quaint. How pitiful.
01:16:46
Speaker
feel very much like I'm in the middle of a rock and a hard place here. like to hear Warhammer coming over to try and hit him while it's on Nick's shoulder. No, no, no, no, no. Everyone sort of stood there. He's still in full sort of tilwaf form.
01:17:01
Speaker
Are you here to actually tell us something, do something, or are you just going to get in our way? He's going to stand, claws on hips, weird...
01:17:12
Speaker
ah gnarled feet stretched wide almost like a Tory pose from a that's a very niche reference there British politics wide legged stance hands on hips superhero pose there you go with a massive head almost like a yeah it anyway you get the idea and just um And just set then puts a claw hand out to you, Illido thingy, whatever whatever you are.
01:17:36
Speaker
Stay your weapon, fool. If I wished you harm, you would already be a memory etched into the ether. I would like to see you try. but Okay, let's just just bring the tent down a couple of levels here. We're all good.
01:17:52
Speaker
We're all good. So as far as I as i understand, you Neg-Neg-Negraphor. Nithrava. Nithrava. Nithrava. Nithrava
01:18:06
Speaker
niffy you kang le um but doesn't seem to have attacked us though we've given you ample opportunity by attacking you so um just to reiterate ah previous question your doing here about
01:18:27
Speaker
We like simple. I like simple. I feel like we can... Silence. Yep. I came here for crellous crimson. And yet, when I entered the plane of your existence, I found naught but this balding, ginger-faced, patchy-eyed man.
01:18:45
Speaker
Mortal thing. I know, i know First appearances, it can be shocking. So I bet coming out of a book to which you've probably been in there for many years now would be quite an image to come out to. However, this crimson person thing, it creature is not a part of this group.
01:19:07
Speaker
So um just wondering what your plans are are you are you tied to seth this is seth as you as you already know are you tied to him and thus us or are you free to leave to find the crimson person or are you just attached to this book In which case, if the book just happens to be thrown over a cliff, what happens to you and your essence?
01:19:35
Speaker
I'm not saying that's what we're going to do. I'm just wondering what's the playground here and what rides are we on? It's going stare through you for a while, unblinking. It doesn't have eyelids, so it just stares unblinking at you, unmoving, untwitching for a couple of seconds.
01:19:51
Speaker
And then we'll just quickly twitch its head towards Seth and back to you again. we'll respond... Seth has taken the book of Crellius Crimson and therefore I am tied to Seth and the book.
01:20:03
Speaker
Okay, been there. Seth,
01:20:11
Speaker
how do you feel about this? In your mind, you hear. Firstly, you see um if it was possible to sweat on top of sweat.
01:20:22
Speaker
It's happening now. um And you hear... Is this like a ah like like my spider thing again? Because it doesn't seem to go, it doesn't seem to do anything either.
01:20:42
Speaker
Nyx, from previous dealings with this mind talk between these two would-be characters, knows that Novellius can hear this and is waiting for a response.
01:20:56
Speaker
And there's silence. There's nothing else. Okay. Yep. So, and Nix will then relate to the group. Fucking mediator role.
01:21:05
Speaker
Has Kim already got the book?
01:21:08
Speaker
On the battlefield. What battlefield? Oh, yeah. Good point. um What battlefield in your mind, Seth? Nithravar's going to respond out loud.
01:21:19
Speaker
Corellius Crimson fought the undead against you mortals many years ago and died there apparently. And stares at Seth, who cowers away slightly and shuffles and looks at the ground.
01:21:32
Speaker
And this scavenger, heathen mortal, took the precious tome from his dead corpse and kept it. Fool. Little did he know. Little does he know Little do any of you know.
01:21:46
Speaker
Interruptions. Problems.
01:21:51
Speaker
What? Is he talking about the Blight? Yes. The ones that lived and died.
01:22:00
Speaker
I'm just wondering here, just trying a question out there. What was your purpose with Mr. Crimson? Righteousness? Power? Were you on the side of the blight?
01:22:11
Speaker
I am above and below all things. I come from a realm beyond and above. Your little tiny mind couldn't comprehend, dear mortal. Oh, Seth, you've made quite a friend here.
01:22:22
Speaker
Seth's going to be nodding and and like really quick and staring at you. Nod, nod, nod, nod, nod. Emelon stopped glowing at this point. um And he looks.
01:22:34
Speaker
So what was this crimson like? As far as I'm aware, magic books and wizards, when the wizard dies, the book goes. So why are you still about?
01:22:47
Speaker
And again, he's going to stare at you a bit longer than usual. And you can see some of his teeth moving separately, almost like thoughts for a second and before responding.
01:23:00
Speaker
Your terms confuse me. I do not make sense of mortal words.
01:23:10
Speaker
Very well. so
01:23:13
Speaker
The large orb in the sky continues to grow larger and raises above us. Shall we make haste?
01:23:21
Speaker
He means the sun's rising for anyone. ah Are we to leave? I you none of my answers. My presence here is Seth's alone. Right, so what are you to Seth? Are you a threat to Seth?
01:23:34
Speaker
Silence! No. Fine.
01:23:43
Speaker
Are you here to help Seth, or you here to hinder him? I am his burden and his boon! Right, okay. So, in what way you a boon to him?
01:23:54
Speaker
Are you a patron? Seth, are they always this unsufferable?
01:24:00
Speaker
Must we adhere? These sheep, hoarding, herding around, fluffballs!
Breaking Camp & Fourth Wall Humor
01:24:07
Speaker
Shall we leave now? Seth nods and starts to stand up.
01:24:12
Speaker
Oh yes, it looks like we're leaving.
01:24:17
Speaker
And you? He looks to Barl. Scaled one. Druid thing. carry the weight of a form like a trapped beast tell me do you connect with nature or does it flee in revulsion from your claws and your fire breath a contradiction in scales truly i take it back i don't like him fuck you i mean ah eight there's some positives we're a party of six again apparently
01:24:51
Speaker
He's going to flap onto Seth's shoulder. What is a fuck you, by the way? It's an expression I've heard many a time, airy across the world of the mortal planes.
01:25:04
Speaker
No? Very well. Right, let's just fucking break camp. And clearly, he's something we can't kill yet. Oh, we can. We can. can. We can't kill it yet.
01:25:15
Speaker
No, wait, okay, maybe not. To die, one must live. And to live, one must beyond belong to the mortal plane. am beyond that plane.
01:25:26
Speaker
Okay. Seth, in your mind, you hear... know how to banish things. You hear Nyx just go, okay, well, like I said, you're not on your own about this. It looks like you've got this person in your life.
01:25:40
Speaker
Um... my advice unsolicited as it may be make the best of it and don't say yes to dodgy deals
01:25:52
Speaker
ah Seth's going to nod ah like one cheek one corner of his mouth lifts up slightly to a slight smile as he yeah he states back I'm not gonna make that mistake again not after Brago ah it seems Pretty harmless though at the moment.
01:26:14
Speaker
Just a lot of bark and no bite. But I don't know how long that will last. He might imbue you with some power. I don't know. He seems otherworldly and quite knowledgeable. I see what you can get out of him.
01:26:28
Speaker
I know you can listen to this too. Nyx says, into your mind, but into the other mind. This is very confusing. The world doesn't welcome me It fears me, it says directly to Nyx.
01:26:44
Speaker
but It looks like you can be snuffed out as quick as a light on a candle, so I'm not entirely sure how much of a threat you possess, but you do you?
01:26:56
Speaker
who am I, Dick? You may perceive me as fragile, but your fragile place is one that you call home. Should I show you how easily it can break? No, I'm very fragile, and I make no pretense about that. Anything you can do or say will cut me deeper than you know.
01:27:13
Speaker
there's there's There's just that silence in response to that. as There's nothing. But Seth kind of like smiles a little bit externally. And then he's going to say just to you again, it's good to know you're in here too.
01:27:28
Speaker
it's a It's a small yet very big place in here all of a sudden.
01:27:35
Speaker
She's getting a bit cramped.
01:27:38
Speaker
Livritha shape changes into a bat and makes quite an aggressive flight towards and around Emron and then goes and perches right underneath the cart where Seth sits when he's driving.
01:27:55
Speaker
and just hangs upside down from it.
01:27:59
Speaker
So odd. What, like on on trunks? Or on the car? on the On the part of the car you sit on, just underneath that cockpit, upside down, hanging like a sleeping bat.
01:28:10
Speaker
Literally a sleeping bat. And Seth will just know, okay, and he'll just he'll kind of head down, not like can piously, but just kind of like, oh, well, I guess we're doing this then.
01:28:20
Speaker
And we'll walk over to... um to the to the cart and kind of sit in i position and then paulsey reaches down and gingerly pulls out a tab of the spell book and casts Minor Illusion and it's Clip Glob. As interesting as you attempt to do that.
01:28:40
Speaker
oh Oh dear. So everyone's had the benefit of a long rest. You've all definitely got that. Everyone who has suffered with exhaustion, remove one layer of that, please. Yay! I'm not retired.
01:28:54
Speaker
When Nithrava appears... Nithrava. Nithrava, thank you. I can hear you too, you know. Nithrava breaks the fourth wall. And that's all we've got time for.
Spell Slot Discussion & Episode Wrap-Up
01:29:08
Speaker
ah
01:29:12
Speaker
The first time each day is for free. But he had to be recast there four times. So you lose three first level spell slots.
01:29:23
Speaker
so Three first level spell slots. You go into the day with only one first level spell available. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Okay. Right, guys, it takes four. Four, four, four. Get rid of him.
01:29:36
Speaker
No, there's his second level, I bet. Fuck. but As you pack away, as the sun rises on the third day of your travel, you're two days out from Beach Barraport.
01:29:48
Speaker
That. So we're going to end this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop. Bellum Draconis. Oh, that was just fantastic. Fucking hell. I mean, it's a demon and we're fighting demons, so of course I'm going to try and smite the thing.
01:30:02
Speaker
I should have had a go. Nix didn't have a go. nickx should have had a go. Nix has been down a road. Nix was trying to flirt with it, so, you know. I've got to give credit to Mark there being split personality. ni was trying to flirt with it so you know um i go give credit to mark their being yeah that was the same flip personality Dipping in and out. Well played.
01:30:24
Speaker
Very good. Good energy. It's the beast of Danny, so we can thank him for it. Always. My beast.
01:30:36
Speaker
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01:31:09
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Speaker
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01:31:38
Speaker
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01:31:49
Speaker
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01:32:02
Speaker
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