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Ep. 63 The Changing of the Guard - Bellum Draconis
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Our Party is reaching Chapter 2 of the Bellum Campaign. As such, the podcast is also reaching Chapter 2.
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Admiration for a Dragonborn
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I feel very small at the feet of this great, big, blue, sexy as fuck dragonborn.
Introduction to the Fellowship of the Tabletop
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are alive, play 5E, D&D podcast set in the magical homebrewed world of everything, the Kingdom of Dralak. My name is Mark and I am the Dungeon Master. And also with us for this week's episode, we have Danny, who plays the half-orc monk, Morota Broken Tusk.
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Bonjour! We've got Darren, who plays the High Elf Artificer, Rains Haddow. Hello there. Callum, who plays the Warforged Artificer, Alpha. I take notes, who says I doesn't? Will, who plays the human cleric, Emron. There can be only one Will. And... Danny, who plays... Not Danny, where's Dan Danny? Ian, who plays the Tiefling Warlock, Nick Skarell. Bonjour!
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Yeah, there is only now one Will remaining. I actually chopped off Will's head because it's like Highlander, how it works. I've heard you Will's just ingest one another like a snake. You now both form Will too. It's just a photosynthesised version of Will 1. Yep.
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That's what it is. Yes, we, yeah, I've said it out, Tatar for now for old girl as we make our way. Sorry, I'm doing the job of the, of the chronicler. And finally, could you pass over then to, to Danny for a little Chronicle update on what happened in last week's episode of the fellowship of the tabla top.
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In the last few pages of our adventure, the party on the conclusion of the conflict, the successful hunt, we'll call it, of the Roper, looted their spoils to the sum of
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a fortune nonetheless. At the point where they were filling their pockets, the cavern itself turned against them as they were locked in a gruelling six-rounder where they had to ascend via a flooding cavern to the safety of the Dralak Sands once again. In doing so, there were some faults, there were some issues, there were some natural ones, but the party
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emerged with their lives intact, and only a minor drop in their coin purses afterwards. Upon hitting sands once again, the party were met by a caravan, a caravan which old girl had seemed to foresee, and knew the exact fare needed for safe passage onto Scorchel. The party split with the old wizard.
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not before receiving some instructions on how to find the layer of where they need to head next. You follow the instructions of the kind and forthright merchant and follow the tracks back, watching the sun trace a line across the high and clear drelak afternoon sky
Contemplating Rest by the Oasis
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after what feels like an age of hiking, you spy on the horizon, what surely must be some sort of mirage. And I picture a vast desert landscape scratching as far as the eye can see with rolling dunes of golden sand, and all in amongst this seemingly endless expanse is a shimmering pool of water.
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off from the track which he described in the direction which he did describe of water that reflects the the intense afternoon sunlight creating a dazzling display of light and these long shadows seems roughly 25 foot in diameter and the area seems to have this cool dampness all around it which seems odd for this station the position in Dralak at the moment you are still a good distance from it before this
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at this moment. Is there anything else to do on your approach?
Discovery of the Real Oasis
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I need a rest. I'm inclined to agree with Nick because this has been a hell of a day and we're losing the sun. Thank you. Is there anywhere we can actually rest out here? How about that shiny water up the head? Not in it.
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near it. It does seem to be cooler in that direction. So the things with deserts is these things called mirages. Have you heard of them? That's a funny name for a lake. Because it isn't. That might not be what it appears. One way to find out.
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the rains will walk over to the bank of this lake and look down at it. All right. And as you get closer, it doesn't seem to dissipate. It is real, despite Marota's correct assertion about mirages in the deserts of Dralak and well-known, actually, for the propensity to lure thirsty or tired travelers off on their beaten track. This is indeed a real oasis. And there is water.
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Surrounding this precious water source are these lush green palm trees and other desert vegetation, shrubberies, cacti, some fruit bushes. The air is filled with almost a sweet scent of blooming flowers and this kind of small paradise in the middle of this incredibly harsh environment.
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Mix is going to kneel down to the water's edge, scoop up water in both hands, and guzzle it down. I wouldn't do that until I had it. Too late. Too late. He's guzzling. Yeah, Reigns will be stood there like half days. Ah, well, OK. He's done
Encounter with Transforming Dragonborn
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it fine.
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And Nix, as you're guzzling this water in, it tastes sweet. It tastes better than most of the water you've ever tasted before. And, you know, you've tasted a lot of water from all over the place. And it is, it's just fresh and just sweet. And as you're guzzling it down, as you go down, take another big handful of water, as you scoop it and drink it down, as you go in for another one, you notice a pair of eyes in the water. Oh my God.
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Not floating eyes, eyes, eyes. What the hell? A pair of eyes deep in the water and you see a figure slowly moving up towards the surface and away slightly. It's an alligator. And as you look around, you notice slumbering lazily. Some eyes open, some not. Are these alligators?
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floating around and laying around the cool oasis pool. It seemed to have found an unlikely home in the arid desert. Their scaly bodies blended with the sound surroundings, which is why none of you, your passives were too low, didn't notice them, making them appear like almost ancient guardians of this hidden paradise. There's maybe 20, 25 of them or so, assuming there are no more in the water or around it. And it's quite a large area of water.
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that you've approached. It was quite a big, kind of luscious area that you've stumbled into almost. I think there's a part in one of the Mummy films where it feels a bit like, I think there's a kind of a lush feel to the place. It feels humid, but kind of dense and wet in a nice way.
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The alligator next that you had disturbed starts to kind of pull itself out of the water. Holy shit. And kind of just next to you, but not looking at you, kind of walking beside you and kind of crawling out onto the bank beside you as this long, large, taloned claws kind of reaching out over the water.
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But as they step onto the sand something happens and the form of the alligator starts to twist and morph and change and a reverted wild shaped form appears.
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It stretches up higher and higher. It's about eight foot tall. Blue scales appear across it. The snout retracts and switches and changes in shape. What now stands in front of you is a tall, blue-scaled dragonborn.
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and the scales are reminiscent of the deep ocean reflecting a range of hues from the serene azure of the open sea to an intense sapphire of a stormy night. She's dressed in a sandy robes and carries a staff made of an ancient scorched tree branch with a tip, has a kind of a crystalline blue gem that glows softly.
Invitation to Meet the Dragonborn's Mother
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Just to check, does anyone speak Draconic? Marotta does. I do. Okay. So firstly,
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Yeah, good to know. Sorry. Great. Thanks, Darren. That was great. For both, she repeats both in Draconic first and then in Common as well. It firstly starts with just, late. Our mother did bid you present yourselves to her many moons ago. Do not delay her a moment longer.
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She lifts her stuff high into the air and you feel a pulse of energy kind of reverberate around you, kind of flexing almost in the air itself, this warm, now almost oppressively warm air. And the waters in the oasis nicks that you've been drinking out of start to part.
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You see below a descending set of stone steps heading into the depths of the pool. Looking in, you see a long descent lit with frequent unpaired walls, sconces of light, stretching nearly 200 feet down before it levels out into a chamber that you can't make out that far down, that some won't allow you to see. There's a cool breeze floating out of the entrance and you immediately seem to forget the burning heat of Dralak on your skin.
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What do you want to do? I feel very small at the feet of this great, big, blue, sexy as fuck, dragonborn. What did you do to the pool, Nix? I swear this isn't me. I
Descent into the Mysterious Chamber
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don't think it's me.
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I don't think this is me. I'm inclined to believe, Nix, and think it might be. And Raines will just point at the Dragonborn. I think that may have been her. Hello. I believe it is an invitation.
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She doesn't respond. She just with a flick of her head kind of nudges with her nose eight kind of like Christopher Walken. Hello there. Welcome to my nods to the entrance.
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She nods to the stairs and she doesn't say anything else. She just looks out against a way towards the sun and just kind of looks like almost like a thousand-yard stair but like wistfully out towards the sun. I reckon we have a chance to have a rest first!
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As Nyx looks up, still kind of knees on the ground and looks all the way up. I mean, she did mention that we're already delayed. I was like, why not? With the gesture of the Dragonborn, Alpha's walking down the stairs. Oh shit.
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I'm gone. The bitch. And he was never seen again. Right. Yeah, let us know if it's safe, Alfred. If it's not, we'll mourn your death. Seriously, the rest. I can do the rest. We could just chill up here for a bit, like all the other alligators. Are these all alligators or dragonborns dressed up as alligators? She doesn't respond.
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Everyone's going to be like, are these all alligators? So, so, so Nick's, everyone's going to lean over and just whisper Nick's. How are you feeling about the fact that you're drinking water that they've all probably been peering in? Just, just saying. Hear me out. This water tastes absolutely fine. If it is their piss from having seconds, it's refreshing as fuck. It's not water at all, is it? It's not a philosophical note as well. Most, most water has probably been pissed in by something just as a
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We don't normally drink that water in. You go to a bank, you go to a riverbank and drink up the water, a fish may have pissed. Why are we talking about fish piss? How do we go on in this case? Just on that, I would like to point people at listeners into our new advertising sponsor, Aerith's Piss, a new water drink you can buy at any good store around and vending machine in the area. Well, I assume you're
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the big thing down there ain't waiting. And since Alpha's not waiting, I think in we go. I take some comfort from the fact that if it... I don't think it... I don't think the Master Dragon has invited us here just to kill us because it could have done that anyway a long time ago. If it has, we're not going to put up much of a fight. No, that's true.
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The dragon did promise us a gift for our services. I'm shouting from the bottom of the stairs. It didn't sound like you're shouting. The master dragon did promise us a gift for our services. See whether you can hear our conversation. I think I was having a malfunction down there. You wanted a moment. You had your moment walking down. I had to open my mouth.
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Hilarious. That is your fault though, Callum. You did walk into that. I know, I know. Seriously though, so we're going to go in there. We were invited, I suppose. I don't see an invitation. I see a trap. When the Drake said, come and visit the master and, you know, wants to torture.
Revelations in the Tunnel of Truth
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And then we left it hanging for six months. Because, you know, YouTube sort of died.
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Yes, by water, and this seems like we're going further into the fucking depths. Well, no, she's parted the water like one of the, uh, the prophets of Aledo did once, many years ago. I heard about that pro- Fine. What's happening here? Fine. I'm going at the back though.
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Okay, so we've got Alpha at the front. Apparently. Miles ahead. Nix is the asset of the line, yep. Yeah, and then we've got, I mean, this is the emerald rain demerator. He's quite important. Alpha, don't go in there and die. You're quite important to the sentient nature of your race, in case you forget that. So, rain will follow off down after Alpha. He's technically an endangered species, and Ron will.
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We'll assume Rotor follows on with their mix following up the rear behind that as well.
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As you start to make your way down, you do notice a number of the other alligators have been kind of watching you, the eyes shifting and moving, and you start to notice a shimmer, especially the more iconic of you, mainly nicks and rains, I would say. Notice a little shimmer in a few of the intricate shapes of these creatures. You notice, I actually know these aren't what they seem they are. They seem to all be, possibly dragonborns, at least the ones you had your eye on.
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The sun continues to get lower. It's now just a semi half sun above the dunes to the west as you start to make your way down through the damp ground of what was the lake and now is no longer is the damp steps that move down towards it. The figure of the dragonborn person who has ushered you down continues to stand.
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But Nyx, as the last one of you passes, she turns and stands with her staff placed firmly in the ground, left hand, looking down and slowly nodding ahead. No kind of expression you can discern from her face as to if it's like a yes, good or like a positive one. It's just it's just a nodding of the head. Nyx just turns around and goes, ha! And a nervous smile, I think, carries on.
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And as you take your first step into this ocean mirage entrance, listening to the hisses of several large alligators, that is where we hand over to the dungeon master for act two of Bellum Draconis.
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you descend the stone steps for nearly 15 minutes. With each step you feel this ever going cooler breeze hitting your skin and it helps you sort of regulate more with each step that that dry
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acrid heat that you've dealt with for the best part of a day since you left the butthole cavern, as always, escapes you. The stone underfoot becomes a really welcome foundation against the sands that you've been sort of slipping in and out of for the past day. You follow behind this figure of another stout, dragonborn, that sort of leads ahead of Alpha.
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but they utter no sound, and they don't seem to exhale as exhaustively as you. You're descending for about 15 minutes, you're starting to hear it in each other's breathing. The Dragonborn in front of you utters no sound, as though they have been conditioned to this pilgrimage nearly every day, if not twice.
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Eventually, this descent levels out and you arrive in this small anti-chamber. There is a basin to your right full of cool water and a bench underneath. To your left, there appears to be, for want of a better word, coat hanger, that has a few more of these robes that the dragonborn, the two dragonborns you've now seen wear. What draws your eye most, however,
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is that this room you're in, it's no bigger than 15 by 15 foot square, all sort of leads to this narrow tunnel that's sculpted so that you could only traverse it single file. There is not enough room for more than one of you to squeeze down here. This tunnel, however, appears to be made of this cerulean aqua-hued glass
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like that of like a walkthrough aquarium exhibition but there's no sign of any aquatic life only the reflections of the space you're in this dragonborn speaks the tunnel of truth enter and reveal yourselves to the mother
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as this one raises a staff and sends this ball of light, slowly flickering like a firefly down the tunnel. And it stretches for near 60, 70 feet before you see this opening again. What would you like to do? I think Galfa being at the front, he will walk forward following the light and
00:20:18
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He's going to strip off himself. He's going to take the clothes off that he's wearing. What? You're wearing the mercenary robes, aren't you? I'm wearing the mercenary robes, the Ridgeback swords, I think it was. I'm wearing theirs and I'm just going to take it all off and present myself. Stride butt naked down the tunnel. I think that's what she meant.
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That's what I'm doing. Uh, uh, Alfred. Do we all do this? Are we going into an orgy? What's going on? I will make a note. What I also do is I take it off. I remove all my weapons. So I put my boomerang with my clothes. I put my crossbow bolts with them and all that. And I'm only carrying my satchel at the moment. Um,
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It's literally just, is it coming? With a satchel, still to the side, but I'm making sure I'm going down with no weapons and I'm going to attempt to continue down the tool. This sloshing of 2000 gold coins is a tiny step.
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Clang, clang, clang. So as you take your first couple of steps down this tunnel, sorry Will, what were you going to say? I was going to say, just clarify, so you've left all your gear just on the side, yeah? I've kind of took it all off and put it into one side out the way as much as what I can, do my clothes, my weapons. Of course, thank you. And as you stride with purpose into this tunnel, you
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you're surrounded by reflections of you immediately and then you take a few more paces in and then you see yourself in one single reflection with this glowing rectangular shape in your chest that seems to project very faintly this elven figure
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but the features are really difficult to make out. And each time you step, the tunnel isn't like slick and clean. It's like there are grooves and bumps as you walk. So sometimes features are sort of magnified and sometimes they're like going through like a fun house of mirrors, that sort of effect. But you see yourself quite clearly. And then you see this exposed chest with a light that projects out this elven figure. It's hard to ascertain with male or female, but you notice the ears, you notice the stature.
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and it sort of rings true with everything you understand to be an elven uh physiology of anatomy probably is the better word and you just walk through this tunnel does anyone follow? Rains again will just go oh god damn it I can't Alfred what did we just say about how important you are to the survival of your race and Rains will um don't get naked
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not get naked, but he'll clip the cloak off and the studded lever armour will start to rescind and just reveal basically his casual street clothes. To again disarm himself, he'll tuck that into the bag of holding.
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and we'll follow Alpha down the tunnel. So you're leaving nothing there? I'm not leaving anything. I'm no longer wearing my artifice or armour. It's worth noting as well that as Alpha went through, you all saw this. It's like the reflection almost like TV screens at the front of a concert where you stood. You saw the same reflections he was seeing. So everything he laid bare was revealed to you. Including the big light. Everything. Oh, wow.
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Reigns, upon seeing this, will say to himself, so I see the figure, the album figure as well, that's something I've seen, Reigns will say to himself in primordial as he goes down just under his breath, he will just say to himself, to NC, to anything else that could process it, he'll just go memory ruins to himself under his breath, seeing this glow from the centre of Alpha and will
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Just make a nod to NC, a telepathic nod to minute this. And minute NC does. And as you follow and take your steps, you get a few paces in and you're still seeing your regular reflection as you understand it.
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enter into that same phase where all of Alpha was revealed. And you see yourself clearly, but this time with a crown, and then faintly behind you, sort of in an accumulating distance, males that have looked like you, but aren't you.
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until the eyes just sort of doesn't perceive those reflections because they're so well reflected. Is one of these males like, does it look like their skin is disfigured and that it's almost like a grey kind of like stony colour, like almost like they're turning to dust? Yes. Wow. That one. That one killed the dragon. He'll stay under his breath and he'll go along to another one
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it prevents the ones behind that and he goes, that one was killed by a dragon. Let's hope that neither of those things have to happen because I know which one's more likely. And Rains is just going to continue to follow down the steps that he sees. He's now recognizing our
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the ancestral line of how they appear. And there are some faces that you have never seen before that are presented to you for the first time in that. And again, you almost bump into Alpha in this chamber that's about 70 feet down the tunnel that's in complete darkness at the moment. The heart of Marota, Nyx, and Emron
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Who's next? M. Ron will look to others, look to Alpha's pile of clothes. We're bugging if I'm getting naked. And M. Ron will also look to others. He also never tied it up when we were back in Shadow Mend either. And everyone's got to bundle up Alpha stuff because, you know, can't leave shit around. And is the tunnel dark? The tunnel is so...
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The tunnel itself has no source of light, but almost like behind the reflective glass, this blue creates that, that like under the water feel effect. So there's like an ambient blue glow and the reflections that you've been seeing of your friends have been in there like a really bold, white, wispy quality that emits some light. So it's not dark. That's fine. Okay. Um, yeah. And I'm on, we'll look down at himself because obviously he's covered in sand.
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dried and murdered, all that kind of stuff and go, oh, well, I can't clean myself up like Raines did, but here we go. And everyone will walk down the tunnel of truth. And as you do, you again, take a few steps, seeing yourself as your reflection that you recognise, and then
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quite clearly, that reflection changes from you to two figures you're not so familiar with. On your right hand side the entire time is this angelic figure. And to anyone who isn't you that is currently seeing this elsewhere in the tunnel, you see Tilwa. You see Imran's angelic companion as you have met twice already on the road thus far.
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To your left, however, Emron, is a female figure with this pulsing, blinding, amber aura around her.
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Everyone's going to stop when this reveals. And look, first of all, at Tyl Wha, because obviously everyone's never seen Tyl Wha, because it's himself. And obviously, I assume that as I look, is it like a mirror? It literally matches. Yeah. So they don't necessarily repeat your movements and gestures, but as you turn, they turn and look at you as though they are conscious. They are conscious and sentient, but not trying to be you. Okay.
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And then I'm going to look at the one on my left, the female made to analyze. He's trying to, he's trying to like, is it, is it something he's seen before? Is it anything that he's, or is what he's seen completely new to him? Make a history check. Okay.
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first time I've got a player to roll on the DMC. Yeah, boy. That's a three. There is a passing familiarity, but nothing tangible. It's like you see a face in a million and think, oh, I think I may have seen you before, or you've got the eyes of someone I know, the mouth of someone I know, the hair of someone I know. It's nothing you can land on. Fair enough. And then he would look
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Shrug to himself, assuming that at some point it will be revealed to him. And then he's going to continue down the passage. Now, if I get to the dark room, I'm not going to go in unless I cast light. You can stay in the tunnel if you want. Well, if I go into the dark room, I'll be casting light. So it's whether you want me to stay in the room so I don't reveal what's in there. You can go in the room and attempt to cast light. I will. As I'm on the...
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Threshold from the tunnel into the room. I'll cast Light on my hammer. And you do your regular ritual. You spark it up as you would do. You do the incantation. You do the gesture. It pulses for not even a millisecond and then just refuses. So first bond.
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Can I see the others ahead of me? Yes. That's the ambient glow from the tunnel that emits this blue light for about 10 feet, but then past that, it's nothing. I will stay quite close. I'll step in, but stay quite close to the end of the tunnel. I can't go too far. And again, alpha and rain, you've seen the same reflections. It's almost when anyone enters that tunnel, all of the glass is visible to all. So it's just the three of you at this point. If you want that time to speak away from Nix Morota,
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Well, that was the strangest experience ever. Very unusual. And Alfred's probably clutching at his chest at this stage where he saw like the glowing light coming from. And as the
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camera pans and zooms to the other side of the tunnel. Marotta is just going to reach into her bag and pull out the gemstone that Nick's coveted for a very long time that Altha was keeping hold of. Do I see that?
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70 feet away. It's dark in patches. I won't show how far away I was. You could give me a perception check to really see, but it, I wouldn't be looking. Would be a disadvantage. It would be passive. I wouldn't really be looking. This is beyond, beyond passive range. And Marota just says, it's graduation day.
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There's a lot going on right now, Marota, and I don't know if we should be walking into this. But this is amazing. I mean, thank you. This just... Did you see what's happening to the... I mean, how did you even get there? There's so many things going on in my head right now. He's going to know it's missing soon, so better that it's on you in case it gets revealed when I walk down here.
00:33:08
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Okay, I will gladly take it. After you. No, really. I'm going to go, but it should be you first. Fine. And Nick takes the green emerald. It was green, wasn't it? Big green emerald, wasn't it? No, big diamond. Blue sapphire. Blue sapphire. Ah, I've spent that long. And he puts it in his pocket.
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And he does not get naked. And he does not leave his gold. Alpha took the inspection very literally. I've still got the gold tatjal around me, but I've just took everything else off. I look very weird. But he's very nervous about this. So as he steps up to the kind of entrance of the walkway, he just reaches down into his book and kind of flicks through the pages. And he just shifts a look at one of the dragonborn.
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And then he closes eyes and he concentrates and this blue energy comes up and he draws three shapes in the sky and then those three shapes materialize two in front one behind and cast mirror image and so there's a line of nicks walking down.
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And then he'll, he'll send one, send the other, and then he'll walk in the middle. And then there's one following. So this barbershop quartet of Nix's, single files through the tunnel and the first few steps, again, you just see yourself to the right, yourself to the left, your reflections, your, your doubles aren't giving off reflections.
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There's just nothing, but they're in the tunnel with you. You observe them in your space. And as you get past that threshold of a couple meters, again, you have this split revelation. On one side, your left is this huge spider and it's not up close. It's sort of zoomed right in the distance and it's this colossal creature.
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and then scurrying up on the inside of the tunnel, not on the side you share, but like almost on the glass on the other side, thousands upon thousands of tiny spiders that just sort of occasionally reveal the larger behemoth in the distance. That's unsettling. And on your right, there is this swirling
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blood sphere. Essentially, it's like this orb of blood that is sometimes forming shapes, but it's not consistent. It doesn't really give you any information, and then it always returns to this spherical shape. And as you step, the spiders follow you on one side. The blood follows you on the other, and when it contacts the inside of that reflective screen, it leaves trickles of blood as you walk.
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and you emerge at the other side with the other three. And then Morota follows. Morota's looking uncertain as you all have been, but otherwise no distinguishing characteristics. And as she walks down, you see the second orcish figure reflected on the wall to her right.
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It's larger, still female, but these two huge black wings sit on the back of it. And she stops for a second and looks at the reflection and lets out this quite aggressive jab towards the glass.
00:37:16
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in frustration and nothing, no shatter, no imprint. It's almost like she punched sheer stone. She collects herself and then joins you holding a bruised hand. And then a dragonborn emerges from the darkness. Male, same cloak, same type of staff.
00:37:47
Speaker
And what about your sixth companion? I'm sorry, our sixth? There's only five of us. I mean, there's four of me. It shakes its head and points back down the tunnel. And you see nothing moving down the tunnel. But reflected on one wall,
Brief Encounter with Prego the Majestic
00:38:17
Speaker
is this purple robed figure. It stops the moment it's pointed at. And with a flash, this half-elf is revealed to you within the tunnel. Ah, it seems I have been seen.
00:38:48
Speaker
A wisp, and it's instantly teleported next to you, Nix, and next to you, Alpha. I'm sorry, who are you? Who the fuck are you? That was two very different approaches, Emron. I am... an interested party.
00:39:12
Speaker
prego the majestic at your service and it takes a bow and it reveals this uh loot that's attached to its back and you see the waist this this rapier with a skull uh at the hilt but this is not the time for me to speak ciao for now and it wisps again and there's a there's a moment where the cavern tries to resist
00:39:40
Speaker
the elf's magic. But somehow the elf is able to bypass that resistance. There's a struggle, like the spell didn't cleanly come off, and it vanishes. When we next see him, he needs a slap. Nix's face looks shocked, but four times over. I mean, if anybody ever met this, whoever it was, who Prego was,
00:40:10
Speaker
Well, in the speed of this happening, writing rings have a Alexa notification from NC, and NC's head will pop out the bag of holding and goes, do they mean me? And it will appear on the writing. No, no, no, I think they are no offense, NC, but I think that person is known as our, they're not with us just as an FYI, we'll turn to the dragon. Yeah, we've never met him before in our lives. It seems
00:40:39
Speaker
He has been traveling with you for some time. What? No, no, that's no. We've been traveling just us. I mean, we had we had old girl with us for a bit. He made six. Then we went into it. No, he's not. But I don't know whether they got confused, you know, whether they saw the where fors and the why fors and why nots and, you know, like what he did.
00:41:08
Speaker
This figure was with you when you were in Goldview? As were many people. It's been months. We don't know this. We were last in Goldview. We've been months. Well, I mean, I was there when I was in town before we set off here, but... We have seen what we have seen. This way,
The Mother Dragon's Request
00:41:30
Speaker
please. Okay, he needs more than a slap then, if he's been stalking us. I too would like some answers.
00:41:38
Speaker
I have no idea what's going on and I'm starting to get freaked out. The Dragonborn's gesturing you into the dark. That don't help. My apologies. We need to talk about what you saw. We need to talk about what all of us saw. Well yeah but also any chance you could turn lights on?
00:41:56
Speaker
Of course, and Alpha is actually just going to try and cast Light on his coin again that's round his neck. The same thing happens, you do everything you usually do and for a moment it works but not enough for your eyes to even register and you immediately feel it fail. Hmm, I appear to be malfunctioning. Excuse me, and everyone will look towards the Dragon One. And if you add some Light, we can't actually change that apart from Reigns.
00:42:23
Speaker
who can see, you know. Hello. The Dragonborn says nothing but just continues to gesture. Oh, sorry. Nyx can see him dark as well. As Nyx points to himself as well, four times. Those with darkvision will see into this chamber you're in now, however much you've got, 60 or 80 feet, you see this sort of platform with four Dragonborn on one side and four Dragonborn on the other. But those without don't really see much.
00:42:52
Speaker
Technically I do, but I don't because I've not been applying it. I don't have it. So I think Alpha is still going to follow the way, but I'm walking very slowly now. Everyone's staying in the light. Alpha easy. We're going to do this as a group. I believe.
00:43:08
Speaker
If these people wish to have harmed us, they have already had multiple opportunities to do so. I agree with you. It's very dark. Let me take point. You can come with me, but take a point. Let's just have someone who can see where they're going and Nick's can bring up the back and then we've got eyes on both fronts. As you wish.
00:43:27
Speaker
And I'll come on, then. And I'll head off, allowing Alpha to come up behind me, knowing that I can see him. Alpha's still going to keep trying to cast a light on his core, and he can't figure out why it's not working. It's almost like trying to hit a lighter. It's not taking the gas, but the flint is engaging. Yeah, I keep getting spots, and that's literally it. Imran, I don't believe you've come all this way just to stay here. Imran's staying in the light. So it's Alpha at the front.
00:43:57
Speaker
Rains to the front, Alfred's behind. Once you get about 10 feet into this dash. Sorry, Rains is glancing back at Emron. He's like, come on, let's go. Emron, please. Nick, you two, join us. What about me? What about me? My apologies, Marota.
00:44:19
Speaker
It doesn't take you long, Alfred, does it? My perfect memory. I keep forgetting locations and people. You two go on it. I'll keep, just in case we have to leave here quickly.
00:44:41
Speaker
I am very much at the back of this. I ain't going... Someone nominate themselves to step forward. You go forwards and they point to one of my mimics. That's not how Miriam is works, but okay, I know I'll go forwards.
00:44:57
Speaker
I'll go forwards. So you go forwards a bit and it's probably enough for one of your mirrored images to be the spearhead here. And as that mirror image steps into the bigger chamber, you notice the glass floor sort of changes from this glistening clear blue to this dense thick azure gem-like stone.
00:45:24
Speaker
It has no reflective quality. It's just sheer gem glass, essentially. And as you step onto that texture,
00:45:35
Speaker
this platform alights with wall sconces and these four dragonborn that reveal themselves these are eight dragonborn but in two lines of four that reveal themselves also at the tips of their spears and staffs little sconces alight and you you are stood on this platform with almost like a runway almost of four dragonborn either side and then it gets to this overlook
00:46:00
Speaker
And it's just a black abyss the size of four aircraft hangers beyond. And we'll now happily walk forward. I bet. And as you take in a bit more of this platform, you notice that the Dragonborn on the left are all blue scaled. The ones on the right, golden scaled.
00:46:30
Speaker
Approach mother, Shondralaka, instructs the guide that has taken you thus far. And as you look out into this dark void, a blue wisp appears around the cliff edge, circles all of you, non-intrusive, non-hostile, not with a hostile manner, but almost just gets a reader view.
00:47:00
Speaker
would anyone like to do anything? Well, it's just sort of taking in it, like inspecting you almost like a drone. Is it like a will of the wisp kind of thing? Yes, exactly like that, but not necessarily the connotations of that. Now that it's actually lit, everyone will now happily walk forwards to wherever they're going, but he's
00:47:24
Speaker
seeing the wisp, doing whatever. He assumes that stuff is going on that he has very little concepts or understanding of. He's just going to be letting it happen. And eventually, while you're letting these inspections happen, you feel a rumble in the earth beneath you. A rumble that almost feels as strong as a quake, you'd say. But the two sets of Dragonborn don't even flinch.
00:47:54
Speaker
Alpha, you'd recognize this too. This rumble turns into murmurings. This sound that has a rhythm-like language, but most of you don't detect it. It's a dialect that you process a bit slower, alpha, but it is a dialect of Draconic that Marotta speaks perfectly.
00:48:23
Speaker
Marota is going to start the translation. She says, it's been half year since you were summoned here. Why have you delayed? And we're actually saying this, this rumble has continued. I'd start with the context of
00:48:46
Speaker
Two of us died. That's been a slightly mitigating circumstance. Or apparently, Dad. Just to clarify, we're not saying they're dead or risen from the dead. But yeah, we thought they were dead and that changed everything. And we had good evidence. It wasn't like we just assumed they were dead. All the evidence did point to you two being dead. No offence. Do we have to bring this up right now? Well, I get the sense that... Don't use us as scapegoats for not coming here for the last six months. You could have gone in here before us.
00:49:18
Speaker
Didn't want you to miss out. You didn't know we were here! And, and, it was very clear that we were all summoned, right? That was the thing, where I remember that. It was very clear it was all of us. Yeah, I still feel like me and Maro is being used to scapegoats here, but just gets a bunch of Dragonborns, I'm not here for it!
Reflecting on Past Adventures
00:49:36
Speaker
I mean, death's a pretty valid excuse. Rachel and Ternan today have a death, they're pretty valid excuses, but we are sorry. We are contrite. Despite the validity of our excuse.
00:49:47
Speaker
Time is a subjective construct. We could be arriving right on time. Well, it's just said we were late. Whatever Rain said, he used some big words then. Contrition, but also just stayed in fact. Two people died. We're very sorry. Still sorry. Not a excuse. Make a persuasion check, Raines.
00:50:18
Speaker
Goody, goody, goody, goody, natural one. Nice. We get eaten. As you plea your case, one of the dragonborn breaks rank and goes and positions itself in the tunnel, essentially blocking your exit. Another rumble starts. The morota translates
00:50:49
Speaker
and tell me why have you come? What interest have you in this meeting? Okay, I'll go again. We have an interest in this meeting. We arrived in
00:51:09
Speaker
We arrived in Sleetgard looking for myself and the two of me. We arrived in Sleetgard looking for refuge and allyship in a quest of our own. But the second we stepped off the boat, the city was attacked by a dragon. We saw some weird stuff happen. We saw some people talk to that dragon and be able to mount dragons. And then before the Drake, we found another dragon wormling. There's been a lot of stuff with dragons.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah, I can't help but feel it's all connected and then you summon does and it definitely feels all connected. The rumble starts again. Moroto translates. I am in need of those who can walk freely across borders. I have a request.
00:52:10
Speaker
And I think that's why we're here, right? That's why we're here. We're here to at least hear this request, right? That's why we're here. I think Alf would tag on and says he's going to actually try and say this in Draconic saying that I can't speak it. Dan Barla said you were looking for a worthy group.
00:52:34
Speaker
He had recommended for us to come and see if we can prove ourselves to you. We are here to help.
00:53:13
Speaker
I've had to scrape through another book to get the notes for that.
00:53:14
Speaker
Well, I assume he was saying something that he remembered because, you know, he suddenly got away very chatty for someone who hardly talks. And Morota translates your response, Alpha, to the group. I hope he didn't mispronounce any of that and insult them. The rumble starts. Morota translates to the northwest of here. Over the border of my realm, Thebes have stolen my children.
00:53:46
Speaker
I cannot enter these lands, for it would begin a war between my kin, but I must have them returned. The thieves, the abcriskra, they know this. They aim to provoke my wrath. There is a pause.
00:54:16
Speaker
Do this for me, and you will be rewarded with a greater power than coin. And the wisp animates once again and hovers over alpha. Alpha, it speaks the words intraconic to you. Well, it speaks the words intraconic, but Marota doesn't translate in time. You notice Marota is becoming a bit uncertain.
00:54:47
Speaker
It says the words knowledge and adventure over you, Alpha. And then the light wisps over to Emron. The rumble starts. Morota translates this time. Divinity, heritage. The wisp leaps to the back of the room, to Nyx.
00:55:16
Speaker
Which one of me? The true you. Power. Protection. And the wisp forms temporarily the image of a arachnid on the word protection. Fucking spiders. Does Marota translate that? Yeah. Marota is still translating. She just was caught on something earlier and Alpha. Thank you. I'll just get.
00:55:43
Speaker
was given the chance to translate knowledge and adventure for himself. And then it pings over to Reince. The rumble starts. Influence. A promise. And then the light goes to Marota. The rumble starts. And Marota says quite brokenly, freedom?
00:56:12
Speaker
And there's another rumble, but you notice Marotur has stopped translating. And noticing the translation has stopped. The wisp moves in the direction of one of the dragonborn in the guard, one of the gold dragonborn. And at this point, we need Will to explain who this is.
00:56:42
Speaker
Okay, it's Young Jill. You see before you a six foot tall, golden scaled dragonborn, not the regular muscle bound kind, but slender, lithe, agile. Their scales shimmer like polished gold. Their draconic visage, complete with sharp toothed moor, currently set into a grin.
00:57:09
Speaker
Molten ruby eyes which almost dance with embers as they take you all in. All this framed with two back reaching horns and a multitude of smaller spine like scales which stretch back away from the face almost like a lion's mane.
00:57:27
Speaker
They're wearing a sand brown cape about their neck clasped at the front with a small glass phoenix. The cape on their back appears to be covering something on their back, which emits an occasional flickering red glow behind them. They're adorned in brown hide armor. They're clawed feet, bare and tarnished. There's a tarnished silver sickle attached to their belt.
00:57:53
Speaker
What takes your notice, however, is a number of pouches and satchels worn almost like a bandolier, diagonally across the front of their armour. And from the top of some of these pouches, you can see the glint of what must be glass vials. And in others, you can almost make out like a greenery, plant life, perhaps. And they take a step forwards and speak in the common tongue.
00:58:26
Speaker
This one reeks of obciscra filth as the light floats around Marota. She will remain here under my watch. Hang on a minute. Woah, woah, woah, woah. Hang on. Woah. You know, Marota has been with us a lot and she's not staying here unless she wants to. You're not going to keep her against her will. I feel that Nix has something to say, but it's muted.
00:58:59
Speaker
Oh, that must have felt sweet. That must have felt sweet. Very nice. I'm keeping it in as well, just
Valcon Joins and the Mission Begins
00:59:06
Speaker
to show that we're all human. Yeah, Nick was looking at and nodding furiously with what M1 was saying. Yeah, I've been quite a lot over on this journey so far, but we can't. She ain't staying here. If I may.
00:59:30
Speaker
This... this could be really good for us. I... I am... hmm... I have worked for the UPCRISCA before. If me staying here gains the trust, I'm willing to wait this one out. You might be willing to wait, but what about me?
01:00:00
Speaker
I mean, yeah, who's going to keep Nix in line? And just like, yeah, that. It's graduation day, Nix. I can't do this without you. This will only be a quick thing. Nothing we do is quick. Even us being here is six months late, apparently. That's true.
01:00:25
Speaker
Look, I'm not wild about letting you go, but like every parent, I've got to let you fly the nest. I don't want you to stay. Just go do it quickly. Just don't dawdle.
01:00:43
Speaker
Hang on a minute. So by going by, so you're going quickly, we've got to somehow work against the Chris group who have aggressively occupied Goldview and the rest of Sleet Guard in order to free the draconic children that the Chris group control it quickly. That sounds like a dawdle. I'm sure look, and Marota shouts to the void. You wouldn't. This isn't an impossible ask. Is it? How old are the kids?
01:01:15
Speaker
There was a silence for a short while. And then a rumble emerges again. And Marota translates. Unhatched. Eggs? How many are we talking? There is a pause. There is a rumble. Marota says, it's been six months. She doesn't know.
01:01:46
Speaker
I'm going to process some thoughts at this and we'll just go, we'll do it. And he'll turn to the others and he'll go, particularly to Admiral and Alpha. We came here, Alpha, you'd studied the geopolitics of the world before we came over. You read all the books before we left Shadowman. Did Kriskaer illegally occupying Sleetguard? Sleetguard was led
01:02:15
Speaker
and has been led by Princess Queen Regent Helen of Sleek God, who was pretty essential to defeating one of the biggest threats known to the known world recently.
01:02:25
Speaker
we can't pass this up he's looking at both emeron and alpha this this is this is big for for these folk but it's think about this is big for us as well hang on raise let's just think back to our our past history so far in the stuff we've tried to do two people have definitely died two people sort of died and um
01:02:50
Speaker
You know, this isn't going to be able to go here and do this. We've been asked to collect an unknown quantity of dragon's eggs, which I believe are quite... We don't know if they're hatched or not. It's different now. Which could be quite big. It's different now. I feel it. Trust me. This can't be coincidence. All these things, it can't be coincidence. Nyx was super useful in that fight. Nyx was beyond super useful in that fight. Nyx was useful in the whole thing.
01:03:18
Speaker
Marauder, I'm not too hard about you being part or associated with the abscur script, but I appreciate the fact that you're willing to remove yourself from the equation. And if Nyx comes with us, it'd be good to have you. You would be super useful and we'll get you back and we'll get Marauder back. And you said, who can you be with?
01:03:46
Speaker
I don't know if you trust me, I don't even know if you like me yet, but you can be with us because we couldn't have done the last one without you. The Roper fight was different. He's going around everyone now. That was different, right? Look at what we did. We can't pass this up. This isn't like going and doing a quiet job. This is like you're talking.
01:04:09
Speaker
I thought we were just coming to Sleepguard to find a quiet place in the world to just be us, not come over and change the geo, whatever. Oh, don't get me wrong, I think it's perfectly legitimate that they need to be fixed, but she's asking us for now.
01:04:39
Speaker
I've still got three of me here. Yeah, there's more than numbers, you know. She's asking people who she can trust. We've got gold now, we can pay, we can find others. The wisp moves itself over towards the dragonborn that spoke when Marota stopped. There is a low rumble again, and Marota translates.
01:05:06
Speaker
Vacon, was that word Vacon? Will accompany you. He will aid you. Please. Your dialect is slightly off. May I interject, Marota? Bal, Valcon. Valcon sounds like fuck off. There's a slight nod there. And then the head kind of stares at you and there's a very interested glare within the eye at you, Nyx.
01:05:37
Speaker
You're telling us that we've got to swap our party members for gold one. As he shouts towards the void of the mother dragon. A rumble. A rumble emerges. Roto translates. Perhaps a.
01:06:06
Speaker
Early reward to incentivise you is what you need. I don't want to die again. Then don't piss off the dragon. Shut up, Alpha! I mean, everyone's sort of like... Just tear me out. Just tear me out.
01:06:30
Speaker
We're hearing you out. No, I know. You need to talk in order for us to hear. There's a lot of things happening here. Look, this is going to sound really, really naive and silly, but I've been on this earth 50 years. That's a relatively short time for an elf, but it's a long time in the grand scheme of things for some races. Some races have 50 years and they're gone.
01:06:54
Speaker
During that time, I've done a lot of things that I can do. Yeah, goblins, orcs, some of them only end up... Anyway, that's not the point. I feel like that's a wrong that should be righted. During my life, I've done a lot of things that I can do. Alpha, there's you, there's the artificery stuff.
01:07:13
Speaker
Look, this is a chance for me and for us to do something that perhaps we should just do. At 17 years of age, her and the sleep god paired with a dragonborn and saved the world from the greatest known threat that we've ever faced. But we know that. That's fact, right? We've come here for a reason. I can't believe that the three of us have met someone like Nix, that Nix hasn't gone through what Nix has gone through, that we haven't gone through what we've gone through to be at this point.
01:07:41
Speaker
I don't know what it is. Call it a hopeless romantic in me, but this is a chance to not do what I can do, but instead to do what I should do. I think that goes for all of us. We got off that boat and that dragon attacked. There's too many things that have happened that means that this is more than chance.
01:08:01
Speaker
And he'll go to the Dragonborn. He'll come over to you, Will, and go, I'm sorry, I haven't fully processed your name yet, but if no one else will go with you, I'm going with you. I'll do it. Baal will look at you, smile, look back at the rest, and go, if this one is your leader, oh, he speaks some sense.
01:08:32
Speaker
I really, really, really, really, really, really don't like this person. I don't have the common sense to be a leader, but he'll point to M1. M1 does. M1, you have been on this earth less time than me, but you have more wisdom than I do. You've always spoken about doing the right thing.
01:08:59
Speaker
Sleepguard is in trouble. And we can't do anything for Shadow Men. Shadow Men's in trouble. We have to do the right thing here. It's more than just dragons. It's more than just these folk here. Look what's happening, Sleepguard. We can't not do this. I want to just pause for a minute and look down and rub your hands through his hair.
01:09:32
Speaker
You're right. Yeah, it is. You're right. We're being asked to do something that is the right thing to do. And if, if we're the ones to do it, then it'll be right. And everyone will step forward and go to, um, to Val. As Ryan said, we'll do it.
01:10:01
Speaker
No matter how many of us volunteer, we'll do our best or die trying. Raines will nod at Emerald at that and he'll turn to Alpha then and go. Heroes and stories, Alpha. It's heroes and stories. It's time to be the heroes in our own story. I did always want to be a hero.
01:10:30
Speaker
You are all the family I have ever known. You, Emron, even Nixa Marota. I have not been on this earth many years. However, I do not like the idea of dragonlings coming into this earth away from their kin. It does not sit right with me, and I would happily help.
01:11:00
Speaker
Rains will then turn to Nyx. I don't. Don't. Just don't. Just don't. I don't think I have a choice in this. Yes, I'll be coming along. Come on, Nyx. It'll be fun. Marota will just reach into a satchel one more time and produce her potion of healing and just put it into your chest, Nyx. Fine. You're going. Yeah. Great. I rumble. What's the early incentive? He shouts again to the boy. Very Nyx-y in overview. The rumble starts again.
01:11:33
Speaker
It's an instruction, a command word, really. No one really translates it. And what happens is one of the other Dragonborn in-line sort of breaks rank and produces one. It's a piece of fruit, but not a fruit any of you have necessarily seen before. There's one of them. The rumble starts again and Morota translates.
01:12:04
Speaker
One of you will know my power now. You decide. Right. Everyone's going to look to us. What do we mean by it? Do they mean the promise that they gave us?
01:12:29
Speaker
I believe as an early gift for our services and for helping the previous dragon wyrmling. It's also possible a demonstration of the capabilities of the dragon we are helping. Right, who wants it? I fucking do. Fuck this. Thought you would, Nix. Yeah. Somehow I am less than surprised.
01:13:00
Speaker
I don't care, let Nix have it. It's fine by me. Indeed. Alpha will take the pea to the fruit and just hand it over to Nix. Nix, do you ingest it? Do you... Oh, that's what we have to do. I have to eat this. What do you do? So you're giving this piece of effort? That's a fair point. I've just grabbed it. I assumed you had to eat the damn thing.
01:13:25
Speaker
Right. Yeah, fine. And then we'll eat it like a stubborn child at the moment. Nothing happens to the first minute and everyone thinks so. Just sort of looks at each other a bit blankly. And then you begin to feel amazing. Like, like you're on some sort of more enhancing drug.
01:13:49
Speaker
You feel stronger, you feel taller, you feel more awake, you feel fully rested, you feel level five. What the shit? Oh shit. And the rumble starts again. Moroto translates, go, save my children, send word when you succeed, and all my treasures.
01:14:16
Speaker
will be yours if all of my children are returned. How do we know if we've got a more number? The dragonborn who was blocking your exit steps away from the exit and the lights slowly begin to dim on the platform. Not completely out, but they're dimmer.
01:14:43
Speaker
okay no answer right okay um we'll hopefully get them all right then come on then fruit boy let's go and as you all stand there uncertain surprised slightly more informed about each other's true selves that is where we're going to end
01:15:13
Speaker
This week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis.
01:15:43
Speaker
The fruit. Oh, yeah, no, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. That was crazy. My mind is spinning. There's a lot to digest in that one. Not in the least. Brand new DM. Welcome to the table, Danny. Thank you.
01:15:58
Speaker
Thank you. You're all in for a very interesting ride. Oh, shit. So as a kind of announcement to our podcast listeners out there, we are tagging out DMs. Our long reigning champion, Mark, is taking his title belt and faking it.
01:16:15
Speaker
and giving it to Danny. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how Mark has been our DM for the past four years out of something crazy like 214 episodes. Stop padding his ego. 185. This is a massive thing and he deserves to... Well, it's just an announcement. What's your streak? Come on in.
01:16:42
Speaker
I just said it's like he done out of 215 episodes, he's done 185 of them and has continuously come up with brand new exciting content for the past four years. Never missing a step.
01:16:56
Speaker
And that's with everything that life has thrown at every single person in the past four years. So on behalf of myself, on behalf of all the members of the Fellowship, we send a massive thank you and all the love in the world to Mark. The podcast isn't going anywhere. The story is evolving. We're still going to be continuing on our Bellum Draconis arc, and it's going to be placed safely as you've heard over this episode.
01:17:25
Speaker
into the hands of our new illustrious DM, Danny. Hopefully we can reconnect with Mark in the future and have him back. It was just time. We've not got rid of him. I'm still here. He wasn't sacked either. I'm meant to make that.
01:17:45
Speaker
Yeah, I was just thinking like what people's going to be like, oh, what happened to Mark? Why did that? Was there anything like, no, nothing, nothing untowards happened. It was just time to pass the DM reigns on. And like I said, after four years, it's understandable. Um, and you've just heard Mark's voice there in the background. Oh yeah. I'm alive. I'm alive. There we are. That's better. That's it.
01:18:14
Speaker
But no changes. We'll still be producing awesome D&D content for you every single Friday.
Farewell to Mark as Dungeon Master
01:18:21
Speaker
And yeah. Marcus, anything you want to say? It's been an absolute delight since day one, since the year before we were recording. I've loved every second of it. And just, you know, life changes. Life gets in the way of being a nerd sometimes, which is annoying. I wish it wouldn't. But sometimes it does. And yeah, I'll still be around.
01:18:41
Speaker
I'll be there. It's been an absolute pleasure, all of you, to DM4. You make my life incredibly hard and incredibly easy at the same time. Yeah, it will. In terms of everyone, everyone brings their own little strain to it, which is why it's so lovely. I still stand by some of the best drama moments we've had, aren't actually RP, but have been the stuff and creative stuff you guys create through combat, which I stand by being objectively unique from all the podcasts I listen to.
01:19:09
Speaker
my hat off to you guys as well for making it seem like I know what I'm doing when actually I don't. And actually it's just your excellence in character work and knowledge of D&D, Will, and general, you know, shithouse-ery, Callum, that make the, that make the podcast what it is and give it the flavor and tones it needs. So,
01:19:30
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It's been an absolute pleasure, guys, and I cannot wait from it. If this episode is anything to go by, I cannot wait for the stuff that has got lined up for you. We're Danny's problem now. Exactly. We are Danny's problem now. A massive tip of the cap to you, Mark, as you walk off into a very well-earned and deserved star sunset.
01:19:53
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So yes, big news over at the fellowship cause for a moment of just respect.
01:20:02
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for Mark and what he's done and the amazing content he's created and then excitement and and joyfulness over what's to come in the future because like I said it's being passed over with thought and care into Danny's very capable hands and I cannot wait for you all to hear and for me to experience really from a selfish point of view what Danny's got in store for us all
01:20:30
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Which leads me to say thank you very much to everyone listening in, making this a part of your everyday week. We do, we appreciate you. If you wanted to leave us a review that we appreciate even a little more, just a little more. And if you wanted to tell your friends, family and loved ones to listen in, that would be awesome. You could also tell them
01:20:49
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where to find us on the interwebs. Let's go just for the X pages for now. You can find the main page at Furthership Table, and then you can follow us individually if you wanted to do so. I'm at iWorld1. Darren's at... Darren Page06. Callum's at... TheD20Gamer. I'm going to give you a little handout here, Mark. Mark can be found at... Hasty Your Old DM. Lonely Hearts DM.
01:21:18
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Well, one can be found out. Natural 20, well. Well, two can be found out. Fellowship and PP. Oh, shit, I can't fuck it. Don't search at, oh fuck it, it won't get you. Fellowship PP, I don't do that. Sign me up.
01:21:35
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and our brand spanking new, wonderful, awesome DM can be found at Total Party Thrills. Oh, I'm excited. I hope you're excited. Tune in next week to feel this again. Until next time, guys, farewell.