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World of Ae'oene Ep. 6: Prayers for the Undeserving
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Does Verrutha know the party is onto her? Will Kaldin hold true to his promise to Hess? Will Kaldin fall in love with yet another horse? All great questions that may be answered.
This is an adult show and contains explicit content.
This episode has the following content warnings: General Violence, Death
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Our cast:
- Curtiss Woosley as the GM
- MJ Guenther as Thalira Grimstone Eku'Lanathi
- Sapheara as Maeve Strongheart
- Rennie Armas as Kaldin
- Jack Baldwin as Jellen Ykalle
Additional credits:
- Show graphics by Sentic GFX
- Show editing by Mark Hitchen
- Intro/Outro music composed by Ryan Muns, Owner/Operator of Eyes On The Moon Studios
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Transcript
Introduction and Mature Themes Warning
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Destabilizing Foundations, Episode 6.
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The world of Aeone contains stories with mature themes.
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Content warnings are in the episode description.
Episode Six Excitement and Full Cast Reunion
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All right.
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Cue intro.
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Destabilizing Foundations, Episode 6.
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Okay, are you guys ready?
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Viewer discretion is advised.
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Ready.
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Oh my goodness.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Destabilizing Foundations, a story told in the world of Aeon.
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Thank you
Character Extra Tease
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guys so much for making it all the way to episode six.
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At the time of our recording, we're pretty, pretty fucking excited where we're at in this thing.
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I don't know if any of my other castmates here who I have all of them with me, we're no longer split up as you guys know.
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Hi guys, how you doing today?
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Good, you can't see me, but I'm doing a happy dance.
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Oh, I can see it.
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They can.
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They'll feel it in the air.
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Yeah.
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Right now is happy dance time.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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We are pretty excited to get back to episode six.
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We did record a little character extra that I think is going to drop after this episode.
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I might be wrong on that, but I think that might be a thing.
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So if you haven't heard it yet, get excited.
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But we've got a fun... We'll be popping that in on off week, so it'll be coming soon.
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That is true.
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That is true.
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We're going to throw... Don't look for it to be every off week or anything like that, but we're going to throw you guys a bone, a little surprise every now and then.
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But in the meantime,
Social Media World Quiz Plans
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we do have a fun session.
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And I also have a little nugget.
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Oh my gosh.
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I do have a little surprise for my castmates, though, for our opener today.
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We're going to test for anybody that doesn't know.
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We're on all the socials, of course, and I mainly run our TikTok and make some, of course, transfer those over to Reels and YouTube Shorts.
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I recently posted some fun regional facts about the world in which we are playing.
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We're going to test and see if any of my castmates paid attention.
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I'm too old for this.
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I don't use social media.
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Dude, I watched, but this weekend has been shit.
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So my retention is also shit.
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Oh, man.
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I have an excuse.
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I didn't watch it.
Musicals and Legal Jokes
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I have an excuse.
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Ooh, I guess we're just going to have to see how this goes on.
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Cue the game music.
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Is somebody watching it right now?
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What?
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Also, it sounded like you said, cue the gay music, and I'm like, I'm here.
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Cue the gay music.
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I've got musicals.
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I want a musical.
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Oh, my lord.
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We need a musical song.
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All right.
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See, what's a good gay song?
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Agony.
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25,600 minutes.
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Alexander Hamilton.
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All right.
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Oh my lord.
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Okay, guys, before we get sued by any number of people, apparently.
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As long as it's less than, like, what, 30 seconds or 15 seconds, they don't do anything, something like that?
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I don't know.
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They can if they want to.
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There's no, like, hard and fast rule.
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Well, if it's going to help us not get sued, maybe if you guys, Mr. CEOs and lawyers, if you want to be an NPC in the world, DM me and I'll bribe you.
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Um...
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Not bribe, not bribe.
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No, no, no, no.
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Business transaction.
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Legal business transaction.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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Anyway,
Game World Details Discussion
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we're going to see.
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It sounds like somebody was trying to cheat, but we're going to see if you guys recognize it.
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Some fun facts about my own.
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Currently trying to cheat right now for the record.
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That's crazy.
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We'll see how quickly I can log in.
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I guess we better get started.
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I'm just going to freeform it.
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I'm going to say a question, and you guys are going to yell beep, as in you are hitting a beeper to answer.
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first one I hear gets to do it.
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For question number one, what is the name of the hottest landmass on earth, or on earth, on a own located at the South Pole?
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Talira.
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Renny?
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I don't think Talira is correct.
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dude if you had said like hey what's the climate at the south pole of a
Episode Five Recap and Character Developments
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own i would have been like a fucking desert and then yeah no winning so close all right well unfortunately tilira was false the answer is portuga uh it was close though it was close there was tea in there um
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Second, we're going to continue with the names.
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What is the name of both continent and country that is a paradise surrounded by an ever-going hurricane?
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Ooh, silence.
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I mean.
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Unfortunate.
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That would be beau triage.
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And unfortunately, that is all the questions we have for today.
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So don't worry, ladies and gentlemen, to the next time, maybe the cast members will pay attention for the next one.
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I'm not paid for that.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Oh, man.
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Either way, y'all, this was fun.
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Let's get to the story.
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Oh, my God.
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Let me take a breather
Character Roles and Interrogation Scene
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for a sec.
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In our last episode, episode five, a lot happened as our party managed to find their way back to each other.
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The split party split no more.
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And in that, the rest of our party being Yellen and Calden met the professor, Professor Dashiell Oxenbrick.
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learning quite a bit on how these potential rifts to the primordial plane, the elements making their way to Aeon, could maybe be tied through the Mistborn in Verutha to some group or entity called the Zorlgog.
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And maybe how this could all tie into lost artifacts known as the Kajyada.
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A lot of information thrown out.
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A lot of unknowns.
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And then as you all decided to go to bed, Calden with the owl-like eyes, not able to see everything, noticed somebody was being kidnapped a couple of doors down.
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And as you all raced out of the building, exactly, normal things.
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And as you all raced out of the building, you found that Bartok had already engaged with this shadowed individual.
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And as you all quickly defeated him, you found it was to be Hess.
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The same man Yellen had his UFC boxing match with.
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Already looking rough and tumble, gets knocked out and on death's door, causing Yellen to have to use Fair the Dying to save him once again.
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Some things happened, words were said, and eventually you brought him back in to be handcuffed to the bed and you all could get some rest.
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And upon waking, Calden had a almost an intimate, if not nice conversation or interrogation.
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Not intimate in the romantic way, but intimate in the fact that emotions were strong.
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Way closer than I remembered.
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I shipped them.
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But emotions got deep during that conversation.
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And you can call it an interrogation, but I feel like it was more of an emotional breakdown from the side of Hess.
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Calvin's just that good at interrogating.
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He must be, because he told
Humor on Relationships and Social Dynamics
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you guys everything he knew, at least from what you can tell.
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And in return, asked for help to get out of Nivella through the docks and deliver a letter to his family to protect him from Verruva.
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And I believe, unless you guys can correct me, we ended shortly after that, as you had a conversation, talked about the plan moving forward, and that's about where we ended.
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Yeah.
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So I agreed for the whole party, because I was the de facto leader in that moment, apparently, that we would attempt to help him get on a ship to leave so that he wouldn't have to deal with the consequences of his own choices.
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Yeah.
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And we left off just prior to doing that.
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Oh, and I don't remember.
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He wanted me to tell Yellen that he just thinks he's the coolest.
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He's a real man.
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Yellen's a real man.
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Yes.
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Team Yellen.
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I think he has a crush.
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Yeah, we were all together at that time.
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indeed and as we come back in i believe you all hadn't even left the building yet so at that point um as we zoom back into one of these
Plan to Confront Verruta Begins
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rooms as you all are meeting and talking about the day i'll leave it to you so uh i was thinking before we just sort of cart this guy out there to the boat we should probably figure out how caught you and i were yelling if like
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she's realized something has happened and, you know, people know information or just is suspicious over the fact that her henchmen didn't come back with the person that he said he would.
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I just feel like it'd be a good idea if we check that out.
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I think you're definitely right.
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I don't know how you would find that out without being suspicious, though.
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Why do you sound weird, Caldyn?
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What do you mean?
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What do you mean?
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You're speaking a little different.
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Am I?
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Oh, that's more normal.
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Yes.
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There we go.
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What?
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Sorry.
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What?
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Huh?
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Pardon?
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What?
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Huh?
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I was thinking that we would go see Verruta under the guise of like, oh, we looked for mushrooms, but we didn't find anything.
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Are you sure you'd point us in the right direction or whatever?
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That could work, I think.
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I do look a bit worse for wear, however.
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I tried to patch it up a little bit, but I don't know if that would be suspicious at all.
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You fell in a thorn bush.
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Down a hill.
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Which is what sidetracked us from finding the mushrooms.
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Yes, I like this plan.
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Let's go for it.
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Totally ruined our date.
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Yep.
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A date?
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A date.
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Well, then, things have progressed quite fast.
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I'm missing something.
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Not a real date.
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It was to get information.
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Calvin, why didn't you tell me?
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You're not meant to date in the party.
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I am so proud of you.
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It was a fake date.
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It was a fictitious date.
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Nothing really happened.
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It was a guy's, a ruse.
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Oh.
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We were just pretending.
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Okay, well...
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I am glad that you are happy.
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Right.
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So this breakfast is really nice.
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Sorry, Yellen, I didn't think it would be that big of a deal to say that.
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That's my mistake.
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No, that's all right.
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You're fine.
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So do you still have the wine that you... I do.
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Not a real date.
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It wasn't a real date, I swear.
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We would...
Verruta's Escape and Pursuit Strategy
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Never mind.
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I was thinking that we would just offer to give her the wine as like, well, our date fell through because he got hurt in a thorn bush and we couldn't even find the mushrooms.
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And, you know, just to like suss out how she acts around us.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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I think that's a good plan.
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Okay.
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You two also should be somewhere.
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Well, I'm not going to interrupt you two, obviously.
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I had a chaperone is appropriate for dates, but that might just be me.
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Well, apparently it's not a real date.
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Would it be a real chaperone, though?
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No, if it was a fake date, it'd probably be a fake chaperone as well.
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I guess.
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I would like to incite them.
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I mean, I don't have a problem with that as long as they don't.
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I don't know what you'll find.
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Insight versus, I guess, either deception or persuasion, depending on what you're trying to do.
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I mean, honestly, it's not going to be hard.
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She rolled a 12.
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I'll let you roll, Yellen.
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All right.
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Let's see.
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Are you all at the bar top getting breakfast or are you in the room?
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Yeah, I think we're all having breakfast.
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Oh my gosh, are we having breakfast and Bartok is hearing this and going, aww.
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Well, that's a seven.
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Yellen, you're more than welcome to DM.
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I mean, you say it out loud if you really want to, but if you want to DM MJ, any thoughts that maybe she could pick up?
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Oh, my gosh.
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Well, I must say the way you guys are talking sounds eerily similar to when I met my wife.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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Good luck to you both, I must say.
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It's an unlikely pair, but happy for you.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Y'all have never seen so much color on Kalden, I think.
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It's like his iron deficiency was cured.
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I see you've been using Yellen's facial routine.
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It suits you well.
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His rouge or whatever.
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His rouge?
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The rogue's rouge.
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Given anything that happened last night, Bartok does have deep dark circles under his eyes and looks very tired.
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Oh, right.
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Well, I did talk
Pursuit Challenges and Character Dynamics
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to Bluebell to get her to not come in last night, so she took my shift today.
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I do believe I'm going to go get myself some Jedi.
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And you hear a ding as the door opens, and a slender, very young and innocent-looking Triton woman with black hair, and somehow almost like pinkish, almost like rosy cheeks, except they're pink on a Triton's light blue skin color, and dark blue freckles all over her face.
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Oh.
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Hey, Martok!
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I'm here to relieve you.
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So, I don't know what was going on last night, but... Oh, yes.
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Well, everybody, these are our guests currently.
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Well, there's one who hasn't come down yet, but you'll know him when you see him.
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This is Calden Yellen, Maven, Thalira.
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Make sure you take real good care of him.
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Everyone, this is Dubal.
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Hello.
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Pleasure to meet you.
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Oh, and I do believe that we might have found out that Calden and Yellen had a successful date last night, so make sure to treat them to maybe a good drink.
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Having a truss.
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Calden like slinks down to be hidden a little bit by Talira.
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It definitely was not successful.
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Oh, okay.
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Well, okay, well, get some good sleep, Bartok.
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I got it from here.
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So, you guys have a good night?
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Sleep well.
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It was eventful.
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Oh, good.
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Okay.
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Well, I see he's already got your breakfast going.
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If you guys need anything, any drinks or anything, let me know.
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I see there's really not much for me to do, to be honest.
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So I'm going to go to the storeroom and go in the back and see if anything needs organized.
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Bartok's not really the best at that.
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So I'm going to shoot you the finger guns awkwardly.
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I love her.
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We're going to go.
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That is just like immediate sign for Talera as soon as she leaves.
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Then Talera's cheeks start matching hers.
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Yes!
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Ooh.
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I think everyone is becoming very sick.
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It looks like everyone's getting a fever.
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Is that babe?
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Clueless.
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Um...
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Maybe we should rest because I don't want everyone to come down with the flu.
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I have really good at not getting the flu, so I should.
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I feel great.
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I'm glad.
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I bet you do.
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What?
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Oh, nothing.
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Nothing.
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What?
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Oh, nothing.
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We just saw, you know, pretty girl.
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Seems nice.
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That's all.
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So, let's go away to do the thing we said.
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To the apothecary.
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Wait, where am I going?
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For Ruthah, but farther from us, so that if... Oh, okay.
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It's just us, but if we don't come back in, like, five minutes?
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Well, I'm so sorry that I slept in too long.
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I'm late to breakfast, I say.
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On account of...
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Everything that happened last night.
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Good morning.
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How's everybody doing?
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Morning.
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Good morning.
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I'm glad you are.
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Why is everybody acting so awkward?
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No reason.
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Just woke up, you know, early morning and all that.
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It's like noon.
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Late morning.
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Late morning for sure.
00:19:34
Speaker
Well, indeed, my apologies.
00:19:38
Speaker
You seem like you're about to go out.
00:19:39
Speaker
We can talk later.
00:19:40
Speaker
I'm just going to give myself some breakfast.
00:19:42
Speaker
Try the bacon.
00:19:43
Speaker
It is pleasantly surprising.
00:19:45
Speaker
Good to know.
00:19:46
Speaker
Thank you very much.
00:19:47
Speaker
He sits down and very much looks not awake yet.
00:19:52
Speaker
Like, out of it.
00:19:53
Speaker
Is it a good idea to leave him alone then?
00:19:56
Speaker
He was targeted for a reason.
00:19:58
Speaker
Probably not.
00:20:00
Speaker
Maybe someone should stay here with him.
00:20:03
Speaker
He could come with us, be part of our party for a little bit.
00:20:06
Speaker
I think maybe, if we're looking for discretion, not the old man who talks a lot.
00:20:14
Speaker
You would be surprised how many people tune out an old man who talks a lot.
00:20:18
Speaker
She does have a point.
00:20:19
Speaker
And would actively try to pretend they don't exist.
00:20:22
Speaker
I don't like that he was listening.
00:20:24
Speaker
She does have a point.
00:20:25
Speaker
How good are your ears, old man?
00:20:27
Speaker
As good as I want them to be.
00:20:30
Speaker
He is magic, okay?
00:20:32
Speaker
That is the most real answer I have ever heard in my life.
00:20:37
Speaker
As good as I want them to be.
00:20:38
Speaker
I'll be fine, I'll be fine.
00:20:43
Speaker
I'm a master of conjuration.
00:20:46
Speaker
I'll be fine.
00:20:47
Speaker
Don't worry about it.
00:20:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:49
Speaker
It helped you last night.
00:20:51
Speaker
That, hmm, don't start with me, youngin'.
00:20:55
Speaker
We're just concerned, that's all.
00:20:59
Speaker
I get up
Final Approach and Confrontation Preparations
00:21:01
Speaker
and start heading that way and kind of look back and motion for... I do the same.
00:21:05
Speaker
Hop along.
00:21:07
Speaker
Come on, let's go.
00:21:08
Speaker
I quickly eat my last bit of bacon.
00:21:10
Speaker
I shove it in my mouth and we walk away.
00:21:13
Speaker
Just as the door's starting to close here.
00:21:15
Speaker
Oh, finally, I thought they would never leave.
00:21:17
Speaker
That son of a bitch.
00:21:18
Speaker
What?!
00:21:19
Speaker
Rude.
00:21:20
Speaker
Who said that?
00:21:21
Speaker
We saved his life.
00:21:22
Speaker
She mutters that under her breath.
00:21:24
Speaker
Not loudly.
00:21:25
Speaker
You get the feeling he's not a morning person.
00:21:30
Speaker
I don't think there's any indication of that.
00:21:33
Speaker
No, not at all.
00:21:37
Speaker
Yeah, as you guys leave, the day is yours.
00:21:40
Speaker
Do notice something slightly different from the day yesterday, and that is not too far from the tavern being the entrance into town on the main road.
00:21:51
Speaker
There is a cart that you saw coming in just a bit ago when you were talking to Heskaldun.
00:21:57
Speaker
Mm hmm.
00:21:58
Speaker
When he had talked about taking the extra child with the trap set and having set a trap on the cart to get the child.
00:22:07
Speaker
And sure enough.
00:22:08
Speaker
Oh.
00:22:09
Speaker
You see a cart that has a small crowd of people around it.
00:22:13
Speaker
With like grieving parents.
00:22:16
Speaker
You see that the cart is a bit beat up as if maybe anger was taken out on it in a couple of spots.
00:22:23
Speaker
And you do see a group of like town mothers kind of consoling a tall, slender woman with long black hair, perfectly straight black hair.
00:22:33
Speaker
Very pretty from what you can tell from this distance.
00:22:37
Speaker
And then you can't see the man currently shrouded by so many people.
00:22:42
Speaker
Yellen, I do have a question for you, though.
00:22:44
Speaker
What is your passive perception?
00:22:47
Speaker
That would be a 14.
00:22:48
Speaker
14.
00:22:50
Speaker
How deep would you look into this?
00:22:53
Speaker
Everybody sees this as you leave.
00:22:55
Speaker
There's a small town.
00:22:56
Speaker
A lot usually goes on.
00:22:57
Speaker
So this is like pretty big change.
00:22:59
Speaker
There's a lot of people, a little bit of commotion.
00:23:02
Speaker
How closely would you be looking at anybody?
00:23:05
Speaker
Probably pretty closely.
00:23:07
Speaker
I might walk up to see what happened.
00:23:11
Speaker
Okay.
00:23:11
Speaker
You recognize
Confrontation Tactics Discussion
00:23:12
Speaker
the woman.
00:23:13
Speaker
Oh.
00:23:14
Speaker
From a time...
00:23:16
Speaker
earlier in your followings.
00:23:19
Speaker
Who is it?
00:23:21
Speaker
The memory you have of this woman is not a good one.
00:23:24
Speaker
Oh.
00:23:25
Speaker
Well, wait a second to see if you put two and two together.
00:23:29
Speaker
It was not a fun night, and it may have happened to be in a foggy small town on the south side of the Moonpeak Mountains at Jolf.
00:23:37
Speaker
I definitely remember.
00:23:39
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:23:42
Speaker
From Saturday.
00:23:43
Speaker
Oh, shit.
00:23:47
Speaker
No, I remember.
00:23:48
Speaker
Why'd you say it like that?
00:23:50
Speaker
He's like, no, no, no, I do remember.
00:23:54
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that was just a couple days ago.
00:23:56
Speaker
I definitely remember.
00:23:59
Speaker
Why'd you say it like that?
Episode Cliffhanger: Closing in on Verruta
00:24:03
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I for sure know what you're talking about.
00:24:06
Speaker
Well, I was trying to put emphasis.
00:24:08
Speaker
I definitely remember.
00:24:12
Speaker
Good job.
00:24:15
Speaker
Good job.
00:24:18
Speaker
Because I remember.
00:24:22
Speaker
Anyway, that's the details I have for you.
00:24:25
Speaker
What you do next is up to you as a group.
00:24:26
Speaker
So just that's all I got.
00:24:30
Speaker
Kill her.
00:24:31
Speaker
Did you just say kill her?
00:24:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:33
Speaker
Calden didn't.
00:24:34
Speaker
He heard it in his head.
00:24:35
Speaker
Did you just think kill her?
00:24:41
Speaker
In the fucking weirdest voice?
00:24:42
Speaker
Why?
00:24:42
Speaker
Parasites.
00:24:46
Speaker
I'm going to try to avoid her sight if I can, even though I did start walking up.
00:24:53
Speaker
So maybe it's unavoidable, but she's pretty distracted right now.
00:24:58
Speaker
So you probably could have a chance to hide behind Talira or something or some other idea.
00:25:03
Speaker
She has not noticed you.
00:25:04
Speaker
That's for sure.
00:25:06
Speaker
She looks very distraught.
00:25:07
Speaker
You can see that any kind of makeup she would have had is 100% smeared, still crying in the arms of all these other mothers, audibly sobbing still.
00:25:16
Speaker
You can hear the cussing and anger of a man's voice who also recognized too.
00:25:24
Speaker
You definitely, nobody's noticed you yet as far as that goes.
00:25:26
Speaker
So you can definitely take a moment to try to conceal yourself.
00:25:30
Speaker
I will do that.
00:25:31
Speaker
Do we notice Yellen suddenly being weird after trying to approach them?
00:25:38
Speaker
Yes, that's a good question.
00:25:39
Speaker
Probably.
00:25:41
Speaker
Yellen kind of takes part of his cloak and he wraps it over his head.
00:25:45
Speaker
Almost as if it was a hood.
00:25:48
Speaker
And he slashes down a little bit.
00:25:51
Speaker
What's wrong?
00:25:52
Speaker
Are you cold?
00:25:56
Speaker
I just, you know, disguises in case we're, you know, sinister eyes.
00:26:01
Speaker
Are you afraid of Verita recognizing you or something?
00:26:06
Speaker
Uh, yeah.
00:26:09
Speaker
Yep.
00:26:10
Speaker
But wait, I thought the whole point was for you to talk to her.
00:26:15
Speaker
I'm so confused.
00:26:17
Speaker
Should we leave?
00:26:17
Speaker
Well, let's, we should probably find out what happened here first.
00:26:23
Speaker
I think I know.
00:26:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:29
Speaker
They... We should probably back off for a bit.
00:26:34
Speaker
What is going on, Caldin?
00:26:37
Speaker
I might have...
00:26:39
Speaker
forgotten to mention one of the things he said let's let's let's back up a bit i think that might be for the best uh and i kind of usher us further from the crowd had all us together they needed another child just in case he told me they'd set a trap on a cart for a family that was going away so they they got the kid
00:27:06
Speaker
Now, I know I told him that we would help him get away in exchange for his information.
00:27:13
Speaker
I don't necessarily want to go back on my word, but we do also need to consider that he is complicit in the murder of children, so... He is not getting away.
00:27:26
Speaker
And we should probably decide what we're doing with Verruta, who...
00:27:32
Speaker
I mean, is the one telling him what to do.
00:27:35
Speaker
Well, we should both take them to justice, bring them to justice.
00:27:39
Speaker
With what evidence?
00:27:40
Speaker
I mean, we have a witness, but he wants to go away.
00:27:43
Speaker
That's the only reason he told us anything.
00:27:45
Speaker
Well, we are the evidence.
00:27:46
Speaker
We are the ones who came to figure out what is happening.
00:27:49
Speaker
We found people who are complicit in it.
00:27:51
Speaker
We've got firsthand accounts of people saying stuff that is incriminating people
00:28:00
Speaker
In court.
00:28:00
Speaker
So we do technically have enough.
00:28:04
Speaker
I hope.
00:28:05
Speaker
If she's not on to anything yet, if we determine that, I would like to go back to where I overheard her and check out that cave.
00:28:15
Speaker
Sounds like a plan.
00:28:17
Speaker
If she is on to us, I guess I don't know that... We need to take them out before they can get away or hurt anyone else.
00:28:25
Speaker
I agree that something needs to be done so that they can't do this again.
00:28:29
Speaker
Why are we waiting?
00:28:30
Speaker
That's a good question.
00:28:32
Speaker
I think a sound plan needs to be had before we jump into attacking people.
00:28:38
Speaker
Agreed.
00:28:39
Speaker
I don't think it's the best idea to go in axes swinging.
00:28:43
Speaker
It might hinder us from being able to continue our mission and putting a stop to this for good.
00:28:49
Speaker
I am action.
00:28:50
Speaker
I am not this plotting, this planning.
00:28:53
Speaker
So if you don't want me to go in right now and take care of them the way I know how, then you need to come up with a plan now.
00:29:01
Speaker
I think I have an idea.
00:29:04
Speaker
What are those people doing?
00:29:05
Speaker
The woman from the cart?
00:29:08
Speaker
About this time, the man comes around and kind of a brooding, large, early and hairy man.
00:29:15
Speaker
Very different from the last time you saw him and the fact that he's not wearing like a shadowed hood.
00:29:19
Speaker
He's wearing a cutoff with essentially like really rough jeans on and boots.
00:29:25
Speaker
You can see there are tear marks on his eyes as well.
00:29:28
Speaker
Completely shaven head.
00:29:30
Speaker
A couple new scars that you probably didn't see last time.
00:29:33
Speaker
Although the one that was very apparent last time is still there, going from the edge of his eye across the back of his head.
00:29:39
Speaker
He's coming around and takes his wife into a big hug.
00:29:42
Speaker
You're just going to hear, it's going to be alright.
00:29:46
Speaker
It's going to be alright.
00:29:47
Speaker
We're going to find him.
00:29:48
Speaker
Somebody fucking did this.
00:29:50
Speaker
I feel they may know more about the children disappearances than their own child going missing.
00:29:59
Speaker
I've met them before briefly in another time, but I think it may be worth it to talk to them to see if there are any leads we can follow to really cut the head off the snake.
00:30:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:30:13
Speaker
And you know them- We know who did it, don't we?
00:30:16
Speaker
Varutha is a tool in this whole scheme.
00:30:21
Speaker
She's one of many who are doing this.
00:30:24
Speaker
She's just this village's person.
00:30:27
Speaker
Do you know them in such a way that you would be able to ask them questions and get leads for us?
00:30:35
Speaker
Well, I can try.
00:30:37
Speaker
Last time we met wasn't so amicable when we parted.
00:30:41
Speaker
Okay.
00:30:42
Speaker
Do you want backup with that then?
00:30:44
Speaker
Um, it's still a bad idea.
00:30:47
Speaker
Or authoritarian backup?
00:30:49
Speaker
I don't know that a grieving family wants bad cop.
00:30:55
Speaker
Oh, that doesn't mean bad cop, it just means cop.
00:31:01
Speaker
Most grieving people would go to the authorities, it's more of a they think it's someone who would be able to assist and help, not a
00:31:09
Speaker
Let's get angry at you because your child is gone.
00:31:13
Speaker
The authorities were sent.
00:31:14
Speaker
That's kind of us.
00:31:15
Speaker
We've been sent here to figure out what's going on with it.
00:31:17
Speaker
Correct.
00:31:18
Speaker
Then why don't we stop them right now?
00:31:21
Speaker
We have the authority.
00:31:25
Speaker
We also need information so that we don't put ourselves at another dead end.
00:31:29
Speaker
If we destroy the puzzle piece, it'll be much harder to put it all together.
00:31:34
Speaker
You see Talira, like, she's ready for action.
00:31:38
Speaker
She is bouncing, basically, on the balls of her feet, trying not to pace, and she's just, you see her hands just rub, like, pushing back her hair.
00:31:52
Speaker
Would it not also be kinder to let the people of this village decide what happens to them?
00:32:01
Speaker
They are the ones that she's wronged.
00:32:04
Speaker
It's their children.
00:32:06
Speaker
Fuck.
00:32:07
Speaker
You make a good argument there, fine.
00:32:11
Speaker
But if we can get more information from this couple that Yellen knows, we might as well start there.
00:32:16
Speaker
We're right here.
00:32:17
Speaker
Why don't you introduce us?
00:32:18
Speaker
And hopefully in the interim, Verruta hasn't figured out what's going on and fled.
00:32:23
Speaker
That is... She could get away.
00:32:26
Speaker
Look, I don't think these people are going to be going anywhere anytime soon.
00:32:30
Speaker
They're grieving.
00:32:31
Speaker
They're consoling each other.
00:32:33
Speaker
Ruta is the one who we are on a time limit with.
00:32:36
Speaker
It might be best to at best capture her and make sure she cannot go anywhere before we talk to anyone because we already know she's bad.
00:32:46
Speaker
We already know that she is involved in this.
00:32:48
Speaker
We cannot let her get away.
00:32:50
Speaker
I agree with that.
00:32:51
Speaker
It's a good plan.
00:32:52
Speaker
I am with you there, Maeve.
00:32:54
Speaker
Agreed.
00:32:54
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:55
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:56
Speaker
I'm sure a grieving family full of friends will not be going anywhere anytime soon.
00:33:01
Speaker
So where was the last place we saw Varoufa?
00:33:03
Speaker
It would have been the cave.
00:33:06
Speaker
In the cave.
00:33:07
Speaker
Presumably she would have come home by now for her shop to be open.
00:33:10
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:11
Speaker
So how would we like to enter her store?
00:33:13
Speaker
Would we like to have a few in the front and a few come in from the back?
00:33:19
Speaker
I can stay around back.
00:33:20
Speaker
I'll catch her if she tries to sneak out.
00:33:24
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:25
Speaker
I don't think she wants to see my face right now because I cannot stop myself.
00:33:30
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:31
Speaker
Well, we will action an authoritarian arrest and put her in custody.
00:33:39
Speaker
Let Yellen and I go in the front to talk to her first and we'll signal when it's time for you to come in as well.
00:33:47
Speaker
Sure.
00:33:48
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:48
Speaker
If that is what you feel is best, I will wait at the front while we have someone stationed in the back and go from there.
00:33:57
Speaker
How does that sound, Yelen?
00:33:58
Speaker
It sounds like a good plan.
00:34:00
Speaker
I suppose we should get moving.
00:34:01
Speaker
I highly doubt we'll get any information out of her, but I would like to suss out how suspicious she was of us to start.
00:34:08
Speaker
Then I'll help us figure out what to do after we've gotten her.
00:34:11
Speaker
The point is just to arrest her.
00:34:13
Speaker
I don't think we're going to get much information regardless.
00:34:16
Speaker
No, but her immediate reaction to seeing us just coming in will tell us plenty.
00:34:22
Speaker
Sure.
00:34:22
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:23
Speaker
I need to know that she hasn't caught on to us and has prepared traps or something in places that we need to go.
00:34:29
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:30
Speaker
We shall go.
00:34:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:32
Speaker
Let's do it.
00:34:34
Speaker
All right.
00:34:35
Speaker
So you are heading towards Verruta's apothecary.
00:34:38
Speaker
And as you know, it's not too far from the tavern.
00:34:41
Speaker
It doesn't take you long.
00:34:42
Speaker
And as you approach, just like last time, doors closed.
00:34:47
Speaker
You don't see any, like, torches lit or anything like that.
00:34:50
Speaker
But it's morning.
00:34:51
Speaker
It's just like last time.
00:34:53
Speaker
It doesn't seem any different.
00:34:54
Speaker
And who's heading around back?
00:34:55
Speaker
Talira.
00:34:57
Speaker
Talira, as the three of the others stay up front, you get around back and you notice that the back door is open.
00:35:05
Speaker
Hmm.
00:35:06
Speaker
Um...
00:35:08
Speaker
Would Calden and Talira have established some kind of queue for each other?
00:35:15
Speaker
Probably.
00:35:15
Speaker
We traveled just the two of us for a while.
00:35:17
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:35:19
Speaker
I imagine they would have had some kind of whistle or something.
00:35:23
Speaker
That sounds like something Calden would think to...
00:35:26
Speaker
Yeah, and I actually think Talira would think of something like that, too, being that she would hear animal sounds and do some kind of animal call with her tribe for communication.
00:35:41
Speaker
So you would hear whatever we decided that cue would be, either a bird call or animal sound.
00:35:49
Speaker
A turkey call.
00:35:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:54
Speaker
Just kidding, that wasn't Calvin's idea.
00:36:01
Speaker
But yeah, you just hear like a sound.
00:36:07
Speaker
Fuck.
00:36:09
Speaker
Okay.
00:36:10
Speaker
What's wrong?
00:36:11
Speaker
Something's gone bad.
00:36:12
Speaker
We need to go run back.
00:36:13
Speaker
All right.
00:36:14
Speaker
Well, no time to waste.
00:36:17
Speaker
I'm going to stay up the front just in case.
00:36:19
Speaker
Okay.
00:36:20
Speaker
Okay.
00:36:21
Speaker
Yeah, you get around the corner and you, Thalera, would you have done anything or just standing at the open door?
00:36:27
Speaker
I would stay back at the open door and just kind of peek my eyes around the area to see if I could see anything, any movement as I'm waiting for Calden to come in.
00:36:38
Speaker
Essentially, keep my eye on the door, make sure nobody's coming in or out, but also look around the area to see if I can notice any kind of
00:36:47
Speaker
So when you're looking around the area, are you thinking more perception check?
00:36:51
Speaker
Like, I want to be aware if anything's happening or doing anything or investigation?
00:36:55
Speaker
Definitely more perception.
00:36:57
Speaker
Talira is not going to make a move without Kalden there.
00:36:59
Speaker
Okay, so not like investigation looking for signs?
00:37:02
Speaker
No.
00:37:03
Speaker
Okay, roll me a perception check then.
00:37:08
Speaker
That was a nine.
00:37:08
Speaker
Nine?
00:37:10
Speaker
Okay.
00:37:10
Speaker
That's sad.
00:37:13
Speaker
As you're watching, only movement you notice are a couple chipmunks fighting over some food.
00:37:20
Speaker
Other than the wind, obviously, like wrestling the leaves and things like that.
00:37:23
Speaker
But other than that, it's pretty calm right now.
00:37:26
Speaker
All right.
00:37:26
Speaker
To be fair, chipmunks fighting over food is pretty cute and distracting.
00:37:30
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:31
Speaker
It's also very noisy.
00:37:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:34
Speaker
Also true.
00:37:36
Speaker
Sproof.
00:37:41
Speaker
Now, what do chipmunks look like in Aeon?
00:37:43
Speaker
Do they look like chipmunks here or are they different?
00:37:46
Speaker
Oh, they're just normal chipmunks.
00:37:48
Speaker
You got to have a mix, you know, of beasts to like real animals.
00:37:52
Speaker
That way, they're not like you can have a reference chipmunks.
00:37:56
Speaker
I mean, you don't have to have a mix because like all animals were a mix of several and Avatar, weren't they?
00:38:07
Speaker
That's true.
00:38:07
Speaker
I like having a mix, though, because it allows things, immersion-wise, it allows you to go, okay, this makes sense.
00:38:12
Speaker
Like the tassel tuff, it being in marshlands and the fact that it sucks along the ground to eat crawdads.
00:38:17
Speaker
And you're like, oh, oh, yeah, crawdads, holes in the ground, marshlands.
00:38:20
Speaker
Yeah, that all makes sense.
00:38:21
Speaker
Okay.
00:38:22
Speaker
That's a different thing than having straight-up real animals from Earth, though.
00:38:26
Speaker
Like, yeah, you're always going to want to... Anyway.
00:38:30
Speaker
We're going to get into a whole tangent.
00:38:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:34
Speaker
Yep.
00:38:34
Speaker
This is going to go on way too long.
00:38:38
Speaker
This is the kind of world building I like to talk about.
00:38:40
Speaker
Pause for the Christmas.
00:38:42
Speaker
This is a thing now, by the way.
00:38:44
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:38:48
Speaker
Oh, I saw a bubble sound.
00:38:49
Speaker
I don't know if you could hear it.
00:38:50
Speaker
I couldn't.
00:38:51
Speaker
It's a liquid.
00:38:52
Speaker
Oh, nice.
00:38:53
Speaker
That was a good one, too.
00:38:54
Speaker
That was crisp.
00:38:57
Speaker
Sol in the wrist.
00:38:58
Speaker
That's crisp can open.
00:39:00
Speaker
All in the wrist.
00:39:01
Speaker
Anyway.
00:39:02
Speaker
Distractions.
00:39:05
Speaker
Sorry, audience.
00:39:05
Speaker
Hope you enjoy the crisp sound of a can opening.
00:39:11
Speaker
But yeah, that's the only thing you notice.
00:39:12
Speaker
So as Kalanushka, as you come around, you see Talira kind of keep in watch.
00:39:17
Speaker
And you do notice she might be slightly distracted by some cute chipmunks in the pasture.
00:39:27
Speaker
Clara.
00:39:28
Speaker
What?
00:39:29
Speaker
Sorry.
00:39:29
Speaker
They were being very cute.
00:39:32
Speaker
Right.
00:39:33
Speaker
Bigger issues at the moment.
00:39:34
Speaker
Yes, door is open in the back.
00:39:37
Speaker
See that?
00:39:38
Speaker
Yes.
00:39:38
Speaker
Thank you for calling us over.
00:39:41
Speaker
That's bad.
00:39:42
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:43
Speaker
Why are you called?
00:39:45
Speaker
Should I go in first, just in case something is there?
00:39:48
Speaker
I mean, do you want me to go in first?
00:39:49
Speaker
I am the big one.
00:39:51
Speaker
Yeah, I...
00:39:52
Speaker
That's almost why I don't want you to go in first.
00:39:55
Speaker
I'm going to kind of look around inside to see if I notice anything immediate.
00:40:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:03
Speaker
As you peek your head in, no role needed.
00:40:05
Speaker
You notice the places look like it's been gone through in a rush.
00:40:11
Speaker
She knows.
00:40:11
Speaker
Drawers are left open.
00:40:12
Speaker
Cabinets are left open.
00:40:13
Speaker
Things are on the floor.
00:40:15
Speaker
Like, didn't have time to pick it up.
00:40:17
Speaker
I step inside.
00:40:18
Speaker
I would like to do an investigation to see if there's anything...
00:40:22
Speaker
at all that would indicate how recently someone has been here.
00:40:27
Speaker
Yeah, give me an investigation roll.
00:40:36
Speaker
11.
00:40:36
Speaker
11.
00:40:36
Speaker
No, that's actually not bad.
00:40:38
Speaker
This is not a hard, I mean, failable, but not a hard check to pass.
00:40:43
Speaker
10 was the DC, so you can tell there's even some food that had been dropped on the floor, and it isn't even fully crusted over yet.
00:40:53
Speaker
Like, it looks recently tore through, and not in the sense like somebody's looking for something, but rather somebody was trying to leave in a hurry.
00:41:02
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:03
Speaker
Obviously, she knows what's going on.
00:41:04
Speaker
She's bailed.
00:41:06
Speaker
We should close up.
00:41:09
Speaker
I'm gonna come around the back.
00:41:11
Speaker
Because we can come back later for some potions, maybe.
00:41:14
Speaker
But I...
00:41:18
Speaker
I want to go see if the path we had seen her take before looks disturbed more recently.
00:41:26
Speaker
Yeah, as you step outside to kind of look for a path, maybe in the somewhat deep... Are you looking in the same exact area or just looking in general outside of her house to find a path?
00:41:37
Speaker
I want to first initially look to see if we had seen her go before and had trailed her, if that looks more disturbed than before.
00:41:48
Speaker
Completely new area.
00:41:49
Speaker
I'll have you roll investigation again.
00:41:50
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:41:53
Speaker
I had to walk a bit for that.
00:41:54
Speaker
16.
00:41:55
Speaker
Yes, you guys, it does take a couple minutes as Calvin does have to walk away quite a bit.
00:42:02
Speaker
16, though, you don't notice that the tracks there are any newer than they were last night.
00:42:09
Speaker
Okay.
00:42:11
Speaker
Can I do a perception scan to see if anything else, like...
00:42:18
Speaker
Any other areas look like she might have gone there instead.
00:42:21
Speaker
Yeah, we'll just use your investigation rule.
00:42:23
Speaker
You rolled as well as you come back on your way back and keeping an eye out for like maybe other other traces or tracks or anything.
00:42:29
Speaker
Can I guidance that?
00:42:31
Speaker
If you want to.
00:42:32
Speaker
Yeah, it's frankly, I'll be honest, you probably don't need it.
00:42:37
Speaker
It's pretty obvious.
00:42:38
Speaker
This was done just like in the house, not done stealthily, very much in a hurry, was not trying to hide, really, or at least if she was, wasn't successful at hiding her path.
00:42:49
Speaker
As you see disturbed and broken branches, disturbed and crushed leaves, an easy trek actually leading general area towards the behind the tavern area, not actually towards the tavern, but rather staying in the woods behind it.
00:43:04
Speaker
And that's as far as you can see.
00:43:05
Speaker
from right here, unless you want to travel further.
00:43:07
Speaker
But you can see it's more going instead of up the mountain, more lateral.
00:43:11
Speaker
Was it one set of footprints or were there two sets?
00:43:16
Speaker
One.
00:43:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:43:18
Speaker
How slow is everyone?
00:43:19
Speaker
Should I sleight of hand to lock the back door?
00:43:21
Speaker
If you want.
00:43:23
Speaker
WWKD, what would Kelton do?
00:43:25
Speaker
Yeah, literally it. 19.
00:43:34
Speaker
Yeah, you can lock the back door.
00:43:36
Speaker
Okay.
00:43:37
Speaker
I think I found a trail.
00:43:38
Speaker
Well, it seems pretty obvious I found a trail.
00:43:40
Speaker
We don't have time to question anything.
00:43:42
Speaker
We just need to go.
00:43:44
Speaker
We should definitely go.
00:43:46
Speaker
And especially check the cave.
00:43:49
Speaker
Opposite directions, is it?
00:43:51
Speaker
Oh, it's in the opposite.
00:43:52
Speaker
Is it?
00:43:53
Speaker
Not directly opposite, but definitely not the same.
00:43:56
Speaker
Cave was like up the mountain.
00:43:58
Speaker
The trail that you would see that is fresh kind of goes...
00:44:03
Speaker
Almost alongside the main road, to be honest.
00:44:05
Speaker
It's kind of like a lateral staying at the same altitude along the mountains, going along the side rather than up.
00:44:12
Speaker
No, I think she's trying to go down away instead of up to the mountain.
00:44:17
Speaker
Follow me.
00:44:20
Speaker
Following.
00:44:21
Speaker
Let's go.
00:44:22
Speaker
Okay, so you're just immediately going to take chase?
00:44:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:28
Speaker
I'm going to... It might split the party up for like two seconds, but I'm going to cast Find Steed.
00:44:37
Speaker
Okay, that's fine.
00:44:38
Speaker
Also, you rolled a 16 on your investigation.
00:44:41
Speaker
Did you roll the guidance that she was going to give you?
00:44:43
Speaker
There's one detail that if you get a little higher... I didn't hear that I was giving guidance.
00:44:50
Speaker
That's a four.
00:44:52
Speaker
Hell yeah.
00:44:53
Speaker
Yeah, that'll get you there.
00:44:54
Speaker
No, I mean, it's a D... It was a three.
00:44:56
Speaker
I was asking if it's a D4.
00:44:58
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:44:58
Speaker
Guidance is... Okay, yes, yes.
00:45:00
Speaker
That's still enough.
00:45:01
Speaker
We just needed at least a two.
00:45:05
Speaker
Yeah, so with that help, a little guidance, you notice as you say, we got to go.
00:45:11
Speaker
You take a moment to realize, wait, how far behind are we?
00:45:15
Speaker
And you can kind of get a feel checking like how much of the morning dew is left on these tracks and whether it was dew was crushed into leaves or whether maybe they were made before the dew set in.
00:45:28
Speaker
You can tell you're probably about six hours behind.
00:45:31
Speaker
Steed.
00:45:32
Speaker
Sounds like it.
00:45:33
Speaker
She probably left pretty shortly after you all actually went to bed.
00:45:36
Speaker
Fuck.
00:45:37
Speaker
If we're going to track her, we need to grab all of our stuff.
00:45:41
Speaker
We're more than half a day behind.
00:45:44
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:46
Speaker
But the professor, is he coming with us?
00:45:49
Speaker
Is there a reason for him to?
00:45:52
Speaker
Not particularly.
00:45:53
Speaker
I couldn't remember what we were doing about him.
00:45:56
Speaker
We just didn't want him to get injured, but if... Okay, okay, then great.
00:46:00
Speaker
I grab our things.
00:46:02
Speaker
If this lady is not here, the danger's not here.
00:46:06
Speaker
I cast Fine Steed, just because Keldon will love it so much.
00:46:10
Speaker
I forgot Keldon's a horse guy.
00:46:13
Speaker
Oh my gosh, I did too.
00:46:14
Speaker
I was like, I would, I wouldn't care.
00:46:20
Speaker
Leave it to Saf to remember.
00:46:23
Speaker
That's fantastic.
00:46:24
Speaker
What does it look like?
00:46:25
Speaker
Describe this horse.
00:46:27
Speaker
Tell me everything.
00:46:28
Speaker
Give me the horse.
00:46:29
Speaker
So this horse, it's a fae horse.
00:46:32
Speaker
It appears by vines growing up from the ground, creating a horse shape.
00:46:39
Speaker
And then slowly solidifying, it's a bit like a deep, rich green colour with some white at the top of its head and bright brown eyes with a little sparkle in them.
00:47:00
Speaker
And its mane's white.
00:47:04
Speaker
White, white.
00:47:05
Speaker
So it's just like a little...
00:47:07
Speaker
Give me hand height.
00:47:09
Speaker
Give me breed.
00:47:10
Speaker
What's its build?
00:47:11
Speaker
Is it like Clydesdale?
00:47:12
Speaker
Is it like Arabian quarter horse?
00:47:14
Speaker
Whatever you want it to be.
00:47:16
Speaker
Clydesdale, baby.
00:47:22
Speaker
Three times as tall as Calvin.
00:47:24
Speaker
Clip clop, bitches!
00:47:27
Speaker
It's for Talira.
00:47:29
Speaker
Is it a Talira horse or is it a Calvin horse?
00:47:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's a Clydesdale.
00:47:37
Speaker
It's got those fairy feet, the mane on its feet as well, all white.
00:47:43
Speaker
But it's kind of iridescent and if it hits the sun at the right spot, you can see it slowly shift to a little bit of a blue color.
00:47:53
Speaker
Ooh, okay.
00:47:57
Speaker
Keldon stops dead in his tracks.
00:48:00
Speaker
This is the most beautiful creature I've ever seen.
00:48:02
Speaker
I haven't named her yet.
00:48:04
Speaker
I'm learning all sorts of things about you, Calvin.
00:48:09
Speaker
But we could probably fit two people.
00:48:11
Speaker
I didn't know you liked long, romantic, moonlit walks with wine and yelling, and now you like horses!
00:48:20
Speaker
We had this conversation yesterday.
00:48:23
Speaker
I thought we all talked about the horses, and I think you're taking the moonlit wine walk.
00:48:27
Speaker
I am so thrown off here.
00:48:28
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:29
Speaker
Anyway, hop on.
00:48:30
Speaker
You knew I liked horses.
00:48:32
Speaker
Kaladin, you can hop on because I know you like horses, and then we'll run up, grab the stuff.
00:48:37
Speaker
I'm sure we can quickly borrow another horse and yeet it.
00:48:41
Speaker
What are we going to do about the guy in our room?
00:48:46
Speaker
Look, we'll give him to the professor.
00:48:48
Speaker
He can deal with them.
00:48:50
Speaker
Get his own revenge.
00:48:51
Speaker
Get his own revenge or put him to work somewhere.
00:48:54
Speaker
I'm sure he needs an assistant or a grovel person.
00:48:57
Speaker
Perfect.
00:48:58
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:59
Speaker
You're running in doing that?
00:49:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:03
Speaker
I will run up.
00:49:04
Speaker
You look after this horse and I will quickly sort that out.
00:49:09
Speaker
I shall name her Moss.
00:49:13
Speaker
Moss is an appropriate name.
00:49:14
Speaker
It's a good name.
00:49:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:16
Speaker
Beautiful.
00:49:17
Speaker
He's just petting her.
00:49:20
Speaker
All right, Maeve, you run to the tavern real quick and you go in to see the professor kind of flirting with Bluebell a little bit.
00:49:30
Speaker
Well, Maeve.
00:49:30
Speaker
Lear's going to be jealous.
00:49:32
Speaker
Well, you don't believe some of the stories I can tell.
00:49:35
Speaker
Professor, professor, professor, professor, professor.
00:49:37
Speaker
Yes, yes, yes, I hear you.
00:49:46
Speaker
We're in a really big hurry.
00:49:48
Speaker
Wait, where is the guy that we tied up?
00:49:50
Speaker
Sorry, out of character.
00:49:51
Speaker
He's in mine and Talira's room.
00:49:53
Speaker
Okay, cool.
00:49:55
Speaker
So that guy that tried to kidnap you, we're leaving.
00:49:58
Speaker
We're going to leave him here under your care.
00:50:01
Speaker
Feel free to do with him what you wish.
00:50:02
Speaker
Somebody tried to kidnap you?
00:50:03
Speaker
Professor, you didn't tell me somebody tried to kidnap.
00:50:06
Speaker
Oh, yeah, no.
00:50:07
Speaker
Me?
00:50:07
Speaker
Yeah, the professor.
00:50:09
Speaker
Sorry.
00:50:10
Speaker
Oh, yeah, you know, he didn't tell me.
00:50:12
Speaker
Yes, it was a slight thing.
00:50:14
Speaker
He can tell you after.
00:50:16
Speaker
It's a good story.
00:50:18
Speaker
It's a fantastic story, I must say.
00:50:20
Speaker
I'd managed to escape.
00:50:22
Speaker
What?
00:50:22
Speaker
Oh, yes, you, in a hurry.
00:50:24
Speaker
Bye.
00:50:25
Speaker
I'd pull him upstairs.
00:50:26
Speaker
Oh, oh, oh, gosh.
00:50:28
Speaker
Tell you...
00:50:31
Speaker
Keldon senses the bullshit coming out of that guy's mouth, implying that he got out on his own and sneezes.
00:50:42
Speaker
Anyway, I kick open Talira and Keldon's door to the guy who's tied up.
00:50:49
Speaker
Oh, whoa, whoa.
00:50:52
Speaker
Oh, hi.
00:50:53
Speaker
Hi.
00:50:54
Speaker
Why is the professor in here?
00:50:58
Speaker
Yeah, he's going to look after you from now on because you tied him up.
00:51:02
Speaker
I don't think I like that.
00:51:03
Speaker
Yeah, well, that's your option.
00:51:06
Speaker
Sorry.
00:51:06
Speaker
I'm so young, man.
00:51:08
Speaker
You're in for a wild ride today.
00:51:10
Speaker
Also, I'm pretty sure he can take you back with him and help you.
00:51:14
Speaker
I don't care.
00:51:16
Speaker
Bye.
00:51:17
Speaker
Did you say giggity?
00:51:19
Speaker
I don't know, did I?
00:51:23
Speaker
I'm sure you guys were sort of... I have no idea what I just said.
00:51:26
Speaker
I'll grab everyone's shit while I'm here.
00:51:28
Speaker
I'm grabbing everyone's bags.
00:51:29
Speaker
I have short-term memory loss.
00:51:31
Speaker
I'm sorry, guys.
00:51:32
Speaker
As you're grabbing everybody's bags, you hear, now, Professor, Professor, I really didn't... And you, like, see a ferret hit the ground.
00:51:43
Speaker
Professor, like, picks it up on the end of his staff.
00:51:46
Speaker
We have a saying where I'm from.
00:51:48
Speaker
She'll be right.
00:51:53
Speaker
I like that that's good he has a wife and kid too but bye I'm sure the kid would love to have a pet cool I come out with everyone's stuff did we get a horse while I'm gone did we get a second horse
00:52:16
Speaker
Did you want us to be procuring a horse?
00:52:18
Speaker
Yes.
00:52:19
Speaker
She mentioned it just briefly.
00:52:22
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:52:23
Speaker
We procured another horse.
00:52:25
Speaker
Perfect.
00:52:26
Speaker
Another client.
00:52:26
Speaker
Who's sharing what horses?
00:52:29
Speaker
Oh, I'm assuming... Well, one is mine, so... Okay, first of all, first of all, if you're procuring another horse, I for sure need an animal handling check from somebody.
00:52:39
Speaker
Actually, let me see.
00:52:41
Speaker
This one might be... For a trained horse?
00:52:45
Speaker
Oh, no, I don't have... I mean, trained, but does it recognize you?
00:52:49
Speaker
There's, like... This is the main bar inn, right?
00:52:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:52:56
Speaker
Yeah, it's on... It's literally at the entrance to the town.
00:52:58
Speaker
It's the main road inn.
00:52:59
Speaker
So there is also a stable here?
00:53:01
Speaker
The stable is right across from the tavern, yeah.
00:53:04
Speaker
Do we have money for another horse?
00:53:06
Speaker
We will just... We will borrow the horse and bring it back.
00:53:09
Speaker
We have authority under the crown.
00:53:12
Speaker
Cool.
00:53:13
Speaker
Cool.
00:53:13
Speaker
Eminent domain.
00:53:14
Speaker
I got it.
00:53:15
Speaker
There's a stable hand there and Count's like, so sorry, we need a horse.
00:53:18
Speaker
We're tracking someone who was kidnapping the children.
00:53:21
Speaker
What?
00:53:22
Speaker
Oh, um, okay.
00:53:24
Speaker
What horse is ready to go?
00:53:26
Speaker
What?
00:53:26
Speaker
Uh, uh, uh, uh.
00:53:30
Speaker
He's just like frozen.
00:53:31
Speaker
Scrab the horse.
00:53:32
Speaker
Jackie.
00:53:33
Speaker
Quickly, quickly.
00:53:34
Speaker
Jackie.
00:53:35
Speaker
A horse that Tiller can freeze.
00:53:36
Speaker
The white one with the brown spot on his head.
00:53:41
Speaker
Do you still need the animal handling check?
00:53:42
Speaker
Jackie.
00:53:45
Speaker
Jackie, the white one with the brown spot on his forehead.
00:53:49
Speaker
Like Kelso from that 70s show, you just hear Talira booming, Jackie!
00:54:00
Speaker
Do you need an animal handling since I am asking permission?
00:54:05
Speaker
I guess not.
00:54:07
Speaker
But you definitely, as you're like hopping on it, you kind of hear the young...
00:54:13
Speaker
kind of like this is kind of like a job, like a high school or what type of thing.
00:54:16
Speaker
You hear the young statement going, was I supposed to do that?
00:54:19
Speaker
Am I going to lose my job?
00:54:23
Speaker
No.
00:54:24
Speaker
Promise it'll be okay.
00:54:28
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:29
Speaker
I have written out.
00:54:30
Speaker
I am waiting by the time that Maeve comes back.
00:54:33
Speaker
I have everyone's shit.
00:54:35
Speaker
Jackie is not a Clydesdale.
00:54:38
Speaker
I assumed.
00:54:41
Speaker
Talir is probably going to be jogging along with the horses.
00:54:48
Speaker
Jackie is like, you know, a smaller horse and also a little plump.
00:54:55
Speaker
Just a little.
00:54:56
Speaker
She needs the exercise.
00:54:58
Speaker
She does.
00:54:59
Speaker
She does.
00:55:00
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:02
Speaker
Is she big enough for two people?
00:55:05
Speaker
Smaller people.
00:55:07
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:07
Speaker
Calden is small.
00:55:09
Speaker
Yes, probably Calden and someone who's not wearing a bunch of heavy armor.
00:55:14
Speaker
Oh, you did this on purpose.
00:55:17
Speaker
You totally did this on purpose.
00:55:23
Speaker
I would never.
00:55:24
Speaker
I would never.
00:55:28
Speaker
Yep, our first official ship.
00:55:29
Speaker
Here it is.
00:55:30
Speaker
Everyone is conspiring against Calden.
00:55:33
Speaker
Is Calden now?
00:55:38
Speaker
It's your ship name?
00:55:39
Speaker
Kellen.
00:55:40
Speaker
Yeldon.
00:55:42
Speaker
It's Kellen.
00:55:45
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:55:45
Speaker
Kellen.
00:55:46
Speaker
Kellen.
00:55:48
Speaker
Too funny.
00:55:49
Speaker
All right.
00:55:50
Speaker
So you rush back with the horse and by the time you get back and shortly after Maeve comes rushing back holding everybody's bags.
00:55:56
Speaker
Everyone's shit.
00:55:57
Speaker
Thank you.
00:55:58
Speaker
All right.
00:56:01
Speaker
Who's riding where?
00:56:03
Speaker
I'm assuming Maeve on Moss.
00:56:06
Speaker
Yep.
00:56:06
Speaker
All right.
00:56:07
Speaker
And Valyra's just going to run?
00:56:09
Speaker
I guess.
00:56:10
Speaker
Is there a horse that can hold her and another person?
00:56:14
Speaker
Yeah, can Moss... Moss is technically a... Not real....fey horse.
00:56:23
Speaker
Can the fine steed horse hold two people?
00:56:26
Speaker
That is a great question that I am going to need Google's help with.
00:56:32
Speaker
Do it.
00:56:33
Speaker
Has a strength of 18, mod plus four.
00:56:37
Speaker
So that helps.
00:56:39
Speaker
It's pretty dumb, though.
00:56:42
Speaker
Passive perception language.
00:56:43
Speaker
I can talk to it telepathically as well.
00:56:46
Speaker
That's wonderful.
00:56:48
Speaker
What does Moss' voice sound like?
00:56:51
Speaker
You can ask it whether it thinks it can hold you and Talira.
00:56:56
Speaker
Moss, are you able to hold Talira, this lovely lady, and I?
00:57:02
Speaker
We are in a massive rush.
00:57:05
Speaker
Come on.
00:57:09
Speaker
I'm probably good, but I'm going to get a little tired a little faster.
00:57:15
Speaker
Master's old as shit.
00:57:20
Speaker
It also has facetep, by the way, just for some fun, some fun little thing.
00:57:26
Speaker
It's made of like, it's not made of roots.
00:57:31
Speaker
That's just how it comes up.
00:57:33
Speaker
Yeah, that's the way it reads in my head.
00:57:37
Speaker
She looks like a horsey horse.
00:57:38
Speaker
I had this mental image of like boss Nass and... And she's a girl, so... True, true, but doesn't change how she sounds.
00:57:54
Speaker
Women can have low voices and men can have high voices.
00:57:57
Speaker
What do you want?
00:57:59
Speaker
Exactly.
00:58:00
Speaker
That is not how I wanted that to come out, but I just went with it.
00:58:05
Speaker
I'm so glad that's what happened, though.
00:58:08
Speaker
That is not what I, the sound in my head.
00:58:09
Speaker
There's a lot of people who have to be the fun steed place for every steed from here on out.
00:58:15
Speaker
Yes.
00:58:16
Speaker
I gotta figure out, I gotta make sure I can recreate it.
00:58:19
Speaker
Oh, man.
00:58:20
Speaker
Good news, Moss only lasts for an hour, I'm pretty sure.
00:58:27
Speaker
Either way.
00:58:29
Speaker
So yeah, Moss can hold both of you, just might get tired a little quicker.
00:58:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:33
Speaker
It's okay, she's still at 60 feet of speed.
00:58:37
Speaker
It's okay, I don't think Jackie can go the whole day anyway.
00:58:42
Speaker
That's true.
00:58:43
Speaker
Well, Talira, if she's just dashing the whole time, can keep up.
00:58:49
Speaker
You're gonna exhaust yourself doing that.
00:58:50
Speaker
That's fair.
00:58:52
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, we also only have fine steed for an hour, so...
00:58:57
Speaker
And after that, we'll just walk Jackie.
00:58:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:00
Speaker
She needs the exercise.
00:59:02
Speaker
Where does it say it only lasts an hour?
00:59:05
Speaker
I'm pretty sure the spell only lasts an hour.
00:59:07
Speaker
I've got nothing here saying it.
00:59:14
Speaker
Disappearance of Steed.
00:59:14
Speaker
The Steed disappears if it drops to 0 HP points or if you die.
00:59:19
Speaker
When it disappears, it leaves behind anything it was wearing or carrying.
00:59:24
Speaker
If you cast a spell again, you decide whether you summon the Steed that disappeared or a different one.
00:59:31
Speaker
It does not say an hour anywhere on this.
00:59:33
Speaker
It does not disappear.
00:59:35
Speaker
I'm wrong!
00:59:38
Speaker
Damn, I just looked it up.
00:59:39
Speaker
That's badass.
00:59:42
Speaker
So you all take off on your steeds in pursuit, which I assume, Calden, you're leading.
00:59:48
Speaker
So you can follow the trail that you found.
00:59:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:53
Speaker
Yellen, you are spooning me, I guess.
00:59:57
Speaker
I love how I'm the one on the really strong horse by myself now.
01:00:00
Speaker
And you guys are spitting on the like this week.
01:00:05
Speaker
So we get on assuming that Talira is going to be riding on Moss and I just take off.
01:00:11
Speaker
Talira would probably be riding Moss for an hour or so.
01:00:15
Speaker
And then, you know, take give Moss a break and jog.
01:00:21
Speaker
Just imagine, though, Calden assumes that him and Yellen on Jackie and Maeve and Talir on Moss, and he takes off, and then he just sort of glances behind, and Talir is running.
01:00:35
Speaker
He's like... I love that.
01:00:41
Speaker
I love that so much.
01:00:42
Speaker
I could have had the horse myself.
01:00:44
Speaker
Yeah.
01:00:47
Speaker
But yeah, so horses are 60 feet.
01:00:51
Speaker
60 feet, guys.
01:00:53
Speaker
I could have had the horse to myself and I chose to have Yelena on with me.
01:00:56
Speaker
Now people are going to assume things.
01:00:58
Speaker
Yeah, people already assume things.
01:01:01
Speaker
Boy, I'm really not making my case very strongly, am I?
01:01:06
Speaker
No, this kind of makes the whole date thing a bit worse.
01:01:09
Speaker
It really does.
01:01:10
Speaker
It does.
01:01:12
Speaker
We still have the wine.
01:01:15
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:18
Speaker
Nothing like a romantic horse ride after a long night of wine and mushrooms.
01:01:24
Speaker
Nothing like a romantic horse ride racing through the woods to track down a child murderer.
01:01:31
Speaker
I feel like a YA protagonist.
01:01:38
Speaker
Yes!
01:01:40
Speaker
Accurate.
01:01:41
Speaker
Don't let go of my waist.
01:01:43
Speaker
Yes.
01:01:44
Speaker
So as you all take off trying to catch up to Varutha, shortly in, so maybe a couple hundred feet after where you had previously seen the tracks, Kalden, because you obviously didn't follow them very far, a couple hundred feet, you notice the tracks change into large animal footprints.
01:02:08
Speaker
Druid magic.
01:02:10
Speaker
Shape change.
01:02:14
Speaker
What type of animal?
01:02:19
Speaker
It's feline in nature.
01:02:21
Speaker
Would this be something Talera could also roll on?
01:02:26
Speaker
Yeah, probably.
01:02:28
Speaker
Since Talera's on the horse with me, I do.
01:02:30
Speaker
You could do a nature check or survival, either one.
01:02:33
Speaker
But she's being the big three.
01:02:34
Speaker
If you're just trying to see what animal it is.
01:02:36
Speaker
For tracking, it'd just be survival.
01:02:37
Speaker
But if you just want to identify maybe the track itself, what animal it would be, I'd allow nature as well.
01:02:42
Speaker
11, 13.
01:02:43
Speaker
We're rolling on D10s today.
01:02:45
Speaker
Yeah, 13 and 11.
01:02:49
Speaker
Tolero?
01:02:50
Speaker
Guidance?
01:02:50
Speaker
Oh, with guidance?
01:02:52
Speaker
Fuck yeah.
01:02:53
Speaker
That will be 12 total.
01:02:59
Speaker
12 total?
01:03:00
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:01
Speaker
It's really hard to tell.
01:03:02
Speaker
You can tell it's feline in nature, for sure.
01:03:05
Speaker
Super confident in that.
01:03:07
Speaker
The only other thing you can tell is just by the size of the paw print, it's probably not like a huge feline.
01:03:12
Speaker
You know, maybe the largest you'd think is maybe a puma.
01:03:16
Speaker
Okay.
01:03:17
Speaker
Big kitty, but not too big kitty.
01:03:20
Speaker
Right.
01:03:21
Speaker
That's okay, we can take it.
01:03:22
Speaker
Does it go off the trail into the woods once it turns into a cat?
01:03:26
Speaker
It...
01:03:27
Speaker
Surprisingly, no.
01:03:28
Speaker
It doesn't go on the road, but it kind of follows adjacent to the road currently.
01:03:35
Speaker
Let's get going.
01:03:37
Speaker
And I go.
01:03:39
Speaker
So Moss's handles are just cute vines with little flowers on them because she's a cutie patootie.
01:03:48
Speaker
I am a cutie patootie.
01:03:53
Speaker
Vaguely in the back of his mind, because this is not important right now, Cal then considers how interesting it is that a person like Maeve designed such a frilly horse.
01:04:05
Speaker
He'll have to ruminate on that later, though.
01:04:08
Speaker
Interesting.
01:04:10
Speaker
But yeah, you all continue for a while.
01:04:15
Speaker
And at this point...
01:04:17
Speaker
I'm gonna need some rolls to see how, if you're catching up, if you're not, how long this goes on for.
01:04:24
Speaker
So that way I'm not just sit here and make this a boring thing.
01:04:27
Speaker
I'd like to go ahead and we're gonna accelerate this a little bit.
01:04:30
Speaker
First of all, I would like a luck roll from each of you being a D100.
01:04:34
Speaker
Oh, D100, okay.
01:04:35
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:04:36
Speaker
Did you get 100?
01:04:37
Speaker
I did.
01:04:37
Speaker
Yes.
01:04:37
Speaker
85.
01:04:38
Speaker
Holy shit, dude. 15.
01:04:49
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
01:04:49
Speaker
I did not know 100 was actually possible.
01:04:51
Speaker
I love that.
01:04:51
Speaker
100, 85, 15, and 8?
01:04:52
Speaker
Yes.
01:04:52
Speaker
Okay.
01:04:52
Speaker
Okay.
01:04:52
Speaker
I like the 100.
01:04:52
Speaker
Yeah.
01:04:52
Speaker
100's good.
01:04:53
Speaker
100's good.
01:05:14
Speaker
You also had some low ones in there, but the hundred's good.
01:05:17
Speaker
The hundred's really good.
01:05:19
Speaker
Now I need, for those that are directing the horses, I need you to use your, a mix of an animal handling check and a dexterity check from your horse.
01:05:34
Speaker
Give me two seconds because my horse is magic.
01:05:37
Speaker
So I feel like that might be a little bit different for me.
01:05:40
Speaker
Give me a second.
01:05:41
Speaker
Straight dexterity for the horse and then an animal handling for you guys.
01:05:47
Speaker
Is it going to have modifiers or is this just a d20 roll?
01:05:50
Speaker
Just flat.
01:05:51
Speaker
What do you mean?
01:05:53
Speaker
For the dexterity?
01:05:53
Speaker
For the dexterity.
01:05:56
Speaker
A horse should have a stat sheet.
01:05:58
Speaker
I don't have a horse stat sheet up.
01:06:01
Speaker
I do now.
01:06:04
Speaker
Yeah, just go with the general horse stat sheet.
01:06:06
Speaker
So do I need to do animal handling because technically I am telepathically connected to my horse?
01:06:13
Speaker
I rolled a 20 on the animal handling, so it's a 22.
01:06:17
Speaker
Nice!
01:06:17
Speaker
Nice!
01:06:18
Speaker
Man, you guys are rolling good.
01:06:19
Speaker
18 plus... 1.
01:06:21
Speaker
19.
01:06:21
Speaker
So my moths rolled a 19 for her dex.
01:06:32
Speaker
Did you want me to do an animal handling because it's an otherworldly steed?
01:06:37
Speaker
You probably don't have to because of the fact that it's fine steed.
01:06:42
Speaker
It's not an actual horse.
01:06:46
Speaker
She is a horse.
01:06:48
Speaker
She is a beautiful lady.
01:06:50
Speaker
She is under your control.
01:06:55
Speaker
Riding horses.
01:06:55
Speaker
That's a seven plus zero.
01:07:01
Speaker
She is very plump.
01:07:03
Speaker
She is a little plump.
01:07:06
Speaker
Okay.
01:07:07
Speaker
You are held back a little bit by the speed of Jackie.
01:07:10
Speaker
Unfortunately, as you all are riding following this trail, at some points you think you lose it, but you pick it back up and on track.
01:07:17
Speaker
At one point you slow down to a trot thinking you've completely lost the trail and Talera luckily was, is able to notice a branch up ahead.
01:07:25
Speaker
That's broken.
01:07:28
Speaker
so hard to see as it's like 100 feet ahead, 200 feet ahead, and somehow Thalira's sight just beams it.
01:07:36
Speaker
And you all take off again.
01:07:38
Speaker
I need one last roll.
01:07:41
Speaker
And that is to be a D4 from anyone.
01:07:44
Speaker
I need one D4.
01:07:46
Speaker
Four.
01:07:47
Speaker
Yes!
01:07:48
Speaker
You did not want a high number.
01:07:51
Speaker
I got a two.
01:07:53
Speaker
After four days...
01:07:55
Speaker
Fuck.
01:07:55
Speaker
No.
01:07:57
Speaker
Of tracking Barutha.
01:07:59
Speaker
You come across a river that is coming down one of the smaller, most accessory mountains, I guess you could call it, accessory peaks at the inlet of this bay.
01:08:09
Speaker
You manage to finally see her come into the site as the woods clear and you see the form of a jaguar, not a jaguar, a leopard swimming across this river.
01:08:23
Speaker
Okay, do we just attack?
01:08:26
Speaker
Gotta make a decision now.
01:08:28
Speaker
I'm fucking tired and I don't want her to get away.
01:08:32
Speaker
I don't think we should attack.
01:08:35
Speaker
What do you suggest?
01:08:37
Speaker
I think she'll be surprised enough that we found her all the way out here.
01:08:41
Speaker
So she'll know that there's no getting away from us.
01:08:44
Speaker
We try to meet her on the other side, perhaps.
01:08:46
Speaker
Does she look like she's noticing anything?
01:08:50
Speaker
Has she seen us?
01:08:51
Speaker
I would like to look... Several.
01:08:53
Speaker
This is probably two football fields away.
01:08:56
Speaker
You can see her, but distant.
01:08:58
Speaker
You finally just got to the point where you can fully make out that, hey, we've caught up to Veruta.
01:09:05
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:05
Speaker
Do we want to just get a rope and a lasso?
01:09:09
Speaker
What are you thinking?
01:09:11
Speaker
Well, my thoughts...
01:09:14
Speaker
Is there any way around the little lake here?
01:09:19
Speaker
To cut her off?
01:09:21
Speaker
um here so there's there's like a almost like an inlet bay um into the land here from the creole gulf into this into this just i mean the only thing i can think of is to call it an inlet um it's it's a bay here on the southern portion of the genoa peninsula and there is just a river that's coming down from the small peak that leads directly into the bay and she's just crossing that river
01:09:46
Speaker
You can see she is struggling a little bit.
01:09:48
Speaker
It is a fairly decent altitude change.
01:09:50
Speaker
There are a lot of rocks, a little bit of white water, so it's pretty fast and she is struggling a little bit, but she is making headway.
01:09:57
Speaker
Okay, game plan.
01:09:59
Speaker
Three of us get close enough to her so she doesn't notice.
01:10:02
Speaker
I'll face step in front of her to scare her.
01:10:04
Speaker
She'll run back and you guys get her.
01:10:09
Speaker
And she runs into Big Lady.
01:10:11
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:12
Speaker
All right.
01:10:13
Speaker
It's a plan.
01:10:15
Speaker
Okay, how far away is she technically?
01:10:19
Speaker
Two football fields.
01:10:20
Speaker
So more than 60 feet.
01:10:21
Speaker
Okay, we have to get up close.
01:10:23
Speaker
200 yards.
01:10:24
Speaker
I don't know yards, dude.
01:10:27
Speaker
Oh, God, that's also... I didn't even think about the fact that yards is also standard.
01:10:32
Speaker
I don't know shit.
01:10:34
Speaker
What is that metric?
01:10:35
Speaker
183 meters.
01:10:35
Speaker
Cool.
01:10:36
Speaker
Okay, got that.
01:10:42
Speaker
Cool, cool, cool, cool.
01:10:42
Speaker
We're going to have to sneak up.
01:10:44
Speaker
I'm the least sneaky, so I need to get within 60 so I can teleport, but I'll let you guys go first.
01:10:54
Speaker
Hold on.
01:10:54
Speaker
31 for stealth.
01:10:57
Speaker
31.
01:10:57
Speaker
Yeah, I rolled a natural 20.
01:11:01
Speaker
Fuck yeah.
01:11:01
Speaker
You are not on this plane.
01:11:02
Speaker
You are not even a part of this universe.
01:11:05
Speaker
Phase shift.
01:11:07
Speaker
Just, yep, out of existence.
01:11:11
Speaker
Did I need to roll something too?
01:11:13
Speaker
Depends on if you're trying to approach stealthily or not and how quickly everybody is moving.
01:11:18
Speaker
I am approaching along with Kalden and Yellen, so I assume we're all trying to be stealthy.
01:11:24
Speaker
I think I'm the only one who doesn't need to be stealthy because I'm going to run up as fast as possible and teleport in front of her.
01:11:33
Speaker
Eleven.
01:11:34
Speaker
That's not too bad.
01:11:35
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:36
Speaker
So 13 from me.
01:11:39
Speaker
Shoot.
01:11:40
Speaker
Damn.
01:11:42
Speaker
All right.
01:11:42
Speaker
As you all are quickly, not like sprinting, but you're quickly trying to stealth up.
01:11:46
Speaker
You said Maeve, you are going in front of them as quick as possible?
01:11:50
Speaker
Yeah, I want her.
01:11:53
Speaker
Well, I want her to see me, but not them.
01:11:56
Speaker
Because I'm going to go full speed with my horse, which is 60 feet.
01:12:02
Speaker
And then face step in front of her.
01:12:07
Speaker
because I want her to turn back and try to run the way I came from.
01:12:13
Speaker
Gotcha.
01:12:13
Speaker
Okay.
01:12:14
Speaker
If that makes sense.
01:12:15
Speaker
No, that's fine.
01:12:15
Speaker
Yeah, definitely.
01:12:16
Speaker
As you approach, you're not trying to be quiet at all.
01:12:20
Speaker
And sure enough, you get about 100 feet away, and you see the leopard head turn and notice you, and the speed of the swimming starts to pick up just a bit.
01:12:35
Speaker
Um, am I able to, uh, As soon as you hit the, as soon as you hit the water, you can get within 60 feet and then you can teleport.
01:12:46
Speaker
Cool.
01:12:47
Speaker
Cool.
01:12:47
Speaker
Cool.
01:12:49
Speaker
So that's the plan as soon as I get there.
01:12:50
Speaker
Cause.
01:12:52
Speaker
Yep.
01:12:53
Speaker
Sweet.
01:12:54
Speaker
And then coming up a bit more distant behind is the rest of the party.
01:13:00
Speaker
Yep.
01:13:01
Speaker
And let me roll real quick.
01:13:04
Speaker
All right.
01:13:06
Speaker
Unfortunately, as the rest of the party is trying to come up, you do notice the leopard head turn and notice you all as well.
01:13:13
Speaker
Fuck.
01:13:14
Speaker
They're meant to be stealthy.
01:13:15
Speaker
They're hiding from hardship.
01:13:18
Speaker
And me?
01:13:18
Speaker
Yeah.
01:13:20
Speaker
Not technically, no.
01:13:24
Speaker
But she did roll high enough to see the other two.
01:13:26
Speaker
Damn.
01:13:27
Speaker
As soon as she noticed you, she did a perception check to see if anybody else was with you.
01:13:32
Speaker
And she rolled high enough to see the other two.
01:13:34
Speaker
A boo.
01:13:35
Speaker
A boo.
01:13:37
Speaker
Anyway, I still want to teleport in front of her.
01:13:40
Speaker
She immediately takes a left to take a speedy bit of boost to go downstream with the river.
01:13:50
Speaker
Give me two seconds.
01:13:55
Speaker
So that's after I teleport in front of her?
01:13:58
Speaker
Yes.
01:13:59
Speaker
You see her starting to do that as soon as you teleport.
01:14:02
Speaker
Not too far downstream.
01:14:04
Speaker
I'm going to say a couple hundred feet.
01:14:06
Speaker
Or actually, let's say a quarter of a mile.
01:14:09
Speaker
However much feet that ends up being, I'm not going to lie.
01:14:11
Speaker
I don't know the conversion.
01:14:13
Speaker
But about a quarter mile downstream towards the bay, there is a bridge that goes across this river for the main road that has followed you all this entire way.
01:14:25
Speaker
I will let May, before I explain something that happens next, I do want to hear what your reaction here is, May, because it looks like you're looking for something.
01:14:32
Speaker
I haven't found anything yet.
01:14:34
Speaker
Okay.
01:14:35
Speaker
Do the other three of you have anything you want to do before something happens?
01:14:39
Speaker
How close was I able to get to her before she started going downstream?
01:14:48
Speaker
You guys weren't traveling near as fast as Maeve.
01:14:52
Speaker
You probably got to about that 100 foot mark.
01:14:54
Speaker
Okay.
01:14:55
Speaker
100 feet.
01:14:56
Speaker
Okay, hold on.
01:14:57
Speaker
I'm seeing what my range is for stuff.
01:15:00
Speaker
Yeah, I need to get within 60 feet to really be any use.
01:15:05
Speaker
Yeah, 60 feet.
01:15:07
Speaker
But I mean, I can jump in the water too.
01:15:11
Speaker
Yep.
01:15:13
Speaker
Indeed.
01:15:14
Speaker
How deep is this water?
01:15:15
Speaker
From what you can tell, it's enough for a leopard to swim.
01:15:19
Speaker
On me, for instance, it's probably up to about my chest.
01:15:23
Speaker
I could stand.
01:15:24
Speaker
If I wanted to swim, I could.
01:15:26
Speaker
So it's probably up to like your waist.
01:15:27
Speaker
Yeah.
01:15:28
Speaker
Okay, yeah.
01:15:29
Speaker
Because Talira is almost eight feet tall.
01:15:34
Speaker
Yes, Maeve?
01:15:36
Speaker
I'm within 60 feet, aren't I?
01:15:37
Speaker
Because I've teleported in front of her.
01:15:41
Speaker
I'm going to take out my little instrument while sitting on my horse.
01:15:48
Speaker
I'm going to play a little toon, and I'm going to cast command.
01:15:56
Speaker
By the way, I do think this is Yellen and Kelden's first time seeing you with an instrument.
01:16:01
Speaker
Yeah.
01:16:02
Speaker
Don't have much time to dwell on that either, though.
01:16:05
Speaker
Right, right.
01:16:08
Speaker
Okay, wisdom save, right?
01:16:10
Speaker
Yeah, it's a wisdom save, and her word is halt.
01:16:16
Speaker
She rolled an 18 plus three.
01:16:19
Speaker
Dang.
01:16:20
Speaker
You just hear the snarl of a leopard.
01:16:22
Speaker
I don't trust myself to do that accurately.
01:16:26
Speaker
Fair.
01:16:27
Speaker
I wouldn't trust me either.
01:16:28
Speaker
Yeah.
01:16:30
Speaker
Final editor, if you could throw in a snarl.
01:16:36
Speaker
We'll pretend that you did that.
01:16:38
Speaker
We'll cut out the you saying I don't trust myself.
01:16:41
Speaker
Right, exactly.
01:16:44
Speaker
No, I want to leave it all in, and I don't want the snarl until after I ask for it.
01:16:48
Speaker
Actually, I didn't need to use the thing because it wasn't actually a thing, but it's fine.
01:16:53
Speaker
I've used it anyway.
01:16:54
Speaker
Anyway, that didn't work.
01:16:56
Speaker
That sucks.
01:16:57
Speaker
I honestly attempted to do it like 50 times.
01:17:00
Speaker
So are the three of you rushing to get into the water?
01:17:02
Speaker
Oh, absolutely.
01:17:05
Speaker
Talira is going to give up trying to stealth.
01:17:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah, no, no, she's definitely not something.
01:17:11
Speaker
She's going to dash, so she's got 60 feet of movement.
01:17:15
Speaker
Okay.
01:17:17
Speaker
As you try to command and it fails, the other three, realizing that they've been had, except Kaladin.
01:17:23
Speaker
Oh yeah, so as you all gave up stealth, rushed into the water, feet hitting it immediately, whether diving in or just deciding to power through it, taking giant steps, and Maeve, you saw that your command failed as the leopard, Garutha, seemed to shake it off and continue swimming down now at a very much faster speed, going with the current, and you can feel the current, it is strong, with the altitude change coming from the peak behind you.
01:17:54
Speaker
As you look downstream as she's moving, you see about a quarter mile the wooden bridge over this river.
01:18:03
Speaker
You can't tell if it's on the bridge, if it's above, if it's like in front of the bridge.
01:18:08
Speaker
It's not behind it because your view's not blocked.
01:18:11
Speaker
Kind of hard to tell, but you start to see like a wave in the space, almost like on a hot day coming off of pavement.
01:18:21
Speaker
Is it kind of what we saw before?
01:18:23
Speaker
It's similar.
01:18:24
Speaker
Would I recognize that it's very close to what we saw before?
01:18:29
Speaker
You'd recognize it looks similar, but it wasn't... You see it start.
01:18:34
Speaker
And when it starts, there's almost like that flash of light like you guys saw in the previous rift when something went through.
01:18:40
Speaker
There's like a flash of light and almost like a sizzle.
01:18:43
Speaker
And it disappears and you just see this wave.
01:18:45
Speaker
It's almost like a wave.
01:18:47
Speaker
Can I... Since I still have my little instrument out, can I do Dispel Magic?
01:18:54
Speaker
Or would it be too much?
01:18:56
Speaker
Currently, I think it would be too far away.
Verruta's Speed Boost and Capture Attempts
01:19:00
Speaker
Okay.
01:19:00
Speaker
That's 120 feet.
01:19:02
Speaker
How far away am I from the Jaguar Veruta?
01:19:07
Speaker
With you all having dashed, her dashing down with the current, that gave her a little bit of a speed boost and you all just got into the water.
01:19:17
Speaker
Probably hasn't changed.
01:19:18
Speaker
You probably, getting into the water like you did, you probably weren't able to catch up and rather kept that 100 foot because she got a speed boost with the current.
01:19:26
Speaker
Ah.
01:19:29
Speaker
Do something to stop her!
01:19:33
Speaker
She's too far!
01:19:35
Speaker
Quarter mile in feet is 1,300 feet, by the way, roughly.
01:19:38
Speaker
So way outside the distance of spell range.
01:19:41
Speaker
But the fact that you can see what I'm going to call the heat waves, this potential rift from this far away, gives you an idea about the potential size.
01:19:51
Speaker
Am I able to, because I'm still on the horse, go run as fast as I can close enough to dispel magic?
01:19:57
Speaker
Because I have issues.
01:20:00
Speaker
I mean, yeah, if you want to start running that way.
01:20:02
Speaker
You just hear Talira shouting at you, catch her, catch her.
01:20:07
Speaker
I don't have, oh, I don't have anything I can catch her with.
01:20:10
Speaker
I can hit her with something, but I'm not a ranged.
01:20:14
Speaker
Rope.
01:20:15
Speaker
Rope.
01:20:15
Speaker
I'm not a ranged fella.
01:20:16
Speaker
Rope, grapple, lasso her.
01:20:17
Speaker
I don't know.
01:20:19
Speaker
I probably have rope, but again, she can just dodge it.
01:20:22
Speaker
She doesn't just run.
01:20:23
Speaker
I can try to lasso.
01:20:25
Speaker
You can use your body.
01:20:26
Speaker
Tackle her.
01:20:28
Speaker
Grapple her.
01:20:30
Speaker
if Talira was my goal was to have Talira get as close as possible and then just body her like
01:20:37
Speaker
While my horse is running towards her, I'm going to tie rope around my waist, like keeping pace with her.
01:20:44
Speaker
I'm tying rope around my waist and onto my horse, and then I'm going to jump and grab her.
01:20:49
Speaker
I'm going to jump on top of her.
01:20:51
Speaker
I'll try to eat myself off my horse onto her, if that's the thing that I can do.
01:20:56
Speaker
That is exactly what Talira was hoping you would do.
01:21:01
Speaker
You can certainly try.
01:21:03
Speaker
I can certainly try and die.
01:21:06
Speaker
As Matt Mercer would say, you can certainly try.
01:21:10
Speaker
Give me, as you speed towards her being the closest, you jump off towards her, I'll need an acrobatics check.
01:21:18
Speaker
Well, as a paladin, you should be fantastic at athletics.
01:21:21
Speaker
I got a five.
01:21:22
Speaker
Oh.
01:21:22
Speaker
Yeah.
01:21:26
Speaker
No.
01:21:27
Speaker
I have plus three.
01:21:28
Speaker
That is fine.
01:21:29
Speaker
That is going to give you a disadvantage on your roll to hit.
01:21:32
Speaker
Roll to hit.
01:21:32
Speaker
It would be unarmed strike, wouldn't it?
01:21:34
Speaker
It would be, yes.
01:21:36
Speaker
I got 14 with disadvantage.
01:21:39
Speaker
14 with disadvantage.
01:21:40
Speaker
That does hit.
01:21:42
Speaker
Oh, thank God.
01:21:44
Speaker
But unfortunately, with your acrobatics check, whenever you hit her, it's not arms outreach trying to grab her.
01:21:53
Speaker
It is tumbling in the air and smacking into her.
01:21:57
Speaker
I'm not trying to hit her.
01:21:59
Speaker
I'm honestly just trying to grapple her so the horse can pull me back up.
01:22:03
Speaker
That's all I'm trying to do is I'm not trying to actually hurt her.
01:22:05
Speaker
I'm just trying to hold on to her.
01:22:07
Speaker
Okay.
01:22:07
Speaker
So I can get yeeted out.
01:22:10
Speaker
Okay.
01:22:10
Speaker
In that case with a grapple, I think it is going to be... Strength?
01:22:14
Speaker
Word.
01:22:15
Speaker
What's the word?
01:22:16
Speaker
Somebody help me with the word.
01:22:17
Speaker
Contested.
01:22:18
Speaker
Contested.
01:22:19
Speaker
That's the word.
01:22:19
Speaker
Contested athletics versus acrobatics.
01:22:23
Speaker
Yeah.
01:22:24
Speaker
Yeah.
01:22:24
Speaker
I can do either, essentially.
01:22:25
Speaker
Yeah.
01:22:26
Speaker
Acrobatics or athletics.
01:22:28
Speaker
Yep.
01:22:28
Speaker
Audrey Athletics.
01:22:30
Speaker
That is a bad roll.
01:22:31
Speaker
Not good for you or not good for us.
01:22:33
Speaker
14.
01:22:34
Speaker
Not good for me.
01:22:35
Speaker
You said it was a bad roll.
01:22:37
Speaker
Fuck yeah.
01:22:37
Speaker
Okay.
01:22:39
Speaker
So you do manage, although you tumbled into her and fell in this weird way, you actually ended up somehow underneath her, but you just, from underneath, water just going across your head.
01:22:53
Speaker
You managed to just hug the underside of this leopard.
01:22:56
Speaker
Okay.
01:22:56
Speaker
Calden's never been so attracted to Maeve.
01:23:00
Speaker
He's very conflicted today.
01:23:04
Speaker
Oh my god.
01:23:06
Speaker
It's a strange sensation.
01:23:07
Speaker
Telepathically, I can communicate with my horse.
01:23:10
Speaker
I'm going to tell my horse, pull.
01:23:13
Speaker
So my horse is going to start pulling me.
01:23:15
Speaker
And the horse immediately starts pulling.
01:23:17
Speaker
Yep.
01:23:17
Speaker
It's pulling this fucking leopard.
01:23:20
Speaker
As everybody goes to catch up to you, you will have to hold on to the grapple one more time to allow everybody to catch up.
01:23:30
Speaker
Okay.
01:23:30
Speaker
Okay.
01:23:32
Speaker
With everybody's speed and everything.
01:23:33
Speaker
And not only that, your horse is pulling against pretty fast current.
01:23:37
Speaker
So you'll have to hold on to the grapple for one more turn.
01:23:39
Speaker
Okay, okay, okay.
01:23:42
Speaker
Give me two seconds.
01:23:43
Speaker
That's a better round.
01:23:45
Speaker
Oh, shit.
01:23:47
Speaker
19.
01:23:48
Speaker
Ouch.
01:23:48
Speaker
Shit.
01:23:51
Speaker
17 plus two.
01:23:51
Speaker
Can I... Give me two seconds.
01:23:55
Speaker
Can I, instead of that... Yellen, you better watch out, man.
01:24:00
Speaker
You might be losing Kalvin.
01:24:02
Speaker
Oh, God.
01:24:07
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:24:09
Speaker
Ever since Kalvin's stealth, I can't see him.
01:24:11
Speaker
I don't know where he is.
01:24:15
Speaker
I'm going to, what I'm going to do is I'm going to roll, but as a reaction, if I fail, I'm going to cast Silvery Barbs, if that's the thing I can do.
01:24:23
Speaker
Okay, I'll allow it.
01:24:25
Speaker
I'll allow it.
01:24:25
Speaker
Yeah, that's fine.
01:24:26
Speaker
I'm not used to Silvery Barbs, but I'm going to roll first, and it's acrobatic or athletics.
01:24:33
Speaker
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
01:24:34
Speaker
Athletics, athletics.
01:24:36
Speaker
Please don't be shit.
01:24:37
Speaker
Please don't be shit.
01:24:37
Speaker
Please don't be shit.
01:24:38
Speaker
Fuck, it's shit.
01:24:39
Speaker
Okay, 10.
01:24:41
Speaker
So, Silvery Barbs.
01:24:42
Speaker
Silvery Barbs me.
01:24:44
Speaker
Yeah.
01:24:44
Speaker
Yeah.
01:24:46
Speaker
That is better.
01:24:48
Speaker
18 plus 2, 20.
01:24:50
Speaker
Fuck me.
01:24:52
Speaker
But this has slowed her down.
01:24:54
Speaker
It has.
01:24:56
Speaker
It has.
01:24:57
Speaker
Because now she is at 60 feet from everybody else.
01:25:00
Speaker
Oh, perfect.
01:25:01
Speaker
Or I guess it'd be 40 feet, I think, actually.
01:25:03
Speaker
Because you moved like 60.
01:25:05
Speaker
Kaladin moved 70, so it's only 30 feet for Kaladin as she breaks free and begins swimming downstream again.
01:25:13
Speaker
That's also if we were to assume that Calden that I wasn't going to be doing anything but trying to move because I can dash with my action and my bonus.
01:25:23
Speaker
Fuck yeah.
01:25:23
Speaker
Calden's there.
01:25:24
Speaker
Yeah, and I'm going to say I would like to use my action surge to give myself extra movement.
01:25:31
Speaker
So I'll double dash.
01:25:33
Speaker
Yeah.
01:25:34
Speaker
And then for my other... Yellen's somewhere.
01:25:37
Speaker
I'm trying my best.
01:25:39
Speaker
So I have my action dash.
01:25:41
Speaker
And then for my action surge, I would like to jump grapple.
01:25:46
Speaker
Yes.
01:25:47
Speaker
Yes.
01:25:49
Speaker
I would like to say that Kalden dove under the water, so he pops up in front of her like a fucking otter.
01:25:55
Speaker
We're old fish.
01:25:58
Speaker
Okay, okay.
01:25:59
Speaker
In that case, I need the contested from you as well, Talera.
01:26:02
Speaker
All right.
01:26:04
Speaker
Here we go.
01:26:05
Speaker
16.
01:26:05
Speaker
16?
01:26:06
Speaker
Okay.
01:26:15
Speaker
Could I use my bonus action then to invoke one of my runes?
01:26:23
Speaker
Okay.
01:26:24
Speaker
And let me double check.
01:26:28
Speaker
Okay, yeah.
01:26:29
Speaker
No, I don't know why I was thinking it was the one that was not Giant's Might, but Talira is a big lady.
01:26:36
Speaker
And I get advantage on any strength checks, including that grapple.
01:26:43
Speaker
Grapple, yeah.
01:26:43
Speaker
Okay.
01:26:45
Speaker
Um, and go back to my skills.
01:26:49
Speaker
But bare minimum, we're looking at an 18.
01:26:54
Speaker
I think you, that's a 19.
01:26:55
Speaker
Yeah.
01:26:57
Speaker
Yeah.
01:26:57
Speaker
You successfully pick up this leopard.
01:26:59
Speaker
Thank God.
01:27:00
Speaker
Like it's nothing.
01:27:02
Speaker
Just hold it there.
01:27:04
Speaker
Oh, bad kitty.
01:27:05
Speaker
It's, it's paws and arms just waving.
01:27:10
Speaker
As, uh,
01:27:12
Speaker
Talira is like a giant lady now.
01:27:15
Speaker
The water's basically up to her knees.
01:27:17
Speaker
And she's just holding the kitty like out in front of her with just her arms reach.
01:27:24
Speaker
And I'm sure the cat's just going.
01:27:26
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much.
01:27:28
Speaker
Yeah.
01:27:29
Speaker
Yeah.
01:27:29
Speaker
Walking out of the river.
01:27:30
Speaker
Okay.
01:27:30
Speaker
Yeah.
01:27:36
Speaker
The rest of us will swim out.
01:27:37
Speaker
Yeah.
01:27:38
Speaker
Right.
01:27:39
Speaker
Yeah, the rest of you swim out, yeah.
01:27:43
Speaker
Okay, yeah, you all make it back to the edge of the river on the side that you had come from.
01:27:48
Speaker
A little bit closer to the bridge, but still, you know, good solid thousand feet away.
01:27:53
Speaker
Yeah, what do you do with Verruta and her leopard form as you just manhandle her out to the...
01:28:01
Speaker
Do you want to say like this or do you want to look at like Verruta the way we met you?
01:28:09
Speaker
Oh.
01:28:10
Speaker
I take it.
01:28:10
Speaker
This is the option.
01:28:12
Speaker
All right.
01:28:12
Speaker
That's fine.
01:28:13
Speaker
Make a nice dinner.
01:28:18
Speaker
Does anybody have any extra rope we can hog tie her?
01:28:25
Speaker
I hand over my rope.
01:28:26
Speaker
Cool.
01:28:27
Speaker
So we hog tie her until she goes back to her other form, in which case we will tie her in a more dignified way.
01:28:35
Speaker
manner
Veruta's Interrogation and Confession
01:28:37
Speaker
okay okay put her on a spit yeah just because you are under arrest what the stubbornness gives up after like three or four minutes of just awkwardness and vertha finally takes back to her water ganasi form damn it hello verutha i tossed the wine bottle down in front of her you forgot something hmm oh i forgot that
01:29:03
Speaker
You ruined our date.
01:29:04
Speaker
I was wondering if you two were a thing.
01:29:07
Speaker
Why?
01:29:08
Speaker
I... What?
01:29:10
Speaker
Beretha looks up at Delirio.
01:29:12
Speaker
Well, I guess being carried by you was the highlight of my day.
01:29:18
Speaker
We do not fraternize with criminals.
01:29:20
Speaker
Ew.
01:29:21
Speaker
What is happening right now?
01:29:23
Speaker
Ew.
01:29:23
Speaker
I was like, don't get used to it, but I know I'm the pack mule, so you're welcome.
01:29:29
Speaker
Can I hit her just for that?
01:29:30
Speaker
That was disgusting.
01:29:31
Speaker
I threw up in my mouth.
01:29:34
Speaker
You see that she has super baggy dark circles underneath her eyes.
01:29:42
Speaker
You can see she's breathing heavy, just sitting still.
01:29:45
Speaker
She looks extremely tired.
01:29:48
Speaker
Yeah, I'm fucking exhausted, and you better start talking.
01:29:53
Speaker
I have nothing to say.
01:29:55
Speaker
I think I'm going to take a nap now.
01:29:57
Speaker
I'm going to pull my blade out and put it to her throat and intimidate.
01:30:02
Speaker
That can get you an intimidation roll for sure.
01:30:04
Speaker
Yay.
01:30:07
Speaker
Yay.
01:30:08
Speaker
I just want a little scary lady.
01:30:12
Speaker
I can't avoid that one.
01:30:16
Speaker
Okay, okay.
01:30:18
Speaker
That was a 19.
01:30:20
Speaker
Okay, yeah.
01:30:21
Speaker
Okay, okay.
01:30:21
Speaker
Maybe I won't take a nap right now.
01:30:24
Speaker
You will start talking now.
01:30:25
Speaker
What the fuck do you want to know?
01:30:29
Speaker
Everything.
01:30:29
Speaker
Not everything.
01:30:30
Speaker
We don't care what you had for breakfast.
01:30:33
Speaker
Anything relevant.
01:30:35
Speaker
What is relevant?
01:30:37
Speaker
Why were you teaming up to steal children?
01:30:42
Speaker
What was your motivation in all this?
01:30:43
Speaker
What did you get out of it?
01:30:46
Speaker
Well, I don't think any of you would understand, given you're from the material plane and so lucky and...
01:30:56
Speaker
Okay, we don't need any extra words.
01:30:59
Speaker
Get to the point.
01:30:59
Speaker
My hand is slipping.
01:31:00
Speaker
Do you want me to tell you anything?
01:31:02
Speaker
Yeah, I want you to tell us the proof.
01:31:03
Speaker
I can just stay quiet.
01:31:04
Speaker
Yeah, and I can drop my blade.
01:31:05
Speaker
Well, you can... Well, honestly, do it because it might be better for what I've got coming.
01:31:13
Speaker
Anyway, as I was saying before, I was so rudely
01:31:17
Speaker
I am not as privileged as you all to have been born in Aeon and in this world and given the opportunities that you all were.
01:31:27
Speaker
Yeah, fucking opportunities.
01:31:29
Speaker
So I have to do what I have to do to survive, to have support and be given a life.
01:31:36
Speaker
By taking children's?
01:31:38
Speaker
Well... You killed children.
01:31:41
Speaker
You destroyed families.
01:31:42
Speaker
I did.
01:31:43
Speaker
I killed no one.
01:31:44
Speaker
That's bullshit.
01:31:45
Speaker
You are complicit.
01:31:47
Speaker
It's the same thing.
01:31:48
Speaker
Just because you didn't draw the arrow.
01:31:51
Speaker
I was simply a tool to be used.
01:31:54
Speaker
And I did my job so that way I could be free.
01:31:57
Speaker
There are other things you could do.
01:32:01
Speaker
Such as?
01:32:02
Speaker
Give me just a sliver of an idea considering you know so much about me and where I come from and my upbringing.
01:32:08
Speaker
Okay, no.
01:32:10
Speaker
Give me just a sliver of an idea of what I could have done.
01:32:12
Speaker
Let's rewind.
01:32:13
Speaker
What do you mean free?
01:32:15
Speaker
Why are you not free?
01:32:17
Speaker
I wasn't born into the best situation.
01:32:20
Speaker
Most people aren't, so continue.
01:32:22
Speaker
See that riff down there?
01:32:24
Speaker
Yes.
01:32:25
Speaker
Yeah, go jump in it.
01:32:26
Speaker
You'll get an idea.
01:32:26
Speaker
Yeah.
01:32:27
Speaker
Been there, done that.
01:32:29
Speaker
We've been there, we've done that.
01:32:30
Speaker
Your point.
01:32:31
Speaker
Right, but did you meet anybody there?
01:32:33
Speaker
Did you go talk to the peoples, the groups?
01:32:36
Speaker
Unfortunately, we don't actually speak primordial.
01:32:39
Speaker
It's a bit of a flaw we have in our team.
01:32:41
Speaker
So continue with your point.
01:32:42
Speaker
I'm not talking about the fucking elementals.
01:32:44
Speaker
I don't care what you're talking about.
01:32:45
Speaker
I cannot believe I'm talking to such less intelligent people.
01:32:49
Speaker
My blade touches her throat.
01:32:52
Speaker
I'm not fucking around.
01:32:53
Speaker
Can I... I'm not fucking around.
01:32:54
Speaker
Can I subtly...
01:33:00
Speaker
stab her with a psychic blade.
01:33:03
Speaker
Yeah.
01:33:04
Speaker
I just wanted her to have a nice little headache.
01:33:08
Speaker
Oh.
01:33:09
Speaker
Okay.
01:33:11
Speaker
Listen, I'm not gonna implicate those I care about that are in the same situation as me.
01:33:18
Speaker
Just know this.
01:33:19
Speaker
Your problems, they're not on this plane of existence.
01:33:22
Speaker
Okay?
01:33:23
Speaker
I'm a tool and I was doing what I was told so I can get what I want.
01:33:27
Speaker
And that's that.
01:33:29
Speaker
Okay, implicate those who aren't in the same situation as you that are pulling the strings and putting you in a position to where you feel like you have to do this and others.
01:33:38
Speaker
Answer me this first.
01:33:38
Speaker
What are you going to do with me?
01:33:41
Speaker
Give your ability to the authorities.
01:33:44
Speaker
What would your ideal outcome be where we are concerned?
01:33:50
Speaker
She kind of pauses and really starts to think hard.
01:33:55
Speaker
Um, well, considering if you wouldn't have caught me, I'd pretty much be on the run for the rest of my life.
01:34:02
Speaker
So it's either that or death.
01:34:07
Speaker
Can I just put up a zone of truth?
01:34:10
Speaker
Yeah.
01:34:11
Speaker
What's the save on that?
01:34:12
Speaker
I have a truth.
01:34:13
Speaker
Charisma 14.
01:34:13
Speaker
So probably not going to do anything.
01:34:15
Speaker
It's probably just going to be a waste.
01:34:16
Speaker
But it is something.
01:34:18
Speaker
She fails.
01:34:19
Speaker
We all have to roll that, don't we?
01:34:21
Speaker
Because we're in it.
01:34:22
Speaker
You do.
01:34:23
Speaker
You all have to roll that.
01:34:23
Speaker
What is it?
01:34:24
Speaker
What is it?
01:34:25
Speaker
A wisdom save?
01:34:26
Speaker
Charisma 14.
01:34:30
Speaker
That's going to be funny.
01:34:31
Speaker
She fails.
01:34:32
Speaker
She fails very badly.
01:34:33
Speaker
Charisma or wisdom?
01:34:34
Speaker
Charisma.
01:34:35
Speaker
Charisma.
01:34:36
Speaker
Charisma.
01:34:37
Speaker
Well, maybe.
01:34:38
Speaker
Maybe.
01:34:40
Speaker
Yeah, Talira fails really hard.
01:34:44
Speaker
Yellen fails as well.
01:34:46
Speaker
That was a 5.
01:34:47
Speaker
21.
01:34:47
Speaker
Yeah.
01:34:47
Speaker
Do I have to do it myself?
01:34:52
Speaker
Keldon can lie and no one else.
01:34:54
Speaker
Let me just check myself.
01:34:56
Speaker
I don't really lie anyway, so... Talira can't lie to begin with.
01:35:01
Speaker
She's got a negative 1 to charisma.
01:35:04
Speaker
Does she maybe feel compelled to say more?
01:35:06
Speaker
I rolled a nat 20.
01:35:07
Speaker
Nice.
01:35:08
Speaker
Nice.
01:35:10
Speaker
Does she feel compelled to say nice things about Calden, maybe?
01:35:13
Speaker
Talking about Talira?
01:35:15
Speaker
Yeah.
01:35:20
Speaker
If anybody asked Talira a nice thing about Calden, she absolutely would say a nice thing about Calden.
01:35:27
Speaker
But, yeah, so we have that up.
01:35:29
Speaker
So she cannot lie.
01:35:30
Speaker
Okay.
01:35:31
Speaker
Okay.
01:35:33
Speaker
Honest truth, I haven't had time to process it.
01:35:36
Speaker
But if I were to think now, I would either be on the run for the rest of my life
01:35:42
Speaker
Or the other option, realistically, is death.
01:35:45
Speaker
It'll come.
01:35:47
Speaker
Some way, somehow.
01:35:48
Speaker
Probably brutally.
01:35:49
Speaker
Probably won't like it.
01:35:51
Speaker
So, yeah.
01:35:55
Speaker
Those are the options.
01:35:56
Speaker
So, if you let me go, I'll be on the run from really, really bad people.
01:36:02
Speaker
Or I'm going to die eventually.
01:36:05
Speaker
Sooner rather than later.
01:36:07
Speaker
Cool.
01:36:08
Speaker
Lovely to know that, but we also need answers.
01:36:12
Speaker
Can you just tell us what we want?
01:36:13
Speaker
Well, the really, really bad people you're going to be on the run from are who we're after in the end.
01:36:20
Speaker
Why... If you're getting hunted down anyway and probably going to die, what is the sense in withholding information from us about them specifically?
01:36:28
Speaker
If they found out that I told you, my death gets worse.
01:36:33
Speaker
And I'd really prefer a fast and quick one.
01:36:34
Speaker
We could just kill you if you'd like.
01:36:36
Speaker
Then it'll be a nice, quick death.
01:36:39
Speaker
Well, do they know...
01:36:41
Speaker
That you've given us information.
01:36:44
Speaker
I'm sure they'll find out somehow.
01:36:47
Speaker
We don't have to say anything.
01:36:50
Speaker
You're hunting them, are you not?
01:36:52
Speaker
I'm sure they'll figure out which one of their informants is the one that squealed.
01:36:58
Speaker
Exactly.
01:37:00
Speaker
It's not like you're going to stop asking questions with me.
01:37:03
Speaker
We'll give you a clean death if you answer.
01:37:06
Speaker
How's that?
01:37:07
Speaker
She thinks for a moment.
01:37:09
Speaker
Much more than you deserve.
01:37:13
Speaker
Could you bury me behind my cabin?
01:37:15
Speaker
My mother and my grandmother are both rest there.
01:37:19
Speaker
I thought you said you weren't born here.
01:37:21
Speaker
I wasn't.
01:37:21
Speaker
Well, that
Ritual's Impact and Veruta's Fate
01:37:22
Speaker
doesn't mean that a family didn't die here.
01:37:25
Speaker
I want to know where were you born?
01:37:27
Speaker
On the primordial plane.
01:37:28
Speaker
So one mirroring this one, the water elemental primordial plane?
01:37:33
Speaker
Yes.
01:37:34
Speaker
I'm assuming.
01:37:34
Speaker
Can you tell me why there's a fire portal that opened up here?
01:37:39
Speaker
Well, to be honest with you,
01:37:43
Speaker
I don't know many of the details.
01:37:48
Speaker
I mean, I'm pretty in tune with the natural magics.
01:37:50
Speaker
And I would tell you that the elements are not super stable.
01:37:55
Speaker
Yes.
01:37:56
Speaker
But I'm sure you've already figured that much out.
01:37:59
Speaker
So what was the reason behind you trying to kidnap these children?
01:38:06
Speaker
What was the whole purpose of this?
01:38:07
Speaker
What was the ritual that they were needed for?
01:38:12
Speaker
The ritual needed pure energy, and that is hard to find, but one of them is the souls of children.
01:38:19
Speaker
They haven't been corrupted by anything yet.
01:38:21
Speaker
What ritual?
01:38:23
Speaker
The Mistborn.
01:38:24
Speaker
They're originally from the Primordial Plane.
01:38:26
Speaker
They had ties to the Zorogog.
01:38:27
Speaker
Or at least, a sect of them did.
01:38:31
Speaker
And at the split, they used... During that apocalyptic event, they used the instability of the magic to plane jump.
01:38:41
Speaker
But their life force as a being is tied to the element of water and a little bit of air.
01:38:47
Speaker
Essentially, they're tied to the Primordial Plane, because that's really where the heart of all elements are.
01:38:55
Speaker
So their ability to stay here in the material plane wasn't super stable.
01:39:01
Speaker
And so they needed to break that connection.
01:39:03
Speaker
And have they broken that connection?
01:39:05
Speaker
Yeah.
01:39:07
Speaker
Yeah, they have.
01:39:07
Speaker
They succeeded.
01:39:08
Speaker
So that would most likely be the catalyst of the disruption with the planes.
01:39:14
Speaker
It definitely wouldn't help.
01:39:16
Speaker
I don't know what the implications of the ritual were.
01:39:18
Speaker
I didn't partake.
01:39:20
Speaker
I didn't see how they formed it to have any knowledge of any backfiring backfires that could have happened.
01:39:28
Speaker
And if I'm gonna be honest with you, so, but they were radical people and weren't the most careful about caring about other implications and how it might affect the rest of the world or other people.
01:39:43
Speaker
Now that they've succeeded, they have no use for more children, correct?
01:39:49
Speaker
That would be correct.
01:39:50
Speaker
The children missing will no longer be a problem, henceforth.
01:39:55
Speaker
I recognize the symbol, uh... Mr. Tiefling, on your robe.
01:40:03
Speaker
I'm sure you understand that when something bad happens, maybe a little bit of good might come out of it.
01:40:09
Speaker
Yeah.
01:40:11
Speaker
Definitely.
01:40:12
Speaker
Something good.
01:40:15
Speaker
with him not needing any more children, is that, I mean, what?
01:40:19
Speaker
A full-scale invasion of his plane?
01:40:22
Speaker
No, no.
01:40:23
Speaker
It was a small sect.
01:40:25
Speaker
You could almost call them a cult of the Mistborn.
01:40:27
Speaker
The Mistborn of the Primordial Plane, majority of them are not like them.
01:40:32
Speaker
They're not
01:40:33
Speaker
So brash and so extreme in their views.
01:40:39
Speaker
That's why they had been cast out previously, and that's why they came to Aeon for a new home, essentially.
01:40:46
Speaker
What freedom were you gaining by aiding them?
01:40:49
Speaker
I was promised a husband and that I could finally have a family of my own.
01:40:54
Speaker
Could you not have done that here?
01:40:57
Speaker
Is there not love for you to find in Aeon?
01:41:00
Speaker
Absolutely not.
01:41:03
Speaker
Why would I ever ruin my bloodline like that?
01:41:07
Speaker
Wooz, correct me if I'm wrong.
01:41:09
Speaker
Didn't we learn that the elementals do arranged marriage?
01:41:18
Speaker
Yes.
01:41:19
Speaker
Indeed.
01:41:19
Speaker
Okay.
01:41:22
Speaker
At least the ones that she's a part of.
01:41:25
Speaker
Yeah.
01:41:26
Speaker
Yeah.
01:41:27
Speaker
They would arrange a marriage for you, but they wouldn't otherwise?
01:41:35
Speaker
I was promised at the succession of the ritual that my husband-to-be would finally make the jump from the Parmoidal plane to here.
01:41:47
Speaker
We need to know where to go, just how to stop this.
01:41:51
Speaker
Good luck.
01:41:53
Speaker
I'm sure you have ideas.
01:41:54
Speaker
Yeah, that rift over there.
01:41:56
Speaker
And continue on with that statement?
01:41:59
Speaker
That's as much as I got for you.
01:42:01
Speaker
That rift over there.
01:42:02
Speaker
Wow, I am so... I thought you were smarter than that.
01:42:08
Speaker
Oh, I'm so much smarter than you might think.
01:42:11
Speaker
But... Any smart leader...
01:42:18
Speaker
Don't start with me.
01:42:21
Speaker
As you know, any smart leader of any group would keep information only given to those that need it.
01:42:29
Speaker
Like I said, I'm a pawn.
01:42:31
Speaker
Okay.
01:42:31
Speaker
I might be a bitch and I might have a lot of pride in myself and what I'm capable of and my intelligence.
01:42:37
Speaker
But that doesn't change the fact that I'm a pawn.
01:42:40
Speaker
I'm not well liked by people.
01:42:41
Speaker
How would I ever lead or grow to higher positions within a group like this?
01:42:46
Speaker
It wouldn't happen.
01:42:47
Speaker
It doesn't.
01:42:48
Speaker
I accepted my position.
01:42:51
Speaker
My point is not that you know stuff firsthand.
01:42:54
Speaker
My point is you have ideas.
01:42:56
Speaker
My point is you're smart to put two and two together.
01:42:58
Speaker
You have a theory.
01:43:00
Speaker
I would like your theory.
01:43:02
Speaker
I don't fucking care what her theory is.
01:43:05
Speaker
She knowingly ruined lives to enrich her own.
01:43:10
Speaker
No, I know.
01:43:11
Speaker
But I want her theory regarding how to stop this.
01:43:14
Speaker
I'm not going to give you that.
01:43:17
Speaker
Didn't you hear her?
01:43:18
Speaker
They already succeeded.
01:43:20
Speaker
We need to shut the fucking thing down.
01:43:23
Speaker
Yes, we need to know how to, though.
01:43:27
Speaker
Where is... So we know where you were being contacted.
01:43:34
Speaker
Do you know where... Are all of them in the primordial plane still, even though the Mistborn who were doing the ritual are here?
01:43:42
Speaker
I assume they're here, unless their ritual had an unintended consequence of sending them somewhere else, but I don't know where they're at.
01:43:50
Speaker
There was a team in Orlanus that went to find them, and it was reported that they found their town, so maybe they abandoned it for a new one.
01:44:00
Speaker
I don't know.
01:44:01
Speaker
Talira?
01:44:03
Speaker
And he turns around and starts walking away and kind of motions at Talira like, go ahead.
01:44:10
Speaker
And Talira nods and pulls out her axe.
01:44:14
Speaker
We'll give you what we promised.
01:44:15
Speaker
Clean death like promised.
01:44:17
Speaker
One moment, please.
01:44:20
Speaker
Yellen, I think your name was, correct?
01:44:22
Speaker
Aye, that is correct.
01:44:26
Speaker
I don't believe in your god.
01:44:30
Speaker
Or what they say the afterlife is with those of your beliefs, but can you...
01:44:39
Speaker
At least assure me that there might be a path for me on the other side.
01:44:47
Speaker
Well, there are paths
Shocking Turn: Veruta's Execution and Metallic Spike
01:44:51
Speaker
on the other side.
01:44:52
Speaker
It's up to you which one you take.
01:44:55
Speaker
Can I see my mother again?
01:44:58
Speaker
I can't say that for sure.
01:45:00
Speaker
You have been a despicable person with your actions.
01:45:06
Speaker
You've done a bit of good by telling us what you know, or at least some of it.
01:45:12
Speaker
Give yourself the best chance you have.
01:45:14
Speaker
Tell us everything.
01:45:16
Speaker
I've told you what I know.
01:45:17
Speaker
She looks you dead in the eyes when she says this.
01:45:22
Speaker
Can I, uh... Insight.
01:45:25
Speaker
Oh, wait, we have Zone of Truth on.
01:45:27
Speaker
Zone of Truth is up.
01:45:28
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:45:29
Speaker
All right.
01:45:29
Speaker
I've told you what I know of what I'm willing to say.
01:45:33
Speaker
I'm not going to put my own family in danger.
01:45:35
Speaker
With what I do, is there a way that I could help her find the way her mother took?
01:45:43
Speaker
Yeah.
01:45:44
Speaker
Okay.
01:45:46
Speaker
Roll me a religion check.
01:45:50
Speaker
But on top of that...
01:45:54
Speaker
Add your spellcasting modifier as you kind of can reach into the connections you have with the soul fields and all of the teachings that your master taught you.
01:46:05
Speaker
Try to find a connection.
01:46:07
Speaker
So that would be 20 altogether.
01:46:09
Speaker
Yeah.
01:46:10
Speaker
As you kind of close your eyes and focus, try to find a sliver of connection.
01:46:16
Speaker
They say objects have memory, but so does energy.
01:46:20
Speaker
why energy is able to take the forms it does in this universe.
01:46:26
Speaker
And sure enough, as you kind of reach out, trying to find maybe some memory, some form of familiarity with the energy that's in her soul, and with maybe a path another one took, you get a connection into the soul fields.
01:46:40
Speaker
And one of the spirit mentors in the material soul field, you get a connection to him.
01:46:47
Speaker
While this one specific person isn't familiar to you, the presence of the people who guide these souls through the fields to find harmony and balance in their soul is familiar.
01:47:00
Speaker
Oh, what would you like to know?
01:47:03
Speaker
Who are you seeking?
01:47:04
Speaker
I'm, um, I'm looking for someone.
01:47:08
Speaker
What was your mother's name?
01:47:10
Speaker
Oh, um.
01:47:12
Speaker
My mother's name, I carry her name along the line of Varutha's.
01:47:19
Speaker
I'm looking for a Varutha.
01:47:21
Speaker
Varutha, pass me the essence of familiarity in which you have.
01:47:28
Speaker
Essentially asking you to kind of try to transfer through thought.
01:47:34
Speaker
the characteristics and memory of the soul that you are trying to find that you've kind of already like identified a bit.
01:47:40
Speaker
All right.
01:47:41
Speaker
Yeah.
01:47:42
Speaker
I, uh, give him the information.
01:47:44
Speaker
Uh, I see.
01:47:47
Speaker
Give me one moment.
01:47:52
Speaker
Uh, yes, I do believe I have found, uh,
01:47:58
Speaker
She's two fields away from Harmony.
01:48:01
Speaker
She has not made it to the nothing yet.
01:48:03
Speaker
Thank you.
01:48:04
Speaker
You're welcome, Soulkeeper.
01:48:07
Speaker
Blessings upon you.
01:48:09
Speaker
I appreciate it.
01:48:10
Speaker
And I'm going to turn back to Berutha.
01:48:13
Speaker
I have found your mother.
01:48:15
Speaker
Oh, I am... I can help you.
01:48:19
Speaker
But only if you give us any more information you possibly can.
01:48:25
Speaker
A name or a theory, and I'll send you in the right direction.
01:48:31
Speaker
Only a persuasion check.
01:48:32
Speaker
With advantage.
01:48:36
Speaker
Can I guide it?
01:48:37
Speaker
Is that something I can't add?
01:48:38
Speaker
Ooh, I think so.
01:48:40
Speaker
It's going to be a 19.
01:48:40
Speaker
With guidance?
01:48:43
Speaker
Oh, with guidance, let me roll a d4.
01:48:46
Speaker
That's enough.
01:48:47
Speaker
I'll be honest with you.
01:48:47
Speaker
20 weapons.
01:48:50
Speaker
Yes.
01:48:50
Speaker
Let's make it cooler.
01:48:54
Speaker
Fine.
01:48:57
Speaker
Thank you.
01:48:58
Speaker
See, she kind of has some relief in this.
01:49:01
Speaker
It's the first time you've probably seen her eyes have a layer of softness to them since you've met her.
01:49:08
Speaker
You can search out my husband-to-be.
01:49:11
Speaker
His name is Rivas.
01:49:14
Speaker
I didn't get a chance to tell them that I bailed and went on the run, so...
01:49:20
Speaker
I don't know, but he may still be preparing or on his way to the material plane.
01:49:27
Speaker
Where would we expect him to arrive?
01:49:34
Speaker
I'll be honest, I don't know.
01:49:37
Speaker
I just figured he'd knock on my front door at some point.
01:49:40
Speaker
Thank you.
01:49:42
Speaker
Um, well, let's get this over with it.
01:49:46
Speaker
I'll send you on your way.
01:49:52
Speaker
I've removed my blade, so Talira has space.
01:49:56
Speaker
She looks up at you, Talira.
01:49:58
Speaker
And Talira is tense, and you can see a lot of conflicting emotions on Talira's face before she steals herself and shakes her arms and shoulders out.
01:50:19
Speaker
Talira, if you can't,
01:50:22
Speaker
I can.
01:50:24
Speaker
I can.
01:50:26
Speaker
Pull your hair away.
01:50:29
Speaker
I want a clean shot.
01:50:30
Speaker
We promised painless.
01:50:31
Speaker
Okay.
01:50:35
Speaker
Thank you for helping at the end.
01:50:38
Speaker
Does not excuse what you did.
01:50:41
Speaker
But maybe we can stop this shit.
01:50:45
Speaker
Yeah.
01:50:46
Speaker
Good luck with that.
01:50:47
Speaker
And Talira swings.
01:50:53
Speaker
thump as the head hits the ground and then rolls into the water.
01:50:58
Speaker
May you wander the fugue plane for an eternity, you bitch.
01:51:02
Speaker
I grab the head before it, like, falls into the water.
01:51:07
Speaker
As you reach down to grab the head, even from this distance, you hear...
01:51:15
Speaker
sizzling, getting louder and louder all of a sudden.
01:51:18
Speaker
And as you look over, there's a bright, intense flash from the bridge.
01:51:23
Speaker
And as you recover, you hear a loud crash and the sound of metal.
01:51:30
Speaker
And as you recover from the almost blinding light, there is an immense giant metallic spike with a sizzling rift around it, pierced through the bridge.
01:51:44
Speaker
And when I say giant,
Session End and Team Yellen Reveal
01:51:45
Speaker
I mean probably 30-foot round.
01:51:48
Speaker
The fuck?
01:51:51
Speaker
What are we supposed to do about that?
01:51:53
Speaker
And that's where we're going to end today.
01:51:57
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Oh, man.
01:51:57
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Of course I use all my spell slots.
01:52:03
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I hope you all enjoyed today's episode.
01:52:06
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We finally got to a point where I got a little...
01:52:10
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deeper in emotion and a little more tense.
01:52:14
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So audience, take a deep breath.
01:52:16
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No, that was a lot.
01:52:18
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Take a deep breath.
01:52:19
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Don't worry.
01:52:19
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And know in your soul that Verutha sucks and no one likes her.
01:52:24
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Indeed.
01:52:25
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And she deserves nothing but the worst.
01:52:27
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Exactly.
01:52:27
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And my players can attest, just know, it can and probably will get so much more worse than that.
01:52:35
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Oh, yeah.
01:52:36
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Oh, man.
01:52:38
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Either way.
01:52:40
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Very nice.
01:52:41
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I love that.
01:52:41
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Team Yellen.
01:52:43
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What is this shirt you have?
01:52:46
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I've been waiting this whole time for someone to notice.
01:52:48
Speaker
Oh my god.
01:52:49
Speaker
I was trying to read it earlier.
01:52:51
Speaker
That's so funny.
01:52:52
Speaker
What?
01:52:53
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That's awesome.
01:52:57
Speaker
Oh my god.
01:52:57
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Okay.
01:52:58
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You had a blanket over your shoulders and I was covering it and you were like...
01:53:04
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She's got a shirt that says Team Yellen.
01:53:06
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If y'all want to see it, make sure to join the Discord.
01:53:08
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Because that's probably the only place you're going to be able to see this.
01:53:10
Speaker
This is so cool.
01:53:11
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We can make a reel of this.
01:53:13
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That is true.
01:53:16
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Follow the socials up there too.
01:53:18
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This is all of us staring like jaws drop.
01:53:23
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It only took two hours and 30 minutes.
01:53:28
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I had a jacket on for 30 minutes of that.
01:53:32
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That's crazy.
01:53:34
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Either way, players, thank you guys so much for joining me once again.
01:53:37
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And audience, thank you so much for listening once again.
01:53:41
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I hope you guys enjoyed this episode.
01:53:42
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In my opinion, we just keep getting better and better.
01:53:45
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Not to be sad and conceited.
01:53:46
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It's just this campaign's really starting to heat up and I'm loving it.
01:53:50
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We also didn't have a Team Yellen shirt until this episode.
01:53:53
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Also true.
01:53:58
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It also says World of Aeon Wrestling Championships.
01:54:04
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It's so amazing.
01:54:06
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I am so excited.
01:54:09
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Okay, guys.
01:54:10
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We'll see you next time.
01:54:13
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I don't know what else to say, so bye.
01:54:14
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Bye-bye.
01:54:15
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See you.
01:54:15
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Bye.
01:54:33
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you
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you