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Ep. 133 Breaking Bad - Bellum Draconis
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Reigns-less, our party try to move forwards.
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Strategizing with Ranged Attacks
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Speaker
Nick, if you want to do stuff from range, I know you've got your bit more you're a bit more powerful now, so maybe you can keep your distance, but shoot stuff at
Session Introduction and Character Overview
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Speaker
range. That's the open! ah rain
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Speaker
hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the fellowship of the tabletop bellham drconni we are a live play five e twenty twenty four d and d podcast that magical homebrewd world of e in the kingdom of drak joining you for this week's episode we have the edge lord callum who placed the war forged artificeer alpha
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Speaker
we've got ian who blaser thfling waterranix corral hello we've got pooba who plays the human cleric emron clip so Well, he plays a dragonborn druid, Baal
Humorous Titles for the Dungeon Master
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Speaker
Valcon.
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No. and My name is Mark, and I am playing the human blade singer, Seth Farrow Reaver, and by last, but by no means least, is our taint technician, our tamer of terrors, our tyrant of trials, our tempter of the testicle tickling, the fantasy foreskin, forager of fates, and facilitator masturbator, Dungeon Master Danny.
00:01:30
Speaker
Bonjour. Bravo. Bravo. think my favourite one is the foreskin one. What was the taint one? No, taint tactician. ill take tacticic Taint tactician. tactician.
00:01:42
Speaker
Yeah. It's impressive. I was going to just stick to T's and then I thought, well, you know, why start with T's and I've got to... Why stop with the taint? Why stop with the taint? Basically, I'm not going lie.
00:01:53
Speaker
I wrote Fantasy Foreskin and I loved it. So I was just going to go with it. And for me, it has a cape. It has a cape. but Because that's what you're having find to see. Nitted out of pubes.
Exploration of the Abandoned House
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Speaker
Speaking of which, we find ourselves in what seems an abandoned house on the edge Sleetgaard.
Encounter with Old Gell
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Speaker
in a what seems an abandoned house on the edge of s sleepard cobwebs in the corners, four stories high. And as we work our way up this abandoned written place, place of abandonment to the attic space, we find within it, hunched in a corner, old Gell sat quietly, rolling the orb between his fingers.
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Speaker
As we appear up from the latch, he's already looking at us. He knew we were coming. He turns, opens his mouth, and says...
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Speaker
Ooh, altruistic tattoo time. The group talk decisions, and Prego does some sort of sick-ass lore drop-in. The Gartrans are the sky people, apparently.
Discussion on Gartrans and Shadow Man
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Speaker
Oh, shit.
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Speaker
And we're asking, like, why weren't they fighting over Sleek God and Shadow Man? And it turns out that Shadow Man exists because of Tolkelon, and Sleek God exists because of the Gartrans, and Leopold is like, Fortnite! thousand fucking years old and the same they're old ass bitches and something to do with delmon's magic being similar in some way shape or form i don't fucking know and the key person the thing inside alpha is like some sort of key to either the return of the gartrans or or or unlocking tokelon or some sort of victory it's all kind of fucked up anyway prego's like i got a new offer for you boys i don't think that reigns he reigns has got long left
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Speaker
we can save Seth as a group, but I will be there when the time comes for you to decide what happens with
Lore Revelation and New Deal with Prego
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Speaker
Aerith. And the groups are like, oh no. And Prager was like, I got some more Lordrop for you. Groset, the campaign won fucking mosque other brother!
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Speaker
And they're like, don't know what to feel about that! Nyx is like, you know what? I'm voting for the tattoo. Sounds fucking cool. Emron's like, hmm, tell me about the 13 names first. And Prego's all like, you'll find out in due course, bitch. And Emron's like, okay, fine, I'll take some time, but I'm gonna give you a little bit of a threat.
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Speaker
Ball's like, yeah, I'm in! I'm gonna drop a few C-bombs. Alpha is in and let's get a fucking tattoo! Nyx decides to go brain fucking on Prego and he sees his own custom wet dream.
00:04:31
Speaker
Yep, I said it. Seth is like, okay, right, let's just find out the meanings of this deal. Apparently he won't get harmed, whatever happens to Reigns, but like I said, when we have to decide what to do with her, Prego will appear, and them tattoos go all along, and Prego just randomly sidesteps in and goes, oh, by the way, Bar, you was like the heart of the group, and yeah, that's pretty cool.
00:04:53
Speaker
Anyway, the group goes clipping, clopping, and Seth suddenly fears his heart, skipping a beat, and his tattoo lights up. And something's happening. Something's happening to Reigns.
Reigns' Capture and Family Secret
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Speaker
Alpha can feel it too.
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Speaker
In our last episode, we followed Reigns Haddo, who, cast out of the meeting of the Winged Watch for compromising secrets, decided to decided to take his fate into his own hands and seek a means to return to ShadowMend.
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Speaker
In the dead of night, Reigns' options for a swift and immediate travel were slim, but he charted passage as far as Moonrise, on board a pirate ship called the Cracked Ruby, which was captained by the notorious pirate Roland Swiftblade.
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Speaker
En route to the Cracked Ruby, with the crew, Reigns discovered a wanted poster in their rowboat, seeking capture of the false Prince of Shadowment, with his portrait pictured.
Reigns' Choice: Death or Betrayal
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Speaker
Before he could escape, Reigns was paralysed and taken elsewhere. Instead of the Cracked Ruby, Reigns awoke. naked and bound in chains in the brig of a much greater vessel, the Lion of the Sea, the lead vessel of Shadow Men's Navy belonging to Reigns' grandfather, Uriand Cardenal.
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Speaker
Reigns was tortured, his memories red, and life near depleted by Uriand's hand. Uriand learned everything about Reigns' journey since leaving Shadomend.
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Speaker
About you, the party. About the winged watch. Shondralakar. About Alpha. And Princess Iamolda Gartrin.
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In return, Reigns learnt Uriand was not his grandfather. As he had known his entire life, but his actual father.
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Speaker
Reigns eventually succumbed to the torture inflicted by his now father, but in his dying moments, Prego the Majestic came to him with an ultimatum and explained that if Reigns died, so too would Seth.
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Speaker
This was after the party struck a bargain.
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Speaker
Prego extended a new deal. He would safely take Reigns away from his doom and return him to the party. In doing so, Reigns needed to give Alpha and the stone containing Princess Aymel de Gartre to Prego.
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Faced with an impossible choice. Dying, and dooming Seth too, or living, but giving his son and this princess to a devil.
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Reigns chose death, and in his final words, he uttered an apology to Seth.
Journey Towards Beach Barrow Port
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Speaker
The party, you five, now find yourselves travelling eastward, outside of Scorch Helm, making the four-day journey to Beach Barrow Port, where you are investigating the recent silence from an agent of the Winged Watch, who's been keeping eyes on a p'chriskra activity in that town.
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Speaker
The five of you, however, been pressing through the night on your faithful elephant-y companion trunks. You have two weeks to return to Scorch Helm. I need you all to roll an exhaustion check, so please make constitution saving throws.
00:09:08
Speaker
Oh, shit. Fuck it. And if any of you are still carrying exhaustion, you haven't shaken that off. Well, fuck, man. Like, I'm exhausted too. Level two already.
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Speaker
So what am like I got a roll of d20, right? Constitution saving throw.
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Speaker
um mean even And then minus two to whatever roll you get. yeah Because you've got two levels of exhaustion.
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Speaker
I don't want to so ah constitution saving throw which is a plus two but minus two so it's just a nat I know it's times two your exhaustion level yeah it's double your exhaustion level so it's four you reduce four you reduce four oh shit the look of Nick's face droop oh bastard okay you're tired it's not good you're tired man Barl what'd you get ah You're exhausted. Another stack.
00:10:06
Speaker
yeah Seth, what'd you get? 18. Not exhausted. But you don't recover if you're still carrying any.
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Speaker
Alpha. Unnatural 20. Not exhausted. Emron. 2. Exhausted. Very exhausted. Nyx.
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Speaker
I don't want to. 9. Exhausted. Yeah. Level 3. nine exhausted yeah it takes up to three sts so everything That would have been level four.
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Speaker
ah Everything you do is reduced by six.
00:10:41
Speaker
Is this because we've clip-clopped through the night? You clip-clopped through the night. Cool, gotcha. Yeah. What if we slept? Well, you can if you want to do that in a moment, but you you've arrived at midnight at this point.
00:10:55
Speaker
you you need to test for exhaustion. So some of you may want to sleep during this leg of the the move. However, i need someone who's proficient in survival to make a preparation role for this journey. In the past, this has been Baal, but it's a straight survival whats it bot it's survival role.
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um And it dictates basically how your conditions fare, how prepared you are for the journey, the sort of um inspections you would have done on your vehicle, how you would have tended to trunks and that sort of thing. So Baal, if it it is to be Baal again,
00:11:26
Speaker
Would we have had the benefits of a short rest on the journey up till midnight, do you think?
Strategies for Night Travel and Rest
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Speaker
No. this This all happened as you were leaving the Winged Watch. We we are on route. That means i'm yeah I'm not attuned to the Navigator's cane, but it's still I've still got a relatively good boost to survival. It just b won't be as good as it could. I'm not proficient, so I'm out. I am, but could i just ah help?
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Speaker
ah Because you mentioned about vehicle checks. You're proficient in land vehicles? I'm proficient land vehicles and proficient in survival. But i because Bal has led on those kind of things in the past, is there any way that I can... ah how How would you help Bal as he's sort of ready checking the party?
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Speaker
Well, if he's checking the party and the journey, I assume Seth could be checking the vehicle, ah checking the spokes, checking the gears, checking for any wear and tear on the cart, um looking over trunks, but with a little bit of weariness, given he's not proficient with kind of animals, but more proficient with the vehicle itself. So kind of checking over that, making sure that it's safe and secure, we're going to limit rattling, comfort for the others.
00:12:31
Speaker
um checking the reins, no pun intended, the reins and just the general saddle of... There's no reins here!...in preparation for comfort. They're broke! Yeah, that that that kind of but accoutrement.
00:12:46
Speaker
Can I also tap Baal's bot and cast Guidance on him?
00:12:52
Speaker
Sure. Baal, you can add a d4 and roll advantage because of Seth's help then. Okay, i rolled. I don't think I'll need the D4, but I will put it on anyway. Dengix just turns away. All right, fuck you very much.
00:13:08
Speaker
It's a 24 overall with the guidance. 24. Okay. So every you as a party can tap into a resource called preparation die, ah which are an additional D6 you can add to any role, a damage role, ah saving throw, skill test, whatever.
00:13:30
Speaker
ah To the value of D6, you have 24, you said. So you have you have five of those available to you as a party between now and when you arrive at Beach Barraport. Okay. Nice. Nice.
00:13:42
Speaker
So if someone could track when those are spent, yeah there are five available. So is that then, this is the kind of the equivalent of because we've been prepared, we're are a bit more prepared.
00:13:54
Speaker
So with this kind of a works as like almost guidance because of the preparation we put in. Yeah, it's it's sort of currency. do Yeah, it's a perilous environment to take long rests in. Right. So there there is another way you can sort of bolster the party for a journey. And that is to to invest in these preparation die.
00:14:13
Speaker
um And it means that someone acts as a sort of guide on this journey. While you don't know this environment particularly well, you've never been this far east, this is is all new terrain to you, but you understand deserts. um So you right it makes sense that you you're sort of leading that.
00:14:25
Speaker
But essentially it creates a resource that you can all tap into for role play, that you can tap tap into for combat, whenever you feel is appropriate.
00:14:33
Speaker
Just to double finally double check. So that's ah five as a whole party. Yep. There's five people can draw on. So there's only five available. You share that five. So like I said, one of us feels there's a super important role. Could you use all five or is there a limit on one? Absolutely. If you feel like that's that's what you need to do. But there are there are five available.
00:14:52
Speaker
Okay, so there's no limit on the number per turn or like in combat or anything. It's just, this is a pool of dice that we can use to whenever. Yep. Sick. I like it. Nice. Thank you. Can I add it to my roll of 24? Add them all to it. You achieve them afterwards.
00:15:07
Speaker
You had this preparation die the time that you left Snake Run to get to Scorch Helm, but you didn't use them all. I think one was used on...
00:15:19
Speaker
Nyx being yeeted from that tower um after that. ah yeah didn't You didn't use them all by the end of the the run. There's no reward for not using them. They're to be used. um So you've got to decide if you want to but use them more or save them for a more dangerous moment.
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Speaker
But there are five of those available. You clip-clop through ah the this sort yeah outer farms and mines and estates of Scorch Helm.
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Speaker
takes you about half an hour to really leave the city's outer reaches proper. It is dark, but from the light of the moon and the calamity in the sky that you're learning more and more about, there is a bit more light than usual.
00:16:03
Speaker
Some of you may wish to spend this time resting. One person needs to spend this time driving the cart. You can't all take that rest. um You know you're headed eastward. You're on a ah road, Seth, that is that is of Chrisker maintained. So there are there are lights every mile. There's mile markers, et cetera.
00:16:20
Speaker
um The road is ah decent condition. this is the This is the major route to move through this kingdom into and into the east. um So how would you guys like to proceed?
00:16:32
Speaker
Firstly, Seth's only got one level of exhaustion anyway, and I think that feels more metaphorical than any anything else. So he would just not break stride and would just... it's He's got a focus, he's got a task, and so because of that, he's happy.
00:16:51
Speaker
And so he will he will happily, without having to make a big deal or mention it, will just keep clip-clopping and will stay by the reins and stay at that um you know next to Trunks. throughout and he will assume that others will take take rests according because he will power through he will power through him because ah um yeah the quicker we get there the quicker we've got our purpose and the quicker he can he can get to get to slashing and gashing okie dokie in the back of the car everyone's sort of going as the car's rumbling along everyone sort of looks to the the others that are in there and sort of speaks loud enough so Seth can hear
00:17:30
Speaker
Do we want to ah stop for a bit, give everyone everyone a rest so we can start fresh, are we pushing on through a night? he sat on the I am perfectly fine going with our current course.
00:17:50
Speaker
But I mean, his point is that obviously it's a few days to get there. Obviously, what we don't want to do is push on through the night, get really tired and have to stop in the blazing sun, whereas we could rest a bit now at night, is what i'm saying. Now we're out of the city, just just putting it out there as a group to be a bit more refreshed.
00:18:13
Speaker
Danny, does it look like we'd be able to do a mobile rest in the sense of like get being able to get a long rest using the car as we're still moving so long as one person does? As long as one person was dedicated to controlling there's enough space for you all to stretch out in that car.
00:18:29
Speaker
Yeah, that I ah but would probably kind of bring that up then or or just say, think time is of the essence. And if we can... ah instead of taking watch, maybe one, maybe two maximum take watch and one person drives, we'd take it in shifts.
00:18:49
Speaker
Okay, yeah, I'm happy to that, yep as long as we're all up with that.
00:18:55
Speaker
I need sleep, guys. It's been a long time since I've needed sleep like this. In fact, I can't remember the last time I've needed sleep like this, and it's almost
Group Dynamics and Survival Roles
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Speaker
welcoming, but at the same time, i am fucked So whatever decision we make, I'm not going to be much use until I get something off the shut eye.
00:19:18
Speaker
well Okay, let's rest on the road. Well, Seth, are you happy to keep pushing on once you need to sleep? You tell us and one of us will take over. Seth will just kind of thumbs up over his over his head as he continues looking forward. Or sticks his hand, obviously you can't see that, sticks his hand through the material that I imagine fronts this cart he'll just see a thumbs up stick through and then um pull back through. Okay, let's get as comfortable as we can then, folks.
00:19:48
Speaker
I'm happy to take a bit of a watch to start with. I could do with perhaps reattuning to some of the things that I have. um Speaking of which, and I'll kind of look around the group and kind of take in everyone for a second.
00:20:04
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And then he's going to kind of rub his hands together and just breathe like... heavily into his hands and it's almost like like thin wispy smoke starts building into his hands into a tiny little bonfire almost in a sec in an way and he takes a section of it and he passes it towards Nyx. He takes a section, he passes it towards Alpha and he also kind of throws it at the back of Seth's head.
00:20:26
Speaker
I'm casting aid at third level. um which will bump up your hit point maximum to 10 more than it currently is for the next eight hours. It's not concentration based.
00:20:40
Speaker
It just kind of bumps those up. it's not like temporary hit points? It's max HP by 10. Wow. Just for eight hours. So for the long rest in case, obviously things go tits up.
00:20:51
Speaker
And as as he's kind of cast that out, he's not really kind of used that ability with this group much before he's going to kind of pull his hand to his clasp, his cape or wear his cape, his under cape, if you like, could be.
00:21:05
Speaker
And just that there's this kind of, he's got the Pearl of Power in a Phoenix-based suit. glass emblem around his neck and he's going to withdraw the power of that out and get his third level spell back straight away again um and then he's going to be spending the next hour uh attuning taking attunement away from the pearl and into his rod woof um that's just that's my plan that's a sick spell oh really good that's awesome have you i mean I'm just adding it on his temporary hit points for now. No, you can click on and housing your HP and you can adjust your max HP modifier by 10.
00:21:42
Speaker
It won't let me. or just Maybe it's because I'm weak-ass wizard. Not override your max HP. It's your modifier. HP modifier? yeah If you click on your HP in D&E Beyond, below where you put in damage and that, lot there's max HP modifier overriding. Oh, yeah, I got it. I put it in max HP modifier and you put 10 and it bumps you by 10.
00:22:04
Speaker
Thank Thank you, Bob. So it sounds to me that Seth is driving through the night and the other four of you are taking a long rests. Yes. Okay.
00:22:18
Speaker
All right. so It needs to be at least six hours of sleeping for us and then two hours, whatever we want.
Desert Travel and Morning Break
00:22:25
Speaker
Okay, Seth, I need you to make, there's not a mechanic right now for for vehicle proficiency for land vehicles. So what I'm going to do is you're going to make an animal handling check, straight animal handling check, and I want you to then add your proficiency modifier on top afterwards, please.
00:22:43
Speaker
Okie dokie. Here we go. Good. That rolled from a natural one to a 15 plus... three My proficiency bonus is 3, 18. Perfect. So for the course of the night, then, you have a very quiet, but very steady um route through. And because you're staying on this major road, the Crisqua lights are enough for you to just get used to...
00:23:05
Speaker
um
00:23:08
Speaker
Maintaining a steady enough course that you're not hitting potholes and waking up and disturbing the long rest and impacting and the rest of your party's ability to to recover. We get to sunrise and your your that passage passes without incident.
00:23:25
Speaker
Every eight hours or so, I'm going to have to enforce that you need to stop because trunks can't continuously run for 24 hours straight. That would kill the creature. Yeah. So we get to sunrise, the rest of the party complete a long rest.
00:23:39
Speaker
So do what you need to do for do that. Remove an a stack of exhaustion, not all of them, in your recovery. And we'll call this you pulling over to get breakfast and waking everyone up, essentially. Did we level up?
00:23:53
Speaker
just ah Absolutely not. Okay, cool, cool. No, you level down, um actually, after that a request.
00:24:01
Speaker
Sun is beginning to rise. You say it's been eight hours. It's been eight hours. So yeah we lost that 10 point HP from Baal. yeah Yeah, but Baal then completes a long rest of those spell slots are back.
00:24:12
Speaker
yeah yeah exactly So it sort of recycles. Yeah.
00:24:17
Speaker
You make very good distance despite um the fact that, Seth, that was a really tiring drive for you. Drive must be the appropriate um verb there ah for you.
00:24:30
Speaker
And you're beginning to get to this point in the desert where it's not sort of um flat sands anymore. So as you came into Turalac initially, it was very dune-y, very sandy.
00:24:42
Speaker
um Now this is becoming quite craggy and canyon-y. Canyon-y is not the the appropriate word, but lots of canyons. And youre you're sort of in a high road going between different cliffs and buffs, but there is sheer drops beneath you.
00:24:57
Speaker
The road is really well maintained. um but the the landscape is is more of a crevasse, if you will. You pull over the side of the road and and at this point, you know sort of Trunks just needs that break and everyone begins to wake because you're so used to the motion through the night that when the motion stops, it's naturally a waking point for all of you.
Arrival of Reigns' Damaged Homunculus
00:25:18
Speaker
and Before you sort of pick up from this point, Bal, I'll ask you as the um de facto guide here,
00:25:30
Speaker
To rule d20 for me on a random encounter table, please. Oh, shit. might do this manually. We're all awake at this point, yeah? Yeah, this isn't the point you ambush. It's just for the day. like something Something you'll encounter, perhaps, from a table.
00:25:44
Speaker
Did you just say ambush? Oh, fuck. You're not being ambushed. It's not what like you've stopped. There's a bush. Surprise, motherfucker. There's a ham bush. It's a bush with fries. Surprise, motherfucker.
00:25:57
Speaker
It was a four. Oh, fuck it. It's a four. Thank you very much. You're welcome. and So you'll begin to wake, pull to the side the road and Seth, you're able to sort of stretch your legs after after ah decent night's journey.
00:26:12
Speaker
What do you want to do?
00:26:15
Speaker
Baal is going to cast Goodberry. We'll need provisions, so this is good pre-emptive. Welcome to Goodberry. Can take your order? Can I take your order?
00:26:29
Speaker
ah For all you 90s kids out there, that's just made you laugh if you get that reference. ah yes so good they little that that Yeah, Yeah, they just they look like little berries, but they're spicy as fuck. But that'll fill you up.
00:26:43
Speaker
He hands them around. I'll give one out to Trunks as well if he'll have it. Nice. and Which leaves me with five left. I'm fairly certain Reigns was your ability to create water.
00:26:56
Speaker
oh i have that one of us could have swapped out yeah you've already got it i don't have it now but i can swap it out it's part of the long i prepared it just in case of we've all got four skins it's fine so but i'll spunk another level as well um and create water for everyone's canteens and things like that so bar's gone full have you got that going for um bar have you got that going forwards I mean, like can. There's other things that I could use this energy on if someone else... Okay. We'll talk about it when we... I think we made sure we had several water skins in the things. We can just filled those up, didn't we? As part of our gear, when we left to get to to to the capital, we did buy lots of water skins. Who's this person talking? Who's this?
00:27:41
Speaker
Now this is Will talking to the player. That's a it's just reminding We were having an in-character chat there. for This isn't a Christmas special. You can't just bring in you. What do you think this is?
00:27:52
Speaker
Baal, babe, we'll talk about it when we next have a rest. But I can take some, I can shift some of my arcanic abilities around. Okay.
00:28:03
Speaker
Well, yes, for tomorrow perhaps. Then it gives me a ah few more up my sleeve to make sure none of you guys, well, to heal you up again, as Baal kind of catches himself and realises what he was just about to say.
00:28:18
Speaker
As Baal makes the water, Emond's filling the various different bags of when water things we had. Yeah. And Azula just sat around by the side of the road, taking in refreshments.
00:28:32
Speaker
Your note, Seth, you didn't pass anyone in the night. No one traveled. There were and nowhere near the road and at distance, some sort of nocturnal animals, but no one would dare approach a stampeding elephant.
00:28:50
Speaker
And dawn is much the same. It's it's incredibly quiet. There's a still wind and there is an acrid heat, but not not anything you're not used to at this point after a couple of weeks in this desert. Hydrated, satiated from the good berries.
00:29:06
Speaker
you'll begin to sort of collect yourselves and and just in that moment where you're all still sat down. Bal, with your passive, you'd see this anyway, but I won't get people to roll.
00:29:20
Speaker
Coming from the north and you're sort of moving parallel to the sea at this point. So you know you're only a couple of ah miles from from the ocean. Coming from the north in the sky is this sort of gray, tiny bird.
00:29:36
Speaker
flapping at extreme speed towards you.
00:29:40
Speaker
ah Heads up, anyone know what that is? And Bile kind of point it out. That looks like a bird.
00:29:49
Speaker
Flapping towards us at extreme speeds. Yes. Very fast bird. Maybe it's some sort of messenger. Seth's going to stand up and unsheathe his scimitar of wounding, which I imagine is kind of serrated along the edge very slowly. So it goes against the scabbard as it comes out with one hand and then reaching across himself. He's going to pull out the other relative ah regular scimitar and just start walking towards the bird, like them kind of in the readied position.
00:30:19
Speaker
And he's going to prepare himself. he's not actually going to do anything, but you know, I'm not preparing anything mechanically, but just that's the motif i want to go for. This bird is maybe the size of a pigeon.
00:30:31
Speaker
ah Seth hits it. and But it's it's still about 80 foot in the air, but but coming towards you quite quickly. And it's not, um
00:30:42
Speaker
Seth, the one thing you're you're quite trained in is,
00:30:47
Speaker
bird messengers and and iconography of birds, right? it' It's been how you communicated for the past couple of months in the winged watch. This is not an organic creature, nor is it a sort of fae-created creature of of magical, um that sort of magical school.
00:31:07
Speaker
And it sort of darts straight at you, all but no one in particular, and sort of lands in this heavy thud and this small plume of sand just sort of
00:31:17
Speaker
shoots up from the the ground itself.
Emotional Turmoil Over Reigns' Death
00:31:23
Speaker
ah it's close enough It's not close enough for any of you to sort of um visibly get a read on, but it's it's sort of in the middle of your area. Seth will look back at it and then to the rest and just kind of wait for them to take the lead, but he'll very much, he's he's still armed and he's kind of prepped for something to jump out and try and bite his dick off.
00:31:45
Speaker
Anyone speak bird here? Everyone's going to get up and go towards what? This bird. As you move towards it, it's familiar to you.
00:31:56
Speaker
It's Reigns'
00:32:01
Speaker
artifice-trial creation. His homunculus. His homunculus.
00:32:08
Speaker
that's You son of a bitch! And it just, like a wounded bird that flew into a wall... Or into a window that sometimes you just encounter. It's it's struggling for life in front of you.
00:32:23
Speaker
But it's... It belonged to Reigns. Emron will pick it up in his so scarred and weathered hands and bring it over towards the group. Can you just make a sleight of hand check to see how delicately you can do this?
00:32:43
Speaker
An 11? I'm real delicate. You pull one half of it up with you. no you pick it You pick it up by it sort of between the wings. I was aiming to scoop it, but yeah. Yeah.
00:32:57
Speaker
and Just not quite delicate enough. And it is just breaks into a couple of pieces. But it just sort of flaps like ah like a fish that's beached.
00:33:13
Speaker
um I'll pick up the other half mash them together no
00:33:24
Speaker
i will I will bring over the other half and yeah just is it still moving not anymore do you fucking kill it probably i'm gonna Who is this?
00:33:42
Speaker
Alpha's going to go over to Emron. Roleplay, William. And Alpha's going to attempt to, anyway, cast Mending on this parrot that stopped moving. He's still going to try anyway. And it's going to be a point where Alpha sees this as his connection to Reigns, going to cast Mending.
00:34:02
Speaker
It doesn't work. He's going to try again. It's almost like resourcing it with Mending at this stage, you even if it's little by little by little by little. He's going to keep trying to do it, even if there is no effect. going probably give it a good go five or six times.
00:34:17
Speaker
Yeah. You put it together. It works as a sculpture, as a toy, but it doesn't have the infusion. It doesn't have the iconic magic that powered it. You make an ornament.
00:34:33
Speaker
Do we all recognise this as... Yeah, Reigns only bought it recently and and animated it recently, but but he presented it all to you. He did, yeah. Okay.
00:34:46
Speaker
Seems to be the...
00:34:50
Speaker
Reigns is homunculus, or it was.
00:34:54
Speaker
I believe the arcanic connection for it is gone. It has been settered. It's lifeless. Cool. So what does that mean?
00:35:07
Speaker
Well, it's as we felt last night. Who felt? What did you feel? Last night, when we were all asleep, together. for Before we left, just as we were leaving.
00:35:19
Speaker
Certainly for me. There was feeling. Possibly what one might to account for ah churning in one's stomach.
00:35:31
Speaker
I think might be an appropriate analogy. A disconnection. An emptiness. Yes.
00:35:41
Speaker
To do with brains? I can only assume so, yeah. I can only assume that given our extended association and whatever, that for some reason, whatever bound us all together,
00:36:00
Speaker
maybe Prego, who fucking knows, allowed us to...
00:36:05
Speaker
get a sense or feeling when he came to his end.
00:36:15
Speaker
Reigns came to his end. Yeah. It's the emptiness. It feels like it, but I refuse to believe it. This is not proof of anything.
00:36:28
Speaker
If his infusion's gone, Alpha. We can turn them off and on. Okay. he He turned off i'm his ah squirrel creature in order to make a bag of holding for Baal, and the squirrel creature came back. We can disable these infusions at will.
00:36:47
Speaker
Does that bag of holding still work? No, I didn't give it back. Oh, I was just wondering if there was a way to I believe it was Reigns that had the bag of holding.
00:36:59
Speaker
Ah, okay. I'm confused. Like, Reigns... i'm confused like it rain Is he gone? Probably dead. We don't know that, Emron.
00:37:11
Speaker
Seth nods at Emron's comment, though. We don't, Alpha. We don't know. You're right. But Prego was very clear to us last night. He said that he reckoned Reims had hours rather than days.
00:37:25
Speaker
I know what everything seems to look like. Everything points to it. I understand the logic, but there's a part of me that i just believes he's still out there somewhere.
00:37:38
Speaker
Frego is a lying piece of shit. he goes well he does He does bend the truth. I don't think actually, when you think back, he's ever actually directly lied to us.
00:37:51
Speaker
I agree. we can't We have to take him with a pinch of salt. There was something last night when I asked him directly about Seth and his link to Reigns, and if Reigns was to die, then what would happen? And I felt like I could read him truly, and Reigns was one of the three that needed to survive. So if he's gone...
00:38:23
Speaker
and Bar will kind of look down at both of his sleeve tattoos now. i Maybe these are what are keeping you here, Seth? or Or if he isn't... well We did our deal so that that deal was done, wasn't it? it was It was over, the bond was broken in exchange that we made a greater deal.
00:38:45
Speaker
That's how I saw it. And you think that it happened last night? Last night or whenever, depending on how Prager's connection, you know what he does. He seemed to know when Marota's funeral was going to be weeks in advance or his concept of time and connection.
00:39:01
Speaker
Who knows? And Emron will sort pass the homunculus corpse to Alfa. Alfa's going to snatch it out with your hand. But he's gone.
00:39:14
Speaker
He walked away. After everything. whilst Whilst that's happening, Seth's walked back over and just on that comment, Emron, as you get to that moment, Seth's been sketching a word into the sand with his scimitar of wounding and you just see what looks like desert at first until he adds the ur at the end and just writes deserter in the sand and then points to it as you get to that and then spits on it and walks back towards the ah to cart.
00:39:41
Speaker
After everything he said Marota's funeral, at the meeting, for days he's been talking about working together, and then he fucking walked... um but wait Wait a minute, wait a minute. I might be out ah um might be able to try something.
00:39:56
Speaker
And Nix is going to go into his pockets and he's searching through his jacket and he's jacket and he's he pulls out the cracked crystal orb from Old Girl.
00:40:08
Speaker
And it's, just give me a minute. And Nix will kind of kneel down in the sand and he'll place the orb just in front of him. And two he's going to... push all his arcanic energy into it and ah think about Reigns and see.
00:40:24
Speaker
It has worked in the past. It's been a long time since Nyx has done it. He always takes the orb out to study it, ah but he's going to think about Reigns and see if he can push that thought into the the orb to see if he can see anything or if it talks to him.
00:40:46
Speaker
Are you...
00:40:51
Speaker
Are you casting Augury specifically?
00:40:59
Speaker
I haven't done before for this. I believe I have the ability to, with the Ring of Foresight, which I can do, i can cast Augury once per day without using a spell slot.
00:41:19
Speaker
And that's what Nyx is going to do. He's going to, once the crystal orb is down, he's just going to place one hand over the the ring of foresight, which was the gift from old Girl, and cast Augury while thinking of Reigns and channeling it through the cracked orb.
00:41:46
Speaker
In the orb, you just see... Your friend. Reigns.
00:41:53
Speaker
His face.
00:41:57
Speaker
With a smile on it.
00:42:02
Speaker
He's wearing no clothing. He looks.
00:42:08
Speaker
Within an inch of his life. Dying.
00:42:13
Speaker
There is a blade impaled in his chest.
00:42:22
Speaker
and You just hear whispered.
00:42:25
Speaker
cool.
00:42:41
Speaker
okay cool That whisper was nectory. Negatory. Negatory. Okay. Oh, nice. ah I also need retcon some of that because the the orb is no longer cracked ah because Emron actually fixed it and that led to a whole like... It still has the thingy though. It has a mark down it like um the internal mark. looks like a marble inside but I believe it is fixed.
00:43:04
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
Coping with Grief and Rage
00:43:06
Speaker
Oh, it's still cracked then. It's still the cracked orb in capital letters. Like that's the name it? It's the name of it, yes. Happy days. You referred to it to be right. There you go. Awesome. All right. So everything stands as it were. So upon seeing that, Nix's energy dips, his shoulders sink a little as he collects systematically the orb, puts back in his pocket and stands up and he brushes the sand off his legs.
00:43:35
Speaker
Yes.
00:43:38
Speaker
Yeah, sorry, Alpha. um He
00:43:48
Speaker
died, stabbed.
00:43:53
Speaker
Alpha's looking directly into the cracked door at this stage, almost like a rocket. His eyes glance, glare down. He's trying to see whatever Nix has seen.
00:44:06
Speaker
I can't show you. There's nothing there, Nix. No, for you, there's not, Alpha. ah For me, this is the this is to crystal orb that I got from Old Girl that he used to use to see things that shouldn't be seen, things in the past, things in the future.
00:44:30
Speaker
And every now and then I'm able to tap into I don't know his power or anyways, some power that allows me to, to peer through.
00:44:42
Speaker
And, uh, well, I, uh, when I concentrated on it just now for rains, there was no, there's no hardship there. There was no disconnect. It just went straight to him and he was chained up and, uh, stabbed in the chest.
00:45:03
Speaker
It looked pretty,
00:45:12
Speaker
doesn't know how to kind of comprehend what you're telling him.
00:45:20
Speaker
and Alpha's going to be a dick and he's going to knock the crystal ball out your hand. You've got to at least try then. It wasn't even in my hand. no sorry.
00:45:32
Speaker
Was it just on the floor? No, I picked it up. literally said, I pick it up, put it in my coat and I dust sand off myself. My apologies. As you're talking, Emron sort of walks away, sort of just a little bit further, a little little bit away around the other side of the car, just walks away.
00:45:52
Speaker
Val's going to use his band of sand to use mold earth and just cover up where it says des deserter on the floor. Mm-hmm.
00:46:01
Speaker
Um,
00:46:05
Speaker
When I saw Reigns and I saw him chained up, did I see anything around the surroundings? Just him. Just him. Okay. Cool. Thank you. Because Nyx is just going to be, um when he walks back to the car, that last final image of Reigns is just going to be burned into his mind for a bit. So he's going to be replaying that over and over again.
00:46:30
Speaker
He was smiling. Naked. Chained. At the forearms. How big was his cock? For fuck's sake. Roger D4. You're not surprised.
00:46:47
Speaker
um you ah you're not surprised
00:46:53
Speaker
You're not surprised. Did it have a crown shaved in his pubes? No, very, very wild and bushy. Untrimmed. Wait, i didn't think elves could grow pubic hair or facial hair.
00:47:04
Speaker
Lucky bastards. ah You notice a lot of pubic blue. he's going But yeah, he's he's he's replayed that final image as he walks back.
00:47:17
Speaker
Okay. I was going to stay if Alpha's still there and processing. I think Alfa's going to fall to his knees. As they say, still comes kind of um ah cradling the owl.
00:47:37
Speaker
he' never He's never kind of wanted it before, but he almost feels like he could have a proper kind of emotion and the only one he's ever kind of felt before is rage. And it's that that's going to kind of... come into it again. And if anybody who could see his eyes would be glowing red and sparks flying off of his, um, constructive form. And he's just kind of hammering the ground.
00:47:58
Speaker
Um, we just with his other hand, uh, one holding the owl and one smashing into the ground with rains, rains,
00:48:11
Speaker
Reigns
00:48:14
Speaker
trying to process everything. His entire body just doesn't know how to compute it.
00:48:24
Speaker
I think Bile's going to linger, but not approach. There'll almost like an involuntary jerk of his hand to move out towards Alpha's shoulder, but just stop it and think better of it and just kind of stand back.
00:48:39
Speaker
and stare back at where he just kind of cleared up the earth as well um just let Alpha grieve.
00:48:52
Speaker
mean, Alpha's going to be down there for... He's got no concept of time, but... unless approached, he's probably going to be down there for at least a good five to ten minutes, just knelt down, holding the owl after expressing what little rage he can muster about it.
00:49:13
Speaker
um And was' like almost like deactivated, he's just holding the owl on the ground, ah fa she was just facing the floor at this stage, not saying anything else.
00:49:28
Speaker
and Maybe 30 minutes passes.
00:49:37
Speaker
If no one does anything, perhaps an hour passes.
00:49:45
Speaker
I think if a good 30 minutes or so has gone past and not much is changing,
00:49:52
Speaker
Barl will kind of, and by this point, he won't have stayed just standing there awkwardly. He probably would have returned to the car. he probably would have um checked over various things, probably checked in on trunks as well.
00:50:05
Speaker
um But considered kind of maybe giving people an eye and just kind of, we should, we need to keep moving.
00:50:23
Speaker
Is everyone with us?
00:50:27
Speaker
Everyone walked off around the other side of the car and went out of eyesight you all. I know, that's why I'm in the car and asking that question. Yeah, but I would have kind of by this point returned round or tried to... Yeah.
00:50:39
Speaker
If it's been 30 minutes, I just wondered where everyone would be. He's left. He's fucking off. Back to Shadow Man. Seth would be um going through like full like Kung Fu Panda style.
00:50:55
Speaker
not comfy panda, what am I going to say? Like, i'm going through stances with his scimitars. And we stood in the sand very much like a you know big dick energy, just going through these these double, he hasn't dual wielded for a long time. And so holding actual weapons as opposed to the blade, the blade, the shadow blade is still quite alien to him. So he'll be going through kind of motions of ah defensive stances, assault, yeah defensive stances, and how how best to kind of Yeah, just re retraining that muscle memory that he's had from all those years ago and would be moving through that almost as a way of kind of like stretching, yoga-y kind of soldier yoga and in a way of just kind of moving after being sedentary and still on the cart but quite so tight along until he gets the call from someone or they go back on the cart. hit that
00:51:44
Speaker
and Unless someone attacks, that's what he's doing. and Or when they leave. stole my thing. Was that what you doing? Oh, mate, you should have said it sooner. Everyone went around. Well, nobody went to find him, so i'm not going to tell you what he's doing. Nobody we went to see what he was doing.
00:51:56
Speaker
Must been. I knew it. If we played like that, well, everyone would have a really awful time. So, everyone went off, and if if Seth's checking around, or not Seth, um when Barl was checking around, everyone's moved a bit further away.
00:52:10
Speaker
um yeah He's left his his chain mail and his shield and that lot um on the cart, and
00:52:23
Speaker
um
00:52:27
Speaker
He's not going to play. No, he's going to leave now. He's going to leave. Fuck it. No. ah He walks off says, what? I'm tired these tosses being dicks. I'm leaving. um Who's that?
00:52:39
Speaker
What's happened to Embron? He's gone. There's... isn so um What's he doing, Will? Come on, man. he's he's left he's He's left his shield and his chainmail on the thing, and he's just gone the other side of the car. he When Alpha started doubting the death and and doing his waley-waley, everyone walked away. he he he he He'd made his peace with how he felt, and Seth had made that sort of clear about how he felt as well.
00:53:06
Speaker
um And he's just he's taken away, and he's just going through the... um The DeVito stuff, the the Alito sort of meditation, fighting, just going through those motions off to the side. just He's gone around the other side. He's just having his own time, just going through those that DeVito meditative um martial arts kind of thing.
00:53:31
Speaker
You know, shirt off, you know, naked to the waist. Sexy. don't know what to do. Mm-hmm. I guess it's Bal and Nix then, isn't it? on it in like Kind of lingering around.
00:53:46
Speaker
He'll kind jump back. Are you in the car at this point? I'm in the car. So as you jump back in, you just see Nix just holding the moon touch dagger that he got from...
00:53:59
Speaker
rains as a gift uh so as you as you'd come into the cart there'd be this like dim moonlight uh kind of that has taken place and he's just kind of twirling it in his hand uh like the the the tip of the knife against his finger and he's just kind of twirling it around um ah just silently just kind of looking at it cool but we'll just kind of sidle up next to you
00:54:26
Speaker
He's going to need us, Nix.
00:54:31
Speaker
Uh, who? Malfa.
00:54:36
Speaker
ah he Is he still there? Pummelling the sand.
00:54:44
Speaker
ah Heavy day, pal.
00:54:50
Speaker
I feel like a bit of a dick for saying all that shit yesterday now. It's actually happened. Nick's all just rest his head on your shoulder.
00:55:03
Speaker
I don't think you're dick for saying that. It's a, has been a tense situation. It just feel doesn't feel real.
00:55:17
Speaker
I know it is, though. this I've seen it.
00:55:24
Speaker
I noticed a change in them last night. All three of them. But I just assumed it was something to do with our new deal or... I don't know. Fuck the deal.
00:55:39
Speaker
Oh yeah, which means he's watching and Bar will kind of put a middle finger up to the sky and then think twice and put a middle finger down to the floor. Fuck you.
00:55:50
Speaker
Yeah, it means that we did the right thing.
00:55:55
Speaker
Seth would have died.
00:56:00
Speaker
wow Wow, I wonder if he has realized that.
00:56:08
Speaker
I don't know. i don't know what's happening with him at the moment. He seems to have reverted.
00:56:18
Speaker
I'm really glad you're here.
00:56:21
Speaker
Mix just gets a bit close for a second, just trying to take in your warmth. Oh yeah, and he's he's radiating heat, even in the sun.
00:56:32
Speaker
This is, i imagine, Alpha's first true moment of grief.
00:56:40
Speaker
You've had so much taken from you.
00:56:46
Speaker
I know what it's like to turn to fire and
00:56:54
Speaker
I don't think we can let Alpha self-destruct.
00:57:01
Speaker
No, no, you're right.
00:57:05
Speaker
Okay, let's let's go get him. You're coming with me though, right? Because like I've seen him get mad before.
00:57:17
Speaker
Yeah, I'll protect you. And he's kind of got a ah sly smile on his face at that. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
00:57:27
Speaker
And Nix is going to get up and ah head out the cart. and's Let's go retrieve our mechanical friend.
00:57:36
Speaker
What do we see, Alpha?
00:57:40
Speaker
He's still down there. it He's not moved a joint, um basically, since... You last saw him kind of ah stamping onto the ground and then just residing in a rested position, holding the owl.
00:57:57
Speaker
Hey,
Journey Resumes Amidst Personal Struggles
00:57:59
Speaker
buddy.
00:58:04
Speaker
Yes. And he doesn't look at you. He's we' still saying get off into the distance.
00:58:14
Speaker
What, Nix? What?
00:58:19
Speaker
And Nix will just give you a big hug.
00:58:25
Speaker
Oh,
00:58:31
Speaker
ah God.
00:58:35
Speaker
I don't think Alpha would respond to it. you You've come to him. You're hugging him and he loves... um
00:58:44
Speaker
if you catch a glimpse of Alpha's eyes, the kind of a weird mix of the red of see of his rage and the white that you see normally to the point where they're almost like a, a construct version of a bloodshot eye.
00:58:59
Speaker
Um, it doesn't respond your hug.
00:59:06
Speaker
We need to go, don't we? Yeah, we do.
00:59:14
Speaker
We have,
00:59:16
Speaker
got a mission alpha um and there's things happening and you're a very key part of it all and that's not meant to make you feel better in this very moment
00:59:37
Speaker
but it does give you a purpose and although You know him better, way better than me. His deep love for you was pretty obvious.
00:59:55
Speaker
And I don't think it's a stretch to think that he would want you to carry on and see this through to the end. From personal point, we also need you.
01:00:13
Speaker
If he cared that much for me, Nyx, then why did he leave?
01:00:19
Speaker
He felt he had to, Alpha. Well, he didn't have to. I know. It was stupid decision. I know. He paid with it dearly.
01:00:30
Speaker
Utterly, utterly stupid.
01:00:35
Speaker
Just a vibe check on your rage right now. Like, let's say, just an arbitrary number of one to ten. Like, well, are we on the scale?
01:00:46
Speaker
I suppose we it's in a bit of a random state at the moment. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I am more placid, but...
01:01:02
Speaker
I do feel the need to expel certain tendencies within me.
01:01:10
Speaker
If you want some advice from me, Alpha,
01:01:15
Speaker
it can take you down a very different path, but if we come across people that wish to do us harm on this journey, I think you might be able to get some anger out, channeled in that way.
01:01:34
Speaker
Interesting concept.
01:01:38
Speaker
I have another interesting concept based on what you've told me before about how you can channel another being.
01:01:51
Speaker
Yes. but Maybe if it's getting a bit too much. I don't know if it'll help. I don't know if it'll... I don't know, it might give you some space and some time to kind of process things.
01:02:06
Speaker
And given that we're in a situation that might work out best.
01:02:20
Speaker
Definitely not a bad suggestion. Can you say that to Emron when you see him? Just as, you know, good stock on the old Nixon suggestions thing.
01:02:32
Speaker
ah As Reigns would say, you are on a roll.
01:02:39
Speaker
Come on, bud. Let's get you back to the car.
01:02:44
Speaker
It's like a slow feet dragging ah through the sand alpha. Slowly makes his way back, and he kind of...
Sandstorm Challenges and Potential Threats
01:02:53
Speaker
um almost kind of tumbles fumbles into the carts, um, rather than any kind of gracefulness to it. Um, um yes. i really don't think in times like this, and one would want to see me of all people.
01:03:22
Speaker
Why?
01:03:25
Speaker
I think of three different reasons right now, but we don't need to go into that. I was just thinking more like if we were trying to get people back on the car and we've succeeded in one.
01:03:37
Speaker
to Yes, I've got I've got an idea. Okay. Savvy, I'll stay with this one. You get that one. Bar will look to the sky and summon his wildfire spirit in an explosion.
01:03:51
Speaker
Did not expect that. Did not expect that. We need to talk about this a little bit more.
01:03:57
Speaker
Time to clip-clop, bitches, is what he'll kind shout out as well. As he all sort of looked to the sky as that happens, you notice the wind's picking up.
01:04:09
Speaker
And when it gets windy in the desert, it gets sandy in the desert. And Seth, you just your spidey sense for want of a ah better analogy, given that Peng Long's not around anymore,
01:04:24
Speaker
um
01:04:27
Speaker
you understand that your visibility is going to be a bit compromised while it's like this. And it's probably causing you a bit of mild concern.
01:04:37
Speaker
Yeah, and ah Seth would have finished up, actually would have worked up quite a bit of a sweat and in the sand, working through these these kind of pacings and lines and etchings and dragging of the feet, et cetera, through the patterns.
01:04:49
Speaker
um And we'll kind of hear and see the explosion behind it instantly, blades away, and we'll jog back over to the cart. In doing so, he'll also reach into his satchel and try and tear off a stretch of the white half of his, no, sorry, tear off a ah stretch of his up-christ-gracote, which he still has kept in his bag, um and try and tear some kind of face covering, or at least mouth and nose covering. too You already have that. You bought Desert Traveling Gear. Oh, shit, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:05:18
Speaker
Well, he'll be getting that out then of his satchel and just placing that gear on as he really feels the sand and the sand within the air picking up. and He'll do that and then get himself in position and just then peek through the curtains um or just kind of be looking around, waiting to to get the the kind of bang, bang of like good to go. And we'll be waiting, kind of watching the weather, watching the skyline, um keeping an eye on that and just patting the rear of trunks to ah placate the yeah the the wild beast.
01:05:48
Speaker
While Seth is scanning the horizon, Seth will get you to make a perception check. The rest of you, are you all entering the cart?
01:05:57
Speaker
Just as taking a word so we do know, taking the idea from Nick's alpha is going to take out the um piece of ah the princess that's obviously in the obsidian and he's going to hold it And it's almost like he's trying to pour a lot of his malice and rage at the moment. He's feeling it into the crystal, just try and make him feel better. And I think that would kind of be almost a ritualistic aspect of trying to swap between the yeah ah characters. So just so you know, I am going to give that a go.
01:06:36
Speaker
Awesome! Looking forward to seeing this! That's it, Alpha. Run away as well. LAUGHTER
01:06:49
Speaker
The princess going to kill your ass. I'm looking forward to this princess voice as well. Yeah, me too. Heavily. Practicing this in the mirror every morning. I know.
01:07:00
Speaker
It takes an hour to do, but you can sort of, whilst in the car, everyone, you can just observe the alpha seems to have this just sort of blue um energy transferring from his core to this stone he's holding in his hand. What are the rest of you doing in that time?
01:07:15
Speaker
how would you allow Nyx to hold your other hand?
01:07:22
Speaker
um i think if you tried, he wouldn't um and wouldn't intervene. He wouldn't pull away anything like that. I don't think he'd be really aware of it at this stage. So if you reach to grab his hand, yeah, you can do.
01:07:37
Speaker
Vars going full cowgirl back up onto trunks. Vars spirit flying at his side. So Emron would have grabbed his gear... come over um and got in the car, started to re-equip himself up.
01:07:52
Speaker
And then whilst um Alpha's doing his hour-long thing, um I'm going use my... and burn one of my channel divinities um on a longstanding project. So I'm going to take the ash of the demon halberd that I had bagged together and I'm going to put it into like a mortar and pestle.
01:08:17
Speaker
Pestle, yeah. So I'm going to put it into um into a mortar thing and he's going to pour some water into it And I'm just going to start mixing the ash into into a paste, into ah into a something that's more than just ash. And I'm just going to be channeling my divinity into that, just for that hour. Not making anything, I'm just i'll just infusing it with with with the divinity that I can channel into that. just Are you making crack?
01:08:39
Speaker
but The first stage of meth. This is like Breaking Bad, Dralak version. Yeah, Trash. keltra With the car as well. Just all of a sudden. In the desert. gets really hot. This is it. Nix is like, science, bitches.
01:08:58
Speaker
yeah, so just everyone's extended project. He's got this ash now. it took a step back. He's like, right, okay, going to take this base form. I'm going to start infusing it with divine energy until I can use it then later on.
01:09:09
Speaker
Okay. Awesome. So everyone's in the car. I assume, Seth, that's your cue to clip-clop.
01:09:17
Speaker
Over the course of his power. Sorry, he clip-clap. Sorry, apologies. He clip-clap in? Yeah, he you thumbs up, he gets the bang-bang, and he gets going. Clip-clap. He has the bang-bang, and he gets going. Over the course of this hour, the the landscape gets much harder and harder to see.
01:09:34
Speaker
Before you could see for a quarter, half a mile in any given direction. Now you're lucky if it's 50 or 60 feet. So you're having to sort of adjust your pace in case there are any sort of sharp turns. But the road is the road is continuous. The road is firm. The the the the road is...
01:09:48
Speaker
um unwavering in all this. Occasionally, it turns to to wood and you're you're going over small bridges over canyons and you can sort of, you feel that bump and that echo sort of reverberate from around you as this massive elephant pulls this massive cart over a wooden bridge.
01:10:11
Speaker
But not in a precarious way, like this is this is structurally sound. And after about an hour, Seth,
01:10:20
Speaker
your visibility is reduced about 40 feet.
01:10:25
Speaker
You see two medium-sized shapes just sort of appear on the road coming directly towards you.
01:10:38
Speaker
By this point, the the visibility is bad, like you said, but are we talking like mini Shabab kind of sandstorm are we talking just just haze?
01:10:49
Speaker
It's full on like dense sandstorms. Okay, so not particularly pleasant. No, and it's coming from all sorts directions. Like some is being blown up from the canyons below. Others are being caught in like a top wind. Like it's there's no direction to it that you can necessarily count on.
01:11:03
Speaker
Okay. And with that, seeing those two figures, Seth's just going to do bang, bang on the wood behind him and wait for a head to poke out of the curtain. He's still going to keep eyes on. He's not going to lose contact with those two. He's going keep clip clopping, but he's bang, bang. He's trying to get someone's attention.
01:11:23
Speaker
ah Being someone who can speak to Seth, Nick's all just let go of Alva's hand and pop his head through. What's up? He's just going to point off in the distance towards where these two humanoid figures are.
01:11:38
Speaker
Not humanoid, it's just me so as a medium. Sorry, medium. Sorry, medium. Those two medium, the two figures he spotted, the other entities, and just point towards them to let Nyx know. You're going to feel our minds connect so that you can speak to me.
01:11:54
Speaker
what Two figures, what's your what you lookout? What are you saying? What's your gut saying? You're going to see his eyes kind of widen for a second and just kind of shift once, twice towards you.
01:12:09
Speaker
I don't know. This is a good idea, Nick, anymore. Oh, okay. Right. But let's, for the sake of argument, for this one moment, last one moment, what are, because you've been outside in this, is this like the first time you've seen these two? Are you getting weird vibes? Are we getting like called to arms vibes?
01:12:27
Speaker
Just before we week close this. I don't know. Yep, maybe. I don't know. Just get ready. Then he's going to cut it. Yeah. ah Okay, cool. And Nix will pull back into the car. In that time, that's been almost 30 seconds.
01:12:44
Speaker
Five rounds of combat. Think about the speed you might have in that.
01:12:48
Speaker
Two horses without riders come into view.
01:12:54
Speaker
They are up Criscra. Horses. Motherfuckers. Covered in blood, but not on their person, on their saddles and on their saddlebags.
01:13:06
Speaker
Heading back towards Scorch Helm.
01:13:11
Speaker
And they just sort of note the elephant and sort of just pincer around and just carry on a canter. They look exhausted.
01:13:23
Speaker
They didn't have their riders? No riders. The blood on the top of their saddles. Whoa. and let's draw night andimar Seth's drawn out scimitar and kind of stabbed it so that it just kind of wobbles as the cart moves with the Hulk pointing up into the ground and continues. he He's gripping the reins tight and his head's bowed slightly and hiss he's kind of like in kind of prep position.
01:13:47
Speaker
Like he feels like he's heading into something and he's ready for it. ah but that thud is probably quite loud but it's just the yeah the scimitar of wounding smashing into well you know I mean just kind of stabbing it into the into the wood of the cart below not aiming to damage it but yeah how noisy is it Danny like it just it just sounds like a windy day okay And the are the horses past us or are they... Yeah, yeah. Within... They're gone.
01:14:13
Speaker
Within seconds, they're counter-passing. You're moving you're moving it ah pace of about 60 feet every six seconds. They're moving about the same pace in opposite directions.
01:14:24
Speaker
but Okay, cool. Never mind. So Nix would have pulled back in and just explained everything as that was happening. He might want to get ready. Might be heading into something. Seth certainly, it's his his senses are tingling, as it were.
01:14:39
Speaker
ah So, arm up.
01:14:47
Speaker
Emron, do you want to take the steer on this? Emron sort of, um having finished his little ritual, he's taken the pace he's now got, stored it away.
01:14:59
Speaker
Gets his hammer, makes he's got his shield. Okay, if it goes down, are we staying on the cart or getting out and fighting? Oh, fuck, feel like we've done this.
01:15:11
Speaker
ah feel like we've done this. ah Well, i ah the cart, but that that has been tricky in the past. Okay, so... What do you think?
01:15:24
Speaker
If this goes down, is Bahl on trunks? is he everything the cut with I'm on trunks out the front. Am I able to hear the conversation? Oh, yeah, fuck. I thought, sorry, i forgot about that. No, right. Paul will have me to speak ah loud anyway because it's windy. Yeah, and everyone sort of shouts up.
01:15:38
Speaker
So if this goes down and we have to stop, I'll get out, jump out the back. I suggest, Nix, if you want to do stuff from range, I know you've got your bit more you're a bit more powerful now, so maybe you can...
01:15:54
Speaker
keep your distance but shoot stuff at range at range
01:16:02
Speaker
that's the opening fantastic and maybe maybe everyone everyone says it and then at range Bal I don't know how you've always whether you want to go up close Seth if we have to me and you all engage them head on Everyone else support from range and stop anyone from flanking around us, I think.
01:16:31
Speaker
Stay close to the elephant. If we must stop, we stop. If we need to get out of there, we've got the option to. Okay. As Emma sort of stands to give these orders, Alpha, your incantation finishes around about the same time.
01:16:46
Speaker
Oh, shit. Okay. How you will notice far away are these figures? Can I just confirm? Say again. How far away were the figures? Can I just confirm? The horses. I thought we had... Oh, the figures were the horses. Sorry, yeah. Good job were listening, mate. Well done. Sorry. I misinterpreted that massively. i think He was trying to cast a ritual, guys, in his defense.
01:17:04
Speaker
you know print Danny gave us ominous ominous foresight. We saw horses covered in blood, yeah probably of Chris Crider's blood. On their saddles rather than wounds from the horses. And you missed the cheat code to the end boss as well.
01:17:19
Speaker
And the 13th name as well. after the thirteen night If we'd spoken to the horses, they would have given us written on a 13th name. By the way, the taskmaster thing. This sort of light blue glow that's sort of been ah pulsating out of the cart over the last hour as Alpha's been concentrating just instantly ends.
01:17:43
Speaker
Alpha, you stand.
01:17:47
Speaker
make a constitution um check, just a straight constitution check to sort of understand what state your body has become. Oh, this is going to be painful.
01:17:58
Speaker
ah 13. It's not hard to sort of, but that's a good role to just sort of evaluate yourself. Your functions are all really similar. You stand and that part of your body responds.
01:18:12
Speaker
You look around and you're you're you're you you're able to perceive as you perceived before. You're able to hear as you were hearing before. You feel the same height. You feel the same weight. You feel the same density.
01:18:27
Speaker
But your energy feels different. It feels like you've had... six, seven cups of coffee instantly, like your your heightened sense of caffeine, like your chest hurts and your heart is beating in your ear and you're breathing really quickly but and you're moving around and you're sort of taking everything in a little bit quicker than you did before.
01:18:53
Speaker
But otherwise your thoughts are your same, your memories are your same.
01:18:58
Speaker
It's just a more intimate relationship with magic you're feeling.
01:19:07
Speaker
But nothing else has changed. You still feel utter sadness right now.
01:19:16
Speaker
And what's your what's your constitution? What's the attribute at? um The number or the modifier? The big number. 13. It's now 11.
01:19:28
Speaker
Permanently. On both characters. On both? Oh, shit. Do any infusions you have end as well? Anything that has anything to do with artificiary ends.
01:19:40
Speaker
o You are an entire new build. Different firmware.
01:19:49
Speaker
Windows 12. Yeah, you've just flipped. Now you realize need to go back to Windows 11. All those driver updates going to fuck you, man. yeah Oh, man.
01:20:01
Speaker
Got Bluetooth now though. yeah itre Yeah. So con now just straight 11. Yeah. Permanently. and As you take in this new feeling, as you all look into this sandy darkness in the middle of the day ahead of you with complete uncertainty, traveling at a speed that is about where Seth is able to manage and maintain trunks.
01:20:28
Speaker
That's where this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. Oh, shit. Some of the coming. Some of coming. Oh, yeah. I hope you get some good stuff, Alpha, because that sucks.
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