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Ep. 95 Bursting Baal - Bellum Draconis
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Baal receives the ability FLAME ON. Some folk take an interest in our Trunks. It’s all happening in the latest episode.
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D&D Adventure Begins
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop, Balem Draconis. We are a live play. 5e D and&D podcast 7 The Magical Homebrewed World of Eryth in the Kingdom of Dralak. Joining you for this week's episode we have... Darren who plays the Hyatt Elf Artifice at Rains Haddow. Magic missile to the face. Pooh Bear who plays the human cleric Emron. I'll mostly be running away. Kat let me place the Warforged Artifice at Alpha. I got big. Ian who plays the Tiefling Warsher and Nick Skarell. He got big. Well he plays the dragon Bonjour and Bal Valkon. Ooh look at my new cape. My name is Mark and I am playing the human blade singer Seth, Farah Reaver and by last but by no means least is our dungeon deity. Our dispenser of doom. The dictator of the dice. Dungeon master Danny.
Battle and Strategy Discussion
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The carrion beetle says Bonjour. Popping out from a
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large oaken sure was it called cask you see the head just the eyes first of old gail peeking out on one of the shady streets of of um sleep guard of goldview the low hole where you normally attach a a a tap in order to to tap the cask just his long toes i and reach down for a coin that's been left someone assumes he's been begging he can't quite get a purchase on it so he gives up and lowers himself in so he's become homeless at this rate lowers himself inside the cask
00:04:52
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There's a moment of darkness, of silence before the light of the orb illuminates his gaunt and wrinkled and puffed, tufted, hairy face as he looks at us, at you, listener. Ooh, infernal ingenuity! A figure wails in some sort of infernal language and drops Al for prone. There's some sort of deep telepathic link and he says, I'm here for her. Get in my way and you will be cut down. Barl's like, fuck that shit and blast some rubble out and takes out some residual fire, but it's sucked in by this creature. The Yuan-T starts attacking this figure and Barl gets crit by one of them. and The other's gotta fall prone and catch their ears. it's some strange shit going on. Reigns beats the ever-living shit out of one of the Yuan Tea and stops the sandstorm. Literally beat the fucking sandstorm out of him! The form, it turns out, is some sort of golden armored black skinned figure with a big old red cape. No face, looks like a... baby and he's got a big fucking flaming halberd which is about 10 feet long and behind him there's some sort of black metal casing for a glowing fiery disk of shit nyx tries to reason but amron is told by a voice inside his head you better run boy and then that voice says step aside i'm here for her and he steps forward and he absorbs balls wild fire spirits
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Get crazy! Bald is all panicky and it's like, oh shit, I better summon me some sort of wasp kind of thing. And then that you want to tease all like, leave the prisoner, we'll return for the bones. And Seth and Bald are like, we gotta fucking get out of here. And Seth's like, I'm going to be a hero, I'll hold you off. And Nix is like, I'm going to go run over to that object. And I'm going to be like, oh, what's going on here? And it's almost like some sort of portal, some sort of gravitational pull. is crazy He threatens to break and says, you bushed my toys, I'll hurt yours. Emron's like, I'm going to bring Till-Wah out and fuck this shit up. But Till-Wah flees in fear of this thing. What is going on? And then the wasp starts evolving into some sort of beetle. And then Alpha is grabbed and run away. Paul tries to dispel the fucking portal thing, but fucks it up. Seth makes Alpha really fucking big and too heavy to carry. And Reigns is all like, sure. hands off my boy boy and blasts the magic missiles through this infernal bitch and breaks him and bubbles him and turns him to ash the cape flies to the nearest hot thing of course it's bowel wraps around his neck and resizes the halberd drops to the floor and the party seemed to celebrate but then start to question why so we find ourselves in that circle of revelation emron
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Formally, Tilwa now returned to Enron, convinced that all you had to do in that moment was run and run for your life. Nyx, you find yourself still ah sort of within distance of that, what what remains of that that infernal gate on the floor of the ashes that now yeah occupy this place. I ran over to Rains and give him the biggest motherfucking high five possible. They stand corrected. On the floor, an ashen pile, a halberd, still ablaze. What does the party do?
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but We should probably dig the rest of that stone out so we could get the fuck out of here. Yeah, that, that, that, let's go. Baal's going to lick his wounds literally um and just use his feature to do a cure wounds on himself because he is fucked with bite wounds. Everyone's going to pull some rags out and use them to hold the spear. He's not going to touch it himself. The halberd. Yeah, the halberd, sorry. He's just going to move it out of the way. And I want to cast Identify on it.
00:08:48
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Okay, it takes 10 minutes or is a minute. Okay, I'm gonna cut I'm gonna burn a spell on it rather than ritual. And what do you learn from identify please? um If it's a magic item or some other magic compute item, you learn its properties, how to use them, whether it requires attunement, how many charges it has, you learn with any spells are affecting the item, what they are, if the item was created by a spell, you learn what spell created it. A minute passes. It is a standard halberd that has an emblazoned blade. So it is a standard halberd, which also deals an additional 1d4 fire damage. Cool. Not cursed. Good. Excellent.
Character Dynamics and Magic
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Whilst you're at it, could you work out if this thing's going to strangle me? I don't really want to touch it. OK. Can I touch the blade of the halberd? Does it burn me? Or is it just? OK. I'm going to put it on the cart. It is made of solid gold.
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Okay. Oh shit. It's heavy. Yeah, it's a heavy item. um Well, was so he puts that on the cart and then ah the other still digging. Yeah, I think it will take a few minutes if those who aren't could tell me otherwise, but those who are, I'll take it. I've run through them one thing. He was a glance to everyone and checking it. How, how injured are you still, Baal? I managed to roll a max cure wounds on myself at 12 points. um So you'll see kind of a lot of the wounds close up. He's not looking tip-top, like he was pretty fucked. um But I mean, there's probably a ah couple of open wounds, a couple of puncture marks with maybe some kind of black veins from the the venom that's been on him. ah So he's wincing a little bit, but not not on deathstool. Rains is going to just say to Alpha,
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because then Alpha, can you take care of yourself? Looking at the damage that Alpha has sustained. Alpha's not looking too bad now. ah Fortunately, he was able to self-heal during combat. So he's been worse, but it's been better as well. But yeah, I will be fine. No need to worry. Two rounds of healing tea are going to come out. Raint is going to drink one of them and he's going to hold out the other one. to Baal. Yeah, I'll graciously accept and say, again, reigns, I owe you a debt. Thank you. it Don't mention it. I'll do Baal's first. Hold on.
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Baal, you get 12 points of healing. Tasty. Nice. That literally puts me to max.
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And while that healing is happening, Seth, what would you be doing? Thanks. ah Yeah, Seth would have gone over and instantly followed command and started moving some of the rocks out of the way, picking medium sized ones that he can move on his own. um And then every now and then we'd be glancing over to that that thing, that large ring of metal. And then eventually after a couple of rocks, start walking towards it and then just start looking at it, in it, drawn to it. It's different, it's interesting, it's magical and and I want to kind of, I figure out it's kind of magical properties if I kind of look around it. It's not an investigation, it's more like what made this so special that
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Nick's thought it was something worth breaking for this creature. Like there was a connection that it came with the creature, but now it's still here. What the fuck is it? Um, are you suspecting it is magic in property or i'm yeah so kind of unfit me he's thinking, he's thinking I was getting dragged to this. It's some kind of transport or some kind of transportation or like teleportation. So that's what he's looking I'll kind of check on it, please. OK, thank you. ah That is a tasty 21. Nice. and This looks like the frame of some sort of portal-based magic. um Given the sort of iconography, there's a lot of sort of skulls and and faces of imps that with their teeth bared. You get the sense that this is a but demonic um creation.
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Not that you have had much experience with demons, um but you're putting sort of two and two together there. But yeah, certainly ah a frame for a portal to exist within. And you feel that sort of resonance as you do touch it. It's dissipating, but there is an energy of intense, high magic there.
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Okay. So that's just going to look over his shoulder when he realizes this.
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He's going to look for what Baal is doing um and just make sure that there's a moment where Baal isn't looking over. And then he's just going to put his hands quickly, very, very, very close, but not touching this thing. And he's going to cast ah Infestation. ah he's His thinking is this is something inherently evil in his mind and this is an inherently evil spell and he wants to see if this might activate it in some way. So he pulls in this tab and these tiny little kind of locust-like red wisps float around the space and he's just looking to see if it does anything.
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How long does the spell last? The spell is a very good question. um ah matter of
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It's a matter of seconds.
Moral Dilemma: Slavery and Freedom
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ah fleas, parasites appear momentarily on one creature you can see within range. I know it's not technically a creature, but I'm just seeing if this acts as like a, he's he's read bits where it kind of works as like a key, iconic energy of certain types work as a key, certain schools work as a key to unlock things. You cast it and the creatures sort of land on the that that structure of this ring and within a couple of seconds, they don't recognize anything living and begin to move towards you as the closest living thing. At that point, I imagine you dropped the spell for for sake of self-harm. Okay. Nothing there then.
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Hey guys, are we going to take this thing with us too or are we fucking leaving this in the desert? I'm using either way and he's going to gesture towards the the ring of metal that sits on the on the road. I didn't see anything after fucking Reigns yeeted the fuck out of that guy. it Anything it had within it just kind of, ah I guess, went away. I don't i don't understand what it was. I just knew it. It was important to the big guy. If it's able to be some sort of portal or summoning thing, probably best we destroy it.
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And I'll do a kind of a sharp whistle and the carrying beetle who stays with us for the next hour, since it's been summoned ah is, ah yeah, unless there's any objections, I'll kind of motion over to it. And this beetle it's got a borrowing speed as well. So I would have been, whilst this is going on, kind of helping with the cleanup of the the situation in front as well. um But unless anyone objects, I'll command it to go over and multi attack the fuck out of this thing and destroy it beyond repair.
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And Seth would just stand and kind of with a slightly furrowed brow, he's a bit unsure about what ah what what what it is. We'll just watch the Karen Beatle go to town on it, but it wouldn't stop it in any way, but we'll just kind of look unsure, feel uneasy, similar to how he felt with ah ah the zombie earlier in the journey. And within a couple of strikes, this thing breaks, like it has no real structural integrity. It is metallic, it's quite dense, but this thing whaling on it is enough to snap it after a couple of blows. Cool. When we're ready, we should move. We have to remember the one two are still out there. Yeah, I'm yeah i'm getting there. I'm just yeah yeah still digging here. Single-handedly.
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ah Oh shit, yeah, I'm going to be making here. I was there giving you a hand, k Nick. i Thanks, guys. doing Thanks, thanks. em Everyone's going to have reached up and touched the cloak and I'll be cat and identifying the cloak as well. Okay, thank you. So after a minute of that, and we'll say it's probably enough time then Nick's to have cleared the road as well with any help that eventually comes. Nick's as well. Reveals the following.
00:17:52
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Baal, you are wearing the cape of exploding flight. Oh, shit damn I think I might die. I've had that after a curry. ah Once per day, as an action, you will take one D eight fire damage. All sources of flame within 120 feet of you are extinguished and
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your cape transforms into a pair of fiery wings. oh but amazing You gain a flight speed equal to your movement speed for one minute. It requires at least five feet of active flame in 120 feet radius of you to trigger. So you can't just trigger it in the middle of a the ocean, right? This can also be triggered whilst, while shaped, you'll probably be asking and thinking. Legend. At the end of the effect, you take another 1d8 fire damage. The cape can only be removed on death. It is permanently attuned to you. Okay. After it removes itself from you, it will attach itself to the next hottest creature within one mile.
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fuck me that's that's cool that's all right cool that's that's really cool um whilst you whilst you're probably doing this bar will kind of as it's kind of settled on him he'll be he'll be willing to touch it somewhat and as you're trying to attune to it what bar will probably try to do is try to kind of remove it because he's on top of the elephant and you're there kind of being identified he's probably there to try to to kind of remove it to give you easier access to it. And obviously we'll discover that it's nothing he's doing. He's kind of taking it somewhere. The colour kind of just slips through you like sand. Every time you sort of pull it, it just retracts back. And one all, because of getting this through you magical means and obviously explain it in a way that doesn't sound like we're reading it out of a game book. You won't find that in a game book. I made that. Well, okay. in in on danny's ah Instead of reading Danny's crib notes,
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yeah um within the world of Erythog. Erythog explained it. So yeah, there you go. You now know what it does. And I can't take this fucking thing off. No, it seems it's like it's... It's like it's part of you now. does it Does it suit me at least? while it good i Do I don't have much fashion. That's a Nick's question. You look fucking awesome! Nick says as he's digging. Okay.
00:20:43
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i've I'll try this out at some point, I'm sure. Okay. but but we we Wait, wait, wait, wait. As his brain is, he's just going to process. Did you say only death can separate that thing? Uh, that's what I get the feeling. Yeah. I literally killed the fucker. It must be that bad. That's literally killed it. Like that. We know now I killed it, but yeah, range of just carry on moving, moving stones. Okay. Yes, it's it's dead. That's good to know. And then you'll know when I'm dead too.
00:21:23
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Hopefully no time soon. Bagsy being the next hot one it goes to. Yeah, it's my big smile now. yes Sorry, bar Bar will kind of give you a ah kind of a wry smile and a semi dragonborn golden dragonborn blush and look away. Dragonborn semi, okay. Worth. At this point, the rubble is clear. Trunks is unharmed. The cart is... plural. Unbroken. Do you wish to continue? Last thing I'd like to do, if I'm on top of um this elephant's back, or Trunks' is back, I should say, just withdraw the stuff once more. And I'd like to just quickly have a scan around, because you say we're up high, aren't we? Are we kind of in the middle of two cliffs at this point? Yeah, so just two...
00:22:13
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just a very small ravine through. Yeah, essentially. But um above sea level, but quite particularly high. Okay. We probably should have worked out that the Yuan Ti were part of the sandstorm. That was something that that fellow with the fancy sword talked about, wasn't it? I guess when we make our way out of here, it's probably worthwhile just having a quick scan.
Mysteries and Internal Struggles
00:22:38
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to see if there are any shipwrecks exactly right. But other than that, and he looks to Seth, clip claw.
00:22:50
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Yeah, that's good going. Seth looks really quite sombre and he just kind of gets on low head, grabs the reins and waits for everyone to get on. Everyone's gone.
00:23:02
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examining the halberd. Rains is going to dismiss the suit ah and and allow it to to make its way back into the bag of holding. And he's going to pull himself up to c Seth and go, can I sit up here with you? I could use a bit of oxygen. Yeah, there's plenty of room, not a problem. Motherfucker just took my seat, but he just killed the fucking thing. He wins. I'm not going to mess it with him. Nyx is going to get on the back.
00:23:31
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Alpha's just going to scoop up the remains of Beta, his poor little cat, and I got bit, almost solidly, and then get back on the cart. Do you have to heal him? No, I could do, but I don't have to. Is everyone on the cart, then? OK. So you press on with your journey, um, a group perception check then to see if you can find any sign of the shipwrecks. So you want us all to run a perception check here. Um, so you can all roll and the single person who gets the highest will will take that.
00:24:09
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That wasn't me. but Definitely wasn't me. Oh, fuck, someone do it. Don't you get advantage or something? Because there's the thing if you like, I don't know. No, my thing's long gone. If you can't spill it, it's long gone. I roll day 17. Really high, I'm at 17. No. No. You don't see anything on the the near horizon. um The tracks V1T sort of head back east. But you don't, again, you scan that area particularly, don't see any, eventually as you sort of move on out of this um canyon, this raised canyon, ah you don't spot anything with that perception roll. But do you continue in your headed direction of Scorch Elm?
00:24:59
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I think so. No, let's go back the way we came. After all this. Yeah, follow on the path. And as Seth gets told differently, he's continuing along the path and following the tracks, listening to anything Baal says about changing direction, just leading the the train of carts towards our destination. and with that as well we How does it work with regards to if he wants to, like, short rest? Would that have to be paused? Or could we kind of minute ourselves on the cart? Someone would have to take over driving from Seth. Otherwise, you're all able to take short rest whilst driving. Would I be able to do it whilst riding the elephant? The only person who can't is Seth. Nice. Okay. Yeah, that's my intention then. And I'll pipe back to Seth and just say, I just need a moment or two to catch my breath. Is Nitz on the back of the cart with me? Yes.
00:25:51
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Everyone's going to look over to Nick's. Did you just say fuck? No, I said no. Everyone's going to look over to Nick's and be like, what was that thing, Nick's? Honestly, everyone, the scariest motherfucking thing I've ever seen. Like it had a baby's face in its armour. I know, I saw it, it was weird and I thought, to the way I could help, I just don't get why he ran. Whatever it was, given the fact that it was speaking infernal and my lineage, I would hazard to guess it's from the darkest fucking depths of the hells. But that should be, that should be Tylwars bread and butter, shouldn't it? I... could pontificate this with you if I knew what Tylwars ancestry was. Well, whatever. ever
00:26:48
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celestial thing i think i don't i don't know i mean isn't that like the cornerstones of good and evil right there one from the depths of the dark realms the one from the highs of the high i just don't get i just don't get why he ran if if it went, I don't know, it just... ah Did you have a fight beforehand? Are you guys seeing eye to eye? Is that a thing that happens? like you're You're essentially two individual essences. If one doesn't totally agree, does the other have to... Is it a bow or break type job? ah heard I heard to say, run. And I thought, okay, this is this is this is serious.
00:27:33
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And then everyone seemed to be like, right, we need to run away. And I was like, okay. So I thought, right, Tillward can probably help us be in a position to be able to get out of here. And then he wants to fuck off. To be fair, it's like, it's still the same he or her. They? Them? I don't know you know. Okay. Well, I mean, it sounds like Tillward did what Tillward said. they wanted you to do. ah So when given control, ah to I don't know the ins and outs of how, how, how till, no, I just don't understand why he wanted it to go and leave everyone everyone else behind. That was all. Well, I mean, to us, you're part of this crew. Emron till war isn't. Yeah.
00:28:26
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It will weird anyway.
00:28:29
Speaker
Because I wish I could give you an answer. But to what wasn't wrong, that thing was like some with nightmares. I'd have a nightmare that was better than what I saw today. We fought things that have taken more hits than that though, haven't we? I mean, there's one thing like taking hits, there's another thing just That that had an otherworldly presence to it. Yeah, no, no, no. You know, reigns. Maybe maybe some paternal instinct took over in those missiles harder than normal. It's a good job, you know, but. Maybe maybe this is a conversation for you and tiwa to what I have when when you get some alone time, um maybe.
00:29:21
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Maybe, maybe I'll have a thing. and We know that you wouldn't run. Yeah. No one else here is, is saying that everyone's done a runner. Oh, I just, I didn't, I just didn't expect to what want to run. I know he said run and I thought, okay, he wants us all to get out of it. I didn't think you'd then go till I was talking to the group. I think maybe till I was talking on an individual stance. Yeah. Like I said, you're part of this group group.
00:29:52
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I don't know. It's just weird. Oh, well, that ends well, though. I mean... Oh, no. I mean, fucking hell. Bartle's got a good cape out of it. We've got this fucking gold spear. Everyone looks down at the spear in between us. Yeah. Can you do anything with that? Can you melt it and make something better? I can eat things with it. I mean, you could take it. Yeah, absolutely. But I don't know. It might be worth... Is it flying around with that thing? Fucking... Yeah, who knows? Weird. That brings a whole different level of a vast motherfucker, if you ask me. Do you want to have a go? I am not strong enough for that, but I appreciate you thinking that I am. I've been doing some press-ups. Well, I can tell, you know. the
00:30:37
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Just getting, you know, you're your're you're so big and Rains has got his, you don't really know how fucking buff Rains is, because he's always covered in his fucking armor, makes him look massive. Alpha is the metal man. Baal's got the whole dragon thing going on, and Seph can fucking make shadow blades out of nothing. I've got to do something, so calisthenics is my thing. I can spot you, can try and lift the cart when we camp, you know. Yeah, I'm not quite there yet, no. Body weight stuff, body weight stuff.
00:31:08
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Hey, this is nice. Yeah, yeah, it's yeah it's been a weird fucking few days, innit? Yeah, but it's nice that after any weird few days, ah we can still ah chat about this stuff, you know? Hi. It's cool. That's all I'm saying.
Personal Traumas and Reflections
00:31:32
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Glad you're here. Thanks.
00:31:37
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Glad we're all here trying to do whatever this is. I mean, like, yeah, i'll give it that was all reigns, but we all we were there, like, maybe ah cheerleading in the background, but we were all there. this This can be taken as a group win. Certainly an individual one, I would be, like, fucking doing way more than Reigns is right now. I feel like as a group, we've we've moved up a level together.
00:32:04
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yeah I feel that. The DM doesn't.
00:32:09
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Nice try. but While you're out there grabbing for, you know, levels. ah alex to seth ah Just twiddling with his thumbs in ah in a basking sense of victory. Raines, what are you doing? ah Rains is instead twiddling with a Rubik's Cube. He's lost deep in thought as he turns one of these things through his hands. As he kind of needs to achieve something, he can still feel the adrenaline and that's starting to seep. So he tries to concentrate his mind and he's processing everything that Nick said, everything that he's been told. He hasn't sat next to Alpha yet because he likes to sit next to Alpha when he has words to help him. He has nothing to help Alpha. But Rains is at the minute racking his brains
00:32:53
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He's a learned man. He's an intelligent man. He's racking his brains through stories for anything he's heard of famous elves who were famous, famous female elves who were famous for invoking the ire of devils in the history of Eris, particularly if they're from either Shabamend or the verandian kingdoms of Wildheart. You can make a history check for me. I would love to, as he just continues to flick this Rubik's Cube and racks his brain.
00:33:26
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Uh, Nick's will get out his, um, ancient tablet of smartness from snake run and, uh, pop the game vampire survivors on as, uh, we make our way. You bastard. You bastard. brains woer twenty five Yeah. Despite rain, some serious thinking, pontification, thinking about nursery rhymes, folklore, thinking about anything you studied. That's a bit abstract. There's just not enough detail. for this to be anything conclusive. um And it's certainly like, oh, an instant recall, like that is the story of Brenda the Brave, right? That doesn't come, there's there's no recall.
00:34:14
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Rains will just continue to flip the Ruth cube and eventually he will realize just through that pontification, he's quite good with these things now, he's quite quick that this one will click into like a completed position. And that will snap him out of this trail of four at which point he'll just lob it in the air and then see we'll catch it and dive back in the bag of holding with it. And Reigns will go, nothing. Just to himself completely forgetting that Seth is next to him for a second. And we'll then just, nothing. And we'll then just sit and contemplate what's what's happened. Okay.
00:34:52
Speaker
Seth, you would have heard, reigns again in his social awkwardness. He's probably just forgot that you're there. And yeah, you, yeah. What? What's nothing? and Sorry, I was asking for my bad. I know it's a big old barren space, but you know, there are crops and there's, there's some rocks over there. Oh look, there's a shrubbery there. It's not the end of the world, I guess. No, not the end of the world. Not yet. Seth, do you know Scorchhelm? No, not really. I came straight to that encampment you found me at. Would you know with the lady with the spider arms? Yeah, and um... Captain, you're... No, I don't know it very well. I know your sleet guard pretty well, but not... not by yourself at the border.
00:35:43
Speaker
I don't know. I'm not gonna lie, Rains, there's a lot of confusing stuff happening at the moment. I like black and white. I like clear. I like, you know, straightforward. This is a lot of blurring. I don't know who the bad guy is anymore.
00:36:02
Speaker
You thinking about that sweet girl attack? Yeah. I'm thinking that, I'm um umm so i'm thinking, you know, Chris Grey helping us. But then Captain York turned into some fucking demon spider thing and I thought, is that her again coming back? I'm thinking what that thing was, referencing Baby Demon. Reminded me a lot of the Blight. And for a second... He's gonna pause and his head will kinda sink down before realizing he's running the car and will look up again and look directly out and not at you. For a second I thought... I thought if the Blight was to return I'd... I'd rather die quickly than live through it again. Did you, uh...
00:36:55
Speaker
Did you fight the Blight? It wasn't a fight. We were massacred.
00:37:07
Speaker
When the Blight struck, it didn't only strike. It struck, it got worse. But the Dwarven kin to the south of where I'm from in the Indian Empire, they were also affected by it. My father ordered the gate shut. Myra's gate shut and Shadow Man had no part.
00:37:27
Speaker
My father's a smart man. My father... I thought was a cow. We're done now. I'm not not so sure what he is. Maybe s smart. Maybe both of those things. He's certainly vicious and vindictive. I mean, why why was there an assassin from home who... Why the hell did he just throw his life down like that when you and Nick spared it? it's just just Just so many questions, Seth. I'm not one thing. And he's just going to gesture to the armour in the bag of holding and the insignia of Leopold's sleep guard. Where is guard now?
00:38:15
Speaker
Yeah, I guess we are. Now all we've got to do is find the bastard. We kind of gain a bit more of his kind of energy back a little bit and shout forward to Baal, who maybe is rested at that point. Hey, Baal, are you awake? Are you listening? Yes, yes, no, sorry. No, no, you're good. Yes, no, I'm back. I'm back. And by this point, the the beetle would have kind of dissipated as well, I imagine. I just wanted to say about that thing yesterday.
00:38:55
Speaker
the thing I made. yeah I don't know what it was. I don't know why I did it. It's a thing I don't want to come back and yet I um made one come back. I need to learn more about it but I saw you reacted and um I want to apologize for it. Thank you Seth. ah
00:39:27
Speaker
Why are we apologizing? I ah summoned the corpse.
Group Camaraderie and Encounters
00:39:33
Speaker
ah summon the cops I invoked necromancy. To attack one of us? No, to attack our enemies. So why is that a bad thing? Because it was wrong. I raised the spirit of the dead. To help us? Yeah, but how much? To attack the enemy. For now, yes. like But I don't know. we We left it there. I don't know what it's doing now. I ask innocently. yeah Were you on the ship during the Blight? Do you have any recollection? i
00:40:06
Speaker
Our captain was rather savvy when it came to the Blight. And like you know even if not all of us agreed, we stayed away from it, which Loki, I agreed. yeah Your captain is smart. it's i won I'm sure they will return. ah it what i knew I must learn more about it if I'm going to help fight it. I feel I'm getting too close. I and i saw the way you reacted, Balan. That wasn't my intention. No, of course. Like I said to you last night,
00:40:48
Speaker
I do trust you, Seth. I do.
00:40:52
Speaker
I, well, I have my reasons for reacting in the way I did. Do you feel you can control it? But the thing? The thing. Yeah, I think I can. I know I can. The same way I can control pain look here. Right.
00:41:19
Speaker
But I don't know if that will ever change. And I don't want, I don't ever want to be in a position where I'm the cause of. No. Because of it. I will not lie Seth. If that does change, if the control goes, you know what I've got to do. I understand.
00:41:42
Speaker
Burn a bitch. Burn a bitch. It's nothing against you Seth. Absolutely not. I would do the same if I was in your position. I would think less of you if you did not burn a bitch because of it. I appreciate that. I can't, I can't unlearn it now. I'm sorry. It's, it's there. It's in me now, but know that I will avoid using it where I can. ah Hey guys, remember that time reigns used magic missile and straight up murdered infernal demon.
00:42:18
Speaker
Fucking awesome, right? To be fair, I do remember that it was quite awesome. One of them went straight through his chest. Also, we all worked like really well together. I'm just saying, I'm just saying like a crew. We savvy? That was pretty good teamwork. And with that, a couple of thoughts are going to race through Baal's mind. ah He's going to quickly look to the sky and he's going to use his wild shape to try and resummon his wild far spirit.
00:42:49
Speaker
And you do? Excellent. There'll be a very deep sigh of relief as he kind of summons it back round and down around his shoulders.
00:43:02
Speaker
I feel like we should be celebrating somewhat. In fact, and Nix will take out the bottomless mug ah that he's got and he'll take a big long glug from it and they'll pass it to the nearest person, which I assume is Emron.
00:43:19
Speaker
who's muted, but he's going to take a big old glob. And if he doesn't, Nix will reach in and open his jaws. Everyone will reach out, take out a tankard. Can I pour beer from it into my own tankard? I do that. I fill up my own tankard and then pass it back to Nix. Cheers to that, Alpha. Well, I don't see why not. Yes, pass that along. If it's the tea from the fucking snake run tea house, it's a no from me. No, it's just good old grog. It's a yes from me. Pass that shit along. Let's go. I'm going to taste it. More of a pear ale. An IPA. What's the I stand for, Nix? India.
00:44:06
Speaker
Have you ever been there? Intravenous.
00:44:13
Speaker
so As it comes to Reigns, he will fill ah fill up ah a flask for himself or a flagon for himself out of the bag of holding. He'll offer another one to to to Seth and then he'll let NC fly the... Don't drink and drive. Fly the fly the flagon over to Baal. Make sure you give someone a trunk too. Seth wouldn't drink any bit. seth would take take that Is it in a teacup or something? will you Yeah, it'd be teacup from Reigns. Reigns' cutlery is basically a mishmash of things. He'll hold onto the Reigns with one hand and take that from you Reigns and the other. Yeah, it works. But kind of curtly nod towards you in like thanks, but then pour it quite ceremoniously off the side of the cart into the sand and you see him kind of muttering something under his breath as he does it and then pass it back.
00:45:04
Speaker
But first steady on, I know it's unlimited, but still. Two more comrades. That's all. i don't I don't touch it. But it's four comrades. Oh, thank you. I was taking part. That's all right. I'm shutting up. like I didn't realise. No, no. Please, thank you. pass Pass it on. I think Baal said he wanted some Tofito trunks. You comrades want more. As soon as Nix gets hold of the bog and he tips it upside down. night You tell me when to stop. It's unlimited. I mean, it's up to you, man. You're my grown-new you oasis at this point in the desert. We're leaving a small buddy trail of people. Either way, cheers, everyone. And job well done, yeah I would say. Yeah, cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Fuck yes. feel like this is a bad idea. And pour some towards Trunks' is kind of mouth as well.
00:45:59
Speaker
Trunks doesn't know any different and just laps it up. He was a good boy. How much? We got our elephant pissed. How much are you giving Trunks? Only like, if if it's a teacup that's been passed to me, probably only like half a teacup. Okay. Six gallons. o It's unnecessary. with With morale lifted, can I ask ah Seth to make an animal handling check at advantage, Paul to make a survival check at advantage to see how your journey for the rest of the day concludes.
00:46:35
Speaker
So I got a 19 on the animal handling check. Thank you. And a 26 for survival. So you clip-clop along this risen road for for the best part of three, four hours. That that skirmish, that interruption happened around midday. And you get to sort of the late afternoon, not quite sunset yet. And ah you spy your next traveler on the road. It's a convoy of about a dozen chain gang slaves and two two riders on horseback at the front, moving it moving at a stroll. Everyone already knows what we're Right. no Slave breaker over here. Is the slaver wearing a purple cloak? That's a purple cloak. It's actually Baal's mum. They got the eggs.
00:47:44
Speaker
but The Risen Road has sort of um become less of an instable gradient and you've been you've been traversing on a bit of a plateau for for about half an hour and when you catch up to this group they mark you're there because elephant it makes it although it's quick makes a lot of noise on approach you can't really mask that. They know you're coming they don't necessarily um appear defensive, the two riders are keeping their pace. The one that is sort of on the inside of the road and the one you would pass by, keeps looking back on occasion, lets out a couple of waves to the person they'd see first, which is Bala, and then clearly the rider, which is Seth, view within about 200 feet. Is there anything you'd like to do? You will pass them within 10, 15 seconds. Burn a bitch.
00:48:35
Speaker
Bart's not going to do anything at this point. He's just going to be... i He's not going to have his shield equipped either. um He's probably just got his rod out, so to speak. i And awaiting instruction from behind. Okay.
00:48:52
Speaker
and um the the The slavers, like, ah the clear on show is they as they go past. ah Just sweep. What's that? ah Everyone's reacting to slavers. You've been looking and then look, hear the word slavers. I didn't say slavers. ah Sorry. No, this is what Nix is doing, not Nix saying. Oh, apologies. Sorry, I thought you used Nix's voice. No, no, no. I know. My voice is Nix's voice. Nix is me. Nix, as the slavers are moving past, glance is over.
00:49:27
Speaker
Are they just in this see-through kind of cage, the slaves? They're just sort of walking. They're walking chain to chain. So they're like, think think sort of early or mid-20th century American chain gang sort of shackled the shackle on the ankle. And as as Nix's eyes and probably the group's eyes sweep over the slavers, are we getting any race syndication, creatures? Slavers or slavers? Slaves. Sorry. Sorry. Apologies. All about the slaves. Also, the slavers. Fuck it. Yeah. as As my eyes sweep across the the image in front, who are the slavers? Who are the slaves? What condition are they in? And is there any whipping? Is there any, yah! Is there any, like, this, please sir, can I have more? You know, what's the vibe check? Do you need to roll?
00:50:22
Speaker
No, you you your passive is high enough to deduct this. If you want more information and you ask for certain things, I'll ask you But as you sort of glance through, there are a number of humans. There's a gnome, there's a halfling, there is an elf, there is a half elf. and It seems to be quite a common spread of races, nothing particularly um uncommon. ah The slavers themselves, you have one human and you have one half orc who are on two horses. There doesn't seem to be any, there's only two slavers. There doesn't seem to be any, yeah, sort of that, again, sort of anglicized historical understanding of slavery where you have these slave drivers, it's not that, they seem to be completely compliant. The state of them, they look nourished, they look watered, they don't look like they are abused in any way, but they are complying with that role. And next, of everyone in the party,
00:51:18
Speaker
This is not a site you haven't encountered before. There is ports you have been in. You understand that various kingdoms have a different opinion. You're probably not super savvy unless you you roll for it with the understandings of how that sort of works in Dralak. You've seen this act before in yeah the other places. Yeah, i'm I'm familiar with what I'm seeing. um That's business of the trade. That next one, say, do act just a ah glance and ah and ah and a sweeping look at a scene he has seen, as you said, unfortunately, many times at docks and ports ah and some slave ships. Just quickly, Danny, are there any children amongst the slaves? No. Okay.
00:52:08
Speaker
No, even even the the gnomes and halflings, they are clearly not of useful age. Okay, thank you. Are the slavers equipped enough to like feed and nourish these people? Make a perception check.
00:52:34
Speaker
20 not natural.
00:52:38
Speaker
Do they not like pulling a wagon of water? But you understand people have magical means to to sustain health. It's hard to make a conclusion or a deduction. There isn't obvious signs that they have those provisions, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily can't produce them if they need to. um Hard to call on that. And it's more of a reading and yeah understanding of the situation than just being able to observe. they They aren't pulling anything. Like it is the travel of 12 and the two riders.
00:53:09
Speaker
Emma's going to sort of look over his shoulder at the rest of the group. We're going to do anything about this or what? It's difficult, Emron. Last Levi encountered was a man called Geldon. Turns out he'd murdered straight up some folk and deserved everything he got. We do not know their situation.
00:53:34
Speaker
Do you wish to get involved without knowing that?
00:53:38
Speaker
Don't like the idea of thought being chained up a slave without a reason. up From a glance, they seem well nourished. They're quite strong able. This means they sell for more nicks. Absolutely. But it also means that the cruelty is probably less. ah whether that helps you I don't know but there's no whips being involved here they're just though they're doing their job and but at least the slaves are being taken care of they might be going off to be freed um ah if you if you want to think like that I just think we
00:54:24
Speaker
ah Not to be that tiefling, but we have very pressing matters of our own to deal with and sometimes just got to swear life for some people. I realize what I'm saying doesn't come across too well. um Please know that ah opinions are our own.
00:54:52
Speaker
Nix is right. Sorry. Raines is right.
00:54:58
Speaker
Raines is feeling, seeing this, a mixture of guilt. He's feeling a mixture of shame. He's they're acutely aware of what slavehood where people are treated terribly looks like. And this doesn't look like that. um he He remembers the ganassi scourge. He remembers the actions of his father and And and it's just it's just not wanting to get involved in this because it's it's quite a painful and difficult thing to be around. Remind me of Shadow Men Brief. There is slavery in Shadow Men, isn't there? that it's It's become so normalised now that the the scourge of the Ganasi has effectively been normalised. But yes, the the actual brutalisation of them
00:55:49
Speaker
and but But I mean, my point is is it just Ganasi that are enslaved or is it other races as well? Water Ganasi in particular. but But my point is in Shadow End, are they... No, it's only Water Ganasi. Only Water Ganasi, okay. and Those that are left on lands, there are a large portion of them that live live in the sea, if they can breathe underwater.
00:56:14
Speaker
As we're kind of approaching these, I'll just quickly call out to one of the slavers and just say, Hale, would you mind just quickly settling a bet we were having amongst us? What's the worst thing that one of these fellows, and he'll motion to the the slave's mind, has done? Just, as I say, just to settle a bet, if you'd be willing. Oh, what the half-orc raises a hand back at you. I see you are traveling in the desert.
00:56:49
Speaker
You're inquiring about my folk, are you? Just a simple bet that we have when passing a group like these. We're just wondering, I mean, are we talking murderers amongst the group? I mean... Got a couple of those, yeah. Yeah, I thought so. I thought so. And he'll point out to everyone, yeah, see? I did say that's a cold news for me. You did call it, actually. You did, yeah, Baal. That one over there. Straight up, murderers. Don't call killer. They're all criminals.
00:57:17
Speaker
and kind of, Baal will give a lingering stare towards Emron, almost with a ah like a, almost like a placid look within the eye, not not uncaring, but not trying to signal anything in particular, just a lingering stare that holds that a little bit too long. What's that, like two gold to you, Baal? Did you call it? I think it was, was it not? Oh, we'll settle, we'll settle up as we yeah as we make way. Thank you, thank you for settling that bet for us. But, alright, what's the cargo? ah Don't worry about that. You're a double wagon. Yes. Well, settling a bet for you as well. Just some you know generic things we're taking off to scorcher. Maybe see you there. We're headed to the capital. I'll stop talking face back front. I wonder what they're towing. Yeah, what's the cargo?
00:58:12
Speaker
Click on. Did you just carry on by? I imagine everyone sat at the back with his legs hanging over the back, just watching the slaves. He's happier now than himself. They're criminals, therefore they're basically serving their servitude. um He doesn't feel like he needs to go way in too much now. And if we're out of e-shot, Bow will kind of reverse cowgirl on the top of trunks again. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's used to this now. Spinning top. The saws are no longer there, it's just hard skin. Just a 540 for no reason, a full 360 and then an extra 180 on top. And just kind of say back to Amaron, trust me,
00:59:00
Speaker
That kind of thing doesn't quite sit well, but Reigns is right. Or was it Reigns that said it? I forget. We have bigger fish to fry. It was Nyx. Of course it was Nyx. Bigger fish to fry. I understand why you went to Reigns first. Not normally me, the voice of reason, but... No, all morality, but there we go. Ah, yeah. It's the horns. But they're there for a reason. And I know there might be the Dralak way to enslave their prisoners and criminals. I don't know. Indeed. If there was harshness being seen, I would follow you for any intervention you wished. Okay. 180 facing the front. Just cowgirl now. Really good at that. Thank you. puddle Years of practice. Nick's got his head in his trousers. Nick's will remember this.
00:59:52
Speaker
So you continue to press on, clip-clop? Alpha, I've got a question for you as with clip-clopping. Yes. A bit awfully quiet. Sorry, my mind is distracted. That's understandable given
Fiery Wings and Group Bonding
01:00:05
Speaker
what's happened. Are you able to like inwardly communicate with the person that almost got you straight up murdered by an infernal demon? No success yet. I have attempted on a couple of occasions and aside from a few fleeting images from one prior experience, I've not been able to see or do anything more.
01:00:29
Speaker
ah Are you cool if I try and communicate with it? Like, no damage, obviously. Just, I don't know, maybe I can tune in to it, maybe. Would you be up for it? I mean, we've got nothing to do right now. We're just clip-clopping. Attempting an external source is not something I have considered, but I trust you, Nix. I've been called worse things. Uh, right. Okay. Just give me a moment. Uh, and Nix is going to use his awakened mind feature and try and it says you can telepathically speak to any creature you can see within 30 feet.
01:01:08
Speaker
You can see it outstands one language. So it hey, it probably won't work, but ah you never know. So Nick's is going to focus in on Alpha and just you hear in your heads or head or essence. Hey there.
01:01:30
Speaker
Hello. Just an Alpha's tone. Yeah, no, no, that didn't work. Worth a shot, though. You never know. and There may be something that I can learn in this book, but perhaps I will keep attempting myself anyway.
01:01:49
Speaker
It's an most unusual thing. This is the first almost realisation I have had. tim The person was more than just a memory, but they did indeed have an existence here and have clearly
01:02:05
Speaker
done something to devils, demons, or perhaps even struck a bargain. A pact, one might say. um i mean I mean, I think you're reading a bit too deep there. A lot of those things are stories, Alpha. I know you're a fan of them. But I think you do raise an important point, though, like Was that an enemy come to get that memory or a friend come to get a friend? I have no inclination of what that creature was and what they wanted. Do you understand what I mean? like if like If you became a memory and Reigns knew where your memory was, there ain't no hell on earth that would stop him. so that would But we would see that as a as a show of devotion, compassion.
01:02:57
Speaker
and ah But but but if you say killed reigns his entire lineage and became a memory there's no hell on earth that would stop him from killing your soul and memory in every living form. Enemy! So it'd just be interesting in a friend or foe. We don't know do we? We don't. It is possibly Maybe something in between. I feel that if it was an enemy, after perhaps some form of vengeance, the creature was certainly more powerful than, well, most of us, and he glances over to Reigns. I feel he could have caused me severe damage and possibly ended my existence in a moment. What happens to you if the memory's extracted?
01:03:48
Speaker
I have no idea. That's unsettling. Hey, Enron, Rains, what happens to Alpha if the memory power stone thing gets extracted? He does. Yeah, he would cease to be. It's the memory room that's as far as we understand it. animating the metal body that we created. Yeah, but like, you have a another essence inside you and effectively become two people. Why can't the same be said? I don't understand the mechanics of it. It just feels like alpha is his own thing. no sense it's It's different. It's the the the the memory room isn't just alpha's consciousness. it's it's It's sort of like a vital organ as well. It does for alpha what both the brain and heart does for for you or me. It's like a vital organ.
01:04:42
Speaker
They go out for you know what happens you die. but One answer struck off the list you know ah between us we could we can strike the others off we just got asked the right people. It is theorized that will that could be what would happen. The. Artificery that's both rings of myself have a experiment with there may be some form of. ah possible future task or markings we can do that will enable me to function without my memory room. It is the most likely theory. that I will not disagree with Reins and Emron on that, but who knows what the future may hold for any of us. I mean, do you think that that memory can speak in... Hang on again. and And Nix is going to try Awaken Mind again. Infernal this time. Hey.
01:05:38
Speaker
So in your head, Alpha, you hear... And ears bleed. I'm assuming that you used get this blankness. if the If there was a, like one of those dust balls could roll through my brain, that's basically what you would be getting back.
01:06:01
Speaker
Like static has just come through my mind of tuning the radio or something like that. ah Look, I'm not as smart as you daddies, but it's my very used to say that all the time, didn't she? um But I'll do what I can, because it must be confusing and and also unsettling a whole host of things. I don't know. There is much about our current situation, which is confusing. I mean, I was shining the light on you specifically there for a moment, but yes, if you want to broaden the horizon, there's a lot of things within the crew and our missions ahead as to be unsettling, confusing. And there's a certain thing to be said about being comfortable in being uncomfortable. It's really easier said than done. Very true. im If I had to be honest, I believe any challenge or uncomfortableness that may come forward now, I would be prepared for.
01:06:59
Speaker
Yeah, and if not, we'd just put Reigns up front, yeah? Because... yeah clearly even killer over there. The more powerful one of us, definitely. ah did you Have you ever killed something like that? I know I haven't. No, no, I've never even seen such a beast. So Reigns up front. Agreed.
01:07:22
Speaker
Reigns! Yeah. Group Protector, you're at the front, yeah? I can, that can be arranged, sure. He doesn't sound too into it. oh but no i don No, I do. I really like the sound of that. and to put that I'm liking all the acknowledging that I'm getting right now. It's not feeling. Many conversations to be had. but especially in the future because we have got like if there's time ah there's this big competition that we could win a lot of money maybe and at the moment like Ceph's the champion and like I'm all for that and Ceph you want to go for that I'll double down on you work her in all the way to it but like if you wanted to tag in demon killer
01:08:08
Speaker
I'm not against that either. It's a conversation in the future. Forget about it for now. In the future. and the Before we were entering as a team, wasn't that a thing? yeah I mean, yeah, absolutely. But with the idea that one of us wins and we do everything we can to make that one person win. Because then we all win at the end of the day. And that was important. Like you've just seen here, like, Reigns killed the demon, but we all won as a team, even if Reigns is the more powerful one, maybe. I know. Something to think about. Conversations with your future, though. But hey, like, look at us right now. Just look at us.
01:08:45
Speaker
And as the look at us dissipates and no one really responds, you press on. into the sunset. And again, I'll take that really impressive role that Val and Seth combined to again, you you you rejoin that high road, rejoins a low road. And what's really, it's not not worth rolling because of Nyx being in your party. ni Nyx, minutes after joining in this this fork rejoining,
01:09:22
Speaker
you smell a really familiar smell there is a breeze everyone for the first time in a while and on that breeze is the slightest detection of a salty air
01:09:39
Speaker
By all your loose understanding now of this geg geography of this area, you are closer to the coast than you expected, almost as though the high road has bought you time despite being more perilous. See Ahoy! See Ahoy! Nix that just distinct briny smell, not in a dangerous way as you have encountered it recently in other capacities, but a very natural way, as just just caught the very tendrils of your nostrils. Oh, that's like a drug. But it is approaching that time to camp. And again, you were on and a Kris Krem managed road and you were at the point where the fork itself offers various camping spots, similar to where you camped last night. But there are there are various dugouts and suitable places we're in and you are passing groups of people who are who have have camped out. So I ask again, is this ah is this a tiny hut venture or are you are you pushing through the night? um What would you like to do?
01:10:36
Speaker
Just have to look to the party for kind of direction. I don't mind. We could always but could always rest up and and get to the city fresh. we well ah We're well ahead of at a schedule, aren't we? I think so. I could do with re-channeling some of my energies. I seem to have spunked a lot on that last fight. Good choice of words. Good choice of words. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any reason to be pressing through the night? And if the answer to that is no, then I think we answer our own question, right? I made the scene just there, right there, though. I a am a group decision. Absolutely. It's exciting. Wait until the morning.
01:11:19
Speaker
aye Sounds like a good idea. I'll set up the tiny hut again, if we all were happy in there last time. Yeah, yeah, it worked well. Okay. You start your preparation, Seth, to to conjure the hut. Everyone complies by the sound of it and everyone is within a hut, within 10 minutes? Yeah, 10 minutes, yeah. Okay. Before the watches start and the the evening kicks on, does anybody have anything they want to do? but Yeah, I'm going to um take a step outside and just go. I mean, might as well fucking give it a go. hey yeah but I will ah just cast bonfire on the floor. So I'll snort out some fire in front of me and just go nicks. If what everyone says is true, it's about to get quite dark. So do look out for the group for me.
01:12:14
Speaker
And I'm going to activate my ah cloak of it exploding flight outside and I'll take that damage as it comes. and and so There are also various campsites sort of around the road as well within that range. and you just sort Within 120 feet. Yeah, you sort of snuff out like two or three traveling parties worth of light at the same time. Nothing inside the tiny huts affected to give them properties of tiny huts. You guys in the huts still see. And Baal, you just shroud everything in darkness around you for 120 beats save for the light of the moon and the object in the sky. Amazing.
01:12:52
Speaker
And yes, as that flame sort of pulls into you, you feel your cloak split in two straight down the center and then that cloak sort of erects behind you and then splits into various sort of winged appendages and then it begins to form the shape and then it layers itself in this this very cool heat to your standards. And you have proportionally sized wings lucky on your back for the next minute. Excellent. So the first 10 seconds will be him kind of using just to get a little bit of flight and it'll look fucking awkward. It won't look cool. um as but fun also
01:13:37
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but like a swan trying to take off from the river you know my first thought is iron man one where tony stark just starts kind of working out the jet propulsion and it's kind of like steady as she goes and then after those first 10 seconds hey that's my copyright infringement damn it i mean um What he's going to do is he's going to look up and he's going to dash and just use his full movement speed to fly as far as quickly as high as he can and kind of get the feel for these wings. Are they? Is it is it is it like kind of leathery wings? Are they a flame? No, they are pure fire inconsistency.
01:14:16
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Amazing. I fucking love that. ah Yeah. And I'll spend the first kind of the next 30 seconds or so, 35, 40 seconds just of flying around, getting a ah feel for it before ah remembering what Enron said and kind of returning within 10 feet of the floor and kind of just dropping back down as the spell fades. And we all see this, right? Yeah. Tony, hu you can see how you're seeing all of this. You're getting claps and whoops and cheers my guy. And you you feel euphoric. You feel such an adrenaline rush. This feels freeing. This feels almost like this is a birthright almost by blood like your your ancestors.
01:15:03
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as dragons have this innate ability and there's such a natural feeling about this to you that you are in a absolute sense of wonderment and when you come to land you're feeling incredibly a bit lifted and incredibly be fulfilled it's probably the closest you've ever felt to that ancestral line that your your blood, your your anatomy takes upon. um Yeah, you you master it within seconds of understanding that that ah processed understanding the the magic of it, but also how natural it feels. Yeah.
01:15:40
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Awesome. I'd like to just, ah you know, kind of fucking dot the eyes. I'm doing a superhero landing pose as the wigs kind of reform into the cape behind me. And he's just going to kind of hold that pose for a good sort of 10 seconds or so as that, like you said, that feeling that you described kind of sinks in. and I think just for a second he's gonna stand back up and look to the sky and look to the moon and look to the object above him and just take that moment a little bit for himself. Before nothing. Probably under his breath can cool cool cool cool cool cool cool.
01:16:18
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and making his way back into the tiny hut with the group. Yeah, woo! As you start moving into the tiny hut, I guess all of you observed it from within, there is this group whose bonfire was snuffed out, they sort of approach your camp from a distance and just begin to sort of shout you down and say, boy, that was gnarly, yeah, boy, that was, rah, that was judgy. Love that, can you do it again? And there's this, this human stepping forward you this, this really ornately dressed human for the desert. There's gnome to the side of him and another human to the other side. Clearly with, um, sort of very regal, noble, uh, sleep guardian accents. Okay. Before kind of making his way back into that, then he'll stop and turn around either and go, if you're good at something, never do it for free, darling. but Absolutely couldn't agree more. Oh, what a man. Can I buy you a drink?
01:17:14
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kind of look back to the heart. Obviously you can't see anyone within it. I imagine because it's opaque.
01:17:23
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Maybe the gnome steps forward and just says, this must be one of those desert being bees. Can we stay
Nightfall and Preparations
01:17:35
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there? Art and shit.
01:17:39
Speaker
I don't think so. Come on, let us in, old chap. Let us in. I saw you fly. That was impressive. Let us in. Tell us more. That makes no logical sense whatsoever. The other human sort of comes much closer to you now at a sort of wider distance. He says, you've got it you got a ruddy elephant. We've got a ruddy elephant over here. As these guys were talking, Emron was going to have stepped out of the tent. um Just to be near Baal. The human who began this conversation just goes, there's another one. Look at this. How many chaps you got in that tent? What is this? Everyone's got the big halberd as well. May we join? And just sort of gives a very knowing eyebrow to you, Baal. So as they've kind of been a little bit pushy and not listened to what Baal said, I think what's going to happen is there's going to be a little bit of kind of fire bubbling up within Baal.
01:18:36
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I'm with this and I kind of, yeah, he's not, he's not casting anything in particular, but the flame within is is clearly becoming present. You need to fucking respect some boundaries.
01:18:53
Speaker
Look, it's fucking Dralak.
01:18:57
Speaker
What happens to Drellik stays in Drellik? Am I right lads? Am I right? And the one who was making his way round to the trunks is now moving out of sight. Okay. I'll just call over my shoulder.
01:19:13
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and just get the attention of people within the the tiny hut as well. Yeah, rain Rains is coming out. i'll but I'll go do with that one and everyone will start pursuing the one that's got out of sight. With the halberd in hand because everyone's got the new halberd out. hu As Rains emerges, the armour is just forming around him. As he emerges from the tent, that the armour is just forming with the helmet closing last and he just gets comes up to them and goes, am I under the impression that the idiots need to get last? I believe so.
01:19:44
Speaker
The gnome steps forward this time. I don't understand. Like, this is just just fun. This is just fun. Look, why don't I bring more of my pals over? We can just have more ah more of a chat. I needed to have a really sharp whistle. And emerging from the road, six more, very nobly dressed, sweet guardian, sort of upper class, tofts, tofts, for want of a better word. um It's probably worth pointing out at this point that emblazon reigns his armor currently as the herald of the private guard of King Leopold sweet guard. Okay It's dark Not everyone's sort of taken you in yet, but thank you. Let me know sir Listen us lot guys. Listen up. Just go in the tent. They're going out. It looks like a big rock Yeah, they can't come in but the the prisoner. Oh Shit the elephant
01:20:41
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Ball. We've got a lot of stuff out here. Two more two more sort of wonder round the back. um I'm going to go over there. he after the one Everyone's already gone after the ones that have gone out of sight. So. Ball, do something impressive and scary. Just don't hurt any of them and I'll i'll make them run away.
01:20:57
Speaker
what and So we're going to go to Emron now while you're on the back and there's this one human and then two more are coming over the sand dune around. Where'd she get an elephant? Where'd she get a rowdy elephant? We bought it in a shop. Right on! Yeah, I'll buy it off you now. How much for your elephants? It's not for sale. I'll give you a thousand gold. Not for sale. I'll give you a thousand gold and 15 minutes in the hut with your bow. Hang on, just one minute, let me just check. I'm sorry, we're out of folks to give, so how about you piss off?
01:21:36
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There's no need to be so like rude about it. like Why don't we just take it? This is me being polite to be frank. Look, we've got some wine. Would you like to join us? No. No? He doesn't want us to join him, and you're now sort of huddled by by a couple. Bar's going to withdraw his shield from under the new cape of this, which is a flame as well. ah He's going to kind of...
01:22:04
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cast the cantrip flame whip but not attack anything with it so in a relatively threatening pose with just this kind of long strand of fire down from his hand dripping to the floor he's just going to say take a fucking hint back the fuck off return to your camp and you don't get hurt at this point about half a dozen sort of back off hands in the air the instigator to all this it says rah too far we were just playing we'll go we'll go
01:22:44
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Just want to know what the cargo is, you know, you've you've got two cards there, elephant, bunch of chaps, having a bang in ah in a while.
Cargo Confrontation and Revelation
01:22:51
Speaker
While that person is talking, Seth is going to turn quietly to buy him like this fucking guy, and he's going to cast Cause Fear on the one that won't stop talking. And he's going to whisper as quietly as he can under his breath. Like the, um, what am I casting out? Fuck not third level, Jesus Christ. Um, first level, because it's just the one target. Um, just,
01:23:16
Speaker
Death comes for thee. And that's just going to travel in the wind and a little red whisper over to him is just going to, while he's saying that, kind of inject itself into his ear and it's a 15 wisdom saving throw. I want a 15.
01:23:33
Speaker
I guess we just carry on. It didn't work. Just test you. What the fuck was that bro? Oh, sorry. I don't know what happened then. He's just going to step forward. I don't know what happened. See what happened was and he's just taking a look at his hands. I reached to my spell book and then he's just going to uppercut him. Oh, I'm doubling down. Okay. Okay. That doesn't do good talking. Um, and he's going to join him for a cock, for a nine.
01:24:04
Speaker
Oh god. Oh god. So he just sort of nimbly dodges. And before we get into this, he's just gonna lay one hand on your chest. I said, what's the fucking cargo?
01:24:23
Speaker
Blood iron.
01:24:34
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And as he looks at you.
01:24:40
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consent Concerned. That's what we're gonna end. This week's episode.
Humor and Closing Remarks
01:24:46
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The Fellowship of the Tabletop. I don't think I could try and look for my notes. I was like, oh shit. i That's a you thing, bro. I know, I've got it. I didn't want to leave any gaps, so I just said the thing. I said the thing, and I don't have a thing. It's like blood iron from the North or something. Crude mud iron from the North. i from And then the response is blood iron.
01:25:06
Speaker
Fuck! You fucked it! Fuck! And then pecordias!
01:25:13
Speaker
Shit! He's doing the moment. Crude mud iron from the north. ah Don't you mean blood iron? Blood iron, yeah. Fuck! That fucked it! I mean, come on, it's always better when we fuck it. Let's be honest. everyone right Everyone out there listening is praying that you say blood iron, not the four lines. We all hear you. We all know what you like. And sometimes we like to give it to you. So if you'd like to be done, ah tune in next week and listen to see what happens with Seth and um yeah his big mouth for a change. Yeah, if you want to keep up to date with the podcast, find a way. We have a Twitter page, X page, which you can hook into, which is at Photoshop table. And then if you wanted to go one step further and follow us individually, you could do so too. Please tell a friend or review on your podcast program or listening of choice. That would be super good. I'm at, I rolled one. Darren's at. Darren, page A6. Pooh Bear is at.
01:26:21
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Blood Iron. Natural 20 will. Fuck you. Callum's at the d20 gamer. Will is at fellowship npcpc. Mark is at blood iron. ah and
01:26:41
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Danny's out. Total pie. We love you guys.