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Ep. 24 When the wind blows – De Profundis
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Transcript
Introduction and Character Setup
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But let's just say theoretically, as a drunken bet, we were looking for a map.
00:00:32
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Welcome to this week's episode of The Fellowship on the Tabletop. We are a live-playing 5v D&D podcast set in the world of Aerith. My name is Mark, I'm the Dungeon Master, and also with us for today's episode, we have Ian, who plays the Dragonborn Barbarian Dragon. What up? Darren, who plays the human fighter Rogue Robin. Hello there. Will, who plays the Wood Elf Monk Elthea. Hello, D&D, our old friend. Oh Jesus Christ, we were doing so well. Always with Will. I guess for Will and me. I kind of like the musical thing he's doing at the moment. He's working through.
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together all his introductions. We'll make one. No, no, no. Make his song? No. Thank you very much. That's my next few shorty. Thank you. God damn it. We have Danny who plays the human cleric, Claude. Bonjour. We have Callum, who plays the gnome sorcerer, Folly Fizzlebank the Knife. Hello. Did you nearly introduce him as Folly the Fizzlebank the Knife, Flay Flay Callum? Yes, yes I did. That is also acceptable. There's a problem. It's changed from Darren to me now.
Folly Fizzlebank's History and Camp Dynamics
00:01:31
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On last week's episode, we continued away from the wreckage of the central meadows of the forest area. We continued working through and found out some interesting information regarding Folly Fizzlebank, his history, his past, and what he really needs in this place. We learned a good deal of information regarding where he's going, where he's come from, and his thoughts, and the preclusivity of stuff.
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Don't think that's a word. I think you've just made that up. Prickly nature? Yeah, let's go with that. Prickly nature. Do you mean... Do you mean... Do you mean the plural...
00:02:15
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You can't give a hell of a hell of a hell of a hell of a hell of a hell of a hell of a hell of a hell
00:02:35
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Night started to fall and picking up a small halfling woman called Ereti who had left Blingmore after the massive battle that had taken place there. Most of her family had died. She was making her way to Evershire along the same route as the rest of the party.
00:02:50
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In the main camp, Drago chose to stay with the cart. The rest moved away from the cart and headed in towards a large tree that El Theofine where they made camp and were set up. Claude's about some time speaking to Drago and Claude we're going to start with you returning back to the camp in that evening before we bed down for the night.
00:03:09
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You notice, and as you look around the camp, there's a large, large tree, 30-foot wide. The inside seemed to have been bored out by years and years and years of age and use, and it's formed now almost a small cave within its interior. Tally has had a small fire going within that. You see the small halfling sat next to it. You notice Folly sat next to her also. Elthea stood up looking around the area, looking up at the trees and looking out, whereas Robin is looking over his wares, maybe looking into the bag of holding.
00:03:37
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checking over his weapons as he kind of listens into the conversation, as you break through the thicket and head towards the camp. Hello. Hello. Is Drago not re- joining us in the fire? I think Drago's going to take the first walk.
00:03:57
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Okay. Is he not camping with us or is he camping with us? He's going to take the first watch. He isn't quite convinced about Folly's spell so he just wanted to be sure.
Magic, Humor, and Trust Issues at Campfire
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How rude! Is there anything I can do to help us stay in this lovely
00:04:18
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Tree. This is a nice tree. Unless you can produce... I will not hug it while we're inside. So I am scared of what my hands will do. Are you capable of producing food from thin air that isn't dry bread and rations? Not today. I can do this though. Not yet. I need some time to rest. Yes, I can do it in the morning though. Is that... hold on. You can produce food from thin air.
00:04:43
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Yeah, it is. Actually, I think Foy just said he could as well. I can't produce it, but I can do this. He just weighs his hand over this dry ration and he's going to make it taste like strawberries. What? How? What kind of trip is that? That is press digitation. So I'm going to make Robin's dry ration now taste like strawberries. Tastes like strawberries. It's stuck in your teeth, but I can't do anything about that.
00:05:18
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In the morning, I can provide us with a feast. Although, why haven't I thought you went looking for rabbits and such? There's nothing in the forest, Claude. Nope. That will be why there's loads of dead things. What, you can sense dead things right now? No. That will explain why there's nothing in the forest, because it's just where dead things live. Right, good. I was a bit alarmed then. I thought this was- Let me check.
00:05:45
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My eyes were flash white. Any pings within 60 feet of a dead undead thing. You sense no distinct undead presence. However, that film of interference is returned. I do not quite feel safe, but there is no skeletons. I have not felt safe.
00:06:09
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Since I met you all. Oh. Sorry about that. So if we struggled watching the car, should I take the first watch here at camp then?
00:06:23
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Well, it seems silly to have two watches. Yeah, but Drago's ever by the... Actually, Claude, I think it's a very sensible thing. The more people want more people we can have per watch, the less likely we are. Yeah, I mean, I did die here, so it probably makes sense. Of course you did. Alfie just doesn't care anymore. So much for staying.
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Tali at this point will, um... Can I help with any sort of warming? Or would you like me to tell a story? Definitely not back. Could you sing a nursery rhyme about the singing mountains again? And as Elthir asks that of Claude and his rambles begin to unfold, Tali stands up and moves over to Robin and just kind of... I'm not going to do this head thing again, just tap you on my shoulder.
00:07:14
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Can I have a word away from the camp? Of course. And she walks a few steps away on the back of this tree where it's a little bit darker and there's a little sense of security. And you can just hear the dolstered toads of a cruel... I imagine Elphie's actually stood at the entrance. He did say he was still at the first watch, but... Yeah, okay, cool, that's fine. And she walks around more for just a sense of security away from the others, not necessarily to get away, and more just...
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Robin, about yesterday when I accused you of accusing me, I just wanted to say I'm sorry about that. I don't know what came over me or why I said that, but I feel like I was unnecessarily harsh to you. You're right to question everyone here.
00:08:09
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I just wanted to say sorry for a snap and make you like that. It wasn't becoming of me. There's nothing to forgive, Talia. I feel it would be remiss for me not to apologise at the same time. I didn't mean to question you, but you have to understand. I had a family once and I missed someone being turned by a force of an incomprehensible evil.
00:08:36
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It cost me everything, and I don't want that to happen again. Oddly enough, I'm starting to care about the people who I'm with. I tend to agree myself. I kind of like our little weird mix of people. But... I agree, though, there's something not right about this place that seems to be pulling on us. You mentioned you think I might turn on you, but...
00:09:05
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I don't think you'd ever tell them it was winningly, Talia, or I think they're a f*** where all each other have. We have to rely on ourselves. I agree, we're strangers in a strange land and I sometimes forget that with Claude and that other one.
00:09:22
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I just had to put out Claude and the other one. I know! There was so much heartbreak in the room there as Darren went through all the characters from the Sword Coast and left Claude and Folly. This man, this poor punch back here has done more for you guys than I know anybody would have been like. But he hasn't been there since the beginning, man. You were there. Yeah, I'm sorry you don't have that bomb back in now, man. We have to live and die together. As you were saying. We're ashamed of it. She looks down.
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and looks towards her pouch with her father's book of spells.
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I've decided Robin, I don't like Firebolt anymore. I think if that last fight taught me anything, it's that it's a piece of shit. And to be honest, it can get in a ditch for all I care. I've been looking at some other spells and I think, I hope it doesn't come to that, but if we, if I need to, I'm gonna try something different out the next time. I'm feeling a bit more
00:10:29
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in control, strangely, and I just feel better. So I just, I'm not sure what will happen. I'm gonna follow what my father tells me in the book and just keep an eye on me, I'm just saying, just in case it all goes a bit wrong. It's nothing dangerous, nothing to worry about, I think, but it might kill us all, you know? It's one of those. Well, whilst I'm lonely, all up for
00:10:59
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intrigue and mystery and excitement. Perhaps news of potentially my impending death would ward me against whatever it is you might be trying, but we've talked about trust, Talia, and you have it. Remember what I said, though? We've got plenty of agents of chaos about us, people who willed it and willed it well. You're an agent of control. Play to your strengths. And she kind of nods to you.
00:11:29
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Oh, Natalia. I've noticed something. I'm quicker. I was able to move around that battlefield. Since I've been reading those scrolls, something's happening. And I'm close to making a breakthrough myself. Take the last watch with me. I may need your help. If you'd be willing. Of course. And she kind of nods ahead and...
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starts to make her way around the tree towards the rest of the party, just stops again and turns and goes, just to check, we're okay. Aren't we? Always. She lives a little smile. Thanks, Robin. And she walks by round and sits down next to her tiff at the fire, a bit more like a weight kind of lifted off her back ever so slightly, she joins the rest of the party. And as they join, out of this, Claude, what would we join into?
00:12:26
Speaker
What are you currently talking about? Because I assume that Arthur, you've just been pushing him and pushing him to explain more and more and pushing him down his rabbit hole. So, how the days of the week work, right, is you've got a Monday and so often it's followed by a Tuesday but there's occasionally a thing called a leap year and you just skip a day. You just skip it.
00:12:53
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Boom! The first day. Expecting a Wednesday, but no. It's Tuesday. Folly is just going to quickly cast Minor Illusion and just make a lovely little green butterfly appear in front of Folly. You motherfucker!
00:13:13
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I'm gonna draw my axe. And it's just gonna stop flying around and then pop out of the door. I have a big sensation to chase that February beast. But the last time I did it I died. How old? What checked me to make to recognise that that's an illusion? Elfie! I believe there is a check. Roll quickly! What's the check please? An investigation check.
00:13:45
Speaker
Er, I've got an actual 20. Oh. You instantly see through it. You recognise it straight away. So basically, I see it almost like, can I believe how much... You've probably seen the actual butterfly just form out of thin air. And it also basically becomes almost like semi-transparent, doesn't it? That's what happens with illusions if you see they're not real. Yeah, it becomes slightly faint. It's okay, it's okay, Claude. It's just... It's just the figment of your imagination. Is it?
00:14:15
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Yeah, I think so. Folly put an abby's misery and make it go away. I mean, I died the last time I saw it. I don't want to die again. Maybe you're dying now. Slams his quarter step on the ground and the butterfly disappears.
Claude's Anxiety and Group Support
00:14:29
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Butterfly disappears. Can you make a- I haven't got the shits this time. I don't think I am dying now.
00:14:35
Speaker
It's okay, he's seen through your ruse anyway. At that, I will just grab some digitization again. I can instantly clean all soil and object. No longer than one. You'll get a soil just... I'm just going to make blood. Soil is pants ever so lightly, disappear into the air. Oh my god!
00:14:57
Speaker
So, Claude, you get a sensation. Or at least get the sensation that he does. There's bullying and there's having to post-traumatic stress. At this point, I will leave the tree. And I will start to walk towards the cart. Yeah, don't blame me. Claude, where are you going? I'm dying!
00:15:22
Speaker
Your master doesn't want to see you yet. What? Your master doesn't want to see you yet, does he? And just like that, he gets to the stage of cleaning again. He's all clean again. Oh, I didn't shit my pants. It was a false alarm.
00:15:43
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I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! First watch! Why don't you get some sleep, Claude? I'm gonna die! You'll be fine. I'm gonna die! If you die in your sleep, I'll wake you up. No you won't! You don't like me very much! Claude, Claude, we're all friends. Are we? Yes.
00:16:07
Speaker
You're killing the butterfly. Look, it's an illusion. The butterfly disappeared in Tyler. It was an illusion. Tyler's going to stand up at this point. Oh, for fuck's sake. He's going to cast sleep on you. He's going to look through a book and cast a spell on you now to put you to sleep for a minute. I mean, I'm very threatened at the moment. I should probably make some sort of say. Probably.
00:16:34
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I don't know what he's rolling. Didn't it save? No, sleep if you roll nice, equal to... Roll 5d8, the total is how many hit points of a creature spell it can affect. 20 feet of a point you choose within the range you're affected in an ascending order of the current hit points, ignoring unconscious creatures, starting with the creature that has the lowest current hit points, but...
00:16:51
Speaker
You've kind of walked off this point, so you're on your own. Um, she lost 32. That's a third of my hit points. Okay, so it doesn't work, but what does start to make you feel, your eyes feel slightly drowsy for a couple of seconds. You're very aware that she's cast that on you. You know the spell. She realizes it doesn't work and kind of, um, now, Claude, I just wanted you to calm down. I wasn't trying to... Why don't we call it even as I cast a shiny on you this morning? No. What do you mean?
00:17:20
Speaker
Well, when I did the truth circle on you... I was maybe an envision of your privacy. No, it's fine. I just wanted to help calm you down. I didn't want to. I want you both to go... I still feel a complete sense of peril like my life was about to end for the second time. But do you feel a bit sleepy? I can deal with a nap. How about you look as a nice angel? I'm not going in that tree in case I kill it. No, by the fire, there's a nice bit of dry rush there.
00:17:49
Speaker
Look, it's got a nice pillow next to it. Okay. I'll... You'll be okay. Okay. Sorry for trying to cast sleep on you, Claude. Sorry for trying to reveal your secrets in front of people you don't know so great. Oh, there you go. We'll call it even then, Claude, eh? If I die... Yeah.
00:18:13
Speaker
Would you mind taking my belongings to the King of Sleetguard for me? The King of Sleetguard? Where would I find the King of Sleetguard? In Goldview. Goldview, right. I'm not gonna lie. I don't fucking know anything about this place. I don't know what it is. I know, but if I die and you have something to do with it, would you mind helping me out with a little favour like that? Of course. What's this?
00:18:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's a cold, hot, swilling testament. And then I might get it there. Right, I will do, Claude, but let's hope it doesn't come to that. Don't kill me. I can't. I tried to put you to sleep and it didn't work. And then the butterfly. Yeah, that was falling. I'm gonna have some dreams now. Okay. I'm gonna have some dreams. Have a good sleep though, Claude. I might. I might. I probably won't. No, but I'll try.
00:19:13
Speaker
I really think I shat myself this time. It smells like one of mine. Okay, shh, shh, shh. I'm going to take myself off. Push it down quite. Are you under the tree? I'm by a fire. Wherever the fire is. Just outside, away from the tree slightly, but I've kind of been put to sleep like a cat and it's kind of sort of weird. Oh, some serious bullying, unfortunately. That's what I'm being honest. Hardly was the sense of reason in that party, I think. Anyway.
00:19:40
Speaker
You just listened through this tratical deal of Claude... of Folly fucking with him. Who are we kidding? Folly fucking around. Folly fucking back.
Night Watch and Folly's Alchemical Experiments
00:19:49
Speaker
I said Folly fuck around, which I thought was more apt, but the rest of you are still up. Nothing isn't watch. Is there anything else that you'd like to do, Folly? What? You must defer it onto this chair when you were having one of your existential crises as Drago. So yes. Yes.
00:20:10
Speaker
Robin that you want to talk to? I would probably do it. It would be at the... I would just say to Folly before we go to sleep. That was rather unkind, Folly. Yes, yes, quite possibly, but I don't know. There's just something about him. I can't quite put my finger on it, so... Well, bit of fun, light in the mood. Why the hell not? Wonderful.
00:20:35
Speaker
So, LFA will just stay awake until Pete can last an hour before I need to wake someone else up. You're doing that? Yeah. Claude, you're asleep. Folly, anything else you want to eat? Folly is going to temporarily just leave the tree and just go
00:20:55
Speaker
probably about 15 or so feet actually away from the tree. Just pull out the vial. That's the vial of the wind liquid that Robin gave you. Yes, the vial of... Vashani. Vashani remains, essence, blood, whatever. Whatever you want to call it. But yeah, you're going to take that out and he's going to break out his My Little Chemistry set and just start investigating further into it to see if he can find anything out at the moment.
00:21:23
Speaker
Okay, could you give me, then, an investigation check? I was like, do you want to do the brewing thing like we did with the blood of the thing, or...? Yes. Indeedy. I don't have the list. Now, what, in terms of the brewing, what are we intending to do with that? Erm... We're looking to do something with it. He's going to try and determine origin.
00:21:47
Speaker
Okay, to begin with, this is clearly something very unusual. I don't think it would be something that Folly would have seen before, so he's going for origin. Okay, so we're going to work through this as a full brew. Yeah.
00:22:01
Speaker
We've got the four qualities that would be necessitated to make this up. Even though you're not making a potion, you are making a section which will be tested. So this will go through the four stages of preparation of materials, measuring and mixing, brewing and simmering, and testing and refining. That's history, sleight of hand, I can't survive it well for the four stages of the brewing process.
00:22:21
Speaker
Thank you. As I'm considering this, an unknown substance is a tier one, so it's a DC of 13 for each of these to pass. So, four in a row, we've got your first-year preparation materials. Could you give me a rule of history, please? A rule of history, whether.
00:22:35
Speaker
That's 15. 15. You look deep into this as you start to take away a section and put it onto a smaller tray. You notice the way and the viscosity of it is similar to those that you recognize in your future. Sorry, you've recognized things of this viscosity in your past, okay? Your next is your mixing and measuring, which is a sleight of hand. 11.
00:23:06
Speaker
for the second time. You're, as I put this into a smaller tea tree dish, petri dish even, to examine in closer detail, as you're moving over, the light is obscured by the darkness slightly and you tip and some of it falls out onto the table. Blast, you said yourself, as you wipe it away as it's now being ruined. But there's still a little bit left of the material still on your petri dish. You're now onto the brewing and simmering with a slightly smaller amount though, so could you give me a roll of Akana please?
00:23:37
Speaker
As it continues to brew and simmer through some of the test tubes you've set up, you notice a few elements of it that are similar to that of the black ichor you received from some of the undead. You can make the assumption from this at the moment that this shares some kind of worldly quality in which evilness
00:24:12
Speaker
is this strong smelling, vile, piercing, kind of burn the hairs out of your nose smell. In essence, it's a form of necrotic that you're smelling, but you wouldn't necessarily know that that's a kind of matter. That's the kind of thing I'm going for here. The final stage is a testing and refining stage. Could you give me a survival check, please? 12.
00:24:35
Speaker
You finally take this liquid off the boil and pour it into a smaller cooled, previously cooled test tube with a series of liquids you purposely have stocked up in order to test the qualities and the elements of a, think of it like a pH balance test, you put it in and it gives you a colour, that's what you've done but with a series of liquids here. As you pour it in though,
00:24:58
Speaker
you realise the amount of testing liquid you poured in is incorrect and so it instantly ruins the rest of the experiment. You're unable to refine and understand anything more about it past what you've currently done. Thank you for being my very first ever person to run through the force ages to stop magic brewing.
00:25:15
Speaker
I'm all the welcome. And not blows up. And not blows up. That's the reason I moved 15 feet away. As you kind of come to when you realise that something's not quite gone right but that it's raised some very interesting questions in your mind regarding the liquid that Robin has handed you. You haven't used all of it by any sense. You've used a very small couple of mil of it. You've still got probably about 50 mil of this left. If you're very careful to use small amounts given
00:25:39
Speaker
your propensity for violence and the effect that stock magic and your mind of a chemistry set seems to sometimes have you very aware of that and so you were very careful with the amount you used. At the minute I'm the only one who knows he's got that vial. Yes. So I would have seen you go and I would have followed you and I would just be stood at a distance watching you. Could you give me a stealth check? I rolled one. I was thinking you would answer it. I got a 10 plus 9, 19. 19, could you give me a perception
00:26:09
Speaker
Mmm, that is atrocious. Take your passive if it's higher. I will use my passive 10. God, fuck it. You should really add this, I'll take my passive 10. Okay, you run through this whole thing. What you notice is this small gnome figure is tinkering and teetering with things and methods and vials that you've basically never seen before.
00:26:34
Speaker
despite Folly in his skill challenge making some mistakes, Robin would not have noticed these mistakes as his hands are moving so quickly and the work that he's doing is he's maturing under his breath the whole time as he works interesting interesting as he goes you just see this this gnome in his kind of savant mode in the place in time that he is just
00:26:55
Speaker
in his element, similar to that of many other places you've visited in your past, areas and times, battles mainly for you, where you hit your stride, you hit your element, and you just feel at home. You notice this gnome has a home in this brewing world, in this world of alchemy and of potions, and you see a real sense of joy, but also danger. That's why Robbins followed. He knows that he remembers the Sharni, he remembers how dangerous that thing was, and he knows that
00:27:23
Speaker
A necessary evil is allowing Folly to experiment on that, but Folly's experiments tend to cause bad things to happen. So he's just, he's well away, he's at least 15 feet away, 30 feet away from you, but he's just keeping an eye. Okay, he brings it to his end and you notice him start to pack up his belongings. You realise he's come to the end of his experiment and nothing of real danger has come about. I would vanish before he's realised on that. Absolutely, and so you have no recollection that... Yeah, I do not know. Has Robin come back?
00:27:53
Speaker
Elvish is perhaps going to say, you should get down to rest, Robin, otherwise... you'll be waking up soon for watch. Get the rest while you can. I'll retire Elvish. I'll take the last watch. I would suggest asking Claude or Folly to take the intermittent watches in between. I'll glance over towards the cart and go, I wouldn't disturb him, but I'll keep an eye on Draghi.
00:28:24
Speaker
And I'll go to sleep. Okay. And as everyone slowly teeters off to sleep, Eretith has gone down for the night quite early on, Tally next to her. Claude has broken sleep where you hear him muttering about the second coming of his death.
00:28:42
Speaker
Shit myself, every now and then you hear those words. Folly finds a comfortable spot and probably just leans against his backpack, I imagine. He doesn't actually go full recline, he just sits back and leans on his giant... No, that's just the way I imagine you sleep. It all very much like I had a picture of him sleeping on top of the backpack, even better.
00:29:00
Speaker
Even better, that's fucking brilliant. And he pulls out a tiny little blanket and everything just lies on top of him. Oh fuck me, I need this made on like a t-shirt or some kind of canvas because that is just, somebody's really cute. It shouldn't be, but it is. We start to bring the night to a close.
Drago's Vision and Akiva's Offer
00:29:17
Speaker
Could I please ask for everyone to leave the table? Except Robert.
00:29:38
Speaker
You're lying on your back. You can feel the blades of grass around your body, but your eyes have gone dark. You hear the humming, like the sound of a thousand bees surrounding your head as your world begins to spin.
00:30:01
Speaker
You feel dizzy, but stationary, almost like a heavy night of ale drinking has caused this. But you're cogent. You're in control. Yet strangely not. As memories run through your head of what has happened in the previous few seconds, the image of this bear in your hand, the image of these snake-like wreaths of shadow making their way within the eye of it, and then you've fallen back.
00:30:32
Speaker
you get a sense of sinking slowly at first the pace quickens and quickens and quickens until you feel like you are in free fall down and down wind rushing past you faster and faster and faster until all of a sudden you're just held in the air
00:31:01
Speaker
by no point in particular, but you feel very clearly that the air has stopped moving around you. And there's silence, but not like the silence of the forest, but silence as in you can hear your own dragon heart pounding in your chest. You can hear your breathing clearly. You can move your arms and legs as you reach for your sword, your trusted sword that would usually be on your back, there's nothing there.
00:31:31
Speaker
You reach down to your patch on your side and there is nothing there. You seem bereft of your belongings. As your eyes open, you see a series of images spark into your head. Images of your past. Images you have seen before. And images that remind you of visions that have been shown to you.
00:32:02
Speaker
You see the image of a forest and a tall black figure standing over it. Quickly that disappears. You see the image of a grass green hill with a stone-like tooth sticking out of it, which disappears very fast. You see the image of soldiers dressed in black and the freezing depths of winter. This image disappears very fast.
00:32:32
Speaker
You see a boat and a crew, and a woman turns and smiles to you as she is staring in front of the ship. That image disappears. As you rub your eyes to clear these visions from your mind, your eyes open and in front of you, you see the image of a face, a huge face which seems to take up the majority of your vision.
00:33:02
Speaker
You feel like you've seen a face like this before, but this face seems older than a face you've seen previously. In your past, you're only seeing a face before being transported to the Austrian islands, a face that looked at you at the party. It seems similar to that.
00:33:22
Speaker
in terms of size, in terms of stature, in terms of the feeling of dread and awe and wonder and hatred and love and all emotions that seem to pour through a mortal being seeing something otherworldly. The lids of these eyes open and these jet black pupils seem to dilate and then focus down on you and aid. A look of intrigue comes across the face. The lips part.
00:33:56
Speaker
And the mouth begins to move, saying, blessed by a Kiva, enlightened by the forces below. Drago, you are offered a purpose. Blessed am I.
00:34:27
Speaker
How blessed one of my colleagues in the realm of Eryth, an executioner by trade. He blessed you with my might. Is Akiva wrong?
00:35:00
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You dislike gods. True. Yes. You distrust gods. True. Yes. This is why too many gods walk the plains.
00:35:30
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My purpose is simple. Keep the dead dead. I do not ask for offerings or blessings. I need help controlling the gods. You, Drago,
00:36:00
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Ah, not from this realm. You distrust us, and you are untarnished by the gods of Erith. You are the perfect person to aid us in the Blight and beyond. Did you start the Blight?
00:36:34
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But their life or real life is my responsibility. They are the souls that belong with me. I do not take sides in war, not in the wars of mortals at least. I was betrayed.
00:37:03
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and the souls have escaped and burst through, ripped through the seams of time itself, causing rifts miles wide upon the mortal plane. These must be shut. Gods work by followings. With these millions of souls under my care,
00:37:33
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I could keep them controlled. I could keep them here. But the further they travel from me, the less followers I have, and the weaker myself and Tristan become.
00:38:00
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makes you think I need your help. I can offer you aid in other ways, Drago the Dragonborn. All I ask in return is that you become a follower of Akiva.
00:38:26
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I will not ask you to do anything you are not doing already. I don't follow gods, and I don't expect you to. But know that my presence with you will aid you and your abilities as a fighter. Claude, as you know him, chooses to follow
00:38:58
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this is not a propensity of my followers this is Claude you are free to live and function as you will as long as your path is true to keeping the dead dead
00:39:20
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That is all I ask of you, Drago, with no predilections, no lies. I have told you clearly all I am. I've seen the power of the undead. I've seen the swarm of the armies.
00:39:53
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and that I might not possess myself. Are you saying that you would be able to grant me that power? My powers are limited. As my followers fall, my power falls. I do not have the following of Teriani or Illido. What I can imbue upon you is a knowledge
00:40:23
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and a training. I offer you this Drago. Stay with me for some time here. Let me train you and fill you with the knowledge of the eternal plane and you may yet become
00:40:55
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Only the undead. Is that clear? Understood, Drago. I am not going to force people to follow you either. Is that clear? Understood, Drago. I will not stand in a street and act like one of your tools preaching your name to passers-by. Is that
00:41:29
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To understand this, I will aid this world. I will bring about the end of the Blight. But I want to go home after. Our ability to move among realms is limited.
00:41:56
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My brother Thresdan brought you here. The figure of eternal suffering you have seen many times in your past, Drago. The hanging man. His brash and brazen curiosity with the mortals of the Sword Coast infuriates me. But he does it out of a place of goodness and hope.
00:42:23
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He has all but expended for now our use of realm travel. Three STEM brought us here. Correct. Why? For me, to aid me in ending the Blight. He looked across the eleven kingdoms of Eryth and saw nothing but end fighting. Leagues of people.
00:42:51
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busy fighting with our own politics, their own world view, their own small-mindedness to understand the bigger picture, Thrace Dan realised that if we were to claw back some semblance of control over the undead that were amounting and erupting into this world, we needed outsiders, people uncorrupted by the politics of Erith. And upon watching your battle with Vasharni,
00:43:27
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made you decide you gods to tear me and my friends away from our homes this is why I don't trust gods you play with us like we're toys in a bigger game like we don't have a choice you see why I don't
00:43:58
Speaker
I see your distrust, Drago, son of Dangan. I understand, but know that not all gods share the same view of mortals. Know this also, Eryth is between you and me.
00:44:28
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Faerun is but one mortal realm. When Eryth falls, where do you think the undead will go next? They will spread across this realm and all realms until they have consumed all. This is the epicentre of their entrance to this realm. To the mortal realm. We did it
00:44:57
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out of love for mortals. We did it out of our necessity. Understand this drug with him without myself and my brother. Souls would wander aimlessly across the lands. Battlefields would be awash with ghosts, ghasts looking for corpses to imbue.
00:45:22
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Mortal realms were becoming living nightmare with souls passing seamlessly from corpse to corpse only to fall, only to reform, to fall yet again. Souls need rest. Myself and my brother Thresdan offer that. I believe unlike some other gods, we offer a purpose to mortals. Not as a plaything for us to show off our egotism and our power.
00:45:52
Speaker
Do not lose your distrust, Drago. It is what sets you apart from the people of Eryth. Savor it, and do not let your training and your newfound powers affect you in any way other than fighting back the Blight. And if indeed you fight back the Blight, maybe then we will talk further about returning you to your home. And my comrades.
00:46:27
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you have my sword, but you do not have my soul." And the face of Akiva nods to you and says, and Akiva did grant unto the holder great power and knowledge verily did they accept, but mortal minds have mortal
00:46:56
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of the deception of gods. With that, the vision of the face slowly fades away and in a much more relaxed, calm, blended sense, you return back to the mortal plane. You return back to lying face down on the ground and you hear a voice just whispering your head after you as an echo almost travelling up from the eternal plane. When you agree
00:47:25
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to the timing of your training. Speak to me. And the voice leaves, the buzzing leaves your ears as well. And you take a breath and you breathe in the sudden air, the solemn air of the forest yet again as you realize you're lying on your back, staring at this bear next to the cart and it's dark and you can hear the noise by the fire and you can hear the noise of Claude screaming
00:47:54
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I don't want to die, I don't want to die. And you know that everything's fine in your back, where you belong. Okay? Holy shit.
Robin and Talia's Growing Trust
00:48:06
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The majority of the night passes without much of a problem. The forest retains its silence and its stillness. It comes to the final watch, which involves Robin and...
00:48:17
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Tarly, as fragrant, it's like Claude takes the previous watch, he wakes up Robin, Robin stirs and wakes Tarly. She wakes up remembering the words of which Robin said and kind of takes your lead, follows, sorry, follows your lead, Robin. We'll need to move outside for this, I hope the weather's okay. Step outside, the weather seems absolutely fine, it's quite a still night. Could you bring your spell book? I now wish to look at it.
00:48:48
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I don't really want to get what you're doing, but I'm with you. I trust you. As we get outside, I take in the evening air, still keeping away from the car. I know enough to know that
00:49:01
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This is Dariel character for Drago and when to leave, less sleeping dogs lie. So still well clear of that. I take a small brass braver out of the bag of holding and then they see here and I go through and I find some of the ingredients that I bought before from my curious little gnome friend who I managed to fleece. A lot of ingredients. And I take some charcoal.
00:49:24
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I take some incense. This is why we need to move outside. I think this stuff may smell better. I think it will. And I throw in some herbs. And I just... I need to set this on fire. Would you mind? Of course. She leans over and casts bonfire. The smells start to aromatically pour out of this container. Well then. Smells nice. Well now we're wet.
00:49:49
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and I take a broken arrow, one of my arrows that is broken and I'm just putting that through my hands and I have two
00:49:56
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kind of like granite stones that I'm just running through my fingers. And I just turn to Talia and I say, I'm truly sorry if I upset you. It wasn't my intent. No, that's all fine Robin. We agreed to move past it and I'm happy to. You're going to kill her aren't you? No, I'm not going to kill her. I'm going to get killed. Sorry about this. You bastard. I say to her, I go, your father, do you miss him?
00:50:27
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Yes, of course I do. More and more, the further away we get. Here he is! I was an orphan myself as a boy, along with my sister, I am. I've always felt the sore point to bring it up, but I am truly sorry, Talia, that you were either estranged to him or lost him, I've never questioned.
00:50:55
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the nature of it and I don't expect you to tell me unless you wish to but um... well I'm sorry I'm sorry too for your loss of family I understand you lost a few people but yeah I I went through some loss at quite a young age actually as a child
00:51:27
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I, uh... Not the moment. It's a funny thing, Talia. I have a sister your age. I'm not, please don't think I'm comparing you to her, but she's a half-elf and it's a strange thing to think, well, to know that she's going to be on this Earth a lot longer than I am.
00:51:54
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as you probably have heard from Elsie many times they live for quite a few years and even with half blood she'll live to be 200 maybe even more I don't know I always imagined that I would be in control of that day when when she would have to go out into the world on her own and fate has put her in this place and I don't necessarily want to be here either I know
00:52:24
Speaker
that it's hard for you that you probably don't wish to be here. I can sense that, I can see it in you. But, um... You're not like that. And I appreciate that, and... you talk about being thrust out on your own and have to fend for yourself, but... that doesn't feel that way for me here. That happened years ago for me. Is it? I've had to fend for myself for quite some time now, from...
00:52:53
Speaker
If it's any consolation time, you're talking to a man whose voice, the weapons he uses, the life he's lived, the name, it all comes from the desire to be a hero in a storybook. I don't even really actually remember who Dustin Fogg is anymore, so...
00:53:24
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I forget. A lot of shit goes on if you haven't. Doesn't have quite the same mystique as Robin. True. I take a book out of the bag of holding and I go, this was something my mother gave me many, many years ago. But it's something that I always knew that journeys between planes was possible. And the book, as she looks at it, it says, The Adventures of Robin Hood and His Men and Men. And I say to her, it's stupid really, but...
00:53:51
Speaker
I don't know, growing up in that forest and becoming him and learning to use a bow, I don't know. It made me feel like I was someone for the first time. I guess what travelling with these people has been and leaving that life has made me realise that perhaps, perhaps I need to
00:54:16
Speaker
try and reconfigure what and who Dustin Fogg is before it's too late. And I don't know. Maybe all we've got to hope for is that we can ensure that we protect those we love. And I don't know if your father's still alive. I don't know your circumstances and you don't wish to talk about it.
00:54:39
Speaker
I'm starting to trust the people we're with. We've been mediocre in Drago. We've been together for over a year now, and even the others. At Foley, we would have died, and I believe more about him. I sometimes think Claudia would pretend to be stupid or is stupid, but one thing I do know about him is
00:55:07
Speaker
the power he wields is real. I felt it in fights. I don't know if it's luck or some form of divine blessing, but he wields the power and he serves the power beyond the comprehension of us. I think we're a family, Talia. I guess that's what I'm trying to say. Maybe somewhere in this dysfunctional
00:55:35
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In a strange way, I think Robin, I think you're right. And I think families do share. She reaches down to her side satchel and pulls out the large book, seems oversized to her in her hands, her small teenage hands, pulls out her father's book of spells. She stares at the cover and lovingly rubs her hand across the front of it.
00:56:02
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Rowan, you've always had an interest in this book and in the spells and it's only right if you've given me a book of your family that I lend you a book of mine. She tentatively lifts this heavy time and passes it over to you. Take your time with it.
00:56:19
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For now, my brain is full. I'm not going to learn much else, but just be careful with it, will you? She gives you a knowing nod and starts to walk back to the camp and settles down. Robin, as you look at the cover of this book, you see quite clearly as you rub your hands across the front of it and clear away some of the dust, the name Icewind, across the very top of it. You realize that you already know her surname is Icewind Tarly, Icewind.
00:56:48
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As your hand moves down, you rub the bottom portion of the book, you make out words of his propensity as a spellcaster, his position as an important person in society. Turning the first page, you see some information, a biography almost, about Iceland.
00:57:06
Speaker
You hear about his work and his time in the Sword Coast, working closely with the major cities to aid in the understanding and control of magic. You know that a jail was named after him. Right at the bottom, you hear that in the later days, once his career was over and he wanted to live out the rest of his life quietly with his family, he returned home.
00:57:36
Speaker
to the town of Chena. That's all the information you see from that and the next few pages you see are pages of information about country spells that slowly move up and up and up and the further through this book you get the more you realise that he starts to get older and older and his sight starts to fade up until you get into your 8th amount of little
00:58:12
Speaker
the book and I start to process the word chenna I've heard that before I start to think about the power of this book and the comprehension
00:58:22
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And, candidly, Robin knows he will never understand the power in this book, and if that's hardly a cat, I don't even think Folly would. It's a different form of spellcasting, my friend, wizardry and sorcery. Just for the mic, Callum was in the background. I would point to you immediately. Hey, give me the book! Give me the book! Yeah, I'm gonna guide that book. Completely different form of spellcasting. As I all of a sudden snap back from the book, I take a look at the broken arrow and the stones in my fingers,
00:58:53
Speaker
and I realise the arrow is no longer broken. I have unwittingly cast mending on the arrow. Has it been about an hour at this point? It's like you've been a while kind of perusing through the book. It's a very very large book and so you're taking your time over it. The embers start to burn low in the cauldron that I've set up and unbeknownst to me I look up
00:59:16
Speaker
And I see, is the sun starting to rise yet? As the sun then kind of comes over the horizon, starts to peep through, I notice what looks like a hawk on the end of a tree budge. And Robin gets up very slowly.
00:59:39
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It's me, and he holds out his hand, and this hawk descends from the tree branch and lands on Robin's hand. I know I'm not the one you were expecting, and it's been a very long time. It's a brave new world, my girl, and I start to stroke this hawk.
01:00:05
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And with that, I give a snap of my fingers and the hawk appears on my shoulder. Robin's quite emotional at this. You don't eat things because you're a fave, but remember correctly, mother used to... And he closes his eyes and brings his hands together and the hawk disappears. And as he brings them out again,
01:00:37
Speaker
the hawk has been summoned into a pocket plane, which Robin can control. To bring newer, his mother's familiar to and from this world of existence, he is cast found familiar for the first time. And as I do that, I do one final thing, thinking if this is work, then something else must have started to happen. I see a twig, anything really, that could be picked up.
01:01:07
Speaker
My fingers come round, and when Folly did this, a blue hand comes out. Nothing seems to happen at first. But the twig is lifted off the ground. And the stunned swipe is brought into Robin's hand. And I take one last look at the spell book, wondering what on earth is this fully awakened within him. That would be what I do on my watch. And as the rest of the
01:01:36
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and wake up, I assume you kind of put another way, but he rides quite quickly and make their way away from this tree line back to the cart where Drago is awaiting you, awake and sober if I want to
Arrival at Evershire
01:01:52
Speaker
waiting there on the cart for your arrival as you come back over. You've packed up camp and you've made your way over as a collective towards him. The new day brings another, not the new day, new day! Different new day. The new day baby brings with it another thin film of rain which seeps through the browned and burnt out leaves of the Shadowview Forest. You come across Drago there and stop by the cart. Elphie, you're probably out first leading the way.
01:02:18
Speaker
Good night's rest. I thought you were the forms! Hey! Just comes strolling out of the air. And good night's rest. Drago? You should have joined us at the fire. We've shared the watches. Someone had to look after the car. My alarm was given to do that. It's fine. Yes, good night's rest. Okay. I've got a thing untoward happening, I assume.
01:02:47
Speaker
The car's still here, isn't it? Yes. As am I. Yes, the car is still there. The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car's still here? The car
01:03:12
Speaker
Bye. It's my cart now, you fools. Yeah, she goes. So, no, the cart's still there, it's still there, you've re-attached the horses too, we're probably resting off to the side as well. And you continue your journey through the trees, Ereteth slowly talking through some of the other things, knick-knacks and things that she's seen across the years over at Moonrise as well. And eventually there's a break in the trees.
01:03:34
Speaker
As sunlight finally breaks through, you feel warmth on your face as the rain has surpassed for the first time in what seems like forever you feel the touch of the sun. As your eyes follow the path, you see not far in the distance the outline of a large town. Its walls not dissimilar to that of Bleakmore, but the high towers stand in guard in each of the corners of the walls.
01:03:56
Speaker
There's more life here. You can see lines of trade carts leading in to and from the town. It sits in a slightly sunken area of land, which seems to have been partially cleared. Claude, could you not take a wee jury? I'm sorry, I followed by the butterfly again. It sits in a slightly sunken area of land, which seems to have been partially cleared out from the Shadowview Forest.
01:04:24
Speaker
You can see actually from your height, over the walls, into the city slightly. You can see taller buildings. You hear the bustle of life. You're about one hour from the sun's bothered town of Evershire.
01:04:38
Speaker
ever Shire, or as Eretith jokes, never Shire. This town is the next major settlement east of Highhaven, the next closest to fall when the Blight push west. Its high, thick, well-manned walls seem out of place for the size and stature of the town it holds. As you approach the path leading to its northern gate, you notice long trenches dug, sharpened sticks pointing out at
01:05:02
Speaker
angles to repel oncoming forces. Many are broken. Some seem new. It seems Evershire has had its fair share of attacks in the recent months. As you start to approach, the gate opens and through riders and hailstorm surge armour ride out to meet you. They march out at a fast pace and pull up just in front of you, stopping the cart and looking at each of you.
01:05:27
Speaker
You there. What business do you have in Evershire? We are here under the by command of Gilda Arkward of the Hailstorm Academy. I will stand up and reveal my tabard to them. Madame Arkward sent these supplies from Bleakmore to be repaired. I can like see that they are and all through them right back off. Yes sir. They say nothing after that and just right off.
01:05:54
Speaker
As you start to enter the northern gate, you pass a number of small huts on the outskirts of time. These seem to be some kind of temporary shelters. The path turns from mudded soil to hard cobblestones as the cart rumbles under the imposing gates of Evershire. The guards do not move from their posts, their helmets obscuring their emotions and their eyes. Their armour is not clean. There seems to be more important tasks than cleaning around here.
01:06:22
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The architecture of this town strikes a similar tone to that of Bleakmore. The buildings seem stacked wider the higher up they go, with white panels and light brown wooden beams adorning the pillars and posts of the buildings you pass. From the civilians you see, you notice a variety of races walking in and amongst one another. Most of the more exotic races seem to be hailstorm surge members.
01:06:49
Speaker
The cobblestones are mudded with footfall as you make your way to the centre of town into a central square. You see a large Tudor-esque building behind you with a pair of guards stationed outside. You notice an array of shops in the very centre of town but none of notes on your way through.
01:07:04
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The populace bustle around you as you sense a real feeling of melancholic nihilism in the air people seem content with that part in the world, but there's a real awareness that their Time here is limited you ever hear bits of conversation So fun when the like to win or can you pick my grave now for God's sakes or such like? as you enter the central Square as a large statue standing in the center a weathered bronze
01:07:35
Speaker
character poses on a plinth which holds the name at the bottom, King Leopold Sleekguard II. There's a question mark etched after the word Sleekguard. Moving around the back of the statue of a grand human with a stern expression holding a great sword high in the air, you see scratched into the back of the statue plinth when the wind blows, the kingdoms crumble.
01:08:06
Speaker
A lot of the guards have changed since you were last there. You don't seem to recognise most people, but there's a familiarity to it as you move on. Are there guards wearing hailstorm tabards? Or is it just the outriders that we just met?
01:08:20
Speaker
There is a collection of either Hailstorm Surge members within and then the Town Guard. The Hailstorm Surge members seem to either be on duty as members of the Town Guard stationed there or indeed are stopping by to move on through. You can see some that are very much dressed for service, some that are dressed for travel.
01:08:42
Speaker
Does it notice the difference between the two? Would you say the ratio is 1 to 1 of Timeguard to Hailstorm? Or is it more Hailstorm? There is more Hailstorm than there is Timeguard. There is a limited Timeguard presence. You can understand that most of you have to realise that it's been bolstered by the Hailstorm surge members. Sure. You're still in the middle of the square.
01:09:01
Speaker
What would you like to do? Sorry. Drago and me, me and Drago. Drago looks down at the plinth in the words etched into it. When the winds blow, the towns... The king has crumbled. He reads it out loud. Haven't we heard those words? Those are the words that Threestan spoke to us when we travelled here.
01:09:25
Speaker
those were words we heard follow uh seek the orders of whisperers or whispers uh and then those words were followed in something about the 11 kingdoms so and those words inscribed or they graffitied graffitied and the question mark was graffitied graffitied or etched in with a knife right god why would there be a question mark next to the team today i don't know but i don't like it i'll jump down off the cart go straight to the uh
01:09:53
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straight into the statue and I will begin making remedies to remove the question mark and turn it more into an exclamation mark by chiseling it at certain points and things like that. Give me slight of hand. Slight of hand, yeah. What are you talking about engraving? You sounded like folly when you said that. Just like yeah sure why not. No I want to make you work for it man. Bear with, do you have skills in metalworking?
01:10:22
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No, I'm just going to scratch it out of my bag while he's doing that. I'm looking round for the side of the hammer and breastplate. Do you know, what did you offer it? 17.
Exploring Evershire and Meeting Copper Kettle
01:10:34
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Yeah, you managed to very easily make it into almost a comical exclamation mark afterwards, making it seem more like a vote of confidence rather than a vote of passion. Straight after that, I'm sure why it's been defaced.
01:10:49
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but upset at the fact that someone has tampered with a statue of the king, I'll begin to sort of go around filing off bird poo, like polishing the statue as, say, almost like, people need to take care of this, this is an important person in our kingdom. As you start to do that, you notice it seems to have been left into some disrepair. People seem to have not cleaned it as often as you would expect it if it had been, say, in the capital. Okay.
01:11:16
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But yeah, I'll spend some time cleaning in a quite emotional state that has been left like this. Whilst he's doing that, I see a nurse if you're looking, as Elvis said, versus Aaron. Supply is gone then, have they taken us?
01:11:30
Speaker
You're looking for the hammer, but that's where they need to go, the hammer of God's plate. Don't worry, I've got the quest-love open, I wish you hadn't. Where's that highlighted light? Thank you very much. Yes, I follow it. So that's really weird. As you said, where's the highlighted light? That all being done. And I was like, Folly, what's going on? The badge of you know. And yes, we've outfitted with that. You follow, right, if you're kind of watching what Claude is doing, as he works right into the back side of the statue where the plinth is etched in with where the kingdom's
01:12:01
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How tall is the statue compared to Claude? If Claude is stood at full hunchback, the top of his head reaches the top of the plinth and then the feet of the statue and then it's probably another six, seven, eight feet above that. He seems to have been made
01:12:20
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bigger than a normal human in some regard. You would probably see this as just the size proportions that kings would say to make people, to make them look grander, to make them look bigger, the same way that his arms and legs and veins seem to belong.
01:12:34
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is how Drago stands. Where's the statue compared to my head? You're probably looking directly at his calves. So Claude's like six foot with the hunch. So you're a bit of a touristy. Yeah, just a bit of a plinth height. Yeah, kind of ankle to calf height around there in terms of how high up he is. So it's quite a large imposing statue. Claude. Yeah. You're not going to be able to get rid of everything. This man was the master before the master.
01:13:04
Speaker
Father, is there any... He's the only thing I've known what was a father. I will make sure his statue is clean. What is Claude using to clean?
01:13:14
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It will be a variety of broken fragments of weaponry. It's like chiseling, like scraping off shit. Right, okay. Yeah, sharp implements basically. Grind stones and things like that. Okay, just to clear off more of the bird shit that's on it, Folly will cast Mage Hand, go into the backpack, just pull out a Bragg kind of thing and then send it up top so we can kind of start off at the top and work its way down. Near my bay.
01:13:42
Speaker
I got you back. While they're doing a Fantasia routine. No, no, that's different to that. I kind of think between us, like we can do something like our children with our mage hand. Have you got mage hand too? We've got to be. Oh no, I don't know. We could literally fire you or bear without anyone being around it. Anyway. Do we see the... Because there was two and told us in the middle of the...
01:14:12
Speaker
Um, town, didn't we? Yeah. Also, er... Eratith, I believe you said your cousin lived near here. Yes, he does. He forgot you were here. You should probably go and find them. I hope you try and get some semblance of formality in your life. Thank you. And to all of you, thank you very much for taking
01:14:47
Speaker
You can find us at the Camel if you want to chat. Yeah, I'll see you there if I need to. But before I go, I wanted to give you something. It's not worth much to me anymore because I don't... don't care. You can hold on to it, Drago. And she pulls a tiny little hand out and wants to hand something to you. Right. And she... Drago just puts his hand underneath. Not touching the hand. Underneath the hand so she can drop it. She drops a single silver piece into your hand.
01:15:16
Speaker
I don't need it anymore because I don't... I just want to say thank you. And then she's gone and started walking off. Not listening. As she goes, I take 20 gold pieces, I put them into the invisible mayhem and I'm just going to slip it into her.
01:15:36
Speaker
She is like, she is like Richard that, she could live that. She hasn't noticed. I rolled against her. No, no, no. To be honest, you've got to be your stealth pretty much, wouldn't you?
01:15:51
Speaker
I'm on my side, I hand for plus 30. As I'm watching her go, do I see any of this? It's invisible. I don't see gold travelling in Nudeir. I've got to say, the hand's invisible, so will the gold not be visible? Let me check. Have a check of that. I'm going to notice invisible gold. Yeah, I'm going to give you the gold. I'm age average, back here. You will literally see a bag of money or money. Let me check the mate's home legend. What was meant to look up?
01:16:19
Speaker
The second she's turned around, and you're still in very close quarters, you've almost like have had a bit pocketed it into... Instead of it zipping across the square, you've just made chances of it into a pocket a couple of feet rather than... No one would have seen the sheer act of this poor lady giving all she has, and with just a sense.
01:16:42
Speaker
It appears in her pocket almost as if you slighted handed it. Cool, cool, cool. I was just calling out gold, travelling across. Absolutely. So I don't mean to do it in the close quarters rather than that, but it would be... I would say if you try and send it a long distance, we would... We'd see it. That's fine. I'm going to say you catch it quick enough to understand what she's doing and you put the money in it. It's good to understand now how we're saying the word your name works. Yeah. So... Um, try going pockets to silver with a... Whilst cleaning the statue and everyone's around sort of looking at the surroundings, I'll just...
01:17:12
Speaker
Alfie? Yes? Something's not right here. In what way? Would you do me a favour and promise it? OK. Don't kick anyone. I promise not to kick anyone, you nut ass. Don't hurt anyone, please. OK. It doesn't feel like the last time I was here.
01:17:40
Speaker
What if Dragov starts kicking people? Oh, look at this thing! This is brilliant! Well, Dragov hasn't kicked innocent people, but while I've known him, you have... OK. Well, at least ask me and I'll give you a thumbs-up if I think that person should be kicked. All right. There are some people here who probably could do a good kick-in. Yeah, well, Alfie, kick your feet to yourself. I won't... Just my feet. I won't make you do an egg dance here. If that helps. Sorry, when did you kick someone?
01:18:09
Speaker
It's fine, it's... You're in a book, I told you about it. When you were in your holiday house, um... All fear for it appropriate to kick a man in a well. He was raving about how the undead were our friends. But he thought it appropriate to kick a man in a well. Before we questioned him. Yeah. I mean, you did get your question in a better... And you want to take his clothes off and do an eggnog. True.
01:18:30
Speaker
I'm very confused right now. So there was a there was a foolish joke about blessing eggs and being naked and essentially I decided not to play along. As the only woman I'm glad that Illfield didn't take power actually. Didn't we think about the innkeep in that town we were in? We could not leave more clay peaks. He seemed
01:18:55
Speaker
I couldn't believe anything that Drago told him. Aye, especially when you're a member of the Sleigh Guard Academy like Claude was. You'd do anything. Bradon is my friend. I think he was going along with a joke I created. I'm not too sure about that. He's probably telling everyone about that ink blessing thing now. But please, no.
01:19:14
Speaker
No kicking people here. It doesn't feel like it felt the last time I was here with the king. I will promise not to kick people. As you look around the camp, you look around the town, taking in the people that you see there, the busyness of work, you do notice a sign hanging across from the square, from the opposite side to the south of the square. A sign that reads the hammer and breastplate with the door open at the front.
01:19:43
Speaker
Because they've been like, well, I've been looking at this while they were polishing. Yeah. I'm assuming Drago and Folly are still on the cart at this point. You are? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to say. I've kind of stuck my hand at the moment though, yeah. All right, you killed it. We're going over to the Hammond and Press pre when you're free.
01:20:00
Speaker
I will take the carp and get it repaired. I kind of need the carp right now but yes afterwards absolutely. I imagine it's probably due to go to the hammer and brush plate as the blacksmith's in. Probably where it's got to get repaired as well yeah. Yeah okay let's take it. Are you going to jump on? No I'll lift. If I'm on there it's going to add excess weight.
01:20:23
Speaker
As you take the car across the 20 metres, pretty much, to the doorway, you notice there is a single large arched doorway with a large wooden door that is hanging open to the hammer and breast. How wide is it? Can we drive the car in or is it just walking? It's a walking entrance, there are some steps up to it, but off to the right of it you notice a larger, almost garage-esque entrance.
01:20:46
Speaker
shares a similar curvature to it which is triple quadruple the size which is big enough to fit a card down it. I'd go in the front door. As you enter through the front door you see packed on sides stacks and stacks of used weaponry.
01:21:04
Speaker
You can see piles and piles of similar looking sleep guard swords, spears, arrows piled up, broken arrows, broken tips of spears, broken slings, broken slingshots all around this place in the front half of the shot. You can just hear the shouts of fuck, god dammit, god for fuck's sake.
01:21:26
Speaker
I'm trying to do distance as well in my voice. Is there anyone in the main area? You can't see anyone but there is like a small plume of smoke kind of pouring out following the standard voice as you as you travel back drago and follow you take the cart into the side and Claude apologies you come into what seems like almost a back garden and
01:21:52
Speaker
There's a door to your left which seems to be kind of hip-hyped perfect for handling supplies onto it and you can see into this area stacks and stacks of boxes very similar to the ones you have already, you have on the back of your cart. In front of you there you see a weird selection of herbs and spices that seem to be growing in pots and plants and an area of grass but seems quite different to that of the most, the majority of, um, Evishar that you've entered so far. Delivery!
01:22:18
Speaker
And in the voice, you also hear the same similar voice, stop. And I'll tell you, you hear a stop as well.
01:22:23
Speaker
and the face pops out of the small door and you notice a very, very dark hair, very, very, wired looking dwarf standing there wearing an apron, nothing underneath it, just not an apron, sorry, like a blacksmith's apron, bare chested apart from that bustling grey chest hair, bursting out of that, huge, uncontrollable, white and kind of salt and pepper beard, and just kind of bits of food stuck in the corner of his mouth.
01:22:55
Speaker
He's taken it and he starts pulling crates off. Are you Copper Kettle? Yes, Copper Kettle by name. Copper Kettle by trade. Okay, Copper Kettle. These crates are from Bleakmore from the academy. They wish for the items to be repaired. Bleakmore? Yes. Do you have...
01:23:19
Speaker
I have two elven ears called Elphir. How did you know? I have a package for him. Are you him? No! Yes, I am. That is him. I'm Elphir. And you point to Drago. You are Elphir. I am, yes. Why not? I assume I've arrived at this point. Because of your deception and you are just hearing this conversation. You can hear Drago go, I know. Typical.
01:23:45
Speaker
You have guidance. You can add a default. You've got guidance as well. Why not? Let's do it. And this is why you tell me not to kick people, right? This is why things move really slowly because you want to see all the NPCs. What did you get? And I add deception, don't I? Yeah. He's got no reason to not believe you. 22!
01:24:14
Speaker
Very nice to meet you, Elphir. Thanks. I have a package for you. I'm going to arrive this morning. This is awesome. You arrive on. Good Lord, you're an elf. I believe I'm Elphir. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Get
01:24:35
Speaker
So you're telling me, let me just get something clear. The elf ear is an elf and the drag on is a drago. Thank you. That seems a little too suspect to me. I do not... Thank you. I have been confused for a long time. I do not believe you elf. They are too convoluted a name for me. I believe it fits into a stereotype of gender and animal types. I do not believe you. He turns to drago. Elf ear. Yes. I have a package for you. It is from Captain Drillaris.
01:25:10
Speaker
That's nice. Alfie walks off. We like him. Send my regards back to him. Well, you just told me to send some hatred towards him. He pulls up this last large crate. If I were you, I'd be sending more than a thank you letter when he puts it in front of you. And within this crate, as you pull the lid, it pulls back. You see two items within it. At first, you see a
01:25:37
Speaker
A long sword, sticking out, a short sword, sticking out, with a hilt at the top, it's pointing into the corner. It seems to emanate a slightly radial light from it. Leaning against it, you also see a large shield as well, and a note within it that just reads, you never accepted payment from me, please accept this.
01:26:08
Speaker
And what you've found, or what has been gifted to you is the sword Ghoul's Bane, which has a special ability called Purge of the Blight. So if anyone does use that let me know and I'll tell you what it does if you attune to it. The shield as you look at it is also a mirrored shield at the front and you can see etched into the back
01:26:29
Speaker
area of it near where you'd slide your hand across to hold onto it on the leather piece that you'd strap across your left hand you can see etched into the leather bastion which you can take as the name of the sword and again that has a radiant quality to it that with attunement you could learn sorry i thought you said ghouls playing with the name of the sword yes the shield is bastion thank you so just in case you want to know just an hour i can remind you of ghouls being 3d6 plus three
01:27:00
Speaker
On a one-handed short sword. A one-handed short sword and one charge per day of purge of the glider, which is 2 d10 radiant damage. Jesus. Which is one charge per day. Well... Before you get onto that, sorry Ian. Corbastian is a plus 3 to your AC and once per day you can cast Moonbeam. Shield, knife. Wow.
01:27:29
Speaker
Shader will be having so much fun right now. He's tossing and turning in the eternal color. Clor is really not greedy but Danny really wants that shield. So you open up this crate and see these two obviously magical items. They always seem to be emanating light. The box seems light almost from the inside as you open this box up. Is Copper Kell still there? He's kind of wandered off. He's just gone and did his thing. You realise looking into his shop he's got
01:27:58
Speaker
And he's just given you it and just moved straight on. He's simply the only person in this. He's not going to shot. It's more of a factory that he's wanted to take. Is the card on? So do we leave it here? It was bought from our court.
01:28:10
Speaker
Lord, is this our cart? It belongs to the Hailstorm Academy. Your cart, then? We were just meant to drop it here. I didn't ask what was meant to happen with the cart after the cargo was dropped off. Um, Copper Kettle knocked us, reached his head out. No, that's not theirs. That's my cart, so I would rather like it if you leave it there. Fair enough.
01:28:32
Speaker
How are the horses? Are they OK? Ask them. How are you horses? They're not answering. Fuck it. I've been feeding them every day. Thank you. And he's gone, ding, ding, ding, working on a series of arrowheads and short swords as well. It seems that we've received payment from Captain Drallanus. I believe that's the first time you said his name right. Well, when you see what's
01:29:01
Speaker
and I present it to... Who's around? Follies. All of us, I guess. Exactly what Follie has walked off, so everybody else. Now... Follie looks and goes, ooh! Apologies, Follie. I think you're a bit small. Now with clearly little magical items, I can feel the essence. Robin, Claude. I mean, I don't use a short sword. I don't use the shield. Whoa.
01:29:29
Speaker
I like the shiny shield. I quite like the short sword. How convenient. I've had it. I mean, yeah. You're both here to tune into the items at some point. Are you sure? No one's ever given me anything before. He was all the last.
01:29:59
Speaker
And I'm not going to use it. Elthir's a monk, I can't imagine he has much use for a shield and a sword. And I certainly don't have use for a shield and a sword. So, here's your shield. Thank you. And here's your sword. Thank you. Drago, I suppose. I don't have anything to give you. You've given me enough. We need to talk later actually about what you've given me.
01:30:31
Speaker
You can take a pill, it cleans it up in a couple of months. Well it's best to go now Claude, you know this area. Yeah. And where's Alfie here come? As long as he's not kicking people.
01:30:46
Speaker
The last time I was here we... She's found a homeless person's kicking. Son of a bitch. Last time I was here we stayed at the cursed camel. Sometimes it's pronounced cursed.
01:31:02
Speaker
Someone very posh called it the cursed camel. The custard camel? Cursed. I'm still hearing custard. It could be the custard. Aren't we finding Kel-san? I'll just look for the... I was gonna say. I'm painting with a camel on the wooden board outside and then I go to that. Darlie, I assume you didn't want a shield or a sword. I could do with some milk. Where's Kel-san? I, um, I saw the stone as we passed.
01:31:25
Speaker
I don't know all the shops here. I've only been to the place. You literally earlier went, look, there's Kelsan's shop, as we went past. Shall we? Well, I said, look, there's the brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and hammer. Brass and
01:31:55
Speaker
And towards the northern entrance, and you do there see, ironically, a crude wooden sign that says Kelsang's Cartographic Wonders, leaning at an angle of a nondescript house on the corner of the Moonrock Quarter.
Kelsan's Map Offer and Group's Decision
01:32:06
Speaker
Er, cartographer. This'll be interesting. Lends against the wall of this building, lacks a daisically puffing on a long narrow pipe, it's what looks like a man.
01:32:14
Speaker
His dark skin glimmers in the passing sun through the tobacco smoke. His black tailed waistcoat and stained white shirt lies open as his head lifts up to look at you. His light blue eyes look at each of you, up and down. A small smile creeps on his face and his eyes rest on fizzle-ban. How did you get here, Folly? They've been following you. He's been there the whole time. How quick can you walk? Not as quick as you. You need to be a bit slower. Does anyone know where Alfie has gone?
01:32:44
Speaker
I saw him walk off. He said he'll be fine. I went back for the shots and never saw Robin. Hey, just keep my entrance of Kelsan there. I was about to give you his first line. Good, guys. He's there stood, you've literally had this panning shot of Kelsan. And then you've gone, where's Elfet? He's just stood there looking cool as fuck.
01:33:04
Speaker
I'll try again, try again, try again. I just had this image because we left, we've all gone and handed out, obviously we're all of certain size and structure. I still don't get how folly. He walks really quickly. I think he's 25 feet. I think literally like a Pikachu. I'm 25 feet. A hundred thousand steps an hour kind of thing. So in comparison, say you're walking next to me.
01:33:26
Speaker
Yeah. Where's your height? Knee height? My head probably comes just below your actual knee. My rupsack probably comes up to your neck. Yeah. That's perfect. Thank you so much. I thought you were smaller than that. My apologies. No, I'm going to try my introduction to Kelsan again. That's okay. So, Tally, where's the shot?
01:33:47
Speaker
We're outside the fucking shop! Kill sounds right there! What's he lookin' like I can't see? Well, it's interesting you'd ask. His black-tailed waistcoat and stained white shirt lies open as his head lifts up to look at you. His light blue eyes look at each of you up and down. A small smile creeps over his face as his eyes rest on fizzle bang. What the fuck are you looking at? I don't know. Who are you?
01:34:10
Speaker
Who are you in Kelsa? Well, then I'm looking at Kelsa. He points up to his sign. The fuck do you think? It's my shop. I'm here. Well, you need a map. Well, I wouldn't mind what? You're a fucking weird group of people. What are you doing here? Interesting to buy maps. You're in a shop. How weird is it to have people in your shop? Well, do you want to buy a map? Or are you here just to fiddle with my dick?
01:34:37
Speaker
I mean, I don't like this person. Well, no, nor do I. I don't like how small you are, but beggars can't be choosers. No, no, no, we are here to prove your maps. Well, of course, funnily, the voice of reason. You must be the leader of this ragtag group of fuckery.
01:34:56
Speaker
Come on in, and he turns around and Calisthen Boghrojingly lets you into his shop. You notice his badging, two protruding lumps on his back through the waistcoat. He enters the dark dusty wooden floor shop, and almost simultaneously the room seems to light up.
01:35:12
Speaker
Looking over the thousands of rolled up scrolls, the floor to ceiling bookshelves, the candleless chandelier and burnt out candle holders, you see no source of light until you look at Kelsan. A dim amber light seems to ooze off his very skin. Kelsan continues to walk. You now notice that the shop is a single very long corridor with endless books, trinkets and
01:35:32
Speaker
parchment he walks a full minute into the shop before coming to coming across a red winged back chair with arms which he flops himself down over a thin plume of dust escapes making Kelsohn's glow even more prominently well you've got me here now what the fuck do you want we are in the market to look to go into the blind I'll let that hang there before just going
01:35:58
Speaker
What the fuck? I know. But let's just say theoretically, as a drunken vet, we were looking for a map, but didn't know our way through the blight. Would you have such an object? That I do. But my question to you would be, why are you going into the blight?
01:36:17
Speaker
I feel we ascertained that we're not going into the Blight. That's what we are. Well, we are going to go into the Blight, Robin. I seem to believe the man wearing the hailstorm academy... Thank you. ...sigil. If you are going into the Blight... Your friend...
01:36:32
Speaker
Madam Gilder art chord sent us to see you. Friend is a very loose term of praise. Listen asshole we're going into the blight to end it. Asshole now look at that. We need a map to get there. Big boy dragonborn with his big boy balls.
01:36:48
Speaker
you big boy dragon in a minute. What about you Will, young man? Clearly something's been lost in translation here. I thought we would go for the cloak and dagger approach, but apparently we're going to go for the truth approach. We're going to destroy the Blight. Cool, you need two things, the onyx reaver and some book of a celestial being. Right, and how do we get those?
01:37:10
Speaker
I don't fucking know. You need them though, either way. Hey listen, before we get into that though, if you are interested in a map, I've got a pretty rare one. If you're doing me a favour, I'll talk you all through it. You want a favour from us? Yeah, I'll give you a map. It's worth a couple of thousand gold. There's only four of them made. It's a first edition map. Tells you the picture of the entire realm. It's quite a nice little early and worth a couple of grand. Well, we obviously wanted, yeah.
01:37:36
Speaker
We are listening. I can tell from you bunch of weirdos you don't got fucking clue what's going on here so you do me a favor or do you one right those cold rat bastards down here in Moonrock have been fucking with me recently asking me to keep the noise down not swear at every Githy Yankee I see pay my taxes fuck them right
01:37:59
Speaker
They have this little shop around the corner from here, right? You are terrifying, Draggo. Yours is weird looking, points at Claude. I'm not here. You're not there? You're by me. Well, you're just a human, but you've got this little thing going on in your eyes as well.
01:38:16
Speaker
I had to think that I have a charming disposition, but... Well, what thing going on in my eye? I mean, compared to all of us, you are charming. Thank you. You're welcome. Basically, it's simple. Just go scare the shit out of them, rough them up a bit, tell them to leave me the fuck alone, and I'll give you this map of the entire realm. Look, Outwick only made four of these.
01:38:35
Speaker
Yeah, it's an early edition, it's missing a couple of the newer settlements, but it'll do you a damn sight better good than wondering what it looks like, which is randomly and blind around Aerith. To be fair, it would be quite good to know where we are and have a map of the world we're in. I agree. I have a map of the world, why didn't you ever ask? Do you have a map that specifically generates our way through the blight? Do you have a map of? I have a map of Aerith.
01:39:04
Speaker
I turned back to this guy. You're DMs looking at you, confused. Yeah, I turned back to this guy. It's in my inventory, but I don't know when I can do it. You think you can't have it. You've got a Scottish written error. Where Claude says something and there's just this. Where's Elfie? Before turning back I'm going, well, sir, this is your lucky day. We happen to have the master of stirring shit up and frightening people in our presence. Don't we, Dragon?
01:39:39
Speaker
Drago just kind of points himself from head to toe as if to go, well look at me. Yeah, I'd say you're pretty fucking scary. Right, listen. So what are these guys other than... talk about you? What have they done? They've told me to stop swearing and give Yankee.
01:39:59
Speaker
and you just want me to go over there and scare them. Well like you can all go, you're a bit terrifying as a group maybe, and you know, strengthen numbers and all that, apart from a girl, she looks a bit... She's very scary actually. Well I'll keep her out of the way, whatever, but like, just go and like... Mind your tongue.
01:40:14
Speaker
Gonna be like, oh, fuck you! Kelston says, go fuck your mum. And then, I don't know, like, do your dragon thing, you know, where you fucking shout at them or claw with your bitch in hand. Don't kill them, though, cos that's a mess. Right, then this is for a map. Yeah, I'll give you a map, mate. Can you tell me, sorry, where is this map now? Oh, I'm not gonna tell you that, little man, because I feel like you're naked from me. I'm only small, how can I make anything? Because you're small now, I'll keep my eye on you. One thousand, man. You said I'm the least.
01:40:42
Speaker
Scariest thing here. Scary. It's stealthy though. 1000 gold. Miley high price to put on just sending someone to intimidate someone and I will insight check everything that he's just said. Okay, make it. It's that awful high price to put on just scaring someone. Let's find that way. Find out. Wow. I think he's on the level.
01:41:06
Speaker
Yeah, you think he is on the level. Well you also get a sense of though, which I would have told you about the role if you just wanted to get a sense of him. There's something a little chaotic in him. I think you can probably tell that anyway, but he just seems to get grudges.
01:41:22
Speaker
and he sticks to them and you feel like generally this is what he's like and that that generally is what people have said to him stops wearing can you please pay your fair share to help save the town of Evershire from the blight and he's gone fucking pricked tell me what to do fair enough we're going to do this but i want 500 gold now why do you want gold i was going to give you a map oh i thought there was gold no no that's why
01:41:53
Speaker
Can't you make the map we need and we don't have to do it. I don't know where we are, Claude. Oh, and that is important when making maps. If we were in the Sword Coast, I could make a map, but I don't know where we are here. I could tell you a bit about the tree. And maybe me and you could sit down and draw something, but it won't be anywhere near as accurate as that map. I realise the sound of drawing time. Well, how about we save the hide of the crane in the asshole for another day, right? And we could just go and scare the shit out of you guys, right? Just for a little bit.
01:42:26
Speaker
Tell them it's from me. It's like Kel's son says hi or I know something cool like that, right? And then we'll just we'll just leave it and I don't you know, we won't burn anything down unless they really piss us off You know, we'll just we'll just fuck them up a bit, you know, it sounds like you break the law. I look at folly and I just kind of give you a Come on then you show me what
01:42:52
Speaker
And he starts making his way out and goes, turns to you as he's kind of walking backwards out the front door of his shop. And you can quite clearly now see this kind of halo silhouette around his body. Just to make it clear though, I will make things very clear for you if indeed you want to go to the blight. He's going to point into each of the parties he's walking backwards on its reaver. I do know where it is. And he clicks and turns and steps up the door into the blinding sunlight of Evishire.
01:43:18
Speaker
for you to go and intimidate some friends of his. And that is where we're gonna leave it for this slightly long episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop. Thank you very much for listening, everyone. That was a very long episode. I haven't went on so long. We'll find out if Folly got Drago's nod of the head. I don't know if you did. Anyway, thank you very much for listening to us and making us a part of your everyday week. We love you for it. We really do. Really do.
Closing Remarks and Promotions
01:43:42
Speaker
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01:44:16
Speaker
Until next time guys, farewell!
01:44:32
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Hi everyone, this is a special and really quick shoutout to our main man Danny who plays Claude. He's set up his own Etsy page and it's called, funnily enough, Crafts by Claude. He's currently hand making and selling personalised initiative trackers. Each comes with a logo of the character or creature type because you can also have them made for baddies as well.
01:44:49
Speaker
and they can be personalised to include specific character names or, indeed, nicknames if you want them. But wait, I hear you exclaim, where do I put these awesome trackers made by the world's single nicest person? Luckily, they fit perfectly on your DM screen, or in my case, my laptop screen, and we've all been there in the heat of a massive important battle, and you've kind of lost track a little bit about whose turn it is, and the players are all up in your face about who's going next. These are perfect just so everyone knows very clearly who's going in what order. They're super easy to move around to set up,
01:45:19
Speaker
they're not going to get broken they are honestly incredible bit of care we've used them quite a bit on the fellowship at the tabletop and we love them check out his work on Etsy search crafts by Claude