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World of Ae'oene Ep. 10: Mama Bear
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The party reunites after Maeve and Kaldin find...another bear? Are the two related, and who is this new threat lurking in the woods?
This show is intended for mature audiences and contains explicit content.
This episode has the following content warnings: General Violence, Death
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Our cast:
- Curtiss Woosley as the GM
- MJ Guenther as Thalira Grimstone Eku'Lanathi
- Sapheara as Maeve Strongheart
- Rennie Armas as Kaldin
- Jack Baldwin as Jellen Ykalle
Additional credits:
- Show graphics by Sentic GFX
- Show editing by Rennie Armas and MJ Guenther
- Intro/Outro music composed by Ryan Muns, Owner/Operator of Eyes On The Moon Studios
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Transcript
Celebrating 10 Episodes
00:00:02
Speaker
DESTABILIZING FOUNDATIONS EPISODE 10 EPISODE 10! AHHHHH! WOOOOOO! the world of a own contains stories with mature themes content warnings are in the episode
00:00:22
Speaker
episode ten both fiji And technically, ah we hit double digits as far as how many recordings we have done as of last one because we have the prequel. This is true! fars As far as... far as... Titled... Numbered episodes goes.
00:00:43
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It is ten, finally.
00:00:47
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So excited. Thank you all so much for sticking with us for ten episodes. It's insane! we are Yes, we really appreciate all of you.
00:00:59
Speaker
Yeah, Kaladin finally taught Talira how to count to ten, so... One? Two hands. She knew how to count to ten. She has all ten fingers still. True. ah well We're doomed when it comes to up episode 11, then.
00:01:13
Speaker
Well, she has feet.
Favorite Campaign Moments
00:01:15
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audience welcome as you can see our characters have already started to uh present to you guys we just wanted to go we're just excited it's our 10th episode and it's awesome we hit double digits technically 11 like calvin was saying but regardless it's so exciting and we want to thank you guys for all being on this journey with us it's incredible and i mean we met each other like eight months ago and the fact that we're Getting along so well, having done this so much and how well the show is doing, we we're just so excited. So from the bottom of at least my heart and I think everybody else's, thank you so much.
00:01:50
Speaker
So to celebrate our episode number 10, before we get started, we are going to have a small intro here and it is just simply, I want to go around between each of us. And i just want to know what is your guys' favorite moment from the show so far?
00:02:05
Speaker
I'll start And I'm not going to lie, I'm a sucker for some dark stuff. um if If you guys haven't realized that, ah audience, man, are you in store for some moments to come. But um I do think the death of Arutha is probably my favorite moment of of the campaign so far. So and that's going to be my my contribution here, whoever wants to go next.
Character Development Highlights
00:02:31
Speaker
I'll jump off of that because I agree. i feel like everything leading up to the death of Verutha, we were all very lighthearted. We were getting to know each other. We're finding our vibe. And that episode, I feel like really turned turned the corner on the depth that we want to have with this campaign and showing how how our actions do have consequences and how they affect our characters. And i really love exploring that.
00:03:05
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um So death of Berutha is one of them. And then moment of Calden and Talira when Calden was having his panic attack.
00:03:17
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um I really, i really, i really liked the, the emotional intensity of that. um And then because I'm, a sucker for silliness. Just, I loved episode three with Calden and Yellen. It was so funny. the UFC champion fight. It was so funny. I loved that episode.
00:03:39
Speaker
That was ah that was a good one.
00:03:43
Speaker
So here's the question though. Would you have put them in the same order?
00:03:49
Speaker
Um, I think they're in separate categories. The reasons that I like them are very different. so As has already been mentioned, Verruta's death really was the first point within our campaign that showcased kind of how dark our story is is willing to go. um and further than that, to be honest, based on some stuff I know about all the- Definitely. Oh yeah. Definitely. But it was the first taste of that. Audience, ready.
00:04:23
Speaker
Yeah. Like, obviously, the way we have our show listed, it's it's dark fantasy. This was the first taste of, hey, I know that we have a lot of silly goofs and everything up to this point, but this is going to be a dark fantasy.
00:04:37
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The goofs are going to be part of it. Yeah. um And then obviously, i liked finally getting to touch on some of Calden's stuff because there's a lot going on with him that...
00:04:50
Speaker
nobody knows but woos and me and a little bit of MJ with Talira so it's it's fun seeing everybody else's reactions to finding new things out about Kalden And then ah I really love episode three.
00:05:07
Speaker
i was really nervous going into it because it was just it was just Calden and Yellen. And Yellen's a really quiet character. So I really didn't know what was going to happen there. But i think it was the first episode where both Calden and Yellen really started to come into their personalities and and how they're going to interact with everybody else in the group. And it was just a good time. i really enjoy it.
00:05:30
Speaker
I completely agree. I completely agree. So we'll just go down, go down the list. um So on my screen, Yellen, you're right below. Yellen, I'm just calling you Yellen. You're ah Jack. Jack, you're right below Rennie.
Verutha's Death and Chase Scene
00:05:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think, I think my favorite moment is actually right before the death of Veritha, the chase yeah to get after I thought that was so, like fun it was pretty engaging i like i and then like the sudden stop of it once we caught up to her it was like a stop oh this is serious lock in like yeah i think i think it was a good turning point from like we're learning all the characters let's get introduced lock in lock in gang it's about to get crazy right and it came so suddenly we got to see some really cool shit for yellen too which is awesome
00:06:26
Speaker
He got to really shine. Yeah. Absolutely. I'm not going to get into that. oh I really like all the stuff that we... the What we learned in episode four. I think that was a good kind of like a lore drop episode. Yeah, yeah i agree. I enjoyed it.
00:06:42
Speaker
And then ah the Lyra and Maeve were... i I love the back and forth and especially the ah impression of Calvin was funny. That was so funny. Maeve's impression of Calvin was hilarious.
00:06:56
Speaker
It was so ridiculous. And then we had to bring it back in the intro for episode, episode five. It was so funny. it was so weird listening back to it because I helped with the editing for it.
00:07:11
Speaker
ah a little bit before it went live and like listening back and all of that being fresh because we had no idea what happened in each other's episodes where we weren't there.
00:07:23
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So the amount of Calden in an episode he wasn't in was a little interesting for me.
00:07:29
Speaker
Well, hope you feel loved.
00:07:33
Speaker
I'm glad to know that he seems to be the glue that holds this together, i guess. I don't know. That's really not the impression I would have gotten for him.
00:07:46
Speaker
Ooh, yeah. There it is. Ooh. The crisp. I'm so thirsty, guys. know. I've been waiting. I've been waiting so long to open this. All right. And, uh, Safira, what about yours?
Reminiscing the Prequel Campaign
00:07:59
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Oh, so many, so many. I think you guys pretty much summed most of them up. I really liked episode nine at the start um because i I felt like you just can get a bit more information, a bit more where to now. I really like knowing the next step and where to go sometimes.
00:08:23
Speaker
Plus, we got a big reveal of something with Yeah, we got a massive reveal. Yeah, we finally got to see the mask. Yeah, the mask was great. And then i yeah yeah has still don't know what you said. You were the echo of a melody. I'm like, yeah, is this something? That was that hit badass. du That was cool. It was awesome.
00:08:41
Speaker
where you scarneded I don't know if you noticed because you were like talking. i think literally all of us made a face. you're like um I think so. Look, my favorite out of if we go out of everything, not just the podcast, because you guys have said so much amazing stuff about the podcast would be we did a prequel a little bit ago um when we first were just like we're just like meeting each other, doing like a little one shot, a little one shot. And then at the end,
00:09:12
Speaker
wos you you said, let's do a podcast. And you've you've just, you you you blended it into this like little campaign that we did that was just so much fun and so funny, but very, very, very sad.
00:09:27
Speaker
And it it just melded so well together. And it was just like the highlight of everything. Yeah, I i really liked that. I know we didn't really get to record it or probably won't be able to show anyone, but yeah,
00:09:41
Speaker
That just kickoff to this whole thing was just such a highlight for me personally. so Let's put it out into the universe then that when this gets big, we're going to go back and do an animated prequel of yes The Lost Children of the Lost. That would be cool. Because I feel like we told a really cool story and i would love to share that.
00:10:07
Speaker
I love that would be cool. watch Yeah, that would be really cool. Yeah. That is how we met for everybody that is listening. That is quite literally how all of us met, essentially, was putting out a thing like who wants to play in this in a voice acting discord. Yeah. yeah We all auditioned for the same game that none of us booked and all found out we loved D&D. And Wu said, hey, I'm a dm Let's get together and play.
00:10:32
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We just happened to be the ones available.
00:10:37
Speaker
Well, enough of our sob story. yeah they saw We got our audience here. They're wanting to know what comes next. There's a bear going on. Next is the crisp.
00:10:47
Speaker
There was no sizzle. What? No! We need sizzle. I need sizzle. ah Mangle's not going to be able to use that one, unfortunately. ah No, I can't.
00:11:03
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Ray Romano.
00:11:06
Speaker
and When did he join? Because I'm ADHD and I have to have multiple drinks. I have the the cider and now the seltzer. There we go. Ooh. There we go. There it is.
00:11:21
Speaker
That was a good one. All right. Now that we've got the crisp, guys, let's get into it. We got an audience waiting to see what the hell's going on with this bear. like We got players waiting to see what the hell's going on with this bear. Yeah. yeah Let's go.
Encounter with an Entity and a Bear Cub
00:11:49
Speaker
Last time, interesting episode as you all had had this conversation with this entity, this person that you come to find out is betrothed to Verutha, a.k.a. Rivas. Or at least that's what he said he was. Uh...
00:12:09
Speaker
Revealing that he is indeed going to be coming to the same peninsula that you are on the Jiona, I can never say that right, Jiona Peninsula, in eight days or so. And with a bit of travel to Nivoa, he'll be there in 14-ish days.
00:12:27
Speaker
You also find out that he doesn't know where the children are, but he's looking for them. So it's almost like the race is on. through a little bit of a divine magic, little divination that Yellen cooks up with the help of his friends, we get a little bit of an omen.
00:12:46
Speaker
The innocence you seek, the earth did not take. A path you must find. Primal in nature it must be. Find physical you will not, but your journey may still be fruitful.
00:13:01
Speaker
With a little bit of an omen to decipher, You decided maybe maybe we need some more information. And you do happen to know of one survivor.
00:13:13
Speaker
That's an Orlanus with Siobhan. But you also know Rivas is coming to Nivoa, and he also may have information. So trying to find how can you do both at the same time, you attempt to enlist help going to Yari Mosgroves.
00:13:29
Speaker
And as you approach, there's a bear. Not sure if she's it's attacking or searching or what, but regardless, it's a threat. And you all scare it off. Have your conversation with Yari. She says, maybe there's another person in town that might be better suited for this.
00:13:43
Speaker
While you're doing that, Talira and Yellen go find the bear as it made its way to Myrna's house. And Talira, like a badass, chokes it out. And as it's unconscious, Kalden and Maeve, you all, go to leave Yari's and find there is some sort of on-the-younger-side bear, maybe a cub, in the cellar of Yari's house trying to escape.
00:14:09
Speaker
That is the image we'll start the session with. All right, I'm going to start with a nature check to see if I can tell how old this bear is.
00:14:21
Speaker
Sure, how close are you getting to look? Are you getting real close to this door to try to look in these cracks that it's created, these holes in the doors? Sure. Oh, that's true. How much has it broken out to where, like, you can tell?
00:14:35
Speaker
It is actively still scratching at it and beating at it, but it's only taken off about one, like, half of like, one plank. Like, it's cracked one and a half from the door. I guess I'll have to get pretty close and just rely on my dexterity saves to keep me from getting hit, maybe.
00:14:51
Speaker
Yeah, go ahead and roll me that nature check. Hey, guys, where's the nature in the alphabet? There it is. It's under something. Oof. That's 11.
00:15:03
Speaker
Which is better than I thought it was because I thought that was a 1 at first. Guidance. Yeah, this was... Oh, Guidance? Hold up. Hold up. Because I can... Maybe I can add a 4. will guide you. Okay, well, it's a 13.
00:15:16
Speaker
Ooh. 13. so with a 13, you get pretty close. I'm trying like, look in there. And the DC wasn't very high because as you get close... Instead of a claw that goes to pop its head up, you actually see the snout and an eye trying to push its way through the small crack. And you can see its it appears to be pretty small.
00:15:36
Speaker
um Maybe not a baby baby, but still cub of some sort. Do you have rope, Maeve? Uh-huh. I don't think so. I think I've used it.
00:15:49
Speaker
Fuck. I used mine for Ruther. I don't think we ever got it back. Shit. um I have manacles. don't really want to use that on the fair.
00:16:01
Speaker
I don't think that's a great idea either.
00:16:07
Speaker
That's a different kind of kink that we don't have.
00:16:13
Speaker
Save that for the after dark session. you You never know what Calden's into. look I think we know what Calden's Well, it can't be Yellen because he's into bears.
00:16:29
Speaker
That's a lie. Why not both? Oh my gosh. Oh wait, no, I get it. Fuck. Okay.
00:16:41
Speaker
Um, okay. hey guys, look, I also have a mirror, so. That's definitely didn't right need to worry about the other one. Oh, I do still have rope. I do. I still have more rope. Yeah.
00:16:53
Speaker
Well, then we shall use your rope. Yeah. Should I break it open? Or should we? so Oh, maybe I'll grab rope. I wouldn't you break it. You might hit the bear. Why don't you try to unlock it while I grab the rope and I'll try lasso it like a leash.
00:17:12
Speaker
Okay, I'm going to try to open this and see can't help calm it down, maybe. um And then oh the rope, yes, maybe as like a lead.
00:17:25
Speaker
i have I pull out one, a little bit of ration, a little bit of meat. Okay, I'd take that. Yeah, as you as you go to do that, like you start hearing cries from this from this cub.
00:17:42
Speaker
ah Which thing do you want me to roll first?
Communicating with the Bear Cub
00:17:45
Speaker
To open the thing or to try and calm the bear? can try to calm it It does have a lock on it. So if you want to try to open it you're going have to have lock or like or lock pick it, one of the two Oh, no. How will I ever unlock a lock? Oh, no. Oh, no um I'm going to try to actually calm this bear down a little bit first, if possible, with the food.
00:18:08
Speaker
Okay, yeah, roll me an animal handling check. And ah do you like say anything as well? Or do you just try to throw some food in it? Yeah, just like calming sounds like, hey, hey, buddy. hey we're going to get you back to your mom, okay?
00:18:20
Speaker
That's a 21. Hell yeah hey Yeah, ah sure enough, as you as you do this, it seems to the crying kind of still cries and it kind of whimpers. and it But it it softens and you it stop it stops scratching at the door.
00:18:37
Speaker
Okay, I'm going lock the pick. You're going to lock the pick? Oh, no. I'm going to lock the pick. Roll me the slot of hand trick.
00:18:48
Speaker
Go away. That's a 21. Yeah, i do i do believe a 21 is going to do it. so Okay. Yeah, I do think that's going a really high-end lock for her seller. Yeah.
00:19:04
Speaker
i do I do believe that the little tiny lock that's on this thing that looks like you probably got it for $5 at Walmart, I think you were able to get it. Okay. Yeah, yeah.
00:19:15
Speaker
It was close, though. it was It was close. Thank goodness for reliable talent. All right. Okay. so yeah. so You're able to take it off.
00:19:26
Speaker
Yeah, I take off the lock. I slowly open the doors, just like still kind of got my hand out with food, um palm flat, face down, just kind of like petting him. It's okay, buddy. It's okay.
00:19:40
Speaker
We're going to take you back to your mom. It's okay. You're okay. Yeah, as you open it up, you actually see it had it's at the bottom it had gone back to the bottom of the steps and it just it kind of sits there with its ah front paws beneath its its rear paws, like sitting on its hind legs.
00:19:57
Speaker
I want it.
00:20:00
Speaker
I want him. He's in mine. It's just kind of whimpering a little bit. learn ah Looking up at you. Can I i like motion for the rope from Maeve?
00:20:13
Speaker
Okay. So going to slowly go over to and kind of like hold up the loop in front of his face and just slowly put it over. Come on. Let's go.
00:20:25
Speaker
It lets you, it seems it seems to be understanding you. Suspicious. i'm You go get the others. Get the others and I might keep an eye on a friend. I think it might be an idea because this is a little bit shady.
00:20:48
Speaker
It's very suspicious, yes. So I'm going to go back inside and hang out with our friend. You go get okay the others and come here and we'll do a, see what happens.
00:21:04
Speaker
Have a little chat. Speaking of which, as you're saying that, because, you know, we're telling a story, so timing is always just somehow perfect. Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
00:21:15
Speaker
What? Yeah, no, the sound of a bear crying and scratching at a door, you tends to get the attention, and sure enough, Yari comes to the edge of her porch, looking over her little railing down. oh my!
00:21:28
Speaker
so Oh my! What? is that a Is that a cup? Can I truth? Yeah, Yari, it was locked in your cellar. I zone a truth. What the f- What the fuck? I zone a truth.
00:21:40
Speaker
yeah um Are we close enough that we would also be stuck in that zone of truth? Oh, well, yeah, we would. It's a wisdom save. i would say are you putting it Is it centered around yourself?
00:21:53
Speaker
Because if not, then no. It might not. Give me two seconds. you I've got to look this up. I think you would know if somebody succeeds or fails. Yeah, you You know if they succeed or fail and the other person knows that you're casting it.
00:22:09
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Okay. And I'm a power. Yari succeeds. Does she? But purposely fails. What? actually knows you're casting it.
00:22:22
Speaker
So she just wouldn't she like wouldn't try to stop it? Right, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Where is my zone of truth?
00:22:33
Speaker
Yeah, what do we have to beat? 15-foot radius sphere centered on a point on a point within range, so I can just put it Oh, cool. I did what I rolled then.
00:22:45
Speaker
Yeah. yeah ah I just say so she succeeds because oo i say sixty six succeeds because she got an 18 before a modifier, so i was pretty confident that was going to succeed.
00:22:57
Speaker
But she actively chooses? She doesn't contest it? She does not. Okay. Why was there a cub locked in your basement?
00:23:11
Speaker
I have no clue. I am just as astonished as you are. Who has access to your cellar and you might suspect to do something like that? that Separate questions.
00:23:24
Speaker
ah Separate questions. I mean, my husband and ah and my assistant. That would be the only only two that I can think of. Yeah, Etten and ah who was her assistant, was it?
00:23:39
Speaker
Is Etten able to get down the steps? ah Yeah, he brought cupcakes. He... He can. It takes him a minute.
00:23:51
Speaker
But yeah, he's he gets pretty able. i don't He essentially kind of has to drag his wheelchair behind him and while he uses his arms to support himself. That seems like it would be difficult to do with a bear cub.
00:24:05
Speaker
you ah Yeah, I would say impossible. Yeah, I don't... think and Definitely not. So why would your assistant put a bear cub in your cellar? i I don't believe she would.
00:24:17
Speaker
Where is your assistant? Not here today. Where is she, though? I mean, I would assume at home. I don't i don't know.
00:24:27
Speaker
Is there anything... Can I do an investigation check around like the cub and around the cell? Is there anything out of place or cult-looking? Yeah, yeah, go for it.
00:24:41
Speaker
I have a question. What? Yeah. so my psychic whispers. I'm going to read exactly what it says.
00:24:54
Speaker
You can establish telepathic communication between yourself and others. As a magic action, choose one or more creatures you can see up to a number of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus, and then roll one psionic energy die for a number of hours equal to the number rolled. The chosen creatures can speak telepathically with you, and you can speak telepathically with them.
00:25:17
Speaker
It doesn't have any language requirements? It doesn't say. Hmm. That's interesting. That's really interesting.
00:25:30
Speaker
Hey, guys, I might have been able to talk to that elemental in the very first episode. There's no way. That's crazy. Okay, so it's what what is the picture called? Psionic what?
00:25:42
Speaker
ah Psychic Whispers. I rolled a 19, by the way, just fun. Nice.
00:25:52
Speaker
Oh my God, they don't have to share a common language. I could have talked to it. Hey, Wooz, can we retcon that I... yeah i guess yeah Now we've reached episode 10. Let's go back to prequel. Yeah.
00:26:06
Speaker
but Re-requel whatever. Not episode 10 anymore. It's episode one again. Prequel is actually episode zero. It's session zero, guys. The trajectory of the campaign. I we could say that you've not used it for that kind of purpose very often. So maybe you just forgot that it can do that.
00:26:23
Speaker
i I try to keep people out of my head as much as possible, to be honest. Right. it's It's not gone well for me in the past. No. Okay. 19 was for investigation.
00:26:38
Speaker
As you all found out on in episode seven. Don't like things in my head. Indeed.
00:26:43
Speaker
Indeed. So I would like to ah connect with this bear, if you'll allow. Oh,
00:26:57
Speaker
God, how am I going to do this? um I did not. I did not expect that. ah Look, I didn't think it would work, but I wanted to reread to see what the like specifications were.
00:27:12
Speaker
No, it's good. it um It changes some things time-wise for me. I need to actually ask. This is very important. How can i while still recording, make sure none of the other three of you can hear this?
00:27:28
Speaker
Oh, I say message. Oh, how about we all, can we mute yourself in here? Or, you know what? I i could leave the room.
00:27:41
Speaker
I will take my headphones off. and i say If you guys could take your headphones off. Yeah. yes you If you could take your headphones off and turn away from the screen, i will tag and discord when we're done. Sounds good. Oh, okay.
00:27:53
Speaker
Whispers, whispers, whispers. Oh my gosh. This is so intense. What do you say?
Vampire Mystery Revealed
00:28:01
Speaker
hi I'm, I hope I'm not startling you.
00:28:05
Speaker
I'm Calden and I want to find out what happened to you. Please help me. I'm here to help. What happened? What's going on? Where are they?
00:28:17
Speaker
Where are who? The... The, uh... Please believe me. The vampires. What?
00:28:28
Speaker
Where are they?
00:28:35
Speaker
I don't know if I can trust you.
00:28:39
Speaker
I need to know where they are. Please. I... I don't know. I woke up in the cellar.
00:28:49
Speaker
I... And I can't turn back.
00:28:54
Speaker
You're a druid? No. Who are you? When did this...
00:29:03
Speaker
How do you know it was vampires? As they fed on me. Where? When? What did they look like? I don't know how long I was out.
00:29:17
Speaker
The main one, he was kind of bigger. He had a handlebar mustache. He was kind bulky compared to most of them. Pretty skinny, but really light-skinned. He had red in his eyes.
00:29:37
Speaker
If you... have you a favor if you If you don't believe me, they branded me. What? Where?
00:29:50
Speaker
Um... My bear, where's it on my bear form?
00:29:57
Speaker
Um... Probably underneath all the fur at the base my neck. Uh, I dig through the fur. You see healed, but a scar with the same brand you have.
00:30:10
Speaker
Shit. We can't stay here. where Where are you from? Fuck. I'm... I believe you. I believe you. I'm umm i'm originally from um Western Twelfth, near the World Point Peak.
00:30:31
Speaker
i had a We had a group, a tribe. the other The other bear that was here, is that... Is she part of your tribe? What other bear?
00:30:43
Speaker
was ah There was a bear here and looking for... I can only assume you. how
00:30:50
Speaker
You don't know how you got on the saddle. You were fed on and passed out. I just woke up here. They held me work for what for for for what held felt like months.
00:31:02
Speaker
They held you for months?
00:31:05
Speaker
I mean, I... I don't know. I couldn't see the sun. I can only tell...
00:31:12
Speaker
I can only tell just because I... I
00:31:18
Speaker
turned a couple times, so I know it had had been... At least... month and a half? We need... We need to leave now. We need... I need to get you out of here. I need... Fuck.
00:31:32
Speaker
I need to leave. Okay, um... We're gonna find my other people. And, um... There is another bear that was looking for you,
00:31:48
Speaker
Just come with me, okay? Okay, I will. Maeve, we need to go. Go where? We need to go now.
00:31:59
Speaker
Okay, let's go. Bear, what do we do with the he's He's coming with us. Okay, come on, bear. Let's go. We need to find Talia and Yellen, and we have to go.
00:32:11
Speaker
ye let's go. Kaldin, in your mind, you hear she? She, fuck, sorry.
00:32:20
Speaker
You sound like a bear. I'm so sorry. All right, but yeah, what do y'all do? allll do good Just take off running? i need i need to do, i guess, a survival check to find out where Yellen and Talira went. i think we like know we should we i think we could see them, couldn't we? Because only just went down to like... No, they went they went down and up. It was a whole thing, yeah. um Speaking of which, ah you were in the middle of picking up when we were last it left off, you guys, Talira and Yellen. were in the middle of picking up the bear, I believe, and starting to head back?
00:32:56
Speaker
Yep. All right. ah So sure enough, he's is you all head off in the way that you saw the bear originally trotting off.
00:33:08
Speaker
it It's so pretty much a straight line from where you do see MJ and Yellen coming out of the woods from the path up to Myrna's house that you remember. And you see Talira carrying this massive 600-pound Kodiak mama bear.
00:33:21
Speaker
Wouldn't it be crazy if they also found a bear, like just a second one or something? What I am concerned about is ah ah this bear is healthy, she is well fed, why would she come into a village? They do not do that unless they are sick, which she is not, or there is a cub, which is I am concerned about.
00:33:40
Speaker
my My worry is something with these rifts that have been opening up is affecting the wildlife. That too. There is something going on. and Destroying their homes. This is affected. I need to know what is going on with her.
00:33:54
Speaker
That is a good idea. Should be a starting point once we get back. And then you all see Kalden with ah essentially a leashed cub of a bear and Maeve like sprinting towards you. I knew it!
00:34:11
Speaker
Where did you find her? Talira! We need to leave! What's- Something's happened. What's going on? don't know. need to go What is going on? it worked we need what We need to leave.
00:34:22
Speaker
What is happening to the bears? Can you tell us what's happening while we leave? Hold hold on Is this- and Talira gently sets down the mama bear from like, off her shoulders.
00:34:33
Speaker
And, uh, like, shh, shh, shh, come on, come on And she splashes, like, takes her, her, uh, canteen and pours a little bit of water on the bear to try to wake her up.
00:34:45
Speaker
Keldon asks the, the cub, is, do you know, do you know this bear? You hear the repeat answer of what you had already answered of, no.
00:34:58
Speaker
I've never seen this bear. it's It's not her cub. ah She doesn't know this bear. How do you know? I need to go. he I'm... i'm but to i It's not important right now.
00:35:14
Speaker
We need to Can you talk to her? What do we do with this bear? need to go. go Fuck. What do we do with this bear, then? Just tell us what danger. Where are we going?
00:35:26
Speaker
where are we going What time is it?
00:35:32
Speaker
Uh, it's like late afternoon, early evening by this point. Okay, let's go. We can't leave yet.
00:35:42
Speaker
but direction? Veruthas' house. you could we We could stay in Veruthas' house tonight. we we We can't stay at the inn. Why? What's going on?
00:35:53
Speaker
it's It's not safe. It's not safe. We need a home. Okay, Kalbin. Can you talk to this bear? Yes. Ask her what is happening and tell her we will help her.
00:36:13
Speaker
she She woke up in the st cellar. Okay. ah she was She was held captive for a long time and and she woke up in the cellar.
00:36:23
Speaker
she doesn She doesn't know this this bear.
00:36:28
Speaker
Okay. Can you talk to this bear? I will try to wake her up. She is not dead. i did not kill her. Bruce?
00:36:41
Speaker
Yeah. I have a question for how you would like my my psychic whispers to work. So I technically have this link with the bear for three hours.
00:36:52
Speaker
I have additional slots, a number of people that I can link with at a given time. ah Three total, I think.
00:37:05
Speaker
Am I able to add someone into this three hours or do I need to use another one of my psionic die to like re-establish a brand new? Okay. That's kind of what I assumed.
00:37:16
Speaker
I will do that. um I am also going to add Talira this time. Can you add all of us? I could.
00:37:29
Speaker
But you don't want to? I'm not going to. Oh, okay. um And this will last for two hours now. Okay. Nothing personal, Saphira.
00:37:45
Speaker
I swallowed bad. oh the liquid went down bad. no. oh
00:37:52
Speaker
Saphira's like karma for not including me. Yeah, for real. Instant smite. She's a paladin. It's so funny.
00:38:05
Speaker
Um, oh, but I am going to wait for this bear to wake up. Um, okay. Well, let's go to Varuthas' house. We will wake her up there. and then let's talk.
00:38:20
Speaker
Yes. Please tell us what's happening. Okay. Okay. You all head over to Varuthas' house. There's no way you're taking the bear inside. You'd have to, like, a spike expand the door. We should probably tie it up outside if it's going to be violent when it wakes up again.
00:38:35
Speaker
So you need a double door tofer to fit a bear there through for sure. So okay what do you want to do you get to Baruthas? How do you guys wake up this bear? Well, Kalden is not helpful right now. I'm sure once we get to Baruthas, she has some kind of smelling salt ingredient for her potions.
00:38:53
Speaker
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. 100%. That sounds smart. Okay. Yeah. You take this like smelling salt essentially and put it up in the bear before.
00:39:07
Speaker
And then in its head, um the little bear, which I haven't bothered to ask her name yet because I've had other things on my mind. And Talira and this big bear, they all hear it.
00:39:20
Speaker
Hi. What?
00:39:25
Speaker
Why are you? Why are you here? Child, where? Child, where child? Is this your child? You hear the ah smelling of ah of it, like, inhaling.
00:39:40
Speaker
Not my child.
00:39:43
Speaker
We will help you. Take child. Tell her we will help her find her child. Can you hear me? Who took your child? Do you know what took your child?
00:39:55
Speaker
Men. Man. Was it evil?
00:40:00
Speaker
White.
00:40:02
Speaker
That just about sums up Lightman, don't it? Damn. Damn. damn
00:40:11
Speaker
I set you up for that.
00:40:17
Speaker
When did this happen? What did they smell like?
00:40:26
Speaker
Two days. Two days.
00:40:30
Speaker
Where are you from? How close are you? How? Old blood. Where do you live?
00:40:39
Speaker
Up mountain. Other side. That be Orlanus. No. Not other men. The bear kind of looks up to the peak that you that the that is right above.
00:40:54
Speaker
Right above Novoa. Over peak. to mountain range. There's many, many peaks. We have to travel that way. We are looking for someone who lost their cub too.
00:41:07
Speaker
We can help you try to find yours. Track scent led to town. To here. The scent of your child or of the men?
00:41:21
Speaker
Both. Both. Fuck. Kelton, what did you hear? You start to hear it kind of whimper.
00:41:30
Speaker
Smell child blood. No. your Your child was at that house that you were at? The second? I don't know.
00:41:41
Speaker
Where I found you. Was that where you tracked child? Lost track. Edge of woods. where you Will you let us help you find your child here?
00:41:58
Speaker
please Of course. Kalden, what did you learn? i I can't. I can't. Um... Rennie? We need to find this baby.
00:42:11
Speaker
Yes? Rennie, did you establish the link between all four of you? Both bears and Talira? Both bears and Talira. Okay. You also here.
00:42:24
Speaker
Can... Can I trust your friends? Yes. From the baby? Yeah. Of course you can talk to me. making sure we didn't have new voice that was introduced that I needed to flip out of that. No, no, no, From the smaller, yeah, from the smaller bear.
00:42:40
Speaker
Can, can, can, can I trust your friends? Yes. All we want to do is help. All we want to do is, is help. We. Okay.
00:42:53
Speaker
Okay. um
00:42:57
Speaker
Are any of them good with curses? I... I... I don't know. Curses? What kind of curse? What are you cursed with? Like I said, I... I can't change back.
00:43:12
Speaker
To what? Yellen! Yellen! Maeve! One of you two? Uh, yeah, yes. Are you able to detect a curse or hex some kind of foul magic cast on someone?
00:43:30
Speaker
Well, I mean, if it's foul magic cast on someone, I could always dispel the magic. Could you try? so I can't see it until tomorrow. Um, yeah, I'll cast Dispel Magic. with Let me make sure I have the spell slot first.
00:43:48
Speaker
I do. Okay.
00:43:51
Speaker
Yeah, you you go to cast that, um and and unfortunately, curses don't quite work like that. And it does not work. Yeah, you need to remove curse, don't you?
00:44:04
Speaker
Which I think is a higher level spell than what we can... It's third level. exactly it's third level Remove curses? Yeah, so I could take it after rest, potentially.
00:44:17
Speaker
I, uh...
00:44:20
Speaker
I... I... I was a halfling. What? Or am halfling? How did this happen? Um... It kind of looks at you, Keldon.
00:44:34
Speaker
I... I, uh... I got... I was... I was taken. And fed on. And I just woke up in a cellar. Now I can't... I can't control my ability to change.
00:44:50
Speaker
They took you as a bear or as a halfling? I can't remember what form I was in at the time. It's all so hazy. How long?
00:45:02
Speaker
he
00:45:05
Speaker
I don't know. couple months, I think. And Talira, she... She turns into Mama Bear.
00:45:17
Speaker
You see her her eye how apt you see her eyes narrow and she gets her her demeanor completely changed. She goes still.
00:45:32
Speaker
Whoever they are, we will find them. No. No. Then you will be safe with us.
Lou's Curse and Search for Answers
00:45:43
Speaker
If you want to be.
00:45:46
Speaker
You can't go off on your own anymore. They'll find you. i who I didn't want to go on my own. I just missed my friends. I mean that at present we can't take you home and leave you with them. You won't be safe.
00:46:03
Speaker
I... I don't remember lot. It's so fuzzy. eyeed But I don't think I have a home to go home to.
00:46:14
Speaker
That makes two of us. You are home now You have family with me and with my tribe.
00:46:22
Speaker
We need to find the other cub. Yes, we do. and And hope that it can go home with its mother. And we need to do it before dark. Okay. Yeah.
00:46:35
Speaker
Okay. Can someone ask for this cub's name? Because Kalden wouldn't right now. feel Like the someone needs to. This smaller bear, this like cub-sized bear, you can see it's like, it's very much looking around and probably I would assume the same way Kaladin probably is.
00:46:52
Speaker
i am Talira.
00:46:56
Speaker
nice Nice to meet you. um
00:47:02
Speaker
I know, um don't know you all very well. And I'll be honest, I don't know if I can trust you. But this is okay.
00:47:13
Speaker
Names are important to my people. Then what do you would... For now, um... Just... Call me Lou? Lou. I can do that. Okay.
00:47:26
Speaker
Um... Can we go inside somewhere? Absolutely. Take her inside.
00:47:35
Speaker
And then I'm gonna head back out with the other bear. Um... Yellen Maeve. Yes. We need to find this mama bear's cub.
00:47:49
Speaker
There is another cub somewhere. We've promised to help her. The other cub is a cursed halfling named Lul.
00:48:03
Speaker
Cursed by who? People who took her. Alright, well I guess with the cub, do we have any leads? It was stolen and fed on, perhaps.
00:48:17
Speaker
Fed on? Like, they ate it? Like, a hunter? Diem. You held up your finger like you were going to stick something. Oh, no, I was giving it to Maeve because she rolled 19 for investigation back at the house I haven't told her what she found yet.
00:48:35
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, sorry. I realize all of you can see me, not just Sapira. Crazy. Weird. who I didn't want to interrupt, so I was just like, oh, I should remind you guys that. Yeah, i no, that was good. Chat was perfect for that. so um But yeah, can continue. i'll I'll tell you what you find in a second, Sapira.
00:48:54
Speaker
Wait, so what ah what's happening? who a Do we have any leads on, you know, who the men, or what, like, was it a hunter that came and got the... year cutbook doesn't Who doesn't matter right now?
00:49:09
Speaker
We just need to find the cub and make sure it's safe. Do we know what they look like? The cub? I'm assuming it looks like the people who fed on it. I don't know yet.
00:49:23
Speaker
So this is going to be a fun little thing. This is going to be a fun little thing. Renny, you hear me? i just want to make sure you can hear me. What? you can You can hear me now? Cool. Okay, Maeve, since now they're asking for leads.
00:49:35
Speaker
um With 19, that's a really good roll. And you could not find anything out of the ordinary for Yari's house and around the area except one thing.
00:49:50
Speaker
found a pretty large feather resting against the side of where the double doors were. A feather? What's lighter? A kilogram of steel? I can't hear you, Renny.
00:50:03
Speaker
Feather? Yeah, Renny, why are you cussing? What color was the feather, Wuz? What color was the feather? Uh, da-da-da-da, let me make sure I get that right.
00:50:15
Speaker
Continuity. I do gotta to make sure I it right. I'm looking through a sheet right now that I have that I gotta make sure that these things are important, don't you know? Insert elevator music, yeah.
00:50:29
Speaker
dat da da la da da da Why are you asking, Reddy? Anyway, like, you know, it's... I just think... Reddy's an avid bird watcher. It's good. Yeah. but Calvin knows a lot about birds.
00:50:46
Speaker
It's his secret passion.
00:50:51
Speaker
go ahead te to to It was a chicken. It was just a normal chicken feather. I don't even know why he mentioned it. Big ass chicken feather.
00:51:04
Speaker
Oh, here it is. Yeah. ah It was pretty white. Hmm. There was a blood stain on it, though. Hmm. Hmm.
00:51:15
Speaker
So. How big was this feather? It was big with blood on it. i did I did say it was a pretty large feather. It was a large feather. Like a flight feather or, you know, like feathers come in different sizes. Was it a small tiny piece of down? Was it like a pin feather? Yeah. It was feather. was it down? and Was it down feather? Maeve, to give you an idea, it's so it's a feather that's probably the size of your forearm.
00:51:44
Speaker
Huh.
00:51:46
Speaker
So it was a big feather. And I didn't notice it. You didn't roll an investigation check. whi How obscure was like underneath this feather?
00:51:57
Speaker
So it's ah it was on the other side of the doors that you guys had gone. When you open the doors, it it covers the... You were distracted by the bed well. The sides. You were pretty... were just like... to write so
00:52:14
Speaker
I know what I said before we started recording today, but I didn't ah like expect anything. i know.
00:52:24
Speaker
I don't get it. That's okay. I think Renny does. And I think Calden yeah definitely does. I don't have any idea what's happening right now, actually.
00:52:36
Speaker
i just like the tension. There's just feathers. I don't know why. Feathers are strange to have, but... that's That's all. And that's how you describe this to us, that you saw feathers?
00:52:47
Speaker
That's a big feather. Did she had she describe the size of the feather or did she explicitly say there were feathers? I just said, ask me. this Ask me. me.
00:53:00
Speaker
Ask me. me. Well, I was more so... I was so saying to Jack that... Saphira's over here like, was please, please ask Maeve about it. Please. I'm a person.
00:53:21
Speaker
Saphira, what is explicitly the way that Maeve provides this information to the party? Fuck, now I have to explain it.
00:53:38
Speaker
Ask me! Fuck, you asked me!
00:53:43
Speaker
ah Damn it! So she she literally just explains like... Yeah, it was a bit weird. I was looking in before and there was just this one big feather.
00:53:55
Speaker
It had a bit of a blood on it. Maybe they had like a chicken, a really big chicken, really big. No, wouldn't have been a chicken. I don't know.
00:54:07
Speaker
Like, like, and she, she points to her arm. A chicken. Like an albatross? Feathers the size of your forearm. My forearm. Probably mine, not yours.
00:54:19
Speaker
And it had blood on it. That's a big feather. I mean. It must be a big chicken. Can I do like a nature check to see what birds would have that? Like. yes Yeah, go for it. Okay.
00:54:31
Speaker
Yeah. I'll do that. Calden. Calden surreptitiously makes eye contact with Talira. Talira's inside the house, I think, right? Nature. What do we got here, nature?
00:54:41
Speaker
I think Talira's inside the house. Oh, yeah, I was taking the bear inside the house. Yeah, it's just me. But Kalden can still talk telepathically. Yeah, that's going to be a 10. Talira.
00:54:53
Speaker
Kalden. What'd you say, Yellen? 10. 10 for my nature. 10. Yeah, looking at that. I mean, it's white. Chicken. And so there's like limited amount, like maybe a giant eagle because there are giant eagles in the world. um Maybe it could be ah one of the giant eagle species. But like, that'd the, it, I don't know. It is suspiciously big, but it'd be like a pen, a maybe one of those, or maybe like an grit a mutant. Yeah, maybe. Or like an owlin.
00:55:24
Speaker
You, owlins exist in this world and maybe it could be from one of them. Why don't you ask the bear? That's a good question. Or not a feather, but quill. thing to What type of chicken has a big feather like that? I mean, it could be one of the eagles. I'm not asking the bear bear.
00:55:41
Speaker
I mean, maybe it carried the, ma that's what feet it was fed on means, you know? One of the eagles picked it up and ate it or something. The chicken? No, eagle. I'm not.
00:55:59
Speaker
Oh my god. The chicken?
00:56:05
Speaker
It's so good. Anyway, for dinner tonight. Oh my god
00:56:12
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Rice chicken, anyone?
00:56:17
Speaker
Oh god. That's so funny.
Mysterious Clues: Feather and Tooth
00:56:21
Speaker
ah that I don't think the feather matters. It's just, we need to find the bear cub.
00:56:29
Speaker
Can I just insight check see if it count a little bit? you can. I'm tired of not getting answers, sir.
00:56:41
Speaker
Maeve is catching on. the There are information being withheld. don't like being left out. um Sephira. Yes.
00:56:53
Speaker
Oh, shit. Yeah, roll me what you roll, please. Or roll me? DM me what you roll, please. Roll me. Oh, okay. Yeah. Roll it on over to me, you know? Hang hang on. What was it? and so Yeah, I will DM you that ah now when it works.
00:57:16
Speaker
Ooh, guys, my cider was made in Portland, Oregon. Ooh. Ooh. It's lot of... Nice. Okay. Oh, I like this.
00:57:30
Speaker
Oh, my man. That's some kind of laugh right there. I'll tell you what. That is a villain laugh. really oh You went French there too. It was a French villain.
00:57:54
Speaker
man. ah Okay. that's That's interesting. That's that's really interesting. ah I'm dying. I know, right?
00:58:07
Speaker
So... i will I need to give you something, Sephira. But I'll also tell you that I can't give you much. So I was going to keep these rolls a secret, but i they're too good not to. I'm not going to lie. um Sephira rolled a 22. Holy shit.
00:58:27
Speaker
oh Oh my gosh! But it's a natural 20. Oh, shit. Rennie rolled 23.
00:58:39
Speaker
Oh God. Not a natural 20. So... No, that was a natural 14, guys. Right. I can't give you much because she technically beat you. But for a natural 20, I feel like you deserved something.
00:58:53
Speaker
So... What can i give you that's small but meaningful? um It's not a chicken. You're pretty sure?
00:59:07
Speaker
yeah Freddy doesn't like chicken. Calden seems like the sort of person who doesn't care about chickens. He's a pescatarian. With with that insight, you can at least tell that it seemed like Calden brushed the feather off rather quickly.
00:59:31
Speaker
But that's that's all I can give you. Okay. I um i raise a brow up at Calden. Just like it. We have more important things to worry about than feathers.
00:59:43
Speaker
Sure, Calden. Okay. I got very distracted by Jack.
00:59:52
Speaker
Yellen just turned to the dark side. It's so like ominous. ah
01:00:01
Speaker
um Okay, so I'm going to, because I have a limited amount of time with ah this telepathic link, and also the day is not young at this point, um I'm going to turn back to big old mama bear that is not Talira.
01:00:22
Speaker
Now the lighting is red. Now it's more ominous.
01:00:28
Speaker
No, it's a Sith Lord. It's just one side of his face is red. there I'll be the blue guy now. Okay, that's appropriate. ah who ran away with through kind of I kind of liked the red. I'm not going to lie. but No, it was badass. It was just also funny. You were muted, MJ.
01:00:48
Speaker
Why did I mute? You're muted here. That was weird. Maybe because you were typing. Maybe.
01:00:54
Speaker
Um, okay. You have um better senses than to but sniff out your cub.
01:01:04
Speaker
So you take the lead and we'll get in places that you you can't. Does that sound fair? Please do not attack any people. We will do that for you.
01:01:16
Speaker
And we may tag you in if we need it. Okay. Okay. Please. You got it, Mama.
01:01:26
Speaker
and The big bear lumbers up and gets on all fours and it starts, frankly, probably running at ah like a good pace. Talera's just keeping stride with her. Keeping up easy, not even breaking a sweat.
01:01:43
Speaker
So, I will actually ask you, is anybody staying behind with the small bear? Please, someone stay behind with the bear. ah I'll stay behind with the bear. Um... How large is the village? I'm going be using up all my fucking psionic dice today.
01:02:02
Speaker
It's like, Navoa larger than Arlanas, but it's not city size. It's probably between 300 and 500 people, but like within its district zone, essentially. So like that the actual town itself is probably more like 100 people.
01:02:21
Speaker
to 120 people but like within the surrounding areas that would come to the village or come to Nivoa for like business and things like that and i' I'm talking a pretty large area here obviously around Boondocks like closer to 400 to 500 but in town like 1 to 120 okay I'm thinking like mileage wise based on based on where Veruthas home is, where Yellen is going to be. So I ask because hold on.
01:02:54
Speaker
I ask because my my Psychic Whispers link i it fizzles out after I'm like a mile away. i would love to keep in contact with Yellen, but if the size of the village means we are 100% going to get outside that range very quickly, I'm not going to waste the energy. Right.
01:03:13
Speaker
um it is It's around a mile-ish from Verruta to Yari, and they're on opposite sides of town. So full town, probably a little over a mile, but majority of it is around a mile.
01:03:26
Speaker
Okay. So I feel pretty confident that I could establish this link safely. Most likely, yeah. Okay. Let me just go here and use a one-on-one die.
01:03:39
Speaker
see how long this one will last. and Three hours. Just to confirm, he is now a part of the same group. No, I'm going to cut out the baby bear.
01:03:52
Speaker
I'm going to cut out Lou. Okay. And I'm going to add Maeve, and that'll be the max I can do. Okay. Yay. Are you going to warn Lou that you're going to cut the link? ah Yeah, I'll do that.
01:04:09
Speaker
ah Lou, I'm going to cut out a link. I won't be able to talk to you for a little while. Are you... We're leaving Yellen with you to keep you safe.
01:04:20
Speaker
with which Which one's Yellen? he is the He's the blue guy. he is a healer. If something happens, he can he can protect you.
01:04:32
Speaker
Actually, should I stay too? We might. Okay. um Okay. That's fine. You can. It's not a bad idea. might just because...
01:04:49
Speaker
In case any trouble finds us here, might be an idea to evenly split the party. Lock them. Don't let anyone in. Damn. That's what was my first thought was just let everyone in and welcome them.
01:05:04
Speaker
Maeve. Maeve. Shut the door and lock it. Obviously, yes, I will be doing that. It's okay, Calden. Okay. No, it's not. It will be. We're going to leave soon.
01:05:17
Speaker
Maybe. All right. How do we want to proceed with this search since we have the bear in the lead? I would a assume you all are following it, but we're going to get to that in a second. As the door closes, Maeve, you turn around and yell, and you can see this as well. The bear has kind of backed into a corner in Verruth's home, and it's kind of just leaning against the wall, kind of watching you all with wide eyes.
01:05:47
Speaker
ah kind of turn to Maeve. well What do we do to make a bear comfortable? Do you think we should make like a bed? I told you was a half thing. That's a person. Wait, no, it is a person.
01:06:00
Speaker
but something Something in my head just like reminded me. It's still a bed. true. And her name was Lou, right?
01:06:12
Speaker
Well, I think maybe... We can make, put cushions together and maybe, well, we can't set a fire, but make like a warm little, little cave for them under a table.
01:06:26
Speaker
I'm sure Verritha had like a dining room table and blankets. could make like a little fort. All right. the um To snuggle up into. Yeah.
01:06:39
Speaker
it ah Let's. so One second. I lock all the doors. Oh, good idea. Good idea. And the windows. I'm going to crouch down, so I'm... Oh, sorry.
01:06:51
Speaker
So you actually find, like, when you're doing this, you kind of notice, at least, like, before you were in a hurry or investigating, it wasn't, like, anything to be like, oh, wow. You know, it's just, okay, you do it.
01:07:03
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You notice, like, this house is, like, has the ability to be locked down. Like, three locks on every door. Every window has the ability to put a padlock on it, like,
01:07:14
Speaker
Yeah. Perfect. I lock everything um with whatever keys I find lying around, I guess. You're on the inside. It can be locked without a key. Oh, they're all latches.
01:07:28
Speaker
Yeah, they're latches. So I do that. And I'm assuming while Yellen looks for bedding and to make a little comfy little fort. Yes, I will do that.
01:07:40
Speaker
I'll just take whatever cushions and blankets it and like kind of just make a look make a little like dog bed area. Yeah. As you all are doing this, the bear just wide eyed continues just kind of watch you all sinking further and further into the corner.
01:07:56
Speaker
So we'll ah leave it at that for a moment. as the other two of you begin taking off after the bear, as it leads you to where it lost the scent and the trace of its young one.
01:08:11
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It leads you closer to the other side of town, to Yari's house. And there's a little bit, there's kind of like a break in the trees a couple houses down from Yaris that leads up to like a little bit of a clearing maybe hundred feet wide or so um and it brings you up there and in the middle of the clearing it kind of stops turns around and looks around and then looks back at you does it seem like she's there he your cub trace ends here vanishes
01:08:51
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Gone. Gone. What does that mean? Gone. Does it look like there were any tracks before of the cub leading up to that point? and whether or not there's any kind of um evidence of fight or of something happening to the cub?
01:09:13
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Yeah. Now that you're here and you... you take in the surrounding go ahead and give me an investigation check um while you're doing that i'll explain what you see with that one because it's very obvious now that kind of take it in and understand exactly what's happening you can look past the bear and see there's actually the grass is it's a clearing that's just natural the grass is somewhat tall um full of wildflowers and things like that um that can survive in this climate and you actually
01:09:45
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I rolled a nat 20. That's good. Kalden is extremely ah distracted. A negative one to investigation. That's still a 19. 19. Shit.
01:10:00
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Yeah. as So as the bear moves from its central spot, it had been blocking the view coming up. As it moves, you can see there is a path of downed flowers and wild grass growing just straight up.
01:10:13
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a path completely had with everything pushed down and a blood smear the entire way all the way to the woods and with a 19 can also find as you start kind of checking that path you find some patches of fur you see a splatter of blood on some of the leaves of flowers and and grass right off the path And with a 19, which was a natural 20, as you kind of look at that and you look down at the base of those of of that patch, you see you see a tooth.
01:10:50
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And as you look at that tooth, it is elongated, pointy, and eerily has a hole at the tip of it. Does it look like a ah bear's tooth? Or like someone no has made a necklace out of it, like you do a shark teeth?
01:11:06
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No. He's looking at me like I should know and I don't know. i haven't told you this detail. Fuck. No. No.
01:11:19
Speaker
Not many people in the world would probably know this detail, although some people might. so um and Do I have to exit the mile radius to pick up this tooth?
01:11:35
Speaker
No, no, i don't think you would because it's, it's, you went up into this clearing on the Verruta side a couple houses down from Yari's. Like, you didn't pass her house, so. I pick up the tooth.
01:11:47
Speaker
Does it look like a humanoid tooth? Um, ish. Okay. would say ish, yeah. Looks like an elongated canine almost.
01:11:59
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Can I do a nature check on that?
01:12:02
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Yeah, go for it.
01:12:06
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14 on the die. 16. With 16, you look at it and the way the root of the tooth is.
01:12:19
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And you with 16, you know. You have a lot of experience in the wildlife. you've you know bear i mean you've You've killed a lot of animals for food. You've made friends with several animals.
01:12:31
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this is This is, when I say canine, it's not of a dog, but it ah it it very much looks like a humanoid canine tooth, but it's something's off. It's longer, it's got a hole in it, ah very, very tiny print pick hole, but still.
01:12:45
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um And it's also sharper than the average canine tooth, as if it would be animalistic, but it doesn't have the other characteristics of an animal's tooth. This is weird.
01:12:57
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And it's eerily white and clean. And the hole travels lengthwise through it, like funneling through instead of like drilled. Correct. ruined Exactly.
01:13:09
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yeah you're picking Yeah, you're picking up on it now. nothing Does Talira know any kind of creature that would have that? I don't know that answer, actually, so I'm going to have to ask you to roll ok um something. Okay. Do you want to do a high-low on that?
01:13:29
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I roll a d20 and I say high or low. If it's above 10, I know. If it's below 10, I don't.
01:13:39
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I'm trying to think of... I've got to set a dc here I'm thinking. Okay, that's fair. And I'm going to do it specifically based on your backstory. Okay. um from what I know of your backstory, you've done a lot of travels and where you grew up was in the mountains.
01:13:57
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um
01:14:00
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Roll me a history check. Not nature or survival. Because this is based on... If no, that's totally fine. It's... You've already crossed off nature because you tried that and it wasn't of any beasts or anything that you know of. So it has to be something different. Okay, yeah. History totally works. And it has to be based on like past knowledge, right? Precisely. And in past experiences that you've had. So that's why I think history is going to be the better chance here. Okay, let's see what happens.
01:14:31
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I'm going to say your DC is 14. Okay, I just rolled. I haven't looked yet. I fail. That's a 10.
01:14:40
Speaker
Yeah, no, this is something new. I have no idea what this could be, Kalten. This is weird. It is... humanoid, but... I have never seen a humanoid with teeth like this before, and... this hole, that is something I would see in a snake for venom.
01:15:04
Speaker
It's something like that, probably. Do you know? Uh... ah He closes his fist around it. Can I do an insight?
01:15:15
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ah Why are you guys so weird about Calden today? Talira is worried about Calden because Calden has already freaked out. ah Yeah, you can roll an insight.
01:15:31
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Where did the dice go? Here it is. You have a chance this time. Probably not much. That's a 19. Oh
01:15:41
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my god. Fuck.
01:15:48
Speaker
Meats? Oh, she's the challenger. Meats it, dude. Yeah, so, Franny, what do you want to give ah give away? It's not, I mean, it meets, so it can't be much. be Right. Right.
01:16:02
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But you also know Calden better than anyone else here. You've seen these fits that he's been through. So obviously, it's clear to literally anyone he's not okay right now.
01:16:15
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But also, he's gotten like slightly past the freakout phase and is starting to shut down. And you notice that he's like closing in When he looks at the tooth...
01:16:29
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When he saw the feather, there was a lot of recognition and dread. Kelton.
01:16:37
Speaker
Tilyra. When you're ready, you'll tell me, okay?
01:16:44
Speaker
Yeah. But we need to see if we can... We find...
01:16:52
Speaker
Save someone. Yes. Just someone. Just one. We will. I will break the news. Okay.
01:17:03
Speaker
Mama?
01:17:07
Speaker
What find? I need you to see something. It is not pretty. I don't think your cub is coming back.
01:17:18
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And Talira is crying. No. The bear starts to... growl and essentially scream at the way a bear does.
01:17:31
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Chaldin is crying too. as it As the bear gets more and more emotional, gets louder, and the growls and and the the weeping of this bear get louder. scratches at the ground a couple times, and it pounces, and it stands up on both feet, and when it does that, through whatever bear tears sound like,
01:17:53
Speaker
Men did this. Creatures did this. Whoever did this, it is not a man I found a tooth that does not belong to a man.
01:18:06
Speaker
Look like men. Monsters did this. They are not men. Don't give them the honor. Just kind of stares off into space for while. And then silently starts walking down bloodied path into the woods without saying anything.
01:18:23
Speaker
We have to leave tomorrow. Mama, we need you. We are going. And Talira describes over the mountain, there human cubs that went missing We will find who did this.
01:18:40
Speaker
Lots of moms crying today. I cry with you.
01:18:49
Speaker
What was your Cobb's name?
01:18:53
Speaker
What you would call Flower. Flower. I will honor Flower.
01:19:00
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After a few minutes, the connection breaks. It's my fault. It is not your fault, Caldin.
01:19:10
Speaker
It's my fault. How is it your fault? It's because I'm here. We need to leave tomorrow. We can't tonight. We need a path with shelter. We can't stay out.
01:19:23
Speaker
Okay, let's go back. as As you all take your time and get back, Yellen Maeve, just real quick, would you all have continued to try to like coerce this halfway bear?
01:19:40
Speaker
so as you all would have been trying to coerce it the entire time, trying to be like, come, trust us, relax type of thing? Yellen probably would... Um, personally, no. Um, I think Yellen probably would, Maeve probably kind of realizes that if you kind of bug someone that's super scared, um, it it kind of has the opposite effect. So what she would do instead was probably just, um, be low to the ground away but and away from like the little, the little cave we made as well, just like in the living room close by so I can see, but not like in the area.
01:20:18
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And she'd just be probably just like chilling and humming a tune and playing her little. Her low to the ground. I definitely imagined her like on her tummy, but like butt in the air. Like I'm not imposing.
01:20:33
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We're calling.
The Lou Dilemma
01:20:34
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Right.
01:20:40
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as As the other two come back, paint me the picture as they're about to knock on the door. Talaira's tall enough to see in the window.
01:20:51
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As Maeve in the room, like off in the corner, kind of humming a little tune, keeping an eye on everything, low to the ground. What Yellen doing to try to coerce Lou?
01:21:02
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So for the past little bit that they've been gone, Yellen's probably like, okay, so like, I know you're a person and I know like, I'm not going to treat you like an animal, obviously. So if you can understand me, like stomp once for yes and twice for no.
01:21:17
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ah You get no response. It just stares at you. Like, Lou just stares at you. He's probably just sitting like crisscross applesauce being like, come on, just like once for yes, twice for no.
01:21:29
Speaker
We need to know, though. Did Lou go into the little cubby we made her? No, no. She is in the same corner, just wide-eyed staring at all of you. or bumy That's what I'm saying. What is Yellen, as they finally get back, what is Yellen doing to continue to coerce?
01:21:45
Speaker
You're ruining the cubby we made her. Back away she has space. At this point, he's probably like gone to sit next to Maeve and he's like, do you think she's going to go in?
01:21:56
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do Should I do something? I think if we um poke her more, it might have the opposite effect. You know, as they say, don't poke the bear. odd You know what? that That is something people say. yeah I'll leave it be.
01:22:11
Speaker
I'll leave it be for now. And like a couple seconds pass and Yellen's like, you think she's going to do it? Maybe. you think she's going to go in? You're interrupting my song. Okay, okay. Sorry. You can barely hear them muffled. Delira, you can hear them muffled like through the window and you can see them having this discussion and Yellen kind of like, ah, and do you all knock on the door?
01:22:34
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Yeah.
01:22:37
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If this all...
01:22:40
Speaker
with a knock on the door and Talira saying that.
Reflecting on Episode 10's Significance
01:22:44
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think we'll end the session there. Well, audience, for a 10th episode, this was a heavy one. Yeah. oof yeah but yeah So, yeah.
01:22:57
Speaker
Hope you all enjoyed it. um Yeah, that was a good that was a good episode. i don't know i don't um um I don't know anything else to say. I know Renny wasn't ready for it, so... and Not even a little bit.
01:23:11
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Audience, I hope you enjoyed it. um Take a deep breath after that one. That was pretty heavy. And again, thank you for sticking with us this long. the Episode number 10 is pretty big milestone. I'm pretty excited.
01:23:23
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Thank you. We'll be at 100 and no time. Hell yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Well, that's it from us this time. So we'll see you guys in two weeks. Bye.
01:23:34
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See you then.
01:23:39
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We want to say thank you to our cast, myself, Curtis Woosley as the GM, MJ Gunther as Talira Grimstone at Elanathi, Sephira as Maeve Strongheart, Rennie Armas as Kelden, and Jack Baldwin as Young Yacol.
01:23:52
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Additional thank you to our graphics by Scentic GFX and our intro and outro music composed by Ryan Munn's owner and operator of Eyes on the Moon Studios.
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