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Ep. 190 Rendezvous - Bellum Draconis
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Introduction to Fellowship of the Tabletop
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you all oh we forgot we've got that noise thing let's all remember that will's got that noise thing called being a bitch ah
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Belem
Character Introductions
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Draconis. We are a live play 5E 2024 5th edition 5.5 D&D podcast and the magical homebrew one of Aerith in the Kingdom of Draddak. And kind of all over the place as well. Joining you for this ah next episode who we have Peebee who plays the rules consulting human cleric Emron.
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Hello. We've got the apple pie smashing cum lord edgelord Callum who plays the warforged shartivist Alpha. I'm on the love boat. Eelint, who plays the tiefling war surer Nyx Carell.
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Love, Lever, Loud. Will, who plays the dragonborn druid Baal Valkon. Misophonia is real, look it up. Darren, who plays the half-orc barbarian Thalak Sunjari. Hello.
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My name is Mark and I am playing the Human Blade singer, Seth Farah Reaver. And by last but my name is least is the Chronicle Carver, the Calamity Conductor, the Captain of Carnage, the Custodian of Cream Pies and the Commander of the Clench, Dungeon Master
Aftermath of Battle with Uriond Cardenal
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Danny. Sweet Caroline.
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but oh Merry Christmas. who
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That is what they say. This this isn't our Christmas episode. No, far from it. It's it's like 35 degrees right now. But yeah nonetheless, we take ourselves back a number of episodes to the ocean.
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The battle is over. The guns that shook the sea have finally fallen silent, leaving behind only the cackle of fire and the groan of dying timber.
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Thick smoke drifts across the waves in black ribbons, lit from beneath by scattered flames that dance upon the wreckage of a hundred shattered decks.
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Around you, the broken remains of the Shadomendian fleet drift with the tide. their banners torn, their hulls splintered, their purpose spent.
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And yet, amidst this ruinous scene, you stand victorious. Uriond Cardenal is dead. The Lion of the Sea has been broken.
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His keystone has been wrestled from his grasp and now awaits its final journey to the Hells. Another of Tolcalon's anchors upon Erith has fallen.
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But victory has demanded its due. Ghostwing, the black, acidic dragon, one third of the leaders of the winged watch, lies beneath these waters, his final roar drowned out by cannon fire and the claws of this awakened Dandosphinx.
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Now his shattered body sinks to the dark abyss below, claimed by depths that no, no sunlight, no funeral, no pyre, only the cold embrace of the sea and the Esmeralda, the cursed vessel that has twice defied its fate.
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At Nyx's command, she gave everything she had left. Her rotting hull smashed into the lion of the sea with enough force to shake the ocean itself. And when her captain stepped stepped from her deck, she surrendered at last.
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Timber split. The sea rushed in. The ancient ship slipped beneath the waves once more.
Pirate Fleets and Ship Status
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Her final voyage complete. Her final song sunk.
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Now you stand upon the burning deck of the Lion of the Sea as flames crawl through her shattered rigging and smoke coils into the darkening sky.
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And you are not alone. From every direction, sails emerge through the haze. Dozens of them. The independent pirate fleets of trade lord Vossan encircle you, their vessels keeping a respectful distance from the flagship that you stand upon.
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No cannons are loaded, but boarding parties are in their boats. They are approaching, watching, expecting.
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At the eleventh hour, when all seemed lost, you struck an agreement, an alliance forged from desperation and necessity. Vossan's fleets held their end of the bargain.
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Upon the deck, hundreds of eyes are fixed upon you. And upon that is the object that will decide the future of Shadowment.
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The crown.
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those of you still on deck, Alpha, Tharok, Baal, Nyx, and members of the crew of the Severed Compass,
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you have a few minutes before a series of rowboats attach themselves.
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What would you do? I have a quick question before, just just so I can retcon, because obviously before we got on the deck, we had a naval fight and just checking this boat is fucked and the severed compass is fucked, isn't it? Like there's that, that the boats that we are, that we have in our vicinity are completely ruined for want of a better way. Yeah. I mean, they're not sinking, but they are damaged. They're not going anywhere.
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You'll be, you'll be limping back to shore.
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Farok will go over to the, extinguish the flame tongue and he'll go over to the corpse and where Alpha has just peppered it with bullets on the floor, will pick up the crown and go shall we have a deal to keep?
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That, that was, uh, that was intense. This is tense. Val, I love you so much. Yeah, well, please stop dying, Nix.
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No, I can't promise that. You should know that when you married me. Yeah, it's till death do us part. How many fucking times do I have
Emotional Dialogues and Aftermath Reflections
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to marry you? I need to test it. I have severe emotional detachment issues.
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Right. Alpha, you okay? Certainly putting the Undying Champion's name to its most accurate use, they nicked. Most certainly. God, I kind of meant the whole revenge arc that you've been on. How are you doing?
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Honestly? I'm not sure. I'm very glad that Eli's dead. i I've vented frustration, anger, rage.
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And yet I still feel somewhat hollow. Do you want me to burn his body? Ooh. That might help. Do think? Perhaps not on a boat, though. if if we're thinking If we're thinking, like, really kind of give it to the corpse, just toss him overboard and, you know, the big old spider will gobble him up and I might get some power back for that. That's kind of like there's a whole deal at the moment. Like, I give, I receive. It's just kind of like what me and you have, Bal, but in a totally different way. It's more like I receive, I receive. But yeah. um I'm a giver.
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Well, I just think I've got one king already in my bag. you just do i Ashes of a king times two? i mean like Collect them, collect the whole set? i If you wish him to be burned and collected ashes, have no issues.
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It's not like this ship's going anywhere at the moment. There's a lot of people surrounding us, though. Yes. If Farrakh had a point, we have a deal. They've come for the crown. I know, Farrakh now has the crown in his hand, but has the corpse of Euron Cardinal on his body and goes, to cringe, am I... Shall want one dish? Am I putting this in the ocean? And that they'll just point to the corpse of Euron on his back.
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Alpha's actually going to try and to kind of reach a hand out to the crown from Farrakh and just, not forcibly, but kind of grab the crown from Farrakh if he'll let him. Okay, yes, take the crown. Very good. Corpse from my back.
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Sure. Put it on your head, Alpha. Go on. Go on. Just just for a second. Put on your head. I think that that might give the the viewers the wrong image. Well, like, no one's on the ship yet. We can still play.
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quite just just see what it was just like Just see how it looks. I've got a hand, got a crown. Is that true? is there Is there anyone currently on the ship that would notice if Alpha kind of placed the crown of Shadow Men onto his own head in a very kind of look at me, I'm the captain.
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To be honest, that's what Alpha was going to do anyway. So yeah yeah, I'm holding the crown gently and I'm just going to slowly kind of raise it up. Almost like a bit hesitant. He's kind of waiting for somebody to say no.
The Crown of Shadow Men Debate
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ah He's waiting for somebody to say no just out of curiosity. There is about a dozen sailors, Osrin Island sailors, that kind of boarded with the Severed Compass as well. So there is a small assembly seeing you do this.
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It's like a correlation. Do it, do it, do it. As Nick puts both fists clenched and just both hands down. Do it, do it. Okay, we've given up on the body. I'm going to put it down. It's fucking heavy.
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Yeah, Alf is going to carry on. Slowly put the crown on top of his head. oh And with that action...
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Maris, Pike, Brought, Helra, the two or three other Otteran sailors just kind of stand
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staring at you in a kind of sense of surprise. One of them attempts to kneel and one the dwarfs kind of pulls them back up again, looking a bit uncertain, but they wrong they're all understanding
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that you might have just declared something important and are kind of avidly watching. At the same time, I'm kind of scanning the horizon and seeing that the pirates are closing in.
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I do believe by right of succession that I am the next in line to rule Shadow Men anyway. i am, in theory, the son of Reynes Hadal. Yeah. Yeah.
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i mean now's Like, yeah, I guess. He's not wrong. that the The trouble is we promised the crown. You've got it on your head. We promise that to um yeah we we promised that to someone else. we could like You can't really... know, but like we could just like for until someone boards it and goes, that's ours. And we can go like, well, I mean, I guess it's up to Alpha at the moment. but And be like, I'll wear it until Vosan gets here and i I can give it over then. It's just nice sometimes to make believe and put things on. Don't let your dreams be dreams. Maybe right now he's king Shadow Men.
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Does that you could pass a law? King Alpha? I guess so. What do you decree, my liege? i do not know.
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um Voss and his crew are enemies of Shadow Men. Okay, that's a big one Can I do that? You can, but you shouldn't I just want to put out there And Nix will point up to the Steel Nightmare We've still got like an ultimate goal here So maybe we don't want to We can come back So less than that Everybody on this ship deserves an extravagant wooden throne I like that Much like I made for Bar Yes, please Okay, I like it
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Nyx, you feel a kind of tug on your cloak. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's new. Captain. I'll look at it. Oh, yeah. Should we um maybe prepare to...
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Depart. ah Is pirates mean business, Captain? Yeah, they want the crown. And we made a deal. The whole reason why we're stood here as victors is because of the deal that we made. And I'm kind of done with running from deals at the moment and kind of like negating on them. But ah to be fair right now, this kind of rests on our king metal feet wheel thing at the moment.
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ah So just stay, keep a savvy eye out and ah make the ship as seaworthy as possible while we've got some time and get ready to weigh anchor, make haste if if I give the command or the king gives the command. But right now we're just kind of playing it fast and loose as Nyx gives a eye over to Alpha over what happens next. But I would prepare for us to be boarded regardless.
Decisions and Alliances with Pirates
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Maybe, maybe, maybe, because I think we're going to be boarded. Maybe you want to gather the crew up and hunker down in the hole. That way, you know, you're safe. Let's keep you safe.
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Yeah, savvy.
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And it just kind of looks hesitant at that last order about squeezing into the hull. Okay, well, I understand that. Enclosed dark spaces, claustrophobic. I don't want to say that you are and what you're not, but if you want to stay out in the open, just, there's my words, be prepared to be boarded and make the ship as seaworthy as possible in the time that we have left, which looking at the ships in the distance don't seem to be that long out for what we're doing, huh?
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I just kind of, aye, Captain, and doubles back to you. While that's happening, gonna go over. There's no kings at Captain. It's your word or none. Oh! uh well for now uh make the ship seaworthy but in a in a in like k nonchalant way not in a we're making haste because like you don't you gotta worry about perception perception's everything right so right now we've got ships coming our way and they're looking at us and if they see the crew running around to make the ship seaworthy they're probably gonna think that we're fucking off i don't know if we are doing at the moment so if you could just do it in a Yeah, right. We're kind of like, we're going to move maybe not short kind of way that would really help us out.
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going roll performance.
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As they walk back towards the severed compass, it looks incredibly awkward. Like they are trying to act very poorly.
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how to not look desperately afraid um or urgent. And you can see they look at doing a very unconvincing job of it. But I guess you scan back to the rest of the party as Tharok desperately tries to say something.
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So Alfa, it's really on you whether or not you want to do this or not. Tharok, sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm excitable. Yeah, it's very excitable. did you Did you die again, by the way? I blacked out while I was raging.
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I died hard. Twice. His heart stopped. I had to claim his soul back to his body. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure that I come back as me every time or some parts of me gets lost.
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No, well, technically the flesh is replaced by this gold that I had to place into you and he kind of taps the bullet holes that are kind of gold plated now. I'm walking treasure. Is that what you're saying? ah Always were, darling, but um try just to die less. is Yeah.
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Die less. Please. Yeah. ah I'll work on that. But he did. saro Twice. it I always go twice though. Isn't that right, babe?
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He's right. He's right. he is Yeah, it's twice. Yes. Sex joke. Orgasm. Alpha. Like a cat. I know that- He's very good. Probably hold some form of sentimental value to you.
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Or maybe not. But either way, Nick said one thing in all of that spiel that was actually really smart, which is that thing is still in the sky. And Eurons may have been the head of that family, but there are more of them in Shadowmend. I say give them the crown and let them take care of them.
00:17:35
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It's a long way from here. It's six months north. We have no business worrying about what that crown can do now. I believe I have every business to a certain extent.
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Shadowmend is still my home. It is where I was created, raised, learnt. Still have friends there.
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Not many, albeit, but some. I'm just having concern about what Vossan may do given the crown. I am...
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I have concern about the fact that some of Euron's own family are still in Shadow Men and will seek revenge, but they're not the immediate concern. That is, I say we get rid of the crown, we get rid of these pirates, and then maybe in the future you can, you can, I don't know.
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But for now, we have to focus on that, and I think we have to give this crown over. There's no sense in us keeping it and him sticking us at the bottom of the ocean for doing so. I suppose there is the logical assumption not having a shadow mend to rule it'd better than not having a shadow mend at all.
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It's also, as I said, a very long way from here. I think Tharok does make a good point, though, that we've got... We know what we we did our part. Hopefully those in hell have have done their part, and hopefully we've now got Valkyress and the team...
Pirate Boarding and Negotiations
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up there or or hopefully will do shortly. Either way, that, as Tharok said, and Barth says pointing upwards, is what we are here to deal with, not Shadowmen, not the stuff yet.
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But Alpha, if you wish to kind of come back for your crown, which is rightfully yours, as you say, ah then, I mean, I'm all for it. Just, I think, not now.
00:19:37
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, leaning on to what Baal said, um i did say that that thing is still in the sky and then Tharic agreed to me. But it really is kind of also at the same time, kind of what you want to do because you are the last remaining Shadomendian, not trying to stir chaos or anything like that. I'm just very interested in seeing where your thoughts, freedom of thoughts, take you.
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I was going pause a moment after listening to everybody. was going to have a Casual. what Would I know which direction Vossan may be coming from? is he around us at all? Vossan isn't around, but you've got pirates to the north, east, south, and west, and they're kind of they're in their dinghy rowboats coming over to board, and in fact, they're about to make contact with the ship. They weren't far away.
00:20:25
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Just in the few moments that Alpha has, he's just going to slowly walk to the ah helm, and of the ship.
00:20:36
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Hey, now just kind of put his hands, uh, to it. Or it's like, we basically where Vossan was stood when we were boarding the ship. Sorry. We're early on. you Yeah.
00:20:49
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We're going to have a stood as we're boarding the ship and just kind of hold the wheel just while we're in the crown, just for a few moments before all the, uh, people come aboard.
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And slowly but surely you start to hear the thudding in deck of a party climbing the port side, a party climbing the starboard side, and a party climbing at the bow as well.
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would say that you've got a couple of minutes. I can hold them, Alpha, while you make peace with whatever choice that you're going to do. It's fine, Nick.
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For Aerith and still foreshadowment, perhaps now but is not the right time. Well, I mean, if it's worth anything, I will consider you the king of Shadomend.
00:21:42
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From one captain to a king. Savvy? And Nick's will hold our hand. And Alpha takes it. Savvy? Ah, right.
00:21:52
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Cool. ah Do you want to take this then? or do you want me to lead the vocab? At this point, Baal and Tharok, I imagine you're kind of, one's at port side, one's at starboard side, seeing this kind of group arrive. And Baal, under kind of...
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ah I forget the name. that the the that The only word coming to mind is ladder, but I know it's not ladder. Rigging. Yeah, but not... It's the up the hull, not not the rigging up the sail.
00:22:25
Speaker
Well-crafted rope ladder. Ladder. Okay, there you go. The first kind of body that emerges, you see the parrot first, the parrot that guided the vessel through the debris and through the mist and through the weather.
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before you see these very broad shoulders of this orc captain that kind of climbs up and as he kind of squeezes through the hand railing, of the line and this the of the the line of the snake the Lion of the It kind of pushes past you a little bit. You then kind of see this very opulently dressed cohort with quite aggressive axes. Like these aren't these aren't polished sailors or polished pirates with their their rapiers and and the fine blades. These are brutes. These are... these are um
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ah
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kind of barbarian like in their approach and their demeanor.
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The pack that you see, Tharok, is a mixture of elves and halflings. They are um a bit more refined. Like you're seeing lots of different cultures of of kind of vessel types and crew types.
00:23:44
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And the last one to kind of emerge from your side, Baal, is this very kind of opulently dressed, out of place, given the kind of characters that have been coming up this the side of the the ship first.
00:23:55
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They're opulently dressed, big tricorn kind of um hat, feather kind of edges, heavy overcoat. can't really see this person's face until they get right up, kind of within kind of touching distance of your nose.
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And as this individual just lifts their hat slightly higher, gives you a small grin, unmistakably, probably go to Majestic.
00:24:21
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And he just steps on deck away from the pack that he boarded with and makes a very slow, nondiscreet walk along that northern edge of this vessel, trying to get a bit closer to Alpha and Nyx, but making sure you saw him and kind of keeping looking back at you very regularly. What the fuck is...
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ah i
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Undying champions. but And now everyone is kind of moving towards that, that, um helm where Nyx and Alpha are kind of gathered do you want do you want do you want to take this one on do you want to i as king of Shadowman do you want to take this one probably don't call yourself king Shadowman just know that I think you're king of Shadowman but you want the captain to take this and this walk now is approaching you Nyx and just palm first and grabs yours Oh my god, what the shit? See, Alpha, am I talking are you talking? And it just puts this squeeze into your hand. Hey, can you make a fucking sound or something? Fine battle.
00:25:34
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Yes! Ha! Ah! Fine battle. We slayed everything. I mean, we killed, look at him. And Nyx will point to Uri on, fucking dead, look!
00:25:48
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And we are barely scratched. As he turns, you just see these scars down this orcish face. This this this person has only known conflict. And it just has this this bulky green skin with all of these kind of bilious points where scar tissue has moved into kind of pussy formations.
00:26:06
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And just stares at this corpse that you look at kind of with joy, turns back to you and just continues grinning. Bits of teeth missing, bits of kind of like flesh stuck in the teeth too. This guy stinks of pirate and you love it. Yeah, I love everything. I love your aura. I just want you to know one thing as well. Like we barely got scratched. We are tip-top condition just for whatever that's worth. He just kind takes little peek at the severed compass when you claim that.
00:26:34
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Us ourselves, ourselves, us as people, as as pirates. As pirates, we are in tip-top fighting condition, in that right, Alpha? Let's go of your hand, seeing you, you're kind of in pain.
00:26:48
Speaker
Hanks! Ah! I believe an artifact is due to be given. Yes, and an artifact shall be given. Is it the one that you think it is, Alpha?
00:27:06
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They are here for the crown. Yes! Ah! Alpha's going to take it off in his own kind of slow manner and just stare at it one last time.
00:27:17
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He wanted to warm it for the new king, Gah! ah
00:27:23
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And Tharok, you're kind of surrounded by about a dozen figures at this point. Not in an overtly hostile way, it's just you're aware you're outnumbered.
00:27:36
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And also pretty bad and bruised. Yeah, Farrakh will find the largest if there is an orc among the lot that have surrounded him. Only the one orc, but there are kind of half-orc spawn of this captain. The largest one.
00:27:50
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And with no hostility, he's just going to just keep his hand on his sword hilt. And he's just going to... Similar fashion to the one who's just grabbed Nix. He's just not going to physically touch to him, but he's just going to smile and just just keep that hand on his hilt ready with no aggression, just a smile, but the hand is remaining firmly on the hilt of Flametongue.
00:28:16
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And all eyes wait in kind of baited anticipation. And this item in your hand, Alpha. And he's going to offer it out. He's going to keep one hand just wrapped around it.
00:28:29
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at this moment, but he is going to offer it out towards... Is it the Prego that is in front of me as well as the orc? No, this is Captain Vargas, who hasn't introduced himself and hasn't cared to. Okay, that's fine. He's going to gesture it towards the orc that's been gripping onto Nyx.
00:28:50
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And I presume he's going to reach out and grab it. He does. Alpha's not going to let go straight away. So you're just kind of clenched by the side of his ringed headpiece. Yeah, we've got each one clenched hand on the crown at the moment.
00:29:04
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Please pass a message on to your master for me.
00:29:11
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Tell him to keep his men on standby. He may have done enough to earn this crown, but we still may need him in the future, in the very, very near future, because that...
Return to Devastated Home and Grief
00:29:25
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and he gestures up towards us, your nightmare, is still a problem. And if we fail at that, then he does not have a kingdom to rule.
00:29:39
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And then Alpha will let go of the crown. Make persuasion or intimidation your choice. Yes! What am I better at? I am equally shit... at both.
00:29:50
Speaker
Have got anything that can help you? don't think do. If anybody has anything, that would be great. I have something I can do myself. I don't. um I mean, I'm the only person that drank the fucking potion of heroism, so I would have had a nice D4 to mine, I think.
00:30:08
Speaker
Well, I can just add a straight 4 to the roll that I'm going to do, which is really slow. And it's a natural 20! Yay! Yay!
00:30:18
Speaker
Oh dear me. i Just in case, I'm still going to use Flash of Genius for a 24 anyway. Because ability checks are still... There's this where you you're outside yeah This orc outsizes you, but because he's kind of... You're elevated, right? You're speaking from a higher position on that helm.
00:30:38
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You're both holding onto to this ring. Your eyes are completely in alignment for the exact same height with your kind of step up. It's kind of this mild tug of war between both of your fists.
00:30:51
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He just locks eyes with you as you're trying to give him him an instruction.
00:30:58
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And then starts grinning.
00:31:03
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I like you, middleman. You should sail with me. Steady, steady, steady. He's already part of a crew. Thank you. Then he big begins to apply some force to the crown to take it from you at that point.
00:31:19
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Which i would I only wanted to hold it while I was given the message. So if the force comes from him, I will not quickly but gradually let go of the crown towards him. I'm not going to get into competition about it.
00:31:32
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And opulently raises it above his head. kind of turns and walks with a swagger back, lets out a sharp whistle.
00:31:46
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Tharok, this kind of ring of bodies around you that looked to have pinned you in, dissipates.
00:31:55
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you watch as these pirates slowly, confidently, with bravado, begin to disembark, all but once.
00:32:09
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who can, has actually turned from this entire scene, his back and is just looking northward on the horizon. Whilst this conversation's going on, I think Baa would have sidled up to him.
00:32:23
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Seeing as though the last Balsaw of him was chained up and being dragged to the hells ah with a save me on his lips. So his attention is away from Alfred and all the shit that's going on there.
00:32:37
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As you get closer, you just kind of see your bottom lip quivering, a tear in his eye, and him just working on breathing. But underneath that huge hat to try and hide that from most people.
00:32:52
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And he just kind of observes the crew of the Severed Compass awkwardly trying to look like they aren't readying a counterattack should they be attacked.
00:33:05
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um What Barl's going to do is he's going to stare at him from the side and...
00:33:15
Speaker
But what I basically want to do is see, is there any form of illusion or anything like that on this person? um ah Like yeah in my head, I was like, du maybe do I, do I poke him in the face and just be like this? Like this isn't real. or Is this real? I don't understand. Can this be real? ah Like ruining the moment that he's having certainly, but bar wants to just make sure that this is not some sort of um the sky self or, or anything going on there.
00:33:46
Speaker
Make a perception check or poke him. Whatever you would to do. Pokeception check. Just because my Pokeception is Pokeceptionally high and I get to poke with Poke Vantage, I will get a 17 on perception.
00:34:06
Speaker
You study him. You watch these kind of beads of sweat move from his brow to his chin, his well-sculpted chin.
00:34:20
Speaker
drop onto the floor and you see damp spot where that drop contacts the wood his breath exhales and you can kind of detect it
00:34:38
Speaker
he smells as though he hasn't just kind of blended in like there is an odour to him And Baal knows that there is something dodgy about time with this fellow as well from their like kind of previous conversations and like like when they first met him and with the whole thing about Nyx.
00:34:56
Speaker
So Baal's going to trying to pay attention to that and see what he looks like, seeing if he looks whether older or so than that. And what he'll do is he'll just say, when was the last time you saw me?
00:35:12
Speaker
He doesn't turn to you.
00:35:16
Speaker
but he struggles to say it.
00:35:23
Speaker
I asked you to save me and here I am.
00:35:30
Speaker
How?
00:35:33
Speaker
You're here. oh yeah How are you How did you get out? How did you escape?
00:35:40
Speaker
Because of you. We got the key. You just... We stopped the curse. It's done.
00:35:48
Speaker
And he'll kind of try to stop himself being so excited because obviously there's the other kind of pirates leaving the ship. He doesn't want to necessarily draw attention here. But Baal is certainly flabbergasted by that.
00:36:00
Speaker
you Holy shit, that was quick. Of course, no, it had to be quick. yeah He just now turns to you and you see his entire face and there was very little joy on why Why? aren't you... Why?
00:36:18
Speaker
What's wrong? What's happened?
00:36:25
Speaker
I'm here to take you all back.
00:36:28
Speaker
We need to prepare to go up there. And we have very little to go on.
00:36:38
Speaker
Something has happened. And it is not pleasant.
00:36:45
Speaker
Uh...
00:36:49
Speaker
Right. Okay, how do we... This ship isn't going to be ready to... You... We're not taking the ship. We're leaving now.
00:37:01
Speaker
I'll gather the crew. I cannot take the crew. No. The Undying Champions, though. Yes. Right. And Baal will kind of with that...
00:37:14
Speaker
stroll off to the others. He'll just turn back and solemnly stare into the horizon. Just saying, you did a real good job there, and there's no reason why we can't come back, or we can find someone to fashion you a crown. Just because he's got a crown doesn't mean that you can't have a crown. You can have a crown off, and whoever wins it is the King Shadowmen. I'm just saying that we can come back. It's what the crowd represents, Nick. It's not quite the same thing if I just get a fake crown to replace the crown. I hear you. I really do. I hear you. I had the ESPN round. Undying champions, team, we've got to go.
00:37:52
Speaker
We form up. Excuse me for overstepping my mark, Nix, but... And he'll turn. Are any of the members of the... um ah Of the... Our ship, the the the compass, the Severed Compass, are they still on deck? or are they No, Nix ordered them back to the ship. ah Nix, you need to you need to tell the the crew of the Severed Compass to return if they can to Sleet Guard.
00:38:17
Speaker
Prego's here.
00:38:21
Speaker
and that's awesome already when you kind of offer that you look at the only other person on deck about 40 feet away from you nix
00:38:32
Speaker
and he's staring at you with sadness not awesome something's happened odd expression I don't know what it is, but he looks fucking devastated and I am terrified. We need to go. and We need to go now. Are you ready? Is everyone healthy? I detect thoughts ah at Prego as Barl is talking.
00:38:59
Speaker
ah Wisdom 16 saving and throw. Yeah, you're in range. I'm in range, I think. Let me just check, a check, check. It wouldn't be hard if you stepped forward 10 feet and being 30 feet. I think it's 30 feet.
00:39:09
Speaker
Yeah, I'd step forward it ba because Barl's doing his thing. So I just want to get a read. Yes, don't you think? That's 18. Oh, he fails. But I get the sense of... um i get the sense of, like, top thoughts.
00:39:25
Speaker
And there's one word.
00:39:29
Speaker
Karstan. No. Emron. Emron. Emron. eron emron emron over Over and over and over again. uh all right yep everyone go to prego i'm just gonna make sure that the crew's off this ship and nix is gonna just um clear his voice anyone from the severed compass return that ship make a sea worthy and head to where we saying
00:40:06
Speaker
I think just back to port. Back to the nearest god port in Sleetgarde. And be safe. And thanks. Where we departed from. It makes sense, doesn't it? Right? Yeah.
00:40:17
Speaker
Yeah. Where we departed from. We're going on a journey. So take care of yourselves. ah Oh, shit. mary Marin. Marin? Marin. Marin. Maris. Maris.
00:40:32
Speaker
Your captain. Interlude. Interlude. Aye aye sir. Aye. Just shouted back.
00:40:41
Speaker
Okay, good. Nick's a point to everyone. Is everyone healthy? I don't know what it is that we're going back into, but he's definitely got some urgency. I don't know whether we're to... never met Prego before, so he's he's following you, as he's been told to, and he can see the urgency, but he's just the only time he's seen Prego was him being dropped down that hole, so he didn't get a good look at him. So he's looking a tad confused and a tad concerned at how concerned you appear to be, Val.
00:41:09
Speaker
I could do with some repairs as well if we have the time.
00:41:15
Speaker
I can help you. I can sort you out. And Barl will quickly look you over. How, like, are you, do you look fucked up? Do you look mildly fucked up? Or you like, eh, it is but a scratch? I would probably say mildly fucked up.
00:41:30
Speaker
Cool. Barl's going to pump a second level cure wounds into you, buddy boy. Yeah. As he kind of, the magic emanates from his mouth and he kind of licks your wounds. Woof, woof. 28 points of healing.
00:41:44
Speaker
That is fucking, yeah, that is pretty much very spot on. We're good to go? Absolutely.
00:41:53
Speaker
Prego, think we're ready. And he kind of boots the gangplank that connects the severed compass to the line of the sea with a firm kick and then produces a pouch and kind of draws a circle in dust and speaks few demonic words and that circle glows blue.
00:42:21
Speaker
And then he stands inside it. Alpha's a hand to his left and a hand to his right. And the whole time now, he's just staring, staring at Alpha.
00:42:37
Speaker
Almost unblinking, it's incredibly unnerving. But both hands are kind of out in a full wingspan waiting for you to take them. Alpha's probably going to walk into it but will stand opposite.
00:42:51
Speaker
Prago leaving space to kind of nix and ball at either side and just as he is walking into the circle.
00:43:00
Speaker
Prago, tell me what has happened?
00:43:06
Speaker
He just continues to mumble a kind of demonic incantation as the ring gets brighter and brighter but his focus is on you. Blinks maybe once every minute while he's doing this, waiting for Baal, waiting for Nyx, and waiting Tharok.
00:43:25
Speaker
Baal's going to grab Nyx's hand and go and connect up. Yep, yep.
00:43:31
Speaker
Tharok will look confused as he's not sure what's going on, but he'll follow suit when he sees people grabbing hands. Oh yeah, thoroughly I forgot. As soon as all five of you are connected, this blue light kind of glows into a well.
00:43:46
Speaker
And this whole time you kind of feel a sense of motion and you're all looking, i I guess, at Prego and he's just staring, beginning to now tear up again Alpha.
00:43:58
Speaker
And after a few seconds, that light fades and you're no longer into the kind of swashing skies, the damp skies of the ocean. You're back on firm land.
00:44:10
Speaker
But there are black clouds. There is risen smoke. There is the smell of burnt stone, of burnt flesh, of burnt earth. You're in a ruin, a very familiar ruin, but a ruin nonetheless.
00:44:26
Speaker
You stand amongst an entirely flattened, destroyed and desecrated gold port keep, where no more structures stand.
00:44:40
Speaker
20, 30 recently dug and filled graves occupy your sight to the east. To the west, you see a small fire with Seth and with Drago around it, warming their hands.
00:45:01
Speaker
To the north, gathering whatever provisions still might be consumable from amongst the burnt, gray blanket that sits over these ruins
00:45:18
Speaker
is Karstan.
00:45:23
Speaker
The blue light fades
00:45:27
Speaker
all of strength. Imprego's core just kind of loses, but he continues to hold the hands of any that still hold his. And he just looks slowly, forlornly, up at the steel nightmare and says nothing.
00:45:44
Speaker
But you are back in gold port slash snake run keep. What the fuck happened here? The fuck is going on? Oh my.
00:45:57
Speaker
up up Seth! Seth! oh What happened?
00:46:04
Speaker
ah You'll see Seth slowly turn around um and kind of flicked by the flame light ah below around his eye patch. You see this more gaunt looking face than you previously had seen before.
00:46:18
Speaker
um And if a single eye could... This is a 500 yard stare if you only have one eye. Um, but nonetheless, it's, it's, ah it's a look of distance, distance and horror.
00:46:30
Speaker
Um, there's not much reaction to seeing you. It's just a kind of a slow nod. And then he returns his eyes back to looking at the fire.
00:46:43
Speaker
That was a prego. Come on. uh, car stand, car stand. What, what's going on?
00:46:51
Speaker
Karstan, you weren't kind of immediately aware of them returning because you were kind of in your trance-like state trying to do anything to improve the situation. Karstan sort of looks up And then he's got a frown on his face and he looks quite, um, his clothes are quite weather beaten. They're quite, um, damaged. There's, there's clearly he looks like he's, he's been literally like kneeling in soil and that kind of stuff. It's been about four hours. Sorry, everyone. It's been about four hours since where we left. lefter Yeah. you am
00:47:23
Speaker
So he's, he's like, and so he looks like he's in and he sort of holds hand.
00:47:30
Speaker
and sort of gestures towards the fire because I see him a bit of a shouting distance away. Karsan's not, he's not going to shout. He just waves and casts the fire and then starts to trudge towards the fire.
00:47:43
Speaker
Cool. Okay. Where's Valkareth?
00:47:49
Speaker
This is her doing. Just staring up at the nightmare. Come on, come on. Karstan will tell us. let's Let's just go to the... ah We need answers. And Prago is... And Seth is... Let's just go to the fire.
00:48:09
Speaker
but Just as they start to move over, Farok is going to clock the elephant in the room that there's no sign of Emron. And as they do, he's just going to put a hand on Alpha's shoulder and then follow over to where Karstan is.
00:48:25
Speaker
Alfa's kind of been... He's doing that kind of turn where he's still expecting on the next 90-degree spin, oh, he's going to be there.
00:48:37
Speaker
So Alphard was kind of turning left, right, very very, very sharply, just kind of almost whispering himself, Emron? Emron? And I'm going take a quick glance over to where the armory was, which is basically pretty much a second home for me, Emron and Reigns, for our God knows how long at this point.
00:48:58
Speaker
And I'm assuming that's just been... It's been almost unearthed. It's been kind of pulled up from its foundation and turned over. that The embers that once kind of kept that forge going, they've been scattered.
00:49:14
Speaker
They've been cooled. Alpha's arm just kind of dropped down to the side, almost and as much and as a construct can go limp.
00:49:25
Speaker
That's kind of what Alpha's just done at this moment. He's afraid to admit it to himself, but he knows what's probably going to be coming, but he's still not sure it's not been confirmed. So he's very much head spinning. But yeah, he's going to follow Farok's lead and just start heading towards the fire. He want he wants as much explanation as anyone.
00:49:46
Speaker
Then seeing that everyone but Prego is now kind of gathered around the fire, he slowly breaks his isolation and wonders very slowly to join you all.
Resolving to Continue the Mission
00:50:05
Speaker
Okay, Karsten, um can you tell us what's going on, please? Karsten puts the wooden provisions and bits around. we We did our part. We won.
00:50:18
Speaker
Hey. Okay. Where's Emron? Okay. Good start. At great cost.
00:50:26
Speaker
yeah well Okay. All right. ah Do you want to just lay it out quickly, like bullet point and then explain? Because this is fucking me up. We got to the Hells.
00:50:37
Speaker
We found the curse. We received the key. And Grazit was what was creating the shield to steal Nightmare.
00:50:51
Speaker
um Grazit being the person that we killed against the Blight. um Turns out that was being used to power the curse. um we came up with a plan to remove Grazit from that curse. There was some talk about about doing some other bits, but we thought, no, get get rid of the body, break the curse. um It would eventually reset as we thought it would do. We'd be able to get still mic there, all fine.
00:51:16
Speaker
We had a plan and we became overwhelmed. Myself and Seth chose to stand and get ready to execute the plan.
00:51:26
Speaker
Emron and Prego got ready to leave quickly and we would join them.
00:51:33
Speaker
Seth fell.
00:51:35
Speaker
I was on my knees.
00:51:39
Speaker
Prago and Emron returned to save us.
00:51:44
Speaker
Emron did his thing and became an angel. Filled the place with holy light.
00:51:53
Speaker
And as he and I stood by the body of Grazit, we knew one of us needed to get rid of the corpse. And we didn't have a lot of time. And if we didn't do something, we were all going to die.
00:52:09
Speaker
So rather than just get rid of the corpse, Emron took the place of Grazit.
00:52:17
Speaker
Emron put himself into the curse to change it, I believe.
00:52:24
Speaker
Rather than just stopping the protection of the still nightmare for a brief moment, I believe he may have tried to stop it forever and gave himself for that.
00:52:39
Speaker
Define gave himself.
00:52:45
Speaker
Became immersed within fiery beacon of magic and power from which there is no coming back from.
00:52:56
Speaker
Who says there's no coming back? What happened here? yeah The curse effect here. This is probably Chandra Lekar.
00:53:08
Speaker
What? Chandra Lekar fucked us over as well because Chandra Lekar had been approached by both people in the Steel Nightmare and card and the Cardinals and Shadow Men and basically fucked us.
00:53:20
Speaker
well We're in Sleek, God. She can't. Well, this is what I'm assuming. This is what's happened. I mean, we're taking a leave. There's there's fire that's burning. I'm assuming it's Chandra Lekar.
00:53:33
Speaker
But I don't know. We don't know. Who knows? That's me taking a leap, trying to make an intuitive guess. But I would guess she's come here to, after our conversation that I had with her, she's come here to come here to destroy this.
00:53:45
Speaker
She fucked us. well what what What did you say to her? I made a very convincing argument. And then she decided not to take our offer.
00:53:55
Speaker
it's there's a lot more into it but Emron is not coming back and he looks to Prego at that point I'm sorry to say it's a Brunley Prego Prego's on his knees now he's struggled to hear this back for another time Emron sacrificed himself and sent Drago and Karstan sort of is Drago sat around the fire I assume still yeah Karstan sort of placed a hand on Drago's shoulder Thrago had been pulled into a fight in another place, another world, and came back dead.
00:54:36
Speaker
Prager brought him back for us. Sent to fight Togalon.
00:54:44
Speaker
um And by all accounts...
00:54:50
Speaker
Emron sacrificed himself. Drago's brow furrows as he says that. And now I'm here. I'm still confused over the details because if I was able to come back from this curse, I'm unsure as to why we can't eventually because we still have to deal with that.
00:55:19
Speaker
And we don't want to make Emron's sacrifice in vain. But I'm unsure as to why, if we're successful, we can't go into hell
Encounter with Johann Veritas and Episode Conclusion
00:55:29
Speaker
again and take the curse's place to bring back Emron.
00:55:36
Speaker
Because you weren't... You were you were trapped a spell. i going in a spell You weren't part of the curse. You were trapped in ah another dimension, another a pocket dimension created by Grazit when, as a final fuck you to Tolkelon, when he was used as a sacrifice, Tolkelon was bound within Grazit's curse as well. So Tolkelon, even though he's doing all this, he was trapped. He couldn't get out.
00:56:00
Speaker
And if we released the Grazit sacrifice, we thought potentially that Tolkelon could get out as well and the Steel Nightmare would be vulnerable for a short amount of time. so I had surmised that we could sacrifice ourself or one of us to stop it permanently and keep Tol'kelon sealed for a longer time than we needed.
00:56:23
Speaker
So where's Tol'kelon right now? Is he fighting everyone? Probably caged, I assume. i don't i don't know. My brother is still imprisoned. Who's controlling the hells then? i He has influence, but he is not there.
00:56:38
Speaker
And... What about what happened here? What about the strike team for the for the Steel Nightmare? What about Valkyra? They are in the Steel Nightmare. then I have spoken to them and they are not alone.
00:56:54
Speaker
So they're okay. she So whatever happened here after they left? that That happened afterwards? What about the people that were here? Where have they gone?
00:57:05
Speaker
Sebastian... What's he? Karsthan sort of looks towards the graves.
00:57:12
Speaker
Orla. What? No, no, no, no, no. Sebastian can't be dead. the Red Rook. Bovrin.
00:57:23
Speaker
This is not how it was meant to be. We held up our end of the deal.
00:57:30
Speaker
Prego, you're the king of making deals. There's nothing that we can do here to bring back Emron and and anna and make a pact. There's always a deal to be made. Which one is Sebastian's?
00:57:45
Speaker
There's always a deal to be made. Seth will point to the one at the very far end. Farrah will walk over to it and just kneel by it.
00:58:03
Speaker
Karstan is... Karstan...
00:58:11
Speaker
Karstan is carrying a lot of guilt.
00:58:15
Speaker
But Emron, though? Like, I just want to know about... Is there no way... Prego, there's nothing that we can do to save Emron. His body and soul do not exist anymore.
00:58:27
Speaker
He is beyond death.
00:58:31
Speaker
How the fuck could this happen? And there's no way to reach him. He does not exist. And he's crying through this.
00:58:42
Speaker
Alpha. Alpha's just, he's standing up, he's walking off. He's going over to the armory. He's just got a very quick pace about him. Just before he leaves, he gives a very intense glare just towards Prego's direction.
00:59:08
Speaker
Seth's going to follow him, but like 20 or 30 paces behind, slowly.
00:59:16
Speaker
Nyx, Baal, I... It wasn't meant to be Enron.
00:59:23
Speaker
It was meant to be him. And he points at Drago. They are meant to that. was meant to be me. And that was the plan going into it. We didn't have to lose a friend.
00:59:38
Speaker
We had a plan. Yeah. If one falls, you keep going. But he wouldn't have done it if he he wouldn't have done it if he didn't think he was trying to do the right thing. He knew the plan was the best. was He knew just to push, get rid of the body and that would break the curse there's enough for us to be able to do what we need to do. He wouldn't have stepped in unless he needed to do something else.
00:59:58
Speaker
And all those enemies walked away, Prego. You're telling me that wasn't Emron? We should be dead.
01:00:10
Speaker
Why are you carrying guilt?
01:00:14
Speaker
Because should have been me. I was going to sacrifice myself. It shouldn't have been anyone. You should have carried on.
01:00:25
Speaker
And I'm the reason why Shondra Lekar destroyed this place.
01:00:30
Speaker
What do you mean? She wanted the eggs in return. i wouldn't give them to her. Straight away. What was the fucking plan?
01:00:41
Speaker
yes but What you wouldn't give her the eggs? If she had the eggs, there was nothing keeping a keep to keep her work. So I said she could have the eggs once our part had been done. Kirsten, you don't know her.
01:00:56
Speaker
You don't... No. Oh, my... But but i did what I had to do at the time.
01:01:07
Speaker
This could all have been avoided. We don't know that because she had been approached by the others as well who knew if she was ever going to actually follow us. If I gave her the eggs, we don't know if she was ever actually going to believe for follow us. She could have always been meant to screw us over. This make sense.
01:01:27
Speaker
It doesn't make sense. so
01:01:35
Speaker
Things went badly with Chandra Lekar. I did everything I could. Where's my brood? She tried to capture me. Where's my fucking brood? And Bart's going to storm off towards the graves.
01:01:50
Speaker
They're all unmarked.
01:01:54
Speaker
But Seth, you'll see Baal chaotically kind of trying to inspect every grave. And you did not bury a single dragonborn.
01:02:05
Speaker
You know that.
01:02:12
Speaker
So at the fire, Drago, Nyx, Karstan, and Prego are the graves Baal, Seth, Althor, and Tharok.
01:02:27
Speaker
We need to rest, Drago. We don't have the strength. I know. But I'm just wary. have her lifefriend i have heard from them up there.
01:02:39
Speaker
They are in trouble. yeah We can't. There's too much that's happened. Castan, I appreciate that. I need to rest. Everyone does, but we've already lost so much. and No, I i agree. that that that Let's go. Drago, Prego, what did you hear?
01:02:58
Speaker
I've spoken with Ren. Prago, sorry. i
01:03:04
Speaker
What did you hear? They made it inside. They are seeking refuge underneath a ruin. They were followed.
01:03:16
Speaker
Is that Robin as well? And your brother. i need to go. Carsten, I... i yeah No, no, no, no, no. no i'm I'm with you. Let's go. I thought... I was hoping we'd have more time. I'd hope they could get there and we could have time to rest up because he looks at the others. They don't seem any stronger than we are.
01:03:33
Speaker
So I'll go, but let's go. If we need to go, need to now. But how are we getting there? can take in the morning, but I cannot take us now. Okay. we We have not finished until Ren has completed the circle. I cannot get us up there.
01:03:45
Speaker
Okay. Can they hold? Yeah. they are They are safe at the moment. Okay. Can you send a message? Look, I'm umm sorry for everything that's happened. Can you send a message to them just to let them know that we're coming?
01:04:01
Speaker
i already have.
01:04:04
Speaker
Drago, his chest was almost hyperventilating. You see him visibly relax at that. Oh, yeah, but... yep But here, Emron!
01:04:16
Speaker
Emron!
01:04:21
Speaker
Did a noble thing. And we cannot let that go to waste. We're the undying champions. I just... ah
01:04:34
Speaker
So what's...
01:04:38
Speaker
What's the plan? ah We did... Get up. Get up there. Finish this.
01:04:46
Speaker
That's the plan. The mission goes forwards. As Drago and I know, sometimes friends fall to get the mission done.
01:04:58
Speaker
And we have to make sure that their sacrifice isn't in vain. And one has joined... another friend that I've known and death.
01:05:14
Speaker
But I will come back from the graves. Just, did you all seem okay with this? We have to be, Nyx. Don't get me wrong. I would love to spend time writing an epic saga for Emor and I will do so.
01:05:29
Speaker
But I just don't have the time right now to do that. Don't underestimate our compassion.
01:05:38
Speaker
You don't want anything that's happened to stop you and the rest of you from going to finish this. That is how you honor it.
01:05:51
Speaker
Otherwise, they've died for nothing. There is a time for grieving. By the sounds of it, we're not leaving until tomorrow.
01:06:04
Speaker
I would recommend that you get your emotions in check.
01:06:11
Speaker
Yeah, right. So it's easier for you to say. This our group. This is our journey. You guys have had your time.
01:06:22
Speaker
I'm Baal. Nyx runs off and tries to find Baal. Baal's kind of coming back to the group at this point. not they not They're not there. the deb bre They're not here.
01:06:34
Speaker
We didn't bury any Dragonborn. ah Are we... Oh, sorry. Sorry, I thought i thought sorry i thought he'd come closer. Sorry.
01:06:42
Speaker
Okay, that that's it that's a that's a that's a blessing, right? That's a blessing. Blessing? There's nothing about this that is a fucking blessing. No, I know, I know. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to keep... It doesn't make sense.
01:06:57
Speaker
But it choose it means they're not dead? is this she Would she do this?
01:07:06
Speaker
I don't know. He has done this.
01:07:13
Speaker
When we get back from completing the fucking mission, Nix, we're going to end her. going to bring that fucking thing down.
01:07:26
Speaker
I'm yours. yeah Just, it's hard because this is word of mouth. And tweet we did our bit.
01:07:42
Speaker
Buhl will kind of try to compose himself somewhat and make his way back to the group. The Winged Watch is dead. All of them. What do you mean?
01:07:54
Speaker
I mean that Ghostwing came to our aid too. He's now at the bottom of the sea.
01:08:04
Speaker
Cards on the table. Sorry for the crassness of it.
01:08:09
Speaker
We're fucked. We're not, because they're still us. They're still Ren. They're still Robin. They're still Syngar. They're still us. The Wind Watch lives in us.
01:08:23
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The mission lives in us.
01:08:33
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We leave to tomorrow morning, Paul. You need to do what you can to get your group ready.
01:08:46
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What's left of us?
01:08:52
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Don't waste it then.
01:08:59
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We need to be ready for a fight.
01:09:03
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A few, Prego says.
01:09:08
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We'll be sleeping under the stars tonight. No fancy mansions for us tonight.
01:09:24
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In lull of anyone else speaking, have one thing to do with Nyx. He didn't return to the group after Baal left. He would go over to um ah ah way back when there was a lake here.
01:09:39
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ah
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Does Nyx recognize where that would be? and You can find the rough position. And of course, that lake turned into like a goblin swamp upon your first re-arrival here.
01:09:54
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But now it's kind of been, it's just a pit, just a pit of mud now. All the kind of moisture has been brought out of it. It's just a bowl of earth. So um like he has done at this place many times, he's going to sit cross-legged and he's going to take out his book of spells or he's going to take out the orb from Old Girl.
01:10:21
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And he's just going to sit there for a moment and try to
01:10:27
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let his emotions calm down and try to pack them back in before they threaten to overcome him. And he'll sit cross-legged, back straight, breathing. And then almost scrambling as if he can't keep that emotion in check, will reach out for the orb and he'll hold it, grasp it in two hands, clasp it close to his chest, look inside it.
01:10:52
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And he's going to turn it over, in his hands, close his eyes and this purple lightning that shows that he's about to cast a spell comes from his horns down his body, through his hands, through his fingers. And it's going to envelop this orb as he, um, has done this before.
01:11:18
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He's going to cast Clavoyant's Scrying Spell onto this, and he's trying to reach out to any entity of Emron whatsoever into the void.
01:11:30
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And yeah, yeah, he's pouring all everything into locating, talking. He's going to be doing... it He's going to be doing his damnedest to sense, pulse, hear, feel any remnants of Emron through this thing.
01:12:04
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So the spell kind of demands a location.
01:12:09
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You know, it's asking you to see it an environment, a space. And you're kind of projecting your memories into your kind of magical thoughts around Emron. And you're taken into an alleyway.
01:12:27
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You're taken to an alleyway when you were first in receipt of this orb, chasing that kind of cloaked figure.
01:12:39
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And that kind of outcome that Emron would hold the keys almost. And in that alleyway, there is the cloaked figure, but there isn't Emron.
01:12:54
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And there is a younger, more sprightly, more cocksure and more naive version of you in that image.
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And you keep looking into that crystal ball. It begins to animate.
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And that figure turns. Kind of walks up to the glass like it's a camera lens.
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Takes off its cloak.
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It's a face you've seen once before.
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and it's just staring at you.
01:13:51
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Grand chronomancer, Johann Veritas.
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As you remember him from that singular image, when he last existed in this orb, when it was uncracked.
01:14:12
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Where's my friend?
01:14:17
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He leans ever closer towards the edge of the glass. Just squints at you.
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Kind inspects. Head to each side.
01:14:41
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How can I see you now?
01:14:48
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What has changed?
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I don't know. Maybe I'm just better at this.
01:15:04
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ah do not know your face well.
01:15:13
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Where's Gel?
01:15:18
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Miguel is unable to get to the phone right now. I'm Nix Carell.
01:15:29
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I see.
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And we have been on this journey before. Yes, we have, Carell. And we've lost one of our own in this current time.
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And I'm hoping to use this orb to locate him. It's Emron. If you know me, you know him.
01:16:03
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So the servant of Aledo has fallen. Not fallen, lost apparently. I'm trying to find him.
01:16:14
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And you can speak back to me, which means there is nothing. The door is opened.
01:16:24
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ah By door, do you mean the thing in the sky? His image fades. Oh, fuck. and there is a light that snaps in the sky above you, this kind of siren red that this um the steel nightmare has but kind of been parked in for the last couple of weeks just begins pulsing. And you watch as those 12 tethers that have...
01:16:50
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thrown out to every kingdom in Erith, now begin to retract and you're feeling quakes amongst the earth beneath you. You're a good 30, 40 miles from Goldview, but you can still feel that rumble. You're a good 80 miles from ah from Scorchhelm, but still that tectonic movement is happening.
01:17:18
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Slowly, ever so slowly, either Aerith is being pulled closer to the nightmare or the nightmare is descending on Aerith.
01:17:28
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And that red light begins to pulse. And more and more of these tiny creatures at great distance are coming out of the nightmare. Something has awoken and knows it's free.
01:17:43
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And that's where we're going to end this week's episode. So a tabletop, Bellum Draconis. Holy shit. You fucking nixed it. I nixed He didn't know until you told him. Can can things get worse?
01:17:55
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Wop, wop. Yes, they can. Oh, shit. Well, um... Fuck, I guess. Fuck me, I guess. And, uh...
01:18:07
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Thank you all for tuning in and listening, making this party every day week. Shit's getting really fucking good, right? You'll want to tune in for next week. I know that I want to. So I guess we'll see you Farewell!
01:18:19
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Farewell!