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World of Ae'oene Ep. 3: It's a Date!
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With the party split up, Jellen and Kaldin make there way to collect "mushrooms" to try to win over Verrutha but will their attempts to win her over be successful?
This is an adult show and contains explicit content.
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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 Mark Hitchen
- Intro/Outro music composed by Ryan Muns, Owner/Operator of Eyes On The Moon Studios
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Theme
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Destabilizing Foundations, Episode 3.
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The World of Aeon contains mature stories.
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Content mornings are in the episode description.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the world of Aeon, Stories of Legend.
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I hope you guys like the new little title we came up with for our official launch.
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This is just like being recorded like the day of our official prequel launch.
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Hope you guys like that, but welcome to Destabilizing Foundations.
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This is going to be technically episode three, I believe.
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Renny, Jack, am I correct on that?
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Yes.
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I kind of am down on myself.
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That is correct.
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Okay, speaking of which, I've got Renny and Jack
Discussion on Characters and Story Focus
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with me.
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If you guys don't remember from our last episode, it ended up with us splitting the party.
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The big no-no of D&D.
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But we're going to have fun.
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We're doing an episode with Renny and Jack with AKA Yellen and Calden, which, sorry for stealing your guys' intros.
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And we'll do the same thing with MJ and Safira for our next episode.
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It's just us boys today.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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The boys.
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The boys.
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But speaking of which, yeah, I've got Jack and Renny with me.
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How are you guys doing?
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I'm good.
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I mean, I'm better.
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I was late to recording today because like two minutes before I was supposed to hop in, I had my thing of honey just sort of explode all over my kitchen.
Light-hearted Anecdotes and Show Recommendations
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So.
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OK, so explain that further, because I'm thinking this is a chemical experiment and there's some sort of reaction happening.
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You know, I feel like it's important in relationships to keep the mystery alive.
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And I just want to keep you guys interested in me.
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So we'll just leave it at that.
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I am intrigued in multiple ways, and I'm not sure how to feel about that.
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But in any case, I had to throw away that honey and open up a new thing of honey so I could finish my tea.
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It was so bad you had to throw away the honey.
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Well, it was empty.
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What were you doing with it?
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The honey was all over my kitchen.
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I had to mop the floor.
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It flew across to the other side of the kitchen.
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I've got ideas, and I don't think any of them are correct.
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Jack, how about you?
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How are you doing today?
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Oh, man, I'm good.
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You know, I just started season three of Yellow Jackets.
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I'm about halfway through.
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Oh, my God.
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Oh, my God.
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It's crazy.
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I have seen that and don't know very much about it.
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All I've seen is basically the still images, and I went, hmm, that seems interesting.
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Yeah, it's bananas, I must say.
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I'll have to give it a look at some point, look a little further.
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As of recording, this is the day after the 4th of July, so if you guys hear any, hopefully it'll be edited out.
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If you hear any fireworks in the background, sorry, hopefully everybody enjoyed their 4th of July, regardless of the state of our union here.
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Still a fun celebration, especially if you enjoy gunpowder and explosions.
Holiday Preferences and Listener Engagement
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I looked at them from afar and admired them.
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Speaking of holidays, though, that is going to be our intro today is me asking you guys and saying my own.
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And I'll start with what is our favorite holiday around here?
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Because I feel like this can tell a lot about about a person and specifically about a person's backstory.
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My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.
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I love Thanksgiving.
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It's huge in my family.
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We get I think last year we had.
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around 60 people at the Thanksgiving, massive table full of amazing food.
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I get to spend all the time with all of my family and the people I love.
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Um, and it's been a tradition for a long time.
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It's, I love it.
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It's, it's my favorite holiday of the year.
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I was curious what your asses are.
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I gotta say, I think mine's Christmas.
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I, I'm a big fan of like the Rankin Bass classics.
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Um, and, uh, big peppermint fan as well.
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So dude, a lot of that stuff comes out around that time.
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Um,
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hype every time right there with you right there with you i feel like that's like the go-to answer so i'm gonna have to dock you a point on that but you've got the point back with peppermint so okay well i'll say boxing day canadian boxing day there we go i don't know what it's about but i like it fantastic i love it okay what about you ready
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Well, I feel like my answer is going to be worse because I really don't care about holidays.
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My husband and I don't really bother to celebrate anything and we don't have kids, so we're not obligated to.
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I'm a fan of like decorations and things that people do for Halloween and for Christmas.
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I think dressing up is fun, so that's cool.
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I never really celebrated Halloween, though.
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I've dressed up twice in my life for Halloween.
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Really?
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Both were mandated by work.
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I dressed up a few times growing up, of course.
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And then in high school, I dressed up once as a hobo.
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And I stood perfectly stock still at the end of my driveway and tricked some old ladies and scared the living piss out of them.
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And it was hilarious.
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And since then, I didn't dress up really again until...
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My fiance, her favorite holiday is Halloween.
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So it wasn't last year, but the year before we did a killer Gomez and Morticia.
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Nice.
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Yeah, it was it was pretty great.
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But my favorite part of Halloween is decorations.
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It's awesome.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly.
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But for the record, birthdays count.
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So if you guys just like and enjoy your birthday, that one also works.
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No, I've also never cared about my birthday.
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Fair enough.
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All right.
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Well, there you have it, folks.
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Leave a comment if you're on one of the platforms that can comment or just find our socials.
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Let me know.
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Let us know what your favorite holiday is and why.
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But feel free to DM us out of nowhere and tell us what your favorite holiday is.
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It won't be weird.
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I promise.
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It'll be super cool and we'll respond.
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Okay.
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Actually, this brings up a great point.
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They can DM us.
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And when I say DM us, I don't mean on socials.
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So we're going through Buzzsprout for our hosting for our podcast.
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And little did I know that I found out today and set it up in our episode descriptions.
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There is a link where it just says, send us a text.
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And through the hosting site, they can legitimately text us.
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Oh, hell yeah.
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If you want to send us a text, let us know what you like, what you don't like, and also what your favorite holiday is.
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Look in the episode description.
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Yeah, mostly that one.
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But yeah, you can send us a text.
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Write an episode description.
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Tell us what your favorite character is.
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There are right and wrong answers, so be careful.
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There are.
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We're paying attention.
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The only right answer is the overlord known as the DM.
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But anyway...
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I think that's the wrong answer.
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I guess it depends on who you're talking to.
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We're trying to be rooting for the underdogs.
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I think that's us.
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Yeah.
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And it's players versus DM.
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That's D&D.
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Oh, that's right.
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That's how you play D&D.
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It's players versus DM.
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Yeah.
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It should be antagonistic the whole time.
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The whole time.
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On that note, though, ladies and gentlemen, we hope you, by the way, because again, this is being recorded, episode three now.
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We hope you enjoy our new, by this time, our new intro music and outro music by Eyes of the Moon Studios.
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Fantastic.
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Great guy.
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Look him up on TikTok and all the other socials.
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He's fantastic.
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Hope you enjoy it.
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And speaking of which, you're about to hear it because let's get into the story.
Recap of Previous Episode's Story
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all right last we left off the group had spent some more time investigating through the town talking to locals
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Getting a little bit more information out of our local herbalist, checking notebook on who's missing, who's not.
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And frankly, also kind of getting to know each other a little bit better.
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And we ended with a lively session in the tavern as Halyra getting into an arm wrestling with apparently local legend never lost and winning.
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No surprise there, given what we know about Talira so far.
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But of course, celebration has ensued.
Yellen and Calden's Investigation Begins
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And in the middle of that, our good friends Yellen and Calden, specifically Yellen, had the idea.
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Take some wine.
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We're a little rocky relationship with our local apothecary here, but she seems to maybe think that she knows more.
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Let's repair it.
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See what we can know.
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And so our friends Yellen and Calden,
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are on their way to maybe try to get some more information in a repair relationship.
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Maybe.
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And I think that's why we're going to join in with them as Yellen and Calden, the door of the tavern now lively and bustling.
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You can hear Split yelling out to people as he's getting orders from across the room of asking for different drinks and things.
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You can hear Talira's voice booming above the rest.
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Door closes, everything becomes muffled, and the night air of Neveo hits you with just a very cooling, feeling good, brisk air.
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The scene is yours.
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So I'm thinking that maybe I should hold the wine and kind of take charge because I need to like apologize and stuff.
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Seems like it should come from me.
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So I feel like we're kind of really taking a gamble here whether she even likes wine.
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That is true.
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Would have been nice if we could find something that's more, I don't know, helpful for her apothecary stuff.
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I feel like... Guess we could go into the woods.
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But I wouldn't know what I was looking for, so... I feel like potentially red wine is the way to go.
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I heard it's healthy somewhere, so... Is it?
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Maybe that's true.
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I can't be sure.
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I don't know.
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The smell of it makes me want to vomit.
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I've known too many people who drink it and I didn't like any of them, so...
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Oh, well, hopefully we can make a friend with it.
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I mean, like, do you know anything about truffle hunting or anything?
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We could see if we can find some mushrooms.
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I don't.
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Do you?
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No, definitely not.
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Well, um... We could ask Yari and then go look.
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I suppose.
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Why not bring her some ingredients?
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It's not a bad idea.
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Do you know what a truffle looks like?
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I assume it looks like a mushroom.
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I don't know what sort of mushroom.
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I don't either.
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I just pick mushrooms.
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I'm sure she'd know.
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Yeah, maybe.
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Let's do that.
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You know, it's a bit closer than Yari's house.
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So are there any mushrooms in the vicinity?
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Yeah.
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In the vicinity of the tavern, no, this tavern actually, the outside is, I don't want to say landscaped well as in like there's nice bricking and mulch and flowers in places, but it is upkept.
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And you don't see any kind of mushrooms around here.
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But to say that they're not in the area would not be true.
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You've seen them kind of growing around, for instance, Yari's place.
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Wildly, I imagine.
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Or I know.
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Like, she's letting them grow where they grow type of thing.
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So you can imagine if they're growing there, they're probably in the area.
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Can I roll, like, a nature or a survival to try to, like, find some?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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You can roll a lesser.
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Yeah, I also would like to.
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Yeah, go for it.
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Which would you prefer, nature or survival?
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Um, I would say in the case that you guys are doing it currently, this is going to be more of a nature skill.
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Alrighty.
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But I'm worse at nature.
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Ah, you know, that's a good point.
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I didn't think about that.
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I'm so sorry.
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You didn't think about that.
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I don't appreciate it.
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14.
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Six.
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Oh no.
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With a six.
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Uh, yeah.
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The first thing that comes to mind is there were mushrooms around Yari's house.
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With a 14, Calden, what is your base intelligence score?
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This will alter the answer slightly. 19.
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19.
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So you've got a pretty high intelligence.
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On account of this sick circlet I have.
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But still, it's there, right?
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Yes.
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So that affects this answer just a bit.
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So you have a circlet that's kind of affecting that?
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay.
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Well, that also gives me a little more context.
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So you can kind of gain.
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Okay.
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So they're at Yari's place, and you are able to kind of note the spots they are growing are generally shaded and moist.
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And you kind of feel as you're kind of like thinking about that, you kind of feel this surge of magic.
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And, you know, you're familiar with this surge from your circlet.
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You know how that would come.
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And that when you get that surge, brain starts firing a little more and you go, oh, shit.
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Mountains.
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We're literally on a mountainside.
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You can probably find these in like in rocky areas on the side of the mountain where it's going to be shaded and moist.
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Okay.
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How, just kind of like looking around, how many other areas would we see close by for that?
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Because I wouldn't necessarily want to go over to Yari's and start picking her shrooms.
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Right.
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That seems impolite.
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You can't steal a person's shrooms.
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Right.
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Regardless of whether you have darkvision or not, it's not going to be far enough to see a lot in the dark right now, as the sun has just recently set.
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But you guys looked around earlier and you do you did note that it may be 10 to 20 minute walk into the mountainside from the from the town.
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And you could probably easily find those spots because you could visually see them from the town.
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Okay.
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So I'm thinking
Suspicious Encounter with Varutha
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dark and moist, generally dark, not just like because the sun went down and moist.
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So over in those areas would be good, but we should probably hurry because I don't think we're going to gain brownie points by coming over at, you know, middle of the night.
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That's a good point.
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Just a thought.
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Yes.
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So let's be fast.
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Yes.
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All right.
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As you all begin to head out of the town a bit, luckily on the side of town you are on the apothecary's house, Verruthas' little shop.
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It's not far from the tavern.
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They're on the same side of town, and you are, as you begin to
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head that way out of the town into the woods to try to find kind of a craggy area on the side of this, on like paths up the mountainside.
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You find a path that looks like it's at least somewhat used and something you can follow.
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And as you do, you begin to pass Beruth's apothecary.
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As you do, you notice coming out the back door is a figure cloaked, not closing the back door and beginning to turn to leave.
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turn in which direction versus us out the back door and appears as they turn to not be heading into town and more up into the mountainside into the woods okay uh can i do a perception to try and gauge uh like height body type i know absolutely yeah give me a perception or would that be investigation
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I would say perception in this case.
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Okay.
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18.
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18, yeah.
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Height build from what you had seen earlier matches Varuta's build.
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Okay.
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Kind of lean over.
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I think Varuta's leaving.
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Is she heading in the direction that we also were going to be heading?
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Not exactly, but similar.
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Like, it's not like a 90-degree offshoot, you know, into the woods.
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It's where if you're going this way, like, 20 degrees left, she's following, going into the woods.
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And it looks like she's not following a path.
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Okay.
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Do we want to try and follow her or continue on our mission and go, oh, hello, we didn't fancy seeing you here kind of a thing?
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I feel like following her is not the best idea, being how she's rather icy towards us already.
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I think it could go bad really quick.
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Yeah.
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Maybe we just continue on what we're doing and then we just bump into her on the way, potentially.
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All right.
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We should probably walk just a little bit faster then.
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Just, you know, a little, like, speed walking.
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But casually.
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Casually.
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Be casual.
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Oh, yeah.
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Obviously.
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I'm very good at being casual.
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This shouldn't be a problem.
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Yeah.
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That's right.
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Neither of us stand out at all.
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No, definitely not.
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Speaker
Okay, so are you guys speeding up in efforts to quote-unquote casually bump into her now, or are you hoping to do that like on the return trip?
00:17:16
Speaker
Probably now.
00:17:17
Speaker
Yeah, because we don't know if she's coming back.
00:17:20
Speaker
Okay, correct.
00:17:21
Speaker
And I just didn't want to assume.
00:17:23
Speaker
I want to do it so casually.
00:17:25
Speaker
I'm like, oh my gosh, it's such nice, cool air out here, my dude.
00:17:30
Speaker
I'm going to need you to roleplay that for me.
00:17:33
Speaker
I'm going to need you to roleplay that with me as Calvin, if you would, because that's a wild thing for Calvin to do.
00:17:41
Speaker
Okay, yeah.
00:17:42
Speaker
I can just taste, look at this mountain air.
00:17:44
Speaker
It's so beautiful.
00:17:47
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:17:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:51
Speaker
Yeah, so you guys begin up the path, and you see that kind of the way she's going, it kind of darts in and out.
00:17:56
Speaker
It doesn't seem like she's... And given the perception roll that you gave, you can kind of see she's not following any path set, and she also seems to be moving very jaggedly.
00:18:08
Speaker
Like, almost... Especially given your history, Calden, and I won't give anything further away, of course.
00:18:16
Speaker
You've moved like this before, and it's to not be tracked and not to be followed.
00:18:21
Speaker
But as she's doing that, you kind of hard to kind of see where where she's going to end up.
00:18:26
Speaker
But sure enough, as you guys walk along this path, about maybe 10 feet in front of you, she begins to start to cross it.
00:18:35
Speaker
OK, so.
00:18:37
Speaker
The mushrooms.
00:18:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:40
Speaker
I don't see any yet.
00:18:43
Speaker
Did you notice any?
00:18:45
Speaker
Yellen?
00:18:46
Speaker
Mushrooms.
00:18:48
Speaker
No, I wish there was someone here that knew about mushrooms better than us.
00:18:53
Speaker
Oh my god!
00:18:54
Speaker
That'd be weirdly convenient, yeah.
00:18:58
Speaker
She...
00:19:02
Speaker
I don't think that was casual.
00:19:04
Speaker
Almost as soon as y'all started talking, dead center in the middle of this path, Varutha, you can now, you're close enough to kind of see the blue hue to her exposed hands and a little bit of her face that you can see.
00:19:18
Speaker
Just stops, dead in her tracks, middle and just very rigid.
00:19:23
Speaker
Varutha?
00:19:25
Speaker
Turns, kind of turns towards you.
00:19:27
Speaker
Towards you both.
00:19:28
Speaker
I hold up the wine bottle.
00:19:30
Speaker
Uh, want some wine?
00:19:32
Speaker
Larutha, it's crazy to see you here.
00:19:36
Speaker
We were just looking for some mushrooms to go with this wine, because that's such a great pairing.
00:19:40
Speaker
What are you doing here?
00:19:42
Speaker
We were literally looking for mushrooms.
00:19:44
Speaker
Why were you following me?
00:19:46
Speaker
Are you going to the place with mushrooms?
00:19:52
Speaker
Could you roll me a persuasion or deception?
00:19:58
Speaker
Whichever you are trying to do.
00:19:59
Speaker
You don't have to tell me which.
00:20:00
Speaker
Okay.
00:20:02
Speaker
Okay, that's the same either way.
00:20:04
Speaker
And it's not good.
00:20:06
Speaker
It's a four.
00:20:07
Speaker
Mine's a 19.
00:20:09
Speaker
It's lucky that you had help yelling.
00:20:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:20:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:20:15
Speaker
19.
00:20:17
Speaker
It's why I did not roll good.
00:20:18
Speaker
So it's wild that Yellen still would have failed that 19.
00:20:21
Speaker
Yeah, that works.
00:20:25
Speaker
She kind of looks at you both or she gives you like an eye and like raises one.
00:20:29
Speaker
And she's like shrouded, right?
00:20:32
Speaker
She's kind of like you guys from the side.
00:20:33
Speaker
So kind of shrouded across the face.
00:20:35
Speaker
And it's already dark, but you kind of see the glint for eyes.
00:20:37
Speaker
She kind of like raises an eyebrow yelling and then looks over to you, Calvin.
00:20:42
Speaker
mushrooms to go with your red wine?
00:20:45
Speaker
I'm... Well, we were kind of actually thinking like medicinal ones, but we have, I mean, I don't know.
00:20:50
Speaker
We know nothing about mushrooms, if we're being honest, yeah?
00:20:54
Speaker
It was actually kind of really lucky that we saw you.
00:20:57
Speaker
Although you're probably really busy.
00:20:59
Speaker
Are you okay?
00:21:01
Speaker
You probably don't want to answer that.
00:21:02
Speaker
Yes, I'm... I'm very busy right now.
00:21:05
Speaker
Cool.
00:21:05
Speaker
Do you like red wine?
00:21:08
Speaker
Um...
00:21:11
Speaker
Normally, yes, but I have... Cool.
00:21:15
Speaker
Cool.
00:21:17
Speaker
Well, if you like, we have three glasses.
00:21:23
Speaker
Why did we bring glasses?
00:21:25
Speaker
Why not?
00:21:27
Speaker
She is like... Why not?
00:21:29
Speaker
Her flabbers are gasted.
00:21:31
Speaker
She is very caught off right now.
00:21:36
Speaker
She is very caught off guard right now.
00:21:39
Speaker
By the way, I just want to say I'm sorry for earlier.
00:21:43
Speaker
I was really stressed after our travel, and I took a tone with you that was not helpful, especially when you, in your way, were helping us with trying to find the kids.
00:21:59
Speaker
So just want to say sorry.
00:22:02
Speaker
She slightly relaxes this.
00:22:04
Speaker
You can see her shoulders kind of start to not be so hunched.
00:22:09
Speaker
I'm glad you're recognizing you were in the wrong.
00:22:13
Speaker
I can understand being... prioritizing intellectual thinking of things as opposed to emotions.
00:22:24
Speaker
And then that can come off as prickly to some people.
00:22:28
Speaker
And I reacted poorly.
00:22:30
Speaker
I know all too well.
00:22:31
Speaker
Apology accepted.
00:22:34
Speaker
I'll be honest, this is not a normal occurrence for me to have interactions like this.
00:22:38
Speaker
I...
00:22:39
Speaker
Well, we didn't actually expect to run into anyone while we were looking for the mushrooms, so it's kind of a surprise for us too.
00:22:47
Speaker
And now we look like idiots because we don't know what we're doing with the mushrooms.
00:22:50
Speaker
To be honest, I only know what one kind of mushroom looks like.
00:22:55
Speaker
We could die.
00:22:56
Speaker
Well, that makes sense.
00:22:58
Speaker
To be honest, you all look like idiots whether you were looking for the mushrooms or not.
00:23:00
Speaker
No offense.
00:23:05
Speaker
Not taken.
00:23:06
Speaker
In that case.
00:23:08
Speaker
Yes, of course.
00:23:08
Speaker
Anyway, I... This is new to me.
00:23:13
Speaker
I appreciate the offer.
00:23:14
Speaker
I will decline.
00:23:15
Speaker
I'm in a hurry, and I need to gather supplies for tomorrow.
00:23:21
Speaker
I'm low on some things.
00:23:23
Speaker
If you need mushrooms, we're already out collecting them, so... I mean, since we're out here already, why don't we come help you?
00:23:30
Speaker
If you're looking, I'm not going to...
00:23:35
Speaker
The mushrooms that I think you would need to continue along the path.
00:23:41
Speaker
There's a ravine in the cliffside about 20 minutes up.
00:23:46
Speaker
You'll find good ones.
00:23:48
Speaker
You wouldn't even have to cook them.
00:23:49
Speaker
They just need oil and salt.
00:23:53
Speaker
Would they cook well with the wine?
00:23:56
Speaker
It would as well.
00:23:56
Speaker
That is an option.
00:23:59
Speaker
This is so weird.
00:24:01
Speaker
I need to go.
00:24:05
Speaker
Yes, bye.
00:24:06
Speaker
Sorry.
00:24:07
Speaker
And she begins to... Bye.
00:24:10
Speaker
She begins to now slowly walk into the woods, not taking the same kind of jagged pattern.
00:24:19
Speaker
We really threw her off her game.
00:24:22
Speaker
And she keeps kind of looking.
00:24:23
Speaker
And you can see she...
00:24:26
Speaker
You can see she kind of keeps on looking back at you guys and is kind of slowly walking.
00:24:30
Speaker
And at one point, you can see that she's not walking jagged, but she does very purposely seem to get in as she passes like a large tree.
00:24:38
Speaker
She'll get in front of it to block view type of thing.
00:24:42
Speaker
Well, I'll be honest, that did not go how I thought it would.
00:24:49
Speaker
Yeah, me either.
00:24:51
Speaker
I don't really know how I thought it would go.
00:24:53
Speaker
I didn't think she'd stop and talk to us, to be honest.
00:24:55
Speaker
No, yeah, I thought she would probably ignore us and walk away.
00:24:58
Speaker
Yeah, that probably would have worked out better for her.
00:25:01
Speaker
Yeah, she wouldn't be so weirded out by us.
00:25:04
Speaker
Maybe that means she's not a raging bitch.
00:25:09
Speaker
There's always a plus.
00:25:12
Speaker
There's always a plus.
00:25:13
Speaker
Maybe she'll appreciate the wine and the mushrooms when we give them to her later.
00:25:19
Speaker
Exactly.
00:25:20
Speaker
We're creating bridges, you know?
00:25:23
Speaker
Right.
00:25:23
Speaker
So the question is, now do we follow her or do we go after the mushrooms?
00:25:30
Speaker
That's the question I was going to ask you.
00:25:32
Speaker
Well, I asked it first, so you have to answer.
00:25:37
Speaker
Well, okay.
00:25:38
Speaker
I hate making decisions, especially ones that could be stressful.
00:25:43
Speaker
So I say, maybe we...
00:25:48
Speaker
Follow her, and if she finds us, we'll say that we were on our way to the ridge.
00:25:53
Speaker
What kind of armor is Yellen wearing right now?
00:25:56
Speaker
Yellen is wearing half-plate, I think.
00:25:59
Speaker
Is it heavy armor?
00:26:00
Speaker
I know exactly why you're asking this.
00:26:04
Speaker
Yeah, he's wearing half-plate.
00:26:05
Speaker
It's medium armor.
00:26:06
Speaker
Uh-huh.
00:26:07
Speaker
And what's your stealth?
00:26:11
Speaker
Minus one.
00:26:13
Speaker
Right.
00:26:14
Speaker
I think, I think maybe, you're not best suited for trailing someone.
00:26:23
Speaker
I think you're right.
00:26:24
Speaker
I might alert them to our position by accident.
00:26:31
Speaker
So maybe we just go for the mass rooms and we stop back by later to see if she has returned.
00:26:36
Speaker
I do really wish we could find out what was going on because she's acting really shady.
00:26:43
Speaker
But she wasn't.
00:26:44
Speaker
Can I?
00:26:45
Speaker
Oh, gosh.
00:26:47
Speaker
OK, this might give less information because I'm I'm doing it retroactively.
00:26:53
Speaker
Can I think back and insight into the body language to feel how nefarious her surprise that is being there felt?
00:27:04
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
00:27:05
Speaker
You can do like you can like insight the memory you just had of your interaction.
00:27:10
Speaker
One hundred percent.
00:27:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:11
Speaker
Go for it.
00:27:12
Speaker
Oh, nice.
00:27:13
Speaker
19.
00:27:13
Speaker
Kind of insight the interaction as a whole.
00:27:15
Speaker
19.
00:27:16
Speaker
Fantastic.
00:27:18
Speaker
Yeah, with a 19, I mean, the first thing you notice is that was not how the interactions with her earlier in the day went.
00:27:29
Speaker
I noticed that too.
00:27:30
Speaker
And she was, right, she was extremely flustered.
00:27:35
Speaker
That's surface level.
00:27:37
Speaker
Easy to tell.
00:27:39
Speaker
As you really kind of try to think deeper into this and kind of like get a feel for it.
00:27:43
Speaker
I mean, you can put together, okay, she's not following a path.
00:27:46
Speaker
She was being very jagged with her movements, almost like evading.
00:27:50
Speaker
And that changed directly after being thrown off completely.
00:27:55
Speaker
And she was trying to break visual with you.
00:28:00
Speaker
All of these are pretty good clues that you, with 19 especially, she is definitely trying to hide something.
00:28:06
Speaker
Yes.
00:28:07
Speaker
And you could kind of get a feel of whenever she was telling you, like, I need to go gather things.
00:28:12
Speaker
There were breaks in her speech and pauses there that she was trying to think of what to say.
00:28:17
Speaker
While Kelton is thinking on the interaction, can I kind of like walk up to where she was walking away after our conversation and look to see if she left any tracks or anything like that?
00:28:28
Speaker
Yeah, give me a survivor.
00:28:29
Speaker
All right.
00:28:30
Speaker
So, like, you could potentially help in the behavior whether someone seems to be hiding something with, like, nefarious intent or not.
00:28:41
Speaker
That might be a little bit too deep to look into.
00:28:46
Speaker
But that's more what he's trying to discern.
00:28:49
Speaker
If he thinks that what she's hiding is nefarious or with ill intent.
00:28:56
Speaker
So...
00:28:58
Speaker
I see what you're asking.
00:28:59
Speaker
And I don't think you picked up any of that.
00:29:02
Speaker
I think you picked up more panic.
00:29:06
Speaker
Okay.
00:29:07
Speaker
Like super high anxiety.
00:29:11
Speaker
Which, given how your interactions with her earlier was as well, and like odd.
00:29:17
Speaker
Yeah, very off.
00:29:19
Speaker
For someone of her character.
00:29:22
Speaker
Okay.
00:29:24
Speaker
Okay.
00:29:26
Speaker
How'd your tracking go?
00:29:28
Speaker
You know, like this.
00:29:29
Speaker
It's a 23.
00:29:29
Speaker
Yeah, no, you can much harder to track beforehand as you kind of like probably took a look over that way.
00:29:40
Speaker
You can at least given that you're not you said you're probably not going very far, right?
00:29:44
Speaker
You're just kind of looking from the from the trail.
00:29:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:48
Speaker
With it from with 23, you can see that at least from what you can see here.
00:29:54
Speaker
which of course you watched her walk this way and where you could see her easily, easily just spot footprints, um, further away, you know, after line of sight was broken too hard to tell from this distance.
00:30:09
Speaker
Well, if we're not trying to sneak after her, potentially we could just follow her tracks, hang back a little bit, just so we're not, you know, too close behind, but that might at least give us a clue to what she's doing.
00:30:24
Speaker
I don't think we're going to find anything out by collecting mushrooms.
00:30:29
Speaker
I don't think so either.
00:30:31
Speaker
But I think it might be a little safer if you hang slightly back from me.
00:30:36
Speaker
Not so far that I'm out of sight, but just a little bit more.
00:30:40
Speaker
No, yeah, I'll tail behind you.
00:30:42
Speaker
No worries.
00:30:44
Speaker
Okay, did you... So... Could you see beyond where she disappeared at all?
00:30:52
Speaker
Not yet.
00:30:52
Speaker
I haven't really looked quite that far.
00:30:54
Speaker
Okay.
00:30:56
Speaker
Well, we might as well try.
00:30:57
Speaker
There's some things going on, and obviously we can't say if it has anything to do with the kids.
00:31:05
Speaker
She was acting really fishy about that, though.
00:31:07
Speaker
I don't know.
00:31:08
Speaker
Yeah, and if anything, it could lead us a lot closer, you know?
00:31:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:12
Speaker
Not saying she's in leagues with whoever's taking them, but I'm not saying she may not be either.
00:31:20
Speaker
She seemed too panicked for that.
00:31:22
Speaker
I got a 21 to continue down the trail.
00:31:27
Speaker
Okay, so you got a 21 in your survival.
00:31:29
Speaker
That's what I was going to ask for, so I'm glad you did that.
00:31:31
Speaker
Thank you.
00:31:32
Speaker
Yeah, so you guys begin to track her.
00:31:34
Speaker
And obviously, Kaladin falling a little bit closer.
00:31:37
Speaker
But as you guys begin to track, given that you obviously don't want to be seen, could I get stealth rolls from each of you?
00:31:42
Speaker
Yellen will also have to do stealth rolls.
00:31:44
Speaker
Your DC is just going to be a lot lower because you're going to be a lot further back. 29.
00:31:49
Speaker
You should say 29.
00:31:49
Speaker
I did.
00:31:49
Speaker
You are unseen.
00:31:50
Speaker
12.
00:31:50
Speaker
12.
00:31:51
Speaker
You rolled almost what my modifier is.
00:32:05
Speaker
But that still works because, as you had said, you're holding far enough back where you can still see Kaladin, but still pretty far back.
00:32:14
Speaker
So 12 works.
00:32:17
Speaker
You would have to have a – having you roll because the DC is very low, but a catastrophic failure can still happen.
00:32:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:23
Speaker
Yeah, so as you guys begin, you begin to follow the tracks that Yellen first found, Keldon.
00:32:28
Speaker
And you get to the point where she kind of broke site with this very large, old tree, this historic tree.
00:32:35
Speaker
Probably three times as thick as your wingspan.
00:32:40
Speaker
Give you an idea of how big this tree is.
00:32:42
Speaker
Large.
00:32:43
Speaker
And you go around the edge of this trunk, kind of following around the circumference of it.
00:32:49
Speaker
And Yellen, you lose visual of Kalvin for a moment.
00:32:52
Speaker
And Kalvin, you rolled well enough.
00:32:55
Speaker
But you do notice immediately the tracks get much harder to follow.
00:32:59
Speaker
And it's going to take a bit more time than before.
00:33:03
Speaker
they begin to start to become a little more jagged.
00:33:05
Speaker
Like they're trying to make it hard to track and hard to be seen, hard to be followed.
00:33:10
Speaker
And as this is happening, Yellen hasn't seen this yet.
00:33:13
Speaker
And as Yellen, you get to the same train round, you notice that Kalden's a bit closer than you expected him to be.
00:33:18
Speaker
Still, obviously, distance ahead of you, but you notice that it is now taking a lot longer to track.
00:33:23
Speaker
successfully tracking just longer you follow them for some distance down a bit of a slope into sort of this kind of running of a creek and you kind of mask some of your sound using the the running creek it falls over certain rocks and twigs and sticks the trail you lose it for a moment
00:33:45
Speaker
It takes almost 10 minutes to find it again, but you do find it finally, as you ended up having to go up the stream to find where it began again on the other side.
00:33:55
Speaker
You notice that about five minutes after this, you come to a cliffside.
00:34:00
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:01
Speaker
She didn't jump off, did she?
00:34:05
Speaker
No.
00:34:06
Speaker
How?
00:34:07
Speaker
The cliffside is up.
00:34:09
Speaker
Oh.
00:34:09
Speaker
Oh.
00:34:12
Speaker
She didn't climb up, did she?
00:34:15
Speaker
How tall is it?
00:34:16
Speaker
About 120 feet.
00:34:19
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:21
Speaker
Um... Well, it's not going to be a problem for me.
00:34:26
Speaker
Are we sure that she went that way, though?
00:34:29
Speaker
There's no way a normal human would have been able to climb that this fast.
00:34:36
Speaker
That is true.
00:34:37
Speaker
Um, there could be something along the base of the cliff.
00:34:43
Speaker
If you said it wouldn't be a problem for you, maybe you could climb up and then I'll look around the bottom here, potentially.
00:34:49
Speaker
Okay, yeah.
00:34:51
Speaker
Search for like some sort of secret cave opening or something.
00:34:55
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I'll look for.
00:34:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:57
Speaker
Or something in the foliage perhaps as well.
00:35:00
Speaker
What are both of your passive perceptions, by the way?
00:35:02
Speaker
Fourteen.
00:35:04
Speaker
Fourteen.
00:35:06
Speaker
14 okay i thought calton's was higher i'm glad i was right where are you where are you okay nope i lied oh my gosh i have so many class features you're like oh my gosh i have so many tools at my disposal it's so terrible what am i supposed to do with all this
00:35:29
Speaker
I just have such decision paralysis.
00:35:31
Speaker
I'm just trying to see what the distance is from my telepathic connection.
00:35:38
Speaker
Ah, gotcha.
00:35:39
Speaker
Okay.
00:35:40
Speaker
But I can't find it.
00:35:43
Speaker
could totally make up a number right now and i think 160 feet oh yeah that's it yeah sounds about right uh calvin yeah that makes sense yeah he's just so cool at everything he's he's the min max character of the party of course it's 160 so min maxed
00:36:10
Speaker
He's really not properly men maxed.
00:36:12
Speaker
He's kind of like overpowered in more areas than is maybe a good idea.
00:36:17
Speaker
But specifically because I took items that increased other things instead of further increasing the things he probably should focus on.
00:36:26
Speaker
It's all good.
00:36:27
Speaker
It's all for reasons that I can't dispose.
00:36:30
Speaker
Yes.
00:36:30
Speaker
Dispose?
00:36:31
Speaker
That's not the word.
00:36:31
Speaker
You could dispose them, I guess.
00:36:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:39
Speaker
Oh, God, I got to work my vocabulary.
00:36:41
Speaker
We'll give you a thesaurus for the for the show.
00:36:43
Speaker
Thanks.
00:36:44
Speaker
Thanks.
00:36:44
Speaker
One mile.
00:36:45
Speaker
Not 160 feet.
00:36:48
Speaker
One mile.
00:36:49
Speaker
That's hilarious.
00:36:51
Speaker
You said 160 feet as a joke.
00:36:52
Speaker
I did.
00:36:55
Speaker
And then you came out and said one mile.
00:37:03
Speaker
Did you just take the advice we gave you and just come up with a number?
00:37:07
Speaker
You can establish telepathic communication between yourself and others.
00:37:13
Speaker
As a magic action, choose one or more creatures you can see, up to a number of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus, and roll one psionic energy die for a number of hours equal to the number rolled.
00:37:21
Speaker
Chosen creatures can speak telepathically with you, and you can speak telepathically with them.
00:37:25
Speaker
To send a receiver message, no action required, you and the other creature must be within one mile of each other.
00:37:30
Speaker
Creature can end the telepathic connection at any time.
00:37:33
Speaker
That is so useful.
00:37:34
Speaker
That's fantastic.
00:37:35
Speaker
It is.
00:37:36
Speaker
I love this class.
00:37:38
Speaker
This is this is the only class anyone should ever play.
00:37:42
Speaker
No kidding.
00:37:43
Speaker
So what does it look like when you establish this connection?
00:37:46
Speaker
It doesn't really look like anything.
00:37:48
Speaker
I guess if you if you had true sight, maybe you could see like this invisible shimmering tether between our minds.
00:37:59
Speaker
Let me roll.
00:38:01
Speaker
I dig it.
00:38:01
Speaker
All right.
00:38:02
Speaker
Or if you're using like, or maybe if you're using like detect magic.
00:38:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:08
Speaker
It will last for six hours.
00:38:10
Speaker
I just rolled on my die.
00:38:13
Speaker
Sick.
00:38:14
Speaker
Love that.
00:38:14
Speaker
Okay.
00:38:15
Speaker
So as long as we stay within about a mile of each other, we should be able to communicate like this.
00:38:22
Speaker
And I'm saying this into his mind.
00:38:25
Speaker
I don't know if I've done this before.
00:38:26
Speaker
So sorry if this is a shock.
00:38:28
Speaker
Yellen, he kind of turns to speak to you verbally and he like he realizes you're like looking a different way.
00:38:34
Speaker
He's like, oh, all right.
00:38:37
Speaker
Oh, and he like points to his head.
00:38:39
Speaker
He's like, right, right.
00:38:42
Speaker
Yellen, I will say you speaking with your mind is nothing new, given your history with your group that you belong to.
00:38:49
Speaker
Gotcha.
00:38:50
Speaker
Gotcha.
00:38:51
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:52
Speaker
All right.
00:38:53
Speaker
So, yeah, you got you're looking you're I assume yelling if you've caught up or if you're staying staying back in the shadows.
00:38:59
Speaker
Either way, it doesn't matter.
00:39:00
Speaker
You are staring at a cliffside of craggy, jagged stone, about 120 feet tall or so.
00:39:07
Speaker
You do notice there are crevices, things like that, that anybody that knows how to free climb could easily climb up with this if you're not.
00:39:16
Speaker
say, as adept with those kind of skills might be a little bit more difficult, right?
00:39:21
Speaker
But there are footholds and handholds to be able to climb on something like this.
00:39:26
Speaker
And you do notice there is two spots, not directly in front of you, but along it, that you guess you could call it a waterfall, but it's almost like a trickle of water that seems to be pouring off the top, just a small creek that it forms at the bottom.
00:39:39
Speaker
Nothing big.
00:39:41
Speaker
More of an annoyance if you were to be under it than anything.
00:39:44
Speaker
Cool.
00:39:45
Speaker
Calvin, are you climbing and yelling, exploring the bottom?
00:39:48
Speaker
What's happening here?
00:39:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:51
Speaker
I'm going to climb.
00:39:53
Speaker
Tell me if anything happens and I'll come right back down.
00:39:57
Speaker
All right.
00:39:57
Speaker
Sounds good.
00:39:58
Speaker
Same to you, except I will climb up, hopefully.
00:40:02
Speaker
You're climbing too?
00:40:04
Speaker
I thought you were staying down here.
00:40:05
Speaker
No, no.
00:40:06
Speaker
I'll come up if you get in trouble.
00:40:09
Speaker
Don't worry about that.
00:40:11
Speaker
I think it'll take you too long to help me if you have to climb up this.
00:40:16
Speaker
That is probably true.
00:40:18
Speaker
It'll take me a couple tries, I'm sure.
00:40:21
Speaker
I just feel like luck isn't on my side for this.
00:40:28
Speaker
Speaking of which, um, Yellen, I'll need an investigation check from you as you kind of investigate things down here at the bottom.
00:40:35
Speaker
Caldyn, you need to start climbing.
00:40:37
Speaker
What skill would you like to use?
00:40:38
Speaker
Nothing.
00:40:38
Speaker
I'm just going to do it because I can.
00:40:40
Speaker
Oh.
00:40:42
Speaker
You have a climbing speed?
00:40:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:43
Speaker
It's the same as my... I mean, well, everybody does.
00:40:46
Speaker
Yes.
00:40:47
Speaker
Okay.
00:40:48
Speaker
Climbing is no issue for me.
00:40:49
Speaker
I can just do it.
00:40:51
Speaker
Okay, cool.
00:40:51
Speaker
We'll just do that.
00:40:52
Speaker
Cool.
00:40:53
Speaker
So you begin to climb.
00:40:54
Speaker
Um, with agile ability.
00:40:57
Speaker
Um,
00:40:58
Speaker
Y'all first time seeing this yelling you you you notice it is quick quicker than like a cat yeah I watch him hop up and I'm like whoa I mean it's this is not the first time you guys saw me on the boat like scale up the mast at no issue at all in the middle of battle I was unconscious I think you were alive because we had a whole conversation about whether it was toasty up there because the the sails were on fire and
00:41:28
Speaker
Oh, that's right.
00:41:29
Speaker
I forgot.
00:41:31
Speaker
That whole battle was a blur.
00:41:33
Speaker
He was passed out for part of it.
00:41:34
Speaker
I don't remember a lot.
00:41:36
Speaker
Who knows?
00:41:37
Speaker
All right.
00:41:39
Speaker
Yeah, but you begin to climb, and we'll come back to that in a second.
00:41:42
Speaker
First, I don't know, Yellen, what is your investigation?
00:41:44
Speaker
Twelve.
00:41:45
Speaker
But I'd also, if I can, I'd like to make an arcana per chance to see if I can see if there's any hidden places in the wall.
00:41:55
Speaker
Like illusory?
00:41:55
Speaker
By magic?
00:41:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:00
Speaker
Good thinking, good thinking.
00:42:00
Speaker
Yeah, give me an Arcana check.
00:42:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:42:03
Speaker
That's a little bit better than my investigation.
00:42:07
Speaker
It is a 15.
00:42:09
Speaker
15, playing to the strengths.
00:42:11
Speaker
Yeah, with a 15, you kind of, you begin to look around, kind of taking this film over your vision into the arcane side of things.
00:42:18
Speaker
And you don't see any, like, illusion magic.
00:42:23
Speaker
Like, illusion school, like, jumping out of you as you look along this wall and you're investigating no, like, hidden entrances.
00:42:31
Speaker
But...
00:42:32
Speaker
As you circle back around after putting this on to where the trail had ended, you do see... You can't really tell much because it's just an arcane check.
00:42:44
Speaker
It's not using a spell for it.
00:42:46
Speaker
But there is like a... There was magic used here.
00:42:52
Speaker
And that's about all you're able to get with that.
00:42:55
Speaker
But there was magic used in some time in the past.
00:43:00
Speaker
Okay.
00:43:01
Speaker
Alrighty.
00:43:02
Speaker
That feels as helpful of a check as like, yeah, it rained here at least sometime in history.
00:43:14
Speaker
With an arcane check, you probably can't go back further than today.
00:43:16
Speaker
So I'll give you sometime in the past days.
00:43:17
Speaker
Yeah, it's probably rained here once before.
00:43:21
Speaker
It's a world full of magic.
00:43:26
Speaker
Yeah, I bet magic was used to sometime.
00:43:31
Speaker
You're in a forest and you do a perception check.
00:43:34
Speaker
There were probably, I think there's trees.
00:43:37
Speaker
That's a one.
00:43:38
Speaker
That's a one where you have a minus one.
00:43:42
Speaker
Right.
00:43:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:45
Speaker
I want to do an investigation check on this tree to see, you know, traps or anything.
00:43:51
Speaker
It's a tree.
00:43:53
Speaker
Anyway, Calden, as you begin to climb agilely like a cat, it does not take you long.
00:43:58
Speaker
Only about 40 feet up, actually.
00:44:02
Speaker
Slightly off to the side, so it wasn't directly up from where you were, maybe 20 feet over.
00:44:06
Speaker
But you do notice it kind of follows this crevice on the wall to make it a little easier to climb there, so you do it expertly.
00:44:12
Speaker
And as you get up, you notice that it was hard to see from down there, and there's almost like this little platform.
00:44:18
Speaker
It's only about a four-foot...
00:44:23
Speaker
kind of change into the wall so it's about four feet by maybe two feet long where you could stand and there is an opening into the wall just large enough to crawl through and you hear the voice of maruta coming through it um i want to pause uh though i'm getting a phone call give me one second what a mess nothing donuts zombies apocalypse in the arms of the angels bacteria
00:44:53
Speaker
Oh, God, I miss everything.
00:44:55
Speaker
Oh, my Lord.
00:44:55
Speaker
All right.
00:44:57
Speaker
Well, sorry about that.
00:44:59
Speaker
But where was I?
00:45:02
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:45:02
Speaker
You're on this platform.
00:45:03
Speaker
There's this little opening that you could.
00:45:06
Speaker
You could probably crawl through and you hear the voice of Ruthia faintly coming through it, almost as if she's kind of like whispering under her breath a bit, trying to be quiet, but not like so quiet somebody she's talking to can hear.
00:45:20
Speaker
Right.
00:45:21
Speaker
Yeah, that's what you hear that.
00:45:23
Speaker
How loudly is it echoing?
00:45:25
Speaker
Can I make it out?
00:45:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:28
Speaker
Give me a perception check to see how much you can how much you can like make out.
00:45:35
Speaker
Oh, 18.
00:45:38
Speaker
18.
00:45:39
Speaker
That's pretty good.
00:45:39
Speaker
Yeah, it wasn't a very high DC.
00:45:41
Speaker
Yeah, you can hear her kind of panicked a bit, a little high anxiety going on, as you would expect given your last interaction with her.
00:45:50
Speaker
And you hear her coming in mid-sentence as she says, Already here.
00:46:00
Speaker
This is different than last time.
00:46:03
Speaker
I just need the support that you gave my grandmother.
00:46:04
Speaker
You took care of this last time.
00:46:07
Speaker
I haven't heard from them.
00:46:08
Speaker
They've just gone dark.
00:46:11
Speaker
I just need direction.
00:46:12
Speaker
What do I do?
00:46:15
Speaker
You cannot hear any response as it goes silent for her.
00:46:18
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:19
Speaker
In my head to Yellen, I found her.
00:46:21
Speaker
She's in a crevice that I don't think Talira could get through, to be honest.
00:46:29
Speaker
I can hear her talking to someone.
00:46:32
Speaker
She's distressed about...
00:46:36
Speaker
People have, someone's gone missing and she hasn't been able to hear from them like she normally would be able to.
00:46:42
Speaker
And whoever she's talking to, she expects to be giving her some sort of assistance with this.
00:46:51
Speaker
It may not be a good idea to be caught right now.
00:46:56
Speaker
We should maybe come back when she's gone.
00:47:00
Speaker
I think you're right.
00:47:01
Speaker
Can you see anyone?
00:47:02
Speaker
Can you see through the crevice?
00:47:04
Speaker
It's too dark.
00:47:05
Speaker
I can't see anything.
00:47:06
Speaker
Oof.
00:47:08
Speaker
I agree.
00:47:08
Speaker
I think we should probably come back.
00:47:12
Speaker
I head back down.
00:47:14
Speaker
Alright.
00:47:16
Speaker
As you begin to head back, you hear Earth begin to talk again, and as you're starting to climb down, and you hear the words come through this little hole.
00:47:28
Speaker
This is a moment the Zorogog has to act.
00:47:32
Speaker
They did it for my grandmother.
00:47:33
Speaker
They got rid of the pressure.
00:47:36
Speaker
And the investigation disappeared.
00:47:38
Speaker
I need this now.
00:47:40
Speaker
Don't leave me hanging.
00:47:41
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:43
Speaker
Do you stop to hear the rest of it?
00:47:47
Speaker
As I'm hanging over the edge with, like, just my arms up to where I could probably, like, slide down really fast if I needed to, can I still hear from there?
00:47:57
Speaker
Yes.
00:47:58
Speaker
I'll wait a second.
00:48:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:02
Speaker
After a pause, she continues.
00:48:05
Speaker
The annual ritual that the Mistborn do was just the other day.
00:48:10
Speaker
And since then, I haven't heard.
00:48:13
Speaker
Something had to have gone wrong.
00:48:16
Speaker
I went looking the other day and I couldn't find their settlement.
00:48:19
Speaker
It's a ghost town.
00:48:23
Speaker
No pun intended.
00:48:25
Speaker
Something happened.
00:48:26
Speaker
And I'll be honest, this is the first time I think I've ever actually felt fear.
00:48:33
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:33
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:34
Speaker
I do slide down at this point.
00:48:37
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:37
Speaker
We need to go.
00:48:40
Speaker
We can't be found by her.
00:48:41
Speaker
All right, yep.
00:48:41
Speaker
All right, let's go then.
00:48:44
Speaker
I'm coming down.
00:48:45
Speaker
Start heading.
00:48:46
Speaker
I will catch up quickly.
00:48:47
Speaker
All right.
00:48:50
Speaker
I will, if I don't see you in the forest, I'll see you back in town.
00:48:55
Speaker
And I will start to walk away.
00:48:57
Speaker
I would also, like, as I am coming back,
00:49:02
Speaker
to obviously I want to be sneaking in case she starts heading back while I'm still visible to her.
00:49:08
Speaker
I want to be erasing our trail.
00:49:13
Speaker
Okay, that will take some time.
00:49:14
Speaker
It'll slow you down a bit.
00:49:16
Speaker
Also, I assume a pretty good survival roll or something.
00:49:20
Speaker
Yes, if you could roll that for me as well.
00:49:23
Speaker
Yellen, as you begin to take off, one, I will need another stealth check if you are trying to be quiet.
00:49:32
Speaker
Survival.
00:49:35
Speaker
I think I'm more trying to get out of there as quickly as possible.
00:49:39
Speaker
If she's in the cliff, I don't think Yellen would be too worried about her hearing him.
00:49:45
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:48
Speaker
Cool.
00:49:48
Speaker
In that case, you don't have to roll stealth.
00:49:49
Speaker
As you begin to kind of try to trace the steps back that you took, about two minutes in, knowing that Kaladin will be following, but...
00:49:59
Speaker
falling behind, but is not right on your tail.
00:50:02
Speaker
You begin at a quick pace, trying to get back, hearing in your mind, of course, that kind of the, not necessarily panic, but the serious tone that Kalden had with you.
00:50:13
Speaker
About two minutes in, you go through a thicket of bushes as you are remembering the way, and you see some of the trail that you had left to get back to the creek that you had followed.
00:50:26
Speaker
I need you to roll me a dexterity saving throw.
00:50:27
Speaker
Uh-oh.
00:50:29
Speaker
as you hear a snap of a branch.
00:50:31
Speaker
That's not you.
00:50:33
Speaker
You're not gonna believe this.
00:50:37
Speaker
Natural one.
00:50:38
Speaker
Oh no!
00:50:40
Speaker
No!
00:50:43
Speaker
Oh.
00:50:43
Speaker
Oh no.
00:50:44
Speaker
Oh no.
00:50:47
Speaker
Man, it is not with me today.
00:50:48
Speaker
It's cleric curse, I'm telling you.
00:50:50
Speaker
All right.
00:50:52
Speaker
Um...
00:50:55
Speaker
Da-da-da-da!
00:50:57
Speaker
You... What is it?
00:50:58
Speaker
Unarmed strikes or D4s, if I remember correctly, right?
00:51:02
Speaker
Um, what?
00:51:04
Speaker
Unarmed strikes?
00:51:04
Speaker
They're D4s, right?
00:51:05
Speaker
I think so.
00:51:06
Speaker
Uh, I...
00:51:07
Speaker
Yeah, that's my thought for a lot of people.
00:51:08
Speaker
It's just like for monks.
00:51:09
Speaker
I think regular people is just strength.
00:51:12
Speaker
If you were to roll, that is.
00:51:13
Speaker
But this is what's going to happen anyway.
00:51:15
Speaker
As you get clothesline, an arm comes from around a tree as you begin to pass it.
00:51:19
Speaker
You get absolutely clothesline for five bludgeoning damage.
00:51:23
Speaker
Clothesline in the throat.
00:51:25
Speaker
Can't breathe for a second.
00:51:29
Speaker
And as your back hits the ground, you look up and you see a man you haven't talked to yet from the town, but you do recognize him and he was in the tavern when you left.
Intense Encounter in the Woods
00:51:44
Speaker
Hello?
00:51:49
Speaker
I'm sorry.
00:51:51
Speaker
I hate to do this.
00:51:53
Speaker
It's alright, I'm just looking for mushrooms.
00:52:00
Speaker
Please let him roll deception.
00:52:02
Speaker
Please.
00:52:06
Speaker
Just because I'm curious.
00:52:08
Speaker
If you get a natural 20, I'll give something to you.
00:52:15
Speaker
I got a 14.
00:52:16
Speaker
Okay, yeah, no, it's not going to work.
00:52:22
Speaker
Yeah, you see this man.
00:52:23
Speaker
He's kind of gruff looking.
00:52:24
Speaker
He's got a very kind of unkept beard.
00:52:29
Speaker
Bags underneath his eyes.
00:52:31
Speaker
He kind of has this kind of look like he's kind of nervy, but also just very tired.
00:52:34
Speaker
I mean, man, I wish you wouldn't have gotten into this.
00:52:40
Speaker
I really, really hate to do this.
00:52:44
Speaker
And he raises his foot to curb stomp you.
00:52:48
Speaker
What the hell?
00:52:49
Speaker
How far away am I at this point?
00:52:53
Speaker
Not in visual range yet.
00:52:55
Speaker
I'm going to... Wait, I still have my connection, right?
00:52:58
Speaker
You do?
00:52:59
Speaker
I'm going to... I probably won't be able to get out much because I'm like a little bit shaken up.
00:53:04
Speaker
But Yellen says to you mentally, Man from Tavern attacking me.
00:53:13
Speaker
Middle of the woods?
00:53:15
Speaker
Thanks.
00:53:17
Speaker
uh he rolled he only rolled a 10 to hit that doesn't hit me you rolled out of the way uh all right yeah you managed to evade as you roll out of the way um we're going to go into a kind of loose initiative here um with it being one-on-one currently um giving opportunity for calvin to like speak in with the connection as needed um
00:53:41
Speaker
He is going to follow it up with one more attack as he gets two, and he's just going to raise the foot and try to stomp at the other leg.
00:53:50
Speaker
And that is an 18 to hit.
00:53:53
Speaker
That does hit.
00:53:54
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:56
Speaker
That is just a straight four damage.
00:53:58
Speaker
Alrighty.
00:53:59
Speaker
Or bludgeoning.
00:54:00
Speaker
That's not too bad.
00:54:01
Speaker
Alright.
00:54:05
Speaker
I think before he does anything, Yellen's going to be like, Look, we don't have to fight.
00:54:11
Speaker
I don't understand what's going on.
00:54:12
Speaker
I don't even know who you are.
00:54:14
Speaker
If you want to roll persuasion, you can try.
00:54:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:16
Speaker
I'm going to definitely try that.
00:54:17
Speaker
That's not too bad.
00:54:21
Speaker
It's going to be a 12.
00:54:24
Speaker
12 he uh he kind of looks at you and raises the side of his mouth like almost in disgust but not disgust at you kind of disgust that he he's just kind of like ah I wish that were true all right see you meddling in things you don't know oh am I able to make an attack then I will allow it in this case because we're not in like a full combat normally that would take an action okay I'll allow it this time though all righty
00:54:56
Speaker
That definitely doesn't hit.
00:54:57
Speaker
It is eight, nine.
00:54:58
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:55:00
Speaker
This is not your day.
00:55:01
Speaker
No, it is not.
00:55:02
Speaker
Nine does not hit.
00:55:03
Speaker
I'm going to switch dice.
00:55:06
Speaker
Into jail you go.
00:55:07
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:11
Speaker
Is there anything else you can do on your turn?
00:55:16
Speaker
Not really, because I assume saying that would have taken my bonus action for the turn.
00:55:22
Speaker
Yes, definitely.
00:55:23
Speaker
Yeah, so definitely not then.
00:55:25
Speaker
I mean, movement, are you restrained?
00:55:28
Speaker
Can you get up?
00:55:32
Speaker
Or were you knocked down?
00:55:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:35
Speaker
I will hop up then and try to move as far away as I can, which would be half movement, right?
00:55:43
Speaker
It'll provoke an opportunity attack.
00:55:45
Speaker
Yeah, you have half of your movement left after getting up, yeah.
00:55:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:49
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:50
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to try to push past him then.
00:55:52
Speaker
Okay, as you try to push past him, he's going to get an opportunity attack.
00:55:55
Speaker
Luckily, he rolls a two before the modifier, so that absolutely misses.
00:56:01
Speaker
Aw, yeah.
00:56:01
Speaker
As he swings and you're able to just duck under the fist, rolling around like a UFC champ.
00:56:07
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:56:08
Speaker
Yelling, UFC heavyweight.
00:56:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:11
Speaker
That's the secret backstory that we haven't found out about yet.
00:56:16
Speaker
And we haven't gotten into it.
00:56:18
Speaker
He's retired.
00:56:18
Speaker
He got into it.
00:56:20
Speaker
He busted his face up real good.
00:56:22
Speaker
Now he's a cleric.
00:56:27
Speaker
Oh, man.
00:56:27
Speaker
Listen, if we ever get a really good audience that likes to do fan art, let me tell you, I want that fan art.
00:56:34
Speaker
Yes.
00:56:34
Speaker
Draw Calden in the stands with one of those signs like, We love you, Ellen!
00:56:41
Speaker
That would be so funny.
00:56:43
Speaker
But like with a stoic face.
00:56:46
Speaker
Right.
00:56:46
Speaker
Yeah, because he's cool.
00:56:49
Speaker
Of course.
00:56:50
Speaker
Of course.
00:56:50
Speaker
Speaking of Calvin, how does Calvin react to the message that he just got?
00:56:54
Speaker
Yellen, are you okay?
00:56:58
Speaker
You are free to respond.
00:56:59
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:05
Speaker
Yellen just says, working on it.
00:57:08
Speaker
Okay, I'm coming.
00:57:10
Speaker
You just followed the trail, right?
00:57:11
Speaker
That we took?
00:57:13
Speaker
Yep.
00:57:14
Speaker
Okay, I'm... slowly... let me know if you need me immediately.
00:57:20
Speaker
I think I'm okay.
00:57:21
Speaker
Because I am going to try and still cover our trail as much as possible.
00:57:24
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:26
Speaker
And I rolled an 18 on the survival and a 21 on stealth.
00:57:33
Speaker
21 on stealth.
00:57:34
Speaker
Can you now roll that survival at a disadvantage?
00:57:37
Speaker
I'll use that for the first bit you did.
00:57:38
Speaker
I'll use that number.
00:57:39
Speaker
And then from here on out.
00:57:41
Speaker
I was a 23 this time.
00:57:45
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:45
Speaker
Yeah, no, you're covering it just fine.
00:57:48
Speaker
You're doing pretty good at the job.
00:57:51
Speaker
All right, yeah.
00:57:52
Speaker
So you are beginning to catch up, but not as quickly as you could, waiting for the emergency tone, essentially, from Yellen.
00:58:02
Speaker
As Yellen, he gears up and actually is going to attempt to grapple you.
00:58:08
Speaker
Sorry, I can't let you get away, bud.
00:58:12
Speaker
That is going to be contested strength.
00:58:17
Speaker
That's a natural one.
00:58:19
Speaker
That's good, because that's a nine.
00:58:22
Speaker
So the new dice didn't help you.
00:58:23
Speaker
You're able to easily break out of it.
00:58:29
Speaker
It helped my dice, though, in his favor, because I rolled a natural one.
00:58:34
Speaker
So yeah, as he goes to try to grapple, you're able to just kind of slip out of it no problem, kind of forcing his arm to the side.
00:58:40
Speaker
God, you're a slippery one.
00:58:42
Speaker
It's that crystal.
00:58:43
Speaker
It's smooth.
00:58:45
Speaker
Yeah, it has that crystalline kind of features.
00:58:49
Speaker
He's not very grippy.
00:58:51
Speaker
I can't let you get away.
00:58:54
Speaker
Ruth is going to be pissed.
00:58:56
Speaker
Yellen is going to hold an action.
00:59:00
Speaker
He's going to take out his scimitar.
00:59:02
Speaker
He's going to, please, I don't want to hurt you.
00:59:05
Speaker
I don't want to hurt you either.
00:59:06
Speaker
And he's going to go for his second attack.
00:59:10
Speaker
Which is as he swings on you with a natural 20.
00:59:15
Speaker
Which means, and he appears currently, by the way, to be unarmed.
00:59:21
Speaker
But with a natural 20 for an unarmed strike, that will be, what did I say the original one was?
00:59:25
Speaker
1d4.
00:59:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:28
Speaker
Yeah, so this will be 8.
00:59:32
Speaker
Eight bludgeoning.
00:59:33
Speaker
Yikes.
00:59:34
Speaker
Okay.
00:59:34
Speaker
Clocks you right across the jaw as your kind of vision blurs for a moment.
00:59:40
Speaker
Yellen thinks back to his UFC past.
00:59:42
Speaker
He gets up and he says, I didn't hear no bell.
00:59:46
Speaker
You see, for the record, as he kind of clocks you, you kind of notice his kind of stance now.
00:59:51
Speaker
And it's not like...
00:59:53
Speaker
I mean, you've all traveled.
00:59:54
Speaker
You've seen, like, really seasoned fighters and their form and everything, and it's not quite to the level of, like, a professional boxer, like somebody who entertainment fights, like, in rings for a living, but definitely looks like he's seen his fair share of fights.
01:00:11
Speaker
Got some brawls in that tavern there.
01:00:14
Speaker
All right, I'm going to swing on it with my scimitar, I guess.
01:00:18
Speaker
Oh, boy.
01:00:18
Speaker
Oh, geez.
01:00:21
Speaker
Non-lethal?
01:00:23
Speaker
Yes.
01:00:24
Speaker
Yes, non-lethal.
01:00:24
Speaker
I was going to say that.
01:00:26
Speaker
Okay.
01:00:27
Speaker
That's going to be a 13 to hit.
01:00:33
Speaker
13 just hits.
01:00:35
Speaker
Okay.
01:00:35
Speaker
Very cool.
01:00:37
Speaker
He doesn't appear to be wearing armor or anything.
01:00:39
Speaker
It's looking just like he did in the tavern, like he just got awful hard days of work type of thing.
01:00:42
Speaker
All right, and that's four damage.
01:00:46
Speaker
Four damage.
01:00:47
Speaker
Okay, noted.
01:00:49
Speaker
All right.
01:00:49
Speaker
Yeah, as your scimitar comes across and slices him across the shoulder into kind of like the peck area.
01:00:56
Speaker
Oh, fuck.
01:00:57
Speaker
I thought we were going to fight like men.
01:00:59
Speaker
You're like six times bigger than me.
01:01:04
Speaker
He's a pretty beefy individual.
01:01:05
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:07
Speaker
Yeah, Kalden, you are continuing to catch up, not noticing any change in the tracks you're following, except the fact that you see the return tracks that are somewhat hurried, but you haven't seen anything crazy yet.
01:01:19
Speaker
Okay.
01:01:22
Speaker
Continuing on, Kalden, or not Kalden, Yellen.
01:01:25
Speaker
What do you do?
01:01:30
Speaker
Okay.
01:01:30
Speaker
Or do you have a bonus action is what I meant?
01:01:32
Speaker
Or do you want to move or anything like that?
01:01:34
Speaker
Since you just sliced him.
01:01:36
Speaker
I think at this point, I think I can't get away, so I'm going to wait for Calvin to get here.
01:01:43
Speaker
And I'm going to cast Healing Word on myself.
01:01:48
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:48
Speaker
Okay.
01:01:50
Speaker
And how much are you healing yourself for?
01:01:54
Speaker
14, actually.
01:01:55
Speaker
That's pretty good.
01:01:55
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
01:01:57
Speaker
Oh, dang, that is pretty good.
01:01:58
Speaker
It's not a day for anything other than healing for you, I guess.
01:02:02
Speaker
Yeah, I can roll them d4s, but the 20s, that's too many numbers.
01:02:08
Speaker
Alrighty.
01:02:09
Speaker
Alright.
01:02:09
Speaker
He sees you kind of like glow for a moment and healing.
01:02:14
Speaker
Alright, if it's going to be like that.
01:02:17
Speaker
Didn't really think that I'd be fighting such a fucking wuss today.
01:02:20
Speaker
This is the worst person for him to try and goad.
01:02:26
Speaker
Right, no, no.
01:02:27
Speaker
So you think it'd be a goad, right?
01:02:28
Speaker
Normally this doesn't seem like it'd come off as something that's really that bad of an insult.
01:02:34
Speaker
But when he says it, there's almost like a hiss at the end of his word.
01:02:37
Speaker
He's a snake.
01:02:38
Speaker
As you feel the spell of vicious mockery.
01:02:41
Speaker
Oh.
01:02:43
Speaker
He's a bard?
01:02:48
Speaker
This bard is punching the hell out of it.
01:02:52
Speaker
Unexpected things.
01:02:55
Speaker
So yeah, I would need a wisdom saving throw, sir.
01:02:57
Speaker
Wisdom save.
01:02:59
Speaker
I'm pretty good at those.
01:03:02
Speaker
Oh, that is a 22.
01:03:03
Speaker
22.
01:03:04
Speaker
Okay, yeah, you save.
01:03:06
Speaker
You know what?
01:03:06
Speaker
That makes total sense for who Yellen is.
01:03:11
Speaker
Yellen only cries a little bit.
01:03:14
Speaker
Yeah, you save, so you don't take any damage or any effects from it.
01:03:17
Speaker
But you definitely feel kind of like that sting, like, oh, this was a spell.
01:03:22
Speaker
I kind of give him like a raise my eyebrow.
01:03:26
Speaker
Like casting offensive spells.
01:03:28
Speaker
What about defensive?
01:03:29
Speaker
That's what we should be doing.
01:03:32
Speaker
You're the one who I was trying to keep.
01:03:35
Speaker
He kind of like puts his fist down for a moment.
01:03:37
Speaker
I was trying to.
01:03:38
Speaker
I had pride in the fight we were having.
01:03:42
Speaker
You're the one who brought a weapon out.
01:03:44
Speaker
Yellen kind of stops for a second and he watches as he puts his fist down and he kind of puts the tip of his sword down.
01:03:49
Speaker
Hang on.
01:03:51
Speaker
What are the rules of this fight?
01:03:54
Speaker
We fight like men with our fists.
01:03:57
Speaker
All right.
01:03:59
Speaker
And Yellen's going to put his sword away slowly.
01:04:04
Speaker
Do I see Kalden behind him at all?
01:04:11
Speaker
Oh, I'm pretty sneaky.
01:04:12
Speaker
I would say at this point,
01:04:14
Speaker
And you are pretty sneaky.
01:04:17
Speaker
But are you trying to sneak from Yellen as well?
01:04:21
Speaker
I don't know that that's how sneaking works when you're in the woods.
01:04:25
Speaker
No, but you can if you'd want to be seen by Yellen.
01:04:28
Speaker
You can make it where you're seen by Yellen.
01:04:29
Speaker
I mean, I can tell him like in his head.
01:04:33
Speaker
True.
01:04:34
Speaker
OK, if that's what you like to do, you don't see him coming.
01:04:36
Speaker
But I will say at this point, Calvin, you probably do see.
01:04:40
Speaker
Or actually, I would say you probably hear before you see Yellen.
01:04:44
Speaker
this conversation is you literally hear this man being like, no, we fight like men.
01:04:47
Speaker
Okay.
01:04:49
Speaker
Um, so my like tunic has like a, have you guys ever seen those turtlenecks that are kind of like bunchy around the neck instead of like a flat?
01:05:04
Speaker
Yeah.
01:05:04
Speaker
It looks like that.
01:05:05
Speaker
So it can be pulled up above his nose if he wants.
01:05:09
Speaker
And then he has a hood and he does go ahead and does both of those things.
01:05:14
Speaker
Because it just helps him blend in a little bit more.
01:05:19
Speaker
Okay.
01:05:21
Speaker
After Yellen gets his turn, you will be close enough to enter the frame.
01:05:27
Speaker
In his head to Calden, Yellen's going to say, I think he's paying close attention to me, so you could probably get him from behind.
01:05:37
Speaker
If I get him, it's to kill.
01:05:39
Speaker
Is that fine?
01:05:42
Speaker
Spare him if you can.
01:05:43
Speaker
That's not how I work.
01:05:45
Speaker
I'd love to.
01:05:47
Speaker
He may come out changed.
01:05:50
Speaker
Well, then leave it to me.
01:05:53
Speaker
I think I can handle this.
01:05:54
Speaker
Okay, I'll be here.
01:05:58
Speaker
All right.
01:05:59
Speaker
Yellen's going to put up his dukes there.
01:06:02
Speaker
I totally dig the visual of this.
01:06:06
Speaker
Knowing Yellen so far, this is awesome.
01:06:10
Speaker
He healed himself, had a moment of like, what's going on here?
01:06:14
Speaker
And then seemed to be thinking for a second, resolve himself, and come back.
01:06:21
Speaker
Exactly.
01:06:21
Speaker
I'm like, man, this is... Knowing what I know of Yellen so far, I'm like, this is kind of a badass moment for Yellen.
01:06:30
Speaker
So, yeah, Yellen, you resolve yourself, and it is your turn, man.
01:06:34
Speaker
Alrighty.
01:06:35
Speaker
I guess I'll run up and I'll swing at him.
01:06:38
Speaker
Alright, we're just going to be brawling.
01:06:40
Speaker
Let's go.
01:06:41
Speaker
Oh, that's pretty good.
01:06:44
Speaker
That's going to be a 21 to hit.
01:06:50
Speaker
21 hits, absolutely.
01:06:51
Speaker
Alright, and it says my unarmed strike here is 2 damage.
01:06:56
Speaker
2 damage.
01:06:57
Speaker
Alright, I will make a note.
01:06:59
Speaker
He takes 2 damage.
01:07:00
Speaker
Oh yeah.
01:07:01
Speaker
Yeah, I just kind of walk up and I like go to fake him out and then I hit him with a headbutt with the horns.
01:07:08
Speaker
Nice one.
01:07:09
Speaker
Yeah, he takes it and goes, mm.
01:07:10
Speaker
All right.
01:07:12
Speaker
Now, does he look bloodied at this point?
01:07:18
Speaker
He's taken six damage.
01:07:21
Speaker
I will say, he definitely looks like he's got a black eye at this point from your horn hitting him.
01:07:26
Speaker
He's definitely looking like, of course, this is all not lethal damage, right?
01:07:30
Speaker
He's looking, and he's kind of got a little bit of blood cut out of his nose, but I wouldn't say he's quite bloodied yet.
01:07:36
Speaker
All right.
01:07:38
Speaker
And we're just trading blows at this point.
01:07:41
Speaker
So yeah, he's going to roll and he's going to miss.
01:07:44
Speaker
But unfortunately for you, he is quick.
01:07:46
Speaker
So he gets his two attacks per turn.
01:07:48
Speaker
But a second one also is going to miss.
01:07:52
Speaker
He rolled a three and a six.
01:07:54
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:07:55
Speaker
All right.
01:07:55
Speaker
Sorry, not a three.
01:07:56
Speaker
A four and a six.
01:07:56
Speaker
My plan.
01:07:57
Speaker
But yeah.
01:07:58
Speaker
All right.
01:07:58
Speaker
Then I'll run it back.
01:08:03
Speaker
That is going to be a 14 to hit.
01:08:04
Speaker
14 hits.
01:08:07
Speaker
All right, yeah, two damage.
01:08:09
Speaker
Two, boom.
01:08:10
Speaker
Am I close enough to be seeing this now?
01:08:13
Speaker
Just kind of watching this far.
01:08:15
Speaker
Yeah, you're just watching.
01:08:16
Speaker
There's these two men now just sitting there trading blows.
01:08:20
Speaker
Can I stealth up a tree?
01:08:23
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
01:08:24
Speaker
I don't even make you re-roll.
01:08:25
Speaker
You had a phenomenal roll earlier, and we can say that it's kind of all part of the same sequence.
01:08:29
Speaker
So it's just going to carry.
01:08:30
Speaker
I'm up in a tree.
01:08:32
Speaker
Yellen, I'm up top if you need me.
01:08:35
Speaker
I'm here.
01:08:36
Speaker
Just eating popcorn.
01:08:37
Speaker
You got this.
01:08:39
Speaker
I'll let you know if I need you to drop down, but it's looking like it might be all right.
01:08:45
Speaker
This is the fan art moment for the UFC match with Calvin in the back.
01:08:49
Speaker
Yeah!
01:08:49
Speaker
Yes!
01:08:49
Speaker
Yes!
01:08:53
Speaker
I've weaved together a bunch of leaves really fast, so the sign is made of leaves.
01:09:00
Speaker
That's fantastic.
01:09:01
Speaker
All right, he's going to throw his two.
01:09:04
Speaker
He's got a 16 and a... This one's hard to see.
01:09:08
Speaker
13 to hit.
01:09:10
Speaker
16 just hits.
01:09:11
Speaker
Okay, that'll be four damage.
01:09:13
Speaker
All right.
01:09:15
Speaker
His hits hit a little harder than yours as he...
01:09:19
Speaker
He's an experienced brawler.
01:09:21
Speaker
He throws one, you duck it out, duck out of the way, but he reads it.
01:09:24
Speaker
And it was more of a faint as he comes around a clock and he actually goes in for a liver shot.
01:09:30
Speaker
All right.
01:09:30
Speaker
All right.
01:09:30
Speaker
All right.
01:09:32
Speaker
Yeah.
01:09:32
Speaker
I'll, I'll hit him again.
01:09:36
Speaker
All right.
01:09:36
Speaker
That's going to be a 15 this time.
01:09:38
Speaker
One more.
01:09:39
Speaker
Nice, 15 hits.
01:09:41
Speaker
Two damage.
01:09:42
Speaker
Two damage.
01:09:44
Speaker
He rolls a 10 and a 17.
01:09:47
Speaker
Oh, yep, 17.
01:09:48
Speaker
Repeats it.
01:09:49
Speaker
Saw it at work, repeats it.
01:09:52
Speaker
Faint, boom, same, same.
01:09:53
Speaker
Right to the same liver.
01:09:55
Speaker
Body shot.
01:09:56
Speaker
Why did the liver again?
01:09:58
Speaker
Why?
01:09:59
Speaker
All right.
01:10:01
Speaker
I found your weakness.
01:10:03
Speaker
Got to cover.
01:10:04
Speaker
Everybody's weakness is the liver.
01:10:09
Speaker
That's going to be a 15 again.
01:10:10
Speaker
Another two damage.
01:10:14
Speaker
Yeah, at this point, he's... You can see, while maybe he might be able to put out more damage than you, he definitely can't take it as well as you're taking it, as he, for sure, at this point, is looking worse for wear.
01:10:27
Speaker
And in my head, I'm going to say, would you be able to keep a lookout for Veruta?
01:10:32
Speaker
He's working with her.
01:10:33
Speaker
Absolutely.
01:10:34
Speaker
Absolutely.
01:10:36
Speaker
All right.
01:10:36
Speaker
He throws another set of blows.
01:10:39
Speaker
That was close.
01:10:40
Speaker
That's a 21 to hit.
01:10:42
Speaker
And a 15 to hit.
01:10:44
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:44
Speaker
Yep.
01:10:45
Speaker
21.
01:10:45
Speaker
That hits me right in the money.
01:10:47
Speaker
21 hits?
01:10:47
Speaker
Yep.
01:10:48
Speaker
Yep.
01:10:48
Speaker
Another four.
01:10:49
Speaker
Boom.
01:10:51
Speaker
Knocks you down.
01:10:52
Speaker
He lets you get back up though.
01:10:53
Speaker
Thank you.
01:10:56
Speaker
Like I said, we fight like men.
01:10:57
Speaker
Indeed.
01:10:59
Speaker
He goes and spits out some blood.
01:11:03
Speaker
Tooth comes out with it.
01:11:04
Speaker
Yellen, having never been in a fight like this, he's like, ow.
01:11:07
Speaker
He's holding, kind of favoring his liver area.
01:11:12
Speaker
All right, that's going to be a 17 to hit this time.
01:11:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that hits.
01:11:17
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:11:18
Speaker
All right.
01:11:19
Speaker
At this point, he's looking like probably one more hit will knock him out if you hit him in the right spot.
01:11:24
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:24
Speaker
All right.
01:11:27
Speaker
All right, he throws his next set.
01:11:29
Speaker
That's a 17 and a 4.
01:11:30
Speaker
17 and a 4.
01:11:31
Speaker
17 hits.
01:11:33
Speaker
All right, that's 4 damage.
01:11:37
Speaker
How's Yellen looking?
01:11:39
Speaker
It clocks you with 1, and as you take a step back, his second one misses.
01:11:44
Speaker
Yellen on a scale from 1 to 67 is at 48.
01:11:45
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:46
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:50
Speaker
Yellen knows how to take damage.
01:11:51
Speaker
What a very specific scale.
01:11:53
Speaker
I like it.
01:11:57
Speaker
That definitely doesn't hit.
01:11:58
Speaker
That is a six.
01:12:00
Speaker
Six.
01:12:00
Speaker
Yeah, that misses.
01:12:03
Speaker
As you miss, he takes that opportunity to throw two more.
01:12:07
Speaker
You got a 15 and a 12.
01:12:09
Speaker
Ooh, neither of those hit.
01:12:12
Speaker
Nice.
01:12:13
Speaker
All right.
01:12:13
Speaker
Able to evade both.
01:12:14
Speaker
Bob and Weave, baby.
01:12:16
Speaker
All right.
01:12:17
Speaker
That is going to be a 20, but not natural.
01:12:21
Speaker
Okay, and with that, how do you want to knock him out?
01:12:24
Speaker
I'm going to hit him twice, once in the liver, and then I'm going to kind of grab him by the head, and I'm going to give him a big old headbutt there.
01:12:36
Speaker
That's going to be a goose egg.
01:12:39
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:12:40
Speaker
We'll be able to recognize him when we see him next time.
01:12:44
Speaker
As you clock him in the liver and he's like, just for a second before you grab his head, he's like, ah, got me back.
01:12:54
Speaker
And as you grab his head and clock it right as he's about to go down, you kind of see him smirk a little bit, like almost in approval as he falls unconscious.
01:13:03
Speaker
All right.
01:13:04
Speaker
Yeah, and I'm going to look up in Calden and in my head say, I think we're good to go.
01:13:11
Speaker
Are you okay?
01:13:13
Speaker
You don't look great.
01:13:16
Speaker
I feel great.
01:13:18
Speaker
I feel amazing.
01:13:19
Speaker
Let's leave before we die.
01:13:21
Speaker
Yeah, get out of here.
01:13:22
Speaker
I'm going to continue.
01:13:25
Speaker
I mean, clearly we've been found out.
01:13:28
Speaker
But I just think it's a good idea because maybe we won't have proof that we made it to her.
01:13:38
Speaker
What are you going to do?
01:13:41
Speaker
I'm just going to erase our trail a bit more.
01:13:44
Speaker
All right.
01:13:46
Speaker
Don't kill him.
01:13:51
Speaker
I won't.
01:13:53
Speaker
And Yellen's going to kind of hobble back through.
01:13:57
Speaker
Okay.
01:14:00
Speaker
Kalden, you clean up?
01:14:02
Speaker
Yeah.
01:14:04
Speaker
What do you do with him, with this mysterious man?
01:14:08
Speaker
I mean, here's the thing.
01:14:11
Speaker
If I dumped him somewhere without killing him, he's going to wake up and tell... What's her face?
01:14:19
Speaker
Whose name I just forgot.
01:14:21
Speaker
Don't tell me.
01:14:22
Speaker
Verritha.
01:14:23
Speaker
Shut up.
01:14:23
Speaker
I told you not to tell me.
01:14:26
Speaker
I started to as you said it.
01:14:27
Speaker
Verritha, which I remembered on my own.
01:14:29
Speaker
Love it.
01:14:34
Speaker
As opposed to Mayrina.
01:14:41
Speaker
Marina.
01:14:44
Speaker
That's a new one.
01:14:45
Speaker
Yes, I know.
01:14:46
Speaker
I try to say a different name every time.
01:14:48
Speaker
You're doing a good job at it.
01:14:55
Speaker
He'll wake up and he'll tell Veruta.
01:14:58
Speaker
And if he mysteriously goes missing, when I assume that she would know he's out keeping an eye for her, she'll just make an assumption because she already saw us out and about.
01:15:10
Speaker
Right.
01:15:11
Speaker
Now, there is one idea that would potentially remove suspicion from us that I could do.
01:15:22
Speaker
I don't think Calvin would, though.
01:15:25
Speaker
It would also probably kill him.
01:15:27
Speaker
Well, that would be the point.
01:15:29
Speaker
You're leaving us all at the edge of our seats.
01:15:33
Speaker
I think it's just going to leave him where he is.
01:15:35
Speaker
There's no reason to hide him in bushes.
01:15:38
Speaker
Oh, okay.
01:15:40
Speaker
Okay.
01:15:40
Speaker
She's going to find out regardless.
01:15:42
Speaker
I guess I can roll him into a bush, and then I erase the trail.
01:15:48
Speaker
Okay, and you being to erase the trail.
01:15:50
Speaker
I rolled him into a thorn bush, because fuck him.
01:15:54
Speaker
I like it.
01:15:55
Speaker
Okay.
01:15:56
Speaker
Listen, he fought with honor, okay?
01:15:58
Speaker
Yeah, this guy's cool, man.
01:16:00
Speaker
He picked a fight he shouldn't have.
01:16:03
Speaker
I mean, obviously.
01:16:06
Speaker
Listen, yelling might take longer to put him down, but God, yelling...
01:16:11
Speaker
Yellen can take a hit.
01:16:14
Speaker
It's not the size of the dog in the fight.
01:16:16
Speaker
It's the size of the fight in the dog.
01:16:19
Speaker
I just, Kalden just hears that in his head.
01:16:23
Speaker
Yellen is intending to think it to himself to like pep himself back up after that, but he thinks it too, Kalden.
01:16:33
Speaker
That's great.
01:16:36
Speaker
You also hear like, I hope coughing up blood isn't too bad.
01:16:39
Speaker
It'll probably be fine.
01:16:41
Speaker
Heal yourself.
01:16:42
Speaker
What are you doing?
01:16:45
Speaker
Right.
01:16:46
Speaker
That's right.
01:16:50
Speaker
I love it so much.
01:16:52
Speaker
All right, Calden.
01:16:54
Speaker
As you follow back again, just kind of continue on cleaning up the best you can, rolling into the thorn bush.
Strategizing and Planning the Next Move
01:17:00
Speaker
You all, with no further occurrences, make it back to the end of the woods, down the trail.
01:17:07
Speaker
You can easily find your way back to the tavern.
01:17:09
Speaker
Okay, so I don't think we get a choice.
01:17:14
Speaker
We've been found out.
01:17:17
Speaker
We need to go grab Talira and Maeve and return immediately.
01:17:23
Speaker
I think you're right.
01:17:24
Speaker
An expeditious exit is needed.
01:17:29
Speaker
I hid him, so she may return home without incident before finding out.
01:17:39
Speaker
Because I got rid of our trail, but there's no guarantee.
01:17:43
Speaker
Yellen looks you dead in the eye, and he's like, thank you.
01:17:47
Speaker
He's alive.
01:17:49
Speaker
Thank you.
01:17:50
Speaker
I mean that.
01:17:54
Speaker
I mean, I don't go around just killing people.
01:17:56
Speaker
It's just that I wasn't helpful in that fight.
01:17:58
Speaker
I know.
01:17:59
Speaker
He was our enemy, and I, you know, I understand.
01:18:03
Speaker
Anyway, we should go.
01:18:06
Speaker
You need help, though, in case we get in another fight.
01:18:11
Speaker
I think you're probably right.
01:18:14
Speaker
I could probably cast some spells to help myself as well.
01:18:18
Speaker
Okay.
01:18:19
Speaker
Maeve can help too.
01:18:23
Speaker
For suspicion reasons, maybe you should hang back in the shadows a bit and I'll go in and grab them.
01:18:32
Speaker
That sounds good.
01:18:35
Speaker
People probably would notice a few black eyes and bruises.
01:18:40
Speaker
Yeah, and there's a little bit of blood coming from your nose.
01:18:44
Speaker
Oh, thank you.
01:18:46
Speaker
And he kind of takes a handkerchief out and puts it up his nose.
01:18:50
Speaker
Yeah.
01:18:51
Speaker
I'll wait around back.
01:18:53
Speaker
Okay.
01:18:55
Speaker
All right.
01:18:57
Speaker
As you have safely made it back to the tavern...
01:19:01
Speaker
new information haven't been gathered.
01:19:03
Speaker
Little.
01:19:04
Speaker
I also have like mentally clued him in on everything I heard.
01:19:10
Speaker
Right.
01:19:11
Speaker
Okay.
01:19:11
Speaker
Sounds good.
01:19:13
Speaker
And Yellen kind of having a chance to have some proving grounds.
01:19:16
Speaker
A little... Yeah, I'm impressed now.
01:19:18
Speaker
A little fisticuffs there.
01:19:23
Speaker
And maybe even a bonding moment, you know, of interactions for Yellen and Calton.
01:19:28
Speaker
As you do make it back to the tavern to now collect it to Lyra and Maeve, fill them in while it's happening, not even knowing what they've been up to.
01:19:34
Speaker
They're probably so drunk.
01:19:36
Speaker
In the time that you've been gone.
01:19:37
Speaker
Fuck.
01:19:38
Speaker
I think we'll end this session here.
01:19:41
Speaker
And next session, we'll find out what Delira and Maeve have been up to in your absence.
Session Conclusion and Audience Appreciation
01:19:49
Speaker
But we will find out what they're doing next session.
01:19:52
Speaker
Hopefully you guys enjoyed this little more in-depth, more personable session with Yellen and Kalenta.
01:19:59
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:20:00
Speaker
So intimate.
01:20:03
Speaker
So intimate.
01:20:05
Speaker
Yeah.
01:20:06
Speaker
But either way, as always, thank you, Renny.
01:20:09
Speaker
Thank you, Jack, for joining me.
01:20:10
Speaker
And to the audience, thank you all so much for listening and coming back.
01:20:13
Speaker
Episode three.
01:20:14
Speaker
If you've been listening since the prequel, I just got to say we love you because this has been a fun project for us.
01:20:21
Speaker
100%.
01:20:21
Speaker
Speaking for all of us, as I probably shouldn't be, but I'm going to assume.
01:20:24
Speaker
In this specific instance, I think it's fine.
01:20:28
Speaker
Yeah, I concur.
01:20:31
Speaker
Yes, I concur.
01:20:32
Speaker
Indubitably.
01:20:34
Speaker
Anyway, thank you guys so much.
01:20:35
Speaker
We will see you next time for World Advanced Stories of Legends, the story of the destabilizing foundations.
01:20:42
Speaker
Thanks, guys.
01:20:42
Speaker
See you.
01:20:42
Speaker
Bye-bye.
01:20:43
Speaker
Bye-bye.
01:20:55
Speaker
Thank you for listening to the world of Aeon stories of legend.
01:21:00
Speaker
Special thanks to centic GFX for our graphics, Dominic for our editing and for our intro and outro music, Ryan Munz owner operator of eyes on the moon studios.
01:21:10
Speaker
Also thanks to our cast, the GM, myself, Curtis Woosley, Renny Armas as Calden and Jack Baldwin as Yellen, you call.
01:21:17
Speaker
And also a special shout out to little big in Dane Foreshaw and Tony Bernhard for the comments on our last episodes.
01:21:42
Speaker
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