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C1 Ep. 129 Thrashing of Eras Chapter Six
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The battle rages on around the party as they find themselves facing down the most powerful entities they have encountered yet. But will their allies stand by them, or will this time finally be the last stand for the group?
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
Meet the Hosts and Enter Eberron
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Now wait.
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If we lie, maybe we can trick him. Maybe. I like Eric a lot, but he's got a memory like a goldfish. Or a booyah. It was immediately swallowed whole by our ancient green dragon ally. The raven showed up and she goes, you know, I've been thinking about it. And maybe, you know, maybe you're right.
00:01:29
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No, the Raven showed up with a with a bunch of monsters. She she she turned me to her side. She turned Booyah into a side salad and it's not a berry. Side kick and a side salad. Exactly. Wonderful. You know, vegetative.
Barak's Trust Issues and Battle Tactics
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You're with me.
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And then, so that left Barak with nobody to ally himself with except for a bunch of the Emerald Claw, his mom, and all of the Shaddar Kai. And a dragon. I, I think that's something. I mean, I think at this point, Barak believes that we're now being flanked by the Shaddar Kai army. Oh yeah. Cause you do not trust this Yurik. This person, this thing,
00:02:20
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that these things that have been serving the raven loyally for right exactly exactly millennia that does make sense so right now barrick is in his mind is imagining how pleasant it would be if we'd gone into the feywild barrick is wishing that he'd gotten the booyah spell so at least he wouldn't know what's going on
00:02:43
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Now, but, but tell me, does, does Barak believe, this may be too nuanced of a question from me, believe it or not. Uh, does Barak believe that this is Yurik, but she's actually acting as for the Raven Queen, or does she believe this is, does he believe this is not even his mom? Or have you not put thought to that? I don't know how sure Barak is anymore than he ever met his mother.
00:03:12
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Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. That makes sense. Fool me nine times, shame on you. Fool me 10 times. Also shame on you, stop fooling people. I need new friends. Just be honest, man. Wonderful.
00:03:36
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I mean, at 10 times, there's a lot of shame to go around. Whose turn is it? Yeah, we did start the show a second ago. It is. I'm just trying to figure out what Rickard can do and it's turning out. There's nothing I can do against charm, right? No, like there's no save at the beginning or end of a turn. Nothing.
00:04:04
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I'd really like it to be Beric's turn, but I'm not sure that it is. Funnily enough, it is. When I rolled a initiative beginning, Yurik got right before Beric, so. Okay, well. So Beric sees this and kind of reaches the conclusion that this is the end. This is where it all ends and we really just should have gone to the Feywild. But he can't do anything to get everyone out
Dex Breaks Free and Battlefield Analysis
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right now. So he turns to the dragon, who I believe hasn't moved, and says in Draconic still, if you're going to do anything big, I think this is the time. And then he turns and continues forward towards the oncoming horde of Sorrowsworn.
00:04:59
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I'm going to do two things. Well, okay. First, how far away is Dex for me? I asked this question a while ago, got into a, into Jeff making jokes about emotional distance. Um, then there was Dave Matthews and like, it just went all sorts of places before we started recording. You could have left all of that out, but now it's out there. I just wanted to be clear that I tried not to use that Eric still listens to Dave Matthews. Um,
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it. He flew back 15 feet, but then ran back up. So I mean, he's on the same plane, like horizontal plane as the Raven. So however far away you were from the Raven when you made your attack, that's how far Dex is away from you.
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Okay, and what is the what is the the space between me and Dex look like? Is it swarming with sorrow sworn? What's the situation here? Yeah, the sorrow sworn and the Emerald Claw are fighting in between. It's turned into a battlefield. It is a battle of the B words from Game of Thrones.
00:06:11
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All right, so the first thing I would like to do, sure, sure, sure, is I would like to use my bonus action with my Forceful, with my Hand of Force, and I want to try and smash the raven back down to the ground with the Forceful Hand effect of it. So she needs to make an athletics check opposed by the strength of the hand.
00:06:42
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Not a save. It's a check. Nope. Just an athlete. It's an opposed string check using athletics. Interesting. 20. All right. Okay. So hold on. I have to figure out what this is. A strength of 26 would be a plus eight, right? Yeah. I believe so. And I have a 22. So I get to move her. Okay.
00:07:13
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up to five feet plus five times my charisma. So I get to move her up to 30 feet. I want to slam her straight back down into the fires. Okay. Visually, what is this? It does. You just like pull her down. Eric's hand just rises. Clinches and then just down. Okay.
00:07:41
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Well, I don't know. I mean, that's what I would have done if I was there. Then.
00:07:51
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Excellent. So, uh, Barrick has, um, as one of his Eldritch Invocations, um, when we started to play up the Jedi thing, I took an Eldritch Invocation that allows me to just have jump on myself all times, like the spell. Okay. So Barrick's jump scale, jump spell or jump distance is always, uh, tripled. Wow. So, man, this sucks.
00:08:21
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It's about to get worse, if that's any consolation. For you specifically, not in general, like things are actually about to get better in general, just for you personally. So if, so Barak's going to take a 10 foot running start and then jump 30 feet through the air to try and land next to Dex. Okay. So I want to do a force jump over the battlefield to Dex. Okay.
00:08:51
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You do that. And when I do that, I'm going to use my action to reach down touch decks and I'm going to cast protection from evil. Okay. You now have another save with advantage against your charm. Okay. Here I go. Please don't disappoint me. Well, I don't think it's going to be my fault. If it doesn't happen, this is a game of chance after all. Charisma. I mean, my charisma is good.
00:09:20
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22. You succeed. Woo! How far away is the Raven for now? I think she's like right here. Woo! She's right next to us in a fire stream. Did she have to make a strength check when she had the fire stream to see if she gets rocketed back 15 feet? Not till her turn, I don't think. Surely not till her turn. Did she... Important. Did she see you touch me? I assume she's still on the ground.
00:09:50
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I will leave that up to Eric. Your eyes return to their normal form. Like she has. I also imagine she can feel whatever connection she had between you separate. Yeah. OK, there's that. I was like, the eyes, they don't have at the turn. Yeah. Now he can't be charged. Right.
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So take that. Is Barak immune from being charmed? I can't recall. Yes. Yeah, he is. But it is also true that my force push now ends
Chaos Unleashed: Dragon's Attack and Allies' Struggle
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because that was a concentration effect and I just cast a concentration spell.
00:10:24
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I mean well he can't be charmed as long as I can maintain concentration which considering the situation seems unlikely unlikely um but the odds of me not saving against that again are well I mean I guess they're the same as they've ever been because that's how because that's how dikes work they're exactly the same as they were and that's everything I can do that's that's all of the turn that's a lot it was a good yes it wasn't what I wanted to do with the turn but it was what needed to happen
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Okay, with her legendary action on your turn, you see her blink out like inky cloud engulfs her and then when it dissipates, she's gone. Nice. And... I mean, does she reappear somewhere noticeable to us? I realize it's chaos around it. Way up in the sky.
00:11:15
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Like, oh, 120 feet up. So. Just in range. Yep, same. That's what I was thinking. That's as far as she could go. Okay. It is now the collective's turn. So the Sorrow Sworn are starting to
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get closer, push back the emerald claws line. Booyah, you are there bearing witness to all of this. So through your eyes I shall describe the scene. The white raven is clearly starting to look concerned and kind of looks to you and is talking to you but you can't understand anything he's saying. Like it's just
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nonsense. You also see the elf woman or the elf girl that ran up to the dragon kind of pushing on him and he shakes his head and she pushes and so he rears back and
00:12:29
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like let's fly his breath weapon, engulfing the Emerald Claw soldiers in addition to the sorrow sworn. He's one of those. Well, I mean, you all weren't there to see, and Booyah was not able to understand the conversation that happened between him and the elf woman.
00:12:53
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But so, yeah, you all are going to be in range of this because it's a 90 foot cone. Yes. So he just engulfs the battlefield. So you all need to give me a constitution saving throw as just noxious, noxious green gas. Booyah, you're good because you're back with him. So you wouldn't have been caught in the line of fire. So, yeah, constitution saving.
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I mean, I feel like at 90 foot Cohen, I'd have a chance to dive out of the way, but, you know, whenever I mean, I'm just. Yeah. Sixteen, seventeen. Nope. If that doesn't match, then neither of mine have succeeded either. And you wrote for Orianna? Yeah.
00:13:40
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Hey, who else is out there? Rickard is not. Uh, the Ravens above it. So all of the people. Oh, so many dice. Thanks for encouraging him to do something big. Desperate times, man. Desperate times.
00:14:03
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Is this one of those things where we're gonna take damage and also we'll probably become poisoned? No, it's just poison damage. Oh, I'm surprised it's still poison damage. I thought it was about to be necrosis. Oh, right, since he's all... Zombified. Since he's a Draculich. Or something.
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I'm curious if I- Are you kidding me? I personally have enough d6s. Well, I'm not lending you any. Ancient, man. Ancient. It's gonna be crazy. 22. I'm gonna beat the racy. I mean, you could theoretically kill me dead in this role. I know the odds are well against it. Whoa. Gotta roll the whole thing again. One but one.
00:14:57
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This is wild. 20, 40, 60, 73 points of damage. Holy heck. Now, that's why I made him an ally. This round, I get a reaction. You have damage and it feels like there's not a better time.
00:15:20
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We'll see. Fair enough. Hang on, I have to do real math on the sheet now because these are numbers.
00:15:30
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It was what, 72? 73. So I would subtract 32. No, not 32. 36. So yeah, this noxious green gas just kind of rolls over the battlefield. And I mean, at 73 points of damage, you just see the Emerald Claw and Sorrow sworn begin to
00:15:57
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Crumple as as this roar shadow shadow Chi affected by this out of curious. They haven't reached the battlefield yet Convenient for them. Oh, do you hold on your concentration? No, I need to check what sorrow swans immunities are They don't have this no you are you are not protected from evil
00:16:21
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Well, clearly. So yeah, you all are gasping, kind of clawing at your throats. It's it's bad. You see the sorrow sworn dropping. And then you see Booyah, like you all your eyes are stinging, you're choking. So you your visibility for like the next couple of seconds is next to none.
00:16:49
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Booyah, you see this noxious gas flowing all over the battlefield and you look over at the dragon where this came from and you see the elf girl begin to float off of the air.
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and her robes fall away and so does the visage that she had been putting on and you see this undead half dragon half elf woman begin to ascend in the air at a rapid pace towards the raven floating over the battlefield.
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And she extends a finger at her and green energy
A Turning Point: The Undead Elf Woman's Revelation
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flows out of her finger at the Raven. I hate everyone we've met today. Why? And the Raven saves. So half damage. If someone else kills the Raven and takes all the packs, because I had to jump across the battlefield and use my action to uncharmed X instead of attacking her,
00:17:57
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barracks life will be exactly as it currently feels. That will be the way the cookie crumbles. But but okay, but supposing it's Dex that does it, I can then willfully hand the packs over to you. You can't take the packs. Good so I can kill her know that they did I did I we've talked about this. If someone who can't take the packs kill the packed holder, what happens to the pact? I know we've talked about this. Dex would know this. It basically the pact holders that are on hand
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have to try and take them use their will to and as far as we know the only pact holders are you and the dragon but and the raven well right I'm saying suppose upon the death of the raven is what I'm saying if it happens yeah but what about descendants what about Eurek if it's actually right what about the what I sure yeah
00:18:48
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So the green energy as you all kind of regain your sight and wipe away the tears out of your eyes, you can see above you the raven kind of wrapped in this greenish energy as she lets out a scream and then brings her arms down and kind of breaks the beam and the magic seems to almost shatter.
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as the new figure that you all did not see show up on the scene kind of recoils and you see this undead half dragon half elf woman floating in the air. It's a weird day. So it is now Orianna's turn. We haven't even gotten around yet.
00:19:29
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can't do anything to summon 120 feet in the air. So Orianna's and all the enemies down here appear to be dead. So Orianna is going to hold her
00:19:50
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She can't hold her movement. It's not allowed anymore. I'm sorry. I just I just had a moment a vision in my head I'm not gonna do it It just made me also almost break out laughing of like you all see the Raven Riving in pain with this green energy and then I have nowhere you see borrowed time swoop in and just a random even out of the air Does finger guns the whole way he doesn't need to do finger guns he has real guns
00:20:16
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Chase has guns. Why does nobody listen to me when I know I've said it like nine times. It's got to be true by now. Oh, you're just trying to will it into existence. Yeah. By the way, I have your D8. How dare you. Is that yours? It is actually. Yes. OK, it's it's my I've had it for a long time. I know I've been missing. It's my vern set. Is that why you haven't been verned because you've been missing that one day? No, I guess Oregon is using it. Oregon is going to hold her attack, hold an attack.
00:20:44
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in the unlikely event that the Raven comes into reach of her. Because there's just nothing she can do down here on the ground to someone the way up there.
00:20:54
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So the, yeah, all the sorrow sworn around you are down. There are still more making their way towards you. They are marching. They're not within the attack range yet. Rickard, who's back there with Booyah, is going to do, I mean, something. His classic bit, the sea hag. The sea hag. Starts shooting sorrow sworn, I don't know.
00:21:25
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Literally anything would be helpful. Rickard, knowing that you all are here to, at least to some extent, protect the dragon, and now what appears to be the dragon's best guardian, aside from the spectral one that Booyah created, has taken off. Booyah, you see Rickard kind of look at the battlefield and look at the dragon who seems to be like,
00:21:53
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Drained a little bit from that exertion of energy he runs over and you see Rickard put like Attach his bow to his back and he gets right next to the dragon and Kind of brings his hands up and slams them into the ground and as he does this you see bark begin to cover and
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Rickard's forearms and as he slams them down, roots begin to erupt and kind of surround the dragon, like on the ground, making the area difficult terrain around the dragon. And you also see Bark begin to kind of overtake Rickard's boots and pants
00:22:33
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And it seems like he's like locked in and off his back like little small
The Battle's End and Daedric's Revelation
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branches and leaves begin to grow as he seems to be planting himself on that spot to protect the dragon. Richard might rule. I hadn't noticed it in the past, but Richard might be awesome.
00:23:00
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So, oh, and his hair turns into leaves also. That's one little bit that was important.
00:23:11
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The white raven begins to rush out to stop the sorrow sworn because all of his soldiers are now dead. So he begins running out there. Wait, genuinely they're all? I mean, there might be one or two, but yeah, I mean, the army has been depleted at this point. And we are back around to the top of the round. Booyah. You see the raven up there in the sky? Well, the last thing...
00:23:40
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You know she did this to you. You know your friends and your enemies. Oh, so I do. OK, good. Like I said, you can still attack. You just can't use any of the cool bits of plainer justice. So it's just I mean, do I get. It is still a magic weapon, so you're not activating any of its properties, but I'm going to say the the passive things about it, like the pluses and all that stuff. Yes. All right. You can't. You can't banish with it. Yeah, exactly. So.
00:24:11
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Well, if Booyah is aware enough to know that she's the one then he's going to attack. Well, true to form and not true to form true to new service. Not very accurate. 16 16. That is a mess. Booyah could not figure out how to load the dang thing. He kind of frowns a little bit and attacks again.
00:24:43
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This time, um, 31. Well, yeah, I, yeah. You took the time to do the math is my favorite part. You're like, Oh no, I'm going to let him know. I want to let him know exactly. Now do I still have, I marked her before. Is the mark still on her? It's a, it's, it's a spell likability. So no, that's gone.
00:25:12
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15 damage. Okay. And then, and then Booyah, the last thing he saw before he saw the Raven was record. And then record just kind of turned into a, whatever Booyah thinks that is. So he wanted, he just wanders over that way. Okay. While he gets over to the, to the tree.
00:25:40
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Okay, hold on, she has a legendary action. Oh, of course, of course. And I can't believe I didn't. Sometimes I feel dumb because there's stuff that I don't know. Well, I predicate this entire epic battle on one thing. The whole reason you all came, the whole reason the raven came, and I have all these tools at my disposal, and then I realize
00:26:03
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I should maybe hit the nail with the hammer instead of my face. So she's going to use her legendary action to use twisting words on.
Aftermath: Consequences and New Mysteries
00:26:16
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So she's going to fly or she's or she can't move. That's fine. She's going to point her finger at. Why can't she move? It's her legendary action. Oh, OK.
00:26:28
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The movement was just for dramatic flair. She's going to point her finger at the green dragon and the green dragon has to make a charisma saving throw.
00:26:38
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I gotta tell you, I've not been struck by this thing's sad warfare at this point. DC, he missed the DC by two. So her eyes change into that dark, darkest depths and so does the dragon's eyes and he just looks up at her and you hear her scream, give it to me. Uh huh. Um,
00:27:08
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Now, it's Dex's turn. I mean, she's 120 feet up. There's how far away is our new friend? The dragon half dragon dragon? I mean, she's all she's on the same level as the raven. They're having wizard fight in the air. Okay, she's further away because she's at an angle like. All right. Dex considers fireball.
00:27:33
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And then says, no, I'm going to teach them a lesson about precision in battle. Hey, don't just take 73 points away from your friends. And he's going to, he's going to ask Laeliana to shoot a lighting bolt at the Raven. It is a DC 17 save. What? Oh, of course. I'm sorry. She's dexterity. Yeah. What's the DC? 17.
00:28:08
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The natural 20. So does she still take half or nothing at all on a nat 20? She'll still take half. Okay, let me roll it. Those are better. That one's cocked. That's worse. Dang it.
00:28:33
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Look at that, look at that, wow, Yahtzee. Yeah, that's actually great Yahtzee, because of all the ones. That's 32, 34, so 17 after having 17 points of lightning damage. And then...
00:28:57
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Can't think of any, any, any sort of movement. I mean, it's not like I can run and block the pact from making its way from him to her. So. I mean, there's really nothing I can do. I guess I can. Now, there's nothing I can do. OK.
00:29:25
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The Shatterkai break into a run past Yu Buya and past the dragon. And they come to meet the Sorrowsworn. May I? I have action surge. Go for it. Let me, let me, let me, let me lightning bolt her again. Okay. It'll be my last Lelyana and then I really can do nothing until she comes within 15 feet of me. Or Beric lets me fly, but so give me another Dex save.
00:30:00
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21. I don't count that as a roll. I'm just kidding. 28. Oh my god. 22. After having it. Okay. And then Tex looks at Beric kind of shrugs. He's like, I mean, unless we got time for a nap, I'm kind of done until they get closer.
00:30:25
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So yeah, the Shaddar Kai rush up with Yurik at the Vanguard and they crash into the Sorrowsworn and the fighting picks up, but the odds seem to be much more even now. The Shaddar Kai almost seem to mirror in number the amount of Sorrowsworn.
00:30:50
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So so actually the shadow I have a slight advantage because a huge 90 foot cone worth of their numbers have not been annihilated. So Barrick, it is your turn. OK, she's 120 feet away. You don't have any way to get her back down here because I don't have my hand of force anymore. The dragon is charmed.
00:31:22
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Okay, Barrick, in Barrick's left hand, the sort of silvery solid bow forms, three arrows form on the string, and he draws back, and I'm going to use the other property of,
00:31:50
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what's at dusk, coming dusk, to make the damage of this attack radiant, to which she is still vulnerable. And I'm going to fire at her with Eldritch Blasts. One natural 20. One 18 and one 21.
00:32:20
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the 18 misses okay so first the regular hit uh 14 radiant so double 28 radiant damage and then the crit
00:32:50
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24, so 48 more radiant damage. Nice, okay. Yeah, that hurt. She kind of takes those two in the chest, and the robes are kind of tattered and worn, and she's looking like in a real bad way. As...
00:33:15
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So close. For her legendary action, she once again, reality tears itself around her, and she reappears next to the Green Dragon. It is now the elf woman's turn. How far away is the Green Dragon from where Dex and Arbaric and I are now?
00:33:38
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80 feet. Okay, that's what I thought. The undead elf woman in the sky, my favorite Beatles song. You hear a deafening screeching no.
00:33:52
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And you can tell from the tamer and the voice it's not anger or vengefulness or even fear. It's immense regret of somebody that's about to have to do something horrible but necessary.
00:34:12
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And you see this green energy extend from her hand towards the raven. But when it gets there, it doesn't strike the raven. It wraps itself around the green dragon. And it seems like she's not casting a spell. She's withdrawing some kind of magic from from the dragon. And
00:34:40
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And the. The dragon turns to ash. Whoa, dust, you rolled a natural 20 on your I just have a thought in my head of Booyah's natural one reroll, but I would. Oh, I mean, I'll do it. Yeah.
00:35:10
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Not good enough on her part. I mean, strictly speaking, I don't know what her charisma is. That would be a 25. Yeah. Um, she rolled a 16 with her charisma. That's a 24. Wow. She has a, she has a 26 charisma. Oh my gosh. So I had to roll a natural 20 to win that.
00:35:37
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or she in order to win that specific role. Yes. Good night. Good job. So just kind of narrating what happens here. The
00:35:50
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the green dragon turns to ash just as the raven is reaching out to him. You all see this inky black mass begin to float into the air. Will you? Yes.
00:36:10
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Will you allow me to spin my natural 20 right now? Sure. To cause Orianna's turn to now take place since it is about to be her turn and all the roles for the reactions have occurred because I think it will be highly dramatically satisfying. I'll allow it.
00:36:25
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So Orianna's been really just a little bit from the dragon. And I said she was awaiting the opportunity for the raven to come into view again. And so the raven has just reappeared just a little, you know, 20 feet away or so between her and the dragon. And so as soon as the raven appears, Orianna has turned and begun to just race across the sand with the spear.
00:36:50
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Uh, and as this, the dragon turns to ash and presumably the Raven looks really upset and disappointed, uh, Orianna just leaps into the air with the spear. And I have some attacks. Would you say that from a mechanical perspective here, the Raven is about to be surprised. I'll allow it. I'm certainly surprised as am I.
00:37:19
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I mean, we've established an order. Orianna's initial attack is a twenty eight. OK. Now, hit since since since you told me to build her as an assassin and not a thief, the Ravens surprise causes this to automatically be a crit. OK.
00:37:46
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Remind me which way we do sneak attack damage, because it's been a long time since we did it. Double it with the crit. She had 5d6? Only four. She's not a full rogue. For anybody at home who might be using our makeshift Destiny hack into D&D, these crits by assassins do not count as the natural 20 for purposes of introducing things into the narrative. Sure, because she did not actually roll a 20.
00:38:19
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because I'm a thief of joy and fun. I just appreciate you recognize it now. You try to deny it. Does the portion of this as fire damage from the spear, is that relevant to any resistances on her part? She does have resistance to fire. Okay, so that part will set over here. So I wouldn't have done anything to her with that fireball anyway. Pass her deck, check in resistance and roll points of damage.
00:38:50
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So the total, the grand total between the spear and the fire is 48 points of damage. OK. She has another attack. I just need to know whether that's relevant. You've been describing the raven is in bad shape for a while. Is is there an assassin function where if the damage is X amount, then it's an instant kill is. But let me see which ability, which thing that's a part of.
00:39:17
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I chose not to play an assassin because of all of that stuff. Yeah. But then suddenly I'm a lycanthrope with a magic knife and a sword that can change people's shapes. So really, that's the point. Should have been using that polymorph sword. Just you're a bunny. You're a T-Rex. Yeah. You could use it on Booyah. Just start bonking Booyah on that. That would be very fun.
00:39:45
Speaker
He does that squiggle out and then come back to you as something else. Like, what is it? Is it when it's in that one wild Daffy Duck cartoon where he gets in the argument with the artist? Yeah. And he hiccups and he changes into different stuff? No, there is no save or die in the assassinate ability. OK, pronounced shame or die. I remembered one.
00:40:17
Speaker
High five. Oh, so she's still on her feet. No, she is super dead. So, yeah, the spear just straight through the back out the chest. And Orianna, who looks very nearly dead, by the way, with her seven hit points, just sort of staggers back from the spear.
00:40:42
Speaker
now proceed so yeah the raven reaching out to the dragon sees the inky form begin to float in the air and attempts to exert her will but just as it's about to get there she's staked to the ground by a spear plunging through her chest um
00:41:02
Speaker
And you're standing right there bearing witness to all of this, unable to comprehend much of it. But you see from your perspective, blood just start to drip out of her mouth and she kind of
00:41:17
Speaker
touches it confused and uncertain. As the inky mask decks you can see it was almost compulsory, like you weren't in total control, your hand just automatically extended up to reach out for the pact.
00:41:34
Speaker
And it immediately zoomed over and absorbed itself into Erebus. And I guess I need to roll on the moon blade table. We could do that after. That's what we have to do right now.
00:41:53
Speaker
You see all of our decks. You also hear all of the sorrow sworn begin to let out whales out of their mouths as the whales into the sky. No, they begin screaming and gnashing and clawing, but at themselves.
00:42:17
Speaker
and just rending themselves apart. And Dex does not intervene. The Shaddar Kai take a step back and are just mortified because the ground is beginning to turn red from them just gnashing at themselves.
00:42:34
Speaker
and killing themselves in rapid fashion until the battlefield is strewn about with bodies of sorrow-sworn and emerald claw soldiers and some shadar kai and it becomes quiet and you
00:43:03
Speaker
You see a figure on the ground in all white, but there's a distinct red splotch right here near his stomach. And he's just kind of sitting on the ground holding it, looking about.
00:43:26
Speaker
I guess I have to like honestly the white raven on the ground hurt I don't know the Dex gives a crap okay but is he between me and everybody else
00:43:38
Speaker
You can easily see him because like the Shaddark higher beginning to like break away and all the sorrows were dead on the ground. No. Okay. Okay. I apologize. Where is Barak right now? Is Barak near? You always say standing right next to you. Okay, so you're not you did. Okay. So I think I want to turn to Dex. I'm like, is she? Can she she like dead dead? Can she get dead dead? Do you know? Is it? Oh, she done? Do I know? Does anything feel different? What's
00:44:07
Speaker
Yeah, and also, how did- Does Barrick lift off the ground and begin glowing? We have a Thor arrives at Wakanda moment. Right. But I also, I could see him get the last pact, right? Yeah, you saw it shooting across. And I've seen it. How do you feel? You feeling real powerful or evil? Yeah. No, go ahead.
00:44:35
Speaker
I mean, I need to know, can I tell specifically whether she's dead? I mean, you feel less tethered. You feel more free than you have in a long time. Can I still see her? No. Well, you can see her like, you can see her figure like on Orianna's spear. Like she's not disappeared.
00:45:05
Speaker
So I can still see her life like she's still alive. You can see magic surrounding her, but OK, it's not. It's unlike anything you've encountered. Sure. So. Yeah, I I don't know.
00:45:24
Speaker
Hey, the White Raven is down there on the ground over there. I'm gonna go check and make sure he looks pretty bad off. As Dex points that out, Barak, you all see him try to stand up and he like falls back down on his butt. And in a moment of frustration, he rips off the White Raven mask and throws it to the side.
00:45:50
Speaker
And Barak, just more stuff going through your brain and heart as you recognize Daedric Benar on the ground holding his bleeding side. Are you kidding me?
00:46:12
Speaker
I think this is that point of emotional turmoil where Barak's emotional side just shuts down. And so he walks over and he's going to cast Cure Wounds on Benar from Coming Dusk. Thank you, Barak.
00:46:37
Speaker
He recovers 27 hit points. Oh my goodness. Uh, the pain subsides and, um, he begins to stand up and brush himself off. Thank you for the, uh, thank you for the notice. Have you been the wide Raven the whole time? I think you've not been entirely honest with me.
00:47:10
Speaker
To answer your question, Dex, yes, I am the White Raven. And Beric, I never claimed to be anything other than what I am. What is she? Because there's still an undead half-dragon on the field that Beric doesn't actually know where it came from. There is not. She's gone.
00:47:37
Speaker
Oh, then I don't think Barak asks that question of Daedric Benar because at this point, Barak's not 100% sure he didn't hallucinate that from the poison. So Dex is kind of, he's been thinking, he's like, all right, he's the wide-raving. What are you stealing, man? What are you even stealing? Like you were just stealing stuff.
00:48:01
Speaker
Barrick walks over towards the corpse of the Raven. I've been procuring artifacts of note from a great war from many, many, many thousands of years ago. Nothing you've ever heard of. It's why it's well, I mean, probably, but also maybe not. But also I wouldn't remember. And this is who here would team up with to go on adventures.
00:48:32
Speaker
I also, I'm getting a bit older and clearly I wasn't able to defend myself that well. What would you feel about doling out vigilante justice once we take back Stormreach? I'm looking for a replacement. You've already got the outfit, so. A white owl. It could be this snowy owl.
00:48:56
Speaker
Let's put a pin in it. I've got something I gotta do first. That's gotta be Dex's epilogue now. It's the snow owl of Stormreach. I will decide Dex's epilogue. Thank you. Screeeee. Hey y'all, hey y'all, hey y'all. Screeech.
00:49:14
Speaker
Yeah, no one is going to be confused as to who the white owl is because his accent is so singular. And he's got blue hands because I went back to four foot long purple hair or vice versa. Whatever it was. I didn't pay a lot of attention to that guy's looks. OK, so. You're going to walk over to the raven. I follow you. What are you doing? Booyah had walked over.
00:49:41
Speaker
to the tree. Okay. On the way he pulled out his dagger and, and he pokes the tree, maybe right. Yeah. And you see the tree, like you don't understand the trees just making noises at you, but it recoils away. It's like those old cartoons where the trees are swaying in the background. Okay. And he begins to. Yeah. Pokes him one more time. Oh yeah.
00:50:09
Speaker
I guess your helmets on so nobody even knows that your face like that you're expressionless and kind of like you're just in your suit walking around poking people with your And when he does start talking for all I know he's just in shock and reverted to goblin. Yeah One thing recognizes that it's somebody he knows yeah, he kind of
00:50:32
Speaker
inside his helmet with kind of a blank stare, like puzzled and just like lightly taps him with the dagger. And then, yeah.
00:50:47
Speaker
Um, okay. Um, so Barrick or Rickard transforms out of being a tree and begins like tending out, trying to figure out what, what in the world is going on with Booyah? Uh, we'll come back to it in a second. Barrick, what are you doing? Barrick walks past the pinned corpse and just wraps Orianna in his arms.
00:51:16
Speaker
And she recovers. 26 hit points. And then he turns and sort of kneels and looks at the raven to try and find out what is exactly left here.
00:51:45
Speaker
Yeah, you sense a waning energy about her like it's not. Like she's no longer conscious, she's not. It seems like her her innate the magic of her living being has gone dormant.
00:52:09
Speaker
It's not vibrant, it's not active, it just is, but almost vegetative.
00:52:22
Speaker
um give me a arcana check to try to see if you can piece together what this made me have all the knowledge it's just a question 28 yeah so you're he gets it yeah you're able to easily kind of after thinking for a moment you know that there's another form
00:52:42
Speaker
on this plane of her that isn't technically dead. Right. So it would be impossible, you would guess, to kill her outright unless her, air quotes, original mortal form were destroyed as well. OK, so Rickard's going to do a nature check on you, Booyah.
00:53:14
Speaker
That's a gonna be 16. He can definitely tell that you're you are unable to communicate with him and he begins trying to take the helmet off of the armor. So do you fight him anyway? Or do you? Because you know him as a friend like yeah, I think yeah, he probably would let him. Okay, so he takes the helmet off and begins like looking into your eyes and
00:53:45
Speaker
You see the face of a man that's growing concerned because you still have the capacity for insight, given that that's a wisdom ability.
00:53:55
Speaker
And you hear him loudly begin exclaiming gibberish to you. To the rest of you, you can hear Rickard begin shouting, I need some help. Something's wrong with Booyah. Oh, that takes all over there. Eric, do you react in any way?
00:54:24
Speaker
No, Eric is in shock. I would think Orianna would go over. Okay. So Dex and Orianna. Are we still surrounded by Shatterkai? Yeah, the Shatterkai are kind of collecting themselves. I mean, they've just been in a battle. So I'm sure I get it. Yeah, they've been through a lot recently. Yes, they have. And
00:54:51
Speaker
you Dex and Orianna approach and Rickard is just looking at Booyans like Booyah what what is your name and you can't understand what he's saying like yeah I just hey hey bud hey hey yo you recognize this is a face of your friend but you don't know a name you don't know any way to communicate
00:55:17
Speaker
Yeah, you all right. He just stare. He's just staring like just looking at you. So I mean, as far as Dex knows, he just seems catatonic. Yeah, I mean, catatonic is because remember, you also don't have any of your personality like you were literally just. I mean, the name of the spell is feeble mind like you are.
00:55:40
Speaker
flat affect and yeah I think we might I think we got to get him to uh can you call jace yeah yeah yeah yeah but uh hey jace yeah uh how's it going down there I mean currently I guess it's over at the very least we're in a lull the the okay so here's what happened
00:56:09
Speaker
The Raven is like dead esque. She's not a threat right this minute. And all those guys that were with her, I guess you didn't see, he could have seen some of this, right? Yeah, I mean, he would have been, he would have had a bird's eye view. All the people that are with her are, they've torn themselves apart. And I think it's safe for you to get low enough for us to board or unmoor and send down a skiff or
00:56:39
Speaker
something and also Booyah's in a weird bad way and we got to find someplace to take him to get him looked at I don't know if it's church or a hospital or a healer or I don't know maybe it's hungry but we need to do something all right I'll come I'll come down in this gift to collect you all okay what direction is Barak staring into the middle distance towards
00:57:07
Speaker
I think he's just sort of sitting. I think he's sitting on the sand between the ash pile that used to be a dragon and the body of the Raven. Because this is exactly the scenario he was attempting to avoid by coming here. Right, so I think Dex goes and he's going to just go. He's going to go sit next to bear. But what he's going to do is he's going to make sure that his cloak is underneath him because it can't get dirty and and.
00:57:37
Speaker
I think he's just going to sit down next to him. He's ago. Can we, can we take like a night or two and not think about what's next? This was a lot and something's wrong with Booyah and we need to get him sorted. And then, I don't know, just maybe get hammered or something. I don't.
00:58:18
Speaker
Was there? Was there an undead half dragon here at some point?
00:58:27
Speaker
I mean, I don't like to put labels on things, but if I was going through, that would definitely be what I would, it was, why would you not want to put labels on? I mean, why would you not want to use nouns? I mean, I don't know that she was undead. There was definitely, she looked dragon half dragon dragon born. We're saying the same words, right? She didn't know different. Okay. What is a half dragon then? And a dragon bred with another race, but looks like.
00:58:54
Speaker
Like an elf, but parts of her would have, you know, maybe scales and she's got wings, wings, maybe even a tail. I would definitely say, uh, undead fields app half dragon is definite. Yeah. There was one. Why did you not see it? I did see it, but then it wasn't here and I wasn't sure where it came from. You want to make sure I saw it too. I'm with you.
00:59:18
Speaker
Uh, yeah, it was there. Did we notice it disappear at the same time as the dragon? Like it dusted and she disappeared. It dusted and she also dusted. Did we see any of that?
00:59:31
Speaker
Um, you didn't see my perception is wild. And I was looking that way. You were looking that way. But I mean, she was I get it. I get it in the air. I mean, it's it's one of those like she by the time you thought to look for her, she was gone. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah, she dusted her dad and was wait, I didn't hear him say the daughter thing. Did I? Only Berwick was there at that point. We landed right after that.
00:59:58
Speaker
He didn't actually ever call her his daughter. No, but he did. He said, she, he said something about daughter. And then there was a half dragon who was attempting to save his life. Dex is going to put Dex is going to say dad, whether he's right or not. But I don't think I heard the daughter thing. So I guess I'll just say, uh, yeah, after she dusted the, uh, the old one, she was gone, but yes, she was definitely here.
01:00:27
Speaker
And what are we going to do about them? Booyah pokes his dagger into Dex's thigh. What the hell, man? Booyah? No. Can I try to take the dagger? You can try. That's what. All right. Well, what am I rolling? Side of hand? Sure. I shouldn't have said it. That's I mean, 21. Well, I get that. Well, I can't.
01:00:58
Speaker
Probably not. Yeah. So I swipe out of his hand and I go, stop. No. Um, I roll up a newspaper. Yeah. Obviously we should get him to a healer. Yeah. We need to get him to the back. We have to, well, we got, we promise to take the horn back. So when you said, what do we do about them? You meant the, the job chatter guy, right? Right.
01:01:25
Speaker
And actually Dex probably would have been like, you mean the, uh, is it Shatter guy? Cause I don't know that he's heard that many times. Yeah. Yeah. Probably not. Just, just at the port, just at the murder board meeting. Yeah. Um, they, they've begun making their way over to you all, but I mean, they were a fair distance. So, um, what about, I've never seen Yurik, have I?
01:01:50
Speaker
No, no, because everything that happened with her with silver flame was all just for better. It would be a resemblance. I mean, from the beginning of this. Sure. He looks like that again. Well, with with eyes. Right. I guess I. I mean, I wouldn't. He does have her eye. Well, had her. Oh, my God, I couldn't. I couldn't not be like. Now, Bella Shira has them like. Beric, is that your.
01:02:18
Speaker
Do you think that's your mom? Probably. Possibly. She's kind of leading the march over towards you all. Do you want me to be here? Do you want to talk to her at all? Jace is on his way down. I don't know. Where can I be there for you at? Here's fine. I don't know what I have to say to them. All right.
01:02:51
Speaker
So what are you doing? I'm going to wait the imminent approach of, okay. You're growing or follow barracks lead. Eric stands up and turns to face them. Um, at some point he has retrieved the spear out of the Raven. So it's not just this weird macabre thing sitting there in the end anymore. Um, yeah. You trying to get your dagger back? Just hold it up. Yeah.
01:03:21
Speaker
Um, uh, Yurik approaches you, Barak, and, uh, she has a somber look about her. Um, and she kind of looks at, cause she hasn't seen you since. No. Uh,
01:03:56
Speaker
I'm almost afraid to ask, but... Why the mask? Long, complicated, unpleasant story. That's how I lost my eyes. I'm sorry. That's the mind. I just need to give them up. Well...
01:04:28
Speaker
I think what happened here today was a net positive. This wasn't what I came here to do. That creature, perhaps tens of thousands of years old.
01:04:58
Speaker
didn't need to be killed. She didn't need to be killed. In the end, there wasn't an option, but this is not why I came here. I came here specifically to stop this. So no, I don't feel like today was a net win. I'm sorry you feel that way.
01:05:31
Speaker
As am I. What will you do now? Return to Dolor. We will return to our home in Dolor now that there can be peace. I understand that you did not feel that
01:05:59
Speaker
The dragon needed to die and that may very well be true. You have not been in Dolor for some time since her power has grown. I will shed no tears over her death. She has tormented, tortured and enslaved my people.
01:06:29
Speaker
to create her army of sorrow sworn. She's taken a piece of us to create them. Now she can't do that. So like I said, I feel like today was a net positive.
01:06:59
Speaker
Maybe if I'd done what I intended to do before, before I came here, maybe I could have undone it without all the death. Unreasonable number of people died here. Yes.
01:07:25
Speaker
No, I mean, you had the hard stop at nine. So yeah, you're like five more. OK, yeah, we'll wrap it. We'll wrap it up. I mean, Eric doesn't want this to be a long conversation. So yeah. I understand that you didn't want this death, but. It was and is. A war.
01:07:54
Speaker
And that's the toll. And now it's time to take the next steps and do what needs to be done. So you just say that's what it costs and you walk on. No, we don't ignore the cost. It's terrible, but what else is there?
01:08:24
Speaker
There's diplomacy. There's any number of things that can happen before the war breaks out, but once the blood begins to spill, if you hesitate, you die. That's why I tried to keep you from it. That's why I never wanted
01:08:56
Speaker
to be in this situation of standing on a battlefield with you surrounded by the dead. Surrounded, I am the dead. Twice over.
01:09:26
Speaker
I don't want to be what I am now. I didn't want to be this. I didn't want... I want you to stop her. I didn't want to have this.
01:09:50
Speaker
I know you're not seeking it, but I have no words of comfort for you. There are plenty of people in this world who do not want to be what they are. Do you honestly think that I want to be what I am? That any of us stuck in Dolor want to be what we are? No. No, of course not. And you've known that you would end up amongst our rank
01:10:21
Speaker
unless somebody does what you do not want to do. I want to achieve that. I killed too many people getting here. I didn't want the last death. I came here to prevent it and it got worse nearly got my friends killed. So I suppose that's just
01:10:53
Speaker
I suppose that's just what it is, as you say. Barak, I was on the battlefield. You didn't, you may have brought allies here, but she was coming. The dragon was going to die by some means or another. I should have stopped her.
01:11:22
Speaker
I did other things, should have stopped her. I should have done nothing, but stop her. There were, there were chances. And because I took time to do other things, that creature is dead, as it would not have been if I could have helped it. If I could have stopped her, I was not going to kill him.
01:11:53
Speaker
So I didn't kill him. My actions led to this. I hadn't taken her word for it, gone about, gathering pacts made her this powerful. This is, this is the cost of me trusting in things I didn't understand or check or confirm or anything like that.
01:12:20
Speaker
I know you can't do anything about this. I know I can't do anything about this. I know it is what it is. It's in the past, but there's nothing to do to go forward. I suppose it's true. At least there's an end on the other side. We all eagerly await that end. Good luck. You as well. Eric turns and walks away.
01:12:52
Speaker
She. Give me a strength check, Eric. Ten. You. You turn and begin to take a step and you feel a strong firm hand on your shoulder spin you back around and pull you into a hug.
01:13:20
Speaker
I mean, he's not a rock. It's his mom bear hugs her back. I'll see you on the other side. Perhaps. And he will turn and walk away. You hear tearing behind you and the Shatterkai begin to wander back into Dolar.
01:13:51
Speaker
As this conversation is happening. Pivot. Um, Dex, you kind of feel, you think maybe it's time. I know when I'm not wanted and when I'm not, I'll let you know and I'll get out of here. So you turn to go, um, escort Booyah back to the ship and you realize that Booyah is gone. Oh my gosh. End of episode.
01:14:15
Speaker
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