Ep 6: The Enemy Within

After defeating the giants at the walls of Winterforge, the Planar Vanguard must now contend with an enemy closer to home. Much, much closer. The magical Ink that was once borne by the frost giant leader now seeks to consume Einar, and anyone else in its way.

Transcript

SPEAKER_10 0:30

Last time that we left the group, we had just had a massive fight with some giants that were rolling into Winter Forge. The group rallied as usual and defeated the giants. One of the giants, however, was covered in a red ink very similar to Einar's. And Einar being Ainer touched the ink and had it flow onto him. Having a little more experience in delving with Noctus, his current ink, he was able to try and communicate with this new ink. And it seems that it has grander plans and bigger schemes than working with a mortal in its own sense. We left off right as Drax was attempting to tear some of the ink off of Einar. Very painful. And we're gonna start off this session with Delphine. What do you want to do, Delphine? Alright, so it's you said it was like swelling and basically both inks were kind of Yeah, they're they're kind of they seem to be like fighting back and forth for control over s over covering Einar's body. Now it doesn't seem to be harming him.

SPEAKER_13 1:57

But he's like inside all of that.

SPEAKER_10 2:00

He's inside, but you can and you can still see him too. Like he's he's in control of Noctis, but Noctus is trying to Vantor. He's trying to take back the areas that are missing, right? Because Vantor is like trying to take over Einar completely, but he has not attuned to this ink, so he hasn't accepted it yet. So Vantor can't actually take control yet.

SPEAKER_13 2:24

If it am I able to, with like an investigation check or something, because Delphine wasn't there when he pet thing he shouldn't have pet.

SPEAKER_10 2:36

Stuck his hand in the hole.

SPEAKER_15 2:38

Yeah. Um, so she doesn't know where I want to find because it is essentially it is a tattoo.

SPEAKER_13 2:46

So it has a source point on his body.

SPEAKER_10 2:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_13 2:50

She wants to try and find it.

SPEAKER_10 2:52

Okay, that's a great idea. Can you roll me a investigation check? What would it be? Would invest you would be investigating to look for that to like you know comb his naked body with your eyes to see if you could find where this tattoo is located.

SPEAKER_15 3:06

I don't think he's fully naked, to be fair.

SPEAKER_10 3:08

Yeah, but the tattoo could be anywhere.

SPEAKER_15 3:10

I feel like I feel like Delphine's not gonna go certainly.

SPEAKER_10 3:13

Armor's not on. Top's not on. You actually picked up.

SPEAKER_04 3:16

I feel like I didn't remove my pants.

SPEAKER_10 3:18

I feel like removing the sexual tone of it, he would, as his friend, you would be really interested to find out where this is. It wouldn't really, there'd be no sexual tone to it, I think. Alright.

SPEAKER_14 3:30

Oh, please don't fuck me. 16.

SPEAKER_10 3:33

16? Okay, easily enough. You comb his body, and and because of the way the ink is forming and rotating around him, it's tough to actually pinpoint down where you would find this tattoo, but you do find it. And it is on the underside of his rib cage, right here.

SPEAKER_15 3:58

Left side.

SPEAKER_10 3:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 3:59

Okay, I'm gonna yell for Drukin and Drax. Hold him still. Like, so I basically want you to hold him like basically his arms and shoulders, one on each side of it.

SPEAKER_10 4:13

Are you allowing that there, Einar?

SPEAKER_12 4:16

That's why I'm gonna hold him still.

SPEAKER_04 4:19

Einar's in his head and not fighting his his allies. I'm fighting Vantor.

SPEAKER_10 4:24

You shall allow. I shall allow. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 4:27

So Drax, Mr. Drax, try to fight down. Do what Delphine's saying. So I stop gripping the ink and try to just start grabbing appendages.

SPEAKER_10 4:38

Alright, so you you kind of pin him down. He's he's his eyes are almost rolled up in the back of his head while he's interacting inside of his own mind. And you pin him down, and as you're holding him, you expose the tattoo and you can see it, and what it looks like is eight tentacles of an octopus with the head of an octopus, and then two spiky kind of talons that come up from either side of the head of the octopus. That's the symbol that it looks like.

SPEAKER_15 5:06

Okay. Devil octopus, got it. Alright, so you got they have them held steady?

SPEAKER_10 5:13

Boys, you're holding them? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_13 5:15

Trying to alright. I am uh going to summon uh Shadow Blade. Okay.

SPEAKER_15 5:22

Like a dagger, and I am going to try and carve it off his skin. I'm not going for flesh, I'm trying to shave. She's rending the flesh.

SPEAKER_10 5:34

Alright. Medicine the test. A medicine check.

SPEAKER_15 5:38

Medicine? Why is this medicine?

SPEAKER_10 5:40

Because you are attempting to do fine surgery with a blade. This is this is about how deep you cut.

SPEAKER_04 5:48

Or no. I get it. This is about how deep she cut. Can I help her with the medicine check?

SPEAKER_10 5:52

If you're helping her, you're not helping hold them down.

SPEAKER_15 5:55

Can I help her then?

SPEAKER_10 5:56

Absolutely, you can.

SPEAKER_15 5:57

Alright.

SPEAKER_10 5:58

So you can give Delphine the advantage.

SPEAKER_15 6:01

I age you, so you're helping. You're helping.

SPEAKER_04 6:04

You're helping. As the blade touches my skin on our reels inside and just hears the words of his father. Pain is just our self-doubt trying to keep us down and out. We defeat it by standing back up. And he just starts repeating this as he feels the blade cutting. So you're trying to stand up? I haven't. No, repeating is in his head.

SPEAKER_15 6:22

I haven't cut yet.

SPEAKER_04 6:24

I said, has it cut? You're rotating roll. Yeah!

SPEAKER_15 6:28

19 and a 20. Nice!

SPEAKER_10 6:32

I guess we'll take a 20.

SPEAKER_15 6:34

Um zero. Could she add my medicine? No, could my medicine.

SPEAKER_10 6:42

All of your helping does is give her two.

SPEAKER_15 6:46

Just I I'm using a shadow blade like a dagger or like a.

SPEAKER_10 6:50

Okay. Um, so you are able to cut the uh skin graft. You're able to cut the skin. Now, because of the magical properties of this tattoo, you are able to then shave off like a very, very thin layer of skin that doesn't do too much damage to iron or in fact, take one point of damage. You just you shave it off, you get like a thin piece of skin that has a tattoo on it, but you can see underneath that that the tattoo goes deeper into his flesh. So you were able to cut part of it off, but you weren't able to cut all of it off.

SPEAKER_13 7:28

It's just like a cancer.

SPEAKER_10 7:30

Yeah, it was about maybe, I'd say you got about six percent of it. You'd have to go quite a bit deeper.

SPEAKER_15 7:37

I'm gonna go quite a bit deeper. Do it again?

SPEAKER_04 7:40

You're here for me again.

SPEAKER_10 7:41

Do it! Okay. Uh you gonna roll again?

SPEAKER_14 7:48

Yes.

SPEAKER_13 7:49

Just the one?

SPEAKER_10 7:50

No, no, she can uh only Andrew can keep helping you, yeah.

SPEAKER_15 7:55

I I will I will aid you again and I will do something different if this doesn't help.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

Pain is weakness and doubt leaving the body.

SPEAKER_15 8:09

Eleven.

SPEAKER_10 8:10

Eleven? Okay.

SPEAKER_15 8:11

Apple.

SPEAKER_10 8:12

So that's not as skillful.

SPEAKER_07 8:15

No.

SPEAKER_10 8:16

What I'm gonna need now is I'm gonna need Rax and I'm gonna need Druken to roll me a strength check. Einar, can you roll me a strength check as well? But you get to add plus ten to yours.

SPEAKER_04 8:30

Oh fun. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 8:32

Because this is gonna hurt like a bitch.

SPEAKER_06 8:34

A straight knife.

SPEAKER_10 8:35

You're just rolling a straight, yeah, just roll straight check. Rax got 20. 20 nice.

SPEAKER_06 8:40

I got 19 plus two.

SPEAKER_10 8:41

19 plus what? Plus three. Plus three, so 22. I don't know what do you got. Which die will let me down right now? We're gonna go with.

SPEAKER_15 8:50

Would you like to roll one of my dice? Yes! Yes.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

Give me a one roll there.

SPEAKER_15 8:55

Hold on, I can't give you I can't give you a gateau because that one may well actually roll well for you. Although my my dice have a tendency to roll well when it's not to our advantage to the group advantage.

SPEAKER_04 9:07

Mine or bless.

SPEAKER_15 9:08

Try that.

unknown 9:10

Hold on.

SPEAKER_04 9:10

Yes, that's 50-50. Alright, so I get plus ten to mine? Plus ten. And my normal strength blows. Pardon me? So I get my normal strength?

SPEAKER_10 9:18

Yeah, all the normal strengths.

SPEAKER_04 9:19

Technically I get plus two. 19 to it. 14. So my strength is plus nine. It's down one because of losing. That's a save. That's my safe, right? That's a strength check. Much better.

SPEAKER_10 9:30

So it's only 15, 25. 25. So you pass. So you are. It's not you personally, it's Ventor. Um and as you go to dig this in, now having already seen you try this once, it now knows what you're doing. And so as you go to dig the blade in, you watch as the uh the red ink consumes the area and floods to where your blade is touching his skin, and it starts to wretch him forward, and the tendrils from the ink are shooting into the ground and lifting Einar off the ground to try and get him away from this. And because of your guys' rolls, he actually breaks free of your grasp.

SPEAKER_15 10:17

But do I still have like the chunk?

SPEAKER_10 10:20

Uh you so yeah, you do cut out a chunk, but with an 11, again, you don't get the full piece of it. You get a you get a big chunk of it, and he's gonna take five hit points. But he uh is it only is just like again, you're just cutting off part of it. And then you watch as it just the ink flows back over and tries to fill in the hole, but like so.

SPEAKER_13 10:41

But is it still like connected, like trailing off the part that I'm holding?

SPEAKER_10 10:45

You could if you wanted to. Yeah, there's a little bit troll, you could just rip it off though.

SPEAKER_13 10:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 10:49

Okay, now you have any you've got a piece of iron.

SPEAKER_13 10:51

What's this doing? Is it doing anything?

SPEAKER_10 10:53

No, it's just it it still looks like it's got ink flowing around it. In fact, you watch as it's flowing from the body part and it's trying to flow onto you.

SPEAKER_13 11:02

But what's going on on him? Oh, he's Is it still on him?

SPEAKER_10 11:06

It's still on him, yeah. You didn't get the full tattoo. So they lost their grip on me. Oh yeah, you're up. You're up now, and you're being you're being suspended by the tendrils of Ventor as it's holding you up in the air, and you're kind of like like this with your eyes rolled back inside your own mind. So that's what you guys see. Einar, inside your mind, you are standing in a abandoned chapel, like a castle almost, and it's cold and drafty, and there's bits of light that are coming through the windows shining on the ground, and you are without it, standing by yourself in your own mind. Across from you on the altar, strolling back and forth, is the picture that I showed you before of Ventor. The tyrant of the inner mind. Walking back and forth, and he's talking to you.

SPEAKER_08 12:13

You know that's with me, you are stronger.

SPEAKER_04 12:20

I just respond with three little words and a shake of my head. Mercy is weakness.

SPEAKER_08 12:33

Having mercy is against all that stands for I can make you powerful, stronger, faster, you can rule.

SPEAKER_04 12:59

A smile crosses my face. An almost challenge one. I don't seek to rule. You can't make me stronger. You can enhance my body, but you can't make what makes me what makes us strong. And that is the will to help others in need.

SPEAKER_08 13:23

You are fool! You're a fragment. Whether you want to or not, I shall use this body.

SPEAKER_10 13:34

On the outside, you guys watch as Ventor is now overwhelming Einar Anoctis and has completely enveloped Einar, and the form of the bat starts to take shape from Einar as he's being lowered to the ground. Einar, in your head, you watch as Ventor smashes the pews in front of him and starts charging at you with his claws dropped down, screaming at the top of his lungs. And we're all gonna roll initiative right now, and this is gonna be a two-part battle. There's gonna be the battle outside between Ventor and Euphor, and then there's gonna be the battle inside between Einar against the Ventor Inner Inc. Okay, and let's just I'm gonna put out a quick map here. Alright, so uh for Einar, who is trapped inside the cage of his mind. Because you don't you're not on the wear. Yeah, so that's Einar in there. You can just put him in there. Okay.

SPEAKER_15 14:51

That's in Einar's head.

SPEAKER_10 14:52

That's in Einar's head. In Einar's brain. We are alone.

SPEAKER_15 14:56

And then is this our bedroom?

SPEAKER_10 14:58

That's the yeah, that's kind of like the hallway in the area.

SPEAKER_15 15:03

Oh, we were in the bedroom initially.

SPEAKER_10 15:05

Oh, you guys are in the bedroom. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 15:08

We took the smallest room together. The smallest room together. And that's where they were checking on me when shit went wrong. Oh. Okay, well, perfect.

SPEAKER_15 15:14

It was just our sense of humor since Draken took the biggest room. So we took the littlest.

SPEAKER_06 15:18

We did take the biggest room this time.

SPEAKER_04 15:20

We just need coziness.

SPEAKER_06 15:21

They'll be on either side of the of uh I figured my not. I could take bigger rooms. From the bad guy.

SPEAKER_10 15:27

Yeah. So this will be Ventura on the inside. We should have brought the bat. Oh.

SPEAKER_15 15:34

Just grab a beholder.

SPEAKER_04 15:35

Yeah, I'll just go grab this. How can I even turn into the bat? I mean, he doesn't have blood for me to drain, does he? I feel like I feel like it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_15 15:43

Oh, I like that even better. It's got the mushrooms. That looks actually super creepy. Yeah. I love it.

SPEAKER_09 15:49

Some weird blind monster.

SPEAKER_15 15:53

Tenderly.

SPEAKER_09 15:53

It's a shambling. It's a great it's painted so well. That was the first mini I ever bought and painted.

SPEAKER_15 15:59

My my in my brain, what is happening on his body, it's like Princess Tess Mononoke when the boar god is being overthrown by all the demon worm things, and it's all gross.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 16:11

And he's like inside there.

SPEAKER_10 16:12

I am yeah, I mean, that's that's freaking awesome. It is now what is happening. It is now what is going on?

SPEAKER_15 16:21

And it's gross, and then San like is trying to help him. She gets like sucked in and they start like burning into her face.

SPEAKER_10 16:28

Thank you to the feeding for the inspiration. This is perfect. Okay. Uh just like job.

SPEAKER_05 16:35

Way to go. Way to make it harder. This country would be so much harder if you did this. Realistically.

SPEAKER_15 16:42

I'm just saying that's what it looks like. Drewkin and Drax slash Mr. Drax listeners at home. I think it's a good thing. That's what it looks like because you were trying to restrain him. So you guys should be right by him.

SPEAKER_06 16:54

Yeah, in theory.

SPEAKER_15 16:55

In theory. And then Delphine and I were we're right, we're we're all right. We're all right there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 17:02

Essentially, we're all beside him.

SPEAKER_15 17:04

Yeah. We're all there. I mean, you gotta be pretty up close and personal in order to slice parts of people off. Slice andor dice, yeah. Yeah, pretty much. Slices, it dices, it makes French fries in three different it doesn't break.

SPEAKER_10 17:22

It broke.

SPEAKER_08 17:23

It broke.

SPEAKER_06 17:24

It's too bad rolls not here.

SPEAKER_10 17:28

So there's a few differences. This is Ventor, this isn't Noctus, so the bass's gonna be a little bit different. Um, and there's gonna be some different aspects to it.

SPEAKER_15 17:38

So that's why it looks like a track.

SPEAKER_10 17:40

I have changed it a little bit, so you don't need to correct me because I do have the new thing in front of me. Cool.

SPEAKER_14 17:46

So uh whatever he says, says. Whatever I say says.

SPEAKER_10 17:50

Am I actually playing that against them? No, and you are inside your mind. Yes. You do not have Noctus, you don't know where Noctus is. This has been overwhelmed. We don't know where he is. You can't hear any traces of him. You are just Einar.

SPEAKER_04 18:08

So when I rage, does my actual beast come out that I haven't truly encountered before then?

SPEAKER_10 18:12

Yeah, I guess if that's what you want, yep, that's fine. That is how your character runs. So anybody have any questions? The encounter is gonna run exterior, then interior, then exterior, then interior in that order. What happens on the outside affects what's on the inside. What happens on the inside will affect what's on the outside.

SPEAKER_05 18:35

Will Einar inside his mind understand what's happening on the outside, or will he be his mind effectively be focused on the battle he currently was in?

SPEAKER_10 18:48

Einar will have to learn it in order for that to work. You guys don't know that there's a struggle going on on the inside, but he may find that out.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Okay, let's go to I don't have a whole lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_15 19:03

Because we use most of the money.

SPEAKER_10 19:04

This isn't a massive, this isn't a massive. That's okay. Alright. Delphine, what you got?

SPEAKER_15 19:11

13.

SPEAKER_10 19:12

Oleander.

SPEAKER_15 19:14

Fifteen.

SPEAKER_10 19:14

Fifteen. Drunken.

SPEAKER_15 19:16

Three.

SPEAKER_10 19:17

Out of boy. Drax. Thirteen. Thirteen.

SPEAKER_14 19:21

What's uh your decks?

SPEAKER_09 19:24

14.

SPEAKER_14 19:25

16, I go before you.

SPEAKER_09 19:26

You guys will be down here. You guys will always go after Ventor, so.

SPEAKER_15 19:30

Is it Ventor or Vantor?

SPEAKER_09 19:32

Ventor.

SPEAKER_15 19:33

With an E?

SPEAKER_10 19:34

Yeah, E-N-T-O-R.

SPEAKER_15 19:36

Oh, I need the one that is venting.

SPEAKER_10 19:38

I know your initiative? My initiative? Pardon me? Do you want my initiative? Just give me a sec here. This thing is being a good thing.

SPEAKER_15 19:44

Well, you're only fighting against one dude. In your head.

SPEAKER_10 19:49

Okay. Alright, starting off from the outside, we are trapped in a small area. You watch as the Miram is in there. Yeah, as the ink with me. As the ink overtakes and overwhelms Einer, he grows and he grows into what looks like a more grotesque, warped, disgusting version of the bat that he usually turns into when he's raging with Noctis. It's almost as if the ink itself is trying to emulate what it has already seen and make it its own thing without Einar controlling it. So you notice a couple of things about it. A, it seems a lot clumsier than Einar is when he's the bat. It also seems that Ventor is trying to incorporate parts of himself into that form as well. But it is not lost on you that inside is your friend. Still there. Okay? He's gonna start off. His first move is he's gonna take a uh claw swipe in uh up against the two that are right in front of him.

SPEAKER_15 21:05

That would be Oleander and Delphine.

SPEAKER_10 21:07

Oleander and Delphine. Um just gonna pick one of you. I don't want to hit I don't wanna do that. Uh Evens is Delphine, odds is Oleander. It's a five.

SPEAKER_15 21:25

So if you're targeting me.

SPEAKER_10 21:26

Oleander gets it. Okay. First stack is uh 10 plus 10, which is a 20.

SPEAKER_15 21:32

Uh yeah. Oh, you got your disadvantage.

SPEAKER_10 21:35

Disadvantage. Okay, uh still that would have been a 27 then, so it's 20. 20 to hit, does that hit? Yes. Okay. Two five eight. Ten points of slashing damage for the first attack. Okay. And then uh another claw attack. 26 to hit.

SPEAKER_13 21:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_10 21:59

That's eight. 12 17 points of flash slash uh slashing damage on top of the other 10? Yeah, it's it's a multi-attack. Multi-pass, and then uh it's gonna attempt to bite you as well. Okay. Uh that's a natural 20.

SPEAKER_15 22:16

Um, I'll take it.

SPEAKER_10 22:18

Uh I'm glad. I guess probably gonna feel like another one. Uh a natural 20 and a natural one. Rance.

SPEAKER_15 22:28

I feel like that means you bite your own lip.

SPEAKER_10 22:30

I feel like you're wrong. So that's 13 times two is 26 plus 5 is 31 points of piercing damage, and you must succeed on a DC 16 constitution saving throw.

SPEAKER_15 22:44

Um, sorry, how much was the damage itself?

SPEAKER_10 22:47

31.

SPEAKER_15 22:47

31?

SPEAKER_10 22:48

Yeah. That's that's because it's doubled, that's why. Or the uh the roll's doubled.

SPEAKER_15 22:52

Constitution.

SPEAKER_10 22:53

Yeah, 16.

SPEAKER_15 22:53

Mmm, I got a 12.

SPEAKER_10 22:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 22:56

No, no, I got no 14. I got 14.

SPEAKER_10 22:59

Okay, so you will take an additional damage then.

SPEAKER_15 23:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 23:04

9 necrotic damage, and uh he draws blood from you.

SPEAKER_15 23:09

Okay. That doesn't sound good.

SPEAKER_10 23:11

That'll end that turn, and uh, and then you immediately, Oleander, get to go and have a remote.

SPEAKER_15 23:16

Alright. Okay, I am going to do a multi-attack right back. Not nearly as oomphy, however. FUTSICles! Okay, uh my claw doesn't hit. Can I bite you?

SPEAKER_10 23:31

17 17 uh does not hit.

SPEAKER_15 23:34

FUTSICles! Okay, alright, my claws and my teeth are not succeeding in um hitting you, and so I'm just going to, but I'm gonna still step in front of Delphine.

SPEAKER_10 23:49

Okay. Now after you comes Delphine.

SPEAKER_15 23:54

Uh activate lights on because it would have worn off by then.

SPEAKER_10 23:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 23:59

And I have my shadow blade out.

SPEAKER_10 24:02

You sure really do? Yeah, because you already had it equipped and ready to go.

SPEAKER_13 24:05

What is the lighting situation in here?

SPEAKER_10 24:07

The lighting? Yes. It's well lit, it's well late.

SPEAKER_13 24:09

It's well lit, not dim lit, okay.

SPEAKER_10 24:11

It's well lit, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 24:13

Um I'm gonna do because I get two attacks with uh blade when I'm lighting, and I'm gonna do just two splashes.

SPEAKER_09 24:23

Do it.

SPEAKER_15 24:26

I rolled a 17 and an 18 for each attack, so plus seven. 24 and 25.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

They both hit.

SPEAKER_15 24:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 24:33

There was only a second level blade, shadow blade though, because I wasn't expecting to actually fight people.

SPEAKER_12 24:42

That one's caught.

SPEAKER_14 24:46

Total is 19 psychic plus six, so 25 psychic.

SPEAKER_10 24:55

Taken.

SPEAKER_13 24:56

And that is my turn.

SPEAKER_10 24:59

That was a good turn. Drax.

SPEAKER_13 25:01

And I would have had to move within melee-ish range. Oh, she could have helped me. Next time.

SPEAKER_10 25:08

Next time. What do you want to do, Drax?

SPEAKER_05 25:11

Drax rages. And he pulls the maul from his back. Uh, because previously he was clawing with his hands at the ink. And he is going to recklessly attack the ink. Okay, go ahead. Uh 26 to hit. That hits. Okay. He does 19 damage.

unknown 25:35

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Okay, yep.

SPEAKER_05 25:36

He's going to recklessly attack again. Go for it. Uh 22. That hits. And he does another 22 damage.

SPEAKER_10 25:49

Well done. Anything else? What size is he? He's like medium to large. He's about the he's just a little bit bigger than the bat.

SPEAKER_05 25:56

Okay, so I'm gonna kinda with my uh crushy crusher, he's gonna kinda that last attack hit him back five feet, kinda closer to my echo.

SPEAKER_10 26:05

Oh, yeah, okay. That direction. Yeah, you just move over one there, please. Thanks, Druken. Interesting direction. Okay. Is that the right way? Yeah, yeah, I'm just moving my guy, so makes sense. Oh, you can also get Oleander to move you.

SPEAKER_15 26:17

Yeah. There we go. I would have been willing.

SPEAKER_10 26:20

Drunken, you're up.

SPEAKER_06 26:21

I wouldn't have been realizing forward a little bit, obviously. Okay. So I'm gonna go right beside Olyander and I am going to hit him with my staff.

SPEAKER_10 26:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 26:38

22 to hit.

SPEAKER_11 26:39

22 hits, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 26:45

So 5, 10, 15, 16, 21 points. Actually, sorry, it'd be um 11 points of 11 points of necrotic. And I'll sorry another 11 points on top of that of. I think it's I don't even know what kind of damage it is.

SPEAKER_10 27:13

Doesn't matter. As long as it's not like something that doubles. Yeah. No. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 27:17

Uh and then I'll do my bonus action really quick.

SPEAKER_10 27:21

Yep, you got that.

SPEAKER_06 27:22

And I'm just gonna heal myself a little bit here. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 27:27

As you're finishing your turn, you hear all of you, the audible voice of Ventor himself, whisper out throughout the room.

unknown 27:42

Give me control.

SPEAKER_10 27:46

And I'll get everybody that's within 30 feet of Ventor to make a wisdom DC 16 saving throw, please.

SPEAKER_12 27:54

I finally get to use it.

SPEAKER_15 27:57

The locket!

SPEAKER_10 27:59

There you go.

SPEAKER_15 28:00

A wisdom saving throw.

SPEAKER_10 28:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_15 28:02

Okay. I get advantage!

SPEAKER_10 28:04

DC 16.

SPEAKER_15 28:06

23.

SPEAKER_10 28:07

23 fast. Drax did not make it. Okay, Drax, you have disadvantage on your next attack. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 28:13

But I'm really glad I did because I rolled a one and a 19.

SPEAKER_10 28:16

Wait, for you pass. DC 16 wisdom, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 28:19

Okay. Well, I actually uh failed that hardcore.

SPEAKER_10 28:23

Okay. Thanks, Karen. You, Drax and Draken, you got the uh disadvantage on your next attack.

SPEAKER_06 28:28

Unfortunately.

SPEAKER_10 28:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 28:30

I got a net one. Oh, dang.

SPEAKER_10 28:32

Some variation of how the It's not a critical fail, because uh it wasn't a battle. It wasn't a fight. Now we're gonna head inside.

SPEAKER_04 28:40

I rolled an 18 for my initiative.

SPEAKER_10 28:43

It doesn't matter. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 28:44

There's only two of you.

SPEAKER_10 28:45

There's only two of you. Rocket, paper, scissors. Yeah. Rocket, paper, scissors. Shoot!

SPEAKER_07 28:50

Oh jambo.

SPEAKER_10 28:51

Okay. So you're inside, and you can hear him screaming at you as he s as he runs with his claws out and his just the the spit and dribble coming from his mouth as he rips through the pews, throwing everything aside to come running at you. I am, however, going to give you first attack. As he's coming towards you, he gets within ten feet. Can you uh Drewkin, can you move over there, please? Yep, and you can go ahead and have the first sh first swipe.

SPEAKER_04 29:30

So with a defiant stomp and a scream, a primal howl even back at him. Iar rages.

SPEAKER_10 29:38

Do you still have a rage left? Because you did rage twice in the last battle. And I have three rages. Okay, cool. Just double checking. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 29:44

But I will mark that you are right. So something happens that hasn't happened to him before. He swells up, but not with the ink. His muscles grow. He gains about a foot and muscle mass, giving him extra strength. His mouth begins to form a small mob, it doesn't continue. His arms start to form into claws, but don't fully erupt. But a tail erupts out of his back. A large defensive swinging thing. And as he charges in now, renewed, at his foe, I'm just gonna go at him with my. You know what? I'm not even gonna go reckless right now. It's just two straight up punches. It's one uppercut followed by an elbow. Okay. The uppercut was a feint.

SPEAKER_03 30:29

But the elbow wasn't.

SPEAKER_04 30:31

The elbow was 22 to hit?

SPEAKER_10 30:34

22 hits.

SPEAKER_04 30:35

22 cracks on in. Aha! 11 plus 7, 18 damage on the uh on the elbow. Okay. I'm gonna action surge.

SPEAKER_10 30:48

You've got them left as well? I haven't action surgeon. You haven't had that yet, okay?

unknown 30:52

Nope.

SPEAKER_04 30:52

So uh only one likely hits. 19.

SPEAKER_10 31:01

Uh 19 does not hit.

SPEAKER_04 31:05

Then uh that's my turn.

SPEAKER_10 31:07

Okay. So as he comes towards you, you go to punch him, you miss, and then you come around and spin and c at your elbow and crack him just around the side of the face, and you see some of the ink splashes to the ground and then sucks right back into his leg as he keeps running at you. He gets to you, and he uh he throws a he throws two psychic uh sever attacks where he like lunges out and the tendrils shoot from the back of his hands and go and try and dig into you. That was a natural 20 first roll. I'm gonna roll it, see if I get it. Nope. It'll be a psychic attack. I'm gonna roll to see if I hit the second time. I don't think a 19 hits. Is a 19 hit?

SPEAKER_04 32:06

A 19 would be do I have I don't have my shield either then.

SPEAKER_10 32:09

You don't have any you don't have any tools. You're just you in your mind.

SPEAKER_04 32:11

So that would drop me a 17, so I'm gonna use a reaction and say you miss.

SPEAKER_10 32:14

Okay, I miss. You want it do you want the first one to miss?

SPEAKER_04 32:20

The first one's a natural 20.

SPEAKER_10 32:21

The natural's a 20, so but you can you decide if it's the first one or the second one that hits? Yeah. So you're choosing the first one to miss.

SPEAKER_04 32:26

Well I'm not- I can't make the first one miss, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_10 32:28

Oh, it has to be in oh you're raising your I didn't. No, no, it's raising my AC. I misunderstood.

SPEAKER_04 32:35

If I rolled a one, you could have missed, but I didn't roll one. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 32:38

Yeah. If I rolled a one, I would have missed. So you're just gonna do the one attack then. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:42

I cast the other one with my tail.

SPEAKER_10 32:44

Two, six, ten, eighteen, plus four is twenty-two points of psychic damage. And he grabs you and the tendules dig into you, and he pulls you close to his face. He's gonna kiss you. And he, with him pulling you in, he you can feel a pulse come from him, and he he tries to dominate your mind. And you have a choice. The choice is you can choose to take an additional 15 points of psychic damage, or you can choose to allow Ventor the physical to gain advantage and plus 10 to damage on his next attack.

SPEAKER_04 33:40

I take damage.

SPEAKER_10 33:41

You take the damage? Taking the 15 rather than giving the plus ten. Okay, done. Uh that'll end his turn, and we're gonna head back outside the mind now.

SPEAKER_13 33:52

To Ventor.

SPEAKER_10 33:53

To other Ventor who does not have advantage anymore. Um let's see here. What do we got? Everybody, everybody's close.

SPEAKER_05 34:07

Yo, just to remind you, because I hit him.

SPEAKER_10 34:10

Yep, he has to attack you or he has a disadvantage.

SPEAKER_15 34:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 34:13

Yep.

SPEAKER_15 34:14

And I'm right in front of him.

SPEAKER_10 34:16

But you also did Reckless attack too, right? So he has disadvantage when he attacks you.

SPEAKER_15 34:21

Him, not me. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 34:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 34:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 34:24

Him.

SPEAKER_15 34:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 34:25

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_15 34:26

On the other side of his echo. Mr. Drax is the closest.

SPEAKER_10 34:31

Right. He is the closest.

SPEAKER_15 34:33

Well, in comparison to Drax. I think that we're. Yeah. Mr. Drax, Oleander, and Drunken are surrounding Ventor.

SPEAKER_08 34:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_10 34:45

Okay. He is going to. You're gonna watch as two tendrils shoot up from the back of the bat and shh and attack. And they are going to attack. They can go 20 feet, or sorry, how far can they go? I don't think it's 20 feet. 15 feet. They can go 15 feet. So you are you within 15 feet of him? We all are. Uh yeah. Okay, so yeah, he's gonna go after you then because he doesn't want to be disadvantaged. So he'll go to hit you with these two tendril attacks. And they are. Uh I think. Oh, they're not that great. Dang it. The further things get away, the less damage they do. 25 for the first hit. Hits. That hits. And then the second one is not an advantage anymore, right? Because only first attack?

SPEAKER_05 35:43

Uh I did reckless attack.

SPEAKER_10 35:44

Yeah, so do I get it? Everything is? Okay. What's called? Nine eight. 17 doesn't hit, does it? 17 does not hit. Okay, so only the first hat, only the first one hits it. Uh 8. 17 plus 5 is 22 points of damage. And then you need to succeed on a DC 17 strength uh saving throw or be pulled toward venture.

SPEAKER_05 36:16

What type of damage?

SPEAKER_10 36:17

Magical bludgeoning damage. Okay. Oh, and sorry, 2D8 of uh necrotic, I didn't see that. 3 and 9 of decrotic. So 18 plus 9, 24 in total. So decrotic and bludgeoning. And you're raged, right? So it's half.

SPEAKER_05 36:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 36:33

Yeah, okay. Um, can you make a DC 17 strike saving throw?

SPEAKER_05 36:37

Uh yeah. Crit? Uh 31.

SPEAKER_10 36:42

Nice. So yeah, you you completely pass. You were good. You just you just break the tendril off and it goes back into the back of the gross, creepy-looking bat thing, and we're gonna go straight to Oleander's turn.

SPEAKER_15 36:56

Okay, uh just to confirm, he counts as magical damage, correct?

SPEAKER_10 37:01

Yeah, he's a magical.

SPEAKER_15 37:01

Yeah, I okay, I'm just making sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 37:04

There's not gonna be very many creatures at this point in the game where that moment.

SPEAKER_15 37:08

Okay, so my multi-attack, I will try um clawing it first for a 28.

SPEAKER_11 37:16

That hits?

SPEAKER_15 37:17

Um that's only eight damage, that one. And then I will try to bite. No, really close though. Two! It's a two! The other one was a 19. You're like points on the spectrum there. Nabit! Okay, alright. So, um, yeah, no, I'm definitely not any um, yeah, no, I missed on that one, so only the eight damage. I continue to try and take up as much of his facial focus as possible. Okay. Um, yeah. And that's about it. That's that's my turn.

SPEAKER_10 38:02

Alright, uh, next up is Delphine.

SPEAKER_15 38:06

Okay, I want to try something. I want to try Psychic Lance, but I'm naming Ventor.

SPEAKER_10 38:18

You're naming Ventor? Oh, okay, I see what you're trying to do. You're trying to attack the mental mind of Ventor, not Einar.

SPEAKER_15 38:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 38:26

Yeah, that's totally yeah, they're two just they're two separate entities.

SPEAKER_15 38:29

That's that was my concern.

SPEAKER_10 38:31

Oh no.

SPEAKER_15 38:32

So I'm gonna psychic Lance Ventor.

SPEAKER_10 38:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 38:36

And I call him out. And he has to make an intelligence 17 in savings through.

SPEAKER_08 38:44

Oh.

SPEAKER_13 38:45

And this is fifth level.

SPEAKER_15 38:47

Now, when you call him out, what are you saying? I'm just saying yelling his name, Vantor. Not like a intelligence or wisdom? What are you saying? Intelligence.

SPEAKER_10 38:57

Oh, because it's an 18 then.

SPEAKER_14 39:00

He got 18?

SPEAKER_10 39:00

Yeah, 15 plus three.

SPEAKER_14 39:02

He still takes damage. Alright, so he will still take psychic damage. He just will not be incapacitated. That's okay.

SPEAKER_04 39:11

It's kind of hoping for the incapacitation we go at him.

SPEAKER_15 39:18

That's not good. Only 26 psychic, so 13 psychic. That is a waste of a level 5 spell. I'm just trying to bite the fucker and I can't get him. You heard him.

SPEAKER_10 39:31

Okay, you just want to bite him.

SPEAKER_15 39:36

Um, and then question.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_15 39:40

Is this actually where his arm is?

SPEAKER_01 39:43

No. No.

SPEAKER_15 39:44

Okay, so to attack him last time I would have had to be here. So if I wanted to move it here, it would be an attack of opportunity, right?

SPEAKER_10 39:50

Yes, if you're moving out of his range. Okay, well I guess we'll stay there for now because.

SPEAKER_15 39:53

Well, didn't you say his range is 20 feet?

SPEAKER_10 39:55

Only with the tendrils. And it's 50. Okay. And they're not out right now. Okay, okay. Is that the end of your turn?

SPEAKER_13 40:01

That's the end of my turn.

SPEAKER_10 40:02

Okay, you watch as uh at the end of your turn, two more tendrils come out of the side of Ventor, and instead of going for you guys, they actually go into and shove inside Einar, and you watch as his life force is sucked out and Ventor heals.

SPEAKER_15 40:22

Bitch. By approximately 50 points.

SPEAKER_10 40:25

Uh Einar, take your health down by 8 hit points. Drax, you're up. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 40:33

Mr. Drax recklessly attacks him once more. Go for it. 29. That hits. And we can move. With his crusher, he pushes him back five feet from away from the group.

SPEAKER_10 40:49

Uh well he's up against the wall there. Oh, that's a wall? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:53

Okay, then he shoves him five feet that way. Okay. This way? Yeah. And then my echo moves in the five feet. Okay. And we recklessly attack again.

SPEAKER_10 41:06

Did you assign damage to that attack again? Sorry?

SPEAKER_05 41:08

13 damage.

SPEAKER_10 41:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 41:11

Okay, and then the second attack was a 19.

SPEAKER_10 41:14

19 hits.

SPEAKER_05 41:15

Okay, and then it is Oh my god, so bad. 15 damage. Okay, taken. Okay. And then Drax proper is going to back up five feet.

SPEAKER_10 41:27

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 41:28

Wise. Put his uh hands on his knees and he's gonna do a second win.

SPEAKER_10 41:35

She's everything. Is that your turn? That's my turn. Okay, you're up, jerk it.

SPEAKER_06 41:40

Alright. Okay, well, I am going.

SPEAKER_10 41:43

Actually, I forgot to tell you, sorry, my bad. I forgot to tell you, Drax, uh, those attacks are supposed to be a disadvantage, remember? Oh right.

SPEAKER_05 41:52

Here, let me re-roll them.

SPEAKER_10 41:54

Just roll one. Uh, because you hit on both of them. If you if you hit on the first one, I'm just gonna allow it. Uh here, I'll just re-roll one of them just as you can. Yeah, just roll one so we can get.

SPEAKER_05 42:02

19.

SPEAKER_10 42:03

Yes, you would have to. It's not an issue. There you go. Sorry, go ahead, Drake.

SPEAKER_06 42:07

Sorry, Kidd. I'm gonna look at you and I'm gonna tell you to make a con save of 16, please.

SPEAKER_10 42:14

Con save of 16? Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_15 42:16

This is a very polite attack.

SPEAKER_10 42:19

It is. It's uh 13 plus 9. 22.

SPEAKER_06 42:23

So you pass, so you doesn't have to. Alright. What were you trying to do? Uh I was trying to curse him, actually.

SPEAKER_15 42:31

Well, you can still just like cuss him out.

SPEAKER_10 42:34

You stole me out.

SPEAKER_15 42:35

Fuck you, you fucking fuck.

SPEAKER_10 42:36

Call it jerk ass.

SPEAKER_06 42:37

Okay, so that is my turn. Oh, okay. Um, actually, bonus action, I'm gonna bring out my spiritual weapon.

SPEAKER_15 42:45

You need a gummy? I need a grab a gummy.

SPEAKER_06 42:48

I'm gonna grab a gummy. My gummy bear. Bounce in here and there and then I guess it's gonna attack you. Go for it. With a you're looking for a 19. It's a 19. You hit four five seven damage. Pardon me? Seven damage.

SPEAKER_10 43:09

Seven damage. That's it. It is taken. But at least it hit. That's my turn. Again, at the end of his turn, at the end of the round, you hear the whisper. Let me dominate Elfa. And I'll get again all the people on the outside. DC 16 wisdom saving throw.

SPEAKER_15 43:28

18.

SPEAKER_10 43:28

18 is a pass.

SPEAKER_15 43:29

I got 15. What did you do?

SPEAKER_10 43:30

15 is a fail.

SPEAKER_05 43:31

Okay. Drax fails.

SPEAKER_10 43:32

Fails. Five passers, one team. Okay, so Oleander and Drax, you guys have disadvantage on your next attacks. Inside. Einer, what would you like to do? He's standing right in front of you. We're in a grapple, right? He has you by tendrils. Not really a grapple, but he he pulled you close. It is a grapple, but it's not. He's not like holding you.

SPEAKER_04 43:54

May I bite him?

SPEAKER_10 43:55

Uh you can certainly try.

SPEAKER_04 43:58

I recklessly. Forget all and take a deep breath. I go at him. 18 plus 9. Uh yeah, you hit him. Do I drain life force out of him when I bite? Nope.

SPEAKER_10 44:09

Doesn't? Okay. You are just Einar.

SPEAKER_04 44:12

So the vampirism isn't is isn't part of it.

SPEAKER_10 44:14

You are in your head, man.

SPEAKER_04 44:15

Okay. Yeah, you're in your head. So I don't even know if my spell powers will work that way.

SPEAKER_10 44:23

This is this is Einar, pure pure Einar versus something in his mind. So would my spells be at my disposal then? Yeah, I'll let you have your spells. I feel that it would be.

SPEAKER_07 44:36

Find out.

SPEAKER_10 44:36

Yeah, I'll let you have your spells. But I'm not gonna let you have the things that I've assigned to you specially outside the. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:41

So that is eight plus uh 20 damage, actually.

SPEAKER_10 44:46

20 damage? Take it.

SPEAKER_04 44:48

Pulling back the gore and the ooze my- I just throw a head button. Continuing the reckless assault. Okay. This is malice. I won't use the nice dice for this. This is malice. So we're going with the uh eyeball dice. Uh cock. That is cock. Okay. The other one isn't. Yeah! 25. 25? Yes.

unknown 45:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 45:08

We've got, once again, 20 damage. Very good. Splattering his face really good. And then pulling back from that and feeling the satisfaction of that and with glee. Um I use my second win. Just getting some life back. That was good. At least 14 life back.

SPEAKER_10 45:25

Okay, at the end of your turn, you watch as a tendril come snaking out from behind uh Ventor, and it goes up behind you and straight into the base of your skull, into your head. And you can feel the blinding white hot pain. I need you to make a DC-18 wisdom saving throw, please. Pick a good dice, Einar. You want to win this one. Like an october might be.

SPEAKER_04 45:51

This is not a charm effect, I assume, just to do make sure.

SPEAKER_10 45:54

This is not a charm effect. Just making sure.

SPEAKER_04 46:00

20!

SPEAKER_10 46:00

Oh, you got it. The only under dice to get through, Sunshine and As Ventor attempts to control all of your actions for your next move, he fails because you passed. Yeah. And it is now his turn. That wasn't his turn? That was his legendary action.

SPEAKER_15 46:23

Oh bitch.

SPEAKER_10 46:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 46:24

I need to fight this bastard.

SPEAKER_10 46:27

As he's got you, as he's got you kind of held, you you've got the tendril in the back of your head and the other two tendrils that are holding you from the side. You're gonna watch as he sneers at you and he sends a pulse that goes through the tendrils into your mind. And he is going to attempt to shatter your identity. I need a DC18 Christmas saving throw. It's a saving throw, not a check. So you get the save.

SPEAKER_12 46:58

Rolled an 18.

SPEAKER_10 47:00

20? You got it.

SPEAKER_03 47:03

Oh man, when my dice are needed, you come out and let me don't jinx it.

SPEAKER_14 47:08

Why did you say that?

SPEAKER_01 47:11

Sucking the luck out of them.

SPEAKER_13 47:13

The fuck did you just do?

SPEAKER_10 47:14

That's usually me. And it's and he is gonna just quickly uh slash at you for two uh one attack here. I don't think that's gonna hit though.

SPEAKER_04 47:24

If I deflect it, my AC is 18.

SPEAKER_10 47:27

Oh, it's a 17, so it doesn't hit. Okay, moving on. Now it's time for the Ventor the Ventor the Outside. Ventor the outside.

SPEAKER_06 47:38

Outed.

SPEAKER_10 47:39

Who's around here?

SPEAKER_06 47:42

And Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_10 47:43

Oh yeah. Well, Mr. Drax is no consequence. Drukin. Okay. You watch as the hulking mask kind of like shambles and turns to face you, and it shoots out two tendrils to try and get into your mind. It's going to do the parasitic bond. So what I need you to do is again, it's another charisma saving throw for you. 18. I guess it's not like sorry, this is 16, because it's outside. Uh uh charisma 16 saving throw.

SPEAKER_06 48:18

Well, I'm just wondering if is it so it's not like a charm or anything like that? It's a psychic attack.

SPEAKER_10 48:23

You guys just gotta let the thing happen, and if it is a charm, then you can stop it. Come in, mutate me. I'm just you gotta let the things happen. Sounds good. So what is it? A charisma? Charisma 16 saving throw.

SPEAKER_06 48:36

I got uh 18.

SPEAKER_10 48:38

You guys watch as the tendril shoots out to try and hit Druken and it latches onto him, and you watch as the ink starts to flow from Einar onto Druken and onto his skin. And Druken just goes and sloughs it off and just gets it off in the nick of time. It has no chance to take root.

SPEAKER_06 49:00

Alright. This guy's a badass.

SPEAKER_10 49:03

Oh yeah. That'll be the end of its turn. Next up is Oleander.

SPEAKER_15 49:07

Alright, I am going to try again. Same shit, different. Alright, Bunstacle's a case of the claw does not hit. Let's try it for the bite. And I am rolling at disadvantage. And girl.

unknown 49:21

Thank you.

SPEAKER_15 49:23

18. Is that wait, is that a six or a nine? Where's the dots? A nine? Yeah, okay. 18 does not hit. Oh no. Okay, so I miss, but I try to wedge myself still as close as I can to him.

SPEAKER_10 49:40

Okay, Delphine, you're up.

SPEAKER_15 49:41

Alright, so I'm not within five feet, so I can move over here now, right?

SPEAKER_10 49:45

Yeah, you're good. Okay, because Drax made it so that you can move out of the way.

SPEAKER_13 49:49

If I'm over here, do I give advantage to Mr. Drax? I don't get advantage from him, but I can give him advantage, right? Because he's flanked.

SPEAKER_10 49:57

No, he can only give advantage to Drax.

SPEAKER_15 50:00

Okay. Yeah. Okay, so then I won't go right there. I'll go over there. Would she give advantage to me?

SPEAKER_10 50:07

If she had been advanced. You have to be on the direct opposite side.

SPEAKER_15 50:09

Yes, well, she was essentially. If I were over here, if she was there.

SPEAKER_10 50:14

Yeah, yeah. I'll love that.

SPEAKER_15 50:15

I feel like I would get advantage on that.

SPEAKER_10 50:16

Yeah, I'll love that. Just go there. Just don't fail, just don't fail the next legendary action because there should be a straight roll.

SPEAKER_15 50:22

I roll like shit. Come on. Help me out here. Yeah, you have advantage there, so why don't you give yourself help? I can give myself help with my owl. I don't need you. Self-care self-help.

SPEAKER_10 50:33

She's got her own set of hooters to give her chance.

SPEAKER_15 50:37

No, one hooter. It's a singular hooter. It's a singularity. It's a singular hoot. Alright, I'm gonna slicey slice.

SPEAKER_10 50:44

Slicey slice, go for it.

SPEAKER_15 50:45

So I do get advantage, though.

SPEAKER_14 50:46

Yeah, you get advantage.

SPEAKER_10 50:48

I have advantage here. And you passed the last check, right? So you were fine. I did, yeah. Yeah, so you don't have to worry about it.

SPEAKER_14 50:53

Uh first attack is 20 T3?

SPEAKER_10 50:57

Yep, yeah, it hits.

SPEAKER_14 50:58

Second attack is 16. No, it is a non-hit. The first attack hits. 13 psychic damage.

SPEAKER_10 51:08

Take it.

SPEAKER_14 51:09

Yeah, I see it. Yeah, it's my turn.

SPEAKER_10 51:10

Okay, drax your arm. Okay.

SPEAKER_15 51:12

Actually, my owl will fly in its face and do the help action, so it is gonna grant advantage on one attack.

SPEAKER_13 51:22

The next attack. Only one.

SPEAKER_10 51:24

Okay. You are straight rolled, Rex.

SPEAKER_13 51:28

Just one.

SPEAKER_10 51:28

Because you were supposed to be disadvantaged anyway.

SPEAKER_05 51:30

Recklessly attack!

SPEAKER_10 51:32

There you go. Better than nothing.

SPEAKER_05 51:34

So straight roll. Yeah. First attack.

SPEAKER_15 51:37

But you don't have to reckless because that'll give them advantage to hit you next time.

SPEAKER_05 51:41

Well, for my second attack, it's 14 doesn't hit. Okay. And then with the next one. Second attack, also straight roll, I guess. And that's 31!

SPEAKER_12 51:54

Super hits. It really hits. Was that a critical not hit?

SPEAKER_05 51:58

No, it wasn't a crit. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_12 52:00

Holy move.

SPEAKER_05 52:01

My damage has been terrible though. Uh 18 damage to the game. Taken.

SPEAKER_10 52:05

Taken. Anything else? Uh no. Okay. At the end of your turn, you're gonna watch again as the tendrils that are inside of Einar are gonna suck more life force out. And uh you're gonna take nine points of damage out of that.

unknown 52:23

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_10 52:24

Uh go ahead, Drooken.

SPEAKER_06 52:26

I need you to roll me a con save again.

SPEAKER_10 52:30

Yes, sir. Uh just to give you a bit of background on it, his constitution saving throw is a plus nine, so yeah, 21. Damn it. Okay. I mean, because I have to roll a 19, right? Or an 18? Like what was the concept? 16.

SPEAKER_06 52:50

Uh 16?

SPEAKER_10 52:52

Yeah. So if I roll anything higher than a seven, I'm gonna pass.

SPEAKER_06 52:55

I know, but if you fail, this helps.

SPEAKER_10 52:58

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_12 52:59

Fail, it's real good.

SPEAKER_06 53:00

Yeah, it's real good too.

SPEAKER_04 53:01

Real good.

SPEAKER_10 53:02

Real good.

SPEAKER_04 53:03

What kind of damage has the life drain damage been? Just out of curiosity.

SPEAKER_10 53:06

He's just uh taking your life force.

SPEAKER_04 53:08

Okay, just say.

SPEAKER_10 53:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 53:10

I guess I will.

SPEAKER_10 53:12

Yeah, it's not anything that you can be protected against. Well, I wasn't checking that. Yeah, you were. You're like, I'm raged, I only take half damage. You can take 19 points of life, but I'm only gonna take eight damage. That's that doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_06 53:25

My hair.

SPEAKER_10 53:27

Yeah, go for it.

SPEAKER_06 53:28

It fails six plus seven. That's not a hit. No.

SPEAKER_10 53:31

Okay. At the end of his, at the end of your turn, again, the whisper is gonna echo out. I need everybody to make a DC 16 wisdom saving throw, please.

SPEAKER_15 53:43

I got a 20. 20 plus 7.

SPEAKER_01 53:46

Pass pass. You've got 20. 16. Pass. Oh, 16 pass? I fail.

SPEAKER_04 53:53

Well, it's cocked again, but it'll take it.

SPEAKER_10 53:54

Wisdom's not your strong suit. No, no. It is not your strong suit. Okay, disadvantage again.

SPEAKER_04 53:59

I didn't.

SPEAKER_10 54:00

Heading inside, Einar, you're up.

SPEAKER_04 54:02

Realizing he's in danger, Einar's cooler head prevails. You said there's a couple pews that have been tossed everywhere. Pew pew.

SPEAKER_10 54:09

Yeah, they're just like like benches that have been smashed.

SPEAKER_04 54:11

Large benches?

SPEAKER_10 54:12

Yeah, smashed and thrown on the ground. There's obviously human-sized ones, right? Well, I mean, yes, there probably are somewhere, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:18

Alright. I dropped my rage. I misty step. Right over by one of those ones behind him, and I ducked behind it.

SPEAKER_10 54:25

Okay. Are you trying to hide?

SPEAKER_04 54:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 54:28

Okay, rolled hide.

SPEAKER_15 54:30

Hide your own head. We've all done it. Hide your shame, Donna.

SPEAKER_09 54:35

Why the rolls are showing up. 24. 24? So you're not doing anything else?

SPEAKER_10 54:40

That's what hide my action. I've done everything I can. Okay, so you successfully hide, or you think you're hidden.

SPEAKER_08 54:47

And as you duck and cower underneath a pew inside this temple, you can hear the Where have you gone? You only delay the inevitable. I will rule this body and I will kill your friends with it.

SPEAKER_10 55:19

Now while he can't see you, you can hear him. And he attempts to send out a psychic sever. So you can make a DC 18 wisdom saving throw for me, please. I made it! 18 bang on. 18 bang on. Awesome. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 55:48

Oh three things in a row. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_10 55:51

Okay, we're gonna head back outside. That's the end of his turn. And uh let's see here, what do we got? We got Alright, let's have some fun there. You know what, Oleander? Yes. You wanna be close to him?

SPEAKER_15 56:11

Yes. I have snuggled.

SPEAKER_10 56:13

You can be close to him.

SPEAKER_15 56:15

I have snuggled as best I can.

SPEAKER_10 56:16

The parasitic bond tendrils shoot out from the back and shoot into you. One catches you right below the jaw and enters into your jugular vein, and you feel it inching its way up into the base of your skull and pushing past the barrier into your cranium.

SPEAKER_15 56:34

Yeah, that's a that's a headache.

SPEAKER_10 56:35

Yeah, that's a headache. So I will get you, please, to roll a DC 16 wisdom saving throw, please.

SPEAKER_15 56:44

Okay. No, I'm going to roll this one. No! No! It's because you did it! It's because I judged it and I shouldn't have, and it just that was oh my goodness. For those listening, she snubbed one of her other D20s for another one and it failed her spectacularly. No. I rolled a one again.

SPEAKER_10 57:08

Alright, you guys. Those of you on the outside, I've been watching Oleander just going to this creature and being trying to protect Ainer. And one of the tendrils shoots out, and you watch as it goes and hits her in the neck and shoots up, and she's lifted up onto her tippy toes, and they're just barely grazing the ground as she's being held by the vein on the inside of her neck. And you watch as the ink flows down the tendril onto Oleander and begins to envelop her.

SPEAKER_15 57:44

Oh is it like a rope around my neck?

SPEAKER_10 57:49

It's not like a rope around your neck, it's like a rope inside you.

SPEAKER_15 57:53

I know, but you said the ink is coming. I'm wondering what way it's spreading.

SPEAKER_10 57:57

Well, it's not doing that.

SPEAKER_15 57:58

Oh, okay. Alright, I gotcha.

SPEAKER_10 58:00

The ink is just flowing onto you, it's not coming.

SPEAKER_15 58:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 58:04

So now Oleander is under the control of Ventor.

SPEAKER_09 58:11

Ha ha ha! Sorry.

SPEAKER_10 58:13

And uh I'm gonna let you keep on playing your character, but you'll get a few extra things that you can do. But you are against these three now. But guess what?

SPEAKER_15 58:24

The landers! Alright, and I have advantage.

SPEAKER_10 58:29

You feel.

SPEAKER_15 58:30

Why? Because you I'm flant- Oh wait, no. No, you shouldn't be. You're right, you're right. Sorry, my bad.

SPEAKER_10 58:37

Yeah. If you wanted to.

SPEAKER_15 58:39

If I could get on the other side of Drew can have advantage if I'm your ally.

SPEAKER_10 58:44

If you wanted to, you could also use the parasitic bond on any creature. They have to roll a charisma saving thrill, a DC 16, and you could infect them as well and turn them to your side. Or you could do your regular actions.

SPEAKER_15 59:02

I'm gonna try attacking Draken first. So I'm going to move here.

SPEAKER_05 59:09

I'd like to react to you moving out of the range of my echo.

SPEAKER_10 59:13

100%.

SPEAKER_15 59:14

Okay, alright.

SPEAKER_05 59:18

Absolutely. Does a 29 hit?

SPEAKER_15 59:24

Yes, it does. What can you give me?

SPEAKER_05 59:28

19 legend damage.

SPEAKER_15 59:31

Is it magical?

SPEAKER_05 59:32

Oh my god. Yes. And I knock you five feet this way. Well, five feet would be like anyway.

SPEAKER_15 59:45

Crusher does.

SPEAKER_05 59:46

He's got crushes.

SPEAKER_15 59:48

No, I mean like how would you knock me?

SPEAKER_05 59:50

Anyway, you know what actually I'll knock you right here.

SPEAKER_15 59:54

No, I like it better the other way. Okay, so 19 down, obviously, I like it better the other way.

SPEAKER_06 59:59

That's only five feet. Yeah, exactly. More important than reduced movement. You're moving her ten feet. She was here. You only move her one bit. She was here. No, she was right here.

SPEAKER_15 1:00:06

I'm I'm I tried moving. Oh, but technically zero move. Um he got me as I was trying to move away, so I didn't successfully move away.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:16

And then five feet, and then she entered movement. So it's not you. Okay.

SPEAKER_15 1:00:21

Okay. Alright. I'm gonna just hit all of you now. So if Fireball! No! So if that is the case, you've knocked me that way. I'm just going to go for it. Oh wait, no, no, no, no, no, you're right, you're right. Okay, so in this case, can I then use the parasitic bond?

SPEAKER_10 1:00:37

Yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_15 1:00:38

Okay, I will do that. How does that work?

SPEAKER_10 1:00:40

So you just choose a target within 15 feet. Uh, you can shoot the parasite into them, and it attaches to their brain stem, and you can start flowing ink onto that person as well and bringing them over to your side, and they become against the other two.

SPEAKER_15 1:00:55

Alright, Drax, you're always the He fails his wisdoms all the time. No, I was I was gonna say he's usually the one that is uh you know my target for weird shit. Uh he's caught my attention.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:08

DC 16 saving throw. There, uh Drax. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:15

I fail.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:16

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay, uh, that's gonna end Oleander's turn.

SPEAKER_13 1:01:23

Uh the dark side, Drax.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:25

Delphine, you're up. I guess so. You do now see two tendrils that are flowing ink onto Oleander and onto Drax.

SPEAKER_15 1:01:34

You're in my way.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:35

Just do it. Just fight Lemo Fire. She's jerked on everything. Good. Okay. Burn it all. I'm coming for you next. But does the XD help the goal? Or no? No, it doesn't. Although sh like Delphine is hard to beat on a wisdom saving throw.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:54

Let's say I got eight plus eight twists. I got plus two.

SPEAKER_15 1:01:58

I would love to see a strong suit here.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:59

I got plus eight twists. It's intelligent.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:02

So I'm gonna misty step.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:05

Do it.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:06

Here. Is this how large the room is? Yeah. I can go there.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:10

Yeah, I'm gonna make it a little bit bigger, otherwise it's no fun. It's like the TARDIS. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:18

So I'm missing him. I'm getting all three of them.

SPEAKER_15 1:02:23

With a mind blast.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:24

And Mr. Drax?

SPEAKER_15 1:02:26

Mind blast. Bye-bye, Mr. Drax. Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:29

It's just an echo. It's not Mr. Drax. It's a conscience! It's Mr.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:32

Drax, but it won't.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:33

Oh. Yeah. Do you want anything? No. Heartless. Hey. If Drax is under possession, is Mr. Drax free, Will? Probably not.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:44

That's a good question.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:45

That's a very unfortunately we might not get into it.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:47

It's not Mr. Drax, though. It's just the echo. It's just the echo. He didn't put any life into it. Oh, okay. So it's it's under his control, so not under mine. Yep.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:54

Intelligence 17, saving throw.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:57

All you oh. Not me.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:00

Tier two. He is actually Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:02

Oh, did you give him life?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:03

He is Mr. Drax. Yeah, it's still Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:05

I thought so. 17 was in.

SPEAKER_15 1:03:09

11.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:11

Uh I gotta fail something. It's intelligence?

SPEAKER_15 1:03:15

Intelligence 17 saving throw. This is the Ilithid Mind Blast.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:20

I got a 16. Mr.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:21

Drax Drax fails. Everybody fails.

SPEAKER_15 1:03:24

Did Vantor fail?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:25

Yeah, I got a 16.

SPEAKER_15 1:03:27

Alright, you are all gonna take 48 intel uh psychic damage, and you are all stunned for a minute. Fuck all of you.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:36

Um never mind, honestly, find out.

SPEAKER_15 1:03:39

Let me find out. I'm fucking these fuckers.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:42

You're killing it. Who here?

SPEAKER_15 1:03:44

Take these two.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:46

You're killing it. Thank goodness you're around.

SPEAKER_15 1:03:54

I thought of trying to get her, but I didn't think I'd have any log. 22 psychic damage. And I can't get all stunned for a minute and 22 damage on.

SPEAKER_13 1:04:05

Alright.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:06

You're stunned. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:08

Wow.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:11

Drax. You're up. You're stunned.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:14

Stunned.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:15

Drax is stunned. Uh, and so they can't. There's no breaking it or anything like that?

SPEAKER_15 1:04:20

Um, well, it's the mind flare one, so I think they can try and make a save.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:25

Is it the beginning of their turn or yours? I think it's the beginning of theirs, and then they just lose their turn but get to move on the next one, is that right? It would be the end of the turn. Yeah, sorry, yeah, you're right. It's a year. There you go. So you can go ahead and try and get out of it. Okay. Is it DC 17?

SPEAKER_13 1:04:42

DC 17 intelligence save.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:44

Drax does not get out of it. That ain't it.

unknown 1:04:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:04:49

So visually, what happens to Ventor if he's stunned?

SPEAKER_10 1:04:53

Oh, you can just see him like the rippling effect of the blast goes and you watch as it like blows like parts of the ink off of him, but it comes back on, but it's no longer actively flowing.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:07

It seems like it's Can we see like his body?

SPEAKER_10 1:05:12

Yeah, he's still in the same eyes rolled back inside his head. Yeah. So you've always been able to see his body, but it's just the ink's moving around so actively that it the it's tough to like pinpoint him. But now you can see him.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:25

Is there a line like a tendril going from Ventor to Oleander? And then a line going from Oleander to Drax?

SPEAKER_06 1:05:36

Yes. Okay, cool. That's what I need to know. Yeah. But now I have another quick question. Yeah. Because he's now stunned. Right? Can he, if I if he needs to save throw, does the automatic fail? Yes.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:49

It's stunned.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:50

Yeah, it's stunned.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:51

Stunned. Stunns. Auto hits.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:55

But is it enough? Is it though? It's auto hits and crits if you're because he's physically stunned, but his mental His mental shut that pretty sure I'm gonna look at it.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:06

For example, he couldn't do a dex save.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:08

No, he could because that you wouldn't be able to move. But he might have the mental fortitude to pass like a wisdom or an intelligence save.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:15

It feels weird that they would just stun creature is incapacitated, can't move, speak falteringly, automatically fails, strength, and dex saves, attack against the creature has an advantage.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:27

So you get advantage on your attack?

SPEAKER_14 1:06:29

Incapacitated creatures can't take actions or reactions.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:33

Okay. But it's not an attack. It sounds like it still gets a save for wisdom, intelligence, uh, charisma, and uh con.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:39

Right. Um, but yeah, go ahead because there is more to this. So go ahead, do do whatever you want to do. Go ahead, yeah, there's more to this.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:48

Okay, well, because he's done, I'll see. I'm gonna move up to Oleander. Pardon me? I'm gonna move up. Yeah, I don't know if you're gonna.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:56

You're gonna move up to him, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:58

And I'm gonna try and break that ten clock the back of your head.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:01

Okay, go ahead. In the in the whatever it is. In the jugular throw.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:05

I'm the one within the head. How do you roll two fives? Two fives. So it's not my head. No, it doesn't matter. Not funny. Doesn't matter. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:14

Okay, well then, you know what? Mine is gonna be there and try and hit my spiritual weapon.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:21

Do it. Yeah. Why not? You gotta do it. You gotta do something. 19. Here we go. Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you, cra.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:32

I got the spiritual weapon's printing.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:34

What your why does your spiritual weapon get advantageous? Because it's doing visual attack on an incapacitation.

SPEAKER_15 1:07:39

Yeah, because she's stunned. Oh, it's I'm stunned, the ink is stunned. The ventor is.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:44

I mean it's a multiple stunned. Hold on. Is it Oleander or is it the ink?

SPEAKER_15 1:07:50

It's a Ventor.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:53

He is not incapacitated, he is immune to it. Okay, so then you do I'll do 19 then. 19 hits. 19 still hits.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:01

Yeah, but I won't I won't take the crit one on it. No, take the crit. For sure? Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:08:04

Do the damage. Do the damage.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:06

Take the crit. Okay, well, it doesn't crit again. I figured I'll rule it again, but I figured if it's that, I don't mind doing it with the other one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:13

No, but I'm not gonna let you waste a crit.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:16

Oh whatever. Uh so damage-wise to the tentacle off of her is going to be two, four, ten damage.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:28

Ten damage? You sever the tentacle, you bash it out, it comes flying out and sucks back in. However, she still hasn't gone her.

SPEAKER_15 1:08:39

Would that affect the the connection between oleander and drax? Since we are no longer.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:48

You still haven't gone yet, so no.

SPEAKER_15 1:08:49

Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:50

So it's still still there. However, you did change something, but you're gonna find out in a second when you change. Cool. That's my turn. That's your turn?

SPEAKER_06 1:08:58

Well done.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:58

Okay, we're gonna head inside the brain where you see you see Vantor move and flinch to something. Very briefly, Oleander appears inside your mind with you. Drax appears inside the temple. But then suddenly Oleander vanishes. And now, Drax, your mind is inside with Einar, but it is just bare bones Drax. Okay? Go ahead, Einar. What do you want to do? You are still cowardly hiding underneath the pew.

unknown 1:09:49

You are cowardly hiding.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:50

I am I am preparing my next ammo.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:52

You are heroically hiding, if that's a thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:55

I I I'm I am oh, it's because I've I've switched tactics. Yes, seeing my brother, I am trying to look scared. And I come out with Hunter's mark, my eyes focusing and narrowing on my prey, especially as I'm coming at him from behind.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:08

And seeing my brother here, and just feeling that it's time to go, I recklessly go at him. Okay. I just come at him. We have got a solid hit of 205?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:23

Uh that hits.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:26

And that it's only plus five now, so 10. 20. Sorry, 18 damage.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:32

18 damage is taken.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:36

Crit!

SPEAKER_12 1:10:36

And a one.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:37

One and a crit! We've got a crit, baby. So it's 12 damage from a dice, it's 24 plus the five. That's uh 29 damage from a flying headbutt. Okay, taken.

SPEAKER_15 1:10:46

Surely your nose is broken by now.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:48

I'm keeping it right here.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:50

You are keeping it there.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:52

That's what I got. I activated my mark. Uh came out swinging when seeing my brother there. And uh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:11:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 1:11:01

Did that get to be imaginary Drax?

SPEAKER_10 1:11:04

Yeah, okay. I like that. Very good.

SPEAKER_15 1:11:06

Come back and find us again and be like, what the fuck have you been doing?

SPEAKER_10 1:11:10

He's gonna have to listen to the podcast.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:12

But we're tied him down and making them.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:15

Let's see. Well we've got so many things to do. Um, as you hit it, you have significantly wounded it. And it like whips around and connects eyes with you. It is going to lash out with two tendrils again. Uh, and they're going to smash into you. Uh, you recklessly attack till I have advantage on you, correct?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:45

It's called Brand of Ancestry.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:47

And you'll roll the one and a two.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:50

Do what I roll.

SPEAKER_15 1:11:50

Only I can do that. Is there a one and a two?

SPEAKER_10 1:11:56

That's not like that smile.

SPEAKER_15 1:11:57

No, they're the 19 minutes going off.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:59

No, they're they're two threes. No!

SPEAKER_09 1:12:03

Okay, they're the sum total to one and a two.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:06

I'll take that. So it's bad by two bad. So they both missed, but then he just lashes out. As they miss you, they just whip back and you get two smashes across the face with it. Uh first one's gonna hit, that is a 24. Yep. And the second one is a 19. 19 plus nine. But it's not it, it wasn't crit. Uh, so that's close. That would have been good.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:36

No, no, it would not have.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:37

Uh so this is what you're gonna take. That's uh 16, 25 points of bludgeoning damage. What's it no d8, but there's no d8 there? 18 points of necrotic damage.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:51

I am at zero. Hang on.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:54

Okay, so Einar has his mind dominated. With that, Ventor floods inside your mind and takes complete control. So now, you are Einar without Noctus, only Ventor. Noctus is in there, but he is gone from your control and from your ability to communicate with him. You guys watch on the outside as Ventor slowly transforms back into Einar and ceases attacking you. Now, Drax, you have the ink on you, and it's no longer swelling and vibrating, but you do have the tendril that's attached to Oleander. Oleander, you got the same thing. You now, your eyes uncloud over and you regain control, but there is a voice inside your head. I am here. And if you don't do something about it, the same thing could happen to you. And we're gonna take a break. Hey everyone, this is DM2. We're gonna take a quick break.

SPEAKER_15 1:14:39

And it is a review. I'd like to know if you've accidentally killed someone.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:46

Okay, we're back. And you can see now the ink is on three different people. Einar. Your eyes roll back forward. They uncloud over. You um are alive. The loss of your hit points was just a mental feat. On the inside, you can go back to the hit points that you were at before this encounter started. 78 degrees started. Umleander and Drax. There is a voice now that is echoing to you. While you're not able to control Ventor yet, he is a presence on you at the moment.

SPEAKER_15 1:15:37

Would he count as a creature?

SPEAKER_10 1:15:40

Like his not a creature.

SPEAKER_15 1:15:41

No, no.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:43

No.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:45

So are they still stunned though?

SPEAKER_15 1:15:48

No, we woke up essentially.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:50

Um, I mean. Still a minute.

SPEAKER_15 1:15:52

Oh, sorry, yes, you said our eyes unclouded, but yes, we are stunned.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:56

No, I said Einar is unclouded. I think you said Red as well.

SPEAKER_15 1:16:00

Uh once um Oh, yeah, I did say that.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:02

You're right before we took the break. Yeah, yeah, for sure they are. You guys are all your consciousness is back. You just not you've just got something else there, but yeah. Um but I would say that yes, you are all still stunned. Until like for like a minute.

SPEAKER_13 1:16:16

Well, like they can make saves, but maybe they make the saves.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:19

Yeah, probably they don't need to.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:20

They're just sitting there like So I see the red on them. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_10 1:16:25

Yeah, so now you you see the edding. It's not as predominant on them as it is on you. In fact, it's very, very little, but it it is trying to multiply and grow.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:36

So I recognize this process.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:38

Oh yeah, you know this very well.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:42

Thinking it and blurting it as I hate as I I look at my brother, but I I almost torn between the two, but I had right for Oleander first, and I say, No, you remove this from them, or I swear, Ventor, I will find a way to destroy us both.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:59

And I have I put my hand up the roll and intimidation check.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:12

How serious are you about that threat?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:14

Completely serious.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:14

Roll with advantage.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:20

Twenty. Sorry, ten. Uh ten. Um yeah. They were not bad. I have to add more, sorry, it is twelve. Twelve? Yep. Yeah, he doesn't.

SPEAKER_13 1:17:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:33

He doesn't believe you. Oh, he doesn't believe you at all. You just you just hear him in your mind.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:40

Oh the more us together, the better.

SPEAKER_15 1:17:47

Can I do something?

SPEAKER_10 1:17:48

Yeah, what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_15 1:17:49

He's stunned, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:17:50

Oh, he surely is.

SPEAKER_13 1:17:53

I'm taking the bag of holding off you.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:00

You have just been waiting for this moment.

SPEAKER_15 1:18:03

No, I don't trust what is in that bag with whatever the fuck might be happening.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:08

Oh, good idea. Smart. Smart. Is there a heart?

SPEAKER_12 1:18:11

I'm taking it. I will return it once I am happy with how much I can trust you.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:18

What was that? There's a hearth. A hearth? Like a fire burning?

SPEAKER_10 1:18:23

Um. I I mean you probably you just got in there, so probably not. Okay. I start a fire. Okay, roll survival check.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:35

What? Fireplace. Fire. Well, I'd say that's successful. 15?

SPEAKER_10 1:18:39

15? Yeah, you easily. Easily start a fire.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:41

I think to him say another. I'm not kidding, Ventor. And I start stoking that flame.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:48

And I give them another chance. I turn back towards towards towards towards them. I'm like, remove it.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:54

Okay, to start with uh roll me another intimidation check, just a singular one this time.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:59

Where is you? I need OPS. I need the dragon's eye. Come on, dice. There we go. There we go. 25. Or 24. So it's plus four I have? Yes, twenty twenty.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:09

I'm gonna make you reread your dice every time now. So, anyways. Uh so yeah, he he's a little you wouldn't dare.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:21

I'll house you, not them.

SPEAKER_15 1:19:29

What the fuck are you doing, Einar?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:33

Protecting those I care about.

SPEAKER_15 1:19:34

You haven't screwed things up enough.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:36

Like, we'll talk. He believes you, but uh I think he's gonna call your bluff. I think he's gonna call your bluff. It's worth it to him to have three than one.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:50

I walk back over to the fire and I place a piece of us where he is into it.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:55

Okay, so I still have big gaping bleach. I'm suffering pain right now. Yeah, you're you're you're you're hurt.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:01

Iar is fighting through it for the other give me the damage. I'll take it. Hold on just a second.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:09

I think it's just D6.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:10

And I yell at him as I do it, remove it from them!

SPEAKER_10 1:20:14

28. Uh you're gonna take you're only gonna take one damage.

SPEAKER_15 1:20:20

Uh alright, stop. Just stop this.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:25

So you're you're watching now as as you take as you take the damage, you watch as the ink on Oleander starts to vibrate and the same on Drax.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:38

I'm like. He won't listen to anything else. I'm not letting him take them. I'll suffer from my own mistakes and misjudgments.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:48

What do Drax and Oleander have to say? The stun's over by now.

SPEAKER_15 1:20:52

Okay. Um I am going to uh look very weak, stumbling over to Mr. Drax, and I am going to speak to Ventor and say, you need a stronger vessel.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:10

Roll a persuasion check. Deception. Oh, deception. Okay, yeah, I'll do it. Well, it's probably really good for you.

SPEAKER_15 1:21:20

Um, 29?

SPEAKER_10 1:21:23

I mean, I'm gonna roll an insight check, but I doubt I'm gonna beat a 29. Trick it on to drags. Beautiful. I doubt it. Uh what is insight? Is it intelligence?

SPEAKER_13 1:21:34

Is inside intelligence?

SPEAKER_10 1:21:36

Wisdom. Wisdom. Oh, what's your worst? I don't think there's any possible way.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:41

Oh, they roll a 19! Great roll, but still plus two.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:49

I can't. There's no way I could mean it. So, yeah. It's uh it believes you.

SPEAKER_15 1:21:54

It's like and I just I just you know, like, I bring Mr. Drax's hand up to my neck where the ink is, and I say, I'm not a strong enough vessel to hold one like yourself.

SPEAKER_10 1:22:11

Yeah, he's gonna flow onto Mr. Drax. That was brilliant. That was brilliant. You can feel you can feel like as he leaves you, it's almost like when you're in a room with somebody and they leave, and you don't notice it until you go to talk to them, and you're like, oh my god, I'm alone. And so all of a sudden now you have this like quiet in your mind. But it is on Mr. Drax now. Perfect. And you watch as it starts to flow over him and envelop him. Is it did you give him hit points? Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:43

So he's like, whoa! You guys!

SPEAKER_15 1:22:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:46

This is weird.

SPEAKER_15 1:22:48

It's okay, Mr. Drax. This will make you stronger. I think in order to make the most of this, you should probably have the addition of the ink that is on Mr. Drax. And so then I take Mr. Drax over to Drax and encourage it to take his ink.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:13

Roll another deception.

SPEAKER_15 1:23:16

Because it needs to be stronger. 18.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:23

Uh I tied you, so I think I win that one. Oh, he is strong.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:31

And now there are two bosses.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:38

I edge further into the fire and say there won't be one.

SPEAKER_15 1:23:42

You're not helping.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:44

Oh, that's an eight. Eight fire damage.

SPEAKER_15 1:23:47

Um I'm gonna grab his arm because he's consequently for that.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:52

Hold on, hold on. So consequently for that, um, you see that the the ink lashes out on both Drax and Mr. Drax. How much life did you give Mr. Drax? Just one hit point or ten hit points. Ten hit points? You're gonna take damage from the because it's in pain. Uh it's not a lot, but it is a D10. So if I roll max damage, you'll kill Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:19

One.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:20

It's an eight.

unknown 1:24:22

Alright.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:23

So take an eight.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:24

I didn't kill my brother's echo.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:27

What do you want to do? Anything you want to do, Drax?

SPEAKER_05 1:24:31

Well, I don't know what's going to happen. But as an action, I'm going to switch consciousness with the echo.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:41

Switch consciousness?

SPEAKER_05 1:24:43

Yeah. Not teleport, switch consciousness.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:46

Well, you do, and then you just get there and you notice that you're with Mr. Draxy, you still have the ink on you because she put it on you.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:54

What does uh the entity what is his thoughts with this whole thing now that like does he notice the consciousness between?

SPEAKER_10 1:25:05

Yes, he notices a shift, but because he's one mind, he still has you both. So the he he notices that you've moved places, but he's not like, Whoa, what what would I still like he still knows that you're with Mr. you're in Mr. Drax and Mr. Drax is in you, but he still has got you both, right? So it it he knows now you've moved places, but it hasn't changed the situation.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:28

Okay. So you're grabbing my arm.

SPEAKER_14 1:25:30

Well, I'm not gonna stand there and watch you just stick your arm in a fire.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:33

I'm actually stepping into it at this point. He's getting into the fire like a bath. I would like I let her pull me out.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:43

I let her pull me out.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:44

Stop talking roll.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:45

Yeah, and you're not on fire, but yeah. Okay, what do you want to do, Drax?

SPEAKER_05 1:25:48

I would like Mr. Drax, now with Drax's consciousness, to try to rip the ink off of Drax's body.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:57

So Mr. Drax is ripping it off of his own body?

SPEAKER_05 1:26:00

Mr. Drax with my conscience is trying to get it off of Drax's body.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:05

Of Drax? Okay, so you're doing damage to your physical body?

SPEAKER_05 1:26:08

I am trying to grab it off.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:12

Okay, yep. Pull it off. Okay, so if you want to pull it off, you do have to. It is a strength check against Ventor's strength. Okay. Because it's latching onto you.

SPEAKER_15 1:26:24

Can I give him guidance?

SPEAKER_10 1:26:25

Is it strength or athletics? Or what is this? Uh I would if he had announced when he was. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's strength, yeah, it's a straight check roll, so it's not safe. It's just you your check versus my check.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:38

Uh, and that rolled a 24.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:40

Oh, 19.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:41

Yeah, you're not you just goes back on. It's tough to get it off. And I think it'll start to now multiply if you fail again. Yep.

SPEAKER_13 1:26:59

Do I still have the chunk of flesh of the original tattoo?

SPEAKER_10 1:27:03

Would you have held onto it if you're not?

SPEAKER_15 1:27:04

Well, I probably would have dropped it on the ground.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:05

Yeah, you could roll, yeah, you can just go pick it up.

SPEAKER_15 1:27:07

Pick it up?

SPEAKER_10 1:27:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:27:08

Okay. Because this is essentially a magical item, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:27:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:16

Ish. Got ink on it.

SPEAKER_15 1:27:17

For the terms of what the thing is.

SPEAKER_13 1:27:21

Because it acts like that. If it's not a creature, it's sort of like a sentient magical thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:27:28

Essentially. Um. I don't know how I could go about doing this.

SPEAKER_15 1:27:34

If I wanted to take the flesh and go up test on Mr. Drex, try and draw the ink on him into the flesh, like using our some sort of arcane energy or something to try and draw the ink into the flesh that I have.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:50

What's what type of spell would you use for that?

SPEAKER_13 1:27:52

I don't know. Because I know the way you apply these things is with magic.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:27:59

And then you can. Apply and remove them with the magic, I just don't have the thing.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:04

You don't have like the spell or anything like that?

SPEAKER_13 1:28:06

Well, because it's like a basically a magical tattoo needle that you need to use.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:11

Yeah, it's like one of those, it's like one of those things like taking a magical quality out of a an item, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:28:19

I'm just wondering if I sort of channel some sort of magical thing with like an Arcana check or something to try and see if I could draw it into his wobbly flesh.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:32

Alright.

SPEAKER_15 1:28:35

I'm not gonna try it on the like living people.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:38

No, I got a I got a plan. I got an idea. I got a really good idea. I'm I'm down. I'm down to let you do this. But as with all magic experiments, there is a downside to it. If you fail low enough, so let's just say, let's say the Arcana check on this will be 17. Okay. And if you don't roll a 17, but you roll below a 12, you will get the ink on you.

SPEAKER_12 1:29:12

Fuck Chris.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:13

But if you roll between, if you roll between a 12 and 17, or sorry, a 12 and 16, nothing happens and you don't get affected. And if you roll a 17 or higher, you pass. What do you think? You still wanna do it?

unknown 1:29:27

Do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:29

Is that roll or is that her roll with bonus?

SPEAKER_10 1:29:31

That's the end number.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:37

I don't think you'd be in it. Is she gonna do it?

SPEAKER_15 1:29:39

Because I mean, like well, we gotta figure out a way if people want it off them to get it off of them.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:46

I have an idea about Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_13 1:29:49

I'm just testing on Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:52

There's there's these are just ideas being thrown out to you. I have an idea. I like this idea though. I like that idea too, but I have an end goal.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:00

Yeah, I have an end goal too, and that's kill Mr. Drax and have to just drop on the floor. And die with no life.

SPEAKER_15 1:30:06

Yes, but we need to get it off Drax first.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:08

But the the thing is, yes, but that's what we figure with them. But with Mr. Drax has it on him too, and he's just his echo.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:16

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:17

Now all of a sudden he's only got one now. And not two. Now that could be that on instead of Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_15 1:30:28

That's an idea. If you want to do that. I mean, you have killed him before. Maybe pop out of his brain first.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:37

Yeah? Because I mean the echo will just know Mr. Drax is trying to get it off of Drax.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:44

Yeah, but that's But hey all here's my here's my big question. Did they know that you switched consciousness? No, they don't have any idea, so they're gonna kill you. Well, that won't matter much. Because you just go back into your body, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:58

But that's just my theory. My theory is get rid of Mr. Drew. Because then if he just disappears now, this little entity has nothing to live off of, it's gonna die.

SPEAKER_14 1:31:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:12

Just like what happened with the max.

SPEAKER_14 1:31:13

Yeah, you can try that. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:16

Let's go. Let's go. Let's do it. Because that's what I was gonna do. Drewkin.

SPEAKER_15 1:31:23

Because he's only got Drewkin beard nurse, number one killer of Mr. Drax. You know what?

SPEAKER_06 1:31:27

Because I it's saving my friends, I'm gonna. Yeah. Because I know that Mr. Drax is different. He comes back.

SPEAKER_13 1:31:34

Cap came back.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:36

So I'm gonna hit him with my Mr.

SPEAKER_13 1:31:38

Drax came back.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:39

You're hitting Mr. Drax? His echo. His echo. He's only got two hit points, so.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:43

That's alright. And that is a 17.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:50

What's the hit points? Well, that's 17's a hit. What's the AC? 18? You miss.

SPEAKER_15 1:31:55

Try it. String it a miss.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:57

It only has the one attack.

SPEAKER_13 1:31:59

We got time.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:02

Drax is conscious, it's like, I! Hey, dick!

SPEAKER_06 1:32:08

I'm sorry, but your echo's gotta die so we can kill this thing. Because it doesn't have a life force after that.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:16

Somebody else wanna try hitting him?

SPEAKER_06 1:32:18

That's what I'm saying to him, because he could dismiss it.

SPEAKER_15 1:32:21

Can you?

SPEAKER_06 1:32:22

Oh, there you go. So that's why I'm saying it to Drax. Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_15 1:32:26

Or does he fall dead? He died. Falls dead.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:29

Gone.

SPEAKER_15 1:32:29

Oh well.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:30

Yeah. So I say to Drax, to two. I mean you could have said that first. Well, I wanted to try it.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:36

Listen, Mr. Drax answers you, he's like, oh yeah, I'll dismiss him. And then he tries to dismiss you and there's nothing happens. He's like. So yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:49

My guy's just, he's like, get it off Drax!

SPEAKER_04 1:32:56

I think to Vantar, as this is going on, if you want to hope of this succeeding and you going anywhere, Vantor, you're gonna have to cooperate with us rather than fight us. Stop trying to dominate others, no spreading beyond me, or it's going to end badly here.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:13

Make a persuasion check.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:16

Oh, persuad. Woo! I don't even need that was a good persuasion check. 18.

SPEAKER_14 1:33:22

You got really excited. I thought you had all two glasses.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:26

I saw perception.

SPEAKER_14 1:33:28

Maybe you do need glasses.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:30

No. Yeah, he does. Yeah. Uh I rolled 19 insights, so he's not convinced, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:37

Can I use my inspiration on a thing like this? What inspiration? I've had an inspiration sitting here forever.

SPEAKER_15 1:33:42

Yeah, but it only lasts 10 minutes. Depends on who you got it from. Then yep, it's gone.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:48

Oh. Has long as it's been more than 10 minutes? I mean.

SPEAKER_15 1:33:52

Since the battle with the frost. I don't know how long it's been. 100%.

unknown 1:33:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:58

It's been 10 minutes like now. Um well uh yeah, so yeah, he's not he's not convinced. Like he's he in his mind, um, you're just a perishable vessel. He doesn't give a rat's ass if you want to cooperate with him or not. He's just gonna do what he wants. He now can control you if he takes over. But it'll be a battle to take over. Because now it's like you and Noctus were a team, right? You work together. He just wants to run the show. He wants to have Einar do his bidding. So if ever he wants to take over, he's gonna have to do a battle of wits against you. And he'll have to prevail in order for him to take over you.

SPEAKER_15 1:34:41

Can I cast detect thoughts and try to specifically find Noctus?

SPEAKER_10 1:34:48

Oh, yeah, you can definitely try and find Noctus, yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:34:52

Okay. I try to. Yeah, I I like focused towards Einar, but I'm looking for Noctus specifically. Are you still in there?

SPEAKER_10 1:35:03

Um, you're gonna need to roll a investigation to see if you can find him. He's buried.

unknown 1:35:12

Buried.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:15

21.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:16

Yeah, you got him. You got him.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:20

He is cowardly hiding underneath the pews inside his- No, I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:24

Um I like that.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:27

No, he's uh he is being you get the image in your mind as you reach out to try and capture an octopus of as you're flying through the space that is inside of Einar's mind and consciousness. You can see memories, neurological links, feelings, thoughts, fears, loves, past and present flying by you, and you come and you find this ball of black that's being caged and surrounded, and you see shocks of lightning shooting into it from the red tendrils that are sinking in and connecting everything that you see inside the consciousness, and you can hear Noctus.

SPEAKER_11 1:36:12

I'm a prisoner.

SPEAKER_15 1:36:16

Is there anything I can do? Is there any way I can help you out so that you can help us get rid of Ventor?

SPEAKER_07 1:36:28

Kill the vessel.

SPEAKER_15 1:36:35

I mean it's not out of the realm. We can fix him! We don't know any of this is happening. Yeah, we can't do that. Okay, I'm very good. Oh yes. Okay, so I will telepathically relay that to you could just Delphine these words. I don't want I don't want, I don't know if Ventor can hear us. So therefore, I am just going to telepathically tell Drax, Delphine, and Dr. I'm gonna telepathically just tell Drunken and Delphine.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:08

I don't want him to know, but I'm gonna tell you they're Drax.

SPEAKER_15 1:37:11

That's true. No, you're right, you're right, you're right. So I'm going to pass that message on to D.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:16

Drax's consciousness is in Mr. Drax. So they put the ink on it. Well, they both do.

SPEAKER_15 1:37:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:21

Oh, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:22

I tried to try killing Mr. Drax. Yes. But it didn't work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:37:26

Um okay, I hate to say this, and I am, but I am willing to go any mile to save Einark when I'm speaking in their heads. Okay. I'm gonna reply. Can we pause and think rationally for once in our lives? I think you should what other suggestions do you have to do? How do we deal with one problem at a time? How do we get rid of Ventor? I think you should tear us to go. What other problem? Get it off this one because it's not attached, attached yet. Yeah. So can we deal with that first? Yes. Especially if we can get it off of him and put it on Einar, and then uh we don't need to put it on INR.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:05

We've still got Delphine's idea.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:08

Yes. Yes. I think you yeah. My idea didn't work. I missed him.

SPEAKER_13 1:38:13

Well, that's up to him as to what he's doing now.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:16

We don't do Drax.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:19

I have a very extreme way of getting it off of my character.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:23

Let's hear it. Cool.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:27

To confirm right now.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:30

I think I know what you're gonna do.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:33

My hand is blue. Because like there was no skin or anything on it.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:40

Nope, yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:43

I'm gonna use. Where exactly is this tendril on me?

SPEAKER_10 1:38:48

Uh it's not it's not a tendril, it's like an old blob.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:51

Where is the blob on me?

SPEAKER_10 1:38:53

It was. Where do you want it to be? Nothing. It's big enough. It's big chest.

SPEAKER_15 1:39:02

It's bigger than your arm. It was on your shoulder. He keeps running his shoulder on the channel.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:06

I did keep talking about here, so I'll gonna say it's on your upper humerus. Okay. Not your shoulder, but like your humerus up here. So this part of your arm right here.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:15

Is that the arm where my hand is blue? Sure. I'm gonna use ten permanent hit points to resummon Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:28

Which means one disappears and the other appears?

SPEAKER_05 1:39:31

Or do you one falls to a lifeless corpse, and right bes behind him, another Drax stands up and read it? Mr.

SPEAKER_13 1:39:40

Drax is so confused. Poor guy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:43

Uh Mr. Drax has been sitting here for the last five minutes trying to unsummon you, and then came to the self-realization that he is the echo and just goes, Oh, hello. And falls live to the floor. Now, as he does that, and then Mr. Drags pops up behind him.

SPEAKER_13 1:40:06

Let's see what happens.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:08

The ink falls to the ground and it's like everything. Moving around the ground and it's trying to get to somebody who's close by. Is there anybody close by that wants to?

SPEAKER_15 1:40:22

We're all gonna back up.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:23

You all gonna back up?

SPEAKER_06 1:40:24

Well, yeah. Well, I'm gonna look around the room and see if I see like a like a vase or like a big you're gonna spider trap this? I'm gonna spider trap.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:33

Roll an investigation check.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:36

Investigation? 13.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:39

Yeah, you got one. There's uh there's a vase, it's got some old flowers in it, day old flowers. Cool, you spider trap one. You take the vase, you turn it upside down, and you slam it onto the cobblestone that is not slang. Well, onto the floor. Sorry, you're inside a building, so the floorboards, and you trap it underneath the the vase. The vase.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:00

Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_08 1:41:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:03

Ha, my idea would have worked if I killed him.

SPEAKER_15 1:41:06

It would have. I think we were all gonna kill him. So yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:12

So how many hit points does Mr. Drax have or is it just the Echo Nate?

SPEAKER_15 1:41:15

Ten.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:16

He says a ten. Ten?

SPEAKER_05 1:41:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:18

Oi!

SPEAKER_05 1:41:20

That hurt! So how far is the blue crept up to the ink?

SPEAKER_10 1:41:28

Now it's up to the yeah, the ink, the shoulder. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:31

So the ink is resting on the blue as opposed to my skin.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:34

Yep, we'll call it that, yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:36

Cut off your arm. I am going to have the new Mr. Drax that I have summoned try to rip it off. And with my blue hand, that's a blue arm, I'm going to try to help him rip it off.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:50

So you're gonna try and tear this thing off of your arm? So you're gonna get uh advantage on.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:54

I'm gonna have my blue hand try to rip it off with Drax, Mr. Drax also trying to rip it off.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:00

Okay, so you are gonna get advantage on this check then.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:04

Okay. And because this is the second time the the check is higher. You're gonna have to beat a natural 20 plus seven.

SPEAKER_12 1:42:16

Oh can't do that.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:19

Sorry, that was a good roll. That's a killer.

SPEAKER_15 1:42:23

Are you gonna try your thing, Delphine? I can try. Are you willing? It's gonna spread to you otherwise. Oh, let's do this. Well, I don't know what else we're supposed to be doing here. No, I I'm not saying no. I'm just saying it's a risk.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:45

Quick question. Yeah. Because his arm is all blue. Yeah. Now. What if we cut it off? If we cut it off. Hold on. Just thinking. If we cut it off and you unsummon Mr. Drax again, you get your arm back. Because right now it's an echo arm. Would you get it back and not be an echo arm?

SPEAKER_05 1:43:06

This is what I know. This is what my character knows. Is after a long rest, the parts that are blue go back to my normal self. Yeah, when he gets his hit points back. When he never had the blue anything cut off of me. So I actually don't. That's what my character knows.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:27

When he gets his hit points back, the parts of his body that were drained of the life force get the life force back.

SPEAKER_06 1:43:33

So so no, you wouldn't lose your arm forever. I I don't know. I'll try it one more time then.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:38

Do you need an arm? Like you've you're pretty strong.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:41

I go up, close to my brother, I say, last chance, Mantor. Get off my brother, or we go back into the fire.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:50

Okay, this is the third intimidation check. Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:54

We passed well, we didn't pass the last one. We got a really good check battle.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:57

Yeah, we did a good check battle. Uh um. No, I think that I don't think you're gonna need to roll. It we can't just keep doing the same check over and over and over again until you pass. That's not a cool. So we'll uh we'll just gonna say he's not gonna listen to you.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:13

That was okay. I'm gonna turn around and start striding over.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:16

Okay. You do you, man. Nope.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:19

I look to the party kinda knowingly.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:22

Hope you guys like barbecue diner. We still have we still have Delphine's idea that I'm super excited about. Yeah. I mean, it's you must have a good role for our counter check, right?

SPEAKER_15 1:44:35

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:44:36

So you'd have to be wanted to know if there were any other things people were wanting to do that. You'd have to be really bad. Well, you're gonna do that anyway.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:45

Only Anner's gonna start tearing throws.

SPEAKER_15 1:44:48

He's attuned.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:50

Oh yeah. But we don't really know that.

SPEAKER_15 1:44:54

Well, do your thing to save Drax. I'm going to try it.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:01

Well yeah, because then if if Drax is free, then Ayner's not gonna sacrifice himself anymore because he that's all he wanted was for Ventor to just stick with him.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:13

Dirty 20.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:15

You got it.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:17

So you were able to use draw it into the somehow this magical experiment.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:22

Yeah, this magical experiment is you're able to convince um through Arcane, convincing, convincing, you're able to convince the mentor that that piece of flesh is him and that the other ink is an extension of that, and he flows up off of Drax onto now he's on that chunk of flesh.

SPEAKER_13 1:45:41

Is it inert?

SPEAKER_10 1:45:42

Is no, it uh is he inert?

SPEAKER_13 1:45:44

Because it's on a chunk of flesh.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:46

It's it's still moving. It's yeah, you've convinced it that now that that is part of it, and then you move it away and it's like it realizes it and it's trying to like lean reach out, but you're you're holding it away.

SPEAKER_13 1:45:55

So I don't know if this is gonna work.

SPEAKER_15 1:45:58

But no, I'm gonna yeah, can I go to the spider trap ink?

SPEAKER_10 1:46:03

You can, yep.

SPEAKER_15 1:46:04

And see if it'll join it.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:06

Well, it's it's underneath the vase.

SPEAKER_13 1:46:08

Yeah, I lift the vase up and see if what's under the vase will join what's on the chunk O linar.

SPEAKER_11 1:46:13

You lift up the vase.

SPEAKER_15 1:46:15

Well, I just wanna just I'm gonna put it near it and see if it reacts like the stuff in the vial that we got in the catacombs.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:22

You lift up the vase?

SPEAKER_13 1:46:23

No, no, I'm just gonna put it near the glass. Oh, near. See if it really.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:25

Oh no, it's it's not a clear vase. Like it's uh clear vase. No, it's not clear. Oh, it's only a fan.

SPEAKER_15 1:46:32

Well, we're gonna keep it ready to slam it back down if we need to. Like a spider.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:36

Okay. You ready?

SPEAKER_15 1:46:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:46:39

Go ahead. I don't like that idea because. Or do you want me just to leave it there? Just leave it there because it's gonna die because it's got nothing normal vessel to live off of. Okay. I don't need it jumping on you.

SPEAKER_15 1:46:48

Okay, that's just a good one.

SPEAKER_06 1:46:49

But I think you should take that and throw it in the fire.

SPEAKER_15 1:46:51

Oh, I got a different idea of what I want to do with it. I don't know if it's gonna work.

SPEAKER_06 1:46:56

I'm very interested in it.

SPEAKER_15 1:46:58

I don't know if it's gonna work, but if it works, it gives us some information.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:01

I just don't need this one jumping on you, because that'd be bad. Be very bad.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:07

Okay. Iner, you now see that Mr. Dra that Drax has no longer got the ink on.

SPEAKER_12 1:47:14

I am going to.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:15

I'm still playing with the fire holding my my f my my current resolve just to play tough. I'm letting the party do their stuff. I'm still thinking. Okay.

SPEAKER_15 1:47:24

I am going to cast banishment. On it.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 1:47:33

On the flesh or on the flesh, the ink and the flesh.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:36

Okay, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:47:38

I don't know if it's gonna work.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:39

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_15 1:47:40

I cast banishment.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:42

And where do you think?

SPEAKER_15 1:47:43

Now the problem is that is it says you attempt to send one creature. Is this counting as something I can target as a creature?

SPEAKER_09 1:47:50

The flesh is.

SPEAKER_15 1:47:52

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:47:52

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:47:53

So I banish it to another plane of existence.

SPEAKER_09 1:47:56

What plane?

SPEAKER_13 1:47:57

I don't get to choose. It just goes to another pocket dimension.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:00

Or it goes if it's from another plane, it goes to that plane.

SPEAKER_13 1:48:03

It goes to its home plane.

unknown 1:48:06

Oh.

SPEAKER_15 1:48:08

And it has to make a Christmas 17 saving throw.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:12

Well, it's a chunk of flesh.

SPEAKER_15 1:48:14

So, if the target is native to a different plane of existence than the one you're on, the target is banished with a faint popping noise, returning to its home plane. If the spell ends before one minute has passed, it returns to the space it left, or it is there. It is sent to its home plane.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:32

Okay, so because the chunk of flesh is originally from this plane and that is what you were targeting, it will go to a random plane. Correct? For one minute.

SPEAKER_15 1:48:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:44

Is that what I'm reading? That rate? Okay.

SPEAKER_15 1:48:47

It goes to a harmless demi-plane and it is incapacitated while there. For a minute.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 1:48:55

At which point it reappears in the space it left. If it is native to a different plane of existence, the target is banished with a faint popping noise returning to its home plane. Unless I leave concentration within a minute.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:06

Do I get to choose a random plane?

SPEAKER_14 1:49:10

It just says a harmless demi-plane. Unless it is native to a different plane of existence.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:16

Oh, harmless demi-plane? Okay. So you dare to jump on some cream. Jumped on a T-Rex.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:24

You guys are now dealing with an ink T-Rex. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:28

No, it would be if it's a if it's like a harmless plane, then yeah, I guess just that. So okay, cool. Yeah. Um, you feel the magic release from you and disappears.

SPEAKER_12 1:49:43

Just wait a minute, see if it returns.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:45

If it returns, we put it in the bag holy.

SPEAKER_15 1:49:48

Throw the fire.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:49:52

I just want to see if it returns after a minute.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:55

Well, I think you know that it will, right? Because the um the actual piece of flood. You know it's from this plane.

SPEAKER_15 1:50:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:02

So you I think you already knew that it was gonna come back.

SPEAKER_15 1:50:04

But does the ink come back?

SPEAKER_10 1:50:06

It's attached to it. Yeah, okay. Right. So if you banished anybody, same same thing with Drax.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:10

No, it's from the park. Is the ink would the ink have a connection if it's in a different plane for a minute?

SPEAKER_10 1:50:17

I don't think it would. I think it would lose this connection.

SPEAKER_13 1:50:19

Because I can't target the ink itself.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:20

No.

SPEAKER_13 1:50:21

Okay. That's not.

SPEAKER_15 1:50:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:23

I don't know, yeah. I think the connection would be severed temporarily, yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:50:28

But once it comes back, is it dead?

SPEAKER_10 1:50:30

I'll have to wait and see.

unknown 1:50:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 1:50:33

I mean, it's up.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:35

Okay. This chunk of flesh comes back and it is hot. To the touch.

SPEAKER_13 1:50:42

Is the ink still on it?

SPEAKER_10 1:50:44

The ink is still on it. Is it moving? Uh it is moving slower. Throw in the fire.

SPEAKER_06 1:50:50

No, it's gonna die anyways because this piece of flesh is dead, so it's gonna die anyways, but I think throwing the fire might hurt.

SPEAKER_15 1:50:55

I would have stepped away from the space I had been standing in, so it just goes on the ground.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:59

With a wet slap.

SPEAKER_12 1:51:00

Yeah, and then we're just kicking in the fire.

SPEAKER_10 1:51:02

Yeah, kick it in the fire. Absolutely. And so it does the fire.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:06

And I think it might get hurt and uh I look to my brother. Not trusting my own mind, not trusting my own words right now. Yeah. But I trust something that I don't think he would know. Because Ventor hasn't been with us all this time, only Noctis. Right. So I use hand signals. I use our sign. And I just signal you. He won't stop. Or something like that. I said, it won't quit. There's a drastic measure.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:37

Legit. Too quick. Too legit to quit.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:40

Drastic measures are needed to stop it.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:45

I couldn't resist, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:47

I don't know how how much uh our our uh verbal body language could convey this, but effectively I use a hand gesture to basically kind of point to myself and kind of basically say almost dead pointing to me and basically saying it's dangerous.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:09

I go I point at the two of them might have to take I'm like, how do I say it in our language? You say you're always like, may have to make me dead.

SPEAKER_10 1:52:27

Their help. Essentially, you guys are watching these two do the macarena back and forth.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:33

In the meantime, bracelet off of dead Mr.

SPEAKER_13 1:52:37

Drax, and then I give it to living Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_11 1:52:40

She's like, oh thanks. Well, we're gonna wear this right now.

SPEAKER_15 1:52:46

Very important you do. So we didn't get it off Drax. No, no, you did get it off. We got it off draft. We just it's still on the bottom.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:53

So now kicking it into the fire really quick, is it doing anything to him?

SPEAKER_10 1:52:57

Yeah, so you hear like this like high-pitched as it as it like bubbles and wilts and dies, and you hear, and you see uh inner like he like raves up like that, and you see the like the the ink kind of like go up in globs and like tendrils, and as the other ink dies and it slowly goes back down in inner, you're gonna take two hit points. Oh sorry. No, it's not bad.

SPEAKER_09 1:53:29

Sorry not.

SPEAKER_10 1:53:30

I won't say what hit points I'm at. We don't need that. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_12 1:53:35

So pick it up, put your button down.

SPEAKER_10 1:53:37

That is uh that's gone now. Then you you don't hear anything else.

SPEAKER_15 1:53:43

Get the spider trap one, throw it in the fire.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:47

Heard him so get find like a piece of paper and try and slip it underneath.

SPEAKER_10 1:53:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:53

So then it doesn't go anywhere. Okay. And then I throw the whole thing in the fire.

SPEAKER_10 1:53:57

Alright, so you slide a piece of paper up underneath the vase and you pick it up, and as you pick it up, you see the last drop remnant of ink disappear through the floorboards. Shit, that cars.

SPEAKER_15 1:54:10

Dang it.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:12

Happens. Wily little spiders. I'm looking to you normally like, alright.

SPEAKER_15 1:54:20

I look to Aynar and say, how about you let the whole class know?

SPEAKER_04 1:54:27

I look to you and I'm like, I can't trust my own thoughts and words right now.

SPEAKER_15 1:54:33

So are you just gonna never talk to anyone ever again now? Is that what's happening? It's in your head, it knows everything you know. Why don't you let us know what it was going on?

SPEAKER_04 1:54:45

That's what I say. I'm out of the words.

SPEAKER_15 1:54:48

No, I'm talking to you, Einar.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:53

I say just tell her. It already knows.

SPEAKER_15 1:54:59

Is Vantor in your head now?

SPEAKER_04 1:55:02

He won't stop.

SPEAKER_15 1:55:03

Is Noctus gone?

SPEAKER_04 1:55:05

I cannot feel it.

SPEAKER_15 1:55:06

Are you happy now?

SPEAKER_04 1:55:07

Drastic measures will need to be taken to stop him. He won't work with me. The only thing keeping him here. Alright, alright.

SPEAKER_10 1:55:21

Well, I mean he's not a danger yet. Yes. He is still useful.

SPEAKER_15 1:55:30

Is he talking to you right now? Is he in control?

SPEAKER_04 1:55:37

Not right now.

SPEAKER_15 1:55:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:42

He would not listen to me or cooperate with me when it came to spreading and what's more.

SPEAKER_15 1:55:47

Alright, I I have I'm I'm gonna tell you a little thing. This is a children's song that I grew up with from my parents that I feel is really appropriate for our current situation. It's called Don't Put It in Your Mouth. Don't shove it in your face. I feel this applies to don't touch things you don't understand.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:11

If you didn't understand someone, but you knew they were dying in front of you, and you knew that something about you or something in your history was tied to that, is would you just let it die or would you take action to help it?

SPEAKER_14 1:56:24

Is everything that you come across equally safe or should you be equally cautious?

SPEAKER_15 1:56:34

Cautious means if you don't know what it is, and you've now put this in you, and clearly it's a danger to all of us.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:46

And we don't know that.

SPEAKER_15 1:56:47

Do you still stand by that choice?

SPEAKER_04 1:56:50

What if it had chosen Rold if I had not gone for it? Would you prefer it being?

SPEAKER_15 1:56:54

We'd be in the same situation. I'm saying don't touch things that you don't understand. That's all I'm saying. I could agree. Oleander steps beside Einar and says, I know that this is not what any of us would have wanted, but I support his intention when you can't assume everything's evil, or at least I thought.

SPEAKER_13 1:57:23

The path to hell is paved with good intentions.

SPEAKER_15 1:57:26

So if we didn't know you and we saw you dying, we let you die before we discover that you're not evil. You don't know me, I'm an unknown entity. I could be good, I could be bad, I could be beneficial to you, I could be bad to you. So instead of finding out we let you die first. You think if something is dying, you don't have a chance to find out. If it's dead or not dead, you have to you have to choose in that moment. You don't have a chance to investigate to find out. You have to save it in order to find out. And yeah, this time it has gone horribly wrong, but other times you it has gone so much better. I'm saying you need to pause for rational thought once in a while. Any pause is death. Then it's death.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:20

I don't agree that Vantor was not the expected outcome. But Noctus. Noctus expressed sorrow out of the life force draining from this creature.

SPEAKER_15 1:58:32

Sorrow does not mean save. It could just mean I feel sorry for it.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:37

As much as you're apprehensive of Noctus, it has helped and saved people over 20 years. It has never tried to control what I do. It has always been there for what I've done. No, we're not talking about Noctis right now. No, Noctus. They are part of the same thing, and what I've learned through this is Noctus is different than this one. There's some distinctions.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:07

Well, again.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:10

Drastic measures. You have a diamond?

SPEAKER_07 1:59:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:22

I will not be part of that.

SPEAKER_15 1:59:24

I'm going to bed.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:27

I can't be part of that. If you're gonna kill yourself, that has nothing to I can't do.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:33

I'm not saying I will kill you. And I cannot kill you. You can kill my brother. His echo is not your brother. You don't know that. Yes, he has his memories, he has his thoughts, he knows my history with him, he has the same emotional responses that I know.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:46

It's his echo, and it is not your brother. You have a very limited view of what life may be, Druken. I know I know what I know. What you believe is completely different, that's fine. But I will not kill you. So you want to do it? I'm leaving. That is my stand. Have you left, Delphine?

SPEAKER_15 2:00:07

If he's leaving, I'll leave with him. I'm really tired.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:10

It's been a day. It is. If your brother and Oleander want to do that, that is up to them.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:20

So I think inside myself, I'm like, Sylvantor, can we strike a bargain? Of be of agreeing to behave while we're figuring each other out? No spreading towards my friends, allies, or people in the same. And we'll see what strengths you may talk of. And I want some access to Noctus and his thoughts. He's been with me too long. I feel empty.

SPEAKER_08 2:00:53

I agree. No more people. But Noctus is gone.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:06

That'll satisfy me for now. I turned if you don't know if the leading party is there, as you guys are saying, like.

SPEAKER_13 2:01:13

Yeah, if you left, I left.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:14

I haven't left yet. I'm waiting for an answer from these two. So I say to you guys, I'm like, he's agreed to not spread to others. Yeah, I don't mind that. He won't give me access to notice.

SPEAKER_10 2:01:26

Alright. As everyone's gonna relax. Is there anything anybody wants to do before we take a break?

SPEAKER_05 2:01:31

I tell the group, Drax tells the group, that I will have Mr. Drax stay watch over him tonight.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:39

Like, Mr. Drax can stay watch over our door.

SPEAKER_11 2:01:43

No, I think I should be inside.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:46

That you're outside, really. I need time alone with the holy danger in my thoughts.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:58

Alright.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:00

Don't make me make this uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:02

Alright, let's take a short break.

SPEAKER_15 2:02:06

Hi, Delphine here. And I've just been informed, unfortunately, this is my circus. These are, in fact, my monkeys. Please send help after the break.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:17

Alright. So with the end of that last segment, uh that last break there, um, you guys effectively retire to your rooms. Who is going where? You do each have the ability to have your own room. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:33

As Drax sees Delphine leaving, he's like, hi, Bigel Holden, bring it back.

SPEAKER_15 2:02:39

Come with me.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:41

Oh. I keep Mr. Drax with my brother.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:46

Okay. Do you what are your instructions to Mr. Drax?

SPEAKER_05 2:02:49

Stay with my brother. Keep my brother safe.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:53

Why? Yeah, I'm gonna stay with my brother.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:55

And then I go off with Delphine.

SPEAKER_14 2:02:59

Question. So I'm gonna take you with me to my room.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:02

Whoa.

SPEAKER_15 2:03:03

Don't be all in that like that.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:06

Drax is nearly dead, by the way, but yes.

SPEAKER_14 2:03:08

He's not he's not her type.

SPEAKER_13 2:03:10

Um how no, I can't. Because I can't, I don't want to touch it yet.

unknown 2:03:19

Touch it.

SPEAKER_15 2:03:20

I will give it back to you, but I'm going to uh say to Drax, there are some very dangerous things in here that I really don't want you to let anyone else have.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:39

Oh yeah. Yeah, I am keeping the hourglass intentionally out of anyone's hold.

SPEAKER_15 2:03:49

I'm putting something back in here that you will not give to anybody, nor will you attempt to use it. I Pinky Promise. He doesn't know any of this happened.

SPEAKER_14 2:04:19

When I need to access things from here, trust will be for a good reason, and I'll let you know.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:25

Aye. I'll keep it safe.

SPEAKER_15 2:04:29

Don't let anyone grab it. And if you get taken over again, I'm taking it again.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:36

Aye.

unknown 2:04:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:38

Sounds fair.

SPEAKER_12 2:04:38

Have a good sleep.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:42

I need a sleep.

unknown 2:04:44

Long day.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:44

It was a long day. I'll woke up to you and say that you've had this one. I'm unpacking a minute, the smaller one.

SPEAKER_15 2:04:52

Oh, you're giving me the big room. Oh, what a you do know the standards to which I am accustomed. So thank you. Aww, I'm gonna give you a little hug and then I'm gonna go in my nice new big room.

SPEAKER_06 2:05:04

Yeah, I'll take someone with my feet hanging over the bed.

SPEAKER_15 2:05:06

And I'm gonna lay alarm cantrip around the room. I don't trust anybody here.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:14

Uh, Delphine.

SPEAKER_15 2:05:16

What?

SPEAKER_05 2:05:17

Can I crash with you? I uh I don't wanna be with my brother today.

SPEAKER_15 2:05:21

You can have your own room.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:24

Are there rooms available? We all have a room.

SPEAKER_15 2:05:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:28

Alright.

SPEAKER_15 2:05:30

Maybe you can still ask.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:31

Shut the shot.

SPEAKER_15 2:05:33

Shut the shit, yeah. You could have your own room. Delphine did not pick up what you were putting down intentionally. I intend I saw it and I left it on the floor. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:05:46

Mr. Drax, Mr. Drax says to Einar, Hi brother, you gonna try and get some sleep.

SPEAKER_04 2:05:55

Stay by the door and we'll see.

SPEAKER_11 2:05:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:00

As you see him.

SPEAKER_11 2:06:00

I was gonna have a seat in this chair over here.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:02

I'm starting to pull up some some salves and just look at starting to actually take stock of the wounds across my body.

SPEAKER_10 2:06:09

Oh. I don't want to give a wound, you have a chunk of flesh missing out of your torso. Yeah, you forgot to hear.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:14

You need some skin grass. I'm not, I don't come begging. I sits there looking at his wounds. I'm starting to get ready to. I'm very aware of that.

SPEAKER_15 2:06:23

Can you? You can, right? I can do what? Heal.

SPEAKER_10 2:06:26

So he's just sitting there and he's going, Oh, sit in this chair. He just sits in the chair in the room with you.

SPEAKER_15 2:06:31

I'm picturing the holy grail scene where they're trying, like, well, stay in the room and make sure nobody else comes in.

SPEAKER_10 2:06:40

Yeah. He didn't tell me that. He just told me to watch his brother. Who is my brother?

SPEAKER_04 2:06:46

Well, my brother, my brother hadn't seen him strip down before, so the pants do come down to check the wounds on the legs for the where the flush was being torn off from him.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:53

Because that's where he said he grabbed it around my legs and started tearing chunks out of me.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:58

So I'll be there in my lowering cot just taking stock of the damage, and then I almost I say it out loud while I'm thinking it towards her, him, Ventor. Just kind of like a oof. Doing the right thing hurts sometimes.

SPEAKER_09 2:07:17

You look like shit. Puts his head down.

SPEAKER_15 2:07:21

Uh Oleander is going to cast healing word on you at second level. 12 d uh 12 enough damage. That 12 points back. How are you feeling in comparison to your regular self? Could still use a little excess?

SPEAKER_10 2:07:42

Yeah, he's he's now three quarters. Um, so what are you casting on him?

SPEAKER_15 2:07:47

Healing word.

SPEAKER_10 2:07:48

So, healing word is gonna give him back his hit points. However, it does not regrow flesh.

SPEAKER_15 2:07:55

You got like full on gapes, eh?

SPEAKER_10 2:07:57

He's missing, like Delphine literally said she had a handful of ir. Which wasn't very much, but it was uh He's a beefy boy. It was enough, it was enough, it was enough to you're now missing, you've got a you've got an indent, a chunk missing out of you. That's it's healed over. But it hasn't regrown because it's a different spell.

SPEAKER_13 2:08:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:08:21

Alright, so but you're uh so do I have a do I have a temporary max I can't get back or something? No, no, no, I'm not gonna do that to you.

SPEAKER_15 2:08:30

Aesthetically, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:31

Systhetically you're I wouldn't be booking it. I wouldn't be booking any beach vacations in a while. That's gonna be fine.

SPEAKER_15 2:08:38

It's a sharp pipe. Uh and you only get five back for the next oh sorry, uh seven back for the next casting. I have something minor.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:46

But because it's like right here, right? It's like uh you can cinch your belt up a little tighter because your waist has gone in by about an inch and a half.

SPEAKER_04 2:08:54

Well, I mean I have a lot of armor.

SPEAKER_15 2:08:55

Arba figure. Yeah, literally it's like I have something I want to do if I don't know when else are you guys gonna. I'll let you do your thing, we'll talk about it.

SPEAKER_06 2:09:07

Now I'm going to bed.

SPEAKER_15 2:09:09

I haven't done it yet.

SPEAKER_13 2:09:10

I'm going to identify the book I got from Throck's tent.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:15

Oh right. It's a ritual. The book. The book. Did you did I ever give you a name on it?

SPEAKER_15 2:09:22

No.

unknown 2:09:23

Cool.

SPEAKER_15 2:09:23

I think it's very pretty. It's purple dragon hide. Very pretty. As a quill for a clasp.

unknown 2:09:30

Oh right.

SPEAKER_06 2:09:34

Yes. And Draken will pray before he goes to bed.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:40

Oh. To the Raven Queen. Won't be to anybody else. Any particular.

SPEAKER_13 2:09:47

I'd say you need guidance at this time.

SPEAKER_06 2:09:50

Yeah, pretty much. I just need a little bit more guidance just to help and just help. Not just helping. So a little bit more clarity on what she wants. Okay. Yes. And then I'll go to bed.

SPEAKER_10 2:10:12

Okay. Sorry, I just had to go way back to that battle to find that book, but great job, remember. Good job of memory.

SPEAKER_06 2:10:22

Yeah. But the uh down drawing.

SPEAKER_10 2:10:24

Yes. Okay. Got it. This is pretty cool. Your this book is called the Codex of the Watching Quill. A heavy bound tome with pages that appear blank at first glance. But when opened, faint crimson and silvery ink slowly seep into the parchment like veins beneath skin. The quill that comes with the book that is mounted on the inside, as you grab it, you let go of it, and it instantly goes to the page, ready to write whatever it is you're thinking. So this is a spell book that you can now transfer your spells to that will write the spells in on its own without you having to spend the time to do it.

SPEAKER_14 2:11:25

I still spend the material cost to gain the spell.

SPEAKER_10 2:11:28

You have to spend the material cost to gain it, but you do not no longer have to spend the time. You could have the spell book writing the spells as you are traveling.

SPEAKER_14 2:11:39

That's pretty handy. But still material costs.

SPEAKER_10 2:11:45

Still material costs, yeah. Now, do you want to hear the best part?

SPEAKER_14 2:11:52

Yes! No, I think I'm good. You just stop there.

SPEAKER_10 2:11:56

Okay. You have roll for me right now. Now a one D4.

SPEAKER_12 2:12:02

All my D4s are at the bottom of everything. I don't want yours. You've been reaching for it and I don't want it. Try four.

SPEAKER_10 2:12:15

Four. You get four charges on this book that do not recharge, period. Once they are spent, they are spent. If you have the book readied as an action, you can attempt to roll a d20. On rolling a 17 or higher, it's a straight roll, you can automatically learn and copy the next spell that is cast by anybody around you.

SPEAKER_15 2:12:59

Is this require attunement?

SPEAKER_01 2:13:01

It does.

unknown 2:13:04

Cool.

SPEAKER_15 2:13:05

So long die.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:07

And you got the max charges on it. That's awesome. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_13 2:13:14

Kid, kid.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:16

I have been holding on to telling you what that was since that fight.

SPEAKER_15 2:13:23

Very excited. Um, I do I am gonna do ascending, but I have to write it so people can do their thing.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:28

Okay. After he does his print. After you've done your prank? Cool. Yeah. What do you think is his prayer? He's just praying for guidance. He's praying for guidance, is what he said.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:42

I will uh That's between you and the queen. That's between me and her.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:44

I gotcha. I gotcha. But yes, it's pretty much just You'll have a response before the next session. Feeling the healing Drax, you're back in your room?

SPEAKER_05 2:13:54

Yes. I am now in my room. Basically, he does a little bit of uh kind of talking to himself, basically being like, This is a rough day. I I hope my brother gets through this. And then he KOs.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:08

Yeah. Okay, off to uh the room with the three of you guys.

SPEAKER_15 2:14:14

Alright, so Mr. Drax is just sitting in a chair. Supervising, right? Yes. He's a cat?

SPEAKER_05 2:14:22

He's basically watching. He's a cat. He's watching hard.

SPEAKER_15 2:14:27

Um, Oleander is not perturbed by this at all. Thank you, Mr. Drax, for staying with us.

SPEAKER_11 2:14:38

Yeah, that's what I do.

SPEAKER_15 2:14:40

Yeah. She just goes and she's observing the ink as as she has been casting her healing words on Einar and he's been applying the salve. Have they been doing anything?

SPEAKER_10 2:14:54

Yeah, they're healing him. You're not healing the whole.

SPEAKER_15 2:14:57

Sorry, I mean, is the ink doing anything? Or does it look exactly like Noctis used to?

SPEAKER_10 2:15:02

Except it looks like Noctis, because they've come to an agreement.

SPEAKER_15 2:15:06

Okay, and it looks well settled.

SPEAKER_10 2:15:09

Oh yeah, it's settled. Just flowing gently.

SPEAKER_15 2:15:12

Uh I will just gently, slowly reach my arm towards him and see if the ink does anything.

SPEAKER_04 2:15:24

I don't let it let it flow normally, but if it's trying to go off me on to her, I'll pull him in if I can. In fact, no, this is what it is. Is she are you touching me on?

SPEAKER_15 2:15:34

I'm reaching my hand towards you first, like it's going slowly to see if it's like, does it look like it's gonna try and reach out towards me, or is it just gonna stay put?

SPEAKER_10 2:15:43

Staying put for the moment, yeah.

SPEAKER_15 2:15:45

Okay. I wrap my arms around him and I just pull him towards me, and I just let out this huge breath. I thought it was gonna take you from me. I'm never going to. I'm not going I'm not gonna stand I'm not gonna regret the decision that we made. We made a choice for you to try and save what we thought was a dying creature, but never again. I would let everything else die. I would burn the fucking world to the ground if I knew that that was going to happen to you, and I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_11 2:16:30

I kiss her. That was a good speech. Is there a curtain on the bed?

SPEAKER_15 2:16:38

No.

SPEAKER_09 2:16:39

Do you want there to be a curtain on the bed? Yes. Yeah, there's a curtain on the bed.

SPEAKER_15 2:16:43

But it was open.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:45

I look at my brother from him and go, we're talking. And I pause shut slightly just to so we can still hear us talking, and then I just look to look to you.

SPEAKER_10 2:16:54

Are you like obscuring yourself from his vision?

SPEAKER_04 2:16:56

Not fully. Just enough for a bit of privacy. A minor about as he leaps around. I need to be able to see you. I put my foot out so you can see my foot. Good enough. So then I just say I'm like, I'm sorry to put you th I've I failed you all there.

SPEAKER_15 2:17:17

We did this together. I can't let you take the fall for that decision. We both thought that it was what was right to do. And I hold you firm for moment. It wasn't decision, we were right.

SPEAKER_04 2:17:28

You were right, I'd do it again. But I battled them in my head.

SPEAKER_15 2:17:34

I wouldn't do it again, and I didn't want to tell them that because I was very confident in what we were doing, but I wouldn't again. I would let them all die. And I am sorry.

SPEAKER_04 2:17:47

I'm just smiling at you, but I'm like, I feel the same way.

SPEAKER_15 2:17:52

I felt like my heart was being ripped out of my chest watching you.

SPEAKER_04 2:17:58

He shudders a little and just hugs you, pulls you close.

SPEAKER_15 2:18:03

There's more I need to tell you.

SPEAKER_04 2:18:06

Yeah, I just sit back looking at you. His eyes. Calm.

SPEAKER_15 2:18:11

I had a dream and I thought it was just a dream. I thought it was just a bad night, and now I now I think it was more. And it was a while it was a few days ago, and in my dream, we were surrounded by ink, and it was being absorbed into you. And when I tried to touch you, it did exactly what Ventor did. And it tried crawling to me. And it said that it was going to it was gonna take over, and you were not, your will was not gonna be your own. I thought it. I thought it was just I thought it was just a shitty dream. And now I think it really was a warning. All of it, I thought it was just more of Noctus, and Noctus would always protect you. But it's not.

SPEAKER_02 2:19:14

We've learned so much from your dream tool.

SPEAKER_04 2:19:23

We've learned that there's more of them. They may be an invasion. These keys and these gates, these gods behind it, might all be related, and we've we've learned that they're not all the same. Noctus and Ventor are very different. But I believe, like Noctus, there's a bargain and a balance to be struck. The Ventor could truly have simply controlled me or dominated me. Why? I lost the inner battle. I. I fought him. I tripped him, I hid from him. But when I saw my brother and you you peered in my mind and then disappeared. But I attacked and I just didn't have enough left. Too much has been taken from me today. I I and I couldn't beat him without without Noctus.

SPEAKER_15 2:20:26

I need to speak to Ventor.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:30

We can try. If you'll Ventor, are you like Noctus able to speak with me when I want? And with Oleander.

SPEAKER_10 2:20:44

You're asking if Noctus can speak.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:47

No, I'm asking if Ventor has the same ability.

SPEAKER_10 2:20:49

Oh yeah, he can speak too.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:50

Oh, I absolutely play to his ego.

SPEAKER_09 2:20:51

Whether or not he wants to.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:52

I'm absolutely playing to his ego. I'm like, do you have the ability like Noctus did to speak with us? To talk to me and Oleander? What?

SPEAKER_08 2:20:58

We are same. But I am more powerful.

SPEAKER_15 2:21:07

And okay, so I do a I I speak directly to Ventor then. Uh will you s will you converse with me, Vantor?

SPEAKER_08 2:21:18

Yes. Right, and I was in your mind before.

SPEAKER_15 2:21:32

Alright. I, if you'll allow me, question for the DM.

SPEAKER_11 2:21:39

Yep, what's up?

SPEAKER_15 2:21:40

Can I cast command to Ventor?

SPEAKER_10 2:21:45

Is it a creature?

SPEAKER_15 2:21:49

It just says yeah, well, it says creature. It does say creature. Okay, never mind. Okay. Alright, I will take that back. Um thought. Okay, just just a thought. Yeah. Uh in that case, I will just ask. I wish to know the truth. Who is your master? And do we need to take you to him?

SPEAKER_08 2:22:16

Master Umrix.

SPEAKER_15 2:22:23

Umrix?

SPEAKER_10 2:22:24

Umbrix.

SPEAKER_15 2:22:25

Umbrix? Do we recognize that name at all? Um it sounds familiar. The fall of Umbrius. Oh, there you go. Was the meteor.

SPEAKER_04 2:22:36

Okay. I relay telepathically to Mr. Drax. We're asking it about where it's from. Just so you know. Who who its true master is? Something about Umbrix. Hey, Umbrius. Umbreus. Something about Umbrius.

SPEAKER_15 2:22:56

Umbrix is your master?

SPEAKER_09 2:22:58

Umbrius.

SPEAKER_15 2:22:59

Oh, sorry, I thought okay. I was saying it in his voice. Yes, yes, okay. Umbreus is your master or where you were from?

SPEAKER_08 2:23:06

Umbreus is the master of all aurices.

SPEAKER_15 2:23:12

Is he here?

SPEAKER_08 2:23:15

He is.

SPEAKER_15 2:23:19

And how do you get to him? I relay that to you.

SPEAKER_10 2:23:22

How are you oh you're relaying it to Drax? You're sitting in a chair. I'm Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_04 2:23:28

No, it's also it's Mr. Drax I'm laying to.

SPEAKER_10 2:23:30

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:23:31

I figure you two know the same shit in the end. That's why I'm saying that. Sorry. That's why he's written shit down. Oh yeah, okay. Um that makes sense. Right? You'll have the same memories up until you die, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:23:39

Well, I the way I see it is once Drax is conscious, we'll relay the end.

SPEAKER_08 2:23:46

Yeah, I think so. Um I use this vessel.

SPEAKER_15 2:23:55

And if this vessel is gone, how do you get to your master?

SPEAKER_08 2:24:01

There's always another vessel.

SPEAKER_15 2:24:06

Do you not want to be your own master?

SPEAKER_08 2:24:15

You are foolish to test me.

SPEAKER_15 2:24:23

Will you keep your hands to yourself? And Einar.

SPEAKER_08 2:24:29

We've agreed to this. We have an agreement.

SPEAKER_15 2:24:34

So I'm safe beside you?

SPEAKER_08 2:24:37

For now.

SPEAKER_15 2:24:39

Okay, I want to roll a uh insight check. Twenty.

SPEAKER_10 2:24:50

Oh yeah, you plus. Yeah, he's not lying.

SPEAKER_15 2:24:53

He's not lying? Twenty five. Yes, twenty-five.

SPEAKER_10 2:24:55

You are safe beside him for now.

SPEAKER_15 2:24:58

Okay. Alright. Uh, that is all I have to say to Ventor.

SPEAKER_10 2:25:03

That's all I have to say about that.

SPEAKER_04 2:25:07

I have one further question, Ventor.

SPEAKER_10 2:25:09

So you would not have heard that conversation. Oh, okay. Just what she said up. Right, so, like, because she's doing what are you doing? Detect thoughts?

SPEAKER_15 2:25:18

I was I was using Detect Thoughts.

SPEAKER_10 2:25:20

Right, so when when when she's using Detect Thoughts, you are not able to psychically read her thoughts and then also relay psychically to somebody else.

SPEAKER_04 2:25:30

It feels like also he can't read my thoughts on the same way. I was- I was wondering if our thoughts are linked, but it doesn't feel like they actually are me and Ventors.

SPEAKER_10 2:25:37

I think that when Ventor is talking to you and it's like a psychic connection, then yes. But like she's using Detect Thoughts. Yeah, so basically she's in his head.

SPEAKER_04 2:25:48

So but I'm saying so, if I, for example, use my telepathy to talk to him or do detect thoughts, he also wouldn't know what to do.

SPEAKER_10 2:25:53

Yeah, no, he would. Is there anything that's mental on the inside of your mind Ventor is there for?

SPEAKER_09 2:25:57

Okay, that's kind of unfriendly. She's doing the thing. But Ventor has his own shield.

SPEAKER_10 2:26:01

But he also has his own head. No, just figured out the patterns. That's the difference between psychic and detect thoughts.

SPEAKER_04 2:26:07

I completely gotcha. No, that makes sense to me. Yeah. Me understand now.

SPEAKER_15 2:26:11

Yep. Um, so I would, once I'm done, I relay that all to Einar, the entire conversation, all of my responses. Um in other situations, I need to just speak as it speaks, like a game of telephone.

SPEAKER_07 2:26:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 2:26:29

But yeah, so that was that was all I had to ask you.

SPEAKER_04 2:26:34

I trust that he'll stay on me and not affect others, as I believe he trusts my resolve on the other side of it, and the implication behind if he doesn't. I will not let him harm you or the others. And he is the source. I keep looking over at Mr. Drax and like, oh! You you you you really gonna sit here all night on me?

SPEAKER_11 2:27:00

Yeah. I I mean You should get some sleep, brother.

SPEAKER_15 2:27:06

I know it's better if he's here. Just lie down. It's like at camp. He'll protect us.

SPEAKER_04 2:27:16

I I make sure to leave a foot outside the curtain as I pull it tighter. But I let my foot dangle for now. I'm like, there you can see me. God damn.

SPEAKER_10 2:27:31

You can just hear a mouth breathing in the corner.

SPEAKER_13 2:27:36

Is it upper afterlife?

SPEAKER_10 2:27:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:42

Thank you for staying with me. You're welcome, brother.

unknown 2:27:47

Is it?

SPEAKER_04 2:27:48

Alright. As soon as he does that, I go. I my face pops out and I'm like, you are the worst block. We're having words. I pull it back across. Then I pull it back out again and I look at my Lily do this.

SPEAKER_10 2:28:05

You gotta remember, like, he thinks he's your brother. I really this is hilarious to him. I pull the finger.

SPEAKER_15 2:28:13

He's doing it on purpose.

SPEAKER_04 2:28:14

I pull the thing on the back, and I'm just kind of almost huffy looking. Almost that I get look at you and I calm back down. Just kind of settle in and just kind of breathe for a few moments, and then start playing with your hair a little bit.

SPEAKER_15 2:28:28

I instantly fall asleep as soon as you start playing with my hair, because that is my favorite thing in the world. Much like the real you, yeah. Anytime, baby. And you hear like uh as Mr.

SPEAKER_10 2:28:48

Drax is inching the chip closer to the bed.

SPEAKER_15 2:28:52

He was jelly. He wants to get his hair played with too. Also, he's wearing the bracelet, so it's making little jingles and stuff. Oh yes.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:04

He's admiring it.

SPEAKER_15 2:29:07

Remember, the goblins had got googly eyes.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:13

Alright, what do you want to do? You want to get a rest? Yes.

SPEAKER_15 2:29:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:16

Alright, cool.

SPEAKER_15 2:29:17

I had ascending.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:19

And you have ascending. Let's hear it.

SPEAKER_15 2:29:21

I have a sending to Yulius.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 2:29:25

Um I counted, it's 25 words.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:28

Let's hear it.

SPEAKER_15 2:29:30

What can you tell me of the fall of Umbreus and what fell from the sky? I believe we've encountered one of the pieces.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:38

Okay. Can you read that to me again, please?

SPEAKER_14 2:29:42

What can you tell me of the fall of Umbrius and what fell from the sky? I believe we've encountered one of the pieces.

SPEAKER_04 2:29:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 2:29:51

I do only say one.

SPEAKER_04 2:29:52

I did notice that.

SPEAKER_14 2:29:53

Talking about Noctus.

SPEAKER_04 2:29:55

I noticed that, bro. Oh. I did notice that. I didn't cry.

SPEAKER_10 2:30:02

So you get the response back from Julius shortly. He says. The fall of Umbrius is well documented, but not much is known about the shots. Send any information you get.

SPEAKER_14 2:30:22

I could send a just a quick of what I know.

SPEAKER_10 2:30:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 2:30:28

Um no, I don't have this prepared, so I have to count it.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:31

Do it.

SPEAKER_14 2:30:34

It was attached to a creature.

SPEAKER_15 2:30:40

Appears as ink. Is sentient of its own accord. This one was what am I at?

unknown 2:30:53

Twenty.

SPEAKER_15 2:30:54

No, you're she's uh eighteen. Yes. This one was I'm at eighteen, okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:31:00

Is the wizard saying, Where am I at?

SPEAKER_15 2:31:05

Violently antagonistic.

SPEAKER_13 2:31:14

I'm unsure if it's evil.

SPEAKER_08 2:31:21

Nice twenty-five.

SPEAKER_13 2:31:22

Yep.

SPEAKER_08 2:31:23

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 2:31:27

Now I've got to come up with a twenty-five for a response.

SPEAKER_04 2:31:31

It's morning? Not yet. No.

SPEAKER_07 2:31:34

Not yet.

SPEAKER_10 2:31:42

Alright. You get this. Be cautious, Delphine. The ink is sentient, bound to a host. But it's intent unclear. Capture if you can. But beware.

SPEAKER_15 2:32:02

Noted. That's pretty much what she already thought. Yeah. But now she.

SPEAKER_14 2:32:08

Because that one piece got away.

SPEAKER_08 2:32:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 2:32:12

But it died now.

SPEAKER_10 2:32:15

So.

SPEAKER_14 2:32:16

Delphine goes to her reverie.

SPEAKER_10 2:32:19

Okay. Um as you go to sleep. Or sorry, what did you say you were gonna do?

SPEAKER_15 2:32:26

She's going to the reverie, the oh yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:32:28

As you go to do that, you kind of reach up and you grab your pendant that has not glowed in a while.

SPEAKER_12 2:32:37

He's been dead.

SPEAKER_15 2:32:39

Well, no, the glowing means the that he's thinking of you. That he was in danger.

SPEAKER_10 2:32:45

Yeah, so it glowed once and then it stopped.

SPEAKER_15 2:32:48

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_10 2:32:48

And it hasn't glowed for a long time after that. Uh and you just your thoughts go to Theron. And then you go to revelry. Okay. Let's have the night pass. And you wake up in the morning.

SPEAKER_04 2:33:08

I immediately roll about if she's still sleeping.

SPEAKER_01 2:33:12

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 2:33:13

Good. I say, stay there. And I walk to my brother. And I say, it's been the night. I'm awake. And I help him out of the chair.

SPEAKER_06 2:33:21

Is he still around? Because we don't know if he's still around.

SPEAKER_04 2:33:24

Oh, that's true. It's been a night. Is my brother still in the chair?

SPEAKER_10 2:33:26

Uh it's 24 hours, right? Or how long does he last?

SPEAKER_09 2:33:29

Or until you dismiss him? We've never figured it out. That's indefinite. He's still there.

SPEAKER_12 2:33:33

I don't know. It's the very first time you live in the night. Hey! He's a table! He's a table! Giving him up.

SPEAKER_10 2:33:40

I go, not really, because he was like made it like really late at night.

SPEAKER_15 2:33:44

He made the night. He survived the night.

SPEAKER_04 2:33:46

So I go, I'm a I go, I'm awake, we're fine. You don't have to watch over now. It was only night. And you gotta go see if the echo lasted if your echo lasted all night now. And I'm like, oh yeah! That's gonna be amazing. However, I'm gonna have to stay. I'm awake. You do not have to. Send your echo back. You need some rest yourself.

SPEAKER_10 2:34:07

Right. Yeah. I'm just gonna get him to come here.

SPEAKER_15 2:34:16

Constipated face.

SPEAKER_04 2:34:16

I think the audience he has a constipated face. I think the stone is blocking you. I'm just gonna move you outside. Stand by the door and watch us there. I close it.

SPEAKER_10 2:34:23

Why don't you come with me, brother?

SPEAKER_04 2:34:24

I close it.

SPEAKER_10 2:34:25

Oh, okay. And then you just brother?

SPEAKER_04 2:34:28

I'm like, watch me from there. I'm here. And I say, these words are not for you. Brother! And I walk away. I come back totally under.

SPEAKER_15 2:34:46

She's a very dainty sleeper.

SPEAKER_04 2:34:49

There are probably no flowers or anything in.

SPEAKER_15 2:34:51

Not at all like Anna in purposely. I was going to say I envision her as very messy hair drool. A little bit of drool.

SPEAKER_04 2:35:00

Thank you.

SPEAKER_15 2:35:02

Unlike me, who doesn't move in my sleep. She 100% wakes up with like rat's nest. Like. He's gonna keep doing it while you're having your sweetness.

SPEAKER_04 2:35:17

I'm very, very aware of that. And I'm ignoring it completely.

SPEAKER_01 2:35:20

No, it and then it stops.

SPEAKER_04 2:35:22

Oh boy, don't come down the chimney yourself.

SPEAKER_15 2:35:27

There is a fireplace.

SPEAKER_04 2:35:29

As she's waking up, I uh I let you come to consciousness and go, we don't have long, he's gonna find a way in. But and that's I give you a very passionate kiss. And I come back from it, just saying, just looking at you in the eyes, and I say to you, only thing I could think of was you as well. I'm so sorry I put you through that. I swear to you, you only have to remuse me. There is nothing that can drag me away from you on this plane or the next, where I would not fight through it and destroy it. And that includes this thing on. It may think it has me, but it's wrong. I have it.

SPEAKER_15 2:36:07

I will do anything necessary. Anything. I will not let any entity aside from yourself take you away from me. I'll never leave. And I will never leave you.

SPEAKER_10 2:36:25

I kiss her again. As you kiss her the second time, the window flies open. Brother! The door!

SPEAKER_11 2:36:35

The wind blew it shut!

SPEAKER_10 2:36:36

And Mr. Jax climbs in, covered in like like gutter crap from the roof and shingle pines and all that, and rolls into the room. Oh! Right.

SPEAKER_04 2:36:48

I uh miss. I continue to kiss her as I do. We just ignore them. And pull the gut.

SPEAKER_15 2:36:55

I don't even feel the need to pull the curtain shut. I'll be kissing you. Stop trying to ignore your brother for a second here.

SPEAKER_04 2:37:04

I focus on kiss me. I pick her up, pat her on the butt, and just kiss her. In just honestly, kind of taking in the last whole night, the situation and the fact that she's still here with me and saying she'll never leave me. He's taking those words in. Okay. And just feeling, you know, again, doing the right thing hurts, but it's thinks that out. You know, doing the right thing may hurt, but it seems to have its rewards. I'm glad the pal the polycleric just gagged. Yeah. Oh, I got it, that was hard. I had to work for that one. Alright, morning, what are you guys doing? We're doing this with apparently a voyeur.

SPEAKER_10 2:37:48

Or like a chaperone. Be careful, brother. Make sure you breathe.

SPEAKER_15 2:37:54

I'm good at deep breaths. Before I leave the room, I will do ascending to Theron.

SPEAKER_14 2:38:03

It's just very short. All she's gonna say is, are you well? Are you safe?

SPEAKER_10 2:38:13

You get no response.

SPEAKER_13 2:38:19

Do I feel like it was received or just That's a good question.

SPEAKER_10 2:38:24

That's a very good question. I'm gonna say that you feel like it it you feel like it was sent, but maybe just never got it.

SPEAKER_15 2:38:41

Well that's really concerning.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:43

So after the first several minutes of kissing, with my brother still watching, now it's personal, so I lay her back down on the bed and keep kissing to see if I can make him uncomfortable. Yeah. Give it to her.

SPEAKER_10 2:38:55

I let her go.

SPEAKER_15 2:38:58

We'll move on to uh Drewkin now.

SPEAKER_10 2:39:00

Drax, you should switch places with me.

SPEAKER_05 2:39:03

So Drax wakes up. Or yes, uh, and then basically kind of mentally tells Mr. Drax to come to you know come to me basically.

SPEAKER_10 2:39:18

Alright.

SPEAKER_05 2:39:19

So I can like learn what happened with the with the night.

SPEAKER_10 2:39:22

Alright, so Mr. Drax is like, Alright, brother, I'll be right back. He just turns and crawls out the window and climbs back over the roof. And he comes back to you and fills you in, and he's like, Man, our brother, he kisses a lot.

SPEAKER_05 2:39:44

Yeah, he's uh he's infatuated.

SPEAKER_10 2:39:50

Drunken, you want to wake up?

SPEAKER_06 2:39:52

Sure. It's great.

SPEAKER_10 2:39:56

Alright.

SPEAKER_06 2:39:57

Seven foot guy and a five-foot bed.

SPEAKER_10 2:40:00

Yeah. Okay, you guys sleeping in dwarf beds. Um yeah, so if you wake up, it's cold still, freezing outside, and then there's uh you can smell that there is food coming up from downstairs.

SPEAKER_06 2:40:15

That's right. I head down to go get food.

SPEAKER_10 2:40:18

Yeah, and you go down there and Rold is sitting at the table. He's already eating.

SPEAKER_13 2:40:24

No idea what happened.

SPEAKER_10 2:40:25

Hey, he's like, I had a great night. Slept like a baby. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 2:40:32

Not really, but not very nice.

SPEAKER_06 2:40:36

I'll go sit with Rold and get some food.

SPEAKER_10 2:40:39

Okay, well, you just fill him in on the day or uh missed one hell of a night.

SPEAKER_06 2:40:46

Oh why didn't one of you guys come get me? I thought you were pooping.

SPEAKER_10 2:40:51

I was pooping. I was pooping. I had diet real all night actually. It's dwarven food, man. Doesn't sit very well with my, you know, guts.

SPEAKER_15 2:41:08

It's that spicy milk.

SPEAKER_06 2:41:14

And then just have breakfast.

SPEAKER_10 2:41:16

Alright, cool. No. He takes it all in. He's like, oh man.

SPEAKER_06 2:41:19

Quiet, Mr.

SPEAKER_10 2:41:21

I gotta make sure I show up to these battles more. Anyway. What do you want to do, Mr. Drax? So you get filled in by Mr. Drax. Yeah. Now you guys are hanging out.

SPEAKER_05 2:41:29

Then I uh asked Mr. Drax if he can't go make some food. And once he leaves, I try to go around and pick up all the dead Mr. Drax's put them in the bag holding.

SPEAKER_15 2:41:42

Only two.

SPEAKER_05 2:41:42

There's only two, right?

SPEAKER_15 2:41:44

Still, two is two bodies like that. I mean, I would have thought you would have picked up the one last night already.

SPEAKER_05 2:41:49

There was the one that was like on the battlefield. On the battlefield.

SPEAKER_15 2:41:52

No, we already put that in the bag of holding. Did we? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:41:55

Okay, so then I don't think I pick up a body.

SPEAKER_10 2:41:57

Alright, so you go find them and it's been the whole night.

SPEAKER_15 2:41:59

So like I spent the night in my room? I mean So now the rigor mortis.

SPEAKER_10 2:42:06

What was once a dead body with rigor mortis? Rigamortis is now released and it's dependent lividity, and he's kind of almost like liquid.

SPEAKER_15 2:42:13

Girl, it's very limp. Easy to get in the bag.

SPEAKER_05 2:42:17

He's more of a scoop. So he comes in. Maybe just put him in a bag, not the bag.

SPEAKER_10 2:42:27

Just like scrape him under the bed. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, so you get rid of them easily.

SPEAKER_05 2:42:34

Awesome. Find a bonfire, make a bonfire, and uh our fire in our room is lit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 2:42:40

Maybe, I mean, maybe pick a different one, sorry. But then you need a bigger fire. It depends how big they are. I mean, you a body smooth. There is a beige here.

SPEAKER_10 2:42:49

He'd be easy enough to pull apart at this point. It's unlit.

SPEAKER_12 2:42:53

Alright, it's cold. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:42:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:42:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:42:57

And then uh what do you what about you, Delphine?

SPEAKER_15 2:42:59

Um mage armor like I always do.

SPEAKER_10 2:43:03

Yep.

SPEAKER_15 2:43:03

And then I guess I come downstairs.

SPEAKER_10 2:43:06

Okay. And then you two, Lumberds.

SPEAKER_15 2:43:09

We'll uh come out for breakfast.

SPEAKER_04 2:43:11

Yeah. Oh nice. Especially when my brother.

SPEAKER_15 2:43:13

He needs to eat.

SPEAKER_04 2:43:14

When my brother comes into the room and you know I'm gonna talk to you. Starts shoveling up the body. Yeah, we probably should have taken care of that.

SPEAKER_09 2:43:24

I'm just- I really kind of annoyed that you didn't take care of it.

SPEAKER_12 2:43:29

Look at where that smell came from. Yeah. Um released the body.

SPEAKER_04 2:43:32

I thought you would have like got him. I didn't realize it was there, honestly, in the dark. And why didn't you handle that yourself with your echo? I mean, he was here just staring at me in the most. Did he fill you in? Huh? Did you like the show?

SPEAKER_05 2:43:45

I I didn't see it, brother. He did tell me. Yeah. Yeah. You can sleep. You can say it wasn't you, but I'll just say, bro, you've You've always been a bit of paper. I will be more strategic with the instructions I give him.

SPEAKER_10 2:44:03

I would do that every time forever.

SPEAKER_15 2:44:05

So we're gonna go join everybody for breakfast. We're gonna drag Drax with us, and I am going to fill everybody in about uh my conversation with Ventor and my dream.

SPEAKER_01 2:44:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 2:44:22

Uh yes. Cool.

SPEAKER_13 2:44:26

Talpine's a little annoyed you talk to the ink again without anyone present because it could have gone very badly. However.

SPEAKER_15 2:44:33

Mr.

SPEAKER_11 2:44:33

Drax was there. I was there. Bagel?

SPEAKER_13 2:44:40

I I am a little bit happy's not the word. Feel a little more confident in that it didn't do anything to you in the night.

SPEAKER_15 2:44:53

So maybe I don't want to say the word trust, but there seems to be a truce for now against us at least.

SPEAKER_04 2:45:03

We have an agreement.

SPEAKER_15 2:45:04

I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to her. It is specified. I'm talking to her, not you. It is specified at this time. Okay. So I did talk to Julius briefly about the fall of Umbrius and that we've encountered one of the shards. And he could not tell me anything that I didn't already think myself is that they are sentient and they are possibly dangerous, but he would like us to try and capture one if we can. I don't know how we're going to do that.

SPEAKER_03 2:45:43

But we've caught two.

SPEAKER_12 2:45:46

Technically we've Yes. Have we? Have we caught it?

SPEAKER_04 2:45:51

Do we It's a bit of um for all their bluster from what he says.

SPEAKER_15 2:45:57

In my don't count your chickens, limited experience yet.

SPEAKER_04 2:46:03

There's a mutual thing here. You said it's symbiote.

SPEAKER_15 2:46:06

It's no, I said it's a parasite that's very different from symbiotic.

SPEAKER_04 2:46:11

That means that it needs me. And any bluster of other hosts. I'm a strong host. I'm a strong host, attuned and accustomed to carrying one of these things.

SPEAKER_15 2:46:20

Noctus was the devil we knew. Oh we don't know Ventor. So do not be overly confident, please. Because that lets your guard down.

SPEAKER_04 2:46:31

I look at you, there's almost a bemused look on his face. He's like, I know we've only known each other a month and a half or so. When have you known me to let my guard down in any situation? This was a calculated risk. This wasn't a guard down.

SPEAKER_12 2:46:46

You're really bad at math.

SPEAKER_04 2:46:48

I realize how much it was. I realize how much it wish it could hurt. And I stand by the knowledge that we've learned from it and that it's not out there on something else.

SPEAKER_15 2:46:57

I would rather learn from it in a more controlled situation, but that's okay. Apparently you are unaware of the scientific method. That's alright. We're gonna have to fly with it.

SPEAKER_04 2:47:06

Wait, wait, isn't some of the scientific method put it in your mouth and taste it to see what it tastes like?

SPEAKER_15 2:47:10

Really? That that's geology. We're not licking rocks.

SPEAKER_09 2:47:15

Isn't it's a science?

SPEAKER_15 2:47:17

I did want to say something to Drew and sort of it-ish.

SPEAKER_09 2:47:20

Yeah, go for it.

SPEAKER_15 2:47:21

I just wanna like maybe pull him aside while we're pouring like teas or coffees or whatever it is. And I'm just gonna say quietly to you, I tried to contact Theron, and I think the spell didn't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_10 2:47:40

Should I be happy? I mean, that's the equivalent to like a long distance slap.

SPEAKER_06 2:47:46

Yeah. I would say, you know, it might not he might be busy.

SPEAKER_15 2:47:55

The spell would have been received at least. I don't know if it was. He would have simply not responded. This kind of just went. And I don't know. It it's a spell that goes across planes.

SPEAKER_06 2:48:10

Yeah. I'll try again, I guess.

SPEAKER_15 2:48:14

What are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_06 2:48:16

No.

SPEAKER_15 2:48:20

Oh, you said you were gonna try. Try what?

SPEAKER_06 2:48:23

Well no, I mean I can maybe in the next couple days I can try and see if I can send him a send.

SPEAKER_15 2:48:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 2:48:30

I'll see if I get a hold of him or you.

SPEAKER_15 2:48:33

I know you are the best of friends.

SPEAKER_06 2:48:38

But for you all the time.

SPEAKER_12 2:48:41

I'd appreciate it, thank you.

SPEAKER_06 2:48:45

Yeah. I will find out. I will see if I can figure some out.

SPEAKER_15 2:48:54

Beyond personal reasons, he is our contact in Silvery Moon. But I'm concerned about what's going on there.

SPEAKER_06 2:49:02

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_15 2:49:04

I can maybe next couple days I'll see if I can try and hate to the only other people I know that I could reach out to, I have been making an active effort for 80 years to not reach out to. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 2:49:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 2:49:25

So as you guys are kind of chit-chatting, the inn that you're in, that you're in, it's called the Snowcap Inn, by the way. The doors open up, and Bridgia Frosthammer comes in, who you guys know is the second. The second in command, yeah. And uh comes in and says, I heard you had quiet the night last night.

SPEAKER_14 2:49:50

Apologies.

SPEAKER_10 2:49:53

No, no need to apologize. You're here assisting us, you are guests. However, I do have some gifts for you. And she steps to the side, and you see a small, kind of retired miner, uh, an older dwarf with a really predominant limp, uh, comes through and he's in his arms, he's got uh an armload of materials that look like jackets. And he comes forward and goes, Great! If you're going to be going down further into the mine, you're gonna need protection from the elements. I have here some dwarven sweaters and jackets. I highly suggest you put them on. Yes, you freeze if you go too low into the earth.

SPEAKER_12 2:50:46

Thank you.

SPEAKER_10 2:50:47

I come up.

SPEAKER_12 2:50:48

Are they itchy?

SPEAKER_10 2:50:49

No, they're beautiful.

unknown 2:50:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:50:51

I come up and take one of the one of them, one of them is uh, and it's your size, is long and white with like uh a white fox fur that goes around the collar.

SPEAKER_12 2:51:04

I used to have a leather trench coat like that.

SPEAKER_10 2:51:07

Did you really?

SPEAKER_12 2:51:07

And a big pimp fur collar and everything.

SPEAKER_10 2:51:10

Perfect. It's not leather, but it's uh it's like woven fabric, but it has um like uh it has all the creatures from the area like kind of sewn in.

SPEAKER_08 2:51:20

Oh, it's pretty!

SPEAKER_10 2:51:22

And everybody else's is kind of the same. But uh thank you. Yeah, so they're very nice, but they're very warm.

SPEAKER_04 2:51:29

I put mine on, it turns black. I put a mitt on first.

SPEAKER_15 2:51:33

That's still weird.

SPEAKER_04 2:51:34

And then I clap that mitted hand safely over top of the dwarf bringing saying, we appreciate you considering this an extra uh our own safety while we help you. Not always.

SPEAKER_11 2:51:45

Well it's not my doing. It's the king that commanded it. But uh you're welcome to it.

SPEAKER_04 2:51:51

I thank you for carrying it out. You're doing the work.

SPEAKER_10 2:51:54

Bye. And uh you're not meeting me anymore. I uh back to my way once, and he turns and he had a peg leg? No, but he's got a lip, so it's like a dead leg that kind of is he the tailor or no, he's an old miner, so he just he brought he was just tailored bringing them for. He used to be a miner, but now he runs like a clothing store because he can't go down the mine anymore. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:52:21

Okay with you.

SPEAKER_10 2:52:22

Uh his name's Rorick Goldspike.

SPEAKER_15 2:52:24

Good name. We thank Rorick.

SPEAKER_10 2:52:27

Anyway, Brynn just says, uh I know that you've been tasked with going down into the mines, but I don't want you to feel as though you have to rush. We do need help, but I want you to be well prepared. So we do have amenities in town, they are open to you. Our prices are fair trade, and if there's anything that you need that's of special request, please don't hesitate to ask myself of it. I will do what I can to accommodate. Yes.

SPEAKER_14 2:52:57

There is a certain spell component, there's a a few, but one of them in particular I think I'd like before we go down, if it's gonna prove helpful. Um I'm looking for quite a high quality and large volume of saffron and powdered mushrooms if you have it.

SPEAKER_10 2:53:19

Powdered mushrooms.

SPEAKER_14 2:53:21

Could be like dried mushrooms, even, and we could we could do the work.

SPEAKER_10 2:53:25

What's the spell?

SPEAKER_14 2:53:26

Um trucine.

SPEAKER_10 2:53:27

True scene?

SPEAKER_14 2:53:28

That's specifically what it needs.

SPEAKER_10 2:53:30

Okay. Yeah. I mean, yeah, she's like, hey.

SPEAKER_14 2:53:33

But she'd be looking to purchase. I'd be looking to purchase.

SPEAKER_10 2:53:35

She says that um she's like, well, if you're going to go down and help us, then yes, I'm gonna procure these for you. It might take me a day or so, but I will uh I'll do what I can.

SPEAKER_14 2:53:45

That would be I'm fully going to pay oh, and like fat, but you know, cooking fat.

SPEAKER_10 2:53:51

Well, it's everywhere, yeah.

SPEAKER_15 2:53:53

After that's yeah, that's that's all I would need. I know it's probably difficult to obtain in these areas, but Okay, yep. There's other things I'd like, but they can probably wait if and when we return.

SPEAKER_10 2:54:07

I I do hope they do return. Um, and I have been instructed as well to provide you with this. And she pulls out a coin purse and drops 200 gold coin onto the table in front of all of you. I want it.

SPEAKER_15 2:54:24

Hmm?

SPEAKER_10 2:54:25

They need it.

SPEAKER_15 2:54:26

So do we need it too. So do we? Quit quit saying no to money. I got a new money. Do you wanna buy her healing potions and then? Bloody paladin. Oleander grabs. Calphine will take the money. Yeah, like I I slide it on over to Calphine and then I put it in the bag of hauling.

SPEAKER_04 2:54:43

We thank you very much. I pat him on the shoulder with my mini-gloves.

SPEAKER_15 2:54:46

It's rude to say no to gifts.

SPEAKER_04 2:54:48

I go, don't want the grudges of dwarves, and for God's sakes, paladin, you need to be paid for the efforts you do when it's offered. It's not the same as us rescuing someone in the street. We're hired mercenaries here. We're fighting a dragon, not a thug. There's a difference.

SPEAKER_15 2:55:01

We're not mercenaries. That is such an uncouth term.

SPEAKER_04 2:55:05

We're being hired to do a job for people against.

SPEAKER_14 2:55:08

We are specialists in our fields. We are not mercenaries.

SPEAKER_10 2:55:15

I want to find an armor smith. I oh yeah, she says uh there is the Winter's Edge Armory. Perfect. Just down the road, you'll find uh Thaldrin Deep Cut there.

SPEAKER_15 2:55:25

Cool.

SPEAKER_10 2:55:25

I'm gonna go there. Deep cut. I will be back.

SPEAKER_15 2:55:28

I think that uh it'll take us a couple days at least to prepare. So I appreciate that you guys are willing to give us this time before we go down to try and deal with your problem.

SPEAKER_10 2:55:43

Okay, yeah, and uh as she gurs to leave, she goes, yeah, she's saying, and if you need the king for anything, he is in the war room uh with a few of the members of the army. And so she leaves.

SPEAKER_15 2:55:56

Okay. So we gotta. Make a plan for whatever we need to get done before we uh try and encounter or find this dragon.

SPEAKER_10 2:56:09

To yeah, to recap, the goal here is to delve down into the mines, which essentially is an underground labyrinth of corridors and shored up walls and frozen waterfalls and very major treacherous things.

SPEAKER_15 2:56:25

Which they have a map for.

SPEAKER_10 2:56:26

Which they have a map for.

SPEAKER_15 2:56:28

And a guide.

SPEAKER_10 2:56:28

And a guide.

SPEAKER_15 2:56:29

Is the guide coming with us? Probably not.

SPEAKER_10 2:56:31

No, the guide is not coming with you. But the the problem is it is underground. It is ever changing, and you are to find the reason that the dragon is not no longer being of service or help.

SPEAKER_15 2:56:47

We don't know really the reason yet. We don't. It's just we know it coincided with the meteor.

SPEAKER_10 2:56:52

The meteor. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:56:53

The biggest reason for us to delay going down is of course make sure that Rolle's stomach is settled so that we don't have any issues in the titles. Yeah. And he just a very sensitive boy. I don't want to deal with that at all.

SPEAKER_12 2:57:03

And as he as you say that, he goes, and he goes running upstairs.

SPEAKER_15 2:57:08

Oh honey, he needs more of your ginger tea. Well, I don't think that's gonna settle this particular problem. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:57:15

Let him suffer.

SPEAKER_15 2:57:16

It's the other end. It's all it's all around ginger tea.

SPEAKER_09 2:57:19

It's all through him now. I don't know if he just needs topical age. I don't actually says that. Let him suffer. Karma comes around.

SPEAKER_15 2:57:26

Off the top of my head, probably some supplies if they have anything to spare in the way of healing potions. If any of us want any magical things, scrolls or whatever. Yeah. We're gonna have to do a little bit of shopping before we leave. Yep. That'll roll. I am gonna go to Oleander and I'm gonna take her hand. I'm gonna be like, alright. We disagree on a lot of things. I've noticed. And I know I get very heated and passionate. I like your passion. I forget how young you are in relation to me. And I forget how old you are in relation to you. I look really good for my age. Yeah, you do very much. You look really good for any age, honey. It's just a little by your foot. I think you are not trusting in us enough and our ability to keep you safe and to keep each other safe. You don't have to. I know I don't agree with the vampirism, but I have been happy and content that you are you and it is not in control of you. I do think, because metagame-wise, I don't know about your agreement. So Delphine's saying, I think you're jumping to it too quickly. Didn't we tell them? No, we didn't tell them. No. I thought we told them. I thought we decided to tell them about it. No, you guys don't tell us nothing.

SPEAKER_04 2:58:54

I don't know what the relationship is. Super secret squirrel shit.

SPEAKER_15 2:58:58

But but Delphine's just saying, I'm I'm worried that you're jumping to it too quickly because you feel we won't protect you. And we won't protect him. We'll protect both of you. But I also want to protect you.

SPEAKER_14 2:59:13

We need to all trust each other, that we will each protect each other.

SPEAKER_15 2:59:17

But doesn't that mean that you need to trust me as well? I trust that you are in control of you, but I don't want your decisions in the heat of a combat to be I need to protect this particular person, whoever that may be, because we are each powerful in our own right and can take care of ourselves and each other.

SPEAKER_04 2:59:38

It's all right. So then you can tell her.

SPEAKER_15 2:59:41

No, I'm not talking to you. Delphine says that. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to her. This is girl talk. Let us have it. Give me your hand back. I just that's all I wanted to say. I go back to eating it. Then why can't you allow me to do my part in that? I think you are plenty powerful without vampire. And I think you need to trust your own abilities. I do very little aside from that. You do a great deal. Your hypnotic pattern has saved us many times. And that is you and what you've been taught and what you've learned, not something that was done to you. And I never jump immediately to my vampirism. Don't you? I don't. And if you would remind yourself to look back, that is never the first thing I have jumped to. However, I will let you know. I just if you're doing it because you think we won't protect him, we'll protect him. I'm doing it. We did a lot last night trying to save him. I'm doing it to protect him and ourselves. And because I made a deal with him that I would never let him bring harm. I'm telling you this now. I will never let him bring harm to others. I couldn't. As much as possible. Anytime. I do I don't I don't jump to my vampirism. I don't try to bring that into a factor until either I'm dying, one of us, one of the others is dying, or if he loses control and becomes the bat. Wow. And then I am there. Drew can take care of the bat. Drew can you can try and take care of everything else too. I'm not relying to take care of her. Clearly, his brother can also just go to sleep the bat. But I'm not gonna just sit back and say, Oh, I'm a pretty little princess and let everybody else take control while I sit in the corner and be a pretty little princess. I'm just saying we need to all trust each other and our abilities. And trust me to also carry my own weight. You already carry your weight, honey. It's not much weight, but it's still weight. We're delicate, we're dainty, we have them to do the heavy lifting. Exactly. And until it's actually necessary, the vampirism stays out. As in like out of the picture. Okay. I just so I want you to know that I just wanted you to know we have your back and we have his back. So if that has been affecting whether or not you think we aren't gonna protect you guys. I feel like you haven't noticed when it has when I've brought it out, because it has always been in an emergency. Oh, our lives are an emergency, I'll grant you that. Every day of our life is an emergency. I've never bridged it out aside from that. We'll protect you both. I feel slightly patronized, even though I know she means well.

SPEAKER_12 3:02:53

Everything Delphine does is a little patronizing, but she means well.

SPEAKER_15 3:02:59

She's meaning that to come from the heart. She will protect you both. It's the adult telling the kid to you just like the adult telling the teenager, really. Yeah. Not a little child.

SPEAKER_10 3:03:13

Okay. Do you uh any of you guys have anything else you want to do?

SPEAKER_05 3:03:19

Uh Drax will join um uh the Pally. You're going to the weaponsmith? Yeah. Alright, cool.

SPEAKER_10 3:03:26

Linar, what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_04 3:03:28

Well, not enjoying the food, but considering we are on on sustained, both of us, and don't need any hunting. Linar's quietly taking things in and just looking at everyone, and again, kind of noticing how interesting it is. He just slips back into the background of not having to discuss anything or do anything. And he just kind of nods that is starting to think internally. And I want to think at Vantor. So just why can't we work with Noctus as well and be even stronger?

SPEAKER_10 3:03:59

Uh he is not responding to you. Bitch.

SPEAKER_06 3:04:04

Before I leave and be like, if you need me to do anything, just let me know.

unknown 3:04:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 3:04:11

Try and contact Karen.

unknown 3:04:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 3:04:14

As you are. As you are walking to your prospective places, right? And you guys are sticking around the hotel.

SPEAKER_15 3:04:24

Well, I'm waiting for the um if if she comes back and lets me know where I can get.

SPEAKER_10 3:04:30

Yeah, so she's gonna procure them for.

SPEAKER_13 3:04:32

I also would like to talk to the wizard, but that doesn't have to happen right now.

SPEAKER_10 3:04:36

Okay. Um there is a shop for that, a place that you can go. It is the where is it here? Frosthaven supplies. Frosthaven supplies. Gold R bronze buckle. Pretty good place to go. There's also an arcane shop, which is the Enchanted Icicle. And yeah, a bunch of other things. And you and then you can also see there is the war room tent, which is just kind of off of where the front entrance to the inn is. Okay. As you're sitting there and as you're hustling about, you can see there's quite a bit of commotion outside. And uh some of the dwarves are running back from the from the war room tent and towards the war room tent, and there seems to be some kind of commotion.

SPEAKER_15 3:05:26

Are we all seeing this or something?

SPEAKER_10 3:05:27

Yeah, you're seeing it, hearing it. People are running in and they're whispering to the barmaid, barmaid kind of goes behind the counter, goes behind the next room, and runs back out and whatnot. Can we overhear? No, you can't overhear. Well, only you think you could.

SPEAKER_15 3:05:38

Uh I'll uh I'll walk over. Is there a problem?

unknown 3:05:42

What?

SPEAKER_15 3:05:43

Is there a problem? Is there something that we should know about that we might be needed for?

SPEAKER_11 3:05:48

No, haven't you heard? The news. No. You haven't heard. Silvery moon has fallen.

SPEAKER_15 3:06:02

Oh shit, I just I Delphine! And that's why I was with you.

SPEAKER_10 3:06:07

That's where we're gonna leave it for this session, guys.

SPEAKER_04 3:06:10

Son of a bitch.