Ep 8: Witches and Bitches

The Planar Vanguard, desperate to save Drax, who is now trapped in his Echo's body, try to find a way to force the Witch Borjk to open the Teleportation Circle from Winterforge to Silverymoon. However, the Witch isn't the only contentious entity they have to make a deal with.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_20 0:29

The last time we played, he had a dwarven envoy to investigate the attack on Silver Emo. As Mr. Drax stepped through the portal, instantly Drax changed consciousness with him so that he could see firsthand what was going on at Silveremo. Unbeknownst to Drax, but known to the DM, was that the distance to maintain proper contact and the consciousness for Mr. Drax was far too vast. And the resulting trauma that happened to Mr. Drax inside Drax's body was a complete separation from the consciousness that kept him alive, causing seizures, convulsions, bleeding through the orifices, and eventual death. Now, while the party in vain attempted to spam Mr. Drax with healing potions and with spells, trying to keep him alive, unfortunately, the damage that was occurring was far too great to be able to be offset with enough time by the spells, and Mr. Drax died inside Drax's body. The unfortunate thing about this is it now separates the party. Drax's consciousness is across the continent, inside Mr. Drax's body, with only 10 hit points, and being a mostly Echo Knight. While the party remains in Winterforge, desperately trying to convince a very stubborn witch to use her powers to reopen the teleportation circle so that Mr. Drax, his body, with Drax on the inside, can walk back through the portal so they can try to fix the situation. The problem here being a political one. The king is bound by the rules of his kingdom, not being able to forgive the debts of Boric the Witch. The witch is unwilling to help, so the party is at a standstill. And this is where we pick up. First thing we're gonna do is we're going to flash across the continent to Silvery Moon. Where Drax is bound up inside Mr. Drax's body. Inside this chapel, he can see that there is a rear entrance that leads down into a dwarven mine. And this is a dwarven chapel that was built by the dwarves as a cooperative display from Silvery Moon L's to allow the dwarves to mine in that area. Drax. The day is weighing on. You have heard the familiar sounds of battle off in the distance of only what you can assume is the dwarven party that left you here being under attack. But you don't know for sure. But it sure sounds like it. There is a draft coming from behind you that is out from the uh the mine, which you have already barricaded shut. You barricaded the door shut, and you have barricaded the mine shut, I believe. Correct. But there is still the draft coming in that direction, and it is warmish air, not cold, like you would expect. You have had ascending with your group, they understand that you are alive, and that now you are just waiting for the dwarven mage to return to open up the portal. Is there anything that you want to do?

SPEAKER_22 3:56

No. I feel walk. I feel he is as safe as he's going to be. He is, for probably the first time ever, afraid. He does not know what'll happen in this body. He does not know what's going on, you know, across the portal. He is honestly scared. He was not expecting any of this.

SPEAKER_20 4:30

You can see as you look at your body the unfamiliarity of blue glowing skin. Right? Almost transparently so that you can see on yourself, except for one arm, which is flesh.

SPEAKER_22 4:44

That that raises a good point, actually. In the the this chapel, you had said that there was basically stained glass windows kind of up above. Yes. Being in a mostly echo body, am I able to float up to the window?

SPEAKER_20 5:03

You can certainly try. I try to float up to the window. You have all the abilities of Mr. Drax, and you float easily up to the window. I unlock the window and go out it. Alright, you unlock the window. It's an old window, so you do have to push significantly on it. Do you choose to force the window open, or are you not attempting to draw any attention to yourself?

SPEAKER_22 5:34

The safety in me wants to not. But I I forcefully push the window open.

SPEAKER_20 5:41

I would like you to please roll a stealth check to see if you're able to open the window without causing uh a loud noise. Okay. Straight roll, I assume? Uh yeah well, it'll be with your stealth modifier. And uh you're looking the number you're looking for is 13 plus. Alright, let's uh see what 11. So you force the window, push against it, and you hear a loud as you break the window free from the decades of grime and grust and dust that have built up and force the window open with a loud bang that echoes down the hills and through the canyon. But now the window is open, and you can feel the fresh air coming in as you watch the sun slowly setting in the hills.

SPEAKER_22 6:30

I want to float up and uh see if I can't see down the path.

SPEAKER_20 6:34

Absolutely. You float generally out into the wilderness, and you see to yourself there is a lot of smoke and turmoil because now you're kind of above the tree line a little bit, right? And you can see a little greater distance out into Silvery Moon, and you can see what looks like you know, encampments all around Silvery Moon. And you can also see the shimmer of what looks to be some sort of a magical barrier that is dome over Silvery Moon.

SPEAKER_22 7:07

Does that barrier look like it has an origin? Or could I not see that from where I am?

SPEAKER_20 7:13

It would be difficult to determine where the origin could be from where you are. Um, what is your arcana? Can you roll me an arcana check?

SPEAKER_21 7:22

No problem. This uh barbarian's all for Arcana. Let's go for it. Let's see. You never know. Not a natural, but I got a one. With modifier, I got a one.

SPEAKER_20 7:37

So you look over this magical barrier and you just go, I'm not getting through that.

SPEAKER_10 7:46

Looks like magic to me.

SPEAKER_20 7:48

Like magic to me. Um that's all it's gonna ascertain about that. You cannot find the origin to it. Do you want to float a little bit further down the path?

SPEAKER_22 7:59

Um I'd like to float with a very cautious mindset. Okay. Down the path a little, trying to see where the noise was erupting from.

SPEAKER_20 8:13

Okay. I will give you fair warning that as an Echo Knight, you do glow in the dark.

SPEAKER_15 8:18

Hmm.

SPEAKER_20 8:19

Oh, that's new. Okay. Or you are a blue glowing essence, right? So just giving you that heads up. Okay. So you can float if you like down that path a little bit. What we will do is I will give you fair warning when you are within earshot. Close earshot. Okay. Without being seen. Alright. Okay. So you float down the path, you get maybe about 300 meters down, and uh you can clearly see now where the group has gone and and and where they've marched off to. Uh you do come across a couple of slain orcs lying on the ground, but you do not see any dwarven bodies. And then if you continue along down the way, you can see emerging from the tree line and into the field is a group of the group of dwarves that you have traveled here with, and they are heading towards Silvery Moon now in the open area, and they are being very stealth and hiding. But from where your vantage point is, from the distance you're at, you can just barely see them, they're very small. I'd say they're roughly around half a kilometer away.

SPEAKER_22 9:26

Seeing that they appear to at least be a competent group having slayed the orcs. I am going to try to catch up to them.

SPEAKER_20 9:36

Okay, you can easily do that. Uh, as you gain on them, the sun does dip below the horizon, now bathing the entire battlefield in a dusk-like darkness that you can see just enough to be able to make out the direction and what you're looking at. But details are now more difficult to understand and ascertain. But you do end up catching up to the dwarfs, and as you do, you land, there's a little faint glow around you, but when you land, it is more concealed by the long grass that is in this battlefield.

SPEAKER_22 10:09

Okay. Yeah, I will land and uh basically try to when I get close enough to the dwarfs to announce my presence to them.

SPEAKER_20 10:18

There is no need. They saw you coming. And uh, as you land, the the general turns to you and he's like, but I told you to stay back.

SPEAKER_22 10:29

I know I told you I was gonna stay back. But I can't help but uh go into combat with you guys.

SPEAKER_20 10:39

Well, I cannot guarantee that you're gonna be safe, but if you want to stay with us, you best keep yourself in a low profile. Stay low.

SPEAKER_22 10:48

I ask him if there's any cloaks or anything I can use to hide my presence.

SPEAKER_20 10:54

I I see. And he turns to one of the other dwarfs, he says, Give me a cloak. And he looks at me, I can give my cloak.

SPEAKER_17 11:01

It's am I wet me at this for me? I'm not gonna keep my cloak.

SPEAKER_20 11:05

And he said, He says, give me a cloak, or it's gonna give us all away, you duff prick. And the uh the other dwarfs, so back, get this back. We hand it to you, and it does, it actually conceals you very well. Excellent.

SPEAKER_21 11:22

I got I got no blood!

SPEAKER_20 11:25

So you notice now as they all kind of crouch low in this long tall grass and are making their way towards one of the orc encampments that are just right outside the main gate. We're gonna swing back all the way north across the country into the frozen hills of where Winter Forge is located. The group is now standing outside of the arcane shop. Einar is holding his rage at bay, but only just. And the anger and the disappointment that is felt throughout the group is palpable in the air. What would you guys like?

SPEAKER_10 12:05

I wanna wonder if talking to the sister, if she can give us the leverage that they're they're a ballist. I think we need to try something now because I mean Einar's obviously about to snap, but Oleander is very, very close behind him, and the only reason she hasn't snapped so far is out of fear of causing more trouble for them. So uh suggestions. I'm 100% in Ole, like if you if you're saying are you saying you say this out loud that you're like, Delphine wants and then the sister's the Oleander's like, please go talk to her quick. Okay, see if it's the see if she has anything to if anyone wants to go with me, they may, but I'm gonna go talk to the sister, and whatever happens while I'm in talking to the sister, I don't know about.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

Rolf's too angry. Rolf has no interest, he's just this is insanity that a person we offered her quite a bit, and she had no interest in it, so well, I'm halfway between you guys and my brother in the chapel.

SPEAKER_12 13:11

I have paused momentarily. There's an urge inside his head, a familiar internal voice, telling him that he's gonna need him, he's gonna need to pull out all stops. And unbeknownst to him, I cast the sky self, and the darkness costume comes out in full. Flowing, exaggerated cape, blackened face, glowing eyes, and after a moment pausing there, I'll start heading towards my brother. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 13:48

Do you run towards the temple?

SPEAKER_10 13:50

Alright, Oleander is going to turn to Rold. If you ever pull a weapon on him again, just for being upset, I'm not gonna be nice.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

He told me to do that.

SPEAKER_10 14:03

No, he told you to make sure that he doesn't actually do something. Showing that he is upset is not him harming anything.

SPEAKER_09 14:13

So you fucking go after him, you watch out for him, not for him to do anything back.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

If he changed, that is what I have to do.

SPEAKER_10 14:24

Him showing he's upset is not a reason to attack him.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

Like did I?

SPEAKER_10 14:28

So go guard him. Go be a supportive person. I know. Don't point a fucking weapon at him just because he's upset. That's not gonna help. Go be what you think could possibly be like a friend.

SPEAKER_02 14:42

I never attacked him, I did as he wished.

SPEAKER_10 14:45

Go be good. I am going to do my best with Delphine to see if we can find the sister to help.

SPEAKER_02 14:53

You do that. I'm going to be watching him as I said I would do. So I'm following you.

SPEAKER_10 15:01

Einar.

SPEAKER_20 15:02

Yes, okay. So Einar, you walk up the steps, and you are at the doors. Inside lies the body of Drax with Drukin standing next to him. Keeping solitary watch. Ever vigilant since you left.

SPEAKER_12 15:26

My eyes locked brief the my red glowing eyes locked briefly with yours. InfoGarb. The witch won't help. They're leaving him like this.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

What do you mean the witch won't help?

SPEAKER_12 15:35

I kinda leave that hanging in there. I'm like, I put my hand on my brother's chest. Mm-hmm. And I'm just sitting there looking at him. I say. Father, watch over me through this. Don't let me go somewhere I can't come back from. I'm casting invisibility. On yourself? On myself. Okay.

SPEAKER_20 15:57

You are invisible.

SPEAKER_12 16:00

I will quietly back up. I will track him by sound. And try to I'm going to uh pause in the moment there. And we'll hold on while I plans this next moves.

SPEAKER_03 16:17

Okay, well, uh now that I know she's not gonna help, I'm gonna walk over and go talk to her myself. So I'm gonna walk over to Bork and talk to her myself.

SPEAKER_20 16:29

To Bork? Okay. So you leave, you watch as you open the door, as you as you first set foot into the chapel, you do see very, very quickly as Einar stands over the body of his brother. He looks back quickly at the door. You see the red in his eyes, and then he goes invisible. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_02 16:51

I'm literally just trying to make sure I you don't have seen him do it before, so I'm just going to try and hear if there's any movements that sound like footsteps. Okay, Biner, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_12 17:04

Scanning the roof. Windows. High high loss. What's up there? Is there a glass window up there? It's a chapel. It's a chapel.

SPEAKER_20 17:15

Yeah, it's uh high vaulted ceilings. There are Are there any open windows or they're all stained glass? They're stained glass, yeah. There's no they're not it's it's you know, it's in the middle of the mountains, it's it's cold outside, they're not allowing for like drafty air. It's closed up. You could break them easily. So I can see through these things, eh? Well, they're stained glass. So you s to a certain extent.

SPEAKER_12 17:41

If I do that, it'll take me out of my invisibility, actually. Can't cast me as the step. Um so I'm looking over the thing. There's my brother, Druken's left. Druken's left, he's on his way back to Bork.

SPEAKER_20 17:55

And you had to open a door to do this. To do what? He had to open a door, is it open? You left it open, you never said you closed it. I know. I oh yeah, the entrance. Yeah, the door grew open, probably. I'll jump over Rold. You're jumping over him? Roll self-check. Roll a uh this is you're using your tracking abilities. I'm like this is using perception. Perception, dude. Roll perception check.

SPEAKER_12 18:21

Uh yeah, only 15. Uh 22. So he hears me land behind him.

SPEAKER_20 18:26

You absolutely hear him. If you can easily tell that uh Einar has gone invisible and is trying to lose you.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Okay, I'm just attempting to follow him, I guess. I don't know. I'm not sure if I'll be able to, but I definitely know he got by me.

SPEAKER_20 18:41

Okay, so he's by you. What are you doing? You're on the other side of roll, the door is now open.

SPEAKER_12 18:46

I take several running steps away from the chapel. Okay. And then once I maybe I'm following footsteps. I'm gonna be trying to follow them. Yep, he's gonna be following them. I'm gonna do jump. Okay. But I'm uh reversing my direction and I'm jumping up on top of the chapel. Okay.

SPEAKER_20 19:09

What's your height that you can jump?

SPEAKER_12 19:11

30 something feet.

SPEAKER_20 19:12

So you would basically be running in a direction, turning around running back that direction.

SPEAKER_12 19:18

I have to run 10 feet back, yes.

SPEAKER_20 19:19

Okay, so um, and then you're gonna jump. And you can jump 30 feet?

SPEAKER_12 19:24

36 feet max is my height, and 47 feet max is my length. Okay, well, uh, you're gonna have to roll to see. You know what? That thing does not want to stay in the goddamn cut. I got 22 feet in height. If you just do the same roll for distance. Just concerned about the height here. I got about 27 feet in height.

SPEAKER_20 19:42

So you gain access to the roof, no problem.

SPEAKER_12 19:44

Yep, and I'm just gonna hunker down there and think 10 minutes or so quiet.

SPEAKER_20 19:48

You see that he does turn in the snow, run back towards you, and leap. Uh-huh. Um, it's probably not beyond your means with the roll you had before to be able to understand that he's just jumped onto the roof. Plus, you'll probably hear it as he lands.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

Yeah, and I guess I'll look for if there's an impression in the snow on the rooftops, but no idea. Yeah, I think you probably already know.

SPEAKER_20 20:09

Um, what are you gonna do? You just I'm literally watching. That's what I was told to do. Okay. So then you'll just you know he's there, and that's where he's at. Okay. I know you're sitting up there. Girls, you watch as Drunken comes traipsing through the snow towards you.

SPEAKER_03 20:25

Not very slow either.

SPEAKER_09 20:27

Oh, quickly traping.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

Trotting along.

SPEAKER_09 20:30

Tropping on your fake horse?

SPEAKER_03 20:34

That's right.

SPEAKER_09 20:35

Yeah. I'll get my coconuts up. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 20:42

Which I won't because this is a very serious moment.

SPEAKER_18 20:46

So what are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_17 20:48

Telling you guys now.

SPEAKER_10 20:49

Any new information from you?

SPEAKER_03 20:52

You just see, I don't know how close you guys are to me.

SPEAKER_20 20:54

Well, or how close to the. Last I think we talked about it. Leander was heading to Isra. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 21:00

I was heading to Israel. She was, and I was gonna f I was about to follow her.

SPEAKER_20 21:04

Okay, so you do our crossing paths as they're walking towards the herbalist. You're walking towards the arcade shop.

SPEAKER_10 21:11

That old witch won't. She's asking more too much, and we're not able to provide to, and she will not otherwise open the portal. She's making it an unattainable debt. We it's something that we cannot actually give her. She just she wants to see us suffer. She wants to watch us suffer. She wants to let him die. She wants the coin.

SPEAKER_08 21:34

We're not gonna give it now. I'll do that.

SPEAKER_10 21:36

I'm gonna go talk to the sister, and I point across the air blast to see if she can give us any leverage.

SPEAKER_03 21:42

I'm gonna go this way and I'm gonna go talk to her.

SPEAKER_10 21:46

See, and now I'm so curious. I want to follow Drewkin.

SPEAKER_20 21:48

Who are you going with?

SPEAKER_10 21:49

I'm going with Draken.

SPEAKER_20 21:51

Okay. We're gonna do Delphine's interaction first. So, Delphine, you walk in again, similar feel of a rain forest, lovely weather on. The inside, um, however, more somber feeling now because there's a bit of an anger in your heart. You walk in, and Yesra's behind the counter.

SPEAKER_19 22:08

She goes, Oh, hello, welcome back. Yes, hello.

SPEAKER_10 22:12

Bit of a pickle with your sister. Oh, you and everybody else in this village. I'm wondering if you can help us. We are meant to go into the mines to help you with your problems down there, the town's problems. Uh, a member of our group is very integral, is something has happened, and we urgently need to open the portal that the other dwarves went through to Silvery Moon. I'm told your wonderful sister is the only one here who can help us. And she refuses. Do you have any idea of any way we can convince her to assist?

SPEAKER_19 22:56

Well, I'm sure you can understand this puts me in an awkward position. I do my sister. I mean, well, she is a greedy bitch. I would say this to you though. In the back of her shop, there is a little box. Inside that box, there's a parchment paper.

SPEAKER_18 23:18

It's in a scroll. And it's very, very dear to her.

SPEAKER_06 23:23

If anything were to happen to that, I think that she would be a lot more agreeable. Thank you very, very much.

SPEAKER_18 23:32

However, I would be very careful doing that. You will invoke the wrath of a very strong witch.

SPEAKER_10 23:40

Her or someone else?

SPEAKER_18 23:41

Oh, not me.

SPEAKER_10 23:43

No, is is it Borg or the person someone else attached to Borg?

SPEAKER_18 23:50

That I'm not sure of. But what I do know is her powers are not what I remember them to be when we were weak. I caution you, you're playing a dangerous game with her.

SPEAKER_10 23:59

We're very used to dangerous games, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_19 24:02

Well, giving you what I can. Please don't let her know that I said that. Nope. She'll be so angry with me.

SPEAKER_10 24:08

Not at all. Thank you very much very much. I'm gonna leave. And how cross how far is the magic shop from within sight.

SPEAKER_20 24:19

Like they can.

SPEAKER_10 24:20

And I know they went in there. I'm gonna cast message to Drukin.

SPEAKER_20 24:24

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_10 24:25

And I'm gonna say the Isra the sister says that there is a box in the back of her shop, and within it is another box that contains a parchment that may help us. That's all I know.

SPEAKER_16 24:41

Cool. I can use that to that. Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 24:45

And I'm gonna slowly walk towards the magic shop, but I don't want to come in right out hot on their heels. Okay. I just wanted you to have information first.

SPEAKER_20 24:53

Drucan, you got about three minutes in here before Delphine's gonna join you. You and Oleander walk through the door.

SPEAKER_03 25:01

Before I walk through, I cast guidance on myself.

SPEAKER_20 25:04

Oh, great. Okay, perfect. So you walk through the door again, hit by the acrid smell of just a run-down or counter shop, and you it's got all you fucking fuck off.

SPEAKER_17 25:14

You're coming in here again, you're bugging me. When you just visit or just go, we have closed for the day.

SPEAKER_03 25:20

You know, usually I'm the nice guy here, but this is very important that we need you to open up that gate.

SPEAKER_17 25:27

I've only given my terms, my terms have not been met, and I'm not doing anything otherwise. You can just fuck off, you giant green bob.

SPEAKER_03 25:36

Well, that's the thing, is you are gonna do it. Spot online. You are gonna do it, or I am going to do something that I don't want to do.

SPEAKER_20 25:47

She kinda hobbles up to the side of the desk. She looks up and she like peers up at you, and her big, bulbousy, long nose is facing you, and you can see right up her nostrils is nasty, and just bats in the cave all over the place. And she just looks at you and she goes, What you can do about it.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

Okay, well, I'll pick up the counter and toss it out the door.

SPEAKER_20 26:12

Okay, so the counter is attached to the buttons and rip that shit out. Roll a strike check, you're gonna look in for a 17.

SPEAKER_03 26:19

17? Okay, yay!

SPEAKER_20 26:25

No. So you go, you're like, I'll show you. And it doesn't budge. She just kind of goes, well, that didn't work out.

SPEAKER_16 26:35

What else you got there, we boy?

SPEAKER_03 26:39

No. So I know I noticed that the windows are blown out. Yeah, obviously, but nothing else is really damaged. So he's wondering on what this place actually looks like. So I'm standing right beside you fuming. What am I going to I'm gonna cast dispel magic on her place?

SPEAKER_20 27:06

Alright, so you have to let me just look this up. Just to control Rick.

SPEAKER_03 27:12

Well, because dispel magic is based on the creature, object, or magical effect within range.

SPEAKER_20 27:17

However, there are limits to it.

SPEAKER_03 27:20

There is.

SPEAKER_20 27:21

Yes, so if it is a spell higher than level three, there are uh you have to additional spells to be judgmental.

SPEAKER_03 27:31

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_20 27:31

However, lucky for you, this is not a high spell, and it immediately spell goes through, and you watch as many of the higher tiered and higher classed items that you see on the shelves just go and disappear. As she was basically just creating an illusion. She was just creating an illusion of having a lot of high-end things where really she doesn't have very broker than broke, huh?

SPEAKER_03 28:05

Well, your demands that you are asking together are highly not gonna happen. You're not paying your taxes here, anyways. So what's the point? So why don't you just open the portal for us before I do more to your shop than you want?

SPEAKER_17 28:22

What are you gonna do? Look at this place! It's a freaking pig's guy!

SPEAKER_03 28:26

It's alright. I'll find something here that you like and I will keep it for myself. How about that?

SPEAKER_17 28:31

But don't work well with threats, not doing it.

SPEAKER_10 28:34

It's alright.

SPEAKER_17 28:34

You uh you enter at this point.

SPEAKER_10 28:36

Um, before I enter, can I do something? Yes, of course. Because I have that scroll of greater invisibility.

SPEAKER_19 28:41

Yes, you do.

SPEAKER_10 28:42

Can I cast that on myself?

SPEAKER_19 28:43

You sure can.

SPEAKER_10 28:44

And then can I mmm miss is the door open or shut?

SPEAKER_20 28:51

Oh, it's open. It's open, but that when you cast that spell on that scroll, that shit.

SPEAKER_10 28:56

The scroll's gone, I know. But the door to the shop is open.

SPEAKER_18 28:58

Door the shop is open.

SPEAKER_08 29:00

Okay. I'm gonna sneak on in there.

SPEAKER_20 29:05

Okay. You are in.

SPEAKER_08 29:08

And listening to all this going on.

SPEAKER_20 29:12

You are still going to have to be stealthy when you're not seeing.

SPEAKER_08 29:16

Yes, yes, I know.

SPEAKER_20 29:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 29:17

I just I have a thought.

SPEAKER_20 29:19

You can see, so you watch, you arrived just in time to watch as Drucan dispels magic. But you cast your greater invisibility out of us. Outside of it. Yeah, it's not yet, don't worry about that. Okay. That would have been hilarious.

SPEAKER_10 29:34

Suddenly she's an air. Bad timing. Bad timing. We've got to coordinate this better.

SPEAKER_03 29:38

That would have been incredible though.

SPEAKER_10 29:40

Um this back, like the back room area. Yep. How far, like, is there a door?

SPEAKER_20 29:48

Very, very close. It's right, it's just literally there's a false wall that separates her from her back room where she lives.

SPEAKER_10 29:54

Where she's got her hole in the floor that she shits in, apparently.

SPEAKER_20 29:58

Yep.

unknown 30:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 30:00

I remembered that a little from the previous one. Was there a door or is it just like a partition? I think you said curtain, I thought.

SPEAKER_20 30:08

It's like a curtain, yeah. Yeah. Like r a tattered rag.

SPEAKER_10 30:11

Can I I I don't know if this is asking a lot, but can I check first if this can I use like what do I got? What do I got? What do I got? You're invisible, be brave. I know. I'm just trying to be sneaky. And brave. Can I use either whichever one's gonna work, press digitation or thaumaturgy, to make a little guss to move the curtain so I can see behind it and then misty step. I know it's asking a bit.

SPEAKER_20 30:39

Uh, okay. Greater invisibility. Is that a concentration spell? Nope. No, I didn't think it was. Oh, well, last an hour. Last an hour you can cast spells? Well, can you? Okay. So a tantrum.

SPEAKER_08 30:49

You can do actions. That's the whole good thing about it, is you can do actions.

SPEAKER_20 30:54

Uh oh, and also it wouldn't have been ended by the spell magic anyway, because it would have required him to roll to beat it. Um, okay. Yes. However, you are going to have to make sure you time this perfectly. So in order to do that, that's where I'm gonna make you roll for.

unknown 31:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_20 31:16

So we're gonna make this a dexterity check because, well, you're half- you're an elf. What you're trying to do here is you're trying to perfectly time the gust of wind with the misty step through the curtain as to not make it seem like somebody has just walked into the back room invisible. You're gonna have to be stealthy and you are going to have to be quick. So we'll have a stealth roll first. Let's see what you get.

SPEAKER_10 31:40

Would she get any kind of advantage by the fact that she's invisible? Drunken and and uh Leander are there confronting. And I'm invisible.

SPEAKER_20 31:49

Would have been had you known that she was doing this in the first place.

SPEAKER_10 31:52

I was just wondering if the distraction of her conversing with people would. What if I'm invisible?

SPEAKER_20 31:57

You've got advantage. You're invisible, so you get advantage. But you yeah, you can't get it from your friends because they annoy you.

SPEAKER_10 32:04

For myself. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 32:08

Twelve.

SPEAKER_20 32:09

Twelve? A natural one. Even better. Even better. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 32:19

Was that the purple elephant diet?

SPEAKER_20 32:21

No, that wasn't.

SPEAKER_05 32:21

Because that's what I was rolling to.

SPEAKER_20 32:24

Alright, so you got you're able to stealthily get through there. Now let's see if you can time it officially. So you're not making any noise. But let's see if you can time it efficiently with the gust of wind.

SPEAKER_10 32:36

So like a DEX save, dex check, acrobatics.

SPEAKER_20 32:40

It's gonna be a DEX check because it's not a save. So we're looking for a 14.

SPEAKER_16 32:48

Nope.

SPEAKER_20 32:52

So you are efficiently able to creep by her without her noticing you there. However, as you try and move through the curtain as the precipitation blows it back, it does catch you, and you do pull it a little bit, and you can hear the shh on the doorway, and she just kind of goes, and she looks up at you, she goes, Don't worry.

SPEAKER_17 33:14

Kinda bullshit are you after?

SPEAKER_03 33:17

It's windy! You got no windows in this place. What do you expect, you old bag?

SPEAKER_20 33:22

She like turns and she starts moving towards the back room.

SPEAKER_03 33:25

Oh, per can I do a persuasion on her to keep like to try and keep arguing with her to keep her by me?

SPEAKER_20 33:33

What is your purpose of trying to keep her by you?

SPEAKER_03 33:36

I just m have a feeling that something's going on.

SPEAKER_08 33:39

But I did tell you about the thing in the back room.

SPEAKER_03 33:42

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_08 33:42

But you don't know I'm going back.

SPEAKER_03 33:43

But I don't know you're going back there. So really I guess he really went.

SPEAKER_12 33:46

I think he means like what's your purpose of the argument? What's your purpose? Like, what are you trying to do? Why are you gonna explain to me?

SPEAKER_03 33:50

I'm trying to persuade her to to just open the portal. Like, we have a friend who's dying. Yeah. We need this portal open, you know. Do something good with your life and open the portal for us.

SPEAKER_15 34:03

Right.

SPEAKER_03 34:04

She's like, you're an old bag, we understand. You're broker than broke, I get it. But you know what? Do something nice in your life and absolutely. I'm per I'm trying to persuade her just to open the portal because you know what? Do something nice in your life. Roll a persuasion check. And then I'm gonna roll my four, my guidance. So that's a four, ten, fifteen.

SPEAKER_20 34:30

Natural nineteen.

SPEAKER_03 34:31

Oh she is she's stubborn.

SPEAKER_10 34:34

She's being awful.

SPEAKER_20 34:35

She's stubborn. She just she just waves you off. She's like, back off. She starts to walk towards the back room.

SPEAKER_10 34:41

Now, Oleander has no idea about this at all. Because you talked to Drukin, not to me. She's not persuaded by absolutely anything, and I cast dissonant whispers on her old level.

SPEAKER_11 35:01

Wow.

SPEAKER_10 35:02

Because she's making me mad. And I am no longer willing to just be nice about it.

SPEAKER_17 35:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 35:10

Um, so wisdom 17 save. And now I need to go find all my D6s.

SPEAKER_20 35:18

This is a turn.

SPEAKER_10 35:21

Is it though? I was about to say. Is it really? Is it though?

SPEAKER_20 35:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 35:27

Also, um, while I do it, I am holding grandfather.

SPEAKER_20 35:31

Do you say wisdom 15?

SPEAKER_10 35:32

17.

SPEAKER_20 35:33

17. Well, that's a three.

SPEAKER_10 35:36

Yay! Alright.

SPEAKER_20 35:38

So she fails.

SPEAKER_10 35:39

She fails.

SPEAKER_20 35:40

Give me the damage.

SPEAKER_10 35:41

Because I'm holding grandfather while I do it, it adds to it.

SPEAKER_22 35:46

That's not bad. 22 damage.

SPEAKER_20 35:49

22 damage is taken. And she turns and bolts past both of you and out the door as far away from Oleander as she can possibly get.

SPEAKER_05 36:02

Grab her for fuck's sake. How fast can she be?

SPEAKER_20 36:06

Well, she uses her, she she basically gets 30 feet.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

Can I try and grab her before she gets pious? Or no. Or would I not really use it?

SPEAKER_20 36:14

Can try. That kind of was your interaction with her. And then, but Delphine, you are now safe in the back room.

SPEAKER_10 36:21

Yeah, just hear her disembodied voice. There's a box back here. Ishra said that there is a parchment in it that Borg wouldn't want us to find. Help me look. Um, and then I want to. I'm gonna be running after her. I'm not waiting for your instructions. Okay, I just wanted to let you know I was there.

SPEAKER_03 36:39

You want me to go with or help you find?

SPEAKER_10 36:41

I need to detect magic in case he's trapped.

SPEAKER_03 36:44

I will go and help her find.

SPEAKER_10 36:45

Like I could do it, it's just gonna take me a ritual ten minutes to do.

SPEAKER_03 36:48

I can do it right away.

SPEAKER_20 36:49

And Oleander, you're gonna bolt out the door.

SPEAKER_10 36:51

I'm bolting after her. I'm not letting her find. She's chasing her chip to keep running from you.

SPEAKER_09 36:56

You're sitting on the roof?

SPEAKER_12 36:58

And you're looking towards that house and you see her. Alright, so I would have been mid-thought in his head. In Rold's head. In the time that they would have got going, I was waiting for an interjection. This witch is wrong, Roll. I was taught that when you see when you see something terrible, when you see wrongs, taking no action is still taking an action. And so you are in his, as I say, in v, the words cut off because I see her come out.

SPEAKER_20 37:23

Are you allowing are you okay with him speaking in your head like that?

SPEAKER_02 37:27

He can't stop it.

SPEAKER_20 37:28

Honestly, I'm trying to recall if I've had ever had him actually speak into my head. I don't think so. I don't think he ever has. So then all of a sudden, the un the unfamiliar sensation of Einar speaking directly into your mind. If I can try and stop that, I think my uh Is he able to try and resist it? Okay. Okay, so you're not able to resist it. So this is an invasion. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 37:49

It sounds like my voice was speaking to you.

SPEAKER_20 37:51

Yes. Yeah, but you're he's not able to stop it, so you're forcing it.

SPEAKER_12 37:54

Well, it's like forcing someone to talk. You can't stop me from speaking. Yeah. It sounds just like speaking.

SPEAKER_20 37:58

Yeah, no, fair enough. That's what I was asked to do. So it's inside it is inside your head.

SPEAKER_02 38:03

I I'm a little taken aback, but like, you know, I'm pretty sure we've had a couple telepathic conversations, but not just with him. And I'm like, well, what? Are you are you like Delphine?

SPEAKER_12 38:14

So as he's trying to ask that back, because I can't actually hear it. He can't actually speak back. No. I'm mid-sentence when he hears the words, uh, you're in Vault, and I see her. Yeah. I am taking pursuit. 10 feet, as far, like getting my running start, as far as I can go, leaping off, and after her, with my 40 feet of movement, I'm in full sprint, so I'm covering 80 feet plus my uh jump. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 38:38

Okay, I am turning around, and uh that's apparently that is what is happening. Uh is she within 600? Yes, I can. She is close, yeah.

SPEAKER_20 38:47

She's within your 600.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

I guess I'm going to sigh and draw an arrow, uh, considering you've already. Well, I guess I don't know that. You don't know. She doesn't know she's like, you're right. I have no idea. I guess I'm just gonna. Yeah, okay, I won't I won't do that. I won't draw an arrow quite yet. I'll just probably just run aft towards the thing because I don't know what the hell's going on, considering I and her is going that way.

SPEAKER_20 39:08

Okay, so she does. You get close to her, and she looks up and sees she doesn't see you, but she sees something. Cause she's a witch. And as you fly, because it's not greater invisibility, you cast just invisibility. And as you fly down towards her, you watch as she misty steps and is gone from your vision. Well, she can only go 30 feet. Where is she? She's gone from your vision. Can't see her.

SPEAKER_06 39:36

She has magic. She does have magic.

SPEAKER_20 39:39

That wasn't just a misty step then. Well, she's gone. Like there's buildings all around you. Oh minor. I'm trying to track her. Survival check. Okay, do your survival check. You have to land first. I'm trying to track her as I land. So you're gonna land, uh, and then as you land, kind of the poof disappears from where she was. Now you have to decide which direction you're gonna try and follow her in. So you can go towards the chapel where you're at, you can go where you were, you can go towards the battle tent, which is where kind of all the generals are, or you can go towards the gate, which leads out into wilderness.

SPEAKER_12 40:21

I'm gonna try to track it towards the gate. Okay.

SPEAKER_20 40:24

No. Only an eight for survival. Okay, you don't you don't think she went that way. You're pretty sure she went a different way. Delphine and Druken, you guys are still searching. Drax, you're gonna soar all the way back to Silvering Moon. You've now made it to the outer points of one of the orcas camps that is in the perimeter outside the city gates of Silvering Moon. From your current vantage point now, being so much closer to the city, you can see the battle scars of a massive all-out assault on the walls of Silvering Moon. Blown out holes. Some of these holes, because of your experience in this area, are blown outwards, not inwards. And as you approach, Dwarven Commander puts his hand up and closes his fist, causing every single member of the dwarf to crouch down low and conceal themselves in the long grass.

SPEAKER_22 41:27

Seeing the dwarves do that, I do the same. You do the same.

SPEAKER_20 41:31

And as you do that, a orc sentry kind of walks by. And he walks right by the whole group, doesn't even notice anybody's there. And he walks into the camp. And now the way is clear, and you see him wave everybody forward, and the dwarves again start to move. So now you're moving towards Silvery Moon into more of uh investigative mode. Is there anything that you want to do while you are in this search pattern?

SPEAKER_22 42:10

Quietly, um, I tell the the captain of the dwarves about the barrel explosions that happened in our previous town. And uh tell them that this looks like if if we see barrel remnants, it's likely um there was traitors within the within the town.

SPEAKER_17 42:29

Captors you need traitors in the mist. Even the likes of the great elves are not immune to treachery. All right, that's good advice.

SPEAKER_19 42:40

We're seeing it then, we'll make a certain note of it.

SPEAKER_20 42:44

I'm not sure if we should make full entry into the city. What do you think?

SPEAKER_22 42:49

Does do we hear more noise within the city? Like more creatures?

SPEAKER_20 42:54

Oh, yeah. Like there's it's very obvious that like you can hear cries and like the wails of elves being tortured. You can hear like massive, there's chaos still going on in the city, the clash of metal and still fighting.

SPEAKER_22 43:09

Yeah, I I I I agree with them.

SPEAKER_20 43:11

I think it's not safe. Okay. So we'll say for the sake of it, you do end up doing able to get in and around the walls to do a bit of investigation. There are remnants of exploded barrels. So you were correct in your assumption. There is also what you can see just as you glance around the side. It looks to be an orc encampment that is bigger and grander than the rest of them. And it looks like there's a cage that has been erected inside that camp that is holding some sort of criminals or some sort of prisoners inside of it. But it is outside the city walls, not inside, but still within the magical barrier which you are now in.

SPEAKER_22 44:00

Oh, okay. And the whole captain's um the whole purpose of the dwarves going here was basically reconnaissance only.

SPEAKER_20 44:07

Reconnaissance only, yeah. This was not um meant to be a rescue mission. But you know, you can change that if you decide to.

SPEAKER_22 44:17

DM says with a sly smile. What has the captain um done? Like he's made note of the he's he's noticed it?

SPEAKER_20 44:25

Yeah, he's so do you point it out to him? Because you noticed it first.

SPEAKER_22 44:29

Yeah, oh.

SPEAKER_20 44:30

I point it out to him. Okay. And you go might be worth a look, see. You think we can get close enough to that?

SPEAKER_22 44:40

Pushing past my fear. He's still not used to this sensation. He says, uh, I'll try to get a little closer.

SPEAKER_20 44:52

Just remember, the rest of us bleed blood, not your blue goof. And so they slowly start to make their way around the wall. As you get closer to this kind of what looks to be like the main camp, main base of work of the orcs uh army, you do see that there is a big cage that's been erected in the center of the camp. Now, the way this looks is that the tents are all built in and around to surround the camp. So you can easily walk in there, but it wouldn't be unnoticed. Like you you there's nothing that's preventing you from walking in except for the fact that you would be immediately seen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_22 45:30

It's like a throck setup.

SPEAKER_20 45:32

Yeah, very much so, very much so. A little more dense than that, but yes, very much just like that. Okay. And uh, and you walk in again, there's another cage, you can see that there are several figures this time that are chained to the ground.

SPEAKER_16 45:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 45:46

Stop looking at me!

SPEAKER_22 45:47

As uh Drax looks at Delphine. Uh it is there any people I recognize in the cages?

SPEAKER_20 45:57

There is one. Oh as you look into the night, you can see a familiar figure. Lord Theron, bound, chained, and beaten within an inch of his life, as one of the other elves is attending to him, trying to keep him alive as he is lying chained to the ground. Next to him is another figure, looks relatively regal in presence, as well as a bunch of other uh what looks like just to be regular nobility. Bound and chained.

SPEAKER_21 46:42

Wish I had a body right now.

SPEAKER_15 46:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_22 46:50

I I talk to I I whisper to the mage that opened the portal. Yeah. I ask, does he have any type of spell that could teleport the prisoners to us?

SPEAKER_20 47:06

Uh yeah, he says, I absolutely I do. I can I can I can dimension door in there and then bring them back. But nothing I'm nothing I do seems to be working right now. I'm not able to cast any spells. I'm not even able to do sending. Leoman's giant hat. Oh the giant elf and shit.

SPEAKER_09 47:31

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_22 47:32

Oh, that's the best shit you've ever done. Okay. I I tell them we should return to the portal as quick as possible. Okay. To tell to tell my group and uh his king.

SPEAKER_20 47:46

Alright, as you um, as you tell them that they all kind of agree and they concur with you, and you guys safely retreat away from Silvery Moon and head back into the forest. As you are walking, you're getting back towards the chapel. When you're about a hundred meters away from the chapel, you notice that there are torchlights in and around that area, and there seems to be movement up at the chapel, and you can see that the two dead bodies of the orcs that were killed by the dwarves before have been dragged up there with them. And we're gonna take a short five-minute break now.

SPEAKER_13 48:34

If you're enjoying it, maybe give us a like, subscribe, leave and drop a comment, whatever it is. Let's get back to it.

SPEAKER_20 48:46

Okay, so we're back. So we ended with Drax, Mr. Drax, Drax. Drax, Mr. Drax Drax in Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_05 48:56

Drax Inception.

SPEAKER_20 48:57

Seeing that there is now something surrounding the area that he needs to get back into to get to his portal. Let's fly back across the continent to the frozen wasteland where it's Winter Forge. And we'll jump back in with Delphine and Drukin.

SPEAKER_10 49:17

Alright, um, we're looking for a box of a box. But this woman is Wiley, so can you do tip detect magic?

SPEAKER_20 49:24

I dispelled all the magic here.

SPEAKER_10 49:27

Oh.

SPEAKER_20 49:27

Yeah, so there is no magic hiding anything. It's just a matter of.

SPEAKER_08 49:32

I am going to let's I guess we're just gonna look. It's in the back. It's a box in the box.

SPEAKER_20 49:38

Investigation. You're probably better investigating.

SPEAKER_10 49:39

Looking in places where Yeah, but you can help is always helpful.

SPEAKER_03 49:43

I can help, but I can help.

SPEAKER_20 49:45

How's your investigation?

SPEAKER_09 49:46

Which one will be training meaning?

SPEAKER_20 49:48

Uh, you can't. You are not proficient. No, I am uh minus one. Okay, so no. You would be a detriment to help because. You just get distracted. Hey, look over this.

SPEAKER_10 49:58

This looks cool. Look at this bell. Squirrel.

SPEAKER_20 50:01

Pretty sure this cracky.

SPEAKER_10 50:02

15 plus nine, twenty-four.

SPEAKER_20 50:04

You find it. Yeah! As you are digging through kind of like the disgusting mess, like the sticky papers and all that kind of stuff all around her. You do find this like small wooden box that seems to be untainted by the stain or corroseness of the surrounding.

SPEAKER_10 50:22

Is there any like engravings or etchings or it's just a plain wooden box?

SPEAKER_20 50:26

Plain wood box.

SPEAKER_10 50:27

I open the box.

SPEAKER_20 50:29

Oh, but the box inside is a piece of parchment rolled up into a scroll.

SPEAKER_08 50:33

I pick it up and I open it up.

SPEAKER_20 50:38

So you pick it up, and I would say carefully unroll it because it's quite old.

SPEAKER_07 50:43

Yes.

SPEAKER_20 50:44

To see a letter written by the wretched dawn.

SPEAKER_08 50:49

Fucking knew it.

SPEAKER_20 50:50

Knew it. Guaranteeing one favor in return for something that she has done.

SPEAKER_08 50:58

And who signed it? Just the wretched dawn?

SPEAKER_20 51:01

It would be Yeah, it's got this the stamp of the Wretched Dawn and the name of the three sisters.

SPEAKER_08 51:07

That she would not want that known to the king.

SPEAKER_03 51:11

No. So you know what I'm gonna do?

SPEAKER_10 51:14

I have something else I want to do, but you do your thing first.

SPEAKER_03 51:16

Oh, I wonder if it's gonna be the same thing I want to do.

SPEAKER_10 51:18

No, it's not. No, okay.

SPEAKER_03 51:20

I because no, because I wouldn't know which way she would have went. Out. I know, but away. How does how does sending work? You think to the person? I know, but do I have to know where it crosses planes? Okay, sweet. So I am going to do a sending to her, to the whatever the that old hag borg, and I'm gonna do sending to her saying, so the now you have to count. Oh I have to count.

SPEAKER_20 51:54

Well that's three. That's two actually.

SPEAKER_03 51:56

So the um sisters have corrupted you, and you have a favor to do. What will the king feel?

SPEAKER_04 52:11

That's only eighteen.

SPEAKER_03 52:13

Okay. Oh, you're not come talk calmly in your shop.

SPEAKER_20 52:22

And then you get the message back.

SPEAKER_16 52:26

Or what? What are you gonna do about it? Go ahead, tear it up. I'm still.

SPEAKER_03 52:36

I'm gonna tear it up.

SPEAKER_10 52:37

I'm not gonna resend this, I'm not gonna waste anything, but I want to look around to see if she has recorded the teleportation circle anywhere.

SPEAKER_20 52:48

Very good. Alright. Go ahead and roll an investigation check.

SPEAKER_05 52:55

Eight plus nine, seventeen.

SPEAKER_20 52:57

Seventeen. There are mounds and mounds of books that have all of her spells and incantations written in them. You could spend the next 10 minutes going through them to find it. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 53:12

I'm assuming none of these other spells and incantations are things I am able to also transcribe.

SPEAKER_20 53:17

I mean, it depends on what your priority is. My priority right now is the teleportation circle. Okay, so then that's what you're looking for. So you're not really pausing on other pages to do anything. You're going through it looking for that circle. I will go ahead and grant you the ability to cast that teleportation circle then that you have found it. Uh however, it will take 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_10 53:36

Yeah, I'm gonna spend the next- I'm gonna tell you that that's what I'm doing because I'm still invisible. Why not?

SPEAKER_03 53:40

Yeah, oh cool. Do you want me to stay here or can I take that letter and go see the king?

SPEAKER_10 53:46

You can take it and go see the king.

SPEAKER_03 53:47

That's what I do.

SPEAKER_20 53:48

Okay. You're off to see the king. Come on, with her.

SPEAKER_10 53:52

Since she has just disappeared in front of me, I want to cast Detect Thoughts to see if I can find her. Because the if she missed you stepped, that's 30 feet, and I can detect with who will still be within range. Okay, so with Detect Thoughts, if I can find her thought, I know what direction she's in.

SPEAKER_20 54:13

Okay, so there's like a lot of people in the area. So the thoughts are gonna be bombarding you, kind of like when Professor Xavier taps in and he's not able to like focus in a person. So I'll have you roll to see if you can find her. Okay. So let's see that we what is your spellcasting abilities and intelligence? Charisma. Charisma. So let's have you roll a charisma check. We'll get uh 15.

SPEAKER_11 54:43

No! Buncicles, no.

SPEAKER_20 54:46

So you are able to hear a lot of people. Ouch! A lot of surface stuff, and I'll give you this. There is a commotion coming from the battle tent. Okay. That's it.

SPEAKER_10 54:59

I'll just run in that direction and hope that she is part of the commotion that is going on. And I'm livid. I'm just not I'm not thinking of any manners at this point. I am going to barge in, and if somebody's going to bar my way, I will do what I can to push past them.

SPEAKER_03 55:15

Is that where the king is where I'm heading to as well? Yes. In the tent?

SPEAKER_20 55:19

If that's where you're going, then yeah, you're heading there with her as well. Yeah. Um, you get to the tent, and Drunken is just there, and then again, there is a sentry in front of the door, and he's like, No, I'm sorry, you can't go in. Please, I've just got this job.

SPEAKER_10 55:35

Command.

SPEAKER_20 55:35

No, I push, I push by him.

SPEAKER_03 55:37

I I push by him. Yeah, I just push by. I might I need to do this. Alright, so this is very important. I will take the wrath on you.

SPEAKER_20 55:46

I'm going. Alright. You push in and you take Oleana with you, and you just watch as the sentry just goes, Oh Miner, what do you got?

SPEAKER_12 55:54

Alright, so we've obviously seen a lot going on. I think two things. So do we see Well, okay, I've checked one direction. I will start checking the extra d the direction behind me in. So that would be towards the chapel? No, the chapel's it's like this and like this, isn't it? Uh yeah. So you've got yeah, you just came from you came from the chapel. And then I'm was looking towards the gate. Yep. Because she went that way. So now I'll turn around and I'll look up towards the tent and the other things, and I'm gonna reach out to Ventor. Yeah. And I was gonna say to him, Finder, you've got the any ability. And I'm gonna perception check trying to track her and what's going up towards that direction now.

SPEAKER_20 56:34

Okay, um, so the way that the Misty Step works is like there is no trackable way. I know, I'm tracking events and things that would trigger to me where she may have gone. Okay, so tell me how you're gonna use it. I'm looking for activity. Okay, movements. Go ahead, so go ahead and roll. Twenty-one. Twenty-one? Yeah, absolutely. There's commotion by the battle tent. That is where you see Drukin and Oleander have gone off to, and then you can also sense that there might be commotion in there as well. Yeah, so I will head there. Fast. Fast? Okay.

SPEAKER_02 57:09

Great, so we saw them going there. Would we not have the ability to see what they're doing? You can't see inside the tent. No, of course not.

SPEAKER_20 57:18

But you can see what they're doing, like barging in, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:20

Okay, so they come out onto the street and then they're running towards this place.

SPEAKER_20 57:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 57:24

And then Holiannna. First Oleana came out, and then he came out. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 57:31

We would just start, I don't know, I'm gonna just start heading over there because I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_20 57:35

What is your passive perception? Nineteen. Nineteen? Yes. Okay. You watch as Einar, well, you don't see Einar at all, because he's still invisible. You might see Rollin. I have no idea. Nobody sees Einar so where he is. However, you hear a commotion behind you in the chapel.

SPEAKER_02 57:55

Uh okay, I'm going back to the chapel.

SPEAKER_20 57:57

So you turn around just in time for you to see this witch. She's standing in the chapel now. She has baffed in from behind, and she is walking towards Drax's body. Okay, so I'm just yelling, what the hell are you doing? And I'm pointing an arrow at her. And she just kind of like shoots a look back at you and she goes like this. Okay, well, I and the doors slam shut. Oh, I'm not in the tension. No, you're outside because you were outside with the.

SPEAKER_02 58:25

Son of a bitch. Okay. Well, he's just alerted to tension, so that's I am yelling out, she's after Drax, what the hell happened?

SPEAKER_10 58:34

Am I close enough to hear that?

SPEAKER_20 58:36

Yeah, oh you you everybody that's there except for you two hear it. You even hear it. So you're not on the in the tension. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:42

I'm going for is there any other windows or anything?

SPEAKER_20 58:45

Yeah, there are windows up high, but they're stained glass windows.

SPEAKER_02 58:49

And how easy can I break a window and try and do it? You could fire an arrow at a window and then try and climb and jump through it. I guess I would check the door. I'll probably run and see if I can pull on the door first, because that'd be the most sensible thing to do.

SPEAKER_20 59:03

Okay, yeah, it's locked.

SPEAKER_02 59:04

Oh well, I'll try and uh is there an actual lock that I can pick or not?

SPEAKER_20 59:08

Uh it seems like she's barred it somehow.

SPEAKER_02 59:10

Okay, yeah, I guess I'll try and do that.

SPEAKER_20 59:12

Okay, sure. You easily are able to take aim and break one of the windows. Okay. Uh, and then you would just have to roll yourself a dexterity check to climb up and jump through the window. Dexterity check.

SPEAKER_02 59:23

Uh yeah, very high.

SPEAKER_20 59:24

Like 29 or something like that. Okay. So you are able to climb up, you get there.

SPEAKER_12 59:30

When he yells, she's after Drax. Yeah. He's instantaneous. He reverses direction. Nearest window we can see, I'm aiming at it with my body and coming through. Okay. Just jump, leap, smash, and I'm raging as I come through. Okay. He's coming in ready to fight.

SPEAKER_20 59:46

Delphine, you heard Roll say what he said. You are still rifling through this book. Do you kind of just look up and ignore it? Or are you?

SPEAKER_10 59:55

No, I'm gonna. I have a question. How far away am I? Well, I guess I have to run out of the building first. Yeah. So I run out of the building and I see you him outside, rolled outside the temple.

SPEAKER_20 1:00:07

Yeah. Oh, okay. You see him shoot the window out and then climb the side, then you see dig his heels into the snow. So you don't see anything. Well, I become visible as well. You don't see Einar or anything. I become visible as I'm through the air. Oh, you didn't mention it. I'm ranging. As soon as I range, I lose all concentrated.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:23

I see him?

SPEAKER_20 1:00:24

So then yeah, you just see randomly uh Einar become visible out of nowhere. And through the glass. And jump towards the glass. He's not through the glass yet, he's jumping towards it.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:34

Can I run up and grab him?

SPEAKER_20 1:00:36

Einar?

SPEAKER_10 1:00:37

Yeah. Midair. Oh, are you jumping?

SPEAKER_20 1:00:39

He's jumping. He's he's basically.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:47

He's jumping around.

SPEAKER_20 1:00:48

Five minutes than he has on the ground. He's the home. He's probably a lot of minutes.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:52

Okay, so then I she's after Drax. Can I reasonably assume it's Borg he's talking about?

SPEAKER_20 1:01:01

Yeah, look for sure, 100%.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:03

Am I within 120 feet?

SPEAKER_20 1:01:07

Yes, you can cast fireballs at the chapel.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:11

No, I need to be able to see it. What is the other spell I love that I don't need to be able to see them? I just need to know their name.

SPEAKER_20 1:01:20

Yeah, you're definitely within range.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:21

Ralph and Psychic Lance. I just yell Borg and I cast it.

SPEAKER_20 1:01:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:28

And I do it while running to the temple.

SPEAKER_20 1:01:30

Are you bringing that book with you?

SPEAKER_08 1:01:32

Well, I could have like just shoved it in my bag real quick.

SPEAKER_20 1:01:34

For sure, because you haven't quite finished.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:36

Yeah, no, I haven't done it yet.

SPEAKER_20 1:01:37

Okay, for sure.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:38

And I'm running to the chapel and I'm just gonna yell her name and cast her psychic lance. So just make an intelligent 17 saving throw, and I'm gonna do it on that fifth level.

SPEAKER_20 1:01:48

Okay, intelligent 17 saving throw? That ain't it. That's a five.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:54

She's incapacitated for six seconds, and she's gonna take 86 psychic damage.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:01

I love that.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:03

So clutch. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:09

33 psychic. She's incapacitated for six seconds.

SPEAKER_20 1:02:15

Not only is she incapacitated, she is unconscious.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:18

Good.

SPEAKER_20 1:02:19

And good!

SPEAKER_05 1:02:21

She's a bitch! So and I continue running.

SPEAKER_20 1:02:25

Rolled. You get up to the window just as you see Ainer visibly become existing in the air randomly and then smash through the window. Okay. That's at the front, destroying it, and landing in a hero's pose in the middle of the uh the chapel, right in front of where Drax is. Okay. Now, both of you, this is what you see. Lying on the ground, incapacitated, is Borg, the witch. Nowhere near Drax. However, standing where the portal would be, clutched in her hand, driven into the ground, and then subsequently open is a planar crystal with a portal now open, sitting on the wall. The location of where it goes to is yet known. Oleander and Drew. You guys walk into the tent, and there is a large amount of arguing going on about the situation at hand with Boric and how to deal with it and whatnot, and you don't see the witch anywhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:32

That's right, I wasn't there for the witch, I was there for the king anyway.

SPEAKER_20 1:03:34

Okay. I was there for the witch. Is the king there? The king is there. Okay. And he wheels around to see you and he goes, I hate king.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:45

Well, you haven't I haven't really done much to the king yet, so I know.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:49

Oh, I have things to say to him. She's sperm.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:53

I will look at you and be like, and then I'll look, I'll walk up to the king and be like We know who's been, if she has been, a traitor amongst your mists.

SPEAKER_20 1:04:06

What? What you're talking about?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:08

I will bring out the letter and I will put it down in front of the king and be like, Borg has been if she's been recruited by the wretched Dawn. She has been, that's why she has been doing what she's doing, because she does not want us to succeed in doing what we need. So I give him the letter.

SPEAKER_20 1:04:26

So he reads the letter and he goes, Oh, I'm gonna have her head. And he begins to storm off in the direction of the arcane shop with a troop of dwarfs behind him.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:39

Now? You are going to have her head? Now you actually have to have this evidence that she is betraying you in order to try and finally have some sort of force over your subjects. What kind of fool of a king are you? You have more fear of your people than the willpower to do what is good for them? This is bullshit.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:02

You best know your place, Missy.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:04

I do know my place. We are here to help you, and you wouldn't do shit until suddenly you found out that she was the wretched dawn.

SPEAKER_17 1:05:11

He's getting my sentries fired.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:14

I can do more. Trust me. I can get them far more than five.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:21

Blame me for it. She had nothing to do with it.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:24

I I took the last one.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:25

I'll not be a ready to take him. I'll not be spoken in this manner in my own kingdom. If you request a remaining cascade, you watch your tongue, lady.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:35

I will not watch my tongue when you are a coward.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:39

As I step in the middle of you guys, and I look at Oleander and be like, calm. Just He will only stop. You are gonna make this situation worse than it is.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:54

Yes, I will. And then I walk out.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:57

I apologize for my

SPEAKER_20 1:06:00

I'll forgive this once. If this happens again, if she raises her voice or flashes her tongue at me again, I will have her exiled from this village permanently.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:09

I will talk to her. And I apologize for her. I will try and deal with her for me. But I wanna say I'm sorry for everything that's going on, but I hope that you guys are still gonna be okay with us here to try and do what we were originally here to do.

SPEAKER_20 1:06:27

Well, that yet remains to be seen. And he kind of walks past you and he walks out, and as he walks out the flat with the door, and he looks to the right and he goes, You're fired! And he keeps walking towards the arcane shop, but then he kind of sees the commotion from the chapel and what, and then he goes, What the hell? And he'll start walking in that direction instead. Well, I'll walk too and you're probably out there now, so he's I'm outside, so can I see that there? Well you see Delphine now.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:54

I see Delphine running to the door. Okay, so if I can see that she's running, I'm like, oh shit, something's happening, and I'm gonna follow her.

SPEAKER_20 1:07:01

Okay, so now everybody kind of converges on the chapel. And what do you what are you two doing? So he's already in. I guess I would be jumping. You can see you're you're on you're in the window, like in the frame. Like, yeah, so is there figure?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:13

I'm a little confused. Is there a figure in the portal? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_20 1:07:24

And a portal has opened. She hasn't been able to go through it yet because she's been incapacitated. She was going somewhere where she was Okay, well, I'm gonna go towards the door so I can unlock the door. So you easily you easily unlock it, it's just that all she's done is she's just had a piece of wood fall across, and you just you just lift it up easily and throw the door open, and you see your friends.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:42

I'm knowing there's a there's a portal open in here, I don't know what's happening.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:46

I am clearing her back from it with a swat of my hands as I I don't want her being dragged through it by someone, so I push her back. And I'm IR squaring up in front of the portal. Anything coming through that encounters him. And um And more importantly, just Drax look up.

SPEAKER_20 1:08:02

Drax is un unharmed. Like he is still kind of dormant because you guys have gentle repose to him.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:07

She's got something to do if you don't have nothing to do.

SPEAKER_20 1:08:10

Um standing there ready to take the brunt of the wrath.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:13

And my rage well actually. So she's unconscious, eh? She's unconscious. Alright, give her a death save because I just swathered her. Keeps my rage going. Oh, sure. She fails. I just knocked her aside.

SPEAKER_20 1:08:24

So it's and she's on the ground, so it's a crit, so it's a double. Yeah, don't do that. So yeah, she's got two death saves now.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:30

You don't want her to die? I want her to die. Can I am I in there yet?

SPEAKER_20 1:08:34

Yeah, you're all there.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:35

Everybody's there except for you. Alright. I am I'm squared up in front of the portal, just ready to go. Okay. Yeah. All ink flowing.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:43

You good?

SPEAKER_12 1:08:43

Yep.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:44

Alright. I'm gonna take out the illithid plan or crystal staff and see if I can close the portal with it.

SPEAKER_20 1:08:50

Okay. So, in order for you to do that, you must be near it.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:54

I go near it.

SPEAKER_20 1:08:55

Standing in front of the portal is a panting, hulking, raging biner.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:02

I'm pretty used to seeing that these days, unfortunately. I'm gonna like like with like a spooked animal, I'm gonna let you know. I'm just coming up behind you, buddy. Just right here.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:10

Just it's just me.

SPEAKER_12 1:09:12

There is an acknowledgement for a slight like ink flowing in.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:15

I want you smacking me. Almost like it's someone else.

SPEAKER_12 1:09:17

Almost like part of me looks at her. Almost like part of me does look look at her for a moment, even though the head doesn't fully turn around. Okay. You?

SPEAKER_20 1:09:26

How are you gonna try and do this?

SPEAKER_10 1:09:28

Just because I have that staff and it was used to close portals before.

SPEAKER_20 1:09:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:32

So I'm just going to try and channel the magic of the staff and close the portal. Alright. I've done this before.

SPEAKER_20 1:09:42

You have done this before.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:44

Um don't make it seem like something asking.

SPEAKER_20 1:09:47

You do know that when you do this, you do need to understand where the portal is leading to in order to be able to close it, right? No shit. Yeah. So not knowing that, it's extremely a little more difficult because you don't know which plane you're closing. You could inadvertently open up another portal because you are trying to close something that is maybe not closed, so then you might open something that is open. In order to figure out exactly what you need to do, it's best to understand where the portal leads to.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:16

Can I quick question? I can't remember if we talked about this, but can you walk through the portal and then back through again?

SPEAKER_10 1:10:23

I don't want to try it.

SPEAKER_20 1:10:24

You can. It's an open portal as long as long as Delphine is making sure the portal stays open. Which that she can do.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:31

So if I stick my black and inky. If I stick my head through the portal, does my body go in but my head stay on the other side? And I see where it's going through.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:40

Can we do another decapitated portal?

SPEAKER_09 1:10:42

I was just gonna say, if it closed, well it's on the other side, what a decapitated.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:47

It probably would. Could I send Mirium through it?

SPEAKER_20 1:10:50

Pardon me?

SPEAKER_10 1:10:51

Or could Miram go through it or like the other portals?

SPEAKER_20 1:10:53

It's like the other portals, yeah. Just like Mr. Jackson. This is desperate. Do you want me to just flow through and back and I can handle it in?

SPEAKER_10 1:11:00

Quit being a martyr. It's not martyr, I can't.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:03

As long as you're not still holding Boric.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:04

Yeah, but it's just secure.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:07

I mean, it's with nothing to do with the thing.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:08

Can I do anything to with the crystal to determine where that portal is leading to?

SPEAKER_20 1:11:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:16

Can I do that?

SPEAKER_20 1:11:18

You can.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:18

Is it an arc an arcana kind of invisible?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:21

It will be an arcana check.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:22

Yeah, yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_17 1:11:25

We don't need to be sticking our heads into weird places, people.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:28

Can't we just like investigate things?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:30

But it's fun.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:32

We're not that smart.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:34

No, my intelligence is minus one, alright?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:37

Dirty 20.

SPEAKER_20 1:11:38

Okay, I'll give this to you.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:40

Give it to me with a dirty 20.

SPEAKER_20 1:11:42

I'll just give this to you with a dirty 20. This portal leads to the abyss.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:49

Close it, close it, close it, closing it. That's what I say out loud in that tone. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.

SPEAKER_20 1:11:58

Okay, as you're closing it and you're you're you're trying to cast the spell, Einar, you can feel a pull towards the portal. Ventor and Noctus are being drawn into the abyss. And you can feel a pull. Whether or not you go with it or not is up to you, but they are they are wanting to go into this portal. There is something in there that is drawing them. Something important. You get the feeling from them that it's urging through this portal.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:32

I'm going to say who do I tell this to? Give me a second here. She hasn't told us where it goes yet, has she? I'm gonna actually closing it. Nope, nope. As she's saying it, I'm gonna actually say out loud to her, like they want this. They're pulling me there. They're telling me there's something urgent.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:49

They're pulling you to the abyss.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:51

The abyss, there's something there they want. I've reached my hand out towards anyone who's nearby. Yeah, I'm reaching my hand out towards anyone nearby as I take a half step forward too.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:02

Have we gotten in yes? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:03

He said we're all there.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:03

Oh, we're all in there. You're all there, yeah, you're all there.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:05

Yeah, you're all there. So I'm gonna pull Iron R back from the portal.

SPEAKER_20 1:13:10

Okay. So you're you're physically pulling him back. And you can see as the ink is like not leaving his body, but like it's being pulled almost like you would pull that magnetic fluid, right? And it just goes.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:24

Magnetic buddy?

SPEAKER_20 1:13:26

I will pull, yes, I will. And it's vibrating and the tendrils are going and it's being pulled. Do you close the portal?

SPEAKER_06 1:13:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 1:13:35

You watch as the portal just goes and you watch as Delphine struggles and she she pushes the staff towards it. But the portal's magic, it pushes back, and it you watch as her feet slide on the ground as she's attempting, but she bears down and muzzles back, and with her internal magical ability, she summons the power and just goes, and she pushes the magic out of her and it goes. And you watch as the portal just shimmers, crackles, and closes. And the tendrils go fall down, and you can feel a sadness well up with inside of you. Of uh we're almost there. I'm gonna think a single word to the minute question. Home, you get no answer, you get a sadness and disappointment, a feeling of almost. Um we're gonna fly now all the way across the continent to warmer climate, warmer weather. And the sun is now fully behind the clouds, and as you and your dwarven uh group have gone around and tried to get a better view of what's going on, you can see that there is now a group of orcish sentries that have followed the trail up looking for their lost comrades and found this chapel and seen like the broken window and the the newly broken window and the or sorry not the newly broken, the open window and the barricaded chapel shut. And they're just investigating it, they're not looking actively for anything. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_22 1:15:18

So myself and the dwarfs have basically come back to the chapel.

SPEAKER_20 1:15:22

Yeah, you've you've made it back there without any uh without any fight. Okay, and we see effectively two sentries, two orc sentries? No, there's seven of them, seven orcs, and they have with them on leashes dire wolves that have been harnessed and have been muzzled. And they're as they're like sniffling the ground and searching and looking around.

SPEAKER_22 1:15:51

Okay, well, uh my character would talk to the uh the captain. Is this is this a force that we could take? So I don't know their fighting skill or anything.

SPEAKER_20 1:16:03

Uh he says he says, uh I believe we could take them. But I says, I don't know that we'd be able to do it without any harm coming to you.

SPEAKER_19 1:16:10

Well, I think it's best if we let these ones pass on and not engage.

SPEAKER_20 1:16:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_22 1:16:16

I respect your uh telling me that, and then I say, let's do that.

SPEAKER_20 1:16:20

So you hear as one of the orcs comes back around the other side, and he goes to like there's the main like leader of the sentries, and he's kind of standing with his arms crossed. He's got a giant battle hammer just leaning up against him. And the other one comes up and goes, nothing found. And the other one goes, Loopah!

SPEAKER_22 1:16:48

Alright, I assume we stay crouched and stay crouched and see if they pass.

SPEAKER_20 1:16:52

Okay. Back to Winter Forge. Delphine, you've now finished your ability to interpret this teleportation circle. You can now add that into your repertoire of knowing the teleportation circle to Winterforge.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:06

Is the crystal she was using still there?

SPEAKER_20 1:17:10

Uh it is, it's clutched in her hand.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:12

Oh, I take it. You take it, and I put it in the bag holding.

SPEAKER_20 1:17:17

Alright.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:17

Uh and I tell the king where that portal led to.

SPEAKER_20 1:17:21

And the king's like the king is like shocked about what's going on here. Um, he's did not know that the treachery went this deep. And he's let me tell you. There's going to be a lot of changes around here when it comes to understanding what everyone's methods are coming from. I did not know that she was that evil, but I can see now. And he kind of looks at you and he just goes, turns anyway.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:48

That snuff was for Oleander, and Oleander is glaring at him far worse.

SPEAKER_20 1:17:52

And the uh the sentries that he's with, they pick up the body of Bork.

SPEAKER_17 1:17:56

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_20 1:17:59

And they're taking her to jail.

SPEAKER_17 1:18:01

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_20 1:18:02

So, you now have the ability to cast teleportation circle, not only to Winter Forge, but also to the chapel that is outside of Silvery Moon. Are we going?

SPEAKER_10 1:18:11

I have like no spells.

SPEAKER_20 1:18:12

I know, neither do I.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:14

I don't care how ready we are.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:17

And we have the crystal that she used to open the portals of the abyss.

SPEAKER_17 1:18:21

Aye, yes, you do.

SPEAKER_12 1:18:25

Einar goes over to Liliander. And while um he doesn't seem to be saying much as he comes over and holds your hand. In your head, I can't sit around the king.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:35

King's gone.

SPEAKER_12 1:18:36

King's gone. The king's gone. Okay. Um. Well, after they're all conscious, I go and check on Drax first. Making sure she hadn't done anything myself. He is as he was in a form of repose. And then, uh not that the others care. I'll say it out loud, but the others don't care about care about this thing. I don't know. Telling you ago, there's a sadness in them. In both. I felt noxious again.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:00

Are you saying this out loud?

SPEAKER_12 1:19:02

Yep. They wanted to there was a poll for them to go there. And they're sad. There's a sense of I literally felt the word almost.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:13

Is they won't talk to me now either. Is whatever they're drawn to, this home that they're trying to find, is that maybe in the abyss? I asked. They're That does not improve my opinion of them.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:28

At all. But I didn't notice that they were doing that, and that's why I pulled you away.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:34

If their desire is simply to return to where they're from, how bad can that be? But who knows in fact?

SPEAKER_07 1:19:39

From the abyss.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:40

Wasn't there something about keys?

SPEAKER_10 1:19:42

They are also keys. The inks are keys.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:47

I feel like that seems like a bad thing to be letting. The inks aren't the keys.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:51

The people born underneath the under the eclipses are the keys. They're sacrifice. There's not inks on all of them. Right. Your sister didn't have an ink, yes, I'm sure. But others like yourself, you are quite unique. There's as your sister said herself, I'm supposed to have a special role in this.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:12

Either way, we're not going to the abyss.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:16

We don't want them to go there.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:18

Madame Eldres has said to save my friends and everyone else, I may have to consider returning him to where he was from.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:28

We're not doing that right now.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:29

Of course not. I've taken my brother back.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:34

I think we need more information about what they could be searching for that is drawing them. Whether I we don't know if that's home. We don't know if that is this master that Noctus had mentioned before. We need to figure out something that will use them. We need to finish this dragon situation at a time. I don't know if I want to finish this dragon situation. I'm kind of of the fuck these people. You know what? We were sent here for a reason. Ulyss wanted us to come here. Whatever is here is connected to Einar. We need to solve this problem now. If it's important enough that the Retro Dawn have had someone here for who knows how long, it's important enough for us to figure out what's going on. I think they have someone everywhere. I know.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:19

They do. But so far.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:22

These these innocent there are innocent dwarves here who should not be held accountable for the follies of their king or for the wickedness of a witch living amongst them. And he's with the. We can blame those, we can blame those people for their own follies, but we don't we don't cause and let others suffer because of it. We change it, perhaps.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:41

So did we change anything? Can we get through this portal? Didn't we need her? Nope.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:45

Delphine can do her now.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:48

Then why aren't we going? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:50

Because we just pulled you away from a portal.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:56

We've had 10 minutes. So is there anything Let's get ready. I start getting my brother's body. Yeah. Like, what do you need to do? Tell him we're coming, we're opening it for him, or is he coming to us either way?

SPEAKER_08 1:22:08

Uh I am extremely depleted. We don't know what we're going into. If I had an hour, I'd go now, but I we can try seeing if we can contact him first.

SPEAKER_15 1:22:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:22:25

Do you have the ability? I have one fourth level slot, one fifth level slot, one sixth level slot, and then a handful of really low ones.

SPEAKER_12 1:22:33

Yeah, I don't know what these things called slots are. All I know is I'm ready to go for a fight, and my brother's in the world.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:39

So you know I can do one more sending two drills. Do what you have to do.

SPEAKER_12 1:22:43

Do you need me to sit down for an hour and pause?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:45

Maybe I will, but I'm gonna get my goodness to hold. You can't go anywhere without us.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:50

Yeah, hold tight.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:52

I'm sorry to say it.

SPEAKER_10 1:22:55

The thing is, though.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:56

Venture can't do shit. I said I thought I don't care.

SPEAKER_10 1:22:59

But another complication. If I'm opening this, I only have enough ink for two of these right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:07

Well, let me hold that.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:12

Oh no. Teleportation circles.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:16

Oh.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:16

I only have this enough for this spell twice, unless the king happens to have more ink. Maybe he can confiscate it from Borg. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:25

Right now, none of them.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:26

I mean, I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:27

I'm just telling you guys. Resource management.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:29

I don't care about resources. I care about my brother's still cold corpse sitting here on this dais.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:35

And that is fine. We understand that there, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:38

I've put my emotions aside for a few minutes.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:41

You have to understand.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:42

Hey, chill out.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:43

That we need to.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:44

Do your sending. Find out what's going on with um Drax.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:48

I will do sending to Drax. Okay. And I will say we can get the portal open from here. Is that seven? Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:58

Forgot to count. Forgot to count.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:01

Um that's so good. I'm so not used to doing these. Are you safe? Or do we have to wait? And that'd be twenty. No, that's only like. Okay, bye. That's all I'm saying. I mean, that's all I really need to say, anyway, so I don't need to have full 25. Okay, Drax. And then I send that to him, and this is the first time you hear my voice.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:30

Ever. I've never heard it before. Well, in the sending, you he does speak very rarely.

SPEAKER_22 1:24:35

Drax recognizes the voice, I assume. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. This is You recognize immediately. Uh I respond with okay. And bear in mind, Drax does not know about the 25-word count.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:53

Okay. This is awesome. This is gonna be awesome.

SPEAKER_22 1:24:58

Orcs are among us. Theron is trapped. They have him. He is tied up and it is bad. We must move fast because that's the 251.

SPEAKER_20 1:25:17

That's what you get back. That's what I get back. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:21

Staring at you expectantly.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:23

I here we go. As my face goes.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:29

I assume he did something stupid.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:32

No, he didn't. But so he there are he's around orcs. Okay, we'll now I don't know. He didn't say exactly where, so I don't know if it's at the border location or if they moved, I don't know. But how can I say this to you?

SPEAKER_05 1:25:51

Because you lean away from me.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:55

And not B-Drax fit it out. So he has seen somebody like an ape in a cage. That to be very blunt, Theron's almost dead.

SPEAKER_20 1:26:16

What try not to be so happy about that?

SPEAKER_03 1:26:20

I'm trying not to.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:22

So wait, did he say almost dead?

SPEAKER_03 1:26:24

No, I'm just saying that. But he is in his cage.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:27

He's he's just where is this cage?

SPEAKER_03 1:26:30

I don't know. I he did not come down to me. You never said cage. I never did he say cage. Oh trapped, okay. You hear trapped. I thought you said cage, sorry. So he's trapped.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:43

You just make up a whole story and say that that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_20 1:26:46

Well, Theron has moved on. Everything is well. He's with another woman. He's having sex with another woman.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:53

Don't worry about it. Delphine looks like she's freaking out. No, no, so that's what it is. So she's got ascending coming.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:59

Trax. What do you mean you saw Theron? Is he dead? Where is he? Where are you? Answer back specifically.

SPEAKER_20 1:27:12

Okay. And while he takes the time to answer back, we're gonna take a short break. Okay, listeners, this is one of those moments where you might want to place to see who survives. We'll be right back. Okay, your message of sending Delphine goes off into the ether.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:29

Rather frantic.

SPEAKER_20 1:27:31

You get it, and you hear the frantic voice of Delphine in your mind. What do you say back?

SPEAKER_22 1:27:39

Saren is trapped in a cage within a magic barrier. He is hurt badly. Bloody. I am outside the chapel with orcs nearby. Bring my body.

SPEAKER_20 1:27:54

And that's what you get back.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:02

Should we just take pictures of randomly?

SPEAKER_10 1:28:06

She's like, I he's in a cage in a magical barrier. Drax is outside the trap, well, he wants us to bring the body.

SPEAKER_22 1:28:20

Don't ask questions you don't want answers to.

SPEAKER_20 1:28:24

What do you do? You all know what's going on.

SPEAKER_12 1:28:28

I pick my brother rather delicately up, sling him over my shoulder. In a comfortable fireman's carry position. Yep. Look to her and just go. And?

SPEAKER_10 1:28:40

I'm not going anywhere this immediate second. That's what.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:45

I will wait a short rest. Okay. What do we need to do then? How are we waiting?

SPEAKER_10 1:28:52

If we go there.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:54

Isn't aren't they in danger?

SPEAKER_10 1:28:56

We've got the whole city's fallen. Crystalboro times a hundred.

SPEAKER_12 1:29:01

We're not going for the city, we're going for this group of people and Ferran. I guess you never told us what he said.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:06

I literally just said. Yes, you did. She said it. That's why my fault is a good idea.

SPEAKER_12 1:29:10

That's why we're in the middle of the city. I literally just said it.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:29:13

Look, we're not just going for Drax, we're going for Theron. We're going for these group of people that are important. Who else is gonna go for them? If no one else is stepping. This is why the Mage Tower chose us. We're a group of people that can actually get this done.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:28

If I see my home like that, I can't guarantee we can come back, and we need to finish what's here.

SPEAKER_12 1:29:35

We have the ability to come back directly between these two places. We go.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:39

If you saw your home like that, could you just turn around?

SPEAKER_12 1:29:42

I look to you for a moment and then go, my home is the people and the things around me. My home is dead right now. Half my home is i is losing their mind. The home, yes. You don't care as much about that place as you care about the people there. Help help that's your your family over your home.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:58

We have something here we've committed to.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:00

We are not uncommitting it. This dragon isn't breathing fire on the town right now. People you know are bleeding out. It's been 40 years ago. Put your pride aside. There are people that need our help right now in the house. I need at least an hour. I need a day.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:19

We don't get a day.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:21

Well, you're getting no heels. Good job. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:25

Are we coming back here?

SPEAKER_02 1:30:26

I thought we were just popping in and out. So ideally, aren't we just fighting whatever's there? He wants groove.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:32

We've gotten people out of a cage before, and then through portals, we can do it again. They won't be expecting.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:37

It's a barrier. It's a barrier. We did that with magic. It's a barrier that's preventing me from even speaking to Theron.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:44

Maybe we can figure out what this barrier is if we can and we don't.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:48

Now we go get whatever this was destroyed silvery moon. This is a massive city.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:53

It'd be like if it destroyed a laney. You the scope of a laney.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:57

A poorly and perhaps even dangerously executed plan in the moment. It's sometimes better than the perfect one a week later too late. I fully disagree with that. A week later too late is the focus of this. Your perfect plan can be around.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:14

I don't do any plans poorly executed. We have to Yeah. I I need at least an hour.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:24

Well, we got no choice. It's not in our hands, INR. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:28

Unless you want me to go there with nothing.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:35

Ask ask Drax. Tell him an hour. I look too you obviously frustrated, but I'm putting Drax tell him.

SPEAKER_20 1:31:43

Do you guys have any spells to be able to send sending? Absolutely. You can't communicate with him. Like I said, I can't do nothing. There's nothing to be done.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:50

Well, I could if I'm gonna be spending a sixth level spell, but I'm trying to do arcane recovery so I can get at least a couple spells.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:56

Being patient enough? He's being patient.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:58

You're not being very patient, actually.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:59

He's not waiting 24 hours. He said an hour is fine. Okay. Well, if you are waiting an hour, I don't think we should.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:06

Wait an hour?

SPEAKER_12 1:32:07

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:09

I whatever.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:10

Do you want to go right now?

SPEAKER_02 1:32:13

In game, I I've got no choice. I'll be quiet.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:15

No, I like I've Well, no, do you think we should go right now?

SPEAKER_02 1:32:18

Yes, yes. Roll thinks we should go right now.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:20

I don't think we should be considering how many slots we have maybe.

SPEAKER_20 1:32:24

Maybe it should be put to a vote.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:26

Durax made it sound urgent.

SPEAKER_20 1:32:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:29

Correct? How how urgent did it sound? Did it sound come soon, or did it sound we're about to die? It sounded fairly urgent.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:39

I gently put my hand on Delphine's shoulder. And I tell her, I realize how hard it is for you to deal with your home, especially in this state. Do you care and worry more about that or about saving Drax and Mr. Drax's life? That's what you have to weigh right now.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:54

I feel like those are very unfair questions for you to ask me because you don't actually know everything that I'm concerned about right now.

SPEAKER_12 1:33:00

I don't. And but I know that there is at least one life we know in the balance right now that could be in mortal jeopardy.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:05

But how do you know that get their wizard to open the portal and come to us?

SPEAKER_12 1:33:12

Do you want to put that to the risk of your life, your your friend's fate, your friends' life?

SPEAKER_03 1:33:15

You know what? It's not up to me. But if you want heals, if you want to stay alive, I need a date. I'm sorry to say it. There that's I don't think this party should then I'm staying here because I'm not losing my life. You want two people dead?

SPEAKER_06 1:33:32

Open the portal and send a small group.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:37

You want to go, you go. But I can't.

SPEAKER_12 1:33:40

I have no problem walking into the heart of any fire in any state.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:46

Because if we go there and come back, I that's it. I have no more teleportation.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:51

You can't bring us home, is that what you're doing?

SPEAKER_10 1:33:53

I could bring us home, and that's it.

SPEAKER_08 1:33:54

That's the last of my teleportation until I get it.

SPEAKER_12 1:34:01

Is that not how these things work? If they had a method to come home that they haven't used, you you should be able to exploit that. We now have the ink, we have the She only has the supplies.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:12

That's what she's saying. She has enough supplies to get us there and back.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:21

Then can we not be the ones that help get it?

SPEAKER_10 1:34:24

I have very limited resources.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:26

We want to go to help the orcs.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:28

Then let's okay, fine, let's do it. You guys don't want to wait? We're gonna go. I'm gonna open the portal.

SPEAKER_20 1:34:32

Yeah. Bear in mind, when you open a portal, casting time is a minute. It lasts for one round. Six seconds.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:40

You have to basically be standing on it.

SPEAKER_20 1:34:41

So you're six seconds to get in, get through the portal, and it will close. Yeah. And then it will be another minute before it is reopened, and then six seconds to get out. Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:54

Are we gonna go separately or are we going together?

SPEAKER_12 1:34:56

Yeah, go together. Yeah. Third choice. I think we just go to if nothing else, secure the exit. Like, if they said there's orcs in the area and they can't get to that portal, then they can't get out. If we can at least get there and secure it, rest there even if we need. And in an enclosed space, trying to funnel in, I'll take me. Okay, I'm already casting. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_20 1:35:18

So a minute goes by. Drax. As you're hiding in this forest, you watch as the orcs kind of speak to each other, and they're like, Alright, well, it looks like there's nothing here. Maybe they went back to the city. You two grab the bodies. Let's head out. And you watch as they start to leave. Delphine? Do you cast a spell?

SPEAKER_08 1:35:45

I cast a spell.

SPEAKER_20 1:35:47

The teleportation circle opens. You see this glow of blue come from inside the chapel and shine through the windows. Oh wow. Okay. Of course it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:58

Magic!

SPEAKER_20 1:35:58

It's just a portal, right? Yeah. Opens up, illuminates kind of the foresty area. The orcs are like, whoa! Okay, six seconds, go.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:09

I assume we all were just standing on it with the body of Drax.

SPEAKER_20 1:36:13

Yeah, we're all going through. All of us. All of us. Everybody goes through? Yeah. Shh. You guys all go through. Portal closes. You're standing in a dark chap with the door barricaded closed. You can hear the rustling outside of footsteps. Something happened.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:33

You can hear glare at Einar.

SPEAKER_20 1:36:36

A couple of moving footsteps on the outside of the foot. I'm making the shush motion.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:41

I'm glaring quietly.

SPEAKER_20 1:36:43

Drax, you know what that was. You know where they are. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_22 1:36:48

I whisper to the captain. I think my friends have come through the portal. If the orcs start to attack, we attack with my friends.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:56

Can he sense his body?

SPEAKER_12 1:36:59

No. His body is dead. Oh. I can't sense it. Nope. I'm gonna set his body down, speaking of the body. Okay. Gently. Delphine's the one in charge. I'm trying to be quiet.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:09

Am I?

SPEAKER_12 1:37:09

No, you're the one in charge. I'm going to relay to her telepathically. I can lead them away and back very easily. I'm looking at you for the thumbs up or the thumbs down. So I see a window that my brother exited out. It's probably still open, I assume.

SPEAKER_20 1:37:28

You have no idea that that's the window that he exited out. There is an open window in the top of the chapel. Alright.

SPEAKER_10 1:37:35

Can I just could you like wait for people to respond to things?

SPEAKER_20 1:37:39

I'm waiting and pausing. Rold, you get a very good sense that there are essentials all around and that the chapel is not surrounded, but there is a presence on the outside that is hostile.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:51

Okay. I'm definitely just gonna have my bow out. Um I don't know how much I can see. It's pretty probably pretty dark in the city. It's dusk, okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:01

I don't think I can do the thing I was looking up because I need time to do it.

SPEAKER_20 1:38:07

Does anybody else have something they want to do?

SPEAKER_10 1:38:09

We sorry, are they all in one area? They're not like surrounding you, said they're all together.

SPEAKER_20 1:38:14

They haven't surrounded you yet. They've just now this has just happened. They've just realized that something has happened. And so they're like, Can I do it? I speak orc.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:24

I do too.

SPEAKER_20 1:38:25

Yeah, well, I just said it in English. Okay, okay, okay, cool.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:28

You know what? Can I do something just because I want to?

SPEAKER_20 1:38:32

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:33

I am going to disguise myself as an orc.

SPEAKER_20 1:38:39

Okay. What? How long does that take to do?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:41

Uh it's an instant.

SPEAKER_20 1:38:43

Yeah. Okay. It's a racial ability. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:44

You know, I'm yeah, it's a race, it's a racial ability. So I'm gonna disguise myself as an orc.

SPEAKER_20 1:38:48

Okay, so the ritual ability, how long does it take to do the ritual? A minute?

SPEAKER_10 1:38:52

No, it's uh action.

SPEAKER_20 1:38:53

It's an action, it's just it's there. Oh, okay. Cool. Innate ability preferable.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:57

And it's a oh it's not a spell, it's an ability one action. Casting time one action. Yes, mine's mine's a racial ability. Okay, cool. So I'm gonna use that and I'm gonna because I've seen like orcs and them, how they fight and all that, like what they look like. So I'm gonna try and look like them, and I'm gonna go out the like open up the gate, and I'm gonna walk out and I'm gonna-barricade. Whatever.

SPEAKER_20 1:39:21

It's barricaded. Yeah, I just throw it to the side.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:24

And then I'm gonna come out and I'm gonna talk to them in orcish. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:29

Because I can talk or all gonna scatter out of the view.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:32

And I'm going off because you guys are going off. We're gonna hide and you're gonna get out of view. And then I'm gonna come out and be like, and I'm gonna talk to an orcish and tell him that I came from I I found a way into the through the back. It is all clear where are we going?

SPEAKER_20 1:39:47

Okay, roll a persuasion check because he looks at you and he says, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:52

18 You know my squad, you're new.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:55

I am new, and I did a persuasion? Yeah. Twenty-three.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_20 1:40:00

Well, minus three, so ten. He's like, huh.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:06

I am new. Your cousin of best friend's sister. Yes. Oh, big time. It's clear? It's clear. Let's go. Okay, well, big flash. Is that you? That was me, flashlight. Or torch. What is it? Flashlight. Sorry, torch. Fart on torch. I fart on torch.

SPEAKER_20 1:40:28

All the lightning comes out through the clouds and hits you.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:32

I fart on torch. Make a big boom.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:37

Mean grandfather died that way.

unknown 1:40:40

Happen.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:41

Oh, careful. Check for singe butt lawyers. Smell fine. Okay.

SPEAKER_20 1:40:49

Alright, come with us then. Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_20 1:40:52

And so they start marching away, and he's just talking to you as they're walking down the pathway together. Okay. Alright. So he watches and this random orc Drax comes outside of the chapel and starts talking to the other orcs and orcish and walks away with them. And now you're opening to enter the chapel is now there. Okay. Uh have the orcs gone out of sight? They're are you gonna walk with them until they're outside?

SPEAKER_03 1:41:22

Slowly, slowly. Slowly, because I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:24

Starting to like just drop behind. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:25

Just slowly limp.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:27

Take a shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:28

He's like, oh, you okay? I got to poop. Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_17 1:41:34

I go back. Don't go back. I wait here. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:37

And then.

SPEAKER_17 1:41:38

Okay, so you're heading back to the chapel?

SPEAKER_03 1:41:39

No, I'm walking not to the chapel, but I'm going beside into the trees that are right beside us, like right beside him. Okay. Away from them so they can get in.

SPEAKER_20 1:41:49

Okay. So he's just gonna wait there for you. Alright, so then you guys you've got you're clear now. They're out of your they're out of your sight. So he watches the you guys watch from the inside as the dwarves and Mr. Drax appear out of kind of the forest and just like scatter into the inside the chapel, and now they're with you.

SPEAKER_12 1:42:08

I walk straight to Drax, Mr. Drax, and I embrace him. Give him a big big hug.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:13

I walk past them to the opening of the cave and I'm just looking at Silverman.

SPEAKER_20 1:42:17

Okay, you can see as you're looking. First of all, the first thing you notice is that the dwarven mage instant instantly begins to prepare the spell within one minute to open up the portal. He's like, we're getting the hell out of here. And he starts to do the drawings and stuff like that. Uh you look out, and you can just see this glow from your home city of Silvery Moon, of chaos, burning, destruction. This is a shell of the shimmering brilliance of the city that you once remember. Smoke rises deep into the sky, and you can see this orc encampment all around, just absolutely destroying the land and scarring it permanently in this world that elves have built over thousands of years.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:12

She's just sad and she's crying.

SPEAKER_20 1:43:15

And you also know that somewhere in that chaos, in pain and torture, and shut up is Lord Theron and your family.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:31

Are any of these orc encampments within 120 feet?

SPEAKER_20 1:43:37

Unfortunately, they are not. Your last spell slide is to hurl a fireball.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:44

I have a level six spell man. I could do it.

SPEAKER_20 1:43:47

Okay, so Drucan, how are you getting back? Because this is amazing. Are you ready for this? I'm ready.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:53

Since I'm out of the guy's view because I went into the woods, poop. I am gonna drop my disguised self and I'm gonna hit him step.

SPEAKER_11 1:44:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:03

So it's a nuisant racial ability. I am going invisible. Okay, and I'm gonna walk back to them.

SPEAKER_20 1:44:10

Okay, that is totally fine. That's the only idea.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:21

It's just a bonus that I can turn until my next turn. So six. It's a long, yeah, it's more annoying.

SPEAKER_20 1:44:30

Yeah, and that'll be to get back to the let's say that you are now within a movement, because it's within your first turn, which is six seconds, so that's full movement, still 30 feet, that gets you back towards the chapel, but you'll reappear before you're actually at the chapel.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:48

Yeah, which is okay. I mean, they're far enough away where they couldn't see the chapel.

SPEAKER_20 1:44:52

Yeah, and he's focused on the woods anyway. He's not very great.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:54

No, there works.

SPEAKER_20 1:44:55

So, yeah, you were able to make it back, you get to the chapel, and uh you can just now walk inside and you can see friends there. And then just as you're just as you arrive, the uh yeah, you see Delphine just standing in the doorway, kind of just like her arms resting at her side, just staring unblinking at Silver Moon, tears.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:15

I'll walk up to Delphine. I'll hold her and be like, we will come back after we get after we get the dragon, we'll come back. Not like that, thanks, huh? But yeah, and then I'll be like, we'll come back first thing right after we get that dragon.

SPEAKER_20 1:45:31

Alright, the mage then goes to bring me back in. Have everybody ready? I'm opening it now. And he watches the portal, the teleportation circle opens. You got six seconds, everyone goes through.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:45

With the body.

SPEAKER_21 1:45:46

I'm carrying myself.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:49

Oh, I missed you! Oh, I missed myself.

SPEAKER_21 1:45:53

So much more handsome.

SPEAKER_20 1:45:55

Your body. You guys make it through, uh, everybody gets through, and you are back in with the forge, the teleportation circle closes. The cool air once again, crisp. Damn, it's cold in your cheeks. You guys are back with the body of Drax.

SPEAKER_12 1:46:11

So jump in already. Lily, look at your jump in already. I go to Drook, and is that a good idea?

SPEAKER_03 1:46:21

I have a s I I will I don't I I honestly don't know what's gonna happen, but I will prepare for heals the moment you get in there. I'll use what I have left.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:36

Do we need to do ritual on the body? Is it dead?

SPEAKER_20 1:46:43

The body has zero hit points and is dead. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:46:46

Oh, and so we had to generally. Can you bring him back to life and then he can jump in? Like we can't. Because it's different than what horrors just to hold on for a second.

SPEAKER_06 1:46:56

Let him let him think. Ima, I'm gonna cry. Crying's a free action.

SPEAKER_09 1:47:02

I'm gonna hold Einar's hand and Drax's hand. Mr. Drax's hand.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:08

Mr. Drax and Mr. Drax's hand. Delphine's just Delphine's holding quietly in wait. Holding her locket tight and upset.

SPEAKER_12 1:47:16

I reach out a hand to Delphine to join us.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:19

I don't take it right now, but I appreciate the gesture.

SPEAKER_20 1:47:23

How are you guys planning on doing this?

SPEAKER_03 1:47:27

I'm trying to think right now.

SPEAKER_20 1:47:29

So, here's what we know. Body of Drax is dead. The soul that was inside of Drax was Mr. Drax, and we know that when he dies, it ceases to exist. We know that Mr. Drax has got the soul of Drax on the inside. What we don't know is if we bring the body of Drax back to life. Who will be on the inside? I think it'll be Mr.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:01

Need if we need you to swap back.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:04

So I will Because you like kept dying essentially when I will close cure wounds the body. See if it does anything. See if it does anything. I'll I'll use my staff on this one so that I won't use the spell slot. Okay. Because I need my spell slots.

SPEAKER_20 1:48:22

So the body is dead. So cure wounds does nothing. We're going to have to revivify.

SPEAKER_22 1:48:26

We'll have to revivify. But can we seek guidance from there? Whoever's owns this temple.

SPEAKER_20 1:48:35

No, there's well, there's the mage that's with you.

SPEAKER_22 1:48:37

No, like uh the priest. The priest. Because we're in a chapel, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 1:48:42

Yeah. Yeah, you could. He is a member of the Order of the Golden Lion.

SPEAKER_15 1:48:46

Hey! So I've seen those guys for a long time.

SPEAKER_20 1:48:48

But he the last time you saw him, he was the priest that was inside the battle tent with the king. Let's go. Storm inside the battle tent.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:56

Storm inside. How many people?

SPEAKER_03 1:48:59

I'm gonna go talk to the priest. Okay. Because the healer to healer might work better. You uh you go to the tent. I'll be back as I tell everybody first. I'll be right back. And then I go to the tent.

SPEAKER_20 1:49:13

The tent to see as you get to the tent, you can hear talking and stuff in there, and a short time has only gone by, so they're still processing and cuffing and putting the uh body of Bork in the tent. More into into detention or prison. Uh you can hear commotion and chattering, and then there's uh there's a couple of guards outside the tent, and they kind of look at you coming in, they just go.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:38

I will look at the guard, and I'm not gonna push by, I'm gonna ask him if he can go in and talk to the priest to see if I can talk to him for a quick second. And I'll wait outside.

SPEAKER_20 1:49:49

Oh yes, thank you. That is how we do things around here. Please wait here. I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:55

I understand that I understand the directive now.

SPEAKER_20 1:49:58

He goes and he goes inside. And he you hear him chit-chatter for a second and he comes back out and he goes, Hey, it'll be along in a moment. Just please wait here. Really? Alright, the moment goes by. See, I'm doing it properly this time. The tent flaps flutter open, and uh the priest of the Order of the Golden Lion steps out and he goes, I've been told that you've uh requested my abilities.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:22

Yes, sir. Actually, I just got a couple questions I need. Wait, well, what's going on, son? So we have our companion, obviously, who you know who's in the chapel right now. Aye. We do this is gonna sound weird, so I apologize, but we do have his echo with him inside of it. We gotta get him back into his body. Bye. Now, I did try and see if I can heal the body to at least get it jump started. Aye. But it's not working. Do you have any suggestions or do you have anything that might be able to help us just at least jumpstart the body where we can try and swap the consciousness?

SPEAKER_20 1:51:05

I don't know if I I've got your answer, but I can maybe we can walk through the problem together. So you've got your mate, he is in a different body. Correct. But his body is dead, and you want him back in his body. Yes. Well, who was in his body when he died?

SPEAKER_03 1:51:26

So, how can I explain this? So his echo was in his body because they transferred consciousnesses to each other. So they switched brains. Yes.

SPEAKER_18 1:51:39

So where is this one then? Where's the one that's dead? It's gone. So when you bring this, what will be inside? That's what we don't know.

SPEAKER_20 1:51:48

Well, it appears to me that whatever it is, your mate is anchored to that body. You have to find a way to allow him to go back into his body without a transfer of consciousness.

SPEAKER_18 1:52:05

How are you gonna do that? I don't know. You know, son, in times of trust and hard times, I often turn to the book of the Golden Lion.

SPEAKER_19 1:52:16

Have you ever thought about prayer?

SPEAKER_03 1:52:19

Not to the Golden Lion, but I can do that.

SPEAKER_19 1:52:22

Well, I would suggest looking deep within yourself and your abilities. Cool, I will try that.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:28

Thank you.

SPEAKER_20 1:52:29

And thanks for waiting outside. It turns it goes back in the tent. So you're gonna bring that knowledge back to the chapel?

SPEAKER_03 1:52:36

Yeah, and I'll tell them what I was told by their priest. Okay. And uh I will go to like i how big is like the how big is this chap? Like, is it not very big chapel?

SPEAKER_20 1:52:52

It's large enough that you could fit maybe 150 people in.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:55

Okay, so I'll walk up to like the the front. Yeah. Where like the priest would sit.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:00

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:01

And I will The pulpit. Yeah, sure. That's what it's called. And I'll uh I'll go down on on my knees and I will pray to the Raven Queen to see if she can guide me on how to do it.

SPEAKER_20 1:53:14

Okay. You guys watch as Drew can just walk in. Doesn't say a word. Doesn't say a word. Goes to the front of the table, drops to his knees, and closes his eyes. What do you guys do? This is bad.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:27

Delphine's a little distracted. She's crying. She's upset.

SPEAKER_20 1:53:31

They say we're secretive. I you're getting Ventor talking to you again. Am I?

unknown 1:53:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 1:53:39

What's he saying? Lay your hands on him and don't hold back. I'll bring him back stronger.

SPEAKER_12 1:53:51

I'm going to. My my hand tightens around a way, and I just kind of mutter out loud as my head cocks to the right, his eyes closed, still somehow looking upwards. He says, He's telling me he can bring him back again. That I have the ability to give life.

SPEAKER_10 1:54:18

I want to talk to Ventor. Okay. So I speak to Ventor only. Okay. Quietly. Mm-hmm. In his head. The original body that you were on died and you were dying. If you could have brought a body back, why couldn't you then? Is this a lie? What are you actually trying to do?

SPEAKER_16 1:54:45

I have my secrets.

SPEAKER_10 1:54:50

But you would have died.

SPEAKER_16 1:54:52

Would I?

SPEAKER_10 1:54:55

Can you truly take a body that has no life to it?

SPEAKER_09 1:55:04

You would be you would be the body. Correct?

SPEAKER_16 1:55:10

I can bring him back stronger. And how badly do you want this? Capable. But there is another in here that I don't like.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:36

That you don't like. What don't you like?

SPEAKER_16 1:55:42

Does not think the way we think. I wish to be free, and his body is ideal.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:54

So you wish to have your own body that you control.

SPEAKER_16 1:55:59

I wish to make him stronger. I understand. He would be a good team, him and I.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:08

Okay. I pull back and I just squeeze Einar's hand and I leave the conversation.

SPEAKER_12 1:56:16

I didn't hear it.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:17

Nope. Nope. Nope. I'm just standing there quietly being supportive. And I will say to Einar that just don't let Ventor talk you into anything at the moment.

SPEAKER_12 1:56:31

There's a nod from me reassuringly for the whole party to see just Mr.

SPEAKER_20 1:56:38

Dardrak. So you do hear him mutter to Oleander that I he wants me to bring. He says I can bring him back. I I I tell him I don't trust the ink.

SPEAKER_12 1:56:52

Okay. So you do hear that too, Iiner. There's again just a nod from Iron's eyes are are closed. It seems like he's. And I'm gonna try to pull a tangent on him here, and I just think of that portal and the sensation of the abyss. And again, I'm thinking it and I'm thinking it at Noctus home. With again just a question and mark hanging in the air behind it.

SPEAKER_16 1:57:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:23

He tries to tap my mind. I'll try to tap right back.

SPEAKER_10 1:57:27

In the meantime, are we doing a prayer?

SPEAKER_01 1:57:29

I am. I'm doing a prayer.

SPEAKER_12 1:57:31

A wing in a prayer. Hey! Raven bitch! What's up? That's not the prayer. Okay, I thought that was the script. That's not the prayer. I thought that was the scripture.

SPEAKER_20 1:57:42

Sorry, you'll have to teach me better. Your eyes close. You feel that familiar sense of falling. And you feel like you fall. Not at all. So you land in the water again. Just barely coming up past half of your feet. Black as far as you can see. You feel the presence, but you don't see her. What do you want to do?

SPEAKER_03 1:59:02

I want to ask her what I you know, what can I do to save Dra save Drax from going away. For losing his soul where it's not supposed to go.

SPEAKER_20 1:59:22

So you ask that and it kind of what you would expect in an empty vastness to have an echo.

unknown 1:59:28

Echo.

SPEAKER_20 1:59:29

Nothing. Your voice is almost flat and like being drained as it just falls out of your mouth. But there is a rustle in the water. You see as ripples travel across the water. And to your immediate left, there's a presence as the Raven Queen donned in her black, feathery robe with her porcelain mask, comes out from behind you, running her hand and her fingers down your shoulder.

SPEAKER_19 2:00:16

And now you are here for another question. Yes, I am lost at this moment.

SPEAKER_14 2:00:24

State your question to me, but be eloquent in what you need.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:35

What can I do to save my friend? I have tried everything that I can. Your friend is alive, is he not? But he is in the wrong body. We need to put him in the right body for him to survive. Well, that's not what you asked.

SPEAKER_14 2:00:54

You don't need to save him. You need to move him.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:00

Yes, that is correct.

unknown 2:01:04

Well.

SPEAKER_14 2:01:20

Or else. How is he to get back? I think you already know what you have to do, I checked it.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:34

But if I release him from his body now, I need his his soul will not be where it needs to be. Or I don't know if it will transfer back to his body or not. No, you don't know.

SPEAKER_14 2:01:50

But these are the games that you are playing with the lives of your friends. He is alive. He is walking. You are taking an awful great risk to move his consciousness. But you already know what you have to do. The question is, do you have what it takes to slay your friend?

SPEAKER_20 2:02:25

Do you have what it takes to convince his brother that you must kill him in order to bring him back?

SPEAKER_14 2:02:39

You are strong. You must know that you have these abilities within you. Why do you doubt yourself? Have I not given you power, strength, and do you not often deny when I have asked you to do something?

SPEAKER_03 2:03:00

No, I have not done what you wanted, but I do have self-doubt on myself at this moment. Well let's put it this way.

SPEAKER_14 2:03:11

I can help you and make sure that his soul is bound so that it can re-enter. But in return, you must do something for me. And that would be.

SPEAKER_19 2:03:30

Since you are so keen to slay your friends, I would like you to make good on the promises that you have given me.

SPEAKER_20 2:03:42

And she holds her hand up. And as her hand goes up in front of your face, a dagger manifests in her hand, and she closes her hands around. It is a long, jagged white blade. And on the end of the blade, the tip is stained with black. When she holds the dagger down in front of you, she says, This dagger, when piercing the heart of the undead, shall permanently banish the curse.

SPEAKER_14 2:04:19

However, it also slays the one that holds the curse.

SPEAKER_19 2:04:27

And since you are so keen to slay your friends and bring them back at your own will, I think you should have no problem ridding your friends of their curses.

SPEAKER_14 2:04:47

I only have one, and you must choose who you are curing for me. This will bring you one step closer to fulfilling our deal.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:14

But I don't want them to lose their soul.

SPEAKER_14 2:05:20

You have already planned to do this once. Do it again. Imagine the fear the undead will have of you from this moment on. She runs her hand down your face, and it's ice cold.

SPEAKER_20 2:06:04

But it's also maternal in how she runs it behind your ear and along the base of your neck as she brings it back.

SPEAKER_14 2:06:14

Alright. I shall be waiting and watching.

SPEAKER_20 2:06:23

Go on. And then she flicks you and you fly through the darkness. Plunge back through the water and into the cathedral again as your eyes jolt open.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:40

Okay, well, as I stand up from the altar, I'll turn around. As I walk back, I'm gonna tell Delphine that I need to talk to her. Hey.

SPEAKER_20 2:06:51

Rold, you notice that as Jukin awakens, there is a fire in his eyes that you didn't see there before he went.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:05

I don't know. Well, and it's not like I'm gonna mention it to anyone else. Okay. I see it, I'm like, oh boy, I just started shaking the head.

SPEAKER_20 2:07:13

And you knowing what you know about Rold being the only other ally he has in this with you. You guys lock eyes briefly. Right. And you pull Delphine aside.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:27

I'll pull Rold aside too because there is a if I notice that he notices something, I'll pull both of them aside and yeah, I kinda need to talk. I need advice. Okay. We watch them walk away.

SPEAKER_11 2:07:43

Suspiciously kind of looked back at him like, I don't know what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_10 2:07:49

Who's gonna know? They'll never know. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:55

Well, it's gonna be suspicious either way, I do, so it doesn't really matter at this point in time. Is the dagger.

SPEAKER_09 2:08:02

Can we see the dagger?

SPEAKER_03 2:08:03

Can I if I know that I'm gonna be involved. He did it away before I was.

SPEAKER_12 2:08:09

He didn't see the dagger. No, I put it away before I walked. What's up, Einar? Surface level on an impulse. Einar probes Drukin's thoughts with Detect Thoughts. What is your reasoning for that? Because I just want to know what surface level on thought. He's walking suspicious, pulling away on the odd two. You pull away people all the time. Okay. Well, let it happen. You want to probe his thoughts? What do you so how do you do that? Detect thoughts. It's just a surface level like what's the surface level of his thoughts. So it doesn't have to give me any big detail, just look at what's his general thought right now. What your general thoughts are. You two come here, you seem really firing the eyes. I've just described he's looking suspicious. Dirken, what are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_03 2:08:48

Well, all I'm, I guess. Pretty much. I'm just kind of wanting to information from I need help from these two.

SPEAKER_12 2:08:57

How long does this last for? Well, that would be the surface level. I'm going to take some thoughts right now. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's up to me if I decide to delve deeper, and that's when he has a chance to know. Okay.

SPEAKER_20 2:09:07

Yeah, you're not getting much from the surface level. It's just like fear, general uncertainty, um, concern. These are the feelings that you're getting from him. So he there's something going on that you're not you're you're not being privy to at the moment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:09:23

And I translate to both of you because they're trying to be like, he's upset, something's bothering him, he's looking for help, and he's saying this is a really bad situation. Okay, that's what you're pulling these two aside?

SPEAKER_03 2:09:33

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 2:09:33

Because me and him blocked eyes, so he knows what's that something's going on.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:38

Yeah, you're pulling me into something, so just help find something until go for it. How you want to do.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:46

So try to say what did she say?

SPEAKER_03 2:09:48

What what's going on? Yeah. So I can bring Drax back.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:54

Good.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:55

I have to kill Drax.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:58

Yes. Well, it's not like you know the one before, Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:03

Another thing I have to do also is I pull out the dagger. And I show you guys the dagger.

SPEAKER_20 2:10:10

And are you concealing it from the other three? Yeah, but we're outside right now. Oh, you're outside. Okay, you're outside. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:16

Well, you're now watching the other thing. Because these two I'm more worried about, and obviously Drax is trying to figure shit out, so. Yeah. Yes, just for now I'll explain it to them. But I mean, this is the first time that I've talked about the Raven Queen, and it's hard to explain. But I can cure one of them right now. But it kills him.

SPEAKER_10 2:10:48

Did she say you had to do this before we can bring Mr. Drax buttons? Well, Drax.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:54

It was not too clear. But I to my knowledge. Pretty much. Well, I if I kill Drax and his body, it sounds like his he might go back to his body and then resonate.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:10

So we have to sacrifice him to bring him back. Correct.

SPEAKER_10 2:11:14

And we have to sacrifice one of them, possibly.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:18

To fulfill what I need to do.

SPEAKER_10 2:11:20

And did she need that right now? Do you have a sense of if she needed that right now?

SPEAKER_03 2:11:28

It sounded like it has to be right away. Why can't we go to the pools? Because we know we don't have time for the pools. And who knows if pools will actually work? The pools are I thought they were near where we are.

SPEAKER_06 2:11:46

They're still at least a day or so travel, and they are guarded by mists that will confuse and confound and a colossus and what if I'd known what. And still in the meantime, Silver Remoon's fallen.

SPEAKER_20 2:12:02

She just said it was part of the deal. So we can give you a time. Okay. But you do know it's not like an infinite time. Yes, but it it doesn't have to be right now. So the the dagger doesn't have to be up to your interpretation.

SPEAKER_06 2:12:15

Elainey will be next if Silver Remoon's already fallen, and that's where your sister. We don't have time for the pools.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:22

So now the dagger can I can hold off on that.

SPEAKER_06 2:12:27

Well if I know the brothers, I have to talk to you. Einar will do it.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:33

But I've outright defying like it. No, she won't. You're outright defying your deity. She didn't say it has to be right away. I can do strategic time and not do right now. But to get direct back, I have to. It sounds like I have to almost convince Einar to kill Drex. Einar has to do it. That's what it sounded like.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:07

As for the dagger, I think.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:08

Well, uh, maybe that you can convince them this other thing. The other thing is something on my own that I have to figure out. I I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 2:13:17

No secrets.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:18

Let's tell them.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:18

I want to tell Einar. I want them to be better. I truly want them to be better. Because I fear for their souls. I agree. I fear what can happen to them.

SPEAKER_06 2:13:29

Well, so far the only one who's gone out of control is Einar.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:33

As of right now, yes. But I have to talk to Einar.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:36

No, you can't keep this. No secrets. You can't keep this from him. You have to at least tell Einar. If it is Andrax, if it is something that involves them both, they both need to know.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:47

I mean, I'll stay in front of everybody. That's not me. I just want to make it.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:50

Holy Andrews can make a thing happen. And in this case, I think she is right. Your goddess is kind of a bitch.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:54

Well, the only thing we can do. Like a literally. I don't see how we're doing it.

SPEAKER_14 2:14:00

The bitch.

SPEAKER_02 2:14:01

Oh, the bitch!

SPEAKER_14 2:14:03

I got to get it up. Yes!

SPEAKER_03 2:14:05

So then I will. I'll just say this is what it is.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:08

I'm gonna grab your arm though and I'm gonna be like, I'm serious. No more secrets.

unknown 2:14:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:13

I don't know.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:15

They deserve to know.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:16

And they won't.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:18

Alright, let me go back in.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:20

Alright, let's go back in.

SPEAKER_12 2:14:21

Alright, everybody's there. Active perception check. Let's go. Insight. Alright, insight, insight. Insight, insight, yes. On who? Drucan specifically, I'm trying to gauge his intent right now. Are you trying to hide anything? No. Alright. I'm not hiding shit.

SPEAKER_20 2:14:38

It's a natural crit. He's not trying to hide anything, so you find out whatever you want to find out.

SPEAKER_12 2:14:41

Okay, well, I'm watching for any sign of hostility. But if he doesn't show it, I don't get on guard. Are you showing any hostility? No. No.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:48

He's not hiding.

SPEAKER_12 2:14:49

No.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:49

I'm not hiding anything. I'm coming in to talk to him. I don't know that yet. I'm still in the dark. You literally just read my thoughts and I was worried and scared, and now you're doing this because now I'm suspicious. Well, you're just coming back in.

SPEAKER_10 2:15:02

We told you, don't be suspicious. We sang a song.

SPEAKER_20 2:15:04

We're talking Einar here. Anyways, Einar is ultra-paralycing. We did, we did sing his brotherhood. We did sing a song, and it was in verse.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:11

Well then I will come in and I will tell everybody that I can bring Drax back. The good the only thing is Drax has to die. And you have to kill him.

SPEAKER_12 2:15:29

I'm waiting for a few minutes. A few moments I go. Why do I have to kill him? And how do you know this? You're the queen said I have to kill him.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:42

She wants the filthy undead to kill him. Wants his brother to kill him. Not the undead, his brother. And what happens after he wants me to kill you.

SPEAKER_10 2:15:55

It releases the soul.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:56

It releases the soul out of the echo, and it should go, in theory, go back to where it belongs.

SPEAKER_06 2:16:04

Do we have to do a revivify?

SPEAKER_03 2:16:06

Then you're gonna do that diamond. And it does sort of make sense with how Mr.

SPEAKER_02 2:16:10

Drax is working.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:11

We'll probably have to do revivify on it because the body's dead, but his soul will go back into his body.

SPEAKER_12 2:16:16

Probably, or we're going to. I I want more than I think this might make my brother work. What do you think? Drax? Ventor says he can animate him. Tell me something better. You know what? You do if you want him to be. Ventor is not doing anything. We're not putting Ventura on my brother. I'm just saying I want more than I think. We revivify. What's the process here?

SPEAKER_10 2:16:36

We kill him, then we revivify him, is what we kill the echo body to release the soul.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:47

And then we revivify his body to call his eyes body.

SPEAKER_12 2:16:53

You've already killed him once in the echo. Why can't you just pull him out?

SPEAKER_03 2:16:55

Because he's comfortable with this? It was the echo. It was not Drex.

SPEAKER_09 2:17:01

So you want. Did she say specifically that Ainar has to kill his brother?

SPEAKER_22 2:17:09

Taking it in. This is a very good thing. Did she say he has to die?

SPEAKER_09 2:17:12

Or did she say his brother has to kill him?

SPEAKER_03 2:17:15

His he needs to kill his brother.

SPEAKER_09 2:17:19

Why? What does she get out of someone killing their own brother? Yeah, I don't like the word kingdom.

SPEAKER_03 2:17:26

Try to release his soul, which will go back to his body. We revivify his body.

SPEAKER_09 2:17:31

What stake does she have in payment? In what in in his brother doing this deed? Of all people. To look your brother in the eye and kill him.

SPEAKER_12 2:17:41

That is why.

SPEAKER_10 2:17:47

Anyone else, anyone would be better. I just look at you and I'm like, because she's a bitch.

SPEAKER_12 2:17:53

Alright. This is if you don't want to be able to do it. This is your choice. I've watched her die already three times today. Squirm.

SPEAKER_03 2:18:00

Here is this is my final say to all you right now. If you don't want to, I will walk away. You aren't doing anything. This is all unfortunately. I need What does walk away mean? I'm leaving. Because obviously, I'm not trusted right now, and I'm telling you what it is.

SPEAKER_06 2:18:21

This is our only option.

SPEAKER_03 2:18:22

This is it. You want him to be back in his body? This is how we have to do it. What do you need to get your ritual ready? Three of us. Same thing that we did to bring Rold back from the dead. Brother? Unfortunately. This is your call, not mine. It's your life.

SPEAKER_22 2:18:42

Draxa goes over to Drew again, puts his hands on his shoulders, looks him dead in the eye, and he's like, You're sure this is the only way? This is the way that I was told that will only happen. And I I I let I ask him, I'm like, you have a diamond, and you can bring me back. We do.

SPEAKER_03 2:19:06

And we will use it and we will bring it. Oleander's got the diamond. I look at Oleander. I will never leave you hanging. I will always come for you. Alright. And I want you back in your body, and I feel this is the way that we have to do it. Okay.

SPEAKER_22 2:19:27

Trax uh I guess, you know, takes his hands off uh Drew's shoulders, reaches into the bigger holding. I got the bagel holding. I know, that's why. Yes. Reaches into the biggest holding, pulls out his machete.

SPEAKER_10 2:19:43

The rusty one?

SPEAKER_22 2:19:44

The rusty one. I stay your hand because I have to do it. I walk over to my brother. Look him in the eyes. You know what you need to do. Put the put the machete in his hand, hold it up to the chest so the machete is like basically like aim to my heart, and I start talking to myself.

SPEAKER_12 2:20:08

And I say, no, we're going old school, bro. And I just laugh your hand aside as I spin behind you. I spiral into a sleeper, taking us down to the ground. And I just say to him, I won't go this time, bro. And as I'm putting him out, I yell out towards the Raven Queen. With tears coming down my eyes, I'm strangling my brother to death. And I just and I just yell to him, like, You think you can break us? You have no idea what we're capable of handling.

SPEAKER_20 2:20:37

Okay, so you guys watch as he goes to sleep. Instead of the way that I can't see it. Behind the door. We can't see it! That's what I was about to describe. So the rest of the group sees Einar split underneath Drax's arm and take him in a chokehold and start to choke him out, and Drax is like temporarily shocks, but understands what's going on. And he watches his eyes bulge a little bit, and he he tries it his instinct is to reach up and to claw, but then he he gets control of himself, understanding that this is for the greater good. And the the blood slowly starts to get cut off to his brain, and and Drax's vision starts to fade. It starts to fade and go into tunnel vision. And the last thing you Drax Steve before you go unconscious is your friend staring at you wide-eyed and shocked.

SPEAKER_10 2:21:35

Not me, I looked away. As you I'm like clinging onto the Oliander looking away.

SPEAKER_20 2:21:43

You go unconscious.

SPEAKER_10 2:21:46

Is it taking a while, correct?

SPEAKER_05 2:21:48

Yeah, that's what Strangling does. That's not it.

SPEAKER_20 2:21:51

But he's unconscious, so now you do have to prevent him from breathing. So that will take approximately 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_02 2:21:56

Well, blood choke you're out in a couple of seconds.

SPEAKER_20 2:21:58

Yeah, the blood the blood puts him out. Puts him out. Puts him out, but he still has. Do you guys know what agonal respirations are? Agonal respirations can occur up to two minutes after choking. Uh drowning, especially. So it's okay. But he goes. I would have done the exact same thing. Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_03 2:22:18

That's true.

SPEAKER_10 2:22:19

Either way, this is a horrifying scene.

SPEAKER_20 2:22:21

Either way it's horrifying.

SPEAKER_10 2:22:23

Either way, you've Can I speed it up? No, just interfere. We can't interfere.

SPEAKER_20 2:22:28

Right? And so he's down, and you feel his last breath leave, and he goes limp in your body. Knowing you knowing what you know, you continue to hold pressure just to make sure.

SPEAKER_03 2:22:45

And then can I do a medicine check?

SPEAKER_20 2:22:48

To make sure he's to make sure, like just to to to see if if Drax is like completely dead and like something to do with his body to you give it 30 seconds and you make your medicine check and go ahead and roll for it, but I'm sure it'll be good. 18 plus five. Yeah, for sure. You know that he's not quite dead yet, but he is he'll be dead within 10 seconds, right? And uh and so yeah, it's he's and then he does you see the the glow from the Echo Knight slowly dim into nothing, and now he's just gray. And you know that Drax is dead.

SPEAKER_01 2:23:21

I slip into a hug now, hugging him with a few tears waiting for him to cast his ritual.

SPEAKER_20 2:23:26

Then I will cast revivify. Okay. So you have the the diamond? Yes.

SPEAKER_10 2:23:35

I have given him a diamond. Diamond.

SPEAKER_20 2:23:39

Oh yeah, what happens to the echo when the pardon me? What happens the echo when he dies? So then you wash. He becomes a dead body as the body just turns gray. Yeah. Who is taking part in this ritual? Do we do we have?

SPEAKER_09 2:23:53

I don't know what to do. I will help if nobody has a better idea.

SPEAKER_20 2:23:57

Well, it's rolled or you? Rolled? Okay. Alright. Oh crap. I'm gonna have to think of something. Okay, I'll give you I'll I'll go to you last. You two decide which is. Well, no, I'm gonna go to you second last because I will be last on this one.

SPEAKER_10 2:24:10

Oh, don't make me first. Yeah, you're first. Yeah, you're first, honey.

SPEAKER_20 2:24:13

So you watch as Dr. prepares the spell, places the diamond on the chest of Drax, puts his hand over it, and he kind of expectantly looks up at you guys waiting.

SPEAKER_03 2:24:24

And it's a fourth level spell slot, too.

SPEAKER_06 2:24:28

I'm gonna take it.

SPEAKER_20 2:24:29

I'm upping it for you, buddy.

SPEAKER_06 2:24:31

Just for you.

SPEAKER_20 2:24:32

Appreciate it. You do see the uh French bike's live on Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_08 2:24:37

I'm gonna take it off, Mr. Drax. And I'm gonna close his eyes and give him a little kiss in the cheek.

SPEAKER_10 2:24:45

And then I'm gonna put it on Mr. Drax. Actual Drax, real Drax.

SPEAKER_17 2:24:50

Drax.

SPEAKER_10 2:24:51

Drax Prime! As I've been writing it now. Put on Drax Prime. And I'm gonna say, even though I gave it to him, this bracelet was always for you. We need both of our friends back. We need you back. Please come back. And then I'm gonna give him a kiss on the cheek. But he's wearing the bracelet now. Wow.

SPEAKER_22 2:25:19

And I still do not know that she's ever done that. Twice. Roll, roll, twice.

SPEAKER_02 2:25:26

Uh, I honestly don't know. I I guess I say, you know, I've already pledged my loyalty to the queen. Um I don't know if I can offer her more, but Drax will help us help the others. So only thing I can think is that I don't know. Is there any more I can do with that belt of daggers? But what is that to be? Sure. I can does it get burned up in the ritual or something?

SPEAKER_20 2:26:04

Can it depends on how big or how minuscule the offering is. I mean, the success of Revivify is based on the sacrifice of the three people that are included in the ritual.

SPEAKER_02 2:26:23

Yeah, like I I guess I can give a monetary or something sacrifice, but I don't know what else I have to give. Honestly. I've already pledged my loyalty to the queen, to the Raven Queen. I pledge my help to whatever Drukin is required to do to serve the Queen. Okay. That's what I say.

SPEAKER_20 2:26:48

Einar. Einar holding your brother doesn't seem so you are holding your brother, and two comrades have gone before you to pledge what they can or to try to assist in the Remify ritual. All eyes fall to you now, as the remaining member of the third party to make this ritual go through.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:14

Reverently, I let my brother's grave corpse. The echo. Go and head down gently. And I pick up the machete that he gave me. Okay. Walk over to my brother.

SPEAKER_12 2:27:29

And I say, I know that our bond has always run deeper than blood, my brother.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:39

But from now on, a part of us will always flow within each other.

SPEAKER_12 2:27:45

I've grown stronger recently. And I'm giving that life force and that gift to you to bring you back. And slicing open a piece of my hand and dripping my blood into him, I want to sacrifice the nine hit points that I gained at this level. Whether I give them to him, or whether they're permanently lost as an energy source trying to give him life and bring him back. That is what I'm offering as a piece of my life force to my brother. To this ritual.

SPEAKER_20 2:28:18

You feel a pole on the inside of you. As nine hit points are permanently removed from your character. You can now feel the magic swelling within you to cast for the light. Are you gonna cast it? You have your hand over there, you look to the others as you beckon them to put their hands over yours. They all put their hands on there. You mutter the words, you close your eyes, you feel the magic in you on the chest of racks as you watch it and film all the different parts you watch.

SPEAKER_03 2:29:42

I instantly cast your wound on him as a level for cure wounds. I need to give him hit point. Yeah. And he instantly gets twenty-six hit points.

SPEAKER_20 2:29:56

Okay. Drax. Your eyes open, and you feel yourself again whole. You can feel your fingers and your toes and your legs and your arms and the hairs on the back of your neck. You can feel your heartbeat. You can feel the cool air as it enters your lungs when you breathe in, and the warm, moist air that comes out on your lips that turns into condensation in the cold air of Winter Forge. You are back with your friends. To your right lies the cold dead vessel that carried you and kept you alive during this whole ordeal. When your friends are gathered around you, staring at you, your brother behind you with his arms wrapped around you.

SPEAKER_22 2:30:46

Kind of look around, I guess, being a little bit dazed. See that my brother's holding me. And I kinda hold out my hand to kinda do like a you know a handshake kind of grasp of it. Do you either? Me? Yeah. Of course I rub my hand from the hook into that. Just uh Yeah, I grab his hand and I'm like, thank you, brother. I know that must have been hard. I want you to know I appreciate the way you did it. When when I was when I was going unconscious, I was having flashbacks to when we were training, kind of on the mats wrestling, and how you, you know, kind of choke me out and whatnot. And uh and I was thinking back to like those were actually some of the happiest times of my life where you know we thought we had purpose, we thought we had a goal, you know, thought we had all these things that were just so immaterial when I look back. But what me and you had was true.

SPEAKER_12 2:31:54

As he's saying this, the c the darkness costume fades. The the he unconsciously dismisses the uh disguised self that's been on him, and Einar is halfway between heaving sobs and calm resolve. And through gritted teeth he says back and he goes, Thank them. Our family. They they brought you back, and we have purpose, brother. It's it's why these things happen to us. You have purpose. We have a place. And he can barely get those words out.

SPEAKER_20 2:32:38

As Drax pushes himself up from the cold stones that he's sitting on, sitting up, you guys all kind of sit back on your hunches and take a sigh of relief. You're once again all together. As that happens, the wind blows, and you can feel the wind pick up. And it blows the doors of the chapel open. And you can see down the aisles and out the door as a storm is coming in, and snow starts to fall and whip around on the outside, and you think to yourself, we've done this, but we still have a long road ahead of us down into that dwarven mine to find the heart of this white dragon, and whatever plight is affecting this poor town. And that is where we're gonna end tonight's session.

SPEAKER_10 2:34:15

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