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Ep. 5 - "Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y" - Camp Do Anything · Theater of the Mindset

• 0:00
  Kayla (Evandria): Theater of the Mindset. Theater
• 0:05
  Justin (GM): of the Mindset.
• 1:12
  Kayla (Evandria): So Evandria has sent out invitations that Yanks Your Braid has delivered to each of her fellow associates here at
• 1:23
  Justin (GM): Do we have to invite Bunky?
• 1:25
  Kayla (Evandria): Yanks. Yes. What Have you and Bunky still not had a talk?
• 1:32
  Justin (GM): Like he's fine. I just don't know what he's gonna contribute to this conversation.
• 1:36
  Kayla (Evandria): I think at this point, Bunky's here to stay.
• 1:39
  Justin (GM): The craft cabin's kind of a lot, don't you think?
• 1:41
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, I do try and avoid it. I give it a wide break.
• 1:44
  Justin (GM): It's a lot.
• 1:45
  Eric (Bunky): It's a lot
• 1:45
  Justin (GM): going on there.
• 1:46
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. I hate it. But I think Bunkie as as a being will be here and that maybe Bunkie happens to know more than us about the different magical arts.
• 2:01
  Justin (GM): Fine. He Okay.
• 2:02
  Kayla (Evandria): Thank you.
• 2:03
  Justin (GM): Okay.
• 2:03
  Kayla (Evandria): Please deliver all of the invitations.
• 2:06
  Justin (GM): I will deliver all of Do not please. The
• 2:09
  Kayla (Evandria): To the correct address.
• 2:10
  Justin (GM): I will deliver all of the invitations to the correct address in such a fashion that they will find them immediately.
• 2:16
  Kayla (Evandria): Thank you.
• 2:18
  Justin (GM): Yanks your braid, flies out of the cabin and immediately finds his way to each of you in your respective places and hands you a little envelope addressed to you and says, Avandria requests your presence when your next convenient and gives you each a little envelope. Inside is an invitation addressed to you with a time and place telling you to meet for a secret pre camper arrival meeting. He says, I think if Andrea wants to have a chat before campers arrive today, So, you know, I think I don't wanna get Evandria mad. So if you could hurry, that'd be great. And flies off.
• 2:59
  Evan (Mala): Mala immediately heads for Evandria's cabin.
• 3:01
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yep. Eleanor as well.
• 3:07
  Nick (Pat): Evandria.
• 3:09
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, yeah. Come in. Just come in.
• 3:12
  Evan (Mala): I got your invitation like a minute ago. Yeah. And I found Eleanor.
• 3:15
  Kayla (Evandria): I sent them like a minute ago.
• 3:17
  Evan (Mala): And we're here.
• 3:17
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. Sorry for a little Come on in.
• 3:20
  Evan (Mala): Come on in. Was really excited you invited us to a party. I've never been invited to one of your parties before.
• 3:24
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, you're welcome.
• 3:25
  Evan (Mala): Thank you. Mhmm.
• 3:27
  Kayla (Evandria): Come on in. As they enter, she has changed up her room a little bit. Like I mentioned, her mirror is no longer there as that was a sacrifice after the storm and the changing of her face due to all of the scars and burns that shall now forever be there. And she has instead replaced that portion of the wall hanging from the ceiling is this massive punching bag instead.
• 4:04
  Nick (Pat): Pat walks over to the craft cabin to look for Bunky and ask, hey, did you get a letter that just says why why why why why why why why why why why why
• 4:13
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. I I
• 4:15
  Nick (Pat): Did he say
• 4:15
  Eric (Bunky): anything to you? I didn't. I I just Yankster Brayden and I don't really get along and I thought that that was just like a personal attack asking me why I exist and honestly, I've been asking myself the same question lately.
• 4:30
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. He he he threw it he just threw it at me and said go to her cabin. Cabin. Oh. No more specifics.
• 4:38
  Nothing else.
• 4:38
  Eric (Bunky): I didn't even get that. Maybe we need to just
• 4:41
  Nick (Pat): go see I assume it's number two.
• 4:44
  Eric (Bunky): Probably. Okay. Yeah.
• 4:45
  Nick (Pat): You wanna ride?
• 4:46
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. Oh, that'd be great. Thank you. So much faster.
• 4:49
  Justin (GM): We head over. Yank Sherbraid arrives at the I did my job.
• 4:52
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. Thank you. Yeah. And you made sure that the invitations had what exactly I wanted them to come for and everything?
• 5:01
  Justin (GM): I wrote down everything that you told me to write down.
• 5:03
  Evan (Mala): I look at the invitation. Yankster Braide told me to be here.
• 5:06
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, okay. Perfect. Yeah. So I assume you did that for everyone. Thank you.
• 5:10
  Justin (GM): I gave everyone the invitations just like you said. And I wrote on the invitations what they were supposed to do.
• 5:17
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay, Yanks. Yeah.
• 5:18
  Justin (GM): Great. Okay. Yanks, braid goes into his corner of the cabin which at this point is just almost just a pile of stuff. None of the stuff makes any sense. There's bottle caps, there's slips of paper, there's pine cones, there's like halves of books.
• 5:35
  You don't know how he found just half of a book, but he is making his way through that half of the book. He picks it up, opens it up and kinda sits down in a deck of cards that he has folded into like a sort of lawn chair that's in the window so that he can get some sun and opens up the half of the book and just begins to read it to the best of his ability.
• 5:58
  Jamie (Eleanore): Is it half like he can only read half the book or is it like half from the top to bottom?
• 6:04
  Justin (GM): It's half along the spine. So Okay. It's just the front half of the book.
• 6:08
  Kayla (Evandria): I I wanna warn you guys, I wouldn't touch any of Yanks' stuff.
• 6:14
  Justin (GM): He points to a sign that just says, why why why why why why on it. Yeah. Follow the rules.
• 6:21
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. So just read the signs. He has multiple signs that all mean something. Just make sure you read them before you do anything in says shush.
• 6:31
  Justin (GM): I found come to Avandria's cabin.
• 6:47
  Nick (Pat): Show me where it says that.
• 6:49
  Justin (GM): He flies over. Open up the envelope.
• 6:52
  Nick (Pat): Okay. Here you go.
• 6:53
  Justin (GM): Right there. Right at the top. Right at the start.
• 6:58
  Nick (Pat): Sound it out for me, Yanks.
• 7:00
  Justin (GM): Come to Evandria's cabin. Okay. At your next convenience.
• 7:05
  Eric (Bunky): I don't see that at all.
• 7:08
  Justin (GM): I don't have time to explain these things to you. I am busy studying. He goes back to his book. It's clearly like a smut romance novel that he's reading. There's like a half naked man on the front on like a unicorn.
• 7:22
  He just opens it up and continues reading.
• 7:24
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. So anyways, to get to the real point, I talked with my mother. I thought she would give us more information on the tree, and, you know, I I think we have to take a look if there are any runes, you know, on the part of the tree that was sliced off. And maybe we can somehow siphon some of the magical energy to those runes to allow it to maintain life force or something. She said something like that.
• 7:54
  Jamie (Eleanore): Oh my god. You're speaking a different language. Yeah. So Like, I'm I'm gonna struggle with that.
• 7:59
  Nick (Pat): So I've been kinda setting up the camper cabin and stuff. Where are we at with the piece of tree? Not with the what's left in the ground. Where are we left with the piece of the tree?
• 8:08
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, that's what I was saying.
• 8:09
  Nick (Pat): I studied the tree. The tree or the piece of the tree? The tree. The one that we're gonna send to X camp if we don't get our
• 8:16
  Kayla (Evandria): But we do have to avoid
• 8:17
  Nick (Pat): X camp.
• 8:18
  Kayla (Evandria): My mom said it's worth it's worth money and I think they'll probably just harvest it and sell it for parts. So we can't we can't let them take it.
• 8:26
  Nick (Pat): So what's our plan with it?
• 8:27
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, like I said, I think I think there might be runes even on that portion
• 8:33
  Evan (Mala): Okay.
• 8:33
  Kayla (Evandria): That was that was cleaved off.
• 8:36
  Nick (Pat): Okay.
• 8:37
  Kayla (Evandria): And maybe maybe we could allow it to grow by feeding energy towards those. But but I don't know, maybe Bunky Bunky was there. He talked to my mom a little.
• 8:48
  Jamie (Eleanore): I think what we could do just in the meantime to hide it, I could steal it and then Bunky could use his craft skills to paint it to look like a rock and I can put it in the garden in the bucket.
• 8:59
  Evan (Mala): Stewing is against camp rules. We shouldn't do that. That's very not okay.
• 9:02
  Jamie (Eleanore): Evandria, what do you think?
• 9:03
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, Mala, I need you to stop with the rules.
• 9:09
  Eric (Bunky): Mala, we don't we don't need to actually steal it. We could just borrow it and make sure that it stays where it belongs.
• 9:16
  Justin (GM): It's a pretty big branch. I mean, it's probably like 40 feet long. You're gonna disguise that as a rock?
• 9:22
  Kayla (Evandria): Well Yeah.
• 9:24
  Nick (Pat): So our plan is we convince so the time line is we convince Maisie for more time so he could figure it out. Our figuring it out is to steal it from Maisie Mazzie.
• 9:34
  Kayla (Evandria): I think something to do with the the fault lines and and Bunky might know more about I I think even if we just left it where it is, if we somehow feed the energy and of then the magic to it, it might be able to survive.
• 9:51
  Nick (Pat): Bunky?
• 9:53
  Eric (Bunky): I think there's a possibility of that at least and we're we're looking into other other options for it. We can, at the very least, we can keep it sustained on its own and we I I am confident that if they take it, it will not have success. I think it needs to be right here on the nexus of the ley lines otherwise it's going to lose even if it does repropagate, it's gonna lose its potency and I don't think that's good for this area at all.
• 10:28
  Nick (Pat): So what's our pitch to Mazzy?
• 10:30
  Jamie (Eleanore): So going off of what Evandria's mom said and what Bunky is saying and honestly, you know how I feel about Wendell but
• 10:41
  Evan (Mala): He's a creep.
• 10:42
  Eric (Bunky): Wait. Hold on. How do you feel about Wendell?
• 10:44
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. What's the deal with Wendell?
• 10:45
  Jamie (Eleanore): I admire him.
• 10:46
  Evan (Mala): No. Wendell
• 10:47
  Kayla (Evandria): is I feel like that wasn't what you based on how your face looked, I'm gonna need more information.
• 10:54
  Evan (Mala): Yeah. We had a conversation in the past couple of days about something I found out about the bucket.
• 10:59
  Nick (Pat): I guess we're all friends here. The bucket is evil
• 11:01
  Evan (Mala): and so is Wendell.
• 11:05
  Nick (Pat): Big.
• 11:06
  Eric (Bunky): I'm gonna need some details as to why that's the case.
• 11:10
  Evan (Mala): Well, I told Eleanor about it and then I haven't heard anything since.
• 11:15
  Jamie (Eleanore): Mala had some concerns about Wendell and so I went him to see if he could help me make some potions for the tree. Long story short, he was a little shady. And the things he he doesn't seem to have any respect for Maz. And that really came out of left field for me. And the way he kind of wax poetic about Astrid and I think he wants the tree part to go over to Camp X, it just didn't sit right with me.
• 11:47
  And, yeah, Mala said that, he felt like an energy coming from over there.
• 11:52
  Evan (Mala): Oh, no. There was an energy. I didn't feel it. I saw it.
• 11:56
  Jamie (Eleanore): Oh, okay. Okay.
• 11:57
  Evan (Mala): It was like a little tendril weaving its way out looking for someone or something to grab on.
• 12:02
  Kayla (Evandria): Was it going toward Camp X?
• 12:03
  Evan (Mala): Yeah. It was it was exploring our camp, I think it's a matter of time. And I already have hold of Wendell, and I think it's looking for, like, another host. So
• 12:11
  Nick (Pat): what did Wendell say about Mazzy? Was it about her, like, magic or was it about her?
• 12:17
  Jamie (Eleanore): It was about her. He he's very much he's very much, like, more of a fan of her dad, it seems like. Like, he's like, oh, the good old days. And he he doesn't seem to have any any faith he doesn't seem to have any faith in her, in her position. And he was kind of gossiping about about how he had to take over the questing ritual and just stuff that I wouldn't think would be something that even though we are technically we could be peers, I I feel like he shouldn't have been sharing that stuff with me.
• 12:58
  And it was just a little a little dicey, a little shady. And given what Mala found out, seeing the tendrils of, like, evil coming out of there, I I'm not saying that Wendell is definitely bad. I'm
• 13:15
  Evan (Mala): No. He's bad.
• 13:17
  Jamie (Eleanore): Mala thinks he's bad, but I agree with Mala to a certain extent that, like, we need to watch what we say around him and just have Matt's back.
• 13:28
  Nick (Pat): So we saw some evil down in the basement of the bucket.
• 13:32
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. The Leystone is the corrupted Leystone that we found last year, it's still down there. It's behind some kind of like arc arcane shield. No.
• 13:43
  Evan (Mala): Would I I know that detect evil couldn't have gotten through the arcane shield?
• 13:48
  Justin (GM): You don't know that because that's not necessarily true.
• 13:53
  Evan (Mala): I might have detected the leystone then. That may not be Wendell.
• 13:57
  Eric (Bunky): That that makes more sense to me because Wendell's never done anything wrong.
• 14:01
  Evan (Mala): It might be influencing Wendell though if it's been there for a whole year and he lives here.
• 14:07
  Eric (Bunky): I guess that's true.
• 14:08
  Kayla (Evandria): Guys, I think we need to get to that piece of the tree and as we walk over, I can tell you about what I found at Camp X when I snuck in.
• 14:16
  Nick (Pat): You snuck into Camp X. That's cool.
• 14:18
  Kayla (Evandria): Woah. Anyways
• 14:19
  Justin (GM): Woah. We snuck into
• 14:20
  Kayla (Evandria): Camp X. Sorry. Sorry. Actually, maybe he could tell you what happened at Camp X when we snuck in.
• 14:28
  Justin (GM): Well, I was like, Evandria, we should sneak in to Camp X. And she was like, no. X Camp is like kind of kinda scary and I don't wanna go back there. And I was like, no, Evandria, it'll be fine. Don't worry about it.
• 14:44
  And so, eventually, I was able to convince her and so I got us a boat and we went over there
• 14:50
  Kayla (Evandria): and Okay. Okay. And then hold on. And then I was like, no. I actually think that we should do we should investigate this this big building that we saw.
• 15:01
  And Yanks was like, no. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just scared. I don't
• 15:05
  Jamie (Eleanore): know. Valencia.
• 15:07
  Kayla (Evandria): And I was like, I don't think we have to be scared here. I'll hold your hand. So I held his hand.
• 15:12
  Justin (GM): Which explains why she broke her lock picking set inside of the pretty simple to open lock. Honestly, it was really embarrassing. I think it she was probably trying for, like, ten seconds before I heard a giant snap. And honestly, I think she left her lockpick inside there, which is definitely gonna be a clue for them to find out that someone was trying to break in. Oh, wait.
• 15:31
  Also, used her axe to hack into the locked door. Totally did a ton of banterism.
• 15:37
  Kayla (Evandria): Yanks wrote his name on the wall, so it's not like they'll they'll be unaware that it was us. So anyways, if anybody asks, it wasn't us, it was clones. It wasn't there was no way we could have done it.
• 15:49
  Justin (GM): Totally not us.
• 15:50
  Eric (Bunky): Did you say clones?
• 15:51
  Kayla (Evandria): What? Yeah. Yeah. It was just a joke, Bunky.
• 15:55
  Eric (Bunky): Oh. Okay. Never mind then.
• 15:57
  Justin (GM): Why? Well, did write I did write my name on the wall. Yeah.
• 16:00
  Eric (Bunky): Oh, because if they have access to clone magic, then I it might be important to see what else they have going on over there. So I'm in support of any kind of infiltration of
• 16:12
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, well, they have a Thunderdome.
• 16:14
  Jamie (Eleanore): But you didn't find clone magic.
• 16:16
  Evan (Mala): What's a Thunderdome?
• 16:17
  Justin (GM): It's the name of this giant building over there.
• 16:19
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. And that's the building that I found.
• 16:22
  Justin (GM): And then I used to summon giant fire versions of myself that are equally powerful to how I am.
• 16:28
  Kayla (Evandria): I just told them they were of him.
• 16:30
  Nick (Pat): Are you guys okay?
• 16:31
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. Is that we're fine. We're We're fine.
• 16:34
  Justin (GM): Everything's fine.
• 16:35
  Nick (Pat): This is normal? Yeah.
• 16:37
  Kayla (Evandria): This is tense.
• 16:38
  Nick (Pat): Weird energy.
• 16:40
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah.
• 16:43
  Justin (GM): Woah. Woah.
• 16:43
  Kayla (Evandria): It's funky. Who is that?
• 16:45
  Justin (GM): What is that?
• 16:45
  Kayla (Evandria): Who is that thing?
• 16:47
  Eric (Bunky): Oh, this is this is Garnish. Oh, you haven't met garnish yet.
• 16:50
  Nick (Pat): What is that?
• 16:51
  Eric (Bunky): This Garnish is my familiar.
• 16:54
  Kayla (Evandria): What is What?
• 16:55
  Nick (Pat): How big is garnish? Remind me.
• 16:57
  Eric (Bunky): Garnish is approximately four or five inches.
• 17:02
  Nick (Pat): Okay. Yeah. Half bunky?
• 17:04
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. A quarter bunky. Quarter bunky. Quarter bunky. Yeah.
• 17:09
  Nick (Pat): That's unsettling too. There's a lot going on.
• 17:11
  Eric (Bunky): He didn't he didn't mean anything by that though.
• 17:13
  Nick (Pat): I don't know what he said. Okay. So, what's our plan? You mentioned Amanda mentioned walking over to the piece of the tree. What's our plan when we get to said piece of tree?
• 17:27
  Kayla (Evandria): Find the fault in the ground and try to get the magic into it.
• 17:31
  Evan (Mala): What about a fault in the ground?
• 17:33
  Eric (Bunky): The ley line. Find find the ley line and, like, try to channel it in.
• 17:37
  Evan (Mala): Okay. I think I think Mazi has a map, and I have a master key. We might be able to just go into her office. We're getting into really sketchy territory, though, guys. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this.
• 17:46
  Jamie (Eleanore): We did tell Mazzy we wanted to try working on it though, so I think we could be
• 17:49
  Kayla (Evandria): open with her. I think we should just start doing it.
• 17:52
  Eric (Bunky): Let's go.
• 17:53
  Evan (Mala): Should I go grab the map? I'll go get the map.
• 17:57
  Justin (GM): So you go grab a map of the various ley lines And ley lines are not really attached to any form of the material realm. So some of them are in the ground, some of them are air. They really don't necessarily align with any physical space in the world. The actual large piece of the spirit tree is being kept near the Evergreen Center, and so you'll have to head that direction. It's not being kept inside at all.
• 18:26
  It's too much too large to fit inside of any building. It's just kind of been put next to a it's actually been put next to a like a burnt out charred stump because the the nutrients of the burnt stump will do the chunk of tree a lot of help and good just for a temporary time. So it's kind of been strapped along this burnt piece of ground where the ash and the embers have kind of been dug up and provide a somewhat stable ground. The the tree is kind of leaning up. It's probably 20 feet, 30 feet tall from base to top.
• 19:09
  You can see that a lot of the leaves at the top of this fragment of the tree are starting to brown already, even in the few days that it has been segmented off. Patrick is currently inside the Evergreen Center and you guys are just outside.
• 19:26
  Nick (Pat): Do you want me to go chitchat Patrick up while you guys fool around or do you think we need to do that?
• 19:31
  Evan (Mala): Well, we need to plan where we're taking it first.
• 19:33
  Nick (Pat): We have the map. Are we we're taking it?
• 19:35
  Evan (Mala): Well, we're putting into a ley line. Oh.
• 19:37
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, there's there's ley lines all around. Somehow. Get
• 19:41
  Evan (Mala): it be in a really good spot.
• 19:44
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. Yeah. Do you happen to know you have the map?
• 19:48
  Evan (Mala): Yeah. The closest one's in the Great Woods, just like maybe 20 feet in is a decent way line.
• 19:52
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay. Great. How much does this weigh?
• 19:58
  Justin (GM): 500 pounds?
• 19:59
  Jamie (Eleanore): I have a carrying capacity of 600.
• 20:03
  Justin (GM): Yeah. That seems fair. Woah. You can definitely drag it.
• 20:05
  Jamie (Eleanore): Drag Yeah.
• 20:07
  Evan (Mala): I We can we can co carry it.
• 20:09
  Eric (Bunky): And Bunky will be there.
• 20:11
  Justin (GM): The ley line that is closest to the Great Woods, the one that you were referencing, is a divination ley line.
• 20:22
  Kayla (Evandria): Hey, Bunky. Yeah? Do you happen to know what ley line the original tree was connected to?
• 20:31
  Eric (Bunky): Can I take a history or archive? You can
• 20:34
  Justin (GM): just look at the map. It's a cross point of like 12 different ley lines.
• 20:39
  Eric (Bunky): It's a kinda all of them.
• 20:41
  Jamie (Eleanore): Is there I don't know enough about magic kinds. Is there like a restorative magic that we could find Leila and that's like restorative?
• 20:50
  Kayla (Evandria): A growth magic?
• 20:51
  Jamie (Eleanore): Like instead of divination?
• 20:53
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah, Bunky. What's a growth magic?
• 20:56
  Eric (Bunky): Like a restoration like a restoration tree.
• 21:00
  Nick (Pat): Where's a druid teacher when you need one? You know what
• 21:02
  Kayla (Evandria): I mean? Yeah.
• 21:04
  Evan (Mala): I mean, I use divine magic. Is that a ley line?
• 21:07
  Jamie (Eleanore): I don't know. Probably. That's this ley line. This divination. Divination.
• 21:14
  Evan (Mala): Divine is like God's, divinations not God's.
• 21:17
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay.
• 21:18
  Nick (Pat): Future.
• 21:19
  Eric (Bunky): I think I think for now, the divination one will be okay at least to get it started, and then once it once it starts to have some recovery, we can try to reconnect it with with another one.
• 21:34
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. I trust you, Bunky.
• 21:36
  Eric (Bunky): Or we could just drag it along and hope something takes root somewhere.
• 21:40
  Kayla (Evandria): I think way worse.
• 21:44
  Evan (Mala): I think being some getting this done and getting in the
• 21:46
  Kayla (Evandria): bring it back to the center and stick it down in the middle of the 12?
• 21:53
  Jamie (Eleanore): Top of the tree.
• 21:54
  Evan (Mala): And then they
• 21:55
  Kayla (Evandria): just like right next to it.
• 21:57
  Nick (Pat): Double tree.
• 21:57
  Evan (Mala): I think it's important we keep really calm minds here and a very
• 22:03
  Kayla (Evandria): is not feeling calm anymore.
• 22:05
  Eric (Bunky): Doubletree would be the best option. We are
• 22:07
  Kayla (Evandria): running out of time.
• 22:09
  Nick (Pat): Doubletree sounds cool too. If you can't have one big tree, Doubletree's I mean, a good second bet.
• 22:14
  Kayla (Evandria): But if they wanna Big v for victory. That's an
• 22:16
  Evan (Mala): easy spot to find it. I was thinking
• 22:18
  Eric (Bunky): for them to take it from the woods though because it's outside of campgrounds.
• 22:22
  Kayla (Evandria): Avandria marches over and just her four foot tall ninety pound self just starts tugging on the tree, she's going nowhere.
• 22:31
  Justin (GM): Give me eyes. Yeah. You're going nowhere. No check required.
• 22:34
  Kayla (Evandria): But she just grabs it and she's like, I'm taking it. And you can just see her literally still with one hand forward and the other attached to the tree attempting to pull this tree towards the center of camp.
• 22:48
  Eric (Bunky): Bunky goes and tries to assist providing zero assistance, but trying real hard.
• 22:55
  Kayla (Evandria): Come on, guys. Come on.
• 22:57
  Nick (Pat): Hey, Patrick. Oh. How's it going?
• 23:00
  Justin (GM): Oh. Good. How are you guys?
• 23:02
  Nick (Pat): Good. Good workout this morning.
• 23:04
  Justin (GM): Oh, I agree. I think you're getting your mile down to almost nine minutes. That's pretty good.
• 23:09
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. I'm still digesting that smoothie.
• 23:11
  Justin (GM): Hey, listen. Getting that new smoothie machine was a great call. I had no idea. You're right. They don't have to have so much chew to them.
• 23:18
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. Yeah. It's you get those nutrients a lot faster.
• 23:21
  Justin (GM): Are you excited for the campers to arrive today?
• 23:24
  Nick (Pat): To oh, today. That's right.
• 23:26
  Justin (GM): Yeah. At
• 23:27
  Nick (Pat): noon. Absolutely. Absolutely stoked.
• 23:30
  Justin (GM): I saw that you're in charge of icebreaker games.
• 23:34
  Nick (Pat): You saw that?
• 23:35
  Justin (GM): I did. Yeah.
• 23:36
  Nick (Pat): Pastor's daggers at Mawla. You really I'm in charge of icebreaker games?
• 23:40
  Evan (Mala): You really connect with the campers. You seem kind of like an all persons kind of guy.
• 23:44
  Kayla (Evandria): I could have done icebreakers.
• 23:45
  Jamie (Eleanore): Man of the
• 23:46
  Nick (Pat): You wanna train?
• 23:46
  Evan (Mala): That's not what's on the schedule. I'm
• 23:47
  Justin (GM): What? Followed Oh. You're all here. Hello.
• 23:50
  Nick (Pat): Hi. Boy, howdy. What's up to Patrick? Hi, Patrick.
• 23:54
  Justin (GM): Oh, I'm, you know, just getting some of the the easier to handle animals around in case some of the campers wanna do a little bit of a animal petting farm at all. And sometimes, you know, campers will bring family members and it's nice for them to, you know, see some of the rarer animals as well.
• 24:09
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. I thought we could put out a Pengalina.
• 24:12
  Justin (GM): A Porcelina?
• 24:13
  Jamie (Eleanore): No. I hope you heard what she said.
• 24:16
  Nick (Pat): You're right. You're right. Pengalina.
• 24:18
  Justin (GM): I I shouldn't correct. I've been working on this. I shouldn't correct.
• 24:22
  Kayla (Evandria): I thought we could just put one out for them to have fun with.
• 24:24
  Justin (GM): I will look into our Pengalina stash. Evandria, shouldn't you be getting your swimsuit on? Are you in
• 24:30
  Kayla (Evandria): charge of swim test? I am going to test those kids.
• 24:37
  Justin (GM): From the beach?
• 24:38
  Kayla (Evandria): From the land. That's dangerous. Test.
• 24:42
  Justin (GM): That's gotta be feel like you should be in the water with them.
• 24:45
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. Well, I feel like if they can't already swim, then we don't really want them passing their exams anyway. So they're kinda disposable to me.
• 24:55
  Eric (Bunky): Woah. Woah. Woah. We need we need all of them to pass.
• 24:57
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. Fine. Fine. I'll get in the water. Evandria,
• 25:00
  Jamie (Eleanore): can you swim?
• 25:01
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, you know what? We'll see.
• 25:03
  Evan (Mala): Patrick, we have some stuff to do. We just wanna check-in and make sure everything was going okay.
• 25:07
  Justin (GM): Oh, things are going great.
• 25:08
  Evan (Mala): It. Yeah. Do you need help with the animals that I could I could help you with?
• 25:12
  Justin (GM): Well, no. I think I can handle the pangolina by myself.
• 25:14
  Evan (Mala): I think I heard on the far end of the pasture, one of the pangolinas were screeching. You might wanna go check on that.
• 25:21
  Justin (GM): Give me a deception check.
• 25:25
  Kayla (Evandria): Four.
• 25:28
  Justin (GM): Well, screeching? Oh, I for sure hear a screeching pangolina. They have like that double vocal cord. It's like it hits some crazy notes. I don't think maybe you hear something else.
• 25:38
  Maybe like it's just a squirrel?
• 25:40
  Evan (Mala): It's probably a squirrel, I think it's in the pen. Oh. Maybe the penguiners are eating the squirrel. Oh. Well, they're herbivores, so
• 25:47
  Justin (GM): that would be horrible. I should probably go check that out. I'll be right back. He goes away. He is going to come right back.
• 25:54
  You know this immediately. He's going to see that there is no squirrel and go he's going to come right back.
• 25:58
  Evan (Mala): Guys, I'm so good at lying. Totally fell
• 26:00
  Kayla (Evandria): time is it? Thank God he left. Help me
• 26:02
  Justin (GM): with Ten this thirty. You don't have much time.
• 26:05
  Nick (Pat): Now or never. What are we doing? Where are we going? Doubletree or outside tree?
• 26:08
  Evan (Mala): I've been out voted. Doubletree it is.
• 26:10
  Jamie (Eleanore): Doubletree. I start dragging. You
• 26:14
  Justin (GM): guys start carrying it across camp. Everyone give me an athletics check. You're going to carry it no matter what. This is just a matter of how graceful, how effective, and if you damage it any further.
• 26:26
  Evan (Mala): Thirteen, twelve.
• 26:29
  Kayla (Evandria): Nat twenty, twenty three.
• 26:31
  Jamie (Eleanore): Great. 11.
• 26:33
  Justin (GM): I think it is a you successfully do it. I think it takes a hot minute for you guys to get coordinated. There's a lot of start and stopping as you guys as some people go a little bit faster than others, but eventually you guys get a good cadence and you march it across camp. Everyone is pretty focused on getting ready for the arrival of probably close to 200 people. If a lot of campers bring family members for the first day, they arrive, they say good their byes.
• 27:00
  There's a lot of registration processes that happen. Mala, you're in charge of cabin assignments. Bunky, you're in charge of registration. There's a lot that has to go on today. And so you see a lot of the professional staff kind of getting things set up and you guys are carrying this massive tree branch across camp.
• 27:22
  And you arrive at the spirit tree itself. And even as you get closer, your hands start to feel like the spirit tree itself is getting lighter and warmer as it gets closer to the center of camp, which is where the spirit tree and the leyline nexus is. What do you do?
• 27:47
  Jamie (Eleanore): It feels lighter?
• 27:49
  Justin (GM): Lighter. Yes. As almost like as when you guys are walking and you just kinda naturally move up and down, there's like almost like a bit of a bounce in its step.
• 27:56
  Kayla (Evandria): Woah. Woah. Guys, are you feeling this?
• 27:59
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. By the time we get to the tree, I think it'll be buoyant enough that we can just lift it up and maybe put it on top.
• 28:06
  Eric (Bunky): I can I can do my mending on it?
• 28:09
  Nick (Pat): Alright. Pat ties a rope to one end of it. Alright. We're gonna plant one end. We're gonna pull on the other end to get it upright.
• 28:17
  Kayla (Evandria): Hoist it?
• 28:18
  Nick (Pat): Hoist it up. We're gonna hoist one end up so it gets vertical and we'll lift
• 28:22
  Kayla (Evandria): And and try and attach try a chain and grab from the top.
• 28:25
  Nick (Pat): Probably don't need the other weight on the top we're trying to get up.
• 28:28
  Kayla (Evandria): The the tree that's currently in
• 28:30
  Nick (Pat): Oh, ground. Yes. I can
• 28:31
  Kayla (Evandria): try and grab for. Absolutely. Okay. Great.
• 28:34
  Nick (Pat): Okay. Ready? One, two, 3. Okay.
• 28:40
  Justin (GM): Great. I'm gonna ask for five checks and you guys can choose who does what. I need an arcana check.
• 28:49
  Eric (Bunky): Got it.
• 28:51
  Justin (GM): A nature check.
• 28:53
  Nick (Pat): I have disadvantage right now because of stress. So I can't I think that's a bad idea.
• 28:58
  Kayla (Evandria): I have a plus one in nature but I have a feeling if I'm jumping up a tree, there may be one that's better for me. Yeah. I have
• 29:06
  Jamie (Eleanore): a I have a plus two in nature. I'll
• 29:08
  Nick (Pat): do Great. I have a zero and disadvantage. A religion check.
• 29:13
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, that's not everything.
• 29:15
  Nick (Pat): I have a minus one. I have two.
• 29:18
  Justin (GM): A survival check and a persuasion check. Oh, Jesus. They're all bad.
• 29:22
  Jamie (Eleanore): I have
• 29:22
  Kayla (Evandria): plus two. Really? Persuasion.
• 29:24
  Jamie (Eleanore): Religion, survival, and nature, have a plus two. So, whatever one out of those three.
• 29:30
  Nick (Pat): That I have a zero to religion, so that's probably my best I can offer to add something at this point.
• 29:35
  Kayla (Evandria): I'll do nature.
• 29:36
  Evan (Mala): I'll do precision or persuasion. Great.
• 29:38
  Kayla (Evandria): And then what does that leave survival? You have a plus two in? Yes. Okay.
• 29:43
  Justin (GM): Okay. Alright. We'll start start with the survival check. 17. Yes.
• 29:51
  You needed a 20. What's As you set up the tree, you start trying to align the grains of the tree together and try to affix the tree to the pieces. It's like putting together a puzzle piece and just like two giant puzzle pieces. But between the natural buoyancy, which does help you lift it up, it quickly becomes a deterrence as it kind of naturally doesn't want to be placed down. You get it into a somewhat decent position, but you know that it's not quite right and this counts as just a general failure.
• 30:33
  It might work still overall, but your contribution is not quite right.
• 30:37
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay, guys. I I can hold it here, but it is not lined up.
• 30:42
  Justin (GM): Next up, I need a nature check.
• 30:48
  Kayla (Evandria): Nine.
• 30:50
  Justin (GM): You needed an 18. The It's hard to tell which pieces of the old tree are good to attach and which ones need to be cleared at this point. It is a lot happening and there are pieces of the old tree that have definitely been removed. I think there was a, know, that large piece that Mala had healed off, and that was definitely doing a lot of lifting, which is why this is a slightly lower check. But, there is a lot of complex you're trying to graft together a tree in secret, hiding it from other people very very quickly.
• 31:28
  So you're kind of trying to make this work in a very delicate process very quickly. That is another failure. Next up, I need a religion check.
• 31:43
  Nick (Pat): That's a seven but I would like to use my heroic inspiration as a human. Okay. Let's reroll it. That's five and I would like to can I use my action surge to
• 31:52
  Justin (GM): do it again? I'll accept using an action surge again.
• 31:55
  Nick (Pat): That's a two and I'm going to use I'm gonna use tactical mind to use my second wind. Let's do it one more time. And that is a 15 plus zero. It's 15.
• 32:06
  Justin (GM): You needed an 18.
• 32:08
  Evan (Mala): I don't
• 32:09
  Justin (GM): I think you immediately get a sense now that the physical pieces of the tree are together, you get a sense of something deeper here. There is not a presence. This tree is not necessarily a sentient creature in the sense of like a high intelligence, but there is definitely something deeper here. There have been countless summers of people, not just from camp. The ley line nexus existed long before camp ever did.
• 32:36
  There have been people who have worshipped at the foot of this tree for generations and generations and that just naturally in stills in this tree some sort of divine energy. And the cracks, the faults in this tree are now seeking some type of alignment. And I think Pat feels all of that weight of years and years and years of worship, years and years of prayer pushing down on him, and is frankly overwhelmed by the idea trying to kind of piece those together. You almost get a sense of it.
• 33:17
  Nick (Pat): Do I kind of either do a check for this or do I get a sense that if we continue on this path we're going to do more harm than good?
• 33:23
  Justin (GM): I think if you fail every single check, it will do more harm than good. If you pass at least one, you'll be fine.
• 33:32
  Nick (Pat): I'm gonna holler at everybody as like, I just expended every extra thing that Pat has in him and still fails. Was like, this might go bad if we continue to go bad. If we want to get out, we can get out. Does anyone feel confident right now?
• 33:46
  Kayla (Evandria): I think Bunkie has it guys.
• 33:48
  Nick (Pat): I feel pretty good. You feel confident? I feel pretty good. Okay.
• 33:51
  Kayla (Evandria): Bunkie knows the tree and you you already shoved life into it, Mala.
• 33:55
  Evan (Mala): I was gonna do it again.
• 33:56
  Kayla (Evandria): Perfect. Perfect. Okay. Evandria's at the top of the tree just going, perfect. This is perfect.
• 34:03
  Arms just flailing about. This is the most disheveled she has ever looked to We're being so secretive.
• 34:11
  Nick (Pat): And her kids are
• 34:11
  Kayla (Evandria): like has
• 34:13
  Justin (GM): No. You've still got
• 34:13
  Kayla (Evandria): three levels of stress from this week. She is saying that she's being secretive. Zero secrets are happening for her right now.
• 34:23
  Justin (GM): Next, I need persuasion. I'm letting you know that this is the lowest of the checks. It is just a 16.
• 34:29
  Evan (Mala): I would like to cast full lay on hands into the tree as I'm talking to it to kind of like force of will it to accept this graft. And then I would also like to use one cure wounds if I'm allowed to like flavor that as in like kind of mixing it with my lay on
• 34:47
  Justin (GM): hands. I will allow this. I will essentially allow you to roll an extra d eight. However, you get the sense, you know that there's a vacuum there. And if you put into that vacuum and you still fail, it will take more from you than you give it.
• 35:08
  Evan (Mala): I'm also gonna then cast bless on myself and Bunky.
• 35:12
  Justin (GM): I think you cannot cast that many spells all at once. You can do these things.
• 35:16
  Evan (Mala): I'm gonna bless before I do all
• 35:18
  Justin (GM): of that then. You can do these things or it that's it.
• 35:22
  Evan (Mala): A d eight plus. Am I okay to do this guys or should I stop?
• 35:26
  Eric (Bunky): I'd say let's do it. We're we're this far.
• 35:28
  Evan (Mala): Yeah. But if I lose something, it's gonna be bad. I feel like there's something missing in the tree and it's trying to take from us. 14. I don't have anything else I can add.
• 35:45
  Can my phoenix give me the help action?
• 35:48
  Justin (GM): It will take more from you than you give.
• 35:56
  Evan (Mala): Okay. That's a 21. That's going to destroy you. There's sweat going down Mala's face as he's just like pushing all this divine magic into it, like, please work
• 36:06
  Justin (GM): push all of this divine magic in and you feel it tug on you, it immediately starts pulling on this divine energy. You feel a lack of confidence in yourself, a lack of confidence in camp. The your vision narrows. The edges of your sight turn black. I think you immediately take a level of exhaustion.
• 36:33
  And before you blackout, Xh'ar lands on your shoulder and the warmth of the phoenix kind of brings you back just a little bit and you pull back harder. I think in this moment, you were willing to give a lot. And I think you realize that you have to be controlled in this moment. And you persuade you actually, I think, are persuading it maybe to calm. You are, in this instance, providing assistance, but also kind of the way when a person is in shock, you have to be the calm one.
• 37:18
  This tree is taking from you because it is desperately in need. And you realize that you have to be the calm one. You are still giving to it, but you have to remain calm and collected. That is a success.
• 37:32
  Evan (Mala): I will put my like head against it as I finish and just whisper to the tree like I told you I would not fail you again. Then back away.
• 37:40
  Justin (GM): The last check. The hardest check.
• 37:45
  Eric (Bunky): So I rolled when when after we all had decided on our things because I thought we were all rolling simultaneously. I've not touched the dice since.
• 37:53
  Justin (GM): Okay.
• 37:54
  Eric (Bunky): Is that an accepted roll? Yeah. I'll accept it. 27.
• 37:57
  Justin (GM): You needed to beat a 25. I think particularly for those of you who lack more magical skills, maybe you've seen at night, in the dead of night, when there is a new moon. So at its most dark, you have occasionally seen a ley line. It looks a lot like an aurora borealis where the color changing light shifts through the air, but less high up. Sometimes they are high in the air because the ley lines can exist anywhere.
• 38:32
  But sometimes they exist low to the ground and can shift around much much closer. But in this moment, Bunky, describe what you do and I'll describe how the ley lines react. So Bunky
• 38:49
  Eric (Bunky): stretches out both of his arms towards the tree and lets the magic kinda just flow out of him, pouring some of his own essence into it. And what we see is several lights of different colors all weaving weaving together as if forming a rope, a multi colored rope cycling around the tree and the limb to to hold it together.
• 39:25
  Nick (Pat): Are the colors good? The colors are cool. Are the colors good?
• 39:28
  Eric (Bunky): These are They're beautiful colors. Oh, you got purples and oranges and blues and greens. There's all all sorts of colors coming through for others.
• 39:38
  Jamie (Eleanore): Can I step back?
• 39:39
  Eric (Bunky): I think, yes. Go ahead, try stepping back.
• 39:44
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay. Eleanor slowly steps back and then let's go.
• 39:50
  Justin (GM): For a brief moment, the tree holds. The ley lines are wrapped around the entirety of the tree. Greens, blues, silvers, and golds weaved together almost like a friendship bracelet crafted the craft cabin, holding it all together. And the silver edges of the leaves on both parts of the tree shimmer in synchronization for a brief second. And then you hear a carnival.
• 40:35
  Five checks. And slowly, the piece falls off of the side of the tree.
• 40:49
  Jamie (Eleanore): Does it stay in one piece?
• 40:50
  Justin (GM): It does stay in one piece. You did not fail all of the checks so no further damage was done.
• 40:58
  Nick (Pat): And we got energy for Doubletree?
• 41:00
  Justin (GM): What is going on here? As you hear Mazzy's voice behind you.
• 41:07
  Jamie (Eleanore): Mazzy, it's we were working on it like we told you we were going to. We are trying to fix it and and look, it almost worked. It can be mended. We can't separate this part from the tree because we can mend it.
• 41:20
  Justin (GM): Do you have any idea how dangerous what you were doing is?
• 41:24
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. Mala almost got the life sucked out of him.
• 41:27
  Justin (GM): I think Mala looks like shit. Yeah. Mala has a level of exhaustion.
• 41:30
  Evan (Mala): Like, I was sweating. Yeah. I'm probably out of breath. I'm actually, like, leaning up against the tree just, sleeping.
• 41:35
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. I think we understand how how serious this is.
• 41:39
  Justin (GM): I have never been more furious at the five of you in my life. Evandria, come down from that tree this instant.
• 41:49
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. Here I come. She's like slowly starts climbing down. Like it's like
• 42:00
  Justin (GM): It's painfully awkward.
• 42:01
  Kayla (Evandria): Like a dog when you tell it to sit and it like looks at you and it like halfway sits, but you can tell it's so slow and defiant. That's, like, her coming down. She's like, okay. I'm climbing.
• 42:16
  Justin (GM): I had a mind to keep this here. I thought that I could maybe find the extra time with your help to maybe find a way. But if you're going to go behind my back, if you're if you cannot trust me to know what it is you're trying to do, then I see that I have no choice. If my own staff aren't on my team, you think I can keep this here?
• 42:49
  Jamie (Eleanore): We are on your team. We are behind you. We know you're stressed. You told us we could work on this and that's what we have been doing.
• 42:58
  Justin (GM): It doesn't feel like
• 42:59
  Jamie (Eleanore): We're doing it in support of you.
• 43:03
  Kayla (Evandria): We
• 43:05
  Eric (Bunky): were just trying to fix it and make it better.
• 43:08
  Jamie (Eleanore): And Doubletree was Ivandrea's idea.
• 43:11
  Justin (GM): I don't care whose idea it was. That is honestly the least of my concerns at this moment. Mala, please go to Annalor in Herthal. I I'm concerned that you are unwell. Will someone please take Mala to Hearth Hall and check with Anna Lord?
• 43:34
  Evan (Mala): I'm fine. I can get there myself.
• 43:36
  Justin (GM): We have campers arriving in an hour. I need you all to go to your stations and be ready. Do you understand? I need an affirmative from each of you right now. Yep.
• 43:52
  Eric (Bunky): Yes. Understand.
• 43:53
  Kayla (Evandria): We can't let them take the tree.
• 43:56
  Justin (GM): That's my decision. Do you understand that, Evandria?
• 43:59
  Kayla (Evandria): We can't let them. They'll sell it for parts.
• 44:02
  Justin (GM): They're not gonna sell it? Oh my What gave you that idea?
• 44:06
  Kayla (Evandria): My mother.
• 44:07
  Justin (GM): And yes, she's the most reliable source. That was not fair of me. I apologize.
• 44:16
  Kayla (Evandria): She gave me the idea to sell it for parts. She is the one who sent me to Camp X to begin with. So of course, anything that she thinks is exactly what they would be thinking too. I am All I'm saying is that I'm giving you the information and you should think about it. Because the fate of this camp lies in your hands, not mine.
• 44:39
  I've had it.
• 44:40
  Justin (GM): You think I don't think about that constantly? I am working with Channing and the other staff of XCamp to work on an agreement where myself and you all can use the facilities of XCamp to facilitate the regrafting of this tree.
• 45:03
  Kayla (Evandria): Evandria whips around. Have they told you about all the facilities?
• 45:06
  Justin (GM): No. That is not on the agenda of our conversations.
• 45:10
  Kayla (Evandria): So we could just use any of their facilities. That's what you're trying to do?
• 45:14
  Justin (GM): No. I'm just giving you access to their greenhouse where the each of you can use it as an opportunity to rehabilitate the tree. Is this not what you wanted? Is this not what we all want?
• 45:24
  Kayla (Evandria): We want to rehabilitate the tree here.
• 45:27
  Justin (GM): I don't know if you've looked around, but camp do anything doesn't really scream state of the art facilities. We don't really have what it takes to rehabilitate a spirit tree.
• 45:38
  Jamie (Eleanore): I think part of what we need to rehabilitate it is the tree itself. I don't think we can split them and successfully work on the lone piece.
• 45:51
  Justin (GM): I hear you and I want to ready this tree as a staging ground for that work. That is my number one priority. And I need you all to be focused on the campers so that I can focus on this.
• 46:05
  Kayla (Evandria): You're probably right and I'm probably wrong. I probably know nothing about the tree. It's true. But I just have a horrible feeling about the motivations behind offering to help us over at Camp X.
• 46:17
  Justin (GM): Trust me. I don't trust them any farther than I can throw them. I take that back. I could probably throw several of them very far.
• 46:25
  Nick (Pat): Hell, yeah.
• 46:26
  Justin (GM): I share the same concerns that you do and that is why I've worked so hard to ensure that you all and myself have access to the facilities at our choosing when we want to, to check-in on the tree when we want to. They are giving us a lot in this moment.
• 46:48
  Kayla (Evandria): At what cost?
• 46:51
  Justin (GM): As of right now, none.
• 46:55
  Eric (Bunky): That feels I don't like it, but it does feel like the best deal we'll get out of it.
• 47:05
  Jamie (Eleanore): Well, I can't see you changing your mind. Eleanor walks away and just walks towards the bucket.
• 47:14
  Evan (Mala): I wouldn't leave the tree there.
• 47:19
  Justin (GM): I appreciate your thoughts on this Mala. I really do. And I have you in the front of the line to help me prep this tree, this part of the tree for regrafting.
• 47:33
  Evan (Mala): Oh, no. I mean, the piece on the ground. I wouldn't leave it there.
• 47:36
  Justin (GM): Oh. Well, yeah. I'm definitely not going to do that. They're coming later today to pick it up.
• 47:42
  Evan (Mala): No. I mean, you should you should move it now.
• 47:46
  Justin (GM): Yes. I'll get on that. I'll clean up your mess. The next hour passes slowly, intensely. I think you all are in a well, I won't tell you what mindset you're in, but I'll tell you what mindset you need to be in in less than an hour.
• 48:09
  You have campers arriving. You need to be 100% happy, 100% welcoming, and 100% game face on. Everyone give me a performance check, a deception check, or a persuasion check of your choice to give me your game face for these campers. Deception, performance, or persuasion?
• 48:37
  Jamie (Eleanore): 10. Nine. 13. 19.
• 48:40
  Nick (Pat): 18.
• 48:42
  Justin (GM): I'm not setting a DC for pass or fail. I think your numbers speak for what you give to these campers. The rest of the day goes by in a blur. There are so many campers, so many jobs to do, so many parents and siblings that frankly you barely have time to fully process what happened before the campers arrived. And that's made doubly true because Mazzy and the other staff are doing everything they can to pretend like it did not happen so long as the parents are there and registering their students.
• 49:24
  The first day of camp, is incredibly important to put on that, welcome to camp face to really start the experience off at an eleven. And so the day goes by high energy. There 's constantly animated instruments playing music. You are leading icebreaker games. You're leading the swim test.
• 49:45
  You're getting campers snacks and snow cones. You're registering them, showing them their cabins. You are already, pretty exhausted, some of you, beforehand and later, find yourselves, doubly so. And finally, the end of the day comes. Many of the campers have made their way most of the campers have made their way to their cabins.
• 50:12
  The last few are grabbing grabbing some snacks from Anna Lohr at Hearth Hall, the older campers are, and she is kind of taking responsibility for them. They are allowed to stay up a little bit later. She is giving them, like, a late night snack and letting them sit out on the dock, that leads to the Stelleshaw River, and you all finally have a time to breathe. The night is well lit. It is a clear night.
• 50:44
  The moon is half waxing, and the cool air is warmed by a fire that kind of is in the middle of the four of your cabins. And you all definitely still have some nighttime responsibilities. I don't know, Mala, you're in charge of who is responsible tonight for the first round of hall monitoring as it were, but aside from that, I think you all really just the biggest thing you have to do is prepare for the next day. So this is your first time to breathe since this midday event.
• 51:25
  Evan (Mala): Evangelia is on hall monitor duty.
• 51:28
  Kayla (Evandria): What now?
• 51:28
  Evan (Mala): You're on hall monitor duty.
• 51:31
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, I thought you were.
• 51:33
  Evan (Mala): No. I put you on the schedule.
• 51:36
  Kayla (Evandria): For what reason?
• 51:38
  Evan (Mala): Because you seem the most energetic this morning. To me. Because the kids are terrified of you and they will get it through their heads that they need to stay in their cabins on the first day.
• 51:46
  Kayla (Evandria): Fine.
• 51:48
  Evan (Mala): Oh, that was easy. That was the easiest argument I've ever won. Oh
• 51:50
  Nick (Pat): my god.
• 51:51
  Kayla (Evandria): Dare think I am for one second actually doing it.
• 51:57
  Evan (Mala): Well, they just need to
• 51:58
  Kayla (Evandria): think that you're doing on that list. Put my name down.
• 52:02
  Evan (Mala): Every Monday night?
• 52:04
  Kayla (Evandria): You can put my name down every night.
• 52:09
  Evan (Mala): I'm not gonna do that.
• 52:11
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. Yanks?
• 52:14
  Evan (Mala): Yeah.
• 52:16
  Kayla (Evandria): When do you think we play a fun little hall monitor game tonight?
• 52:19
  Justin (GM): I love that game. How do I play?
• 52:21
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. You just stand
• 52:23
  Evan (Mala): Uh-huh.
• 52:23
  Kayla (Evandria): In a corner.
• 52:24
  Justin (GM): Can I hover? Yep. Okay.
• 52:26
  Kayla (Evandria): For the night. Okay. And
• 52:28
  Jamie (Eleanore): if anybody
• 52:29
  Justin (GM): Any corner?
• 52:31
  Kayla (Evandria): In the
• 52:33
  Evan (Mala): Northwestern corner.
• 52:34
  Kayla (Evandria): Northwestern corner.
• 52:36
  Justin (GM): Okay.
• 52:36
  Kayla (Evandria): And if you see any camper
• 52:39
  Evan (Mala): Any camper.
• 52:40
  Kayla (Evandria): Any current camper Okay. Out of their cabin
• 52:45
  Nick (Pat): Okay.
• 52:45
  Kayla (Evandria): After hours.
• 52:46
  Justin (GM): Okay.
• 52:50
  Kayla (Evandria): Sound the alarm.
• 52:51
  Justin (GM): Okay. I can do that. Great.
• 52:54
  Eric (Bunky): Do you remember what it sounds like?
• 52:57
  Justin (GM): Well, I can sound the actual alarm.
• 53:00
  Evan (Mala): No. That's too loud. Oh, okay. Just alert one of us.
• 53:03
  Justin (GM): Okay. I'll find one of you and go
• 53:05
  Kayla (Evandria): Just a green Yeah. Yeah.
• 53:07
  Justin (GM): Perfect. Yep. Great. Perfect.
• 53:08
  Nick (Pat): By one by one of you, you mean the hall monitor and the guy in charge of hall monitoring. I'm not you don't need to find me.
• 53:14
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. Can just find Pat.
• 53:15
  Nick (Pat): Nope. If you find me, I have all the weapons.
• 53:21
  Justin (GM): That's a good thing. For me. Okay.
• 53:25
  Nick (Pat): It's a good thing.
• 53:25
  Justin (GM): Okay. I mean, I'm honestly gonna probably find of Andrea.
• 53:28
  Nick (Pat): There it is.
• 53:29
  Kayla (Evandria): Wow.
• 53:30
  Evan (Mala): She is on duty tonight.
• 53:32
  Justin (GM): No. I'm on duty.
• 53:33
  Evan (Mala): Yep. You're both on duty.
• 53:35
  Justin (GM): Okay. My favorite. Can I bring my book?
• 53:39
  Jamie (Eleanore): We can't risk that getting into the hands of the campers.
• 53:43
  Evan (Mala): It's only half the book though.
• 53:45
  Jamie (Eleanore): That's true.
• 53:46
  Nick (Pat): But is it the top half or the bottom half? Like which of the centaur
• 53:49
  Justin (GM): is it?
• 53:49
  Kayla (Evandria): It's just the first half. It's just the teas. Don't worry. It doesn't get anything real.
• 53:52
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. Was just Pat's fucking exhausted because Pat knows so many of the parents because all of them shop at Overland Outfitters. So Pat didn't know that he was in charge of ice breakers for the campers, so he wrote every cabin class a little envelope with a little piece of paper that says what is tall and green but with a golden sheen and says, alright, it's time for a scavenger hunt and sends the campers out to go find that and there are no other things hidden anywhere. He's like, alright, have two hours. Alright, see you later.
• 54:26
  And then he spends the rest of the afternoon talking to his parents friends.
• 54:28
  Evan (Mala): Isn't it not wait. Isn't it nighttime?
• 54:30
  Nick (Pat): No. Mean, just during the day. That was that was past the whole day, his schmoozing parents and sending his campers to not do anything. And so I'm I'm over it.
• 54:39
  Jamie (Eleanore): Eleanor rallied after that big argument, but she she spent the day she was in charge of taking luggage to the cabins for the kids and she has now just kinda shut down. So she's just kinda standing and staring at the fire and listening to you guys.
• 54:54
  Eric (Bunky): Bunky, throughout the day, made several angry crafts that didn't turn out the way he wanted them because his emotions were piling into them until he finally got one that was good that he could present to the campers as a as a welcome to the craft cabin.
• 55:11
  Justin (GM): In fairness, all of the other ones look just like Casey Two Laces prior so
• 55:16
  Nick (Pat): Shouldn't you be in their corner? Yikes.
• 55:19
  Justin (GM): Oh, I have to go now?
• 55:20
  Evan (Mala): Yeah. The kids are in their cabin.
• 55:22
  Nick (Pat): Oh, okay. Don't forget your book.
• 55:23
  Justin (GM): Oh, great. And he grabs us the front half of the book and flies out.
• 55:28
  Nick (Pat): What are you guys doing tomorrow? What's the plan?
• 55:32
  Jamie (Eleanore): Well, I have to meet the drow kids in about an hour and a half to welcome them to camp. So I'll be getting a late start tomorrow.
• 55:44
  Evan (Mala): I'm gonna be ringing the morning breakfast bell, so I have to get up early, so I might head to bed here in a second.
• 55:48
  Jamie (Eleanore): That's like a huge honor.
• 55:50
  Nick (Pat): What a big job, bud. Wow.
• 55:52
  Evan (Mala): I wanna make sure and I know how I am when we with waking up so I really gotta make sure I get
• 55:56
  Kayla (Evandria): died ringing that bell.
• 55:59
  Evan (Mala): I know when they don't get breakfast it's a really deadly thing. Important meal of the day.
• 56:03
  Jamie (Eleanore): You said nobody's died here.
• 56:04
  Nick (Pat): That's how
• 56:05
  Kayla (Evandria): said that. I keep telling you people have died.
• 56:07
  Nick (Pat): That's how Cassius died with the bell. Right?
• 56:09
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. What? Yeah.
• 56:12
  Evan (Mala): The bell in the great woods.
• 56:14
  Kayla (Evandria): So I would I would be a little nervous about the bell.
• 56:17
  Jamie (Eleanore): Pat, did you find out how Cassius died?
• 56:19
  Nick (Pat): No. Actually, so I was playing a little bit of a joke there. I don't I don't think the bell killed Cassius, but Cassius rang the bell the morning he died is what I heard.
• 56:26
  Kayla (Evandria): Who'd you hear that from? It was a prophecy.
• 56:29
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. It's like a You never know when it's gonna happen.
• 56:34
  Eric (Bunky): Overnight, Bunky is going to ritual cast alarm, near the edge of the camp along, along the great woods. Since now, the defenses are mitigated by the damage to the spirit tree, Bunky is gonna do what he can to at least give them advanced warning if something were to approach.
• 56:56
  Jamie (Eleanore): Do you guys just feel totally betrayed by the way Maz treated us?
• 57:00
  Nick (Pat): No. I'm sorry. I think she
• 57:02
  Evan (Mala): had an appropriate reaction to what we did. We knew we were breaking the rules.
• 57:06
  Eric (Bunky): She did explicitly tell me that I wasn't to do any magic on the tree without talking to her first.
• 57:14
  Jamie (Eleanore): Well, was not privy to that information. I thought we were doing what we told her we were gonna do.
• 57:19
  Evan (Mala): This is why I don't like doing this stuff and I know you guys make fun of me for it when I'm not listening, but I don't think that we should be breaking
• 57:26
  Kayla (Evandria): I think about you when you're not here.
• 57:29
  Evan (Mala): Somehow that's even worse I think.
• 57:32
  Nick (Pat): I think we Okay.
• 57:33
  Justin (GM): In the distance you hear,
• 57:34
  Eric (Bunky): oh snap.
• 57:36
  Nick (Pat): I think we made a really last minute plan and it didn't work and I think we have to be better. We gotta figure stuff out. We had three days, and then we kinda did something in the last hour. So I get it. It sucks.
• 57:51
  But Mazi's under a lot of stress.
• 57:54
  Jamie (Eleanore): We're all under a lot of stress. I'm just gonna focus on the campers and on some of the stuff I've been thinking on on bringing in excess money and I'm just not I guess I'm just not gonna worry about
• 58:07
  Kayla (Evandria): it. Guys, I don't think Mazzy or any of you know what we're dealing with with this camp x here. I think I think Mousy has a lot of a lot of trust even to even to trust that we'll even be allowed access into Camp X to supervise the tree even though they say it. And I think I think even though breaking the rules didn't necessarily get us where we wanted today, I think it's gonna be something we have to do.
• 58:40
  Justin (GM): In your head, Bunky, you hear As your alarm spell goes off in your head.
• 58:48
  Eric (Bunky): We have a problem. We have a problem. Something just triggered my alarm at the at the edge of camp.
• 58:54
  Jamie (Eleanore): Which part?
• 58:55
  Eric (Bunky): It's triggering at the at the beach.
• 58:58
  Evan (Mala): Mala will immediately start sprinting towards where he dragged the, spirit tree limb as soon as, that gets announced. Just running out the door without saying a word.
• 59:08
  Nick (Pat): Oh, okay. I'll should we go Buck, wanna go to the beach?
• 59:11
  Eric (Bunky): I think yeah. I think we gotta go check it out.
• 59:13
  Nick (Pat): Hop on. Let's go.
• 59:15
  Justin (GM): You all run towards the beach and when you get there, you see that there is a canoe that has been dragged up onto the beach and a person in a cloak is moving their way up the beach. They have something in their hand kind of hidden underneath a cloak, but it's hard to see exactly who it is. If you'd like to try and determine who it is, go ahead and roll perception check.
• 59:41
  Eric (Bunky): Six. Seven.
• 59:44
  Kayla (Evandria): Three. 15.
• 59:46
  Justin (GM): You've seen this cloak before and you can tell of Andrea who it is the way the hood is slightly raised higher up. Do you blame? And she sees all of you and pulls her hood back and you see the shock pink hair of Tamara and says, hey. Hey, everyone. I thought I'd come by tonight and she pulls out of her cloak a wine bottle.
• 1:00:17
  Nick (Pat): Hell, yeah.
• 1:00:18
  Justin (GM): Wow. Just a peace offering
• 1:00:20
  Kayla (Evandria): she reaches into her cloak, Evandria gets in a battle stance and pulls out
• 1:00:27
  Nick (Pat): two
• 1:00:27
  Kayla (Evandria): knives. Oh oh
• 1:00:28
  Nick (Pat): oh. Woah. Oh oh oh. We're good. Okay.
• 1:00:30
  Just go something's Something's wine bottle?
• 1:00:32
  Kayla (Evandria): And then she sees the wine and she puts the knives away and out of her belt that has her dagger and her knives and then attached to it all of her throwing stars. The back right side, she whips out one of those travel travel wine. Carafes. Yeah. Right.
• 1:00:51
  And she is immediately transitioned from battle mode to like party mode.
• 1:00:58
  Nick (Pat): Future wine moms of Venice.
• 1:01:01
  Justin (GM): Some things never change. Listen, I know we had a rough start a couple days ago and I wanted to try to make a peace amends. I'm sure you all had a busy day today. We also had some campers come in today. Our first day is tomorrow, but I wanted to to try and make amends.
• 1:01:20
  But if you want me to turn around, I absolutely will. It's your call.
• 1:01:25
  Nick (Pat): Can I do an inside check? Absolutely. How What does a eight get me?
• 1:01:32
  Justin (GM): I think she is trying to be as transparent as possible is what you get from that.
• 1:01:39
  Nick (Pat): Pat walks up, pulls out the bottomless flask, grabs the wine bottle and hands her the bottomless flask and goes, just take it easy on it.
• 1:01:47
  Justin (GM): She does not. She takes the biggest swag and passes her constitution check unfortunately.
• 1:01:58
  Kayla (Evandria): Woah. Evandria immediately reaches her hand out for that flask as well and also takes a massive drink.
• 1:02:08
  Justin (GM): All yours, please. What is that?
• 1:02:10
  Nick (Pat): Oh my god. I my my dad has a hillbilly friend.
• 1:02:15
  Justin (GM): Yeah. That adds up.
• 1:02:16
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. That feels something you
• 1:02:19
  Justin (GM): get from your dad's hillbilly friend.
• 1:02:20
  Nick (Pat): Yep. He does not know I have it. It's an enchanted flask.
• 1:02:25
  Justin (GM): Wild. I replaced his. With just a normal flask? Yes. That's absolutely going to get found out very quickly.
• 1:02:31
  Nick (Pat): What's he gonna do?
• 1:02:32
  Jamie (Eleanore): Do Valentina and Astrid know you're here?
• 1:02:36
  Justin (GM): No. They do not. They do not know I'm here. I just
• 1:02:41
  Jamie (Eleanore): came to hang out.
• 1:02:43
  Justin (GM): Is that okay?
• 1:02:47
  Jamie (Eleanore): I look at the others and shrug.
• 1:02:50
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. I mean, guess so girly pop. Ivandrea's feeling it.
• 1:02:54
  Jamie (Eleanore): Where's Mala at? They are exhausted.
• 1:02:59
  Nick (Pat): Oh. They hustled to the tree when the alarm went off when we heard that you were here. Booked it. I guess we should you gave the warble marbles out, right? I guess I didn't get mine.
• 1:03:13
  Right, Bunky?
• 1:03:14
  Eric (Bunky): Yep. I totally gave those out earlier. And put them put them in everybody's sacks the first day as I was setting up the craft cabin. Totally happened.
• 1:03:24
  Jamie (Eleanore): So Yep. Can you
• 1:03:25
  Nick (Pat): check on monkey? I have a 13.
• 1:03:31
  Eric (Bunky): Oh, an eight.
• 1:03:36
  Nick (Pat): Bucky, where are they?
• 1:03:37
  Eric (Bunky): Bucky pulls them out of his bag and starts handing them out to everybody.
• 1:03:43
  Nick (Pat): I'll go find Mala.
• 1:03:45
  Jamie (Eleanore): How do these work? Just like walkie talkies?
• 1:03:49
  Eric (Bunky): Just Okay. Put it in your mouth, I think.
• 1:03:52
  Justin (GM): No. No. No. Do not put it in your mouth.
• 1:03:55
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh. Bunky, did you just keep them because they're shiny?
• 1:03:58
  Justin (GM): Yes. It's just like a walkie talkie, like a sending stone but like low range, more reliable.
• 1:04:04
  Jamie (Eleanore): Bunky, we could have used these earlier.
• 1:04:06
  Eric (Bunky): I'm sorry. I they were just really pretty. I thought of using them for a lot of different things. And the the week just kinda got away from me and
• 1:04:16
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. You've had these for a week.
• 1:04:19
  Eric (Bunky): Listen. Can I have that canteen again?
• 1:04:21
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. Oh, yeah. Here you go.
• 1:04:22
  Nick (Pat): Thank you.
• 1:04:23
  Eric (Bunky): We all have our vices. I can't partake in yours, so I partake in my shinies. I made a judgment call that was maybe not the best. I'm sorry.
• 1:04:34
  Nick (Pat): Mala, all clear over here?
• 1:04:38
  Evan (Mala): What do I see when I arrive?
• 1:04:40
  Justin (GM): The tree limb on Is the
• 1:04:42
  Evan (Mala): it still there? Yeah. No one's messed with it? Nope. I I guess I guess nothing.
• 1:04:46
  It seems Yeah. No one's messing with it.
• 1:04:49
  Nick (Pat): Tamara actually came to hang. That's who triggered the alarm. She seems sincere and she brought wine. You wanna come hang? What is why is she here?
• 1:05:00
  Just to come hang, it seems. She kinda took a quick quick drink, could drink the old bottle and I think she's also stressed. I think they start tomorrow. She probably misses us. I think
• 1:05:12
  Evan (Mala): we've broken enough rules today and I appreciate the invite, but I don't wanna be drinking on camp when kids are here.
• 1:05:19
  Nick (Pat): Okay. That's up to you, man. You don't have to drink if you just wanna come hang.
• 1:05:23
  Evan (Mala): I'll stay for a little bit.
• 1:05:26
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. No worries. Come on over.
• 1:05:29
  Evan (Mala): I'm gonna take off the pressed leaf that I have from the spirit tree. I'm gonna leave it with the the branch. But like in a very obvious spot that Massey will see
• 1:05:40
  Justin (GM): it in the morning. You all reconvene at the fire that sits between your cabins and Tamara joins you. She, has a little chair that she has. She has a robe of useful things that she wears and she pulls out of this robe, just like reaches into a pocket and pulls out like a little folding chair. She sits on the ground and kinda sits down and says, so how is it like being counselors here for you all?
• 1:06:12
  Eric (Bunky): It's just the first day, hard to really say yet. It's mostly just been meet and greet and not actually counseling at all so far.
• 1:06:21
  Jamie (Eleanore): I mean, it's it's been a really rough week, but it was a lot of fun getting to greet the campers today.
• 1:06:28
  Justin (GM): Yeah. I'm excited to have campers at Well, maybe excited's the wrong word. It's different at x camp. It's a lot less counseling, a lot more training. I get like a list of campers and we have like a 100 campers enrolled.
• 1:06:47
  Mhmm. But I'm only allowed to talk to the ones that are on the arcane track. It's like 25 of them.
• 1:06:54
  Jamie (Eleanore): Moving between different activities
• 1:06:56
  Eric (Bunky): and stuff?
• 1:06:56
  Justin (GM): No. They're not allowed.
• 1:06:57
  Kayla (Evandria): Of course not. You specialize.
• 1:06:59
  Justin (GM): Everyone Yeah. Everyone specializes in their track and
• 1:07:02
  Kayla (Evandria): At three or four years old is when I specialized.
• 1:07:05
  Justin (GM): It's wild. It's very different. They're not encouraged to cross pollinate, they're not encouraged to Was that the wrong word? That I don't
• 1:07:16
  Jamie (Eleanore): know. Classic Tamarron.
• 1:07:18
  Eric (Bunky): Was that they do this all the time Tamara. They they'll take things you say and then they'll look at you knowingly as if you should know what you said, but you just said things that are normal, but they make it weird and gross.
• 1:07:33
  Kayla (Evandria): Exactly. Normal like Bunky has a stick in him, that's all.
• 1:07:37
  Justin (GM): He does have a stick in him.
• 1:07:38
  Jamie (Eleanore): Earlier, Mala said, I lay my head against the tree once I finished and I didn't say anything. Why was that bad? So
• 1:07:49
  Justin (GM): Sorry. Sorry. That's definitely the drink talking.
• 1:07:51
  Evan (Mala): Once again, I'm the target of the joke.
• 1:07:53
  Nick (Pat): It's fine. Tamara, what's the limits on that cloak?
• 1:07:56
  Eric (Bunky): Say that again?
• 1:07:57
  Nick (Pat): What's the limits on that cloak?
• 1:07:59
  Justin (GM): Oh, anything worth like not anything like handy but not worth a lot.
• 1:08:03
  Nick (Pat): Hermit crab? Do it. Oh. Hermit crab.
• 1:08:07
  Justin (GM): I might have to dig a lot for a hermit crab. Try it. It's gonna come in a tank. I wanna be clear.
• 1:08:11
  Nick (Pat): That's not gonna be like a Let's Let's try
• 1:08:16
  Justin (GM): it. Okay.
• 1:08:16
  Nick (Pat): Hermit crab. Hermit crab. Hermit crab.
• 1:08:20
  Justin (GM): She reaches in. You see her really digging in for a hot minute. And finally, pulls out like a little a fishing bowl at first and it's got a goldfish. No, that's not
• 1:08:31
  Nick (Pat): right. Oh, that's so close though.
• 1:08:32
  Justin (GM): She puts it back, she reaches in a little bit. Finally, pulls out like a two gallon tank. No. Real small thing. It's huge.
• 1:08:40
  Oh, really? You think it's
• 1:08:42
  Eric (Bunky): came out of that pocket?
• 1:08:43
  Justin (GM): I mean, yeah, it's kind of a I guess this is a sort of useful thing. Yeah. Gotta really focus on how it's useful. That's If usually the I can think of a way that it's useful, the cloak will summon it.
• 1:08:56
  Jamie (Eleanore): How is it useful? This
• 1:08:59
  Kayla (Evandria): is embarrassing, but I think hermit Oh, sorry.
• 1:09:03
  Justin (GM): No. I'm not gonna use the hermit crab as a tampon.
• 1:09:05
  Kayla (Evandria): No. No. Like, the cloak is useful.
• 1:09:07
  Justin (GM): Oh, yeah. I Tampon's super easy to summon with this thing.
• 1:09:11
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. I meant
• 1:09:12
  Justin (GM): How was the hermit crab?
• 1:09:13
  Jamie (Eleanore): Did you Oh. Summon the hermit crab?
• 1:09:16
  Justin (GM): Yeah. I honestly, I think hermit crabs are kinda cute, so I thought it'd be useful to have around as like a companion.
• 1:09:22
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. Well, from little hermit crab familiar. Yeah.
• 1:09:25
  Evan (Mala): So, you
• 1:09:25
  Jamie (Eleanore): can't put stuff back, so now you just have a hermit crab?
• 1:09:27
  Justin (GM): Oh, no. I can put it back. Oh, okay.
• 1:09:29
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. Does it die?
• 1:09:34
  Justin (GM): I didn't really think Uh-oh. I didn't. No. I am going to decide the answer to that question.
• 1:09:41
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yes. Do you have a childhood dog in there?
• 1:09:44
  Justin (GM): No. Oh lord. No. Woof. No.
• 1:09:47
  No. No. Woof literally. Right? Woah.
• 1:09:53
  What is that?
• 1:09:54
  Eric (Bunky): Yo, Garnish, get out. Oh, I'm I'm sorry. Garnish just wanted to
• 1:10:00
  Justin (GM): go your fresh son. My familiar. Oh. Wow. Bunky, that's impressive.
• 1:10:08
  He's brand new as of a few days ago. Wow. A few days old. I remember summoning my first familiar. That's There's nothing like the bond with your first familiar.
• 1:10:17
  Yeah.
• 1:10:18
  Kayla (Evandria): So, Tamara. Yeah. Vandria reaches forward and grabs the flask and takes another drink and doesn't quite finish swallowing
• 1:10:27
  Justin (GM): Oh, embarrassing.
• 1:10:28
  Kayla (Evandria): Before This
• 1:10:30
  Nick (Pat): is getting
• 1:10:30
  Justin (GM): Been there.
• 1:10:31
  Kayla (Evandria): Before she's like, so tell me about the tree. Why do you guys want this tree? Why are guys helping us?
• 1:10:40
  Justin (GM): Great question. So I'll be very clear, I don't work with Astrid. I work with Valentina. And Valentina is not actually terribly interested in the tree. It's a lot of Astrid's interests.
• 1:10:55
  We have Well, not we. You might be familiar with senator Greystone. He's the individual who kind of funded
• 1:11:06
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah.
• 1:11:07
  Justin (GM): Ex camp Stelshaw.
• 1:11:08
  Kayla (Evandria): I know him and his kids.
• 1:11:10
  Justin (GM): His kids are coworkers of mine. They are they are coworkers of mine. Claire and Keaton Greystone. So much body spray on Keaton. A lot of body spray.
• 1:11:23
  Honestly. Yes.
• 1:11:24
  Nick (Pat): I met him once smelling him.
• 1:11:25
  Justin (GM): The fascinating thing about that is Yeah. Is his days are numbered on that. What? Yeah. He is planning to swear to Rhaenyr, the god of destiny and fate.
• 1:11:37
  They're not allowed to wear that.
• 1:11:38
  Kayla (Evandria): What? So
• 1:11:39
  Nick (Pat): he's going on extra thick.
• 1:11:40
  Justin (GM): Yeah. He's going on extra thick. I tried to explain
• 1:11:42
  Evan (Mala): to him
• 1:11:42
  Justin (GM): that it doesn't work like that. It's not gonna like last afterwards. That's wild. Yeah.
• 1:11:48
  Nick (Pat): He has no idea what he's getting into.
• 1:11:49
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, he's gonna fall apart.
• 1:11:50
  Justin (GM): Oh, no. I think he knows exactly what he's getting and he's into it. That's what he wants.
• 1:11:54
  Kayla (Evandria): Wait. Yeah. It's kinda wild.
• 1:11:57
  Nick (Pat): Is he like a never nude?
• 1:11:58
  Justin (GM): No. No. I don't think he's quite that bad, but he's he's really into They have he's gonna be a paladin for Rhaenyr and they swear like 15 specific oaths. That sucks. One of which is like, my body is a temple and I will do nothing to alter it.
• 1:12:17
  And that's where the like, can't wear body, like, spray or, like, deodorant comes from. It's wild. He, will stop cutting his hair. Woah.
• 1:12:27
  Eric (Bunky): Can can any preexisting alterations stay or do those have to get reverted? Like, does he have tattoos or piercings? Is he like
• 1:12:36
  Justin (GM): Great question. They do get a tattoo right before they swear their oaths that kind of marks them as a brother of Roneer, like a true blade. And So, they like their
• 1:12:46
  Kayla (Evandria): body before they swear not to alter their body?
• 1:12:50
  Justin (GM): Yeah. Seems like a catch to me. Yeah. Wild. Anyway, so senator Greystone, he is he funded ex camp Stelshaw and it's very clear that he is very interested in the education of young people.
• 1:13:09
  In my experience, he views campers as an investment. I have never heard the phrases ROI used so many times in an educational setting in my life. He is fixated on us graduating 90% of our campers through the questing ritual this summer. We only admit campers of an age who can even attend or try to go on their questing ritual and we have to, as counselors, ensure that 90% of them pass. It's wild.
• 1:13:49
  So, he's super into that and one of the difficulties of it is the fact that even though XCamp Stealthshall is physically close to the leyline nexus, it's just far enough off that utilizing magic isn't quite as easy. There is an arcane leyline, so it's still relatively easy as compared to other places, but it is still a little bit more difficult. So I think him and Astrid has he's been pushing Astrid to study the spirit tree and hopes to maybe replicate its magic or utilize it as a way to manipulate the ley lines. The spirit tree and the ley lines, at this point, it's a question of whether the spirit tree is growing with the ley lines or the spirit tree manipulates the ley lines themselves. And I think he's gonna push Astrid to try and find out the answer to that question.
• 1:14:49
  I don't think he's even particularly interested in the tree itself. He wants the ley lines. And really, just as a way to pump out as many talented adventurers so that they can serve in the Bennetharn army as possible.
• 1:15:02
  Nick (Pat): You you mispronounced meat shields.
• 1:15:05
  Justin (GM): Yeah. Honestly, talented meat shields but meat shields. Gross. There's a lot of grants in education and he's interested in getting as many of them as possible. Gross.
• 1:15:16
  Eric (Bunky): You had me until until the ending part there that because at first it was like, oh, mean, yeah, education's great but manipulation of magic for military purposes seems pretty fucked.
• 1:15:31
  Justin (GM): I mean, don't get me wrong. If our enemies are using magic, we also need to use magic to defend ourselves. But, just kinda pumping out campers like they're meat shields.
• 1:15:44
  Nick (Pat): Yeah, dude. Gross.
• 1:15:46
  Justin (GM): And, again, like, even if they enroll as a an arcane student at a young age, doesn't mean that's the like the path for them. They're not like a one track mind, they're people.
• 1:15:58
  Nick (Pat): Amen. So you're loving your time across the river.
• 1:16:03
  Justin (GM): If it wasn't for Valentina, I honestly wouldn't be there.
• 1:16:07
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. What's her deal?
• 1:16:09
  Justin (GM): She is one of the most talented arcanists I've ever met. Her abilities with aberration and necromancy are incredible. Necromancy?
• 1:16:22
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. Pat looks at Bunky. It's Necromancy,
• 1:16:27
  Eric (Bunky): That's interesting. What Any any specific things in necromancy that she deals with?
• 1:16:34
  Justin (GM): Pretty broad honestly. She's got a lot of skills on it. It's like she comes naturally to her. She's an elf so she's pretty old, just look at. But she's pretty old and she's been doing magic for a long long time.
• 1:16:48
  And, I mean, I'm I'm pretty good if I do say so myself, but watching her work is, she makes magic look like art.
• 1:16:57
  Eric (Bunky): What? Did she say what made her interested in working at Ex Camps Del Shaw?
• 1:17:06
  Justin (GM): I am not really privy to it, but I think they're paying her a lot of money. She's a professor at the Venetharne University of Arcane Arts and she's just working here as a summer job.
• 1:17:18
  Eric (Bunky): She doesn't have any experience, like, has she been in this area before, do you know?
• 1:17:22
  Justin (GM): Oh, I wanna be clear. The professional staff at X Camp are not there as like, there to like help campers. That's our job as the counselors. They are there to kind of create the higher level curriculum and therefore kind of oversight. So she's really there kind of as a figurehead, although she does do some consultations.
• 1:17:46
  I'm frankly doing a lot of work. This has been my first night off.
• 1:17:51
  Nick (Pat): So you're kinda like their meat shield, you think about it.
• 1:17:54
  Justin (GM): Dark, but frankly, yes.
• 1:17:57
  Jamie (Eleanore): Do you remember last year after our questing ritual, we brought back something?
• 1:18:07
  Justin (GM): I mean, are you all
• 1:18:08
  Jamie (Eleanore): That we it wasn't one of our totems. Do you remember us bringing anything back?
• 1:18:12
  Justin (GM): No, I don't. Did you bring something specific back that you didn't use as a toad?
• 1:18:19
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, yeah. The toad. Yeah.
• 1:18:22
  Nick (Pat): The toad. The king.
• 1:18:23
  Jamie (Eleanore): He didn't come back at
• 1:18:24
  Nick (Pat): Oh. Can you pull out
• 1:18:25
  Kayla (Evandria): a My my bad.
• 1:18:26
  Nick (Pat): No. Forgot it. Totally. It was cord. Oh, absolutely.
• 1:18:30
  Extension cord.
• 1:18:31
  Justin (GM): Super easy. She pulls out an extension cord. Oh, a hoodie? You need a hoodie?
• 1:18:36
  Nick (Pat): I would love a hoodie.
• 1:18:37
  Justin (GM): She pulls it out. It is X Camp Stealth Shaw branded.
• 1:18:41
  Nick (Pat): Okay. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. In fire.
• 1:18:43
  Eric (Bunky): Well free.
• 1:18:45
  Nick (Pat): What do you care about?
• 1:18:46
  Justin (GM): It's free. It's not my problem.
• 1:18:48
  Eric (Bunky): Well, Pat's distracting Tamara by asking her to pull a bunch of things out of her out of her cloak. Bunky has a quick sidebar. I don't think we should tell her about the corrupted leystone.
• 1:18:59
  Jamie (Eleanore): No. And I wasn't going to. I wanted to see if she remembered us bringing anything back.
• 1:19:04
  Eric (Bunky): Great. Okay. Sidebar done.
• 1:19:06
  Jamie (Eleanore): I am gonna ask her about the castle though. Tamara, during our questing ritual last year, we got to a castle out in the great woods and there was like a lot of there was a lot of necromantic energy and magic there. Gee, has I mean, don't know anything We don't know anything else about it, but does Valentina, has she brought up the Sea Lor Chateau?
• 1:19:37
  Justin (GM): Sea Lor Chateau? So close, honestly. Better than Valencia.
• 1:19:43
  Jamie (Eleanore): Has she brought up the Seelor Chateau or anything like that?
• 1:19:46
  Justin (GM): No. Not that I'm aware of. She hasn't mentioned anything like that to me.
• 1:19:49
  Jamie (Eleanore): Has she been interested in anything here? The same way Astrid's interested in the tree? Has Valentina showed any interest in anything?
• 1:19:57
  Justin (GM): She is interested in the leyline nexus just kind of as a person who is a talented arcanist would be interested in kind of a I mean, I'm interested in the leyline nexus as a as as aspiring arcanist myself, but no, she hasn't mentioned anything specific about any landmarks outside of just kind of just being here at in the vicinity of the Leyline Nexus.
• 1:20:22
  Jamie (Eleanore): Do you think we could get Astrid here to meet with Wendell?
• 1:20:25
  Justin (GM): Yeah. I don't I don't think that would be
• 1:20:27
  Jamie (Eleanore): He's a huge fan. He has all of her books.
• 1:20:30
  Justin (GM): Honestly, Astrid is And I mean this in a in a kind in of a a neutral way, like she's kinda cool. And she's also kind of aloof. She is a a fawn and it's clear that she spends a lot of time amongst the woods and getting her to kind of understand normal social cues can sometimes take work some work, but Ugh. Once
• 1:21:00
  Kayla (Evandria): you These people are exhausting.
• 1:21:02
  Justin (GM): I Honestly, at first, took me a long time to understand that she wasn't trying to be cold, she wasn't trying to be rude, she just doesn't pick up on cues in the same way that
• 1:21:11
  Kayla (Evandria): That we all do.
• 1:21:12
  Justin (GM): That we all do.
• 1:21:12
  Evan (Mala): Yeah.
• 1:21:12
  Justin (GM): So, once I understood that, I I kinda understood, but man, similar with the way that Valentina's just so naturally good at magic, Astrid's so good with primal energies. Animals, plants, they just kind of naturally do what she wants them to do. I think that's been the the silver lining to working at X Camp is the people I'm working under are very impressive.
• 1:21:40
  Nick (Pat): That's very cool. What's your plan next year? What are you doing?
• 1:21:44
  Justin (GM): I really need to get into the University of Arcane Arts. It's part of the reason why I'm working for Valentina. I'm hoping to get a letter of recommendation at the end. It's not easy. You have to write a research paper, you have to prove out some type of theory and perform an arcane art of some type.
• 1:22:04
  It's really extensive. I'm I'm pretty talented and I'm working my ass off.
• 1:22:10
  Nick (Pat): Wait. You have to write papers? You have to write papers?
• 1:22:13
  Justin (GM): Yeah. I have to write papers. It's not my favorite. About what? I'm choosing to write my paper on specifically evocation magic and finding ways to reapply specific elements to traditional spells.
• 1:22:31
  So, in my case, I'm trying to reapply poison magic where previously fire magic was applied. Interesting. It's a little bit outside of my realm of ability, but I'm trying my hardest. And I think I can just kind of naturally amp my spells up, but I think with enough study, I'm gonna figure out ways to reapply different elements to to other spells. I think it's it's a difficult study but Valentina's helping.
• 1:23:00
  Nick (Pat): Cool. Very cool. What was your totem last year? I forget. My totem?
• 1:23:06
  Justin (GM): Yeah. I We found a basilisk in What? The great woods. Yeah. Wild.
• 1:23:13
  And I was able to get some of its scales.
• 1:23:16
  Nick (Pat): Did anyone turn to stone?
• 1:23:18
  Justin (GM): No. Thank God. Honestly Yeah. Don't tell anyone this. It was kind of on its last leg, if I'm being honest.
• 1:23:24
  Nick (Pat): But it
• 1:23:24
  Justin (GM): was still a task.
• 1:23:26
  Nick (Pat): Mean We took it?
• 1:23:26
  Justin (GM): Yeah. Yeah. There was
• 1:23:27
  Kayla (Evandria): Free
• 1:23:28
  Evan (Mala): took it.
• 1:23:28
  Justin (GM): Like four of us. So it was a lot.
• 1:23:31
  Nick (Pat): That's wild.
• 1:23:32
  Jamie (Eleanore): All we found was that Leystone. What? Or toad. The toad. We found a toad named that
• 1:23:40
  Kayla (Evandria): we named Laystone.
• 1:23:41
  Justin (GM): Oh. That's a wild name for a toad.
• 1:23:43
  Jamie (Eleanore): King Laystone.
• 1:23:44
  Justin (GM): King Laystone. Wow.
• 1:23:46
  Nick (Pat): I saw myself two different ways on our questing ritual.
• 1:23:50
  Justin (GM): Questing rituals, honestly, if you ask me, they are a wild way to educate people. Yeah. Pretty risky, but I also understand, know, adventuring itself is a risky gamble. So kind of going through the process of a questing ritual is a somewhat safe practice. Molly, you've been awfully quiet.
• 1:24:08
  Evan (Mala): It's been a day.
• 1:24:09
  Justin (GM): Do you want a drink?
• 1:24:11
  Evan (Mala): Absolutely not. Enough rules have been broken.
• 1:24:14
  Justin (GM): Well, I should probably get going back. I think it's getting kinda late. But, hey, thanks for kinda letting me hang out. This means a lot. I don't get a lot of days off.
• 1:24:26
  In fact, I didn't even get today off, but I can sneak out. By the way, speaking of sneaking out, a couple days ago, some someone broke into We have this building called the Thunderdome.
• 1:24:40
  Nick (Pat): What the fuck is a Thunderdome? Idea, right?
• 1:24:43
  Eric (Bunky): That sounds Yeah.
• 1:24:45
  Kayla (Evandria): Heard of that. Before.
• 1:24:48
  Nick (Pat): Can I get the help action button? Yes. What the fuck is a Thunderdome?
• 1:24:52
  Kayla (Evandria): Does help You get advantage.
• 1:24:54
  Justin (GM): You can roll two dice. Yep.
• 1:24:55
  Kayla (Evandria): 16.
• 1:24:57
  Justin (GM): The Thunderdome is this massive building. It's the largest building at X Camp Stelshaw and it's this combination of conjuration and illusion magic kind of built into the walls. And when inside, our instructors are able to kind of basically summon into existence combat simulations that we can put our more talented campers through to kind of prep them for their questing ritual. It's insane. We were doing some practice runs and honestly, some of the programming in there is way beyond anything that they would put on a camper through a questing ritual.
• 1:25:38
  I don't even know why it has settings. It's like, you know, you've got a toaster and it burns your or gets your toast at like the perfect setting at like four, but it has all the way up to ten. Like, why does it go to ten? It gets my toast perfectly brown at four. It's kinda like that.
• 1:25:51
  Like, is there a ten setting on this simulation when a questing ritual is like a four? Why does it do that?
• 1:25:57
  Nick (Pat): That feels like the same kind of thing like that someone that would name something the Thunderdome would come up with.
• 1:26:03
  Justin (GM): I mean, it's called the Thunder because when you're inside, it's so big that when you yell, it kind of echoes. It actually makes sense when you think about it.
• 1:26:10
  Nick (Pat): Sure.
• 1:26:11
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. No? Totally.
• 1:26:13
  Eric (Bunky): Canyon where I think would fit better in that sense.
• 1:26:17
  Justin (GM): But it's like a it's like a dome shape, so I'd include that in my description.
• 1:26:20
  Eric (Bunky): Canyon Dome. Canyon Dome? Yeah. Canyon.
• 1:26:23
  Justin (GM): I mean, I can submit that.
• 1:26:24
  Eric (Bunky): Or the cave. I'll run
• 1:26:25
  Justin (GM): it by them. The cave. I'll have to take credit for that because I can't say I was here.
• 1:26:29
  Jamie (Eleanore): So they're putting kids in real danger?
• 1:26:31
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. I heard kids died in those.
• 1:26:34
  Justin (GM): Like Cassius?
• 1:26:35
  Nick (Pat): Cassius died in the Thunderdome?
• 1:26:37
  Justin (GM): Well, like No. He didn't die. The Thunderdome was just built. Got you. Based on how I heard he died, he definitely would have died in
• 1:26:43
  Kayla (Evandria): the Cassius died?
• 1:26:46
  Justin (GM): I heard he drowned.
• 1:26:47
  Jamie (Eleanore): Where?
• 1:26:48
  Justin (GM): In the Stellshaw River. Oh His canoe flipped over and he wasn't able to kind of find the surface. He was wearing a lot of weights for some weird reason. Something about he was like ringing a bell earlier in the day and then he decided to carry the bell out into the into the lake with him and when he went under the rope kinda wrapped around his leg and carried him to the bottom.
• 1:27:07
  Eric (Bunky): So it wasn't even like a dangerous thing, he was just inept?
• 1:27:12
  Kayla (Evandria): That's not what I heard. I heard it was dangerous.
• 1:27:16
  Justin (GM): So yeah, the ultimate canyon dome, I guess. It'll have to be my idea and I don't love that but
• 1:27:22
  Jamie (Eleanore): That's fine. Let us know how it turns out.
• 1:27:24
  Justin (GM): Yeah. Great. One more for the road and she gestures for the hands it back. Like, she takes another swig.
• 1:27:31
  Jamie (Eleanore): Well, give us a heads up if you and Ashra
• 1:27:33
  Nick (Pat): still fine. Thing thing I for sure thought Zamora's gonna die in the She's rolled 13 every time.
• 1:27:40
  Kayla (Evandria): Should I have been rolling every time I take a drink?
• 1:27:43
  Justin (GM): Yeah. I didn't ask, so you're fine. You've chosen to fail, I think.
• 1:27:47
  Jamie (Eleanore): We do appreciate you coming and hanging out and I mean, feel like you're you're welcome anytime if we're free. But if if you know of Astrid and Valentina coming back, give us a heads up because I would love to arrange a meeting.
• 1:28:03
  Justin (GM): I think they're coming tomorrow morning to pick up the piece of the tree.
• 1:28:10
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay.
• 1:28:14
  Justin (GM): Did you guys know about that?
• 1:28:16
  Nick (Pat): We had a feeling it was coming. We were aware.
• 1:28:19
  Kayla (Evandria): We knew it. Yeah. It would be likely.
• 1:28:21
  Justin (GM): I saw the setup that they've got in the greenhouse. It's pretty extensive. It's I I don't know I don't trust senator Greystone. He's he's bad he's a bad guy. Astrid, she's neutral.
• 1:28:43
  She's She cares deeply for nature, for animal life, and for the woodlands. It would take a lot to force her to do anything bad.
• 1:28:54
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. No one's ever done anything from a neutral stance.
• 1:28:59
  Justin (GM): I understand.
• 1:29:00
  Nick (Pat): Yeah.
• 1:29:04
  Justin (GM): Alright. Well, this canoe is gonna be rough to row back.
• 1:29:07
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. Don't flip it and drown.
• 1:29:09
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. Garnish. Garnish. I need you back out here. You you don't get to go with her.
• 1:29:17
  Jamie (Eleanore): I
• 1:29:20
  Eric (Bunky): understand. There's a lot to explore in there. You're gonna get so many chances. I promise that I will let you try out other things sometime, but for now it we just need to go back to our own place.
• 1:29:39
  Justin (GM): He jumps down, kind of waddles over to your cabin.
• 1:29:43
  Nick (Pat): Alright, Tamara. One for the road. Cherry popsicle.
• 1:29:45
  Justin (GM): She reaches in and she pulls out a cherry popsicle. It is not frozen. I don't get to choose the condition in which it comes out.
• 1:29:53
  Jamie (Eleanore): It's a stick. A wet stick.
• 1:29:54
  Justin (GM): It's a it's a wet stick in a bag.
• 1:29:56
  Jamie (Eleanore): Oh. It's a
• 1:29:56
  Justin (GM): wet stick
• 1:29:57
  Jamie (Eleanore): in a bag.
• 1:29:57
  Nick (Pat): Cherry juice. I'll take that.
• 1:29:59
  Justin (GM): Cherry juice.
• 1:29:59
  Nick (Pat): I'll take that. Dumps it in the flask. Thanks for listening to Can't Do Anything by Theater of the Mind set. Your actual players this season are Eric Marquis as Bunky, Kayla Tennyson as Evandria Kalewin, Jamie Rich as Eleanor Shadowmain, Evan Caliber as Malagora, Nick Traeger as Pat Patterson, and your kind and generous GM, Justin Girardeau. If you're enjoying our show, you can help us out by sharing it with a friend, subscribing on your favorite podcatcher, following us on social media, talking about us on Reddit, or pitching in for coffee on Patreon.
• 1:30:41
  Theater of the Mindset is entirely made by humans with original art by Christina Valdez, original score by Willis Miller, and audio post production by Nick Trager at Studio three six zero seven. Thanks for listening and stopping by. Can't do anything. We'll see you next week.