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Episode 38 (S3E38) · Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama

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  Speaker 1: My name is phalin Ola, better known as cat Spain,
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  Speaker 1: and you're listening to Tale of the Manticle.
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  Speaker 2: The following podcast is intended for a mature audience. Listener
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  Speaker 2: discretion is advised. Welcome back to Tale of the Manticor
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: Season three. Like the creature from which it takes its name,
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  Speaker 2: Tale of the Manticor is a mashup, a cross breeding
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  Speaker 2: between two different species of storytelling. Here you will find
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  Speaker 2: the unpredictability of old school paper and dice games with
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  Speaker 2: the story craft of a dark fantasy novel. No character
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  Speaker 2: is sacred and none will be spared if the dice decide.
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  Speaker 2: Fate is at hand. According to lore, the Tale of
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  Speaker 2: a Manticor is barbed with cruel iron spikes. There will
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  Speaker 2: be much pain in the days ahead. Last time on
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  Speaker 2: Tale of the Manticor, in chapter thirty seven, the companions
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  Speaker 2: draw closer to their destination. They seem to have crossed
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  Speaker 2: some kind of threshold, for the land they are now
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  Speaker 2: in seems more highly infused with magic. The companions encounter
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  Speaker 2: strange creatures and have vivid dreams. Dernni in particular has
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  Speaker 2: a troubling one. His dream is really more of an
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  Speaker 2: unwonted memory. In it, he relives the experience of being
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  Speaker 2: commanded to abandon his former mentor, the Old Crow, to
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  Speaker 2: a group of pursuing works. Der Renni is still haunted
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  Speaker 2: by this event and wonders if he should have disobeyed
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  Speaker 2: orders and fought alongside the elder Elf. The story proceeds
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  Speaker 2: with the s in which the companions go off foraging
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  Speaker 2: and encounter a leuthal monster that looks like a six
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  Speaker 2: legged panther with barbed tentacles growing from its back. When
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  Speaker 2: it fights, this creature, called a displacer beast, seems to
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  Speaker 2: shift around in space, making it hard to hit. It
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  Speaker 2: might never have become hostile but for the presence of Flicker.
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  Speaker 2: It turns out that blink dogs are the natural enemy
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  Speaker 2: of displacer beasts. The battle itself is furious but short.
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  Speaker 2: In it, the pieces take some injuries but ultimately slay
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  Speaker 2: the beast. I managed to carve out the nature of
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  Speaker 2: that last encounter from my mythic event meaning adjourn advice,
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  Speaker 2: the idea being that Achillia and Fairwind's insistence on speaking
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  Speaker 2: when they should have been traveling in silence caught the
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  Speaker 2: creature's attention and led to their being ambushed. So this
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  Speaker 2: episode's first job is to roll up a new one
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  Speaker 2: using percentile dice fourteen and ninety nine. That's abandoned anger.
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  Speaker 2: Huh interesting. I don't have an immediate application, but it
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  Speaker 2: does seem promising. One more thing before I begin the narrative.
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  Speaker 2: Fair Wind will cast cure light wounds on I think
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  Speaker 2: it'll be Flicker. Actually a D six plus one of
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  Speaker 2: new hit points is on the way. Okay, Flicker is
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  Speaker 2: healed for four points. Chapter thirty eight, Part one day
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  Speaker 2: thirty four, one day from the destination afternoon mythic event
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  Speaker 2: meaning abandoned anchor party status. Achillea thirteen of thirteen hit points,
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  Speaker 2: Court eighteen of twenty four, Denni sixteen of sixteen, ten
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  Speaker 2: Tier nineteen of nineteen, fair Wind seventeen of twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: Flicker fifteen of sixteen supplies. The companions have eight portions
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  Speaker 2: of food remaining spells available. Achilia can cast and large
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  Speaker 2: message glitter dust and detect evil. Cord can cast and
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  Speaker 2: tangle slow poison, hold animal, and speak with plants. Fairwin
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  Speaker 2: can cast protection from evil. Fairwin took his hand away
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  Speaker 2: from Flicker's side Amazingly, the blink dog's wound was gone,
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  Speaker 2: replaced by a patch of new pink skin.
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  Speaker 3: Do stop that, stop that.
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  Speaker 2: Laughed the cleric. This flicker practically jumped on him, licking
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  Speaker 2: his hands and wagging her tail. You're welcome, You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Der Annie was glad to see that the animal was well,
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  Speaker 2: but he did not share the cleric's good humor. He
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  Speaker 2: turned back to his examination of the dead creature. It
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  Speaker 2: was as long as he was tall, and packed with muscle,
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  Speaker 2: covered in sleek black fur. Its six legs and a
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  Speaker 2: pair ofphole tentacles were extremely discomfiting.
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  Speaker 3: What on marif is this thing?
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  Speaker 2: He asked to nobody in particular.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard stories about mountain cats that can.
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  Speaker 2: Grow to about this size, offered Tentier. This is no
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  Speaker 2: mountain cat, muttered dur Rennie.
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  Speaker 1: It must be a creature of magic. Well, pin Achilia
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  Speaker 1: fair one to mention before that.
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  Speaker 4: He thinks we've crossed some kind of boundary and entered
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  Speaker 4: a new land where magic is stronger.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you can feel it.
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  Speaker 2: I can whatever it is, said dere Annie, not looking
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  Speaker 2: up from the corpse.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's kind are rare and solitary.
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  Speaker 5: I have no wish to meet another one.
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  Speaker 2: You saw how it went right for figure Achilia nodded gravely.
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  Speaker 1: They went to each other as if they were old enemies.
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  Speaker 4: She agreed, But perhaps we should get moving in case
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  Speaker 4: there are any more of them.
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  Speaker 2: Luckily there are no more of them, at least not
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  Speaker 2: around here. In fact, there will be no further events
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  Speaker 2: on day thirty four, and that means it's time to
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  Speaker 2: make the hex's crawl rolls for day thirty five. D
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  Speaker 2: thirty five is special, by the way, because this is
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  Speaker 2: the day the pieces are scheduled to arrive at odok
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  Speaker 2: Zagog's home if they can find it. That is well.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get to that part in a minute. Let's cover
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  Speaker 2: the basics first. For weather, huh, A one looks like
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  Speaker 2: we're about to experience some truly bad weather, a storm
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  Speaker 2: and a big one, but real opening up of the heavens.
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  Speaker 2: Next is the role. For stumble upon an eight means
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  Speaker 2: no result there. For foraging a four is a failure.
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  Speaker 2: I guess we can blame the weather for that. How
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  Speaker 2: about a wandering encounter on a D six another four
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  Speaker 2: that means there is not and once again I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: it's on account of the storm, it'll be severe enough
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  Speaker 2: to drive every living thing to ground. Chapter thirty eight,
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  Speaker 2: Part two, Day thirty five, still one day from their destination.
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  Speaker 2: Afternoon mythic event meaning a band anger party status. Achillea
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  Speaker 2: thirteen of thirteen hit points, Cord nineteen out of twenty
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  Speaker 2: four after receiving one point of natural healing, Derni sixteen
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  Speaker 2: of sixteen, ten Tier nineteen of nineteen, Fairwind eighteen of
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  Speaker 2: twenty six after receiving one point of natural healing, Flicker
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  Speaker 2: sixteen of sixteen after receiving one point of natural healing. Supplies.
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  Speaker 2: The companions have three portions of food remaining spells available.
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  Speaker 2: Achillia can cast enlarge message, glitter dust and detect evil.
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  Speaker 2: Cord can cast entangle, slow poison, hold animal, and speak
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  Speaker 2: with plants. Fair Wind can cast purely wounds and protection
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  Speaker 2: from evil. The companions awoke that morning to a sky
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  Speaker 2: that was thick with brooding iron collared clouds. Moods were sober,
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  Speaker 2: and conversation was practically non existent as they began what
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  Speaker 2: should have been the final triumphant day in their quest
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  Speaker 2: to find the historian odok Zsygock. If the silence pleased
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  Speaker 2: der Anny, he did not show it. In fact, the
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  Speaker 2: eleven Hunter was in a particularly sullen mood. He had
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  Speaker 2: relived the memory of his abandonment of the Old Crow
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  Speaker 2: a third time in his dreams the night before, and
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  Speaker 2: had woken feeling totally unrested and unhappy. Every so often,
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  Speaker 2: the elf realized he was scowling and had to make
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  Speaker 2: an effort to relax the muscles in his face. Still,
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  Speaker 2: the negative thoughts returned like phantoms. Flicker was responsible for
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  Speaker 2: the attack by the catlike monster on the previous day,
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  Speaker 2: and she was an extra mouth to feed. Achillia was
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  Speaker 2: headstrong and selfish. The quest to save her family member
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  Speaker 2: had put his brother's life in jeopardy more than once
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  Speaker 2: and caused him to become cursed. Fairwind couldn't keep his
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  Speaker 2: mouth shut. It was scaring all the game away at
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  Speaker 2: a time when their supply of food was almost gone.
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  Speaker 2: Derannie told himself that these bad thoughts were mere visitors.
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  Speaker 2: They would stay awhile in his mind and then leave.
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  Speaker 2: After all, he didn't really harbor such poor opinions of
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  Speaker 2: his companions. But to day, some of the visiting thoughts
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  Speaker 2: were poor guests that overstayed their welcome and refused to depart. Wisely,
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  Speaker 2: the elf kept to himself and tried to concentrate on
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  Speaker 2: putting one foot in front of the other. Like on
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  Speaker 2: the day before, Robin came and went. Upon each return,
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  Speaker 2: the little stuffed bird would perch on Cord's shoulder and
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  Speaker 2: twitter into his painted ear. To anyone watching, it would
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  Speaker 2: look as though the bird was scouting ahead and making reports.
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  Speaker 2: This is exactly what was taking place. The connection between
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  Speaker 2: the construct and the taxidermy Burt was richer now than
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  Speaker 2: it had ever been before. Kord learned that there was
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  Speaker 2: no food in the woods to the north, that the
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  Speaker 2: way east was free of danger, and that in general
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  Speaker 2: there was no sign of any man made structures anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Robin also fretted about the coming rain. As for that
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  Speaker 2: everyone consensus storm was on his way. The temperature had dropped,
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  Speaker 2: and there was a certain smell in the air that
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  Speaker 2: presaged rain. The weather came on slowly, beginning in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: with soft, scattered drops that tapped gently while the tree
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  Speaker 2: tops and moss covered rocks. Then came a breeze that
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  Speaker 2: stiffened into a cool wind. It tugged at branches and
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  Speaker 2: bent the tall grass. The rain came heavier, now falling
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  Speaker 2: in relentless sheets on top of the companion's heads. The
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  Speaker 2: ground became impregnated with water, and soon the rain was
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  Speaker 2: sluicing down slope and valley in muddy streams. Above, the
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  Speaker 2: sky had darkened to purple. Distant thunder rumbled and then
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  Speaker 2: cracked overhead. Forks of lightning flashed between the trees, turning
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  Speaker 2: wet trunks into momentary columns of silver. The unhappy compared
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  Speaker 2: onions dashed ahead, looking for shelter, and their boots sculched
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  Speaker 2: in the sodden earth. Over there, cried ten Tyre, pointing
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  Speaker 2: at something through the slanting rainfall. His eyes had always
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  Speaker 2: been the sharpest. That the younger brother had spotted the
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  Speaker 2: hollowed out bowl of an oak that was tall, but
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  Speaker 2: not so tall as to be a potential target for lightning. There,
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  Speaker 2: barely covered in the crabbed woody hollow, the companions huddled
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  Speaker 2: and shivered, soaked to the skin around them, the tempest raged,
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  Speaker 2: battering trees and earth alike. Both of my previous seasons
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  Speaker 2: ran for exactly seventy six episodes, so one might suppose
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  Speaker 2: it follows that this episode is the halfway mark for
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  Speaker 2: season three. That might be true or not if I
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  Speaker 2: remember right, I was kind of aiming for numbers seventy
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  Speaker 2: five to be the finale in season one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: hoping for a nice round number, but was unable to
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  Speaker 2: make that happen without rushing the story. In season two,
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  Speaker 2: ending on number seventy six was pure coincidence. I definitely
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  Speaker 2: remember that. For this season, the plan is to just
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  Speaker 2: keep the story going until it naturally inclines towards a resolution,
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  Speaker 2: and to trust my gut to recognize when that stressed
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  Speaker 2: to happen, so it could run longer or shorter, or
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  Speaker 2: be the same. Again. One advantage of a longer campaign
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  Speaker 2: is that I get to experience and explore higher level play,
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  Speaker 2: so I might make an effort to make that happen,
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  Speaker 2: but not at the expense of story or pacing. With
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  Speaker 2: all that in mind, I think the time is right
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  Speaker 2: to broaden this story, and it's only recently that I
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  Speaker 2: realized how to do it. But let me ease into
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  Speaker 2: that by way of a between the lines segment. It's
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  Speaker 2: been a while since I've done one of those between
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  Speaker 2: the lines. The high Lands and the Golden Path Fairwood
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  Speaker 2: and Achillia both believe that they have crossed a boundary
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  Speaker 2: and entered a region where magic is stronger. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: to deny that this is the case. Consider Reason encounters,
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  Speaker 2: a giant forest troll, a dryad, and a displacer beast,
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  Speaker 2: all confronted in the lands between de Roth and the mountains. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: the pieces have been having much more vivid and meaningful
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  Speaker 2: dreams since crossing into these parts. So what's so special
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  Speaker 2: about this place? A lot turns out. You might have
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  Speaker 2: noticed that a kind of convergence is happening here in
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  Speaker 2: the highlands. Coming together in this area, we had the
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  Speaker 2: ill fated Dorothi and the historian odok Zygogue. Which of
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  Speaker 2: these arrived first is as yet unknown. In case you're wondering,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the PCEs have also been drawn here. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: this Fimgrin atresh in his iron tower that disappears and
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  Speaker 2: reappears in new locations, but is definitely moving in this direction.
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  Speaker 2: For all parties except for the Pieces, the reason for
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  Speaker 2: coming here is the same. Everyone is looking for something
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  Speaker 2: called the golden path. What is this golden path and
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  Speaker 2: why is it so sought after? The highlands are sacred
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  Speaker 2: to the goddess Ahea, who in my campaign is the
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  Speaker 2: goddess of magic. Here magic is stronger, more chaotic, and
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  Speaker 2: more elemental. This explains all the strange dreams and strange creatures.
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  Speaker 2: Legends are full of magical places and boundaries, ley lines,
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  Speaker 2: magic nodes, and geomant formations. The Golden Path, whether it
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  Speaker 2: is a metaphorical or a real path, leads to the
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  Speaker 2: most potent of any of these concentrations of magical energies,
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  Speaker 2: because it leads to the first Temple of Aheia and
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  Speaker 2: ultimately to the manifestation of the Goddess herself. Knowing that
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  Speaker 2: is it any wonder why so many people are looking
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  Speaker 2: for it and why they do so in secret. For
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  Speaker 2: a wizard or a cleric of Aheya, the search for
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  Speaker 2: the Golden Path is the ultimate quest. Odog Zygog is
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  Speaker 2: a historian who has spent his entire life in research
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  Speaker 2: looking for clues to its location. The Derothian he had
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  Speaker 2: the first Scroll of Galandal, which provided enough information to
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  Speaker 2: get them close, but that group ultimately failed in their task.
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  Speaker 2: The PCs now carry the first Scroll. I wonder whatever
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  Speaker 2: happened to the second Chapter thirty eight, Part three, Day
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  Speaker 2: thirty five afternoon, on a hillside less than two dozen
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  Speaker 2: miles from where the party was taking shelter from the
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  Speaker 2: raging storm, the Traveling Tower of Iron sat on a
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  Speaker 2: hill battered by the storm. From the outside, inside it
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  Speaker 2: was warm and quiet, very quiet. Fimgrim Atrash shifted uncomfortably
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  Speaker 2: in his chair and set down his cup of bitter tea,
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  Speaker 2: looking across the table at Bellario. The little gnome was
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  Speaker 2: chewing his lip and frowning at his plate of food,
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  Speaker 2: while pushing bits of meat around on his plate without eating.
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  Speaker 2: Fim Grinn's natural impulse would be to make a joke
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  Speaker 2: or offer some kind of comfort, but at this moment
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  Speaker 2: he found his natural mirth impotent in the face of
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  Speaker 2: the other's mood. Before the meal, Fim had heard Blario
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  Speaker 2: all the way from the bottom floor of their tower,
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  Speaker 2: bellowing curses great in both volume and vulgarity. Presently, Blario
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  Speaker 2: looked up. His eyes were red rimmed.
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  Speaker 5: We must return to the pail.
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  Speaker 2: He said. His voice sounded tired and heavy today. Surely
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  Speaker 2: not so soon, Fim had said. Putting down his fork
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  Speaker 2: with a bit of cheese still speared on its tip,
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  Speaker 2: he tried to argue, and then when that didn't work,
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  Speaker 2: he tried bargaining, but there was nothing he could say
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  Speaker 2: to change the GNOME's mind. Very well, he said at last,
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  Speaker 2: with a sigh. There was a price to pay every
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  Speaker 2: time they entered and every time they left the pail
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  Speaker 2: Ethereal travel did not come without a cost. Belario didn't
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  Speaker 2: seem to care whether or not Fim approved of the decision.
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  Speaker 2: He pushed away his untasted food.
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  Speaker 5: After you clean up, I want you to practice what
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  Speaker 5: I taught you yesterday. By the time I return, you
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  Speaker 5: will have recreated this meal for me sight, smell, and
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  Speaker 5: taste using a spectral force incantation.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Master Fibbid replied, as you wish.
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  Speaker 5: Until then, do not disturb me. I have work to do.
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  Speaker 5: There are yet more secrets to be copsed from that
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  Speaker 5: damn scroll.
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  Speaker 2: Belario squeezed his tiny heads into fists, and the knuckles
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  Speaker 2: turned white. On one of his fingers, a silver ring
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  Speaker 2: that with a black and gold gem caught the light
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  Speaker 2: and twinkled.
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  Speaker 3: But I will have them.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter thirty eight, Part four, Day thirty five, within one
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  Speaker 2: day of their destination night mythic event meaning abandoned anger
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  Speaker 2: party status. The party status is unchanged. The rain continued
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  Speaker 2: to hammer down all around the companions as they huddled
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  Speaker 2: inside the hollow bowl of the yak. They were pressed
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  Speaker 2: so tightly together it was hard to tell where one
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  Speaker 2: person began and the other ended. Despite this, the shelter
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  Speaker 2: was not sufficient to keep them dry, and before long
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  Speaker 2: those who wore such things could feel water in their
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  Speaker 2: clothes and in their boots. It had gotten into their
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  Speaker 2: packs too. The massa bell's ruins, said Doretti miserably. We're
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  Speaker 2: out of food. Derny wasn't really that upset ative the
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  Speaker 2: massible that had so little remaining that food was about
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  Speaker 2: to become a big problem regardless. Now Dernni's troubles were
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  Speaker 2: more of a spiritual variety. He was certain he'd be
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  Speaker 2: forced to relive the experience of losing the Old Crow
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  Speaker 2: again in his dreams that night. Recently, he couldn't stop
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  Speaker 2: wondering might he have been able to save his former
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  Speaker 2: mentor if only he'd made a different choice. Thinking back,
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  Speaker 2: he was fairly sure he'd heard no more than three
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  Speaker 2: workish voices during the pursuit, but he would never know
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  Speaker 2: the Old Crow was dead. He was alive. What might
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  Speaker 2: have been was a fool's refrain. Some time after midnight,
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  Speaker 2: the storm passed and the clouds overhead parted to reveal
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  Speaker 2: a blurry yellow half moon suspended in the firmament. Exhausted,
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  Speaker 2: most of the companions simply curled up on the ground
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  Speaker 2: and tried to find sleep, not even bothering to unpack
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  Speaker 2: their bed rolls. Before Faerwin turned in, he put his
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  Speaker 2: hands on court and said a prayer of thank you,
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  Speaker 2: my friend, for always keeping watch over us, he said.
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  Speaker 2: When the prayer was done, Cord had creaked and bowed
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  Speaker 2: in gratitude and acknowledgement, and then walked off always to
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  Speaker 2: sit his nightly vigil with Robin on his shoulder. Since
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  Speaker 2: the PCs were delayed by the storm, I need to
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  Speaker 2: make one more set of hex crawl rules for day
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  Speaker 2: thirty six before they can reach their destination, or at
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  Speaker 2: least the general vicinity of it. For weather, I've got
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  Speaker 2: a nineteen looks like after the storm breaks, the weather
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  Speaker 2: becomes gorgeous for stumble upon. The sixteen means no result
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  Speaker 2: there foraging with Cord's help, A one is a success,
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  Speaker 2: and not a day too soon either is. The PCs
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  Speaker 2: currently have no food remaining, so far so good. But
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  Speaker 2: here's the rule that really matters. The real cost of
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  Speaker 2: that storm was not that the PCs lost the last
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  Speaker 2: of their food. The real cost was that it delayed them,
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  Speaker 2: and so they'll need to endure an extra wandering encounter.
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  Speaker 2: Check a five or six on a D six will
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  Speaker 2: indicate there is one on nuts. I knew it. That's
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  Speaker 2: a five. There's one more role to make, and that's
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  Speaker 2: fair winds cure light wounds spell of the night before.
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  Speaker 2: As a result of the prayer, Cord will regain four
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  Speaker 2: hit points Chapter thirty eight, Part five, Day thirty six
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  Speaker 2: within one day of their destination morning mythic event meaning
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  Speaker 2: abandoned anger party status Achille thirteen of thirteen hit points,
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  Speaker 2: Cord twenty four of twenty four, de Renni sixteen of sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: ten Tier nineteen of nineteen, fair Wind nineteen of twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: After receiving one point of natural healing Flicker sixteen of
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  Speaker 2: sixteen supplies, the companions have no food, remaining spells available.
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  Speaker 2: Achille can cast enlarge message, glitter dust and detect evil.
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  Speaker 2: Cord can cast entangle slow poison, hold animal, and speak
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  Speaker 2: with plants. Fair Wind can cast cure light wounds and
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  Speaker 2: protection from evil. In the morning, the companions awoke to
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  Speaker 2: find that the rain had stopped and de Rennie was gone.
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  Speaker 2: At first, there was some mild alarm, but Cord, who
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  Speaker 2: never slept, had seen the eleven hunter get up before
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  Speaker 2: the others and walk away, gesturing in such a fashion
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  Speaker 2: as to make it clear he'd know. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be followed. Court hadn't thought much of it. For those
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  Speaker 2: who were not made of wood, the need for occasional
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  Speaker 2: access to privacy was normal. The fact that Derni had
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  Speaker 2: been gone for over an hour had only just started
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  Speaker 2: to concern him when the others had woken up and
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  Speaker 2: noticed the absence. Do you think we ought to go
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  Speaker 2: looking for him, asked Sherwood. I hope he's all right,
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  Speaker 2: said Achilia.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps we should let me.
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  Speaker 2: Go alone, Tinder offered, easily guessing the meaning of your exchange.
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  Speaker 3: My brother sometimes does this. I think I know what's
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  Speaker 3: bothering him.
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  Speaker 1: You don't suppose he's still angry with me, do you, asked.
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  Speaker 2: Akilia, scratching Flicker behind the ears and looking down at
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  Speaker 2: the blink dog meaningfully. Dornni had not made his disdain
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  Speaker 2: for the animal the secret No no.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm right, this doesn't have anything to do with
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  Speaker 3: you or with any of us. Sometimes do Reni just
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  Speaker 3: needs time alone, that's all to think, and threw a
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  Speaker 3: few things from his past.
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  Speaker 2: Ten Tier walked off in the direction cord Hat pointed,
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  Speaker 2: leaving the others behind. Once he was gone, Achillia put
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  Speaker 2: her hands behind her head and, in one fluid motion,
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  Speaker 2: peeled off her wet shirt. Fair Wind was facing the
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  Speaker 2: other way and didn't notice until he turned around while asking.
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  Speaker 3: And what did Tintia say about deham I?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, The sight of Achillie naked from the waist up
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  Speaker 2: made him quickly turn away. I I I'm sorry, sorry
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  Speaker 2: for what, asked Kilia, not understanding.
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  Speaker 4: Tintu thinks to Renni needs some time alone to think.
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  Speaker 4: That's all, to be honest, he has looked very tired
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  Speaker 4: and lately he's been very irritable, which is not really
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  Speaker 4: like him anyway, It gives us time to dry her clothes.
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  Speaker 2: She flung her shirt over a low branch and then
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  Speaker 2: stripped off her pants and undergarments. These she hung beside
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  Speaker 2: her shirt. As she worked, Flicker gambled around her, making
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  Speaker 2: a nuisance of herself. Fair Wind deeply uncomfortable, found various
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  Speaker 2: places to dry their bedrolls and packs. Before he too,
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  Speaker 2: hung up his damp, ragged robe his small clothes, he
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  Speaker 2: decided would stay on for the sake of propriety. Intentionally
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  Speaker 2: averting his gaze from Achille's naked form, the cleric pretended
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  Speaker 2: to be lost in thought while scanning the distance, where
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  Speaker 2: sloping hillsides folded into gullies and valleys all around them.
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  Speaker 2: The forest was fresh and bright, and bird song filled
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  Speaker 2: the air. Behind him. He could hear achillea telling cord
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  Speaker 2: that he seemed to have changed once again, and she
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  Speaker 2: counted off four tiny sprouts that hadn't been on his
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  Speaker 2: body before. Perhaps I should go and speak to him
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: with your help. Of course, Ferwind suddenly said, standing by
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  Speaker 2: while others needed counsel and support, not to mention Achille's
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: nakedness was making him feel uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just give them some time, was Achillie's reply.
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  Speaker 2: Her tone was light but nonetheless did not invite argument.
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  Speaker 2: I ah ah, yes, yes, of course. Everyind returned his
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: attention to the beauty of the landscape. Miles off he
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  Speaker 2: could just make out the telltale sparkle of water the lake.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps with some luck, he mused, today, they would reach
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  Speaker 2: their destination and finally meet the famous historian odok Zygog.
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