Latest / Dissonant Whispers: A DnD Actual Play Podcast / Ep 18: Cloak and Dagger
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- 0:31SPEAKER_15: All right, so we are back at our next session, where our group is in the encampment outside of Silvery Moon, the Moon Warden's encampment.
- 0:44SPEAKER_15: And we are just getting started in figuring out what is going to be required of the group to go and how the battle plan is going to look like.
- 0:55SPEAKER_15: We have had uh an interesting day with some exploding events and some drinking.
- 1:06SPEAKER_15: And Einar has purchased the Moon Warden's half-plate armor, which, upon donning it, has found Noctus is having an adverse reaction to it.
- 1:19SPEAKER_15: Perhaps being in pain was too strong of a word, but he is very, very unhappy with it as it does not match his alignment, makes him uncomfortable, and he does not want to work with it.
- 1:30SPEAKER_15: As Einar is fidgeting with his armor trying to get Noctis to come to reason with it, you guys see around the corner a refreshed and empty Drax shows up to greet you all as he walks in and sees what is going on.
- 1:51SPEAKER_15: And that is where we're gonna pick things up.
- 1:55SPEAKER_08: Hi guys, I'm back.
- 1:58SPEAKER_08: Feel nice and relaxed.
- 1:59SPEAKER_08: It's almost like I went on a two-week vacation.
- 2:03SPEAKER_05: Back and ready to adventure.
- 2:05SPEAKER_05: By the eluxe, it was almost three.
- 2:08SPEAKER_07: Well, you're less pale for sure.
- 2:12SPEAKER_02: Touch skinnier.
- 2:14SPEAKER_02: Touch skinnier.
- 2:16SPEAKER_04: Got my exercise in.
- 2:17SPEAKER_04: How are you feeling, brother?
- 2:19SPEAKER_04: Pretty good now.
- 2:21SPEAKER_12: Does Delphine want to catch him up on?
- 2:25SPEAKER_02: You're his brother, you can catch him up.
- 2:27SPEAKER_12: What's new?
- 2:28SPEAKER_12: What I miss.
- 2:35unknown: What?
- 2:36SPEAKER_06: Go on.
- 2:37SPEAKER_06: I look at you briefly.
- 2:39SPEAKER_12: Like I look at you, I'm like.
- 2:40SPEAKER_12: So yeah, like I said, you got a sister now.
- 2:45SPEAKER_12: Her uncle's in charge of the camp.
- 2:47SPEAKER_12: Who is her?
- 2:48SPEAKER_12: Who is her?
- 2:48SPEAKER_19: Delphine's uncle's alive, and he's in charge of the camp.
- 2:52SPEAKER_19: That's another pretty interesting thing that we've found out that's new.
- 2:55SPEAKER_19: This armor is really pissing off Noctus, but it's so cool.
- 2:59SPEAKER_19: It's so cool.
- 3:01SPEAKER_19: Well, you'll look good in it.
- 3:02SPEAKER_19: It hurts a little.
- 3:04SPEAKER_07: It's itchy.
- 3:05SPEAKER_07: We're a little shaking.
- 3:07SPEAKER_07: We found some cool stuff.
- 3:08SPEAKER_12: Rolf got a new toy.
- 3:09SPEAKER_12: It's on his feet.
- 3:10SPEAKER_12: Yeah, I got some nice little boots here.
- 3:12SPEAKER_12: Oh, oh, there's a bag of holdings here.
- 3:14SPEAKER_12: A bunch of us got them.
- 3:16SPEAKER_12: Ooh.
- 3:18SPEAKER_12: She's got a bag of.
- 3:19SPEAKER_12: I got a bag of holding.
- 3:20SPEAKER_12: I'm thinking of getting a second one.
- 3:21SPEAKER_12: It's one that actually like it's a cool one that goes across your back and it has a thing.
- 3:25SPEAKER_12: I've got my I've got my satchel one, but you can have a second one.
- 3:28SPEAKER_12: Secondary place to hide things.
- 3:30SPEAKER_12: I do love my bag of holding.
- 3:31SPEAKER_12: You can have one.
- 3:32SPEAKER_12: Well, you got yours.
- 3:33SPEAKER_12: No, well, she's got yours.
- 3:35SPEAKER_07: Gives her a little bit.
- 3:41SPEAKER_02: Pre-established modus operandi.
- 3:45SPEAKER_02: You were incapacitated.
- 3:47SPEAKER_02: The I didn't want you to drop it down the latrine.
- 3:50SPEAKER_04: Drax is holding out his hand, motioning.
- 3:54SPEAKER_04: Taking the bag of holding back.
- 3:57SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he looks inside just to make sure no one's been messing with his stuff.
- 4:02SPEAKER_04: Do you still have bodies in there?
- 4:05SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 4:07SPEAKER_04: No.
- 4:07SPEAKER_04: You see me.
- 4:10SPEAKER_03: I'm saying that.
- 4:11SPEAKER_06: You see me doing this motion.
- 4:12SPEAKER_06: The ixney, like get I smack you on the shoulder like this.
- 4:16SPEAKER_06: I'm like, Kenny's always talking about our secrets.
- 4:18SPEAKER_06: Always talking about Jesus.
- 4:20SPEAKER_06: Can't trust him with anything.
- 4:22SPEAKER_02: Alright, back it up.
- 4:24SPEAKER_02: Who's Mary?
- 4:26SPEAKER_02: We.
- 4:28SPEAKER_12: My hand's up.
- 4:28SPEAKER_20: We proclaimed our promises before the spirits.
- 4:31SPEAKER_12: I show I I show off my father's ring on her finger.
- 4:34SPEAKER_12: I'm like.
- 4:34SPEAKER_20: When did that happen?
- 4:38SPEAKER_20: Huh?
- 4:41SPEAKER_06: The other night.
- 4:45SPEAKER_06: Twas but the fortnight ago.
- 4:47SPEAKER_02: Twas the night before last.
- 4:50SPEAKER_12: I'm looking at you very quizzically right now.
- 4:55SPEAKER_12: And yes, twas the other night.
- 5:00SPEAKER_02: You you sh just jumped right into things, eh?
- 5:05SPEAKER_02: She turned to Ash the other night.
- 5:07SPEAKER_02: How do we My words are seeming to trouble me?
- 5:15SPEAKER_02: You think you sound perfectly normal to me?
- 5:21SPEAKER_02: How about thou say?
- 5:25SPEAKER_02: I mean, you do sound like my dance instructor when I was a child, but I am at a loss.
- 5:34SPEAKER_13: We were talking.
- 5:36SPEAKER_02: Speak to thy husband.
- 5:39SPEAKER_02: I do not know what has become of me, boy.
- 5:45SPEAKER_02: You're awfully flustered.
- 5:49SPEAKER_02: Please speak to my husband.
- 5:51SPEAKER_12: Like there must be something in the tea.
- 5:55SPEAKER_12: They're drugging us.
- 5:56SPEAKER_02: I drink the same tea and I'm not now.
- 5:59SPEAKER_02: Drucan, are you well?
- 6:00SPEAKER_07: I feel fantastic.
- 6:03SPEAKER_07: You know, your tea this morning made me better.
- 6:07SPEAKER_07: And now I am not hungover or drunk.
- 6:10SPEAKER_01: Ah, that's some good tea.
- 6:12SPEAKER_07: It was great tea.
- 6:13SPEAKER_07: I need some more eventually.
- 6:14SPEAKER_07: So I'm gonna go drinking again tonight.
- 6:17SPEAKER_07: If we have time.
- 6:18SPEAKER_21: Are you brave?
- 6:19SPEAKER_21: We should not be able to do it.
- 6:20SPEAKER_21: Am I sure I'm gonna do it?
- 6:21SPEAKER_21: Absolutely.
- 6:22SPEAKER_07: I have to do it.
- 6:25SPEAKER_04: Well, brother, congratulations on your marriage.
- 6:28SPEAKER_04: You always did have your eyes on the crazy hot ones.
- 6:33SPEAKER_02: Emphasis are crazy.
- 6:39SPEAKER_07: I hope you don't mind that I gave her dad's ring.
- 6:42SPEAKER_07: Dad's ring?
- 6:45SPEAKER_07: Oh.
- 6:45SPEAKER_07: Which we've we've joined hers, or at least I have.
- 6:48SPEAKER_07: We'll have to talk about this.
- 6:50SPEAKER_04: Well.
- 6:50SPEAKER_04: Now that you're an honest man, I probably don't need the chaperone anymore.
- 6:55SPEAKER_02: I mean, married to this one.
- 6:56SPEAKER_04: Honest.
- 6:58SPEAKER_04: Crazy hot.
- 7:00SPEAKER_02: I fear that I know not what to take of this declaration of yours.
- 7:06SPEAKER_04: Why are you speaking so funny?
- 7:10SPEAKER_02: Is this a new bit?
- 7:11SPEAKER_02: Is this a song or a play?
- 7:13SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's it's it's I believe the drink I had.
- 7:17SPEAKER_02: Did you drank what Durakin was drinking?
- 7:21SPEAKER_07: I don't have that funny accent.
- 7:24SPEAKER_02: He appears to be of no ill effect.
- 7:29SPEAKER_02: No, he looks quite good.
- 7:31SPEAKER_02: Hail and hearty.
- 7:33SPEAKER_02: Don't they mock me?
- 7:36SPEAKER_02: No, I'm just enjoying, you know, that you're speaking properly.
- 7:42SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, I guess platform is your shots up.
- 7:45SPEAKER_02: For the record, I like to think that this that is in Elven the type of diction elves would use when they speak.
- 7:55SPEAKER_02: So Delphine thinks you sound perfectly fine.
- 7:59SPEAKER_12: Einar's looking around.
- 8:02SPEAKER_12: I know about find it, but Einar doesn't.
- 8:05SPEAKER_12: Einar's looking around for the obvious conjurer who's messing with us right now and casting some sort of befuddlement spell on our people.
- 8:10SPEAKER_12: So I'm looking around for someone who looks like he's casting spells at us or like trying to look subtle because Einar's paranoid.
- 8:17SPEAKER_12: He's like, why the hell are people acting weird?
- 8:19SPEAKER_07: Only one person.
- 8:21SPEAKER_12: Yes, I know, but it's enough for him to be like, okay, who's who's who's got casting something on the side?
- 8:25SPEAKER_20: Are you hungry, Dirax?
- 8:28SPEAKER_07: Or are you scared to eat?
- 8:30SPEAKER_20: Shall I fetch the atonic?
- 8:33SPEAKER_05: Uh Dirax is thinking in his head, she done got a pretty voice.
- 8:40SPEAKER_04: Uh vocalizing, though, he's saying, yes, I would love some breakfast.
- 8:46SPEAKER_02: Maybe something like oatmeal, nice and steady.
- 8:50SPEAKER_05: A good loaf of bread and butter.
- 8:52SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, crackers, some saltines and ginger ale.
- 8:56SPEAKER_05: Definitely not the honey off the stone wall.
- 8:58SPEAKER_02: Yeah, don't don't like walls.
- 9:01SPEAKER_13: Bread.
- 9:02SPEAKER_13: Bread and butter.
- 9:04SPEAKER_12: We also have some tactical advice having been given to us that we're mulling over about what our next action should be.
- 9:13SPEAKER_12: Her well, Delphine's uncle has some means of getting us near the city through a teleportation portal.
- 9:23SPEAKER_12: Scouts have not been able to get very close.
- 9:26SPEAKER_12: You talked to your uncle more on it.
- 9:28SPEAKER_12: I have to admit I've only half listened.
- 9:31SPEAKER_01: Oleander is going to occupy herself by going to fetch Drax some breakfast.
- 9:38SPEAKER_01: You talk more.
- 9:41SPEAKER_07: Tell me a story.
- 9:43SPEAKER_02: Tell me a tale, O Bard.
- 9:46SPEAKER_02: Methinks I have brought this ruin upon my own head.
- 9:50SPEAKER_02: And she wanders off to go gather some uh breakfast for Drax.
- 9:56SPEAKER_02: Including a good strong coffee.
- 9:58SPEAKER_02: Oh, Delphi is highly entertained.
- 10:01SPEAKER_06: I look quizzically at my departing wife and then sit down, trying to block out the thing going on.
- 10:08SPEAKER_06: Lina tries to focus on uh just talking with Noctus as I attune to the armor.
- 10:14SPEAKER_12: I'll unattune from the wraps.
- 10:16SPEAKER_12: And uh and yeah, I'll go through that hour-long process as I just calm him and talk with him and play it out if you want to let him do stuff.
- 10:26SPEAKER_12: I'll start the the rationalization talk with him, just like what this could do for us and how it can protect us and make us stronger.
- 10:33SPEAKER_12: We'll start there.
- 10:35SPEAKER_15: But yeah, I'm attuning.
- 10:36SPEAKER_15: Okay, you're attuning.
- 10:37SPEAKER_15: The armor is yours.
- 10:39SPEAKER_15: As you know, when you have the armor attuned, Noctis is not a fan.
- 10:43SPEAKER_15: Um, it'll be levels in order to get him to come around to it.
- 10:49SPEAKER_15: But uh, for the time being, when you are activating Noctus, the armor is just armor.
- 10:54SPEAKER_15: But when you do not activate Noctis, you do not have the reach, but you also will have the ability of the armor.
- 11:00SPEAKER_15: So you're trading one for the other, it depends on what you want, right?
- 11:03SPEAKER_12: Yeah, he sounds good.
- 11:05SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 11:07SPEAKER_15: Anyone else have anything they need to do shop for?
- 11:09SPEAKER_02: Drax need to be filled in on things.
- 11:13SPEAKER_08: Oh, I got the gist.
- 11:15SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 11:15SPEAKER_02: Did they tell you did you tell you about the people with the Dominion spikes who I'm calling crystal zombies?
- 11:21SPEAKER_08: Little zombie guys.
- 11:21SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 11:23SPEAKER_02: Kind of like with Worthix, we don't know if we want to kill them.
- 11:26SPEAKER_02: We want to find out what's wrong with them, and hopefully.
- 11:29SPEAKER_02: Because these are just normal people.
- 11:31SPEAKER_07: Well, they were normal people.
- 11:33SPEAKER_02: That's why we need to find out what's wrong with them.
- 11:35SPEAKER_05: They can just be controlled.
- 11:37SPEAKER_05: Well, I got my trusty machete if we need it.
- 11:40SPEAKER_02: I would rather we don't plan to exterminate the populace if there's a way to save them.
- 11:46SPEAKER_02: These are my people.
- 11:48SPEAKER_07: Try your way first.
- 11:50SPEAKER_02: Preferably.
- 11:51SPEAKER_07: So are you thinking you want to try and capture one of these people, Delphine?
- 11:57SPEAKER_02: I think we sh should.
- 12:00SPEAKER_07: I agree.
- 12:01SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 12:01SPEAKER_02: I know what's wrong with them.
- 12:03SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 12:04SPEAKER_02: If we can't save them, at least we can learn what's happened.
- 12:08SPEAKER_07: That's true.
- 12:09SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 12:11SPEAKER_07: And as we're sitting there, I'm gonna pull out the bomb and just hold the bomb like this.
- 12:15SPEAKER_02: What is that?
- 12:16SPEAKER_07: Yeah, what this is what I created last night.
- 12:19SPEAKER_02: You were way too excited about that.
- 12:20SPEAKER_07: Absolutely, but this is what blew up that uh training facility.
- 12:24SPEAKER_02: And it's stable.
- 12:26SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I thought about it and it works.
- 12:29SPEAKER_07: I did something good.
- 12:31SPEAKER_02: You thought about it while drawn?
- 12:34SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 12:34SPEAKER_07: Would that break the wall?
- 12:37SPEAKER_07: Probably.
- 12:38SPEAKER_15: It blew up that.
- 12:41SPEAKER_15: He points to a giant hole in the training barricade where you can just see a blast that has gone in a straight line and blown a hole in the wall, a hole in the trees, and then you see in the distance, in the trees, one of the combat dummies sticking headfirst out of the tree from the force of the blast.
- 12:58SPEAKER_07: I had fun.
- 12:59SPEAKER_07: So tracks back two feet.
- 13:02SPEAKER_07: No, it's stable.
- 13:03SPEAKER_07: See?
- 13:04SPEAKER_07: It's stable.
- 13:04SPEAKER_07: It's three feet.
- 13:05SPEAKER_02: I'm okay.
- 13:06SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm picturing a moment in Guardians of the Galaxy when the stone, they figure first figure out what it is.
- 13:12SPEAKER_02: He's like, you have that in your purse!
- 13:15SPEAKER_17: That is a living thing.
- 13:18SPEAKER_04: Does your uncle know about this?
- 13:20SPEAKER_07: Like, is this something that they should be using?
- 13:23SPEAKER_07: Oh.
- 13:24SPEAKER_07: I don't think he knows.
- 13:26SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that's the explosive guy is he seems to be friends with my uncle, so he probably knows what he's capable of.
- 13:35SPEAKER_07: Well, at least they have some means of getting in if we end up being useless or die.
- 13:41SPEAKER_02: But I think the point is that we have the bomb though.
- 13:44SPEAKER_07: I have it.
- 13:46SPEAKER_07: But can they make well assume they can make they probably make more?
- 13:49unknown: Yeah.
- 13:49SPEAKER_07: Somehow, but they need this guy's idea.
- 13:52SPEAKER_02: Given time, do we have time is the question.
- 13:54SPEAKER_07: Well, not for us, just for them.
- 13:56SPEAKER_07: For them, they can probably do it.
- 13:57SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 13:58SPEAKER_07: I mean, uh we created a couple hours, I think.
- 14:02SPEAKER_07: Maybe.
- 14:03SPEAKER_07: I don't know how long.
- 14:06SPEAKER_07: It's all a blur of time.
- 14:07SPEAKER_07: Time is irrelevant in that situation.
- 14:10SPEAKER_07: Little.
- 14:11SPEAKER_07: Oh, I know it's fun.
- 14:13SPEAKER_07: Okay, do we have anything else we need to do before we go in?
- 14:16SPEAKER_02: I have a couple things I need to do that might require us at least waiting a few hours.
- 14:23SPEAKER_02: But my uncle did say he had a scout team that could go in, but they would not be able to come back until the next morning.
- 14:32SPEAKER_02: But they might be able to at least give us a lay of the land around the teleportation circle itself so we know what we're arriving at.
- 14:38SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 14:39SPEAKER_02: I don't know if people think that's a good idea.
- 14:43SPEAKER_07: I mean, if you think it's a great idea, if you want to wait, we can wait until we come back.
- 14:48SPEAKER_02: I have this pretty new armor that I need to put some spells in, and then I'm gonna want to get those spells back.
- 14:53SPEAKER_07: Consider with Ionar.
- 14:54SPEAKER_07: Ionar's getting his thing done too, so we can do that.
- 14:56SPEAKER_02: But like I will only need four hours before I'm fully recuperated.
- 15:00SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 15:02SPEAKER_02: Not that long for you.
- 15:03SPEAKER_07: I can have a good sleep.
- 15:04SPEAKER_02: The question is also, do we want to, I think we discussed before, do we want to go in in the day or at night?
- 15:09SPEAKER_02: Because I believe orcs can see pretty well at night.
- 15:14SPEAKER_07: I think they'll be more active at night if anyone's.
- 15:17SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 15:17SPEAKER_02: So we might.
- 15:18SPEAKER_02: What time of day is it?
- 15:20unknown: Morning.
- 15:21SPEAKER_15: It's still like mid-morning.
- 15:23SPEAKER_02: Mid-morning.
- 15:24SPEAKER_15: That's why we're making fun of Drinking because he got hammered in the morning.
- 15:28SPEAKER_17: Go ahead, day drinking.
- 15:29SPEAKER_07: You probably don't want to drink again tonight, Drewkin.
- 15:31SPEAKER_07: Oh, you were planning on going.
- 15:33SPEAKER_07: You watch me.
- 15:34SPEAKER_07: That doesn't seem smart.
- 15:37SPEAKER_07: But we're not going that night, we're going in the morning.
- 15:40SPEAKER_07: So I'll be fine.
- 15:41SPEAKER_07: Like, I'll get Ole Antwer to get me another tea like she made last night.
- 15:46SPEAKER_07: It's okay.
- 15:46SPEAKER_02: She makes very good tea.
- 15:48SPEAKER_07: Can she make more tea like that?
- 15:49SPEAKER_07: I don't know.
- 15:50SPEAKER_07: That'll be a tomorrow morning thing, and I'll find out.
- 15:53SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 15:54SPEAKER_07: And if not, that's how it is.
- 15:57SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 15:59SPEAKER_01: I bring Drax's breakfast.
- 16:02SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
- 16:04SPEAKER_08: That's exactly what I wanted.
- 16:06SPEAKER_20: I brought my morning feast unto thee.
- 16:07SPEAKER_20: I pray.
- 16:08SPEAKER_20: Partake in this.
- 16:11SPEAKER_07: Thank you.
- 16:12SPEAKER_07: Why are you talking like that?
- 16:13SPEAKER_02: I hand him the cup of coffee and gently push it towards his him to take a sip.
- 16:19SPEAKER_02: I think she's a bit more.
- 16:20SPEAKER_04: Drax catches three quarters of what she just said.
- 16:24SPEAKER_04: He cautiously takes a sip.
- 16:27SPEAKER_02: Alright.
- 16:28SPEAKER_01: Can you please tell me, Stu, what is the last mystery potion that I have spiked Drax with?
- 16:36SPEAKER_01: Number five.
- 16:38SPEAKER_23: Oh no!
- 16:41SPEAKER_18: Oh no.
- 16:45SPEAKER_04: You gave me the shits.
- 16:52SPEAKER_15: You were immune to it.
- 16:53SPEAKER_03: I didn't click any wall this time.
- 16:55SPEAKER_15: This is unexpected.
- 16:57SPEAKER_15: Oh boy.
- 16:58SPEAKER_15: Okay, hold on a second here.
- 16:59SPEAKER_09: Is it though?
- 17:00SPEAKER_09: Is it?
- 17:00SPEAKER_09: Is it really?
- 17:02SPEAKER_09: Kinda.
- 17:04SPEAKER_15: Uh let me just pull it up here.
- 17:06SPEAKER_15: I have to go back to where I.
- 17:07SPEAKER_04: It's still reminiscent of the deck of many things.
- 17:09SPEAKER_15: Uh a little bit, eh?
- 17:11SPEAKER_20: A little bit.
- 17:12SPEAKER_15: A little bit.
- 17:14SPEAKER_20: Thou shalt not be surprised.
- 17:20SPEAKER_20: What benefit has have I bestowed upon thee?
- 17:24SPEAKER_20: Or bane?
- 17:26SPEAKER_20: Truly no bane has occurred.
- 17:30SPEAKER_07: Yes.
- 17:30SPEAKER_02: From my potions.
- 17:32SPEAKER_02: Didn't you poison yourself?
- 17:36SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 17:36SPEAKER_20: However, that bottle dot be labeled is not poison.
- 17:43SPEAKER_02: Do we know if they stay the same each time?
- 17:46SPEAKER_20: Nay.
- 17:47SPEAKER_20: But the color is recognizable.
- 17:54SPEAKER_07: Well, considering like I'm the only one, who who else can't see in the dark?
- 17:58SPEAKER_07: Drewkin.
- 17:59SPEAKER_07: Do you think that's something they might have?
- 18:01SPEAKER_07: That's something they could help us see in the dark, just so we have like a potion?
- 18:06SPEAKER_07: Sure, a potion or probably have to go.
- 18:09SPEAKER_07: Glasses.
- 18:11SPEAKER_02: My spectacles of dark vision.
- 18:13SPEAKER_18: Oh my goodness.
- 18:15SPEAKER_18: My goodness, my goodness, my goodness.
- 18:18SPEAKER_07: What a potion.
- 18:19SPEAKER_07: Uh oh, here it is.
- 18:20SPEAKER_20: Oh, I don't like that sound.
- 18:24SPEAKER_20: I stand ready.
- 18:25SPEAKER_15: Drax turns into a door.
- 18:27SPEAKER_20: What did you do?
- 18:28SPEAKER_15: Drax.
- 18:31SPEAKER_15: Would you please roll me a D6?
- 18:34SPEAKER_08: Roll an actual die.
- 18:35SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 18:37SPEAKER_15: Five.
- 18:39SPEAKER_01: I would specifically have given him the one I did not recognize, the very last one.
- 18:43SPEAKER_15: Yes, which you have no idea what it does.
- 18:49SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 18:50unknown: Lord.
- 18:50SPEAKER_20: Yet 'tis not poisoned.
- 18:52SPEAKER_18: Tis not poisoned.
- 18:53unknown: Indeed.
- 18:54SPEAKER_18: Until it's mixed.
- 18:56SPEAKER_18: Tis not poisoned.
- 18:57SPEAKER_20: I shall mix the potions together at another time.
- 19:00SPEAKER_20: Can we just poison?
- 19:02SPEAKER_15: Uh you do have a permanent effect.
- 19:06SPEAKER_15: But you do not know what that effect is at this time.
- 19:10SPEAKER_15: Permanent as like till long rest or permanent until somebody debuffs you from it.
- 19:15SPEAKER_15: It's a Facebook curse.
- 19:17SPEAKER_04: It could be with like some strong coffee.
- 19:20SPEAKER_04: It could be a benefit for all you know.
- 19:22SPEAKER_05: I have strengthened the brew to the it doesn't taste like coffee I'm uh accustomed to.
- 19:31SPEAKER_15: Uh roll me a D4, please.
- 19:34SPEAKER_15: Also roll that with an actual die.
- 19:38SPEAKER_15: Four.
- 19:39SPEAKER_15: So you all of a sudden violently sneeze, and you are bamped 40 feet in front of you, and in the place of where you were is an outline of you in butterflies that just flies away and flutters.
- 19:58SPEAKER_15: Welcome to the curse of fabulous consequences.
- 20:04SPEAKER_04: That could be my guys, it's uh feeling very questioning.
- 20:09SPEAKER_04: Is he still in the same room?
- 20:11SPEAKER_15: He's 40 feet from where he was originally standing.
- 20:16SPEAKER_04: He's now outside.
- 20:17SPEAKER_04: I am outside.
- 20:19SPEAKER_05: I am now questioning what was given to me.
- 20:22SPEAKER_15: Okay, so the way this works is every single time you go to do an action in battle or outside of battle, you must roll a d4.
- 20:33SPEAKER_15: If at any time you roll a four, you violently sneeze and you move 40 feet in a random direction and leave behind one of random things that can happen.
- 20:44SPEAKER_15: Uh, it can be you can have a burst of harmless butterflies, uh, confetti will explode all around you, a disembodied voice will say, Oleander did this, and you will disappear somewhere else.
- 20:59SPEAKER_15: Everyone within a 10-foot radius will strongly reek of cinnamon for 10 minutes.
- 21:05SPEAKER_15: A special trumpet will go and you will be 40 feet away, or you will leave behind an illusionary duplicate that gives everyone a thumbs up before disappearing.
- 21:19SPEAKER_04: Well, that's gonna be interesting in combat.
- 21:23SPEAKER_15: His echo is changing into a you will roll a D6 every time because of it.
- 21:28SPEAKER_15: So you roll the D4 and then you roll the D6 for whatever happens.
- 21:33SPEAKER_05: Anytime I do an action.
- 21:35SPEAKER_15: Anytime you do an action until you are debuffed.
- 21:38SPEAKER_15: Uh this effect is permanent until removed by wish or uh another magic spell that will take off a curse.
- 21:45SPEAKER_23: AKA remove curse.
- 21:47SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 21:48SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 21:49SPEAKER_07: Can I remove mine too?
- 21:53SPEAKER_07: Sobriety.
- 21:56SPEAKER_07: Is that a curse two or something?
- 21:57SPEAKER_15: Uh no, that's the same, it's the same element.
- 21:58SPEAKER_15: You can remove that if you.
- 22:00SPEAKER_15: Want to, yeah, but you have to go ahead.
- 22:01SPEAKER_07: But no, yeah, so that's good.
- 22:03SPEAKER_07: I feel like I'm not sure.
- 22:03SPEAKER_02: Alright, so he just disappeared in front of us, so I'm gonna be like But butterflies.
- 22:09SPEAKER_02: Drax What the hell happened?
- 22:12SPEAKER_02: Are we were we in a building or are we just standing out in the wheel?
- 22:17SPEAKER_02: By virtue of a dram, I have done the steed.
- 22:20SPEAKER_02: The hell did what?
- 22:22SPEAKER_07: Speak English or common.
- 22:28SPEAKER_02: I placed the mysterious drum from my vials in his coffee.
- 22:34SPEAKER_02: You drugged him?
- 22:36SPEAKER_04: Why?
- 22:37SPEAKER_02: To his friend.
- 22:39SPEAKER_02: Without his knowledge or consent.
- 22:41SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 22:42SPEAKER_02: Just no harm.
- 22:45SPEAKER_03: How was that no harm?
- 22:46SPEAKER_02: I didn't know that it what it would do.
- 22:47SPEAKER_02: It was fabulous! You didn't know what it would do.
- 22:50SPEAKER_03: Well, I feel like we so are we gonna take her potions away?
- 22:54SPEAKER_02: I was That was the last one.
- 22:56SPEAKER_02: If we'll refill, we could give it to another.
- 23:02SPEAKER_07: Is that what you did?
- 23:05SPEAKER_02: Do you do this to all of us?
- 23:08SPEAKER_20: To the boys and to myself.
- 23:11SPEAKER_03: What what did you do to me?
- 23:13SPEAKER_20: Nothing.
- 23:14SPEAKER_20: The are no entertainment for me.
- 23:16SPEAKER_20: I gave it to the others.
- 23:19SPEAKER_20: Which others?
- 23:20SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 23:20SPEAKER_05: You gave it to me like do they even know Drax is inside the building?
- 23:27SPEAKER_05: No, they are did they just see me turn into butterflies?
- 23:32SPEAKER_03: Oh, how can you so?
- 23:33SPEAKER_03: No.
- 23:34SPEAKER_03: Did you make any noise when you went?
- 23:36SPEAKER_03: Where where is it?
- 23:38SPEAKER_03: So where the heck is Drax?
- 23:40SPEAKER_03: What did you do to Drax?
- 23:42SPEAKER_07: He sneezed and disappeared into butterflies.
- 23:47SPEAKER_02: And I I pull out one of my mystery potions, and you guys can see the uh fabulous rolling glitter inside it.
- 23:57SPEAKER_02: You don't get to make my tea.
- 23:58SPEAKER_02: And so then, and so then I pull them out and I say, this gives me strength, this gives the stamina, this gives the healing, and I'm unsure.
- 24:10SPEAKER_02: However, this did um, I do believe this is what has brought my change of speech.
- 24:20SPEAKER_02: Possibly.
- 24:21SPEAKER_02: Why are you doing these things right now?
- 24:25SPEAKER_02: Where did he go?
- 24:28SPEAKER_02: Drax!
- 24:30SPEAKER_05: That's about when I Wherefore art thou?
- 24:36SPEAKER_02: You're outside of 10.
- 24:37SPEAKER_15: So you do hear, you do here, you're only 40 feet away.
- 24:40SPEAKER_02: You don't get to put my food anymore.
- 24:43SPEAKER_04: Drax does respond.
- 24:44SPEAKER_04: He's like, um, I don't feel well.
- 24:51SPEAKER_04: We just got him back.
- 24:52SPEAKER_07: Why is he outside?
- 24:54SPEAKER_02: I go outside.
- 24:55SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
- 24:56SPEAKER_15: And you see a confused Drax standing.
- 25:00SPEAKER_15: What?
- 25:02SPEAKER_05: What happened?
- 25:03SPEAKER_05: Do you have the ability to teleport?
- 25:06SPEAKER_02: No.
- 25:06SPEAKER_05: Not without my echo.
- 25:09SPEAKER_02: She did this, your wife.
- 25:11SPEAKER_05: Does she give you the ability to teleport?
- 25:15SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
- 25:17SPEAKER_05: What was in my drink?
- 25:19SPEAKER_01: This.
- 25:19SPEAKER_01: And I show him the potion bottle, and you can see the lovely swirling glitter inside.
- 25:26SPEAKER_02: And you guys are aware that I have been testing these potions on myself based on the last battle.
- 25:33SPEAKER_02: Not us without our knowledge or consent.
- 25:36SPEAKER_02: Thank you for drinking us.
- 25:38SPEAKER_02: Making us lab rats.
- 25:40SPEAKER_02: I was the only one poisoned.
- 25:43SPEAKER_02: You didn't know.
- 25:44SPEAKER_02: He could have been poisoned.
- 25:46SPEAKER_02: We still don't know what it did to him.
- 25:48SPEAKER_02: It states here, this doth be poison.
- 25:52SPEAKER_02: Technically, it states this doth not be poison.
- 25:55SPEAKER_02: Doth not be poison.
- 25:56SPEAKER_02: However, it is a falsehood.
- 25:59SPEAKER_07: It's a lie.
- 26:00SPEAKER_02: Falsehood.
- 26:02SPEAKER_02: A lie.
- 26:03SPEAKER_07: Cool.
- 26:04SPEAKER_02: You are not poison.
- 26:06SPEAKER_02: I don't understand how you are not okay to drug people.
- 26:10SPEAKER_02: It is a minor inconvenience.
- 26:11SPEAKER_02: You drugged them.
- 26:13SPEAKER_02: Assume.
- 26:14SPEAKER_02: You can do whatever the hell you want with your body.
- 26:16SPEAKER_02: Why are you doing things to theirs?
- 26:18SPEAKER_07: In all fairness, I will say thank you for doing it to me because I feel great.
- 26:25SPEAKER_02: I thought with all likelihood, it was a You want a guinea pig?
- 26:31SPEAKER_02: Talk to your husband.
- 26:32SPEAKER_02: I was attempting to get a boon.
- 26:34SPEAKER_02: And experiment.
- 26:36SPEAKER_02: Go experiment on your husband.
- 26:38SPEAKER_02: I feel like.
- 26:46SPEAKER_05: Well, it's in the past.
- 26:48SPEAKER_05: It's done.
- 26:49SPEAKER_05: Won't happen again.
- 26:52SPEAKER_03: We're good.
- 26:56SPEAKER_15: Alright.
- 26:57SPEAKER_15: Um, as you kind of run outside, you are confronted by one of your uncle's pages who comes running up to you and says, uh, your uncle has asked me to give this to you, and it is the map of Silvery Moon.
- 27:14SPEAKER_15: And he says, On here are the markings of where we suspect the pillars to uphold the magical barrier are.
- 27:22SPEAKER_15: And I believe this is what you required.
- 27:24SPEAKER_02: Yes, because we, you know, don't have enough problems to deal with.
- 27:28SPEAKER_15: It's on there.
- 27:29SPEAKER_02: And the Do you not wish to know what aids we have upon us?
- 27:34SPEAKER_02: In a controlled manner.
- 27:36SPEAKER_02: Controlled.
- 27:37SPEAKER_02: We are not designed to at the time.
- 27:39SPEAKER_02: Where everyone is aware and consenting to what's being done to their bodies.
- 27:46SPEAKER_07: I I have no objection.
- 27:48SPEAKER_07: I feel great.
- 27:49SPEAKER_02: Thank me.
- 27:51SPEAKER_07: Just to let you know.
- 27:52SPEAKER_07: Well, I don't do it.
- 27:53SPEAKER_07: I feel like I'm off the hook now for what I did.
- 27:55SPEAKER_03: No, you're not.
- 27:56SPEAKER_03: No.
- 27:57SPEAKER_03: Really?
- 27:58SPEAKER_03: That's worse.
- 27:59SPEAKER_03: She did it to everyone else.
- 28:00SPEAKER_03: I just did it to myself.
- 28:01SPEAKER_03: I would have killed all of us.
- 28:02SPEAKER_03: No, I couldn't.
- 28:03SPEAKER_03: And you did it at a moment of boredom.
- 28:06SPEAKER_02: And what did she do?
- 28:07SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm not impressing her.
- 28:09SPEAKER_20: I'm experimenting with the games, the boons that I can give upon our party of companions.
- 28:15SPEAKER_20: Not when people don't know.
- 28:19SPEAKER_20: Let us just continue to have mysteries.
- 28:24SPEAKER_07: So the page is here, and we have the map.
- 28:26SPEAKER_15: We got the map.
- 28:28SPEAKER_15: You have the armor.
- 28:30SPEAKER_15: I do believe that Delphine wants to look for a couple of items.
- 28:33SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and I'll um I'm gonna ask that hopefully she can find something maybe for helping us see in the dark in case we need it, because that could be a concern.
- 28:42SPEAKER_02: Why am I your errand runner?
- 28:44SPEAKER_02: Because you get things cheap.
- 28:46SPEAKER_02: You would too if you were more pleasing to people.
- 28:48SPEAKER_07: No, it's your bloodline.
- 28:51SPEAKER_02: Well, I can't help that.
- 28:53SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly, but why would we not use it?
- 28:56SPEAKER_07: I will go and walk through who has the the scrolls.
- 29:03SPEAKER_07: Who is that again?
- 29:06SPEAKER_15: Oh, that was um, let's see.
- 29:08SPEAKER_07: I can't remember.
- 29:09SPEAKER_15: I'm looking at it right now.
- 29:10SPEAKER_15: Uh that would be the market tent.
- 29:15SPEAKER_07: Yes, I will head to the market tent.
- 29:17SPEAKER_15: Right.
- 29:18SPEAKER_15: Uh and what are you looking for?
- 29:20SPEAKER_07: I'm gonna agree with, I'm gonna see about if they have scrolls for like dark vision or something like that where me and Rold can uh at least be able to if we end up doing nighttime stuff to be able to see in the dark and go back with.
- 29:35SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 29:36SPEAKER_15: Yeah, um you do go in selfie?
- 29:39SPEAKER_15: No, you go into the marketplace, and uh it's kind of like uh a self-serve market where you just kind of walk around, find what you want.
- 29:49SPEAKER_15: You can steal things very easily, but in a war camp of elves, unwise, and you just take it up to the front, you can see that there is a bunch of scrolls and they're listed on a shelf, and there is one scroll of dark vision.
- 29:59SPEAKER_15: It is five gold pieces.
- 30:01SPEAKER_07: How many?
- 30:01SPEAKER_07: I'll talk to the shopkeeper in Elvish.
- 30:04SPEAKER_07: Oh, because I could speak Elvish.
- 30:06SPEAKER_07: So I will speak Elvish to them and ask her how many scrolls of dark vision they would have.
- 30:12SPEAKER_15: And she kind of just looks back at you and then looks around you on the shelf and goes.
- 30:18SPEAKER_15: There are five.
- 30:19SPEAKER_07: I will like to buy five.
- 30:21SPEAKER_15: The price for that will be 25 gold pieces, please.
- 30:24SPEAKER_07: Perfect.
- 30:24SPEAKER_07: I will give her 30 for and five for 10.
- 30:27SPEAKER_15: Wow.
- 30:27SPEAKER_15: She's very happy.
- 30:28SPEAKER_15: She says, please come back anytime.
- 30:30SPEAKER_15: And if there's anything that you need specifically, I can order it in.
- 30:33SPEAKER_07: Awesome.
- 30:34SPEAKER_07: Thank you.
- 30:35SPEAKER_07: And I will please I'll go find Rold and I will hand him two scrolls of Dark Vision.
- 30:40SPEAKER_07: I don't think I can use those.
- 30:42SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 30:42SPEAKER_02: We haven't established whether or not non-casters can cast the scroll.
- 30:46SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 30:47SPEAKER_15: Right, but somebody else could cast the scroll on him, could they not?
- 30:50SPEAKER_07: Right.
- 30:51SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 30:51SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 30:51SPEAKER_07: So then I'll keep five with me and I'll tell Rold that I have.
- 30:54SPEAKER_07: So no potions, eh?
- 30:55SPEAKER_07: Because potions are more versatile.
- 30:57SPEAKER_07: Did you look for potions?
- 30:59SPEAKER_07: I don't know.
- 30:59SPEAKER_07: I was trying to get Delphine to help me.
- 31:01SPEAKER_15: He did not ask for potions, he asked for a scroll.
- 31:03SPEAKER_15: I asked for scrolls, so I got scrolls.
- 31:05SPEAKER_02: Delphine is looking at the map.
- 31:07SPEAKER_02: She is not here for your win.
- 31:09SPEAKER_07: I I didn't say she was.
- 31:11SPEAKER_02: I assume actually Rold is also looking at a map.
- 31:13SPEAKER_07: Yeah, well, exactly.
- 31:14SPEAKER_07: I was gonna ask Delphine specifically, you know, there's gotta be some pockets of resistance.
- 31:19SPEAKER_07: So where would the less desirables be?
- 31:21SPEAKER_22: Because if anything, the most as though I was allowed to go there.
- 31:27SPEAKER_07: Well, there, but there would be some less desirables in the town, and they are likely still pockets of resistance.
- 31:36SPEAKER_07: They know how to hide.
- 31:37SPEAKER_07: I know some undesirables in the town, but they're orcs, so I I I should say when I think that way, people that would get things done with you know not working in the world.
- 31:48SPEAKER_24: Well, my father pays people to do that, but I'll tell you who I think he pays.
- 31:54SPEAKER_02: It's more the where, so we can find them, but I'm assuming uh I would assume somewhere near the harbor would be sort of a place that the more enterprising individuals might be.
- 32:10SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 32:10SPEAKER_02: That sounds plausible.
- 32:12SPEAKER_15: Yeah, for sure the harbor.
- 32:14SPEAKER_02: Um we are over here.
- 32:16SPEAKER_07: Is that where we come into the city?
- 32:18SPEAKER_02: We're coming in, we're gonna be coming in from the northwest.
- 32:20SPEAKER_02: The harbor is on the very uh eastern coast.
- 32:24SPEAKER_15: If you take a look at the Star Gardens Nobility District, the uh road right by where the six is on the map, that little road there that leads to the tower, that is where you will banf in.
- 32:38SPEAKER_17: Okay.
- 32:38SPEAKER_15: That is where you will banf in, that is where the magical barrier does not cover.
- 32:42SPEAKER_21: Got it.
- 32:43SPEAKER_07: Because it's on the edge of the city.
- 32:44SPEAKER_15: Yes.
- 32:45SPEAKER_21: There is a pillar by the harbor.
- 32:47SPEAKER_07: Okay, well that's one possibility.
- 32:49SPEAKER_07: And then I guess where would your where would your family do you have any do we have any idea where the family's being kept?
- 32:56SPEAKER_02: All the nobles are being kept either within their homes or I thought they were at Salunar Hall, the at the palace in the center.
- 33:06SPEAKER_02: The higher ranking people would be at the palace.
- 33:10SPEAKER_02: But my uncle did say if we could get some of the nobles out, we gain access to their resources because you have to remember that they're gonna have more magical abilities, better training for fighting, because the common people are the common people.
- 33:26SPEAKER_02: I'm not saying they're lesser than anyone else, but that's not what their upbringing has been.
- 33:31SPEAKER_02: They've just been, you know, normal people.
- 33:35SPEAKER_02: So they might not we want to get all everyone out that we can, but if we can find some nobles, that gets us a little bit more power.
- 33:44SPEAKER_07: So probably then the people that will have the most ability to move around the city, I would think, are the people that are used to operating in the shadows.
- 33:55SPEAKER_02: I don't think anyone's moving around the city right now.
- 33:57SPEAKER_02: I would not probably know of any of the type you are suggesting.
- 34:02SPEAKER_04: That's fair.
- 34:04SPEAKER_04: But those are the people that might actually slowly act.
- 34:10SPEAKER_04: But there's always an underground economy.
- 34:13SPEAKER_02: And who knows, maybe some um uh pockets of more principled resistance of joint forces.
- 34:23SPEAKER_12: Through gritted teeth, as Einar struggles on dealing with Noctus and the armor.
- 34:28SPEAKER_12: He raises his eye open a little to you and says, uh to rolled, and says, has it have you has it occurred to you that the underground network in this city might just be the obsidian shadows?
- 34:42SPEAKER_07: But in that case, they're not really the underground anymore, are they?
- 34:47SPEAKER_02: Though there's always competition.
- 34:49SPEAKER_07: Exactly.
- 34:51SPEAKER_07: So there's gotta be someone right here.
- 34:54SPEAKER_02: No the any noble world worth his merit would have his fingers in every pot.
- 34:58SPEAKER_03: So yeah, it's a fair point.
- 35:01SPEAKER_02: There could be both.
- 35:02SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna say this a little bit more quietly.
- 35:04SPEAKER_02: Have we been looking for obsidian shadows here in the camp?
- 35:09SPEAKER_02: If I were the enemy, I would try to find some way of infiltrating as well.
- 35:15SPEAKER_07: No, I have not.
- 35:16SPEAKER_07: Again through griders as I have taken small looks, but haven't seen anything to suspect yet.
- 35:22SPEAKER_02: I do believe that they are all hidden from us.
- 35:25SPEAKER_02: They have been shrouded from thine eyes.
- 35:30SPEAKER_01: Only under slightly glarerous.
- 35:33SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 35:35SPEAKER_02: Okay, I think that this is just how Delphine would think that people talk.
- 35:39SPEAKER_02: People should talk that way all the time.
- 35:46SPEAKER_20: Speak with him and gain the information we were promised.
- 35:52SPEAKER_02: And stop it looking at me like that! I am finding thine diction most entertaining.
- 36:02SPEAKER_02: Now would.
- 36:04SPEAKER_19: I know I was not sure how to react.
- 36:06SPEAKER_02: It is focused on why should I have myself suffering that you are choosing to speak properly?
- 36:15SPEAKER_02: I choose not.
- 36:16SPEAKER_02: It come out in this fashion.
- 36:19SPEAKER_02: You are simply speaking in a courtly manner.
- 36:22SPEAKER_02: I approve heartily.
- 36:24SPEAKER_02: Very well.
- 36:26SPEAKER_02: Continue.
- 36:28SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 36:28SPEAKER_07: So I guess you're gonna go do your thing now, Delphine.
- 36:32SPEAKER_02: I am so we can Do you want to ask my uncle if he knows where some less desirable folk where he might suggest like perhaps his scouts could see if they can find any information of that nature?
- 36:49SPEAKER_07: That's probably the best place to go, or at least where the resistance if we're sending in a scouting party, what they can find.
- 36:55SPEAKER_02: There could be a resistance still in, yes.
- 36:58SPEAKER_07: Exactly.
- 36:59SPEAKER_07: Like there's no way they can only control so much unless they're literally just if they're in their homes, they're obviously not being just outright executed yet.
- 37:08SPEAKER_02: So there has to be some sort of now, they didn't see any bodies in the streets, so all right, go find my uncle.
- 37:18SPEAKER_07: Okay, and I'm gonna go find um, I can't remember his name now.
- 37:23SPEAKER_07: The bomb guy.
- 37:25SPEAKER_15: So he's he's sleep, he's sleeping it off.
- 37:28SPEAKER_15: So he didn't get a potion like you did.
- 37:30SPEAKER_07: Well, I didn't know I got a potion.
- 37:33SPEAKER_15: Yeah, he is under the leather.
- 37:36SPEAKER_15: Okay, well then, never mind it.
- 37:37SPEAKER_15: I was gonna be like, I only had a tea.
- 37:41SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 37:42SPEAKER_15: Are you all going to find uh your uncle?
- 37:45SPEAKER_02: If others wish to come with me, they may.
- 37:50SPEAKER_15: Has it been an hour or no?
- 37:52SPEAKER_02: I'd like to ask him something to begin with.
- 37:55SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 37:56SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 37:56SPEAKER_15: Uh you you find you'll find your uncle at the main tent.
- 38:00SPEAKER_15: The uh the battle tent, or I would say the command tent.
- 38:04SPEAKER_15: North of the campsite.
- 38:06SPEAKER_02: All right, let's go in.
- 38:08SPEAKER_15: So, yeah, you walk in and you're you're given free access.
- 38:10SPEAKER_15: With his yeah, he's with his crew.
- 38:12SPEAKER_02: Uh except for who, by the way, I will want names for all of them.
- 38:16SPEAKER_15: I gave them to you.
- 38:17SPEAKER_02: Not all of them.
- 38:18SPEAKER_15: I did too.
- 38:20SPEAKER_23: Just start listing all people.
- 38:22SPEAKER_23: What's this guy's name?
- 38:23SPEAKER_08: I gave them all to you, but I'll say what I'm comet and fix it.
- 38:28SPEAKER_15: They're all dead.
- 38:29SPEAKER_15: No, just kidding.
- 38:30SPEAKER_15: Two of your uncle.
- 38:31SPEAKER_15: So you've got uh you've got your uncle, Aaron Del Moonchadel.
- 38:36SPEAKER_15: Uh Valora Starweaver, Lady Valora Starweaver, she's the second in command.
- 38:40SPEAKER_15: You got the Demolitions expert, Thalen Dustwick.
- 38:43SPEAKER_17: Who's sleeping?
- 38:43SPEAKER_15: Who's sleeping it off?
- 38:45SPEAKER_15: You have the Master Archer, Solara Windrunner, the Battle Master, Caelith Downsunder.
- 38:52SPEAKER_15: And that's all you got in there right now.
- 38:54unknown: Ah, okay.
- 38:56SPEAKER_15: And you are currently in the camp that is in the hidden groves of Elarthalis, which is north west of Silvery Moon.
- 39:07SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 39:07SPEAKER_15: So you walk in, and Arundel is conversing at great length with Lady Valora Starweaver, and uh you recognize her her household name as a predominant nobility in uh Silvery Moon.
- 39:24SPEAKER_15: And they're just kind of talking deeply and they're they're pointing at the the map and showing each other kind of like what they're looking at and writing stuff in the map, and and you walk into that.
- 39:35SPEAKER_15: And your uncle, without looking up, says, more questions.
- 39:41SPEAKER_07: Always.
- 39:43SPEAKER_15: Let's hear them.
- 39:44SPEAKER_07: I introduce myself.
- 39:46SPEAKER_07: Uh I don't think I really did before.
- 39:49SPEAKER_07: I'm Bull.
- 39:50SPEAKER_07: Uh, I was did have a few questions just around what we're planning you're planning on doing with the scouting party that Delphine was mentioning.
- 39:58SPEAKER_07: If there's anything you know they're looking for specifically while they're there, if they're uh looking for pockets of resistance, like what are you planning on doing with that scouting party today?
- 40:10SPEAKER_15: Well, while Matt Rolled, I am Adam Del Moonshadow, the last marshal of Silvery Moon.
- 40:18SPEAKER_15: The scouting party has been sent into the city, and they shall return with base knowledge on where you shall be teleported into and what you shall expect in the immediate area.
- 40:32SPEAKER_15: Furthermore, more parties have been sent in, but we have not had them come back as of yet.
- 40:38SPEAKER_15: So we are dealing with that issue.
- 40:41SPEAKER_24: When was the last group?
- 40:42SPEAKER_15: The last issue, the last one was sent not more than an hour ago after your arrival, and I sent in the party knowing that I would be sending you shortly after.
- 40:52SPEAKER_15: They should be returning within six hours.
- 40:55SPEAKER_02: Has anyone I think what Rold is trying to ask is go ahead.
- 41:01SPEAKER_04: That's fine.
- 41:03SPEAKER_04: If has anyone actually it sounds like then no one's actually made contact with anyone inside the city at this point.
- 41:10SPEAKER_15: Well, for what we know, the residents there that are stuck within the city are being held captive in their homes.
- 41:18SPEAKER_15: We know some resistance.
- 41:19SPEAKER_15: Well, we know not of any resistance other than the moon wardens, what you see before you now.
- 41:24SPEAKER_15: If you make entrance into the city and you do find resistance, I highly recommend you help them to evacuate and get them to safe quarters out here where we can protect, arm, and help them.
- 41:36SPEAKER_07: What of where would we go potentially if there is, you know, individuals in the city that may not operate within the law typically.
- 41:46SPEAKER_07: They may still be active and useful if they're not already aligned with the orcs.
- 41:53SPEAKER_15: Well, if I were to be a betting man, the orcs would have first gone after the nobility of Silver and Moon, taken down the Queen and the Kang, and then taken the noble houses after that.
- 42:06SPEAKER_15: Your best bet would have been in the Silverleaf Quarter or the Commoners District.
- 42:12SPEAKER_15: Maybe there they would have had a lesser group of people that weren't touched by the outreach of the wretched dawn.
- 42:21SPEAKER_15: I would suggest starting there.
- 42:23SPEAKER_15: However, I cannot guarantee you that you're gonna find anybody.
- 42:28SPEAKER_07: And do you think are are the sewers easy to travel, or would you suggest that we go over land when we're there?
- 42:36SPEAKER_07: What with it being works?
- 42:39SPEAKER_15: Well, in Silvery Moon, the sewers are not typically made for passage.
- 42:48SPEAKER_15: Now I'm sure that you could if you crawled and were a low, but they are well engineered, as elven engineering typically is.
- 42:59SPEAKER_15: But you can definitely try.
- 43:01SPEAKER_15: It has been rumored that there were people that were rummaging around in the sewage and underneath the city.
- 43:07SPEAKER_15: In fact, it is known that there is an underground to Silvery Moon once the city was built up.
- 43:15SPEAKER_15: But I cannot guarantee you that.
- 43:16SPEAKER_15: These are all things you'll have to find once you're inside.
- 43:19SPEAKER_15: And our scout teams might have more information when they return, but we have not had many return.
- 43:24SPEAKER_02: Would Delphine know of any like rumors of catacombs in the city or anything like that?
- 43:28SPEAKER_15: Oh yeah.
- 43:29SPEAKER_15: Uh Delphine would know that there's all sorts of stories uh about Silvery Moon that she learned as a child that were kind of fun.
- 43:38SPEAKER_15: Yeah, urban legends, you know, like um Mothman.
- 43:43SPEAKER_15: Yeah, or like uh, or the heart of the heart of Silvery Moon, which is like a gemstone that uh Delphine would often fantasize about as a young girl.
- 43:53SPEAKER_15: Be so cool to see this big diamond gemstone, or you know, that there have been uh Monsters or you know, uh Merfolk type people that were spotted around where the docks are.
- 44:07unknown: Oh, interesting.
- 44:08SPEAKER_15: Stuff like that, like little urban legend stories that Delphine would have heard as a child, and lots of stuff.
- 44:13SPEAKER_15: So you would have an idea in your head, like, well, I mean, if there was an underground, this is probably where it would start.
- 44:20SPEAKER_20: So doth our knowledge span where paths have already been scoured.
- 44:27SPEAKER_15: Uh, yes.
- 44:28SPEAKER_15: So if you take a look at the map that I had sent over to you earlier, you'll see that there are markings on it of what we've identified to be the pillars that are up holding the magical barrier.
- 44:38SPEAKER_15: Now we don't know what is required to take them down.
- 44:41SPEAKER_15: We don't know how to take them down, but they are heavily guarded.
- 44:45SPEAKER_20: And my intent is where has already been tread.
- 44:51SPEAKER_02: Tread that we need not go to to make the most use of our resources and not double up, yes.
- 45:00SPEAKER_15: Um I can tell you from what we know that the orcs are ever moving around the city.
- 45:10SPEAKER_15: There's no one place that I would avoid or one place that I would congregate to.
- 45:15SPEAKER_15: But I would be advising you that your best efforts would be in removing that magical barrier first and foremost.
- 45:25SPEAKER_02: Could I get my uncle to sort of outline like the border of the magical barrier?
- 45:31SPEAKER_02: So that because if this much just out of it, yeah.
- 45:35SPEAKER_02: It's is there a sort of a rim close to the wall?
- 45:38SPEAKER_15: No, so it goes beyond the wall all just in this spot.
- 45:42SPEAKER_15: Just in that one spot.
- 45:43SPEAKER_15: It happened, that one spot is not reached because south of the city is that area of encampment that I told you about where there's some kind of a hold going on there, and that's where the orcs are all kind of camping up.
- 45:56SPEAKER_15: That's where they came from.
- 45:56SPEAKER_15: So their encampment is south of the city.
- 45:58SPEAKER_15: That magical barrier includes that encampment.
- 46:01SPEAKER_15: So that's why it's not completely encompassing the city of Silvery Moon, and it's missing that small sliver in the northwest corner.
- 46:08SPEAKER_02: And we don't uh have a name for whoever led this assault.
- 46:13SPEAKER_15: Uh orcs.
- 46:15SPEAKER_15: No, not yet.
- 46:16SPEAKER_15: Nobody has laid claim to it yet.
- 46:17SPEAKER_15: Although they've seen witches flying through the air inside Silvery Moon, and so they're just assuming right now that there's some sort of uh wretched Dawn interface, and they're just going based on what they can pick up from the bits and pieces of the city after it fell.
- 46:36SPEAKER_20: And how may we breed more thunder?
- 46:40SPEAKER_20: Breed more thunder?
- 46:42SPEAKER_20: Yes.
- 46:42SPEAKER_20: Some of Fiercer Blast.
- 46:44SPEAKER_10: Are you talking about making more bombs?
- 46:46SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
- 46:46SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 46:50SPEAKER_15: Um, he's like, well, you could talk to the demolitions expert, but I do believe he's incapacitated at the moment.
- 46:56SPEAKER_24: Yeah, he and Durokin had a little fun.
- 47:00SPEAKER_07: And I apologize for your training grounds.
- 47:04SPEAKER_15: Well, it is luckily that it is not within the city walls.
- 47:08SPEAKER_07: But we did figure out a way to handle the bombs a lot better.
- 47:15SPEAKER_02: If that But we only have one.
- 47:18SPEAKER_07: So far.
- 47:19SPEAKER_07: Correct.
- 47:20SPEAKER_15: The only thing that I can recommend is that um if you look at the map, if you look to where the hall of the Echoes are, which is north of Salunar Hall, you'll see that that is where you'll find most of the offices for the political influence of nobility within Silvery Moon lie.
- 47:40SPEAKER_02: Could the regent be there?
- 47:42SPEAKER_15: Could be there.
- 47:43SPEAKER_15: The region could be there.
- 47:44SPEAKER_15: It was uh also the office of the hand of the king and the queen, and of some of the advisors that have been sent around Etheria to represent Silvery Moon in other areas as well.
- 47:57SPEAKER_15: You might find some clues there as to uh things that you need to find, or passages, or maps that you might be able to locate different passages through Silvery Moon.
- 48:09SPEAKER_15: It would be the administrative office that would have served for Soliner Hall.
- 48:15SPEAKER_02: Where would my parents be there?
- 48:19SPEAKER_02: Because when I left home, we were not so high ranking, I thought, that my father would be kept with the king and queen.
- 48:28SPEAKER_02: Well, could they be there?
- 48:30SPEAKER_15: I don't think that.
- 48:33SPEAKER_15: I don't think that my brother would be kept with the king and the queen.
- 48:38SPEAKER_15: I do think that they are segregating the nobility and the royalty.
- 48:43SPEAKER_15: But I'm just speculating at this point.
- 48:46SPEAKER_15: I don't know.
- 48:46SPEAKER_15: I haven't spoken to my brother in years.
- 48:48SPEAKER_02: DM question.
- 48:49SPEAKER_02: Where would Delphine's family home support?
- 48:52SPEAKER_15: Uh, you would have been in the area of the vaulted banks of Silvery Moon, because your father was in the financial world, and so he would have worked very closely, yeah, very closely with number 14 there.
- 49:04SPEAKER_15: Down by the Artisans Row and Vaulted Banks, you would have had a nice kind of estate, a nice estate home in that area.
- 49:11SPEAKER_15: One of the nicer homes in that area would have belonged to the Olandra Hat family.
- 49:16SPEAKER_15: So not a not quite like a mansion or a palace, but uh like a wealthy home in a lesser place in in a yeah, not in the greatest district, but in one of the nicer ones.
- 49:26SPEAKER_02: In the southeast.
- 49:27SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 49:29SPEAKER_02: Delphine's gonna do a message spell to her uncle because she wants to ask this a little bit privately.
- 49:36SPEAKER_02: She's just gonna ask, have you looked for any traitors within this camp?
- 49:44SPEAKER_02: I don't think it is unimaginable that they would try to influent infiltrate here as well.
- 49:51SPEAKER_15: Uh, you do see the telltale sign uh when sending arrives and the glazing over the eyes as he responds, and you just get a I trust these men and women here with my life.
- 50:03SPEAKER_15: We have been to the ends of the earth together.
- 50:06SPEAKER_15: I trust them uncomparably.
- 50:08SPEAKER_02: But do you trust some of the refugees you've taken in?
- 50:11SPEAKER_15: No, but we are making sure that they are attended to.
- 50:17unknown: Okay.
- 50:18SPEAKER_20: No more questions?
- 50:20SPEAKER_20: No, I don't think so.
- 50:23SPEAKER_20: Have way more engines of destruction in store?
- 50:26SPEAKER_02: We would have to speak with the purveyor of such items.
- 50:30SPEAKER_02: Shall we, who is currently inebriated.
- 50:34SPEAKER_02: Can we potentially look over his stock?
- 50:37SPEAKER_02: What's up to him?
- 50:38SPEAKER_02: No.
- 50:39SPEAKER_02: Does anyone know of his stock?
- 50:41SPEAKER_02: Aside from him.
- 50:42SPEAKER_02: He's he's not a merchant.
- 50:47SPEAKER_02: Ask to go look in someone's footlocker.
- 50:50SPEAKER_02: Shall I wake him?
- 50:52SPEAKER_02: This is a dire moment.
- 50:54SPEAKER_02: Not the way you woke him.
- 50:57SPEAKER_02: He enjoyed the way he was woken.
- 50:59SPEAKER_14: Whoa.
- 51:00SPEAKER_02: If you ask first.
- 51:03SPEAKER_20: It is irrelevant.
- 51:04SPEAKER_20: I have no more of the potion that I acquired for.
- 51:11SPEAKER_02: Well, I have to go do some things.
- 51:13SPEAKER_02: So if you wish to go find the purveyor of thunder, you may.
- 51:21SPEAKER_02: Maybe I shall.
- 51:23SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 51:24SPEAKER_02: Make haste.
- 51:25SPEAKER_15: As you guys go to do that, your hour is up.
- 51:27SPEAKER_15: You are attuned now to your armor, but you have had a conversation with Noctus.
- 51:32SPEAKER_15: In that conversation, Noctis has purveyed to you his extreme displeasure at your decision to use the armor, even though he says he does not want it.
- 51:44SPEAKER_15: But if you are going to use it, he is not going to take part.
- 51:51SPEAKER_12: I've spent most of the conversation letting him vent, reassuring him simply on the strength that it can bring us, and using my telepathic bond to help absorb, like my actual telepathic, trying to help absorb any discomfort he has, and feeding back back that disruption, like sharing it, sharing a little.
- 52:26SPEAKER_12: Knowing now what they're about, how this makes us stronger, how it makes us how it makes us capable of protecting those around us that we want to protect.
- 52:34SPEAKER_15: You get the feeling from Noctus that he feels like you are replacing him with this because you are choosing to have it when he won't work with it at the moment.
- 52:46SPEAKER_15: So he does get the feeling of uh a little bit of distrust, but he is listening to you and will go along with your plans.
- 52:54SPEAKER_12: I also promise to not wear it all the time.
- 52:56SPEAKER_12: Don't worry.
- 52:57SPEAKER_12: This will be for adventures.
- 53:01SPEAKER_15: And then he kind of fades into the background of your thoughts again.
- 53:05SPEAKER_15: Displeased but quiet for now.
- 53:09SPEAKER_15: But you now have that armor attuned, so you may use it.
- 53:12SPEAKER_15: At your will.
- 53:14SPEAKER_15: Uh and with that, we're gonna take a short five-minute break, and then we will be right back.
- 53:18SPEAKER_00: We are knocked out.
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- 53:41SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 53:43SPEAKER_15: We're back.
- 53:43SPEAKER_15: What do you guys want to do now?
- 53:47SPEAKER_03: Did you want shopping?
- 53:50SPEAKER_03: Did you actually ask?
- 53:51SPEAKER_04: I I didn't ask anything.
- 53:53SPEAKER_07: Well, unless the yeah, if it's quick, I just don't wanna I don't want to spend a whole bunch of time, but yeah, for sure.
- 54:01SPEAKER_07: You're looking for what?
- 54:02SPEAKER_07: Um something that will help me see better in the dark.
- 54:07SPEAKER_15: What about the potions?
- 54:08SPEAKER_07: The potions.
- 54:10SPEAKER_07: I don't know he did that.
- 54:10SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I did.
- 54:11SPEAKER_07: I told you.
- 54:11SPEAKER_07: He told you we did.
- 54:12SPEAKER_07: Oh, you came back?
- 54:13SPEAKER_07: Okay, cool.
- 54:13SPEAKER_07: Uh yeah, I thought we left.
- 54:15SPEAKER_07: No, no, no, I told you.
- 54:16SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 54:16SPEAKER_04: He's like, I got this for you.
- 54:17SPEAKER_04: Well, I guess so.
- 54:19SPEAKER_04: Unless there's an item, like an actual item that does something like that permanently.
- 54:23SPEAKER_04: That would be very useful.
- 54:24SPEAKER_07: But that would be the only thing else that's.
- 54:28SPEAKER_21: Once again, I am your errand girl.
- 54:30SPEAKER_07: Lucky.
- 54:31SPEAKER_07: If you're going anyways to do the gems, I'm also stop there real quick.
- 54:34SPEAKER_02: I have my own gems.
- 54:36SPEAKER_07: Oh, okay.
- 54:36SPEAKER_07: Well then we don't do that.
- 54:37SPEAKER_07: Okay, just fine.
- 54:38SPEAKER_07: Just get your stuff done.
- 54:40SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
- 54:42SPEAKER_02: Sorry.
- 54:44SPEAKER_17: Yes.
- 54:45SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, I want to go see, because I had found a bag of jet jewels.
- 54:53SPEAKER_02: And you said that these don't have to be specific, like gold value, just I have to have all the same and they have to be like precious stones.
- 55:00SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
- 55:00unknown: Okay.
- 55:00SPEAKER_02: So what was I gonna roll again to figure out if I got the right ones?
- 55:04SPEAKER_02: D4?
- 55:05SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 55:06SPEAKER_02: Can I just find them?
- 55:07SPEAKER_15: You can just find them.
- 55:08SPEAKER_02: In the bag.
- 55:08SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 55:09SPEAKER_15: What a dick move it would be for me to give you something awesome and then make you have to like work hard to get whatever you put.
- 55:14SPEAKER_23: No.
- 55:15SPEAKER_15: But you do have to go find them.
- 55:16SPEAKER_15: Yeah, so you would just put them um, you'd easily find them.
- 55:19SPEAKER_15: You could find them in the market tent.
- 55:21SPEAKER_15: Uh, you could also find them uh maybe in the storage tent.
- 55:25SPEAKER_02: Uh or with any of their, like, because I found a bag of jewels in our travels.
- 55:30SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 55:31SPEAKER_15: Yeah, you could in remember where, but I have it written.
- 55:34SPEAKER_15: I'm sure you could find them in there too.
- 55:36SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 55:36SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 55:36SPEAKER_02: Um, and then is there a spell level limit to imbue?
- 55:41SPEAKER_15: It was it written down?
- 55:42SPEAKER_02: No, you didn't.
- 55:44SPEAKER_15: I didn't create the item, hey.
- 55:45SPEAKER_15: Uh yeah, we'll say uh level three.
- 55:48SPEAKER_21: Level three.
- 55:49SPEAKER_21: Okay.
- 55:49SPEAKER_21: I can remember level three.
- 55:50SPEAKER_15: Yeah, because fireball is level three, right?
- 55:51SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 55:51SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 55:52SPEAKER_15: So you want to leave it.
- 55:53SPEAKER_02: But it would be a level three version of fireball.
- 55:55SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 55:55SPEAKER_15: Yeah, it wouldn't be able to plump it higher.
- 55:56SPEAKER_15: Nope.
- 55:57SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 55:58SPEAKER_02: So all right, I can work with that.
- 56:01SPEAKER_02: So Delphine would want to be putting some spells in, but I'm only going to do that if everyone agrees that we're going to do my at least my equivalent of a long rest.
- 56:08SPEAKER_02: But then that leaves us heading more into the evening.
- 56:11SPEAKER_02: Are we wanting to wait to see if this other group that left before us comes back?
- 56:15SPEAKER_13: I think that'd be good.
- 56:16SPEAKER_02: Or wait till the next morning to go in.
- 56:19SPEAKER_02: Because if I take a four-hour rest now, that's probably going to lead us into the evening.
- 56:23SPEAKER_02: And I think we all agreed that going in at night was a bad idea.
- 56:29SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 56:30SPEAKER_02: So are we all in agreement that we're going to do this in the morning?
- 56:33unknown: Fine.
- 56:34SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 56:34SPEAKER_07: Yep.
- 56:37SPEAKER_07: Go to my property.
- 56:39SPEAKER_02: If they come back.
- 56:40unknown: Yeah.
- 56:41SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 56:42SPEAKER_02: Alright.
- 56:42SPEAKER_02: Well, then I will sort out my spells.
- 56:46SPEAKER_12: Okay.
- 56:46SPEAKER_02: But she does have one thing she wants to do, but you guys can do whatever you want to do first.
- 56:50SPEAKER_12: Well, I'll exit the tent looking for my party.
- 56:53SPEAKER_12: Because you know, I've been sitting there for an hour while they went off and talked to the uncle and the stuff.
- 56:58SPEAKER_12: And not really seeing them because they're off talking to the uncle.
- 57:02SPEAKER_12: I'll make my way towards the tree.
- 57:04SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 57:06SPEAKER_15: As you get to the tree, you notice the luminescence and the glow on your armor, the ore gets a little bit brighter as you get closer to the tree.
- 57:15SPEAKER_12: I raise a spark eyebrow.
- 57:17SPEAKER_13: The reference is lost on this group.
- 57:22SPEAKER_12: And um, I'm just gonna honestly approach the tree itself.
- 57:27SPEAKER_12: I want to cast detect thoughts in the area.
- 57:31SPEAKER_12: Okay.
- 57:33SPEAKER_12: Just sensing thoughts, focusing on the tree area specifically.
- 57:37SPEAKER_12: If I sense any any thoughts to latch on to.
- 57:40SPEAKER_15: Uh, it is a tree.
- 57:43SPEAKER_15: Um, so you do not get any thoughts.
- 57:46SPEAKER_13: There is just focusing the area.
- 57:48SPEAKER_15: Perhaps the thoughts of a curious earthworm beneath the soil.
- 57:54SPEAKER_12: That's the only other thought I find in a 30-foot area?
- 57:57SPEAKER_15: Well, in a 30-foot area, there's probably people that are walking by.
- 58:00SPEAKER_15: And you just like you're just like letting whatever comes in come in, right?
- 58:03SPEAKER_15: So uh some thoughts come to you from uh elves that are nervous about the upcoming battle, wondering how they're gonna get into silvery moon, wondering if their loved ones are okay.
- 58:14SPEAKER_15: General disrot and dismay about the feeling that their precious city has fallen.
- 58:20SPEAKER_12: Nothing out of place.
- 58:21SPEAKER_15: But nothing out of place like that you would find.
- 58:23SPEAKER_12: I won't focus in on anything then, and then uh is just gonna sit.
- 58:28SPEAKER_12: Honestly, he's he's in thought right now, right?
- 58:32SPEAKER_12: Going through a lot.
- 58:33SPEAKER_12: He's again, I'm focusing on absorbing the discomfort on the armor from uh from Noctus, and I'm just uh I'm focusing on the changes in the in the last several days.
- 58:43SPEAKER_07: It's just replaying it.
- 58:44SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 58:49SPEAKER_15: Does anybody else have anything they would like to do?
- 58:54SPEAKER_15: Nope.
- 58:55SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 58:56SPEAKER_15: So shall we just go ahead with the rest then and fast forward until the next morning, or is there an encounter or conversation that needs to be had by two characters or with an NPC?
- 59:09SPEAKER_07: Well, eventually I'm gonna talk to him again, see if he has any if we can get a couple more of those bonds.
- 59:15SPEAKER_15: Okay, so he'll probably be around in the morning, having roused from his drunken stupor.
- 59:22SPEAKER_15: He didn't get the luxury of a special brew that got rid of it, but yeah, you'll be able to talk to him in the morning again, yep, after the rest.
- 59:29SPEAKER_07: Well, we just want to check in if the scouting party comes back.
- 59:32SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 59:32SPEAKER_15: Um, I'm sure you'll get notified in the morning if they've returned with good news or bad news or if they've returned at all.
- 59:38unknown: Right.
- 59:39SPEAKER_08: I probably just touch base with my brother about getting married.
- 59:43SPEAKER_18: Okay.
- 59:44SPEAKER_18: Hey, you guys can go ahead and do that then.
- 59:46SPEAKER_05: You approach me or I approach you.
- 59:48SPEAKER_05: Uh I'll approach you.
- 59:50SPEAKER_05: Alright, I'm sitting by the tree.
- 59:52SPEAKER_05: So, brother?
- 59:53SPEAKER_05: Got a ring for the lady?
- 59:56SPEAKER_12: I chuckle a little as I see you coming out uh coming out and approaching me.
- 1:00:00SPEAKER_12: I looked at it and go, she does something for me that I wasn't wasn't aware was possible.
- 1:00:09SPEAKER_12: Show me peace.
- 1:00:11SPEAKER_05: Oh, that's a good quality.
- 1:00:13SPEAKER_05: Sense of belonging.
- 1:00:14SPEAKER_05: So you didn't want to come uh tell your brother beforehand?
- 1:00:17SPEAKER_05: To tell you the truth, I didn't know what was happening.
- 1:00:22SPEAKER_07: What do you mean?
- 1:00:23SPEAKER_07: You didn't you didn't propose?
- 1:00:25SPEAKER_07: No, um she married us.
- 1:00:28SPEAKER_12: She proposed to you.
- 1:00:29SPEAKER_12: We were I don't know if it was so much a proposal as um a few a few questions asked, and when I confirmed my thoughts and my my heart's on it, she she took me into her family.
- 1:00:46SPEAKER_05: Sh so she interrogated you and then took you hostage?
- 1:00:51SPEAKER_05: That's quite the last you got there.
- 1:00:54SPEAKER_19: I give him a brotherly brotherly punch on the shoulder.
- 1:00:57SPEAKER_12: I'm like, I'm like, yeah.
- 1:00:59SPEAKER_12: When I'm with her, I'm I'm not a monster.
- 1:01:03SPEAKER_12: She doesn't see a weapon to be wielded.
- 1:01:06SPEAKER_07: Well, not like everyone else we've ever run into in most cases.
- 1:01:18SPEAKER_19: I mean.
- 1:01:20SPEAKER_19: Her family back home isn't blood family.
- 1:01:23SPEAKER_19: There's probably lots of girls there, bro.
- 1:01:26SPEAKER_19: I mean, sure.
- 1:01:28SPEAKER_12: You're coming, aren't you?
- 1:01:30SPEAKER_12: I mean, I guess we should talk about that.
- 1:01:32SPEAKER_12: I'm not going back to Elena when we're done all this.
- 1:01:35SPEAKER_12: You're going to her town?
- 1:01:38SPEAKER_19: Taking care of a small community that seems to need it.
- 1:01:43SPEAKER_19: Seems like a better use of our time.
- 1:01:46SPEAKER_19: Well, definitely can check it out.
- 1:01:48SPEAKER_05: Don't have too many strings holding me down.
- 1:01:51SPEAKER_07: Well, what about that uh Delphina I see you putting out there occasionally?
- 1:01:57SPEAKER_07: Ugh.
- 1:01:58SPEAKER_08: Between you and me, brother.
- 1:02:01SPEAKER_08: All the ladies are after me.
- 1:02:03SPEAKER_04: See Miss Eldreza?
- 1:02:05SPEAKER_04: She's saying she 100% had the hot trigger, bro.
- 1:02:09unknown: Yeah.
- 1:02:09SPEAKER_04: I mean, you could have had a cougar there.
- 1:02:11SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's uh it's part of the reason I wear the wield this heavy maze just to keep the biceps nice and uh nice and attentive.
- 1:02:19SPEAKER_08: Anyways, good on you, brother.
- 1:02:22SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna go finish my bread here.
- 1:02:26SPEAKER_15: Alright.
- 1:02:28SPEAKER_15: Uh, so we'll have then um you guys will retire.
- 1:02:32SPEAKER_15: You guys were all given uh tents in the barracks.
- 1:02:36SPEAKER_15: You guys can retire to those tents if you wish.
- 1:02:38SPEAKER_02: Delphine has one thing she wants to do.
- 1:02:41SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:02:41SPEAKER_02: She's just gonna because she needs to be reassured.
- 1:02:48SPEAKER_02: So she is going to cast true seeing and go see her on home.
- 1:02:53SPEAKER_13: Okay.
- 1:02:54SPEAKER_02: And she just needs to see that he is who he says he is.
- 1:02:59SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:03:01SPEAKER_15: Uh, you walk into the command tenant this time, he's alone.
- 1:03:06SPEAKER_15: And you can see him, he's got his back to the entrance of the tent, and he's riding with a feather quill.
- 1:03:13SPEAKER_15: And you can hear as you approach.
- 1:03:16SPEAKER_15: Do I seem that untrustworthy to you that you do have to see me for what I really am?
- 1:03:21SPEAKER_22: We've been fooled before.
- 1:03:22SPEAKER_15: Aye.
- 1:03:24SPEAKER_15: Well, take a good look then.
- 1:03:27SPEAKER_15: And you see um your uncle.
- 1:03:31SPEAKER_15: You see him with all his scars and all of his mental and emotional trauma that is on his soul, that his elven heritage hides, to show how proud he is and to show um how much he's accomplished, and to be a stoic leader for the Moon Wardens.
- 1:03:53SPEAKER_15: But you see that he's been through the ringer.
- 1:03:56SPEAKER_15: Um, you also see that his heart is broken for the loss of his brother, and his heart is broken for the loss of time that he had with his family, but he knows that that was his choice.
- 1:04:11SPEAKER_15: But it's very much him.
- 1:04:15SPEAKER_02: Delphine's gonna kind of just unexpectedly burst into tears and just come and give him a big hug.
- 1:04:22SPEAKER_02: And uh as you I just needed to know.
- 1:04:26SPEAKER_15: And as you hug him, there's a hesitancy with him.
- 1:04:30SPEAKER_15: Um, being so far removed, he doesn't really know what the reaction was, but he eventually resigns to it and embraces you in the hug, and he says, I'll never lie to you.
- 1:04:42SPEAKER_15: You're all I have left at this moment.
- 1:04:45SPEAKER_15: It's you and I, kid.
- 1:04:47SPEAKER_09: We'll get them back.
- 1:04:49SPEAKER_15: We have to get them back.
- 1:04:53SPEAKER_15: She can give them one big squeeze, and then she's gonna be feel a little bit embarrassed of her emotions and uh and he being of the same Elven descent feels exactly the same way.
- 1:05:04SPEAKER_15: And kind of like wipes a tear from his eye.
- 1:05:07SPEAKER_15: So we've got uh got to get back to this letter.
- 1:05:10SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, you have work.
- 1:05:11SPEAKER_02: Um I need to um go.
- 1:05:13SPEAKER_02: Um Right.
- 1:05:14SPEAKER_15: So you'll see you in the uh morning with an update.
- 1:05:17SPEAKER_15: Right, yes.
- 1:05:19SPEAKER_15: And he turns back around, sits down, and flutters uh the waistcoat of his cloak out and sits back down.
- 1:05:26SPEAKER_15: All right.
- 1:05:26SPEAKER_01: All right, uh Oleander is going to approach uh Einar and Drax.
- 1:05:34SPEAKER_01: I lack more minds for this quiet community of spirits.
- 1:05:39SPEAKER_07: Come, brother.
- 1:05:40SPEAKER_07: She needs us to help with meditation.
- 1:05:44SPEAKER_07: Reluctantly, Drax follows.
- 1:05:49SPEAKER_01: A hand of a tissue as we as we go.
- 1:05:53SPEAKER_01: Just in case he feels like he needs to sneeze.
- 1:05:56SPEAKER_13: Oh, yeah.
- 1:06:01SPEAKER_08: Is it high-end or is it drag?
- 1:06:03SPEAKER_02: No, no.
- 1:06:04SPEAKER_02: It's not Delphine handkerchief, but it's not terrible.
- 1:06:07SPEAKER_02: It's a nice linen.
- 1:06:08SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 1:06:08SPEAKER_01: Alright.
- 1:06:09SPEAKER_01: It's not silk linen.
- 1:06:11SPEAKER_01: And I will uh redo the spirit session for the room of the five.
- 1:06:17SPEAKER_19: It's definitely not MIRV quality cloth.
- 1:06:21SPEAKER_01: No, it's not MIRV.
- 1:06:23SPEAKER_02: Nothing is MIRV quality.
- 1:06:25SPEAKER_02: Hey, I thought we got him real nice for a loyal cloth at one point.
- 1:06:30SPEAKER_13: It's probably matted and just awful rain and all of it.
- 1:06:33SPEAKER_13: It's crisp.
- 1:06:35SPEAKER_23: Why did I bring it up?
- 1:06:37SPEAKER_13: Yeah.
- 1:06:38SPEAKER_13: I love Myrv.
- 1:06:39SPEAKER_13: Okay.
- 1:06:40SPEAKER_02: Delphine will just do a lap of the camp.
- 1:06:43SPEAKER_02: She's trying to get her emotions under control.
- 1:06:45SPEAKER_02: Stop at the tree, say a little prayer to Mistra and all that.
- 1:06:49SPEAKER_02: And we wonder.
- 1:06:50SPEAKER_02: She just sets an alarm around her tent.
- 1:06:53SPEAKER_15: As you go by the tree, um, the glow of the burning city of your childhood reflects against the clouds, and you can kind of just see what's going on, and you just know you've got to fix it.
- 1:07:09SPEAKER_02: Now she's crying for a whole different reason.
- 1:07:13SPEAKER_15: And uh the striking realization hits you that um somewhere inside the walls of that city, suffering is the man that you love, and you need to get to him.
- 1:07:28SPEAKER_15: And you can feel that yes.
- 1:07:38SPEAKER_02: She like just ducks her hands, like wiping her face, and just like snot, ugly crying, and now pokes it to her tent and doesn't say anything to anyone.
- 1:07:48SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 1:07:48SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:07:49SPEAKER_15: So we will have then an uneventful night happen.
- 1:07:53SPEAKER_15: Everyone kind of has their rest, plus an extra four hours for those of you that don't require the full eight to get anything done that you need to get done.
- 1:08:02SPEAKER_15: As the morning breaks, there is a commotion in the camp.
- 1:08:08SPEAKER_15: The party has returned from their scouting mission.
- 1:08:11SPEAKER_15: You can hear as uh there's excited voices and shouting and eventually the rays of concern uh throughout the camp.
- 1:08:21SPEAKER_15: It is the next morning, bright and early.
- 1:08:23SPEAKER_15: Dawn has just uh risen, so he is early in the morning.
- 1:08:29SPEAKER_12: Well, I shall spring my from my bed to see what is the matter.
- 1:08:32SPEAKER_12: Go and see what's up.
- 1:08:34SPEAKER_12: Bringing Oleander with me.
- 1:08:36SPEAKER_12: What tidings?
- 1:08:38SPEAKER_12: I can't look at you quizzically.
- 1:08:39SPEAKER_12: I'm like, I'm gonna have to get used to this.
- 1:08:42SPEAKER_15: So as you go out into the uh courtyard where all the tents kind of like congregate and whatnot, and there's the fire pit, you see that there are two elves.
- 1:08:51SPEAKER_15: That one of them is lying on the ground with a uh wound in his side, the other is holding his hand and is recounting the events of what happened inside Silvery Moon.
- 1:09:02SPEAKER_15: Uh your uncle is there along with Thalen and uh Lady Valora and uh Solara, the master archer.
- 1:09:11SPEAKER_15: They're all standing by, and your uncle is trying to calm the elf down.
- 1:09:16SPEAKER_15: He's like, slow down, son.
- 1:09:19SPEAKER_15: Tell us exactly what happened.
- 1:09:20SPEAKER_15: Where is the rest of your party?
- 1:09:23SPEAKER_15: And uh he just he kind of takes a breath.
- 1:09:29SPEAKER_15: We tried to make haste through the city to map as much of it as we could.
- 1:09:34SPEAKER_15: We got around to the four pillars to confirm that they are not indeed pillars, but giant black crystals.
- 1:09:44SPEAKER_15: Once we figured that out, the mapping is correct.
- 1:09:47SPEAKER_15: They are in the locations that they were, but it is not gonna be easy.
- 1:09:54SPEAKER_15: The university is overrun with archers and arch mages.
- 1:09:58SPEAKER_15: It is heavily, heavily protected.
- 1:10:02SPEAKER_15: The temple of the Raven Queen has been desecrated.
- 1:10:08SPEAKER_15: We are unable to ascertain exactly what was in there, but it looks powerful.
- 1:10:14SPEAKER_15: At the docks, I've never seen monsters like this before, although we've heard rumors in Silvery Moon, but I've never seen them in person.
- 1:10:24SPEAKER_15: Giant bipedal what look to be fish monsters coming out of the water were being summoned out of the water by some giant entity wearing a some sort of a amulet around her neck.
- 1:10:42SPEAKER_15: And we weren't able to get close enough to really see what it was.
- 1:10:47SPEAKER_15: And then as we were on our way to the fourth crystal, we were ambushed by a pack of orcs that had been apparently following us.
- 1:10:55SPEAKER_15: I hope that they didn't follow us all the way back to the or all the way from the teleportation circle.
- 1:11:02SPEAKER_15: I'm only hoping that they saw us halfway through, but they slew three of us and the two of us got away, but one of us was wounded, and we only just got back.
- 1:11:13SPEAKER_15: I'm sorry.
- 1:11:14SPEAKER_15: That's all we have.
- 1:11:16SPEAKER_07: I noticed that he's injured, so I'll kneel down beside him and heal him to fix his wounds.
- 1:11:23SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:11:24SPEAKER_15: So you do, you sit down and you kind of step in front of the elven healer that's already.
- 1:11:30SPEAKER_15: Oh, is there an elder?
- 1:11:31SPEAKER_15: But that's fine.
- 1:11:32SPEAKER_15: That's the hero in Drucan, right?
- 1:11:34unknown: Yeah, that's true.
- 1:11:35SPEAKER_15: You sit down and uh you heal this elf, and you can see like a um a calmness wash over him as he realizes he's not going to die.
- 1:11:47SPEAKER_15: And he just kind of looks up with you with uh this elven eyes and elven pride and just says, Thank you.
- 1:11:54SPEAKER_07: I'll say an elven to him that you'll be fine.
- 1:11:57SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 1:11:57SPEAKER_15: There's a curt, a curt nod.
- 1:12:00SPEAKER_15: Your uncle stands up and kind of turns to the rest of you who are there and he just says, You've heard it.
- 1:12:07SPEAKER_15: We have to start acting now.
- 1:12:09SPEAKER_15: I don't know how much longer this teleportation circle is going to be open.
- 1:12:12SPEAKER_15: I can get you in, I don't know if I'll be able to get you back unless you can protect that teleportation circle location.
- 1:12:19SPEAKER_15: Either you get in and find another way out, or find us a way in.
- 1:12:26SPEAKER_15: Break down that magical barrier, and we need to start taking the city back.
- 1:12:31SPEAKER_15: Because we are losing every hour.
- 1:12:34SPEAKER_02: We must go.
- 1:12:37SPEAKER_02: What about those the people with Dominion spikes?
- 1:12:40SPEAKER_02: Did you see any of that in the street?
- 1:12:42SPEAKER_15: Yeah, off nods.
- 1:12:43SPEAKER_15: Yes.
- 1:12:44SPEAKER_15: They are serving the orcs.
- 1:12:46SPEAKER_15: You'll see many of our folk walking around with glowing eyes.
- 1:12:51SPEAKER_15: That is how you know that they are under the spell of this Dominion Spike.
- 1:12:56SPEAKER_15: I would assume that just by pulling it out, you would break the curse, but I don't know what that'll do to them personally.
- 1:13:02SPEAKER_15: You may hurt them, you may injure them.
- 1:13:04SPEAKER_15: I don't know.
- 1:13:06SPEAKER_20: Had anyone the skill to conjure charms?
- 1:13:10SPEAKER_15: Only the ones that are wearing these amulets seem to be able to perform magic within this barrier.
- 1:13:18SPEAKER_15: Like we saw at the docks.
- 1:13:20SPEAKER_02: So it's a complete blockage of magic, not just suppression.
- 1:13:24SPEAKER_18: Yes.
- 1:13:26SPEAKER_02: If we were to take one of these amulets, you could cast.
- 1:13:32SPEAKER_02: You could cast.
- 1:13:34SPEAKER_02: I could cast.
- 1:13:36SPEAKER_02: We could get more than one.
- 1:13:38SPEAKER_16: Uh thou could cast.
- 1:13:41SPEAKER_02: Tis true.
- 1:13:43SPEAKER_02: Tis.
- 1:13:44SPEAKER_09: Verily, verily, verily.
- 1:13:46SPEAKER_09: Verily, too.
- 1:13:47SPEAKER_07: Alright, so we need to find three of these amulets.
- 1:13:50unknown: Yeah.
- 1:13:51SPEAKER_07: At least.
- 1:13:52SPEAKER_07: Well, we're the right dungeon.
- 1:13:55SPEAKER_01: Oh you.
- 1:13:57SPEAKER_01: And one of them is a giant.
- 1:13:59SPEAKER_01: I think says the player and not the character.
- 1:14:02SPEAKER_07: I guess we should we should go.
- 1:14:05SPEAKER_02: Okay, but where first?
- 1:14:07SPEAKER_02: What is our first objective?
- 1:14:09SPEAKER_07: I think it's gonna depend what we see when we get there.
- 1:14:11SPEAKER_07: We don't really know where we can get to without being seen.
- 1:14:15SPEAKER_07: The whole idea is to move without being caught.
- 1:14:19SPEAKER_07: I think the first thing we should do myself, I think if we get there is see if we can catch one of these people.
- 1:14:26SPEAKER_07: Catch one of the people and if we pull out hey say like that, but get that gem out or whatever's doing it, see if that fixes if that renders.
- 1:14:35SPEAKER_07: How did they get inside the city?
- 1:14:36SPEAKER_07: None of the walls seem breached.
- 1:14:39SPEAKER_07: There's holes in the walls.
- 1:14:40SPEAKER_02: This was treachery within.
- 1:14:42SPEAKER_02: Faron thought there was treachery at the highest uh level of government.
- 1:14:50SPEAKER_07: Seems to trap with everything else we've seen that they've done.
- 1:14:54SPEAKER_02: Alright, well, is there any preparations any of you need?
- 1:14:58SPEAKER_07: Um, if we're gonna go in, I'm going to cascade.
- 1:15:04SPEAKER_20: We need a fire in me.
- 1:15:06SPEAKER_07: I will figure that out.
- 1:15:08SPEAKER_20: We need to obtain more of these thunder.
- 1:15:10SPEAKER_07: Thanks.
- 1:15:12SPEAKER_20: Speak with him.
- 1:15:13SPEAKER_07: I will.
- 1:15:14SPEAKER_07: But I'm gonna cascade.
- 1:15:18SPEAKER_07: Just for that, you don't get it this way.
- 1:15:24SPEAKER_02: Jerkin, you're looking awfully.
- 1:15:26SPEAKER_07: That does not get the aid.
- 1:15:28SPEAKER_02: Who's getting it?
- 1:15:29SPEAKER_07: Uh I'm not sure yet.
- 1:15:34SPEAKER_07: I know you will.
- 1:15:35SPEAKER_02: So I would have transcribed this to Joel last night.
- 1:15:38SPEAKER_07: Yep.
- 1:15:39SPEAKER_02: And I unattuned from my amulet of concentration to attune to the rapier.
- 1:15:44SPEAKER_07: Perfect.
- 1:15:45SPEAKER_07: I'm actually gonna give it to Einar, who's gonna get 20 extra points this time.
- 1:15:51SPEAKER_07: Oh.
- 1:15:53SPEAKER_07: And then Delphine and Oleander.
- 1:15:55SPEAKER_07: Oh, you're so nice.
- 1:15:57SPEAKER_07: And I'm actually gonna not take it this time.
- 1:15:59SPEAKER_07: Oh those three people.
- 1:16:02SPEAKER_07: And then before we leave, I am going to talk to him and see if there's a way we can possibly get a couple more, like at least three, yeah, to see if we can get three more bombs.
- 1:16:12SPEAKER_02: Uh we should ask him if he has any knowledge of weak points on the wall that would be most effective.
- 1:16:18SPEAKER_07: I'm we're we're I want to use the bombs on the on the pillars.
- 1:16:22SPEAKER_02: If we bring one pillar down, it's go time.
- 1:16:25unknown: Oh.
- 1:16:26SPEAKER_02: So we have to, if you're to put it in.
- 1:16:29SPEAKER_07: See if there's a delay we can do to delay like a timer to set them all at the pillars and then do it all at once.
- 1:16:37SPEAKER_02: How do you do that without magic?
- 1:16:39SPEAKER_07: It's a timer.
- 1:16:41SPEAKER_07: It's not a magical timer.
- 1:16:42SPEAKER_02: You got a water clock on you?
- 1:16:44SPEAKER_07: Maybe.
- 1:16:44SPEAKER_07: I can look at the sun.
- 1:16:47SPEAKER_07: I don't think we're gonna have to see his outfit.
- 1:16:50SPEAKER_15: Alright, so you're you walk over to Thalen, he's standing there and he's kind of going.
- 1:16:54SPEAKER_07: Yeah, pretty much.
- 1:16:56SPEAKER_07: We just need to go.
- 1:16:57SPEAKER_07: This isn't really no, he's hung over.
- 1:16:59SPEAKER_07: He has nothing to do with it.
- 1:17:00SPEAKER_15: And he's hung over.
- 1:17:01SPEAKER_15: And uh he's like, You are a formidable drinker.
- 1:17:09SPEAKER_07: Well, you kept up pretty good.
- 1:17:11SPEAKER_07: We both did.
- 1:17:13SPEAKER_07: It was one of those nights.
- 1:17:15SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
- 1:17:16SPEAKER_07: But got a question if you're able to answer it.
- 1:17:21SPEAKER_07: And that's trying to figure out if we if you might be able to get before we leave, like three more bombs where we can try and put on the pillars.
- 1:17:31SPEAKER_07: If it might work, and if there's a way, I don't know if there is or not, to do like a timer, like a delay on it.
- 1:17:38SPEAKER_15: Well, what you're holding there is not for destruction of objects, it's for blasting holes.
- 1:17:46SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 1:17:47SPEAKER_15: But I do have something.
- 1:17:50SPEAKER_15: Give me one second, I'll meet you at the portal.
- 1:17:53SPEAKER_17: Sounds good.
- 1:17:54SPEAKER_15: And so he kind of like hobbles off and you watches, he takes like a side step as he's just like, whoa, and then uh now you guys are free to decide how you want to go about leaving or when you want to leave, and if you want to get anything ready for that.
- 1:18:11SPEAKER_07: Well, I'll walk up to uh the group and tell him that I have to wait for a few minutes before we can leave.
- 1:18:19SPEAKER_07: But when do you guys want to go and get this going?
- 1:18:21SPEAKER_03: As soon as possible.
- 1:18:22SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 1:18:23SPEAKER_07: And then you just wait for him to get here to see he has something that might help us with the pillars.
- 1:18:31SPEAKER_15: Um we can fast forward through that, and he will meet you at the teleportation circle, which is in the church outside of the encampment.
- 1:18:46SPEAKER_15: And as you guys are walking over there getting ready to go into the portal, you can see him come running up, and he's got a wheelbarrow in his hand.
- 1:18:53SPEAKER_15: And in that wheelbarrow, you see four distinct looking bombs that are charged with alchemist fire.
- 1:19:04SPEAKER_15: And he says, Right, I have here four bombs.
- 1:19:09SPEAKER_15: They should be enough to take down any large structure, but I don't have a way for you to light them or fire them off at the same time.
- 1:19:20SPEAKER_07: That's very well figured out.
- 1:19:21SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:19:22SPEAKER_15: And he kind of hands each one to you.
- 1:19:24SPEAKER_15: Now they're they're extremely heavy, and he's like, and they are volatile.
- 1:19:29SPEAKER_15: Do not drop them, do not get hit with them, do not fall with them, do not be near an explosion while having these in your possession.
- 1:19:39SPEAKER_15: They are very volatile.
- 1:19:41SPEAKER_07: I have a good tracks.
- 1:19:42SPEAKER_07: What if the bag of holding?
- 1:19:43SPEAKER_07: And say, would they fit in the bag of holding?
- 1:19:46SPEAKER_07: How big are they?
- 1:19:47SPEAKER_15: They're big enough to be.
- 1:19:48SPEAKER_07: I touch one of them on my bag holding.
- 1:19:50SPEAKER_07: There's like a whole bunch.
- 1:19:50SPEAKER_15: They go in, one goes into your bag of holding.
- 1:19:52SPEAKER_07: I put one of them in my bag of holding.
- 1:19:56SPEAKER_07: I'm dividing them.
- 1:19:57SPEAKER_07: Put one in one bag, two big bags of sure.
- 1:20:00SPEAKER_09: Oleander can put one in her bag of holding.
- 1:20:02SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 1:20:03SPEAKER_07: We'll put two in Drax's, one in our in Oleander's.
- 1:20:09SPEAKER_07: Because we're all gonna be together anyway.
- 1:20:11SPEAKER_12: So other people chose not to, despite the ridiculously awesome price.
- 1:20:16SPEAKER_02: We'll have tracks.
- 1:20:18SPEAKER_12: Yeah, pretty much.
- 1:20:19SPEAKER_07: Yeah, pretty much.
- 1:20:20unknown: Yeah.
- 1:20:20SPEAKER_02: That'll be as like carry horse.
- 1:20:22SPEAKER_02: That would be as like area horse.
- 1:20:24SPEAKER_15: Very good.
- 1:20:24SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:20:25SPEAKER_15: So you now have these four bombs that are uh uh large bombs that do 10 d8 worth of damage per explosion.
- 1:20:32SPEAKER_15: Are they in and they have a 20, sorry, a 30-foot blast radius?
- 1:20:38SPEAKER_09: Would they be in 10 d8?
- 1:20:40SPEAKER_15: No, they're not.
- 1:20:42SPEAKER_15: They might, but they're not uh not what they would be.
- 1:20:44SPEAKER_15: They're not what you would be.
- 1:20:45SPEAKER_15: I've altered them a little bit to make them a little more powerful.
- 1:20:47SPEAKER_15: So just write down four bombs.
- 1:21:04SPEAKER_02: I will bring them all back.
- 1:21:06SPEAKER_02: I'll save everyone that I can, and I'll return our city to its people.
- 1:21:13unknown: Okay.
- 1:21:14SPEAKER_08: Uh, before we go in the portal, uh, knowing that we're going into a magic bubble again, I'm going to summon Mr.
- 1:21:21SPEAKER_08: Drax at max hit points.
- 1:21:24SPEAKER_03: Mr.
- 1:21:24SPEAKER_03: Drax is back.
- 1:21:26SPEAKER_08: Sweet.
- 1:21:27SPEAKER_03: Mr.
- 1:21:28SPEAKER_03: Drax.
- 1:21:29SPEAKER_03: Is that an action?
- 1:21:30SPEAKER_15: I don't know.
- 1:21:31SPEAKER_15: It's a bonus action.
- 1:21:32SPEAKER_22: Oh, there you go.
- 1:21:33SPEAKER_15: It's a bonus action.
- 1:21:35SPEAKER_15: So yeah, Mr.
- 1:21:36SPEAKER_15: Drax shows up and he's like, oh.
- 1:21:39SPEAKER_14: Oh.
- 1:21:40SPEAKER_14: Feel like I've been asleep forever.
- 1:21:46SPEAKER_15: Yeah, it's been a bit a hot minute.
- 1:21:48SPEAKER_15: Well, I guess we better get in there and save this city, eh, brother?
- 1:21:53SPEAKER_05: That's right.
- 1:21:54SPEAKER_05: You know I can get all the high five.
- 1:21:56SPEAKER_15: He gives you a high five with the flesh hand that he has.
- 1:22:02SPEAKER_15: And he puts it back on.
- 1:22:03SPEAKER_15: When did I take this off?
- 1:22:05SPEAKER_02: Oh, I just keep slipping off.
- 1:22:06SPEAKER_15: Oh, thanks for holding on to it.
- 1:22:08SPEAKER_15: You guys are inside the church.
- 1:22:10SPEAKER_15: You've got your uncle, and you've got uh Thalen standing kind of by there watching you and bidding you farewell, wishing you uh best luck on your journey as you stand inside the teleportation circle.
- 1:22:23SPEAKER_15: Delphine, it's up to you.
- 1:22:25SPEAKER_02: Everybody's ready.
- 1:22:28SPEAKER_02: I will start casting the circle and Mark off of you.
- 1:22:33SPEAKER_15: The spell goes off easily with no problems, and Delphine masterfully casts it.
- 1:22:42SPEAKER_15: And as soon as she finishes with the spell, you guys appear against the wall inside Silvery Moon.
- 1:22:57SPEAKER_15: And you can hear the rustle and bustle of the town, but there is something that's off about it.
- 1:23:03SPEAKER_15: It doesn't seem like everybody is willfully going about their ways, but is under duress.
- 1:23:10SPEAKER_15: And as you guys are tucked into like an alleyway, it is very easy for you to be concealed from the outside streets.
- 1:23:17SPEAKER_15: But as soon as you enter the streets, eyes would be upon you, including those of roaming orcs and potential spies that have the spikes in their heads, or potentially corrupt people of Silvery Moon altogether.
- 1:23:37SPEAKER_15: How would you guys like to proceed now?
- 1:23:39SPEAKER_02: Nothing's gonna, I still have a hat up, disguise on.
- 1:23:41SPEAKER_02: I'm going to.
- 1:23:43SPEAKER_02: Can I see?
- 1:23:44SPEAKER_02: We can see them.
- 1:23:45SPEAKER_15: You can see them.
- 1:23:46SPEAKER_15: You guys are in the shadows inside the alley.
- 1:23:48SPEAKER_15: It's like the perfect hiding place.
- 1:23:50SPEAKER_15: So you're safe where you're at.
- 1:23:52SPEAKER_15: Magic can be cast where you're at, but as soon as you leave that alleyway, you are now within.
- 1:23:57SPEAKER_15: You can see the shimmer.
- 1:23:59SPEAKER_07: So we don't really have costumes, do we?
- 1:24:02SPEAKER_02: Well, I was just wondering.
- 1:24:03SPEAKER_15: I mean, I know of a great costume for Roll.
- 1:24:06SPEAKER_07: Yeah, that's cool, do you know?
- 1:24:08unknown: No.
- 1:24:08SPEAKER_02: We don't we don't have any confirmation that the obsidian shadows are here, but would it hurt for people to put the mark on their wrists?
- 1:24:17SPEAKER_07: I thought it was magical in nature.
- 1:24:20SPEAKER_07: No.
- 1:24:20SPEAKER_07: No, it's like a smudge of ash.
- 1:24:23SPEAKER_07: And we know what it looks like.
- 1:24:25unknown: Yeah.
- 1:24:26SPEAKER_07: We could.
- 1:24:28SPEAKER_07: Just in case you never know, maybe maybe.
- 1:24:32SPEAKER_02: And even if it is magical in nature, a cursory glance, they'll just look at it and they'll be like, yeah, okay, you belong.
- 1:24:37SPEAKER_02: Until we do something that warrants further scrutiny.
- 1:24:42SPEAKER_07: It's not a bad idea, yeah.
- 1:24:45SPEAKER_07: They probably are here.
- 1:24:49SPEAKER_12: Yes?
- 1:24:50SPEAKER_12: I'm trying to think of a specific character from the Obsidian Shadows, but I can think of only one.
- 1:24:56SPEAKER_12: I don't want to turn into him because that'll probably draw more attention.
- 1:24:59SPEAKER_12: That's just not.
- 1:25:01SPEAKER_12: I'll cast disguise self and turn into a different looking yes, we are.
- 1:25:04SPEAKER_12: We can still cast spells here.
- 1:25:05SPEAKER_12: We're in the side.
- 1:25:08SPEAKER_23: That's okay.
- 1:25:08SPEAKER_12: So I shall cast disguise self and make myself look like a people to human.
- 1:25:13SPEAKER_07: That's the only thing is.
- 1:25:14SPEAKER_06: I'm like a random guy that I've beat up before that I knew was part of the shadows and just have to mark up here.
- 1:25:19SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna look like one of the people with a Dominion spike.
- 1:25:22SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 1:25:23SPEAKER_06: Oh, really?
- 1:25:24unknown: Okay.
- 1:25:24SPEAKER_01: I'm also gonna go for the Dominion Spike.
- 1:25:28SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 1:25:29SPEAKER_07: How are we gonna be traveling together then?
- 1:25:33SPEAKER_07: You can climb the buildings and go on to them.
- 1:25:36SPEAKER_07: You have good.
- 1:25:37SPEAKER_07: You got this.
- 1:25:44SPEAKER_15: You can Assassin's Creed this and just like blend into the crowd.
- 1:25:47SPEAKER_07: Well, I guess, yeah, exactly.
- 1:25:48SPEAKER_07: So I'm gonna ask Drax, you know, if you can give me a very nondescript male appearance.
- 1:25:53SPEAKER_08: Aww.
- 1:25:55SPEAKER_08: No problem.
- 1:25:56SPEAKER_08: I'm over here.
- 1:25:57SPEAKER_08: Get my makeup kit out.
- 1:25:59SPEAKER_02: We we could take 11 minutes right now and do Rary's telepathic bond, or we could say I did that before doing it.
- 1:26:04SPEAKER_15: You would have definitely done that before.
- 1:26:06unknown: Okay.
- 1:26:06SPEAKER_02: Rary's telepathic bond for one hour.
- 1:26:10SPEAKER_02: Telepathy with everybody.
- 1:26:11SPEAKER_07: And I'm going to disguise stuff as well.
- 1:26:13SPEAKER_02: Because theoretically, perhaps people could be, I don't know, it seems like the Just remember you guys are using magic.
- 1:26:20SPEAKER_07: It has a limited time.
- 1:26:21SPEAKER_02: I'm aware.
- 1:26:24SPEAKER_09: Our disguise self is an action, it's instantaneous, so it's not going to take extra time.
- 1:26:31SPEAKER_21: But using a makeup kit out of this alley, and for one hour we can sure.
- 1:26:37unknown: Okay.
- 1:26:37SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 1:26:38SPEAKER_02: It would make less of us noticeable.
- 1:26:42SPEAKER_15: What are you making Rold look like?
- 1:26:47SPEAKER_04: Are you a skinny character?
- 1:26:49SPEAKER_04: Yes, I'm like 160 pounds.
- 1:26:52SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna make him look like a male elf.
- 1:26:55SPEAKER_04: I'm already very nondescript, so like nondescript male elf servant.
- 1:27:01SPEAKER_15: Okay, okay.
- 1:27:01SPEAKER_15: You're looking at yourself and you're like, oh yeah, okay, yeah, all right.
- 1:27:04SPEAKER_04: An elven Matt Damon.
- 1:27:06unknown: Okay.
- 1:27:07SPEAKER_04: Matt Damon.
- 1:27:09SPEAKER_15: Anybody else changing their appearance?
- 1:27:11SPEAKER_07: Uh what do you mean changing your stuff?
- 1:27:14SPEAKER_07: I'm just going into one of the same things you guys needed.
- 1:27:17SPEAKER_07: I think that'd be the best way to do it.
- 1:27:19SPEAKER_09: Thank you.
- 1:27:20SPEAKER_07: Although I can make it not a fruitball version.
- 1:27:23SPEAKER_07: And I'm gonna make myself one foot appear one foot shorter since I can.
- 1:27:27SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:27:28SPEAKER_07: So then I'll only be like six eight instead of seven.
- 1:27:31SPEAKER_15: Okay, you still tower over everything.
- 1:27:35SPEAKER_15: Yeah, okay.
- 1:27:35SPEAKER_15: And Drax, yourself, you're staying the way you look.
- 1:27:37SPEAKER_08: Put a little bit of ash uh marking on my wrist, spit in the ground, curse it a little, and carry on.
- 1:27:44SPEAKER_15: Mr.
- 1:27:44SPEAKER_15: Drax is sitting there and he's looking at his wrist.
- 1:27:48SPEAKER_07: Put a little makeup on his, too.
- 1:27:52SPEAKER_07: Oh, I can go three feet shorter, so I'm actually gonna go really short after.
- 1:27:55SPEAKER_15: Okay, you're gonna go super short.
- 1:27:57SPEAKER_07: I point out we should put a cloak over Mr.
- 1:27:59SPEAKER_07: Drax.
- 1:28:00SPEAKER_15: 5'10 is completely normal height, just so you know.
- 1:28:02SPEAKER_21: Yeah, what?
- 1:28:04SPEAKER_07: 5'10 is what?
- 1:28:05SPEAKER_15: Completely normal height just so you know.
- 1:28:07SPEAKER_15: I know that's the point.
- 1:28:08SPEAKER_21: Perfectly normal.
- 1:28:09SPEAKER_15: Perfectly normal and adequate.
- 1:28:12SPEAKER_21: Really large five.
- 1:28:13SPEAKER_15: Umly average.
- 1:28:15SPEAKER_15: Yeah, so yeah, covering up Mr.
- 1:28:16SPEAKER_15: Drax for sure, a glowing blue entity with a human hand.
- 1:28:20SPEAKER_15: Just a thought.
- 1:28:21SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 1:28:21SPEAKER_07: We might want it disguised.
- 1:28:23SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 1:28:26SPEAKER_07: Drax?
- 1:28:26SPEAKER_07: Mr.
- 1:28:27SPEAKER_07: Drax.
- 1:28:27SPEAKER_07: Oh, yeah.
- 1:28:28SPEAKER_07: Well, I assume so.
- 1:28:29SPEAKER_07: And I don't, I don't know.
- 1:28:30SPEAKER_07: I sort of want to cover up.
- 1:28:31SPEAKER_07: Cloak.
- 1:28:32SPEAKER_07: Cloak.
- 1:28:32SPEAKER_07: Cloak it up.
- 1:28:33SPEAKER_07: I.
- 1:28:34SPEAKER_07: Not look it up.
- 1:28:34SPEAKER_02: I'm sure he's got a putty that can just make you your little pointed ears.
- 1:28:38SPEAKER_07: And magic items look non-descript.
- 1:28:41SPEAKER_07: Well, the cloak does.
- 1:28:42SPEAKER_07: Yeah, if you look if you want it to look good, you know?
- 1:28:46SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 1:28:46SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 1:28:47SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:28:47SPEAKER_07: You don't want it to look good.
- 1:28:49SPEAKER_15: You don't want it to look like too obvious that he's trying to look different.
- 1:28:52SPEAKER_15: Exactly.
- 1:28:52SPEAKER_15: Non-descript.
- 1:28:54SPEAKER_15: That's the word.
- 1:28:55SPEAKER_15: Um, okay, so you guys are all in your disguises.
- 1:28:58SPEAKER_15: Mr.
- 1:28:59SPEAKER_15: Drax has got a hood up.
- 1:29:01SPEAKER_15: And he's like, I don't see why I have to do this, and he doesn't, but whatever.
- 1:29:06SPEAKER_07: I have a cloak of protection.
- 1:29:07unknown: I can kind of do this.
- 1:29:08SPEAKER_15: Oh, there you go.
- 1:29:09SPEAKER_15: See?
- 1:29:09SPEAKER_15: Perfect.
- 1:29:10SPEAKER_07: Unless it looks like do lots of people with their hoods up.
- 1:29:12SPEAKER_15: Yeah, lots of people are walking around with their hoods up, just normal.
- 1:29:14SPEAKER_15: And as you guys are doing all this, you can see outside in the courtyard, away from your away from being able to see you, a uh small battalion of orcs go marching by and you recognize the outfits that they are wearing as the orcs that you previously have battled.
- 1:29:32SPEAKER_15: Darkmist.
- 1:29:33SPEAKER_15: Darkmist orcs, big.
- 1:29:37SPEAKER_07: I wanna before we walk.
- 1:29:40SPEAKER_07: Before we walk into the barrier, I want to try some first.
- 1:29:42SPEAKER_07: I want to stick my arm through the barrier and see if the disguise helps me.
- 1:29:46SPEAKER_15: It does stay.
- 1:29:47SPEAKER_15: Uh spells that are cast outside the barrier can be brought into the barrier, but not cast inside the barrier.
- 1:29:53SPEAKER_07: I just wanted to know because this one was different from what we understood.
- 1:29:57SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 1:29:57SPEAKER_02: So I'm gonna I want to just sort of like watch the Crystal Zombie people and see how they're walking.
- 1:30:04SPEAKER_02: Like, do they look like they're in a daze?
- 1:30:06SPEAKER_02: Are they work walking kind of really stiffly?
- 1:30:08SPEAKER_02: Because I want to emulate.
- 1:30:09SPEAKER_15: They walk very rigid.
- 1:30:11SPEAKER_15: They are being controlled on how they walk and step.
- 1:30:16SPEAKER_15: Not like Edgar from Men in Black, but you know, they're not taking like they're not taking masterful strides.
- 1:30:26SPEAKER_02: Okay, I'm gonna try and emulate how they're behaving.
- 1:30:29SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:30:29SPEAKER_15: Roll me a performance check, please.
- 1:30:31SPEAKER_07: We're all gonna have to do that, huh?
- 1:30:35SPEAKER_07: Before we go in, see if you're in disguise self and it won't show.
- 1:30:40SPEAKER_07: I do ask you for a little bit of your blood to uh enhance me.
- 1:30:46SPEAKER_12: Of course.
- 1:30:48SPEAKER_20: Feast upon me!
- 1:30:50SPEAKER_12: Feast upon my wife a little.
- 1:30:55SPEAKER_15: This is a weird relationship.
- 1:30:57SPEAKER_15: This is very codependent.
- 1:31:00SPEAKER_02: Only Andrew's supposed to be of a music unhealthy.
- 1:31:03SPEAKER_07: I'm proud that didn't see it.
- 1:31:04SPEAKER_02: Oh, 21.
- 1:31:05SPEAKER_15: Oh, yeah, you've nailed it.
- 1:31:07SPEAKER_15: You knew that's all.
- 1:31:08SPEAKER_15: All those years in drama training.
- 1:31:09SPEAKER_15: Uh, anybody that is emulating one of the spiked individuals, roll me a performance check.
- 1:31:15SPEAKER_15: Pulp, please.
- 1:31:17SPEAKER_21: 21.
- 1:31:18SPEAKER_15: Very good.
- 1:31:20SPEAKER_15: 18.
- 1:31:20SPEAKER_15: Very good.
- 1:31:21SPEAKER_15: You guys all are able to emulate very, very easily, and you blend in well with the crowds.
- 1:31:26SPEAKER_02: All right, which direction are we going?
- 1:31:28SPEAKER_02: We are coming in up here.
- 1:31:31SPEAKER_02: It was advised that we go to um that is sort of where all the political offices were.
- 1:31:39SPEAKER_02: Um, if we wanted to get more information on stuff.
- 1:31:42SPEAKER_07: I should go there then.
- 1:31:44SPEAKER_02: The university and Raven Temple Queen Temple were completely overrun, they said.
- 1:31:47SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 1:31:48SPEAKER_07: Yep.
- 1:31:48SPEAKER_02: My home's down here.
- 1:31:51SPEAKER_07: Yep.
- 1:31:52SPEAKER_07: And they couldn't get there.
- 1:31:53SPEAKER_07: That's where they couldn't get to, right?
- 1:31:55SPEAKER_02: I don't think they could get to the cloud.
- 1:31:56SPEAKER_07: They couldn't get to the docks.
- 1:31:57SPEAKER_07: No, they got to the docks.
- 1:31:58SPEAKER_15: They got to the docks.
- 1:32:01SPEAKER_15: They couldn't get to the lower part to the artisans' role.
- 1:32:05SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 1:32:06SPEAKER_07: Okay, well, do you want to go to that first one first?
- 1:32:08SPEAKER_07: They didn't say the Raven Queen was overrun, didn't they say it was desecrated and there's something.
- 1:32:12SPEAKER_07: Desecrated and the university is overrun.
- 1:32:14SPEAKER_07: I agree with you.
- 1:32:15SPEAKER_07: That's probably the thing.
- 1:32:18SPEAKER_07: The most the best place to go, because I don't think you want to go to the university if there's like gonna be a whole bunch of casters there.
- 1:32:24SPEAKER_07: That sounds like suicide.
- 1:32:27SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's right.
- 1:32:29SPEAKER_01: And you said that that we're in a very busy area.
- 1:32:32SPEAKER_15: Yeah, this is like if you look, if you look where you're at, uh you guys are on the Star Gardens Nobility District.
- 1:32:40SPEAKER_15: So you're able to you're able to see that like there's beautiful big estate homes all around.
- 1:32:46SPEAKER_15: Uh, and there are some people that are in them.
- 1:32:48SPEAKER_15: You watch them as they like pull their blind shut where you can see that there's people in the garden still trying to live a normal life.
- 1:32:54SPEAKER_15: Like the town is under the control of the orcs, but people are still existing and living there under the oppression.
- 1:33:00SPEAKER_15: Okay, uh, there are fires that have been burnt and buildings that have been burnt down and destroyed, but people are kind of under the impression that if they show remorse or any kind of upheaval, that they'll just be eliminated by the orc and army, invading army.
- 1:33:15unknown: Okay.
- 1:33:16SPEAKER_02: Okay, so do we want to check out the hall of echoes first?
- 1:33:20SPEAKER_02: Think do you want to go to the Raven Queen?
- 1:33:21SPEAKER_15: Think France after German occupation.
- 1:33:24SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 1:33:24SPEAKER_07: I agree.
- 1:33:24SPEAKER_07: So I think that might be.
- 1:33:25SPEAKER_07: I'm gonna be watching the bustling streets for people that sort of look like they're just sort of watching the crowd, you know, someone who might be a pickpocket or something along those sort of lines just to see if uh there's a potential of actually talking to somebody to get in more information.
- 1:33:42SPEAKER_15: Sure.
- 1:33:43SPEAKER_15: Okay, uh, roll me an investigation check, please, or a perception check.
- 1:33:47SPEAKER_15: Uh 29.
- 1:33:48SPEAKER_15: 29, yeah.
- 1:33:49SPEAKER_15: So uh in the area that you're in in the nobility section, not very many.
- 1:33:53SPEAKER_15: Um but not to say that it is not within.
- 1:33:57SPEAKER_15: Uh, I will hold on to that perception role for the the next little bit, and if anybody comes across your path, I will let you know.
- 1:34:04SPEAKER_07: Okay, and and my pass is like 21.
- 1:34:06SPEAKER_15: So yeah, for sure.
- 1:34:07SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 1:34:08SPEAKER_01: Does it look like there's anywhere that we could like you you said we're in uh we're not in a noticeable spot right this morning?
- 1:34:17SPEAKER_15: Not this right won't not this one.
- 1:34:19SPEAKER_01: But it does it look like there might be a less occupied space, a doorway that we could try and take someone into.
- 1:34:29SPEAKER_15: There's always the ability to get in into any of the buildings around.
- 1:34:34SPEAKER_15: Some of them are abandoned, it's just about finding the right one.
- 1:34:36SPEAKER_02: And we are we are now within the anti-magic.
- 1:34:39SPEAKER_15: Uh I I was I was under the impression that you were standing right outside of it.
- 1:34:44unknown: Okay.
- 1:34:44SPEAKER_15: Yeah, and that uh Drooken just reached his arm in to see of his costume chain, but he still is maintaining it.
- 1:34:51SPEAKER_07: So are you guys walking together?
- 1:34:53SPEAKER_07: You're walking independently, like how you know.
- 1:34:56SPEAKER_02: Before we carry forth, maybe we ensnare one of these fiends.
- 1:35:02SPEAKER_02: Feed them towards us.
- 1:35:04SPEAKER_02: There's no fiends here.
- 1:35:07SPEAKER_02: As we appear.
- 1:35:09SPEAKER_02: They're not fiends, that's a very specific term.
- 1:35:13SPEAKER_02: These appearing as reanimated corpses.
- 1:35:18SPEAKER_17: As you say.
- 1:35:23SPEAKER_02: I understand what you're asking for, yes.
- 1:35:25SPEAKER_07: Tola, what I would say.
- 1:35:27SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 1:35:28SPEAKER_02: Shall we test upon them while we have the ability to cast?
- 1:35:32SPEAKER_07: Yes, I agree.
- 1:35:34SPEAKER_02: What spell pray tell are you wishing to attempt?
- 1:35:38SPEAKER_07: I'm not crystal.
- 1:35:41SPEAKER_02: Oh, that makes me nervous.
- 1:35:43SPEAKER_07: I recommend that's the only thing.
- 1:35:45SPEAKER_02: Do the people with the spikes appear to be like following individuals, like they're sort of being forced to be servants to a specific fate person?
- 1:35:55SPEAKER_15: They seem kind of milling about they seem to be milling about accomplishing tasks, medial tasks, but tasks that they've been set out to do.
- 1:36:03SPEAKER_15: Some people are gathering uh foodstuffs and taking it elsewhere.
- 1:36:07SPEAKER_15: Some people are cleaning up streets.
- 1:36:10SPEAKER_02: Ask what is the uh general attire?
- 1:36:14SPEAKER_02: Do they appear to be common folk or possibly nobles?
- 1:36:17SPEAKER_15: That were you've got people that are common folk gathering up items uh and that are carrying things back and forth across the uh across the marketplace.
- 1:36:27SPEAKER_15: You also have people that appear to be high-held nobility that have the spikes in the back of the head that are cleaning up after horses.
- 1:36:36SPEAKER_15: There doesn't seem to be a hierarchy in the enslavement.
- 1:36:40SPEAKER_20: All castes have been enslaved.
- 1:36:44SPEAKER_02: Well, boys, pray that you go fetch one.
- 1:36:56SPEAKER_12: How do we want to go about this?
- 1:36:57SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
- 1:36:57SPEAKER_12: Bag of holding?
- 1:36:59SPEAKER_12: Bag of holding?
- 1:37:00SPEAKER_12: The old bag of holding tree.
- 1:37:02SPEAKER_12: I mean, I could just go up invisibly and put the bag of holding over me.
- 1:37:08SPEAKER_07: Cool.
- 1:37:09SPEAKER_07: I'll go uh watch with you, maybe just kind of be in the area.
- 1:37:13SPEAKER_07: Do you think you should have a distraction of some sort?
- 1:37:15SPEAKER_07: Or no?
- 1:37:16SPEAKER_02: Can't Mr.
- 1:37:17SPEAKER_02: Drax or someone simply try to beckon one and see if it listens?
- 1:37:24SPEAKER_15: I can do that.
- 1:37:27SPEAKER_15: We don't want to let we don't want to let Mr.
- 1:37:29SPEAKER_15: Drax do that.
- 1:37:30SPEAKER_15: I'll do that.
- 1:37:31SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Drax dear.
- 1:37:33SPEAKER_15: You set this one up.
- 1:37:34SPEAKER_02: But but he's more expendable than you.
- 1:37:37SPEAKER_18: This is this is good.
- 1:37:38SPEAKER_18: This is good.
- 1:37:39SPEAKER_18: Yeah, you should do it.
- 1:37:42SPEAKER_07: Just lure one back to us.
- 1:37:44SPEAKER_02: All right.
- 1:37:44SPEAKER_02: In the meantime, I'm gonna look for like a basket or something so I can pretend I'm carrying something when we go out there.
- 1:37:52SPEAKER_15: There's lots of stuff that's in this alleyway that you could make shift to look like you were busy doing something.
- 1:37:56SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm just gonna like stack some baskets and like try and fill one with all right.
- 1:38:00SPEAKER_20: Oleander Hawthorne, we'll be right back after this short break.
- 1:38:04SPEAKER_15: The two of you are heading out to the market.
- 1:38:05SPEAKER_19: We want to they want us to beckon this thing.
- 1:38:08SPEAKER_19: Or you know what?
- 1:38:09SPEAKER_19: I'm in your head right now.
- 1:38:10SPEAKER_19: They want us to beckon this thing.
- 1:38:12SPEAKER_07: Are we just gonna go uh I guess we're gonna sort of like snatch and grab?
- 1:38:16SPEAKER_07: Yeah, more or less.
- 1:38:18SPEAKER_07: I uh I'll I'll just drag it.
- 1:38:20SPEAKER_07: You snatch, done.
- 1:38:22SPEAKER_07: I go invisible.
- 1:38:23SPEAKER_07: I am going to try and create some sort of distraction.
- 1:38:26SPEAKER_15: Okay, what's your plan?
- 1:38:27SPEAKER_07: Uh probably looking for someone who could be a target that's like carrying a lot of stuff.
- 1:38:33SPEAKER_07: Uh, you know, uh really just almost like a uh casual trip just to sort of hopefully get someone to to create cause a disturbance in the marketplace.
- 1:38:41SPEAKER_15: Okay, yeah.
- 1:38:42SPEAKER_15: Uh there's definitely lots of those people.
- 1:38:44SPEAKER_15: Um so a little bit aways from them, obviously.
- 1:38:46SPEAKER_15: So you're gonna be outside of where they are.
- 1:38:49SPEAKER_15: Roll for stealth, please.
- 1:38:50SPEAKER_07: Sure.
- 1:38:51SPEAKER_07: And then I would assume I ideally I want to use uh slate of hand somehow to do that.
- 1:38:55SPEAKER_15: Totally.
- 1:38:56SPEAKER_15: So you would roll for that as well.
- 1:38:57SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 1:38:58SPEAKER_15: Am I doing advantage or not?
- 1:39:01SPEAKER_15: Uh do you have the ability to have advantage on your stealth role?
- 1:39:04SPEAKER_15: Uh for anything for sight related, yes.
- 1:39:06SPEAKER_15: Then yes, you have advantage.
- 1:39:08SPEAKER_07: It was really poor 25.
- 1:39:09SPEAKER_15: Okay, so you believe you are hidden.
- 1:39:11SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 1:39:12SPEAKER_07: And I'm sort of making my way up, and I'm just gonna try and uh yeah, essentially cause a disturbance here as I'm going.
- 1:39:19SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 1:39:20SPEAKER_07: Either, you know, I don't know, cut a rope here or something of that sort, or sure.
- 1:39:25SPEAKER_15: Uh, you do see there is a woman that has a spike in the back of her head with the glowing eyes.
- 1:39:31SPEAKER_15: She is carrying uh a crate and she has three chickens inside that crate, and she's just like staring forward and carrying them straight through the marketplace.
- 1:39:40SPEAKER_15: She's uh she will walk by you within five seconds.
- 1:39:42SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:39:43SPEAKER_15: You two are out in the marketplace now.
- 1:39:45SPEAKER_15: You're invisible, you are not, but you walk out and the sunlight hits you as it's coming up over the uh as it's coming up over the wall.
- 1:39:58SPEAKER_15: Um everything's kind of hustling and bustling, but you do see there is a group of uh noble slaves that are cleaning up after horses on the far side of the courtyard, and you watch as Rold kind of like sneaks out of the alley and then just disappears in the crowd.
- 1:40:15SPEAKER_12: Looking for one of them that seems most removed from the group.
- 1:40:20SPEAKER_15: Well, the three of them are working pretty close, but they're working in unison because they have been given instructions at the same time and they are working together, so it's almost like they're one mind.
- 1:40:27SPEAKER_08: So, as a distraction, I guess.
- 1:40:29SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna uh have some uh some odd materials from my bag of holding.
- 1:40:34SPEAKER_08: I've got a couple um winter coats.
- 1:40:38SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna have fallout.
- 1:40:39SPEAKER_18: Okay.
- 1:40:40SPEAKER_08: And then uh to the whichever one's closest to me.
- 1:40:43SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna be like, Ai, yo, you seem like you're good at uh doing some tests.
- 1:40:48SPEAKER_04: Come help me pick this up.
- 1:40:50SPEAKER_15: So as you call out to that slave, they all three of them stop and they kind of look at you, don't recognize you, don't identify your command, and go back to doing what they were doing.
- 1:41:05SPEAKER_15: At the same time, you hear across the courtyard somebody trips and this squat, squat, squat.
- 1:41:12SPEAKER_15: All these eggs splat over, and three chickens go flying in the air, and you hear this commotion, oh, and people turn and look.
- 1:41:18SPEAKER_12: I'd like to take that opportunity to try to slip my bag hold on these bags.
- 1:41:22SPEAKER_15: Okay, so you need to roll a dexterity check to see if you can get the bag of holding over them quickly enough that nobody else notices.
- 1:41:29SPEAKER_15: Excellent.
- 1:41:29SPEAKER_06: Uh dexterity check, I believe it's 17 I got here.
- 1:41:32SPEAKER_06: Let me just see here.
- 1:41:33SPEAKER_06: Check.
- 1:41:34SPEAKER_15: Yes.
- 1:41:35SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:41:36SPEAKER_15: Yeah, you are easily able to do it without anybody noticing.
- 1:41:39SPEAKER_15: The elf that you put the bag over is a younger male elf, and you get him inside the bag of holding, and the other two don't even stop doing what they're doing, they just continue cleaning up.
- 1:41:51SPEAKER_12: Question.
- 1:41:52SPEAKER_12: Am I still invisible or do you consider this an attack?
- 1:41:56SPEAKER_15: Uh well, this is definitely an attack because you're doing something to somebody.
- 1:42:00SPEAKER_06: Make sure no one is noticed, and I quietly head back towards the alley.
- 1:42:04SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:42:05SPEAKER_15: Uh roll me a roll me a stealth check.
- 1:42:08SPEAKER_15: 16.
- 1:42:09SPEAKER_15: Okay, you're good.
- 1:42:11SPEAKER_15: So you manage to get back into the alleyway undetected.
- 1:42:14SPEAKER_08: Pick up the coats by myself, and mutter a bunch.
- 1:42:18SPEAKER_08: Oh, lazy elves.
- 1:42:20SPEAKER_01: Um, as soon as they all left, Oleander turns to Drucan and Delphine.
- 1:42:27SPEAKER_20: It doth behoove us to hunt out the vacant residence.
- 1:42:31SPEAKER_02: Indeed, indeed.
- 1:42:33unknown: What?
- 1:42:34SPEAKER_02: Empty house.
- 1:42:35unknown: Oh.
- 1:42:38SPEAKER_15: Uh, perfect.
- 1:42:39SPEAKER_15: So then you see uh Einar just kind of like comes quickly strolling into the alley.
- 1:42:44SPEAKER_15: And right behind him, all on his heels, is Drax.
- 1:42:47SPEAKER_15: And uh you going back?
- 1:42:48SPEAKER_07: There's the I I have the telepathic bond anyway.
- 1:42:50SPEAKER_07: Okay, so I I'm just sort of what I'll just be so.
- 1:42:53SPEAKER_15: You're staying out there looking for what you were looking for earlier.
- 1:42:56SPEAKER_07: Just sort of hanging out cool.
- 1:42:57SPEAKER_07: Exactly.
- 1:42:58unknown: Yeah.
- 1:42:58SPEAKER_15: All right.
- 1:42:59SPEAKER_12: I think do you guys got one?
- 1:43:02SPEAKER_02: You don't need to think.
- 1:43:04SPEAKER_07: Yeah, you can see.
- 1:43:05SPEAKER_07: No, they can't.
- 1:43:06SPEAKER_07: It's in the bag.
- 1:43:07SPEAKER_07: No one just saw me do it.
- 1:43:08SPEAKER_07: Just say it.
- 1:43:09SPEAKER_06: No one's not doing it.
- 1:43:10SPEAKER_06: He's being clever.
- 1:43:11SPEAKER_06: He's got Rarry's telepathic bond, he uses it.
- 1:43:14SPEAKER_06: Got one.
- 1:43:14SPEAKER_07: It's in the bag, and I like unzip it, like, show the crystal, like I pull in his head and pop it back in.
- 1:43:19SPEAKER_07: I say probably keep it out so he doesn't suffocate in your head.
- 1:43:23SPEAKER_02: I got some air in there.
- 1:43:25SPEAKER_02: Let's find out, let's find an empty house.
- 1:43:27SPEAKER_12: Actually, we know exactly how much air they have in there because we've done this before.
- 1:43:30SPEAKER_15: Oh, yeah.
- 1:43:31SPEAKER_15: You know you got like five, ten minutes.
- 1:43:33SPEAKER_23: Oh, I got six.
- 1:43:35SPEAKER_23: I think it's ten minutes.
- 1:43:36SPEAKER_07: Let's find an empty house.
- 1:43:38SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:43:39SPEAKER_15: So finding an empty house is not gonna be easy.
- 1:43:42SPEAKER_15: There are houses all over the place, but uh there does appear to be some buildings that have been blown out and burnt out with maybe some rooms that are still intact in there.
- 1:43:52SPEAKER_15: So those could be a viable option.
- 1:43:54SPEAKER_07: Yeah, well, I can probably do that scouting seem already out there.
- 1:43:58SPEAKER_15: Sure, roll me an investigation check, please.
- 1:44:00SPEAKER_07: Great, then that makes sense.
- 1:44:06SPEAKER_15: 21.
- 1:44:06SPEAKER_15: Okay, you notice that across the courtyard, uh, through the crowds, there is what looks to be a house that was half burnt out, but uh one half of the house still seems to be viable, but the windows are blown out, so it does appear that people have vacated that area.
- 1:44:21SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 1:44:21SPEAKER_01: Are we speaking still within the magic able area?
- 1:44:24SPEAKER_15: Yes, you guys are.
- 1:44:25SPEAKER_15: That's where we're Rold is the only one that is not there.
- 1:44:28SPEAKER_07: Yeah, but I've the bond's still working, right?
- 1:44:30SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 1:44:30SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm just I'm just saying that like that's where we're searching specifically to stay within the magic area.
- 1:44:35SPEAKER_02: Somewhere we can use magic.
- 1:44:36SPEAKER_15: Okay, this is where Rold found it.
- 1:44:38SPEAKER_07: Oh, I don't think you can use magic there, can you?
- 1:44:40SPEAKER_15: No, it would be this would be within the magic forbidden area.
- 1:44:44SPEAKER_02: That's where we found.
- 1:44:45SPEAKER_02: I guess we have to go in.
- 1:44:46SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 1:44:47SPEAKER_02: We have healing portions.
- 1:44:49SPEAKER_15: You do have like doors and stuff that are around you, but the this area does not seem to be unoccupied.
- 1:44:54SPEAKER_15: It does seem to be that there are people there.
- 1:44:56SPEAKER_15: Whether or not you choose to kick them out or not, it's up to you.
- 1:44:59SPEAKER_07: Oh, there's still people there.
- 1:45:00SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 1:45:01unknown: Great.
- 1:45:01SPEAKER_15: Not the one that you found.
- 1:45:03SPEAKER_07: Oh, good.
- 1:45:03SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah.
- 1:45:04SPEAKER_15: Where they are within the magic usable area.
- 1:45:06SPEAKER_06: Right, got it.
- 1:45:07SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 1:45:08SPEAKER_06: Let's head for it then.
- 1:45:10SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I guess we'll individually make our ways there quietly as we get through the market.
- 1:45:13SPEAKER_06: Grouped up, who's taking these two slaves?
- 1:45:16SPEAKER_02: I'll just follow behind drugs.
- 1:45:18SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 1:45:19SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 1:45:19SPEAKER_02: I'll carry your winter coats.
- 1:45:22SPEAKER_02: I only not very strong, so very light.
- 1:45:25SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I hand her uh two of the winter coats.
- 1:45:27SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 1:45:27SPEAKER_02: I'll pick up Alfie's baskets.
- 1:45:30SPEAKER_02: She was just holding.
- 1:45:31SPEAKER_02: Perfect.
- 1:45:31SPEAKER_02: Well, I imagine behind.
- 1:45:33SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
- 1:45:33SPEAKER_15: They'd be in the basket, maybe.
- 1:45:34SPEAKER_15: Maybe in a basket.
- 1:45:35SPEAKER_02: You we can each carry one in a basket and walk stiffly behind him.
- 1:45:38SPEAKER_07: And I'll just get a crate and drink and follow me.
- 1:45:41SPEAKER_07: Perfect.
- 1:45:42SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 1:45:43SPEAKER_07: Groups walking in this group.
- 1:45:45SPEAKER_07: That group, this group.
- 1:45:46SPEAKER_07: Well, I'm with them.
- 1:45:47SPEAKER_07: That's too many.
- 1:45:48SPEAKER_07: I three have to go.
- 1:45:52SPEAKER_07: But I guess it doesn't really matter.
- 1:45:54SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I can walk behind you.
- 1:45:55SPEAKER_07: All three you are the weird zombies.
- 1:45:57SPEAKER_07: I can walk behind uh Einar.
- 1:45:59SPEAKER_07: Let's make our way.
- 1:46:00SPEAKER_15: Okay, you make your way across.
- 1:46:02SPEAKER_15: Are you all in a group or are you spread out?
- 1:46:05SPEAKER_07: Slightly spread out.
- 1:46:06SPEAKER_07: But not too far away where we can't see each other.
- 1:46:09SPEAKER_15: So about five to six seconds behind each other.
- 1:46:12SPEAKER_02: I'll be closer to Drax because I'm trying to maintain that I'm his yeah.
- 1:46:16SPEAKER_08: They'll be near me.
- 1:46:18SPEAKER_08: Right.
- 1:46:18SPEAKER_08: But we'll be.
- 1:46:19SPEAKER_15: You will be mentally directing them to where you think they should go.
- 1:46:22SPEAKER_15: Okay, perfect.
- 1:46:23SPEAKER_17: Yeah, yeah.
- 1:46:24SPEAKER_15: Alright, so you do that, you follow Rold's instructions, and you do come to individually uh as you're traveling across the courtyard, you do come to the burnt-out place, and indeed it is vacant.
- 1:46:36SPEAKER_15: So the door is kind of already ajar.
- 1:46:39SPEAKER_15: Um, and you can tell the orcs have already been through there and trashed it and ransacked it and taken all the valuables out of there.
- 1:46:46SPEAKER_12: Let's find a secure room and find out what we can about these things.
- 1:46:50SPEAKER_02: Okay, slip on in.
- 1:46:52SPEAKER_15: Okay, so you guys are all inside now.
- 1:46:54SPEAKER_15: So you're you're out of the safety of the you're out of the prying eyes of the public.
- 1:46:58SPEAKER_15: You are inside what looks to be a blown-out living room that once belonged to a predominant family within Silvery Moon.
- 1:47:05SPEAKER_02: Is there any kind of tattered cloth we could makeshift cover windows or closed shutters?
- 1:47:10SPEAKER_15: Uh there's some broken shutters, and yeah, you could yeah, wherever you want, you could pull up carpet, you could push.
- 1:47:16SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 1:47:18SPEAKER_15: Yep, easily you could easily do that.
- 1:47:19SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 1:47:20SPEAKER_15: And you are able to secure the area so that you are able to work yourselves.
- 1:47:24SPEAKER_02: Alright.
- 1:47:25SPEAKER_02: Can you let the person out?
- 1:47:28SPEAKER_12: Uh reaching the bag of holding, thinking about the person I stole there, and I pull him out of the bag and drop him onto the ground.
- 1:47:33SPEAKER_15: So you pull out this young elf and he kind of stands there and he looks vacant expression on his face, and immediately he looks at all of you, turns to the door, and begins to walk to the door to open the door.
- 1:47:46SPEAKER_12: Grab him.
- 1:47:47SPEAKER_12: I shall restrain him and grab the door.
- 1:47:49SPEAKER_15: Okay, you're gonna restrain him.
- 1:47:51SPEAKER_15: He does not cease to struggle, he will continue to struggle until you let him go.
- 1:47:57SPEAKER_15: It's not violent, it's not anger.
- 1:48:01SPEAKER_15: He just is being restrained and he's continuing to try and move.
- 1:48:07SPEAKER_15: And so if you were if you try and do something else while you were holding him, he will break free.
- 1:48:11SPEAKER_15: But as long as you're concentrating on holding him, you can restrain him.
- 1:48:14SPEAKER_15: Yeah, I'm I will focus on grappling and keeping him.
- 1:48:17SPEAKER_02: I I just want it first before you guys do things.
- 1:48:21SPEAKER_02: Delphine's gonna speak to him and Elvin be like, can you speak?
- 1:48:25SPEAKER_15: There is no answer.
- 1:48:26SPEAKER_15: Uh, it's the thousand-yard stare that you have from this young man.
- 1:48:32SPEAKER_02: I want to test something.
- 1:48:35SPEAKER_02: Because I know we're in the anti-magic area.
- 1:48:38SPEAKER_02: But before we could, if we rolled high enough to cast a spell, I want to try and cast message to him.
- 1:48:44SPEAKER_17: Okay.
- 1:48:45SPEAKER_02: She's testing to see if this is a similar barrier type to what is in the mine.
- 1:48:51SPEAKER_15: Roll me a D20, please.
- 1:48:54SPEAKER_02: Six.
- 1:48:56SPEAKER_15: Nope.
- 1:48:57SPEAKER_02: No pluses or anything?
- 1:48:58SPEAKER_15: Uh you can add your intelligence.
- 1:49:00SPEAKER_02: Just my intelligence modifier?
- 1:49:01SPEAKER_02: Yeah or saving through.
- 1:49:03SPEAKER_02: What was it called?
- 1:49:04SPEAKER_15: It was your intelligence modifier, I think.
- 1:49:06SPEAKER_15: Like it would be your like what you would add to your spell.
- 1:49:09SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:49:09SPEAKER_02: So 11.
- 1:49:10SPEAKER_15: 11, yeah.
- 1:49:11SPEAKER_15: No, it does not go through.
- 1:49:12SPEAKER_15: Well, the sending spell just message message, sorry.
- 1:49:16SPEAKER_15: Just disappears.
- 1:49:20SPEAKER_02: It was 18 before.
- 1:49:22SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 1:49:23SPEAKER_15: So and then again, this guy's still struggling, still struggling to try and get away.
- 1:49:29SPEAKER_07: I walk up while he's holding them, and I grab the crystal and I pull it out.
- 1:49:34SPEAKER_07: Cover his mouth.
- 1:49:35SPEAKER_15: Yeah, cover his mouth and pull out the crystal.
- 1:49:37SPEAKER_15: It's only about this big, and it's like a sh a shard.
- 1:49:40SPEAKER_15: So you would just grab it and grab it and just cover his mouth so he doesn't scream.
- 1:49:45SPEAKER_07: And then pull out the crystal.
- 1:49:47SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:49:49SPEAKER_15: As you pull the crystal out, you feel as it is scraping against the bone in his skull on the way out.
- 1:49:59SPEAKER_15: Comes out.
- 1:50:00SPEAKER_15: And you watch as he throws his head back in pain and falls to his knees and slumps down forward.
- 1:50:07SPEAKER_09: Are they dead?
- 1:50:10SPEAKER_15: He's not dead.
- 1:50:11SPEAKER_15: He's not dead.
- 1:50:12SPEAKER_17: Okay.
- 1:50:14SPEAKER_02: Um I give him a healing motion.
- 1:50:17SPEAKER_02: How fair they?
- 1:50:18SPEAKER_15: He kind of he looks up and he's like.
- 1:50:22SPEAKER_15: Yeah, yeah.
- 1:50:22SPEAKER_15: He takes it.
- 1:50:23SPEAKER_15: Um, and he heals him a little bit, and he kind of looks up and he's dazed.
- 1:50:29SPEAKER_15: Where am I?
- 1:50:33SPEAKER_02: What happened?
- 1:50:34SPEAKER_02: What do you remember?
- 1:50:35SPEAKER_10: I remember standing in line.
- 1:50:40SPEAKER_10: My mother and my father.
- 1:50:44SPEAKER_16: I remember great blinding pain.
- 1:50:52SPEAKER_16: And then I was here.
- 1:50:54SPEAKER_02: What were you in line for?
- 1:50:56SPEAKER_16: We were captured.
- 1:50:58SPEAKER_16: We were being marched into the courtyard in front of the palace.
- 1:51:03SPEAKER_16: All of us.
- 1:51:06SPEAKER_15: And there was these crystals.
- 1:51:10SPEAKER_15: And then just white hot pain.
- 1:51:14SPEAKER_02: Was it just orcs or were there others with them?
- 1:51:19SPEAKER_15: The orcs that were manhandling us and pushing us and forcing us into the lines.
- 1:51:27SPEAKER_15: And there was this woman.
- 1:51:30SPEAKER_15: And he reaches back and he can feel the hole in the back of his head.
- 1:51:36SPEAKER_15: But it has now started to close since you gave him the healing potion, but he can still feel where it was.
- 1:51:41SPEAKER_15: And he brings back his hand to show blood dripping down his hand.
- 1:51:46SPEAKER_15: And he's like, there was this woman, this large, evil woman.
- 1:51:53SPEAKER_16: She stood taller than the orcs.
- 1:51:57SPEAKER_11: And she was stabbing at us.
- 1:52:04SPEAKER_11: That's all I remember.
- 1:52:05SPEAKER_10: Who are who are you?
- 1:52:11SPEAKER_10: What what what is this?
- 1:52:13SPEAKER_10: What is it to Plana Vanguard?
- 1:52:14SPEAKER_07: You're the spearhead of an alliance right now.
- 1:52:16SPEAKER_07: Interesting.
- 1:52:17SPEAKER_07: Maybe you shouldn't be giving them that much information, and that's a liability.
- 1:52:20SPEAKER_07: We're the good guys.
- 1:52:23SPEAKER_20: You only need to know that we are friends.
- 1:52:27SPEAKER_16: I must.
- 1:52:28SPEAKER_16: I must get.
- 1:52:30SPEAKER_16: I must get to my family.
- 1:52:32SPEAKER_16: I must get back to my mother, my father.
- 1:52:34SPEAKER_02: No.
- 1:52:34SPEAKER_16: I have to go.
- 1:52:35SPEAKER_16: I have to go.
- 1:52:36SPEAKER_02: Who are your mother and father?
- 1:52:38SPEAKER_16: Damn it.
- 1:52:42SPEAKER_12: I haven't let go of that ground.
- 1:52:43SPEAKER_02: And you and who is he would be the next.
- 1:52:49SPEAKER_20: As we know that we can heal them, we must take more.
- 1:52:54SPEAKER_20: Bid them a secret shadow while we muster a greater force.
- 1:52:58SPEAKER_20: Where will we place them?
- 1:53:00SPEAKER_20: Here.
- 1:53:02SPEAKER_20: Hardly defensible.
- 1:53:04SPEAKER_07: As we gather more, we can then later see to go out there because there's other ones that he just cannot.
- 1:53:13SPEAKER_07: He has to act like everybody else.
- 1:53:15SPEAKER_07: Can't be panicked.
- 1:53:16SPEAKER_20: He is better hidden where we can find him.
- 1:53:19SPEAKER_15: He says, uh, I am I'm Calith Renthorn, and my mother and father are Thoranius and Lira Renthorn.
- 1:53:28SPEAKER_15: Do you know where they are?
- 1:53:29SPEAKER_15: Do you know where I can find them?
- 1:53:30SPEAKER_02: No, we just arrived.
- 1:53:31SPEAKER_02: We don't know where anyone's being held yet.
- 1:53:34SPEAKER_16: I have to go, I have to find them.
- 1:53:36SPEAKER_02: How did they get in?
- 1:53:37SPEAKER_02: How did the attack start?
- 1:53:40SPEAKER_16: I was all over so quickly.
- 1:53:44SPEAKER_16: We were celebrating the full moon.
- 1:53:49SPEAKER_16: And then there was screaming from all around us.
- 1:53:53SPEAKER_16: And they were just there.
- 1:53:54SPEAKER_16: They were just running through the streets.
- 1:53:57SPEAKER_16: They were burning houses and slaughtering children.
- 1:54:01SPEAKER_12: Portals portals together.
- 1:54:05SPEAKER_16: We never had a chance.
- 1:54:06SPEAKER_16: We never had a warning.
- 1:54:09SPEAKER_10: There was nothing we could have done.
- 1:54:10SPEAKER_16: I I I don't even know who they are.
- 1:54:14SPEAKER_16: But they are just orcs, disgusting large.
- 1:54:19SPEAKER_16: And there was there was I remember it now.
- 1:54:27SPEAKER_16: They were towing in these large black crystals.
- 1:54:33SPEAKER_16: They had them on massive box carts and they were carrying them through the streets.
- 1:54:40SPEAKER_16: And they were followed by these three hideous women.
- 1:54:49SPEAKER_16: What what has happened to Silvery Moon?
- 1:54:52SPEAKER_16: Has it fallen?
- 1:54:53SPEAKER_16: It is fallen.
- 1:54:55SPEAKER_16: What is being done?
- 1:54:56SPEAKER_16: Where were?
- 1:54:57SPEAKER_02: We're going to take it back.
- 1:54:59SPEAKER_07: But you cannot be running around the streets how you're acting.
- 1:55:02SPEAKER_15: What am I to do?
- 1:55:03SPEAKER_15: Am I to stay here in this?
- 1:55:07SPEAKER_16: Where am I?
- 1:55:07SPEAKER_20: Shadow and breathe not a whisper.
- 1:55:09SPEAKER_20: Lest our hiding place be known to the foe.
- 1:55:12SPEAKER_20: We're in this we're in the star gardens.
- 1:55:15SPEAKER_12: Could we get him to the teleportation circle?
- 1:55:18SPEAKER_20: Not until we gather a greater force.
- 1:55:21SPEAKER_20: I can tell him where to wait.
- 1:55:24SPEAKER_20: To send one person?
- 1:55:27SPEAKER_20: It's not worth it to send one.
- 1:55:28SPEAKER_07: No.
- 1:55:29SPEAKER_07: You have to just stay here and we'll come back for you.
- 1:55:33SPEAKER_16: I cannot stay here.
- 1:55:34SPEAKER_16: I cannot do nothing.
- 1:55:35SPEAKER_02: To leave is to put yourself in harm.
- 1:55:39SPEAKER_02: Your parents could be anywhere at this point.
- 1:55:42SPEAKER_02: We're trying.
- 1:55:44SPEAKER_02: We're with General Arundel.
- 1:55:46SPEAKER_02: Trying to gather information so we can take it back.
- 1:55:51SPEAKER_16: What of Saluna Hall?
- 1:55:52SPEAKER_02: We haven't been there yet.
- 1:55:53SPEAKER_02: I fear that that is where those three women might be.
- 1:55:58SPEAKER_10: Do you think the king and the queen have taken?
- 1:56:01SPEAKER_10: If they are, we'll hope would be lost.
- 1:56:03SPEAKER_02: Told you, we're going to get them back.
- 1:56:05SPEAKER_15: And he kind of just he's he plunks down in his own despair.
- 1:56:09SPEAKER_19: I let go of him at this point when he stops struggling, finally.
- 1:56:11SPEAKER_15: As only an elf would do.
- 1:56:15SPEAKER_15: And he uh kind of crumples over on himself and crawls over to the corner.
- 1:56:21SPEAKER_16: Very well, if I must wait here, I'll wait here, but I don't know for how long I can.
- 1:56:27SPEAKER_02: If you feel you need to leave, wait for us.
- 1:56:31SPEAKER_02: And I'm gonna give him a general description of the alley we came into.
- 1:56:35SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna say the word teleportation circle, I'm gonna say find us there.
- 1:56:38SPEAKER_02: We are going to try to come back there.
- 1:56:43SPEAKER_16: Okay.
- 1:56:44SPEAKER_02: And if you can gather anyone who you think can get out.
- 1:56:52SPEAKER_15: I can do that.
- 1:56:54SPEAKER_02: But be very cautious.
- 1:56:56SPEAKER_15: I will do that.
- 1:56:58SPEAKER_15: Let me gather myself here and then I will get as many as I can and meet you where you have said.
- 1:57:04SPEAKER_02: Just for I don't know, double added security sake.
- 1:57:07SPEAKER_02: I'll just pick up a piece of burned wood off the floor and I'll give him the little mark just in case he needs to pass somewhere.
- 1:57:14SPEAKER_16: He says, Is this the mark that you use to identify yourselves?
- 1:57:18SPEAKER_02: Not us.
- 1:57:20SPEAKER_02: Possibly the enemy.
- 1:57:21SPEAKER_02: It may help.
- 1:57:23SPEAKER_07: It may protect you.
- 1:57:25SPEAKER_20: It is merely a disguise.
- 1:57:27SPEAKER_20: It does not guarantee safety.
- 1:57:29SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 1:57:30SPEAKER_15: Well, he stands up and he seems to be a little more um collected now.
- 1:57:34SPEAKER_15: I thank you.
- 1:57:35SPEAKER_15: I will do as you've asked.
- 1:57:38SPEAKER_07: Alright, well, as you guys hear in your heads, if it was so easy to remove these spikes, why aren't hasn't it happened all over the place?
- 1:57:47SPEAKER_21: People are afraid.
- 1:57:50SPEAKER_12: There's no one standing up.
- 1:57:51SPEAKER_12: There's no one who's captured one of these things yet.
- 1:57:53SPEAKER_12: You think it was easy or a normal person could just walk through the market, abduct one of these people as I just did, and come over here?
- 1:57:59SPEAKER_12: Many non-regular people.
- 1:58:02SPEAKER_02: Not everyone has it within them to fight back.
- 1:58:05SPEAKER_02: Others are afraid or corrupt.
- 1:58:07SPEAKER_15: But Druncan, you are holding on to spikes.
- 1:58:11SPEAKER_15: And it is pulsing with that.
- 1:58:15SPEAKER_15: It's pulsing with energy, the spike that you're still holding.
- 1:58:17SPEAKER_07: Can we put this in the bag of holding?
- 1:58:19SPEAKER_02: Can I do an arcana check on it first?
- 1:58:22SPEAKER_02: Just to inspect it.
- 1:58:23SPEAKER_02: Yep.
- 1:58:23SPEAKER_02: See if I can learn anything about it.
- 1:58:25SPEAKER_07: Absolutely.
- 1:58:26SPEAKER_20: See if it might be better smash you smashed versus stored.
- 1:58:29SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 1:58:31SPEAKER_20: Can we?
- 1:58:32unknown: Ooh!
- 1:58:33SPEAKER_02: Oh wanna give it.
- 1:58:34SPEAKER_02: Well, can I look at it first?
- 1:58:36SPEAKER_07: Are you taking it?
- 1:58:38SPEAKER_02: Yep.
- 1:58:39SPEAKER_07: Do you need to hold it to do redo?
- 1:58:40SPEAKER_07: Yes.
- 1:58:41SPEAKER_02: I just I'm not doing an identifier.
- 1:58:43SPEAKER_02: I just want to do an arcana check.
- 1:58:44SPEAKER_07: So I'll just hold it, yeah.
- 1:58:46SPEAKER_02: See what I can learn about it.
- 1:58:47SPEAKER_07: Some holding it in front of it.
- 1:58:48SPEAKER_02: Looking at, well, I can't really look at the weave because we're in the magic area, but I can try and figure it out.
- 1:58:55SPEAKER_15: 14.
- 1:58:56SPEAKER_15: 14.
- 1:58:57SPEAKER_15: Uh this is a spell, right?
- 1:58:59SPEAKER_02: It's not a spell.
- 1:59:00SPEAKER_02: I'm just doing a knowledge check.
- 1:59:01SPEAKER_15: Oh, perfect.
- 1:59:02SPEAKER_15: Uh yeah.
- 1:59:02SPEAKER_15: So 14 gets you.
- 1:59:05SPEAKER_15: Um, you definitely know that this has been an enchanted item.
- 1:59:08SPEAKER_15: So this is something that a spell has been cast on.
- 1:59:10SPEAKER_15: It's been created especially for this purpose.
- 1:59:12SPEAKER_15: They're not a normal occurrence in the land of a fear.
- 1:59:15SPEAKER_15: You've never seen one before or have heard the likes of it before, but you can gather a relatively easily understanding that uh they're connected to a larger source that is being controlled by one particular mind, and that as these are plunged in, it's almost like they are virtually plugged into the main source.
- 1:59:39SPEAKER_03: It's the matrix plug.
- 1:59:40SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 1:59:42SPEAKER_15: Um wonder if I watched that recently.
- 1:59:45SPEAKER_02: I think we should hang on to one of these for now.
- 1:59:48SPEAKER_07: Okay, who wants to put in their bag holding this?
- 1:59:51SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 1:59:51SPEAKER_07: And I put it in her bag holding.
- 1:59:54SPEAKER_20: Leander grabs the crystal and texts.
- 1:59:57SPEAKER_20: Oh, why we trust the lady who drugs us.
- 2:00:00SPEAKER_13: Yeah.
- 2:00:01SPEAKER_13: Boons.
- 2:00:02SPEAKER_13: Boons.
- 2:00:03SPEAKER_02: Drugs.
- 2:00:04SPEAKER_02: I don't care if it's a good thing.
- 2:00:05SPEAKER_02: I want to be fully informed.
- 2:00:08SPEAKER_02: That's not informed consent.
- 2:00:10SPEAKER_15: Alright.
- 2:00:11SPEAKER_15: So the uh uh Caleb then kind of takes his leave.
- 2:00:16SPEAKER_15: He's like, I will go gather more and I will meet you where you have asked.
- 2:00:19SPEAKER_15: And he kind of slips out the door back into the crowd, and you watch as he stands in the sunlight for a second and then just kind of like makes his way into the crowd and disappears into the crowd.
- 2:00:35SPEAKER_02: He didn't, he wasn't gonna stay.
- 2:00:38SPEAKER_02: He wasn't gonna stay.
- 2:00:39SPEAKER_15: He wasn't gonna stay.
- 2:00:43SPEAKER_02: Alright, on to the position of Echoes.
- 2:00:47SPEAKER_02: Everything we do here is out of risk.
- 2:00:49unknown: No.
- 2:00:50SPEAKER_15: Are you moving in the same manner that you did across the courtyard to get to the hall of echoes?
- 2:00:55SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 2:00:56SPEAKER_02: Blending in, I feel, is probably safest.
- 2:00:58SPEAKER_15: Hold my coats.
- 2:01:00SPEAKER_01: I think every time we go around while we are under this disguise, we just proceed as we work.
- 2:01:07SPEAKER_07: Yeah, because you guys are okay.
- 2:01:09SPEAKER_07: Well, we have one hour with this disguise and then different tactics.
- 2:01:14SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:01:14SPEAKER_15: So you guys will make your way through the crowd, uh, kind of gathering, you know, the way you're working, the way the way that you've set this up to walk around is the way that you're gonna do it.
- 2:01:23SPEAKER_15: Now you'll be heading uh probably a little bit, you'll be heading mostly east, but southeast-ish, right?
- 2:01:32SPEAKER_15: So very, very minorly southeast.
- 2:01:34SPEAKER_07: I rotate there.
- 2:01:35SPEAKER_15: Yeah, exactly.
- 2:01:36SPEAKER_15: So it's a straight shot, you can actually see the spire of the Hall of Echoes in the distance as you get there.
- 2:01:41SPEAKER_15: So as you're walking along, it's becoming more and more apparent to you that the closer you get into the center of the city, the larger the frequency of orc uh battalions that you see marching around.
- 2:01:54SPEAKER_15: And they are in no way friendly to any of the elves.
- 2:01:58SPEAKER_15: You can see them physically accosting the elves, beating them, smacking them, grabbing the women and dragging them into the alleys.
- 2:02:06SPEAKER_15: It's happening all over the place.
- 2:02:08SPEAKER_15: There's no um decorum from them at all.
- 2:02:12SPEAKER_15: There's no honor among thieves or honor in the war zone of Silvery Moon.
- 2:02:18SPEAKER_15: The elves are the prey that the orcs have been dreaming about conquering their whole lives.
- 2:02:24SPEAKER_09: Are they doing this to the um Dominion Spike?
- 2:02:29SPEAKER_15: They are not.
- 2:02:29SPEAKER_15: They are doing this to the random Denzians of anyone that happens to anybody that happens to walk by, anybody that happens to cross their path, is getting beaten, getting taken advantage of, assaulted.
- 2:02:41SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna say through the bond as we're walking, look for obsidian shadow marks.
- 2:02:48SPEAKER_17: Okay.
- 2:02:48SPEAKER_02: And I just sort of keep my own eye out to see if I can see anyone who seems to be directing one of the Dominion spec elves to see if they are if I can glimpse a mark, if they're possibly obsidian shadows.
- 2:03:02SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:03:03SPEAKER_15: Um who would like to roll and aid in a perception check?
- 2:03:09SPEAKER_12: Um I roll.
- 2:03:12SPEAKER_07: I can aid.
- 2:03:13SPEAKER_07: I can add.
- 2:03:14SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:03:15SPEAKER_07: I have a plus six.
- 2:03:16SPEAKER_02: I got a plus five.
- 2:03:17SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:03:18SPEAKER_02: Who's rolling?
- 2:03:18SPEAKER_15: It will be an advantage for whoever decides to.
- 2:03:22SPEAKER_02: Well, I said it in the bonds of whoever decides to do a perception check.
- 2:03:25SPEAKER_07: I know calcon is facing anyway.
- 2:03:29SPEAKER_07: Yeah, but I'm doing plus eleven, too.
- 2:03:31SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:03:31SPEAKER_21: I mean it's yeah, but if you're higher up, that might be.
- 2:03:34SPEAKER_21: I'm not higher up and down on the phone.
- 2:03:36SPEAKER_15: He's in the crowd.
- 2:03:36SPEAKER_15: He's he's assassin's creeting it.
- 2:03:38SPEAKER_21: I thought you were going to be able to do that.
- 2:03:39SPEAKER_04: Yeah, like that would be anything.
- 2:03:41SPEAKER_07: I'm like completely invisible.
- 2:03:43SPEAKER_20: But you're a spinning.
- 2:03:45SPEAKER_20: Yeah, you are a bottle.
- 2:03:46SPEAKER_07: It's a crowded city.
- 2:03:47SPEAKER_20: You can walk around going like this, and nobody sees the city.
- 2:03:50SPEAKER_07: Do you want to roll and share you on that thing?
- 2:03:53SPEAKER_15: Sure.
- 2:03:53SPEAKER_15: Okay, so you roll with advantage then rolled.
- 2:03:55SPEAKER_07: Oh, okay.
- 2:03:56SPEAKER_07: Oh, I thought it oh, I thought it's helpful.
- 2:03:58SPEAKER_07: I thought I was helping.
- 2:03:59SPEAKER_07: I'm helpful.
- 2:03:59SPEAKER_07: Well, no, you have a roll plus.
- 2:04:02SPEAKER_15: I would only assume that the higher of the two would roll with the advantage.
- 2:04:05SPEAKER_15: 21.
- 2:04:07SPEAKER_04: I did.
- 2:04:07SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
- 2:04:07SPEAKER_04: 21.
- 2:04:08SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:04:08SPEAKER_04: I thought you were the same number too.
- 2:04:10SPEAKER_15: Uh 21.
- 2:04:12SPEAKER_15: You are going to see what you roll here.
- 2:04:17SPEAKER_15: Alright, so 21.
- 2:04:19SPEAKER_15: You are having a hard time seeing people with the mark on their wrist.
- 2:04:23SPEAKER_15: Lots of long-sleeve shirts going on, and lots of people that are being somewhat incognito, but you do manage to spot one.
- 2:04:30unknown: Obviously.
- 2:04:31SPEAKER_15: And the person seems to be up to nothing.
- 2:04:33SPEAKER_15: They seem to be walking from one location to another location, minding their own business, but you do notice a glimpse.
- 2:04:38SPEAKER_15: What?
- 2:04:39SPEAKER_15: Small smudge underneath the shirt of a black smudge on the inside of the wrist.
- 2:04:44SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:04:46SPEAKER_07: You know, that there is one person approximately where they are, but you know, don't look.
- 2:04:51SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:04:51SPEAKER_07: Follow them.
- 2:04:52SPEAKER_02: You do the glance over in the crowd, you're like, that guy.
- 2:04:55SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:04:56SPEAKER_07: Follow them and lead us towards them.
- 2:04:58SPEAKER_12: We'll follow to where they're going.
- 2:05:00SPEAKER_02: Why do we following them?
- 2:05:01SPEAKER_02: That's where we'll find out.
- 2:05:02SPEAKER_02: I just want to check.
- 2:05:03SPEAKER_02: They're everywhere.
- 2:05:04SPEAKER_02: I just wanted to confirm that they are here.
- 2:05:06SPEAKER_02: Safe to assume that they're everywhere.
- 2:05:07SPEAKER_15: I mean, you could follow them and split.
- 2:05:10SPEAKER_07: And I follow you.
- 2:05:11SPEAKER_15: And then keep them updated.
- 2:05:18SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
- 2:05:19SPEAKER_02: But you can do whatever you want.
- 2:05:20SPEAKER_12: Anything I want?
- 2:05:22SPEAKER_02: Within reason, Einar.
- 2:05:24SPEAKER_12: I want to punch that orc right there.
- 2:05:25SPEAKER_02: I I I do that.
- 2:05:28SPEAKER_02: Echo that sentiment.
- 2:05:30SPEAKER_02: However, focus.
- 2:05:32SPEAKER_02: The bet you would break real good.
- 2:05:35SPEAKER_02: Do not draw undue attention upon us.
- 2:05:37SPEAKER_07: Somewhere we'll find lots of things to fight as soon as we're in that temple, I assume.
- 2:05:42SPEAKER_02: Well, we're going to the Hall of Echoes first, not the temple.
- 2:05:45SPEAKER_07: Oh, sorry.
- 2:05:46SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:05:47SPEAKER_07: Why didn't I think it was the temple?
- 2:05:49SPEAKER_07: Because we're on the way.
- 2:05:50SPEAKER_07: The temple's on the way.
- 2:05:51SPEAKER_07: Oh.
- 2:05:52SPEAKER_15: You're not following.
- 2:05:55SPEAKER_02: I'm just saying.
- 2:05:57SPEAKER_02: My intention was simply to confirm they're here.
- 2:06:06SPEAKER_06: I'm following.
- 2:06:07SPEAKER_06: I'm not losing sight of my party members.
- 2:06:09SPEAKER_13: Okay.
- 2:06:10unknown: Right.
- 2:06:12SPEAKER_06: Now they've ever alone in the city with these fools.
- 2:06:14SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 2:06:15SPEAKER_06: Or my brother.
- 2:06:17SPEAKER_15: As you enter into the circular courtyard that surrounds the Hall of Echoes, it becomes very obvious to you that this has become a command center for some of the orcs.
- 2:06:29SPEAKER_15: They have taken up the camp around the area, have fallen asleep on the stairs, and have ransacked some of the building.
- 2:06:39SPEAKER_15: Now it does appear that there are still elves of nobility walking to and fro and working within the building, but the orcs have taken up the outside and are basically owning it and using it for their own purposes.
- 2:06:58SPEAKER_15: They seem like they are very concerned, but still are trying to run their city.
- 2:07:06SPEAKER_07: Okay, well, the orbs aren't going after the gas of the crystal, so I think we can try and walk through.
- 2:07:14SPEAKER_07: What reason do you have to be here though?
- 2:07:17SPEAKER_07: If you're literally a I'm I'm under that these guys don't answer for delivery.
- 2:07:22SPEAKER_07: Yeah, good.
- 2:07:23SPEAKER_07: So I think we can do that and just walk in.
- 2:07:27SPEAKER_02: Is there anywhere around us that you know what?
- 2:07:33SPEAKER_02: Delphi probably has random books in her bag, doesn't she?
- 2:07:35SPEAKER_02: Like parchment and stuff.
- 2:07:36SPEAKER_15: I would assume you would.
- 2:07:38SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna swap my winter coats out for to make it look like I'm I have books and parchment and things that need to be brought to someone official.
- 2:07:46SPEAKER_05: Great.
- 2:07:46SPEAKER_05: Take one of my coats back.
- 2:07:48SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:07:51SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:07:52SPEAKER_07: Um do we notice any guys like crystals in the neck walking in?
- 2:07:56SPEAKER_15: Oh yes, yes, yes.
- 2:07:57SPEAKER_15: There are, of course, yep, there are slaves walking in, especially in this building.
- 2:08:03SPEAKER_15: Slaves are a big priority.
- 2:08:05SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:08:05SPEAKER_07: Well then I'm gonna start walking in.
- 2:08:09SPEAKER_02: Are we taking them with us?
- 2:08:12SPEAKER_07: If they think they can get through, I look like you belong, look like you've been sent here.
- 2:08:17SPEAKER_07: Is one of the crystals here?
- 2:08:19SPEAKER_07: Or one of the no.
- 2:08:20SPEAKER_07: Oh, no, but it's it's information product.
- 2:08:24SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:08:24SPEAKER_07: Crystals are there, they're there in there.
- 2:08:27SPEAKER_07: Okay, so the three of us, what what are we doing now?
- 2:08:31SPEAKER_02: I just said so bond.
- 2:08:33SPEAKER_02: Look like you belong, look like you're here on an errand, you've been sent here, you belong here.
- 2:08:37SPEAKER_02: Walk in with confidence, like how a guy in a tie and a clipboard can get in anywhere.
- 2:08:42SPEAKER_10: I'm not saying guy.
- 2:08:45SPEAKER_10: Because guy has no throat.
- 2:08:47SPEAKER_02: Guy has no throat.
- 2:08:51SPEAKER_07: We have our wrist symbols.
- 2:08:52SPEAKER_07: Yes.
- 2:08:53SPEAKER_07: So if they say then we'll walk in and just we'll walk behind you.
- 2:08:57SPEAKER_20: Remember, do not speak.
- 2:09:01SPEAKER_20: No, we don't speak.
- 2:09:03SPEAKER_20: We don't speak to the case.
- 2:09:07SPEAKER_02: We are with silence.
- 2:09:08SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 2:09:08SPEAKER_02: When the guy had the crystal before, you couldn't speak.
- 2:09:11SPEAKER_07: Hey.
- 2:09:12SPEAKER_07: I don't understand her right now.
- 2:09:13SPEAKER_02: She's speaking.
- 2:09:14SPEAKER_02: We can take out these orcs, you know that, right?
- 2:09:16SPEAKER_02: Applaud you.
- 2:09:17SPEAKER_12: You see a smile from him going.
- 2:09:21SPEAKER_12: But that's just these ones.
- 2:09:23SPEAKER_12: Not all.
- 2:09:26SPEAKER_12: Alright.
- 2:09:28SPEAKER_12: Let me talk to the orcs if I want to speak to us.
- 2:09:32SPEAKER_15: All right.
- 2:09:33SPEAKER_15: So there's the main entrance.
- 2:09:34SPEAKER_15: It appears it is uh not defended, but there are orcs that are lying on the stairs, sleeping, drinking, having a conversation with each other.
- 2:09:43SPEAKER_15: Or talk.
- 2:09:44SPEAKER_14: I don't want to do this.
- 2:09:46SPEAKER_14: Question.
- 2:09:46SPEAKER_14: Can I Okay?
- 2:09:51unknown: Orc work work.
- 2:09:53SPEAKER_02: Can Delphine remember any names of any people, dignitaries, any city officials that her father may have spoken about?
- 2:10:04SPEAKER_15: Oh, absolutely.
- 2:10:05SPEAKER_15: You know one very well.
- 2:10:09SPEAKER_15: Oh, Lord Theron.
- 2:10:11SPEAKER_02: Yes, not him.
- 2:10:13SPEAKER_02: Oh, he is one other than him.
- 2:10:15SPEAKER_15: Oh, uh yeah, there would be a couple uh that you would have to I want to give them a name to give it more credence as well.
- 2:10:23SPEAKER_18: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
- 2:10:25SPEAKER_02: A cover.
- 2:10:29SPEAKER_20: I have to give someone a name.
- 2:10:32SPEAKER_20: I need a name to speak.
- 2:10:34SPEAKER_20: I do believe Alander of the Yeah.
- 2:10:36SPEAKER_15: Yeah, uh let's see.
- 2:10:37SPEAKER_15: There's um there's uh Alarian Starweaver.
- 2:10:43SPEAKER_02: Alarian Starweaver.
- 2:10:45SPEAKER_02: I'm just gonna say in the bond, try if they ask who you're here for, try saying Alarian Star Weaver.
- 2:10:50SPEAKER_02: I don't know if this person is alive or dead, but I imagine the orcs may not.
- 2:10:56SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:10:57SPEAKER_15: So as you walk up to the steps, you're kind of in your separate groups, right?
- 2:11:02SPEAKER_15: Um, and you walk in, walking up to the front door.
- 2:11:06SPEAKER_15: There is a person books.
- 2:11:07SPEAKER_15: Yeah, there is a group of orcs that they kind of take notice of you and they turn to the ones that aren't you three.
- 2:11:14SPEAKER_15: Are you with them or are you staying outside?
- 2:11:16SPEAKER_07: I don't think I can really be with them at this point.
- 2:11:18SPEAKER_07: I mean you can try and slip in, try and slip in.
- 2:11:20SPEAKER_15: Or you can try and go onto the roof and get in.
- 2:11:22SPEAKER_05: That's more what I was doing.
- 2:11:23SPEAKER_05: Drax and I were putting it in front of them.
- 2:11:25SPEAKER_15: So let's have you do that then.
- 2:11:26SPEAKER_15: Let's have you roll a let's have you roll a stealth to see if you can get on the roof unnoticed.
- 2:11:30unknown: Sure.
- 2:11:32SPEAKER_15: 30.
- 2:11:33SPEAKER_15: 30, yeah, for sure.
- 2:11:34SPEAKER_15: So you get up there, you get up and you get onto that roof, um, and you are able to get to a window where you can easily see on the second floor.
- 2:11:42SPEAKER_15: Okay, where you find the downstairs as you peer through the window, you can see that there's downstairs is kind of like the main corridor in the lobby where you'd have like a welcome desk and like an eating area, and then upstairs is where all the offices are of the kind of important dignitaries and nobility of Silvery Moon.
- 2:11:59SPEAKER_15: And you could open that window if.
- 2:12:00SPEAKER_15: You wanted to, it's not alarmed.
- 2:12:01SPEAKER_07: Uh yeah, sure.
- 2:12:02SPEAKER_07: I will do so.
- 2:12:03SPEAKER_07: And I'm probably dealing with me look like I fit in here.
- 2:12:08SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:12:08SPEAKER_07: I'm hoping to, anyway.
- 2:12:09SPEAKER_07: Sure.
- 2:12:09SPEAKER_15: Well, mean investigation check.
- 2:12:11SPEAKER_15: As you guys are walking up the steps, two of the orcs turn to both of you two and Mr.
- 2:12:15SPEAKER_15: Drax.
- 2:12:15SPEAKER_15: And he goes, Oh.
- 2:12:18SPEAKER_12: What are you doing here?
- 2:12:19SPEAKER_12: Orchids.
- 2:12:20SPEAKER_12: I respond with no.
- 2:12:23SPEAKER_12: And then saying, to save him.
- 2:12:26SPEAKER_12: And revealing the smudge on his wrist.
- 2:12:28SPEAKER_12: I go, work, work.
- 2:12:30SPEAKER_12: I just I go, work, work, work.
- 2:12:32SPEAKER_12: Uh Obsidian Shadows business with the Star Weaver.
- 2:12:36SPEAKER_12: Star Weaver.
- 2:12:37SPEAKER_12: And Larian, he's one of the stupid elves.
- 2:12:39SPEAKER_15: He looks at the other one and goes, Do you know Star Weaver?
- 2:12:44SPEAKER_15: The other looks back at him and goes, I don't know any elf name.
- 2:12:50SPEAKER_14: Star Weaver Elf Name?
- 2:12:51SPEAKER_14: I don't know.
- 2:12:54SPEAKER_14: Okay, go ahead.
- 2:12:56SPEAKER_14: Work, work, work.
- 2:12:59SPEAKER_15: And you guys are all kind of like, they let you go in, you guys walk in, and you're inside the main lobby now.
- 2:13:05SPEAKER_15: Are there any other of the zombies doing sweeping the floors, mopping the windows, uh, and like general slave labor around the area?
- 2:13:16SPEAKER_15: Uh, and there's some of them are just walking to and fro making work.
- 2:13:20SPEAKER_01: Okay, so us our presence would not be out of place.
- 2:13:23SPEAKER_15: You're not out of place.
- 2:13:24SPEAKER_15: Nope.
- 2:13:25SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 2:13:26SPEAKER_01: Just kind of do a wide circle around just to like looking to destination and then you know, out of eyesight turning, sorry.
- 2:13:37SPEAKER_01: Like if if it's a bit if it's a big area, if we're just kind of walking, nobody's gonna be paying enough attention to notice that we aren't actually arriving where we're doing it.
- 2:13:46SPEAKER_02: Do we want to find sort of an um archive area or are we looking for like the head macho office?
- 2:13:53SPEAKER_22: Head moncho office.
- 2:13:58SPEAKER_02: Okay, if we can just get a first glance around once we're now that we're inside, that's gonna be our best bit.
- 2:14:06SPEAKER_07: Well, yeah, we'll walk around, but I want to try and get there because that's where the main will be in.
- 2:14:10SPEAKER_07: Maybe find out how they got in.
- 2:14:12SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:14:12SPEAKER_07: And then I mean we're slaves anyways, so we could probably just walk around and not like in carding.
- 2:14:21SPEAKER_01: Is there food?
- 2:14:21SPEAKER_15: There is food, down on the main level.
- 2:14:23SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:14:24SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 2:14:24SPEAKER_01: I am going to um during one of the during a pass by, I will uh hand the book to her and pick up food.
- 2:14:34SPEAKER_01: I'll just like a pick up a tray, start putting some food on it, and then walk around as though I'm bringing it.
- 2:14:40SPEAKER_02: I'll pick up a like a tray of wine with like a carafe, like goblets in a cara.
- 2:14:44SPEAKER_02: And then I'll say the two-person job.
- 2:14:46SPEAKER_02: Because I I if even if I've not been in this building, I would probably understand all of an architecture to be able to be like, well, like in any grand building, your central person's probably gonna be in like this area, so let's do it.
- 2:14:58SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:14:59SPEAKER_15: So you look down, you're inside one of the offices, you look down, and you can see your friends have now entered the main lobby.
- 2:15:06SPEAKER_15: And you're just kind of like, okay, they need to get up to me.
- 2:15:09unknown: Okay.
- 2:15:10SPEAKER_15: But I don't know what you're gonna do while you're up there.
- 2:15:11SPEAKER_15: But if you wanted to look around at office, you could.
- 2:15:13SPEAKER_15: It's up to you.
- 2:15:14SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I don't really know what we're even doing here, so I guess they say that's part of what are we even looking for here?
- 2:15:19SPEAKER_07: Information.
- 2:15:20SPEAKER_02: Information.
- 2:15:21SPEAKER_02: Yeah, find out how they got in.
- 2:15:23SPEAKER_02: There's been a trader got them in.
- 2:15:25SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:15:25SPEAKER_07: Well, I guess I could find out who's here.
- 2:15:27SPEAKER_02: Find out if it is the three sisters.
- 2:15:31unknown: Okay.
- 2:15:32SPEAKER_02: Like just over trying to overhear a conversation.
- 2:15:35SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 2:15:35SPEAKER_15: Sure.
- 2:15:36SPEAKER_15: Okay, cool.
- 2:15:37SPEAKER_15: Um, so you guys are walking, which direction are you walking with the with all the food and you're with kind of the group there?
- 2:15:42SPEAKER_02: Would I be able to discern sort of probably where the higher offices would be?
- 2:15:47SPEAKER_15: Yep, all you know, you would know just from Belvin architecture, it's upstairs.
- 2:15:51SPEAKER_02: Okay, so we need to find a staircase.
- 2:15:53SPEAKER_15: I'm just gonna there'd be there's a staircase on either side of the main lobby that go up to the same overlanding that looks that the offices all choose the left.
- 2:16:02SPEAKER_15: Choose the left, okay, great.
- 2:16:03SPEAKER_15: Uh, as you are walking towards that, there is a group of orcs that comes walking in and heads towards the food.
- 2:16:11SPEAKER_15: They brush by you, but one of them bumps into Oleander and fully whap side swipes her and knocks her on her butt.
- 2:16:24SPEAKER_02: Don't react.
- 2:16:25SPEAKER_02: Delphine Delphine says, Don't react in the in the bond.
- 2:16:28SPEAKER_02: Don't react.
- 2:16:29SPEAKER_14: Stupid elf! Oh, it's self ugly.
- 2:16:35SPEAKER_14: Why'd she miss this in?
- 2:16:38SPEAKER_02: No, I miss that.
- 2:16:39SPEAKER_15: Oh, you decided an elf?
- 2:16:40SPEAKER_15: Okay, so sorry.
- 2:16:41SPEAKER_15: He goes, Oh, stupid elf, and knocks her, knocks her on your butt.
- 2:16:44SPEAKER_14: And he elbows the other one and goes, Oh, you hit elf.
- 2:16:48SPEAKER_14: And he all goes, you're good.
- 2:16:50SPEAKER_14: She goes far.
- 2:16:52SPEAKER_02: And I wait for her to pick herself up.
- 2:16:53SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 2:16:54SPEAKER_01: I just very stiffly and you know, quietly, like I make no noise, no reaction whatsoever.
- 2:17:01SPEAKER_01: I just get myself up and pick up the tray and start putting food back from the floor onto the body, like a robot, and get up and continue walking.
- 2:17:13SPEAKER_15: Right.
- 2:17:13SPEAKER_15: The other orc says, watch this, I hit further.
- 2:17:17SPEAKER_15: And he goes and takes a running kick at you, and he hits you for 22.
- 2:17:22SPEAKER_15: Does that hit you?
- 2:17:24SPEAKER_23: Oh, yeah.
- 2:17:24SPEAKER_15: Yeah?
- 2:17:25SPEAKER_15: Okay, so that hits, and you watch as then the second orc takes a running start at Olegander and just boots her in the face, and she takes five points of damage as she skitters across the floor and goes, Oh, that's a good kick is time.
- 2:17:39SPEAKER_05: Okay, maybe tell them are we there?
- 2:17:41SPEAKER_05: Harmony.
- 2:17:41SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you guys are all there.
- 2:17:42SPEAKER_05: Okay.
- 2:17:43SPEAKER_05: Drax uh kind of steps kind of towards him.
- 2:17:47SPEAKER_05: He's like, Hi, I need them.
- 2:17:49SPEAKER_05: What do you need for?
- 2:17:50SPEAKER_14: There's so many.
- 2:17:51SPEAKER_14: I don't want to carry this stuff.
- 2:17:53SPEAKER_14: Well, give to this one.
- 2:17:55SPEAKER_14: We kick this one, it's fun.
- 2:17:58SPEAKER_14: I need two of them.
- 2:18:00SPEAKER_14: I need two three.
- 2:18:02SPEAKER_14: Four.
- 2:18:04SPEAKER_14: Wait.
- 2:18:05SPEAKER_08: He's gonna carry stuff on the way back.
- 2:18:07SPEAKER_14: Four.
- 2:18:08SPEAKER_14: A.
- 2:18:10SPEAKER_14: You have A.
- 2:18:13SPEAKER_14: I need more.
- 2:18:15SPEAKER_14: You give us so many more.
- 2:18:17SPEAKER_14: Why do you give so much trouble?
- 2:18:19SPEAKER_14: Just kick.
- 2:18:20SPEAKER_14: I just kick her.
- 2:18:21SPEAKER_14: Kick other elves.
- 2:18:22SPEAKER_14: I kick this one.
- 2:18:24SPEAKER_14: No, I need that one.
- 2:18:25SPEAKER_14: Why do you need so many elves?
- 2:18:27SPEAKER_14: And the other comes over and goes, Oh, it's okay, okay.
- 2:18:31SPEAKER_14: He had a bad day.
- 2:18:32SPEAKER_14: He has tight loin flow.
- 2:18:35SPEAKER_14: Oh.
- 2:18:36SPEAKER_14: And yeah, the other one says, not my fault, they're all out of lodge.
- 2:18:42SPEAKER_14: More fun when they hit that.
- 2:18:43SPEAKER_14: Alright, we good?
- 2:18:45SPEAKER_14: We not my fault.
- 2:18:46SPEAKER_14: Not my fault.
- 2:18:47SPEAKER_14: The other one says, We still go get food.
- 2:18:50SPEAKER_14: We can get food.
- 2:18:52SPEAKER_14: There you go.
- 2:18:52SPEAKER_14: He started walking off, and the other and you hear them kind of chit-chying to their why you gotta tell people about me going clot.
- 2:18:58SPEAKER_14: It's not public knowledge.
- 2:19:00SPEAKER_14: The other one says, Well, people think you're dick.
- 2:19:04SPEAKER_14: You're not dick.
- 2:19:05SPEAKER_14: I know you're not dick.
- 2:19:06SPEAKER_14: You're a good guy.
- 2:19:10SPEAKER_15: You hear these like two ogres, these two ogres having like a moment as they walk over, and he goes, Yeah, I know a good guy.
- 2:19:16SPEAKER_15: And then they go over and they get some food, and Oleander's able to pick herself up off the floor.
- 2:19:20SPEAKER_15: Um, you guys make your way back towards that staircase now.
- 2:19:24SPEAKER_01: Oleander just sits there and goes, Oh, jeez.
- 2:19:26SPEAKER_01: In my head.
- 2:19:28SPEAKER_15: I'm memorizing that org space.
- 2:19:30SPEAKER_15: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
- 2:19:31SPEAKER_15: Absolutely.
- 2:19:32SPEAKER_15: As you go up the stairs, you come across uh office after office after office, and you do find that uh Star Weaver is at the end of the hallway, which is the office that you ideally want to get to.
- 2:19:45SPEAKER_15: But as you're walking uh that way, you do come across Lord Theron's office door that is slightly ajar on your left-hand side.
- 2:19:57SPEAKER_02: No, she's gonna pause and just look.
- 2:20:00SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna pause and look.
- 2:20:02unknown: Look.
- 2:20:03SPEAKER_13: I will go.
- 2:20:04SPEAKER_02: Um Lander starts uh moving towards the door.
- 2:20:08SPEAKER_02: She opens the door like she's been instructed to come to a door and just look and open the door.
- 2:20:15SPEAKER_15: First thing that you notice is you smell him.
- 2:20:24SPEAKER_15: Uh his his uh just his like his aroma is in the room.
- 2:20:30SPEAKER_15: But uh what you also notice is that his desk has been ransacked and almost turned over on its side.
- 2:20:37SPEAKER_15: It's pushed over to the end where it's kind of leaning up against the wall, and part of the drawers have fallen out.
- 2:20:43SPEAKER_15: Uh, there is um torn curtains, and there's a little bit of what looks to be blood on the corner of the office.
- 2:20:52SPEAKER_15: The far wall has got a picture on it, and it's of his mother and his father.
- 2:20:58SPEAKER_15: Uh, and they're standing kind of together, but as you see it, you can see that it's partially opened, and you get a gleam of silver from behind it.
- 2:21:10SPEAKER_24: I'm gonna shut the door.
- 2:21:12SPEAKER_24: Did you come in with me?
- 2:21:13SPEAKER_24: Yep.
- 2:21:14SPEAKER_24: Shut the door.
- 2:21:14SPEAKER_15: Okay, you guys watch as Oleander and Delphine disappear into Lord Theron's office and shut the door.
- 2:21:20SPEAKER_07: So there's no one else in the hallway else.
- 2:21:22SPEAKER_02: All I say in the bond is it's his office.
- 2:21:26SPEAKER_22: And then I'm gonna go and look at the painting.
- 2:21:29SPEAKER_15: Okay, so you look at the painting, and it's a familiar, you remember his parents um very well, actually, and they were good people.
- 2:21:35SPEAKER_15: And you haven't seen them in so many years that the sight of them on that painting brings back this flood of memories, of engagement dinners, of parties, of formal events, of you know, um holidays that you your families had shared and and enjoyed.
- 2:21:55SPEAKER_15: And you remember, you know, the laugh that they would have and how Lord Theron or Valor Theron was around his parents, and how he always, even in his older age and his wisdom, seemed like a child when his mom would chastise him for acting out or being goofy and in love with with you.
- 2:22:13SPEAKER_15: Uh, one of the things you loved about his parents is that they didn't care that you guys didn't match in nobility.
- 2:22:20SPEAKER_15: They just wanted their son to be happy.
- 2:22:22SPEAKER_15: And so they accepted you with open arms and you felt always welcome in their home.
- 2:22:27SPEAKER_15: And as you pull the picture aside, you do indeed see there is a safe.
- 2:22:32SPEAKER_15: And on either side of the safe are what look to be finger claw marks as somebody was dragged away from the safe, but the safe remains unopened.
- 2:22:42SPEAKER_02: Rold, can you get into this office on the second floor?
- 2:22:47SPEAKER_02: And I kind of describe like how many doors down from the left staircase we went.
- 2:22:51SPEAKER_07: Five.
- 2:22:52SPEAKER_02: Five doors down.
- 2:22:53SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I say I can definitely try if I also just peek out the hallway and see if anyone's coming or anything like that.
- 2:23:00SPEAKER_15: Yep, you peek out and you're you're clear.
- 2:23:02SPEAKER_15: There's nobody out there except for slaves that are walking back and forth.
- 2:23:04SPEAKER_15: And you see these three out in the hallway, yeah, walking towards the end, kind of like standing outside the door, being like, what the what the fuck?
- 2:23:11SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:23:12SPEAKER_07: I say on on my way.
- 2:23:14SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:23:15SPEAKER_15: So you get there, you get to the door, and you're with these three.
- 2:23:18SPEAKER_15: What do you guys want to do?
- 2:23:19SPEAKER_07: Uh I guess I'm pulling in.
- 2:23:22SPEAKER_07: Right?
- 2:23:22unknown: Yeah.
- 2:23:23SPEAKER_07: Yeah, pulling in.
- 2:23:24SPEAKER_07: I guess I'll take a look at those.
- 2:23:25SPEAKER_02: Say this is Faron's office.
- 2:23:27SPEAKER_02: There's something in here that we might need to see.
- 2:23:31SPEAKER_07: So I say I will try and open it.
- 2:23:33SPEAKER_07: So we'll come in and then we'll close the door behind us.
- 2:23:36SPEAKER_07: So now we're all in the same island.
- 2:23:37SPEAKER_15: Okay, so you guys are all in the same room.
- 2:23:39SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:23:39SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:23:41SPEAKER_15: All right.
- 2:23:41SPEAKER_15: Go ahead and roll me a sleight of hand check, please.
- 2:23:44SPEAKER_07: Slight of hand to start?
- 2:23:45SPEAKER_15: Uh, you're trying to open the safe?
- 2:23:46SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:23:47SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 2:23:47SPEAKER_15: Lock pick lock picking would be sleight of hand.
- 2:23:50SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 2:23:50SPEAKER_15: Usually thieves tools, yeah.
- 2:23:51SPEAKER_07: Because then I, yeah, in double.
- 2:23:53SPEAKER_07: Do I can actually make an investigation check for traps or anything?
- 2:23:56SPEAKER_15: You can definitely check for traps.
- 2:23:58SPEAKER_07: So that's a 19 for just looking for anything that could be out of sorts or anything.
- 2:24:03SPEAKER_15: Other than the fingernail marks along the side of the safe, it seems like the safe is not trapped.
- 2:24:09SPEAKER_07: Okay, so it's like a standard locking nice.
- 2:24:11SPEAKER_15: Standard like combination lock.
- 2:24:12SPEAKER_07: Okay, I'm gonna take up my these tools and uh give it a whirl here.
- 2:24:16SPEAKER_15: Okay, go for it.
- 2:24:18SPEAKER_07: And that is a 30.
- 2:24:20SPEAKER_15: He gets it on the first try.
- 2:24:22SPEAKER_07: That's why we bring him.
- 2:24:23SPEAKER_07: Too bad you didn't get us into place before you blew it as well.
- 2:24:27SPEAKER_07: You want to know why?
- 2:24:28SPEAKER_07: Because I didn't actually use double advantage, which I was supposed to.
- 2:24:32SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:24:33SPEAKER_07: I've included myself a long time ago.
- 2:24:35SPEAKER_03: That was a long time ago.
- 2:24:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 2:24:36SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:24:36SPEAKER_15: So, Roy, do you open the safe or do you just let it unlock and leave it for Delphine?
- 2:24:42SPEAKER_07: Well, I'll definitely take a quick look and slide.
- 2:24:46SPEAKER_04: But I'm not like, you know, I'm obviously getting out of the way for her, but I'm curious.
- 2:24:50SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
- 2:24:51SPEAKER_04: Move him.
- 2:24:52SPEAKER_15: You find.
- 2:24:53SPEAKER_04: I'm not taking anything, I'm literally peering in as I open the damn thing and giving it away.
- 2:24:57SPEAKER_15: There are two items in the safe.
- 2:24:59SPEAKER_15: One of them is a box.
- 2:25:02SPEAKER_15: Little wooden box.
- 2:25:04SPEAKER_15: About this big, just sitting there.
- 2:25:07SPEAKER_15: Seemingly covered in dust.
- 2:25:09SPEAKER_15: Hasn't been moved in a long, long time.
- 2:25:14SPEAKER_15: Right next to it.
- 2:25:17SPEAKER_15: Right next to it.
- 2:25:19SPEAKER_15: Is a ring box.
- 2:25:21SPEAKER_02: Oh.
- 2:25:22SPEAKER_02: I'm taking both these things.
- 2:25:24SPEAKER_15: You are?
- 2:25:24SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 2:25:25SPEAKER_02: No.
- 2:25:25SPEAKER_07: Look.
- 2:25:27SPEAKER_02: No.
- 2:25:28SPEAKER_07: Trapped or something.
- 2:25:30SPEAKER_07: I was giving you the ring box.
- 2:25:31SPEAKER_07: You said we had to see this.
- 2:25:33SPEAKER_02: I don't know what's in here.
- 2:25:35SPEAKER_02: I need to see what's in here.
- 2:25:36SPEAKER_02: Is the which box is this?
- 2:25:38SPEAKER_05: This is the larger box, not the ring box.
- 2:25:40SPEAKER_02: I'm being handed a box.
- 2:25:43SPEAKER_03: There's an actual box.
- 2:25:45SPEAKER_03: It's a pretty shut your warm out.
- 2:25:48SPEAKER_15: So you have this box which belonged to him that hasn't been opened or moved in years.
- 2:25:52SPEAKER_02: She kind of like she takes both and she kind of goes over to his desk and puts both down.
- 2:25:58SPEAKER_15: Which one are you opening first?
- 2:26:01SPEAKER_02: She's gonna open the ring box first.
- 2:26:04SPEAKER_15: So you open the ring box and it is a matching wedding ring to what your engagement ring looked like originally.
- 2:26:14SPEAKER_15: Uh and it is a beautiful ornate ring that will require attunement.
- 2:26:23SPEAKER_02: Well, I can't identify it right now, but I think I'm going to take unclasp the chain that my locket's on and put it on the chain of the locket for now.
- 2:26:32unknown: Okay.
- 2:26:33SPEAKER_15: It's a beautiful silver ring with a purple diamond in the middle that matches your skin tone perfectly.
- 2:26:43SPEAKER_15: Or the skin tone that you would normally have.
- 2:26:46SPEAKER_02: Okay, then I'm gonna open the box.
- 2:26:49SPEAKER_02: The actual box that's in front of me.
- 2:26:54SPEAKER_02: It's a cipher.
- 2:26:56SPEAKER_02: It's heavy.
- 2:26:59SPEAKER_07: Okay, cool.
- 2:27:00SPEAKER_07: It looks like the thing on Vinci code.
- 2:27:03SPEAKER_07: Just for those who can't see it.
- 2:27:08SPEAKER_24: I'm just fiddling with it.
- 2:27:09SPEAKER_24: You guys don't need to keep staring at it.
- 2:27:10SPEAKER_07: Is that the symbols like it has it has nothing to do with coin, right?
- 2:27:14SPEAKER_07: Nothing to do with coin.
- 2:27:15SPEAKER_07: What is it, Dilp?
- 2:27:16SPEAKER_02: Literal letters and alphabet.
- 2:27:18SPEAKER_07: Oh, good.
- 2:27:19SPEAKER_07: Oh, okay.
- 2:27:21SPEAKER_07: Oh, for fucking.
- 2:27:23SPEAKER_07: Oh, that's right.
- 2:27:24SPEAKER_07: That's something it too.
- 2:27:25SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:27:26SPEAKER_07: Gotta love puzzles.
- 2:27:28SPEAKER_15: Let's see a chat GPT that one, asshole.
- 2:27:34SPEAKER_19: Oh, that was well done.
- 2:27:37SPEAKER_15: Don't jump me.
- 2:27:38SPEAKER_15: Alright, with that, guys, we're gonna take a short break and we'll be right back.
- 2:27:42SPEAKER_15: This is so cool.
- 2:27:43SPEAKER_15: Hey everyone, this is DM Stew.
- 2:27:45SPEAKER_15: Before I completely ruin someone's plan with what happens next, we're gonna take a quick break.
- 2:27:52SPEAKER_15: Okay, so you guys are still in Lord Theron's office after having discovered what looks to be a cryptic and a wedding ring that slightly unused.
- 2:28:12SPEAKER_15: What would you like to do?
- 2:28:14SPEAKER_07: I wonder who the wedding ring is for.
- 2:28:18SPEAKER_07: Really?
- 2:28:19SPEAKER_07: Really?
- 2:28:19SPEAKER_15: Really?
- 2:28:20SPEAKER_07: I never go to honestly.
- 2:28:21SPEAKER_07: No, we should never have those conversations with I.
- 2:28:24SPEAKER_07: Everybody wouldn't know.
- 2:28:26SPEAKER_07: Hey, West is.
- 2:28:36SPEAKER_15: Okay, uh, can you roll me an investigation check, please?
- 2:28:39SPEAKER_09: With advantage, because she's getting help.
- 2:28:42SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:28:42SPEAKER_15: From who?
- 2:28:44SPEAKER_15: Oh, okay.
- 2:28:45SPEAKER_02: Tis I! Didn't help me very much, but 18.
- 2:28:50SPEAKER_15: 18?
- 2:28:51SPEAKER_15: Uh, it's enough that you would be able to rifle through adequately and find if there was anything there.
- 2:28:56SPEAKER_15: What you do find in there is it looks as though Lord Theron was investigating um expenses that were money going out of Silvery Moon to random places.
- 2:29:12SPEAKER_15: And he was trying to make, you could tell that he's trying to make a connection between certain payments that are going out on gold shipments and where they're going to and what they're for.
- 2:29:23SPEAKER_15: And he's got some of them are circled with a question mark: where is this going?
- 2:29:28SPEAKER_15: Who is this from?
- 2:29:30SPEAKER_15: And he's trying to figure out if there's some sort of a money leak within Silvery Moon.
- 2:29:36SPEAKER_02: Can Delphine see if there's any name that keeps coming up a lot that he might have suspected?
- 2:29:43SPEAKER_15: The problem is that the forums that you're looking at seem to be scattered around, which would lead to believe that the forums that incriminated anybody or had anything to do with somebody have been taken.
- 2:29:55SPEAKER_15: But it does look like there was something suspicious going on with the coffers of Silvery Moon, and that Lord Theron was onto it.
- 2:30:06SPEAKER_12: Red yarn stuff, this is his fucking jam.
- 2:30:09SPEAKER_12: He's going over it several times.
- 2:30:11SPEAKER_07: I'm gonna suggest we go to the other guy, the main guy's room.
- 2:30:16SPEAKER_07: That's what we came for.
- 2:30:26SPEAKER_02: She wants to see if the letter she left him is here.
- 2:30:31SPEAKER_02: She wants to know if he ever read it.
- 2:30:34SPEAKER_15: So with that roll, it's difficult, but you do find the letter.
- 2:30:45SPEAKER_15: It is at the bottom of a drawer on the left-hand side.
- 2:30:51SPEAKER_15: And it has been opened.
- 2:30:59SPEAKER_24: I will give it back to him when we find him.
- 2:31:03SPEAKER_07: Oh, for fun.
- 2:31:03SPEAKER_07: I'll I'll chat for um uh you know, secret drawers or whatever, to see if there is something that could potentially have been overlooked.
- 2:31:11SPEAKER_07: Sure, unlikely, but why not?
- 2:31:12SPEAKER_15: Roll me an investigation check.
- 2:31:13SPEAKER_07: Sure.
- 2:31:14SPEAKER_07: Just for giggles.
- 2:31:15SPEAKER_07: Uh 22.
- 2:31:16SPEAKER_15: Cool.
- 2:31:16SPEAKER_15: It becomes very obvious to you that the only secret thing in this office was the safe.
- 2:31:21SPEAKER_01: Are there any like family heirloom-looking things that just like personal mementos that should this office be destroyed, he might appreciate not losing.
- 2:31:34SPEAKER_15: It would appear that all the valuable stuff in the office had.
- 2:31:37SPEAKER_20: Now they're gonna be valuable, but valuable to him.
- 2:31:39SPEAKER_20: Something that would be valuable to him.
- 2:31:41SPEAKER_15: Portrait of his parents, perhaps.
- 2:31:44SPEAKER_15: Um the ring that was in the safe, perhaps, was something he valued great, very deeply.
- 2:31:51SPEAKER_15: It seems like most of the other stuff was just sitting out, whereas the stuff that he valued the most was sitting inside that safe behind the picture.
- 2:31:59unknown: Okay.
- 2:31:59SPEAKER_01: And the picture's not something that we'd be able to fit into a bag of holding for.
- 2:32:03SPEAKER_15: I mean, if you ripped it off the wall, maybe.
- 2:32:06SPEAKER_06: If you cut it off the frame, then you can roll it up and then tie it.
- 2:32:09SPEAKER_12: Pictures can be a thief.
- 2:32:11SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:32:11SPEAKER_12: Not that I know anything about this.
- 2:32:17SPEAKER_01: The town gets a completal term.
- 2:32:22SPEAKER_19: Although if we were gonna steal that, that's how we'd do it.
- 2:32:25unknown: Yeah.
- 2:32:26SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
- 2:32:27SPEAKER_12: And we'd also get into the place without falling off the brick mortar of the wall until the case.
- 2:32:39SPEAKER_15: Okay, so you guys walk to the end of the hall, uh, and you're kind of taking up the mantle of the disguises again.
- 2:32:48SPEAKER_15: You get to the end of the hall, and what was the name of the person again?
- 2:32:52SPEAKER_15: Star Weaver and Starweaver.
- 2:32:54SPEAKER_15: Starweaver, that's right.
- 2:32:55SPEAKER_15: You get to Star Weaver's office.
- 2:32:57SPEAKER_15: Uh, this office is locked.
- 2:33:00SPEAKER_15: And it looks like somebody has attempted to break the lock, but stopped halfway through and left it alone.
- 2:33:07SPEAKER_07: I knock.
- 2:33:10SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:33:11SPEAKER_15: You knock on the door.
- 2:33:14SPEAKER_11: There's no answer.
- 2:33:18SPEAKER_07: Does there look to be anything magical in nature?
- 2:33:20SPEAKER_07: Because I'm serious how not opening a lock like this.
- 2:33:25SPEAKER_15: It doesn't appear on first glance, but you'd have to take a closer inspection in order to be absolutely certain.
- 2:33:31SPEAKER_19: Can you see through the keyhole?
- 2:33:32SPEAKER_06: Is there a keyhole or no?
- 2:33:33SPEAKER_15: There's a keyhole.
- 2:33:34SPEAKER_06: Can you see the other side of it?
- 2:33:35SPEAKER_06: You can see through the keyhole, yeah.
- 2:33:37SPEAKER_06: I could possibly get through if we need.
- 2:33:39SPEAKER_06: Do your thing though.
- 2:33:40SPEAKER_15: He can become very wee.
- 2:33:42SPEAKER_07: No, just messy stuff.
- 2:33:43SPEAKER_15: Uh 23.
- 2:33:45SPEAKER_15: 23?
- 2:33:46SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:33:46SPEAKER_15: It does not appear to be trapped.
- 2:33:49SPEAKER_07: Then why would somebody stop?
- 2:33:51SPEAKER_07: Because you might have someone might have walked up and you had to stop and run up.
- 2:33:55SPEAKER_12: The person inside has holed up, and maybe the people try to pick the lock.
- 2:34:00SPEAKER_24: Or just skilled it.
- 2:34:01SPEAKER_24: If there was someone inside, I'm sorry.
- 2:34:05SPEAKER_24: Orcs would just smash the door.
- 2:34:07SPEAKER_07: Of course they would.
- 2:34:08SPEAKER_07: Pick the lock.
- 2:34:09unknown: Okay.
- 2:34:12SPEAKER_07: Alright.
- 2:34:12SPEAKER_07: I don't know if it's a great idea, but I guess I will attempt.
- 2:34:16SPEAKER_07: Yeah, is there any way you can check for magic or anything like that?
- 2:34:19SPEAKER_07: I I I'm pretty hesitant on doing this.
- 2:34:22SPEAKER_02: Would a simple investigation check check for if it's magically inclined or it's not yeah, you can do an arcana check.
- 2:34:30SPEAKER_15: It's not um it's not physically trapped.
- 2:34:33SPEAKER_15: Got it.
- 2:34:34SPEAKER_15: Exactly.
- 2:34:36SPEAKER_02: 20 plus 10, 30.
- 2:34:37SPEAKER_15: Yeah, it's not arcana trapped either.
- 2:34:39SPEAKER_02: No, it's might just be a really hard lock.
- 2:34:42SPEAKER_07: Alright, well I'll attempt to pick it then, but like it just seems that that's too easy, but sure.
- 2:34:47SPEAKER_15: Looking for a 23.
- 2:34:52SPEAKER_07: Well, that's a 25 without rolling it.
- 2:34:54SPEAKER_15: There you go.
- 2:34:54SPEAKER_15: So you got it.
- 2:34:55SPEAKER_15: The door kind of opens and opens just a crack.
- 2:35:02SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:35:03SPEAKER_07: I will look for traps or anything that might alarm or anything like that as the door opens.
- 2:35:09SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:35:10SPEAKER_07: Across the threshold or anything like that.
- 2:35:11SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:35:12SPEAKER_15: Okay, absolutely.
- 2:35:13SPEAKER_15: Um with the with the trap rule that you rolled earlier, you do notice that the door itself is not trapped.
- 2:35:19SPEAKER_15: However, there is a tripwire just on the other side of the door that as the door inches open, it rests just against the tripwire.
- 2:35:26SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:35:26SPEAKER_15: Does not trip it, but stops the door.
- 2:35:28SPEAKER_07: Put my hand out and sort of whisper back to everyone.
- 2:35:32SPEAKER_07: Yeah, there is definitely it.
- 2:35:33SPEAKER_07: So disarm it.
- 2:35:35SPEAKER_07: If I can.
- 2:35:36SPEAKER_07: Can I see how to is it how would I disarm it?
- 2:35:39SPEAKER_15: From what you can ascertain from where you're standing and looking, there's about that much of the door is open.
- 2:35:43SPEAKER_15: You can see the tripwire going across being attached to the wall.
- 2:35:45SPEAKER_15: And it's under tension.
- 2:35:48SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:35:48SPEAKER_07: So can I guess we can't open the door anymore, is what you're saying.
- 2:35:51SPEAKER_15: Uh you could open the door, but it would most likely set off the tripwire.
- 2:35:55SPEAKER_07: Got it.
- 2:35:56SPEAKER_04: So can I see anything that uh I could be doing?
- 2:36:00SPEAKER_15: What you can see is the wall that kind of leads, and then you can see the sliver of a window.
- 2:36:05SPEAKER_15: But that's all you can see in the office with that door open so little.
- 2:36:08SPEAKER_07: Got it.
- 2:36:08SPEAKER_07: But uh, maybe it's echo time.
- 2:36:11SPEAKER_07: Or you not able to do that right now.
- 2:36:13SPEAKER_07: I have no idea.
- 2:36:14SPEAKER_07: Um isn't that exactly what opening the door would do?
- 2:36:18SPEAKER_07: Is it the same as cutting the war?
- 2:36:20SPEAKER_07: Oh, okay.
- 2:36:21SPEAKER_07: Well, if that's the case, then I can I don't know, is there something I can actually attempt to disarm it?
- 2:36:24SPEAKER_07: Yeah, well, exactly.
- 2:36:25SPEAKER_09: Disarm traps the same as you can definitely try, yeah.
- 2:36:29SPEAKER_07: Lock picking.
- 2:36:29unknown: Yeah.
- 2:36:29SPEAKER_07: Okay, then I will attempt to do so.
- 2:36:31SPEAKER_15: Okay, roll me a lockpicking.
- 2:36:34SPEAKER_07: I make sure to put myself between oleander and the explosion that will come to the phone.
- 2:36:38SPEAKER_15: 35, okay.
- 2:36:39SPEAKER_15: Yeah, you're able to just quickly reach underneath the door and you're able to unhook it from the wall and hold tension and then pull it underneath the door and keep tension on it around, and then tie it around one of the hinges on the other side to keep tension on the line, and now you're able to open the door fully without testing the tripwire.
- 2:37:02SPEAKER_07: Perfect.
- 2:37:03SPEAKER_07: Ha! I uh open it.
- 2:37:05SPEAKER_15: And I guess we can see inside.
- 2:37:07SPEAKER_15: You can see inside.
- 2:37:08SPEAKER_15: Um, what you see, well, first of all, you're assaulted by a very foul odor of rotting once you open that door.
- 2:37:19SPEAKER_02: Out comes the perfume tanky.
- 2:37:21SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:37:21SPEAKER_15: In the corner of the room, as you can see, the entire room is still in pristine order.
- 2:37:27SPEAKER_15: In the corner of the room, though, you do see the corpse of Counselor Starweaver huddled up into the corner, holding a crossbow aimed at the door with the line from the door on the trigger, hair trigger of the crossbow as it's like sitting there, and he is visibly dead and decayed.
- 2:37:50SPEAKER_15: Got it.
- 2:37:51SPEAKER_15: Desiccated.
- 2:37:52SPEAKER_12: How long has he been there?
- 2:37:54SPEAKER_07: If he's Yeah.
- 2:37:56SPEAKER_07: Can I do a medicine?
- 2:37:57SPEAKER_15: He's been dead for a couple of days at least.
- 2:37:59SPEAKER_21: Okay, so we're not talking not mummified.
- 2:38:01SPEAKER_15: Oh no, no, we're talking like gooey.
- 2:38:04SPEAKER_15: Gooey.
- 2:38:04SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:38:06SPEAKER_15: Maggots.
- 2:38:06SPEAKER_15: Maggots and human deaths found so Kelvin.
- 2:38:11SPEAKER_12: Any visual uh visual signs of harboom or it just sat there and died, sort of thing.
- 2:38:18SPEAKER_15: It looks like the uh wounds are self-inflicted.
- 2:38:23SPEAKER_20: Can we do a medicine check then?
- 2:38:26SPEAKER_07: On what?
- 2:38:27SPEAKER_09: Perhaps the fall of Silvery Moon.
- 2:38:29SPEAKER_09: Oh, you said, sorry, you said you said self-inflicted wounds as I was thinking about it.
- 2:38:34SPEAKER_09: Question.
- 2:38:35SPEAKER_09: Minor question.
- 2:38:36SPEAKER_02: Put them in the bag of holdings so we can talk to him later.
- 2:38:38SPEAKER_05: Not my bag.
- 2:38:40SPEAKER_02: Can I look at his wedding ring and see if there's any words engraved in it on the inside?
- 2:38:46SPEAKER_15: On the one that you have?
- 2:38:47SPEAKER_02: On the one that Farron had.
- 2:38:48SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 2:38:48SPEAKER_02: Is there any words engraved?
- 2:38:51SPEAKER_15: Uh there are.
- 2:38:52SPEAKER_15: Yep.
- 2:38:53SPEAKER_02: And they are.
- 2:38:55SPEAKER_15: Oh, what the words are?
- 2:38:57SPEAKER_15: It says for my moonlight.
- 2:38:59SPEAKER_02: I'm just gonna rummage deep into the crevasses of her bag and pull out her ring and see what was engraved.
- 2:39:05SPEAKER_02: If there's an engraving on that one.
- 2:39:07SPEAKER_12: He does have a nickname for you.
- 2:39:08SPEAKER_02: Shut up.
- 2:39:09SPEAKER_02: Moonlight.
- 2:39:10SPEAKER_15: You do have one that is.
- 2:39:13SPEAKER_15: You have your old engagement ring that he gave to you that you that you tried to give him back and he didn't take it.
- 2:39:20SPEAKER_15: And the inscription on the inside is violet is the color of my night, and you are my moonlight.
- 2:39:30SPEAKER_02: Why has he gotta be so sweet when he's gone?
- 2:39:33SPEAKER_02: A dick when he's here.
- 2:39:36SPEAKER_15: How men work.
- 2:39:38SPEAKER_02: Look around the room, people.
- 2:39:42SPEAKER_01: Delphine's having a moment.
- 2:39:43SPEAKER_01: She's got heightened emotions right now.
- 2:39:46SPEAKER_01: Leander will actively look away and around the room to give Delphine some privacy.
- 2:39:54SPEAKER_15: Um yeah, so what do you guys want to do?
- 2:39:58SPEAKER_15: Where do you want to look?
- 2:39:59SPEAKER_15: What do you want to investigate?
- 2:40:00SPEAKER_15: Anything?
- 2:40:00SPEAKER_15: Any gold?
- 2:40:02SPEAKER_15: Uh roll me an investigation jump.
- 2:40:04SPEAKER_02: He was locked up in here protecting something.
- 2:40:06SPEAKER_02: He didn't want people to come in.
- 2:40:07SPEAKER_15: I just take my phone in.
- 2:40:08SPEAKER_06: Einar's looking for some some sort of documents that look either hidden or held close to him.
- 2:40:14SPEAKER_15: There for sure are documents that are around.
- 2:40:18SPEAKER_15: Uh there's a filing cabinet, there's a uh desk that is in immaculate condition.
- 2:40:24SPEAKER_06: Yeah, not the obvious.
- 2:40:26SPEAKER_06: I'm looking for uh as if you would have been hiding them.
- 2:40:29SPEAKER_06: So I'm not looking at the I'm not looking at the normal places.
- 2:40:32SPEAKER_06: I'm looking 14.
- 2:40:33SPEAKER_06: I'm looking under the desk drawer.
- 2:40:35SPEAKER_15: Uh you don't find much gold.
- 2:40:37SPEAKER_15: You find a little purse of silver, about 50 silver.
- 2:40:39SPEAKER_12: Okay.
- 2:40:40SPEAKER_15: Um looking under desk drawer.
- 2:40:41SPEAKER_15: Roll me an investigation check, please.
- 2:40:46SPEAKER_12: Now I seven.
- 2:40:49SPEAKER_15: So you're looking around, you see pretty much just documents.
- 2:40:53SPEAKER_15: You can't really make heads or tails of what they are or what they're meaning.
- 2:40:56SPEAKER_01: Is there anything on the body?
- 2:40:58SPEAKER_15: Like in his pockets or go ahead and roll me an investigation check.
- 2:41:02SPEAKER_15: You're gonna rummage through a dead man's pockets.
- 2:41:04SPEAKER_20: I will rummage through a dead man's pockets.
- 2:41:06SPEAKER_20: And I won't touch the things.
- 2:41:08SPEAKER_20: I guess.
- 2:41:09SPEAKER_20: Einar, come help.
- 2:41:11SPEAKER_12: Um, I I walk over and assist her in uh pulling back parts of the clothing for her to be like Seth pockets.
- 2:41:20SPEAKER_20: Um 22.
- 2:41:22SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:41:23SPEAKER_15: So you rub it through his pockets.
- 2:41:28SPEAKER_15: You find not much kind of in his pockets.
- 2:41:32SPEAKER_15: You do find, however, as you are going through his clothing, a black smudge on the inside of his wrist.
- 2:41:42SPEAKER_01: I try and rub it to see if it easily comes off.
- 2:41:46SPEAKER_15: It uh it comes off, but it does seem like it has stained the skin.
- 2:41:49SPEAKER_15: It's been there so long.
- 2:41:51SPEAKER_06: So a member of the Obsidian Shadows hold up in this room for some Did he regret that the place fell through his actions?
- 2:42:01SPEAKER_07: What would he try to guard in here from falling into their hands?
- 2:42:05SPEAKER_01: Maybe his motives were different.
- 2:42:09SPEAKER_24: Maybe as long as he thought he was bettering the elves and didn't expect all this to happen.
- 2:42:15SPEAKER_06: Can't you try to talk to him?
- 2:42:20SPEAKER_07: You can't even try.
- 2:42:24SPEAKER_07: I said try.
- 2:42:25SPEAKER_07: And I don't have it for my for me.
- 2:42:27SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:42:28SPEAKER_02: He doesn't have to be.
- 2:42:30SPEAKER_02: I can attempt, but not in this location.
- 2:42:33SPEAKER_02: Can I look around the room and in the desks for um like hidden compartments, secret doors that he might have put?
- 2:42:41SPEAKER_15: Roll me an investigation check, please.
- 2:42:44unknown: Yep.
- 2:42:46SPEAKER_01: I will aid you.
- 2:42:47SPEAKER_01: You are aiding me?
- 2:42:49SPEAKER_01: There is aid.
- 2:42:52SPEAKER_02: Well, alas, my aid is for fine's distracted.
- 2:42:58SPEAKER_02: She's like trying to hold back tears.
- 2:43:00SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:43:01SPEAKER_15: Um, not nothing that you really find.
- 2:43:03SPEAKER_15: You open some of the drawers.
- 2:43:04SPEAKER_15: Seems like there may be a false bottom, but you can't really figure it out.
- 2:43:08SPEAKER_15: Um, but like you do see just documents kind of screwing about inside the drawers and in some file uh files.
- 2:43:14SPEAKER_15: And uh they're all the kind of same documents that um Lord Theron had and was going through.
- 2:43:19SPEAKER_15: It almost seemed like they were working kind of together on the same type of project.
- 2:43:26SPEAKER_20: Why would Theron are you working with him?
- 2:43:30SPEAKER_20: Could he have been the one accused by Lord Theron?
- 2:43:36SPEAKER_02: Hence holding up in this room.
- 2:43:41SPEAKER_02: I don't know if Theron ever had the time to accuse anyone.
- 2:43:44SPEAKER_02: He actually suspected the Lord Regent.
- 2:43:46SPEAKER_02: Second to the king.
- 2:43:48SPEAKER_07: Or maybe he was worried that Theron found out that he was the one who smuggled the money.
- 2:43:54SPEAKER_02: Maybe he was keeping an eye on Theron.
- 2:43:58SPEAKER_07: Or well, I mean, if he was hell-hidden if he was hiding here to make sure that whoever came through that door was gonna die.
- 2:44:07SPEAKER_07: I think he knew.
- 2:44:09SPEAKER_20: Take the body.
- 2:44:10SPEAKER_20: Yes.
- 2:44:11SPEAKER_20: Einar, please aid me.
- 2:44:14SPEAKER_20: I need assistance to uh transport him into my satchel.
- 2:44:19SPEAKER_20: Free thee, grant her a boon.
- 2:44:23SPEAKER_20: I call upon my strength.
- 2:44:28SPEAKER_15: Roll me a dexterity check, please.
- 2:44:35SPEAKER_15: 18.
- 2:44:36SPEAKER_15: Alright, you were able to get the body into the bag of holding without it falling apart.
- 2:44:41SPEAKER_12: Excellent.
- 2:44:42SPEAKER_12: That's what I think.
- 2:44:43SPEAKER_12: Bag over it.
- 2:44:46SPEAKER_15: There you go.
- 2:44:48SPEAKER_15: You now have Counselor Starweaver inside the bag of holding ceasing to rot.
- 2:44:56SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 2:44:59SPEAKER_02: Counselor Starweaver.
- 2:45:02SPEAKER_07: Well, that uh defeats our purpose of being here now.
- 2:45:08SPEAKER_06: There must be something in here he was protecting.
- 2:45:15SPEAKER_06: Check.
- 2:45:16SPEAKER_06: What's a roll the good investigation?
- 2:45:18SPEAKER_06: 18.
- 2:45:19SPEAKER_15: So it's a crossbow.
- 2:45:20SPEAKER_15: It's very ornate, but it is just a regular crossbow for anybody that would use it.
- 2:45:24SPEAKER_15: But it seems like it was a uh gift from his some some loved one to him.
- 2:45:30SPEAKER_15: And it says, uh, with integrity comes the price of fate.
- 2:45:35SPEAKER_12: Does that mean anything to you, Delphine?
- 2:45:37SPEAKER_12: With integrity comes the price of fate.
- 2:45:40SPEAKER_12: Is that a saying among your people?
- 2:45:43SPEAKER_01: No.
- 2:45:44SPEAKER_01: It may immediately be an excuse for corrupt behavior.
- 2:45:49SPEAKER_01: To lack integrity in order to provide a new outcome.
- 2:45:53SPEAKER_06: No, we might as well take this.
- 2:45:55SPEAKER_06: I put it in my bag open.
- 2:45:56SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 2:45:57SPEAKER_02: Uh it's attached to a trap.
- 2:46:01SPEAKER_15: I thought you said you disarmed.
- 2:46:02SPEAKER_15: Well, he made it so that the door wouldn't uh ar wouldn't set it off.
- 2:46:05SPEAKER_15: Sweet.
- 2:46:06SPEAKER_15: I fire it into the door.
- 2:46:09SPEAKER_06: Fair enough.
- 2:46:10SPEAKER_15: You hear kind of a bit of an alarm downstairs is you can hear the flap of the uh crossbow into the door.
- 2:46:21SPEAKER_02: Time to go.
- 2:46:22SPEAKER_15: And there's been a bit of an alert, but nothing imminent.
- 2:46:26SPEAKER_19: Just quietly close the door.
- 2:46:27SPEAKER_19: No, leave.
- 2:46:30SPEAKER_01: Should I I I I I I say in in every head quickly, you know, should one uh shall one of us uh deceive and fall out the door as though we have set it off.
- 2:46:45SPEAKER_07: You guys all leave, I'll walk out the door in my cli my disguise if someone I I'm just trying to get back to that window I came in.
- 2:46:52SPEAKER_15: Okay, roll me a self-check real quick.
- 2:46:54SPEAKER_07: Is there a lot of stuff?
- 2:46:56SPEAKER_07: Can I use the window here or no?
- 2:46:57SPEAKER_15: Oh, you can use the window here, yeah.
- 2:46:58SPEAKER_15: Absolutely.
- 2:46:58SPEAKER_15: If you want to get out here, absolutely.
- 2:47:00SPEAKER_04: I don't know.
- 2:47:01SPEAKER_04: I guess that seemed like a safe that seemed like a safe spot to go up.
- 2:47:04SPEAKER_15: The one that you came into, you know the way in, you know the way out.
- 2:47:06SPEAKER_15: You know how you went there, you know your footing.
- 2:47:08SPEAKER_15: Are you gonna try this one?
- 2:47:09unknown: Yes.
- 2:47:09SPEAKER_15: Uh no, I'm gonna go to the one that I can't do.
- 2:47:11SPEAKER_15: Okay, yeah, roll yourself in it.
- 2:47:12SPEAKER_01: But then you have to leave the room, right?
- 2:47:14SPEAKER_15: He does, yeah.
- 2:47:14SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:47:15SPEAKER_15: So 34?
- 2:47:16SPEAKER_15: He's stealthy enough that he's able to slick out of the room and get down to the end of the hall.
- 2:47:22SPEAKER_06: I can get any of us in and out of this measure instantly.
- 2:47:26SPEAKER_06: I can climb up and take take us to the roof with a rope, or I can just climb out and hold the rope and we go down.
- 2:47:31SPEAKER_21: I can't ever hear anything.
- 2:47:32SPEAKER_21: Yeah.
- 2:47:33SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 2:47:33SPEAKER_02: So not out window.
- 2:47:35SPEAKER_02: Meet you on the eastern side.
- 2:47:38SPEAKER_17: Okay.
- 2:47:38SPEAKER_01: Uh Oleander will try as soon as he makes that noise.
- 2:47:43SPEAKER_01: I will try and just you know be a dumb crystal zombie elf and look like I've tripped outside and then just stiffly gather stuff back onto my tray.
- 2:47:59SPEAKER_01: Crystal zombie.
- 2:48:00SPEAKER_20: Clearly.
- 2:48:01SPEAKER_01: Well, there's shit in the way.
- 2:48:02SPEAKER_01: And I just continue walking out of the room.
- 2:48:05SPEAKER_07: I messed back, you guys might want to make sure you lock that on your way out.
- 2:48:09SPEAKER_07: I'm going to lock it.
- 2:48:10SPEAKER_07: I'm still in the room.
- 2:48:11SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:48:11SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:48:12SPEAKER_15: You can hear footsteps now cresting the stairs, coming up to the top of the hallway.
- 2:48:16SPEAKER_02: Her old engager, hang on, and follow us with the tray.
- 2:48:20SPEAKER_19: The door is locked, I'm inside and over by the window.
- 2:48:23SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:48:24SPEAKER_15: You guys are outside walking down the hallway now?
- 2:48:25SPEAKER_02: We're going now, we're just continuing the circle away.
- 2:48:28SPEAKER_05: And you are with Drax is with Ina?
- 2:48:31SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I think Drax and Mr.
- 2:48:32SPEAKER_05: Drax both have to go out the window with uh like your rope idea.
- 2:48:37SPEAKER_15: Okay, as you guys are walking down the hallway, the three of you, you see that there are three nobility elves followed by two orcs behind them.
- 2:48:46SPEAKER_15: And the orcs are like, what going that sound?
- 2:48:49SPEAKER_15: You go find out.
- 2:48:50SPEAKER_15: And they're the elves are like, Alright, alright.
- 2:48:53SPEAKER_15: There's no need to push.
- 2:48:54SPEAKER_15: We will investigate.
- 2:48:56SPEAKER_15: And they walk down the hallway and they come to the door, and they they kind of brush by you, and they both of the elves kind of they look at you guys as you go by.
- 2:49:07SPEAKER_15: And then they look at each other and they don't say a word and they keep walking.
- 2:49:11SPEAKER_15: And the orcs are like, stupid elf.
- 2:49:14SPEAKER_15: And then they follow the other three to the door, and you watch as the orc tells the elf to open the door, and the one elf goes and says, Uh, I can't, it's locked.
- 2:49:26SPEAKER_07: I before with that, I'm gonna turn since I'm behind, I'm gonna turn my head and see if I can kinda not so lock and look back.
- 2:49:35SPEAKER_15: Uh so you do roll a hmm.
- 2:49:43SPEAKER_15: Not deception.
- 2:49:46SPEAKER_15: Roll a performance check.
- 2:49:48SPEAKER_07: Performance check?
- 2:49:49SPEAKER_07: Mm-hmm.
- 2:49:51SPEAKER_15: Twelve.
- 2:49:52SPEAKER_15: Twelve?
- 2:49:53SPEAKER_15: So you turn back and look, and as you do, one of those other elves looks, and when he sees you, is he kind of goes as he recognizes you are not a crystal zombie.
- 2:50:07SPEAKER_07: What I was trying to do.
- 2:50:08SPEAKER_15: But he doesn't say anything, he just kind of looks and he just goes, and he gives you the hand motion where he says, and then he turns back to what he's doing, helping the orcs.
- 2:50:17SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 2:50:17SPEAKER_07: I'll kind of when he does that, I'll kind of do a quick little nod to show it, but like not a lot, but just a little bit, just so he can see.
- 2:50:25SPEAKER_07: And then I keep walking.
- 2:50:27SPEAKER_15: Okay.
- 2:50:27SPEAKER_15: Uh, you two here now, there's a roughing uh rumbling outside the door.
- 2:50:32SPEAKER_15: Somebody tries the handle, and then you hear one of the orcs go, You get out of the way, I break the door down.
- 2:50:37SPEAKER_07: I give him the symbol for our traditional move of pintering from the side, and I head to one side of the door and let him take the other.
- 2:50:46SPEAKER_07: I think you guys are you guys are fighting.
- 2:50:50SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:50:50SPEAKER_07: I guess.
- 2:50:52SPEAKER_07: You give fight on bone.
- 2:50:54SPEAKER_07: We're all there with only a few orcs in the hallway.
- 2:50:56SPEAKER_06: This is the pervert type of thing.
- 2:50:58SPEAKER_21: We're not all building.
- 2:50:59SPEAKER_21: We're not all there.
- 2:51:00SPEAKER_21: We're leaving, and he's already gone.
- 2:51:02SPEAKER_21: Yeah, we're down the hall.
- 2:51:03SPEAKER_21: He left.
- 2:51:04SPEAKER_12: Alright, that's another door.
- 2:51:08SPEAKER_21: If you're a boss, they're gonna hear you fighting.
- 2:51:12SPEAKER_19: Alright, we will open the window and look and see if the coast is clear.
- 2:51:15SPEAKER_15: Uh you open the window.
- 2:51:17SPEAKER_15: Uh, roll me a perception check, please.
- 2:51:19SPEAKER_15: Can I assist him?
- 2:51:20SPEAKER_15: You definitely can.
- 2:51:21SPEAKER_15: Who's got the higher perception?
- 2:51:22SPEAKER_19: I already have perception with it, but thank you, sir.
- 2:51:25SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
- 2:51:26SPEAKER_12: So uh natural 20 with a six out of 26.
- 2:51:29SPEAKER_15: Let's get those 20s out of here.
- 2:51:30SPEAKER_15: You are uh high enough that you could get out on that ledge and not be seen.
- 2:51:36SPEAKER_15: Excellent.
- 2:51:37SPEAKER_15: And Mr.
- 2:51:37SPEAKER_15: Drax will go with you.
- 2:51:38SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 2:51:39SPEAKER_15: Mr.
- 2:51:39SPEAKER_08: Drax, I assume, just floats.
- 2:51:41SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he just floats.
- 2:51:43SPEAKER_15: Uh and then, but you hear boom.
- 2:51:46SPEAKER_06: I'll close the window when Drax is out, and I'll start heading up towards the roof with my spider climb, bringing Drax along behind me.
- 2:51:52SPEAKER_06: Just as Mr.
- 2:51:53SPEAKER_15: Drax gets around the corner, the orc busts through the door and it splinters.
- 2:51:59SPEAKER_15: And he's like, I'm in! Easy door, handles, none.
- 2:52:07SPEAKER_15: And the uh the two elves are just like, Oh, oh my gosh, that's a smell.
- 2:52:13SPEAKER_15: Oh, it's terrible.
- 2:52:14SPEAKER_15: And the orc is inside.
- 2:52:16SPEAKER_15: He's like, Not me.
- 2:52:21SPEAKER_07: And the body's messing.
- 2:52:22SPEAKER_15: Yeah, and they they got this awful, awful smell.
- 2:52:26SPEAKER_15: And you can hear the two elves talk to each other, like, where is he?
- 2:52:29SPEAKER_15: Was he not in here?
- 2:52:32SPEAKER_15: What is that smell?
- 2:52:33SPEAKER_15: It smells like death.
- 2:52:34SPEAKER_15: But they have got no remnants of anything, so they end up just saying, Well, alright, then I guess I guess all is in order, and then they go to turn around and they see the arrow or the bolts, crossbow bolts in the back of the door.
- 2:52:47SPEAKER_15: And one of them turns to the other and says, What do you make of that?
- 2:52:53SPEAKER_15: The door's not broken in.
- 2:52:54SPEAKER_15: Well, yeah, but it's like broken in, but it's still off the like it's not like it didn't explode into like dust.
- 2:53:00SPEAKER_15: It was a broken, they see the they see it like kind of hanging off the top uh hinge, and the other worker's like, Look that somebody miss.
- 2:53:12SPEAKER_14: I would never miss.
- 2:53:13SPEAKER_14: The other one goes, I know you'll never miss.
- 2:53:15SPEAKER_14: I see you other day.
- 2:53:16SPEAKER_14: You do such good shots.
- 2:53:18SPEAKER_14: I do the good shot.
- 2:53:20SPEAKER_14: I know you say that.
- 2:53:22SPEAKER_23: They're so supportive of each other.
- 2:53:24SPEAKER_23: Almost don't want to kill them.
- 2:53:26SPEAKER_23: They're good friends.
- 2:53:26SPEAKER_23: They're good friends.
- 2:53:28SPEAKER_15: They're buddies.
- 2:53:28SPEAKER_15: They're they're uplifting, they're uplifting to each other.
- 2:53:31SPEAKER_15: Let's go hit more elf.
- 2:53:33SPEAKER_15: Okay, let's hit more elf.
- 2:53:34SPEAKER_15: More fun, more fun.
- 2:53:35SPEAKER_15: And the two elves are right beside them, kind of like and the orcs leaves and lore orcs leaf and the two uh elves are in there together and they just are kind of whispering to each other to each other.
- 2:53:48SPEAKER_15: And you guys are now, so you're up on the roof.
- 2:53:50SPEAKER_15: I'm you guys are at the end of the hallway.
- 2:53:52SPEAKER_15: You see the orcs now turning or coming out of the room and heading back down the hallway.
- 2:53:56SPEAKER_02: Opposite direction, same direction as us.
- 2:53:59SPEAKER_15: They are gonna go the opposite direction, they're gonna turn and go the other way because on our way out.
- 2:54:04SPEAKER_02: I want to try.
- 2:54:04SPEAKER_02: I think we should eavesdrop and see if we can hear the elves speaking, any elves around us speaking of anything.
- 2:54:10SPEAKER_02: Like we could just walk up.
- 2:54:11SPEAKER_02: I have a tray of wine and like I'm offering to them.
- 2:54:15SPEAKER_15: Okay, so you're heading back that way.
- 2:54:16SPEAKER_02: Well, we buy we gotta come back down the stairs and like to leave, right?
- 2:54:19SPEAKER_15: Yeah, yeah.
- 2:54:20SPEAKER_01: So we can just kind of look like we were we've been instructed to provide refreshments kind of thing.
- 2:54:29SPEAKER_07: I'll speak really quick into your head there, Delphine, and saying that I did eye contact with one of the elves.
- 2:54:36SPEAKER_07: Risky, very risky, but might be a good thing.
- 2:54:41SPEAKER_15: Okay, so Rold, you're out on the balcony now.
- 2:54:44SPEAKER_15: Yeah, these two and Mr.
- 2:54:46SPEAKER_15: Drax are on the balcony on the other side, and you can hear them scrambling up, so you know you know that you're outside with them.
- 2:54:52SPEAKER_15: Well, with somebody from your party.
- 2:54:54SPEAKER_07: Right.
- 2:54:54SPEAKER_07: Well, I'm probably just going down because you said to meet in the eastern side or whatever, right?
- 2:54:58SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 2:54:59SPEAKER_07: Yeah, like this area.
- 2:55:00SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I'm just trying to make sure that I can get down on the tackle really thing.
- 2:55:05SPEAKER_15: So you you jump down, and uh, what are you guys doing?
- 2:55:08SPEAKER_12: We'll head up across the roof where no one would expect us, because my spider clan lets us get up there, and then we just lower him down with a rope and I can come down.
- 2:55:15SPEAKER_15: Perfect.
- 2:55:15SPEAKER_15: Uh, so you guys are gonna go meet up with Rold on the inside.
- 2:55:19SPEAKER_15: Yes, yeah, yeah.
- 2:55:19SPEAKER_15: So you two are you three then are walking back by that room, and you can hear the conversation on the inside.
- 2:55:26SPEAKER_16: What do you suppose happened to Starweaver?
- 2:55:30SPEAKER_16: I don't know, but last I heard that there was a kerfuffle up here, and Theron and him were mincing words and they were yelling at each other.
- 2:55:38unknown: Oh, you don't think that?
- 2:55:39SPEAKER_16: No, don't say that.
- 2:55:41SPEAKER_16: We don't know that.
- 2:55:44SPEAKER_16: We better find him.
- 2:55:46SPEAKER_15: He might be the key to all of this.
- 2:55:49SPEAKER_15: And then they start to leave and walk out, and they see the three of you in the hallway go, oh, sorry.
- 2:55:56SPEAKER_09: Should they essay in to uh their headphones?
- 2:56:00SPEAKER_15: Push them back into the room and speak with them.
- 2:56:04SPEAKER_15: The one that you make eye contact with is kind of staring straight at you, not breaking eye contact.
- 2:56:09SPEAKER_23: I I just do.
- 2:56:10SPEAKER_07: I will talk to him.
- 2:56:11unknown: Yeah.
- 2:56:11SPEAKER_07: I think in your head, I'll be like, let me talk to him.
- 2:56:15SPEAKER_02: I'll I'll just I'll just kind of like I grab them and push him in the room.
- 2:56:20SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 2:56:20SPEAKER_15: I'm gonna say animal mouth and push him in the room so they have no roll stealth so that you don't make any noise doing that.
- 2:56:27SPEAKER_07: I was gonna do something different and make it like things make you expect fine.
- 2:56:31SPEAKER_07: Our group, man, we're unpredictable.
- 2:56:33SPEAKER_07: I know, apparently.
- 2:56:36SPEAKER_07: Especially telephone.
- 2:56:40SPEAKER_21: I'm not very quiet.
- 2:56:43SPEAKER_15: Bang, crash, and you hear it.
- 2:56:46SPEAKER_15: And you push them back in the room and try and close the splintering remains of the door.
- 2:56:51SPEAKER_15: Now all five of you are in the room.
- 2:56:53SPEAKER_07: Okay, so then I'll look at the one that I made eye contact with and tell them who we are that I'm drinking.
- 2:57:00SPEAKER_07: We're here with.
- 2:57:01SPEAKER_07: Aaron Dell.
- 2:57:02SPEAKER_07: We're seeing.
- 2:57:04SPEAKER_02: They wouldn't necessarily know.
- 2:57:05SPEAKER_02: Do you know what we give our names to these?
- 2:57:08SPEAKER_15: Then the one looks at you guys and goes, You are not slaves.
- 2:57:13unknown: No, we are not.
- 2:57:14SPEAKER_20: You are not slaves, neither.
- 2:57:18SPEAKER_16: But you appear to be.
- 2:57:20SPEAKER_16: How is this so?
- 2:57:21SPEAKER_16: This must be magic.
- 2:57:24SPEAKER_16: How did you cast magic within the magical barrier?
- 2:57:27SPEAKER_07: You let us worry about that.
- 2:57:30SPEAKER_02: What was Farron yelling at him about?
- 2:57:33SPEAKER_10: What?
- 2:57:34SPEAKER_16: What do you mean?
- 2:57:35SPEAKER_10: We heard your conversation.
- 2:57:36SPEAKER_02: Faron was talking to him.
- 2:57:39SPEAKER_16: It was long since believed that Lord Faron was funneling money outside of Silvery Moon to outside help.
- 2:57:47SPEAKER_16: He had been accused by Starweaver of aiding outside forces to overtake Silvery Moon.
- 2:57:56SPEAKER_16: And then when it happened, it all happened so quickly, the two of them were never nowhere to be seen.
- 2:58:04SPEAKER_16: And we have not seen either of them since the day that the Hawks have taken over Silvery Moon.
- 2:58:09SPEAKER_07: That's a lie.
- 2:58:10SPEAKER_07: It is, I will tell you that it is the opposite way around.
- 2:58:15SPEAKER_07: Actually, before that, can I uh can I see their wrists?
- 2:58:20SPEAKER_15: Or do they have like uh they would have them covered up, so you'd have to roll a pretty high investigation, but you can give it a shot.
- 2:58:26SPEAKER_23: Okay.
- 2:58:26SPEAKER_23: Stick up your dukes.
- 2:58:28SPEAKER_23: I will try.
- 2:58:32SPEAKER_07: Uh investigation.
- 2:58:34SPEAKER_15: It's yeah, it's tough to tell underneath their tunics, you can't really see anything.
- 2:58:37SPEAKER_15: Uh and they're just kind of standing there, like eyeballing you.
- 2:58:42SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 2:58:42SPEAKER_15: You're the you're the intruders here, right?
- 2:58:44SPEAKER_15: Um, and they're like, well, that's not the way that we were told it.
- 2:58:48SPEAKER_02: That's understand why you're working with these orcs by choice.
- 2:58:52SPEAKER_16: Not by choice.
- 2:58:53SPEAKER_16: We don't have a choice.
- 2:58:55SPEAKER_16: If you oppose what's happening here, your whole family is slaughtered, murdered, or turned into slaves, which could be worse.
- 2:59:02SPEAKER_02: So you're just helping our oppressors.
- 2:59:04SPEAKER_16: We are not helping them.
- 2:59:05SPEAKER_16: We are slowly trying to aid those that could possibly help us.
- 2:59:10SPEAKER_20: Who are they?
- 2:59:11SPEAKER_16: The underground resistance, the veiled moon.
- 2:59:14SPEAKER_20: Where can we find more like you?
- 2:59:18SPEAKER_16: How do we know that we can trust any of you?
- 2:59:21SPEAKER_16: Show me your wrists.
- 2:59:22SPEAKER_01: Show us yours as we as we put our wrists up.
- 2:59:26SPEAKER_01: So they'res.
- 2:59:28SPEAKER_01: We take we take ours.
- 2:59:29SPEAKER_01: We say we have.
- 2:59:31SPEAKER_07: I want to see their wrists before we even do that.
- 2:59:33SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but we we remember we put up smudge.
- 2:59:36SPEAKER_02: I didn't put a smudge.
- 2:59:37SPEAKER_02: Oh wait, no, you guys did.
- 2:59:39SPEAKER_07: So we're not here.
- 2:59:40SPEAKER_07: Yeah, we don't have the smudge of these guys.
- 2:59:42SPEAKER_07: We did.
- 2:59:42SPEAKER_07: So yeah, we show our wrists, there's nothing there.
- 2:59:45SPEAKER_15: So they say at the same time they wait for you and then they show theirs, and there's nothing there.
- 2:59:50unknown: Yeah.
- 2:59:51SPEAKER_07: But I'm gonna let you know that Moon, whatever his name is.
- 2:59:55SPEAKER_07: Star Weaver.
- 2:59:56SPEAKER_07: Star Weaver had a mark on his wrist.
- 3:00:00SPEAKER_16: How do you know this?
- 3:00:01SPEAKER_16: Because I've seen it.
- 3:00:03SPEAKER_16: Well, where is he?
- 3:00:04SPEAKER_16: Why can't we question him?
- 3:00:06SPEAKER_23: Uh took him.
- 3:00:08SPEAKER_07: I don't know if actually.
- 3:00:11SPEAKER_02: I will question him when I am in a position to be able to do so.
- 3:00:15SPEAKER_02: He is a deceased, as you can smell.
- 3:00:18SPEAKER_16: That smell is him.
- 3:00:20SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 3:00:20SPEAKER_16: He is dead.
- 3:00:21SPEAKER_16: Yes.
- 3:00:22SPEAKER_16: Days ago.
- 3:00:23SPEAKER_16: By whom?
- 3:00:23SPEAKER_16: By what hand?
- 3:00:24SPEAKER_20: By his own hand, I do believe.
- 3:00:29SPEAKER_16: I do not trust you.
- 3:00:31SPEAKER_20: You need not trust us.
- 3:00:32SPEAKER_20: However, we are here to give aid.
- 3:00:35SPEAKER_20: And you are the ones helping the oppressors.
- 3:00:39SPEAKER_07: They're not helping, they're being forced.
- 3:00:41SPEAKER_07: It's a different situation, Leander.
- 3:00:44SPEAKER_02: We're here to take the easy path.
- 3:00:47SPEAKER_02: We were sent in, but by the moon wardens.
- 3:00:50SPEAKER_16: The moon wardens?
- 3:00:52SPEAKER_16: Are they still around?
- 3:00:54SPEAKER_16: Some are.
- 3:00:56SPEAKER_16: We thought that they were all gone.
- 3:00:58SPEAKER_16: And that they had been destroyed and they overtake.
- 3:01:01SPEAKER_07: You have been torn.
- 3:01:03SPEAKER_22: Some were not in the city when it happened.
- 3:01:06SPEAKER_15: The other elf is like, I don't know why you're telling them all of this.
- 3:01:10SPEAKER_16: We don't trust them.
- 3:01:11SPEAKER_16: I don't want them here.
- 3:01:12SPEAKER_16: They are going to ruin everything.
- 3:01:14SPEAKER_16: Once we are found out, we will no longer be able to help anyone.
- 3:01:18SPEAKER_16: We will not let that happen.
- 3:01:20SPEAKER_16: You have already done so much to alert everybody here.
- 3:01:23SPEAKER_16: You are not very quiet.
- 3:01:26SPEAKER_07: Well, it was our other half of the party that decided to do that to not pass.
- 3:01:31SPEAKER_22: Where what was it?
- 3:01:32SPEAKER_22: The Veiled Moon?
- 3:01:33SPEAKER_16: The Veiled Moon.
- 3:01:34SPEAKER_22: Where are they?
- 3:01:36SPEAKER_15: They are not easily found.
- 3:01:38SPEAKER_15: You can find them by looking for their symbols that you will see etched around the city.
- 3:01:44SPEAKER_22: What is the symbol?
- 3:01:45SPEAKER_16: It is a moon with a crystal through it.
- 3:01:48SPEAKER_16: Like almost like an axe.
- 3:01:51SPEAKER_16: Half moon.
- 3:01:53SPEAKER_20: Oliander tries to persuade them.
- 3:01:57SPEAKER_20: What other aid can you give us?
- 3:01:59SPEAKER_20: We are here to help.
- 3:02:00SPEAKER_20: We are potentially the only hope this city has.
- 3:02:05SPEAKER_20: It has fallen, but it could fall further.
- 3:02:08SPEAKER_15: Roll me a persuasion check, please.
- 3:02:15SPEAKER_20: Uh 15.
- 3:02:16SPEAKER_20: 15?
- 3:02:17SPEAKER_20: Yeah, 15.
- 3:02:18SPEAKER_15: Uh, you're able to persuade the one, the kinder one, but then the other one does not fall for it, and you do not get a good feeling from this guy.
- 3:02:26SPEAKER_15: You don't like him.
- 3:02:27unknown: Could he?
- 3:02:27SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
- 3:02:28SPEAKER_15: He doesn't seem to be out for everyone, but mostly out to just save his own skin.
- 3:02:33SPEAKER_15: Kind of the worst type of noble, right?
- 3:02:36SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
- 3:02:36SPEAKER_15: Um, but the other one seems to genuinely care.
- 3:02:39SPEAKER_15: He's the one that's uh a little more soft-spoken and trying to give you as much information as he can.
- 3:02:44SPEAKER_15: And the other one's just like, quiet, don't tell them, don't tell them.
- 3:02:46SPEAKER_15: But the other one says, Oh, okay, I believe you.
- 3:02:49SPEAKER_11: He's like, Don't you believe them?
- 3:02:51SPEAKER_11: Do you not see what they have caused here?
- 3:02:53SPEAKER_11: They'll almost take our heads.
- 3:02:55SPEAKER_11: If they see us talking to them, we are all dead.
- 3:02:58SPEAKER_01: Do I get the impression that he's gonna just come out of the room and try and rat us out to gain some sort of perk for himself?
- 3:03:11SPEAKER_15: We're all an insight check.
- 3:03:12SPEAKER_15: I was gonna just about say, can I do an insight check on him?
- 3:03:14SPEAKER_15: You can help her.
- 3:03:15SPEAKER_20: Yeah, you can help me.
- 3:03:17SPEAKER_07: I'm five.
- 3:03:18SPEAKER_07: I'm ten.
- 3:03:18SPEAKER_09: Okay, I'll help you.
- 3:03:20SPEAKER_09: Well, nope, you're the one that asked me.
- 3:03:22SPEAKER_09: Yeah, you're right, you're right.
- 3:03:23SPEAKER_07: Okay, that's all right.
- 3:03:24SPEAKER_07: Oh you get advantage.
- 3:03:28SPEAKER_21: How do you manage to do this?
- 3:03:30SPEAKER_21: A two and a four.
- 3:03:30SPEAKER_21: So I get a two and a four.
- 3:03:32SPEAKER_15: I mean, yeah, he seems like a pretty straight-up guy.
- 3:03:34SPEAKER_15: He just seems like kind of a dick that you don't like.
- 3:03:36SPEAKER_07: I feel like he's trustworthy.
- 3:03:37SPEAKER_22: What are your houses?
- 3:03:39SPEAKER_22: I know.
- 3:03:39SPEAKER_15: Am I gonna have to do this for every person you find?
- 3:03:43SPEAKER_09: Oh, really?
- 3:03:43SPEAKER_09: I don't know.
- 3:03:45SPEAKER_09: Yes.
- 3:03:45SPEAKER_09: It would be good to know what house is in the middle of the one sniveling bivinch.
- 3:03:52SPEAKER_15: The one, uh, the one that's kind.
- 3:03:54SPEAKER_15: He is of the house uh thaleryl.
- 3:03:59SPEAKER_15: And the other one is of oh my goodness, so many things and stuff in the wavens.
- 3:04:06SPEAKER_15: Uh, of house Ilarian.
- 3:04:09SPEAKER_15: E-L-A-R-I-O-N.
- 3:04:11SPEAKER_15: Uh the one that is not so kind.
- 3:04:13SPEAKER_02: Are they just that Delphine's father might have dealt with?
- 3:04:18SPEAKER_15: Most likely, yeah.
- 3:04:19SPEAKER_15: Your father would have dealt with most of the nobility because he was a banker, and so he would have had uh kind of like an uh finger on the pulse of like who is the most rich, who had means to do what and and say whatever he needed to.
- 3:04:33SPEAKER_02: So Delphine's gonna reach out and grab the kind one's hand and say, I thank you for your assistance, and then she's gonna just turn both her hands over and show her father's ring.
- 3:04:44SPEAKER_15: Um okay.
- 3:04:47SPEAKER_15: Uh, and so uh Thaleril, as he does that, he kind of he looks up and he goes, of the house of Landra.
- 3:04:56SPEAKER_02: Affiliate.
- 3:04:59SPEAKER_10: What are you to them?
- 3:05:01SPEAKER_10: You look nothing like nothing like them.
- 3:05:08SPEAKER_02: They're close to me, and I serve them faithfully.
- 3:05:12SPEAKER_02: You are looking to get the Lord back.
- 3:05:14SPEAKER_16: You are a servant in their house.
- 3:05:16SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 3:05:17SPEAKER_16: Oh, I was not aware that they had servants, but they must they must have gone up in stature since I last saw.
- 3:05:26SPEAKER_16: Well, I I wish you luck.
- 3:05:28SPEAKER_15: And then the other guy kind of says, A house of a banker.
- 3:05:35SPEAKER_15: Why do we need that?
- 3:05:37SPEAKER_15: We don't need the banker free.
- 3:05:38SPEAKER_15: We need to free the king and the queen.
- 3:05:41SPEAKER_16: Free them first.
- 3:05:43SPEAKER_16: Stay away from the Orlandras.
- 3:05:45SPEAKER_16: They're not to be trifled with.
- 3:05:47SPEAKER_16: We don't need them.
- 3:05:48SPEAKER_16: They're not gonna do any better.
- 3:05:50SPEAKER_02: Money opens all doors.
- 3:05:52SPEAKER_16: If there is any money left in the bank or in the vaults, you can bet yourself that the orcs have broken those doors down long ago.
- 3:05:59SPEAKER_16: Come on! We are wasting our time here.
- 3:06:01SPEAKER_16: We must leave.
- 3:06:02SPEAKER_16: I don't like you.
- 3:06:05SPEAKER_16: I don't much care for you either.
- 3:06:07SPEAKER_16: You are about to get us all killed.
- 3:06:09SPEAKER_07: No, just you.
- 3:06:15SPEAKER_16: Yeah, well, fine.
- 3:06:16SPEAKER_20: Do you have any knowledge of where the any any of the nobility or the king and queen could be held?
- 3:06:24SPEAKER_16: Well, the king and the queen are most certainly at the at the palace.
- 3:06:28SPEAKER_16: But we don't know where the nobles are, they could be spread out.
- 3:06:31SPEAKER_20: No word spreads amongst the orcs.
- 3:06:35SPEAKER_15: I can try and find out more for you if you want, but it will be at much risk, and I would have to meet you later.
- 3:06:41SPEAKER_16: But I would be willing to help.
- 3:06:43SPEAKER_16: If your cause would set our city free, I would gladly sacrifice myself for this.
- 3:06:47SPEAKER_16: And the other one just goes, Oh, you're such a fool.
- 3:06:50SPEAKER_16: Look, I can't take this anymore.
- 3:06:51SPEAKER_16: I'm leaving.
- 3:06:53SPEAKER_02: Just stop him for a second.
- 3:06:56SPEAKER_02: Point us in the direction of where we may find markers for the veiled men.
- 3:07:02SPEAKER_02: Give us a starting point.
- 3:07:03SPEAKER_15: The grumpy one who says, You would have to be an ass to not see them all over the place.
- 3:07:09SPEAKER_15: Then you're an ass.
- 3:07:11SPEAKER_09: Tell me.
- 3:07:12SPEAKER_15: In the dark corners, in alleyways, underneath bridges, anywhere that orcs would be too stupid to look for.
- 3:07:19SPEAKER_16: You have to just look to find it.
- 3:07:22SPEAKER_16: And if they want to find you, they will find you.
- 3:07:26SPEAKER_16: They are better than we are.
- 3:07:28SPEAKER_02: Clearly better than some of us.
- 3:07:30SPEAKER_16: Yes, well, they don't make the kind of racket you make.
- 3:07:33SPEAKER_16: Anyway, if you excuse me, I have work to attend to before I am noticed that I am not at my station.
- 3:07:38SPEAKER_15: And he kind of tries to push past you, do you guys stop?
- 3:07:41SPEAKER_07: No.
- 3:07:41unknown: No.
- 3:07:42SPEAKER_20: I'll turn to the other.
- 3:07:44SPEAKER_20: The nice.
- 3:07:44SPEAKER_20: If there are more like yourself, please make haste and gather.
- 3:07:49SPEAKER_16: You mean elves.
- 3:07:50SPEAKER_16: There are lots of us.
- 3:07:51SPEAKER_16: This is an eld city.
- 3:07:53SPEAKER_09: Yes.
- 3:07:54SPEAKER_09: Those that would aid.
- 3:07:56SPEAKER_16: You have to remember that I while I would risk all, not all are willing to do that.
- 3:08:02SPEAKER_20: Those that are willing.
- 3:08:05SPEAKER_20: Like I said, those like yourself.
- 3:08:09SPEAKER_20: We are gathering.
- 3:08:12SPEAKER_20: We are making aid.
- 3:08:14SPEAKER_20: And we will save this city.
- 3:08:17SPEAKER_16: Where do I have the meat?
- 3:08:22SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'll give the same description that Dolphine had given to the one uh northeastern corner of the Star Gardens.
- 3:08:30SPEAKER_16: The nobility district.
- 3:08:32SPEAKER_16: Are you sure?
- 3:08:33SPEAKER_07: Positive.
- 3:08:34SPEAKER_07: That's where we came in.
- 3:08:36SPEAKER_16: You have entrance though.
- 3:08:38SPEAKER_16: Where is it?
- 3:08:38SPEAKER_07: That we're not gonna take you, but we do have a way in.
- 3:08:45SPEAKER_16: Alright.
- 3:08:46SPEAKER_20: If we can gather enough.
- 3:08:47SPEAKER_20: Don't tell the other one.
- 3:08:48SPEAKER_20: We will do our best.
- 3:08:50SPEAKER_16: I don't think you would believe me if I told you.
- 3:08:52SPEAKER_20: I don't trust the other one.
- 3:08:54SPEAKER_20: Ensure that we have a group of trusted people.
- 3:08:58SPEAKER_20: None that are going to turn to the orcs and deliver our new.
- 3:09:03SPEAKER_16: It is almost impossible to know that who will turn coat or not.
- 3:09:06SPEAKER_16: It is just a matter of finding the right people.
- 3:09:08SPEAKER_16: And I will do what I can, I promise you this.
- 3:09:12SPEAKER_16: By the hot moon gem, I will do what I can.
- 3:09:15SPEAKER_16: I promise.
- 3:09:16SPEAKER_16: But I must, I must.
- 3:09:18SPEAKER_07: Now you must go before you get in trouble.
- 3:09:20SPEAKER_15: And he takes his quick leave and he goes down the hallway, and he, as he's about to leave, before he goes out the broken door, he kind of leans back in, he goes, Do you really think that you can bring our city back?
- 3:09:30SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 3:09:31SPEAKER_02: I vow it by the sacred tree.
- 3:09:34SPEAKER_15: And by that I will hold you to your oath.
- 3:09:36SPEAKER_15: And he disappears out the door and down the hallway.
- 3:09:39SPEAKER_17: I like him.
- 3:09:41SPEAKER_20: I don't like the other guy.
- 3:09:43SPEAKER_20: No.
- 3:09:43SPEAKER_20: I hope he trips down the stairs and braces.
- 3:09:45SPEAKER_20: I believe he's friend while the other may be.
- 3:09:48SPEAKER_07: I hope he chokes on you now.
- 3:09:49SPEAKER_15: Alright.
- 3:09:52SPEAKER_15: So with that, we're gonna end this episode while you guys are in the hall of the echoes.
- 3:09:58SPEAKER_15: We will pick this up at the next session and find out where to go next.