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C1 Ep.4: Thesmyra’s Chosen One · Smooth Critical

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  Welcome back to Smooth Critical. I'm your DM, Avni.
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  Hey, actually quick question. Avni, are you OK?
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  Avni, are you OK? Are you OK, Avni?
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  Yes, I am OK, but also kind of nervous.
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  My wonderful players have gotten beaten up quite a bit so far and
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  I fear there may be more to come.
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  But I've faith since my players have levelled up their
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  characters. So let's meet our Level 3
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  gorgeous gladiators. He my.
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  Hello, this is Abe. Harry.
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  Bontel Willowind, cleric of Thesmira, Lady of Breath.
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  Oh, and Charlie. My armor may say Bond, but my
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  name is Bo. Incredible.
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  All right, so let's start our recap.
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  Oh my God, what? You're not going to bring up
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  Bunty? It's me, Bunty Pervert.
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  Self-proclaimed. We all know it.
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  We all love it. We're.
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  Working on that. OK, so when I was ready.
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  Like it was his career. It pretty much is.
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  He doesn't do much else. All right, this is a thick recap
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  because you guys did a lot last session.
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  So our heroes Abe, Bon and Bo began in the dusty old storage
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  room with a massive hole in the floor where last time they
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  glimpsed 2 small eyes and heard a nervous oh shit.
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  Acting fast, Abe scaled the wall and grabbed the source of the
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  voice, a terrified Cobalt named Janie.
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  Bon and Bo followed down with a rope trying to get answers,
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  while Abe's interrogation methods were pretty brutal and
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  almost killed her. After some tense moments and
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  very questionable ethics, Janie agreed to help them navigate the
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  ruins below. She revealed that she had only
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  been stationed here for five days, that the other Cobalts
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  were jerks to her, and that the top three floors were guarded by
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  her kind. Following her lead, the group
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  descended into the ruins first arriving at a chamber covered in
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  a vast mural depicting Old Ignovarum.
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  The artwork showed strange, whimsical people in the
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  background, and Abe quickly sketched them down to study.
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  Later, down another floor, the gang discovered the personal
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  quarters of Imperator Johnny Maccabee.
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  Within his room, they found a mysterious mirror that displayed
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  memories from the Imperator's life until it suddenly spawned a
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  perfect duplicate of Bond dubbed Sexy Bond or Chrome Bond.
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  Sexy Bond down the real Bond in one hit before being destroyed
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  by the party. Once Chrome Bond was shattered,
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  the mirror was safe again to look at, and Bo dared to look,
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  seeing himself in his augmented form floating in the water.
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  Abe caught this reflection too, realizing Bo was more than the
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  plain normal guy he pretended to be.
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  Bo came clean about his past, and both Bond and Abe stood by
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  him. Janie then guided them deeper
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  while Bunty made a disastrously awkward pass at her, earning a
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  hard rejection and promptly some wildly inappropriate near INSA
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  level comments from both Bunty and Abe.
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  The next stop was to the letter room, where they uncovered a
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  note from a man named Ambrose Skylark to Imperator Maccabee.
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  They also found a ritual from the Lady of Breath, the goddess
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  only Bond had ever heard of, and a partial ritual with a drawing
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  that eerily resembled Bunty himself.
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  The discovery left the group with more questions than
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  answers, knowing the remaining Cobalt guards were stationed in
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  the prayer room. The party struck first, killing
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  all but one survivor named Rug, who apologized to Janie for the
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  way he and the others had treated her.
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  Rug and Janie bonded quickly, romantically even, and the group
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  promised to help them both escape the tower once their
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  mission was complete. Before resting, Rug revealed
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  that deep within the ruins slept a dragon named Kumkuraj and
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  shared a list from Captain Mumir, names of Dragons the
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  Imperator had been tracking. After a well earned short rest
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  in the prayer room, the gang examined the mosaics on the
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  wall, each depicting the gods but with their monikers
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  mysteriously scratched away. Among the debris, Bond found a
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  magical wind fan. While Abe studied the damaged
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  art, curious Bond cast mending on the broken nameplate beneath
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  the mosaic of this Mira, expecting to see this Mira Lady
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  of broken chains. Instead, after an incredible Nat
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  20 on his religion check, the letters shimmered into place to
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  reveal this Mira Lady of breath. So there you are, standing in
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  the prayer room, having just discovered something so
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  incredibly monumental. Wow guys, I I think that this
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  mirror may be the lady of breath.
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  What makes you think that? I look over at the wall.
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  It's just the hunch. Interesting.
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  All right. That's very interesting.
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  OK, I'm connecting some dots to my childhood.
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  You know what? Do you?
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  What do you got? Just the one thing that like I I
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  heard my parents talking about this and she said all my mom
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  said all would be revealed during my anaphosis ceremony.
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  And then like I never got my anaphosis ceremony so it was
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  never revealed to me. But now, now it is to an extent,
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  I think. Interesting.
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  I think that the Imperator is trying to create some new
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  narrative around the history of the gods, and not simply that,
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  but creating his own version of history.
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  I feel as though the reason that he turned my parents away from
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  their questions about immortality.
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  I'm also, you know, like you said, the the imperator trying
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  to make a new narrative. This, this makes a lot of sense
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  to me. You know, I'm starting to think
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  that maybe this was a reason why my village was targeted.
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  I don't know if I've told you all the full story of what
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  happened to me, but you know, you've both shared quite a bit
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  of information. We learned a lot about you from
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  the mirror and from our conversations.
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  Bow and then Abe, you seem to just tell your back story to
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  anybody you meet. So I think it's about time I I
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  give you to the same level of trust.
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  About six years ago I was in my village so Leaf, which is a
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  small town just north of Moon Fen in Noctavales.
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  And it was the evening of my anaphosis ceremony, which means
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  the ascension of light, which is my escalation into adulthood.
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  And as a follower of the goddess, this mirror, the Lady
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  of broken chains as you know her, but perhaps the Lady of
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  Breath. I was sitting in the pews in my
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  temple, a large stone building like this beautiful glass
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  ethereal Dome with a magical break to let in the moon's
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  light, and I was fidgeting with my holy symbol.
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  I was nervous, just waiting for this sort of, you know,
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  ascension ceremony for my religion.
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  And it was customary for me to remain in the temple alone until
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  the hour approach for the anaphosis ceremony when the moon
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  was overhead. Unfortunately, I didn't know
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  much about the anaphosis ceremony.
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  It's not something you learn about until it actually happens.
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  It's sort of an initiation type thing into adulthood.
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  As I was waiting, I saw a bright light, heard a terrifying boom
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  and lots of screaming, and my father rushed in through the
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  door. He explains that there was
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  somebody attacking outside. My mother was holding them off.
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  As he closed the door, I saw the purple light of my mother's
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  magic in the background and a heavily armored man with a snake
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  and Ring of Fire symbol on his arm.
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  You know, I had no idea what was happening, but my father told me
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  that there were soldiers from Ignvarum here to exterminate my
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  village. He sent me through some hidden
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  passageways in the temple floor and went to go help my mother,
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  handing me this. And I pull out this sort of
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  small, smooth stone that I keep in my pocket.
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  And this is the stone of good luck.
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  So it basically kind of just gives me a little bit of extra
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  luck when it comes to ability checks, saving throws.
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  He blew a Lantern and guided my way down the twisting caves and
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  I met up with a family friend named Narix who took me in He's
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  a merchant and that's how I ended up in and behold, making
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  my money as gladiator. Now here with you 2 hopefully
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  explains my my sort of fear of these caves.
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  I don't really love being enclosed in tight spaces, you
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  know, as as a warship of Desmera.
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  It's not great already to be, you know, chained, whether
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  that's physically metaphorically, you know, we
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  don't like being trapped. It's it goes against what we
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  live for, but it was a pretty traumatic moment for me and I've
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  had sort of a bone to pick with Vampirator ever since.
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  I don't quite know why my village was targeted, but it
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  seems like maybe this is something to do with it.
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  Well, I think I know now. And I pull out my notebook and I
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  kind of like I'm sort of saying out loud when I'm writing as I
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  write it. And I say a case against the
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  imperator .1 turned away my parents in their time of need .2
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  exterminated bonds village question was the lady of breath.
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  The reason .3 the Imperator sucks .4 is bow related question
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  mark. That's a reason.
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  It's just, it's just brainstorm. Oh man.
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  Hey, this is part of the the research process, it's ideation.
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  Look, OK, something there's, there's clearly something going
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  on because we've, we've found a lot of things in this tower that
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  are contradictory to, to the the way of the world that we, that
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  we seem to have established. Based on the fact that I think
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  Vox had a symbol of Thesmira on his cloak when he hired us, I'm
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  wondering if we were supposed to find some of the things other
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  than the tablet down here that we already have.
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  That's very interesting, I know Vox also mentioned that his
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  village fared a similar fate to mine.
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  It seems like maybe they were mostly wiped out.
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  I was very curious to ask him more.
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  As you guys are having this this deep heartfelt conversation
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  about about Bond's past and and all the trauma you've all had,
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  you feel this surge through all of your bodies and this deep
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  connection that you formed between each other is a part of
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  the reason why you guys have all levelled up.
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  So Bond, as you feel this surge, you also feel a very comforting
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  warmth in your pocket watch as it starts to crack a little bit
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  with divine energy. You have received a small boom
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  from this Mira as you uncovered a secret about her that has been
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  very deep for 500 years. You can now cast Divine Smite
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  just as a small note to everyone.
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  Light domain which is which is Bon subclass offers Fairy fire
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  as a prepared spell. But since Bon is a Drow and
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  already has Fairy fire in his prepared spell list, we spoke
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  and he can now cast Divine Smite as a very strong alternative
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  because of that very incredible Nat 20 that really that really
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  needed to be rewarded in this time.
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  And I know Divine Smite is just for paladins, but don't at me.
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  I like it story wise blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Bond gets something special he deserves.
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  Hey, if anything in 2024 it's it's just another spell.
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  It is, yeah. It's for paladins, but like,
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  it's not just an ability anymore.
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  Yeah, exactly. So it's very exciting.
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  Very exciting stuff. Like I said, Bond shows the
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  Light domain subclass and then Abe you.
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  As you feel this surge, A bluey Gray shimmer starts to form
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  around you, and for a second, spectral arms appear around your
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  shoulders before they disappear. You felt this shimmer before.
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  What the fuck was that? Holy shit, what's going on?
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  Somebody behind you? I dropped my notebook and the
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  pen. But Abe, you've felt this kind
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  of shimmer in your body before, when you first did the ritual
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  that summoned Bunty, but it disappeared very quickly after
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  and has never returned. The rituals seem to have
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  unlocked something within you, and right now you feel the
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  shimmer all the time, especially near your arms and your
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  shoulders. It's going to be a weird feeling
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  that will take some getting used to, but you feel extra strong.
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  So what subclass did you choose, Abe?
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  The way of the astral Self. Yeah, or I think this Warrior of
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  the Astral Self Warrior 2020. Four.
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  Yes. They they changed it.
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  Yeah, yes. Incredible Abe, make an
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  investigation or perception check on Bunty.
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  I'm gonna use my heroic inspiration to reroll that go.
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  Fucker. There goes that.
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  That's much better. I rolled a 21.
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  I cannot believe you used your heroic inspiration on this,
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  Bunty. I rolled on that one to be clear
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  enough. And I wanted to know.
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  I wanted to know. Bunty just looks he he looks
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  slightly bigger, maybe about an inch taller and wider.
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  Was this a 21 on perception or investigation?
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  I did on, we'll say. Well, I did it on Perception.
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  On perception, yeah. So you see Bunty grows a little
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  bit taller and a little bit wider, and you think back to the
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  ritual and what the ritual had said, and you think about the
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  line. Its form will be small at first,
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  but it's meaning vast. And that's what you think about
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  when you see Bunty grow a little bit bigger.
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  I squint at Bunty and I say, Bunty, did you, did you just get
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  bigger? And I'm picking up my notebook
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  and stuff because I freaked out about the astral form that
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  appeared around my body for a second.
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  Yeah, I mean, at my age it's like pretty normal to have a
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  girl spurt. Is there anything that's normal
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  about you Bunty? Respect me.
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  I just don't think you usually abide by the normal rules of
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  what it means to be a person as far as I know well.
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  I'm not a person. When you started to criticize
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  him, I I opened my mouth, but as you said respectfully, I closed
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  my mouth. Bunty, you fucking suck.
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  Respectfully. Works.
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  For me I found the loophole. Well, I mean, I've never grown
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  before, but you know, I've known others that have grown.
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  There are there are others of you that you know.
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  Hey, did you know this? No.
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  Well I mean like I have like siblings and stuff.
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  What do you like? Me and my brother, you mean?
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  Yeah. Like you, Yeah, like you for
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  sure. But like, yeah, I'm.
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  Going to do an inside check. Wait, Bunty, what the fuck?
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  And I step up to him. Well, I mean like I didn't
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  remember them until like 2 seconds ago.
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  And then he looks away wistfully.
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  And you guys can inside check Bunty.
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  Yeah, I didn't do very well on mine, but that's weird. 16. 9
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  for me. 19. Incredible, Abe, you can do it
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  with advantage. I'm not sure if you'll get much
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  higher, but you know Bunty very well.
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  He's your brother. OK.
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  OK. A little bit higher 21.
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  Bunty's telling the truth when he says that this is like some
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  sort of memory that he just gathered.
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  He was there any specific thing you wanted to know from this
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  insight? Check with Bunty, either Bond or
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  Abe. He's not being distrust, he's
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  not being untruthful when he says that he just remembered
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  this. I'm going to ask him.
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  When you first appeared, you said you didn't know where you
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  came from. And I still don't know.
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  What are you remembering about your siblings?
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  We all look the same. So like what is it called when
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  you have like hundreds of siblings like quintuplets or
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  triplets or what is it called? Sun Tuplets.
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  Yeah, but like that, but like a lot like even more.
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  Are they like? A brood they are.
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  A brood. Doing a brood, a brood of
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  bungies, I don't know where they are.
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  Andy's have memories of like us, standing there smiling, looking
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  happy. Standing where?
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  Standing in like the black void. Bundy, you're so fucking weird,
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  dude. I mean, I don't know.
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  Yeah, probably. I had issues.
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  I had issues. You had.
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  No have currently I have issues. But you recognize it, and that's
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  like the first step. Oh absolutely, you're so echo, I
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  love. You don't give him that grace.
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  I I don't know, I guess. That is his bodyguard.
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  Respectfully fuck you then. Hey, fair enough.
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  OK, so Abe, you chose Warrior of the Astral Self and Bunty is a
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  little bit larger and seems to have gained a memory beau.
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  As this strange surge courses through you, your vision
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  flickers for a second and then you're fine.
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  OK, So what subclass did Bo take?
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  Actually, no one knows. I didn't, I didn't get the
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  required XP from killing any of the cobalts, so I'm a little bit
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  behind you guys. He's 3 cobalt shorts so maybe
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  I'll toss him a couple. Days, take a look at Janie.
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  You fucking bitch. Quickly go over to lock them in
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  the other room like we talked about.
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  Oh yes. So you guys had discussed
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  putting them into the letter room before.
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  That happens really quickly. You're kind of ushering them
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  into the letter room and Bunty's talking to Janie and Rug.
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  As you're going to close the door, Rug turns around and goes
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  wait, wait, wait. With all of our friends and
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  family here, I just thought this would be the time.
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  Jeannie, will you marry me? Oh my God yes, Oh my God, I
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  thought you'd never ask. She waves her hand around and
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  says Crystal Colorado Changeo and her bow and dress changed to
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  white from lime green. What the fuck?
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  Oh, are we doing this right now? I mean, you're going to lock us
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  in a room, so we need Bunty to officiate.
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  Take the wedding. Oh my God, let me honour.
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  Thank you. You guys are my best friends.
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  And the three of them hug each other.
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  Do. Things just move more quickly
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  for short people. Like really really tiny biggest.
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  Bunty. Like dude, I don't even.
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  OK, do you take each other to be spouses?
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  I do, I do. They kiss and Bunty cheers.
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  Oh my God, guys, I'm so excited for them.
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  And he starts crying tears of happiness from his one big.
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  OK, well, we're going to lock you in here now.
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  OK, Thanks, Bunty. OK, see you later.
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  And then Bunty takes the doorknob and shuts them in
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  there. All right, that guy, that was
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  really satisfying conclusion for them.
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  I'm really happy. Bunty, I'm I'm very proud of how
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  you're responding till to all this.
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  Did you not see them? They were soul mates.
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  I I Yeah, sure, I'm going. To gesture for for Abe and Bond
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  to join me for an aside guys, is is Bunty going through more
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  emotional growth than any of us? Oh for sure, I feel.
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  Like I feel like I'm being left behind, which I realize is not a
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  very emotionally grown up thing to say, but I think we got to,
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  we got to show him up. We can't let Bunty be the most
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  mature of the group. I think this is like a reverse
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  psychology thing. I think he's fucking with us.
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  Is anybody else just in shock? Yeah, absolutely.
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  Absolutely. Like, I'm happy for him
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  ultimately. Like, great.
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  I mean, I love weddings. I think they're beautiful.
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  It was my first one. And I I sort of blow a blow a
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  Knicks Shard in through the keyhole.
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  Oh that's really cute. I don't know who did that, but
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  thanks. I've never been to a wedding.
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  Yeah, yeah. Like I guess, I guess we have to
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  get gifts now, right? Like.
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  Yeah, like who was the best man? Who was the maid of honor?
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  We did promise them a little bit of gold on our way out, so I
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  think that will be sufficient. We're giving them a new life.
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  You know, we didn't kill them. That's that's a pretty good
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  gift. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, we
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  should just keep our eyes out for like, I don't know, a
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  KitchenAid mixer or something like that.
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  It was a really. Good, I've always wanted a
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  KitchenAid. Yeah.
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  So you guys are on, we'll call it the third floor just because
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  we're counting from one is the top and then we're going down.
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  So you guys are on the 3rd floor right now and Bunty goes all
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  right. So should we keep going?
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  Yeah. Dude, can I just, I just
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  whispered to you guys now he's like taking the lead, like.
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  Bunty, when did you get ordained?
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  I just assumed that was. All right, fair.
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  Who's to say I'm not? You know I'm getting all these
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  new memories and sharing. Punti was a priest in a past
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  life. I am going to use this as an
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  opportunity, this question as an opportunity to exercise some of
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  my new connection to Vesmira. I'm going to take out that sort
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  of mantra that I recited last session.
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  The prayer. And I'm going to try to play it
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  out. I bow my head and I draw in my
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  breath. I raise my arms wide and I
• 22:45
  whisper Mistress of breath fill my heart as I feel my lungs.
• 22:50
  And then I lower my hands to the ground and I say, Mistress of
• 22:53
  breath, what leaves me give to the world.
• 22:56
  And I place my head on the ground and I say each breath is
• 22:59
  yours until no remains. And as I'm doing this, I'm going
• 23:04
  to ritual cast Augury. And I'm doing this all in front
• 23:07
  of the altar of Thesmira that we saw.
• 23:11
  And So what Augury does, it's a level 2 spell.
• 23:14
  It's a ritual, which is really awesome.
• 23:15
  I receive an omen from an otherworldly entity about the
• 23:19
  results of a course of action that I plan to take within the
• 23:22
  next 30 minutes. The DM chooses omens from the
• 23:25
  omen table. It's either wheel good, woe,
• 23:28
  bad, real and woe good and bad, or indifference, neither good
• 23:32
  nor bad. It does not account for
• 23:34
  circumstances such as other spells that might change the
• 23:37
  result, and if I cast it again before a long rest, there's a
• 23:40
  cumulative 25% chance that I get no response.
• 23:44
  The course of action I'm going to propose is that I'm hoping if
• 23:48
  we continue further into the dungeon, it will lead us to the
• 23:50
  tablet and hopefully not get us killed.
• 23:53
  As you ask that question, ask about that course of action.
• 23:59
  At first when you ask about the tablet, you get this sort of
• 24:03
  very slight adrenaline rush when you ask about it, just a little
• 24:08
  bit, but enough that makes you feel like kind of good that
• 24:11
  you're ready. But then your heart starts to
• 24:13
  beat faster and faster and faster and faster, till for a
• 24:17
  second you're almost out of breath and then it calms down
• 24:20
  and you're fine again. I relay these feelings to
• 24:23
  everybody else. I say I'm getting this feeling
• 24:26
  from, I think this mirror that this might be the right
• 24:30
  direction to go, but it's not going to be easy and it might be
• 24:33
  dangerous, so we should go in preparing our best.
• 24:37
  I think maybe we all need to be healed a little bit.
• 24:40
  So I'm going to cast, I'm going to cast aid for the next.
• 24:45
  I'm going to hard cast this. So there's a level 2 spell and
• 24:49
  choose up to three creatures within range.
• 24:50
  Each targets hit point maximum and current hit points increased
• 24:54
  by 5 for the duration. So we all gained 5HP in terms of
• 24:58
  getting our limbs dropped off and stuff.
• 24:59
  It all goes up by three as well or two depending on if we're
• 25:03
  rounding cool. So.
• 25:06
  But you get. Back 5HP but also our Max right
• 25:09
  now temporary is. +5 and this lasts 8 hours.
• 25:12
  So all 7 gods are represented in this room, right?
• 25:16
  Yes, they are. Is there a differentiation
• 25:20
  between the Scions and the? What's the name for the other 4?
• 25:24
  Paragons. Are they allowing like what, the
• 25:26
  Scions on one wall and the paragon?
• 25:28
  OK, cool. Yes, yes they are.
• 25:30
  So the gods with this mirror, those are the ones whose
• 25:33
  monikers have all been scratched out to a point where you can't
• 25:37
  read it. And the other 3 is Shraxion,
• 25:39
  Silvera and. Bond, do you want to just for
• 25:41
  the hell of it, try to cast bending on the other 3?
• 25:46
  Yeah, I'll give it a go, but. Is it a cantrip?
• 25:49
  Yeah. OK cool.
• 25:50
  Yeah, you need ADC 25 to start affecting the stones.
• 25:55
  Should I do just one or should I do?
• 25:57
  Three times. OK, first up, who's first up?
• 26:01
  First up, we can do Dravenel. OK, am I using my religion for
• 26:06
  this? Your religion?
• 26:07
  Yeah. OK, that is a 13.
• 26:12
  OK, so the stones don't move for that one, then we can do
• 26:15
  elithar. 20. The stones start to move a
• 26:19
  little bit, but you can't make out the words just yet.
• 26:23
  And then Nix of our. 19. 19 yeah, nothing happens.
• 26:27
  So obviously we should just stay here and keep doing it until it
• 26:31
  works, right? I'm sort of getting the feeling
• 26:34
  that it's, you know, this was sort of something like a miracle
• 26:39
  from Thesmira, something that she's guiding me towards, and I
• 26:43
  don't know if it's going to extend beyond her purview.
• 26:46
  That's fair. I just wanted to see if there's
• 26:48
  any, you know, other clues that we could get.
• 26:51
  I pull up my notebook and I write down a question, saying it
• 26:54
  again out loud. Do the other gods monikers be
• 27:00
  different in the past? And then I close my notebook and
• 27:04
  put it away. I turn the bow and I'm like,
• 27:06
  this is getting a little weird that he keeps talking out loud.
• 27:08
  Yeah. Yeah, we're on the same page.
• 27:10
  Alright, whatever, you know I'm. An auditory learner, I say out
• 27:13
  loud during you guys whispering and I like to work my ideas
• 27:18
  through conversation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's totally
• 27:22
  cool, man. And I wink it though.
• 27:24
  Yeah, I just nod. OK, guys.
• 27:26
  Like can we keep going please? We got things to do.
• 27:30
  Sure. All right, Bunty, Bunty, you're
• 27:32
  out of line, dude. You need to get under the cloak
• 27:34
  right now, OK? Oh, sorry about that.
• 27:35
  OK, please, yeah, please go after you after you go down the
• 27:39
  stairs. No, no.
• 27:40
  Get in, get in, get in. I'm in.
• 27:41
  I'm in. Jesus, OK.
• 27:43
  I'm going to get the chain of detect magic going again.
• 27:46
  We don't have to do whole conversation about it this
• 27:48
  session, but I'm going to get the chain going and I'm going to
• 27:51
  keep trying to face my fears and sort of take the lead on this.
• 27:55
  Awesome. I have both dark vision and
• 27:58
  detect magic and it just makes sense.
• 28:01
  You guys head down the stairs. When you get to the next landing
• 28:07
  you see 2 doors, 1 open on the left hand side.
• 28:12
  It looks like a mostly collapsed room with rubble if you guys
• 28:16
  want to make a perception check to see what is in there.
• 28:18
  That's like a quick scope 17. 22.
• 28:22
  Can I get a detect magic read on this first?
• 28:25
  There is like small it looks like There might be little
• 28:27
  pinpoints of magic in this room, like little items it looks like.
• 28:32
  I'm going to roll perception with disadvantage because I'm
• 28:34
  sort of still very on edge from being claustrophobic.
• 28:37
  Go for it. That is a 17.
• 28:42
  All of you guys see that this room looks like it had
• 28:45
  alchemicals inside of it. You can see colorful liquids
• 28:48
  have stained the stone and rubble and it looks like glass
• 28:51
  files and tubes have been like broken on the ground from the
• 28:54
  stones that have fallen from the ceiling.
• 28:56
  So as you look in with your detect magic, you can find 2
• 29:02
  potions of healing and two alchemist fires.
• 29:05
  Oh, what are alchemist fires? I believe it's very flammable
• 29:09
  liquid, right? It's like kind of explosive if
• 29:11
  you set it on fire. So what it says is when you take
• 29:14
  the attack action, you can replace one of your attacks with
• 29:17
  throwing a flask of alchemist fire.
• 29:19
  Target one creature or object you can see within 20 feet of
• 29:22
  yourself. The target must succeed on a
• 29:24
  Dexterity saving throughout DC-8, plus your Dexterity
• 29:27
  modifier and proficiency bonus. So whoever throws it their DC
• 29:31
  use 8 plus their decks plus proficiency bonus.
• 29:34
  Or they take 1D for fire damage and start burning.
• 29:38
  That sounds like it's right up your guy's alley.
• 29:40
  Yeah, I feel like one for me and one for Abe.
• 29:43
  Yeah, let's do it. So who still has their potions
• 29:45
  of healing? I still have one.
• 29:47
  Does does Bunty have a potion of healing?
• 29:50
  No, but I can. Does Bunty have somewhere to put
• 29:53
  things? No.
• 29:56
  Does the Cape have pockets? Oh, good call.
• 29:59
  Bunty will go look on his cloak to see if it has pockets.
• 30:02
  I will be rolling a lock check. Anything above a 10 has pockets.
• 30:07
  That is A7. There are no.
• 30:08
  Pockets No. I knew for a fact that he wasn't
• 30:11
  going to get that. It was 5050.
• 30:14
  Not for Bunty. Maybe give Abe the other one so
• 30:17
  that Bunty can take it if needed.
• 30:19
  That sounds good. I feel like Bunty, in his
• 30:21
  pickpocketing ways, knows how to navigate Abe's pack and pockets.
• 30:25
  Bunty Yeah, if any of us goes down during any fight down here,
• 30:30
  I need. I'll bump the bad guys, I'll
• 30:31
  bonk them. No.
• 30:32
  No, no, no, listen. I mean, definitely do try to
• 30:34
  bonk them, but if if one of us goes down and I need you to take
• 30:38
  like a lift up the potion of healing, the one that I have in
• 30:41
  my back, say I need you to take this and force it down their
• 30:44
  throat. Gotcha, gotcha.
• 30:46
  Because we're because the other of us who are not down are going
• 30:50
  to need to keep fighting. Yeah, yeah, I got you.
• 30:52
  I got you. I got.
• 30:52
  You can you do that? Yeah, I say I got you like 10
• 30:54
  times. I got you.
• 30:55
  No, I want you to say that. Yes, yes.
• 30:58
  I will take the potion and put it down you dumbass gullet and
• 31:03
  force you to drink it. All right, dude, I don't like
• 31:05
  this energy. But yeah, also at the same time
• 31:09
  of me, I wanna ask, well one, but what's your health at right
• 31:12
  now? My health is currently at 20.
• 31:15
  Okay. And your Max would be what?
• 31:17
  26. Okay and I am at 17 and my Max
• 31:20
  would be technically it's 25 but it'd be 30 right now.
• 31:24
  Avni, can we split a potion of healing and split the role?
• 31:27
  Did you add your aid gets 5 to your Max HP, +5 to your current?
• 31:33
  HPI was at 12. I took some hits OK previously
• 31:36
  and didn't really have a. Lot No.
• 31:37
  You gotta use the whole potion for yourself.
• 31:39
  Damn. I mean I know we're going so
• 31:41
  slow already but what if we just take another short rest cuz I
• 31:44
  got have a new hit die from leveling up so I could at least
• 31:48
  roll that. Yeah, you're sure you guys can
• 31:51
  sit on the floor? Like are we, are we in a rush?
• 31:54
  Is there a reason that we no need to get?
• 31:56
  OK, cool. If we're doing that, I I can
• 31:58
  also heal. Do you wanna wait?
• 32:00
  Wait till we take the short rest, see where we're at.
• 32:02
  Well, the Channel Divinity. I get one back on a short rest.
• 32:05
  So who's at the lowest? Abe, I think.
• 32:07
  I'm at 17. All right, I'm gonna Channel
• 32:09
  Divinity once to give you a divine spark.
• 32:15
  I will point my holy symbol at Abe and a small just like Nick's
• 32:21
  Shard comes out and I'm going to roll 1D8 so that's 6 plus my
• 32:26
  Wisdom which is 3 so that's nine and you get 9 HP.
• 32:30
  Awesome, so I'm at I'm at 26 now so I'm above my like actual Max
• 32:35
  but into the temp which is nice. So I'm not going to take that
• 32:37
  potion of healing, but since we're doing a short rest, I'll
• 32:40
  roll one of my HII. You guys are just sitting on the
• 32:43
  floor outside the rubble room has is mostly blocked off so you
• 32:48
  can't really get in there, but you found those potions on the
• 32:51
  floor. So you guys are just sitting on
• 32:53
  the landing of floor 4 and it when you look to your right
• 32:57
  there is another room with its door locked.
• 33:01
  All. Right.
• 33:02
  Well, I start, I start picking the lock, Yeah.
• 33:05
  Yeah, sleight of hand. Bond, could I get a little
• 33:08
  little bump? Yeah.
• 33:09
  All right. Right, right.
• 33:12
  Get a hit. I will cast Guidance of course.
• 33:15
  I'm really not doing my job as a cleric by forgetting to cast.
• 33:19
  17. 1717 Yeah, the lock clicks and it is ready to be opened.
• 33:26
  All right, can you listen to the door real quick and see if you
• 33:29
  do? Anything.
• 33:30
  I'll do that. And you can do a perception
• 33:32
  check. After that I'll also sneak into
• 33:34
  the room before anybody else just to check it out.
• 33:37
  Oh did nice. OK, 21 on my perception. 21 You
• 33:41
  don't hear anything. Cool, then like I said, I'll
• 33:43
  sneak into the room 22. You sneak in so silent, what you
• 33:50
  see is rows of iron work tables line the cracked stone walls.
• 33:55
  Their surface is cluttered with the remains of long forgotten
• 33:58
  experiments of half built prosthetics, stripped gears,
• 34:03
  cracked lenses, and delicate brass tubing that has long since
• 34:07
  seized with age. There's a full bronze torso
• 34:10
  lying on the floor near the far wall, it's chest cavity opened
• 34:14
  like a dissected clock, unmoving and silent, and you can tell
• 34:18
  that there's probably more in the back of the room that some
• 34:22
  large tables and shelves are blocking.
• 34:25
  But it looks like a room where they used to build augmentations
• 34:30
  and things like that. Cool.
• 34:31
  I'm gonna I'm gonna signal for everybody else to come in.
• 34:34
  It looks safe. Yeah, we walk in.
• 34:36
  I'm gonna look around. I haven't put the hat on yet.
• 34:40
  Again, I'm still in my my natural form and I'm gonna start
• 34:45
  looking at limbs and seeing because I, I'm under the
• 34:47
  impression that like, yeah, I do have some newer parts, but most
• 34:51
  of what I'm like made of is kind of like a different style of
• 34:54
  prosthesis from most of what you see today.
• 34:58
  And so I'm wondering if I see some of some stuff that looks
• 35:01
  more like that. You guys can give me two checks,
• 35:04
  everyone could give me investigation with advantage and
• 35:08
  then a history check. That 20 on the investigation
• 35:13
  with advantage. Incredible.
• 35:16
  All right. That will be a 14 on my
• 35:18
  investigation. 19 investigation history is 1812 history. 10
• 35:24
  History for Bow. You notice a pattern among the
• 35:27
  scattered parts. Most of the limbs bear clear
• 35:31
  signs of imitation. It looks like they were trying
• 35:35
  to imitate someone's style of work, Bow.
• 35:39
  Everyone can tell these limbs look like they are imitating
• 35:44
  something similar to Bow's limbs, but those old limbs look
• 35:50
  like they are of better quality than these ones.
• 35:53
  Even though yours are old and rusted and you don't know where
• 35:57
  they've come from, they still somehow look nicer than the ones
• 36:00
  here. Yours look a little more
• 36:02
  streamlined. Theirs looks very complicated,
• 36:05
  but it's made of the same type of metals that yours are.
• 36:08
  You could definitely see the similarities from Abe and Bond's
• 36:13
  history checks. You know from the past that
• 36:17
  Pharaoh Maleks has always been the empire that has done most of
• 36:21
  the augmentations, most of the experiments.
• 36:24
  That's where a lot of the artificers come from.
• 36:26
  You don't know much about Ignovarum's relationship with
• 36:30
  augmentations and what type of augmentations they used to do,
• 36:34
  if they even did any, until after Pharaoh Maleks had kind of
• 36:40
  brought them to the world. Pharaoh Maleks is the one that
• 36:44
  popularized them has since the past been the ones that have
• 36:49
  been updating them and, and, and really being on the cutting
• 36:52
  forefront of augmentations. So you guys walk around a little
• 36:57
  bit around the room and you see this really nice bronze
• 37:03
  mechanical arm resting on a table near the back.
• 37:07
  Unlike the others, it is very oops.
• 37:11
  Oh fuck, I wanted that one. So unlike the others that you
• 37:15
  saw, it looks very elegantly balanced and every gear and
• 37:19
  hinge is still polished and precise as if it's kind of
• 37:25
  withstood time. And you can tell after you see
• 37:29
  this arm that all the other limbs have been trying to
• 37:33
  imitate this specific style that this arm has.
• 37:37
  This arm looks like it's the blueprint for what Ignovarum was
• 37:41
  trying to imitate, but you don't know where this arm is from.
• 37:44
  And bow, this arm does look very similar to your bronze arm, but
• 37:49
  like I said, maybe just a little bit older than yours.
• 37:53
  I pull out my notebook and I read aloud what I write.
• 37:57
  Once again. Question Colon arms race ha ha
• 38:02
  Question mark. That was really good.
• 38:04
  That was a nice one. And Bo, as you are looking at
• 38:08
  this arm, this arm that looks like yours, you can tell that
• 38:12
  it's holding something clutched in its hand.
• 38:15
  I'm tempted to try to see what it is, but something tells me
• 38:18
  that the people who are trying to replicate this arm would have
• 38:21
  also tried to see what it is. And if they couldn't have done
• 38:25
  it, then maybe it's and maybe there's like some sort of trap
• 38:28
  if we like try to pull it out of the hand or something.
• 38:30
  Step back. Oh fuck it, I try to pull it out
• 38:33
  of the hand. Wait.
• 38:35
  Okay, perfect Bo. You reach out with your arm.
• 38:41
  Which arm is which? Which is your dominant arm, your
• 38:45
  left arm or your right arm? I think I'm right-handed.
• 38:48
  Your right hand is the newer arm and as that happens everyone
• 38:54
  roll initiative. Can we play it out also as like
• 38:56
  I was like, as he's reaching out, I said wait.
• 39:00
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 39:01
  Did I call out the trap and then immediately fall for the trap?
• 39:04
  Yeah, you, you roll initiative and then I'll describe what
• 39:08
  happens. 9. 17. I also have 17.
• 39:12
  Who is the higher dex? I'm assuming me I have a 4 + 4.
• 39:17
  Bo you reach out and you touch this arm and the arm throws
• 39:23
  whatever it was holding and startles you as it jumps up and
• 39:28
  attempts to strangle you. As that happens, your left arm
• 39:33
  starts trying to strangle yourself as well.
• 39:35
  Holy shit. As the arm is strangling, you
• 39:38
  bow another arm and two mechanical limbs start to move
• 39:42
  themselves, circling all three of you.
• 39:45
  Can I use my reaction to try to stop the arm from getting its
• 39:50
  hand around Bo's neck? Is it making an attack on?
• 39:54
  Me. Yes.
• 39:54
  So let's resolve the strangling first.
• 39:56
  Sure, sure. Yeah, you have to roll 2
• 39:58
  Dexterity saving throws, one with disadvantage.
• 40:02
  So do the first one first. So it's like trying to grapple.
• 40:05
  Me. Yeah, that one's trying to grab
• 40:06
  you. All right, well, that's not
• 40:08
  great. That'll be a 12 on the 1st.
• 40:11
  One, don't forget you also have your heroic inspiration.
• 40:14
  I'm going to save that. We'll see what the second one
• 40:16
  is. It's a good thing I didn't use
• 40:17
  it because it's also really bad on this one.
• 40:19
  That'll be a 10, so A-12 and A10.
• 40:22
  OK, you are being strangled by both of the arms and you're
• 40:27
  going to take damage. Since both of them are
• 40:29
  strangling you, you take 10 bludgeoning damage as your own
• 40:33
  arm and this mechanical arm start to squeeze your throat
• 40:36
  until you start to feel the metal cracking in your throat.
• 40:40
  Oh fuck. At the beginning of your turn,
• 40:42
  you may make an opposed strength check against the arms with
• 40:46
  disadvantage to try to break free so you can use your new
• 40:49
  arm. If you've remained strangled
• 40:51
  during your turn, you attack with disadvantage The other arm
• 40:55
  and the two legs are going to go the other arm.
• 41:00
  You could see it slowly crawling on the floor as it goes to punch
• 41:08
  Abe Abe, it rolls a 17. Does that hit?
• 41:11
  That is my AC, so yeah. You take 8 bludgeoning damage as
• 41:17
  it crushes into your ankle. Can I use my reaction at this
• 41:22
  point? Yes, you can use your reaction
• 41:24
  at this point. But I couldn't use it to help
• 41:26
  Charlie right to help Bow. What are you using as a
• 41:29
  reaction? I'm using Deflect Deflect
• 41:31
  missile slash attack now that I actually have it.
• 41:34
  It only it's only for you, right?
• 41:35
  Like it's not for Bow, Yeah. What's the wording on it?
• 41:38
  Yeah, when it hits me. So you can try to deflect the
• 41:42
  punch that just was given to your ankle.
• 41:44
  Would you like to do that with your reaction?
• 41:46
  Yes, yeah, I'll do that. Sorry Bo, I tried to help.
• 41:49
  That's OK, I mean. Roll A1D10 plus my dex plus my
• 41:55
  mug. Level 12 reduction of damage.
• 41:57
  You completely reduce it. I am going to use my focus point
• 42:03
  to redirect some of that force because I reduced the damage to
• 42:07
  0. Martial arts die is AD 6 so I
• 42:10
  roll 2 times my D6 plus my dex so that should be a nine.
• 42:15
  So you deflect the arm's punch and you smack it away for 9
• 42:21
  damage. The two legs are going to very
• 42:23
  silly, but they hop over to Bond and they flank him on either
• 42:28
  side. It's not going to give I.
• 42:29
  Cover my shins. No, they're going to jump and
• 42:32
  try to kick you in your thighs. I need to buy some shin guards.
• 42:38
  Yeah, this is a common occurrence.
• 42:39
  A6 does not hit your AC and does an 18. 18 does hit, yeah.
• 42:45
  They kick you for five bludgeoning damage.
• 42:48
  You need to make a Strength saving throw.
• 42:50
  There's a four. You are knocked prone, OK.
• 42:54
  So prone is they get advantage on me and it takes half my
• 42:57
  movement to get up right. A prone creatures only movement
• 43:00
  option is to crawl unless it stands up and everybody ends The
• 43:03
  condition. Creature has disadvantage on
• 43:05
  attack rolls and an attack roll against the creature has
• 43:07
  advantage if the attackers within 5 feet of the creature,
• 43:10
  otherwise the attack roll has disadvantage.
• 43:13
  Doesn't say that you use half your movement to stand up, but I
• 43:16
  can't imagine that they would have changed that.
• 43:18
  Well, Abe, it is your turn, OK, There is that arm that's right
• 43:21
  next to you. Yes, and and I'm about how far
• 43:24
  from Bonn, from Bonn and Bow actually.
• 43:27
  Let's say you followed Bow, so you're probably like 10 feet
• 43:30
  away from Bow and Bond is probably like 5 feet away from
• 43:34
  you, behind you. Abe is feeling very scared.
• 43:36
  I'm feeling scared. So I kind of impulsively the
• 43:40
  astral aura like ignites around me and these two astral arms
• 43:46
  extend like along my arms themselves and much further than
• 43:51
  my reach could actually be. Oh fuck, more limbs.
• 43:58
  All right, any of the enemies within 10 feet of me now need to
• 44:01
  make a deck saving throw. Incredible.
• 44:03
  So that's all of them. OK, they have to succeed 13.
• 44:08
  The arm that is strangling bow it had got a Nat 20 and then the
• 44:13
  other three fail. So what happens to the other
• 44:15
  three limbs? OK.
• 44:16
  They're going to take damage equal to two times my martial
• 44:20
  arts type plus decks, so I'll roll with those.
• 44:24
  It doesn't specify whether the others take half damage, which
• 44:27
  is kind of what used used to happen.
• 44:29
  Yeah, it doesn't specify. So yeah, OK, I'll just roll for
• 44:31
  the ones that fail. 15 damage Force damage.
• 44:36
  You take out the arm that was attacking you, and the two legs
• 44:41
  look incredibly injured. The other arm is still
• 44:45
  strangling Bow, as is Bow's own arm.
• 44:48
  OK so this was a bonus action so I still have my action to
• 44:53
  attack. Incredible.
• 44:55
  OK, now the Sorry Bon, I'm gonna focus my attack on the.
• 45:01
  That's OK. I'm OK.
• 45:03
  OK, I'm gonna focus my attacks on the the arms that are
• 45:07
  strangling bow right now, so. Thank you.
• 45:12
  All right, So I'm basically just using an arm strike to get some
• 45:15
  extra reach with these, so I will do that.
• 45:18
  I no longer have a bonus action. You're so you're punching, but
• 45:21
  you're punching the arm that's strangling bow.
• 45:23
  So you're kind of like. I'm punching it into him.
• 45:26
  In the throat. Oh, and just to be clear, so I
• 45:29
  don't get extra attacks with this, it doesn't.
• 45:31
  Got you that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 45:33
  It's just like I'm using it to gain reach.
• 45:35
  It's kind. Of gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
• 45:36
  That would be sick, but I don't think that's how it's meant to
• 45:39
  be played. So I will get a single attack
• 45:41
  which is 25 to hit. 25 hits. Seven damage.
• 45:47
  It takes that damage. And I end my turn.
• 45:49
  All right, Bond, it's your turn now.
• 45:51
  You have the two legs that are both incredibly hurt next to
• 45:53
  you. OK, I am going to get up, use
• 45:56
  half my movement to get up, and then I'm going to present my
• 45:59
  holy symbol and like grip my fist around my pocket, watch in
• 46:05
  my hand and then a burst of light will emanate from it.
• 46:08
  So I'm going to make everything that I want within a 30 foot
• 46:13
  radius make a Constitution saving throw.
• 46:17
  So all of these limbs are going to make a con saving throw that
• 46:21
  is going to be ADC 13. Does the arm attached to me make
• 46:24
  it like my own arm that's currently strangling me?
• 46:26
  Is that one going to make a Constitution saving throw?
• 46:29
  That's interesting. I forgot about that.
• 46:32
  Yeah, I feel like this is more dire.
• 46:34
  Bo, you make a constitution saving through. 12.
• 46:38
  OK, so both arms and one of the legs fail, one of the other legs
• 46:43
  succeeds. So everybody who fails takes
• 46:47
  this is 2D10 plus my cleric level.
• 46:50
  Jesus Christ this is insane. 17 plus cleric levels 3 Jesus
• 46:57
  Christ. Sorry, BO20 damage and then 10
• 47:00
  damage to anybody saved. Both of the legs go down, they
• 47:04
  flop to the floor and their pieces kind of crack and
• 47:07
  shatter. As you do this, you kill them
• 47:09
  very hard. They only had three hit points
• 47:12
  left. I go down and I took 3/4 of my
• 47:17
  health. But it was radiant damage, so
• 47:18
  you're fine. OK cool.
• 47:20
  Bow goes down and the original arm that was strangling bow goes
• 47:26
  down and when the radiant damage hits that arm, it kind of when
• 47:32
  you use a defibrillator, it kind of goes and then it stops and
• 47:36
  sits on the floor. A little bit of smoke coming out
• 47:39
  of it as it seems like the radiant damage has kind of fried
• 47:43
  at the inside of this arm and bow is down.
• 47:46
  Bond, is there anything else you want to do on your turn?
• 47:49
  All the limbs are down. Are we still an initiative?
• 47:52
  Yeah, because Bow is down right now.
• 47:54
  All right, I will use my bonus action to give Bo a healing
• 47:57
  potion. I.
• 47:58
  Was going to say Bunty should should be getting to work.
• 48:01
  He had specific instructions. I have a bonus action anyway,
• 48:04
  so. OK.
• 48:06
  Might as well. So that is 88 Health.
• 48:09
  Bo you pop back up with eight health your arm, your left arm
• 48:15
  is hurting incredibly the rest of your body, honestly and your
• 48:21
  throat, obviously your throat is cracked in the metal when it
• 48:25
  started to. Strangle you guys.
• 48:27
  I said fuck Bo Bo, I'm so sorry. I wasn't thinking.
• 48:30
  I, I just, you know, your arm was attacking you and I just, I
• 48:35
  forgot it was a part of you. That's fine, Bond.
• 48:38
  Thank you honestly. Bond, Bon make an intelligence
• 48:46
  check with advantage. Man, what the fuck with that?
• 48:52
  Just straight intelligence. Yeah, with advantage.
• 48:56
  It's a 16. With the 16 you know that you
• 49:00
  could cast mending on bows throat to kind of heal up the
• 49:04
  metal pieces that have been. All right, I will cast mending
• 49:08
  and the the gears kind of merge back together and form a more
• 49:13
  circular opening. Gee, thanks.
• 49:17
  Shit, I cast it again. I make it a little bit wider.
• 49:21
  Thank you. I kind.
• 49:23
  Of actually kind of like this. I kind of like.
• 49:27
  This one, yeah, I was just teasing that actually, isn't it?
• 49:31
  So you, you guys destroy. These yes, thank thank you.
• 49:34
  Also what the actual fuck was that?
• 49:36
  That kind of freaks me out. I kind of look at my arm
• 49:39
  distrustfully. Yeah, I'm also just standing
• 49:42
  there with now spectral arms extending from my arms.
• 49:46
  I look kind of ape like with the way that they're so long
• 49:49
  compared to the rest of my body. Kind of like Bunty, honestly.
• 49:53
  Yeah. Oh.
• 49:54
  My God. Cute.
• 49:56
  Twinsies. They're going to last for like
• 49:59
  10 minutes unless I, you know, deactivate them or bring them
• 50:03
  back after the fact. I mean, you might as well just
• 50:05
  keep them around for now. I'm gonna, yeah.
• 50:08
  Oh man, there's been a lot of weird shit going on down here.
• 50:12
  Could you do that detect magic thing again and?
• 50:15
  Definitely. Like I want to know if I can
• 50:17
  trust my limbs. I don't.
• 50:19
  I don't think detect magic will help me know.
• 50:22
  I could maybe cast sense good and Evil, but.
• 50:25
  You. Does anyone want to do an arcana
• 50:30
  check? Well, I'm actually going to
• 50:32
  start to pick up whatever it threw at me.
• 50:34
  Yes, yes, you look and you, well, actually.
• 50:38
  I don't want to pick it up, I just want to look at it for now
• 50:40
  just to be clear. Yeah, you go.
• 50:43
  You walk over to where it has thrown something and you see a
• 50:47
  little clockwork amulet on the floor.
• 50:50
  It's a small brass disc etched with concentric rings and tiny
• 50:55
  moving gears. I guess before I touch anything
• 50:59
  else, I'm just going to wait for us to kind of do checks on
• 51:02
  everything, so I'll do a check on it.
• 51:04
  Do you want to do Investigation Arcana?
• 51:07
  They're all -1 for me, so unless I can do like an insight check.
• 51:12
  I don't think an insight check you can insight check an object
• 51:15
  on the ground. Yeah, me neither.
• 51:17
  So I guess I'll do an Arcana check 2.
• 51:22
  This screams evil to you. Guys, this thing is super evil
• 51:27
  over here. Can I also do an arcana check
• 51:30
  when he says that? Nobody even needs to look at it.
• 51:33
  I'm so confident that this thing is evil.
• 51:35
  Yes, Abe, you can do an Arcana check if you'd like, OK.
• 51:38
  I'll also do 1. Hey Bo, I think you might just
• 51:40
  be experiencing a bit of like post traumatic stress disorder.
• 51:44
  Let's just let's take a keeper look.
• 51:47
  I'm not stressed. You're stressed.
• 51:50
  Dirty 20. Now that's better than mine.
• 51:52
  Mine is 15. With The Dirty 20, you could
• 51:55
  tell that this object is safe to pick up and to use, and it's
• 52:00
  also very magical. Bo I, I actually think that I
• 52:04
  think it's fine. I can pick it up just to show
• 52:06
  him I'll pick it up. Bond, you pick it up and.
• 52:09
  My eyes go wide. The gears stop moving when you
• 52:13
  pick it up. So it was a small brass disc
• 52:15
  etched with concentric rings and tiny moving gears.
• 52:18
  And so when you pick it up, the gear stop moving.
• 52:20
  Huh. I just throw it in the trash.
• 52:24
  I I can't really make heads or tails of this, but it doesn't
• 52:28
  seem to be evil to me. I kind of.
• 52:30
  I hold out my hand hesitantly to kind of look at it closer.
• 52:35
  I give it to Bo. Bo You touch the amulet, and for
• 52:39
  the first time you become kind of aware of your body.
• 52:43
  I mean, you've always been aware of the outside of your body, of
• 52:46
  how you look, but you've never been really aware of the goings
• 52:51
  on inside of your body. And as you touch this amulet,
• 52:56
  the gears start to whir and you can feel them sinking to your
• 53:01
  heartbeat and your pulse until you both move in perfect rhythm.
• 53:06
  I dry heave guys I could I can I can feel my insides.
• 53:13
  So what this does? Once per day, when Fate wavers
• 53:17
  the amulets, gears lock into place for a moment of absolute
• 53:21
  precision. You may choose to treat any D20
• 53:24
  roll as if you rolled Lucky 13, as your motion follows the
• 53:28
  perfect mechanical timing. Once you use this property can't
• 53:32
  be used again till next dawn. So you can make anything a 13.
• 53:36
  Is it before or after the check? Before the check, if he had to
• 53:39
  make a Dexterity savings throw, and it's a dire situation, he
• 53:43
  would rather just succeed than test fate and roll the D20.
• 53:48
  That's sick. Sick.
• 53:49
  Yeah, I, I think after the, the dry heaving and
• 53:52
  uncomfortableness of, of feeling all of my insides, I think I
• 53:56
  kind of get a groove going with this thing.
• 53:58
  And I'm like, do you guys mind if I hold on to this?
• 54:00
  Yeah, go for it. I wouldn't know what to do with
• 54:02
  it. All right, cool.
• 54:03
  Yeah. And you said any D20 roll, Does
• 54:06
  that include saving throws as well?
• 54:08
  Yes, you can do it on a saving throw too.
• 54:10
  Damn I could just do it on the death save.
• 54:12
  And you get 1 free, yeah. See, that's that's pretty sick,
• 54:15
  OK. So you guys are in this
• 54:18
  augmentation lab terrified after these 4 limbs just came to life
• 54:23
  and attacked you all. What do you guys want to do now?
• 54:26
  The arm that's on the table, is it a left or a right arm?
• 54:29
  The arm that's on the table is the right arm, but it is smoking
• 54:33
  and it looks, I mean badly beaten from getting punched and
• 54:37
  radiant damaged. So it is.
• 54:39
  It's hurting. Could you do a check on that to
• 54:42
  see if it's safe? Like what kind of order it's in?
• 54:44
  Because I'm I'm a little bit tempted to take it with us.
• 54:47
  To check the the magic on it. Yeah, see if it's going to, if
• 54:50
  it's going to act up again. I don't actually have tech evil
• 54:55
  or good prepared right now do. You have the tech magic active
• 54:59
  right now, sure. So when you came into this room,
• 55:02
  you cast the tech magic right now and you can see that there
• 55:06
  is a faint magical aura around the arm, but nothing that seems
• 55:12
  dangerous right now. Just it looks like it's like an
• 55:15
  inherently magical augmentation like it was.
• 55:19
  The artificers made it with metal and magic and infused it.
• 55:23
  I relay this. Would somebody else be willing
• 55:26
  to carry it for me because they don't exactly want to have
• 55:29
  contact with it? Can I make an investigation
• 55:32
  check? I am wondering if Bo picks it up
• 55:38
  with his old hand, what would happen?
• 55:41
  Yes. So I don't know if an
• 55:43
  investigation check would be the right check for this here.
• 55:47
  I think you would have to actually have Bo's old hand.
• 55:51
  His left hand touched. Test this hand.
• 55:55
  Fair enough, Bo. Which I don't know if Bo wants
• 55:58
  to do. If you guys like held it down I
• 56:01
  could try. Sure.
• 56:01
  OK, I'm going to. I'm going to use grapple with my
• 56:05
  astral self arms to see if I can hold it down.
• 56:10
  Yeah, yeah. You're restraining it with both
• 56:12
  your real arms and your astral self arms.
• 56:15
  It is pinned down Bow. Do you reach out and touch it
• 56:18
  with your left arm? Yeah, I'll touch it with my old
• 56:21
  arm because I touched it with my new hand previously, right?
• 56:24
  Yep. OK, and this is I'm sorry, just
• 56:26
  to clarify. So my my new arm is my right.
• 56:29
  Arm. Your new arm is your right arm,
• 56:31
  yes. Okay, and this is a right arm.
• 56:34
  And this is a right arm, yes? Okay, cool.
• 56:37
  So you touch it with your left arm.
• 56:40
  As you do Bon, you see the magical aura of this arm on the
• 56:46
  ground seems to slightly shift and change until it kind of
• 56:51
  matches the aura that you see around bow and bow.
• 56:55
  When you touch this arm, it it moves, it gives a very firm
• 57:00
  grasp on your arm, but not in the threatening way of how it
• 57:03
  jumped to your throat, but in a way that's almost like a
• 57:06
  handshake. Daps you up.
• 57:09
  Yeah. Yeah, I tap up.
• 57:12
  I tap up the arm. Incredible.
• 57:14
  OK. I think somebody else should
• 57:16
  still carry it. I think at some point I might
• 57:18
  want to have this attached to me.
• 57:21
  I don't know. Let's get an expert to look at
• 57:23
  it. I'm going to take my cloak off,
• 57:25
  so I'm just wearing my ghee now and I'll wrap, I'll wrap the arm
• 57:29
  up on the cloak and kind of like tie it to my back.
• 57:32
  You just reveal Bunty from under your cloak, just like.
• 57:35
  Hey, what's going on? Here, no more cloak time for
• 57:37
  now. I took a nap.
• 57:39
  I have a feeling that people in IG Novara may react a certain
• 57:44
  way to seeing this out and about, so it's maybe better to
• 57:48
  keep it hidden. Yeah, I assume we all have packs
• 57:51
  as well. We do but I I felt like it
• 57:54
  wouldn't fit in a bag but maybe. It just your your backpack.
• 57:58
  Abe is full because it also has the mirror in it and just a
• 58:02
  bunch of stuff in it. Bond your pack would be emptier
• 58:06
  if you wanted to put it in there.
• 58:08
  It's a full arm, so it bends at the at the elbow.
• 58:11
  It can kind of like fold in half and slide into his pack.
• 58:14
  Yeah, we can put in my bag. What did we do with Abe's
• 58:17
  original arm? Oh, I threw it away.
• 58:22
  Bunty, did you did you eat it? No, no, I don't eat human flesh.
• 58:27
  All right. I just had to check, you know?
• 58:29
  But I did drain a goat once. What?
• 58:32
  I drank the blood of goat, Yeah, If you had gone out to the store
• 58:36
  and I found a goat and I just and drank the blood.
• 58:40
  See, this is This is why I asked, you know?
• 58:43
  But I didn't like it. I didn't like it.
• 58:44
  OK, you sick fuck. I bet you did like it.
• 58:47
  I bet you did like it. No.
• 58:49
  No, I didn't. All right, you know what?
• 58:51
  And I and I unwrap the arm from the cloak and I say, Bond, put
• 58:54
  this in your bag. Please put it under the cloak.
• 58:57
  Bunty, get under the cloak. And I put the cloak.
• 58:59
  Again, so you guys are in this room, but when you mentioned
• 59:05
  maybe or Abe and Bo, both of you mentioned maybe we can get some
• 59:09
  an expert to look at this arm. Bo, you think about you maybe
• 59:14
  know an expert who deals with magical augmentations who could
• 59:18
  help you. Interesting.
• 59:19
  Who, Yeah, I, I will say actually to then I think I, I
• 59:22
  think I might know someone who might be able to help with us.
• 59:25
  OK. They're they're not close.
• 59:27
  We'd have to, we'd have to go to a different country.
• 59:29
  But at some point we might want to look at that.
• 59:32
  Sure. Well, I think we need to get a
• 59:34
  bag of holding. I don't really want to carry
• 59:36
  this to another country respectfully.
• 59:38
  No, that's fair. Let's keep moving.
• 59:40
  Great. So you guys decide to to keep
• 59:42
  moving and you head down another set of stairs.
• 59:46
  I think I'm going to use another spell slot also to cure wounds
• 59:51
  on bow just because he's really low right now.
• 59:54
  Yeah, much appreciated. That is going to be two D8 plus
• 59:57
  my spell casting modifier. I rolled really well.
• 1:00:00
  That's an 8 and A7, so that's 18.
• 1:00:03
  How is everyone looking in terms of abilities, spell slots,
• 1:00:07
  health, things like that? Because remember, you guys don't
• 1:00:10
  have to get the tablet until tomorrow.
• 1:00:13
  At midnight is when you have to return it, and right now with
• 1:00:17
  everything that's happened, you're pushing probably 1:00 AM.
• 1:00:21
  I'm good for a bit longer I would say.
• 1:00:23
  You brought me back up to full health, so even with the
• 1:00:26
  increased health so I'm I should be good for a while.
• 1:00:29
  I have full health in the next time we do initiative I plan on
• 1:00:32
  using the ability to get my all my points back.
• 1:00:36
  Cool. So you guys head down the stairs
• 1:00:40
  again, and the stairs lead directly into this large room.
• 1:00:46
  As you guys walk into this room, the air in this room kind of
• 1:00:51
  feels weightless. The architecture shifts from the
• 1:00:53
  mundane stonework to sweeping arches carved with
• 1:00:57
  constellations and flowing patterns of swirling stars.
• 1:01:00
  You see cracked statues of monks with four arms in both
• 1:01:04
  meditative and martial poses. They line the wall.
• 1:01:08
  The statues seem to shimmer faintly in torchlight that is
• 1:01:12
  lit. I look at Abe.
• 1:01:14
  Yeah. Do the arms look like like
• 1:01:16
  physical arms in the in the artwork?
• 1:01:20
  These are statues, so. It's hard to tell.
• 1:01:22
  Yeah, there are. Yeah, there are just four arms.
• 1:01:25
  It's kind of hard to tell, but you do see shimmering magic
• 1:01:28
  around it with your own plain eyes.
• 1:01:30
  No detect magic needed. And with detect magic.
• 1:01:34
  I say, look, it's sexy, Abe. Trying to get back for the sexy
• 1:01:40
  Bond comments. I do pull out my notebook and I
• 1:01:43
  sketch down just one of them. So bond with the detect magic.
• 1:01:47
  There are three statues here. You see the three of them
• 1:01:51
  pulsing with really, really strong magic.
• 1:01:55
  Red dark magic. Be careful, something's super
• 1:02:00
  fucking magical about these statues.
• 1:02:02
  I'm going to use a magical action.
• 1:02:03
  Too. I walk up and touch.
• 1:02:04
  One no no no no no. We grab grab Bo as he starts to
• 1:02:09
  walk up and just hold it back for a second and then use a
• 1:02:12
  magical action to determine what school of magic these are.
• 1:02:15
  Necromancy. Oh fuck, that's not good.
• 1:02:19
  I relay that back to everybody. Oh, I don't know what that
• 1:02:21
  means, but I don't like the sound.
• 1:02:23
  It's the magic of the undead. You know that you have to walk
• 1:02:26
  past these statues to get to the stairs at the other end of the
• 1:02:29
  room. Can we walk behind the statues?
• 1:02:31
  You can absolutely walk behind the statues.
• 1:02:33
  There is space between them. They're more in the center of
• 1:02:36
  the room. There's three statues all.
• 1:02:38
  Right. I feel like my instinct is to
• 1:02:41
  try to sneak past these statues. I don't know if that would work,
• 1:02:45
  but I don't. I don't want anything else
• 1:02:47
  waking up on us. Why don't we just have one
• 1:02:50
  person go and then the two of us can cover from afar for now?
• 1:02:55
  Who wants to go 1st and try to sneak past the statues?
• 1:02:57
  I'll go ahead and try to sneak past the statues.
• 1:02:59
  OK, so the room is 40 feet long. It's going to be like 20 feet
• 1:03:03
  till you get to the statue or 15 feet till you get to the first
• 1:03:06
  statue. Then there's a line of three of
• 1:03:08
  them and then another 10 feet on the back end to get to the other
• 1:03:12
  stairs. I think if I'm going stealthily
• 1:03:14
  then I'm moving at half speed but I feel like oh I can.
• 1:03:17
  Also, I can hide as a bonus action and then dash as a main
• 1:03:21
  action, so I can just move 30 feet a turn.
• 1:03:23
  That sounds good. Roll your stealth check.
• 1:03:25
  Do you want us to roll initiative?
• 1:03:26
  That'd be good. Everyone roll initiative.
• 1:03:30
  Natural one. I mean, it doesn't really matter
• 1:03:32
  because we'll just wait until I go first anyway, but.
• 1:03:34
  Can I ready an action as well? Yes, so, so give me your
• 1:03:37
  initiative first and then we'll everyone can ready their
• 1:03:40
  actions. It's gonna be 14. 22 but I am
• 1:03:45
  also not going to. I'm choosing not to regain my
• 1:03:47
  focus points at this stage. So, OK, maybe I'll pass that on
• 1:03:51
  to the next initiative just because I'm at full health and I
• 1:03:54
  don't know, I would also get health back.
• 1:03:57
  What do you want to prepare before Bo sets off?
• 1:04:00
  I am going to prepare. If I see these things start to
• 1:04:04
  move, I'm going to do Turn Undead.
• 1:04:07
  So that is as a magical action. I present my holy symbol and
• 1:04:10
  censure undead creatures. Each undead within 30 feet must
• 1:04:14
  make a Wisdom saving throw. If it fails it's save.
• 1:04:16
  It has the frightened and incapacitated conditions for one
• 1:04:19
  minute. Incredible.
• 1:04:20
  And Abe, do you want to prepare anything?
• 1:04:22
  Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm gonna ready like
• 1:04:24
  an action to maybe like like run down one of them with my
• 1:04:28
  movement and try to get close if it.
• 1:04:31
  OK, yeah, the first one is 15 feet away from you, so you could
• 1:04:35
  get there. OK, Bo, stealth check.
• 1:04:39
  All right, 25. 25 OK, give me a SEC.
• 1:04:45
  You are silent as you go behind the back of these three statues.
• 1:04:50
  You see, as Bo makes it past the first one, he makes it past the
• 1:04:55
  second one, and as he's going past the third one, it whips
• 1:05:00
  around and starts to scream at you.
• 1:05:02
  That's. Terrifying.
• 1:05:04
  It rolled in that 20 back. OK Bo, that is your entire turn
• 1:05:11
  with the hide and your two movements to get 30 feet into
• 1:05:15
  the room to where that third monk is.
• 1:05:17
  Bond do your they have to make. Wisdoms get super, I get super
• 1:05:21
  startled by that, and so they make a wisdom saving through
• 1:05:24
  DC-13. Fail, fail, succeed.
• 1:05:27
  OK, so that so. Are are these undead creatures?
• 1:05:30
  These are undead creatures, Yes, let's.
• 1:05:32
  Go shout out to tech magic. As the third monk turns around
• 1:05:36
  and screams, you see that the three monk statues start to
• 1:05:41
  shimmer, shimmer, shimmer even more.
• 1:05:42
  A ghostly blue and a ghostly version of these monks peel away
• 1:05:47
  from the pedestals, glowing red eyes fixated on Bow.
• 1:05:53
  As this happens, Bond cast his Is it Turn Undead?
• 1:05:57
  Yeah, Turn Undead. And the two that did not see Bo
• 1:06:01
  are now incapacitated and frightened.
• 1:06:03
  They for the duration have to move as far away from me as they
• 1:06:06
  can and it ends early if they take any damage.
• 1:06:09
  As this happens, Abe, you ready to your action as well.
• 1:06:13
  Are you going to run up? I'm going to use my full
• 1:06:15
  movement to get to the third. Good, because that's the one
• 1:06:20
  that didn't that did pass the saving through.
• 1:06:22
  Yes. And Bon, I don't know if you're
• 1:06:24
  informing me of this. I'm.
• 1:06:25
  Kind of, yeah. I don't know how well I can
• 1:06:27
  tell, but I, I think you sort of see immediately they kind of
• 1:06:30
  look back at me and panic. Like panic look, yeah, in their
• 1:06:34
  eyes. And they're not focused on Bo.
• 1:06:36
  And I feel like you were trying to protect Bo anyway.
• 1:06:39
  Yes. So I, I, I run up my my the
• 1:06:42
  movement is 40 feet, so I should get there and I'm going to
• 1:06:46
  attack with my arms. And Bunty is gonna attack as
• 1:06:51
  well. Let's go The first attack would
• 1:06:54
  be a 16 to hit. 16 does fit and bunty Bunty hits as well.
• 1:07:00
  Okay, and use my bonus action to.
• 1:07:03
  I got a 17 on the second one. Yeah, a 17 hits.
• 1:07:06
  All right, I'll run my damage and.
• 1:07:08
  Tell me what type of damage it is.
• 1:07:10
  This is going to be forced damage.
• 1:07:11
  Cool. It'll be 14 damage from the two
• 1:07:14
  attacks. So I just kind of like take both
• 1:07:15
  of the astral arms and just I run up and just start wailing on
• 1:07:19
  this third monk. And as you do that, Bunty,
• 1:07:22
  hanging onto your leg under your cloak, gets pulled along with
• 1:07:26
  you. And as you get close, he leaps
• 1:07:28
  out from under your cloak and starts to try to bite this
• 1:07:32
  ghosty figure. He doesn't do as much damage as
• 1:07:36
  he would normally. Then we're going to start at the
• 1:07:41
  top of the round. The top of the round is Abe.
• 1:07:44
  OK, I'm going to keep attacking. Also Abe for future reference, I
• 1:07:48
  don't think you can do both a move and an attack on a ready to
• 1:07:51
  action. I think you get 1 action type
• 1:07:54
  which is either like attack, move.
• 1:07:55
  OK, we'll let it go for this one.
• 1:07:57
  OK, so you're in front of the third monk.
• 1:08:01
  You and and Bunty can act again. OK, I will attack again. 24 to
• 1:08:06
  hit and an 18 to hit on. I'm using another bonus action
• 1:08:12
  on this actual turn. 3 on the 1st, 2:00 on the seconds.
• 1:08:15
  That's gonna be 7 and 6, so 13 damage. 13 damage and Bunty
• 1:08:19
  misses with this one. Yep, and I end my turn.
• 1:08:22
  All right Bon, it is your turn now.
• 1:08:25
  The other, the 1st 2 are frightened.
• 1:08:27
  How's the other one looking? That one is looking definitely
• 1:08:31
  not anywhere close to down. How far away is it?
• 1:08:34
  It's 30 feet away all. Right.
• 1:08:35
  So I'm gonna run up to it and just make a Mace attack straight
• 1:08:39
  up. So that is gonna be a 16 to hit.
• 1:08:43
  16 hits. For damage.
• 1:08:45
  And this is non magical weapon so it is halves.
• 1:08:47
  Yep. That's my turn.
• 1:08:48
  It is now the monk's turn. The two monks that are
• 1:08:53
  frightened because you ran past them to the third monk, they're
• 1:08:57
  going to use all of their movement and their action to go
• 1:09:01
  towards where you guys first came from.
• 1:09:03
  So they would be going up the stairs opposite of where you
• 1:09:06
  guys are planning on going. The last monk is still fixated
• 1:09:10
  on bow and is going to attack. Does a 16 hit.
• 1:09:15
  So my armor class is 15 and I think that this monk comes up to
• 1:09:20
  attack me and is about to hit me and I just kind of like close my
• 1:09:26
  eyes and put my hands up and you see a magical aura surrounds bow
• 1:09:31
  and he casts the shield spell and the attack misses.
• 1:09:35
  Oh shit. And I and I open, I open my eyes
• 1:09:39
  to see that the attack has not landed.
• 1:09:41
  Oh my God, my bodyguard is so cool.
• 1:09:44
  Oh my God. Oh.
• 1:09:45
  My God. Fun.
• 1:09:47
  Yeah, I I think Thesmira loves me.
• 1:09:50
  Thesmira actually will. OK, Thesmira loves everybody, so
• 1:09:53
  jot that down. Yeah, but I think, I think I'm
• 1:09:56
  the chosen 1 of thesmira. I don't know man, that seems a
• 1:09:59
  little. It makes it everything's
• 1:10:02
  connecting. OK, the monk.
• 1:10:04
  Whatever, whatever. On the monk's second attack, he
• 1:10:07
  hits you with the Nat 20. OK, right after I say that to
• 1:10:11
  Bond, I get distracted by by saying this to Bond I.
• 1:10:16
  Just chosen one in my ass. It's.
• 1:10:19
  Mira, I just get slapped outside the head.
• 1:10:21
  This monk, you see, looks very similar to Abe.
• 1:10:25
  It has two arms that is coming out of his shoulder and two of
• 1:10:29
  its regular arms. One of its arms that's coming
• 1:10:32
  out of his shoulder swings down, gets stopped by Bow's shield
• 1:10:36
  that he puts up, but the monk's left arm comes down, shatters
• 1:10:40
  the shield, goes straight through and smacks Bow right in
• 1:10:43
  the face. You take 11 bludgeoning damage.
• 1:10:46
  I know it's actually technically too late, but could I use a luck
• 1:10:49
  point to make him reroll that NAP 20?
• 1:10:51
  Next time, all right, it's going to use its bonus action to do
• 1:10:56
  something called Corrupted Flurry.
• 1:10:58
  He's going to make his first Corrupted did flurry attack?
• 1:11:01
  All right, I'm going to use Warding Flame.
• 1:11:03
  Use my reaction to warding Flame.
• 1:11:05
  So when a creature that I can see within 30 feet makes an
• 1:11:07
  attack roll, I can use the reaction to impose disadvantage.
• 1:11:11
  The flavor is that light flares before its eyes and causes it to
• 1:11:15
  miss. So I push out my palm and my
• 1:11:18
  holy symbol, and cause like a bright emanation of light to
• 1:11:22
  blink in its eyes before it attacks.
• 1:11:24
  Incredible. So it's going to roll with
• 1:11:26
  disadvantage, It misses with its first corrupted flurry, it's
• 1:11:31
  going to make a second one great.
• 1:11:33
  It hits with a Nat 20. Oh my.
• 1:11:35
  God. You got created on twice, sorry.
• 1:11:38
  So that is going to do 5 bludgeoning damage and then six
• 1:11:44
  necrotic damage. With the necrotic damage, your
• 1:11:47
  Max hit points is now reduced by 6 until you take a long rest.
• 1:11:54
  If your Max hit points is reduced to zero, you are dead.
• 1:11:58
  So I'm actually at only one below Max HP because I had the
• 1:12:02
  extra 5 to my Max it points. Yeah, so now you're you're down
• 1:12:06
  to 20, isn't your new Max right now.
• 1:12:09
  Right. Cool.
• 1:12:10
  All right, this monk is going to scream as it does its corrupted
• 1:12:16
  flurry, and as it is punching Bow, you see dark black and red
• 1:12:21
  tendrils come out of its spectral arms and kind of seep
• 1:12:25
  into Bow's openings where his gears are as he takes that
• 1:12:30
  damage. All right, Bo, it is your turn.
• 1:12:33
  How's it looking? It's looking hurt, but it still
• 1:12:35
  has ways to go all. Right, I'm going to look at it
• 1:12:40
  and I'm going to say the power of this mirror compels you and
• 1:12:44
  point my hand at it and catch which bolt.
• 1:12:49
  Incredible. Shit.
• 1:12:51
  Do you roll an attack? I do with my -1 attack or no I'm
• 1:12:55
  sorry. It is a + 1 attack bonus, so
• 1:12:58
  it's a 7 to hit. The seven does not hit all.
• 1:13:03
  Right, that's fine. Power of this mirror in my ass.
• 1:13:06
  Bond is digging this so personally.
• 1:13:09
  Fuck. Oh well, I could have done
• 1:13:11
  something. Oh.
• 1:13:12
  Well, don't forget you have your heroic inspiration also.
• 1:13:15
  I could have given myself advantage, yeah, but I'll use
• 1:13:19
  the actually, no, I won't use the heroic action.
• 1:13:22
  Yeah. So I just, I just kind of don't
• 1:13:23
  do anything. Actually, I think you do see
• 1:13:26
  magic like come out. So it does, but it just kind of
• 1:13:29
  fizzles out. Hey, you're still learning.
• 1:13:31
  It's OK, Bo. I think thus Mira has forsaken
• 1:13:34
  me. I was pretty Abe.
• 1:13:35
  I'm like, that's not a style of magic.
• 1:13:37
  That's not hers. She didn't do either of these
• 1:13:39
  things. I can't do that.
• 1:13:40
  Hey, dude. I don't even know what that was
• 1:13:42
  You. Need to calm down.
• 1:13:46
  Abe, it's your turn. OK, we're going to keep going
• 1:13:48
  for it. Bunty's going to attack too.
• 1:13:51
  That is a 1616. Hits 18 hits Bunty only does a
• 1:13:56
  singular point of damage as the monk has resistance to non
• 1:14:03
  magical. Abe is kind of feel goaded by
• 1:14:07
  him using a flurry of lows and I was going to save my focus
• 1:14:11
  point, but if he's balling out, I got a ball out too.
• 1:14:15
  So. I'm gonna instead use Flurry of
• 1:14:20
  blows and add one more attack. You know it's only adds 2.
• 1:14:23
  Takes the place of my single unarmed bonus action, which is
• 1:14:27
  gonna be a 22 to hit. So I hit with all three.
• 1:14:30
  Hell yeah. OK, that's going to be 26
• 1:14:33
  damage. 26 damage Whoo. I rolled A5A6 and A and a three
• 1:14:38
  and I have +4 to all of those. You knock right into this, this
• 1:14:43
  ghostly monk, and you see it's red eyes start to flame as it
• 1:14:48
  focuses on you and it turns to you.
• 1:14:50
  And he goes, My brethren, my brethren, why do you attack?
• 1:14:59
  Hey, do you know this guy Abe? I am taken aback and shocked as
• 1:15:04
  it's doing this. Almost like almost.
• 1:15:06
  I mean, I don't step back actually, but like, you know, it
• 1:15:09
  appears that way. Anything else you want to do on
• 1:15:11
  your turn? No, I can't.
• 1:15:13
  Bond, it's your turn. How's it looking?
• 1:15:15
  Is it still still good? It's looking pretty hurt.
• 1:15:17
  I mean, still has some ways, but it's looking pretty hurt.
• 1:15:21
  All right, I'm going to use a can trip and cast.
• 1:15:26
  I'm going to cast toll the dead. Toll the dead is I pointed a
• 1:15:29
  creature within range and a dolorous bell is audible within
• 1:15:33
  10 feet, so if it's missing any of its HP it is going to make a
• 1:15:37
  wisdom saving throw and take 1D12 on fail. 1D12 What type of
• 1:15:42
  damage? DC-13.
• 1:15:43
  You might have your water bottle.
• 1:15:47
  What type of damage just told the dead?
• 1:15:49
  Told the dead it's necrotic damage.
• 1:15:51
  This was stupid. This was a stupid idea.
• 1:15:53
  So he rolls a wisdom saving. Throw.
• 1:15:59
  Yeah, he rolls a Wisdom saving throw.
• 1:16:02
  OK. Totally could have done divine
• 1:16:04
  smite too. You're sorry?
• 1:16:07
  A Dolores bell is heard by this monk.
• 1:16:10
  He goes and nothing happens. God damn it I I'm so distracted
• 1:16:17
  by like Bo throwing me off my game with all this this mirror
• 1:16:20
  shit. I just cast the complete
• 1:16:23
  opposite spell of what's needed in a situation.
• 1:16:27
  You're just you're just spamming spells to try to prove
• 1:16:30
  something. And then I'm just going to call
• 1:16:32
  that my turn. OK, cool.
• 1:16:33
  It is now this monk's turn. The other two monks are They've
• 1:16:37
  completely fled. Their statues are still here,
• 1:16:40
  and they don't look magical anymore.
• 1:16:42
  But the the two ghosts that were attached to those statues are
• 1:16:45
  now gone. This monk is going to now attack
• 1:16:48
  Abe as it's offended that it's brethren has attacked him.
• 1:16:53
  I'm just yelling I'm not a monk. I'm not a monk because
• 1:16:57
  canonically up to this point I've not said I'm a monk at all.
• 1:17:01
  I have no idea. I.
• 1:17:02
  Just hit really hard. Yeah, so and I have a.
• 1:17:06
  Staff and a cloak and a geek. That's it.
• 1:17:09
  How am IA Monk? The first attack does an 18 hit
• 1:17:16
  and then I'll roll the second attack that is a 22.
• 1:17:21
  So both attacks will hit. The first one is going to do 7
• 1:17:25
  damage and the second one does 6 damage.
• 1:17:30
  It is then going to roll to see if it gets its corrupted flurry
• 1:17:34
  back on A5 or A6 it gets that charge back.
• 1:17:38
  That's a six. The first corrupted flurry does
• 1:17:42
  not hit and the second one is 24 to hit does.
• 1:17:48
  Hit Yeah. You take 5 bludgeoning damage
• 1:17:51
  and an additional 6 necrotic damage.
• 1:17:54
  Your Max HP is now reduced by 6 until you take a long rest.
• 1:18:00
  My brethren, why do you forsake us?
• 1:18:05
  You bear the markings of our people.
• 1:18:08
  Are you not with us? What the fuck?
• 1:18:11
  No. Who are you?
• 1:18:13
  I have one brother too. Sorry, Bunty.
• 1:18:15
  Yeah. What about me?
• 1:18:17
  Are you not part of the Dawn of stars?
• 1:18:28
  I look at the two of you guys that I'm like, I am not part of
• 1:18:31
  this dawn of Star. I have no idea what's going on.
• 1:18:35
  You see like the necrotic tendrils where it hit me, I'm
• 1:18:37
  just like. Bo, it is your turn now.
• 1:18:41
  Sick. I am going to, having seen the
• 1:18:45
  results of my magic. Stick to what I know and I'll
• 1:18:47
  draw my short sword and my knife and I'll take some attacks.
• 1:18:51
  Amazing. First one I'm going to use a
• 1:18:54
  lucky point to give myself advantage.
• 1:18:58
  I rolled A4 twice. Fuck it, I'll use the heroic
• 1:19:03
  inspiration to roll again. Nice.
• 1:19:09
  OK, I got an 18 on the die. Definitely his.
• 1:19:13
  I rolled 2 sixes on my sneak attack.
• 1:19:15
  Incredible. So that'll be 18 damage from my
• 1:19:18
  first attack. OK, half to 9.
• 1:19:20
  Yes, of course, for my second attack I'll use my offhand
• 1:19:24
  dagger and I have advantage on that because of my short sword
• 1:19:28
  hit. That'll be a 13 to hit.
• 1:19:31
  That does not hit. OK.
• 1:19:33
  So you get him with the first one, and you get him pretty good
• 1:19:36
  with that, with that short sword against him, but you see that it
• 1:19:39
  doesn't go as deep as it looks like it would and you whiff on
• 1:19:43
  the 2nd on the deck. And as my bonus action, which I
• 1:19:46
  still have because remember Rep weapon mastery and everything
• 1:19:50
  like that, I'll use the Witch Bolt ability that allows me to
• 1:19:53
  do 1D12 damage to him. Just straight up.
• 1:19:56
  Yeah, Witch Bolt. Even if you miss with it on your
• 1:19:58
  first attack, you can. It's a concentration and you can
• 1:20:01
  continue to do AD 12 as a bonus action on each turn.
• 1:20:04
  Do. You have to roll for it.
• 1:20:06
  No, I mean I roll the D12. Fuck.
• 1:20:09
  That's crazy. That is crazy.
• 1:20:11
  So that'll be for lightning damage.
• 1:20:14
  For lightning damage, Wow yeah, even if the.
• 1:20:18
  Automatically, yeah. That's so crazy.
• 1:20:21
  That's sick. You said lightning damage.
• 1:20:23
  Yes. OK.
• 1:20:24
  And that is magical. Great.
• 1:20:25
  So he takes that lightning damage straight to the chest and
• 1:20:28
  he goes. Oh my God, this mirror does love
• 1:20:31
  me. Abe, it's your turn with Bunty.
• 1:20:36
  Okay. Can you imagine if there were
• 1:20:38
  three of these guys? Yeah, I'm really thankful.
• 1:20:41
  I'm very. Good at work.
• 1:20:43
  Thank you, Bon. Yeah.
• 1:20:45
  I say to. On The Unsung Hero.
• 1:20:48
  I say to Abe, Abe, you're you're really strong.
• 1:20:51
  What if we tried to knock over its statue and break it?
• 1:20:54
  Maybe it's looking pretty fucked up.
• 1:20:55
  I think we can handle it. Let's wait to.
• 1:20:57
  Do that until maybe we try to take him out completely.
• 1:21:00
  My thinking here, we won't know if it works to remove this sort
• 1:21:05
  of spell unless we do it while it's still alive.
• 1:21:07
  If we take it out, then I don't know if we'll be safe in this
• 1:21:11
  room from the other two. Well, I was thinking that we'd
• 1:21:13
  take them out and then we'd break all three statues.
• 1:21:15
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:21:17
  And just to clarify, Bond, I'm not actually like that strong.
• 1:21:21
  It's like kind of more like a technique that I learned like
• 1:21:24
  after the ritual where like I kind of like use my nimbleness
• 1:21:29
  and dexterity and like apply it in a fast way.
• 1:21:32
  I'm not like, you know, like, like, you know, like I wouldn't
• 1:21:36
  win like an arm wrestle, just to be clear, like I don't think I'd
• 1:21:39
  win an arm wrestle against you, but like.
• 1:21:40
  All right, we can. We can arm wrestle after this.
• 1:21:43
  Do whatever you want to do. This screaming undead monk ghost
• 1:21:48
  just beating you as you do that. OK, so I'm going for the statue
• 1:21:53
  then, right? Or no.
• 1:21:55
  No, no, do it. Do whatever you want.
• 1:21:56
  OK, OK. I'm gonna, I'm gonna keep going
• 1:21:59
  because I seem to have the most impact on the this.
• 1:22:02
  Ghost. Yeah.
• 1:22:03
  Because. Because the force.
• 1:22:05
  Damage, yeah. Oh, I don't think that's going
• 1:22:08
  to hit but 11. 11 does not hit. OK, OK, 17 on the 2nd.
• 1:22:16
  A 17 does hit. Nine damn, 10 damage. 10 damage.
• 1:22:22
  OK, you see him at death's other door, because I guess he didn't
• 1:22:28
  pass through the first one and. That's back door.
• 1:22:32
  That's bad, he's going in the back door and bun Bunty hits on
• 1:22:39
  his attack but his damage is halved so Bunty has to roll and
• 1:22:45
  all he needs is A2 on his die to take out the ghost.
• 1:22:52
  Bunty gets on one. Fucking course, of course,
• 1:22:54
  Bunty. Course Bunty got.
• 1:22:56
  It was so sad this red little one popped up.
• 1:22:59
  Like I could shoot. We already know what's gonna
• 1:23:03
  happen. Do we need to?
• 1:23:07
  Bond, it's your turn. This this corrupted monk is is
• 1:23:12
  at that store. All right, I am going to.
• 1:23:16
  I'm just going to make a regular attack.
• 1:23:18
  I don't want to fuck it. All right, whatever.
• 1:23:21
  Never mind, we're doing, I'll do a regular attack.
• 1:23:24
  Fuck it, I'm just going to roll. That is a 12 to hit.
• 1:23:30
  It's 12, does not hit. All right, I that's that is my
• 1:23:34
  turn. Fucking monster.
• 1:23:39
  It's the monster, the monk. The monk goes to you, Abe, and
• 1:23:44
  starts beating you. Shit, Wait, wait, can I try?
• 1:23:48
  Wait. I'm one of your brothers, right?
• 1:23:50
  I'm one of your, I thought. You said you were one of his
• 1:23:52
  brothers. I'm winking at you by all.
• 1:23:56
  Right. So very.
• 1:23:57
  Obviously. With the first.
• 1:23:59
  What's happening? The first attack it.
• 1:24:01
  I'm gonna impose disadvantage. Cool.
• 1:24:04
  It still hits. You take 4 bludgeoning damage.
• 1:24:09
  I'm gonna roll for the second hit.
• 1:24:10
  Now that's a Nat 20. Oh my God.
• 1:24:15
  How are you looking, Abe? I'm at 13 right now but.
• 1:24:19
  That was a that was a Nat 20 on the regular attack, right?
• 1:24:21
  Not the corrupt. Yeah, this is regular that is
• 1:24:24
  going to. Be That would have been, yeah, I
• 1:24:27
  think if we had to fight all three, this would have been a
• 1:24:29
  TPK, yeah. 10 damage on that one, Abe.
• 1:24:34
  OK, and it's going to roll to see if it gets its Corrupted
• 1:24:38
  Flurry back. It does not.
• 1:24:40
  Thank God, thank you, this Mira. Bo, it is I.
• 1:24:45
  Think she's on my side too. Bob, I'm just I'm.
• 1:24:48
  Just see too. You guys didn't grow up with
• 1:24:52
  this? You don't know anything about
• 1:24:54
  this man. Bond.
• 1:24:56
  I went to religious school every Sunday.
• 1:24:59
  The love of Thespira does not depend on studying or time or
• 1:25:05
  even really being a good person or anything like that.
• 1:25:10
  She just decides who she loves and who she doesn't.
• 1:25:14
  I'm seething. All right, Bo, it is your turn.
• 1:25:20
  He is at that's door. I'm not going to use a luck
• 1:25:24
  point. See what happens.
• 1:25:28
  We could just use your bonus action, right?
• 1:25:29
  Yeah, I guess I could just use the bonus action to do.
• 1:25:32
  I did roll a 17 in my attack though, so I'll take that. 17
• 1:25:35
  hits. That is going to be 16 damage on
• 1:25:41
  that attack. Describe how you take out this
• 1:25:43
  corrupted ghost monk. All right, even though I did
• 1:25:46
  attack it, I do want to use the witch pole, yeah.
• 1:25:49
  OK, go for. It so I'm just gonna I'm gonna
• 1:25:51
  I'm gonna pull out the I guess the when I said the power of
• 1:25:55
  this mirror, it doesn't or compels you before it didn't
• 1:25:58
  really work. So I'm going to change it up.
• 1:26:00
  This mirror says go fuck yourself and then surround the
• 1:26:05
  ghost in lightning and it dissipates.
• 1:26:08
  Yeah, the ghost dissipates with one last haunting as it points
• 1:26:16
  at Abe. Now what do you guys want to do?
• 1:26:19
  Dude. Let's break the fuck out of
• 1:26:20
  these statues. Yeah.
• 1:26:21
  All right. Strength checks or athletic
• 1:26:24
  checks to to knock over these statues.
• 1:26:26
  DC-15. As they're doing this, I'm going
• 1:26:28
  to ritual cast detect magic to try to sort of like confirm that
• 1:26:32
  the magic leaves them. So I'll let you guys take.
• 1:26:34
  Care of it strong as a person, so we'll see how how this goes.
• 1:26:38
  Athletics DC-15 got. You and that'll be a six.
• 1:26:42
  You cannot. Are we still an initiative?
• 1:26:44
  Yes, you are still an initiative.
• 1:26:46
  So then, Abe, it is your turn. That is a 19.
• 1:26:49
  A-19, No. So it's 21.
• 1:26:51
  That's a 21. Which one do you want to knock
• 1:26:53
  over? The 1st, the 2nd or the 3rd?
• 1:26:55
  Probably 1 of the ones that we haven't fought that ran away.
• 1:26:58
  Yeah, I'll do the. I'll move over to the first one
• 1:27:02
  because that's the farthest and knock that one over if I can.
• 1:27:07
  You knock over that statue. As it's falling to the ground,
• 1:27:11
  you see the ghostly spirit that had moved away suddenly comes
• 1:27:16
  shooting through the door, hits the statue, the statue falls to
• 1:27:19
  the ground, and then the spirit explodes and dissipates.
• 1:27:24
  I immediately stopped casting detect magic.
• 1:27:27
  We should focus on this. OK, Abe, I'll count that as your
• 1:27:32
  action for this round. Bonus action.
• 1:27:35
  You can try to push over a another statue if you want.
• 1:27:38
  If you want to try to push over the second.
• 1:27:39
  For sure. Then that's a 22.
• 1:27:43
  OK, same thing happens. The other ghost that disappeared
• 1:27:46
  shoots through the room screaming.
• 1:27:49
  It gets back into the statue of statue, falls to the ground, it
• 1:27:52
  explodes and the only the 3rd monk statue is still there.
• 1:27:56
  The monk's turn will skip it. It's both or it's Bond's turn.
• 1:28:00
  Excuse me, but he's casting detect magic still or.
• 1:28:03
  I stop. I stop casting Detect Magic as
• 1:28:05
  soon as I see that happen. I don't go to detect Magic.
• 1:28:08
  I'm just gonna make a strength check.
• 1:28:10
  It's DC-15, right? Athletics.
• 1:28:13
  That is a 17. You knock over that third
• 1:28:16
  statue. Since the ghost was already
• 1:28:19
  dispelled, the statue crumbles to the floor.
• 1:28:22
  You see, whatever little magic was still there softly
• 1:28:25
  dissipates. So as I push it over, I push it
• 1:28:28
  over. I like bust out this sort of
• 1:28:31
  almost adolescent anger strength that when I'm having one of my
• 1:28:35
  like fits of ire, I turn to everybody just kind of heavily
• 1:28:43
  breathing. I say, everybody sit down right
• 1:28:47
  now. We need to huddle up and I I sit
• 1:28:50
  down, I cast and I assume we're out of initiative.
• 1:28:53
  Yeah, you're out of initiative. OK, I cast and.
• 1:28:56
  Then another ghost comes. I cast dancing lights and make
• 1:29:02
  3. Next shards come out and I sit
• 1:29:05
  down in front of 1. I put the other two in front of
• 1:29:09
  the others and I say, now sit down.
• 1:29:13
  OK, OK, I sit down. Yeah, Beau sits down as well.
• 1:29:16
  First of all, if we see anything in this dungeon that looks
• 1:29:21
  anything like any of us, we don't fuck with it.
• 1:29:25
  If we've learned anything from today, fair enough.
• 1:29:29
  We've been tacked by a mirror version of me.
• 1:29:32
  Alms that come from you and these monks that claim to be
• 1:29:36
  your brothers. I'm not a monk.
• 1:29:37
  The second thing, you look like a monk.
• 1:29:40
  I've seen a lot of monks. You look like 1.
• 1:29:42
  So what's up with that man? I never went to a monastery or
• 1:29:46
  anything. I've never learned with any
• 1:29:48
  monks. Whatever happened to me is
• 1:29:50
  definitely because of Bunty, and I point to him.
• 1:29:52
  It's not because of anything I wanted.
• 1:29:54
  Where'd you get the Rose? I just bought them.
• 1:29:56
  Yeah, we went shopping together and I told him that purple was
• 1:30:00
  his color. OK, OK.
• 1:30:01
  He. Did say that, and he's right
• 1:30:02
  about that. We can unpack this later.
• 1:30:05
  Third thing, Thesmira is quite literally sacred to me.
• 1:30:10
  I shared some of my past with you, some of my trauma, and I do
• 1:30:13
  not appreciate you taking it lightly.
• 1:30:16
  Maybe you are blessed by Thesmira, Maybe.
• 1:30:19
  But it is not that simple, and to evoke her name in a way that
• 1:30:26
  is disrespectful and untrue to an actual belief in her is
• 1:30:31
  detrimental to your connection to Tesmira.
• 1:30:35
  If you were to have any, then that would harm it.
• 1:30:38
  So I urge you to please not try to meddle in areas where you
• 1:30:43
  don't know anything. I turn.
• 1:30:45
  I start to. Seething and then I just like
• 1:30:47
  lie back down and I sort of whispered myself and I was like,
• 1:30:51
  she's supposed to be my God. I turn to Bo and I say, hey,
• 1:30:57
  man, I I don't think he. I think we should.
• 1:31:00
  I think maybe this mirror is off limits.
• 1:31:02
  I think maybe let's not, maybe let's not.
• 1:31:04
  I think talk about it. Yeah, it's a little obvious that
• 1:31:07
  this mirror loves both of us more than than she loves like
• 1:31:12
  Bond so. I was hitting, I was hitting
• 1:31:14
  that thing so hard. And so are you.
• 1:31:17
  And like is doing nothing. I think, I think it goes without
• 1:31:21
  saying that. Like, let's just keep this
• 1:31:24
  between us. We don't have to.
• 1:31:26
  Of course, yeah. As this conversation is
• 1:31:28
  happening, Beau and Abe both give me religion checks.
• 1:31:34
  Bond. You're laying on the floor, kind
• 1:31:36
  of looking at the ceiling. Just kind of like there's like a
• 1:31:40
  little bit of a tear coming down one of my eyes, like shaking
• 1:31:44
  down towards my ear. Hey Bong, could you give me
• 1:31:46
  guidance on this? That's a Nat just breathing
• 1:31:52
  looking at my next Shard. It's a 5 for me but did you say
• 1:31:57
  a Nat 20? Or a Nat 20 on the religion
• 1:31:59
  check. So Bo, you, as you're having
• 1:32:03
  this conversation with Abe, you're 100% sure that this
• 1:32:09
  mirror definitely blessed you. This is the reason that you have
• 1:32:13
  your powers. These powers that suddenly came
• 1:32:16
  out of nowhere. Like, where else could it be
• 1:32:18
  from? I mean, like, you uncovered her
• 1:32:21
  moniker. You uncovered the secret about
• 1:32:23
  her past. You did that bow.
• 1:32:25
  You deserve her blessing, Abe. As you're having this
• 1:32:30
  conversation, if you come to two realizations.
• 1:32:34
  One, no God has blessed you. And two, there is maybe a God
• 1:32:41
  that has some sort of connection to Bow.
• 1:32:45
  And as you're thinking that, you hear a faint echo of laughter.
• 1:32:51
  There's this light, amused and a little bit smug.
• 1:32:54
  You hear that in your head. Yo what the fuck?
• 1:32:56
  And I get up from where I'm sitting at this point, and I put
• 1:33:00
  my hands up. I just heard something in my
• 1:33:02
  head. All four of them.
• 1:33:03
  In those, Yeah, all, all four of them.
• 1:33:05
  And I heard something in my head.
• 1:33:08
  Someone was just laughing. Did you guys just laugh?
• 1:33:10
  No. I'm just breathing hard.
• 1:33:12
  Just obviously I didn't laugh. I kind of just like I I ball my
• 1:33:17
  fists up, kind of like looking around the room to see if there
• 1:33:19
  are any more ghosts of monks do. You want to make an
• 1:33:21
  investigation check for me? Yeah.
• 1:33:24
  That's gonna be a 10. You don't see where the source
• 1:33:28
  of the voice is coming from, but you're walking around, all four
• 1:33:32
  of your fists balled up, ready to punch if anything appears.
• 1:33:36
  Looking like my champ over here. Yeah, that's literally how I'm
• 1:33:39
  imagining it. That's literally what I've been
• 1:33:43
  imagining this. When I was imagining the
• 1:33:45
  statues, that's what I was imagining.
• 1:33:46
  Saying I've also just been picturing the champ.
• 1:33:52
  Thinking of Pong Krell from the Clone Wars.
• 1:33:55
  So Abe, you're walking around and all of a sudden you spot
• 1:34:01
  something in the rubble of that third statue when he had pushed
• 1:34:07
  it over. And you kind of sift the stone
• 1:34:11
  away and you see a little needle filled with some sort of black
• 1:34:17
  ink. Hey guys, because I'm assuming
• 1:34:21
  you guys are still sitting and and Bomb is still lying down and
• 1:34:24
  you think I'm just being crazy and I lift up the needle with
• 1:34:28
  the black ink. Talking like a syringe, like a.
• 1:34:31
  Like a needle, less like like a classic syringe, more like glass
• 1:34:37
  around it and stuff like that. Does it look like a writing
• 1:34:40
  instrument or does it look like a medicinal thing?
• 1:34:42
  It looks like something you would inject into something so
• 1:34:45
  like, not a writing. I just want to say he, my,
• 1:34:49
  myself really wants to Jack this into Abe.
• 1:34:52
  Really, really wants to just fucking stab myself with this
• 1:34:56
  needle right now. But back to the game.
• 1:35:00
  Let me import. Let me just import.
• 1:35:01
  The sidebar. Charlie myself also really wants
• 1:35:05
  you to inject that needle. I also would, yeah, I wouldn't
• 1:35:10
  be upset at that, but. But it's also know that it's a
• 1:35:13
  bad idea. Well, I'm lifting it up.
• 1:35:15
  For you, I see. I lift up my my head and just
• 1:35:19
  kind of sigh and I say bring it over here and I cast detect
• 1:35:24
  magic again. Yeah, I walk over with the
• 1:35:27
  needle. You cast detect Magic and you
• 1:35:31
  can tell it has some sort of dark energy to it, but is not
• 1:35:37
  cursed. I relay that back to everybody.
• 1:35:39
  Does it like does the fluid inside at all look like bunties?
• 1:35:45
  Like Bunty. Bunty is like a.
• 1:35:48
  Very. He's black.
• 1:35:50
  And dark black being, Yeah, and this is also black ink.
• 1:35:54
  OK, Bunty, Yeah. Do you know what this is?
• 1:35:57
  Bunty is going to roll something.
• 1:35:59
  Why do we even try? He's gonna fail.
• 1:36:02
  No one could help them but. Give them guidance.
• 1:36:04
  Give them guidance bun yes. Guidance on Bunty.
• 1:36:07
  Thank you. So we should Also I wanted to
• 1:36:09
  clarify the the help rules have changed for 2024.
• 1:36:14
  Really. Yeah, you can't give somebody a
• 1:36:17
  help action unless you also have proficiency in the skill.
• 1:36:20
  Got you. Wow, really?
• 1:36:23
  That's crazy. Yeah, it does make a lot of
• 1:36:26
  sense though. It makes a lot of sense.
• 1:36:27
  It does make sense. OK, good to know.
• 1:36:29
  This is a straight intelligence check.
• 1:36:31
  He needs to beat ADC 15. He is at a 12 right now without
• 1:36:37
  the guidance. Please, Bundy.
• 1:36:40
  Straight intelligence. Straight intelligence.
• 1:36:43
  So I don't like you don't have proficiencies like in straight
• 1:36:47
  checks, no, so I wouldn't be able to help him.
• 1:36:51
  No, as this happens, Bunty turns to you, Abe, and goes.
• 1:36:56
  That was a gift. That was a gift from us to the
• 1:37:00
  mortals. And he looks off into the
• 1:37:02
  distance. Dude, he's a gift from the void.
• 1:37:06
  Maybe I can't really, I don't know exactly.
• 1:37:11
  Do you think it has anything to do with immortality?
• 1:37:13
  When Beau says that without thinking, I stab myself with the
• 1:37:17
  needle. Incredible.
• 1:37:19
  Where do you stab yourself with the needle?
• 1:37:21
  Just curious. I'm holding it in my right arm,
• 1:37:23
  which is my metal arm, so I'm going to stab myself in my flesh
• 1:37:27
  and bone arm. Cool.
• 1:37:29
  You guys like when you say that like you just see me kind of
• 1:37:31
  like snap a little like in a crazy way, not in like an angry
• 1:37:34
  way. When this happens, ink seems to
• 1:37:38
  tattoo itself onto you. How do you want this astral
• 1:37:42
  tattoo to look like on your arm? I'm going to say this is not
• 1:37:47
  like Abe choosing it. This is just just me.
• 1:37:49
  I'm. Gonna yeah, this is.
• 1:37:50
  You maybe maybe look like a constellation of stars, like in
• 1:37:54
  a negative image. So like the stars are black and
• 1:37:56
  the space between them is like my skin.
• 1:37:59
  You hold this tattoo to your arm and you see this constellation
• 1:38:05
  tattoo appear. What this does is your attacks,
• 1:38:10
  even with your regular fists, are now considered magical
• 1:38:13
  strikes, and your reach on your regular arms as well as your
• 1:38:19
  spectral arms increase by 5 feet.
• 1:38:21
  As a bonus action, you can empower this tattoo for one
• 1:38:25
  minute. For the duration, each of your
• 1:38:27
  melee attacks with a weapon, an arm strike, or with your
• 1:38:31
  spectral arms can reach to a target up to an additional 5
• 1:38:36
  feet away. So that would be 20 feet for
• 1:38:40
  your spectral arms and 15. Feet for.
• 1:38:42
  Your normal arms. So I now normally get 10 feet of
• 1:38:46
  reach on my standard arms because it's like I had five
• 1:38:50
  feet of reach normally, right? Then I had an additional 5 feet
• 1:38:53
  with my spectral. Yeah, for subclass.
• 1:38:56
  OK, so then that normally goes up to 15, but with this
• 1:39:01
  empowering bonus action it would go up to 20.
• 1:39:03
  Exactly. And when it increases to that
• 1:39:07
  extra 20 feet, your melee attacks deal an extra 1D4
• 1:39:13
  necrotic damage. Once this bonus action is used,
• 1:39:17
  it can't be used again until next on.
• 1:39:20
  Got you. So you're pretty much getting
• 1:39:23
  the ability from the statues. Yeah, that bonus action and
• 1:39:26
  power, how long does that that last for?
• 1:39:28
  It lasts for one minute. Got you 10 rounds.
• 1:39:32
  Wow. So Abe, you just get this giant
• 1:39:36
  tattoo on your arm after you picked up a dirty needle off the
• 1:39:40
  ground. Yeah.
• 1:39:43
  Do I have to do like a a blood borne pathogen?
• 1:39:46
  Check. I could do a medicine check if
• 1:39:49
  you want biosafety level 2 training.
• 1:39:53
  Luckily luckily you look you look OK, so as as you tattoo
• 1:39:58
  this on to you, Bunty turns to you Abe and goes Abe.
• 1:40:03
  Can I touch the tattoo? I look at the two of you and
• 1:40:08
  then I look back at Bunty and say OK, and I kind of bend down
• 1:40:14
  or is he on my shoulder or on the ground?
• 1:40:16
  He's on the ground, but. OK, I bend down and kind of give
• 1:40:18
  him my left arm. So like you said, there are
• 1:40:22
  stars tattooed onto your arm. There's probably about 16 stars
• 1:40:28
  kind of just scattered this, this big piece.
• 1:40:31
  Bunty puts his finger onto the stars and is able to move them
• 1:40:37
  around and starts to use the stars to create a little drawing
• 1:40:45
  of himself. Oh.
• 1:40:47
  My God. And that's where we're going to
• 1:40:50
  end our session and everyone can take their their long rest if
• 1:40:55
  they want. Amazing.
• 1:40:57
  But you little fuck. Oh man, Oh my God, that's so
• 1:41:03
  good. That was so fun everyone.
• 1:41:05
  Thanks for playing with me this session.
• 1:41:07
  Sorry that I beat you guys up so hard constantly.
• 1:41:11
  It was mostly Bo honestly. Bo Bo.
• 1:41:14
  Yeah, a lot. Of hits Bo got cracked.
• 1:41:19
  Bo, I'm sorry about that. Hopefully you're altered
• 1:41:22
  Clockwork amulet kind of makes up for it a little bit.
• 1:41:25
  Oh, absolute shenanigans. Oh.
• 1:41:28
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• 1:41:31
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• 1:41:34
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• 1:41:42
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• 1:41:59
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