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Episode 34 (S3E34) · Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is DM David from Fancy Pants and you
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  Speaker 1: are listening to Tale of the Manicore.
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  Speaker 2: The following podcast is intended for a mature audience. Listener
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  Speaker 2: discretion is advised. Welcome back to Tale of the Manticor
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  Speaker 2: season three. Like the creature from which it takes its name,
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  Speaker 2: Tale of the Manticor is a mashup, a cross breeding
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  Speaker 2: between two different species of storytelling. Here you will find
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  Speaker 2: the unpredictability of old school paper and dice games with
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  Speaker 2: the story craft of a dark fantasy novel. No character
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  Speaker 2: is sacred and none will be spared if the dice
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  Speaker 2: decide their fate is at hand. According to Laura, the
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  Speaker 2: Tale of a Manticre is barbed with cruel iron spikes.
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  Speaker 2: There will be much pain in the days ahead. Last
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  Speaker 2: time un Tail of the Mantigor Chapter thirty three is
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  Speaker 2: really about just one thing, the fight to escape from Derowth.
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  Speaker 2: A giant forest troll bars the exit, so the companions
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  Speaker 2: begin by trying to drive it off with missile fire.
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  Speaker 2: The plan doesn't accomplish much. In fact, it makes things
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  Speaker 2: worse because it anchors the monster, and now there's a
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  Speaker 2: chance that will destroy the wooden stairs that lead from
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  Speaker 2: the cave mouth down to the forest floor. If that
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  Speaker 2: were to happen, the piece's predicament would become truly dire,
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  Speaker 2: and so the time for debate and strategy is over.
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  Speaker 2: They make a run for it, fighting as they go.
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  Speaker 2: The combat that ensues is a chaotic nail biter. Achilles
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  Speaker 2: glitter dust spell successfully blinds the troll, but it also
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  Speaker 2: does the same to several allies. And speaking of allies,
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  Speaker 2: the tide of battle turns again when one of the
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  Speaker 2: blink dogs that the Pieces saved in episode twenty five
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  Speaker 2: appears and joins the fight. The battle ends when the
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  Speaker 2: giant forest Troll, against all odds, fails a morale check
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  Speaker 2: and flees into the woods. While injuries have been sustained, incredibly,
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  Speaker 2: no party members have been lost, and it even looks
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  Speaker 2: like one has been gained. I would have bet real
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  Speaker 2: money at the start of that fight that at least
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  Speaker 2: one of my PCs was going to die, and die horribly.
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  Speaker 2: I could envision the fight going any number of ways,
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  Speaker 2: but I did not expect that the giant troll would
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  Speaker 2: end up rutting away. RPGs really are a bottomless source
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  Speaker 2: of wonder, anxiety, and triumph.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it occurs to me that there just might be
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  Speaker 2: some folks out there who have a degree in RPG law,
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  Speaker 2: and they might fairly point out that the spell glitter
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  Speaker 2: Dust does not just inflict a minus four penalty to
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  Speaker 2: those who fail their save against its effects. It also applies,
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  Speaker 2: by the book, the same penalty to armor class and
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  Speaker 2: saving throws. I overrode this in order to be consistent
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  Speaker 2: with my own macare annex. The spell's deep buff effect
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  Speaker 2: is clearly due to its ability to inflict blindness, and
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  Speaker 2: not some other extra matrical condition. And I've always used
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  Speaker 2: the rule that blindness causes a single penalty of mind
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  Speaker 2: is four to attack. And that's all. Chapter thirty four,
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  Speaker 2: Part one, Day twenty eight after noon, mythic event meaning
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  Speaker 2: attract elements, party status, achillea thirteen of thirteen hit points,
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  Speaker 2: Cord three of eighteen, de Renni sixteen of sixteen, ten
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  Speaker 2: Tier fifteen of fifteen, fair Wind twenty one of twenty
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  Speaker 2: six supplies. The Companions have eight portions of food, remaining
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  Speaker 2: spells available. Cord can cast slow poison, still blind tentyars
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  Speaker 2: slashed at the air in front of him, grunting with
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  Speaker 2: desperate effort. Tears streamed down his cheeks.
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  Speaker 1: It's gone, little mouse.
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  Speaker 2: Said de Rennie ten Tyars seemed not to hear and
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  Speaker 2: cut the air once again with the sword of lear
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  Speaker 2: Hane Tenier.
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  Speaker 1: You can stop. The creature is gone. What we drove
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  Speaker 1: it off? It ran into the woods. We are safe.
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  Speaker 2: Do anyone over to calm his brother until his vision returned. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: Achillia crossed the broken gap in the stairs and walked
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  Speaker 2: over to Cord. The construct was standing by the well,
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  Speaker 2: supporting himself with one hand on its stony rim. He
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  Speaker 2: was looking into the forest in the direction the giant
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  Speaker 2: troll had fled. Kord's face was painted on and never
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  Speaker 2: showed any more or less emotion than a kind of
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  Speaker 2: mild pleasantness. But at this moment that Killie could have
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  Speaker 2: sworn she saw concern, concern and pain. Oh God, she
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  Speaker 2: began taking in his cracked leg and dented Torso just
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  Speaker 2: look at what that monster did. You lean on me
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  Speaker 2: if you like, I'm here for you. At that moment,
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  Speaker 2: there was a sound from a nearby tree, and Robin
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  Speaker 2: flew down from the upper branches to land on Cord's head.
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  Speaker 2: Not far off, Fairwind was crouching down over the bloody
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  Speaker 2: shape of the blink dog, who had appeared from out
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  Speaker 2: of nowhere to help them fight the troll and had
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  Speaker 2: almost paid with its life. Its snowy white fur was
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  Speaker 2: crimson with blood. When the cleric stroked it behind the ears,
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  Speaker 2: he whimpered and nuzzled his hand. Fairwin stowed his cudgel
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  Speaker 2: in his pack so that the handle stuck out over
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  Speaker 2: his shoulder that he slid both arms under the injured
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  Speaker 2: dog and stood up. We should be away from this
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  Speaker 2: place before that devil decides to return, he said. Nobody disagreed.
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  Speaker 2: The pieces are not going to risk another encounter with
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  Speaker 2: the troll by staying in de rowth to search the
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  Speaker 2: ruins outside. Instead, they'll head north, trying to put some
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  Speaker 2: distance between themselves and the monster, while going in what
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  Speaker 2: they believe is the right direction. Actually, they don't really
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  Speaker 2: know where they should go, beyond that there are mountains
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  Speaker 2: to the north, and that those same mountains appear in
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  Speaker 2: some of Odok's sketches. By now, they strongly suspect that
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  Speaker 2: Odok Zagog never lived here and that their decision to
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  Speaker 2: come was a mistake. Balkene's directions have not been proven wrong.
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  Speaker 2: After all, Their destination therefore is probably somewhere to the northeast,
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  Speaker 2: but since the troll went east, wisdom dictates that they
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  Speaker 2: head north to minimize the risk of another run. In,
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  Speaker 2: of course, there is still a risk. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that this region would likely be free of
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  Speaker 2: all hazards except for that giant troll. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: possible that it could coexist with other dangerous creatures, but
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  Speaker 2: I do think it's unlikely. With all that in mind,
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of this day, I will not roll
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  Speaker 2: for any wandering encounter. Since Cord is badly injured and
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  Speaker 2: fair Wind is carrying the blink Dog, I will rule
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  Speaker 2: that the party can only make four miles before they
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  Speaker 2: need to stop and make camp. So that takes care
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  Speaker 2: of day twenty eight. But I think I might as
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  Speaker 2: well go ahead and make all the Heck's crawl rolls
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  Speaker 2: for the next day two. There's nothing else that the
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  Speaker 2: narrative demands at this time. We begin with the weather.
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  Speaker 2: The seventeen means day twenty nine will be a perfect
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  Speaker 2: summer day, bright and warm. Next up is stumble Upon.
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  Speaker 2: I'm almost hoping I don't get a wonder of twenty here.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't know how to interpret those at this time.
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  Speaker 2: But let's see what the dice gods have to say.
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  Speaker 2: The thirteen is a bit ominous, but it means no results.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it and thank them for it. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: time to roll for a wandering encounter. I'll say that
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  Speaker 2: this close to Duroth, specifically because the giant troll has
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  Speaker 2: made its layer there at these past seven years, that
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  Speaker 2: only on a roll of six on a D six
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  Speaker 2: will there be any encounter. If there is, there'll be
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  Speaker 2: a fifty percent chance it's the troll itself, fully healed
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  Speaker 2: and ready to fight again. On a DC, I've got one,
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  Speaker 2: all right. I interpret this as an extreme no. The
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  Speaker 2: terrain inclines and the woods become thick with closely packed trees.
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  Speaker 2: A quick Google search tells me that beach trees can
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  Speaker 2: grow so close to each other that their branches and
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  Speaker 2: even trunks will occasionally fuse together. So this forest of
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  Speaker 2: beach is easily passable by the companions who travel in
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  Speaker 2: single file, but it would be troublesome for the troll
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  Speaker 2: simply because of its size. I think that once they
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  Speaker 2: enter into this new region, the companions effectively have a
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  Speaker 2: barrier between themselves and the troll, and so there will
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  Speaker 2: be no chance of another encounter with it going forward.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I think it's almost time to get back
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  Speaker 2: to the narrative. But while the action is paused, I
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  Speaker 2: should go ahead and make rolls for a fair Wind's
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  Speaker 2: inevitable cure light wounds. Spells one for each cord and
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  Speaker 2: the Blink Dog cord will receive four extra points and
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  Speaker 2: the dog will get a bad luck. Just two, Chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirty four, Part two, Day twenty nine dawn mythic event
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  Speaker 2: meaning attract elements, party status Achillea thirteen of thirteen hit points,
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  Speaker 2: Court eight of eighteen after natural and magical healing, de
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  Speaker 2: Ani sixteen of sixteen, ten Tier fifteen of fifteen, fair
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  Speaker 2: Wind twenty two of twenty six after receiving one point
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  Speaker 2: of natural healing, the blink Dog six of sixteen after
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  Speaker 2: natural and magical healing supplies. The companions have four portions
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  Speaker 2: of food remaining Spells available. Achille can cast and large
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  Speaker 2: message glitter dust and detect evil cord can cast and tangle,
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  Speaker 2: locate plants and animals, slow poison and creed water. Derannie
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  Speaker 2: woke Achillea with a grunt and a shake of her shoulder,
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  Speaker 2: and the moment her eyes opened, he immediately lay down
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  Speaker 2: to sleep without a word. Achilia rubbed her eyes and
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  Speaker 2: smiled a cord who sat a little ways off. When
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  Speaker 2: she opened her spell book, the wooden construct leaned over
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  Speaker 2: to sit silently beside her while she studied. Through the
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  Speaker 2: trees on the eastern horizon, a thin line of light
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  Speaker 2: showed where the sun would soon make its appearance, but
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  Speaker 2: for now, the forest hummed with the sounds of night creatures,
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  Speaker 2: and the moon still supplied the better part of the
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  Speaker 2: available light. As she flipped through the pages of her
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  Speaker 2: book of spells, the fireflies came out, winking and flickering,
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  Speaker 2: flickering and winking. They flew in random zigzags all around,
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  Speaker 2: and their presence cheered her. For no special reason. Achilia
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  Speaker 2: turned to the pages in her book containing spells that
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  Speaker 2: she hit her once written but had never understood. There,
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  Speaker 2: in the peaceful dawn light, with the fireflies all around,
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  Speaker 2: one of her erstwhile incomprehensible spells, opened its secrets to her.
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  Speaker 2: As the morning light crept closer, glowing brighter and brighter,
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  Speaker 2: she began to commit her new spell of detect evil
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  Speaker 2: to memory. She also decided to prepare the enchantment's message
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  Speaker 2: and enlarge instead of her usual pair of shrink spells,
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  Speaker 2: since that magic had failed her twice in the battle
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  Speaker 2: with the monster. But the time her companions had woken
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  Speaker 2: up and were arranging their things and stowing their bed rolls,
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  Speaker 2: she had every word memorized. Nearby, Dornni was portioning out
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  Speaker 2: half of the remaining massi bell so they might break
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  Speaker 2: their fast while Fairwind tended to Cord and the injured dog.
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  Speaker 2: The latter had taken a real liking to both fair
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  Speaker 2: Wind and Achillie. Even though it had been by the
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  Speaker 2: sweat of Dorenni's brow that it had been brought to safety,
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  Speaker 2: the Elpha carried it all the way here from Drowth.
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  Speaker 2: The companion's quietly crunched on massam bell and drank from
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  Speaker 2: a cool spring that Cord produced from the ground using
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  Speaker 2: his new ability. Altogether, it made very small and simple,
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  Speaker 2: but surprisingly filling meal. Near the end of their breakfast,
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  Speaker 2: Tanty had looked from Kord to the dog, whose fur
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  Speaker 2: was still matted with blood. He asked a question, to
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  Speaker 2: no one in particular, do you think we hurt that
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  Speaker 2: monster as badly as it hurt us. His brow was
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  Speaker 2: furrowed as he was remembering how the creature's wounds had
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  Speaker 2: started healing right after they had been inflicted. He wiped
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  Speaker 2: some crumbs from his mouth with his forearm, which now
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  Speaker 2: bore a long, jagged scar where a direwolf had bitten him.
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  Speaker 2: Since he spoken Elvish, Fairwood and Cord could not understand
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  Speaker 2: the question, he was d Reni, who replied.
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  Speaker 1: I think we gave as well as we got.
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  Speaker 2: He mused, and then added, there's.
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  Speaker 1: A dwarfish saying for this kind of situation, how does
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  Speaker 1: it go again? Ada varum olte barn alov rask kharoti
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  Speaker 1: nihey mulochranouf. Sorry, my dwarfsh is not very good.
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  Speaker 2: Achillea and tent Here both asked at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: what does it mean? Dorennie smiled a dry smile and answered.
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  Speaker 1: In trading, you know you have reached a fair deal
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  Speaker 1: only when both sides are miserable.
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  Speaker 2: Achillia didn't know what to make of the idiom, so
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  Speaker 2: she just sniffed and said, I didn't know you could
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  Speaker 2: speak Dwarvish. Dramatis personae de Rennie ten years ago.
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  Speaker 3: You know you've reached a fair deal when both sides
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  Speaker 3: are miserable, muttered the old dwarf with a scowl.
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  Speaker 2: He motioned for a few others of his race to
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  Speaker 2: collect the bags and boxes that his visitors had brought. Well,
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  Speaker 2: have you received all that you came for? A half
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  Speaker 2: dozen dwarves and an equal number of elves were congregated
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  Speaker 2: at a hillside stone built trading post, where they were
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  Speaker 2: exchanging goods, as they did too or three times a year,
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  Speaker 2: As it was customary to speak the language of the
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  Speaker 2: hosts in such exchanges. The else replied in dwarfish, iron, gold, outon, copper,
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  Speaker 2: and mercury. All accounted for, said the primary negotiator, nodding.
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  Speaker 2: He was an elder with twin braids of gray hair
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  Speaker 2: that fell down on either side of his neck in
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  Speaker 2: front of his shoulders. Although the primary negotiator's real name
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  Speaker 2: was ray Lair, he was called valent Goat or the
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  Speaker 2: old crow by his companions, who were presently tasked with
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  Speaker 2: hauling away the various chests of metals and other elements
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  Speaker 2: the hill dwarfs had brought. Derretti was there as a porter.
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  Speaker 2: He received a chest from a ruddy faced dwarf who
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  Speaker 2: was at least half as wide as he was tall.
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  Speaker 2: A novice could never have guessed how heavy the chest
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  Speaker 2: would be, considering the ease with which the dwarf and
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  Speaker 2: trader had lifted it. But this was not Durany's first excursion.
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  Speaker 2: All the same, he strained under the effort as grunted
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  Speaker 2: the dwarf. Duranny knew this word. It meant iron. He'd
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  Speaker 2: been studying dwarf USh for eight years in preparation for
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  Speaker 2: his career as a trader. One day, his parents hoped
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  Speaker 2: he might lead a group as a primary negotiator, but
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  Speaker 2: for now he was just a porter. Drannie had been
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  Speaker 2: making trips like this one for only three years, the
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  Speaker 2: blink of an eye in the career of an elf,
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  Speaker 2: and he already disliked the work. But he enjoyed the
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  Speaker 2: company of the dwarfs more or less, and had come
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  Speaker 2: to know all the members of this trading company by name.
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  Speaker 2: The one who had just handed him the chest was
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  Speaker 2: called ard Nore. Ardnoor had once confessed to him that
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  Speaker 2: he would have preferred to have become a builder instead
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  Speaker 2: of a trader.
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  Speaker 3: I would rather be making bridges and walls or crafting
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  Speaker 3: doors and chests. Back home in the Greek work room,
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  Speaker 3: he had lamented. Dernni had wanted to confide in return
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  Speaker 3: that he too had doubts about a lifelong career in trading,
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  Speaker 3: but he'd held his tongue. Dwarfing culture was not Elvin culture.
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  Speaker 3: This was a lesson that the Old Crow repeated several
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  Speaker 3: times per trip, and a shared personal secret did not
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  Speaker 3: necessarily invite reciprocity among the Dwarfs of their culture. There
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  Speaker 3: is much to larn.
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  Speaker 2: The Old Crow would add, but that is why we
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  Speaker 2: practice our craft over decades decades. Der Anny did not
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  Speaker 2: want to carry iron chests for decades, nor did he
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  Speaker 2: want to negotiate the precarious rules, norms, and laws that
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  Speaker 2: made up the dwarve in interaction for that long. He
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed the frequent travel, the company of the hill folk,
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  Speaker 2: and the challenge of the dwarf and tongue. He also
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  Speaker 2: found the Old Crow to be a good leader and mentor,
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  Speaker 2: but he knew that this was not the life for him.
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  Speaker 2: It was on this journey, only his twelfth since he
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  Speaker 2: embarked on the career, that he decided he would need
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  Speaker 2: to break the news to his mother and father when
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  Speaker 2: he got home. He would tell them he needed to
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  Speaker 2: do something else. Perhaps he could be a sentry like Baron,
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  Speaker 2: or a hunter like Segar or mikef He wasn't sure
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  Speaker 2: what his heart truly desired. He only knew that this
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  Speaker 2: was not it. I had been struggling to apply the
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  Speaker 2: event meaning attract elements ever since I rolled it up.
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  Speaker 2: My mind first went to the four elements earth, air, fire,
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  Speaker 2: and water, but the best I could come up with
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  Speaker 2: was a rain dance, and I had zero idea but
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  Speaker 2: how to implement that. Next I thought of story elements,
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  Speaker 2: but that felt a bit like a cop out. In
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  Speaker 2: the end, the solution just fell on top of me,
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  Speaker 2: by sheer luck. I'd been carrying around several Dwarven expressions
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  Speaker 2: in my back pocket for a while, waiting for a
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  Speaker 2: chance to use them, and I found a chance when
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  Speaker 2: the pieces talked about the battle with the Troll. That
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  Speaker 2: in turn gave me the idea to flesh out part
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  Speaker 2: of Dorani's back story by giving him a failed career
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  Speaker 2: in trading, something I had already established as something the
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  Speaker 2: marsh Ell Society would have to include. But it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: until I started listing the goods exchanged copper, iron and
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  Speaker 2: gold that I realized I was fulfilling the event, meaning
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  Speaker 2: attract elements. It's funny periodic elements I had never considered anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to need a new pair from mythic tables.
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  Speaker 2: So where's my D one hundreds? Here they are rolling
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  Speaker 2: for action eighty six passion and for subject sixty five intrigues. Huh.
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  Speaker 2: For once, I know exactly how to use this, and
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  Speaker 2: I might as well do that right away. Chapter thirty four,
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  Speaker 2: Part three, twenty two years ago, somewhere in the woods
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  Speaker 2: near Summer Hill, Old Fay was wandering through the woods,
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  Speaker 2: humming tunelessly and bent over as he scanned the undergrowth
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  Speaker 2: for little purple flowers of a specific shape. These flowers,
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  Speaker 2: he knew, belonged to the plant that would yield bat's
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  Speaker 2: head roots. If he could find some, he could complete
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  Speaker 2: a potion he'd been trying to perfect that would allow
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  Speaker 2: them biber to discard their corporeal form, transmit flush to vapor,
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  Speaker 2: and move about as a cloud might do. It was
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  Speaker 2: late summer and the sun was shining through the tree tops.
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  Speaker 2: A mild gust of wind knocked some of the foliage
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  Speaker 2: loose from above, and it floated down all around like confetti.
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  Speaker 2: Alve was so intent on finding the correct plant he
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  Speaker 2: didn't even notice. In fact, when he came to a
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  Speaker 2: figure lying on the forest floor, he almost stepped on it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh, my, exclaimed Albay, what have we Here? At
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  Speaker 2: his feet was a female elf, fast asleep. Her face
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  Speaker 2: was beautiful and her slender form sublime. Her hair was
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  Speaker 2: so light blonde that it was almost white. She wore
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  Speaker 2: a light armor made of leather, and there was a
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  Speaker 2: curved sword near her hand. He gave the impression that
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  Speaker 2: she had simply dropped to the ground in slumber. Alve
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  Speaker 2: might have mistaken her her dead if it hadn't been
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: for the steady rise and fall of her breast. When
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  Speaker 2: he bent down over her upon his exclamations, the ELF's
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: eyelids fluttered open, and Alvez was struck by the golden
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: hue of her irises. Something transpired at that moment, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: both elf and wizard froze. It was as though some
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: kind of magic passed between them. They smiled foolishly at
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: each other in warmth and delight, as the two were
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: simultaneously stricken with pure, unbreakable, unexplainable love. And just like that,
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  Speaker 2: I've used my current event, meaning as I can confidently
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: call that last scene an intriguing passion, and now I
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: need a new set. No reason to delay. Here's the
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  Speaker 2: rolls eighteen and six, which gives me Move Reality a
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: lucky day. I know what to do with this too,
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  Speaker 2: but before I work it out in the narrative, there's
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  Speaker 2: one more role I need to make for the day's
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: hex crawl. It's what I skipped by earlier, and that's
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: my forging role. Cord will spend his Locate Plants and
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Animals spell as usual to add the plus one, so
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: using in D six A one to three will mean success.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Here's the role A three. That's a winner. I'll say
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: that with the constructs help, the pieces managed to kill
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  Speaker 2: a rabbit which will provide enough food for each party
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: member for one day. Chapter thirty four, Part four, Day
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, late afternoon mythic event meaning Move Reality party status.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: The party status is unchanged with the exception that Cord
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: has used his spells of locate plants and animals and
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: create water.
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  Speaker 1: How long do you think that animal intends to follow us?
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: As Derennie frowning, I think she intends to stay with
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  Speaker 2: us for good.
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  Speaker 1: Kate mckillya's reply, She of course, didn't you notice?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Dour Rennie blushed despite himself.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, I would be glad if she went on her way, Bailly,
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  Speaker 1: I like heaving her aunt. It's another mouth to feed, Achillie.
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  Speaker 2: She fought and bled for us to any Did you
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: forget that part?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: I know she did, But animals can be unpredictable.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I predict that she's with us now. Achillie turned
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  Speaker 2: out to have the right of things. The bloom dog
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: followed the companions all through the day, and later in
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the afternoon once again proved her usefulness by running down
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  Speaker 2: and killing a rabbit that Court located. It was a
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  Speaker 2: good sized jack rabbit, significantly larger than the one Tantier
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  Speaker 2: had killed earlier in their journey, and it would provide
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: enough sustenance to maintain the entire group for a full
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: day if they could preserve the meat. To this end,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: he was decided among the party members to build a
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: small campfire when they eventually stopped for the night to
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: cook their catch. This would make the meat last longer
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: and would also allow fair Wind to concentrate his powers
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: on healing those members of the group. That were still
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: wounded instead of preserving their food. Evening came on gradually.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: With the post sunset sky visible through the ranks of
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: beech trees. It made for a striking pattern of alternating
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: orange and black. Fatigued and footsore, the companions found a
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: good spot to make their camp instead about arranging their
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: bed rolls and building a small fire. Once that was done,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Duranni found a pair of wide shaped sticks and jammed
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: them into the earth to either side of the fire
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: while tent Tears skinned, cleaned, and spitted the jack rabbit.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: The smell from the cooking meat was far too appealing
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: for the companions not to eat a little of the catch,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: but good sands prevailed and the majority of the rabbit
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: was wrapped in broad leaves in the Elvish fashion and
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: packed to be consumed during the following day's march. Still hungry,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: everyone said about their evening activities. Dur Anny sharpened sword
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: ten tear, re checked the fletching on his arrows cord.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: With Robin on his shoulder, found the place to sit
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: and began his usual nighttime vigil, and Fairwood read from
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: his prayer book. Achilia sat cross legged with the blink
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: dog's head on her lap. She scratched her behind the
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: ears fondly. You should have a name, she said, partly
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: to herself and partly to the animal. But what kind
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: of a name was suit of special creature like you?
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Achilia stared into the flames of the campfire with its
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: colors competing in their vibrant dance, and then suddenly she knew.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Your name shall be Flicker. Do you like that name?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: The dog looked up, without lifting her head from Achillea's lap,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: her ice blue eyes, seeming to understand. When the animal's
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: tail began to thrash back and forth in pleasure, Achillea
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: smiled and said, Flicker, it is.
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