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Episode 9 (S3E09) · Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama

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Speaker 1: Hello, this is Tom Masters, longtime fan and listener of
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Speaker 1: the podcast, and you are listening to Tale of the
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Speaker 1: mantic Core.
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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 Manticore 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. Acording to lore, the
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Speaker 2: Tale of a Manticor 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 on Tail of the Manticor, in chapter eight, the
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Speaker 2: party leaves the Giant Centipede's cavern through a newly discovered exit.
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Speaker 2: The Orcs, still guarding the spot where they entered some
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Speaker 2: distance away, are evaded with ease, and the party members
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Speaker 2: once again find themselves traveling. They hope to reach Doreni's
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Speaker 2: home in the at Heavy Marsh before hunger and thirst
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Speaker 2: begin to truly threaten them. By the time they do
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Speaker 2: reach it, they are suffering, and while do Rennie says
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Speaker 2: he cannot bring Achillea the rest of the way, he
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Speaker 2: does manage to find water and some edible plants for
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Speaker 2: her to consume while she awaits his return. When she
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Speaker 2: sees him again a few hours later, he is not alone.
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Speaker 2: One of the tribe's elders has come to meet her.
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Speaker 2: This elder, Valkem, has a lot of questions, but he
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Speaker 2: also brings an answer. He has recognized one of the
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Speaker 2: places in Audoc's sketchbook, and while he doesn't know the artist,
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Speaker 2: he is able to tell her how far to the
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Speaker 2: north she needs to go in order to find it.
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Speaker 2: That's not the only good news. He has also given
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Speaker 2: Durani permission to escort her there. After Valcum departs, Durnnie
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Speaker 2: tells Achilia that he has a surprise for her. It
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Speaker 2: turns out to be a person who arrives at their
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Speaker 2: camp after nightfall. Chapter nine, Part one, Day nine midnight
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Speaker 2: mythic event meaning negligence whether party status. Achillea four out
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Speaker 2: of four hit points, Court six out of six, de
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Speaker 2: Renni six out of six. Supplies the companion have twenty
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Speaker 2: portions of food and fourteen of water spells available. Akilia
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Speaker 2: has memorized shrink. Despite the bright moon, it was dark
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Speaker 2: where they were sitting at the pond's edge.
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Speaker 1: Here he comes, announced.
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Speaker 2: De Rennie, getting up. The approaching figure was but a
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Speaker 2: shadow moving among the rushes. Here who comes, asked a Kilia,
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Speaker 2: also rising to her feet. Now she could see the
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Speaker 2: stranger's face. It was another elf, younger than do Renni,
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Speaker 2: but similarly appointed with sword and bow.
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Speaker 1: The newest member of our group, replied the other, my
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Speaker 1: little brother.
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Speaker 2: When the newcomer entered their camp, de Rennie stepped forward
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Speaker 2: and met him with an embrace.
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Speaker 1: Did anyone see you leave? No one, replied the other,
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Speaker 1: grinning you're certain.
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Speaker 3: Do not worry. They won't realize I'm gone until late
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Speaker 3: morning tomorrow, then will be miles away.
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Speaker 1: I am so glad to have you with us, my brother.
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Speaker 2: Said Rennie. He turned to the others.
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Speaker 1: Call Achillia, this is my brother.
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Speaker 2: Ten Tee Cord bowed stiffly. Achillie waved and said, I'm
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Speaker 2: happy to make your acquaintance, Tentyr. I am also grateful
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Speaker 2: for your company as we travel, but I do not
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Speaker 2: want to cause any trouble between you and your tribe.
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Speaker 2: Tentyr was looking at Achillia and Cord with unconcealed wonder
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Speaker 2: and excitement. Not for the first time in the past week,
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Speaker 2: she felt self conscious, as if there was something wrong
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Speaker 2: or strange about the way she looked.
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Speaker 1: Be at ease.
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Speaker 3: There will be no trouble.
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Speaker 2: Replied the young elf, mistaking the source of her discomfort.
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Speaker 3: I've left a note with my parents. They wouldn't have
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Speaker 3: let me come had I asked, but they won't come
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Speaker 3: after me. They wouldn't stop me from helping the person
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Speaker 3: saved my older brother's life. My thanks for that.
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Speaker 2: By the way, Achillie blushed in the dark.
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Speaker 1: Come then, she said, let us all sit together and talk.
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Speaker 2: Just like that. We have a fourth member in the party.
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Speaker 2: I won't say he's the final member, as that would
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Speaker 2: tempt the dice gods. Ten Tier is Derenni's younger brother.
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Speaker 2: He's forty five years old, barely more than the equivalent
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Speaker 2: of a teenager in human years, and his personality is
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Speaker 2: quite different from his older sibling. Before I get into that,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and roll him up. Let's
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Speaker 2: begin for strength. I've got a ten intelligence ten again
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Speaker 2: wisdom oh a six, Oh dear, that's going to come
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Speaker 2: with a penalty minus one on saves versus spells. I
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Speaker 2: suppose it makes sense, though ten Tyr did just essentially
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Speaker 2: run away from home. After all, he's reckless and a
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Speaker 2: little inconsiderate. Dexterity thirteen. Well, here's a bonus plus one
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Speaker 2: to ac and in using missile weapons constitution, I've gotten
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Speaker 2: eleven charisma A fourteen humph. You know, his stats are
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Speaker 2: remarkably similar to his brothers, and I think ten Tier
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Speaker 2: is probably of the same class a fighter, so he'll
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Speaker 2: have six starting hit points. This is where his similarity
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Speaker 2: tod Renni ends. Ten tiers personality is quite different. Whereas
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Speaker 2: his brother is reserved, ten Tier is outgoing or dour
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Speaker 2: Renni is a planner, ten Tier is a doer. I'm
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Speaker 2: sure the nuances of both their personalities will clarify as
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Speaker 2: the game proceeds. Speaking of which, let's get back into it.
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Speaker 2: I'll just make the rolls for tomorrow's hex crawl before
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Speaker 2: we do. For weather ten a fair day, for stumble
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Speaker 2: Upon A nine, no special encounters. Will there be a
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Speaker 2: wandering encounter on a D six A five means there
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Speaker 2: will be will it happen at day or night time?
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Speaker 2: The high low, with high being day, it'll happen at night.
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Speaker 2: On day ten. I'll stick with my current wandering encountertable,
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Speaker 2: but I'm going to double the chance to encounter orcs
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Speaker 2: rolling a D eight an eight. What's that? Oh okay,
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Speaker 2: Well that's going to take some thinking and some prep
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Speaker 2: but I'll do all that off Mike, so we can
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Speaker 2: get back to the story. Chapter nine, Part two, Day ten,
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Speaker 2: sunset mythic event meaning negligence, weather, party status Achillea four
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Speaker 2: out of four hit points, Court six out of six,
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Speaker 2: de Rennie six out of six, ten Tier six out
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Speaker 2: of six supplies. The companions have seventeen portions of food
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Speaker 2: and eleven of water. Spells available. Achillea has memorized shrink.
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Speaker 2: The day was cool and overcast, and the party, now
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Speaker 2: numbering five including Achillea, Cord Robin, Durni, and ten Tier,
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Speaker 2: covered a good distance by the time the sun completed
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Speaker 2: its dark and touched the western horizon. Along the way,
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Speaker 2: the landscape had consisted mostly of mixed light woods punctuated
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Speaker 2: by stretches of grass covered hills. As planned, they had
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Speaker 2: veered somewhat to the northeast, and it now became clear,
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Speaker 2: as the daylight turned into twilight, that do Renni was
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Speaker 2: looking for something in particular.
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Speaker 1: It should be somewhere close.
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Speaker 2: He muttered for the third time in the last hour,
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Speaker 2: and then.
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Speaker 1: Finally, Ah, there it is. What d you see?
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Speaker 2: Asked Achillia. Was Dorani's eyesight so much better than hers?
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Speaker 2: While she saw was a thick line of dense and
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Speaker 2: dark forest ahead, Look up into the tree, Dorannie instructed.
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Speaker 1: No, not there, Over to the right and up up
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Speaker 1: into the upper boughs. Do you see it now?
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Speaker 2: She did. Sixty feet off the ground, there was a
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Speaker 2: wooden structure built right onto one of the trees. As
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Speaker 2: they drew closer, she saw it was really just a
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Speaker 2: platform of logs resting across thick boughs, with some large
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Speaker 2: animal hide suspended from the branches above it like a tent.
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Speaker 2: Dorrennie put two fingers in his mouth and gave a
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Speaker 2: trilling whistle. Robin, sitting atop Cord's head at that moment,
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Speaker 2: gave an accompanying peep. A few seconds passed, and then
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Speaker 2: an answering whistle came from up ahead, almost certainly from
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Speaker 2: the tree platform. Good, said Dornni, mysteriously right echoed, tent tire.
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Speaker 3: My legs are tired.
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Speaker 2: A few minutes later, the companions found themselves at the
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Speaker 2: base of the tree, a towering redwood with a trunk
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Speaker 2: three times as thick as a man. Upon their arrival,
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Speaker 2: a knotted rope dropped down from the structure. Above you first,
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Speaker 2: exclaimed tent Tyre, and he dropped his pack before grabbing
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Speaker 2: the rope. With arms flexing, he began to climb straight up.
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Speaker 2: Dorennie held the rope steady for his brother during the ascent,
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Speaker 2: and when he reached the top, tied ten to his
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Speaker 2: pack to the end of the rope. This was hauled
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Speaker 2: up course, and then the rope was lowered once again.
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Speaker 2: Ready aster ready looking at Achillia, I don't think I
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Speaker 2: have the strength to do that, she said, for an
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Speaker 2: absolute fact, she knew she didn't.
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Speaker 1: Not a problem, replied the other.
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Speaker 2: He made a loop in the bottom of the rope
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Speaker 2: and tied a knot above it.
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Speaker 1: Put your foot in here.
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Speaker 2: She did, and soon found herself clinging to the rope
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Speaker 2: for dear life as she was pulled up and up
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Speaker 2: and up. At long last, she reached the platform. Ten
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Speaker 2: tears hand reached down to grasp her under the armpit
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Speaker 2: and held her up, and a second pair of hands
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Speaker 2: received and steadied her. Achillia found her balance and then
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Speaker 2: looked up into the face of another elf. This one
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Speaker 2: looked like the brothers, but the face was older. It
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Speaker 2: had a flat, low brow, a small nose, and thin lips.
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Speaker 2: The skin was browned by the sun, and there were
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Speaker 2: lines and creases around the eyes.
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Speaker 3: This is Barren. He's the northern century Barren. Meet Akilia.
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Speaker 2: Baron smiled politely at her and did not make any
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Speaker 2: sign that her appearance surprised him, but Clia guessed that
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Speaker 2: Tantyr had warned him in advance that she did not
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Speaker 2: look as they did. Well, met Barren, she said, then
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Speaker 2: she made the mistake of looking down. The world seemed
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Speaker 2: to pinwheel beneath her, and her stomach filled with butterflies.
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Speaker 2: She couldn't help but let go a little cry, but
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Speaker 2: Baron's strong hand reached out and steadied her once again.
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Speaker 2: It takes him getting used to, he said, with empathy,
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Speaker 2: though Achillia noticed that ten Tears seemed as comfortable up
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Speaker 2: here as he had on the ground. By now, the
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Speaker 2: rope had been dropped back down and Cord had his
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Speaker 2: foot in the loop. A short whistle signaled that he
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Speaker 2: was ready to be pulled up, and the three on
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Speaker 2: top did so. Once Chord was up, and he too
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Speaker 2: garnered no extreme reaction from Baron. The rope was lowered
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Speaker 2: a final time and Durannie climbed to the top, drawing
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Speaker 2: it in after him. Once he reached the platform, Robin
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Speaker 2: did not join them and had flown off to get
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Speaker 2: lost in the branches of another red wood. Barren's sentry
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Speaker 2: platform was quite spacious, and the five of them had
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Speaker 2: ample room. Achillie marveled that the logs making up the
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Speaker 2: floor were not nailed down, but instead had been carefully
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Speaker 2: cut and slaughtered into place, presumably with great difficulty, so
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Speaker 2: that they held simply by force of gravity. Cord was
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Speaker 2: extremely interested in the construction of the platform and spent
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Speaker 2: some time looking closely at the various cleverly designed joints
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Speaker 2: and fittings. We need to spend a few minutes and
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Speaker 2: talk about Chord. I was thinking about his status as
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Speaker 2: a player character and what that might mean for him
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Speaker 2: over the long term. I've already decided that Robin, who
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Speaker 2: is more or less a pet will not really change
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Speaker 2: over time. Perhaps as her bond grows with Achillie, the
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Speaker 2: little taxidermied bird might one day be able to follow
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Speaker 2: sub basic commands, but that's about it. Cord is different though.
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Speaker 2: He's fully sentient and he can learn and grow. If
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Speaker 2: I don't allow him to improve over time, a gulf
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Speaker 2: will eventually develop between him and the other PCs that
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Speaker 2: will make balanced gameplay difficult. So I've decided that Chord
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Speaker 2: will level up just like any other character un tail
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Speaker 2: of the manticor. I don't use experience points. Instead, I
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Speaker 2: level up characters after they've survived a certain number of episodes.
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Speaker 2: Getting treasure and defeating monsters is not a factor. The
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Speaker 2: only requirements are that the character be part of the
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Speaker 2: story and be exposed to some level of danger depending
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Speaker 2: on the given class. The character's advancement occurs after eight,
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Speaker 2: nine or ten episodes. That raises the question, what class,
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Speaker 2: if any, is Chord. My first impulse was to treat
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Speaker 2: him like a monster and simply raise his hitdae every level.
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Speaker 2: But then I had another idea. Hear me out, what
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Speaker 2: if Chord was a druid not a real druid in
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Speaker 2: the sense that he worships nature and receives power from
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Speaker 2: a deity, but a creature with druid like powers. Here's
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Speaker 2: a bit of the class description from Old School Essentials Advanced.
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Speaker 2: A druid gets a D six for a hit dye.
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Speaker 2: No change is needed there. They're limited to a choice
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Speaker 2: of club, dagger, sling, spear, or staff. But I don't
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Speaker 2: see any reason why Cord can't keep his axe. Druids
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Speaker 2: protect the land from both the forces of law and chaos.
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Speaker 2: I don't think Chord has any such purpose. His powers
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Speaker 2: come from being highly attuned to nature, that's all. So
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Speaker 2: what powers and limitations do druids have. At seventh level,
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Speaker 2: they become immune to the charm abilities of fay creatures,
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Speaker 2: and they can shape change. They cannot wear metal armour.
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Speaker 2: They get a plus two bonus to saving throws versus
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Speaker 2: electricity and fire. At second level, they gain the ability
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Speaker 2: to communicate with fay creatures. At third level, they can
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Speaker 2: quote unquote pass without trace, moving through natural terrain without
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Speaker 2: leaving tracks. Let's consider each of these points in turn.
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Speaker 2: I'll keep the charm thing, but drop the shape change.
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Speaker 2: Cord won't wear any armor but instead has a natural
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Speaker 2: AC of fourteen. Instead of a plus two bonus to
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Speaker 2: saves versus electricity in fire, I'll say he instead has
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Speaker 2: a minus two. He is made of wood, after all.
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Speaker 2: I like the ability to communicate with Fay. That might
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Speaker 2: be interesting, but I'm foregoing the pass without trace power.
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Speaker 2: I'm setting Chord's level up requirement and nine episodes, so
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Speaker 2: to day he will achieve level two. I won't bother
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Speaker 2: rolling stats for him. I will roll for new head
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Speaker 2: points on a D six A five excellent. His new
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Speaker 2: maximum is eleven. Finally, as a second level Druid, he'll
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Speaker 2: get two first level spells. I'm going to roll for
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Speaker 2: these at random, instead of allowing him to choose daily.
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Speaker 2: Rolling on a D eight, he will get a three
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Speaker 2: that's entangle that's cool, and six Locate plant or Animal.
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Speaker 2: I'll rule that Chord must take one of each of
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Speaker 2: these spells and cannot double up. I won't bore you
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Speaker 2: by going into the spell descriptions at this point. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to those when anf Cord actually cast them, and
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Speaker 2: with Chord's character she complete, it's time to return to
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Speaker 2: the story. It turned out that Baron's Sentry treehouse consisted
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Speaker 2: of not just a single platform, but several. There was
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Speaker 2: a ladder built into the trunk of the redwood that
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Speaker 2: went up to a second and third level. Baron pointed
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Speaker 2: them out. When Achillie asked where he kept his supplies,
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Speaker 2: Derenni wanted to talk about the Orcs.
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Speaker 1: I was captured by a scouting group, he began. Achillea
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Speaker 1: saved me. If she hadn't come along, i'd be ork
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Speaker 1: food by now.
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Speaker 2: Achillia blushed and said nothing. Baron seemed impressed, however, especially
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Speaker 2: after Dorrennie explained how she had done it.
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Speaker 3: The Orcs are far more active this year and acting strange,
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Speaker 3: he said. Usually a warman will march southwest, passing through
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Speaker 3: those grasslands there.
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Speaker 2: Baron pointed at a land achille already had traversed to
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Speaker 2: reach the spot.
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Speaker 3: You're lucky you didn't run into any Have they not
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Speaker 3: already passed by?
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Speaker 2: Asked ten Tier. That's what's so odd.
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Speaker 1: They've been sending parties in both directions. I can't tell
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Speaker 1: what they're up to.
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Speaker 2: The group continued their discussion into the night, exchanging guesses
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Speaker 2: and theories as to the orc's purpose. Eventually, a Baron
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Speaker 2: stretched and said he was going to sleep. He wished
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Speaker 2: everyone a good night and climbed the ladder to the
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Speaker 2: second level in order to make more room for the others.
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Speaker 2: The Chilie insisted on sleeping in the dead center of
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Speaker 2: the platform. Even then, with ten feet a floor in
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Speaker 2: every direction, she feared rolling off in the middle of
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Speaker 2: the night. She even considered tying a tether to her ankle,
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Speaker 2: but perhaps out of embarrassment, did not do so. In
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Speaker 2: the end, Before long, Drani and Tentyre were storing softly,
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Speaker 2: and she was alone with her thoughts. Trying to sleep
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Speaker 2: so high in the air was a unique experience for her,
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Speaker 2: as her body maintained a constant thrill simply from the altitude,
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Speaker 2: and the air here was different, almost pungent, with the
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Speaker 2: rich smell of the foliage. As she always did when
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Speaker 2: she needed to calm herself, she meditated, allowing her breathing
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Speaker 2: to slow that her mind to empty itself. Eventually, her
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Speaker 2: eyes closed and she fell into a deep slumber. It's
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Speaker 2: time to make the rolls to see what day eleven
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Speaker 2: will bring. For weather an eleven so the mild weather
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Speaker 2: will continue. For stumble upon a nine no result. Next
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Speaker 2: is for wandering encounters. I needed D six for this one,
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Speaker 2: and I think as we go further north and the
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Speaker 2: terrain changes to become less wooded and reducing the chance
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Speaker 2: for an encounter from three and six to two and
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Speaker 2: six and still just rolling once per day. So a
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Speaker 2: five or six on the D six will indicate there
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Speaker 2: is one here's the role A six? Well, all right,
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Speaker 2: then this time I'll determine the encounter details on mic
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Speaker 2: rolling on my table gives me before What's that? How interesting?
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Speaker 2: More orcs? This part of Zaisha seems to be crawling
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Speaker 2: with them? I wonder what's going on? More rules? Does
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Speaker 2: the encounter happen in the day or night? Night? That
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Speaker 2: also makes sense? And finally, will either side be surprised?
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Speaker 2: A one to two on a D six will mean
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Speaker 2: yes for the party, a three for the orcs, A
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Speaker 2: five neither side is surprised. So how will all this
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Speaker 2: look in the narrative? You know, I'm gonna need to
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Speaker 2: step away from the game and sleep on this one.
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Speaker 2: Chapter nine, Part three, Day eleven, early morning mythic event
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Speaker 2: meaning negligence, weather party status achillea four at A fourhead
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Speaker 2: points court eleven of eleven, De Rennie six of six
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Speaker 2: ten tier six of six supplies. The companions have seventeen
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Speaker 2: portions of food and eleven of water spells available. The
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Speaker 2: Achillia has memorized shrink cord, can cast and tangle and
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Speaker 2: locate plants and animals. In the morning, the companions broke
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Speaker 2: their fast with food supplied by Baron, a cold broth
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Speaker 2: of mushrooms and wild onions that tasted better than Achillia
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Speaker 2: would have guessed and was quite refreshing. When it was
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Speaker 2: time to take their leave, they descended the rope and
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Speaker 2: then shouldered their packs as Baron lowered them. Achilia whistled
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Speaker 2: for Robin, who immediately flew to her, and then when
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Speaker 2: the party was altogether, they began the day's journey. They
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Speaker 2: cleared Baron's woods sometime around noon, and then found themselves
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Speaker 2: walking across an open landscape of scrub and crabgrass hills
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Speaker 2: showing patches of bald rock dotted the landscape so that
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Speaker 2: it rose and fell like an ocean of brown and gray.
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Speaker 2: Along the way, Achillia casually asked her annie how long
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Speaker 2: Baron had been a sentry for his tribe. She was
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Speaker 2: shocked when the other replied that he'd be in their
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Speaker 2: northern lookout for about fifty years. When she asked how
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Speaker 2: old Barrant was, dur Any guest about one hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty years, and Achillea was deeply troubled. She wanted then
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Speaker 2: to ask her any how old he and ten here were,
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Speaker 2: but was too afraid to hear the answer and held
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Speaker 2: her tongue. She was just twenty one. If it was
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Speaker 2: true that she was a high alf as the others
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Speaker 2: had suggested to account for the difference in their appearance,
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Speaker 2: how was it possible that Baron could be so old
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Speaker 2: and yet look only of middle years. The colonel of
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Speaker 2: identity crisis that now lived in the pit of her
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Speaker 2: stomach seemed to double in size. She tried not to
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Speaker 2: think about it, but she couldn't help herself. She stood
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Speaker 2: over the mystery and its implications for the rest of
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Speaker 2: the day, growing quiet and sullen. She was still feeling
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Speaker 2: upset when twilight came and the brothers began to look
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Speaker 2: for a good place to make camp. But instead of
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Speaker 2: they found something very different. Thank you for listening to
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Speaker 2: This one was left by Selden RL twenty sixteen. Selden
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Speaker 2: also departure from how seasons one and two started. Thanks
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Speaker 2: Thanks again for the kind words, Selton. This episode features
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Speaker 2: three voice actors. Kyelon returns in his role of de Renny,
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Speaker 2: while Kevin Barringer, who played Jason season two and more
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Speaker 2: recently voiced in Orc for Me, plays ten Tier, Dorenni's
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Speaker 2: younger brother. If two Elves aren't enough, there's a third.
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Speaker 2: In this episode. The Northern Century Barrend is given voice
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