Session 13 - Transcript

00:00 [Sildir (Tris)] I gotta, where's my music volume?
00:04 [DM (Aarya)] All right, now we are live. So I think everyone's had time to settle in. This is Phantom Chains session 13.
00:04 [DM (Aarya)] We are missing a couple members. Cat and Sav will not be joining us tonight. But you know, they won't be forgotten.
00:04 [DM (Aarya)] Um, but yeah, would anyone like to start the recap?
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Hi, I'm anyone. Uh, yeah, so session 12 was the last session and now we're on session 13. But in session 12, that one, that one was a good one.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] And it started off by us leaving the Baron's Manor. That was the first time we were there. We kind of made like a deal.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] But we, or a deal to pick up on the rehab operation or the kind of re-education camps that this guy has. This guy being Baron Vargas, of course. Um, but we kind of said we need to leave and come back.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] And we wanted to also get to the priest to learn more about Irdel's treatment. So we left and we head over to the church. We open the door, we find that Milivoj is there.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] He goes and fetches us Father Bryce. We wait for him and he comes on downstairs and he tells us he has good news and bad news. The bad news is that the potion that's needed for Irdel's treatment is going to require a rare ingredient, Wolf's Bane.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] The good news is that he has a lead for us on where it may be. Um, really it's more like a lead to a lead. But he tells us that the Baron has a book on herbology in his house and it would be good to check there.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] We also learn a little bit more about Father Bryce. Um, he lets us know that he's from Krezic, which is about a half day away. And Krezic is led by a person named Dimitri Krezkov.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, he seems to be kind of everything that Baron Vargas wants to be. Someone who really does care deeply about the safety of his people and actually does have a very well-guarded town. It's also home to the Abbey of Saint Markovia.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Upon further questioning and prodding, Father Bryce tells us that there is no direct cure for lycanthropy. There's only unsavory ways to control the transformation if we were to go that path. And he won't even tell us how to do that.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] He warns us that if we can't get the Wolf's Bane, we're going to have to take more drastic measures to contain Irdel. Measures involving silver. We go ahead and leave.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] As we do, it's starting to get dark. But we head over to the tavern. Once we get there, we're greeted by Erwin.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] And he provides us with some food and wine. We also update him on Henriks, the coffin maker. Let him know that he's okay.
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] And he tells us that his appearances seem to be linked with those who voiced distaste for the Baron. Which, you know, we've kind of beaten that horse to death. But everyone sees it clear as day, right?
00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] All the people kind of know it. We also inform him about Lavash's daughter, Arabelle, going missing. Sorry, is it Arabelle with a B?
04:13 [DM (Aarya)] Arabelle with a B.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, so I got it right the first time. Arabelle. Um, anyway.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] He also noticed earlier when we stopped by to change before going to the Baron's house that we looked kind of like shit. Like we were beat up or something. And we kind of just told him that we were just like sad.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess he kind of bought it. But I'm pretty sure like we were like bleeding and stuff. So I guess I honestly think Erwin is just kind of letting that one slide.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] But his wife, Danica, comes back out with our food and wine. We start eating. We see Irina descend from the stairs.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] She's not too happy herself. No one seems to want to help her Barovians from the village of Barovia, not just the general land. And we do kind of point her in the direction of Fiona Wachter.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe she would have a different perspective on this. We also take her upstairs and give her some more information on what's been going on. And we basically are going to take her along to the dinner with Fiona.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Anyhow, we go back to the Baron's house. We go through the process of the housekeeper greeting us again. All of us enter.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] We drop a hearty, all will be well. And we get to chatting. We get to business.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] We head upstairs, which is where the boy was being kept to go retrieve him. And Mercurio along the way does a very smooth move where he kind of bumps the library door open, knowing that we need to get in there. Kind of a, oh my, such a nice library I accidentally opened.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And inside is actually the Baron's son. He is definitely a moody teenager and definitely, in true moody teenager fashion, doesn't like his dad, although Baron Vargas is not very likable, even if he wasn't your dad and you were a teenager. So I guess I can't really blame him.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Anyway, we kind of split up at this point. I think it was me, Mercurio, and Ember who went to accompany the Baron and retrieve our prisoner not prisoner. And the rest of the group, so Solalis, Saturno, and why am I drawing a blank here?
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] So Solalis, Saturno, and Iridyll, of course, went to the library and they did some digging. They were able to find a book about Wolfsbane, or not just about Wolfsbane, but with information about it. Victor requests that we pick up a book for him by Kazan.
04:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And we're going to need to go to Kazan's Wizard Tower.
07:33 [DM (Aarya)] It's not by Kazan. Small correction. The book itself is penned by the archmage Mordenkainen.
07:33 [DM (Aarya)] And it's found, he suspects that you can find it in Kazan's Wizard Tower. Kazan being like an old archmage who is from Barovia. That's right.
07:33 [DM (Aarya)] Thank you.
07:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, let's see. Um, and then he gets kind of curious, like, you know, he's kind of questioning us. Thinks we're kind of sycophants, but upon seeing that we're not total dorks, it's like why are you guys even here?
07:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Iridyll tries to BS him, but she actually rolls a one in that moment. And it works out okay. Um, he doesn't seem to care that we're just kind of using the Baron as long as nobody's getting hurt.
07:55 [Sildir (Tris)] He also thinks that Iridyll is pretty darn cool and is impressed with Saterno for surviving an encounter she started with Izzik.
08:44 [DM (Aarya)] I think he's not even the first person to express surprise at surviving an encounter with Izzik, but yeah.
08:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Right. But it was definitely a moment.
08:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Where a young, moody teenager thought the folks in there were cool, except for poor Solalis, who kind of a bit at this point. But Solalis is cool. We can all say that.
08:55 [Sildir (Tris)] It's just, he's a pain in the ass, too.
09:13 [DM (Aarya)] He has a very specific sort of charm.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Anyway, exactly. Flashing back over to Mercurio, Sildur, and Ember, we kind of negotiate this old, I guess it's kind of like a loading bay, like an old warehouse, kind of barn-sized on the eastern edge of town that we can go and use to run our re-education center. We get the keys.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] We collect the prisoner. I believe it's Ember that was guiding him along. And I think we all kind of took the chance to make a show out of scolding the prisoner, at least in front of the Baron.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And, you know, kind of forcing him to be happy and say all will be well and all that jazz. After a huge amount of glazing, we leave. And we head towards the new barn.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] As we're walking, we are starting to show our new friend Udo, not actually a prisoner, that we are, you know, well-intentioned. It takes a long time for him to get that message. But Iridyl's also cast Cure Wounds.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And once we're at the place, we explain everything that's going on to him. He, but like, he's just like, honestly, Udo, a biased recap here, but he's just a terrible person. Not in the sense that he does bad things.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] He's just like a low-quality person, if that makes sense. He's not made of the right stuff. But c'est la vie.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] I think at the end of it all, we did get through to him. It just took like 10 years for him to be like, wow, I'm glad I'm not with the Baron anymore. He was basically complaining that we saved him.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] But otherwise, we did neaten the place up. We made some crude mattresses, patched up the place a little bit. I think Ember busted out the carpenter tools.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Everyone kind of wanted to help out. Iridyl, I think, decided like where to quarter things off for like sleeping zone, eating zone, whatever. And I think Sildur probably crashed out on Udo the hardest, but has a moment at the end where he has like a chat and tells him to lock in, bro.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Because maybe he could be part of something big here. Oh yeah, I forget. So while there was like the cleaning scene, there was also people who went to the tavern.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] So as they're headed to the tavern, they hear a scream and they go to investigate. And there's an old man in the alley and there's an assassin approaching him. And they're about to leap into action when suddenly, boom, there's Batman.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Legally distinct Batman. Legally distinct Batman, yeah. It seems to be the same person that visited Henrik and perhaps the same person that was leaving little tattered bits of cloth here and there.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] We don't know. But the group engages with him. He's friendly enough.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] He asks us to escort the man home. And of course, we will. But we ask for a word before we part ways.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] We let him know what we've done so far in investigating the disappearance. And he says, stay off the streets. And we say, well, we're on the streets.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And he says, just stay out of it. And we tell him, no, we've already been involved. And maybe we can help you.
09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And he says, I work alone.
13:11 [Speaker 6] Except for sometimes when there's robbing.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And then he gives us some leads on Isik. He lets us know that Isik is also an alcoholic. So we could probably find him at the bars in town.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] He says he will be in touch. And everyone blinks. And they open their eyes back up.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And he's just literally gone. Nowhere to be found. They get the old man home.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] They being the party, of course. And they make their way to the tavern. Weird to refer to someone like the player characters as not we.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] But I wasn't there. But at the tavern, Erwin shares that he'd be willing to be an ally to us. And Mercurio spills the beans to him a bit about our plans.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And I think Mercurio went on a limb there. But the limb held strong. It did not break.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Because it seems that Erwin is a little bit of a resistance guy himself. He doesn't tell us too much. But we do know that there's something more to these ravens.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And that they're on our side. They discuss a little bit about Fiona. Wachter, that is.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And, you know, it's a mixed bag of feelings. She seems, you know, she's obviously against the Baron. But is she going to be a better alternative?
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Nobody really knows. She's got some interesting tendencies herself, doesn't she? And that's about where we end it.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] So we have one group at the tavern. I think sleeping there. Probably, if DM says yes, we probably all long rest.
13:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And there's another group over at the good old headquarters, hideout, barn. We should come up with a name for it.
15:09 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, very good. Very detailed recap. Thank you, Tristan.
15:13 [Speaker 6] Yeah, sorry that took so long.
15:14 [DM (Aarya)] No, no, no, that was really good. I think it's always helpful to have, like, a detailed recap. So people get back into the scene and whatnot.
15:14 [DM (Aarya)] And I'm in it.
15:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm in it. I'm in that back room with Erwin where he's telling me that the birds are government robots.
15:30 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah. And it's also good to, like, recap it so that we're all, like, aware of the current party priorities. Right.
15:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, I guess let me say what the quests are, too.
15:42 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
15:45 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm going to just try to say the relevant ones. So when I pause, it's because I'm skipping over something that's from earlier. But I do have it noted down.
15:45 [Sildir (Tris)] And I'll post them all so you can read them all if you're curious. But let's see. We're still keeping an eye out for Arabelle.
15:45 [Sildir (Tris)] That's for sure. And when we do find her, we're going to need to make sure we get her a toy from Belinsky. We also are keeping an eye out for Von Richten.
15:45 [Sildir (Tris)] And we want to know how he's been traveling between the lands, amongst other things that he probably knows. Morgantha, who is the weird pastry lady. She's just outside the Locky.
15:45 [Sildir (Tris)] That's why I would say this one is still relevant. We got to heal Iridel, or at least, you know, put off her transformation.
16:38 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry, really quick. Can you repeat the first one again?
16:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Yes. I think the first one that I actually said was that we should, we're still keeping an eye out for Arabelle.
16:48 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, correct.
16:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Right. I think, yeah, we're going to, we're still going to, no, we kind of took Iridel to the lake already, right? Or not Iridel, Irina to the lake.
16:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Or did we not do that yet?
17:06 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you did go by the lake. And she kind of reminisced that she had a recurring dream as a child, where she saw the lake in very vivid detail. And she thought that was strange.
17:06 [DM (Aarya)] And somewhere along the way, you guys resolved to have a beach episode or something. That's right. But yeah.
17:31 [Sildir (Tris)] That was before, actually. The beach episode is probably the longest standing quest. Um, but there is also, like, I don't know how important this is to everybody at this point, but we did say that we would ask the Dusk Elves a couple of other things, including about anything they might know about the dreams that Saturno and Ember had while they were asleep.
17:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, we definitely should not forget at all about Matamipa's Turaka reading. Um, definitely big things out there for us with that. We're going to take out Baron Vargas and Ezek.
17:31 [Sildir (Tris)] We're going to take out the Court of Wolves. We're going to talk to Fiona about the resistance. We actually, um, just now completed setting up the new rehab center.
17:31 [Sildir (Tris)] It's going to be an ongoing project. But, you know, woo us for doing that. Um, and I think that's the most of it.
17:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's see. We gotta get the book for Viktor. And yeah.
18:33 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Notably, one other major, um, quest objective that y'all completed was escorting Evina to Vlahki. Yes.
18:33 [DM (Aarya)] Which you've done as of a while ago. Also, for the book for Viktor that also, um, doubles as, like, another, like, objective where Viktor basically informed y'all that, um, rare ingredients like wolfsbane tend to be, like, um, ingredients that powerful mages tend to keep in their own personal stores. And if you're looking for such a thing, you might find it in a powerful wizard's lair, like a wizard's tower.
18:33 [DM (Aarya)] So.
19:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's right. And he told us the location of the wizard tower too, right?
19:23 [DM (Aarya)] He said that it was on the coast of Lake Perotok, which is about two hours west from Vlahki.
19:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Think straight.
19:34 [DM (Aarya)] But yeah. So, that about covers all of your current objectives. A few of them are in immediate reach and some are maybe, like, something you look out for along the way.
19:34 [DM (Aarya)] But with that, I'm gonna go ahead and switch the scene back to the Bluewater Inn where we will resume with, um, Mercurio, Saturno, and I guess Sillilis, though his player character is not here for the moment. But, yeah. So, just to set the scene again, um, a lot of you are with Erwin in the back room, like, kitchen area of the inn.
19:34 [DM (Aarya)] He has just, like, offered his, uh, allyship to your cause and to punctuate the point, a raven from the rafters has flown down to greet you all. And Mercurio recognizes this raven as the same raven that has accompanied you on your journey to Vlahki before, complete with the tinge of blue feathers on their wings. Um, but yeah.
20:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, this is incredible news, uh, Erwin. I mean, it's very comforting to know that we're not alone in this. Um, but yes, uh, well, we should be getting back to our friends with those blankets and things.
21:05 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, of course, Mercurio, and do let us know if there's any other supplies that we can provide. In fact, in the morning, you might expect some, at some point tomorrow, you might expect some of my own to be, to stop by and assist you all in preparations and such. That would be excellent.
21:05 [DM (Aarya)] Thank you. Of course, Mercurio. And it has been, it's been good for you to share this with us.
21:05 [DM (Aarya)] And it has been a long time since there's been a true ally in this fight.
21:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Glad we could help.
21:48 [DM (Aarya)] Very good, then. Do let us know if there's anything else we can assist you with.
21:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, well, maybe a couple bottles of your, uh, your red that you've got. I can pay for those, of course.
22:08 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, my friend.
22:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] In high spirits.
22:10 [DM (Aarya)] Of course, of course. In fact, I'm surprised it took you so long to ask.
22:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] I was using extreme restraint.
22:16 [DM (Aarya)] I could tell, my friend. And you see him, like, turn around, like, open, like, a cabinet and pull out a couple of bottles of Red Dragon Crush, hand them to you. And he says, for you, a friend of the feather, no charge.
22:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Very generous. Thank you.
22:38 [DM (Aarya)] Of course.
22:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, Saturno, I think that's it for us here. Unless you've got some other ideas or ask?
22:55 [Saturno (Steph)] No, I think that's just about it. Um, are there many of these ravens? Crows?
23:04 [DM (Aarya)] Well, we have our, we have our ravens scattered throughout Barovia at any given point. Keeping eyes and ears out wherever they might be needed. We do keep a small number of us stationed here in Veloci, should it be necessary.
23:04 [DM (Aarya)] But for the most part, most of our ranks are spread out through the lands.
23:32 [Saturno (Steph)] I see. And they report back to you and give you any information?
23:38 [Speaker 6] Indeed.
23:38 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. Okay. That's cool.
23:38 [Saturno (Steph)] That's nice. Have you heard any updates about any of the missing folks that we've been? You know, looking for?
23:52 [DM (Aarya)] It's, it has been quite, it has been quite a perplexing case, I'm afraid. There have been, we have noted there have been all the disappearances we've seen or have been, have been investigating have been tied to these mysterious cloaked figures. Some kind of hooded assassins who sweep up their victims in the night.
23:52 [DM (Aarya)] And we've met a few. I see.
24:21 [Saturno (Steph)] I take out the teeth and I'm like, check these out.
24:23 [DM (Aarya)] The Court of Wolves. Yes. It's, it's rather disturbing, if I'm, if I can be frank.
24:23 [DM (Aarya)] It's, the Court of Wolves has always been a legend, a bedtime story that Velocians tell to their children to keep them behaved. But to think that there's, there was truth to the stories all this time is, well, it's difficult to believe, but I cannot deny the evidence that lies before me. I just, something about it isn't right.
24:23 [DM (Aarya)] There's some, some elements that we are missing. I fear that they are not quite what we suspect. In any case, you are not the only ones who are investigating this, these disappearances.
24:23 [DM (Aarya)] There have been two others on the case, though it has been difficult to establish contact with them.
25:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Two others? Yes. We ran into one other, quite a mysterious guy.
25:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Some sort of legally distinct man bat thing, person. He was very, had a very gruff voice and kept telling us to get off the streets. Very sternly and that he works alone.
25:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, that one has been most difficult for our agents to track.
25:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] And who, who's the other?
25:59 [DM (Aarya)] Well, the other one makes a much more of a show as he, as he prowls about the streets at night. He's a, well, he's a much, let's, let's say he's much friendlier though. He, he certainly keeps himself as well.
25:59 [DM (Aarya)] He's a bit of a, bit of an acrobat if you, if you ever spot him.
26:22 [Saturno (Steph)] An acrobat. Okay. I don't think we have.
26:26 [DM (Aarya)] No, we'll have to be on the lookout for him, though.
26:32 [Saturno (Steph)] We have met this. Sorry, these are other people.
26:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, go ahead. Oh, no, no. Other people investigating the disappearances.
26:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Gotcha. Cool. That's all I was going to ask.
26:42 [Saturno (Steph)] I do, I mean, I guess, yeah. Yeah, we did, we did meet the other fellow that's hard to work with. You're right, he is hard to work with, but we, we had a chance to speak with him.
26:57 [DM (Aarya)] And what did he say?
27:00 [Saturno (Steph)] Well, he said he works alone. We asked him more information about the people who are missing and any leads that he may have. And he told us to stay off the streets.
27:20 [DM (Aarya)] Well, that's, that's certainly not bad advice. Although I'm afraid it doesn't get us anywhere, does it?
27:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] What are we supposed to do? Cower in our, in our beds and suck our thumbs while the world rots away?
27:34 [DM (Aarya)] No, we have to do something. I, I agree with you, of course. But, well, if only, if only these other two were so cooperative as you two.
27:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, maybe I'll be a little more persuasive next time.
27:53 [DM (Aarya)] You know, Mercurio, with your silver tongue, I'm sure you could manage it.
28:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yes, especially the friendlier one. This guy, he didn't seem, I mean, I'm not sure if words are, he's not a words guy. I'm not sure words will be effective with him.
28:14 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, I thought, and it's strange, with this other one, I felt, I felt a sort of kinship with him considering, well, he had a bright blue bird logo on his chest. I thought maybe, surely he would be willing to cooperate with us. But even he has a, has an air of stubbornness to him.
28:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Bright blue bird logo, but he's not one of the friends of the feather, are you called?
28:40 [DM (Aarya)] It's strange, is it not?
28:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, you would think he's, he'd be a big fan?
28:47 [DM (Aarya)] I, I truly cannot say.
28:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, this is a lot of important news to share with our friends. So, as much as I'd like to miss out on the cleanup duty, we should be getting going.
29:06 [DM (Aarya)] Of course, and at this hour of night, I, I urge you, use caution.
29:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, the Ravens are with us, right? We'll be fine.
29:16 [DM (Aarya)] Of course, and we have eyes spread out through Vallaki, but I'm afraid with our numbers, even we cannot be watching everywhere at once. So, please, tread carefully.
29:31 [Saturno (Steph)] Will do. Will do.
29:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] And that will get headed back to our base of operations.
29:39 [Saturno (Steph)] I burst through this window, I'm just kidding. I somersault through that window.
29:45 [DM (Aarya)] All right. Yeah, so you all make your exit from the Bluewater Inn, um, carrying a bundle of blankets and beddings and such in your arms as you, uh, wander through, wander back through the streets of Vallaki to your newly acquired hideout. Which we now have a map for!
29:45 [DM (Aarya)] Excuse me.
30:10 [Saturno (Steph)] Whoa.
30:13 [DM (Aarya)] Um, let me pull y'all in. Um, let me know if you guys are all in the scene. Oh, yeah.
30:13 [DM (Aarya)] Cool.
30:33 [Speaker 6] Oh, yeah.
30:34 [DM (Aarya)] Um, but yeah, you guys make it back to your modest but very spacious warehouse slash barn building. Um, yeah.
30:50 [Saturno (Steph)] Way different.
30:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Honey, I know Udo looks like a prisoner over there still.
30:55 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, with the current layout, it's a pretty open building. And in one corner, there's just, like, a bunch of crates and boxes pushed up to, like, make a sort of, like, makeshift walls for a room. And that's where Udo has, like, the, like, the straw and hay to make up, like, a makeshift bed.
31:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, this is like a football field. I feel like halfway to the Blue Water Inn was just inside this building.
31:28 [Speaker 6] Yes, it's quite spacious.
31:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, yeah, I fill in the group about all the happenings, you know, and try to soften the blow that, well, you know, we can trust Erwin. I mean, he just seems like such a stand-up guy. So I kind of told them all our secrets.
31:53 [Sildir (Tris)] You know, after you showcased your skill with Baron Vargas there, Mercurio, I'm gonna trust you on this one. And Erwin does seem like a good guy.
32:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, it looks like my judgment was right because he's gonna be a pretty useful ally. I mean, he gave us all this stuff. We're now friends of the feather, you know, put some elite club there.
32:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Seems like that's earned us a number of allies. Well, that's great. Scattered about all of Barovia, according to Erwin.
32:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] So it seems that now we'll probably be able to find a friend wherever we look.
32:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Feels very, uh, fated. I think one of our first friends in this world was old Pepito there.
32:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, apparently he's one of them.
32:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, you are a feathered creature after all, aren't you, Pepito?
32:51 [DM (Aarya)] Well, he isn't actually with you, apparently.
32:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, is that Mithy with me right now?
32:55 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm shouting really loud so Pepito can hear me. I'm just kidding. I thought Pepito was there.
32:55 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. Yes, our cute feathered friend Pepito. That's what I actually said.
32:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Can't wait to see him again. Well, that's great. Looks like you guys got a lot of good stuff here.
32:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Udo, it looks like you have some blankets. What else is in there? I see some wine.
32:55 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm sure that's not for Udo.
33:25 [DM (Aarya)] By this point, Udo is just collapsed, exhausted, and very much out cold, catching some sleep.
33:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, maybe he'll have some tomorrow then. But yeah, bottoms up for the rest of us.
33:44 [Saturno (Steph)] I take a blanket and put it over his body anyways. Hold a bit of the wine to his nose to see if he'll wake up off the smell. Like, you know?
33:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Maybe water for him. Honestly, as I like look at his like, you know, He's definitely like skin and bones.
34:06 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, true.
34:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] This might kill him, actually.
34:09 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, okay, okay, okay. True, true, true.
34:12 [Sildir (Tris)] I say we have some wine. We have some good company. I pose a toast to the barn, to Udo, and to taking back Vlahki from these weirdos.
34:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Cheers.
34:27 [Saturno (Steph)] Truly, these weirdos. Cheers.
34:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, I guess we'll just set these, you know, blankets out and try to make some makeshift beds and we'll probably just stay here tonight.
34:47 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, sounds good.
34:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, well, once we do that, I guess we all, we just chit chat about, well, what should we do tomorrow? I mean, I think we probably, if we're gonna do anything before the dinner at night, I'd really like to make sure we make it like, you know, we head out like at first daylight so that we're, you know, we have ample time for our adventure. So that we get back in time for the dinner.
35:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Wow. Look at you, Mercurio. I think, uh, you're really lit up about this, aren't you?
35:24 [Sildir (Tris)] I see some energy and hope behind those words. But yes, I think there were a great number of things we've got on our plate now. Uh, I agree though.
35:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Wacterhouse is top priority. We need to get there. I mean, you can't miss that.
35:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, sorry, I heard Iridyll earlier talk about, um, that, that, uh, I guess Iridyll is like snoring, like she passed out.
36:02 [DM (Aarya)] Iridyll is like passed out. Like after, as soon as you guys came home with all the bedding and supplies. And Silas, um, is just like meditating, I guess.
36:02 [DM (Aarya)] Entering his, brooding in the corner, entering his, his elf trance to take rest for the night. Preparing himself for the next day's, uh, journey or activities.
36:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] But yeah, I heard Iridyll earlier say that, um, that Vargas boy, uh, he, he mentioned this wizard's tower that we could, uh, go to out in Lake Beretok. And he said that, uh, we might be able to find that wolf's mane there. I think if that's true, then that should probably be our top priority.
36:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't know. What, what did the rest of you think? Uh, Saturno and Ember, you two have been quiet about this.
37:02 [Saturno (Steph)] I do think the wolf's mane is a top priority considering the situation at hand.
37:09 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, we don't know what's going to happen.
37:11 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. And we definitely don't want, um, anything bad to happen.
37:17 [DM (Aarya)] And as you say that, you look over and you see, uh, Iridyll just like mumbles in her sleep and like tosses and turns a bit.
37:29 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
37:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] I, I, you know, I think the biggest threat to everything right now is honestly Iridyll killing Ossal. So maybe we should focus and hone in on that.
37:46 [Saturno (Steph)] Yes, I agree.
37:47 [Speaker 6] I have to agree.
37:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] This face is too pretty to be mauled by a werewolf, you know?
37:54 [Sildir (Tris)] How far away is Lake Baritok? Do we ever learn this?
37:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, two hours march, I think, right?
38:00 [DM (Aarya)] That's correct.
38:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, just a two hour march west. Now I don't know how long it would take us to find the tower. I mean, hopefully we can see across the lake once we get to it and probably spot the tower.
38:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, lakes are usually flat, right? So yeah, should have good luck there. We definitely need the wolf's bane.
38:16 [Sildir (Tris)] We need to keep this, uh, Baron's brat on our side. I think it's definitely the most efficient stop we could make.
38:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Excellent. Of course, we'll probably have to leave some people here in case the Baron's men pass by. And also because some of our feathered friends might be visiting to help us set up the place.
38:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Really? They're going to give us help in that capacity too. I thought supplies were plenty, but wow, Erwin really is an ally.
39:01 [DM (Aarya)] As you say that, um, you see, like, Syllabus, like, look over- excuse me, like, look up from his brooding, um, waves a hand indicating that he is willing to stay behind.
39:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, our loner friend here.
39:21 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, one down.
39:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] One down. Uh, nose goes for the rest. Oh, looks like it's Iridel.
39:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, I guess we'll be getting up at, uh, approximately the ass crack of dawn, but that's fine. It'll remind me of my younger years when I was still on the grind. I guess in a way, here we all are starting over.
39:38 [Sildir (Tris)] This, this place really is promising to me. But I'm gonna hit the hay, uh, literally tonight. And, uh, yeah.
39:38 [Sildir (Tris)] What time should we all get up? Is sunrise?
40:09 [DM (Aarya)] Sounds good. Great. All right, so with that, y'all can long rest and as soon as y'all are ready with that, we can resume in the morning.
40:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Are you able to long rest the, uh, AFK folks?
40:34 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah, actually, good point. Let me just do that for them.
40:37 [Sildir (Tris)] I feel like we'll forget.
40:39 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
40:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] I will say one, uh, if you have temporary hit points, you might from me, uh, you should clear those now on the long rest.
40:49 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, that is correct. It doesn't do it automatically. Technically, Iridel needs to redo her prepared spells for the long rest, but I'll let her take care of that whenever she's back.
40:49 [DM (Aarya)] So not a big deal at all.
41:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't remember if you gave me, um, it would be under your, your hit points, like another number.
41:18 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, okay. Okay. I don't see it.
41:21 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you don't have anything. You're good.
41:23 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it. Okay. So long rest, right?
41:25 [DM (Aarya)] Yep. So it looks like only Sildur took damage last time. I don't even know if it did.
41:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think other people took damage, but we healed it.
41:44 [DM (Aarya)] Ah, okay. I see.
41:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. Like I was missing two hit dice.
41:48 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, you, wow. You've recovered quite a few resources. First level spell slot, second level spell slots, bard hit dice, bardic inspiration uses, beguiling magic uses.
41:48 [DM (Aarya)] Wow. Yeah.
42:01 [Saturno (Steph)] I agree.
42:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Caster things.
42:05 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that's right. Yesterday was the day that I, I ambushed y'all with the assassins.
42:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. And we did all the Baron Vargas stuff, like multiple.
42:15 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. You guys use a lot of resources for that stuff. Yeah, true.
42:15 [DM (Aarya)] Good point.
42:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
42:23 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
42:25 [Speaker 6] Oh, look, look, look, look, look.
42:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] Nothing like a morning glass of, what's this? Red dragon crush.
42:40 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so you all, you all awake in the morning. The light of dawn is just starting to tickle through the holes in the ceiling, waking you all from your slumber.
43:04 [Saturno (Steph)] But I get up and I pull hay out of my hair.
43:09 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, no, thank you.
43:16 [Saturno (Steph)] I think I will vomit if I drink that. Didn't sleep well then, I take it. I need some, I need some toast.
43:16 [Saturno (Steph)] Toast.
43:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we have some bread here.
43:34 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, hell yeah. I dip the bread in the wine and I eat it.
43:40 [DM (Aarya)] Do you really? Oh my God.
43:42 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
43:42 [DM (Aarya)] Holy shit. I thought Mercurio was the party animal.
43:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's a good idea. That way, uh, you know, it's like a more hearty breakfast than just the wine.
43:55 [Ember (Spurthi)] Right, right. I get it. Mercurio hasn't, has had an impact on you.
44:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, you know, it's, uh, I think, uh, I think I've known him for too long. Uh, a day, a glass or two a day keeps the doctor away. That's what my family always said.
44:19 [DM (Aarya)] Right.
44:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] Right. Old ASMR tradition, I suppose.
44:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
44:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Anyways.
44:33 [Saturno (Steph)] As we used to say.
44:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Exactly. Well, there's no time to waste, so I guess let's get headed off.
44:47 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Um, let's see. So where are y'all headed to?
44:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] We're headed to the wizard's tower, right?
44:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. Okay. Very good.
44:56 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah. So you all, uh, gather your things. Um, it'll be four of you heading off on this journey.
44:56 [DM (Aarya)] Um, Mercurio, Saturno, Sildir, and Ember, um, Silalus has elected to stay behind. Uh, Iridel, um, is still sound asleep, and it seems she will be staying behind as well to accompany Silalus with the duties of maintaining and establishing this base you've recently acquired. Um, so the four of you, uh, come together, um, and make your way towards the western gate of Valaki, also known as the Sunset Gate.
44:56 [DM (Aarya)] Um, and you set off on the old Svalik road, headed- headed out west towards Lake Barotok, which is about two hours march from here. Um, let me switch scenes for y'all.
45:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] This is like the farthest west we've been, right? This is new ground we're covering.
45:58 [DM (Aarya)] It is. Um, I do have a- Does it look any better? Let me pull up a scene for y'all.
45:58 [DM (Aarya)] Is it less foggy and dreary? Um, it is no more or less foggier or drearier than anything you've seen in Barovia so far. Svalik road, I think it's this one.
45:58 [DM (Aarya)] Let me check.
46:30 [Sildir (Tris)] It's amazing how this place is so consistently just gloomy.
46:36 [DM (Aarya)] Depressing. Let me see if I have another, uh- It is depressing, actually.
46:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Think back to my days as a young lad starting my farm, I don't think I could have done it here. I'd be surprised if crops grow easily.
46:54 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so you find yourselves once again on the old Svalik road, headed out towards, um, Lake Barotok. At some point you find yourselves at a fork in the road, that short ways out, um, past Volaki. You find that this- There's a little- A bit of a very, like, rickety old bridge fjording the, what you know to be the Luna River, according to the maps that you've seen.
46:54 [DM (Aarya)] And in one direction is a dirt trail leading into the Svalik woods and towards Lake Barotok. Um, you continue along the path, um, mining the way as you go. Uh, there is a dense canopy surrounding you on either side, blotting out the- the meager sunlight of Barovia, uh, from your vision.
46:54 [DM (Aarya)] So, you find yourself on a misty, shadowy path, hastily making your way towards your destination. You know that the fate of your friend, Iridel, lies in your ability to source this wolf's bane from the wizard's tower. Um, but yeah, you find yourselves on the road.
48:15 [Sildir (Tris)] You guys think Cousin will be nice?
48:20 [Speaker 6] Who? The wizard.
48:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, you know, the old- the wizard in the tower.
48:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh. Um.
48:26 [Speaker 6] Oh.
48:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, I'm sure we could buy some from him, if anything. Or maybe he's dead. Who knows?
48:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is he supposed to be dead?
48:37 [Sildir (Tris)] No, that was the writer of the book, I think.
48:40 [DM (Aarya)] Victor did mention that Kazan was, like, a very old wizard. Oh.
48:47 [Saturno (Steph)] I wonder if you can sense how gloomy it is. I wonder how much muscle mass he has.
48:57 [Sildir (Tris)] These wizards, they are always finding a way to live entirely too long.
49:02 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm sure there has to be a spell for bone density out there.
49:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Hmm, you make good points, Terno. Might be a... Yeah, a little calcium spell, perhaps.
49:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, in any case, if he is mean, we'll handle him that way. If he's nice, which I hope he is, we can buy something off of him.
49:29 [Saturno (Steph)] Yes.
49:30 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't fancy fighting a wizard. They kind of freak me out.
49:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, we need all the friends we can get. I mean, maybe he doesn't like Strahd either, you know. Uh, or, uh...
49:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Or the Baron.
49:50 [Speaker 6] What does that even mean?
49:51 [DM (Aarya)] I had a question. Question?
49:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Did we have a fireball shot at us in this campaign?
49:59 [DM (Aarya)] Did you have a fireball shot at you? I don't think you have. No, I haven't managed to figure it out.
49:59 [DM (Aarya)] Right, don't keep that in mind.
50:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I don't know if you guys have ever seen it, but, um... Yeah, I was at a... At a little, uh, banquet.
50:06 [Sildir (Tris)] And... It was the Duke's banquet. And he had a court wizard.
50:06 [Sildir (Tris)] And he had a little show-off moment where he shot a fireball. It was just for the guests to watch and see, but... Really, the Duke was showing...
50:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Making a show of force. And I have to say, it's... It's terrifying, so...
50:06 [Sildir (Tris)] If it comes to fighting this guy, let's try to be quick.
50:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, he is...
50:43 [Speaker 6] Spread out!
50:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Me and, uh, Satorno have seen some... Wizards in action in some of the battles we've fought in, and... Not pretty.
50:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Luckily, we never found ourselves the target of the fireball, but... We've seen it take out our friends.
50:58 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'll just attack him when he isn't looking.
51:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Always a good plan, Ember. That's a good backup plan.
51:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, maybe if... Maybe if he wears glasses, we could, like, steal them or something? I'm a nerd.
51:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Well, maybe not! This might be our friend. Let's go in with good attitude.
51:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Is there anything... Like, can I do, like, an inspection? To make sure...
51:07 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't know, like... Can I sense that anyone's following us? Like, any sounds?
51:32 [DM (Aarya)] Um... I guess, yeah, like, describe to me how you're trying to, like... Suss this out?
51:38 [Saturno (Steph)] I... I'm gonna assume, like, we stop for a moment just to chat. And then we just kind of, like, stand quietly and...
51:38 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. I just want to see if I could hear anything. Or, like, um...
51:38 [Saturno (Steph)] Just by looking around, seeing anything, any tracks?
51:53 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, yeah, give me perception. Oh, hell yeah. Oh, 16 perception!
52:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Good luck, babies. Plus zero.
52:10 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So, you take a... You take a moment to stop on your...
52:10 [DM (Aarya)] On your, uh, trek. You've been... You've probably been keeping a pretty, like, healthy pace up to this point.
52:10 [DM (Aarya)] And you're just, like, stopping for a moment to catch your breath. Take a survey of your surroundings. And, Saturno, with a 16 perception, you hear, coming from ahead of you, some footsteps and idle chatter.
52:39 [Saturno (Steph)] Hello, everyone. I hear footsteps and idle chatter. Um...
52:48 [Sildir (Tris)] Idle chatter?
52:50 [Ember (Spurthi)] Idle chatter.
52:52 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, what did you say?
52:53 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I use my digital thoughts, Stan?
52:55 [DM (Aarya)] You want to use what?
52:58 [Ember (Spurthi)] Detect thoughts.
52:59 [DM (Aarya)] Can I use broadcasting? You have detect thoughts? Really?
53:03 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
53:03 [DM (Aarya)] Oh!
53:05 [Saturno (Steph)] I still don't know who they are.
53:09 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you do have that. Dang, how do you have that? Okay.
53:09 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah, you can do that. I think that's... I guess that's a solenoid feature.
53:09 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, I will say... Let me just double check your... Yeah, sorry.
53:09 [DM (Aarya)] I totally forgot you could do this.
53:32 [Ember (Spurthi)] But... I don't know how I'm able to, because I...
53:34 [DM (Aarya)] You can... So, in your spellbook, just, like, um, on detect thoughts, if you click on, like, the icon, it'll turn into... You'll see it, like...
53:34 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah, click cast spell.
53:43 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
53:43 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, okay, cool. So... Yeah.
53:43 [DM (Aarya)] You can click detect thoughts. Cool. And then...
53:43 [DM (Aarya)] So... With this ability, the sense thoughts portion of the spell, you can sense the presence of thoughts, uh, within 30 feet of yourself that belong to creatures that know languages or are telepathic. You don't read the thoughts, but you know that a thinking creature is present.
53:43 [DM (Aarya)] Um... Yeah, so how long does this last for? One minute.
53:43 [DM (Aarya)] One minute? Okay, cool.
54:15 [Saturno (Steph)] I've set it at the bottom.
54:16 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, okay, I see. Cool, one minute. All right, so yeah, you detect the thoughts, um, of two, uh, individuals heading in your direction.
54:31 [Ember (Spurthi)] It sounds like two people are approaching us.
54:34 [Saturno (Steph)] What should we do? What are they, are they thinking? Anything good, bad?
54:34 [Saturno (Steph)] Should we hide?
54:40 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so with this, with just a sense thoughts feature, since you don't have eyes on them just yet, you can detect their presence, but you can actually read their thoughts. If you want to read their thoughts with this ability, you have to be able to see them, and you have to target a specific person with it.
54:54 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I think we should just hide and let them pass in the meantime, but don't look suspicious when we hide. But I don't know how to do that.
55:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] Can I, um, can I use my familiar, um, to kind of, like, get a bird's eye view? Yeah, yeah, you can totally do that. All right, so I sort of, like, cast Pepito up into the sky, like, off my shoulder.
55:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then you see, like, Mercurio's, like, eyes go white.
55:29 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, all right. So Mercurio, you see two individuals meandering their way down the trail. They're kind of just, like, lazily trekking along.
55:29 [DM (Aarya)] You see they are each equipped with crossbows strapped to their backs. They have, they're, like, dressed in, like, pretty, like, um, like, torn, like, worn, like, um, raggedy looking clothes. There's, like, frayed at the edges.
55:29 [DM (Aarya)] There's, like, bits of blood and stains, like, on their sleeves and legs. They have, they're each carrying, like, pretty, like, wicked looking hunting knives. And they have, like, um, like, pelts, like, a bunch of pelts, just, like, slung over their shoulders.
56:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, so they look like hunters, basically.
56:13 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
56:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] It just seems like a couple of hunters back from, from a hunting trip.
56:22 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I, I think that should be fine. I don't think we have a reason to hide them.
56:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. Well, it might even be nice to talk to them, because we know that hunters can carry silver. We're still looking around, shopping around for a silver dagger, so.
56:44 [Sildir (Tris)] And it looks like they're coming from the lake, so they should be able to give us some good information on what we're walking into. Yeah.
56:52 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
56:54 [Saturno (Steph)] But can we still use detect thought? Be nosy.
57:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that, that will last, that will last for another minute, the detect thought spell. So I'll say that, um, considering the timetable of, like, them approaching you and, like, the distance that you're at, you can choose to approach them directly now, if you want to be able to read their thoughts. And you'll be able to focus your attention on one of them, and be able to read their, their, just, like, surface level thoughts, because that's how the spell works.
57:02 [DM (Aarya)] So yeah, how would you like to proceed?
57:33 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm just gonna run up and be like, Hello there! Good morning.
57:40 [DM (Aarya)] You see the two of them just, like, they've been, like, absorbed in conversation with each other, just, like, casually strolling down the trail. And upon hearing your greeting, they both stop. They turn to look at you, and, um, they, they, like, kind of, like, blink slowly at you, and then look to each other, and just kind of, like, grin.
57:40 [DM (Aarya)] And they look back to you. Well, well! Haha, was not expecting to see other faces on the road today.
58:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, yes, uh, we're travelers. We're headed over to, like, Berthok for the day.
58:16 [DM (Aarya)] It's an odd hour to be traveling the old Svalik road, don't you think?
58:21 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, we have places to be later tonight, so we must travel early.
58:26 [DM (Aarya)] Ah, yes, well, it's, hmm, I should warn you, friends, uh, it is, it's not quite safe to be traveling these roads without being properly armed.
58:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, we're properly armed. Don't you worry yourself.
58:44 [DM (Aarya)] Um, as you say that, you see them. At this point, they're standing, like, how far away are you guys? That's approximately, like, what, like, 20 feet, I'd say?
58:44 [DM (Aarya)] Um, oh, like, 40 feet, yeah. So they're, they're far enough that they can't see, like, they can't, like, scrutinize you super well. They kind of just, like, squint to look at you, and they kind of see, like, Silir with his, like, impressive-looking armor.
58:44 [DM (Aarya)] Um, Saturno as well with her, like, chainmail and, like, greatsword affixed to her back. Um, and yeah, they, like, squint in, and then they lean back and, like, blink in surprise. Well, yes, it seems you would be very, very well-armed.
58:44 [DM (Aarya)] Um, Ember, if you still want to detect their thoughts, you can do so. You can only pick one of them, though.
59:37 [Ember (Spurthi)] Um, I'll do the one that just talked.
59:40 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
59:43 [Ember (Spurthi)] Um, okay, so. Wait, you said, you said within, like, 40 feet? Because it detects that's just 30.
59:52 [DM (Aarya)] I'll, I'll let it go. It's fine.
59:54 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, so what do I press?
59:56 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you don't have to do anything, but this guy has to make a wisdom saving throw. So. Is 10 correct for that?
59:56 [DM (Aarya)] It shouldn't be 10. It should be based on your int. Um, your int is 14.
59:56 [DM (Aarya)] So for you, yeah, it is 10, actually. It's 8 plus 2.
01:00:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, shouldn't it be plus proficiency too?
01:00:25 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, it is proficiency. You're correct. Yeah, so 12.
01:00:25 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay, so 12. Um, this guy rolls a 14.
01:00:25 [DM (Aarya)] So you aren't able to detect much. You do get the kind of sense of, like. Um, just like some wariness, some concern.
01:00:25 [DM (Aarya)] And beneath all that, some other, like, really intense feeling. It feels almost like, like a raw desire of something.
01:00:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Can I roll an insight on these guys?
01:01:00 [DM (Aarya)] Sure. All right, cool.
01:01:05 [Ember (Spurthi)] I kind of like mutter to the group, like, what is their possess?
01:01:08 [DM (Aarya)] So yeah, so with a 7 insight, uh, you kind of look to these guys and, yeah, I mean, they just seem like ordinary hunters. Like, it is, you, they did question your, like, um, reason for being out at this, like, so early in the morning. And you kind of think the same of them, but then you realize that, like, being hunters, it's probably normal for them to get up at the crack of dawn for their work.
01:01:08 [DM (Aarya)] Can I do an arcana check? Yeah, you can do arcana. Yeah, 14 arcana check.
01:01:08 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you don't detect any kind of, like, magic or any magical effects or spell or anything coming off on these guys. Okay, okay.
01:01:55 [Saturno (Steph)] So what brings you, oh, go ahead.
01:01:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, no, no, you go ahead.
01:01:59 [DM (Aarya)] So what brings you all here? Well, we're, we're, we're about humble hunters traveling from the village of Krezk, simply making our way down. I should say, I should note, it's rather dangerous to be strolling around this, this part of the old Svalik road at this time.
01:01:59 [DM (Aarya)] There has been this, well, I don't know how else to say it, but this, this mad, crazy lady responsible for some rather gruesome murders along this road.
01:02:44 [Saturno (Steph)] Really? Oh, even at this time? What have you heard of her?
01:02:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] This is the first we've heard of this?
01:02:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes, she's a, she's quite a terrifying creature. She has a shock of red hair and a bright red scarf wrapped around her neck. And she carries this, well, I've never seen anything like it.
01:02:51 [DM (Aarya)] It's like some kind of wand of sorts. It blows holes in men's chests. You've seen it?
01:02:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. In her? Yes, and dear Razvan and I have just scarcely escaped with our lives.
01:02:51 [DM (Aarya)] It's truly a mad woman.
01:03:25 [Sildir (Tris)] And she attacked you and provoked you?
01:03:26 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes. I don't, I can't imagine what she was after. Well, Razvan and I can, can certainly take care of ourselves.
01:03:26 [DM (Aarya)] Well, we, we know when, when and how best to escape from a sticky situation.
01:03:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'll say, um, do you know anything about the wizard tower, uh, by Lake Beretok?
01:03:57 [DM (Aarya)] Wizard tower? I don't know anything about a wizard tower.
01:04:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] You don't know any, I thought you said you go hunting by there.
01:04:07 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, we do. In fact, uh, the area around Lake Beretok and the surrounding area are common hunting grounds. We've, we've caught many a prey around these parts.
01:04:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] And you've never seen a tower?
01:04:21 [DM (Aarya)] Can't say that I have.
01:04:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Interesting. Well, um.
01:04:30 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I do a perception to see if they're lying, DM?
01:04:33 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, if you want to see if they're lying, that would be insight.
01:04:37 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
01:04:45 [DM (Aarya)] 23 insight. That's really good. Okay.
01:04:45 [DM (Aarya)] So you note two things. Um, when you ask about if these, I feel like he hunts around like these parts around Lake Beretok. He is being truthful about those being their usual hunting grounds.
01:04:45 [DM (Aarya)] And in fact, he seems like particularly gleeful to report that. And when you ask about whether or not he's seen a wizard tower, he's most definitely lying.
01:05:21 [Saturno (Steph)] Do you have any success? Oh, sorry.
01:05:25 [Ember (Spurthi)] And then I told the group, let's mutter it to them. Should they know?
01:05:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Say, um.
01:05:33 [Ember (Spurthi)] I think they're lying here.
01:05:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Have you heard of any, uh, I've heard that there are werewolves around Lake Beretok. Have you had any trouble during your hunting with werewolves?
01:05:45 [DM (Aarya)] Werewolves? Oh, well, you know, so long as you stick to the road, it's, it's not common for werewolves to bother you. And, you know, should you encounter such a thing, I'm sure a group as well-armed as yourselves would find no trouble dealing with them.
01:06:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Yes. You think so?
01:06:06 [DM (Aarya)] I do.
01:06:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Do you happen to keep some silver on you?
01:06:14 [DM (Aarya)] Us? No. We, we manage without it.
01:06:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] I met a few hunters and they told me that they never leave home without it.
01:06:25 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm.
01:06:26 [Saturno (Steph)] That's surprising that you don't carry any.
01:06:29 [DM (Aarya)] Well, Razvan and I are quite skilled in our craft.
01:06:30 [Saturno (Steph)] How did your hunt go today? Can you look at them up and down?
01:06:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, it is rare- I thought they were quite successful. Look at all their pelts.
01:06:42 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, but this isn't our usual haul, I will say. These are, these are just small game. The big game that we usually hunt around here is much more of an interesting, uh, quarry.
01:06:42 [DM (Aarya)] It's just, well, this, this mad woman I told you about, she, she tends to interfere. It's just, she doesn't seem to want to leave us be, us, us humble hunters.
01:07:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, and why don't you just hunt somewhere else then? Seems like it's not worth it.
01:07:14 [DM (Aarya)] Well, my good sir, these, this is our homeland. This is where, this is where we've grown, grown up hunting. These, this neck of woods is, is ours to claim.
01:07:14 [DM (Aarya)] We would not give it up so easily.
01:07:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Where do you live?
01:07:31 [DM (Aarya)] Not far from here. Just, um, a humble settlement, uh, near the outskirts of Lake Beartok. But I must say, it is curious that you, you would be traveling along here.
01:07:31 [DM (Aarya)] Most, most curious indeed. You aren't, you wouldn't happen to be lost, would you? Lost?
01:07:31 [DM (Aarya)] I know where I'm going.
01:07:58 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh no.
01:07:59 [DM (Aarya)] No.
01:08:00 [Ember (Spurthi)] We know exactly where we're going.
01:08:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes, the wizard tower you said, right? The tower that doesn't exist. I, it really does sound to me that you are lost.
01:08:02 [DM (Aarya)] Maybe some old fool has told you a, a silly old story.
01:08:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] No, I was just trying to make sure that, uh, the legends of that silly wizard tower weren't true.
01:08:25 [Ember (Spurthi)] Well, how do you know it doesn't exist?
01:08:27 [DM (Aarya)] Just a little knee slapper for you. Well. Making small talk.
01:08:27 [DM (Aarya)] My dear lady, in fact, we, we've been hunting this around these grounds since we were young boys. If there were a wizard tower around here, I'm sure we would have seen it. It's just, it's strange.
01:08:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, the mists are quite thick, but.
01:08:44 [Sildir (Tris)] Well. Yes, but for. Perhaps you missed it yourself.
01:08:44 [Sildir (Tris)] But, uh, there's a crazy woman with red hair and a wand that blows holes in the chests of men, uh.
01:08:54 [DM (Aarya)] It's just.
01:08:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Sounds like a wizard to me, if not a wizard's apprentice.
01:08:58 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, she, she is no wizard, I assure you. She's, she's something else. A monster, a savage, a beast, if you will.
01:08:58 [DM (Aarya)] It's just. With senses like ours, we have, being hunters, we have such sharpened, keen senses. It's rare for us to, to miss a point of interest there.
01:08:58 [DM (Aarya)] I'm afraid you're chasing a story, my friends.
01:09:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, like Mercurio said, we were just headed this way anyhow.
01:09:31 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, but still, it just, it rubs me the wrong way. If you aren't lost.
01:09:40 [Ember (Spurthi)] In a similar way. Well, didn't, didn't you say you were protective or proud of this land earlier?
01:09:46 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, that's correct.
01:09:48 [Ember (Spurthi)] So wouldn't you be curious to even investigate that? What if it is real?
01:09:53 [DM (Aarya)] Well, to be, to be, to be frank, I, I don't know. I think, I just don't believe you. I think some, some old, some old sap has told you, fed you a bad, bad information, I would say.
01:09:53 [DM (Aarya)] You, you've been, you've been made fools. And. Frank, I don't think your name is Frank.
01:09:53 [DM (Aarya)] No, it's not Frank. Who's Frank?
01:10:18 [Saturno (Steph)] You just said to be Frank and you're lying to us. Your name is not Frank. What else are you lying about?
01:10:24 [Speaker 6] What's it to you anyway?
01:10:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Why are you so concerned? Let us be confused.
01:10:29 [DM (Aarya)] It's just, well, I'd hate to see a confused bunch of individuals such as yourselves finding your way along here. It, it would be a shame if you were to run into such a terror as this red beast that we've seen. It's just, well, if you aren't lost, then perhaps you've, it's not your destination that lost, but maybe something you'd have, something, something that you're missing.
01:10:29 [DM (Aarya)] No, I think you're good. What are you missing, do you think? You have lost something.
01:10:29 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes. What, what, what's it to you, Razvan? And the other man, like, looks to him and he, he like, looks to you up and down, like, really scrutinizes you.
01:10:29 [DM (Aarya)] He says, yes, I, I think, I think you're right, Yakov. They have, they have lost something. They've lost their lives.
01:10:29 [DM (Aarya)] And as he says that, the two of them drop to all, like, down on the ground on all fours. They start, they, you see their muscles bulging, their, their clothes tearing apart, fur sprouting from across their body and their, their faces elongating into vicious looking snouts. And you find yourselves greeted by a pair of werewolves.
01:10:29 [DM (Aarya)] Can't you roll animal handling? Animal handling.
01:12:06 [Saturno (Steph)] Can't you?
01:12:08 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, werewolves. But yeah, with that, I'm gonna start a combat. And you call a roll initiative.
01:12:23 [Ember (Spurthi)] You guys ready for this?
01:12:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] Ah, nothing like a good fight to get the blood flowing in the morning.
01:12:35 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I really don't like Frank, honestly.
01:12:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Did I get my roll through?
01:12:49 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah, you got a six.
01:12:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, I guess it didn't show in the chat, but that's fine.
01:12:56 [DM (Aarya)] Where's Pepito? Um, are you able to summon him? Um, oh, wait, we have, like, a thing for that right now, right?
01:12:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah. There you are. There we go.
01:12:56 [DM (Aarya)] Let me add him to the combat initiative.
01:13:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, and then are we gonna do his own initiative or will he just go after me?
01:13:29 [DM (Aarya)] I think, um, it's easier if he just, I mean, how do you want to do it? I'll leave it up to you.
01:13:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, yeah, I guess just put him with me.
01:13:40 [Saturno (Steph)] All right. I would also like to summon my guy, Memphis.
01:13:50 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can also go ahead and summon Memphis.
01:13:55 [Saturno (Steph)] Remember how to do that? Yeah, I'm Mambo. And I want to, um, two, three, four.
01:14:08 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you can summon it within 15 feet, I think.
01:14:14 [Saturno (Steph)] I know. I don't remember.
01:14:16 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it is 15 feet.
01:14:19 [Saturno (Steph)] 15? Okay, so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Okay.
01:14:28 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, cool. All right. Um, yeah, so I'll go ahead and begin combat.
01:14:28 [DM (Aarya)] I'm gonna start some combat music. Okay, so to start, we'll have this first werewolf. So you're faced with two werewolves standing directly in front of you.
01:14:28 [DM (Aarya)] One slightly to the north, one slightly to the south. The top werewolf will go ahead, take his turn. He's gonna, like, rush on over to Ember and go for a multi-attack.
01:14:28 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, great. Looks like I'm missing. So gonna go for two, um, claw attacks.
01:14:28 [DM (Aarya)] So 15 and, uh, 18. Do either of those hit? Um, Ember?
01:14:28 [DM (Aarya)] I'm guessing the 18 probably hits, but not 15.
01:15:41 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, I guess they do, right? What do I do now?
01:15:45 [DM (Aarya)] So your AC is 16. Yeah, it's 16. So the 15 does not hit, but the 18 does hit.
01:15:45 [DM (Aarya)] So you're gonna take some damage from that one. So that's gonna be, uh, 13 damage to you. Um, yeah, no worries.
01:15:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, um, that'll be that. And then the other werewolf will take its turn. Um, it's also gonna rush on over to Ember and also go for two scratch attacks.
01:15:45 [DM (Aarya)] So that first one is an 11, which does not hit. And that is a 18, which does hit. So this one will deal, not too bad, five damage.
01:15:45 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah. And now with that, it'll be Mercurio's turn.
01:17:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Damn, what a combat to start us off. Um, I think, uh, Mercurio's our greedy guy. Yeah, I'd go for hold person.
01:17:21 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, rip it. Which one?
01:17:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, I don't know. I guess the bottom one.
01:17:28 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Metagame. Um, it's gonna wisdom saving throw, and that will be holy.
01:17:28 [DM (Aarya)] Holy. 17 wisdom save. Unlucky.
01:17:28 [DM (Aarya)] So, um, that's okay.
01:17:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, and with that, I use my beguiling magic. Um, so why does this thing never, the button never works for it. Um, there we go.
01:17:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, and so, um, they, I use that to basically, um, attempt to frighten them.
01:18:15 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:18:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] So they should roll a, another.
01:18:18 [DM (Aarya)] Is it a single creature or is it just both of them?
01:18:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's a single creature. It's, it's the same guy.
01:18:24 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, same guy. So wisdom save.
01:18:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Which one is that, by the way? Okay. Okay.
01:18:32 [DM (Aarya)] So that's an eight wisdom save. So this one is not frightened. Um, let me apply that effect.
01:18:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I think, um, though the enchantment to hold him doesn't take hold. I like with my enchantment magic, I, uh, conjure like images of us stabbing him with a silver dagger into his mind.
01:19:01 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. So he seems seized with fear, um, by Mercurio's strange, uh, music that he plays. Um, but yeah.
01:19:01 [DM (Aarya)] So while you're within his line of sight, he has disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls and cannot willingly move closer to the, to, towards you. So, yeah.
01:19:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, and then, um, yeah, fuck it. We go all out. Uh, and then I'll use also my, uh, mantle of inspiration as my bonus action.
01:19:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] So that'll be for like my night bardic, um, sorry. And so, um, number of each charisma modifier, number of people. So that's all of us.
01:19:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Sick. All right. So all of us, um, gain temporary hit points equal to, oh, let's fucking go.
01:20:26 [Speaker 6] Damn.
01:20:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, wait. Or was it, uh, oh, it was a three on the die. Okay.
01:20:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] So six. I thought it was a, I rolled a six for a sec.
01:20:33 [Saturno (Steph)] So an additional six. That's pretty good.
01:20:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] All of us gained six temp hit points. Uh, and you can use your reaction to move right now if you want.
01:20:43 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, yeah. How much?
01:20:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, any of us can, can move our, our full movement. Like if you use your reaction.
01:20:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Without provoking opportunity attacks too. So that's very good for you right now. Ember.
01:20:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. If you want to move ember.
01:20:59 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Um, okay. I'll move.
01:20:59 [Ember (Spurthi)] How far can I move? Six squares.
01:21:07 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:21:10 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can't move my thing.
01:21:12 [DM (Aarya)] It's because it's technically not your turn. So it's locked, but it's like, you can just like ping where you want to go and I'll move you there.
01:21:22 [Ember (Spurthi)] Um, I'll go like four squares back.
01:21:25 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:21:26 [Ember (Spurthi)] Like near that shadowy place. Yeah.
01:21:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] The rest of us don't really need to move since we're just going next. Anyways, so you can save your reaction. Well, we'll get your reaction back on your turn anyways.
01:21:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] So yeah, you might as well move, I guess.
01:21:47 [Saturno (Steph)] Can I send Memphis like in front of, um, Ember or like next to Ember?
01:21:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can do that. Sure.
01:21:57 [Saturno (Steph)] Uh, I can't. So can you?
01:22:00 [DM (Aarya)] Thank you.
01:22:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. Uh, that doesn't like, um, that doesn't like mess with Ember at all, right? Okay.
01:22:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, that's good. And then I'm gonna, uh, just, I think I'm gonna just... Did they both go already?
01:22:02 [Saturno (Steph)] No, right?
01:22:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] They did. They both went already.
01:22:22 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. Then I'm, I'm, I guess I'll just...
01:22:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] There's basically no reason not to use your reaction. Yeah. You might as well use it.
01:22:32 [DM (Aarya)] So Ember will retreat to a defensive position. Um, Memphis will come back to a protector and Sildur and Saturna will advance to take an aggressive position against them.
01:22:46 [Saturno (Steph)] And I have a question. Is there like consumables we could use at this very moment? Like as a reaction?
01:22:52 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you can't as a reaction. Your reaction was moving just now.
01:22:57 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it. So instead of moving, if I did like a consumable, would that be okay?
01:23:01 [DM (Aarya)] Um, I'll say that would probably be just a full action unless it specifically says...
01:23:06 [Saturno (Steph)] That's fine. Um, I think it's easier if you just say what you're trying to do. Well, I was, I asked if I could metagame, but then no one said yes.
01:23:06 [Saturno (Steph)] So like I didn't...
01:23:21 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, sorry, I didn't hear. What were you trying to say?
01:23:23 [Saturno (Steph)] No, it's okay.
01:23:25 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, okay.
01:23:26 [Saturno (Steph)] My bad. Uh, I was just gonna ask if anyone had fire because I have oil and I was thinking if we throw oil at them when we light them on fire, like don't wear wolves. At least I don't know in Hollywood.
01:23:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Fire. So like, yeah.
01:23:42 [Sildir (Tris)] I think it is the way to like permanently kill a lot of these things.
01:23:47 [Saturno (Steph)] So that was basically it. But we don't have to do that. We're like in a good position right now.
01:23:47 [Saturno (Steph)] I just have oil and I just wanted to say that if someone had fire, like we could do it. And if not, we could save it for next time. I have to.
01:24:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Do we have any fire peeps? I just don't have anything fire related. I have a good old...
01:24:08 [Saturno (Steph)] I have a torch. It's all, but like, is it lit?
01:24:14 [DM (Aarya)] Is it not lit?
01:24:17 [Ember (Spurthi)] Like, would it be in future as well? Like if we were to...
01:24:19 [DM (Aarya)] It would probably be like a spell or something or maybe like a flaming weapon. I don't think you have anything.
01:24:28 [Sildir (Tris)] I think I almost prepared Searing Smite today.
01:24:30 [Saturno (Steph)] I have Boomy Blade. Would they light on fire?
01:24:35 [DM (Aarya)] No, unfortunately.
01:24:36 [Saturno (Steph)] They move exactly. No, it's all good. That's fine.
01:24:36 [Saturno (Steph)] But it's just something to keep in mind. So let's keep going. Yeah.
01:24:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then I want to use Pepito to give Ember advantage.
01:24:51 [Speaker 6] Cool.
01:24:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Or Ember, do you have a way to give yourself advantage? I think you might with your...
01:24:59 [DM (Aarya)] So you can use Steady Aim.
01:25:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Steady Aim. Okay. Then I'll actually...
01:25:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, I'll give it to Sildir then. I think that's the play. So Pepito flies over to...
01:25:15 [DM (Aarya)] I will say for Saturno and Sildir, if you... So in your current positions, you are in front of one and Saturno is behind the other. If instead you are on either side of the same werewolf, you'll be flanking them and you'll both give each other advantage.
01:25:15 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, really?
01:25:40 [Saturno (Steph)] So like if I get on the other side, it'll be better?
01:25:43 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, if you're basically just like surrounding the same one.
01:25:46 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh. Can you...
01:25:48 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe she's getting up on the frightened one.
01:25:49 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. This one.
01:25:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, so maybe give yourself advantage, Mercurio.
01:25:57 [DM (Aarya)] Or give it to the Echo Knight. What were you saying, Gabe?
01:25:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, so they both have advantage?
01:26:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:26:02 [Sildir (Tris)] On this werewolf, yeah.
01:26:03 [DM (Aarya)] That's how flanking works, right?
01:26:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, yeah. If you're on like opposite sides.
01:26:10 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:26:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] Cool. Shit, what do I do with my fucking advantage then? I guess I give it to myself.
01:26:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, even though I usually do saves, but all good. Yeah, I'll give it to myself then.
01:26:32 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, Ember, it is your turn.
01:26:35 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right, so is there anything I can't do because I'm damaged?
01:26:39 [DM (Aarya)] Or is it like... No, no, you don't lose the ability to do anything when you're damaged.
01:26:45 [Sildir (Tris)] It's the first time you've taken damage.
01:26:48 [DM (Aarya)] I think it is.
01:26:48 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah.
01:26:50 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say you probably don't want to move because you can just attack from range.
01:26:55 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, I can't? Okay. I could intercept the attack and you could take half the damage.
01:27:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, and also...
01:27:03 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm pissed.
01:27:05 [DM (Aarya)] Also, with your steady aim feature, that requires you to stay in place, and then you can give yourself advantage on a ranged attack.
01:27:15 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, okay.
01:27:16 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm gonna metagame you slightly here. Basically, I notice with Ember, you run in a lot. And that can be good on your type of character.
01:27:16 [Sildir (Tris)] But you might want to wait for tanks to be there first. I say tanks, like it's a video game. But paladins and warriors, whatever, are there to take the hits.
01:27:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Which is done now, by the way. But creeping up at the beginning when we might fight will get you into trouble, like you saw right there. Just something I've noticed happen a couple times.
01:27:16 [Sildir (Tris)] I figured it might be helpful. That's it.
01:27:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] I would say since you want to get advantage so that you can sneak attack, you either want to be far away so that you can do steady aim, or you can also, even though it doesn't give you advantage, but just being next to an ally who's also next to the enemy, that counts. That lets you do sneak attack too. So you want to do one of those two.
01:27:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh no, like if you were next to seal deer, that would work too.
01:28:28 [DM (Aarya)] Well actually, it's not even that. It's actually better than that. So as long as you have an ally who's next to your target, you can just sneak attack.
01:28:28 [DM (Aarya)] You can sneak attack them without advantage. You can just ignore the advantage part.
01:28:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, okay.
01:28:40 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:28:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, got it.
01:28:42 [DM (Aarya)] So right now, even without advantage, you could sneak attack either of those werewolves because you have at least one ally who is adjacent to them. But having advantage anyway is already good because it just gives you a better chance to hit. It's actually really cool.
01:28:42 [DM (Aarya)] I didn't know that.
01:29:01 [Ember (Spurthi)] So who's the one who hit me? I want to hit that one.
01:29:05 [DM (Aarya)] I think it's the frightened one.
01:29:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah.
01:29:07 [DM (Aarya)] I think it seems like your team is trying to focus one of them first.
01:29:13 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
01:29:15 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, since they heal, we should focus.
01:29:19 [Ember (Spurthi)] So what do you recommend that I use now?
01:29:21 [DM (Aarya)] So your ranged attack is going to be your shortbow.
01:29:25 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. And I can use steady aim with that?
01:29:29 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. So if you use your bonus action to steady aim, you will get advantage on your shortbow attack. Actually, apparently you have a crossbow too.
01:29:29 [DM (Aarya)] I didn't realize you had that. So the crossbow does more damage. And it also slows them.
01:29:51 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, I'll do that then.
01:29:54 [DM (Aarya)] All right, nice. The shortbow mastery. The shortbow is Vex.
01:30:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Vex? That's also good. Vox Machina?
01:30:05 [Ember (Spurthi)] So do I press attack now?
01:30:06 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes, attack.
01:30:08 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
01:30:09 [DM (Aarya)] Excuse me. With advantage, by the way.
01:30:10 [Ember (Spurthi)] Normal? With advantage.
01:30:12 [DM (Aarya)] No, it's okay.
01:30:13 [Ember (Spurthi)] How do you do it?
01:30:14 [DM (Aarya)] How do you do it? We are properly at end of expansion. So 20 on attack.
01:30:14 [DM (Aarya)] Not a natural 20, but a 20. So that will definitely hit. Go ahead and roll damage.
01:30:27 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Normal, right?
01:30:30 [DM (Aarya)] Or critical hit?
01:30:32 [Ember (Spurthi)] Normal? Okay.
01:30:33 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So that is 7 damage. And go ahead and also apply sneak attack damage.
01:30:33 [DM (Aarya)] Since you can sneak attack on this.
01:30:43 [Ember (Spurthi)] How do I do that?
01:30:44 [DM (Aarya)] I think it's under your features. Okay. Yeah, sneak attack.
01:30:44 [DM (Aarya)] I see. Normal. Okay, 2d6.
01:30:44 [DM (Aarya)] That is 9 more damage. Okay, nice. So that was 16 damage from Ember on this werewolf on the bottom.
01:30:44 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, cool. Nice. Let's go.
01:30:44 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so that's your turn?
01:31:12 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, that's my turn.
01:31:14 [DM (Aarya)] All right. Saturna, yep, you're up.
01:31:19 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I am going to cast Boomerang Blade.
01:31:25 [DM (Aarya)] Mm-hmm.
01:31:27 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I hate that thing that just comes out.
01:31:31 [DM (Aarya)] Ignore the template. I don't know why it does that. It's so stupid that it does that.
01:31:33 [Saturno (Steph)] It's so annoying. And then I'm going to attack with my helper. Yeah?
01:31:33 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. Yeah, that's what it's called. I don't know why.
01:31:33 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm so used to Flanny.
01:31:49 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, and you can cleave. You can cleave, yeah, that's right.
01:31:53 [Saturno (Steph)] So I'm going to attack.
01:31:57 [DM (Aarya)] And this is Vantage.
01:32:00 [Saturno (Steph)] All right.
01:32:01 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, 19. Go ahead, roll damage.
01:32:04 [Saturno (Steph)] Damage. Eight. 14 damage.
01:32:11 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. And then... Because of cleave, you get...
01:32:11 [DM (Aarya)] You can make a melee attack roll with a weapon against a second creature. So you can make another attack against the other one.
01:32:24 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. And it's a melee?
01:32:27 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it's the same thing.
01:32:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's the halberd still.
01:32:32 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, cool. So I'm just going to redo it. And do I do it with advantage or...
01:32:32 [Saturno (Steph)] No, it's normal because we're not...
01:32:40 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it's normal, I think. You're not flanking that one.
01:32:43 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, yeah.
01:32:46 [DM (Aarya)] I don't need it. 21. That still hits.
01:32:46 [DM (Aarya)] And we'll roll damage. So this one, you don't apply your modifier. It's just going to be the raw...
01:32:55 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
01:32:57 [DM (Aarya)] Got it. Okay, I'll just roll that then. So that's going to be 2 damage.
01:32:57 [DM (Aarya)] Like, kick it.
01:33:08 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
01:33:09 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, nice. Got good damage down.
01:33:14 [Saturno (Steph)] And... Yeah, cool. I could do a bonus action.
01:33:17 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, what do you got for your bonus action?
01:33:20 [Saturno (Steph)] I just want to hit it again.
01:33:22 [DM (Aarya)] Do you have something that lets you do that? I don't know, I thought I... Sentinel or whatever.
01:33:22 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Did you say fen? Sentinel.
01:33:22 [DM (Aarya)] Oh yeah, you can do like the... That's right. The butt attack.
01:33:22 [DM (Aarya)] The butt attack.
01:33:38 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, yeah. Wait, what is it called? Fuck.
01:33:38 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm trying to get used to this.
01:33:43 [DM (Aarya)] Polearm Master.
01:33:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yes. Oh, not Sentinel. Yeah, Polearm Master.
01:33:49 [Saturno (Steph)] That's right.
01:33:50 [DM (Aarya)] So you use your bonus action and you make a melee attack with the opposite end of the weapon. That's a d4 of damage, I think.
01:33:57 [Saturno (Steph)] Yes.
01:33:57 [DM (Aarya)] So go ahead and roll another attack with advantage.
01:34:00 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so I'm going to do attack, advantage. Wee.
01:34:06 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, that was close. So what... I don't even see that in the chat.
01:34:06 [DM (Aarya)] What was that? New door.
01:34:12 [Saturno (Steph)] It was an... Fuck me, it was an a, I think.
01:34:15 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:34:17 [Saturno (Steph)] What's... A, a plus four.
01:34:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait, well, a plus four plus two, 14.
01:34:22 [DM (Aarya)] 14. 14 does not hit, unfortunately. Okay, we're good though.
01:34:30 [Saturno (Steph)] All right, that's my turn then.
01:34:35 [DM (Aarya)] Let me end my turn.
01:34:37 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, still there.
01:34:37 [DM (Aarya)] You're up. Cool.
01:34:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Can I change prepared spell?
01:34:42 [DM (Aarya)] I'll allow it. Yeah, that's fine.
01:34:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Cool. I'm just realizing that the tech, evil, and good and the werewolf arc of this campaign is just not that great. Cool.
01:34:45 [Sildir (Tris)] I switched it up. Anywho. I am gonna say...
01:34:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Give me one second. I have to make sure that I'm doing this right.
01:35:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] And that's the part where you roll with advantage, get a crit, and then smite them.
01:35:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Ideally, right? Okay, but what I'm gonna do...
01:35:23 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, powder, they're so broken. They're almost as good as artillerist artificers.
01:35:32 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm gonna say hunters mark bonus action.
01:35:37 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:35:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Boom. I'm gonna use it on the one right in front of me. Okay.
01:35:39 [Sildir (Tris)] And I am going to go for an attack. And as I do, my vow of enmity will happen.
01:35:57 [DM (Aarya)] What does that do?
01:36:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Basically, I'll just put it in the... Doesn't that give you advantage? It's...
01:36:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, it is just advantage. Yeah, I'm not gonna use it. Just get the point.
01:36:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, yeah. No, I thought... I was thinking about the other thing.
01:36:01 [Sildir (Tris)] But yeah, no, that's right. Good call, Gui. And yeah, I'll just go for an attack then.
01:36:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh my god, this is so annoying. Is this gonna work? No selected or assigned actor could be found to target with macro.
01:36:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Why do I even have this hotbar? Um, all right, back to my character sheet. Sorry, people.
01:36:01 [Sildir (Tris)] It found rework. But here, I'll do it this way. Boom, and we'll roll the attack with advantage.
01:36:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Did that roll for anybody?
01:36:57 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I saw the dice bouncing in chat for some reason. You might have to just, like, refresh your browser.
01:37:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, let me refresh this.
01:37:02 [DM (Aarya)] That was a four and a two on the dice rolls.
01:37:05 [Sildir (Tris)] You're kidding me.
01:37:06 [DM (Aarya)] Which unfortunately does not hit.
01:37:09 [Sildir (Tris)] That's crazy. Okay. Well, that'll be my turn then, so Hunter's Mark is up.
01:37:17 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
01:37:17 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, yeah, sorry, I'll end my turn. Okay, thanks. No, I wish.
01:37:17 [Sildir (Tris)] Actually. Although there were plenty of inspiring moments last round, I can say.
01:37:30 [DM (Aarya)] Are you a human or a half-elf? I am a half-elf. Never mind, okay.
01:37:30 [DM (Aarya)] So it'll go back to the top where I left turn. It had a little bit of damage from Saturnos Cleave. You see its wounds repair itself a bit.
01:37:30 [DM (Aarya)] But it's not particularly happy that Saturno did a little attack. So it's gonna attack Saturno with advantage because of its pack tactics. 23.
01:37:30 [DM (Aarya)] That one hits. And it's gonna do a second attack with its multi-attack. That's gonna be a good thing too.
01:37:30 [DM (Aarya)] An 18. Does an 18 hit?
01:38:17 [Saturno (Steph)] Yes.
01:38:17 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So that's gonna be two attacks worth of damage. So that'll be a...
01:38:25 [Saturno (Steph)] Seven and... Oh, I don't know if there's modifiers.
01:38:27 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so that's 10 damage. And... Why is it saying 18 damage?
01:38:27 [DM (Aarya)] 11 damage.
01:38:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, that's the attack roll. Okay.
01:38:38 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. It's like, what the fuck? Okay.
01:38:38 [DM (Aarya)] And the other werewolf will go for its turn. This one is also not gonna be pleased that Saturno went for a little swipe. It has advantage from pack tactics, but disadvantage from being feared.
01:38:38 [DM (Aarya)] So that's gonna be a regular attack. So it's gonna go for two attacks on Saturno.
01:38:58 [Sildir (Tris)] My gosh.
01:39:00 [DM (Aarya)] 22.
01:39:01 [Sildir (Tris)] That hits.
01:39:02 [DM (Aarya)] And then another one. That'll be... That's a 23.
01:39:02 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So damage twice. It'll be nine damage to Saturno.
01:39:02 [DM (Aarya)] And then...
01:39:19 [Saturno (Steph)] Damn. All right. Peace out, everyone.
01:39:22 [DM (Aarya)] More damage. More damage.
01:39:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Wait, wait, wait.
01:39:27 [DM (Aarya)] What's up? The gift of the kid.
01:39:29 [Saturno (Steph)] No, no, no. Go ahead, go ahead.
01:39:30 [DM (Aarya)] So that is five damage.
01:39:32 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh my god. I lived with one. Get fucked.
01:39:35 [DM (Aarya)] Oh.
01:39:36 [Saturno (Steph)] I flicked them off.
01:39:40 [DM (Aarya)] All right. That's... This is a little rough right now.
01:39:42 [Saturno (Steph)] You smell like a fucking dog, bitch.
01:39:43 [DM (Aarya)] Mercurio. Oh yeah. Also, this werewolf recovered a little bit of health because of...
01:39:43 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Because it's a werewolf.
01:39:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] You guys need to lock in. Lock in. Use your features, please.
01:39:54 [Saturno (Steph)] I also put the temp... I'm sorry to interrupt. I put my temp like to six at the bottom.
01:40:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. So you burn that before you burn health.
01:40:06 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Let me... Okay.
01:40:06 [DM (Aarya)] So I have seven. Yeah. I put you back to seven.
01:40:06 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.
01:40:06 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
01:40:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] You know...
01:40:23 [Sildir (Tris)] The spider move?
01:40:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm between Vayne and whole person again.
01:40:48 [DM (Aarya)] You did give yourself advantage. So that's worth considering.
01:40:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't... I don't know why I even did that. I literally don't even have a spell where I roll an attack.
01:40:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] I guess if I was gonna use my sword. Yeah. I got you baited.
01:40:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Next time... So I'll give... I'm gonna give advantage to the people with advantage anyways.
01:40:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Just in case they do an extra attack. So like basically...
01:41:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Direction.
01:41:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] Or if they need it for something else.
01:41:26 [Speaker 6] Right. As in...
01:41:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think... Here's my... Here's my thinking, guys.
01:41:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't think padding their attacks by a d4 is gonna do enough. I think we need to paralyze somebody and make them explode.
01:41:43 [Speaker 6] All right.
01:41:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm... I cast whole person on the same dude.
01:41:50 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Go for it. This has disadvantage on saves, right?
01:41:50 [DM (Aarya)] Is that how that works? Well either way it rolled a 13 so it's failed.
01:42:09 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
01:42:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't know if fighting works that way.
01:42:12 [DM (Aarya)] Oh it's ability checks, I think. It's how fighting works.
01:42:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh okay. Cool.
01:42:20 [DM (Aarya)] So this one is paralyzed which means... It's incapacitated. It cannot move or speak.
01:42:20 [DM (Aarya)] The creature automatically fails. Strength and dex saving throws. Attack rolls against the creature has advantage.
01:42:20 [DM (Aarya)] Any attack roll that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attack is... If the attacker is within 5 feet. So melee attacks are crits automatically.
01:42:44 [Ember (Spurthi)] Nice.
01:42:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then we... Yeah, fuck it. I'm doing it.
01:42:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna do beguiling poop again. Beguiling magic to frighten the other guy.
01:43:16 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:43:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] So he's got to give me a DC 14 whiz save.
01:43:22 [DM (Aarya)] There shouldn't be, no. Fuck!
01:43:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] 19 whiz save rep. Okay and then... I'm just ripping spooky music on my flute and I give bardic inspiration to...
01:43:47 [DM (Aarya)] I think it needs health hitting. Probably a ranged attacker who doesn't auto crit.
01:43:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, that's true. Okay, yeah. I'll give bardic inspiration to ember.
01:43:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. Even though this might be the time to run in and auto crit. True.
01:43:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, so I bardic inspiration and just kind of say... We gotta go all in and I'm gonna run in myself just to inspire.
01:44:27 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
01:44:28 [DM (Aarya)] I forgot to move Memphis last fight. I'll say... I'm gonna say Memphis will stay there for now but on your next turn you can do it.
01:44:28 [DM (Aarya)] Cool.
01:44:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. I think like you can move Memphis as part of doing the Memphis attack.
01:44:48 [Saturno (Steph)] So... It's just that the Memphis attack isn't coming up for me. That's why I forgot.
01:44:52 [DM (Aarya)] It's your own attack is why.
01:44:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's your own attack, yeah. You just do an... You just do...
01:44:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's basically you just get to do an extra attack two times per some kind of rest. I think long rest. Oh and I use...
01:45:10 [Saturno (Steph)] I was gonna suggest something.
01:45:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] I give the raven thingy to Satorno just in case.
01:45:23 [Saturno (Steph)] I was gonna say what if you get in front of the other one and Memphis gets behind that one.
01:45:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] Sure, I think we want to hit the the same one anyways because we need...
01:45:36 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, okay, okay.
01:45:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] We need to just... We auto crit right now so we need to just make him disappear because two of these guys is like too much to handle.
01:45:46 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so Ember it is your turn.
01:45:49 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Would it be okay if I moved right behind Mercurio?
01:45:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can go right next to him so that you're in front of that werewolf that's paralyzed.
01:46:02 [Ember (Spurthi)] Is that a good move though?
01:46:04 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah. Should I stay right here? Yeah, next to Mercurio.
01:46:04 [DM (Aarya)] So that werewolf is paralyzed so it can't move right now which means your attacks will automatically crit.
01:46:17 [Ember (Spurthi)] Nice. So this time I will do... Can I know my shortbow this time?
01:46:24 [DM (Aarya)] Use your sword for a melee attack. My silver short sword or just short sword? Oh, you have a silver short sword.
01:46:24 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, I forgot about that. Considering that it's a werewolf, considering it's a werewolf you probably want to use a silver one. Okay.
01:46:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. And then attack. Yeah, I mean it hits automatically but just you need to roll it just for it to be able to do the damage rolls.
01:46:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, just roll it. When you score a critical hit... So is it advantage?
01:46:24 [DM (Aarya)] Is it advantage? It doesn't really matter.
01:46:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah.
01:47:00 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:47:01 [Sildir (Tris)] So you just roll critical damage basically. Wait, no, no, no, wait, you roll better than that.
01:47:08 [DM (Aarya)] Why?
01:47:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] When you score a critical hit against a creature that is shapeshifted, the weapon deals one additional damage.
01:47:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Wait, seriously?
01:47:19 [DM (Aarya)] It says that on the description. Oh my god, it does. Holy shit, I didn't know that.
01:47:19 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. That's crazy. Go roll.
01:47:19 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so it's for the roll critical damage and then for like bonus damage type d6. So funny.
01:47:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, yeah, or is that does that also...
01:47:38 [DM (Aarya)] Was that critical damage? That was critical damage, right?
01:47:42 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
01:47:43 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so go ahead and roll another d6 on top of that. Okay. And it's silver?
01:47:43 [DM (Aarya)] Does that matter? It does matter.
01:47:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh my god.
01:47:55 [DM (Aarya)] So, oh my god, that was a max roll. So that's 10 damage. It's going to be another 6 damage from the silver.
01:47:55 [DM (Aarya)] And then roll sneak attack damage with critical.
01:48:10 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, sneak attack damage, right. Okay. Creatures.
01:48:10 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, damage, critical hit.
01:48:25 [DM (Aarya)] 16 damage. So, Ember just did 32 damage on this werewolf. And because you attacked with a short sword, you can use a bonus action attack with your other sword.
01:48:25 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, how do I do that? With your other sword, just roll another attack, that's all. And this one also crits.
01:48:25 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:48:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Neat. There we go, I gotta move this.
01:48:58 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that roll doesn't matter. Just roll the critical damage. Your ability modifier, I won't add for this one.
01:48:58 [DM (Aarya)] It'll be just the raw dice. I was just saying, there I go, I got lupus.
01:49:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh? Everyone died?
01:49:14 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know why it's being so buggy with the rolls. Was that like a 6?
01:49:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] 7.
01:49:19 [DM (Aarya)] 7? 7, yeah.
01:49:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] A 6 and a 1.
01:49:21 [DM (Aarya)] Oh yeah. Yeah, so this werewolf is past bloodied and very weak at this point. Yeah, so that was your turn, Ember.
01:49:21 [DM (Aarya)] Saturno, you are up.
01:49:36 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I'm gonna move Memphis next to me. Let me do that. Here, okay.
01:49:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Could you move Memphis to the other side? Would that be a big deal to you?
01:49:53 [Saturno (Steph)] No, not at all.
01:49:55 [Speaker 6] Awesome.
01:49:58 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so then I'm going to attack. Sorry, hold on. Okay, I'm gonna attack.
01:49:58 [Saturno (Steph)] Good advantage, right?
01:50:17 [DM (Aarya)] Well, yeah. It doesn't really matter because you're going to crit right now.
01:50:21 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh.
01:50:21 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I mean, you hit. Just, yeah, real critical damage. Damn.
01:50:21 [DM (Aarya)] That's a 21. Alright, describe how you kill this werewolf.
01:50:37 [Saturno (Steph)] As Ember lands her last hits, I kick the dog again. The dog, Jesus Christ. I kick the wolf.
01:50:37 [Saturno (Steph)] Then I do a downwards sweep and I just cut it in half. While I look at the other dog, I mean the other wolf, Jesus Christ. I'm calling them a dog to insult them.
01:50:37 [Saturno (Steph)] I can't catch myself.
01:51:04 [DM (Aarya)] Alright, yeah, so that werewolf is slain. Now you can roll your cleave attack on the other one. This one won't be with advantage.
01:51:04 [DM (Aarya)] Wait, actually, you have advantage from Pepito, right? Yep. Okay, so you do have advantage on that one.
01:51:23 [Saturno (Steph)] So I'm gonna do... Okay, hold on. So for my cleave...
01:51:23 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, let me just bring this up. Advantage.
01:51:35 [DM (Aarya)] 20, that hits. Yeah, this will be the raw dice attack without the modifier.
01:51:39 [Saturno (Steph)] Which is a d6, right? Or is it a d4? The halberd.
01:51:44 [DM (Aarya)] What is the halberd?
01:51:48 [Saturno (Steph)] The halberd is a... Let me check, hold on.
01:51:55 [DM (Aarya)] It's a d10.
01:51:57 [Saturno (Steph)] A d10. Okay, and then let me roll that. I hope this comes out right.
01:51:57 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, it did. Thank God. Okay, damage, nice.
01:51:57 [Saturno (Steph)] And then, um, can...
01:52:12 [DM (Aarya)] The space rolls are invisible.
01:52:14 [Saturno (Steph)] So can, um, como se llama? Memphis, can they attack them?
01:52:18 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that'll be your bonus action attack. And that will use... You have two of those attacks available per long rest.
01:52:18 [DM (Aarya)] So this will be one of them.
01:52:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so I'm gonna do it now. And it's gonna be an attack with the halberd.
01:52:32 [DM (Aarya)] It'll be normal.
01:52:34 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, so attack, normal. That was almost a 20.
01:52:42 [DM (Aarya)] So that was an 8 plus your modifier, which is plus 6. Yeah, that unfortunately does not hit.
01:52:51 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it. Okay, then I think that's all I could do. Yeah, cool.
01:52:51 [Saturno (Steph)] So let me end my turn.
01:53:03 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, sailor, you're up.
01:53:06 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I'm gonna step up so I can get that advantage roll.
01:53:10 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, with Memphis on the other side of this remaining werewolf, you now are flanking this one, so...
01:53:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, and with... Let me see if this is worth it. I'm gonna say it's not really worth it.
01:53:18 [Sildir (Tris)] I could bonus action to move the hunter's mark, but I would rather have a smite. I have a feeling I'm gonna hit it this time. I don't know, because...
01:53:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, the smite is 2d8. But this is a free d6, no resource.
01:53:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, but it's not 2d8, it's 4d8, because you're gonna crit.
01:53:57 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I'm gonna hit that one. Yeah, I hear, like, whatever little flute riff Mercurio did earlier, it's really, it was a bop. And it's just like, you know, I'm going for it.
01:53:57 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm going big on this.
01:54:14 [DM (Aarya)] Hopefully it's not that.
01:54:16 [Sildir (Tris)] So I go for the longsword roll. I attack with advantage. I can't see my dice, so let me know what happened.
01:54:24 [DM (Aarya)] You hit, that was a 19. Okay, great.
01:54:31 [Saturno (Steph)] I only saw the 19, it's so buggy.
01:54:34 [DM (Aarya)] It's really buggy. I also can't see anything. I see an 8.
01:54:34 [DM (Aarya)] That was an 8 plus 6. Is your modifier right?
01:54:42 [Speaker 6] Yeah. 14.
01:54:45 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, 14.
01:54:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] Hey, we're learning how to play the game without foundry.
01:54:50 [Sildir (Tris)] And I will do a divine yeet.
01:54:55 [Speaker 6] All right, crystal over here.
01:54:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, you know what? I mean, I know what happened now. So, I mean, is it acceptable to...
01:55:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I think where we're at, we don't have to go into mega spend mode anymore now that we killed it.
01:55:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I'll bonus action the hunter's mark over to this one.
01:55:21 [Speaker 6] Sure.
01:55:23 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't know if you want to count the damage for that, since I did it after technical use.
01:55:27 [Speaker 6] It's fine, you can roll it. Alrighty.
01:55:30 [Sildir (Tris)] So I'll roll 1d6.
01:55:33 [DM (Aarya)] It's a 4.
01:55:37 [Sildir (Tris)] So that's straight 4 on it. Cool.
01:55:43 [DM (Aarya)] So that was 15 damage from Scyther. Nice.
01:55:47 [Sildir (Tris)] That's right. Yes, I remain curious.
01:55:54 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:55:54 [Sildir (Tris)] It's respectable with all the fancy pants, auto critting, and rogue smacking around.
01:56:00 [DM (Aarya)] So now it's going to be back to this remaining werewolf's turn, and it's going to go for an attack on steeldeer. Two attacks on steeldeer. That's a 21.
01:56:00 [DM (Aarya)] And a 11. So the 21 hits, I assume.
01:56:19 [Speaker 6] I'm going to change my stats.
01:56:24 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh.
01:56:27 [Saturno (Steph)] Dang.
01:56:28 [DM (Aarya)] That was sick. You were too ready for that. Yeah, that was minimum damage.
01:56:28 [DM (Aarya)] So that was, um, what the fuck? Why isn't it? Yeah.
01:56:28 [DM (Aarya)] Five damage. Which doesn't even break the attempt primer. Okay.
01:56:28 [DM (Aarya)] Um, I'm going to go to you.
01:56:56 [Sildir (Tris)] These are weaker than the other wolves.
01:57:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] You can all probably see that Mercurio, like, is just extremely winded at this point. Like, just blew everything he had. You know, poured his heart and soul into those flute riffs.
01:57:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] And so... Well, you basically won us the fight. So now with his face just pale and blue, he's just going to say, you fucking filthy dog.
01:57:28 [Sildir (Tris)] And he casts Vicious Mockery on the remaining wolf. You always have energy for that.
01:57:39 [DM (Aarya)] Um, what kind of save is that? Wisdom.
01:57:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] And I believe, uh, with my flute, um, I think this is the spell that it...
01:57:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, the save goes out by one. That's correct. Um, I'm 8k, so go ahead and roll a d20 and I'll calculate it.
01:57:51 [DM (Aarya)] I mean, they don't have a wisdom modifier, so...
01:58:00 [Sildir (Tris)] If you can even see the 20. Uh, I got a...
01:58:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] They got a 7. So they fail.
01:58:08 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, okay, they fail.
01:58:09 [Speaker 6] Cool.
01:58:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, cool. So I'll roll a d6 of damage. They take 2 damage.
01:58:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] And they have disadvantage on their next attack.
01:58:24 [DM (Aarya)] Damn, 2 damage. But the disadvantage is useful. 3, 3, 3.
01:58:29 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
01:58:32 [DM (Aarya)] So... Hey, it's kind of...
01:58:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's kind of crazy that I just tell them you're dirty and he takes damage, you know?
01:58:41 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, that is true.
01:58:42 [DM (Aarya)] You're insecure. Yeah. Okay, who gets the magic advantage this time?
01:58:42 [DM (Aarya)] Um...
01:58:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, I gotta... I gotta give it to... To Sildir.
01:58:58 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, let's go.
01:59:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, yeah. Sildir, you get the advantage. You just really want to see a crazy crit.
01:59:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] I... I gotta... I gotta make sure...
01:59:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] You know, everybody else got auto crits. I want my boy Sildir to get his crit.
01:59:14 [Sildir (Tris)] I hope so. If I crit, I'll smite. For sure.
01:59:18 [DM (Aarya)] Just for the perks. It'll be 1 HP. It's your turn.
01:59:18 [DM (Aarya)] All right. I mean, 1 HP smite would be crazy.
01:59:28 [Ember (Spurthi)] I want to use my Sildir to crit Sildir again.
01:59:31 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Yeah, you gotta step up for that one, but you can do it.
01:59:35 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. So I step up... Oh, step up this way?
01:59:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Mm-hmm. I'm silenced for 20 seconds, by the way.
01:59:44 [Speaker 6] So...
01:59:47 [Ember (Spurthi)] Inventory... Sildir, Shore Sword. Whoopee.
01:59:47 [Ember (Spurthi)] Attack.
01:59:53 [DM (Aarya)] That's true. You're right. My bad.
01:59:53 [DM (Aarya)] 12. Unfortunately, that does not hit.
02:00:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] You have Bardic Inspiration.
02:00:03 [DM (Aarya)] Oh yeah, you do have Bardic Inspiration. You can roll a D... Is it a D6?
02:00:03 [DM (Aarya)] D6. Yeah. Okay.
02:00:03 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, I saw the roll too. Good news. Six.
02:00:03 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:00:15 [Sildir (Tris)] That was max roll.
02:00:17 [DM (Aarya)] So 18. That definitely hits. Go ahead, roll damage.
02:00:22 [Ember (Spurthi)] Critical damage, right?
02:00:23 [DM (Aarya)] No, regular. Critical?
02:00:25 [Ember (Spurthi)] I don't know.
02:00:28 [DM (Aarya)] So that is a... Wow, max roll. So six damage, plus your modifier.
02:00:36 [Sildir (Tris)] The dice on my screen mean nothing at this point.
02:00:38 [DM (Aarya)] Wait, hold on. I saw a 1.
02:00:40 [Speaker 6] I'm...
02:00:40 [DM (Aarya)] no, it is a 1. I read the wrong die. My bad.
02:00:40 [DM (Aarya)] So that's 1. Oh, okay. Plus 5.
02:00:40 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my god.
02:00:46 [Speaker 6] Five damage.
02:00:47 [DM (Aarya)] Go ahead and roll the sneak attack too. D...
02:00:52 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm clicking the final crystal. He's clicking the final crystal. Let's go.
02:01:00 [DM (Aarya)] On me, on me.
02:01:01 [Sildir (Tris)] I love keeping up with Carlos in the background.
02:01:03 [DM (Aarya)] Another 8 damage. So this werewolf is now bloodied and has been silvered. Okay, cool.
02:01:03 [DM (Aarya)] Um, Saturno, it's your turn. Okay.
02:01:17 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm gonna cast Blooming Blade just in case. But I'm just gonna hit with my Halberd. And then do...
02:01:17 [Saturno (Steph)] I do that with advantage? Yeah.
02:01:28 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I think also you're sufficiently flanking.
02:01:33 [Sildir (Tris)] I feel like we're pretty flanked out.
02:01:34 [Saturno (Steph)] We're like...
02:01:35 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
02:01:39 [Sildir (Tris)] We're like, surrounding this wolf, kicking him like...
02:01:43 [DM (Aarya)] Literally. It's like the Jojo scene.
02:01:46 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
02:01:46 [DM (Aarya)] 25. All right, that hits for sure.
02:01:49 [Saturno (Steph)] And then normal damage?
02:01:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. Got it. Easy money.
02:01:51 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, 13 damage. Nice. I should probably get the other stuff too.
02:01:51 [DM (Aarya)] Can you talk to the ops next for me?
02:02:07 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm just gonna give it to that one.
02:02:09 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
02:02:09 [Saturno (Steph)] The other attack? With like the other end of the weapon?
02:02:14 [DM (Aarya)] The butt attack? Yeah, you can do that.
02:02:16 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. We said it was a D6?
02:02:19 [DM (Aarya)] D4.
02:02:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Or D4. Okay.
02:02:23 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, roll down. Max? Let's go.
02:02:23 [DM (Aarya)] Max?
02:02:31 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I think that's all I could do.
02:02:33 [DM (Aarya)] Nice. Okay, so this one is pretty worse for wear. Sildir.
02:02:33 [DM (Aarya)] It's your turn. If you can do 13 damage, you kill it. 13 damage, you're saying?
02:02:33 [DM (Aarya)] That's easy. I'm technically not supposed to tell you that, but... You know.
02:02:33 [DM (Aarya)] But you can.
02:02:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Hold on. But if you didn't, I wouldn't believe the outcome.
02:02:59 [Speaker 6] True.
02:03:03 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. Let me see how we... How do we do here?
02:03:03 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. To my inventory. I'm gonna roll.
02:03:03 [Sildir (Tris)] And attack. I needed 13 damage to kill Dragan.
02:03:22 [Saturno (Steph)] True. And then we hit exactly 13.
02:03:26 [Sildir (Tris)] It's gonna be 22. Not 21. Oh, I could actually see my roll.
02:03:26 [Sildir (Tris)] That's new and nice.
02:03:38 [DM (Aarya)] Cool.
02:03:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Normalium. Damage. Hold on, though.
02:03:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Roll a 5. On top of it. Okay, 9, 10.
02:03:41 [Sildir (Tris)] And you know what? I'm just gonna smite him. It's gotta...
02:03:41 [Sildir (Tris)] I kind of had to do it to him.
02:04:06 [Speaker 6] Okay.
02:04:11 [Sildir (Tris)] And I'll use my paladin divine smite.
02:04:14 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:04:17 [Sildir (Tris)] Which lets me... It's just like an extra... I don't have to use a spell slot.
02:04:17 [Sildir (Tris)] I can do it once for long rests.
02:04:22 [Saturno (Steph)] What does the smite look like?
02:04:27 [Sildir (Tris)] I will tell you. I will say do not consume the spell slot. And I'll cast the spell.
02:04:27 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't want to place the measure template anyway.
02:04:40 [DM (Aarya)] 2d8 damage.
02:04:42 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. Damage. Roll.
02:04:42 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh my.
02:04:48 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, perfect.
02:04:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, I'm low rolling, but it didn't. It did exactly enough damage.
02:04:52 [DM (Aarya)] All right, describe how you kill this werewolf.
02:04:55 [Sildir (Tris)] So as I lift my blade, I think of that one time that that wolf pushed me off a cliff. And I'm really upset about it.
02:05:11 [DM (Aarya)] Something's going on.
02:05:11 [Sildir (Tris)] And thinking of what they were saying to me at the beginning of this combat, that I've lost my life, I have to wonder to myself, what is it that motivates these creatures? Is it... Oh my god.
02:05:11 [Sildir (Tris)] And I decide it doesn't matter. And I rip down a crazy swing. My sword explodes on contact.
02:05:11 [Sildir (Tris)] And this wolf is kind of puffed to dust.
02:05:48 [Saturno (Steph)] I got a sound for the contact if you want. Okay, what you got?
02:05:51 [Sildir (Tris)] I know what it is. Oh, that's actually not what I thought it was. Explodes?
02:05:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Is that?
02:05:57 [Saturno (Steph)] It was flat. It was like this.
02:05:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, interesting word choice, I guess.
02:06:08 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, that's good news. Oh my gosh. You seriously filled up the sound server already.
02:06:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, you've motivated me because of these guys.
02:06:17 [Speaker 6] Oh yes, I have lost something. You've lost. Your life.
02:06:29 [DM (Aarya)] That's so good. That was perfect. That was so good.
02:06:29 [DM (Aarya)] I'm glad you appreciated that.
02:06:35 [Sildir (Tris)] I so much appreciated it.
02:06:36 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay, well, with that, we have successfully concluded this combat encounter, and our heroes are victorious once again. You find yourselves in the aftermath of this gruesome battle coming down off of your adrenaline highs.
02:06:36 [DM (Aarya)] Ember has taken some pretty nasty blows at the beginning of this encounter. Sildur and Saturno, I think, took some minor scratches, but nothing too crazy. Mercurio has exhausted himself quite a bit, though.
02:06:36 [DM (Aarya)] He took no hits. But through his magical efforts, you were able to seize victory. Okay.
02:07:29 [Saturno (Steph)] I kind of like sit on this rock for a sec. I'm like, cock.
02:07:35 [Ember (Spurthi)] I kind of collapsed down, trying to breathe as much as I can.
02:07:42 [Sildir (Tris)] How low is everybody? Very low. You have seven health?
02:07:50 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. I would be at one if it wasn't for the max that Mercurio gave us.
02:08:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we may need to take a little bit of a rest.
02:08:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, how healthy is Ember? Not. What's your health?
02:08:11 [Ember (Spurthi)] Not. Not.
02:08:14 [Sildir (Tris)] I think Ember took 28 damage on the first turn, so it can't be good. Ember has 20 out of 26, she says?
02:08:22 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
02:08:24 [Sildir (Tris)] 20 out of 26?
02:08:25 [DM (Aarya)] That doesn't seem right. That's what it says. It's the other way around.
02:08:25 [DM (Aarya)] You have 6 out of 26. Hold on.
02:08:34 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh my goodness. I'm on my last breath.
02:08:42 [Sildir (Tris)] I will metagame, and then I'll say it in character. I can give each of you 10 health, if you guys want to try to keep moving. Or we can short rest.
02:08:42 [Sildir (Tris)] And then I'll actually say, well, we are worse for wear here. That could keep us going. I do know a bit of healing magic, but it won't get you fully back to normal.
02:09:10 [Saturno (Steph)] I might know something to do. I can do... Hold on.
02:09:15 [Sildir (Tris)] You may need to rest. You guys can decide, though, since you are the more injured.
02:09:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] We need to save our resources.
02:09:31 [Saturno (Steph)] I can do healing hands. I only have one of one.
02:09:35 [Ember (Spurthi)] I have a consumable for a potion of healing.
02:09:39 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, you do? I'm sorry, I gave you all the ones.
02:09:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well...
02:09:43 [Ember (Spurthi)] So I can use that?
02:09:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] I would hold on to that in case you need to... You know, all of us are down, or you need to save somebody else.
02:09:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, here you can throw the potion and it'll get us up. That's ill-advised, but...
02:10:03 [Saturno (Steph)] Is there anything on the bodies of these things? You can search them? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:10:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we can just have a rest.
02:10:13 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, okay, we got up and asked for a reason.
02:10:17 [Ember (Spurthi)] Even though I want to keep moving, I really can't, so...
02:10:21 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so you all can short rest as you all are doing that. Saturno, you search the bodies. You pick over their broken forms, bloodied and battered from your bashings of the combats.
02:10:21 [DM (Aarya)] You don't really find anything of note. They just had some pelts and furs from small game in the woods. The remains of their broken weapons.
02:10:21 [DM (Aarya)] And yeah, nothing really of note on them.
02:11:02 [Sildir (Tris)] It's interesting. I feel that the wolves we fought before were stronger, yet these were definitely full-on werewolves. Perhaps the other ones were too.
02:11:02 [Sildir (Tris)] You don't have to be.
02:11:19 [Saturno (Steph)] These were definitely annoying. And a challenge.
02:11:26 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, I've never been battered up like this before.
02:11:31 [Sildir (Tris)] For once, I'm coming out squeaky clean. I guess these wolves didn't think I looked very appetizing.
02:11:41 [Saturno (Steph)] We're gonna try to heal up a little.
02:11:48 [DM (Aarya)] So, Sporte, when you do a short rest, you can also roll hit dice. I think you should see the option. When you press short rest.
02:11:48 [DM (Aarya)] And that'll let you heal a little bit.
02:11:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] And you can roll up to four of them.
02:12:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Do you see that option come up when you press short rest?
02:12:05 [Speaker 6] Yeah. Okay.
02:12:12 [Ember (Spurthi)] Did it work?
02:12:13 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it worked.
02:12:14 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
02:12:18 [DM (Aarya)] And how are you doing, Kakeru?
02:12:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, I wasn't touched, luckily. I'm just winded from...
02:12:29 [DM (Aarya)] What does roll hit dice do? So, you have four hit dice because you're level four. Whenever you take a short rest, you can roll those to regain some health.
02:12:29 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you only have four that you can roll. You rolled two now. You're still missing some health.
02:12:29 [DM (Aarya)] So you can choose to roll more or you can hold on to them for later.
02:12:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Or usually, you could just spend them unless you're about to be full. Like, if you're still missing less than... Like, if you're missing, like, eight, then there's, like, pretty much no reason not to use it now.
02:12:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yep. The only way should be, like, if you're only missing, like, two hit points, then it's not worth it to spend it.
02:13:20 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:13:21 [Sildir (Tris)] Or if we thought we were going to do, like, a bunch more combats before long rest. I don't know.
02:13:26 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
02:13:28 [Sildir (Tris)] But I don't think... Maybe we'll do one more at most before we long rest again, is my guess. Maybe Arya will prove me wrong.
02:13:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. If you're missing eight or more, though, then you might as well just roll it. It's not like it'd be wasted.
02:13:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, then I would roll it.
02:13:54 [Sildir (Tris)] You had lost something.
02:13:57 [DM (Aarya)] Five. Nice. Okay, pretty good.
02:14:02 [Sildir (Tris)] It's funny, my ears perked up as soon as you said that.
02:14:04 [DM (Aarya)] I knew. I knew. Are they doing that?
02:14:04 [DM (Aarya)] As soon as I said that, I was like, yeah, Tristan's gonna get this. There's no way he doesn't.
02:14:28 [Speaker 6] Oh, well, wait.
02:14:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] So, did we find anything on the... We did not find anything, unfortunately. Well, didn't they have a bunch of pelts with them?
02:14:41 [DM (Aarya)] They did.
02:14:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Do the pelts look like they could be valuable at all or anything?
02:14:48 [DM (Aarya)] They're just small game pelts, like rabbits and such. They seem to be not in super great condition, considering the aftermath of the battle. They're all pretty bloodied and torn up and spoiled, so it doesn't seem like they'd be especially valuable.
02:15:04 [Ember (Spurthi)] What happened to their hunting tools?
02:15:07 [DM (Aarya)] Their hunting tools were just crossbows, really rudimentary crossbows that they had, but those are now broken with the aftermath of the battle. Oh, okay.
02:15:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, good job, team. I mean, we beat them so bad, we broke their crossbows over their backs.
02:15:29 [DM (Aarya)] You also get the sense that when they were talking about big game that they usually hunt, you're uncertain of what specific quarry they were referring to.
02:15:42 [Sildir (Tris)] I think I'm sure. Talking about people. The most dangerous game.
02:15:42 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, that was a nice little break.
02:15:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Let's keep headed down and I guess maybe we'll be a little more careful around strangers.
02:16:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I guess it's a little taste of Lake Beartok for us. Supposed to be the werewolf capital of Barovia, so here we are. We can't go to Shadowkeeper again.
02:16:24 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so you find yourselves continuing along the old Svalik roads, or rather the dirt trail that leads off of it, winding your way through the Svalik woods, and eventually you make your way to the banks of Lake Beartok. I'm going to switch the scene. Let me bring you all into this.
02:16:24 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so you come to a cold mountain lake enclosed by misty woods and rocky bluffs. Thick fog creeps across the dark still waters, and the trail ends at a grass-covered causeway that stretches about 100 yards across the lake to a flat marshy island with a stone tower on it. The tower is old and decrepit, with collapsing scaffolding clinging to one side where a large gash has split the wall.
02:16:24 [DM (Aarya)] Time-worn griffon statues, their wings and flanks covered with moss, perch atop buttresses that support the walls, and parked near the base of the tower within sight of the entrance is a barrel-topped wagon spattered with mud.
02:17:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Does the mud look fresh, or is it dried up?
02:17:51 [DM (Aarya)] You can't really tell super well from here where you're standing, like some ways away. You'd have to get closer, like right next to the tower, to inspect that.
02:18:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, using like my good sensibility and looking out for where I'm stepping, I approach as long as everyone's cool with that. I want to get a look at this wagon.
02:18:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] Let's do it.
02:18:15 [Speaker 6] Let's go.
02:18:18 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm a little closer now. Is the mud caked on there dry, or is it relatively wet still?
02:18:25 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so yes, you take a look. The mud appears to be not that old.
02:18:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, someone was here recently, and uh, yeah, it's funny how obvious this tower is. Those werewolves are clearly, uh, fucking with us from the start.
02:18:46 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, and as you get even closer to the wagon, you notice three signs, like, bolted to the door of the wagon. The signs read, in order, Keep out. Home and property of Esmeralda de Avenir.
02:18:46 [DM (Aarya)] And trespassers will be immediately incinerated. And beneath the warning on the third sign, you see that someone has drawn a small frowning face with crossed out eyes, surrounded by a stylized flame.
02:19:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, I think we found our, um, our wizard woman.
02:19:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Esmeralda. The crazy redhead they were talking about.
02:19:29 [Ember (Spurthi)] So, what should we do?
02:19:36 [Sildir (Tris)] I suppose we knock. Anyone against that plan?
02:19:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Signs are a little bit concerning. I suggest we knock, uh, while we are very spread apart.
02:19:55 [Saturno (Steph)] What if, uh...
02:19:56 [Sildir (Tris)] Fireball, yes.
02:19:58 [Saturno (Steph)] What if Memphis knocks and we...
02:20:01 [Sildir (Tris)] No, it's okay, it's okay. Is this a Echo Knights version of a ding-dong ditch?
02:20:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Maybe, yeah. What do you think?
02:20:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, I don't know. Might be kind of a spooky person to answer to, you know, if I... If I saw Memphis through the peephole, I wouldn't answer the door.
02:20:28 [Saturno (Steph)] Do you all know how to swim, just in case?
02:20:32 [Sildir (Tris)] I do, but maybe not in this armor. I don't mind getting a knock, though.
02:20:36 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, uh, let's, um...
02:20:42 [Sildir (Tris)] Sure. Let's go for it.
02:20:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] At first, I'll... Maybe do your little hiding routine. Isn't that what rogues do?
02:20:52 [Sildir (Tris)] At first, I'll see as I'm walking past the wagon if I can kind of glimpse anybody inside, but if I don't, then I'll proceed to...
02:20:58 [Saturno (Steph)] We check for any traps, like, on the steps of the door.
02:21:02 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, the door, uh...
02:21:03 [Saturno (Steph)] Like, to the door.
02:21:04 [DM (Aarya)] To the door of which, exactly?
02:21:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Like, to the tower, I guess.
02:21:09 [Sildir (Tris)] I'll be watching. Like, I'm definitely watching where I'm stepping.
02:21:13 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
02:21:14 [Sildir (Tris)] So, slightly more than, like, passive perception, I guess. So it's probably about where I'd put it. Like, I'm being cautious here.
02:21:22 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so you don't notice any, like... You don't see any, like, windows or anything like that on the wagon. So, looking about, you don't notice any signs of anyone around.
02:21:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. Well, I'll go ahead and knock on the door.
02:21:44 [DM (Aarya)] You knock on the wagon, is it? No, no.
02:21:47 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm just knocking on the tower.
02:21:49 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, on the tower. All right. So, hold on.
02:21:49 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry, I misunderstood. The tower explodes. No, I'm kidding.
02:21:49 [DM (Aarya)] Love that.
02:21:57 [Speaker 6] It's actually a lot.
02:21:59 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So, as you approach the tower door, Sildur, you notice that the tower door is made of iron with no visible handles or hinges. And in the middle of the door is a large embossed blank red seal.
02:21:59 [DM (Aarya)] Oh.
02:22:19 [Sildir (Tris)] So, the seal is just part of the door? Yes.
02:22:23 [DM (Aarya)] Imagine, like, a clock face, but, like, completely blank and red. It's just like a panel. A red seal, a red, like, wax panel on the door.
02:22:37 [Speaker 6] Hmm.
02:22:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] What is it, like, a clock? It's, like, a circle?
02:22:42 [DM (Aarya)] Like, the shape and size, roughly, of, like, a clock that you would hang on the wall, basically. But it's a seal? It's a circle.
02:22:42 [DM (Aarya)] Like, one I could take off?
02:22:50 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I do another?
02:22:52 [DM (Aarya)] It's blank. So, I mean, it seems pretty, like, sturdily affixed to the door.
02:22:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, I knocked even harder.
02:23:04 [DM (Aarya)] Hello? Okay. So, hold on.
02:23:08 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I do an Arcana check?
02:23:10 [DM (Aarya)] I'll let you do that, but before that. So, Sildur, as you knock on the door of the tower, you notice you see a glow coming from the seal on the door. And you see a you see some words appear in glowing blue script.
02:23:10 [DM (Aarya)] Um, and they read, I am sought by mage and king through books and bonds and blade. I am lost from how I came. Jealous, corrupt, betrayed.
02:23:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, we got the message, so we're good.
02:23:53 [DM (Aarya)] Did you post that?
02:23:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Yes, I posted it. Oh, seems like there's a little riddle on this door. Yeah, maybe if we say the magic word, it'll let us in.
02:23:55 [Sildir (Tris)] These wizards are always so funny, aren't they? You know, guys, I don't think it's too dangerous over here. Maybe come have a look.
02:23:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, well, if you guys are too scared, that's fine. Let me read it really loud. All right.
02:23:55 [Sildir (Tris)] I am sought by mage and king through books and bonds and blade. I have lost from how I came. Jealous, corrupt, betrayed.
02:23:55 [Sildir (Tris)] What could the answer be?
02:24:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] It says right there, sought. I am sought.
02:25:00 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't think that'll be the answer.
02:25:02 [Speaker 6] Oh, no, wait, you're right. Those types of riddles are the ones that always upset me.
02:25:08 [Sildir (Tris)] Who is sought anyway? Sounds hideous.
02:25:11 [DM (Aarya)] So as you are chattering amongst yourselves, discussing the implications of this message, you see that the burning blue letters that have appeared on the seal of the door, they flicker a bit, and then they go out, once more showing a blank face.
02:25:32 [Sildir (Tris)] What in the? I knock really hard on the door again before we come back.
02:25:37 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so you knock once more, and once more, um, burning blue letters glow onto the face of the seal. This time, this time they read something else. Craved by rulers shunned by seers.
02:25:37 [DM (Aarya)] I conquer hearts and stoke their fears. I rise in glory. I end in blight.
02:25:37 [DM (Aarya)] All who grasp me lose their sight. What am I?
02:26:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Is it all who grasp me lose their sight? Yeah, and this is like the same related to the one before, right?
02:26:22 [DM (Aarya)] Well, you're not sure.
02:26:25 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, okay. Okay, so I feel like the first one would, I feel like I was thinking knowledge, but then like, I don't think kings care about knowledge. I think they more care about like, you know, like, I don't know how to say it.
02:26:25 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I, I think they, that's what they care more about. Like, just to like, to rule and to have control over people. Like, I don't know if it's how to find out how to like, get control over people, or how to maintain like, authority, right?
02:26:25 [Saturno (Steph)] But then I don't know if that applies to the second one. Created by rulers, I would say yes. Shunned by seers.
02:26:25 [Saturno (Steph)] I conquer hearts and stoke their fears. Okay.
02:27:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Created by rulers, shunned by seers. I conquer hearts and stoke their fears.
02:27:30 [Saturno (Steph)] I rise in glory and I end in blight. All who grasp me lose their sight. I feel like people who have like, crazy.
02:27:37 [Sildir (Tris)] I feel like it's, without the very first line, darkness would be a great answer.
02:27:43 [Saturno (Steph)] That's true.
02:27:48 [Sildir (Tris)] I rise in glory, I end in blight.
02:27:50 [Saturno (Steph)] Ill see, corrupt, betrayed.
02:27:52 [Speaker 6] I don't know.
02:27:58 [Saturno (Steph)] People who have power can be betrayed and corrupt and jealous. Or people could be jealous of them. But darkness.
02:27:58 [Saturno (Steph)] I rise in glory and I end in blight. That's, that's like, not. I don't know.
02:27:58 [Saturno (Steph)] I rise in glory, I end in blight. Like as you die, like the only way you lose it, like you die, you know what I mean? Like blight as an illness, right?
02:27:58 [Saturno (Steph)] Like that's the only way you lose it, I guess.
02:28:49 [Ember (Spurthi)] I don't know. It'd be like an object of some sort too. Like a immortality stone.
02:29:03 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, that's true as well. I rise in glory, I end in blight. You rise, people who become keen, yeah, they like rise in glory and they have power.
02:29:03 [Saturno (Steph)] And then if they die, then it's probably because of an illness. And, and there ends your like, reign, right?
02:29:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Maybe it's like war or something, like.
02:29:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Retribution? Vindication? Vengeance?
02:29:38 [Saturno (Steph)] All who grasp me, lose their sight. Like when you, cause of that. No, I think it's like, I don't know.
02:29:38 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm interpreting it as a power trip.
02:29:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] It might be like, you know, metaphorical, lose your sight, you know? Like, like you lose your, you know, like perspective or you lose sight of what you, you know. What originally mattered to you, maybe.
02:30:10 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
02:30:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Especially like the whole like, you know, glory in the beginning and then bad at the end.
02:30:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Shunned by seers. Is there anything that matters?
02:30:22 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm confused about that part. Shunned by seers? Yeah.
02:30:28 [Sildir (Tris)] We happen to meet a seer. Is there something she hated? Just the devil, I guess.
02:30:40 [Saturno (Steph)] I mean, I don't, so like seers, like, and please correct me if I'm wrong, cause it might be my misunderstanding. They're like people that could see the future, right? Like, like oracle kind of thing.
02:30:40 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. So like, I don't know. Like, so it's created by rulers and shunned by seers.
02:30:40 [Saturno (Steph)] I feel like if you're a seer and you see the future and like, you have like supernatural powers, like, and but, but as a ruler, what would you, like, you don't have that. And what do rulers crave? That's like the, like those, this, that craved by rulers and shunned by seers.
02:30:40 [Saturno (Steph)] And all who grasp me lose their sight. And then the through books, bonds and blades. I am lost by me.
02:30:40 [Saturno (Steph)] I am sought by mage and kings. Like those, these few lines, I think is like what I find in common.
02:32:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Like, do we know how they're connected though? It might be two separate riddles.
02:32:05 [Saturno (Steph)] I did. I don't know. I asked and I don't know.
02:32:07 [Sildir (Tris)] I think they must be connected. Didn't somebody say that the answer could be power? Yeah.
02:32:07 [Sildir (Tris)] I think this makes the most sense. I think power makes the most sense too. You can get it through books, bonds, or blade.
02:32:07 [Sildir (Tris)] As in knowledge.
02:32:21 [Saturno (Steph)] And I feel like people lose their sight when they have too much of it.
02:32:26 [Ember (Spurthi)] Their moral code is gone.
02:32:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Empire falls and certainly ends in blight.
02:32:30 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. As you're discussing amongst yourselves once more, you see the burning blue text of the riddle fade to blankness.
02:32:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh God. I knock again. We fucking missed it.
02:32:44 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So once more, burning blue text appears on the seal. This time yet another riddle.
02:32:44 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:32:55 [Saturno (Steph)] This one for sure.
02:32:56 [DM (Aarya)] And this time you see desired by kings, by sages denied. I build empires and burn them with pride. I am the pulse of storm and might, but blind the hand that holds too tight.
02:32:56 [DM (Aarya)] What am I?
02:33:13 [Saturno (Steph)] Blind the hand that holds too tight. That shit.
02:33:19 [Sildir (Tris)] There was an old wives tale that you could go blind from. This is the one about the heron, right? I heard this one.
02:33:19 [Sildir (Tris)] You know what guys? What do you think? Can we say power?
02:33:19 [Sildir (Tris)] I think it's worth a shot. It's the best answer I've heard.
02:33:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm... Sure.
02:33:45 [Saturno (Steph)] I mean, I think I'm going to step away. I'm going to like be in the puddle.
02:33:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yes. I'm, I have full confidence in that.
02:33:56 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm not a smart fella, but a fart smeller.
02:34:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, I see you guys value your safety and I think that's wise. I do have all this armor and hopefully I'll be okay.
02:34:19 [Ember (Spurthi)] You're the best person to do this with your armor.
02:34:23 [Sildir (Tris)] So, wax seal. To you, I say power. That's the answer to your questions.
02:34:31 [DM (Aarya)] As you say that, each time the text has faded before, it's kind of just like faded and like flickered out. This time, however, you see the burning blue text suddenly goes out, replaced by blackness. And you see...
02:34:46 [Sildir (Tris)] I start like powering away.
02:34:47 [DM (Aarya)] You see the wax on the seal start like shifting and bubbling a bit before like becoming glassy smooth. And burning red text covering the entire seal. You see Kazan written and you hear a click and the door opens.
02:35:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, uh, hmm. Well, I think that worked, but the door opens and that sign over there is very threatening.
02:35:19 [DM (Aarya)] You can just give me that.
02:35:21 [Sildir (Tris)] At least we didn't blow up. All right. Just now.
02:35:27 [Saturno (Steph)] Um...
02:35:27 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'm not a believer in luck right now.
02:35:30 [Saturno (Steph)] I thought it was gonna say like Kazan and like a gun. Of like a keyhole or something.
02:35:37 [Speaker 6] Kazan.
02:35:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna use my ritual cast of detect magic. Yeah. And start concentrating on that.
02:35:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] On what?
02:35:50 [Saturno (Steph)] Kazan.
02:35:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] On detect magic. Okay. So that I'll be able to sense magical effects within 30 feet of myself.
02:36:04 [Sildir (Tris)] So yeah. I have a modest proposal to use another title of a short story. We could stop here and say that Solalus and Iridel caught up to us during our short rest and they like trail in next session.
02:36:04 [Sildir (Tris)] Since it is pretty late anyway.
02:36:28 [DM (Aarya)] It's up to y'all. How are y'all feeling?
02:36:32 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'm okay with that. Like if we continue or stop.
02:36:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] I was fine. But yeah.
02:36:39 [Sildir (Tris)] If people want to stop then... I'm good. But I don't know like what kind of kind of worms this is.
02:36:50 [Saturno (Steph)] I wanna go in but at the same time like I don't want them to miss out on this.
02:36:56 [DM (Aarya)] For you. You have to do some.
02:36:59 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
02:37:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean I'm just hoping we could tie it with the bow.
02:37:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Like the tower. Okay. Let's let's go for it then.
02:37:12 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't know. Yeah. Screw it.
02:37:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's do it.
02:37:19 [Speaker 6] Okay.
02:37:21 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean that's my thing. Savannah also I think knows this one already. Yeah.
02:37:21 [Sildir (Tris)] But I do with some knowledge in mind. I don't know if we're gonna wrap up in a satisfactory place. Okay.
02:37:21 [Sildir (Tris)] In any reasonable amount of time. If that makes sense. I'm totally metagaming right now.
02:37:47 [DM (Aarya)] I think we can go a bit further. But it's completely up to...
02:37:50 [Sildir (Tris)] If Mario says that then I will trust it. Let's go for it.
02:37:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm not sure it'll be the same. I'm not either. We go into the tower.
02:37:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] And also I would just like to know if there's like any magical effects near me within 30 feet.
02:38:11 [DM (Aarya)] So everyone proceeds inside the tower. Yeah.
02:38:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] I also wanted to know about the wagon though as I'm walking past it.
02:38:20 [DM (Aarya)] What do you want to know about the wagon?
02:38:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Detecting magic. So if there's any auras of magic of some variety coming from there.
02:38:29 [DM (Aarya)] You don't detect any magical aura or anything like that coming from the wagon.
02:38:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. That's good. I was worried about evocation magic.
02:38:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
02:38:40 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:38:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right. Yeah. We go inside.
02:38:43 [DM (Aarya)] Let me activate this scene.
02:38:46 [Sildir (Tris)] There's a view of all of them.
02:38:48 [DM (Aarya)] Excuse me. Okay. So.
02:38:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah.
02:38:53 [DM (Aarya)] It's the same one from the trading post. Just with the full color.
02:38:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Bam.
02:39:00 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So. The gold one is the trading post.
02:39:00 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Inside this tower you see the flagstone floor is strewn with debris and a few old crates stand near the east wall. A torn curtain to the south partially obscures the tower vestibule and a five foot square indentation in the center of the floor contains four pulleys attached to taut iron chains that stretch up through similarly sized holes in the rotted wood ceiling.
02:39:00 [DM (Aarya)] Standing next to the chains on the corner on each of the four corners of the platform are four tall clay statues.
02:39:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Wow. This is old school.
02:39:47 [Saturno (Steph)] What do these statues look like? Yeah.
02:39:51 [DM (Aarya)] So the statues look like pretty like they're like very plain looking humanoid statues. They're completely smooth and absent of any like identifying features and even their faces are like completely blank. Yeah.
02:39:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
02:40:10 [Saturno (Steph)] But they're just like humanoid? Yes. Definitely.
02:40:10 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. Yeah.
02:40:14 [DM (Aarya)] And they're each like eight feet tall or so I'd say. Also Mercurio notably you notice that as soon as you step across the threshold of the door your detect magic spell ends.
02:40:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] I cast it again.
02:40:34 [DM (Aarya)] You go to cast detect magic once more and the spell fails.
02:40:41 [Ember (Spurthi)] What's going on?
02:40:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] There's some kind of anti-magic field inside this tower.
02:40:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Well that's just great.
02:40:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Can I do an arcana check to see if I can gleam anything from that effect?
02:41:00 [DM (Aarya)] Sure go for it. Um with a 10 arcana check you you recognize that this appears to be the effects of some kind of anti-magic enchantment of sorts.
02:41:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Well I guess on we go. What did the statues look like again? Sorry.
02:41:34 [DM (Aarya)] They're just like blank humanoid statues that are eight feet tall. Like pretty like.
02:41:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh and they're arranged in the four corners.
02:41:39 [DM (Aarya)] The four corners of the platform on each corner there's like chains attached to pulleys that rise up through a hole in the ceiling.
02:41:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Hmm yeah knowing all these funny wizards they have such funny ideas these statues probably come alive and move. Let me I like go grab a chain and I like offer it to the statue. Here buddy you want to help us out?
02:41:50 [Sildir (Tris)] I say half joking.
02:42:13 [DM (Aarya)] Um as you do that all four statues like stand at attention coming to life and each of them grabs a with one hand grabs a chain like their respective chains that stand before them and they all turn to face you and like tilt their heads like slightly to one side like looking at you expectantly.
02:42:35 [Sildir (Tris)] I am actually like quite jarred by this. I didn't actually expect this to work so well.
02:42:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh I guess let's run out to the platform then.
02:42:48 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay should we see what's in the hole though?
02:42:52 [Sildir (Tris)] What hole?
02:42:55 [Ember (Spurthi)] Up there right?
02:42:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah we're gonna go up. Get on.
02:42:59 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh okay.
02:43:01 [Sildir (Tris)] That's where we're headed Denver hop on.
02:43:03 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right.
02:43:04 [Sildir (Tris)] That's what you're talking about right in the roof?
02:43:06 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah yeah yeah.
02:43:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] Can we see anything up there right now?
02:43:13 [DM (Aarya)] Um give me perception.
02:43:16 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh wait I can't open my sheet.
02:43:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah so with a 12 perception check you kind of peer up through the hole. Um it seems to go up quite a ways like like the hole like extends like you see past the hole and it gets kind of like keeps going for a bit you're not really sure how far up it goes. Um but yeah you're not really able to make out much.
02:43:51 [Ember (Spurthi)] Whoa. Can I try perception? Sure go for it.
02:43:54 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm gonna do it too.
02:43:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Maybe ask these these nice clay gentlemen.
02:44:03 [DM (Aarya)] So Saturno you got a two. You don't really see. I have something in my eye.
02:44:03 [DM (Aarya)] You kind of just like you kind of just like you get some like dust falling in your eye you kind of like like blink it out you're like your eyes are like watering up you don't really see anything. Um Ember with a 17. You like peer on upwards and you can tell you can kind of make out a couple more landings along the way as this hole extends upwards and you get the sense that there are three floors above you.
02:44:41 [Ember (Spurthi)] Guys I see three more floors.
02:44:44 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh well that's thanks Ember. I was just about to ask these statues but I'm not sure if they could talk. Can you guys talk?
02:44:54 [DM (Aarya)] Um so the statue is all turned to you and in unison they shake their heads. No. And then like all fixed their gazes upon you and looking once more expectantly.
02:44:54 [DM (Aarya)] Can you help us up? You are handy little creatures aren't you? Please and thank you.
02:44:54 [DM (Aarya)] Um as soon as you say that uh Mercurio um the statues begin tugging like they start grabbing on the change with both hands this time and start steadily pulling in unison. Um they're like pulling with like strong like um like pretty like jerky yanks so that you find yourselves for a moment you're like shaken a little bit by the sudden movement and with one jerk the platform rises about a foot up and then they continue jerking on the chains in unison so that the platform like just like shifts upwards like sporadically one foot at a time. Um and with that you are slowly ascending up the tower.
02:44:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yippee! All right.
02:46:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] So like once we get up to that like first next level does it stop or does it keep going?
02:46:19 [DM (Aarya)] Or you're cooked. Um good question. You're cooked bro.
02:46:24 [Ember (Spurthi)] I just said Carlos said or you're cooked. I'm cooked. Cooked.
02:46:24 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh hooked?
02:46:32 [DM (Aarya)] Cooked. He said cooked. So you find yourself um after about like a minute of like ascending through this this space you find yourself stopping at this first landing on the second floor.
02:46:32 [DM (Aarya)] Um you see about you dust and cobwebs fill this otherwise empty room the wooden floor of which is badly rotted and partially collapsed.
02:46:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Huh well hey uh keep it going guys.
02:47:04 [DM (Aarya)] Um once more in unison like looking below you you see these statues nod in affirmation and once more they start yanking on the chains in unison. Um starting starting up again you're sort of like uh pretty jerky not particularly comfortable ascent up the tower. Um and after like about another minute or so you find yourselves at the next landing on the third floor and here you see.
02:47:04 [DM (Aarya)] It's on the fourth floor so. Yes yep. So you see here time and the elements have all but destroyed this chamber leaving a gash in the northwest wall and slimy back slimy black mildew on the walls.
02:47:04 [DM (Aarya)] The wooden floor is completely rotted and has begun to fall away in some places.
02:48:04 [Sildir (Tris)] This place is not well kept. No I'll say. Not at all.
02:48:04 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess we'll keep moving. Anyone want to take a little tour around floor three?
02:48:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah I pick number three.
02:48:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is there anything like special on this like left side or something?
02:48:29 [DM (Aarya)] Um it's you basically just see like a hole just like in the wall just like uh revealing the outside. Oh that is the hole. Oh okay.
02:48:36 [Ember (Spurthi)] Are there windows anywhere that we can like look down?
02:48:39 [DM (Aarya)] There are no actual windows it's just that one hole in the wall.
02:48:44 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Wait how can we see? Is it dark?
02:48:48 [DM (Aarya)] Um I mean it is like morning right now but like daylight here is like pretty dim. So you can kind of see but it's like not super like bright or anything.
02:48:59 [Speaker 6] Okay.
02:49:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Statues keep on going. Up one more please. I usually have like the light cantrip on so.
02:49:09 [DM (Aarya)] And as you say that um once more these statues begin their jerky ascent of the platform upwards. And after another like couple minutes uh you find yourself arriving at the top floor of the tower. And here you are greeted with a few things.
02:49:09 [DM (Aarya)] So here unlike the levels below this room at the top of the tower shows signs.
02:49:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] We're not there.
02:49:49 [DM (Aarya)] Oh hold on let me activate the scene. Sorry. My maps.
02:49:49 [DM (Aarya)] So unlike the levels below this room shows signs of recent habitation. And although the place reeks of mold and mildew it has plenty of creature comforts. Including a cozy bed, a desk with matching chair, bright tapestries, and a large iron stove with plenty of wood to feed it.
02:49:49 [DM (Aarya)] Light enters through arrow slits as well as dirt through caked windows with broken wooden shutters. Excuse me. Other features of the room include a standing suit of armor on the western wall and a wooden chest.
02:49:49 [DM (Aarya)] Old wooden rafters bend under the weight of the tower roof which has somehow remained intact. Mounted to the rafters are pulleys around which hang the iron chains that support the tower's elevator platform. Well I guess we have fully trespassed now.
02:50:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Might as well go all the way and have a look around.
02:50:55 [Ember (Spurthi)] We are just- Wizard definitely lives here.
02:50:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] We have to help Fort Iridel. Oh. Yeah.
02:50:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] And I'm gonna test the magic- anti-magic shenanigans by just doing a little light cantrip on my finger.
02:51:12 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:51:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is it still an effect up here?
02:51:15 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah so you go to cast a light cantrip. You see like a couple of sparks like spurt from your fingertip and once more the spell fails.
02:51:25 [Saturno (Steph)] I do an arcana check just to see if there's any like area where there's a lot of magic that could potentially maybe be a trap like maybe there's a drawer that's like it reeks of magic or something.
02:51:38 [DM (Aarya)] So you're specifically like trying to detect any signs of magic?
02:51:42 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah just to like you know maybe something's booby trapped.
02:51:46 [DM (Aarya)] Go ahead roll an arcana. Oh okay so with a 17 arcana check you are- you know for certain that you are still within the effects of an anti-magic zone. That is overwhelming and enveloping the entire area.
02:51:46 [DM (Aarya)] Beyond that you aren't able to detect any other signs of magic. Okay fair game.
02:52:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Anyone see any wolfsbane?
02:52:15 [Saturno (Steph)] Uh I go and I decide to- I don't know it looks like- Yeah I'm gonna go here and search in this direction. Like can I- can I like look around here? See if there's anything in here.
02:52:30 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. As you scatter about the room- I try to be very careful.
02:52:37 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh f**k me something oh my god.
02:52:40 [DM (Aarya)] You're good. So as you know you like scatter about the room kind of like looking around peeking about trying to see any signs of anything of note. You see that the suit of armor on the western wall like shakes for a moment and then comes to life stepping off of the stand that it was mounted on.
02:52:40 [DM (Aarya)] Um it turns to face all of you and you see it kind of like uh kind of just like bounce in place a little bit. You see it raise its left arm and like clasp its like right shoulder and like wind its right arm a bit and then kind of like does it like a double fist pump towards the ground and like raise itself in like a boxing stance. Um roll initiative.
02:52:40 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry everyone.
02:53:29 [Ember (Spurthi)] Hello. Another combat? Oh my.
02:53:54 [DM (Aarya)] Okay let's roll the initiative for this little failure. Okay. Begin combat.
02:53:54 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Ember! We start with you.
02:54:10 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yay. I kind of say a prayer to the gods. I hope I don't get hurt this time.
02:54:10 [Ember (Spurthi)] Please look out for me. Um I'll do a miss. Can I do my silver shortsword?
02:54:25 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah go for it.
02:54:27 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Do I still have steady aim or is that not?
02:54:34 [DM (Aarya)] Um you would have to.
02:54:39 [Ember (Spurthi)] Or can I do sneak attack instead?
02:54:40 [DM (Aarya)] You can use your bonus action for that but yeah yeah you can do it you can do it. You can roll with advantage if you use that.
02:54:47 [Ember (Spurthi)] Sneak attack?
02:54:49 [DM (Aarya)] Um not sneak attack but just re-roll the attack. Well just roll a second attack also. Okay.
02:54:49 [DM (Aarya)] Okay well that hits still. Um so that was a 21. Go ahead and roll your damage.
02:54:49 [DM (Aarya)] So five damage and go ahead and roll a sneak attack.
02:55:21 [Sildir (Tris)] It was a 21. Yeah.
02:55:34 [DM (Aarya)] Okay so that's another five damage applied for sneak attack. And um that's gonna be your turn. This will go to the armors now.
02:55:34 [DM (Aarya)] So the armor will turn its attention towards you and it'll start like readying itself to throw like a pretty mean haymaker at you. And just before it's about to like throw its punch you hear a small voice coming from the opposite side of the room. Wait wait stop!
02:55:34 [DM (Aarya)] They're friendly! And you see peeking out from under the bed crawls out a little girl. You see that she's dressed in like pretty like ornate looking red and white robes.
02:55:34 [DM (Aarya)] She has like a sort of scarf like covering her hair. She has like pretty dark shoulder length curly hair and um pretty like simple looking red earrings. She appears to be a Vistani girl.
02:55:34 [DM (Aarya)] And with that as she calls out the armor like stops like halfway through throwing its punch. And then once again like stands back at attention and falls still. Um so the combat ends.
02:56:57 [Sildir (Tris)] So wait this is clearly a Vistani girl?
02:57:00 [DM (Aarya)] Yes.
02:57:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Is she about what I would expect Arabella to look like?
02:57:05 [DM (Aarya)] Um going by the descriptions that you've heard thus far then yeah she seems to match up with that. By god what are you Arabella? Declaring yourself please.
02:57:05 [DM (Aarya)] Yes I am. And you are she kind of like looks you up and down like taps her foot on the ground. With her hands on her hips and she looks to you with like a bit of a smirk.
02:57:32 [Sildir (Tris)] I hold my hands up like all right fair enough yes we are not supposed to be here. We're here for good reasons though and we're actually friends of your father.
02:57:41 [DM (Aarya)] Oh is that right?
02:57:43 [Sildir (Tris)] And your grandmother.
02:57:46 [DM (Aarya)] Oh hmm.
02:57:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] I've actually been meaning to get you a birthday present from her. But we couldn't find you until now. Surprise finding you here.
02:57:57 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm you see her kind of like um like fold her arms for a moment and then she like rests her rests a finger on her chin kind of just like looks up at you like pensively. She like thinks for a moment and then she like you see her expression like light up with like some kind of like recognition and she says she claps her hands together and she says oh you're you're the you're the group of adventurers. I see hmm.
02:57:57 [DM (Aarya)] I've been expecting you but I didn't think it would take you this long.
02:58:32 [Sildir (Tris)] You have some of your grandmother's goods.
02:58:35 [DM (Aarya)] Something like that although I'm not nearly as talented as she is.
02:58:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] But you're still young.
02:58:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yes well it's a it's a sort of bloodline inherited trait um it doesn't really there's not really real way to predict who will inherit the seer's gift but I happen to be so fortunate.
02:59:03 [Sildir (Tris)] Well I think we could pretty much ask you the same question as far as we know this is Kazan's Tower. What are you doing here?
02:59:12 [DM (Aarya)] Ah yes well that's a bit of a story. Um how much time do you have? Well a lot and a little.
02:59:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] We've got time for a story um we just well just to be clear we we just we're here because we heard that Kazan might have um some magical ingredients that we need to help our friend who's very sick um and so oh in a sense. So you're not here for me. Well we've been looking for you as well.
02:59:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] Now we are. So now we are yeah.
03:00:00 [DM (Aarya)] Nice save that one.
03:00:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um were you what happened to you? Yeah let's get let's get on with that story because yeah we that was going to be the next thing we asked you so.
03:00:15 [DM (Aarya)] Um you know from my visions I kind of I got the impression that you all would be the heroic type but now I'm less certain but whatever I'll just tell you the story and maybe uh my friend will sort things out later. But anyway um well as I'm sure you've heard before by now I was kidnapped taken by this mysterious shadowy figure bearing a wolf mask of some sort. And they were they had me stuffed in a sack of some kind um dragging me off to who knows where and I assure you I put up quite a struggle but unfortunately I was not able to free myself.
03:00:15 [DM (Aarya)] However I was rescued I suppose by a different mysterious stranger. Although this one seems much kinder and uh he seems genuinely interested in keeping me tucked away and safe. Um he said something about uh there being some bad folks out there who are trying to well he thinks that they're trying to get rid of someone with the the seeing arts.
03:00:15 [DM (Aarya)] So he seemed to be of the opinion that they this mysterious group who kidnapped me targeted me for that reason because I'm a seer. And so he brought me here saying that I would be safe here and asked me to stay until he was able to sort out that business. I see.
03:00:15 [DM (Aarya)] So here I've been since.
03:02:03 [Sildir (Tris)] He wasn't wearing like a black cape was he?
03:02:08 [DM (Aarya)] A cape? No I mean a cape would be kind of silly don't you think?
03:02:11 [Sildir (Tris)] A cloak I suppose?
03:02:12 [DM (Aarya)] Seems a bit seems a bit dramatic to be wearing a cape in this day and age. A cloak? No I mean well he definitely did have a pretty distinctive uh outfit I'd say.
03:02:12 [DM (Aarya)] I did I'd kind of chuckle at him when he presented himself before me but he you know he seemed a nice enough fellow. No no capes though. What was funny about it?
03:02:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Did he wear dark clothes or did he maybe have a blue raven on his chest?
03:02:43 [DM (Aarya)] Yes he did have a ridiculous blue bird emblazoned on his chest and I mean he seemed to think it was quite cool but I don't know I think it was a bit tacky to be honest.
03:02:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah we have mutual friends.
03:02:58 [DM (Aarya)] Is that right?
03:03:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yes that's right um that's how I knew about the little silly blue bird he wears on his chest.
03:03:11 [DM (Aarya)] Do you know his name?
03:03:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] No I don't happen to know his his name. Just know of him from a friend.
03:03:20 [DM (Aarya)] I see and does that friend have a name?
03:03:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] You know he does have a name but I don't know if I should just go around telling people secrets. Oh by the way I'm so rude. All right all right I'll open up.
03:03:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] By the way my name is Mercurio.
03:03:44 [DM (Aarya)] Ah you're Mercurio.
03:03:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay I wasn't I wasn't sure. I know I know I'm normally much more charming than this but you'll have to forgive me I'm a little bit winded this morning after a very long flute solo. Anyways yes our mutual friend is Erwin maybe you're also familiar?
03:04:04 [DM (Aarya)] Oh the tavern keeper. Yes I've always heard he was a nice man although I don't really know much about him myself.
03:04:18 [Sildir (Tris)] I'll say did you hear of us before or you seem to have preconceptions about Mercurio?
03:04:23 [DM (Aarya)] Well maybe I've seen bits and pieces of things. You all seem from what I've divined you're uh well I don't know if heroic is the right word but you're an interesting batch who seems to have their hearts in the right place.
03:04:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yes well part of that would be I mean what what should we do about you uh do you want to go back to your father or should we we should at least definitely let him know that you're safe he's worried sick about you.
03:04:59 [DM (Aarya)] Well I would very much like to return to my to my home and see my father and my uncle and everyone but well bird boy seemed to be of the opinion that it's not safe for me yet.
03:05:15 [Saturno (Steph)] And how long has it been? Oh I'm sorry by the way I'm Saturna.
03:05:21 [DM (Aarya)] Oh you're Saturna okay I wasn't sure.
03:05:25 [Saturno (Steph)] It's nice to meet you.
03:05:27 [DM (Aarya)] And that means you uh and she you see her like turn her face silder you must be Scylla-less.
03:05:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh wrong Syl I'm Sildir, Sildir Goldenfield. Oh a pleasure to meet you.
03:05:45 [DM (Aarya)] I see um well yes you're correct on that on one point at least it is it is quite nice to meet me. Uh what was it that you're saying Saturna?
03:05:56 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh just when we met your grandmother everyone was very kind and um we had we felt very welcomed so we've been quite worried about you.
03:06:10 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm I guess that's nice of you. I it's um you see her kind of just like look down at the ground and like look get real shy all of a sudden and she kind of just like uh like rubs her foot on the ground and she like without looking up at you she asked is grandmother doing all right? I think she is.
03:06:10 [DM (Aarya)] She's doing great. Oh well that's good to hear it's been well I haven't seen her since I was very small.
03:06:39 [Sildir (Tris)] That lady can really handle herself uh she's shockingly agile and powerful for her age.
03:06:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah she she does tend to have that effect on people.
03:06:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Well who is this blue bird uh I mean we'd be happy to escort you home of course but I mean maybe this guy has good judgment are you scared to leave?
03:07:06 [DM (Aarya)] Uh well I'm not really scared so much as bored out of my mind I mean there's not a whole lot to do around here I mean he does he does visit me every day and like bring me like some food and such but um I'll be honest there's not a whole lot to do up here. You would think that a wizard tower like this would be more interesting?
03:07:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Do you think maybe um he has at least let your father know the for the very like at the very least that you are here or you're not very sure about that?
03:07:40 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm well father and uncle are no doubt worried sick about my my whereabouts but I don't know bird boy seemed very particular about not letting anyone know that I'm here until they they solve that whole business with that that strange group that's after me. Yeah. Court of wolves.
03:07:40 [DM (Aarya)] Court of wolves? Are you serious?
03:08:12 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah check these out and I throw some like teeth at her like I pull these out of some of their mouths.
03:08:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] We've been uh yeah well we've been dropping them left and right pretty much.
03:08:25 [DM (Aarya)] Remind me again Saturno those teeth are from where did you pull those out from?
03:08:30 [Saturno (Steph)] Sorry uh the mask people maybe that's not the court.
03:08:33 [DM (Aarya)] Maybe oh yeah that's right you pull them out like right from their mouths right? Yeah. Okay okay um she kind of like looks at these teeth and like kind of like picks them up off the ground like inspects them um wolves you said?
03:08:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well werewolves. They look like people with the wolf mask uh underneath the wolf mask it's not all that different wolf man face you know?
03:09:08 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm you saw their uh so you saw them under their mask I mean I didn't get to see the one that got me.
03:09:14 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah they look gross I think you see like imagine you get your pillowcase and you just stretch it over your face it's like they look like people on borrowed time like they're using some technique to stay alive even.
03:09:30 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm and she kind of like like turns the teeth over in her hands a little bit um she like she like closes her fists and like clutches them tightly in her hand you hear her close you see her close her eyes for a moment um bringing her fist to her chest and she breathes deeply for a couple of breaths and then she like once again opens her eyes like lays her palm out looks down at the teeth these aren't wolf teeth. What are they then?
03:09:30 [DM (Aarya)] Well I don't know I mean they're fangs obviously but they aren't wolf teeth.
03:10:09 [Saturno (Steph)] Well we pulled them out of these these caped figures like I said.
03:10:17 [DM (Aarya)] Court of wolves I mean you know that's not real right that's just a story that people tell.
03:10:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Well there's some sort of court out there.
03:10:29 [DM (Aarya)] And we're not the only ones.
03:10:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's a court and they're wolf people with wolf masks so.
03:10:36 [DM (Aarya)] With teeth that definitely aren't wolf teeth like I mean I don't know I mean I'm sure you got them from one of these uh I don't know what they are but these aren't wolf teeth.
03:10:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Well maybe it's a little more metaphorical than not but we have been fighting werewolves and we have fought people with wolf masks in the city so we're taking a calling in the court of wolves. And they followed us around as well.
03:11:01 [DM (Aarya)] They followed you? Here?
03:11:03 [Saturno (Steph)] Right? Mercurio?
03:11:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] No not here. Remember? No not here they followed us around the city of Vellaki.
03:11:11 [DM (Aarya)] You weren't followed here right? No we were not.
03:11:16 [Mercurio (Gui)] We assume not but we were well we did run into a few more werewolves on the way here but we cleaned them up.
03:11:24 [DM (Aarya)] You fought werewolves on the way here?
03:11:27 [Saturno (Steph)] They said that the wizard tower didn't exist.
03:11:31 [DM (Aarya)] Yep. And a bunch of gaslighters.
03:11:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Were they also- We could call the court of gaslighters.
03:11:38 [DM (Aarya)] Were they also masked and wearing these these cloaks and stuff?
03:11:43 [Saturno (Steph)] They looked like hunters like just out and about.
03:11:47 [Mercurio (Gui)] They're disguised as everyday people everyday hunters. Oh.
03:11:52 [Ember (Spurthi)] Why do you ask?
03:11:54 [DM (Aarya)] Is there something you're not sharing? It's just- Cue me! Cue me!
03:11:54 [DM (Aarya)] Well I don't know it just seems strange. I mean court of wolves I mean I don't know what that business is all about but werewolves I do know a little bit about at least.
03:12:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well what do you know about them?
03:12:15 [DM (Aarya)] Just well the rumors are that their den is not too far from from here.
03:12:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah it does seem to be so since we ran into a couple of them coming from this direction.
03:12:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you know of wolfsbane?
03:12:37 [DM (Aarya)] Wolfsbane? What do you mean with wolfsbane?
03:12:41 [Sildir (Tris)] We were just looking for it to experiment.
03:12:46 [DM (Aarya)] Experiments? What what are you trying to do with wolfsbane? I mean there's not that many uses for wolfsbane.
03:12:46 [DM (Aarya)] It's like oh one of you isn't- Don't tell me.
03:12:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Not one of us but a friend.
03:13:02 [Ember (Spurthi)] They're not here right now so rest assured that we won't attack her.
03:13:07 [DM (Aarya)] Oh well.
03:13:08 [Ember (Spurthi)] I mean anyway.
03:13:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Why hide something from the psychic girl anyway? She'll just see it in a vision. Isn't that right Arabelle?
03:13:17 [DM (Aarya)] Yes yes yes that's right I'll know if you lie to me.
03:13:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Yep and wolfsbane what do you know of it? Is there any in here?
03:13:28 [DM (Aarya)] Well I mean I guess you can check on that in that chest over here. There's a bunch of old like plants and books and like scattered about. I mean maybe you'll find something that you're looking for.
03:13:39 [Sildir (Tris)] I go over to the chest and open her up. All right well let's have a look.
03:13:46 [DM (Aarya)] Okay so rummaging through this chest you find a few pouches stuffed with assorted alfalfa ingredients and a couple of like a handful of old magical tomes and texts and such among which you find- let me double check my notes. Sorry I'm trying to find the title that I'm looking for. Yes okay so you find one title that catches your eye.
03:13:46 [DM (Aarya)] Ethereal entities denizens of the unseen realm volume 2 written by Mordenkainen and you also find a dried preserved plant which matches this description of wolfsbane that you recovered from the text in the baron's library.
03:14:57 [Sildir (Tris)] All right well I will grab both.
03:15:01 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:15:01 [Sildir (Tris)] I'll say oh I think this is the book that Brad was looking for. Who? But uh this appears to be the wolfsbane.
03:15:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] Say do you um do you know the wizard who lives here? Is that your friend or is that someone else?
03:15:18 [DM (Aarya)] Kazan? Oh I mean he's been dead for centuries.
03:15:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean look at- I knew it. That's what I was telling everybody. Everyone was telling me he's still alive.
03:15:27 [DM (Aarya)] Look at this place. You really think that he would keep his tower in like a condition like this? I mean it's clearly been abandoned for some time.
03:15:27 [DM (Aarya)] Thank you. It's only recently that bird boy established his base of operations in here. I mean he even has his like notes out over there on that desk.
03:15:27 [DM (Aarya)] It's just I mean that's a very recent development huh?
03:15:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] It would be an invasion of privacy if we were to look over his notes you think?
03:15:54 [DM (Aarya)] Oh um you didn't hear me say that.
03:16:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um you wouldn't have happened to have seen it like read it in your boredom?
03:16:11 [DM (Aarya)] It's just some weird symbols and stuff that he scribbled about. I mean honestly I think he doesn't really know. I don't think he has a clue what he's looking into.
03:16:11 [DM (Aarya)] He just every time he comes up here he's just just like seems pretty frustrated with whatever's scribbled on that paper. I don't know. I didn't make much sense of it.
03:16:11 [DM (Aarya)] Maybe you'll find some interest in it.
03:16:33 [Ember (Spurthi)] DM what if I use stealth to steal the notes?
03:16:38 [DM (Aarya)] Um considering the size of the room and how she's like has pretty clear view of all you it'll be pretty difficult but you can attempt it.
03:16:47 [Sildir (Tris)] I think she's down to let us read it.
03:16:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah I mean maybe we just check it out first.
03:16:53 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:16:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] If I pick it up and I examine the the symbols and stuff like I mean is it legible and what's the cover of the book say?
03:17:06 [DM (Aarya)] So it's not really a cover of a book so much as like just like just like assorted sheets of parchment. There's a there's some roughly written notes about like some lore about the court of wolves. Nothing that you haven't already heard before.
03:17:06 [DM (Aarya)] Just basically talking about how they were like a secret society of wolves that tried to take over Vallaki some time ago and they hide in the shadows and take out people who are in their way. You also see a very crudely sketched map of Vallaki and on the outskirts of the town is like some question marks you see just like scribbled about in like the northern parts of the woods near Lake Sarovic north of Vallaki. And you also see a piece of parchment with some strange symbols etched onto it.
03:17:06 [DM (Aarya)] I'm gonna paste that for you. It's not in any script that you recognize but it looks like this.
03:18:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh it's Regirock.
03:18:19 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I use your canner to decode it?
03:18:25 [DM (Aarya)] You can try. I can't comprehend languages. No I don't have that.
03:18:25 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my god. Um so with the- holy shit that was a nat 20. Wow.
03:18:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Finally our dice aren't cursed for the first time this fucking session.
03:18:50 [DM (Aarya)] Okay so I wasn't gonna give you anything for this but with a nat 20 I guess. Okay so you like kind of like peer over like pour over this script. You aren't able to make out what it says.
03:18:50 [DM (Aarya)] Although something about the structure and composition of the way it's written and formatted out it seems familiar to you. Like something it seems to match something that you've seen before.
03:19:21 [Ember (Spurthi)] Where have I seen this? Where have I seen this? I can't really remember.
03:19:21 [Ember (Spurthi)] Wait.
03:19:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is this similar to the runes scratched on those like ancient statues we've seen all around?
03:19:41 [DM (Aarya)] Um you can try to do like history or maybe yeah history to recall that.
03:19:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] I've rolled three nines in a row.
03:19:57 [DM (Aarya)] So with a 10 history check um you don't really recall too well what those runes look like. They don't really seem familiar to this but yeah you aren't terribly sure.
03:20:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] I use my inspiration.
03:20:09 [DM (Aarya)] Fuck this. Okay. What is it?
03:20:09 [DM (Aarya)] Um so with an 18 history check Mercurio you know for certain that these symbols and the symbols that you've seen before on the runes on those stones that you've seen before are definitely different. They have a different origin.
03:20:36 [Sildir (Tris)] But I don't recognize them from somewhere. While you guys are doing that I want to say I wanted to uh chat with Arabelle.
03:20:47 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:20:49 [Sildir (Tris)] So I think the best move is going to be for us to leave you here but we did promise your grandmother we would get you a toy from Blinsky's.
03:20:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh is that right? Hey you spoiled the surprise.
03:21:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Well I mean let's give her something to look forward to here. Is there a preference you have on the toy? Hmm there's something you like?
03:21:12 [Saturno (Steph)] Or something you don't like?
03:21:15 [DM (Aarya)] You know? I uh hmm she kind of just like looks at the ground kind of shyly and she just thinks I guess it might be cool to have one that looks like bird boy.
03:21:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Hmm well what's bird boy?
03:21:30 [DM (Aarya)] Interesting.
03:21:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Will you be a fan of him?
03:21:32 [DM (Aarya)] Interesting choice.
03:21:34 [Speaker 6] Really help you out.
03:21:34 [DM (Aarya)] Don't tell him I said that.
03:21:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Is he cute?
03:21:39 [DM (Aarya)] Um and you see her kind of like her cheeks flush and go red and she's like well I don't I don't know. Okay. Father says I'm too young for that sort of thing.
03:21:39 [DM (Aarya)] Right.
03:21:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Abadie's wrong. Don't pester her guys. Right and I I wink.
03:22:01 [Sildir (Tris)] It's normal to have a crush especially on a savior. Well uh we'll see how if Blinsky makes such a thing we'll bring it. Otherwise maybe we'll get the next best thing and some paint.
03:22:18 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm. Hmm I don't know maybe like I guess I missed my old deck of cards that I used to have in the camp.
03:22:31 [Saturno (Steph)] I actually have a deck of cards if you'd like to borrow them.
03:22:37 [DM (Aarya)] Oh truly?
03:22:39 [Saturno (Steph)] Yes. Oh. They were given to me by someone because I won um a game where I uh where we told stories and we said which one was true and which one was false.
03:22:54 [DM (Aarya)] Oh the game of stories hmm in true Vistani fashion.
03:22:57 [Saturno (Steph)] And I won this man's wife's um deck of cards and he just wants someone to use them so honestly I think you would be fulfilling that. So by all means please use them.
03:23:14 [DM (Aarya)] Oh I would love to.
03:23:16 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay I hand over the cards.
03:23:18 [DM (Aarya)] She kind of just like skips over to you and just like happily just takes them from your hands. Watch out for the hole.
03:23:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Careful little guy. I know I know. I guess you have been living here but geez we just found you and we've been looking for you for a while now.
03:23:26 [Sildir (Tris)] At least it feels like. I'd hate to yeah never mind I won't mention it. Well we'll look for an action figure.
03:23:26 [Sildir (Tris)] You have your cards.
03:23:48 [DM (Aarya)] Perfect. Perfect good use. I suppose does this bird boy have a name?
03:23:54 [Sildir (Tris)] And good optimization of your identity.
03:23:57 [DM (Aarya)] Well I know his name but he he asked me not to share it. Well. He does have this code this silly code that he uses but I don't know I think it's a bit tacky honestly.
03:24:08 [Sildir (Tris)] It's funny because you used your gilder on Bracer which is like the lowest intellect slot.
03:24:14 [DM (Aarya)] Well he calls himself Nightingale. Okay nice. Um.
03:24:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Nightingale I think that's quite nice.
03:24:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] I agree it's a little bit it's a little bit tacky. Right.
03:24:33 [DM (Aarya)] I mean I guess he kind of makes it work but still I mean if it were anyone else I don't know.
03:24:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah if he wasn't so damn cute. Hey I didn't say that. Oh no I'm saying it.
03:24:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well you haven't even met the guy.
03:24:48 [Sildir (Tris)] Ah I have a way with these things.
03:24:50 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm I see.
03:24:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah these types tend to have it all anyway. You know.
03:24:59 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know.
03:25:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Accomplished heroes good looking.
03:25:06 [DM (Aarya)] I guess that does count for something.
03:25:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Well considering that you're in good hands uh again I think we are going to leave you here.
03:25:19 [DM (Aarya)] Uh is there anything else you might want? Um promise to visit at some point. Absolutely we'll be back with your gift.
03:25:34 [Saturno (Steph)] Of course.
03:25:34 [Sildir (Tris)] We'll be back with a toy from Blinsky. Supposed to be the best toy maker in town though we'll have to see for ourselves we're not really from around here.
03:25:44 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm well I look forward to seeing you again.
03:25:49 [Sildir (Tris)] It makes me wonder if Mataiva saw all this coming.
03:25:53 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry. I bet she did.
03:25:56 [Sildir (Tris)] Walking in on the worst things. Is there any uh.
03:26:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] If she hadn't then she probably has by now. Oh yeah.
03:26:07 [Sildir (Tris)] This isn't even the popo game. You might as well wave hi to her.
03:26:10 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
03:26:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Well listen is there any food you like? Let us bring you something else aside from the toy.
03:26:22 [DM (Aarya)] Well I just.
03:26:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Some red dragon crush? No no never mind.
03:26:27 [DM (Aarya)] Anything sweet I suppose. I mean some butter cookies or something like that.
03:26:36 [Speaker 6] Nothing I'm clicking. Very well then.
03:26:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Hopefully old Kazan will not be missing this book. Or his full Spain. I guess uh do keep our secrets and we'll keep yours.
03:26:59 [DM (Aarya)] Uh I can do that but not.
03:27:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Tell Nightingale also he doesn't need to worry. We're friends of the feather and we'll keep his secret safe.
03:27:12 [DM (Aarya)] Sure I can tell him. If you don't run into him first that is.
03:27:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Ah speaking of that. If you do run into any other trouble. Whisper a little secret to a raven.
03:27:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Apparently our. The woods talk. So to speak.
03:27:37 [DM (Aarya)] I mean it's common knowledge in Ferrovia that ravens are good luck but. You seem to know a bit more.
03:27:47 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't know anything. Just lucky.
03:27:51 [DM (Aarya)] I'll keep that in mind.
03:28:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Well very good. Happy to see that you're alive and well. I'm sure Madame Eva knows already.
03:28:01 [Sildir (Tris)] But as soon as possible we'll come back and take you right on home too. If Bluebeard doesn't do it for us. Or Nightingale I suppose is his name.
03:28:19 [DM (Aarya)] Yes yes we'll see I guess. But hurry up I guess. I just get rather boring up here.
03:28:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh we'll make this quick. We're gonna take out the Court of Wolves. Don't you worry.
03:28:28 [Sildir (Tris)] And you'll get your toy and your cookies.
03:28:40 [DM (Aarya)] Well don't let me keep you.
03:28:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean we're sorry we have to go. It's just you understand our sick friend.
03:28:50 [DM (Aarya)] Yes yes I get it. You have responsibilities and whatnot. You heroic types always have something.
03:28:50 [DM (Aarya)] Ah okay so we got upgraded to actually heroic now. That's great. We did it.
03:29:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] We did it.
03:29:04 [DM (Aarya)] Don't don't take me the wrong way. Can I try to do a backflip? You can try.
03:29:04 [DM (Aarya)] Before we go. Do you actually want to try?
03:29:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait Saturno the floor is very delicate here.
03:29:14 [Saturno (Steph)] It's okay.
03:29:15 [DM (Aarya)] Roll me acrobatics.
03:29:19 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh wait that was athletics. Sorry.
03:29:22 [DM (Aarya)] That was acrobatics actually.
03:29:24 [Saturno (Steph)] That was acrobatics?
03:29:25 [DM (Aarya)] Oh I meant to do athletics. Stephanie. You're gonna fall through.
03:29:32 [Saturno (Steph)] Do I fall through the floor?
03:29:33 [DM (Aarya)] Stephanie why do you why do you do these things? You know what I have to do to you right?
03:29:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] This is awful. So our Yurio sees Saturno ducking like she's gonna do a backflip. No Saturno no!
03:29:54 [DM (Aarya)] So you see Saturno attempt to do a backflip. She kind of like jumps like pretty high up in the air honestly. But then like she doesn't like flip all the way around to like land on her feet.
03:29:54 [DM (Aarya)] And instead just like completely like lands on her back. Crashes directly through the floor. Wait you're muffled.
03:30:11 [Saturno (Steph)] I can't hear you.
03:30:11 [DM (Aarya)] You're so muffled. Sorry sorry.
03:30:13 [Saturno (Steph)] You said no but I messed up my back today so.
03:30:17 [DM (Aarya)] You see her like she jumps straight up into the air like pretty high honestly. And like you see her like start to do a backflip. But she doesn't like make it all the way.
03:30:17 [DM (Aarya)] And she ends up just like landing flat on her back on the ground. And like completely destroys the floorboards. And just crashes through the floor.
03:30:17 [DM (Aarya)] And falls straight down all the way to the tower. Oh god holy shit. Sorry why are you doing this Stephanie?
03:30:17 [DM (Aarya)] Look what I have to do to you now. You take 10 damage. And you're lucky as fuck.
03:30:17 [DM (Aarya)] You are such a low roll. Such a low roll. You take 10 damage and you're landing flat on your back.
03:30:17 [DM (Aarya)] Completely prone on the bottom floor.
03:31:14 [Saturno (Steph)] As you.
03:31:15 [DM (Aarya)] Fall through all the floors.
03:31:18 [Saturno (Steph)] As you. As you land on the floor it sounds like.
03:31:27 [DM (Aarya)] That's a bad one by the way holy shit. But as you're as you're laying on the ground. You're like you're just like looking like straight up through the hole that you created.
03:31:27 [DM (Aarya)] You're just kind of dazed like kind of out of it. You you see like kind of like like little ducks like floating around your head.
03:31:43 [Saturno (Steph)] And you see little Memphis's.
03:31:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yes little Memphis's yeah perfect. And you see the four clay statues at the bottom floor. They kind of like bend over and just like peer to look down at you.
03:31:45 [DM (Aarya)] Like kind of quizzically they like tilt their heads a bit. And just like yeah they just like stare at you like what the fuck just happened. And you see Arabella just kind of just like jump a little bit within surprise.
03:31:45 [DM (Aarya)] And then she like kind of just like looks like curiously like. Peers down the hole that you left in the ceiling in the top floor. Do I have enough strength to give her a thumbs up?
03:31:45 [DM (Aarya)] Is she all right? Yeah I mean you're still conscious right? You're still up.
03:32:25 [Saturno (Steph)] All right give her a thumbs up. I say on my way out.
03:32:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] She's um she'll be okay. She always does things like this.
03:32:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh yeah little girl before we go and I promise we'll take the elevator. Uh his whose wagon is that?
03:32:52 [DM (Aarya)] Do you know? Wagon? What do you mean whose wagon?
03:32:56 [Sildir (Tris)] There's a wagon outside it says no trespassing. Trespassers will be incinerated or something like that.
03:33:03 [DM (Aarya)] Huh that's strange. That's definitely not bird boy's wagon. His doesn't look like that.
03:33:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you know of uh Esmeralda? I think that was the name there.
03:33:15 [Saturno (Steph)] Do I hear this conversation at all? Esmeralda.
03:33:20 [DM (Aarya)] You did not hear this conversation unfortunately.
03:33:23 [Saturno (Steph)] I was gonna be like bird boy has a wagon and he's cute.
03:33:30 [DM (Aarya)] So you hear her think for a moment. Esmeralda the name is familiar. That's that's a mistani name.
03:33:30 [DM (Aarya)] Although I don't know. I've never been in Esmeralda.
03:33:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Well hopefully she doesn't incinerate us. But uh she doesn't live here so we haven't trespassed against her it seems.
03:33:52 [DM (Aarya)] Was she there? Did you see her?
03:33:55 [Saturno (Steph)] All the stuff the werewolves told us about her too.
03:33:59 [DM (Aarya)] But werewolves what did they say?
03:34:01 [Saturno (Steph)] Wait wait I'm not am I? I'm on the floor sorry I'm not a baby.
03:34:04 [DM (Aarya)] I'm sorry okay ignore what I said then.
03:34:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Yes Soprano the werewolves yes yes. We can I can almost hear you. The werewolves!
03:34:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah I think what Soprano's trying to say is she's really giving those werewolves a run for her money.
03:34:20 [DM (Aarya)] Seems like my kind of girl. Well yeah. Maybe I'd like to meet her honestly I don't know.
03:34:20 [DM (Aarya)] Actually you said she's outside is she?
03:34:31 [Sildir (Tris)] She's not there. Are you sure? Just her wagon.
03:34:31 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean we can double check we can send her up if you want.
03:34:38 [DM (Aarya)] Oh I mean I could come down and say hello maybe I mean.
03:34:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Does bird boy want you to go down?
03:34:48 [DM (Aarya)] Hey her wagon is literally right outside I mean what's the harm? Come on.
03:34:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Arabelle if we do that we might as well take you all the way home you can't be seen here.
03:34:57 [DM (Aarya)] It's not the same it's like literally just like a stage. You said the wagon's right outside that's the that's no distance at all.
03:35:04 [Sildir (Tris)] We'll check the wagon and we'll we'll even bring her back up.
03:35:09 [DM (Aarya)] You see her kind of just like cross her arms like just like pout. I know it's not fair but it seems like Nightingale knows what he's talking about.
03:35:21 [Sildir (Tris)] You should stay here.
03:35:24 [DM (Aarya)] You sound just like him.
03:35:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] I like bird boy better than Nightingale but anyways yeah. We'll go check that out and we step on the elevator and.
03:35:37 [Saturno (Steph)] Wait am I out of the way of the yellow?
03:35:40 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah I mean I guess you. The elevator is still at the top floor you just crashed down and went down the hard way.
03:35:46 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah but like what if the elevator like squishes me?
03:35:49 [DM (Aarya)] You're you're like not under don't worry. Okay cool. You broke your own way through.
03:35:49 [DM (Aarya)] Um yeah so you find you like step back on to the elevator platform. You just kind of like tap on it expectantly and the elevator begins its slow jerky ascent. All the while for like a solid like minute or so you're like you just see Arabelle sitting on the bed in the corner of the room just like pouting and looking at you making direct eye contact.
03:35:49 [DM (Aarya)] Um yeah.
03:36:25 [Sildir (Tris)] I mouth the word sorry.
03:36:27 [DM (Aarya)] Uh as you say sorry she just kind of just like she just goes like and just like looks away. And you make your way slowly after a few minutes of uh unceremonious travel on the elevator back to the ground floor where you reunite. Um there were like small portholes like I guess windows yeah.
03:36:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe I say quietly to the group maybe we could have Pepito fly some letters out to her. Now and again. That's true.
03:37:01 [DM (Aarya)] That's a good idea. Oh I should note that uh as soon as you cross the threshold of the I should have said this earlier as soon as you cross the threshold of the tower um Pepito disappeared basically from the anti-magic field.
03:37:16 [Speaker 6] Pepito.
03:37:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Well I guess we make it to the bottom. We'll give uh Saturno a hand up. Somehow Saturno that was still pretty impressive.
03:37:44 [Ember (Spurthi)] Thanks. How's your back?
03:37:52 [Saturno (Steph)] Um I I I can feel my leg so I think my back is hurting. I'm still laying here by the way.
03:38:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Extend a hand to Saturno. Come on it's time to go home.
03:38:16 [Saturno (Steph)] That that sounds nice yes.
03:38:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] You can go lay on some haystacks at home straight out of your bag.
03:38:23 [Saturno (Steph)] Nothing you know I thought the hay sucked but compared to that I I I'm so excited to go back.
03:38:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah because the point of doing it is to get that done. Can I hold up three fingers?
03:38:41 [Saturno (Steph)] Saturno looks and then she swings at the she swings like you know when boxers like hold up their hands to punch.
03:38:49 [Speaker 6] Yeah.
03:38:49 [Saturno (Steph)] But I swing the wrong arm.
03:38:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh oh dear. Yeah let's get you on home.
03:39:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Yes let's go home.
03:39:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] We'll straighten out your back. We do like the thing where like you interlock the arms and then like pull them off the ground to crack their back.
03:39:14 [Saturno (Steph)] My god I should have gotten her to walk on my back.
03:39:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'll use my healing hands with that. To heal you it doesn't fucking work. Oh oh oh wait.
03:39:31 [DM (Aarya)] Wait are you using are you using magic? It's a magic action so it doesn't work as long as you're inside.
03:39:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh my god so it's just a regular back crack then.
03:39:42 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah wow that was great.
03:39:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] I do it outside the door.
03:39:49 [DM (Aarya)] Okay so you're stepping outside?
03:39:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah I guess we're all stepping outside.
03:39:52 [DM (Aarya)] Who's the first to step outside?
03:39:55 [Sildir (Tris)] I'll do it.
03:39:56 [DM (Aarya)] Okay it's me. All right so Sildur as soon as you open the door again and step across the threshold to exit the tower you find yourself stepping through and suddenly you're like stopped and you see yourself staring down the twin barrels of a double-barreled flip-lock pistol. You look over to see who is holding it and you see a rather intimidating looking Vistani woman with a shock of red hair and a tuft of a streak of white in her bangs wearing a bright red headscarf.
03:39:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah and she looks to you and she says not so fast Giorgio. And with that we'll end the session for tonight. Oh my god her wand was a gun.
03:40:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] I cast storm of lead.
03:41:04 [Saturno (Steph)] I cast lead paint chippings in the form of a tornado.
03:41:12 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my goodness.
03:41:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] I cast blicky blast.
03:41:19 [DM (Aarya)] Well that was a great session. That was a really fun session I had a lot of fun with that.
03:41:23 [Ember (Spurthi)] That was fun.
03:41:28 [DM (Aarya)] But yeah good job from everyone like great RP and combat shenanigans and rolls and everything.
03:41:38 [Speaker 6] Very fun.