Session 15 - Transcript

00:00 [DM (Aarya)] All right, and we're live. Welcome to Phantom Chains session 15. When we had left off, we had just finished the encounter at Proctor House with Lady Proctor.
00:00 [DM (Aarya)] Would somebody like to summarize the last session? I hope we have our note-taker.
00:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, somebody here. How's it going? I'm walking back to my computer.
00:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Session 14 was the last one, right?
00:32 [DM (Aarya)] That's correct.
00:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Wowie, so I didn't miss any notes. Crazy. All right, so last session, I gave you my heart.
00:33 [Sildir (Tris)] The very next day, you gave it away. In session 14, we started off with the Wachter House event being that night. It started at 11 in the morning, and the Wachter House event would have been at 6.
00:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Also, just to keep us sharp on our scheduling, the Festival of the Blazing Sun would be three days from the start of session 14, and the full moon would be the night of the Festival of the Blazing Sun. There's a blazing sun and a full moon on the same day. How interesting.
01:28 [DM (Aarya)] Blazing.
01:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Anyways, we start back up with Sildur heading out of the door of the Wizard Tower, party behind, and there is Esmeralda leveling a double-barreled gun at him. She is able to determine that we are not werewolves. She lowers her gun, and she also inadvertently reveals the Nightingale's name to us, which is Goldie, according to her, at least.
01:31 [Sildir (Tris)] We also learn that he, Goldie, is looking into the Court of Wolves. We finally discuss with Esmeralda the teeth, and she is able to give us, finally, some sort of answer that these are vampire teeth, not wolf teeth. And we just discuss the presence of the wolves and whatnot.
01:31 [Sildir (Tris)] We ask a little bit about where we could get some silver, and she actually gives us a silvered short sword. We ask her a little bit about her origins. She says she's not from Vistani encampments in Barovia or really from Barovia at all.
01:31 [Sildir (Tris)] And we learn that she's here looking for Rudolph van Richten. Anyways, we let her know that we're trying to look for van Richten too, and we also learn that van Richten lost his son or maybe close apprentice or something like that, someone very close to him, probably due to some failure on his part or goof up in his plans or something he blames himself for at the very least. We begin heading back to Vallaki after that conversation with Esmeralda, and we make it back to the hideout.
01:31 [Sildir (Tris)] At the hideout, we find that Iridel has created a chore chart. We show her that we got the wolf's bane, which is great news. And it's kind of what we were doing over there at the lake in the first place.
01:31 [Sildir (Tris)] We were waiting for Erwin's men to show up and help us renovate. They hadn't yet at that point, and Udo was also resting. But we had some time between when we arrived there and needing to get to Wachter House, so we started to build out a kitchen and a meeting room.
01:31 [Sildir (Tris)] And that includes an office, a bookshelf, and a table. And a kitchen, I guess, would include whatever a normal kitchen would include. Is that fair enough, DM?
04:17 [DM (Aarya)] Nothing super fancy, but just like the basics, probably.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] No. We all dress up in our fancy gear, and we go to Wachter World, as I wrote in my notes. Sildur and Mercurio go and get the cobbler's tools for Udo instead of short resting.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] And we learn that his mom plans to bring him by shepherd's pie later, which was his favorite food. So then we head over to the Wachter House. The place is landscaped very well.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] It's obviously a nice house. She is a noble lady and all. It's showing.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Saturno knocks on the door that she was the one who was really invited, first and foremost. And we're greeted by a butler, and we're led over to a parlor in the house where we all take a seat and wait. As we are waiting, though, there is a teenager who steps down from upstairs and looks at us curiously.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] And Saturno and Ember recognize this, I believe, teenage girl, yeah, Stella, from their dream. The two Wachter boys that we've met at the tavern previously run down the stairs and try to take control of their sister, who they are now appearing to guide as if she is not all well. She definitely appears to be sickly, and they take her outside for some fresh air.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] After we overhear some muffled conversations from the other room, presumably with Lady Wachter, Lady Wachter herself enters, and we intro ourselves. We get some wine. She drinks some brandy.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] We have a toast to the evening and a toast to Saturno. And she starts immediately kind of like prodding at us what we think of how things are happening in town and trying to get, you know, her head wrapped around basically just where we stand, probably, like with the politics of the city. It's kind of the short of it.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] She asks us what we think of her after hearing her rumors, and some of the answers we gave out were ambitious and doesn't like the Baron, not happy with the Baron, and a gracious toast to us. Let's see. What else?
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] What else? We learn that she became the heir of the House Wachter by running away from home. Well, no, okay, sorry, roundabout story, but the long story of how she ended up as the heir of House Wachter is when she was young, she ran away from home.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] She was saved by a woman named Elisa, who she stayed with for six months, and then during that time, her family died to arson while she was away, so she returned and became head of the house. She also, again, she's just shitting on the Baron constantly. What else do we got?
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] The Butler's come back with Little Feast for us. We do start to ask her a bit about her children, and she's obviously fond of all of them. We ask a bit about, Sildur asks how we could trust her, and she goes on a speech about the Baron's poor leadership and her desires.
04:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Ember and Iridyll ask a bit more, what would Lady Wachter actually try to do for Vallaki? So she's thinking, you know, pragmatic rule.
08:06 [DM (Aarya)] Was it Iridyll or Satana? I don't think Iridyll was present, was she?
08:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Iridyll was there.
08:11 [DM (Aarya)] Was she? Oh, okay.
08:12 [Sildir (Tris)] It was Ember and Iridyll who asked, yeah. I think it was, I think Iridyll was there, at least partially, that session.
08:20 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know. Yeah, I was there for this one.
08:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, it might have been Kat.
08:24 [DM (Aarya)] I was just more quiet. It was Kat, that's right. It was not there.
08:27 [Sildir (Tris)] But previously Kat wasn't there, and Iridyll wasn't there.
08:32 [DM (Aarya)] Or no, Satana wasn't.
08:33 [Sildir (Tris)] No, there's no way, because Satana was like kind of the main character here.
08:36 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, this is so long ago.
08:37 [Sildir (Tris)] I believe it was Kat. Yeah. Maybe, who cares?
08:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Iridyll was there, she did ask this.
08:43 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, and I remember it because I made a really funny, or at least I thought it was funny, monthly courses joke because, you know, woman, but also werewolf.
08:52 [DM (Aarya)] I don't remember that. I'll take your word for it.
08:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, that was good. I didn't really connect it to the werewolf thing at the time, but yeah.
09:01 [Sylalys (Cat)] Thank you.
09:03 [Sildir (Tris)] But yeah, so she would rule pragmatically. She expresses some dislike for Strahd, but would maintain a cordial relationship with him. Let's see.
09:03 [Sildir (Tris)] We learned that her ancestors actually served Strahd in the past, and that she's actually loyal to him now in the sense that she's bending to him to survive, and she can't really imagine it any other way. We learned as well that two things. One, that Strahd woke because the people from Barovia village tried to kill him, so we kind of knew this.
09:03 [Sildir (Tris)] I feel like this is like a full confirmation though that that's actually why he woke in particular. We knew that the people from Barovia attacked, and at least for me, this was like my confirmation that it's like why he woke. I could just be a silly willy though who missed things previously.
09:59 [DM (Aarya)] Anyway, that's good.
10:00 [Sildir (Tris)] We also learned another important thing, that there was a fourth city called Berez. So there's Barovia, Vallaki, and Krezic. There was a fourth city, and Strahd got really mad at them one time and basically hit them with the Noah's Ark move and flooded their town.
10:00 [Sildir (Tris)] They just forgot to build the ark and they're all dead. So yeah, definitely like a woe Strahd moment. Very strong guy.
10:00 [Sildir (Tris)] He can flood things. It's kind of scary. Just kill everybody.
10:00 [Sildir (Tris)] So there was that. I don't know why, but she also mentions a sword, which I'm thinking is definitely the Sword of Vengeance from the prophecy.
10:55 [DM (Aarya)] It's a legend that she heard of, so she shared that.
10:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, yeah, gotcha. I'm definitely not biased at all in thinking that it would be the Sword of Vengeance connection, because that would definitely have nothing to do with my character whatsoever. So there also presses her about the crime in town to get an idea of the disappearances.
10:59 [Sildir (Tris)] She seems not to know too much, but you know, kind of blames the Baron for them. She also asks us to take out Izik, and we basically agree to do that. I'm pretty sure.
10:59 [Sildir (Tris)] At least while we're there. We start to share some information of our own, kind of catch her up on everything that we know, but we also tell her that the Baron has us spying on her. All right, sorry, these notes are dense, but we're almost there.
10:59 [Sildir (Tris)] She shares additional info on the number of supporters she has, and that she'd be able to overthrow the town as long as we could take out Izik. We agree to do it. Mercurio texts on that we want to keep the Baron's son alive.
10:59 [Sildir (Tris)] She seems to have no real strong issue with that as long as he is neutered in the sense of any political power or ambiguity of who would take power and whose family would be in power. Also, of course, we need compensation both in payment and political influence. Mercurio, you rolled a 27 in encouraging her to do this, and I think it's going to pay us back really nicely.
10:59 [Sildir (Tris)] So we're going to get regular payment, we're going to get access to the town's silvered weapons, and basically the only thing to hang up with the boy that she had is that she kind of feels like the boy might have something to do with Stella's association with the boy, as in the Baron's son caused trouble for her. So maybe not the boy did it himself, but one day Stella was dropped back off from the Baron's house by Izik, and she was basically all effed up as she currently is. You know, kind of not all there.
10:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Lights are on, but no one's home kind of thing that Stella has going. We also tell her that he's looking to learn more about magic, and I think we told her that at least, and then we tell her a little bit about a book, but not much. We try to keep that one closer to the chest, so the book that we were getting for him.
10:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Which might be something good for us to follow up with the boy about, asking why he wanted the book. I don't think so, I don't think so. Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong there, but I feel like I would have wrote it down.
13:47 [DM (Aarya)] You know, you just retreated from the Wizard Tower.
13:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, you're right, and then we got back, and then we did our shit, and then now we're here. You're right. Anywho, she does give us a tip on how to get Izik alone, so she has been tailing him and keeping a schedule of his routine.
14:06 [DM (Aarya)] Not her personally, but her associates.
14:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, her people, and she wants us basically to kill him, dispose of the body, and bring back proof. I think the angle is kind of, kind of will have to do with his bad drinking habit, but we're supposed to meet with someone in Erwin's Blue Water Inn tomorrow to gather, you know, the plans, the final plans. Mercurio also asks about any alchemists, if there's any alchemists in town.
14:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Vector doesn't know any other than that the new priest can also make potions, and he also shares with her a little bit about the rehabilitation front we have going, so our, you know, Air Quilt's rehab center. We talk with Stella just a little bit upon request, I think, of Saturno and Ember, I believe, and then Mercurio actually is able to tell that there's conjuration magic happening with Stella. We consider that Father Bryce might also be helpful here, and then finally, after, you know, the scene becomes too much for Stella, we have a few other pleasantries with Lady Wacter, and we head on out.
14:09 [Sildir (Tris)] So that is where we left off.
15:30 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, very, very nice detailed summary. I think that was helpful for everyone to get the acclimated. Yeah, it had been a while.
15:30 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so with that, we can resume. We pick back up with the lot of you just exiting Wacter House. Now, with your new objectives, you have the items that you achieved from the wizard tower, you have your hideout, which is under renovations or presumably will be soon, and you have the plan to meet with Lady Wacter's agent in the morning at the Bluewater Inn to carry out the assassination plot on Ezek.
15:30 [DM (Aarya)] What time is it right now? So the dinner was about at 6 p.m., I'll say. It went for a couple hours, so it's probably close to like 8-ish right now.
16:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Very efficient. All right. So we're outside Wacter House.
16:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Mm-hmm. How far away is our hideout?
16:47 [DM (Aarya)] So let me... a good question. Let me pull up a map of Vallaki.
16:47 [DM (Aarya)] So your house is by the stockyards, and Wacter House is, I think, near the northeast part of town, and the stockyards is to the far east. So not too far, about like a third of the town's width away.
17:19 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. So Sildur will pipe up and say, well, that was a really enlightening discussion. I think from here, we either go back to the hideout and talk a little more, or we could see if Father Bryce is awake.
17:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] Father Bryce... Oh, right, we have the ingredients for him.
17:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, we do have the night bane now, or sorry, wolf's bane.
17:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Would that be on the way?
17:56 [DM (Aarya)] So the church is on the far other side of town. Let me double-check. Yes, it's on the exact opposite side of town from where your hideout is.
18:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] And the Bluewater Inn?
18:10 [DM (Aarya)] The Bluewater Inn is... I'm trying to find it on the map. Where is it, actually?
18:10 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, yeah, the Bluewater Inn is in the center of town, near town square. So centrally located, like about roughly equidistant from your hideout and Wacter House.
18:40 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, I mean, I obviously have a preference for...
18:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] To deliver that soon.
18:47 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, and getting that worked out ahead of time, just in case something goes wrong. I want to make sure he has adequate time to, you know, make multiple batches and just really make sure that everything is working. I don't want to be cutting up close to our deadline, so to speak.
19:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, I think let's just go then.
19:12 [Irredel (Sav)] That would definitely make me the most comfortable, but I can also understand if it's been a long day for everyone.
19:23 [DM (Aarya)] So, to the church?
19:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I think to the church.
19:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe we could ask him if he knows anything about conjuration magic.
19:35 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, did Lady Wachter say whether or not her child's condition is public? I just want to be careful sharing or asking about information in any sort of specific way.
19:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, we could ask more generally about conjuration magic affliction, rather than someone in particular.
20:03 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, I think that would be wise.
20:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't know, I think just overall... We were curious because it happened to Satorno and Ember earlier.
20:16 [Sildir (Tris)] True.
20:18 [Irredel (Sav)] That is brilliant. Mercurio, where have you been hiding those brains all this time?
20:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, they're one of these years.
20:30 [Sylalys (Cat)] In the bottles of wine.
20:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Underneath that beautiful face. Am I right, Mercurio?
20:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Ah, yes. It tends to distract people from how smart I am.
20:39 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, dear lord.
20:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, off we go, I guess. Hopefully we don't get jumped by some vampires wearing werewolf masks. Is that where we are at this point, guys?
20:45 [Sildir (Tris)] It's hard to keep track.
20:58 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it sounds about it. All right. Yeah, so you make your way down the streets of Vallaki.
20:58 [DM (Aarya)] It is drizzling a bit tonight, so the roads are slick and muddy as you make your jaunt across. But eventually, you're able to reach the gates of the church without incident. So I'll go ahead and switch the scene now.
21:30 [Irredel (Sav)] And see, everyone? See this mud? This is why good socks are so important.
21:30 [Irredel (Sav)] Why do you think I pick them up from everywhere we go? Imagine if you only had one soggy pair of socks right now with all of this mud. You'd end up with trench foot.
21:53 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so let's... I'll remove the token. Okay, so you make your way to the gates of the church once more, seeking counsel from Father Bryce.
21:53 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so the door is unlocked. I assume you guys head on in?
22:15 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yep.
22:17 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So as you head in, you are greeted with the familiar face of Milivaj. He seems to be tidying up the place.
22:17 [DM (Aarya)] And he looks to you all and he says, oh, hello. You're here kind of late.
22:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Hey, Milivaj. Thought we would stop in for some late night advice.
22:42 [DM (Aarya)] Ah, you're looking for Father Bryce, then. Ah, if he's in. I'm afraid you just missed him.
22:42 [DM (Aarya)] I was just closing up myself about to head home.
22:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, does he not sleep at the church? I'm not sure why. I can't imagine him anywhere else but this church.
22:54 [Sildir (Tris)] But I guess he does have a life, too, doesn't he?
23:03 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, he has his own quarters, though. I'm not sure where. Somewhere in town.
23:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Huh. What about the old father? Did he sleep here?
23:15 [DM (Aarya)] No, not usually. Not unless there was something pressing. And the parishioner's in great need or something of the sort.
23:15 [DM (Aarya)] But no, they don't. Well, we don't live here, you know. It is a church.
23:29 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, some people live in churches.
23:32 [DM (Aarya)] Well, we don't.
23:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I guess this is not a monastery, is it? Nor are you a monk. So, here.
23:47 [DM (Aarya)] Was there something specific that you wanted from him? Or perhaps there's something I can help you with?
23:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, I think it'll be best for Fr. Bryce to hear this from us directly. But I appreciate your willingness, Milivoj.
24:07 [DM (Aarya)] Well, I'm happy to help however I can. If there's a message that you need me to leave for him, I can do that, too.
24:17 [Sildir (Tris)] Anyone have a message for Fr. Bryce? If not, will he be back here tomorrow morning?
24:22 [DM (Aarya)] I expect so, yeah.
24:25 [Sildir (Tris)] And we could always, if you know where he lives, we could always chase him down through town. But I don't know. Feels a little inappropriate.
24:33 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, well, I'm afraid I don't. Not quite that urgent.
24:37 [Irredel (Sav)] So, maybe just let him know that we'll be by in the morning?
24:42 [DM (Aarya)] Certainly.
24:42 [Irredel (Sav)] As early as possible.
24:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, I'm not quite sure the nature of your business today. I do recall that you had some sort of urgent business with him the last time you were here.
24:56 [Irredel (Sav)] Yep. You know, I'm a cleric. Cleric to priest.
24:56 [Irredel (Sav)] Some very spiritual things going on.
25:09 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, actually, I don't think I ever asked you. Your faith is not to the Mourning Lord, is that correct?
25:16 [Irredel (Sav)] No, no. I'm a servant of Tyr, actually.
25:19 [DM (Aarya)] I'm not familiar.
25:21 [Irredel (Sav)] Ah, yes. So, Tyr is the god of order, the god of justice, the god of fairness, the god of equality. He, you know, oftentimes his devotees, such as myself, work in the professional space, bringing order from city to city, town to town.
25:21 [Irredel (Sav)] So, in my case, I actually specialize in doing taxes, trusts, and estates. Make sure that justice is served at the end of people's lives and people's wishes are followed. I also help to handle some of the accounting and bookkeeping for several businesses, because one way to make sure things are fair is when everyone gets paid out accordingly.
25:21 [Irredel (Sav)] Because of that, I also specialize in helping solve financial crimes, which is how I ended up getting involved with Stilldeer here. We're business partners.
26:14 [DM (Aarya)] Huh. So, you're an accountant or a clerk? I'm confused.
26:22 [Irredel (Sav)] To devotees of Tyr, it doesn't really matter the difference between the two.
26:27 [DM (Aarya)] Interesting.
26:28 [Irredel (Sav)] I serve Tyr by offering professional services.
26:33 [DM (Aarya)] Well, if your work preserves order, well, that does seem to be something we could use around here.
26:41 [Irredel (Sav)] Yes, yes, exactly. So, do you have any bookkeeping that needs to be done around here, or any issues with taxes? I could be the first person to talk to.
26:52 [DM (Aarya)] Taxes, yes. Well, the only taxes we pay around here are collected and go to the devil himself. So, perhaps we could take that up with him.
26:52 [DM (Aarya)] Pardon? The devil collects taxes from his subjects.
27:17 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, but, I mean, surely he doesn't go from town to town collecting everything.
27:22 [DM (Aarya)] No, he personally does not collect it, no, but every so often he sends his chamberlain to come to each town and collect.
27:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, the chamberlain. Yes, I think we saw him once.
27:38 [DM (Aarya)] And, yes, well, he's a...
27:40 [Sildir (Tris)] Quite a nasty one.
27:41 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, he is.
27:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Like, literally. And figuratively, of course.
27:48 [DM (Aarya)] Dreadful business. Fortunately, it's always the Burgermaster's duty to handle that interaction.
28:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Kind of makes some things make some more sense, if you catch my meaning. If not, then don't worry about it.
28:10 [DM (Aarya)] Not sure I do, but sure.
28:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, then don't worry about it. Well, Milivoj, I'm sure it's been a long day, and you need your rest, right? So, we'll leave you be.
28:25 [DM (Aarya)] Say, you wouldn't happen to know, Father Bryce isn't in any trouble, is he?
28:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Not that I'm aware of. Why, would you think he might be in trouble?
28:39 [DM (Aarya)] Well, ever since Father Lucian disappeared, Father Bryce has been getting increasingly worked up, and today he just left in such a rush, I'm just concerned. Maybe he thinks he might be next or something, I'm not sure.
28:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Didn't Father Lucian disappear before Father Bryce even showed up?
29:06 [DM (Aarya)] No, Father Bryce arrived sometime before. Sometime before. Father Bryce arrived here, from what you know, roughly a month ago, and Father Lucian disappeared last week.
29:28 [Irredel (Sav)] Yes, it's quite frightening times. Did he speak about any of the suspicions that he had, or who he thought might have been behind it all?
29:40 [DM (Aarya)] No, just, I mean, in the church we hear rumors and whispers from people who come by. There's some speak of shadowy figures in the night snatching people up, but I'm afraid I don't know much.
30:00 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, I mean, that's quite a tale. Is that the parishioner saying that?
30:04 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, it is. Oh my.
30:09 [Sildir (Tris)] And do you think he's worried that these people are after him, or worried about something else?
30:14 [DM (Aarya)] Well, that would be my guess, considering that Father Lucian might have been taken by these shadows, it seems, but I don't know. We Velokians are a superstitious lot, so it's hard to say what's true and what isn't.
30:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Is there anything you think that might be contributing to his increase in suspicion, or it's just the work is grating on him?
30:46 [DM (Aarya)] Well, now that you mention it, there is that festival that the Baron is hosting in a couple days' time, and it happens to coincide with a major festival of the Morning Lord's Faith.
31:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh. Oh.
31:04 [Irredel (Sav)] Is it impossible to celebrate both?
31:09 [DM (Aarya)] No, it's not that it's impossible. It's just, well, the Baron is very particular about pushing his festivities and his festivals at each week, and well, I don't know, there's some concern that it might overshadow our faith.
31:31 [Irredel (Sav)] And what's this festival and ceremony about?
31:34 [DM (Aarya)] Well, it's the Feast of Saint Andral, the same saint that this church is named for.
31:45 [Irredel (Sav)] So it's definitely very, very special then. Is it a joyous feast? Again, maybe this could be a way to drum up even more support.
31:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, it's supposed to- You hold both at the same time. It's supposed to commemorate the sacrifice that Saint Andral made to establish this church and defiance to the devil himself.
32:09 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, that's... What did he do?
32:14 [DM (Aarya)] Well, the legends say that Saint Andral gave his life to defend the Wallachian people from the will of the devil. And the devil struck him down. But by his dying breath, he hallowed the grounds of the church so that the creatures of the night and the undead may not enter.
32:41 [Sylalys (Cat)] Wow.
32:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Does that apply to all churches of the Morning Lord?
32:49 [DM (Aarya)] Not that I'm aware. I think it's just this one. Well, I'm afraid I don't know much about other churches around.
32:49 [DM (Aarya)] I've lived in Wallachia my whole life.
33:00 [Sildir (Tris)] I see.
33:02 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, you must have been very lucky then, growing up with a church as hallowed as this one.
33:10 [DM (Aarya)] I'd like to think so. And it's just... I just don't know.
33:10 [DM (Aarya)] Father Bryce has mentioned before that he doesn't have the talent to hallow the grounds himself. It's something that Father Lucian always did.
33:29 [Irredel (Sav)] Do you think that could be contributing to his distress as well?
33:32 [DM (Aarya)] Could explain it, yes. He doesn't tell me much, I'm afraid. And are you sure you don't know where he lives?
33:32 [DM (Aarya)] He's got something that needs frequent upkeep. Yes. Well, I don't know the details.
33:32 [DM (Aarya)] I'm not so divinely favored. But all I know is that Father Bryce is quite concerned with Father Lucian's disappearance, and he does keep a lot to himself. So it's difficult to know what he's thinking.
34:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, before Father Lucian was gone, how was their relationship, the two of them?
34:12 [DM (Aarya)] They respected each other, I think. They always got along well. I don't know that they were friends exactly, but they worked with one another easily enough.
34:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. So you wouldn't think that, you know, maybe Father Bryce didn't like Father Lucian very much, right?
34:40 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know that there's a single person in Wallachia who dislikes Father Lucian.
34:50 [Sildir (Tris)] So the concern for the festival, I guess, you know, the town isn't big enough for both the festival of the Blazing Sun and the festival of St. Andral, or the feast?
35:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. In previous years, Father Lucian always liked to make a grand festivity of the occasion. He would host a feast here at the church to feed the needy in town.
35:02 [DM (Aarya)] And, well, attendance at the Barons Festival is mandatory, so...
35:23 [Sildir (Tris)] I see.
35:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Still seems a little bit of a coincidence. Seems like the Baron sure chose a particular day.
35:42 [DM (Aarya)] You know, I don't... If you'll forgive my saying, I never really thought the Baron to be a particularly scheming type. I don't think he's quite clever enough for that, but it is an interesting coincidence, you're right there.
36:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, maybe it might have just been suggested to him.
36:08 [DM (Aarya)] Suggested, hmm. But who? I mean, the Baron is...
36:08 [DM (Aarya)] Well, everyone knows how paranoid he is. He constantly walks around and dressed in his fancy breastplate and with his guard dogs and that... Well, with Isik, the guard captain.
36:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, well, maybe it was Isik's idea.
36:38 [DM (Aarya)] Isik's idea, hmm. I mean, he is a mean one, and he's quite powerful himself, but I mean, he's the...
36:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Has Isik been showing up in church lately?
36:51 [DM (Aarya)] No, never. He's not, as far as I know, he's not the faithful type, but...
36:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Pretty sure he would burn on the spot, isn't this ground hollowed?
37:01 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, well, considering the arm of his, I wouldn't be surprised. And he's always... He always struck me as the brawny type, not brainy.
37:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, I knew I'd have to give up drinking for the services, so... It'll be a tough couple hours for him.
37:21 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, there is that too.
37:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Could be shaking with... Who knows, it could be the spirit of the morning lord, or with the alcohol withdrawals. We won't be sure which.
37:36 [DM (Aarya)] What a terrible thing. Well...
37:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, we really need to... It's getting late, so we should all get headed home.
37:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes, of course. Well, if the rumors about these shadows are true, I would hate for you to be roaming the streets of Avaki by yourself at night. And...
37:51 [DM (Aarya)] If you do hear anything about Father Lucien, or anything about Father Price, do tell me.
38:10 [Sylalys (Cat)] Will do, will do.
38:15 [DM (Aarya)] All right then, well, I won't keep you.
38:20 [Irredel (Sav)] Thank you for speaking with us, and we'll see you tomorrow. You'll be here, I presume?
38:25 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, I'm always here.
38:29 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, not always.
38:30 [DM (Aarya)] Not always. Yeah, don't live here. You know what I mean.
38:36 [Sylalys (Cat)] Well, with that, have a good night.
38:38 [DM (Aarya)] And you as well, miss.
38:44 [Irredel (Sav)] All right, I'm assuming with that, we walk out. Mm-hmm.
38:47 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's get the f out of there.
38:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] Get some space away. That's pretty weird, right? The holiday on the same day, like, that can't be a coincidence.
38:58 [Sildir (Tris)] I found it to be strange.
39:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] But he does make a good point. I mean, the Baron is an idiot, and his right hand doesn't seem that smart either. I mean, who's the schemer there?
39:17 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, it could just be anyone in the devil's inner circle. Who perhaps pens letters or otherwise has influence.
39:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Plus, who's behind this court of wolves or owls or whatever they are at this point? Or not owls. Court of wolves or vampires or whatever they are at this point.
39:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, someone out there smart is involved here.
39:44 [Sylalys (Cat)] Seems fishy to me.
39:57 [Sildir (Tris)] But I agree. Probably not the Baron.
40:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Should we go back to the inn or to the hideout?
40:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, I think we can go back to the hideout and get to the inn in the morning. What do you guys think?
40:23 [Sylalys (Cat)] That works for me.
40:24 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, the hideout.
40:29 [DM (Aarya)] All right, to the hideout it is. I haven't yet gotten a chance to update that map. So it'll still be the same as before.
40:29 [DM (Aarya)] Um, I'll say that at some point Erwin's guys dropped off some like, just like supplies to like build out the like furnishings for later. So you have like some like really like straw bedding and stuff to sleep on. But not a whole lot yet.
40:29 [DM (Aarya)] Hey.
41:07 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, something's better than the cold floor.
41:10 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
41:12 [Irredel (Sav)] Could always be worse everyone. Never forget that.
41:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] Just press the digitation on my bed to like undust it, dust it off.
41:27 [DM (Aarya)] Interesting that dust and undust mean the same thing, you know?
41:31 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah.
41:37 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so I assume you guys are retiring for the night?
41:42 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, I think so.
41:44 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
41:45 [Irredel (Sav)] Trying to think if there's anything else on our list. I think the main thing is tomorrow we meet with the owner's associate, right? Is that the?
41:57 [DM (Aarya)] That's the blue letter N. Okay. All right.
41:57 [DM (Aarya)] So yeah, at this point it'll probably be like with you like trekking across to and across town. Chatting with Miliwodge at the church. It's probably close to like 10-ish.
41:57 [DM (Aarya)] By the time you lay down for the night. So yeah, you guys can all take a long rest. And we'll have you guys wake at dawn the next morning.
42:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Dawn?
42:29 [DM (Aarya)] Unless you want to sleep in.
42:32 [Sildir (Tris)] No, we can't. We can't do that. But it's so early.
42:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wake up, soldier. Come on, we're gonna be late to our meeting. I want my noble title in my castle, okay?
42:50 [Sildir (Tris)] I put in my time rising and grinding early. I want to sleep.
42:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Ah, the grinder we're in, soldier. Fine, fine. Until we have our noble titles and our keeps.
43:02 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, Mercurio. I'm on my feet. All right.
43:10 [DM (Aarya)] Let's see if I have...
43:11 [Sildir (Tris)] On your feet, soldier.
43:13 [DM (Aarya)] Excuse me. Oh goodness.
43:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Let me long rest.
43:22 [Saturno (Steph)] For a long week.
43:28 [Sildir (Tris)] I didn't notice the change of ground right now. Our characters change direction based on which direction they move.
43:33 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, I don't like that they do that.
43:35 [Sildir (Tris)] It's so annoying. I feel like I'm falling down now. Like I travel by falling.
43:38 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, it's so weird.
43:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Gravity orients itself so I can move.
43:45 [DM (Aarya)] There's gotta be a way to change that, but yeah, I'm not a fan. You guys actually expended some resources last time, I hadn't realized. Okay, cool.
43:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, yeah, I don't think we had rested since before the wizard's tower.
44:02 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, okay.
44:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] It had been a while.
44:06 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, because like on your way to the wizard's tower, you fought the funny guys.
44:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, that's right.
44:12 [DM (Aarya)] It makes sense. All right, so everyone was able to long rest, right? Yep.
44:12 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
44:22 [Sildir (Tris)] I had a bad dream. Oh, wait.
44:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I see everybody in the chat.
44:27 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So everyone wakes in the morning. Crocodon, you're all rising from your modest beddings, getting yourselves ready to meet Fiona's associates at the Bluewater Inn.
44:48 [Sildir (Tris)] That's right. And we got to make our way over to Father Bryce at some point today, if at all possible. I don't know, would it be helpful if I listed off like our quests right now for everyone?
45:04 [DM (Aarya)] I think that'd be a good idea.
45:07 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, give me one second to pull them up.
45:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] I might want to visit the baron too, like to talk with his son. Just follow up with him. Just follow up, yeah.
45:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Although, we have to get a memory straight, actually. It's probably something we should discuss at the base.
45:28 [Sildir (Tris)] What are we going to tell him about Lady Voctor, you know? Didn't we ask her that? I feel like we did ask her what we should feed him.
45:39 [DM (Aarya)] Did you? I don't actually recall.
45:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't know if we did, but I feel like either way it would just... She would have just said, you know, like whatever entertains him.
45:51 [Saturno (Steph)] I think he's stupid enough to like believe that she's like just crazy, and he would leave it at that. Yeah. That's just how I feel.
45:51 [Saturno (Steph)] Like, oh, she's just a nut job. Like, I really don't... She's more harm to herself than anyone.
45:51 [Saturno (Steph)] Like, I think he would believe that.
46:11 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah.
46:12 [Irredel (Sav)] Basically, yeah, wouldn't stop rambling about how much she disliked you, but had no concrete plan to fix anything. No way to back up what she was saying. Just incoherent ramblings.
46:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] And when we challenged her and asked her to name a single wrong thing with the city, she couldn't name a single thing. Of course she couldn't, but I mean...
46:39 [Saturno (Steph)] She just went on about how her parents died or something.
46:43 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Yeah. I will note that part of what the Baron asked you to do in spying on her was basically like find some kind of dirt that he could use to leverage against her and drive her out of town.
46:43 [DM (Aarya)] But yeah, something to keep in mind.
47:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, what dirt? What would be some funny dirt to give him that totally isn't true?
47:05 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, we did say it might take us time for her to open up to us.
47:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Nothing new. We don't have anything yet. She's just a crazy lady, but she hasn't mentioned anything of her dark deals with the devil to us yet.
47:23 [Irredel (Sav)] And perhaps we can say that the water glasses she provided us were smudgy, showing a lack of care for cleanliness. Maybe we can discover more down that route.
47:40 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah.
47:41 [Irredel (Sav)] I know I personally would be extraordinarily offended if anyone said such a thing about my water glasses, but I also understand that it's not actually that damaging towards someone's reputation.
47:52 [Sildir (Tris)] We can only give him what we got so far. And as far as we're concerned, we got not much. So yeah, sure.
47:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Throw it on the list.
48:21 [DM (Aarya)] To the end. All right. To the end we go.
48:21 [DM (Aarya)] Let me just make sure I have all the tokens that I want. Oh, it's so weird. It's different now.
48:21 [DM (Aarya)] Whatever.
48:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Roll d20 to see if I see any cool rocks on the way to the end. Pretty average rocks today.
48:53 [DM (Aarya)] All right. What the hell did I just open? Okay, we're good.
48:53 [DM (Aarya)] Deep blue water end. All right. Okay.
48:53 [DM (Aarya)] So you make yourselves to the familiar sights of deep blue water end. There seems to be a small crowd gathered inside. Probably some folks here having breakfast to start their day.
48:53 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. And as you enter, let me describe to you what you guys see. So two things stand out to you.
48:53 [DM (Aarya)] One, on the far end of the blue water end, you see a table with the hunters, Sola and Yelkeni, seated with Rictavio. And curiously, he is not seated in his chair, but is performing an interesting feat of acrobatism. What's the word?
48:53 [DM (Aarya)] Whatever that word is. He is doing a one-armed handstand on his chair while balancing some pups and plates on his legs and free arm. Seemingly looking to entertain his friends here.
48:53 [DM (Aarya)] You also look over closer to the door. You see seated at the table is Ernst. You know him to be Fiona's agent whom you caught tailing you previously before you had been invited to Wachterhaus.
48:53 [DM (Aarya)] And he seems to be sitting there enjoying a breakfast of eggs and sausage. He looks over to you and nods at you in acknowledgement.
50:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right. I guess we pull up some chairs beside him and order some similar eggs and sausage breakfast.
51:02 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
51:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] And a pint of the breadcrush, please.
51:09 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So you call out to Danica, who you see at the bar currently. And she tells you it'll be just a moment while Erwin's in the back preparing your breakfast.
51:09 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so with that, uh, Ernst turns to the lot of you and says, well, you all certainly took your time.
51:33 [Sildir (Tris)] You mean it's bright and early.
51:35 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, you're muted.
51:38 [Sildir (Tris)] I said, well, how long have you been here? It's, it's only just after dawn.
51:43 [DM (Aarya)] Long enough for me to have come here, ordered my breakfast and be halfway through my meal. So it's, it's been a bit, you could say.
51:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Anyway, well, if you ask for big favors, you could wait an extra couple of minutes for us to get here.
51:57 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes, yes. Well, we have a, we have a busy day ahead of us, don't we? Very important task to complete.
52:04 [Sildir (Tris)] Leave that to us. Okay. Let's get to the point here.
52:09 [DM (Aarya)] Ah, right. And you see him set down his cutlery and wipe out his mouth a bit with his napkin. And he says to you, right then, down to business.
52:09 [DM (Aarya)] And from underneath the table, he hoists up a small burlap sack. And he shoves it across over to you. And he says, we've been preparing for this for a bit of time.
52:09 [DM (Aarya)] I've been tailing Ezek for a few days now to get an idea of his schedule. Surprisingly, the man is a creature of habit. Um, I have detailed out for you, um, the tasks that he goes about on an average day.
52:09 [DM (Aarya)] Um, and also some details about the plan that I suggest you employ. So the man, unlike us, is not an early riser. Around 11 a.m. is when he awakens from his drunken slumber. And he takes his morning meal in, uh, the Baron's Manor. And by 1130, he leaves accompanied by two guards and travels to the Western Gate, the Northern Gate, and the Eastern Gate in that order. Checking with the guards posted at each to receive their reports and also inspect the town's defenses.
52:09 [DM (Aarya)] By approximately 1 p.m. in the afternoon, the Baron's cook delivers him a midday meal in a case of two bottles of wine in the town square. There he eats his lunch while his guards patrol around the area and begins drinking his first bottle of wine. By around 2 p.m., he goes around town visiting his, uh, his so-called spies, as he calls them. But they're nothing more than innocent townspeople that he bullies into spilling whatever secrets they might have. Rarely does he ever find anything of interest. Really, he's just looking for an excuse to bully people and throw them in the stocks.
52:09 [DM (Aarya)] By around 4 p.m., he takes his guards and travels to the Sunset Gate, or the Morning Gate, that is the Western and the Northern Gates, whichever is closest, uh, to receive those guards' reports and once again inspect the town's defenses. And by around 5.30 to 6 p.m., he dismisses his guards and travels, by his lonesome, to Lake Zarevich. And, curiously, he spends the remainder of his evening there, lazily drinking his second bottle of wine, staring off into space.
52:09 [DM (Aarya)] By late into the night, usually around 10 p.m. or so, he returns to the Burgomaster's mansion and takes his evening meal. As well as a third bottle of wine in his bedroom. So, to that end, I've prepared this for you, any gestures to the sack?
52:09 [DM (Aarya)] One poisoned bottle of Red Dragon Crush. I suggest that you incapacitate him with this bottle and then engage him. It won't kill him outright, though it should weaken him a fair bit.
55:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Hmm, what's the, uh, which bottle of wine does he have before he heads off to Lake Zarevich?
55:37 [DM (Aarya)] What do you mean?
55:40 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, that seems to be the time of day where it would be perfect to, uh, make sure he has this bottle of wine on him. I mean, everywhere else would be a public fight. Lake Zarevich provides some discretion.
55:57 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, that's true. It's, yeah. He takes two bottles of wine with him and the second one he has by the lake.
56:05 [Irredel (Sav)] I mean, the question could also rather be, uh, is he drinking the same exact bottle all day or did he, you know, change vintages or something?
56:20 [DM (Aarya)] Well, from what I've gathered, his usual fare is Purple Drapenose No. 3 and on occasion he splurges for Red Dragon Crush.
56:30 [Irredel (Sav)] So he'd be more likely to have the splurge one later in the day or would he be more likely to have it in the morning when he can still appreciate it for being less drunk?
56:40 [DM (Aarya)] A fair question. I haven't noticed anything of the sort. He seems to just drink whatever is available to him.
56:48 [Irredel (Sav)] I see, I see.
56:49 [DM (Aarya)] Well, if you're worried about the timing of the bottle, then I suggest you might swap out the second bottle after he's consumed the first.
57:00 [Sildir (Tris)] You could always give it to him as a gift.
57:04 [DM (Aarya)] If you could manage that without raising suspicion, though I suspect that might not be too difficult.
57:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I mean, uh, we both work for the Baron now. It'd only be natural to try to smooth things over, considering our first interaction with Isik.
57:20 [Irredel (Sav)] But then it would be traced to us instantly.
57:26 [DM (Aarya)] Good point. Yes, if he... What if I gave it to him?
57:26 [DM (Aarya)] If you gave it to him. Well, you raise a good point. If he consumes the poison, then it doesn't act immediately.
57:26 [DM (Aarya)] It takes some time. He would have to consume the whole bottle, and then within the hour he should start feeling the effects. But he would notice them, and he would trace that bottle to the one he got from you.
57:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Still, it's probably better that we sneak it in while he's out of town, so that there's less witnesses and all that.
58:04 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, I certainly wouldn't engage him while he's within the town itself. He would be sworn by guards quite quickly.
58:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] It might be less believable from you too, Saturna.
58:20 [Saturno (Steph)] I just feel like maybe, since I clearly don't like him, given my first encounter with him, it'd be more understanding why I would do it, and it would kind of liberate you all from... Oh, like you had nothing to do with it, it was just her, she's crazy, she still hates him. But it would run the risk of him being ran out of town.
58:42 [DM (Aarya)] You'd have to time it correctly.
58:47 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, it does run the risk.
58:51 [Ember (Spurthi)] But what's the risk if he's dead?
58:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, if someone sees the interaction. Unless you just give it to him when he's out in the woods or by the lake.
59:05 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I would have to be in secret.
59:07 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I can at least tell you that he nurses the first bottle while he's making his runs about town, and then the second bottle he doesn't open and consume until he's at the lake.
59:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] So we slip it to him in transit, maybe, to the lake?
59:22 [DM (Aarya)] Perhaps, if you have a delicate touch and could pull something off like that.
59:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] Does he have a carriage or something that he takes?
59:30 [DM (Aarya)] Or does he just walk? He walks accompanied by his two guards. You could make the swap after the first bottle is opened.
59:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you think he would drink a third bottle over at Lake Zurovich?
59:56 [Irredel (Sav)] Do you think he gets drunk enough to forget where his bottles are?
01:00:01 [DM (Aarya)] Well, considering how much he drinks, I suspect he must have quite a bit of a tolerance, so I can't say.
01:00:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Could always play some act, maybe, where a courier runs out to the lake, drops him off a bottle provided by the Baron himself, congratulating him for doing a great job.
01:00:28 [DM (Aarya)] Well, it's the Baron's cook that delivers him his meal and his two bottles each day, so you'd have to find an excuse.
01:00:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] We could also impersonate one of his guards, maybe, and then it would be pretty easy to slip it to him then.
01:00:51 [DM (Aarya)] Perhaps, yes, that could work.
01:00:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm guessing they carry them over to the lake for him.
01:01:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Are any of us good at impersonation?
01:01:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, I dabble.
01:01:10 [DM (Aarya)] Of course, if you think you've got the stones for it, you could simply confront him directly at the lake without bothering with the poison at all, but I suspect you might be in for a tough fight. Now, where's the fun in that? I figured you'd say that.
01:01:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] I figured I'd say that. Look at this guy, he's got a read on everybody.
01:01:39 [Sildir (Tris)] I figured you'd say that, Edgar. Now what?
01:01:43 [DM (Aarya)] Now what? It's Ernst, and it is quite literally my job.
01:01:49 [Sildir (Tris)] I figured you'd say that too, so.
01:01:52 [DM (Aarya)] Clever one, aren't you?
01:01:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Get baited.
01:01:58 [DM (Aarya)] This one has some wit to him. I can see why Lady Voctor has sought out your acquaintance.
01:02:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] These are alert.
01:02:14 [Irredel (Sav)] I hope that that was complementary and not a reflection of our suicidal boldness that we've seen to develop.
01:02:28 [DM (Aarya)] Lady Voctor has always been a practical sort. I don't think she would have entrusted this task to you if she truly believed you had a high chance of failure. That being said, regardless, this is a risky plot.
01:02:42 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, that's what I was about to get at.
01:02:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] In our hands, it's a safe bet.
01:02:54 [DM (Aarya)] Well, if that turns out to be the case, then perhaps we'll have a drink later.
01:03:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Cheers to that, and I'll pop open my red dragon crush.
01:03:06 [Sildir (Tris)] When does she need this completed by?
01:03:10 [DM (Aarya)] Well, sooner is better. As soon as the task is done, then Lady Voctor will make her move the following day to depose the Baron and establish herself as the Burgomaster of Vallaki.
01:03:35 [Sildir (Tris)] And you don't know anything about these guards' routines with all the tailing that's happened? Is there any details on them?
01:03:44 [DM (Aarya)] Well, there are about roughly 24 guards in Vallaki, though only 12 or so of them are on duty at any given time. And they make their way, they patrol around the streets of Vallaki in pairs.
01:04:03 [Sildir (Tris)] What about Ezic's guards? How can we predict who will be his guards for the day? Or is it the same pair every time?
01:04:09 [DM (Aarya)] It's usually whoever's on duty that day, it tends to change. And I should note that some of the guards are always posted at each gate, each of the three gates of Vallaki.
01:04:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Would you be able to get us access to, say, the next week's schedule? Somehow?
01:04:30 [DM (Aarya)] Next week?
01:04:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Not next week. The next week's worth of time, starting tomorrow or today, would be great.
01:04:41 [DM (Aarya)] I'm not sure I understand your ask. You want to know the guards' shift rotation?
01:04:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Which guards will be where?
01:04:50 [DM (Aarya)] Perhaps. It might be difficult to find that on short notice. That would take me some time to get that.
01:04:50 [DM (Aarya)] Breaking into the guards' barracks is not exactly a simple task.
01:05:03 [Sildir (Tris)] Sure, sure.
01:05:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] For the two guards that are with Ezic, though, it's always the same two?
01:05:09 [DM (Aarya)] It varies. It varies. Though I can tell you that Ezic is not so familiar or friendly with his guards that he personally knows each and every one of them.
01:05:09 [DM (Aarya)] They're just subordinates to him.
01:05:24 [Sylalys (Cat)] Interesting.
01:05:33 [DM (Aarya)] If you're worried that he'll recognize that he won't recognize you as one of his guards, then I don't know. I don't think you should be concerned with that. As long as you look the part and play the part, I'm sure you could fool him.
01:05:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Where does he meet his guards each morning? Like, how could we substitute for them, if you will?
01:05:51 [DM (Aarya)] He leaves the Baron's Manor with them. So they meet him there.
01:05:57 [Sildir (Tris)] And does he ever talk to them?
01:05:59 [Saturno (Steph)] Any greeting? Any kind of behavior? Salute?
01:06:05 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, well, yes, they stand at attention, I suppose. Greet him formally. He is their captain, after all.
01:06:05 [DM (Aarya)] And as you're having this conversation, Danica returns with five plates of breakfast for the lot of you. The same fare as what Ernst is having.
01:06:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Start eating. Is the food good?
01:06:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I mean, it is. It is Erwin's cooking, and he's never let you down so far. Though I will note, Iridel, as you are tucking into your breakfast, you find yourself a bit disappointed.
01:06:51 [DM (Aarya)] You find yourself hoping that the meat served with today's breakfast would be a bit on the rare side.
01:07:17 [Irredel (Sav)] Of course that's what I'm expecting. I completely ignore it. I let no indication of that slide, and I keep eating as if nothing's wrong.
01:07:30 [Sildir (Tris)] This is good food. Erwin never disappoints. Yeah, I think he's really outdone himself today with the sausage, actually.
01:07:30 [Sildir (Tris)] And I say with my mouth kind of full.
01:07:38 [Sylalys (Cat)] Mm-hmm.
01:07:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Really cooked it. Normally, it's a little juicier than usual, but I kind of like it dry. Yeah.
01:07:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] Really good sear on the outside, you know.
01:07:53 [Irredel (Sav)] Lots of seasoning.
01:07:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Madame Eva's here? I don't see a sear anywhere.
01:08:08 [Irredel (Sav)] Thank god you made your fortune in business and did an attempt comedy.
01:08:18 [Sildir (Tris)] I wouldn't call that an attempt. I would call that a... an act of comedy.
01:08:18 [Sildir (Tris)] And if you laugh, you have an extra gold on your bonus.
01:08:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Iridel, you should have pursued acting.
01:08:42 [Irredel (Sav)] You know, you're the only person who has ever said that to me. Surprising, right?
01:08:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Very. I think Mercurio is the good actor here.
01:08:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] No, no. I don't know what you mean.
01:09:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, we got to find a way to either replace those guards or replace that bottle of wine. I mean, I guess in either case, we have to replace the bottle of wine, but either just replace it outright or replace it as one of the guards. I'm not sure which.
01:09:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Can anyone here disguise themselves or any of that?
01:09:31 [DM (Aarya)] Excuse me?
01:09:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Any magical abilities to disguise themselves? Mercurio, you mentioned you're good at impersonating people. Does that go to the arcane or...? Yeah, it goes to an arcane place.
01:09:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] I can disguise myself with my magic. Make myself look like a guard. Should pass.
01:09:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Can you change your voice or anything?
01:09:53 [Saturno (Steph)] Maybe a quick pickpocket.
01:09:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Pretty much just look like an entirely different person.
01:10:00 [DM (Aarya)] And if you were to replace the guards that are at his side, then what would you do with the ones you're replacing?
01:10:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, maybe just trick them into taking the day off or something.
01:10:11 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm, okay.
01:10:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I think that's the best bet.
01:10:16 [DM (Aarya)] With your silver tongue, you might be able to manage that.
01:10:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] I usually can manage. But then, well, let's get going. We've got some other business to get to this morning as well.
01:10:40 [Sildir (Tris)] At the church. That's right. I can never miss a service.
01:10:40 [Sildir (Tris)] The morning lord awaits.
01:10:53 [DM (Aarya)] They don't take you all for the religious type, except for... Well, I suppose two of you, but be on then.
01:11:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh yeah, they just drag me there. All right. But it's cute, you know?
01:11:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Seeing all those people worship my great-great-granduncles and all those celestial beings up there. Pardon?
01:11:20 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, don't worry about it.
01:11:22 [Sildir (Tris)] All righty, thanks Edgar. Have a great day.
01:11:28 [DM (Aarya)] It's Ernst, young man.
01:11:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Ernst, sorry. Young man? How old are you?
01:11:37 [DM (Aarya)] Old enough.
01:11:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Old enough? Let me see those ears.
01:11:46 [DM (Aarya)] He's human. He's not an elf.
01:11:50 [Irredel (Sav)] No, he's checking for hair on the ears.
01:11:53 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, hair.
01:11:54 [Sildir (Tris)] I was checking for that health ears. I think Airedell is just trolling.
01:12:01 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, no. I would say that whether someone's ears have hair is a fair proxy for age. Have you ever seen old men?
01:12:01 [Irredel (Sav)] They all have really hairy ears.
01:12:10 [Sildir (Tris)] And big ears too, right?
01:12:12 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah.
01:12:12 [Sildir (Tris)] You know, Sildur's just getting up there in age for a half elf.
01:12:16 [DM (Aarya)] You don't need to be so curious about my ears. They work just fine, regardless of how they look. And I can hear everything you're saying.
01:12:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Great, so you understand my confusion. I do a tiny bit of minor illusion magic on my ears and make them look really big. I'm Ernst.
01:12:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm old. Conjure some wrinkles on my face.
01:12:44 [DM (Aarya)] You see Vektavia call over from the other table. Good one, Mercurio.
01:12:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] That one over there, he knows comedy.
01:12:53 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, well, he is a jester, isn't he? That's kind of his whole thing. So you kind of admit that it's funny then?
01:12:53 [DM (Aarya)] I can take a joke, sure. But you're joking now. Just I pray that you get serious when it's time to do your jobs.
01:13:13 [Irredel (Sav)] And that's how we keep taking people by surprise.
01:13:20 [DM (Aarya)] That's right. Either by skill or by luck you've managed to survive this far.
01:13:28 [Sildir (Tris)] All skill, all skill. Never luck. Bad luck, if anything.
01:13:33 [Irredel (Sav)] I've had very bad luck.
01:13:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Despite our luck, with our skill, we are here.
01:13:45 [DM (Aarya)] Well, hopefully you live to tell the tale of it. I'm sure it'll be quite the encounter. Anyway, don't let me keep you.
01:13:45 [DM (Aarya)] I'm sure you have your own preparations to make.
01:13:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna be late for morning service.
01:13:59 [Saturno (Steph)] Yes, let's go.
01:14:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Morning, Lord Oates.
01:14:04 [Saturno (Steph)] I just ran out.
01:14:07 [Sildir (Tris)] I hope he talks about tithing again. I love that service.
01:14:09 [Saturno (Steph)] Thank you for breakfast.
01:14:11 [Sildir (Tris)] I was thinking also...
01:14:12 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, we need to pay. I run back in.
01:14:15 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, true.
01:14:17 [Sildir (Tris)] How much do we owe you? Friends with a feather discount.
01:14:20 [DM (Aarya)] It's all good. You go to Danica to pay and Irene steps forward and just waves you off. For friends like you, no charge.
01:14:20 [DM (Aarya)] And Danica kind of gives him a slight look of disapproval, but then she just lets it go.
01:14:40 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe we should work something in this Wachter deal for Erwin.
01:14:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I mean, once we have our keeps, he'll be up to his belt in gold.
01:14:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Right. Someone has to supply all the wine for you, after all. Exactly.
01:15:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Plus, I was thinking... We did hear that rumor about Mr. Right Hand Man having some sort of fire ability to burn people. I was thinking we should probably talk to our alchemist friend at the church, Father Bryce, and see if he knows how to make these, you know, werewolf...
01:15:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] anti-werewolf potions. Then maybe he knows how to make like some fire resistance potions or something.
01:15:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, could be a pretty good idea. I wonder if you'd work with us on that or ask too many questions, but...
01:15:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] Also, if we could put in like a back order for like some holy water or something. Seems like that would be useful around these parts.
01:15:57 [DM (Aarya)] I'll note that one of you is a cleric and can actually make holy water herself.
01:16:02 [Sylalys (Cat)] Oh, yeah. It's on the church heart.
01:16:05 [Mercurio (Gui)] But always delegate, delegate, delegate, okay? That's how you do it. That's what I say.
01:16:05 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's what my parents taught me.
01:16:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Never do the work yourself, but take all the money. It's a good one.
01:16:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] Never do for yourself what others can do for you.
01:16:24 [Sildir (Tris)] I like it.
01:16:26 [DM (Aarya)] It's alright, Mercurio. Fine of reasoning. All right, so you guys are heading off to the church?
01:16:26 [DM (Aarya)] Are you? Yes. All right.
01:16:26 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so let's see. Bailaki church. Oh no.
01:16:26 [DM (Aarya)] Oh no.
01:16:54 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I think is that him?
01:16:56 [DM (Aarya)] Give me a sec. Why? Dude, I can't move the freaking tokens.
01:16:56 [DM (Aarya)] Why is it so difficult these days? Skill or sheet?
01:17:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] You gotta upgrade to, uh, Google Sheets. Superior TTRPG.
01:17:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. You need Foundry Premium.
01:17:19 [DM (Aarya)] True. All right, so you make your way into the church. It appears that the morning service has just concluded.
01:17:19 [DM (Aarya)] As you enter, you see parishioners are filing out the door. Um, and as you enter, you see, uh, Father Bryce at the, uh, the podium in front. Um, and Milivaj and Diezka are still seated in the pews.
01:17:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, Father Bryce, uh, do you have a moment?
01:17:57 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, something I can help you with?
01:18:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Yes, just, you know, what we discussed before. I think, uh, we have everything we need. Did you catch my drifts?
01:18:08 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, of course. Milivaj, I think you can take Diezka home now. Oh, we can continue his lessons at a later time.
01:18:08 [DM (Aarya)] Um, and with that, you see Milivaj takes the boy out. Um, if I can actually move them. Like, I used to be able to drag tokens through, like, walls, but now it's just, I don't know.
01:18:35 [Ember (Spurthi)] You have to go through a door or something to, like, get through.
01:18:38 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it didn't used to be that way. I used to just be able to freely drag things around for whatever.
01:18:44 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm fine to use my imagination.
01:18:46 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Yeah. Okay.
01:18:46 [DM (Aarya)] So you found it then, Devil of Spain? We did.
01:18:59 [Irredel (Sav)] We did.
01:19:01 [DM (Aarya)] Very good. I, I can brew this for you, and it will take a full day for it to complete, but by tomorrow morning I should have it ready.
01:19:16 [Irredel (Sav)] That is most excellent news. How often does the potion have to be brewed? Could you make it in bulk, or at least a couple doses?
01:19:27 [DM (Aarya)] I'm afraid it doesn't keep that well, unfortunately. That's why it's common practice to store Wolf's Vein in its dried form. Makes sense.
01:19:40 [Sildir (Tris)] It sure does.
01:19:41 [Irredel (Sav)] I see, but so the potion has some component that degrades over time or something?
01:19:47 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, you could store it for a long time, but it's known that it loses, it's known to lose its potency over time.
01:19:55 [Irredel (Sav)] So, like, how much time? Like, could you make, like, two months at a time?
01:20:04 [DM (Aarya)] Well, most alchemists couldn't manage it, but I think I could give you two months worth of doses.
01:20:11 [Irredel (Sav)] That would be phenomenal. I always like to have a backup, so having...
01:20:16 [DM (Aarya)] A wise policy.
01:20:18 [Irredel (Sav)] ...extra around, especially when the matter is so delicate, would certainly ease my soul.
01:20:25 [DM (Aarya)] Will this take all the Wolf's Vein that we brought you, or...? Well, he looks to the patch that you brought him and inspects the quantity of Wolf's Vein. This is actually a fair amount. Ed won't use all of it.
01:20:42 [Sildir (Tris)] Great.
01:20:43 [Irredel (Sav)] Excellent, then we can come back when it's time for the next dose.
01:20:50 [DM (Aarya)] Indeed.
01:20:50 [Irredel (Sav)] With the preserved Wolf's Vein.
01:20:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Listen, Father Bryce, it's very, very important that this does get done. Is there anything we can do for you to help you along or ensure your success?
01:21:09 [DM (Aarya)] Stay out of trouble, I would say. This potion would do you no good if you're not alive to consume it.
01:21:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Sure, how about yourself? Are you in any trouble? Anything we can help you take care of?
01:21:24 [DM (Aarya)] I manage well enough on my own.
01:21:31 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
01:21:34 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, if you're ever in need of protection, we owe you a debt of gratitude for this.
01:21:41 [DM (Aarya)] No justice is necessary, my child.
01:21:45 [Irredel (Sav)] And of course, bookkeeping services, too. That's something that I personally could provide. The rest of us as a group, we're better at the whole protection adventuring thing.
01:21:45 [Irredel (Sav)] But you need a balance sheet written up. I'm your lady.
01:21:59 [DM (Aarya)] Perhaps it would be good to have the Church's finances in better order. But we shall see.
01:22:07 [Sildir (Tris)] I could probably double your profits and not the prophetic kind.
01:22:12 [DM (Aarya)] Well, we don't run the Church for profits, but I appreciate your sentiment.
01:22:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Sure, just let me know when you need it.
01:22:30 [DM (Aarya)] Will that be all, then? I believe Mercurio had some questions.
01:22:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, you seem like you're pretty skilled with an alchemy kit. Would you also happen to know how to make potions of fire resistance?
01:22:49 [DM (Aarya)] Fire resistance? What are you planning to encounter that you would need a potion of fire resistance?
01:22:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, Sildur has been working on, well, basically, you know how alcohol is flammable and you can spit it and it vaporizes? Some tricks.
01:23:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Party tricks? Yes, but sometimes we can get burnt. And you see, I have very fair, light skin.
01:23:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] And you know, when I get burned, I just like really flare up, get pink as a pig. You know, it's not good. So I really need some fire resistance.
01:23:34 [DM (Aarya)] He studies you closely for a moment. Young man, if you're about to attempt something very reckless, perhaps face something or someone who wields fire, I urge you to reconsider.
01:23:58 [Sylalys (Cat)] Well...
01:23:59 [DM (Aarya)] What was that?
01:24:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we're left and rejoin.
01:24:07 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Are you good?
01:24:09 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, I'm good.
01:24:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] Listen, we appreciate your concern, but you really, you don't have to be concerned. It's been considered over and over again, and it will be done. So you can help us or you can leave us to our devices.
01:24:41 [DM (Aarya)] Well, as much as I'd like to be able to provide this for you, I don't have the materials on hand to brew such a potion.
01:24:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, what ingredients do you need?
01:24:58 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know that you would be able to find them here.
01:25:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Don't know of a spot where they can be found, then?
01:25:12 [DM (Aarya)] Let me look something up.
01:25:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, do you have a book?
01:25:22 [DM (Aarya)] Something like that.
01:25:25 [Sildir (Tris)] What is Father Brace doing right now?
01:25:28 [DM (Aarya)] He appears to be... So he goes back to the shelves behind the altar at the front of the church, and he rifles through some notes that he has. Yes, well, I would need the petals of ash blossom in order to brew such a thing.
01:25:28 [DM (Aarya)] And I don't know where you might source that here.
01:25:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Petals of ash blossom. We find it anywhere within like a day's travel or so, or is it even further than that?
01:26:07 [DM (Aarya)] I'm afraid I'm not particularly familiar. Not familiar enough to be able to say.
01:26:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, that may just be a dead end then. Well, and do you have any holy water on hand?
01:26:37 [DM (Aarya)] Holy water? My child, what are you intending to deal with?
01:26:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, it's not that I'm intending to deal with it. It's just that trouble finds me.
01:26:50 [DM (Aarya)] Is this true? Yes, well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. You do seem the type.
01:26:55 [Irredel (Sav)] Just my current situation.
01:26:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Hey, I think that's victim blaming, okay? I was just walking through the street and then I was attacked by vampires, okay?
01:27:04 [DM (Aarya)] You should stay off the streets, particularly when night falls.
01:27:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] It wasn't even that late.
01:27:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Wait a second. We have a team huddle here, guys, real quick. Everybody in.
01:27:11 [Sildir (Tris)] This guy sounds a lot like that other guy. Stay out of trouble and stay off the streets. Is it possible that...
01:27:11 [Sildir (Tris)] And why did he leave so early yesterday? Earlier than usual with trouble arising. Is this the masked guy somehow?
01:27:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Father Bryce?
01:27:46 [Ember (Spurthi)] There's a possibility.
01:27:47 [Sildir (Tris)] It seems a little old, but maybe.
01:27:51 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, do the voices sound similar? That's a real question.
01:27:57 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't know.
01:27:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] I know those types. Can I roll an insight or anything to see if the voices sound...
01:28:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can roll insight.
01:28:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] ...similar since I met both. I didn't sell my best, but we'll see.
01:28:10 [DM (Aarya)] That's pretty good. 16 insight, okay. So with the 16 insight, you are able to recall that when you met the masked figure, he did appear to be disguising his voice somehow.
01:28:10 [DM (Aarya)] And so you wouldn't be able to tell if that person's voice and Father Bryce's voice match.
01:28:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Can I just do a vibe check on him?
01:28:31 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, describe how you want to do that.
01:28:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I just want to see if I'm getting the same overall intention from his wording here as I did from the legally distinct Batman character.
01:28:46 [DM (Aarya)] Remind me which... It was only a few of you that actually encountered him before. It was Mercurius, Haterna, and somebody else.
01:28:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Might have been Syl Lallis, not me, possibly.
01:28:58 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, Syl Lallis. Okay.
01:29:00 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, that's fair enough. Lallis. But anyone feel free to steal my idea.
01:29:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Same.
01:29:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I guess.
01:29:07 [Sildir (Tris)] If that's a possibility.
01:29:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Do I get like the vibe that it's like... If it's not the same voice, is it the same, you know, same force behind it?
01:29:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Same intention of the words.
01:29:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Same intention of the words.
01:29:25 [DM (Aarya)] Not necessarily like force, I would say, but you can tell that both he and the masked figure both seem to be concerned for like your safety and where their intention was to urge caution. So you would keep out of danger.
01:29:45 [Saturno (Steph)] While we're group huddling, I'd like to bring up that we were going to ask about conjuring magic.
01:29:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Good point, good point.
01:29:54 [Sylalys (Cat)] Conjuration magic.
01:29:55 [Saturno (Steph)] Conjuration. And we were going to bring up that it did happen to me to kind of, you know, not bring up this person's daughter. Not to bring up Stella specifically.
01:29:55 [Saturno (Steph)] Bring it up then. Father, I have a quick question. If you don't mind.
01:29:55 [Saturno (Steph)] I think I was under some conjuration magic a few days ago. Well, it was a few days ago. I just fell into a slumber for the whole day and I had these dreams where I saw someone.
01:29:55 [Saturno (Steph)] But everyone here basically had to drag me around because I just... I wouldn't come to. Is there anything that one can do to stop this magic?
01:29:55 [Saturno (Steph)] If it were to happen again, I don't even know why it happened. It also happened to Ember as well. We had no previous...
01:29:55 [Saturno (Steph)] We didn't have any strange encounters that day or anything. But we were both just out. It was just a random vision.
01:29:55 [Saturno (Steph)] It scooped us out. And we had this and we shared the same vision.
01:31:13 [DM (Aarya)] You had the same vision. Can you describe what this vision was?
01:31:19 [Saturno (Steph)] We felt like there was a woman trying to protect us from... A shadowy spirit. Yeah, she's trying to keep it away from us.
01:31:34 [DM (Aarya)] A shadowy spirit. And this woman, what did she look like? Well, she was young.
01:31:46 [Saturno (Steph)] But that's all we remember. I don't think we don't remember any facial features. But just young.
01:31:46 [Saturno (Steph)] That's it, really. No one I've ever met.
01:32:02 [DM (Aarya)] You said the figure she was protecting you from was a shadowy figure. But what about her? Was she a shadow?
01:32:13 [Saturno (Steph)] She was translucent, but not necessarily... A shadow. Something that gave off the presence of evil or a malicious being.
01:32:25 [DM (Aarya)] I see. And you said you weren't able to make out her facial features. So she was, what, blurry?
01:32:25 [DM (Aarya)] Distorted?
01:32:33 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, or maybe we just don't remember that well. But all I remember is that she was young and she was protecting us.
01:32:43 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm. He'll turn to the rest of the group and say, did you have any other strange encounters on that day, either shortly before or shortly after this incident?
01:32:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Shit.
01:33:00 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, that was the day my affliction started, was it not?
01:33:05 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, we were attacked by werewolves afterwards.
01:33:08 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, this isn't...
01:33:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, and we had encountered some the day before, too, actually.
01:33:14 [DM (Aarya)] Hmm, werewolves. This is not an affliction that werewolves could cause. That's not the nature of their powers.
01:33:14 [DM (Aarya)] Did you... You only met werewolves on your travels? No one else?
01:33:29 [Sildir (Tris)] No. There was somebody else. I looked to the group to be like, should I bring this up?
01:33:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Fuck it. Yeah, we...
01:33:44 [DM (Aarya)] My finger.
01:33:46 [Sildir (Tris)] We have bumped into, you know, a certain dreadlord.
01:33:52 [DM (Aarya)] Ah, I see.
01:33:53 [Sildir (Tris)] You know, the one.
01:33:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, you see? Trouble finds us.
01:33:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, we definitely didn't ask for that.
01:34:01 [DM (Aarya)] I see. And he took an interest in you, did he, if he went out of his way to meet you?
01:34:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Seems so. I sure would say so. I didn't even know who he was.
01:34:11 [Sildir (Tris)] We only just got here, in a sense. So I was about to fight him. Silly me.
01:34:21 [DM (Aarya)] Was there anything in your vision that would have suggested that he was involved?
01:34:28 [Sylalys (Cat)] No.
01:34:30 [Saturno (Steph)] Not that I... Well, it really was just someone protecting us from some dark spirits. And those dark spirits, I mean, there's not much we were able to make out of them.
01:34:30 [Saturno (Steph)] Just that they were clearly trying to get to us and were not, you know, they weren't great. And someone was protecting us and trying to prevent that from happening. Trying to ward away these dark beings.
01:34:30 [Saturno (Steph)] But nothing that really struck me as, oh, this may or may not be this person.
01:35:15 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, I see. Well, I suspect that if the devil were to interfere with you in this way, he would make his hand known. So I should think that there's some other force at play.
01:35:15 [DM (Aarya)] You didn't upset anyone on your way here, did you? You didn't make any strange deals or anything of the sort?
01:35:46 [Saturno (Steph)] No strange deals.
01:35:48 [Irredel (Sav)] What about the man on the bridge?
01:35:54 [DM (Aarya)] Man on the bridge? You seem to have had quite a few encounters on here.
01:35:58 [Saturno (Steph)] What's the man on the bridge? Totally forgot that.
01:36:01 [Irredel (Sav)] It was the man in the mist who only said, like, five or six things? Yeah, that one. Mr. Bones. I don't think we really made any deals. We just had a conversation with him. He seemed to be some sort of very confused spirit.
01:36:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Something about the...
01:36:20 [DM (Aarya)] Can you describe him?
01:36:21 [Sildir (Tris)] Some order of dragons or something like that.
01:36:24 [DM (Aarya)] I see. You met a revenant knight of the Order of... Ah, yes.
01:36:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Order of the Silver Dragon. We are new here, so it is hard to remember all these things. But yes, the Order of the Silver Dragon.
01:36:40 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, they are scattered about Barovia, and generally the ones who are solitary like that are harmless unless you provoke them. I should urge you...
01:36:52 [Sylalys (Cat)] Saw a Tulahan.
01:36:54 [DM (Aarya)] You saw a Tulahan. Hmm. But Tulahans would not afflict you with something like this.
01:37:01 [Sildir (Tris)] There's that weird lady outside town with the...
01:37:04 [Sylalys (Cat)] Weird lady? I've heard too!
01:37:06 [Sildir (Tris)] The one that lives in the windmill?
01:37:12 [DM (Aarya)] Tell me more.
01:37:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, yeah. She was very freaky. She was...
01:37:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] She... It was like the break of dawn and she said she was coming back from selling her cookies in the town, which by our logic doesn't really make sense. I mean, she would have sold her cookies at like three in the morning and she would have left her house at like midnight.
01:37:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] It didn't... Very strange. I believe we inspected the pies that she gave us and they were laced with enchantment magic.
01:37:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] And she was an old lady. Yeah, and she was pushing a very, very heavy cart.
01:37:51 [Irredel (Sav)] And so we threw the pies on the ground and didn't eat them because they just seemed extraordinarily suspicious.
01:37:57 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, some of the churchgoers have reported strange dealings with her as well. The pies she sells make you dream while you are still awake, they say. And I've urged the followers of this church to not buy from her, but...
01:37:57 [DM (Aarya)] Well, they are addictive in nature. I would stay far away from her and her pies.
01:38:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you know what you see in these dreams? Anything of value?
01:38:28 [DM (Aarya)] Well, they... People say that they are dreams of content, which is part of why they become addictive.
01:38:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Ah, I see. So nothing useful, just a bunch of uh...
01:38:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, plus enchantment is just trickery. It's not like the same kind of dreams as the conjuration ones, right?
01:38:47 [DM (Aarya)] And... Those are real. Did you...
01:38:47 [DM (Aarya)] How strange. Well, if you should ever encounter her again... Do you keep your distance?
01:38:47 [DM (Aarya)] Don't accept anything from her and try not to upset her as well.
01:39:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Who is she, do you know?
01:39:10 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know for certain, but I have some suspicions.
01:39:15 [Sildir (Tris)] What's your suspicion?
01:39:20 [DM (Aarya)] It's... Well, I don't want to worry you with this.
01:39:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, it won't worry us. Really?
01:39:25 [DM (Aarya)] I mean...
01:39:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I wouldn't...
01:39:27 [Irredel (Sav)] We just told you we've been approached by the dreadlord, multiple packs of werewolves, and her, so...
01:39:36 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that's just before we got into town, too. If my suspicion is correct, she's not someone to be trusted, and she has some ill agenda of her own. So this is why I urge you to stay away from her.
01:39:55 [Irredel (Sav)] I mean, like we said, we have our trouble.
01:40:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, what's her bad agenda? Maybe we should take her out.
01:40:03 [DM (Aarya)] You'd be inviting more trouble.
01:40:08 [Irredel (Sav)] Which I personally would like to avoid. I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.
01:40:17 [DM (Aarya)] I can see that you're the rational one of your group.
01:40:23 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yep.
01:40:23 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, you say it's a crazy lady with wild schemes into just causing her churchgoers problems. She's some sort of drug dealer. I propose we could take her out, but okay, that's fine.
01:40:23 [Sildir (Tris)] We could let her keep doing her thing, too. That's rational.
01:40:38 [DM (Aarya)] And I urge you to take caution. You don't want to find yourself in an encounter that you cannot handle.
01:40:47 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, you know, I'm working with the information I have, Father Bryce. Maybe you could tell me some more.
01:40:53 [DM (Aarya)] And I've told you what you need to know.
01:40:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Sure thing.
01:41:05 [Saturno (Steph)] So back to my question, is there any advice for that kind of magic? If it were to happen again, to cure it, to end it, you know?
01:41:19 [DM (Aarya)] It hasn't happened again since.
01:41:21 [Saturno (Steph)] It hasn't, but we...
01:41:24 [DM (Aarya)] Wasn't that long ago, either. ...kind of live in fear. Well, I would say avoid any further encounters with her, and above all else, don't make any deals with her.
01:41:24 [DM (Aarya)] And if it does happen again, come here immediately.
01:41:46 [Irredel (Sav)] Understood. Can the church help? We heard about Saint Andral and his sacrifice, and how creatures of the dark can't affect things here.
01:41:59 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, well...
01:41:59 [Irredel (Sav)] Would it be helpful if some sort of spell was happening to bring the person here?
01:42:06 [DM (Aarya)] Unfortunately, my powers are not so great that I could shield against something like that. Perhaps Father Lucian could have managed it, but I... Well, he's not here.
01:42:06 [DM (Aarya)] Well...
01:42:24 [Irredel (Sav)] Even more incentive to hope he returns, then. Then the two of you can keep working together to keep all of us safe.
01:42:38 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. Just try to stay out of trouble.
01:42:52 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, as you heard, it tends to follow us. So if you have any heads up on trouble...
01:42:58 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, trouble's for sure.
01:43:00 [Irredel (Sav)] Probably letting us know is better than not telling us, because it'll end up on our doorstep anyway.
01:43:06 [DM (Aarya)] We'll find it.
01:43:07 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah. So at least we could be prepared.
01:43:13 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. I think I've given you what you need to know on that front.
01:43:20 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, that's good enough for me.
01:43:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Boom. We'll need to get on with our business, then.
01:43:36 [Sylalys (Cat)] Thanks for your time.
01:43:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Thanks for everything.
01:43:39 [Irredel (Sav)] And I'll see you tomorrow morning.
01:43:41 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. And I'll have the potion ready for you.
01:43:47 [Irredel (Sav)] Truly my lifesaver.
01:43:50 [DM (Aarya)] Well, that's what the church is for.
01:43:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Should I throw Milivoj under the bus, guys? Medigame question. For what?
01:43:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Like, dude, Milivoj said you're freaking out, bro. What's going on? You're not telling us everything.
01:44:12 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm down, personally. Yeah, me too.
01:44:15 [Sildir (Tris)] We ball. Mostly, you know.
01:44:17 [Irredel (Sav)] I feel like that's what your character would do.
01:44:21 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, listen, Father Bryce, there's something you're not telling us, and I don't really like it. We had a word with Milivoj yesterday, and he said he's concerned about you, and you seem scared. I'll ask you one more time.
01:44:21 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you need our help? Because this trouble will find us. We will deal with it eventually.
01:44:43 [DM (Aarya)] I appreciate your concern, but it truly would be best for everyone if you kept your heads down and stayed in bed. Stayed indoors and stayed off the streets.
01:44:53 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm more than concerned, Father Bryce. I mean, my dearest friend's life is on the line. It's the only person I knew from my old world.
01:44:53 [Sildir (Tris)] I truly know. And here we are, facing down things much bigger than I ever thought we would here. Thought I'd be home by now.
01:44:53 [Sildir (Tris)] And we're all counting on you to make this work.
01:45:22 [DM (Aarya)] And it will work.
01:45:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Hey, but don't tell me to keep my head low and have it blow up on me. I'd rather keep my head high and fail while involved, knowing I at least tried to help. And that's all I'll say.
01:45:43 [DM (Aarya)] Well, if there is something that you can help with, I'll send word. But until then, stay out of trouble.
01:45:52 [Sildir (Tris)] This guy. All right. Sounds good, Father Bryce.
01:45:57 [Sylalys (Cat)] Thanks. Thank you for all your help. Don't keep a long line.
01:46:06 [Sildir (Tris)] And I am sincere when I thank you. I know you've done a lot for us. Just want to make sure it succeeds.
01:46:12 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, your conviction is of hands. Don't worry. All right.
01:46:12 [DM (Aarya)] So are you guys leaving the church now?
01:46:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
01:46:27 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay. So by this time, I'll say between chatting with Ernst at the inn, making your plans, making a way here, and having this whole encounter with the Father, I'll say it is nearing 10 a.m. Well, we better get the barons then because that guy is going to be waking up soon, right?
01:46:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] So we'll want to make one of his guards go bye-bye.
01:47:06 [Irredel (Sav)] Did we all go? Should we figure out a way to split up? Meet somewhere?
01:47:06 [Irredel (Sav)] Should we divide and conquer?
01:47:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Where do we decide to go next?
01:47:17 [DM (Aarya)] Barons' Manor.
01:47:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe me and Mercurio could go to the Barons' Manor alone. I feel like we have been the front runners for that.
01:47:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, my big thing is I just want to get a scope on the guards. Hopefully find them waiting for... Find the two guards that are going to be waiting for...
01:47:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] I always forget this guy's name. Big Pan. Ezek?
01:47:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Ezek. Ezek. Yeah, the two guards waiting for Ezek to be his escort and then like just try to like get one of them to ditch, you know?
01:47:57 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:47:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] So that we can impersonate him.
01:48:00 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:48:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's my thinking.
01:48:04 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I think it's pretty good. How are you going to get him to ditch? Good question.
01:48:04 [Sildir (Tris)] Are you going to impersonate another guard or something or...
01:48:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Punch him. Punch him in the jaw.
01:48:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, to get him to ditch life. Oh my god.
01:48:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] I guess we could also just get him to ditch later when he's like in the town or something. I don't know. What do you guys think about this?
01:48:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I think it's a good plan.
01:48:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] The only thing is my disguise keeps for an hour at a time.
01:48:49 [DM (Aarya)] What did Ember say?
01:48:51 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'll convince him to take a day off maybe. I think that's what Mercurio said earlier.
01:48:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Well, I wonder if maybe...
01:49:02 [Irredel (Sav)] I don't know. Maybe we delay these plans just briefly. Find out enough about the guards on schedule.
01:49:02 [Irredel (Sav)] When they're walking by... Maybe this is a long shot. Maybe we have to try multiple times of this or try multiple different plans.
01:49:02 [Irredel (Sav)] If it doesn't work the first time. But when they're walking by at the ideal time, someone in the town can cry out something personal to them. You know, say one of their mom's name is Mildred.
01:49:02 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh my god! Did you hear what happened to Mildred? Yes!
01:49:02 [Irredel (Sav)] Mildred blah blah blah. Last name.
01:49:39 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh.
01:49:40 [Irredel (Sav)] See if that causes the guard to run off. That's smart. We should try that.
01:49:47 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that could work.
01:49:48 [Irredel (Sav)] And if it fails, we just try again the next day. Maybe not using the exact same excuse, but a bit similar. Well, no.
01:49:48 [Irredel (Sav)] We would find out the guard's schedule. What is his name? Ernest?
01:49:59 [DM (Aarya)] Ernst.
01:50:00 [Irredel (Sav)] Ernst. Yeah, Ernst.
01:50:02 [DM (Aarya)] Edgar.
01:50:03 [Irredel (Sav)] Ernst. Well, Ernest said that he would try and pull the schedule. And maybe we can use that to find some information about these people.
01:50:15 [Sildir (Tris)] That's awfully earnest of Edgar.
01:50:18 [Irredel (Sav)] Or perhaps there's a much more straightforward plan. I know none of you all should listen to me because I think my senses are dulled from my reflection.
01:50:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] I will point out that- You could also just ask them their mom's name or something. Just directly.
01:50:34 [DM (Aarya)] Socially engineer them.
01:50:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] You know.
01:50:37 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah.
01:50:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] Just get them to give us his home address and his mother's maiden name. And then we apply for a bank loan and their name. Then we run the credit, right?
01:50:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then we report that to the guards.
01:50:53 [Sildir (Tris)] They come- Victoria, aren't you technically a prince from a faraway land? Yeah, so what? You can tell them that you need funds to travel home.
01:50:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, that's true. Yeah, it's a classic one. And that you can obviously repay them greatly once you're home and have access to your fortune.
01:51:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Once I'm back to my kingdom, I can- You'll be up to your belting goals.
01:51:19 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, the firewood prince scheme.
01:51:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] But it's not even a scheme.
01:51:24 [Sildir (Tris)] It's true.
01:51:27 [Irredel (Sav)] We are looking to get home.
01:51:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, one day when we get home, we'll send gold back through the plains and show this guy it wasn't a scam all along.
01:51:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] One day, once we leave Barovia and go back to the normal world and then also raise an army to overthrow the king that took my family's lands, then I can finally repay that guy.
01:51:50 [Irredel (Sav)] It's a long-term investment. Yeah.
01:51:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] But those are the best, you know? That's how you retire good.
01:51:58 [Irredel (Sav)] And there are some really excellent taxing strategies to make sure that you aren't paying taxes on those until some reasonable time. We can say that.
01:52:15 [Sildir (Tris)] I thought I told you I wanted an unreasonable time.
01:52:21 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I will note that there is a sense of urgency to this plot because Lady Fiona does want this to happen sooner than later. And Ernst did say that it would take him time to get any meaningful information on like guard shifts and things like that.
01:52:38 [Irredel (Sav)] So perhaps not the best way to go, then. I just don't want to end up in a scenario where we have to go in there spelled blazing and hurt more people than necessary. Especially when a lot of these guards are just looking to put food on the table.
01:52:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, that's what they want you to think.
01:52:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] These guys suck. Well, yeah, they'll have a much better employer once we're done. Think of it that way.
01:53:12 [Irredel (Sav)] Or at least one less prone to rages.
01:53:15 [Sylalys (Cat)] Rage.
01:53:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] Lady Fiona seems... She seems fine. I'd rather have her as a boss than this whack job.
01:53:33 [DM (Aarya)] Exactly. Not exactly a high bar, though.
01:53:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] But a big upgrade, nevertheless. So I guess let's get on with it, then. At least we should stop by the barons at the very least, right?
01:53:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] We can talk up the guards a little bit and then re-evaluate from there.
01:54:01 [Irredel (Sav)] But all of us? Or just some of us should... I guess I just don't really understand what the plan is.
01:54:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, I mean... For cover, we can just say that we're just reporting back to the barons. If we all need a reason to be there.
01:54:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] If the rest of you would like to do something else, though, I guess that would be fine.
01:54:23 [Irredel (Sav)] So we're going to go back there. Get some information on the guards. At some point, in some undefined way, swap places with one of the guards.
01:54:23 [Irredel (Sav)] And once you swap places with one of the guards, then you swap out the wine bottles. And then all of us are over by the lake house. We travel there at some point during the day, and we lie and wait for Isaac to drink.
01:54:47 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yep.
01:54:48 [Irredel (Sav)] And then we attack.
01:54:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, then we wait a little bit more for the poison to take, and then we attack.
01:54:58 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, yeah.
01:54:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] Can I get this done today, guys? I guess so.
01:55:03 [Sylalys (Cat)] What is the plan?
01:55:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] No time like the present.
01:55:08 [Sylalys (Cat)] I guess, I guess.
01:55:10 [DM (Aarya)] What did Amber say?
01:55:13 [Ember (Spurthi)] Well, that is the plan. I mean, ideally, we would have it done by today.
01:55:18 [Irredel (Sav)] This just all seems like it's moving very fast. I agree.
01:55:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, and for what it's worth, we're the plan, Crab. Wacter just told us what we need to know. And really didn't do a great job at that, but it was something at least.
01:55:26 [Sildir (Tris)] She gave us an in. We need some time to think about this. All right.
01:55:26 [Sildir (Tris)] I think if we're going to do it today, we need to decide then how are we going to get this guard switcheroo or this wine switcheroo done. Were there any points in the plan where they mentioned Isaac's wine holster is set down, wherever he keeps it?
01:56:05 [DM (Aarya)] Um, Yarns told you that the baron's cook delivers both the lunch and the two wine bottles in a case, which Isaac presumably carries around with him. Or rather, he has the lunch with him in the town square where it's delivered. And he carries one of the bottles and nurses it while he's walking around town.
01:56:05 [DM (Aarya)] The second bottle he doesn't open until he's at Lake Sadovich. So I guess he's just carrying them with him is what Yarns would have told you.
01:56:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait, so when do they come to his possession?
01:56:45 [DM (Aarya)] At 1 p.m. And who delivers it again? The baron's cook.
01:56:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] The baron's cook delivers it. Oh, well, then maybe it's the baron's cook that we need to impersonate.
01:57:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Not a bad idea either.
01:57:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Would, uh, it would definitely be like less of a... The only thing I'm worried about is just disguising myself as the guards. I mean, I would have to be sticking by him all day.
01:57:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] And I'll have to keep finding times to dip away to refresh my disguise. So with the cook, I mean, we could get it done in one go.
01:57:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, and you'd have to act like a stupid guard all day.
01:57:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I'm not very good at that. So maybe the cook would be better.
01:57:49 [Irredel (Sav)] Sound more straightforward.
01:57:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] Plus we could, you know, we could, uh, I don't think it would be too difficult to convince the cook to just let us deliver the wine.
01:58:07 [Irredel (Sav)] But then the cook is a witness in case things go askew.
01:58:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, it's true. I have a decent idea here, actually. Maybe, en route, the cook has the parcel stolen by one of us, of course.
01:58:12 [Sildir (Tris)] In disguise, of course. And since we are baron fans now, at least publicly, one of us can, you know, stop the thief and bring the parcel back with a new bottle of wine inside. With the co- Hmm, none the wiser.
01:58:49 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, okay.
01:58:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, I think we've really cooked up a scheme here.
01:58:57 [DM (Aarya)] Pretty clever scheme, yeah. I repressed. You know, who's, who's like describing this scheme?
01:59:05 [Sildir (Tris)] The last scheme?
01:59:07 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:59:08 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess that was mine. Okay, yeah.
01:59:11 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, take inspiration for that.
01:59:12 [Sildir (Tris)] But I didn't come up with the chef thing. That was, I innovated. I did not invent.
01:59:12 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm iPhone.
01:59:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] I still think, I still think you take it.
01:59:24 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah.
01:59:25 [Sylalys (Cat)] All right. That's clever. Inspiration.
01:59:37 [Irredel (Sav)] All right, now this is a plan I'm comfortable with. And so, after, after the theft, I guess all of us will just high tail it to the lake? I mean, I guess we'll have a little bit of time because we'll need Ezek to, to drink it.
01:59:37 [Irredel (Sav)] So once the cook delivers it, he'll presumably go to the lake, drink it, and then we can show up more leisurely this afternoon, right?
02:00:05 [Sildir (Tris)] I think so.
02:00:06 [Irredel (Sav)] That way we don't have to worry about splitting up or anything. How zany like that. But with this, I'm actually very comfortable with this.
02:00:19 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess the only thing left to a variable then at that point would be Ezek drinking the bad bottle second.
02:00:53 [DM (Aarya)] Everyone got really quiet at that.
02:00:57 [Sylalys (Cat)] I'm thinking.
02:01:00 [DM (Aarya)] Don't hurt yourselves.
02:01:04 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe we could wrap it and say surprise for end of day. I mean, he is pretty stupid. He might just go with it.
02:01:13 [DM (Aarya)] Well, I will point out that, but the chef's the one delivering it. I will point out that Ernst told you that the usual deliveries of wine are purple grape mash number three, which is like cheaper wine and red dragon crush is more like mid shelf stuff. So it's nicer.
02:01:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. It's probably what he has after. Who doesn't save the best for last?
02:01:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, I don't know.
02:01:38 [Sildir (Tris)] He's a pretty weird guy.
02:01:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] What's the fake bottle that we have, right? Do we have much?
02:01:44 [Sildir (Tris)] It's red dragon crush. Yeah.
02:01:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. So, I mean, we don't have much choice in the matter either way. We're just replacing that bottle.
02:01:54 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess one of us should at least monitor Ezek. Yeah. Throughout the day.
02:02:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, we can spy on him in the market to make sure he's drinking the cheap wine first.
02:02:16 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. I think we have no choice. Yep.
02:02:16 [Sildir (Tris)] This is the plan we have to go with.
02:02:21 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:02:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] So let's prepare our ambush and spy on the chef.
02:02:30 [DM (Aarya)] So.
02:02:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] Intercept him. Who wants to play the bandit?
02:02:35 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't think I'd make a very good bandit. I'm very loud.
02:02:39 [Irredel (Sav)] Who's the most stealthy person? I think, Ember, that would be you. You're the most likely to disappear in a crowd.
02:02:39 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, I can do that. I'll be the bandit.
02:02:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you have a good outfit for a disguise?
02:02:55 [Ember (Spurthi)] I can find one.
02:02:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, if you just cover up really well with like a hood and everything.
02:03:03 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, I'll see what I have.
02:03:05 [Mercurio (Gui)] We can make like a little mask out of some spare cloth or something.
02:03:16 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I mean, with what you have, you probably could fashion like a pretty rudimentary cloak and mask or something like that.
02:03:23 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah.
02:03:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] You know, we basically just need you to grab it, dip around a hallway, like go into some lonely alleyway, and then we can chase you down and just swap the bottles. Say, oh, we caught the bandit.
02:03:44 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Yeah, sounds pretty good.
02:03:51 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, let's do it. And who will do the return trip? Let's just have it organized.
02:03:51 [Sildir (Tris)] As in, who will bring it back to the chef?
02:04:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] I can do it as a random person so that there's no...
02:04:08 [Irredel (Sav)] I think that's the best.
02:04:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] ...string attached to us.
02:04:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, you're quite the smooth talker. Say, you're our best bet here.
02:04:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] I just need to craft a persona, you know, some do-gooder person that stops wine thieves in alleyways.
02:04:31 [Ember (Spurthi)] So just to make sure, where am I stealing this from? Like, where am I running towards?
02:04:38 [Sildir (Tris)] We're gonna have to figure that one out still. Okay. We'll figure that out together.
02:04:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, we'll get the... Ideally soon. Yeah, we can start scoping out the area right now.
02:04:48 [Irredel (Sav)] Let's go scope out the area.
02:04:49 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Yeah, so you make your way over to the baron's manor. You get there around 1030-ish.
02:04:49 [DM (Aarya)] Isik wouldn't have woken just yet. He wakes at 11 and then he'll leave the manor by 1130. You can see, however, that the two guards who are to escort him this morning are posted in front of the front door of the manor.
02:04:49 [DM (Aarya)] They're just standing at attention. I'm kind of just like shuffling a bit nervously, but yeah. You can tell from the looks on their faces that they don't seem pleased to be on escort duty this morning, but it is their job.
02:05:26 [Sylalys (Cat)] And they're like far away from us still?
02:05:27 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah. I assume you guys are like still a ways away. You're not like approaching the manor, right?
02:05:27 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Yeah, scoping from a distance.
02:05:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, we want to see like, are there any alleyways and stuff like around here? So that later in the day when the chef comes out and starts walking towards the town, right? Like which way is the market that he's going to go to from here?
02:05:52 [DM (Aarya)] Um, good question.
02:05:54 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, we also could do it in the market as the chef's walking by. It's a perfectly reasonable excuse for us all to be there anyways. And it's more crowded.
02:06:04 [DM (Aarya)] In the town square.
02:06:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, I'd like to get him closer, further away from Isik if possible. Mercurio, could you put Pepito on the roof here and watch for when the chef leaves?
02:06:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] Absolutely.
02:06:18 [Sylalys (Cat)] And a couple blocks away.
02:06:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'll only know where the chef is if we're within like a hundred feet or so.
02:06:25 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah.
02:06:26 [Sildir (Tris)] You might need to hang out here for a bit, friend.
02:06:29 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so the Burgomaster's Mansion is south of the town square. Not too far, but there are streets like along the way. So there are like plenty of alleys that you could duck into.
02:06:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I think also we want to do the exchange somewhere kind of in between. Because we don't want to do it too close to the manor or too close to the town square. And ideally somewhere where there's not too many people.
02:06:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] We don't want to like draw a bunch of guards to chase after Ember or something, you know.
02:07:04 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, going by the numbers that Ernst gave you, you can surmise that of the 12 on-duty guards that would be about at any given point, half of them would be at the gates. And then the other half would be patrolling about. And two of them specifically would be with Ezek.
02:07:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] So there's very low chance for a random run-in. So, okay. So yeah, I think if we pick like a random part of the city with some alleyways.
02:07:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] In route, we should be good.
02:07:43 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, and you also suspect that should something urgent or something really drastic happen. Well, that Ezek notices he may rouse the off-duty guards.
02:08:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] And all right, so then we can hide out in this alleyway, right? I can watch the main road to the town square with Pepito, right? And then once I see the chef coming, I can let everybody know.
02:08:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then Ember can run out, rob him, and come back to us.
02:08:27 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
02:08:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, sounds like a plan. Do we want to be talking with the Baron before or after this whole escapade goes down? Or should we just skip talking to the Baron today?
02:08:43 [Sylalys (Cat)] I think maybe we skip it.
02:08:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, it might not even end up being necessary.
02:08:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I guess we'll see how it plays out. Maybe if we have some time in between the... No, I don't think we will.
02:09:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] It might just be overthrown right after. Oh, thank goodness. We don't have to put up with that guy again.
02:09:08 [Sildir (Tris)] Hey, hey, hey. All will be well. You shut your mouth.
02:09:14 [DM (Aarya)] All right, seems like you got a pretty well thought out plan. Yeah. All right, so where is everyone positioning right now?
02:09:14 [DM (Aarya)] Are you guys staking out along the roads between the manor and town square?
02:09:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I think we stake out a good spot along that road, and then we dip into a hallway where we can hide well. And I'll deploy Pepito.
02:09:45 [Ember (Spurthi)] Do we have vision on the chef?
02:09:49 [DM (Aarya)] So the chef currently is in the manor, like in the kitchen, presumably preparing Ezek's meal and whatnot. The chef will prepare Ezek's morning meal after he wakes, and then later in the afternoon, by 1pm, is when they deliver his lunch. So presumably it'll be a bit before 1 that you'll run into them along the road.
02:09:49 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, and I'll say at the current point, as you're like staying a distance away from the manor, keeping an eye on things, it is 11 now, so Ezek could be rising and then having his meal and getting ready to head out for the day.
02:10:47 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, I take a look at the sun. I think this idiot is waking up now. You guys ready?
02:10:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yep. I mean, it'll be a little bit longer before we spring into action.
02:11:01 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you have like a little under a couple hours probably to stake outs and keep watch.
02:11:08 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh yeah, just making sure we're all ready for the plan. No questions, no confusion. We gotta execute well here.
02:11:16 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so you guys are all like staking out in the same spot along the road, right?
02:11:22 [Sildir (Tris)] I think for now, and then Ember will split off at some point. And I mean, we could be anywhere. We could just be in the market square even.
02:11:22 [Sildir (Tris)] It might not matter where the rest of the people are. It's Ember and Mercurio that placement matters.
02:11:34 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:11:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I think Ember will just go out and then double back to us. And then I'll saunter out as Walter do good. Folk hero, Walter do good.
02:11:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Saver of lunches.
02:11:58 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, all right. So with that, I'll say the group of you are able to find a spot. And I like a pretty unassuming spot along the road.
02:11:58 [DM (Aarya)] Just like some alleyway to stake out. There's not really much traffic at this point. With the current climate of Valakia, a lot of people are trying to stay indoors.
02:11:58 [DM (Aarya)] And the few people who are out are mostly congregating about town square or so. So not too far from where you are, but also not directly on that road. So yeah, you guys are, I'll say like by 1130-ish, you guys have found your spots, are staking out, making yourselves comfortable.
02:11:58 [DM (Aarya)] I guess like, are you just, you're just keeping an eye out on the road, on this road specifically for the chef to come by?
02:12:58 [Ember (Spurthi)] I would say so, yeah.
02:12:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, like the most direct main road. And then since I am like on a rooftop as Pepito, like keeping eyes on everything, I can probably watch like, swirl around to watch like some side roads and stuff. Make sure he doesn't go through some shortcut.
02:13:17 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, okay. Um, so as with, from Pepito's vantage point, you can see Isik leaving the Baron's Manor. And then as Ernst informed you, he heads west to the western gates to start his inspections of the guards and whatnot.
02:13:17 [DM (Aarya)] Past a certain point, you lose sight of him. About an hour or so goes by. Um, you see him making his rounds from the west to the north and then to the east.
02:13:17 [DM (Aarya)] And then from the east, you see him starting to approach Town Square. And at that point, you are able to see that the chef has just left the Baron's Manor. So I'll say right now it's about like 1230.
02:13:17 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:14:13 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
02:14:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] So as I see the chef coming up towards the market, towards our alleyway, I'm gonna tell everybody. All right, he's coming. It's showtime.
02:14:24 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right, and then I start walking towards the chef.
02:14:28 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so I'll point out the chef. You did see her briefly while you were in the Baron's Manor. She is one of the people who pressured you in to see the Baron.
02:14:28 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so you see her with what appears to be like a simple wicker basket carrying the items for Izzik. So Ember, you are going to move in to steal the basket?
02:15:04 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
02:15:05 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Yeah. Go ahead and describe to me how you want to do that.
02:15:11 [Ember (Spurthi)] So like I'm gonna walk towards her and I'll like sort of like brush her shoulder and she'll like maybe like look the other way or something and I'll have like another basket that I steal off of like some cart nearby and then just make the trade while she's like not looking.
02:15:27 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, yeah. Give me, I'll say sleight of hand. You'll have to roll kind of high to pull that off, but yeah.
02:15:27 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:15:35 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right.
02:15:36 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say like B to 15 and you can you can make that swap. Okay. You could just steal it too, right?
02:15:36 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you could steal it and then run off to...
02:15:53 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, just steal it.
02:15:54 [DM (Aarya)] Or not.
02:15:55 [Ember (Spurthi)] Or not.
02:15:56 [DM (Aarya)] 19 sleight of hand is pretty good. Okay, so yeah, you're able to pluck off like just some old random old empty wicker basket from some abandoned cart stall and you make the swap. The chef doesn't seem to notice you making the swap and as you bump into her she turns to you and she says, Oh, pardon me.
02:15:56 [DM (Aarya)] I'm so sorry. She like brushes her shoulder off a little bit, like has the basket in her hands and she says, Huh, I swear this was heavier. Whatever.
02:15:56 [DM (Aarya)] She continues walking down a ways and then she stops. As she's walking away, can you describe to me what you're doing? Are you like immediately running towards the beat up spots or are you just like, what are you trying to do?
02:16:59 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'll just blend into the crowd.
02:17:02 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, yeah. Roll me stealth.
02:17:05 [Ember (Spurthi)] Stealth.
02:17:14 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my god, wait, your stealth is actually really good. Okay, yeah, 16 stealth. Yeah, so you're able to like duck into some dark alley away from the eyes of the main road.
02:17:14 [DM (Aarya)] And she stops. She looks suspicious for a moment and then she hefts the baskets in her hand and then she takes a peek inside. Sees that she is empty.
02:17:14 [DM (Aarya)] And then she calls out, Someone, someone stole my basket, help. Someone stole my basket.
02:17:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Time for Mercury to saunter in. I need a new basket, right? Like, okay, so I guess we prepare the, I mean, we need the basket from Ember.
02:18:06 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I'll say with the 16 stealth check, Ember is able to like discreetly make it to your meetup spot. You're probably like not too far anyway.
02:18:14 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah.
02:18:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, I guess in whatever alley she dips into, we can be watching still with Capito and kind of just switch alleyways on the spot.
02:18:25 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah.
02:18:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, so we meet up with her. Swap the red crush. And then I cast disguise stealth.
02:18:38 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:18:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] And I make myself look like a totally, a very distinct person so that they'll remember, but like just some random person that doesn't exist.
02:18:48 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, feel free to give me a quick description.
02:18:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I'll say like a balding middle-aged guy with a big red beard and freckles.
02:18:59 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, that definitely sticks out.
02:19:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] And a little bit taller and beefier than Mercurio. And I'll walk out into the main street and look right at them calling for help. Oh, is it you?
02:19:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Did you have your lunch stolen by this mischievous bandit?
02:19:22 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, sir, thank goodness. Please. Oh my goodness.
02:19:22 [DM (Aarya)] I don't even know how they did it. They just plucked it right out of my hand.
02:19:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Ah, yes, these thieves, they know their craft. But don't worry. Walter Do-Good is on the job.
02:19:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] I was lucky that I was strolling through town and I saw that glint in their eye. I knew they were up to no good. Nobody runs through these alleyways like that unless they've stolen something.
02:19:51 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:19:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] Here you go.
02:19:53 [DM (Aarya)] Roll me either performance or deception.
02:20:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Good rolls only, 444.
02:20:03 [Saturno (Steph)] Deception is my specialty.
02:20:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, no.
02:20:08 [Saturno (Steph)] Don't you have an inspiration?
02:20:11 [Sildir (Tris)] It's not that bad.
02:20:12 [Saturno (Steph)] It's not bad.
02:20:13 [Sildir (Tris)] She should be all shaken up, you know. Willing to see a positive.
02:20:20 [DM (Aarya)] She looks to you and she says, Walter Do-Good. Oh, well, I suppose it's rather convenient that you're here to spot this. Well, oh goodness.
02:20:20 [DM (Aarya)] Anyway, thank you. Thank you for your help. You've done a service for the Baron.
02:20:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, for the Baron? Oh, an even greater honor. I was just doing it out of the kindness of my heart.
02:20:49 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes. Your efforts are appreciated. She hastily takes the basket from you, opens the lid, takes a peek inside, and sees that the lunch and the two bottles are there.
02:20:49 [DM (Aarya)] And then she goes about her way.
02:21:06 [Sildir (Tris)] But which two bottles? Wow, that was probably some of the smoothest sailing I've seen on a plan like that in D&D.
02:21:21 [Irredel (Sav)] Because we cycled through a couple plans, hypothetically.
02:21:25 [DM (Aarya)] You spent quite a bit of time planning this, yeah.
02:21:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Reiterated.
02:21:31 [Irredel (Sav)] You kind of normally go with the first thing, the first dumbass said.
02:21:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's kill them. Yeah.
02:21:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] And as soon as Mercurio goes back to the alleyway, I'm going to break the disguise. He'll be like, all right, where's the bottle? Where's the real bottle?
02:21:49 [Ember (Spurthi)] And then I hand it over to Mercurio.
02:21:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] Let's crack this open and celebrate.
02:21:53 [Sylalys (Cat)] Oh my gosh.
02:21:56 [Ember (Spurthi)] No, it's not for you.
02:21:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] What do you mean? Who's it for?
02:22:01 [Ember (Spurthi)] It's for a special project.
02:22:05 [DM (Aarya)] No, this is the bottle that they swapped out.
02:22:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] This is the bottle we stole.
02:22:11 [DM (Aarya)] It's the good stuff.
02:22:12 [Sildir (Tris)] It's the good stuff. It's what Ezek was supposed to be drinking tonight. But we can treat ourselves to it now.
02:22:18 [DM (Aarya)] You swapped it for the bad bottle.
02:22:22 [Ember (Spurthi)] Right, okay.
02:22:27 [DM (Aarya)] All right. Yeah, so I'll say you pop open the bottle. You have a bit of a celebratory drink.
02:22:27 [DM (Aarya)] And a bit of time passes. It's not 1 p.m. by this point. The chef would be delivering the parcel to Ezek.
02:22:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think after a glass, Mercurio goes, oh, oh shit, we need to check what he drinks. And then you're going to see his eyes go cloudy. And Pepito's going to swoosh over the sky and head down towards the market.
02:23:06 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, okay.
02:23:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Are we all together right now?
02:23:10 [DM (Aarya)] I assume. I assume.
02:23:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, we're all together.
02:23:14 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so Mercurio, roll me perception.
02:23:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's my okay stat.
02:23:28 [DM (Aarya)] 11. Okay, no, 13. Oh, that was the other one, yeah.
02:23:28 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, 13 perception check. So with a 13, you can see that Ezek is sitting in the town square. He is having his lunch.
02:23:28 [DM (Aarya)] And you don't see that he's opened either bottle yet. It appears that they're still in the basket.
02:23:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, I'll just repeat that back to everybody. Let them know. He hasn't started drinking yet.
02:24:00 [Sildir (Tris)] What about now?
02:24:01 [Irredel (Sav)] Let me know before you look again, Tom. And before Mercurio looks again, I'll cast guidance.
02:24:07 [DM (Aarya)] I will point out that for you to be like, surveilling him through Pepito, you'd have to be... Uh, well, actually, I forget how find familiar works. You need to be within a certain distance to communicate telepathically with the familiar, but is there a limit to how far you can be to swap senses?
02:24:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] It says while you're familiar is within 100 feet of you, you can communicate with it telepathically, period. Additionally, as a bonus action, you can see through the familiar's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your turn. I guess it's kind of...
02:24:51 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say you'd have to be within 100 feet. You'd have to be like, not too far from town square.
02:25:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] So I guess we go over to like, a street over town square.
02:25:05 [DM (Aarya)] So not in like, direct view of the square?
02:25:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, like behind the building and then we just send Pepito flying over the building.
02:25:13 [DM (Aarya)] Sounds good. Yeah, so you continue surveilling for a moment and you see that Ezek is finishing his lunch and he gets up and he pulls out a bottle from the basket and he pops it open and starts drinking it as he goes about his way.
02:25:31 [Sildir (Tris)] What bottle is it?
02:25:34 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you can't quite tell. You'll have to do another perception roll. All right.
02:25:39 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm gonna cast Guidance before you do that.
02:25:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] Give me the juice. All right, and then I'm gonna have Pepito get like, pretty close and like, maybe some like, some like, stall that's like, nearby in the market. He's gonna like, perch himself like, on top of it.
02:25:55 [Sildir (Tris)] You leave any crumbs? Have Pepito go for the crumbs. True bird behavior.
02:26:02 [Irredel (Sav)] Is it the roll work?
02:26:03 [DM (Aarya)] The new system messes with me.
02:26:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is anybody able to give me the help action somehow? There we go.
02:26:11 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so you got to add a two to your next here.
02:26:14 [Sildir (Tris)] How do I do that? Do I just literally say I'm gonna do the help action on you?
02:26:19 [DM (Aarya)] So you would do the help action. Describe how you do it. And then depending on what you describe, I'll have you roll something.
02:26:19 [DM (Aarya)] And if your roll is successful, Gui makes the check with advantage.
02:26:36 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. I lay my hands on Mercurio's shoulders and I say, Torm, watch over me now.
02:26:45 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:26:46 [Sildir (Tris)] We are here to serve vengeance in this city. Guide my friend.
02:26:50 [DM (Aarya)] I'll remind you that Torm is not the god of vengeance.
02:26:53 [Sildir (Tris)] But he's into it though.
02:26:55 [DM (Aarya)] He's down for it.
02:26:56 [Sildir (Tris)] He thinks it's cool. We'll serve justice in this city.
02:26:59 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that's better. Okay.
02:27:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] I take my, like, scarf and I undo it and then I tie it over my eyes. So I'm like Daredevil. Yeah.
02:27:11 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, roll me religion, Triss, and beat a 13.
02:27:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh no. Not a 13. All right.
02:27:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Let me see if I get a nine. All right. Should I just burn the inspiration?
02:27:16 [Sildir (Tris)] It's a cool moment.
02:27:32 [DM (Aarya)] It's a cool moment.
02:27:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's try it. Okay, cool.
02:27:38 [DM (Aarya)] Ooh, nice. 19.
02:27:40 [Sildir (Tris)] Anyone else see the three to 19 roll? It's like spooky. All right.
02:27:40 [Sildir (Tris)] We got it.
02:27:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay. So with the 19, you hear the voice of Torm boom in your head.
02:27:45 [DM (Aarya)] Um, deliver justice, my champion. And with that, you see your hand glow for a moment and you see the glow travel down from your hands into, like, to Mercurio and then, like, snake up to his eyes. So underneath the blindfold, you can see for a moment, Mercurio's eyes are glowing.
02:27:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. So you can do the perception with advantage.
02:28:20 [Irredel (Sav)] What color do they glow?
02:28:22 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say it's a golden color or actually, actually, um, Triss, describe to me the glow.
02:28:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, well, my name sure is golden field, so I'm going to stick with gold, actually. I like the gold. Well, I mean, it's someone is that does the team want to discuss?
02:28:30 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm down for a metagame here. Is there any reason to do another color? No, Mercurio's a guy should be like RGB colors.
02:28:47 [Saturno (Steph)] Like they're swapping.
02:28:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. Mercurio actually becomes my gaming PC. I guess no, he'll, he'll do gold.
02:28:50 [Sildir (Tris)] That's cool.
02:29:09 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, thank you. Yeah.
02:29:11 [Sildir (Tris)] All right.
02:29:12 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my God. That was a 13 and a one on the dice, by the way. Um, oh, okay.
02:29:17 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's go to him. So yeah.
02:29:19 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So 18 perception. Yes.
02:29:19 [DM (Aarya)] So with, through Pepito's, uh, sharp vision, you're able to clearly discern that the bottle that Ezek is drinking is purple grapefresh number three.
02:29:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Like wipe the sweat from my brow. Mission accomplished, team.
02:29:39 [Sylalys (Cat)] It worked.
02:29:42 [DM (Aarya)] Nice.
02:29:44 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm so scared. Working this well, it's a bad sign. We're doing the wrong thing if it's working this well.
02:29:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Could you imagine? Yeah.
02:29:51 [DM (Aarya)] You guys got really lucky. I totally didn't decide that outcome or anything.
02:30:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Told you. I mean, what kind of absolute psychopath would drink the good one first? Not even this guy is that deranged.
02:30:14 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, I guess we should have trusted your judgment when it comes to wine, but it's still spooky. Yeah. It's good to know for sure.
02:30:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean the Baron, he's got a few screws loose, so maybe he would have drank the good one first.
02:30:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, and Mercurio. How'd you like that? Huh?
02:30:29 [Sildir (Tris)] What?
02:30:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] What? What? What happened?
02:30:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] I had a blindfold on it. So what was happening?
02:30:41 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm not even gonna bring it up. This guy.
02:30:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, did you, did you call him like my, did you call my uncle or something? Sure. Yeah.
02:30:49 [Sildir (Tris)] We'll go with that.
02:30:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. Cool guy. Chill.
02:30:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] Chill vibes.
02:30:55 [DM (Aarya)] I'm imagining y'all gonna just like diet Isis or something.
02:31:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] That would be, that would be accurate.
02:31:06 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
02:31:07 [DM (Aarya)] Thematically appropriate. All right. So with your, with your scheme successfully, uh, carried out so far, um, what's y'all's next move?
02:31:07 [DM (Aarya)] You do have a bit of time to kill before, uh, Ezek would be at Lake Zarevich. I assume that's where you're planning to confront him? Yeah.
02:31:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. I don't think we can afford to, uh, mess around. I think this is going too well.
02:31:30 [Sildir (Tris)] We should get there and set up.
02:31:36 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. So he will be there around, let me double check. I think I said five.
02:31:36 [DM (Aarya)] Let me check.
02:31:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Does anyone disagree with that?
02:31:45 [DM (Aarya)] 530 is when he, uh, leaves town and heads to, uh, out the northern gate, uh, towards, um, Lake Zarevich. Yeah. So you guys have about roughly four hours to kill.
02:31:45 [DM (Aarya)] You can spend that time heading there, setting up anything that you want to do or scoping out the area or anything like that.
02:32:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. I guess let's get ahead of things. Yeah.
02:32:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] That way we could try to update the area.
02:32:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Lady Wachter real quick in the middle of it all. Maybe that's the one thing we might want to do, stop by. But even stopping there could arouse suspicion.
02:32:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. I think it's best that we don't until, until the work is done, you know.
02:32:28 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm with you. Let's get on out there.
02:32:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Give me a quick- As we get up there, let's scope out the lake house.
02:32:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, is he hanging out in, like, a building or is it just, he's hanging out by the lake?
02:32:46 [DM (Aarya)] Um, well, he's not there yet, but yeah. Give me a sec. I'll be right back.
02:32:53 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. DM's gone. Load the dice.
02:33:07 [Irredel (Sav)] Seriously, y'all, I am concerned.
02:33:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Why?
02:33:12 [Irredel (Sav)] I just feel like- It's going too well? I've heard Arya tuckling in the background a few times. I think the plan is going to go off perfectly and it's going to make things worse.
02:33:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] I, I, I just think, um...
02:33:28 [Irredel (Sav)] I think Fiona Wachter is going to be, like, a, like, the next villain to take down. A monster of our own creation. I don't know.
02:33:35 [Sildir (Tris)] That would be- Isik takes off his mask. It's Trod. Oh my gosh.
02:33:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] I, I mean, I do think, even if, even fighting weak, like, Isik, it's going to be a, we're going to be in the ringer.
02:33:51 [Sylalys (Cat)] That too.
02:33:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's going to be a doozy either way.
02:33:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Hey, we have the power of Torm and anime on our side. True.
02:34:02 [DM (Aarya)] And wine.
02:34:03 [Sylalys (Cat)] And wine.
02:34:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Poisoned wine.
02:34:06 [DM (Aarya)] All right. All right. So you guys are heading straight to the, the lake?
02:34:11 [Sildir (Tris)] I think so. I think it's all going too well.
02:34:14 [DM (Aarya)] All right. Um...
02:34:16 [Sildir (Tris)] We're not fumbling the bag.
02:34:22 [DM (Aarya)] I'll bring y'all into the scene.
02:34:24 [Sildir (Tris)] There could be, like, werewolves or something, you know? Just get it done.
02:34:41 [DM (Aarya)] I have lighting in the scene, right? All right. So you make your way out the northern gate to Lake Zarovich, and you, you wander on over to the bleak gray shore of Lake Zarovich.
02:34:41 [DM (Aarya)] You look out onto the lake and you just see a glossy black surface. It, the surface of the water seems eerily still, as if poised for something. As if something's about to go down.
02:34:41 [DM (Aarya)] And here, uh, you find yourselves. By now it's about, like, I'll say closer to two-thirds or so. So you have a few hours yet still to wait for Isaac's arrival.
02:35:28 [Saturno (Steph)] We investigate the lake. Like, what if something happens at this lake? And, like, that's why he always comes here.
02:35:28 [Saturno (Steph)] And then, like, imagine we go in thinking we're gonna fight just him, and it's, like, him plus whatever happens in the lake.
02:35:44 [Sildir (Tris)] We also don't really know anything of his arm, so I'm fine to leave all stones turned, I guess? No stone unturned?
02:35:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we do know that his arm shoots, like, fire or something. Somebody did tell us that.
02:35:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, yeah, no, that's true. I meant, uh, we have no idea how the hell he got one gigantic arm that shoots fire. Seems...
02:35:59 [Sildir (Tris)] I've never seen that. Have you guys? No, that's fucked up, you know.
02:36:10 [DM (Aarya)] It doesn't seem like anyone knows.
02:36:10 [Saturno (Steph)] What if he checked in with whoever did give him that power, like, at this lake?
02:36:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Which arm's the phenomenon, though?
02:36:18 [Irredel (Sav)] It's the weird wolf people. Or the weird person who controls this entire realm. Or maybe both.
02:36:28 [Sylalys (Cat)] No, you're smart.
02:36:31 [Irredel (Sav)] If there's another third monstrous faction, then I'll be damned.
02:36:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's us. We're the third monstrous faction.
02:36:45 [Sildir (Tris)] I think we slowly are becoming that.
02:36:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] After this exchange, we're now... we need a cool name. Like, we're the court of something now.
02:36:56 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe we can just call ourselves the monstrous faction.
02:36:59 [DM (Aarya)] The court of wine. The court of grapes.
02:37:00 [Sildir (Tris)] The court of wine. The court of grapes. The grapes of wrath.
02:37:00 [Sildir (Tris)] The red dragon crushers.
02:37:09 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh. All right, so are you guys...
02:37:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] The grapes of wrath. These are the grapes of vengeance.
02:37:17 [DM (Aarya)] I'd like to investigate the lake and the area. Okay, yeah, roll me an investigation. Or if you want to roll something else to do something and just describe how you're doing.
02:37:29 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I want to, like... I don't want to get too close to the lake, but I just want to see if there's, like, any arcana.
02:37:35 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, yeah, you can roll that.
02:37:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] We could set up traps and stuff too.
02:37:42 [Saturno (Steph)] Ugh, that's not my best stat, but...
02:37:44 [DM (Aarya)] Let's do a 10 arcana check. You aren't really able to detect anything of note around the area.
02:37:53 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it. Did they ever say where this guy would sit?
02:38:09 [DM (Aarya)] Ernst just said he would sit on the shore of the lake and just drink his bottle and just stare off into space. This is just a quiet, chill spot.
02:38:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe this is where he works out his arm, if you know what I mean. Oh my.
02:38:30 [DM (Aarya)] Watch where you step, guys.
02:38:35 [Saturno (Steph)] Holy... On this branch. Okay, can I...
02:38:35 [Saturno (Steph)] I have a... Does anyone have fire?
02:38:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] I have... Oh, I don't like where this is going.
02:38:48 [Saturno (Steph)] I have oil, so I'm thinking, what if we put oil in it?
02:38:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't think we should try to fight him with fire, because he's a fire guy.
02:38:57 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, but doesn't mean fire doesn't hurt him.
02:39:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, it probably means he's resistant to fire.
02:39:03 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't know.
02:39:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] If he shoots fire out of his arm.
02:39:07 [Saturno (Steph)] I mean, as a wizard, you could throw a fireball, but if you get hit with a fireball, you're donezies.
02:39:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] But that's not what... It's more like he's got a dragon hand, you know?
02:39:16 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I will keep my oil to myself.
02:39:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] What if fire heals him?
02:39:22 [Saturno (Steph)] Bueno, estamos jodidos. He just glasses his face.
02:39:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] What, burning him?
02:39:29 [DM (Aarya)] No, fire healing him.
02:39:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, fire healing him. Oh my.
02:39:33 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, we need to stop cooking now.
02:39:36 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, by all means, give me ideas.
02:39:43 [Sildir (Tris)] The fire makes him fall in love with you. I think that's what happens.
02:39:46 [Sylalys (Cat)] The fire makes him fall in love.
02:39:50 [Sildir (Tris)] I think that makes the most sense. He wants to start a whole family with you when you set him on fire.
02:39:55 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh. Set his heart ablaze.
02:40:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Exactly.
02:40:07 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah, so are you planning anything else, or are you just waiting here?
02:40:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, I mean, are there any traps we could set up for him? I think, uh, we don't know enough about where he goes and whatnot.
02:40:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, we could probably, like, ambush him from the high ground or something, maybe, like hiding behind this tree.
02:40:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. It might be best, maybe, to make sure that we can prevent him from running back into town. That would be very messy.
02:40:34 [Sildir (Tris)] It's the only thing I can think of.
02:40:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, maybe we set up some trip rope or something.
02:40:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, maybe just, uh, when we come out of hiding, we approach him from the correct side or something like that.
02:41:04 [DM (Aarya)] You know that Ezic told you that he's by the shore, like, directly by the shore.
02:41:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, so he'll be, like, right here.
02:41:13 [Saturno (Steph)] Or we could put oil on the floor so he slips if he tries to run back. But wouldn't he cross over it? Like, I don't know, like, if he were to, like, run back up these steps where we are, like, if he does try to flee.
02:41:13 [Saturno (Steph)] Like, I say so, like, it's just difficult terrain. That's more what I'm trying to say.
02:41:32 [Irredel (Sav)] Like, after we jump out, we throw the oil down the stairs.
02:41:35 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, just so that we're not in difficult terrain.
02:41:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. Okay. That will catch on fire throughout the fight, so let's just keep that in mind.
02:41:43 [DM (Aarya)] I will point out to you that Ernst also said that he would have to, like, finish the bottle before the effects would take place.
02:41:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, so we'll have to, like, wait a while and watch him drink the bottle.
02:41:58 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, we have to be quiet. We can't laugh. No giggling.
02:42:04 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, we can give you- What if he becomes a sympathetic character?
02:42:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] We can wait a second, like, you know, hide well and just scout with Pepito again. Like, put him up on the tree there.
02:42:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I think the main thing is to stay hidden, let the poison take effect, and approach so that he's backed up to the lake.
02:42:35 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Um, yeah, so is that your plan? All right, I'll say go ahead and position yourselves wherever it is you're trying to hide.
02:42:48 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, I need to see this map, I guess.
02:42:51 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, is it, like, can we move?
02:42:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Where's, like, what's a good hiding spot?
02:42:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Like, this over here?
02:42:57 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, actually, the grid is off-center. Oh, that's annoying. Oh, yeah.
02:42:57 [DM (Aarya)] Fuck, let me see if I can fix that really quick. I think I forgot something.
02:43:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, there's, like, an offset that you can set in Foundry. Yeah.
02:43:20 [Irredel (Sav)] And if we get caught, I think we all should agree that our story is the Baron has sent us to confirm the loyalty of all of his men. And if he doesn't kill us right then and there, and he gets back to town, maybe he will fight the Baron himself over this.
02:43:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, and that gives us enough time to ditch town.
02:43:49 [Sildir (Tris)] To hopefully jet, yeah.
02:43:50 [Sylalys (Cat)] To just get the fuck out of here.
02:43:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, not bad. I mean, at that point, any plan is better than no plan. All plans will be dodgy.
02:43:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Hopefully plan A works, but good thinking, Erdal.
02:44:07 [DM (Aarya)] Fuck, I used to have a mod or whatever. Um, do you guys want to bear with, like, the weird grid?
02:44:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I don't really care.
02:44:18 [DM (Aarya)] I think it's fine.
02:44:19 [Sildir (Tris)] How are you going to rule for distance? As long as that's, like, not going to be a huge problem.
02:44:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I just, I won't, like, enforce the distance too hard or anything.
02:44:30 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm using my imagination anyways.
02:44:32 [DM (Aarya)] We can just employ, like, daggerhead distances or something.
02:44:37 [Sildir (Tris)] My imagination says I'm in range.
02:44:39 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so from what I'm seeing, is everyone in where they want to be? Are they usually just moving about?
02:44:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, I was just asking, like, if this brush and stuff over here is, like, enough to hide in.
02:44:50 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, yeah. So that brush is pretty thick out here. So you could, um, it wouldn't be too hard to hide.
02:44:50 [DM (Aarya)] I will note that if you're wearing, like, bright colors or something, it might be harder. The brush itself is, like, pretty dark and gray. So any, like, color would probably stand out more easily.
02:45:07 [Irredel (Sav)] So maybe some of us should be deeper in the woods then?
02:45:13 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
02:45:13 [Sildir (Tris)] I want to go, like, roll in the mud.
02:45:16 [Irredel (Sav)] Tristan and I's audio doesn't, you know, overlap.
02:45:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, fuck it. I'll just roll in the mud. I'm gonna roll in the mud too, to cover up any glint my armor would give off.
02:45:25 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
02:45:25 [Sildir (Tris)] And then I'll decide up close with everybody. This is character growth. I hate this guy, though.
02:45:33 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so how are Ember and Saturnal positioning?
02:45:39 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm trying to think of, like...
02:45:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, we should probably split up a little bit.
02:45:45 [Ember (Spurthi)] I could get closer, but still be out of the way. Are there, like, trees I can, like, hide in?
02:45:51 [DM (Aarya)] You want to climb up in a tree?
02:45:53 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
02:45:54 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah. I'll say there's, like, this. There's, like, a pretty big, like...
02:45:58 [Ember (Spurthi)] How long can I hold my breath?
02:45:59 [DM (Aarya)] There's, like, a tree over here. If you want to, like, climb up into this tree.
02:46:02 [Ember (Spurthi)] So that, like, if anything gets worse, I have my bow and arrow, I can just, like...
02:46:08 [Sylalys (Cat)] Get a straw.
02:46:08 [Irredel (Sav)] Make sure you can jump down, because what if he sets a tree on fire with his freaky arm? Oh, true.
02:46:13 [DM (Aarya)] Can I have a breathing tube? Too high in the tree.
02:46:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] Notably, we probably also don't want to stack too closely in case, you know... In case the fire is exploding. Of the ball variety?
02:46:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] Of the ball variety, yes.
02:46:30 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
02:46:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Me and Saturnal saw it in the war, those damn wizards and their fire.
02:46:35 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. I'll also add on, consider, like, which of you have range, which of you have melee. So position yourselves accordingly.
02:46:35 [DM (Aarya)] So Ember, you're climbing up into the tree. Ember? Hello?
02:46:35 [DM (Aarya)] Oh. Was that a Discord thing? Oh my...
02:46:35 [DM (Aarya)] Did everyone...
02:47:15 [Sylalys (Cat)] Was that all of us?
02:47:16 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I think it was all of us. Wow. Okay, cool.
02:47:16 [DM (Aarya)] I thought it was... Yeah, I just...
02:47:23 [Irredel (Sav)] I just thought I asked a really stupid question, and everybody was stunned to silence.
02:47:27 [DM (Aarya)] I heard just complete silence, and I'm just like, what's going on, guys? That's gonna be funny to hear back on the recording.
02:47:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Is the bot still recording us, or no?
02:47:38 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, the bot is still in the channel?
02:47:40 [Sildir (Tris)] Seems like it, yeah. Yeah, so it seems like it. Better be recording us, Clanker.
02:47:45 [DM (Aarya)] Regardless, even if Craig fails, I still have the screen recording as well, so...
02:47:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Craig is your name? Craig? Don't let me down.
02:47:49 [Sildir (Tris)] They'll be to the scrapyard for you, buddy.
02:47:55 [DM (Aarya)] The left bar table employee. Who just left and joined?
02:47:59 [Saturno (Steph)] Craig.
02:48:00 [Sildir (Tris)] So, I think I would say to the DM, at least for my character, and it sounds like pretty much everybody else, like, we're not trying to spare any expenses in hiding, you know? And we're here, like, three hours early. So, just gonna get at that with you.
02:48:18 [DM (Aarya)] Sounds good.
02:48:19 [Sildir (Tris)] See if that influences you at all.
02:48:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, also, like, if anybody can kind of take advantage of any kind of pre-buffing, like, before we engage, like, try to try to pull that off too.
02:48:35 [Irredel (Sav)] I'll be casting Bless on my very first thing.
02:48:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] What's the range of Bless? How close do we need to, like, all be for that?
02:48:45 [Irredel (Sav)] I think I can be pretty far. Hang on.
02:48:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] It might be, like, 30 feet.
02:48:53 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say, for the purposes of not fudging the distance too far. Iridel, where are you?
02:48:57 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, that's 30 feet. Okay, where is everyone planning to be?
02:49:03 [Sylalys (Cat)] I was planning to be here. Okay.
02:49:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Because, yeah, just not fudging the distance too hard. I'm assuming he's gonna be, like, over here, like, 60 feet.
02:49:14 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I'll say, Iridel, I'll say, if you're, like, closer to, like, here about, I'll say you'll be able to reach anyone who is, like, on, like, this side of the boardwalk.
02:49:25 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, cool. And is this, like, an okay hiding spot? Like, there's, like, brush and stuff and I can, like, crawl deep in the bushes.
02:49:30 [DM (Aarya)] There's brush and there's, like, some, like, rock formations and, like, ledges and stuff. So you can, like, duck behind cover and stuff.
02:49:36 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. And I am wearing gray.
02:49:38 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Yeah, so that'll be easier for you to blend in. Classic gray.
02:49:44 [Sildir (Tris)] I think I'll hang out wherever Saturno ends up.
02:49:47 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say, Ember, the tree that gives you the best vantage point will probably be this one over here. You can also... Yeah, I'm trying to move.
02:49:47 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:49:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we all want to be on this side, too, so that we can get help from Iridyll and stuff.
02:50:03 [DM (Aarya)] So I'll say you can... I'll put you right here. I'll say you can, like, climb into, like, one of, like, the not-too-high branches.
02:50:03 [DM (Aarya)] So, like, you're high enough to have vantage but also not so high that you couldn't jump down without much trouble.
02:50:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Can I be a troll under the bridge?
02:50:16 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my god, yeah, you can do that, sure.
02:50:19 [Sildir (Tris)] I'll bring some, like, bushes with me to, you know, shelter up on... shore up on the side.
02:50:25 [DM (Aarya)] It is, like, muddy and gravelly under the bridge, too, so, yeah.
02:50:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, does that have any implications for me or not really?
02:50:34 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, I won't... I won't dig you too hard on it. Yeah, it'll be fine.
02:50:34 [DM (Aarya)] It's just, like, it's just a matter of, like, whether or not you can bind in or not. But if you're, like, rolling and stuff, then...
02:50:42 [Sildir (Tris)] I rolled in the mud first and now I'm crawling under my bridge to be too much troll.
02:50:46 [DM (Aarya)] With that and the cover of the bridge itself, it won't be too bad.
02:50:50 [Sildir (Tris)] And I'm bringing bushes with me to, like, shore up on the gap of the bridge.
02:50:54 [DM (Aarya)] You should be good.
02:50:56 [Sildir (Tris)] So, okay.
02:51:02 [DM (Aarya)] Um, okay. It's an epic fight.
02:51:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, who's gonna give the signal? That's one thing we should also discuss. Are we gonna know when to go?
02:51:11 [DM (Aarya)] Where is Saturno? Did I bring Saturno into the scene? I did, right?
02:51:14 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm here. I'm trying to figure out where to hide.
02:51:17 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:51:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Can we have Pepito squawk three times? Four times, maybe? Sure.
02:51:27 [Irredel (Sav)] And plus I trust Mercurio to be a good judge of when someone is really inebriated.
02:51:33 [Sildir (Tris)] So three or four times?
02:51:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Four times.
02:51:41 [DM (Aarya)] You want to be there, Steph?
02:51:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] When the crow... cries four times.
02:51:47 [Saturno (Steph)] Is this, like, anything?
02:51:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] You can be crowing.
02:51:49 [Saturno (Steph)] Can I, like, how visible am I here?
02:51:52 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I'll say, um, with there... There's, like, a bit of, like, depth there. It's, like, a little bit of a ravine.
02:51:52 [DM (Aarya)] So you can hide in there in the shadow. without too much difficulty. I'll just say like at that point, if you're on that side of the boardwalk, you'll be out of range for Iridel to hit you with any support.
02:51:52 [DM (Aarya)] But Mercurial would be possible. I'll say that.
02:52:14 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it. Okay.
02:52:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right. I think we're ready.
02:52:30 [DM (Aarya)] All right. Let's do this. Say goodbye and wait.
02:52:30 [DM (Aarya)] Ah. Wait, were you saying something?
02:52:43 [Saturno (Steph)] No, I just went, ah.
02:52:45 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Scared me. Let me see if I have any funny music I can play for this.
02:52:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Consider me spooked.
02:52:54 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm scared. I'm a little nervous.
02:53:00 [DM (Aarya)] We're creeping on this guy. I'm so excited for this.
02:53:03 [Sildir (Tris)] Jorkin's butt.
02:53:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right. Jorkin. You're my raven.
02:53:08 [DM (Aarya)] Are you able to use the summoning module? Oh, should I?
02:53:15 [Saturno (Steph)] I guess I should summon my guy.
02:53:21 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can precast Memphis. Yeah, so if you open your character sheets, if you click on the three dots and go to companions, I think you should be able to summon it that way.
02:53:38 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. Okay. And then I think that's a better idea.
02:53:38 [Saturno (Steph)] I did it. No, I knew it was just like that. I'm actually gonna make them hide here and I'll hide on this end.
02:53:38 [Saturno (Steph)] But how far are we now? We're 25 feet away from each other.
02:53:54 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say, yeah, don't stress the distance too much. As long as you're not like way off in the distance, you'll be within range.
02:54:01 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so we'll do that. And then I'll kind of hide on this side too so I could benefit from potential healing if I need it.
02:54:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, let's do it.
02:54:17 [DM (Aarya)] Let me double check to have everything I need. All right, so you find yourselves lying in wait in the dark, in the mud, in the creeping brush of the forest. The hours go by as you scheme and plot and lie in your hiding spots.
02:54:17 [DM (Aarya)] And eventually, you hear footsteps clunking down the boardwalk and see Yzik in his terrible form approaching. He's wearing- He's much as you saw him before. He's wearing his cloaks and his wolf pelts, largely covering his deformed, big, fiery, flame-throwing arm.
02:54:17 [DM (Aarya)] And in his other arm, he's carrying his bottle of Red Dragon Crush. You can see that he hasn't opened it yet. And strapped to his back, you see his great silvered battleaxe.
02:54:17 [DM (Aarya)] You see him leisurely crossing along the boardwalk, and he walks right up to the edge of the shore. He stands for a moment. He looks off into the distance, and you see him heave a great sigh, and he takes a seat on one of the boats on the edge.
02:54:17 [DM (Aarya)] You see him struggle a little bit to open the bottle of wine, but he manages to pop off the cork, and he takes a big glug. He sets the bottle down next to him, wipes off his mouth, and you see him reach into his cloaks a little bit, and he pulls out a small scrap of parchment. As he does so, you see that he's scowling.
02:54:17 [DM (Aarya)] He reads whatever it is on the parchment, brushes over it a couple times, and then tucks it back into his cloak. He takes another glug from his wine, and then he pulls out something else from his cloak. You aren't quite close enough to see what it is, but you can make out that it appears to be a doll of some kind.
02:54:17 [DM (Aarya)] And as he's looking at this doll, he seems mournful, almost. And with that, he turns around, and where he's seated, facing the lake now, looking off into the distance, and continues glugging his wine in silence. At this point, does anyone want to try to do anything, or are you just waiting for him to finish his wine?
02:57:27 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm waiting for this to go.
02:57:28 [DM (Aarya)] I'll wait. Yep. Okay.
02:57:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, just waiting.
02:57:34 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So he spends about, I'll say, 20 to 30 minutes or so nursing this bottle of wine. But eventually, he finishes it down to the last drop.
02:57:34 [DM (Aarya)] And as he takes his last swig, you see him turn it upside down and try to shake out more, and seems disappointed that all the wine is gone. So he sighs and just tosses the bottle off into the river and leans back, just still leisurely lounging on the shore of the lake, looking off into the distance. Doesn't seem to be looking at anything in particular.
02:57:34 [DM (Aarya)] He's just having this moment to himself, it seems. How is the party?
02:58:37 [Sildir (Tris)] We're waiting.
02:58:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I'm gonna wait, because they told us that it would take a little bit of time to take effect after he finishes drinking it.
02:58:47 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
02:58:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] So I just patiently keep waiting a few more minutes, watching him with Pepito swirling around here, around the area, up and down the coast.
02:58:59 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, give me Perception, Mercurio. Perception. See, that is a nine.
02:58:59 [DM (Aarya)] You'll see that, you'll see, he like shifts in his seat a little bit. He seems to sway a bit as he does it. You're not sure if he's drunk or if he's feeling the effects of the poison, but he does seem a bit unsettled.
02:59:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Then I'll wait a little bit longer.
02:59:42 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. All right. You'll see, you'll let another 20 minutes go by, and at this point, you see him kind of like shift a bit more, and he slips off from where he's seated, and you see him like, you see him like heave a little bit, and he mutters to himself, what was, what was with that wine?
02:59:42 [DM (Aarya)] Was it something I ate?
03:00:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then, all right, I'm gonna hit it on that then. All right.
03:00:21 [DM (Aarya)] All right, you see, you see Ezek like look up towards where the people is. He seems like curious why this raven is squawking. He gets up to his feet.
03:00:21 [DM (Aarya)] He like, he's like peering across, looking out into the tree line.
03:00:45 [Sylalys (Cat)] All right.
03:00:48 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
03:00:49 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm gonna come on out. Like a little troll.
03:00:54 [Irredel (Sav)] And I'm a bluff to everybody. Not everybody, just three people, but yeah.
03:01:02 [DM (Aarya)] What do you say, Ember?
03:01:03 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'm gonna jump down from the tree.
03:01:05 [DM (Aarya)] You don't want to stay in the tree? You can shoot with your bow from a distance.
03:01:09 [Sildir (Tris)] You can take your shot. So for the sake of movement, how true is the distance?
03:01:16 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say from where you're positioned, Tris, you can, we can like walk up to him with one turn of movement. You won't have to like dash or anything.
03:01:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay.
03:01:27 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, so I'm gonna blast Eldeer, Saturno, and Ember.
03:01:31 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so each of you, regardless of what you're doing, if you're choosing to come out of hiding, if you're choosing to act or like precast something, describe to me how you do what you're doing and what you look like as you're doing it.
03:01:47 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, so Sildur has been covered in mud, lying under this bridge for hours. There's gravel, there's rocks, there's more dirt, and there's bushes. And when he stands up, basically looks like he's wearing a ghillie suit.
03:01:47 [Sildir (Tris)] After everything has like dried onto him, and he begins to approach. Okay. He's like...
03:02:15 [DM (Aarya)] Who else?
03:02:19 [Ember (Spurthi)] Ember is sort of crouching down on one of the branches on the tree. And she has her bow and arrow ready. And I'll have her shoot it towards Isaac, kind of like putting his clothes down onto the ground.
03:02:35 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say, I'll let everyone else describe what they're doing. And if you still want to shoot, then you can go ahead.
03:02:41 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
03:02:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think Mercurio is like, sort of sitting, you know, crisscross applesauce with his scarf covering his eyes, looking through Pepito's eyes. And then he lets off the cause. And he pulls off the scarf down to his neck.
03:02:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then he is going to sort of start conjuring up like a bane spell, and getting ready for everybody to like, engage him. Just kind of like peering through the bushes at Isaac.
03:03:25 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Who else? So, Iridel, you said you were getting ready to cast.
03:03:25 [DM (Aarya)] Or did you already cast?
03:03:36 [Irredel (Sav)] Let's say I'm getting ready. Actually, I can probably go ahead and cast.
03:03:40 [Sildir (Tris)] You probably prepped it for the squawking, so. Yeah.
03:03:43 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So, who are you blessing?
03:03:45 [Sildir (Tris)] I hear, I'm hearing Seth through Triss right now. Oh, you got to unmute yourself on your side.
03:03:51 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. Yeah. Sorry.
03:03:51 [Irredel (Sav)] So, I'm going to go ahead and cast Blast. And I'm going to bless Fjeldir, Paterno, and Ember. And I'm going to try and move as little as possible.
03:03:51 [Irredel (Sav)] But I'm going to grab my holy symbol and whisper.
03:04:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Or what? Just say it louder so everyone can hear you. Okay, cool.
03:04:16 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm going to whisper it very quietly. Because technically, this does have a verbal component. But I'm going to minimize that as much as possible.
03:04:16 [Irredel (Sav)] Let's see. Did that cast finally? There we go.
03:04:16 [Irredel (Sav)] And that's for one minute.
03:04:44 [Saturno (Steph)] I just zoomed in to you. And the fact that you're like upside down.
03:04:50 [DM (Aarya)] I'm like, what's going on? Okay. All right.
03:04:50 [DM (Aarya)] So, is that everyone?
03:04:57 [Saturno (Steph)] I'd say Saturno also gets up after Fjeldir and is right behind Fjeldir. And that my Memphis, rather, is also kind of trying to match our pace. So, we will probably be parallel to one another as we walk over.
03:04:57 [Saturno (Steph)] So, you're approaching together.
03:05:20 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay. So, as you're approaching, Isik looks to Saturno and Fjeldir.
03:05:20 [DM (Aarya)] And he says to you, you've been rolling in the mud? What's this then? Always knew that you were pigs.
03:05:20 [DM (Aarya)] What is it? What do you want? Good for your skin.
03:05:20 [DM (Aarya)] You should try it out.
03:05:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, we're here to say hello. Of course. We heard you come down to this lake.
03:05:52 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I come down here to be alone. So, you can fuck right off.
03:05:59 [Sildir (Tris)] What? We're all on the same team here now, aren't we?
03:06:03 [DM (Aarya)] Listen.
03:06:04 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess I'm going to keep getting closer to him as we're talking.
03:06:10 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know how you managed it, but somehow you have the Baron's ear. But it won't last. I know you're using him.
03:06:10 [DM (Aarya)] I'm the Baron's right hand. Not you all.
03:06:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. Maybe I have the Baron's ear, but from what I've heard, you've been on your own knees. Taking care of the Baron's something else.
03:06:33 [DM (Aarya)] What is that supposed to mean? You looking for a fight?
03:06:38 [Sildir (Tris)] No, I just... Huh. What were you looking at out there on the lake?
03:06:44 [DM (Aarya)] None of your fucking business. That's what.
03:06:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, okay. I'm looking for a fight.
03:06:53 [DM (Aarya)] What about the doll?
03:06:54 [Saturno (Steph)] Can you tell us about the doll?
03:06:57 [DM (Aarya)] As you mentioned the doll, he snarls at you and he reaches to grab his battleaxe. Ember, at this point, if you would like to still shoot off an arrow, you can do so.
03:07:09 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. Why are you so sensitive about the doll? It's just a doll.
03:07:09 [Saturno (Steph)] We can talk.
03:07:15 [DM (Aarya)] Go ahead and roll your shortbow attack and you can do so with advantage.
03:07:20 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. And remember, you're bluff.
03:07:24 [DM (Aarya)] Right.
03:07:26 [Ember (Spurthi)] And bluff sides what, Clary?
03:07:28 [DM (Aarya)] A d4, two attack rolls. A d4, okay.
03:07:31 [Ember (Spurthi)] My screen is like zoomed on.
03:07:35 [Sylalys (Cat)] Use your scroll bar to zoom out and right click to pan around. Scroll bar.
03:07:44 [Saturno (Steph)] Scroll, you go like zoom in, zoom out. At least for me.
03:07:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's not what the scroll bar is though.
03:07:51 [Sildir (Tris)] It could be different.
03:07:52 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, I'm sorry. The scroll wheel.
03:07:54 [Sylalys (Cat)] Conyo. Laptop.
03:07:55 [DM (Aarya)] I'm entiende. I'll get it, I'll get it.
03:07:56 [Sylalys (Cat)] Control two.
03:07:59 [DM (Aarya)] You think we can? Yeah, I think Sworthy's using attack pad, right?
03:08:03 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
03:08:04 [DM (Aarya)] It complicates things a little bit. You need to get a mouse.
03:08:06 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'm on my laptop. So my light crossbow, is that?
03:08:10 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah, you can do that.
03:08:12 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Attack with advantage. Okay.
03:08:12 [Ember (Spurthi)] What do you need?
03:08:20 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, 19. Yeah, that hits. Yeah, go ahead and roll your damage and you can also add your sneak attack dice to it.
03:08:26 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
03:08:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't think that's adding bless right now though, to the roll.
03:08:40 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I think you have to add it. Yeah, you gotta manually add the d4. But you hit without bless, so.
03:08:40 [DM (Aarya)] Will you get my sneak attack too? Yes, go ahead and roll the sneak attack.
03:08:52 [Sylalys (Cat)] Oh.
03:08:58 [DM (Aarya)] Nice. Yeah, so 2d6. So you get 22 damage.
03:08:58 [DM (Aarya)] Nice, pretty good. Opening volley. Dang.
03:08:58 [DM (Aarya)] And with that, you see... Actually, yeah, describe to me how you're shooting this. Like, where in his body are you piercing him?
03:09:22 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'm still on the branch from where I'm hiding. And I shot the arrow to pin his clothes down onto the ground, so he won't be able to scatter or escape.
03:09:35 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:09:37 [Ember (Spurthi)] And I'll say... He's questioning.
03:09:37 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I'll say as you do so, you graze his sides and then pin his cloak to the boat that he's standing next to. He looks down and he looks up, trying to spot where you are, but he doesn't seem to quite spot you. He's definitely hefting his battle axe now.
03:09:37 [DM (Aarya)] And at this point, he looks to you all and he says, Oh, I've been waiting for this. You've all just signed your death warrants. And you see him swing his axe in a great arc in front of him, dramatically so, and heft it onto his shoulder.
03:09:37 [DM (Aarya)] And he takes a battle-ready stance. Everyone roll initiative. Oh, let me start a battle.
03:10:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Hope you enjoyed the wine, buddy.
03:10:30 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, I'm telling you, this was a setup. Fiona is gone theme baron and we're gonna get ousted from town.
03:10:38 [Sildir (Tris)] I have had the same thought, but... I don't know. Seems like a lot.
03:10:43 [DM (Aarya)] Let's see. Let me play some fun battling, Rick.
03:10:50 [Sildir (Tris)] No, not ousted from the shit-ass town. Anything but leaving the shit-ass place. Can you send my raven to my initiative?
03:10:59 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, I'll do that.
03:11:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, I need to roll my... Hey-ho.
03:11:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Can you also set Memphis to mine?
03:11:11 [Sildir (Tris)] I got a three. Get the shit in me.
03:11:15 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, wait, hold on. I did that wrong.
03:11:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, shit. Oh, shiz. I almost ate shit.
03:11:34 [DM (Aarya)] All right, um... Let me roll for Ezek. And I'll say, um...
03:11:34 [DM (Aarya)] Since you are ready for this, Mercury, you can go ahead and cast your, um... Your bane before, like, the actual round starts.
03:11:55 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay. Um...
03:12:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um... Rick, you're not letting me do anything because of... Um...
03:12:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Out of range meme.
03:12:21 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, really? It doesn't let you cast a spell?
03:12:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] It doesn't let me cast a spell. Okay, there we go. I got it to do it there.
03:12:29 [DM (Aarya)] So he makes a... 14%... Does this with disadvantage because he's poisonous.
03:12:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Nice.
03:12:40 [DM (Aarya)] Actually, let me just double check. I think that is how poison works. Delighted it?
03:12:40 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, my gosh. Sorry. I had you guys all selected when I did that.
03:12:55 [Sildir (Tris)] You poisoned us all.
03:12:57 [DM (Aarya)] No. Okay, so Ezek rolls a seven on the charisma save. So he is now baned.
03:12:57 [DM (Aarya)] Um... Right, uh, with that, we can go ahead and start. So, Totono, you are up first.
03:12:57 [DM (Aarya)] Take it away. Ow.
03:13:12 [Saturno (Steph)] I take off my left shoe this time. And I... No.
03:13:12 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. Okay, okay. Ugh.
03:13:12 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm so nervous.
03:13:24 [Sylalys (Cat)] You got this.
03:13:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Close to him. Okay, yeah. Okay, so I'm gonna go up to him.
03:13:26 [Saturno (Steph)] And I'm gonna cast Blooming Blade. Oh, my god. Sorry, I did the circle.
03:13:37 [DM (Aarya)] No, it's fine. Don't worry about it.
03:13:40 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I'm gonna hit with my... With my... Yeah, I'm gonna hit with my Halberd.
03:13:40 [Saturno (Steph)] I think that's what I've been hitting with.
03:13:55 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay. Let's try.
03:14:04 [DM (Aarya)] Ugh. Eight. Unfortunately, you go in four.
03:14:04 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you had to do four, I recall.
03:14:12 [Saturno (Steph)] Hold on.
03:14:15 [DM (Aarya)] So that was eight? I'm gonna do it for now.
03:14:18 [Saturno (Steph)] Ten.
03:14:18 [DM (Aarya)] Ten. You go in with your Halberds. Um...
03:14:18 [DM (Aarya)] And he just backs away your strike with his Great Axe. And he looks to you. You're gonna do that.
03:14:18 [DM (Aarya)] You're gonna have to do better than that.
03:14:32 [Saturno (Steph)] That's okay. I was surprised you could read earlier. And then I'm...
03:14:32 [Saturno (Steph)] Then can I do Memphis's... Well, can I... Okay, yeah.
03:14:32 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't know if I can attack it. I can't. I think...
03:14:44 [DM (Aarya)] So Memphis... Memphis can attack. Yeah.
03:14:44 [DM (Aarya)] It's just another weapon attack, basically, from Memphis's position. And it takes a bonus action. And you can only do it up to whatever your con mod is.
03:14:44 [DM (Aarya)] So I think, what, you have plus two con? Is that right?
03:15:01 [Saturno (Steph)] Uh, let me check. Uh, yes.
03:15:04 [DM (Aarya)] So you can do that twice.
03:15:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so I can't use Memphis, like, the whole time.
03:15:10 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. I cannot. But you have it available now.
03:15:10 [DM (Aarya)] I mean, you can use Memphis. So the way that works is, like, at any point, you can attack from... You can take your normal attack from your position or Memphis's position.
03:15:10 [DM (Aarya)] But if you want to attack with both of you, it takes the... It takes that feature.
03:15:29 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it. Okay, so I'll use it now, if anything. Okay.
03:15:29 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm gonna go... I just can't move Memphis.
03:15:36 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, let me... Yeah, it's just weird because of how it's set up.
03:15:39 [Saturno (Steph)] It's okay.
03:15:39 [DM (Aarya)] I can just put Memphis, like, like that.
03:15:43 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
03:15:44 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:15:44 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I'm gonna do the same thing, basically.
03:15:47 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, and since you're... I'll say since you're on either side, you are now flanking him. So the two of you can now roll with advantage.
03:15:47 [DM (Aarya)] So you can roll this attack with advantage. Got it. Funny, that hits.
03:15:47 [DM (Aarya)] Roll damage. Seven. Nice.
03:15:47 [DM (Aarya)] Seven damage. Cool. All right.
03:16:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. That is... Where's the end turn button?
03:16:20 [Saturno (Steph)] It changed.
03:16:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it changed. It's all good. If you hover at the top, like, on the combat, like, bar.
03:16:24 [DM (Aarya)] Like, the initiative bar. You should see, like, the next turn arrow on the right.
03:16:37 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, I see what you mean. I think I see what you mean. Sorry, everyone.
03:16:37 [Saturno (Steph)] Nah, you're okay. I see it now. I see it now.
03:16:47 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. All right. He's sick.
03:16:47 [DM (Aarya)] He looks to you, and he snarls. And he's gonna go in with an attack with his silver battle axe. Rolling with disadvantage because he's poisoned.
03:16:47 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know, he's still rolling pretty... Holy... Pretty hard.
03:17:07 [Sylalys (Cat)] 23.
03:17:07 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, that hit, yeah? Yeah. Okay.
03:17:07 [DM (Aarya)] Damage. So he's... Oh my...
03:17:07 [DM (Aarya)] He swings with all his might.
03:17:22 [Saturno (Steph)] A 21.
03:17:23 [DM (Aarya)] Comes out with an axe. Hits you for 21 damage.
03:17:28 [Ember (Spurthi)] Has started a war.
03:17:29 [Saturno (Steph)] Damn.
03:17:31 [DM (Aarya)] It's a lot. And then he does it again.
03:17:39 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh. Oh my goodness.
03:17:42 [DM (Aarya)] He has multi-attack. Disadvantage. All right, everyone.
03:17:42 [DM (Aarya)] So 14. That probably doesn't hit?
03:17:52 [Saturno (Steph)] No, it doesn't.
03:17:53 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so he goes in for another swipe with his battle axe. But he stumbles a bit from the poison. And he glances at his axe firmly into the dirt in front of you instead.
03:18:05 [Saturno (Steph)] Can I try to mock him now?
03:18:06 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, go for it.
03:18:08 [Saturno (Steph)] Be like, careful, I might steal your doll.
03:18:12 [DM (Aarya)] All right. And that's gonna be... Wait, let me just double check.
03:18:12 [DM (Aarya)] Hold on, let me actually move my stuff around a bit better.
03:18:34 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh wait, he stumbled, right? I hit him with... Oh, but I guess he didn't move that much.
03:18:38 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Why?
03:18:40 [Saturno (Steph)] Because I had booming blade.
03:18:42 [DM (Aarya)] Oh yeah. No, he didn't move that much, I'll say. Okay, but yeah, that'll be...
03:18:42 [DM (Aarya)] Come on.
03:18:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Have you been banging him, by the way?
03:18:55 [DM (Aarya)] Bane? Oh yeah, Bane! Oh, good call.
03:18:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, I don't think it would have...
03:18:59 [Sildir (Tris)] I want to save your life.
03:19:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't think it mattered for either of those rolls, though.
03:19:04 [Sildir (Tris)] The 18?
03:19:05 [DM (Aarya)] It was a 23 that first hit. It was a 23.
03:19:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, 23. Ah, well, okay, yeah. Can't help you there.
03:19:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, it counted. Yeah, do you have 20 AC?
03:19:14 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, Mercurio.
03:19:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] Not yet. All right, Mercurio time. Um...
03:19:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm going to... I'm going to use my Celestial Revelation.
03:19:41 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:19:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] And so I will sprout Heavenly Wings. And gain a fly speed equal to my speed.
03:19:54 [DM (Aarya)] Nice, okay.
03:19:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then also, from now on until the transformation ends, um, I deal extra damage equal to my proficiency in radiant damage. Um, just to make my cantrips hit a little bit. Not a lot still, but...
03:19:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, and I'll cast, um, Vicious Mockery.
03:20:21 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. All right, so you have to make a wisdom save. Just have a disadvantage.
03:20:21 [DM (Aarya)] And does Bane and, uh, like, affect this? It does, right?
03:20:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um... Bane... Bane, I think, um...
03:20:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, uh, whenever... It subtracts a d4, so he needs to subtract a d4 from this, uh, save.
03:20:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, y'all are really CC'ing that thing. Nine. Okay, yeah, he failed.
03:20:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, so he'll have disadvantage on his, uh, next attack roll. And he'll take, uh, six damage. Four psychic, two radiant.
03:21:15 [DM (Aarya)] Nice. So describe how you look now, like, hovering with your flying speed.
03:21:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, yeah, so you see heavenly, um, white wings with, like, shimmering, uh, like, gold, like, tracing around them and, like, gold sparkly dust falling off of them, um, come off of Mercurio's back. And he soars up into the air, uh, alongside Pepito. All right.
03:21:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] And just looks down, uh, at, uh, looks down at Isik and just says, uh, the baron has new right hands. He won't be needing you anymore.
03:22:04 [DM (Aarya)] Ah, you and the golden fuck are the worst ones.
03:22:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Golden fuck?
03:22:13 [DM (Aarya)] Um, I'll say...
03:22:15 [Sildir (Tris)] How about you go golden fuck yourself, with that big hand of yours?
03:22:18 [DM (Aarya)] Roll intimidation. Oh, Mercurio.
03:22:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's fucking go.
03:22:30 [DM (Aarya)] Sixteen. Yeah. He seems a bit shaken, uh, seeing you, uh, ascend into the sky, like, in such a dramatic fashion, and seeing that he's backed against the wall here.
03:22:30 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah, go ahead, take inspiration. Let's fucking go. All right.
03:22:30 [DM (Aarya)] It's, uh, Pepito's turn.
03:22:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, Pepito is going to... Um, fly by, uh, Sildir and give him the help action. He's gonna, like, as he flies by, his wings will also glitter down gold onto Sildir.
03:23:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, as Pepito does that, I say to Pepito, Hey, I'm about to use Vow of Enmity. I might not need this.
03:23:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then Pepito does a 360, uh, 180 and flies next to, uh, Saturno.
03:23:30 [Saturno (Steph)] I say, hi, Pepito. Amigas.
03:23:34 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say that Saturno herself is flanking with Memphis.
03:23:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
03:23:41 [DM (Aarya)] So she too has advantage.
03:23:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] So then Pepito flies over... Over to, uh, over to Ember and sprinkles gold glitter on her.
03:23:55 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, cool. All right. Um, Ember.
03:24:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] Damn, everybody's got advantage up in here.
03:24:04 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it's your turn.
03:24:05 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, so I'm going to use Nightlight Crossbow from before again and try... Okay.
03:24:16 [Sildir (Tris)] And you're blessed. At least.
03:24:18 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, and you get to add a deploy, yeah.
03:24:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Ezik more like Elzik.
03:24:28 [DM (Aarya)] Got him.
03:24:30 [Ember (Spurthi)] Get rolled?
03:24:32 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Oh, it's doing the funny thing.
03:24:35 [Saturno (Steph)] But you have to do the plus four.
03:24:37 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it was a 10 for your higher die. Um, that hits with your attack bonus. So go ahead and roll your damage and then your sneak attack.
03:24:50 [Saturno (Steph)] Are her dice not rolling with, uh, the modifier?
03:24:54 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know if it's good. I don't think so.
03:24:58 [Ember (Spurthi)] Do you want me to do a separate d4?
03:25:00 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, it doesn't matter now since you hit anyway. But that was... Yeah, it's doing the funny...
03:25:00 [DM (Aarya)] Try refreshing your browser really quick. But that was... Well, before you do that...
03:25:00 [DM (Aarya)] Um... Well, I already refreshed it. It's fine.
03:25:00 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that's fine. You can roll the snow on your back.
03:25:16 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
03:25:17 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, Foundry 13 still does this.
03:25:20 [Ember (Spurthi)] Should I change my brow... Wait, nevermind. It's loading.
03:25:20 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, I'm back.
03:25:29 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, now roll your sneak attack damage on top of that. So that was a three plus your modifier would be seven.
03:25:39 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
03:25:40 [DM (Aarya)] And then roll your sneak attack on top of that.
03:25:48 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'm trying to aim for the hands, so...
03:25:50 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:25:52 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, you won't be able to.
03:25:53 [DM (Aarya)] So that was nine. Another 16 damage.
03:25:58 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
03:25:58 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So yeah, you go for his hands. And you embed your classical bolt firmly into his forearm.
03:25:58 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Is there anything else you want to do?
03:26:22 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I go for his other forearm?
03:26:24 [DM (Aarya)] You won't be able to attack a second time just yet.
03:26:27 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, okay. Okay, then I'm done.
03:26:32 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Weirdo.
03:26:36 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okie dokie.
03:26:37 [DM (Aarya)] Actually, wait, wait, wait, wait. Really quick. Okay.
03:26:37 [DM (Aarya)] So in response to taking that crossbow damage, Ezek will take a reaction. He's gonna go for... Oh, wait, nevermind.
03:26:37 [DM (Aarya)] I don't think he can do this, actually. Let me double check.
03:27:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Elzek.
03:27:08 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, nevermind. He can't do that. Continue.
03:27:12 [Sildir (Tris)] El...
03:27:19 [DM (Aarya)] Idiot, Ezek.
03:27:21 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, so I'm good to go?
03:27:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yep, go for it.
03:27:25 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. Sorry, I... I was not very smart with my prepared spells in terms of, like, concentration.
03:27:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] You're concentrating on Bless.
03:27:56 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, exactly.
03:27:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] But almost everything.
03:27:59 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah. So I'm just trying to figure out how to play this smartly. Sorry.
03:28:04 [DM (Aarya)] No worries.
03:28:05 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, we did long rest today. Did you take the time to change your prepared spells? Maybe DM will make an exception for you.
03:28:13 [Irredel (Sav)] It's okay. I live with this. Okay, well, let me just go ahead and do the...
03:28:13 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm gonna cast Healing Word at Caterno.
03:28:33 [Sildir (Tris)] To be fair, you know, we didn't really know if we're gonna be fighting this guy when we woke up.
03:28:37 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Healing Word, okay.
03:28:46 [Irredel (Sav)] See if we can get some of that damage back.
03:28:50 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, 12 healing! Hey, let me add it for you. Sheesh!
03:28:50 [DM (Aarya)] Nice.
03:28:55 [Saturno (Steph)] Hello, Santissimo.
03:28:57 [DM (Aarya)] There we go. Pretty good.
03:28:59 [Saturno (Steph)] Santo Cielo. And then I have no idea where the fuck the enter button is. Oh, if you go to, like, the two swords that are, like, the combat encounter, they're all the way at the bottom.
03:28:59 [Saturno (Steph)] That's where I found it. Party.
03:29:18 [DM (Aarya)] It's me now. And next turn. Before you do that, Cielo, he's gonna take a reaction.
03:29:18 [DM (Aarya)] And he's gonna activate his Indomitable effect. So he's gonna reroll the Bane save. So this is still with disadvantage.
03:29:18 [DM (Aarya)] And still with the minus D4.
03:29:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Hell, no res.
03:29:52 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, three. Okay, he does not fail. Margon.
03:29:52 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Hey!
03:29:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Dumb, dumb idiot.
03:29:58 [Irredel (Sav)] The healing word is Grapes of Wrath. Oh, that's good.
03:30:07 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Helira. That's right.
03:30:11 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. I'm gonna pull up. Hit and attack.
03:30:19 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
03:30:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Does this work? Yep, it does. Uh, I think I can type in my situational thingy here.
03:30:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Hopefully that works. Yep. Oh my gosh.
03:30:39 [DM (Aarya)] 10. Unfortunately, that does not hit.
03:30:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh wait, I used Valet and Midi. So I technically need to roll with advantage. So yeah, as you attack.
03:30:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. That's more like it.
03:31:00 [DM (Aarya)] 22. Yeah, that hits.
03:31:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, plus I should have used my Blessing. But anywho, that works. All right, cool.
03:31:07 [DM (Aarya)] That was for the plus, wasn't it? I see the decoy.
03:31:10 [Sildir (Tris)] No. Doy. Yes, it was.
03:31:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Thank you. Anywho, I'm gonna do that. Uh, let me see.
03:31:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Let me see. Give me one second here. Okay, can we say that I bonus action Hunter's Mark him beforehand?
03:31:32 [Sylalys (Cat)] Sure.
03:31:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Is that all right with you? All right, cool. So I'm gonna do that.
03:31:37 [DM (Aarya)] That's not, that doesn't require a save or anything, right? That just happens?
03:31:40 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, yeah, it's a concentration.
03:31:43 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, concentration. That's what it is.
03:31:44 [Sildir (Tris)] Here, actually, no, it might be Wisdom. Let me see. No, no, it's not.
03:31:44 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. Yeah, they're good. All right.
03:31:44 [Sildir (Tris)] So then with that, I get to do my damage.
03:31:58 [DM (Aarya)] Is Valet and Midi, is that like a free thing on top of the attack or is that a bonus action?
03:32:02 [Sildir (Tris)] It is. Yeah, it's free. It just consumes my Channel Divinity or one of them if I have multiple.
03:32:02 [Sildir (Tris)] So it's just like as you attack, it happens if you want it to.
03:32:12 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, go ahead and roll all your damage.
03:32:15 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I'm gonna just iterate my Channel Divinity down by one and then I'll do damage. Normal. Okay, not that hot, but let's get this damage going too.
03:32:15 [Sildir (Tris)] That was a little hotter. So we do 12 damage this time around.
03:32:39 [DM (Aarya)] 12 damage. Um, cool.
03:32:46 [Sildir (Tris)] And that'll be my turn.
03:32:49 [DM (Aarya)] Um, all right. And then in response, he's gonna take a reaction. He's gonna go for a Vengeful Strike.
03:33:00 [Sylalys (Cat)] No.
03:33:02 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, he's gonna go for a Battle Axe attack on you. No. With disadvantage and minus a d4, but we'll see if that matters.
03:33:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, holy shit. Why'd he hit double 15s? Yeah, no, I don't think it matters.
03:33:12 [Sildir (Tris)] He's gonna hit.
03:33:18 [DM (Aarya)] All right, here's the damage. 16 damage.
03:33:29 [Sildir (Tris)] It's even worse. And then how do I check my concentration here?
03:33:34 [DM (Aarya)] Um, it's gonna be a DC 16 concentration too, or a constitution too. Wait, wait, wait, no. It's half the damage that you took, or 10.
03:33:34 [DM (Aarya)] Whichever is higher, so DC 10.
03:33:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, normal.
03:33:55 [Sylalys (Cat)] No.
03:33:56 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, so my... Whatever it's called, my Hunter's Mark is not happening no more. Which can you...
03:33:56 [Sildir (Tris)] God, how do you turn that off?
03:34:09 [DM (Aarya)] I'm trying to find... Under character sheet, under effects, you should see it.
03:34:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, okay, effects, and then I can exit out. There we go. Cool, that's my turn.
03:34:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Let me find the thingy. Enter.
03:34:29 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. So I'm gonna...
03:34:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] Does Ezek just have disadvantage because of the... Poison. Oh, poison, okay.
03:34:40 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. I want... I have a question.
03:34:48 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, go for it.
03:34:49 [Saturno (Steph)] I have... I also have Celestial Revelation, and I was... I wanted to ask about inner radiance.
03:34:49 [Saturno (Steph)] So basically... I just shed a bright light in a 10-foot radius, and dim the light for an additional 10. At the end of my turns, each creature within 10 feet of me takes radiant damage equal to my proficiency bonus.
03:34:49 [Saturno (Steph)] So I want to cast that.
03:35:19 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:35:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
03:35:21 [Sildir (Tris)] Wait, what is it? It takes how much damage?
03:35:25 [Saturno (Steph)] They basically take radiant damage equal to my proficiency bonus.
03:35:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Is that each creature or each creature of your choice?
03:35:32 [Saturno (Steph)] Each creature within 10 feet of me.
03:35:35 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm a creature, I think. Am I close enough to you?
03:35:38 [Saturno (Steph)] That's what I was going to ask. Does it affect friendlies, or is it just enemies?
03:35:45 [DM (Aarya)] It does affect friendlies, but I will say that with a halberd, you have reach. So you can stand a little bit. You can be just out of range so that Sylvia is not caught in it and still hit Ezek.
03:35:57 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, then I'm going to do that, and then I'm going to cast my thing. So I now have light radiating from my eyes and mouth.
03:36:10 [DM (Aarya)] Wow.
03:36:11 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I just kind of look at him, and I hold out my halberd again. And then I'm just going to swing. Okay.
03:36:11 [Saturno (Steph)] And I attack with advantage still because of Memphis.
03:36:31 [DM (Aarya)] Yep. Plenty of hits, raw damage. Jesus Christ.
03:36:31 [DM (Aarya)] Let me iterate the music too.
03:36:58 [Saturno (Steph)] And then, does Memphis get to attack this turn or not? No.
03:37:06 [DM (Aarya)] You already used your bonus action, so not this turn. So not this turn next turn.
03:37:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] 13 damage because you have plus 2 also.
03:37:16 [Saturno (Steph)] And then the radiant damage is equal to my proficiency at the end of my turn, which I'm about to end.
03:37:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's another 2.
03:37:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, so I'm going to pass my turn now.
03:37:29 [DM (Aarya)] Your proficiency is 4, right? So 4 damage on this. Proficiency is...
03:37:34 [Saturno (Steph)] Proficiency is 2.
03:37:38 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it's plus 2. Oh, it's 2. Oh, yeah, right, right.
03:37:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Point to your 1 still.
03:37:41 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, that was a pretty good hit. And you see that music is now bloody.
03:37:41 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
03:37:54 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I guess just press...
03:37:55 [DM (Aarya)] I can't press next for Memphis. It's all good.
03:37:58 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, never mind. Sorry.
03:37:59 [DM (Aarya)] He will take a reaction, though, in response to your hit. And he's going to go for another vengeful strike. And this time he's going to step towards Saturn now.
03:38:09 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay. Wait, does he take the...
03:38:11 [DM (Aarya)] Opportunity. Yeah, opportunity attack, but like my booming blade. Two things.
03:38:11 [DM (Aarya)] He takes the booming blade damage. He doesn't provoke opportunity as part of the feature. So what's the booming blade damage?
03:38:24 [Saturno (Steph)] Booming blade is going to be 1d8.
03:38:27 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
03:38:28 [Saturno (Steph)] Wait, wait, hold on. Wait, what level am I? Forehead time.
03:38:28 [Saturno (Steph)] Wait, I'm level four. Okay, so... No, it's just 1d8 of thunder damage.
03:38:41 [DM (Aarya)] Go ahead and roll it. Oh, nice. Seven.
03:38:41 [DM (Aarya)] Max high roll. Um, sorry. Give me a sec.
03:38:41 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, he's going to go for... Yeah, he's going to do his vengeful strike. And that's going to be...
03:38:41 [DM (Aarya)] The battle axe. So he's going to attack. Minus 1d4 disadvantage.
03:38:41 [DM (Aarya)] 12? Do I assume that doesn't hit?
03:39:42 [Saturno (Steph)] 12 does not hit. Okay.
03:39:44 [DM (Aarya)] All right, and now it's his turn proper. He's going to go for another battle axe swing. Seven misses.
03:39:44 [DM (Aarya)] And then this time he's going to... Keep his battle axe by his side. And he's going to throw off his cloak.
03:39:44 [DM (Aarya)] Revealing an oversized, mottled red arm. It seems like demonic, almost. It's covered in putrid looking flesh and spikes jutting out at odd angles.
03:39:44 [DM (Aarya)] And he's going to level it at you. And you see fire dancing in his palm. He's going to go for...
03:40:30 [Saturno (Steph)] Let's see, that's disgusting. Let me hold my hand up.
03:40:34 [DM (Aarya)] He's going to go for... A funny move. Sorry, disadvantage.
03:40:34 [DM (Aarya)] Five. That doesn't hit, yeah? Nope.
03:40:34 [DM (Aarya)] So he hurls his flame at you and you just easily duck under it. And it just hits a rock behind you. And then he's going to take a bonus action.
03:40:34 [DM (Aarya)] He will... He's going to go for his... A flame volley.
03:40:34 [DM (Aarya)] So he's going to pick a point like... About here or so. Such that it rains down fire from his hand.
03:40:34 [DM (Aarya)] And it's going to hit both Saturno and Sildir. So both of you need to make a DC Fetching Dexterity save.
03:41:51 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
03:41:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Dexterity save.
03:41:57 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, do I have to hit?
03:41:58 [Sildir (Tris)] 20.
03:41:59 [DM (Aarya)] 20, nice. That's funny.
03:42:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Wait, which one? Dexterity. Oh, that's okay.
03:42:08 [Sildir (Tris)] 20, can I help out Saturno?
03:42:14 [DM (Aarya)] Unfortunately, no.
03:42:16 [Saturno (Steph)] Can I add the four here or no? Not for saves, right?
03:42:20 [DM (Aarya)] I don't think so.
03:42:22 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it.
03:42:22 [DM (Aarya)] Wait, so the last... The last would've... It does affect saving throws?
03:42:22 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, yeah, go ahead and roll the d4.
03:42:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's attacks and saving throws.
03:42:30 [Saturno (Steph)] Wait, whose turn is it? It's me. Well, I'm rolling to save, but I got a 12.
03:42:36 [Irredel (Sav)] But like, who's...
03:42:38 [Saturno (Steph)] It's Azak's turn. Okay.
03:42:40 [Irredel (Sav)] So yeah, the bless ends at the end of Azak's turn, because it's 60 seconds and there's eight of us, so...
03:42:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] What do you mean? It's only 60 seconds?
03:42:48 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, bless only lasts for 60 seconds. Well, it's six seconds per round, not per player turn. Oh!
03:42:55 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you're good.
03:42:58 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, everyone stay blessed up then, all right.
03:43:00 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Yeah, so that's a one on the d4, so that's gonna be a 12. She's just shy of saving.
03:43:00 [DM (Aarya)] So you're gonna take a bit of damage.
03:43:09 [Irredel (Sav)] Wait, it's really six seconds per round? I thought it was six seconds per person.
03:43:13 [DM (Aarya)] No, it's six seconds per round. It is crazy, right?
03:43:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, I think it's also like kind of supposed to be that things are kind of happening simultaneously, you know?
03:43:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. It does stretch the imagination a little bit, but it's fine. All right, so you just took six fire damage, Saturna.
03:43:24 [DM (Aarya)] I just subtracted it for you. Yeah. And then, what else?
03:43:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] But also, six seconds actually is kind of a long time if you're like swinging a sword around and shit. Like, you could do a lot of that stuff in six seconds.
03:43:48 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that's true. Stildur, you would have taken half of this, but with a nat 20, I'll say that you're able to avoid it completely. Let's go.
03:43:57 [Ember (Spurthi)] What turn?
03:43:58 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, Mercurio, your turn.
03:44:01 [Saturno (Steph)] Wait, it's not Memphis's turn?
03:44:04 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say you could move Memphis, but since you already used your bonus actions for inner radiance, they won't be able to attack.
03:44:11 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, I see. I need to wait for next round. Okay, that's fine.
03:44:15 [DM (Aarya)] I'll get a little closer. But yeah. Oh, whoops.
03:44:15 [DM (Aarya)] Mercurio.
03:44:25 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'm just kidding.
03:44:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, Merc. This guy already has disadvantage. Mercurio's stick is pointless here.
03:44:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] So I'm just going to keep making fun of him at aura farming. So I'll do another vicious mockery. She has to make a wisdom save.
03:44:51 [DM (Aarya)] And that's going to be with all his debuffs. You're just debuff stacking this guy.
03:44:59 [Saturno (Steph)] And you should tell him it's sad how desperate he wants to use his right hand.
03:45:03 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh, he got a minus two on his wisdom save.
03:45:09 [Sildir (Tris)] I've never seen that.
03:45:10 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I haven't seen that either. Okay, yeah.
03:45:12 [Saturno (Steph)] Wow, something should happen to him, I think.
03:45:14 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Well, he's going to take damage from vicious mockery.
03:45:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Instantly dies.
03:45:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I think he should instantly... His hands just...
03:45:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, I'm damaged. Five plus two, so seven.
03:45:30 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, I'll add this plus two. Um, okay. Now it's Robin's turn.
03:45:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait, and, um, and I will use a bardic inspiration on Sylgier.
03:45:55 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Let's go. Nice.
03:45:55 [DM (Aarya)] Is that a d6?
03:46:00 [Sildir (Tris)] What kind of bop is in my head right now? Uh, d6.
03:46:05 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, I think I pull out the flute when I do the vicious mockery, so... Yeah, just some Darude Sandstorm on the flute, you know?
03:46:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh wait, I think I have that for you.
03:46:14 [Saturno (Steph)] That is a soundboard sound, I think.
03:46:17 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, it's out there. Let me see.
03:46:22 [Saturno (Steph)] I got you.
03:46:25 [DM (Aarya)] Oh wait, that's not...
03:46:27 [Sildir (Tris)] There we go, I got it.
03:46:28 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:46:33 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm inspired by that for sure.
03:46:35 [DM (Aarya)] All right, Raven's turn.
03:46:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] The raven gives advantage to Ember.
03:46:43 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Um, Ember, your turn.
03:46:48 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
03:46:52 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I use my... Am I in range for a short bow?
03:46:55 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, you are.
03:46:57 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, I'll do that. Attack with advantage?
03:47:04 [DM (Aarya)] Yes.
03:47:04 [Ember (Spurthi)] Or... Okay. Did it roll?
03:47:11 [DM (Aarya)] It's so hard to read for me. Yeah, 19. Yeah, you're 19.
03:47:11 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, go ahead and roll your damage and then sneak attack.
03:47:16 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. I did attack roll. It's not letting me roll damage.
03:47:27 [DM (Aarya)] It rolled it, it's just not showing in the chat bar again. It's so weird. I think that was a 3?
03:47:27 [DM (Aarya)] Those dice are so hard to read. Yeah.
03:47:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] It was a 3. So I think, uh...
03:47:39 [DM (Aarya)] So there's gonna be a 7 with the pretext mod. Um, yeah, roll your, uh, sneak attack dice. Yeah, I'm sorry.
03:47:48 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay. I think that's a 6?
03:47:59 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say it's a 6.
03:48:01 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
03:48:03 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. All right, it's a pretty good hit. Um, all right.
03:48:11 [Sylalys (Cat)] Get, uh... I'm okay.
03:48:14 [DM (Aarya)] Got him. Yes. How's everyone feeling?
03:48:14 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, sorry.
03:48:21 [Sildir (Tris)] I, uh, you know. I'm the usual Sildur in a battle. I think he's the one that's not feeling so good.
03:48:29 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. He said the nose back hurts. Just because my back hurts right now.
03:48:39 [Sylalys (Cat)] Sildur's knees are gonna hurt. I'm carrying us.
03:48:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Is it really a fight if Sildur isn't at health or lower? Like, what are we doing right now?
03:48:50 [Saturno (Steph)] One of us isn't. It's not a rule.
03:48:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, well, it has to happen to one of us at least.
03:48:54 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. But the only people who are like...
03:48:57 [Sildir (Tris)] It's the frontliners and particularly me right now, I think. Unless you took some damage. Oh.
03:48:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Since you've been healed. It's Eterna.
03:49:05 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm, uh... Can I say the numbers? Is that cool?
03:49:05 [Saturno (Steph)] It's up to you.
03:49:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Do it anyway.
03:49:13 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm 21 out of 36. So, like, I think I'm okay. Okay, and Sildur, where are you?
03:49:20 [Sildir (Tris)] 16 out of 32.
03:49:22 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, I know you're not okay. Okay. I'm out here.
03:49:22 [Saturno (Steph)] To Sildur.
03:49:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Yay. Spay the healing word.
03:49:37 [Irredel (Sav)] Grapes the wrath.
03:49:39 [DM (Aarya)] I hate much, but it's audit's work. Let me add it. That's actually quite a bit.
03:49:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, no, that was a lot.
03:49:44 [DM (Aarya)] Good bit of healing. All right. This is the life support system.
03:49:51 [Sildir (Tris)] All righty. Is that your turn?
03:49:54 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yep.
03:49:55 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I'll end it. And now it's my turn. All right, so...
03:49:55 [Sildir (Tris)] He's, like, we learned that he's bloodied already, right?
03:50:12 [DM (Aarya)] Yes.
03:50:12 [Irredel (Sav)] We did.
03:50:14 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. In that case, I will go ahead and rip a nice little attack.
03:50:24 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Do you still have advantage from Valmet mini?
03:50:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. That's not a concentration-type beat.
03:50:33 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. It's pretty good, honestly.
03:50:37 [Sildir (Tris)] It is pretty good. So, for my attack... Oh, shit.
03:50:37 [Sildir (Tris)] What the fuck? So I need to do that, and then that. Oh my god, I hate this.
03:50:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Just go to my inventory and run it there. Exca-use me. Okay.
03:50:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Roll an attack with advantage, and I'll do plus one d4.
03:51:11 [DM (Aarya)] 24, that hits. Roll damage.
03:51:14 [Sildir (Tris)] 24. And I'm going to use a big one, baby. A big one.
03:51:14 [Sildir (Tris)] We're gonna do a divine smite. And I'm gonna use my paladin divine smite. Which I think I get.
03:51:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Hold on. Sorry, it's been a while now. I just want to make sure that paladin smite, you always have divine smite.
03:51:14 [Sildir (Tris)] In addition, you cast it without expending a spell slot once. Okay, perfect. So I'm just going to iterate that down by one manually.
03:51:14 [Sildir (Tris)] And I will not cast the spell slot. Consume the spell slot. Boom.
03:51:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Cast spell. Boom. And we'll do...
03:51:14 [Sildir (Tris)] We'll do the damage for the divine smite. We'll do the damage for this. And do I have any other things that I should have been boosting my damage with?
03:51:14 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't think so. Heart of Conspiration doesn't do that, right?
03:52:38 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so overall I did 15. 15. Yep.
03:52:38 [DM (Aarya)] Wait, really?
03:52:44 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah.
03:52:46 [DM (Aarya)] 15 from the longsword. 10 from divine smite. Does bow of enemy do damage?
03:52:55 [Sildir (Tris)] No. Am I like one off or something?
03:52:57 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know. Just asking.
03:52:59 [Sildir (Tris)] I piss on him a little bit. Does that kill him?
03:53:01 [DM (Aarya)] No, it does not, unfortunately.
03:53:03 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, shit. All right.
03:53:05 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:53:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, I'm aiming right at his arm. His big arm.
03:53:09 [DM (Aarya)] What if you sneeze on him? Get a pretty meaty swipe on his arm. Yeah, comes away drawing blood.
03:53:09 [DM (Aarya)] He's looking at you. Still standing. You're gonna take a reaction.
03:53:09 [DM (Aarya)] Vengeful strike. Yeah, and then he's gonna go for a battle axe attack. Nope.
03:53:09 [DM (Aarya)] No dice. Okay. All right, Fedona, your turn.
03:53:09 [DM (Aarya)] Nice.
03:53:50 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I'm going to once again attack with my halberd. And it's advantage.
03:54:10 [DM (Aarya)] 19.
03:54:11 [Saturno (Steph)] Is that? Yeah, that hits. That hits, yeah.
03:54:11 [Saturno (Steph)] Damage, normal, 8, and then plus the d4.
03:54:24 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. I'm going to roll second.
03:54:28 [Saturno (Steph)] That's going to be 10 total, and then plus another 2, which is the radiant damage.
03:54:34 [DM (Aarya)] Nice, okay. Yeah, Saturna, how do you do it?
03:54:41 [Saturno (Steph)] That's not fair. I want everyone to be part of this.
03:54:45 [DM (Aarya)] Just describe to me what you do.
03:54:47 [Sildir (Tris)] It's all happening in six seconds anyway. Rip him apart.
03:54:52 [Saturno (Steph)] Right after you slashed his arm, I just kind of looked at him while he was looking away at you, and I hit him with the side of my halberd really hard across the head.
03:55:04 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay.
03:55:06 [Saturno (Steph)] And then...
03:55:07 [Sildir (Tris)] What sound did that make?
03:55:10 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, I have something. Gosh. Hold on.
03:55:10 [Saturno (Steph)] Just... And then... And then, as he fell to the floor, I looked down at him with lights coming out of my mouth and my eyes, and then I guess the radiant damage is what finished him.
03:55:30 [DM (Aarya)] Cool. All right, so you swipe him cleanly on the side of the head with your halberd. You hit him.
03:55:30 [DM (Aarya)] You get him really good at this. You think you might have broken his jaw. You see teeth flying out of his mouth.
03:55:43 [Saturno (Steph)] Like in two places, maybe?
03:55:44 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, like in two places, maybe. Teeth flying out of his mouth. And he like spins from the impact, like spins in place.
03:55:44 [DM (Aarya)] He drops down to a knee.
03:55:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Little ballerina.
03:55:57 [DM (Aarya)] Breathing hard, like spitting up blood. Oh, hold on. Let me stop the music.
03:56:06 [Saturno (Steph)] Can I bring up... Remember how I couldn't fight? So funny you said that.
03:56:14 [DM (Aarya)] He's like panting hard. He's like looking down at the ground. Down on one knee, spitting up blood.
03:56:14 [DM (Aarya)] He's just... You think you've won. You don't know what you've started.
03:56:14 [DM (Aarya)] And you see him take his deformed arm. He presses it against his face. You see the arm like comes ablaze with flames streaking all over it.
03:56:14 [DM (Aarya)] You see him searing the side of his own face with the flames. And then...
03:56:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, shit. Here we go again.
03:56:56 [DM (Aarya)] Here we go. He rises to his feet. You see that the flames from his arms spread.
03:56:56 [DM (Aarya)] And you see across his body that more of it is becoming red and putrid and sprouting spikes. Um... Like, uh, like to match his arm.
03:56:56 [DM (Aarya)] And half of his face is also in that fashion.
03:57:22 [Sylalys (Cat)] Like metal spikes or like biological spikes?
03:57:25 [DM (Aarya)] Like bony looking spikes.
03:57:31 [Saturno (Steph)] Did you say scales or snails?
03:57:37 [DM (Aarya)] It's more like bony spikes, yeah. Kimi mo? True.
03:57:37 [DM (Aarya)] And then I'll update the music. Here we go.
03:57:55 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
03:57:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Basically. Oh, no.
03:57:59 [DM (Aarya)] He's gonna take a reaction to taking your hit. Um... So...
03:57:59 [DM (Aarya)] He's going to look to you, Saturno. And he's going to point at your halberd with his flaming arm. And as he does so, you see, like suddenly, like within an instant, your metal halberd heats up.
03:57:59 [DM (Aarya)] Um, and it starts glowing red hot. Um... Let me read this really quick.
03:57:59 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Give me a DC 13 constitution saving throw. For who?
03:57:59 [DM (Aarya)] You said that really fast. Uh, Saturno, DC 13 consave.
03:58:56 [Sylalys (Cat)] Oh.
03:58:57 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Um, so with a six on the save.
03:59:02 [Saturno (Steph)] What's the handle of my halberd made out of? Is it all metal or is it wooden? It's all metal.
03:59:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
03:59:09 [DM (Aarya)] Saturno, you will... Let's see. You can either drop the weapon or take 1d8 damage.
03:59:09 [DM (Aarya)] And you'll have disadvantage on your next attack with it. I could just use another weapon, right? Yeah, you have another one.
03:59:31 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I'll just drop this weapon. And pull out a different one.
03:59:36 [DM (Aarya)] Cool. All right. Um...
03:59:36 [DM (Aarya)] So now you can... If you can... If you have anything with Memphis to do, you can do that as well.
03:59:48 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I'm gonna do my attack with the greatsword. Okay. On advantage still?
03:59:48 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, today we use...
04:00:00 [DM (Aarya)] No, it wasn't you. Oh.
04:00:02 [Sildir (Tris)] What music are you playing?
04:00:03 [DM (Aarya)] This is Hellwalker from Doom 2016 soundtrack. I got 20. I gotta do something cool.
04:00:03 [DM (Aarya)] Um... That was a 19.
04:00:14 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, I wrote 20. Oh, maybe I didn't, I guess.
04:00:19 [DM (Aarya)] I think I like flipped off of it. Let me...
04:00:21 [Saturno (Steph)] Maybe. It's fine.
04:00:25 [DM (Aarya)] Let me check this quickly real quick. Yeah, yeah. Oh, there you go.
04:00:25 [DM (Aarya)] There she is. Cool. Welcome back.
04:00:25 [DM (Aarya)] I'm sorry, I left. No worries.
04:00:38 [Ember (Spurthi)] Something happened.
04:00:39 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, I'm back. No worries.
04:00:44 [Saturno (Steph)] And then plus four. Okay.
04:00:47 [DM (Aarya)] Plus four.
04:00:55 [Saturno (Steph)] And then that's the end of my turn, so plus another two.
04:01:00 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Okay, and that... All right, and then...
04:01:00 [DM (Aarya)] Let me check if he has another reaction. All right, so in response to that attack... He's going to flare...
04:01:00 [DM (Aarya)] You'll see his body flare up with sparks. Um... Saturno and...
04:01:00 [DM (Aarya)] Sildir. DC 13 con save.
04:01:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh... I can't see what mine did. Oh, there it is.
04:01:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Four. Oh my god. Bardic Inspiration will not save me, I don't think.
04:01:52 [Saturno (Steph)] Can I do anything with my d20?
04:01:56 [DM (Aarya)] Um... Yeah. You won't be able to help, but I'll tell you what you can do.
04:01:56 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So you see the sparks flaring up from Isik's body. Um...
04:01:56 [DM (Aarya)] Sildir. You... Um...
04:01:56 [DM (Aarya)] Let me roll this damage. You take 2d4 damage. That's gonna be...
04:01:56 [DM (Aarya)] Max roll. Holy shit. Eight damage.
04:02:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, that's cool.
04:02:20 [DM (Aarya)] You take eight damage and you are blinded until the end of your next turn. Um... Saturno with a nat 20, you avoid all of that.
04:02:20 [DM (Aarya)] So you're good. Got it. Okay.
04:02:20 [DM (Aarya)] Mercurio.
04:02:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, this guy's spooky. Um... Okay.
04:02:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um... So does he look... How does he look now?
04:02:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Does it look like he...
04:03:00 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, okay. Hold on. Sorry, I meant to loop this.
04:03:06 [Sildir (Tris)] It's a little much, don't you think?
04:03:08 [DM (Aarya)] Just a little bit, yeah.
04:03:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh... It looks... So he, like, got fully healed, basically?
04:03:14 [DM (Aarya)] Basically, yeah. It's almost like he entered his second phase or something.
04:03:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna cast Hold Person. Okay.
04:03:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, shoot. It's done.
04:03:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] I end Concentration on Bane.
04:03:39 [Sildir (Tris)] I liked Bane, but Hold Person. It's a goat.
04:03:43 [DM (Aarya)] Hey, wisdom save.
04:03:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] It hasn't been the difference maker much, but yeah. Hold Person.
04:03:48 [DM (Aarya)] With disadvantage. Yep. 10.
04:03:48 [DM (Aarya)] Uh... Nice.
04:03:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is he still Poison, by the way?
04:03:59 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, he's still Poison. Okay.
04:04:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um... And with my bonus action... I'm gonna give a Bardic Inspiration to Ciperno.
04:04:15 [Sylalys (Cat)] Sick.
04:04:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um... And I'm just gonna fly up above and sprinkle gold glitter over. Then, which seems to paralyze...
04:04:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um... Music. To shine my golden light down on everyone.
04:04:37 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
04:04:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Wow. I have a cool name for this move.
04:04:44 [DM (Aarya)] What is Incapacitate again? And then, uh...
04:04:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] What is Incapacitate? Huh?
04:04:55 [DM (Aarya)] Oh. So he can't do anything right now. Nice.
04:04:55 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, Hold Person's pretty good. Okay.
04:05:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, Hold Person's crazy.
04:05:06 [DM (Aarya)] Um... Was that everything?
04:05:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, that's everything. I just give advantage to Ember again.
04:05:14 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Ember, go ahead. Roll your attack with advantage.
04:05:14 [DM (Aarya)] Well, actually, hold on. Reaction. The other reaction.
04:05:14 [DM (Aarya)] At the end of your turn, uh, Mercurio, uh, Ezek takes a reaction. He is gonna do his Indomitable to re-roll the save for Hold Person.
04:05:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
04:05:46 [Sylalys (Cat)] 13. Oh, damn. So that's...
04:05:47 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, wait. Wait, no. Hold on, let me double check his wisdom.
04:05:47 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that's correct. So that was 13. He fails again.
04:05:47 [DM (Aarya)] Nice. Let's go.
04:05:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Loser.
04:05:59 [Saturno (Steph)] Loser alert. Loser alert. Okay.
04:05:59 [Saturno (Steph)] Everyone point.
04:06:02 [DM (Aarya)] Ember, go ahead. Roll your attack.
04:06:05 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Um, attack with advantage.
04:06:15 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
04:06:16 [Ember (Spurthi)] I still can't see my dice.
04:06:18 [DM (Aarya)] It hit.
04:06:19 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. And sneak attack.
04:06:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can roll the crossbow damage and sneak attack. Oh, okay. Four.
04:06:24 [DM (Aarya)] Gate roll. Yeah. Um, I think that's a five and a three, so that's eight.
04:06:24 [DM (Aarya)] Twelve, uh, plus your dex mod, so 16 damage total. Nice. Okay.
04:06:24 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you hit him with a pretty good shot from your, your shortbow and deal 16 damage. Um, Iridel, you're up.
04:07:10 [Saturno (Steph)] So when...
04:07:11 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry, really quick, again. Um, he does another indomitable trigger. Um, wisdom, saving throw, disadvantage.
04:07:11 [DM (Aarya)] Ten. Damn, that was a nat 20 I wanted to die, but yeah, disadvantage. Okay.
04:07:36 [Irredel (Sav)] All right. I have to be smart with my spell slots now, but since he is under hold person, he automatically fails any dex throws, so that means my sacred flame is gonna hit. Yep.
04:07:36 [Irredel (Sav)] Woo!
04:07:49 [DM (Aarya)] All right, go ahead and roll that damage. It ain't much, but it's all this work. Hell yeah.
04:07:49 [DM (Aarya)] Um, four radiant damage. Nice. Okay.
04:07:49 [DM (Aarya)] Killed her. Um, okay, wait, hold on. Sorry, you ended your turn.
04:07:49 [DM (Aarya)] This is his last reaction that he has for the round. It's gonna be indomitable again. Dork.
04:07:49 [DM (Aarya)] No. Dork. He fails again.
04:07:49 [DM (Aarya)] All right, Slytherin, take it away.
04:08:26 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh my.
04:08:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Mercurial sees him trying to break out, and he just reaches out a hand.
04:08:32 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
04:08:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] Force chokes him. Lifts him off the ground.
04:08:37 [DM (Aarya)] Aura farming. Oh my god. Yeah, it's really good too, because oh my god, this stab lock is something.
04:08:37 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
04:08:50 [Sildir (Tris)] I will, um, I guess I'll do, for my turn, I'll use heroism.
04:09:03 [Sylalys (Cat)] Mm-hmm.
04:09:04 [Sildir (Tris)] On myself. And end my turn. I say, I can't see!
04:09:04 [Sildir (Tris)] What the? You shot some weird red shit at me.
04:09:18 [DM (Aarya)] And you ended up getting temporary hit points equal to your spellcasting ability, Mona Fera, the start of each of your turn. Wow, so it stacks. Okay.
04:09:18 [DM (Aarya)] Um, and as you end your turn, um, the sparks from your eyes clear away, so you are no longer blinded. Um, set turn.
04:09:35 [Sylalys (Cat)] I can see.
04:09:36 [DM (Aarya)] I can fight.
04:09:39 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so I grab my greatsword, and I start swinging. Advantage because of this guy.
04:10:00 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, this is a melee attack. Is that okay? Yeah, but because he's under hold person with a melee attack, you auto crit.
04:10:11 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, lovely. Lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely.
04:10:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, the doo music is playing for Eternal right now.
04:10:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] 21 damage.
04:10:24 [DM (Aarya)] 21.
04:10:26 [Sildir (Tris)] What? 21, you say?
04:10:30 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. And then, that's it. I can't do anything else.
04:10:35 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, nice.
04:10:37 [Saturno (Steph)] Let me just end.
04:10:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, it's too long. I'm sorry. Oh, no, that was good.
04:10:42 [Saturno (Steph)] And then Memphis can't do the attack anymore. Yeah. So use him twice.
04:10:46 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, um, they're gonna, he's gonna take his, uh, overreaction.
04:10:51 [Saturno (Steph)] Plus, and there was also another two damage at the end of that because of the radiant damage. And I also didn't do the bless.
04:11:00 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, bless doesn't deal damage. It's only for the attack roll.
04:11:05 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, it's only for attack. Okay, I'm sorry.
04:11:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, yeah. Oh, well, but the base radiant, yeah. So like four more damage, basically.
04:11:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] Four radiant damage. Okay.
04:11:14 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, that's it. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you.
04:11:17 [DM (Aarya)] All right, and he's gonna redo his, uh, indomitable trigger. No, he's not. That was a three.
04:11:29 [Saturno (Steph)] No, he's not.
04:11:31 [DM (Aarya)] He failed. Okay, it's his turn. Um, he can't do anything except reroll the save at the end of his turn.
04:11:31 [DM (Aarya)] That's a four. He fails. Um, Mercurio.
04:11:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, uh, let's see. We have a, don't, don't got a ton to do because I got him locked down. Um, I cast vicious mockery.
04:12:10 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Wait, don't say it. Yep.
04:12:10 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, he does that. Oh my gosh.
04:12:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh my goodness. Um, so, uh, four damage.
04:12:30 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
04:12:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Can't you see, demon boy, that I was sent here to kill you?
04:12:38 [DM (Aarya)] Oh. Oh my. Um.
04:12:44 [Sildir (Tris)] Very intimidating.
04:12:45 [DM (Aarya)] What does a raven do?
04:12:50 [Sylalys (Cat)] Uh.
04:12:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Gives Ember advantage.
04:12:56 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Ember, try and roll your type of advantage.
04:13:01 [Sylalys (Cat)] All right.
04:13:05 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I throw my dagger at him?
04:13:08 [DM (Aarya)] You can, but it won't, it'll be less damage than your bow.
04:13:11 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. All right.
04:13:24 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know. That hits. Roll damage.
04:13:24 [DM (Aarya)] Two plus four, six, and then sneak attack. Two and two. So that's, uh, ten damage?
04:13:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, ten. Nice. And he is now bloodied.
04:13:24 [DM (Aarya)] Um, all right. Iridel.
04:14:05 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't hear Iridel.
04:14:07 [DM (Aarya)] Is she muted?
04:14:08 [Sildir (Tris)] I just don't think she said anything yet.
04:14:10 [Saturno (Steph)] Maybe she didn't say anything. I'm sorry.
04:14:12 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, no, I was contemplating. Okay, my bad, my bad.
04:14:15 [DM (Aarya)] No worries.
04:14:25 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, so.
04:14:38 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
04:14:39 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm gonna cast Guiding Bolt at the second level with advantage against this guy because he is.
04:14:48 [DM (Aarya)] On your whole person, yeah?
04:14:50 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah. Okay.
04:14:59 [DM (Aarya)] Twenty-three, that hits. Roll your damage.
04:15:06 [Sylalys (Cat)] Three.
04:15:07 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my. Fifteen damage. Nice.
04:15:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, cool.
04:15:16 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Um, he's gonna redo his whiz save. Okay, fails again.
04:15:16 [DM (Aarya)] So that's five. Um, still there.
04:15:29 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, so at the beginning of my turn, I should be gaining three temp health. And, uh, I will also go ahead and do my long sword attack, of course. Well, of course.
04:15:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Use the attack, use the advantage with a 1d4.
04:15:56 [DM (Aarya)] You crit, you gotta use kill on your whole person.
04:15:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, okay, okay. Uh, great, in that case. We'll do the crit maximum.
04:15:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Critical hit. And I also want to do. As my sword hits him.
04:16:19 [DM (Aarya)] Mm-hmm.
04:16:20 [Sildir (Tris)] In his goofy arm. I'm gonna have a divine. You know what?
04:16:29 [DM (Aarya)] That crits too.
04:16:40 [Sildir (Tris)] Does he have any fiend or undeadness about him or nah?
04:16:43 [DM (Aarya)] Nah.
04:16:45 [Saturno (Steph)] He's ugly.
04:16:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Damage. Roll. Oh, wait, does that also crit then?
04:16:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Like, do I roll this twice?
04:16:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
04:16:56 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. Again.
04:17:04 [DM (Aarya)] Double.
04:17:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Give me a better roll this time. Okay, that's better.
04:17:10 [Sylalys (Cat)] Nice.
04:17:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, no, I guess not yet. I thought I did though.
04:17:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] 10 out of 18 average damage. That was tragic.
04:17:24 [Sildir (Tris)] A little unlucky.
04:17:25 [DM (Aarya)] What was that?
04:17:26 [Sildir (Tris)] I swear I actually rolled, uh. Yeah, it was seven. Really weird though, how this is all happening.
04:17:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Anyway, I think like 17, I guess.
04:17:36 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, all right. And then he's gonna do his other indomitable. Re-roll.
04:17:36 [DM (Aarya)] Three. Failed again.
04:17:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Indomitable? It seems pretty dominable to me.
04:17:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Yeah. Pretty submissive, honestly.
04:17:57 [Sildir (Tris)] I know.
04:17:58 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh.
04:18:02 [Irredel (Sav)] Without the poison though, this would have been so bad.
04:18:04 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, the poison is doing so much work for you guys.
04:18:08 [Irredel (Sav)] The poison is really boosting our egos to a dangerous level.
04:18:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Thanks, Lady Wacter.
04:18:19 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. I attack with advantage and I crit.
04:18:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yep. Roll that critical damage.
04:18:34 [Saturno (Steph)] Critical whamage.
04:18:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. Wham. All right, Saturna.
04:18:41 [DM (Aarya)] How do you do this? Again.
04:18:46 [Saturno (Steph)] The same way I did it last time, but this time I step on his throat.
04:18:50 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh. Okay, can you describe that?
04:18:56 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. So, I hit him really hard with my greatsword on his head and I guess like I make enough of a dent that that's a problem. And then...
04:18:56 [Saturno (Steph)] I think any amount of dent is a problem. I don't know, this guy's a freak. This is built different.
04:18:56 [Saturno (Steph)] This guy has a fucking, I don't know, super engine built in his fucking arm, okay? I don't know. De tres de caballo, una mierda así.
04:18:56 [Saturno (Steph)] So...
04:19:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, so he was getting choked for way too long. I think he was, yeah, I think he liked it.
04:19:31 [Saturno (Steph)] I think I liked it.
04:19:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] Dude, this guy's a freak.
04:19:34 [Saturno (Steph)] This could be a prior comment. And then... I'd like to say that blow to the head knocks him on the floor and then I kind of just like step on his neck while I do like the last bit of my raging damage.
04:19:53 [Sylalys (Cat)] Careful, he might like that too.
04:19:55 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I'd like his last moment to be me reaching for the doll.
04:19:59 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so you're killing him.
04:20:03 [Saturno (Steph)] I guess we talked to him.
04:20:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Fuck it. Fuck it. We ball.
04:20:11 [Saturno (Steph)] What do we think? I thought the plan was to kill him.
04:20:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Kill that idiot.
04:20:17 [Saturno (Steph)] Fuck yeah, fuck it. I'm doing it.
04:20:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] Form says destroy. What would Satorno do?
04:20:23 [Saturno (Steph)] Satorno would just kill him.
04:20:24 [Sildir (Tris)] That's exactly right. What's Satorno do?
04:20:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Because I'd be terrified that he gets up, I get down, and then he kills everyone.
04:20:31 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. All right. Let's see.
04:20:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] So you... He definitely just killed a single father. Father of four.
04:20:42 [DM (Aarya)] So you...
04:20:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
04:20:44 [DM (Aarya)] You reach into his cloak. After he's dead.
04:20:49 [Saturno (Steph)] After like he's dead. Okay. Are you sure?
04:20:49 [Saturno (Steph)] Well, like, yeah, like after he's dead, I do that.
04:20:58 [Sildir (Tris)] No, damn him.
04:20:59 [Sylalys (Cat)] It's okay.
04:21:01 [DM (Aarya)] You're stepping on his throat, choking him out, basically. You see the light from his eyes, like the flames flicker and start to fade. But then you see his face, like steel with resolve.
04:21:01 [DM (Aarya)] And he chokes out, fuck you. And you see all of a sudden, flames start to sheathe him again. Oh my god.
04:21:01 [DM (Aarya)] And it looks like he's about to explode.
04:21:32 [Sildir (Tris)] That is a gooner.
04:21:34 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh my. Run.
04:21:39 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
04:21:40 [DM (Aarya)] So.
04:21:43 [Saturno (Steph)] What do we roll? Can I grab anything on time?
04:21:48 [DM (Aarya)] Like the note? You can grab like... You can like be really quickly and either grab the note or the doll.
04:21:55 [Saturno (Steph)] I'll grab the note. Okay.
04:21:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe I could grab the doll?
04:21:59 [Sylalys (Cat)] Sure.
04:22:02 [DM (Aarya)] And then the three of you, Saturno, Sildur, and Mercurio. Three of you give me dexterity saving throws.
04:22:10 [Saturno (Steph)] Why is it never athletic? Why does it never do push-ups to save yourself from the explosion?
04:22:17 [Sildir (Tris)] Great. I have the d4, right? And I have a bardic inspiration.
04:22:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, I have a bardic inspiration too. And Saturno, you're still blessed. Oh, hell yeah.
04:22:26 [Saturno (Steph)] 19.
04:22:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Holy shit, bro. Oh my god, was that a nat 1? Yeah, I nat 1'd that.
04:22:40 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so what is mine? I got 11 and then I do the d4 for the save.
04:22:46 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, y'all have bardic. Awesome.
04:22:49 [Sildir (Tris)] But bardic doesn't let me re-roll, right? No. I used that.
04:22:55 [Saturno (Steph)] Which is 14 and then bardic. How much is bardic?
04:23:00 [Sildir (Tris)] D6.
04:23:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
04:23:04 [DM (Aarya)] So what do I have Saturno as well? Did you beat a 13?
04:23:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I did.
04:23:09 [DM (Aarya)] I have 17. Okay, so Sildur, you will take all of this and then Saturno and Mercurio, you will take half. So this is gonna be...
04:23:09 [DM (Aarya)] 26 damage.
04:23:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, I'm good.
04:23:30 [DM (Aarya)] So do you live that or are you downed, Sildur?
04:23:32 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm downed.
04:23:33 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
04:23:35 [Sildir (Tris)] What's new though? Okay, whatever, I'm downed.
04:23:39 [DM (Aarya)] Come back to me, guys. Run away and come back. The force of the blast will fling the three of you, like, back a ways.
04:23:39 [DM (Aarya)] Um, but yeah, um... Yeah, I'm okay. And then Isak is dead.
04:23:39 [DM (Aarya)] Nice. That ends the encounter. Congratulations.
04:24:04 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm, uh, writing in my notes. Saturno takes him down for the second time, but he has a dead man's hand, which downed Sildur, as is tradition.
04:24:15 [DM (Aarya)] Nice.
04:24:19 [Sylalys (Cat)] Okay.
04:24:20 [Sildir (Tris)] I think that might be a good stopping point.
04:24:22 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that's pretty good.
04:24:23 [Irredel (Sav)] I will say, I am scared about whatever's gonna happen when we get back into town, if there's any, like, I don't know, people who are, um, like, you know, Isak or Baron loyalists. So I'm gonna go ahead and cast Prayer of Healing, so everyone huddle up. I'm healing all y'all.
04:24:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, maybe just huddle around me because I don't think I can move to you.
04:24:45 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, everyone huddle up.
04:24:47 [Ember (Spurthi)] I can drag. I jumped down from my tree.
04:24:51 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
04:24:53 [Sildir (Tris)] You were in the tree the whole time? Well, yeah.
04:24:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Do you have, how many, how many, how many spell slots are you still holding on to?
04:25:03 [Irredel (Sav)] I have one at the first level and two at the second level.
04:25:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, because maybe, maybe I just pick Triss up and we, we do a short rest to heal.
04:25:14 [Sildir (Tris)] I can also lay hands on myself. Not an easy question.
04:25:18 [Saturno (Steph)] I also have, um, healing hands.
04:25:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, we can burn, I'll, I'll burn my healing hands. That way you can keep on, you can hold your healing for an emergency, Mercurio. Okay, okay.
04:25:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then we'll, we could just do short rest shenanigans.
04:25:37 [Saturno (Steph)] He called me Mercurio. Just reading my sheet while talking.
04:25:48 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yeah, we're just, I just want to get us healed up.
04:25:52 [Ember (Spurthi)] I don't know what's gonna happen next.
04:25:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] This foundry's broken again. 2d4. Wow.
04:25:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, two healing. That's what you get. Get up, Sylveon.
04:25:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, man. I just kind of shake you.
04:26:16 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, don't we need his head or something? Like, yeah, probably proof, right? Maybe we could take his arm.
04:26:25 [Sildir (Tris)] We got his toy. We got his letter. But we might as well take the body part too.
04:26:32 [Saturno (Steph)] Maybe we should throw him in the ocean.
04:26:36 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so Saturna, I'd say you like stroll up to his court and you see that he is now basically a charred husk. Um, perfect. Kill sink.
04:26:36 [DM (Aarya)] And then you also see, like, lying next to him, still glowing from the heat of the impact by his silver battle axe. It's still, like, burning hot.
04:27:00 [Irredel (Sav)] Silver weapon. It's probably gonna improve.
04:27:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, although we should maybe, we should maybe hide it for now because, you know, this is like, uh, Clearly his.
04:27:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Clearly his, yeah. I think you're the battle axe, Gale.
04:27:20 [Saturno (Steph)] You can what?
04:27:21 [Sildir (Tris)] I think you're the battle axe, Gale.
04:27:23 [Saturno (Steph)] You think?
04:27:25 [Sildir (Tris)] I think so.
04:27:27 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I can't.
04:27:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you have the special weapon already?
04:27:31 [Saturno (Steph)] Do I have what thing?
04:27:32 [DM (Aarya)] She has a halberd.
04:27:33 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm just saying it should go to you, uh, by this time.
04:27:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think, I just think that, you know, I think just hold on to it in case you need a silver weapon because I know you have, like, polearm master and whatever. Oh, me or Saturno? Saturno has.
04:27:46 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, let Saturno hold it. Uh, so I just hold on to it?
04:27:49 [DM (Aarya)] I will point out that it is, like, burning hot right now, so if you touch it, you'll burn yourself. So you'd have to wait a bit for it to cool down.
04:27:56 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. I want to spoon some water onto it with my spoon.
04:28:00 [DM (Aarya)] It's gonna take a bit. I don't actually have a spoon.
04:28:03 [Sylalys (Cat)] I'm just kidding.
04:28:03 [Saturno (Steph)] Can I just kick some sand on it to cool it down?
04:28:08 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, yeah, you can do that. You can splash water on it. You can, like, kick sand over it and it'll cool it.
04:28:08 [DM (Aarya)] It'll take a few minutes, but you can cool it down enough to handle.
04:28:17 [Irredel (Sav)] So how does the explosion work as a melting point of silver?
04:28:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Or is it an alloy?
04:28:21 [DM (Aarya)] Eh, don't worry about it. It's intact.
04:28:26 [Saturno (Steph)] They were too busy playing Batman to figure that out.
04:28:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Not hot enough to kill me. My god, Steph.
04:28:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we probably also cool down his husk and then just, like, bury him somewhere.
04:28:37 [DM (Aarya)] Are you gonna take any part of him as proof?
04:28:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, you think we need proof?
04:28:46 [DM (Aarya)] Lady Fiona did specifically ask for proof, yeah.
04:28:50 [Irredel (Sav)] Wouldn't the axe be enough proof?
04:28:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I feel like the axe probably works. Is there any distinct body parts still left?
04:29:00 [DM (Aarya)] You can see that his funny arm is still, like, big and misshapen.
04:29:08 [Sildir (Tris)] We can probably keep his arm, if anything.
04:29:10 [Sylalys (Cat)] Hold on, hold on.
04:29:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Is that thing gigantic?
04:29:12 [Sylalys (Cat)] It's pretty big, yeah. But it's, like, grotesque.
04:29:15 [Irredel (Sav)] Maybe we can take a finger.
04:29:17 [Sildir (Tris)] It's not a bad idea. Or, like, the hand.
04:29:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, we rip off a big finger.
04:29:24 [DM (Aarya)] Just a finger?
04:29:28 [Sylalys (Cat)] I feel like there's gonna bite us in the butt. Yeah, you know what?
04:29:31 [DM (Aarya)] We just gotta look and take the fucking arm.
04:29:34 [Sildir (Tris)] He didn't have, like, a signet ring or anything like that?
04:29:38 [DM (Aarya)] Um, not really, no.
04:29:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Guy's a dork.
04:29:45 [Irredel (Sav)] What's the letter say, by the way? Yes. Yeah.
04:29:48 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes, yes. Okay, good question. All right, so which one took it?
04:29:54 [Saturno (Steph)] I took the letter.
04:29:55 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so you have with you a scrap of parchment. It is slightly singed from the blast, but you can still make out the letter. Well, not letters, exactly.
04:29:55 [DM (Aarya)] The symbols on it. Um, I will drop it.
04:30:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Symbols.
04:30:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, I know what this is.
04:30:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, no. The weird letters.
04:30:30 [Saturno (Steph)] Use the Pokemon ones, right?
04:30:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, that's Kunti Regirock.
04:30:40 [Sylalys (Cat)] Oh my gosh. Thank you.
04:30:47 [Irredel (Sav)] This is the same thing that was on those altars, right?
04:30:50 [DM (Aarya)] No, not on the altars. You encountered this on some notes in the wizard tower. The same style of script.
04:31:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] In the wizard's tower, right?
04:31:11 [DM (Aarya)] Yes.
04:31:16 [Mercurio (Gui)] What could it mean, the plot thickens?
04:31:24 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, and you also have the doll.
04:31:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] We did study the old runes that we saw. Is it exactly the same or? Which runes?
04:31:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Or the ones from the wizard's tower?
04:31:34 [DM (Aarya)] Like on the notes?
04:31:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
04:31:38 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can tell that the script is the same, but you weren't able to decipher it or anything.
04:31:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] But is it a different message or the same?
04:31:45 [DM (Aarya)] It's a different message. This one is much shorter than that message. That one was longer.
04:31:45 [DM (Aarya)] I'll bump it in chat again for you. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. Actually, okay, I'll just like repaste.
04:32:03 [Sildir (Tris)] Does anyone know about the doll? Would that be enough proof? Or is that more like a private thing?
04:32:07 [DM (Aarya)] It seemed like a private thing. Also, I'll tell you something about the doll in a sec as well.
04:32:12 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I'm just going to say we lop off his hand.
04:32:16 [DM (Aarya)] All right, this was the message from the tower. And the doll, it's singed from the blast cylinder, but you can, looking at it, you can tell pretty clearly that this doll eerily, like uncannily, resembles Irina.
04:32:38 [Sildir (Tris)] The fuck? Well, this is bizarre, guys. I'm pretty sure this is the doll that I just took off of Ezic, but it looks a heck of a lot like Irina.
04:32:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Did anyone like make an Irina doll or something? In our group and somehow landed in my pocket? If not, this guy had an Irina doll.
04:33:00 [Saturno (Steph)] I knew he was a creep.
04:33:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I'll say this is bizarre. Wait, didn't she have dreams about this lake?
04:33:17 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. A weird lake.
04:33:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] Or, well, it wasn't this lake, right?
04:33:25 [Sylalys (Cat)] She dreams about a lake and her father. Wait, what did Aria say?
04:33:31 [DM (Aarya)] She said she dreamed about a lake, and she remarked that that was weird because Barovia Village is not near any lake. But upon reaching Vallaki, she did make a point of wanting to see this lake. And upon seeing it, she noted that it was the same lake from her dream.
04:33:31 [DM (Aarya)] What the fuck?
04:33:58 [Saturno (Steph)] How old is this guy compared to her?
04:34:01 [Sildir (Tris)] This guy, like Irina's dad or something?
04:34:05 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't know.
04:34:05 [Mercurio (Gui)] No, we knew about her dad.
04:34:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, but maybe that was all a lie. Well, you know, the real dad is the one that steps up. Am I right?
04:34:19 [Saturno (Steph)] So... I'm not the stepdad. I'm the dad who stepped up.
04:34:22 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my god. Absolutely right.
04:34:24 [Saturno (Steph)] I mean, silly.
04:34:27 [DM (Aarya)] Sure.
04:34:30 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, shall we get rid of this body and get back to Fiona so she can do whatever it is she's going to do?
04:34:37 [Sylalys (Cat)] Yes, please.
04:34:38 [Sildir (Tris)] I walk over to the dead body and I say, before we do that, give me a hand, old pal. And I sliced off his hand. The big one.
04:34:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh my gosh. And I'm just gonna carry that around so we can give it to Wacter.
04:34:50 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Nice.
04:34:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Whatever she does, she better compensate us fairly. This was a job perfectly executed.
04:35:01 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Yeah.
04:35:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Things don't usually go this well for us, but today they really did.
04:35:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Do not laugh.
04:35:13 [DM (Aarya)] Feels too correct. Wait, who's not supposed to laugh?
04:35:17 [Sildir (Tris)] You.
04:35:18 [DM (Aarya)] Me? What's wrong?
04:35:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Do not laugh.
04:35:21 [DM (Aarya)] What? I didn't do anything. You guys won.
04:35:21 [DM (Aarya)] You guys beat the guy.
04:35:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Did I tell you that I'm in New York, by the way?
04:35:28 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, shit.
04:35:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, I killed our DM.
04:35:35 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my goodness. Well, yeah, I think that's a good stopping point. Um, yeah, good job everyone on a fight well fought.