Session 24 - Transcript

00:01 DM: "One sec,"
00:02 Saturno: "I knew I'm going to."
00:04 Sildir: "All right. AI, you don't have permission to use my voice or anything I'm saying. Ka-chow. With that..."
00:14 DM: "one sec, one sec. Okay, I have the other recording going now as well. All right,"
00:19 Sildir: "Let me say that again."
00:19 DM: "this is Phantom Chains, session 24. Tristan, you can do your spiel."
00:27 Sildir: "AI, you're not allowed to use my voice or anything that I'm saying. You have no permission from me. But session 23 recap. I started off recording how a couple people were feeling."
00:45 Ember: "Thank you."
00:47 DM: "Thank you."
00:49 Sildir: "Still there was feeling like it could be worse overall. You know, it's like clearly not great. Right then. But feeling like maybe we can still do stuff, keep moving. In relation to just like the events that led us to where we are now, which is waking up in the church at the beginning of last session, at least. um, there's some reflection from ember on losing her arm and wondering how she can help. um, iridel is feeling well rested and a bit guilty and,"
01:33 Ember: "Thank you."
01:32 Sildir: "as we're kind of sharing our internal monologues, the coffin maker, henrik. perhaps henrik comes into the church. henrik comes into the church, As Sildur would pronounce it."
01:42 DM: "Thank you, Henrik."
01:53 Sildir: "He's a friend of Lucian's, as we know. He's the coffin maker. He knows Saturno's halberd and says he hopes it's been treating her well. Henrik gives a speech on the power of having good friends by your side in battle. And Saturno gains a new ability. So, reminder for Saturno to... use that bad boy, whatever it is. I actually forget what it was, but I think it was cool."
02:22 Ember: "Oh."
02:20 Sildir: "Sildur is getting ready to go now. I think probably everybody was, but just reading my notes. Because they have to help Erwin's father. Mercurio is also in a bit of a somber mood, continuing along with the recap of how Erwin's feeling."
02:37 DM: "Okay."
02:38 Sildir: "But perks up at the mention of going to Erwin's winery for obvious reasons. uh, irdel and ember help to fix the shield to sildar's arm, which he won't be able to like unequip very easily but seems to hold pretty well."
02:57 DM: "Yeah."
02:58 Sildir: "uh, also, sildir gets the manuscript of lugdanos that father bryce uh promised him. um Beardell mentions- after Mercurio brings it up actually, that she has already implemented a Dewey Decimal System for the church and that the fathers should spend some time looking at their new organization, And we also discussed some potential group names. So far I think we really have Mercurio and the Mercs."
03:42 DM: "That's right."
03:42 Sildir: "and, uh, sesim s-e-s-i-m, which i think is just our the first letter of each of our names. um,"
03:53 Saturno: "Thank you."
03:55 Mercurio: "And messy."
03:56 Sildir: "the messes- yeah, that's right. yeah, the messes, which we have no idea who that is, but it just sounds like he's an incredible person."
04:08 DM: "Please don't use that one."
04:11 Sildir: "um, Yeah, maybe we'll bring soccer to Barovia. That would be cool. Anyways, as we're leaving, we see Irina and Lucien. They're both planting some new flowers in the flower bed. Yeah, Irina says things about herself that I'm not going to recap, I'm just going to move on. Uh. we're walking out of town we bump into the children of erwin and danica um and they give mercurio a pendant in the shape of a silver feather."
05:07 Ember: "you*..."
05:00 Sildir: "and then we leave through the western gates of the lucky continue heading west. We have a three hour or so trip ahead of us to the winery down the old Zvalik road. There are several kind of side paths along the way. I think we ignore them for the most part. Along the way there is a wooden bridge that is looking a little shabby, uh, and under a loose plank we actually find a chest, um, where there is a riddle lock which is solved by sildar saying monster hunter, um, and honestly, saturnos kind of solved it. i think saturno said maybe someone who kills werewolves, and that kind of prompted sildar's brain. uh, the lock opens. inside there's 20 silver tipped crossbow bolts, two emergency rations and two potions of healing. and, yeah, as i said, there was a few like odd paths, um,"
06:23 Ember: "Thank you."
06:23 Sildir: "on one of them we see a cute shaman looking woman with an axe and obsidian accessories and we wonder if they're another druid or like old folk, first folk type of people, um, and mercurio, upon playing a song, starts having a vision, um, where he kind of basically sees that this woman is likely mountain folk. anyways, we march along, continuing towards erwin's father's house winery and, um, yeah, reminder from mercurio, there is probably still more magic to be uncovered within the flute, uh, but along our path We come across another bridge which would lead us to Krezic, but we're not going that way- And there's another one of the Order of the Silver Dragon. He is, He's very similar to Tommy. He doesn't really tell us much else, aside from what Tommy had already told us- And we named this one Timmy, since he also doesn't remember his name. He warns us of danger on the road and danger of trees. That's like the kind of the novel information I would say that he gave us, along with, you know, just confirming that there are remnants of the first folks still running around today. but when we come to a narrowing in the path, we see the brush is far more dense and um, we end up fighting some live plants. we beat the crud out of them,"
08:23 Mercurio: "you*..."
08:18 Sildir: "and then we also theorize that these plant creatures wouldn't be smart enough to set up a trap themselves, which we found, and we wonder who would have done it. we continue along the path. We find another standing stone. This one had a wolf with three-pointed star. Another one that we had was a raven with three-pointed star. Iredel doesn't feel anything super interesting about this one, despite her connection to the wolves, just as a note. And as we move along further, we see the shadowy silhouette of a cloaked figure appearing to be an old man. um, i think sildur kind of takes the leap of faith and like comes to approach him, uh, basically,"
09:07 DM: "Sure."
09:07 Sildir: "like he's not really responding to us and he's like y'all need to shut up, they're gonna hear us. and he takes us down into this uh trap door and down there we find that this is uh, mardikov, father of erwin, grandfather of erwin's kids and father-in-law to donika."
09:30 Ember: "Thank you."
09:30 DM: "His name stayed him."
09:30 Sildir: "and how did i? i thought, oh, mardikov is the last name, yeah,"
09:35 DM: "Yeah."
09:36 Sildir: "davian. um, yeah, he's also father to several other people and in-laws with many other people too, and he runs this winery and he's probably leader of the friends of the feather. he does a lot of stuff, um, but he also lets us know that the druids have taken over his vineyard. the druids we have confirmed to be, uh, you know, aka the forest folk. um, they were accompanied by several dozen blights which were made from a cutting of the tree on yester hill and there's, uh, we know that there are also three greater stricks made by the great swap which swamp witch baba lazaga. hopefully i said that right. um, if we can save the winery by clearing out the druids, he will give us the full aid of the keepers of the feather. the motives of the aggressors are mysterious, you don't quite know, um, but they may have a beef with the mardukovs, since livius uh fought alongside lugdana and livius was a mardukov. livius was the excellent, outstanding archer. also, the leader of the druids wields a strange magical staff that seems to power all the blights. um, we have some interpersonal, i guess, quick reminder as well. this is probably relevant enough. um, we're going to use a tunnel in the south of the cavern that ends in the cellar of the winery to like kind of break in and also drew, the druids wield thunder magic which, if they get to use it, will alert the other druids."
11:43 Mercurio: "Okay."
11:44 Sildir: "um, might be useful information for us on our next leg of the journey here. uh, there's also a little fucking indignant child who says we're gonna die and silder beefs with him big time. um, and,"
12:07 DM: "Yeah,"
12:07 Sildir: "yeah,"
12:07 DM: "I think Saturno. Yeah,"
12:08 Sildir: "i think that's kind of the most of it."
12:09 DM: "that's right."
12:10 Sildir: "yeah,"
12:09 DM: "He said Saturno."
12:10 Sildir: "saturn was also pissed."
12:11 DM: "Yeah."
12:11 Sildir: "i didn't know that down as well,"
12:13 DM: "Yeah."
12:13 Saturno: "I hate kids."
12:12 Sildir: "but i remember being molding myself, so the feelings came flooding back to me."
12:17 DM: "Yeah. Yeah."
12:18 Sildir: "all my rage for onedrive was just handled at that child."
12:21 DM: "It seems Saturno and Sildur have very similar opinions about children."
12:27 Sildir: "um, indignant ones, yeah, yeah, i mean the regular ones are fine."
12:32 DM: "The regular ones. Yeah."
12:36 Sildir: "there's also just a ton of people down there. many, like many, of the mardukov relatives are hanging around this cave right now,"
12:38 Ember: "Thank you."
12:42 Sildir: "just you know, stewing in their sadness. so that's what's up. that's my recap. um yeah*."
12:59 DM: "next: very nice recap."
13:00 Mercurio: "Okay."
13:01 DM: "thank you for that, tristan. um, and you know what i really feel like i should be doing this more, but i was going to give you inspiration for recapping. but you already have inspiration. so there you go,"
13:18 Saturno: "Yeah."
13:23 DM: "All right. So with that we'll say you guys short rest at the end of the last session. So if you hadn't done that, then please go ahead and do that now. I think most, if not everyone, already has done that. it looks like I see Saturna Ember Iridil."
13:13 Sildir: "okay yay i'm inspired i'm at full health so i'm assuming yes*..."
13:39 DM: "Sildur, and Mercuria. Okay, so you did all short rest. I'll also say, I'll give you guys an opportunity for, I guess this applies to the casters among you, if you want to prepare spells as you see fit for this upcoming winery encounter, I'll give you a minute to do that. Um..."
13:59 Sildir: "Maybe I will."
13:57 Mercurio: "I was going to say, open question to the casters of the party, if anybody knows the silence spell."
14:11 Irredel: "Oh, I do."
14:13 Mercurio: "Okay,"
14:13 Ember: "Thank you."
14:13 Mercurio: "that'll be really useful if we're fighting people that use thunder magic."
14:21 Irredel: "Oh, okay, cool."
14:22 Mercurio: "Yeah."
14:23 Saturno: "word that you're going to say."
14:23 Mercurio: "Thunder magic is basically sound magic. So,"
14:28 Irredel: "All right."
14:29 Mercurio: "you know."
14:29 Irredel: "I will prepare that one, and I'll unprepare Prayer of Healing, because that one takes a lot. It's like 10 minutes to cast, even though it has good."
14:35 DM: "It's meant to be an out-of-combat spell,"
14:38 Irredel: "Yeah."
14:40 Sildir: "Boomer Blade, am I right?"
14:43 Saturno: "Hell yeah."
14:44 DM: "yeah. Blooming Blade's a cantrip. You don't need to prepare that one. You just have that."
14:48 Sildir: "No, but it's booming."
14:48 Irredel: "You."
14:49 Sildir: "It's noisy."
14:50 Mercurio: "Yeah, that,"
14:51 DM: "Mm-hmm."
14:50 Sildir: "And it reminds me of Thunder Magic,"
14:51 Mercurio: "that, that,"
14:52 Sildir: "if it's not actually."
14:53 Mercurio: "It is, yeah. That also won't work inside the area of a silence spell."
14:58 Sildir: "Hmm, maybe good for Saturno to note."
15:01 Mercurio: "Yeah."
15:03 Saturno: "I'll have to hit harder. I'll have to roll a dice harder."
15:07 Sildir: "Boom even more boomy."
15:09 Mercurio: "Well, I guess..."
15:09 Saturno: "I'll have to... Satoono has a solution."
15:14 Mercurio: "Saturno,"
15:11 Saturno: "She's just gonna scream every time she hits and hope that does the same effect."
15:14 Mercurio: "no. We're trying to be sneaky. The point is to not..."
15:21 DM: "Yeah."
15:22 Ember: "Ka-ching!"
15:20 Saturno: "So you've had shut up magic all this time and you've let those kids talk this whole time?"
15:26 DM: "Actually,"
15:26 Mercurio: "No I don't."
15:27 DM: "notably, Airedale did use silence one other time in the campaign to stop Sildur from digging himself into a hole with Strahd, I think."
15:35 Sildir: "I think so, yeah."
15:35 DM: "It was the use..."
15:38 Saturno: "You know, when we see those kids that they just don't know how to shut up and they're just being cringe, you got to do them a favor. They're going to grow up and they're going to be like, why did I say that? And then they'll be like, oh, that nice lady shut me up. Oh, thank God."
15:49 Irredel: "yeah you have to help people who can't help themselves sometimes*..."
15:58 Saturno: "Exactly. Me too. Like, feel free to use it on me. I don't know how to shut up."
16:06 DM: "Although, when Saturna does it, I think it tends to be more charming. True."
16:11 Sildir: "And we need a spell of hold sandal from being thrown at the town mayor."
16:17 DM: "True. Yeah."
16:17 Mercurio: "I might need to do some studying and learn this spell for myself honestly I don't I don't*..."
16:24 Sildir: "I guess..."
16:24 Irredel: "I guess."
16:24 DM: "Take a second to prepare stuff. I'll also say you would have gotten... I mean, Davion already gave you guys the rundown of their own scouting reports that they've been doing, so you guys know that there's a number of druids and then a bunch of blights, like... Tree blights, vine blights, etc. Well, not tree blights. Vine blights and twig blights inside the winery."
16:49 Mercurio: "Mm-hmm."
16:50 DM: "So you're expecting to meet a fair amount of resistance. Your target is the head druid who wields a gulthias tree staff. And Davion told you that he was seen lurking around the upper levels of the winery."
17:06 Ember: "Thank you."
17:06 DM: "And you will be entering from the cellar, so the lowermost level."
17:13 Irredel: "Okay."
17:13 Sildir: "team is there any way i could use a locate object spell here*..."
17:19 DM: "Locate object, I believe you would need to have seen the object already in order for that to work. Yeah."
17:29 Sildir: "if you have seen it up close within 30 feet at least once but i can also locate the nearest object of a particular kind*..."
17:42 DM: "Really? Let me see. Locate object. Yeah,"
17:50 Sildir: "You want to ping it?"
17:51 DM: "I think that'd be helpful."
17:54 Sildir: "Let me not consume the spell slot or use a measure template or do the concentration. There you go."
18:01 DM: "It's going to name an object that is familiar to you. You sense the direction to the object. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."
18:08 Ember: "you*..."
18:06 DM: "It's going to have an object known to you if you haven't seen it up close. Alternatively, it'll look at the nearest object of a particular kind, such as a certain kind of weapon of peril. Okay, so if you were just looking for a generic staff, I'd say that would work. But this is a particularly unique staff, so you would have need to have seen it."
18:25 Sildir: "What if it's the only staff in the whole area? I'm just kidding. It's fine. I will stop now. I think you're saying, just don't use it, bro."
18:31 DM: "You can take that bet if you want."
18:33 Sildir: "Yeah, yeah. I'm good. I'm sure, like,"
18:35 Mercurio: "Yeah."
18:35 Sildir: "10 staffs will mysteriously spawn in as I do that, so I'm okay."
18:39 DM: "Yeah. Notably, druids aren't known for using stabs or anything. They don't have a cantra specifically for that or anything like that."
18:48 Sildir: "Well."
18:48 DM: "Um..."
18:50 Sildir: "Kind of cringe."
18:52 DM: "but yeah,"
18:53 Sildir: "Using staffs."
18:54 DM: "so if you guys are ready in terms of like spell fresh preparation, let me know. um, it's up to you to figure out, like, what sort of plan of action you're going to take here."
19:05 Ember: "mm-hmm*..."
19:04 DM: "you might just be like going through floor by floor, clearing everyone like swat style, or maybe you want to take like a stealthier approach. um, that's up to you guys to strategize*."
19:17 Mercurio: "I mean, I think either could work. We could try to sneak around or we can try to just clear everything out. It definitely sounds like we need that staff, though. We should be focused on."
19:30 Irredel: "you*..."
19:30 Mercurio: "We could be here our whole fucking lives clearing out twig blights. So we probably do want to try to just find the guy with the MacGuffin staff."
19:44 Sildir: "It's on the upper floor, right?"
19:49 DM: "All right. I'm going to go ahead and switch the scene for you guys. I'll say... You guys will be discussing amongst yourselves any plans or such that you guys are undertaking as you're making your way down through the tunnels that lead to the cellar."
20:06 Mercurio: "Yeah. Did we notice anything? Anyone notice anything about the twig blights that was particularly effective or anything? Can we just set them on fire or something?"
20:23 Sildir: "Wow."
20:19 DM: "I'll say that Davian would have cautioned you against using fire because he doesn't want you to burn down the winery."
20:30 Mercurio: "Mm-hmm."
20:32 Sildir: "Beggar and a chooser."
20:35 DM: "Whether or not you choose to heed that advice is up to you."
20:43 Mercurio: "Well, I don't have any fire magic anyways,"
20:44 Irredel: "Thank you."
20:45 Mercurio: "so."
20:50 DM: "All right, so let me make sure I have the correct pages open for my notes."
21:02 Ember: "Okay."
21:00 DM: "It's going to be a lot of blurbs I'm writing to you guys tonight. Let's see, let's see. OK. I'm going to, yeah, let me activate this scene. You guys aren't here. I think I have music for this as well. Let me see. Is this what I want? Now this one, this is what I want. I think most of you have loaded in. Let me know if I'm missing anyone. I don't know, are you in the same yet?"
21:47 Saturno: "I'm still lonely."
21:48 DM: "Yeah, no worries."
21:50 Irredel: "Thanks."
21:50 DM: "In the meanwhile,"
21:44 Ember: "you you*..."
21:52 DM: "You guys are making your way through the cramped stone corridors leading from the cave. It's a twisting and turning series of passages that you make your way through. And eventually you come upon a bit of a cavernous room that leads to a door that presumably leads into... the cellar, uh, the make of this door. you get the impression that from the other side, it is a secret door, so not easily located, uh, which would explain why the druids themselves have not, uh, found this door. and um, yeah, I'll let you guys arrange yourselves as you see fit. um, the tunnel that you see, leading like to the bottom part of the map, is where the door is."
22:42 Mercurio: "Damn, that tunnel's loud."
22:45 Sildir: "Erdel,"
22:46 Irredel: "It's only one step."
22:46 Sildir: "are you ready to cast Silence?"
22:47 DM: "Is there like an ambient noise in this tent?"
22:50 Mercurio: "Yeah, when you peek the hallway,"
22:55 DM: "Really?"
22:53 Mercurio: "it's like a loud flute, and then if you, like, dip away,"
22:58 DM: "Oh,"
22:58 Mercurio: "it's gone."
22:59 Sildir: "Oh."
22:58 DM: "that's so weird. That's..."
23:01 Sildir: "It's funny, one step down, it's actually not as bad either, if you go into the tunnel."
23:06 Mercurio: "Oh."
23:05 Sildir: "Just that one tile."
23:07 Mercurio: "That's so weird."
23:07 DM: "I don't know why that is. That's so strange. Let me see. Let me just get rid of this, actually. There."
23:14 Sildir: "Kind of like stimmy."
23:14 DM: "I think that should help. How's that?"
23:17 Mercurio: "Yeah, that's better."
23:18 DM: "Okay, cool."
23:20 Sildir: "Duh."
23:21 DM: "Satona,"
23:21 Sildir: "That's what it sounded like."
23:22 DM: "how are we doing?"
23:24 Saturno: "It still says 99%."
23:26 Ember: "Thank you."
23:26 DM: "That's weird."
23:28 Saturno: "I can refresh."
23:29 DM: "Yeah, maybe try that."
23:30 Mercurio: "Wait, what's 99%? Oh."
23:32 DM: "Oh, wait. Okay, I see. You're refreshed. You just disappeared on the thing for a sec."
23:36 Saturno: "Oh, I just wasn't loading it. It kept saying 99%, but it wasn't."
23:45 DM: "Oh, okay. You're in now, right?"
23:47 Saturno: "Yeah, no, I see now I'm here."
23:49 DM: "Yeah, I'll give you guys a second to arrange yourselves as you see fit. Yeah. And whenever you guys want to proceed, go ahead and move down towards the door. So the door is right here on the map."
24:11 Ember: "Noted."
24:12 DM: "This sequence, while you guys are within the winery, I'm going to treat it like a dungeon crawl. So the positions that your tokens are on the map will be the positions that I'll treat where you actually are. So keep that in mind as we're moving through it."
24:31 Sildir: "Roger, roger. All right. Cool. So I don't mind leading the way. But I do want to make sure, and I would say to Iridel."
24:50 Irredel: "Yeah,"
24:51 Sildir: "Oh,"
24:51 Irredel: "I don't think you need to be leading the way right now. You can let someone else go."
24:55 Ember: "Okay."
24:56 Sildir: "so Turner, you want to get up there?"
25:00 Saturno: "Sure, yeah. You*..."
25:02 Sildir: "But Iridal, I appreciate your concern, but I'd come over to mention, you know, make sure you're ready to cast Silence. Have it ready to launch."
25:13 Saturno: "don't want me to open up, right?"
25:15 Mercurio: "yeah,"
25:16 Irredel: "Yeah,"
25:16 Sildir: "Ready."
25:16 Irredel: "of course I'm ready."
25:15 Mercurio: "if we see any of those druids, we don't want them thundering their spells through the whole winery."
25:27 Saturno: "Okay, so..."
25:29 Mercurio: "yeah,"
25:30 Saturno: "I'm gonna open. Yeah."
25:29 Mercurio: "let's do it*."
25:35 Saturno: "Uh, excuse me."
25:37 DM: "Yeah,"
25:37 Sildir: "I'm right behind*..."
25:37 DM: "I'll open this door for you."
25:39 Saturno: "Knock knock."
25:40 DM: "OK,"
25:40 Saturno: "Okay."
25:40 DM: "so as you open this door,"
25:43 Saturno: "I fall in a hole. That's what it fucking feels like."
25:47 DM: "Yeah,"
25:48 Ember: "Thank you."
25:48 DM: "so you very gently push this door as carefully as you can so as not to make too much noise. There is a bit of a slight scraping noise as this door opens. It doesn't appear that you have alerted anyone. And as you poke your head out the door and take a quick peek around to your left and right, you can see here there are, let me see. um the wooden pillars and beams here support the 10 foot high ceiling of this unseasonably warm cellar,"
26:27 Mercurio: "Okay."
26:24 DM: "which is split in two by a five foot thick brick wall. um the a thick, humid mist curls across the floor, which is crisscrossed by tiny black roots. um so this cellar, you you can tell, is split into like two sections, on your left and on your right. um the middle section is like the tunnel that you guys are currently in, which is hidden And Saturno. as you're peeking out, you can hear some shuffling noises coming from the eastern part of the room."
26:59 Saturno: "Okay. I'll let the team know that, and I'll be like, so should we head... Eastern part being, like, my east that I see, like..."
27:13 Mercurio: "the right*..."
27:14 Saturno: "Yeah, please. Okay,"
27:11 DM: "yeah so yeah for cardinal directions i'll just treat it as like north is the top of the screen and then south is the bottom*..."
27:16 Saturno: "okay, so... I'll be like, maybe we should go to our, well, left of what I'm seeing. Um, this way? I think I hear something coming from, like, the right side."
27:30 Sildir: "I*..."
27:30 Saturno: "Or we just go to the right side."
27:34 Ember: "Hello."
27:33 DM: "If you guys intentionally want to be sneaky about how you move about, I'll have you guys do stealth checks. Otherwise, if you're not trying to be sneaky, you can just move."
27:44 Saturno: "What do we think?"
27:47 DM: "I'll also say..."
27:46 Sildir: "feel like Rob's going to try to be sneaky, but..."
27:49 Mercurio: "We're not the best at being sneaky, but we can try."
27:52 DM: "i'll also say i do want to try some like, uh, group action, role type stuff."
27:58 Ember: "Hello."
27:58 DM: "um, so if you guys are being stealthy, like as you're moving, i'll let you designate one person to be the lead and they'll be leading the group and make a stealth check and everyone else will make a stealth check. that'll add up like a bonus to the leader's role, or add or subtract a bonus. i'll say depends on your roles."
28:18 Sildir: "Does the leader need to be like a leader in every role or just one role?"
28:23 DM: "um, it'll be like, per instance, so like here, just like move about this room. i'll just have you guys do like one check if you go to the next floor and like they're on for each like, um, each distinct section of the winery will be like its own role. basically,"
28:41 Sildir: "All right."
28:42 Ember: "I mean, yeah,"
28:42 Sildir: "I think maybe Ember should get us through this part."
28:44 Ember: "my dexterity is pretty high, so my stealth should be high too."
28:48 DM: "yeah, Okay, so, Ember, that was a 25 stealth check."
28:57 Sildir: "Jeez,"
28:57 DM: "I'll let you..."
28:58 Sildir: "it's hard to lower all with a plus 10. That's nice."
29:00 DM: "Yeah. I'll let you move towards the front of the group. Um... yeah so from there as you step out ember you are able to see let's see let's see uh each half of the cellar here features an eight foot tall wooden partition that doubles as a wine rack the western rack stands empty but the eastern one is filled with wine bottles or is half filled with wine bottles Both racks are covered by a thick, choking tangle of vines, interwoven with strands of green ivy bearing blood-red spots and sharp, wicked thorns. You see several silhouettes move behind the eastern rack,"
29:45 Sildir: "you*..."
29:43 DM: "including one with a full rack of antlers. So... Yeah. I'll say if you move towards them, you will run the risk of alerting anyone who's there."
29:52 Ember: "okay I will move towards the eastern rack okay*..."
30:06 DM: "So yeah, you can have a minute now to choose if you want to move to engage or if you want to let someone else take the lead or however else you want to strategize here."
30:21 Ember: "Hmm."
30:21 Sildir: "So what's the decision point? Sorry."
30:25 DM: "Basically,"
30:26 Irredel: "Thank you."
30:26 DM: "you guys know that there are others in the cellar, like, to the east. Moving about, like, in and around the racks there. You guys are just, like, deciding how to, like, approach or engage or what have you. Also, I'll say, Ember, over here you can see a door that leads out of the cellar, presumably to the upper levels. but to reach that door, you would be venturing into the line of sight of the others. Actually, also, there is the door here, but there's also a door on the far southeast corner and also one on the southwest corner that you also assume lead elsewhere into the winery."
31:21 Ember: "If we go westwards, do we still have like a line of sight on like the east side?"
31:28 DM: "You haven't detected anyone from the west, so as long as everyone doesn't roll poorly on their stealth as they move through, you won't alert anyone going towards the west."
31:39 Saturno: "We're trying to be stealthy, just to be sure."
31:41 DM: "That's for you guys to decide."
31:45 Ember: "Okay, I turned back."
31:45 Saturno: "Because I don't think we're a stealthy bunch."
31:49 Sildir: "I think we'll try our best,"
31:51 Saturno: "Yeah."
31:51 Ember: "Okay."
31:54 Saturno: "Yeah."
31:50 Sildir: "but I wouldn't expect much of us being filthy."
31:54 DM: "Another thing I'll note that if you are trying to be stealthy and if you alert someone, they'll just engage you right away. If you decide to surprise attack someone before they can detect you, then you'll have a round of surprise in that combat encounter. So,"
32:12 Ember: "Okay."
32:12 DM: "a consideration."
32:14 Ember: "Okay. Am I allowed to ask my team?"
32:19 DM: "Yeah, yeah. You guys can decide amongst yourselves what you want to do."
32:22 Ember: "Okay. All right. What are we thinking? What's the move?"
32:32 Saturno: "I mean, we could try to be stealthy."
32:35 Mercurio: "Yeah,"
32:35 Sildir: "Yeah,"
32:35 Mercurio: "I mean,"
32:36 Sildir: "I don't know."
32:36 Irredel: "As in all things, I urge caution."
32:42 Mercurio: "the druids might not be bad guys, so I don't particularly want to fight them. I mean, it sounds like it might be that there's that witch, you know, that's sort of compelling them to do this. So I think we should try to avoid as much violence as we can."
33:05 Ember: "Okay. So West."
33:09 DM: "Okay, so Ember, with your stealth roll of 25, you will be able to make it all the way to that door without trouble. Anyone else following will also need to make a stealth check. You'll have to beat a 10. If you're wearing heavy armor..."
33:24 Sildir: "Is that like boosted by Ember's performance?"
33:27 DM: "Yeah, exactly."
33:29 Sildir: "Okay."
33:31 Ember: "Thank you."
33:30 DM: "So anyone wearing heavy armor... Oh my... Anyone making heavy armor will be making that check with disadvantage. And Iridel, you just rolled a 5 stealth check. Yeah, I'll let everyone else... Oh, wow. That was a..."
33:48 Mercurio: "We're doing so good."
33:52 Sildir: "Alright,"
33:51 Mercurio: "We're so good at this."
33:52 Irredel: "It's fantastic,"
33:52 Sildir: "we're not stealthy."
33:53 Irredel: "dude."
33:54 DM: "That's a 4 stealth from Sildur and a 6 stealth from Saturno. A 13 from Mercuria. So Mercuria, with a 13 stealth check, I'll let you position yourself however you see appropriate."
34:11 Mercurio: "Okay, so there's all these guys here. i'm going to sneak away over here a bit."
34:21 DM: "OK."
34:20 Mercurio: "i guess can i duck into here,"
34:22 Ember: "Thank you."
34:22 DM: "Yeah, you can do that."
34:24 Mercurio: "um,"
34:23 DM: "I'll say that your stealth will be enough to get you that."
34:27 Mercurio: "and can i cast a spell upon seeing these blights?"
34:33 DM: "Sure. What do you want?"
34:33 Mercurio: "i want to do a minor illusion,"
34:34 DM: "Mm hmm."
34:39 Mercurio: "um, like, maybe let me move my token again so i can see um, like like around there, um,"
34:59 DM: "Mm hmm."
34:59 Ember: "you*..."
35:00 Mercurio: "and just conjure an illusion of like, i guess, with seeing like that, um, My party is stumbling around and making noise."
35:27 DM: "Okay."
35:16 Mercurio: "I'm going to conjure an image of a hallway with another fellow twig blight bumping around and bumping into things."
35:28 DM: "Yeah. Cool. Yeah."
35:32 Irredel: "Bye."
35:32 DM: "Let's see."
35:32 Ember: "Okay."
35:33 DM: "I'm going to have this one roll investigation to see if he's fooled. And your DC is what here?"
35:47 Mercurio: "Should be 14 or 15. 15."
35:50 DM: "Okay, so they rolled a four on their investigation. So they are fooled. Okay, yeah. So you hear like a voice coming from the eastern side of the corridor or the eastern side of the cellar. And it says, stupid blights, I don't like working with these."
36:19 Ember: "Thank you."
36:18 DM: "um yeah so the rest of you i'll give you a chance uh to like move out into the like join ember and mercurio*..."
36:37 Sildir: "Okay."
36:44 DM: "and yeah to your southwest here is um what used to look what looks to be a stone style uh stone spiral staircase that leads upwards um yeah so turn now you can go ahead and move your character token*..."
37:02 Saturno: "Okay. I'm trying. I just don't know why I can't."
37:07 Ember: "It's the same."
37:10 Saturno: "Okay."
37:11 Irredel: "Guys,"
37:11 Sildir: "So I think we just."
37:11 Irredel: "I think we're doing a really good job of being sneaky."
37:18 DM: "Yeah, so if you go over to the staircase, you should be able to click it and move to the next part of the scene, I think."
37:29 Mercurio: "Whoa, trippy."
37:31 DM: "Yeah, so from here, I know the buttons here are a little bit confusing. You guys are coming down from the basement. I know it says down to basement. So from here, you can move on to the first floor or you can go up to the second floor."
37:47 Ember: "you*..."
37:50 Sildir: "I think he's upstairs, so."
37:48 Mercurio: "We heard that the boss man's on the top, right? All right. Let's go up."
37:57 Irredel: "All right, onward we go."
38:01 Mercurio: "I need to move my token or something."
38:07 Saturno: "with the input."
38:09 Mercurio: "Oh, yeah, you need to move your token."
38:11 Ember: "you*..."
38:13 Irredel: "Ooh."
38:18 Mercurio: "Well, what a view."
38:22 DM: "Yes."
38:22 Ember: "Leon,"
38:23 DM: "Yeah. Okay,"
38:23 Ember: "can you move my character token to, like, to the door? Because, like, little..."
38:29 DM: "yeah."
38:30 Irredel: "Okay."
38:29 Ember: "The character stuff is, like, in the way."
38:32 DM: "Yeah, I'll get you. I'll bring you guys all in here. Let me know if anyone else is having trouble with that part of the map. I see Saturno. I see..."
38:43 Ember: "Wait, I got it."
38:44 DM: "Oh, you got it? Okay, so let me see what I got for you on this part of the floor. Let's see. Yeah, there's a lot of like individual sections here and not all of them are easily labeled."
39:05 Ember: "Did we go up two floors?"
39:07 DM: "You went up to the second floor. That's right."
39:09 Ember: "Okay."
39:17 Mercurio: "Are we all up here?"
39:20 Ember: "Mm-hmm."
39:22 Irredel: "I think so, yeah."
39:23 DM: "Okay, so up here you see you're on the second floor of this winery. You exit out of the staircase into, like,"
39:36 Ember: "Thank you."
39:34 DM: "a narrow corridor that leads down to a hallway, and along the hallway are a series of doors, um, and on the far end is another, um staircase that leads, uh, deeper still, or no? let me double check. hold on, i believe this staircase over here goes downwards. uh, yes, whoops, uh, did someone open a door?"
40:08 Mercurio: "Yeah,"
40:08 DM: "okay, yeah, that was,"
40:08 Mercurio: "I think Ember opened the door. Busted."
40:10 DM: "that was ember."
40:11 Sildir: "Busted."
40:11 Irredel: "Oh,"
40:11 DM: "okay,"
40:11 Irredel: "dude."
40:11 DM: "um,"
40:12 Mercurio: "Fuck."
40:12 Ember: "Bye-bye. No."
40:13 DM: "let me see what you got in here, okay, um. So here, from this vantage point where you are, Ember, you are on what appears to be a landing that looks down into a room filled with what looked like fermentation vats. Let me see Where's the correct description This one is. So here you see, the rich smell of fermenting wine fills this large two-story chamber, which is dominated by four enormous wooden casks, each one eight feet wide and 12 feet tall. A wooden staircase in the center of the room climbs to a 10-foot-high wooden balcony that clings to the south wall. You are on that balcony currently, Uh-oh."
41:10 Sildir: "Vanna's headset died, by the way."
41:12 DM: "Okay."
41:13 Mercurio: "Thank you."
41:12 Sildir: "She's plugging it back in now."
41:14 DM: "Okay."
41:14 Ember: "Thank you."
41:14 Sildir: "Do you want a longer cord?"
41:21 DM: "uh anyway so it's stacked against the wall underneath the balcony are old empty barrels with wizard of wines buried into their sides uh the balcony climbs another five feet as it continues west uh along the west continues along the west and east walls ending at the doors leading to the winery's upper levels which is where you're coming from um let's see underneath these side balconies are several doors some of which hang open and here you see but beneath the sloping roof stretch it stretch thick rafters from which hang six wooden cages arranged side by side each cage holds more than a dozen ravens crammed together with little space to move or breathe most of the ravens bear cuts or broken beaks and all of them are missing feathers a wild looking female figure stands on the western balcony um let's see western balcony beside the leftmost cage, surrounded by a swarm of nearly two dozen small twig-like creatures. She holds a long, gnarled wand in her hand and wears a gown made of animal skins and a headdress with goat horns. You see two twig-like creatures, slightly larger than the others, cling to the sides of the wooden cage before her, their sharp, pointed arms pushed through the bars of the cage. The woman nods, And the creatures pierce the sides of a battered looking raven,"
42:50 Irredel: "Thank you."
42:52 DM: "which screams again and again in helpless agony. So that scene that you're seeing with the woman torturing some ravens is below the balcony where you're standing, Ember. So like down the stairs. And you can see a staircase that leads into that part of the room here. So right now you are undetected."
43:18 Ember: "Okay."
43:17 DM: "um as you move along this balcony area or if you like beckon for others to join you you'll have to make stealth checks*..."
43:28 Sildir: "I can't see anything."
43:29 Ember: "Okay."
43:29 Irredel: "and save the treatment."
43:31 Saturno: "Me neither."
43:33 Ember: "Oh."
43:33 Sildir: "Okay, now I can see some stuff."
43:36 Ember: "Okay, I'm gonna do a stealth check so I can beckon."
43:41 Sildir: "So is this person holding a staff by any chance? No, right? Okay. So you said there were other animals, not just the raven? Or was it just the raven?"
43:44 DM: "uh they're holding a wand um just so everyone is aware of where ember is ember is right here uh she just stepped through a door that leads to a balcony and that balcony is overlooking the scene that i just described um so there there are ravens crammed into cages and there are twig blights uh scattered about uh the room so that was a 20 stealth check from ember So with that stealth check, Ember, you can move along pretty much anywhere along this balcony area as you see fit. If anyone else would like to join you here, they'll have to make stealth checks of their own."
44:19 Ember: "mhm can I still talk to them? like like Mercurio and Socorro and Erido?"
44:34 DM: "Where you're standing right now, you can whisper quietly enough for them to hear you, but if you move further deep along the balcony, um, you'll be out of range for them."
44:45 Ember: "okay So I'll just whisper, guys. You gotta see this."
44:51 DM: "oh also, i forgot,"
44:51 Ember: "If you guys can make your way over here."
44:52 DM: "ember, you have that funny feature: uh,"
44:57 Ember: "Detect thoughts?"
44:58 DM: "not detect,"
44:58 Ember: "That's my only spell."
44:59 DM: "not detect thoughts,"
45:00 Irredel: "Thank you."
45:01 Ember: "Oh."
45:01 DM: "uh, psychic whispers."
45:06 Ember: "Oh yeah."
45:06 DM: "um Yeah, so you can choose up to three others that you can see And for a few hours you'll be able to communicate with them telepathically."
45:21 Ember: "Can I let the Ravens go? Like, can I communicate with the Ravens?"
45:29 Mercurio: "Oh, shit. That's spicy."
45:31 DM: "Let's see. Let's see."
45:33 Ember: "Like,"
45:33 DM: "Let's see."
45:35 Sildir: "Thank you."
45:34 Ember: "flee yourself or something like that."
45:37 Mercurio: "Well, they're in cages, I think."
45:39 DM: "They are in cages,"
45:40 Ember: "Oh, true. Yeah."
45:40 DM: "so they aren't able to escape without outside interference. So let's see."
45:49 Ember: "What if I sneak down there and use my thieving tools to pick a lock and then free them?"
45:57 DM: "You won't be able to do that without alerting somebody down there."
46:03 Ember: "Yeah."
46:01 DM: "There's the woman herself down there and a bunch of twig blights just standing around."
46:07 Mercurio: "you know, the,"
46:08 Ember: "Yeah,"
46:08 DM: "There isn't enough cover around for you to go down and reach the cages without being spotted."
46:15 Ember: "that makes sense. Okay. okay so i'll use my psychic whispers to like tell the three people who's like most closest to me wait there's a free one and then there's psychic whispers*..."
46:34 DM: "Yes."
46:43 Ember: "okay And I tell them to try to see if they can come through the door to see what's down here. And I tell them what I, what, like what I can see."
46:57 DM: "I'll also say*..."
46:57 Sildir: "And who are you saying it to specifically?"
47:02 Ember: "What was that?"
47:04 Sildir: "It can be multiple people then, I take it, like you're saying it to everybody?"
47:09 Ember: "Yeah, it says up to three people. Oh, no, never mind. I think yourself and others, so I think it's..."
47:18 Mercurio: "Three other people, yeah."
47:20 Ember: "Yeah, three other people."
47:22 Sildir: "Okay. Okay."
47:25 Mercurio: "We have four other people in the party, but yeah, I mean, we can pass the message along."
47:31 Sildir: "Yeah,"
47:31 Ember: "Mm-hmm."
47:31 Sildir: "that's fine."
47:35 DM: "Give me one sec to double check something. Let me check this area here really quick."
47:45 Mercurio: "I'm also going to be right back. One second."
47:47 DM: "Okay."
47:50 Ember: "Nothing."
47:52 DM: "Yeah. Yeah. So also, Ember, you see like on the far side of the balcony where you are, There's another door here that leads to the eastern part of this floor. And I'll say, like, communicating via technical resources with others, you can see that this door here leads to a section of the floor that you couldn't reach by going through the corridor that Iridel is looking down."
48:22 Ember: "So if I open the other door..."
48:27 DM: "Which door? Yeah."
48:27 Ember: "So if I open the door you just pointed at on the right side,"
48:32 DM: "Yeah."
48:33 Ember: "people could get through there too?"
48:35 DM: "No. It doesn't look like, well, you don't see a way from where Iridel is looking down. You don't know if anything over there would connect to that door. So you could make it there with your stealth check, but anyone else joining you would have to make their own stealth checks."
48:55 Ember: "Okay,"
48:57 DM: "And you also don't know what's on the other side of that door."
48:56 Ember: "I see Right, okay*..."
49:03 Sildir: "I don't think we're going to make it across the bridge to the other door, personally, as a group. If that's the door you're looking at, I think we could go in and try to kill this lady or something, or we could just move on and keep looking for the staff. I think those are the options, not saying that any one is better than the other. Or we could go and spin some story where we are talking to her as if we belong there. That might be really hard to do. Or maybe Mercurio has some magic, charming, concocted story or spell. But yeah. Or you could go by yourself over to the door. You could say, I'll be right back. I think you could make it alone."
50:09 Ember: "Okay*..."
50:12 DM: "You would be able to make it to the door. I will say that if you open the door, you don't know what's on the other side. And if you're there by yourself,"
50:21 Irredel: "is*..."
50:19 DM: "then you'll have to deal with whatever is there on your own."
50:25 Ember: "Yeah, let's not do that then*..."
50:33 Sildir: "All right, well, I think I laid out the options. I'll let the rest of the group decide or come up with more options. But those are my ideas."
50:52 Ember: "So I relay what I see to the others with my psychic whispers. And then I'll ask them if it's worth it to see what this old lady is about, or should we just continue looking for this stuff?"
51:13 Irredel: "I think we just keep looking for this stuff. I don't think we... Why are we..."
51:17 Ember: "All right."
51:18 Irredel: "There's no need to take extra risk right now."
51:20 Ember: "Yeah, good point."
51:22 Saturno: "We might be able to come back later, but for now."
51:25 Irredel: "Unless, wait,"
51:25 Ember: "Yeah."
51:25 Irredel: "did they give us a description of the witch? I mean,"
51:37 Sildir: "... ... ... ... ..."
51:36 Irredel: "it would be pretty surprising if the very first person that we saw was the witch who is possibly controlling all of this, but weirder things have happened."
51:47 DM: "Davion did tell you that the witch who's working with the druids is not here. She is in the ruins of Beres."
51:57 Irredel: "Well,"
51:57 Sildir: "Well, how would he know that?"
51:58 Irredel: "how would he know that?"
51:59 Sildir: "He's reading out some tips."
51:59 Irredel: "He's hiding out in some pit."
52:02 DM: "That's a consideration."
52:07 Sildir: "That's funny."
52:07 Irredel: "I did."
52:07 Mercurio: "What'd I miss?"
52:07 Sildir: "I think you responded in character to, like, Maria's commentary. That's awesome. The voice in your head. Iridil, who are you talking to? Yeah."
52:21 Ember: "Okay,"
52:21 Sildir: "Yeah."
52:21 Ember: "so I come back out in the hallway where everyone else is, and I say, let's just move forward. We'll come back if we have time."
52:32 Sildir: "Were there more, like..."
52:32 Ember: "That's not our main priority right now."
52:34 Sildir: "Could we go further upstairs or no?"
52:38 DM: "The stairwell that you went up, this is the highest floor that it goes up to."
52:43 Sildir: "And, like, did we get the impression that the druid was, like, top, top floor? The one that we need to target with the staff?"
52:49 DM: "All that Davian told you was that the druid was spotted lurking around the upper floor."
52:57 Sildir: "Okay."
52:57 DM: "You don't know if that's here exactly or if there's another floor or what's going on."
53:03 Mercurio: "Well,"
53:03 Sildir: "Okay,"
53:04 Mercurio: "I mean..."
53:04 Sildir: "so let's go."
53:09 Mercurio: "We're kind of like..."
53:01 Ember: "Thank you."
53:05 Sildir: "I vote we go through this door here that I'm pinging and we see what happens."
53:13 Mercurio: "So, like, would that basically be... I mean, we're on the second floor, right? But is that druid that we're seeing with the ravens basically on the first floor?"
53:21 DM: "yes that's correct*..."
53:22 Mercurio: "Okay. Okay, so then... Probably not the person we're looking for. I mean, people can move from floor to floor,"
53:30 Ember: "Bye."
53:31 Mercurio: "but... I do feel bad for the ravens, though."
53:36 Saturno: "Yeah."
53:36 Mercurio: "What's the point of torturing the ravens? Maybe they're trying to get important information out of the ravens? I mean, druids can talk to animals, right? So those ravens might know something important. Maybe that's what they're here for."
53:56 DM: "As you say that, if Ember left that door open there, you all now can hear the screeches of the ravens coming from within."
54:13 Ember: "I feel like I left it slightly open,"
54:17 DM: "Okay."
54:17 Irredel: "Bye."
54:15 Ember: "not all the way Just a little bit*..."
54:19 DM: "Yeah, so it's enough that you definitely can hear the ravens screeching as they're being tortured."
54:19 Sildir: "So who's like, did Mercurio say that out loud or?"
54:31 Mercurio: "Yeah, I think I'm whispering that in the hallway here amongst us while we talk."
54:31 DM: "so you can whisper amongst yourselves also i'll say uh ember for your psychic whispers go ahead and like choose three of your party members that you can see and then you and those three will be able to communicate telepathically um for the next few hours*..."
54:52 Ember: "Okay, um... I'll choose Saturno, Mercurio, and Iridale."
55:02 Irredel: "Okay."
54:59 DM: "okay So you and everyone except Sildar will be able to communicate telepathically for the duration of, I guess, a few hours, I'll say. And that'll persist even if you don't have line of sight of each other. I think you just have to be within a mile or something like that. So it's a pretty far range, if I remember."
55:27 Ember: "Okay."
55:28 Mercurio: "That's good. We can warn each other about things we see without even talking."
55:33 Saturno: "Mm hmm."
55:38 Irredel: "Maybe, God, that noise is awful. Maybe what we need to do is, Ember, you're by far the stealthiest one. Do you think you can get a general idea of this entire floor?"
55:54 Ember: "Yeah, I can."
55:54 Irredel: "Obviously,"
55:54 Mercurio: "Probably Ember should lead."
55:54 Irredel: "we know it's over where you just came from. But yeah,"
55:57 Mercurio: "Yeah."
55:58 Irredel: "is there any idea we can kind of map this out and then we can approach where we go strategically? I can't think with those poor birds screeching."
56:11 Ember: "let me just close this door, so I close it all the way,"
56:16 DM: "Yeah."
56:14 Ember: "so it won't just like bother us. and then no, what was that*?"
56:10 Mercurio: "i think i think maybe oh i'm sorry you go i was just gonna say i think you know uh just following up with what iridel said we should Scout the floor and then see how many... Like, what's the druid presence here?"
56:38 Ember: "Mhm."
56:37 Mercurio: "And if it's low enough, then maybe we can help these ravens."
56:41 Irredel: "Yeah."
56:42 Ember: "Mhm. Okay."
56:45 DM: "Yeah,"
56:49 Sildir: "Thanks."
56:46 DM: "there is still the series of doors along the corridor that Iridel is peeking down. You don't know who or what might be behind those doors. But yeah, those are other things to consider."
56:46 Ember: "If you want to scope out the place, do I just do a stealth check again?"
57:03 DM: "I guess describe to me what you're trying to do, and I'll tell you what you need to roll for it."
57:10 Ember: "i feel like i'm just trying to like stealthily just walk around and see and like,"
57:16 Irredel: "you you*..."
57:15 Ember: "try to like hear, like if i can hear anything, if there are any like openable doors,"
57:22 DM: "Okay. Yeah, so..."
57:25 Ember: "and try to not fully open but just peek through them or like any like keyholes or something*."
57:32 DM: "Okay. Yeah, first,"
57:34 Mercurio: "We might also."
57:35 DM: "give me a stealth check first. So right now, there is this hallway that comes out of the staircase that you came down. You can see down here, there's the one door that you just went through. And then there's the hallway that Iredell is in, in the middle of the floor. If you want to move down that hallway, you can. I'll have you do a stealth check and then a perception after to see what you're able to hear or figure out."
58:04 Ember: "Okay."
58:08 Mercurio: "I think I'd OK. I think I'm going to cast Find Familiar as well."
58:23 DM: "Okay. Yeah. So Ember, that was a 20 stealth check."
58:26 Ember: "Okay."
58:26 Irredel: "Thank you."
58:26 DM: "Give me your perception and then Mercury, you can do your familiar stuff. Okay. So that was a 20 perception from Ember. Nice. Good. So you sneak your way down this corridor, kind of like putting your head up against the doors as you go to see if you're able to hear anything. There are some keyholes that you can kind of peek through. You aren't able to like tell too much through those. But with a 20, I will say,"
58:56 Irredel: "Thank you."
58:56 DM: "let me see, where do we got here? So these three doors here, here, and here,"
59:16 Ember: "Hi."
59:13 DM: "You don't hear anything coming from them. As you kind of poke through the keyholes, you can see that These two rooms here in the middle, they look like bedrooms, and they are currently unoccupied. This door here, you peek through the keyhole, and you can see that it seems to be some kind of dining area slash kitchen."
59:36 Irredel: "Thank you."
59:37 DM: "And in this room here that Iridal is also standing in front of, you're pressing your ear up against the door, and you're peeking through the keyhole. You aren't able to see much. There appears to be something obscuring the way. But you can kind of tell that there are, like, people here."
01:00:01 Ember: "okay*..."
01:00:02 DM: "From the noises that you hear, you can tell that there's at least one person. And then from, like,"
01:00:07 Irredel: "Great."
01:00:08 DM: "the scraping and, like, sounds you hear, there are also, like, plant creatures in there as well. So that would be this door over here where Iridel is."
01:00:17 Ember: "okay so I as in like looking I tell like tell Airedale and Mercurio and to go to know what I see and what I can hear*..."
01:00:33 DM: "And Mercurio,"
01:00:34 Sildir: "thank you*..."
01:00:34 DM: "what were you trying to do with your familiar?"
01:00:42 Mercurio: "I'm going to grab Pepito the Raven off my shoulder and he's going to land on my hand and then I'm going to squish him with my hands and when I pull the top palm off the bottom palm,"
01:00:59 DM: "Mm-hmm."
01:00:59 Mercurio: "I'm just going to have a little spider in my hand."
01:01:01 DM: "Okay. Yeah. Nice."
01:01:04 Mercurio: "And I'm going to say we can probably check some of the rooms out. like this. Um, and I guess, well, we investigated that door, but maybe the next door I'll like slide my spider underneath, uh, the door. If that's possible,"
01:01:25 DM: "Sure."
01:01:27 Irredel: "Yeah,"
01:01:27 Sildir: "Which room is it?"
01:01:27 Mercurio: "I'm guessing this is like a normal house. It's not like the doors go like scraping down to the floor, uh,"
01:01:34 DM: "yeah yeah yeah there's there are cracks under the doors you could definitely slip a spider through*..."
01:01:41 Mercurio: "Oh,"
01:01:41 Irredel: "and check out what's in this room. It sounded like from what Amber said, it's empty, but maybe we can all hide in here while we're investigating so we're not just here in the hallway."
01:01:51 Mercurio: "that's smart. Well, yeah."
01:01:55 Ember: "The middle door?"
01:01:55 Irredel: "The one directly in front of me."
01:01:55 DM: "these two middle rooms."
01:01:56 Sildir: "Oh,"
01:01:56 DM: "yeah,"
01:01:56 Sildir: "sorry. I'm just not able to see everything. I feel like..."
01:02:01 Mercurio: "Oh,"
01:02:00 Sildir: "Are you able to just expose the map?"
01:02:02 Mercurio: "is that the door that we were..."
01:02:05 DM: "Are you having trouble, Tris?"
01:02:06 Irredel: "No,"
01:02:07 Sildir: "Yes."
01:02:07 Irredel: "I think we should go into this one and then we can listen through the wall into this other room, but we have to be really quiet."
01:02:16 DM: "Yeah, so these two rooms that you guys are in, you can see that these are definitely like sleeping quarters or like bedrooms. Each of these rooms has two pairs of bunk beds, and... uh, against the wall, uh, are four identical foot lockers. what do you see?"
01:02:39 Sildir: "I don't see that."
01:02:48 DM: "yeah, that's."
01:02:38 Ember: "I see something next to Mercurio's character token is that it's like a blinking creature that's like outlined in like blue*..."
01:02:50 DM: "why do you guys? why do you see that that's so interesting? um,"
01:02:53 Irredel: "Thank you."
01:02:53 Mercurio: "What?"
01:02:55 DM: "Yeah, I see what you're looking at. I don't know why Amber sees that and nobody else. That's really interesting. I think it's because you have detect thoughts up. Yeah, you still have detect thoughts up. I don't think you're supposed to still have that, so I'll go ahead and deactivate that for you. That was from last session, I believe."
01:03:04 Ember: "okay Okay."
01:03:13 DM: "That's really interesting, actually. Yeah,"
01:03:14 Ember: "But can I detect thoughts and look at it again?"
01:03:21 DM: "sure, why not?"
01:03:22 Ember: "Okay."
01:03:21 DM: "I'll let you do that."
01:03:24 Irredel: "Mm-hmm."
01:03:23 Ember: "I already detected it, so why not?"
01:03:25 DM: "So detecting thoughts, you can tell that there is one person in that room. You do know that you did hear other figures there, but you don't hear thoughts coming from them. So presumably those are plant creatures."
01:03:47 Mercurio: "Presumably,"
01:03:41 Ember: "okay plant creatures*..."
01:03:42 Sildir: "I think we just need to figure out..."
01:03:47 Mercurio: "there's probably a druid and some twig blights in that other room."
01:03:53 Irredel: "Weird question. Did the doors open into the hallway or into the bedroom?"
01:03:57 DM: "They open into the bedrooms."
01:04:00 Irredel: "Damn it. Okay."
01:04:06 Mercurio: "Okay, so I'm going to... um, put down my itsy bitsy spider down by the door. And then, uh, you'll all see, I'm going to sit."
01:04:21 DM: "Yeah."
01:04:18 Ember: "Thank you."
01:04:19 Mercurio: "Mercurio is going to sit on the bed and his eyes are going to go completely white as he looks out-"
01:04:26 DM: "Yeah."
01:04:26 Mercurio: "his familiar's eyes, Um."
01:04:29 Irredel: "Funny,"
01:04:29 Mercurio: "and I guess I'm going to,"
01:04:30 Sildir: "Thank you."
01:04:30 Irredel: "he gets the same look after four glasses of wine."
01:04:34 Mercurio: "I can still hear you. Um,"
01:04:37 Irredel: "Ah, so that's the difference."
01:04:43 DM: "Give me one sec. Hold on. The boundaries are lagging a little bit for me. Uh-oh."
01:04:56 Ember: "It's a bit."
01:05:01 Mercurio: "Uh oh."
01:05:02 DM: "Yeah, I'm lagging here. Give me a sec. Trying to figure this out. I just held the page back so that I could try it again."
01:05:43 Ember: "Okay."
01:05:48 Mercurio: "Forgot how I get the familiars to appear."
01:05:54 DM: "I'm trying to do that for you."
01:05:56 Mercurio: "Okay."
01:06:01 DM: "Excuse me. Okay, I think I see what the issue is."
01:06:12 Irredel: "Thank you."
01:06:15 DM: "The importer is acting up for me."
01:06:20 Ember: "Amen."
01:06:19 DM: "So I'm not going to try to do that anymore. We're just going to use your Raven. I was going to try to import a spider, but whatever."
01:06:28 Mercurio: "Yeah. Let me see. Yeah."
01:06:54 DM: "Let me try one last thing, see if I can pull it in a compendium. What is this one? Oh, that's perfect actually. Cool. I'll put this one here and configure ownership. This will be Mercurio's. You're the owner. And let me know if you see this little spider, Mercurio."
01:07:40 Mercurio: "Oh, I do."
01:07:41 DM: "Yeah, you should be able to control it, I think."
01:07:45 Mercurio: "I do not."
01:07:48 DM: "Really?"
01:07:49 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:07:50 Ember: "Bye."
01:07:51 DM: "I'm trying to go. One sec. I'm going to save changes. How about now? One sec. Here you go."
01:08:10 Mercurio: "Oh, hell yeah. All right. My spider's crawling. I'm going to check out that room. Oh, wait. I can't see."
01:08:24 Ember: "Thank you."
01:08:21 Saturno: "is spider opening and closing the door can you tell me how it's doing that*..."
01:08:24 Mercurio: "I can't move the spider through the door without opening it."
01:08:30 DM: "Okay,"
01:08:30 Mercurio: "Sad. Immersion ruined."
01:08:31 DM: "I'll just move you through the door if you want. You want to go through the door?"
01:08:34 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:08:35 DM: "Okay."
01:08:35 Mercurio: "I can actually see through the spider's eyes."
01:08:38 DM: "You can't?"
01:08:39 Mercurio: "No."
01:08:42 DM: "Really?"
01:08:43 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:08:44 DM: "Does it not have vision? It says it has dark vision. What's going on here? Huh. That's kind of unfortunate."
01:08:57 Irredel: "Oh, Saturno,"
01:08:58 Ember: "I agree."
01:08:59 Irredel: "we gotta do something about those ravens. I know you feel just as sensitive about those types of things as I do. It just feels wrong. They're innocent creatures. There's no reason to harm animals."
01:09:13 Saturno: "Right. You just need to know who's just information that."
01:09:18 DM: "Vision enabled."
01:09:18 Irredel: "I know,"
01:09:19 DM: "There we go."
01:09:19 Irredel: "but I know I'm always the one urging caution, but there's part of me that feels like we should just bust in there."
01:09:26 Saturno: "Yeah."
01:09:25 Ember: "Should we split up and half of us go after the staff and half of us deal with the ravens, or..."
01:09:34 DM: "That might be dangerous."
01:09:34 Ember: "Or should we all..."
01:09:35 DM: "Just split up."
01:09:36 Ember: "Okay, never mind."
01:09:39 Saturno: "Wait, what did I say?"
01:09:42 DM: "was just saying,"
01:09:42 Ember: "I'm..."
01:09:44 Mercurio: "Inadvisable,"
01:09:42 DM: "splitting up is probably going to be uh risky. yeah,"
01:09:45 Mercurio: "you know?"
01:09:46 Saturno: "I see."
01:09:46 DM: "also, mercury, i think you should be able to see through the spider now let me know."
01:09:51 Mercurio: "Oh, now I can, yeah."
01:09:52 Saturno: "I do think we should do something about the Raven."
01:09:57 DM: "yeah,"
01:09:57 Mercurio: "Oh,"
01:09:57 DM: "so,"
01:09:57 Mercurio: "man. What the f-"
01:10:00 DM: "yeah,"
01:10:00 Mercurio: "What the fuck is this?"
01:09:57 Saturno: "I believe Mercurio could get us more information and then we could take action."
01:10:01 DM: "so, so,"
01:10:03 Irredel: "What?"
01:10:03 DM: "really quick, uh, i'm gonna tell mercury what he sees in here. um, let's see."
01:10:11 Ember: "Thank you."
01:10:13 DM: "All right. so here this is, In this chamber. you see a desk chair, a tall wooden cabinet and a strange contraption that takes up most of the northern end of the room. You also see four creatures here. One is a human, but so caked with dirt and mud that it's hard to know for sure. You see, his hair is full of twigs and his face is hidden behind a veil of moss, And he is rooting through the contents of the cabinet and haphazardly tossing them onto the floor. Behind him stands three creatures made entirely of dead vines. They're just kind of like shifting and milling about, but not really doing a whole lot."
01:11:01 Irredel: "There it is."
01:11:01 Sildir: "Is there a staff anywhere? The spider thinks to itself."
01:11:07 DM: "You do not see a staff. The person here is not holding a staff. Well, hold on. Let me check. They are holding a kind of gnarled wooden staff, but it doesn't look like anything notable. It just looks like a regular Jewish staff. You don't get the sense that this is the staff."
01:11:29 Ember: "Okay."
01:11:29 Mercurio: "Got it. Okay."
01:11:31 Irredel: "I mean,"
01:11:31 Sildir: "The spider thinks, fuck this or I'm done. Not the right one."
01:11:34 Mercurio: "Spider says, fuck this. There's this ugly druid guy and a bunch of ugly vine monsters. I'm checking the next door."
01:11:47 Sildir: "We can get that anywhere. We have ugly druid at home."
01:11:53 Mercurio: "I'm going to check the last door in the hallway."
01:11:55 DM: "okay, all right, so here."
01:11:55 Mercurio: "It's a kitchen."
01:12:00 DM: "so here it looks like a kitchen and dining room. this room here contains a rectangular table surrounded by eight chairs and an l-shaped cupboard, as well as a floor to ceiling closet pantry. next to the pantry is a small iron stove. um, you also know that there is a. there are a couple other doors. uh,"
01:12:22 Sildir: "You know."
01:12:20 DM: "There's one on the east wall leading into another area, And then over here on the southeast corner, there's another door."
01:12:31 Mercurio: "I guess let's take a quick peek on the other doors,"
01:12:35 Ember: "Thank you."
01:12:35 Mercurio: "and then I think there's not that much in the way of help for that other druid, I think, besides this one other druid. So maybe we can help the ravens. Oh."
01:12:49 Saturno: "Good."
01:12:48 Sildir: "Thinking we could always..."
01:12:52 DM: "Give me one sec really quick. Was Eridal saying something before?"
01:12:37 Irredel: "That's fine."
01:13:00 DM: "Okay."
01:13:01 Irredel: "I was just going to riff."
01:13:03 DM: "Yeah, I gotcha."
01:13:06 Irredel: "Silence."
01:13:05 Sildir: "We could break into the room to our left, cast Silence,"
01:13:14 DM: "Yeah,"
01:13:11 Sildir: "and interrogate the druid in there."
01:13:15 Mercurio: "There's."
01:13:14 DM: "so Mercurio, that room that you just opened to the east, this room here looks like a master bedroom."
01:13:21 Ember: "Silence."
01:13:22 DM: "This room contains a four-poster bed, its headboard carved in the likeness of a giant raven. A soft black rug covers the floor between the bed and the door. In the corners of the south wall stand two slender wardrobes with a tapestry of a church hanging on the wall between them. Beneath the tapestry sits a handsomely carved rocking cradle. And to the north, under a window, is a plain desk and chair. Other furnishings include a wooden chest and a freestanding mirror in a wooden frame."
01:13:56 Ember: "is um*..."
01:13:58 Mercurio: "Okay, so it's like a little office here. But nobody else. So, yeah, we basically cleared this floor for the most part."
01:14:13 DM: "Did you also open this door?"
01:14:13 Mercurio: "Or was there more over here?"
01:14:15 DM: "Yeah,"
01:14:15 Mercurio: "There's like a hallway. Oh, fuck. Another room."
01:14:15 DM: "so here there's another hallway that leads to another door at the end."
01:14:21 Irredel: "No."
01:14:20 Mercurio: "Another fucking room. All right."
01:14:22 DM: "Hold on one sec."
01:14:21 Irredel: "I think we're good."
01:14:24 DM: "Let me double check really quick."
01:14:28 Ember: "Mm hmm."
01:14:26 DM: "Is anyone else trying to do something at the moment? I think Sylvia was trying to say something. OK."
01:14:36 Mercurio: "I'm still, it's 40 feet, so we're still good."
01:14:42 DM: "I will also note that while you're using your familiar here, Mercurio, you're seeing through the spider senses. You're able to speak from your regular body to everyone else and communicate what you see. But your body body is like you aren't able to see through your own eyes currently."
01:15:00 Mercurio: "Yeah. Yeah. Okay."
01:15:12 DM: "Okay,"
01:15:10 Mercurio: "So I'm taking a peek underneath this door."
01:15:14 DM: "so as you crawl through this door here,"
01:15:14 Irredel: "Thank you."
01:15:18 DM: "let me see what you see over here. Let's see,"
01:15:21 Mercurio: "Oh,"
01:15:21 DM: "let's see."
01:15:21 Mercurio: "that looks like something."
01:15:24 DM: "This room here has a wooden floor with a 10-foot square hole cut in the middle of it. Looming over the hole is a wooden winch, and perched atop it is a man with wild hair, rotted teeth, and skin painted red with blood. He waves a gnarled staff made from a black branch and is babbling to himself. Let me see what else I got."
01:15:48 Saturno: "You mean the staff we need?"
01:15:51 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:15:50 DM: "The roof over this room has collapsed, scattering mounds of debris and revealing a dark, stormy sky overhead that flashes with lightning. You see a heavy rain starts pouring down onto the room's wooden floor,"
01:16:04 Irredel: "Thank you."
01:16:04 DM: "which has the 10-foot-tall hole. Also, rising up through the hole, you see a dead, misshapen tree grows through the hole at the center of the room, its gnarled branches forming a skeletal canopy overhead where the roof should be. Blood oozes from its trunk like sap, and..."
01:16:24 Mercurio: "Thank you."
01:16:24 DM: "Let's see... On top of the branches of this tree is where the man is perched. Let's see. You see the man waving the staff towards the dead tree, and the tree itself is groaning, and you hear the sound of bark snapping and splintering as its branches rushle, and the trunk is ever so slightly growing slightly taller, and the branches are slowly but steadily creeping upwards and outwards. Give me a stealth check with advantage."
01:16:57 Sildir: "Could you just expose the map for the stuff that the spider's seeing for all of us? Because I just am completely lost right now. I don't know if that's possible."
01:17:06 DM: "Uh, I kind of want to,"
01:17:07 Sildir: "I have no idea what I'm doing or what's right."
01:17:12 DM: "yeah."
01:17:13 Sildir: "Don't expect good notes or recap then. That's all."
01:17:16 DM: "OK."
01:17:16 Sildir: "I have no idea what's going on right now."
01:17:19 DM: "No worries. So that was a 23 stealth check from the spider here. Yeah, so you were able to peek through and take a quick glance around and see what you see. The druid here hasn't noticed you, but you get the sense that if you linger here over too long, you might be spotted."
01:17:36 Mercurio: "yeah uh yeah i'm gonna crawl back underneath the door um and i'm gonna bring my spider back to me um and yeah i'll just recap to everyone um Okay, yeah, really bad stuff is happening in that other room. I don't know if that's the guy, but he has a unique staff, so..."
01:18:17 Saturno: "Do you look like he has to be killed regardless?"
01:18:21 Mercurio: "He looks like he's been killed."
01:18:25 Saturno: "Do we need to kill him again?"
01:18:26 Ember: "Thank you."
01:18:28 Mercurio: "He... He looks, like, kind of unnaturally fucked up. I mean... I... This... You know, I'm not that familiar with druids, but... They... There's something off with these guys. Torturing..."
01:18:54 Sildir: "Directed by."
01:18:59 Irredel: "Hey."
01:18:51 Saturno: "maybe these aren't i don't think druids would torture animals oh well*..."
01:18:59 Ember: "Thank you."
01:18:55 Mercurio: "torturing animals you know um the the tree that he's growing is bleeding he's making the tree bleed they don't even they're not even being nice to the trees um whatever he's doing i'm not a druid but whatever he's doing to that tree seems unethical*..."
01:19:18 Saturno: "i'm pretty okay to kill just about anyone that's messing with that raven."
01:19:27 Mercurio: "Yeah,"
01:19:27 Saturno: "But if we're talking about a bleeding tree, that makes me feel even better."
01:19:29 Mercurio: "these people seem far gone."
01:19:33 Saturno: "Yeah."
01:19:34 Ember: "Yeah, I'm ready to do anything, just about anything too. Okay."
01:19:38 Mercurio: "All right, well,"
01:19:39 Irredel: "Yeah,"
01:19:39 Mercurio: "what's our strategy for clearing this out then? I think we want to try to be*..."
01:19:45 Saturno: "Irida?"
01:19:47 Irredel: "we can try blocking off that room next to us. There's some heavy furniture here and at least for a while we can put some stuff in front of the doors. Someone strong, they can just lift it up and move it quietly and at the very least that'll give us some protection. And then I think we go help the ravens. I don't know. I feel like Odds are good that they would be helpful to us. I mean, they're smart creatures. And I don't know, something about this whole raven society has me thinking that maybe they're raven shifters or something like that. I mean, I turn into a wolf. Pretty reasonable to think that some of these spies are turning into ravens."
01:20:27 Ember: "Thanks."
01:20:29 Mercurio: "Hmm."
01:20:28 Saturno: "And then of all animals to target, rabies specifically,"
01:20:32 Irredel: "Mm-hmm."
01:20:31 Saturno: "it has to have a tie."
01:20:33 Irredel: "Exactly. So, you know, maybe we'll have some allies in that realm. that we can recruit. And then from there we'll go, uh, you know, make that person who's torturing trees and animals and all around bloodthirsty pay for his crimes."
01:20:57 DM: "Give me a quick second and take a cloudy break, but yeah, I'll be right back."
01:21:02 Ember: "All right."
01:21:06 Irredel: "All right. I'll do the same."
01:21:35 Sildir: "So, um, what, Room was the tree in? Like, where was that?"
01:21:45 Mercurio: "it's pretty far out, ping like. it was like over here."
01:21:50 Sildir: "Is it like a named room or is it just like some random ass, like a ballroom or something? Like, you know what I mean? Dining room? Laundry room?"
01:21:58 Mercurio: "so it's, there's the hallway right at the end of the hallway there's on the north side."
01:22:08 Sildir: "Okay."
01:22:08 Mercurio: "this is the hallway right."
01:22:14 DM: "Thank you."
01:22:18 Sildir: "Right, empty kitchen,"
01:22:10 Mercurio: "there's one more room here that you guys went into and then all the way down here it goes into a kitchen here and then, empty kitchen,"
01:22:21 Sildir: "empty master bedroom."
01:22:21 Mercurio: "that goes into an office that's like over here, yeah, master bedroom, office thing, Um. and then there's another hallway here that you go through the kitchen and then that goes down to this other room. There's like a, a wince and like, um, a bunch of barrels and stuff. So I guess I don't know."
01:22:42 Sildir: "Is it still on our floor?"
01:22:42 Mercurio: "They lift, they lift and stuff. Yeah. Still on our floor. Well, but going down, the wince is going down and pulling stuff up, you know, and down,"
01:22:51 Sildir: "But the Druid is still on the floor."
01:22:53 Mercurio: "but he is on our floor. Yeah."
01:22:52 DM: "um yeah also the that hole where the the horror where the winch is um i don't actually have it reflect on the map very well um but that hole is where the tree is growing up from basically*... uh yes that's correct*..."
01:23:03 Mercurio: "okay so yeah the tree is growing up from the ground up through that hole and the ceiling is broken and this the tree is going up through the ceiling too right um and that guy's like the freakiest guy*..."
01:23:25 Sildir: "I got it then. Okay."
01:23:31 Mercurio: "Now, he is quite separated. Like, there's more layers of walls and doors and stuff. So I'm not as worried about him if we're going after the Raven Lady, I guess."
01:23:48 Sildir: "Oh, yeah. I got you."
01:23:48 Mercurio: "But this guy on the left is, like, right there. Kind of spooky. We can try to block the door. But the Vine Blights do look pretty... They look strong."
01:24:07 Sildir: "Yeah."
01:24:06 DM: "I'll also point out that Davian would have told you that the staff in question that you're after here, The druid that has it is using it to control the blights. So if you were to confront said druid, you're not quite sure how that might play into it, but you suspect that it could be a complication."
01:24:31 Mercurio: "Maybe then. Maybe that guy is the source of controlling the blights. I mean, maybe he should be our first priority. Without the blights..."
01:24:41 Sildir: "That is my opinion. I've been quiet because it seems contrary to the rest of the parties. But yeah, I think we should go there."
01:24:49 Mercurio: "I think, I mean, we all want to help the Ravens, but that lady down there has like, there was like a dozen blights, you said, Arya?"
01:24:57 Ember: "Okay. Okay."
01:24:59 Mercurio: "Like a dozen blights is going to be hard to take on directly."
01:25:02 DM: "I will say those dozen blights, there were a dozen twig blights and a pair of bigger blights. The twig blights were considerably smaller than the blights that you saw in the room to the left of you."
01:25:22 Mercurio: "Yeah. What about the ones we fought before? Were those twig blights or..."
01:25:22 Sildir: "um okay great*..."
01:25:27 DM: "Those were vine blights,"
01:25:28 Mercurio: "Vine. Left."
01:25:28 DM: "so the same creatures that you saw to your left."
01:25:32 Mercurio: "Okay."
01:25:32 DM: "So yeah, those you have caught before."
01:25:38 Mercurio: "These vine blights were uglier, though."
01:25:40 DM: "Yeah,"
01:25:40 Mercurio: "Their tokens were..."
01:25:41 DM: "I think I had a different token for them, yeah."
01:25:42 Mercurio: "Okay."
01:25:44 Ember: "Hello. Hello."
01:25:45 Mercurio: "Okay, so we got... We got some like decently strong blights in the room next to us and at the other room. There's like a couple of those as well, but a billion poopy blights. What shall we do, team?"
01:26:12 Sildir: "You know what I think?"
01:26:14 Ember: "Okay."
01:26:17 Mercurio: "Crazy guy controlling all the blades."
01:26:20 Sildir: "Straight to the source, yep."
01:26:22 Saturno: "Yeah."
01:26:21 Mercurio: "I'm down for that straight, I think. We gotta address the root cause."
01:26:27 Sildir: "I mean, we don't want to cast silence a bunch of times. Cast it once,"
01:26:30 DM: "The root cause."
01:26:31 Sildir: "get it done."
01:26:32 Mercurio: "The root cause, guys. Yeah, that's true. Hey, if we're gonna blow a big silence..."
01:26:44 Sildir: "Yeah."
01:26:44 Mercurio: "That would be the place to do it."
01:26:47 Sildir: "Ideally, just once would be nice, too."
01:26:50 Ember: "Thank you. Thank you."
01:26:56 Mercurio: "Okay."
01:26:56 DM: "Thank you."
01:27:05 Mercurio: "I think let's do that then."
01:27:14 Ember: "Thank you very much."
01:27:08 Mercurio: "I'm going to take the spider off the ground and I'm going to try to put it on Iridel's shoulder if she's not like scared of spiders."
01:27:21 Sildir: "She's still in the bathroom."
01:27:23 Mercurio: "Okay."
01:27:24 Sildir: "One sec. I think she is maybe grabbing a drink. I'm going to peek my head downstairs. Maybe just give it a second."
01:27:49 Ember: "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah."
01:28:18 DM: "You said Sav stepped away, right?"
01:28:18 Ember: "I don't know what to do. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah, everybody."
01:28:22 Saturno: "Yeah, maybe to get a drink."
01:28:22 Ember: "Mm hmm."
01:28:24 DM: "Okay."
01:28:24 Ember: "Mm hmm. Mm hmm."
01:28:29 DM: "A drink?"
01:28:31 Saturno: "A beverage."
01:28:36 DM: "Do they call her the drink?"
01:28:40 Sildir: "All right, so Savannah's back. Mercurio, go ahead."
01:28:46 Mercurio: "This is the spider. It wants uppies."
01:28:49 Sildir: "Yeah, we also decided that we're going to go straight to the source while you're gone, by the way."
01:28:49 Irredel: "We also look at this particular ."
01:28:52 Sildir: "And Mercurio, yeah, little spider wants uppies. That's a cute gif."
01:28:57 Saturno: "Yeah."
01:28:57 Sildir: "I like that."
01:28:58 Ember: "anything um*..."
01:29:00 Mercurio: "So if Iridel is not scared of spiders, I will give Iridel the spider to give her help."
01:29:09 DM: "I'm kind of torn. I don't know if the spider would be able to do that, honestly."
01:29:16 Mercurio: "OK."
01:29:16 DM: "Just because it's so small. I think the recon that the spider was able to do was already quite a lot. So I'll say the spider won't be able to give it the help action."
01:29:28 Mercurio: "OK."
01:29:31 Irredel: "Well, I mean,"
01:29:31 Sildir: "It's still really."
01:29:32 Irredel: "he's still really cute."
01:29:32 Mercurio: "What?"
01:29:33 Irredel: "Here,"
01:29:32 Ember: "I'm so looking forward to it."
01:29:34 Sildir: "If you wanted."
01:29:35 DM: "Okay."
01:29:34 Irredel: "if you wanted to sit on my shoulder, sure. My little siblings used to bring strange critters into the inn all the time, so I have a soft spot for these things. Oh, come here. Yep, right here. Right on my neck. You can hide behind my earlobe. Got a lot of hair. It'll protect you there."
01:29:59 Saturno: "They know how to braid."
01:30:01 DM: "My gosh."
01:30:02 Ember: "Okay."
01:30:04 Sildir: "All right."
01:30:10 DM: "Yeah. Yeah, yeah."
01:30:04 Irredel: "i'd like to imagine the spider is like a little bit like now like dangling off of the ear like it like had like a little bit of silk or something and it's like a funky earring*..."
01:30:12 DM: "Oh my gosh. That's fun."
01:30:14 Saturno: "It's going to ride a two-year, though."
01:30:18 Mercurio: "hopefully I'll be able to help you be stealthier*..."
01:30:21 DM: "True."
01:30:24 Sildir: "Maybe, Ember, roll your stealth roll again, I guess. All right. Do we need to do that, DM?"
01:30:30 DM: "Yeah, I'll have you guys roll stealth as you move through the quarter. So the way I'll do it, one person... Oh my gosh."
01:30:37 Mercurio: "let's fucking go*..."
01:30:38 Ember: "Thank you."
01:30:38 DM: "So that was a 28 stealth from Ember. I'll say with a 28 from Ember, everyone else will just need to beat a 5. Stealth check."
01:30:47 Sildir: "OK."
01:30:47 Saturno: "Big number."
01:30:48 DM: "Yeah, so heavy armor wearers, that's the disadvantage. So yeah, 10 from Sildur, that passes. 11 from Iridella, that passes. 21 from Mercurio, that passes. And 13 from Saturna. So you all passed. So that, yes,"
01:31:02 Sildir: "So Mercurio,"
01:31:02 DM: "a bunch of stealth checks."
01:31:04 Saturno: "Oh,"
01:31:03 Sildir: "you may want to lead the way."
01:31:04 Saturno: "yeah."
01:31:04 Sildir: "Tell us where to go, how to get there,"
01:31:06 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:31:07 Sildir: "since you've been."
01:31:09 Mercurio: "Yeah. All right."
01:31:10 Sildir: "Or you can have the spider tell us."
01:31:14 Saturno: "Oh, spirit direction."
01:31:15 Mercurio: "Oh, yeah. Let me just grab both my tokens. So it'll be easier for me. So come this way and then I'll lead you all up into the kitchen and then over here. And then I'm going to kind of signal, like, be careful. Like we're getting close. and bring us into this hallway and then just very carefully inch towards the door and sort of like signal to Sildir and tell everybody else telepathically: behind this door is the guy."
01:31:54 Ember: "What will it be?"
01:31:55 Mercurio: "so everybody get into positions,"
01:32:00 Saturno: "Okay."
01:32:02 Mercurio: "I guess, like probably want some people to lead and um,"
01:31:47 Irredel: "Are you trying to? Sorry, I'll see. Yes."
01:32:08 Sildir: "I could try to messy step in and grapple him to start it off. Maybe we can land a hold person."
01:32:13 DM: "Yeah,"
01:32:13 Sildir: "We can get the snap."
01:32:14 DM: "say that last part again. My headset cut off because it's down. But yeah, were you saying something or were you just like plotting?"
01:32:23 Mercurio: "yeah, we were plotting,"
01:32:25 DM: "Okay."
01:32:25 Mercurio: "like we're,"
01:32:25 Sildir: "Yeah."
01:32:25 Mercurio: "we're trying to figure out how to engage this guy. Uh,"
01:32:28 DM: "Okay."
01:32:29 Sildir: "Talking strategy."
01:32:28 DM: "Let me see."
01:32:33 Ember: "That's okay."
01:32:28 Mercurio: "I told everybody that behind this door is the goober. Um, You know, we're going to need to, Sylvia's saying he's going to try to misty step and grapple."
01:32:43 Sildir: "Or I could, if we're down."
01:32:44 Mercurio: "I'm going to suggest we probably want to get the silence off on this guy."
01:32:48 DM: "Yeah,"
01:32:51 Mercurio: "Yeah, and if someone wants, frontliners want to get in the front to open the door,"
01:32:56 Saturno: "Darlene."
01:32:56 Mercurio: "feel free."
01:32:57 Sildir: "Am I prepared?"
01:32:54 Irredel: "yeah yeah can i prepare silence or like how do we how do we go about this*..."
01:33:05 Mercurio: "Yeah, DM question, I guess."
01:33:07 DM: "so I'll let you say one person I'll allow you to designate will be the person who breaches. That person can run in and take their full movement to do whatever. Everyone else will be able to stay at the door, maybe just step into the room, and you can prepare an action ahead of time for what you want to do. Okay."
01:33:36 Irredel: "I think everyone gets."
01:33:33 Sildir: "I think Misty Step Grapple is not a bad idea for a breach, but open to other ideas. I think definitely Iridel upon opening the door, you should silence everyone else I don't have any opinions on."
01:33:47 Saturno: "I can be right behind you ready to swing."
01:33:51 Mercurio: "yeah,"
01:33:51 Ember: "You."
01:33:51 Mercurio: "i think, i think silence is like the best thing to lead with, and then, and then like grapple we can, we can go for like right after,"
01:34:02 Sildir: "I think everyone gets an action upon opening the door."
01:34:05 DM: "Mm-hmm."
01:34:06 Mercurio: "oh,"
01:34:06 DM: "Yeah. Yeah."
01:34:06 Mercurio: "everybody gets an action."
01:34:07 Irredel: "And it's just."
01:34:07 DM: "Mm-hmm."
01:34:08 Irredel: "I'm saying."
01:34:07 Sildir: "And there's just one person who uses movement and breaches."
01:34:12 Irredel: "I'm saying. Oh."
01:34:15 Mercurio: "yeah,"
01:34:12 Sildir: "So I'm saying definitely me or Saturno should be that person."
01:34:15 Mercurio: "okay, yeah,"
01:34:16 Sildir: "I'm saying I can Misty Step Grapple as one option. I'm open to any options though."
01:34:16 Mercurio: "it was because you guys okay. yeah, i think that's a good option, yeah*."
01:34:26 Saturno: "Do you think you could grapple him on your own?"
01:34:32 Sildir: "You know,"
01:34:33 Saturno: "I don't know, like,"
01:34:34 Sildir: "I don't know. I mean,"
01:34:34 Irredel: "I actually..."
01:34:34 Saturno: "is this guy lanky? Is this guy jacked?"
01:34:34 Sildir: "does Misty Step count as movement? Because I could actually... No,"
01:34:39 DM: "I'll say,"
01:34:39 Sildir: "it doesn't really."
01:34:39 Mercurio: "doesn't count as movement."
01:34:40 DM: "yeah,"
01:34:40 Mercurio: "it's a bonus section."
01:34:39 Sildir: "It's a bonus action and grapple,"
01:34:41 DM: "since it's a bonus, yeah."
01:34:41 Sildir: "so you could breach Saterno."
01:34:44 DM: "Yeah."
01:34:44 Saturno: "Because I could help you, like, hold him down. Like,"
01:34:46 Sildir: "You could, yeah. I see."
01:34:48 Mercurio: "Well, okay."
01:34:47 Saturno: "that's more what I'm getting at."
01:34:49 Sildir: "Yeah."
01:34:49 Mercurio: "I think he is up in a tree. So it won't be easy to get to him. So the Misty Step is probably going to do some heavy lifting there."
01:35:00 Sildir: "But I think on paper,"
01:35:00 Mercurio: "You'll probably..."
01:35:01 Sildir: "Saterno is still our breacher then."
01:35:04 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:35:03 Sildir: "is my point."
01:35:05 Mercurio: "Yeah, yeah."
01:35:05 Sildir: "bonus action, misty, step into action, grapple,"
01:35:08 Ember: "Hello."
01:35:10 Sildir: "and then the movement person will still be saturno, in my opinion."
01:35:13 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:35:14 Ember: "Hello."
01:35:14 Saturno: "So movement being like I'm rushing in."
01:35:18 Sildir: "yeah,"
01:35:18 Mercurio: "yeah,"
01:35:18 Sildir: "you'll be the breach*."
01:35:21 Saturno: "Got it."
01:35:21 Mercurio: "i remember guys quiet, quiet fighting."
01:35:21 Irredel: "And as soon as the doors open, I can cast silence. I can cast it from back here even. I just need the door open. Okay."
01:35:27 Mercurio: "yeah you, maybe you need to get a little closer, like maybe you won't have direct line of sight from the hallway is the only thing."
01:35:38 Sildir: "I think everyone get right up in the door. Yep."
01:35:41 Mercurio: "yeah,"
01:35:42 Sildir: "I agree."
01:35:41 Saturno: "What should I do, like, once I'm up near the guy? Do I just swing? Do I just*..."
01:35:47 Mercurio: "Just swing."
01:35:47 Ember: "Thank you."
01:35:48 Sildir: "I think it will depend."
01:35:48 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:35:47 DM: "I'll say if Saturno is the one breaching, you will be able to open the door and move your full movement. You won't be able to take an action apart from that unless you have a bonus action."
01:35:59 Saturno: "Well, I think I have a bonus action because we rested. But I'll hold on to my bonus action because I kind of wanted to see if I could do, or maybe I could do this with Zildir. I have, I don't know if I put it, I put it here in the chat. It's a bonus action."
01:36:17 DM: "Yeah."
01:36:16 Saturno: "Choose one willing ally I could see to coordinate attack with."
01:36:20 Mercurio: "Oh,"
01:36:21 DM: "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
01:36:20 Mercurio: "to let Sylvia get another attack. Yeah."
01:36:21 DM: "I'll let you do that. That'll work."
01:36:22 Irredel: "What is that?"
01:36:23 Sildir: "That'd be cool."
01:36:23 Mercurio: "Double buster."
01:36:23 Saturno: "Do you want to do that?"
01:36:26 Mercurio: "Let's go."
01:36:28 Sildir: "All right."
01:36:28 Mercurio: "All right."
01:36:27 Saturno: "So we could double bust this nerd."
01:36:28 Sildir: "So what is that,"
01:36:31 Ember: "Okay."
01:36:31 Sildir: "actually? Make one weapon attack and start within range of both your ally. Then your ally can spend their reaction to make an attack against the same target. OK, that's pretty crazy."
01:36:43 Saturno: "Yeah. Honestly, it's just as long as my attack roll succeeds. We both automatically succeed. And if one of us crits, we both crit."
01:36:54 Irredel: "Uh,"
01:36:54 Sildir: "Archer."
01:36:55 Irredel: "sure."
01:36:57 Mercurio: "Well,"
01:36:57 Saturno: "OK."
01:36:57 Mercurio: "as long as either of your attack rolls succeed, you both succeed."
01:37:01 Saturno: "Oh, that's great then. So I guess I'll use this then. But if he's up there, do you know how up he was? Can I like..."
01:37:10 Mercurio: "Well, the only thing would be, this is probably contingent on Sylvia already being on the guy. Right? Like,"
01:37:17 Saturno: "I mean, we could just do it after. We could just take the guy down first."
01:37:19 Mercurio: "you can use it the next round. Yeah."
01:37:22 Saturno: "Okay,"
01:37:22 Mercurio: "Okay."
01:37:22 Saturno: "so I'll burst in. Is that okay with everyone?"
01:37:25 Mercurio: "Yeah,"
01:37:26 Sildir: "Yeah,"
01:37:26 Mercurio: "let's do it."
01:37:26 Saturno: "Yeah."
01:37:26 Irredel: "and then get on this except*..."
01:37:27 Ember: "you you*..."
01:37:26 Sildir: "I say everyone get on the door so that we're not."
01:37:29 DM: "Yeah, so really quick, everyone go down the line and just tell me what your planned action is here."
01:37:34 Saturno: "I'm holding W."
01:37:35 DM: "Okay, nice. Sildur, what are you doing?"
01:37:42 Sildir: "Misty step grapple."
01:37:44 DM: "Okay, I'm going to carry you. You cut out."
01:37:56 Ember: "Um,"
01:37:48 Mercurio: "I'm going to try to hold person."
01:38:08 DM: "Okay, you're going to hold for a second. Airedale, you said you were casting Silence?"
01:38:13 Irredel: "Yep."
01:38:14 DM: "Okay, and Ember, what are you going to do?"
01:38:15 Irredel: "So now, Grace, we're*..."
01:38:19 Ember: "I was thinking my silvered shorts are not sure if there's a better option."
01:38:23 DM: "You can just..."
01:38:23 Ember: "Do I have to have ready?"
01:38:24 DM: "You could trade him with Graspa,"
01:38:24 Mercurio: "You can shoot him."
01:38:25 DM: "yeah. That's an option."
01:38:26 Ember: "Okay, crossbow. Okay, I'll do that."
01:38:30 DM: "Cool."
01:38:30 Ember: "I'll have my crossbow ready."
01:38:31 DM: "Okay."
01:38:32 Sildir: "Everyone get up by the door, please, too. I feel like Aria will technicality us on this."
01:38:41 Mercurio: "All right."
01:38:40 Sildir: "So stand on the right square."
01:38:42 DM: "I'll remind you guys that you guys are effectively doing a SWAT-style breach here."
01:38:49 Ember: "That's what it feels like."
01:38:47 DM: "So whenever you guys are ready, Saturna, open the door and go ahead and do your thing."
01:38:58 Saturno: "Alright, I give the cats greenies. I'm gonna burst in."
01:39:02 DM: "OK."
01:39:03 Saturno: "And I'm running in."
01:39:04 Sildir: "All right."
01:38:52 Irredel: "um so i think i didn't even say that*..."
01:39:07 Saturno: "Uh, if I can move my thing. Okay,"
01:39:06 Sildir: "I think the order might matter."
01:39:09 Saturno: "yeah."
01:39:14 Sildir: "So I think... I imagine we would say that Iridale... I don't think you can go do all that right now, Ember. I think you need to be like..."
01:39:23 Ember: "OK."
01:39:24 DM: "yeah,"
01:39:24 Sildir: "We're like in combat right now, basically."
01:39:26 DM: "yeah, just just do it,"
01:39:27 Irredel: "Yeah. Yeah."
01:39:27 DM: "do it one at a time. yeah,"
01:39:29 Irredel: "Yeah."
01:39:26 Sildir: "So just get back on the square that you were on."
01:39:29 Ember: "Hey."
01:39:32 Sildir: "Like, before the door? Yeah. I think... So Saturno does her thing."
01:39:39 DM: "yeah, so you, you moved up,"
01:39:40 Sildir: "And I guess let us know when you're done, Saturno."
01:39:42 DM: "yeah*."
01:39:43 Sildir: "Okay. I say that the next and most important thing is Iridel's."
01:39:51 Mercurio: "Yep."
01:39:42 Saturno: "I'm done yeah yeah*..."
01:39:52 Sildir: "I'm just trying to quarterback this a little bit. Alright, so Iridel will cast Silence. Go ahead."
01:40:01 Ember: "you know watch*..."
01:40:02 Irredel: "oh okay, i actually okay,"
01:40:02 Sildir: "I think that was like from last session anyway, so you're good."
01:40:10 DM: "OK, silence. The 20-foot sphere. OK, so is that 20-foot radius? OK, 20-foot radius. Yeah, that'll cover the room, I'll say."
01:40:09 Irredel: "um okay,"
01:40:17 DM: "So you don't have to worry about placing a template."
01:40:19 Irredel: "okay."
01:40:23 DM: "Maybe you can escape, I think."
01:40:19 Irredel: "how do i stop um?"
01:40:27 Sildir: "Are you in template mode? Just scroll all the way out."
01:40:32 Irredel: "Just scroll all the way up."
01:40:36 Ember: "Yeah."
01:40:35 Sildir: "Scroll all the way out if you can,"
01:40:35 Irredel: "Scroll all the way up if you can't, like,"
01:40:36 Sildir: "like Zoom."
01:40:36 Irredel: "zoom."
01:40:36 Ember: "Yeah. Yeah."
01:40:37 Sildir: "You can't?"
01:40:37 Irredel: "I can't."
01:40:39 Sildir: "I wanted to see if you could just put it somewhere else."
01:40:39 Irredel: "Let's see if you can just put it somewhere else."
01:40:40 Mercurio: "You can just place it and we can delete it."
01:40:43 Sildir: "Yeah,"
01:40:43 Irredel: "Yeah,"
01:40:43 Sildir: "just place it."
01:40:43 Irredel: "just place it. Well, I want to place it further. That's the issue. No, that's not where I want it to go. Fuck!"
01:40:49 Sildir: "It's OK. Just stop."
01:40:50 Irredel: "Just stop."
01:40:52 Sildir: "Stop clicking what's happening."
01:40:51 Irredel: "Stop clicking with that."
01:40:57 Sildir: "Oh,"
01:40:56 Irredel: "There we go."
01:40:57 Sildir: "you placed them."
01:40:57 Irredel: "You placed them."
01:40:58 Sildir: "It stopped somehow."
01:40:59 Irredel: "Stop somehow."
01:40:59 Sildir: "OK."
01:40:59 Irredel: "Okay."
01:41:00 Sildir: "All right."
01:41:00 Irredel: "Alright, just..."
01:41:00 DM: "That's like five things there."
01:41:02 Irredel: "Okay."
01:41:01 DM: "Let me get rid of those."
01:41:02 Irredel: "Yeah."
01:41:02 Sildir: "I think it gets the point across well enough. Whatever."
01:41:05 Ember: "Yes."
01:41:05 DM: "Yeah,"
01:41:06 Ember: "Yes."
01:41:05 Saturno: "I fuck with this this is good*..."
01:41:07 DM: "you're covering the room. I think you got it covered."
01:41:11 Mercurio: "Are we out of it though in the hallway? I guess is important."
01:41:14 DM: "The hallway won't be silenced, but this whole room will be."
01:41:20 Mercurio: "OK."
01:41:22 DM: "Also, I'll let you guys know, since most of you are seeing this room for the first time, this room has a loading winch over here. That ordinarily would be reaching downwards to loads and move around barrels as you see fit. Currently, however,"
01:41:38 Irredel: "With."
01:41:37 Ember: "Thank you."
01:41:37 DM: "there is a large tree that is growing up and out of that hole."
01:41:40 Ember: "Thank you."
01:41:41 DM: "It has dark and gnarled bark and appears to be bleeding. I don't have it on the map because it takes up a lot of space, as you can see here. So I'm not going to bother keeping it on the map for the purpose of keeping the scene tidy-ish. But it is there. and the druid here is like over here, where i haven't positioned, but like perched up on the branches. um, yeah, um, proceed."
01:42:12 Irredel: "I'm going to recommend the next."
01:42:15 DM: "yeah, saturno."
01:42:16 Ember: "Thank you. Thank you."
01:42:17 DM: "yeah,"
01:42:16 Ember: "Thank you."
01:42:17 DM: "saturno would be able to reach with her halberd. um, but anyone else with like a regular melee weapon would have to. yeah, yeah*."
01:42:08 Sildir: "okay so technically the druid is a little higher than saturn right now i think is like kind of the main point to take away for the moment okay so within 10 feet but not 10 feet higher than saturn oh great Alright, so Iridal's casted Silence. Great. I'm going to recommend the next one is Mercurio doing Hold Person, but I think it's interchangeable with my step. But up to you, Mercurio. You decide."
01:42:42 Irredel: "So,"
01:42:47 Mercurio: "Yeah, let me go for the hold person,"
01:42:48 Irredel: "sorry."
01:42:49 Mercurio: "because then if it's an auto-crit, you know,"
01:42:51 Sildir: "Everything else afterwards is..."
01:42:53 Mercurio: "you got some fun stuff you could do."
01:42:55 Sildir: "Exactly, exactly."
01:42:56 Mercurio: "Alright,"
01:42:58 Ember: "Okay."
01:42:58 Mercurio: "let's see if it sticks."
01:43:04 DM: "Old person. So that's going to be with some save. Let's see what he gets. That was a 13. Druid fails to save."
01:43:11 Mercurio: "Let's go."
01:43:12 DM: "So he's now under old person."
01:43:17 Sildir: "Okay."
01:43:17 Irredel: "I actually think that . All right. So I will . I mean,"
01:43:18 Sildir: "I actually think then that makes my turn and Ember's turn interchangeable."
01:43:21 Irredel: "."
01:43:21 Sildir: "So Ember, if you want to blast first or after I go, it's up to you."
01:43:28 Ember: "I can go after you."
01:43:30 Sildir: "All right. So I will hold true to what I said I would do, which is Misty step in and grapple the Druid. So."
01:43:40 Mercurio: "well, notably, you probably don't need to grapple him because he's paralyzed. I don't know,"
01:43:44 Sildir: "I mean, am I allowed to game time react like that?"
01:43:49 DM: "Um..."
01:43:50 Mercurio: "yeah*."
01:43:47 Sildir: "Because I would like to just try to grab the staff. I feel like that's kind of equivalent to grappling."
01:43:48 Irredel: "I would like to just try to focus that as an equivalent to Graveling."
01:43:54 DM: "Yeah, I'll say you can go for the staff. That will be your action, though. It won't be an attack or anything. You'll just be taking the staff. And he is currently paralyzed, so I won't have you roll anything for it."
01:44:07 Sildir: "All right."
01:44:07 Irredel: "So I will do that."
01:44:07 Sildir: "So I will do my misty step."
01:44:10 Ember: "you know*..."
01:44:12 Sildir: "which will place me,"
01:44:12 Irredel: "Which will please me."
01:44:17 Sildir: "uh, over. oh, i'm in ruler mode. i'll just say,"
01:44:21 Irredel: "I'll just say, like,"
01:44:22 Sildir: "like, over behind,"
01:44:22 Irredel: "go to the mines."
01:44:24 Sildir: "i can't get through, it's a wall."
01:44:23 Mercurio: "and you're like up on the tree with him*..."
01:44:26 Sildir: "yeah,"
01:44:26 Irredel: "Yeah,"
01:44:26 Saturno: "Mm hmm."
01:44:26 Irredel: "industry."
01:44:26 Sildir: "in the tree. let's just say, um,"
01:44:27 Irredel: "I can't actually do my stuff."
01:44:28 Sildir: "i can't actually move my token there, but whatever,"
01:44:30 Irredel: "On top of the drill, which is fine."
01:44:35 Ember: "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah."
01:44:35 DM: "Where are you trying to move your token?"
01:44:37 Ember: "Yeah. Yeah."
01:44:39 Irredel: "I think it's expected."
01:44:30 Sildir: "and i take the stuff On top of the druid or through the druid."
01:44:40 Irredel: "I've already said that."
01:44:41 Sildir: "neither of them are working, which is fine. I think it's kind of expected."
01:44:44 DM: "Let me try to... You guys are all sitting on top of each other, so I can't see you."
01:44:48 Sildir: "I'm under Saturno."
01:44:50 DM: "Oh, you're under Saturno. Okay."
01:44:51 Irredel: "which I also . So ."
01:44:51 Sildir: "Which I also can't move myself now."
01:44:54 DM: "Yeah, let me... I'll just put you like... Hold on. Ghost mode. I'll put you over here."
01:44:59 Sildir: "Alright. Great, that works. So I'm technically on the tree, but yeah. I have the staff."
01:45:08 Ember: "This is too close. Okay."
01:45:11 DM: "Yeah, you have the staff. Who's next?"
01:45:15 Ember: "Okay."
01:45:18 DM: "Okay. So you can step in like right through the door and then take a shot. No, that's not too close. You're good there. If you want, you can take like one or two steps like... backward if you'd like. That's up to you."
01:45:36 Irredel: "you*..."
01:45:38 DM: "And then go ahead and roll your crossbow attack."
01:45:48 Ember: "Mm-hmm."
01:45:50 DM: "That's a 10 with your crossbow. The 10, unfortunately, does not hit."
01:45:56 Mercurio: "Thanks."
01:45:57 DM: "So yeah, you breach into the room. Everyone bursts into action, executes the plan. Unfortunately, with all the excitement, the nerves of the moment kind of get to Ember a little bit, and her shot kind of like veers a little bit off course,"
01:46:12 Irredel: "I*..."
01:46:13 DM: "and her crossbow bolt impales itself into one of the branches on the tree instead. Yeah, I think that was everyone, right?"
01:46:24 Irredel: "think so,"
01:46:25 Sildir: "Oh, yeah."
01:46:25 Irredel: "yeah."
01:46:25 Mercurio: "Or wait, did she roll with advantage?"
01:46:29 DM: "um, good points, um, yeah, go ahead and roll it again,"
01:46:33 Ember: "Oh, I didn't. I rolled it normal."
01:46:31 DM: "see if you um get okay, yeah,"
01:46:36 Mercurio: "So..."
01:46:36 DM: "okay 17.."
01:46:37 Sildir: "Is it not auto grip?"
01:46:36 DM: "only for melee attacks um so 17 i think that let me double check yeah 17 does hit so*..."
01:46:51 Ember: "Beeping."
01:46:53 Mercurio: "Or I think any, oh no, yeah, only within five feet. So yeah, this is just regular damage. Well, with sneak attack, because of advantage."
01:47:03 DM: "Yeah. So roll your regular damage and then roll sneak attack after."
01:47:09 Ember: "Okay."
01:47:15 DM: "So 10 damage from the initial crossbow shot. Oh, shit. I didn't mean to put it on you."
01:47:29 Ember: "Thank you."
01:47:31 DM: "And then go ahead and roll your sneak attack."
01:47:34 Mercurio: "Thank you."
01:47:37 DM: "So that's 14. That's going to be another bit of damage. Nice. And with that, I'll have you guys all roll initiative. Not the spider."
01:48:02 Saturno: "No, why not the spider?"
01:48:06 DM: "Not the spider."
01:48:10 Saturno: "Cringe."
01:48:13 DM: "And let me get some music in here."
01:48:20 Sildir: "Would you be cool if I kept..."
01:48:26 Ember: "Thank you."
01:48:31 DM: "Okay. So as you all breach into the room, you see the Druid trying to face you all. He begins to speak, but before he can get anything out, Iridale casts his silence and he immediately is deafened. While you all are within the silence, the bubble of silence, you also cannot hear anything happening. And Iredell being outside of the bubble,"
01:48:57 Ember: "Beep."
01:48:57 DM: "you can hear normally, but you can't hear any sounds coming from within the bubble. Let's see what else."
01:49:04 Irredel: "Only make sure that the session goes on."
01:49:03 DM: "Although you all can communicate with each other via Ember's psychic whispers. And then Mercuria's whole person goes off, so you see the druid go stiff as he's trying to move to react to you all. And an instant later, Sildir is on top of him and wrestling the staff away. You now are holding this gnarled-looking staff. And Saturno, you also rush up right in front of the druid. So I guess you're under the branches where he's standing. but still within reach of your halberd."
01:49:38 Saturno: "mm-hmm yeah*..."
01:49:42 DM: "um, let's begin the encounter."
01:49:45 Ember: "You."
01:49:46 DM: "okay,"
01:49:49 Irredel: "Okay."
01:49:48 DM: "so i don't know you're up*."
01:49:51 Saturno: "okay, so i would like to. i guess, do i just swing once like normal and then use my bonus action? but yeah, okay,"
01:50:04 Ember: "Okay."
01:50:03 Saturno: "so i'm gonna swing once like normal. uh, do i swing with?"
01:50:00 DM: "um yeah Actually,"
01:50:10 Saturno: "uh,"
01:50:11 DM: "he's, like, under hold person, so you don't actually have to, like... Your attack roll doesn't matter here, because it auto-crits anyway."
01:50:10 Saturno: "do it got it? so i just roll damage."
01:50:20 DM: "Yeah. I think the attack itself will probably make you roll anyway, just because that's how Foundry works. But yeah, it's a crit, regardless of what you roll on this."
01:50:29 Saturno: "uh, so i do crit hit, right,"
01:50:31 DM: "Mm-hmm."
01:50:36 Saturno: "I think? I don't know. I hit the button. Did you see anything?"
01:50:41 Mercurio: "Oh,"
01:50:44 Saturno: "Got it."
01:50:43 Mercurio: "I think you technically actually do need to roll an attack roll."
01:50:40 DM: "yeah it probably it probably wants you to do the attack roll first really*..."
01:50:50 Saturno: "I did advantage."
01:50:49 Mercurio: "Like just reading it totally as written,"
01:51:01 DM: "uh,"
01:50:53 Mercurio: "it says that attacks are made with advantage and an attack that hits is a crit if they're within five feet. So even though they're paralyzed, you can somehow miss, right?"
01:51:06 DM: "i see interesting."
01:51:07 Irredel: "Okay."
01:51:07 DM: "okay, i didn't realize that's so interesting. okay, so well,"
01:51:09 Saturno: "So I did the attack with advantage if that's fine."
01:51:12 DM: "Yeah, yeah, that works. So that was a 27, and that hits, Go ahead and roll a critical damage. So that's 18 damage. Get some damage on this speller. Yes, okay."
01:51:28 Saturno: "And then I would like to do the bonus action with Sildir. So I'm going to attack again."
01:51:38 DM: "Mm-hmm."
01:51:41 Saturno: "and then we're gonna, i guess, just both attack."
01:51:44 Ember: "It was. Okay."
01:51:44 Saturno: "if one of us crits- i mean we both crit, okay,"
01:51:47 Ember: "We didn't break."
01:51:48 Sildir: "Yeah, I think we both crit either way as long as one of our attacks lands because of the hold person, but pretty cool."
01:51:55 Saturno: "yeah, milking it right here, okay, so i'm gonna help her to justice again. do the attack advantage again,"
01:52:03 Irredel: "Bye."
01:52:06 Saturno: "okay, and doing damage critical, hit into the 14.."
01:52:09 DM: "So that was a 20 attack roll from Saturno, which crits."
01:52:15 Ember: "Thank you."
01:52:16 Mercurio: "14 more damage."
01:52:19 DM: "14 more damage, and then Sildur, see what you got."
01:52:23 Sildir: "I have to roll the attack. Just give me a sec. I don't know why it's like that."
01:52:29 Saturno: "Attack is 14."
01:52:31 Sildir: "12 more."
01:52:33 Mercurio: "Well,"
01:52:33 DM: "Okay."
01:52:33 Mercurio: "the attack just hits because yours hit."
01:52:35 DM: "Yeah."
01:52:36 Saturno: "Oh yeah, that's true."
01:52:37 DM: "Yeah, so the 14 attacker from Sildur does hit, and the damage, 12 more damage. Nice."
01:52:44 Sildir: "Give me one second."
01:52:44 Irredel: "One second."
01:52:47 Sildir: "Yeah, I don't think I get extra attack here."
01:52:54 Saturno: "And then..."
01:52:56 Mercurio: "On your turn, though."
01:52:58 Saturno: "That's it. Let me end my turn. Trying to. I swear."
01:53:04 DM: "You can just click your face at the top. Yeah, there you go. Erdo."
01:53:07 Sildir: "Does the druid look disappointed by getting hit so hard? How bad does the druid look?"
01:53:14 DM: "Oddly,"
01:53:14 Saturno: "Are they like..."
01:53:15 DM: "you see he was surprised for a moment. And you see him kind of throw his head back and just cackle, although you don't actually hear it. um and he's like coughing up some blood here and he just has like a grin plastered on his face*..."
01:53:32 Irredel: "Spooky."
01:53:32 Sildir: "Thank you."
01:53:33 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:53:33 Irredel: "Weird guy. Alright, I'm going to cast Guiding Bolt."
01:53:38 DM: "okay go ahead and roll that*..."
01:53:39 Irredel: "Because all my other spells I have prepared, except for healing stuff, requires concentration. Okay. And then for attack, is it also with advantage? Because he's hold-personed?"
01:53:51 DM: "so guiding bolt Yes. Well, is it?"
01:54:03 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:54:04 DM: "Yeah, it is. Okay. Yeah, it is advantage. Yeah, you're right."
01:54:08 Mercurio: "It's just not crit."
01:54:09 DM: "So 19 attack roll. That hits. Go ahead and roll normal damage. Okay, so 15 damage. And Guiding Bolt makes him glow, so the next attack has advantage. But advantage is there anyway, so that's cool. Yeah, anything else you got?"
01:54:32 Irredel: "I do not."
01:54:37 DM: "Cool."
01:54:43 Sildir: "All righty. So I will go ahead and use my vow of enmity,"
01:54:57 DM: "All right."
01:54:59 Sildir: "which is acting weird. Hold on."
01:55:03 Mercurio: "That's for advantage, right? Do you need that?"
01:55:06 Irredel: "Oh, it's back."
01:55:06 Sildir: "It's not for advantage."
01:55:08 Mercurio: "Oh."
01:55:07 Sildir: "It probably used to be."
01:55:10 Mercurio: "Oh, okay."
01:55:11 Sildir: "yeah, it was a. uh, you have advantage. oh, it is advantage. uh, what's the other one then? been a while since i used it."
01:55:22 Ember: "Okay."
01:55:24 Sildir: "all right, well, we don't need the vowed enmity, never mind that. uh, in that case, i'll instead bonus action first."
01:55:36 Irredel: "Thank you."
01:55:37 Sildir: "uh,"
01:55:39 DM: "Go*..."
01:55:51 Ember: "Okay."
01:55:37 Sildir: "hunter's mark onto the druid and i will roll an attack with my lock sword*."
01:55:49 DM: "ahead and roll that. So a 20 attack roll hits. It's a non-natural 20."
01:56:03 Sildir: "damage with the critical 18,"
01:56:06 DM: "um, 18 damage. nice."
01:56:09 Irredel: "So I double the."
01:56:09 Sildir: "And do I double the Hunter's Mark roll too."
01:56:14 DM: "um,"
01:56:10 Irredel: "But it's not particularly."
01:56:14 DM: "i believe hunter's mark is one attack per turn, i think. um,"
01:56:20 Mercurio: "No, I don't think so*..."
01:56:21 Irredel: "I saw that."
01:56:20 Sildir: "But for critical damage, do I double the Hunter's Mark?"
01:56:22 DM: "until the spell ends, you deal an extra d6 force damage to the to the target whenever you oh, so it's any attack that you hit with. okay, yeah, i think that is um. critical damage applies to that as well*."
01:56:36 Sildir: "Okay, so I max rolled that one. So do we just double that number and add 12, or do I roll it again, like another d6?"
01:56:41 Irredel: "I don't know if you can hear it as well."
01:56:51 Sildir: "No,"
01:56:48 DM: "Did you already add the d6 to the damage roll you just did?"
01:56:51 Sildir: "it doesn't do that by itself,"
01:56:53 DM: "OK."
01:56:53 Sildir: "no."
01:56:53 DM: "So just roll 2d6. OK."
01:56:53 Sildir: "That was 18 straight up. OK, here's another one."
01:56:58 DM: "OK."
01:56:58 Sildir: "So in total, we're dealing 28 damage on that hit."
01:57:03 DM: "Nice."
01:57:04 Sildir: "And then I'll do my extra attack."
01:57:06 Ember: "Thank you."
01:57:07 DM: "Mm-hmm."
01:57:13 Saturno: "Can I ask a question to,"
01:57:14 DM: "Mm-hmm."
01:57:14 Saturno: "like, everyone?"
01:57:16 Mercurio: "Mm-hmm."
01:57:18 Saturno: "Given that druids, like, on the tree and the tree's, like, bleeding out or whatever, do you think, like, I don't know, I would have thought they would have been bloodied by now. Maybe they are and they're just, like, playing it off. But do you think maybe, like, the tree is, like,"
01:57:31 Irredel: "My own thought is that*..."
01:57:35 Saturno: "we need to separate them from the tree or something? I don't know. I'm just thinking about that."
01:57:42 DM: "Okay,"
01:57:42 Sildir: "Possibly."
01:57:44 Saturno: "Yeah,"
01:57:44 Sildir: "I agree with that."
01:57:44 Saturno: "just with my thought."
01:57:42 DM: "so your second attack was a 24. Okay."
01:57:45 Mercurio: "Or they might just be like the leader of the druids. So they're just very, you know, they're high level spellcaster. I don't know."
01:57:56 Saturno: "Yeah, yeah, maybe."
01:57:59 Irredel: "I think this*..."
01:57:56 Sildir: "My own thought is that I think this druid might be like under possession of the witch and that's why it's laughing anyway. Like the witch doesn't even care. It's like not even her body. Something along those lines."
01:58:09 Saturno: "Maybe,"
01:58:09 Mercurio: "Yeah."
01:58:09 Saturno: "yeah."
01:58:10 Sildir: "Baba Lazaga."
01:58:12 DM: "Yeah, so your second attack, Sildur, 24 attack roll that hits. So I'm going to apply your damage. So 17 more damage here. And then another two from..."
01:58:25 Sildir: "200 marks, yep."
01:58:26 DM: "Yeah."
01:58:28 Sildir: "And then prior to that, I don't know if you already applied it, I believe it was 28 damage,"
01:58:33 DM: "Mm-hmm."
01:58:33 Sildir: "I think. Yeah. It's a crazy number,"
01:58:35 Irredel: "Thank you."
01:58:36 Sildir: "so it's like, what?"
01:58:37 DM: "Mm-hmm."
01:58:37 Sildir: "But yeah."
01:58:37 DM: "All right, so..."
01:58:39 Sildir: "And that's my turn."
01:58:40 DM: "Yeah, cool. Mercurio."
01:58:49 Mercurio: "Okay. Um, so I'm going to, um, Hmm. This is awkward. I can't cast. It's just mockery. Cause he can't hear me. Uh,"
01:59:12 DM: "That's funny, actually."
01:59:14 Mercurio: "um,"
01:59:15 Sildir: "Maybe he's looking at you."
01:59:17 Saturno: "You flick him off, yeah."
01:59:21 Irredel: "Bye. Bye."
01:59:18 Sildir: "You flip him the bird and do like a up your sign."
01:59:23 Saturno: "Or like moon him."
01:59:25 DM: "Rep."
01:59:25 Sildir: "Sign link."
01:59:26 DM: "Hmm."
01:59:27 Mercurio: "Yeah, this is pretty awkward for me. I can't really do anything. Okay, I will give the help action to Iridel. I don't know. I guess that's what I'll do. And then as a bonus action... I will use... I'm going to use my Mantle of Inspiration."
02:00:08 Irredel: "Bye."
02:00:09 Mercurio: "So that's going to use one of my Bardic Inspiration dies. And it's going to let me heal four people, I think, in range. Give them temporary..."
02:00:21 DM: "Is it heal or temp HP? Oh, yeah."
02:00:23 Mercurio: "Temp HP. Okay."
02:00:24 DM: "Yeah."
02:00:26 Ember: "Okay."
02:00:27 Mercurio: "should be 2d8 maybe yeah um choose a number of other creatures okay um cool so i got a four on the guy so eight temporary hit points to four people um And I'm going to choose me, Iridel, Saturno, and Sildir. So everybody mark eight temp hit points on your sheet under your health bar."
02:01:17 Saturno: "How much was it? Sorry. Perfect."
02:01:30 Mercurio: "That's my turn."
02:01:34 Ember: "Okay."
02:01:36 Irredel: "Thank you."
02:01:37 Ember: "I'll get back at it with my light crossbow. Do I do with advantage? Okay. Okay. Great."
02:01:43 DM: "advantage uh 22 hits go ahead and roll your damage and sneak attack after okay six damage and then sneak attack*..."
02:02:00 Ember: "Yes."
02:02:09 DM: "Okay,"
02:02:09 Irredel: "Thank you."
02:02:09 DM: "so 11 damage total. Wow, that's a really low roll per sneak attack, unfortunately. 11 damage total. And let me see, let me see..."
02:02:14 Ember: "Thank you."
02:02:23 DM: "So you see here at this point, something interesting happens. Ember fires her crossbow right at this druid, and it pierces him directly in the center of his chest."
02:02:34 Sildir: "Thank you."
02:02:35 DM: "You hear a large crack as his ribs are split as the crossbow enters his torso."
02:02:43 Irredel: "Okay."
02:02:44 Ember: "Thank you."
02:02:42 DM: "And then you see him just start convulsing and riding around. You see from the wound in his chest, a bunch of vines start growing out at a rapid pace until they're covering him completely. And you see his form increase. Let's see. Saturno and Sildur, you are knocked back a little bit. And in place of the druid now, you see... a large shifting mass of vines that takes a vaguely humanoid shape. Let me add this guy too. OK."
02:03:23 Saturno: "On your own."
02:03:28 Mercurio: "Damn,"
02:03:29 Irredel: "Okay."
02:03:28 Mercurio: "that looks like the baby from the house."
02:03:32 DM: "Yeah."
02:03:33 Saturno: "Like that baby."
02:03:34 DM: "Mechanically, it's a similar stat block, but yeah."
02:03:38 Sildir: "Reminds me of the baby, yeah."
02:03:40 Saturno: "It reminds me of the baby too."
02:03:44 DM: "So, yeah, so."
02:03:45 Mercurio: "Anybody remember DaBaby? Sorry."
02:03:47 DM: "Stop. Oh,"
02:03:47 Saturno: "That's what we're talking about."
02:03:48 DM: "my God. Oh, my God."
02:03:50 Sildir: "Let's go."
02:03:52 DM: "Stop. Let's see. Yeah. And now, Saturno, it's back to you. You can approach, yeah."
02:04:05 Saturno: "i said let's go to everyone in my head um okay so i'm gonna go is there like vines in front of me too or is it like can i approach it okay But this is just 5 feet in front of us, right? Yeah, in front of me. So I can still swing from here, technically."
02:04:35 DM: "You can spring from there, yes. That's correct."
02:04:37 Saturno: "Okay,"
02:04:37 DM: "You have reach."
02:04:37 Saturno: "I'm just gonna do that for fun. Attack normal, right?"
02:04:45 DM: "Yes. Also, I'll say at this point, whole person is no longer affecting him."
02:04:51 Saturno: "Got it. And then... I will do damage."
02:04:56 DM: "yeah so that 15 attack roll uh that just hits and the damage uh 10."
02:05:03 Irredel: "Thank you."
02:05:01 Saturno: "down and then that's that's it oh hell yeah uh put me back in i'm gonna do it again*..."
02:05:04 DM: "nice cool you do have extra attack you're you're level five 23, that hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Okay, 15 damage. Nice. All right."
02:05:26 Saturno: "okay*..."
02:05:26 DM: "And now it's Iridale. You have help from Mercurio, right? Or did you not do that? Did you do something else?"
02:05:34 Mercurio: "Yeah, I did that."
02:05:35 DM: "Okay. So your attack roll, Iridale, if you choose to do so, will be with advantage. Mm-hmm. 24 Guiding Bolt. That does hit. Go ahead and roll your damage."
02:05:38 Irredel: "okay all right i'm gonna go and do a guiding bolt again because everything else requires concentration and all of my class features are like better against undead which this is alive in some capacity all right i think that hits Sam. Low as fuck. All right."
02:06:14 DM: "13 damage. Nice. Got anything else?"
02:06:19 Irredel: "No, that's the... That's it?"
02:06:24 DM: "All right. Still there."
02:06:29 Irredel: "Nope."
02:06:34 Sildir: "Alrighty. Give me a sec. So... I think... I'm actually going to... Where is Mercurio? Can't really see him on this map."
02:06:58 Mercurio: "I'm on the same tile as Aradole."
02:06:58 DM: "He's standing where Airedale is, yeah."
02:07:02 Sildir: "Okay. Am I like in opportunity attack range of this thing?"
02:07:24 DM: "Yeah, if you leave its range, you'll get opportunity to act."
02:07:28 Sildir: "Alrighty. I mean, okay, there's a big tree in the middle of the room. I got to remember that."
02:07:37 DM: "The tree is basically covering where that hole is that you see in the floor."
02:07:42 Sildir: "Yeah, yeah. No, I understand. All right, now I will use my vow of enmity. Unless, what did your thing do, Guy? Did that just give me bonus health?"
02:07:54 Mercurio: "Yeah,"
02:07:54 Sildir: "Your... Okay,"
02:07:54 Mercurio: "I give you eight. Eight temporary health, which is like over health."
02:07:58 Sildir: "let me make sure I add that in."
02:08:01 Mercurio: "I said drop the beat. Yeah."
02:08:04 Sildir: "Yeah, yeah. I'm with you, I'm with you. All right, I am gonna do a vow of enmity then. which pretty, I just have advantage. I'll decrease my channel divinity amount by one. And then I will roll another attack. I'll be attacking with advantage. And I got a 12 somehow."
02:08:32 DM: "12 a tackle unfortunately does not hit*..."
02:08:38 Saturno: "Do you have it in spoke?"
02:08:41 Sildir: "I do, I guess I'll spend it."
02:08:42 Saturno: "We don't have to use it."
02:08:45 Sildir: "Might as well."
02:08:45 Mercurio: "Or was it not guiding bolted? Oh, wait,"
02:08:47 DM: "it was that was what the advantage*..."
02:08:48 Mercurio: "that's sort of the advantage. Oh, I see."
02:08:51 Sildir: "No, I mean, I had Battle of Enmity too, so it's... I rolled it with advantage, but it didn't work."
02:08:57 Mercurio: "Okay."
02:08:58 Sildir: "I have inspo. So do I just roll with advantage again,"
02:09:04 DM: "No,"
02:09:03 Sildir: "or do I roll norm?"
02:09:05 DM: "it's just another d20 roll."
02:09:08 Sildir: "All right. That's a lot better."
02:09:07 Mercurio: "Let's fucking go."
02:09:10 Sildir: "26."
02:09:10 DM: "That was a 26, which does hit."
02:09:13 Saturno: "Yippee!"
02:09:15 Sildir: "Normal damage, 10, and then a D6 on top of that is 11. That's an extra point at least, so there's that."
02:09:26 DM: "Okay, nice."
02:09:27 Sildir: "And then I'll get my bonus."
02:09:35 DM: "Yeah,"
02:09:35 Mercurio: "Bye."
02:09:34 Sildir: "That was a critical hit, not 20."
02:09:37 DM: "so this was your extra attack, right?"
02:09:39 Sildir: "Yep."
02:09:41 DM: "OK, so 27. Natural 20, yeah. So that's the crit. Go ahead and roll crit damage."
02:09:48 Sildir: "And we low rolled a heck out of it, but whatever, 12."
02:09:50 DM: "That's a 12 more damage."
02:09:54 Sildir: "And we'll add in two."
02:09:58 Saturno: "Peace."
02:09:59 Sildir: "Sixes, fives, 17."
02:10:02 DM: "OK."
02:10:01 Sildir: "I am... What am I concentrating on?"
02:10:11 DM: "Hunter's mark."
02:10:13 Sildir: "Okay, fair enough."
02:10:28 Mercurio: "Okay."
02:10:17 Sildir: "Let's just say that I did a little Divine Smite there. Does Divine Smite get critted, though?"
02:10:32 DM: "It does."
02:10:34 Sildir: "OK. Are you OK with me doing that in retrospect?"
02:10:37 DM: "Yeah, you can do that. I mean, that just takes your bonus action, right? You haven't used it already?"
02:10:41 Sildir: "No, I haven't. I haven't."
02:10:42 DM: "Okay, go for it."
02:10:46 Sildir: "All right, so we'll do the Divine Smite. We'll roll the damage. Roll. That was the non-critical version, so critical version, I guess, is, I mean, do you want me to just roll two more d8s, or how do you want me to do it?"
02:11:02 DM: "Yeah, just throw two more dates."
02:11:04 Sildir: "Okay. Oh, whoops, those are 10s. All right, let's roll that. So, yeah. Total of 21 more damage from the Divine Smite. That'll end my turn. Dang, how much damage was that turn? That was kind of thick. I won't say it for the sake of not confusing the AI, but it was a lot of damage, whatever it was. Anyhow, let me hit End Turn."
02:11:20 DM: "okay nice um nice that's pretty good damage and you see that this uh deteriorate is now bloodied it's a lot of damage it's a lot of damage yeah What do we got here? Let's do something really funny. Let's be really, really funny. So you see this hulking mass of vines in a big, like, humanoid shape. You see, like, the vines kind of, like,"
02:12:02 Mercurio: "Okay."
02:12:02 DM: "writhing and shifting until, like, the creature's form itself, like, kind of changes to become, like, kind of, like, a long, uh, tendril of vines that weaves around Sildir and goes past Saturno. Let me move you. Let's shove you over here. Due to the shifting nature of the vines, this doesn't provoke opportunity attacks."
02:12:32 Ember: "you*..."
02:12:29 DM: "And this creature is going to go for an engulf attack on Iridel. So yeah."
02:12:40 Saturno: "So it does provoke opportunity attacks."
02:12:42 DM: "It does not. Aridel, give me a contesting athletics check."
02:12:47 Mercurio: "you*..."
02:12:50 DM: "Or acrobatics. Either one of those. That was a nat 1, actually, that it rolled."
02:12:55 Irredel: "all right let me do acrobatics okay*..."
02:13:00 DM: "So you see this creature kind of shifts towards you, and it kind of expands its body to try to consume you, almost. You are, however, it rolls a nat 1, and you are able to step back out of its reach,"
02:13:19 Saturno: "you*..."
02:13:20 DM: "so it misses. And let's see. Yeah, that was its action."
02:13:32 Irredel: "Yeah,"
02:13:33 DM: "Let's go."
02:13:33 Irredel: "I like to imagine I didn't need to do anything graceful."
02:13:35 Ember: "Thank you."
02:13:36 Irredel: "I just took a simple,"
02:13:37 DM: "Yeah, yeah."
02:13:38 Irredel: "deliberate step backwards."
02:13:39 Mercurio: "Um."
02:13:44 DM: "Actually, I technically ran that slightly wrong, but whatever. It's fine. Okay, yo."
02:14:06 Mercurio: "Okay, well, so I'm not concentrating on hold person anymore."
02:14:10 DM: "That's correct."
02:14:11 Mercurio: "This isn't a person anymore, so I don't think I can hold person again."
02:14:15 DM: "Yeah."
02:14:17 Mercurio: "So... Damn, guys, I'm fucking useless."
02:14:25 DM: "Uh-oh."
02:14:28 Irredel: "You might be able to step out where I am,"
02:14:30 Sildir: "Oops, sorry."
02:14:30 Irredel: "because we're outside of the silence."
02:14:35 Ember: "Thank you."
02:14:36 Irredel: "So if you have anything that doesn't require the target hearing you, we can still cast spells with verbal components."
02:14:44 Sildir: "Another rec I have, if I wasn't going to do an opportunity attack, I was going to try to deliver you the staff, but you can always come and get it from me somehow. I thought you might be able to be useful there."
02:14:54 Mercurio: "I wonder if I could get past this thing. Would be the only thing. Um..."
02:15:01 DM: "If you took the disengage action, you'd be able to. But that would be your action."
02:15:09 Sildir: "And then, like,"
02:15:14 DM: "Yeah,"
02:15:10 Sildir: "I'm sure he would still be able to take the stop from me with the rest of the turn."
02:15:15 DM: "you can just pass it to him. Yeah,"
02:15:16 Mercurio: "it's just most of my. it's like I can't mockery it, I can't command it,"
02:15:24 DM: "the silence kind of shuts you down."
02:15:21 Mercurio: "I can't do a lot of stuff but as a bard. but that's okay, this is worth it. we're not alerting everybody in this fucking entire uh place. uh, i'll just um. i think the best thing i can do, i'm going to just um. would it provoke opportunity for me to move a step back?"
02:15:56 Sildir: "Thank you."
02:15:57 DM: "It would."
02:15:58 Mercurio: "okay, i'm going to. i think silence is the most important thing, um, right now. so i'm going to give the help action to iridel and i'm gonna just say: you got this and give them bardic inspiration as well."
02:16:18 DM: "Cool."
02:16:20 Mercurio: "um, and that's my turn*."
02:16:25 DM: "Cool."
02:16:28 Ember: "Okay."
02:16:31 DM: "Amber, it's your turn now."
02:16:36 Ember: "I'm going to... Am I in range for my short sword?"
02:16:40 DM: "You are."
02:16:41 Ember: "Or my slow sword? Okay. I'll do that. Attack with advantage."
02:16:52 DM: "You don't have an advantage on this."
02:16:54 Ember: "Okay, so normal. Okay."
02:16:56 DM: "A 10 attack roll, unfortunately, does not hit. So you kind of go in for your short sword attack, and you think you hit for a moment,"
02:17:13 Mercurio: "Okay."
02:17:06 DM: "but you see that the vines making up the creature's body kind of just move out of the way to avoid your strike completely."
02:17:00 Ember: "all right all right*..."
02:17:25 DM: "Anything else you want to do, or is that your turn?"
02:17:30 Ember: "Oh, I can make another attack."
02:17:32 DM: "You won't be able to do another attack. What you can do, you can use your bonus action to disengage and move further away to take a different position if you want."
02:17:45 Ember: "Okay."
02:17:55 DM: "You'll have to move around. You can't just go straight across there. Okay."
02:17:59 Saturno: "I'm getting up real quick to get water."
02:18:06 DM: "Okay, cool."
02:18:10 Ember: "And that's my turn."
02:18:12 DM: "Alright. It is Saturno's turn, but she's getting water."
02:18:23 Saturno: "Hydration check."
02:18:19 DM: "Hydration check. Why?"
02:18:24 Mercurio: "hydration check."
02:18:28 Saturno: "I'm going to open a fridge. I think I'm going to give her string cheese."
02:18:33 DM: "Why?"
02:18:36 Saturno: "Have love, Spell. Fridge open. Cheese time. Speaking of cheese time, I'm going to swing. I'm going to turn this thing into string cheese. I don't hit shit."
02:18:46 DM: "why is that cheese type stephanie okay all right go for it go roll your attack an 11 attack roll unfortunately does not hit you just still have extra attack Yes, you can."
02:19:02 Saturno: "Can I use my inspiration to redo it?"
02:19:12 DM: "15 attack roll."
02:19:13 Saturno: "Let's go."
02:19:14 DM: "That does hit. Roll your damage."
02:19:19 Saturno: "Okay, that's something. I'll take it."
02:19:22 DM: "7 damage. Nice. You still have extra attack."
02:19:24 Saturno: "Yeah, I'm going to do that one now. Let's go. And 12. No,"
02:19:28 Mercurio: "Thank you."
02:19:28 DM: "That's a 22 attack roll. That does hit."
02:19:30 Saturno: "that's it."
02:19:30 DM: "Go ahead and roll damage. 12 more damage. Nice. Cool. Anything else? Hairdell, hurry up."
02:19:48 Irredel: "already so i don't think i can really move from here it's like a little uncomfy*..."
02:19:56 Saturno: "Oh wait, I'm sorry to interrupt."
02:19:58 DM: "What's up?"
02:20:00 Mercurio: "Thank you."
02:19:59 Saturno: "If I were to move in front of the monster during my turn, would that provoke an opportunity of attack?"
02:20:09 DM: "Only if you leave its range. I will say, if you are moving through the space where it is, that's going to count as difficult terrain, so your movement will be halved. Yeah."
02:20:18 Saturno: "I just want to move literally in front of the door so that in case like Erido or anyone outside does get attacked, I could try to intercept it."
02:20:29 DM: "Yeah. That's your reaction feature, right?"
02:20:33 Saturno: "Yeah."
02:20:34 DM: "OK, let me move you."
02:20:36 Mercurio: "Thank you."
02:20:36 DM: "I need to put you in ghost mode. So like here? OK,"
02:20:41 Saturno: "Yeah, ideally."
02:20:42 DM: "cool."
02:20:43 Saturno: "That's it. Sorry, Erido."
02:20:44 DM: "All right."
02:20:46 Irredel: "all right hmm so like this creature is pretty big so what's i don't think i can really make ranged attacks right*..."
02:21:02 DM: "From where you are, it is standing right in front of your space. If you were to make a ranged attack, it would be with disadvantage."
02:21:15 Irredel: "Has anyone taken damage?"
02:21:18 Saturno: "no i don't think anyone's sick well i don't know i don't want to speak for anyone*..."
02:21:22 Mercurio: "maybe just throw a cantrip at it I guess*..."
02:21:25 Sildir: "Yeah,"
02:21:25 Irredel: "Yeah, well, part of the issue is,"
02:21:26 Sildir: "she was like,"
02:21:26 Irredel: "like,"
02:21:27 Sildir: "oh my gosh."
02:21:27 Irredel: "all my cantrips are... That would be helpful are ranged, you know? So I have, like, Toll the Dead and Sacred Flame."
02:21:35 DM: "Told her that doesn't require an attack roll. That's a save, yeah."
02:21:35 Mercurio: "oh but those are saves you know*..."
02:21:38 Irredel: "Okay. Okay."
02:21:39 Saturno: "excuse me,"
02:21:45 Irredel: "Not really."
02:21:46 DM: "What would be a funny item, Stephanie?"
02:21:48 Irredel: "Okay."
02:21:42 Saturno: "give any funny items Like a exploding barrel."
02:21:49 Mercurio: "Like a book of dad jokes."
02:21:51 DM: "Exploding barrel is a pretty funny item. That's true."
02:21:54 Saturno: "That's my boulders gate run build. It's just barrel."
02:21:58 DM: "I see."
02:21:57 Sildir: "Donkey Kong build."
02:21:59 Saturno: "Yeah."
02:22:00 DM: "Barrelmancer."
02:22:01 Saturno: "Mhm."
02:22:07 Sildir: "Alright."
02:22:07 Mercurio: "There's a suspicious lack of exploding barrels everywhere."
02:22:12 DM: "I wonder why."
02:22:14 Irredel: "Is this a wounded creature?"
02:22:17 DM: "It is wounded, yes."
02:22:18 Irredel: "All right."
02:22:20 DM: "Told the dead. Alright, so DC 16 wisdom save. Let me see what I get. That is a 5. So it fails the save. Go ahead and roll your, I think, versatile damage or this?"
02:22:36 Irredel: "Well, what's going on? Why is that? Did the damage roll not show up there?"
02:22:40 DM: "Mm-hmm."
02:22:46 Irredel: "Okay, well, what the fuck?"
02:22:51 Mercurio: "Oh,"
02:22:51 DM: "yeah,"
02:22:51 Mercurio: "it did show up."
02:22:52 DM: "i see the damage roll now. uh,"
02:22:53 Irredel: "Okay, there we go."
02:22:53 DM: "that was a really low roll, unfortunately, so that was five damage."
02:22:58 Sildir: "Did you,"
02:22:58 DM: "uh,"
02:22:58 Sildir: "oh, you got 2D12, okay."
02:23:00 DM: "yeah, okay, um, anything else?"
02:23:05 Irredel: "Yeah, I mean,"
02:23:06 Sildir: "That'd be great for a concentration sip, I think."
02:23:09 DM: "uh,"
02:23:06 Irredel: "does the help action do anything to assist with this?"
02:23:09 DM: "for this, unfortunately no, because you're not the one rolling the creatures."
02:23:14 Irredel: "All right."
02:23:14 Mercurio: "You can use it on like a save or something, I think,"
02:23:17 DM: "yeah,"
02:23:17 Mercurio: "though."
02:23:18 Irredel: "Okay. All right."
02:23:23 DM: "All right."
02:23:30 Irredel: "All right,"
02:23:29 Sildir: "as this monster began to run away from me. wait,"
02:23:30 Irredel: "that's very good."
02:23:35 Sildir: "it ran away from me."
02:23:36 DM: "Yep."
02:23:38 Sildir: "dang it. um, would have loved to have done an opportunity attack. oh well,"
02:23:43 DM: "And it moves without provoking opportunity."
02:23:46 Sildir: "rat bastard. okay."
02:23:47 Mercurio: "It's slithery."
02:23:48 Sildir: "well,"
02:23:48 Irredel: "Well,"
02:23:49 Sildir: "anywho,"
02:23:49 Irredel: "anywho."
02:23:49 Sildir: "as it as it has slithered away from me, i'm reminded Of all the times I've seen a similar situation to this where, you know, before it was my own mistakes that led to, you know, jerkish people coming into power."
02:24:11 DM: "Okay."
02:24:12 Sildir: "taking over resources like this, like this winery."
02:24:23 DM: "Nice."
02:24:37 Irredel: "all right*..."
02:24:17 Sildir: "and I send up a quick prayer to Torm to help me actualize my ideals in liberating a Mardukov family and giving them back what's rightfully theirs and making sure that they're treated fairly despite their power imbalance here and I charge in and I go ahead and Just let it rip yet again with advantage."
02:24:49 DM: "What do you have advantage from?"
02:24:54 Sildir: "My vow of enmity."
02:24:55 DM: "Right, okay. 12 attack roll,"
02:24:56 Sildir: "And it was not enough."
02:24:57 DM: "unfortunately does not hit."
02:25:00 Sildir: "Alright. We'll extra attack it."
02:25:06 DM: "Okay. 25 attack roll, that does hit. Go ahead and roll damage."
02:25:11 Irredel: "We'll do those."
02:25:11 DM: "Okay."
02:25:11 Sildir: "we'll do the normal damage,"
02:25:11 Irredel: "Cool it."
02:25:13 Sildir: "get a nice 10 up in there. we'll get a d6 on top of that."
02:25:18 DM: "Okay,"
02:25:19 Sildir: "max,"
02:25:18 DM: "six more damage. Nice."
02:25:19 Sildir: "roll it and we'll do a little. i'll blast the smite too. i mean i can't be all praying and stuff without doing that. i feel so bada bing, bada boom, mr worldwide, as i step in the room. all right,"
02:25:39 DM: "Seven damage. Nice. Cool."
02:25:38 Sildir: "seven more And it's my turn."
02:25:44 DM: "Seven damage. Yeah."
02:25:46 Sildir: "Yep."
02:25:47 DM: "Alright, so now it's the creature's turn. This creature did not like being blasted by you the way that it did. So it's going to swing around and it's going to go for... It's going to use its multi-attack. So this is going to be two slams. The first one is a 26. Let's do the damage. 13 damage. I'll apply it on you. And then another slam. Oh, that's a 22. Also hits. Normal damage."
02:26:22 Mercurio: "Hello."
02:26:23 DM: "16 more damage to you, Saildeer."
02:26:28 Sildir: "All right."
02:26:28 DM: "And this is how I was supposed to do this the first time around, but I goofed it. But since you got hit by both attack rolls, you will need to make a... What is it? Let me check. You are now grappled. Since you got hit by both attack rolls. And you are engulfed by the creature. So you're basically within its body. Give me a DC 14..."
02:26:59 Sildir: "Okay."
02:27:00 DM: "Actually,"
02:27:00 Mercurio: "you*..."
02:27:00 DM: "you only do that on... Not your turn, but a later turn. Never mind. Alright, Mercurio. You see... It's your turn now, and you see this creature make its attacks on Sildir. and then like draw him inward and can like engulf him in its body uh so i'm also gonna move cellular in here a little bit give me ghost mode there we go*..."
02:27:38 Mercurio: "I'm going to ask Saturno telepathically, can I borrow a sword real quick?"
02:27:45 Saturno: "I nod."
02:27:47 Mercurio: "I'm just going to walk next to Saturno and unsheathe her sword that's at her side."
02:27:53 DM: "Okay. Which sword? The great sword?"
02:27:58 Mercurio: "uh, you got any smaller swords,"
02:28:04 Saturno: "Yeah, I think I have a, I just have a great story."
02:28:07 Mercurio: "you haven't."
02:28:08 Saturno: "I have a sphere. Javelin flail."
02:28:15 DM: "How many weapons does Saturno have? What the fuck?"
02:28:08 Mercurio: "you have a spear and what else you got like an axe or something i i need. i need a simple weapon*."
02:28:21 Saturno: "A greatsword is rather simple. I have a torch and a tinderbox. Oh wait, no, that'll hurt him."
02:28:28 DM: "A spear is a simple melee weapon."
02:28:30 Mercurio: "A spear is a symbol. Okay, I'll grab the spear that is on her side and I'm just going to stab this thing on the back."
02:28:40 DM: "Yeah, I forgot."
02:28:41 Mercurio: "Go see."
02:28:41 DM: "Saturno in true fighter fashion is a walking armory, basically."
02:28:45 Mercurio: "Yeah."
02:28:46 Sildir: "Skyrim inventory, right?"
02:28:47 DM: "Yeah, so..."
02:28:49 Saturno: "I'll have you know,"
02:28:54 Mercurio: "Okay."
02:28:50 Saturno: "I walk around with I think 74 pounds of weapons."
02:28:58 DM: "nice,"
02:28:59 Sildir: "Nice."
02:28:59 Saturno: "And then my chainmail is 55."
02:29:02 DM: "yeah,"
02:29:01 Saturno: "So 120 something?"
02:29:02 Sildir: "Working out while walking."
02:29:04 Saturno: "Yeah."
02:29:03 DM: "i'm gonna give you the. uh, so you're just carrying. you just casually carry like 120 pounds of gear at all times. that's cool."
02:29:09 Saturno: "I have a battle axe."
02:29:10 Mercurio: "Oh, wait,"
02:29:10 Saturno: "That's like*..."
02:29:11 DM: "uh,"
02:29:11 Mercurio: "wait. Oh, I do have weapons, actually."
02:29:16 DM: "what do you got?"
02:29:17 Mercurio: "Yeah, I have a short sword."
02:29:20 DM: "okay,"
02:29:21 Mercurio: "I'm tripping."
02:29:21 DM: "go for it."
02:29:22 Mercurio: "All right."
02:29:22 Saturno: "me opening shop."
02:29:24 Mercurio: "Yeah,"
02:29:24 Saturno: "I closed shop. I look so sad."
02:29:26 Mercurio: "I pull a short sword out from Saturno's inventory."
02:29:29 Saturno: "I look so fucked up after that."
02:29:31 Mercurio: "Okay."
02:29:29 DM: "I like to think that Mercurio is so unaccustomed to doing this kind of legwork himself. he just forgets that he does actually carry a short sword strapped to him."
02:29:40 Mercurio: "So I take Satornos anyways. Alright, I'm gonna roll an attack. Terrible."
02:29:51 DM: "Did you roll? That was an 8 attack roll. That unfortunately does not hit."
02:29:57 Mercurio: "Yeah."
02:29:59 Saturno: "No,"
02:29:59 Mercurio: "And... Everybody's still up and stuff, I guess, right? Has Satorno taken damage?"
02:30:10 Saturno: "surprisingly."
02:30:10 DM: "Has she?"
02:30:11 Mercurio: "Okay."
02:30:12 DM: "Surprisingly."
02:30:14 Mercurio: "Yeah, so I think that's about all I do. I step forward. I'm going to slash at this thing and totally fail to put a dent in it. And just kind of like, you know, un-Mercurio-like, step in front of Iridel and kind of like try to join the fight. Okay."
02:30:40 DM: "Yeah, Eridel, you see Mercurio step in front of you and trying desperately,"
02:30:49 Mercurio: "Oh,"
02:30:48 DM: "with measures beyond his means,"
02:30:49 Mercurio: "look."
02:30:49 DM: "try to defend you from this creature. How do you respond to this?"
02:30:58 Irredel: "Mercurio, stop. You do not need to do that. I don't need another person getting hurt to protect me. And I'm going to like step kind of like at the, I can't really move."
02:31:10 DM: "Yeah."
02:31:11 Ember: "Okay."
02:31:10 Irredel: "I was going to say I'll like try and like as much as possible,"
02:31:12 DM: "Kind of like shoulder pasta. Yeah."
02:31:13 Irredel: "like shoulder and lean in."
02:31:15 DM: "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
02:31:17 Mercurio: "So Mercurio and Iridal are, like, fighting back here. Like, I'm going to try to put my arm and leg out, like,"
02:31:23 DM: "Yeah."
02:31:22 Mercurio: "to block her. No, no. You need to... You focus on the spell, and I can't do any spells, so..."
02:31:36 DM: "All right. Amber, it is your turn."
02:31:40 Mercurio: "Yeah."
02:31:41 Ember: "Alright."
02:31:42 Mercurio: "Say goodbye."
02:31:44 Ember: "I've been useless as well."
02:31:47 DM: "You are at range to use your bow or crossbow now."
02:31:50 Mercurio: "Sí, bueno,"
02:31:51 Ember: "Okay."
02:31:51 Mercurio: "aquí hay unas que son parecidas, que son, o sea,"
02:31:53 Ember: "My gosh."
02:31:55 Mercurio: "creo que es*..."
02:32:06 DM: "So that was a nine attack roll. If we use our bonus action to aim and not move this turn,"
02:32:11 Mercurio: "implicit."
02:32:11 DM: "you can roll that again."
02:32:14 Ember: "Okay."
02:32:17 DM: "24,"
02:32:17 Mercurio: "Ay,"
02:32:18 DM: "that does hit."
02:32:18 Mercurio: "agarré un poco tanto material."
02:32:19 Ember: "Nice."
02:32:18 DM: "Go ahead and roll your damage,"
02:32:20 Mercurio: "Black."
02:32:21 Ember: "Alright."
02:32:21 DM: "and then sneak attack after that."
02:32:23 Mercurio: "Black. Black."
02:32:23 DM: "But it might not matter. Okay, 8 damage."
02:32:29 Mercurio: "Black."
02:32:28 DM: "Let's see. Ember,"
02:32:31 Mercurio: "Black. Black."
02:32:32 DM: "describe to me how you destroy this monster."
02:32:36 Saturno: "Beep."
02:32:39 Ember: "I, hmm."
02:32:42 Mercurio: "Black. Black."
02:32:43 Ember: "I'll just shoot it at its roots,"
02:32:45 DM: "Mm-hmm."
02:32:45 Ember: "try to cut off its balance,"
02:32:48 DM: "Oops."
02:32:46 Ember: "and it just falls, I guess."
02:32:51 DM: "OK. So yeah, you kind of aim. You ready your bow. You kind of aim for the base of its body,"
02:32:59 Ember: "Yeah."
02:32:58 DM: "trying to destabilize it, basically. You manage to shoot, and your arrow pierces through both legs of the creature. And it's able to tear the roots up well enough that the creature kind of stumbles, loses its balance,"
02:33:14 Ember: "Okay."
02:33:15 DM: "and the mass of vines kind of, like, falls apart."
02:33:28 Mercurio: "Yeah. Yeah."
02:33:21 DM: "And you see tumbling out from within this mess of vines is one Sildur's kind of, like, battered form now. Sildur, like, kind of falls out and, like, lands on the floor, like, on all fours, basically."
02:33:37 Irredel: "you you*..."
02:33:38 DM: "And also, you see the body of the druid. Let me end this combat now. and combat. uh, let's pause the music here. you see the body of the druid also stumble out. which one was it? this guy? i think it was this guy, not this one, actually? this one, surely? yes,"
02:34:09 Ember: "Okay."
02:34:09 Sildir: "Bye."
02:34:07 DM: "you see the body stumble out and he's like, uh,"
02:34:11 Mercurio: "No,"
02:34:11 DM: "pretty bloodied,"
02:34:11 Mercurio: "sir. Ah,"
02:34:12 DM: "battered um, and clearly dying um."
02:34:12 Mercurio: "the other one? No, no,"
02:34:16 DM: "and you hear ember,"
02:34:15 Mercurio: "that's the other one."
02:34:19 DM: "uh,"
02:34:18 Mercurio: "But I*..."
02:34:19 DM: "a voice in your mind, as this, um, this man is dying, uh, you assume that it's his voice and he says to you: this victory means nothing."
02:34:34 Mercurio: "couldn't... I couldn't grab it."
02:34:31 DM: "winter splinter comes and he falls limp, now dead*."
02:34:38 Ember: "All right, bro."
02:34:42 Mercurio: "Winter Splintered Apple."
02:34:48 Irredel: "all right,"
02:34:48 Sildir: "Great."
02:34:48 Irredel: "i don't even care about that. for my sake and for everyone else's, mercurio, the love of tear, do not do reckless things like that. i can take a hit and still dear."
02:34:57 Mercurio: "Is it? Is it on the first?"
02:35:07 Irredel: "please do not get absorbed by any more vine creatures, or any other creatures by that matter. oh gosh, just get better."
02:35:18 Sildir: "I had it under control. I was talking with Torm in there."
02:35:20 Mercurio: "I don't hear anything,"
02:35:26 Irredel: "i'm gonna cast healing word*."
02:35:29 Sildir: "That feels great. Thank you. Look, I have a feeling if I had just a few more minutes, a big blast of light from the sky or from me, I would have taken it out."
02:35:43 Mercurio: "right?"
02:35:42 Sildir: "But great job, Ember. To you too as well."
02:35:43 Irredel: "Did you make that up?"
02:35:48 Ember: "I guess the finishing touch, y'all did all the work."
02:35:53 DM: "Also, I will point out the dying words from the Druid. Only Ember heard that since it was in your head that you heard it, Ember. If you want to share it or not, that's up to you."
02:36:04 Ember: "I'll share it."
02:36:05 DM: "Okay."
02:36:05 Ember: "I'll tell him."
02:36:08 Sildir: "winter splinter."
02:36:01 Mercurio: "What the hell is a winter splinter?"
02:36:10 Sildir: "did you make that up, ember? what do you mean?"
02:36:13 Ember: "No. That's literally what he said."
02:36:16 Sildir: "did you get hit in the head during this fight, or something, or*."
02:36:19 Saturno: "I mean, respectfully, yes. Disrespectfully,"
02:36:22 Ember: "Yeah."
02:36:22 Saturno: "yes."
02:36:23 Ember: "I feel like all of us did."
02:36:30 Saturno: "A poet, maybe? I don't know."
02:36:36 Irredel: "well, no, not a poet, some pathetic weirdo,"
02:36:43 Ember: "Okay."
02:36:41 Irredel: "someone grab the staff and let's see what we can do with it*."
02:36:46 Sildir: "Something tells me you and Mercurio will know best. Sounds like you want Mercurio to look at it, though, so I'll pass it to him."
02:36:57 Mercurio: "All right. I'm going to grab that staff and I'm going to use my, where's my funny thing? There's my funny."
02:37:09 Irredel: "Good."
02:37:14 Mercurio: "And I'm going to cast identify with that."
02:37:20 DM: "Identify. All right. So let me see. Let me see. I'm going to flip to the right page for this."
02:37:37 Mercurio: "Oh,"
02:37:35 DM: "so you identify this staff as a gulthias staff. um, you know,"
02:37:39 Irredel: "In a minute."
02:37:39 Mercurio: "a what? Gold theist? Okay."
02:37:39 DM: "you can gulthias g-u-l-t-h-i-a-s."
02:37:45 Mercurio: "Yes. Okay."
02:37:47 DM: "um,"
02:37:47 Saturno: "And use it in a sentence, please."
02:37:49 DM: "i'm about to."
02:37:51 Ember: "Yeah."
02:37:51 Mercurio: "Yes, I'm awake."
02:37:54 Sildir: "You."
02:37:53 DM: "so with this, with this spell, you're able to identify that this staff is made from the branch of a gulthias tree. The staff itself is a spongy black length of wood. You know that its evils makes beasts visibly uncomfortable, while within 30 feet of it And the staff has 10 charters and regains 1d6 plus 4 of its expended charges. blah, blah, blah. You know that this staff is what allows the druid to control all the vine blights within a large radius of a couple miles."
02:38:32 Ember: "Great."
02:38:30 DM: "And when you break or burn to ash the staff, it will basically like undo that effect and all blights within a mile will wither and die."
02:38:49 Mercurio: "What do you think? Should I just snap it in half right now or should we try to use the blights against the druids or something?"
02:38:55 Sildir: "Can you control them?"
02:38:57 DM: "You get the sense that in order to use the staff for yourself is a bit beyond your ability."
02:39:07 Mercurio: "I snap it over my leg."
02:39:10 DM: "Okay."
02:39:11 Irredel: "Put it on the ground."
02:39:13 DM: "Yeah, so you snap this staff over your leg, and as it cracks, you hear, like... Actually... I assume, Aridel, are you keeping your silence up? Or, Mercury, are you doing this outside of the silence?"
02:39:30 Mercurio: "um,"
02:39:30 Sildir: "But."
02:39:30 Irredel: "I would have probably brought it down."
02:39:33 DM: "All right, cool. So you snap the staff, and as you hear an audible crack, And then like a loud inhuman scream released as the staff breaks. You get the sense that this scream is loud enough that any creature within a couple hundred feet would have heard it."
02:39:57 Ember: "Okay."
02:39:56 DM: "And you hear like the sounds of like twisting vines all about. You see that the vines that were like kind of like growing into the winery itself kind of like shrivel up and like turn to like black dust and the the tree that was in the middle of this room like growing up through the winch also just like starts to shrivel and fall apart and over the course of a few minutes it's reduced to like black ash basically*..."
02:40:33 Mercurio: "Okay. Well, fuck."
02:40:38 Ember: "Bye."
02:40:37 Mercurio: "My inspection of the staff didn't tell me it was going to scream when I broke it. Where should we go, guys? We probably should move."
02:40:49 Saturno: "I think we run and see what's up with that bird."
02:40:55 Sildir: "Yeah, why don't we just go through this door? Oops,"
02:40:55 Irredel: "hello maybe i'll watch*..."
02:40:57 Mercurio: "All right."
02:40:57 Sildir: "I didn't mean to open it."
02:40:59 Mercurio: "Let's help the nerds."
02:40:58 Sildir: "Why don't we just go through there and charge in? We should be well able to overpower now. I'm actually just going to... Maybe I won't just charge ahead to make Iredell happy, but I'll cautiously move in."
02:41:11 Mercurio: "Mercurio's going to charge ahead to make Irido upset."
02:41:15 Sildir: "Okay,"
02:41:16 Saturno: "Oh, my God."
02:41:16 Sildir: "I'm going to charge ahead to help to make sure Mercurial doesn't die. Okay."
02:41:19 Irredel: "My God."
02:41:20 Saturno: "And I will follow."
02:41:23 Sildir: "All right,"
02:41:23 Irredel: "Oh,"
02:41:23 Sildir: "so we're all in. We're going to go and squad this person,"
02:41:25 Irredel: "we're going to use this person."
02:41:26 Sildir: "I think. Does this person say anything as we approach?"
02:41:31 Irredel: "This person said he'd have to be a roach."
02:41:35 DM: "Hold on."
02:41:37 Ember: "Thank you."
02:41:36 DM: "Let me go ahead and like... Let's just switch scenes here. It'll make it easy. Go ahead and move down the stairs if you're able."
02:41:48 Sildir: "You want me to click the door?"
02:41:49 DM: "Yeah."
02:41:36 Mercurio: "Are we playing with high ground rules? Uh-huh."
02:41:53 DM: "As you enter the balcony,"
02:41:55 Saturno: "Ignored, Frederic."
02:41:54 DM: "you can see that the person that was here seems to have made a hasty escape."
02:42:03 Sildir: "Bye-bye."
02:42:02 DM: "You still see remnants of black ash scattered about the room, presumably where there were blights and vines and such. And you can also see that the ravens that are here are still trapped in their cages and crammed."
02:42:18 Irredel: "Well,"
02:42:20 DM: "Let me... uh,"
02:42:22 Mercurio: "Yeah. Yeah."
02:42:22 DM: "look through this part of the room again really quick. yeah, these are the fermentation vests. that's right, okay, okay, yeah,"
02:42:34 Sildir: "Well,"
02:42:36 Irredel: "I guess we'll read it. Doesn't matter."
02:42:36 Sildir: "I guess we'll free the Ravens as a matter of great importance."
02:42:42 DM: "okay, um, let me see what you're able to get here*. Yeah, I want to run this differently, Actually, let's keep this a little bit more interesting. So, small retcon, The blights and everything are still dead. You are able to catch this druid as she's trying to escape. You're effectively kind of like cutting her off And as you come down these stairs she kind of just like cowers and like holds up her wand at you, trying to be threatening, but clearly just uncertain, And you can tell by the look on her face that she knows she's outmatched here And she says to you all: Stay back, all of you."
02:43:49 Sildir: "I don't stay back."
02:43:49 Irredel: "We took out your leader."
02:43:50 Mercurio: "We have some questions for you."
02:43:50 Sildir: "I actually run to her and keep her in place,"
02:43:54 Ember: "Challenge accepted."
02:43:55 Sildir: "basically."
02:43:57 DM: "And why would I answer your questions?"
02:44:01 Mercurio: "Well, you don't have to, but you look like you care to live."
02:44:06 Sildir: "You took out your leader."
02:44:10 DM: "I knew that Lorgoth could not be trusted with that staff."
02:44:17 Mercurio: "So tell us, what are you doing here? What is your goal?"
02:44:25 DM: "You fools, you don't know what you've done. These feathered ones, they act in service of the Shadowed Lord, and we are under orders from the Swamp Witch herself to save this winery from their ilk."
02:44:45 Mercurio: "I think you've been tricked by this swamp witch. The friends of the feather definitely do not serve the devil."
02:44:55 DM: "And what would you know of this? You don't know their allegiance?"
02:45:00 Mercurio: "We know some of them quite well."
02:45:06 DM: "What do you intend to do here?"
02:45:07 Mercurio: "They've helped us."
02:45:09 DM: "Leave me be."
02:45:09 Mercurio: "They might have helped us oppose the devil himself a few times."
02:45:19 Irredel: "Okay."
02:45:19 DM: "What do you want from me then? Let me go."
02:45:24 Mercurio: "Well, who I... Eluka?"
02:45:24 Sildir: "What's in it for you to come here and cleanse this place? You're just blindly listening to a swamp witch?"
02:45:33 Mercurio: "Ugh."
02:45:32 DM: "The feathered ones have occupied this space for centuries. This belonged to us. These forests, these lands are for the forest folk."
02:45:41 Sildir: "If you haven't had a problem with it for centuries,"
02:45:43 Irredel: "I mean*..."
02:45:44 Sildir: "then why ask now when the swamp witch tells you to do it? What I really want from you is to, uh... Correct the record with your people, at the very least. I mean, that's probably the way you live. Because the Mardukas have nothing to do with the devil."
02:46:04 Irredel: "And not to mention, there's no way, even under the most arcane rules, that you all would have title to this land. I mean, even under, like, relatively primitive ideas like adverse possession, you all would have lost this after 20 years. So,"
02:46:18 Mercurio: "It's quarter to eight."
02:46:19 Irredel: "you have no basis in reclaiming this."
02:46:29 DM: "So she stutters and repeats the same thing that she said about the feathered ones serving the shadowed lord. And as she's saying this, you kind of feel that something's off here, but you can't quite place what."
02:46:48 Irredel: "Yeah, alright. Is she possessed?"
02:46:48 Sildir: "Let me insight check her."
02:46:49 Saturno: "Mm-hmm."
02:46:49 DM: "Okay."
02:46:50 Irredel: "Because..."
02:46:51 Sildir: "He possessed his..."
02:46:55 DM: "Let's see. So 14 insight from Sildir. So with that check, you hear her say the same line about the feathered ones acting in service of the Shadowed Lord. And as she's saying this, you get the sense that she's kind of like saying this a little too easily, a little bit too eagerly. You kind of suspect that there's some foul play here."
02:47:22 Sildir: "Let me see. I might have something kind of funny for this."
02:47:28 Irredel: "Yeah, I also have Dispel Magic. I mean, that seems like a pretty high-level spell, but..."
02:47:33 Sildir: "That could be nice."
02:47:37 Irredel: "Yeah, actually, can I do an Arcana check?"
02:47:41 DM: "Go for it. What are you trying to find exactly with the Arcana trick? So that was a 10 Arcana."
02:47:47 Irredel: "Yeah, I'm just trying to see if she's ensorcelled."
02:47:51 Ember: "Yes."
02:47:52 DM: "You don't get any sense that she's being possessed or magically controlled or anything like that. She definitely is a magical being herself, being a druid."
02:48:06 Irredel: "Okay."
02:48:01 DM: "But there doesn't seem to be some kind of outside spell or anything interfering with her actions."
02:48:11 Irredel: "All right, so it's regular old brainwashing, then. Not anything magical."
02:48:20 Ember: "Bye."
02:48:21 Sildir: "Well,"
02:48:21 Irredel: "Well,"
02:48:22 Mercurio: "Yes."
02:48:23 Sildir: "I told you my terms."
02:48:21 Irredel: "I told you my terms. I think we need to..."
02:48:25 Mercurio: "Yes."
02:48:24 Sildir: "I think we need to take this one with us, guys."
02:48:30 DM: "I will go nowhere with you."
02:48:32 Irredel: "So why don't you go ahead and tell us how long is the swamp which then put you in the minds of your people?"
02:48:38 DM: "What business is it of you? Hmm."
02:48:42 Irredel: "The business of people who, again, just took out your leader. And are very quickly running out of patience."
02:48:51 DM: "Yeah, so if you want to try to get pressure for this answer, that's going to be some kind of check. It can be persuasion, intimidation, or anything else that you see is appropriate."
02:49:04 Irredel: "All right. Dang. This was Mercy May."
02:49:09 Sildir: "You know what?"
02:49:11 DM: "Yeah."
02:49:10 Sildir: "That's very rude and quite frankly."
02:49:10 Irredel: "It wouldn't even be over. Mercy May is like plus eight."
02:49:17 DM: "Yeah. So that was a six persuasion check. She kind of like turns her nose up at you and just like scoffs. I'll tell you nothing."
02:49:31 Ember: "Hello."
02:49:32 Saturno: "Even though I might not."
02:49:33 Irredel: "That's very good."
02:49:37 Sildir: "Tired of your attitude."
02:49:43 DM: "Mm-hmm."
02:49:39 Sildir: "And I'm going to charge up a Divine Smite on my sword and hold it high and say, like,"
02:49:49 DM: "Alright,"
02:49:47 Sildir: "you better start talking now if you actually want to live."
02:49:51 DM: "roll me an intimidation and go ahead and do it with advantage. So that's a 20 intimidation check, not natural 20. So as she sees you charge up your Divine Smite and raise your sword, she kind of cowers away and she says, Alright, alright, just don't hurt me. I'll tell you what you want to know."
02:50:19 Sildir: "Start talking. We can talk like this."
02:50:21 Irredel: "Yes."
02:50:23 Ember: "Bye."
02:50:26 DM: "These lands belong to us, the forest folk. The witch of the swamps told us that she could return it to us if we help her. She serves the shadowed one."
02:50:48 Mercurio: "You know, it's a shadowed one. Yeah."
02:50:47 DM: "We came under her orders and stole She isn't outright saying it,"
02:50:55 Mercurio: "Okay."
02:50:54 DM: "but you feel very strongly that that seems to be the forest folk word for him."
02:51:01 Mercurio: "Yeah."
02:51:04 Irredel: "Problem."
02:51:04 DM: "And what?"
02:51:04 Sildir: "Pablo Saga is the witch you speak of."
02:51:07 DM: "Yes."
02:51:08 Ember: "Thank you."
02:51:09 DM: "If you know that name, then you know your struggle is useless. We came under her with her allegiance. with her creatures, the Strix, to assault this winery. We came and we took the seed of the pine wrought in crystal stone, the source of the Feathered One's power."
02:51:39 Sildir: "Where is it?"
02:51:40 Irredel: "Where is it? Yeah, my patient."
02:51:44 DM: "She kind of, like, doesn't answer right away, and I assume, like, you'll just kind of, like, Kind of move the sword towards her threateningly, maybe raise it a little higher, scowl a little harder."
02:51:55 Sildir: "Yeah,"
02:51:56 DM: "And..."
02:51:55 Sildir: "it's like my patience is thinning."
02:51:59 DM: "Alright, alright. It's with her. With the witch."
02:51:49 Ember: "Thank you."
02:52:04 DM: "She has it now. If you want it, you'll have to get it from there."
02:52:10 Sildir: "Where is there?"
02:52:14 DM: "If you ask this, then you truly don't know what you're dealing with. The witch lies in her swamps that she controls."
02:52:29 Sildir: "What are the name of these slumps?"
02:52:30 Irredel: "And what do you think, John?"
02:52:32 DM: "You recall from what Davian told you that the swamps that she's referring to are the remains of Beres,"
02:52:43 Sildir: "okay*..."
02:52:43 DM: "the town that was flooded and destroyed by Strahd."
02:52:55 Sildir: "and what do you plan to do now*..."
02:53:01 DM: "If you let me go,"
02:53:02 Ember: "Yes."
02:53:02 DM: "I'll return to my people."
02:53:09 Sildir: "and*..."
02:53:10 Irredel: "And."
02:53:09 Mercurio: "And what will your people do next?"
02:53:16 DM: "No, they'll kill me. I can't. I can't say."
02:53:25 Irredel: "Okay."
02:53:24 Sildir: "Who are you talking to? Who's they?"
02:53:30 Irredel: "Okay. Okay. Okay."
02:53:29 Sildir: "Are you saying we'll kill you if you say what you're going to do? You might be right."
02:53:35 DM: "It matters not if you kill me. If I spill these secrets, I'm dead all the same."
02:53:47 Sildir: "Anyone have any rope?"
02:53:52 Ember: "I do."
02:53:50 Saturno: "Did we ask what she was doing with the bird? Or like, what was going on with these birds?"
02:53:59 Sildir: "Yeah, go ahead."
02:53:59 Mercurio: "Why were you torturing those birds? Good question."
02:54:02 Saturno: "Yeah, what were you doing with those birds? No."
02:54:10 Sildir: "No, we can't."
02:54:10 Saturno: "Yeah."
02:54:10 Mercurio: "Hello? Yeah."
02:54:11 Ember: "Yeah, we can."
02:54:08 DM: "um hello can you guys hear me yeah my my headset died so i missed the last like 30 seconds of what you guys are saying*..."
02:54:15 Sildir: "We asked about the birds, basically,"
02:54:10 Irredel: "yeah that wasn't particularly*..."
02:54:16 Sildir: "the most important part. Saturno did. Well, Saturno and Mercury are both."
02:54:26 Ember: "But."
02:54:25 DM: "what does it matter what do you want to know about them*..."
02:54:28 Saturno: "I want to know what you're doing to the birds. Do I have to repeat myself?"
02:54:31 Mercurio: "you*..."
02:54:33 Irredel: "Obviously,"
02:54:32 Sildir: "I'm just going to say it matters to us."
02:54:33 Irredel: "it matters to us. We do that."
02:54:34 Sildir: "I'm just going to press the sword against our neck now. No more questions from you. We do the asking."
02:54:40 DM: "They're fools, these feathered ones. They mean to oppose the ruler of these lands. It is useless. We are merely taking back what is ours."
02:54:50 Saturno: "What's yours?"
02:54:52 Sildir: "Thanks."
02:54:53 DM: "The forests, these lands."
02:54:55 Saturno: "So you kill the people who live in the forest, you kill the animals that live in the forest? That's the most backwards shit I've ever heard."
02:55:01 DM: "That is the law of the wilds. That is how it's always been."
02:55:04 Saturno: "The law of the wild is torture and crows."
02:55:07 DM: "We,"
02:55:08 Ember: "because of the problem."
02:55:08 DM: "the strong take what is theirs."
02:55:10 Saturno: "Aw,"
02:55:10 DM: "As you,"
02:55:11 Saturno: "no."
02:55:11 Irredel: "You."
02:55:11 Sildir: "There really are two shamans."
02:55:12 DM: "as you yourself are proving now."
02:55:15 Saturno: "No, you see, I wouldn't kill you or a crow or a raven for funsies. But you, on the other hand, are torturing small, innocent animals because you're stronger than them. I don't want to do this. But you make it easy to do. Okay."
02:55:35 DM: "Do your worst."
02:55:45 Saturno: "Anyone want to say something before I do my worst?"
02:55:49 Mercurio: "Todavia no, yo pensé que lo habían matado."
02:55:51 Sildir: "Should we just..."
02:55:52 Ember: "No."
02:55:54 Irredel: "Resolute herself with you with the devil*..."
02:56:02 Sildir: "Maybe if we were at home, I'd let you leave. But these lands have changed me. Force for good for your people. Do something that matters."
02:56:11 Irredel: "Or maybe if you'd be willing to work with us We have worked for good for your people there's something that matters*..."
02:56:20 DM: "Mm hmm. Mm*..."
02:56:21 Saturno: "Yeah, volunteer or something, man."
02:56:27 Sildir: "I'm afraid I think I can't let you leave."
02:56:31 DM: "hmm."
02:56:32 Sildir: "And I am going to take a swing."
02:56:34 Irredel: "I think Mr. Turner was going to power up, though, too."
02:56:39 Saturno: "That's okay. I will do my worst."
02:56:42 Sildir: "Yeah, hop in, Saturno."
02:56:46 Saturno: "..."
02:56:46 Irredel: "Wombo combo."
02:56:47 Sildir: "Get in there."
02:56:48 Irredel: "Execution style."
02:56:50 DM: "So who's attacking here?"
02:56:54 Sildir: "Saturno first, but both of us."
02:56:56 Mercurio: "And*..."
02:56:56 DM: "Are you striking together? I'll let you guys describe and dictate. She's not going to be able to resist against anything you do to her here. You do feel that whatever secret she was talking about that she refuses to tell you, you won't get that from her if you kill her."
02:57:11 Sildir: "yeah,"
02:57:11 Irredel: "yeah, i feel that, affiliate,"
02:57:11 DM: "But she doesn't seem keen on revealing that easily."
02:57:16 Sildir: "yeah."
02:57:16 Mercurio: "check."
02:57:16 Irredel: "you go and make them all*."
02:57:16 Sildir: "i just say like i feel that if i let you go, you only cause more damage to those who can't protect themselves and you must be stopped here."
02:57:35 Saturno: "I just kick her in the back."
02:57:37 Ember: "Bye."
02:57:32 Sildir: "and i step aside for saturno And make no qualm for Saturno to do what she has to do. You kick her in the back."
02:57:42 Saturno: "I kick her in the back and I say, my halberd isn't worth this."
02:57:47 DM: "As you do this,"
02:57:48 Sildir: "Ah."
02:57:50 DM: "Saturno, let me see. So you're moving to strike her down now, basically?"
02:57:56 Saturno: "Yeah, I'm kicking her down."
02:57:59 DM: "Okay."
02:58:00 Mercurio: "I don't know."
02:58:01 DM: "Sildur, you hear a voice, a dark voice, in the back of your mind, and it speaks to you. Take your vengeance. This right is yours."
02:58:16 Sildir: "Is this, do I recognize this as Hor's voice?"
02:58:16 Irredel: "Is this better because the board is going?"
02:58:20 DM: "Um, it does sound like it. Yeah."
02:58:23 Sildir: "It doesn't sound like Torim at the very least, right?"
02:58:25 DM: "No, it's definitely, it's definitely not term."
02:58:26 Ember: "Okay."
02:58:21 Irredel: "It doesn't sound like the board is literally straight."
02:58:33 Saturno: "That's all I'm doing."
02:58:33 Sildir: "Let me see."
02:58:33 Irredel: "Let's see."
02:58:34 Saturno: "I'm just kicking her down."
02:58:35 DM: "Okay. Okay."
02:58:39 Mercurio: "Sylvia, are you okay?"
02:58:37 Sildir: "Let me see something. Okay. Yeah,"
02:58:45 Irredel: "I'm going to take it."
02:58:44 Sildir: "I'm going to take my vengeance. This right is mine."
02:58:51 Irredel: "uh this is*..."
02:58:53 DM: "All right."
02:58:50 Sildir: "And I'm going to swing my sword down on this person."
02:58:54 DM: "All right. You cut down this druid here. She just starts, like, she falls to the ground. The wound is fatal. And as she's, like, coughing up blood,"
02:59:09 Mercurio: "Cayendo en el Rey."
02:59:09 DM: "she starts laughing. And she says, hold on, let me see. What did she say? Where is it?"
02:59:10 Ember: "Thank you."
02:59:18 Sildir: "I don't think it's helpful to anything*..."
02:59:18 Irredel: "i thought we were going for a whole lady jane gray situation but*..."
02:59:23 DM: "as she's dying and laughing and coughing up blood, she says to you all you may defeat us, but winter splinter is coming and she falls over and dies. and also,"
02:59:38 Irredel: "you*..."
02:59:39 DM: "Sildur, you and you alone see something glowing and glinting at you. it appears to be something that's like tied around a necklace that she's wearing."
02:59:53 Irredel: "Do I answer this?"
02:59:53 Sildir: "I'll reach out and grab it."
02:59:55 DM: "Okay, so you'll reach out and take this item and as you look at it, you can see that this is an intricately carved ring made of amber. Okay."
02:59:54 Irredel: "Does it look like that?"
03:00:16 Sildir: "Do I intuit anything else about it? Does it look like the Amber of the Flute, perhaps?"
03:00:21 DM: "It does look pretty similar, although you can see that there's something unique about this. To anyone else, this looks like a ring carved of amber, and that's about it. There's some kind of strange glyph on a face on the ring. But to you, Sildur, what you see is there is some kind of underneath... It looks like it's underneath the surface of the ring,"
03:00:35 Irredel: "We kind of feel like."
03:00:46 DM: "but there's some kind of flowing red energy. pulsing and spinning around on the inside of this ring."
03:00:59 Irredel: "Like."
03:00:59 Sildir: "Does it kind of feel like a mood ring that's always red?"
03:01:03 Saturno: "All right."
03:01:02 DM: "That's the impression you get, yeah."
03:01:03 Sildir: "Like a thing? Okay."
03:01:05 DM: "There's definitely an aura of sorts around this ring."
03:01:07 Sildir: "Like there's like a liquid in there that's... Yeah, okay."
03:01:10 DM: "And you can feel that the emotion that you feel taking your vengeance, cutting down this druid, the ring seems to be reacting to that."
03:01:22 Sildir: "Well,"
03:01:22 Irredel: "Well,"
03:01:23 Sildir: "um... I'll take it,"
03:01:28 Irredel: "I'll take it,"
03:01:29 Sildir: "actually,"
03:01:29 Irredel: "actually."
03:01:29 Sildir: "and I'll slip it on,"
03:01:30 Irredel: "I'll slip it off. I'm just like, seriously, I'm done with my thinking."
03:01:32 Sildir: "kind of just like dexterously using my thumb and my pinky on my right hand to slip it onto my ring finger."
03:01:38 Irredel: "on my right hand to slip it onto my finger."
03:01:39 DM: "You're going to wear the ring?"
03:01:45 Sildir: "Let me see,"
03:01:45 Irredel: "Let me see,"
03:01:45 Sildir: "actually."
03:01:45 Irredel: "actually. I feel like . All right. So it's actually ."
03:01:47 Sildir: "I feel like Sildur's at a tipping point here,"
03:01:49 Irredel: "But he is . So yeah."
03:01:49 Sildir: "so let's see how he rolls again. Alright,"
03:01:55 Ember: "Okay."
03:01:54 Sildir: "so he's actually going to pocket the ring,"
03:01:56 DM: "OK,"
03:01:56 Sildir: "now that you mention it."
03:01:57 DM: "cool."
03:01:58 Sildir: "But he is going to examine this later, regardless. So, yeah."
03:02:12 DM: "Yeah, so you now stand in this room. The pool of blood coming from the body of this woman is now kind of spreading out and around your boots, basically. So you're just basically standing in a puddle of blood. You're panting hard and shoulders heaving, reeling back from the emotion of what you just did. And you look up to see the rest of your party. And all of you, apart from Sailor, like looking at him now, you almost don't recognize the man before you. So, yeah."
03:02:55 Mercurio: "But I'm going to go to Twitch."
03:02:55 DM: "How do you all respond to seeing this?"
03:02:59 Saturno: "Are you okay, Sildur?"
03:03:03 Sildir: "I feel fine. I feel good, actually."
03:03:06 Saturno: "Yeah?"
03:03:04 Irredel: "Can I roll a religion check?"
03:03:05 Sildir: "I'm sorry that I had to do that, but..."
03:03:06 Irredel: "On the whole oath thing?"
03:03:09 Mercurio: "Yes?"
03:03:10 Saturno: "It's okay."
03:03:10 Sildir: "This is the path I've chosen to walk. My oaths are stronger than allowing her to leave alive."
03:03:20 Mercurio: "What is it that you have to do?"
03:03:18 Sildir: "And I know she would have caused more damage had she gone."
03:03:24 DM: "Go for it."
03:03:25 Ember: "Hey."
03:03:27 DM: "Yeah. So 21 religion. So what are you trying to figure out exactly here?"
03:03:33 Irredel: "Just like,"
03:03:34 Sildir: "into something that actually comports with this hope."
03:03:34 Irredel: "is this something that actually comports with his oath? Like,"
03:03:38 DM: "So with the 21 religion check,"
03:03:38 Irredel: "is this the path that I know still dear to be on?"
03:03:38 Sildir: "I guess that's the path that I know is still dear to be in one."
03:03:43 DM: "Yeah. So with a 21 religion check, I'll say that, you know, a paladin's oaths are generally largely defined by the paladin themselves. And it's more, rather than like necessarily carrying out the specific will of a deity in the way that a cleric would, a paladin's oaths is more about their own commitments that they have defined and set before themselves."
03:04:09 Irredel: "Yeah,"
03:04:09 DM: "And with a 20, Yeah,"
03:04:10 Irredel: "so..."
03:04:10 DM: "with a 21,"
03:04:09 Sildir: "Considering my answer?"
03:04:11 DM: "I'll say Sildur. Yeah, Sildur can answer, yeah."
03:04:14 Sildir: "Yeah, so only Iridil would really divine this, I feel. I can't control what Iridil says to the party, of course."
03:04:25 Mercurio: "on that."
03:04:23 Sildir: "But overall, you can tell that Seldar means it when he's talking about his oaths. This did align with his oaths. But you can tell that Somewhere inside, he is still torn between two directions. And you feel that, like, he is leaning away from the assistance of, I guess, his divine power,"
03:04:59 Ember: "Thank you."
03:04:58 Sildir: "because he hasn't seen a lot of assistance from Torm, is how he feels right now. Like, you may not know all of that, but you can see that he's, like, very into his own choices right now. But also potentially looking for other paths, I would say. It's like, what you would be able to divine."
03:05:19 Irredel: "Sorry, I'm going to stay quiet."
03:05:20 Sildir: "But his oaths are held true. Because..."
03:05:26 Mercurio: "Okay."
03:05:26 Irredel: "I think Phil there saw on this."
03:05:26 Sildir: "I think Sildur saw in this place, like..."
03:05:31 Irredel: "Like where he could be a less overtly various. We're so accidentally caused this something like this."
03:05:32 Ember: "Thank you."
03:05:31 Sildir: "where he could be a less overtly nefarious Baba Lazaga who more so accidentally caused something like this to happen in his previous life. He feels like this is something he easily,"
03:05:41 Irredel: "And you would definitely know."
03:05:48 Sildir: "perhaps even in another world's winery, he literally did something like this on accident. So this is definitely deeply personal to him, and that's kind of why he killed this druid. And you would definitely know that, like, Erdo, like, having helped out with some of those operations. And probably Mercurio,"
03:06:10 Irredel: "And probably be curious."
03:06:10 Sildir: "Saturno, Ember, like, you guys, like,"
03:06:13 Irredel: "Like. Yeah. All released. Potentially."
03:06:13 Sildir: "depending on how we cross paths in the future,"
03:06:15 Irredel: "I forget."
03:06:15 Sildir: "you might be able to think a little bit and see that in me here, too. Like, that this is personal."
03:06:20 DM: "Mm hmm."
03:06:20 Ember: "Yeah."
03:06:23 Saturno: "Mm-hmm."
03:06:23 Sildir: "Because I know you guys all were, like... Potentially lore impacted by my business operations before. I forget which of you took that on. I know Mercurio for sure. Saturno probably. Ember probably. But yeah. And now I'll stop yapping. But yeah. The oaths he was being honest about. Iredel can tell there's something funny going on with the gods."
03:06:41 Irredel: "I was just going to walk over and like place a hand on your shoulder."
03:06:47 Sildir: "Everyone else can tell this was a little personal. In summary."
03:07:04 Mercurio: "I don't have a better one because I don't have the..."
03:07:03 Sildir: "I was just going to walk over and put my hand on Sylvia's shoulder."
03:07:11 Irredel: "like nod once."
03:07:14 Sildir: "Look where life's taken us, Iridil."
03:07:16 Ember: "Bye."
03:07:19 Sildir: "Oh, bloody, smelly place."
03:07:18 Irredel: "very odd bloody melly place."
03:07:25 Sildir: "Seriously,"
03:07:25 Irredel: "seriously,"
03:07:25 Sildir: "this is the fermentation room or something?"
03:07:25 Irredel: "this is like a fermentation room or something."
03:07:27 Sildir: "It's quite clenching. It's the blood."
03:07:27 Irredel: "white 100 and mixed with the blood*."
03:07:33 Sildir: "Ugh. Mercurio, look away. You'll never want to drink wine again. Or at the very least, you'll always have to switch to whites."
03:07:47 Ember: "Thanks."
03:07:46 Mercurio: "that would be a tragedy,"
03:07:51 Sildir: "It's not the same, though,"
03:07:51 Irredel: "There's just not the same depth of flavor."
03:07:52 Sildir: "with the flavor."
03:07:51 Mercurio: "that would be the greatest tragedy to come from."
03:07:56 DM: "Mm hmm."
03:07:58 Sildir: "It's probably just the same."
03:07:58 Irredel: "The body just isn't the same."
03:07:53 Mercurio: "this agreed like with a dessert, sure, but you know, as a regular drink. uh,"
03:08:08 Sildir: "I don't want to believe in it."
03:08:08 Irredel: "Do they even have dessert in this world?"
03:08:12 Sildir: "I don't want to be a single anyway."
03:08:13 Irredel: "I haven't seen a single sweet anywhere."
03:08:15 Mercurio: "Well, there was those pies,"
03:08:18 Saturno: "Hmm."
03:08:18 Irredel: "They were full of children."
03:08:15 Sildir: "You can pull children."
03:08:17 Mercurio: "but Yeah. Good thing we didn't eat those."
03:08:22 Irredel: "Which I guess they were meat pies anyways,"
03:08:19 Sildir: "I guess they were meat wise or anything. Me."
03:08:24 Mercurio: "They were meat pies, yeah."
03:08:25 Sildir: "I don't have any features."
03:08:24 Irredel: "so it'd be pretty weird for them to be sweet."
03:08:28 Mercurio: "Surely they have sweet pies. Surely."
03:08:33 Irredel: "Wow, have you seen any fruit trees?"
03:08:38 Mercurio: "Well, there's a vineyard here, so..."
03:08:42 Irredel: "Yeah."
03:08:42 Sildir: "Hello."
03:08:43 Mercurio: "There's that."
03:08:44 DM: "As you say that, Mercurio,"
03:08:49 Mercurio: "Yes."
03:08:48 DM: "you are suddenly reminded that these large vats that are spread out in the center of the room are full of wine currently, and they all have spigots attached near the bottom. And you feel, with all the excitement of everything that's happened, that you're actually quite parched."
03:09:19 Irredel: "Red Dragon Crush or whatever."
03:09:11 Mercurio: "I look at my bottle of the parting gift that we were given from our Red Dragon crush, yeah, and I'm like, well, this could use a refill. I'm going to uncork it and open the spigot and just fill the bottle back up."
03:09:33 DM: "Nice."
03:09:33 Sildir: "You should examine that carefully before you drink."
03:09:37 Mercurio: "Thank you."
03:09:37 Sildir: "This place has been in druid control for too long, and they're really weird people. But..."
03:09:43 Mercurio: "Can I do a perception check on it? I'm going to..."
03:09:47 Sildir: "I'm sure you know your mind well enough, Mercurio."
03:09:49 DM: "Yeah, I'll say, I won't even have you roll for this. You can tell that there's nothing off about this wine or anything. It's just like, it's the same wine that you have in your bottle. It's Red Dragon Crush."
03:10:02 Mercurio: "I sniffed the wine. I'm like, I'm 100% sure that this is Red Dragon Crush. I mean, I was honestly hoping it was, what was the other one that they had that we had the last time?"
03:10:13 Saturno: "Oh,"
03:10:13 Mercurio: "Yeah,"
03:10:13 Saturno: "the really good one?"
03:10:14 DM: "The nice one?"
03:10:15 Mercurio: "yeah."
03:10:16 Saturno: "Yeah."
03:10:16 DM: "That is Champagne de la Stompe."
03:10:18 Ember: "Thank you."
03:10:18 Mercurio: "Champagne de l'Estaing. Yeah, I was hoping to find some of the champagne, but this will have to do. And I probably put my mouth underneath the spigot to take a sip so I could take the bottle full."
03:10:37 DM: "Yeah. And you are greeted with the familiar refreshing taste of Red Dragon Crush."
03:10:46 Sildir: "Okay,"
03:10:46 Irredel: "okay you don't know*..."
03:10:46 Sildir: "I thought you were going to say some, like, alcoholism shit."
03:10:50 DM: "I mean, if Mercurio wants to,"
03:10:51 Sildir: "With the familiar sweet,"
03:10:52 DM: "like..."
03:10:52 Sildir: "sweet relief of finally having some, like..."
03:10:56 Ember: "Thank you."
03:10:56 DM: "If Mercurio wants to play up that angle, he can, but yeah."
03:11:00 Mercurio: "Yeah, I've been too sober for these last few days. I'm going to take a real good sip. I'm going to let it run for a while, and I'm probably going to splash some on my face."
03:11:15 DM: "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
03:11:15 Saturno: "Oh my god."
03:11:16 DM: "Holy shit."
03:11:17 Mercurio: "I'm going to run it back through my hair, too."
03:11:19 DM: "Oh my... Give me a constitution check. Or a save, I guess."
03:11:25 Irredel: "Well, maybe it did say."
03:11:25 Sildir: "A little perfume for you there, Mercurio."
03:11:28 Mercurio: "Yeah, I don't know where my bottle went."
03:11:30 Saturno: "Me neither."
03:11:32 DM: "21. Yeah, this goes down super easy. You're not, like... You're, like, not really sober. You're maybe, like... You're a bit buzzed, but definitely, like..."
03:11:40 Mercurio: "I feel right as rain."
03:11:42 DM: "Yeah, there you go."
03:11:48 Mercurio: "Trust me,"
03:11:48 Sildir: "Well,"
03:11:48 Mercurio: "it was doing more damage for me to not drink this."
03:11:52 Sildir: "Davion did say if we liberated this place, we'd have the full support of the Friends of the Feather. I think that includes as much wine as you want."
03:11:59 Irredel: "That's why I asked you."
03:12:00 DM: "as you say that uh you hear the sound of like some squawks coming from the cages behind you okay*..."
03:12:07 Sildir: "Hmm."
03:12:07 Saturno: "oh, let's,"
03:12:08 Irredel: "Preview,"
03:12:08 Sildir: "Let's free these little guys."
03:12:09 Irredel: "go ahead."
03:12:09 Mercurio: "Let's free these guys, yeah."
03:12:13 Irredel: "It's time."
03:12:13 Sildir: "I'll step aside and let someone else get on in there. Go save the birds, somebody. Do it."
03:12:08 Saturno: "let's get these all right. i'm getting in there, i'm opening one and i try to be very nice because i'm sure they're scared. I just kind of stand in front of it and I hold my hand out a little bit in case they want to peck me, to know I'm not going to fight back."
03:12:42 DM: "Yeah,"
03:12:42 Saturno: "And then I... Yeah."
03:12:45 DM: "give me animal handling. I'll say you can do this with advantage."
03:12:50 Mercurio: "I don't know."
03:12:51 Sildir: "Let's go."
03:12:51 Irredel: "Let's go."
03:12:52 Ember: "Thank you."
03:12:52 DM: "21 animal handling. Yeah, so you open the cage and you see the ravens. They're crammed in this cage here."
03:13:00 Saturno: "Mm-hmm."
03:13:00 DM: "They kind of look at you kind of warily. And then you see in a rush of motion the majority of the ravens inside this cage immediately like fly out and escape through the various doors and windows around. A couple of them stay back and kind of gingerly approach you. And you'll see one of them kind of nuzzle its beak against your hand. And it'll stay there for a moment and And you'll kind of like make eye contact with this raven. And you kind of like get the sense. You feel like a sense of like gratitude coming from this raven. And then it too will join the rest of its friends and leave."
03:13:46 Ember: "Okay."
03:13:47 Irredel: "Well, should we?"
03:13:48 Mercurio: "um*..."
03:13:54 Irredel: "I wish they would have stayed in here."
03:13:58 Sildir: "Those birds are always eerily smart. I swear that one knew that it should be grateful to you."
03:14:08 Saturno: "Yeah,"
03:14:12 Irredel: "I think they're people."
03:14:08 Saturno: "I can't imagine hurting these little guys I think so too."
03:14:17 Sildir: "Well, there's werewolves. Let's see why there couldn't be. It's possible."
03:14:21 Ember: "It does seem plausible."
03:14:20 Irredel: "where ravens and if they're able to control the transformation maybe that's something i can learn from*..."
03:14:29 Mercurio: "Well, but don't they, you know, the werewolves are like big and like, they're not quite just regular wolves."
03:14:36 DM: "Um, Aridel, give me an animal handling check. So 15 animal handling, yeah, that'll do it."
03:14:48 Irredel: "yeah,"
03:14:48 DM: "You can see that watching the interaction between the one raven who stayed behind and with Saturno,"
03:14:54 Mercurio: "What?"
03:14:55 DM: "seeing the way it conducted itself before leaving,"
03:14:55 Ember: "Thank you."
03:14:59 DM: "and kind of seeing the expression shared between the two, you get the sense that there definitely was some kind of intelligence behind those eyes, more than you would expect from the typical raven."
03:15:14 Irredel: "and if it's not a full-on transformation,"
03:15:14 Sildir: "I know that's tough to go on a vacation."
03:15:16 Irredel: "maybe some type of familiar relationship."
03:15:16 Sildir: "Sometimes it's condolence that this is*..."
03:15:20 Irredel: "but there's something up with these ravens- normal ravens they are not*."
03:15:27 Mercurio: "maybe we can go maybe we can go ask we've got to be like premium friends of the feather now we're best friends of the feather wow*..."
03:15:41 Saturno: "Yeah."
03:15:41 Sildir: "Yeah, I think everyone else is the friends of the feather now. We've become the feather at this point. Well,"
03:15:52 Irredel: "Oh,"
03:15:53 Sildir: "I agree."
03:15:53 Irredel: "I agree."
03:15:53 Sildir: "Let's roll."
03:15:53 Irredel: "Let's roll. There's, uh,"
03:15:56 Sildir: "Are all the ravens free?"
03:15:57 Ember: "Okay."
03:15:56 Irredel: "are all the rapists free?"
03:16:00 DM: "Yes,"
03:16:01 Mercurio: "OK."
03:16:01 Irredel: "Yeah."
03:16:01 Sildir: "Yeah."
03:16:01 DM: "all the Ravens are now freed."
03:16:03 Sildir: "Awesome."
03:16:03 Irredel: "Awesome."
03:16:05 Sildir: "Yeah,"
03:16:05 Irredel: "Yeah, let's go back to Davian and, uh,"
03:16:05 Sildir: "let's get back to Davian and that stupid brat kid and show him that we were able to handle this just fine."
03:16:08 Irredel: "we could write a kid and show them that we were able to handle this at this time. Well, I mean,"
03:16:14 Saturno: "was there."
03:16:15 Sildir: "Yeah."
03:16:14 Irredel: "I guess we probably should clear out the rest of this house."
03:16:15 Sildir: "It would be a failure to send them back here and have them get hurt. Okay."
03:16:17 Irredel: "Make sure there's no more druids."
03:16:23 Saturno: "yeah,"
03:16:23 Irredel: "Yeah."
03:16:23 Saturno: "can we see what's in these rooms in front of us?"
03:16:24 Irredel: "That would be a failure. That's the first one."
03:16:28 DM: "Yeah, you can do that."
03:16:31 Saturno: "all right, if everyone's okay, i'm gonna open one of these doors."
03:16:35 Sildir: "I got past the person I murdered."
03:16:38 Saturno: "i can't open this door,"
03:16:40 DM: "Sorry."
03:16:39 Saturno: "i'm freaking out*."
03:16:41 DM: "Yeah, let me just get rid of this token."
03:16:44 Ember: "Step over your body."
03:16:45 Sildir: "Sildar's dealing with a ghost over here."
03:16:47 Irredel: "I'm gonna do a quick post over here."
03:16:50 DM: "How did you make the text so small, Steph?"
03:16:52 Saturno: "There's a website called... I don't know. It's the first one that comes up when I put small font."
03:17:01 DM: "Okay, I see."
03:17:02 Saturno: "It's a subscript."
03:17:04 Ember: "you*..."
03:17:04 Saturno: "I can't open these doors, so... I mean,"
03:17:07 DM: "Yeah."
03:17:06 Saturno: "I'd like to check them all out. I don't mind if you..."
03:17:08 DM: "So you're trying to open like this door here. Yeah, so that door is locked. You feel like with if you put your shoulder into it, you could like bust through the door without too much trouble. That will be a strength check. It'll be a DC 10."
03:17:22 Saturno: "Okay."
03:17:22 DM: "Alternatively,"
03:17:24 Mercurio: "I don't know."
03:17:23 DM: "somebody else could try to pick it or like you could try to walk around and like find a different means."
03:17:28 Saturno: "I'll try to do the strength check."
03:17:31 DM: "Okay."
03:17:32 Saturno: "Okay, ability check. Normal, right?"
03:17:36 DM: "Yeah."
03:17:36 Saturno: "Yeah."
03:17:37 DM: "So 14. So with a 14 strength check, yeah, describe to me how you, like, are you, like, bashing the door in or are you busting the lock? Like,"
03:17:45 Saturno: "I'm like I'm like, you know when the door's locked and you keep wiggling the handle?"
03:17:44 DM: "what are you trying to do? Yeah. Yeah."
03:17:56 Saturno: "I just keep doing it until it falls apart."
03:18:01 DM: "Okay. Um, and as you do so, like, the, like, the doorknob just kind of just, like, falls apart, and the door swings open."
03:18:08 Saturno: "I'm like, wow."
03:18:09 DM: "Um..."
03:18:11 Saturno: "It opened."
03:18:13 DM: "Oh, Mercurio, like, what are you..."
03:18:15 Saturno: "It opened."
03:18:16 DM: "Uh,"
03:18:17 Ember: "Thank you."
03:18:17 DM: "what's your reaction to things that don't handle this door here? ..."
03:18:26 Sildir: "Dang, Mercurio's drunk."
03:18:28 Saturno: "He's out."
03:18:29 DM: "Yeah, maybe Mercurio doesn't even notice."
03:18:30 Sildir: "Mercurio's in the line barrel. He's swimming."
03:18:30 Irredel: "Mercuro didn't hear that question because he's in the wine barrel under the water."
03:18:37 Mercurio: "Mercurio is like he's got."
03:18:45 DM: "Oh my god."
03:18:40 Mercurio: "he's got the Red Dragon Crush bottle fully flipped 180 degrees and he's got like his like lip sticking out, like so he's just got like the bottle like pouring down into his mouth and he's just blankly staring at Satoru. no Yeah."
03:18:54 Sildir: "Are you doing like the tornado trick?"
03:18:58 Saturno: "Crazy."
03:18:57 Mercurio: "I'm doing like a tornado trick,"
03:18:59 DM: "Oh my god."
03:18:58 Mercurio: "and I'm just blankly watching Saturno do this. I'm going to just say, we should call ourselves something like the Piña Colada Freedom Fighters."
03:19:09 DM: "Oh my god."
03:19:10 Saturno: "Wow. I like that."
03:19:12 Sildir: "I like that one."
03:19:16 Mercurio: "And nobody in Barovia knows what a Piña Colada is, so that'll make it even funnier."
03:19:21 Ember: "Bye."
03:19:27 Mercurio: "Anyways, let me know when you get that door open. I'm going to go back to refilling the bottle."
03:19:32 Saturno: "But the door is open."
03:19:33 DM: "Yeah,"
03:19:34 Sildir: "Bye-bye."
03:19:38 Saturno: "I'm going to take a walk in."
03:19:40 DM: "so Saturna, you step through and you see out here, this looks like a veranda, basically. Resting on a flagstone veranda here are three five-foot-diameter wooden tubs. Their insides are stained with grape juice,"
03:19:57 Irredel: "between."
03:19:58 DM: "and each tub has a short ladder bolted to its sides and a catch basin tucked underneath. At the back of the veranda is a large set of... Wait, these are the doors that you're coming out from. Yeah, never mind."
03:20:12 Sildir: "All right."
03:20:08 Mercurio: "This is where the magic happens."
03:20:17 Saturno: "Something like that."
03:20:17 Sildir: "Surprised you're still standing."
03:20:19 Mercurio: "I got a 21 constitution check. I've been sober for days. So my, you know, like my blood alcohol level is very low."
03:20:32 DM: "Thank you."
03:20:33 Sildir: "i see."
03:20:34 Irredel: "But actually. Incredible."
03:20:33 Sildir: "for most people that would mean you'd get more drunk the next time that you drink,"
03:20:38 Mercurio: "For me,"
03:20:36 Sildir: "but for you you actually decreased in bac first. that's incredible."
03:20:43 Mercurio: "it's since I'm used to a certain level, you know, being at zero is like practically being at negative, you know."
03:20:51 Sildir: "wow, you are. you know i, if you're interested, i i may want to uh fund some research with you as one of the example subjects, and When we get back home I'll ask you again."
03:21:09 Mercurio: "Ah."
03:21:09 Saturno: "So can I do we find anything in this room like*..."
03:21:17 DM: "Yeah, you don't really see much apart from the vats here. It's clear that this is where the grape crushing happened before the juice was taken and fermented to make the wine."
03:21:28 Saturno: "got it. All right. Next rooms."
03:21:31 Sildir: "I guess I'm just going to check in here real quick to make sure our coast is actually clear."
03:21:37 DM: "Okay, so in this room still there,"
03:21:39 Mercurio: "That's*..."
03:21:39 DM: "this looks like a barrel storage room. You see rows of new barrels fill this room and a narrow stone staircase in the southwest corner spirals upwards."
03:21:50 Sildir: "I call over Mercurio and tell him he can be more efficient carrying this stuff around in the future. And I'll just check this door."
03:21:59 DM: "Okay. In that room, this appears to be a a workshop where the barrels are assembled. You see strips of iron and wood lying neat piles on the floor of this workshop."
03:22:12 Mercurio: "That's a lot of theory."
03:22:13 DM: "The walls are lined with tools and you see two work tables stood against the east wall."
03:22:18 Mercurio: "What is he about?"
03:22:18 Sildir: "make a mental note to come back here and make a better a fixment for my uh shield to my arm. but for now we're good and i assume this door, like i'll be able to tell that it leads outside, right,"
03:22:30 DM: "Yep, that's right."
03:22:31 Sildir: "cool, i'll come back to everyone. come on character token and i'll share that. it seems like the coast is clear from my side*."
03:22:46 Mercurio: "Well, let's maybe go report back to our friends then."
03:22:52 Sildir: "Can we turn the quest next session?"
03:22:57 DM: "Yeah, you can."
03:22:59 Sildir: "Cool."
03:23:01 DM: "Yeah, if you guys want to stop here,"
03:22:59 Sildir: "I just feel like it's a good stopping point when we get a good session."
03:23:05 DM: "we'll say that as we end the session, you guys will be stepping out of the winery, basically. And we'll pick up from there next time."
03:23:14 Sildir: "Wait,"
03:23:14 Irredel: "Wait, do we need to worry about the Strixes,"
03:23:16 Mercurio: "No,"
03:23:14 Sildir: "do we need to worry about the scripts as well?"
03:23:16 Irredel: "though?"
03:23:16 Mercurio: "no, no."
03:23:18 Irredel: "Look,"
03:23:16 Sildir: "I thought we were going to go back into the process."
03:23:18 Irredel: "I thought we were going to go back in through the tunnels for that reason."
03:23:22 DM: "uh actually yeah uh yeah you guys can decide that now or top the next session it's up to you*..."
03:23:29 Irredel: "Okay."
03:23:28 Sildir: "Maybe we should at least examine now while we remember that, because I would have definitely forgotten. I don't know about everybody else. We can just look outside and see if that's still a problem. Or try to intuit that."
03:23:39 DM: "uh Yeah, you peek outside and you kind of like scan the skies and like the tree line surrounding. And you don't see, like,"
03:23:54 Mercurio: "Hmm."
03:23:49 DM: "you do remember seeing the strict space patrolling earlier as Davion was like urging you to take cover. You don't see them anymore. So you get the sense that they are no longer patrolling and probably led back to report whatever happened to their creator."
03:24:06 Irredel: "Hmm."
03:24:07 Sildir: "Got it. OK. We could still take the tunnels back maybe next session, but good to know the districts are not."
03:24:22 DM: "Yeah, we'll call it a session there then. But yeah, good session, guys. That was pretty well done from everyone."
03:24:28 Sildir: "It was pretty fun."
03:24:29 Mercurio: "And we speed ran that shit."
03:24:33 Ember: "It was fun."