c1ep3 - Black Flames pt.2

With Do'ang in flames, the party finally confronts its guardian, Jie, in their most intense battle yet. Jie has made it clear that outsiders were not welcomed here and will stop at nothing until Shusui, Black Sky, and Wognooh are gone. Can our heroes rise up to the occasion and put Do'ang Village to rest? 

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:00

This is Jackie . My name is .

Speaker 2 0:01

Jor , I'm Chris .

Speaker 1 0:03

My name is Kent and this is Wonderful . So , alrighty , the turn order is Black Sky , uh Wagnu GA Shusui , then Dog Okay , um .

Speaker 4 0:54

Wait what ? How does that work ?

Speaker 1 0:59

I thought I thought GA and Black Sky got the same number . Oh yeah , so it's uh , sky , ga , uh , wagnu Shusui Dog . The storm above you is going crazy right now , like winds are picking up . You see GA in front of you , like battle stance ready , his bow staff in hand , one armedarmed uh hood over his head , even with the fire and everything around you . Right now , you guys can barely see his face . Uh , with the fire around you , though , I want to say this is enough fire to you guys to give you guys some light . You know so , you guys . You guys can see , as long as you guys are like within proximity and stuff you guys can see . But yeah , uh , first up sky , what are you doing ?

Speaker 2 1:47

all right , uh , I am stand my ground 10 toes down and I will hurl my fireball at elder ga okay , hurling your fireboat uh row to attack okay , hurling your fire boat . Uh , road to attack . Okay , forgot , is it the ? The d20 , forgot what it was the d20 ? Okay , d20 , let's go . I got a six , holy crap six um .

Speaker 1 2:21

you hurl your fire boat and it hits like it just goes right past him . He doesn't even phase , he misses .

Speaker 2 2:29

Dang , and I just yell at him it's time for you to go to rest . Old man , I won't miss next time , it's my turn .

Speaker 1 2:40

You won't miss because you'll be dead . And you see him Start to like , tweak a little bit . His body starts to grow , it starts to twist in like unnatural ways and in this moment he shapeshifts . His eyes turn bright yellow and he turns into what Like those growls that you've been hearing ever since you've been here .

Speaker 2 3:14

Holy , holy .

Speaker 1 3:17

He turns into his tiger form . He's going straight at you , sky . Just like the one before , but this time I'll's gonna be a 23 to hit you take , you take five points of damage . He comes again . This time it misses , though First claw swipes you , second claw misses , and then he's gonna take . He's gonna stay at one ki point to use Step of the Wind as a bonus action and disengage , then move back back to 25 feet . Wagnu , go ahead and give me a constitution saving throw .

Speaker 5 4:34

I got a 8 8 .

Speaker 1 4:38

You do not get up , man , you are still down can I still use my ?

Speaker 5 4:44

You can still talk .

Speaker 1 4:45

Yeah , you can still talk and you can .

Speaker 5 4:48

Can I make actions ? You just can't take any actions . Okay , okay , you can't take any actions . All right , with my just talking . I'll just try to yell out to GA yeah , I'll just say wait , GA . That's all Okay and I'll just end my turn .

Speaker 4 5:08

Shusui , what are you doing ?

Speaker 1 5:09

Yeah , I don't know , I'm just going to assume I can get close enough to him to attack .

Speaker 4 5:15

Yeah , you're right in front of him . So I'll just run up to him and

Transformation

Speaker 4 5:20

draw my weapons and I will make the scimitar attack or the short sword attack first . So that's a plus six .

Speaker 1 5:29

Okay , uh , that is a nine nine does not hit , okay , uh , it just brushes 24 . 24 hits . Cool , nice , nice 8 damage , 8 damage . Yeah , First attack misses . Second attack comes at him and hits him .

Speaker 4 5:59

He takes 8 damage . I'll action search just so I get extra attack with the short sword 10 . Terrible 10 does not hit . Okay . Well , that's my turn . I'm going to pull up my dog , so I'm just going to move him over . He has 40 , so if I can cover the distance , he definitely should .

Speaker 1 6:24

That's crazy . 40 .

Speaker 4 6:26

Hey , man , you gave me the stats for him . That's dope .

Speaker 1 6:29

I know .

Speaker 4 6:31

How mad ?

Speaker 1 6:31

would you be if he dies there ?

Speaker 2 6:35

Honestly he hasn't listened to me the entire time I've passed him .

Speaker 5 6:40

It's only been 3 episodes , that's 3 episodes too many man that he didn't listen to me .

Speaker 4 6:48

So Okay , this will give him pack tactics , so he'll have advantage because I'm next to the enemy . Uh bite .

Speaker 5 6:58

Nice .

Speaker 4 7:00

So advantage 14 ?

Speaker 1 7:05

14 . That's his AC .

Speaker 4 7:07

Cool , and then 8 damage 8 damage yup Nice . He's medium or smaller right .

Speaker 1 7:19

Who uh , ga , ga , yeah , yeah , he's your size .

Speaker 4 7:24

Well , he is now prone .

Speaker 1 7:27

Prone .

Speaker 4 7:28

Yo , this dog is actually kind of amazing .

Speaker 1 7:32

So it takes movement to get up , pretty much right All of the movement to get up .

Speaker 4 7:36

I don't know if it's all of it or half .

Speaker 1 7:39

It might be half , let's go with half .

Speaker 4 7:42

And then that would be his turn . The only thing he doesn't have , apparently , is multi-attack , so that'll be his turn .

Speaker 1 7:50

That's crazy I mean if he lives and he like evolves and shit .

Speaker 4 7:53

You know true you know , man , he got nerfed after I took him out of the . The past , the pass .

Speaker 1 8:03

Alright Black , it's your turn again .

Speaker 2 8:07

Alright , so I will cast Magic Missile . I throw my Fireball up .

Speaker 1 8:14

Boom , alright . So the only thing , though , is that Shusui is right in your range , so you gotta move a little bit , or you gotta find a way to .

Speaker 2 8:24

Dang . Mmmmm . Alright , I will . Dang Shisui is like right in front , huh .

Speaker 1 8:34

I know Shisui and the dog is like right there .

Speaker 4 8:36

Hey man , otherwise I couldn't get right . The dog is a small creature .

Speaker 1 8:39

So , yeah , if you can get behind the dog , it'll be fine , because it's small , so you can shoot over him Alright . But Shis's , it's small , so you can shoot over him Alright , but she sees her size , so you would like go through him .

Speaker 2 8:49

I'll go one , two , that's five .

Speaker 1 8:53

So one square , one yeah 15 .

Speaker 2 8:55

That's .

Speaker 4 8:56

Yeah 20 because we're on here we have disadvantage with your attack rule prone . You technically have disadvantage with your attack roll okay because he's a smaller target .

Speaker 2 9:07

I guess that's five ten and it is half his moment to get up .

Speaker 1 9:14

Yeah , what magic missile hits no matter what . So you're good , okay , yeah , yeah okay , so that's 30 right there yep , that's perfect .

Speaker 2 9:22

Yep , and I cast throw my Fireball , it splits into three in the shape of swords and roll a d20 . This one has to hit right .

Speaker 1 9:33

No , magic Missile hits no matter what .

Speaker 2 9:35

Oh yeah , really , yeah Magic .

Speaker 1 9:37

Missile is like one of those safe spell where it hits no matter what , but it's not strong , it's like low damage .

Speaker 2 9:43

Okay , I don't have . Oh no , okay , I don't have . Oh no , I don't have a d4 . It says dart deals one .

Speaker 1 9:50

You don't have a d4 plus you have a d4 in your dice it's the , it's the one that looks like a triangle like this yeah , oh damn that's oh okay that's d4 yeah , it looks a little weird

Speaker 2 10:00

yeah , oh I didn't know that was a d4 . That's crazy . Okay , yeah , and let's go . How can you tell if it just lands flat ?

Speaker 1 10:09

So the top number , it should be the one on top .

Speaker 2 10:11

The top number Okay . Yeah , whatever that corner top number is Okay , it's a two and then plus one force damage , so it's three per dart Three damage .

Speaker 1 10:21

All right , your dart . Three damage , all right , your dart Is that nine damage ? Yes ?

Speaker 5 10:27

Yeah .

Speaker 1 10:27

That's crazy , oh yeah .

Speaker 2 10:30

I'll end my turn . That's all pretty much I can do .

Speaker 1 10:33

GA's turn now . He's going to spend half his movement to get up . He's using one of his ki points to use Step of the Wind as a bonus action to disengage and he's going straight for sky . You thought you had a chance and he's attacking you with his call not the nat 20 , it changed from you , from chris to you , man oh , my god , that's crazy it might . It might be like a one uh , that's gonna be .

Speaker 2 11:17

I might have 13 points of damage oh damn , I got one shot you want shot it no way . I thought you had time baby go down he just yeah and everything he got me the first round with five , but it's not .

Speaker 1 11:33

But it's no , it's not . Double your HP . So you should , you should be okay yeah , yeah have a deficit , says death . Yeah , you go down and it's not even gonna look at you as you go down . It turns its direction right towards Shu Sui , um , wagnu , um . I'm gonna give you advantage because you know you don't see it , but you feel , feel it , you have a certain connection with sky . So go ahead and roll me . That's right , constitution saving . Throw with advantage and see if you can get up . You got 16 .

Speaker 5 12:13

oh sorry , I got a dad 20 .

Speaker 1 12:17

let's go you spring right up with a nat 20 . Sky .

Speaker 5 12:23

Let's go , you spring right up over Nat 20 sky , oh yeah , and then I , I spring up , I'm gonna move . Can I see him from here ? Yeah , you can see him , yeah he's right in your view . Awesome , awesome , okay . Oh , I have to pick him up , though . Huh , all right too , can I use healing word ? It just says that a creature of your choice that you can see . It just says that you can see within your range , okay yeah , yeah , you can use healing word , yeah .

Speaker 5 12:56

Okay , cool , two equal to 2d4 , plus your spellcasting ability modifier . Okay . So 2d4 plus 4 hit points is what it says yeah , that's right let's see , I'm gonna , I'm gonna roll my first one . It's 1 , bro , it's 2 , okay , it's , it's , it's , it's 7 total , but it's better than nothing hey , man , that's half as the health okay yeah that's true , that is more than 50% , I'll cast Healing Word then .

Speaker 1 13:29

You go down and you get back up , is that a bonus action ?

Speaker 5 13:37

No , that took my action .

Speaker 1 13:38

Okay , so you still have your bonus action . Okay , let's see , how does your Healing Word look like , by by the way you want to explain to us or describe to us .

Speaker 5 13:47

oh , it is a bonus action . Oh , it is a bonus action . I'm sorry . Okay , I just looked at . Yeah , it is a voting action . That's crazy cool um .

Speaker 1 13:54

Describe to us how you're healing . How are you healing sky right now with your healing word I , I'm still like agitated because I saw him get hurt .

Speaker 5 14:05

So I ran up and I pulled out the loop out of the secret slot , the secret slot , and I'm like and I just started singing , I inspired Black Sky , I'm like it's not over , and then the words just have such a profound effect on him . Okay , that the magic flows through his soul and he can feel the rejuvenation yes , we're just getting started okay , and then I still have an action . I want to use it real quick . I will use my action for bardic inspiration all righty who you're inspiring on shisui cool .

Speaker 5 14:46

So now you got one of my 1d6 die and that is all my actions . I will end it there okay , shisui , it's your go it's yours .

Speaker 4 14:59

The bardic inspiration die is yours , you say , however , you play , run over here and I'm just gonna swing at him . So I will swing with the long sword . Is Black Skye ? Well , black Skye , he's prone right .

Speaker 1 15:19

You talking about , if he gives you advantage or not .

Speaker 4 15:21

Yeah , cause he has no .

Speaker 1 15:23

They changed the advantage right . It's not Pinsir anymore , right .

Speaker 4 15:26

Did they ?

Speaker 1 15:28

Or is it still Pinsir for advantage ?

Speaker 4 15:31

I don't know .

Speaker 1 15:33

I want to say you guys are about Pinsir . I think it is . Pinsir , but I want to say you guys are like a good diagonal Pinsir . Yeah , I'll give you advantage for that .

Speaker 5 15:42

Nice .

Speaker 4 15:45

I'll help you guys a little bit I'll take my , my advantage where I can get it . So short forward attack first , uh , that is a 23 . And then that is a cool 23 yeah , that is nine damage , so now I can do my scimitar attack .

Speaker 1 16:07

That is a dirty 20 dirty 20 hits , so d6 plus 4 .

Speaker 4 16:12

All the good rows that's 6 damage 6 damage a lot better than my previous turn , so that's that my dog will move and he will go attack , better than my previous turn . So last time , shusui's turn , my dog will move and he will go attack . He has advantage because pack tactics 22 . 22 .

Speaker 1 16:38

22 hits .

Speaker 4 16:40

He gets a d6 plus 2 . That's 8 damage .

Speaker 1 16:46

And then he's prone again . He's prone again , alright .

Speaker 4 16:53

If my dog had multi-attack , he would be probably better DPS .

Speaker 5 16:58

The dog is doing more damage than me .

Speaker 4 17:01

And that will be his turn .

Speaker 1 17:03

Black , it's your go .

Speaker 2 17:06

I get up . Thank you for the heal , Wagnu . Let's get back into action .

Speaker 4 17:12

Let's go back a little bit , Uh yeah if you walk back he technically has the attack of opportunity . He just has disadvantage on it . Mm-hmm .

Speaker 1 17:24

Yes , so I do have a chance to hit you .

Speaker 4 17:27

Unless you want to disengage . But that takes your action .

Speaker 1 17:31

Disengage is an action to disengage , but you can move away safely .

Speaker 4 17:36

Or you can just cast a spell . Because you're within 5 feet , you have advantage , but your spell attack disadvantage . So it just becomes a normal rule regular .

Speaker 1 17:46

All right , I'm out of slots .

Speaker 2 17:48

But I can't use my can strip , so I'm gonna use my sorceress use your , remember you have your extra birthday , oh yeah , birthday bye , whenever you want to use that I'll use it right now . Bam , I throw up my fireball again , splits into three magic missiles , let's go .

Speaker 1 18:12

Okay , yeah , it hits automatically , so do your damage .

Speaker 2 18:15

Let's go , let's go , let's go . Oh God , it's two .

Speaker 1 18:19

Two .

Speaker 2 18:21

Plus modifiers yeah , plus the one , so yeah .

Speaker 1 18:27

So that's six damage . So that's six , uh , six damage . Okay , your magic missiles ? Uh , they're sword , like blade stabbed into his back . He um , you can still move if you want . He doesn't get a a chance to attack or you can just stay where you are .

Persuasion

Speaker 2 18:45

If I move , he gets a chance to attack .

Speaker 1 18:47

Yeah , but it'll be a disadvantage Okay .

Speaker 2 18:51

I'll just chill here . Ten toes down .

Speaker 1 18:54

Okay , cool , ga has half his movement to get up . He looks at your dog you .

Speaker 4 19:03

No . First attack at your dog , you first attack on the dog that's 21 . True , that's gonna be seven points of damage .

Speaker 1 19:23

Okay , my dog so up . He's hurt , but he's still up . He's hurt , but he's still up .

Speaker 4 19:29

He's going to attack again . That's going to be another 21 to hit .

Speaker 1 19:32

That's going to be 7 points of damage again .

Speaker 4 19:34

He's down . Oh my god .

Speaker 1 19:37

And then GA is going to spend a ki point to , yeah , one ki point , and turns towards you , shusui , and use flurry of blows .

Speaker 4 19:51

so he's making an arm right twice , okay , and then punch three he has multi attack , that's gonna be 15 to hit .

Speaker 1 20:04

Nope , that does not hit . Does not hit , right . Yeah , you see , like a gust of wind as he punches towards you and it just kind of flies through the fire behind you and the fire comes back and then before he's gonna look at you and you know that outsiders brings ruin you've brought enough ruin to this village walk new there go damn , I do .

Speaker 5 20:37

We want to kill this guy for real , you guys can you .

Speaker 2 20:42

I'm taking him now .

Speaker 5 20:43

Can I still ? Okay , it's a legitimate question .

Speaker 4 20:49

Can you Because ?

Speaker 5 20:54

he's taking down Black Sky and my dog . Alright , I'm going to go ahead and do .

Speaker 1 20:58

I'll just use Fireball on him . Fireball , okay , so yeah , the dog is down .

Speaker 5 21:03

I'll just move a little bit too . The dog is down . You said yeah , I'm going down Firebolt . Let me just move a little bit too . The dog is down . You said yeah , I'm going to cast Firebolt first . Nice , I got a nat 20 . Nat 20, .

Speaker 1 21:15

let's go Nice .

Speaker 5 21:16

Let's go , okay , so that's .

Speaker 1 21:20

So roll your damage dice twice and then I think it's roll . I think you roll your damage dice twice and then um .

Speaker 4 21:31

I think it's roll damage dice twice . Add modifiers to each of them .

Speaker 1 21:33

No , your modifier only gets added once .

Speaker 5 21:37

Oh , at the end , okay , yeah , okay , no worries . So 2d10 , die Nice . I got 10 on the first one and then just 20 on the second one . 20 , what ? Or two ? Sorry , that's a lot , sorry , sorry , I was like modifiers .

Speaker 1 21:54

yeah , so my modifiers it's just plus four or plus six , sorry , plus six , so 20 , 20 damage . We didn't dance a lot Right . As you hit him , you see him . He lets out like a roar of . Doesn't sound like anger ? It's like anger . Mix of like sadness , despair .

Speaker 4 22:27

She's sweet . Perception check , please , because you're the nearest Skye . Both of you guys get your perception check .

Speaker 5 22:30

Oh well , hero will definitely give me the Bardic Inspiration True true .

Speaker 2 22:43

Wow , that is a terrible roll 14 .

Speaker 1 22:52

19 . Roll 14 , 19 , 19 . Okay , both would you guys see as a walk news . Fireball hits its GA and you see fireball , it does fire damage , right . I know it says fireball . Okay , you see that it seems to be doing a lot more damage to him . Then what you guys were using seems to be affecting him a lot more . Nice with that . You do have movements or bonus action . Wog new , you want to do anything ?

Speaker 5 23:20

I'm gonna move up to the dog .

Speaker 1 23:22

Okay .

Speaker 5 23:23

And then as a bonus action . I'll use my last slot to do . I want to do the touch one , but let me just make sure I can do it as a bonus . I cannot , I'll just use Healing Word on it . Okay , that's fine . Okay , stay alive .

Speaker 1 23:53

Okay , so two defaults , three plus four , nice plus four .

Speaker 4 23:55

Okay , yeah , that's 11 .

Speaker 5 23:59

Oh , perfect yeah yep , okay , so he's back in the game .

Speaker 1 24:05

Shoesuit , it's your go .

Speaker 4 24:08

I will just continue my onslaught , starting with my short sword 19 .

Speaker 1 24:21

19 . 19 hits 86 plus 4 .

Speaker 4 24:23

10 damage , then my 4 . 10 damage , then my scimitars , that's 23 .

Speaker 5 24:33

Let's go Holy .

Speaker 4 24:36

For 5 . Damage my dog's turn . That is a dirty 20 dirty 20 nice nice , nice , six damage and he is pinned again okay , that's crazy , that dog is doing hell in there .

Speaker 5 25:01

Yeah , honestly seriously .

Speaker 4 25:04

This dog had-attack , he'd be out DPSing me . I don't know how I feel about that .

Speaker 5 25:10

He's out DPSing me .

Speaker 1 25:12

Sky , it's your go .

Speaker 2 25:14

All right , from here I will use my cantrip booming blade . You brandish the weapon using spell casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within five feet of you . On a hit , the target suffers the weapon's attack normal effect and then becomes shielded in booming energy . And if they move next round , they take thunder damage .

Speaker 1 25:43

Eleven Eleven to hit yeah .

Speaker 4 25:46

Is that what prevented ?

Speaker 1 25:48

Oh yeah , you get advantage . Oh yeah , because he's pro . You guys are all pincering him right now and that he's pro .

Speaker 2 25:53

So how much ?

Speaker 1 25:55

So you just roll a d20 again . Okay .

Speaker 2 25:57

Yeah , you did higher . Oh my God , it's , 11 . 11 again .

Speaker 1 26:04

Ah , it's happening to me . It's all good , it misses , it misses . Alright , and now end my turn . We have his movements .

Speaker 4 26:24

He looks towards Shusui you , you disgrace .

Speaker 1 26:26

You pain and he's not tacky . Let's call attack 20 not natural Okay .

Speaker 4 26:31

I guess I'll take that .

Speaker 1 26:34

It's gonna be 11 points of damage . Of course , show it's going again at you . This time he misses , he's gonna spin a key point and turns towards sky and you slur your blows . You are the same as the one who started this . That's nat 20 . It's not let's not a lot of damage , though . It's unarmed strike , so you should be okay . That's 15 points of damage . Oh , I'm down oh my god , that's not that you feel the wind get knocked , knocked out of your stomach and you fall down the more that his max .

Speaker 4 27:30

HP is not a lot of damage . What a lie . Oh gosh , wait so Black .

Speaker 5 27:36

Sky is .

Speaker 1 27:37

Black Sky is down now . Yeah , he's down again .

Speaker 5 27:40

Black Sky is down again . Yeah , I'm down again .

Speaker 2 27:44

Okay .

Speaker 5 27:44

Black .

Speaker 2 27:44

Skye's down , now Skye's down again .

Speaker 5 27:45

Yeah , I'm down again , Okay , oh god . Alright , let me um try to talk to .

Speaker 4 27:52

I don't think that's gonna work to GA real quick .

Speaker 5 27:57

Okay , first I yell SKY and I look at GA Uh , shoot , stop all this , shoot , stop all this , stop all this GA . I know this is what you want . And then can I try to entice him , basically persuade him stop .

Speaker 1 28:18

You want me to stop . Words will not undo what has been done . You cannot bring back what I have lost . I'm gonna rub me a persuasion check 15 plus 6 , I got 21 with a 21 right . As he says this , you hear in his voice it's like it starts to waver his eyes as you stare into them . Uh , it's glowing yellow . Those are tiger eyes . He kind of looks at you and he smells like a scent .

Speaker 5 28:58

Yeah , I'll let you get that one for free , so so you still have things to do I know you look like a tiger right now , but I know deep down you're just a man . And then can I ? I'm gonna pull out the letter that I had before Between him and his lover and I'm gonna like show it to him . She wouldn't want you to do this . I'm sorry we burned down your home , but we need your help to fix it roll me a persuasion check with .

Speaker 5 29:33

This is your action now um with advantage first one is five , okay , or uh , seven , sorry , wait . Five plus six . First one is five , okay or seven , sorry , wait . Five plus six . First one is 11 . 13 . Okay , so 19 is my advantage .

Speaker 1 29:52

At this moment . You see him . He lets out like a shaking breath . I held on too long . I could not save her , but maybe you can .

Speaker 5 30:12

Maybe we can save you Pang as well if you help us . But if you die now or we die , it'll just all happen again and again , man .

Speaker 1 30:25

He starts to calm down . At this point , for the first time , it seems like he's finally able to think In his eyes . You see a moment of clarity . You Wagnu . You start to glow in your chest .

Speaker 5 30:54

It's happening again .

Speaker 1 30:55

The Spirit Tree , the Chills , and he looks around at all three of you you three , maybe you can . He drops forms

Fragment

Speaker 1 31:10

and turns back to GA and you guys are out of combat . Mind you . The village is still burning .

Speaker 5 31:19

Yeah okay , so he can talk now .

Speaker 1 31:26

Yeah , you guys are not , you guys can talk without worrying for now . Unless you guys , unless you guys agitate him again , then some shit might happen .

Speaker 5 31:32

But okay , ga , the spirit tree told us that this land is is dying essentially , and you have one of the key fragments to fix it as you say that jay looks towards you .

Speaker 1 31:50

You are correct . I carry with me a piece . You are correct , I carry with me a piece of the elemental fragment .

Speaker 5 32:03

More actually , it's more like I am the fragment itself . So how can we , how can we undo all this that's happening to the land ?

Speaker 1 32:13

You can't undo what happened to Dolong Village . Dolong Village is gone . I tried to hold on , so I created an illusion of everyone Of my memories . You can't save this village , but maybe you can save All of Yuping . You have to find the rest of the fragments , collect them all and bring them back To where the tree was . He looks at you , wagnu , I'm sure you've been there .

Speaker 5 33:03

Yeah , I don't even know what . I don't even know what happened there , though I don't even know where to go . Can you help us ?

Speaker 1 33:17

He turns towards Shuusui . Now you have a guide right here . This man is from Yuping .

Speaker 5 33:31

He is the fragment .

Speaker 3 33:32

he said Just for a moment , black Sky sky still passed out on the ground like on the verge of death .

Speaker 4 33:45

Right , yeah , he's true true , true , okay , okay , you guys , let's pick him up let's pick him up , let's go ahead , just pick him up off the ground , uh .

Speaker 1 33:52

You don't need to do a medicine check . You guys have all the time . You guys have it right now Just go .

Speaker 4 33:59

You know , man , we're just throwing me off a little bit .

Speaker 1 34:02

We just need the horses to bleed it out . You have zero HP but you're up . Okay , gh turns towards Sky . I apologize , I really thought that you were like him , like who ? But if the spirit tree chose you , you , you can't be who are you talking about ? The one who came before the one who destroyed this village . He looked like you .

Speaker 2 34:41

Did he also have red eyes ?

Speaker 1 34:45

I don't remember , I don't remember .

Speaker 2 34:49

Is there anything you can tell me more ? Did he have the same flames ?

Speaker 1 34:57

You see him quiet for a moment . No , he's more dangerous . He burns way hotter than you . I'm afraid he might be the obstacle in your path .

Speaker 2 35:25

Beware of him . Was there ? Tell me , was there a ring on him , a silver ring ? I recall such yes thank you , I'll keep that in mind someone give me a perception check .

Speaker 4 35:59

I'm weak , so I just hit a four , so are we all doing it ? Is it one ?

Speaker 5 36:01

person . What are we doing ? Yeah , are you good , you do it for us .

Speaker 2 36:03

Yes , chris , I just got up , so yeah , but realistically 12 okay nice , nice Okay .

Speaker 1 36:11

Nice , nice , that's good , that's good . What'd you get ? 12 . Oh , 12? . Sorry .

Speaker 5 36:18

I was like I didn't hear the 12 .

Speaker 4 36:19

I was like what did you get ? I got it and I was like aw man .

Speaker 1 36:24

Um yeah , shusui you . You kinda see like like mist coming out from from GA , almost as if like he's starting to dissipate . I don't have long left .

Speaker 4 36:48

I go elder Tom . What his journal was he talking about you , letting you rest , letting you to rest .

Speaker 1 37:03

I'm sorry . I kept them all here . I couldn't let them go . I was blind . I thought the village needed a guardian , but what it needed was hope . I'll let them rest now .

Speaker 4 37:27

I reach into my pack and I pull out my little carving of pavos and I go . The village had a guardian and I kind of just handed to him he takes it and , um , you see his face .

Speaker 1 37:47

what once was depressed and had no , had no , just full of sorrow . And then all of a sudden his eyes kind of lights up , as if like remembering something that he had lost . You hear him as he speak , the Devanay's name , and finally it doesn't get blocked out by anything Pavos , I had forgotten . Of course it's you to remind me . I see your crest there . I know of your family . Once I am gone , the fragment will be free . One of you must hold it . Do not let darkness corrupt you like it did me .

Speaker 5 38:43

Wait , is he ? This is he . He said he's dissipating .

Speaker 1 38:46

He's still here , he's just slowly dissipating .

Speaker 5 38:48

Okay , that's everything you guys want to ask go for you now . What about the other fragments ? Where do we find them ?

Speaker 1 38:59

He turns to you .

Speaker 5 39:03

The fragments can find each other , it'll find the next closest one , okay , and then I reach into my pocket again before you you go , and I give him the letter .

Speaker 1 39:15

I thank you , my friend , can I call ?

Speaker 5 39:19

you that , of course , and I'm sorry , ga .

Speaker 1 39:24

I'm sorry too , yuri . At this point he starts to fade Like from From his toes . His body is starting to like fade now , and all you see now is just his head and then , before he fades , I I yell out what's her name ?

Speaker 2 39:47

who is her name ?

Speaker 1 39:48

your lover her name was Yur , and he disappears . The fragment drops from him . As he disappears , the fire around you is still going . There starts to At this moment , rain is raining down . The fragment looks like a piece of Something , like an ancient artifact . It seems like like a piece of a puzzle . It fits in your hand and it's on the ground if we want to pick it up .

Speaker 5 40:29

I got a spirit tree me already , so I'll pick it up .

Speaker 2 40:32

Maybe she's down to the ground and I pick it up right .

Speaker 1 40:41

As you pick it up , um , you start to get like a flood of memories sky . You start to see the memories of its previous holder . You start to see memories of what seemed to have been a happy GA In areas that were not like Yuping . You see he had a group of friends with him . You see a little boy with him . You see a man in pink armor . You see a little boy with him . You see a man in pink armor . You see a man clad in all black and a little halfling ranger . You see him smiling with him . And then you see him back at a very lively Duong village with the woman he fell in love with , yur , with the woman he fell in love with Yur . You see him as he came to his village in flames and before you can see what he sees .

Speaker 2 41:48

You come back to . I let out a siren whisper . I think I know who did this ?

Speaker 5 41:54

What do you mean ? The flames , I know ?

Speaker 2 41:54

who did this ? What do you mean ? The flames I ?

Speaker 5 41:59

know those flames ? Well , yeah , it was you . No , you threw the fire to this town .

Speaker 2 42:05

The ones before this . Oh , I know who the GA was talking about .

Speaker 5 42:10

Oh , you know him .

Speaker 2 42:12

I think I know who did this .

Speaker 5 42:16

What happened when you picked up that fragment ?

Speaker 2 42:21

I saw happy memories of Elder GA with his friends , the village , and right before it all ended , I saw the flames . The village up in flames , flames I've seen before . Hmm , I think I think we should put this village to rest , like how Elder Gia wanted . I'll go over to Shisui .

Speaker 4 43:08

It's your call . I could burn it all away . Put it something better . Take its place .

Speaker 2 43:21

I raise up my arm , I twirl it and the black flames turn into a beautiful red flame , like the sunset , slowly burning the village away , putting it to rest as you do that you finally the night sky parts , the sun finally comes out at first a black sun and then the regular sun .

Speaker 1 43:58

The village is engulfed in flames , but it's not a dangerous flame . It's not a flame that makes you afraid , it's a gentle flame . As you all walk away from Doang Village , I need your dog to make an investigation check .

Speaker 4 44:21

The dog is making an investigation check .

Speaker 1 44:26

Nice , you realize the dog has an intelligence of three , or a perception check is fine . Perception check , I'm like . Intelligence , fine . I'm like intelligence checks , I'm like that's a minus four .

Speaker 4 44:39

Just tell me you want me to fail . You never know oh no , you got a six Six .

Speaker 1 44:51

All right , as you guys are leaving Dolong Village , is there anything you want to do first , before you guys fully leave it and let it rest ?

Speaker 5 45:01

No , I can't think of anything for me .

Speaker 4 45:04

Uh , I just say a little prayer to the fallen souls . I go , uh , xu Shui goes . They're in your hands now , pavos . May you protect them with death , as you did in life . And I just kinda just kinda do a little head bow and a kind of like a a small hand gesture .

Speaker 1 45:28

You guys exit from Doang um , the entrance away from the shrine . At this point you don't even look back to see what's left of Dolong village . Where are you guys going next ?

Speaker 4 45:43

I look towards black sky and I go . Well , ga said that the fragments would kinda fight each other . So you feel anything kinda fight each other .

Speaker 2 46:00

So do you feel anything ? The only thing that I feel is Hwang-Nu and I being tugged together because of the fragments . But before anything , what are you going to do , shisui ?

Speaker 4 46:11

It seems like you guys are in need of a guide . So I guess I mean I didn't come back with a real plan and it seems you guys would need the help . So if you guys would have me , I'll stick around and try and be your guide .

Speaker 2 46:35

I'll look over to Wagnu and just give him a blank stare .

Speaker 5 46:41

I look back . Yes , but first we should rest , we should rest it's been a long day , it's been a long couple of days . Can we rest like a long rest ?

Speaker 4 46:55

yeah , you guys can take a long rest . We rest like a long rest . Yeah , yeah , yeah .

Speaker 5 46:59

I'm gonna do a little rest real quick , and also I didn't wear spell slots , unfortunately yeah , who's looking for the place to rest ?

Speaker 1 47:22

I'll take charge of that okay , go and roll me a survival check 15 15 .

Speaker 1 47:29

Okay , let's say that you guys are walking away from Dawang Village and it's a good , you know like good 30 minutes , 40 minutes At this moment . Also , Shusui , you see that your dog is like kind of having carrying something by its mouth , Something maybe that it had dragged from like the village or something . And then you look to your left and you see a nice spot like a big rock and a few trees not to block you from any anything . You want to stay like . You don't want to see .

Speaker 4 48:09

Take a rest by that uh , that boulder over there . I'll help protect this from the elements and maybe I'll give us some shade so we can get some proper sleep yeah , meet , I'm dragging back sky like yeah , that sounds perfect .

Speaker 1 48:26

Yeah , let's get him there okay , you guys make your way there , you guys start setting up like your camp fireplace maybe , whatever you guys are doing to make it as comfortable as you can .

Speaker 4 48:41

Yeah , and then , as we get set up , I try to figure out what my dog has in its mouth .

Speaker 1 48:47

Okay , give me an animal handling check with advantage I'm giving you advantage . Your dog has been doing pretty good , he's been good in combat and nothing else .

Speaker 4 48:59

Yeah , survival instinct . So that's it . Uh , what's that ? 15 . Finally , something above a 10 .

Speaker 1 49:11

Yeah , you gesture at your dog and , uh , it finally comes up to you , not like trying to mess with you or not trying to play with you , it just comes up to you , it , it sits down , it drops the item that was holding in its , in its , uh mouth and it just kind of like turns its head , whimpers at you a little bit it just kind of like turns its head and whimpers at you a little bit .

Speaker 4 49:38

Oh good boy , I believe you listen more often . I take the IW drop and I start to kind of look at it examine it , okay , yeah .

Speaker 1 49:52

Well , at first glance , you see it . It looks like a , like a shoulder pad , like . It's not . It's not a big one , it's a small one . It's a nice shoulder pad adorned with like a like a shoulder pad , like a . It's not . It's not a big one , it's a small one , it's a . It's a nice shoulder pad adorned with like a , like a little emerald stone . Um , you do recall it having that it had been on uh ga , his , his regular form hey guys .

Speaker 4 50:11

Uh , it looks like my dog picked something up . You guys have any idea what this does hmm , I dropped that earlier .

Speaker 5 50:23

Actually , let me just get that back real quick . I gotta walk over to the . It was a I . It was a . I'm sorry , it was a chest or no , it was like a shoulder pad .

Speaker 1 50:35

Yeah .

Speaker 5 50:36

A shoulder pad , right , yeah , oh yes , yeah , you didn't see me with this on earlier . I had it on earlier , I just lost it .

Speaker 4 50:43

actually , I will contest your deception , jack . Go ahead .

Speaker 1 50:49

Go ahead , roll , roll , roll .

Speaker 4 50:55

Contesting wisdom rolls .

Speaker 5 50:58

Wait , wait . I had to roll wisdom . No , you're rolling deception . I'm rolling wisdom . Oh , you're rolling deception . Okay , I got 19, . So I'm pretty Alright you got it , you got it , you got it .

Speaker 1 51:08

Yeah , now you know this belonged to Gia , you saw it on him .

Speaker 4 51:13

Come on man Really .

Speaker 5 51:18

Oh , that's right , mine was a different color . I'm so sorry . Yeah , that was on GA's .

Speaker 4 51:25

I asked you guys if you know what it does not , if it's yours .

Speaker 5 51:31

Oh , I don't know .

Speaker 4 51:34

I mean , I guess I'll hold on to it then Maybe it'll come in handy , unless you want it , black Sky . Maybe it has something to do with the fragment .

Speaker 2 51:42

Elaine down , was there ? Hp no ,

Planning the Next Steps

Speaker 2 51:45

all yours .

Speaker 4 51:47

Alright , I gotta just hold on to it . Stick it into my pouch and I go . Let's go take a rest before black sky collapses again .

Speaker 1 52:02

Okay , nice , you guys find your your your own spot to camp At this moment . You all three of you guys kind of just tell me what are you guys doing before you guys kind of like slow in for the night .

Speaker 5 52:20

I am tuning my lute and just kind of playing some small little melodies , making sure it's still yeah .

Speaker 4 52:28

I'm just trying to remember the surrounding area , like any villages that might be nearby , just so that we have a direction to go um , you can roll me a survival check and then go ahead and tell me what you're doing .

Speaker 1 52:43

This guy uh , I am just looking at the fragment piece , just holding it in my hand , trying to channel more memories um you're looking at the fragments , um , it has like markings , like ancient uh words on there that you can't really see or you can't really understand what's saying . You know it's special , though every time you hold it you feel like , uh , it looks like a fragment that's made out of stone , but every time you hold it you don't feel anything in your hand . It has no weight .

Speaker 1 53:20

It's weightless . At this moment . It doesn't seem to be reacting in any way . Shusui with a 16 , you're trying to get an idea of where you guys are at right now .

Speaker 4 53:41

You're trying to understand what is the closest place or the closest village or what's next . Yeah , just so we can get somewhere and actually get supplies , get proper rest .

Speaker 1 53:47

So you know that if you go down south , more you can get to a small village known as Fang Village , south , more you can get to a small village known as uh fang village , um , to your left . You , from where you're at , you can kind of guess that maybe that leads to like the uh , a forest over there .

Speaker 4 54:02

But the closest village here it's not close to you but it's the closest one here will be fang village write down what I remember about how to get there and then I just kind of I asked them so how are we doing , how are we doing a watch ? Who wants the first shift , who wants the second , who wants the last ?

Speaker 5 54:26

you guys watched it last time . I think I'll take watch this time .

Speaker 2 54:29

I'm out of commission .

Speaker 5 54:31

I'm'm going to need a deep sleep .

Speaker 4 54:34

Alright , I'll take the watch after Take a long one .

Speaker 1 54:40

Alright with this , let's take a little break , We'll come back . Let me kind of collect my thoughts , because we're pretty early . I still want to go for at least another hour . Yeah , I'm just going to try to see what I can do , and pull up sounds good oh , we didn't kill them okay you guys , let him go , let him go yo Jorah here .

Speaker 5 55:21

Thank you all so much for listening and joining us as we dive into this new D&D thing for the first time . If you enjoyed this episode , feel free to leave a review or share with a friend . That's all we can ask for . Honestly , your feedback means the world to us and , at the end of the day , it it's all going to help us improve . So keep wandering , and may that Nat 20 find you always Later .