c1ep8 - Khaesh

Finally arriving in Khaesh, our duo of Black Sky and Wognooh along with Zaliath are denied entrance instead of a warm welcoming. An elder of Khaesh showed himself and offered a Test of Strength for a chance to step into Khaesh. Without Shusui, will our heroes have a chance?

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Transcript

Welcome Back & Party Status

SPEAKER_05 0:00

Hello everyone! How's it going guys? George, good to be back. I'm playing Wagnew. Excited to get it back into it.

SPEAKER_04 0:09

What's good, y'all? I'm Kent, and I'll be playing Black Sky. It's gonna be a good session today.

SPEAKER_02 0:15

No, I think we're gonna have to do like a uh we're gonna have to like sub like an order or something so that so that we know who's going next, like right after the other.

SPEAKER_05 0:23

True, you yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:25

And then uh yeah, I just I didn't want to say that I just got a new mic, so we're like testing some stuff, so if it sounds weird or if something's off, then I have a pretty good reason for that.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

So we're gonna king through.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

I know. Yeah, so it was pretty crazy last session. Um we still don't have Chris with us. So I'm hoping that he comes back in time for episode nine. But if not, then we'll figure it out from there. Um we'll see how it goes. No worries though. You know, we have our our two mages, they don't need a tank. Very good. We are the tank.

SPEAKER_05 1:13

We are the tank, yeah. I was just gonna say we don't need that ourselves.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

Okay, without further ado, let's let's get to the recap. Or at least what remained. After an excruciating fight, the river not on your side, you finally managed to find a way to go overcome the test. Wagnu's healing and support skills proved beneficial as Black Sky with Pat to the head summoned the powers of lightning. And he didn't. Left the final message. Water elemental artifact floated above, and Wagnew casted identify on it. Uncovering some truths about it, and only when you attune fully to it will the effects be revealed. The river began to convulse, and before you knew it, you're gobbled up. The other side, the vast openness of the sea. Comes along with a new friend, Zaliov. Takes you to his camp not too far from Mary and you spend some time to get to know each other. Eventually uncovering that he had already met Shusui, he's also looking for his home village, Kayush. Should be nearby. As Sky pondered the final message from Telai, nothing enters his mind as the campfire flickered in and out. Magnu Yu, on the other hand, took a closer look at the horn that Frost had picked up earlier. A horn that belonged to Telai. On further investigation, you realized that the horn was actually a flute. Zabard instinctively played it. Similar to his. I mean I think so. Like I said, I I've never been here before. But I have been looking for her my whole life. Oh, so you're just like Shisui, huh? Like Shusui. Is he looking for his village too? Didn't tell me that.

SPEAKER_04 5:57

Uh I don't think he remembers how it looks like either.

SPEAKER_02 6:03

You, you there, uh, little one. Wagnu, was it?

SPEAKER_05 6:09

Yeah?

SPEAKER_02 6:10

You said you were looking for your village too.

SPEAKER_05 6:13

I am. It's a village of bards, they say. A village that is full of music. But when I was a child, unfortunately my village was attacked and I don't remember where it was or how to find it. But I definitely don't remember it being this dangerous.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

So wait, so were you already here in Yupang and then you went out? Or what happened exactly?

SPEAKER_05 6:57

I believe I was in Yupang. I've heard rumors of an old ancient elven village in the forest that where you know you can hear music, but my research basically led me here to Yupang.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

What kind of research?

SPEAKER_05 7:17

Well, I basically was on the run for most of my time, so I've asked around about a village full of bards in different villages that I've been able to scrap by, and they all pointed me towards this direction. And then when I ran into Black Sky, I realized, wow, this is a land where different kinds of people are, so maybe I could find my own village here as well.

unknown 7:46

Huh.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

So you followed a hunch pretty much. Uh I'm sorry, I I don't mean to pry so much, it's it's just uh you see as he looks out to where you believe Kayesh is. It's just I've dreamed of this place since I was a boy. It's strange. Now that I'm here. He looks over to the both of you and it kind of like smirks faintly. You ever chase something so long that when you finally reach it, you're afraid.

SPEAKER_04 8:24

Well, we're here. Lead us in.

SPEAKER_05 8:31

I know it's a scary thing, but there's only one way we're ever gonna find out, right?

SPEAKER_02 8:39

That's right. You're right. We're already here. Might as well go in. You guys are You guys are far up still. Um you can see the the village or what like it's supposed to be a village, but just from looking from down but from up above to where it's at, you can see it's a lot bigger than what a village should be. Um it's not too far, but you can gauge that the way there is gonna be a little a little rocky, a little hard to get down. So I will need to know your marching order as you traverse down.

SPEAKER_05 9:35

I like Zalev leaving leading the charge.

SPEAKER_04 9:39

Yeah. I I think the usual setup, Zaliff and uh Wagner in the middle and me in the back.

SPEAKER_05 9:45

Yep. Sounds good with me. Classic.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

Of course, uh, of course I'll I'll lead. Frost, get in front, please. And you see Frost just kind of barks and get in front of him. Okay. As you guys are going down, um you see like rocks starts to row down by you as well. I'm gonna need you all to row a dexterity either acrobatics or afflics, actually. So choose one of those two. Holy.

SPEAKER_05 10:23

Let's go. Nat 20.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

Nat 20? Nat 20. Roll the six. The six?

unknown 10:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Um, as you there's the four of you start to walk. The this seems to be like a rock fly, it just kind of just comes down on all of you. Uh with a Nat 20 walking, you're the first to to notice this. Um, whether it's your whether it's your elven ancestry that helps you kind of catch on to what's going on around you, or like you know, your your connection to nature itself. You notice this right away, and you start to kind of just weave and dodge all the rocks where coming down. Uh Zali have wrote a two, so he suddenly gets like a whole bunch of fun debris just kind of falls down on him, and he's gonna take two points of dudgeoning damage. Black sky as you're on the back. You see it all happening, but for some reason, maybe whether because your mind is elsewhere during this moment, you weren't able to react fast enough. I need you to roll me 1d6. 1. Uh you take one point of budging damage as a rock just rolls and hits you in the face. Not a big rock, just a medium-sized rock. Yeah, I'm like not a boulder.

SPEAKER_05 12:01

I'm like, man, it's uh bad one to fill, or bad one to miss a big pebble. Hold on. Big pebble.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

Um yeah, but with that, it does kind of like set you guys back a little bit as take a you find you take you find it a lot taking longer for you to just keep past this part as you traverse the rock slide that had happened. You eventually make your way to a narrow ledge. It's like an old rope bridge.

SPEAKER_05 12:34

Since um I'm a little bit lighter, let me um take lead on this rope bridge. I'll just kind of like Okay. I'll just inspect it first. Oh, is there water under the bridge? This rope bridge?

SPEAKER_02 12:51

Um, so how it looks like is if you guys are just like very high up. Um, there is water, but it's very far down. You see, it's just like a hundred feet down.

SPEAKER_03 13:01

Oh, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 13:03

Um let's let's be logical about this, Wagnew. How about you just let me cast elementalism and I'll see if this bridge is sturdy enough for us.

SPEAKER_05 13:19

Wait, wait, okay, what does that do?

SPEAKER_04 13:22

I'll cast Becconier. I can't create a breeze strong enough to ripple cloth, stirry dust, rustle leaves, and close our open doors and shutters. Everything that's five feet in front of me.

SPEAKER_05 13:36

What? Okay, you could do that the whole time? Yeah, it's a little neat trick. Alright, that's all you.

SPEAKER_04 13:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

Alright. So that's the spell slaw, right?

SPEAKER_04 13:50

Uh, it's a cantrip.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

Cantrip? A cantrip? That's elementalism. Cool, cool. Go ahead and tell me how you're using your elementalism.

SPEAKER_04 14:02

Uh, I'm just gonna flick my hand to create a guss of uh wind.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

And you're trying to push you guys all forward?

SPEAKER_04 14:17

No, I'm trying to see how sturdy the bridge is. Like I'm trying to rattle the bridge and see if it's uh sturdy enough.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

As you cast your elementalism to force like a gust of wind to push the bridge. Kind of gauge how sturdy it is. You can tell now as your wind blows by it that it does seem pretty sturdy. It has been, it is up high and it's been, it doesn't seem to be like too worn out. Um, you can take that as either it's just not frequent enough, you know, like no one comes up up here high enough to use it enough, or either it's it is sturdy and it's strong enough to withhold any kind of wind.

SPEAKER_05 15:11

Okay. I'd say pretty fair game. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 15:14

Yeah, seems sturdy enough. I don't know. Alright. Yeah, I'll give it a try.

SPEAKER_05 15:22

I'll give it a try. Okay. I walk onto the bridge. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

You start walking forward. Um, how are you trying to get across?

SPEAKER_05 15:33

I'm pretty cautious. I basically have two both of my hands on the side of the ropes, if I can, on the side rails, and I'm just kinda like slowly step by step pulling myself across the bridge.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

Okay.

Unnatural Winds And Elemental Imbalance

SPEAKER_02 15:45

Go ahead and roll me a acrobatics uh check.

SPEAKER_05 15:53

That is a nine. Okay, hopefully that's good.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Alright, so as you start to just walk across holding both sides of the of the rope bridge, um, all of a sudden, like a like a huge gust of wind that doesn't seem to have been coming, doesn't seem to be had come from Black Sky's tantri blows by and the bridge starts to rattle. You start just swaying side as side.

SPEAKER_05 16:24

Black Sky! What are you doing? It's not me!

SPEAKER_04 16:30

I just saw you do no no that that's someone else, not me. Whatever, man.

SPEAKER_05 16:39

I'ma continue. Try to get across at a faster pace now.

SPEAKER_02 16:43

Okay. Go and roll me another acrobatics. Actually, roll me athletics check first to see if you can hold on as you're being rattled by the wind.

SPEAKER_05 16:54

Gotcha. Athletics check. I got a 15.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

15, cool, good enough. Then go ahead and tell me how you're getting across the rest of it. Let's say you got halfway and then it starts to rattle.

SPEAKER_05 17:08

Now I'm like I'm basically running, but at the same time, I'm using my arms to pull on the sides of the bridge as much as I can.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 17:19

With every stride, I'm pulling. Running.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

Okay, give me another uh acrobatics check.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

It's 10 again. It's 10.

SPEAKER_02 17:28

It's 10?

SPEAKER_05 17:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

10's good. Let's go. Um, yeah. As you react to the bridge being routed, you hurriedly pull yourself and you manage to uh make your way across. And during this whole time, you know this process is like already next to you. Like he was walking with you the whole time.

SPEAKER_06 17:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

I guess I'll go. You said it it can hold. You're pretty sure it can hold me too, right? And Zaliaf kind of steps forward. After you. Okay, I'm gonna do the same trick that that Wagnu did. And you see Zodyev holds both sides of the rope and just slowly starts walking forward. Oh shit. Um he rolls and he starts walking, and he doesn't even get halfway, and Dye Bridge starts to rattle like an unnatural wind is just blowing by. He looks back at Black Sky.

SPEAKER_04 18:40

Not me! Can I try to uh cast elementalism again to like control the wind?

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Okay, yeah, yeah. You can do that. You can do it uh not necessarily control, but you can like I guess you can use it to like level up the wind. Yeah, yeah, go against the wind, yeah. Level up the wind. Okay, yeah. Go ahead and cast your other metallism, and uh it starts to steady the wind, and then Zalia finds himself being able to like balance himself again. Um he's gonna continue making his weight road good, and he makes his way all the way through to the bridge. And then you see him just on his knees, his hands and knees on the ground. He's like panning. You okay? I've never been so afraid in my whole life.

SPEAKER_05 19:40

Ah, you got this man. Come on, get up.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

He's like sweating balls, like I I guess it's my turn now.

SPEAKER_04 19:54

And then as soon as I step on the bridge, I will use the wind artifact to To increase my walking speed by 10 feet using Winds Hope.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

Okay. Cool, cool. Alright, so roll me a uh an acrobatics check. Advantage. A twenty-one. Twenty-one.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Damn.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

So Wagnu and Zaliaf and Frost, what they see as Black Sky steps towards the bridge. For a moment you can almost swear that his feet never touches the bridge. And it seems like he's just gliding his way through. He's walking, but so elegantly, so so fluid. Without even a second thought. The next as you look at him, as you notice his feet not touching the ground, the next thing you know he's already across the bridge.

SPEAKER_05 21:10

See? Not too bad. Bad for you, since you have that whatever you have. I didn't even see you taking his steps.

SPEAKER_04 21:20

Uh just just a neat trick. Just a neat trick.

SPEAKER_05 21:23

Just run with the wind. I remember you can do that.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Zaliff is still on the ground. He just must be nice. He gets up.

SPEAKER_05 21:40

Alright, should we carry on?

SPEAKER_02 21:43

Shall we? Okay. I guess I'll lead again. He just goes in front and he starts walking forward.

SPEAKER_05 21:55

Okay, as we walk a little bit, I'll play a little small little flute tones on the uh Dilli's horn about and I'll make a makeshift song about Zaliov being afraid, being scared, shilling his crossing the bridge. Just to tease him a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Uh as he's walking in in front of you and he hears you play, he's like, that's a nice tune, Wagnu. Make sure you sing about me. Thank you, thank you. I'll sing this too in every village we visit. Don't worry. You know, you should just become my personal bard and follow me everywhere I go and just sing of my legacy.

SPEAKER_05 22:40

Ah, you couldn't afford me, man. No, I'm kidding. But this one's for free.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

Thank you, thank you. Wipes the sweat off his forehead. As you guys come. So I said earlier that it's like 100 feet, but that's I just realized that you guys were actually not that you guys are You guys are high enough to see, but you guys shouldn't be that high up, so I take that back.

SPEAKER_06 23:07

No worries at 100 feet.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

Um as you guys make your way down, suddenly there's like a sudden storm that just blows by the four of you. You notice you realize that before when you had first just um arrived here, everything seemed like still. And now all of a sudden this unnaturalness, this this wind, this something's going on, but you can't go and uh everyone give me like a perception check real fast. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 23:55

Let's see, let's see.

SPEAKER_05 24:01

18 for me.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

13. 13. Um Zaliev just starts to cover his his face as like a the wind blows at him. Um Sky and Wagnu, you what you get from this being two persons that holds an elemental artifact is what you've noticed the whole time that you've been in Yuping. Like the the spirits, the the way thing works around Yuping, it's not it's not normal. Something's disrupting the balance. These sudden storm, these sudden gusts that shouldn't be here. Not on a day like this are here. I need everyone to give me a strength saving throw.

SPEAKER_04 25:05

Hmm.

unknown 25:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 25:10

Strong winds leads to strength. Oh, let's go 140.

SPEAKER_03 25:18

Oh nice.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

As the wind is pushing towards you, how are you holding on so that you don't fall?

SPEAKER_04 25:33

I mean, I am 6'7, 240 pounds, with the wind artifact, so I'm holding my ground. I'm just chilling. Unaffected, unfazed.

SPEAKER_05 25:45

Yeah, I got like one arm on Zoleov, like kinda kinda like gripped onto his his shirt or his the back of his cloak or whatever. I'm just gonna like.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

He takes his axe out and then he just kinda stamps to the ground and holds his ground. Um this is weird. This is not right. Looks back and see black sky just kinda chilling. Are you messing with us, guy?

SPEAKER_04 26:16

No, could not be me. Is this how it is normally in your village or this village? I told you, I how would I know? I've never been here.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

Well, neither of us has been here. Okay, everyone just hold on to each other. We just keep moving forward. And he just slowly makes his way as he slams his X to the ground every time. Just kinda like use it as like a leverage to pull him forward.

SPEAKER_04 26:50

And then I will circle back behind them and act as like a wall in case the wind pushes up back. Since I'm unaffected. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

I will see what are you doing?

SPEAKER_05 27:07

I will just do this primitively just in case. Let me see. I want to cast Bardic Inspiration.

SPEAKER_03 27:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 27:17

I'll give my bar I'll do Bardic Inspiration on Black Sky. Just in case.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

What's the flavor here? How you how you're inspiring him?

SPEAKER_05 27:28

I see how he like held his ground against the wind and it inspired me. It motivated me. It made me feel unstoppable, unmovable. And so I sing a song about how I basically I'm walking in between two unmovable mountains. Unstoppable. And then um, yeah, I inspire my two allies. I'd but I'll cast it towards Black Sky for sure.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

Yeah, the whole time uh Zalia thinks you're singing about him, and he's just moving forward happy, like a big grin on his face. Um, Sky, you get a Bardic Inspiration.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Sir. Awesome, awesome.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

It takes you a little while with the the sudden outburst of randomness, but you eventually make your way down the the mountain. You find yourself surrounded by trees, and up ahead you can see what seems to be kayash. The first thing you notice is as you um walk towards it, the first thing you notice is two giant statues made of stone.

SPEAKER_05 29:13

Um dang, can can we s can I see if like the stone statues are familiar or remind me of anything?

SPEAKER_02 29:23

Um as you look at both of them, you understand what race they are, but is there something you're looking for in particular? You can see that there are there are two giant statues of dwarves.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

I'll I'll ask Zolev. Zalev, what do you know about dwarves?

SPEAKER_02 29:59

Uh they're small, they drink a lot.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

They live with rocks. What do you know?

SPEAKER_05 30:17

Not much, but enough to know that they must be pretty respected to have two giant stone statues carved of them.

SPEAKER_02 30:28

Okay, at this point I need both of you guys to open up a telespire so we can get you guys a visual of how everything looks like. Because it took you guys a while to arrive here. Um when you first got to the top of the mountain, it was like late morning. Now it's about early afternoon, 1-2 pm relatively. So you arrive after getting down the mountains and making your way through all the trees and stuff. You arrive at the very entrance of what you believe is Kayash, and you're met with two very giant dwarf statues. And then you see as Zalia turns to the both of you. This doesn't make any sense. It's supposed to be a village of Goliaths.

SPEAKER_05 31:42

What are you talking about? They're huge. But you can you can see it, the they're dwarves. Maybe the Goliaths are hidden somewhere. Maybe maybe these are like just just the guards. You guys think it's worth asking them?

SPEAKER_04 32:05

Uh yeah, I mean it wouldn't hurt. They look friendly.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:14

Yeah, they look friendly.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

Okay. How about you uh you go ask them?

SPEAKER_05 32:22

Alright. I'll slowly approach him.

SPEAKER_02 32:32

As you approach closer, um you start to see figures, giant figures. You see some your size, but you see either all holding either an axe, a sword, or just their fist, and they just look and stare at the three the four of you.

SPEAKER_04 32:59

I whisper over to Wagnu. You wanna s greet them or should I?

SPEAKER_05 33:09

Um they do look a little scarier now that we're a lot closer. Let me handle this. Okay. I'll walk up and then I'll I'll slowly place my skimitar down. Hey, how's it going you guys? We are looking for a particular village. Is this Kayesh by any chance?

SPEAKER_02 33:40

As you ask that, you see all of their eyes just kinda glare at you. And they just be they just stand there silent, as if they're just taking you in and judging you.

SPEAKER_05 34:02

Okay. I'll just leave my skimitar on the floor so they know I'm not trying to be a danger. Back me up here, black sky.

SPEAKER_04 34:16

Uh and then I walk up closer to Wagnu. And I'll yell out. Hey, did she not hear us? We're looking for uh Kayush. Is this the village of Kayush?

SPEAKER_02 34:37

Go ahead and roll me a persuasion or intimidation you choose. I will roll intimidation.

SPEAKER_04 34:49

Twelve.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

Twelve. You see um to your right a dwarf who has his fists clenched up. He has red hair, a very gruffed red beard. You see him spits at the ground.

SPEAKER_00 35:17

What is your kind doing here? And why are you looking for Kayash?

SPEAKER_05 35:27

I'll turn over to Zolyev. Hey. This is your time, man. Come on. Get over here.

SPEAKER_02 35:39

Go and roll me a persuasion check. You can see that at this point, uh, Zalev is like sweating.

SPEAKER_05 35:53

That's gonna be 17. Wow, nice. Seventeen?

SPEAKER_02 36:01

Okay. Um you hear him under his breath, kinda like just whispering, talking to himself, you know, trying to psych himself up. Alright, Zalev, this is your chance, this is your time, this is your this is your home, come on, and he gets he just walks forward. My name is Zaliff.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

I believe that I hail from here, and I just want to know the truth. Is this Kayash?

SPEAKER_02 36:32

As he come up and say that you see um a Goliath that looks almost like Zaliff. Bald beard carries an axe as well. He turns to the Zaliev and goes, I don't know who you are, but you don't belong here. Zaliev turns towards the two of you and then turns back to the Calayev. You don't understand. I've been I've been searching for this my whole life. Is this Kaish?

SPEAKER_05 37:28

I'ma chime I'll chime in too, right after he says that. Look. I know what it's like to not know where your home is and to spend your life looking for it. If this isn't the place, just let us know and we'll move on. But we came all this way, and we're gonna get an answer either way. One way or another.

SPEAKER_02 37:54

The dwarf next to Black Sky laughs. And what if it is Kayesh? What will you do then? Huh?

SPEAKER_04 38:08

As soon as he says that, I chant Tomaturji to create harmless tremors in the ground, and I try to uh intimidate them again.

SPEAKER_02 38:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 38:22

Cool.

SPEAKER_02 38:23

Go ahead and roll me intimidation check. It's my moment to shine, let's go.

unknown 38:28

Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 38:29

Two for two. Twenty! Let's go! Let's go. Oh my god, not 20. Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 38:35

Holy shit. Okay. You how do you um activate this? Uh says component is verbal and then No, so like how how do you I mean as if like um what do you do physically to activate this?

SPEAKER_04 38:52

Um I will purposefully raise my hand in a fist, and as soon as like I put it up, the tremor starts to activate.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

As the tremor starts to shake underneath, um, you see everyone kind of just ready their weapons as well. They look at you, sky, their eyes wide. The dwarf next to you goes You, what what are you doing?

SPEAKER_04 39:32

Look, that's a beautiful bridge guy's built. This looks like a beautiful village. I don't want any problems. That's the least I want. But I'm not afraid. We're just looking for cash. My friend over here is I love just looking for his home village. And we're just trying to pass by. As friends. We're not here to harm anyone. We just want to know if this is the village we're looking for.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

As you say that, there's like an like an awkward tension that just kind of lingers in the air for a little bit. And then you see uh an older dwarf walks through the middle. He looks at the three of you. Judging your your demeanor, judging how you look.

SPEAKER_00 40:40

You said you're passing through. And where are you heading exactly?

SPEAKER_04 40:52

Look over to Zaliff. Spend your time again? Just be honest, tell them the truth.

SPEAKER_02 41:03

He turns towards the old man. Uh I'm not passing through. I'm trying to find my home village. I got a hunch that I was here. I found my way here. My friends here. They mean no harm. They're they're just trying to help me. The other dwarf turns towards Aliaf.

SPEAKER_00 41:39

This is indeed Kayush. It is not a village.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

It is a city of Kayush. Turns towards Kai and Wagnu. Back to my question before. You said you're passing through. But where to? Kayish stands by itself. It's an isle. Where do you mean to go exactly?

SPEAKER_04 42:19

I'll go to Wagnew. Oh, sorry. Now Whisper. You wanna take this one on?

SPEAKER_05 42:26

Yeah. I'm looking for my home village. You guys seem like a group who understands loyalty. And then I'll point at Ross. This is a very loyal, loyal pet to us. And he's very fond of this this Goliath here. And I'll point over to Zalia. And that means that we're loyal to him too. And we want him we want to help him find his village. And so we came here in hopes that maybe it'll help lead us lead me to my own village. So we're not just passing through. We're here to help a friend

The Trial Begins: Magic And Steel

SPEAKER_05 43:10

in hopes that maybe we can find our own way. Have you? And I'll I'll kind of think of before I I want to tell him. Have you heard of a village where it's full of bards where music can be heard all throughout? Does that ring a bell at all? That is 23.

SPEAKER_02 43:46

As you as you uh mention the details of your village, his eyes light up for a little bit as he looks at you. You can see as he darts his eye towards your ears. And then before he can say anything, the ground beneath him trembl like tremors. A little different from what Skye had caused before. This is the tremor where as if they already know that what's gonna happen, they just kind of just stand there. The older dwarf turns back to look at all of you and save your words.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

Go back the way you came. Or stay out here and let the earth decide what's left of you by morning.

SPEAKER_02 44:58

Zali have jumped in.

SPEAKER_00 45:01

Wait, I j I just want to know the truth.

SPEAKER_05 45:08

Yeah, what are we gonna have to do to be granted access?

SPEAKER_02 45:16

He turns.

SPEAKER_00 45:17

We don't owe you our trust. We don't owe you shelter.

SPEAKER_04 45:27

Shelter Shelter from what? The Earth? You're scared of the Earth?

SPEAKER_02 45:38

If you want access, if you want to stay here, if you want to call this place anything other than your grave, then bleed for it. Tomorrow at dawn, and he turns around and starts walking away from you all.

SPEAKER_04 46:04

I look over to Wagnu. I as soon as he turns away and walks away, I look over to Wagnu and Zalov. Do we want to wait till dawn? Cause I'm ready for the fade right now.

SPEAKER_05 46:20

Uh I don't know. This is their their home field advantage.

SPEAKER_04 46:27

Advantage? They're scared of the earth. Whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen. They're trying to get away.

SPEAKER_05 46:33

Alright, before before the walks away, like out of earshot, I'll yell. Like, okay, you don't know what's your trust, but trust can be earned. Name your price.

SPEAKER_02 46:51

As you say that, three go lives steps in in front of you.

SPEAKER_00 46:59

The elder has spoken. Tomorrow, dawn.

SPEAKER_02 47:07

You three against us when and you gain answers to your questions.

SPEAKER_05 47:26

That's the way it's gotta be.

SPEAKER_03 47:32

Alright. Let's get out of here.

SPEAKER_04 47:40

Okay. That's what you want, Wagnu.

SPEAKER_02 47:49

What do you guys do?

SPEAKER_05 47:51

Okay. Can we step away from them?

SPEAKER_02 47:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:56

Let me walk a little bit further back.

unknown 48:00

Alright.

SPEAKER_05 48:01

Okay, I'm pretty sure this is some sort of test. The elders trying to gauge us. And as much as I would like to fight, I don't think we're gonna get the answers we need by attacking them. Maybe they just wanna see our s see how strong we are? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 48:23

I mean how how should we communicate that? Try to tell them we're friendly. I don't think we mean any harm. He says Kaiish is not a village, but this is a city. And it's an isle? Zal, you said Kaish was a village.

SPEAKER_05 48:47

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_02 48:48

Uh I I thought so. I'm sorry, friends. I don't. I don't know what came over me. I wasn't able to. You see his gaze turns down to the ground. It's I didn't know to expect.

SPEAKER_05 49:15

I'm just giving you a hard time, man. Don't sweat it too much.

SPEAKER_02 49:19

Amen.

SPEAKER_05 49:20

It's okay.

SPEAKER_02 49:24

They said they wanted to- The Goliaths here are anything like the Goliaths where I'm from outside of Yuping, at least. Strength. That's how we gained their trust.

SPEAKER_04 49:46

Strength, huh? How confident are you, Zaliov?

SPEAKER_02 49:52

He turns like a little bit just to look at the three behind him. Against them three all at once? I'd probably lose, but if it was just against one of them.

SPEAKER_04 50:17

One of them. You would win? One-on-one.

SPEAKER_02 50:22

He grips his axe tight. I'm not the best when it comes to talking, but in his face comes off the ground. When it comes to my battle skills, I am confident that I will win.

SPEAKER_04 50:44

That's all I had here. So how will So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna run. I'm gonna walk back up to the the uh Goliaths. And how at this point, how far is the Elder?

SPEAKER_02 50:57

Uh Elder is pretty far in. How many feet? Like this whole time he just he just keeps walking. Um let's see if you're trying to do that. Let's say it out. Let's uh see let's let's gauge it real fast. 20 So 100 feet from you guys now.

SPEAKER_04 51:23

100 feet? Okay. I'll yell out. Hey old man! Come back. I have an interesting proposition.

SPEAKER_05 51:34

I kinda walk up behind Black say, What are you what are you doing?

SPEAKER_04 51:38

Just trust me on this. All eggs in one basket. This is the move.

SPEAKER_05 51:46

Gosh. Are you trying to get his attention?

unknown 51:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:53

The old man, the yodor. Suddenly, a sword and an axe are raised towards your neck. The two Goliaths, three Goliaths that are in front of you, two of them have their weapons drawn at you. Alright.

SPEAKER_00 52:18

Perfect.

SPEAKER_04 52:19

I go, whoa, whoa, whoa! Three on one? What are you guys cowards? I heard your people's all about strength. And I yell back, hey old man, you really need three Golives to take on one person and you talk about strength? Ah man, from what it looks of it, and not really about strength. You're just scared.

SPEAKER_02 52:48

The dwarf that was right next to you. He comes down.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

You you you have no respect. One more word out of you and your head touches the ground. The elder gave his order. If you want to fight, then tomorrow at dawn.

SPEAKER_02 53:19

But if you want to die and he cracks his knuckles.

SPEAKER_00 53:26

Say the word.

SPEAKER_04 53:29

I'm gonna cast suggestion on the red dwarf. Okay, and I'm gonna as I cast suggestion, I'm gonna tell him. Hey, how about you go and tell the elder to come back and we could talk about strength and settle this in a one-on-one. The strongest Goliath right here versus our Goliath. That's what real strength is about.

SPEAKER_02 53:57

Alright, what do I have to roll for a suggestion?

SPEAKER_04 54:02

You have to roll a wisdom 14.

SPEAKER_05 54:06

Wait, can you tell me what it does? I'm kinda curious.

SPEAKER_04 54:09

Yeah. You suggest a course of activity describing no more than 25 words to one creature you can see within range that can hear and understand you. The suggestion must sound achievable and not involve anything that would obviously deal damage to the target or its allies. The charm target pursues the suggestion to the best of its abilities. The suggested activity can continue for the entire duration.

Finishing Blows And A Fatal Choice

SPEAKER_02 54:40

That's tight. That's so cool. Alright. DC 14 wisdom saving throw? Yeah. Damn, he wrote a 14 too. Oh hits right?

SPEAKER_04 54:52

No?

SPEAKER_02 54:53

No, it doesn't work yet. So as you say that, um the magic comes from the word your words. And as it reaches him, you see his eyes almost kind of like uh rolls backwards. He shakes his head, comes back to, touches his fist, and he's gonna roll to punch you. Uh 13 did 13 hit you? Uh my iron class is 13. 13. Um he punches you right in like right he uppercuts you cause he's shorter than you, so he just jumps up and uppercuts you to underneath your jaw, and you take three points of bludgeoning damage. Okay. I have it enough of your disrespect turns towards Wagnu. Take your friend before he dies. The orders were made. Wait, you said take my friend Dawn tomorrow. Any more disrespect from the two or from him, and he glares at Black Sky. And my friend here will gladly use his blade instead of my fist.

SPEAKER_04 56:33

I shake off the punch and I cast suggestion again. Okay. I said go get the elder. We're not interested in talking to you.

SPEAKER_02 56:50

Alright, good. You're on that one.

SPEAKER_06 56:52

Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 56:55

Um as he tells Wagnu to get his friend, and you say that. He locks up. Okay. Just give me one one minute. And he starts running towards the elder. The other Goliaths around you, as they see what's going on, they're a little confused. And they point their weapons towards you. Or they keep it towards you still this whole time. What sorcery is this?

SPEAKER_04 57:37

I just hopped them. Sorcery? Come on. You guys are such cowards. All I asked was for a one-on-one. Maybe the red dwarf knew what real strength was about. Like I said, it's just a classic one-on-one. Strongest Goliath versus our Goliath.

SPEAKER_02 58:01

We will not have you. Disrespect our elder no longer. And this this one just walks back. If you want a one on one, then you will have one. You do not need the elder for that. And this one walks forward towards you. You and me one on one.

SPEAKER_04 58:29

Then I am gonna use deception on this guy just to taunt him again. It's like oh me. The Goliath. Goliath versus Goliath. Are you even the strongest? There's three of you guys. How about we let the elder decide? It seems like he's gonna come back in any minute now.

SPEAKER_05 58:55

Yeah, man. Pick on someone your own size. And I kinda like start walking backwards a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 59:04

Zalia starts walking towards you. Uh towards you all too. Uh go run my persuasion check. For me?

SPEAKER_05 59:13

Me or black sky?

SPEAKER_02 59:14

Black sky. Okay.

unknown 59:19

God.

SPEAKER_02 59:20

I rolled a three. As um you say that you see Zala just kind of comes in. Up I uh I apologize for my friend here. He doesn't mean any harm. Just wants to help me. He turns toward you, Sky. Sky. Let's respect the orders. Whether it be three on one or one on one tomorrow. I'll win. I see. I see your resolve. I thank you. He puts his hand on your shoulder. I thank you, my friend.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:14

I'll look over to Wagnu. Oh my god. Yeah, I'll take over this one, Wagnu.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:23

Yeah, we got your back. Zalya.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:29

Zaliaff turns towards the um took alive. Tomorrow at dawn. You best be ready because I'm coming for you first. And then he walks away.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:58

You better watch out, I say as I walk away. You better watch out, bro. It's over for you tomorrow at dawn. And I walk back with Zelia.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:10

Okay. I'll look back at the I'm like, really, guys? Alright. Uh I'm just gonna wait now. I mean, they're scared of the Earth. Why did he specifically mention the Earth? Hmm. Let's just see what happens. Let's just wait until the red dwarf comes back.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:37

Okay. I'll walk back up next to Black Sky. Things go crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:46

Look, if they really respect the order, they won't hurt us. Till dark.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:52

Alright, I got your back.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:57

They go back to their positions and they just stay there. They look at you as you two just stand there, and Zali is just kind of like a little farther away, sitting down with frost. You stay there and wait and wait for hours. It starts to turn to night. You can see as Zalia um sets up like a little little campfire. And then far away you can hear like carried in the wind, while uh sky, you can hear the voice of the dwarf that you had suggested. Just a whisper in the wind. Go to Eldok. That man, that tall one, and black. He wants to talk to you about strength. He says he's strong. I believe him. And it just kind of fades.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:21

You alright there, Black Sky? Yeah. Um, I don't think they're coming. We should just I guess tell Don it is. Are we sleeping right now? Or rest up? Just get a good quick rest. These guys look like chump change, anyways. A little trimmer, and they were scared already.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:47

Right. So I've been thinking about how we can abuse this area to our benefit. Okay. We should definitely fight them in this narrow space. If it comes to that, that is. But come on, we're gonna need our strength for that.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:07

Walk over. I just agree with Wagne. Yeah, no, I agree. They're tall, tight, narrow space. What are the chances they're clumsy as well? Super high.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:23

Also, I got this crazy spell I can use here. God of daggers. It'll make good use of the space and hurt them up.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:36

As you um set around the campfire, Zaliev just kind of slumped forward. I freeze up sometimes when it comes to social interactions. He turns towards Sky, but I do really appreciate it. I do. From the bottom of my heart. I appreciate the two of you trying to stand up for me.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:11

You're a big guy. You gotta be more confident, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:17

Well, it's different. It's different when it's fighting and talking.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:25

I'm gonna use suggestion and cast it on Zaliov.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:33

Zaliff. When Dawn comes, you're gonna go out there and show them why you're the strongest Goliath of your village. Of your people. You say you're not confident with words, but you're confident with actions. You're gonna show all of us comes Dawn. Is that right? Nod your head.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:57

He starts nodding his head like crazy. Uh at this moment, um, there aren't like too many uh guards here anymore watching you. It's like one or two, and he just gets up from where he's sitting, he just yells out like the biggest roar he can. How long does suggestion last? I think it's like an hour only, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:24

Uh up to eight hours.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:28

Eight hours dance. Okay. So from the from this time until he wakes up, he's gonna be like hyped up to fight.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:36

Let's go. Now look over to Wagnew. All the legs in one basket. You got that uh you got that music for him, right? Bart of what was it again? Bardices of inspiration?

SPEAKER_05 1:06:51

Oh yeah. I'm gonna take care of that for him.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:54

Yeah, no, I think we're primed for victory.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:59

But just in case, you know I'm hopping in.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:03

You know me well. Same as I.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:09

And then what what kind of what time is it right now?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:13

Um, it's it's night time. It's probably about like 9. Relatively 9 p.m.

unknown 1:07:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:24

That's like a guesstimate. So you guys do have some time. Um, you guys wanna do anything during this time, you guys can.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:41

Okay, um, I'm gonna look over to Wacnu first and ask, how are you feeling? You pretty tired?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:50

Yeah, I'm just a little I'm just a little worried, if I'm being honest, about Loliov. He he seems scared. And I feel like in the midst of battle, that's really gonna it's really gonna cost him.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:07

Well, he'd say he was the strongest of his people. Or at least his village.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:13

Okay, but shouldn't we come up with a backup plan just in case? Like, when do we you know?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:21

I think the second he falls, we're stepping in.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:27

Alright, say no more. As soon as I see him hit the ground, I'm hopping in.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:33

Yeah, sounds like a good idea. I'm on board.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:39

And um, a little cue for you. I'll look over to you before I do what I need to do so you can brace yourself. I don't want you to get hurt in the midst of it. You'll know when you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:52

Sounds good. And if you're not too tired, is it okay if I take a long rest?

SPEAKER_05 1:09:07

Let's go for it.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:08

Thank you. And yeah, I'll take a long rest.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:16

Can we both do that?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:18

Alright, give me one second real fast.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:30

Oh, these suggestions actually OP. Dude, you know you have all these dope ass spells. Like, I don't even know. I I mean I I think I'm doing it right because it doesn't say there's like a cooldown, it just says one action, you know? Yeah, like well, we're not really in battle. And even if we were in battle, it would kind of be the same.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:53

So, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:55

I like it. You said both of you guys wanted to take a long rest. No, okay. So Don. Um, how about both of you give me just a straight d20 roll real fast? Gotcha.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:11

17.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:12

17.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:14

Where's my d20? Oh, it's right. 10.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:19

10. Black Sky, you fall asleep first. Wagnu, you watch as your two acquaintances, your friends, they find a nice place space for them to just as the best they can to rest. And as you find a place for you to whether to meditate, whether to sleep for pleasure, you start to hear like some kind of almost like a gurgling noise. Row me a perception check.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:27

That's seven. Dang.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:36

You turn your head and you see a figure by a tree farther away, like a little farther away from you guys, about like 30, 40 feet away from you. And you see that this figure like a like a black cloak is just looking at you.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:06

Are they in like earshot distance from me?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:12

Um you yell, he can hear you.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:15

Okay. Yeah, I'll I'll yell like, hey.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:20

As you yell, he just kinda like motions his hands to you to come forward to him.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:26

Okay. I look over at Black Sky and Zalef real quick to see if they're like how deep they are in their sleep.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:37

Um Sky roll me a constitution saving throw. Seven. Sky is knocked out.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:50

Zaliev is also knocked out, but he's like you can hear him like mumbling while he's sleeping. I'm gonna get them tomorrow. I'm gonna get them tomorrow. Man, I'm gonna get them so bad.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:03

Is uh Frost any nearby or sleeping as well?

SPEAKER_02 1:13:09

Uh Frost is like cuddled up between Zalia.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:14

Okay. I'll try to nudge Frost awake real quick.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:21

Frost.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:25

He whines a little bit and then he eventually gets up.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:29

Okay. I see that he's still a little sleepy, but I'll just pull out my telai's horn real quick and then I'll just use it so I can speak to him briefly while he's like a little awake.

unknown 1:13:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:49

You start playing.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:50

What do you want? What do you want? I know you're tired. Just I'm heading that way, just in case. Any of them wake up so you know where I went, alright? And I like put in his head. Okay. Okay, okay. I got you. Alright, good boy. And then I put the put the horn back in my bag, and then I'll walk over to where I saw the figure.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:18

As you get closer, you see that this figure is tall. It's the dead of night. Uh your campfire starts to burn low. And Kayash is as it was even during the daytime, quiet. This figure is leaning casually against a tree, and then as you approach, he stands up a traitor. Old knight to be left outside like this. I suppose that's what you get when you're not wanted, isn't it?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:07

Cold for some, and then I light up my hand with my fireball. What are you doing here? Who are you?

SPEAKER_02 1:15:18

He looks around, he looks towards Kayush. Funny place.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:23

Kayush. Proud. Paranoid and stubborn.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:31

But even stone cracks if you press hard enough. It looks towards you. But you don't seem like the kind who can push hard enough.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:46

I think maybe you're not a good judge of character. But you seem to know a lot about this, Kayesh. How?

SPEAKER_02 1:15:57

What I do know is that you're going to fight the champions tomorrow.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:02

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:03

They don't expect you to win. But you see, I I enjoy surprises. Takes out something from his his side, tosses toss it towards your feet.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:21

That does something to even the odds. Takes the fight right out of them.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:29

Huh. He's you said he tossed it on my feet?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:33

Okay. Uh I'll just I'll take a look at it. I'll see what it is.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:37

As you go down, pick it up, and you uncover it, it's uh you see it's um it's a dagger. It's obsidian. Oh, it has like obsidian vein that goes through it, and it's forged out of metal. The metal the dagger almost seems like it it never like fully uh cooled off, so it's kinda like a rocky still in a way. Um the hilt is wrapped in uh cracked sweat stained leather.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:12

I I don't I don't touch it, but I kinda like look down at it and I look back up at him. How is this gonna help me again?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:25

It's particularly strong against Goliath. Do it what you want with it. Win, lose, lead. It's all entertaining in the end. Don't use it, use it whatever you want. I don't care. Why give something like this to me?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:52

Because I'm bored. I'm bored of this place. Out of nowhere, you three showed up. It's interesting.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:10

I get a feeling this won't be the last time we see each other. But I hope I can uh I hope I can cause some excitement for you. And I'll pick up the dagger.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:28

What's your name?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:31

Wagnu.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:34

You see his um his head kinda just like jones up a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:42

Wagnu. You don't sing like a Wagnu.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:49

What do you know about Wagnu? What's your name? I just I'm just saying you don't sing like a Wagnu. You know me?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:06

Maybe I look back over at um Zoliov and Black Skies just to see how deep in their sleep they are.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:19

I look back at him.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:22

Alright. Yeah, they're they're knocked out. Look, let me tell you the truth. I want you to win tomorrow. I'm just giving you the choice to whether you want to use that dagger or not.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:44

Shake things up a bit. Show that Elder That dwarf.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:56

Okay. If I do win tomorrow, how could I show my gratitude? Gratitude to you. How could I meet you again and say thanks?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:07

Oh, I'll be watching.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:14

I guess I'll be waiting.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:19

Alright, I'll be waiting for that. I'll just walk back over to the campfire.

unknown 1:20:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:26

And about what time is it right now?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:32

Um like midnight.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:35

Okay. I would like to use one of my items. The horn. Do you use identify on the dagger?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:43

Okay. You start to play your flute with a dagger in front of you. Suddenly memories of this dagger information enters your mind. You hear in your mind. Goliaths don't fear blades. They fear this blade. Not for its sharpness, but for how he refuses to let the fallen rise again. This dagger is called the stone. Um stone breaker. It's a a rare weapon. It does 1d4 damage, piercing damage, which I'll I'll I'll put I'll give you the information once I say it out loud. Um and it has an ability called Goliath Bane. Any against any creature with a powerful build trait, so like Goliaths, or just creatures that are like big, uh, you do a plus one bonus to attack and damage roles.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:16

Uh when you hit a Goliath with this dagger, they also must make uh constitution saving throw or they begin to bleed heavily, which causes them to lose uh 1d4 damage at the third of turn until they receive healing.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:35

Hmm. Okay. That's awesome. This might be useful. And then I I I will just keep it hidden for now, and then I'll try to get some rest.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:46

Okay. You proceed to sleep. Just send this to you real fast. Actually, I'll do it in a bit. Um you proceed to sleep, and you get your full eight hours of sleep. As morning comes to, dawn breaks. You guys wake up, morning comes, and when you guys come to, you are surrounded by doors and goliaths. You hear them chanting, screaming. You even see some like dwarven kids and little Goliaths like kinda tossing pebbles towards you.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:35

What are you guys doing? I kinda wake up I wake up kinda like shocked. What? And like I instinctively like start priming my fireball. What the heck? And I call it to Black Sky. Like Black Sky, get up.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:57

I get up. Oh. Oh wow. Wow. Wow. There's there's a lot of you guys. This is a party?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:11

The the Goliath in front of you, the one that um was ready to fight you yesterday for the sky. This is a party, indeed. And you are the main course.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:33

Main course? What are you guys gonna do? Eat me? And if it's a party, what are we celebrating? Your defeat. Mine? Oh, you mean yours? I mean, I would I don't even think we're fighting you. You you don't look like the strongest Goliath, I'm sorry. Hey old man, I said the strongest. This one looks like uh twig compared to any other Goliaths.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:06

You see as uh the elder steps in Yesterday I gave the order for a three versus three. You say you wanted one versus one.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:31

I mean unless you're scared that your champion isn't that strong. You can say it out loud in front of everyone, and we could take the three on three.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:45

Indeed.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:48

1v1 it is now hold on, hold on, hold on now. In my culture, it's customary to sing before a battle. I'll sing a quick little hum, a little song to hype up Black Sky while casting vodka gets Martic Inspiration for.

unknown 1:26:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:14

I'll cast Bardic Inspiration. Black Sky. And I'll cast it on Zalyav as well. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:21

You see as Zalyev gets up, he's like pumped up. Yeah, let's go! And he gets up, and then like uh his suggestions fades away. He's like, Oh I mean, yeah, let's go. Uh I'm ready. And the elder turns around, starts walking. Indeed, 1v1.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:46

But three rounds.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:52

Three rounds? Three rounds of what?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:58

You will be fighting one of them, your friend will be fighting another, and your other friend will be fighting another.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:07

Best out of three. Unless you are afraid.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:14

Best out of three? Are you afraid your champion is gonna lose in a best of one?

SPEAKER_05 1:27:22

Yeah, why can't we just do one 1v1?

SPEAKER_02 1:27:30

If you want it that way, then only the one who wins deserves to enter Kayash.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:47

Are you just making up these rules as you go? Do you hear yourself?

SPEAKER_02 1:27:55

Excuse me. You are the one who's adjusted 1v1. And now you don't want to do it. We can go back to the original rules if you like.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:18

Okay. Look. There seems to be some confusion here. In a matter of a best of one. Our champion is representing my team. Your champion is re representing your team. If we win, all of us pass through. How does that sound? Sounds like a good deal.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:45

He looks at you for he looks at you for a little bit. He's contemplating. There's the taking in your your suggestion.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:56

That's how everyone else does it. At least uh in all the other villages I've been to.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:02

Turns towards Wagnu. Kaiesh is not every other village.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:10

Fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:13

I'll play your little games. But I choose who fights.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:25

Yeah, you choose your champion.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:36

I want. And then the two of the axe comes for.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:42

I want to fight.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:46

As Elias starts to kind of get ready, uh, he starts to put his axe forward. He starts walking forward and the owner stops him. Not you. You and he points towards Wagnu Me.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:15

You wanna find me? I yell out Oh man, it sounds like you're scared. We have our very own Goliath here. Why are you dodging every confrontation?

SPEAKER_02 1:30:36

Because I know he's strong. Who I want to test, and he turns towards Wagnu is you. He who carries the tree.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:53

And as soon as I hear that, I yell very loud into the crowd. You guys hear that? I'm trying to uh tell a lie and deceive everyone. The old man just acknowledged us that we're strong. And he's not letting us through.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:10

Everyone starts counting the ground with their weapons. They start chanting in Dwarven, they start chanting and Goliath. I yell out.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:22

This is your elder.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:26

Anyone understands Dwarvin? Uh no. I think I don't know for sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:36

I don't think any of us does.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:43

No, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:44

Zaliaff steps forward. But I'm ready! I'm ready to fight!

SPEAKER_00 1:31:50

I'm ready to prove myself.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:56

The elder looks at Zalia. Indeed. You are ready.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:05

But I want to know why.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:09

Why the tree chose you as he turns towards Wagnu. So what is it, little one?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:19

Why do you hold such power inside you? Yet it's you won't walk forward.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:30

I look over to Wagnu and I ask him, dude, should we just throw down?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:42

Uh I look over at Black Sky and then back to the other. If you really want to know why the tree chose me, I'll show you. And then I'll start to dig in my bag. And then I'll look over to Black Sky. And I'm a cat thunderclap. That's my catcher. Alright, each creature in a five foot emanation origin from my must succeed on a constitution segment throw or take one d6 thunder damage. How big is the range? Five foot?

SPEAKER_02 1:33:21

Five foot.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:25

As you attempt to cast Thunderclap and lightning bolts starts to come out from you. You see as um a figure like a feminine looking figure, a Goliath, tall, on top of the um on top of the hill over here to your right, waves her hand, and your electric dissipates. The other looks at you. I'm glad you're not just all talk. And then he turns back. Commence the three versus three. And I need you guys to roll for initiative.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:25

I roll a 20 for initiative. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:30

Dang. I rolled a twenty-one, not twenty-one, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:37

Alright, order is Wagnu Black Sky. Uh X Goliath. Good. Hi Wagney. You're up first. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_05 1:35:09

Cool. First thing I'm doing. I'm not engaged in combat. Like I can dis I can walk back a little bit here, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:35:16

Yeah, yeah. You can I won't get opportunity. You won't, you won't. You can say that you guys get into formation. Very nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:22

Okay, cool. Yeah, I'll get into formation real quick and get you from a little bit behind.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:29

I'll just stay where I was.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:33

Cool, yeah. I definitely want to be a little further behind. Alright, cool. And then I'll start us off with my new spell. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:50

Tell me what it does.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:53

So it is a I conjure spinning daggers in a five-foot cube centered on a point within a range. And each creature within that area takes 44 slashing damage. Damn, okay. A creature also takes this damage if they enter that area. A five-foot cube?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:10

A five-foot cube, okay. Okay, so that's like one one uh one by one. One Q pretty much, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:22

One by one.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:23

Alright, you go ahead and uh mark where you want to do it. You can use the don't on the right bottom, you can use the toggler, toggle rollers. And this should be uh number one is like the square, you can use that to mark where you want to use your your thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:36

Okay. See, I'll use it. Right here. Oh. Uh I don't see the box for some reason.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:53

But yeah, I s I can see it. I can see you doing it. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:57

Oh okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:58

Wait, is it that must be it?

SPEAKER_04 1:37:00

Is it is it's on my turn? I can't delete it.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:03

Uh-oh. Oh, I didn't even do my yeah, that's not my that's my bad. I didn't do the um the order. Encounter yet yes right. Okay, okay, okay, yeah. I see that real fast.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:14

Um can you read what that's what's the name of the Spo again, George, so I can look it up.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:36

Alright, cool. Now we're good.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:40

Cool, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:45

Um, so the bottom right, you press you can press M. Yeah. And then number one, the box ruler. And you should have uh click at your right uh left click here, like left click again to do your okay, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:04

I see it. So one by one is the okay. There you go. Do you see that?

SPEAKER_02 1:38:21

Yeah, I see it, because that's where you're doing it.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:25

Okay, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:26

And it should stay there now, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:38:30

Okay, so uh, what I have to roll for it.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:36

I think it says as soon as you step in it, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:38:39

Yeah, as soon as you step into or end the turn in that space.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:42

Um 44 right. It isn't yeah, 44.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:46

Yeah, 44, sorry. Okay, 44 sessions.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:52

That's a lot of doubles broken. Rolling one dude, it's so good. Any modifiers too?

SPEAKER_05 1:39:03

44 damage. Nah, it didn't say.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:08

Um, so on your D are your D beyond, does it have any like plus to it? Any like damn 44 plus like a number?

SPEAKER_05 1:39:17

Nah, it just says 44.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:19

Oh, interesting. Okay, cool. That's fine. So I'll take the 44. He takes uh four points of damage as your dagger just flies, just starts going at him. Nice. We'll have a bonus action if you wanna do anything.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:42

I'll just announce Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:50

Um black skies here go.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:53

Alright. Um I am gonna cast this. Now whispers. The axe goliath in front of me.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:07

So one creature of your choice that you can see within range. Here is a discordant melody in its mind. The target must make a wisdom saving throw. Then on a failed save, it takes 3d6 damage and must immediately use its reaction, if available, to move as far away as it can to the safest route.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:25

Alright, what's the DC I gotta beat? Uh 14. 14? He rows a 15, so as you cast this number, he just stands his ground and he smiles at you. It still takes damage though, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:40:44

Um let me see. Yes, it takes Okay. Uh so on a successful save. The target takes half as much damage only. But I am gonna use my um Oh no, never mind. Yeah, go ahead. Go and roll the damage for me. 3D. Oh, it's 40. Four two five. Fifteen.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:25

Fifteen damage altogether. Nice.

unknown 1:41:28

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:28

Alright, you cast this whispers, you do five to fifteen uh fifteen damage to it. Um he smiles at you smirks as he likes the pain. Anything else you wanna do?

SPEAKER_04 1:41:45

Uh I'll just stand my ground.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:51

Okay, with that, it's gonna be his turn, and he's gonna come towards you, Sky. That's all you can do is talk. He's gonna bring his axe up. And he's gonna attempt to swing at you. He wrote a natural one. Uh comes down with his axe, it misses you completely. As you just dodge without even thinking. I laugh back, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:24

This is your champion.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:27

Zaliff goes. Zaliyev's turn now, and he goes right for the axe. I told you I'm coming for you. He attempts to hit him, and he runs a nine, which does not hit. He comes in with his axe. He swings his axe as uh the other Goliath that was targeting you swing his axe down, and it just misses right over him. Um sword is gonna come towards uh Zaliov and swing. And he rolls a nat 20. Sheesh.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:09

Holy.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:10

So that's gonna be quite a bit of damage. Five doesn't mean 16 points of stashing damage to him. Right behind right like on his back, he stashes. And this one is the um the one that was in the daggers. So if he moves out, does he get hit by your dagger still too?

SPEAKER_05 1:43:44

When he moved out, it just says if they enter the space or end their turn there.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:48

Alright, he's coming right straight for Wagnu. Uh how how far are you, huh? Let me see. So you're about 30 feet. He only has 25. So he's like right. He's right in front of you. That's a friend I'm coming for you. And it's you're gonna it's gonna be your go, Wagnew. This guy you're on deck.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:19

Cool. Alright, I'll look right at that the guy in front of me. But how can you hit me when you can't even tell who the real one is? And I'll cast mirror image. Okay. Um, so yeah. It just gives me like three illusionary duplicates of myself, and then each time a creature would hit me with an attack roll, I can roll a d6 for each of my remaining duplicates, and any of the d6 rolls are three or higher, when a duplicate takes the hit instead, but then they die. Ooh, so three d6.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:01

Here, I wanna output your mirror images for you. Oh, thank you. Okay, that's your action, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:45:21

Cool. And then as a bonus action, I'll cast healing word. Healing word, on Zalia. On Zalia? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:30

Go ahead and roll.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:34

So 2d4 plus my spellcasting modifier.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:40

How do you look at your spellcasting modifier again? I'm sorry. Um on your D D beyond, it should show you on top of um where your spells are at.

unknown 1:45:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:49

It says modifier plus.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:52

So just go to your spell tabs and then at the top it should have like spell modifier, spell saving.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:57

Oh. Gotcha, gotcha. Okay, yeah, healing words, so plus my modifier of four. So that's three plus that's seven, and then four. So he heals eleven. Ooh, that's a lot.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:15

Nice. You see, as the um the slash crosses back, it starts to heal up and it just becomes like a it almost looks just like a scar now. He turns to you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:30

Don't mention it. And then as a bonus action, I don't know, I guess it equipping a an item takes up your action, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:46:40

Well, it's a bonus action, but you already use your action to um customer image and then use your bonus action to to heal. So you only get one each.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:49

Okay, oh you're okay, yeah. That's okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:53

Guys, here you go.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:54

So I am I can move we we can move freely, right? Or is it just like closed off?

SPEAKER_02 1:47:00

You can move freely. Um the only thing is that yeah, if you move out of his range to it, he'll have opportunity attack against you. But you have to uh you can use an action to disengage so that he can't attack you. Uh-huh. Or you can save your action and just try to attempt to see it, you can move away without getting hit.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:19

Oh, is that his reaction attack?

SPEAKER_02 1:47:21

No, it's just a it's just a mechanic. So like if you're within its range, uh-huh. If anyone is within your range or you're within someone's range, if you move away without disengaging, then they can have an attack at you.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:32

Oh. So okay. So that's an action. So if I disengage, then I can't attack. Just trying to understand.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:39

Yeah, so you can't you can't use your actions. You can still use your bonus action, like action spells that requires bonus action, you can still use those, but you can't use action spells.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:46

Alright, okay. I am just gonna cast dissonant whispers on the axe guy again.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:52

Okay. So I think um Dissonant Whispers, it's uh range ability, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:48:03

Uh anything that I like is in front of me. Because it's a uh psionic spell.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:09

Okay, okay, cool. I have to roll uh 14 with some thing throw. He rolls a 17, so he saves, but he takes damage still, so go ahead and roll damage.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:20

Uh hold up. I am gonna use innate sorcery. Okay. Uh never mind.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:27

I was like, is this the first time you use your sorcerer's points? Uh never mind. Okay, I'll just roll for damage. Alright. And don't forget you still had your uh your barbecue inspiration from Log New 2. Yeah. Six.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:45

Six six. Oh my god. I I use bar inspiration. It's crazy. That's crazy. Six. Oh my god! Oh my god! What the heck?

SPEAKER_05 1:48:59

That's crazy. Let's go, let's go, let's go.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:02

As you doesn't know where his first hits him, um, he doesn't like he wasn't convinced enough to run away from you, but he looks at you and he speaks. Uh, I guess words really do cut deep. And you can see he's starting to like lead now. Um you still have your opponent's action, so what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_04 1:49:24

I will just use fauna magic to create a spell slot for me and end my turn.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:31

Oh hell yeah. Cool. So you get one spell slot back. Um Zaliff's turn. He's gonna attempt to attack the one in front of you as well. And he's gonna roll a 19 to hit, so that hits him. That's me six points of damage as his X comes up and then comes down on him and stashes him like right on his right arm. Sky turns towards you. Leave this one to me, and then it's gonna be and then as as he says that he's gonna rage, and what you see is his his tribal tattoos, they start to grow, uh, glow a bright red, as if they're burning on fire, and his eyes just turns red, and he just lets out like the loudest roar, almost as loud as yesterday when you had cast suggestion on him. Um that's gonna be his turn, so he's raging he's raging and he's ready to fight.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:43

Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:44

The other one is just gonna keep swinging at Zalia from behind. Only rolls a two so he misses. And the one in front of Wagnu gets a little closer and attempts to attack you. I'm gonna cut you down, little man. He rolled a one. So he misses. Go ahead, Wagnew, try to go.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:14

All my clones in me together. No, no, no, no, you should try, try, I try. So for my cod of daggers, it says that on later turns I can take a magic action to teleport the cube to 30 feet.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:35

Yeah, yeah, cool. So you so instead of using your action for something else, you can use your action to just put that somewhere else.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:42

Okay, good, that's perfect. I will I will use my magic action then to put the Q on top of the sword, right, uh attacking Zelai.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:54

Okay, perfect, cool. Um, I'll I can mark it for you. Unless you want to do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:59

I try to move. I try to move it earlier, I don't know why I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:02

It's okay, yeah. I got it. So yeah, he takes four d6, right? Or four d4. So go ahead and roll the damage for me.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:11

Perfect. Two four three two eleven total. 11 total, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:22

As your daggers like hits him around, hits like just stabs into his body. Like, oh, don't you guys do anything aside from magic? So I got a bonus action.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:40

Can I equip an item now?

SPEAKER_02 1:52:42

Yeah, yeah, you can.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:45

Oh, you wanna see something other than magic? And I reach in my I reach out for the dagger that I was that I uh was gifted.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:53

Okay. You take out the stone stone breaker.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:57

Stonebreaker. Okay, and then that'll just be the end of my turn.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:01

Alright, Sky, to go. With X guy on deck. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:07

And then I will actually disengage. Okay. And I will walk. I'll like just walk to the old man and in front of everyone and just taunt them. These are your strongest champions? They can't even land a hit on me. You made us wait till dawn for this? Oh man. We should have just gotten this over yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:43

Okay, the elder looks at you. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:46

Go ahead. Oh no, no, go ahead, go ahead. He just looks at you. Looks at me? Alright. Yep. For my bonus action, I just will use fauna magic. And then before I end my turn, I'll just taunt him. What are you looking at, old man? You look defeated.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:05

So your fauna magic, you get another sorcerer point back. I mean another uh spell slot back.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:10

Uh so I could charge him up. I have four slots to charge him up, and then the more I charge up, the more slots I'll get based on uh the spell's level.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:20

Oh, okay. So you charge up two already, pretty much. Yeah. Okay, cool, cool. Um as you say that he looks at he just kind of like whispers under his breath. I guess you are quite strong, but we need to learn some manners.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:44

And I I talk back manners. I'll show you some manners. And you haven't seen nothing yet. Alright, end of my turn.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:53

Uh, X guy is gonna start like moving towards you, but then he gets uh taunted by Zaliov. Don't you run away from me! He turns towards Zaliov and he just brings his axe around to try to hit him. Does not hit. Um It hits, it swings right to Zalyev, and Zalyev just takes his axe and just blocks it away. Zalyev is gonna go. He's gonna do um raging attack, so he's gonna roll a 19 to hit. That's gonna be some major damage. Let's go and slash him for 13 points of stashing damage. This guy is looking like beat up now. He drops down to one knee. It was a 1v1. Uh second dude that was attacking Zalif is gonna rush towards you, Sky. And as he moves out, Zaliaf is gonna come back around with his axe again. And hits him for more damage. You coward! He takes five points of stashing damage as he runs towards you. And brings his sword and comes towards comes down on you. Does uh 10 hit you? No, it doesn't, right? Nope. Alright, misses you. That's him, heads go. This guy's gonna attempt to hit you again, Wagnu. I'm done with your little tricks. 19 to hit.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:48

Ooh, 19 does hit. Takes away one of your mirror image, right? Uh I have to roll a d6. If it's three or higher, the duplicate takes it. If it's not, I'll I think it's okay. Yes! Okay, one of my duplicates took it.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:05

He swings his sword and one of your one of your clones just dissipates. Uh when your clone dissipates, it it's almost as if it turns to water and it just down.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:18

Haha, okay, good.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:20

Alright, you go, Wagnu.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:24

Alright, awesome. And then I'll use my magic action to move the cloud of daggers to the one in front of me.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:36

Okay. Go ahead and run with the four D4s.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:43

Four.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:46

Four. Three. Uh 13.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:48

13 points. As your cloud of daggers comes into his his area. Yo, 14 points of damage. 13 points of damage?

unknown 1:57:59

14.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:00

14 points of damage. He looks at you. Why take out that little dagger if you're just gonna use these?

SPEAKER_05 1:58:12

Oh, I'm saving this for the finishing blow.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:16

I got a bonus action. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:29

Uh no, I I don't I don't damn it. I'll just end my turn. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:34

Guys, there you go. X guy on deck.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:36

Alright. Um since I walked up to the elder, how far am I from? We're like 10 feet. Nice. And then yeah, I yell out to the Well, I don't yell out to Elder. I taunt, since he's only 10 feet away. Speaking of manners, where are my manners? And I cast arms of Hadar. Invoking Hadar, you cause ten drills to erupt from yourself. Each creature in a 10 foot emanation originating from you makes a strength saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes two d6 necrotic damage and can't take reactions until the start of its next turn. And then if successful save, they take half the damage. So anyone in ten feet.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:25

Everyone in ten feet? Yeah. Holy shit. Okay. Let's see. Um. So I don't have to roll anything, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:59:34

Uh, you have to roll a strength saving throw.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:39

Strength saving throw for four these guys, pretty much. Yeah. What's the DC again?

SPEAKER_04 1:59:44

14.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:46

14. Nice. Okay. So the three around you, uh, except for the elder, fails. The elder doesn't fail. Um, so they take the damage. The other lick. At you. Focus on your fight, young man. Uh go and roll damage for these other three.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:08

Uh real quick, how much did the elder roll?

SPEAKER_02 2:00:12

He rolled uh 17.

unknown 2:00:13

Damn.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:14

Okay. You wanna use your your uh Bardic?

SPEAKER_04 2:00:18

Nah, nah, nah. Or I already used it earlier. I just have my NXOC that I'm waiting to use. Okay, so five, nine.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:30

Nine. Uh those are the two that aren't even in the battle, they take that damage and they start scurrying away. Like, we're not even in the fight, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_04 2:00:40

Yell out to the other. Oh my god, where are my manners? 3v3? At this point, I could take on all of you guys. Then I'll just uh charge up my point and end my turn. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:00

Next guy. He's gonna rage now. And he's gonna attempt to attack. Um Zaliaf. He rose at 20.

SPEAKER_06 2:01:11

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:12

Not natural though. Zalia's gonna take 13 points of stashing damage.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:18

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:20

Zaleyav is all it as his axe comes down and slashes Zalia, you see blood like spurts everywhere. Uh just spurts everywhere, but uh because he's so enraged right now, he's just kind of standing strong, um, axe in his hand, and it's gonna be Zaliah's turn, so he's gonna come back around and just bring his axe upwards to attempt to slash this guy. Uh 15. 15 does not hit the guy in front of black sky is gonna go towards sky. You have no respect.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:00

Pay attention to your opponent.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:03

He rolls uh 16 to hit you.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:07

Oh, that hits.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:09

That's gonna be eight points of stashing damage as the sword comes down towards you. That's gonna be his go. Unless you want to do any reaction or anything you want to do?

SPEAKER_04 2:02:26

Uh yeah. So I am gonna taunt him.

SPEAKER_06 2:02:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:33

Thought I let you hit me because he could land a hit on me, and I'll cast hellish rebuke as a reaction. Pretty sure that damage you is momentarily surrounded by green flames, makes a dexterity saving throw, taking two d10 fire damage on a fail save, or half on a successful hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:54

Okay, rolls. He rose a nine. Let's go 2d10. Right, yeah. It looks like, yeah. Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:12

16.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:13

16 points of damage? Yeah. Holy shit. Alright. Um Go ahead and tell me how you want to bring this guy down. Uh as he slashes you and then you invoke your hillish rebuke.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:29

Uh flames just burst out from beneath my feet and it trails up to him, to his feet, and he just erupts in flames.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:40

Cool. He starts yelling and squirming. Um you see uh the mage that had uh had countered Wagnew's lightning spell earlier. Suddenly waves her hand and the fire goes away. And then the elder says, One down. This guy is down, but he's not dead.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:06

I glare over to this mage, like a bold clear. Better watch out.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:14

She just doesn't say anything. Uh with that, it's gonna be the one in front of Wagnew. He's gonna turn, he's gonna bring his sword back around, slash at you. Maybe I should have chosen someone else to fight. It's getting a little boring. Uh 13 to hit. Does not hit. Okay. I'm tired of your tricks. There go.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:48

Fine, no tricks. I'm gonna try to stab him with the dagger. Okay, shit. Bonus X. Or not my bonus act. I just want to make sure though, is because I put the cloud of daggers where he is. Yeah. And it says that if they end their turn there, they take the damage.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:10

Oh yeah, yeah. They take the damage over the roll the damage.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:13

Okay, perfect.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:20

12. Well, nice. Um, dagger starts to just fly out at him. Uh he looks like he's getting hurt now.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:32

Okay. As he's taking recoil from the dead the cot of daggers, I'll try to run up and stab him with the stonebreaker.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:39

Go ahead and road to attack.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:42

Okay, so I got a 15.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:44

A 15 to hit? Uh just barely misses.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:49

Dang!

SPEAKER_03 2:05:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:51

Alright, as my bonus action though, I'll I'll use healing word. I'll look over at black sky and use healing word.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:57

Okay. Go ahead and roll for the healing.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:05

So that's 2d4 plus my what has 24. So 10. 10, nice.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:13

10 back to black sky. Nice guy. You get 10 HP back. Ow.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:19

I was only at 29, but alright. And then.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:28

Wow. Oh, sorry. Um, Wagnew. I forgot that your dagger gives you a plus one to attack and damage rows.

unknown 2:06:41

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:41

So you're at a 15, so you get the plus one, and it's 16, so you hit.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:46

Nice! Oh no, no, you're you're good. Thank you. Thank you for reminding me. Cool. So it's one d4 piercing?

SPEAKER_02 2:06:56

Yeah, one d4 piercing damage.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:02

It's a three. Three? Three points of damage. You stab your dagger in front of him. He makes a DC 13. He does not. See, what's his modifier for that? DC. Uh oh, it's pretty high actually. No, he doesn't save anyway. So he he wrote he got a 12 while total. 12 total to save from your bleeding wounds effect. So now he's uh bleeding heavily where you stabbed him. And every time at the end of his uh at the start of his turn, he takes 1d4 damage.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:33

Holy okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:35

Okay, now it's guys. It's awesome. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:39

Then look over to the old man again and taunt him. You just love causing trouble for yourself, huh? Then from here on I will cast magic missile to uh do I I do I have to move for magic missile?

SPEAKER_02 2:08:01

Um depends on who you're trying to hit. If you're so for the range spells, if you're within five feet of them. Well actually, magic missile hits no matter what, it doesn't matter. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:08:12

Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna cast it to the to the galaf in front of Wagnew. Or Wagnu, okay. Nice cool. So gonna cast and five D4. Damn. Level one? It's a lot, yeah. Yeah, that's a lot. One, four, five, nine, twelve, thirteen.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:38

Thirteen points of damage. Damn. Sheesh, this guy is just getting bombarded with like daggers and like arrows and shit.

SPEAKER_06 2:08:46

Having a good time.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:47

He drops down to his knees. He's like, ugh. He has a sword stabbed to the ground. Uh here we go, so what are you doing?

SPEAKER_04 2:08:56

And then I will just use fun of magic and taunt the people again. These are your champions.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:07

Okay. Um, axe guy is still raging. Gonna attempt to attack Zaliff. Uh does not hit. Zaliov just parries that hit uh uh the attack away and attempts to hit him. Uh it was a 16 total to attack, does hit. That's me 10 points of stashing damage as Zalyev comes down with his axe. Um he turns his axe to the side. So instead of stashing, he just smacks this guy on the head and this and this guy just falls down unconscious. But that it's uh the guy that's in front of Wagnu. Uh he takes 1d4. One point of beating damage. Right now he's not looking too good.

SPEAKER_00 2:10:03

What is this? What is that blade?

SPEAKER_02 2:10:09

Uh he's gonna try to try to just swing wild wildly at you, Wagnu. 18.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:17

18 hits. Let me roll for my mirror image. Oh, it didn't, it didn't hit my mirror image didn't go through. So I'd take that.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:27

That's gonna be 12 points of stashing damage. He just swings wildly at you, but it hits you still. That's his goal, so it's your goal now.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:40

Uh you hit the fake one, by the way. Alright, fine. You wanna do it like that? I'll just get as close as I can with the dagger and try to hit him.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:52

Okay. I'll get your plus one too.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:56

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:57

Oh yes. So it's 17. 17, yeah. 17 hits, you're all for damage. This guy's not looking too good.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:02

Nice.

unknown 2:11:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:06

1d4.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:08

It's a one. It's a one.

unknown 2:11:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:11

Plus the one bonus damage, so it's a two.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:15

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:18

How do you want to do this?

SPEAKER_05 2:11:23

Hmm. I'll look at him as he's cause he's cut- you said he was on the floor.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:30

Yeah, he has a sword like stuck to the ground. He's on his knees.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:36

Okay. I'll just go up to him and I'll go. Uh this is for Black Sky. And I'll stab him. I'll stab with the stonebreaker.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:52

Okay. As you guard in with your stone breaker, you almost feel as if something compels your Are you You're dealing lethal damage, right? Okay, so it's you feel as if something compels your your blade to move forward. It's not you. Something else. And it stabs into him. His eyes like goes wide. This challenge, this battle was never meant to be um a fight to the death. You see all of the the doors and the um the Goliaths around, their eyes wide and open. The elder his mouth is like open now. Agape. Stunned. Everyone freezes for one long second. The mountain feels silent, and then shouting starts to begin. Sky, you see as everyone picks up their weapon, they radiate their their blades, their hammers, their axes. You see the doors, the red door for the red hair radiates his fist. You see as the order in front of you yells out Line them!

SPEAKER_06 2:13:43

They're weapons.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:59

I yelled to black sky to get back to us. Get back to us! I'll grab the dagger and pull out.

SPEAKER_02 2:14:11

As you try to pull out from trying to pull the dagger out, you see how the dagger sucks the very life out of the Goliath in front of you.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:24

I yell out and deception. Any anyone moves and this guy dies. Stay where you are, no one moves. I look over to the elder. Tell your people to lay down. Right now. Or he dies.

SPEAKER_02 2:14:44

As you say that dozens of Goliath starts coming from behind the elder. And then dozens more. And then from everywhere around you, you guys are surrounded now by hundreds of dwarves, warriors, fighters.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:48

We got a problem. What's what's the problem? I can't take the dagger out of this.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:01

I was like, I'm holding the front down like just going back to walking in. What do you mean, dagger? Who When did you get a dagger? It's just a regular dagger, no?

SPEAKER_05 2:16:12

No, I I d I didn't get a chance to tell you. I and then I'll I'll try to like walk up with my hands up. Kind of up towards where the elder end them are.

SPEAKER_02 2:16:24

You can't move your hands, and then you keep trying to move your hand, and then when you finally do the Goliath in front of you falls down to the ground. Last thing you see is him tackling down to the stone below. You see his lifeless eyes that you just killed, staring skyward. The dagger still embedded in his ribs. And now you finally see as black black smoke rises from the dagger. The guy turns around and sees the very symbol of the black dawn coat. And that's where it will stop for tonight.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:32

Oh man. I knew I shouldn't have used that dagger. I didn't need to.

SPEAKER_02 2:17:39

Yeah, you guys didn't. I wanted to. You guys didn't need to.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:43

I wanted to.

SPEAKER_02 2:17:45

Holy.

SPEAKER_01 2:17:54

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