c1ep11 - Welcome Back

Shusui returns unexpectedly as our heroes tries to unravel the cause of the tremors in Khaesh as well as getting caught up in a small quest from a monkey.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey everyone, I am uh I am officially back. I was supposed to be back sooner, but uh that episode had audio problems, so I am back here. And uh yeah, in case you guys forgot, I'm Chris. I'm playing to sweetie, and uh yeah, I'll let everyone else introduce themselves.

SPEAKER_07 0:23

Holy we're back, back to three players.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

How's that familiar voice? Welcome back, Chris.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Yeah, man, I've ready to get crit and killed again. Maybe a while this time.

SPEAKER_03 0:39

Ah my wonderful tank.

SPEAKER_07 0:41

That was like a good uh it's a good two months for us, but for the listeners, you guys probably won't know this at all. So it'll probably be like a week for you guys. Wow, yeah, but anyways, uh I am Jackie, your DM. I've been super busy, but I'm glad that we're back to our our original players and we can get the story moving.

SPEAKER_03 1:06

Ah, and I'm your favorite menace, Black Sky.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

Of course, you're Elf Bard, Wagnew, I'm here. I'm excited to get back to it, and definitely excited to have our tank back.

SPEAKER_07 1:18

Uh let's see if he remembers how to tink. Well, without further ado, let's get wandering. Wagnu and Black Sky stood before the council of Caesar, accused of slowing chaos after the mishap of the cursed dagger. Elders, Silverfist, ever watchful, cut down Yur's word at every turn. But when you spoke your truth, your conviction gave Yur the strength she needed. She rose in defiance, claiming her rightful place as the leader of Kayash. Then the impossible happened. The spirit tree within the wagnew, long dormant, burst into golden light. The chamber was bathed in radiance, and for a moment, even the skeptical council could not deny what stood before them. That you were chosen for something greater. Reluctantly, they gave way. You were free. Yur brought you to rest in a small house within the fortress walls. But curiosity is a dangerous thing. Beneath the floorboards, you incurred a hidden binding, etched with the mark of the black dawn coat. The discovery set off an alarm, and though you escaped unscathed, the revelation lingered in your mind. Come morning, you learned the truth. The home and its secrets belong to none other than Elder Silver Fist. Shaking the ones from your shoulders, you wandered the streets of Kaish. In its heart, you found Mamu, the blacksmith. Black sky, you entrusted her with a bold commission to reforge the powers of your wind artifact into a dagger. You even won her favor, leaving with a pair of Dwarven blades. Wagnu, you walked away with a fine dwarven sword, dazzling and true. But as you stepped outside, your eyes fell on the sign above the door. Silver fist armory. The name burned into your mind. The council of doubt. The binding beneath the floor. The tremors shaking the fortress walls. The revelation of realizing that Mammu is the daughter of Sorfist. You look at her and she looks at you confusingly. Kind of like wondering if something happened.

SPEAKER_03 4:58

Yeah, no, everything's great. Um Silverfist. Um what did you s who who'd you say Silverfist was again?

SPEAKER_05 5:10

That's my dad.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

Oh, that's your dad. Uh Wagno, did you hear that? That's uh Silverfist is uh Mammu's dad.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

Oh yeah. That's great news. We we happen to uh be great friends of his.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Ah, that's that's uh great news.

SPEAKER_06 5:32

Really? Friends?

SPEAKER_03 5:34

Huh. That's weird. I mean, yeah, we just met your dad, but you know, we're uh we're all we're off to a great start. A really great start.

SPEAKER_07 5:42

So I'm guessing you two are the ones that are staying at at his uh his other house. Oh told me about it yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 5:50

Yeah, no, that's uh your dad, that's very gracious of your dad. He's a uh very kind and helpful man.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

That's right. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

He really is. Uh yeah, um, you know, I and we didn't mean to pry, but um we kind of fell down the stairs to the basement yesterday, and uh there's this um sort of purple fluid. Would that be like his medicine by any chance? I mean, I we didn't touch it, of course, but wait.

SPEAKER_07 6:24

As you say that you the two queu fell down the basement, uh, she starts to give you like a kind of like a wordy look. What did you say? What did you say?

SPEAKER_03 6:34

Oh!

SPEAKER_05 6:35

You filled down the basement, you said?

SPEAKER_03 6:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we were um we were trying to look for the bathroom. And as soon as I opened the door, I tripped down the stairs, and Wagnew was behind me, so he tripped along with me.

SPEAKER_07 6:52

I I I mean, I've actually never been there. Not down there anyway. Uh my dad would never let me go down there.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Oh. Okay. Uh I'm let's just keep this between us then, Mammu.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

Yeah, we won't tell him if you don't tell him because um it was a pretty old house and the stairs broke up. That's why we fell so hard, and that's why we also like uh tumbled and we knocked down a few things on our way down. So that's what happens if you ever hear from him.

SPEAKER_03 7:26

Yeah, and of course, like you said, your dad knows we were sleeping there, so um, yeah, just uh just a little funny incident.

SPEAKER_07 7:37

She looks at you confused. And you said that you saw a pot with some purple what was it? Like goo water? What is it?

SPEAKER_03 7:47

Uh I you know, I uh we wouldn't know. We didn't touch it. I don't we didn't touch anything right at all, right, Wagnu? We just walked right back up, close the door, and yeah, minded our own business.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Yeah, that's right. We just we were just wondering if it rang a bell or if you remembered anything like that, or your your father talking about anything like that.

SPEAKER_07 8:09

Give me a deception check. Um, back sky.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

Ah, yes, this is where I thrive, baby.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 8:16

Let's go. I've been doing it all day. I can do it again. 16.

SPEAKER_07 8:27

She does her face, has like a face of like, um, like would you oh like oh no, what did you guys do? Why would you guys go down there? Like, even I have even I've never been down there. And then she kind of looks at black sky and you see her her cheek starts to flush. Um she turns away quick and she's like, Well, whatever you do, just look, just don't mention it to him. Uh I won't say anything. You guys are new here. I'm I'm not gonna I'm not gonna cause any trouble. And I don't want you to cause any trouble, so just for now on just stay away from it. Don't go down there anymore.

SPEAKER_03 9:06

I appreciate that, dear. And I wink at her.

SPEAKER_02 9:10

Loud and clear.

SPEAKER_07 9:15

Okay, so anyways, uh I'll start working on this right away, and she takes her artifact. Like I said, I I would try to get it to you as fast as I can, but of course, if I don't rush this, it'll be better.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Yeah, of course, Mamu, and uh just yeah, it's um that's a sacred peace of mind, so just hold on dear to it and don't if you can't, please don't let anyone know about it.

SPEAKER_05 9:43

Hmm. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 9:45

Yeah, of course. It's of course, of course. It's commissioned. I gotcha. And she starts to walk back behind her table.

SPEAKER_03 10:02

Alright, well, walk new. Um anything else before we head up?

SPEAKER_02 10:08

No, it sounds like she's gonna be busy for a while.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

Yeah. Let's get going.

SPEAKER_07 10:19

Where are the two of you uh wanting to head to now? Or what are you looking for? Day's still pretty early, so I would like to.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

I would like to go back to where the cages were just to check on that um the monkey. The monkey that was in the cage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's still there.

SPEAKER_07 10:49

Okay, yeah. Uh so like I said last time, it is uh pretty far. You can walk there. If you got you guys wanna just go straight there right away, you you can just uh say you go there, but it'll take you a while.

SPEAKER_02 11:04

Oh shoot, okay.

SPEAKER_07 11:05

So time will like time will pass.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 11:08

This is a big this is a very big city.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

Are you cool? Are you okay with that?

unknown 11:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Do you want to go check it out?

SPEAKER_03 11:16

Yeah, I mean I've got everything I wanted to do. I have no more gold, so.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

Okay, well, I did want to look for that monkey. I wanted to find the staff for it, because I talked to it.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

Oh! The staff? Why don't we ask Mammu before we head out? Wait, wait, you're As a blacksmith, you such an item would catch her eye, no?

SPEAKER_02 11:40

True. She seems a little more spinning with you. I'll let you I'll let you lead it. Of course.

SPEAKER_07 11:47

Okay, so um Wagnu, you'll remember that you had showed her the paper or the um the notebook that you have with the like the etchings of the of the staff and stuff, and with the the symbol of the Baghdon. And she didn't seem to understand or know anything about it, aside from saying that that those handwritings look familiar.

SPEAKER_02 12:14

Okay. She didn't know where it is, huh? I see. Okay.

unknown 12:21

Dang.

SPEAKER_02 12:22

Dang. Okay, now yeah, that's cool. Uh I'm still down to go to the monkey.

SPEAKER_03 12:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm done, I'm done. I I pretty much got everything I wanted from the city.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

Yeah. I'm pretty good here too. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 12:39

Just a reminder that the green diamond on the right side will let you guys adjust the the ceilings so you can see your your tokens when you guys go up the stairs and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Yep. Oh, okay. Perfect.

SPEAKER_07 12:53

Okay. Going to the the monkey is back this way. Nice. If anything, I can just probably teleport you guys over there. I'll make it easier, huh?

SPEAKER_03 13:10

Yeah, yeah. Down for that. Down for that. Oh. Oh yeah, I I see it. It's like just right there too.

SPEAKER_07 13:25

So like I said, it is quite a walk. Walking there would probably take you about like 45 an hour just to walk there. If during this time you wanna, you know, just get a set like a sense of your surrounding or do something within this time while you're walking there, you guys can just let me know in. Or if you guys want to just converse between yourselves.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

I do wanna like talk to Black Sky, show him what I what I have now. Some of the stuff, the new weapon that I got. I'll show him like the rainbow blade I have. Dude, look at check this out. This is what I got.

SPEAKER_07 14:20

Holy. Yeah, you flash to black sky, it's a nice dwarven silver blade, and on the handle, it's it has like three different colors of cloth on it. I'll even let you choose what colors you want to be on there, actually. Ooh, that's so there's three.

SPEAKER_02 14:43

I want to do like um a midnight blue, uh like silvery, kind of white, and then a red.

SPEAKER_07 14:52

Okay, and you see as you kind of like just swing it around a little bit, you you see like accents of those colors coming from the blade as you swing it around, and the sun catches it.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Here, see how it feels in your hand. Now I'll toss it over to Black Sky.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

I swing it around. Oh my god, Mamu is a genius. This feels amazing.

SPEAKER_02 15:21

Right? But um, you know, ever since the whole incident with this this place, I've been a little weary about my sword skill, so I just wanted you to have a good feel for it in case I ever needed to trust someone else to swing the blade, if you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_03 15:39

Yeah, no, of course. And um speaking of yours, check out the two that I got from Mammu. And I pass over the daggers to Jor, I mean to uh Wagnu.

SPEAKER_07 15:57

It's as he passes you a dagger, you it's the one that kind of phases in and out. And you see as Black Sky just kind of throws a dagger to you, but before you can hold on to it, it it phases out and it reappears in the hand of Black Sky.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

Wait. That's sick. Are you doing that on purpose?

SPEAKER_03 16:24

Uh definitely, definitely not. Um just let me I'll I'll hand it to you. And I walk over and like drop into Wagnu's hand.

SPEAKER_07 16:37

Yeah, and Wagnew's now you're holding it and you can see that it it kind of almost wants to just like almost get like glitching, you know. It's a nice it's a nice uh dark shaded blade. In contrast to the other one that Black Sky has, which is like a um it's a white white dagger with like the head of a tiger on it. Almost the best I can say it, it looks kind of like kind of like the white Power Ranger's his dagger.

SPEAKER_03 17:10

Cool. Yeah. Uh she said it was like imbued with the power of Pavos. Maybe it's something she sure would know, so I definitely definitely wanted to hold on to this room.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

Oh yeah, you do that. And just wait, so that blade? It can like come back. It's like recursive? Is that what it is? I just wanna confirm. Like, you can make it come back to you?

SPEAKER_03 17:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

Dude, that is so sick.

SPEAKER_08 17:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

That's amazing. Can't steal it. Okay. I'm done showing each other our swords. Let's go. Let's go talk to your monkey.

SPEAKER_07 18:04

Okay, let's go. You start making your way to the cages that you were kept in before. Let's kind of shift our our POV to Shusui.

SPEAKER_08 18:15

Hmm.

SPEAKER_07 18:18

Shusui, the last thing you remember was like you're falling through water. You remember you being at the water temple, and then you having like a flashback to a moment from your past. After undergoing that and having a chance to kind of reflect on who you are, all you see is darkness. You get a sense of code, a sense of silence, nothing around you, no sound. And then all of a sudden you feel like something wraps around your neck. And when you open your eyes, you see a dark red cloak that had to belong to an uncle. All of a sudden that darkness fades away slowly. As you come to and you're in an unfamiliar place. You're caged in. Everything around you seems to be like rocks. You can feel you can smell the the scent of silver. What do you do?

SPEAKER_00 20:14

I uh I kinda just grab my head, trying to shrug off the the last remnants of pain that I remember as I clear my head and take a look at my surroundings. Trying to figure out what happened and where I ended up.

SPEAKER_07 20:39

Okay, give me a perception check or a history check. Depending on how you want to do it.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

I'll just do perception. Uh uh, mat 20. Finally, please.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Let's go. No more.

SPEAKER_07 20:57

Your very first row is a good row.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

Welcome back.

SPEAKER_07 21:00

First row back. He's here. Shusui is here.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

That's whole obsession, man. Give me flashbacks.

SPEAKER_07 21:07

Okay, yeah, well, for a nat 20 perception check. You start looking around. It's not a place that you're that you've been to. But seeing like the etchings on the wall and seeing just taking in how everything looks like. The the rocks, the the statues of dwarves, the statues of Goliaths. You've never been here, but you've heard stories from your parents, your family, of an isolated area in Yuping. A city of Goliath's dwarves. Called Kayash. Next to you, you hear the sound of a monkey.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

I turn and look at the monkey. And I try and figure out why I'm in a cage and why I'm surrounded by other animals in cages.

SPEAKER_07 22:34

You look at the monkey, and the monkey just seems to be kind of like he looks like he wants to talk to you, but it's just monkey noises, unless you can talk to monkeys. Uh you don't really understand what it's trying to say to you. But as for figuring trying to figure out how you got here, you're not too sure. Last thing you remember was you and the water tempo, and then that memory, and then all of a sudden you're here. And for some reason your uncle's cloak is wrapped around you.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

Kind of just wiggle something loose and kind of just get out.

SPEAKER_07 23:26

Are you proficient in like any like lock picking skills at all?

SPEAKER_00 23:30

Uh I mean I was. So it's still there, but technically no. I mean, I still got sleight of hand, I just don't have the thieves tool anymore.

SPEAKER_07 23:48

Okay. Well, you still have all of your stuff on you, so you can try to get out however you want.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

I'll just look for any weaknesses in like the bars if anything's loose. Double check, make sure the door is actually locked, you know. The the basics.

SPEAKER_07 24:06

Yeah, give me a investigation check.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Alright, uh investigation. Where is it? No bonuses. That is a two.

SPEAKER_07 24:21

Uh yeah, you start you start looking at the door, you start to try to find like weak spots, and you get like a like a thought in your head, like dang, I used to be pretty good at this. I don't know what like you don't know what happened, for some reason you're not good anymore at finding or like trying to open locks. But you do start to hear footsteps coming towards you.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

I just turn towards the footsteps. Um like maybe if someone shows up I can talk to them trying to figure out what's going on, but but not like I can do anything else in this cage.

SPEAKER_07 25:01

You look at at the direction of the footsteps and you see the person you know as Black Sky all glammed up, different outfit. And then behind him you see Wagnu just kinda like playing with his new sword.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

I just stick my hand outside the bar and I go Wagnu? Black Sky? Hey! Over here! Over here.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

I'm assuming this is like where we're slowly walking up, right? Approaching the side.

SPEAKER_07 25:43

Yeah, you guys are slowly walking up. Okay. And uh truth to me is over here.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Do you hear that?

SPEAKER_07 25:51

Change that Wagnew was locked in before.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

What I start charging up my firebolt in my hand, in my free hand. Who are you?

SPEAKER_00 26:06

Really? I don't think it's been that long. You guys don't recognize me? Man.

SPEAKER_03 26:15

Just start walking closer. Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

Also, why are you guys always trying to burn something down? That's your first reaction to someone calling your name. It's a firebolt. Really?

SPEAKER_03 26:27

It's well. Is that you, Shisui?

SPEAKER_00 26:31

Yeah, I I don't really remember what happened after uh after we got separated at the water temple. Uh uh, I kind of just woke up here.

SPEAKER_03 26:42

Oh god, get a load of this guy. She water temple. Do you wanna tell him Wagnum?

SPEAKER_02 26:48

I'll tell him. That was ten years ago. You've been gone for ten years.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

I mean, I wish I was teeth links and uh was it half elves age differently? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

I'm sorry, it's the truth. We drank a potion of immortality, we stayed young forever. You look old and I don't even recognize you anymore. Nah, I'm just messing with you, man.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

It's gonna see real deception is just so you broke in life.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

Oh well, okay. Uh uh 15.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

Oh my gosh, it was just seven for me.

SPEAKER_07 27:37

Yeah, yeah. Well I can do this just messing with you, pulling your leg.

SPEAKER_02 27:42

What are you doing in there? I thought you knew how to pick locks, man.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

I mean, I don't know, man. Maybe I maybe I hit my head or something. It's just uh just not feeling it. Also, where's uh where's Frost? He's not with me, I assume he's with you guys.

SPEAKER_02 28:06

Frost? I haven't seen him in ten years. Nah. I actually forgot where Frost is.

SPEAKER_07 28:15

You start looking around, and Frost was with you too as you guys are shopping. And then um as you two start walking towards this place, this area, back to the cages, um, you notice he's not around you anymore.

SPEAKER_02 28:29

Oh, that's a good question.

SPEAKER_03 28:31

Frost. Uh, I think he's with uh Zaliff. Who I start we can too walking to him. Uh uh Zaliff. Oh yeah. You met uh we met a friend. Um as he departed from us from the water temple, um this this guy, Zalioff, just uh woke us up by the beach, and next thing you know, we're here.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

Alright, well, can you guys get me out of this cage? It's kinda weird talking to you guys like this.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Right, right. A little fire should do the trick.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

You set me on a fire, I swear.

SPEAKER_02 29:16

No, I'm kidding. Um, shoot. How do we how should we get him out of here, Black Sky?

SPEAKER_03 29:21

Uh yeah, let me um Yeah, don't where's Black Jaw? I mean, I we could just open it, honestly.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

We could just I mean, maybe we just ask someone why I'm in here.

SPEAKER_03 29:40

Yeah, I yeah, yeah. Give me one second. And I scream at the top of my lungs. Black jaw!

SPEAKER_07 29:50

Uh you scream super loud and you don't hear black jaw, but you do see this little dwarf coming over to you.

SPEAKER_06 30:03

I don't know what's going on, man. What's going on here?

SPEAKER_03 30:09

Yeah, so um how how how did this guy end up here?

SPEAKER_07 30:15

He starts walking towards the cage and he looks at it.

SPEAKER_06 30:19

Um I don't know, man. What how'd you get in there?

SPEAKER_00 30:24

I woke up in here.

SPEAKER_06 30:27

Uh maybe he maybe he belongs in there.

SPEAKER_03 30:30

Uh no, I I don't think so. I Blackjaw specifically told me that. Um Our friend was welcome to it, but woke up in a jail cell, so.

SPEAKER_06 30:44

I mean, I don't I I'm I don't have the key. I mean, uh you can open it. Oh I won't say anything. You don't see anything.

SPEAKER_03 30:51

So so we can just open it? There's just there's no keys, no lock, no nothing.

SPEAKER_06 30:56

I can just uh fireball or something.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Oh god.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

You heard the man. That's it's your I I guess this is uh your turn to do it, Wagnew. I mean, since he offered first, normally it'd be me, but it well uh before um before we do that, what's your name again? Sorry.

SPEAKER_06 31:18

You can call me uh call me um Leon.

SPEAKER_03 31:22

Leon, thank you, my friend.

SPEAKER_06 31:24

Okay, that was that's all I had to ask. Yeah, no worries, no worries in it. Like I said, uh I won't say anything. You don't say anything.

SPEAKER_03 31:32

Have a good day, Leon.

unknown 31:37

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Go ahead, Wagnew. Get out of your way.

SPEAKER_02 31:41

I'm it I'm gonna aim for the hinges. Okay. I'll cast my fireball.

SPEAKER_07 31:50

Alright, roll to attack. Because you're specifically aiming for something, so I roll to attack.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

Come on, first rollback.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

I'm gonna get hit with friendly fire.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

Okay, well. It's eight plus six, it's fourteen. Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 32:09

14, okay. You aim for the hinges, roll for damage.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

Damage is gonna be eight! Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 32:20

Eight, yeah. You charge up your fireboat and you just toss it at the hinges, and you see as it starts to burn. But these are these are some very tough locks. But it does seem to be doing something. It's not quite off yet, but it is this has an effect.

SPEAKER_02 32:46

Hmm. Alright, I got an idea, Black Sky. I'm just gonna cast another fireball at it soon after. I need your help to strike at those hinges.

SPEAKER_03 32:58

Yeah, sounds oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

Sounds good. Alright. Keep your head down, shistu shui. And I cast another fireball. Uh I'll cast another fireball at the hinge. Okay. With a nine.

SPEAKER_07 33:23

Nine just barely misses, and you see as your firebolt goes straight through the like the opening, and it just goes right over uh Shusui's head.

SPEAKER_00 33:35

Oh god, how do you miss? It can't even move.

SPEAKER_02 33:39

Dude, there's something in my eye. There's a lot of dust here. Alright, hold on. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Alright. Let me try that one more time. It's because I didn't yell. Alright, this time it's 11. Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 33:53

Okay. Uh it hits right where you had hit it before your first time around. Um, Black Sky, how are you helping out?

SPEAKER_03 34:00

Alright, as soon as it hits, I throw my dagger. The phasing one.

unknown 34:07

Cool.

SPEAKER_07 34:08

Okay. Roll to attack. Um just gotta be the 10.

SPEAKER_03 34:10

Nice. Uh oh, the phantom dagger. Alright. Bam! I pull out my Phantom dagger from my pot, from the back of my side, and like in a swift motion. Roll the 17.

SPEAKER_07 34:28

Yeah, and as your dagger hits it, at the same time that Wagner's fireboat hits it, the lock falls down and your dagger just reappears in your hand, and the gate opens.

unknown 34:41

Cool.

SPEAKER_07 34:41

You guys are reunited. Nice.

SPEAKER_03 34:46

Shisui! My friend.

SPEAKER_00 34:53

Yeah, you guys really gotta find a better way of busting people out. You know, one that doesn't risk harming the person.

SPEAKER_03 35:06

You know, it's hard to be this stylish and cool at the same time. I get it. I get it. Anyways, get out of there.

SPEAKER_00 35:14

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 35:21

So, uh, you said you just woke up here after the water temple?

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Yeah, I just uh I just woke up here.

SPEAKER_03 35:32

Okay. Um, I mean we we're headed this way anyways, because we wanted to talk to uh a monkey. Which, by the way, Wagner, where is the monkey?

SPEAKER_00 35:45

Um that just the monkey on the cage fire.

SPEAKER_02 35:53

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

Oh, oh, oh, okay. Good night, Sushley. Uh I'm sorry, I I think I'm just Yeah, I'm just maybe just tired.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Yeah, I mean, uh you guys can figure out how to talk to a monkey, but uh Yeah, I I don't know what he wants.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

Oh, you'd be surprised. Well, watch this. Do do do your thing, Wagner.

SPEAKER_02 36:19

I've been speaking monkey my whole life. Stand aside. Sorry, I know I can do it. I just have to figure out I'm pretty sure it's for my item. My artifact.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

Yeah, yeah, it's the artifact.

unknown 36:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

But yes. I'll use my I'll use my artifacts. Yes, I'll play the flute to speak with animals once for long. Perfect. I'll go ahead and play it.

SPEAKER_07 36:48

So that's not your artifact, but it is um one of the one of your special items that you got.

SPEAKER_02 36:54

You're right. Tail eyes whisper.

SPEAKER_07 36:57

Okay. Uh you use it to cast Speak of Animals, correct?

SPEAKER_08 37:02

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07 37:05

And you see as the monkey just starts. Uh at first it just it it's just like monkey yapping, monkey noises, and then words start to form. Shisu and Black Sky, you don't you don't understand what's what the monkey is saying, but Wang Yu you can start to hear it.

SPEAKER_05 37:26

Welcome back, Tree Boy! Oh, you you've got friends now. Yeah, you remember me? Of course, Digor is uh you told me you you'd get my my staff.

SPEAKER_02 37:38

I did, I've been looking for it and I I haven't found it yet, but um I think I might have a clue. Well where? I'm not a hundred percent sure, but have you ever heard of anything called the Black Dawn?

SPEAKER_05 37:57

Oh let me think, let me think. Let's see, let's see.

SPEAKER_07 38:02

I mean Phil was that what that guy that had talked to you the other night, right? He was definitely black and smelled like Dawn.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

Oh That's just how he is, believe it or not. No, no. Um, have you ever seen a symbol that looks sort of like a black puff of smoke?

SPEAKER_07 38:35

Like fire? See all the time.

SPEAKER_02 38:38

Hmm. Yeah, I guess it is kind of like fire.

SPEAKER_05 38:41

Dang we're look look look around you, we're in we're in a we're in a goddamn volcano.

SPEAKER_02 38:48

No, you have a good point. No, I just um I I'm trying to help find this staff for you. But dang, I thought uh maybe you'd know something about that so I could help find it for you.

SPEAKER_07 39:00

Ps walk next to the case. Do you remember anything else? He puts his hand on the um on the gate, the door. It said silver hair guy, you gotta talk to him. He he's he took my staff.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

Wait, the silver haired guy?

SPEAKER_07 39:17

Yeah, short little fella, silver hair, long white beard. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 39:23

Do you remember why he took it or what he said when he was taking your staff?

SPEAKER_07 39:28

Something about me causing the tremors, but come on, man, I'm just a monkey.

SPEAKER_02 39:32

Hmm. Okay. Okay. Well, you know what? I'm gonna go find that guy, and we'll see if we can find out where your staff is. But shoot. You're gonna have to stay in this cage for a little while longer. Sorry, bud.

SPEAKER_07 39:49

You see as he uh climbs to the top, and he's able to get out, and he just goes back in. Ah, I guess I just sit there for a bit. Okay. Uh yeah, get my staff from you, okay?

SPEAKER_02 39:59

Yeah, I'll be back. Alright. I'll come back.

SPEAKER_00 40:09

So uh why are we talking to a monkey?

SPEAKER_03 40:13

Uh you definitely saw that, right, Wagnu? He could just get out if he wanted to.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

Yeah, yeah. It's uh Shouldn't we ask him why he doesn't want to get out? No, it's it's more of a thing of principle for it. It's it's it's it's staying in there by choice.

SPEAKER_03 40:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:35

Interesting. Uh I did get to talk to it for a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 40:41

Gone.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

And do you remember anyone with silver hair?

SPEAKER_03 40:48

Silver hair, isn't that just silver fist?

SPEAKER_02 40:51

It was, right?

SPEAKER_03 40:52

Yeah, it's just as as silver ass white as it could be.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

Okay. Well, he said that he that's the guy who took the stab from him, so I think if we find him, we can also kinda get two answers in one. Find out how Shisui got here. Or why they captured him and put him in a cage. That would have never happened to me, of course, but uh Yeah. Let's go find out how let's go talk to Silverfist.

SPEAKER_00 41:20

Okay, hold up. Why are we helping this monkey? Why are you even talking to this monkey? Have you talked to the other animals here?

SPEAKER_02 41:32

I tried to. But none of them are monkeys. I can only speak monkey. And I I wink at black sky.

SPEAKER_00 41:45

Oh okay, alright, sure. Sure.

SPEAKER_03 41:57

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Before we go, just in case anything happens. Shisui, you've been gone for so long. We missed you. Um we got a gift for you. I reach into my bag, pull out the white tiger fanged dagger. I present it to Shisui. Here's a gift, okay. From one of my darlings. Um she told me it consisted of the power of Pablos. And that's isn't that your belief with your village, your your deity?

SPEAKER_00 42:34

I mean, he's he's one of them that I like know of and studied for a while, but you know, the religion was never my strong point.

SPEAKER_03 42:46

Well, it's almost as if it was meant to be and it's fitting, so here you go. It's all yours. Free of charge.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

Thanks. I'm sure it'll come in handy.

SPEAKER_07 42:58

Um go ahead and remove that for your inventory, Black Sky.

SPEAKER_03 43:03

Alright, and then as I remove that, I tell him it's pretty it's as good as it can get. Way better than whatever you have right now.

SPEAKER_07 43:16

And hand it over. And I'll add it to Choose Louis Inventory. Should we add it in now? Sky, as you hand over the dagger, you remember that uh this is just being lent to you by Mammu, and that if anything happens to it, you're over 500 gold pieces. Oh god.

SPEAKER_03 43:45

As soon as like I hand it over, that strikes my head. I'm like everything's like I recollect everything. Uh last minute, uh just wait, just make sure um you don't break this. You don't break this sword, dagger, and uh It stays with us forever and ever. Not that it matters, but yeah, uh free gift, free of charge.

unknown 44:05

Alright.

SPEAKER_00 44:05

Just really glad to have you back. Go make a good uh backup weapon.

SPEAKER_02 44:11

Okay, I'm ready. Yeah, let's go look for let's go find Silverface.

SPEAKER_07 44:17

Uh alrighty. How exactly are you guys going about this?

SPEAKER_03 44:23

Okay, you're right. Maybe we should discuss this. Um Okay. Let's let's let's reconvene a little bit. Um just wait, you've been gone for a while. I do want to say I don't think Wagnu and I are reckless or anything, but No, no. We may we may have been getting a little too comfortable with firebolting everything.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

It's your fault, really. We you didn't have a tank, we had to adapt and learn how to be a fault.

SPEAKER_03 44:58

If there's anything anything you want to say right now or how we should approach this uh Silverfist, you probably never met him, but yeah, I think that's obvious.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

I mean, uh are we trying to fight with him or talk with him? What what are we trying to do here, guys?

SPEAKER_03 45:18

I mean, he's an angry fella. I don't really know. It just really depends how diplomatic you want to be. I mean, I'm probably speaking for myself here and Wagner at the same time since we've been firebolting everything, but uh you know, I'll leave it up to you and Wagnu. How about that?

SPEAKER_00 45:33

I mean, yeah, I woke up in the cage, so I'm not exactly sure how go. If he's the one who put me in there, it might be pretty bad if I'm the one talking to him.

SPEAKER_03 45:46

I'll go over to Wagnut. So, and I wink. No firebolting, right? Wink wink.

SPEAKER_02 45:54

No, no. I think plan A, we do it diplomatically, and plan B, and I I like pat on my backpack, my my little backpack. I got something for plan B, don't worry. But yeah, we should try to talk to him first.

SPEAKER_00 46:09

As long as fireball is not plan A, I guess I'm good. It's an improvement.

SPEAKER_03 46:18

Okay. Sounds good.

SPEAKER_00 46:20

Let's get on it. Lead the way, guys.

SPEAKER_02 46:23

Wait, just in case though, I'm gonna give this to you right now. Um Yeah, yeah, you'll know when the time comes. I'm gonna hand over in my inventory. Um, I have this arsenous oil that I'm gonna give it to Jisuhi. So I'm taking it out of my inventory.

SPEAKER_00 46:47

You know, when I said no fireball, I figured it was implied no fire.

SPEAKER_02 46:53

But no, that's plan Fireball is not in plan A. I I I'm I'm a man of my word.

SPEAKER_00 47:03

True, but this is This is cutting the line pretty close.

SPEAKER_02 47:10

Don't worry. When I say man, it's getting hot in here, just throw that at the ground. Sounds good. I'm sure it won't come to that, but yeah, just in case.

unknown 47:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:26

I'm down to go look for Silverfist now. I kind of forgot where we saw him last.

SPEAKER_03 47:33

Same. I think um we ran into him in the morning when we headed out from his house. So he's probably somewhere in his other house or around the city.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

You guys should probably just go ask that guy Leon, right? Jesus uh Silverfist dude is pretty important.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

You're right. That's a good point. Excuse me, Leon.

unknown 47:55

Hmm.

SPEAKER_06 47:56

Well, what is it?

SPEAKER_02 48:00

I'm terribly sorry for uh bothering you for the second time today, but I was wondering if you saw Silverfist today by any chance.

SPEAKER_06 48:08

Uh yeah I'm I'm yeah look, I'm here all day, man. I don't haven't seen anyone.

SPEAKER_03 48:15

Uh no, yeah. Uh what about Black Jaw, Leon?

SPEAKER_06 48:21

I mean uh I know Black Jaw, but I'm I haven't seen him in the uh the morning just started, man. What do you want?

SPEAKER_03 48:27

Uh you know, this this other guy. Man, it was it Simon? He has like a short temper. Oh yeah, Mark.

SPEAKER_06 48:43

Screw Mark, man. Don't talk about him here.

SPEAKER_03 48:45

Yeah, I mean I don't like Mark either, but if have you have you by chance seen him?

SPEAKER_06 48:51

Five myself sleeping. Yeah. Never gets up early.

SPEAKER_03 48:54

Of course, of course.

SPEAKER_06 48:55

I mean uh look it look if you want to find silver fists, you might just be, you know, where where the where other council members are, other elders are.

SPEAKER_02 49:05

Yes, you're right. Where where could we find them?

SPEAKER_07 49:10

Uh I can take you there, but you know, like he starts like petting his um his his pocket.

SPEAKER_06 49:16

Um that's not fair, you know.

SPEAKER_03 49:20

Ah, yes, of course. Here. And then as I walk up to his pocket, I'll pickpocket him. Okay. I'm not awesome. Uh rolling. Slide a hand to pickpocket. Yeah, let's go. Alright, time to put this to use, because why not? 23!

SPEAKER_07 49:47

Let's go. You reach into his pocket and um he thinks you're putting a gold in his pocket, and you see that he has like a smile on his face, and then you take out a gold piece. And you just you bring your hand back and you just kind of pocket into your own pocket.

SPEAKER_06 50:08

Oh, thanks, man. Yeah, let's go. I can take you there.

SPEAKER_03 50:14

Thank you, Leon. And shh, secret between us.

SPEAKER_06 50:21

You guys are you guys are a weird bunch, man. You guys whisper a lot. Alright, let's go.

SPEAKER_04 50:26

Sorry, saying you guys.

SPEAKER_07 50:28

Uh so back to where it does take you a while. It's pretty much going back to like all the way back to where you were before.

SPEAKER_02 50:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 50:39

I'll ping it here. So you guys can zoom out and come over here. So the place where all the elders are, it was where Wagnu and Black Sky, you originally had to do your hearing. Mm-hmm. Where you convinced them that you guys are, you know, actually good guys, not trying to mess things up. Okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 51:04

Uh shoot. Let me know if you need help.

SPEAKER_07 51:08

I can just teleport.

SPEAKER_02 51:10

Yes, I'm sorry. Yeah. Kind of lost my thing.

SPEAKER_03 51:13

You guys could um left click and then right click to drag the map too. I didn't know that. That was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_07 51:18

Yeah, you can also hold shift and it will teleport your guys. You so you're not really dragging.

SPEAKER_01 51:24

Oh okay, okay. Hold shift.

SPEAKER_07 51:27

Yeah, shift and it will teleport them. Let me show to find you guys real fast.

SPEAKER_03 51:32

Oh, that's tight.

SPEAKER_07 51:35

Now where the hell where the hell is everyone at? Alright, I see Sheesu. I'm gonna teleport you, Shi, so don't move. This is a very big map, by the way. Uh Wagney, where are you at?

SPEAKER_02 51:47

Oh I'm I think I oh I'm uh I'm like under, that's why. Oh you were under the map. Oh shit. I was like, where am I? Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 51:59

Like all the way under.

SPEAKER_02 52:01

Uh let me try to bring it back up here.

SPEAKER_07 52:05

What the hell? Dude, how do I even do that? Can you ping? Can you ping yourself? I think you can click on the thing, right? Oh yeah, that's right. I can just- Oh, that's right, yeah, yeah. Oh shit, you all just all the way down. Damn. I got you. I got you. Alright, cool. You probably just dropped down the bridge or something. Okay. So you should be here now. Uh as you get there, you see Black Jaw just kinda chilling there. And Leon just comes by. Uh cancels up.

SPEAKER_06 52:47

Uh leader, elders up there, man. And he just goes by Blackjaw. Hey, good morning, Black Jaw, man. These guys are weird, man.

SPEAKER_03 52:53

Wait, Leon!

SPEAKER_06 52:55

What?

SPEAKER_03 52:55

I chuck the gold to him.

SPEAKER_06 52:58

Bonus! Another piece of gold? Oh, oh, yeah, I'll I mean I'll take it. Alright, I'll see you guys later, man.

SPEAKER_07 53:04

He starts walking off. You see him go into like a nearby tavern. Blackjaw's Blackjaw's a little confused. Uh back so soon.

SPEAKER_03 53:21

Good morning, Blackjaw.

SPEAKER_07 53:25

I saw you this morning. Uh yes, afternoon now. I see you. He looks at Sky. I see you've got a a change of clothes. Uh that's very dwarven of you.

SPEAKER_03 53:39

Yeah, courtesy of uh the city itself, yes.

SPEAKER_07 53:44

And who who might this be? I I don't think I've seen you yet as he looks too Shusli.

SPEAKER_00 53:49

I'm uh I'm Shusli. I'm I was helping guide these two around, but uh we got separated a while back.

SPEAKER_04 53:59

When did you get it? When did you get here?

SPEAKER_00 54:03

Uh hard to say. I kinda just woke up here.

SPEAKER_07 54:09

You see Black Jaw puts like a hand on his head, just kind of rubs his bald head. You know, it's been kind of weird lately, so I wouldn't put it past ya.

SPEAKER_03 54:25

Then I'll ask Blackjaw. Um Yeah, did you did anyone um do any scouting by any chance last night? Um our friend kind of woke up in a cell.

SPEAKER_07 54:41

Uh I mean I did. I didn't see anyone there. Just the monkey and the two boars over there. Speaking of the monkeys hold up, hold up. So you're saying that you you woke up in a cell. In one of the cages. You lot are full of mysteries, aren't you?

SPEAKER_03 55:11

I I mean I want to call it mysteries. Uh if anything, we're just as confused as you are.

SPEAKER_07 55:19

Anyways, what were you saying?

SPEAKER_03 55:21

Oh yeah, the monkey. Um, that's a peculiar monkey. Seems like it is. Can't just the monkey climb out the cage? It can. So why why is there a monkey in a cage, Blackjaw?

SPEAKER_07 55:41

Uh look. I wish I'd I wish I knew the answer, but I don't I don't speak a monkey. Uh Elder Sorfids had him put in there. That's all I know.

SPEAKER_02 55:54

Well, it kinda sounds like uh cruelty to me, doesn't it? And I kinda like look over at Black Sky and them.

SPEAKER_03 56:04

Yeah, and then I I look over to Waknu, I wink at him. Yeah, don't can't you kinda uh wink wink speak in the monkey tongue or language? Or you understand monkeys at least, from what I understand.

SPEAKER_02 56:19

Oh yeah, I can talk to them alright. Sometimes without even using words.

SPEAKER_07 56:26

But he crouches down so he's your height. I mean, you know what, now that I take a closer look, you you do look kind of like a monkey.

SPEAKER_02 56:37

Yeah, and you know. First of all, that that was extremely rude and offensive to my kind, my my my people. And you wouldn't want people, you know, to to hear that you guys are torturing animals in your cages, right? That's just cruel.

SPEAKER_07 56:56

Oh, I'm I'm sorry, I I didn't mean it that way. No. I'm actually very kind.

SPEAKER_02 57:01

I I I felt that about you. I I knew I could trust my gut. That's why we're here to talk to Silverfist about this animal cruelty, this monkey cruelty. You know where he is.

SPEAKER_07 57:14

I saw him earlier this morning. Uh he should be up there with the with the other elders. If you want, you can just I mean at this point, the two of you are, you know, kind of celebrities, in a way. I don't know about you though, Shusui.

SPEAKER_00 57:36

That's fine. I was never one for fame and fortune anyway.

SPEAKER_03 57:46

Yeah, we're kind of popular around here, Shusui.

SPEAKER_00 57:50

Yeah, I I can see. Uh so. Uh heading to the council meeting, right? Where's that at?

SPEAKER_03 58:02

Uh, just just up the stairs. Um, yeah, before we go, are we already? Are we good to go?

SPEAKER_02 58:13

I think I'm good. You got the never, yeah, you got it. You got what I'm talking about, shizuwe.

SPEAKER_03 58:26

Same. Same. Okay. Alright. Um, good old fashioned, me lead. Walgano in the middle.

SPEAKER_02 58:32

Like that. Yep.

SPEAKER_07 58:38

Alright. Okay. You return back to uh the the chamber of the elders, where you see all five of the leaders of Kaiish here. You pass by their dwarf with the red hair. He looks at you a little sour. And Silverfist turns over to the three of you.

SPEAKER_04 59:17

What is it?

SPEAKER_03 59:24

I'm trying so hard to see where my character is. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_07 59:29

Uh just use the the green triangle to make it so you can see stuff. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 59:36

Um okay. Uh yeah, so Wachnew, did you want to start or should I?

SPEAKER_02 59:45

I got this. What kind of what kind of place is this? I say I say aloud. Ugh. You heard me. Okay. Let me find my character too.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:03

So go from the stairs and then just use the triangle, the green tri uh green diamond to like lowered, like midway. Okay. And use the white one to zoom in a little bit. Or you can just double-click with the uh the right your map right mouse button to take you to uh where it it needs to be. It'll zoom in for you.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:22

Gotcha. Okay, perfect. You heard me loud and clear. I kind of walk up towards Silverface. We just came back from where we were held captive initially, rightfully so. But we found our friend locked in there along with a monkey. Locked up.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:46

Everyone, all the uh the elders look at Wagnu, look at you a little crazy. Look, we we didn't lock anyone else up there. Turns towards Shusui. Uh I've never seen you, young man.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:05

I mean, someone had to put me in the cage. It's not like I just appeared in there, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:14

That's right! I say it's importantly.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:19

You see as your steps forward. I mean the the two of you just appeared here, so I wouldn't put it past it.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:31

And nice to finally meet you, Shusui.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:39

I uh hope these two haven't uh caused too much trouble here, but uh they seem popular enough.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:48

Poblar is not not really the word, but I guess for now things should be okay. So turns towards um shoes. He gets a little closer to shoes so he's gonna get like a closer look. Those those fabric of that clothing. So you are from Yuping. Good.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:27

Yep. Born and raised, traveled all around.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:36

Yeah, so uh we're pretty credible now at this point, right? We said we came from Yuping, and here's the proof. In the flesh.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:51

No, I know the two of you didn't come from Yuping.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:56

Okay, we passed by Yuping. Came from Yuping, same difference.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:00

Look, I don't I still don't trust you two, but I can't deny the spirits. Especially with the spirit tree has chosen look or to walk in someone like you.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:17

What do you mean, you people? Nonsense.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:22

Well, if you know that the spirit tree has chosen him, uh at the very least have some faith in the spirit tree, even if uh his actions are sometimes questionable. The spirit tree wouldn't uh wouldn't have us working for it if we were unreliable.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:47

Questionable?

SPEAKER_07 1:03:49

All the elders look looks toward Chu Sui. Almost like as if like finally someone with like some common sense or like someone with who who knows how to speak their language. That's what we're doing, young lad. Even if I want to, or if I didn't want to, I have no choice in this matter.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:18

At this point I turn around and I whisper. Alright. So what exactly are we here for? We're here for the staff?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:29

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:30

I still really get what we're doing here.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:33

Well, the monkey told me that Silverfist took the stab.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:40

And I don't think we should disclose that unless it's unless we as a team feel like we should right here, right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:52

Do we trust the monkey?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:54

I mean, do we trust Silver's this?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:00

I mean, if they threw the monkey in jail, there's probably a reason for it, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:07

Yeah, I think we should find out. Yeah, I I mean, I guess just we woke up in jail too, but there's only one way to find out. Alright, you'll do the talking. They they seem to really like you.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:20

I go. Um, so uh counselors, uh according to my uh my comrades over here, you guys uh jailed the monkey for some reason? And even though you guys jailed the monkey, it's freely able to come and go from its cage as there's no roof on it. So might might you guys explain why you guys even bother to throw the monkey in a cage?

SPEAKER_07 1:05:57

Silver Frizz looks over to you, choose. We actually didn't put him in there. He he climbed into there himself. But we do have something that belongs to him. And it's not something I want to talk about.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:20

Is it fine to just have the monkey roaming freely around the. around the city? Seems a little suspicious that he kinda is choosing to stay inside that cage.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:38

As long as I have he kind of stops a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:49

Suppose so. But uh yeah, if um me and my compatriots ended up here, uh maybe the spirit tree had a hand in it. So if there's any problems or any uh any uh troubles happening, uh let us know. Maybe uh maybe we were sent here to solve it.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:16

The elder on the right, the Dorbin woman, walks over who you know as uh uh Shabon or Shavra. Yes, uh your friend here. He she points over to Wagnu. Shavreau, I mean not sh not Shabon.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:45

Your friend here had spoken interest of how to find the Black Dawn coat and get rid of them before they strike. That's our main concern right now. Did you know that your friend here had killed one of ours with a dagger that belonged to this coat?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:10

Like I said earlier, I was uh separated from my uh companions for quite some time, and I only woke up in the city today, so that's that's news to me. It's uh they're an odd bunch, but they're not inherently violent.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:31

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Kill is a strong word. We didn't kill anyone. Okay, it was it was a test of champions and strength. And obviously, you could tell that it was coordinated by the Black Dawn. They purposely put us in this situation. I don't think we intended to kill anyone. Alright, Wagnu.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:54

No, we didn't intend to kill anyone. But that doesn't take away the fact that someone is no longer here because of my actions. But that's why we are here to prevent more of this same suffering from happening. So you said you took something from the monkey, what was that? I look at Silverfist.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:21

Why?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:22

Why is that important to you?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:28

Um I've been curious since I've set foot here. The monkey has been asking for something to be returned to it. And have you guys noticed the tremors lately?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:48

Yes, we we talked about that before.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:53

And then I yell out. I mean it's just a harmless monkey. What would what'd you take? It's bananas.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:04

Your kinds of steps in Silverfist? What did you take? And he looks around for a little bit. I took its staff. I believe that the staff was causing the tremors. So I'm keeping hold of it for now. For research purposes.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:45

should be able to just identify the staff and its magical properties if it has any, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:10:55

It's a little harder than that, but with time, we'll get down to it. You can tell him to leave, but that staff has to stay until we figure out why the tremors are happening, or if the staff is the cause or not.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:20

Are you not concerned that the monkey might uh cause troubles when it finds out that you're not going to return its staff?

SPEAKER_07 1:11:31

Like I said, it's harmless without its its staff. You see as he kind of pauses there.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:42

I I laugh out loud. Ah! A monkey and a staff? Have you guys ever seen anything like this?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:56

I mean, it's odd, but I've seen other things here. What's a monkey with a staff?

SPEAKER_03 1:12:07

And then well, if it was such a issue, how did you take the staff from the monkey, Silverfist?

SPEAKER_07 1:12:18

You see, Shavro steps in.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:27

the coat. Is the staff required?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:36

Walk new Is the staff required? We think I think it might be.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:44

I mean, if the powerful as you guys think it is, then uh surely the the black dawn will come after it. So it's best to have it in the somewhere secure, somewhere they wouldn't be expecting it. No one would expect it to be in the hands of three new faces in town.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:11

That the staff is secured. I made sure of it. As for you three, I suggest you just keep trying to figure out where the black dawn will strike next. Or if you have a plan to find them, you can let us know now.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:37

Alright, I didn't want to say this, but the plan is the staff. Instead of finding them, why don't we just make them come to us? Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:52

Maybe the staff can help us find them.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:59

And why do you think that they may want the staff?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:04

Because if as powerful as you think it is, then surely they would want it.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:14

Give me a group persuasion check. How does this work?

SPEAKER_03 1:14:19

We all roll and add for the average? Yeah, take the average, yeah. Uh persuasion. Alright, persuasion. Uh seven. My persuasion is good. Holy shit. Yeah, five.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:32

Uh though I want to read here, I'll go use my inspiration. I'll go try and see if I can roll better. Uh 14.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:46

Not bad. 39?

unknown 1:14:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:49

Shoo. What? I mean, and no, no, I mean like in total, in total. You rolled the 39. Ah, I didn't mean like I rolled the 39. That'd be crazy.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:57

You see, uh Yur comes in, steps in a little closer to the three.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:05

You have to trust them, Silver Fist. Remember. They're here for a reason. The task that they have is greater than what we may think. They require the staff to take them to it.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:30

Till of first looks sad at three of you. Fine.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:46

Cool. Lead the way.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:51

It's a long journey.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:55

It's a journey.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:56

So whatever you need to do, do it now. By the time we get there, at least a few hours. This is a big city after all. And he starts to kind of walk in down the stairs.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:18

Okay. As soon as we get down the stairs. Cool. I'm sorry, guys. I have to go back to Mammu. I said I trusted her, but I think this calls for a emergency.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:41

No, let's go. Let's go back.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:45

Alright. Uh before we go, Shisui, is there anything you want to do?

SPEAKER_00 1:16:50

Uh I mean I'm still not sure where Frost is, but I'm sure if I leave a trail of crumbs behind us, he'll he'll find us.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:01

So then You say Frost and Frost just comes out the door. That they were he was staying in. He smells you right away, Shisui, and he just comes up to you and starts licking you.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:12

Well.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:23

Alright. To mama we go.

unknown 1:17:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:29

The three of you go back to where Mama was. Um over here. You can see she's kind of by her her forge part at work.

unknown 1:17:48

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:53

Oh my god. I'm like struggling with this. Yeah, I think I I have your ear. Okay. Alright. Mammu, I'm so sorry. I know you said you needed a week, but some things have escalated. I need that item back.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:14

She turns towards you with sky.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:17

I I can't. I just I just started working on it. I can't I can't just stop now.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:25

Is there any way, shape, or form I can assist you with doing this with blacksmithing? Speed up the process?

SPEAKER_07 1:18:33

No, y no, you're you'll only get in the way. Look. If this is as as powerful as you say, if I stop now, there will be repercussions, and I I don't want to risk that. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:52

Listen. Your dad and I are going on an expediture in a few hours, and it's a dangerous one. I need that item.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:01

Okay, but you have my two daggers. You should be okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:05

There's it's it's more than that. It's it's super important. It's the fate of the universe lies on that item.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:16

You see, as uh your artifact is kind of like in the in the middle of being like almost like on fire at in a way, and she's trying to like mess with it to make sure if she can like extract any kind of like magical properties from it. I I really can't. It's it's dangerous sky.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:40

How dangerous.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:44

Very dangerous.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:45

Then let me do it. Okay, what are you doing? Alright, I have no experience with blacksmithing. Well is there any way, shape, or form I can assist her with this, with this process?

SPEAKER_07 1:20:01

Uh assisting wise, probably not, but you can if you want to forcefully take away the artifact from its process like the current process, you can try.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:16

Dang, so there's really nothing I could do, huh? Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:22

I just nudge walk through and I go, what's going on? Why why are we here?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:29

Uh yeah, so about that she swears she has the wind artifact.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:34

What?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:37

Why? Yeah, don't worry about it. I'll just grab it. Or just yeah, I'll take care of it. So yeah, I will forcefully try to retrieve it.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:55

Okay, Wagnu and Shuswe, you see a sky just heads into the like the shop and um he is going to forcefully remove the artifact from its extraction process. Black Sky, you can roll me a we'll just make it your intelligence. So just do intelligence check. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:26

I reach down to the artifact in Mammu's hand. And oh my god. Oh. Nice. And I reach down to her hand and I tell her, there's nothing more dangerous than the power of love. Because I just rolled a 21, baby. Let's go. Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:55

Okay, you rolled a 21. You grab onto the artifact. Uh, she looks at you like you're crazy. I also need you to roll me a constitution saving throw. Oh sh- damn, this shit explodes. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:14

21! Let's go!

SPEAKER_01 1:22:17

Holy let's go.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:23

Uh, you manage to hold on to the artifact. The like the process of the extraction is like burning your hand. You do take 3d6 fire damage. But you do manage to take the artifact away from its process. So go ahead and roll your uh I'll roll the 3d the 3d6 for you actually. I roll it on here so you can see. Take seven points of fire damage. Uh as you move your hand away with the artifact in your hand, she looks at you and she's like, Are you crazy? What are you And she as she sees you holding to the artifact. Oh. That's a first.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:21

Like I said, the fate of the universe and the power of love. I know you said you needed a week, but I I can't give you a week. I can only give you hours, and I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:38

Okay, uh, then we can just trade back. Give the daggers back.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:47

The the daggers Yeah, I that was that was the deal, right? You hold on to the daggers, I work on your artifact.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:59

Did you not hear me? The the face of the universe it lies on this. It's your dad's life depends on this. And you want daggers?

SPEAKER_07 1:24:10

I don't think my dad needs any help. Uh go run persuasion jacket. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:17

Oh my god, I rolled in that one. Oh no. Where's the inspiration at?

SPEAKER_07 1:24:27

Yeah, thanks. She just goes, Look, Sky, I I just met you a few hours ago. And look, I'll be I'll be honest, I I do like you. I think you're a very charming person, but you're trying to scam me out of a thousand gold pieces right now. I don't know how I feel about that. And what is this fate of the universe? Look, my dad can take care of himself.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:55

You know what? Fine. If the daggers is what you want, you can have them back. Here.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:05

Or you can just ha let me work on your on your commission for you.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:10

I can't.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:16

Here, here's the phantom dagger. I'll hand you it over. And the wife ain't tiger. I actually left it at your dad's house. Because I didn't think it would be out on an expediture so soon.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:37

Romeo deception.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:44

15.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:47

Fine. Just bring it back here, okay? You wouldn't lie to me, would you?

SPEAKER_03 1:25:56

After what I just did? Pulling out the artifact and almost dying, you think I have time to lie? Of course not.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:02

I told you not to do that. You you did it because you wanted to, so.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:08

Well. Off I go. If I survive, Mamu, we'll see each other again. If not, it was nice knowing you. And I storm out.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:20

Why you Okay, you storm out. She tries to talk, but she doesn't have a chance to say anything. Uh she was walking. What are you guys doing?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:28

I'll I'll yell out too. Also, your your dad said uh we could pick up two health potions here for the for the adventure. He said that you'd be okay with it. So I'm just gonna grab those real quick. Or do you wanna hand them to me?

SPEAKER_07 1:26:46

You can roll me uh deception.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:52

Okay, I got 24.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:54

24. Uh those those aren't actually health potions. I don't I'm an armory shop. Lognew.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:04

Oh, I I I forgot if he said health potions. He said potions, so I'll just take um one of those right there or whatever that is. Uh sure, just take it. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:14

I just shake my head.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:16

Yeah. Two bottles of uh some red luke liquid. Uh red liquid, you don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:25

Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:26

Tell the game. Especially since we alright, we gotta go. Don't say anything about the dagger. Let's just go. Okay, I'm ready for the expedition.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:41

Where are we?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:43

I'm upstairs.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:44

Alright, you eventually make your way back to Silverfist, and he starts. I dropped him. Stop it immediately. It's okay. I'll just bring him out again. Anyways, he takes you to where he had the um where he put the staff. I want to move you guys over there. See me one second. And although it is in these the town still, it's um it's very far, so it's that's why he said it takes a while to get there. Um it takes you here to uh what seems to be like a like a pit of some sort. You see it's like heavily guarded, it has like a whole bunch of spikes all around it. It takes you about like he said, two, three hours to get here, just because of the like the um how big this ta this city is. Here we are. The staff is in there.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:02

You put the staff in there?

SPEAKER_07 1:29:06

I told you it was secure.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:10

Uh but why? What were you afraid of?

SPEAKER_07 1:29:16

If it really is the reason why the tremors are happening. I need to make sure that it stays away for now until you can figure out what to do with it.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:30

Okay, do you even know how to how to get it back out?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:34

Yeah, I wouldn't call this a secure place. Like, someone can just take it and you wouldn't know. I mean, just because it's dangerous doesn't make it secure.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:51

Here's the deal. The three of you think that this may be a hint at finding the black dawn. Is that correct? Or you can use it like as some kind of bait, some kind of bait to lure them out.

unknown 1:30:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:15

But I also want to test your resolve. I apologize for for being so abrupt. I can see that the two of you are chosen by the spirits, and you, Shu Sui, are tagging along. Whether you choose to or not. If you really want the staff, show me resolve and jump down there and retrieve it back.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:57

That is the easiest thing I've ever done in my life. I'm jumping.

unknown 1:31:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:06

Is there anything any dangers we should know of beforehand? Anything that might catch us off guard.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:19

The only thing I'll say is that it's not easy to take the staff out once it's down there. He shows you his um, he kind of shows you his his left arm. And Shusui at this point, you can see that he was kind of ho like hiding it the whole time. And you can see that it's like it's pretty much like gone. But he has like um like a makeshift arm. I I did this on instinct, I just and I truly believe that it may be the reason why the tremors are happening. I may be wrong. I I am just another dwarf after all.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:10

I mean, whether it is or isn't, hiding hiding items like this away only delays the problem. We're going to have to deal with it eventually. But with that, I jump in.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:24

He turns towards Wagnew. You just jumping in, Wagnu.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:28

Ah I wanna set up the thing with the rope and stuff just in case. Does that have a rope on me too? Uh shoot. Alright, I hope my friends are right about this. I'm jumping in.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:46

Okay. Wagnu as you're the last one to jump in. You get give me a perception check. I got eleven. Eleven. Last thing on your mind is that feeling when you had held the dagger. And even though you didn't intend to cause like any kind of harm, the fact that it was your hand, like your hands, that killed someone, it gives you like a sense of heroism, a reason to try to prove that you are not this person that they they think you are. And you just jump down. You go through the hole and it's just fire all around you. Everyone give me a constitution saving throw.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:03

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:07

Uh 21.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:09

20, nat 20.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:13

Wow. So mine is just 11. Okay. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:20

If a nat 20 and a 21, you two save Shusui and Black Sky. Uh, Walgner, you're gonna take 2d6 fire damage as you fall down the hole. That'll be 8 points of fire damage to you. And as a 3D land, that's where we'll take a break.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:44

Cool.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:45

Nice. Cool. Okay, we can stop the Audacity and three, two, one, stop. Welcome back. Back and you guys are deep inside this pit that the three you just decided to jump through. What you see is magmas lava. You feel the sense of you feel like everything is just burning your skin. You almost notice that it's kinda hard. It's kind of hard for the three of you to breathe properly here. That's the first thing that you do.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:41

Uh feels just like home if you ask me.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:49

I look around to see a frost jump down too.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:57

Uh frost is right next to you. He follows you now.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:08

Man, this place is crazy now.

SPEAKER_08 1:36:10

Uh well.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:17

We're down here, so it should be here somewhere. Just uh let's try not to stick around here too long.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:30

Yeah, I'm I'm with you.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:32

Oh man. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but I feel perfectly fine. Could just be a me thing, but uh yeah. Yeah, let's see here. Wow. Um that silver f silver thing, huh? I mean, silver fist just told us down here, didn't really tell us where.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:01

Yeah, I'm trying to just look around and see what I can notice.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:06

Yeah, I everyone give me a perception check.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:12

Am I rolling for frost too?

SPEAKER_07 1:37:15

Yeah, you can roll for frost 12.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:18

Alright, I'll do mine first. Uh 16. And then frost.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:32

Position 22 and 2. Nice. Nice. Yeah, frost is just sticking by you, Shusui, uh, not really trying to look for anything. Um, but Shusui and Wagnu with your rows, you You get a sense of as you're looking around, you only see uh one like one bridge that seems to be to lead to like another another area, if anything. And you notice that to your the to the north of you, there's another bridge over there, but doesn't seem like there's like a way for you to get across it, aside from like having to jump to the next platform. Now, Silverfist didn't tell you where it was, but choosily from what he showed you with his arm and everything, you do you know that there's something here that is gonna test the three of you. You also get a sense of like he just kind of threw it in here because like there's something strong here to protect it. So when he when he said that it's safe here, it just means that like it it's something he wouldn't come down to get.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:52

So he's trying to figure it figure it out, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:55

Alright. Well, uh see. It's pretty dangerous down here, so we should probably stick together, but uh what which way do you guys think we should go?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:09

No, I agree. Uh I'm trying to think. Trying to look for that bridge.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:21

There's a bridge right in front of us, and then there's one.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:23

This bridge right here just if we make it. Oh, there's a uh the the compass is on our bottom left, so if we're going north, it's like like where where I'm facing.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:34

Yeah, the compass is uh blocked by the right. So there's one north and uh left can. Uh okay, I can move it.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:42

There's one north and one west. I see. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:46

Okay. So we gotta. I mean, I'm down to check out the north one. I mean you guys uh we gotta jump this though, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:39:55

Wait, wait. Is is is this north Jackie? Because I'm looking on the compass. Yeah, that's that's northeast.

SPEAKER_08 1:40:01

Okay, yeah, so I mean a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:05

Oh, northeast side. Okay. Yeah. My bad. I thought it was just like straight north. Um, you guys do have the better perception, so. I mean, I wouldn't know this, but in terms of my character, I guess I'll just say, um, well. What do you think she's swinging wagnew?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:26

Uh I think we can go take the north path. It seems to be a bit wider.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:36

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:38

Not opposed to anything. You guys lead the way.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:42

Do we gotta roll to make the jump?

SPEAKER_07 1:40:46

Yeah, you gotta roll it to make the jump. Alright. Aw. I'm gonna need the three of you, whoever's jumping, to give me a acrobatics check. Uh let's give my plus handy.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:02

That's a ten. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:06

Can I Bardic inspiration, y'all? This seems important. Seems very important right here. Let me just throw some Bardic inspiration out. Okay. Okay. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna use two. One for Shisui, one for Black Sky. So just a reminder, the way it works is um if you f Oh yeah, if you fail a D20, you can roll the Bardic Inspiration die, which is a 1d6, and add that number to the roll total.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:35

I rolled the 10, so we'll see if that's a fail.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:38

Just in case you fail.

unknown 1:41:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:42

And then I have to do it for Frost. Pretty much use a dex. Uh frost also rolled a 10. Oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:03

Okay, two tens.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:08

Dope. Okay. I rolled a 21.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:13

I rolled a 13.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:16

13. Okay. Uh Wagnu, you jump over effortless like effortlessly. It's easy for you. Uh you look behind and sky, you start to jump. You barely manage to hang on. Um, your clothes are kind of in the way, and you get over you do get over across though. Shoeswing and frost as Sky jumps over uh across, you the two of you jump after him, and because of of Black Sky's like big stature, you didn't get a good look at the the ledge, and you barely hang on. You're hanging on to the ledge right now. Holy And Frost is like biting onto your onto your uh cloak.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:10

Yeah, you know guys, I I just woke up kind of sore. That's uh just uh some ash got in my throat. Let's uh let's not think too much about this. Uh just uh pull me up the rest of the way and uh let's keep going.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:35

I started charging my fireball. I'll just kidding. I'll just play. Yeah, yeah, let's get you up here.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:43

Okay, you go in and to reach a force to and you pull them up. Do you want me to roll two? No, you're you're able to get him up. Um okay. Cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:00

Alright, let's uh let's keep going.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:02

What you do notice is what you do notice so far though is that it's kind of airy here. You just hear like the sounds of like, you know, like the how Mog like Magma sounds like, like the the pops, uh the bubbling sounds. And she so you for it's like supposed to be dangerous how for what Silverfist had told you how it was dangerous now, you don't notice anything yet, but it does feel kind of aerie here.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:32

Uh maybe let me take the lead, guys, just in case there is well, let's be honest, there's probably something down here, but uh if I'm in the front, then uh I can I can at least block the first couple hits before uh uh you guys get uh catch up.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:53

Sounds good. Like I said, this is where you guys lead.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:57

Yeah, this sounds good with me. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:04

How are you doing this? How are you kind of like going through this this area? I think you're muted.

SPEAKER_08 1:45:25

Oh yeah, it's cutting it off.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:27

Um Yeah, so I'm kinda thinking like I'm almost like power walking while I'm kinda turning my head side to side. Because I'm trying to get through fast, but I'm also trying to make sure I don't miss like too much. So Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:50

Go ahead and give me a uh let's do a perception check. As you walk through across the bridge, the north bridge.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:03

Uh that is a 22.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:06

22. As you get across the bridge, you notice that the the air the air around here starts to get like more dense. It's a little harder harder to breathe at this point. It was already pretty hard, but now it's like you can feel it in your chest now. All the ash and everything.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:29

Well, uh we're getting closer to the center, I guess. Something over here is uh creating a bunch of heat.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:50

Are the two of you doing anything? Wagnu and Sky?

SPEAKER_03 1:46:53

Uh I well uh no. I'll just follow them.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:05

Yeah. Nah.

unknown 1:47:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:07

Nothing crazy.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:08

I'm just following at first glance everything's in like it seems to be empty here. Aside from like the fire and the magma and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:24

I uh I'm not seeing it, guys. You guys know what it's supposed to look like besides just being a staff.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:36

No. I mean, how big is this staff?

SPEAKER_02 1:47:45

I don't even know.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:46

I mean a monkey's using it, so it can't be that big, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:47:52

Yeah, no, I I assume so. It'd just be a regular staff, no.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:00

Yeah, that's a good point.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:03

So how about this? Let me create some wind for us so we can breathe a little bit. And we could just keep taking it slow and you know. Wait, I think you cut off for a sec. Oh, Discord is psychologically um yeah, anyways. Okay, so how about this?

SPEAKER_00 1:48:30

Well, cam.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:31

Let me um cast some air for us. Just for a little bit of breathing room, and we could just maybe look around.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:46

Alright, I like that idea. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:49

And then I'll cast um elementalism and just beckon here to create a breeze strong enough.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:56

Just to um Okay, yeah, you create a breeze strong enough around you guys, and you're able to kind of inhale and take a deep breath. Kind of like mixed with your uh your wind elemental artifacts as well, so the the air is actually like the wind is actually a nice wind and not like just like heat and ash blowing into you guys.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:20

I'm a filtration system right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:27

Uh, I can finally take a deep breath. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:31

Alrighty, so Shusu, you know, this is like a like another area on top where you're facing up north, and there seems to be like uh an area to your like an open area to your left, but at first glance you can't really see anything, so just kinda how do you guys want to tackle this? How do you guys want to investigate or look around?

SPEAKER_02 1:49:51

Now that the air is a little more cleared up, I want to like I want to get up there to be honest, like a higher vantage point, and then use uh detect magic. That's my idea. And then I use the tech magic.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:28

And as soon as you cast the tech magic, like a blaze forms from under you. And Shusui and Black Sky, you see a fire elemental just pop up right next to where Wagnu is.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:48

Oh man.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:51

I am gonna need all the everyone to run initiative.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:54

Don't worry, we have double alert. Okay. Alright, I'll do me first and then I'll do uh Frost after. Uh 26. Who wants to go first?

SPEAKER_03 1:51:08

14.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:09

17 for me.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:13

I could go. I can go first.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:17

Uh frost is 17.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:23

Seventeen for me is.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:24

Okay, so let's see.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:33

I can swap with someone if they want to go first.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:35

Yeah, same here. I can swap as well.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:38

Alright, so how do you guys want to do this?

SPEAKER_02 1:51:48

I'm good for going. Actually. Let me go first.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:59

Um did you want to do that? Yeah, 17 correct.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:05

Okay, so she usually was like in the second actually. What is the uh frost kit? 17 Unless you guys want to switch around.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:23

Uh I'm good with this order, if everyone is.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:28

Okay, well knew you cast a tech magic.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:31

And the fire taken gets to go for the game.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:35

And you cast it all of a sudden, yeah. I know it's only only once, yeah. You can't take magic and you feel like a like a fire magic behind you. You turn around, you see this big fire elemental. There we go.

SPEAKER_08 1:53:01

Yeah, yeah, no.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:07

Yeah. I'ma yell first. And then I'ma cast Thunder Wave.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:14

Thunder Wave, okay. What does Thunder Wave do?

SPEAKER_02 1:53:17

I unleash a wave of thunderous energy, each creature within a 15-foot cube originating from me makes the constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes two d8 damage and is pushed 10 feet away from me. So I'm just trying to like yeah, create that space. So let's see. Um oh yeah, so the the the creature has to roll then, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:53:43

Yeah, what's your uh what what cons save does it be? What's the DC have to be?

SPEAKER_02 1:53:47

It has to be a 14.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:54

Okay, it rolled a 20, so it saves. You cast Thunder Wave where it's at, and you see that it just kinda like zaps into him, or it. And it just kind of fuels its fire, makes it look even bigger.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:09

It just takes half the damage, is that okay, okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:54:12

Yeah, lightning damage, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:54:14

Yeah, uh yeah. Thunder damage.

SPEAKER_07 1:54:17

Thunder damage, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:19

This is 2d8, so I'll just roll it and take half of that.

SPEAKER_07 1:54:23

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:28

Seven, eight, fifteen. Seven damage.

SPEAKER_07 1:54:33

Seven damage. Okay. You have a bonus action if you want to do anything?

SPEAKER_02 1:54:40

Um can I bonus to disengage?

SPEAKER_07 1:54:44

Uh disengage is an action, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:48

Okay, I'll just um as a bonus, I'll cast. Oh, I already gave them both a Bardic inspiration though. So I think I'm good.

SPEAKER_08 1:55:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:03

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:04

You guys remember you guys can use those in battle too. Just yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:07

Alrighty. Choose suit your go and then.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:11

Uh the battle one is a little bit different. Let me do a double, let me just double check it.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:16

Yeah, go ahead and read it again. It's been a while.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:18

Yeah.

unknown 1:55:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:21

Okay, sorry about that. So, uh combat inspiration for defense. When when you are hit by an attack roll, you can use the as a reaction, the barc inspiration die, to add the result to your AC against that one attack. So that's the defensive one. And then the offensive one is immediately after you hit a target with an attack roll, so you have to be successful first, you can roll the bartic inspiration die and add the result to the damage. Alright.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:49

That's sight.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:50

So it's a 1d6.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:51

So there's it.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:55

Climb up, run over next uh Walk New. And then I'm just gonna swing.

SPEAKER_08 1:56:02

Okay. Let's go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 1:56:06

Uh oh. Uh 27. And then that's 27 hits. Uh 14 damage.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:26

14 damage as your your sword, right? As your sword comes, your rapier comes down um and you swing your rapier. It's a piercing damage, correct? You pierce through the elemental and you see it kind of just like uh goes through it. Um you see that you can feel that it's not like doing as much damage as as it should be doing.

SPEAKER_00 1:56:52

I just shout out it's resistance to physical attacks. And then uh, is there anything I can do with my bonus action? Uh no, not really. I'll just end my turn there. Yep.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:10

Okay. You will uh It's your dog's turn. Frost.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:13

You will run up. And you will make the bite attack. He gets uh Pack Pack! Get him Frost! So he gets advantage. Uh yeah, let's see. Uh uh 15?

SPEAKER_07 1:57:35

15 hits. Dang.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:38

Uh five damage.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:40

Five damage. What kind of damage is it? Percy? Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:44

Yeah, piercing.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:46

So same as earlier. Not doing it.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:48

Uh I assume he's a large creature.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:50

Yeah, this is a large creature, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:53

Yeah, alright, then that that's it for him.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:57

Okay, as your as frost bites into the fire element, uh, fire elemental, you see as he changes his form into uh instead of like the the creature he is, um almost like a it's like a mix of humanoid like a very like big mouth with like teeth, I think, and then now it just kind of goes back into like a almost like just like a passing fire. And he just goes into the space of where Wagnu is at. And he's gonna So the first time he enters a creature's space, Wagnu, you're gonna feel as he enters your space, and you're gonna take one D10 fire damage. Holy shit. Oh bang. Okay Wah You take eight fire dam uh eight fire damage.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:56

What was it? I didn't see. Oh Dang.

unknown 1:59:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:02

And then he's just gonna go behind you guys. And come back into his uh original form.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:11

No attack of opportunity.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:13

Uh no, because it's just going behind you because it just goes through you and they go behind you. So it's still within your sights. I guess your um I guess your dog will get an opportunity, but because he's in like a like a like a facing form, you can you can have him do it at a disadvantage if you want.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:35

But tack tactic.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:37

Oh then yeah, just regular then, yeah. It would just be regular.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:41

Attack tack tack regular oh Max Get him frost!

SPEAKER_00 1:59:48

Uh 23! He's hitting me. Alright. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:58

23. Yeah, 23 hits. For real is doing more damage to me. Always the dogs that are doing the damage. You see how as uh the fire elemental brings his fist down and swings one at Wagnew. That'll be a 15 to hit.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:25

Right for me, right? My AC is 15. Does this still hit? I forget.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:30

Yeah, against you.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:34

Yeah, it will it would hit right on. So you're gonna take eight points of fire damage as as his its left fist just swings into you, but you don't get like as it hits you, it just kind of goes through you and you just get burnt.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:54

Uh, and then I have advantage. So we'll see. Uh oh wow. Uh 24.

SPEAKER_07 2:01:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:07

It will lose its movement speed after I hit it, so that will be 24 hits? Uh 14 damage, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:18

Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:19

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_07 2:01:21

Nice. That's pretty that's actually gonna be helpful, helpful right there. 14 damage?

unknown 2:01:30

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_08 2:01:31

Okay, that takes that.

SPEAKER_07 2:01:33

So You see as Wagnu gets kind of uh Wagnum get kinda one Wagnu gets blown away by this fire fist, and you see that and you just kinda like, you know, instinct and you Your instinct to protect. You bring your sword and you just kinda you rapier, you stab at him, and he moves a little bit, he squirms a little bit, or it s it squirms a little bit. I'm I'm very bad bad with pronouns, by the way. So it squirms a little bit and it it raises its right arm and swings down on you while uh shits away.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:16

Nope.

SPEAKER_07 2:02:17

It does have multi-attack. It is a fire elementor. I'm doing this about the books, by the way. Nice! Um it's uh 18 to hit.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:26

Alright.

SPEAKER_07 2:02:28

Ooh, yeah, it comes and you raise your shield and then it just goes through. Oh my god. That's gonna be at the start.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:37

Alright. So I'm so low. Just you guys die pretty low. Reposition myself a little bit. I will move. Can't even see the tiles. Holy. Uh I think that's like one, two, three, four. Okay. Yeah, that's three tasks. Nice. Yep. So I will reposition here. And I can use a mark magic.

SPEAKER_07 2:03:07

Three, so 13. Always hits.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:10

Never misses. Always hits. Alright, so um casting a level two magic missile, so three darts, it's four. Never misses each. So let's go. This will be five. Uh I have to roll. One one d4. Yeah. I rolled a four plus one, that's five. Force damage.

SPEAKER_07 2:03:35

What's the original damage for magic missile? Okay. The new rule book just says force damage. It doesn't have like it doesn't have like a type. Because I know it's additional force damage. Does it have like an original type of?

unknown 2:03:52

Woo!

SPEAKER_07 2:03:53

Just force. Okay, let's go.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:55

Let's go. Yep. Big damage.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:00

Is this advantage too? Considering I'm behind him. Let's go. 14. You get the Bardic Inspiration die.

SPEAKER_07 2:04:06

That's a lot. Big damage. Yeah. Big magic.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:09

So I can use Bard of uh inspiration die for additional damage, right?

SPEAKER_07 2:04:12

It hits a matter of what already. Alright, let's go. It's magic misses. You don't need to go to the top. Let's go damage though. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:19

Ooh! Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 2:04:21

Okay. Yeah, 1d6. 24 total damage. Uh you see as this fire elemental is swinging at your friends, and you take this opportunity to just cast your match missile and you deal 24 as your match missile. Very good damage. Anything else you want to do?

SPEAKER_02 2:04:56

Cool. First thing, I'ma disengage.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:00

Okay. Uh walk new circle.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:04

Yeah. And I'm run. I'ma walk back here. Right behind the reaction to this engage.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:12

And then I really hope this is a health potion. I'ma take out one of those red drinks I got from Mammu.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:25

Please. I'ma drink this.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:27

Okay. Okay, you take out one of the uh one of the vials that you took from Mamu. You drink it. I need you to give me a constitution saving throw.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:50

20! Let's go. Not natural, but 20.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:59

Okay. You drink the vial and it's it's wine. It tastes very good. Very good. I feel back and forth. So nothing happens.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:11

I'm pretty sure this is a hell fossil. Okay. Alright. Um, but bonus as a bonus action, I'm gonna recast Bardic Inspiration on Black Sky. I'm gonna cast another Bardic Inspiration then.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:33

Okay. Um another creature that I can see or hear 60 feet. A distance requirement for Bardic inspiration. Just under 60 feet a little too far. Let me see.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:50

Let's go. And I started playing.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:55

Oh, that's perfect.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:57

I'm just now dude's obviously on blue.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:04

And then that'd be it for me. Even though you saved it, you're jumping.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:10

Just gonna keep going.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:11

Okay, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:12

Who cares if we're gonna do cap dance?

SPEAKER_07 2:07:14

You get the uh Bardock inspiration. Shoot sweet, there go.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:17

What is that? Oh no! That's uh that's a 12. That is annoying. Well I don't think I'm gonna have a better chance for it, so I'm just gonna action serve.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:33

12 does not hit.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:35

This one doesn't get I don't think this one can get the. Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:43

You still got my die too.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:45

Yeah, but I have to hit it first. Yeah, it's just a max attack roll. You'll hit it. But this one won't have it. Oh my god, that's 11. Alright, that is That's sad. Uh yeah, that's my turn.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:09

It misses. Okay, so actually before your dog goes, I did miss one thing from the fire elemental. So, um the Wagnu, I don't know how you're looking for HP wise, but the elemental does have a trait called fire aura. So at the end of each each of its turn, each creature within a 10 foot radius of it starts to like take fire and emanate with fire damage. So you everyone that wasn't within. Oh my god!

SPEAKER_02 2:08:44

I'm gonna die soon, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 2:08:49

Okay, well then in that case I can use my bonus actually.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:52

Okay, so everyone did take uh one in fire damage. I'm just gonna swing walk this turn here.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:02

Alright, that's nine. So I'm back to the gosh. Alright, and then uh is Frost in range of that? Uh he took how much was that? 8 damage?

SPEAKER_07 2:09:25

Yeah, Frost would be in a range, I don't know how he's how is he looking.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:29

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:30

Actually. No, actually he's just he's just that's kind of eight damage.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:35

I don't know if I want him to attack.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:36

He's actually good. He's okay, he's okay. He is okay, he's five feet too far.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:42

It'll be okay. I'll have uh I'll have him walk up an attack. He has advantage, he out damages me.

SPEAKER_01 2:09:51

Get him!

SPEAKER_00 2:09:53

Alright, uh, what is that? Get him. Uh 18. And then you sit.

SPEAKER_08 2:10:05

Let's go. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 2:10:06

Uh max damage eight.

unknown 2:10:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:11

18 hits.

SPEAKER_00 2:10:14

Alright, and then uh that's that's all you can do. So that'll that'll be it.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:19

Eight damage? Okay, go take half of that.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:23

Just to clarify though, since I'm not like as close to uh the fire elemental more, I won't take the damage on this next turn though, right?

SPEAKER_07 2:10:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:34

Okay, cool, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:37

Yeah, you won't take it. Only those that are within 10 feet, like 10 feet of it. Okay, fire elemental takes the hit. You can see it's licking uh it's pretty hurt now. It's getting hurt from all of your barrages. It's gonna raise one of its arm, the left arm, and it's slammed down on Shu.

SPEAKER_00 2:10:54

I will take this opportunity to repost.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:57

Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 2:10:59

Uh, where is it?

SPEAKER_07 2:11:00

That'll be a 18 total.

SPEAKER_00 2:11:02

Okay, so then Yeah. Does not hit the Shu yes. Okay. I can expend a superiority die, which is what is it?

SPEAKER_07 2:11:12

I forgot Shu Sui has a high as AC.

SPEAKER_00 2:11:15

It's a D8. Okay.

unknown 2:11:19

Where is it?

SPEAKER_00 2:11:21

I can expend a superiority die to make a melee attack roll against that creature. If I hit, I add the superiority die to my damage. Uh 1926. So that will hit. And then I would use T D 8 plus my modifier.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:11:42

Uh 14 damage.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:44

26 hits. 14 damage. Uh be half. Okay. Um, it's gonna raise its other arm. And it's gonna just slam down right where it frosts is.

SPEAKER_00 2:12:03

No, that does not hit. Oh man.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:08

That'll be a nine to hit.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:11

Save the packs, bro. Save the packs.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:18

He just does the sidestep a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 2:12:20

Uh no, he can move. That's only the same.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:22

He said that um your attacker leader made it. Yeah, so your attacker made it, so he can't move, right? So no more movement, right? Correct. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay, so it's gonna attempt to it's gonna attempt to try to get away from you.

SPEAKER_00 2:12:46

So you do get your opportunity attack as it turns into uh like a just a flaming form. But then he still has the pack tactics and basically. Uh 18.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:09

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:10

And then max damage gain eight.

unknown 2:13:12

Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:13

18 does hit. For real.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:18

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:19

Eight? Okay, that'd be half. Uh fire. Damn! Fire elemental does have 50 foot of movement, so let me see if I can reach sky or not first. Yeah, it should. So it'll be good. It's gonna turn to its fire phasing form and it's gonna enter sky's uh space. Like Sky, you're gonna take 1d10 of fire damage as it comes out of its form to its regular original form.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:54

Yeah, I'm like I was like, holy gotta resist I literally. Because of my fiendish legacy, I am resistant to fire damage.

SPEAKER_07 2:14:10

Yeah, nine points of fire damage. Nice. Four nice. Okay, so you take half of that. It'll be uh four. Alright. Round down for you guys, round up round up for me.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:27

Moves to me. I will change. Reset again and move to the left. Oh come on, board. I have that'll do. Oh, it's disengaging is the action, huh?

SPEAKER_02 2:14:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:14:46

So you are you moving without disengaging or are you disengaging? Yeah, so you can move still if you don't disengage, but he just gets a chance to attack. Okay, okay, so it just as an action, he can't just use your action to disengage. He doesn't get a chance to attack you. But if you don't and you want to save your action, he has a chance to attack you. So it's up to you. Okay.

unknown 2:15:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:24

So he's gonna row to attack you first with his one of his uh his fire fish. It does, indeed. 25. Does that hit you?

SPEAKER_00 2:15:33

25 hits basically everything.

SPEAKER_08 2:15:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:38

So as you move back, he just kind of swings his arm wildly at you, and you take six points of fire damage. Uh as it hits you, you do start to burn. You do start to get you get the burning condition, so you do start to burn. But I think you're resistant to it anyway, so it should be okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:00

I will move a little back over here. And I will just cast magic mixle again. Level two, baby. Let's go, babe. Let's go. Yes, no, that one anime, fern, just spam me the same spell. That's me right now. Yeah, yeah. Free ring versus the demon, that's me right now. Oh, fern?

SPEAKER_07 2:16:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:24

Five. Magic missile. Five.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:26

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:27

Four. That's 14. Alright, last one. Oh, two, sixteen. And then I will use Bardic's inspiration.

SPEAKER_01 2:16:37

Oh. Let's go. Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:44

15. Okay, yeah, you take all of your missiles. Just it just dabs into its shoulder all around its body. Uh it kind of lets out like a end my turn. At this point, it does seem it does seem yeah. Oh, it hurts me out.

SPEAKER_01 2:17:07

Cool. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 2:17:11

Yeah, it looks pretty hurt, you guys. I say it from the back. I'm just gonna cast a bunch of healing stuff on myself. So cure wounds says it just has to be something, a creature that I can touch, but I can just do it myself, right? I'll touch myself and heal myself. Um I also want to clarify this too. It says uh the healing increases to two d8 for each spell slot above level one, so I can like spell slotter.

SPEAKER_07 2:17:44

Yeah, let's go. I'm gonna use a level two. Use a level two.

SPEAKER_00 2:17:48

Thank you, man. I didn't think he hit you that hard, dude.

SPEAKER_02 2:17:53

For real. So two d8s pull up. Dude, I just healed six. That wasn't even that much. Okay. And then I think as a bonus action, I can still heal again with just make sure. Uh I have second win.

SPEAKER_07 2:18:20

Healing word, I believe. Holy. This is a bonus action.

SPEAKER_02 2:18:22

Okay. Yeah, so I'm gonna use second win.

SPEAKER_07 2:18:26

Yeah, you do have second win. Yeah, get all those healings then.

SPEAKER_02 2:18:29

So nice! Five more HP. That's better than nothing. Okay. Uh yeah, and then uh that'll be it for me. Uh let me see if I can reach on here. Okay, just as a precaution though, I will cat. No, I already use it all. I'll just end my turn.

SPEAKER_00 2:18:55

Alright. I am gonna say you guys made it really hard to protect both of you. Alright, shoot. Don't worry about the opposite sides of the map.

SPEAKER_01 2:19:06

Yeah, black sky will be alright.

SPEAKER_00 2:19:12

I mean if I go here to like here, that's six tiles, so that should be my 30 feet.

SPEAKER_07 2:19:23

Oh, it doesn't can I get yeah, 30 feet.

SPEAKER_02 2:19:33

Nice.

SPEAKER_07 2:19:35

You would be within five feet of it, so you would be able to hit it.

SPEAKER_00 2:19:38

It's like it's like over here. So I'm just gonna swing at it. I should have advantage since I hit it with my reposs. Uh 20 not natural. Yeah. Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 2:19:58

20 not natural hits.

SPEAKER_00 2:20:00

Eh, might as well add the d6 now.

SPEAKER_07 2:20:02

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:20:03

So I'll use the Bardic Inspiration now. Uh that is 17 damage.

SPEAKER_07 2:20:14

17 damage. Half that. Ooh, it's gonna hurt.

SPEAKER_00 2:20:19

And then I'm just gonna have my I'm just gonna have Frost chill and uh go save my.

SPEAKER_01 2:20:38

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:20:45

Okay, as you slash down the fire elemental, you see that you're you're not slash, but you pierce through it. You see that as it it hits him, and this time it doesn't just go through him, but actually like you feel like a like a pushback, and uh it's it's hurt now. It's like almost on the last of its like its leg, and it's gonna just phase into its fire form. Just move through your space and come out. You are gonna take 1d10.

SPEAKER_00 2:21:14

Alright, like I don't get the attack spot particularly.

SPEAKER_07 2:21:16

That'd be six fire damage. At this point. No, you don't. At this point, it it does. It is a little bit more aggravated at you and uh Sky, so it's just gonna go ahead and just stand down on pissing.

SPEAKER_00 2:21:33

And it's not going to.

SPEAKER_07 2:21:34

It hasn't been able to hit you yet, so I'd be a six and misses. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_00 2:21:41

Alright.

SPEAKER_07 2:21:41

A 12 total. Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 2:21:46

Oh, not 20. Alright.

SPEAKER_07 2:21:50

And then I get 20, 20 hits.

SPEAKER_00 2:21:56

Do I double my superiority die damage? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:22:07

Uh I think it does double it.

SPEAKER_00 2:22:08

It doubles the modifier, right?

SPEAKER_07 2:22:12

Yeah. So you would just roll it twice. Alright. Yeah, everything except for modifiers. Uh the modifier.

SPEAKER_03 2:22:25

Let's go. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 2:22:31

32 damage. Alright, shoes. Welcome back. How do you wanna do this? Super hot volcano, this really uncomfortable place. I don't know why I'm here. Don't really know what happened. So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna keep hacking away at it until it it drops. Till it disappears.

SPEAKER_07 2:22:50

Yeah, you hack at it. Um normally you only get one hit, but in this instant, with your natural 20, you're doing like you know, like a combo like five sixties at a time. And you see as every with every piercing of every pierce of your your rapier, it its form just f fades away until it's there's nothing left, and you guys are now out of combat.

SPEAKER_03 2:23:17

I guess shit, shiswe. Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 2:23:19

Welcome back.

SPEAKER_02 2:23:21

Welcome back.

SPEAKER_00 2:23:24

I'm doing all that with half damage. Let's go frost.

SPEAKER_07 2:23:30

Frost is doing hard too.

SPEAKER_01 2:23:32

For real. Almost died.

SPEAKER_00 2:23:36

One day he'll level up.

SPEAKER_07 2:23:38

It will evolve as the blacksmith has wild as a fire elemental just fades away. Um perception joke. You reach back to your ear. And you hold on. You take it. And you look at it. And look at it.

SPEAKER_02 2:24:51

Let me take a look at that. I can actually use it to identify it. Okay, so it says I I touch an object, do the spells casting. If the object is a magic item or other magical object, I learn its properties, how to use them, whether it requires attunement, uh, and then how many charges, and then I learn any ongoing spells that are affecting the item.

SPEAKER_07 2:25:26

You take out the whisper, the the flute, the horn that you had gotten from Last Water Guardian, and you start playing a tune on it in a very somber tune. And then you touch this little toothpick or what seems to be a toothpick of some sword. All of a sudden you get you're overflooded with like magical aura. And you in your mind you instantly understand what this this item is, and it is it's a golden staff. As you touch it, the staff starts to grow in in size. It goes bigger and bigger and bigger until it purses down to where you are standing, and it just kind of just grows so big, it just goes all the way up. I need everyone to give me a wisdom saving throw.

SPEAKER_00 2:26:48

That's crazy. So that's a five? And I'm gonna use practical mind to see if I can boost that up a bit. Uh that's a that's a 14.

SPEAKER_03 2:26:59

I was made for this. I rolled a 21.

SPEAKER_07 2:27:04

The magical aura around it, the the very nature of the staff, it's so powerful that it's it's causing some kind of force. Or some kind of force damage to each of you. Uh 21, like sky, you being one with you know like magic, you being someone who were born by magic almost. You're able to withstand this force damage. Uh what did you guys choose to again? 14 right you start to grab your head and you go down to 1D. You're gonna take 1d8 force damage. Uh I can roll that actually. You're also gonna be taking uh 1d8 force damage as you you let go of the staff at this point, but your hand is still on the staff because it's going well within your hand. So you take five points of um force damage. Well do you take two? And you start to feel a tremor that ripples underneath your your all of your feet. And then another one and another one. You start to hear uh something in the distance. But because you know you're being hurt by this force. You hear a a drum beat that echoes it starts from where you're at, and then it seems you just keep going and it's deeper and you look around, but you don't see anyone playing any drums. And then you hear the drum again, and then you hear the drum again, and then you hear the drum again. And that's where we'll stop for tonight.

SPEAKER_03 2:29:03

Holy Holy! Let's go. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:29:30

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