c1ep13 - What the Monkey?

Nearly escaping the chaos of what was underneath Khaesh, with the Earth Elemental Artifact and Huatali's Staff in hand, our wandering heroes are one step closer to figuring out if Elder Silverfist is with them....or against them.

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SPEAKER_04 0:00

Alrighty, righty, righty. Welcome back, Wonders. And this is your favorite sorcerer, Black Sky.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Yo, what's up? This is your DM Jackie. It's Wagnew here, your elf bard.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Hey, it's she sweeper.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

So last time, after retrieving the golden staff or Hotali the spirit monkey, you trusted your senses in the pull of your elemental artifacts, pressing on through the underground halls. It was there you realized the truth. This wasn't just any tunnel, but a dorven pilgrimage ground. But what were they proving themselves to? At an intersection where magma flowed like rivers, Wagnu detect magic picked up faint residue emanating from the moten current. Curious and maybe a bit reckless, you hurled a fireboat into the stream. An instant magma methods burst forth, their bodies steaming and crackling with unstable heat. Each one threatened to detonate upon death. Even as explosions rocked the cavern and staring embers felled the air, you pressed forward. Beyond that, you found what looks like a green crystal radiating with an energy similar to the wind elemental artifact. Before any of you could react, the golden staff quivered in your hands, then shot forward, impelling itself into the crystal. The earth itself shuddered as the Earth Elemental Guardian awakened. The tremors that had plagued Kaish now roared. Black Icker oozed down the guardian's body, and you took your senses, and the battle began. It was fierce, brutal. The guardian's strike shook the chamber, its body pulsing with a strange light. One that Shusui quickly realized was counting down. You fall with everything you had, carving through the stone and shadow, until finally the guardian fell, only for a deafening explosion to rip through the chamber. Shusui and Black Sky were caught in the blast, both dropping to zero HP. The earth split beneath you as the shockwave tore through the cavern. Black Sky was swallowed by the collapsing ground. Wagnu reached desperately for Shusui's hand. And that's where we left off. Sky and Shusui, I'm going to need you to both make me a death-saving throw. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 3:00

Convenient.

SPEAKER_04 3:03

Out of a d20, right?

SPEAKER_01 3:04

Yeah, d20.

SPEAKER_04 3:06

You have to be the 10. Holy. It's okay. It's alright. Shusui just uh his foot slip. Haha. Oh my god. A six. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

Wagnu, as you reached out and you grabbed Shusui towards your body, and you you kind of have him like a hug. Um, frost is right next to you, and Shusui with a a three, you fail your first death saving throw. So I'll go ahead and mark that off. But Wagnu, you do have a chance now if you want to stabilize him.

SPEAKER_05 3:43

Ooh. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

So you can choose to use like a spell, like a potion, or you can choose to just do a medicine check to get him back to like zero HP but not dying.

SPEAKER_05 3:54

See, let me just quickly check my what I have on me. Hmm. Dang, I'll just do a medicine check. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

Okay, so you will have to make a medicine check and you have to beat a 10.

SPEAKER_05 4:11

Okay. For you, Shusui.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

On a failed, on a failed and Shusui will make another adapt saving throw.

SPEAKER_05 4:17

Don't worry. I took two courses in college. In Barred College. It's a 12. I'm him.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

12.

SPEAKER_05 4:26

Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 4:27

You're in with 12.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

Okay, Shusui, you come back, um, you start coughing out blood, but you are no longer dying.

SPEAKER_05 4:36

Shusui, can you hear me?

SPEAKER_00 4:44

I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm still unconscious, I'm just not dying.

SPEAKER_05 4:48

Okay, can I check on black sky too? Can I do that same thing for black sky or no?

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Um, so black sky is so when the whole thing happened, the explosion happened, black sky fell down.

SPEAKER_06 5:00

Oh right.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

So he's like if you tried you if you want to kinda gauge how far he went down, you can try to just take a look and give me an investigation check?

SPEAKER_05 5:09

Yeah, I'll do that.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Otherwise, right now you can't see him.

SPEAKER_05 5:11

Just to see if I can help him with his role.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

I'm at the bottom of the pits.

SPEAKER_05 5:16

Oh man, I gotta eight on that investigation.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

Yeah, you um, as soon as you kinda like do whatever you how do you how do you patch up Shusui to kinda like get him back to his uh not dying state?

SPEAKER_05 5:31

I sit there and I sing to him his favorite a melody.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Yeah, so you as you sing that, you hear like a little whisp like a little uh breath come out from Shisui, and then you can kind of tell that he's okay for now. And you go over to the hole where Black Sky have fallen through, and you look down there, it's just pitch black. You can't see anything.

SPEAKER_05 6:00

Okay, does he still get another saving throw though?

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Yeah, Sky, go and give me another saving throw. Okay, here we go.

SPEAKER_04 6:10

It can't be that hard. Come on now. 20! Let's go! Oh my god! Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

I mean like I was kind of beating a little bit because like damn that should one you're dead. So I know.

SPEAKER_04 6:26

Oh my god. I mean, I'm grateful for the 20, you know, ball don't lie, but I could have used that like last combat or something. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_05 6:34

Thanks.

SPEAKER_01 6:36

Black Sky, you just feel at first it's just like cold, and then you feel heat in your body again. And you open your eyes, and for a while it's just pitch black, but then you start seeing like gray silhouette. You can see Wagnu from up top, his silhouette just looking down at you. With a 20, you get back up with one HP. You start to kind of feel around your body, and you're pretty battered up, pretty bruised up right now. That explosion, you kind of took a hit on. It was pretty pretty bad. And then for some reason you see these letters in front of you, and they spell out the word found. And then that just kind of fades away like smoke. And then you hear from up top, Wagnew screaming out to you.

SPEAKER_05 7:45

Black Sky.

SPEAKER_04 7:52

I'm okay. I'm okay. It's just I I slipped. That's all. I slipped, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:00

Can you get up? Shisui's here too.

SPEAKER_04 8:05

Okay, can I check my surrounding? See like how how deep am I, actually?

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Yeah, you can give me a perception check. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 8:18

Oh my god, a 20!

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Dude! Damn. Let's go. Okay, two NAT 20s in a row. Uh, judging from where Wagnew his silhouette is, and um, you look up and you can kind of tell you're like about like 20-30 feet. So you went down pretty deep. Um, your surrounding though is it's just pitch black. You kind of feel the ground around you, and it's a little warm. Uh it's a little hard too. It almost from your understanding, you know this is like a almost like a volcano almost in a way. Uh magma went through here, so you can kinda you can kind of assume that some some of the things you're touching, it's like obsidian.

SPEAKER_04 9:05

Um and then I'll scream out to Wagner Shisui. Um Yeah, it's uh it's pretty deep down here. Um I don't think there's any way up besides unless you guys have any rope.

SPEAKER_05 9:24

I have rope. That's one thing I do have. Cool. Also, can I can I see through this darkness? Since I am in the Do you have yeah, do you have dark vision?

SPEAKER_01 9:36

Yeah, we do. Yeah, so as soon as you as soon as you hear Black Sky calling out to you as well, um you you get a a sense of where he's at and you can see you don't see like a a clear figure of him, but you see like the the silhouette, like the grayness.

SPEAKER_05 9:52

Cool. Okay, uh I'll put Shisui down in a safe spot where he's not gonna fall back into the hole or anything. And then I'm gonna throw down some rope. For black sky.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

I believe your rope is like 50 feet, so you can throw it all the way down. Yeah, Scott, you hear the rope just plop right next to you.

SPEAKER_04 10:17

Okay, and then um I reached out to Wagnu. I mean, uh I'll yell out to Wagnew. We should anchor this rope in case uh in case we want to come down and check it out here. It's just obsidian. I mean you and I can see it in the dark, so. And then before going up, I will take a look around and see if there's anything.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

Looking around, you You wrote a nap 20 or your perception check, so um you do notice that there seems to be like a green crystal couple feet away from you.

SPEAKER_04 11:01

Wait, uh hold up. I I think I see something down here, Wagner. It's it's it's uh it looks like a green crystal. What I'll walk green closer to it. Yeah, are you okay? No, no. Um, anchor the rope, anchor the rope and come down here. It's it's like a green crystal. But I don't want anything to happen, so I won't touch it.

SPEAKER_05 11:30

If something happens to us, just always toast up here. It's what you alright, little give me a second.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

I'm gonna I'll look for if I'm stable and I don't get healed or take damage, then I recover HP in 1d4 hours.

SPEAKER_05 11:46

Okay. Okay, let me let me look around for something I can get this onto. Let's see. Um, yeah, I'll I'll take a look around and see if there's like a stable a stable rock or anything like that I can tie this rope to.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

Yeah, you see like uh four pillars around you. Um they're still pretty sturdy. This space is all like rocks and stuff, so you could you can just easily find something to anchor yourself to.

SPEAKER_05 12:13

Okay, awesome, awesome. I'll go ahead and do that. Um it says I need to succeed on a DC or it says as a utilized action you can tie a knot with rope if you succeed a DC 10 dexterity check.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

Okay, so yeah, it's just pretty much a C of how good of a knot you can do. So go ahead and give me a a dexterity check.

SPEAKER_05 12:33

Cool. Nice, I got 16.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

Okay, yeah, you tie it on to uh one of the pillars there, and you pull you tug at it before you kinda go down and yeah, it seems pretty pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 12:46

Awesome. Alright. Uh Pat Shisui real quick. I'll be back. Don't die. And then I just lower myself into the hole.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

Okay, you start lowering yourself down, and right as soon as you reach the bottom of that your next to black sky. Sky and Wagnu, you're looking at the green crystal, and it it's familiar. It it looks kind of like the crystal that you had encountered before the guardian awakened, awoken, but it's smaller at this time, and it almost looks like a as you get closer to it, it looks like a little orb now instead of a an actual crystal shape.

SPEAKER_05 13:35

Man. When you told me about a green crystal in this dark hole, I thought you were thought you were just dying. You're delusional. What is this?

SPEAKER_04 13:46

Yeah, I never thought that. Um do you think it could be the real core? The real Earth's core?

SPEAKER_05 13:56

Did you try poking at it yet?

SPEAKER_04 14:00

I mean I wanted to, but she's always just kinda up there with Frost. Right. What if you fight another guardian?

SPEAKER_05 14:11

That would be terrible. Okay. Well, um here. I'll try to grab it from up in the hole with my mage hand. How about that?

SPEAKER_04 14:24

Yeah, I mean might as well.

SPEAKER_05 14:28

I can't risk fighting another guardian either, so cool. You go first. I'll watch behind you so you don't fall.

SPEAKER_04 14:37

Alright. Wait, are we going up the rope? Well, yeah, yeah. Or okay. Yeah, and then okay. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 14:46

Cool. Okay. And then when black sky is up the rope, I'll just grab the green. I'll just grab the green, like going green gem.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

You just grab it with your hand?

SPEAKER_05 14:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Okay. Yeah, you just grab it and it's um it sits in your palm pretty comfortably. It looks like uh almost like emerald jade. And you s you can see like kind of gold veins just going through it. The patterns look like it was almost like roots.

SPEAKER_05 15:30

Hmm. Cool. Can I like it it's not hurting me or affecting me anyway, right? I can I'm just holding on to it.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

No, it's not doing anything to you. Also, negatively that that is.

SPEAKER_05 15:44

Alright, I'll just bring you with me back up the hole.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Okay, you guys both get up to the top.

SPEAKER_05 15:55

I'll show it to Black Sky. It jumped in my hand.

SPEAKER_04 16:01

Do you think this could be the earth fragment?

SPEAKER_05 16:06

It's possible. Look at look at how weird it is. And I'll I'll kinda like give it to him or hand it to him.

SPEAKER_04 16:15

And then uh I will pull out my wind artifact to see if like there's like any like attraction between the two.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Yeah, you pull out your wind artifact and you can feel a a slight pull from the orb and your artifact. And then as you're kind of holding it together, you can kind of see that the edges of your artifact seems like it'll fit onto the the orb.

SPEAKER_04 16:44

Yeah, I think I think this is definitely it, Wagnu.

SPEAKER_06 16:49

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 16:50

I will pull out my water artifact. And then I'll see if there it interacts with it in any way as well.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

You pull out the water artifact and you also feel a slight pull, but not as strong as Sky's, like how he feels it. But you can see that the edges of the water artifact seems like it fits into the orb as well. So think of it like um like a puzzle piece like this, and like the orb is in the middle, and then yours is on the other side. And then this seems to be like a space for one more piece on the bottom.

SPEAKER_06 17:32

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 17:32

Well, let's just keep this safe for now, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:36

Yeah, I I agree. I think I think we should split all three pieces just in case.

SPEAKER_05 17:43

Okay. Let's get out of here before um anything else happens. I'm not in the best shape either, so.

SPEAKER_04 17:50

Before this cave collapse, I agree.

SPEAKER_05 17:54

We check on Shisui, see if he can get up or anything. I can't carry this guy.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Uh you guys can try to carry him, you guys can administer a potion.

SPEAKER_04 18:07

I have nothing on me, so I'll just give it.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

You guys have no potions at all? No.

SPEAKER_05 18:11

Wine? Because I thought it was potions.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Yeah, wine were potions.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

A uh let's do like a history check.

SPEAKER_05 18:29

Okay. If this fails, I'll give him the wine for the pain. I got an eight for his three. It's terrible.

SPEAKER_04 18:39

Oh she bar I got a seven. Gonna have to go with the eight.

SPEAKER_05 18:43

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Uh Shusu, give me a just a straight d20 roll.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

Alright. Let's see if I uh die. Oh, that 20. There we go. Ooh, wow. You guys are going crazy.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Yeah, as soon as the two of you try to like just try to recall something that maybe it would help Shusu in this moment. You see Frost kind of just uh prances forward towards Shusui, and from his mouth he just kind of feeds something to Shusui, and uh Shusui, it was a good berry, so you get one HP back.

SPEAKER_05 19:20

Let's go. You had that all along, Frost?

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Oh you say that, but Frost is also at one HP.

SPEAKER_05 19:30

True, true.

SPEAKER_00 19:31

He will evolve one day.

SPEAKER_05 19:35

Okay, cool. Jusuo, you gotta get up. We gotta go.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Why are there so many explosions down here?

unknown 19:49

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Alright.

SPEAKER_04 19:53

Yeah, let's just get out of here.

SPEAKER_05 19:57

Um can we try to like trace our way back or so?

SPEAKER_01 20:02

I do want to say that um because you both failed uh a death saving throw, and it was pretty major or it was pretty bad, that you two do get one level of exhaustion point.

SPEAKER_05 20:16

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

That's fair.

SPEAKER_05 20:19

Can you explain what the exhaustion point does, just so I can know too?

SPEAKER_01 20:23

So I think at level one, it's disadvantage on ability checks, I believe, right? Uh let's see. Or Chris will let me know.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

Okay, so uh when you make a d20 roll, uh it just gets minus two times your exhaustion level. So for right now, we just get minus two to all the rolls.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Yeah, so black sky and choose we would get minus two for any ability, any d20 checks you'd make.

SPEAKER_04 20:54

For the session or forever?

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Until you make a long rest. Oh okay, okay, okay.

unknown 20:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

So every each long rest recovers one level of exhaustion, pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

And then our speed is reduced by five feet. And yeah, that that's pretty much it.

SPEAKER_03 21:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

It gets worse as you get more exhausted, like level five, you guys just die, I believe. Oh, at six. That's six, then it goes.

SPEAKER_05 21:22

Cool, so I I know you guys are tired, but do you guys remember which way we came from? We need to get out of here. Or do you see an exit?

SPEAKER_04 21:30

Oh god. I don't remember. I might bang my head a few times coming down here.

SPEAKER_05 21:40

Frost. You gotta know frost. I'll look around for like an exit or something.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Yeah, well everyone tried to find the way out.

SPEAKER_01 21:59

You asked for Frost and um you see frost just kind of like panting. He's pretty tired. He's been curing you guys for a while now. True.

SPEAKER_05 22:10

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 22:12

Alright. Let me check my notes.

unknown 22:16

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Yeah, while everyone's looking around trying to find a way out. I'm just gonna take a moment and you second one on myself. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 22:25

Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 22:25

I have three charges. I just needed the one to get up. We have three.

SPEAKER_04 22:30

That's I think you might have to uh navigate us back, Shisui. Considering Wagnu and I failed the history check. We might have like a few concussions.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

Yeah, uh yeah, I'll try. There's another hole.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Uh also we should have to go. You guys are out of the hole now. You guys are back up top now. Alright. Just let me know how you want to proceed, like what's the thing you're trying to do to find a a way out.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

I mean I'm pretty banged up, so I'm just gonna try and go off of memory.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

So just from without making a row, um, you know the ways you came from to get to this spot, but there are like two routes that you don't know you don't know where it leads to.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

Alright, well uh we're pretty bang up. We're just gonna head straight back, right? Or you guys trying to investigate the other two paths?

SPEAKER_04 23:36

No, I I need to think we gotta I think we gotta get out. We gotta save ourselves.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Alright, then the way back should be over there.

SPEAKER_04 23:50

I like that calm over there.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

Uh you start heading back the way you came, and it's back to the area where you fought the two the methods, the little monsters that were exploding. Just summon you guys to the player real fast. And you noticed that there was the the path where you came from to get to this room, which was where you found the the golden staff, and there was another path straight forward from there, and then the path you guys took to get to the Earth Elemental Guardian. So to your right it's is the path you haven't taken. To the left is to go back to where the golden staff is at. Or it was at.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

I see. Alright, left it is.

SPEAKER_04 24:43

Wait, call me crazy and greedy.

SPEAKER_05 24:47

Something on the right side's calling to me. Yeah. I think we should go check it out.

SPEAKER_04 24:55

I mean, just think about it. Why why would there be another path?

SPEAKER_05 24:59

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

I take another breath and use my other second wind. I'll take another 11th.

SPEAKER_04 25:11

Alright. Wait, hold up. Before we go, would it be crazy to say? We should set up camp and rest for a bit.

SPEAKER_05 25:21

Uh can we? This is where we did last time.

SPEAKER_04 25:26

Yeah, I think we took a light rest.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

And Frost is uh keeping watch. Should be safe if it's the same area. I'll uh I think I can keep watch this time.

SPEAKER_05 25:38

Oh gosh. I could use a crucial short.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

Let the rest of you guys heal up.

unknown 25:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

So the only thing with this spot is I will allow a short rest, but I wouldn't allow a long rest.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 25:50

Okay. Alright. Let's do it. Okay. Let's yeah, let's take a short rest. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

Go back to uh where you guys were at ready to take a short rest, which is kind of like to the right a little bit. You find that spot where it's a little more it's cooler there, not quite as hot. And for some reason, like there's like a flow of air that leads to the path to the right. And it just feels better to be here. And you sit down.

SPEAKER_04 26:23

I reach into my bag and I pull out rations. And I give I have five rations, so I'm gonna give it everyone one each.

SPEAKER_06 26:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 26:35

And then let's just say. Man, reminds me of the good times with me and my brother. Well, let's eat up and take a rest.

SPEAKER_05 26:48

I'll have one of those. You can have one of these. I'll give uh I'll share some of my some of my wine. But I'm gonna tell them it's potion. Okay. And then short rest. I'm trying to remember what I get here.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

You can choose either your bard level or your warrior level, I believe.

SPEAKER_03 27:18

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

Unless you you used your warrior one last time, because you guys did take up a short rest last session too.

SPEAKER_05 27:25

Oh yeah, yeah. I did. I did Oh no, I used my two bards for my hit die.

SPEAKER_01 27:29

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 27:30

Let's go. Okay. So I just can't do like a mixture of both, right?

SPEAKER_01 27:36

You can, but you only get one from your your warrior or fighter one. So if you use that one already, you can't do it again. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 27:43

I'll just use the fighter one since I used the bard one last time.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

Do I just do the same thing for Frost? Just roll his hit dice.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

Alright. His hit dice are actually surprisingly large. Alright, he's back to full.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

He's back to full.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

His hit dice is a D8.

SPEAKER_01 28:04

He's immortal, man. Yeah. Frost is immortal.

SPEAKER_04 28:08

How do you short short rest works again?

SPEAKER_01 28:11

So there should be the camp thing on your your DB uh on your character sheet, and you can click short rest and it will tell you it would ask you like how which how many hit dice do you want to use? Oh okay, okay. So you would roll your hit dice. So I think for use like a d6 or something.

SPEAKER_04 28:25

Yeah. So four. And four d6. Yeah, so that's how much you would.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

You can use as much as you uh you have up to your level. So you're level four, so you can use up to four. I think you use one last time, I believe.

SPEAKER_04 28:39

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

And then you recover whatever uh like skills you have that recurbers on a short rest. Alright, 12.

SPEAKER_04 28:47

12 HP, not bad.

SPEAKER_05 28:50

So I got 1d2, I mean 1d10 plus 2. I hit a 7, and then 1d8 plus 2. Ooh. That's 7 plus 9. So I'm healing 16? Is that correct? Alright. Yep. Let's go. Damn. You guys' stuff is so good.

SPEAKER_04 29:11

What? I have a lot of dye for you.

SPEAKER_05 29:14

Not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_04 29:17

Yeah, I can't complain. 12 HP, I can't complain. Could be could be worse, could be worse.

SPEAKER_05 29:21

True, true. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Also get a Arcana check from Black Sky real fast.

SPEAKER_04 29:36

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Alright.

SPEAKER_04 29:46

Damn! That's a dirty 20. Let's go. Let's go. Dirty 20.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

As you as you um just take a bite of your ration, you remember this you remember that when you fell down when you first took that explosion and you went down to zero HP, that that phrase went through your mind. The one that has been popping up every once in a while, the uh dnuff and oi.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

You guys hear that?

SPEAKER_04 30:22

You're what?

SPEAKER_00 30:25

Yeah, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_04 30:30

Ever since I've got this wind fragment, the wind artifact, this voice just keeps popping up in my head. It didn't affin. It was when we first met each other and we had our first rest. Setting up camp, and we got to to the village. And when we got to the lake, it keeps popping up in my head.

SPEAKER_05 31:03

Hmm. What is it saying?

SPEAKER_04 31:09

I I can't I can't make it out. It just keeps saying d enough and voy.

SPEAKER_05 31:17

D enough envoy.

SPEAKER_04 31:22

Do you know what language that is by any chance?

SPEAKER_05 31:27

Can I check to see if I know that?

SPEAKER_01 31:30

I think I what kinda what language do you know?

SPEAKER_05 31:32

Let me see, let me see. Elvin language Dwarvish Elvin. Let's see.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

As guys say that to you though, you do recall that when you guys were back in Fang Village and when Tossi was like unconscious. Wagni, you remember you heard Tossi say those words as well. When you had to try to go healer.

SPEAKER_05 32:12

Okay. I think I remember. I think I suddenly remember hearing those words before. And my languages are common dwarven and dwarvish and elvin. Elvish, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Yeah, so you you can't make out what what it's what it means. Dang. Okay. And then as Shusu, as you hear the the two of them talking, you remember hearing those words when you were at the water temple still, before you found yourself in Kaesh, like randomly.

SPEAKER_04 32:47

It's this word just said found, but it faded away like smoke. I don't know if there's any correlation between these two, but I just can't be the only one who's experiencing this.

SPEAKER_05 33:05

Yeah, it's been crazy times, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

Well, whatever the reason, I'm sure we'll figure it out eventually. But for now we should really get somewhere safer. We don't know how long this area is gonna be safe.

SPEAKER_05 33:25

Right.

SPEAKER_04 33:29

Right. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Who has the um the earth artifact? Wagnu?

SPEAKER_05 33:35

Uh is it on black sky?

SPEAKER_04 33:37

It's yeah, it's still on me right now.

SPEAKER_05 33:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

Okay. And who has the golden staff?

SPEAKER_04 33:42

That's also on me.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Okay. Give me a perception check, Black Sky.

SPEAKER_04 33:52

Alright, all these new.

SPEAKER_01 33:54

You can give me your passive perception, actually. That's fine.

SPEAKER_04 33:57

Oh, uh, it's a 12.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Um, 12 is still good. You do notice that ever since you, the three of you, came back from where you fought the Earth Elemental Guardian. Um, there seems to be no more tremors.

SPEAKER_04 34:14

Wait. Did you guys notice something? The tremors stopped.

SPEAKER_05 34:21

Oh, that's right. What do you think that means?

SPEAKER_04 34:26

I Well When we were by the Earth Guardian, the cr the carving said to not move the heart, the heart is stable and strong. But when we touched it, there were tremors. So I don't I don't know. I we thought it was a staff. Turns out maybe it wasn't. We touched the green crystal, the herb's core. Tremors happened, but now nothing's making sense.

SPEAKER_05 35:08

Hmm. Let me see the green that green gem again.

SPEAKER_04 35:16

Pull it out and I'll hand it over.

SPEAKER_05 35:21

What do you make of this, Yesui? I'll throw it over to him.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

I catch and I go. Careful! These are important artifacts.

SPEAKER_05 35:36

Right, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

I mean uh I don't know, I'm not exactly an expert on this, but it just means that when we do get back, uh we need to go ask the council and that monkey quite a few uh questions.

SPEAKER_05 35:56

Yeah, you got to council.

SPEAKER_04 36:00

I I don't think we should tell the council that we particularly slain the Arf Guardian and shattered the green crystal, and now it's a green orb. I'm down to go talk to the monkey though. Definitely not the council.

SPEAKER_05 36:18

Hmm. I think alright. Both of you guys have good. We can do both, no? We could return the staff to the monkey and then talk to the council. But we should get out of here first. We should go out of here first. So I I definitely agree. Let's find our way out and then.

SPEAKER_04 36:42

Alright, well, I mean, we are here, so we do have to make a decision. We either go back or we proceed on this path.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

Well, we took the rest, so if you guys are uh dead set on exploring, I'll lead the way again.

SPEAKER_05 37:02

Let's do it. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_00 37:06

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 37:09

Which way are you guys taking?

SPEAKER_05 37:12

We're gonna go the right. The route on the right.

SPEAKER_01 37:15

Yep. Okay. As you guys take the route on the right, you feel air, wind coming from there. And you find yourself at the next location, which seems to be like an incline. A few steps, stone steps leading down.

SPEAKER_05 37:43

Okay. It's leading downward though, huh?

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Oh, I think uh maybe we can find something down there. Maybe the crystal was I don't know, resonating with something, shaking the earth down there.

SPEAKER_04 38:01

How how dark is this uh area?

SPEAKER_01 38:06

It's like dim light. You can you get light from like the magma around. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:12

Um maybe we could check the walls for any uh cravings, Wagnu? I mean carvings.

SPEAKER_05 38:22

Mm-hmm. I'll take a look around just to see if I notice anything.

SPEAKER_01 38:28

Okay. Give me a investigation check.

SPEAKER_05 38:32

Ooh, that was good. So it's gonna be 22.

SPEAKER_01 38:38

22. Uh you start looking around and you do see, like up above on the wall, what seems to be like a carved into the wall, like an arrow pointing that way, in that direction, to go down towards the steps. And then you see in dwarvish, it reads exit. Uh with a 22, you also manage to see um like a whole bunch of obsidian that if you want, you can take.

SPEAKER_06 39:07

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 39:09

If you if you have the tool to harvest it.

SPEAKER_05 39:14

What kind of tools would I need for that?

SPEAKER_01 39:17

Like a knife, a sword, maybe that's strong enough to cut the obsidian, um a pickaxe.

SPEAKER_00 39:24

It's fine, I have the almighty crowbar. I was gonna say I have a crowbar.

SPEAKER_05 39:31

Yeah, I got a crowbar, on me too. Okay. Um I see. Do any of you guys uh understand dwarvis?

SPEAKER_04 39:41

No.

SPEAKER_05 39:42

No. Good. Then my senses tell me that we should go down that way.

SPEAKER_01 39:47

Also you understand dwarvish walking.

SPEAKER_05 39:50

Yeah, yeah, I'm just um with my senses tell me we should go down that way, but also my senses. My senses tell me that this material around us could come in handy. Do you guys see this? And then I'll kinda like tap on some of the obsidian.

SPEAKER_04 40:14

Yeah, I mean, it's obsidian, alright?

SPEAKER_05 40:17

Yeah, and how often are we gonna run into this, right? I think we should take a few.

SPEAKER_04 40:23

You're right. Well, I don't have any tools, but maybe we could try farming them with our spells.

SPEAKER_05 40:35

Speak for yourself. I'll pull out a crowbar. I'll try to to get a chunk of this with some crowbar, with the crowbar.

SPEAKER_01 40:46

Okay, you try to chip away at it. Uh give me a athletic checks.

SPEAKER_05 40:51

Boom. That's gonna be a 17.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

17's pretty good. You start chipping away at it and you see like a little chunk fall to the ground. It's like the size of your hand, if anything.

SPEAKER_05 41:11

Cool. I'll take it. And I'll give it over to Black Sky.

SPEAKER_04 41:19

Well, if a crowbar works, I think a spell should be fine.

SPEAKER_05 41:22

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 41:23

Now I'll use a sorceress burst and use lightning. Considering lightning should be good enough to break rocks.

SPEAKER_01 41:37

Okay. Give me a dexterity check. Oh, alright.

SPEAKER_05 41:50

You guys are rolling. What? Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 41:54

Okay, nice. Fantastic. Uh, you cast your sorcerer's bird, you don't need to roll to attack, it's a non-moving object. You're gonna hit her no matter what. But the dexterity check was to see if you shatter like into little pieces, or you get like a good chunk. And with a Nat 20, you cast your lightning sorcerer's burst, and it just kind of slices through the obsidian and gives you like a nice big chunk. Um, the size of like a head. Just falls to the ground, and it's like perfectly cut in a almost like an like an egg. You know, granted, it is pretty heavy though, so ah, good thing I'm built like LeBron James.

SPEAKER_05 42:39

I kinda loosened that up for you. I I think I think I should get a little bit of that. Nice one.

SPEAKER_04 42:46

And then as I like lift it up, carrying it, putting it in my bag. Like, yeah, I mean, this is gonna this is gonna get all the gold we need to make our trip back.

SPEAKER_05 43:00

Alright.

SPEAKER_00 43:04

I think we're fine. I think I'll keep light. It'll be fine. I mean we can always come back here and get more if we really need it, but uh I'm more concerned about getting out of here.

SPEAKER_05 43:18

Alright, then let's follow what my senses were telling me earlier. Say we go down that way. And I'll go towards the direction of the where the arrow is pointing.

SPEAKER_01 43:33

Wonderful. You guys you follow the the arrow and you find yourself as you get closer to the the exit of the of the cave, um you feel the wind stronger here. And then all of a sudden as as the three of you get go past this part, light. Kind of shines in on you, and then you realize that it's like still very dark outside. You emerge from the cave, and you see all around you are dwarves and goliaths clustering around you all. You see, some of them are kind of like praying, and they stare at the three of you as you three exit this cavern. You see Yur rushes through the crowd, and you hear her say, Get back! Give them some room. And then she looks at each each and every one of you looks at your your bruises, your cuts. She notices like the um where's the staff on you, Black Sky?

SPEAKER_04 45:05

Uh, like in my coat.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

Inside the coat. So she doesn't see that because you have it in your coat, and the staff is like the size of a toothpick right now. But she comes near you and says and asks you guys, tell me, what did you find down there? You also see uh Elder of Silverfist, you see Mammu, you see all the council members here. It seems like everyone from the from the city is here right now, like awaiting to see if you guys make it out or not.

SPEAKER_04 45:44

Whoa. Okay. First of all, relax. Why is everyone praying? And secondly, it's just a regular cave. Right, Wagnusui.

SPEAKER_00 46:00

I mean, if you ignore the magma methods, then yeah. Also the giant fire element hole. But yeah, besides that, regular cave.

SPEAKER_05 46:10

Yeah, um, do you want to tell you what we found here, or maybe in a place more private?

SPEAKER_01 46:15

She takes a look at you, the three of you, and notices that you guys are pretty beat up. At this point, it's about like 4 a.m., 5 a.m. Maybe after the three of you rested. And then you see as Elder Silverfist walks toward um the three of you. I'll see you in the morning. At my house. The one where you stayed at.

SPEAKER_05 46:50

Should we I'm I would like to take a long rest while we can, if we can.

SPEAKER_04 46:55

Same. Same, same, same. Um.

SPEAKER_01 47:00

Should we give me an insight check?

SPEAKER_00 47:03

Okay. Not 20. Oh man. Why on the roll today?

SPEAKER_01 47:10

You guys are rolling really good. Um as you're kind of looking around as Sky and Wagnu are kinda like talking to Yuri and Silverfist, you notice that the like uh the doors and the like alives here, they don't seem angry, but they seem to believe that like something like a miracle happened or like something divine has happened. You do look around and you spot Zaliaf in the background somewhere, and he just kind of wave like waves towards you.

SPEAKER_05 47:51

Zalia. You guys wanna go move towards him? See why he knows about all this commotion?

SPEAKER_00 47:58

Yeah, I mean, something must have happened while we were down there. Something pretty major.

SPEAKER_04 48:07

Yeah, I mean, like I said, it's as if like someone died. Or I don't know, miracle. I mean, yeah, I'm maybe Zaliov may be able to tell us what happened while we were gone.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

Yeah. Uh alright.

SPEAKER_05 48:23

I'll call out to him and walk over it then.

SPEAKER_01 48:28

You start making your way to Zaliaf and Zaliav just comes towards three of you. What happened? Why were you guys in there? No wait. You should rest. Come on. I'll walk you back. Shusui, it's good to see you again.

SPEAKER_00 48:52

Yeah, it is. It's good to be back. It was uh quite brutal down there.

SPEAKER_01 49:03

And the four of you start walking back to the house that you had stayed in. As you're walking, Zalip just looks at the three of you and he just asks. So why were you in there anyway? What were you doing in there?

SPEAKER_04 49:28

Ah man, I don't know. Some sort of trial. He didn't think we were gonna make it out, but I mean, here we are.

SPEAKER_05 49:41

Right.

SPEAKER_01 49:43

Yeah, I mean I was just walking around like you told me to do. And all of a sudden I saw a huge golden staff just pierced through the ground. And then it disappeared out of nowhere. And then after that, there's just tremors after tremors. And now it's just quiet. So I can't can't really make out what happened, and we found Elder Sorophist. He kind of gave us like a small rundown that you three were probably the cause of all this, so we went to go check it out. Or at least he led us to where you may be coming out from.

SPEAKER_04 50:31

a golden staff.

SPEAKER_01 50:34

Yeah, a golden staff just pierced through the ground. Kinda like this.

SPEAKER_04 50:41

I'll pull it out from my trench coat, and it's just like holding it to show him because it's so small.

SPEAKER_01 50:52

He looks at it. Just like that one, but like way bigger.

SPEAKER_04 51:00

Aw. Bigger, huh? Okay.

SPEAKER_05 51:03

Is that it?

SPEAKER_04 51:06

I mean, I can't really say it is, because it's so small, but we'll find out tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 51:15

Well.

SPEAKER_05 51:24

You said that Silverfist led you guys all to where you thought we'd be coming out from?

SPEAKER_01 51:32

Yes. Everyone in the city.

SPEAKER_05 51:38

Did he say anything else?

SPEAKER_01 51:42

No, he just said that if you were if the three of you were gonna survive, then this is where you would have come out from.

SPEAKER_05 51:53

I feel like he knows more than he's letting on, but you're right, we we have had a long it was a tough time in there. I would like to rest a little.

SPEAKER_01 52:05

You guys approach the the house where you got stayed at. Of course. Won't keep you. Come on. And he starts to go inside the house. Before, um, as each of you make your way into the house, before Shusui, before you get in, um, Zaliff kind of puts his hand on your shoulder. I'm glad you're still alive, Shusui.

SPEAKER_00 52:34

Yeah, I mean with everything that's been going on the past couple weeks, so am I.

SPEAKER_01 52:44

I don't know what happened after we separated, but you seem to be doing okay.

SPEAKER_00 52:51

Yeah, I mean it's nice that you found your own place too. So uh I still working on that. Well, at least you found others you can uh hang out and rest. But I'm uh still on my journey as well. Just a little, I don't know. Who knows? Maybe helping them out will help me out. But as they've said, it's it's been a long day and I I too would like to get some rest.

SPEAKER_01 53:35

Of course, and he just slaps you on the back. Alright, uh, there's nothing else you guys want to do, then you guys can take a long rest.

SPEAKER_04 53:43

Uh I still want to go down to the basement.

SPEAKER_01 53:48

You wanna go down to the basement? Alright. Um, you guys get in and Zaliaff goes in with you guys too. This is where he's dealing with you guys too, so what do you want to do as you go down the basement? Do you remember you guys you guys know where you guys are at?

SPEAKER_04 54:10

Yeah. Oh shnap. It's it's keeps taking me to the um to the tunnel. Okay. Uh do you know what triggered the alarm last time, Wagnew?

SPEAKER_05 54:22

Um I don't. I think it was it the liquid or the book.

SPEAKER_04 54:30

Yeah, we were trying to. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 54:33

I remember.

SPEAKER_04 54:35

Damn. I wish I wrote what it specifically was. I think it was um I know we're trying to figure out what the liquid was, but I don't remember what specifically triggered it. Could we go well actually before I I do this, uh, who's all taking rest? Like who's going straight to sleep, I should say.

SPEAKER_05 55:04

I'll rest. I'll go straight to sleep.

SPEAKER_00 55:07

Uh just cause I'm fine, just stick around a while longer if I'm needed.

SPEAKER_04 55:14

Yeah, I mean, it we're just like safe now, so I'm just gonna go to the basement. I don't want to progress the story. If um, no one's ready yet.

SPEAKER_01 55:27

Okay, so everyone takes the rest of the site except for a black sky right now. Okay. Alright, Sky, you find yourself down in the basement. What is it that you're wanting to look at? Take a look at.

SPEAKER_04 55:42

I'm pretty confident it was a chest last time that triggered it. Can I just like look around, investigation check, looking at the um the pot of liquids?

SPEAKER_01 55:52

Yeah. You go back down there and you you see the pot there still, but inside the pot there's no more of that that weird liquid. Interesting. Um the books are are all still around you. The chest that was there is open, and as you get nearer, there's nothing in there.

SPEAKER_04 56:26

Can I dang I don't have detect magic on me. Um can I do an arcana check? Just through like the books or like trying to see if like the book contains like any information.

SPEAKER_01 56:42

Um you can let's see. You can go to the book that's near the chest, and as you're looking at it, go and give me an arcana check with that one.

SPEAKER_04 57:00

Damn, time.

SPEAKER_01 57:03

It looks like a regular book to you.

SPEAKER_04 57:06

Okay. Um just a regular book, then I'll gaze through the bookshelf.

SPEAKER_01 57:20

Okay, give me a investigation check. Damn.

SPEAKER_04 57:24

Ten?

SPEAKER_01 57:26

Ten.

SPEAKER_04 57:26

Ten, ten? Twenty.

SPEAKER_01 57:29

As you're looking around his books, it seems to be like any important books compared to when you and Wagney first came down here. Um, it seems to be that some books seems are are missing. Uh it's a little bit more messier than it was before.

SPEAKER_04 57:52

Huh. So it seems Silverfist got quite busy while we were gone. Alright, and then my last action is I'm just gonna rummage through the basement to see if I could like pickpocket anything valuable.

SPEAKER_01 58:08

Okay. Go and give me another meditation check. A three, bro. And as you're trying to just find something of value, something cool that you think that you could probably either sell or keep it on you. Um you're just so tired from the long day you had, the all the fights, like nearly dying, that you start to stumble just a little bit, and you f you find yourself, you find balance as you hold on to the bookshelf and just kinda hold your head. But you don't seem to find anything that seems to be valuable or maybe interesting here.

SPEAKER_04 58:52

Oh gosh. Oh pushing myself. Alright. Well, time to go to sleep. And then as I leave, I just grab the treasure chest and put it in my bag. The empty one? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:10

Okay. Yeah, my empty treasure chest. Stop me. It's a fairly small one, so yeah, it's like a jewelry box one. Nice. So you put it into your bag, you're good. Okay, and with that, if nothing else, then you guys get your long rest and morning comes.

SPEAKER_05 59:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 59:39

Yeah, everything comes back.

SPEAKER_05 59:41

Oh my gosh. Nice go. Oh my gosh. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 59:54

You guys sleep in a little bit, uh you guys are your exhaustion levels go down. And it's about 11 a.m., 12 p.m. or nearing 12 p.m. right now as you guys wake up. But the day the day is yours.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:11

I'll wake up and I'll check on Black Sky. Check with Black Sky. So did you find anything interesting before we went to sleep last night? I was. I was way too tired.

unknown 1:00:25

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:28

Uh no. Uh I tried, but I was probably too tired too. I mean, nothing fairly odd, but whatever he was prepping last time, he moved everything. The treasure chest was empty. Purple liquid is gone. A lot of books were gone. It's messy, so.

unknown 1:00:53

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:55

Yeah, whatever he was prepping, I mean Yeah, he's way ahead of us since we were stuck in the tunnel for so long.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:04

I I also recall there being a bunch of scrolls with what seemed to be the symbol for the black dawn on them. You didn't see anything like that anymore?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:17

Uh damn it. I wish No. I mean, we could go take a look. But no, it it that definitely passed my mind. I mean, we're here, so we might as well before Silverfist gets here.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:35

Alright. Is that person Is there another person in the room here with us, or is he just we're waking up still?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:41

You're the waking up, it's just you, Shutsule, Sky, and Zaliev. Uh Zalief overhears you, the two of you talking, and he just goes. Didn't we agree that it's not it's not polite to just go rummaging through our We're guests here. We shouldn't be doing stuff like that.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:04

Right, right. I uh I just forgot one of my very important scrolls in the basement. Give me one sec.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:14

Okay. You go down to the basement.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:17

I'll go down to the basement and I'll just look around for uh look around the scrolls down there just to see if I recognize any of those that I saw before with like the symbols of the Black Dawn.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:27

Uh you start looking around and you notice that it's also a um how I explained to her to Sky earlier, it's messier now. Um there doesn't seem to be any scrolls around here that carries a black dawn symbol or anything. You can give me a history check real fast.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:47

History check. I got a 15.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:51

15. Uh you do recall that when you guys were there last time, the only scroll there was only one scroll that carried that symbol, and it's the one that you currently have on you right now.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:02

No, there were there were a bunch of scrolls, I swear. I think I remember. But for sure, this one was here. And then I I'll like kinda hide it from Zoliov, but I'll show it to Black Sky, the scroll that I have.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:18

Right?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:20

Go ahead and roll me a uh uh slide of hand or stealth chai.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:25

Okay, slide of hand. No, it wasn't that one!

SPEAKER_01 1:03:30

That's trash. Yeah, you try to hide it, but you just kinda take it out and it it kinda like like uh uncurls and you're like, oh it's not, you just kinda curl back in. And then Zana just looks at you, turns to Shusui. I'm glad there's at least one lawless guy here. A lawful guy here, I mean.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:49

Yeah. Lawful good. I've tried to tone it down. It's uh it's a work in progress.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:00

But I promise you, Zalia, Shusui. There were there were more scrolls that I and and I know it looks weird because I took this one, but I swear there were more like this. And then can I read the scroll again to see what it says? I know it had the mark of the black dawn symbols on it.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:19

Yeah, you you open it and you just kinda look at it real fast, and you see stuff about like information about the um the golden staff, about how how uh Silverfist had suspicious, has been suspicious of it, like believing that it's causing the tremors and stuff. And then like off in the side you see like the symbol of the dark, uh the black dawn coat, which you've seen multiple times from engaging in battle with them. But then you see you also notice that some part of the scroll is like it's ripped off.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:58

I remember that now.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:00

Zaliff just kinds of looks towards the two of you, Skye and Wagnu, and he just goes like you guys exp like suspecting Elder Silverfist to be bad. What's going on?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:21

I don't know, but it just sounds like he knows more than he's leading on, and he's not sharing it with anyone else. You said it earlier, he led you the whole the whole village here to where he thought we would be. But how would he known that, right? How would he have known that? And then now we get back to this pl his place, and all these scrolls and stuff that were previously in this basement are no longer here.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:50

So Yeah, I mean, but he's a he's an elder here. He's been here for years, and this is his house. He can do whatever he wants, right? Or it's one of his elves that is.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:04

I don't know. I can't shake the feeling that something's off with him.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:09

She's we you get like a thought that goes through your mind that you still don't understand what's going on here. Like, why were they looking for the staff? Why were uh why did like why were they in a cage in the first place and all of that?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:27

Yeah, I know uh that's great and all, but uh I don't really get what's going on here. Uh where are we supposed to go talk to that uh monkey about the staff? Maybe he can tell us more? Uh I don't know, maybe on the way you guys can catch me up on on uh what I've missed.

unknown 1:06:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:52

You're right. Let's just all get our day started. And we'll get all our questions answered.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:01

I think we should go to our monkey friend first.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:06

I agree.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:08

Yep, that's fine.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:12

Alright. Let's get settled and head out. I think I let me just double check something with my spells and stuff. Oh, everything's good. I'm just gonna go ahead and do a classic here and just give Bardic inspiration dies to both to all three of us, to Shisui Bakskaya and Zelia.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:31

Nice. Cool. Pass my bard right there.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:35

Just in case we run into anything where you guys need um need to use some d20s.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:41

As you yeah, as you uh cast Bardic inspiration on the three of you, you see Zali looks kinda sad.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:50

Wait, wow! Why are you sad?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:54

Uh I just don't really I just don't feel very inspired right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:59

It's fine. I'll give him the one I would have gotten for being human.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:05

And all of a sudden he just uh he looks towards Juistui and he just kinda puts his hand out, like uh going for like a handshake or like a Chuestwee. Thank you, my friend.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:18

Yeah, don't worry. It's it's been a while, but uh it is really nice to see you again.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:25

Well you're gonna have to tell me all about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:29

Uh in due time, but uh we should probably make sure we settle the issue before we take the time to talk about the past.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:41

Of course. And the four of you start making your way out the door. Someone give me a perception check. One person.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:56

Hmm. I'm down to do it. Yeah, fifteen.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:00

Let's go. That's my bard. Um, as you four are walking towards the the cages where you were held captive before. At the corner of your eye, Wagner, you notice someone looking, or like I'm just watching you.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:20

Hmm. I notice someone watching me, huh? Black Sky. Do you recognize that guy over there? He's kinda got his eye on us. I'll kinda say in a close proximity voice.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:41

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:45

Oh, can I like bring him uh like kind of show black sky the direction of the guy? I'll like use my eyes or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:55

Yeah, you can try to subtly uh just kinda point the direction. Depends if Skye wants to turn that direction or just kinda like look from the corner of his eyes or what.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:07

Alright, don't make it obvious. I'm gonna drop something and you look over there while you pick it up. Alright. No, my wine. I'll put the I'll drop the bottle, the red bottle there.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:25

Oh no. Clumsy you.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:30

They told me not to drink in the morning. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:35

I'll go towards the wine, pick it up, and I'll glance at the guy who's staring at us.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:43

Okay. You pick it up, and as you look towards the direction of uh where Wagner was kind of like gesturing to, you see other silver fists from like atop the the hill and just looking at the four of you moving away from his house. And you recall that he had told you earlier when he had gotten out from the from the cavern, from the tunnels, that he would be there to talk to you guys.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:13

Huh. I whisper back. I hold their silver fist is just spying on us. He said he was gonna talk to us this morning, but he's just looking down on us from the hilltop.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:30

Damn. Looks like he caught us before we could find Monkey.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:35

Well, since he's here, you guys wanna just talk to him first?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:40

I mean, yeah, what the hell. I'll turn around and I'll purposely yell out and um a gleefully joy of the expression. Oh! Oh, there's overfist! Is that you over there?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:58

He starts making his way down. Takes about like you know a good five minutes. Eventually gets down to where you guys are at. Yes, uh. You guys are up already. How are you feeling?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:13

Ah man, I I I can't speak for the other two or three, but you know. The saying goes, early bird gets the worm. I feel fresh and alive.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:25

Anyways, before you get on with whatever you need to do, I wanna have a chat. Should we go inside?

SPEAKER_05 1:12:37

Lead the way.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:38

And he just takes you back into where you guys were sleeping. First of all, let me just congratulate you, the three of you. Not many dwarves, in fact, makes it through that trial. And he shows you finally what Shisui had saw before, uh, as he kind of shows you his arm, one of his makeshift arms. I was one of the dwarves that did. Were you able to find the golden staff?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:18

No. No, there's no staff. I mean, I definitely didn't see one. I don't know if Wagnun and Shisui saw one, but I mean, I did see a fire elemental and an earth elemental with a green crystal, but that's that's all I got.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:40

Give me a deception check.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:45

Let's go this never fails. Ooh! Alright, that's 24.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:52

24. Easy. You see, he he just rubs his uh his beard and he just goes. Interesting. We all saw the golden staff pierced from the ground as it as it expanded. Huh. But you said you fought against the fire elemental and an earth elemental. And the good the green crystal, you said.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:23

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, was there more? Concerning you lost your arm, no disrespect in the trial. There must have been something more than just those two, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:14:39

He looks at you and takes a look at uh Wagdu and Shusui. Well, since the two of you are already possessed the elemental artifacts, the water, the wind. I guess there's no trying to lie to you. Down there is where we keep the Earth elemental artifact. As a way to prove our strength as young dwarves, our fathers toss us into that cave. And that's how I lost my arm here. But I went by myself. Whatever you did, you stopped the tremors for now. What did you do with the earth elemental artifact?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:30

I didn't see any artifact.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:34

You said you saw the green crystal.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:40

So the green crystal was the Earth artifact? Huh. I mean, as soon as we touched it, the tremors happened. And after we defeated the Earth Elemental, I definitely didn't see any fragment. Maybe she swing Wangnu? I don't know. I mean, I was pretty hurt. I did fell down a pit.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:09

Give me a deception check.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:13

Ain't no lies here. 15.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:18

He looks at you and he just keeps rubbing his um his beard. Well, whatever you did, the tremor stopped. You said you fought you defeated the Earth Elemental Guardian, you said?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:38

Yeah, yeah. You said uh the Earth Fragment was down there? I mean. Yeah, well, I I mean we didn't I didn't see anything. We fought the Earth Elemental, the green crystal shattered, and that was that.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:54

I guess I'll gather some of the dwarves and the Goliaths and we will look for it then. I mean It's dangerous to just leave it down there.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:03

If you know how it looks like, maybe you could tell us, maybe we might have missed it.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:13

In its purest form, I haven't seen it. I just know it as the green crystal.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:21

Ah man, yeah, no luck.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:24

If you s if you what you said, if what you say is a troop and the three of you have defeated the Air For Elemental Guardian, that means that right now we are without a guardian, and that's not safe. Well, get on with your day. I'll go search for it with a group of my own.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:48

Before you go, you knew that the guardian was down there, and you you let us go down there anyways I said it was dangerous.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:03

And he looks for his back sky. Your friend here just decided to jump in.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:09

Hmm. And if you did find the elemental down there, the Earth Elemental, what are you gonna do with it?

SPEAKER_01 1:18:19

We must search for another guardian. That's the only way to stabilize it.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:25

I see.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:27

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:28

Something must have happened for it to be causing the tremors. I had originally suspected that it was a staff. But if what you're telling me is the truth, then something must have happened to the guardian.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:52

Well, I can't wait to hear what you guys find down there.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:01

Oh, get on it. I'm a busy man. He just starts walking out the door.

unknown 1:19:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:06

How f how far is he now? Uh he makes his he's pretty far now.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:12

You guys wait for a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:14

Yeah, we wait a little bit. I turn to Wagnew and um Zaliov and Shiswe. You guys you guys hear that? He lied. He said he came down here by himself when he was a kid as a trial. For the trial, but there are names carved onto the wall. Why would he lie?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:41

I don't know. But sooner or later they're gonna get down there and they're gonna realize that that um Earth artifact is no longer there, so I think our time is biting us before they get real suspicious.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:57

Time is of essence. Any objections?

unknown 1:20:02

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:03

Let's uh let's get go.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:06

And we book it. Okay, you guys book it to the cages where Hotali's at. And as soon as you get there, notice that the cages are all empty.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:24

I'll look around for like a guard or anything like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:29

You look around and uh give me a perception check. Twelve. You look around, you don't see any guard. But you see your walking towards the three of you. The four of you.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:54

I'll yell out to her. Yurr!

SPEAKER_01 1:20:58

As she approaches you, she just greets you like a little curt curtsy. Good morning. Or afternoon.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:11

Yeah, good afternoon. Where's the monkey? Monkey?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:16

Oh uh not too sure actually. After you after we were uh greeting you guys yesterday. It just disappeared. Disappeared? I want to talk to you the three of you. What did you find down there?

SPEAKER_05 1:21:42

Alright, I'll look around to see if there's anyone else in the proximity other than us. Us five.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:49

Uh with your 12th perception from earlier, you don't see anyone, just the five of you right now. You guys are pretty far from the the city. You guys are like near the gates.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:59

Okay. Then I'll look at Black Sky and kind of give him that look like do you think we should tell her?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:06

I look already Shisui too. I am down.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:14

I just shrug. I'm like, I still don't understand what's happening, really, so I'm just shrugging.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:22

I look back to Hognu. Alright, I think we're all thinking the same thing. We'll tell you for money.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:34

She just laughs.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:35

I just look down.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:37

How much money are you thinking about?

SPEAKER_05 1:22:40

Uh at least ten gold for each of us.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:44

I can do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:47

House thinking specifically 2500.

unknown 1:22:51

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:52

Yeah, let's with 25 divided by four. That's yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:57

Look, I may be the leader of this place, but I I'm not made of money.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:02

Ah, what the hell? Okay. What are you just joking by the way?

SPEAKER_05 1:23:09

15 gold it is each. No, I'm kidding. Um, but yeah. You have the artifacts.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:18

Alright.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:19

Well, here it is. Pull out the staff.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:25

She kind of just like brings her um her hands just kind of goes towards the staff. Can I take a look?

SPEAKER_04 1:23:35

I mean, yeah, if the monkey wants it that bad, he'll come out take it himself. I mean, it's not really his staff.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:47

Now, Silverfist says this was the cause of the tremors. Do you think he was right?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:00

I mean, you guys saw the staff shoot at the ground, so it could be part of it. Did you find anything else?

SPEAKER_00 1:24:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:09

I like a shiswe.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:13

I mean, there's not too much to say. It's just uh Why why don't you guys explain? You guys have a better way with words.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:31

Alright, in short, we kill the Earth Guardian. And she sweeps.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:36

Kill the Earth Guardian? You see our face just kind of gets surprised.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:42

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:44

But but why?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:46

Uh I mean, it was kind of do or die. Silver says something about finding a new guardian, so that I mean that shouldn't be a problem. But even if you guys do find a new one, um, yeah, why are you keeping this artifact? We're just missing one now, so. Whatever your dream was of. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:08

No, I I understand your your mission to gather to gather the artifacts. It's just why would the the guardian attack you three?

SPEAKER_04 1:25:17

You know what? Silver's fist said he mentioned the green crystal, but I don't think he knew it was the earth artifact. I shattered it into a little ball. Can you show it, Shusui?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:33

Yeah, I uh I handed it over.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:38

As you take out the earth elementary artifact, um Shusui, you also recall that when you had fought the Earth Guardian, it was like covered in black Icker. Uh Sky and Wang Liu, you also remember when you fought Telai that he was covered in black Icker. This is yeah, the one from my dream. But it's I still can't wrap my head around it. The the guardians, they're they're supposed to protect you, Bing. Why would they attack you when you have the other pieces?

SPEAKER_04 1:26:20

Wow. Well, I mean that's new information. We didn't know that.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:25

That's a good question, though. Why would they attack us?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:28

If anything, right now, Black Sky, you are the wind guardian. Well, he just kind of like looks at the um the green orb. I don't understand.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:43

Oh, you know what? That guardian didn't seem peaceful necessarily, or that it was guarding something. It seemed like it was corrupted of corrupted by something.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:01

Yeah, it's like this black goo that is afraid of light.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:11

What do you know about that?

SPEAKER_01 1:27:13

You're well things have been happening here. It's a lot darker than usual. And especially after what the two of you told me last time. If the spirit tree really is dying, and your mission is to collect these artifacts and bring it back to it. What if the black dawn coat is the reason behind the corruption?

SPEAKER_05 1:27:49

I'll pull out my water artifact, and then I'll kind of look over to Black Sky too. Do you remember when we had to fight the Water Guardian? It too was seemed corrupted.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:08

Yeah, same thing. Black goo. Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:13

I'll look over to Yoratu. What do you know about Silverfist, really? Do you trust him?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:22

She kinds of looks down. He's been here longer than me. Trust? I don't know. I want to believe that he has the best interest for Kayash, but he's also a man of many like many mysteries.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:53

Well, I found this in his house. And I'll show her the scroll.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:59

What is this? She just opens it and looks at it. I see the the golden staff, but what is this what's the symbol right here?

SPEAKER_05 1:29:09

That's the symbol for the Black Dawn.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:15

Why would Silverfist have a symbol? Or a scroll of a symbol of the Black Dawn? Unless Do you think he's a a spy? A traitor?

SPEAKER_05 1:29:30

I don't know for sure, but what I do know is there were more of these scrolls when we were at his house before, and then when we went back earlier, they were gone.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:50

If Silverfist is a spy for the Black Dawn, then we may already be in trouble. What if he planted that dagger on you, Wagnu? The dagger. You don't have a dagger. No, we don't have anyone. Oh yeah, they have it.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:15

The dagger.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:16

You're right. Well, you said someone from the Black Dawn gave you that dagger.

unknown 1:30:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:24

Do you happen to know exactly who it was?

SPEAKER_05 1:30:28

I just want to confirm this because this needed dig. Alright. So I have it in my notes right here. It says Black Sky's brother gave me the dagger.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:41

Is that is that the same You can you can ask guy.

unknown 1:30:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:51

Black Sky.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:54

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:56

There was There was someone who resembled you who gave me the dagger. And I don't want to make any assumptions, but I think it was your brother. Can you remind me how he looks? Or what you remember of him?

SPEAKER_02 1:31:17

My brother?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:22

Okay. I mean hard to miss, he's just as tall as me. Um same size? He has blue eyes, pale skin, and red hair.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:45

So your brother's a part of the Black Dawn?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:49

Okay, well, hold up. I mean, no one knows for sure. I'm looking for my brother. And where it on the street is that there's this tiefling. Red hair, blue eyes. Super big and bulky apparently now. Um, going around and you know. Causing a lot of trouble. Some may say it's murder. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. There's just was it him walking in?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:24

Can I do a can I check?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:26

Yeah, checking the history check. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:30

Bro, it's a NAT one. I'm ruining all the opposites, bro. I'm rolling all the batteries, bro.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:37

To you. You got it, man. Oh, yeah, you have inspiration.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:42

Did I use it? Alright, I'll do I'll use my inspiration die. Let me just make sure it's doing what I want it to do.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:54

With a D6.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:56

Uh Yep, so I can't. I get a seven.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:02

That's better than a one.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:03

Dude! That's tragic. Okay, hold on. It's three more. Oh four.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:09

It's a four. That's better than a one. Yeah. Um you try to recall, but you you never s you never seen Black Skies brother. Uh, you know for sure it's a Tiefling, but with a seven. Oh, it's a four, right? With with a four. Uh, you do recall that it has uh silver horns, if anything.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:31

Silver horns. I remember there being silver horns. I'll share.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:41

Yeah, nope. Not him.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:46

Okay. So Oh that that's a relief then, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:52

I mean, I I don't know if that's a relief. I mean they they still gave us the dagger, so there's someone definitely in here that's a spy.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:06

And she turns towards Shusui. You weren't there with them. How did you end up here? I've been meaning to ask, just I uh I'm not quite sure on that.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:21

It's I was with them in the uh the water temple, but then uh something happened and I kinda ended up separated, and uh I woke up here yesterday in a cage. So I'm not quite too clear on it myself.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:41

That's weird. It's as if you were meant to be here. And she just kinda hands back the um the earth artifact to you, choose to be.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:54

Yep, I just think and put it back in my pack.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:58

Whatever it is, we should be just be careful around Silver Fist. I don't wanna assume anything, but if the Black Dawn is already here, then we should probably start investigating and try to figure out where they are. Let's keep it between just us six first five.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:24

You're right.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:33

I have your staff. Where's the monkey?

SPEAKER_01 1:35:41

Your just looks at you surprised because it was a little like abrupt. Um you start looking around and you don't see the monkey anywhere.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:52

Oh, you want to play? Pull it out. Hold it in my two little fingers. I mean, if you don't want it, I'm gonna just throw it away right here, right now.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:06

Give me a fake check. 3D20. A fate a fate check.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:12

A fate. Ooh. My first ever. Nineteen!

SPEAKER_01 1:36:21

As you say, um, if you don't want it, I'm gonna throw it away. All of a sudden, just like a um a flash of like red and gold just go past you, and that staff just disappears from your fingertips. And you see the monkey on top of the cage holding the staff, and then you see as uh it gets a little bigger, and it's like almost like the size of the baton now, and just kind of turning it in his hand.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:53

Oh wow, I couldn't do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:56

It just goes, uh it just starts making like monkey noises at the at the four of you.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:03

I'll look over to Wagnu. Wagnu, do the thing, do the thing right now, right now.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:09

I charge up my firebolt. No, I'm just gonna walk over. I'll walk over to Hotali, that's the thing. And then I'll I'll you speak with animals from my televised whisper.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:25

Okay, you start playing your televised whisper, and um you start to understand what Hotali is saying now. He climbs down, like on closer to you, but he's still like hanging from the cage. Thank you very much. I appreciate the staff, friend.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:44

Yeah, we went through a lot of trouble to get it for you.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:48

That was a lot of trouble. Think about it.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:52

Well, what are you gonna do now, now that you have your staff back?

SPEAKER_01 1:37:55

I am gonna get the hell out of here. Oh, I hate this place.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:01

Yeah, even though you could have escaped at any time.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:05

Oh yeah, my ha ha ha. Uh I couldn't leave without my staff.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:10

Right. Okay, well, since we helped get this back for you, I was I was wondering if maybe you could help us.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:17

Hmm. I did promise you that, didn't I? Okay, you get one wish. Just one wish, that's it.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:31

One wish What? That's crazy, okay. I I yell at X WAN wish You guys heard that, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:38:44

Did you just say one wish, Wagnu?

SPEAKER_05 1:38:48

Uh uh he's the the monkey said if he had one wish, it would have been to get his staff back. So now that we got that's what he was saying. One wish, he said. I I just confirm with one wish.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:02

Yep. He just goes, yeah, but one wish, just one wish, that's it, and I'm gone.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:10

I wish for your staff.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:15

Anything except for that. You can't do that. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:18

I'm like, wait, let me get that.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:20

Let me make let me make the rules real fast. You can't bring back someone alive. You can't go in, you can't go forward in time, and you can't take my staff.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:28

Ah, dang.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:29

Aside from that, one wish.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:31

Okay, okay. Hmm. One wish. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:41

I'll give you exactly five minutes to make it. He just kinda looks at his uh his wrist. There's not a watch or anything, but he just looked at it.

unknown 1:39:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:48

Okay, I'll look over to Black Sky and she suites. Zolia for quick. Guys, we got one wish. What do you guys want to do? We got one wish. One wish?

SPEAKER_01 1:39:58

Zal and just goes. Um I if I had one wish, I I wish that I might I can find my family. Um, I want to know if this is my actually my hometown or not.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:12

I'll come back to that.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:12

Yeah, yeah, we'll come back to that as a okay, okay. I mean you asked me.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:18

Yeah, yeah, thank you, thank you. Alright, uh, Black Sky, what do you do?

SPEAKER_04 1:40:22

Okay, if we want this life altering wish, I mean the simple thing was just to be erase the Black Dom from existence, no?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:32

I mean, I think there's something more important than that. You know, maybe help us, you know, revive the the spirit tree. Because if the spirit tree goes, everything in U Paint kinda goes.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:46

Or infinite gold. No. I'll just I'll just get okay. Alright. TikTok.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:00

Okay, okay. You're just looking at uh the five of you confused.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:07

I mean that or you can get it to go get us the fire elemental crystal. Save us the journey.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:14

Do we still have the um the the We have all of the artifacts on us and the Yeah, we have all the artifacts on us, right? Like the water earth. Yes, window.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:25

We're just missing the fourth piece.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:26

Yeah, water, earth, and um wind. Yeah, water, earth, wind. You're missing one more piece.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:33

Okay. I wish for you. I wish to know where the remaining piece of this of this is, and then I'll pull out.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:44

Okay, no takebacks! And he just uh you see as he just uh his staff just grows like super long now. He swirls around, you see like rainbow comes out from his staff, um, you see his body starts to get covered in like a like a cloud almost, and then he just uh disappears, and like almost like the the glow of the sun just goes into your eyes and you kind of block it out. As you wish for that, you start to hear something in your mind. You hear the words dunuf and boy. All of a sudden uh Shusui hears that as well. Dunuf and boy. And then Black Sky, you hear it as well. You see um uh what seems to be a village. Uh Wagner, you see a village of bards, you see a village of elves playing music, singing, dancing, and then you see what seems to be like a like an altar, and then you see the last remaining piece, a red puzzle piece with red aura emanating from it. Shusui, you see a sword, a great sword. It's all black with a purple vein that runs down it. And in your mind, Shusui, you suddenly get like a cold feeling in your body. You remember the sword. The sword that had slain your family. Wagnu, you suddenly get you suddenly uh see the same sword that Shusui sees. A black great sword with just a purple vein that runs through the blade. You see as this sword stabs into your mom and your dad. You see as uh people try to administer healing spells, but nothing seems to be working. And then Sky, you see the sword as well as it your vision kinds of kind of zooms out, and you start hearing the word just binging in your head, d enough, m oi, dnuff, m, oi, dnuff found, oi. And then Scott, you hear as a figure in clad in black armor, holding on to this black great sword. He turns his face to look behind you. And you see as the words dunough MOI starts to kind of scramble up, and you see it goes from you see the found word, and then you hear in your head, you found me, brother.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:43

And then y'all come back to Are you uh you guys did you guys uh I was like look over and like assess black sky and shisui? You guys just saw that monkey make a rainbow and disappear too, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:46:05

Yeah that was uh that was kinda weird.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:10

And I don't have infinite gold in my bag. I don't I don't even understand what really happened, but I heard that I heard that phrase again, black sky.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:23

Did you guys see the visions?

SPEAKER_05 1:46:30

I saw some things.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:33

Saw the the altar with the fire artifact. Did everyone see the same thing?

SPEAKER_00 1:46:47

Yeah. We we gotta figure out where that is and uh get to it before before something happens to it Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:03

Yorgus looks at you. What happened? What did you see? Where'd the monkey go? I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:17

I saw we saw an altar with a red puzzle piece that was missing.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:25

That's probably the fire elements artifact.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:31

Do you know any anything or anywhere there could be a red altar here?

SPEAKER_01 1:47:36

Uh give me more information. What did you what else did you see?

SPEAKER_04 1:47:43

A a village with elves and bards? Bards? There is music.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:51

Drenner. It has to be drenner. Drenner, what is that? It's uh a village in the forest near the spirit tree.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:03

Oh do you know could you point us in the direction? Do you know where it is?

SPEAKER_01 1:48:11

Far, far away from here. You'd have to cross the sea. No. Cays is its own little isle. It's it'll take days to get there.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:29

Have you ever been there into that village, yeah?

SPEAKER_01 1:48:34

No. Never. It's too far. But I know about it. I've seen it in my dreams.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:44

What do you know? I don't mean to pry you or interrogate you, but it I don't want to get my hopes up. It looked like the it looked like my village. I saw some things, I don't know. But you're a human. Alright, the truth is I'm not really a human.

unknown 1:49:13

What?

SPEAKER_05 1:49:15

Yeah, I I'm actually an elf. But when I was young, I had to flee my village from an attack, and in order to not get caught, I I thought it'd be a good idea to make myself look like a human, so. And then I kinda show them more so my ears so they can see the scar. This is something I don't really like t telling people about, but but if you could tell me more about this village, it sounds like my home village.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:49

Oh yeah, it's Drenner is the as far as I know from my dreams, it's the only village in Yuping where the elves live. It's also where the magic of music is made.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:08

And you know how to get there.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:11

Oh, I I know it's across the sea. And like I said, it's just in front of my visions, I don't know the exact way there, but first you got to cross the sea.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:30

That's so very far away, Zobor. Very far away. Thank you though. I also saw a black sword. A black a very big black green sword.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:51

That I don't know anything about.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:53

Thank you, Elise, for telling me about the village Jernor?

SPEAKER_01 1:50:57

Jernor.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:59

Jernor.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:02

Wait, but how did you get that how did you get that vision? And where did the monkey go? Did the monkey give you that vision?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:10

I think so. I'm not entirely sure. I don't even know what the monkey did to us. What were you what were you asking it? And it uh It allowed me to ask it a question, and then I asked it a question, and then it gave me that answer, and then it just disappeared. That's what I see.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:37

What now?

SPEAKER_04 1:51:39

Well Go ahead, Wagner.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:45

Well now I I have my sights set a little more clearly, but my big concern is what are we gonna do about Silverfist and the Guardian.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:02

Well if the if there's crystals with us, then they don't really need a guardian, do they?

SPEAKER_01 1:52:11

Well if if one of you become the guardian, then I guess it'll be fine. I mean it's it's your mission anyway. Superfest probably doesn't want you to have the the artifact. But if it's for the spirit tree, then it's fine. I can try to convince him.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:33

Okay. The last thing we want to do is create conflict in the village.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:40

No, that's there's already been a conflict since I became leader. My main concern is is the Black Dawn. That's what I'm worried about.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:52

There's yeah, there's this there's been this voice that we've all been hearing here. Maybe you know the language, but it goes, um it's it's a saying, it just keeps going the neuf and oi.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:10

Oh yeah, I remember hearing that.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:15

She thinks about it, she ponders for a little bit. I don't think I do actually. Sorry. Did you see something else?

SPEAKER_04 1:53:33

No, that's that's all I got. I was just the village, the artifact, and the freeze.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:41

Look, I'll I'll try to. If you can wait a few days, uh I'll see if I can get a ship ready.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:50

A ship? That'd be great.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:53

It might take a while, but I'll try to convince the council. In the meantime, if you guys if the the four of you can you can investigate a little bit and just help us out with this the Black Dawn issue. That'd be great.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:11

Yeah, I think Silverfist definitely knows more about this.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:15

Yeah, I hate to break it down to you, but um I may have lied to Silverfist that the Earth Artifact is still down there, so um time is of essence, and he's gonna notice that we took the earth artifact, so I don't know how long we have to investigate.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:43

Well, if he if he went down there, then it should be a while.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:48

Okay, well, yeah, we do have the earth artifact, so I mean well as soon as he's gets back, I think that's when we'll get our answer.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:01

Okay, aside from helping with a ship, is there anything else I can do now to help you?

SPEAKER_05 1:55:06

Uh is there any way ten gold? Sorry, I wasn't missing out.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:14

Well, is there any way you can help us get supplies? We're uh we've run through most of our uh resources uh during the trial. Especially potions. We uh we've read clear out of potions.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:31

Real potions. Of course. Let's head back to um your place where you're staying at, and I'll I'll have someone bring you the potions and supplies. And the gold, of course. Is there anything else?

SPEAKER_04 1:55:57

Oh. Um she's the blacksmith.

SPEAKER_06 1:56:06

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:07

Yeah, if we could uh get some upgrade on our weaponry. It's a long journey.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:13

It'd be great. She kinda just like uh she kinds of rubs her head a bit. Actually about that when the Golden Staff had pierced through the the ground and uh called the tremors, her armory was in rubbles. And she was screaming about how someone forced uh an unforging ritual.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:46

Um I don't know about any ritual, but yeah, I think that may have been me.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:52

Does it ring a bell?

unknown 1:56:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:55

Yeah, but well, anyways, her her forge is down. You can if you want, you can go see if you can check on it and see if you can help her get get it back running, but if not, I can do it. I can have someone go check. And she turns to Zalif. Would you do so? And Zaliaf is just confused. Uh yeah, yeah. Uh um, yeah, this is uh I guess this is my home, so yeah, yeah, sure. Okay, so I'll see you at your uh place you're staying at.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:34

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:35

Is there anything else you guys want to do before you guys head back?

SPEAKER_05 1:57:40

I was gonna say go check out the blacksmith, but since it's in shambles, yeah, probably not. Damn good.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:46

Same.

unknown 1:57:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:49

You guys start walking back to um the place you're staying at, at one of Sorfus' house. And your separates from you to go where she needs to go with Zaleyev. After waiting for like what seems to be like 30 minutes, 45 minutes, Zaliaev comes back with like a bag, and he puts it on the table. In it you get six healing potions. You get uh your 15 gold pieces each. You get uh like a few rations, uh like the basic needs, um ropes if you need it. And you also get one dwarven coin. So what the Dwarven coin is, it when you give to someone, it just gives you um advantage on any ability checks to a Dwarven person.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:59

You say we get six potions each?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:02

Uh two potions each, so it's six total.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:05

Gotcha, gotcha. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:08

That's expensive.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:09

Yeah. Dwarvish corn.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:14

Okay, uh, I don't know what's going on here, but you guys seem kinda kind of out of it, so should I leave you to it?

SPEAKER_05 1:59:27

Yeah. I think we're good.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:32

Where are you guys gonna missigate next? What are you thinking?

SPEAKER_05 1:59:39

I mean I think which is fireball, but uh I definitely think we should talk to Silverfist, see what he knows, confront him or something.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:56

Yeah?

SPEAKER_04 1:59:58

Do you want me to come with you? Oh yeah. You're definitely coming, Zaliov.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:03

I mean, there could be a battle. Yeah, I mean we're gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:09

I mean, I guess that is the easiest way, right? Why go around looking for clues when you can just go to the source itself? Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:18

You're my type of guy, Xaliov. You get it.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:23

But we need some sort of leverage. We should threaten his family.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:27

No, that's definitely that.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:29

That's terrible, that's terrible. That's terrible. That's terrible. But yeah. I think we should go talk to him, confront him.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:40

I mean, we can't really go to him unless we jump down the tunnel again, but um you could go wait where he waited for you guys.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:55

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:56

It might be a few hours though, so Well, if we're gonna just be waiting for him, we might as well just go into the tunnels and find him. That way, if there is uh a fight or something happens, he'll be a bit more discreet.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:13

What if we're walking into his trap? Maybe he wants us to go find him.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:20

I mean, it's always a possibility.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:25

Give me an insight check, Black Sky. Ooh. 13. You do know that um Saurifist has been sending a lot of mixed signals. Sometimes he seems like he's trying to help you, and then sometimes he seems like he's trying to trying to get rid of you. But for 13 inside check, you know that he believes whatever he's doing, whatever you think he's doing, it's for the greater cause of Kayush.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:58

Damn. Damn it. Damn it. Alright. There's something. But you guys may be right. Whatever it is, I'm all for it.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:12

Do we want to go look for him or should we wait for him? This is the big question.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:20

Uh I think we should go looking for him. That way, like I said, if something does happen, it's somewhere more secluded. And if we do get attacked, the only people who will be in danger is us and them. Whereas if we wait for him to come back and something happens, then it could include the entire uh the entire town.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:44

Let's hope it doesn't come to that. But yeah, I'm down to look for I'm down to go.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:49

Then let's get going.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:53

Okay. Back to the hole.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:55

Fantastic. Back to the hole. Takes like an hour, but you make your way back to the hole where you had jumped through before. The one you just came out from. It's about 4 p.m. right now.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:15

4 p.m. Alright, here it is again. You guys wanna go first again?

SPEAKER_00 2:03:23

Yeah, I'll go first again.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:26

Yeah, I mean, we've done it before.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:31

I mean, most of the monsters and enemies should be dealt with. There shouldn't be any real concerns.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:42

I'll just look around and see if I can tie a rope onto something. Just to have some sort of another exit.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:49

Give me a investigation check.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:55

I got uh 11.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:58

It's not high DC. You start looking around and you notice as well, you know, there's already some ladders that leads down there. And it seemed to it seemed to be had been there the whole time. But y'all you guys just decided to jump down.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:12

Alright, let's remove these ladders. No, I'm not kidding. Alright, cool. Yeah, there's ladders here, you guys. Let's just yeah, let's get out of here. Let's get down here.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:24

You start going down there and then you notice that it doesn't go all the way down. It takes you about halfway and it stops right there. And that was also one of the reasons why you couldn't get back up. So you would have to jump down. And from here out from here, it's about like 15 feet.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:42

Can I tie the rope here?

SPEAKER_01 2:04:44

Yeah, so you are hanging from the ladder, so you can try to give me a deep uh dexterity check. See if you can tie a good knot.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:53

Awesome dexterity. Oh, it's a 20. Let's go. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:58

Yeah, you use one hand, one hand just perfect knot.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:04

Let's go. Alright, and then I'm just gonna slide down.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:10

Okay. The two of you going down to? Yep. Um as the three of you hit the ground softly this time, and then Zaliov and Frost kind of Frost is kind of hanging on Zalyov's back. And he just comes down as well. Oh it's pretty hot down here, uh. And he looks around you. He turns around to look at the three of you. Uh-oh. You see his face kinda kinda freeze.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:54

Wait, is it you can you can't handle this, Aliaf?

SPEAKER_01 2:05:59

You see his finger goes up. Whatever you do, don't look behind you.

unknown 2:06:07

What?

SPEAKER_05 2:06:10

I'll swing behind me. Just swing behind me.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:14

Yeah, I turn around at the same time too.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:16

You swing behind you, you don't get anything. Uh Black Sky, you turn around. What are you doing, Shusui?

SPEAKER_00 2:06:22

Uh I'm just gonna draw my rapier and try to like try and see if I can get a reflection off of it. Try and see what's behind me.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:31

Uh you draw your rapier, you try to get some light on it, uh too diminare, you can't really see anything, but black sky, as you turn around, you hear a familiar voice. It's very nice to see you again, Black Sky. And my favorite friend, Wagnu. He did such a good job with a dagger. Oh, and that must be Shusui. And the three of you turn around and you see Van Gor and like 20 Black Dawn members. That's where we'll stop.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:10

Holy! Why do we go down?

SPEAKER_06 2:07:14

I had a feeling.

SPEAKER_01 2:07:33

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