Wanderfool | Yu Pheng Ep. 20: The Hunters and The Hunted | D&D 2024

The day in Jrenor ends up being a joyous one, each of our heroes having a chance at peacefulness. But all seems too well in the elven village. And if there's one thing they've learned throughout their journey, it's that there are always secrets to be unveiled. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:00

What's up, Wanderers? It's your DM Jackie. It's your favorite off bard, Wagner?

SPEAKER_00 0:05

It's the fighters, usually.

SPEAKER_07 0:07

One and only Swisser, Black Sky. And I'm the Ranger Lee.

SPEAKER_05 0:52

Last time, the four of you finally reached Driner, an elven village nestled high within the verdant forest. After discovering a way to ascend into his canopy, you were met by the innocent and bright-spirited Ravane, who quickly befriended you all. In contrast, therein, the ashen-haired elven woman, greeted you with her blade drawn, its edge aimed squarely at Lee. While Lee's attempt to ease her caution fell short, Shusui's steady words finally convinced her to lower her weapon. She summoned the chief of drennor to meet you. Everything changed when Lee revealed the scar on his right wrist, a perfect mirror to the one-etched and to Fenouin's left. From that moment, he vowed to guarantee your safety and formally welcomed you to Drennor. You walked with Finwin, sharing words that had awaited two hundred years to be spoken. The rest of you sent something beneath the village's warmth, something off, and resolved to look deeper. That curiosity led you into an unusual home filled with trinkets and oddities. These steps carried him towards what used to be his old home, hoping for something familiar. You confided in her about the artifacts, the coat. And when Jucy asked a simple question about time, a sudden booming sound cut through the moment. Drums, lutes, music swelling through the air. The homecoming celebration had begun. The scent of roasted meat and spiced drink filled your lungs as your laughter echoed through the village. Each of you found a place within the celebration. If only for a night, when you could belong. The peaceful night ends. And the morning comes. Can I get you all to row initiative, please?

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Oh man, initiative off the job.

SPEAKER_07 3:11

DM's like, nah, roll initiative right now. I got a six. Peaceful night in our campaign?

SPEAKER_00 3:17

Impossible. We haven't had a peaceful night in like years. Oh my god. Um, my initiative is ten. I rolled a six.

SPEAKER_09 3:31

Ten. Nice.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

Uh let me see what frost gets.

SPEAKER_10 3:36

I got a twenty-three.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Holy. Frost is also ten.

SPEAKER_07 3:43

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

But the other way around. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 3:46

I got a twelve. Twelve? Okay. Oh wait. Plus modifier? Uh 18. 18, that's good.

SPEAKER_05 4:02

The lord. You guys can relax. It's not a fight.

SPEAKER_09 4:09

I was like, oh wait.

SPEAKER_05 4:12

Lee with a 23 initiative. You are the first to wake. The night before Lingazarn lingers on in your mind as you remember you were at the treetop with the wooden slab of your brother's name. As you wake too, you hear the chirping of birds, the smell of oak, resin, and you can kind of smell like bread being baked somewhere. What's the first thing you do as you wake up?

SPEAKER_10 4:58

Um, I think I'd wake up and kind of head outside to listen to the birds for a little while.

SPEAKER_05 5:07

You head outside and you see as there are a few elven um few elves who are up.

SPEAKER_10 5:20

Um after I kinda I I think I just like kinda look out into the trees for a little while, and then um once I'm done, if no one else is awake, I'll go look for whoever is baking bread.

SPEAKER_05 5:36

Okay, you start using your nose, your hunter's nose, and you start to follow the sense of where this bread is coming from. As you follow this the smell, it takes you to a a place you wouldn't have expected. And as you look up, you see on the top, on top of the door, you see the like a the weird, odd symbol with the two wings that you know to be Ravain's home.

SPEAKER_10 6:12

Um I knock on the door.

SPEAKER_05 6:16

As you go to knock the door, you're your fists gently push the door open. And you get like a strong whiff of that bread smell.

SPEAKER_10 6:27

I'll head in and I'll I'll take a step in and I'll be like, Ravain, I something smells delicious.

SPEAKER_05 6:38

In front of you, you see Ravain sitting there on the ground. Um, some kind of contraption in front of him. And it seems to be like have like steam coming out from it. He turns over to you.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Oh, good morning, Lee.

SPEAKER_10 6:55

Would you like some bread? I would love some bread. What's this machine you have here?

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Uh you know what? I I'm not too sure myself. I found it on the ground. Apparently it heats up stuff. So I found some dough laying around and Look!

SPEAKER_04 7:21

We got bread.

SPEAKER_10 7:25

Uh I'll uh I'll reach for a slice of the bread.

SPEAKER_05 7:32

He gives it to you, and as you take that piece of bread, it feels a little hard, uh a little overcooked.

SPEAKER_10 7:39

I'll take a bite and uh crispy. That's just how I like it.

SPEAKER_05 7:47

Go ahead and give me a con save.

SPEAKER_08 7:50

Oh no.

SPEAKER_10 7:56

Uh Dirty20.

SPEAKER_05 7:58

Nice. Yeah, you're used to this kind of food, you know. You've been you've been adventuring for a while. Uh sometimes you have to just grab by, so yeah.

SPEAKER_10 8:10

He seems to eat it. Uh if possible, I'd kind of try and look at the machine that eats stuff or contraption, whatever.

SPEAKER_05 8:24

You look down on it, and it seems to be a meta contraption. Um, there seems to be some kind of rune inside. And you can see on the rune it's kind of it's grow like glowing red. And as he clicks a button on it, it stops the glow.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

It's pretty neat, Ali. Yeah, this is I wonder what they call it.

SPEAKER_10 8:58

I don't I don't know. Uh where where did you find this exactly?

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Oh, I I was just walking around. Um I think it was just a little bit away from the forest.

SPEAKER_10 9:17

Uh do you mind if I get a closer look at it?

SPEAKER_05 9:20

Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. And he picks it up, hands over to you.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

Careful, it's a little hot.

SPEAKER_10 9:29

Okay, now that it's in my hands, I'm gonna try and get an even closer look at it.

SPEAKER_05 9:36

What are you trying to um get from this?

SPEAKER_10 9:41

Uh I'm trying to see what like how it's heating, I guess, like what is the source of the heat.

SPEAKER_05 9:49

Okay. Give me an arc an arcana check.

SPEAKER_10 9:51

Okay. Ooh, plus zero. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 9:56

A five. Five. Um, you're looking at this and you don't see quite seem to understand. All you know is from what you saw from Walid, from um what Ravain did, was he pressed a button and it seem seemed to have turned this little thing inside red, and it seemed to it seems to heat things up from doing that.

SPEAKER_10 10:20

Well, uh, I'll let you hold on to this, Ravain. Um, I'm gonna go uh see the others uh when they wake up.

SPEAKER_04 10:30

Uh okay, yeah, yeah. If you want some more bread, you know where to find me.

SPEAKER_10 10:36

No, I kinda hit start heading back.

SPEAKER_05 10:39

You start to head back. Sky, you wake up. You see Wagnu sleeping on the bed in front of you. You see a chest next to you where you had put some of your belongings. As you get up to stretch a little bit, you look around and you don't see Lee anywhere. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_07 11:15

Oh, what a night. Um, I will reach out and call for Edge of Dawn.

SPEAKER_05 11:29

As you reach for Edge of Dawn, where would it have been on like where would you have put it? Is it on you? Is it in the chest?

SPEAKER_07 11:39

Uh I assume it would be like if I had a bag where we had like an area where we put our stuff, it'd be there.

SPEAKER_03 11:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 11:51

You go and find Edon. You take it up, and as you hold it in your hand, in your palm, it feels just right. Hello?

SPEAKER_07 12:09

Good morning. Good morning. How you doing? So do you just Are you just dormant in this thing?

SPEAKER_05 12:26

Uh, kind of. I mean only you can hear me now.

SPEAKER_07 12:32

Okay. So does that mean you don't sleep?

SPEAKER_05 12:40

I guess I sleep, not in the way you do.

SPEAKER_07 12:45

Okay. So many questions. I mean, we have time, so. I'll start off by asking if how old are you?

SPEAKER_04 12:59

Very old. At least a thousand.

SPEAKER_07 13:05

At least a thousand. And you just don't have a name, it's what do I call you? Just Edge of Dawn?

SPEAKER_05 13:17

Yeah. Just Edge of Dawn. You can call me Edge, you can call me Dawn. And if I mean heck, we're partners now, you wanna give me a name, that's fine too.

SPEAKER_07 13:33

Well, we'll stick to Dawn. That's that's a good one. But you just if you're a thousand-year-old then you must have had multiple partners, no?

SPEAKER_01 13:47

I believe so. It's a little fuzzy here.

SPEAKER_07 13:51

Anyways, that that other weapon. The one that looks like me, the the sword that he was carrying. The void bringer, I believe it's called. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 14:07

What about it? Is Are you older? No.

SPEAKER_07 14:19

That thing's way older. I'm assuming way stronger too.

SPEAKER_05 14:24

Well that depends on the user. Whoa. Did I hurt your feelings? You're probably stronger than your brother, if anything. But you can be.

SPEAKER_07 14:36

Nah, nah. That's the obvious. I already knew that. Alright. Well, anyways. Just wanted to check you were still alive. Or, like I said, if you're sleeping.

SPEAKER_05 14:51

Yeah. I'll be alive as long as you're alive.

SPEAKER_07 14:57

Uh huh, that's interesting. Then how do I destroy you? I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 15:06

That's not something I I look into.

SPEAKER_07 15:10

Ah. You're right. I mean you are a thousand a thousand-year-old, so. I'm probably sure a lot of people have tried. You'd be surprised. Anyways. Alright, just wanted to check if you're alive. I'm gonna go on with my day. Try to feed you if I can.

SPEAKER_05 15:39

You know that that would be really, really great. And as you as he says that, you start to feel um as you're holding it in your hand, you almost see like some shadow being swarming around your hand, and they kind of like get sucked into your arm. And you feel like a surge of energy in yourself. Just a little treat for our our partnership. And now you you've unlocked a few spells. Thanks to the edge of dawn.

SPEAKER_07 16:19

Okay.

unknown 16:21

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 16:23

I'm looking forward to this partnership. Swing the Edge of Dawn around, just looking at it. Okay. I will Investigate our room, I guess.

SPEAKER_05 16:39

Okay. You get up, you look around. Uh it seems uh like a very nice sturdy wooden um wooden home. As you walk around, you notice it's like right next to where the lift was when you all came up. It was like the it was like the house right next to it. Um there seems to be about four bedrooms in here. Um nothing too crazy. It seems like it's like a like a guest place. Place for guests. It's very clean as as well. Almost as if there's not really that many guests who come by anyway. But they still have a guest room, just in case. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 17:20

Um I so there's two things I um okay, so I'm assuming it's a pretty empty guest room. Um I will try to burn up something in the room that I can easily put out.

SPEAKER_05 17:41

Okay. Um above you, above your bed, you see like a little like a plant that's kind of like just um right there has like furniture to look nice. You can rip off like a piece of leaf right there, and you can burn it up if you can. If you want.

SPEAKER_07 17:58

Okay. Uh I won't rip it off, but I'll burn it from there. And then if um to to cut out the fire, I'll just like pat it down if it gets too big.

SPEAKER_05 18:08

Okay. You do that and it starts to catch on fire, it starts to smoke, and then you pat it away and then you kill it. Kill the fire.

SPEAKER_07 18:23

Oh man. Based on this interaction, is there like Can I deduct anything out of this interaction? Like um, by the way, the fire burns or the smoke rises.

SPEAKER_05 18:44

From this little interaction, it's it seems as if it's just like your normal fire, uh, nothing too crazy. It's not anything similar to when you were um the day before when you had burned the ground a little bit.

SPEAKER_08 19:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 19:08

So the day before you had uh put up a little put a little fire in um in that room that all of you were at. And when you had reached down, you remember there was like a like a sense of like coldness when you went to go turn, like to kill the fire. This one is just like a normal fire. It's it looks exactly the same as as if something was being burned and you just put it out normally. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 19:33

Um step outside and just um inspect, I guess. Inspect the trees.

SPEAKER_05 19:46

You begin to step outside. You walk past uh Shusui and Frost. Um you still notice that Lee's nowhere nowhere there. As you get outside, you see all the elves starting their day. You see a few of them starting to like play some play some music, you know, some some of their their bongos, their drums, they're tapping on lightly. Uh you see a few of them already starting to like dance around. They they walk as if they're dancing around. It seems like a very happy and lively place compared to Kayish, compared to Dawang, Fang. It almost seems as if they're not even aware of the things that are going, like the things you've you've all been through. It seems like if everything was normal, this would be the definition of it.

SPEAKER_07 20:46

Uh alright, so for my last, I guess, interaction is um I will try to have a conversation with a resident of Drenner.

SPEAKER_05 21:02

You look around for someone nearby, you see um an elven man, a wiry elven man with black hair who starts to like just kind of like skip towards you. He skipped towards you, he waves to you. Hello there! Good morning to you. And he keeps walking by as you kind of like put your hand out to stop him, and he stops. Yes.

SPEAKER_07 21:30

Sorry, um, sorry sorry to bother you. Good morning, by the way. Would you by chance know what year it is?

SPEAKER_05 21:40

Uh let me think. You know what? We don't really count our days here. Maybe you should ask uh Finuin, he might know. I'm sure you can get an audience with him. Ah, I see. And know the model drenner. Every day is is Special day. That's all that matters.

SPEAKER_07 22:02

Ah, that's right. Every day is a special day indeed. And if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

SPEAKER_05 22:13

Oh boy. Look, I may not look like it, but I'm at least 200 years old. And he starts to like flex. He's just super skinny. You see those guns?

SPEAKER_07 22:23

Oh man. Oh yeah, those amazing guns. Amazing guns.

SPEAKER_05 22:27

200 years of hard work, I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_07 22:31

Ah. Yeah, that's a lot of time being put into that. Okay. Um. And just one last question, so we could go on with our days. When was the last time anyone has left Drenner?

SPEAKER_05 22:46

Oh, it depends what you mean by that. I mean, Darian leaves every day. That's because she goes hunting. But are you mean you're talking about like leave the forest, leave the forest, or just like, you know, going outside for a walk?

SPEAKER_07 23:03

Yeah, let's say like an an adventure or an expediture, you know, they have to go to a city to, I don't know, trade for items.

SPEAKER_05 23:12

Uh, we don't really trade. You got everything we need here in the forest.

SPEAKER_07 23:16

Ah, okay. Noted. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 23:22

Well, nothing else. Have a good day! He starts skipping around, skipping off again. Shoo swee. You start to feel a nudge by your feet as frost starts to wake you up. You also get like a whiff of like uh what would have been the scent of black sky who had just passed you, and you wake up and you look around you. You don't see Lee there who is sleeping next to you. Um you can hear Wagnu snoring in the the end in the other room. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Uh I start to stretch, but then you just see me. Uh just halfway through I just kind of freeze. I sniff the air a little bit and I go. Why do I smell smoke? And then I uh look at Frost. He doesn't seem alarmed. So I kinda just uh I just get up and uh try and figure out where everyone else went.

SPEAKER_05 24:41

Yeah, you look at Frost, Frost gives you like a shrug. Like a shit, you're used to it. You get up and you start to look around. Um you go to the next room, you see Wagnu just still sleeping. He seems to be having some pretty good dreams. Um Skye is not there. Sky, you see Sky's chest is open, he took some of his stuff. Um on top of Skye's bed, you see like a burnt leaf that was put out not too long ago.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

I kinda I look at the leaf a little funny. Kinda tilt my head, uh sigh a little bit. I turn towards walking and I just kinda think to myself, I thought he finally got over sleeping. But I guess he's really tired of the celebration. I guess you can sleep a little bit longer, and I'll just kinda like grab my things and walk out the front door.

SPEAKER_05 25:43

As you walk out the front door, you realize that you don't make any noise. There's no footsteps. Something happened during that night. You bot your body feels super light, and you make your way to the door. You see Sky conversing with um a villager, and that villager starts to happily hop away. You look around you. The verdant forest looks nice as the sun hits and there's like just like the morning dew from on the leaves.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Uh-huh. Man, I must have slept great. I haven't felt this great in in months. Man. I kinda caught uh the black sky. Oh. Uh what do you have to sky?

SPEAKER_07 26:54

Oh. Morning Shisui. Just um I guess it's could say more investigating. Just snooping around.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

Yeah, uh you know, snooping is fine and all, but uh you may want to make sure that your little pyromaniac doesn't leave uh some I don't know. Evidence. I saw a burnt leaf on your bed. You may want to uh clean that up before someone sees it.

SPEAKER_07 27:29

No, I I actually think I want to leave that there. It's just it's a village of trees. But I There's no fires ever. Or so it seems.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

I mean, that's I won't tell you you can't do it, I just don't think it makes sense, but yeah. Uh I don't know about you, but I could I can go for something to eat.

SPEAKER_07 28:01

Yeah. Talk about making sense. Fires and the forest. Um, I mean, yeah, of course. Of course. Should we wake up Wagnu? I mean, I don't think it's not one of those where he fell asleep for a whole week again, right?

SPEAKER_00 28:21

I doubt it. He seems to have been uh on top of it recently, so we'll see. Uh he shouldn't be getting up soon anyway. He's never been one to say no to food, right?

SPEAKER_05 28:39

Exactly. At the mention of Wagnu. A beam of light hits your face, Wagnu. What kind of dream are you waking up from?

SPEAKER_09 28:52

I'm dreaming about all the music and the dancing and the rhythm of the drums last night, people cheering and singing, and just kind of how restful the night was compared to our nights before along our journey, and it feels good to actually put my guard down and to see my my allies put their guard down and to just enjoy resting for once.

SPEAKER_05 29:23

There's something about being in genre for you. Being around those who look like you, those who share the same kinds of rhythm. As you wake up, you feel energized. Almost as if in the ear you can you can feel that that drum. You can hear that music. Vibrating like vibrating through your body. What are you doing as you wake up?

SPEAKER_09 30:07

I wake up and I take a long stretch and I realize how sore my body is from all the activities last night. All the dancing, all the drinking. And I I kind of give myself a one of those. And then I quickly look around to see where everyone else is, trying to make note, like, oh shoot. Is Black Sky okay? Isui okay? Where's Lee? And I l and Frost. And then um, yeah, I just get up and then I I let this this feeling of I don't know, this feeling of ease, being at ease, just kind of overtake me. And then I get up.

SPEAKER_05 30:52

Nice. As you walk by Sky's bed, you notice that the uh the burnt leaf on there still has like little like little red char on there, and it's it's still smoking.

SPEAKER_09 31:08

Oh good. He's awake.

SPEAKER_05 31:10

You walk past to Lee's bed. Lee's not there. You see Shusui's bed is empty, and you see the door wide open.

SPEAKER_09 31:26

I'll go outside, try to s let me see where everyone else is.

SPEAKER_05 31:31

And as you enter, as you exit outside, the first thing you hear is food, you hear your name, you look up, you see Wagnu and Shusu right there, and then you see um like a stream of smoke or like yeah, a stream of smoke that's like over their head, leading somewhere.

SPEAKER_09 31:54

Like, wait, wait for me, you guys.

SPEAKER_06 31:59

Huh? Did you hear that she said?

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Well, I guess she's awake. Oh.

SPEAKER_09 32:10

And then I'm gonna miss the step right next to them. You missy step.

SPEAKER_05 32:17

Yeah, you missy step right in front of them. Uh, how does your misty step look like?

SPEAKER_09 32:22

My misty step is so I'll take a step and then like a huge cloud of mist will appear. And then as it dissipates, I'll disappear as well. And then I show up on the other or where I show up next to them.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

Yeah, all of a sudden you guys see Wagney right next to you. And at this point, you all notice like the smoke in the air. It's like a stream of smoke leading to uh somewhere far, like in the distance over there, across the bridge.

SPEAKER_09 32:53

So what's going on, guys? What's up with that smoke?

SPEAKER_07 32:58

You know, funny enough. And Shisuya was lecturing me on it. Um, we're talking about fires. But I've said it's kinda odd that there's no fires recorded in the drinner. But um, what would you look at that? It could be food, it could be a fire, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

I mean, I'm pretty sure they were talking about forest fires, but you know, there's many different uh magical fires they could be using to cook. But maybe you're right.

SPEAKER_09 33:36

So you're telling me there's breakfast?

SPEAKER_07 33:41

We did talk about food. Yes we did.

SPEAKER_09 33:44

Wait, where's where's Lee?

SPEAKER_07 33:49

Um Have you guys seen him? I woke up before you guys and he was already out. Um did not see him, so that's a good question.

SPEAKER_09 34:03

Oh wait, he doesn't need he doesn't sleep either. Well, let's try to find him first. Um Frost, can you find him?

SPEAKER_05 34:15

Frost looks at you. And he seems like he would try.

SPEAKER_07 34:27

Yeah, sounds like a good idea.

SPEAKER_05 34:30

As you see his um his nose go up in the air, and he just like starts following the like the smell of whatever that that stream of smoke is. He walks across the bridge, um, doesn't even stop by anywhere and just follows that stream of smoke.

unknown 34:46

Alright.

SPEAKER_09 34:47

Chase after him.

SPEAKER_05 34:49

Same here. Eventually you find the source of that that's like that stream, and you come to what you know as Ravenin's home, and right in front of the door you see uh Lee outside with what seems to be a piece of bread in his hand, and he sees all of you and Frost coming towards him.

SPEAKER_10 35:23

Oh, good morning, fellows. And I kind of graze my bread at them. It's like a sort of toast.

SPEAKER_09 35:34

Lee, toast. Why do you smell so good?

SPEAKER_10 35:40

Uh Rav Ravain is uh he has made bread.

SPEAKER_09 35:45

So that's how Frost found you.

SPEAKER_10 35:50

I'm sure I'm sure he'll share. I mean feel free to ask him. He has some sort of special bread machine.

SPEAKER_09 36:01

Bread machine, huh? Okay. And then I'll Is Rafain inside. I'll go knock on Rafa. Uh yes, he's Yeah, I'll go knock on the door. Try to ask for some bread.

SPEAKER_05 36:19

Yeah, you go up to knock on the door, the door is wide open.

SPEAKER_09 36:24

Rafain! I heard you were giving out you're making some delicious bread.

SPEAKER_05 36:30

He turns his head towards uh the door, sees you. Oh! It's Wagnew!

SPEAKER_04 36:37

That's right. Yes, would you like some bread? Yes, please. Look at this!

SPEAKER_05 36:45

And you hear uh you see as he turns around with the machine in his hand, and all of a sudden sudden you hear a thing and pops open, and you see a piece of bread inside. Take it.

SPEAKER_09 37:00

Wait, how did you do that? And as I reached for it.

SPEAKER_05 37:06

I didn't do anything. All I did was put dough inside of this thing and look, we have bread.

SPEAKER_00 37:18

Okay. No fires. Wait a second. How do you guys have bread? What where up in the trees? Where are you guys growing wheat from?

SPEAKER_05 37:34

He looks too shit sweet. I I found it! I found dough.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

Where I found all these things.

SPEAKER_05 37:48

Isn't it cool? He pops like another piece of dough inside the machine, closes it. You see as he press a button and it starts to like steam up again.

SPEAKER_00 37:58

Wow. It is, but uh where did you find this dough?

SPEAKER_05 38:08

Hmm. He looks at you. I don't know. Shining Shusui, I like you, but can't give you all my secrets now.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

Alright. Uh well then do you mind if I have a piece of bread at least? Sure.

SPEAKER_01 38:33

You see this this little mark right here? You gotta wait until it reaches this circle over here.

SPEAKER_05 38:43

Any time now. You wait there for like a minute or two minutes, three minutes goes by. You hear a ding, and it pops open.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

There you go. Oh. That's neat. Is that how everyone hears uh makes their bread?

SPEAKER_05 39:07

Nope. I'm the only bread maker here. Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_00 39:16

Thanks for the bread.

SPEAKER_09 39:19

Yeah, thanks, Raven, and I'll eat it up.

SPEAKER_05 39:23

Yeah, go and give me a con save.

SPEAKER_09 39:28

Oh, it's 18.

SPEAKER_05 39:31

Yeah, it's a little hard. Uh you but into it you you uh you get the crunch. Um, it's a little overcooked, but yeah, it tastes like bread. It's not too bad, it fills the stomach.

SPEAKER_09 39:45

Okay. And then I'll walk out to where Lee is. And just kinda like ta ask him like, yeah, what were you up to last night? Did you party down, party as well?

SPEAKER_10 40:00

Oh, I did a quite a bit of dancing, uh end of the night uh looking at the sky though.

SPEAKER_02 40:08

Hmm.

SPEAKER_10 40:09

You seem to enjoy yourself.

SPEAKER_09 40:12

Yeah, it was uh it was a rare opportunity, I think. I finally felt safe, at ease, and everyone was doing it, so I was like, you know what? I might as well let loose a little. I think it was good.

SPEAKER_10 40:32

Well, we should speak with Finn. I think he'll be able to help you three with what you're looking for.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

Hmm.

SPEAKER_09 40:42

That's a good point. Have you seen him at all today?

SPEAKER_10 40:47

No, I've I've been spending the morning with Ravain.

SPEAKER_09 40:55

That guy, Ravain, he's um a little interesting, don't you think?

SPEAKER_10 41:02

Uh he's he's the friendliest guy I know.

SPEAKER_09 41:06

Can't deny that. Oh. I just hope. You know what? I'm not gonna say anything. Everything's been been going pretty well so far. I think we should talk to Finwind. As soon as we can. Let's go see what Black Sky and Shisui are up to. And I'll kinda peep my head back in.

SPEAKER_05 41:32

Sky, where are you at? You're not inside, are you?

SPEAKER_07 41:37

Um. I would say I'm inside, but I'm just kinda like spectating. Like I didn't I don't want any belly. Okay, like I'm just kinda looking at them inspecting Raven's machine and um watching Shisui ask all these questions about them getting wheat or dough.

SPEAKER_05 42:05

Okay, Wagney, you peek your head back in, you see uh Sky just kind of standing there, uh Shisui taking the bread, and you see uh as Reving like gives bread to frost and he just like chomps it down. Where's the next thing you guys want to do? Or what is the next thing you guys want to do? The drener is yours to explore.

SPEAKER_07 42:35

Uh I will ask um Rabahin where he's going to get all these stuff, where he found it.

SPEAKER_05 42:47

Hey I told Shiny Susley already I can't give you my secrets. No one's gonna want to trade with me.

SPEAKER_07 42:57

I will try to deceive Ravai, and I will pull out the diamond that I stole.

SPEAKER_00 43:09

Look, Rabin like this.

SPEAKER_07 43:12

Look, if you obviously that's our trade secret, but for a diamond, a shiny diamond. Come on, I thought we were friends. You remember the big black diamond I gave you? And friends wouldn't steal from each other, right?

SPEAKER_05 43:32

Give me a deception at disadvantage.

SPEAKER_07 43:35

Disadvantage? Nah, this is crazy. That's two rolls, right? Yeah, two rolls. Alright. Oh sh shit. It's over. Ten.

SPEAKER_05 43:52

A ten. Uh he you see as he grabs his uh contrapment, he like hides it. Way behind him.

SPEAKER_01 44:01

No. We are friends, but still, that's my secret.

SPEAKER_10 44:11

Thee I'll head inside.

SPEAKER_05 44:17

Can you get your friends? Can you guys go out now?

SPEAKER_10 44:22

Uh of course. Uh have a nice day, Ravain. Uh you three. How about we go see Fenn?

SPEAKER_00 44:30

Yeah, I mean uh after all the celebrations we should get back on to uh the serious matters.

SPEAKER_07 44:40

Wait, wait, before we go, Ravain, one last question. As a friend, did you have to leave Drenner to go find this?

SPEAKER_05 44:50

He looks at you, studying your face.

unknown 44:55

Hmm.

SPEAKER_07 44:57

Yup. Wow. Just for that, I'll give you this. And I will reach in my pocket and give him one gold coin. No, it's okay. I don't want the gold. Alright, I'll come back later with the diamond. Okay, I'll take that though.

SPEAKER_05 45:20

Bye! He waves you guys off as you guys uh leave his hut. How are you guys looking around for Fenwin?

SPEAKER_09 45:29

Hmm. I'm trying to gauge like where the the village kind of gathers. Like, so and then just trying to find like I don't know. Like Fenwin's hut.

SPEAKER_00 45:46

Yeah, I just call out to like the first person I see walking by, and I just ask them.

SPEAKER_05 45:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 45:54

What's that?

SPEAKER_05 45:56

Uh Walking, you can give me an investigation check and then Shisui. Um as you're looking around, all of a sudden you see Um a wiry ol like elf with black hair starts skipping back and forth from the bridge, and he starts to skip all the way back from where you guys were at, from your from your uh bedroom, all the way back to where you are now. And he just goes past you, good morning there! Waves at you, sees like you have something to say, stops. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 46:36

Uh hi, I was uh hoping you can uh point us in the direction of uh Fenwin's like uh his hut or his home. Uh we have a meeting with him uh today, and we can't quite figure out where he is.

SPEAKER_05 46:52

Oh, do you now? Okay, follow me, and he takes off. But I'm not waiting for you, so keep up. Uh walk new, go in. What was your role?

SPEAKER_09 47:06

It was six. It's terrible.

SPEAKER_05 47:07

Six. Yeah, you got distracted by this man like walking by. You're like, how can this guy smile bigger than me? And then you guys are you guys are free to follow him if you guys want.

SPEAKER_09 47:19

I'll follow him, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 47:24

Uh I will follow, but I will ask Lee. Didn't Did Fan show you where he lived yesterday when you guys want to go walk around?

SPEAKER_10 47:42

Uh no, he took me to uh a shrine uh in town. Oh. Interesting. Oh, by the way, uh well where did you head off to last night? I noticed you your absence at the party.

SPEAKER_07 48:00

Ah. I was definitely at the party, but I might have stepped away. Probably just got a little tired. Uh actually don't remember how I got to the room, but I for sure did party.

SPEAKER_10 48:18

Well, I I hate to say it, I don't remember how I got to the room either. It was crazy night.

SPEAKER_07 48:28

Huh. We should ask Shisui and Wagnu. Maybe they'll remember.

SPEAKER_10 48:36

I I doubt Wagnu will remember, but he was he was parting probably the craziest.

SPEAKER_07 48:44

Ah, you're right. I've never seen them that happier. Ever.

SPEAKER_05 48:49

Who's the one following? Who's the one leading the follow? Is it Shusri or Wagnu?

SPEAKER_09 48:55

Um I'm not. I was I'll say like I was following Shusu, yeah. That's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_00 49:02

Yeah, it's probably me. I think Wagne's still distracted trying to look around.

SPEAKER_05 49:08

Okay. Uh this this elf, he looks at like looks behind and see the four of you. You see him give you guys a little a little smirk, and he starts to speed up. Um I'm gonna need you to give me a let's see, let's make it do let's make it be an acrobatics check.

SPEAKER_00 49:32

Acrobatics check? Everyone or only four shoes we only shoe suite. Okay. Oh, okay. Alright, I'm supposed to be good at these. Uh that's a 14.

SPEAKER_05 49:47

14, that's pretty good. Um, you see as he starts to put his like his arms behind his back, and you it it looks kind of like the Naruto run, and he starts like taking off, and you notice this, and you chase after him. Um at a point you're even like side to side of him. He looks at you, you're pretty fast, young man.

SPEAKER_00 50:13

Yeah, I mean, I try.

SPEAKER_05 50:18

Okay, we're almost there. Look, if you could beat me in this sprint, I'll give you something cool. And he just takes off. And I want you to do a contesting role. If if you want to try to beat him, you don't have to beat him.

SPEAKER_00 50:37

This is a contested acrobatic shake.

SPEAKER_05 50:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:42

Oh man, let's see.

SPEAKER_07 50:45

Yeah, this is sweet.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

Oh shit. You better win. What?

SPEAKER_00 50:59

Unless you're gonna have one, but you're bonifiers anyway, so uh 25. Last year.

SPEAKER_05 51:11

Yeah. He takes off um his hands, his arms behind his back, he trips, no, like because his hands, his arms behind his back, he doesn't have like a he can't catch himself, and he just eats the ground. You uh rush past towards him, you make it across the bridge. And he's he picks himself up. At this point, like Wagnu and Sky and uh Frost and Lee, you guys all walk past him. He slowly like makes his way over to you, his head like licking down to the ground. Whoa that's that's kind of embarrassing, huh?

SPEAKER_00 51:45

Everyone has their bad day.

SPEAKER_05 51:48

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're you're right. You're right. Anyway, so I present to you where Fedwin resides. And he shows you uh a very nice big bigger um what seems to be like a bigger building of sorts. Um there's definitely more elves around here. It it seems to be it's it's kind of weird because it looks like it's guarded and not guarded at the same time. It's open, but like everyone's like watching just in case, you know, watching your movements.

SPEAKER_00 52:27

I just uh I look at the elf looks towards Chusui.

SPEAKER_05 52:32

Go ahead. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:33

I I look at him, I kinda like pat some of the like dust off of him, and I go, uh you sure you're alright? Oh that looked like a pretty bad ball.

SPEAKER_05 52:44

Oh it happens, you know. Uh I've gotten my fair share of uh, you know splinters and stuff. Anyways, your your little gift. Takes that little bag from his pocket, hands over to you. Have fun with it. Have a good day. Waves off and runs away. Hops away again.

SPEAKER_00 53:13

What do you give me?

SPEAKER_05 53:16

Uh it was just a little bag. Something in there. You just haven't checked it yet.

SPEAKER_00 53:22

I gotta just wave as he leaves, and then I uh open up the bag and take a look at it.

SPEAKER_05 53:29

You open up the bag and inside you see two really pretty looking stones.

SPEAKER_00 53:35

I just turn and look at Lee and I go, is everyone here like this? This seems to be a pretty common way people here behave.

SPEAKER_10 53:48

Uh I hate to break it to you, but Kenneth might have been the angriest elf in this town.

SPEAKER_00 53:55

Yeah, that's becoming more and more apparent. Huh. I'll just tuck the crag into my pouch.

SPEAKER_05 54:04

Okay, and you approach the the door, Lee. Um, you open it. Inside, you see about like six, seven elves just standing around. Um they don't seem to be doing anything too important at the moment, they're just kind of like conversing them like conversing amongst themselves. On the ground, you see like patches of leaves where one would sit. You see uh two big stairs made of logs leading upwards, and from where you are you can see in the center of the of the like back in the center of the room um what seems to be a very spiritual place. There's like very exotic plants growing around. Um, there's um like dry leaves all over the ground. Um feels very important to you.

SPEAKER_10 55:04

I'll step in and look for Finn, and if I don't see him, I'll ask the the closest elf.

SPEAKER_05 55:12

As you step inside, you don't seem to see Finnwen anywhere. And as you kind of like just dart your your eyes around, you do see a figure who is familiar. The Ashin here elven woman, Darien. Her back turns to you at the moment.

SPEAKER_10 55:36

Uh I'll go up to her and my three friends wish to have a private meeting with Fenwin.

SPEAKER_05 55:46

As she turns around to to meet your gaze. Oh, good morning to you too. Anyways, Fenwin is not here right now. He's on matters. Something he must attend to. Where at even that I can't tell you. She studied you for a little bit. You know, if anyone trusts you, I still find you kind of suspicious. Just so you know. And I'll work with you. You know, I'll. If it's his wish.

SPEAKER_10 56:41

Well, uh I can't say I'm exactly super friendly with you either. You've you've been nothing but rude to me since I've gotten back.

SPEAKER_05 56:50

If our roles were reverse, I'm sure you'll be the same.

SPEAKER_10 56:55

I agree. Um, well, instead, I'm not sure if you'll be able to answer questions they have, or if they'll want to share everything, but they may want to speak with you instead.

SPEAKER_05 57:10

I do have somewhere I need to go. But I'd be open if you want to follow. And she starts to kind of like she brushes her shoulder past you and then walks um towards the direction of the door.

SPEAKER_10 57:30

Um, yeah, I'll start following her. And once I kind of get close enough to the the other three, I'm just uh I guess I'm where I'm following her. I don't know where Finwin is. I don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_00 57:52

That's a bit odd.

SPEAKER_07 57:54

We uh We following her?

SPEAKER_05 57:57

As I look to the other guys. Well, if you had nothing to do, then you might as well follow me, right? Unless you have something better to do. I might as well show you the way of the forest.

SPEAKER_00 58:11

I mean, we spoke to you yesterday before the facilities to try and set up this uh this meeting. Uh do you not manage uh to talk to him?

SPEAKER_05 58:22

Yes, I did. Uh Fenwin is a very busy man. And he had more important matters to take care of first.

SPEAKER_00 58:31

Matters more important than the safety of the fire artifact.

SPEAKER_05 58:39

If only you knew. Anyways, like I said. If you want to speak more, just follow me. We can talk and walk.

SPEAKER_00 59:04

have an any ideas?

SPEAKER_07 59:08

Um, by the way.

SPEAKER_09 59:15

The fire artifact should be our main concern, so if there's something that's keeping us, you know, from figuring that out, we should go figure it. We should go handle that first. I said let her lead the way.

SPEAKER_07 59:34

Yeah, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_05 59:35

Also, I do suggest you guys be a little bit more sec like secretive of the things you guys talk about here. I'm sure out there it's common knowledge about, you know, all the artifacts and all that, all of that, but I will try to provoke her and then I'll yell out.

SPEAKER_06 59:57

You mean like the fire artifact? It's rested here in Drenner.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:05

She looks at you, and as you do that, you notice like everyone's gaze to our outside. They turn towards you. Wow. It's a no wonder why you are no longer a guardian. Anyways. Let's get on with business. Follow me. And she starts to walk past the bridge. Uh, she takes you to what Lee knows as his home, but no longer his. She goes inside for a little bit, and when she comes out, you notice that she's no longer wearing her green dress. Instead, it's replaced with uh a green armor of sort, and it has like leaf patterns all around. You see uh a scarf that wraps around her neck. And on her side, on the on the side of her belt, there's like worn pouches. In her hand she has a long sword, partially drawn. You see as she adjusts her grips, her grip a little bit, and then puts it away. She looks over to Lee and the rest of you. I wanna show you how to hunt the drenner away.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:31

I looked over to Lee. The Drennor away. I mean, how do you hunt Lee?

SPEAKER_10 1:01:42

Uh I mean probably better than anyone in this town.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:50

Ah. I would assume so, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:01:57

Still it never hurts to take an opportunity to learn.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:00

Ah, you're right. And then I would continue to provoke her. I yell out. Lisa, he's a better hunter than you. So I think we're good on that, but I mean, we'll still proceed nonetheless.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:14

She smacks her lips, looks at Lee. It's like a her gaze is like a like a you know, like the gaze of like an ice queen. It just like pierces through. Uh she gives like a side-eye look to Lee. We'll see about that. And she leads you towards the lift where you had to come up from. Now, if there's any last preparations you need to do, make it now. I'll wait here if I have to.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:51

Yeah, I'm ready.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:52

Yeah, I don't need any uh particular preparations, but I must ask what exactly do you intend to uh go hunting for?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:02

Well, you know those the feast we had yesterday, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:11

Well, we'll be hunting for that.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:15

Interesting.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:17

She is over to the lift. She waves over an elf. Um, you see us like uh a blue-haired elven woman hops on over. Uh she's like by the wheel contraption, getting ready to lower you all down as soon as you step on the platform.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:39

Alright, I'll step on the platform.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:43

I am here. I think I'm pretty much ready. Let me just switch on over to our next map. Let me summon you guys there. Boom, boom, boom. Let's go. Alright, everyone should be should be there. While you guys are walking, um before you arrive to where you need to be. You see, as uh Tyrion is obviously in front. How are you guys like marching behind her?

SPEAKER_07 1:04:24

Uh I think we would just assume our usual lineup, right?

unknown 1:04:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:32

Yeah, I'll probably want to be right behind her.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:37

Oh yeah, I'll probably play behind her and she's doing just being on.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:42

Yeah, I mean the usual formation is what, like B you Sky?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:52

Where are you at, Lee?

SPEAKER_10 1:04:54

Uh I think I'm following from a decent distance. Like I like almost like I'm not gonna really entertain Darien and her teachings.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:14

Yeah, you're you're sending a cold shoulder to her as well. As she's walk as you guys are walking through the forest, um, it's like almost awkwardly quiet. She doesn't say anything. Um you guys are assuming your your natural position of Shisui in front, uh Sky in the back, Wagnew in the middle, and then you notice Lee's like a few distances away from all of you guys as well. Is there anything you want to do, say, look for?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:49

Yeah, I'll uh I'll kinda like turn towards uh Thai and then I'll go uh You know, this race me back. It's it's been a while since. I've had a hunt. Uh how about a little friendly wager? Uh if I manage to hunt the beast, then uh as soon as we get back to the village, you'll take us to wherever Fenwin is. If I lose, I happen to have a magic dagger here you can have. Interested in a little friendly wager?

SPEAKER_05 1:06:24

She doesn't turn to meet your gaze or even to acknowledge your your wager, but she does uh after like a few seconds or so. Okay. You're on.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:39

Perfect. I'll draw my longbow and I'll kinda like crouch down and get into like a lower position. And I go. As I'm doing this, I kinda get flashbacks to the last time I was with Kenneth and that hunting trip, and I'm go. It's really been too long since I've gone hunting. Let's see if I still still got those skills.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:09

You start to hear in your head the edge of dawn. You know, she's kind of a bitch, isn't she? Wouldn't it be nice if we just take her so?

SPEAKER_07 1:07:24

Ah, yeah. No, she's a bitch for sure, but uh we just can't be killing people. We'll kill something. Or someone, not her.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:37

Okay. If you say so.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:42

Uh, how far is Lee from us?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:45

I know Lee's like uh Lee's exactly how how far he is right there on the so it's probably like a five, ten feet anything. So ten feet? Five seven like seven, five, seven feet. Ten feet's a little too far.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:58

I'll just continue provoking her. Okay. I'll like say it loud enough to the point where like Lee can't hear us. Only um she should swear and Wagno can since we're like closer to her. And I'll say, Man, you look at Lee like he's your ex-boyfriend or partner. Do you have a crush on him?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:21

Give me a um What would this even be, honestly?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:30

Intimidation, deception.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:31

I know, like intimidation? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:36

Just uh performance.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:38

Yeah, performance check would be the right one here. Yeah. Alright, let's see.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:41

Performance? Tell a story? Alright. Yeah, this is a story. Let's go. Die do not lie. Ooh, 18.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:53

18. Here, like her she clacks her clicks her tongue. No. I barely know him. In fact, he left when he was a little kid.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:08

I mean for you to say that you barely know him, but not trusting that that's Lee. Ah yeah, that's definitely a crush. Probably the love of your life.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:25

Okay, and what about you? At this point she stops her in her tracks. Turns around.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:39

What are you doing here, huh?

SPEAKER_05 1:09:44

They obviously have an artifact. They obviously want to save whatever they're trying to save.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:52

But I don't I don't understand your rogue.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:56

Hold up. They took as she turns to shoes to wing Wongu.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:11

You mean those little stones? Whatever they have on them? The elements are artifacts. Alright, I will tell her a half-lie, half-truth. And I'll tell her believe it or not, but the wind artifact. I gave that to Wagnu, and Wagnu gave it to Lee with my without my permission, so. You could say I'm the wind guardian. No.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:43

It just sounds like you weren't fit to become the guardian. And she turns around. And she starts walking off. We're almost there. Lee, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_10 1:11:00

Um I want to cast Pass Without Trace.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:09

Oh shit. Okay. Tell us what that does.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:15

So I radiate a concealing aura and a 30 foot um emanation. While in the aura and each creature me and each creature I choose have a plus ten to stealth checks and leave no tracks.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:33

Damn. Damn.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:36

So at this point, all of you guys, if you guys want to like be stealthy.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:42

Uh you guys can roll it.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:44

I wanted uh just use it on myself this time. Oh, just on you? Okay, cool. Yeah, go ahead and roll yourself check.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:51

Okay, and while they're kinda all looking around, I'm gonna kind of sneak past them and head into the woods as my uh plan.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:02

Do I get a chance to perceive him?

SPEAKER_05 1:12:05

Yeah, if you wanna you are in front, so um if you want to try, uh you would have to roll a disadvantage though. He is pretty he is a a little bit farther back.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:14

What do I have to be?

SPEAKER_05 1:12:16

You have to be his stealth. Whatever you roll is for his stealth. I rolled a 37.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:21

Holy shit. That's funny. I don't think I'm passing this, bro.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:40

What the fuck? That's the highest role I ever been a part of.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:48

Fair enough. He has a plus ten to stealth, so with that spell, he gets plus twenty.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:54

What? Damn. Uh fair enough, man. Fair enough. I can see.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:01

Yeah, you guys are like so like in you know, just in the moment with the like the whole sky and um daring and bickering that Lee just fades into the darkness. And you guys haven't even like the thought doesn't mean doesn't even cross your mind. As you're stealthed away, um, what are you trying to do again, Lee? As you're uh not being noticed.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:25

I'm going to attempt to hunt the beast before they even get to it.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:31

Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'll definitely allow you to um to do that. Alright, so the only thing I would need from you is um you're making sure to go around them and not through them, right? Yeah. Okay, give me a perception check as well.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:55

That is a 16.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:57

A 16. Uh, let me roll one as well. Okay. Perfect. Um, as you're walking around in the shadows, Darien turns to Shu Sui slightly. The beast we're looking for is known as an M Deer. It's a very unique creature that belongs only in Yuping. Red antlers and a white tail. And as you're walking around Lee, you hear this, so you know your target. How are you? What are some of the tricks and uh things that you're gonna be doing trying to find the tracks of this creature?

SPEAKER_10 1:14:56

Um, I'll be looking for like any broken twigs or leaves on bushes, like any sort of trail. Um Lee would like he probably would have known that, you know, deer normally follow the same trail kind of over and over again until they, you know, make a path. Um, but also I'm gonna kind of check which direction the wind's coming from just to try and keep my like scent concealed while I'm looking.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:31

Go ahead and give me a investigation check with advantage.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:40

Um, that is a nineteen.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:43

Nineteen. You start to look around the ground for any broken twigs, any tracks. Um there's a few here, but nothing that seems to look like the trackings of a M deer. As you get around, you do over 19 investigation check. As you're walk as you're like circling around the forest ahead of them, you do see some some purplish seeping aura around some of the trees. Being gone from Drenner for so long at such a young age, you've actually never encountered an Indir. You're used to hunting deers and other animals. But even you aren't sure what you're looking for exactly. So with the 19 investigation lead, what you notice is the not the regular trackings of what you would get from a deer from when you were on your adventuring days. You do notice some of the purple or like energy that's coming from the trees. If there's anything else you want to try doing, um this is your chance, and I'll before I head back to the other group.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:27

Uh I think I'll just try and investigate this like purple energy.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:33

Okay. As you go near it, you touch it and it feels well, you don't touch it, but you go near it and you get like a feeling of coldness coming off of it. There also seems to be um on multiple trees this purple energy coming off of it, radiating, like radiating from it, just very dimly. And not just this tree only. Uh something's off.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:10

I think I'll just kind of like stay hidden for now.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:15

Okay. Back to the other group. Um at this at this point, Theryan just like leans on the on a tree, on the stump of a tree, and watches as the three of you take lead. Well, go ahead. I'll let you start first. I'll give you a head start. Know what you're looking for. Go ahead and find it.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:45

I would uh I would like to use the earth elemental artifact, and I I want to clarify, the tremor scent, it says Yeah, it only says stone. So is it like actually only stone or as long as it's like dirt?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:02

Yeah, it's only stone.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:04

Yeah. Alright.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:06

Damn.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:07

That makes it a little more. A dungeon would be great. Never mind then. I will uh yeah, I'll just take the lead. I'll uh I'll uh I guess try and find any tracks or anything that might signal like uh what was it, this Ember deer?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:33

MDr, yes. E M D-E-R. Okay, Shusui. Unlikely you're a little different because you've been in Yuping all your life. So you actually do know, have known, and have seen an MDR. The only thing I would need from you is for you to either roll me an Arcana check or history check to recall if Kenneth had shown you any way to hunt them.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:09

Uh yeah, I guess I'll do a history check. Oh my god. That's terrible. What the that's a seven. That is so.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:28

Give me one second, little fools are here.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:32

I'll get all good.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:34

It's all good, all good.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:39

So good.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:39

Just to my hunter time. Do you think of a strategy?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:43

It was supposed to be, but I'm like, oh man, that room was really bad. I'm not gonna lie. I thought about using inspiration for that, but I'm like, I don't think this is this is the one.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:04

I'm just I'm worried. Something in the back of my mind is making me worried.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:14

It's fine, there's nothing like being jumped in the woods.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:18

Yeah, alright.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:19

Okay. Alright, so Shizu, how are you doing this again? You wrote a seven, right? Yeah, you don't recall anything from from Kenneth.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:28

Yeah, uh I would just like to try and use my survival skills and just because I've been like living on and basically like on the road my entire life. I'm just gonna use my like general hunting knowledge to try and find it.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:43

If that's alright. Um yeah, go and roll me a survival check now.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:49

Yeah, man. Please, something like higher than like a five. Okay, there we go. Uh survival, that is a 27.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:01

27. Holy shit. There we go. Oh man. You just start to rely on your instincts. You follow the teachings of your your uncle Kenneth. And Walk New and Sky, you see as Shusui just like goes into uh he puts his like his um his hood, pulls his hood down a little bit more, and you see as even though he's in like all white, he starts to dart around the trees, the forest. And before long, you can barely see him that he's like just stalking around. You don't find any trackings. But you're walking around, you're going around, and you know these, you notice these um these purple seeping energy coming out of like for the trees. And then you catch a glimpse of a red antler. Alright, I uh I get lower and I start to- I would even say that you're like around right here now, and you uh catch the glimpse.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:09

The camera's locked, I I can't see anything. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:12

Okay, what about now?

SPEAKER_00 1:23:16

Okay. Yeah. So uh yeah. I would kinda get low, take out my bow, and I'm just I'm kinda like getting into it, trying to remember uh all the things I learned, and I just creep up, and I just uh try to get closer so I can get a clear shot.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:45

Give me a perception check too.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:47

Oh, perception? Alright, let's see. I'm supposed to be good at these two. Uh 22.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:57

22. As you aim your your arrow at the M deer, um, you notice on the ground where it's walking and where there would be tracks, there are no tracks at all. Instead you see like almost like um a golden string of sorts coming off from it. And you see as it like head towards a tree stump and just lays next to it and sits down. You ready your arrow, your bow, go ahead and row to attack.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:48

Uh since I'm self, do I have an advantage on this?

SPEAKER_05 1:24:52

Yes, you do.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:54

Okay. Alright, let's see. Let's see how this goes. Uh, what is that? Eleven uh 19. 19.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:13

Uh 19 hits. No damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:16

Oh man.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:17

Alright.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:19

Cool. Where's it? The eight. And then let's see. Where's it? Where's it? Cool. Uh as I draw back the arrow, I remember my hunting lessons with Kenan or Kenna. And how to kinda like kill animals in one shot so they don't suffer, and I will proceed to uh sneak attack this deer. Oh Kenny. What's that? Uh that's fine. Ten damage.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:01

Ten damage. Um, your arrow pierces through. You see at the as the MDR doesn't even like try to run or anything. It just like lays there. At this point, Sky and Wagner, you see uh you don't you guys don't see the MDR yet, but you see Therion like kneel to the ground, you see her saying something under her breath. She looks up, and then you see as like she almost unconsciously follow some kind of tracking. And eventually she'll get to you guys if you follow her. What are you two doing? I want to use the textile walking tours. Okay. I just want to see if I can also the area.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:00

Yeah. I just want to see if I can also like trace or s um kind of get the feel of the magic that she's following. Or if it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:10

Okay. What is the range again? 60 feet?

SPEAKER_09 1:27:16

Uh 30 feet.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:20

Okay, so you can get to like right there. It's on you, right?

unknown 1:27:28

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:28

And it lasts for 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:32

Yep. That sounds right.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:35

Okay, so the only thing is um how close would you be following? It'll also it'll obviously be moving along with you, but how close are you following her?

SPEAKER_09 1:27:44

Um, I'd say I'm about like five feet. Five feet behind her. I'm not trying to stay too close, but yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:54

Okay, cool. You cast detect magic as you're following. Her and when you cast your tech magic, your tech magic picks up a very weak golden thread that seems to connect to something. You see it the golden thread is like brittle, it's breaking. And following that thread and following Darien, you eventually see that they're connect to this almost majestic like creature with red antlers and a white tail. Skye, what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_07 1:28:33

Okay. Good questions. Is this a deer like role-playing-wise, is this a deer that like is gonna die in one shot? Since we're hunting.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:45

Or is this like HP is not high. Uh the shot from Shusui was very it's it's gonna die.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:57

Okay, so um Yeah, no. Um not let's see, let's see. It's so hard. Okay. Um is this forest like Since we came lifted down from Drenner, is this like oh how far are we away from Drenner?

SPEAKER_05 1:29:32

At this point you are about like 15 miles out, 10 10 miles out. So isn't it isn't like super far. Um, it's like doable distance for people of your caliber.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:44

Okay. And is it in the region that we're at, is this considered part of Drenner?

SPEAKER_05 1:29:49

Like in the forest, yeah, it's still considered like the forest of Drenner.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:52

Okay, nice. Um I'm just gonna watch them hunt, but I am just gonna randomly cast a fireball and aim it at a tree. What the hell? Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:14

Uh any any direction or where were you aiming at?

SPEAKER_07 1:30:19

Uh probably right next to like to the side of me where like it's a like quick enough for them to like not be able to like stop me from like chucking it.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:35

Okay. Um you chug your fireboat to a nearby tree. Um you're you're far enough from everyone that they if they even if they wanted to to stop you from doing it, uh they wouldn't be able to reach you in time. As you do though, as you strike one of the trees nearby, let's say you go for the one on your left. You strike that tree, and instead of burning up in flames, it turns purple. Almost like a almost like a poisonous color. That tree is already riddled to get rid of it and break it down. And from that tree, it reveals itself. And I'm gonna need everyone to measure prepared for your shenanigans.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:01

Oh, there is no way. Okay, so uh we and uh and shift are in this too, right? Um we like nothing.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:15

You are shift is not. Shift would shift would be far enough to like to not be in it yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:21

So is the M deer kind of just like dying over there?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:26

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:27

Oh gosh. Yeah, I'm like, do I get a thing?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:35

You don't see it yet, but uh you do hear like the boom from um Black Sky's uh fireboat. So eventually you are close enough where you'll be in initiative order eventually.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:47

Okay 16. I got 11.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:55

Uh oh I don't know if Frost is here, but if Frost is here, then put him in. Yeah, I assume he's forgot about Frost.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:04

Yeah Frost got that 20 man. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:09

That's my hero.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:10

Let's go. My main.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:12

That's our that's our MC.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:16

Would you want him to be with you, or would he still be he wa I I I'm gonna I'm gonna assume I'm gonna say that he's with the other groups still because you're that makes more sense to me, yeah. Yeah. Okay, so what was everyone's again? Uh 11 for Shusui, Frost 20. 16.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:35

14 for me.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:37

16 for Sky, 14 for Wagnew. And then we roll for Darien.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:50

What?

SPEAKER_07 1:33:51

Oh, that's not good. She's chaosing out here with that last row. Yeah, I'll roll for the dryad.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:01

14. Not bad.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:05

Alright, are we doing any swapping around, guys? Or are we going to order?

SPEAKER_05 1:34:10

Um, you guys wanna do it? Let me get everyone's orders and then you guys can start swapping around. A lot of gloves that she's I gotta I gotta open up.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:19

What do we have? Oh, well, I guess if you're opening up ours, then yeah, it's a lot.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:30

Okay. So we got Frost is obviously first. Um Dryad is second. Wagnu is wait a Shu Sui is third. Wagnu, Sky, Darian, and then M Deer is last. Um if you guys wanna swap anything around, you guys can now.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:59

Wait, did Deer's a part of this? Oh shit.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:04

Um I think it's I kinda like this.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:08

Yeah, I think it's fine.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:11

Yeah. I was just gonna say it's it's up to you, just we sent some.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:16

So before we start before we start the combat, I'm gonna let Shift Lee do whatever he wants to do. At this point, Lee, you hear the you hear the explosion of the fireboat. Uh you don't see any fire though, but you you heard and you can kind of like gauge the direction it came from.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:33

Okay. Uh, an ant at this point. Uh let's see, where where's your character right now? He's kinda in the woods to the right.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:45

Like over here somewhere. I would even go as far to say as as soon as you hear that explosion, you turn your direction and you s you spot the red antlers.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:57

Um, I think I would head up to like walk up to the deer then.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:02

Okay, you say you're walking to the deer?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:04

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:06

Okay. You approach the deer, and as you do, give me a um an insight check. It's just staying there. It sees you coming, it doesn't move or anything. It's it's leading from the shot from Shusui's uh arrow. Um, that's an 18 for insight. 18. Um as you as you are near this deer, you notice that it's uh it seems very old. It seems as if it's almost like at the the last of its life.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:40

Um, I think I would pull out a dagger from my bag and put it out of its misery.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:53

You take a dagger out and you how do you stab into? How do you do it?

SPEAKER_10 1:37:04

Um, I take my best to guess on where, like, you know, the vital organs are compared to like all my other animal knowledge, and kind of um stab it there and try and make it as quick as possible.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:22

Okay. I would say you're you're seasoned enough where you can you can do it without a roll or anything. You do so and the MDir takes its last breath. You see golden threads seep out of its body as it just like goes up into the sky. And then you hear a shout from Darian. What the heck are you doing? As she turns to sky. Okay, welcome back. Lee, it's your turn to roll initiative, man. Okay. That is a 16 plus 4, so 30-20. That's one. Sheesh. Uh I'm gonna assume that your dex is higher than Frost, so.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:17

Well, no, Frost got a Nat 20, so his is 22.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:22

22, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, just so before we start the the combat, uh Lee, you are still hidden. So no one knows where you're at.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:41

Even as you take the the last life of the Endir, um, it happens so subtly that still no one has noticed it. Um that's Frost who goes first, which is fitting because he's the first one who sees the dryad, actually. So go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:00

Yeah, maybe he's the uh MC. Of course he saw it coming. He'll uh just run up and uh do the classical bite attack. Okay, that is a 19 to hit. 19 hits that is uh three damage, and I assume the dryad is medium or smaller, so it is now prone.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:30

Nice. You see as uh frost bites into the dryad, as he bites into the the leg of the dryad, um sky and wagnu who are nearby. You see as instead of like blood, it looks like uh just like poison dripping out, like toxic poison, uh almost like a purple-ish gooof. It doesn't seem to be affecting frost, but that's what you see from from the bite, and you see us the dryad fall prone. Lee, it's your go. I need you to give me a perception check. Uh 15. 15. Um, you are also the first to notice dryad number one coming out of the tree right in front of the end deer.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:22

Oh man, who could have ever expected that? Two of them. Alright, now the real surprise is number three.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:37

And it goes last anyway, so perfect. You see as it it's coming out of the tree, um, the tree is seeping more like the purple aura, the violet, purple aura.

unknown 1:40:49

Go.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:50

I am going to uh shoot the one that's closest to me.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:59

Go on, roll to attack. Uh only a 13.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:05

Uh you're stealth. I think you still get the uh advantage. You get advantage, yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:10

No one sees you, nothing sees you. Well, they see an arrow flying out, that's it.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:15

So with advantage, that's a 29.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:18

A 29, yep, that that hits. That's pretty crazy. It's fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:26

Four. Uh seven damage.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:31

Seven damage. You your arrow pierces this dryad before it even like fully comes out of the tree. Um it almost like sticks its feet, its leg into the tree, and it comes out of it, and it fully comes out uh your turn.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:49

Um and then with my bonus action as I'm uh grabbing my next arrow to shoot. Well, actually, how does that work? Do I have to do my next attack? Because I have two attacks. I'll do that then. So that's a 22 to hit. 22 hits. For 11 damage that time.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:16

11 damage. Shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:19

Okay, it's looking hurt. This time it's it's target, it turns his head towards you now. You still got a bonus action.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:32

And then with my bonus action, I'm going to cast um hunter's mark. And choose the dryad closest to me as my mark.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:48

Uh that does break your uh pass without trace, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:42:52

Yeah. So I won't have pass without trace anymore, because that one's concentration and hunter's mark is also.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:02

And then that'll be my turn.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:05

Alrighty. Um. The dryad that is next to frost that I got downed by frost. It's gonna use half of its movement to get up. And since it's within a tree that's five feet of it, that's larger or bigger tree, you see it as the dryad, the ones that are around it, near it, Sky and Wagnu in theory, and sees us the dryad, puts his hand towards the tree, its hand towards the tree, and it just goes into the tree. And all of a sudden, it appears right next to Wagnu as it uses tree stride ability, which allows it to move between trees that are 60 60 feet within 60 feet. As it comes out of the tree, it makes attack with its vine. Gonna try to attempt to attack Wagnu. 15 to hit.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:13

Damn. 15 does it.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:17

As that vine slaps you on like the back on your back, you take four points of stashing damage. At this point, uh, it also once it hits you, you see as the vine starts to like thorn just burst from the vine. And you will it'll do it one more attack with that. Uh that's gonna be a 22 to hit. God. And you take seven piercing damage.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:47

Yeah, that hits.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:50

But that's gonna be its turn. Shusu, you're on deck. You see you can see this now. You can see the dryad and wagnew. Okay, uh, do I see the other dryad and uh uh you do see the other the other dryad, and you can see Lee where the endear was.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:04

You are still in stealth.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:06

You are still in stealth. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:10

Uh I figure the the dryad by Wagnew is can kind of be handled by them, so I'll focus on the one by uh by Lee. And I will kinda just uh I'll peek around this corner and I will just uh I'll just shoot another arrow at it. That is a 25 to hit.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:45

25 hits.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:48

I will do that. I will apply my sneak attack damage to it. And just because I can I will also make it a menacing attack. More damage. More dice. All the dice.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:06

All the dice.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:08

Oh the tough. What's that? Uh 7 12. Uh that is 17 damage, and it has to make a 17 fucking damage. Wisdom what is it? Wisdom 16 save, otherwise it's frightened.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:27

Oh, you're good. How do you wanna kill it? How do you wanna do this? Let's go.

SPEAKER_08 1:46:34

Big damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:36

I was enjoying myself so much, and then all these dry ashes had to show up and ruin my hunt. So I'm just like I'm just like shaking my head, just mad that they ruined my nice hunt. And I just straight for uh like the chest, just shoot an arrow.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:59

As your arrow pierces through this dryad, and you see it just kind of like melts away um into like violet goo. You guys start to hear tremors. Oh, start to feel tremors. You hear uh doom, doom, doom, and you look towards where the sound is coming from, and right where um Shusui shot the dryad, you see what seems to look like an endear. But way bigger. Instead of the red antlers and the white tail, you see instead a violet corrupted antler. Uh its whole body is just covered in purple seeping aura. That was what Lee had been able to investigate when he was like out by himself. And it's slowly making its way towards you. Let me roll forward initiative for it, and then we can continue the the fight. Okay. And Shu Sweet, you do have a bonus action still, and then it'll be walk noob, and you all see this coming.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:21

I mean, I would like to take my extra attack if I can.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:26

Okay, yeah. I would because you killed that dryad uh and you see that you see the dude the corrupted M deer coming your way. You rate your bowl fast enough and you do get your extra attack.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:39

Thank you. I will uh I will attempt to shoot the giant M deer. Uh that is a 25. I will also make this another menacing attack. Just for the extra damage.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:57

25 hits.

unknown 1:48:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:02

That is 15 damage and he has to make the wisdom uh pretty sure 16 save.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:11

A wisdom 16.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:15

See if it saves. Natural 20. It saves. Alright.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:20

My weapon mastery gives it the slow, so it loses 10 uh movement. And I will I will kinda uh I'll scoot oh I I'm gonna scoot closer and I'm gonna stow my bow. And uh that will be my turn.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:41

Alright, Wagnew, it's your go. Dry it is still behind you, and you see this gigantic empty ear who looks crazy, who looks dangerous coming your way.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:55

Alright. First thing I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go ahead and Just take a swing at this. Try it next time. Okay. I'm gonna swing at it with my skimitar.

unknown 1:50:11

Damn.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:11

It's only 10.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:13

A 10 does not hit. You do have your second attack. Your bonus attack. You want to use it.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:20

I'll use my second attack here. My bonus. What is this? That one's nine that time.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:28

Oh no.

unknown 1:50:29

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:30

Yeah, that fine whip to the back. It caught you off guard. You swing around with your swords and you just barely miss it. You do have movement if you want to move.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:45

That was my bonus action. That's okay. If I move, dude.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:52

Yeah, it gets a chance to attack you.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:57

Alright.

unknown 1:50:58

Damn.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:00

That was so bad. I'm just gonna try to get away from it.

SPEAKER_10 1:51:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:06

I'll try to move away from it and a little closer to Thiria.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:14

Okay, it's gonna take its chance to attack you. It's gonna be uh 19 to hit. As you move away, you take force, you take uh you go for this one actually. I did it wrong earlier. Take three points, uh seven points of stashing damage. But you do you are able to move away. So go ahead and move however far you want.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:45

Right here. Right next to Therion, but not too close to the big MM deer. Cool, and then I used all my action, I'll just pass my turn.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:56

Okay, it's the corrupted M Deer's turn. It doesn't it so it loses 10 feet of movement, so instead of its full four 50, it gets 40 only.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:06

It's that big and it has 50 feet of movement, that's crazy. How is it moving through the dense forest without like it's I mean that would kind of make sense.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:17

The stride is big as hell, no? Oh my god. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:20

The real question is how did it sneak up on us? How do we not hear from like 500 feet away? You just hear trees falling over.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:31

You guys oh you guys almost heard it. Almost heard it. I'll give you guys that. You guys almost heard it. And it's as it comes towards True Sui, almost like it's rushing towards you. Uh uh does a that'll be a 24. Does it hit you?

SPEAKER_00 1:52:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:59

Uh it is gonna be 18 points of piercing damage as he hits it's it hits you if it's uh it's tusk. Or it's antlers, actually.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:08

Alright, alright, 18. There you go.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:12

And if it moved 20 feet towards you, I don't think that was 20 feet, so you're actually good. But if it does move 20 feet before it hits you, you would be prone. But because it's not 20 feet, you are actually okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:25

Now here's a scary now. Here's a scary part though. Because every every encounter so far, you know what's gonna come next. It's gonna be a multi-attack, so second attack. At 21.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:40

Yeah, it's a plus 10 to hit. Yeah, it hits me. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:48

Did you move at all yet? Uh who? Last turn? You. You you yeah, yeah, I should be closer. Okay. Okay. Cause I was gonna I was gonna see if you can proc your um Earth Elementor or not, but that's gonna be another additional 18 points of person damage to you.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:12

Oh my god. I think that'll be its turn.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:16

Guys, I think I need some help.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:20

Sky, it's your go. Wait, wait, wait, I'm so sorry. Wait, wait.

SPEAKER_09 1:54:24

Uh I have I have this spell I wanted to use. I'm so sorry. I just it came to my mind a little too late. But oh, the water element, yeah, the water artifacts reactive ability. Yeah, yeah. When an ally within 30 feet, which I'm pretty sure he is, yeah. I can reduce the damage by one d10 plus my wisdom modifier.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_09 1:54:52

So it was uh hopefully I can reduce some of this damage. Alright, so 1d10 plus my wisdom, so one plus four.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:02

I think your wisdom is zero, I believe.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:04

So reduced by eleven.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:07

Okay. Oh, is it your wisdom's a zero, right? Or is it a plus four? Yeah, your wisdom's a zero. Your charisma's plus four.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:17

Okay, so okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:21

So you get yeah, all of a sudden as this this uh M deer attacks you with second attack, you feel um just like a like a t almost like a tidal wave of s of sort gets in front of you and blocks as much attack as it can, and you don't take as like the full hit. So 7 HP back to you. And Sky's turn. So that's every reaction for you, by the way, Wagnews. Every turn you get one reaction, and you can use that for your reaction if you want to.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:51

Oh okay, okay, okay. That's cool. That's so awesome.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:57

Alright, this would have been great if like I did it, like almost died.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:03

Truly Bardic. A buttfire. Okay, so um before I do anything, is that fire still burning or no?

SPEAKER_05 1:56:17

Nope, that tree that you had uh cast a fireball on, it it pretty much just corrupted like uh it turned brittle and then it just uh went down.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:25

Okay. Alright. And then I will talk to Don and ask if these souls would suffice.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:37

Fortunately not. I told you I need a humanoid soul. But I will still help you. Let's take them down together, Sky.

SPEAKER_00 1:56:52

Kinda. Man, oh wait, are that just let me just double- it depends on like the world and setting.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:01

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, it doesn't look like they would be.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:06

If they were a playable race, they wouldn't be considered humanoids, I promise.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:12

Wow, not even that. Moose the Ender will suffice. Okay. Um there's two problems here. This guy is too close to me. Okay. Um Alright. I'll just 15 feet. I will just walk up to the dryad and swing with a Jodonk.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:43

Okay, roll to attack.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:48

19. 19 hits, 19 hits, 94. Let's go. Ooh. Uh total damage nine.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:01

Nine with modifiers. As you slash of Echadon, uh you see um like a black. What is it like a black after image of it of the blade itself goes past you and it strikes true into the triad. The triad is looking pretty hurt.

SPEAKER_07 1:58:24

Alright. So bonus action. Well swing um my bonus attack with the phantom dagger.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:33

As you go to reach for your phantom your phantom dagger, and you attempt to use your opponent's action to attack with your um your dagger to dual wield. You grab it, and then when it comes out, the dagger's not there. And then you hear in your head, sorry. I don't get along with other weapons.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:02

What the hell, Don? You could have said that way before. Alright, I will use my bonus action to just Oh my god. Create a fauna magic and end my turn.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:21

Okay. It's Therion's turn. Uh at first Therian was Therion was gonna yell at Skye. She but then she sees this humongous em deer. And she looks towards Wagnu. Wagnu, how how hurt are you right now?

SPEAKER_09 1:59:36

I'm not hurt too bad. I'm about a half at what uh my usual capacity is.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:43

Okay. She looks at you, um. Keep your distance. And then she's gonna rush towards DM Deer. Sees Wagnu and Sky. I mean uh Wagnu and Lee. Surround it! And she's just gonna try to maneuver a little bit over here with her all of her movement. Look towards it and attempt to attack it with her sword. And she fucking misses. Uh she goes in, she takes her sword out, and tries to like just slash side-slash it. But then um, like the the freaking skin, the fur of this this corrupted MDR is too tough, and the her sword does nothing to it. With that, it's Frost turn with Lee on deck.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:43

Alright. Uh I mean Frost will just see this triad and he will just uh hunt the day out, run over the target. That is a 21 to hit. 21 hits uh four damage and it is once again prone.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:06

Four damage. How does Frost wanna do this?

SPEAKER_00 2:01:11

Straight for the ankles. Trip her, she goes prone and then goes for the throat.

SPEAKER_08 2:01:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:17

Yeah, she falls down and then Frost just goes at her throat and starts ripping it out.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:23

Also, I want it on record that uh a resident pyromaniac hit a tree with fire and then proceeded to not set the dryads on fire. I just want that on record.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:37

Uh Lee, it's your go. Oh, dryad's gone. Take that out. And then Shusu on deck.

SPEAKER_10 2:01:46

Alright, I'm gonna try and I'm gonna scoot around this tree and then try and get a little bit of distance on the uh large endir. And then I will use my bonus action. Just mean to make sure. Uh if the target drops to zero hit points before the spell ends, you can take okay. So I can use my bonus action to move my hunter's mark.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:12

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:13

Um, so I'll move it to the the giant M deer. Okay. And then I will shoot it. Oh, nap one.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:23

Oh no. Uh you aim your arrow, you steady your your bow, and you let it fly. It hits the M Deer where it would it should be fatal, but you see as it just bounces off the tough skin. And your arrow touches the ground.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:48

Um you have extra attack.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:50

Yeah. I'm uh attempt to shoot it again. Uh okay, 19 29.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:59

29 hits. You quickly reload and shoot.

SPEAKER_10 2:03:04

Okay. So that is 1d8 plus 5. So 6 piercing damage, and then I get the extra hunter's mark damage. Which is another 6 force damage. So 12 tools.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:21

Dang.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:24

Okay. Any bonus action you want to do?

SPEAKER_10 2:03:28

Um, no, I already used it.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:29

That was your bonus action, okay. Alright, shoesuit, it's your go. Walk new on deck.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:33

Uh just to confirm, just using the uh effect where I lose my movement, does that cost like a bonus action or anything?

SPEAKER_05 2:03:40

Or is it just your movement.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:43

Uh I will just movement action. I will just kinda like fortify my stance, and I will just draw my uh my rapier and attack.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:59

Uh that is a 15, this that hit.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:03

15 hits. Oh, nice. That's a big dude.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:06

Okay, alright. Now the question is how much do I want to commit to this? Okay, well there's the base damage. I don't have an advantage, but since Therin's within five feet of it, I can trigger snake attack. And then I'll just do another menacing attack as why not? So go on on this thing. What's that? Uh 6, 13. Uh 18 damage.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:44

18 damage, nice, yeah. You take your rapier out, you can just start piercing at it. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:50

Yep, and then they have to make the 16 wisdom save.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:54

18. It's rolling really good. Rolling when you're hot for the saves.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:59

Alright, I'll uh really wise animal though. I mean, I'm just gonna use my extra attack, and since I hit it with the rapier, I get advantage from Vex. So just gonna go town. That is a That is a 14.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:20

Ooh. 14 is right above its AC.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:25

Alright. Cool, cool. And I'm just gonna uh this one's just gonna be a regular attack. That is 10 damage.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:38

10 damage, okay. Alright. I'm not uh Quickly stab at it twice. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:45

I'm really mad that this thing kinda just interrupted my fun and kinda beat the crap out of me. I will action surge.

unknown 2:05:55

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:56

And I will proceed to continue fighting it. Whoops, the check mark at. And then I will uh I will continue to abuse vex to just hit it. That is uh 17.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:13

Yes. 17 hits.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:16

Just gonna keep going. Uh ooh, max damage, 13.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:23

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:24

Last one. 18. Yeah, man. I just I just stab really hard. Uh okay, this is really good. You stab so hard and fast looks like magic. 8 damage.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:44

8 damage, okay. But around.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:47

It's still not done. I I I uh bonus action, uh to second win to heal myself.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:56

Okay, yeah. Nice, nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:58

Uh uh true 10 plus five. That's 13 health. Alright, now my turn's over.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:06

Nice. Alright, well, new at your go. Mdir on deck.

SPEAKER_09 2:07:11

Alright, so the triad's not a problem anymore. Big MDR. I'm just gonna go ahead and do a real simple. I'm gonna cast Cloud of Daggers where the big M deers.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:30

Okay. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:07:32

So it's just conjure spinning daggers in a five-foot cube, set around a spot within a range. Each creature takes four d4 slashing damage. Also, any creature that enters that area takes damage as well.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:44

Okay, no saves, right? It just takes it no matter what, right?

SPEAKER_09 2:07:52

Or at least it doesn't say anything about creature throwing a saving throwing it.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:57

Damn, just straight up.

SPEAKER_09 2:07:58

Yeah. Roll my D4 bro. Let's go four. Okay, okay. What is that? Ten? Ten damage total?

SPEAKER_05 2:08:12

Ten points of piercing damage? Uh slashing damage. Slashing damage? Alright, you cast your cloud of daggers on underneath the the MDer, and shoo sweet, you just start to hear like the slashing sound of the daggers. As the MDr starts to like get get aggravated. Anything else you want to do, Wagnum?

SPEAKER_09 2:08:38

And then for my bonus action, I'm just gonna go ahead and cast my Bardic Inspiration die to Black Sky. And then I'll pass my turn.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:52

Wait, sorry, what did you what did you cast? Bardic inspiration.

SPEAKER_09 2:08:57

I gave you one of my Bardic Inspiration dice.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:59

Do you wanna uh nobody tell you what you can do with it or Yeah, it's just the damage modifier, right?

unknown 2:09:08

Alright.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:09

Okay. The Cloud of Daggers.

SPEAKER_09 2:09:12

You can use it.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:14

Oh sorry, not gonna Okay, the Cloud of Daggers starts to aggravate, irritate the uh the M deer. He's gonna start to like just uh brings his its hoofs up and starts to just trample on the ground. Uh everyone within five feet, which is Shusui and Therian, roll me a DC 18 dexterity saving throw.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:39

Dexterity saving throw? Okay. Oh my god.

unknown 2:09:51

No.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:52

Alright. Um, that is a 9.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:56

9. Oh sheesh. He starts to trample on the ground and rocks and just the dirt starts to get in your eye. Um, you lose your balance and then you even feel some like it's who's trample on you. You and Therian takes 29 points of budgeting damage.

SPEAKER_00 2:10:17

Okay, so I get that half, so I take what 14?

SPEAKER_05 2:10:21

Damn. This would be an goes down to her knee.

SPEAKER_09 2:10:30

Yeah. I don't know if I can use my reaction, but because it's like uh two of them. Is it possible?

SPEAKER_05 2:10:42

Um let me let me take a look real fast. I I think it should be okay, but yeah, yeah, you can. You can use it on Shisui if you want. And theory or theory.

SPEAKER_09 2:10:56

Let's go. I'll use it on I'll use it on Shisui.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 2:11:02

I don't know her like that yet. One D 10. Alright, it's just four. It's just crazy. Better nothing. Nothing crazy, but let's go.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:17

At this point, Darien goes down to her knees. She is now prone. Shusui, you are being tempted to become prone.

SPEAKER_00 2:11:26

Uh does the artifact protect me from this, or are we saying it's higher uh CR than my level?

SPEAKER_05 2:11:34

Uh Luckily for you, y it's it's your level. Well, I no, cause it's Wait, it's a read it one more time.

SPEAKER_00 2:11:52

It has to be my level or greater to to have a chance to knock me down.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:58

Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, so you would you would become prone.

SPEAKER_00 2:12:02

Damn. Oh, there's no save for it, I just become prone.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:05

Well the the save was the dexterity saving part of it. Okay, so it just takes the prone and the damage. Alright. Um you see as both of them become prone and then he rushes towards you. And attacks you with its core attack. First attack. As the anthers goes down low, brings it up for 28 to hit. And you take 18 points of piercing damage, and he comes around again with his its head and tries to attack you again.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:44

Woo!

SPEAKER_05 2:12:45

Geez! That's gonna be a big hit. Oh god. Um I will roll for the second attack, so let's see. Eight.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:05

That's crazy. 36 damage? Okay, that was a big hit. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:09

That was a big hit, but that is a turn. It's your go and Dharion on deck.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:17

Sheesh. Oh man. Alright. How from Okay. Looking at Dharion, how sh weak is she right now?

SPEAKER_05 2:13:30

Um sh so she's she's still pretty okay. Okay. She's taking a beating, but she's still standing. She's just on one of her knee because she's prone right now.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:42

Man. Guys. How to get everyone right now.

SPEAKER_09 2:14:01

I think she's always low. She's always low. I'm pretty low. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:14:08

I think I'll be okay. I'm like I'll be able to heal myself up a little bit, but yeah. Don't don't focus on healing me. I I'll be I'll be okay. I'll take it. Oh wait, uh what I want to do. Did it take damage for being inside the uh cloud of daggers at the end of his turn?

SPEAKER_05 2:14:30

Is it at the end of its turn? Yeah, then we'll take the go ahead and roll me the 44 swagnu as well.

SPEAKER_09 2:14:39

Oh yes, yes, sorry, I missed that part of it. Enters the cube or ends its turn there.

SPEAKER_05 2:14:45

Three four Oh actually no because it moved from the five the cloud of daggers already.

SPEAKER_00 2:14:51

Did it move out? It's a barely big cube.

SPEAKER_05 2:14:56

Is it still Is it a five feet cube or a five feet what is it?

SPEAKER_08 2:15:01

Yeah, five foot cube. Yeah, five feet cube.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:10

Yeah, you'll just be out of it.

SPEAKER_09 2:15:13

Alright. Just shortcut. Barely. Hmm. Interesting. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:25

What are we doing, Sky? It seems looks like a big thing's coming up.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:31

It was, it was, but okay. That's um 35? Okay. Oh. Alright. I will. Since I have 30 feet. Okay. Alright, um, I don't want to get too close.

SPEAKER_00 2:15:52

Hey man, what are you doing? Sounds so nice.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:56

I will just cast dissonant whispers. Um, one creature of your choice that you can see within range. Here's a discordant melody in its mind. The target makes a wisdom saving throw. And then on a failed save, they take 3d6 damage and must use its reaction moving as far away from me as possible.

unknown 2:16:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:16:18

That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:20

That's that's gonna be pretty useful.

SPEAKER_00 2:16:24

It'd be even better if I wasn't prone.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:28

Alright, and have to beat a saving throw of 15.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:31

15. It doesn't have a good wisdom, but it hasn't been rolling pretty hot for wisdom saves, so let's see. Nice.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:39

Oh, let's go. Okay, okay. 3d6 roll damage. Nice. Let's go. Five. Eleven. Fourteen.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:51

Fourteen points of psychic damage? Yes. You cast your distant whispers, and you see as the endear starts to just shake its head. Go on like a tantrum, and then it starts to just back off as far as as it can, which is uh 50 feet of movement.

SPEAKER_00 2:17:11

It runs through the top of daggers.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:15

Yes, it does. It gets pretty far.

SPEAKER_00 2:17:21

So far.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:24

Like, I'm just gonna go all the way. At this point, all the trees are like just gets trampled down. Yeah. All the trees are gone here. Um go and roll your 4d4s for your cut of daggers as it enters the zone and takes the sashing damage. Okay. And you do have a bonus action still, Sky? Okay. I will just probably just say you guys right there.

SPEAKER_07 2:17:55

I was just uh activate my innate sorcery and my turn.

SPEAKER_05 2:18:01

Okay, hell yeah. Um, Darien moves a little bit to see all of you guys uh see sky using that dissident whispers. Good job! And then she's gonna cast mass healing word with her bonus action on Shusui, Wagnu, and um Lee. Thank goodness. And she let's see how much she gets. You guys will get back 12 HP.

SPEAKER_08 2:18:40

Seven.

SPEAKER_09 2:18:43

Let's go.

SPEAKER_05 2:18:45

And then she'll turn around. Let's take this chance to get a better position. And she'll just move back a little bit. That'll be her turn. It's Frost to go with Leon deck.

SPEAKER_00 2:19:06

Okay, uh, hold on. We go we're gonna check this up where I mean Frost sees I can't reach it, and uh it will just uh just move over next to the Walk new and kinda just uh be some oral support.

SPEAKER_05 2:19:30

Okay. I'll let it give uh Wagnu an advantage on an attack next turn. Alright, Lee.

SPEAKER_10 2:19:41

Um you said it kind of trampled the trees so we'd still be able to see it from here.

SPEAKER_05 2:19:45

Yeah, yeah. Right now it's just like an open open view.

SPEAKER_10 2:19:48

Um move back a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 2:19:54

Oh, sorry. Is it locked on you? Should be able to move.

SPEAKER_10 2:20:01

I don't know. Uh I'm just gonna move kind of like behind this rock though. Uh you can move me if you like. Uh for me it still says it's um. Did I change your permission? No. It should be good. Yeah, I think for me it still says it's the dog's turn. Oh, there we go. There it goes. Yeah. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna move kind of behind this rock and uh I'm gonna as I grab my next arrow, I'm gonna uh s it's not like hidden, but you know, if if people are next to me and they like are actively looking at me, they'll see. When I grab my next arrow, it like it almost like disappears and reappears. Like it looks like it's like glitching in my hand as I um use my bonus action for to use planar warrior. That's like a don't. Um as a bonus action, um the next time I hit my target, um all damage dealt will become force damage, and I get an additional one d8 force damage on the attack. Let's go. So I'm gonna attempt to shoot it for a dirty 20.

SPEAKER_05 2:21:18

Dirty 20 hits.

SPEAKER_10 2:21:19

Okay, so that's the 1d8 plus 5 for my bow damage. So that's 10. Plus the 1d6 for Hunter's mark.

SPEAKER_05 2:21:30

Good damage.

SPEAKER_10 2:21:32

Uh another three, and then another 1d8 for the planar warrior. So 6, so that's a 19 force damage total.

SPEAKER_05 2:21:44

19 force damage. Um you cock your bow. You let it fly. As it flies through the ear there, um, everyone's that it goes by, you can see that as the arrow glitches in and out. You wanna explain how it your shot looks like as it hits the MDR? From this distance.

SPEAKER_10 2:22:10

As it leaves the bow, it almost looks like it disappears into thin air and kind of reappears near where Shisui and the first MDr is and disappears again. It's like almost teleporting as it like flies to the air, and it almost looks like it's gaining speed as it hits the deer.

SPEAKER_05 2:22:31

That's freaking dope. It's a it hits the MDR, and the MDer lets out a huge shout. You have your extra attack and your bonus action.

SPEAKER_10 2:22:43

Um yeah, the planar warrior was my bonus action, so um I will use managed second attack though. Um for only a 12 on that one, so for your modifier?

SPEAKER_05 2:22:54

Okay. Yeah. That one, as you load your arrow again and you let it go, it follows after the first arrow. But the M deer puts its feet on the ground and just hit like hits away your arrow with its antlers.

SPEAKER_02 2:23:13

Should we go?

SPEAKER_03 2:23:14

Oh new, you're on deck.

SPEAKER_00 2:23:16

Alright, I will uh use half my movement speed to get up, and I will kinda position myself so that it either has to like hit me or it has to run through the cloud of daggers if it wants to get to people. Uh I will use my bonus action to second win. And see how much that heals me. That will heal me 12.

SPEAKER_04 2:23:48

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:23:51

And then I will just uh I'll just take the ready action so that if it gets within range for me to just attack it. And that will make turn.

unknown 2:24:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:24:03

Wagnu it's your go. MDR on deck.

SPEAKER_00 2:24:08

Awesome. Don't forget you can move the cloud of daggers.

SPEAKER_09 2:24:11

I'm also gonna walk up if you want. Um let me see how far I can move.

SPEAKER_00 2:24:18

I mean, it takes your action though, so. You just use it to block or you can move it.

SPEAKER_09 2:24:23

Up to Yeah. I can move it up to 30 feet, it says. I see how far that is. Oh no, it's not. Hmm. It takes my action. Yeah, I'm just gonna move up a little closer to where like Shusui is, and I'll I'll move the cloud of daggers as far as I can towards. Okay, how far can you move it again?

SPEAKER_05 2:24:54

60 feet? 30 feet? Okay.

SPEAKER_09 2:24:57

30. It's not gonna reach.

SPEAKER_05 2:25:02

Yeah. Pretty good still. It's gonna have to go through it regardless.

SPEAKER_09 2:25:09

Cool, and then I'll cast a bardic inspiration die for Shisui.

SPEAKER_05 2:25:14

Let's go. The bard is bard in now.

SPEAKER_09 2:25:19

And then I'll end my turn.

unknown 2:25:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 2:25:23

Uh enraged, the MDR is just gonna rush through the daggers. So go ahead and roll your damage. Uh I just disappeared.

SPEAKER_07 2:25:36

You're right on top of the trees, there I guess.

SPEAKER_09 2:25:42

8 damage.

SPEAKER_05 2:25:43

8 damage as it just goes past your dagger. Your dagger slashes as its its its feet, its hooves. And it's gonna go towards Shusui. Shusui, take your action to attack it.

SPEAKER_00 2:25:56

Okay, let's see. Do I have any other modifiers I wanna add? Can't add. Uh well, we'll see what I roll first. Uh uh. 22.

SPEAKER_03 2:26:12

22, 22 hits.

SPEAKER_00 2:26:15

Okay, let's see. Well, we gotta go double check something. Okay. That's unfortunate, it's not actually considered that. Uh it's also within five feet of Wagner, right?

SPEAKER_05 2:26:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:26:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:26:33

Well at this point it would be in front of you first. So you can trigger your action attack, your uh hold attack. Okay. So it wouldn't be in in 5 feet within 5 feet within Wagne yet.

SPEAKER_00 2:26:45

Okay, that's fine. Alright. So I will use the Bardic Inspiration for damage, and then I would use my last uh superiority dice to do a menacing attack. So let's see how this goes. Oh, that is a lot of damage. Uh what's that? 12, 18. Let's go. Uh that's 25 damage.

SPEAKER_05 2:27:16

25 points of piercing damage.

unknown 2:27:20

Dang.

SPEAKER_05 2:27:22

DM Deer rushes towards you, and he raises it raises its body, getting ready to trample down onto you. As it comes down, you quickly just stab at it with your rapier. Also noticing the the daggers, the cloud daggers that walked in the castle before, and you look for its weak points. How do you want to do this?

SPEAKER_00 2:27:47

Nice. I uh I just kinda like brace my shell and let it use its own momentum to just plunge deeper into my rapier. So I just kinda let it impale itself. And uh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:28:03

And as it does that, you as it dies, you see its shape go from goes from um the huge size of it into the size of an endear. No longer violet as the red antlers appears, and he is dead right behind you as a regular em deer. And we are now out of combat. Maybe I underestimated you all after all.

SPEAKER_00 2:28:51

It happens more often than you think. But uh more importantly, uh I do believe I won our little wager. Did you Well, as you can see, I have just finished off this M deer, and then I point to the other M deer. And uh my arrow is also sticking out of that MDR. So, if anything, I think I've uh won my wager twice over.

SPEAKER_05 2:29:26

She looks at the MDR and she goes to crouch down next to it.

SPEAKER_02 2:29:33

Hmm.

SPEAKER_04 2:29:34

I see. That was pretty good. I'll give you that one.

SPEAKER_05 2:29:42

Still, I I wonder what happened as she looked towards the endear that was corrupted, and you see as she mutters something under her breath. Um, Wagnu with your detect magic still on. You see as uh golden threads from this endear starts to just kind of go up into the sky as it fades away.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:14

I'll look at or I'll talk to him. So that wasn't part of the test, huh?

SPEAKER_05 2:30:22

Nope, that was not, but that was definitely something that Fenwin was trying to stop from getting out.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:32

What the heck? Is this the first time you've seen something like this? Or has this happened before?

SPEAKER_05 2:30:42

Not the first, but something that huge, yes. First for that one. Usually they're more of what you saw earlier, the dryads.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:54

Hmm. Something feels off here. We should talk to Finn What is Finwin as soon as we can. Try to figure out what's going on. That thing almost took us out.

SPEAKER_05 2:31:05

Well, it is like you said, if something is if the if the Black Dawn or whatever you said earlier was the cause of all this, everything makes sense. And you see as she takes out like a dagger to start carving the um the endear next next to her. I know it may seem weird, elves hunting for for meat. But it's not what you think. Yeah, she just continues carving to the endear. For a while now. The animals have hasn't been passing like normal. What you saw there earlier. That's kind of what happens. And so we all just took it upon ourselves. Before they go, we hope them go peacefully. Continue to carve around the um the endir to the head. And of course, our ways. Nothing gets wasted. Are you guys gonna help me or just stand there?

SPEAKER_09 2:32:21

Right, right. I'll take out a knife and then begin help her carve. Carve up the MDR.

SPEAKER_00 2:32:31

While they're doing that, I kinda walk towards where the uh the giant MDR came from, but I kinda like look at its tracks and like where it came from.

SPEAKER_05 2:32:42

You look out. Roll me a perception check.

SPEAKER_00 2:32:50

Oh screw it! I w I will inspire this. Uh 16. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 2:33:07

16. Um, you go past the debris, the fallen trees, and you just look past where you think that humongous endear had come from. What you see is um more trees, a forest. That's not what you expect. Instead of the regular green, you see instead a forest of of darkness. What is Lee doing?

SPEAKER_10 2:33:49

Um he is He's gonna start heading towards Therian and Long New, but before he kind of heads that way, he's gonna turn the Black Sky and thank you for thank you for that. I owe you one. And then I'll kinda head towards the the group and start helping.

SPEAKER_05 2:34:14

You start to crouch down, you take out your dagger, and you start helping Wagnew and Theory and carve the emdere. There are two here, so it does take a while. Um she looks around. You guys don't have to have like a magic bag or anything, do you? Otherwise, we'd have to lug this by ourselves. And two is a lot.

SPEAKER_00 2:34:36

Well, we do indeed have to have such a bag. I believe Wagnu is holding on to it, right?

SPEAKER_07 2:34:44

It's over by me.

SPEAKER_00 2:34:46

I don't I'm pretty sure you have our bag of holding.

SPEAKER_08 2:34:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:34:51

Nope, you do not have the bag of holding. Black Sky has the bag holding, but I believe it's pretty filled up.

SPEAKER_08 2:34:57

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_10 2:34:58

Oh. I I normally try and keep mine clean, but uh, we can use mine for now. As I lift up my bag.

SPEAKER_09 2:35:07

Huh. I got rope. Any rope?

SPEAKER_05 2:35:10

No, he won't need any rope. And she starts to pick up the pieces of the carved Mdeers and throws them into uh Lee's bag. Thank you. I guess I owe you guys an apology. Although I do have to say I did kind of poke my weight. You guys are quite a strong bed. And she finishes putting all the D MDr meat into your bag. Well, at least Drenner will be happy. Seems like another day to be celebrated. Should we head back now? And as promised, of course, I'll get you the audience with Fenwin right away. If he's back. Never said I wouldn't.

SPEAKER_00 2:35:57

Of course.

SPEAKER_05 2:35:58

He was just busy, that's all.

SPEAKER_00 2:36:00

Alright, well uh let's uh head back before something else decides to attack us.

SPEAKER_05 2:36:06

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

SPEAKER_10 2:36:15

Um I just want to make sure that we can talk you guys can talk and walk. So I wanted to make sure to grab the animals.

SPEAKER_09 2:36:24

I don't know. I wanted to do I want to use my new speak to dead spell, speak with dead spell.

SPEAKER_07 2:36:38

That's good.

SPEAKER_09 2:36:39

But I also wanted to use speak with animals so that can speak to anything. I'm kind of weird for the endear.

SPEAKER_05 2:36:45

But so the only thing is that the endear has been carved.

SPEAKER_00 2:36:53

So yeah, maybe if like maybe if we have speak with animals, we can do that. But even then, it's still a little a little weird for the rest of us.

SPEAKER_09 2:37:05

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's my first time using this necromancy stuff. I don't like No Kidd. Okay, okay. I'm good, I'm good.

SPEAKER_05 2:37:16

Alright, Sky, what did you want to do?

SPEAKER_07 2:37:18

Oh no, no, no, no. I was just gonna say, um we could have done that when we're fighting the deers.

SPEAKER_05 2:37:25

Yeah. Uh Lee, what did you want to do? You said you had something in mind.

SPEAKER_10 2:37:32

Uh I wanted um make sure that uh we gathered the antlers.

SPEAKER_05 2:37:36

Yeah, you have uh nothing goes to waste. So everything's in everything of the endearers, both of the enders are in your bag.

SPEAKER_07 2:37:45

Uh I will ask Therion if those triads are like, is that a new thing or is that like a normal occurrence?

SPEAKER_04 2:38:00

As of late, it's pretty normal. That's why I come out here almost every day.

SPEAKER_05 2:38:08

Also I please don't tell anyone when you get back about what happened here. Benwin and I are trying to keep things on the down low, and we don't want anyone to panic.

SPEAKER_00 2:38:22

So you come out here.

SPEAKER_05 2:38:23

You guys don't know where they're coming from? Sorry, what was that again?

SPEAKER_07 2:38:29

Yeah, it's this way.

SPEAKER_00 2:38:31

Uh so you come out here on patrol alone, you said?

SPEAKER_05 2:38:36

Yes. And I figured I'd bring you all because supposedly you guys were the are the guardians. And I had to see for myself.

SPEAKER_00 2:38:49

I mean, it it took all of us to take that down. I'm kinda surprised you managed to patrol on your own.

SPEAKER_05 2:38:58

Well, like I said, something that big, that was the first. They're mostly usually the dryads and smaller things. I guess things are getting out of control. It happened uh not too long ago after all. The spirit force, and she turns around to where Shusui had lookout to earlier. You were over there earlier in Usaul. It's covered in darkness.

SPEAKER_04 2:39:27

But we can't let anyone know. Not yet until we figure out why. You guys ready to go back now?

SPEAKER_00 2:39:37

Uh just just one more question before we start heading back. Uh did you know uh Rabbi's been uh going in and out of uh a journey?

SPEAKER_05 2:39:54

She turns to you. What?

SPEAKER_00 2:39:58

Yeah, he said that's where he gets uh all of his I guess his his strange and uh unique items. A little concerned that he's uh out here by himself. Doesn't exactly look uh like the fighting type.

SPEAKER_05 2:40:14

That doofus. Ah, and she rubs her head. Well, thank you for telling me that. I'll make sure to give him a good lecture when we get back.

SPEAKER_00 2:40:24

Yeah, maybe you can figure out where he's getting all that dough from. I'm not quite uh not quite sure where he's getting dough for all his bread, but yeah, just figured you'd like to do it.

SPEAKER_05 2:40:35

You say he's making bread?

SPEAKER_00 2:40:37

Yeah, he has a little uh contraption that uh turns dough into bread without without any fire.

SPEAKER_05 2:40:43

Uh okay, okay, well. That'll have to wait till later then. She turns to Lee. You look uneasy.

SPEAKER_10 2:40:57

I'm I'm fine. Let's get back to Drenner.

SPEAKER_05 2:41:02

Okay. Let's go. And y'all start heading back to Drennor. I need everyone. Who's in the back? Who would be in the back? Probably be me. What is the martial order? Sky? Yeah, yeah, Dawn in your head. I guess we can't kill her anymore, huh? She still considered a bitch to you or no? All it takes is just a quick one-two behind her neck. I thought about it. We'll see when we get back. I just wanna warn you.

SPEAKER_04 2:41:37

Is it getting kinda near? Kind of dangerous. I'm not myself when I get hungry, okay? Just gotta let you know.

SPEAKER_05 2:41:47

Yeah, of course. Also roll me a perception check. As you are all leaving, and Sky is the last to leave.

SPEAKER_07 2:41:56

Everyone including me? Just you. Just me? Oh. Oh no. That's a three. It's a three.

SPEAKER_05 2:42:09

You don't notice anything unusual. Your mind is focused on Dawn right now, and you just follow the group along. Eventually you make your way back to Drenner. At this time, it's about afternoon. What's the first thing you want to do as you guys return back?

SPEAKER_10 2:42:29

Um. I think I would want to speak with Finn the most, honestly. I think that would be the first thing I would want to do.

SPEAKER_09 2:42:38

I wanna talk to. Before we like look for Finn, I'll just tell I'll tell everyone. Like Black S I'll tell Black Sky and Shusui and Lee about my final moments with the giant MDr and how I saw with my Detect Magic the golden strings going upwards. Just sharing that with them. Uh just to make it like public knowledge.

SPEAKER_07 2:43:07

I mean, what how did the thread look like? Was it connected to her?

SPEAKER_09 2:43:12

It was the golden thread that like my Detect Magic detected. So I'm pretty sure it came from like. It was just earlier when I did the Detect Magic, and then I was able to sense the golden thread in that giant MDr's final moment. The golden thread was like Um I could trace it upwards. So I was able to see it, but I just wanted to share it with everyone.

SPEAKER_07 2:43:36

As if like it was being puppeteered?

SPEAKER_09 2:43:39

Um, I'm not exactly sure, but it was kinda like that that's like the description that um Jackie told me when I used the tech magic. So it's like I I assume it was like of a similar source, basically.

SPEAKER_00 2:43:55

Uh can I make like a ridge uh religion or a history check to see if I know anything about this like golden thread or like I've ever like heard it referenced?

SPEAKER_05 2:44:05

Yeah, you can make a religion check. Alright.

SPEAKER_00 2:44:08

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 2:44:10

Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 2:44:13

Uh 16.

SPEAKER_05 2:44:15

16. At the mention of the golden thread, um it also reminds you of the golden thread that Shaman Yur gave to you, too. Um, and as someone who follows or knows like about these kind of things, your family has been um religious for their whole lives. And you know that most time when one is talking about the golden threads, it usually has to connect with uh a soul. And to your knowledge, everyone's soul is in the form of golden threads. You have not seen it before, but this is what you know.

SPEAKER_00 2:45:11

Yeah, uh from what I remember from my uh youth, uh they will talk about golden threads kinda in the kind of whenever we got to the subject of like souls. But uh that was a while ago and I don't really remember all the details, but I remember for sure there is a correlation between souls and golden threads. So uh maybe maybe f uh Fenwood will know more?

SPEAKER_02 2:45:41

Hmm.

SPEAKER_09 2:45:42

Yeah, we should definitely ask them. But I just found it suspicious that Therion asked us to keep all this under wraps, you know?

SPEAKER_07 2:45:53

Yeah, no, I agree. It's like the people are drinners out of touch with reality.

unknown 2:46:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:46:01

I may not agree with keeping it a secret, but I certainly understand why she would want to.

SPEAKER_05 2:46:07

Although at this point, Darien is not with you guys. She gotta put on ahead to kind of like um talk to Fenwin to get him ready for you. So you are alone and she is not here.

SPEAKER_08 2:46:18

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:46:20

My best guess would be for this information to keep it secret to reduce panic, but I do agree, I think at least some of the people should know.

SPEAKER_00 2:46:32

Yeah, I I certainly think more than two people should be going on patrols if things have escalated to the level where where M deers can become that monstrosity. But uh in the end, uh at least me and uh Sky were outsiders. We can only have so much sway over the people here.

SPEAKER_09 2:46:57

Yeah, and that thing almost took us out, so I just I feel like the people of this village aren't ready for something like that. But the sooner we talk to Fenwin, the sooner we might get some more answers, and we can try to do something about this because Imagine if we weren't who we are, you know? And we ran into something like that. Also to say, I guess we can all agree on keeping this a secret for now then.

SPEAKER_10 2:47:28

Uh I think so.

SPEAKER_00 2:47:31

Let's do it here. As long as we get to the artifact and we manage to solve the problem, then it's just it's something that people don't have to worry about. But uh, if things do start to go wrong, we sh we should let them know sooner rather than later.

SPEAKER_05 2:47:49

You start to make your way to Penwin's home in the center of Drennor. As you get there, Therion comes out. She greets all of you with a nod, looks toward Lee. He said he wants to talk to you first.

SPEAKER_10 2:48:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:48:09

And she opens the door for you to go through.

SPEAKER_10 2:48:12

I go in.

SPEAKER_05 2:48:14

As you walk through, you go all the way to the back. You see Finn when what seems like was in the trance and he comes out of it, his his pupil white, and then it comes back to the color that you're used to seeing.

SPEAKER_10 2:48:36

Finn?

SPEAKER_04 2:48:39

What's going on? I think I understand now.

SPEAKER_05 2:48:45

Understand what? You said you were gone for 20 years. I was confused at first. Because for me and for all of us here, 200 years has passed. You said you were far away.

SPEAKER_04 2:49:03

And now I think I know where you were.

SPEAKER_10 2:49:07

And where do you think that was?

SPEAKER_04 2:49:13

Welcome back to the spirit world. And that's where we'll stop for tonight.

SPEAKER_05 2:49:22

Snap. Hey there, wanders. This is your DM Jackie. If you enjoyed that episode, don't forget to like, subscribe, and follow. You can find us on Spotify Apple Podcast and YouTube. Until next time.