 The cave is dark quiet empty with nothing but the old roots to keep you company and the blood that surrounds you the ghosts seem unattentive to your presence and As Leira picks up Not only the vision from the ghost on the throne, but the scales that she found on its seat I'm going to need everyone to immediately roll for initiative Do we roll is Initiative Technically a check that what we would get disadvantage on no poison is purely for ability checks So purely like a strength check check a dexterity check stuff like that. Oh At least I'm pretty sure I could be wrong. I thought let's say I thought initiative is an ability check if I'm not mistaken I could poison attack rolls and ability checks, but it doesn't say initiative. No initiative, right? I will explicitly say initiative So yes attack rolls and ability checks great. Not like we're gonna be making a lot of those today Okay, and is this just an absolutist poison or do we re-roll every round to try and beat it this Or like for like 1d4 hours. I think yes, I'm gonna say one hour Okay Maybe the blot will let us sneak in a short rest Everyone hold up Now first up is fritz Just kill all of them before it's their turn fritz. It's easy. Just do that. Yeah rangers have multi tag multi shot You got you got it. You got it Multi means many. Yeah Shot how many blocks are shooting bullets Math checks out. Yes We've not encountered a friendly blot yet. Maybe and I know we rolled initiative. I understand that maybe it's fine We encountered one honest blot, and that's about it. It's the diversity we have Lightning so sorry about that Negotiations broken down I'm going to start off with casting hail of thorns on How do I ping again? When you click the spell click and hold. Oh click and hold when you're not on the measuring tool How big is hail thorns again? It's within five feet of the target. I'm pretty sure Right. Oh, so it doesn't cover that big of an area. I Mean they're within five feet of each other Yeah, I'm gonna go for these two with hail of thorns. I think hail of thorns is in an area around the target could you put the The spell description in the chat Oh That's not what I meant to do. I thought that would should be show in VTT There we go. Okay. Yeah, it's oh, yeah, it's an attack So it it's like an augment on a ranged weapon attack So both of these would actually have to make the deck saving throw Yeah, but you need to shoot them I was declaring I was going to use it Don't we roll with disadvantage for poison you do you're gonna roll an attack at disadvantage How do I do it on disadvantage? I think if you hold control control. Yeah, and then yeah, hold control and then click Ooh a nine is not gonna be enough. It just goes wide. You don't waste your hail of thorns because it's for the next attack that you land But it goes wide it your bolts just into one of the stray Wooden roots around I'm pretty sure you have a second attack. Yes. Yes, I just didn't know if that counted because I costed a technically costed a spell It's the next time you hit a creature That's a boat this spell is a bonus action. How many attacks do you have per round at your level to? Yeah, it says the next time you hit all right 18 will hit. Okay. I know sometimes a spell counts Oh, yeah, it's one bonus action my bad. Sorry. It's been a while. I'm getting back to it It's all good. We're shaking the worry. You know what can help you learn better playing more Baldur's gate because it's That's right. This game I've been playing Not sponsored by the way we're not sponsored, but that be cool or not not even in support of Actively actively against Does a 18 hit an 18 does indeed hit and I'm gonna roll deck saves for them And they take for fire, right? They do take for fire as well So the blot that you fire at is going to splatter that one's dead. Yeah, these two One of them makes their save one of them fails So the one that makes their save is gonna take a four The one that fails is gonna take an eight and it is barely holding itself together Okay, cool, but you do it does the thorns spread out and land into these two blot Goops little blot slimes, but they all still seem to have their attention fixated on later Do you want to move it all fritz? I'm kind of enjoying being poached over here I'm not gonna lie. It's not comforting about it Power of fusion Okay, we got a show to each word Yeah, this this poncho is gonna save my life wait if you in my head pop out from the neck If you move over will it say fritz buck word if you if you get over to the left It says word book fritz to me on ice cream. Yeah, let's change that up. The other one will be better Okay, oh, it's all right You got it. So I gotta collect all fritz buck words the party. We have formed It's not updating on my other role 20 for some reason it's updating on my role 20 where I'm the dungeon master, but Don't forget that fritz buck word has a reach of 20 feet right now Just pick me up Wait if I move there we go. Yeah, it's yeah fritz buck word for some reason They're over to the left on my screen. I don't know why I was so was it's true on mine, too Yeah, I don't know why yeah Anyway, well now it's the blots turn work and they are all gonna go get directly for Lera No Top, you know the the roots and Slytherin over great. They practically surround you. Oh Buckets an attack of opportunity does get an attack of opportunity. Oh, I do this on this one all the others I think are still in range. Let's see how many were they were Yeah, I was that I was yeah, okay So yeah, you have attack of opportunity on Pretty much every single one that's moving like this one you have attack on that one Do you want me to roll for it? If you want one as a bonus action. I get to pick this one this one Or a reaction this one I'll just roll it once and then pretty sure this one. Yeah, you roll it once and you'll pick All right 25 is going to hit anyone that you're choosing Let's do maybe this one. I think this one. All right Let's so 11 11 bludgeoning I'm also gonna do an additional like 1d4 because I'm because of enlarge. It's just not it's just not on there Oh, yeah, you smack just smash it into smithereens One less blot to for Lera to worry about but the rest of them are also gonna Slyther along Yeah, wish along just kind of between your legs buck Oh Yes, where do you have an attack of opportunity and fritz as well? Oh Shit. Oh boy. That's a lot Just roll roll a melee attack roll look at I I don't want to say that I was hiding Suddenly so yeah. Oh You know what? Yeah, I'll take it which means that it would cancel out but a 10 wouldn't hit So I would say your hiding your hiding would give you Advantage Which would cancel out your disadvantage, so I guess we'll just take that first roll Yeah, because you're poison The poison the poison for words poison Yeah, I was just double-checking. I think I okay unfortunate my dagger. Yeah, still trying. Sorry. I was trying trying to swing It stab at the blot that's heading towards Lera. You unfortunately aren't unable to get a good stab in as the blot surrounds her gosh Let's go girls And what is your what is your AC as a giant bat as a giant bat? I have armor class 13 13 Which is two points better than my normal armor class. Okay, so Five of the blot hit you oh Okay, that's okay. It could be worse. There's like it could be worse. There's like a bunch of them Maybe the blot are also poison Taste of the wrong medicine you could say You take 21 force damage Okay, well, I'm not a bat anymore. No more delete that That's that's my five bat HP are gone and then that's 16 additional force damage, right? Yes 21. Yes, okay 16 Okay, there goes my seven temp HP So you are retracted back into your shifter form Yes, I'm I'm normal size now, but I was on the throne and now it's fine. They can still surround me Yeah, this is just for like map adjustment reason. We can still say you're on the throne. That's fine. Cool In fact, I'll just I'll just shift everyone over for convenience sake right there Yeah Lera your turn you're surrounded by blot Yeah, I am oh boy Who boy up? Yeah Let's do a thunder wave real quick. Oh I love a target rich environment No Because it's not an attack. Oh, let me say where I'm putting it first. Um, let me just Let's see 15 foot cute Cube I think I would like to put it this won't get all of them But I also don't want to hit anybody so I think like just to clear these ones out if that looks okay Yeah, that's good. I think so right con saves for well actually. Sorry. Sorry. Hold on I have a better idea can I don't know how to delete that one It's just basically just putting it on the other side So like here if I could Yes, you may great Let me delete that for you. Thank you So, yeah, that's just a God, how does this work? Where's my character sheet everything's falling apart DC 14 con yes, everyone makes a DC 14 con save and is pushed 10 feet away from me on a successful save They take half as much damage and aren't pushed Okay Alright, oh This isn't Shatter. There's a Thunderwave. All right. This is Thunderwave. I don't know why I thought it was Shatter Yes, okay, so Two of them fail they are pushed back But they're also dead as you just splatter them and you just see to this like black liquid just Splatter against the cave walls and the pillars besides just completely Painting the place black as if it wasn't dark enough already on a ketchup Step on a ketchup packet. Yeah, and these two making their saves, but do you have seemed to struggle keeping their form? cool All right. Well, that was my spell Hmm Yeah, I have very few bonus actions that I can use and I already use my misty step for the day. I think so I Kind of if I move away, I'm gonna tank like five attacks of opportunity. So I think I'm staying on the throne All right, that's my turn yeah Buck your turn Yeah, I'd like to rage but I can't because I've used them all for the day So let me just get I'm gonna attack recklessly on the one directly in front of me Okay, so that it just becomes a regular attack. All right Okay, yes the one right in front of you no problem at all splatters it as if you were stepping on bubble wrap and because I have Go go gadget bugbear arms. I'm gonna try and get this one directly in front of here first With your second attack still attack. Yeah, and I'm still attacking right. Yes. Okay. 12 is going to hit. Yep And I should get one before I didn't roll it on the other one. That's okay. The other one said yeah, that'll Explode this one as well. You're clearing out the blot infestation Okay Can I like step Into the squishy bits and like yes, I can't move specifically, but I want to be up I want to be like where these four were. Yes, you may That's not on the word for it. Oh, wait, am I moving with you because I'm on your offset. There we go. I don't know I'm on your shoulder. So I guess I'm moving with you. Yeah, you're perched on the moving object. I'd say yeah Yes, I'll move them As well And I'll in a moment buck We must form the Voltron Okay, yeah, I'll in I'll in my turn there word your turn I'm gonna drop down Bucks pant leg and slide out next to the food like up like upside down Just immediately hit the ground and like bow my head and like raise my hands and apologize and be like it's okay She didn't be in any harm. She was just warming the seat for me And I'm gonna cast or use gravel cower and beg so that everyone has normal attacks instead of disadvantage for Wonderful real MVP What do you like the flavor on your cobalt oh really and the flavor on it is delusions of grand air That's everything within 10 feet of me, which I think is actually every one of them every single one Is that an action That is yeah an action in combat my bonus actions I just have two weapon fighting which I can't use or cunning action after I've done that. Can I try and hide again? Sure? Yeah Yeah He doesn't like The Homer Simpson disappearing into the bush All right, that's exactly what you do you clasp you put your hands together do a little apology And then you slide into bucks massive bugbear lake hair Get him Fritz Fritz your attacks are normal now instead of this advantage. Oh Boy It's every single target, you know nearby Can't do it within a certain usher how tall does buck Right boy. I think he's probably like fifth I think he's like close to 13 14 feet because I think in large doubles you in size, right? I think I just can't remember if I'm shooting someone within a certain disadvantage Yes But if you shot the ones to your left, I think those would be a disadvantage No, it's you have disadvantage if there's anyone within melee range of you regardless of who your target is oh Because you are threatened as it were also if Fritz is perched on bucks shoulder that's still 10 feet about that's what I was gonna say Yeah, that's what I was asking about although. It's because we're on a 2d map unfortunately So we can't depict the fact that you are elevated That's just why I was asking all right I'm gonna shoot this one that looks half dead and then do my second shot at the one behind all right show me a Shot oh Wait, we don't have to do it disadvantage. Yeah, you don't okay Yes, the one that is nearly dead now of one more bolt is going to make it dissipate and lose its form and turn into a soft sludge And that second all that's a pretty good shot as well you do the same a single shot all it takes lights it a flame of it and it reduces Next is the blots turn they continue to ignore the rest of the party and focus on layra Let's go So no come over here, and they're gonna continue kind of throwing their kind of liquidy tendrils and slapping about and bashing hold on this one is There we go and bashing with all their might and Let's see Okay, layra you're going to take four more attacks Okay, my current AC is 11, so I don't know if that makes any you're back to yeah I've taken that into account. I have your character sheets and little thingies on my desk So I can always you know all my secrets. I know I can always know your spell save DCs and AC and Passive perceptions. Okay, let's see. Oh You're going to take another 16 force damage as they are bashing and slapping and Oh That is their turn. They are on a one-track mind Okay, what's your turn well that wasn't my favorite All right, I'm going to I'm all out of first-level spell slots So I'm going to cast moon beam and I'm going to put it here Oh, all right. Yeah So That is sorry. Let me just actually check what it does When a creature enters the spells area for the first time or a turner starts its turn there Must make a constitution saving throw DC 14 Let's see It takes 2d10 radiant damage on a failed save half as much damage on a successful one If these things count as shape changers And it would reveal their illusion as well, correct pretty cool Anyway, yes, so That's just gonna stay up as long as I hold concentration. Well, all of them fail And they're all dead as this moon beam peeks through This rocky ceiling and just blasts them they splatter into little puddles of black goop Great awesome Yeah, once again, I'm all out of useful bonus actions And I don't really want to take a smack a rune from one of those guys, so I'm gonna stay on the throne Buck buck going to try and buck hurt these two people, but I'll attach I'll attack recklessly, which I guess is advantage. So yeah, it is Yeah, okay 29. Yep, whichever one it doesn't matter. They would die both of them are pretty low enough Number attack to number attack and number attack to takes care of the last of the blot. Well done You've saved your friend. You've gotten rid of these blot stragglers The encounter is over You can climb higher up on the throne than me to assert dominance No, I like scooch next to you and I'm like, you know I've actually realizing now that there's no kingdom where the king and queen sit next to each other I'm like a love seed or something. I wonder why that is Couldn't tell you We pick up some low dragon bits from the Then I dropped those Don't think so unless you've recently changed color What color are they? They seem to be of a white dragonborn or not not not dragonborn white scales rather I should be clear a scales of a white dragon here. They are once again Ah Yes, I will take two of the fragments. Ah, I see Yeah, I'd like to grab a couple too just to look at later. Yes Do I you might have answered this previously Joe? But I want to look at the symbol and see if I recognize it at all actually I did not Explain it as no one has taken the particular note aside from Scribbling all over scribbling a very beautiful drawing of course. I I will take particular note of it and if I Okay with a seven you've probably seen and with a negative one I would have taken your passive as well But a negative one is like you wouldn't know anything so a roll maybe would have given you more But with a seven it's something you may have seen in a history book once or twice It's like a water drop with an eyeball on the bottom. Well, but I don't recognize this Maybe like a really red leaf We've got a couple more ghosts in here if we want to go and take a couple psychic hits and see what they have to say I'm excited. Actually, no, this is very comfortable I'm alright. I had a lot of various forms of temp HP, so I'm down to I'm like less than a third But I'm not in single digits. I'll go take the psychic damage Fritz you're gonna go to the right. Oh, yeah, is that something you want me to ask in particular? I Think you just see the yeah, you see the vision. What color is here? You can give me a wisdom saving throw fritz What Okay, the ghost fades into you and you're able to stave off the psychic damage luckily Okay, it didn't even oh, that's another blot that I just didn't take care of whoops. I forgot Thank you little straggler dissolving in shame they weren't exactly interested until King I was taking care of another thing. So you you take in that ghost and you see a vision Actually, you see through the eyes of what seems to be some kind of humanoid Walking around you seem to have a child in tow hand-in-hand walking God. You see the life tree quarencia Just as you remember it. However, you see its roots sprouting up you see the people around you being transformed into something But the vision is blurred. You can't see what they're being transformed into and the vision fades Great very promising Can I give Lera a donut? Oh a gladiator donut. Yeah No, just in the general normal. Yeah. Yeah Donut I forget what it does. It does 1d6 temp HP. I appreciate that for reasons unknown to me My inventory says I currently have four gladiator donuts. Oh geez. Maybe I'll just eat one of mine. I've got two. Okay. All right Thank you We just roll a d6 here That's not bad. No All right, they got one more ghost left if we want to snag that I'm done being king for the day You want to go? Yeah, you go You got it. You got it. I'm done with this walking over there my feet slapping the pavement. Hello Word give me a wisdom save The saving throws different right? It's not it's in panic. Yeah, it's not at disadvantage. Luckily. Okay you the the ghost Kind of seeps into you. Unfortunately. It's a bit too much for you and you're going to take three psychic damage and You do but you do still see the vision as You can see a battle between two armies clad in armor fighting it out Swords clashing hammers swinging artillery being fired into buildings one with the sigil the same sigil that you see on the carpet floor here on the rug here and The other army the sigil of a linty that's the life tree. Oh Okay All right, so if there was a little war, you know people with this thing fought to people that are the good guys and Just look around and kind of obviously gesture. I think they lost If anyone wants as well Anyone who wishes to aside from buck cuz he had his try. Oh, I'll make it. Yeah, you can make a history check What's on the ground? Oh My gosh, wow, dang right in the middle of the bell curve, baby. No lord drop for you You didn't do your I don't know how to read I was too busy not studying So what you do know nerd glass What you do know is What you know from history is what's known as the old world as they refer to these ruins as the old world ruins that was here before a linty The ruins had advanced mystical artifacts that were left behind And they had crumbled long before a linty was founded and though that doesn't sound accurate They did they did fight the blood as well. They likely were wiped out just like deosia after them What's not making sense to me is that I thought These were gone before a linty was founded, but you're saying that they fought a war with a linty. Oh Yeah, wait Well, they had like the sigil of the tree so maybe they brought the tree or I Have no idea. I'm sorry. That's all I saw they thought of the life tree are in this room weird and dead It seems we have evidence to corroborate your vision The kingdom of a linty was founded around currency it's not as if they would Use that as a symbol and fight a war against I mean if they were using that as a symbol a linty must have already been established By the time they fought that war Or at least something you don't just you need a kingdom to make an army You don't just get an army out of nowhere the ghost on the throne said Curse you a linty Vengeance and a linty will fall so What's the difference between a linty and currency is a linty the nation a linty is the nation quarency is the tree oh Not the continent. No the continent name. I forget what it is, but it's not important Okay, cool so In that another thing that's Concerning to me is these dragon scales. I mean Yes, how I thought that the dragons were supposed to be guardians of currency and Did these people have their own dragons or Did a dragon get fought here? I just don't understand a simple question Does it look like there are any holes in the room large enough for a dragon to have entered or exited through? They could turn small or large depending on you do note that there has There's debris of a broken down kind of spiral staircase not of use anymore since it's you know completely ruined But it's humanoid size something of medium size like Leira or Buck in his normal form could fit there but in a drag like someone of a dragon size probably not I Gonna measure like I'm gonna hold up one of the scales to mine. Are they like stupid? They're stupid big They're way bigger Okay, can I use it as a shield? You know what if you can get it repaired, I'll say yes Okay So I remember what I got them for Well, we're not gonna solve it here and we've absorbed all of the ghosts I Don't I think what we said last time is I'm unable to turn off the largeness. Can we leave this place? It lasts for like well how far how I think it was like two hours big blind It was one it was one d4 hours and you rolled to I thought I I thought I got like four hours I thought it was like 1d2 plus why there was 1d4 plus one and I think I got like three I'll say well, well, I mean buck climbed down the hole. We can probably climb back up the hole Yes, it is within reach of buck to if he'd like jumped really high He'd probably grab on to the ledge and pull himself up I'll say for convenience sake and For plot pacing once you leave the ruins you'll transform back into normal size Okay, it would it make sense for us to take a quick short rest on if you want just in case Get out of here all right everybody climb on All right, let's form fritz buckwood layra It's actually a layra fritz buck word. I don't fit. I'm sorry You don't get to be a part of this Featuring layra Special guest star featuring layra. I'm the sixth ranger I'll climb out. I wore so as you're coming out. I'm gonna say to simplify the exiting process I'm going to request a survival check from one of you to see how easily and how well you're able to Retrace your steps back and exit the cave All right, is anyone actually have like proficiency in this or I have my plus I have a yeah I only have a plus to you. You know what? I've got a plus three and I come from caves So I think that does make sense. I want to try and do it Right. I'm lost. Oh good. I don't know where we I want to be nice and say since you come from caves I'll give you advantage No Okay, all right with a nine I'm lost. I promise. I don't know where I alright. I don't recognize. So as you're struggling to exit Unfortunately, it it's kind of leaves you desperate in trying to leave So your backtracking takes so much of your attention and time that you only have enough time and attention to spend it doing One thing before you exit What do you want to do before you exit whether it be scavenging for whatever loot that may be remaining or Taking one last look at some part of the cave that you may have traversed before you have one chance But the rest of your attention needs to be spent on leaving the cave lest you be trapped here forever I Feel like if we could see any sign of the crystal core that we were told was here If we could like glance around for that, but I'm not gonna push the I've got it in my pocket No, no that one wasn't it doesn't line up with how Sergei described it Okay, it was supposed to be this tremendous power and this is like a normal busted one Are we sure that he has actually like seen it or did he just guess well? He did I made a party in here. So I think he made a very educated guess I suppose we'll find out when we get out of here He did seem the educated type. So is everyone in an agreement in double checking or do you want to do something else? Yeah, that's fine. I'm looking for money. So Is that in the same camp as look around for something shiny and potentially worth things? I'll help layer a look for the Well, you only have with a nine survival. I'm limiting it to one thing not multi-tasking. Okay, right help myself get lost I think we're I think we're I think we're in agreement to Look for the double check to make sure we didn't miss the okay I will say double checking scouring every last little inch of that construct what with just feeling it out and checking around It's all massive hulking body You find a few wires, you know, it seems as though something that was built more like a construct rather than an actual like Living kind of semi-organic thing like the other warforged that you've met But otherwise, no, there's nothing that you have missed aside from just a few pieces of debris circuitry wires such like that But that is about all the attention that you were able to give before you focus the rest of it on escaping the cave, right? and You do Congratulations Yay You've oh god, I forgot all the things we survived old world ruins So as you exit and it takes you some time buck you are going to transform back down into your normal size yet again Yeah, I'm changing Cool now back to Poletrius The fun music as you headed back towards Poletrius approaching closer to the city you actually spot Sergey Who seems to be having often the distance some playful rough housing with Mikhail the young orcish boy you met the other day? Kind of often the distance. Let me put their portraits on the back. You guys almost left me behind. No Oh, no, totally didn't miss anything. Totally didn't mean we failed to find anything interesting and then we had to escape Sergey Alphabetical order there he is Yep So you can see that the two are just kind of rough housing and playing right outside of the walls perhaps waiting for your return and When Sergey notices you coming his arm extends out To lift Mikhail by his leg kind of holding him upside down in the air And then he kind of walks on over to you while holding and make Mikhail it's kind of giggling with his arms hanging downwards. Oh Hey pilgrims, let's just leave stank goodness. You're safe If you hadn't come back by nightfall not even Lord your Frasier would have stopped me from coming to get you That's very sweet of you. I don't think we could have made it out of there If it wasn't for the help of my schizophrenic hallucination friend non-stop begonious. Oh That's lovely word. Anyway That's all right, that's all I had to say The construct Did not yield the results we were hoping for. Oh He puts Mikhail back on the ground Damn Are you sure? Rather sure Yeah, I'll give him the heart of the construct and the metal panel Mmm Wow with the bat the best hand symbol I guess my theory was wrong This is just a basic soul crystal Actually, it's not even that this is used for basic automatons. No wonder that thing didn't wake up after so long It's just a dummy following simple commands Can I hold on to it then? Yeah, you can have it that things junk to me And you can have this fancy metal panel with the symbol of a dead Liz Lizard lady from do you guys remember? vaguely mad his little eyebrows raise up That is the symbol of house best hand You found this on you found this on that warforged Yeah, it was like the panel covering is hot or something. Oh House best hand has only been around for a couple of decades that warforged must not be as old as I thought it was There were several odd elements of the cave that we explored the upper areas had False corpses of smaller warforged arranged to look as though they had been there for a long time. I guess that would track Sounds like someone's trying to deceive us. Oh Yes But the what end and who aside from house best hand in the abstract Can I hand him over the decrepit root that I took from inside? You most certainly can What's in that the entire place was filled with this dead root He takes it and you can see that he brings down his goggles and they zoom in just real far Like almost touching maybe an atom away from touching the root Well, this is certainly very familiar. This is if I didn't know any better I'd say you pulled this from Quarency itself, which is highly illegal. I'll have you know I Can show you I did not No, I believe you I know you wouldn't do that which makes us all the more perplexing and This was just like that dead in there All the tons of it everywhere. Yeah. Oh Do you do you have like a writing utensil? Imagine a guy like you have. Oh, yeah, always keep a notepad with me. There you go And he hands you a note pad and a pen I want to roll Maybe performance check to try and replicate the symbol that we saw down there. Yeah Give me that performance check. Oh pretty good. You draw it pretty well My lines my lines aren't very straight, but we saw this down there. Have you seen this you old goot? Oh That's the kingdom of the Osea Do you know the Osea was a land ruled to the southwest of a linty a couple of hundred years ago? It attempted to conquer many lands including a linty and destroyed itself fighting the blot That's not actually factual Well, the word is gonna look around like to see if anyone is eavesdropping or nearby what area are we in? You are kind of like Somewhat outside the walls. I can't quite show you on the map, but kind of like to the southwest kind of in this way Okay, but it seems like we're relatively hidden. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's not a lot of people nearby Okay, my passive is 16. So if I don't see anyone I'll kind of lean in lower my voice they Fought, you know actually people from a linty. They didn't fight the blood. We saw it with our own eyes or how I did Well, I and I only lie when I want to this is not something I would lie about Well, that does track a little bit. I guess there have been some the ocean Leftovers that have tried to still conquer a linty. So fighting would happen The ruins were full of strange psychic emanations of people who clearly died a very long time ago Many of them had memories flashes of visions that corroborate what word is saying In fact, it seems that the roots burst through at the same time that whatever cataclysm occurred there struck hmm You see Sergei is looking around as well and There's like houses down there At this he narrows his little Warforge eyebrows and He looks around kind of pulls Mikkel close to him and kind of closes his ears with it with his hand I Don't know what's going on here pilgrims, but I think it best that maybe you keep these two years this information to yourself There's a lot of prion eyes around here and a lot more prion eyes are gonna be in trevissetta I'll go try and look into this and give you information as best I can But against my better judgment. I think it's best we don't You know announce this all over the place This could have grave implications about the kingdom Yeah, this is gonna be like a dragon the dragon Shadda This is very concerning though I'll see what strings I can pull to maybe check out a goona's libraries. They got the best stuff about history of a linty Yeah, so I was hoping to do the same I Hold up grabby hands. We have earned your heart Doing the uppies motion Uppies right hmm well you did earn it and He reaches into his pack To do to do and he pulls out the same wrench that he mentioned before that was going that he was going to use to detect the magic You know this one ain't actually mine. It was built by a friend Goliath with a lovely gentle touch Its name was Viglin. It was one of the ones with me when I last went into the ruins I was hoping that Well that let losing him wouldn't have been in vain and I let it made a lot of mistakes accidents, but usually most of the time they're things I can fix but Viglin, I can't really fix that This was my last chance to at least make up for it But seen as there's no soul crystal I guess this thing's utility ain't gonna be as big of a help as I was planning But hey, at least you could still use it and he's going to end you Sergei's heart a little rich sad. Oh my god. Oh, that's so cool So are we actually stockpiling all this with Layra cuz like what if Layra gets kidnapped or something? Yeah I just I'm starting to think that after you want to stop literally all of a blot Attacked Layra that maybe we should split these up amongst us. I mean, we're not all intended to go our separate ways, right? I'll hold on to Sergei's What if we hit them in each kingdom? No, I'll hold on to Yes, we've got the three of them now, all right, then I will give Cecilia's heart to Fritz I'll just put it in the chat Yeah, it is in your in the journal here. I can pull it up Cecilia's heart is the the hankerchief from The soft shores have the name Rama's in yeah, yeah Not anymore. Yeah from Rama. Oh, yes. I forgot that Let me just delete this bad boy from my thing Well, I'm bleeding Yeah, me too. We my brain I'm sure we can check in with you before we before we decide to head out Which I guess we're planning to do I'm sorry quick question the library. He mentioned I think it's the one a goona, which is the northern most city Okay, so that's not anywhere around here. No, no, it's it's in fact. It's on the opposite side of Awesome, I think our next one's gonna be the shittiest one. Oh, what do you mean? I gotta go to Travis that is great Trice, that is great. No, we're gonna leave with one of the buildings on several times We have really shit on trying to set up throughout the course of this game Wait, isn't your mom is yeah, yep. Yes. Oh boy Yeah, let's delay that as much as possible Oh boy We can like I mean we've got the heart. We do not have to go to Travis Etta right now So maybe it did be in our best interest to go back to the Copper what was the name of it the bronze saloon bronze saloon? Uh, that's it. Is that the one with the person? Yes, the bronze fire Tarjanasi norium norium. Oh, so we like deciding to leave town I think yeah, we just need to do research in a different town I just some I think we might this is my suggestion I think maybe given that we're so close to what was that? I'm sorry. I didn't write it down the name of the older Diocia Diocia. I just want to write that down. I think I think because we're closer to Diocia That's the name of the like forgotten. Is it th or dh? Here Diocia, there we go. Aha. I got it right And that's where another dragon is no Diocia is the kingdom that was destroyed That we were yes, they're the ones with the teardrop emblem that we saw got here Let me show you the map so that you can get your bearings Yeah, oh Diocia. Oh Diocia. Yep. There it is It's like down to the land. Yeah near the old west Sergey hearing you and your plans to perhaps investigate that that might be a good idea But do be wary that place is infested with blood Right um highest concentration in the entire continent probably I think maybe we should talk a Little privately just have like a private conversation. Oh sure. No offense Sergey. No, none take it You got your own business to do if you want to find me. I did have a yeah Well, we all seem to be breezing over the fact that this Dungeon that we just explored was artificially Made up to look a certain way to lead us to believing that there were great treasures in there warforged with soul crystals that we could use Someone must have been here to do that And we already know that the God, I'm forgetting all the people the bass tans must have had some pardon And I mean that symbol did not just come out of nowhere Do we know what they do what like that? What they business is they run a I Think it's it's essentially like mercenaries if I remember the service in the business of war Yeah, that's what they claim they do but me I think they're just a bunch of cutthroats out for their coin purse But what are you gonna do Travis at a gun and Travis at a but yes, you're right Is that a saying in this universe? Everywhere but Travis Travis said Travis said a gun and Travis said you know how they do Somebody Travis said it sells out on a shirt. I got quite a few questions for Lord Euphrasia myself I feel I feel the need to confront her about this and if you if you would want to come along You're free to but I'll promise. It's not gonna be pretty Do you think she knew something about this? I'm sure she might be hiding something She's constantly discouraging me from going in there all the time and seeing as I've got a lot of Investing of gear and stuff that allows me to see things that most people can't I can see why now Yes, I think perhaps this is a worthwhile avenue of inquiry but Like I said, you're free to wait outside. It's gonna be ugly Uh, I think it's best that we my bones and brain height. Yeah, well When do you think you're gonna be talking to Lord Euphrasia hmm preferably soon, but if you need to rest No need to wait for me I'd rather get this out of the way sooner rather than later. All right, boy All right, and you can see Mikkel like as you're about to head into the city Mikkel stops and crosses his arms and Just kind of pouts a bit and looks at Fritz There you are I don't forget about you well Guys do you want to go ahead or do you mind waiting 15 minutes? I I'm I can go and accompany Sergey on this. I don't think we need everybody I'll go with you. I'll be quiet Okay, I Don't want us to can I just sit and walk babies now no offense Fritz babysit YouTube because Now that we have each have two hearts or now that I don't want the hearts to be complete completely separated So I'll stay with Fritz. I'll we'll meet we'll catch up with you Excellent, I don't want Fritz has a heart now, right? Yes. Yeah Yes, and I have and I have Serious, I'm gonna stay with Fritz then just to just in case great I don't we just decided we weren't gonna do this after I asked so I don't trust The last thing I need is for Fritz to be attacked with this child a while we're somewhere else while we're all damaged That's okay, I'm I don't mind me. I'm gonna be over here in the corner, so So, how do you wish to entertain the child? How heavy is the child? He's not that heavy. He's about like 50 pounds 40 pounds something like that I'm gonna take my poncho off and kind of put it over the top of him and I'm gonna grab him by both shoulders and start flight. Oh start flying. Okay. Give me a choice of Acrobatics or performance So you fly and you try to keep your balance It's not often that you have you know someone on your shoulders, is it? No, I'm grabbing him by the shoulder. Oh, you're grabbing him by the Poncho on to keep him safe He's not a shape that you're used to as you're used to carrying word and this one is more humanoid than than lizard Orate or whatever word you want to describe word as a little slippy He's a little slippy, so you try and keep your balance and have a slate a flight But you can see he's clearly bored Come on, let's do a flip or something If I fall I can just go in the water I Can swim oh No, he thinks the landing in five feet of water will negate fall damage Do I know how deep this water is the water like towards here is pretty deep It's a big reservoir. It's like our and even the river as well these little canals. They're pretty deep You know Fritz is irresponsible Let's see No I'm gonna No, he said he asked for a flip of doing it. Okay, you try to do a flip unfortunately, you didn't quite see where you were going and you just kind of Run a little bit yourself into one of the taller structures and bump and spin a little bit out of control and land on kind of On the walkway above the water near buck as you know as he's sitting and watching and you take three bludgeoning damage from the fall and But while you're spinning and falling like a like a downed helicopter you do hear the elations of Mikhail going Can I do anything to try to make sure I catch him or he doesn't fall no He's fine. I would assume that you are attempting to keep this child safe Which is why you took all the damage yourself, which is three bludgeoning damage three Okay, we're just gonna land and I'm just gonna get up and he thrust both his hands in the air and you're like, yeah again Yeah, come on Fritz again We go again do it a second time and while Okay, that one is going to be a little bit safer as you do a little bit more Soaring and sightseeing and it's a nice time. It's been a hot minute since I've played like this Meanwhile word Leira and Sergei you guys head to the Lord's offices and Once you enter Eufrasia's office you find her pacing back and forth Rearranging some documents around while seemingly talking to herself. You'd guess she's on a sending phone with someone And she notices you enter and she says I'll speak with you later and waves the incantation away What is it pilgrim Sergei? I'm very busy. I Think Sergei probably could put this best I'll speak up if Joe starts to irritate Joe Okay, well, I'm gonna say You you see Sergei kind of explain the story and I assume you guys pipe in with your side as well and Eufrasia just sits there attentively listening and taking in kind of every word and She just kind of like waves her hand and shakes her head Well, that's unfortunate I know the frustrations of spending lots of effort focusing on something only for it to be a total waste of time But these are some grave accusations you're making. Are you sure that's all what you saw These aren't just accusations. I think that they are valid Truths, I don't know a better way to put it, but this is we're not making this up We retrieved the sigil of house bastan from the war forge that we were battling which in fact turned out to simply be an Automaton Attempting to pass as a war forge something which I think has much dire or implications than you seem to be treating the situation as hmm That may be true, but tell me this pilgrims. Have you run into Miss Baz tan in your previous travels? We have and I pull out one of my two hold on. I have it written down Eyelashes in amber We caught her sneaking around trying to mess with the little settlement a bit to the west Hmm and tell me pilgrims What is your perception of trevisseta? How do you feel about that province? Probably the same as you I highly doubt Just to get her gauge first She give me a persuasion actually on that. Okay, okay No I know it's not the day of roles. She is not buying it. We're still poison. Well, if you did know my perception of Trevisseta, you would know that we have a very delicate but positive relationship with them and I'm trying to keep it that way How do I know maybe considering you have a bias against them? You have full incentive to forge that piece of scrap metal you have am I not wrong? How do I know you didn't come You are immensely incorrect We don't have any predisposition to not like them We only set out and met people from that recently and they've been doing crazy bad shit trying to mess with people and steal things and take Stuff over and it seems like maybe they're trying to do something along that same line here Yes I know that when I am sent into a dungeon at risk of my own life and limb under false pretenses and denied the Assistance of the most powerful ally who volunteered his help by you no less the first thing I think is that I would frame someone I've met once who was cleanly arrested after her crime was proven Obviously that makes perfect sense Lord Euphrasia Go off lay wrong. I am so tired Lord Euphrasia just gets just kind of stands crosses their arms I Can see you're getting very emotion about this. I think it's time that you leave I give her the coldest look possible Maybe we will good luck with whoever's snooping around in your dungeons killing your adventurers Sergei Does he is his face giving any sort of input? I know he's a construct Yeah, was eyebrow doing anything body language body language. You can see that he is like looking very sternly at Lord Euphrasia and Hopefully the next person who dies in that dungeon has somebody who is less vengeful And hopefully the next person in office here is competent Come on, let's get out of here. Yes as you do leave and You see that Sergei is kind of nodding his head at all you're saying Lord Euphrasia these pilgrims they risked their lives going into one of the most dangerous parts of Valenti came out barely breathing And you have the nerve to dismiss their experiences and some sort of thrill-seeking. I mean this is the I mean this in the utmost respect Lord But what you're saying is straight baloney You deny me assisting them you scoff at their attempts and when they present you with some real tangible findings You dismissed them if you ever look for If you ever took the initiative to get up and get out of your office for once Maybe you'd learn really learn a thing or two about the people in this kingdom You so proudly claim to run, but I guess that sort of work just ain't good enough for you These pilgrims did what I ain't seen you do in a hundred years. I've been in the desert and they took a risk Lord Euphrasia I'm sorry but they're right Hmm and he goes along with you Euphrasia simply stands there Seemingly happy that you're leaving and goes back to speaking in her sending I have wild shapes or I'd stay an eavesdrop. No You are older than her you've basically built this place. Is there any way you can You know shoehorn someone else in who maybe actually cares about this place that you've built probably but checks and balances being what they are They try to separate the political power of most dragons to be really dangerous if we could run the place and also had the most powers You know maybe wreak havoc if we wanted to and things didn't go our way Seems like you're more aware of that than she is perhaps All I can do is hope for the next election to put someone in that's got a little bit more initiative, you know Sorry, you had to put up with that pilgrims. Everything you said was completely true I'd advise putting some form of protection or guard over the dungeon entrance I don't know why someone would do what they did there, but the last thing we need is more interference or more people Finding what's down there. That's definitely some kind of cover up But what and what what are they gained from hiding actual recent history? Yeah, I'll look into this and I'll only keep my closest advisors some people that I really trust Thanks for revealing this to me pilgrims It's been a genuine pleasure spending time with you likewise Say I just As thanks for going to the ruins of my behest why not I'll do you why don't I do you a favor in return? What sort of favor see you're going to Trevor said it right that's your next stop. Yeah I'm so excited well I started construction plans on a railroad to connect all of a linty about a decade ago even gave the train the best kind of whistle, too We got a track leading up to Tiga Mura at the at the very least Would have done more if it weren't for Lord Nicholas Something about violating zoning laws and being a threat to the delicate economical structure of Trevor said or something Even Lord your Frasier was eaten up But I say it's hogwash getting the railroad up and running would be good for everyone in a linty and I think you being the first Passengers is a fitting way to prove of concept Do I get to toot the horn I'd be sad if you didn't Good me too. Oh, and you don't need to worry about your car We'll make sure that it's cargo stored stored up away in the train and give those horses of yours a nice dedicated card to rest their legs as well Yeah, that sounds excellent Oh New is now canonical. Yeah, I was looking at it new I'm sure you know as well as I do they were the people who write history are the last people you trust Yes, I'm starting to find that out as well Whatever this implies I plan to get to the bottom of it as I know you do too But until then tomorrow whenever you're ready meet me at the station We just might be back here once we're done with our pilgrimage. Yes, and stay safe I'm so tired. I know My guts still hurt from when I ate that egg. I really wish this poison would wear off faster Yeah, you get some rest. I'll make sure some of the apothecaries. Maybe give you a a warm and gift Oh, yeah Yes, oh, no worries. I'll make sure they bring it to the end you go rest up Thank you. It's the plan. You're very kind And we scuttle and scuttle and skedaddle and you meet Fritz and buck on the way as well Presumably exhausted playing with this ball of energy of an orcish boy It was the last 20 minutes a good time for you guys because I Have some expletives to whisper into my pillow. I never want to fly again It's been a good day. How did um, how did sending our two most sassy party members to talk to the Leader of this town go did that go all right? Did you guys put it get us in good straits with the local government or she seems more like You know a paper mask than a leader Sergei still likes us though Yeah, no Sergei's like my best one of my new best friends Lord Euphrasia is somewhere between Incompetent adactively malevolent and I certainly hope that Sergei finds out which one it is before anything bad happens competence is malevolence Also Think it about it now. We get a trade Leira. Oh, yeah due to that blow-up and rightful kind of disowning I'm gonna say you get an inspiration for talking Province like that. Oh, thanks. Great. Just put that I know Backs asked somebody I definitely shouldn't have talked that way to one inspiration We get to go on a train tomorrow We get to what's it? What's a train? It's like a big cylinder on a rail and there's some kind of thing that makes it go forward our horses are gonna be in it and It's taking us to the next town like real fast It seems to be a cart that can only travel in one direction, but faster than our cart Yeah Will fly like an arrow. I'm sure if Sergei Thinks it's smart that I trusted I guess but yeah He built it What and if you don't get on and listen to me toot that whistle, and I'm gonna be poisonally look I'm gonna get on it. That's it's that's the plan. I'm just sure the train will be lovely Yeah, I'm sure there'll be no complications with the train We haven't had any complications a train through the Old West nothing bad ever happens on those But so we should get some sleep. Yeah, let's let's go back to the end unless anyone has anything else they want to do All right, I don't think I have anything else. I think I need a rest You do go to the inn and As you go and get your rooms ready and Sleep That night you all rest in your beds having a Mostly nice time recovering a little bit sore from all the beatings that you got just a little and Word one of us is in a chair word is under the bed I'm in I'm on a chair Fritz is in the bed Leroy, maybe I'm like wings pile of pillows pile of pillows word under the bed So word under the bed You see a head Phase in kind of through the floorboards. It's your good pal non-stop agonies What's up, buddy? Good evening boss Hey, you catch on what's up? So these dragon hearts you've been collecting Any chance you might you know want to keep them Nah, I that's I think that's out of the question Yeah, because if I do that, then I think all my friends and everybody in the region dies Yeah, it's just not on the table for me. Oh, but why not I hear they got loads of powerful energy in them Being bestowed by dragons at all could be a good stepping stone in your own ascension You know there's better stepping stones Maybe if I became one I could have one and then not have the world fall into pieces So that's my current plan I hope you're down with backing that because that's probably as high as I'm gonna go. Okay I'm just saying though Becoming a dragon would make our jobs a whole lot easier and if you need to I have a lot of ideas how to accelerate the process I'm listening, but so far I don't like the ideas you picked very well back to the drawing board then Yeah, not right back to sleep then. Good night boss Good night, and he seeps back into the floor And yeah, you guys finish a long rest Yes, thank God you may reset your hit points recover half your hit dice that you have spent and Restore all your your class features and spell slots and all the like Good morning, my friends All your health You recover half of your hit dice though Which is used I think only Method acting Are we ready to blow that whistle and start the train going? I'm imagining it's gonna take us like like six minutes tops to get to the next town I This is There's something I want to see is everybody here is everybody in the wake Fritz wake up See that you're awake you can't hide under the blanket. I know that you're up Don't make me back you You stood there as I did how many flips Hold on a second, what do you want me to do about you doing flips? I can't No, not particularly and I don't think that's ever been established Okay, all right listen, this is what I wanted to bring up I'm I'm starting to get the sense that I think obviously we all understand we're in danger as having undertaken this quest but I Starting to think that I started out thinking that we could trust The dragons and the leadership of these towns that like this was all gonna go smoothly the more that we go along this journey The more I started to think that there's something a little bit more nefarious Than just the block does that make sense? Yes, there are many things that haven't been adding up. I Just recently remembered before we went to sleep at the under thrown society still a yes, correct, right? So we have so many conspiracies. We're juggling now. I Before we move on to the next town I just don't know if there's any more information. We want to get about Trevisetta about the under thrown society about the What's the name of the place the deos deo see you see it because it's it might be a while before we come back here And we're gonna get on Perhaps we should be more covert in our information gathering. We've already Made a bit of a scene in this town and I doubt Lord. Euphrasia is going to be looking kindly on us until we leave Well, and that's kind of what I'm getting at before we leave. I'll kind of like look at word. I I I'd think that some of us have a Certain history with getting some information in not-so-savory ways and perhaps oh, yes There's a darker part of this town that might have a little bit more information kind of in the same way that Satya Did I mean we can Or I've been rather new basket new Biscay did we I just think we should ask around a little bit Before we leave just see if we can pick up anything That's a very fair idea I'll definitely do my best. I'll see if I have any local ties You know, we are leaving this place sadly with no more recruits for my little army of geniuses, but uh Mikhail might be interested Maybe I haven't spoken in too much Hmm, maybe the alchemist to the apothecary. I didn't they weren't they supposed to visit us. Oh, right Yeah, what happened with the Well, we could go to the apothecary and then maybe on the way we keep an eye open for anyone who looks like they might have some Information I mean, yeah, we'll spend a few hours. I'll look around. I would just like to I mean we as far as I know We're safe here in the city at least at least like less likely to be attacked Yeah, right less likely to be attacked by the plot But I was so if we could take advantage of that and try and gather some information About any of this about the Underthrown Society or Diocia or about the dragons or about Trevissetta I think that would probably go a long way in the future because right now We're not we're not playing with all the cards, right? We're we're and I would like to have as much information as we can Labor I think you know that lady spends a lot of time talking to people who aren't here in her office if there's any way that you could turn into like a a loin or a Cockroach, yes, there are possibilities. I may be able to cool I'll do everything outside that realm Joe is there like a like a I see this little symbol down here of a mine and shovel Is that like a laborers camp? Yes, that is kind of the miners guild the people who go and gather the resources from the various Caves and mineral deposits around you know the regrowing Crystals and it's a regular day job, and that's basically where you would go to sell your flawless crystals if you so wish to do so But there are people there as well if you so wish to do this investigating We can do a skill challenge just like we did a new bus guy, but before you do Yeah, that would I presume you guys were having this conversation within your room. Yes, yes, yes privately Okay, when you know that there's a thing that can phase through the floor so yeah, yeah a couple of things firstly when you do Open the door to your room the apothecary did pay a visit and you can see that there's a little care package a little package With a note that says to the pilgrims of Satya on it and inside when you open it There are four greater potions of healing. That's 4d4 Plus four I'm pretty sure four of those and two potions of was the Where's that? Spell again. I was trying to find it. It's the one that basically cures you of most ailments Lesser lesser restoration two potions of lesser restoration. That's it. Thank you I'm gonna take one of the potions of healing. I think we can all take one, right? You all you can all take one There's enough for each of you Oh, yeah, and your poison would be gone as well. Yes. Yay. Yeah I'll grab one of the other potions if people are cool with it I'll take one of the potions of lesser restoration That's fine with me. Okay. All right. We'll just make a custom item for that What a great apothecary. Yeah, oh delicious drinks. Yes Delicious These say sippy sodas on them. I can't wait to meet this sippy sodas And when you guys do head downstairs, you also note a very familiar aracacra man And it's sitting at one of the tables There's one right there. It's a strong morning. It is morning. It's been trying to chip dad And he he notices you and he just kind of awkwardly waves his shoulders a little bit kind of raised in intensity Fritz do you want us a straw pio? Yes, uh, good morning, fritz. Uh I hope all this well. I just um, it's a bit early for a drink, isn't it? No Perhaps I just Wanted to catch you as I've uh heard that you might be departing today and I didn't know when we would get a chance But um, I understand you're busy. Uh, if you need to go do things that is fine as well I just didn't know when the next chance I would get to uh Perhaps say goodbye No, I couldn't grab breakfast. Just wait there a moment Oh Fritz walks off and is like, can I uh, what do you have for food? The general do you want do you want us here? Uh, do you need to go sell a crystal? It's up to you guys. It's just I guess birth parent Yeah, and on that note and we're just walking. Yeah, I'll walk I'll follow word out as well I I really need to go use drop on lady. You phrase So we're you're you're going here is it right? Yeah, I'm gonna take 10 minutes out of the the hour hours that we spend to go sell my my flawless magic crystal Can I uh, I guess this could be the skill check maybe but I was gonna look around for like maybe a shady part of town And yes, so we will do all those skill checks in the skill challenge after this little encounter with this drop Yeah I'm gonna get my breakfast and also two tiny shots of whiskey Yeah Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning Yeah, and I walk over and I put one by me and one in front of him and I sit there with my breakfast He uh, kind of uh, hesitate hesitates a little bit. Oh, I Part of the reason I came early is because I I uh, I I don't drink. Um So I thought perhaps something I mean, I Not that I would decline. I thank you for the gesture. I And he just takes the shot less I hope he's such a lightweight that he's like the entire thing You don't have to drink it if you don't want I can easily take two. No, no, no, that's fine I uh, you you offered it and it would be rude of me to decline I Hmm. Okay. Just if you don't drink a lot hold your nose when you do it Takes a little bit of a sip Yeah, he goes and kind of he sniffs it and winces a bit He holds his breath and takes a swig And you can just see that his eyes just widen and he just like takes a fist to his chest and kind of Bumps it a bit Okay I'm gonna offer out a kind gesture. I'm gonna give him one of my The like hasty like little sugar bum things. Oh wait. No, no, that's not it. What was it those candies that we got? Yeah, it was like a sugar It was like a sugary thing. Yeah, like a like a lollipop. I'll give him one. Yeah Yes, thank you It's been a while since I've had the taste of alcohol Don't ask what age I started drinking Oh god So Fritz just takes it down easily How's the pilgrimage that's good I forget you work for here or I I do I'm I uh kind of do some of the shuffling and bureaucracy that goes on an underling of lord euphrasia And uh, do you care for this place? of course I do I Worked day and night to make sure this place runs smoothly. I love it and I love its people How would you feel if someone was hiding something that could hurt the people? That lives are already been lost because of it Well, I'd feel someone's responsible considering that it I'm supposed to know all the things that go on around here Nothing slips my eyes and I make sure that I account for everything that goes on I make sure to account for all criminal activity and report it to lord euphrasia. She reports back We make sure things are kept in check Imports exports and the like did you guys talk about anything that happened last night if you're allowed to disclose that with your daughter Well, there are certainly some aspects that are Private matters that I'm not supposed to disclose to anyone other than government officials So you're saying you don't know By perhaps not whatever it is you're alluding to Well, I'm not one for politics, but as dozen once said to me Once the well is poisoned it spreads very far and you might not want to drink from any faucet for a while Hmm. He kind of stares at his empty glass Is a smart man How is dozen doing a still doing his regular rounds between sachia and the mainland? Yeah, uh Actually, he helped me form a business. He's really There for me Not that you well you weren't but he holds up his hand. No, no, it's fine. It's fine You know, we can both agree he's a good man He is perhaps better than I deserve He's better than we both deserve You really have become an impressive young courier. I mean pilgrim of the linty that sure is something Great marketing after this, right? And he kind of sits there and just Enjoys the company for a little bit small talk here and there not much to say mostly to listen And after you to finish your breakfast. Well This was pleasant. I uh, I should get back to work Um, I do hope you the best of luck on the rest of your journey and if you ever do see dozen again Tell him thank you And tell him that I owe him my life Will do but please I don't know if how my party would feel me saying this but keep your eyes on lordly euphrasia some things amiss and We might have pissed them off If I had a coin I'll take your words to heart fritz you have a good journey And he leaves a tatter Bye-bye. I'm just gonna finish my breakfast Layra, what were you doing while this was going on? You were gonna go snoop? I was gonna go snoop. Okay. Well, you guys are gonna snoop. So we're gonna do a skill challenge Yeah, but we're when you go to sell your uh flawless crystal Okay, um Before that I stopped by butterscotch and yes, of course every day as you do Uh more days and let's see it the flawless crystal goes for how many dice did I say it was? Millions Okay The mining guild offers you 300 gold pieces for the flawless crystal. I will not barter just Don't focus on that too much for 300 is happy. 300 is happy. All right, but I want to Word walks away jingling slightly louder, but trying to muffle the noise All right, and in the meantime, we're gonna do a skill challenge this skill challenge will involve you snooping and Sneaking around trying to find what you can about The on-goings and maybe deeper notions of what's going on in paletrios involving not only the blot the history of deosia Perhaps some foul play going on in the bureaucracy or Maybe something else and we're gonna do We're gonna say that we will keep going until you reach Three failures in which case you have expended all of your attempts Oh boy Why are you rolling we're gonna roll initiative just so we can yeah keep track of whose turn it is I saw turn order came up. So I just rolled it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's that's what it's for Good resist. So everyone who is snooping Oh, we're getting ready to snoop Prepare to snoop There we go There's a sort button. Oh There we go. I can just click sort So firstly is word. How do you wish to snoop? I will start by making myself, you know as non-recognizable as possible Just as a general stealth check, I'll try and like scout out all the alleyways I can hide near major buildings They're actually no that's not scouting. So just general stealth. Okay. I don't know how to describe that General stealth give me a stealth check Want okay? Yeah, you do hear some odd goings on a few rumors here and there some of them talking seem to have Noted that lord euphrasia seems to be at her wit's end recently. Perhaps something has come up She seems a little bit more agitated than she usually is which is Saying a lot considering she's agitated most of the time And that she is secluding herself and not taking any uh appointments with anybody right now today Check it out. Layra. You're next. Yeah, gotta believe it for some reason. I can't make the turn order go to the Oh, it's because I'm uh, there we go rejoin his GM Uh, but yeah, layra. It's your turn. I'll fix the turn order soon great, uh There we go. Well the cool thing about wild shape is I can stay in it for two hours so I would like to I would like to be a fly on the wall for Like a solid hour 50 and then bounce In time to like be somewhere else when I shift back Okay, I would say a stealth with advantage Okay, I have a plus zero at this Hey, uh, the you get the flies physical stats though. Oh Uh, then let me load that up because oh my god. Yeah, I rolled incredibly badly Yeah, I'll let you roll with the fly stats. Thank you Uh Is this correct? Oh, yes. Good. This one is tiny Uh stealth plus four that's so much better. So should I roll again or just add plus four to my garbage roll? Uh, let's add plus four. So that's a 13 That uh, oh no, that's a that's an 11. It's an 11 an 11 my bad I truly thought I had rolled two ones when I saw the dice come up the first time Okay, so an 11 is going to be a failure Uh as you are kind of zipping around trying to find your way into the lord's offices Or at least close enough to where you could probably hear Lord Euphrasia But all your attempts kind of fail as you run into magic barrier after magic barrier after magic barrier What seems magic barriers? Yes As the official building is somewhat important and the business goings on is not information They want to leave their doors a lot of the time today, especially for some reason weren't we physically in that building before you most certainly were Huh, well great what you know is you know you were allowed in But you are trying to sneak your way in I considered taking meld into stone today and I decided against it Dang it, but that is going to be one failure. You've got two left Great buck. How do you investigate? I want to go to like a like a shady part of town and I kind of want to like Rough up someone for information on the under throne The under throne, okay Yeah, it kind of came through a little bit I want can you not hear me? I want to rough up somebody Okay, what did I say? Don't we always heard the same way Maybe buck maybe buck has an eye Takes a cue from that one about morphery Don't laugh at buck seduced left field for you. I had to do a double take I was like buck has canonically been married. So let's just relax on the he can't seduce anybody And is canonically no longer married so Look, I didn't say that he was good at what he does. I'm just saying All right What I'm roughing up Uh, I think either I would I would say if I was DMing I would probably say intimidation Intimidation if I would if I was the player I'd say can I use strength instead? Yes, I think strength intimidation is a valid valid uh Path so you can strength. Uh, are you proficient in intimidation? I am in prohibition. Okay, then you'll add a two to that as in addition to your strength Or whatever your proficiency bonus is. What is it a three now? It's a two. Uh, it's a three. Yeah three So you'll add your proficiency bonus So it's that plus three 13. Okay Unfortunately 13 is also going to be a failure as you rough up some people and it just kind of makes some of them Just mad or scared at you a lot of them insist. They don't really know anything about the under thrown And what are you talking about? A lot of them seem confused Okay, second failure one more and your investigation ends Okay Word All right, um Let's end this on a good or bad. No, I'm going to go to the capital um And try and get some information uh framing it as urgent matters with a deception check Just you know framing myself as any sort of important person who might be an info gatherer who needs Maybe I lost paper. God check you need deception Oh They say right this way and what what sort of questions are you asking again? Uh, just asking what lord euphrasia is up to maybe uh, when the last time Oh, specifically i'll do this one instead When the last time someone from house Bas-tan Bas-tan was in and what what they were here. Okay, you know that uh recently house bas-tan and quite a few other Uh businesses from trevissata actually have recently had trade agreements with paletrios And there are talks to kind of expand and perhaps even melding of the two provinces perhaps in the future No one knows for sure all rumors of course here say but some people think it might happen And some people they don't know what she's talking about But they do know that lord euphrasia Does have meetings with lord nicolas tehero today and that they are not to disturb her until those meetings are over I want to get in there so bad. I hate that nerd. I hate him All right, i'm gonna scramble around and try and alert my other lackeys as we're going through Just to let them know that that's something they can explore once the skill challenge is over I would also say that you would share the information that you've gathered as well Sorry has word gotten into the building that i've been failing to get into he has yes Could I have hitched a ride? Hmm. Yeah, because you were you were waiting there trying to get in. I was trying so hard I would say yes Thank you You can hitch a ride on word and you can make it in the building as they have allowed word in And you being attached to him, you know, they wouldn't have seen you. Thank you Mercy for the player And now it is your turn lehra All right I'm in um like swatting at you. Yeah uh Okay, it's a big building But they they've kind of indicated where lord draphrasia is in the building, right? Yes, and you from experience know where her office is All right. I would like to try and just go there and like Uh Either go under the door or like sit outside of it and listen now. I'll let you know whatever I can get. I'll let you know this um To perhaps inform your role when you do go into the cracked slit of the door you see that there is a magical barrier sealing it off and basically completely When you sit to listen you can't even hear what's going on inside Whatever that's going on that lord ufrasia has made every effort to keep it secret Oh, dammit. She's too good at this. Uh The only spell I have that could do anything is to spell magic and that's such a bad idea Oh no, um All right Are there any animals that I think kind of even a chance of like eavesdropping or like being around to shamp Like a cat or something Hmm Because I have speak with animals I would say a few of the officials would have pets around pets are allowed in the building as long as they are kept Close and on a magical leash So yeah, you could probably find the odd like desk cat or something great. Um Then I would like to speak with animals and yes your choice of animal handling Persuasion or perhaps something else that you may feel Handling is plus three Those are kind of the only two options I have Yeah, I'll just I'll just I'll just I'll just try a persuasion and I think No animal handling, which is better. I think I'm going to use my inspiration Hey Seems appropriate. Does that be enough rolling with advantage? Well, let's roll first. I don't want you to waste your uh, your Inspiration on something if you're just gonna make it. Who knows you'll nat 20. Let's see Come on. That's my nat 20. That's actually pretty close. There we go That's a 90k So you do find a cat on a desk and you kind of land next to it and it kind of pause at you Doesn't seem interested in eating you and as you speak with it It informs you that lord Euffrages talking with uh lord Nicholas right now as uh the information that word might have gathered um And that It has something to do with the pilgrims. She seemed very upset at the pilgrims entrance yesterday for some reason And yeah wonder who did that and The cat also informs you of new information that she has sent a missive to trevissetta someone that No one on the kind of payroll is even familiar with Uh-oh someone who perhaps at a glance doesn't work for the officiates of a linty The cat says that no one else seemed to have noticed that except for her Wow, this cat's so good at its job Okay, so So lords Euffrages sent somebody to trevissetta ahead of us who at first glance doesn't look like they work for the government Cool. Hopefully we're not about to get assassinated. Um, I'm sure everything's fine Uh, but that that's my that's my check. I guess so buck Because my party doesn't believe in me joe what I'd like to do is I'd like to try and seduce Like a local patron of some kind to try and get some information or like to flirt with somebody Interesting buckock. What do you what do you think that would be would that be like a charisma performance? What? I would like to use my uh all or nothing coins Oh my god, we're using the all or nothing coin for our last check Well, you're assuming it's gonna be last because I might do great here. I might get it too. Sorry So two isn't at 20 one doesn't that one. Yes, let's roll a let's go flip that coin. All right That's how I thought it was gonna you find I think something's broken with the d2. It doesn't seem to be working If the last the last three that I've done I failed All right. Yeah, I I will find a yeah go ahead and describe what happens there you find a fairly You know just a non-descript citizen of politrious They seem to be reminding their own business having a you you spot your target You you are ready They seem prompt and ready for a handsome young man to sweep them off their feet And you try your usual routine you you kind of nail all of the points you seem to have them along But little did you know they were playing with you the whole time and as soon as you try to hook them in And rail them in like you've got them They give you a slap across the face walk off with their friends and you're left with a red mark on your cheek No, that is going to be the end of the investigation And you take one damage as well buck All right, well I go back to the group then I guess But that is what you gather as far as the information goes And we'll meet back up. I guess at the uh, yeah, if there's no obstacle to us getting out of the building Dude, I wish I was closer with my not dad dad then I could ask him for this information Why doesn't my not dad love me? Why can't he just be a pawn for me to manipulate I'm kidding Exactly Huh, well, we're not very good at espionage, but uh, we tried and that's what the important thing is I'm enjoying I'm like rubbing my face you guys get any good information or Uh, yeah, you have no idea how much paperwork I had to file. It took me like, uh, like three roles of yours Whatever lord euphrasia is talking to nicholas traveseta about right now She desperately does not want to be overheard and I couldn't find a subtle way past her defenses But the um office cat did say that they sent somebody ahead of us To traveseta someone who doesn't seem like they work for the office Lord, that was you I was gonna smack you One of them was me You need to bathe a little bit more off We have plenty of water right here Did you say nicholas to harrow is here in the oh, yes, that's his name Uh, yes, he's currently you said traveseta It began with a tea. They're all the same He's currently or at least was at the time in a meeting with lord euphrasia who seemed Very displeased with us for reasons I couldn't possibly fathom and uh Yes, they had some sort of magical ward under the door and I didn't want to reveal myself by attempting to dispel it So that we can agree that's not good. No like this. I don't understand why this guy has been falling like in our footsteps this entire time but I don't like it No, we are we are in trouble You know, maybe The place that's below this place. Maybe whoever's running Uh Treveseta is actually from there Like they're coming back or something making a little resurgence under a different name. That would be very interesting I suppose treveseta would be our best place to investigate that Oh, we're gonna be there for a while You know at some point we probably want to make sure that the cart he gave us doesn't have some sort of magical booby trap on it or Yeah, I don't like a big bomb on a train Or another stowaway another stowaway would be quite impressive frankly It's not a very big car Well, let me speaking of we should grab that lantern from the cot and make sure that stupid little gnome or whatever the thing was The guy with the wings Oh, yes, jerry He's not there Liam Yes, just to be sure Yeah, the uh the lantern of true sight does reveal like a few little critters that have taken uh Kind of sitting around your cart just little innocuous bugs, but um Nothing of of note really they scatter as soon as they notice that their person has been revealed Okay Uh, yeah, I'll I'll just do a general perception check looking for uh any weird looking runes You know things that if I walk past them they glow or Okay, or something want normal role Okay perception you look up and down and scan the entire cart and you actually do fine There is a rune of magic of some kind at the very bottom the belly of the cart Okay, uh, I'll start with an arcana check and then if I don't okay You recognize this rune. This is some kind of rune that tracks locations Oh my god All right, I'm gonna go ahead and scrub that That might not be enough. How so? Oh, how do you scrub off a rune some elbow grease and then I go get my okay You try to scrub and scrub and scrub it seems this thing is magically embedded into the cart It doesn't seem to come off with simple physical means Didn't we buy scrolls of dispel magic? I actually just have dispel magic as a third level spell now Well, there you go. So I'd like to try and cast that on the cart when we remove the lantern I want to keep that lantern. Yes Yes, actually while I get to choose the magical effect that I want to end if I can Okay You cast dispel magic on the rune and It does vanish But as it does you can see the rune seems to shoot out a few arcane bolts at the crystals that were levitating The back end of the cart and the cart Lands on the ground without back wheels. It is now being dragged on the sandy ground Uh, they bundled the levitation and the tracking device Huh Well, I can't make crystals levitate again. So perhaps we should see if someone in this city of inventors can give us some wheels What so I think we were just stripping the cart of all of our goods and then putting it on the train from here, right? We weren't even bringing it. Uh Sergey suggested that you could pack the cart as well as cargo Yeah, the cart and the horses so that we could we equip it, but yeah, we might want to be like whoopsies Who I don't remember who the person is that could fix things here There are you know inventors around if you go to the general store you could get someone to repair it for let's say about 40 gold pieces fix it up Oh, could I talk to spade who I talked to before and see if he'll do it spade. All right. Yes, you can The priest of kothizong Yeah, the builder. Let's see. Let me pull them up. Yes If you do wish to you can wear a spade spade spade spade spade church of kothizong church of kothizong Uh Where is it? Where did I I've got too many gosh darn NPCs It's it might just be under spade See Yeah, oh, yeah, there it is. Okay. It's alphabetical order. Okay. Yes When you enter the church of of kothizong the great builder, uh, you can see that spade is there and he tips his hat Hello Um, I tip my hat, uh hat brothers and faith and hats. Um spade I Came across sort of a uh engineering Conundrum and I'm wondering if I could get your expertise um Either through I'm happy to pay. Uh, I just figured being a he holds up his hand to the builder Say no more child of the builder or should I say a child of luck? Because your luck is about to change I'm always happy to fix up some things for some locals or travelers in your case Always happy to help Well, I'm happy to hear that plus gets me out of this musty old church much as I like it I kind of miss fiddling with my hands sometimes Right well right this way. I'll show you where it is. We need assistance. All right, you lead him out towards the cart He kind of kneels investigates So you just want to turn this thing back into a regular old non-magical cart. I could hook it up with some wheels That would probably be for the best. I presume that would be yeah, that would that would be great If that's something that you think you can manage We have reliable beautiful horses pulling this thing That I can see You've done well by these horses. I can tell Tell you what book I give them for coming into my church and Revealing some very personal things to me being brave as you are. I'll fix it up free charge At least I can do Oh, I feel as though I have to pay something like a tithe or a donation to the church I mean like you said it's old and musty I Buck I think you should know by now that the best thing a gambler can receive is something that's free You see spade I give spade puts a hand on your shoulder Son you finding yourself and finding your path to enlightenment. Whatever your faith is already payment enough for me as far as i'm concerned You find yourself and find what makes you happy Then i've done my job I appreciate that This guy's crazy Let's see this that if i'm ever back come back through here if you need help fixing up the church or anything like that I'm happy to provide my services and i'll send as much luck your way as I can In that regard let me much appreciated I have been thinking about expanding it a little bit. I do have a few ideas I'll show you when you come back In the meantime though, let's get cracking and he kind of pulls his poncho kind of throws it off And reaches into a pack that has a bunch of old tools. He has to blow some Blow quote unquote wipe some dust off of a lot of them And he starts to fix up your cart back to a traditional normal one with wheels and no crystals Wally's doing this though, uh, and you guys are sitting around kind of watching Layra, you feel something kind of just nudge up against you something small Oh Could it be is it the cat? You see something small and it's just kind of tapping next to you And when you look down you see a vein of fungus that seems to have grown its way down the kind of deserty path And it's topped off with a few dozen mushroom species And at the very tip of the tallest one appears to have two glowing green eyes and glowing horns Hello I already used Okay, I'm sorry I in the other campaign I'm in all the mushroom stuff has been from fucking the the scary fungus lady in the abyss So my my like fight or flight instincts are all wrong for this Okay, shaman Yep, you can see what kind of mushroom would grow in the arid desert Well, it turns out apparently it is your Mentor shamiya herself in some sort of weird fungal form This is very impressive She looks the mushroom figure that seems to be just like about an inch tall kind of looks up at you And you can hear it speak kind of echoing out from this little mushroom Uh, good morning. Uh, uh, Layra I wished to get in touch but had more to say than a lending a sending spell could cover If uh, only if asking directions as a traveling mushroom Wasn't so difficult It often catches people off guard for some reason what were the advancements and communication magics You'd think a layperson wouldn't waste so much time being surprised at such things Yes, I can't imagine reacting in such a way I'm gonna lean down so I can hear the mushroom better. I do hope you have a little bit of time to chat Oh, yes, uh, we are actually just arranging the next leg of our transportation. So now is the perfect time That's good to hear First I'd like to know how your journey has been thus far. What have you learned? Oh, what have we learned? Oh, man, um I'm gonna do the general rundown of like, okay So we went into the spooky dungeon and then it was weird and there were all these fake robot corpses And then we went down further in the spooky dungeon and then it's like, oh the kingdom of Diocia was waging war on elinthe and the roots of the life tree seem to have been used as an attack and Uh, also I yelled at the lord of this city and now she's conspiring with uh, trevissetta and hopefully that's fine But like, you know chiller. All right After taking it all in she doesn't even say anything Aside from a few more leading questions and like details when you're uh, asking but Or when you're telling your story, but mostly just kind of listening. I see This does bring a lot of concern Yes, and the the blots apparent Controlling will is rather alarming Uh, as is the disappearance of the weatherwitch and everybody else who we seem to have been dealing with in this scenario Indeed do keep an eye out Other than that though Though you've kept you've given me a lot of information involving your prick pilgrimage I also wanted to know what you have learned as a person Oh um Come now you must have had run-ins with the odd character here and there spoken with your companions perhaps help folk with some self-discovery Oh, yes, many people, uh lots of problems. Um Most people just turns out they just need to believe in themselves and Figure out what they actually want which seems to be surprisingly difficult for a lot of people Also, Lord Euphrates is really not a great person. Which is rather difficult to deal with She is quite unpleasant Um Yes, it's it's been interesting. I think it's getting easier. It's hard to tell. We seem to be dealing with more difficult people well I am Glad that you are still all right or the Circumstances not withstanding but I also came to let you know a few things I am no stranger to isolation. I often prefer it as it helps with me focus on my work But admittedly your absence has been a strange obstacle for me to overcome I also realized that it's rare. We ever spend recreational time together Yes, I suppose it is uh The sailor the dwarven one friend of Fritz was it? Yes dozen he gave a suggestion one that I am not against and I did quite like it We planned to make a visit to you. I have made in a request for a license to use the teleportation circles around the linty and dozen I and Some strange cobalt that came to us wish to pay the pilgrim to visit Wherever your next stop might be Oh my I believe trevacetta was our next destination, but I don't know exactly when we'll be arriving Hmm. We're actually headed to a city between the two. Yes. Oh, sorry. Which one? Uh, it is called Tigermura Tigermura, great. I'll pass that along Tigermura, oh Definitely a lot better than trevacetta. That's for sure Yes Well then Being able to see you in a more tangible way than uh, That led letters and magic fail to fill might be a good thing and I am potentially interested in this practicing this Hanging out if there is agreeable Of course. Yes. I think it would be a very educational experience for all of us Is everything going well in sachez has anything strange happened? No, not since the witch left things have been oddly quiet back to normal Just daily routine as it were All right, well, let's hope that lasts It seems like everywhere we go trevacetta has been causing some form of trouble Even more so than usual it appears But that's good good to hear of you that you're doing well Is there anything else you'd like to share with me? I'd be glad to hear it Oh, let's see. Uh, we just think back all the things I haven't communicated yet. Um Well now that the letter witch embargo is out, I guess uh, it's definitely learned about the plot um Oh, crime any uh I think that's everything but it's been three weeks since we played last so that's all good Yeah, I'll say you give her all the important information and all that stuff That was a prompt in case you wanted to just tell her anything else that doesn't have to do with the plot but uh I I think still all business kind of but I am excited to do this hanging out thing In whatever the city name is Very well then I do look forward to Hanging out Yes, it's good for it's good to hear from you again. And um, I'm looking forward to that as well likewise chat Lera And you have a good trip And I will see you in tigimura if you could do me a favor and pluck me from these fungal Things it's not exactly the easiest is still very experimental magic And it would cause me even more trouble to try and dismiss them myself in the form that I am Oh, yes, of course Let me just Pop that sucker out of there pop it out and the eyes and the horns kind of fade and the fungus just kind of kind of slowly Deforms down into the dirt. I'm just gonna keep that mushroom in case it's important later Um By the time that particularly interesting species Uh, yeah, you you can just add a red cap mushroom into your inventory. Cool Great What's the mario mushroom? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, what what is it? Red is it the right color? Uh Amamnida amamnida muscara muscariah or fly agaric Or fly amamnida. You can add amamnida amamnida mushroom to your inventory. There we go. Amamnida mushroom. Let's go Amamnida technically just to you. That's a potion of growth And oh boy all right, so After that little conversation spade would have finished up the back wheels of the cart and I'll have to redraw the cart art for that who Accurately reflect it He finishes it up puts away his tools and You can see the wheels are not necessarily straight, but they'll do the job There we go. I did my best I'm admittedly a little bit out of practice builder forgive me But uh, this thing should get you across country so long as you don't go into any high-speed chases What are the odds of that happening really? Oh, anything can happen over here in the desert. I'd say protecting the cart is probably better than running If worse comes to worst Well, we've had some practice We've had some practice of defending the cart anyway, so I really appreciate it and like I said My services I'll offer to you the next time we come back through here. Um, thank you The pilgrimage has finished. I do apologize. My hands aren't what they used to be and I'm not exactly Uh, practice artificer like the rest of them. You probably would have gotten a better job done with someone, you know Of the profession, but I still it still gladdens me and humbles me that you would come to me for this sort of work Uh, none of us is All of us are getting older. I guess I should say so I we really appreciate the work Indeed you have a good day pilgrims Quarancy keep you spade Uh, so shamiah dozen and word some of your friends are going to be meeting us in Whatever that city that we're going to next is Here, I'll write it down. How many uh, I'm not sure it's like a lot. I I'm not I'm not ready for a party. I'm Okay, yes tigamura. There we go. Take a mirror Yes, so I hope they're all right. They seem to be apparently things have been very quiet since the disappearance of the weather witch Oh good. Yes So who who's coming shamiah dozen and some of word's little friends dozen's come in probably yes And how did you how did you come across that you get a sending spell? I'm just gonna hold up the mushroom with no further explanation Okay, so you're gonna eat the resemblances on cat and no, but neither can you And no one said they were kind of like no one Nubis guy or anything are coming I seriously doubt that shamiah would have sought out anyone from nubis guy, but um, right, right, right time. They're here perhaps You could tell them Yeah, right. Well, I mean you guys have you know family members and friends and stuff that are gonna come to business So that makes sense And why would you need family members when you've got everybody you care about right here? I'm gonna go get in the cart Oh, baby Should we write buck a letter? Maybe we should write it can be from begonia Begonia Maybe we should write the box for the letter and then indicate that perhaps she should write buck a letter. Oh What about a favorite casino he likes they could write him a letter Maybe that even a better idea we could fabric Maybe that nice dwarven priest we met he seemed friendly. Yeah, they would get along well Maybe we'll figure something maybe buck could get lucky That that would be easier because I don't know how to write. Oh, yeah. Yes. I am seeing a slight flaw in the cunning plan Are you guys discussing something over there? I'm getting the no no already Just taking a look at the kite. Okay. I'm gonna keep getting it ready four wheels. Just as intended Four wheels even though now it has a little bit of a bump in it's in its pole And yeah, so you guys are heading to the train station then Yeah, yes, we are so you head on up to the train to the paletrios train station Uh, and you can see it's got cars and locomotives docked seemingly untouched and unmoved for who knows how long and sergey As well as a few dozen other artificers standing outside One being prepped for transport And alongside him are also a few pedestrian onlookers. Mikkel is there. No tail is there Norium the fire genasi the innkeeper is there as well And yeah, about half the half the town is here to see you off. It's a big event to see the paletrios trains finally start up No sign of lord euphrasia, perhaps no sign of lord euphrasia Every time I see no tail I consciously slip the ring off my finger and put it in So sergey sees you approach and he waves you over hey there pilgrims you're ready He opens one of the passenger carts and he kind of uh calls a command for some folk to Some mages to kind of open up one cart You can see that it's pretty huge It looks like one of those storage carts for materials and stuff and some mages kind of Levitate open the various different sections of the walls and levitate your cart into it and then close it up Oh, that's cool And there's another one efficiency and butterscotch. Yeah, there's a second one behind it where efficiency and butterscotch are given a Kind of ramp to walk up and a bunch of hay for them That's what they deserve uh Can I have bought just like some nutritious apple snacks for them? Yeah, I'd say so. How about like two gold pieces for like a week's worth of snacks? Okay, yeah, I'll do that. I can afford it. Yeah Finally, we're not all flat broke anymore Yeah Just you guys I still have a double digit amount of gold Oh snap Oh, you do too. Just barely. Yeah, I don't know how I do often the amount of money I game Sergei walks up to you guys now just don't wear the warning This thing has only been had a single test run in about 15 years So it might need a bit of help to start luckily. I know just a way to hotwire it Oh boy Let's go for it. Sergei waits for all of you to get aboard the passenger car And when you do he walks up to the front of the locomotive Holsters his wrench and you can see like when you look out the window you can see him up there He kneels down his shoulders widen his legs stretch as machinery Hidden underneath the exterior hull of his dwarven size warforge Starts to expand out shifting connecting shifting again folding extending piece by piece like a self-solving puzzle All the while overall increasing in size until standing in his place is a massive mechanized warforge dragon And you can hear his voice echo out loud and proud but no different from the same voice he had in his little form All aboard the pilgrim express Oh, that's so cool because it's from the same microphone. It doesn't have that base of the lungs Sergei stands in front of the locomotive opens a small hatch of what looks like would be the boiler and breathes in Bright blue bolts of lightning and the entire train starts to hum with power The blue lights that decorate the very sections of the train light up and the the rooms and the mechanisms Sergei comes down the side and has a little peek. You can see his head is like the size of the entire car Uh, and he peeks into the passenger car that you're in the conductor should be able to take you as far as take a mirror But no further than that. You'll have to walk the rest of the way to trevassetta Thank you very much It was nice meeting you Where's the the whistle? Oh, just the cart right in front Yeah, you run up you open the door go up to where the Conductor is It seems to be a human man and he just kind of steps aside for you to pull the whistle and do you pull it Yeah, I reach up to the whistle and then I go over and grab the stool and I like loudly scoot it over And I jump up on the stool and I you pull that whistle and it blows loud and proud for the entire city to hear You gain an inspiration word Whoa quick, let's all take turns That's great lineup Ah nice to finally hear that sound So if you're ready this thing is sold it'll need a bit of a help in hand But trust me once we get this thing running not even the end of the world is going to be able to stop it But just this once it needs a little bit of a push Very encouraging Sergei stomps his way back towards the caboose of the train Yay, and after a moment you feel the train just shake a little bit and briefly Start to creak And it starts moving forward He's pushing it Looking out the window you can see that Sergei has two massive claws clasped around the caboose And his chest kind of butted up against the back of it his hind legs gripping the tracks as he's pushing Just a little bit of elbow grease This is what I did with shopping carts when I was little And the train chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug chug Speeding up Sergei's grip begins to loosen His running unable to keep up with the train and the train leaves the station all the folk there to wave you goodbye Chanting and hollering at you Sergei transforms back into his little dwarven stature Mikkel hops onto his shoulders, and they both wave you off as well. Thanks again pilgrims and good luck on the rest of your journey This is so delightful. I really hope this town is okay when we come back and everybody That is going to be the end of the session and you guys will level up awesome. Whoa