 Goodbye to be as long as awkward trip without the cart to speed things up We will have our awkward trip without the cart to speed things up back to Mura Was it Leira or fritz that was like heavily wounded Yeah, we were carrying you out of there. Yeah, I was down to like seven hit points or something I don't remember exactly But I can do polymorph now You healed up Yes, so you guys start to head to Tegimura it takes about an hour's worth of a walk And you do have downtime between here and there is there anything you wish to do in the meanwhile take in the scenery check in on Your pal who is dragging a very heavy stone woman I'm just imagining us like just hearing The like scream. I'm just like come on. David like like 40 feet behind us like should we help or are we still mad I Might actually conjure a little healing spirit fella Which well, it'll only last one minute, but every round it can heal 1d6 To any time a creature just is around it so we can all heal up. Oh nice. Yeah Pop that sucker out there. I'm fine. I guess it just healed me All right. Well, I guess just a little just a little incremental healing for me We can do a piggyback. I Could probably turn into a cat for more convenience It's also kind of oh, no, I've used both my wild shapes for the day. Sorry. Yeah, all right I Would say athletics it is not going to affect this purely for flavor. Oh you carry her no problem You carry on your back and it's you're so determined to make sure your friend is out of harm's way as much as possible So she's been through so much. You want to give her a comfortable little walkie-ride back home? Thanks. Lara is fully out full cat nap too comfortable Like no, we must be tactical. It's just oh, it's soft soft. Okay Yeah, I don't know how buck how buck is carrying a petrified creature when she Ways ten times what she's supposed to Buck you can give me an athletics Just for flavor. I'm not gonna. What am I doing? Athletics. Yeah, athletics. Yeah Okay. Yeah, you're you're dragging her along. You're a little bit slower than everybody else But you are not really having as much trouble as one would think dragging like a nearly one ton person It's just you know, it's noticeably difficult like you get winded quite a bit And you have to take a little bit of breaks, but you can bring her back to town All right for an hour of that. I'll be kind and I'll drop back to be 30 feet in front of him And I will proc two Disks carrying 1,000 of her he loves me 500 pounds But does buck know that's happening I also get because I'm a bugbear I get powerful build which I count as large when determining my carrying capacity weight I can push dragger lift. So I That also helps. Okay. Yeah, speed you up for an hour. I'm like a large boy All right Well, I would say that combined with the floating disc means that no further damage is brought to the petrified work woman Because you are basically dragging her along on these floating discs and keeping her safe from harm on the ground But I'm not gonna be too mad if she gets a little messed up, I guess Yeah, I will my plan is to bring her to Iker so that's I'll just kind of head Straight there. Okay unless anyone in the group. Well, I probably am not gonna initiate a conversation with anyone in the group They already Got their licks in Is anyone want to wish to follow buck to the healing hut? No, I'll break off and see that layer is taken care of Anywhere but the healing I guess yeah, and then regroup right there when we go to the healing hot to heal them. I Can also just heal myself. It's okay. It's like spell. Yeah, I can also just sleep You know me to take you to the end Probably the end is fine. Yeah. Yeah, all right Like I don't have any like weird poison conditions. So so just sleep should be fine Okay, so is that buck at the healing hut and everybody else at the end then? Yeah Okay Let's Since there's the three of you, let's go to the inn first and you guys when you walk in and Layra you are you look like disheveled Morrow kind of greets you in and he goes up pilgrims. How are you? Oh my goodness? Hello, what happened a lot I can see that I Think she probably just needs some rest even though, you know, there's a big gash wound here Oh, I'll get a room ready right immediately Say um your friend buck he didn't um he's alright. He's at the healing hot Okay, whoo. Well few it's just when I saw you I just you know Anticipated the worst, but oh, that's thank goodness. Well, I will get your room ready immediately He just runs up the stairs What a nice man that man is rather fast You can see that a few of the patrons are actually admiring some of your like battle scars labor and just being like What happened? What'd you do? Have you ever heard of a beholder a few people gather round out at the word beholder and they're like whoa No way this is a city just any beholder. It was God itself Word give me a persuasion Word believes this Everyone's intrigue a media who turns to oh it was probably illusions Sorry fellas, you probably got duped and they all kind of go back to their drinks Those sad fools keep on living their mortal lives. They don't know what we've seen What we've beheld perhaps what we've beheld indeed. We beheld God. I need whiskey Yeah, okay words gonna get a drink Fritz. Are you doing anything? Oh, that's right. I killed the angels too Right Okay, well Morrow after like a few minutes like comes stomping back down. He is completely ignoring every other patron and just like Kind of uh gestures to you. Okay, your room is all well and done I made sure to put some medicine on the on the shelf right next to it If you need anything also some some nice little lemonade, you know lemonade often softens the heart sometimes Is there anything else that you like layer of perhaps a home-cooked meal your favorite dish from from Sachi I I have a few recipes that I have hung up in a storage room just for this occasion anything at all That's very kind, but this is already more than enough. Thank you. All right very well And here is a little bell if I know that your body must hurt So just a small little gesture and little ring and I'll be there in a moment's notice Thank you This is already making me uncomfortable just up the stairs Being done on too much too much His eyes are fixated on you as you walk up He's so nice. This is a town of adventurers, right? How is this? How is he so shocked? All right, who's to know up to nap time up to nap time and in the meantime During that while that's going on buck you head into the healing hut to see mm-hmm I cur just working. He seems to be doing some typical paperwork and he doesn't look up from his papers and just kind of greets you Hello buck was it? Correct So what can I do for you today? I've got a friend here who well We went out on an adventure and and I'll just like knock on her a couple Yes, well that tends to happen in the good gods Well All right then layer on the bed Is there something that it's gonna be cast lead it? fix quite a bit unfortunately I Can cast a Greater restoration to get rid of the petrification But I've no diamonds on me at the moment, but I do have a few gems laying around You wouldn't happen to have any precious gemstones on you. Would you? It's no no cheap spell to cast Substitute of gold pieces would do as well if you don't have any stones a Hundred pieces worth. I think I can throw it together at least 20 from the gemstones. I have sitting around Oh Yeah, I'll do it. All right, you may subtract 80 gold pieces Had oh I'd say that I have a hundred and thirty-five gold in my yeah, we made a lot. Yeah, you made some You may subtract 80 since he will be providing the other 20 Sure, got it. I apologize for such a gouging, but that's what's needed for the spell unfortunately I literally cannot cast without it. Just be lucky. I'm not charging for a labor cost I appreciate the help All right, then let's get her on the bed and he kind of helps you put her Sort of on a medical bed kind of on the far side of the hut He inspects the body over he notices something's missing this woman she's she's missing a hand Correct it doesn't appear to be a Petrified wound or stomp. I assume it fell off after the petrification There was some difficulties getting her back here. Oh Well, how unfortunate I can't really do anything about that unless you've some spare hands lying about Though my flesh grafting is a bit rusty admit That's all right. Just the unpetrification and I should be able to handle it from there very well Then he reaches into his pocket and pulls out what looks to be some bandages could you hold this on the wound once she Gets unstone if I did it's going to be very very messy And I'll I'll go ahead and help with that Well then I'll have to put All right, yeah He holds the gold pieces to his hands kind of rubs them together and they start to glow a Very bright gold kind of through his fingers And then he Just kind of Puts his hand All right Iker takes the gold and he kind of starts to form them into a little light And he puts his hands inches away from the weather witches stone body starting at kind of the tips of her shoes And the gold kind of turns into almost like a clay mold That kind of forms around her and as it passes over each part that he is pushing it over her body The stone starts to disappear He moves slowly up her legs her torso and down her arms as he passes over the wound You can see blood immediately starts gushing out and I'm going to need a medicine check from you Sure, sure All right well it's quite the struggle and Iker actually has to go and help you make sure the blood doesn't seep too much And she loses quite a bit as a result Okay No worries. No worries. I can't expect you to be of the medical field. You're an adventurer after all Your job is to throw yourself into danger not really protection. It's your lot Oh, I say nothing devastating But then after a while The weather witch in her entirety becomes unpetrified and gently slumps into the bed no longer stiff of a stiff stony statue her severed hand kind of starts to stop bleeding after a while to where uh Iker then starts to cast a little bit of a mending to close the wound Well at the very least she's not going to be a vampire's drinking fountain for the time being Is she um Is she unconscious? Yes. She is unconscious. She is like completely out of it, but she is breathing you notice I'd like to be here when she Wakes I don't know if it's all right for me to Watch over her for when that happens or if if you need to No, of course, of course, uh her body's still in shock So given a few dozen minutes or so she'll eventually come to it's uh Is this a close friend of yours? Just I mean no not not a close friend, but um Obviously important enough for me to bring her back. I would say Um, I I believe you and your husband had some sort of affair tonight I mean, I can I'm happy to lock up for you and take her Away for once here once you're done here. I Appreciate it. It shouldn't take that long though But um, if you your business is your own, uh, if you do like privacy, um He reaches over to the side and you can see that uh, there is a rail on the ceiling and he pulls these curtains They're magical in view. They can provide you with some privacy if you'd like Sure. Um, I've got a silent spell woven into their cloth That'll be fine. I just um, you know, it's I would just not rather you seem tired just the whole vibe of you I wouldn't want to further He narrows his eyebrows a little bit I can take a hint Very well, thank you may have the hut to yourself. I'll just be a moment before I gather some materials for On the move work it seems He gives you a little bow Gather some things and then leaves Can I Can I tie her like Down to the bed. I don't want her to glee Yeah, give me a survival check See how your nodding is Okay, that's what I'm a naughty little boy. Okay. Okay. Sorry. I realize in context. Okay. All right How do you tie her down making sure as best you can to that she's not going to escape Just her one just her one good hand. Oh just her one hand. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, just like like elegantly like handcuffed to the bed frame not like any You know what? I just don't want her to like get up and immediately run run out. Like I'm not trying to like Yeah, okay. Um, if I wanted her dead, she'd be dead. Yeah. Yeah, you could You could execute her So yes, uh About half an hour passes and eventually the weather which does start to Make groggy noises and wakes up coughing and sputtering and slowly opening her eyes and She slowly moves her head down And notices her new nub at the end of her arm Well, that's a bit macabre Can't say I wouldn't do the same in your position though. She looks over at you buck That's that like she's is she like fully lucid and like Just acting quasi normal. Like she's not like you can give me an insight Oh never mind. Okay, uh, what you can tell is basically what uh, what fell to let the player can tell fair enough That was an insight though My passive insight, um I warned you about betraying us Mm-hmm I could have let you die back there Oh, and I'm very grateful that you Were able to bring me back now if you could be so kind so that I could get back to what I was doing No hard feelings, of course. What's done is done I hit I hit her. Oh Like puncher Yeah, can I do that? Uh, yes, uh, you don't need to roll in and actually roll in attack with advantage Buck lover of women That's okay, we're co-ed here in the luster All right, you punch her. How do you punch her? Like in the just in the in the in the mouth, I guess okay. Yeah, you punch her and uh, she just Oh, that feels familiar before I was an adventurer And I don't really like to talk about this a lot I did a lot of jobs. I wasn't too proud of and Most of them involve people in worse situations than the one you're in right now I'm really trying to step away from that life And you're making it very difficult The only reason that I brought you back Went through a great deal of trouble both financially and interpersonally with my companions Is because I know that you know something about getting in touch with the gods You don't seem like the kind of person who just Make the kind of mistake without at least thinking that you have some way of contact Am I correct? She Takes in what you're saying. She kind of leans back in the bed And just sighs Oh Poor poor buck you poor sap It's like looking in a mirror Uh, no, I'm not gonna respond. I'm gonna wait for her to talk more You should know better than anyone that sometimes we get things wrong It seems I did and my work is yet to be finished And so I should get back to it so that I won't be wrong again But We are mortal I'm trying to think of what to say um Why Why try to get in contact with the gods? Hmm We are mere mortals bound by our world hunger exhaustion disease society The gods suffer no such limitations Knowing this I can't help but get a bit um ambitious I guess I can understand that somewhat How did you know that I wanted to get in contact with the gods? Hmm that little hex I gave you back in sachia Perhaps I was leaving out a few details about how it worked, but Well, it gives me a bit let's say Information about you, you know in case I need to appeal to your preferences Is that true of my companions as well? And perhaps all the more frustrating that the little cobalt is the enigmatic one It might have given me a better chance with his little creatures back in sachia And yes, I had a glimpse into your past but can trust me We are birds of a feather Misplaced trust poor judgment pushing aside those who would not aid our cause Accusing a loved one of betraying you out of misplaced suspicion Oh, I did break some hearts Why do you think my fellow pilgrims never talk about me? Hmm I don't think that I followed You were a pilgrim indeed. I assumed today never talks about me That can't be right your that can't be right your You were on a pilgrimage with today When when was that? Oh, what year is it now? Two pilgrims ago so 20 years. Yes Look Do you think If you had more time You could be successful or depends on your definition of success. I'm talking about contact with the gods Hmm ever since I became pilgrim I've been on this path 20 years now Do you know what it takes to become a weather witch? I shake my head in a manner of speaking you sever all connections to worldly possessions The task is grueling and cannot suffer distraction. You must truly be one with the chaos of nature and I I had to make sacrifices So much And when I look at you I can see your sacrifices. I don't need a hex to tell me that It's in your eyes always distracted always looking for that window of opportunity for that thing you truly want Because all of this she gestures to the room with her nub All of those she points as if outside they get in the way And eventually you figure that you can't let them get in your way and then once everything is out of their your way There is nothing left Nothing left And she looks down But you She looks back up at you buck you would make a very good weather witch I uh Reach down to the rope that's around her good arm and I undo it I want you to stay away from us For the rest of this pilgrimage Hmm You and I Are nothing alike And she gets up Give me a persuasion check real quick Oh, she's gonna come back persuasion She just gives a little scoff Whatever helps you sleep at night She walks out of the room And unless you go and check where she's going Her location is likely to be a mystery to you I will not check on where she's going Hmm Whether or not her words are true your dismissal of your likeness to her. I would say buck you gain an inspiration for that Yay And then I go and then I'll go to the end to I'll go to the end All right, you go to the end and uh Is there anybody just like hanging out at the at the food court area downstairs? I'm pretty sure labor is laying Sleeping right now. Yeah, we're in the pillow pile pillow pile in the pillow pile that uh maro has lovingly prepared for you So sweet I feel like maro like was gonna make the bed and notice like the extremely like organized pile of pillows It was like oh, okay, and just like made that instead All right, so maro uh notices after attending to a few of the patrons and uh hearing the rundown fritz and word How much do you tell maro about what happened? um I'll just tell a very aggrandized version where we went in there to meet god And he came out and attacked the person that summoned him And then we wiped him out and his angels spilled out of the gates of heaven and we killed them to Yes, all the while uh non-stop begonias is whispering in your ear to kind of spice it up with a few more things I'll take his word. I'll do that He seems sated for now Tell lies And maro notices you coming in buck and uh kind of throws his arms wide open. Oh buck. Oh, thank goodness Oh, you're you're fine as well. Well, they my your companions told me you are fine, but still it's good to see you How things get in how how was the foray into into the dungeon? uh Eventful, but ultimately as you can see, uh, we didn't fare quite as well as I had hoped to do um So I'm really sorry my head's a little shaken up and so I I think I just want to try and get some rest. Oh, oh, of course. Of course. I'll get oh I've made sure just in case I prepared ahead of time. You see as soon as leora went to bed. I prepared another room Oh great, um I'll go I'll go the dead and and also and I'll lean in because I told maro about my I don't know if I Have I seen maro in between me? I can't remember between when I went to see the ex-wife Uh trauma dumped and then I saw my ex-wife. I don't know if I don't think you have No, after your encounter with your ex-wife again and going out on the hunt. I don't think he's spoken with him Yeah, I'll I'll like I'll like leaning like the um The thing with pam didn't go great. So um We kind of expected that though, so I can uh provide some uh comedic novels or uh romantic novels or Uh action novels, you know anything to put your mind at ease Believe me, I don't think there's a novel that's been written. It's gonna put my mind at ease tonight But I I have a book that I um Purchased a couple towns back. I still haven't finished. Oh very well. Very well. I'll leave you to a rereading then I'll I'll be all right Oh, I think thanks maro. I appreciate it. Hold on buck I stopped out of my tracks Where's that dirty boulder you've been lugging around Dirty boulder. What is he talking about? Kind of swaying a little bit Oh boy, where's the rack? It's gone Good riddance to it and he holds up a drink. I don't elaborate and I go to that All right You head to bed fritz and word. You are the only ones left as the night comes. Is there anything you wish to do? Before you go to bed On my head, I'm gonna take dinner up to libra Okay, you you go up and I assume you knock on her door Yes Of course And I come in and I have a tray with probably like Two just stews on or whatever and I sit down And I'm like Ready to feed you. I'm like you're not feeding yourself. No. Oh, okay. This is happening now. All right Fritz is in full. Like I just almost watched my friend die. You are fragile This is this is uh, this is interesting I think lair is not quite accustomed to being uh, sort of Doted on to this degree. I don't know. I feel like shamiya is more like, oh, well, don't die. All right. Have fun Yeah, I'm just kind of gonna Sit there slightly stiffly and allow myself to be like, I don't know tended But yeah, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna I'm very like quietly and gently I'm gonna feed you and whilst you're swallowing. I'm gonna eat mine And then I'm ahead to bed. Yeah All right And word anything you do before bed And now he'll probably just finish his drink and kind of stumble upstairs and Crash, it's it's been a very long day. Okay when you do crash Uh, you hear a voice in your head Is this a bad time? I remember you talking about wanting to have a talk. It's not sapagonious It's not buck Yeah, uh give me a second. I kind of sits up crawls out from under the bed goes over to a window. Maybe um I really need to know exactly what you're after Ah an explanation. Oh, I love stories Hmm Very well then I Am not of your world A surprise. I know I get that Yeah I am of the land beneath the nether world where the things you ethylings call Feelings and emotions are a bit more tangible And life and death hold a little less sway on us I exist but do not live I starve but I do not die I die Yet I am reborn But my time is never convenient It's a sort of a deal down there It kind of seems like you've got all the time in the world, but you keep coming at the worst ones Oh that hurts I didn't mean it that way So you come from some place where everything's different in topsy-turvy and you come into this place that must be topsy-turvy to you What are you getting out of it other than just hanging out with me? Oh, yes You you ethylings your emotions your spirit they sometimes find themselves Drizzling into the nether world and they are like A delicious meal to us they say to us But they are mere crumbs to our first hand experience So some of us you call it me a crumb Make bargains with those who are much bigger much more experienced ones that have had their feel Maybe they're bored. I don't know but after a lot of hard work They lend us their power to come here have a little treat for ourselves And your desires You saying I brought you here Yes, your desires specifically have been quite the aroma I smell your ambition your pursuit for power your dreams of conquer I've only tasted it once before and it was delectable So you're like a voyeur. You're just here to watch once before. Who was that? Yes Uh others they go for simpler concepts anger fear last I I chose something a bit more spicy Authority and you have been starving me I think you just might start tasting that flavoring yet Good Because back at the well I see that you take what is yours without a second thought I saw signs of one with conviction But recently I lost my way there for a minute. I wasn't thinking about what I wanted and what I knew I wanted but now I know what a mistake that is Oh, that's got people behind me And I think we can do anything Oh, that's good. That's good Well, if that's all you're here for I hate to admit that I'm kind of happy you're around Hmm I would like to provide a little bit of constructive feedback if that is all right Shoot we're at the whiteboard here Blackmail subjugation threats fear is tasty But it's also a quick way to authority I've seen the conquerors of this world and realize people will submit when you have something of theirs They wish not to lose I've seen it many times before and the fearful adoration coming from it is quite flavorful, but most importantly Achieving great power by any means necessary He's very good slow cooked meals are so annoying if there is a way to achieve greatness quicker That would be preferable I think you're impatient and you like junk food non-stop agonies Hmm, but I think I can provide you something that's well seen very well, you'll be surprised by my methods We shall see But I'm keeping an eye on you All three of them Yeah, all right, I'll uh see you when I see you you're pretty good at hiding Yes, good Night boss It's nice to know what you're about Oh, and if you if you need any more strings pulled another world Is a tapestry Threads of reality. You'll have to teach me more about that as we go I look forward to it And he'll pick up like the tipped over bottle of whiskey next to like that's rolled out from under the bed And he'll just slink back under all right And That is going to be the night The morning comes and the pilgrims of sachia awaken rested, uh, maybe with a little bit of closure from the previous day Uh, how does everyone wake up and who wakes up first and all that morning routine? Goodness I'm probably up nearly first. Um, no matter how good I'm feeling. I'm not up first Okay, lay where you're up first What do you do? It's a good question. What do I do? Um, I feel like I don't know much of what happened last night, but if I heard any of the where's the rock It's gone thing And I think that the weather which is unpetrified and on the loose I might want to just do a little bit of like casual investigating around Just this is so not my area But like turn into something with a good sense of smell and just see if I can figure out which direction she went Oh All right, uh your choice of investigation or perception with the stat of the creature you wish to turn into Yeah, which gives you advantage. Yeah. Oh, all right. Let's see. Uh, what's got a good sense of smell Where's the wolf stats? Uh hawker eagle. I think you're good. I still I think flight speed is still technically a little bit Yeah Eh turning into a dog feels weird wolf is on thin ice Um, ah, yeah, if I if I turn into a wolf I have advantage on perception checks that rely on hearing your smell So I'll I'll do that one. Uh, which is a plus Plus three use my stone hand as a scent reference. Uh, I don't think I want to do that Um, all right. Let me just uh, actually my perception is the same as the wolf's it's plus three So I'll just roll that with advantage Okay Hmm. All right with a 10 Pretty bad So you sniff and sniff and sniff and you do are able to catch her trail Um And you notice that she did walk out of the healer's hut and started to head southwest That's back towards the ruins, right? That is back towards the ruins or perhaps something else. You can't quite tell Um, but you do know general direction southwest That's where the city We're going northwest. So hopefully that won't be our next no aren't we going southwest because that's where the next settlement is I thought tigamiro was northwest. We were sort of making a big loop Uh, I can show you guys the map real quick. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a little bit south of this settlement There is a settlement somewhere in between but I didn't think I didn't know if we were planning on stopping We're going to the shitty evil one And it is slightly Wait, so you you guys are here in tigamiro. I put the cart there because you were coming back from the ruins Yeah, trove said it is north northwest. Yeah, I thought so. Okay. Yeah, she's going to old deos here That is kind of one of the only things in that direction one of the things she's probably doing The big one and she has big aspirations. So that's my guess But yes, you can't quite glean any further details aside from that southwest is where she's going Well, hopefully that's not going to be a problem for the immediate future um Let me work off my wild shape and uh, probably go have some breakfast in the end All right Yeah, you uh head back into the inn and uh, you do see that um Kind of behind the desk Maro is actually still asleep just snoring there and on one of the tables there are four meals prepped And with a little kind of name tag on each one representing each of the pilgrims That is so nice What is with this man? Oh, what what nice thing can I do for this guy? Hold on. Let's check my inventory real quick Well, yeah, that's fair minimum politeness I don't think he needs any of the potions I could theoretically make with this alchemy kit Maybe I'll just like Leave like five gold on the desk and call it a day You know when you when you don't know what to gift somebody Yeah, you leave all right. You leave five gold on the desk and makes a little bit of a uh, uh And uh, you hear him mumble under his breath his breath. Oh, no ladies, please Oh All right, I'm gonna have my breakfast very quiet That's quietly. Yeah, maybe then just like go out and I don't know Appreciate some fresh air. Mm-hmm. Uh, but yes, you walk outside. It's a typical nice sunny itigamurin day people are going about their business um Anybody else in the in who wishes to wake up and have their morning routine Uh, we're to wake up and Just like put on his clothes. He'll actually use the Uh, whatever bath amenities they have And like rub some lavender on himself or something just get nice and clean All right, awesome. And when you go down you also see the same Uh thing as layra, you know four dishes is laid out one of them with your name on it Uh, I'll take my meal and whoever's not down yet. I'll take a small portion of their meal Just like like a sausage or like an egg Yeah All right, uh fritz buck Yeah, I'll wake up. Um And just I guess just go downstairs to see what's going on. Oh, there's a portion of my small portion of my meal is missing He just didn't finish the plates I mean look at him. He's asleep I I don't really know what to say. So I'll just kind of quietly eat my breakfast efforts Yeah, I calm down last I am tired because I I spent a lot of my time worrying I'm very ready for breakfast. I come downstairs. I'm like at the top of the stairs. I see the plates. I am zooming Yes, wonderful and eventually layra does rejoin you I would say by the time that you all come here layra has done her rounds Searching for clues about the weatherwitch And you have a little bit of time to yourself in the tavern most Uh, it doesn't seem like any other patron has come in this early in the morning yet Everyone's a busy bee outside going about their work day. All right. Are we hitting the road or are we doing something else here? Well, I don't think we have any unfinished business in this town Right Not really. Oh, actually I did have something I wanted to grab from a blacksmith Well, yes, if we're going to be on the road again, we should resupply to get food. Yeah Yes, some sort of transportation Did we work that out? Did we I thought uh, did did we figure out? I think you did. Yes, the old lady We talked about getting just a regular cart two horses the um I think the Correct me if i'm wrong. I'm pretty sure the old lady warforged prickly pear What was her name prickly pear? Yes. I think she that runs this mentioned that uh, she would try and get something together for you Yeah Let's just say that that happened Yeah Yeah, I think we figured that we could get like a proper cart But we probably couldn't get like a little house cart like we had last time No lantern of true sight. Yeah, no lantern of true sight just laying around nothing worth 150 gold But uh, yeah, I would say um Uh Word you wish to visit the blacksmith for something Yeah What was it? I forgot about this character Hello fellow small person I have something I want to do I have a little maneuver You see where my my daygay does magic fire and I have oil that I coated in sometimes and when I stab somebody You know it's big bang boom like fireworks So I was wondering if you had like a sheath where I could just put some oil in there to start So I don't have to coat it before a fight Oh, I could probably get something like that done sounds like a custom order could be fun All right Shouldn't take too long Let's do Since this is not something that's on her usual List of things that she does Uh, how about a little bit of haggling with a straight charisma check? This will determine the price of this uh This service Oh my god We haven't rolled above an 11 this whole session except for that one time the buck punched A restrained woman in the face Then uh, that is going she had it coming Enamored by a working woman. I would say oh it looks like you're down a hand. Let me give you one For that specific design, I would say it will Require 70 gold and she'll be able to get it done by the hour That's cutting deep Actually, I'd also like to uh, I'd like to go to her and get that armor skill because I have armor Ah the armor skill the light armor skill. Yeah, I have light leather armor I want to I want to get that bonus action dodge because playing a caster is so stressful in common All right, awesome. Yeah 50 gold pieces removed from your inventory and she kind of Takes a hammer bangs up your armor adds a few little Notches and pieces and imbuing it with a teeny bit of magic of crystals You can now use the dodge action as a bonus action Whoa, all right. Let me just put back down to being flat broke as I should be Where do you agree to the 70 gold That's really high, but yeah, I can't I can't work my way around that Yeah, so how it worked basically it was what I did was I rolled a d20 And multiplied it by 10 and then whatever you rolled multiply by 10 and subtract the difference I rolled a 15 15 minus eight would be seven so 70 gold All right, but that means every combat I start out being able to use a dragon's bargain Which is an additional d4 or additional five flat damage if I hit. Yes, very nice Anybody else doing any last minute shopping before you hit the road? Nope. Nope. All right. I think that's good. I might want to get like provisions and stuff, but I would say uh I'm going to railroad just a little bit and say you guys start to head out together before being stopped by the good man himself, edwardo Wait, which one is oh that guy the leader of the adventures guild and founder of the town And uh, he noticing you kind of uh getting ready kind of senior body language getting packed and getting ready to head to the Stable to get your horses. Hey you pilgrims you had now dad There we are my friend Well as as as a thanks for a humor in me with my silly little anniversary gift Bringing a bit of business and a tourism to the town Thanks to your presence and uh supporting local business. I want you to have this Something that will help you out with uh with the trevacetta They like to make a coin, but uh, they they save you a bit of coin, uh At least for a little bit and he hands you each one token That kind of looks like a very thick coin Carved with what looks like a chameleon-looking lizard folk man with a large pack and many jewels Uh pieces of jewelry all across his fingers You may add each of you one chameleon air token to your inventory Chameleon air All right, that's got to be a custom item, right? That uh that place that that man that the lizard folk to a merchant he he sells uh Some not always useful, but uh very very fun and uh sometimes useful stuff But he likes to charge a bit much for my taste. I've got connections around the city Make a favors give away tokens for them to be used at a shop I do a few favors for him a while back, but uh not interested in his way So I serve at the tokens. I give them to you, uh Sadly cannot be used like coin, but uh trust me very worth it when you meet the guy that they can be used for, huh? Well, thank you very much. All right. That's strange, but I'm excited Oh, yeah, Trevor set the very very strange place. Oh, oh, and this thing he whistles whoop Uh, which I can't do, uh, you know with the two fingers thing This thing uh to make the journey easier for you. Uh, just uh prickly pear And prickly pear from the stables, uh just kind of pulling Your new little cart here. She is in case you wanted to see her again Yay Just like pulling the reins of Uh efficiency And butterscotch. Oh here you are dearies. It's it's the best I could do But hopefully it would get you up to that place a little bit easier And you guys gain cart dot jpeg because I didn't To make a uh make a custom Cart art for you, but I mean it's a generic cart. So might as well use generic cart art, right? Heck, yeah, buckaroos eating good today for the cart We're crossing that Oregon trail tonight, baby girl for the river for the river And uh, eduardo just kind of speaks up. You lost your last cart I wanted to help you along with the pilgrimage with a fresh new one, huh? Is it is it indeed fresh and new? Um Let's you can give me, uh, I don't know like uh like a intelligence Intelligence check to see what you know about quality of carts All right, you know look I've been studying While you rested I studied the cart this To a tone for my greatest sin. This is like this is like the the like kind of um What is it called? This is like the Ikea of carts like like Ikea put together cart that was just kind of followed instructions Um and like followed the pictures and stuff So it's it's like a dime a dozen, but uh, it'll do its job, you know I run my hand across the wood grain and get a splinter and I'm like Thank you. We we appreciate the help Prickly pear just uh gives a little bow. Oh always glad, dearie Now do we do watch out for those blood monsters? Certainly They got nothing on us She tally ho she gives a little curtsy starts to head back to the stables Yeah before you go I don't know if you know this about to me, but uh famous very very famous pilgrim myself in the past life, you know Uh, I could provide some useful information if you got any questions, but uh, you you beat the three dragons already You're very experienced. I understand if you're not looking for unsolicited advice. I don't know I know, uh, which Interesting which um, when was the last time that you went on a pilgrim? Oh, I only went the once uh, 30 years ago I was uh, I was with a today. You probably know today. She's uh from a satya. Yeah She seems to have been very prolific We saw her recently. She seems to have gone on a few Yeah, yeah, very friendly adventure kind of kind of she never calls herself this but uh, good leader. Good leader that lady Oh, can I ask um, who else was uh, a part of your Your party at that time Let's see, uh, very quiet the tiefling lady not like to show her face and uh Elven man from uh from a goona Not really hear from him from a long time long time Just real quickly through all the character people we've met so far. I'm wondering One of them was uh, your lady. Oh, yes. Yes. I knew about shamiah Oh, this guy traveled with shamiah. Yeah, I have so many questions, but also absolutely no questions Elven man could be like anybody Did you want to follow up on the shamiah thing or no? Kind of it's a little bit weird, you know It's like like meeting people who knew your parents before you were there Were your parents and being like tell me about this person who I can never like know as a person um I I I think if we have any questions it would probably be more about like Travis at his current political climate and how much trouble we're likely to get into through normal shenanigans But I feel like this guy probably doesn't have that kind of opinion, you know Only one way to find out Do you have any advice for navigating traveseta without ruffling too many feathers? Oh shithole Oh shithole all about the money money money everything the money stand around. Hey, you'll not pay for that The space uh, try to use outhouse. Hey, you not to pay for that the facility try to heal a friend who who get mugged Hey, you're not the properly licensed Uh, try to get the license. Hey, you're not to pay for a reservation to get the license Only good thing there is a potion quality a good good the potions, but the shitty company owner, uh But uh, oh it hurts it hurts, but uh, don't be a hero. Just make make too much of trouble But uh, that that the heart. I don't blame you. You are you are very good heroes I see your heart. I see they're good heart, but oh man Man that lord. Oh, you give me a headache Oh, that sounds exhausting. Um, what about the dragon of treveseta? Do you think they'll give us any trouble? Oh, no dragon one dragon is the one good thing about the treveseta very very Very nice lady. Uh She uh, let's see uh the tiefling descent, uh Very nice and uh very young too When I started she a merely teenager very impressive a dragon But uh, I bet you ten gold. She's a loser Who are you saying that to? Okay, you're saying that to him Like no, I'm not here I'll I'll like slide ten gold uh his way Well, uh that about resolves all of my questions I suppose Ah, yeah, yeah Pavita. Yeah. Yeah. She she actually from uh from uh sat here as well from a whole gear in the east Yeah, you might get along you might just share some culture with her, huh? She's been away from home for a long time. Oh 30 years now She might might uh might to be your age too. She was teenager when I was a pilgrim Must be nice and grown must be strong young young lady now Well, that'll be interesting. Yeah very heroic spirit heart of adventure of that one All right, I'm gonna recruit her She's very busy. I'm sure There Yeah, we scoot our things all right you scoot your things you get in the cart dad Uh, we we should probably grab some rations, huh? Oh, actually in the cart is provided 10 rations As well 10 10 rations 50 extra feet of hemp rope and two crowbars What crowbars heck. Yeah, give me that crowbar Do a wheel he's got two crowbars second We should come back here this place rules. Yeah, that's the best. I don't like this place very much. I don't want to come back What kind of rope was it hemp rope hemp All right, you get the cart all set it up and ready to go And as you head off a lot of the town comes out to wave you goodbye including prickly pear And icor the blacksmith especially Especially morrow who is throwing like confetti and flower petals. Goodbye pilgrims. I'll miss you. Please stop by again soon You've been such a delight He's so nice. Why are they all so nice to us? We have to come back It's it would be rude not to No, no, Pam. I presume Roll me a perception check Perception Come on buddy. Come on. Come on. Come on dice. It would be so funny. Damn it Can I can I use my I can I use my inspiration? Yes You may use your inspiration to roll again 16 That's you notice Pam Is in the crowd however She's busy looking at the quest board At the adventurer's guild Okay, I'm gonna say if I didn't want my feelings hurt. I shouldn't have asked the question I knew the answer the last thing you hear is the voice of the boisterous aduardo barobia yelling off Thank you so much for visiting my town of pilgrims Take care of yourselves love yourselves and rejuvenate the life of tree Keep the land alive. No pressure Thank you so much for playing my game Thank you so much for to play my game All right And you guys start to head back on the trail Um, I don't have the new token for your new better cart Cart dot jpeg, so We're gonna use the token for the old cart for the time being until I can get a proper cart dot jpeg In memoriam of all that was lost rip And you start I'm not sad heading your way cart dot jpegs Following the road I did want to talk to the party about something. Yes, you have this would be the time you have I did as well about a day's worth of travel to do so I guess I'll steer the cart There's something I I really genuinely want to do here and I'm not gonna take no for an answer You can help me or not, but I want to drain their banks Huh? Traveseta Yes, they have too many assets. They can pay too many people and they are stretching way too far We need to gut them a little bit And that's gonna happen while we're there Not entirely a verse as long as it doesn't interfere with our mission, but How are you gonna drain their banks? I'll plan it all when we get there Hmm What was the name of the fey kid we sent to a little I don't even oh, yes Um, I want to say it was Liam or something. I wrote He did We did get his real name out of him, didn't we I thought we did uh We got a name out of him like right as he was leaving He said his name his name was Liam and then he said his name was something else. I'll have to rewatch the vod Okay That guy and he also could have just gone back to this. Yeah, he could have knocked on it. Yeah, I could have done anything correct I mean I'm gonna do a lot of planning when we're there. I'm gonna make sure everyone's safe with what we're doing But it's something that needs to be done. It does seem like they're rather caught up in it losing sight of the proper functionality of any sort of society in pursuit of taxing every little thing but I don't claim to be an expert when someone gets too fat they start reaching too far And I feel like trevissetta is about to start a fire Nip it in the bud as they say that metaphor had layers No, that metaphor has no more layers now Nip it in the bud Can I say something? Yeah I um I didn't know exactly how to bring this up but I I was really considering I I really wanted to say that I I'm Sorry for getting us into that situation and I take full credit for the damage that We all include as a part of that I mean right after it happened it really didn't sound like you were sorry I get that um I I guess I haven't exactly been as as Clear about myself and who I am or what I was before all of this which As you can tell has taken a big part of My decision-making process which which isn't fair because We're all here and we're supposed to be a team as fritz pointed out, but I just want to be clear that the issue With what I done Was that I didn't inform you guys because it seems like the issue at least as I understood it immediately after Was that I put you all in danger and I thought we had established that Being on this journey was going to be dangerous before we even left and now i'm hearing that we're going to go And try to drain the banks of trevissetta and no one has an issue with that I don't mind. I've got no love for trevissetta But it's because you were being selfish What you were doing wasn't for the greater good. It was for something that you wanted and you took us along I don't want a single piece of gold coming from those banks in my pockets. I just want them gone I know I I understand that that's one of that's the point. I'm trying to make I I want to make sure that the reason if The reason that I Hurt you all and got you hurt was because I I wasn't being fully forthright with you about everything and and That's the distinction that I want to make But I want to be clear that it's Because I think we need to be more if we're going through with something like this that We've all accepted the possibility that we're going to get hurt on this journey I'm just not trying to make you guys sign up for anything more than you would have agreed to and that that's that's on me And i'm trying to take some amount of responsibility for that Dangerous to be expected in pursuit of this journey There are forces at work that don't want us to complete our mission for various reasons Despite its obvious necessity And I think that danger in pursuit of the truth is similarly justified I Am not angry that you didn't tell us your true goal I'm not even angry that it Got me injured I think I worry that Our actual mission is Losing focus somewhat I think that trevisseta's reaches long and worrying and I don't want their influence in our town It's worrying to see how far they've already spread. I think Anything we can do to reform them or Change their ways would be good whether that takes the form of robbing them Honestly at that point. I just kind of trust word to understand how this works better than I do money is weird but I think we should know what we're doing and why we're doing it Before we can accept the dangers that come with I accept that I'm gonna look for as much information as I can once we get in there and I'll make my decision after that The dragon might Have some thoughts as well She's from sachia. I doubt she wants trevisseta's influence that far as well We don't know how long she's been here You know, we can't trust anyone fully Especially someone in trevisseta. Yes, but at minimum we must trust her enough to get the heart. Well, that's true We know what we're here for I hope so And it seems like it doesn't really matter how we get it Can can we trust one another? I certainly hope so Hmm Buck Um Are you saying sorry? You're saying do you plan to do what you just did again? No Then I accept your sorry Just communicate for fuck's sake For future reference, did the weatherwitch give any indication of what she would do next before she left for the southwest? Excuse me Yes, I Sniffed around the town in the morning She departed from tigamira sometime before we woke There's nothing in that direction but ruins so Buck You let her just walk off Yes Did she give you any ominous warnings of future tribulations or? I Suspect based on my conversation with her that she's going to At the very least try and continue Her work Can you tell me why? Why she's gonna try and continue her work? Yes, buck. No Why did you let her go? He's making sure that there's eye contact And I'm trying to avoid that. I'm trying to avoid Yes, yes I'll look I'll look I'll look I'll look I'll look at word I I'm not good at I'm not good at talking to people And I'm not good at Raising crops or sowing clothes or tending to animals Um, I so that's your excuse that you I'm let me let let I'm I'm I'm Not Trained in I'm working with metals speak carefully. I'm not trained on how to To to speak in in public for someone or to work with ceramics the only way that I think Word the only way that I've ever been able to make a living in this world has either been through luck Or through hurting people It's the only two things that I'm good at and as As as Dumb as this may sound I It's my fault that we put her in that situation And to some extent I understand Some Of what she is going through Then you'll understand me when I say that I have had a hand in raising children But I'm not one to trust them Well, I'm sure she'll either not bother us again or become a problem that we can actually solve Well, if she bothers us again, at least we're all on the same page. We could do it as a team this time In the meantime buck figure out who you are Not just your mistakes word get an inspiration for that I was like, did he just call buck a child? I think he did I've raised children, but I don't trust them ouch Fucking raw line Damn, he's raw. Why don't his meadowlock right now cutting hands off I like to I'm just picturing non-stop agonias in his head being like Yes, he's living for the drama. He's like air horns going on. He's talking about that in therapy if he knew what that was Eating netherworld popcorn right now I Know elbowing some other chain devil out of the way when he's trying to eavesdrop like no my drama get your own goss I wanted I wanted to say I wanted to say to it's a word like He's done with the eye contact Can I put my hand like on on his shoulder just I don't make him look me in the eyes Yeah, but they're cold fair enough fair enough. Um I'm honestly trying And I I haven't had help Figuring that out and I'll look I'll just like kind of scan the cart jpeg I think I think some of the reason I've gone on this is to try and figure out who I am and Like most of my life, I can't do it. I've learned the hard way that I can't do everything on my own So I'm just asking you to Continue to trust me I'll trust you when you learned it You can speak as much as you want The gamblers are essentially ramblers But when you have actual proof that you want to be a different person Then I'll see you was what I take my uh hand off a word shoulder and I'll sort of smile It's fair enough And then I'll look over it. I guess fritz and red Leera Things might seem a bit hostile right now you fucked up, you know that and you are working to change but You can't expect everyone to be there cheering you the entire time You're not owed that you're making these changes To not hurt the people around you so be patient and have hope I'll at least try to cheer you on if you're not too much of a dick I'll just not like in in in appreciation Yeah, I'm just gonna like roughly like Bubbling on the back like cheer up like I'm trying to get the energy of everyone out. Hi like I don't move at all It's like slapping a mattress We got some people to drain money from I never thought I would say that So you guys make it about halfway Passing up kind of a Let me sing you a song We're doing too many bits You guys sing songs and everything is oh a okay on the car everyone is Absolutely happy with each other's behavior now No one's rolling on the random encounter table. No, and you guys it's a real anxious energy We've created on the cart dodgy peg I feel I feel god in this Off the side of the road Actually, uh as night falls. Do you want to camp out or do you want to push to reach treveseta? Through the night I vote to camp that sounds fun I agree my love of random encounters and ancient ruins full of spooky things thinks we should camp for the night You're these spooky ruins. Yeah, let's go time to prepare treveseta. Yeah, I'll camp. Oh, don't worry. I break the cart again No The textures of treveseta haven't loaded in yet. We need to we need to hit a loading area You guys cart under space cart dot jpeg The cart underscore two final versions final version final version for real final final But I mean realistically it should be called asd asd asd jpeg asd asd asd asd final The like pixel quality begins to go down on cart dot jpeg here we go speaking of cart that jpeg Let's let's put that bad boy in here. Shall we Oh, it's huge This is this is way bigger than our regular There we go downright palatial Could I roll a perception to see if there's any like place to like a reverie or some kind of thing Yes, you may actually I think that well actually yeah perception go ahead Actually, hold on before you do that. I'm going to use my special ability heart of moonlight and shadow Uh, which creates an invisible 30 foot sphere that grants a plus five bonus to stealth and perception checks while in it And light from open flames within it can't be seen So we're we're stealth mode camping stealth mode camping. All right. That's what this is for we just had the cart before That's really good. So that is going to be lower than my passive That is going to be with a plus five, but it's a plus five. Yeah, thanks So with a 15. Yes, you do find a few little ponds little bodies of water Uh, not quite a river. I don't think there's a river that runs through this part of a linty But may I attempt to fish? Ah, you are going to attempt to fish Looking for crayfish, baby. Now see Oh my god, I love crayfish Now see I actually have a system for this Thanks to my good friend and fellow dungeon master Brett ultimus who has made a book that he has published called Why Uh fight monsters when you could be fishing Yeah, oh my god Why why slay dragons when you should it could be fishing rather. Um, let me whoops, uh, that is spoilers. Sorry Um, I luck I blinked Yeah, no for for the chat. Um so Thankfully, I can simply open that up Put that on a different window And let's see we are fishing in a pond and there's a thing for this. So since we are fishing in a pond So how's this how this is going to work is You are going to roll on Let's see normally you would pick the type of fishing that you would want to do Um, but in this case, we're just going to simplify it and basically pick which mental stat you prefer to use For your fishing. Okay Whether it be intelligence, uh wisdom or charisma And let's see we are let's see pond Pond fishing pond fishing. We're going to see what kind of fish are available in this pond Dexterity my way through it this time See And let's see what is the weather right now the weather i'm going to roll a d100 Also, I wonder if anyone's picked up on why fritz Fish is a lot. I've actually I'm I'm a little freaking dirt. Okay. Is it because you're a bird? No, owls in particular do actually fish Yay So I was like, oh, I want to I want to incorporate that All right, so it is scattered showers just a little bit of a drizzle today. Uh, but that is favorable weather according to the table Um, and that means that if you roll a 10 or less you will add three to the roll Uh now so Let's see. Where's the fish table? Where's the love that we found a fishing minigame in d&d? Ah, here we go pond fishing friends with opinions on that I'm so happy. All right pond fishing. So you find a little pond Uh with thanks to favorable weather you can uh, you have a fishing rod. Yeah Did you buy one? I did not but I have my talents you have your talents then I would say you're gonna be fishing at disadvantage No, okay. Why do I feel like a fishing rod was mentioned at some point in the game? I think you may have bought one from no tail. I'm like night. I'm like 90 percent certain you did buy a fishing rod I don't know why I have that in my mind. I'm sure chat will tell us. Yeah. I don't know chat. Do you remember? I think fritz bought one I think What do you remember buying anything called the rod of entanglement? I don't have one. I don't know that it was a maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong because I don't think there was like a special No, no, no, that's a thing of the stick of stickiness And then I got the pack of A tattoo because here's the thing no tail was the only instance where you could have bought a fishing rod But he calls it the rod of entanglement Oh That might be why so if you if you did feel like you bought it then I'm gonna trust you This is no, I don't think I did some of the back of the vards. We've only met no tail like twice I have 10 10 foot lengths of string if you want one And I have a stick of stickiness You want to tie the the string to the stick of stickiness. Yeah, can I just slide a hand just a sleight of hand? Yes Okay, yeah word. You can give me a sleight of hand. I guess I could use an arrowhead at the end Yes, we're gonna we're gonna MacGyver together a fishing rod and I would say construct this megaphone using nothing but duct tape Sorry, you were gonna say something more on a megaphone Oh, I'll let you use a silver coin because if it's accurate to d&d. They have a hole in them and their triangle What wonderful, okay good fish with expensive taste. Yeah, that is a high roll So I'm gonna say you handily crafts together a makeshift fishing rod out of the stick of stickiness Some string I'm gonna edit the notes of the stick of stickiness I'm stick of stickiness rod form Rod form it's transformed Okay, you will no longer be rolling at disadvantage All right, so choose your mental stat and you may roll if you roll a 10 or lower You will gain a plus three charisma Strength and wisdom right charisma intelligence or wisdom That does make sense. I'm gonna use wisdom wisdom. All right roll your wisdom Uh, are they saving throws or just just a roll just a straight, uh, wisdom Oh You have an inspiration. You do have an inspiration. I do. Can I use my inspiration? I don't have any I may use your inspiration. Yes I'm so inspired while fishing Oh, but it's favorable so I get a plus three. No, only if you roll the 10 or lower Fuck, oh, this is exactly the worst thing you could have got So that's fine at the very least you did get a fish you you get A bite on the line you pull you you pull and you just adjust it a little bit and you get A chimera chub And I'm going to show Oh, wait, would I know what that is? I think that's a real fish. It is a real fish I will post it in the discord and I will share it with the audience as well What is Francis knowledge on fish? This is very animal crossing suddenly. I will say that is your choice You got a chimera chub. The name seems kind of judgmental. Yeah, so here's the chimera chub. I'm looking at my background It is a three-headed fish. My background gives me anything. It is a what? Oh Don't don't look up chimera chub. Oh wait. No, never mind. Yes Do I want to know what you found? What did you find? Let me just go ahead and search this Oh boy Well, now I'm carrying It's all right. It's fine Can you tell me to say DM me it don't DM me a picture just Well, I'll just I'll just put an explanation in the little side chat. Yeah, anyway The chimera chub is a common fish with scales of a light blue hue three identical heads rest at the top of the fish Each more stupid than the last the sputter horrifying gulps It sputters horrifying gulps when excitable anglers often tear off all three heads fighting for bait Making it an easy catch as one or more of the heads will be hooked in the process I Sorry words post an image with the spoiler on the top of it and I'm so scared to click That's simultaneously like not what I was expecting, but definitely should have been what I was expecting. Okay. Okay. That was not that bad. Okay I'm sorry. I detract it. I just wasn't ready for that It is safe for work chat, don't worry. Yeah There's not safe for once on the on my nose Okay, we'll stop looking at them. I can't I'm affixed. All right. Sorry. Go ahead. But yes, that is on the line That is what my cap shrinks in your forays into the uh into the ponds Would I know if it's edible? um I'm pretty sure it is edible with that face I would say no can I Indulge in costing my line two more times and see what I was just about to say yeah two more times if you so wish give me another wisdom check game An eight so that is going to be with a plus three and that is a 12 Uh, no, no, no, that is that's an 11. Never mind. That's another 11. Ah, the same you catch another chimera chub Are we not rolling on like a like a d 100 for that or? Uh, no it is on a d 20, uh table tragic Ah not 20. Oh no, uh dirty 20. Sorry Uh, dirty dirty dirty a dirty 20. All right, so This one okay You hook on something something big something that's pulling your lure So much so that you're gonna have to roll again You need a 15 or more to successfully lure in this fish whatever it is It's pulling and pulling and fighting for its life. Roll me another wisdom. Am I? Oh, uh, I guess I don't have enough reaction time to call for help. I'm just going. Mm-hmm You got this Don't say that I'm gonna fail when you say that. Oh, this is why did you say that? I'm sorry. I'm sorry You see the flash Of a crimson orange scale as you pull it out of the water and you see the glimpse of this bright diamond encrusted koi fish before it Breaks the line and swims back into the pond never to be seen again It's okay. It was it was too pretty to eat I'm so none of us saw that I'm gonna come back with two fish and I have I'm like I have six heads Oh good the most edible part of the fish. I brought us food I'm like standing there proudly waiting for you like some type of Being like well, good job friends as I was sitting there with my horrible fish like you know word will um Go Collect the fish if you'll let me I'll cook with them I'll make like some fish heads do with the six fish heads. Yeah, no like filter out the fur no check for this fur I don't Did that's one of them a lion head? I wasn't here for that. I think they were all fish They're all three fish the picture There's a picture in general. Okay. It's just three notably different looking fish heads. Yes Yeah, well, we get really interesting fish heads do and then just like flame grilled fish Belly, um, this is just for flavor. Uh, you're you can easily cook it This is not going to ruin the meal, but can you give me a survival check real quick just to see How how well you cook it? This won't affect it, but just don't like crit fail. It is definitely one of the fish head soups of all time So anyway, I'm gonna go throw up out of both ends Unrelated to my recent exploits As you do When you were cooking the stewing the the fish heads word you do hear kind of whispering in your ear Yes, yes, that's the ambition I saw back at the well I'm so glad we're back guys Fuck like sitting sadly in the vial lake or something I'm staring into the fire I am buck staring into the fire for lornley all word is like throwing up in the background We're having very different camping experiences today My fish I didn't know you could overcook and undercook a fish at the same time. I thought they were too small Huh, all right So once all things settle down who is going to take the watches for the night Everyone else seems strangely preoccupied. I'll take first one. All right. I'm sleeping Layra's first watch who second watch I'll do second watch. All right buck is second watch one who is final watch Can I do final you fritz is final watch? Sorry So first watch layra give me a perception plus five. Thanks to your little feature Certainly, let's just roll a normal perception of lab five in post. Don't tell anybody. Yeah, we can do that. Hey Wow, wow. I'll take the 22 Okay, I want to know their social security Looking around you easily spot what looks to be someone in some heavy plated armor Who has been shadowing you but is wondering about Because they are having a hard time finding where you are They are clearly looking for like it's so obvious that they were trailing you Um, but now they are heavy plate. Are we talking like real heavy plate or like cardboard heavy plate? No, real heavy plate. This thing is glistening a little bit from the shine from the moonlight and the stars Let me just see if I have dark vision. I feel like I might possibly have dark vision. I think you do I do I have dark vision. What's up with this guy? Are they within 60 feet of us? Within 60 feet Let me roll for that Yes, actually, he's just like outside of the the sphere of influence of your little Special thing that just keeps your fire dim and he's just like you hear a familiar voice That doesn't make any sense. They would just hear a few hours ago It's your boy. Wait familiar voice. Is that the guy I have a sending stone for? His name escapes me right now Him or the drow guy that we kicked out of the first town. Oh, did that guy wear a full plate? He kind of had a wet cat vibe to me. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that We we know the other guy in heavy armor. It's probably him. Handsome mccanson pants or whatever Edmund, is that his name? Is that that guy Edmund mccanson pants? Yeah Uh, I'm going to pull out my sending stone to Edmund mccanson pants and I'm going to be like Hello Remember as as mentioned your sending stone does not work out of nuba sky Oh god, I forgot about that never. I thought we were going to have a really funny like no I can see you like well what corner are you? Uh Yes, it was a lesser sending stone Unfortunately, that would only really work in nuba sky tragic. Uh He's the only one I can remember who had a full plate. Yeah There's no unlimited data out here. Sadly My notes I wrote down Edmund. I wrote down Edmund night nuba sky on my notes. So I don't know about him Uh Yeah, hmm Oh, he's from trevisseta. That's where I put his name. Huh. Yeah, uh, all right Is everyone like do I need to wake anybody up or is this still early enough in the night that like We're still just kind of chilling Um above board player permission I'm probably sleeping if you this is like a watch watch. You're probably you're probably I don't know if you're above by yourself, but I'm If I'm gonna take a second watch I'm gonna try to I would probably be sleeping Yeah, I want to give red the chance to wake us up for deal with this Uh Yeah, I'm gonna wild shape into a panther and go out of the hearth to see what's up with this guy Perfect. That's how I would doubt wild shape into something with a really good stealth score Okay, so you're approaching stealthfully or how are you I want to try and like I'm not hundo p sure though And I know who this guy is. Uh, I want to get close enough to be able to figure that out and then I'll Choose my next approach Okay wild shape into a panther and Approach him just normally Well, no low in the dark low in the dark. So you're doing it stealthfully. Yeah, I'm doing it stealthfully. Give me a stealth check with advantage Sure Panthers have plus six to that So we're just gonna roll mine, which is plus zero and then we're gonna just add six in post I kind of feel bad for this guy. All right 25 You basically get within sniffing distance of this guy hiding in the tall grass and you see a very familiar face Edmund goldbark Oh, there's the name so happy. I got the name right awesome He is searching around scratching his chin looking about and Checking his map. He pulls out a map and just like they were just here Can a panther cough politely dm Yes, but it's gonna sound like a panther. Well, I'm gonna be sitting like just kind of Like 10 feet back just upright so that when he turns around it's like, oh, shit. How did I miss this panther there? Like in the direction of where the camp is. Yes, okay So you're just gonna be trying to just sit upright to steal. Yeah Yep, okay, and you make a little panther cough And he just turns and sees your silhouette in the darkness. Oh good god Um, I'm gonna walk back towards the camp and then like look over my shoulder He kind of like hands to his sides in a sort of like Chris Pratt approaching the raptors Um, are you perhaps a druid of some kind or are you just a random animal? I'm not sure what's native to uh, elinthe I might just be talking to So useless outside of a city. Uh, I'm gonna take him up to the edge of the camp so that his talking like It becomes a lot enough for the others Uh, my passive perception is 19. I think I'll wake up first. It makes him hotter in my opinion Probably What's happening? Why is there a handsome man's voice? Oh, you just a very well trained large cat. Do you have an owner? Oh, it's that guy. Hi that guy Sounds like there's a himbo outside of Do you yell that word? Yeah Hello guy Is that master word? Uh god king word, but close enough apologies my lord master god king word If he's within the radius of the hearth, he'll be able to see the fire now Then yes, he will walk close enough following the voice of god king word Is that panther with you? I would assume that it is with you just gives word the look, you know, I'm gonna go Yeah, okay, I'm gonna be I'm just gonna look at lyra and be like lyra. Were you out? You I never know how to talk to this guy. It's very easy to having the plausible benign ability of what? I'm a panther right now What are you doing here guy? um Did you why don't you wake us up? What's happening? My apologies I was not meant to That's what he gets for following strange panthers a little in nowhere. This guy needs to learn some fucking rural survival skills not meant to do what Find you Okay, they add here for somebody else Yes Okay, I love the tone. Who are you looking for? He freezes up his mouth kind of like sucks in What is happening right now? Can you can word? It's very late Can you just tell us what the heck is going on here? Who's got a good insight? I apologize my lord. I have all but if I were to do that, I would not be a very good night Is he under orders that he doesn't like can I do an insight check? You may do an insight check Come on, buddy He's flirting Someone can help her if they so busy feeling awkward. I can I can try. Oh, all right I'm like looking him up and down like Yeah, you can tell that's exactly what's going on is he's probably doing something that he really doesn't want to do So you weren't supposed to find us Maybe he didn't want to find us because if he did he'd have to do something He doesn't like is what somebody who could talk would say Were you so you weren't supposed to find us? Well, that's um You see it's it's quite classified. I'm Not really allowed to say and even explaining that I'm not allowed to say it's probably already too much information Classified to the point you can't tell the pilgrims, huh? With all due respect my lord, there are others above you Yeah, I don't see them saving this whole life tree thing though. Um You know That is true. I admit We're in a circle with a panther And there's there's not a way for people to really hear it would be craziest Somehow you just let the truth slip. No one would know Right friend Is that a persuasion or an intimidation the smooth slip from like the threat to like Can you give me a I mean Would he would he perceive it as a threat? Well, that all depends on how this persuasion with advantage role goes the only threatening thing I've been doing is being a panther. You guys can say look, I don't want to hurt you, but my panther is really Followed a panther into a place you don't know Persuasion with advantage it is with advantage. So you may roll again See if you get something higher I'm loving playing fritz as you don't know if they're threatening you or your friend at the moment All right, that just luckily that advantage just made it Well, I I Am going to oh I failed as a knight yet again I apologize my lords. I am under order to Keep an eye on you ever since your departure from polytrios By whom? By the lord that I answer to lord to hero He said the guy in full plate for the stealth mission He's failed as a knight. He's already explained they're going to disown me back home Did they know that you told them oh lord to harrow's the guy who rules nuba sky now Yeah, he's we we just like lord to harrow seems to be kind of at the center of a lot of people we don't like Wait, but he's still all the way back in nuba sky. Wasn't he the one that put a thing on? He's the one that gave us the car. Yeah, he's he's the one who gave us the cart with the with the gps tracker on it He's awful vibes guy that we can tell you know what I'm gonna crazy chin, right? Let me see if we see I'm causing drama He's hot. I'm causing drama guys. I'm gonna be like. Oh that guy Here remember that cart you gave him that gave us right? Um, yes, indeed. It was quite a generous gift. I thought Yeah, almost killed us Was that the cards? Well the symbol wasn't killing us it was just figuring out where we were Yeah, I just I'm being dramatic. Oh you're being dramatic. Okay. I'm gonna need a A drama role either deception or another persuasion. So I feel like that's not entirely the truth Yeah, it's not the truth, but it's no lie. I don't know if we want to lie to this guy. He feels I do very well Where is this the hero? Why is the panther talking? I'm being I don't care. I'm being dramatic. Listen, I'm taking a feather out of books Books words book words Well, I'm I'm sure it wasn't that dramatic and and I'm sure lord Tahiro had a good reason for it. It's just beyond My degree of influence. I am not always privy to Every single piece of information as you know threat of capture can perhaps get the information out of me It's for the realm safety after all Is that guy to harrow still back in nuba sky? This poor fucking guy don't know if it's better if I say or not It's definitely better if you say Well, no, he has did you know that we picked up a fifth member along the way He's been tracking you for a while and he's got a real pretty arrow aimed at your head right now. Oh my god Can I make a deception check make a deception check buck lies to us one time and we all go out the fucking window This has always been word I suppose that's true. I want a drama, but this is a different level. I just feel bad This guy's definitely being hundred percent sincere. He's just misled or something He just needs a little bit of encouragement Listen, we've got to break him out of his shell. Okay, one way or another Where is that guy? He just drops to his knees. I'm not cut out to be a knight He's good low to harrow has returned to his home in trevassetta I hold up two fingers to signal that the sniper shouldn't fire The sniper unlocks his arrow Well, I don't know that about all that about you not being I mean you're a good Wait, then who's in charge of nubis guy now? Lord to harrow, of course He has taken over after the previous lord was dismissed of his but he's not even there No, he rules remotely now I As for being a knight I I want that guy on a list I don't know that I can call myself a knight as a true knight is sworn to their lord and given All their aid to the lord's cause no matter the cost and without compromise and I'm afraid I did just that But it sounds like you might not agree with what's going on And you're an oath break it. There's no turning back. Oh god. Hold on. Hold on. I mean In in a certain way. I mean you you've got your honor and that's that's Count I mean it counts for something to have that right Perhaps that is true, but that's precisely why I think I might not be cut out for this whole knighthood business When you become a knight you must unlearn The personal part of your life and given that you are an extension of the lordship that you are serving under to Put forth their every whim and their every wish without hesitation For a chain isn't only as strong as its weakest weakest link and when you become a knight you become a link in the chain I thought I thought knights were supposed to protect the weak Well and do what's righteous Perhaps that is the belief of the lord our job is not To think for ourselves that is the job of the mercenary and though I do not Disrespect I mean no disrespect by that comment a knight's job is to Perhaps I should frame it like this and I pray I do not mean any offense by this and presented with the utmost respect If you felt as though you without a shadow of a doubt had a solution to saving the world Would you not want others to follow? depends on what you think I think they want to take our hearts and save the day for them Is what I would say if panthers could talk And I was inclined to say that in front of the guy being cagey No one is forcing you to stay in the panther mode I I don't want to waste the wild shape and it's really comfy not having to talk to this guy So you're talking about some guy who's gonna 100 save the world and that you're following him Then why are you as someone whose entire job it is not to ever think for yourself? Talking to us now. Well sounds like you have doubts I never said that I knew he would 100 save the world We only are as strong as our convictions after all Our beliefs everyone likes to think that they'll save the world and a night's job is Simply to trust in their leader that they are being guided with a veritable purpose and that such loyalty is required If that purpose is to be met so that there are no problems from the inside no gears that are That are turned the wrong way as it were Sometimes a large machine requires many gears and will refer it to function Such as a society perhaps. Yeah, but if you've got a large machine that's Run by an idiot and built of people who don't think for themselves. It's probably Doesn't have a good purpose Well I do not deny your words, which is precisely why I've come to realize It's precisely why I've come to the conclusion that I might not be cut out for this While we're having the pretty boy out the existential crisis speedrun Can I be keeping an eye out for like other things that might be sneaking up on our significantly less stealthy camp? Like a sniper perhaps Yes, you may you may have one you may have another perception with uh with a plus five All right. Thank you. Uh as a panther my perception is plus four So we're gonna roll mine and then add six to it because mine is plus three Holy shit. All right. Wow. Nice. You look around and As far as you can tell There is nobody else around that has been looking for you The only things that you see are the distant lights of trevisseta to the north And the stars above you All right. Well, that's a good sign. You are you are safely private All right back to the existential crisis Look, you you don't have to I mean You don't have to be a knight. It's not the only thing to do and there's at the very least some amount of I don't know value and to Serving the greater good as opposed to just like one guy perhaps You misunderstand my situation Becoming a knight has extremely high standards and any betrayal of that oath is met with extreme scrutiny I can never go home again How about being our sixth member? Well, I apologize, but I don't think my conscience would allow me to do that Ah, it's disappointing Well, the then I mean I'm gonna change back so I can talk Yeah, you're you're better at talking than us. When did you betray your knightly standards? Uh well If you want to be technical about it just now As soon as I gave information about the true intentions of my mission Which was against the wishes of the law that gave me said mission I broke my oath You were ordered to shadow us Indeed and have you been doing that since we left this since we broke that car? Just as soon as Lord Harrow had a meeting with uh The lord of Peletrios. I was ordered to come shadow you and Make sure to keep an eye on you as the track on your cart was removed I'm gonna step a little bit closer and kind of eye him up. Does that mean that you know what they talked about? I apologize. No, I do not I was simply given orders and I knew the context of where they came from I simply know sometimes of where master Tehero is at least in the past and What he told me the orders of which I had to follow All right I'll trust that Well, I can't imagine that you keeping track of our location and telling us that would automatically break any oath Unless you're suggesting that Lord Tehero wish to know our location for Some form of antagonistic purpose that would put us at odds making this information dangerous for us to have Perhaps that may be so but that is not information I was privy to And yet you feel exceedingly guilty about giving us anything If you just kept trailing us then you haven't failed. Have you? No, but I have revealed the truth of my mission Though was there any order to say not to say the truth? There was yes. Oh, well Is there any possibility that you were set up to fail? No offense, but If I were picking somebody to shadow us it wouldn't be the knight in shining armor I had considered that Lord Teheros methods are questionable at times, but that was not my place to speak out Well the way that you lay in the situation out right now Tonight can't end peacefully unless you cave some way That is true And I feel as though My place may not be in trevissetta or back home in my home kingdom anymore I might be stuck in the wilderness forever Did did did he not give you instructions as to what to do if you were spotted? No He Said failure was not an option And he sent you out into the wilderness in full plate to surreptitiously follow us He didn't send me in full plate. This is simply the only armor. I am I own Well, he did not want to expend precious resources on a single unit in pursuit of his mission, whatever that may be But he didn't want you to fail No, Lord Teheros truly has very high standards. Well, he might be malicious. He might be incompetent Does he have any allies in tigamira? Not that I'm aware of but I am not a native of alinti and Not truly In in the know of the ins and outs of the social structure here. I apologize Look here's my Strongest suggestion for your next course of action Go back to tigamira Speak to somebody named Eduardo and no one else And hide If you do anything else, you're in trouble either from your master or from us Or you can It's not a bad idea Stay in the woods And face real panthers For the sake of clarity Eduardo, well, I don't think panthers live in this part of I don't know that You're the druid For the for the sake of clarity. Eduardo runs an adventurer's guild and is a former pilgrim from years past He's very boisterous and will probably first approach you in the world's thinnest disguise but If you are handy with any sort of weapon, I'm sure he'd be delighted to have you Does it does it make sense for if you're trying to get away from lord to harrow for him to go to travescetta? I mean I think I would be Travescetta not not not travescetta. Yeah tigamira. They because they have that um like annex I mean new besky if you could make it or not new besky but sachi if you can make it back there The very least would be somewhat away from Watchful eyes as far as Our dragon's concerned much as I would love that um Lord harrow will be waiting for my report and I feel as though He will not get it well, there may be benefit in Keeping this up as long as possible It seems to me that you've already come to a conclusion about your service to lord to harrow Regardless of your results of this quest yes I have indeed failed and that is the conclusion of it and There's no return from this Layra, I like you. I don't know if that's true Look, let's take a step back here my friend because according to your current circumstance You are very well aware. You should not leave tonight alive Either by our hand or by your masters So our best course of action is to pretend like none of this ever happened and recognize that you owe us your life Very well Though I do may may take you up on that offer to head to tigamira for um I do not believe I can show my face in front of any melinda official now What I mean, it seems like you're really good at giving information to us To be fair there there is an uh elinthi official at tigamira. That's just the one earlier. We we spoke to her briefly She seemed to polite uh if Overwork why not just pretend that we don't know what's going on Yes, it seems that your failure is only known to us unless lord to harrow has some form of additional surveillance on you Which thinking about it would be entirely in character. Does he he scrunches his lips again? Oh boy all right Great Well, you're welcome to some some burnt fish I mean I I haven't you say you felt as a knight, right? indeed Maybe that means there's a different calling for you in life This isn't the end. You don't have to sit in the woods your entire life. It's a bit melodramatic um Just know there's options out there. There are many things you can do Like helping the savers the saviors is up to you There are also many people who don't really like elinthi officials either I am sure you will find many places to work and many places to Continue your life in a lot more comfortable position I mean, we do have a we do have a god king who could probably knight you That may be true, but Knowing your knighthood and I could give you a lovely home I too appreciate the offers and well wishes, but With me having this very specific mission assigned by lord to hero himself and knowing how Valently he pursues his missions I would be running from for the law for a very long time And I don't know if that is the life that I want to live I I'm trying to give you a different option here. I'm not sure if we're all on the same page I say you pretend you didn't talk to us you go back and you give us a report later I suspect that lord to hero has some form of knowing that His conversation has happened. If not the contents of it The specific conversation. I'm not so sure at least my location. He will know and I see I'm not exactly a very good liar as you may have this seen So you think that when you deliver your report in travescetta He will confront you with evidence of your quote-unquote failure And your life as a knight will be over And you'll be too weak I will be sent back to my home in balconies and my knighthood would be revoked and I'll be likely thrown in prison for quite a few years For disobeying the alintian lord's orders All because you can't keep a straight face Well, if lord trevus, uh lord If lord we have to be like a tyrant if lord to hero truly believed that you could dodge our awareness of your presence As you followed us through three separate towns at this point In I must restate Full plate armor at all hours of the day He's either very foolish or Actively malevolent and you were set up to fail. Is there any reason you can think of why he would do such a thing to you? He looks down Scrashes his chin a little bit The man likes to display his power over people What little I've observed of him I can read his character fairly well and He likes to show people their place that they answer to him And that he is the one in control I believe that giving me such a Task that was destined to fail unless I had a miracle working on my side Was to establish us dominance Then why are you ashamed that you failed? Yes, if anything it seems he's failed the lord's first duty to his knights Because I not only failed a malevolent man I failed my home you see Balkanists it's Had not exactly a place to brag about And since I was a lad I it's always had problems and Only in recent years have things finally tried to settle down and Now that trying to help out olinthi as a show of good faith to rebuild some bridges with the fellow kingdoms that they've lost contact with but Some help I've been so far all I've done is Show you where the tavern is and get shot and Now I've even failed the last mission provided to me And You're also defying yourself by that failure and refusing to change There is perhaps another angle on this I don't know if it's failure if you saw what was wrong and Decided to not a go along with it Do you believe that lord Tejero is The best possibility for the leadership of olinthi as a whole do you believe he's representative of the greater good that you are Sworn to be working for I mean this with no personal attack on the man. No Then it seems you have not yet failed in the only mission that truly matters He perks his eyebrows up at that Amen It's also literally our job to save the world Yeah, like I think I think your hometown would be a little bit forgiving if you Helped the people who are trying to actively save the world that they abide in instead of going against them like a certain High official you cool under Yeah, I don't I think I I don't I really especially at this point in our journey together I don't feel like I should be speaking for the group on this but and even if lord Tejero is listening to this Fuck him like I I don't I like I don't You're doing A fine job and you clearly have your heart in the right place. So I don't think we really care what lord Tejero thinks. He seems like he's only Doing worse for this place. I'm not really seeing It's actually a really good point. Can someone check this guy for like magic I don't I didn't prepare a detect magic. I feel like I had a scroll. Oh wait. Oh, oh I can I can do I can do a thing. What's happening today I have I have for some reason. Oh I can use a magic awareness as an action You can open your awareness of the presence of concentrated magic until the end of your next turn You know the location of any spell or magic item within 60 feet All right, there you go. When when when you sense a spell you learn what school of magic it belongs to That's how I found the the tracking spell in the first place on our Oh, yeah, I do have dispel magic prepared if we want to just oh I'd like to use magic Yeah, yeah, that'd be brutal. Yeah, we wouldn't know Lady luck they call her lady luck. I'd like to use magic awareness. Yeah Okay magic awareness I can post that I think magic ear magic eye magic everything on this guy. How do I share this? Is it this magic scribe? Okay magic awareness. All right. You notice that indeed as he has accounted of some sort of tracking on him There's a divination spell on him Hmm. Do I is it is it from an item or is it just like on him in general? It's just kind of on him some kind of very strong spell um Likely in very similar description to the one that you found on your cart So, yeah, this guy's being tracked. I can't really tell him. No I look him like in the eyes and I narrow him. Are you sure? He also already told us that he was being magically tracked. This isn't news Right. I can't figure out Based on this whether it's we're being listened to I don't think I believe he implied that It was only his location that would be known until he gave his report I have a question. Are there any other knights from your kingdom at present in olinthe? On the same journey that you are so you currently represent an act of goodwill from a foreign country that Lord Tahedo most likely cannot extend his influence into as strongly as he can the rest of olinthe That is true It seems to me that perhaps he has very good reason to construct plausible deniability to eject you And slam the door behind you So that your people don't interfere in whatever Obvious expansionist plan he's been working on I'm very new to this politics thing But that seems like the kind of nonsense they'd get up to in pursuit of power or whatever's going on Very well. I shall take your suggestion of continuing on my moral duty more than my Political one into account. I will consider it and I think I will head towards tigamura and think about my next course of action. It's just Lord Tahero is a very powerful man I will warn you When you head into trevassetta Well, I can't truly tell you what to expect but Expect misguided people not evil just misguided Thanks to an evil man Oh An evil man Who's that? That's not the Tahero. Yes, it's Lord Nicholas Tahero. Yes. Oh my god. He admitted. Yeah Well, we all know he's Well, I suppose it's good to have confirmation that he does seem to be actually a bit of a dick And standing up to him although it'd be the righteous thing It's not the easy thing In fact, it's a very very difficult thing And that's why I apologize that my fear may have taken over me in our conversation But I do believe there are good if misguided people in that province Pleased to write by them Hopefully we're going to do right by everybody Thank you I apologize again for this betrayal. It truly did not even register as a betrayal And do find Eduardo. I'm sure he'd be very good at bolstering your spirits Of course, I will try to Keep a low profile which I guess And he starts to undo the straps and stuff around his plate mail Oh, okay. He does Revealing the the cloth and padding underneath which he keeps on I don't think I can really oh dang I don't think I can really wear these These pieces anymore as they are it will be too recognizable if I'm to be undercover. I believe that it should be In cover that does not glimmer with the shining light of the stars Is he still uh being tracked because I can try to spell magic on him Yeah, how long does uh magic awareness last? Uh, it's Oh, he can do it three times. So once he takes off the armor you can yeah, you can do it again You can see that it's on his person. But uh, yeah, you you had a dispel magic thing Uh, I can cast it uh at third or fourth level Actually, I'm gonna be a give a little hint. Um, Sergei's wand Has a dispel magic on it Sergei's wand. He's got Sergei's wand. I have somebody's wand Or rather Sergei's heart, which is a wand Sergei's heart has magic spells in it. I have Sergei. I I have it. I have Sergei. I think it Did that always have the ability? Oh, wait, sorry detect magic my mistake. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay Well, I can cast dispel magic at fourth level. Uh, which will um if he'll permit me For every spell of fourth level or higher on the target I need to make an ability check with my spell casting ability dc 10 plus the spells level That's my spell attack. I have a plus six to that. Um And if it's third level or lower it automatically gets dispelled, but I'm assuming it's not Okay. Yeah. All right. Let's roll that wait. It's your it's a spell safe dc, right? So they have to roll against it Uh, no, uh, no, I need to roll an ability check using my spell casting Oh, can see is set by the level of spell. I see yes. All right. Yeah, exactly. Let's see it All right. Let me just hit cast see if it'll auto roll it for me. It doesn't look like it. Um Nope. Okay. Cool. I'll just roll my spell attack. I guess. All right It's yeah spell casting ability. So okay, so that's 14 So if it was level fourth or lower it gets to spell yep, but I feel like And you yeah, you uh cast a spell magic and buck you no longer sense that there is a divination spell upon him Well, now they know that we know Well, now they know that something happened to you doesn't necessarily now they know we killed you No, that could mean any number of things to them But if I'm to go undercover it could be interesting to pretend to be a dead man You want us to bang up your armor a little bit or I don't think we need to do that Whatever the case may be. I think the armor is yours. I have no use for it now Especially when trying to hide my identity and hide myself from the authorities as that is the most distinguishable Distinguishable part of my character. I believe Yeah, it's got like an emblem like right there right there Yes Rather than turn you loose on the road at night without your accustomed armor Would you like to share our campfire until morning and then travel back to take a mirror? Are you sure? Yes, very well, um, thank you my lord that is extremely generous of you Can I give him the I want to give him my hasty sugar bomb? I feel like He's gonna get a lot more used out of it than I will Yeah, you welcome to the camp take some candy. Yeah, your hand. No, no The reason why is a hasty sugar bomb can be eaten using as an action to increase your movement speed So you can run on run to take a mirror I think that's from Calvin and Hobbes Chocolate frost sugar bombs. Yeah It's not a lot. It's only five for an hour, but that's the five can mean quite a bit Some magically impugned candy. Thank you He can stay here, but he's he's not I'll he can have a different watch. I'm going to bed Oh Also lose the formalities. You're not a knight anymore Oh, of course my lord, of course, uh, freaks Don't you take some getting used to I'm all right. I've trained from a very young age. I apologize I'm nothing wrong with manners. I'm going to go back to making sure nothing tries to eat us As you go back to your usual watch Um, Edmund is just kind of like stealing glances at you now every now and then he seems befuddled by your course of actions Just all of us. Yeah, that's fair Oh He's been in terms of too long. Yeah, we're on this is like garden variety adventurer stuff And uh, yep. So first the first third of the watch Is now complete You got a himbo second is block. Is it? Yeah, it's me. All right block. Oh Dang it. I do my do my watch. I guess if there's anything else No, is there any more himbo Let's see that for some Realizing maybe wife's aren't the way and a husband might be maybe a husband. Maybe that is the way that I would maybe that would fix me I need I did Any looking for himbo's out of here. All right scanning around you Don't seem to see anything going on you see one typical trading cart kind of pass you by on the road like a few Like hundred feet off since you are away from the road in sort of a secluded location But otherwise uneventful watch And you can see as well that buck on your watch Edmund has fallen asleep Is everybody asleep at me? I think so, right just by been I'm just waiting for to be woken up for my watch We don't have any sleep meditating. Actually Edmund's probably meditating. All right, I'll go I'll go wake up fritz Yeah, it's you it's your watch Okay If there's if you see any other Strange men don't don't lead them back to the camp Just leave them wandering the night beautiful and confused They need to be free range I will leave the himbo's to free range All right good good night fritz And I okay Weird weird adventure Oh Wow There is another beautiful elfin in distress you keep a look out And you notice that without the armor Edmund actually is very proficient at sneaking Um, and it might have been the armor that was the only thing stopping him that if it weren't for that He probably could have keep tracking you because he is extremely quiet as he is packing his things and getting ready to Um Leave the group and head towards tigamura at the break of dawn Well, they absolutely set him up to fail. Ah Simple as it was them who set him up to fail. I'm just I'm gonna I don't want to let everyone but I'll just like wave at him I assume he's gonna look back and I'll wave so he knows I noticed He sees you waving and he just like gets a little bit startled and just like just like uh There's a little gesture and whispers. Sorry. Sorry. I didn't mean to draw attention to myself Oh god, this poor man respect in a rogue levels, baby. I barely noticed you You are very sneaky without the armor Thank you Training was very grueling to make sure that we were proficient in as many skills as possible so that we could vote To fit any role that a lord would need us for Well, now I'm sad again When I you can use those skills to do what you would like It is going to take some getting used to I Perhaps adventurous in the guild and such as yourself might be the best place to learn What I want to do might be Thank you for teaching if you want to avoid politics. That is a good place to be. Yeah By all means and churches Word are you awake at the break of dawn as well? No, I just heard politics. I was like, no church It's like a reflex Yes, I've Got enough of corrupt politicians back at home. Believe you me get the fish away from me Don't be a stranger right to us. Okay Uh, how do I find you? ah Good point Ascending stones, man Follow your heart. We don't really have ascending stone anymore. Do we um Ah, he snaps his fingers ascending stones. I do know a little bit of magic I can perhaps craft new ones similar to the ones I crafted in In nuba sky, but better ones the ones that will go across Across the the provinces Ones on 5g not just a wi-fi that would be very cool. I know it would be very useful for us to be able to Keep in contact in case we have to keep our lives straight. Yes I will Try to see if this Eduardo fellow can Maybe ship them off for me to trevacera. I'm sure finding the pilgrims won't be difficult Yes, make sure to do it under his name. Yes, of course Thank you again fritz and Thank the rest for me And uh Only if you write the letter to Lyra Can't do it Uh, of course Very well. I I I did plan to write to all of you. So I Very interesting request He looks incredibly he looks incredibly confused and kind of nods This was never covered in night training You have a good pilgrimage fritz And he heads off back to tigamiara. I'm such a good wing bird Wing bird The literal wing bird. All right. We are we're almost done. I promise so The day comes morning comes and as the rest of you notice that edmund has left before Most of you has even woken up Politics Get killed politics We're having the same dream The lost adventure or what are you doing a mod dream? What do you mean? This is a standoff you ain't making it out of here alive And we both just wake up screaming Quick drop Uh, but one of you isn't like the kurosawa movie version and one of you's in the good the bad and the ugly Ah spaghetti western. Okay. Good morning. I am just going to speed this up just a little bit Yeah Make safe on time and you guys do your morning routine pack up and head The rest of the way to trevassetta only a few hours out as you get closer and closer You actually see that there's little bits of civilization outside of the main walls of the province As there are what look to be slums on the outside of the city some run-down housing kind of shoddily put together and a few Very downtrodden pedestrians coming up to your cart as they realize the pilgrims of sachia are here but before they have a chance to come and You know admire you and some of them seem to be begging a few things. It's inaudible over the cacophony of of crowds kind of shouting and and begging There are few trevassettan guards coming up and kind of pushing them back Shoving them and just like shouting. Hi. Hi make room for the make room for the pilgrims. Go go get out of here Go on get And a path is made for you as the main gates are drawn open And you are brought in to the great and terrible city Of trevassetta Yeah, I did want to add as a note joe It's really cool that the only three settlements that you drew just the thumbnails that have walls are near the border of that other country Yeah, thanks. I uh, yeah a place because of uh, uh incarnate, but uh, yes, exactly. It's yes Thank you. Thank you for appreciating that touch. But yes, oh, it's a factory town That's always a good sign at a fantasy setting here in trevassetta I hope there's no classic the province That borders we have old deosia And that is going to be where we call the session today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're so back Time to start slaughtering the higher The funny thing is I feel like up until now it's like, oh word wants to do a heist And now it's like word can't possibly run the city worse than its current setup Yeah, just it's just turn it loose