 Leave Satya into the rolling hills of Losshogear towards the Dragon's Temple. The road is pleasant and quiet, as it's always been saved for the other day when the blot showed up unexpectedly, and it leads towards the farmlands where you undertook the tournament to become pilgrims. There are a few more guards present than there were before, most likely in the event of more blot potentially, and a fair bit of able hands taking down the tents and facilities that were once up to facilitate the events. The draconic pilgrimage is always good for business, so there's always a lot of boots around that would have sold food, maybe some wares, merchandise, and the like. And you do see a couple of familiar faces among the spotty groups, two of the contestants that you fought yesterday, Koryak the Dragonborn, who is helping to physically lift and move itemless along, and Jorvid the Goblin, who seems to be managing and directing as well as casting a few assistant spells of his own. Let me show their portrait real quick once again. I have too many things. Koryak. Small town, huh? And Jorvid. There they are. There's Jorvid. Jorvid. He was the one. They seem to notice you and just kind of wave you over. Yeah, walk up. And Jorvid just kind of extends a hand, good to meet you. Jorvid did not get a chance that he wanted to. He wanted to do some investigations and did not have a chance to properly introduce himself. Who's he trying handshake? He's just extending his hand to whoever will take it as the group. I assume you're walking together. The word will step up and grab you. Yeah, since you two are of eye level with each other, both being short folk. The pleasure is mine, little man. Ah, Jorvid understands the joke. One joke. Ah, he just kind of scratches his head a little bit. I look back to everyone and then I take a step back from him. Well, Jorvid wanted to do a bit of investigating about the blot phenomenon, very strange of it to appear and to happen in such large quantities. Yes, we have been led to believe that a weather which was contracted to provide a distraction, which is great. That was a great thing that happened. Jorvid and Coriactus look at each other and Jorvid looks a little bit puzzled. Weather which? Jorvid did not consider meteoromagics to be capable of creating the blot of all things. Jorvid would love to have a conversation with this weather which and what they might know. We don't know who they are. We just know that they threw some clouds around and made poop rain from the sky. Yes, very fascinating, dangerous of course, but fascinating nonetheless. Well, also sorry for all of you. You I think Jorvid got at the worst of your tone and I just wanted to apologize. You understand there's no hard feelings. It was all a competition. He chuckles a little bit and holds up one hand. Oh, not at all, not at all. It's this gave Jorvid very good notes on future combat encounters. Wrote down a lot of notes, discovered a few new spells and their uses. But yes, no hard feelings, of course. Be able to participate. Yeah, think of it as you were the biggest threat, so we had to keep you away. Yeah, we were all talking about we were all talking about how you were probably the biggest threat, so that's really why it was. Yeah, I got a glimpse of you just throwing fireballs everywhere. Jorvid looks up to Koryak and just be like, see. And Koryak just crosses his arms, shakes his head a little bit. Yes, yeah, I know, I know. And Jorvid looks to you kind of a little bit skittish. Also, Jorvid wanted to ask, since you are pilgrims of Satya now, did you may have visited Lord Candela? Did what? I don't probably not then since Lord Candela opera. Oh, Lord Candela. She so basically Lord Candela is essentially kind of like a governor of Satya and she mostly sticks, stays in kind of the official building for the most part. Doesn't really come out all that often as opposed to Elias, who, you know, is very much in tune with the community. Jorvid had previously done one of the pill. Is he one of the people that had previously done the pilgrimage or was he just in Jaday's? From what you understand, Jaday is the only one of this group who has done the pilgrimage before. Yeah, he just shrugs his shoulders. No worries. Just was hoping to become pilgrim so that Jorvid could meet the Lord and suggest improvements to the library stock. All good, of course, but Jorvid have connections on new publishings from Aguna to the north. Think Satya could use a larger selection. Imports can be slow at times and Koryak like immediately nudges him and gives him a little look. Friend, you're doing that thing again. And Jorvid catches himself. Oh, sorry, Jorvid did not mean to impose wants on you. Was this speaking his mind? Yeah, books. Were they looking for us? They're important. No, probably not. But considering you are pilgrims now, you could probably present yourselves to official building and meet with Lord, possibly make some more small change. Things that common man cannot often present since she is so busy all the time. Don't we have that a final test to get to? Yes, yes, Jorvid will not keep you. Sorry, sorry. Was thinking we should probably do that first thing today. Yeah, of course, of course. And he just kind of like sheepishly goes back and Koryak just gives him a silly look. And Koryak speaks up. Don't worry about us, friends. You go do your thing. But when you're finished, I would like to speak with you about some matters that I would like to request as well. But after your little travel to the temple, of course. Very well. If you wish to find me, I'll probably still be at these farms helping clean up. But I do wish you the best of luck. You will get back to you on that. He starts walking away. Yeah, let's. Thanks, friends. You're welcome. They are way better. The last thing that I wanted to talk about today was books and politics. We're going to go talk to a dragon. You have a mission worky fellow. Yeah, but yeah, like you want to understand books. Yeah, nothing like him. Yeah. I understand that it's very valuable to have access to books for some people, right? I never thought of it. You know, maybe there's like a good recipe for chicken or something in there. I do believe I've heard of books for cooking. I never thought that they'd be like a book fully dedicated to cooking. I think there might be several. I now see the value of books. Book a book. So you you didn't never mind. I'm not going to say. So you will see you later. We're going to we got a time I tap my wrist. There's no watch there. Yeah, you do make your way approaching the temple, but there is some downtime if you would like to have a verse with each other or do anything in particular. There is some time before you reach the temple. I got a question. Were any of you under the impression that they were going to like people are going to ask us to do stuff for them? Like I didn't I didn't get the impression that we were going to be like politicians or we're going to have to advocate for anybody. Yeah, I mean, we're fucking leaving this place. Like right now I don't see why suddenly everyone is giving us these little jobs to do. I'll be honest. I think I might have known this would happen, but I've fully disregarded it. You guys really aren't community members. Are you? No, not this community. I have very important duties and this is one of them now. It's strange that they're adding more. Yeah, that was a little surprising, but you know, it's good to have connections. You have people that owe you with that. Oh, interesting. You think you're saying that the reason it's good to do these jobs for people is so people become indebted to you? Is that what you're saying? Yes, absolute. Is there another reason? Well, it's just I think my experience with dead has never really been positive in that sense. Yeah, because you owe people things. That's fair enough. But when people owe me things, it's, you know, better for me and has nothing to do with you. Right. Any word you said something that confused me there. You said you're not a part of this community and which part of which community are you a part of? Well, I'm trying to foster the boys down, you know, below the city that you guys thrive in. This isn't really my my gig. Oh, yes. Stay out of the sewers. But yeah, squatting. No, technically, it's like a different community. It's like its own little village just below yours. We don't have a name for it. Do you pay taxes on that land? They have as much right to live here as anyone else, which is very little. Yes, we do collect taxes. Oh, then yeah, you're fine. Do you? Yeah, we collect taxes. From where? You know, just here and there, like an apple, a handkerchief, a fork. Okay. That's what I thought. You know valuables, general things that that we need that other people, you don't have too much of. And these boys, they they think of you as as like their boss. Oh, right. Of course. I think I heard one of the two of them saying that. They have to be all right without you. That's what I was gonna. Yeah, I gave them all the direction, you know, a couple of them, I think even have a book or two. So they'll be fine. Oh, really read? I don't know that. Do you have to read books to benefit from them? It can't be that complicated. I don't. I wouldn't think so. Did you just ask, do you have to read a book to benefit from the book? What else? What else would you do with the book? Several books. I mean that little goblin guy was. Yeah, I understand that pictures. And when you look at the pictures, I think sometimes you can cast spells and stuff. Many reference novels have. Yeah, multitudes of very impressive illustrations. I'm not saying that that's it. I'm not saying that that's not the case. I'm not saying that books don't have pictures in them. I'm just saying that I think in my experience with books, I'm like looking at Fritz to help me out here in my experience with books, most of them you have the main information is in the reading portion of it. I thought, yeah, you read the stuff on the back. I feel like I'm being made to be the crazy one here. And I think I've been pretty confident until this moment about how books work. You just overvalued, you know, the pages as anything more than kindling. Oh, I suppose that is another use for books. The blurb. What's a blurb? That's a very good blurb. Is it called a blurb? Yes. At his stations on the back of the book from other people who read the book. I thought a blurb was like the stomach, the noise that you thought I made. If we're going to read, I'm sure they can read. Probably maybe party. I can read. I know how to read. There are no benefit from reading books. How do I know if I can read? I think it's language is known. So we're not actively literate. Just because you can read doesn't mean you do it very often. That is read when fight good. We need read when steal item just to show you. This isn't Skyrim. We can't level up lockpicking by reading books. Books are for nerds. Books are for nerds. Books are for wizards. We say that wisdom casters only baby. All this book talk doesn't kill the time for you guys. It takes a couple like like an hour or so. And as you approach the temple, you see a massive marble structure with plants and flowers growing all around it seemingly completely taking it over yet nowhere or tear on the building at all almost as if they grow in tandem at the foot of the building in front of you. You can see a myriad of old rusted worn out and or broken weapons dozens of them laid in not in a uniform but rose beside the giant doorway and keeping them company is a familiar face today who is just saying some words of prayer. You can hear her whispering under her breath and she notices your presence and smiles at you. Ah, the ones who did me over good yesterday. How goes it goes. What is the significance of these weapons? These their weapons from previous pilgrims who finished their journey returned back home and finished retired. I retired interesting. I like close my fist tight around big line. So we have to give up the weapons once we're done or she chucked out no worries. Nothing so contractual as that. This is all completely voluntary. It's more of a symbolic gesture really. Hmm. But I will have to pick up like a fancy sword or something. Hey, hey, go on. Sorry thinking about like the big fancy sword. He's going to grab and bring here. You're an actual magpie for me being a bird. You're more bird like a man. Look, I just want to do my due diligence and make sure that everybody knows what the score was. She lifts one eyebrow and a cheeky smile at that. Is that right? You know, I'd like to get a rematch with you some time if that would be nice. The old things I would love to see that. Please do that popcorn, please. Word was just that could be the final test. Yeah, word was just saying that he thinks he word was just saying how he thinks he could probably take you specifically one on one and he he was upset. He didn't get an opportunity. How did you know that was what I was thinking? You know, she crosses her arms and leans back a little. Oh, well, I would hate to deprive him of that opportunity, but maybe not today. So you're going to go beat up my uncle. I looking forward to seeing what this is. Blood does it respectfully? Yeah, like I actually didn't know that we were just going to kick his butt. I mean so many things. I well, that's how he likes to do it. The other people and the other dragons in the other provinces like to do things differently. A few times in a Guna, they just straight up gave me their dragon heart without so much of a fuss. I like that considering that he's not making us like read a book. Considering that the purpose of this quest is the revitalization of all life in our entire land. You think they'd make this easier for us? You think so, but perhaps traversing the rest of a lengthy might give you a little bit of perspective. Certainly did give me. Hmm. Yeah, I'm going to speak. We fight the dragon now so we can fight an alligator later. Would be easier. Significantly, I'm speaking to his butt. I was going to say that speaking of your perspective today, you you've because you've done this before you've beaten up Elias before I would assume. Hi. And do you have any perspective? I've never fought a dragon. How would one or four go about doing something like that if you were so inclined to give us the eyes? She shrugs their shoulders. Word, right? She shrugged her shoulders a little bit. I don't rightly know how to present you with because well, my uncle likes to change it up every decade. Whatever he has in there cooking for you is different from what I did. But considering the dragon specifically, he's going to try and single you out. Clumping up isn't exactly the best thing considering he breathes fire, so I wouldn't recommend that. But he does like to employ the use of little illusionary soldiers to help him. Thinks that strengthen numbers can help. So keep that in mind. Whittle him down to his own self and that will probably help you out quite a bit. The power of turn economy for the record. There are very few things that going for the eyes does not work on. That's true. Oh, yeah, that's true. Except for like walking suits of armor and dead things. Elementals, I think. A sure sign that something is unnatural. Yeah, they don't have eyes. If you hit it in the eye and it doesn't flinch. That is not normal. That's very much not normal. Let's all agree. We're not going to go for the most well armored part of the enemy in any circumstance, right? I think that's I think that's good. It's good we're having these strategy meetings now right before we fight a dragon. Hearing you guys kind of like talk just like talking about strategy and stuff. She has like a deep breath and just like, you know, remind me of me feels like yesterday. I was a scrawny lass with messy hair obsessed with corn taffy getting mixed feelings about fighting my uncle. So much has changed since then. I've got eye bags now. Those appear regardless of age depending on circumstance. That's corn taffy. But it's probably for the best. Satya has its own little problems that probably need focusing on and it's about time I tried settling down and focusing on those problems rather than going out to fix those of the wider world because that's your job now reminds me. Actually, I'm so sorry. Did news of the weather which make it to you yet? I've heard a little bit of rumor spreading about town. Yeah, it does give me some cause for concern. Yes, we've never heard of anyone who could control the blot before me neither will be keeping an eye out for any of that on the road. But if if this person is still here, I trust that you will protect this land. Of course, but of course in my own way that doesn't have so much traveling gear anymore. She kind of like rolls her shoulder a bit and she reaches back behind her to pull her sword and throws it down into the grassy dirt as it sinks in beside the rest of the old weapons that litter the ground and she puts both arms on her hips and a conclusive nod. Yes, I'll have to find something else to use me and that sword. We've been through a lot, but I think it's time it had its own rest. How conclusive I cast message to fell. I forget your character's name. Buck, Buck, you just hear whispered in your head. I want that sword. Don't touch that special sword. Also, how are you doing this? Message is the one that you have to whisper, right? Yeah. So you can see my mouth like my lips like you're responding. You're you can respond and whispering and you're like next to each other. Can you give me my arms crossed? Can you give me a stealth check real quick? Oh, please, please give a stealth check. All right. One second. She covers her hand over her mouth. It's a pretty good sword, isn't it? Yeah, she starts to walk away. I wish you best of luck pilgrims and there's no rules on these weapons. So whichever one strikes your fancy. I'm not here to stop you. It's not mine. And she gives a little wink and starts to head back to Satya. First, I feel like we just missed a conversation. Oh, I mean, you can go catch it. She's right there. I think when we get back, we take all these swords and we like bury him or something and then we put our weapons here. What? When we're done with the question. Yeah, so it'll be like we'll be the only ones that did it. Well, then well, then we're you're not going to. No one's going to have any other people's swords to compare it to, you know, to make you seem greater. You're probably going to want to find throughout our journey the biggest weapon you can find and then you can bring that back and use that. I think that's a better way to submit. Are you really that confident in your weapon? People are going to be comparing theirs to yours. Do you think yours is that big? Yeah, what weapon do you have? Yeah, like a money. I've got this giant mace. What weapon do you have? I am planning on. I am detecting some text in this conversation. Let's go inside. I'm planning on killing a fire giant and carving my name into his sword and bringing it here. Remember, for the eyes. For the eyes. For the eyes. He will not have eyes. All right. You guys head into the temple and pardon the flash of assets. You're going to be all the way at the bottom of this map. Oh gosh. The map is yep. The map is pretty big. So you're going to be all the way at the boy boy boy. I'm doing a lot of scrolling, huh? You can zoom out. Oh my goodness. Make sure we're going to be exploring it. You're giving us a dungeon day one. Oh, you spoil us a dungeon and perhaps a dragon. What else is the name of the game we're playing? You step inside the temple as the place is lit up with brightly colored stained glass windows. The floor is lined with a shiny light stone. You could practically see reflection in it. And besides the entrance is a tall stool with a bowl on top of it. It seems to have a varied selection of candy and a little note with a handwritten message. Take some. And I will take a piece of candy. The ball also seems to have a just proportionate large amount of corn taffy in it. I will not take a piece of corn. It's just by the entrance. Oh, okay. But where's it on the map? It might be tactically important. I'll take one. Yeah, I'll take one. It's got various candy. Whatever you're you're searching for or what you would be into in Satya is probably in there. A few export candies, but mostly local stuff. Can I take like a handful? Just like a like the bad kid on Halloween? Yeah, absolutely. There's a lot of candy in there. After you take the candy from the bowl, you hear the voice of Elias Verdugo echo throughout the halls. Ah pilgrims, welcome to my temple. The days ahead of you will not be a simple stroll along the beach side. As such, I think it appropriate to prepare you for those days where the sea may appear so far away. However, ravenous the heat of battle, however harsh the winds of regret, however crushing the avalanche of doubt, the will to press on will be your most reliable shield. When you are ready, you may proceed. Interesting. I'm going to walk up to the door. All right. I'm ready. Who's going in front of me? Me. So you go in front of the door and you creak it open and inside you see a maze of some kind and some kind of like kind of magical sigils on the floor and as you enter you hear, oh no, you hear Elias' voice. Elinthe will test your mind that it may confuse you and throw you off balance. I kind of hope that this is exactly ripped from the psychic Pokemon gym. Joe, is that an owl bear I spy? You do. So you see that there are this kind of glass walls, very thick glass walls with a bunch of other kind of sigils on the floor as well as a bunch of chest. You can see everything that's in this room and the glass walls do not prevent your view at all. So everything you can see as players, you can see as as characters as well. And we can we can draw to yes. So we can like figure this out as we go. Wait, if we can see them, they can see us. They can. You can see that there's an owl bear that is actually asleep right now. Just taking a little as well as a bunch of chests on the sides word you wish to go through the left one. Yes. Yes. First room left first room left. So you go into the left sigil on the floor and it magically transports you like a portal into here. And in fact, you know what? Let's roll initiative for this so that we can all take turns trying the thing we wish to try. So after word teleports, there's I'll say because you're the first one to act, I'll let you finish out the rest of your movement. So we'll say it's your turn right now. Anywhere else you wish to go. Yeah, I'm going to kind of try and race through my route. So you go on that one and you end up and 15 years. Okay. It's a dead end. Wait till you get out of there. Oh, I see you exit and go back in pop off and you end up oops here. Oh, oh boy. Oh, no, it's more complicated than we thought. I don't like this. I'm going to stay here. Somebody come help me. All right. Next is Fritz's turn. Whoever's taking notes on the map. Thank you so much. I'm I'm trying to look for patents right now. I was going to like sketch it out in my notes app. Please be careful. So we've explored that area, but we not fully, but yeah, try a different one. Can I do should I should I try a different one? Do you guys or do you want me to try the one in the room with worried go to whichever one doesn't take you to the albert? Well, that's so informative. Thank you word. I'm just trying to help best foot forward. All right. You step into that one and it goes right into the next room in front of you. Okay. One way to go here. You know what best foot for you step into that one and you are teleported into the room with the albert make me a make me a stealth check. Never go straight. Honestly, thank you for doing that because that was going to be my plan. Unless you wish to awaken the owl there immediately. Okay. You step in and you make a little and they're oh no wakes up. I told you not to do that. You said nothing back to the door. It's it is going to be surprise for this round. So when it reaches its turn, it still needs to wake up, but it is now on the initiative and it notices you and yawns and stretches and it's getting up just because the animals standing up. Can I roll a history if I know that these are just very aggressive animals. No need to roll at all. I'll let you know that al bears are generally aggressive and very, very territorial like bears, but more like it's not often you see it's not often you see an al bear in captivity or domestication. They're very difficult to domesticate, but it's not unheard of that. Some people keep al bears as pets. There's not a lot of them because a lot of them get eaten. Yes, regretting. I didn't take animal hunting. I don't really want to kill this thing on my own. You can step back through. Can you step back through the door? I'm scared. If I step back through, it will know to step back through. It looks very big. Be better than you are in this cage. Yeah. I don't know how clever these things are. Birds are very clever. I'll have you know. Thank you. Owls are actually pretty stupid. You know what? I'm so sorry, Alba, for disturbing your piece. You're wonderful, brilliant. I'm stepping back through. All right. You step back through, but it doesn't send you there. Yeah, it sends you here. Hey, that is a step in the right direction. Um, anyone have sleep? I'm going to end my here and let you fix the mess I made. Thanks. Anything else? Is that your turn? I can't see what else I could do. You could go through this door. You could try and step back into the portal you came into. I will. Yeah, I'll step in this portal one more time just so we know where this goes. All right. You step into that portal and you end up next to this chest. Oh, so you're not back with the L bear. That's good. Do you guys want me to open the chest? Do you want to do some stuff before? I kind of want to be to the end. Yeah. Uh, okay. Yeah, I think I'll end my turn and yeah. All right. Buck return. Uh, let me see. So I only have 10 feet. Can I take a piece of candy that I have and toss it and see if it goes through the portal or if I need to stand on top of it? You most certainly can try that. Will that take like an action or say a bonus action? You're nonchalantly tossing a thing. Sure. I will nonchalantly toss a piece of candy to the portal to my right. You toss the candle to the portal to your right and it shows up in words room. Huh. Short cut. Okay. Um. Hmm. Oh, a piece of candy. We're I can't I don't want to scream. I don't want this thing to break through. These are glass walls, right? So this thing can see very thick. It might just break through the fucking glass. Can see you. Yes. And if I call, I'm going to call word that was me. Can he hear me? Yes, he can hear muffled, but still make out what you're saying. Then I cast message. Yeah, I saw I ate the candy. I'm sorry. Okay, so that was the that was the portal. Am I right? I'm going to just I feel like I need to go after Fritz. Oh, good. All right. So you're going to follow her pattern teleport here into the albear room and the albear just like just like seeing you come in and squawks at you as you step in. Yeah. So I want to maybe stay here because I think that's all my movement for 30 feet and then I will. You could dash. Yeah. I would I think I don't know if this thing is going to break. Gosh. Yeah. I don't I don't want this thing. I got it. I feel like I got to get through all dash. So whoosh. So that's five and then 10 to exit and go back in. Okay, so 15 here and then I can I so if I so I was here at 15 can I just go look through this door? You most certainly can you open that door to see into that room and you see a precarious long path over some water some very still water. Oh, how unsuspicious. Okay, I'll end my turn there then I guess and then as you enter in the to that room you hear Eliza's voice again. A linty will just test your judgment that it may avert your course into unexpected places. Okay, thank you. And all in my turn next to the albear's turn. It is a surprise round so it's not going to do anything but it's just kind of squawking and checking around its environment and it goes to know it doesn't do anything because it's a prize round. Never mind, Lara your turn. I did not prepare speak with animals so we're not going to try diplomacy with the albear. We're just gonna yeah, let's experiment for the purposes of scientific inquiry 15. Okay, that one does that take me to words room takes you to work room. Yeah, then I would like to step back through it by word you step back through it and it shows you show up here right above word. Oh, I'll be right back probably. 20 25 what's on the other side of this door you open that door and on the other side you see that there is a large room with a bunch of illusory soldiers and a floor full of grease and they immediately take note of you and like see you come in. They don't do anything but their eyes are trained on you. Huh? Okay, interesting. I'm going to step back in so you know I think I'm out of movement. I don't think I have enough to step back through where I just came through but I'm just going to take a couple steps back. You can dash if you so wish to double your movement speed. Oh, I suppose I could do that. I suppose if I'm not really doing anything else this turn I may as well you know just for funsies and we'll say just for convenience you close the door as well. Yeah, it's just all right. Well, I found those illusory soldiers we were informed about. All right. Oh, are you stepping into that portal? I am. You step into that portal and you're taking over here. Hey, the treasure chest room. Yep. I want that one. I've been working my way over there. Well, let's see. I took the dash action. I don't know. Can I open the chest with a bonus action or would that be? I would say a free action to open the chest a bonus action to grab whatever's inside. All right. Let's do the free action to open the chest. All right. Unless it's a thing or yes and inside. Oh, it's so cute inside. You find one potion of healing and one potion of mana that is a original item that I have made up where if you drink it, it restores one first level spell slot. Hey, can I use my bonus action to stow those in my inventory? You most certainly can. You may add one potion of healing and one potion of mana. Why? Thank you. Just manage that. And I think that's going to be my turn sordid. Okay. Word. All right. Oops. I'm going to re enter the portal. I'm currently standing on. All right. That's 10 feet. You re enter into it and you enter this room. Oh boy. I go to that one. It's another. Okay. You enter that one and you are sent into this room on this portal. Okay. I don't know where a lot of these go. Let's go with that one. You go in that one and you show up in this chest room. Yes. Yay. Jump on the chest. I've done it. You're going to open that chest. Yeah. You open the chest. That's the end of my movement. And I'm going to need you to make a dexterity saving throw because it's a mimic rock. Yes. Yes. Oh, I knew it. I knew it. Dexterity saving throw and oh no. The chest reaches out at you and bites at your hand and you are going to take seven piercing damage as it bites on you immediately. And this is the opposite of what I wanted. We are rolling like trash today. I got to say seriously. That is bad. Maybe it's a brain's day. But it is still your turn. But now you have a mimic that is very unhappy. I had pretty sure I moved further than 30 there. I think I moved 40. We can retroactively say you dash speedy little guy. Oh yeah. You know what? I'm a rogue. I can use my bonus. Yeah, you can bonus action. You know what? Then I will actually have used my other move action to dash. I will use my bonus action to disengage and get right the hell back in there. All right. The chest tries to reach for another bite at you as you go in that you show up back in the original room. Word is just screaming. His arm is bleeding a little bit. You're like, no. Oh, no. That's probably like pins. Now the question is I've never actually placed a mimic. Does the mimic have a movement speed? It does. Yes. I think they do. Oh, why? You know what? If everyone else is looting, can I open this chest? You most certainly can't do it. 50-50 shot so far. You're going to open it? Let's Monty haul this. Stab it first. Always stab them first. All right. I don't. You know what? They wouldn't be two mimics, right? It's a Monty Hall situation. All right. The question is, is the mimic the car or the goat? So you creak the chest open. Or it's safe. Yay. And inside you can see a little mimic. You find a little baby a scroll of magic missile. I like that. I'm going to go back. I'm going to stand on this. Where does this take me? That one. How about you? Back to this room. Okay. And then, oh, if I wanted to get to Buck, I would have to go back to the owl. Should I say hello to the owl again? Please don't. I want to go here. You go in here. You come out here. I'm really curious about that really complicated one. Oh, yeah. We don't know what happens if you go back. You were just. Oh, we don't know if you go into this one. You come out here and oh, oh, you're right. You're right. Yeah, you're going to do it. You're going to hate my plan right now. So I'll use my last five feet to go back into that portal. And then you'll find the owl there. And I'm going to dash by going like, wait, I'm standing on the portal. Can I? Does it count as a movement if I'm standing on it? Yeah, you have to get off of it and back on. Okay, I'm going to, can I use my dash to go off and back on? Yes, you can. Oh, I should have asked that. So using your dash gives you another 30 feet. Okay, I'm going to do that. I'm a little worried. So you get another 30 feet of movement. I'm going to dash and skedaddle. Peace sign the owl bear. You're looking wonderful today. Bye bye. And then you go five, ten into this and show up here. And you have 20 feet left. I am going to catch up with Buck. All right. Catch up with Buck. Will that be your turn? Yes. All right. Buck, your turn. Fritz, did you just go back through around the horn to get past the owl bear again to get here? Um, yes. Oh, okay. Yeah, I mean it was that or a mimic. That's so true. Um, wait, okay. Should we split up and try and take this? By ourselves or do I don't know if it sounds like a good idea. I feel as though if we go back the way we came, we're going to have to fight through the yeah, the only way I guess we don't I guess we don't have. We don't know. We don't have to because we could go here to here and then here to here and then here. The other way is to the mimic. Yeah, the mimic or the bear. We also don't know if they can use the portals, but they probably Yeah, we're about to find out. Yeah, we are about to. We are about to find out next initiative, baby. Let's not move necessarily just yet. But um, what would you like to do? I would like to just maybe have you. I'll stay here in case this thing comes through because it's coming through this direction. Um, if it's coming through and I'll I guess I'll just I will hold my action to attack it if it comes to because I'm worried this thing is going to come like bursting through the room. That would be very cinematic. All right. Yeah, I'm a little. I'll say you can hold your action to to swing if anything comes through that it comes through that portal. They out there. Yeah. I'm not going to genie you and be like if anything comes through there, including your friends. Thank you. Yeah, well, if it's worth unless it's word word seems to be about the same size as the albear. I will hit word with the hammer. No. Okay. Uh, yeah, I'll hold my. I'll hold my action just because I don't know what's going to happen and I'd rather wait to learn that before going through the port going through the portals to meet up at that. I'm going to be nice. And in the case that it doesn't, what else would you prefer to do? Because I don't want you to feel like you've wasted your turn. I wouldn't feel that way to get information. But I think if I were to do anything, I might suggest a fritz that we try to meet up with the rest of the party having, but I don't want to leave fritz on their own. So, um, I think it's better that we stay together with like a plan. So I think I'll still spend my turn waiting with fritz with my action held. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Next is the albear's turn. The albear. This is probably just a glyph that'll blow you up. Well, we might find out soon. I'm curious about these portals in my room. Oh, no. So, uh, it's scientific inquiry. The albear is going to go up to the portal and reach its, it's a front claw in. It can't fit its whole body, but the paw is able to reach out and goes to swipe at you, buck. And can your action springs? You can take a swing at it. Nice. I will take a hit with, I will make a hit with my big blind. Hey, very nice. That does hit and you just like bat it. Oh, yeah. But it does reach for you and it's going to try to swipe you. Oh, it doesn't do very well. It goes to swipe, but your batting just like poof. Just like immediately makes the claw retract and you can see the albear just kind of shake it in pain. Oh, nice. And it just squacks at you from across the glass walls. Next is also, what's up? Oh, sorry. This is an interesting question. I have a, I have a ability called crusher. So once per turn, if I hit a creature with an attack that deals bludgeoning damage, I can move it five feet, provided that the target is no more than one size larger. So I can I push it back five feet away from the portal? You can. Yes. Through the portal. I don't know how I don't know if that is how this that sounds cool. So I'm going to say yes. Nice. Now I feel you push it and it just just kind of into the wall and it looks a little bit perplexed at that. Nice. Very good. And it's just going to squawk at the portal a little bit and squawk at you since there's not much else it can do aside from reach through the portal with one arm because it's too big. Okay. Next is the mimic. The mimic hops. Boom, boom, boom, boom. The edge is chasing. And it's going to go through the portal. And it's going to try to take a bite out of you. I was going to use that one too. Unfortunately, you do parry it out kind of like as it goes to bite at you, but you're able to parry it, you know, it's like gnawing on your dagger as you're holding it back. It's sticky. Labor your turn. I'm going to just five, ten. Where does this take me? That takes you into this room with a large glyph on the ground and I need you to make a wisdom save. Oh, okay. You mean it wasn't a nice, happy, mysterious ruin circle on the ground? Oh, the rolling so good today goes off as a bright blinding light. You guys see just this box become like a white cube and Lyra, you are blinded and you take who is Lyra? Lyra, sorry. Lyra's dead. Lyra, you take three radiant damage and are blinded. Oh, okay. Good. I love this. It's bad. Why did I have temp HP? That's fine. Well, they're gone now. But yes, at the start of your next turn, you may roll another wisdom save to see if you are still blinded. I have a question. Is there a way out of this room? I don't know. It's this. Well, I, oh, you're on top of a port. You're on top. Oh, I am. Okay. Uh, will you permit me to attempt to go? Well, hold on. Yes, you can. It puts me in a blinded does not prevent your movement. It just prevents attacks and stuff. Cool. All right. 1520. Where does this put me? So that puts you all the way back into the starting room. With the mimic. Where you see word, a vague figure of word and a vague chest shaped object chasing him. Oh, all right. Don't worry. I've trained for this. Let's throw out a thorn whip cantrip. All right. Thorne is going to be at disadvantage. So sure. I think I got it. There we go. That is going to be a net. That's going to be a net one. Oh, fantastic. Everything today is going well. Everything is going well. So you go to thorn whip and thorn whip it and. And you. Yeah, it's going to be mean. You word word. You take one piercing damage one piercing damage. I think I got a look like a box with teeth to you. The resemblance is uncanny now that you bring it up. Well, then you have fun in here and fight him alone. Tiny pupils right now. Uh, all right. You know, I don't want to do this, but that was only, I think 20 feet of my movement. Uh, let me move and I can leave. Yeah, I can just straight up. Let me leave. You can leave on your own turn. 25 30 put me in the next room. All right, evil evil. I loosened it up for you. Good luck. You loosened me up for me. Larry, you're here to help. All right, that one deserves your word. Your turn. I hope a lot of having a good time with this. I hope you get eaten by a big Albey. Hello, Albey. That's that's pretty much the end. So fast. Okay. Like speed. I can actually dash so I can just I'm not doing. Oh, please, please do it. I want to die and disengaging from the mimic. Yeah, that would be my my bonus action. Okay. Next, is that all you wish to do? That's that's all I think that's everything. You're full action and your bonus action. All right, Fritz, your turn. Okay. Can I do some experiment? What do you wish to do? I could do something dangerous. I am going to throw my dagger into the portal. Oh, okay. And try to like throw it like I'd be throwing it in front of me at the bed. Through this portal? Yes, through throwing it through this portal will make it come out of this portal. Yes. And I'm hoping it would go through that portal. Oh, but it would have to move away. It would have to come back into the same I forgot about the role. Okay, hold on. Hold on. I'm thinking I'm trying to put I'm trying to be a big brain. I'm fortunately a bird brain. Equations passing in front of you. Okay, so I'm going to jump into the portal in front of me. Okay, and you're going to end up in this one. And then end up in this one and then it's five foot to move out and then five foot to move back in ten feet ten right go in. So I've used 20 of my feet, right? Okay, now I'll throw my dagger. Okay, you're going to throw your dagger at the owl bear through the portal. Yes, because it is not exactly the easiest thing to aim through a portal. I'm going to say at disadvantage. Oh, 17 is so pretty good. You throw your dagger through the portal and it lodges into the owl bear shoulder and it squawks in pain. And it just kind of goes to look at it a little bit. Oh, I feel bad, but it did swipe. He tried to hit first. We just hit back harder. This does feel a little unnecessarily mean. Yeah, I feel really bad, but it swiped at us. I'm doing the thing that I can help you with. Of course, I fucking can't. So it's a blind spell that you have on you, correct? Not a spell, just an effect. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, let me add that to my. She is blinded. That's what that little eye bleeding eye effect is. I'm guessing I think I can stumble through the the correct portal to get where you're at. You know what? You're kind of our spelly person, right? Theoretically. Can I actually? I'm willing to hand them the magic missile catcher. Oh, neat. You hand Leira the scroll of magic missile. Oh, this sounds very exciting. I know you can't paper. Correct. Hand out paper. You feel the paper in your hand. You got it. Yes, I got it. I got it. Magic missile. Oh, I'm just going to add that to my inventory. Get us out of here. I am now your problem. All right. Fuck your turn. Where'd my problem go? Word. She's gone. I don't. I guess I'm going to stay here. I don't want to go back through. I feel like we were just together. I'm hoping that they can get through on their next turn. Oh, yeah. Hang out there. A mimic is on its way. Would you like to delay your turn until later? I have no problem holding my action stepping. I realize now as a big boy bugbear I have reached so I can hit it if it puts its hand through. Okay. But I will. So I have no problem holding my turn to try and hit the thing if it comes through, but I don't know what I would be deferring my turn for other than to hit things with my big hammer. Anyway. Right. However you want to, however you want to rule it, but I'm happy to take a step back and hold my action for if an enemy were to come through or the owlbear were to stick his paw through to hit it with my hammer. Okay. Rat. So I'll end my turn. All right. Next is the owlbear and the mimic's turn. The owlbear is just going to lick its wounds now. It feels as though there's not much it can do in this tight scenario and this portal in its way. So it is simply going to lay down prone and lick its wounds. The mimic is going to bump bump bump hop into this portal, teleport here, and then hop bump bump bump into this portal not knowing that it brings it here and it looks very confused and it's just going to stand in the corner right here trying to bite at the glass wall towards you guys, licking it, not understanding how the portals work. Okay. Interesting. And that's going to be its turn. Great. And Leira, you may roll a wisdom save to see if you are still blinded. Yeah. Let's do it. Big money, big money, big money. Yes. All right. Getting the bad boys out of the way, right? Sure. Yeah. This whole session. It feels better to be superstitious about physical dice rather than computer RNGs, you know? All right. Well. You want to hold my hand? Sure. Yeah. You know what? I think I'll just hold my action so that on Fritz's turn when they move, I'll just follow wherever they go because back through the portals, baby. All right. I will say for convenience's sake, you guys have at least safely dispatched the owl bear to where it is concerned about its own well-being that it's probably not going to attack you and the mimic is too dumb to navigate its way towards you so you can move freely. I'm going to get rid of the initiative order for now. Yay. And eventually, Lara, your blindness would go away. So I'm going to remove that. Cool. Because you have quote-unquote defeated this room. Getting this many of the portals and figuring out where they go I think is enough to give you that convenience. Hooray. Goddammit, Joe. I could have held Lyra's hand. You can still hold her hand. Oh, no. We did hold hands. Yeah. It was fine. Where do you wish to go next? You wish to go into this greasy room or the water room? The water room makes me nervous because it has hidden threat written all over it. Whereas the grease room, we kind of know what's up. For that same reason, I'm equally scared of this room because these are illusory warriors and I'm afraid something else is in the grease. But I'm happy to do with that or we decide. We're already close to this one as well. That is true. We are all sort of congregated by the water room. I'm okay with giving that one a try. All right. You guys come through the portal and buck and word are holding hands too. Aw. Solidarity. Solidarity. Holding hands. We just didn't want to get lost or separated. You felt left out. Of course. Completely tactical. Should we go into the room? Yeah. Word first though. What's the marching order? I am wounded. I will stay right here. Do you want me to go first because I can probably fly above the water? Because somebody slapped me in the face with a vine. I wonder who that was. Let me see if I can just check something. Yeah, I didn't get a good look at him. Let me just hold on one second. And I want to step up. I don't want to step forward onto the bridge. But I want to reach up to the four leaf clover on my hat. Give it a hold a little bit and just take a deep breath in, deep breath out. And I'll use my magic awareness ability. I don't know if I can share that. There it is. Open your awareness. Concentrate on magic until the end of your turn. You know the location of any spell or magic item within 60 feet of you that isn't behind the cover. When you when you walk into this room and you check for magical things, you realize this room is completely mundane. There is no magic in this entire room. Well, here's the good news. I don't think there's any magic going on in here. That's not to say there's not something swimming around in the water. That is water beneath us. That is water. How deep below us like is how long of a fall would it be to the water? It's almost to the surface. Like you can see there's splashes of water like on the surface as well. It's like pool distance. Like a pool. And can we see anything in the water? The water looks pretty clear. In fact, it looks like a swimming pool almost. It's very clear water. You can see the bottom. There's nothing in it. And you sense no magical effect on it. No, I was going to say this. I feel pretty confident in my abilities. I'm going to take a step forward. You take a step forward if nothing happens. Watch out for the alligators. I'm just going to do that until I'm over to the other side. All right. You get over to the other side. Are you going to open the door? I'm going to open the door. If that's okay with everybody. Yes. Yeah. All right. Okay. And I'll open the door. So you open the door and you hear Elias' voice again. Elinthe will test your faith that it may cause self-doubt in your convictions. And as you do open it, you see just a massive stream of fire right in front of you. Oh, goody. From three large mechanical constructs that seem to be acting like a flamethrower of some kind. Completely engulfing the path in front of you. They seem to be sitting on a surface that is 30 feet up. And you can vaguely see a portal at the end of the room. If I take a step here, will I be burned? No, but you can feel the heat. It's like Link's Awakening. Yeah. Okay, so there's like a big, you guys are going to want to come here and see this. You guys can just put yourselves where buck is. Yeah. And you too see the big roaring streams of fire being bursted out by these mechanical pieces. Oh yeah, that's not ideal. Also, my arm is like covered in blood. Does anyone have something for that? Oh yes, just a moment. And I'm going to do a little... Where's my bum with the summer court? It's in here somewhere. Oh yeah, bonus action. I'm just going to restore a little bit of HP. Let me just... Oh, that's a lot actually. Hold on, I think it's more efficient for me to just do a little cure wounds on you. Let me just... Whatever seals up my open bleeding wounds. It was one hit point, you're fine. You didn't see the thing bite me? You whipped me after I was down. I was busy. There was a completely mundane chest that gave me some very nice potions. You were busy so... Wait, what kind of potions? Oh, don't worry about it. Alright, so this fire situation. You still haven't healed me? Yes I have, it's in the... Oh, okay, cool. That is good enough, yeah. I'm still a little sore, but... Oh no, I'm fine actually, I'm perfect. That was the exact amount I needed. Huzzah! The RNG giveth and it taketh away. Okay. You're forgiven. So, the fire... Would it be possible to probably get up and over it? The fire seems to almost completely cover the room head to toe. It seems like we gotta go in that other room first. Not necessarily. Here's an idea, I have. And then I'll pick out one of my javelins and I'll throw it at one of these things. Can I do that? Yes, you may. Can you see them? Which one? I have two javelins, I think. I think which one. Which are you targeting? Okay, let's just go for... Oh, I actually have to get closer to do it. Or I'll do it. Dang it. Does anyone see the opening on that other side of the wall? Yes. Yes. You... So, I'll say, yeah, you can see kind of like behind a very thick glass wall just like the one in the portal room, another portal on the other end. Oh no, sorry, I'm more of a... Like, if we can see up there, we can kind of see that there's like a way to get up there. Yes, you can see that there's an opening as well. That's what I'm looking at, yeah. There's an opening hallway into another room that you haven't seen or been to yet. I've already thrown my javelin. Throw your ja... Yes, your javelin. It sticks into this thing, and it jams into it, but it's still going. Does it look like that did anything? It shakes it a little bit, and it like stops spotting its fire just a little bit, but then continues to give the stream, the stream of fire. You have damaged it though. There's visible damage on this thing. Could I fire an ice knife at the same one? You most certainly can. Boop. Alright, well, it's not going to be very good at dexterity saving throws. That's good. Because it's a construct. But you throw it, and the thing shatters, and this thing, the fire sputters a little bit more, but it's still going, but almost out. I have three more javelins. I could... I mean, we could take this one out, I believe. There's two other ones. This might give us room to get through. But yeah, we can get closer at the very least. Wait, but that's a wall on the other side. How are we going to get three? Oh, wait, that's a portal, right? Fire kind of in the way. Okay. I'm just going to guess that we probably have to turn back and turning back to the room that I am standing in is going to be more difficult than getting through it. Hmm. So, Lera, maybe you should walk across that bridge again. Oh, I mean, are we really giving up on the fire room or do you just need me to move out of the way? I mean, we'll make our way back to the fire room if we go around, it looks like there's an opening there and then that other door that you saw was on the same side. Oh, that's possible, but we would have to fight stuff. I threw another javelin, by the way. Oh, you throw another javelin. Okay. Yeah, 14. The 14, unfortunately, just pings off the side. The javelin lands on this higher platform. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Just over here. Unfortunately, you couldn't make it pierce this armor. How many javelins do we have? I have two more. Two more. I have one also. You want to keep trying? All right. The sunk cost fallacy question coming up, but I really sure do want to keep tossing javelins. I have a question for the DM. Do I know of anything I can shift into at this level that's mostly fireproof? Totally your call. It's just all the lists I have are of normal animals. I am not sure what the shifter can shift into since I am not familiar with that race. The shifter is one thing, but I have wild shape. I can just be slightly more cat-like. Not yet. I would need to be a big insect. CR one-fourth, and it takes a while before I can get it. I didn't know that. There's a while before you can turn into something tiny or something with a flyer swim speed. Oh, that's right. Is this 30 designate that they're 30 feet up? Yes, they are 30 feet up. Because if I destroy one of them, Fritz can fly. I can chuck Word or Lara in smaller form up there. Possibly. I'm throwing another. Gosh darn it. I could carry someone. Oh, buddy. That's a nine. It goes a little wide. It pings against the wall. It just lands right up there. You want me to throw one? No, I'm pretty good at throwing these. Do you want my javelin? I have one more personal javelin. Dang it. Do you want my javelin? How many javelins do you have? I mean, I'm pretty good at throwing, I thought. Do you want me to take over? You guys, I'm so pissed. If I pull out a short bow, I have a lot of arrows. They're like tiny javelins. And I throw them with it. I've been wearing this thing the whole time. I know, but I wanted to do it. I'm not going to lie. I just kind of, for the fucking shits and giggles, I'm like, I want to try, buddy. Pritz, why don't you try? You go ahead and try and hit the thing. Maybe I won't. Maybe I'll just hold on to my arrows. It's 30 to 120. Yeah, 30. So the range is 30. Yeah, you can... I'll be nice and say you can reach it from there. Okay. It just means that if it were outside the range, it means you throw a disadvantage, but I would say you can get close, you can inch close enough. You throw it, you ping, it stabs into it, and the thing falls apart and stops spewing its fire. Okay. Well done, Fritz. And this fire stops spewing. I'm kind of loosening it up for you. There we go. That's rather more manageable. Yeah, now we can... No, two more. Well, no, you can... Fritz, you can fly up to get up there, I think. Oh, yeah. Can I diem? Yes, you can. This room is pretty tall, and this thing is 30 feet up. That's what the 30 is over here. Do you want me to pick someone up? Bring me up there. Yeah. Okay, here we go. Pick up word, if you wish. Word. Well, we did this before. Yes, but it's a little less climatic when I'm not, you know, chucking you. It's more fun to, like, you know, I had a football, like, little dream when that happened. I think it awoken something in me. But I see. I'll just, like, I'll, like, pick you up on, like, my talons, like, on your shoulders. And I, like, pull you up here. All right. You're both up there, and you can see, when you're up here, you can see that these machines have a mechanism on their back. It seems to be a lever of some kind that seems to be turned on. Ah. I, yeah, I'll pull the lever. You pull the lever, and it's in a turbo mode. It deactivates the fire. And I assume you do both. Congratulations. I wasn't really hoping to slash that open, but yeah. Let's go gather that treasure. High five. And I go over there. You left me hanging. Brawl. What? I went to go high five. Oh, no. Oh, no. He's like, pulling in his own zone. No, I thought that's funny. Fritz is just like, high five as you walk away. I'm like, oh. All right. I thought you were insulting my height. I did not. So you go into that room, you can see this hallway, and as you go in, you can see the hallway leads to a room with a couple of chests and delusory archers kind of standing, watch, but not looking up, looking south in that direction. Oh. So we have circled around. You can see there's a stairway as well. We accidentally cheated. Yep. And you can see that there's a ledge that is 30 feet down. You can see right here. I'm just moving the piece so you can see it. And there's a staircase leading down those 30 feet as well. And two chests. Okay. What do you see, word? Yeah. The goods. And I walk up to the chest and I like stab both of them with my dagger. You're going to stab it with your dagger first. Yeah. All right. Give me an attack. Okay. Damage was inside. Did that work? Oh, it's that. Okay. You stab it. It seems to be made of hard wood. However, you hear a king as you hear, like you've broken some glass by stabbing inside. Oh, no. I didn't think my dagger was that long. Yeah, I go stab the other one, but I'll try and stab, I guess, higher to where I wouldn't maybe hit anything that's sitting in the belly of it. Okay. Give me another attack. Okay. And you're aiming higher. Yeah. You stab a little bit higher and you kind of stumble a bit and sprain your wrist a little bit, but it's fine. This thing seems to be made out of real wood as well. Good enough for me. But you don't pierce it. Yeah, I'll crack both of them open and look at my broken egg, my spilt milk. You crack them both open and inside the first one, you can see that there was another set of potions, except one of them, the mana potion, has now been shattered. The health potion is still there. You can add a potion of healing. And inside this one, you see that there is a scroll of jump. Okay. Nice. I grabbed that. Yep. And I walk back to the party assuming that they've either gone through the portal or like... And over there, you can also see the rest of this room. You can see that there are some illusory warriors waiting for you to come through the door below. But you're behind them. We're good. Goodbye. All right. Should we reconvene and go through the portal? Yeah. Portal time? Portal time. Portal time. Now we're thinking. Hey. Zoom. All right. Bucks gone through the portal. You go through... Oh, I thought that's what we were doing. Oh, are you going through the portal? Yes. Yeah, I've already made that decision, I guess. I guess we're assuming it goes to that one? Yep, it does. Shoop! The first straightforward portal sends you to the next room. Well done. Yay. Where's word? Word? You coming? What? Oh, yeah, sorry. I was looking at something. I was reading a piece of paper. Crying over spilt manapotion. Did you find anything? Did you find anything? Just an empty piece of paper and some juice. Can I, like, side eye you? I know what you did. I side eye you back, like, don't mention it. Slightly stained by the manapotion that you killed. Why are you blue? It's like those anti-theft things in department stores. Yeah. All right, so you guys, I presume, are going to open that door into the next room. Yeah. And as you do, you see a large room that a three-way hallway, one heading north seems to have two magical locks kind of blocking the path and two paths, east and west. And Elias' voice speaks up again. Elinthe will test your metal that you may wane your spirit until you are not but a breeze against its many trials. Well, that's encouraging. We've got two directions. Do you want to flip a coin on it or...? I'm just going to go this way. That works. You want to do something with those locks? Are we scooping you in it? I do have thieves' tools. You do have thieves' tools. All right, you do see that when you walk up to these locks that they seem to glow with an arcane energy. That just means they're going to pop when I do it right. Is it a sleight of hand check? Do you wish to pick the lock? I'm going to try, yeah. Assuming that the loose familiarity with spells that augment locks, they just make it harder, and I know how to work through them. All right, you may give me a sleight of hand. All right, you pick and pick and pick, and you hear kuchunk, but also it zaps you back as you are picking it. You were like picking at it, and this thing really didn't want you to get it, but you do unlock it. So kuchunk, you unlock it, but it zaps you, and you take... Fly back. Give me a dexterity saving throw. Okay. God's be merciful. That's a nat 20. Nat 20. It gives you no more than a electrical shock on your finger that sizzles a little bit. You take two lightning damage. Wow. Well, I got one, but it had a buzzer in it. Ow. He's shaking his finger as there's smoke on it. Do you want me to keep going? Can we just cheat away through this? That's how we're going to get all this done. You know, we should stick to our own methods. I'm sure we could, but I'm curious what's down this hallway, so I'm going to check anyway. Curiosity killed everybody, but would. Layra. I'll stay with word of peace. He dies. Layra. All right. Layra is going to check that door, and you check down this hallway, and you can see it leads to a massive room full of stuff. Oh my gosh. Whoa. You can see that there are a bunch of illusory archers waiting for your entrance, a few more of those flamethrowers, and an arcane key atop a tall, huge pillar that they are being guarded by fire, as well as a ledge leading up to a bunch of boulders where a few more arcane warriors are stationed. Boy, I sure am glad we have the choice between these two groups. Yeah. Yeah, now I'm curious what's down the other hallway. Yeah, that one was kind of exciting. I'm going to feel bad for Elias if we don't find any of these nice illusory warriors he's made for us. That is such a genuine cartoon joke to just like avoid that and then see it and it's this beautiful, wondrous thing that we are just not doing. It's just like a yes or no. Six miles is pretty big, right? Yup. It is pretty big. You know what? I'm going to do it. I'm curious where this dragon is. All right. That will spend one spell slot. Yeah. All right. You never learn if you don't try. Okay. You know that there is a dragon to the north of you. Okay. I'll relay that to the rest of my body. About... Let's see. It's like... Oh, jeez. There's a dragon north of you within 200 feet. Wow. I would like to see what's down this left corridor before we go and I don't know try and pick that second arcane lock or whatever. Thank you for being patient with me. I'm sorry. Of course. You're a new player. It's totally fine. To be expected. So you look down this portal... Not portal. You look down this hallway and you hear Elias' voice yet again as you see that there's a bunch more glass walls and portals. Oh, no. And Elias' voice pipes up. Elinthe will test your senses that it may confuse you and throw you off balance. Huh. And you can see that in the center of the room there is a little slime that is eyeing a key, an arcane key. I am more scared of this room than the fire room with all the archers. This one makes me nervous. It does kind of look like you could just walk in and not deal with any of these weird portal things. That's what scares me about it. Well, I suppose plan A is trying to pick the arcane lock and get a second nat 20 or whatever. And plan B will be one of these two rooms. Does that sound good to everybody? Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah. I'm already on it. All right. If you wish to pick that lock as well, word, you may roll me a sleight of hand. If I die here, you should all kill yourselves. Huh? No promises. 17. 17, unfortunately, is not high enough. You pick it and it zaps you and make a dex save. Oh, boy. Hey. Another nat 20. What is the orangey doing today? Three lightning damage as it zaps your hand a little bit harder than the last one. Okay. Yeah, we can only do one of those. All right. Good effort, word. I'm going to try this maze. All that unluckiness for this moment. No, I'll just say we'll come with you. Oh, okay. All right. So you're going to head into the maze then. I feel bad. He makes all these beautiful illusory warriors and then we just leave. Yeah, I bet Elias would be really sad if you didn't at least participate in some of this dungeon that he so lovingly put together. I'm sure Elias is the one who would be sad. Elias would be very sad. Oh, yeah. And he would thank you for participating. Even though you would be within your right to solve the problem however you so wish. We would just outsmart. Elias is considerate like that. Elias does not think less of you for doing things however you so wish. Well, you know, Elias is the master of this dungeon and it's nice that he's so magnanimous about it. Thanks guys. Elias would simply be miffed. So you guys head into this room. You can see it's got a bunch of other glass walls that you can see through and there are a bunch of colored portals similar to the ones that you saw earlier. But these seem to be color coded and there is a slime in the center of the room. That is eyeing the key, the arcane key that is right there. My God, it's adorable. And it notices you come in and it kind of leans a little bit closer to the key and slowly starts to open its mouth. No. Don't do it. No. No. No. No. No. No. He's too far away. Can't you bonus action dash? And as you're saying, no, it hesitates for a bit but then it slowly gets closer to the key. No. No. Let's go to the next. I bet it tastes really bad. Oh, you wouldn't like it anyway, probably. Tastes like adulting in taxes. All right. So when you go into the maze, I'm going to need everyone to roll initiative as the slime swallows the key and it's floating around in its little slimy body. Oh, that's so cute but so frustrating. All right. Where's my initiative? Oh, yes, plus zero. How could I forget? Oops. I did that wrong. My God. My first over 10 roll. That was. Let's go. Told you the luck's coming back. It's happening. Okay. Wow. We all did pretty well. Except, no, we all did pretty well. Everything's great. Except, hold on. I just caught onto that. No. Everything's fine and we're all doing very well at this. We're going to get a good grade, which is normal to want and possible to achieve. All right. Word. The slime has swallowed the key, but you are fast on your feet. You're up first. I am. Okay. I'm going to use my dash action, obviously, to skedaddle as I do. And I am. I could use my ring of certainty on the door. Too late. It's too late. We're in the slime fight now. Yeah. We're doing the slime. Yeah. There's no way I can just rip it out of there. So I am going to just use my moideg. All right. Stab it. Mortal combat style. Just 16. 16 is going to hit you. Stab it. And you can see some of the slime. Wow. Stab it. Yeah. And you see a bit of slime splash off. And the slime just like looks a little bit angry. Like you can see it has like faux eyebrows at it. And it looks a little bit weird. Yes. Yes. This is incredible. A little bit angry. That's going to be. Not hurt. Just angry. Oh no. It's seven damage if it matters at all. Stab it. Is that? Chunks of the slime fall off of it. You do seem to be like digging away. And your dagger just tings against the key that you are trying to reach. But it is still. Yeah. Poke it and hook it and like flip it out if at all possible. I'm sorry. Point of order. Wouldn't it be 14? It looks like you did seven piercing and seven sneak attack damage. Sneak attack only. His sneak attack procs when there's an ally nearby. I don't think it procs. Oh. That's interesting. Yeah. Or when I have advantage. I see. Or when you have advantage. Yes. Busted. I love it. But yeah. Anything else you wish to do on your turn. Nope. That was my dash. All right. The slime is going to disengage and start a run. It starts bouncing. There it is. Bloop bloop bloop. Oh no. Oh it's so adorable. Into this portal. Bloop bloop. And it appears out here. Shoo. Oh boy. Okay. Oh okay. And that will be its turn. Okay. Okay. Yeah that's the situation. Haha. What's the situation? I think this is the first room where we got to split up. And as the slime is bumping around you here, Elias' voice yet again. Elinthe will test the strength of your bonds. And your sense of self that you may become your own worst enemy. Ooh. What? Boy that's dark for the fun color coded maze part. I know. I was like sitting here in baby sensory room. Later. Your turn. Yes. Well first things first, I'm going to shift. So I will become slightly faster. Because I feel like that's a consideration in this room. What does your shape look like? I just look slightly more feline than usual. A little bit sharper. You know the pupils get like, they were looking really weird after the blindness effect. But now they're just like full cat slits. And I get a little more digitigrade in the leg region. And I have an extra 10 feet of movement, which is nice. And yes. So I'm going to move up next to this green portal. Oops. Just a second. 35. There we go. So I'm just, I'm just posted up next to it. All right. Just for now. Anything else? Let's see. That was my, that was my bonus action and my movement. Maybe I will hold an action if the slime comes through this portal. And I know that's a long shot. I would like to try and grab it. Okay. Sounds like a good plan. Cool. Buck. Are these glass walls or no? They are glass walls. You can see the whole room. Okay. That being the case, if I can go here, I use my action to dash and then I'm going to go through here. Okay. You go through that portal and it makes you end up over here. Can I use my lat? So if I go through here, I'll still have 10 feet of movement to do that after dashing. Do you wish to go through there? I do wish to go through there. And you end up right on the slime's tail if it had one. So I have 10 feet of movement, so I should be able to go here and here to get between it. Ah, okay. And with my bonus action, I would like to believe in the heart of the cards. Yes. And reach down to my belt to the deck. And I've got a lot of stuff that can be helpful. Not everything is helpful for this, but I would like to rage and use my wild surge rage table. Okay. I'll show us the wild surge rage. Oh, lady, look, be merciful. Ooh, magic weapon. So this is an interesting thing that I can do. I now can like, force, hammer, throw any of my weapons because they all become light and with a thrown property. So I can take big blind, my two-handed weapon and just chuck it if I would like to do that. And it returns to me. Okay, nice. That would be so cool if we weren't fighting a tiny slime. Well, I have that as long as my rage lasts, so yeah. Okay. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but say la vie. Fritz. Okay. Your turn. That was the one I was hoping not to get. Ooh. Still very cool. Yeah. Ah, that's 40 feet. Okay. I'm gonna... Oh, I can use dash though, can't I? You can. You gotta make sure you go around the stuff. Yeah, I get the feeling you can't fly over the walls. You can hold it and then right-click on the ground to make like a pivot point. Ooh. Oh, thank you. Fancy. So 20 and 50. Dash gives me an extra... Yeah, I'm fine. I'm gonna walk over and use my dash and hold on this red one here. Ah, you're gonna hold on the red one. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I'm watching in case because I feel like it might square and pass you and get run to that red and look at the word. Catcher's pose. Word. Yeah. Yes. I... hold on. Let me see the... Boss, boss, boss, boss. Boss, boss, boss. Boss, boss. There you go. Yeah, if I actually use angles, I can race over there so I can end up right there because I have the powerful, powerful speed. Parkour. Yeah. And then I'm gonna take another dagger swipe at him. Okay, give me another dagger swipe. This time you will have your sneak attack. Yeah, that'll do it. Hey, I do. A bigger chunk of slime falls off the thing. Wait, actually. I feel so bad that the slime is so cute. Me too. It is. Because I'm a kobold, I also have pack tactics, but that didn't get me anything right here. So... Yeah, you stab into it and another chunk of slime. Take the first damages. It's struggling. It's like the key is barely being held in the gelatin that it has now. It's like not a lot left. We want that key. Next is the slime's turn. The slime is going to disengage. No. And bounce, bounce. Into this red portal and shows up right in front of Fritz. Oh, hello. It like bumps into you and just like in shock and starts to go this way, but it's out of movement speed. I can't believe I predicted that. Let's go. Yeah. Okay. You know, I probably should have just done this at the beginning. I would like to cast entangle on the slime. Okay, let me see entangle. Yes, just a moment. Okay, 20 foot square. Yes. And your DC is? It's only 12 for a strength save. Let me just cast it. Okay. Yep. And that's going to be enough. Does it deal any damage? No. It doesn't look like it. Yeah. It just turns it into difficult terrain and it restrains a creature that doesn't make it strength save. Okay. I presume you want the entangle to look like this. Yes. I don't want to hit Fritz. I just want to get the slime entangled ideally. The slime is stuck. Yes. Yes. Okay. Cool. Then I'm going to sort of saunter over into its general direction. Yep. 30. Oh, nope. 35, 40. There we go. And then we can just... So that was my action to cast the spell. That was my movement. I'm going to assume extracting the keys going to be more than a bonus action. So I will just post up and hang out. Oh, fuck. Unfortunately your rage is over because you didn't get to hit anything. No. Oh, no. It's at the end of my last turn. Oh, maybe. Never mind. I don't exactly know how rage works. You probably know it better than I do. Your rage lasts for one minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you have it attacked a hostile creature since your last turn. Okay. Never mind. My mistake. So if I can get through this turn without ending. I'm aware that it's going to probably end, but I have enough to get through and still have my action in place. Yes. Assuming that I come out here. You do. Is that a fair assumption? That is correct. Okay. I do not have to throw it. I will just regular, try to regular attack with... You will have advantage since this thing is entangled. Ooh, nice. Nice. Yep. That'll be enough. You smash it. It's actually 18 now because I don't know how to add the rage to it, but I do think it's a great thing. The slime splatters into a little pool and the key is knocked free and the slime, the little pools of slime bits just reform somewhere else and the slime just sticks a fake tongue at you and jumps away. Oh, thank goodness. Why I ought to, you get back at me. You guys have the arcane key. Congratulations. Huzzah! Huzzah! Yeah. All right. Shall we go back to the lock? Shall we? I think so. Word. I don't want to be the one to put it in there though. You know what's funny? What's up? What's funny? Because I don't understand my class. I've been trying to think of ways to do things without fighting and I was fully ready to pull. You know when you have a dog and you have to hand something nicer to them, I was ready to pull out my like pack of tattoos and we're like, tattoos for key. You know, it's like, oh. It looks like gross. Get it. Squish. I think it's like we've tried not to fight things this turn, but like we're not bad at that. Like we could have been fighting stuff. We just, I don't know. We were like, eh, taking damage sounds hard. With the arcane key in your possession, when you put it into the lock, both form into a bright kind of blue light and vanish together. And the path is now open. Forward. All right. Let's go. I do want to say once again, it was very kind of the dragon to provide us two rooms. Unfortunately, we didn't explore one of them, but it was very nice of them. It does look interesting. I, word, it would be disingenuous of me to not tell you that there is at least one treasure chest in that room we didn't go into. I'm going to guess that it's a mimic. Could be. All right. So you guys head upwards to the next room down the hallway. Dang right. Oh, wait, how far are we going? Is a staircase leading up and up and up until you see. Oh my goodness. A large arena full of word. Full of boulders, portals, flamethrowers, arcane warriors, and liars in the center in some less than formal wear. He's in his pajamas. He's in his pajamas. I sensed you. I sensed you. And he notices you kind of making your way in. And he lifts one hand and gives a friendly smile. There you are. Finally you've arrived. Well done. Coming to Swap Pilgrims. I hope you enjoyed the layout of the temple. I worked very hard on it. Yes, we loved every room and every challenge. Yeah, we explored everything. No worries. I was keeping an eye on you. And the fact that you have your own methods of solving problems is good and important. You're bringing new ideas to Satya and Elinthe as a whole. And new ideas are what allow us to progress and make this place as prosperous as it is. But this will not be the end, for I will be your final challenge before you leave Satya. For Elinthe will test your character, that it may not crush only you or body, but your soul. And as he says this, he transforms into his dragon form once more. Oh boy. And he lands on the tall pillar that he is perched upon and he calls out to you. Defeats me, Pilgrims. And show me how you mean to overcome the trials the world would throw at you. And you guys may position yourselves at the bottom of the stairs before we roll initiative. Yeah, there it is. Genuinely got real. Hey, yep, up there. Oh, at the bottom. Oh, you want to stop at the top? Sorry, I'm... Oh, you said bottom. I did say bottom. It's okay. I'm mixing up my... anyway. Can we be like over here? Yes, you may orient yourself anywhere on this first row of squares. Whoa, my first Mat 20 and it's for initiative. Nice. Oh, I didn't give you the initiative order. I'm so sorry. You can have your first roll though. Does that work? Oh man, that music. Darn it. Yeah, you can get your first one. Straight banger. Oh, okay, I got my... Oh, for crying out loud. There it is. My first one was a nine. I don't want to... Well, I'm not going to be... Yeah, there we go. Dang right. That first one was a net 20 and I'm not going to let anybody forget it. Yeah, the reverse of what happened with Necro Hunt where they fought a dragon at the end of the campaign. Now they're fighting a dragon at the beginning of the campaign. Hey, you got to mix it up a little bit. Well, that was giving us a dungeon and a dragon. Yes. So first up will be Word. Whoa, wait, hold on. Buck and I both got a net 20 on initiative. Oh, you're right. My first one was a nine, yeah. Yeah, that was sad. I waited for it. Oh, that's a shame. Yeah. But, firstly... I'm only a little sad. Word. Your turn and what do you wish to do? I'm going to whip out my short bow and lay into big grandpa pajamas. All right. I'm going to rush up here to get a good line of sight and let's do it one of those. Ooh, yeah. You throw the dagger kind of through the flames into him. No, it's a short bow. Oh, short bow. Oh, it's a dagger. Oh, okay. Short bow is probably the same stats anyway. Oh, I did. Yes, it is. Sorry. Okay, that's fine. Yes, you fire it and it passes through the flame and lodges into Elias just a little bit. He seems unfazed by it, but, nevertheless, you did make a little bit of a dent. All right. I rolled the same damage that it did, so we're good. Noice. Anything else? It was my action, my bonus, or my move action, so... I'm going to dive into the water and use my cunning action to hide. Okay. You're going to hide? Give me a stealth check. Yes. That's a 10. To hide from a dragon. And the illusory warriors that are on all four corners of the map. Yeah. Now, the water, I will say, is 10 feet deep and it is on ground level. That is what this GL means, that is ground level. And you can see on each pillar, there is also a measure of how tall they are from the ground level. I see. All right. Next. Leira. Yes. It's a little hard to see. Are these pillars 10 feet up? They are 10 feet up, yes. Okay. I'm still shifted. If I go straight to my right, would I take fire damage or would it just be... I will be generous and say no. You're at the cusp of the flame. It will be very hot though. Good to know. Five, 10, 15, 20. And I have 20 feet remaining. Would that let me scale up to the top of this tower? It most certainly would. 40. All right. So that's my movement. You are standing just at the edge as this boulder is taking up all the space. But there is an arcane warrior next to you, an illusory warrior. Cool. Then I would like to cast Flame Blade. Ooh. We had a long rest. I got to prepare new spells. Heck yeah, Flame Blade. You slash with the fiery blade and it goes through the illusory warrior that starts to fizzle a little bit, like blinking in and out as you have done a little bit of damage at it. Awesome. It looks like it's concentration so I just keep the Flame Blade for as long as I can hold that. So that was bonus action to summon it. Action to make a melee spell attack. And also it works as a torch, so that's good to know. So I think that's my turn. Yeah, you certainly needed light in this room. Yes. This is Elias turn. More fire. That's what this dungeon was crying out for. Elias's turn as well as the illusory warriors. This one did notice you were to go into the water so it is going to push the boulder. Oh no. And it is going to fall towards you. I need you to make a dexterity saving throw. A lot of those this dungeon as it falls into the water. Me swim. You swim. All right, that's pretty good. As it just squeezes you between the walls and itself, you're going to take seven bludgeoning damage as it sinks to the bottom. Just shy of really going through the ring here. And you see like a bit of blood just kind of swell up in that part of the pool. Oh no. Lifeguard on duty. Lifeguard on duty. And this one is going to do the same with this boulder. It comes over here still within you range of Leira so you don't proc attack of opportunity. And it is going to push this boulder this way to fall on Buck. Buck make a dexterity saving throw as it falls. I don't need to do anything to avoid that, do I? No, you don't. You just snake aside. And it falls and crumbles into like cracks down the middle. And you're able to avoid pretty much the whole thing. A few bits of like debris kind of catch you in the shaking Thursday off balance. You take two damage. Nice. This one is going to hold it shot. This one is going to hold it shot. And Elias is going to look at Euphrates and tilt his head a little bit. I'm sorry little one. It appears your friends may have abandoned you. And he's going to shoot a little bit of a fire at Euphrates. We were told not to stand together. It was tactical. Yeah, I don't have any reactionals. Life is pain. So that is going to hit you a fire bolt. Fritz, did you see you had absorb elements? Ooh, yes. But it's not a reaction. It's not a reaction. It is a reaction. Oh, wait, it says one. Oh, wait, yeah, why not? Yeah, can I? You can use your reaction. You may. Yeah. I misread that. Thank you for back seating me there a little bit. The spell will capture some of the incoming energy lessening its effect. It's a power of teamwork. On your next turn, the target. So yes, you will reduce the fire damage you take by three. And you will also have resistance to fire. So you will take one damage as it just kind of fizzles off at you. Yes. And Elias tilts his head and like, oh, impressive. He just yells out as his voice echoes throughout the halls. There were others in the tournament whose dreams are now unfulfilled. Can you say yours are more deserving, more true? And that will be his turn. Fritz. Oh boy. Grandpa Jimjams going for the heart with that. Okay. We're just got whacked. He's not pinned or anything, right? No, he's not. No, I just got whacked. The rock sank to the bottom. Okay. He's furious. Now this might be me thinking a bit weird. If I shoot through the fire, will it become a flame arrow? Oh, Breath of the Wild rolls. Or does it just dissipate? I will say no because there are flames. Actually, that sounds cool. It'll have a little bit of flame on it. Sorry, I'm trying to use theory now. I'm not thinking like it burns them. I will say yes and retroactively say that that happens towards arrow as well because I hadn't considered that. Heck yeah. Okay. So I'll add that damage to Elias as well. My movement. It'll be very minimal because it's, you know, makeshift fire arrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. I'm going to make my movement to kind of stand up at the stairs here. And then I am going to fire my crossbow at this dude. Okey-dokey. Show me the crossbow. In front of me. Ooh. That will be enough. You fire it and it just like lodges into it before it falls to the ground as the illusion is flickering a little bit. Also, I believe after you do absorb elements. Yeah, that's what I was looking at. Yeah, it instills your next attack with something. It's your next melee attack. Oh, okay. So the next time you physically whack somebody like close range. Oh melee attack. Oh buddy. Oh buddy, you better not even get close to me. I got spice. I have a spicy bird lady. You don't want to fly up to that pillar? So you only have to fly up 10 feet. So that would use 10 feet of your flying and then move forward 15. So that would be 25. I'm gonna come up close to you. Hey yo. Alright, yep. You are next to the illusory warrior. Hold on. And that's my turn. Next buck, you narrowly avoided a boulder. Completely, mostly unscathed. But I'm not pushed over to any side, am I? Nope, you are not. I'd like to use me movement. I don't know if I can do this or if I can only get here. Which, I'll go here. Alright, as you run up there, make a wisdom saving throw. Oh, yeah. There's an arcane circle underneath you that procs and explodes. And you are going to take three radiant damage, but you are not blinded, luckily. You're fine. Okay. Nice. That's a bright flash of light engulfs you. Let me tell you one thing about Buck. He's a gambling sort of man. So I'm gonna use my hash into Dash. Uh-huh. And that's 10 feet. Uh-huh. And then where do I? And with that one, you end up here, next to the flamethrower. Ooh. Uh, I really, so is, I think you said earlier, did you say what it's going to take to turn this off? There's a lever, right? There's a lever. I'll say a free action. You just like flip a switch. Can I, can I free action flip the switch? You most certainly can. And the fire goes out. Nice. Um, with my remaining movement, uh, can I, I think I have 20 feet, so I should be able to, can I climb up here to get? You most certainly can. I know he's, I know he's 10 feet up. You have bugbear arms. I do have bugbear arms. Oh, that's true. Yep. And I do have arms like I have in real life. Another thing about Buck is that he does sort of believe in the heart of the cards. And so I do want to reach down to the belt and grab a blank card to see what gift from Lady Luck I have. Oh boy. You've also got your magic item. Don't forget about that. My magic item? Oh, you have a coin. The coin that gives you Nat 1's Nat 20's. Right. I understand that I have that. I'm not, I don't want to, I don't think that matters. I only have a D8 for my, for my, uh, Wow magic. But I understand I have that. I've never forgotten that I am. I will never forget that I have. Uh, here we go. Oh no. Oh no. That's okay. That's not, that could be way worse. This is pretty good. That's awesome. So I grab a blank card and I say, yeah, I say nothing personnel. And then he's older than me. And then I, and then I have to teleport. Yep. You can actually teleport somewhere that, like you're not standing on ground. So you could literally appear like flying behind him. You can teleport to a platform. Can I teleport up behind him? Like literally. Yeah, exactly. Literally like an idea. And then I am behind him. Yep. Oh, so cool. Uh, and I had, can use that as a bonus action for as long as my rage ends, but that's the end of my turn. So I have to end my turn. Okay. Wonderful word. Your turn. Blunderful. You are under the water. It seems as though hiding there did not do well to hide your, yourself. Really did not. All right. Step one, cause I have nine hit points. I'm going to pop open and drink, um, that health potion. Let me see. I think you can do it and be on 20. Yep. There we go. Hey, not bad. I mean that great, but just about that average. Literally. Mid, mid role. I'm perfect. I am healthy. Um, and I think that is like an action to fully drink a potion. So I'm going to, you know, I have a, I have a homebrew rule where potions are a bonus action. That makes sense. Okay. Um, other, other use items are full actions, but I like potions being bonus actions. And I like being not close to a dragon. So I'm going to go over here. Ooh. All right. Actually, we're going in this teleporter. Oh, yeah. You end up here. And I'm going to need you to make a wisdom saving throw. Oh boy. No, no. No, no. As there's a signal there. And boom, it explodes into a bright light. You take four radiant damage and are blinded. This is a rough day for me. Okay. Shoot. Is there anything else you wish to do Ward? Still have your full action. I'm pretty sure. Uh, I do. Yeah. That was my move. That was a saving throw. Uh, geez. I can't do a lot. Attack. Well-blinded. Okay. I am going to cast Unseen Servant. Oh. And I'm going to tell them to turn off the two levers. Oh. These things. Oh, yeah. Magic. Interesting. Magic. Nice. I don't have anything for the Unseen Servant. So I'm just going to give, well, that would be good. Cobalt token. Yeah. Right here. All right. Yeah. He definitely like, in my mind takes the form of like a really tiny cobalt. Yes. Like the kind of devil on your shoulder cobalt. Oh, that's so cute. And yep. It goes to act to pull the lever and that fire goes out. Nice. Awesome. Nice. And then as a bonus action, I can tell him to put out the other one next turn. But that's my turn. Next turn. All right. Sweet. I'm going to take a second swing with my flame blade at the arrow guy that is right next to me. Let me just figure out how to, hmm. I'm just trying to figure out how to roll this when I can't just cast it again. Maybe. Ooh. Yep. That'll hit. Cool. You hit and you slice it and you can see it dissipate when puffs into a smoke. You've defeated. So cool. That illusory warrior. Okay. So that was my, that was just my attack action. So I still have my movement. Yeah. Do I want to close with the? Yes. Yes, I do. So I'm just going to just a second. There we go. All right. Five. Dropping down 10 feet. Does that take 10 feet of my movement? Yes. To carefully drop down. Yes. 15. And not take fall damage. 20. 30. Yep. So that pops me out on the other one. Right there. Yep. Cool. And then I can spend my last 10 feet to climb up 40. You most certainly can. Well done. Great. That was my, that was my action and my movement. And I don't have a pertinent bonus action. Oh wait. Yeah. I'm going to fire off a bomb of the summer court as a bonus action to word. So that's 1d6 healing. Let me just, will it let me do it just with 1d6? Yes. All right. Well that's two hit points. To word. Yep. All right. Word. Every bit counts and it doesn't take a spell slot. What do I do? You gain two hit points. You get two hit points back. Yes. I'm up to 14. This is so scary. Why are we level three? I'm in danger. All right. All right. That's my turn. Next is Elias's turn and he is going to brandish his wings and flap and fly to another location which Buck gives you an attack of opportunity. Oh come on man. Oh come on. Please. Go, go, go. Catch it. Bugger. Lady luck. Come on. Yes. What is happening? This is an additional two for plus an additional two for rage. Wow. You take a chunk out of Elias and he winces a little bit and he goes. I'm not quite done because I've got some stuff for Crusher. So I can move him five feet. Can I move him? Can I keep him from like keep him where he is for five feet? Oh Sentinel stop. Oh reduce his movement by five feet. Yeah. So I know he's eat correct. Yeah. Soft Sentinel. I'm going to, I'm going to say you do something different because it's not quite Sentinel and he's going to fly away. He's a big guy. So you do something different because the cool factor and you credit. I'm going to say this is what happens. He goes to lift off and you hit him in the hind leg throwing off his balance and he goes and hits against the wall and goes prone. Well, he did not have a smooth take off. He lands into the grease. I will say I wanted to let you know. I guess this doesn't matter if he's prone, but what I will say Joe is for the Crusher feet that I have, when I get a critical that deals bludgeoning damage, attack rolls against that creature are made with advantage until the start of my next turn. Yeah. Your next turn. So that's only Fritz. That's only Fritz who would be able to get to make advantage of that technically. Either way. That's true. We'll say his quote unquote prone is the visual indicator of you crushing him and getting that crit. Yeah. Next is going to be the illusory warriors who notice Buck attacking the main target are all going to train their arrows at you. Oh boy. No. And two of them are going to land as you see these smoky arrows and two of them land into you and they disappear almost immediately as they strike you. You take 12 piercing damage. Is that halved? Because I'm right. Yes. Actually it is because you're right. Oh. Oh. Oh, okay. I thought that was. Oh, okay. Damn. We know where we stay clear of those. Oh, sorry. Buck. Yeah. It hits Buck. Yeah. Oh, yes. Oh, I thought it was hitting me. I thought you said that they were trained on me. That's why I was. No, no, no. I assumed it was me. And so I took six damage. You took six piercing damage. And Elias is going to flap his wings just like to try and blow the fire where he thought Lyra was over here as he flaps his wings and pushes the fire. But you are not there anymore. And he notices that you are quick on your feet. Yeah. Dang right. He calls out, the people of the provinces are on your side at your beck and call to fulfill the quest. Can you say your journey will even be an accomplishment? Huh. Fritz, your turn. Yeah. So I guess I will be in flight. I kind of just like I flew up here and then just bounce back off again. And. Yep. Oh, I don't need to be that close actually. Hold on. Sorry. Oh, yeah, I do melee. Thank you for reminding me. My brain, uh, not much sleep. Okay. It will have an attack of opportunity at you and it's going to try and stab you with its like arrow shaft. It misses, of course, as you are too swift. Too swift. Nice. Too speedy. Now you can attack with advantage. A 15 will hit. Yeah. Yes. You go and slash and how much is the damage that you deal from the extra element? Nice. That's pretty good as you slash at him and his wound singes as you burn him a little bit. So that's a total of 10. That's 10 damage on Elias as he winces a little bit. But then he looks down at the grease below you and he is formerly in your hand. Don't you do it. I'm glad we didn't do that other grease room. I mean, it's okay. I'm in there. I don't know how high up this is going to go. Fuck. Yeah. I'm going to walk 10 and then I can teleport 30. You most certainly can. As a bonus action. Can I get here? How? I'm up 20 so I don't know how far I can get. So you can teleport there. You'll just be 30 feet up in the air and you could take 3d6 falling damage. Hey, I thought D&D didn't do trigonometry. Why couldn't you just go into the ground? Can I go here and then be on the ground or I don't know. Splash into the water. Because if you still have your movement speed on top of that. Oh yeah. You can move down with your movement speed and use your teleport to go there safely. Yeah. Okay. So it was 10 to get here and then it would be what? 20. Yeah, 20. Yeah. So you would splash into the water and then you can use your teleport to reach right here safely. Yeah. Oh, and I also have reached so I don't have to be too close. I'd like to stand in the water if this is about to be. Stay in the water where it's safe. Yeah, if this is about to burst into flame and then I will try once again to hit. This isn't a boss fight. It's a pool party. Yeah. And that's nine because it's. You are right. Yes. You reach far from the water to and you catch him just like in kind of the back of the leg again. And he just, oh, that one already hurts. DM. The way that you've drawn him makes it look like he is taking an attack right now. Yeah. I can still, I can do the crusher thing where I move feet anytime once per turn when I hit someone with a thing that does bludgeoning damage. Can I move him five feet closer to? Oh, no, he's actually too big for me to. Oh, I realize that now he's too big for me to do that because he's more than two sizes. He's more than one size larger. So I can't move him. Never mind. Okay. And I realize now that I realize that now after you already did the cool thing. You know what 20. It was a not 20. I think it was cool enough to want it. Okay. All right. For the future, I cannot move him. So just the nine damage. Yeah, I appreciate you knowing that now. Your honesty. Truly a noble heart. So then that would be words turned now. Yeah. Oh my goodness. You may use a wisdom save to see if you are still blinded. I would love to do that. Shake it off, big guy. Oh boy. It didn't work. You're still blinded. All right. I theatrically hold my eyes and do like a three-point turn and then fall backwards into the water. Spooky. But before I do that, I will tell my little pseudo cobalt servant, my invisible, what's his name? Yeah, my unseen servant, his name is Chat. And he is going to go 15 feet. Oh my gosh. So yeah, he can only go over there. But on the next turn he's going to pull that button unless I lose concentration. And then I'll use my move action to swim roughly over here. And then I will use my general action to stealth. Stealth. All right. That works. Let's see if anybody notices that. Everybody. You'd be surprised. It's like we saw. I hope I am. We saw him do the really cool dive. But then he just disappeared. Yeah. Then he wasn't there anymore. He's gone. Will that be your turn then? Yeah, that's everything I can do. Your turn. You're right. I was considering healing word, but I have no idea where he went. Okay. What's your passive? My passive perception is like 12. I think you are hidden from me. No. You're the only person I'm hidden from. Oh, I just don't know. All right. Let's see. I was going to go turn off that thing too because that's, but it's fine. I'm going to stay up here in case Grandpa Jim Jams relocates again. I'm going to go here and he is within range for me to just thorn whip because I may as well. It's a cantrip. I can do it as many times as I want. Heck yeah. Oh boy. A whole one damage. Very nice. You just like barely scrape his scales. Yeah. That's generous considering I don't know if an 11 would hit him anyway. Oh wait. That is an 11. No, that doesn't hit. Yeah. You don't even do anything. Yeah. Well, I tried. Okay. So that was my, that was a movement. A cantrip is an action. Yeah. Not a lot I can do this round. Yeah. Yeah. I'm good. I'm just going to. All right. Next is Elias and the illusory guys. The illusory guys are going to continue trained at Buck as he is in the water. They do not seem to notice you word. They're going to fire through all three of them. Luckily only one lands this time and he low rolled a four. So you take two piercing damage as they continue to fire at you. Just bombarding you with arrows and Elias is going to look down at the grease below him. He's going to fly up almost meeting you at eye level Fritz and fly over here. You have attack of opportunity. Fritz. He got out of range for me. Do I have an attack of opportunity? You know what? Yes. You both have an attack of opportunity. No, he's still in range for you. Buck has a range of 10. Yes. Well, he's going to keep flying this way. I just wanted to stop him here. I see. Like to indicate that you two can attack. So do I just attack? Yes. Any attack you wish to use. Oh. Oh. Wow. Very nice. You fire it. It lodges into one of his wings and it just goes real deep. It was a great shot. Plus 18. Oh, geez. And Buck, your attack. I rolled a 10. He rolled a 10. Yes. That wouldn't hit. He flaps and flaps and flaps so hard that I'm actually going to need Fritz, Buck, and Leira to make strength saving throws. Strength saves. Oh boy. Okay. He's using a special thing with his wings. Wow. Straight 14 with plus zero. Okay. Leira and Buck, you are fine. However, Fritz, you are thrown to the ground by the force of his flapping. And you are on the grease and prone. Oh no. Oh boy. And he lands on the other side and he calls out once more. Should you fail, others would simply fulfill your purpose. Can you say you are even required? Just talking a lot of shit from what you just made there. Yeah. Frick real sassy today. Your turn. Yeah, it's all word play. Word play. I'm going to use my bonus action to get like up, up high. Oh, you don't need a bonus action for that. That's movement. That's just your movement. So it costs half your movement to get up and then you can presumably just fly 15 feet straight up, right? You can go a total of 45 feet if you're using your dash. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. So I want to get up in the air. Up in the air, your flying speed is different from your walking speed. So your flying speed is unaffected. But if you do land, your walking speed is only 15 right now. Yes. And can I fly over to the portal and take it? You most certainly can. Yeah, if you go up like one foot. You go into the portal and you show up over here. Hi buddy. Thank you for bringing up your concerns. Whoa. Very nice. Yeah. You fire the arrow and it lodges into him again. He's pretty. He's starting to look like a pincushion. Wow. All right. Okay. And yeah, that'll be your turn, I presume. A buck. Your turn. He's now on the other side of the arena. Yes, he is. But I can teleport. So I can teleport. Oh, that's right. Yeah. So I can go boop. And then I can say, get out of the way, Fritz. Boop. Boop. Oh, genius. Down. Let's go. MVP. Now, here's the deal. The DM. If I roll my, if I flip my special coin and my special coin lands on a two, then I get a nat 20 attack against him? Yes, you do. Or is it only on ability checks? That is on any d20 check. Okay. But you have to preface it using the coin before you roll it. I say, I pull out the coin and I say, let's see how this does my catchphrase. And then I roll it. Hold on. Let me roll a d2. Here we go, baby. Yes. Yeah. Hard of the cards, baby. Now, what do I roll for? I forget what I roll for nat 20. Okay. So you can just roll your, whatever attack you would do, and we'll roll it twice. Because that's how crits work. The crit is rolled, the attack. So if I, so normally I would roll a 2d6. So, but it's only the dice that I rolled. The dice. Yeah. The dice you rolled. Yeah. The bonus damage we only do once. Okay. So it's 46 plus six. I'm raging. Very nice. 16. Because this was a critical with my bludgeoning damage, and I have the crusher feet. I scored a critical hit that deals bludgeoning damage. Any attack rolls against him are made with advantage until the start of my next turn. All right. So it's like a guiding bolt, right? Yes. Basically. Yeah. All right. There's no save though. He just gets it. Yeah, yeah, of course. You slam into like, essentially his knuckle and you hear a crunch as he cries out an iconic roar in pain. Heck yeah. Heck yeah. Yeah. And then I don't have anything else I want to do or could do. So I will, I guess I could move, but I'm not going to do that. I'll end my turn where I am. All right. Word. I say, I, I try to, I try to like aim for his eyes like we plan to do, but now I'm realizing he only has one eye. So I hit him in the hand. Wonderful. He's not, that's why he's, he's so powerful. Word. He's already been aimed at the eyes. What do you wish to send your unseen servant? He is going to continue his movement and interact with that object turning off that fire. Yep. Most certainly does. And now this portal is not covered in fire anymore. Alrighty then. I'm going to swish over there and just rush kind of between Fritz's legs and then boom. I'm right here. Yeah. Very nice. Then I will make a short sword attack. Short sword. Are you still blinded? Are you still blinded? Wisdom saved. Oh yeah, that's right. Wisdom saved first. I'm sorry. You are no longer blinded. I can see. All right. Doesn't matter. And guess what? You are sneaky enough that Elias has not noticed you. You're making this attack out of stealth. So you have advantage. I have triple advantage. Actually, wait. Yeah, that's because of the thing. One of those is a crit. But I still got a crit anyway. All right. You stab into him. Lady luck. Lady luck. Lady luck. You stab into him. You do some calculations. That is a 12 plus 11. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. And Elias is looking tired. That is a lot. He is panting and breathing heavily. Flashback to earlier in the whole session. I'm earlier in the whole session. Yeah. As you say, flashback to earlier in the session. We were rolling horribly. Here we go. Yeah. We used all of that luck at the beginning. And now just crit, crit, crit. I think that's your turn. Yeah. Yeah. Layra, your turn. Fantastic. All right. Well. Finish him off. Show you who's way. 5, 10. Hop. You got to hop in that one. Yep. So I think that's... Oh, that's right. So that was 20. 25. Yep. And hops you out right here next to word. Excuse me. Excuse me, fellas. Okay. I would like to hit... We're just shoulder to shoulder and none of us are getting flanking. I would like to whack with that flame blade I still have up because I haven't taken any damage or had to roll any concentration checks. Hacha! Your own advantage. Oh, come on, baby. Your own advantage. Your own advantage. Okay. Let me roll it again. Not enough. You go and ping kind of like just bounce against his tough, scaly hide. This is so embarrassing. Okay. Cool. Well, that was my movement in my action. Oh, yeah. Bonus action. I'm going to... Actually, yeah. I am next to the two people who look like they probably need healing. Where was it? Like 14, right? Take another bomb of the summer court. That's another three hit points. Thank you so much for this generous amount of healing and wound closure. No problem. I can't wait to absolutely regret this next turn when we both get whacked. Okay. We were told not to group up. Oh, no, you're so right. Elias. We all just turned to Ash. It's just for it to take a long quest. Elias sees that you have grouped up. No. And he calls out, many others have completed your quest before you. Can you say you will reach their heights? And he turns around and he's going to do a tail swipe. Oh, boy. Here it comes. All right. He hits all three of you in one big swipe. And you are all three going to take 10 bludgeoning damage. Oh, baby. And make a- Except for me who takes five? Five. And all of you make a strength saving throw. Oh, gosh. Okay. My tiny boat. How about a 12? Buck, you're fine. You are able to stay still. However, word and Leora, you are launched backwards by the sheer force of his tail swipe. Oh, baby. I can see God. Oh, gosh. What does she look like? Okay. And these ones notice that you are separated fritz. These two and they're going to fire at you. No. Hello. One misses as you dodge out of the way. However, the one lands in you and you are going to take five piercing damage as the arrow kind of skins you. This one is going to continue to fire at Buck and miss. Oh, do I need to make a, sorry, concentration check on my flame blade? You do. How does that work? Wisdom save? Either half the damage you took or a DC 10 Constitution saving throw, whichever one's higher. So you need to make a 10 or else you lose concentration. Yep. You still have your flame blade. Cool. I have concentration, too, that I got to keep up. Oh, yeah. On your little dude. Give me a constitution. Oh, Constitution. Okay. Yeah, you're fine. 10. Meets it, beats it. Yep. Oh, it does. Yeah. Next. Fritz your turn. Still haven't seen. Elias is struggling to keep himself up. Am I allowed to make an educated guess that he can take fire damage? Yeah, probably. Yeah. Okay. The wheels are turning. Yep. Up on high ground. You cannot win, Anakin. Which is... Hmm. Hmm. That's ground level. Yeah, that's ground level. Oh, yeah, it is. Sorry. I saw a little thing. Hold on. I'm thinking. Hold on. Cogs turning. Bird brain. Bird brain. So, hypothetically, if I wanted to throw a torch that I have, because I have a tinder box that I could light it with, would that be a whole action? Let's say so, yes. Okay. If you're throwing it at a very specific direct, because I think aiming a throw in a precise manner takes a full action, because throwing a dagger is a full action. He's not in the oil, is he? He is. He's standing in a little bit here. Let me move him. Yeah, he's in it. He's four squares in. Okay. Oh, baby. I would like to hop over to this little thing over here, just to get a bit away from this dude. Yep. Can I light my tinder box, sacrifice my tinder box and torch to set the oil on fire? I don't think I can use the entire tinder box, right? Yeah, you don't have to use the whole one. Okay, okay. Can I do that? You most certainly can. No role required, because this grease is pretty big at a large target. So, you light your match, you toss it into the fire, it lights a flame, and Elias cries out, as the fire behind him catches him and burns him and singes him. He is going to take 26 fire damage, as he is defeated. He is knocked unconscious and falls into the water with a big splash. I'm going to punch him, James. You have defeated Elias, and I'm going to pause the music real quick. And the encounter is over. As the illusory warriors, I can't pause this music for some reason. It's too powerful. I didn't expect that to happen. You can't stop the beat. So, Elias falls unconscious into the water as the illusory soldiers kind of step down and go to his aid to pull him. You see that they are holding their hands out in kind of a light amidst from their hand, presumably healing him. You recognize this magic. Yeah, I'm glad they're doing it, because otherwise I would have had to do it, and Word kind of needs my one spell slot left. This fire goes out, and you can see that Elias comes too. He bursts his head out of the water and breathes heavily and returns back to his satyr form. Let me find, do I have the token? Yes, he returns to his satyr form as he is now floating belly up in the water, just enjoying himself, and he is smiling and laughing and kind of clutching his shoulder a little bit and kind of looks over at Word. You nicked me good back there. Yeah, you did the same just a second ago. And like my unseen servant will slowly float toward him and then do invisible karate. No, unseen servant, no. It's attacking him to no avail. Word is just like laughing to himself. He's like, yeah. Apologies for the trouble I couldn't let up on you. I hope you understand. But you didn't do that. Well done, pilgrims. I do want to apologize for all those harsh things I said. I truly take no joy in bombarding you with such hypotheticals. All attest and only attest as such. I said them as questions that only you yourself can answer on your journey and of which no answers are incorrect. Those hits didn't feel hypothetical. I'll just say. No, they've been literal. I'm going to fire off a first level pure wounds on Word. Thank you. Yeah. So that's going to be a tasty D8 plus two, which is four. Four. Okay. It's chip healing. All right. You're really good at that. I'm so low level. I did zero damage to Elias. Elias kind of swim, kind of pushes his way and just struggles to get himself up. And he waves his hand over the illusory soldiers that dissipate as they kneel in servitude and kind of go away. And he just kind of squeezes some of the water off of his his pajamas. But I can see now that you all work fairly well as a team. You will need that teamwork to take on this task. The Draconic pilgrimage will be no simple feat. But when I see the ones before me here, I see promise. You better believe it after we get some rest. Of course, of course. He goes over to you, Warden extends a hand to help you up. I take it like groaning the whole time. Now about our little deal. And he reaches into kind of his pajamas kind of reaches down where you see a necklace. He pulls out a chain necklace of some kind. And at its bottom, there seems to be an oval piece of jewelry. He shakily lifts it over his head and hands it to whoever would take it. I'll take it. Yeah, Warden's right there, but I'd like to take it if possible. Warden is like his hand is shakily reaching up, but he can't grab it and you just rush forward and take it. I am slightly taller, no offense. You take it and he takes his other hand and clasps it over atop yours that takes the piece of jewelry. My heart. Take it to Corencia for me. Of course. And you see as he lifts his hand you can see that it is a locket that at further inspection it opens up to reveal a picture of a hearty middle-aged satyr giving a piggyback ride to a smaller girl of his same kin. Oh, that's with the heart. That's unbearably as well. Oh no, the other ones are going to break our hearts too. Yeah. It's all going to be said from here on out. That's a lovely, that's not very sad, it's a lovely thing. Yeah, they're going to be sad. Does she know she's in your heart? He kind of looks down and smiles. I sure hope she does or else all those corn taffy will be a waste. Oh no, they're good in my backpack. I'm going to take all of them. Of course. Now that your trial here is over, as further congratulations I wanted to grant you a reward in the form of early news. The one that I hope to spread to the rest of satyr once this specific pilgrimage is over. This will be my final year as Dragon of Satyr. I am old and will not be around forever. And I need to look for a successor, whether it be Jaday who seems like an obvious choice or someone else who may become Dragon. I for one know I never set out to become Dragon myself, but who knows, whoever it becomes may surprise us all. And if one becomes Dragon, do they get the ability to turn into a Dragon? Traditionally yes. One usually trains to become Dragon as it's a form one can ascend to through a large massing of power, be it physical arcane or he winces a little bit political. But some, like myself, seem to achieve Dragon form on a whim, pure chance. And me, I took it as a blessing from the Life Tree, the privilege and opportunity to play a massive part in Querencia's renewal and to protect my home. I see it as a blessing. I have plans right now that I'm not going to tell anybody, but they are complicated and they do pertain to this conversation. Oh, very well, do you require some privacy? It opens a little notebook and writes some scribbles in it. Well, that being the case, having gotten the first heart, I imagine we'll set out on our journey to get the other ones sometime soon. Yes, as soon as you're ready. I would recommend getting all prepared at the shops in town. Of course they'd be happy to give you discounts more often than not, some more willing than others, but if not, I can have a chat with them and let them know that the good of the whole realm rests on this and they can at least hope to line their pockets a little bit less for that. I know, it's astounding how little people seem to think about that. This is kind of the future of the world itself. I think we're worth a little bit of fancy toys. Yes, the people have grown complacent because of our little fail safes that we set about, but I feel to rely upon those fail safes is disrespectful to the tradition. Fail safes? Yes, as I mentioned earlier, should you fail, there will be others that will try to convince the other dragons to bring their hearts to currency anyway. But I feel that it's not in the spirit of things. It doesn't give the same purpose. It just becomes, like all else in this realm, just another job. But your pilgrimage is much more than that. You are a symbol, you are an icon that people will look to for the future of Querencia, and I believe that that can be used as inspiration for good. Huh. Although I have... Well, you're certainly not the ones to let you down. I sure hope not. I know that I may be a bit naive in my idealistics, and others a bit more cynical in seeing how this all works. But I'm babbling. Let me show you back to the outside. And I'll scold you. I like to use my short sword as a walking stick. I have one more bomb of the summer court. Who needs it? I still do. Do you want to lean on me, dude? Yeah. Oh, finally. My rib is okay now. My skin is bruised, but I will live. And as he is leading you out of the temple, he's just making small talk and asks you if you have any questions or any discoveries that you've made after becoming pilgrims of Satya or anything like that, anything he can help with. Does he know about the witch, lady? The weather witch. He mentions, I have heard rumors of this weather witch. We have given all we can. I've consulted with the Lord to see if she can't afford to spend any extra resources trying to find her, because if she is out there, that is a great danger to us all. I was under the impression that simple weather control could not command the blot. So did we. And this makes this discovery ever the more concerning. We've thought, at least, that this was no mere act of necromancy. We don't see any life signs in the blot and we have made sure of that before anyone took any precautions against them. But perhaps we have been mistaken. I have a question. I noticed that your niece was praying when we got here. And I don't know if you consider yourself a religious man, but have you known Father Omar at the church for a very long time? Hearing his name, just like his shoulder slump a little bit and he hunches over, ah yes, Father Omar, and that whole business, I presume you know of his extra dealings now. Not to the extent, yeah. Not to a great extent. No, I for one am open to other religious practices in Satya and of course his religious practices are nothing to be too upset about. However, being a man of his age I can see that he simply works by different methods to keep the peace here but if it weren't for Lord Candelus' counsel I would have preferred he and his ilk stay out of Satya. He calls it giving second chances to criminals wishing to atone. I call it extorting the desperate. This seems significantly more complicated than I realized. You see for a second, Elias' face actually starts to turn sour. One of the rare times he's ever seemed angry at anyone and he quickly catches himself and returns to a smile. Apologies, it's no good for someone in my position to gossip. Forget I said anything. Father Omar does mean well and knows what possible unscrupulous things he calls it would happen in Satya in his absence. And Elias takes a moment to recompose and he leans in to give you guys a whisper. All right, but between you and me that turtle can shove it but that doesn't leave this place. Yeah. Right, right, right. It stays right here. As he's leading you through when he brings you to the mirror room he kind of waves his hand to dissipate the mirrors and the mimic chest turns back into an ordinary chest and you can see the owl bear kind of is laying down and Elias goes up to it and it seems docile now and Elias goes to pet it and squitch it kind of behind the ear. Fluffles, I hope this wasn't too difficult on you. May I also pet the owl bear? No, absolutely go ahead and he seems very excited and he leans over and presents fluffles the owl bear as he's laying there lazily kind of looking his wound a little bit and Elias lets you know it's no hard feelings, of course he knew what he was getting into in fact he was very excited to come in here he seemed very, very excited to see what new pilgrims have come this way used to give rides to Jede when she was younger That is absolutely adorable I'm going to give him a little scratchy scratch behind the ears and throw a first level cure wound Oh yeah, that's right Buck attacked him Oh my god, that's the most healing I've done all day Oh come on I'm so sorry word And as you are petting the owl bear you can see a familiar face the slime come through as well and it just kind of bubbles and blops and Elias kind of looks at it ah there you are I was wondering where you were I hope this wasn't too much on you either and it just kind of like bobs back and forth like a little jello on a plate This is the happiest I've been in weeks This is a newer member of our little temple here I don't quite have a name for them yet but they insisted on coming in and I couldn't really stop them anyway so I decided to give them a little bit of work while they were here Can I offer them both temporary tattoos? Oh my god The slime opens this mouth way wide up for you to place them in there I'm gonna give him a butterfly It kind of like puts its whole mouth over your arm and just kind of just like sucks up the the tattoo that now just floats into it it's like little jelly body and you can see that little fizzes of bubbles kind of come from the tattoo as it is digesting it now I like the idea that it fully consumes everything but the ink in the fake tattoo so it just floats there is like a translucent image Oh man I'm gonna apologize to the Alba I'm sorry Can a tattoo make up for it? That kind of funky I don't know where you put a temporary tattoo on an Alba Well it's his decision and his body It's true, it's true It seems to not give a single care in the world now that it's no longer in combat with you you notice its demeanor is incredibly lazy so it just kind of lays there while you like present the tattoo and it just and just rolls over a little bit What a noble creature Tummy Tattoo She's like stuck to it like a sticker on a fur rug Let's put it like right next to a nip nop Oh hey Let's wear a mammal Wait, let's not get into this Questions that don't need answers Yes I think Confucius asked that question Is it like a platypus? Does it lay eggs? But also, you know what? Let's not get into this You guys spend a little bit of time there Elias leads you out and your Draconic pilgrimage officially has started and that is where we're going to end today's session Woohoo That was so fun That was so fun, I love that dungeon I'm sorry we skipped like half of it It was genuinely an inspiring dungeon I wouldn't have designed it without it keeping in mind that sometimes things are just going to get skipped That is okay