 Hello, and welcome back to another session of Belkanis Necrohaunt. So, you guys finished having a wonderful little lunch given to you by Aeliois. And now, after exiting her little cottage, you now have a choice of where you would like to go, which direction you would like to head. So, I had an idea based on where we are, if you wouldn't mind hearing me out, everyone. I won't stop you. So, I know our ultimate goal is to go to Cloveway, and Enoch mentioned wanting to stop in Chester City that's right next to the border. So, I imagine we're heading to Chester City. So, I wanted to ask if we could cross through the peaks and potentially check out what happened to my father's grave. I reasoned to believe the spine was behind it, and I haven't been able to make my way there yet. To assess the damage might be clues. Might be able to find out what they're doing, prepare ourselves for what's awaiting us in Cloveway. I agree with this. So, there's two roads I know we can take. We can go down the road through Peltrotown. Or we can go through the jagged peaks to Jadsal. It's a little bit off of the beaten path. His grave's a bit outside the city. I know this might be a little bit of a detour, but... Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are asking us to instead of go into a populated city on a safe route, instead traverse the mountains that you are filled with monsters, hence your profession, to a town that is off the beaten path during a timed mission. Is that correct? I ask this because I think that we might be able to get clues along the way. I mean saying that we have to go this way. It's just what I would ask if we don't really know our trajectory yet. And your father, he had... His death was involved with the Necromancers, correct? His tomb was desecrated by the Necromancers. That much I'm sure of. He passed ten years ago. It was. The tomb was desecrated by the Necromancers. That's what I believe. I heard about it when I was in Chester City. Word got back to me. It was actually a few days before the Viscount summoned us, so I haven't been able to go back. It was. Can you point out specifically where the site is? I'm going to... We have a map, yeah? Yeah, we're looking at the map. Yazdol is right here, so it would be outside the city. So the grave of the site is at Yazdol? Yeah, it's around Yazdol. That's where I lived. I mean, to be quite honest, that might be a little bit out of the way, but... It's totally fine if we don't want to. Again, this is something I can deal with on my own time. It would be killing two birds with one stone, and I do think that we might find some evidence. I will admit I like your plan a lot better than just going straight to Chester, quite honestly. To be quite honest, if it gives us any possible advantage, information is a great deal that we can use. And that also mitigates the target we might have put on our backs. Staying away from people while we're going through, it might just minimise casualty as well. But it also minimises the chances we will get to have for a proper rest. I think we should do it. Looks over. And if worse comes to worse, we can always stay in, and if I am reading this right, Ruggawood? Hmm, yes. We will go from Yostar. And for the Rugga, there are safe passages through the mountains. And you can guarantee our safety through them? I mean, I'm one woman with two swords, and you are all perfectly capable of descending yourselves, but I can at least try and keep us on the main paths. Right, quite safe. I do believe we should do it then. I don't know about being out of the way of other innocents, or even that this is a very proper path to go down. But I am intensely interested in why these necromancers have desecrated your father's grave, as I'm sure you are. I have my suspicions, but I don't... Would you like to share them? My father was a war hero. There's a story about him. It's a bit long to tell now, but there's a reason that my father was given the monument he was given, and there's a reason why his fighting in the war was notable to the Viscount. As you speak, I am going to pull out my journal and just start writing in it. We don't need to... If you are uncomfortable talking about your father, then you don't need to have the conversation right now. But I will expect to have it before we reach Yostar or else I may not know something that could help us all. I'd be happy to tell it to you once we've... I assume break for us tonight. It's just a story that's best told when you're sitting down. Fantastic. And I just keep writing. In that case, let's move. I'm sure we're all okay with this. Like I said, I don't want to... I don't want my personal goal to affect our path in any way. If you truly just want to get to Chester City and Cloveway, that's fine. Oh, certainly. It is going to take much more time than if we were just going to straightforward. Or if we were just straightforwardly going to Cloveway. But I do believe it's worth it. We need to know what we're up against. We walked into this last fight and they didn't expect us, which is why we were able to get through it so easily. But I doubt that we're going to have that luxury a second time. So we need to gather as much information as we can. And we know where they have struck before. This is the correct choice. All right. All right. So, you guys head north. Is that your decision? Yeah. If you guys are okay with it. Sounds great. It sounds like everyone came to a consensus. So yeah. All right. You guys begin to head north. And as you start to trek through difficult terrain, we are going to do a skill challenge. The jagged peaks are barren mountains with, as you say, lots of monsters. And for those who don't know what a skill challenge is, it is basically a health bar that you need to defeat with your skill checks within a certain amount of successes or failures. In this case, if you succeed, you will make it to Yedzel on traveling time. You know, on normal traveling time. All right. Without much delay. However, if you fail, all manner of possible things could delay you on the way. Can it be no tail again? Please. You just took your access with him. Bag of money things. We know no tail or grick yak. All right. No, I don't want to see grick yak again until we return to Belkanis proper. And he has a beard to show that time has passed. By the time we get back to Belkanis, Grick Yak better be the king of a trade empire. He said he was making smart investments. All right. So yes, who wants to take the first stab at a, at tackling the skill challenge? I'll try. Cammy does. Cammy does. Cammy does. I'll try. Okay. Thank you. What's the skill check? Okay. So how a skill challenge works is you basically go through your skills and describe how you would use them in context to completing the task, i.e. traversing these rough barren mountains full of monsters and difficult terrain. An example that I would give is say a party is trying to escape crumbling cavern. Perhaps a barbarian uses their athletics to shove aside boulders that are falling around them. Or perhaps the wizard is using their, I don't know, their history, a history check to think about any geography that they have read up on about tunnels in the kind of area that they're in. Things like that. I remember this. Okay. So you get to choose and try to give context to your skill. Okay. I'm actually, I'm not as skilled in fighting. I'm not as skilled in the few things, but what I am good at is listening out for stuff. And in the very least, have a sense of if you're hearing the birds and stuff in the trees, then yeah, you're probably in a safe enough spot. If it's way too quiet, then something has either just run through here or is here. And that means that there is trouble afoot. So basically she's kind of walking down the, like walking along a path and just keeping an ear out. Okay. An ear and knife. Don't probably be a perception check, right? Yeah. Okay. You can give me that. Okay. You travel along the way with that philosophy, hearing out for birds, but it's kind of hard to hear as you get further and further into the mountain, even when you like pace yourself around. You do make some progress. Oh, good. Okay. All right. But trees are starting to get few and far between. That's fair. I would like to use any of my memory towards, like my general understanding of the geography of the entirety of the Jagged Peaks, so that way we can move more carefully and have a much more easier path based off of what I know by a history. Yes. You may do a history, see what you might have read and what you can remember, what you might have read. That's going to be a 14. You do remember a few old trade routes and old and possibly still working roads and you try to guide the party along that path and you do still see that a few of them are still in commission, very worn down and in need of some renovating, but they do provide a nice path and you make a little bit more progress. Ray. Okay. Right. Oh, you go. Okay. So these paths are rough. We are probably expecting things like fallen debris. I would like to argue using my athletics to help keep the road clear. So we can keep moving at a fast pace. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. Strong lady here we go. Oh my God. All right. Oh no. Strong lady now. This is my idea too. This is my book. Operation to give it to Luna. The inspiration that I got for giving that little girl my hat. I grant it on to my ally. Roll again. Can you do that? Wait, can you do that? Can I not? No. I thought I could. Is that allowed? Is that not allowed? I don't think so. I think I don't do that. I rescind my inspiration. You get nothing. You lose good days. Luna failed moving a rock. So Luna, you are able to push a lot of rocks. However, the crumbling, shaking nature of these heavy rocks cause some of the other loose debris in the mountain to crumble down and you have to dodge. The party has to dodge quite a few pieces of debris falling on them. Some mini avalanches. Not huge ones, but some of them that do get in the way of your path and you do hear some creatures off in the distance that may have heard that as well. Wow. Wonderful. Who wants to bet that they're low on potassium? They're looking for a nice banana. If we're starting to hear things, we should probably try to be quiet now. Yeah. Are you saying that now whoever rolls next might all be like, let's go quietly? That was a failure. I will let you know that three failures and this skill challenge will fail. I totally misheard that for a second and I thought you said that we had three failures so far. No, no, no. You have two successes which will depend on how high a roll that you make and one failure. Okay. Right. Well, I don't traverse mountains very often but from what I've read I think I can tell routes more or less traveled and by what I would like to investigate the paths we walk them so that we can steer clear of anything that might be dangerous and follow along things that other humanoids have gone and lived through. Go ahead and give me that investigation then. Thanks. I forgot. You investigate and you find... I forgot. This is a mountain pass. They're all rocks. They don't leave trails. My mistake. You find a path of footprints as you retire in the mountain along the snow and you follow them along and you're like, oh man, this is a very nice path and it brings you to a big white clearing of snow and the skills challenge is over. No! Is it because I rolled a natural one? Because you rolled a natural one which counts as two failures. Can I roll deception to make it look green instead? Also, sorry chat. I'm going to refresh my roll 20. I don't know why it's taking a while for the rolls to load on my main screen so I'm going to do that real quick. Yes, you find a just big white sheet of open area and you encounter what seems to be an open cart. Oh god, a map. No! Oh no! This was planned. It was planned. Fuck. I don't want to get near that. I do. Yeah, I was about to say. Me as the player, I'm like immediately on today. Take me away. Take me away. Let's go. So yes, you guys follow the trail and it seems that the footprints lead off and start to be covered by snowfall and fade along the path. Can I just say upon seeing that overturned wagon I am drawing both my swords? Am I allowed to have that prepared? You most certainly can. That seems dodgy. Luna, would it be too much to ask that you send your Echo to the cart so that none of us are injured? I have to stay within a certain range of it but I can do that. And so Echo Dad will come out. Let me get a stone. Echo Dad! Echo Dad! Get him out. Get him out. Let's go, Echo Father. All right. I have to stay within 30 feet of it so I can stand here and he can stand by the cart. I'm not a cool enough Echo Knight to actually look through him yet but... Give me time. He can come back and report. If I may, just in case. He is a physical object, so. I am going to physically move and position myself behind this tree and pull out the gun and I'm going to swap my fourth bullet in the chamber with a silver bullet. Okay. So it'll be three shots of steel and then one shot of silver just in case. The shot of silver is the last shot, yeah? Yep. Okay. Because I know I was talking to you about, I have to tell you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to be ahead of time, yeah. So does your Echo allow you to see through it or anything like that? Not yet. Unfortunately, I was just going to have him poke around the wagon and see if anything jumps out. All right. You poke around in the wagon and roll me a straight D20. Shit. Tell me it's something cute and we can adopt it. 12. 12. Horrifically average. All right. I don't know how I feel about that. Don't say that. That might be the number of things that appear. You hear a little bit of shuffling and moving in the cart. And you can see the cart move and shift its weight a little bit. 12 cobbles. Yeah, no. Echo dad is going to... How big is this cart? Would it be something he'd be able to turn over on its side? He uses my strength modifier. Well, I guess you would have to roll on athletics to find out. Sure. You see the cart was moving. What? Did you say that the cart was moving? You said it shifted a little bit. Well, like shuffling, like, you know how like a car can shift side to side when somebody's moving around in it. I was about to freak out. I was like, oh God, the cart's still alive. The carts are mimic. But where are the carts? Oh God. Oh my God. Are you serious? Enoch, you got the highest roll here. You've switched the curse. So, your echo goes to pull the cart. Your echo goes to pull the cart and a chunk of the wood breaks off and the sheet falls off. And you can see inside some sort of lupine shaped creature that is just slumped down. Do I know what it is? You most certainly do. I live up here, so. You most certainly do. You know that that is a warg. And the body starts to move unnaturally and lift up and you hear a muffle. I heard a person talking. You most certainly did. Yeah, I'm just approaching and whoever you are in there will not go to hurt you. And you hear it less muffled as you can see the lupine body lift a little bit. Considering our last encounter, I would consider otherwise. And you see a man step out, one that you are familiar with and he tosses the warg body to the snow. It's like twice his size. Is that the asshole that like made fun of us right at the beginning of the campaign? No. This is an elf. Are you doing all the way out here? I thought you were in Chester City. And I just start approaching him. He brushes his trousers off. You can see there's snow and bits of blood on him. Oh, nice to see you too. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's wonderful to see you. Sorry I ran off like that. Something happened. What are you doing out here? He smiles a bit. Luna. Well, I took a job from some folk to make a bit of coin. Been low on supply as games been tough to come across recently. At least safe game. Yeah, I imagine. Oh, hold on. Everyone, remember when I mentioned I had a partner? Meet Scorpio. Scorpio, these are people I've been hired to work with. He gives you a very casual start writing. Sorry. Go on. I said I pull up my ledger and start writing. Nice to meet you. Me and Luna. We go a little bit back. Used to hunt together. Oh, I see. I'm still wearing that bear we killed, huh? Oh, listen. I got the last hit on it. And I skinned it. What's your point? Sides. You both killed it. Sides, I was about to ask you the same thing. What are you doing out here? I thought you hunted alone. We're hired on an important job. And our path was taking us by Yestal. I wanted to see what happened. Say no more. Are you just hiding out here with a walk? Or are you also heading back to town? Oh, yeah. That thing. And he kind of kicks the body that it doesn't shift at all. Walks nearby have been a bit irritable. He's trying to land outside the usual territory. Not sure why myself, but a work's work. That's strange. My eyes narrow a bit. And I would like to roll insight. You most certainly can. Oh, shit. Okay. You can see that when he looks over at the warg, he scrunches his eyebrows and he scratches his chin. And just kind of looking around. He is taking caution. And as if his eyes are scouting the area. How strange that you find yourself here with your old acquaintance in the middle of the mountains. I work as a traveling a lot. Still. Of course. This is a weird path for you to be on. It is. It's a weird path for these things. I was supposed to be back in Chester City by now. Would you know anything about why they've been riled up? I couldn't make any heads of tails of these things. Who knows? A new predator moved into the area, maybe? Not many predators would hunt wargs. They're the biggest things around. At least at this side of the mountain. I don't know. I'm just kind of looking back at the others like shrugging my shoulders. Oh, Renee is just letting you talk. She's just observing very intently. My hand is on my chin. Enoch's kind of keeping his space. I'm going to dismiss Echo Dad. So what now then? Are you heading back into town? Yeah. Got to bring this thing back into the chief. They wanted to see some evidence that make sure the road is more safe. And I've got evidence. You mind giving me a hand? He goes down to lift it up. Yeah, sure, sure. And I'm looking back at the others. If you're going back to... If you're going back to Yadzul... I'm sorry, I completely worded that wrong. If he's heading back to Yadzul, do you mind if he tags along? No, not at all. I won't be staying for long. What are you heading to? Upper Chester City. Been saving up for something. Only gotten there. Yes, you said you were supposed to be there by now. I was. Not curious, it's a few days away. It is. And what are you saving up for? He smiles a bit. She kind of... She kind of like leans in and pokes at his chest, like... Oh, well, that's something you'll have to beg. We're really going to do this now. I'm not dealing with that. I'm going to start picking up the warg. And as you do... Does anyone have a perception of 15 or higher? God damn you. A passive? Passive perception, yes. This is where I wish I would put my stuff into wisdom, but it didn't. I'm one level away from observance. Oh, it should have been my first level of feet. No. Okay. As you go to help Scorpio with a warg body, you hear very quick thumping through the snow. And Nathaniel, I'm going to need you to make a dexterity saving throw. You see a large body heading towards you at lightning speed. It's just in a rocket's Nathaniel and he fucking dies. Not that bad. That's better than I expected. Let us see. Oh, no. I don't like ooh. I don't like ooh either. You are tackled down to the ground by a large lupine creature and you see right on top of you as you take three bludgeoning damage at the sheer force right on top of you is a warg and I'm going to need everybody to roll initiative. I shouldn't have dismissed Shadow Dad. I shouldn't have dismissed Shadow Dad. Always keep him up. I'm regretting everything. Never gonna give you. 18. All right. Hey, decent on initiative at least. Oh, no. You just got tackled. So it's fair. You just got tackled. It's okay. We're going to get that thing off you. I feel like a brown banana. I hate it. You're a bruised banana right now. A brown banana today. I hate it. Oh, great. Scorpio did not roll well. Oh, no. Damn it. Oh, God, he really didn't roll well. That's a five. Holy shit. Oh, no. He was distracted. Jesus Christ. And the warg's got the jump on you, it seems. Oh, no. Okay. What is your sexuality? Oh, no, thank God. I rolled 21. I rolled 21. 21. 21. One level from Sentinel. God damn it. So, Enoch, you see a warg right on top of this banana man. What do you do? Let's see. I'm just going to unload. I'm just going to unload on this thing. Ooh. Nice. Nice. Yeah. Oh, shit. So straight, straight that mess. And that's going to be 12 piercing as you literally see as he slams back the hammer and just one shot. That is a fancy shot as well. Oh, shit. Nice damage. Can I also say that that was one of my marksman shots because I would like to use my grip point for it. Go ahead. I'm going to use a winging shot for that because I want to knock it prone. Okay. Make a strength saving throw. 12. 12? Yeah. Yep. So, the shot fires into it like pierces through a non-vital part and it turns to you and growls. I'm going to, then I'm going to pretty much cock back the hammer and get ready for the next shot and that's going to be the end of my action. Okay. Is that your turn then? Yep. That's my turn. Renee, your boss has a big old wolf like creature on top of him. Oh, no. I'd like to get his bright yellow garb. No. Would I know if sleep works on a work or not? You would know that it does. Okay. Cool. Hello. Wolf needs to go to sleep now. Good night. Goodbye. Oh, no. Good night, Mr. Wolf. You're going to go to sleep. Oh, no. Oh, I'm sorry for what I'm going to do to the sleeping pop. Holy shit. That was the worst I could have done. That's bad. That's really bad. Oh, no. Luckily, I assume you're going to put it to where it's like this, so it only hits the war. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Luckily, that is enough. Thanks to Enoch's shot, it has lowered the AT. Yes. Yes. Low enough to where that does. I'm happy. I contributed. Knock the wolf, warg, sorry specifically, warg. Yep. To sleep and it just falls onto the snowy floor. I'm going to give Bartek inspiration as a bonus to Luna. And she's like, would you come to get him off? Get that top of him, please. I'm on it. I'm on it. Yes, thank you. Okay. Best spell in the game at early levels. I love it. It's my favorite. Ridiculous. It's going to save all of our problems. The warg's turns, you hear more stomping in the snow as howling. Oh, there's more of them. Oh, shit. And you turn to listen and there's a large pack of them. No. They smell like vitamin C. Wait. I thought it was your potassium. Holy shit. There's a lot of them. I wish I'd gotten higher now. I really wish I'd gotten higher now. I couldn't move them out. Wolves can smell radioactivity. And you can see they're slobbering at the mouth and they are barreling towards you as if their life depends on it. Oh, son of a bitch. Luna, your turn. Do I unleash the wombo combo now? Is that what I do? All right. No. Wait. That is not my turn. It's not my turn. I'm going to let you do your thing. I won't say anything yet. Well, I mean, I'm not going to go full on burning yet, but I am bringing out Shadowdad. Shadowdad. Come back, Shadowdad. I need you. Yeah. Do I attack the one that's sleeping or do I go take out one of these? No, the one that's sleeping because it's next to the Daniel. Yeah. And also you'll have advantage. Yep. I'm just going to... Okay, so I'm going for Luna there. I'm going to have Shadowdad. Oh, yeah. Come up here. The work body that Scorpio got. I'm just going to put it right here. Nice. Shadowdad's going back there. And I am bringing down retribution on this warg. Yep. All right. Here we go. Is it? 17, 10 slashing. Nice. Yes, that hits. Holy shit. Yes. He does wake up though. He doesn't wake up. Okay. Is that enough? Well, it auto crits, doesn't it? Yeah, that's it. Because you're sleeping, it means that they're prone. They're lying and sleeping on the ground. Yeah. They're incapacitated. Yes. Roll another D8. D8. Cool. I already got max damage on the first one. So that means... Yep. You execute that warg as it... Just like... Oh. Kill it in a... Here's a single slice. Oops. Sorry. I'll keep closing that. I'm going to unleash my incarnation so that Echodad can also take an attack against that warg. Okay. Absolution, let's go. 19. Yes, nice. That hits. I got into that warg. It gets it along the way as it is just running towards you all. Uh-huh. Yep, I'm just bracing myself and that's my turn. Okay. Nathaniel, you were just hit by a large Lupine creature. How do you feel? Yeah. So I am on the ground. I press my arm into the snow as I start to cough and my vision stabilizes. I look around. I'm not used to being hit. So I see all of these wars around me and... Why? How? And I am confused seeing so many of these creatures. Can I roll... something? They're all running as fast as they can. They're surrounding us, yes, but are they all actually coming at us? Just all of them? You could give me a perception for that. That works. Oh. We only roll 20s in this house. You look at them. Not only are they all coming to you. You can see... They're coming for the man who rolled the natural blood earlier. Not only are they all coming to you. You can see their mouths are dry. Their teeth are unusually dry. There... You can count the ribs on them. Their bellies are skinny. Shit. These wargs are starving. Oh. In that case... Renee, do you have illusion magic? No, I don't. Fuck. I get up and that's half my movement. Shit. I don't have enough time to look for my things. These creatures are starving. Throw your food out somewhere to lure them away. And I am going to look at a warg. Which one do I want to do? Let's see. That one's 45 feet away. I'll say this one. It's 45 feet away. It's far enough away. And I'm going to cast dissonant whispers on it to try to push it away. I'm going to reach into its mind and I am going to make it believe that not only are we not food, but we are the predators. And I cast dissonant whispers on it, which is sick psychic, but... Okay. Yep. The main thing is the save. That's only a really small amount of damage. How wise can a warg be? Right? How wise can a warg possibly be? I can roll one good thing. One good thing today. That matters, please. Oh, man. That 22 perception didn't matter, huh? Not really. It told me the wargs were hungry. I mean, it did tell me more. I'm being pedantic, but... And that warg fails. It halts and kind of skids across the snow and starts to back away snarling. It has been feared. Which one was feared? This one, right? Isn't that what dissonant whispers? Yes. So, it's not feared? I can click on it for you. Yeah, yeah. Just to make sure. It must... I believe it must use its reaction to run as far away... Yeah, it must immediately use its reaction if available to move as far its speed away from me as possible. Gotcha. Yeah. So, it will do that... Actually, it does that right now because it's not at service. Yes, it must use its reaction. It immediately starts to look at the other direction, seeing that you are the predator. And that does make a couple of the other wargs hesitate. Then, as a bonus action, I am going to turn to Enoch, Luna, and Scorpio. I will reach my hands out as tiny, bright pink lines shoot out and I connect with their minds. And I will give them the alacrity necessary to immediately move up to their speed as a reaction if they so choose. Oh, actually, it's four people. Okay. It's four people. I can use it on Renee as well. Fuck all these guys. Everybody but me. I don't need to move, but they do. Here is my... No, no, we're just going to surround you. It's called mantle of inspiration. Mantle of inspiration, nice. Yep, I love mantle of inspiration. Yes, hello. As I connect with all of your minds and sort of not force you, but influence you, push you, your bodies to activate that bit of adrenaline and move immediately. Let me just... You also gained five temporary hit points. You're welcome. Thank you. I just need to see how powerful this one thing is. I didn't see the bottom of the map and that there are... We are getting surrounded. This is a pack. Cool. Is it 510 HP? Yep, 510 for HP to all four of you and you can immediately use your reaction to move up to your speed if you would like. Cool. Let me make sure I'm still within Shadow Dad limits. I definitely am into Shadow Dad. Scorpio gets up onto the cart and is getting ready to pull out a bow. Cool. Fine. I am going to start... As my vision is coming back in, I'm going to stumble over here and make my way to the cart so that I can eventually find cover. 510. That's just part of my turn. Let's just watch that move. Actually, I'm going to go ahead and use this rock as my cover. I'm just going to put myself here then. Try and get myself more out into seeing a more open area so I can gather all the information. Okay. Next is Scorpio's turn. He's going to take out his longbow and he's going to fire a shot directly at that warg that you're going for. Luna. Fight this man for stealing my kill. That's where to go. He hits and he is going to use distracting strike on it. Ooh. It allows the next attack on it to gain advantage. Any deals a little bit of extra damage? Yep. The arrow goes into the warg's shoulder and it snarls a little bit because it takes a nice arrow. I'll let you have that one. Scorpio calls out to you. Letting me have it. Next, Dino. The last thing I need is to be surrounded. I really want to try more intimidation with this if I can, Joe. What's your plan? I'm going to spend my action and I am going to actually do the thing. I'm going to use my radiant soul and I'm bringing out the mechanical wings as you see is he is recognizing that we are out the fuck numbered and also vastly unprepared so in light of seeing Nathaniel kind of getting one to start running away burst out in this steel blue light and just go straight 30 feet into the air. Okay. Yeah. I'll say you can do an intimidation for that. It's a big bright glowy man with mechanical wings appearing out of nowhere that they thought was just going to be easy food. Oh my God. The food glows. The food is lights up. Look at the shiny. It's like a quest marker. That's investigation, not intimidation. Yeah. If you eat the food, you level up. Yeah. Sorry. Six. A whole six. Look, it's shiny. Shiny food. Wow. You transform. That's for sure. The wargs are unfazed by this. They do see that. They do see that since you're up in the air, their attention has been redirected to the rest of the party that is grounded. Good angle for you. Good angle, but Joe, is there a clip nearby? Joe, from my perception, do I see that there is a possible way to get them away from the party and then also kind of keep them away from the party like a cliff or like something? Hmm. Give me a perception check. Okay. Okay. I have an idea. Let's see if you can look around by under high pressure. Why? Why? There are no good roles today. There are no good roles. There's no such thing. No, it's so good. You could possibly lead them to some kind of cliff face. It might take some exploring since you are under high pressure and there's a lot going on. It's hard to focus on anything in particular. Okay. Then I am going to... So, Joe, would it be purposeful to say that I have all the wargs' attention? No. I thought he said they were redirected from you. You were redirected away from you since you are up in the air. Good. They can't reach you up there, so they're not going to bother. All right, that's fine. You want to know what? Action surge. I'm putting one in, I guess this one. Okay, does your gun have a range of 85 feet? It has a 240-foot maximum range. What is the optimal range? 60 to 240. 60, so you will be shooting at disadvantage at that range. If you choose something that's 60 feet or less, then you will... There's a couple others up here that you can hit without hitting. This guy, this guy, this guy. I'll do the one that I can see right here up top. That one? Okay. You can shoot that one. Yes, that hits. Bang! That loud noise echoes throughout the mountains. Also, I could do an extra 1d4 radiant damage because the wings are up. Nice. All right, three and a d4. Wait, is the radiant damage... Is it a d4 or is it tied to your level? I thought the radiant damage was tied to your level. Unless it's different for protectors. I haven't played a protector before. I've only played Scourge and Fallen. It does three extra points of radiant damage because of my level. Okay, so it is based on level. Six. Three piercing, three radiant. Six. This shining light just goes over and... You blast it and it hits the warg and a bright light just kind of briefly flashes over the spot that you hit at kind of along the leg area. Anything else? You have an additional bonus action because of your accent search. I would something, literally anything to get us out of this as quickly as possible. Oh, if you can't think of anything, then no need to. No. All right. Yeah, no, it's fine. All right, I'm done. Renee. I'm done with my action. Your turn. Hello. Listen, this is another one of my handy dandy spells. It's pretty common. I'm going to shatter these two wolves. Okay. I'm going to shatter them. Show me the shatter. Hopefully that screaming will also intimidate at least one of the wolves, depending on how awesome this role is. We'll see. You have to make a... Constitution save? Okay. Yeah, Constitution save 14 or else you get 15 thunder damage. They take the full damage as a loud humming noise cracks and you can see them whimper and halt in their... in their advance. All right. And the crack also... The crack also echoes throughout the mountains and you can hear the echo bouncing back to you from higher up. And the level inches work, so we're fine, right? I won. I did it. So here's my very smart Nathaniel plan. We kill a lot of these wargs and stack them on top of each other. Martin, ride it. That sounds like death. That might actually be a good idea. Anyway. All right, so the wargs turn. They're... These two kind of whimper at the sound. Let's see. They are hungry, but they know when they're beat and one of them runs away. Good. Yeah, you better run. The other one runs directly towards you. See, what's there? Mr.... Mr.... They're all very fast, so let's see. This one runs up to you, Renee, and is going to go try and take a bite out of you. Take it away now. No, please. I'm squishy. And your AC is... We just need to shove you both in the cart. Yeah, it's able to grab your swift movement kind of on the arm and scratch you. Valid. With its teeth, you take four slashing damage. I can do that. That's fine. This one runs up to you as well. Oh, shit. That might be in trouble. Oh, it trips and kind of buries its face in the snow. That's an actual one. Okay, good. Oh, that's adorable, but fuck. This one. No, no, no, no. Kind of over the dead body, up to you, Nathaniel. Uh-oh. And it's going to take a bite out of you. It's not. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You manage to dodge out of the way. Oh, God. That's how you get a... Listen, Nathaniel, I have a plan. I have a plan. You see this radius? You see this radius? There's a plan. That is a fireball plan. No. Yeah, but I just did something close to it. No. Anyway, let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. This one is able to find a good opening on you, Luna, and bites you for four damage as well. For the record, AC 17. Oh, 17, you have two swords. Oh, luckily. Yeah. No, you're able to parry that warg. Oh, okay. Oh, thank God. I will shout that from the rooftop side. Good, good, good. This one, however, will also be parried. This one. Oh, God. Is able to get you through your defenses, being bombarded by so many at once. Fuck. Oh, luckily you only take one damage. Okay. Okay. Oh, that didn't even take out of my... Thank you for that 10-pick, baby. This one as well. Oh, hello. They're all dog pile in you, but they're rolling shit. So this one is not able to pierce your defenses. This one is going to take a bite at your echo. Yeah, his AC is 16 because he doesn't have two swords. And it bites through his swords, and he puffs into smoke. He has unfortunately been defeated. Well, Echo Dad's coming back in a turn. So it's fine. This one is going to start making its way towards the cart, towards the cart, towards the cart. All right. That's a lot of wargs. Luna, what do you do? You're surrounded by four wargs. That I am. That's I am. Well, Shadow Dad, I kind of need you to come back. So yeah, behind this one. That awkward moment. That awkward moment when you realize you don't have to outpace the wargs, you just have to outpace Luna. So Shadow Dad's going to appear on the other side of this guy. All right. I'm just letting you know an action surge is going to be burned because I am unleashing my radiant consumption and I'm bursting into light because everything around me needs to take burning damage now. Very, very nice. So they all take three? Yep, three radiant damage on all these fuckers. Burning my action search for the day because I also want to take a smack. OK, yes, they all take a bright, just a big old light shining right in their faces. Take your smack. Yep. Yeah, I'm smacking at this one. He is flanked by Shadow Dad. So I believe that's a plus two. And retribution with radiant consumption. Let's go. Do it. Well, there wasn't that 20 in there. There wasn't that 20 in another universe. We would have seen it. That's depressing. But even with flanking, that is not enough. All right. Unleashing my incarnation because I took an attack action. Shadow Dad, make it better. Do better than me. He did. Yes, he does do better. All right. Which one? Which one are you specifically attacking? Specifically that one. OK, that's the one we were flanking. OK, I just need to mark a lot of things. I am sorry. No worries. No worries. OK. Yes. Shadow Dad cuts into that war pretty heftily. Nathaniel. You can see there's a war that has run right up to you. Would I have been able to shout at Scorpio to cover the others and that I'm fine? Yeah, I could say that would probably be a free action. Thank you. Hinox, stay in the air. I'm going to bring my hands up once more. And these thin pink lines are going to shoot out from my fingers to Renee, Scorpio, Luna, and myself. Oh. As I force my body to move away from this warg, and I'm going to try to climb up onto this thing just where Scorpio is as well. Yep. Let me just move this to the back so that you're on top. I don't have to roll because I does not provoke attacks of opportunity. So that's going to be Luna and Renee as well. Oh. Using your mental. She wants it. Right. Yes, this is mental of inspiration. All right, awesome. Are you telling us to come up with you on the card or are we just refreshing our 10 page page? I mean, if you like, you do what you would like to. It is, it does not provoke a tax of opportunity. I'm hopping up on there with you. Let me make sure. I remember. Oh, yeah, without provoking opportunity attacks. Yeah. If you want to not be surrounded by four dogs, you can be, but it's up to you. I mean, there's four dogs surrounding me, but I also have a shadow dad and insane defense. So I'm weighing my options here about bringing the four dogs to you squishies. Well, you know what? I appreciate it. Anyway, I'm going to climb up here and I see more of these dogs, but I'm not particularly interested in in wasting all of my spell slots. I'm already wasting enough resources trying to survive this. I am going to hold my hand out and try to infect the mind of this warg as I cast mind sliver. Hmm. Ooh. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. See if they make us. Oh, no, not at all. This one whimpers a little bit and immediately starts booking at the other direction, but takes a brief look at the dead warg and almost is tempted, but leaves. It's like, no, fuck that. What a good idea. No, I'm telling you should throw the dead wargs at them there. They have food and we can leave. That's my turn. Okay. Next is Scorpio and he looks at you climbing up Nathaniel. The first time in the wilderness friend. First time on a fucking mountain surrounded by walls. And he just pats you on the back and he. Don't touch me. I'm sorry for him in advance. He is going to take a very special arrow and fire it out right over here and it's going to explode. And let's see if the warg to make. It explodes in a small area of fire and covers the wargs fur and singes it. And this one is dead. Sorry. That one had your name on it. I just was tempted. Told you about stealing my kills. You'll hear about this later. And that'll be his turn. Enoch. You are still 30 feet up in the air. You fly and flown to a new position. Yeah. I'm at the top of this tree. And I'm just going to try and fold myself into the right position to try and just speculate to the best of my ability. I'm going to put one in this guy. Okay. On objection. Nice. Okay. Let me see the damage. Nice. Nice. And it takes an additional three. Yeah. It takes an additional three radiant. Okay. Yes. You fire into it and another loud bang echoes throughout the entire mountains. And this time the echo coming back sounds bassier. Oh, we're bringing the avalanche. Let's go. And this warg is looking rough. Very, very rough. Nice. Can I see why that sounds different comparative than before? You can give me another perception. That's going to be my bonus action. You can hear a low rumbling from where? Who knows? I shout to everyone. Oh, there's something coming down the mountain. And I, uh, it's my third shot. I'm on the silver bullet, so I'm going to cock back the hammer and get ready for the last shot before reload. Okay. Okay. Renee, you're on the cart with Nathaniel and Scorpio. What do you do? Um, well, hearing that, do I have any idea of what's going on? You can give me a perception as well. I would love to. Thank you. That will take your free action. That's okay. I don't mind taking my free action because she's a thinker. She doesn't have a lot of talking going on right now. That won't help me. You try to wait and listen. You can hear the rumbling as well. However, it's pretty drowned out by the snarling and barking of all these warps. Can I get Renee's inspiration back or something? No, that's okay. Um, well, ain't no time like a sleepy time. Going for sleepies again. Okay, where? Where are the areas? I'm going to, let me make the circle first just so I can make sure I got it. So it is a 20 foot radius. Leave that's right. Is that right? Uh, I think larger than that. Okay. Yeah. Cause like 20 feet is five squares. Okay. So it would be twins and 10 squares tall. And two, three, four, five. You think? One, two, three, four. Sorry. Four. It would be eight squares wide and tall. Sorry. One, two, three, four. Make sure I get this right. Uh, so it's, it's a radius from the center. So it's actually like twice that size. Thank you. There you go. So is that the area of sleep you would like to do? Uh, okay. Right there. Give me your sleep right there. I'll just put them all to sleepies. Snooty time. Oh, that was wonderful. That was better. Why is it blue? Interesting. Oh, that means I got an eight and a one. You rolled a max and a. Interesting. Because everyone knows that green and red make blue. So this one goes to sleep. This one goes to sleep. And this one goes to sleep. You have three. Three of them are now out of combat. Wait. Three out of three. That was like 50% of them. That ain't bad. I'll take it. That means that they only have understood. Yep. Next are the works turns. And this one immediately seeing you guys go up on the cart and defeating more work, seeing that there's not as much competition immediately starts sinking its teeth into this dead war. And this one as well starts immediately just just going down just going fully in on this one. This one as well. Those are not us. And actually these two start to fight. They're howling at each other hounding barking and they start to fight. Hold on. Oh, shit. Yep. And they start to go at it and pierce their fangs into each other. This one. When to go warrants. When to go warrants. When to go warrants. It's going to. When to warrants. 17. It is a 17. I'm just seeing if it's going. Yeah, it's going for the body. Okay. It immediately starts immediately as soon as that other war has been cooked by Scorpio, it immediately sinks its teeth into it and starts to bite in this one. Oh, God. This one's going to attack you. Does not make it. This one's going to attack you. Does not get through. Get the fuck away from me, bitches. This one is going to try and hop up and hit Scorpio. He can handle it. He's fine. Oh yeah. He's absolutely fine. He just, he just kicks the war down as it jumps up. Sorry. No pets allowed. It's probably for the best. Your good fit. Your goldfish died of painful death. Why don't you have to bring it up? That sounds like a very interesting story for another time. I would like to hear it when I live. And this one is going in and starts to tongue of war. Wargs dead body. Oh my God. Some of the other one. Oh my God. Luna, your turn. Well, first off, these three wargs are getting cooked because radiant conception. Oh, yes, they do. And this one is on the ropes. Didn't that one? Awesome. That one's getting a bath. All right. Retribution. Let's go. That's a fuck. Oh, no. It's not getting the bath, I guess. You should have been nice to the dog. Yeah, I've been so nice to these dogs. You should have been nice to the dog. You stab hard into the ground and you lodge your sword into some, some stray stones that you could not see due to the snow. It will require your bonus action to pull it out. All right. Bonus action to pull it out. All right. And that'll be my turn, I guess, because I got nothing else except for these fuckers burning. All right. Nathaniel, your turn. I'm going to look at this scene that's happening around me. I'm going to take a couple of breaths as my adrenaline wears down. My eyes go from alert and erratic. My eyes slink down to calm. My face betrays no emotion. And I look down at the wargs that are currently fighting over a dead body. Go, shoo. I cast mine sliver on one of them. I only one psychic's enough. Leave. The main thing is you want the effect. There's the effect. It doesn't doesn't really matter. It's just, you know, one damage. Oh, it doesn't. It doesn't go away. Oh, no, that's that's a different. That's a dissonant whispers. I'm just trying to hurt it. I'm just trying to hurt this one so that it goes away. Yep. You see it flinch ever so slightly, but continue just gnawing into its former pacmate. I guess we're not taking that skin home. I am going to like just sort of like without betraying my ability to balance on this thing. I'll stand as straight as I can. So your name is Scorpio. I imagine that you are a a cancer. You. I absolutely hate you. I'm like, really? That's three points of psychic damage to Enoch, please. Ten points to Slytherin. You see, you see his face go over confusion a little bit and he looks over to Luna. Well, I wouldn't say it's that harsh, but I do know that sometimes I can get on people's nerves. I end my turn. There's nothing else I want to do. Personally insult him like that. All right. No one's ever been that harsh on my on me before. He's harsh like that to everyone. Don't take it personally. All right. And he is going to take another shot with his with his trusty bow. Oh, and it goes wide. It lodges into the tree as the work dodges out of the way. I believe the session where I do one damage is I can't believe the turn where I do one damage is the one that I like the most. You know, your turn. Your silver bullet is loaded. All right. Easiest thing that I can do is just fire. Fire. Then a fire. Then a mist. Then a fire again. Then a mist. A fire. And then a mist. Unfortunately, you do miss. However, the loud pinging, piercing sound of the silver bullet echoes throughout the mountain once again. Yeah, I was aiming for this dude, but. And all of you, all of you have a passive perception above 10. So you do hear a loud rumbling coming from the peak of the mountain. Oh, damn it. You have two turns. To go where? You have two turns before the avalanche covers. To take cover. That's what we have two turns to do. Renee. I'm going straight up into the air further. All right. Am I going to be okay on this thing or do I need to move? You are able to, so that thing, the size is not accurate since you don't take up fully five feet of space. Of course. So it can fit you in the cart. Although a bit of it has been broken off and the piece of cloth has been torn, the covering. Okay. If I were to grab Nathaniel and he anchors into the thing, would I be able to, would that be considered my action or could I say that I'm like pulling him in there and then trying to fix the wagon as fast as possible? I'll say that's an action. Yeah. What are you trying to do by fix? Basically, like you said, the tarp was a little bit torn. I'm basically trying to like create a little hole that we can like potentially not die. Okay. From an avalanche. I don't know if this is a good idea. I'll say to fix the cart, the best that you can, either a sleight of hand or survival check. Okay. To try and put the pieces back together as best as you can, mend what you can. They're the same either way. But Renee will also like basically like hearing, like hearing the sound of the avalanche coming closer. She just like looked over at Nathaniel like, we need to take cover now. It's just whoop. The cart is our best option. Yep. And in we go. And I will do sleight of hand, I guess. Ooh. All right. You're able to pull some extra bit of tarp that has been like kind of tucked into the side of the cart. You pull it up, cover, and you do see that the kind of front of the tarp does have like laces, like rope laces that can tie it closed. Oh. The cart has been repaired. I'm going to put it upright to signify that. Hey. Nice. And probably call out it like, that would be a good time to get some cover. And that's my turn. But also actually, no, no, no, just kidding. I have a bow detection. I'm safe. You're safe. Enoch's flying. Luna's the only one I'm worried about. I gave you Bartek inspiration. Can I double it? I would enjoy it. If I may make a slight retraction, I did, like, I did want to move closer towards those wolves if I can, but if not, then not. I'm going to say that you already made your choice to move upwards on your turn. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Perhaps your next turn, when the avalanche, the final turn before the avalanche, you can move closer to the wards. Yay. Before we move on, I already gave one of my Bartek's to Luna. I'll give my other Bartek to Scorpio. All right, awesome. So, yeah, get in here. Hurry up and get in here, friends. I'm coming. I have a plan. I'm coming. You better have a plan. I'm coming, damn it. Good. You know, that's very nice of you. I wish Luna would pay me compliments from time to time. I don't even stop with that. I'm just trying to make sure none of you die. Oh, God. Next are the wargs turned, and the sleeping wargs don't do anything. They're asleep. Let's see. How many of them start running away from the avalanche? That's a good question. Oh, no. The poor sleeping wargs don't stay to chance. It's fine. Fuck them. It's fine. Okay. These two tried to drag off the body, still tugging it, kind of fighting over it, but they kind of go away, trying to run away from the avalanche. These two continue to fight. However, one seeing the avalanche starts to run away, and this one continues to chow down on the body. Hungy. This one, the radiant damage from you, it activates on your turn, yeah? Yeah. Okay, so he's still fine. He's still chowing down. This one gets a bite in on Scorpio. Oh, it's... And he goes to parry a few blows, and while he holds one with his sword, kind of like holding its teeth back, it scratches him, kind of gnawing at him. And these two are going to try to hit you, Luna. Once again. Yeah, this one gets a good scratch in on you as well. Okay. And you take six damage. Hold on to my 10-page peagon. Oh, no. And this one's going to try and hit you as well. Luckily, you're able to parry the blows away from that one. Okay, and now it's your turn, Luna. All right, so I'm going to invoke a really cool ability here. So Shadow Dad's going to move here. I believe. Hold on, I'm just going to check because I'm pretty sure I can have him move by commanding him, but I'm going to make sure because if not, I can't do this. One moment, I am so sorry. No, it is a free action to have him move. He just can't move outside of a certain radius. And if a cloud of ravens feathers, Luna disappears. And appears where her echo is, an echo down in her Swiss place. Nice. Nice idea. Uh-huh. And I want to get on the cart. I know it'll promote an attack of opportunity. I'd just rather take one and not three. Okay, good idea. That would. So, oh yeah, you easily are able to move out of the way from the warg. Yeah, I want to follow Renee and Nathaniel into the cart. I only have 15 feet of movement because teleporting takes 15 half-year movement. But I'm pretty sure it's enough for me to get into the cart and maybe drag Scorpio in with me because he got hurt. Yep. Yeah, he is just kind of like hanging one leg out on the edge, like sticking out with his sword and his bow, kind of each in a hand. And he's, come on, and you pull him in. You're an idiot. And that's that. Oh, I'm also dropping my radiant consumption because I don't want to burn everybody. That would be smart. Actually, when does radiant consumption happen at the beginning of your turn or the end? Hold on. Let me check. I believe it's at the beginning, but I also could be wrong. Yeah, that is important. That's celestial resistance, not radiant consumption. Once on each of your turns, it does not specify. Okay. Wait, no, no, no. Sorry, that was the other thing. That was the other thing. At the end. So no, they don't take it. Okay, at the end. All right. Yeah, the wargs would not have taken that damage, then. Yeah. Shadowed out of staying there, though, to give them something to fight. Does that mean we do? No, she dismissed it. I dropped it. Okay, understood. She dropped it like getting it. You are all in the cart. Nathaniel, what do you do? Now that I am in a much more inquisitive mindset, back to my old ways, I look around this cart, this ramshackle, disgusting thing that we're in, and we're expecting it to stop a force of nature. I would like to investigate to see if this thing is even going to hold if an avalanche hits it. You may. We only roll 20s in this house. You look it over. It seems like it could use a bit of renovating. And this thing might hold, but you're not so sure it'll depend on the avalanche. But there is a very possible likelihood that taking an avalanche may crush this thing. How big are these trees? They're about like average oak tree size. Theoretically, would they be able to hold an avalanche if it hit them? I'll say I'll use your high investigation. And it could certainly probably help tone down the force against the cart. If the cart was propped up against it or if... Yes, as a sort of buffer. This wagon's not going to hold. Luna, get your echo over here. We need to push this cart against the tree. We'll do. And on my next turn, I guess that's what I'm doing. Okay. I can't do anything. So I'm just going to... I'll be here. Next is Scorpio's turn. I'll go back to my turn. How did you do that? By dragging the thing from the turn order back up to the top. Oh, that makes sense. I've always wondered how to go backwards on the turn order. But never mind. I guess that makes sense. All good. All right. Scorpio, he thinks for a moment. I see a plan. And he hops out of the cart as well, ready to help Luna. Okay, cool. All right. This is the final turn. At the end of this turn, i.e., after Scorpio goes, the avalanche will cover the area. This is the final... This is your final turn before the avalanche. Enoch. I thought I saved my inspiration. What do you do? I am extremely useless in this situation. At least you're safe. You're in a safe spot. You are safe. I'm glad you're in a safe spot. Do you want me to recommend something? Enoch's not glad he's in a safe spot because he's seeing everyone down there. Do you mind if I recommend something? Sure. I'll take any suggestion at this point. I'm going to put one in him then. Oh, fuck. No, I can't. No, you got to reload. You shot your four shots. Action. Action. I pop open the pistol. Shells fly out. Reload. Look it back. Even that... Do you have an action search left or did you use it? No, he used his already. Fuck. At the end of the day, it's okay. I was just looking at that like this whole time going, ooh, we're going to move it over there. We need to get Mr. Boyo out of the way. Echo Dad can probably distract it. Push comes to shove. Okay. That's fair. I am nose diving straight to the cart and I am going to see... Do you have enough movement? I thought you were 60 feet up in the air. He could dash. He's 30 feet up in the air. Oh, wait, no, he used his action to reload, never mind. Yep. Yeah, you are 60 feet up. So you're approximately 120 feet away from the party. Oh, no. You're literally just up there. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. All right. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. We have a plan. It'll be okay. Three relatively strong people who can help execute it. I think we'll be okay. I'm just going to... You think I'm strong? ...over by the tree and I'm just going to prop myself on top of that. Well, the tree is not 60 feet tall, but yes, you are above the tree. Slowly lowering myself just in case. All right. In case I need to drop and then start helping. Oh, that's going to be a nasty fall damage. Catching children's wings. Yeah, like if you guys start tumbling down the mountain, I'm going to have to start flying to pick you guys up. Valid. Hopefully we won't. Rene, your turn. Yeah. This thing is already coming towards us, but I'm afraid if I use this one thing that I do have, it'll just make the avalanche come faster. What's that? I have thunder clap. I don't think you could make it move any faster. I think you could make it worse. Thunder clap has a hundred mile sound radius. Oh, it's a very loud smell. Yeah, that might end up causing another one. Yeah. Probably shouldn't. Wow, Joe, you had two avalanches in your game. Okay, I'm just. I think about what I could do and I'm not very smart. Me as a player, I'm not very smart, so I'm panicking. I mean, if you want a thunder clap, these bitches fucking go for it. It's your character. Do you know what? The thing is, I know Renee is smarter than me. I want to do it. But you know, you know, Renee's in your head like that's a bad idea. Renee's already in my head like, bitch, what? Do it. Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. Nathaniel is terrible. The thing going a five foot radius so I literally have to go in like squeeze between you two and then cast it at this dude and then go back. And at the end of the day, it doesn't even cause that much damage. It's just very loud. Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. This is not Nathaniel speaking. This is Dabby. Just do it. Dabby gives terrible advice. All right. Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. Renee is a bit smarter than that. She is going to use what little strength she has to help push the cart when everybody's pushing the cart over there. Maybe if we all work together, we can run it over. I mean, if you're giving the help action, that means you're giving advantage on the checks. Yeah. I'll help with the cart. I'll help with the cart. You'll give the help action to Luna then. Yep. I'm down with that. Yay. Next are the work's turns and them seeing the avalanches, they're all now going to start running away. Oh, thank God. Some of them are later than others. So these kind of go... It wasn't even a problem. This one tries to drag this body with it. It's being very greedy, but it doesn't get as far. It's Hunky, okay? Hunky boy wants his food. This one runs out of Scorpio's attack of opportunity range, but he lets it go so he doesn't want a dirty sword. This one is going to try and drag away the warg body as well, whereas this one is tug of warring it because they're fighting, because they're hungry. This one's going to run away as well. Just on its own, without any penalty to movement. For the record, technically my shadow gets attacks of opportunities. It just takes my reaction. I'm going to let these fuckers go, but that is something I want to be known is that my ego can take my attack of opportunity. It just takes my reaction to do so. Good to know. Good to know. They're fucking broken, man. It's great. Luna, your turn. Jumping out of the cart and starting to push it towards the tree. I'm helping. We will make those checks at the end of the round. Nathaniel, anything you want to do? Well, let's see. There's an avalanche coming. We're all trying to push the cart to the tree, and I have such a low strength score that if I tried to help, then the cart would be pulled towards me. Might I recommend something? You know what? I'll take recommendations at this point. Only because I'm thinking about it. Remember when I, like, reinforced the... the cart itself? Maybe there's any way to further reinforce it? Question mark? I don't know if I can do that, but I could definitely try to give Scorpio the help action so that Lunas and Scorpio will be pushing together and then we'll just be assisting. We'll just be assisting. Yeah, it's not what you'd like to do. Yeah, I'll be like, go there. Push it that way. The torque is axle-lated in that acute circumference. That's what you'll do, and Luna, I'm going to need... Scorpio gets out with you and starts pushing with you. And... He's smarter than I am. As you're pushing together, he just looks at you and he's like, how can we never just go to dinner? Are you really asking me that now? Tell you what, if we make it out, I'll make plans for it, all right? Thank goodness. A normal reunion for once. And... Meanwhile, Nathaniel, you're telling him, like, push with the torque and use the back and he's like, do you want to get out and push? No. I say with utmost sincerity. No, of course not. All right. Roll your athletics. All right. Remember, I have a vantage and I will be adding Bartek inspiration to this. Very, very nice. 19. The Bartek inspiration, I'm adding it anyway. It does six, I believe at the moment, yes? I don't know why I always think it's a D4. It is a 1D6. That's a 22. 22. You and Scorpio push in tandem, taking steps in unison as you push the cart back behind the tree and the avalanche starts. Would we have time to duck into it before the avalanche hits? Absolutely. You push it down and almost nearly at the last second, you hop in and the avalanche covers the entire area beneath you, Enoch. You see a white sheet. Just bury all these warg bodies and... That's some nasty business. Those in the cart, your vision goes very, very dark, very quickly as you are covered underneath the snow and you feel the force of it push against the sides of the cart as it almost pushes it away from the tree, but luckily the tree has buffered the force of the avalanche and you are okay, albeit under several feet of snow. Congratulations, you survived. I don't know that. I just imagine that in that interior panic, Luna grabbed on to Scorpio. He would not have noticed until the avalanche had finished and then he sees you grabbing him and he just coughs. What? What? Is there a walk in here? I can't see. No, he's just being in. Is there any... Nothing. Yeah, nothing. Is there any way to start digging our way out? Yeah, you can... Yeah. You just slowly start to dig your way up and Enoch, you just see that the entire area has been silenced and a lot of the trees have been covered to the tip. Worried... Worried about everyone, I am getting on top of where I had last seen the cart and I am just using the wingbeats for as long as time as I have left with it just to kind of spread away the snow as much as possible because I imagine it's as powdery as it can be right now and then as soon as those dissipate I am just going to start with my... with the robotic hand just kind of sloing off as much snow as I can. Basically using it as a giant... as a hand shovel. As just... Yep, both teams digging in the same direction you... the cart team as you kind of push open the the covering of the roof of the cart the snow kind of piles in on you kind of waist down waist up and you dig and dig and dig and Enoch, you dig and dig and dig and it kind of starts to crumble in and kind of cover you guys up to the neck and you see daylight and Enoch digging away at the snow and he sees you all. You guys see... you guys see pure stress and anxiety on this face. I just want to say now I'm trying to get René and Nathaniel out first before I climb out we need to get squished out of here. Yep, and Scorpio helps you along. Extending a hand to pull everyone out. I I stare at this hand for quite a I stare at this hand for quite a while. René is going to take the hand first just to be just one because we need help and two also to show it's okay. I stare at the at the hand for long enough that I begin to sink back into the snow. My face still betrays no emotion as I just start to suddenly go down. Nathaniel, please that you literally will grab him by his shoulders and yank him. And then as soon as you get up, René your middle finger for a half a second before going back. I do not respond but when René comes to get me, I'll grab her hand. René will just like yank him out. You're such you're such a child. Let him give Scorpio a hand out. Yep. As he grabs yours and you pull him up interesting lot you got here. We're an interesting team. Well then, he's off the snow off of himself. I guess it goes my it goes my pay. I mean, quite frankly I'm glad we're still alive. I've never seen that many walks in one spot. They were starving. Spending a couple hours digging. Starving you say. Starving. Yes. Something clearly is hunting whatever they usually eat out here. I can't imagine it's just wayward travelers. Which means that there's something more out here besides walks that isn't usually here. He puts a hand to his chin for a minute and snaps. Have you have you lots in some strange folk in what is it? Green robes. Got little clean and black robes with their insignia. Green robes with strange symbols on it. Oh, yeah. We have. They've been traveling through ever since they were here. Wargs have gone antsy. Scorpio, how much have you heard about the Spine of Death? Very little. Only heard that there's some kind of rowdy group. Probably just some teenagers getting upset. Wanted a rebel. No, not at all. They are a terrorist group that's been causing a huge ruckus in darkness proper. That's where I got summoned to. Ah. You think they had something to do with the wargs and usual prey? I mean, I know they were up here. They're the one who messed with my father's tomb. Ah. That's true. I don't know what they'd be doing up here with. I'd say it's probably no raising wargs. I don't know. I don't want to find out out here either. I don't think it is that if there were, you would expect there to be wargs out here. The dead kind, of course. The undead kind. Maybe another yeti came through. I don't know. Hmm. I do believe that the spine of death is involved. The timing is too specific for it to be anything else. Hi. But, but we should be much more careful. Not just because the necromancers have shown that they're able to hide very easily. But if they've gotten further along the last group, then they could have undead giant creatures. They agree, which is why we need to keep our eyes open. And as she's saying that, it's going to be her healing word on the Daniel, because she probably noticed that he was, he got a cut. He got a scrape. Oh, follow. Oh, no, I don't have the other thing I wanted to get. Never mind. Technically, it was a bruise. So it was all internal scraping. Well, you got knocked down by a wolf. I'm assuming you heard in some way, shape or form. You're being very proud right now. So just automatic. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Now we got to find the main road. Aye. I know where that is. Yeah. All right. Perhaps take you along a safer one than one infested with wolves. Please. If you know one, I thought this was the safe one, but apparently not. And I'm going to pat him on the shoulder and give him my healing hands, because he also got bit. He did get bit. He got bit. So that's three healing. You know, how often are you able to fly into the air? He hesitates to answer that. Usually about once a day. Right. And you've just used it. In that case, I look up at the sky. Is there a chance to or how long have we been walking? It's about mid evening by now. I see. So we still have some time. Understood. How far do you think we are? We should be making it there by nightfall. That's fortunate. Good. Good. And the city at least is safe. Hope at least. I've never seen this many wolves, but I feel like I'd hear about more animals storming into Yetzal than normal. Of course. Hope the city has at least some to drink. Oh no, we've got plenty of this. Warm's the hot. Come. And he starts to lead the way into the mountains. And we're going to take our little bit of break, but not before you guys level up to level four. Scorpio leads you guys along a very worn down and snow covered road up to Yetzal, which is a very not fully developed area. It's a lot of run down stone buildings. A lot of, you know, you don't see a lot of people outside. A lot of the architecture has been makeshift and mostly just to sustain as best they can. However, in the center of this town, you do see that there is a statue of a man that has been worn and torn down. You can see there are massive chunks missing out of the stone. And he holds a sword that is very reminiscent of Luna's. And when you guys approach it, Luna, you can feel your sword getting cold on its handle. Which one? Oh, for the record, Absolution is the fancy sword with the with the bird skulls on the cross guard and retribution by common sword. He's talking about Absolution. Absolution, yes. Got it. And you can see that the fancy sword is the same one that he holds. And you can see as you approach, Scorpio just brings you there. I've got a few things to do in town. I'll meet you at the inn. Uh-huh. She's, I'll see you there. And he just kind of rubs your shoulder a little bit and pats it and leaves you. She's just, she kind of looks at her sword for a minute because of that cold feeling. That's not from the fact it's cold out here. That's like... So this is him? Renable? Walk up? Yeah. Vajra, nice wind. Hero of Yestil. I'm sorry. Can you spell that? Hold on. V-A-D-R-I. Oh, oh, oh. Your father's name, yes. Yes. Yes, yes. I'm sorry. Can you say it again? I think it's V-A-D-R-I-N. Let me check. I don't remember how to say my father's name. Let me check my memory. Let me check. Where is, oh God, that's not, I need to check my Google Docs. Spell it that way for now and I'll type it to you in a minute. Okay. I'll ask you at your session. I'm sorry for interrupting. It's totally, totally fine. Oh, good. As far as Enoch goes, he's not even looking at the statue, kind of averting his gaze from it. I guess I want to assess the damage, at least as much as I can. I know it's getting dark, but I want to start seeing just how bad this thing's been hit. Yeah, you can give me an investigation for that. Okay. Nine. Okay. I'm two in jambles right now. Of course. Looking at around there, various cracks and various cracks, chipped pieces. It is barely recognizable as your father, especially in the facial area. If it weren't for the fact that you could call him as an echo, you could easily forget how he looks. And, yeah. Is this where his actual tomb site was? It is not. This is simply the statue, but you do know where the tomb site is. It is in a graveyard, kind of further north, but not past any horribly, you know, difficult terrain. I just don't think it's a good idea to go traipsing out that way right now when it's getting dark. So that might be something I do in the morning. Does anybody else seem to be around the statue or? I mean, Rene has walked up, kind of with you, not necessarily like... Oh, if you walked up beside her, you'd see... If you walked up beside her, you'd see her face is like steely. Luna's got a normally very relaxed expression, but it's her... It's a really hard look to read, and her hands are clenched, and she has drawn absolution at this point. She's not going to... It's more like, it's less like she's brandishing it and more like she's like... Just holding it? Yeah, like this is something dear to her, so... Did he give... Why not? Now, I've only heard this story a few times, and I'm sure there's a lot my father left out. But it's why he is revered as a hero here. The story he told me is that he was leading a platoon of men. And they were ambushed. There were... There was so much dead being raised, and his men were dropping, and then being raised themselves, it was... It wasn't looking good, and he was certain he was going to die, and then everything went quiet. And all the fighting around him had stopped, and the world had turned gray. And there was a woman who approached him. He told me he couldn't see her face. She just asked him if he wanted the power to stop this. And asked for something in return. He didn't have a lot of time to think. He always seemed like he struggled to recall this. He said the next thing he knew, all of... Everything was dead. The undead had been singed, and his men were safe and the cultists were running, and he had this. And I am gesturing to absolution. May I? She'll let you look at it, but she won't let you touch it. She won't let you hold it. She gives sort of an understanding nod of just... I won't try to... I simply want to look. Go ahead. That's fine. She nods. And I'm going to, because of my beautiful spell of the mark, detect evil and good on the sword. Interesting choice. I want to see if this is a good sword or a bad sword. Are you a good witch or a bad witch? I don't know if that's how that spell works, but I will leave it to you. I want to see if it works. I'm curious. I have aeration-less-she-elemental-fafiend or undead. What an interesting question. You do not. I don't know, maybe there's a soul in the sword. We don't know. It's a very least I think I'm going to know. A pause. I don't know if detect evil and good would detect that. That seems like a stronger divination spell would be required. I'm just looking through the notes just to be sure. I... I don't think that it would work, but if you want to be lenient, if this sword's magical properties, assuming it has some have to do with aberration, celestial, elemental-fafiend or undead, then it could ping based off of that. But this is more for detecting creatures or something. Yeah, this is more for detecting. You wouldn't detect anything from that sword. That's fair. Just trying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks for the clarification. Yeah. No problem. I hadn't read it enough anyway, so that's on me. No, no, no. That was a good try though. A for effort. But no, you wouldn't detect anything on that sword. That's fair. I need to just remember things better, so I'll get... I have a few questions. Yes? Firstly, of course, is that the whole story as far as you can remember? It's everything he ever told me. It was on the story he really liked to tell that often. I can imagine. You said that after the woman appeared, all of the undead dropped and the cultists ran. Mm-hmm. And your people were safe. His men were, yes. Right. And the sword was given by this woman then? I think so. Again, I'm not really clear on that detail. Of course. I can only imagine. How long ago? 80 years ago when Noah was raging. 80? Did I get the thing wrong? The necromancy war was 80? You said 80, yeah. Was it 80? Yes. Oh, she's... Right. Okay. Trying to do that math in my head. Understood. All good. Understood. No further questions for now. I write my book. Did he give that sword to you? He left it to me when he passed. He trusted you enough to keep it. It must have been some great power. I've had the sword looked at several times. I've never found anything weird about it. It's properties. I don't... So, I don't know. He always thought it was special. And, well, it's my father's sword, so I'm not going to just throw it away. I'm proud to fight with it. I just don't really know what it... I don't really know what its significance was to the story. Besides, he was given a sword and then everything died. Though I might be imagining things, but I swear I felt the hilt go colder when I saw what happened here. And, like, it's cold out here, sure, but the metal gets cold, but it doesn't get this cold. Strange. Exceedingly so. Is that something that has happened before? No. Never. Turning to Luna, if I may ask a very personal question, when did you come along in all this story? When was I born? Yeah. Well, I'm 33. So, 33 years ago, my birth giver left and my father raised me. I began writing my note again. Whereas a local watering hole, I could definitely use a drink. I'm sitting here, so I'm just going to point it. You would know, by watering hole, do you specifically mean like a well or do you just mean like a tavern or an inn? Like a tavern. Like a tavern? Yeah, you're able to direct him towards a very run-down. My vernacular. Very run-down place because, and you can see that the sign is just hanging loose and the words have been scuffed where you can't see the name of the tavern anymore. This is not, you know, you can tell that this town does not see a lot of action. Drinks a drink and he's just almost like, like, skipping towards there, almost. Before going to Jordan and Renee, we'll kind of like Luna's arm very like gently and just say, I don't know what kind of power maybe there, but at the very least, he plays the very honest girl. Her steely, like, gaze breaks and she smiles. Thank you. And she kind of like gets this look in her eye as if some sort of thing is like debating and then says to, comes to a conclusion in her hand and goes, at the very least, one that can gain us of a very interesting partner. What kind of partners are you? Well, because it's just like a she kind of like nudges you with her elbow a bit. You could say we're familiar with each other. Nature of all that keeps us apart pretty often. She's familiar. I think you know. I don't hide it. He likes to hide it, but I don't. Ask another question. Your power, the ability to project to your father's is that because you choose to make it history? That's how it came out the first time I learned how to do it. And could you tell me about the specifics of that? Of course, don't feel as though I, as though it is necessary to spill your entire life to me. Just, I'm interested. It came out in a fight. A fight I thought it was going to lose. I can only imagine it's just some sort of instinct. I just learned how to use it. A bit better. Figured out all the tricks. I see. And did you have that sword with you at the time? Yes. You never leave that sword, do you? I don't like to. Right. It's a piece of him that I carry with me. And well, also it's a damn good blade. Things stay sharp forever. That makes a lot of sense. All right. No further questions. Good drinks then. By all means, I could do something well. She's just like. Sounds lovely, actually. All right. So you guys are going to follow. If I got in there earlier, could I start earlier? You can. I was just going to get to you. Yes, you do go in while they are having this conversation. You can see that there's barely anyone inside. There is a single Dragonborn who is cleaning a glass behind the counter. You can see that there seems to be an orc that has passed out on one of the one of the tables. And you can see Scorpio just going through a list of papers. It seems just sitting at the counter, just writing on some papers. All right. I take the seat furthest away from him. And I back into the bartender. The strongest thing you got and make it a double. She looks to you and cocks one eyebrow. Are you sure you want the strongest thing? It's been a long 48 hours. And I can tell that you're a long way from home. You don't know much about yet. So do you. Nope. Well, customers always writes and she gives you a little cocky smile and heads into the back room. Seeing you sit very far away from him. Go on. Keep in mind, I did say make it a double. Yep. Seeing you sit furthest away to the other side. Scorpio speaks up. You know, I didn't think I smelled that bad. Uh, do you? That's right. The one we just got done. Helpman. He gives you a little two finger salute. Hi, Scorpio. Enoch. You've got small town. You got quite the device there. Very loud. You think I could get me one of those? No, never. Even for a little bit of payment? The eye. Trails on to him and the gear begins to turn. I said no. He holds up both hands just up. Personal got it. And you have a very awkward silence as you wait for the for the bar keep to come back just like random sounds. It seems that Scorpio just like tapping his finger every now and then and just. I love Enoch. And then the barkeeper comes out with with two mugs of what look like a typical ale and she hands you one but holds the other. You try that one first and then you can see if you're ready for a double and she smiles. I pull out I pull out two coins for my payment and I put it on the table and. And. Just chug back the first one. She she pockets it and just goes to be almost routine goes kind of to rummage through underneath the counter. I'm going to need you to roll a Constitution saving through. Oh, no need. I am going to automatically fail. I choose this. Oh, you choose to fail. Oh my God. Why? Because chaos dangerous choice. OK, chaos. You choose to fail. And you feel your throat burn a hot fire and you belt as a little bit of smoke comes out. And your entire stomach feels like it's burning as if it's trying to get out and you take. Oh, it feels good though. You take eight fire damage and you are not. You are knocked off of the chair onto your ass as you. The warmth takes you. It was a nice tasty drink. But damn, that was strong. That is better than six. What? And she the bartender puts another mug on the table. Just a glass of water with ice. Oh, no need, lady. And some moves the glass. I'll take my double. Hmm. So he's getting plastered. Oh, great. Imagine dying to beer. Only free enough. You know, I don't want a dead body in my bar, sir. I pat my chest. I'm going to pump all my fucking. Oh my God. Pump it into me. Eight. So virtually nothing happened. Yep. Dear God. She she tilts her head. All right. And puts the other mug on the table. But doesn't let go but holds out a hand. Just in case that you're not able to pay afterwards. Give her the other coin that is owed. No, that is that is four gold pieces in total. Yep. All right. She takes it pockets it into her apron. Let's go of the mug. Do you choose to fail this one as well? No. Okay. You may roll a constitution saving through. You better fail this. I swear to God. Damn it. Okay. 13. The heat rises up through your throat as you chug this thing down. But you're able to keep it down. You're fine. You are warm. It's as if you are back in the grassy plains. I swear to God. If you yanked on this woman's bar. You're able to hold it down and you can. That one was just as good as sex. You can hear just without looking or skipping a beat while he's riding. You can hear Scorpio snickering a little bit. Landis. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you say some? Yes. I was just saying that everyone's first time is different. It's a mighty good drink though. It's good. It's the only one. The only thing that's keeping us up here. What are you putting it? The Dragonborn. You can see it. He's now getting like chairs closer. The Dragonborn just like it gets in close and just puts one finger up to her mouth as a shushing motion. And heads back to cleaning her glasses. And then the party arrives into the tavern. I'm so sorry. And seeing that Enoch is drunk off his ass. Do I know the bartender? You do. Chance. You do. This is Eris. Oh God. Eris, what did you give him? He asked for the strongest thing. So I gave him something that'll warm his heart. The best damn drinks I've ever had. Oh, you're going to hate your life in the morning. I already hate my life every morning. You're going to hate it even worse. And I'm going to go sit with Squirtle. Virtually impossible. I'll put a gold down on the bar for a normal cup of feed. I'm not going to be fucking insane. And because of your reputation with this place, I will say that you guys get free lodging as well. Yay! Hey, pricks. I'm still paying for my fucking beer, though. Eris serves all of you and just kind of looks to you, Luna, and Scorpio. So what brings you up here? I thought you were going to Chesa City and you. You took on another job. I heard about what happened outside. I got hired on another job, but I needed to see the damage. Right. She wants to see her daddy. Well, I hate to bring more bad news, but you might want to check the cemetery just to be sure. Whoever did that, they were folk traveling around the town and causing a ruckus. I don't know for sure if I saw them go over there, but wouldn't hurt to do so. But after you're all rested up and fed and bellies full. I plan to go out in the morning. If they did that much to the statue, I can't imagine what they did to his actual tomb. Hi. I need to know just how drunk is Enoch? I'm loving this. How drunk is Enoch? He's about he's he's past buzz, but not exactly like incompetent. So if I could do that thing, you know, when like you, you like kind of barely push a drunk person and they just fall over. He won't slump over, but he won't slump over. He'll definitely try and catch his balance. Well, she just kind of try it like he were there playfully. Mind you, she's not doing this to be malicious. She's just kind of like, Oh my God, why did you drink that? You're going and just like there's no like pushes your shoulder. I could have asked for anything. It could have been whiskey. It could have been a mint julep, but no, I asked for the strongest thing. I got the strongest thing. Yeah. No, no, no. The problem here is that it's going to impair you tomorrow. He's going to be so much. Well, I well, I've been pooping out fire. I don't need to hear that. And that's a medical problem. There's a doctor here, I'm sure. I am a doctor. Yes. Are you able to restore people from ailments such as poisoning? No. And to be honest, it seems like he's having fun. I was I was not saying to stop him tonight. Let him have his fun. But tomorrow we are going to have to deal with the hangout. You can see like he's kind of taken his his nice hat and he's kind of just scratching it on his gruff on his face because it feels nice as a hat connoisseur. I am in pain, but my face betrays no emotion. God. Oh, you're so shmoon currently. All right. Why don't we get you up to a room so that you can sleep that off? No, you don't touch me. You don't. I can. I'm a grown ass man. I can take my own two feet and drag my own beautifully well defined ass. Honestly, let them walk up to see if he falls over. Listen, I am I'm totally down to see this performance. Let him go. I leave. I want to see him fall on his ass. Fine. Fine. But if you break a rib on, if you break a rib on the stairs, you're dealing with that yourself. If I break my own rib, I can hear my own rib. Holy no. Right now. Ribs. I want some ribs. Hold on. You were just admitted. You just admitted that you can do that. So you can hear people with your hands. I don't get why you keep lying. I don't get why you keep lying to yourself about it. I'm not. I don't like to talk about myself. Yeah, I'm sure that much is appellant. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. Please go lay down before you throw up on the bar. In the background. Throw up. I won't throw up. Are you throw up? Are you are you heading to your room then? No, I'm staying down here. I'm going to party like it's fucking 1857. That's so many years in the future. It is. It is the year 216. God, but where are you saying something? Could it be 413 instead? No. Sorry. Only some people will get that. Oh, I hate you. In the background, I'm going to be like calmly finding a seat for myself. I will pull out my ledger, open it. I will take a quill. I will start writing down every once in a while. I will glance up at a knock and the loud outburst that he is outburst that he is saying such as his healing hands. And I will write into my ledger. I need a bard. I need someone to start to. Well, that's kind of demanding. Fortunately, our bard is knocked out cold over there and she gestures over to the orc that says. Oh, well, he sucks. I would say that it's very rude. You could at least say please. Renee, please. There you go. That is much better. She like pats him on the head. Oh, good job, buddy. Oh, you're nice. You're always nice. Why are you always so nice? Oh, God, he's one of those kind of drugs. She just looks at him because they have to be some. To be perfectly honest, it makes my job easier. Renee, do you want to play a tune? Yes, I do. You may give me a performance check. OK. Is that your performance? This is my first performance. Speaking of which, can we just release the song? I think yesterday. I definitely look up. Oh, actually, you know what I can do? I can sing a song that I have a work in progress of right now. Because I haven't written down, it's actually a drinking song. Do it. Can I do it before the performance roll and get advantage? You know what? Actually, just go ahead and do your song. No performance will be required. That's when you have a real life bard. All right, so hold on. For all of my friends who are hopeful and weary from bearing the brunt of a beast of a week, I tip my heart to you and give us a loot. So let's all shout, screw it all and drink with me. If I am truly going to be optimistic and positive, I desperately need a break. So I tap on the table for my bartender's eye. Just one more pint and I'll be on my way. And oh, just stand on tables and say, raise a glass of your poison and throw all your cares to the wind. Let's see all the troubles that we can get in. And oh, hey, let's all shout, screw it all and drink with me. Hey, that was great. Amazing. Enoch throws his hands into the air and just clapping and wooing and being the best cheerleader ever. Yeah. As you sing this, Eris is like kind of tapping her foot while she's tending to the rest of the tavern. And Scorpio has like dropped his pen and just given you like full and divided attention also, just kind of like nodding his head and clapping along as well. And you know, you guys make this really, really hard not to do, but you go ahead and get an inspiration as well. I'd like to mention, oh, sorry, you go. You just noticed that he dropped his pen. I want to see what Scorpio was writing because I'm nosy. OK, you can give me a quick investigation check. Nice to imagine I'm like, he's paying attention to Renee and I'm just like, OK, what you got there? And as he's going, you go, you go, you go. Yeah. You quickly look over while he's distracted by Renee, you can see that he seems to be writing some kind of notes of resignation of some kind. What? And give me a stealth. Do you try to do this stealthfully? Absolutely not. I know Scorpio knows me. As you do and as Renee is singing, he kind of glances at you and does a double take and he quickly goes to take the paper. Those are extra jobs, extra jobs that I'm taking on the side. Got to turn into Chester City and, you know, employment, usual things. She was enjoying Renee's performance and then like she got serious. What are you resigning from? I'm OK. I am. I was part of regular employment and, you know, they outsource me to do a few jobs every now and then. That's why I had to come back up here as much as I didn't want to. And it's because I've got future plans. I've been doing this quite a long time and I don't know that I could do it much longer. That's fair. I'd like to talk to you about this later, if you don't mind. Hi. Sure thing. I think I'm going to turn in for the night. I'm going to give Scorpio which room I'm in. Oh, what? Which room I'm in. Like, tell him like which room, like the one on the left at the top or whatever. I'm just going to tell him that I'm staying up there. And I guess Luna's going to bed. As you tell him, he just kind of like blushes a bit and just kind of avert his gaze. In my drunken stupor, I'm going straight over towards Nathaniel. Oh, no. That's plan. Nathaniel. I need something. A couple of things. Firstly, when Renee is singing her song in the far back shadows of a corner of a tavern underneath the wide brimmed yellow hat, Nathaniel stops writing and smiles for a moment before continuing his work unbeknownst to everyone else. And as Enoch starts sauntering over towards Nathaniel, his eyes widen in fear and he begins scribbling furiously so that he can get these notes finished before closing the book and like, and standing straight up just as you arrive in front of him. Nathaniel. Nathaniel. Nathaniel. Yes. I need something from you like real quick. No. You are very interesting, but I need a piece of paper, please. Are you serious? I need a piece of paper, please. Are you serious? I'm very serious. I need a piece of paper, please. My demeanor relaxes. I give you my usual eye slant in my eyebrows rays. I need a piece of paper, please. Before I pull out the ledger, flip to the very back and I pull out a piece of paper and I hand it over to you. Do you also need something to write with? Absolutely, yes. And take the piece of paper, I slam it onto the table and it might not be super. I'm just like, I've come up with an amazing invention and it's going to be so cool. And I think I figured it out. I figured it all out how to do it. The machinery and the magic. I figured it out. Did you just film? Takes the pen, dips it in the ink and like a printer begins scrolling calculations and like geometric straight line designs of using what is small pieces of metal and then figuring out the arcane aspect while drawing like perfect circles and little arcane sigils along it in order to imbue this thing with magic and he's always had complications with this with his arm but he figured it out and he pulls up the piece of paper which is completely illegible to you because this is out of anybody's house. Look what I did it. I did it. Look at me. And what do you do to that paper, Enoch? So first of all, I got to memorize this for the next 24 hours because after all this is gone this ain't sticking around. So he folds the piece of paper and he puts it under his armor piece. Don't tell anyone. You're the only one that I'm going to tell. And when I show it, it's going to be great. You're not an idiot. You're an idiot savant. No, I'm just really good when I have a drink in me. Your secret is safe with me. No one will ever believe me. So like Enoch as he goes from side to side he goes chop and extending out his arms to the back into where he was. No one will ever believe you. He walks off. This time of the day is finished. I need to punch him. What happened? I am Nathaniel Gainsby the witch-taker wizard of Belknus. And for the very first time in my life I have been faced with a puzzle that cannot be solved. What the fuck did he do to you? He looks so great. What the fuck did he do? I would like a drink, please. Oh my God. She will get him a drink. Aris nods and smiles. I know just what the thing and gives you a very mild watered down rum. I will take this. I will slink back into my chair. And without, like, I'm sort of just staring at the middle distance at this point because I'm so flabbergasted. That was a beautiful performance, Renee. Well, thank you. I'm just glad that people got a little bit of fun out of it. I drink this watered down rum and I put the glass down and then I stare into the middle distance until I decide to go to sleep. No, I'm not sleeping in the chair, but I'm just staying here. This is all I'm doing from now on. No writing, no note taking. No. Renee will probably buy him like one more drink because usually when he gets like this, she might like wave her hand in front of him a little bit. Like, yeah, no, he's gone. I have to process. Yeah, she's like, yeah, no, he's gone. Just get one more drink at the same time. I'm going to bed. Just pat pat. OK. You make sure not to stay up too late contemplating the existence of whatever the fuck he did. All right. And I assume you guys enjoy passively the rest of the night until you head to bed. Yup. And Luna, after a little while, Scorpio enters your room before you go to sleep, of course. Yeah, she's sitting up, probably polishing her sword and just thinking. And he joins you on the bed for your hand. She lets him. And he kind of clutches it, kind of like bouncing it a little bit. He's got nerves. You can feel his heartbeat from his hand pulsing very rapidly. So you wanted to know about the resignation? Yes. Well? It's everything OK. Did something happen on your last job? Oh, no, no, not at all. It all went fine. And I was thinking that you never have any time for each other. And considering the work that we do and how much we have to travel and be apart, I was resigning because I had future plans. And he looks up to you and his eyes are very watery. And I would like those plans to be with you. She's quiet for a minute. You had me scared that you were going to tell me that you wanted to stop working with me. You know that? She kind of nudges him a bit. Of course not. You think I could let you have a higher kill count? I mean, I already do. Oh, I want proof. We need smiles. Oh, I can give you proof. Oh, can you? I think that's a fade to black. Yep, it is a fade to black as you guys embrace for the night and have a nice time. And uh, and I think that on that note, we can call it a session. Oh, that was fun. That was really fun.