Eye of the Storm: Part Two | The Rising Dawn | Life of the Party D&D

hello and welcome back to the rising dawn eye of the storm i'm r your dungeon master for this evening are we ready to go yes please asleep what is this bee's fist slowly crept over to me and now we're doing this let the adventure begin [Music] we catch up with the dawnbringers having just landed on the isle of kassan after heading to sea from the port of watchers respite the dawnbringers found themselves aboard a ship called the reveller with vandal at the helm charged where a course to the furthest southern island in the eastern sea in pursuit of something unknown for cassians friend in miratel vanden intended to chart a course southwest along the coastline of arrakis avoiding the dreaded dagons triangle however after a day aboard the ship it started to become apparent that a huge storm was brewing in the south the reveler was forced to change their course and head east past the dangerous waters of the leviathan archipelago the storm seemingly on their tail the whole time cassian was able to determine the origin of the storm as something unnatural but there was nothing to be done as they were forced to sail through it waves reaching deadly heights and wind picking up into a hurricane lightning striking their sails after eight hours of treacherous sailing the party emerged into the calm waters around the isle of kazan exhausted and battered the ship needed numerous repairs they docked in the port town of puerto archorus and were directed to the luxurious and expensive dragon tree house inn to get some rest the dawnbringers laid down to sleep at last only to find themselves rudely awoken just a few hours later by the sound of a large bell ringing somewhere in town and the distant call of a town crier the ceremony of the slumbering sentinel has begun you hear it now ding ding ding it's fairly distant but it's enough to wake you you awaken in the two bedrooms of your suite on the top floor of dragon tree house astra and cassian in twin beds in one room sariel and vaden in another they're simple but elegant rooms with warm colored walls and tiled floors with local paintings and sculptures decorating the surfaces around you you blink your eyes open wearily and found that you haven't had enough sleep for a full long rest you can have a short rest if you want one please did we hear them shouting like oh the slumber yes i wish i was the slumbering astro rather than the sentinel oh we all still got those points of exhaustion though do you still be having exhaustion you do still carry your points of exhaustion um astral with three calcium with two and seven phantom of one none of that is cleared up but as you find yourselves rousing from your beds you look around you don't really want to move as the beds you're laying on are some of the most comfortable you've slept on anywhere mattresses filled with feather down and light sheets just warm enough to keep off the chill from the cool breeze that moves through the open window shutters you can peer out through them each room has its own beautiful carved wooden balcony looks over this incredible courtyard and the canopy of the forest beyond as the ringing bell comes to a stop you can once again hear running water and birdsong outside and in addition to this the gentle playing of a leah somewhere down in the rear courtyard that carries up through your windows sarah in your room phantom pulled the pillow over his head and he's like no i'm not getting up do we need to not for anything not for any ceremony or any trouble i'm not getting out of bed she does the same thing like pulls the covers up higher i'm guessing stretches and sits up just looks over at astra i'm going to go and have a bath okay i feel like we're not going to get a proper sleep i just want to feel clean and for my bed to not be covered in salt i could get rid of it if you want that's what the cleaners are for don't worry she looks very confused but getting it out of my hair properly would be nice actually stretches and sits up out of bed and it's just okay downstairs oh no i know you can sleep under my hair if you'd like until it makes a scarf around your neck and goes to sleep again and then big huff because it stinks of salt no i'm going to get a bath i said so come on then slowly drag ourselves out into the main room despite saying he's not going to get up vandalized there for about 30 seconds and then he's like best not to waste the day [Music] sorry i would like to waste the day mood okay i'll sleep with that bell ringing anyway ding ding ding ding ding ding shame shape then it comes out of whatever big stretches like all of you look you're reminded as you see each other look kind of ridiculous your windswept hair caked with salt sticking out in strange directions your skin with sort of those like clear like translucent white stains when salt water dries astray is pointedly not looking at any mirrors more reflective so there's quite a lot in this room eyes down eyes down we're going to find the baths yes that is a good idea sarah comes out the bedroom like trying to untangle knots from her hair how how we're going to find the bath okay do you need to help with your hair please i can do that it's a big mess so's asterisks solid differences you can make your way back down to the front desk and speak again to naiara the young girl there who points you in the direction of the paths you head back into the building down through a cool corridor to a set of carved wooden doors out into the rear courtyard in this courtyard is a sprawling deep pool of cold blue water for swimming in the floor is tiled in terracotta and the courtyard is skirted by numerous plants and trees planted into beds of black and volcanic soil probably the likes of which most of us have never seen on this sort of climate but there's cactuses and strange flowering desert plants and then around those scattered like tall palm trees with coconuts and all fruit growing at the top of them i don't know what any of this is so it looks so interesting i think another world hasn't it a few open doorways lead off this courtyard one on the left with a side above it made of sea glass pressed into the plaster that spells out baths at the far end of the courtyard sat on the edge of a fountain that cleverly depicts two elemental spirits twisting around one another is a woman she looks to be human she's wearing a brown skirt slit at the side and a yellow blouse which is very revealing short sort of under her chest and the front very very open there's a soft round beautiful face with long blonde hair it looks a little bit greasy tied up in like a high ponytail you just got a leah sat on her lap and she sings beautifully she's just playing she pays you no attention respectfully looking away yeah respectfully paying her no attention because the state that we're in don't look at us um as you do pass towards the bath she doesn't stop singing but she does look up and sort of follow you with her eyes into the next archway does she look like she works here or is she a guest or like is there any other guests around there's no one else around the courtyard and you haven't seen anyone else in the building yet huh however you head in through the door arch to the bus it's a large room with a huge circular pool in the middle shallow seats like inset into the water around one side of it the other half deep looks deep enough to swim in the walls are painted in a warm beige decorated with simple murals of plants a staircase leads up to a mezzanine level at the top at the back of the room there is a nook and the entrance to this is decorated with ionic columns inside a separate freestanding bath steaming the main bath looks like it must be cooler water sat in the shallow part of the main bath is a large and heavy set dragonborn with a big smile on his face it's very jolly looking and he's sort of sat back there you can see a towel like off to one side sat with arms spread out around the back of the bath and coming down from the top mezzanine level also in a towel wrapped around his waist is you think he must be a full orc dang um yeah an orcish man dark gray brown skin and two very large tusks a neat sort of quaff of hair swapped to one side um he has a large scar on his left shoulder and it sort of spreads on his left shoulder all the way across his chest and it looks like it might have been from something explosive he plays you don't mind as he makes his way down from the mezzanine you see him sort of node to the dragonborn not like the familiarity of friendship but perhaps guests here who've seen each other more than once and then nodded to you the same way and passes out into the corridor it sort of gives you a way back looks looks happy to have been greeted properly he was about six foot six in christ kick big the dragon ball stretches back and it's like have you just arrived oh yes what's game fits away oh i'm just wondering there haven't been um many guests at the dragon tree this is damn weather we came last night the weather didn't really mean to come here well welcome to kazan thank you thank you we just need to get cleaned up um you don't mind sits and relaxes back into the bath again big smile on his jolly face eyes closed is it a smile or is he just dragon face like no it's a smile okay he's got he's got copper scales and a sort of big dumb smile oh stretches all the way back he looks genuinely just like you know when you look at someone you just get an aura of nicety oh like a golden retriever yeah like a golden retriever but a lizard all right let's find ourselves some towels and go deal with this yeah yes so i was looking a bit wary at the idea that there's other people around um i might come back later it's [Music] let's find some talent sarah i was going to take like reach out for your hand and sort of gesture you towards the other end of the room yeah she'll follow him please you'll get changed yes um asteroids guessing we'll find the changing room yeah as there's sort of an archway on the other side of the room just leads around a small corridor to like a simple wooden bench and some lockers [Music] cause these two was dripping off and it's like you can wear the ring if you want to do you want to wear it i might if i just keep my back turned you sure yes absolutely so i was for sure just take it i can walk behind you if it helps i don't know sure we'll give you the ring again thank you i don't know whether we can see about getting something else like that enchanted somewhere at some point i don't like continually borrowing it from you it's it's i don't mind you borrowing it i'm just gonna um his eyes sort of find the dragonborn and he kind of moves around the outskirts of the room towards the changing room and comes in where you guys are like in various states of undress just like hello hello everything all right fine absolutely fine excuse me go down the far end of the changing room and start taking his life okay a respectful peek let's just tell just come up and have you in the face like we did [Music] i always just ask him bramble if he wants to join us right if that's changing [Music] let's go to the bathroom people just walking out like no towels or anything tell wrong ways okay okay as you come towards the changing rooms ariel you see these two arm and arm not necessarily happy with each other looking at the changes in them in towels look out and like strip off as well like towel like firmly around herself i'm enjoying this weird casing [Music] it's because after kept bullying him when phantoms change he comes out and very very subtly sort of tries not to make a show of not turning his back to the dragonborn as he comes and slides into the deep end of the bath like this is fine this is where i wanted to bath i want to bathe in the deep where my water trauma can get me oh my god just having the best time trying to wash everything off oh god wash away the sins yeah wash away your salt yeah really really getting in every nook and cranny washing your hair oh god there's oils and different creams and things you can bathe with and you can really scrub down and you find yourselves feeling significantly more awake after a cold bath it's not so cold that it's unpleasant but it's it's cold enough that you step out of it feeling woken up and ready to get through the last hours of the day jazz ashley would have been asking like what's this oil which one's the best for hair what's this what's that i have no idea what any of this is on this one this one this one you can get a relative education on the best way to do your hair with bath oils and salts and stuff and when you're done bathing it's a fairly relaxing experience i imagine not much conversation but how tired everyone is but you get out and you get dressed again and you can head back out to the pool if you want to yes please just give the dragonborn a little wave let us believe like bye nice to meet you me too you head on out as you do you notice a significant difference from when you were in our chorus earlier perhaps there were signs of this earlier but you weren't particularly paying attention considering how tired and warned out you were but the town of our chorus is alive with excitement and some people are dressed in eccentric and colorful costumes dancing through the streets before long you find yourselves back in the market square with its neatly cultivated central garden and the brightly coloured temple to moradin around the square now you notice hidden behind plenty of cream awnings and market stools overflowing with colorful goods and fresh produce several blacksmiths and forges somewhat swamped by the people now in the market square it's busy and people seem to be putting up decorations on the shop fronts and in the trees you can still see if you look out towards the ocean the storm going in the distance [Music] however the crowds start to pot as you see moving through a queue of young girls under 10 all waving and smiling at the crowds and the crowds like waving and smiling back at them they make their way over to stand outside the temple of moradin cassian just perplexed like how is it that we always manage to arrive in places when the locals are up to something i'd probably say it's because they're probably usually up to something people are always up to something there's always some sort of festival when we get who makes it more interesting i suppose what was it slumbering sentinel yes no i don't know what that means i suppose you can ask [Music] as you sort of try and make sense of what you're seeing the crowds start to properly part and make a wide pathway through the middle of the market square you see four strong shouldered men carrying a pelican with a single seat on top of it they carry it sort of on big sticks of bamboo on their shoulders and in the seat you see a young girl although she's older than the others coming outside the temple she has dark skin with a slight red tinge to it um bright red hair like a huge nest of tight wild curls fiery red and gold at the tips you get the impression she's probably something elemental or jealousy of some kind as her palakkim passes people in the streets they reach out for her and up for her she touches some of their outstretched hands seeming to make them cheer and groom with excitement when she does so she's carried through the market square this way not making eye contact with anyone and at the end of the passage of people there's a nondescript but large house where a white cloth is laid down on the dirt and she is lowered and dismounts onto it walking inside [Music] what's that about is that a usual thing i have no idea is she royalty or something maybe like a print sort of [Music] look over to a local um sorry we're not from around here who who was that you see this sort of see elf woman turn around and say well that's the idol the idol the idol of kassan is is that like a royalty term or is she a prince um no no uh i suppose you've arrived at a most exciting time uh the historian idol is a a girl who embodies the soul of the titan of the slumbering sentinel oh the volcano right right and the thing i've sort of gestures towards inland and you can just see from this angle like the very top of the mountain in the center of the island give a very quizzical look to like the group with me just like hmm shrugs was she chosen for that she was but today will be her last day why well she's turned of age now and the title must pass on to a younger girl okay so the seal points over to the temple all of those girls are hopeful they're hoping that the titan will choose them and the soul of the titan will pass on into them what about the current girl well she will return to her life must be strange to go back to normal life after being a vessel of a volcano you see all those people who are reaching out for her it's considered good luck if she touches you okay she's a child well she's the embodiment of a titan right how do they choose the idol typically it takes a day or so it's carried out in the temple by five of the priests and priestesses and uh they're examined to make sure they're suitable candidates not unwell strong enough to carry the soul of a titan observe for signs of serenity and fear and then the candidates who they select go with the priests and the priestesses further inland to one of the geothermal pools where a ritual is held in private to determine which of the girls becomes the idol and when smoke rises from the volcano that's how they know the volcano is satisfied let's see karma looks kind of interested in all this it's been our tradition for as long as anyone in kasang can remember wow it's a lot of responsibility for someone so young the story goes that the titan was put to sleep by moradin himself and our ritual keeps the titan at peace allows it to walk among us and avoid their options i suppose and we haven't had an eruption on the sun in hundreds of years that's very interesting i'm glad that you've arrived at this time it's our most precious ceremony and there'll be festivities tonight we look forward to seeing them enjoy your days thank you very much you too there are mountains smokes that's what a volcano is okay [Music] interesting i've heard a little bit about it but because it's not exactly one of the pivotal political places i haven't spent any time here before does it fall under your jurisdiction it does so iraq is starstone kusan it's all it's all eastern shore but i've i mean look at this both and don't exactly look like they're keeping their defenses up for attack do they don't sniff it to potential allies oh no not at all just it looks like a safe and a relatively nice place well i suppose everyone's in good spirits around here so we should have a good experience wandering around the place it's quite contagious isn't it yes i guess let's just take a look around the market and sure why not kill some hours we're going to be here for a few days right so sure maybe we can go check out that mom's volcano at some point be interesting to see [Music] maybe dangerous okay all around you you see these market stores now you see on the stores fruits fresh cups of meat lots of seafood you see oranges you see people serving up cactus fried and crazy bright pink fruits with spines on the outside you see people making medicinal ointments in like small stone bowls mixed out of plants jewelry which seems to be made of this like beautiful green gem and pieces of the volcanic rock lots of local bright colorful clothing and like soft white fabrics big sun hats um lots and lots of beautiful and delicate handcrafted lace artisan pottery lots of raw tyrone crafts glass blowing and a stall that sells wines with a big banner at the top that says wild magic winery nice as you walk through you do also see a woman with a donkey and a cart she's small very old like bent over stooped and ancient looking and you can't quite determine her race her hair is mossy brown nearly green and her clothing is old and poor quality very dirty and unkempt she leads her overloaded wagon with a cantankerous donkey pulling it along the road to sort of the corner of the square where it's clearly not going to have a market stool set up and you see her sort of look up through her mossy hair and beckon you okay oh go to the strange old like yes beckoned i suppose we are compelled hello hello dears you're not local around here no no i think i have exactly what you need you do she lifts the fabric on the cart and reaches into it you see the donkey just like sort of step one of its hooves and she pulls out of the cart like some black fabric and she starts to open it inside you see a quill made of a glowing orange feather can i interest you it's very pretty what is it it's a phoenix feather oh and how did you acquire this close it up again i have my ways what makes you think that we would need it i can tell i can read you as people right i'm gonna read her is this world just like crazy disappointing i would also like to make one okay i'm is this woman um oh it doesn't work yeah this is one there's only an eight oh beans that's a six so even rolling that low you don't there's a look in her eye that looks a bit crazed but not like with insanity just maybe with some sort of otherworldly knowledge to the impression you get and she's like how much is it 300 gold and then she puts it back into the cart and rummages around again and pulls out a larger black bundle this time in a box like unwraps the cloth and opens a huge black box inside you see an hourglass in which the sand is black and floats upwards slowly from the bottom to the top that's pretty it is and what is it it's an hour class she doesn't say it but you get the impression that the end of that sentence should have been full yes but why is it like that why are you like how you are [Music] what does it do i will not explain it to you i just know that it will be of use to you okay how much is it 480 even gold it puts the box limped back on it sets it to the side music sort of standing back from this like uncomfortable yeah we're going to take a step back as well i i don't like these vibes she reaches into the cart one more time oh my god a long wooden case small maybe a foot long and opens it up and inside is a luminous pink and pearl horn of some unknown creature is it like a unicorn it doesn't look like a unicorn okay [Music] she holds it forwards it's beautiful big eyes slightly twisted and curved but not in the not in the swirl of a unicorn what is it it's a horn oh my god what what's it for what's it do you will have to determine that yourself but you've made it what will we need it for you'll know when the time comes i hate this how much is that one five thousand gold okay well we don't have that kind of money so we could make a deal [Music] when you say deal you're talking about a discount deal or something more nefarious no discounts she puts it back in the card oh my god the vibes are random but cereal's into it kind of respects ariel she was into the old maggie stick man like you will not regret it okay can we have some time to think about it yes okay and you'll be here until midnight and then not at all tomorrow maybe in a few days time i will be here until midfield okay god this feels like weird customer service like oh you can't return it if you don't have a receipt but i bought it from you product was faulty oh my god absolutely rant um again this is gonna be useless because of our disadvantage on all checks um would sarah know of anything that a phoenix feather can be used for um make me a disadvantaged nature check oh no uh 12 no okay you probably have the the semblance of those would definitely have some sort of strong magical quality yeah but that's the only thing you you can possibly conjure up tight in your tired mind you're just like what what can i have a real hard to think about any stories my mum would have told me about fantastical creatures for that horn uh you can also make a disadvantage nature check have a real hard thing castra astrodupe having the good nature okay um 13 not a clue nothing like anything your mother ever spoke of well thank you we might see you later i would like that enjoy the rest of this and you we will thank you i might go up to see this the smoky mountain i think you will okay cassini just leans into band [Music] she reaches out and she grabs your arm oh here young man not that young there's nothing worse than the tears of a new bride the rose makes such a pleasant disguise but he who wears it must prepare to be caught in the thoughts excuse you you swear you see a flash of something in her eyes for a moment and she let's go beyond do you write poetry that was very nice okay sarah gets cassie and i look boy she is in her head please can we leave she gives him a half knot okay thank you so much have a nice day i see you later what was your name again just in case we need to find you i didn't tell you that was quite an experience missing you and you thank you so much have a good day lovely to meet you green knight and then she will just turn back to her donkey and give it a pat and start moving it further around the square we leave immediately that was uncomfortable what was that about i don't know okay do i trust hassan believes that uh make an insight check on cassian i would say don't make a deception check because he wasn't that i just look at you right i hate having everything at disadvantage cassian you feel the faint sort of ache on your arm like someone had been squeezing hard for a long time left a bruise even though she was only holding your arm lightly for maybe 20 seconds did it feel like a hand hand yes okay it just felt like a hand yeah it wasn't like the weak it wasn't my old maggie sort of the weird disconnect yeah okay cool tight grip for an old crown i hated that let's go they're doing free samples over at the wine store that sounds a bit more yeah let's do that [Music] sort of ramble over to the wild magic winery store it's got this nice sort of cloth banner with like tassels hanging down the sides either side of the stool um all the wine bottles have a label with two intertwined swirls that reminds you of the elemental fountain at the dragon tree inn and some of the bottles are made of clear glass containing what looks like liquid gold the cellar behind the stool human with a few halfling features it's like nice to meet you having a good day having a day tired but we're enjoying this festival you're doing it's it's gonna be very very exciting tonight this is just the beginning tonight well the festivities you see we always celebrate the end of the the idols reign so everybody's gonna be out having a good time we should probably try and have a laugh before that can i offer you a free taster of the endless smiles wine and their smiles guaranteed to put you in a good mood is that is that the gold stuff or is that yes the gold stuff in a little shot glass basically cassian will have one i don't drink estra oh no do you have anything non-alcoholic not here but we do at the winery it's just just outside the town oh we've got a shop okay it looks tasty though please go ahead it's free thank you so much she tells you that their their vineyard specializes in magical wines they do have non-magical wines but each of their other wines has sort of a mundane or pleasant effect sort of the more the stronger the effects the more pricey the wine but they have some mundane ones that are just pleasantries basically like this one endless smiles which as you take the shots she explains that upon consumption you'll only feel happy emotions for a few hours if you're drinking it wrong it's six four six then i got six as well that's how many hours you will feel only happy emotions oh and it's not in a like forced happiness way it's just like nothing feels quite as bad in that time the glass half full glass yeah yeah essentially yeah the option is juice what does it taste like it tastes like honey and milk i love milk and honey yeah and sort of sour oh this is so tasty that was really nice wasn't it i feel better i was feeling kind of grim but actually no that feels really nice fabulous the vineyard and the seller at the store explains where it is so there's just outside the town they give free tours if anyone's interested and they have a little bar there where they sell all these different magical wines and she's like we get plenty of people just dropping in to take a look you're more than welcome to we won't hold it against you you don't buy anything okay well why not while we're here i mean we're just here to have a nice time so and we'll see what the area has to offer exactly i've never seen a vin vineyard where they grow grapes for one right okay thank you i'm sure we'll stop by thank you so much thank you have a good day you too you too i don't think we cannot now it does feel like a good day it does it's certainly a day that we are having as you walk through the square you see more of these stools open you see a stool with an old dragonborn with glasses and a beard sort of got a big table out and like an awning for shelter but it's not really a proper market stool on the table he's just got dozens and dozens of old books sort of laid out on the table next to him is an elven portrait painter with all these big canvases up and they're like caricatures all over and they're not caricatures they're sort of you know when you see those those painters in the streets who can like do your whole picture in like 15 minutes it seems to be the pitch that he's selling himself with and he says it's a he's calling out into the streets the like your likeness portrait shop and he sees the four of you walking over and it's like come on over here come on get your portraits done adventurers you look like adventurers kind of i'll do a special 20 gold for a portrait of your whole adventuring party okay yeah i've never done one of these before no neither but i don't have any i'd like to have a portrait of the four of us this will be a lot less time than the family portraits yes i'm sat for some lengthy hours i think the longest i did was three days on and off three days oh we've never had that one that long but mother likes a portrait it's just alien concept completely like algebra like titling over here i suppose but we should pose oh what do you do well tell you go in the front because you're smaller the the portrait painters it's okay i'll position you okay okay puts astrid to the side inside you have incredible hair thank you absolutely beautiful thank you your jawbone wow and positioned you after the other side goes through the party like pointing out things that he finds beautiful about you as he positions you it's like right sets up his easel with the canvas and sticks his head out fantastic and gets out his paint brush and all these little pots of paint let's find out how good it is oh no no advantage okay it's a good likeness oh yeah takes about 20 minutes okay but he sits there very very quickly like almost as if he's hasted moving the brush across the across the painting and it's not dry by the time he tops it but 20 minutes later he spins it round and there is this full portrait of the four of you the positions you're standing in where he's captured all the features he was pointing out as absolutely beautiful in sort of shining recognition [Music] that's beautiful i wish the paint is back home without quit we've got to have some bunch aren't we we look good together thank you thank you very much get some money out i'll give him 30 gold oh thank you that's very kind of you no thank you it'll be dry probably by this evening if you want to pick it up perfect thank you so much later you see the old dragon ball and that's all over just like i am peering over at the books come come on over please take a look they're all secondhand books should be read not lie in dusty old libraries so i'm selling them on what kind of books are there if we browse the collection you see one called baldrick's fantastic adventure a dwarven choose your own adventure book what a strange and unique concept kind of into it though you find one as your sort of the four of your browsing through the table called wish it want it screw it detail accounts of the time the wish spell backfired oh no oh no being familiar with your familiar a book for casters who wish to bond with their animal companions a field guide to all common and uncommon familiars seen by the author do you think we need this bramble no i don't think a book just called how to spot a mimic useful interesting tips on how to do things such as listening for breathing seeing responds to being touched by throwing small pebbles i lit my life throwing pebbles or anything could be a mimic you don't know your mother no it could be a mimic could be a mimic your house could be a mimic a herbalism book called i can't believe it's not harmless [Music] guide clubs mushrooms and berries that surround the city where the book was written it contains accurate annotations of ailments due to consumption or touch with poisonous plants this looks interesting um with very descriptive drawings of people having diarrhea or throwing up great i think probably could have done without those symbols then you come across a book with a red leather cover with an intricate bearded face embossed into it it has no title but it appears to have some latent magical quality that is not currently active the pages contain what seems to be intuition and insight exercises it doesn't seem to have like an author written in it or a book title at all do you know what this is oh that's an odd one it's definitely a magical tone but i get the feeling it's not quite done with its magic yet perhaps it needs more time like it's charging up or that's right okay is there any way to like kind of flicking through you determine what it might do if it was charged uh make an arcana check this can i help him and make it straight yeah i'd say [Music] oh 19 19. um you get the feeling that it might magically imbue the reader who spends enough time with it with sort of more wisdom essentially okay and let's say you'd have to like identify it properly to sort of determine its full properties but you from checking it over all the brain puzzles are like brain puzzles see runes on the inside cover you get the impression that it needs it like the dragon ball explains it needs more time to like recharge in time this may make someone wiser interesting magically i suppose you do the exercises and it just comes to you just sit and do sudoku puzzles it's magical sudoku magical sudoku yes it's very helpful how much are these points to the red covered book and then the uh medicinal plants book uh well before i can't believe it's not harmless i want to charge you maybe one or two gold okay the red one been carrying that around for a while it's probably worth a hefty amount more probably looking closer to 200 gold for that one would you do both for 150 um make a persuasion check at disneyland [Music] oh great plus zero [Music] ten i know the right buyer is going to come along for that red book not willing to part with it for any less 175 i'll do 195. all right 195. thank you i'll throw the other one in obviously part of the package thank you very much do you have anything from about laura yes definitely that i definitely have you know sort of go behind the table and open like an old leather case and dig through what kind of thing are you looking for in particular anything about just all about her or about the green light okay he's gonna dig through his case for a while and he'll pull out a big thick old brown leather book the cover looks like the texture of wood and it looks like it's got sort of like the imprint of vines sort of around the spine he's like well this is a big tell my story isn't the laura yes please i'll have it no problem that'll set you back five gold no problem thank you i hope you have a nice day you too thank you very much we'll make our way around just have a little wander around the store peruse where's your next after you've sort of wandered around for 25 minutes or so you want us to do that wine place the vineyard yes um i think it'd be interesting sure what else at least worth looking at yeah i don't think i've ever seen a vineyard in person you head on out of the town it's not far it's sort of just three or four streets over to the edge of a horus and you find yourself north of the township itself as you approach you're heading uphill and the landscape gets more arid less trees around and more wide sprawling spaces filled with black sand and red rocks up here on the higher elevation towards the center of the island the wind is a lot stronger picking up swirls of dust everywhere you go and carrying them delicately through the air and at this point you can see the slumbering sentinel probably in the middle of this island of the island this huge stone mountain sort of looking like it's leaning over slightly to one side almost like someone has sat down on their haunches relatable you see a distillery and a large sort of another one of these like igneous rock buildings sat by the side of the road and beyond it sprawling vineyards from which the company's area famous drinks are derived it's a peculiar panorama for those who have seen other vineyards a vast stretch of black stony land punctuated by ropondro of neat conical divots dug into the ground each with a throwing grapevine growing from it sort of dug down with this small lava stone wall around it to keep the wind from tearing the vines out of the ground each ditch is bordered by these low piles of small stones in the shape of a crescent moon from the vines all manner of grapes sprout huge purple grapes almost as large as a fist cornucopia clusters of tiny golden grapes green ones black ones that seem to be constantly dripping with juice even soft smoky gray grapes that look as though a simple gust of wind could blow them away oops the grapes the heavy wooden door into the front of the sort of winery building is open and you can see a golden-haired elf tall slender wearing a flowing white dress and an apron sort of teetering around behind the bar and it's just like shelves upon shelves of glistening wine bottles filled with different colors this place is incredibly impressive never seen anything like this before it's really pretty yeah it's pretty i'll give them that do all vineyards look like this not really this is normally it's like long rows of grapevines and trellises seems more like they've made this around the earth here i can't imagine it's easy to grow stuff in this sort of soil we're in this wind [Music] well they've managed it quite well i suppose the volcanic soil must have interesting properties as well probably gives it a unique spin i like it as you sort of poke your head in through the door the golden head elf turns and it's like hi hello i'm bianca i'm the master vintner [Music] said a wine wine maker one maker nice to meet you cassian come on in come on in thank you i've never seen a vineyard before no am i you must be new to the island then well we make all the wines that wild magic wines right here in the distillery which is the next building over i can tell you a little bella if you like and you can try some of the wines if you want to that's nice we tried one of the smiles wine that one's wonderful do you have anything non-alcoholic oh yeah of course can we have a try of some of those as well absolutely come on let me let me show you around he's just looking at me she sort of leads you around just out to like the back terrace of this winery building and points out things as she describes the landscape she tells you that years of eruptions from the sleep the slumbering sentinel during the age of war had destroyed the surrounding terrain and she explained what an eruption is or just use the word eruption she just uses the word eruption okay oh um yeah and basically it covered the whole area in ash and local farmers dug into the ash in such of usable soil forming these conical ditches in the process and to their delight they discovered that the volcanic earth was fertile and excellent at retaining humidity making it perfect for growing grapes estonia planting vines along the conical ditches built these semicircular walls to protect it from the wind and discovered that they could use sort of the elemental magic of the island considering cassandra is like heavy with elemental magic to grow these distinct and beautiful wines like grapes that they turn into these incredible magic wines that's so clever i think it's rather wonderful it is i can't wait to try some shall we please she leads you back inside and tells you [Music] oh astrid you need to ask a question he's trying to context clue his way through life she leads you back inside and gets you like a nice table there's breeze blowing in through the window she's like i'll bring you over a menu and you can see what you might want to try thank you when she does she brings over this menu first page is just regular wines but then they have these two pages of magical wines says at the top none of these ones give hangovers sick which is their primary magical function oh my god some of them are marked as non-alcoholic but most of them have an additional effect there's liquid gold a wine that puts the drinker under the effect of the blessed spell for 1d6 hours per glass oh my god it's 60 golden glass oh god there's their most popular wine succubus kiss it's 15 golden glass it's bubbling pink and it makes the drinker believe they are very desirable they do not change physically but they are filled with confidence for whatever is on their mind gaining advantage on performance and persuasion checks whilst under the effect of the drink sick simply confidence and charisma alone hell yeah nice for 25 gold a shot you can get a shot of insomnia insomnia is a pure white wine only ever served in a shot because when consumed a drink can't sleep for the next one d4 days but still gains the effects of a long rest by doing little for eight hours so could work through the night reading researching writing random no no light up no that one looks like it was made for you yes it does let's try and at least have one restful nice before you go drinking that though for just five gold a glass shine wine a bright bioluminescent non-alcoholic wine that makes the drinker's eyes shine bright blue in the dark for one day four days and finally for 90 gold a bottle and you have to drink the whole bottle but it's not alcoholic the refresher mint colored and flavoured wine that magically cleans the drinker's mouth when consumed washes away any traces of toxins in the body including previously drunk alcohol drinking a whole bottle clears the drinker of all levels of exhaustion i'll have this full hp i'll take it i'll have it man i'll give it to me i'll have it two bottles of refresher yeah places must be very nice she brings over two bottles of this mint colored liquid 90 gold buy exhaustion it's worth it by 600 to 477 in the last like half hour without god spending money all right points back tight i will down this bottle of non-alcoholic wine i'm gonna get a shot of the insomnia stuff but it says that you don't need to sleep and that you still get rest but what if you're already wiped out i suppose as long as you don't do anything for eight hours you'll get a rest i think it's worth it cereal can we take any of this to go oh absolutely you don't have to drink it here we won't make you get drunk in the venue i'm interested in the blessed one how much was that one again in 60 gold of glass they can provide it in like glass-sized bottles so you only have to buy like a potion bottle essentially yeah yes i'll have some of that to go with that's right just the one bottle whistle one glass would you want a bottle of it can i take enough for two absolutely is that right half bottle half of water she will bring you out like a sort of a large sized potion bottle that would be 120. goodbye to all of my money thank you very much no problem at all very minty like drinking mouthwash and that was quite lived up to the name thank you [Music] ben also gets he takes the shots of insomnia and you see his eyes just like momentarily widen i feel awake i'm not surprised do you do like a random shot for a certain amount of money but you get to choose what it is not currently but i am intrigued i can give you a mid-price shot and then pick one at random that kind of sounds like fun i will say 30 gold for a random class [Music] okay 30 horse i'm in why not you better find a treasure trove somewhere okay oh my god each roller d10 oh god okay six six astra gets a glass of the shine wine that makes his eyes bio-luminescent for one day four days one of the four two days two days your eyes are gonna be bioluminescent in the dark oh my god golden cat eyes just sarah three oh she brings you the refresher okay here you go thank you you locked out on that one thank you oh my gosh minty well thank you very much this has been amazing i've had a great time thank you for stopping by thank you popcorn purse now just sort of rattling i've had a great time you guys can come again you can come anytime you want to dangerous but that was fun yeah you can kill a few hours just sort of sitting out in the sun and just relaxing feeling refreshed so minty i'm going to glow as the afternoon sort of gets on a bit wonder back down towards the town as you do you hear yelling and you sort of poke your head back towards the main street and you see a flash of lanky limbs and fur running past you tearing through the crowds pushing people aside you see someone spilling gold coins and other trinkets on the ground as they run leaping over crates and upending barrels causing the crowds to scream and parts behind them the town garden pursuing trying to politely push through the onlookers in quite a large gathering crowd please don't use your whip chousing out stop fee stop somebody stop him misty step misty step oh yeah okay so look at each other like i'm gonna grab a man you misty step forwards and you land like just in front of this person who's running forwards who sort of skids through a hole in a panic and sort of looks around and run past you make a grapple check it's a stretcher oh no this is not as a disadvantage anymore a four a one a two so a zero i win because you feel the sudge of just having cleared all this exhaustion out of your body you grab forwards and just latch onto this guy's wrist and hold it steady i don't think so four bursts or two it's just like that's the weakest one it's you see a lanky and skinny half elf with a scar over his lips and a thin layer of fur over much of his exposed skin his pointed ears sticking up a little longer than usual you recognize that make a nature check you both recognize like football guest eyes huh he's like let me go let me get the girl to come in he's trying to pull this way out of your arm just talking closer and feel like exactly stand still that looks like we should follow them yes i suppose so you sort of push through the crowds with the guards not far behind sort of thank you one of these big sort of half-hour guards claps a hand on the half elf shoulder it's like right you hands behind your back what did he do caught robbing someone who was setting up for the ceremony [Music] we'll see him sort of give up once the guards pull his hands behind his back into cuffs and what does he do that fortunately please don't speak to the smuggler thank you thank you for your assistance that's all right so the last thing we need right now is smugglers and you see the half hour turn his face away this is a big problem here or from time to time i like to think we don't have any defenses and take advantage of that maybe we can see if we can set you up with some sort of reward and we won't say no you can follow us back towards the the governor's office we'll deal with this man and the guards sort of lead the four of you back through the town with his heart felt like glowing at them they take off in this pouch with a hole in it at the bottom which is like full of gold coins and trinkets and it looks like things like jewelry that's been swiped off various stalls through the market and lead you to down the side street into another smaller square and you see a big like sort of beige plastered building with these wooden shutters and different features just wait here thank you very much that was better than last time much better thank you and after a while the other guard who was a triton comes out here thank you very much they'll give you 20 gold each nice thank you very much then glances abandoned and down at his hand and up at him again and then he's like sort of bristles slightly on the defense yeah what's this about the titan looks down at his hand again a signal ring ah this is you we've uh we've been told to look out for you come with us too if you don't mind ah she kind of sort of stepped in a little bit we've got somewhere to be i'm sure it won't take long please can we come with please wait outside that is like sure of course just wait here we'll be right here if you need anything they laid him into a small detached building off to the side of the one that the smuggler was just led into um very like windows or anything so we can just peek or listen nothing at the front the sound flag hangs above the door and there's two door guards who just stop you from coming any further twiddle's thumbs and you're left like that the three of you outside don't like that no not the best area to be in i suppose do you think someone someone from shade born has passed on the information or his family oh yes i knew it from mean we don't know what the situation is in meritel right now exactly they could have said anything at the this point bramble goblet see if you can find a way in or window or something rebel will fly up uh make a bramble perception joke bramble are you perceptive what is its perception it's three atmosphere thank you thank you thank you the pram will die no no maybe no he's not a five a five he flows up but like it seems he can't get over the top of the building sort of as he gets up high the wind blows and he has to duck down oh he only left out there for 10 minutes or so stewing and at that point the doorbell sort of stepped aside as the door opens and then it comes out again he's like are you okay everything all right i'm fine um a case of mistaken identity of course i've been told to look out for someone of nobility who'd been expected on the island i explained i don't think anyone else could have got through the storm whoever they were waiting for likely isn't on their way yet how have i been invited for dinner with the governor tonight so oh that's interesting yes did you say yes i kind of felt like i had to because you said not to dismiss them as allies [Music] right well i'm glad we bathed um just me oh okay so they know who you are and everything i told them i was the warden i didn't um you go further yes let's just let's get moving yes he's still smiling because you drank that lineup yeah yeah but he's a little bit unsettled i suppose i should probably go back and put something a little smarter wrong um and prepare for that sorry to leave the three of you make something off the evening there's all these celebrations going on so i'd like to go have a look i also want to go see if we can find that lady again then i'll see you later tonight i'll head back to the dragon tree it's okay keep in touch do you want brambles come with me just comfy no no it's fine but it's fine i can do a political dinner i've done plenty of them in my life suppose that's well we're all together just like walking through the through the area i suppose that's something we should talk about and sort of how open you want to be with things and what you want us to say because before shadeborn we were using your other name yes i don't really know what to do you know i don't really want to ask anybody about mirrortale in case i prompt a conversation that i'm not ready to have but if we're able to get some information at some point we can probably make a better plan i mean i can ask people about mirrortale that would be appreciated like it's not a big deal for someone far away from home to just be like hey how are things that's when we find out the sinner i'll know whether it's completely insane of me to be using my actual name but you know we have the proof we need that i am not [Music] guilty if anybody makes the wrong assumption then we can correct them abandon sushi better than or an hour anyway it's true and i don't want to go housing my cousin's name around any longer in case i get him in some sort of trouble but i think i've just as much as possible just be using warden for now and trying to avoid any further conversation about it right no not with you or even go in public well you can call me vanderbilt i'm speaking to guards or authorities okay thank you astra i appreciate the sentiment i will see you later i'll get this dinner all the way have fun be safe you too unevil thailand walk away and the three of you are left standing there in the square there's probably about half an hour of light left it feels strange splitting up yeah we haven't done that in a long time but let's go explore them since the rest of us aren't splitting up well do you want to go back and talk to that old woman no oh yes i want to well you can do that samuel what would you say to a nice quiet dinner that would be nice we can hang out for a bit of time but i'll pass on that okay astro are you carrying your instrument okay you see that like a group of people sort of come past you and see that you're carrying your loot and like hey hey musician musician yes head on down to the crystal nyad yes it's gonna be open mic all night okay you'd be great for that come earn some gold make people happy see you there and they just like keep going bye see an evening for you yes i'll probably go do that but i do want to go see that lady again oh i need to go pick up a portrait oh yes i did that as well i'll do that don't worry i'll just have a wonder lots of things to do you to enjoy a nice dinner we need to have a permanent base at some point to hang that portrait up don't want it to just gather dust in the back holding no can things get dusty in the back of holding i don't think so good but still we will find somewhere to put it you move back through the streets as it now grows darker and darker lanterns adorn every building the accumulation of them brings bright warm light to the streets astra's eyes giving off otherworldly blue glow that's so unknown oh my eyes you see people with their faces painted in vibrant colors mainly oranges reds and yellows although others with mixtures of black and grey that look like smoke patterns through the face paint there seems to be a couple of stalls set up where people can help themselves to the paints on offer and decorate their own faces for celebration you see on one stoop a older half elven man sitting with a few children sort of cross-legged on the floor with wide eyes as they listen to him telling stories of the island and the soul of the volcano choosing and distraught how the choosing in this festival will help keep them safe for years to come from the explosive rage of the slumbering sentinel titan people pouring out the houses and the shops as you pass by more than anything there seems to be a sense of community and sharing everywhere you go right now you can see the crystal bad with its doors and windows thrown open people drinking and talking and dancing all around it as they come together in excitement you see people leaning outside the building on the street people with like long pipes people inside like making space making a dance floor already some music pouring out everywhere you go the air smells rich with food sweet fruits and fresh breads and cooking meats the sources of these delicious scents all around you from stands and grills so anyone can share in a meal for the night essentially turning the whole square into a buffet actually you can make your way back to uh beldam's cart if you want to yes i'll make cassie in a way as these two depart from you build them looks up again hello hello again how are you doing faring well good as are you much better than this morning what can i offer you what did you say would you want for the horn instead of funny i didn't would you like that necklace you carry michelle one no i'm blur abundant yes [Music] oh no this was gifted to me by someone very special you would be exchanging it for something very special you called me the green night earlier yes i told you i can see inside you see how much was the uh the quill again for you 150. 150 okay i'll take that shields out hand takes your hand pulls bit closer takes out the quill and she just taps it twice to the palm of your hand and then just places it on your forearm and you see it just sort of you're left with a sort of almost like a birthmark shape of the feather and the end of the pen 150 can i get this back out of course oh okay give her a 150. she takes it he tucks it into the cart how do i get it back out you'll burn you're wanted in the tavern and then she just turns back to her car and just completely ignores you have a nice evening hmm chase is not having it you're good i hate this you do you're not looking for a nice restaurant the nicest restaurant make me accept and check both of you or one with advantage if you want how's your perception cost three that's five looking cooking sixteen sixteen okay you put the skirt around the town for a while and then some locals ask you what you're looking for and they put you back down towards the waterline and you move sort of along the water line down to the cliff's edge and then you see a sort of a cave mouth open into the cliff's edge and you peer in and you notice a few torches down there and a big wooden door and there's a sign above the door well well illuminated that says la cueva is it some like branch of comet local common you could probably tell me that it means something along the lines of like the cave okay and you head down there you can smell like sort of beautiful food smells coming from the inside make your way down to the entrance of it push through the doors and you see a huge crystalline pool inside with a small wooden bridge across it over to a crater on the other side with like palm trees growing in it and like a huge open crater hole up to the sky wow so you're moving like through a cave but then there's like this massive hole and on the floor there around the trees of like half a dozen tables it's amazing very unique you move across the bridge you can see greenery sprouting from the rocks a number of lanterns in small carved holes that create atmospheric lighting and at the far end there's numerous tables set out with another pool of water larger than the first one glistening in the low light of the cave it's an absolutely beautiful sight and you notice that most of the tables sit right under the opening of the restaurant where you can now see the colours of the sunset and soon we'll see the night sky okay let's see if we can get a table here under the stars a staff member comes over and you can the two of you get a table there's a couple of other people in here but you get the impression that most people are probably in the town enjoying like the free buffets in the streets so you mostly have the place to yourself oh yeah there's a small stage off to the right with just like a simple musician playing a layer like quietly very peaceful and at the back end you see some cactuses growing up towards the crater hole they're even taller than the palm trees big spiky little sat there there are tablecloths there's silver cutlery this isn't russians good it feels like such a long time since i've had a proper restaurant meal i don't know if i've really never had a proper restaurant meal this is on me i'm sure yes you will be tweeted tonight they bring over menus for you and there's sort of like locally caught fish and fresh cups of meat and all kinds of like fried fruits and vegetables and delicacies from the island and you learn that lots of it is cooked like over the volcanic rock essentially fantasy order some night like the whole shebang like like a starter a main course and a dessert appetizers as well yeah yeah i'll concede to cassian's knowledge on this because i'm just like half of these things over at the tavern oh astrid you're welcomed inside to cheers you see the people who passed you in the street in there and so we're waving at you one of them is a half orc halfling you think she's about five foot that's a very brave hobby oh yeah green skin and hair hazel eyes and a soft sort of heart-shaped face wearing simple earthy toned clothing you see a fire ginacy looks to be a bit older than you are golden eyes like solid golden eyes uh reddish brown skin and a mohawk of raw flame oh hell yeah sort of with a little like rat tail at the back i'm wearing dark red and black loose clothing that exposes his arms which are very toned oh yeah and his sides like all the way down to his waistband and you see a water janassi has stormy blue skin and long black hair that looks like it's probably wet um he's full of braids pointed ears he's got like a sharp jawline piercing blue eyes wearing a simple colorful waist wrap and an open white shirt and the three of you were like yeah you came we did ask it's busy in here yeah and everyone's gonna love a bit of music i'll do what i can they introduce themselves to you the halfling half office called carmen the fire jason is called tully and the water genesee is called niles and they tell you that they are the uncalled four what kind of local group of ned wells is this judy's like yeah where the uncalled for oh i thought she said four is in the number i was like yeah the uncle four okay four where's number four carmen's like we haven't seen him for a while oh there are usually four of us and the name's not quite as interesting just the three of us but julie's like i'm called four you can be the fourth one for tonight or tonight why not come on show us what you can do okay do you play anything or well do i play anything do i play anything and you like drag some bongo drums out from behind the bar and be like i have such a beast go for it might [Music] proficiency doesn't matter i know i'm going to roll low whoa didn't oh 20. nice nice you sort of stand up there at the back with the three of them start strumming your loop you see truly just like yeah you get into this yeah and then just start on the bongo drums and carmen pulls out like a pan flute and the four of you well niles just sort of sits there with a drink like the four of you have a relative band oh yeah and you see the attention of the people in the bar just like yeah yeah like really getting into it with the live music and before you know it you have oh oh that's nice 34 gold just thrown down at your feet essentially each or yeah nice oh my god you get the impression that everyone here they are celebrating so they are just like handing out money sharing in food and drinks and uncalled for just like yes we love this where's this kind of music from this one's from neighborhood really wow that's so far away it's quite niles it's just like well yeah obviously it's on the other side of the continent so he's like i would love to see the other side of the continent one day but still going with his bonker drums quite the adventure start singing in sylvan like getting into it you see that sort of like people are starting to cheer you on niles is just completely struck oh by the sound of your singing oh he's just watching you with like wide big blue eyes oh oh cool i could listen to this all day simply pink just open shirt mr wet mr wet open shirt so his hair's long all the way like halfway down his chest and then sort of straight pushes it back behind his ear watches astra becomes for another drink do you want something to drink are you done sure that sounds good that's another one for you carmen's like oh cassio and cereal we're having a nice meal you're having a nice meal you're served like these platters of food fresh fruit fish fried fruit vegetables sorry like my god almost a tavern food oh no no no you have to go to a restaurant at least once especially when you go somewhere new because you always want to try the local dishes and see what's what and enjoy the atmosphere i mean most of them aren't in caves no this is pretty special this is pretty special i'm glad you came here thank you for taking me it's okay it's just nice to spend time with you i haven't had one-on-one with anyone in a while really no i really haven't have any lost in shape on no we had a bit more privacy there this is nice it has been nice to just be sort of a four investment group but still sometimes it's nice to just talk one-on-one you all right after elia i can't say that was the most comfortable experience i've had but well she said did that mean anything to you a little bit but not it's about really crying bride at a wedding um something i don't know if i can really want to go into it that's okay you don't have to [Music] there we go yes it looks kind of sincerely but also kind of like a child who's just been told he's not allowed to have another cookie am i a complete another ass she's taken aback not expecting that to come from him what makes you say that well i don't know um i was fully intending to just trick you all into coming south with me and my own slip up kind of screwed that up and yet here you are coming south with me anyway after i lied i'm i'm confused we're coming south to help your friend right yes but i when you first asked me about the star map and stuff i concealed the truth and i wouldn't have blamed any of you if you just left me well at this point what makes you think that we just leave you because i enjoy being difficult on purpose and obtuse sometimes because it's just how i am as a person not that i've experienced i don't know i'm not good at this friendship thing we're all still together because we like each other kathy we enjoy each other's company and we work well together we do there's something on your mind i can see it in your eyes it's difficult to talk about i kind of made a promise i wouldn't okay well i don't think you're obtuse you have a lot of my good side the less angry side i think why are you so angry maybe that's not the right word for it just bitter why are you so bitter of reasons but i i can't expect you to sit here and play therapist all night i how are you feeling after valathra that was a big deal for you are you deflating i'm trying to show concern for you as my friend saria that i care about your feelings is he being sincere right now make an inside chat 21. he definitely cares about your feelings and also know what's on your mind but he's also just like let's stop talking about me for now wow um i suppose it was it gave me a lot to think about it was definitely very inspiring being there i think it gave all of us a lot to think about with those visions hmm is this what's brought on your questioning while we're all still together um no i think it's mainly the why you all following me after the way i've been the what we saw in the what was it the opera house yes is that what your life used to be like yes okay quite a lot and you loved it that way and certainly it was fun to be the center of attention or if i was feeling a bit more devious to just sneak around at fine events listening to what people were saying figuring out how to undermine them she looks a bit sad at that and that was a fun past time yes and now feels strange to think about being cruel for cruelty's sake i feel like you're moving away from who that person used to be maybe so i suppose what i'm trying to say is that you're a better person than you think you are [Music] i appreciate that i just i'm sure you know that feelings linger i know that but i trust you sally i trust you appreciate it back in the tavern oh god astro you play music for a while you find multiple drinks being bought for you by people in the bar oh no people swap in and out and play music the energy of the night is high at some point you see that same blonde woman in a very revealing blouse who was at the dragon tree this morning playing music she comes in and she takes sort of the it's not even a stage it's basically just a barrel to sit on um she's still wearing this yellow blouse comes up very high and down very low playing the layer singing beautifully she introduced herself to the whole room with chloe with a why where she plays for a while and she comes over to join all of you and it's just like i saw you you were at the dragon tree yes your singing is beautiful thank you so was yours thank you so you're not local to hassan either which is great because everybody else seems to be and and that's fine but i can't really ramble on and on about how much i love the culture here in the geothermal pools or anything like that to the locals because they know all about it i don't know anything about it i'm completely honest we only arrived yesterday well let me tell you all about it okay and she will lean forward and engage with you tell you about the strange culture here of the scoria idol ceremonies she said she's desperate to write songs all about them she can't wait to go and check out the volcano if possible and she tells you about the geothermal park closer to the volcano just like pools of hot sulfur and mud baths and just completely charismatic and friendly through the night and the other three just sort of like welcome here and be like i'm called five no it doesn't really work the same did you go to the beach okay let's get off the beach why not tell me let's do it let's do it and sort of you don't notice how many hours have passed that you've been in the bar so far but then drinks five oh that's true you find yourself being like swept along and sort of half the crowd of tavern moved down to the beach and you end up on this stretch of like black sand and then the waters you see pricks of bioluminescent creatures like fish and coral and your eyes glow too at some point you're not really sure when you end up sort of side by side with nails who's just not quite as rowdy as the others who's just like chats with you ask you about riven anything you're willing to tell him very little but i will converse you learn that he's a reef tour guide sick okay so he's a he can cast water breathing on people and take them down to see the reef i definitely want to do that and then you should i can take you right now if you wanted right now yeah why not why not sure come on it will just sort of lead you down the beach waving the others like let's do this okay you'll reach out to your hand give him my hand now you'll cast water breathing on you sick i don't want to strip out any stuff you don't want to get wet okay you can look after a county ramble the carmen's like from about 30 feet away like we'll watch it thank you big thumbs up to niles strips to his pants niles strips to just this waist wrap there's like let's go swimming okay he'll tug your hand and pull you down towards the water it's a little chilly this late at night but it's nice and you see this like little glowing fish darting around in the water little shrimps and he holds you down under the water and swims you down to a colorful reef around the edges of the cliff completely unaware that you're like maybe a hundred feet from these guys in the cave but you swim down and you see like multi-colored eels and huge flat fish the likes of which you've never seen before you see a turtle swimming past this is so cool and he just swims around and points out the different fish to you and tells you about the coral life here and how it's grown on this massive underwater volcanic split just completely enraptured with everything just eyes wide looking at all these creatures i've never seen this kind of world before like whoa niles is completely enraptured with you oh his hair sort of floats about him in the water like almost like seaweed i see you can talk underwater with the water breathing spell on oh awesome i'm getting flustered you've been targeted come on tipsy astra he's been swimming for a while and he's just sort of like on his back underwater like kicking his feet along as if he was on the surface and he's like oh this isn't bold of me to say but you're beautiful tipsy astro goes very bubble in the vasanas even when you're purple thank you that's very sweet of you can i kiss you it swims up close to you sort of training water underwater ah nods kind of nervous but not anyway this swims up while he's still kicking his feet just sort of takes asterous space in his hands and leans in and kisses you one of his hands comes down to your waist pulls you close and sort of not making the effort to stay underwater like kind of come to the surface and i'm still kissing you what does astra do kiss his back imagine for a while it's just like nothing in shock complete shock and he's like this isn't like when i was eight [Music] i mean it's still wet but still different ways and just as niles is going to pull back castro kisses back yeah he'll splash around in the water with you and kiss you a lot just follow niles's lead of how to do this yeah it's too cold after the work after a while come out onto the beach a little further down from where the now rowdy beach party is happening [Music] sit there next you and put an arm around you it's always on the beach be like you can stay with me tonight if you want to okay why not i'd like that and he'll just chat with you for a while he tells you about the others he tells you that carmen is actually a noble's daughter oh my god yeah would never have known that tully is a minor from down at the quarry and that their friend is a goliath their fourth friend mysterious fourth friend and just chat to you about island live for a while um you learned that the mine has been the quarry has been closed for a short while because they have been worried about a curse the tomb has been uncovered there in the ancient lava flow romantic conversation he tells you with like excitement it's sort of like you get the impression yeah that people are just scaremongering about the curse but that people are enjoying the story around the island it tells you more about the last scorian idol um who's turned to 13 now that they have the rest of the week to find a replacement one if they want to keep the volcano nice and peaceful ash will now finally be like what is a volcano and start questioning what the a smoking mountain does niles explains it thank you and explains sort of reassuringly the the volcano hasn't been active for hundreds of years and it's not going to explode on the screen thank you and then he'll take your hand and he'll lead you back into the town you just follow yeah then in which case he will take you back to his accommodation above one of the shops oh oh oh yeah oh my god it's like does disaster just think this is a sleepover or yeah he's like yeah i want to spend more time with this nightmare when he's hot man um i mean your your dinner rounds off yeah well what cassian will pay for dinner uh it probably comes to about 25 gold christ acceptable like drinks like very like fruit-based cocktails without alcohol in the wine three courses yeah cousin place for dinner um you're probably getting the impression that he's like making that effort to like smile and have a good time he's clearly deep in thought still and just will be like do you want to go to the pool that'll be nice and just relax maybe it won't be well maybe there will be people we don't know i hope so that's with me with it especially at this time thank you so much for doing that that's okay like i said everyone deserves to because of proper restaurants at least once really treated [Music] okay make our way back to the to the dragon tree yeah you can make your way back to the dragon tree you can head out to the rear courtyard there's no one else around my perception check oh 22 30 20. okay you both noticed then that there is a light on in the window of your suite like there is a dim light up there so go and see what that is sure it's probably random but but just to be certain let's double check a little paranoid part don't trust like that we'll make our way up yes stealthily make us stealthy why would you suggest such a thing ten eleven okay you make your way back up there you get over to the door it doesn't creep as you depress the handle and push it open very gently inside the suite a single lamp is burning low and throwing dim light and strange shadows all over the room the furniture has been pushed aside in the main room to make more floor space and in the middle of the room three books are laid out on the floor and brandon is nearly in front of them he's facing away from you and he doesn't seem to have noticed you pushing the door open slightly his hands are tracing arcane sigils in the air he's muttering something under his breath in something you don't recognize the words but you do recognize it as undercommon a thin wave of arcane energy ripples out from where he is in all directions and the moment it reaches where you are and two of you sort of quite perceptive to the feeling of the magic he startles and turns like suddenly aware of your presence hello evening i'm sorry to interrupt i thought you'd be out longer well we came back to have a swim but we saw the light on and was suspicious right sorry um don't apologize it's all right is there anything we can help you with no it's fine i'm all done here you don't have to be done there's nothing wrong with practicing no i just closed all the books and gets up and sets them on the table and starts putting things back where they were and it doesn't look you in the eye we'll go over to where he's moving like furniture back or something and just hold gentle hands on it to stop him moving it it's okay you don't need to stop on our account thought i have more privacy that's all we can go that's fine i'm gonna um probably go to bed [Music] i thought you didn't need to go to bed tonight well i feel like it so how did the dinner go it's fine dinner we're the governor can i inside check him uh yeah this is the inside check against the party episode 15 15. he he seems to be thinly veiling like just general unhappiness um and perhaps slight embarrassment for being caught practicing magic it's all right angel sorry i don't want to bring the moon down you've obviously had a good night we can go if you don't mind there's something you can actually help me with okay go on you see his face goes a little bit red when i when i dived into the water hmm when you fill in i got salt water in my wings and it stays there even though they go away well my back is really itchy and i'm wondering if that's the problem oh gods we can fix that the preen looks highly offended at the notion sarah's going to go get a bottle of water that's fine you'll strip your shirt off and just open the wings up and you can see that they are like slightly crusty with salt and very very dry a little cloth each and a wing each this is incredibly embarrassing i wouldn't say so kind of ticklish cassian just fiddled with a little bit oh sorry my hand slipped pinch the wing that you're cleaning will smack you slightly they're nice and soft yeah very pretty color up close it's very weird they feel completely normal and completely bizarre at the same time sounds about right for anything magical suppose you didn't know you had them until well this time a month ago there's um spells in the covenant of the twilight book what kind of spells spells to use against casters who would use their magic for negative reasons okay right and we found that other book the diary written in blood very tasteful there are spells written in the covenant book which pertained to stopping specific spells in the other one as far as i can tell from the translations what kind of spells are in the other one cruel things the kind of things that raise undead and cause people pain with no other purpose you feel sorry i'll stop and she's wiping down the wings for a minute right and i thought i don't want anybody to be subject to cruel magic like that know how it feels so we're not alone why not i mean we can't read under common but we can help you with things if if you need it sparring or technique so you don't feel quite as surprised when you set your sword on fire or anything like that there's an unavoidable sense of self-loathing that comes with producing spells myself magic is a tool like anything else if you put it to good use it can be used for good if you put it to evil it can be used for evil it is just the hands it is held in you have good strong hands thank you and strong will is more what i meant well it's worth living simply to protect myself and others you won't say much more on the subject up cleaning his wings and basically as soon as you're done he's like puts them away again grabs his shirt i'll see you in the morning then thank you [Music] where's astra he went to a tavern yeah that was a while ago though that was before we went to dinner how's it going oh i know what i can do the book all right astra it's cassian what kind of trouble have you gotten up to did the hugs steal you away let me know i'm not in trouble for you later astra i can do this as many times as i need to what have you gotten yourself into scene that's right if you don't answer me i will continue to do this until you do please don't are you safe yes what's he saying show the transcription please don't he's being very obtuse he's probably having a good time living to it so is he safe he said he is i look away and the night winds down ashley you do as much sleeping or not sleeping as you want to kissing lots of kissing kissing like kissing wake up in the morning with the sunrise sort of draped across nails probably on something like a sofa then you can say your good mornings and goodbyes for now traipse back to the dragon tree house will do everybody is getting up and sort of heading down to the breakfast terrace at the bathroom which is kind of like a wooden deck that sticks out so you can see the whole forest beyond estrogen does that thing you know when you're like embarrassed but you don't know why of walking up to the building looking at it turning around walking away so you're gonna leave and i mean like where am i gonna go turning back walking to the building and being like what do i say walking away and then walking back and just in he goes you see this like this terrace with a handful of tables most of them empty but you do see the orc and the dragonborn of course again and then you see astro kind of coming in looking oddly sheepish unless you're trying to deceive them i'm trying to deceive and make a deception face okay and plus four everybody sees that you are doing a bad job of trying to just i mean astra is a terrible life that's just a terrible one who walks in looking like doing his best impression of someone who has nothing to hide astra where have you been you didn't come home last night i was so lonely classy and lonely sorry sorry is everything okay yes great party was fun you know just fun tavern night in the tavern okay good great you don't have to tell us what happened you just look very happy and that's nice tavern yes breakfast breakfast sounds good is sort of an assortment of like cheeses and breads and fruit um and you see the dragonborn like looks over to your table and then big wave and they're like warren i'm just like ah counselor good to see you again are you two four millimeters yes this is zarif al-nakhi he's a councillor of arrakis oh oh yes why don't you join us i've seen this is sort of like the orc sat at one table dragon ball z another and then the four of us like looking over the breakfast room like it was um this chubby jolly dragonborn gets up he's now wearing like a robe of red with sort of like a golden fabric around the neck and you see he's got a brown belt on with a few scrolls tucked into it and he smells of perfume and oranges as he comes over here hell yeah pulls a chair up and he's like nice to probably meet you and you i'm zarif dastra uh cassian ravani sorry i love saying it a pleasure a pleasure good to see you again and takes us satan's like how are you enjoying your first day on the island it's beautiful here yeah i really i really like it do you come here a lot um well i do a lot of correspondence here um i'm from arakas i'm i'm on the council there although not important on the council nothing like that i've been sent to kazan plenty of times uh for trade reasons talking to the governor um administration stuff you know between the different governments of the isles did you have to come through that big storm then oh no i've been here for a while uh but i've just been waiting because they've got this idle ceremony thing going on which is um well it's more important to them than me or trade talks so right i have to wait my turn can't think of a better place to do it you know there's there's some very interesting flora and fauna here on the island oh we saw the vineyard yesterday there's a lot of elementals yes absolutely and as a member of the naturalist guild i uh was the naturalist guild or guild of people who uh study nature okay i knew of rovani actually isaac yeah isaac ravani you know my uncle isaac you have an uncle yes i guess i do huh how is he he's very good i mean whenever he talked to his nephew i always thought like annoying very small a real pleasure to meet you then sure if you see him again send him my best oh well oh well thank you he will never believe that i met you here on cassandra you really want why is there a question mark at the end of that uncle isaac is uh um strange oh does he have a narrative not somewhere kind of everywhere kind of everywhere he's uh never really gave up the wandering right constant traveler always researching picking up the most fascinating stuff actually he i think he was i mean it was maybe five years ago but he was the first person to tell me about the flail snail the what pardon the flail snail they have them here on i've been so so interested in going to find one a sale yes oh it's a um it's got an anti-magic shell you see sort of i i don't want to i don't want to hunt on anything i just want to observe its destructive power a destructive style perhaps harvest some of the mucus that it secretes for research i was hoping you would have an antibacterial quality that could be turned into some sort of healing item this guy just talks he doesn't hear yeah but i was hoping i could get maybe some of the town's guard or something to come with me out into the forest but they're all busy with the idol ceremony ah i can't head out there by myself to hunt a snail not hunt observe okay well we could do with a stretch of our legs sure why not you did want to get closer to the volcano why not true you you would oh that would be so exciting and volcanoes aren't active anymore apparently it's not good enough for no years no it's been a long long time it's very proud the day before you see the new york sort of appearing over from his table [Music] so lonely orc set at the other table do you want to come over as well i i was not going to um bother you but we're all sat over here now come on you see this all stand up to his full six foot six now he's wearing like simple yet practical finely made clothing like breeches and undershirt with lace cuffs uh worn rolled up to the elbows like a fine damask waistcoat is he like a big orc is this like all big tailored yes oh god big orc uh he comes on over cassie and you and vanderbilt immediately recognize the the feral stat driving side of it's like fairytale but everything's kind of drab colors not embellished very simple by comparison he comes all over he said i hope you don't mind me joining you no of course not there's no point sitting on your own thank you patrick pulver patrick it's nice to meet you from vernon's astro too it's your big hand to shake pink cassini sorry pleasure pleasure events like oh god recognizing his style of outfits it's like warden of the east [Music] we're just talking about going to observe a snail in the wilderness oh i've told patrick all about the snail yes he has patrick's a black powder merchant that powder you know um that is like like gun powder oh the stuff that fellow stuff does the stuff that we did fireworks when we were in ferrostat before oh and the pirates were just yes yes oh no you do that that's awful you don't like me asking is that what the business is about oh yes um quite quite an explosive career path mm-hmm a choice that you made so should you make it or sell it well i am a um a weaponsmith engineer guns and cannons on the bike well you see vandan's eyes are like this is uninteresting the zoomies but no i'm it's all manufactured here on the sun all the black powder um it's the only place on the continent where you can get all of the correct ingredients in one place so they kind of call it the market on it i'm here to pick up some samples of a potential new kind of black powder do you know the count s not personally but oh i have met her a few times we wouldn't i wouldn't say we're friends oh she was really nice she is very nice how do you know about the countdowns the fight counters although i can't because of the pirates that tried to steal your black powder this must have been before we met yes yes yes i do remember that incident [Music] no it looks like you and then abandoned it's like and you helped protect the city well kind of tltfly couldn't can't believe that i didn't immediately recognize the description it's not something you see every day well thank you you did pharaoh the most incredible service anyone else would have that black stuff was very dangerous it is a weapon of war yes there was these pirates trying to steal it but they were going to explode half of our well well and you stopped it uh ward warden did the most i just helped kind of you know we're very good at that the zarif is like well iraqis are actually there i've over here to make an agreement regarding trade of the black powder but we want it for research reasons um i don't know how much you know about rackets but we do a lot of arcane research over there and we're wondering whether it would make an interesting spell component quite an explosive spell component definitely explosive well if you um if you wouldn't mind accompanying me to the center of the island sure why not look for the snail yes i'm not sure how easy a snail is going to be to find more than happy to help well we'll see i know exactly what i'm looking for are you very gifted out in nature restaurant can we mock a long rest as well though yeah don't get spell spots back completely forgot about that yep and change some spells breakfast kind of rounds off and sorry is like i will just get my naturalist kit i'll see you down at the entrance why not sure thing captain he looks so happy about it i love him as you do yesterday you recognize a certain blonde revealing blouse walking through hello astra hi hi good to see you how'd the rest of your might go it was great thank you how was yours lovely absolutely lovely thank you so do you and you were playing it before watching yes do you what could the hotel no no no i'm just staying here i'm just here to take in the local culture like i told astral all about it last night i just want to write some incredible songs about the idol ceremony we're about to just going into the forest trying to find a flail snail i hope you have an exciting time i'll tell you all about this kathy and you're particularly drawn to looking at her hair which still looks greasy in fact it looks greasier up front up close it's like everything about her is perfectly presented but her hair looks like it hasn't been washed in like three weeks oh doesn't smell he's finding it very hard to not just self cleaning and just look at sorry i'll look at astrid just look at her hair and look around and look at her hair and just like is anyone else as upset with this as i am she's just like i hope you have a good day and you too i'll see you around see you around maybe go enjoy the baths i know she was you okay her hair is disgusting i haven't noticed this one's particularly so greasy how do you let yourself get to that state [Music] why are you so bothered about this because it's gross tiny custom voice it kills me people should put effort into their appearance it makes you feel good about yourself well not everybody cares about putting effort into their appearance i do agree with you because she seems rather happy with herself [Music] sometimes you just don't have the energy to do that at least it doesn't smell right do you guys need to get your things yes oh wait down here then yeah you can all go gather your things and then the reef will meet you before long and you head off with him into the wilds of kazan you leave east along the tracks traveling towards the snail i'm just imagining him in like little safari one of the fake helmets he's like the um the old man that owns jurassic park yes he is welcome a little explorer's hat with holes for his bed got the little sticks it's big chunky dragon ball oh i walk in sticks um and yeah you head east into the island you follow the road tracks for a while and then zerif identifies like a route off the road points one of his walking sticks towards it it's like that's the one head down there that's where i heard the snail was okay all right this fabled snail and then you head off the road into the forest as you do clouds and dense canopy prevent the sunlight from reaching the forest floor sort of low dappled twilight under the trees you saw when you came in like the mists rolling across the centre of the island and all the way through the forest it's misty and dark the strange and snaking and weaving forms of the trees and giant ferns taking on a sort of surreal appearance as you move through them colors dimmed by the constant moisture in the air here the sea clouds over the island sort of seem to dip into the tree line everything gets a bit damp as that sort of moisture in the air clings to it there's a slow endless cycle it drips onto the ground from the leaves making the forest floor eternally slick and damp it wet really so enthusiasts be like not quite everywhere you walk and you're aware of this lumbering shadow of this huge volcano in the center of the island what must be the slumbering sentinel it's like it juts out of the terrain a shot of glass jagged and reaching for the heavens you lead down one pathway through the trees and into the abundance of jungle beyond a sturdy wooden walkway trails through the canopy here splasher looks very contented as we're walking through zarif too as you progress through the trees he leads you off the wooden walkway onto a deeper path you clamber over a large tangle of tree roots at the base of a colossal tree trunk and you hear the sustained splashing of water on rock a stream bubbles along beside you but that can't be the source of it further upstream as you move along this dirt path the water opens into a large crystal clear blue pool at the base of a small waterfall water cascades over the high rocks and runs down in a curtain of rivulets and there's a small cave-like space beyond it under a craggy overhang major perception jack 24 eight one so three so sorry you see it first you've come to kind of the end of the trodden path here and you get the impression that the locals come this way for the waterfall um but you see a wide slimy trail through the undergrowth it's about a foot wide yes how big are these snails they're pretty big i it looks the others don't know about you but i was expecting a snail snail yes is that could that be fun that looks like it might be it that's huge that's really big oh he goes closer you see him just dip his fingers into the slime oh oh you see it sort of glistens like rainbow colors in the light that's pretty this is it you found the trail okay right before we get any closer what exactly are we doing with the snail oh um i'm gonna i'm gonna have to be taking notes um and the warden here he tells me that he travels with spellcasters well you see the snail's anti-magic shell deflects magical spells so i don't want the the snail to i don't want to die but i would love for you to cast spells at it so i can observe the properties of the shell oh okay and if it gets too injured um heal it okay okay so we're just going to bother the snail for a while yes all right okay okay let's follow the trail it's just a snail it's just a snail i guess we just have to make sure that we don't get hit by our own spells yes just be vigilant for the snail for the snail and for its shell bouncing spells back at us why do these things keep happening make a survival check to follow the snail trail oh um oh yeah everyone first okay and that one dirty twenty eighteen no no wait to twenty two nine yes okay i'm saying sorry astra like you have to start like pushing bushes apart and stuff to get to it now and it quickly disappears into the undergrowth but you push a few more aside and you're able to pick up this trail again and sort of you two at the front pushing bushes aside and leading everyone further into the forest as you follow it as you do the roof just begins to wax poetic about the snake he tells you that they move very slowly and that they can consume everything in their path they vegetation sand dirt rocks they're particularly fond of crystal growths and mineral deposits craves that mineral absolutely and he tells you that because of the pressure of the heat of lava it often forms like these green crystals inside the lava rock which is what makes it such a great environment for the flail snip oh my god green crystal like the jewelry we saw in one exact place as you keep going maybe another survival gem i would like to instead call speak with plants oh okay speak to them trees little shimmer of magic and then to the bushes and the areas have you seen a giant snail anywhere around here the bushes in the area astro you can question them on anything so they can communicate back to you in a way that i don't understand um when i say you hear it basically like a sense of what they're trying to tell you everything else everyone else just hears rustling so these plants are just like all the plants like dancing um and you hear them just sort of like yes yes snail yes which way should have gone this way yes and then like clothes rustling over to one side you see like snail sort of mouth marks in the leaves and they sort of keep wrestling in that direction okay can you move slightly out the way so we can get past without treading on you thank you this way okay okay oh that is fantastic there's a real sort of plot after you the purpose is like i don't like that can we hear him speaking english to the plants or like yeah you heard him speaking common to the plants that's that's new every day astrid is something this new come on we keep going this way and because it lasts for 10 minutes as we go up just keep you doing okay double checking with the plants how do you do as a wreath tells you more snail facts it's time for another snail fact it tells you that depending on how old the flail snail is the strength of its anti-magic properties will grow on the gold he tells you that they have a very slow metabolism which renders them immune to poison while they're thick shells and the wet mucus that covers their bodies make them into fire and he tells you that like any snail they are vulnerable to salt although their protective mucus provides an extra layer of resistance they are salt resistant he sounds so so passionate as he tells you these snail facts yesterday will be passionately conversing back just like that's really interesting wow snail facts i never knew top five snail ferrets welcome to nukes just keep making the little plants out of the way so we don't trade on them nice no steppy [Music] he tells you oh my gosh the protective mucus was produced by is produced by a gland in the snail's foot the mucus serves as a protective layer for its skin and a lubricant for its motion as it moves this shimmering trail that you are following is potent and can be used to produce clear glass yup same house snail glass is he collecting some of this mucus as we go absolutely okay he's finding like particularly global bits oh it's stuck to rocks and stuff and he's like scraping them into little jars very endearing man yeah he has his hobbies with astrid to speak with plants and this trail of slime it doesn't take you much longer you you have walked for like half the day um but you find your way to a leafy grove in the middle of which you catch the shine of what looks like a huge seashell until you realize sort of ducked into kind of like a craggy rock at the other end you're staring at a giant snail chewing on a piece of volcanic rock with a glimmer of green gem inside it it's about eight foot high wow it has five tentacles on its face which is swaying very slowly in constant motion and its shell is very colorful and scintillating growing in a clockwise spiral reflecting a rainbow of colors that's not unlike the mother of pearl astros horns as soon as you spot the snail you see zaru's face just like it's his birthday oh that's your friend it's really big yeah well then let's strategize and begin so we just surround it throw some magic at it and try not to get hit by each other's spells and try not to kill it that spread out is very cruel didn't will it hurt it well i am here to observe but it does have an anti-magic shell so in theory no okay okay i will say the thing is you're not intending to hurt it you can essentially pull your punches and do like the minimum damage okay when you're throwing spells okay zarif will go last um apart from that it'll be wrong initiative goodness gracious okay astrid eight cassian eleven cereal also eleven huh nineteen christ madden is ready so the four of you spread out as the reef finds a good hiding spot so all of his parchment ready to take notes and each of you kind of take positions around the area and the sail doesn't seem to care that you're here whatsoever it's just munching this rock so vanden kind of clock size with all of you is like and just summons a fire bolt and throws it towards the snail to get started um i imagine a 16 is going to hit that's its ac oh jesus okay it is made armor a hearty snail he flings out a fire bolt and it's not paying attention so it strikes it right on the shell um it's immune to fire it's immune to fire i have to roll with d6 and see what happens oh you see it simply like deflects off the shell and the sail just like very slowly turns around you see that the five slow-moving tentacles on its head start to oh oh no sway in like attentiveness quite fast it's the snail's turn what are you gonna do snail snow munch on your rock i'll pour snail that just wanted to eat no longer the dawn bringers but the snail bother us it will move ten feet closer to our guest cereal because everyone else is further away able to rock and it emits just like this bright dazzling colored light like out in 30 feet radius around it um everybody who can see the snail now has disadvantage she hit it okay okay cereal can you make a wisdom saving throw oh god what uh eight eight you are stunned you're just stunned by this like completely frozen uh calcium two disadvantaged eldritch blasts okay [Music] um 19. and uh a natural one that's one okay the 19 hits give it the minimum damage yeah so minimum for me is five points of force damage takes five points of damage bell hits so the anti-magic shell does nothing you see it's a reflex oh like of complete interest and then sort of a strange look towards cassian oh interesting uh what's your news oh sarah you were stunned until the end of the round it's just they sort of shocked almost like when astra uses like the hypnotic pattern just sort of staring at this bright light astra okay so focusing on a point that's not going to get any of us are quite far back ashley's going to cast plant growth okay which is just going to like make all of the foliage in the area underneath the sound light around it and then back just suddenly just spring up nice and make it difficult to rain for the snail so it now can't move it has to spend four feet of movement for every one foot now it's gonna get nowhere exactly oh yeah cool all right so that's you've seen it's sort of swaying tentacles swaying on its own confusion yeah so astra just like goes and brings his hands up and all of the plots in the area just suddenly become overgrown in like difficult around around the snail itself okay zuru studies interesting sixteen don't know we'll try something yeah you know what breville can drive he's just gonna euphoria bro that's a save uh yes okay dc11 wisdom saving throw the snail gets advantage on the save [Music] it succeeds okay and so i'm going to roll the d6 to see what happens oh five alive oh uh each creature within 30 foot of the snail must make a constitutional saving throw um hello is that all of us we're talking brandon um i think i think even just not as a reef everybody oh my god come on i need to do one for bramble as well is a sixteen eighteen that's one asteroid is a four okay cassian and bramble save oh god go ahead bramble uh what level spell is blunt growth third blood voice yeah okay so that's nine points of force damage or halved for success so for you and nine for the rest of us as the euphoria breath hits the shell and force of magic expels out of the snail that was like a holy hell what seriously that's so interesting it's so interesting these were the facts you should have been telling us these are the things that i don't know so four damage for a success yeah yeah cool okay uh brambleton's invisible then scramble turns invisible um vanden will take a disadvantaged chaos bolt uh that's going to miss so i have to roll to see what happens yes as they moves five foot forwards and withdraws into its shell goodbye you should see it like stuck into its shelves or it's like oh fascinating it has gained a plus four buttons to its ac oh my god interesting cassie cassian's going to get up to the snail okay and cast arms of her dark and the snail makes strength saving throw um yes it gets advantageous okay what's the dc 50 oh yeah it definitely makes it okay it takes half of 2d6 and acrylic damage so i guess one yeah one one point of necrotic damage and also i get two rules what happens you do oh okay maybe a constitutional savings again brambles is a nine astra is three okay so bad uh i got 14. you got 14. yes uh okay everybody failed oh god let's fill his arms up for me it's a fourth level spell because i'm a warlock how it is everybody's going to take 12 points of force down oh my god as another destructive wave of force energy ripples off the anti-magic shell and strikes everyone the reef just scribbling furiously just looks up i have to tell you i feel very guilty about this you're doing fantastic i'm getting so much information so much tell us when your parchment is full well i'm just like i'm just going to look around the area for anything else that might help you research it he's going he wanders sort of around the area around the other side of the snail pokes his head down into the hole and you hear him like oh there's i think there's eggs down here it's a mother eggs okay okay we can call it off we can call it off back away from the snail we're trying to fasten away from the snails maybe i can get the last bits of my research from the eggs i hope so oh i was hurting right now a bit yeah that was painful sorry it's just like oh you all did some wonderfully though i'm gonna see if i can um gather one of those eggs to take back to arrakis no i don't think that's a good idea why oh that's not right you shouldn't take it out of its home i know you want to research it but you've done your research in the field i mean it's one out of how many eggs then there's like like maybe 30 well yeah it's one out of 30. it could be used for academic purposes and no one's going to mistreat the snailing snake ashley just looks at everyone knows that this is a fight that they're not going to win and just tons and walks away somebody forgot over to the hole and get out of very like a sort of specimen jar with a sort of nice environment put some moss from around bits of volcanic rock and very carefully put one of the snail eggs into the jar and like smell terrarium amazing i couldn't have asked for better you have done me an absolute service i mean while the snails still trying to turn around like and half speed is a difficult terrain yeah right well we should leave this poor thing on we're going to try and like gather a bunch of the volcanic rock that it was eating and just sort of put it in its little home there you go we're sorry you're even able to put something right in front of it and you'll see it's just smudges away on it sorry and with that you walk away from the snail the five of you just sort of wrap it up and start heading back somewhat there's a reef's like we're probably gonna have to camp out here i mean it could be we could travel back but it could be really really late we don't get lost in these woods maybe see if we can find the waterfall make a camp there sure show me about the hotel but if it's safer we'll see how far we can get you walk he tells you that he's so excited that you helped him and he promises to do something good with the research and provide you with ample repayment probably in the form of some sort of magical item when he's done with this research nice uh somebody make a survival check to try and find oh that's not one of the ones you're special in i've got plus four in it i've got plus five go for it did advantage here because that's everybody 212 so 17 17. okay it doesn't take you too long then you make your way back and you hear the rush of the waterfall you're able to sort of follow the path that you've pushed through the plants and find this slight clearing with the cool pool of water in the rushing waterfall and stop to set up camp for the night and it is a few hours from where you were to where you are now and you're thinking it's gonna probably be another five hours of walking back towards the town might as well rest here you sees the reef getting out like a colorful bedroll and a little awning for himself he's invested in his hobbies yeah you see he's got like this obviously this kit something similar to what your uncle probably had just like a slightly more luxurious camping set for somebody who is out to study he's got the glamping stuff yeah he's got the glamping stuff like if he had a bag of holding he'd pull out like a little pop-up table or something there's like fold-out chairs yeah and a sofa and you can set up camp for the night and at some point when you've done that and you've got a fire going and some food going there's a tremor through the ground you hear it at first there's a slow rumble and then you feel it the earth shaking it's like an earthquake and then a loud and see it's a reef look up towards the slumbering sentinel well that didn't sound great that shouldn't do that right i mean it hasn't been any of the time that i've spent here on kasan but looking up there does it look like there's more smoke than usual it is now smoking whereas before it wasn't hmm but they did say that when they chose the idol the volcano would smoke right yes so maybe it's just part of it maybe they've just chosen the idol a victorious boom as opposed to an ominous one yeah presumably anyway they did say it'll be about a day okay that makes sense oh just keep an eye out i'll take first watch tonight yes your arm still aches a little bit it's a bit annoying you look down at your other arm you notice your hand has taken on kind of a weird color not on the arm with a slight bruise with the other one it's like the henna paint that you've used has started to rust like it's going green slightly just having a little flick through his pack and finding the like pouch he has like he uses her body hannah looking inside the header inside there is fine you okay yes just maybe some sort of weird reaction to the environment let's see my paste is going a bit of a funny color is that on both arms and look at the other one and you didn't see it on your forum but then you look up like further up the designs and yeah it's starting to go a bit funny color sorry all looking at him even on his forehead it's starting to go a bit green that's odd has it done that before no it's like i said maybe it's just a weird reaction are you feeling all right i feel fine casting something i'll just cut some dancing lights four little globes yeah you cast them they cast fine it looks like they know me too [Music] well like find some loose bit of fabric or whatever like in his bag on his person tear it and then cast mending um you see it start to cast like the fabric starts to weave back together and then it just stops even though you're still like casting it that's peculiar can i can't check like to see if i can sense anything funky going on make an archangel on the henna 10. not that you can detect i mean like just for your understanding of spell components it looks like the hen has gone bad [Music] stank sword sure you're feeling all right i feel fine um i'll just i guess maybe it's time to reapply does it do that when you need to replay it no but like i said maybe it's just a weird environmental thing i don't normally go to these sorts of places sorry i'll remember this messian will scrub in the waterfall and spend some time just reapplying [Music] just plucking this loop like thematically would be doing some rest but are you doing in what way it's just in the general how are you way i guess yeah i feel a bit guilty about what we just did but it's unfortunately the nature of research but it's not nature [Music] it is because people are natural and this is part of what intelligent people do doesn't sit right with me though the research that zarif has just done might help dozens and dozens of people and it doesn't feel right i'm not gonna argue well it's done now regardless are you been better not not coping very well that's understandable quite frankly everything you've gone through even just the things we've done in the last week have just been way out of my comfort zone you're one of the bravest people i've ever met i know this if anything happened to my family and i found out that the family member was to do with that i wouldn't be standing i wouldn't know what how to how to do anything it takes a lot of strength to do what you do every day even just the small things of just waking up in the morning and choosing to get out of bed you do it and that's so strong thank you esther he's just going against your shoulder while you're playing not saying anything else ash's tail will encircle the area around um bender will take the tail and pull it closer cuddled by tailwind you know just sit in silence for a while and then make some completely different topics small talk you guys settle down as everyone does settle down fandom will get out the covenant of the twilight book and castle alarms fell around the camp for the first time well that's great thanks obviously set up a tiny hot at any point when you settle down to sleep we're gonna be so safe yeah before they settle down for the evening sarah will pull out the red book that they got the night before i'm sorry if you seem well versed in magic i think that's fair enough to say um it's all right if you can't but i just i bought this yesterday and i was just wondering the shopkeeper said that it wasn't ready yet oh my do you mind of course he takes in his hands like very delicately like he's handling like an ancient artifact he just strokes his hand over the cover opens it up you bought this yesterday this is uh there's a tone of understanding these things are worth a small fortune i suppose i didn't get here for a good price then he said that it wasn't ready yet i don't really know what that means so he tells you that it's a tone of understanding the words are charged with magic and if you spend 48 hours over a period of six days or fewer studying his content then basically you gain magical wisdom that stays with you forever wow that's right the manual then loses its magic it regains it within a century can the same person use it more than once within that time uh no i don't i don't think so but i i can't be sure okay and he said it wasn't ready but doesn't know when it would be let me find out for you he's just going to spend 10 minutes casting identify over the book and he finds out for you it will be ready in 10 weeks huh that was sooner than i thought [Music] this was a very very lucky purchase hands actually as well as the night goes on astral just be like i guess identifying his own arm um i say spending a few hours before you sleep like inspecting it you can't figure out what the quill does yet but you figure out a command word to remove it and then put it same come on to put it back in the rest of the time it just it just sits there like a birthmark the night passes and in the morning you'll get up pack up and head back to our chorus this takes most of the next day sort of trekking through the jungle again and when you arrive the town is quiet and zarif says to you that this is weird it was his understanding that the town would be alive with even more celebration than before once the idol was chosen even just being here yesterday didn't give this atmosphere at all strange maybe we should find out what's happening let's ask someone slap down a shopkeeper or a local yeah you can do it a few times everyone will give you the same answer the idol was chosen last night and something has happened but the governor will not tell them what's wrong well you've already met with the governor so perhaps we should just go check everything's okay i think we should up to the fault okay i guess this is where we part ways with you do be in touch if you need help with anything i'll just be back at the dragon tree enjoy your snail business thank you thank you all very much for your help i'll make sure there is just reward in time thank you very much pleasures we'll part ways with you and phantom would lead you up the hill towards the fort that you saw when you were coming in into the bay it's a small but finely constructed fort at the top of the cliff made it the same igneous rock as everything else you can see it has a smooth a few small archery turrets but it clearly doesn't serve much purpose for defense anymore if it ever did it's heavily guarded as we arrive and you can see the guard sort of take a look over recognize vandan and sort of open the gates and you walk inside to find beautifully cultivated hedges um and a view through the back of the fort through like a sort of archway to a grand romanesque house beyond then just sort of head straight through the fort itself that way says to the gods at the next gate that they're here to see the governor we're allowed through you head down to the house and knock on the door and a like a housemaid answers and the governor quickly you see it's like a wide wooden floored hallway right inside the house sort of looks like a plantation kind of house um the governor comes out quickly and he's like wouldn't you have come just in time you see a photo furbolg man oh um he looks to be on the older side just a week for football i love them he's so soft he's very tall soft spoken you can see he's got two little fangs sticking up from his lower lip um like sort of warm brown skin but then with patches of complete albino skin a bit of like a tuft of graying hair at the front of his long brown hair big floppy ears island style clothing like sort of very formal jacket with short sleeves over a long white sleeve shirt but like with sort of island patterning that you've seen everywhere all over it um and he he looks very concerned as you guys enter and it's like governor goodwill what's what's wrong he's like i'm glad you're here the idol was chosen last night and immediately fell unresponsive what please do come in so as you know we were choosing a new idol for the island yesterday then we heard the mountain going off last night yes it doesn't normally happen oh we wait for the smoke but the rumble very unexpected as uh our priest of moradin finished the ceremony to transfer the titan soul from the last idol into the new one unfortunately the little girl fell unconscious is she here she is she's been unconscious since can we see her i'm trying to heal her please come through you can see his hands are like ringing together and he's like shaking slightly um you get the impression that he's probably never had to deal with any sort of negativity on the island whatsoever he leads you through a flashy set of double doors into like a wide open planned living space and there is a like a day bed in here with a very small water julassi girl laid out on it just completely still still as she would be if she died but you can see her chest very slowly raising and falling boy can we like medicine check slash arcana you can medicine chip come on 19 19. okay um you like you sort of check all over she's got no injuries there's no sign of like arcane involvement it doesn't look like anyone has cast a spell on her or anything to that event she's very cold she's comatose basically what the heck mcgovern is just like if i'm honest we have no idea what's happening it's not like a sickness or anything or the thing that we're worried is irresponsible is i'm sure you've heard silly hearsay about the curse at the quarry no yes [Music] the fire pit quarry it's um the heart of our industry here on gazan you found something in there we uncovered a grave site oh and since it's been opened things have been strange at the quarry and well we shut the quarry down for a time catching the work they kept the workers away when did you discover this that was last week this is like undead or something i don't know we're not not the best arcanists or anything here maybe maybe you warden and your friends maybe you could go to the quarry and investigate for us [Music] we should do this if it's if it's this it's happened to her i mean this isn't the holiday we expected it to be so i i'm so sorry why not your expenses will be covered and and everything let's try and help the children absolutely is the other girl okay yes she's um she's going to stay with her foster parents and she's um she's fine he said she felt completely normal right so strange so i suppose we should head towards the quad again we'll make hayes governor don't worry we'll take care of this somehow that's just going to stroke the water get nasty's hair and just don't you worry that's one it'll be okay in the end till sampling we'll be back soon she doesn't stir the four of you can head out again the governor will have the horses given to you essentially just to get to the quarry quickly you mount the horses and ride fast in the direction you appointed you travel for a while out of the town away from the forests across the rocky and arid land in places it's steep in other places it lulls into dark valleys the sun going down now the path starts to descend small stone scraping under the horse's feet as we reach what can only be the fire pit quarry you can see this huge space once a magnificent lake basin in the shadow of the volcano you can see clearly now from where you've ridden inland water has since been drained away to leave an expansive crater in the middle of the earth this area is rich in natural resources particularly those useful in the process of making black powder and as you descend further into the chasm you can see the walls have layers of sedimentary rock left there by the lake that it used to house you see a desolate quarry that would usually be a bustling hive of activity you can see abandoned pickaxes engineering kits like where people have just left what they were doing with their shovels and their like sample jars you see a geothermal pool everything here stinks of sulfur sort of permeating eggy smell from the natural sulfur in the pools you see black sand in towering piles like on wheelbarrows and the like now devoid of workers temporarily closed due to this curse there are neatly organized stacks of logs at one end of the quarry and a number of different sharp smells reach your nostrils as you venture further inside burning wood the stench of sulfur the sting of something chemical the ground underfoot as you dismount the horses is warm and contains long thin cracks in places they look like they've been created with intent in other places you see instead of cracks long crystalline veins of saltpeter stretching through the ground to one end of the quarry you see a large metal building standing there supported by thick iron struts with several boards with warning signs on them and attention notices around this perimeter without even getting close you get the impression that that's where they make the come from that's why they make the gun powder to the other end of the quarry you see a sinkhole cordoned off hastily with rope well this stinks doesn't it yes i suppose we should have a look around just be careful apparently they were making lights about this whole curve situation but something actually is going on was just keep our with some houses perhaps all over here we can find our oak friends samples that he said dooley needs that's a good idea and it's gonna wander off towards the sinkhole he's like i think this is the grave um you join him over there yeah as you approach you see it's collapsed in perhaps 10 feet down and 20 feet across um and at the bottom amongst the volcanic dust where it's collapsed are several corpses fragile and ancient and yet stinking like they died less than a year ago one of the skulls is shattered and you see sharp clear fragments inside of them like glass others wear jewels and gold that appear to have melted onto their bones ah the whole site like a bizarre and morbid art installation in the pocket of earth created where like an ancient flow of lava river struck these people and instantly formed this like bubble around them as it melted them down oh crew is there any sort of air abundant about them um say make a i guess it'd be an arcana check 24 24 nothing you were aware of the aura of necromancy kind of spells you feel nothing there's nothing like that here at all and these bodies don't look like they could get up they're sort of like melted into the lava flow well it's not necromancy no it doesn't look like they'd be able to get up if they wanted to the poor things wasn't awful maybe something else was in there with them perhaps or something maybe somebody's using it as a cover i don't know fiddling around i guess if we just keep looking cool things i guess so yeah i'll just investigate the area and yeah see if anything all done crops out let's close up and take a wider scope yeah don't say everybody make an investigation check natural 20 23 19 6. that's a 5 7 12. okay um so natural 20 19 and 19. okay and so cereal and astra you sort of split off vaguely in the same direction but like not too close to one another and you notice like where you've come into the quarry with the horses is clearly the route in and out towards the town footprints going the other way like away from the quarry and away from the town and then like back and forth towards the warehouse it's impossible to tell how many sets of footprints um at least a few all walk in the same path i'm going to crouch down next to it and just see if i can figure out how soon or like how long ago this happened like the first time you like sort of take a look at them get up and like make some of your own and you notice that the sand does fill in relatively quickly these are fairly fresh so someone else here or at least they're here quite recently but it looks like they've been taking things from in this warehouse you can go check out the warehouse okay you go up it's got a like a heavy door is it locked it's not locked very good found something possibly footprints going in and out of the warehouse all right stay on guard okay you trying to open the door i said i was so yeah i guess go on saria you push the handle down push it open make a stealth check oh no match for one that's a two you push the door open and cream and it's heavy so as soon as it starts to swing there's no stopping it just you hear it sort of reverberate through the warehouse and like the sort of dust where it settles silence inside make a perception jack 17 17 you wait a moment and then you hear something shuffling inside and then like the slight sort of very quiet whisper but like you can't quite make out the words you just hear someone said something very very sort of muttered to somebody else point where it is lots of gesturing yeah just from like quiet are we going in we should go in right yes at any point whispering there's no one in the last two miles you didn't hear that door open let's go fine let's just go in prepare yourselves in there captain will march through the door cassian rushes in as you do rush in you see at least two fingers like duck behind crates i would like you to run this gym oh my god astra 21 21 71 uh classy nine cereal also twenty-one one famine ten who's faster out of you and me i am a plus one dex same just throw me at the d20 see who goes the top all of the natural ones today so cassian announces you loudly and charges ahead and you see dotted around at least three people and then you saw more people move behind crates astro okay europe first i'm gonna move in to stand like behind this barrel yes that one yeah like half cover um and aim like in the center of that group of people yeah and cast hypnotic pattern oh what's the radius on that a 30 foot radius nice so like facebook cube basically all the ones around the nice so they all need to make me a wisdom 14 save and sastra just reaches out and like his hands blow for a minute as a winding lights in the shape of like vines and branches like arc out over them the first one's natural 20 second one is a seven okay let's use stunned so that's where that right one the next one is an 18. and then 30 foot man it's going to get all of them nice so nine that guy is stunned the last one is that eleven say him as well cool stunt then bramble is gonna turn this down ramble's gonna turn invisible and flying in and trying euphoria breath the guy up behind the boxes because he's got a 60-foot flying sport so he's going to throw a new phone over that one who's not done so he needs to make a dc 11 wisdom so it's not as strong but he makes it damn it okay cereal she's gonna move up to one two three four five six one two three four five six to there and flung an ice knife at that guy up there nice so f advantage because he's stunned oh lovely lovely lovely [Music] uh that's a 15 to hit okay 15 is the 80 yes so he will take first of all two points of piercing damage and then the ice knife explodes can you make a a dexterity said he can't he cannot so he will take two d6s of cold damage seven points of gold damage nice nice nice nice nice he comes out of it cool but nice because he couldn't save there okay are you doing anything little dwarf at the back who's stunned can he make a save against him naughty person or is he just until stunned um until it takes damage or someone uses their action to come and shake him out of it oh geez nice okay that's his turn passes by um one of the next guys isn't stunned so it's going to use this movement to climb up to here here's the bendy one he's the bendy boy and take a crossbow shot at cereal that's a dirty 20. yeah so that's going to be four points of piercing damage because you're struck with a crossbow vault the other one is stunned can't do anything uh vanden's turn he is going to be on a square first of all we can get to the top of the stairs but he's not quite within the five foot of the guy he's on the stairs but he won't stay there so just put them at the top exactly um and take out the short bow that zarya gave him and take a shot at the guy from the stairs the guy ducks and weaves past the arrows eyes like clocked onto him neopop here cassian um cassian is going to just side step and fire both his eldritch plus the fellow who is stunned okay so advantage yes okay this one's a crit no nice this one is also a crate oh okay exceptional [Music] two plus four six points of damage and ten points of damage whoo that's the end of that guy oh hell yeah he is over he's crumpled to the ground of corpse damn sir is my new is my new henna okay um at the moment okay love to hear that at the moment huh uh okay you see the one up here who's not stunned and the other one down there who's hiding sort of look at one of their comrades just crumpled to the ground like ah okay this one at the top is gonna take a heavy crossbow shot at cassian you don't get to do that to our friends he takes a shot first one misses that's a heavy crossbow so that's all he can do um the second one he's where are you uh which one that's the moment down here this one he's gonna get cereal cause he can't get anywhere else church is up to cereal and it's going to take three attacks okay boy first one is seven second one to twenty four oh god yeah four eight points of slashing damage okay and the third one with its dagger that's even higher for four more points actually now of piercing damage because he just moves in just pulls out a cylinder from his belt and just slash you know i should knock the first one away the second one comes across your shoulder and then the dagger like stabs into your side uh back to the top of the round astra um can we one in front of sario please make me a con 14 save come on 14 say that's a 4. cool um so astra just like pokes up from behind the barrel again she's the one that's attacking cereal and it's just none of that um and goes blind for a minute oh nice f to him and it's not a concentration spell so i can see i can do it at the same time yeah he just has to try and save on his hands okay so he just has this like black mist overtake his eyes in front of cereal spooky sarah you see his eyes just go black and he's like huh and astro just giggles and ducks back i'm going to see if i get my euphoria breath back don't scramble does nothing um okay sarah where do you want to move him um no one's near him yeah i'll fly him up to the top she's just going to threaten me like by being invisible yeah menace from the shadows you have no idea how close i am to you i'm just going to use his wing to be like touch the guy's face um okay how far away is that guy up there it's difficult to tell 10 20 30 45 feet okay um so as her action she'll primal savagery the blind nice at advantage here that's a dirty 20. nice uh four [Music] seven asset damage nice of blood curdling scream as he goes blind and immediately takes acid damage to the stomach um and then she will run 15 feet i guess taking an opportunity attack at a disadvantage yeah yeah i guess he will blindly swing out towards his attacker um that is a 14. okay [Music] you will take nine points of slashing damage as he just swings out blindly and just catches you inside again with a scimitar and then she will misty step up there nice hello uh the guy down there still hypnotic pattern can't do anything um he lives there now yeah the other one at the top with abandon on site he's just gonna move forwards do wherever that's so wiggly and um oh just gonna miss oh then he just brings his sword up like stowing his bow quickly brings his sword up and like knocks the other one out the way and it's his turn get him okay he's going to bonus action cast hunter's mark oh um on the one in front of him is that something he needs to concentrate on it is indeed it's his very first concentration oh maybe it's well he's concentrating oh for once in his life on a spell if there was an opposite inspiration you would have it right now minus d4 exhaustion exhausted yeah just for one round um and then he's going to take two attacks against the guy with his short sword it's d6 that's another d6 for hunter's map so the first attack nice that's 10 points of dimash oh the guy looks very rough his eyes just sort of go a little wider his hand goes to swing again is hunter's mark every time i think it is concentration until the spell ends you deal extra d6 every time you nice we'll have a hundreds mark we'll have a hundred oh oh he's down oh oh rip after this wiggly man and then his first short sword comes in the second one just goes back across his throat oh and he drops to the ground okay cassian calcium is going to cast armor of agathis on himself and in case himself in shards of ice nice gaining 20 temperature points points please swagger over to the blinded gentlemen just stand comfortably in his melee range and say to the poor blind man like perhaps throw down your arms and tell us what you're doing here make a persuasion advantage that is not necessary in this situation not even gonna wait for his term he just dropped his weapons i hand straight up still completely blind good boy but it is his turn next so that's that's what he's doing as his action and he's like come on guys we might as well give it up the other one who serial has just poofed in front of not gonna give it up quite so easy you're now right in front of him yep stows the crossbow pulls out scimitar and dagger first one's the natural one ariel just can bring up primals heritage claws and just knocked it away second one's a 16 shield [Music] the erupting from your staff the shield comes up in front of you and the sword again just clatters off it he's like huh he's going to try and in desperation stab at you with his dagger through the shield um no no that's a 10. no drops his weapons as well nice very good astro um i'm going to use my action to dash and get all the way over to the guy in the back yeah and i can't do anything when i get there but when i do arrive like as i'm running i'm going to be like pulling my rope out of my bag and so i'm essentially just going to like tie him up before he can become yeah back to his wits okay perfect cereal the guy in front of you has dropped his weapons let's get down shall we he doesn't even attempt to pick up his weapons again as he just turns to start shining down she'll kick them right right out of the way unless anyone else is doing anything else i think that concludes the combat yeah astra will tie up the guy in the back and then as soon as like the final knot is done just drop his concentration so this guy just blinked and then suddenly tied up like you see he's just like sort of startled inside he's still oh can you not what are you doing here i'm not going to talk about it all right we'll just ask your friends yes sir blind sir what are you doing here sighs heavily well robin aren't we what for the black powder yes so are you because of the strange going ons sort of so could can i am i allowed to see again oh i can't stop that you've got to do it yourself okay it slowly seeps out looks around it's like yeah we're responsible for the curse ash's tail comes up and slaps the guy next to him his like face lightly just see [Music] see he could have said that last year committed to violence physical violence it was just like a tap violence right he's gone roguelites so you heard about the grave and thought oh that's an opportunity for some thievery i thought we'd take advantage of it and steal some of their black powder no it's it's smart i'll give you that is it but bob over there is a smell so my ass just got tied up and you know you can make illusions and all kinds of stuff oh he can probably do thormaturgy how cute well you don't need to be able to do big spells like you guys do just a scared normal off who are you anyway are you here for the black powder as well no we're here to stop you cheers sorry go ahead yes we are responsible what do you know about the idol what about the idol oh everything that's going on and then you know the volcano set off last night and the whole library we don't have anything to do with that oh that doesn't surprise me this is very concerning but all we're trying to do is make a few bucks you know right well i turning to actual party i suppose we should turn these fellows in yes absolutely uh find out what is actually going on if it's not their fault right there is no curse yes tie their wrists are you just trying to make some money do you not have anywhere to live [Music] no not homeless just don't think that feral status should have enough all the most dangerous non-arcane substance in the world okay turn them in i guess we'll have a look around and see if you can find the the samples that yeah i'll help you with that if you want to thanks i probably need it 18. thank you okay yeah find it too hard to find them you find a door sort of the only other door off the warehouse um into like an office for whoever is running the quarry and in there you find a crate which is just labeled patrick pulver and you open it up and there's samples inside yeah just take them with us having another pair of holding glass around you also see some paperwork um like flicking over it and stuff you see paperwork for clothes in the quarry you see that the line manager was really annoyed even curses um what else are they going to do with the criminals and you flicking through it realize that they send criminals to the quarry to work off their crimes anyway their slots are going to end up right here [Laughter] quite ironically i hope you made yourself acquainted with the area because it looks like you'll be coming back to work yeah yeah fine i was like come on poke his back with his sword just like get moving guess on the horses and between the group of you can sort of get the three remainings and get the three remaining guys onto the horses um and start moving them back towards the town is how long is it back to town um probably an hour goodbye temperature points you are such a waste no as you make your way back towards our chorus with the bandits in tow you're walking on the road sort of in a little tense you know this look like it might be an easy answer to what's going on but you have more questions now than you did before and all of a sudden there is a deafening boom from the inside of the volcano you look back towards it and you realize that smoke is rising from it again not black smoke not the smoke of an imminent eruption but a huge wave of greenish yellow smoke it travels from the top of the volcano towards the coast towards puerto ricorus it moves fast as you head back towards the town it drifts right overhead of where you are maybe 80 feet in the air and you notice it's shifting and twisting as though it were alive stretching out like a cloud as it begins to descend onto the town which is when you begin to hear the desperate screams of the civilians and that is where what tonight um that's not no oh stinky the sentinel just did a sleep fart well dangerous awful worse than tiger huh pick that up next time and find out what happened with the giant fart cheap achievement thanks for dialing thank you so much that was fun that was fun snail snail sale it's time for a snail fact now smooched oh my gosh we've got snail facts we've got kissing we've got a giant mountain fart this episode we will see you next wednesday for the final episode of eye of the storm but until then we are nurserising and thank you for watching we love you bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello adventurers it's vandan thank you for joining us once again and we hope to see you next week for the last episode of eye of the storm if you want to help us fund our adventures you can support us at patreon.com forward slash nyx rising or check out our teespring merch store where we have new delphos academy and dorm ringers designs and special thank you as always to our executive producers alexandria johnson liam moran mason scott megan charles adira a emily hogarth jameson m lissa and caitlin ferguson until next time try to stay three steps ahead and we'll see you on wednesday [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you

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Rating: 5 out of 5

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Id: ZCDCp97drQ0

Length: 215min 58sec (12958 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 17 2021