Uphill Both Ways - DesiQuest Episode 5 - DesiQuest

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
MUSIC Hi Day Sequestrians.
This episode is brought to youby our brilliantly nerdy friends
at Die Hard Dice Omar.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh my God, I love the polymer ones with the signature
Avalor design and these bluntededges.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
No, no, don't touch it.
What are you doing?
No, don't touch it.
Look, we're gonna atintermission, we're gonna play a
little game with them.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh, okay, is that what the skoo-bit is for?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, the squid hat.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's the squid of squalor.
Okay, okay, and yes, you'regonna have 30 seconds to roll a
nat 20 lest you succumb towhatever fate you pull from the
squid of squalor.
So choose your d20 wisely, dude.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Okay, but how about if I do roll a d20, then you
have to do it.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Fine.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Okay, great.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm in.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
We'll see you at intermission.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Welcome to this Die Quest episode five, and welcome
Erica to the tea kettle oh.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Cheers.
I need to get into this, jai.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Oh, I'm excited to get into this jai and into this
game Now, where our adventurershave left off is pretty bleak,
oh, and I think they definitelyare gonna need your help.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
Did Sethie do a number on them?
She did.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
She attacked them.
There you go.
We had a malevolent spirit anda dread domain, but a friend of
the party, one named Mir,essentially took the place on
this rot throne, taking over thedread domain, granting our
adventurers safe passage.
For now they still need helpgetting to this mountain rock

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dippa.
There slumbers the goddessSilsalon, without whom the
harvest festival cannot begin,which you're an expert in.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Oh yes, absolutely.
I stage manage to the hell outof that thing, usually every
year.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
A good friend of yours, bria, a benefactor of the
arts, has arranged for you towhisk these adventurers away
towards the mountain, hopingthat maybe you can help each
other and hoping that maybe youcan remind them of the
importance of Rangali.
But there are challenges alongthe way.
Now there's this group calledthe Racknick Court a little bit

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misunderstood Racknick.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Okay, wow, yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
You might be able to barter with them to help them
get up the mountain, which,between you and me, our group
has not been the greatest atdiplomacy thus far.
Oh no, they have traveling withthem a young witch streamer.
What?
Sorry, it's not a twitchstreamer, I did a witch streamer
.
That immediately regretted it,but oh.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
Are you trying to tell me that we have a social
media influencer on the team?

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yes, who specializes in paranormal content?
Oh, and she was.
She tried to befriend a ghostin order to make her videos
better, but this ghost, sefi,turned on the party and things
went south.
But this well-meaning witchstreamer, natasha, is going to
try to help our party navigatethis deep, dark, flooded forest

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they find themselves in now.
I think, with your help, theycan make it to Raktiba.
I think, with your help, theymight be able to make it out of
the foothills of the Mahan Katto the upper reaches.
Oh yeah, easy peasy.
Well, I look forward to seeingyou out there.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yes, Welcome to episode five of this Equest.

(04:55):
Welcome players.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Hi Dear Princeets.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Good to see you, good to see you, sad to see where we
are.
Natasha, already placed uponthe board, you emerge from the
pit trap, the good side of thepit trap, the side you want to
be on.
The other side's not a greatside to be on.
And you come to the horriblerealization that your friend

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Namir has granted you passageout of this domain of dread, an
otherwise very difficult regionto exit from.
He has taken up residence asthe lord of this domain, a
sacrifice to help you on yourway.
Oh, not yet.
Sunlight, filtered through theboughs of the trees, envelops

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you in an almost emerald light,reflecting off of the slowly
trickling waters of the riverSoha.
The smell of mulch, the soundof mosquitoes gently buzzing.
Things are peaceful, a starkcontrast to the nightmare from
which you have just emerged.
You still vaguely hear thesounds of some strange ghostly

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creature moaning below beforefading into the darkness, and
you see Natasha sitting near theedge of the pit trap, tears
welling at her eyes.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
I look at the statue of Namir and look at her and I
go to her and I ask you're goingto be okay?
Are you hurt?

Speaker 4 (06:46):
No, I'm not hurt.
I just feel really bad becauseshe was my friend and I'm sorry
that she hurt you all, but Idon't think she was a bad person
.

Speaker 6 (06:59):
Darling, I don't think she was either, and it
wasn't your fault.
Sometimes good people aredriven to do bad things because
they are in so much pain thatthey don't know what to do with
it and it drops out of them inways that they can't predict.
It's not your fault.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
I thought, by modifying her memory maybe it
would help her, and instead Imessed things up even more and
almost got everyone killed.

Speaker 6 (07:27):
You did what you did.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
But also, like you're really bad at the ghost hunting
business, that you should leaveit to the professionals.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
I think that accusing Ladooanty of that is incredibly
cruel.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Ladooanty almost died .

Speaker 7 (07:43):
Darling Ladooanty, comes in hugs or don't cry.
Don't cry, it's okay.
It's okay.
You did not.
Hey, I'll say something I'venever said in my entire life.
It is not your fault.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
But you're bleeding.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
You don't worry about that.
I just want to remind you thatyou said it was not my fault
down in the chamber.

Speaker 7 (08:05):
It doesn't matter, that is the past.
Ladooanty looks towards Sitaraand is just disgusted with
herself because she hurt you.
I, sitara, I am so sorry, I ama bad on D and she like breaks

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down crying.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
I, I don't say anything, I just walk over to
her and put my hands on hershoulders.
I cast pure wounds, I think atjust first level.
Right, yeah, it's a littlesomething, yeah, and my tears
got caught in my lashes.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
It's like a sponge that keeps soaking them up, and
then they get heavier.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Don't waste the pretty darling, keep them up
here.
Come on Right here, right here,you dab, that's it, that's it,
that's it, that's it from aprofessional.
That's what you leave to theprofessional.
But uh, auntie, I know thatwasn't you.
None of what happened downthere was Whatever happened down

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there.
We're here now.

Speaker 7 (09:20):
The way that you tended to Natasha.
You haunted her.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
Where do you think I learned it from?

Speaker 7 (09:29):
Dear God, don't try to give me a compliment.
Don't try to give all.
Explode on impact.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Don't give me a compliment.
I start to laugh.
And then I glance over and Isee he's a statue.
Now, yeah, I see the statue ofNamira.
Uh, I walk over and kneel infront of it.

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There's this plant lifeintegrated with it.
Right, you said moss and Mosslichen.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
In fact, his normal hair is replaced with, like
lichen, a lichen crown.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
I am going to gast speak with plants and I'm going
to put my hands on his knees.
What did you do?
You have been kind, you havebeen wise, you've made a
sacrifice we never would haveasked you to make.

(10:43):
You told me once about where Ididn't belong, and now I
understand where I do.
I had hoped you would be a partof that, but you did say you
loved the moss and the lichenand the creatures.

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So I hope where you are,wherever you are, you are home
too.
If you ever need us, we arehere.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
And thank you.
Make a religion check withadvantage.
Seventeen Gain the boon ofNamira.
I love you.
That is the longest boon thatone can acquire in the game.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
All right, guys.
Now we have to move fast.
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
As you say this, you hear a voice coming from down
the river in a canoe, and yousee a familiar figure, maria Her
langa, tied into a makeshiftdoti, her dupatta kind of like

(12:06):
tucked into the side so thatshe's donned a sort of sporty
look.
She calls out to you and shegoes Sitara Divi, are you quite
all right?
Don't worry, I took care of thecottage.
You know the one that youripped up.
It's fine, they're fine.
I paid them off.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
I've never been so happy to see you in my life.
You look, oh you look, all theoh, I've brought.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Well, there's someone who very much wants to see you.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
You see, things are getting quite bad back in town
With the harvest festival, withRangali being put on the back
burner.
Things are getting very bad andI wanted to introduce you to
someone and she motions tosomeone in the canoe behind her.
Will our guests join us at thetable, please?
No, no.

Speaker 7 (12:57):
I'm going to scream.
Yes.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Oh, wow.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
I brought a friend.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yes, I brought a friend, yes, oh my God, I can't
believe it.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
Wow, first Sefi, now Erica, yes, wow.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
She re-adgestures in her new sort of safari, look in
the canoe behind her and saysyou simply have to meet my very
good friend, nuri Nuri Um.
These are the people I wastelling you about, you know, the
ones that she had a bit ofumbridge with, or rather, you
wanted to enlist the help Idon't quite remember.
You said that there's somethingwrong with the play yes, and

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that it's not happening oh right, yes, yes, yes, yes, I mean,
some of them are tourists.
They might not know about it.
Forgive them Truly.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
It's a vision and you're a vision in it, but I
feel like maybe, thank you,that's quite fine.
Hello, I'm Nuri Gafour and I ambasically in charge of making
sure that the show goes on.
So I am told that you have alittle trouble doing that
yourselves, but less in the showbusiness sense and more in the
you all look rather.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Well, I've been immediately like shape-changed,
so I look a little bit betterthan I used to before.
Like a little bit of a littlebit glowy.
I can't see that.
I'm probably bleeding out ofevery limb At this point.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
it's like I feel like you're gonna say something else
Forces.

Speaker 6 (14:34):
I was gonna say.
I was gonna say forces but likeshe's not like.
But yeah, I kinda cleanedmyself up.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
You must be Sitar then.
Yes, alright, and I rememberdrawing in a pouch of mine and I
pulled out a flower for you.
Flower, yes, oh, let's go get alittle bit of refresher.
Thank you, the ash is my guest.
Yes, hi, hello, hello, nice tomeet you All right, very good,
very good, and you can do thingswith healing.

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Your parents are, yes, myparents are healers.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I am by trade.
I follow my parents.
You know I kind of had to dowhat they wanted me to do.
So, yes, I see.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
And then auntie, yes, and Merca, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, present.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
All right, very good.
It seems like we've been out ofa time crunch here.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yes, we are so well, you see, I've brought Nuri to
help us on this grand adventureof trying to get Cilsalon down
from the mountain.
Now, I know that you were goingthere for your own reasons, but
things have gotten quite bad inLuckpin.
You see, there's this idea thatthere's this Rackin' Court out
here and that they are the onesthat have tried to do something

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to the Goddess, so that they'resabotaging the Goddess, and
that's why she hasn't come down.
But, rangali, it's not justabout the harvest, it's about
people coming together, joininghands to defeat an evil, and the
beautiful demonstration of thisis done by Nuri.
And Nuri has some relationshipto the mountain and to the

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entity there, don't you?

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Yes, you see, every year the Goddess comes down and
does her little play.
This year is a bit of a clustershow, oh do you need an?
Understudy Because I'm readyFor the Goddess.
Do we need an understudy forthe Goddess of Chaos and Entity
she's very good.

Speaker 6 (16:35):
I mean I am.
People have told me that myperformance is positively
transcendent.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Well, you know, I will put your name and picture
in if you wish, but for now mybest guess is that we should go
find the Goddess, get up themountain which, oh, I put on a
chai like a steaming chai.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Oh, okay, alright, it's starting now.
Thank, you.

Speaker 7 (17:03):
It smells okay.

Speaker 6 (17:04):
Is it an adult chai?

Speaker 4 (17:08):
It is a healing one 2d4 plus 3.
Nuri is in return for me, kindof helping fund the arts and the
theater business in Vivane.
Nuri is a devotee of Cilsilonand bears a small vestige of her

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power, like a fingernail, truly.
But you know, if anyone can gospeak with her or see why she
hasn't come down from themountain or help her, nuri is
the person to get you there.
She's chosen and I took it uponmyself to bring her here to you
, bria you've helped me on.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
Compare the ship Nuri .

Speaker 4 (17:49):
I mean this world.
All we can do is help eachother.
If we don't, who will?
People will starve.
It's not about me and it's notabout you anymore.
This is bigger than all of us.
Now we must get the goddessdown from the mountain.
The show must go on.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
That plays the thing.
Thank you so much for theintroduction.
Um well, shall we?
What does Nuri look like?
And as I step out of the boatyou can see that I am tall and
sharp and sleek.
I am of a perfectly tailoredtwo-piece suit with a high

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mandarin collar which is asherbani Very nice, just for the
occasion.
Yes, very much.
It's immaculate, Very crisp.
I have light olive skin butwith a bit of a copperish patina
, and out of my head you can seecoming blue flames leap out Out

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of the crackling Mary's sort ofnormal flames that you might
see from Flame Genasi.
This is just the mostcontrolled blaze you have ever
seen.
It's like the center of a stone, A gas range, Like a gas range
where it's just like.
So, cold Pulled back sleekSomehow I have made sleek fire

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in my hand.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
Okay, I'm glad to talk about that effect for my
next film.
It's very very impressive.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
Thank you very much.
Well, you all seem to be doing.
You need a nap.
You need a nap and a snack.
I could choose a rest.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
I can make snacks Very good.
Well, I do want to takeanything edible around.
She's going to make a currythat she'll then make into
dolkla, that she'll then makeinto, which is.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
She is a queen of recycling leftovers.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
You can't wait.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
Trust me as you talk about taking a nap.
Brea takes her duperta that'sbeen tucked into her lange, just
tied up as like a little pants,and throwing it in a circle.
It lands first on the groundunceremoniously and then rises
into a small tent as she castsLeamon's tiny house Aww Brea.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
I have to apologize to you again.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
For what it's always been such good for us.
No.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
When I, when we left on this journey, I told them
that I was worried about youhurting yourself.
I didn't want you to get intodanger, and so we should go
without you.
But now I know you areperfectly capable of taking care
of yourself.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Well, uh, except the, compliment dear.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
I'm working on that, um, thank you.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
You're already good, good.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
I'm going to go into this tent and take a nap.
Is that fine, you?

Speaker 4 (20:41):
see that the inside of the tent and the outside is
adorned like a dupe-wet dye.
It has gold and brightery on it.
It is bright red and as youstep inside you have safe
sanctuary.
Excellent, long rest, long restDo you want to take?
Do you want to spend eighthours?
I would love to.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
I can take a night shift.
I'm absolutely fresh.
Yes, yes, and I will take thefirst, or I will just take the
watch.
Oh, thank you no right.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
I'm just going to Thank you so much.
I'm going to lay down Choutu.
Just kind of snuggle up with me.
Oh, you haven't seen Choutu,I'll show you a picture.
Um, and Choutu just snuggleslike, spins around like a dog
and snuggles up like spoonsthere and I'm going to sleep.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
During the rest.
I'm wondering if Ash couldsneak a moment with Natasha.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
You could do so before the rest too, if you'd
like.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
As everybody's settling in, I sort of sidle up
next to Natasha.
So this device that you use tospeak to your fans, Well, I
don't like to call them that.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
They're my audience, very good.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
They are all over the world.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Well, all over Vihar.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Do you think there's a way I could send a message
through it to my family?

Speaker 7 (22:07):
Oh yeah, Where's your family at?

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Well, they're not in Vihar, they're in Bracea world.
Oh, it's quite far from here.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Oh Well, I could try to send a message to them.
Can you tell me?

Speaker 3 (22:22):
what they look like.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
My partner, Liesl, is a wood elephant.
She's absolutely beautiful.
She has two flowing braids thatare blonde and Uh-huh.
Just a forever smile pasted onher face and she has a little
birthmark right here, like in acrescent shape.

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Maybe that helps.
And then my I have a son, hisname is you left your kid.
Yes, I had to.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
To come here To save the goddess.
That's so brave, you know, I'msure she'll reward you.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
I just, I don't even know why I'm here.
I just I just knew I had to behere.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well, that's a reason though.
Yes, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
So I just I don't know how dangerous this
adventure is that we Probablypretty dangerous.
Yeah, I'm guessing it's beenpretty rough so far.
Yeah, I just want Abbie to knowand Liesl to know that I love
them and I will be back as soonas I can.
That's it.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Aw, that's mushy, but it's cute.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
You can add some of your.
I noticed these fun littlecharacters that you put in to
your your words on the screen.
You can add some of that if youlike.
Like a banana or something?
He loves bananas.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Okay, I'll add a banana.
Okay, great, thank you.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Make a performance check to see how well you
described Liesl.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Hmm.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
Six.
Yeah, she can send a shortmessage to someone with which
she's familiar, but she has ahard time establishing
connection and instead,well-meaningly, she's like
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Mm-hmm, ah, na-na-na, mm.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
I can't really reach her right now, but I have
something better.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Mm-hmm, hey y'all, it's Natasha.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Um, if anyone knows, Liesl or Abbie all the way from
Brazel.
Hold on, hold on.
Make sure you let them knowthat.

Speaker 7 (24:41):
Ash loves them.
Oh, my God, ash, your daddyloves you, he loves you so much
he's risking his life for yourlegacy.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
And Liesl, I don't know you and I've heard that
you're white, but I'm sure thatyou're great.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
I've heard what elves are great people.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
I'm sure you'll get access to health care soon.
How do you Bye?

Speaker 7 (25:06):
Oh yo that's private right.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
I have quite a large audience.
I'm sure someone from yourfamily will see this.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Oh my God, Uh, uh, oh my God, ash just throws up.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Ash just throws up what.
What's wrong.
I'm sure someone will pass themessage to them.
I was hoping for a privatemessage, like a direct message
but, I, couldn't get an answer.
No, okay, so can you undo likeyou, just sort of undo it?

Speaker 3 (25:40):
No, but why?
Why is that?

Speaker 4 (25:42):
so bad.
I'm sure someone from yourfamily will see it and show it
to them.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
No, that's why it's so bad.
I don't want my parents to know.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Why don't you want your parents to know?

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Say no, I've never told them about it.
Abbey what.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
You probably should have told me that.
Yeah, I guess, so I didn'tthink you were going to do it
publicly.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well, I didn't, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
It's okay, it was.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
But, you know what it's okay.
You know what, though?
This way you don't have to tellthem, they just have to accept
it, and so when you do talk tothem, they'll have had time to
sit with it.
Oh.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
No no no, no, no no no no.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
People from my generation don't sit with it,
they see with it.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
I'm sorry Ash.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
I just kind of thought maybe the word would get
back to them.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
No, you didn't do anything wrong, it's.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
I'm sorry Ash.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
It's okay, it's okay, I'm just going to go hey.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Ash's parents if you're watching this oh?

Speaker 1 (26:48):
no.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
That's not going to happen.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Ash is a good boy and I was lying about the kid.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
It was a For you.
It was a practical joke, butalso up here daddy loves you.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
I think I'm just going to take my rest now.
I have no words.
I have no words.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Did I do a bad?

Speaker 2 (27:16):
No, you did a great job.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
Yeah, it was very enjoyable.
Did you like the show Very good?
Ash is going to gohyperventilate in the corner.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
This is like when your parents call you and your
friends start moaning in thebackground and you're thisy.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Has that ever happened to you Moaning?
Yeah, they'll start moaning inthe background, like you're up
to no good.
Not moaning, but I'm like Iwill exit the room.

Speaker 7 (27:39):
I have to.
Yeah, I will.
Oh, facetime, you see a blankwhite wall, so you don't see
anybody.
Anything.
I'm not even doing anything,but my mom is, who's that?

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Your friends are like uh, who's that?

Speaker 7 (27:55):
boy.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Is that a white boy?
Who's that boy?

Speaker 7 (27:58):
Who's that boy?
Who's that boy?
Nobody, there was nobody.
A stranger, yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Why don't you go home ?
So good You're incredible.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
I have energy at the table, parallel.
Yeah, I'm going to go home.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
I'm going to go home, I'm going to go home.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
I'm going to go home.
I'm going to go home.
Parallel.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yeah, the party settles down to go to sleep,
leaving you and Bria at theentrance to the tent keeping
guard.
Bria sits with a cup of tea.
Her cat familiar comes out fromunderneath her linga and like
sits.
She pets himself like kind oflike, subconsciously or

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worriedly, maybe like a littletoo, a little too fast.
She pets all.
She's nervous.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
I take the cat out of her lap and I hand her like a
little squeezy A little squeezy,a little stressful, and I give
the cat.
Like I am, I dangle a littlepiece of string for the cat.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Wow, I think her talent is good.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
I'm glad you're here.
I'm glad to be here too.
I appreciate that you use yourresources and your energy such
that it is for really takingcare of your community.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Well, if we don't do it, we will, that's true.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
And you know, a party of inventors isn't always the
answer, you know.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
What else could heaven answer?

Speaker 5 (29:30):
Just gradual little efforts here and there by the
entire community.
Not everybody is as giving asyou are.
Everybody loves to show up forthe parties and for the big
spectacle, but the daily work ofit is a little harder.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
I do think you're right, neri.
As you're playing with the cat,you notice something tucked
into its collar.
Come here, come here.

Speaker 7 (30:05):
Oh no, Come here, oh cursed cat.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Oh America Does anyone want to explain.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
No, I'm asleep, we're asleep.

Speaker 7 (30:19):
Hey guess what.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
It's me.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
I mean I know, can I see it?
Can I see it, maybe I'll knowin season two.

Speaker 7 (30:24):
Oh, she'll know.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
I think you get a little bit of some booms and you
get to go into this room andhave private conversations with
Jasmine that none of us areprivy to.

Speaker 7 (30:34):
Yeah, that's all I just kind of love more stuff.
I know, I know, I know, I knowI know Sorry about it, and if
you're cute you get one.
We haven't got one.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
But we haven't, but we do have a got one no so.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Well listen, I told you the reason why I didn't want
to say it.
Yeah, it's, if you're cute.

Speaker 7 (30:57):
No, but you said if you're cute, if you're being
cute, yeah, you get one.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
And I feel like we would have like 10.
Oh Jasmine, why are youlaughing?

Speaker 7 (31:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All the times you guys werebeing cute yeah there was time
to talk.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
I mean it was pretty darn cute when he was talking
about his son.
I would say that Molly, can youbring us the list of all the
times we were?

Speaker 5 (31:17):
We were playing the cute list.

Speaker 6 (31:21):
Oh, I'm sure Bacha has one.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
I'm sure Bacha has a cute list Deep, deep, deep, deep
, deep, deep yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Actually, you do notice that Bacha is sleeping,
probably very comfortably, nextto Jasmine, oh, next to Merca,
oh, even though Bacha cannotsleep, so he's just seeing you
as well.

Speaker 7 (31:38):
She's having it snuggled out To comfort you.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Yeah, lay down this little mechanical red panda Lay
down, curls its tail up, andthen you just see two LED lights
, like little crystals thrummingwith electrical energy.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
They're like spinning , they're spinning, they're
spinning.
Like loading yeah, you're justlike sleeping, that's okay,
pardon.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
I'm going to lay down a little bit.
Bacha lights out.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Bappa.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
I don't want to sleep .
Oh, oh, all right, I'll be done, all right.
I'll be done, not sleeping Allright, I'm glad we're reading
your story.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Thank you for volunteering.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
I'll read your story, you know, and then I do how
much time do we got?

Speaker 4 (32:25):
you've got 25 words After that, but just attention
wonders yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's just generally.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
Initiate sits cross-legged in front of you,
the two ears flopping back andforth.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Here's a story that my son likes does I count?
Not yet.
There's a little girl.
Her name is Luna.
She looks up at the moon.
She says I want to go to themoon.
It's impossible, says herparents.
It's impossible, says herfriends.
Three more words.

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Three words the reflection Inthe lake In the lake I'm taking
extra words shows the moon andshe jumps in and Plays on the

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moon that night.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Mmm, what do you say?

Speaker 3 (33:31):
but yeah, Thank you, uncle, uncle tear list.

Speaker 7 (33:41):
There's a ranking of uncles.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Madam girl for a while, but you demand silence.
Silence mode activate.
Right no, you give me aperception, check oh.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
That's a 16 on the die, which means 18.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
You see them before they see you.
Oh no, let's just get some what.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
What are you?

Speaker 6 (34:25):
You want to, but just like maybe not, don't do it.
You're all here in the tenthanging out and sleeping asling
and to party years come.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
You.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
Great.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Lost in the first one so few kissies a placeholder.

Speaker 6 (35:00):
It's just like into the woods, the princess appear.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
We're gonna get these kisses out, we get sick, we're
gonna say help it, then you die.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
All right, friends, show, this tail has like covered
my ears while we're sleeping sothat I can sleep so.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
You see them before they see you.

Speaker 7 (35:37):
That sucks too.
Oh no, he's little nasty.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
You see two goblins chatting amongst themselves.
One says to the other and you,you get this with your 18.
You hear I Think Someone elsehas done our work for us looks

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up at the sky.
Every fortnight she rises.
She's not here.
Hear the other one say weshould keep watch, regardless.
They'll rise again, maybe justlate.

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You hear the first one sayWe'll have to handle the
interlopers.
They're too close to the statuefor comfort.
That's what you hear transpirejust over the soft, gentle

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sounds over the river.
So ha, laid out in front of you, you hear the skittering of the
spider, mount gently as itclacks its mandibles and
stretches its legs and Then,kind of like, rearing up,
stretching, you hear a crack inits back and then it settles
back in to its first form.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
It's doing yoga, huh.

Speaker 7 (37:14):
To docile.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
We're not asleep though, yeah, from behind Brea,
no skittering over the moss withease.
Oh no you see, hey, guess whatthat sucks a phase spider, a
phase spider.
So you have one thing you cando before it grabs her with that

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18, and then we'll roll forinitiative.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
You racked it, speak a different language.
Then the rest of the populationhere.
What was it?
They typically speak a bissel.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
Oh, that great yeah, um, so you understand what
they're saying.
I go and in a bissel I sayhello, maybe treat with whoever
you represent as you say, thatthe two turn and look at you
inquisitively and the phasespider launches down and grabs

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Roll for initiative everyone ohyeah you've all enjoyed the
benefits.
Thank you, have a long, longRest you guys add one.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
What do I get out to ones nine?
I'm 18 as well.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
What's your decks 14?

Speaker 5 (38:26):
916, so dirty 20 America 21 oh.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Merca, you Are just rousing from sleep, mm-hmm, when
outside the tent you hear thecrash of a teacup and then you
hear a.
And then you hear a Esprit iswhisked away.

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You hear a loud cluttering aand a clacking of mandibles.
What do you do?
I?

Speaker 2 (39:02):
rush out and Seeing this happen, seeing that it's
sort of like this natural, likewe're not being attacked by like
a military like that, like thisis like a creature for the most
part, mm-hmm.
I do some quick math and I turnto the statue of Namir and I
quickly touch his feet and graba stick that's laying by his

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statue and I am using this as anarcane firearm.
Oh, just like whisper, justlike I Listen and I'll turn and
I want to cast catapult at levelone at this creature.
It's gonna make a dex 14 safe.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Oh, my god, I'm so sexy.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
So, Eleven yeah, okay , all right, as we do, eight,
six plus five, eleven, eighteenPlus this damage, that's 20

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points of damage nice, 20 pointsof Damage.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
It is going to use its reaction to shoot its web at
you.
Make a dexterity, save you.
Need to beat a 16.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
All right.
Oof, that's eight, eight totalwhen it opens its maw and begins
to shoot this web at you.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
That's not where the web comes from, baby.

Speaker 7 (40:46):
The web.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
The web kind of forms into these strange skittering
creatures that fly on the wind.
This long proboscis, likeTensical coming out of it.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
No, no I don't like it.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
It's a proboscis.
That's not, that's not that's.
I veto that Entirely.
Yeah, no, no not a fan.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
No, it latches on to you.
Sucking your blood, sevenpiercing damage and then
dissolves back into silk threadsand vanishes.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Oh, okay, so I just took seven piercing and that's
yeah, okay, yeah, conceive Okayyeah, is there something Stuck.
20, that 20, some, what?
I've got a bonus action, yes,as I got bit and blood is drawn.

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Ah geez, all right, let's go,and I'm gonna click my tongue
and I've built a new cannonthat's going to come out and Is
going to blast those two.
This is a flamethrower cannon.
They've got to make decks.
14, six these two.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
Oh, decks 14.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Right there by everybody.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
The one on the left makes it Okay.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
The one on the right does not okay, so One of them,
the that didn't save, takeseight points of damage.
Eight points of damage.
The other one takes four.
All right, that's it, that's mymove.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
That's your move you Douse the two across the river
with fire.
You would notice that they gofrom like looking curious to
like kind of taking battlepositions, since they believe
they are under attack.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
It is your turn.
Did they respond in any way tomy?

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Yes, they looked like they were about to speak back
to you and then this, this chaoskind of broke out.
Oh, oh whoops.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
So in that case I shout an abyssal halt ceasefire.
I have my hand at my side,ready to draw if need be, but I
ask, may we treat with you?

Speaker 4 (43:22):
make a persuasion check.

Speaker 5 (43:26):
Oh baby yeah, I see what that looks like I have.
I mean, I guess I don't knowthe that is.

Speaker 4 (43:44):
Yeah, he calls back to you.
This is what you get becauseyou're so high.
He says that phase spider Willtake her to the Feywild.
Be careful.

Speaker 5 (44:01):
I Translate all of this like word for word,
complete with like littlefootnotes of you, there's this
one idiom that doesn't quitetranslate from this one but you
know, basically, this is what'sgoing on.
Also, I overheard that we aretoo close to the statue.
That the goddess is it.
I relay everything.
Wow, like word perfect.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
That will take your action.
Yeah, okay, you relay thisinformation to the party.
You notice, priya is now likebound, as this thing has like
begun to like actually use itsAbdomen to.
You see, like these, these likestrange appendages start to
burst out of the boobos on itsback.

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Yeah, it's to wrap Priya up,finding her, so she cannot cast
spells.
It is then going to attack you,since you attacked it.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah, I'm bringing.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
It's going to lash out with both of its legs,
trying to strike twice.
That is a d20.
I was like that's a d12.
The first one's definitely amiss, the second one is a 24.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Oh you owe to hit.
Yeah, that'll okay, that'll hit, even if my shield goes up.

Speaker 7 (45:16):
So all right.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
You take Seven piercing damage.
The two legs come out at you.
You're able to duck under oneand the second one catches you
in the side.
We see a quick rivulet ofcrimson begin to gush for Merca,
but he holds strong.
The face spider is then goingto use its movement to skitter

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with preternatural speed, as itcan phase walk to here.

Speaker 6 (45:51):
How many feet is that ?

Speaker 4 (45:52):
it's supposed to be 80?
I think Five.
Let's do five, ten, fifteen,twenty, twenty five, thirty,
thirty five, forty, forty five,fifty, fifty five, sixty, sixty
five, seven, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
That's why you're the gym Math like yeah, no, can't
count.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
The sounds of butchaw awaken you, as butchaw goes.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
So I'm in full dad mode at this point.
I've told this kid a story,like for all distress mode
activate.
But yeah, yeah am I able to getto the?

Speaker 4 (46:39):
How much?

Speaker 1 (46:39):
movement do you have?
I'm 20, what walking speed?

Speaker 4 (46:42):
So I don't think you could get halfway there if you
use your movement and then useyour action to dash.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
I want to use a second level guiding bolts and
Try to.
My hope is that I'll be able toHit this nasty little spider
and somehow free Priya.
That's Okay.
What go pre add?

Speaker 4 (47:04):
roll.
This is a called shot which I Iusually have.
This is my house role.
I usually have you take anegative five modifier to your
role, but if you hit, themandibles will open and free.

Speaker 7 (47:18):
I will be released, okay let's go for it anyone cast
anything on it, not during notdoing that, we have less plus
eight.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
So we'll see I got 19 I Plus eight minus five, so 19
plus three, that's 22 to hit.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Oh, I need you to hit .
You hit roll damage yes.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
D6 get him in the mandibles.
Oh man, the ball and the ball15 15.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
You see, as the guiding bolt strikes one of the
arms holding, priya, it blowsoff and you, priya, comes
tumbling out, still covered inthis thick Icker that kind of
shines with a bioluminescence inthe sort of gloom you are in of
pre dawn.
Make a deck save 16 meets itbeats it.

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So, yeah, no, the face spiderhits, yeah you have to be a 16.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Met you it, bet you all right.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
So once again, the web issues from its mouth and
then forms into these smallFluttering creatures.
Give me a nature check to seeif you can identify what they
are.
It's an idea okay, let's sayOnly one of them is gonna hit

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you.
You identify them as they'restreaming towards you to be silk
Sturges.
It is similar to thisblood-sucking Creature that you
sometimes see in the under dark,but this one is formed of silk,
and you would also know thatthey carry with them disease.
You take Four piercing damage.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Make a con save long as it doesn't hit butcha, I'm
good.
That's a five on the die allright.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
You, as you pull the sturge off of you and its
proboscis retreats, you start tofeel a warmth and a flush Begin
to take hold where it wasattached to you, in your
shoulder, and you start to feela little feverish.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
That's not good my shots when I traveled here.
I don't think so.

Speaker 7 (49:44):
This one's gonna stick you guys, can I move first
and then throw?
Yes, okay, so I will movetowards this spider 40 feet.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five, thirty,
thirty five, forty okay and thenI would like to throw a
wondrous ladoo.

Speaker 7 (50:06):
Okay yes, I go tricks ladoo mm-hmm.
Do I get to roll for themonster?
Do you have a monster that'salready there?

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Um, I have a couple of monsters that are here.
Roll to see how good themonster you get is.
Oh cool.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Okay, well, she's freaking that out real quick.
I thought movement right, can Imove towards the?
Yeah, the spider.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
You only have 20 feet , right, yeah?

Speaker 1 (50:27):
just put me towards like let's do this going five,
ten, fifteen.

Speaker 4 (50:33):
Move you here, number two, two.

Speaker 7 (50:38):
And I can tell you what it says on my list.
Yeah, yeah, what it's saying.
It says it would be an owl.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Here we go, bring the birds.
Birds eat spiders.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
You throw it 20 feet towards the spider 10, 15, 20, I
believe so at the end of yourturn.
Yeah, I was like come on so myOwl.

Speaker 7 (51:09):
What attack do they do?

Speaker 4 (51:11):
I've got a step block for you.
They make a talent attack.
It's a plus three to hit forone slashing damage.
Go for it.
Oh, that's sexy 14 that's a hit.
It just does one damage.
It does it's one damage.

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Now your owl does have flyby,so it can actually move away
without provoking off attack, sothat's kind of the good thing
it does, okay, okay so if I movewith Joe to on my shoulder,
does that count as his movementor only my move?

Speaker 6 (51:58):
No, it would just count as your move.
Fantastic, I want to get closerto this, close to the spiders,
I can get.
What's your movement of 30 feet?

Speaker 4 (52:05):
five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five thirty.

Speaker 6 (52:09):
I want to, you know, transform into his Fantastic
legal self, and then I'm goingto cast Scorching ray at first
level roll to hit 17 plus seven.
So yeah, that's a hit.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
Wow.
And then Go ahead and roll allthree rays at the same time and
we'll just do damage all once.

Speaker 6 (52:35):
Those don't hit, okay .
So 2d6, 3d6, 11.
Okay, damage now Joe to.
I want him to run to Priya,which would be 30 feet, cuz
she's right with him, right.
Yes and I want him to Fieryteleport priya Away from the

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spider.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
What is the range on your fiery teleportation?

Speaker 6 (53:08):
range to get her, or range to how far can he teleport
after?
I think it's only 50.
Oh, can he teleport like?
Can he teleport us safely to 15feet above?
Is that a thing?
Is the tree?
Cuz the tree is hanging low, itmight be better to move 15 feet
away.
I've 10 and let me just confirmthat I'm right in this fire.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
Teleportation 15 feet unoccupied because she's
wrapped up, so like, if you land, if she oh, yeah, yeah and she
falls.
Okay, great now.
Each creature within five feetphase spider must exceed on a
deck, saving throw a deck saving, throw easy 15, I Got a 21,
never mind good job.
Explodes out of Chotu as hewhisks free away to safety.

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Closer to led to wanty, as thefire it rubs the face.
Spider brings up one of itsmangled legs, still hanging on
barely by thread from theguiding bolt, and shields itself
from the flames.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
Merca, you're up and finish.
Finish him, sweep the leg.

Speaker 4 (54:16):
That is the top of the round.
Um, this guy a ceasefire I.
Leave her friend here sort of acharmed you with their ways 60,
the archer knocks an arrow intoits longbow and actually takes

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a shot at the phase spider.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (54:45):
Wow, doesn't do well.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
That's a 12.
The first arrow goes wide.
Studying his breath as hismount kind of like undulates
underneath them, he fires again,this time hitting as the arrow
goes out you notice that italmost has like a little like

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anchor attached to it.
It is more designed to Grapple,then it is to harm.
Let's see, the spider is gonnamake a check to see it got a nat
20.
The Bola goes flying throughthe air and then One leg, one

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new appendage bursts out of oneof these boobos on its back,
intercepts it before it makescontact with its legs.
The second archer there's noway he can hit from this range
and there's no way he can crossthe river.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
He just comes over here.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
I'm gonna pad to Lily pad.
He comes over here and insteadroots his friend on.

Speaker 6 (55:59):
You got this despite.
I get disadvantage for justbeing wicked ugly no, it
actually gives it Advantage.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Yeah, yeah, you are up quick question carrying
something, does that count as anaction?

Speaker 4 (56:14):
No object interaction is free.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Okay, I'm gonna pick up my cannon and I want to walk
30 feet towards the spider.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
Okay 30.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
great Okay, I am now within.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
If you pledge, I will personally come to your house
and write you a beautiful note.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Negative gamma.
I went to a room to squared Um.
I am going to hit.
It was scorching ray.

Speaker 6 (57:06):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Uh, that's, it's 12, that's a mess.
That's 11, that's a mess.
But this is.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
Scorching rays come shooting out of your cannon but
anticipating it, the phasespider temporarily blinks out of
existence.
What then reforms?
Where it is Is it didn't takedamage, so it can't give you the
action.
Would you like to do anythingwith your browness action?

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Uh, my flamethrower is going to.
Uh, take one step closer, soit's a within 15 feet, and blast
it with um some fire decks, 14save.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
Lightwork 17 on the die okay, well met.
Noody, you're up.

Speaker 5 (58:03):
Okay, so this spider has already dropped.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
Yeah, yes, and toadu has gotten her 15 feet away to
safety.
She is still gagged and boundby this thick like sort of um
this silk that has this sort ofiridescence to it, this
bioluminescence to it.
But she is alive and she is outof its mandibles for now.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
I sort of shout as I pick up my things Uh, do we need
to?
Uh, can we just get rid of it,or do you need us to defeat it
or in any way?

Speaker 4 (58:32):
Oh, do you ask like this then?
Yes, as you say this to him inthe bissel, he says to you these
creatures aren't inherentlyevil.
They are afraid of loud noises.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Huh y'all, we gotta ask more questions.

Speaker 5 (58:47):
Uh, I, I, I, I, I.
I said these creatures are notinherently evil.
They are afraid of loud noises.
I am going to, uh, I'm going to, um, dash, yeah, closer.

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Yes, can I make it to?
I'm 30?

Speaker 4 (59:17):
20, 25, 30, you're here, uh-huh, and then you get
another 30.

Speaker 5 (59:22):
Oh wait, no, uh, I do not dash.
Actually, I Pull out a coiledwhip from my side.
I go and, uh, use booming blade.
Oh, I might not be able toreach this.
I won't be able to reach thespider, but it's still going to

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have.
Uh, it's going to sheath thewhatever I hit.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
Yes, in booby.
Make a performance check withadvantage.
Since you're like.

Speaker 5 (59:54):
Yeah, pretty cool.
Uh, that's a 17 on the die plus, I think, three.
I can actually look that up.
Um, that's a 17 on the die plusfour, which is a 21.
So I pull it out, whip itaround my head and a sheath of

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thunder Just cones down onto therock in front of me.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Yeah, boom, the closed sort of like this, this
thick claustrophobic area.
You're in the humidity and theair seems to amplify the sound
as it echoes around you,bouncing between the trees,
seemingly coming from nowhereand everywhere all at once.
The spider skitters for amoment and fleas, oh yay, as you

(01:00:47):
exit initiative.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:00:51):
Oh, well done you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Natasha, I hope you will afford it back.

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
Yes, oh yeah, where's Natasha you?

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
are Natasha's scared, poor baby Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
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30 till moving.

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Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
That sounds great.
Um about these other.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
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Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
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court, one of whom is veryskillfully swimming through the
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Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
Welcome back.
You enjoy the relative peaceand serenity.
The woods now quiet after theechoing crack of Noory's whip.
Find yourself in the company ofthese two strangers behind you.
You hear Now out of thecollapsed tent.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
And there was a spider, and then everyone
attacked a little baby girl, andthen, and then.
Now I think that they, theysucceeded in their mission.
I'll see you later.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
And don't forget to like, comment and subscribe.
You can find me everywhere atnatasha kisser, niharika the
seven.

Speaker 6 (01:04:52):
Can I?
I'm gonna run over to priya andwhile I'm trying to cut her out
with my kukri, I'm going totelepathically just ask are you
okay, priya?
Are you there?
Can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Telepathically.
You hear back.

Speaker 6 (01:05:04):
Yes, I'm alive, I think okay, just just be still
outcome.
I'm getting you out.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
I want to rush over to there as well as you rush
over, you begin to feellightheaded.

Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
Who's got?
Someone needs some I.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Yes, I'm feeling a little woozy from see whatever
the Uh uh Robi's kiss.
Aren't you a doctor?
I am a doctor, I have.
I just need to know how priyais before I cast my lesser
restoration on one of us.

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
So I think it's safe to do it on you, um and I.
How fast can I cut her out?

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
I'm cutting, I'm cutting, I'm cutting yeah okay,
you have a magical weapon, rightyeah?

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Yes, I have also a haladi.

Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
I can yeah, you're able, with your Gukri, to cut
open this and as you do see it,you do notice A little bit of
the color has drained frompriya's cheeks.
She looks more of a mossy greenthan her usual sprightly spring

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green.
Give me a medicine check.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Sorry, 19.
Okay, she's poisoned as ahealer.
I have to do it on her first.

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
I just there's no way I can go fast so we can take
care of you.
How does he look to me?
Is he like ready to Boss out?
How?

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
close are you to?
Your vision is beginning todouble.
Your temperature is beginningto rise.
You probably notice some sweat.
Which one is she?

Speaker 6 (01:06:40):
Uh, I'll just grab him and put his hand on her
Perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Yep, that feels right , and I whisper some mandras and
cast lesser restoration.

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
She immediately begins to feel the healing
effects of your magic and thepoison condition is removed.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Okay, Now you, now you, well you, let me cast it
again.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
Yeah, you cast it again.
You take four damage in theinterim.
As you're begin to sweat moreand your vision is kind of
doubling.
You feel your stomach turn andit feels like you've had some
very bad street food.

Speaker 6 (01:07:22):
Quick question I have an herbalism kit Mm-hmm.
Is that something that I couldpossibly use for like natural
remedies to poison.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
You can, yeah, if you want to save your spell slot,
that's an option.
I think it is worth trying.

Speaker 6 (01:07:35):
Okay, let's try it.
God help us.
Uh, guidance, as she points toherself.

Speaker 4 (01:07:42):
Then you look through the tinctures and components in
your herbalism kit.
You pull out the one you thinkwill work and notice that the
vial is empty.
Please, the label stares backat you hauntingly and you see
ronnie foil written on it.
You feel like this is a verygreat way to lower someone's

(01:08:05):
temperature, but it's empty asyou pull it out of your kit.
Sorry.
I think it's best if I use myspell, uh, because it's Great
dependable yeah you recover fromyour diseased condition and you
stand with two emissaries fromthe rachnid court Treating you

(01:08:29):
with the same respect that youtreated them.
It shouldn't be here.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
It's very dangerous agreed, but, um, we are trying
to get to the top of themountain To awaken in siltzolani
.
I'm so sorry I couldn't help itover here.
Um, you said that she hasn'tbeen around recently.

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
I was referring to.
There are two sisters who dwellin this wood, oh soha in suria,
twisted by some dark, nefariousmagics.
Me and my people, we defeatthem every fortnight, but they

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always come back.

Speaker 5 (01:09:19):
And when you defeat them.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
um oh, by the way, I'm live translating this oh,
okay, so I'm live translatingthis Like you know, a UN style.

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
Or is it like kind of behind the?

Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
line You're like quietly Telepathically tell Nuri
oh yeah, we might have takencare of that for this fortnight.

Speaker 5 (01:09:46):
Oh, I see, I see, I see, and you said somebody had
done your work for you.
That's a positive thing, yes,hmm, oh, well then that was this
band of adventurers here.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
Thank you for doing it once when we've been doing it
for decades.
But yes, you're Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:10:13):
God, you've got to be perfect, didn't you?

Speaker 7 (01:10:14):
I have a question I would love translated that
spider could take people to theFeywild.
Yes, I have been told my sisterand my brother-in-law might be
there.
Do these people?

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
know anything about that.
We are looking for members ofthis party's family.
I get a rough description fromyou of what they might be like.
I understand that going to theFeywild, often people don't come
back.
No, is there a?

Speaker 4 (01:10:55):
way of Me and my people.
We've learned to tame theFeywild spider.
We are able to move back andforth.
Here, the veil between the twoworlds is the thinnest.
We take it upon ourselves tosave these city folk from the

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things that would tear themapart.
For the service that we commitor that we perform, for the
service of keeping the woodssafe, we are branded as heretics
, as savages, as barbarians.

(01:11:47):
We are asked to give thanks forbeing allowed to live in our
ancient ways and our customs.
And now you want a sherpa to goto a realm which you are not
fit to go to.
You are soft and you willperish there.

Speaker 6 (01:12:08):
We are not asking for more.
We are simply asking forguidance as to what the safest
way would be for us to go.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
I translate this and I also add if you at all would
like this group to go abouttheir business, they would love
to know guidance towards thesafest path.
Do you feel that it is wise forthem to pursue this line of
inquiry?

Speaker 6 (01:12:38):
I see, if we can give you a sort of brand glow-up
among the people, between me andthis young lady here in Natasha
, we can reach a lot of peopleand let them know the truth
about all of you, that you aredoing us a servant service, that

(01:13:01):
you are not barbarians, that weneed you to keep the balance
between all of the worlds.
If we were to offer this to you, which I would gladly do either
way, could you give us any helpgoing there, not going there
yourself, but any help.

Speaker 5 (01:13:23):
I will add that, whether we like it or not, the
new is here to stay.
The march for progress carrieson without us, so we are going
to have to mitigate the ways inwhich it reaches the old world.
I believe that this group canhelp with that.

(01:13:43):
Make a persuasion check, got it?
17.
Plus one level, yes, 17.
19.

Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
I suppose you are correct these creatures so at
home in this dark, loamyenvironment.
Although you've been subject tomany horrors here, with his
like half closed eyes and thegentle rumble of his voice, you
are suddenly aware of howbeautiful Marboni Forest is and

(01:14:22):
how, even in the decay anddecomposition, life thrives for
those who are looking for it.
You see his mount below him,aptly named Zeher skittering,
and as he gently gives it a pat,you may even notice for a

(01:14:45):
moment.
She is not quite as grotesqueas you originally thought.
He takes out a small grub fromhis pocket and feeds her and
says you're right, things change.
There's a large change.

(01:15:07):
He gestures to the throne, amoss-covered throne.
I think if we were to have thisrebrand, you would have to
rebrand the deity we serve,tulve.

Speaker 5 (01:15:26):
What do I know about Tulve.

Speaker 4 (01:15:28):
You would know that Tulve is the Lord of Flies.
He is also.
They also call him the King ofRot.
He is the keeper of MarboniForest and Kirkid Sun Fort.

Speaker 6 (01:15:42):
So I'm a little confused.
Is that who Namir replaced?
Yes, excellent, okay, good,good.

Speaker 4 (01:15:48):
And actually he says this to you, Lord Tulve, and now
Lord Namir we would gratefullyand honestly change the way
people think of this Lord.

Speaker 6 (01:16:05):
He has been kind to us and wise to us, and he was a
compatriot of ours untilrecently.
He is a deity worth serving.
Tulve was as well.
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:16:16):
And he was fooled.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Oh sorry, what do you mean by fooled?

Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
Don't know the tale.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
I don't know.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:16:29):
There was a war long ago.
The deities who now hold powerwere the victors, but there was
another group that sought tojudge mortals once and for all.
These two factions fought Tulve, his family.

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He wanted them not to beinvolved in this conflict, so he
fell prey to the deception ofRukon Rukon.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Is this the magistratum Was one of the
warring sides.

Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
They sought to judge people and remove them from the
earth, allow nature to overtakeit, being unworthy of redemption
.

Speaker 6 (01:17:35):
So this Rukon, one of the magistratum, what are they
the deity on?

Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
They are the deity of righteous justice.

Speaker 6 (01:17:49):
Well, rukon, be responsible for judging humans
and whether or not they live inthis realm or the Feywild, like
your parents.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
He is a justicar.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
A justicar.

Speaker 6 (01:18:06):
A justicar.
Where do we find him?

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
He was defeated long ago.
They all were the magistratum.
Oh, the magists were defeated.
They knew Minari overthrew them, sil-sala and her siblings won.
They have been in power eversince.

Speaker 6 (01:18:28):
Do you know why Sil-Sala refuses to come down?

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
No, I uh.
The lofty aspirations of themountain are not for me and my
people.
We are not welcome.
We sometimes trade with thepeople of the mountain.
We can help you get there tothe foothills.

(01:18:55):
Yes, we must go.
We can lead you through theMahangat.
We may even be able to give yousome mounts, but in terms of
getting to the top, they findthose of us that belong to the
court, they find us a bitunsettling.
Tulve has had a bad reputationin recent years since his

(01:19:24):
madness took hold.

Speaker 6 (01:19:26):
We have a friend here who may be of a particularly
persuasive bent towardsSil-Salaan.
If you help us get there, wemay be able to convince her to
come down.
I have one more favor to ask.
This young girl has no placebeing in this much danger, but

(01:19:51):
she does have a particular powerto spread messages far and wide
.
Hi, Do you think you could gether to safety perhaps her own
family while we head to themountain?

Speaker 4 (01:20:07):
As you say this, Natasha comes to you and is like
Auntie, what are you talkingabout?

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
What, if you need my help?

Speaker 6 (01:20:19):
Sweetheart, you're going to help so much by
spreading the word.
We need you to spread the word.
We need you to be the teller oftales.
We need you to be the keeper ofhistory.
This is an important role forus.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
Me.
You Due to your large platform.
You have a responsibility touse it properly.
You know how Brea has herinfluence and her wealth in her
place in the society.
She creates much goodwill byspreading that wealth and

(01:20:55):
generosity.

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
And I can do that.

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
You can do that very easily.

Speaker 7 (01:20:59):
yes, oh, wow.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
Natasha, before you go, I'm wondering if you
received any messages from theones that you sent out for me.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
Yeah, I have a message from Abbey.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Could you, could I see.

Speaker 4 (01:21:23):
Well, it's a written message, but says he loves you
and misses you very much, andalso one from your parents, and
they said that they need to talkto you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:21:38):
They said um, we need to talk period Cap, just a
period.

Speaker 7 (01:21:43):
Just a period, that's important Cap's a little
lowercase.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
Was it all caps?
It was um all caps.

Speaker 4 (01:21:48):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (01:21:51):
Okay, but that is also standard.
That's how I talk.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
That's true, they might not have known how to make
it off Caps.

Speaker 7 (01:21:56):
I think is possible.

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
They could have just not known how to take it off the
caps, but anyway, can you readme the one from Abbey again.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
I love you and I miss you.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Thank you.
If there's any way todemonstrate, uh like that, I
liked that message or loved itin some capacity, I would prefer
that you go ahead and do that,if you wouldn't mind.

Speaker 5 (01:22:22):
Maybe if you can respond with some series of
moving pictures, hmm.

Speaker 4 (01:22:26):
Oh, I could probably conjure something A little minor
image.
Do you see how?

Speaker 6 (01:22:30):
important you are.
Do you see the good you do?

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
Hmm, you're a generation's.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
Yeah, even really old , out of date ones like yours.

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
Even that, yeah, okay , well, nani don't be sad.

Speaker 4 (01:22:47):
I'm sure you'll learn to use the sending stone one
day.

Speaker 7 (01:22:50):
Well, actually I have a question.
Uh, you know maybe it's stupid,so, um, but you know I have a
little small business.
Ah, you know, it seems likeyou're doing a lot of
advertising, so I don't know ifyou know, if you want to like,
you could promote or somethingyou know like, or you could make

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me.
I don't know, it's too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
Give us some of the laddus.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah.
Pr yes.

Speaker 7 (01:23:19):
Young people are dieting.
Do you want laddu?

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
Maybe, there's a gluten-free version.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
You say to an elephant you're skin and bones.

Speaker 7 (01:23:28):
You don't need laddu.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
You're saying this to the elephant girl.
I love laddu.
They're my favorite.
I've been told by physicians.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
I need to not eat as many laddu.

Speaker 7 (01:23:47):
Don't tell your physicians that you should
always be eating all the time.

Speaker 6 (01:23:51):
These are excellent laddus.

Speaker 7 (01:23:52):
They're very good for you very helpful.

Speaker 6 (01:23:55):
Make sure to include that when you share that with
and I don't have a page oranything.

Speaker 7 (01:24:00):
So I don't know what you do.
But you know you could make mea page and you could tell me the
password and stuff.
Make it simple, don't somethingcrazy.

Speaker 5 (01:24:09):
Sure, I've written down some copy for you Excellent
yes, some approved language.
Okay, but I approve it.
Yes, don't worry.
Okay, yeah, all right.
Yeah, so Just a couple, justmaybe three, you know, over the
course metered out of the courseof a week.

(01:24:30):
Yes, all right.
But also how should I say this?
The older generation has somewisdom for you as well, so
please be sure to keep your mindopen to learning things as you
disseminate information.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
Okay, I'll try.

Speaker 5 (01:24:57):
Maybe write things down before you say them.

Speaker 6 (01:25:00):
sometimes that's a good idea.
Auntie, sit on it.
It's like a 24-hour rule it'sreally generally a good idea.

Speaker 7 (01:25:06):
Yes and generally size up because you know you
don't want your clothes to betoo tight.

Speaker 6 (01:25:12):
It's a slightly different conversation.
Yeah, two sizes up.

Speaker 7 (01:25:16):
Shoes, shirts, pants.
Okay, one plait Good, oh my God.

Speaker 6 (01:25:26):
I'm just going to say in her head okay, now go, save
yourself.

Speaker 7 (01:25:31):
No, boys drink water.
Go to bed at seven.

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
There's no way she's calling out she's trying to go
away.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
I've changed my attention to the goblins.
So these mouths do you speak of?
Is there something we can offerto you for them?

Speaker 4 (01:25:51):
No, we just ask that you're not harmed the creatures
here.
You show them the same respectthat you would show anyone else
living here.
This is their home.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Speaking of which, I just want to formally apologize
for using a flamethrowerEldridge Cannon against you, and
I hope that this makes thingsokay and I take out a little wad
of cash, oh God, and just kindof.

Speaker 5 (01:26:28):
I take the cash and I pull out a little gift basket
of grubs.

Speaker 7 (01:26:32):
Yes, there we go and a bag of ladoo.

Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
This is a little bit more in keeping with like what
they.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
Did you just have a bag of grubs on you?

Speaker 5 (01:26:47):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (01:26:50):
Oh God know your audience, darling Know your
audience.

Speaker 7 (01:26:54):
You couldn't give me cash any time you wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
That's so funny Um.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Why do you, why do you try to solve your problems
with pieces of paper?

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
Uh, I don't know, standard social conventions, I
guess.

Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
Yeah, art felt.
Condolence or apology willalways be more than arbitrary
wealth.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
In that case, I'm sorry that I used a weapon
before getting to know you both,all three of you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Maybe you should touch the all eight feet of the.

Speaker 7 (01:27:46):
Very good blessing.
The spider's probably olderthan you Just throwing it out
there, good, good.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Absolutely, of course .
And then I go to touch theirfeet and the spider, Obviously
the spider's not going to behere, okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:28:00):
Fuck it, Give me no.
This is a good gesture.

Speaker 5 (01:28:06):
This is very Is customary in their culture Touch
feet.

Speaker 4 (01:28:11):
Yeah, no, In this he culture really.
Yeah in Baha'i touch feet is a.
Yeah, you go to touch Malthan'sfeet.
Who's the goblin you've beenspeaking with?
He stops you immediately.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
Oh, you go to touch their feet.
I don't know if that's a goodthing, when they stop them.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
That's the boundaries , and as you touch her feet you
notice she has beautiful purpleeyes and eyelashes across her
multiple eyes, kind of like ajumping spider, and she skitters
at you a little bit and thenrubs one foot on your head.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
Oh, you just wanted me.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
I Thank you Very much .

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
He hops down off of Zeher and says I suppose Pats
her on the romp a little bit.
I suppose you can borrow her orhave other mounts.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
Oh I, I wouldn't want to impose.

Speaker 4 (01:29:26):
She scuttles up to you and does like that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (01:29:31):
This is a choice, not an imposition.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
Well, in that case, you don't got to tell me once
and I'll, I'm aboard the spider.

Speaker 7 (01:29:42):
What is her name?
Zeher.

Speaker 6 (01:29:44):
How many of us can ride on one spider One?
They are pretty small.

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
But there are other mounts that he's agreed to
provide for all of you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
Cool, Until we get there, the rest of you losers
walk.
Let's go Zeher.
She scutters off.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
They're moving over the terrain with a ridiculous
speed.
Wow, give me a wisdom savingthrow oh.

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
Here we go.
I'm going to use the aprieta Incase it goes bad, we can blame
her.

Speaker 5 (01:30:16):
Oh no, she can't oh.

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
Oh, an eight.
Okay yeah.
As Zeher skitters along, shefinds pockets in time and space
to navigate, ducking almostupside down under the river for
a moment, you see a realmperfectly transposed under ours.

(01:30:41):
You see a horned being with along tongue that its eyes kind
of swirling as it gazes at you,and then you're back in the
forest, several feet ahead ofwhere you were.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
Ooh, Did we see that?

Speaker 4 (01:30:59):
You see, the two of them zip in and out.
Merca, you take although, likeI said, you're moving very fast.
You take three psychic damageas Zeher continues to blip in
and out of existence.
That's so cool, being able totraverse between these two
realms with ease, carrying youalong In the meanwhile, mothon

(01:31:20):
brings the rest of you a phasedspider of your own.

Speaker 6 (01:31:24):
Cool, oh, that's cool , I want one.
I can't speak with animals.
You immediately hear fourexcited voices.
Oh hello.

Speaker 4 (01:31:41):
The first one comes up and says Good day Ooh.

Speaker 6 (01:31:47):
Good day to you.
I'm Kooja Kooja.
I'm Sitara.
Thank you for helping me and myfriends.
All right then.

Speaker 4 (01:31:56):
Right, I suppose we'll take it rather fast.
Okay, so just pop on back there.
Okay, watch that leg.
That one's still bruised.
Right A venture.
I tried to slice it off, rightasshole.

Speaker 6 (01:32:08):
Oh goodness.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
What are?

Speaker 6 (01:32:11):
the other friends' names so I can tell my which one
is this one that's eating themTear.

Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
Chaku Pani, oh Pani.

Speaker 1 (01:32:20):
I think Chaku is eating the spritzel from my hand
.

Speaker 6 (01:32:23):
Okay well, chaku, it is for you.
You like Pani?
Oh, drink plenty of.

Speaker 7 (01:32:29):
Pani.

Speaker 1 (01:32:31):
That one's a real tall drink of water, and then we
have sex.

Speaker 6 (01:32:35):
A phrase we use in our land.
So that was Mothon, that wasKooja talking to me.
We have Zeher Mothon, Kooja,Tear, Chaku and Pani.
We have six.
No, Mothon's the name of thegoblin.
Oh, Mothon's the name of thegoblin.
Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:32:49):
Great, Okay, so you're putting juckles on Pani
so her feet are protected?
Uh yeah yeah.
You would hear Pani's the shyone, uh-huh.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
And she's more like down to her and she's like, oh
my God, I've got to try not toget you to eat and we'll go out
to the river, but what happened?

Speaker 6 (01:33:17):
Uh, auntie Pani likes you very much.
It says thank you.
Good, let's not scare her.

Speaker 7 (01:33:21):
That's what I thought .

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
Chaku was like.

Speaker 4 (01:33:25):
After I finish devouring this pretzel, I will
devour this small Benares man.

Speaker 6 (01:33:30):
No, no, no, no, if you don't mind what's he saying.
We actually need this smallBenares man.
He's a friend of mine, oh watchout, you could maybe stave off
your appetite.
I bet he could give you anotherone of these delicious pretzels
.

Speaker 4 (01:33:40):
I have pretzels.
This one is stale.
It makes me want to drive mymandibles through its weak torso
.

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
Right, so do you have any fresh ones?

Speaker 6 (01:33:48):
I think he likes me.
Do you have any fresh pretzels?
Fresh pretzels, anything good?

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
Yes, I've got some fresh ones.
Yeah, there's a whole differentstrain in this bucket.

Speaker 6 (01:33:54):
Wonderful, yes, anything that's good, right Hand
it to him.
Here you go, chaku.

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
Make an animal handling check.

Speaker 6 (01:34:02):
Oh God, Dragons Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
All right, I'll use my real dice star.
Don't look at that number, okay, 17.
Oh Five is 23.
Plus your guidance.

Speaker 7 (01:34:16):
No, it's fine 17 is fine yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:34:18):
You.
It very skillfully texts thepretzel off your hand.
You hear skittering.
You hear you have bought yourlife for a small sum of time.

Speaker 6 (01:34:30):
Well done, oh God, yay, oh, that was such a good
one.
Don't push it, don't push it.
Oh, all right, gently, gently,dear, I guess all this left is
dear and that is for you.
Oh my gosh, I got these sandals.

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
They're so pretty.

Speaker 6 (01:34:45):
You are getting my auntie.
She's my favorite person in theworld.

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Okay, let's go, I will sleepy.
We'll see how well I do on thisjourney.
I'd rather be at home right now.
Do you need?
She has a tie.
Oh, you're trying to.
Yeah, I'm trying to, oh, oh, oh.

Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
Tie for him, tie for me, I'm gonna tie for you, I'm
gonna tie for you.

Speaker 6 (01:35:13):
I promise you, I'm gonna make you up, natasha
you're still here, the fish.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:35:17):
That is it I feed this spider Masal tie.
It is spicy, it is so sweet.
It has fresh milk in it somehow.

Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
Fresh milk, yeah, oh it's.

Speaker 5 (01:35:32):
I ask for tears.
Likes, just likes.
Any allergies?
I prefer a kind of music.
Anything you need, dear.

Speaker 4 (01:35:41):
I prefer good music.
Like an arrow, I fly straight.

Speaker 6 (01:35:46):
Excellent, so hold on tight.

Speaker 5 (01:35:50):
Mmm, in the meantime I speak with Multan and his
friend.
You know, while everybody'smounting up, I ask about I?
The version of the play thebattle of good versus evil that

(01:36:14):
is performed every year is stillso long and it participates,
but it is mildly different fromthe version that I heard from
you just now, mmm.
It's fascinating.

Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
Yes, I think a lot of people don't know that Thil
Salon, even though sherepresents chaos, she also
represents the wild freedom thatis living, truly living, and

(01:36:53):
the festival of Rangali.
She is only symbolicallydefeated so that discipline may
range supreme, but not so thatjudgment will, because judgment
divides Whereas Rukhan divides.

(01:37:19):
Thil Salon agrees to lose inthis battle to bring people
together.

Speaker 5 (01:37:30):
Many of our followers and representatives are thieves
or those who study the arcane,people who seek to twist or to
control chaos In some ways.
That is why I am a devotee ofhers, because that understanding

(01:37:54):
of disorder leads to muchbetter control and moderation
and balance.

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
I think at least a thief is honest, a thief knows
that he is stealing.
I think we are all thieves.

Speaker 5 (01:38:23):
Order and judgment are definitely not the same
things.
No, judgment is imposed.
Order is something that workswith chaos, much as I work with
Thil Salon.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
It is a scale.
For me to do my job, you mustdo yours.
For you to do your job, I mustdo mine.
In a way, we are differentsides of a scale.
Without one, the other willfall.

(01:38:57):
Without the other, the otherone is left suspended in a
height from which they can nolonger see clearly the ground
and everything around them.

Speaker 5 (01:39:10):
My duties often keep me in the city, working on the
production year round, but Iwould very much love if you
could ever visit, or if I wouldbe allowed to visit here with
you.
It is, it would be beneficialfor both of us to understand our
counterparts and, besides, Ibelieve that Natasha might need

(01:39:31):
some guidance as to how best torebrand in the way that you wish
.

Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
Many times we sell fabrics, silks, garments woven
from the phased spider silk topeople in the towns, but we have
to do so under other guisesbecause people don't wish to do
business with us.
To carry out our businessopenly, maybe people would

(01:40:00):
respect our craft more Well.

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
I hope that there will be a cultural shift thanks
to better PR, thanks to more ofan effort on the part of the
townsfolk to reach out and learn.
I must admit, when I first sawyou I thought she has.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
I don't know if you have this phrase where you come
from, she has a giant stick Sickof my ass.
Yes, that's quite common for us, but you wield the stick to
help people and you are not asharsh as you seem.
I appreciate that.

(01:40:38):
Thank you very much, and thankyou so much for your help with
my friends.

Speaker 5 (01:40:43):
I, even though I've just met them.
They seem different than manyother in-veterine parties in
that they are constantlylearning and they are not as
good as they seem and that theyare constantly learning and
trying to do their best in allthe little ways that they can.

Speaker 4 (01:41:03):
I was gonna say they seem green, but this is the
nicer way to say it Don't get myspiders killed or I will find
you and I will tie you up and Iwill cover you in honey and.

(01:41:24):
I will let the beasts andinsects of the forest feast on
you over a period of days.
I took a time.

Speaker 6 (01:41:31):
Since we have no idea what you're saying, I'm just
going to oh my there is ascratch on you.

Speaker 4 (01:41:38):
There is a scratch on any of my mounts.
This is what you have to lookforward to he smiles at all of
you.
Oh, oh, oh.
You're the only one whoprobably really understands what
he's saying.
The rest of you just see asmile, yeah, and we just.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
I think I heard the word ass stick that would hurt I
love the words that you know.

Speaker 6 (01:41:59):
That's impressive.
I'm learning.
What about Priya?

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
Yeah, priya is like stone recovering, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:42:08):
Yes, Are you coming with us or are you heading home?
Oh, I can just summon a stateWonderful.
I think it best is you takesome time to recover and perhaps
you can also accompany Natashato her family, along with these
fellows.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
She like claps, and then puts two fingers in her
mouth and whistles and you see aspectral Bengal tiger come
bounding out.

Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
Ooh.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
Okay, stop showing off.

Speaker 1 (01:42:36):
Wow, a steed is a very different word in my
language.
You cannot see a Bengal tigercoming.
Cool, what do you ride on?
I'm riding on a spider rightnow.

Speaker 4 (01:42:46):
No, but like a steed.
What else do you think a steedis?
Oh, we ride on horses.
Ew, why would you?
The hooves?
Yes, they have hooves, right?
Oh, it's like they're chuppals.

Speaker 1 (01:42:57):
I don't think it would last half a second Now we
have to put these shoes on them,kind of like chuppals.

Speaker 4 (01:43:02):
Yeah yeah, iron Less powerful, she put the letter in
you I feel like a horse wouldjust be killed in 13 seconds in
the horse, really Very weak.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
Perhaps a war horse, no, we put armour on them
sometimes.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
Why would you do that ?

Speaker 1 (01:43:17):
Because I guess they're kind of weak, oh Okay so
.

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
This is just me attacking.

Speaker 7 (01:43:27):
Rikha at the end.
Yeah, yeah, I love.

Speaker 6 (01:43:30):
Thank you again.
I hope you feel better, hmm.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
I'm sure we'll see each other again.
I have my ways of Well catchingup with you, so we've noticed.

Speaker 6 (01:43:43):
Thank you, I just want to make one more insight.
Check I just Something's off.
I just want to.
Yeah, maybe it's just I stilldon't trust her.
I don't know, mm-hmm 18.

Speaker 4 (01:43:59):
18.
Yeah, you Notice she's like alittle probably myth to be on
babysitting duty.

Speaker 6 (01:44:07):
Hmm, yeah, thank you for taking Natasha.
She's very important to thismission.
You know, without her spreadingthe word, we don't have any way
to get to the mountain, andwhat you're doing means a lot
sister, I suppose I understand.
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:44:27):
All right, Nuri, I leave them in your capable hands
.
I'm sure you'll be able tomanage some.
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:44:32):
There should be food delivered for you at your place,
oh.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
You're just on top of everything, right.

Speaker 5 (01:44:39):
Absolutely, I am Mm.

Speaker 1 (01:44:41):
All right give me up.

Speaker 6 (01:44:43):
Oh no, no, no, no.
I told him to be careful.

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
Yeah, you give your spider a kick, mm-hmm Um.

Speaker 3 (01:44:53):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:44:55):
One leg comes slapping out of you.

Speaker 7 (01:44:58):
Like a reflexive doctor's office.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
Yeah, just assume it's my tail, so it's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:45:03):
Yeah, it's like a backhand.
It's just how amazing Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:45:09):
Another mock to the face.
Ladoondi has never been on ananimal in her entire life.
This feels insane and she'shaving a blast.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
Yeah, for all the 10 minutes Peter's off.
You do hear the spiders clitterclattering as they carry you
through more bonny forests.
You hear bonny just the entiretime like yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
I've never seen her so happy.

Speaker 6 (01:45:31):
Like an on-town motor scooter when I say before it
wears off, I just want to ask isthere anything you all know
about where we're going thatmaybe we should know to keep us
from, you know dying?

Speaker 4 (01:45:46):
Before you receive an answer, you are whipped into
the fey and then back, and nowyou realize why Moorca is
potentially calling, like,making, crying, I don't know
whatever sounds you make aheadof you as you see, like, like I
said, an actual rock-shis kindof loom out and reach towards

(01:46:09):
you and then, shh, you are awayagain back into the realm, as
these things cut through spaceand time, whisking you away to a
new realm with preternaturalspeed, towards the foot of the
mountains, towards the smallestrange of the Mahan cut, which
will eventually maybe lead youto Rock Dibba.

(01:46:31):
We'll see if you get there withyour facilities intact Next
time.
On this equation, oh, oh, oh,oh.

Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
no, you steamed.

Speaker 4 (01:46:46):
You see the summit of Rock Dibba and Silgar right
below it.

Speaker 6 (01:46:51):
You can trust me, I do.
I'm looking for someone who isin trouble.
They're getting ready to strikeA natural 20?
A natural 20 plus seven, that'san A20.

Speaker 2 (01:47:01):
Two minus two Threat detected.

Speaker 7 (01:47:03):
Threat detected Don't ever try to kiss me Comedy baby
, you are turned into a tinysnake.

Speaker 3 (01:47:12):
No, Auntie, I can explain why.
Please don't hit me with thejump bolt.

Speaker 4 (01:47:17):
What am I hitting?
Her eyes roll into the back ofher head.
Her jaw unhinges.
Man, they're dragging along theground.

Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
For those of you who have a deity, pray for me.

Speaker 4 (01:47:27):
Things are getting more and more dangerous by the
day we're getting outnumbered.
I hope you enjoyed this show asmuch as we loved making it, but
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I did not even hear the dive Isaw it and I wouldn't f*** it On
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Oh, your hair looks crazy.

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Speaker 6 (01:49:10):
Well, I did get poisoned.
Yeah, yeah, in fairness, he isdeceased and that'll be where we
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