Episode 27: Silvermoon Aftermath Part 1

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another exciting aftermath adventure of D&D 721.
My name is Mud. I am the dungeon.
Master of this absolute chaotic mess of a wedding and I am
joined by 5 very heroic heroes who did heroic things and saved

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the day. Say hello, my heroic heroes.
Hello also I'm a little beat up but I'm I'm still alive.
Hello. Hello Narloeen Pyro here.
Hello, this is Tolton playing Brag Vernier.
This is Yamas playing Pebble. Hello.

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I'm not as beat up as I thought it would be.
Somebody must have healed me. It was me.
Hi, it's Tacomas. I'm really beat up, but at least
you're all alive. Yes.
Wawa Skittles playing Thea Thea.Yeah, hi.
Hi. Hi.
Well, let's. Arc sounds like.

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Go ahead. What?
I was going to say ARC is starting to sound like parsable
A. Little bit there.
I thought I thought so too. Well guys, we have just a little
bit of recap to go over. Our last campaign session was
the climax and conclusion of theSilver Moon Saga and it was the

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continuation of that knock down,drag out, beat up fight with all
the palace guards and Devon the Grin, the airship, the Elloria
that was sailing through the sky, and the Devon's palace
guards were firing down into theSilver Moon City.

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You guys absolutely kicked butt through that whole fight.
You were taking care of guards, you saved Bertram the Red from
pretty certain death. Torque also came out, he lent a
hand in his rightable steel Defender power loader that he

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has. And not only did you defeat
Devon, the Grin, and most all ofhis guards, you also then
further slayed the chaotic beastcreature that crawled out of his
dead corpse and continued to attack you all and very nearly

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killed Rena, the Duchess Narloeen's mother, but with a
very shenanigan, heavy fire elemental and a cannonball.
Very poetically, Narloeen did save his mother and land a
killing blow on the chaos creature that was Devon the

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Grin. With a little bit of luck coming
from Thea, I have been told after the fact I maybe bent the
rules just a little bit there atthe end, and if you've got a
problem with that, get in the comments, let me know.
The end of that last session concluded with the airship
safely landing and Rena in a much more critical thinking

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mindset, A little more stoic, a little more analytical.
Giving orders to everybody and sending everybody in different
directions to go and try to offer aid to the city.
To round up the last of the bandits to stand guard in
different ways. Asking for Nara Lewin to stay by

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her side. And that's pretty much where we
are going to pick up this hour story arc, aftermath episode.
So for our listeners, I've already explained this a little
bit to the players, but for the listeners, this session is a
little bit of an experiment and it is going to run a little
different than the typical Dungeons and Dragons session

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does. What I have created is a series
of montage scenes that are goingto take place through this
episode, and each scene is goingto contain one or several or all
of the heroes as we go through anumber of different montage

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scenes that deal with the aftermath of this entire Silver
Moon Saga. So with that said, we are going
to begin with the first part of the aftermath.
After a long and harrowing day of fighting fires and finding

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some of the last of Devon's palace guards, many of whom were
either killed for resisting or put into the Silver Moon Jail,
the fires were finally put out. The city did finally come out of
a state of emergency and into a place of rest, and all of the
heroes were able to take a long,well deserved long rest.

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So we're going to be starting off right off the bat.
Everybody take your long rest. You now have full hit points,
full spell points, everything that you might need.
Almost as good as leveling up right?
A long rest. It is.
For me, Nope. I guess I'm the only one who
thinks I'm funny. OK.
I won't even respond to that. I was.

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Going to say. Boo.
All right, all I heard was levelup so I just clicked that.
Oh, yes, yeah, OK. Yeah, go ahead.
Sure, sure. All right, guys.
Well, in the days that follow, it was largely filled with time
of trying to heal your wounds and taking some time.

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The wedding is over and everybody was kind of just
having some down time. And finally one morning all of
you have are in your room, all of you just kind of spending
some down time together. Or maybe you're in the kitchen
or in the dining area. It doesn't really matter.
But you finally all get a noticethat comes to each of you and

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it's that tonight there is goingto be a ceremony and all five of
you are expected to come dressedin your best attire and be
present in the throne room at sundown.
So I will turn it over to the five of you.
What do the five of you do with your day as you prepare for this

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summoning to the throne room in the evening?
Ebbel would be kind of brushing off and neatening up her finery,
that bark embroidered blue outfit of hers, and probably he
is sitting there polishing her crown, little bronze crown.
OK. I know Louise's going to kind of

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be taking everything in, you know, from their arrival to the
castle where they kind of grew up in in the the territory.
There hasn't been all that much,I guess, calm downtime.
Everything's been charged with moms getting married.
So I think that there's this would allow Narloeen to kind of

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take some time for himself and walk around exploring, kind of
looking around his old stomping ground.
See if he runs into any, you know, old friends from 150 years
ago. See if you can find any fun
Elvin stuff. Sure, let's just do a raw D20
luck check. That'd be a six.

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So, you know, you when you were younger, you, you did have a
kind of a group of friends. There were some other young
elves who were part of the nobility.
Most of them had have moved away.
Most of them received, you know,jobs or responsibilities that
took them to different places. Almost none of them stayed there

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at the Silver Moon Castle with asix.
I will say you, you do run into one person that you remember
from your young, young childhoodwhen you were 50 and the the two
of you meet, you're in the castle and you, you both kind of
like point and you're like, that's right.
Hey, you. Yeah.
How you been like you have some awkward conversation.

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The two of you were never very close.
But otherwise you do spend that time kind of reacquainting
yourself with the castle that you grew up in and and really
kind of like getting a layout ofthe area.
Beautiful. I, I'd basically, you know, be
looking for the, the libraries, the old academic stuff, all the

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old like historical things that I, I was a fan of when I was a
kid, you know, colloquially a kid, I was, I was 50.
But just the same way that I read through dungeons looking
for books and looking for spellsand stuff like that, I'm still
kind of looking for for fun, funthings from from my family
heritage. Sure, there's there's no

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shortage of those kinds of things.
There's like old books of lineage and some other like
history texts that have been kept up to date.
Thea, Bragg or Nokomis, anythingthe three of you do in
preparation for the summoning. I would like to find somewhere
to to take a shower. Like I'm going to go find some
waterfall or somewhere and kind of sneak away.

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Be private. Definitely.
And you want like specifically to be like out in nature.
Yes, of course. Yeah, Nature time.
I would say that's not very hardto do.
You're you're able to move around the castle and city
freely. You go out into the more tame
area of the woods, the woods that is typically used by like
the forestry and the loggers, the the elves who cut down the

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trees and then also replant new ones and the druids who
accelerate their growth to keep up with production and those
kinds of things. You're able to make your way
through that kind of like safer area of the woods.
And sure enough, you find like aa river with a nice waterfall
and you are able to absolutely, you know, really like wash off
all of the stress and the grime and everything from the last

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several days of this event. Go ahead and give me.
A I'll I'll say. It's your choice.
You can do nature, medicine or religion, whatever feels most
right to you. To kind of have Nokomis feel
rejuvenated. Nature.
All right, let's go. And that is 14 + 5 for a 19.

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You come out feeling good, You know, you, you spend some time
in the, in the clean water and you, you know, you, you, you
wash it off and you just, you feel like you're able to really,
you know, clean behind the ears and like get off all the grit
and grime and, and all of the tension just comes out of your
shoulders and you're, you're feeling a lot better.

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Theo, were you doing something similar?
I I I saw your message. Yeah, I actually wanted to turn
into a fox and also go into the woods, not to find a waterfall
or to to fall in a comus or anything, but I just want to go
also kind of be one with nature.But just on four more pause.

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Sure. And you can kind of do the same
thing. You can make that religion or
nature or medicine what what feels right to Thea as you are
in your fox form running throughthe woods.
I rolled for nature. I got a 16.
Yeah, that's also pretty good. Same thing.
You, you kind of like you feel. Like both of you there, there's

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this. You know, if everything was like
black, it is now a much lighter shade of Gray thing.
Like the immediate tension, the immediate danger kind of washes
away from you as you spend some time running and hiking through
the woods as a fox. Braggrenier.
Anything on your side? Originally right was going to

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try to talk to Thea but noticed that she disappeared.
So he's going to wander the streets and after a while he's
going to end up where him and Narlouine had met with the
Thieves Guild previously, and he's going to to just look

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around and see if there's anything left after those three
were beheaded. Yeah, give me AI would say give
me a perception check to try andand find any members of the
thieves Guild or give me a persuasion check of you're

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trying to like find someone related your choice.
I will go with persuasion for that and I rolled an 18.
OK. Persuasion.
So yeah, you, you. Find some people.
Who say, you know, they talk with you a little bit and they
say, yeah, there is still a thieves Guild.
It is more than just the three people, however.

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You, you find that they're a little cold shouldered to you
and you, you found them, but you're, you're finding they're
not very receptive to you. Like no one's offering to
introduce you to any members of the Guild or any leaders or
anything like that, OK. All right.

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I'd like a do over like I I I was sitting in the room and you
you'd said, what are you guys doing to get ready for the
thing? I figured somebody was coming to
get us. So I'm like, Oh yeah, I'm just
needing my dress up and everybody else.
So you had a day? OK, I'd, I'd like to say that I
had been spending the day in thecity helping rebuild from the

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cannon fire and, and, and the, the final battle there, you
know, using bark to help like rebuild the broken bridges,
repair, you know, people's places, using bark for his
original purpose. So you, you kind of set out to
do that. Go ahead and give me, let's call
it survival check. I got an 11.

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OK. With an 11, what what Pebble
quickly finds is there's no shortage of work that needs to
be done. But you know this, this is like
one or two days after the event.Everything is still kind of in
the city, kind of in this like chaos mode of nobody's
rebuilding anything yet. They're still like trying to
remove rubble. They're still trying to like.

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Repair the streets right like they're They're not.
Even in the repair phase, they're in the like, yeah,
that's demolition and clean up. Gotcha.
So you, you definitely, you led the hand and that is a good way
to, to kind of spend the day. You know, you, you kind of get
to it. You, you do help like start with
some of the really basics of like clearing some streets.

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But you, you, you, it's almost kind of like there's a little
too much to find any one thing to do.
You do help, but it you know, it's it's just Pebble like comes
away from it feeling like there's there's really so much
and it's too much for like one person and one day.
So like it's not a monumental help, but it's not negative in

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any way. And a few people do notice you
out trying to help. Good, good, good.
Yeah, I, you know, just trying to fix the screw ups of the
escapades. Oh, don't worry, we got a long
session ahead my friend. OK.
The day the sun begins to set, the day is coming to an end.

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The the five of you kind of reconvene at the castle and as
you enter, there is a servant who stands by the door and makes
the announcement. And you all find that Rena is in
her formal attire as to receive guests or to receive diplomats

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or things like that. And when the five of you enter,
you are ushered forward up the throne room towards where she
sits at the it's not really a throne, but it, you know, it's
like the main seat that the Dukeand Duchess would sit at.
And a music begins to play and Rena stands and she gives a

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speech about all of the ways thefive of you had set out to try
and help save Silver Moon and all of the heroic actions you
took and including and not limited to saving Bertram and
herself from Devon and slaying Devon.

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And she announces around this kind of like bedraggled
collection of a few nobles, a few upper class citizens, and
the the very beat up looking remains of the palace guard,
many of whom have like bandages wrapped around their heads or
some are like sporting injuries like missing hands or damaged
faces and eyes. And she goes to Bertram the Red

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and she draws his long sword from the sheath.
And she asks each of the five ofyou to kneel, and through the
ceremony, all 5 of you are knighted as Knights of the
Silver Moon. Dutchie.

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Cool, cool. The ceremony comes to an end
with her tapping the sword on everyone's shoulder, and at the
end of it, everyone claps and applauds politely and the
ceremony has ended. The music ends and she says, you
know, it has come to my attention that.
The five of you probably need more permanent quarters than

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sharing one or two rooms here atthe castle down in the upper end
of the city, there is a apartment building that is now
vacant. It was made recently vacant
because it was previously occupied by a number of Devon's
men and it was damaged by some cannon fire.
However, I have turned the deed equally over to the five of you.

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You are, as Knights, also property owners.
That building is now yours to dowith as you wish.
You can repair it, you can live in it, or you can rent it.
It is up to you. Thank you.
I'm going to rent it so much airDND.
Air DND. Air DND we got to fix it up

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first. Pebble grabs Bark and this is
ready to go. All right, well with that we are
going to move to Part 2. Part 2 is titled The Ring.
This scene is going to take place with Narlaween, Thea and
Pebble. Over the course of the last week

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or so, the three of you find yourselves in Tork's laboratory.
Tork had run into like the threeof you as you were walking down
a hall or in the city somewhere in some way, and had asked you
as a group to follow him back tohis lab in the basement area of
the castle. And Tork has figured out more or

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less the nature of the engagement ring that Rena had
been wearing. Once the three of you are in his
lab, he begins to explain how the ring is actually a very
powerful artifact. And he's holding it up in his
hand kind of delicately between his fingers.
And he says it's actually quite dangerous and it seems to have
both immediate effects as well as long lasting effects as it is

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worn and continues to be worn. And it it, it has both an
immediate reaction as well as like some slow roasting effects
that it has over time. But the first thing that it does
is it causes the wearer to not want to take it off.
The second thing it does is it dampens all of your natural
abilities and it greatly reducesyour capabilities in the things
that you you're normally able toaccomplish and it highly

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increases your emotional response to things.
I am going to give a control demonstration.
And he slides the ring on his own finger.
How do the three of you respond Do?
You feel all right, Torque? I I feel, I feel great.
Pebble, how are you doing? I'm good.

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Can you build something real quick?
He looks around and he goes. That's kind of a a silly
question. Can I build something?
Yes, of course I can build something.
So Narlawine will reach out towards Torque steel defender
and just do shocking grasp on it.
And so lightning springs from myhand to deliver a shock.

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OK. Apple gets ready to hold pork
back. Yeah, roll your attack.
Is that an attack roll or a save?
That's an attack roll, yeah. Go ahead and roll your attack on
that. The steel defender begins
backing up, making like concerned beeping noises. 21
Yeah, you grab it and begin to shock it.

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And then the steel defender likeseizes up and pork like shouts,
he's like. Narloween, what are you doing?
Why would you do this? My my steel defender.
And he? Hold up, it's for science.
He begins to run at you to try and separate you from his steel
defender. I'm holding him back.

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Steel defender takes 5 damage. OK.
And defender? 'S fine, yeah.
Pablo, give me a strength check here please.
I'm going to contest it. OK, on one SEC strength check
Straight strength or not athletics.
Gotcha. Just strengthen.
It in how that would be a 19 good Sir.

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Yeah, definitely beat Torque here who is just rolling flat
because he's wearing the ring Yeah, he he got a nine.
So you absolute like easily are holding torque and the Tabaxi
like is is straining in your. Arms and he's like, I don't
understand why you're being so mean to my steel defender.

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This this is so unlike you gnarly like you don't, you don't
behave like. This.
I just want to watch you fix the, you know, you're, you're a
steel defender. I want to see if you do it the
same way that I fix my Phoenix. There's so much I want to learn
from you. You didn't even ask or anything,
you just went and shocked him and he turns to the end.
He goes, you're a paladin. This is he's being evil, isn't

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he? You should stop him.
Torque take the ring off. No torque, take the ring off.
No Pebble reaches for the ring and grabs and grabs his hand.
Get it Thea? Yeah, I'm going to.
I'm going to take the ring off. OK, yeah, you've already got him
grappled. You pull the ring off, he like
clenches, like he's got his hands and fists and you're

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having to like uncurl his fingers 1 by 1 and he's just
shouting. No, no, no.
I take it back. No, Darlene, you're a great kid.
You're a good boy, like you. You're like a son to me.
Like I take it back. Just stop punishing.
Me and you. Yeah, go ahead.
As he does that my my steel defender goes and almost like

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nudges up, you know with his head towards the towards torque
steel defender and mends him. OK, the as you're pulling the
ring off, torque is saying? Like, oh, thank you.
Your steel defender is like, I don't know why I'm always giving
you such a hard time about your steel defender.
It's like such a great little machine.
It's such a great contraption. And Thea, you slip the ring off

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and it's almost like his eyes like refocus and he looks at
each of you and he goes. Ah, well, yes, like I was
saying, that was an excellent controlled experiment.
Pebble, will you please let me up?
Give him a minute, Pebble. You went a bit crazy there bud.

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Well, like I said it, it is a very dangerous artifact.
And the fact that nor Louise that your mother had been
wearing this for the last almosta year, it's a wonder nobody
noticed. Absolutely, definitely changed
her. Changed her demeanor, huh?
You know, we honestly like she just kept telling everybody how
she was just in love and how shefelt so young again and how she

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was just so excited and everyonereally just took it as a a new,
a new. Side of your mother that none of
us had ever seen before. And that it was a result of her
jubilee of being authentically in love rather than in a
arranged marriage. I can't blame you.

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You guys wanted the best for her, so you were just hoping
that this was her, you know, being happy in the predicted
that she would be manipulated. Well, we certainly did not.
Well, with that I do. Believe that you weren't.
You weren't in on it, were you? Torque.
No, not at all. Certainly not I.
Didn't think so. Torque looks at each of you and
says you, you believe I, like wewere just as fooled as everyone

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else. I roll an insight and got a 21.
With a 21 you can tell he's absolutely telling the truth.
OK. ABBA lets him go.
He kind of shakes himself and like smooths out his robes and
looks at the ring and he just says clearly this artefact is
very dangerous and being that itcame from a person who was very

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clearly corrupted by the Crippled God, as much as I want
to research it, I do believe it should be destroyed.
I can try busting it with my axe.
Make it so nobody can wear it again.
Pebble agrees with destroying it.
Thea what is? What is your take?
Well, we could. We could destroy it.

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Yeah, we should destroy it. Is there a volcano anywhere?
Probably not too long of a walk.There's definitely a lot of
magic and power there that we could learn and gain experience
from, but I don't think it's worth the risk.
I think the ring has to go. He nods.

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And he says of all the Pebble thinks of all the destruction it
caused and Sarah, and she's like, can I, can I do it?
Well, you can certainly try. Often times magical artifacts
like this are pretty resilient. If you would like to try and
destroy it with your axe, you certainly can.
If not, if you are unable to, don't feel bad.
That's OK. I have a series of contraptions

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that I will use to destroy it a little more methodically over
time, but if you'd like to take a swing, go ahead.
Double grabs the ring, drops it on the stone, goes into a rage,
activates her enlarged axes and takes a swing with advantage.
So you hit it regardless, roll damage to see if you do enough
damage to destroy it. 7. The axe absolutely connected

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with it and it bounces in the air and skidders across the lab
floor. Torque walks up and gingerly
picks it up and looks at it and he goes.
Yeah, like I said, I think you put a scuff on it.
And he polishes it once with hiswrist and he goes, no, no,
sorry, that was just dust. Show you dust.
He laughs and Narlawine, he Patsyou on the head once and he

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goes, well, thank you all for coming and seeing this
demonstration and narlawine, I think.
A part of me really did. Mean it.
Your steel defender is not bad. He's more than not bad, but I'll
take that from you. I know you're I know you have
very high regard for your creations.

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I love mine the same. All right, with that, we are
going to move to Part 3. This part is titled The Scars in
the Stone. Gnarlawine and Nokomis, the two
of you, same thing as before. You're, you're spending some a

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little bit of time together. You're at the castle for
whatever reason, and as you're leaving, you're heading out to
town. What would the two of you be be
heading to town to do? You know, I, I want to just go
check on some of the local villagers.
You know, I, I healed some of them before when the ship was
coming down and then and the city was besieged.

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So I want to go, you know, just make sure the townsfolk are in
good spirits. Yeah, No, Louine, what are, what
are your intentions as you're going about this with Nikomas?
I'd say that we're we're kind ofweeks into it already.
And so this is kind of checking into, you know, my people with
our, you know, with our healer, with somebody who is responsible

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for saving lives and, you know, just making them a little safer.
So just kind of a member of the Royal Court, royal family along
with Nokomis checking in. OK, So the, the kind of the
general vibe that you get from the city is same as what Pebble

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was getting and same as what kind of Braggrenier was getting
looking for the Thieves Guild there.
There's a tone of sourness in the vibe of the people and you
you both go about and you're you're kind of doing part of
your what you can. You know, there's still work to
be done. There's still some things to be

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repaired. Lot of buildings are empty.
Some people lost homes. Homelessness is actually much
higher right now because of the number of buildings that were
destroyed. And whether it was in Upper
Silver Moon or Lower Silver Moon, Those who suddenly have
found themselves without homes, most of them have moved further

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away from the castle to the Lower Silver Moon city, further
downhill. And that's kind of where more of
the slums are. That's also kind of the area
that you started to venture intowhen you you found the Thieves
Guild that that's kind of the the vibe the two of you get.
You spend some time there in thecity, and as you're returning
back to the castle, the two of you find Bertram.

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The Red and Torque are talking and arguing a little heatedly
with a number of other artificers and members of like
the engineering Guild, and they are specifically pointing and
referring to the crash marks that the airship had made when
you all first landed on your first day.

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So the Artisan builders and the engineers are with Torque, and
they're arguing over whether or not the Courtyard Foundation has
been permanently compromised in some way and if there may lead
to further instability, either stretching back to the walls of
the inner walled area of the castle or even to the foundation

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of the castle itself. And there's these black scorch
marks. And there's also a number of
petitioners who were there saying, no, we should not try
to, like, repair all of this. We should leave it as like a
memorial to when the heroes cameand tried to save, you know, the
Silver Moon Estate. How do the two of you interject
yourself into this argument and conversation happening between

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Torque, the engineers and the petitioners?
And Nyla Whedon kind of immediately speaks on behalf of
the, you know, heroes as they call us on behalf of our group
and says we don't want any kind of memorials.
We don't. We don't want any kind of, you
know, structures that are meant to pay homage to us.

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We want the you know area to be safer and better for the people
to live in. Nokomis, what is your take?
Yeah, Nokomis agrees. Nokomis thinks that, you know,
we shouldn't save this crash site as like a memorial, you
know, utilize the space for better things, maybe like, you
know, like a playground or something and for the for the

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kiddos. But yeah, we don't want to be
seen as something, you know, like, like we're not holy
figures, you know, we just, we're simple travelers who just
wanted to do the right thing. OK, could Narlawing please give
me an intelligence check and Nakomis please give me a nature

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check? 17 + 5 for 22.
And what did you get? Narlawing. 16. 16 OK, so both of
you notice as you kind of like you're you're making your
arguments and you're kind of studying the crash site.
It has been several weeks. There has been a a series of
different kinds of weather. Both of you do find signs where

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there are fractures moving through the stones and through,
you know, taking some time to like investigate it.
And you know, Narloeen using your artificer, your like your
understanding of engineering anda comas using your natural like
nature understanding of stone and stonework and those kinds of
things. You're both able to pretty

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clearly see that there are some deep fractures that could cause
problems in the future if they were not properly repaired.
And if they were to just leave it as it is, as some kind of
memorial it it could lead to some long lasting effects in the
near to far future. Yeah, narrowing kind of

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reiterate that this, this needs to be repaired.
This needs to be made as usable ground and safe, safe ground.
We don't want to be a big bad oil company.
The damage, the nature. Torque kind of nods and he says,
yes, exactly. That is what I was trying to
explain to these petitioners. This was not some holy arrival.

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Of, you know, crusader heroes here to save the day or anything
like that. This was simply a crash landing.
And the petitioners all kind of are looking a little chagrined.
And they're like, we, we really thought that you guys were
heroes. But I guess this was just more

(36:38):
reckless destruction, wasn't it?And Halloween kind of goes to
the petitioners and make sure that he's eye level with them
and not trying to appear above them and says there was heroic
actions. But at the end of the day,
everyone came together and defeated somebody who meant harm

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upon our estate and upon our land and upon our people, upon
you guys. And at the end of the day,
without people, none of the noneof the other things matter,
though it's not about heroism. It's it's about giving back and
making sure that you guys feel and understand that you're
important. Nakomis, do you add anything?

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Nakomis wants to probe and and ask why they feel this way.
Nakomis has a very inquisitive mind and I'm curious why they
have this point of view. OK, go ahead and give me an
insight check. 18. Nakomis you get the sense that
these petitioners, these these are commoners who came here

(37:44):
wanting to in some way glorify the arrival of the heroes or
like pay homage to them. And they've heard that, you
know, the the place where you all made your entrance was going
to be rebuilt, like torn out, rebuilt and you know, re re
firmed up with the foundation and everything.
And they, they didn't want that to happen.
And what you're finding with an insight that high, it's that

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these people aren't necessarily the smartest.
And they kind of have a binary way of thinking, which is if it
wasn't good that you crash landed here, then it must have
been bad that you crash landed here.
With that Nara Lewin, I am goingto ask you to make me a
persuasion check. So that'll be a 16 for the
persuasion. OK with that then they are

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feeling, feeling better about it.
They're they're they're instead,they're, they're kind of like
finding the silver lining of it and that they don't need this,
but it would have been nice. But, you know, again, it's, you
know, there are other ways to remember, you know, the heroes
and other ways to remember what they did for us.
OK. We are going to move on to Part

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4, which is titled 2 Drops for Three.
He said the thing. 2 drops for three of this will include
Braggornier, Pebble and Thea. The three of you are down in the
city and whether you're overhearing it like in the

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market or in a Tavern, whatever makes sense with what the three
of you might be doing. You do come across some rumors
that there is a traveling Bard in town and you've heard rumors
that he set up a small stall in the lower area of Silver Moon in
the lower wards. Would the three of you like to

(39:38):
go and see or hear about this traveling Bard that has come to
town? I I'd like to go scope them out.
In a while since I've heard a good Bard play besides myself of
course. So maybe maybe we go check them
out and or her and teach them a little bit of the things we've

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learned over the past couple. Weeks.
Yeah. So you just make your way to the
lower wards and you do find it. It's right there kind of on the
fringe between the lower and theupper city.
And he has set up a stall and they're at his stall.
He's standing on a like potato box and he is playing a lute and

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he is singing the song called 2 Drops for Three.
And on his little stall, there are a number of stones that have
a crude kind of chiseled depiction that it very obviously
like. You don't have to look at it
very long to realize that he kind of like chiseled these out

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and did them from second hand knowledge of what people looked
like. And on the stones is a depiction
of Pebble, a depiction of Braggrenier, and a depiction of
Sarah. And as he is performing his
song, a street urchin walks up and tugs on Thea's sleeve.

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Yes. The kid points at the stones and
he says the song is so sad, but we don't know who that person is
and they're pointing at the stone with a picture of Sarah.
You really want to make somebodycry the.
St. urge in shrugs and she says I don't know, I just wanted to

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know who the person is. Man, that was for you.
That's a kid, Pebble. Pebble Pebble walks up to the
the table with the stones on them, picks up the stone of
Sarah. She's crying and she tells the

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urchin this. This is one of the bravest
people I've ever met. She she laughed her life, you
know, on a on a quaint coastal town and to join us and and she
fought heroically through thick and thin.
She slayed a dragon and we got her killed.

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Pebble while while you're. Kind of saying that the the Bard
is like had had just finished his song.
So as as you're, you're kind of like giving that, you know, it's
explanation, like the Bard is watching you and still playing
and singing and he's also like listening to you at the same
time. Give me a insight check please.
OK, I have a -1 on insight. Let's see where this goes.

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Nat 20, baby. Nat 20.
Oh, the little. Unicorn, are you fucking?
Serious, I'm. Serious.
I got a Nat 20 just for the record.
I am legit crying. I've been listening to Nat Pot
all day and it was one of the emotional episodes.
And you bring up Sarah. I'm crying here.
Oh my God I got a Nat 20. Your eyes are just sweating,

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it's all. It's just sweaty eyes.
I'm cutting onions. Pebble, as you're explaining
this, what you pick up correctlyfrom the Bard is that he is
singing the song and intending to tell the true and right story
of what happens. But with a Nat 20, you see that
there are some gaps in the storyand there are some things that

(43:25):
aren't fully fleshed out in the song.
And you realize that it's not that he's trying to besmirch the
memory of Sarah or like spin things wrong.
It's just a lack of knowledge. It's ignorance.
And the three of you, I'm going to say with that, Nat 20, the
three of you can all roll a performance check to have a

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chance to tell your version of the story both to the Bard and
the crowd. Yes.
All right, I'd like, I'd like the Bard to.
Know that we're not trying to. I'm sorry.
I'd like the Bard to know that we're not trying to upstage, but
to teach him. Yeah.
No, no. Appreciate, yeah, your, your
roles are good enough that he's,he's receptive to what you're

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trying to say. I would like to start it off by
using minor illusion to make either make the stone look more
realistic to what Sarah actuallylooks like, or to make a life
sized illusion of Sarah before she got injured.
Yes, please. To share her likeness.

(44:32):
I love that, I think. With the minor illusion, you
would be able to improve the depiction on the stone.
Yes, it's a yeah. It says it must be no larger
larger than a 5 foot cube, but it's it's mainly objects.
Yeah. So I rather than like making a
projection of Sarah, you're you're able to like kind of hold
the stone for people and make itlook more like what Sarah

(44:56):
actually looked like. You know, let me, let me take it
a step further. I'm going to use my disguised
self to make myself look like Sarah.
OK, just to spread her likeness.OK.
And who would like to do the performance check?

(45:21):
I've got a + 1. Though.
Mine's a + 2 that's probably bright I.
I can do the performance check with my +6.
Yeah, go ahead. That's a 21.
Yeah, you, you do a good job. You, you tell kind of the full
story. And I, I'm going to ask the
three of you, how much of the details do you share with

(45:43):
people? The fact that like, dude, do you
tell the absolute honest story of what happened and how you
came to your decision or do you embellish or do you leave parts
out? I feel like for Bragg, knowing
that it could tarnish our reputation from those who don't

(46:06):
see things from our perspective,I gloss over the choices that
we're going to be made and skip right to the crippled God
showing up and stealing Sarah. I don't know how Pebble and Thea
feel about that, but I kind of I.
Was going to ask Pebble and Thea, how do you feel about that
omission from the truth in the story being told?

(46:29):
Pebble, it doesn't sit right with Pebble being dishonest, but
I think in this moment, speakingto the crowd, like if some, if
she was sitting down explaining the story as it happened, she'd
tell it exactly verbatim. But in this moment in the crowd,

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knowing that this is for Sarah, you know, she, she kind of lets
it slide because she knows that the reason that they made the
decision that they did was because they would be able or,
you know, Bragg and her and the rest would be able to work
towards bringing her back. So with that, Braggrenier, I do

(47:13):
want you to do another role for deception, to see how well you
are able to deceive the crowd with the way that you
successfully tell the story. How does, how does Thea feel
about it? Yeah, I do also.
I want to know her, her thoughts.
I kind of, I kind of mind mind speech to you too as I'm going

(47:35):
through it. I'm kind of fighting like a
battle in in my head really. I want it.
I want to to glide over like youguys are both saying.
But there's another part of me that wants to tell these people
what really happened and and I want them to see who I truly AM.

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I feel like. You're back.
I feel like if if that is the majority rule, Bragner, despite
his thoughts that it look makes us look bad as a party, he won't
gloss over it, but he will embellish the fact that we were
making a pact to not rest until we had saved her or brought her

(48:21):
back from the dead. OK.
So if I'm hearing you guys correctly, it's it's a little
bit less of a deception, I'm more of a persuasion for why you
made the right. Truth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're. Yeah, I'd say so.
Yeah, I, I turn in where we're at.
Yeah, my head, my head's. Persuading in.

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Between. Go ahead.
I have spaces between what you guys are saying on glossing over
it to I want you all to know whoI am and like what we've been
doing, like whether it's mistakes that I've made or or
whatever, like OK, you know. So with that, give me instead of

(49:02):
deception, go ahead and give me a persuasion check.
You have everyone's attention, everyone is listening and
they're ready to accept what yousay.
But as you're performing this, give me a persuasion to see how
well you convey them, the reasoning for why you did the
right thing that might not on the surface, appear like the

(49:25):
right thing. That is a 19.
OK, yeah, you you do a good job of it, kind of explaining how
you were all in an impossible situation and choices had to be
made. You do a good job of trying to
explain why you had chosen to dowhat you had done and that the
choice had already been made because he didn't know she would

(49:47):
be conscious when you got there.And then, you know, all of the
events that took place. And then you do get to the part
where she was snatched away by the Crippled God.
And everyone gasps. And some people make some, like,
holy signs in the air, and some people leave.
And some people kind of like applaud the performance and the

(50:09):
explanation. And the Bard also thanks you and
says that he will do his best toreplicate your performance and
your story to tell the message correctly.
I would like to speak with the Bard after the performance and
1st off get to know his name andalso I'd like to attempt to

(50:35):
teach him the song of bark and and give him the word of bark
knowing that well bark is a big part of our group.
The more people that are spreading the word of bark,
especially skilled bards, the faster bark will spread.
Now I want to ask you a question.
I want just the The answer can be yes, but I want to ask, is

(50:59):
that what Lawful Evil Braggrenier still believes?
I feel Braggrenier has had that alignment shift, but he still
knows that bark is assisting thegroup and he knows that getting
bark more powerful bark will aidhim.

(51:23):
And well, it might not be that Bark reflects his full belief
set. He knows that he can use bark in
a matter of using basically using Bark's power.

(51:44):
Because I, I will remind you that you guys have made clear
multiple times that bark is love, bark is peace, bark is
goodness, bark is all of all of these, you know, like high
ideals and, you know, maybe slightly naive, but yeah.

(52:05):
So just just to keep in mind. I I may I may point out out of
Bragg's sake. I may point out for Bragg's
sake. While bark is good, bark is
love. Bark is kind.
We are human and prone to err. Well, out of character my
reasoning is and this can be cut.

(52:28):
This is just kind of my reasoning.
The you mentioned a good that lawful evil would be Vader and
Vader went to the dark side to heal someone and bark represents
healing. So he's doing it but for a
different reason. I guess I would say OK.

(52:51):
I, I accept that answer. I just, I wanted to ask it and
be I, I wanted to hear your reasoning for it, so.
That's and and and at the end, realistically he he knows Bark
is willing to assist power wise or so he so he's under the
assumption. Well, the Bard introduces
himself as Wilkins, the Bard, Wilkins rider, because he rides

(53:14):
near and far all across the land.
And again, thanks you for sharing the story and being open
and emotional with him and the crowd and getting the message
about what had happened embellished and clarified and
and made clear. Because as he was told the
story, he said he just had to come and he had to perform it

(53:35):
and he had to understand more about the story because just
everything about it had sounded just so heartbreaking.
It it was definitely a very tough time for our group and it
still still is a tough, it's still fresh.
Ebbel's still crying. She's hugging mystery urchin.

(53:57):
All right. I'd like to make make a quick
joke to the Bard that you know. It's not often that a Bard hears
a story about himself. Wilkins writer shakes your hand
and he says, well that just tells me that you need to get
more popular. I'll do that.

(54:18):
Right, we're going to move to our next section.
Keep things moving along. This next section is one of our
weeks of downtime. This is one of those periods
where everyone can decide what they would like to do.
The five of you can agree what you do as a group, all 5 of you
together over the course of a week.
Or if some of you do some thingstogether or one of you does one

(54:39):
thing on your own, I have asked you all to kind of think of what
your thing is for the week. So I will just go through
everybody one at a time. What are you spending the next
week working on or doing? I think if it's not time for
rebuilding yet, Pebble would be probably working with Bertram,

(55:02):
rounding up the guards and kind of, you know, seeing that the
the the palace guards and the city guards and everybody are,
are kind of set. I would think that while in the
interim she's she's probably offering the the apartment as
temporary housing to, to get people kind of situated and
lined up and just kind of tryingto organize that with Bertram.

(55:24):
OK. Does everybody agree to that?
Because you do share the apartment equally?
They can use my floor. Is it 5 floors each?
No, it's not 5 floors. It's like 3 floors.
There's definitely more than 5 apartments, but I, I, I want to
before like you get away with doing that.
I want to hear from everybody. Is that something that all 5 of

(55:47):
you agree to? I don't mind.
Yes, so Nokomis agrees. You know, bringing peace and,
and, and having the people go and, and in the units to take
shelter if they need it. You know, maybe their houses are
still not built yet. So Nokomis agrees with this.
Narloin has no issue with this. He he's kind of still living in

(56:11):
the castle. You're probably the one.
Person who like still has a room.
Yeah, so that that means kind ofstayed in the castle to be
closer to, you know, all the allthe amenities of the castle.
The again, the library is the the major focus on the reading,

(56:31):
but also spending time with his mom and trying to kind of mend
some of the trauma that they have.
So he has he has no input on what everyone else is dealing
with with the building. OK.
Now question for mud. Would it be an intelligence or

(56:52):
wisdom that would make Bragg think that possibly we could let
them do that if if they were willing to assist us in fixing
up the damaged portions, not doing it all, but assisting us
with it? That would.
Fall under wisdom. I think, you know, the idea that
you've got a, a group of people together and that, you know,

(57:13):
street smart say, hey, if we allwork together on this, you know,
more hands, less work. OK.
I would like to pitch that idea to the group, say I'm sorry.
I'd be fine with it if they're willing to assist us, you know?
OK, with a little. Bit of work I want to be clear
because we're starting to blur alittle bit of lines.
I I asked for if everybody was OK with the apartment basically

(57:37):
being given as like temporary shelter for civilians if I heard
correctly. Or is it to be giving a
sleeping? Place, yeah, to like extend, you
know, to help us extend an area to where they have like a place
to go get a warm meal and a bed while they're out helping
civilians and and, you know, while they're doing their, their

(57:58):
duties trying to help to rebuildlike kind of for public use.
Like a staging per we have for guards.
Yeah, like a staging. So they're not.
So they're not trudging back to the barracks.
Yeah, if it's guards, they're saying no, we're, you know.
OK, then we've got enough to do like.
We have enough tasks like we'll yeah, we'll take the space like,

(58:21):
we'll sleep here and like, turn it into a barracks.
But no, we, we have like other things we have to focus on.
We're not going to spend our time at this apartment fixing it
for you guys. What the This took a turn.
This isn't what I intended at all.
They're grateful, like they say thank you like, but they're

(58:41):
they're saying like we're like to what?
Braggrenier was saying like they're not going to put their
efforts into rebuilding this building.
They're just using it as a quickplace to like as a go between to
go for downtime in between. But the rest of their time is
actually being spent, you know, patrolling the streets trying to
help in some of the, you know, activities that are still taking

(59:03):
place to repair things. But they they have a job to do
and their their job is not just to repair this one building.
OK, Brad right here will agree with that and and say don't
worry about it, but feel free touse it regardless, OK?
Thea, did I hear that you said you were also good with it?

(59:23):
Yeah, Thea doesn't actually careabout the apartment building.
She appreciates it, but she doesn't need it.
OK, OK. So that I think is is pretty
well resolved. So I I want to now re ask Pebble
what were you spending your weekdoing?
Is it time, you know, help helping people, being out there,

(59:45):
like helping people gather theirthings kind of, you know, like
finding people who might still be lost, repairing, repairing
things with bark that might needto be repaired.
Kind of just being there for thepeople, for the, you know, like
with, you know, with helping Bertram help people, you know.

(01:00:05):
OK. So as you're doing that, go
ahead. Sorry.
Are you working like kind of closely with Bertram and those
same guards that you are lettinguse your apartment?
Yeah, yeah. Like, my, my, my idea here.
So I, I don't know if I'm not explaining it, My idea here is

(01:00:26):
that I am providing a place, sort of an extension into the
city because I'm sure so many places got destroyed, where
people can come relax and get out and be refreshed enough to
help people. If somebody's gravely injured,
they can be brought there while they wait for a carriage or
something to bring them to the clerics, you know, etcetera.

(01:00:48):
Just kind of a triage point for the for the destruction.
And while she's there, she's like, kind of helping people,
like running little errands and,you know, going with Bertram,
like, you know, with what needs to be done around the city.
Go ahead and give me. If that makes sense.
Yeah, no, I I know exactly what you're doing.

(01:01:09):
I'm, I'm kind of setting you up for something.
Give me a insight check. Oh man, I'm bad with these.
I've done it too. OK, please show me that Unicorn.
I got a 12 OK. With a 12, when you're with
Bertram, you do notice that he is trying to organize things

(01:01:34):
like he's, he's not really like hands on like swinging the
hammer trying to repair things. He's more like kind of trying to
organize and he's doing the logistics and he's trying to
make sure that the like main streets are cleared, that the
streets are getting repaired andthat traffic can flow up and
down. You know, like people are able
to pass clearly through. Also, instead of having to build

(01:01:57):
some like different barracks points, he is using your
apartment building on your offerand he is grateful for that.
With a 12, I'm going to say you do notice that it's not all
sunshine and rainbows and that more than a couple times while

(01:02:18):
you're out, the guards are. They're almost more protecting
property than they are helping people and you.
So there's like looting and stuff.
They're they're like. Trying to stop looters.
And they're also trying to like,stop like any like rampant crime
that's taking place. But you know, you, you have like

(01:02:41):
one instance where like an old man is trying to like push a
wheelbarrow up the street and it's full of rubble.
And the guards are just standingat their checkpoint at an
intersection. And they don't really offer to
help him. They just watch him as he goes
by, making sure he doesn't causeany problems.
Would Pebble have like, any group of guards that she'd
become friends with in these weeks that would actually help

(01:03:01):
her? Because I mean.
Like Bertram's kind of on your side, but like I said, he's
really kind of like. Busy with like the logistic?
Desk work. So give me a, Give me like a.
And what what I meant, yeah, what I meant with Bertram was
like, if you know, like finding out like what needs to be done
from him and going and doing it like, yeah, kind of like that.
Yeah. OK.
Which? Largely set like what?

(01:03:23):
You're finding. With a 12 on your insight, that
largely just seems to be like patrolling and like I said,
clearing the streets like because they're trying to get
commerce going again and those kinds of like.
Catch him, you said. Performance check.
No charisma. Charisma check.
OK, that's an AT20-GO. Bucking home.

(01:03:45):
I am fucking home. I I picked my barbarian dice my
my Unicorn dice today because you're my lucky dice.
I mean, knock on wood. You guys are ruining my
aftermath plot here. Yeah, you make a lot of friends
with a lot of fucking guards, dude.
You've got friends everywhere and they listen to you well.

(01:04:08):
If they should, I'm Pebble the Grim.
Breaker, what are you trying to convince the guards to do?
If you see somebody that needs ahand, you can maintain your post
and still help them, you know, be a kind hand of kind presence
in their time of in their time of trouble.
They grumble a little bit about it they you get called to like a

(01:04:31):
goody 2 shoes more than a few times.
What if? What if it was your?
What if it was your dad struggling to bring those those
bricks in a wheelbarrow and clear the room?
And they get all like kind of a dashed looking and they're like,
yeah, I would help. OK.
All right, I I'm making a mark of that fucking.
I'm sorry. Yeah.

(01:04:52):
You go be sorry to the birds. Who's next?
What are you spending your week doing?
Go ahead, Wawa. Tell us what Thea's up to.
I've been walking around the city trying to find any
destroyed temples and whatever Ican help rebuild in a week is,
is what I'm doing. And you know, if I happen to

(01:05:14):
have like finished one, I, I don't pray in it.
I'm just helping so that everybody else can pray in it.
OK, yeah, you you definitely like one of the, like, major
temples that was in Upper City. Definitely like has a giant
gaping hole through the ceiling where a cannonball hit it.

(01:05:36):
And as you're going through town, there's no shortage of
like other, you know, like smaller like, I don't know, non
denominational gathering places are also like experiencing some
damage and are also trying to dolike charity and outreach to
those who lost homes and those kinds of things.
So if you're trying to lend a hand to these places, go ahead

(01:06:00):
and give me a athletics check. You know, you're moving like
some heavy materials. You're moving like, again, like
the debris being cleared out. It's been a month, but there's
still just a lot through the city and.
We got a 13. OK, a 13 is not bad.
You definitely help make improvements and you, you help

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with like moving like new beams up to like the ceilings and
you're helping like with some ladder work and different things
like that and moving heavy materials and people are
grateful during this. You help kind of like Pat, like
on a really rainy day, you help patch up the last of a very

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leaky roof in one very small, very minor little temple.
And the priestess of that is thanking you.
This is not Bach's temple. The the priestess is thanking
you very like effusively and like so grateful that you
helped. And she's holding your hands and

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she's this little old, like hunched over lady.
And she takes your. Hands and she says, oh thank you
so much. This is just, you know, this
little, little church to the allMother, would you please come
and and pray and let me give youjust a little blessing for
helping us. I I smile at this, this little

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old lady. Well, I envision having really
big glasses on, yes. Definitely bottle glasses.
Yes, yeah, exactly. I I smile and I thank her and
kindly let her know that there are other temples and stuff that
I need to go and help but but thank you and.

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Give me. Either a try to walk away.
Asian or religion check. Wow, I went with persuasion and
got an 8 because normally when Iwrote religion it's bad.
With an. 8. I mean, I'm not trying to
persuade her, I'm letting her know.

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So maybe I should have just did religion I guess.
Did persuasion where? OK.
She you're you're trying to likeexcuse yourself and move on to
like the next task and she doesn't like go of your hands.
And she says no, no, my, my dearlittle kid, soon.
I insist. Just come on up to the altar

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here and let me just bestow a little blessing on you.
Just a little thank you from theAll Mother you.
I mean, everybody worships All Mother.
Of course you do too, right? I I yank my hands out of her
hands and my smile's gone and I say I can't and I would like to
turn around and walk away. OK, yeah, you can death without

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issue. You you do that and you hear
the. Priestess shouting Oh my dear, I
know. Wait, come back.
And you make your way out into the rain, and as you move down
the street you can see the outline of the shabba in the

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puddles as you step into them. And she's smiling up at you.
I just I look her way and and just keep going to the next stop
or whichever wherever I'm going to go help again.
All righty. OK, a good week.

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It was a look of like acknowledgement if that helps.
Yeah. Like I like I know she's there
now. And she knows you know she's
there. Yeah.
OK. We're going to move on to
Bragrenier. Bragrenier.
What are you spending your week doing?

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OK. So I have kind of two separate
but coinciding actions during the day.
I feel Bragner is going from place to place where people who
have been, who've lost homes andstuff, and he is spreading,

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spreading some toppers around tohelp people but also performing
the rave spirits and then duringthe night he is going out
disguised with this spell and trying to catch thieves in the
act. Alone.

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OK, so kind of going out vigilante style, like Bragg's
pulling a Batman here. Yes, but he's going to be
recruiting the ones that he catches.
OK. A recruiting for what?

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He is me would like to build a network for information.
OK, let's start with a stealth check.
We're we're going to do kind of like your, your ability to
stealth and kind of like catch the robbers.
We're going to start there. OK.

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And disguise help? Or does disguise help me with
that disguise self? I mean, you, you don't want them
to know who you are. So like that, that might come
into effect if you're able to effectively catch them.
Who? Who are you disguising yourself
as? Just a random, random person on

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the streets. Probably someone that looks
someone that looks not poor, butnot well off enough to attract
attention or wander guys. Like, not, not someone that the
regular folk would look at, yeah.
OK, let's go ahead and we're going to start with that stealth

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check. Let's let's see how effectively
you're able to like kind of go out and be catching them in the
act. That is 18.
Yeah. OK.
In this week, you are you, you do catch a number of looters or
burglars, people who were tryingto like take advantage of, of

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like homes that don't have doorsor like are you know, otherwise,
like, you know, there's multipleways into the building because
there's holes in it or whatever it might be.
You're you're catching a number of thieves and you are described
disguised to be as nondescript as possible.

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So now you are wanting to stop them and recruit them to not
commit crimes but instead provide you information.
Am I understanding that right? Well, it's it's more so
Bradner's feeling of a thief's Guild.
They don't only deal with stolengoods, but they also deal with

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information. So I, I feel he would be wanting
to recruit them and form a groupthat while they do still do
that, they are trying not to violently do it I guess.
But they're they're still, he's still working out all the kinks

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in it, but mainly. I'm trying to work out the kinks
too. OK.
So you're, you're not Yeah, yeah, yeah.
From like robbing, but you're trying to like convince them to
not commit violent crimes. Violent crimes, yes.
So like muggings and stuff wherethe the person is left in the
gutter. But also he's trying to enforce
that they now that the Thieves Guild and Divine are gone, they

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they weren't for him. OK, so I I do want to be clear,
the Thieves Guild is not gone. The Thieves Guild was just not
receptive to Braggrenier, OK? Then he's letting them know that
there's a there's a new guilt intown, or there will be.

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OK. And you, you, you catch one of
these people, you do stop them. You're, you're able to like,
convince them to like, listen toyour pitch.
And this burglar and you were standing in an alleyway, and he
kind of crosses his arms lookingat you, bragging, and goes, all
right, well, what are you offering?
I'm not turning you, man. OK.

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I mean like, that's a start. But you know, like the existing
thieves Guild, they would help Get Me Out.
Like I am a part of the Thieves Guild.
So like, if, if you want me to work for you, like what, what
are you offering me that is better?
Like what's? What's my incentive?
How much do you keep from your takes now 80?
Percent. Let's say you keep you keep the

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same amount and also you have more anonymity.
Anonymity the less people will know who you are and where
you're going and we will find scores that are better than
burnt out houses for. OK, so I want you to give me a

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persuasion check. And this isn't like just for
like this particular instance. This is kind of like a repeating
theme you're finding with the people that you catch.
So I, I want to ask you to give me a persuasion and let's just
kind of see overall how effectively you're convincing
these thieves. I'm sitting here thinking to
myself, just don't roll on that one.

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That's a 24. Jesus.
OK, yeah, you you get the majority of the people that you
catch convinced that they shouldwork for you essentially as this

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very nondescript roamer of the night.
Are you saying you kind of like set up like your drop offs where
they like drop off their cut of like stolen goods or fenced
goods to you? Or like, like when you, when you
meet with them and you're gaining like information about
like what's going on in the city, like you're, you're kind

(01:16:38):
of meeting up with like finding like a.
Yeah. They know where to find you.
I feel like Greg's been working on code words, specific code
words that pertain to different things and like figureheads
would have different different names to them.
Same with cities and towns. I feel like that's something

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he's working on. But yeah, I feel like there's
dead drops and there'd be a codefor if, if one of the people he
recruits actually has information that needs to be
shared and, and they would have Brag.
Brag is telling that he would tell them a time and place and

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to check the dead drops. OK.
So basically he would be staying, staying out of like
seeing them in person as often as possible.
Right. And having a go between
basically. Yeah.
OK, go ahead and roll 2D1 hundreds and add them together.

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That's only an 82. OK, I rolled off 5.
Well, you gain through these actions, you gain 82 gold, so
you can add that to your inventory.
The heists are more or less going well, not quite as well as

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you might have hoped with what you were promising them. 82 is
below the 100 average for like what they should be getting.
So it it's not they're, they're not quite like with what you're
trying to organize. It's not necessarily doing
better than the existing ThievesGuild, but a few people like the

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way you're doing things better than the Thieves Guild.
Does that make sense? Yeah, OK.
And then that that money is going to be going towards the
public image during the day. Some of that is because I'm
handing it out to to people. So you're, you're essentially,

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you're having your thieves go out at night robbing the city,
you're taking your cut and then going out into the city, giving
it back as alms back to the people.
A minor, minor portion of it, not all of it.
Like I said, I'm handing out like coppers and silvers.

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OK. So probably overall like 100
silver, OK. What is it?
I think it's 10 silver to a gold.
Yeah, I have silver pieces I canonly move.
OK, yeah, remove 100 silver worth.
I'm making some confused Marks and notes here trying to figure

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out how to balance this. And in this period of time that
that you're getting all of this set up, go ahead and ask one
question that you think that a member of kind of the underbelly
might be able to answer for you as you're setting up the
information network. I feel like one of the main

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things that Bragg is looking fornow, he's looking for a
confident figurehead, like a shadow puppet that he can rely
on to to be there in his stead. So basically like, yeah, Shadow.
So he's looking for someone thathe can rely on for that, I

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believe, whether it be a Lieutenant or something in the
current Thieves Guild that isn'thappy with.
Fred voice OK, you're asking your information network to tell
you to to find you a shadow likea like false leader of your new

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organization. Let me let me phrase it better.
I'm using the members that I've convinced if they know other
people in the same craft and I'mjust using them to increase our
numbers, bolster our numbers. And I feel Bragg is himself when
he meets these people going through the the go.

(01:21:04):
Between. Looking.
You know he's looking for someone.
I I am looking through the people that I find for someone
that I feel I can use as a leader for when I'm not around
and also to manage the day-to-day so that brag does not
need to. OK.

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Someone, someone that brag, can trust as far as you can trust
the thief. OK.
For that, that's not just information that that is like a
kind of like series of tests. So go ahead and give me another

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I I guess, let's call it persuasion.
That's a 21. OK, you find a suitable front
person to kind of run your role and be considered as others to
be like you. So yes, you you effectively

(01:22:08):
accomplish what you're trying todo here.
Sorry, I'm not trying to throw you for a loop.
Mud. I'm well, you are.
I'm I'm it's. All right, though, OK.
I'm learning it as I go. We're.
Going to move on. I, I, we got to keep moving.
Louine, you're up next. So First things first.

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Yeah, now Lewin is going to be teaching himself Thunder Wave
from one of these scrolls that he has.
OK. Beyond that, I know usually have
a role for that so that I can add it to my spell list
eventually. Generally now, Lewina is going
to be spending most of his time reading through books in the

(01:22:51):
kind of almost some restricted sections of the Silver Moon
Estate library. The books that you know are full
of lore and things that can helphim learn about elves and
different feats that elves have available to them to increase

(01:23:13):
his knowledge and intelligence. OK, now I want to be careful
here because I told you specifically, you don't get to
just say I spend a week in the library and get a + 1 to
intelligence. Yes, this is a long term thing
that I'm putting in time for. OK, OK, so as far as Thunder
Wave goes, I will say with a week of time you don't need to

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roll for it. It's, you know, working on it
day by day. You are able to transcribe it
and add it to your spell list. So the scroll is gone, but you
can add it to your list of knownspells and with a week's amount
of time, like I, I'm not going to set the difficulty or
anything like that for it because you, you have adequate
time to be doing that during your like long rest down times.

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OK. So you are attempting to
increase your knowledge by your your way of understanding elves
and the like, innate like capabilities of elves to explain
that part to me again one more time.
So basically I'm trying to read,read books, read like arcane

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texts and stuff that's going to help me basically have a feat,
an elf feat, but it's just almost like learning, like read
being the maps, reading the the ways that magic works.
OK, OK. So I will say if your if your

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week is dedicated to this kind of task, I would say that you
are able to spend kind of the weeks before also working on
this. So normally the process of
gaining A feat and we talked a little bit about this off off
recording, but typically that takes about 25 weeks to do.

(01:25:10):
From the stuff I was reading, itsays you do get to subtract a
week for each intelligence modifier you have.
So what is your intelligence modifier right now +3?
OK, so that means that it would take 22 weeks.
And if that has been your your what you're kind of like
spending this week being dedicated towards go ahead and

(01:25:34):
roll me. So it's been, this is kind of
like week five from the past four events that have been
happening and you're doing this event.
So I'm going to say to go ahead and roll AD 8 to see between the
distractions and the repairs andthe other things going on, how
many weeks worth of like dedicated time you're actually

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able to spend in the last five weeks you've been working on
this. That's going to be a 2 and I
won't even ask to add my flash with Genius, don't worry.
Not not to AD 6 roll like this. OK, so I'm going to give you a +
1 on it, which is what I had setaside anyway.
So that's going to subtract another three from this long

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term downtime task and that'll bring it to 19 weeks.
I'm sorry, 18 weeks because you're, you're dedicating this
week of downtime to it. So that's 18 weeks remaining on
this attempt to learn a feat. Sounds good, I've noted that on

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my sheet. OK.
And last but not least, Arcturus.
What is Nokomis spending this week on?
Yeah, I'm going to spend the week hanging out with Parceval.
We're going to get to know each other a little better, if you
know what I mean. Yeah, just being, just being

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romantic and spending time together.
Yeah, we're going to we're goingto spend some time together and
go on a little little side quest, kind of explore the city.
Maybe Parsville can show me someold stomping grounds and take me
to his youthful fun play areas and show me some of his life.
OK. Yeah, definitely you and

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parsable spend the week now he it's it's kind of like something
that is kind of like being done sporadically, right, because he
is a palace guard. He does have shifts that he's on
duty, off duty. So like he he is choosing to
spend like all of his off duty time with you that just kind of
like sporadically changes from like day-to-day.

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And the guard is so short staffed like he's he is actually
like working some really long shifts.
But he does make the time and heis wanting to spend this time
with Nokomis. And he does.
He shows you a round Silver Moon.
He shows you kind of the neighborhood that is definitely
part of like the upper Silver Moon area.

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And that's like where he spent alot of his, you know, youth and
childhood and, and things like that.
If you don't mind, We're there there.
There's something else for this,but we're going to do it now,
too. Roll me an insight check.
I rolled an 18. OK.
With an 18, you do know that whenever the two of you meet up,

(01:28:30):
whether it's at the castle or inupper town, the two of you do
get some looks from people. And with an 18 over the course
of the week, you you do catch either other people telling you
or you overhear it yourself thatpeople are kind of whispering
and murmuring about how the technically like the third in
line to the Silver Moon estate, the palace guard and, you know,

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nobleman Parsival Silver Moon isdating a wood elf druid.
And other than knowing that you're one of the heroes that
came to Silver Moon, some of theupper Snooty, like kind of upper
crust high elves are, are kind of whispering and murmuring
about it. And you with an 18 kind of get

(01:29:16):
the sense not all of them are really OK with it.
More than a couple times you youdo hear a high elf of kind of
the upper nobility say somethingthat goes along the lines of why
is a silver moon courting a dirty peasant girl?

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Yeah, and Nokomis feels obviously a little a little gut
punchy when she hears some of the compliments and kind of
understands kind of the looks and why they're looking at her
like that. But you know, she she still is
pleasant anyway to them, you know, does proper curtsies and
and waves and give some people some flowers and just Nakomis is

(01:30:03):
just trying to do her best to show them that she's not a
peasant girl. OK, and I know that Nakomis
background isn't norm necessarily like peasant girl.
I I don't I'm not trying to likeput that on the comas.
That's just kind of the impression that the others are
giving or feeling is like, what is this unknown druid doing

(01:30:25):
courting with one of the like third in line to the seat of the
Dutchie? And with all of what's happened
with the wedding being called off and what you know was is
being rumoured and talked about in town as you know, a a long
con that the Dutchess fell victim to there.

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There's a little bit of that like nervousness of here's
another person in line to the throne who's now courting
someone out of nowhere. So there's, there's they, they
feel like there's some legitimate concern and others
are just being assholes. It, it is a mixed bag, but
Parceval ignores all of it. He is still spending his time

(01:31:07):
with you, and he does his best to try and reassure you.
He doesn't care what other people's gossip about.
He doesn't care about the rumorsthat he's been in love with you
since the moment he saw you, andthat's all that matters.
And with that, I'll ask you to give me one more insight check.
16 with a 16 you get the sense that he is doing his absolute

(01:31:36):
best to believe what he is saying.
Uh oh. Oh no.
All right, that is going to bring our first free week to a
close here, and we're going to move on to the next section of
this aftermath. OK, This is Part 5, Echoes in

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the Green. This is going to be again,
Unicomus, and it's also going tobe Thea.
And. Oh, hey, girl.
Hey, hey, the two of you are. I don't know, maybe you're both
in the woods. Like, you know, Nakoma's, like
would you share like show Thea like your little glade that you

(01:32:21):
found with your waterfall? Oh yeah, absolutely.
I would love to share it with her.
It's a very peaceful place. Yeah.
Like the two of you are. Spending some time together
together there in like the innerthe the the woods that are like
nearer to the city, the more tamed area.
And while you are there, a groupis kind of marching off in the

(01:32:44):
distance and you notice it is a number of the the palace guards
as well as like some of the militia of the city.
And you actually see Parsival isleading the group going out into
the woods. And the the two of you knew that
like he he's fully like on duty.He's in the thick of it right
now, but you spot him out there leading a group deeper into the

(01:33:06):
woods, into the older growth. The comics, you know where
they're going. No, I have no idea where they're
going. That's strange.
Would you like to join? Or follow them.
Hello, what do you want to do Comus?
I'll do either I can turn into afox or we can just go follow or

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or join them. I want to follow them.
I kind of want to follow them too.
OK, OK, let's follow them. OK, I'm not.
I kind of want to try into a fox.
OK, if you turn into a fox you can do your stealth check with
advantage. I want to turn into a Panther.
Oh my. OK.
I'm going to turn into a fox or you can turn into a You can also

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turn into a fox and there were just a couple of bears boxes,
but a Panther sounds pretty badass.
You can wild cheek into what youwant.
Yeah, I'm going to do that. OK, I just use it in my action
bucket. I've fused wild shape.
Yeah, both of you give me stealth checks with advantage.

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Mine's gonna be a wash 'cause I have disadvantage.
OK, so that would just be a. Flat well, I guess as a OK, well
hold on your. Transform.
You still Yeah, yeah, it's just yeah, it's just because the the.
Well, the 17. The Chainmail advantage 13.
OK, the guard spot. You there a couple times as

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you're kind of darting in and out.
The guards don't quite pick up on what's going on with a 13.
Parceval only notices you and hekind of looks around and he kind
of like sighs and nods and and you get the sense like he knows
that you're following them but he continues to lead the group
anyway deeper into the woods AndNakomis I would say with your

(01:34:59):
check you are in a hidden spot and they don't notice you.
And you do hear him mutter underhis breath.
Like it wouldn't hurt to have Thea or any one of them along
with us honestly. Like I hope they continue to
follow us. I was going to say as as the
guards are noticing me at some point I stop just so I can sit

(01:35:20):
down and lick my eyes. I don't know it's me.
I'm just a fox cleaning myself here.
Percival looks at you and like immediately like turns red and
he's like, I don't what he he keeps walking, he walks away.
So as you continue to follow, they eventually come to an area

(01:35:44):
of old growth, and they come outinto an open glade very similar
to the one Thea that you prayed at when you first encountered
the gestures. And they're out there in the
woods. And out from the trees step a
group of dryads. And the dryads are moving in
very jerky, very kind of hostileways, and they are speaking in

(01:36:10):
Sylvan. Do either of you speak Sylvan?
As a fox, I do speak Sylvan. You do.
Let me, let me, let me go down to my background, Kitsu.
Oh, then is the elf. OK, yeah, so you can turn it to
a fox. I get my cat.

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Cat statistics. I keep all my hit points, skill
checks, natural attacks, proficiency bonus, ability
scores, and the ability to speakonly speaks Sylvan.
OK cuz. I Hello, Sylvan and Elvis are
two different languages. That's wild.
That's true, I have. I actually have elvish as a
language but in underneath whereit says like my parents were the

(01:36:53):
kids soon I have the ability to speak but only speak Sylvan.
OK So what you experience is theDryads approach Parsival and the
group of palace guard that are with him in his little little
squad and the Sylvans are all yelling and cussing about how

(01:37:16):
the forest has been tainted and that it's their fault that it's
Silver Moon's fault. And their, their dialect is a
little bit like crude, but you are hearing that they're blaming
Silver Moon for the forest beingtainted by the beast that was

(01:37:37):
set loose in their forest. And both of you are hearing as
Parceval and a couple of the other guards are trying to piece
together the Sylvan. And Parceval is very badly
trying to translate back a response to them.
And tensions are quickly rising between these guards and these

(01:37:59):
dryads. OK.
Nicholas I think since since I'massuming Parceval knows that
we're kind of following, I thinkI don't know.
I don't know if like, yeah, I, Ijust, I don't know.
I'm thought speaking to Nick Comas.

(01:38:20):
I don't know if like, I can translate everything and you can
tell them, but I don't know if they're going to do you any harm
if you decide to come out and you're not an animal anymore.
Meow, meow. Oh, are you revealing your
location? It's Yeah.

(01:38:42):
No, I will mind. I will mind.
Talk to see you. I mean, I thought you can only
speak in Sylvan, but I guess that does not the same for mind
speak. I.
Don't you can understand each other in thought speak?
Yeah, OK, so no meows. Meow.
OK. I think we should reveal
ourselves to these people because I think they're they're

(01:39:04):
escalating for like internal fighting and we should probably
stop that. Well, you're going to have to
reveal yourself as I can only understand this language as fox,
so I can still walk up with you when?
I can just translate everything thoughts to be green.
Yeah. And then you just relate it to
to the rest and we'll just how it is.

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Yeah, I like this plan. You reveal yourselves and there
is that moment where a few of the guards, like, aim their
crossbows at you and some of them like aim their Spears at
you. But then they very quickly are
like, oh, it's it's Thea Nokomis.
And Percival like waves his handat them and he's like, yeah, no,
yeah, no, it's fine. So yeah, he kind of gives you a
like, awkward look and then like, looks at Nokomis and says,

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I, I didn't know you were following us.
And he's like bright red. I give as much as a as a hee hee
that I can as fox a little snicker as you will.
He's looking at this large cat that's in front of him and he

(01:40:11):
goes that that is you in comas, right?
Like you, you're wild shaped. Meow I UN wild shape OK?
He likes size and he's. Like, OK, thank goodness.
Yeah, well, I'll just let you know I did the the the dryads
here, they they've been attacking some of our forest
workers and the the different people who who work out in the

(01:40:33):
woods, whether it's through the logging or the regrowth or any
of the different things. The Dryads keep attacking the
Silver Moon workers and blaming us for the hydra that Devon let
loose in the woods before the Great Hunt when we went and
slayed it. They only speak Sylvan though,
and he like looks at the other guards who were trying to kind

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of help him. He's like, and we really don't
speak Sylvan. Do either of you speak Sylvan?
Well, almost like a matter. Yes, as a matter of fact, Thea
in her Fox forum can speak Sylvan and I can talk to her
telepathically. Don't ask questions.
We'll talk about that another time.
But there's a way for you to talk to me and use me as a

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conduit to talk to her so she can relay.
Fantastic. OK, so we're just going to have
normal dialogue and we're going to just say all the translating
happens in between. Yeah, yeah, I figured.
Yeah. So the dryads do explain that
they are enraged by Silver Moon for the hydra that was let
loose, and not only for the damage it caused to the trees,

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to the wildlife, to all these things, but just also that by
the nature of that being what kind of creature it is, it left
a taint on the forest that they are trying to fix, but that it's
it's causing problems and disharmony and causing rotten

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other things to happen in the elven woods.
And Parceval, for his part, is trying to explain that it's not
their fault that the trying to explain what happened with Devon
and how they were tricked. And they thought that it was a
Drake, but then it was a hydra and that it was, you know, this
big scheme. And the dryads are just getting
angry and they're just saying, no, you, our silver Moon and

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Silver moon brought this creature here.
We blame all of you. So as this back and forth is
happening, I will ask either Nokomis or Thea to give me
either a nature or persuasion check dealing with the dryads.

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My nature is +5. My persuasion is +5 so.
You, you go there. I would.
I would enjoy a fox rolling the dice in my head.
Well, my, my, my train of thought is and it's really just
to try to stop like the arguments and really just to see
how we can all try to help because we, I mean, we both love

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nature and it sucks that this, this all had happened and I
would rather try to help than than people pointing fingers.
My thoughts exactly. I I would rather try to help,
yeah. Give me that persuasion check.
Can I do it with advantage? I don't have to, I'm just
asking. Can you tell me why you think

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you deserve advantage? So I have Nikomas on my side.
Hello. OK, I am I am pretty powerful.
OK. Nikomas is literally one with
nature. With the two of you working
together, go ahead with Advantage.
Yay. And that's 20, 25.

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Oh my God. Adm has left the chat.
You guys are going to make it sothat he says no to everything
else. What was your second hole?
It was an 8. It would have been a 13.
OK. Well all right, at 20 the two of
you working together between your speaking Sylvan as a

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kitsune and being able to accurately translate what
Parsifal is trying to express, your own version of the story,
as well as Nokomis adding your understanding of of druidry and
nature to the dryads. You are able to explain how the

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situation hasn't happened. That Silver Moon is not actually
to blame. And and for lack of a better
term, you kind of explained thatthe empire is to actually to
blame because that's where Devoncame from.
And further with a Nat 20 working together the Comus you
are able to identify some of theareas where the the Elven woods

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are not growing back correctly because of the low level chaos
that surrounds A hydra as a creature.
And you are able to convince thedryads to also show you where
some of the problem areas are. And using your druidry, you are
able to essentially tell Silver Moon that you you you'll, you'll

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help and you've got this and youwork with the dryads to help
start undoing some of the damagebasically as as well as this
could have gone. You guys got it?
Woo. Hell yeah, we did it.
Good job. Good.
Job guys, I I specifically did not look at character sheets

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when I created this and I reallywas convinced nobody had Sylvan.
I really did not thank anybody. I would not have said anything
if I actually wasn't looking at it today.
Before, before we did this, we were kind of looking at it and
I'm like, I was reading it to myself.
I'm like, OK, well, you're. So convicted with that as soon

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as you came out with it too, like you were like I, I have it.
Yeah. OK.
If we'll move on to the next section.
The next section does involve everybody and Pebble.
It's been a bit more than a month.
It's been almost a month and a half and it keeps getting put
off because it keeps not being, you know, urgent.

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It keeps not being relevant. The right time.
Yeah. But it it, it keeps being kind
of loosely talked about. And today's the day you and
Bertram the Red are going to have a little private one-on-one
in the newly repaired courtyard,and the two of you are going to

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go head to head. Bertram the night before,
without any warning or any preamble, he, like all of you,
were having dinner together. And he approached, looked at
you, Pebble, and he just said sunrise, we'll settle it.
And walked away. Pebbles grinning ear to ear.

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So it is now the morning of the grass in the front courtyard of
the castle is wet with a dew. I assume everybody wanted to
come. I I had included everybody for
this scene. But if you decide you do not
want to be here, you can certainly opt out.
Going once, going twice. No, no, I will never.

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Never in a million years. OK, so everyone is present.
The sun has not quite come up over the distant hills, but
everything is in that really nice light kind of morning
morning glow. As the sky is turning from
purple to a lighter blue. The stars are beginning to

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disappear. It's bright enough that everyone
can see. OK, And Pebble, you are there.
You have your twin axes, You're warming up, you're getting ready
for your duel with Bertram, and at the same time a few of the
other. Put myself up.
Yeah, a few of the other like, nobles who like caught wind that
this was happening. A few people like of the castle

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and a few members of the upper upper Silver Moon City.
They're on the other side of thewalls.
But, you know, they're they're very closely proximity and
relation wise to the castle and nobility.
A few of them come up through the gate and are also, you know,
rubbing at their eyes, ready forthis early morning spectacle.

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And all of you are there gettingready.
What would the five of you like to talk about as you are waiting
for Bertram to join you in the courtyard?
Oh, we're taking stool, right? Yeah, I'm sitting on a stool
hyping myself up. I got this.
I can get this guy's. I don't.
I don't want any help. I don't need.

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I don't need any help. I can't have any help.
This is on me. It's.
On you and my money's on Bertram.
Love you pebs I I think I got. 20 gold on Bertram.
I'll take back that. I'll I'll back you Pebble up.
I got I got 20 gold on Pebble. Another noble says, yeah, no,

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I've got I'll. I'll take that bet.
I'll put 20 on Bertram. I'm, I'm, I'm listening to
everything going on, but you kind of see me off to the side a
little bit, just kind of staringoff into the distance.
Pebble, Pebble like, goes up to and says, hey, aren't you
excited? Like we've been talking about

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this for months, for weeks. Yeah, of course I'm excited.
Don't worry. You, you, you got him.
I, I'd like to, I, I pull Pebbleaside out of earshot from the
nobles and I say, hey, think of all the fights that we've been
through and don't let his monitor feel like you're any

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less than him. You can beat this guy.
You got this all. Right, All right, Yeah, I got
this raging. Pebble, you are on the bench,
you're hyping yourself up. You're getting ready.
You're you're getting ready as Bertram has not come down to the
courtyard yet. And you look up and you see the

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giant stone scatterings that that sparkle across the sky as
they are slowly making their wayover the horizon.
The kind of strange astral half ring that makes up the night sky
and that is giving way as the sun just begins to creep up over

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the horizon. And with the deep gold light
that spills across the courtyard, all of you exchanging
bets and taking, taking gambles on who's going to win, Bertram
comes out sporting his typical red armor and his usual claymore
great sword that is sheathed on his back.

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And he walks up into a large square of open grass.
And he looks at you, Pebble. And he says, OK, Are you ready
all? Right, put my hand out, nice
firm handshake. I'm ready.
It's a long time coming. This is where we begin Part 6

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steel in the scar. Bertram shakes your hand.
And in the past, he's kind of like giving you like a
respectful firm. Shake.
In this moment, he squeezes hard.
I squeeze, it's harder. Give a strength check fuck.
I got a nine. He cut a 22.

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God. Damn it folds your knuckles in
his massive hand. He, he is like a behemoth of an
elf. And as you're saying, like I'm
ready. He squeezes and crunches your
hand. He Yanks you in and he head
butts you once, and the fight from there begins as he Yanks

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out his great sword and without waiting, he just comes straight
at you. We are gonna go that we're not
gonna do like a full initiative.We're just gonna straight up
roll attack to attack three times, and whoever rolls the
higher attack scores the hit best out of three.
That's how we're gonna do this. OK, all right.

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For the. First attack, what did you roll?
I don't want to say. What did you roll?
I don't want to say I don't. I, I I got a seven, I rolled a
Nat one. Oh my God, I rolled a Nat one.
No. He rolled a 19 + 7 for a 26 on a

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Nat 1 Pebble. God.
Pebble. I almost feel like I have to
count that as two fails. And you see, Bertram, just
overwhelming strength is crashing his claymore down again
and again, and he's nicking and cutting and he's hitting you

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with the pommel of his great sword and he's shouting at you.
Come on Barbarian, I thought youhad some real steel in you.
I I do and I swing again. Here's how we're gonna play.
Can I swing reckless? One SEC, here's how we're going
to play the Nat 1. He hits you once and it kind of

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staggers you a bit and instead of letting you get to your feet
and continue the duel in a more like honorable way, you see he
actually like moves forward and just squarely kicks you in the
chest, knocking you back with that second hit for the Nat one.
I would like you at this point. Oh, so it's like that, huh?

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Burt or Pebble, please give me. I've give me a insight check and
I would like everyone else to give me either Insight or
Arcana, your choice. Oh my God I rolled A1 or I I got

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a 2 -, 1. I got a. 18 This is just dirty
fighting. This is just how you fight.
Punch them in the balls. I got a 21. 21 OK any 14 What
else did we get? 14 Thea What did you say?
18. 18 OK. I got a 25.
OK, Nokomis and Narlawein, the two of you rolling higher than a

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20. You realize that there is a
power coming off of Bertram as he's attacking and doing Pebble
dirty with a kick before she gets her feet back up under her
from the first hit she took. And you are getting that same

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arcana resonance from Bertram right now as you did from the
chaos sword that he wielded during the tournament.
Does anyone do or say anything? Yes.
Yeah, I mentally tell the othersthat this feels like the same

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chaos energy we witnessed before.
Pebble. Pebble thinks through gritted
brain cells. I could still take them.
Now the weeds going to give it like kind of yell through his
like thought speech to Pebble saying this isn't a fair fight

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and I don't think an aid spell is going to do much because
we're not going hit points basedfor anything, right.
Not. Not for the point of this
encounter. OK.
I'm just going to put it. It's for the.
Function. I got you.
I'm going to run down towards the bottom of the stands, like

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where, like, you know, right, right up against, as close as I
can get without going into the field of combat.
And I'm going to try to like, touch the ground and cast Webb,
hoping that it kind of will go through the ground and just
capture the souls, Bertram's feet.

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OK, Pebble, you see Narloeen starting to do this.
Does Pebble allow it, or is Pebble going to say anything
about interfering? Pebble screams in her head.
No, I will fight fair. Regardless of the outcome, I
will fight fair. All right.

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And So what the the wet, the arcana just pushing the web
through the soil will kind of not dissipate, but it'll just
stay in the ground. It won't come up.
It won't actually touch Bertram.OK.
And see that it's responding to our speech fine.
OK. Yeah.
Pebble, I do an insight check onthe crowd to see if there's

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anyone there kind of trying to manipulate Bertram.
That's that's a good thought. Yeah, go ahead.
All right, and I'm going to givemyself a bardic if that's OK to
do this. Sure.
That's a dirty 20 without the bardic.
So I will say you what you can see is the entire audience

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watching. They're all just spectators.
Everybody is just owing and awing and enjoying the spectacle
of watching Bertram the Red fight Pebble.
There doesn't seem to be any outside influence, but that is.
It I passed this along, I passedthat along that it has to be
either Bertram himself or something that he is carrying.

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Pebble. Something residual maybe?
Let's do our next role. Yes.
I'm going to tell you right now.14. 15 God damn it, what did you
get? Of 14 these dog shit combat
roles he. Just.

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Is if he wins, he wins. He he is that Nat one just
absolutely. Yeah, that Nat one.
OK. It ruined it.
It's all right. Here's.
What I'll say it. Comes in and he makes this
brutal stabbing and his long sword just stabs into your side

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and he begins twisting savagely on the blade.
You hear more of the audience like gasping.
They did not expect this to be afight to the death and.
I grabbed the blade. I grabbed the blade as it's in
me, like not from the hill, likeI grabbed the blade itself and
just stare at Bertram like in a rage, like in, you know,

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bloodlust kind of like this is going to happen, you know?
OK, while you're doing that and you're staring, give me a
medicine check all. These checks for the my minus
ones. OK, that's a 15.
A 15 is good enough as you are holding the blade and you're

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fighting with him like this, youcan see on his upper forearm
there is a very infected and like highly raised angry red and
mottled pussy wound on his arm that looks like it has not been

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taken care of and you. I can I hit it with the butt of
my axe? Can I like strike at it
specifically? Yes.
Like kind of a narrative. Like if I gave him two to to the
your nap one, we're going to do another roll here.

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I'm going to roll first, just tobe fair.
So you know what I got, and thenI'm going to ask you to roll
against it, OK? OK.
He rolled a 9 + 7 for a 16. Dice bark if you're there,
please. I need to save him.
Please, I can't lose another. Fuck me I got an 11.

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He grins savagely at you, pulls the blade fast and hard, and he
actually severs off one of your fingers.
And no. Final hit the.
Head with the pommel of his great sword knocks you
unconscious and he begins laughing uproariously and kicks

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the finger once closer to your body.
Looks at a few of like the gasping crowd members and says
someone should take care of her and everyone else.
From your previous insights of of checking that there was an
arcana problem and that he was not acting himself.
All of you hear his voice does not sound like his voice.

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And in this moment, Pebble is, somatically speaking, in death
saving throws. Brag or near?
Is he still going at Pebble? He's standing over her laughing,
but he's not actively attacking her anymore.
OK, if it's oh, if the fight is quote UN quote over brag, we'll

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run forward for a third level ofgear wounds to get Pebble back
up. As you're doing that and Pebble
you, you're coming back to consciousness.
Bertram laughs. Scramble and grab a nose picker.
Bertram looks at you and he goes, I guess you still have a

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long ways to go. And he begins to walk back to
the castle. It'll happen one day, Bertram.
Unless anybody would like to do.Or see.
Anything. All of you are there.
Yeah, though the, the, the webs are going to come up and they're
going to just kind of wrap around his feet, his legs, and
it's going to be a deck saving throw 14.

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OK, he's not the most dexterous.Has Pebble shared with the
group? Yep.
OK, meets it, beats it. Is there any secondary effect if
you do pass? It so it's just it's the webs
are difficult terrain the area within them is lightly obscured

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and first time it enters or starts its turns deck saving
throw or have restrained while on the web or until it breaks
three breaks free the only only if it's like trapped in it but.
He breaks free of it, and he knows that this spell has been
cast. He turns towards.

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You unfortunately, unfortunately.
Silvery barbs. No, it's his turn.
It's a reaction. OK, Silvery barbs.
Silvery barbs. Any time that somebody passes on
SSCS on an attack rollability check or savings row.
Yep. OK.

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Re roll the D20 and use the lower roll.
OK so he swing he like spins around it aims the long sort at
you and he says so you want to go around to Little Duke and
starts to walk towards you. I am going to re roll his deck
save for the webs. Can I stand up to help defend

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Narloin like I was brought back up with a Level 3 spell?
He rolled A gnat one on his second save you absolute fucker.
He is restrained. He is swinging his sword wildly,
unable to move, not hitting anything.

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But he is raging and spitting and he's swinging more and more
wildly. Has Pebbles shared with the
group what she saw? Now would be your opportunity.
Yeah, I, I went down before I could.
I, I, I thought speak to them. It's on his neck, actually.
No, I don't thought speak it. I shout it now that the fight's

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over more or less like the the contest.
I'm like Bertram, you, you are still corrupted.
That wound on your arm is corrupted with the Chaos God.
He just is raging and shouting and pulling at the webs.
I would like him. To a rage.

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I would like to attempt to get closer.
OK. To try to cast heel on him, OK,
you don't need to try to cast Cure Wounds.
Yeah. You cast cure Wounds, you stay
out of range. You feel the spell hit his arm.

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And at first it looks like the infection and like the red and
the swelling and the like modeled pus all starts to like
reduce a little bit. And at first you think maybe
it's working and that it he's just, you know, got this like
terrible infection. And you almost feel like the
spell physically bounce off of it.
And this, the healing spell, does not affect it.

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While he's in the web, can I runup and try to use my axe to cut
the infection out? Yes.
OK. But first to overhead throw his
great sword at Braggrenier in a rage at Braggrenier casting a
spell on him. Kind of reaction.

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Isn't he doing this with that disadvantage?
He is going to throw it with disadvantage and no Pebble him
to say you're not quite close enough to Sentinel him.
OK. How can I step in front of
Bragg? Yeah.
OK, Yeah, we're playing fasteners with some rules here.
Yes, Thea you. If you want to like throw
yourself in front you, you can. Yep.

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Thea, does a 15 hit you? Nope, you deflect his great
sword away unharmed. Now Pebble, Yes, you can run up
to try and cut at his arm. Give me an attack roll.
I was going to say kind of grapple and and cut at it, but

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OK. It's up to you if you want to do
a grapple. Give me a strength check.
It's both +6 so it doesn't matter.
It depends on what. You're doing I'm in a rage.
I would give an advantage. And it will determine how I say
how effective it is I say like these will not have the same
outcome depending on what you choose to do.

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I was, I was. My plan was to like jump on him
and grapple him and then cut thething out.
If you if you wanted me to do itas an attack roll, I could do it
as an attack roll. Let's call that a grapple.
Yeah, OK, so strength check in arage, heard.
Oh, wait, wait. Two of those 18.
Wait. Yeah.

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He's supposed to do with advantage.
So you you do grapple him. Would anyone else like to like
run in as Pebble is like pinninghim down?
His feet are webbed to the ground.
Thea, you've deflected the greatsort of way.
The audience is all like yellingand cheering.
Someone saying I won 20 gold andthey're like, already leaving.
They don't even care. Would anybody else like to do

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like a medicine check or something or another like Arcana
more closely now that you have him pinned down?
I was going to say I'll use the the gem of seeing if that helps
at all with that giving true sight on the wound.
Yeah, I've kind of bent the rules a little bit for the Gem

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of True Sight before, and I'll say kind of the same thing
again. You're like when you saw an aura
around Diedrich or Devon. When you used it on him, you're
seeing an aura around the wound in his arm.
OK. I will pass that along to our
two our our two wizard friends are our Druid and our artificer.

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I'll let them know that it's it's looking the same as the
corruption from the Crippled God.
Just so they know, it's not likea poison or anything.
Narloeen's not going to really try to be healing.
Narloeen going to kind of get upclose and personal and the Steel
defender is going to go ahead and grapple like his other arm

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like to help restrain. Him with all of you working
together, he he is grappled. The the question is what are
you? I'll do the arcana trick just
for the sake of that. Yeah, I mean, Pebble, I know you
said before you wanted to cut itout and with everyone working
together that you can go ahead and roll Arcana and Pebble, you
can start like slicing at his arm, unless anybody wants to

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stop Pebble. To the group I say, should we
get? Should we bring Torque or a
cleric here? Someone's already called for a
cleric. Yeah.
Net 1 Arcana. Yeah, it's there's too much.
Threat. I say do, I say we hold them
until someone with more knowledge of healing gets here.

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Pebble, are you listening to that or you are you digging in
with with your blade? I'm digging in.
I'm in a rage. You know I care about Bertram.
I'm digging in the the clerics can heal after I cut them out.
Cut it out. And that's what Pebbles
thinking. I'm still digging.
OK. Using the shark point of my axe

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as a scalpel. Cutting at his arm, it erupts
and it is oozing and it is foul and viscous and you continue to
cut at the wound and pretty soonthrough the blood and everything
else, a slivered Shard of metal can be seen and you're able to

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essentially pull it out of his arm.
It's the it's the missing piece of his Chaos Blade.
It is one of the missing chunks.There were many, but this was,
oh, a piece that when the sword was shot and it blew up

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essentially in his hands, a Shard of metal slivered into his
arm and has been festering thereover time.
As you pull it out, it's same. As.
Same as before, his eyes like kind of return back to normal
and he's looking at each person in turn and he just starts

(02:11:38):
saying it happened again, it happened, why did it happen
again? I think you just got bad luck,
man. I think you just got bad luck.
Somebody had it out for you, you're not to blame.
He looks at his arm and he sees the the slicing and cutting and
he like grips it in his other hand and he goes like fuck that

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hurts like God like jeez how didI not notice this before I.
Had to do it. I had to do it.
You went crazy. You get the sense that this has
been building up and festering over time and he was not aware
of it happening. This is some powerful stuff.

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I would like to put the sliver into the clear glass case that I
have from the card and kind of contain it.
Can I religion check it? Yeah, definitely. 18.
This is absolutely a sliver of an artifact that was imbued with

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Chaos power, and it was shared before that.
The flavor of Chaos energy that was coming from this The sword
that is part of this sliver that's just been cut out of his
arm is from one of the Chaos Lords that was during the

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calamity, one of the crippled gods like generals while the
world was being destroyed duringthe cataclysm.
This sword was one of the many weapons of the Chaos God of Wars
arsenal and you can tell even asit's like put into the glass

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case that used to hold the the Deck of many things card.
It is now contained in that case.
But when it came into contact, it was causing that
uncontrollable rage and that chaos corruption that the
Crippled God is so well known for.
We need to keep that thing safe.We cannot let these shards fall

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into the wrong hands. North Lewin kind of looks up a
Pebble and goes like, that's twice that it's happened when
he's fought you. I'm not sure if it's coming
after you or if it's just injecting Bertram.
Why would a chaos God want to come after me?
So, Bertram. 'S Well, Pebble, you've been

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with Bertram while he you've been helping Bertram around the
city. Have you noticed any difference
in behavior? I've been with him.
All week mud would I have. I I am going to say no, because
Bertram has not actively been inany fights.
So this has been kind of like building up over time under the
sleeve of his uniform. And this came into play when he

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entered a rage and, you know, during the combat it came out
and the corruption was there andpresented itself, but it was
not. Like yeah, I didn't notice
anything. Yeah.
And you, you get the sense just based on your previous
experience with it and now this experience with it, it is
something that is happening pretty specifically when he

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rages. And no one was there during the
fight with Devon. But if anybody had been down
there with him while he was fighting the cards, you might
have noticed that there was someextra rage, chaos coming from
him. But even despite everything, he

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still went down. And that's why it was built into
this encounter. You guys have successfully
removed it. Clerics have come.
They are now healing his arm. It is healing normal.
They're one of the clerics, likethe one that was trying to help
save Sarah is casting like a greater restoration on it.
And she's looking at the five ofyou.
And she says, I swear just bloodand carnage follows everywhere

(02:15:56):
the five of you go. You're just better at healing
than me. I tried.
I the the. Can somebody cauterize?
My I give, I give, I'll say I give.
I give Pebble her. Finger back.
I I, I think the finger and, andcan somebody cauterize my pinky?

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She puts the finger in her pocket.
I use heat metal. I use heat metal on my dagger.
OK. And I am, and I'll use Healing
Word on you to heal you. OK.
Thank you. Well, now let me look.
We're at the cleric and just goes like, you know, God gives
his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers.

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That is sweet sentiment. Your heels for the necklace.
Pebble. Thank you, the cleric watches
you put. The finger in your pocket and
she says I'm sorry, I'm not actually a high enough level
cleric to cast regenerate. If you want to at some point I'm
sure you can make your way to a temple there.
There might be a cleric in one of the major temples who could

(02:17:05):
cast a seventh level spell like regenerate for you Let.
Let let me tell you, scars heal and glory fades, you know.
But this will remind me forever.That you're missing a finger.
I mean, yes, of course it will. You're not a barbarian, you
wouldn't understand. I'm a cleric and she like stomps

(02:17:27):
away. Pebbles just pulls the finger
out of her pocket, uses it to pick her nose, puts it back in
her pocket. Like stands looking very ashamed
but looks around and says I'm sosorry.
I wasn't. I wasn't.

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She goes over to him. She goes over to him, puts her
hand out. You know it wasn't you.
The one missing a finger. I don't hold this against you.
Yes. Yeah.
He I would assume it's your right hand.
I mean, you were gripping it with both hands.
I'm I'm going to say like it waslike your middle finger or index
finger. I am not going to permanently
nerf you like attack or dexterity.

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No, it's just. Flavor.
I understand. Yeah, I understand.
It's just flavor. Yeah, he he shakes your hand and
nods sheepishly. And walks away for the purpose
of whoever was placing bets. Anybody who bet on Pebble, you
have lost 20 gold. Nobody.
Correct from me, they all left. No, the guy who shouted I won 20

(02:18:35):
gold, he came and settled up with you and.
The comments and I won. That's correct.
I just got 20 gold. Thank you very much.
Guys bet against me. You bet on Bertram winning.
Yes, yes. Yeah, OK.
You both add 20. Goals, that is.
That is correct. I bet so team.
Mates. I bet 30 on Bertram with the

(02:18:57):
intention of slapping Pebble on the like back and saying hey I
hope you don't come up short andsending them into a rage.
I'm so angry that my mic didn't work.
I I'm sorry too, OK. I I tried to cheer up Pebble, I
try to cheer up Pebble and I I animate her finger for her for

(02:19:19):
an hour. Yeah, that's very morbid.
Yeah, She she feels it wig. She feels it wiggling in her
pocket and she takes it out. That's neat.
We're. We're going to keep moving and
we're we're going to move to thenext the next chapter.
Here. Thank you.

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That was one of the big ones. So I I know that went for a
little bit, but thanks for sticking with me.
And that is where we are going to end the half of this the
Aftermath episode, which has gone on for quite some time.
The the editing is going to be interesting on this one.

(02:20:01):
Yes, we are not quite done with Aftermath.
We are going to pick that up in a follow up episode, ladies and
gentlemen. I am sorry, I am still like
rubbing at my eyes from the whole parsable thing and the.
Oh man, no. Of Thea's childhood.
Like all of it. Well, we didn't hear Thea's

(02:20:24):
childhood. You muted us.
I I know. Hey, hey.
You'll hear it when you edit it,yeah.
Yeah, I will, just in case there's any confusion for the
audience. This, this episode ran with
this, this session ran over 4 hours and we have been trying to
keep our, our episodes down a little bit.

(02:20:45):
So this, this outro, this exit will probably be cut before some
of the stuff we're talking aboutright now.
Maybe you know, so be aware thatsome continuity issues will be
addressed. Maybe hearing some sneak peeks
into the next episode. And I will also share this with

(02:21:05):
all of you as well as the audience.
I have slipped all kinds of foreshadowing into some of these
aftermath scenes for the things that are to come.
So for any of our fervent listeners or eagle eyed audience
members, they may be picking up on a couple things.
Yeah, with that, holy smokes, guys, that was quite the

(02:21:29):
aftermath session. And I know I said at the
beginning of this episode that this was going to be a little
bit of an experiment with this montage of disconnected scenes
taking place over weeks and weeks and what has turned into
months in Silver Moon. How did it feel to you guys?
I don't want to do a full Bulls and Bears, but I I do just want
to hear this wasn't a usual. Division.

(02:21:51):
Session. How did it feel?
I liked it, yeah. Immediate reaction is I, I liked
it. It was it, it, it so, so the
listeners know, like we were allhere listening.
It wasn't like, you know, these were pieces where it was just,
you know, a couple people recording in a studio.
It gave us each time to think about, like, what we wanted to

(02:22:11):
do between, you know, everything.
Like, yeah. Like I, I love the setup of
that, you know? Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll echo
that. Like, I felt like I had more
time to, like, collect my thoughts and deliver a good
performance. Like what for the next thing I'm
going to do. I felt like it was like slowed.

(02:22:33):
It's like D&D slowed down a little bit, which isn't a bad
thing. Yeah, yeah, kind of like not
everybody trying to talk at in the same exact scene, you know,
breaking it up by group, but like help the the back and forth
improv go a little bit better. And it did help those of us that
don't speak very often to have more of a role play chance.

(02:22:55):
That was one of my big goals wasto give you guys, you know,
like, hey, it's just you and oneother person like you.
You got to fill the space a little bit.
You got to, you got to be on stage.
Wawa how did it? Feel to you, some of us have
bigger personalities. It was I liked it mirror off of
everybody, you know, Arc Arc wasjust like it gave us kind of

(02:23:16):
time to like collectively think about, you know, what we were
going to do. And I had didn't really have any
idea what I was going to do at all.
And I'm like, you know, and let me just put something together.
And but yeah, with with the time, it was nice and I I liked
the the scenes, the different scenes of of everything.

(02:23:38):
So I thought it was cool. I know, I know, I was giving you
guys a little bit of grief at the beginning, but it was you
guys have been nailing them. I will say thank you for rolling
with me with the with what brag is doing and I'm trying to keep
it. Oh, OK.
Well, Brad was not here today. I thought I took the day off.

(02:24:03):
No, Yeah. Just just just just know that
there's a lot of clean up that happens behind the scenes, you
know? Yeah, so.
I was having some trouble comprehending some.
Very. Basic things.
Yeah, sometimes it, it, the journey takes a minute, but, you
know, you get there at the end, you know, like trying to explain
the point that's you have in your head.

(02:24:25):
Yeah, I, I, I see, I see. It was why Bragg had trouble
explaining that, you know, in the moment.
Yeah, he, he's stupid now. Well, there's that, and I'm just
going to roll with that. Already you played it.
You played it so well. I've got to edit that out.

(02:24:48):
Well, I thought you guys did great.
There is a little bit of a meta that is happening with all of
these things going on. I think you guys picked up on it
pretty darn fast. But I am keeping a tally of some
certain things that are happening, and I'm very excited
for us to finish this aftermath with our next episode.

(02:25:09):
And yeah, there's going to be some creative editing that takes
place with that. Thank you so much to our
listeners. Thank you so much to our
community members who are listening and taking place in
our community games and the things going on.
Hopefully this was new and interesting for them as well
because just as it was our firsttime doing this, it's probably

(02:25:30):
their first time hearing it. So again, if you thought this
was awful or bad or not the right thing, get in the
comments, tell us messages on Twitter or Telegram or Discord,
and you can find all of those links right on our website,
d&d721.com. With that, my 5 wonderful and

(02:25:50):
very tired heroes here are goingto say goodnight to all the good
listeners. I just want to say praise bark.
Of course you do. Hey all, this is Nokomis here.
That was really heartfelt episode and I'm sorry to all the
listeners, but sometimes these things need to happen.

(02:26:13):
With that, you farewell Drude, signing off.
We're here playing Narloeen. Signing off.
Don't know where the cut is going to be in this episode, but
spoiler. I've been having so much fun
playing a level 12 druid named Akomas and.

(02:26:34):
You may leave SO. It's Freaky Friday, right?
This was recorded on Friday the 13th.
All right, Freaky Friday, we swapped characters.
There you go. I literally just looked at, I
looked at my calendar and it's the 14th.
That's a lie. It's been 2 minutes.

(02:27:00):
Only for you I'm. Going to take that.
This is an opportunity. I'm going to take that
opportunity to plug the movie Saturday the 14th.
I believe it's from the late 80s.
I highly recommend you watch it.It's a hilarious take on like
the spooky horror house genre. It's sat satire.
It's it's a comedy Saturday the 14th.

(02:27:22):
Go watch it. Well, this is this is Tolton
playing Braggoneer signing off and it feels great to have Sarah
as my second in command. Oh my God, you can go home too
listeners. I love these players, but you
cannot believe a word they say. Man, that wedding that I had

(02:27:43):
with Bertram, our children are going to be strong.
They're going to be perfectly average height.
Oh my gosh, Wawa Skittles Wawa Wawa Skittles here plays Thea
the the Paladin warlock. Also signing off and praise be

(02:28:07):
Shabba. Praise.
Be shabba praise bark. As Thea once said, praise
somebody praise. Oh Lord, oh bark, have mercy.
Well, with that, ladies and gentlemen, thank you again so
much for listening. Thank you so much for our

(02:28:29):
Patreon listeners for being subscribed to members, and thank
you to our community who are taking part in our games.
We hope you are enjoying playingin their games as much as you
are enjoying listening to this campaign.
With that, my name is Mudd, the dungeon master of this
emotionally rot episode. Praise the correct God.

(02:28:51):
Praise Spark. The weight of armor drags me
down, but I stand where others fall, a sworn protector of the

(02:29:16):
light. I hear the sacred voices call.
Every word a chain around my soul, every vow a brand upon my
skin. No turning back, no letting go.

(02:29:38):
The battle is fought with it. I am bound by the oath I made in
the fire. I will not make in the dark.
I'll be the flame in the storm. I'll stand and face the pain by

(02:30:08):
my. Word burn, burn, burn my.
Owes. Lay my hands upon the weak.

(02:30:32):
Turn their wounds into the light.
I shield them from the shadows. Reach.
I am the blade that ends the. Light.
Every battle takes a piece of me.
My purpose holds me strong. Their cries of mercy echo deep.

(02:30:59):
This is where my heart be on. I am down by the old I made in
the fire. I will not break in the dark.
I'll be back. Flaming the storm I'm standing

(02:31:22):
face the pain by my word, bound by old I.

(02:31:50):
See the evil twist their eyes, But justice shines inside my
eye. With holy light and still in
hand, I strike them down where they stand.
Radiant fury fuels my wrath. Divine spite shows my path.

(02:32:18):
I carry hope where hope has died.
My oath, my shield, my sacred prone.
I am bound by the oath I've made.
In the fire I will not break. In the dark, I'll be the flame.

(02:32:43):
In the storm, I'll stand and face the pain by my word.

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