Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: All across the unknown world, rediscovery pushes ever onwards to find the lands and people lost.
All thanks to our brave explorers.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Hi, I'm Nate and I'm playing Azakar and the Jani Seraph.
[00:00:20] Speaker C: Hi, I'm Dan and I'm playing Vanir the wolfkin warrior.
[00:00:25] Speaker D: Hey, I'm Livy. I'm going to be playing Ray Reed, the spirit ranger.
[00:00:30] Speaker E: Hi, my name's Theo and I'm playing cow sang of our guardian.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: And My name is D.M. dan. I'll be the GM in these adventures. The further we go, the more we learn of these magical tales from elsewhere.
Hello world. What? What a comment in the chat to come back to.
Hi Beef.
Hi.
Hello. I am DM Dan and we are the explorers of elsewhere. And we are playing live.
We're currently nostrils deep in tales from elsewhere. Our Dagger Heart playthrough. Our adventurers, our explorers have been spelunking that through a mysterious set of cave like tunnels they've in search of a research team that's gone missing. They found them, but it would seem that they cannot go from whence they came and must now find an alternative, an alternate exit. But in doing so, in looking for that alternative they have found bad stuff. Which is slightly blocked from line of sight by some terrain. But they found a large pool of what appears to be corrupted tainted manner.
And what appears to be.
You know what? I'm gonna kill that wall. There we go. What appears to be three kind of manifestations of wizards from the war between dragons that happened that concluded 18 months prior. It appears to be two Wizards, two Mages and then one leader of a sort. Some self important gentleman of a dragon sense disposition.
But yes, as the.
As the flames from the dragon sense back splay into a kind of a mockery of wings and fire ripples from his claws up to his wrists.
We will.
Oh, we did. What do we decide on for the Dagger Heart alternative to roll the action trackers in play? Let's. Okay, so as the flames lick up from his back, the Action Tracker is in play.
Who is.
As we turn on the battle music, who is going first? As these three figures kind of prepare for a skirmish with you seemingly stood atop some hardened crystallized.
Well, the. The manipul seems to have hardened and crystallized into a kind of a simile of a stone crypt or temple or shrine or of some sort. Yeah. Who's going first?
[00:03:57] Speaker B: I would like to go first.
[00:03:58] Speaker A: You would like to go first?
[00:04:00] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: As a car hearing this, this booming voice from. From the looks of like, people who he.
Like who. Who resemble people who he was a prisoner of for. For a few years during the war.
He is gonna feel like a surge of rage from that, a surge of duty as well.
He is going to. How far can I go?
[00:04:40] Speaker A: So you can go six base. So that's far.
You can make an agility roll to go further.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll make an agility roll to go further.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: So I think it's going to be. Yeah, a combination of like, how well you roll.
Whether you roll with hope or fear, we're going to say. So this will be an agility 13 arena. Okay.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: That is with a plus one as well. So that is going to be an. That's going to be a 16 with 17. Yeah, but with fear.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: 17 with fear. Okay, so you are able to do it. So you can move like 12 squares, basically.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Okay, I'm actually going to actually.
No, I won't. So sorry, say that again.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: 12 squares. So double moves 12 squares.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: So for some reason my thing's not coming up anymore.
Some reason I can't see the squares.
[00:05:47] Speaker A: So.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Okay, so everyone else, you catch a breath for a moment as you watch Azakar, like, rush towards the edge of the manipul. And there's a small leap as you leap from the, you know, the edge onto the hardened crystallized surface.
You can see the. There is still liquid mana beneath this, much like the surface of a frozen lake, but it seems sturdy and doesn't kind of crack underfoot or anything. But yeah, you barrel towards the. The glowing figures in front of you.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: And I am going to. As. As a car is running towards this dragon scent especially.
He is. You can see like his hands starting to crack as he is producing another bolt beacon as he sort of screeches to a halt and then just. Just blasts it from his hand.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: I will take a fear as an aside from your mirror. Yeah, go for it.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: Spend a hope on that and badoom.
So that is a. That's a 10 plus 2. That's a 12.
Let's see if there's anything else I can do.
I'm gonna spend another hope on that.
I don't think it's gonna do much, but I'm gonna spend another hope on that. Even though I get a hope from the role to put an extra 2 on that for Aya's soldier.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Okay, that seems very prudent right now.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: To fight against sort of like this arcane being.
Let's see what else I can do?
No, I think I'll leave it at that. So that's, that's only a 12. So I don't know if that's. That's probably not going to be enough. But that's a 12.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: Is it 12 total?
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Oh, actually, yeah. No, it's a 14 total.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: 14 total, yeah.
So it's a bolt beam.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Yeah, a bolt beacon.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Bolt beacon. Paint me a picture.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: So yeah, as he, as he sort of, as he sort of screeches to a halt like far enough as he knows his training like has taught him this. This crackle of light that he has been conjuring with his hand is going to shoot out of his right right palm, heading straight for the dragon scent image.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: Okay, so as this kind of beam of divine energy rockets out towards the dragon scent, the figure sort of like stoops low, like into a more steady, steady stance. And then as the beam is about to strike, these kind of fiery wings emanating from his back lunge forward and wrap around him like a cloak. And the beam kind of shatters across the flaming wings. And with a like a lofty sweep, the wings part and the, the figure, the spectral figure in front of you, a face contorted in disgust like lamp well kind of snarls at you.
[00:09:53] Speaker F: You dare bring her magic here.
[00:09:57] Speaker A: He says as he then you rolled a yo Hope I'm going to spend a fear to have him activate.
So I go down to two as this figure sort of like lifts a hand up and it's holding what appears to be a wand.
So the corrupted echo responds with O only a three rolls. That's a hearty nat one.
So the, the beam arcs towards you and that also kind of shatters across your your form as the like eye as light protects you.
The dragon scent snarls and as he is relentless and may activate twice per GM move, he will then like the corner of his mouth tilts up in a snarl as he says.
[00:11:12] Speaker F: It would seem I underestimated you.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: And surprisingly he surges towards you until he's in melee and will use a fractured memory to the figure so it rushes towards you. The, the wings like splay out as it lifts up off to the lifts off the ground and then hurtles back to like earth in front of you, landing with a thunderous slam. It's gonna make a D20 plus two attack against you as a car.
A 15 to hit.
[00:12:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that hits.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: Okay, you take two D8 plus 10 damage.
21 damage.
As you're rocked off your feet and kind of collapse to the ground, you are also vulnerable as this figure sort of like looms over you. And this kind of dark majesty radiates from the. From its form.
I'll give you the exhausted thing for now.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: I'm gonna spend. I'm gonna spend two armor slots because I'm guessing it's like a meets it beats it sort of situation that we're going with.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: My.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: My severe damage, like, limit is 20.
[00:12:59] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: So I'm gonna spend two armor slots to get me down to 19. So I only take major damage instead.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: Okay. So two hit points worth of damage.
And. Yeah. So as this dragon sink, kind of slams down and then stands tall, it lifts a hand and regards the other three of you still kind of on the shore.
[00:13:22] Speaker F: Look how easily you fall.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: He bellows. Who would like to go next?
[00:13:31] Speaker C: Straight away, unless cowl or ray reacts like Vanier's just almost predator mode. Just grabs the floor and just lunges like a wolf just plowing. I'm gonna make an agility roll to try and get up in this guy's.
[00:13:52] Speaker A: Face before you do it. This is going to be a live experiment. Hot. Bear with me for one second.
If I. How quickly can we kill Azuko if I roll everyone? I don't really need the rolls, but if I do this.
Did that work?
It did. It did. There we go. There we go. So now we have a little. A little glowy around Vanier. Cool. What's Vanya doing?
[00:14:28] Speaker C: Yeah, almost like. Almost like he's running on all fours. The gauntlet. He propels himself forward. Almost like the wind coming off the back of his back ornaments like a speeding rocket towards this.
This entity. As I will make an agility roll to see if I get there.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:14:53] Speaker C: And because I got the hope to burn, I would like to use my.
Where is it? Details.
I have an experience called thrill of the hunt.
[00:15:10] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:15:12] Speaker C: Where seeing this dangerous entity almost instills like a instinctual excitement of predator and prey within Vanir as he lunges forward towards this creature who he wants to best and constantly combat.
So I will spend a hope to use that if that's okay. DM.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Yeah. That takes you down to three.
[00:15:38] Speaker C: And that will give me plus two to my agility roll.
What's my agility? Plus one. Cool.
Let's do this.
Oh, plenty.
[00:15:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:53] Speaker C: 15 plus. There's 16. 70. 18 with hope.
[00:15:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that'll do it.
So, yeah, full 12 and we'll give you your hope back.
[00:16:09] Speaker C: Yes. I'm just gonna double check. I'm full up on my. Yeah. I am. So. Wait, am I?
Yeah, I am. Yep. So I'm gonna take that hope because I can't take any more Slayer die.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: Sure, sure. So as you kind of leap from the shore as well and land on the crystallized like mana pool, oddly, as you're running across, you notice that the sort of like the haptic feedback that you're getting from the soles of your feet, it feels like you're running on stone, but to look at it, it looks like you're running on glass.
[00:16:44] Speaker C: Okay.
But yeah, you see, in this moment, as I'm just go checking my abilities, which.
Just making sure I haven't got anything interesting that I need to take a note of.
It's been a while. Yeah. Cool. So, yeah, so basically, yeah, as he's lunging forward, like wind and ice, is just rocketing off these gauntlets and stone gauntlets, has himself next to Azakar, and with like an almighty beep, raises a gauntlet and like almost rocket punch towards this entity.
And I shall roll to attack.
Three.
Yeah, let's do this.
Oh, come on. 8, 9, 10, 11. To hit with hope.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: Okay, so you'll get your fifth hope.
But as you kind of swing this thunderous gauntlet round with a strong right, the dragon scent, like you up close, it's. It's like it's a creature made of magma almost, but there's no kind of heat emanating from it, and there's like motes of moving light kind of floating within its form. But this dragon scent, for all of its seeming like his seeming etherealness, there's a certainly a very solid heft as the dragon scent reaches a hand up and catches your gauntlet with one flaming hand. And then like turns to look and turns to look at you with these blazing yellow eyes.
[00:18:44] Speaker F: Pathetic.
[00:18:46] Speaker A: He spits.
[00:18:49] Speaker C: Yeah, it's almost like fire and ice, like, meeting each other in this moment. And Vanya is just smiling and snarling in this joy of battle.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Just, just.
[00:19:04] Speaker C: Ready to go again.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: Okay. When he can, who's going next, Gal or Rayri?
[00:19:13] Speaker D: I'm happy to go. Come on, Rayri.
He's like, oh, I guess we're doing this then, as the two of them.
[00:19:23] Speaker C: Just.
[00:19:26] Speaker D: Like absolutely absolute maniacs.
And I'm going to spend a hope and I'm going to use my ability, which is natural familiar.
And what she does is she just kind of just goes into like one of her like, like, like lava space buns. She's just kind of like funneling around in there. She just takes out a Little clump of lava and just like pops it on the floor and it just. It just goes. And it just sprouts little legs and it just starts running around like a little lava sprite.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: Okay, I. I will find you a thing for that.
[00:20:22] Speaker D: Where's my.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: What's it called? Natural familiar.
[00:20:28] Speaker D: Familiar.
[00:20:29] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:20:30] Speaker D: Basically, I get an elemental.
[00:20:33] Speaker A: Familiar.
Okay. Okay. On the fly, everyone. This is.
This is DMing at its GMing. At its finest.
[00:20:44] Speaker D: Like a separate token, it literally just is like a little guy.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: I can.
[00:20:49] Speaker D: Just a little guy.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: A little. A little guy.
Just a little.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: Let's use this for now.
Cool. Nailed it. Nailed it. Okay, we're gonna make. It's. It's small, right? It's a small, small little guy.
[00:21:07] Speaker D: It's little lava blob.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: Okay, little guy. Little guy. Ready?
Oh, wait, no.
Ready?
[00:21:18] Speaker B: I like him.
[00:21:19] Speaker A: Don't like it. Don't want that one.
Oh. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Wait, wait. I'm showing myself up. Natural familiar.
And then I can just paste that in. Update and then. Ready?
Boop.
Little fiery guy.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: I see him.
[00:21:48] Speaker A: Can you not.
[00:21:49] Speaker E: I can't see him. Evil.
[00:21:52] Speaker A: Can you not. You're right there.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: Can see him on the stream. Can't see him on the.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: How odds. Can you see. Oh, goodness sake. Can you see that?
[00:22:08] Speaker D: I can see that guy.
[00:22:10] Speaker A: But you can't see. You can't see the familiar.
[00:22:13] Speaker C: No, no, I can see something.
I can see the natural familiar.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: He's just running around.
[00:22:22] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I can see it.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: You can see him on the stream.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: How weird are. How weird.
Okay, well, you're the owner of Livy now, so you can't see. He's right here. It's right here. Can't see him.
[00:22:41] Speaker D: It's a token. I can see where it potentially is.
[00:22:46] Speaker A: How odd.
How.
[00:22:50] Speaker D: Yeah, it runs.
[00:22:51] Speaker A: How bizarre.
[00:22:52] Speaker D: Okay, we'll come up with anything. It's just.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: Okay, well, you. You can tell me where he's going.
[00:22:59] Speaker D: Follow me around like. He's just my little mate. Okay, so with that, she.
She gets. She mounts Vinnie, and they will charge into battle, all three of them.
Vinnie, Lava sprite, and Rainy.
So agility roll.
Can I.
No, actually not.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: Right.
[00:23:44] Speaker D: Oh, my natural familiator roll.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: Okay, so 11.
[00:23:53] Speaker D: 11 with fear.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: 11 with three fear. So you aren't. So basically, you aren't able to make the full distance. So, yeah, because it's D.C. it's difficulty 13. So, like, mounting up H.
We got a 13. Oh, you got a 13. Beg my pardon. Beg my pardon. Sorry. I'm doing a Lot of things. I'm trying to get you a natural familiar that you can see. 13 is fine. You can move 12 squares.
If you could move them quite move those 12 squares quite slowly then it give me more time to sort this out. Natural familiar? Yeah. Go nuts. Go nuts. Go nuts. I'm a professional.
Is your familiar got a name?
[00:25:00] Speaker E: Lobby Love.
[00:25:02] Speaker D: Yeah.
Go Bo. Yeah.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: Okay. Does this work?
Can you see that?
[00:25:18] Speaker D: Yeah, I can see that.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: You can see that?
[00:25:20] Speaker E: I can see something.
[00:25:21] Speaker A: Right. Well I'm gonna kill it.
Okay. We can see it. We can see it. One. Come on. Update. Okay. Ready?
Boop. There he is. There it is.
And then that needs to come out. And then I need to give you control so you can move it around.
Boom. Done. Bish bash Bosch.
Juan$ yes.
[00:25:56] Speaker D: I'm going to spend another hope.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: So take you down to three. Yeah.
[00:26:09] Speaker D: To use my Rangers focus on when I make.
Wait, wait. Hope to make an attack with your weapon on a success.
You temporarily make that target arranges focus along with doing okay. So I will spend a hope as long as this works. I'm gonna use my crossbow.
[00:26:37] Speaker C: Are you gonna use crossbow whilst in five foot range of this entity there?
[00:26:46] Speaker D: So basically I have to. So I have to shoot him with my range's focus and then he gets. He gets stress every time I make an attack. So I kind of need to attack him first.
Get my Rangers focus going.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: Do you? But does the Rangers focus have to be something you do in melee?
[00:27:04] Speaker D: No, not necessarily.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: Cuz I'm guessing is there a form of like disadvantage for being up close?
[00:27:11] Speaker C: That's what I'm.
[00:27:12] Speaker D: I don't know.
[00:27:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I believe so.
Let me just double check.
[00:27:23] Speaker D: So I don't used to like arrange it primary range.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: I would sing the countdown theme June but probably get demonetized.
[00:27:53] Speaker C: Yeah I'm trying to.
[00:27:58] Speaker D: I can do something else. I'll look. I'll look it up. Once I've said I'm going to use my elemental breath and I'm going to just blast out some fire.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: Okay. So sorry. I'm back in the room now. So you on the back of Vinnie. You've leapt onto the glassy substance as well.
Vinnie is making some somewhat discontented noises because he's running on bad juju.
Yeah. As you approach this dragon scent is kind of holding Vanier's fist as a car is kind of like down on one knee in front.
But yeah. The dragon sent seems largely distracted.
[00:28:55] Speaker D: So I'm going to change what I'm going to do. Vinnie's going to bite Him.
[00:28:58] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:29:01] Speaker D: So there he is. So Vinnie. Vinnie is going to fight is going to buy him.
Now he's up again.
[00:29:23] Speaker A: Great roles we're all in real bad.
So in which case 10. A 10. Well, this figure which is holding Vanier like as you approach at the last moment the. The gaze like the stare at. Vanier flicks to the left as the dragon scent notices you coming. And Vanier you find your fundamentally like from the wrist with a flick, without a strong flick. You're almost kind of thrown in the way of Rayri and you like as you kind of before you get catch yourself, you body into the side of Vinnie and Rayri knocks Vinnie and you kind of off, off balance and you skit off to the side.
[00:30:16] Speaker C: Yeah. I was looking for the rules of range and I can't actually see at the moment, but I. My plan was to do a tag team because I got so much hope, but I was too busy looking at rules.
[00:30:27] Speaker D: That's all right. I'll have a little look.
Can I get a hope? I rolled with hope.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: Yes, you can. So you're back up to four.
Very good, very good.
Anything else Ri?
[00:30:42] Speaker D: No, cuz Vinnie goes in the place of me.
So that is me done.
[00:30:49] Speaker A: Okay, next up is. Well, I assume Cal. What we're going.
[00:30:54] Speaker E: It's me. It's my turn.
I'm watching all of my friends fail miserably hitting this dragon zone. Yeah, I'm a little concerned. I'm also a little concerned that I'm not gonna get very close because now everyone's surrounding this guy.
But all I can really do is hit him either with a crossbow or with my sword. So first of all, I'm gonna do an agility roll and try and get little closer.
I also have an experience which is lightning speed which I want to use to add to my role and spend my last hope because I've only had one hope for a long time.
[00:31:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:40] Speaker E: So we're going to try and get as close as we can to add that onto my agility just to get me as close as I can get. So let's try that.
So that should. Yeah. So my agility is plus three. So it'll be a plus five, essentially whatever I roll. So let's go for it.
Okay, so that's 17 in total.
How close can I get?
[00:32:08] Speaker A: So you. Yeah, you can go 12.
You.
So when you drag your token, can you see the like the distance traveled?
[00:32:18] Speaker E: Sure, sure.
[00:32:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:25] Speaker E: Yeah, I.
I think I can just. I think I can just to get about.
Yeah, Hang on. Sorry. Not used to measuring for.
[00:32:51] Speaker A: I mean, we can be. Be a little bit loosey goosey with it. Give or take.
Yeah. Because, I mean, you were.
Yeah, you were like, here. So cool.
[00:33:03] Speaker E: I was just gonna try and get here.
[00:33:07] Speaker A: You could go another two if you want.
Another three.
[00:33:11] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:33:12] Speaker A: Yeah, that's fine. Cool. So you can get to that?
[00:33:15] Speaker E: That's fine.
Cool. Now the question is, am I in range to hit the get or am I not in range to hit him? I'm within 10ft, but my. My melee. So.
[00:33:25] Speaker A: Yeah, close. Not very close.
[00:33:30] Speaker E: So is that a no to hitting him or is that correct?
[00:33:33] Speaker A: That's a no. Testing. Unless you can hit things at close rather than very close.
[00:33:40] Speaker E: It does not.
[00:33:41] Speaker A: Sorry, sorry. Unless you can hit things at very close. Not melee. Yes. So, yeah.
[00:33:46] Speaker B: Yeah, cool.
[00:33:47] Speaker E: That's fine.
In that case, can I do anything else?
[00:33:59] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:34:00] Speaker E: I don't think I can do anything else. Oh, I can get myself on the unstoppable feature for a long rest. It's become unstoppable. So I've got a die to mark it just so I have it ready. So. So I'm on number one. So whenever I deal more than one hit point, I add one. I believe that's how it works, Dan.
[00:34:24] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:34:26] Speaker E: Because Dan is the only one here who's used Unstoppable. So I'll check with him.
[00:34:29] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, sorry, what was the. What was the question? So I was trying to look up rules.
[00:34:34] Speaker E: No, it's cool. I'm on Unstoppable now for my guardians.
[00:34:38] Speaker C: So you start on the lowest die, and it will count up each round when you make an attack.
[00:34:47] Speaker E: Cool, cool, cool.
[00:34:48] Speaker C: Every time you make an attack.
[00:34:50] Speaker A: So you're unstoppable.
[00:34:52] Speaker E: Okay, great. And that, I think, is all I can do at this moment.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Did you want to crossbow the someone, dude?
[00:35:00] Speaker E: I could do. I could give it a go. Why not? Let's do that.
[00:35:04] Speaker A: As Beef has pointed out, you need to show these millennials how to roll dice.
[00:35:09] Speaker E: I. Apparently I'm also an alien. As an older one or you? I don't know, actually. No, that's wrong. That's also wrong.
I don't even know anymore. Let's. Let's try the crossbow. So that will be plus two. So let's have a look and see what happens.
I'm gonna. Yeah. So I'm aiming at corrupted Echo here.
Come. Still close enough or just far enough away? Not entirely sure. 12. So that's 15 plus 2. 17 to hit is a hit.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:49] Speaker C: Hey.
[00:35:50] Speaker E: Thank God. Okay, so that's 2D6 plus 1.
Yeah, I rolled 2D6.
So that's 4. 4 points of damage.
[00:36:09] Speaker A: Oh yeah. Okay, so that is minor, minor damage.
So that is one hit point. But as you kind of skirt like scoot around the corner with your kind of lightning speed, as you skid to a halt, like within the same fluid motion, the crossbow comes out prepped and primed. And as you fire it, the crossbow bolt seeming like hits this dragon scent in the side of the head. And bizarrely like the the point of impact like flash crystallizes. And you watch as the crossbow bolt kind of shatters across this figures this elementals like skin.
But the. The echo kind of rocks slightly like releases van year from the impact and then turns to face you the range on a weapon.
Oh, cool. Cool.
[00:37:22] Speaker C: Yeah. So I from all the information I was looking at on the rules, there's.
[00:37:29] Speaker D: Nothing at all stating about point blank in the face.
[00:37:32] Speaker C: So anything. So the range of a weapon is anything within that range bracket. And it doesn't give you disadvantage being up close to someone, apparently.
[00:37:42] Speaker A: Double thumbs for point black crossbows.
Okay, yeah, fair play, fair play. So Ray Re is exactly where she needs to. Beautiful. Okay. In which case, yeah, this say this crossbow shatters across the side of the echo's face as its skin crystallizes under the impacts. And then like as it turns to you cow, you notice that that spot is still crystallized. And like the almost as if the impact has forced this kind of metamorphosis.
So whilst the rest of it is somewhat kind of fluid and you know, looks like a conglomeration of moving mana, this one spot now seems solid.
Anything else, Cal was that.
[00:38:35] Speaker E: Can I just gain a hope? Because even though I spent a hope, I now gained a hope from my agility roll as well.
[00:38:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I popped you back up to one.
[00:38:43] Speaker E: Okay. Wicked. That's great.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: And then you rolled another hope with your attack roll. So. Yeah. You got two.
[00:38:50] Speaker E: I did. Yay.
[00:38:52] Speaker A: Boom. Two hope for Cal death.
[00:38:55] Speaker E: Thank God. Yeah. And that's all I can do at the moment, but I'm ready. Like, I feel like once he's done the the crossbow he's preparing, he will prepare to get out his sword for close range.
[00:39:07] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:39:08] Speaker E: For his next go. But yeah, that's.
[00:39:11] Speaker A: Well, that next go is going to have to wait a while for the GM is spending a fear to activate to to interrupt. So Cal as you kind of draw your sword and the the echo kind of rocks from your crossbow bolt.
Like in this sonorous roar. The dragon sent shouts and the two Mages. The. The two echoes of mages in the background kind of immediately spring to action. So I'm gonna use one of these action tokens to activate one of the mages.
The.
The first one, what appears to be the ace of our man, looks to.
Looks to you, Cal. Realistically, you've done the best so far, and you feel this. You suddenly feel really kind of heavy and lethargic.
And through your experiences in the war, you know that you've been afflicted with some sort of magical malady of sorts.
So let's put a poisoned on you.
So you are cursed. So if you make any rolls with hope, this mage can spend a stress to instead make you roll with fear the other.
That's an action. The other will do the same on Rayri.
So Rayri and Vinnie, you are both cursed. Oh, there's actually a curse thing. Okay, we'll use that. The two of you are cursed.
So if you roll hope I can spend stress to instead make you roll with fear instead.
That'll be their turns. Then. The corrupted echo, now that you're all handily gathered around, will attempt to cast another spell from its fractured memory.
So I'll mark a stress to roll a.
Okay.
Oh boy.
As these two curses kind of reach out and enshroud cow, Rayri and Vinnie, the dragon scent, kind of with a bell like a buffet of his wings, kind of launches into the air. And spreading his arms wide, a fan of flame explodes out towards all of you. As you're all living close, I need to make attacks against all targets within close range. So rule keeper PC Dan, is that one roll against everyone or one roll per person?
[00:42:31] Speaker C: One roll against everyone.
[00:42:33] Speaker A: Okay. In which case the corrupted echo is going to roll a 19.
[00:42:42] Speaker B: Yeah, that's gonna hit.
[00:42:44] Speaker A: Okie dokie. So everyone will take eight damage.
[00:42:58] Speaker C: I'm going to spend and an armor slot to reduce that by six.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:43:09] Speaker C: And then I'm going to chance the that point of damage. Because of my thick skin racial feature, I get to roll a D6. And if I roll five or more, I don't take that damage. Okay, one point of damage. So I'm just going to roll my D6 now.
Where are you? Bam.
Nope. I still take it.
[00:43:42] Speaker A: Toasty van. Yeah. Okay, so everyone else. Yeah. Mark off your armors as and when was it minor damages for all of you or did some of you hit major?
[00:43:54] Speaker E: So I'm taking an armor slot which I believe then reduces my damage to under eight. So I mark one damage.
[00:44:05] Speaker D: That's the same in me and then mark stop. Take one.
[00:44:11] Speaker A: Okay. So you minor. You've all all basically taken one hit point. Okay, very good.
[00:44:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:18] Speaker A: In which case. Yeah. So arms wide. The flames kind of roaring like past and over you.
The.
The. The figure sort of like the wings kind of flapping to keep it aloft.
[00:44:34] Speaker F: Bellows, you should never have come here.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: And using relentless for its second one. It's going to spend another stress to cast another spell.
Okay, cool.
As it says that it reaches the echo reaches out autonomous within close range. Must make a presence reaction roll.
And it seems that this guy is going for broke. So I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna overcharge that.
I'm down to 2 of 6 stress remaining.
But anyone who fails will take 2 D8 plus D10. Plus 10 magic damage that can't be reduced by armor. As this echo, seemingly at the height of his power, reaches into your minds to rend them.
So presence rolls, please.
[00:45:51] Speaker C: He's a hero.
[00:45:56] Speaker A: So do you. You don't get like hope. No reaction rolls. You don't.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: No reaction rolls. Don't get hope or fear.
[00:46:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. Okay. So a car rolls. 12 plus something.
[00:46:11] Speaker B: Well, it will be. I've got minus one in presence, so my one actually goes to a 10.
[00:46:17] Speaker A: Okay. An 11. Give yourself some.
[00:46:21] Speaker B: I'm wondering if I could do something cuz I feel like I might die.
I'm gonna use my serif hope to spend three hope and I can either re roll my prayer dice or refresh one of my used prayer dice. I'm gonna spend that might. No, that's not gonna be enough because I was gonna.
[00:46:45] Speaker C: Do you not have armor? Oh no. We can't use armor slots, can we?
[00:46:49] Speaker B: That is. I don't think there's a lot I can do. I think I'm gonna have to the.
[00:46:54] Speaker A: How many hit points are you on?
[00:46:57] Speaker B: I've got two left.
[00:47:00] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: You've only got to get over a nine. And I'm.
[00:47:04] Speaker A: I see what's cow rolling for the ye old presence.
[00:47:10] Speaker E: Well, sorry, it'll be a plus zero. But I do have the. When you make a presence roll against a hostile target which is technically the same, you can spend a hope to add your strength trait to the role which will make it a plus two. So I think it's probably wise spending a hope.
[00:47:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:29] Speaker E: Yeah. So we're gonna. We're gonna see that makes a difference. So I'm gonna roll this and add plus two. Thank God. Okay.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:47:37] Speaker E: That's. I think I'm okay, so we have.
[00:47:41] Speaker A: A 16 from Cal. We have a nine from Rayri. Or is it higher?
[00:47:47] Speaker D: What. What.
[00:47:49] Speaker A: What range are you currently? We are like in melee.
But bear in mind you could be not in melee cuz you didn't have to be up close to attack.
[00:48:07] Speaker D: No, it's not that. It's one of my abilities is I can Michael marker stress and increase my invasion if it's beyond melee range.
But you're not.
[00:48:20] Speaker C: But it's not if it's a reaction.
[00:48:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, that. That wouldn't apply.
Well, Ray Rees. So callous passed. Vanya has passed. Azakar and Rayri, you have not passed. So you're gonna take two D8 plus D10 plus 10 for a grand total.
[00:48:45] Speaker C: Of.
[00:48:48] Speaker A: 28 magic damage.
[00:48:53] Speaker D: And I can't use armature, so I'm gonna take three hit points.
[00:48:59] Speaker A: As a car.
I'm just having a look, see if.
[00:49:04] Speaker E: There'S anything I can say.
[00:49:06] Speaker F: There is.
[00:49:08] Speaker A: I think that's all my hit points go as a car.
[00:49:17] Speaker C: I got the death move rules up. Ready?
[00:49:20] Speaker A: Yeah. So have I.
So as a car, as this dragon sense loom, this. This manifestation of this dragon scent looms over you, buffets you all with flame and then seemingly dive. The mana dives into you. Like pierces into your very mind.
[00:49:49] Speaker F: As.
[00:49:49] Speaker A: You feel the world kind of slipping away from you. You can choose one of the four for one of the three options.
Blaze of glory. You embrace death and go out in a blaze of glory. Take one action at my discretion. That becomes an automatic critical success. And then cross through the veil of death.
You can avoid death and face the consequences. You roll your hope die. If the value is equal to or under your level, you gain a scar. You also drop unconscious temporarily.
You may not move or act while you're unconscious or you may risk it all.
You roll a duality die. If you roll higher on your hope, you stay on your feet and you clear an amount of hit points and or stress equal to the value of your hope die.
If your fear die is higher, you cross through the veil of death. If they're tied and you crit, you stay on your feet and clear all hit points and stress.
[00:51:07] Speaker C: Yeah, I didn't hear that last.
[00:51:09] Speaker D: If you get. If you get a crit, you get all your hit points and stress.
[00:51:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:14] Speaker D: Cleared.
[00:51:16] Speaker A: So blazing glory. You get one action that'll be an automatic critical success. Avoid death.
And then you may get a scar or you gamble.
[00:51:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:43] Speaker A: If your hope is higher, you live.
[00:51:48] Speaker C: Does the duality dice thing that you got work for this?
[00:51:54] Speaker B: What do you mean the duality?
[00:51:56] Speaker C: I thought you had like a die thing that you could swap for if.
[00:52:03] Speaker A: Well, yeah, do your paradise. Just work on duality roles.
Okay.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: They. They only work on increasing roles.
I can. Well, actually, let me see. There was something.
Does it say anything about anything I can use along with.
[00:52:37] Speaker A: I think the risk it all is literally like you're rolling the dice. So it's a 50, 50 chance.
[00:52:44] Speaker B: Let's go.
[00:52:47] Speaker C: Yeah, you just compare it to hope.
[00:52:55] Speaker A: You may clear an amount of hit dice and or stress equal to the value of your hope die. How would you like to divide up that nine you've just rolled?
[00:53:06] Speaker B: I think I'd like to get rid of all of my. All of my HPs.
[00:53:11] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:53:11] Speaker B: That will go down and I've only got one stress, so I'll clear that one stress as well.
[00:53:17] Speaker A: Okay.
In which case.
In which case, like Cal and Vanier, you watch as sort of like Rayri and like you feel the. The mental assault from this. This echo, this mana echo. And you watch as like Rayri and Azakar are bowed by the sheer oppressive force of it.
But then you watch as well. Nate, tell me what it looks like as Azzakar defies the oncoming of death.
[00:54:01] Speaker B: He's going to see that sort of. That fire, that red fire sort of blaze across his whole body.
He's felt.
He's felt surging like fire burn his skin before he's gonna with all his might.
He's tuning in to his devotion to divinity, his devotion to Aya, and pray that he wishes to continue to fight.
He'll feel like a glow sort of come through his whole body as he can feel himself sort of open his eyes again as he hasn't quite crossed the veil yet.
[00:54:51] Speaker A: Okay.
And yes, you feel this surge of hope like rise through your chest as you surge back to your legs, back to your feet. And I'm out of actions. So who would like to go next?
[00:55:12] Speaker B: How do I get out of being vulnerable? Or maybe because I was almost dead, Can I not be vulnerable anymore?
[00:55:19] Speaker C: Yeah. So if it has. So the vulnerable condition. Sometimes the thing that inflicts the vulnerable condition has a trigger to end the condition. Which makes the vulnerable condition that you've received a permanent vulnerability if there's nothing stating on that ability.
[00:55:45] Speaker A: Well, yeah, so you're. You're vulnerable until your next roll with hope. And you know what? You just rolled hope as a car. Yeah, I did.
[00:55:56] Speaker C: There we go then.
[00:55:58] Speaker A: Okay. You searched your feet. You are no longer vulnerable. I Think it's Azakar's turn. Don't. Don't we all?
[00:56:11] Speaker C: I'm swimming in hope. So if you want a tag team moment as well.
[00:56:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:16] Speaker A: You have 10 hopes between you. Please do attack team.
[00:56:21] Speaker B: Do a tag team then. Yeah.
As. As Azakar sort of raises back up to his feet, he's gonna. He's gonna turn to you. Vanier, what would you like to do? I was thinking of doing something with.
[00:56:36] Speaker C: My scimitar, so I think it'll be very much a.
[00:56:47] Speaker B: How about.
[00:56:48] Speaker C: Because.
[00:56:49] Speaker B: Because my. Because my weapon is.
Is imbued with divinity. How about I give you a little bit of divinity into your.
[00:57:01] Speaker C: Into the gauntlet.
[00:57:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
And then we just go.
[00:57:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:57:07] Speaker B: Together.
[00:57:07] Speaker C: Both, like, together.
Punch this dude.
[00:57:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:12] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. So both of you, who's spending the three hope as a car.
[00:57:18] Speaker C: Bear in mind, I'm spending it. Sorry. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because it's. Because as a cars go, I'm interrupting his. His turn, so I'm spending the hope.
[00:57:30] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:57:31] Speaker B: I was gonna say I don't mind spending the hope because I've got quite a bit as well.
[00:57:38] Speaker C: Up to you because if. If it's your go and I come in, I spend the hope. Okay, you spend the hope or no. No.
Yeah, it depends. You could. If I went and you spent the hope, you could essentially go again after me if you wanted to. Like murder round.
[00:57:57] Speaker A: I mean, it sounds like you can do that the other way around. Let's stick with it. It's. Yeah. As a car's turn. Vanier spending the hope.
[00:58:04] Speaker C: Yep. Okay, so I take off free hope.
[00:58:09] Speaker A: So down to two.
Yeah. Quick description of what you're doing and then roll some dice.
[00:58:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
As. As Azaka sort of almost draws his blade. You see the sort of white light sort of flash across it. He. You can see Vanya sort of almost going up for a punch. He sort of.
He kind of. He kind of scrapes the sort of side of the scimitar along the side of Vanya's gauntlet as it sort of passes by to sort of imbued it for a short second with divinity. As then he sort of patches that round and also goes for a SM with it.
[00:58:54] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:58:55] Speaker C: And this is divine and primal magics working together against arcane, just like they.
[00:59:05] Speaker A: Did six months ago.
Yep.
[00:59:10] Speaker C: I, in this moment as well would like to.
Because of this moment is quite crucial. I will like. I would love to spend another hope to use my experience through the hunt as like this, this. This tension in this like heightened scenario just fills Vanir with adrenaline as he goes for a, you know, killing blow.
If that's okay, dm.
[00:59:57] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. I've taken you down to one hope.
[00:59:59] Speaker C: Yep. So that's gonna give me plus two.
So, I mean, that's a total plus five to hit. Cool. Let's do this. Bam.
[01:00:08] Speaker B: Bam. Oh, it's a crit.
[01:00:16] Speaker F: Nice.
[01:00:21] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:00:22] Speaker C: Doesn't that mean we both crit then? Because we take yours.
We both.
[01:00:27] Speaker B: Yeah, why not?
[01:00:30] Speaker C: I think let me just double check the rules, but I believe so.
[01:00:34] Speaker A: Well, you'll both like, well care.
[01:00:39] Speaker C: Let me just.
[01:00:40] Speaker A: Sure. Tag is.
[01:00:42] Speaker E: Is it called you take most damage.
[01:00:44] Speaker A: Right.
[01:00:44] Speaker E: So you. You get max damage, both of you.
[01:00:50] Speaker C: And you roll again.
Hold on a minute.
[01:00:54] Speaker A: You. You both roll damage as usual and then add it together to determine the damage dealt.
So both you rolls before resolving, choose one of the roles to apply for both of your results. So presumably you're both choosing the crit. So you will both roll crits damage with crit.
[01:01:14] Speaker C: Okay, so this gets interesting for me.
[01:01:18] Speaker A: Okay, so, right, so, so crits, just to be clear, are like max damage. And then you like roll again, don't you?
[01:01:35] Speaker C: Yeah. So you max damage of. So take the total value of each of your weapons die or anything that gets added onto it. Any damage from it.
[01:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah, sorry.
[01:01:46] Speaker C: In terms of die damage, and then you re. Roll those die. Yeah, like properly. So, yeah, whatever you rolled onto the total value.
[01:01:56] Speaker A: Cool. So yeah, as a car value, if you both roll your damage die, and then we'll add max on top of that as well.
[01:02:04] Speaker C: Okay, Bear with me.
[01:02:08] Speaker B: So that is a 19 plus one. So that'll be 20 plus another 20 plus 21.
[01:02:18] Speaker A: Well, so it's.
[01:02:19] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness.
[01:02:21] Speaker A: So it's max die roll. So 20 plus 19, 39 plus one strength.
So 40 damage from Azar and. Yeah, Vanya, can you beat a 40? That's the question.
[01:02:41] Speaker C: No, no, no. So here, listen, hear me out.
My arcane coordinates are 2D10. Immediately we have 20.
[01:02:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:02:53] Speaker C: I'm using both of my slayer die, which adds an extra 2d6, so that's an extra 12. So that's 32.
[01:03:01] Speaker A: Are they damage dice?
Are they like weapon damage dice?
[01:03:05] Speaker C: Yeah, they count as on top of the. The damage, the weapon damage die.
Okay, so that is 32 already, plus what I'm about to roll, which is 26. So 32 plus 26 is 58.
So added to Nate's.
[01:03:36] Speaker A: For reference, this tag team has just done 98 damage.
Dead babe. No.
Now, one would look at the dagger heart rules and. And claim Well, I have a severe threshold of 20, ergo I only take 3 hit points.
However, as we have reached almost 5 times severe damage threshold, there's a. I see a finger.
[01:04:36] Speaker C: After severe, the next threshold to take four hit points is doubling the severe threshold. So if it's 20 severe. So if you hit 40, that's 4 points of health. Double 40 is 80, so that's 5 points of health.
So we've managed to hit the 5.
[01:04:58] Speaker A: Points of health massive threshold. That's double your severe. You thought?
Okay, cow, cow.
I know you've just rushed in and you've got your sword out and you're ready for a fight, but Nate and Dan, describe to me what happens here.
[01:05:32] Speaker C: So have you ever watched one one punch man?
[01:05:40] Speaker A: Describe to me how through your this surge of divine energy, you obliterate this corrupted echo.
[01:05:58] Speaker C: I don't know if you want to add anything to this, mate, but as your divine blade scratches against the primal gauntlets and imbues them with this blinding blind from like almost carrying over from your almost resurrection, you've just.
Just been imbued with your deities divine power.
The gauntlets themselves, reacting to that divine nature, just explode with primal wind and ice as this almost like hurt hurricane fist barrels to this enemy. And just almost like this like explosive bolt like shredding icy wind, just almost shreds and obliterates this creature entire body.
[01:06:59] Speaker B: And as you do that just before this, the body sort of obliterates. You can see Azakar like literally sawing his scimitar straight into the heart of this.
Okay.
[01:07:14] Speaker C: I can almost imagine the divine nature of that. That moment almost evaporates the arcane magic that holds this form together.
[01:07:27] Speaker B: And as. And as this body, just before it obliterates, Azakar will lean in and says Aya's blessing. Wishes you peace.
[01:07:44] Speaker A: Cracks of cracks like rupture. Under the sheer concussive force of your combined attack, the. The manifestation in front of you fully crystallizes into a brittle glass like structure. And cracks of light appear across its form.
And just as you go to deliver that kind of like the concussive thud from your. From your punch, Vanier kind of ripples outwards across its body, just separating chunks of crystal in. In different directions. Like in a. In a. In a fan away from you, Azakai, your scimitar is already planted like skewered through its chest where its heart would be.
And you are face to face with this drag, this. This crystallized memory of a dragon scent wizard from the past. And as you say, those Words I. As a blessing, the cracks reach up like it detonate it and it. It explodes away from you.
The. The eyes, the stare at you, looking oddly thankful.
The last thing that remains of it before it explodes into a thousand shards.
And as the memory shatters, so to do the two. The. The memories of the two mages behind it.
And as you.
As the two of you kind of drop and land to the like drop back to the ground as a car.
What you all hear this kind of echoey voice ripple through the cave.
[01:09:43] Speaker F: I did it for you, Mevania.
[01:09:51] Speaker A: And with that, the cave goes silent as the foul corrupting presence is banished.
What now?
[01:10:17] Speaker C: As we drop to the floor from that like immense powerful blow between us, I.
After catching our breath, I immediately swing around to Azakar and in like a like huffing and puffing, he's like we make a pretty good team, don't we? And I reach out for a hand like arm grab to try and help him up.
[01:10:46] Speaker B: Yeah, Azakar grabs your hand and he says, I could not think of a. Of a greater ally.
[01:10:53] Speaker A: Thank you.
In the corner.
Sorry. Sorry I derailed that emotional moment.
Like as the two of you, Azakar and Vanier, as the two of you kind of.
Kind of affirm these pledges to one another.
Callum Rayri. Your attention is caught by the. The sound of fast approaching footsteps.
And you turn to see tree sort of like sprinting like you hear huffing and puffing. Presumably she's climbing up that ten foot ledge. And then you see a sort of like running to the edge of the. The mana pool. And like she stops like proper like slams on the brakes to make sure she doesn't go face first into it. And then you see it kind of. She audibly says ew. She looks around at all of this kind of corrupted congealed manner.
And then she looks up to the four of you. And I. I don't know if it has anything to do with what's just happened here, but the portal's activated.
[01:12:20] Speaker C: Let us get off this.
I'm looking down to see if the mana pool is starting to desolidify.
[01:12:28] Speaker A: It's getting a bit squishy underfoot, that's for sure.
[01:12:31] Speaker E: Yep, let's go.
[01:12:33] Speaker A: But you also notice as you quickly step off the like the glassy surface that the, that sickly reddishness is seemingly like the pool is starting to lighten in color. And by the time the. The four of you have made it back onto solid land and are beginning to make your way out, kind of following after tree you notice it seems to be reverting to the similar kind of light blue magenta ish hues of the other pores that you've seen in this cave.
Yeah. Seemingly cleansing itself of its. Of the taint whatever caused.
Caused that corruption. Yeah. Trees wittering as the. The four of you kind of hurry back after her.
We. We sounded like you were having a fight and then we. I mean well, we didn't really want to stick on Oz in case we got in the way but we then we heard like a loud bang and there was some roaring and I think it sounded like you were like eating explosions or something. But I. I don't know. But yeah. Then. Then suddenly there was this kind of blast of light from the. The end of the tunnel and. And the portals turned on.
[01:13:49] Speaker B: We're just walking past her.
[01:13:54] Speaker A: Yeah. You manage to like. As you make your way back to the area you can see that the other researchers and goal have already kind of relocated to the end of that tunnel where the portal is now on the. You notice that the.
The crystal at its center now thrums with activity and life. The room sigils around it that stabilize the portal are now like active as well.
And a somewhat familiar kind of swirling vortex emanates up from the crystal. This looks like a fully functioning portal looks to you and like seeing you approach. He claps.
He slaps a hand on your thigh as a car.
[01:15:00] Speaker F: I. I was. I was poking and prodding it and.
[01:15:04] Speaker A: It just kind of flushed into life. I think I fixed it. He says.
I don't know what juvenile found in the tunnels, but I think this is our. Our route out.
The croak says he.
[01:15:19] Speaker B: He sort of pats the croak on the head and goes well done you.
[01:15:26] Speaker A: You all notice as you gather round that kind of that bad aura that was emanating from the portal has seemingly gone. And Rayri, as you glance around you also notice this that the. The sort of like the withered roots that were kind of reaching out of the water up onto land, they seem to be kind of. There's almost like a color seeping into the ends of them as they begin to sort of like grow. And it's almost like fingers reaching out towards the portal.
And you watch as these roots, like creeping fingers seemingly start to almost like begin to interact and manipulate the runic patterns on the portal itself.
And as explorers you who have used portals in the past, you can watch as it seems like the death. The. The portal itself is being calibrated of a sort by These roots until the roots. The roots eventually kind of grow inwards and then seemingly start to sort of like grow down into the cracks of the portal. And there's a surge of energy and the green light that emanates from it turns white and. Yeah, wherever this portal originally led, it now leads somewhere else.
[01:17:16] Speaker C: Well, that was weird. Shall we go?
[01:17:20] Speaker D: I think it's that nice sort of that nice spirit that I saw. I think she's doing it. She obviously wants us to go somewhere nice.
[01:17:32] Speaker B: And I think any word is nicer than here.
[01:17:38] Speaker A: As the four of you, like, follow, the researchers begin kind of stepping into the portal. And one by one, they're whisked away on ethereal currents.
And as a four of you kind of watch to make sure they're all kind of they all leave safely. Tree is the last to go.
The four of you step into the portal and are whisked away. Rayri as the last to go. As you're about to step into the swirling miasma, you take a moment to glance over your shoulder because you just have this feeling.
And for a fleeting moment you feel like you spot a young female keeper with a staff that looks surprisingly similar to the a spear story that looks surprisingly similar to the one wielded by that young keeper boy in the in the forests.
And as the world around you kind of shifts as the portal drags you away, you watch as this female keeper fades into motes of light.
We fast forward to a celebrate the sounds of cheer and mirth as tales of the rescue of the researcher team spread through the inn. In the town of New Prospect, you can see a lot of the town folk have arrived to have joined in to congratulate you, to welcome back the researchers, to inquire about the tales that you have kind of crafted in your short time here.
Overseeing the the celebrations is the large gruff lore of our man with the eyepatch, Sheriff Comstock, you remember his name being, who's somewhat overseeing the the party alongside Davin Dram, the mayor of the town.
And after a particular lease waffly speech as demanded by the the citizens of New Prosper Davendram thanks you for your service to the town.
As as the kind of festivities roll on, the port at the back of the inn bursts into life and through it steps a Laura of our man, probably in his mid to late 30s, you would reckon.
But what's bizarre is despite his seeming kind of youth, he has a head of silvery white hair. Upon his forehead is a tiara of with what appear to be magical gems and some of you may have recognized this man from your time in Ava.
But as the Larovar steps in, looks around you note that his clothes are particularly ornate and lavish.
You see the Sheriff spin round and.
[01:21:46] Speaker F: Ah, Archmage. It's good to have you back.
[01:21:50] Speaker A: Comstock says.
An Archmage, Meridius Radan, steps forward and.
Well, yes, I. I came as quickly as soon as I heard. I. I hear you've. I hear the researchers have been returned. And I suspect I have you four to thank for this.
[01:22:13] Speaker C: Yeah, you could say that.
[01:22:16] Speaker A: As the four of you glance upon this Larovar, you. Whether or not you recognize him or not, you do know from his regalia that he is one of the Archmages. The council of Archmages from Avermor, potentially. This man would have been one of the Brainchildren for the Explorers Initiative.
And as he looks at you with these kind of cool silver, like silver gray eyes, he nods.
There's a genuine smile upon his face.
I've.
I'm very glad that you found the researchers. I hear that there are. You found some quite peculiar circumstances within the tower.
From what I understand, from what I've been told, these are quite troubling. This is quite a troubling revelation that Mana might have been corrupted.
But I. I won't press you for details now. I'll let you enjoy the fruits of your labor here, enjoy the hospitality of New Prosper. And then when you're ready, please return to Avermoore so we can have a little debriefing.
I suspect that what you've found out today may have repercussions on our future expeditions going forward.
Threats that we might have to. To keep a close eye on.
He looks to the Sheriff again and Comstock, Always a pleasure to see you. And with that, the Archmage turns, steps back through the portal to Avore.
What are the four of you doing? So, starting with Cal, what are you doing in particular as the. The. The folk of New Prosper kind of celebrate your. Your victory?
[01:24:24] Speaker E: I think he is quietly relieved that no one died and they got the job done.
He's been mulling over the events of the fight as someone who is not a def. You know, has for quite a while now, had no interest in divinity.
It was interesting to him to see it get in play in the way that it was.
And he's still processing how he feels about it.
So he is just very quietly, probably pan having a few drinks. Probably still has his resting frown face on, but it might not be as frowny there may Be some faint smiles going on here and there at the festivities, but nothing to suggest that he's angry. Just he seems chill and relieved everyone's safe.
[01:25:30] Speaker A: In which case, as you're kind of taking in the the party if you will, with this kind of somewhat dour look on your face from across the tavern, you spy the Wolfkin woman, Frinka, you remember her name to be sat alongside the platinum haired Aesavar Milia.
And the Wolfkin lady kind of spies you is. Is watching you with this kind of frowned face. And then she shouts cheer up. You look as miserable as Comstock. She shouts across the. Across the hall. And you hear like Millia from. From the sheriff.
But yeah, the. The Wolfkin woman sort of like laughs at Comstock's kind of indignation. Indignation. And then she kind of leans back, puts her feet up on the table and an arm around the ace of our woman.
Vanya. How are you feeling?
[01:26:39] Speaker C: As the camera pans away from Cow, you probably see Vanya very much in the middle of the festivities, very much like clinking is tankered with everyone regaling like in his very broken common like way of telling a story that he may portray it but yeah, he's very much like a.
And then this big crystal thing came out of the weird goopy arcane muck. It was crazy. And like clanking his drink plug. Yeah it's very much like spurring on the energy of the atmosphere.
[01:27:23] Speaker A: The. As you're regarding this tale, perhaps unbeknownst to you, you're. You're being watched very closely by two goblin twin brothers who are just trying to size up whether your story is more impressive than theirs or not. Of the. The things you fought within the tower and yeah, Knock kind of elbows his brother Bach and now that sound really good.
[01:27:52] Speaker F: You write that down.
[01:27:53] Speaker A: You write that down. Well we ain't.
[01:27:55] Speaker F: Yeah, get that crystal.
[01:27:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
Yes. Yeah. As you're kind of the. The rest of the patrons are enthralled by your story.
Rayri, what are you.
[01:28:09] Speaker D: I.
Rabi is looking for Tree so she can find her or.
[01:28:19] Speaker A: Yes. Whoa.
Tree in fact has been sat next to you sort of like tongue out, trying to still manipulating it. So fundamentally all she's been doing, sort of like turning over, poking it, shaping it, you know, trying to twist certain things and she turns to you with this look of sheer kind of frustration on her face and I. I need my tools. I need my tools. Tell you what, when you lot of ready and you're heading back to Ava Moore, I'M I'm gonna come with you.
I. I'll bring this to my workshop and then we can try and figure. Figure this out properly. Because, I mean, I'm not saying that these people are, you know, they've just got no. No tools to use. How. How can a place like this get by without any one of.
She just. She's getting frustrated to the point where she can't even get her words out. And then she kind of goes back to like someone in our world struggling with a Rubik's Cube.
[01:29:26] Speaker D: It just kind of like, what do.
[01:29:29] Speaker A: You think is in it?
[01:29:30] Speaker D: Is it like sweets or like, I.
[01:29:35] Speaker E: Don'T know.
[01:29:39] Speaker A: Tree kind of stops. She lets out a big huff. And, I mean, I need to make sure for certain, but this. This thing, it.
I think it's a beacon.
[01:29:58] Speaker D: I would have something like a prize.
[01:30:02] Speaker A: Well, you never know. You never know. What's a beacon for? Or a beacon too.
Maybe it's like a compass.
[01:30:12] Speaker D: Yes.
[01:30:15] Speaker A: We'll know when we get back to Avermore, she says. She reassures you.
A car.
What are you doing?
Given everything you've just witnessed, where is.
[01:30:34] Speaker B: Where did you say the portal back to Avore was?
[01:30:38] Speaker A: So he's at the back of the. This tavern, basically. So it's the portal that the arch mage just arrived and departed through. Okay.
[01:30:48] Speaker B: He'S. He's hoping not to catch anyone's eyes.
He's hoping that everyone is sort of thoroughly enjoying themselves and distracted as he tries to head for the portal himself.
[01:31:08] Speaker A: As you begin to slink away, you find your way blocked by the broad shouldered, like old Laura Var. Sheriff.
[01:31:23] Speaker F: You know it's rude to leave without saying goodbye.
[01:31:32] Speaker A: True.
[01:31:33] Speaker B: Very true.
[01:31:35] Speaker F: But I also understand why you might want to.
There are things that you can see in a place like that that.
That can rattle you, can really shake you.
But I think that can also be something that steals your resolve, really confirm a path that you need to take, let you make decisions you never thought you could.
[01:32:22] Speaker B: I acted impulsively.
I acted.
I acted in rage.
And it almost got me killed.
[01:32:37] Speaker A: The lore of art straightens. And yes.
[01:32:44] Speaker F: I.
I know of the rage you speak.
[01:32:51] Speaker A: And as he takes a drink, you notice that his gaze for a moment turns to look out of the window of the tavern, to glance at the statue outside.
[01:33:08] Speaker F: But sometimes that impulsiveness, that's really just a measure of how much we give a damn.
And it's that. That drive that you need to hold on to.
[01:33:26] Speaker B: I wish to hold on to that drive.
But it needs to be controlled.
This that has always been my way. That has always been my training.
This won't don't.
Don't believe that I am running away from my duties.
I just believe I need to reconnect with myself so I can fight again.
[01:34:05] Speaker A: Comstock not.
[01:34:11] Speaker F: As long as you keep. As long as you make sure that you still believe that when the time comes to return, you'll be good.
[01:34:22] Speaker A: He sort of like gestures with his tankard at the other three around the inn.
[01:34:29] Speaker F: They seem like good people.
They'll be ready for when you're ready.
[01:34:37] Speaker B: They are exceptional allies and I will be very lucky to fight with them again.
[01:34:47] Speaker A: The law of art kind of gives you a smile and a nod and.
[01:34:54] Speaker F: If you excuse me, I have to find that poxy deputy of mine.
[01:35:02] Speaker A: And as the Larovar kind of steps out of your way seeming like he gives you a wink with his one good eye and then seemingly it seems almost as if he's doing it to draw attention away from like draw attention to him. He kind of walks to the other end of the inn and shouts has anyone seen Victor? He says.
And the the rest of the three of you, like you hear the outburst from the Lorevar and all eyes kind of turn to Sheriff Comstock.
But did any of you see as a cast link away perhaps Cal from your quiet corner?
[01:35:50] Speaker E: I think think. I think Cal's pretty observant. I think he would have noticed and I think he would have respected if Asar needed to go. Sure, Al is not a man of many words, but I think he will miss Azakar's presence in the group very much.
[01:36:11] Speaker A: In which case, yeah. As Azakar steps through the portal to the gleaming streets of Ava Moore and the other for the rest of you tuck into a well earned night of celebration on the sounds of the seashore kind of lapping at the sands is interspersed with the sounds of gurgling of a gaggle of croak.
And with his hands on his knees an elderly lore of our man with his trouser legs rolled up is stood in front of the saying.
Okay, we will try this again.
Her name is Victor Kasprazak.
And you are. And five set. The four sets of crowd Kai's just stare at him.
And then a voice rings out.
You will have to excuse my one wayward brethren. They are not gifted with the gift of vocabulary.
And Victor slowly turns his head to regard Gurple.
Could it be. Could it be a talking a talking croak?
And Gurpel strides forward.
Yes. I do not know what cruel fate What. What.
What fortuous fates have led me to be able to converse with you. But I have seen and admired you for many years.
And Victor's face like glows with joy.
There are so many things I.
There are so many things.
And Gurple starts to retch.
What I'm trying to say is.
And the croak vomits up what appears to be a small mana crystal which falls into the water.
And Victor, bit of surprised looks down and yes, what is it you need to tell me?
And Gurpel, just one eye looks at Victor and he responds.
And then he sits down in the water as the sea washes past him.
There's a crunch of the face and then a mal colored stain begins spreading through the water and Victor.
Oh it. It was worth a try. He says as he slowly backs out the poo stained sea.
And as the elderly Lorevar walks past back up to the. Back up to the town. As the sun begins to set over the horizon of new prosper we will call it there.
Congratulations everyone on completing Tale one.
You did it.
You did it.
[01:40:13] Speaker E: Didn't die.
[01:40:15] Speaker A: You didn't die. Oh my God. You didn't die. In the most dramatic way possible.
Yeah, I. I mean it's the first. What a way to showcase the. Showcase the. The death mechanics of. Or not the not death mechanics of Dagger Heart. So it would seem. Yeah. Absolutely aced it.
Cool. So yes, we are done with this story but Tales from Elsewhere is not complete because that was only tail one and we will be moving swiftly on to tail two. How about that? How novel is that, eh?
Yes, I'm excited to see what I can conjure up for some of these beautiful lot.
Is it. Is it public? Are we. Are we making it public?
[01:41:06] Speaker B: Might as well make it public.
[01:41:09] Speaker A: Well the. The next time you see us we will have a change in the lineup. Such is the. In a sense almost the point of Tales from Elsewhere in that it's quite.
Well, it's a bit of a. It's a bit of a one in, one out like a revolving door of characters just to have lots of people kind of show their faces and have a good time. But yeah, we are saying goodbye to you Nate for the immediate future. As a car is.
As a car's got some questions to answer, some things to ponder.
So yeah, hopefully. Well, we fully expect that we'll see as a car again in the future, but we will have a new guest feeling Nate's lofty shoes on the next stream.
I think that's it. Any what. What are we yeah. Are there any shout outs you want to give Nate before we. Before we call it quits?
[01:42:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we might as well shout out that Pride Caf is coming up.
[01:42:11] Speaker A: So.
[01:42:11] Speaker B: Pride Comic Art Festival. It's. It's a comic art festival that me and Chris, who has also been on the channel, we run it. It is a dedicated comic art festival to LGBTQIA creators. It is happening in Bristol on 21st September. It's open from 11am until 5pm and it is absolutely free to enter. And we have over 60 different creators coming this year. So please do come along if you can and spend your money buying some amazing stuff.
[01:42:43] Speaker A: And we.
Yeah, 100 we. We here, explorers of elsewhere can confirm. But it is awesome. It has been previous years and it will be this year. So, yeah, absolutely. Come along if you're in the neighborhood or even if you're not. Just have a day trip.
Cool. Well, tell you what, let's turn off the funny music and let's go for the outro.
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