White Bull Season 2 Episode 07 – transcript

of Kallyr Starbrow doesn’t she look friendly super
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super happy like an angry pippy longstocking informal
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hippie long star angry long stopping that is now Kallyr’s name in my head
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forever welcome back to another exciting episode
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of the adventures of the White Bull the Chaosium house Runequest campaign i’m Jeff i will
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be your gm tonight and we’re just gonna start right in and where we ended the last session uh
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and that is i believe Nisk is holding up a uh dragon’s head that was chopped off by
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Garan godstopper sometimes called Garan dragonsbane sometimes called Garan
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gobstopper and once he had even the the self-proclaimed kind of lame nickname Garan Grimseeming
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which now everybody tries to trade was it seeing i never quite seeming or seeing i
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really can’t remember i don’t know but we’ve all forgotten that one already i think you know it’s kind of like it’s kind of
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like a teenage kid trying to figure out now am i going to be punk rock am i going to be a metal head am i like i think it’s more like david
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bowie’s different identities no because what’s east then a lot insane then thin white duke i
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think it’s very much like that uh no i i don’t think so because aiming to become the first Humakti
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god it was exactly right it was it was worth a try but no it’s it’s it’s more like
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it’s more like uh ronnie dio you know starting with elf [Laughter]1:58
so [Laughter] just saying anyways anyways so setting
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the scene we we have ronnie dio has has decapitated the uh
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[Music] the the dragon and uh
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Nisk is carrying the head you have the the goddess has awakened here within her
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chamber and that’s exactly where we wanted to wanted to start things
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so let’s just dive right on in um the head is able to
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talk to um and it is Nisk who’s carrying the head right right now sure not right
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not right now or yes right now i said right now yes okay um
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the head has has as said do not destroy what is left of me or um
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give my remains to the traitors let me serve you in exchange for letting me
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continue to exist what power and knowledge uh that remains with me is now at your
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command and uh you know you despite being on the
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head of a purple dragon it it still has the uh years of stearns female voice
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so probably a little bit incongru uh incongruous
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and it needs to know what your plan i you need to say decide you know now would be a good
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time to decide something with the with the head something with the goddess
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whether you’re gonna loot the tomb and what you guys are gonna do so let’s just dive in where we are
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i think there was a pretty good consensus that we are not looting the tomb probably if we see
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something from the dragon as opposed to from the old days and we can tell the difference that we’re willing to take um
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almost all of us donated some magic points to the um gave some magic points to the to the to
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the goddess and Nisk has offered that we should go and let the earth priestesses
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know locally you know down in clearwine because i think they’d be super excited to hear about this
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yeah let me let me at least describe the room here a little bit um and then you can fully make up the
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the mind that the sleeping goddess the goddesses chamber was hewn out of solid rock and
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was colorfully pain is colorfully painted with murals showing numerous gods and goddesses um
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in the corner of the room is the rectangular cuboid where the goddess is sitting
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um atop it is atop it is the goddess you also we’ve all shown pictures of
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that etc uh wound around uh sorry around the edges of the room
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are scores of votive images depicting worshippers and offerings we talked
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about be familiar with you because i think several of you all have set up votive images in various places
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most are made of terra cotta but uh many are made of bronze there are
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so there’s all sorts of bronze figures and of course bronze is valuable uh and there is a a uh
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niche on the the rear wall that holds uh many more treasures
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a pair of uh card jade um let me make sure i can see this right uh
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a uh a pair of um
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carved jade bones one um one bearing a crowned woman and another
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a man wielding a spear there’s a bronze torque and matching bracelets which look like
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uh twinned serpents and a copper mirror polished on both
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sides and giving a fine reflection so you know you have basically that’s the treasure that’s the
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the obvious in this room treasures there might be more there might not be
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um but um that at least gives you an idea what is
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there and then there is to the side actually
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to the side it is clear there is a honest uh temple treasury which you guys can
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check out if you want to or not and then the dragon uh the dragon
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is willing to barter uh knowledge for her continued existence
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yeah that sounds fine i mean we shouldn’t kill it more than necessary obviously
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so let us decide what do you so you’re um you’re you’re not playing to
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loot the tomb nope i’d like to ask the dragon actually which things were here and belong to the goddess
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which things belong to you
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um she says that i was worshipped as the goddess for many centuries
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it’s all mine perhaps it’s it’s hers it depends on the direction you look at
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that’s quite an impressive swindle yes let’s say sort of grudging
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acknowledgement of uh yeah okay so that means that a lot of
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these things are actually given to you so would you let us have them
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i am at your command okay if you let me continue
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i think we’ve agreed to let you continue with us we don’t plan on returning you to the traitors
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although there are some among us who disagree i only want to say that i’m not happy
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with what when are you ever happy
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when i am happy in dancing i’m happy in other things but all the yeah whatever dragon’s head
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and schnupsie bobs is not my thing yeah you can tell me if you guys check
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out the treasury or not the goddess the goddess says nothing because none of you
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um gave her you’ve given her magic points so she’s benevolent but none of you have given her power
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correct correct so far
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i no she’s not my thing well let’s go and have a look at the
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treasure then yeah okay Kulbrast the the pirate in you
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yeah eyes glow with the uh the the treasury there is there are
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10 drinking vessels made out of gold i have just
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let me just describe this to coal breast first a small amphora of gold and nine
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rightons in the shape of a ram’s head so there’s nine there’s basically nine of these drinking
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cups that are in the form of a ram’s head made out of gold
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beautifully made beautifully made you think that if you melted them down
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they’d be worth a fortune but they’re beautifully made but as i
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was yeah i mean we could just drink from them obviously which would be the pirate in you thinks that would be
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so awesome there’s also a pair of of um copper
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bracelets um which isn’t called checking this out or not yeah
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i can do a detect magic if you want me to there’s a lot of these things are magical um
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the the magical copper bracelet definitely magical the heavy copper and gold pendant
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earrings shaped like fertility runes are also magical
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um you know big beautiful golden um golden copper earrings
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wow and there is a copper cape pectoral that’s also magical so like one of these
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big a pectoral is these big um uh
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they’re not really necklaces because they’re not flexible they’re like this this cape made up a short cape made
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out of of of copper um and looking at that you know it’s also
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beautifully made the pirate this is i mean
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Kulbrast what would Harrek do he’d wreck the place
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and he’d probably take it yes i have a problem we do not worship this goddess and so on we cannot i mean
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we are not we cannot loot like that but we have to live off something
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but if it’s if it was given to the dragon that the dragon freely gives it to us then it’s not looting
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is it yeah well i’m afraid it is it’s a goddess because they didn’t know
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it was the dragons so what about the stuff that you took from the other um the other tomb in the graves
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i didn’t you did you took all of the bracelets and everything so i told took one golden necklace
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no you said you took all of it because you were looking for which was magic and everything no that was actually that wasn’t color
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it was not me no i only have the spear she took the goblin she took the goblet from yeah the goblet yeah i took one gold
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necklace that’s what i wrote down okay anyway it doesn’t really matter
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because you don’t have to take anything at all so you know we’re fine i think so that’s the first
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question i i have i don’t know if anybody has any questions for the dragon or or any plans there
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okay i mean the dragon we can question at any point in the future obviously we take it along
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but i can ask it what was yours before they started worshiping you
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that wasn’t given to the goddess that was given to the dragon or taken by the dragon
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she said that when i was the god when when i was worshipped as the goddess of this
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place this was all mine yeah but before that
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i can’t remember before that i’ve been around for a very long time
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so much treasure well i’m not really that into the treasure but the magical stuff would be interesting yeah i i’ll i’ll ask the dragon if
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there’s anything she would like us to take along to you know keep safe for her
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take whatever you think you need whatever you want whatever you desire i serve you
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okay fair enough how much of how much of this
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is actually yours to give now i have nothing
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i i am i am an echo
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endures so one thing we’re going to do here is i am definitely going to contact the high
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priest that’s basically back there back in um the other place and tell her
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about this place right well you have to go somewhere to tell people where we are we’re going to go to clearwater to do that right we’re going
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to drop off the clamp first and then we’re going to go to clear i want to go to clear one to talk to them
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talk to the people there about it i’m not you know really particular about
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saying hey we want to um we want to take all the stuff out of this because i think that that
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if we say that we’ve left it in here that will actually provide us some value and you know the temple will be in
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our debt um i’m not saying that i’m not opposed to saying there’s a couple of items of
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magic or whatever that we should take i don’t think that’s a i don’t think you know to Nisk sense
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it’s um it’s basically a reward for waking her and he doesn’t have a problem with that but he’s not going to be discussing this
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in the is this here in the tomb here or are you just asking me yeah yeah no
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i’m telling everybody remember i posted some of this in slack already so i don’t think it’s actually
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changed his opinion on stuff the the dragon’s head um
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says that um i have
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i have information of great interest for he who cut my head off
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but i wish him to uh swear
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that he will allow me to endure
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and for that i will tell him um i will tell tell him
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information of great interest
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well Garan i i don’t so while he’s thinking i’ll just
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get out of the looting bag and start piling in [Laughter]16:42
this has gone long enough i can’t resist the treasure anymore what’s your question what’s your
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question what who does this who does this dragon think
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it is who does it who does it think it’s bargaining with tell us the information
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and if it’s good enough informa tell me the information and if it is good enough then maybe i will not
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cleave your skull and twain you are not you are not you have no
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leverage over us swear to disturb us sir where
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to is swear to swear to it or the price of not listening
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will be upon your head and upon your
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honor
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yeah he was trying to bluff i’m a bit shocked
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just do it brain thing Nisk what would you have me do
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can make you do anything you know i say this you are free to make
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and you should make those decisions i if i was one that would tell you such things and say you should do this
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then um then i am nothing but an evil emperor if you were to ask me what my opinion
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what’s this i can definitely tell you that like i have said on all of these things
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um
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obviously i wasn’t there when Orlanth slew aroca i don’t know that relationship
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but i don’t know who that that how that happens so i um
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i i am sure that um through a magical way whatever you say
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you know if if we don’t agree to it maybe it will
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be able to curse us um maybe there’s something to do with the traders i’m assuming the traders of
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the dragon news in fact i’m pretty darn sure that’s pretty obvious um but you have to
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decide if you’re going to take it or return it can i remind you Garan that it does seem
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to have some information on the evil nasty chaotic lunar empire
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and some kind of convergence or
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and we don’t like the luminaries i don’t see the problem with having a pet dragon head
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i will make such an attachment no swear i will not i’ll end your
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existence you may continue give forth the information you can see
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it uh it says that um an
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army marches upon your people as we speak
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it is um it is led by the son of the king of dragon pass
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and they um it includes um many magicians
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of the red goddess [Music] it marches as we speak
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and it is but days away
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you may decide you should decide what you what you you shall do with this
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information i saw it in my flights
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how how large is this army give us give us details
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how many how many ranks of troops did you see how many chariots how many
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how many engines of war can you would you be able to tell us in detail not now they have human
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human battle or anything is the skill but you can say that it um it numbered as many as
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the city wow okey-dokey
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and it is on uh and um when i saw uh i saw it
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when i saw it it had begun to march
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well we’ve got some people to go tell [Music] well that’s an interesting question
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there for you the question is who will you want to speak to
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you have queen Leika in Clearwine um or you have the prince
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in Boldhome Boldhome doesn’t have a prince nope but Boldhome well
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well regardless of what title you give her she has the biggest military i i’m not going to not tell her i
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wouldn’t do that i’m just saying but i think we tell him but my personal loyalty of those is to
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Leika so i’m going to tell Leika first she can send riders and we can do that because we we’ve got a lot of stuff to
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tell the Leika yeah okay i’m going to be even meaner
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here to make this more of a moral dilemma and i’m going to put up the map
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again it depends on what you mean what what you think she means by days away do you see this here you’re
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way too zoomed in for the i think you should be able to see it in a moment do you see it
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okay do you see queen’s tomb right here yep yep yeah and here’s clear wine here
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but it’s possible to go from queen’s tomb into the brighton’s
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right to bolt home maybe take you about two days
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how dangerous is it it’s a tough it’s you’re going right through the mountains
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um if you go to clear wine there’s no way you can get to
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to bolt home faster than this there is someone i can ask about this
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because they will probably know if we get outside i can ask Orlanth right we can do a dividation
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and say if we travel the clear wine will we also be able to warn Boldhome soon enough because Orlanth
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would see that coming right i mean if that’s not going to be something that quote is not in this question carefully
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but yes it is possible to phrase the question in such a way that Orlanth could give you an answer of basically how how many days away the
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lunar army is
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again i don’t know maybe this this this causes coal brass to want to loot more maybe this changes your your your
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thoughts but it is a little bit of a a little bit of um a dropped mic for the
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dragon i mean she had already indicated as much yeah but but but there’s a difference between
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there it’s coming because i kind of sense it coming through some mythic thing and yeah no i
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saw them when i was flying around right that’s much more short term from uh
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from a spotting perspective if that makes sense um we do have a newly awakened goddess here
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who might be able to hate help against something but we’d probably need the earth goddesses
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for any kind of unless you want to sacrifice to join the to worship the god is here
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yeah with my 10 power i don’t think so
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but if we go there and we go to Boldhome we’ll probably our best bet is to go and also tell
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um our graph and then we don’t go to clear one we may go straight back that’s the one
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thing how far is it now uh three weeks away yeah a couple of
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weeks not the point though right the sooner we tell them the better yeah
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i mean we can always send someone to clear wine if it’s just about warning them some
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that something is up that is possible we could split the
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party no no i mean yeah i mean one of one of the uh one of your
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one of our retinue not necessarily one of us
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like send nasterius and her brother to there to talk to the king
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and let them know at the same time while we’re going there [Applause]26:19
yep okay
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now what works for me and then they’d pick us up would they would meet back with us and bolt home
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well i mean if there are only two they’re probably quicker than us right and they might they would also not have to go
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through the mountains they could rise directly to palace basically
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guys they’re gonna go around you gotta go up around by bolt home to get the papas right yeah but is there any way to get a message
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quicker to him i mean he does seem to meditate a lot
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and discorporate a lot is there a way to maybe approach him on the spirit plane it’s a
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long ways do you have a system oh to our graph you have to argue
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but the spirit plane is kind of weird with everything isn’t it yeah how much time do you spend uh
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discord in in and running wild with that i don’t know i’ve never i don’t think
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i’ve ever run wide completely wild with it so that’s what i think too with your 10
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power i think you tend to be a little bit cautious about such things yes so
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you know it’s it’s by writing five
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seven nine it’s almost two weeks to get to new
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pavis from swens so it’s it’s a good solid two weeks to get to new pavis
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if you go fairly hard from um uh bolt home that’s a and that you know
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that doesn’t sound that long you know to to us moderns used to it that’s a
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long time to be um riding or moving forward a heck of a
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travel that’s a heck of a trip i mean you know that is every day through that and
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that’s assuming there’s no problems with nomads bros sandstorms or any of the other fun stuff you can
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have in practice [Music]28:38
either way right i’m not worried about i mean it’s more a matter of the sooner we get there the sooner he
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can decide what to do the sooner we can choose if we we go and assist right the way seasonally the weather is pretty good to
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get back if that’s what he wants it wants to do but i know our graph would want to know
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that the lunars are coming again the question the core question is that i’d like every other’s opinion on is do
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we tell Leika first do we send messengers to Leika or is there someone who can travel really
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quickly who while we go around that tells talks to leica
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i i mean i don’t like splitting the party but i can ride pretty hard on opie i i have a high llama it runs pretty
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fast um but the issue is you’re not i wouldn’t say have you go talk to anybody
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you know it would be Garan or i probably that would go that way or or um the other two are actually milani
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so i’m not sure they’re actually that popular there either no no i’m very not popular over there so i’m
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not a good option no we don’t that way
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[Music] can i send a ghost over with the message
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i’m raven yeah that was i was thinking about but i don’t know this is really smart how many fingers
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well he knows that he’ll he’ll be fed when he gets
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there yeah or we get shot on the way
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i mean it’s worth it i mean it needs must when whack both calls the tune um
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there’s a there’s a lunar army coming you know we’re gonna have to we have to take some risks and i am
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happy for my raven to take some of those risks you are having a raven what languages
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does your raven speak i think it’s uh polarian
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oh that’s probably not gonna help yeah well you could you could attach a message to me you might speak more than
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one though to be fair you could attach a message to its leg
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yeah exactly like
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wow you’re cultured yes some i have to read the songs and i have
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to write them down not not just dancing no even more
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so i can i mean when we get outside i can ask um you know i can ask if we have enough
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time right so that that will before we have to make that decision but we probably need to make it
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the raven also speaks surely oh well that’s probably more useful rolling a new pillory that’s why it
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speaks where did it learn new polarian what’s the story of that raven
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it probably sat on the chest of dead lunar soldiers and talk to them while they pick out their eyes
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it knew you prolory when it came to me no i’ve never asked him and i don’t want
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to know there are some stories too dark even
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someone should write write the story of the ravens yeah it’s an album
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it’s an album the rape the raven’s life
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okay i looked at my rune magic i have a great selection the people who have the really good teleport spells or um Orlanth thunderous
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and i actually don’t have teleport anyway and then i can only only teleport to where i can see um unless i joined thunderous or
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something as well so i can’t get somebody that had guided
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teleportation to bolt home or guided to whatever yes
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yeah i don’t know how that works if you pick up to pick a block anyway it’s irrelevant because none of us know it
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no i was like i feel a little bit bad for this poor goddess waking up she has no idea about the lunar empire
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and this whole thing is gonna get so sacked and looted well it may or may not you’re trying to
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justify taking the stuff aren’t you it’s it’s already in my bag yeah
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Kulbrast already saved it for us um well i mean it does change things
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um the one thing we can do where we are is we can we’re can you bring up the map
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again please Jeff yes i can give you one second
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because i think we do have another another a couple of things we can do is if you look at the queen’s tomb right
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i would send warning and i would go to fair jowl and i would pass on at fair jowl and i
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would pay them to send messengers to clear wine and to send messengers to because they
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are they’re still are they still in columnar lands yeah virgil is calling my lands well perfect
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and get them to send it because there will be not only ducks but there will also be probably some you know humans there that
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we can talk to about getting that and we can pass that information on that’s only a couple of hours out of the way we can pass the news about the
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temple we can pass the news about the dragon we can pass those pieces and then we can go go on right so are you guys leaving the
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temple the tomb i remember there was something magical in the pit too are you guys
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gonna dive down into the well filled with thousands of terra cotta snakes to be
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able to find this the uh the magic white i think that’s old-school stuff Jeff i would like to do one thing before
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we leave the tomb i would like to to draw a kind of a map into the ground if
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this goddess wants to go to my goddess table that she would find a way
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where is your goddesses it’s some kind of a ritual thingamajiggy i don’t know
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like a map in the underworld yep something like that for her so it’s symbolical map okay
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i think this is something i to do okay i mean she’s a goddess so
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she she gives you no indication what if anything she’s thinking of
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it’s fine for her but i mean even goddesses sometimes need to know
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the way yes absolutely absolutely it’s it’s
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especially if nobody worships them write that down on your character sheet that you did that
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okay okay outside of the temple yep outside of the tomb this is your
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chance desk it’s a one it’s one point to have a i believe it is a short question
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and i come up with a seven word answer i believe that’s the way uh divination
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works let me double check boy it’ll be really nice when i have a physical why don’t i use my handy new here super advert roon quest
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is that an adventurous uncle oh my word if only i could read some
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sort of book it is cool the spanish version finally arrived i’m super excited to have it
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okay so get some people here you may ask a simple question and you
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receive an answer of up to 10 words or a brief vision or dream of the answer the
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procedure requires one hour per point of divination used
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okay short question
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think it through well i’ll ask before i get the to make sure if he
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thinks it too timing on this Jeff i can choose to take an hour of game time
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um so warlant god of storms and winds and spirits
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and he would see those right so would say um or there was a large movement
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of lunar yeah there was a there was a large lunar movement a large lunar army traveling south
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into into your lands um i don’t know if i’d call it your lance
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on that um how long will it take that army how many um to travel to um travel to bolt home
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or travel to the basically travel to the center and the mountains
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i’m just trying to think of something like that i’m not gonna say Boldhome or something but maybe i would use like the spire
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how long would it take to be near the so it so they could be seen ask how long it would take to get to
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your tribe’s lands that’s something that is defined by no i will ask how long it would take to
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get to the um to get to the location of your little brother
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remember that’s brother is the peak that we we hiked up at the beginning here that’s in
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part of the pieces of bolt up because that would give us an idea i think yep trying to put it in the middle
38:49
because that’s a mythic location does that make sense exists in both places
38:57
that sound good Garan fine sounds good to me
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that’s a question i’ll ask unless there’s one more thing it’s saberhead you could also have dreams and visions
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and stuff it would of course be very interesting to actually see this lunar army i don’t think i get a
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choice i think it decides if i get to see it okay if that makes sense
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and i could call it the armies of chaos because i mean they’re going to live on both veins of how we describe it i’m just trying to
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describe it more mythically than describing it mundanely as well
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i think it matters
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chop off a point i’m writing this down no problem
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one two three four five six
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five six
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i’m going to give you 11 words oh even better maybe the lunar army which could be one
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word if we wanted to say it the lunar army could be at quiven mountain in 10 days
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sorry 11 days 11 days keep in mind that is not long
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no it is not how much of an army do you have per do is prepared already waiting to
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deal with it to the best of your knowledge none none
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um i was i was just wondering yeah no i just have a question about spirits um
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is it possible to to get the spirits around
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like to converge on an army
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if you there are lots of ways to be able to send lots of spirits um how many spirits do
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you have under the control of your fetch no i i have never i never haven’t really tried that uh i
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have one it’s a spider i mean you could have your you could release
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you could have spirits held by your fetch and release them one at a time um you could create lots of binding
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enchantments bind spirits to you and then release a whole mass of them at a place you could try to go
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discorporate yourself but there is a degree of range
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involved on this yeah no uh what i mean is can i if i just corporate and
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just go through the woods and wake up the spirits there and tell them chaos is coming
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chaos is coming fight fight the red moon would they actually wake up to that
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um well each one you would have to try to persuade your yourself and again that’s
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going to be a factor of your power yeah which is crap yeah
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okay yeah just ignore me for other people no i mean it’s it’s a it’s a good i it’s a good
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long-term goal but i don’t i it may not you may not be able to get very much for the amount of work you
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would have to do yeah at this point yeah i think because you’ve sacrificed an awful lot of power
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in in in the last year which hopefully will turn out to be to
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your character’s long-term gain but right now you’re kind of wimpy on the spirit world
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um you know do i have to spend a point of power for this um dragon head no
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no you have a bargain you have made a bargain with your who your homacti has
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said that that she will be permitted to endure
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yeah i know she knows she knows she knows who that
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uh that’s worth more than a point of power she gotta know uh who do you need to
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make a promise yeah i got you never a promise he didn’t
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want to make yeah well it seems worth it at the
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moment it seems very much worth it so the other the other possibility is um
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we could of course also send a messenger to Boldhome and go and visit the ducks
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because they’re still irate because of this um you know this
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this reparation they want i i want to just put a a a geographical
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thing here you’re here at greens too right outside of queen’s tomb to go to bolt home the route you’re taking
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is basically to go over the quiven mountain range
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right you can’t just send a messenger of that that’s something that that people are not willingly going to
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do you’re basically you know this is like gandalf in the uh fellowship of the ring going
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over the past at carrot hats nobody player characters will do this sort of
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stupid stuff ordinary people oh so it’s not it’s actually quite dangerous you’re trying
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to tell us you’re going over you’re you are a you’re a bronze age people and you’re
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going to go over um a a a it’s not a
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big mountain range but it’s still a mountain range and quiven mountain itself is is what 30
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3500 meters high you know that again that may not sound
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that impressive to us nowadays i mean i regularly ski at 3 500 meters
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but in the ancient world these sorts of mountains people didn’t regularly people die
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crossing they die anyway yeah yeah that’s true okay so yeah there it’s and it’s
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known that there is a path up there people don’t take that path so okay so hang on
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just we know the loon the lunas could be at the equivalent mountains in 10 days
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11 days eleven days forever what what’s in eleven days could we use
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battle or something to know why they’d be heading there or is that where they’re heading just that’s something i’m saying they
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could be how far they were saying if they went there it would take them that long yes they’re headed south this isn’t that
46:32
that’s not necessarily their destination the bull um Boldhome is basically in the cleveland mountains right jeff
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let me give you a let me share a screen one more time i’m gonna be going over the mountain no no no no no no no no right so
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here’s you can see equivalent peak jeff’s got it there yeah you see Boldhome so that’s the
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equivalent mountains right don’t stop moving Jeff stop moving it and then on the left is a
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queen’s tomb right it’s basically a short trek and then this rough march so they’re going to be coming down the king’s road
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this way tarsh into sarder right and they will get here about
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11 days from now so we can only warn them so we can only warn and give time and
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give them time to prepare yeah i mean even even with their
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their magic besieging Boldhomes gonna cost not if they’re not prepared if both
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homes not ready if we can man boulter if we can get there fast enough and man bolt home
47:39
you can you can just that’s going to be costly enough in terms of lives even with their magic
47:47
so what if we just have to get there right that’s what we’re talking about
47:53
yeah i’m just i’m sorry i was just trying to contextualize in my head
47:59
what this would what what this looked like on a macro scale in terms of in terms of what would in
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terms of the balance of power and where they can put it this way she can send out the
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black she can send out the arrows of war to all of the tribes to give them warning and let them know
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and then they’ve got to get get there people recruit it and send it so you think of a several
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days each way and let’s look how long it takes us to decide over trivial things clans and tribes are even worse so
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this the more time we give them the better
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so we need we have to have somebody to drop off to to fulfill some of the obligations we
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have and we need to go straight to bolton well we don’t have to drop anything off
48:47
we can basically go to fairground which is in kalimar lands we can pass on oats we can pass on
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information they can go straight to Leika and tell them unless you want to ride to
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lake and then we go over the past i think that cole brown said i have the best chance given you know worshiper of storm is typically
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better about marching across a pass i mean i think if i personally i think
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we should all go or as many of us then we all go and we trust we trust the chief at fairground or the
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town like that’s a town so it’d be a whatever mayor is it a mayor Jeff be a clan chief there it’s a little
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a clan chief at fair gel who would report directly to lake we talk to them we tell them we show them what we’ve
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done they know all about the dragon and we tell them what we’ve seen yes i
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think and then i think and then from there we head across we get supplies and we head straight across that that
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would be my that would be that’s garen’s preferred plan okay well that’s what our plan was going
49:55
to be well then everybody’s happy yep
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are we ready yep okay let’s go do that all right fair gel was just a as as Neil
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said just a couple of my of hours away it’s it’s like uh i don’t know two three kilometers away
50:15
from here so it’s not even a couple of hours it’s easy to get to you all were uh i have a couple of quick
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questions Kulbrast how much to loot is in the loot bag well the loot
50:30
bag is is full okay you know clear everything off nothing yeah all the good stuff
50:38
yeah we agree but you see no but Jeff we agreed at the end there it’s better that we take it than the lunars
50:45
so we made sure we got it the rationale the rationale is all fine i’m just i’m
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just i’m just grooving on the mental image of Kulbrast you know arguing Kulbrast
50:58
basically what happens is yeah it’s just someone holds up the back
51:05
flip and shovels in the stuff and perfect
51:10
everybody’s arguing about the plan and then calla and Kulbrast loot the tomb and Gina just going but
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big plans is not something for like a plane’s shaman i’m sorry i have no idea what all
51:25
these things are i’m just i go along with the flow i follow Nisk because i i like Nisk and he follows our graph so
51:33
it’s all good but all that politics stuff all that war planning
51:39
i can heard fair gel is the main settlement of the antwarling clan of the
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colimar tribe it’s a market village built near a large stone called the jawbone which is said to be
51:51
the jaw of the demon pig gouger
51:57
it is it’s easy enough for you you all were you know coming down from the tomb you’re
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you’re an impressive looking um band oh and um the uh
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so it’s it’s very possible to get a uh you know demand a meeting with the
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local strong man you know and and that’s a good way of thinking about the chieftain the
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chieftain is basically that’s it’s the local big man of the community
52:30
and the the big man um is is
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perfectly willing to meet with you all i don’t know if you give him gifts or not i’m waiting yeah we’ll give him some
52:44
gifts i’ve been giving gifts from Leika and things like that as well so that should be easy to do okay what do you give
52:54
um a couple of swords that’s right what
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you have a bunch of swords yeah a couple a couple of swords um is probably the the the best thing to
53:08
give in terms of that and i’m just trying to think of
53:13
random things that we’ve picked up along the way in terms of that because callier gave it the whole pollute you never you’d only tell us what it was either
53:20
but i assume it’s that sort of things that are yeah i’ve got a workout specifically it
53:25
sounds like the the pile of gifts but you give some portion of your stack of gifts
53:31
um we re-gift them to them yeah and by the way that’s how gift systems
53:38
work is people give you stuff so that you can give it to other people and that’s how stuff flows down
53:46
so the chief is certainly willing to meet with you you’ve you’ve shown him respect uh this is a
53:52
good time to make an oratory and say what it is that you want the chief to
54:00
think and feel okay i want the chief to feel um
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to think that the words i say are true are to be heeded and that this is an urgent matter i talk
54:13
about not that something is made up in terms of how i want the chief to feel
54:19
about it because i’m going to talk about the fact that we just killed a friggin dragon which they have seen coming around and
54:25
terrorizing that we are mighty warriors yeah we are mighty warriors and our um
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and we are and we don’t we don’t make false runs of fear and the sky is not falling i will show
54:38
the gifts that have been given that you know we will show our call our on our tribal
54:43
um markings um mentioned how um how we are the ones who made sure
54:50
that um made sure that callier wasn’t that the callier wasn’t killed during and
54:57
basically rescued during her failed lightbringer’s attempt no more details about us being in the
55:02
underworld and that um and that Leika asked us to kill herself asked us to kill the dragon which we
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have done and so that we um that that is troubling um the lands so basically we are great
55:16
we’re respectful warriors we’re great warriors we’re doing all those traditions for the clans but we will say that the dragon has told
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us and i have verified through a divination of Orlanth and so coming as the holy
55:27
you know showing all my tattoos as a holy warrior that Orlanth has told me but there is a
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lunar army on the march and they could be here in less than two weeks
55:38
what i need from you is to send some of your warriors south to send this news to Leika so she is well aware i wish that i could
55:46
go ourselves but we need to go save all of uh sardar and we are going to go across the past because we think it’s
55:52
the fastest way to get there and you emphasized you killed a dragon did i mention we killed the dragon yeah
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like two days ago well yet today yeah earlier today we killed the dress this morning it was still alive yeah
56:07
all right do you want to augment this
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um yes i do i think the most appropriate thing to augment with it is sadly is not dance
56:20
or sing i think it is um loyalty leica
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okay um actually no i take that back it’s or devotion or left it doesn’t matter which
56:32
i think loyalty may be more appropriate right let’s go for the loyalty the mundane
56:37
okay a roll of 51 that’s below my loyalty add 20 okay and i’ll make an or a
56:44
um i will have cast i’m not going to cast charisma on this i don’t think it’s worth it um can you use short term spirit magic
56:51
for this does it make sense this is too complicated to do that’s what i thought
56:56
okay all right and i succeed
57:02
all right the the chief believes you he is i mean they are they are in awe
57:08
i mean a bunch of heroes came down from the queen’s tomb carrying a dragon’s head
57:15
um pointing out deeds like that you know this is the humacty who’s
57:20
you know we struck jario the razor s and all sorts of other things um
57:27
this is the point i’m actually we’re gonna take a quick pause get some dice out people
57:33
because we’re gonna get some reputation bonuses from this because the story is gonna spread from here and it’s interesting
57:41
that it’s gonna spread not so much amongst uh from um uh
57:49
clear wine but it’s gonna spread amongst the farmers and the herders
57:56
so which is kind of interesting so who killed the dry who killed the
58:02
dragon according to you um the dragon was slain by blows at the same time because it was hard to tell by
58:09
who i by myself and carla and Garan who slightly took the head off
58:14
while i killed it at the abdomen and and i also struggled i i will tell i
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mean it’s long enough i will tell the story of all we did and and the fact that Gina also i’m not
58:25
going to hide Gina also basically stopped her magic but defeated her magic by shattering the
58:30
thing don’t forget the web it’s very oh yes on the web
58:38
so everybody except Gina don’t you well Gina gets the stopping the magic yes
58:45
i i smash the sculpture you all get okay i’m gonna give it to
58:51
everybody everybody gets a plus 2 d 6 to the reputation
58:59
[Music] oh
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yes yeah what did you get Claudia twelve wow that was a weird round of
59:23
rolls that is awesome so everyone is so then here’s more
59:31
um oh god i have now a reputation of 50. yes people who are people
59:38
know who you are so they stand lying to get their funeral rights from me
59:43
additionally involved in this gets a plus one to charisma
59:51
wow the reason is you killed a dragon
59:58
i what i don’t know if Enkala can get it
1:00:04
oh what’s your christmas 21 yeah you’re maxed
1:00:12
this as yeah as it as you were before sadly yeah do i get further power you get the
1:00:19
boo-boo face furthermore who has the
1:00:24
head uh i do would you roll another 1d6 yeah
1:00:31
three add three more to your reputation and oh and then call it’s going to get
1:00:37
really sad about this you get one more point of charisma Nisk
1:00:43
no no this can get in as long as i don’t have a 21. what i don’t have a
1:00:49
21 charisma yet as long as you have that um dragon’s head
1:00:55
you have a plus one to your charisma um this is a big can can i just
1:01:02
humor me here and no one’s we haven’t even started the cult or anything like this and and in the future
1:01:09
if you guys want to this would be a smart thing to hire um minstrels or scribes to record your
1:01:16
deeds because it’s a way to increase your reputation even more what’s your reputation now Nisk
1:01:33
40 yeah Garan 52. and Gina
1:01:40

50 so you all have a very i mean there is a
1:01:46
reasonable chance that when people when when you know if you guys start
1:01:51
boasting of your deeds there’s a reasonable chance that people have heard of these things at least in
1:01:58
this area that is pretty awesome this is like really high rep i mean you all are
1:02:05
and you came down and and and um they will send people to
1:02:12
clear wine and to too rich does this help with uh worship of my
1:02:20
statuette of the spider bull and the serenade temple do you think the
1:02:25
trolls care about this the the talking i fed well yes
1:02:31
yes yeah well the trolkin that you fed um until they’re hungry again
1:02:39
they will remember you eternally gratefully until they’re hungry again
1:02:45
but they’re troll king yeah linda yeah i i appreciate your sentiments but
1:02:52
how solid of bases are the trolkin for anything no they’re not solid for anything
1:02:58
at all i i really i get that but it was kind of fun anyway it was awesome it was awesome and and uh
1:03:06
you have your photo of image in there yeah in that and you know maybe if you keep coming
1:03:12
back over and over and over again to there you have a chance to actually have the troll can remember who you are
1:03:17
i didn’t get the time to put set up one in the storm bowl temple and clear wine because that was also a plan because i
1:03:23
wanted to connect the two so that’s the thing to do when i get get to clear air wine
1:03:34
so now the issue is to head into the mountains
1:03:40
now you think it’s probably a two-day trek into the mountains the question is how
1:03:46
long do you stop and scare jowl well what time of day is it well
1:03:53
if we recall it is [Music] it was um wasn’t it
1:04:00
early afternoon or about noon that you went to the um queen’s temple so you weren’t actually
1:04:08
in the queen’s temple all that long let’s say an hour took you maybe an hour to get here it’s still
1:04:14
early afternoon then we should travel now
1:04:19
so you head off into the mountains
1:04:25
[Music] so there is actually something of a trail that goes
1:04:35
into um into the quiven mountains proper
1:04:41
i mean it’s it’s um it’s not a trade route it’s not a not really you know what you
1:04:47
would call a road or whatever but there is actually there’s a they there is a recognizable path that goes into this
1:04:58
and goes through the forests at the foothills of the quiven mountains
1:05:04
and you all head in and um you know there’s these four these
1:05:11
thick forests in the uh in the foothills and you know you know well those of you
1:05:19
all who are in mountainous country so basically everybody except rich
1:05:25
are are familiar with as you go up in an elevation you know you get more and
1:05:31
more trees and bigger and bigger trees um into this and it gets wilder and wilder
1:05:37
and more rugged are you um at a certain point uh what animals are you bringing again
1:05:44
in cala you have a high llama Kulbrast do you have a what zebra
1:05:51
not the best of choices i admit but you know you’ve grown i have my
1:05:57
horse with my my super saddle and where’s ogor you’re just lagging
1:06:08
makeup so phil you were saying something yeah i mean Nisk and myself we’ve
1:06:15
already been here right no it’s a different route well yeah but i mean
1:06:20
yeah we’re inside the mountains yep the terrain is is uh familiar a bit sort of how it you
1:06:26
know how it works but if i recall when you guys went up
1:06:31
onto uh quiven mountain you went to the peak of quibbon mountain yeah didn’t you when you went there you went on foot and
1:06:37
he followed a pilgrim’s path yeah yep but we were on the peak and we
1:06:43
looked around and we saw everything and you know we’ve got delay of the land a bit
1:06:50
i mean we’re navigators we know we do this stuff almost automatically automatically okay
1:07:00
so you work your way up into um uh into the mountains and until it gets
1:07:07
to you’re into the mountains proper and at this point the trail
1:07:12
just heads up into these um high
1:07:19
valleys between the peaks and it’s fire season so it’s not like
1:07:24
there’s snow or anything on the ground but you know you’re still you’re you’re you’re going up high into the mountains
1:07:31
and i want everybody to make a scan at plus 20.
1:07:40
skin
1:07:55
nice there it is actually i i made it as well not that badly perfect
1:08:02
i’m gonna zoom in a little bit on this map here for a moment and point something out to you as you
1:08:09
head up the valley going up
1:08:17
i know it drives everybody nuts trying to watch this yeah just let it get and then just let it go for a sec Jeff that’s the issue
1:08:25
and one more can you see it yet well we can see high worm bird site
1:08:31
trade site yes that’s the issue you’re following the trail up here
1:08:36
and you can see high worm which your characters probably were
1:08:42
unaware of its existence it’s a dragon newt city
1:08:48
um uh and in a direct let me zoom this in one
1:08:54
more time because i don’t think you need to Jeff it’s completely full like you can’t read it gets blurry if
1:09:00
you zoom it in too much is it blurry oh well i’m just gonna stop sharing but it’s cool looking um
1:09:06
high worm is an honest to god dragon nude city there are
1:09:12
[Music] hundreds maybe thousands of dragon nudes there
1:09:18
and you can see especially Nisk you can see that some are riding on demi birds
1:09:27
can we skirt around it at all you tell me yeah i mean it doesn’t
1:09:32
occupy the entire valley we i want a skirt around it i don’t want to have those guys are nuts
1:09:41
all right so how do you plan to you do you plan to hide or do you plan to just travel to the side or do you want to go
1:09:48
up on a mountain try to climb a mountain you could climb
1:09:53
and let me do the share screen one last
1:10:00
time so you see there’s high worm here yep
1:10:06
in theory you could try to skirt around up quiven mountain
1:10:13
and head down towards baltimore you should do that yeah as i said we
1:10:20
already we’ve already been there so it’s not the same round but the same mountain
1:10:29
and we did okay to quiven mountain so maybe we’re better because of that maybe you like us yes yes um
1:10:36
we’ve probably found a lot of nice magical items that we might know how to how to use in that
1:10:44
maybe we should just have it so we can actually use it if we him walk into something
1:10:51
that we don’t really want to walk into you talking about the various magical items you looted from the temple
1:10:57
yeah if it’s just distributed once in in my bag yes that that i held open for
1:11:03
you yeah yeah well okay there was that the biggest from the front let me that’s
1:11:10
fine and one of the things i hate doing in unless they’re unless there’s time to do it and and i’m
1:11:17
feeling malicious as a gm but in general i hate the process of going through and
1:11:22
going how do we figure out what this magical item does i’m perfectly happy to to s
1:11:29
skip that the biggest magical item of course is the dragon’s head itself and i want Neil to jot down a few
1:11:37
things about it the dragon is smart it is actually possibly smarter than
1:11:43
this it is no i don’t know i don’t know what your int is but it’s got to be
1:11:50
oh you’re smarter than it is but only by a tiny bit it’s got a power now of 18 because it’s only a
1:11:57
a rump of it and has a charisma of 17
1:12:04
as a head so it’s cr it’s head it’s severed head
1:12:11
is more charismatic than you are Garan well that is that is
1:12:19
possibly true but Garan has other qualities okay it has actually um
1:12:26
three spirit magic spell or three spells they’re not really spirit magic but
1:12:32
we’ll treat it as that one is demoralized it can cast immortalize if you tell it
1:12:38
to yep and with a uh 18 power that’s pretty useful
1:12:44
another one is rain exactly like the rune spell but it costs two magic points instead of one rune
1:12:51
point but it’s only from the uh the head and stack wow so that’s huge yes it can cause a
1:12:58
lot of it can summon a big rainstorm and it can cast second sight which is
1:13:04
the three-point spell it also knows a lot about dragon things
1:13:10
it knows a lot about the empire of the worms friends it can speak old wormish
1:13:19
not surprisingly it can write old wormish
1:13:25
it can speak old pavic and it can speak anything in language
1:13:32
obviously they’re at different rates but doesn’t matter it doesn’t really matter that much
1:13:38
that’s a pretty big deal it is um there
1:13:44
is in the treasure room
1:13:52
the copper cape if you wear it it can store up to 10 magic points
1:14:02
but you have to wear it to use it that makes sense the um
1:14:09
earrings have a matrix for second sight
1:14:14
but you have to wear the earrings
1:14:20
the magical the copper bracelet serves as a matrix for a small earth elemental
1:14:28
so basically you can it you can bind a small earth elemental into it wow
1:14:36
i’m the only one who has versus 90 do you have the spell earth do you have
1:14:42
an earth elemental spell no i’m not a and another priestess
1:14:49
you might want to you probably could learn how to i think that’s a joke oh she could learn
1:14:54
it there’s no no earth elemental you can learn you can’t maybe you don’t get the large same with like
1:15:01
so those are some pretty useful uh magical items
1:15:09
so with that you guys head into the mountains here’s what i want you to do i those of you who are riding
1:15:16
or taking an animal i want you to make a ride skill at minus 20.
1:15:25
oh no can you also walk your mount if you want you could walk your mount and instead
1:15:33
you can use climb at plus 20.
1:15:39
i mean it’s no use riding anyway so i guess we’re all just no dance does not work on this at all
1:15:45
it’s minus minus 20 plus 20 on climb minus 20 on
1:15:50
ride okay i go and climb then i have
1:15:55
that’s better i’ll climb but no no and carla you might
1:16:02
still be better at ride i i roll zero zero one so i’m kind of doing
1:16:09
pretty good as you are but these dice i won them from a kraken thing i rolled
1:16:15
five zero zero ones last gaming sessions this is these are magical dice actually there’s
1:16:21
another word
1:16:27
Niska’s riding his skill between the two is basically the same um but this the other two are leading
1:16:33
their horses anybody fail i passed the climb test
1:16:40
Kulbrast do you pass the climb test i even passed the writing test did you pass the cut the climb test Gina
1:16:49
i did without a problem all right so you go up into you
1:16:55
basically go up into the mountains above high worm and you can see this this city and
1:17:03
it’s it it’s an alien city you know it’s filled with it’s it’s made out of stone and earth
1:17:10
it it it it has no straight edges it at all um
1:17:18
uh something out of lovecraft you know the word non-euclidean could
1:17:23
almost be used um with this i was just thinking of it it it it it it’s a drag a new city
1:17:31
and you manage to avoid the the uh the dragon it’s there and
1:17:39
um are heading up and there are wind children
1:17:46
uh flying around equipment mountain um and watching you all
1:17:55
hi wayne’s uh it’s a pair of them yep i’ll wave at them i’ll greet them in
1:18:03
storm speech once we get past the area where the dragon is coming
1:18:13
those say how strange it is that you are dragging um these four-legged um animals
1:18:21
up into the peaks um they speak only storm speech by the way
1:18:28
so what’s up who speaks storm speech yep say that they are um
1:18:36
they’re creatures they’re creatures in our care and we um we need to take them with us
1:18:42
as we travel through these lands so we saw you earlier from from the peak
1:18:47
a few days ago when we climbed that to pay our respects
1:18:53
ah um one says oh well you know we we have an uh
1:19:00
uh and i re here our our people have uh uh a a settlement in in these peaks for
1:19:08
uh they are sacred to us uh but it is it is it is unusual to see the
1:19:17
and they give a term basically like the heavy uh to describe you all
1:19:24
the lead-footed the the the the earthbound yes you know that it’s it’s a it’s a
1:19:31
pejorative but it’s not a mean pejorative um or at least they don’t seem to be
1:19:37
trying to make it a a mean pejorative but they they are surprised that you are taking this route
1:19:43
here um normally only the um only the dragon men
1:19:50
are in this veil well we just learned the dragon men are
1:19:55
there we did not know this um but we we have um we have a we have
1:20:01
need to travel quickly across to get to the other side to get to the to get our to get to the city of
1:20:07
Boldhome i’m sure you know of it oh yes that’s the great city um
1:20:13
uh the great city and and one of the businesses we they would they would love to they would they would
1:20:19
love to visit the great city but it was it was it was unfriendly and there
1:20:24
are so many people there yes i know the unfriendly people um
1:20:31
our fear right now is that the most unfriendly people are coming back and um that is the warning we need to
1:20:36
give to the city all right i this sounds like you’re
1:20:42
trying to make some sort of a communication persuasion something tell me what it is
1:20:47
you’re doing and who it is i don’t know is this through charm
1:20:52
i think it’s a charm um yeah i’ll do it through charm
1:20:58
and basically really just trying to try maybe they can help give us a little shorter a route through it for us there
1:21:04
or watch us let us know maybe better would be to let us know if there’s something up ahead we should be aware of
1:21:10
as we go there just to get there i’m not trying to like ask them for a big favor of it but it just
1:21:15
you know politely as well does that make sense absolutely makes
1:21:21
sense please i will augment with my air rune okay that’s a success 47
1:21:33
and charm is a 12 which is a special without even augmenting oh they will accompany
1:21:39
you all they will they will guide you to Boldhome as long as they um can accompany you oh great
1:21:48
uh there are hold on let me just quickly see here there are there are two
1:21:54
of them it’s a brother and sister pair um
1:21:59
it’s not finn and laura the closest i’m not um
1:22:12
so there is a uh yeah there’s uh there are two of them
1:22:19
there is the female is uh uh vanas venessi
1:22:28
and her the mayo is edbach
1:22:33
they they say that they are so they are children of colot
1:22:39
who is the the the wind spirit god um they are perfectly friendly like all
1:22:46
when children they’re smaller they’re somewhat smaller than humans far more delicate and they’re both built
1:22:52
like supermodels and and like always children they
1:23:00
basically compared to humans you know with our with humans with their
1:23:05
their their rough life and and and living on the earth and
1:23:10
in the earth or whatever compared to them compared to you all when children just
1:23:16
look perfect wow that’s so unfair
1:23:21
yep they got wings they got where they they they’ve got wings they they probably
1:23:28
don’t have an ounce of unnecessary body fat um you know they they they don’t have
1:23:37
they don’t have rough calluses and all the stuff that you all have
1:23:43
Gina finds it unfair yep a quick reaction from the rest of you
1:23:50
all i mean they’re very connected with the Orlanth cult yeah Nisk um Nisk just you know they’re
1:23:58
basically to him he treats them reverently kind of more like a like a gentle wind spirit almost as well
1:24:03
winster people right so he’s yeah he’s met he’s met wind children before
1:24:08
um not this close and probably not this much in person so he’s very curious to get more information from them
1:24:15
um how about Kulbrast
1:24:20
well um that’s strange but you know
1:24:26
yeah probably the same but you know less curious more sort of a bit um
1:24:33
i would say cautious perhaps
1:24:40
and then calla and Garan um Garan finds them
1:24:48
deeply irritating they are far too uh unserious um
1:24:56
and they’re kind of you know that they flit about they’re clearly not weighed down by um
1:25:03
quandaries relating to whether something is honorable and they seem to have no real fear of death so there’s very
1:25:10
little um very little in common you know and they and the most irritating thing is
1:25:15
velbrick looks just like icarus from the led zeppelin album so i mean better
1:25:24
than [Laughter]1:25:35
oh i i like them it’s you say they’re spirit-like they’re not
1:25:41
spirits right now they’re they they seem to be able to speak their abilities
1:25:47
they switch between storm tongue and spirit speech effortlessly but collat is a very sp
1:25:53
isn’t collat also a very like shamanic god yeah so i feel i like them it’s
1:26:00
interesting it’s uh it’s a different perspective to what i’m doing but
1:26:06
yeah i like them i want to learn more of them and of their way of worshiping their god
1:26:12
and spirit well of the two uh velbrec is
1:26:17
is very focused on wins and spirits varanesa is very interested in humans
1:26:26
um and more curious about you all but
1:26:32
they can lead you over the past pass
1:26:38
and to bolt home and you all get over the pass and head into bald home basically near
1:26:45
troll town nice remember there’s that that that’s the route that they take you there
1:26:52
and i would like to to to zoom forward a little bit i’m assuming you all go
1:26:57
straight to the royal palace yes yes
1:27:02
i’ll make sure i cast charisma before we get to the okay you’re going to ask think what you guys are going to do
1:27:07
you’re able to get an entry there with this um i need an extremely short break
1:27:13
let me we’re back all right we’re back
1:27:19
all right so why don’t you guys you guys are heading towards the royal palace of
1:27:26
um in bald home you all it’s you know you guys have um it’s not that
1:27:33
hard for you guys to manage to arrange a meeting with prince keller
1:27:39
even if you won’t use that name um you know you are represented of
1:27:46
the king of pavis you all are cult figures or at least
1:27:53
important figures in your own right and for better or worse had an important
1:27:58
role in her hero quest and have a high reputation because
1:28:04
of striking uh you know your vow even if you kind of screwed her over on the hero quest you did valiantly defend
1:28:12
keller uh when giardia appeared
1:28:17
so it’s very possible to be able to pull off
1:28:25
a meeting i want rather than immediately dive into the meeting i’m going to give
1:28:30
you at least a few moments to think out what you want to say and how so
1:28:36
i would like to bring or connect ideally a priest a storm priest because they can
1:28:42
one of the things they can do is detect basically honor or a humacity who can i mean she’s probably got a humacity in
1:28:48
there who can detect truth um but she can choose to listen to me or
1:28:55
not that is okay that’s her choice um but my my basically goal is to get
1:29:02
the backing of um some religious Orlanth religious figures because he’s coming it
1:29:08
that way as someone because i’ve been i was told by Orlanth himself
1:29:14
that an army was coming and will be here 11 days and any of her priests can verify that
1:29:20
i mean and keep in mind she is a priest he can do it herself so to him it’s not
1:29:28
it’s not it’s it’s common it’s common knowledge in that they can easily find this information out
1:29:34
the thing is that the point of it that i’m saying is i he basically brought it to her to tell
1:29:39
her this so she you know to give her this information to protect um
1:29:45
so that to best protect um
1:29:50
sutter are the rest of you all fine with that approach
1:29:56
yeah yeah and i think i think Enkala doesn’t want to be there she wants to go
1:30:01
hide out in the stormville temple Gina are you going to be there
1:30:12
Gina Gina yes i’m there as you said in color well kala is is not showing up
1:30:20
yeah okay i stay here maybe maybe i should not show up either actually going to think of it why
1:30:29
well she doesn’t seem like a very forgiving sort she’s nice so i’ll go and
1:30:36
and see if i find um chipmunk bing see what he’s up to
1:30:43
right so it’s gonna be basically Nisk, Gina and Garan
1:30:48
meet with the prince and i have a great this is a preview of some cool um concept art of Kallyr
1:30:55
Starbrow doesn’t she look friendly super
1:31:02
super happy like an angry pippy long stocking and formal
1:31:09
pippy longstar angry longstocking that is now calling his name in my head
1:31:14
forever anyways you’re able to to um uh get a meeting in the palace
1:31:23
with Kallyr Starbrow and Kallyr is does not give you a
1:31:30
warm reception she doesn’t kill you on site um but it is
1:31:39
you know yes you saved her life in the throne room but
1:31:45
you were also likely blamed for the complete failure of
1:31:51
that quest um and she’s got a lot of issues with you
1:31:57
all but she’ll have the meeting what it means is
1:32:02
is your communication skills going to start already with a minus and okay
1:32:08
if if Nisk is going to do that do the speech i’m not going to let him augment the
1:32:15
speech okay i will i’ve got my spell going though okay what’s your spell
1:32:20
charisma charisma how much does that add to your communication modifier 20 okay cancel
1:32:27
that out okay um i would like Garan to augment with on with honor um telling telling
1:32:35
about the the truth of this and that we have what we have seen or if you have truth roon you could
1:32:41
augment with that that’s probably even more appropriate i think i do have the truth oh no
1:32:51
i have 85 in truth yes i will i will definitely augment with that
1:32:57
uh successfully augment i’m asking you to successfully argument with it just to
1:33:02
be clear well 79 so nearly
1:33:07
nearly not but just well as long as you made it i did and i have another question
1:33:13
um and this would factor into it what do you tell her is the source of your information
1:33:22
how did you learn of this i will tell i will tell her i will tell her because it was taken from a dragon we slew
1:33:30
and show the head and then i cast a divination to Orlanth
1:33:39
and asked him and Orlanth said specifically
1:33:46
and i quote the lunar army could be in the quiven mountains in 11 days and
1:33:52
that was two days ago i came as soon as i can a kid
1:33:59
i i i leveraged the help of wind children who helped me get over the mountain
1:34:04
faster just so we could be here to warn the people of sardar
1:34:12
i’d like you to roll the dice all right
1:34:17
and it’s a 46th so okay um she takes it seriously and she
1:34:24
believes you on this um she she she believes this
1:34:32
um i asked her to get a priest to corroborate for herself she could do it oh no she doesn’t she believes you
1:34:39
she believes you and she’s taking very seriously she she um uh asks that the mercenaries be
1:34:46
mustered here muster the keldan in in in the nearby tribes we must
1:34:53
march in she thinks it’ll take about two days to muster
1:34:59
a force and send folk out she wants you
1:35:07
she says to accompany her to battle
1:35:14
no no very very quite quite specifically she says that if this
1:35:20
is the case and that you were told of the dragon she would rather have you at the um
1:35:27
she would rather have you at the battle than causing mischief behind her
1:35:37
um and that um
1:35:42
she acknowledges your skill uh your your skill as warriors and
1:35:50
that um uh she she says that
1:35:56
um basically she she she’s she she lays upon you
1:36:06
[Music] um the and
1:36:13
and she let me think about how i would present this she is basically invoking her role
1:36:20
as Orlanth Rex because that’s the magic she has is as a uh she is the priest of Orlanth Rex
1:36:28
for the kingdom of of of Sartar uh she says that
1:36:36
uh you shall um as a Sartarite you
1:36:43
sh um you shall accompany her and lead her to the lunars
1:36:52
where we may um uh and where we may fight them off
1:37:01
just just just want to clarify she said she said she wanted us by her
1:37:07
side because we’re great warriors
1:37:13
yeah no she says you’re great warriors she says you were also troublemakers yeah oh
1:37:27
no this is this is our character i because i would never undermine Garan would be fuming but he
1:37:35
wouldn’t undermine Nisk in his book good gods the arrogance
1:37:41
that’s unbelievable no i mean she she considers this to be a
1:37:48
troublemaker and he clearly is and that you all are uh she believes you on this she takes it
1:37:55
seriously um uh
1:38:00
but she wants to make sure you know if she’s leaving Boldhome she
1:38:07
wants she wants Nisk and his companions
1:38:13
in her entourage and she wants to hear that from nick
1:38:18
Nisk says everything he has done he has done for the kingdom of sodor and
1:38:25
he says that he is not scared of fighting he is not scared of fighting lunars
1:38:31
he is taking oaths to fight chaos and he accepts your request for
1:38:38
aid and will gladly help with a big smile cheesy smile with his newfound super charisma of 40.
1:38:48
he does you know at this moment he’s played by a hollywood uh a-list actor with perfect teeth
1:38:56
that are also white yeah and i think this lint yeah
1:39:03
in fact it’s done in the old if you remember in the old star trek they used to have uh william shatner in soft lighting ever
1:39:10
needed to have this he’s right now in soft lighting mode um she’ll accept that but she expects you
1:39:18
to be um uh uh with her companions
1:39:26
as we march on the um empire and she’s going to have her um priests
1:39:33
uh perform divinations and and end the life as she should the reason as
1:39:40
soon as i heard this news i cast those i cast the spells for the right the same reason so this
1:39:47
this is where i think we want to want to stop here because basically what it’s going to take is it’s going to take a couple of days
1:39:53
for her to muster her forces because they’re not on the ready at all and then
1:39:59
she is going to march on where her priests
1:40:05
say that this is going to happen and it’s not to the north on the king’s
1:40:10
road oh mission runegate
1:40:17
do you want to show that so people know where that is so that is i’m just going to pull this up real
1:40:24
quick
1:40:29
let me zoom it out slightly she’s going to march here
1:40:36
okay um i want to do something
1:40:43
i’m convinced that a lot of people will die so um i will not only
1:40:52
um try to get some helpers for the debt and extra bombing oil and
1:40:58
whatever but make big prayers for um keeping the people know how to
1:41:06
say it um preparing them for their glorious death and that they will
1:41:12
actually go there brave and happy and if they know if they die they
1:41:20
will find a good place at the table of the goddess feast and glory
1:41:25
and their families will praise him so a lot of people will actually follow her to to the battle
1:41:33
excellent excellent um do you have a skill you want to be using on this or is this just part of your
1:41:39
general promotion of death in an honorable and um it’s not so bad manner
1:41:46
it’s a good question i mean i could put it of course on on death and earth
1:41:53
i mean on death you can put it on death but i i don’t know is this also maybe a pre-preparing corpse
1:42:02
no okay then i do it on this that’s around embalming people for before
1:42:08
battle and say you’ll need it later yeah i i can give them i mean everybody
1:42:13
has to grab their food and so on and they should also bring a little bit of a cloth
1:42:21
and some oil for later oh and we could dish out corn and maybe something to ignite their corpse
1:42:26
and maybe a few locks or would this be too much if you wish we could we could dish out
1:42:35
coins as well they’re very useful there yeah put them on the eyes and so on so that
1:42:40
everybody has actually their own equipment time-wise in terms of
1:42:47
preparation and let me just put this down here um
1:42:54
why is she going so close to upland marsh what’s special about runegate i’m asking people Nisk what’s special
1:43:01
about Runegate it’s an extremely ancient ancient fortress it’s the people of
1:43:08
runegate are horse riders but it the that fort is there from the
1:43:14
very old days back when that other um the earth goddess we met
1:43:20
um when her people were there as opposed to um pre-dragon kill
1:43:27
to defend isn’t it i mean it’s certainly on the river well one thing that Garan might remember
1:43:34
we would definitely remember in this might as well is when the red emperor came and
1:43:40
conquered sartar he marched down
1:43:47
across the creek and attacked runegate he brought the bat with him um
1:43:54
and the bat he he allied with Delecti of the marsh who sent zombies and undead to wear down
1:44:02
the army and then sent the crimson bat to devour everyone who has left so this is the
1:44:08
route the red emperor took a generation ago the the only part of the town that survived
1:44:14
is the rune gate from where the town gets his name correct correct yes also also features
1:44:22
in the fantastic adventure at darkness at room gates coming soon from chaos it will be it is
1:44:28
and how did you know that rich
1:44:34
but the point is the point is that this is and and and and for Garan you know
1:44:40
oh although i’m not even sure you were born when that that happened um these
1:44:47
these are the sort of stories that of course that that you would know and dread you know the idea of the the
1:44:55
lunar army marching on runegate again is that’s not a good sound
1:45:03
it’s not a good story because that is the story of the biggest defeat the Orlanthi ever had
1:45:09
and she’s repeating it and it also involves the red emperor allied with the undead and bringing the
1:45:16
crimson bat don’t i i mean i wouldn’t say she’s repeating it she’s trying to defend it i don’t think that’s that’s not blame no
1:45:22
no no no they’re lunars the point is if that’s what the lunars are doing the lunars are trying to do yeah
1:45:29
that that doesn’t sound good to anybody
1:45:36
so um it will take two days for the
1:45:43
look for Boldhome and the local tribes to muster
1:45:49
so you guys can do whatever preparations that you all want to yes Enkala would this be a good idea to
1:45:56
maybe find some of those beautiful golden things we have and pay some reparations to the ducks
1:46:03
that the ducks could maybe start doing some crap and upland marsh before the lunars come
1:46:09
that’s a good plot you have to get all we’d have to get there i mean Garan and i can’t go um
1:46:19
i mean there’s still the duck uh legation here the representatives of the
1:46:25
ducks you could offer them stuff from your i mean think about the amount of cool
1:46:32
stuff that you are carrying you’re carrying not only the stuff you stole from the temple
1:46:39
sorry sorry borrowed from the temple there’s also all the stuff you took
1:46:44
from baravanos’s tomb
1:46:49
and anything left of Argrath’s gifts i mean that’s a lot of were geld
1:46:57
if we assume a duck is worth 500 lunars a piece you may be able to you know that may be
1:47:03
the were geld for 20 30 ducks
1:47:09
the life price for that’s a lot of you know that’s a lot of payment
1:47:17
yeah that’s not exactly what we looted that stuff for but
1:47:22
i’m just saying you could do that on the part of the Colymar i mean geez maybe even more than that
1:47:31
i’m sure it would be much i would sure i’m sure it would be much more than that well maybe not much more
1:47:37
that’s a lot of ducks you could probably with all the stuff you’ve stolen you could
1:47:43
you know just just to raise this up you probably could actually pay off
1:47:48
the claims against the culinary
1:47:55
boy silence yeah i mean it would be it would be an
1:48:00
honorable act
1:48:10
for me it’s really worth it because the ducks would fight that nasty stuff in the swamp Nisk wants to
1:48:17
lead a ritual he doesn’t care what day of the week it is i know it’s going to be hard he wants to do a sacrifice at the
1:48:24
Orlanth temple that he wants to pay for and he wants to lead because he wants a chance to try and get
1:48:29
some rune magic back yeah that’s one thing one way and i’m assuming that everybody’s going to be
1:48:35
trying to make sacrifices to the gods because i think your guys run points kind of suck right now right
1:48:41
they’re lower than they were when they started yeah
1:48:50
and and the other thing to worth pointing out is is that there is a good chance you guys are going to fight in a battle
1:48:58
and you might want to have her in points there and how can i store roon points in the matrix i need some true stone where
1:49:03
do i get true stone the block or you can sacrifice points
1:49:09
right of pow and get them and then you build up your rune pool that’s the best
1:49:19
[Laughter]1:49:25
all right what i would like i think this is a good point to uh stop because it sounds like you guys
1:49:31
want to make some preparations and whatnot and i like doing those better at the beginning of a session
1:49:38
um but i want you to keep in mind um and this is kind of meta meta gaming
1:49:45
there’s a good chance you’re going to fight in a battle and part of what i’m going to do is we want to play around with the
1:49:52
how how we play battles in runequest and pl um show off and i want
1:49:59
to play test a little bit of the new the um rq battle rules um and have them be very player-centric
1:50:08
now it’s a little bit funky because it sounds like you guys are going to be stuck in the entourage of Kallry Starbrow
1:50:17
um you don’t have to be Kulbrasts you could choose not to go if you don’t want to but
1:50:26
yeah that’s true it’s worth pointing out that battles are probably more dangerous in many ways
1:50:33
than ordinary adventuring activity because
1:50:39
in Kulbrast knows this you’ve been battles yeah i think almost he’s got a basic battle skill if i remember
1:50:45
you’ve been in a lot of battles battles are
1:50:50
survivable but they are very dangerous and certainly something you have to think about if you really
1:50:56
want to join or not so i think this is a good stopping point
1:51:03
we’ve got we’ve had a lot happen this session and i want you guys to be in a fresh
1:51:08
mode to make preparations for next session but next session is going to zoom
1:51:14
into possibly a battle hopefully some prep okay i will pause it
1:51:21
now stop it now great thank you all

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