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A show hosted by Jenn, Tay, and JJ, good friends who met online that share a love for most things "nerd." Join them as they talk about their favorite comics, movies, and even video games while also providing a different refreshing take on a lot of topics. ALL HAIL THE QUEENS (of Nerdom)!
Hi. I'm Jen, and I play Mara Elderwood. Welcome to our own home brew role playing game. It's made by our game master, Eric, aka doctor Awesome. Now you'll be entering the world of Sariva that's very different from our own.
Mara (Jenn):Now just so you know, this isn't Dungeons and Dragons. This is a home broom game, so you'll notice there's differences between the 2. But I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Like a Viking. Cool.
Melody (Tay):Okay. Sure. I'll look at my fellow people.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):If you guys figure out a plan for that, you can let me know. Otherwise, if you wanna save these people, I know it sounds crazy, but cross the river here just just north of us, you had about, half a day's travel into the plains to go to the, northeast, and you'll come across an encampment of Hytherian raiders. K. It's about a 100 and some odd men, Hytherion warriors, a raiding party. I know these people will be taken as, you know, hostages or whatever, but they're in better situation with them than they are on their own.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):That monster hoard is not gonna try to tangle with those hytherians if they don't have to. Do you wanna bring that up to the villagers?
Jer (Joe):Yeah. I'm gonna give them the option too.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. Alright. Alright. The the guy that was talking to you guys when he brought, the widow white White Hawk out, he says, but I'd rather deal with the Hyperians. We can give them some money, and they'll probably, you know, be okay to get back to the
Jer (Joe):North. Party members?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Are there any of in this group?
Jer (Joe):I mean, not like Is what is Machitus Hytherion?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):No.
Melody (Tay):No. Please speak 100%. Hi, Therian.
Mara (Jenn):There's Melody. Melody couldn't go through.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):We could at least pay them a fee.
Mara (Jenn):Can you throw some names around?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You have a family name? Genjiro asks Melody. Like, do you have a family name that they might recognize and respect?
Melody (Tay):Sorry. Were you looking at my
Jer (Joe):Actually, now that I now that I recall, let's go meet up with these Hyperians.
Mara (Jenn):Oh, no.
Jer (Joe):Let me see if I recognize anyone.
Melody (Tay):Oh, Havel. His last name is Havel. Shadow Sky Shadow.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. Maybe they recognize the name. Well, in the morning, we can head across this river, take the people over there. Gengiro says I can give I can give 200 gold to them if they'll take the people north to, Shadows Bluffs safely.
Mara (Jenn):Yeah. We have gold too we can chip in.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I mean, we'll let Melody talk to them. She can say, hey, you know, I'm I'm from, I consider Havel my family. So maybe they'll take that and And kill us. Yeah.
Melody (Tay):Damn killer.
Jer (Joe):Drinking south and feel dead. Oh.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):And Joe says, I have a trick if if if we need it.
Melody (Tay):Okay.
Jer (Joe):We're Oil in agreement?
Mara (Jenn):Yes.
Melody (Tay):Yes. We are going to cross the river and go into the plains. Over the river and through the wood. Alright.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So you guys you guys rest here for the night. You get your EPMP rejuvenated. Oh. Most of your your stuff is healing. Joe, you're short, 200 life force you couldn't heal.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Melody, you're in the same boat. You bandaged it up, and you get you guys at least have your wounds are closing, but, you can't get to full life force right now unless you guys have some sort of healing magic. As dawn comes, Mara, you're you're on the edge of being, starting to head into the need to feed.
Mara (Jenn):The need to first feed.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yep. Just like Iceman. Okay. So you still have the 17 villagers. They they bury, widow White Hawk in the morning.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):She didn't make it through the night, so they set a burial outside the cave. They speak some words. Genjiro does some, shammalama ding dong stuff. I don't know. You know, rings the bell, does the whole I don't know.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):They there's a couple of people here from the town that probably attended to the the church a lot, so they say some some nice things. The thief the young thief guy says, I'll be here. So if you guys ever come up with that plan, I'm waiting here to meet up with some people that we might take the river north. If you guys come up with a plan to take that airship, you know where I'm at. I got explosives.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Just let me know. So you guys set off. You cross the river pretty easily. It's not you're at a narrow portion and it's very rocky, so it's pretty easy to just jump from rock to rock or step from, you know, one stone to the next. You get to the other side.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It takes you about 4 hours walking. It's actually pretty warm, which is a good thing for the first, 1st day of this, new spring that's actually been warm to where you feel, you know, like, wow. I actually gotta, you know, loosen up some of my armor and clothing to kinda breathe a bit. One, you're kinda hungry as well. You guys get to the edge of the I wouldn't say it's like a plateau, but it is a slight rise and then it's just flat land.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Like, flat land for as a good you'd say good days travel worth of flat land. You don't see trees, you don't see bushes, you know, but you do see some, yurts. I guess, what's called yurt?
Melody (Tay):Or is
Dr.Awesome (Eric):that what I'm talking about? So you guys are about here. You see some you see about a dozen yurts and
Jer (Joe):a bunch of,
Dr.Awesome (Eric):oxen and stuff. A couple of campfires as you guys are approaching. The villagers all get into, like, 2 2, 2 by 2 or whatever, you know, very close line of people walking. Try to look as, peaceful and nonthreatening as possible. You do already see a couple of the iutherians in different places around their camp.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):They're already watching your guys' direction. One of them sounds on a horn, and you see a couple of them come out of, one of the yurks.
Melody (Tay):Can I try to talk to them?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. They're not you're not up that close yet, but you could try to see if you recognize anyone. You guys can roll your chance to perceive.
Jer (Joe):Yeah. I'd like to.
Mara (Jenn):I recognize somebody. I don't even
Jer (Joe):I don't even recognize my party members.
Melody (Tay):I am rolling. I got I'm trying to roll underneath. Right? Oh my god. Joe, that's the worst roll ever.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You did recognize someone? No? I did. Mara, you recognize, the guy from the first night in, town from the festival. The hype the Hytirion guy that helped with, Brother Phalen.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):He's on your guys' n p c list. His name is Gunther Stromgard.
Mara (Jenn):Gunther.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Dark haired, mustache, goatee kind of guy, shoulder length hair, wears blue furs and leathers, carries an axe. He was there at the battle, the first night with the Wyvern and everything in, Balanforth. He's standing next to a guy that has a, a big war hammer, which strangely has the, the symbol of the holy order of light, the star, the 4 point star with the halo on the hammer. It's a large war hammer, probably stands about 5 5a half feet. And, they're standing there.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):They come walking forward from the tent.
Mara (Jenn):And
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Gunther put, raises his hand. He's like, it's the witch.
Mara (Jenn):I was like, I'll put my arm up. I'm like, hi, strong man.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Good day to you.
Melody (Tay):Good day to you.
Mara (Jenn):Now I introduced myself. It's like we fought together with the Wyvern and protecting the dust.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I remember, There's a lot of people with you now. You look more like refugees than fighters.
Mara (Jenn):Balanforth and Locmorr have been attacked by a horde of monsters.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Rumor has this we've heard of, then that that horde numbers in the, couple thousand.
Mara (Jenn):I believe it. We may have a bounty on our heads because we killed some of their higher leadership.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Good on you. Oh. You deserve it.
Mara (Jenn):Would you be willing
Melody (Tay):to take gold to help these people?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. He looks over at the guy with the hammer. Dad with the hammer looks over you guys for a few seconds, and he points at Melody and says something in Hyperion to, Gunther.
Melody (Tay):Can I overhear what they said?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. He says that's the bard from the main hall of the, Sky Shadow family.
Melody (Tay):Can I respond to him in Hytheion that, yes, I am?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. Alright. So you guys get 250 experience points each. They say, alright. We don't mind helping the people.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Actually, they point over at you, Jer, the guy with the hammer. He says, are you a knight of Balanforce? No. Well, forest witch. What's your name?
Mara (Jenn):Mara.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Mara. If Ballenforce is in serious trouble, I won't help the imperials, but if you take word to the duchess, I can come south with 250 men. We will help Falunford. But we will only help the
Melody (Tay):duchess. Agreed.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Her husband was an honorable man. We may have been enemies a long time ago, but he was an honorable man.
Mara (Jenn):I need to save her daughter.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):And we will work together. Half my people will, and will go with Gunther and take your, refugees to Shadow's Bluff. I will go gather my men and, start a battle plan. I I'm pretty sure our best bet would be to attack from the south near lock lock from Lockmore through the, Lightwood to hit the southern part of the the horde.
Jer (Joe):What about the cave?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):What cave?
Jer (Joe):The cave, northwest of Lockmoor leading into Balanford.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):There's an entrance into the city?
Jer (Joe):Yes.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):That would be great.
Jer (Joe):We can show you.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. Then we could cut we could cut straight towards the Duchess's estate and get them out.
Jer (Joe):It's right across from the Duchess's estate.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Excellent. Let me gather my men. It'll take me a day, and we'll be ready.
Mara (Jenn):Agreed. We'll be ready.
Melody (Tay):Well, he does that. Can we, like, look around for, like, rations?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. He says if you need stuff, go to my quarter master.
Mara (Jenn):Is there anything for me to eat here?
Jer (Joe):It's extra rare.
Mara (Jenn):Shut up.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Anything extra rare or dying?
Jer (Joe):So rare. It's so loud. So rare. It's so rare. It's actually sleeping.
Mara (Jenn):Sleeping. It's sleeping. I'll take sleeping.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):He says I have prisoners.
Mara (Jenn):Is there one you're not too fond of?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I'm not fond of all of them, but that's because they're Imperials.
Mara (Jenn):No problem. I just need one.
Jer (Joe):I wonder if we see there's one we can learn something from and then then we can Yeah. Go to the sushi buffet. The sushi buffet.
Mara (Jenn):It's all raw.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. When you guys go over to talk to them, on the way over there, Melody, you're hit with an extremely sharp pain And it actually brings you down, like, to your knees. You're kneeling for a second. You all thought it looked like she, a lightning came from the center of her and then shot, you know, like, something shot from the sky and hit the center of her body. And you hear the disembodied voice again.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It says, sister, they're going to make you have no options for escape.
Melody (Tay):Can I speak to the voice and say, where are you?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I'm in the mountains near the tunnel. Find my crystal. Use your guide between the guide, the light, and or the guide, the key, and the light. You can free me, and I'll help you.
Melody (Tay):You said the guy, the key, and the what?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The light.
Melody (Tay):The light.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):He is coming. Who? He knows you're he knows you're alive and that you're here.
Melody (Tay):Who is coming?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Demias is coming.
Mara (Jenn):K.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Don't underestimate him. He defeated us all.
Melody (Tay):Isn't Damian is one of the No. Yeah. It's one of the dudes that fell. The light the light dudes.
Mara (Jenn):Mhmm.
Melody (Tay):There's 2 brothers. Right? There was
Jer (Joe):You guys have the record of the ages on you. Yes.
Melody (Tay):Yes, we
Mara (Jenn):do. You're taking Desmos.
Melody (Tay):Oh, shit. Close. Damn.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Where's the find? Is it control f? Yeah.
Melody (Tay):Alright. So I have I know who the guide is. Can I ask her what the key in the light is?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):She's not speaking anymore. It hurts you for a second, but she had to get your attention. Basically, she used her lightning. She
Mara (Jenn):Can I pull
Jer (Joe):the amulet? She could
Dr.Awesome (Eric):tell you was that she's getting stronger that you're closer, but her powers are limited because she's in prison.
Mara (Jenn):Can I pull the amulet out and see if it's pointing in a certain direction?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. 500 experience points. The I'll show you what the amulet looks like, and then I'll give it to you.
Mara (Jenn):That's okay. But it's pointing in a direction? Yes.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You can
Melody (Tay):just skip it. Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Skip it. Okay. It's pointing you guys are about here
Mara (Jenn):on the map? Mhmm. Yeah.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Right here. Right there.
Melody (Tay):Why does we wanna go to shadows bluff? Or is it part of your story as to why? No? Oh.
Mara (Jenn):I was trying to get the Thorn's Injustice, I
Dr.Awesome (Eric):think we were trying to get transport for with Dolian. Remember, Dolion believes his wife is alive in the army and land. An airship from Shadow's Bluff would be the fastest way to get there.
Melody (Tay):If we went to shadows, well, we can get that airship and then reignite Julian with the sun.
Mara (Jenn):Sounds kind of a punk. That's true.
Melody (Tay):He he is. He's a he's a meanie face. Yeah. Teenage punk.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):He's grown up without his mom or dad. So
Melody (Tay):No. He's acting a lot like his dad. So head down that same path. Oh, shit.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Oh. I'm throwing shade at Dollyon.
Melody (Tay):That's right, Dollyon. I'm throwing shade at you. I know you can't see me right now, but I know you will listen to this in a bit. Bitch.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Man, you gotta get them out of the city. Genduro mentions it. Like, if we go with the Hythereans in so they can help get the duchess out, we've got to find Machidas and Dollyon and get them out of the city.
Melody (Tay):Right. And then we can also get the transport of the horses, and we'll have rations and bandages, and we'll have them just
Dr.Awesome (Eric):True. That might that might help us at least, we get the duchess out
Melody (Tay):of the
Jer (Joe):The horses can get us to Shadows Bluff pretty quickly, or
Dr.Awesome (Eric):if we take the horses and shoot out the north side of Bowingford and head to
Jer (Joe):the caves, that's when we'll be the closest to the caves.
Melody (Tay):Is there any And
Jer (Joe):that's a lot of
Dr.Awesome (Eric):open ground.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. Are there any, horses at the camp that we're at right now?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yes. They have tall boots.
Melody (Tay):Okay. How long is the journey to Shadow Clone?
Jer (Joe):6 legged horse.
Melody (Tay):Oh, shoot. How long is the journey on horseback from where we're at to Shadow's Bluff?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Day and a half.
Melody (Tay):Shoot. Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Because you guys are about right here.
Melody (Tay):Okay. Well, If we go with
Mara (Jenn):the Hyperians into Balanforth, get our peeps, and then go to the caves.
Jer (Joe):Peeps go to caves.
Melody (Tay):I love this diagram. It just seems so asinine. Oh, my God.
Mara (Jenn):Seems like Harold means purple crown drawing.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. So, I'm just gonna put these here for visual aid. Okay. I'm not gonna put them there because it's not letting me. And we don't know why.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Refresh.
Melody (Tay):Enhance.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Oh, there they are.
Mara (Jenn):Oh.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. So this is just for visuals and bound forth parent's situation. You guys are gonna come, though, into this cave over here
Mara (Jenn):Mhmm.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):And head into the city.
Melody (Tay):Yes. Hopefully, I can be sneakier than I was earlier.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. So you guys gave the Hytherians the location of the cave, which is over here and made your way back. The villagers stayed in this camp to help them pack up, and then they're gonna start heading north with Gunther and the other then and half of the men to get to Shadow's Bluff. The other 200 some odd men are gonna come and meet you guys at this cave. So as you guys cross back through here, like I said, he's got this huge battlefield massacre here, which makes a lot more sense now with all the arrows and stuff because you got to see the same effect when you saw the airships at Lochmoor.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So, basically, it looks as if the Obsidian Order killed off all these soldiers. It would have made easy killing for them because it was 2 airships just above on either side would have just bombarded them with arrows.
Melody (Tay):Hey. You guys remember when we went into this tunnel that, Irene said that you couldn't get back through the tunnel into the library? Like, it as soon as she closed the hatch, she said you can't come back out. So are we going into, like, a dead end?
Jer (Joe):Are there is there a river that'll take us to, a matching area as the what's that what's that other freaking temple again?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The Hori temple.
Jer (Joe):The Hori temple. Yeah.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The river should connect to the same underground water because, you know, it's a very porous area underneath the the city. Oh, so cool. Limestone taverns.
Mara (Jenn):Oh, sorry.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Limestone cowboys. Did navigate that
Jer (Joe):and I refuse to roll. Try to navigate This is
Dr.Awesome (Eric):the last time anyone heard from Jer.
Jer (Joe):He's lost in the city for the rest of the time.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Time. Alright. So you guys are at the cave. You can make it back over to the bridge that you guys put back up. When you get there, like I said, it's a crevice that or a small crevice.
Melody (Tay):I'm gonna say this.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Anyway, to the to the river underground, and you guys can follow that back around to the Hori temple. So it's a it's a roundabout way, but you guys get get through there. The, Hythereon's following Hyperion's following in behind you guys, and let me see. Alright. So you guys would come out, here.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So you guys get out the the stairwell from underneath the Hori temple, and the start pouring out and, you know, trying to go along this wall because they know you've gotta work through the the town down towards, steam alley where all the garbage and crap is, and you'll cut through here to the the central part of the of Battleford. So Mhmm. You guys are working your way straight.
Melody (Tay):The library on this map?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The library would be this way.
Melody (Tay):Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Able to is that showing? Okay. So, as soon as you guys make surface from underground I mean, while you were down there, you could hear the, you know, report of gunfire, cannons, screams, monstrous roars. When you guys make surface, the amount of smoke and dust and everything else in the air is making it seem like it's already like, the evening, like twilight. It's hard.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It blocks out a lot of the sun, and it's gagging smoke because so much stuff is on fire. There's, the the the monster hordes have obviously also used a lot of the tunnels or forest underground to get here. One thing that stood stood out to your guys' mind is you remember the whole town crier and those other men were murdered and their bodies washed out into the, river to the west, to the this place. Yeah. They probably use the same tunnels that those bodies washed out in to come back into the through the wells and whatnot.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):But, you guys see occasionally, you'll see a couple of gnolls charge past if, you know, they're fighting with, some imperials that are firing weapons and stuff. It's it's pretty chaotic, but you stay close to the walls and try to stay out of the way. Occasionally, you'll see a couple to have to start battling it out with some of the monster horde. Not a fan of this now that I have the other system. So as you guys are making your way down here, this is where they're trying to make their way back behind these buildings, but crashing crashing out of some of these buildings, carrying parts and pieces of, some of the unfortunate souls who didn't, evacuate Battle and Forth.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You see a
Jer (Joe):a ogre and
Dr.Awesome (Eric):a couple gnolls ahead of you. Basically, they they kinda just stumbled upon you guys. Alright. So you guys have your battle or bat battle order? Did you guys pick 1 between yourselves?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Or
Jer (Joe):Do you have the map up yet?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Oh, hold on. I'm just putting the last things on the map, and then I'll bring it up for you guys to see. But, is it is it up? Yep. Yeah.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I'm doing that. Okay. Okay. So you guys see the situation. How do you guys want to approach?
Jer (Joe):You know, on a quick side note, I think it's it's really to our advantage to let Mara do her thing first and then, like, pick off who's left. Because she has the best, like, AOE attacks by by far. And then we see what the situation is after that, you know. Like, in terms of, like, if we had to roll initiative, like, 1 on 1, that's fine. But, like, I think for the future, that's a good strategy for the group.
Jer (Joe):Or if anyone No. If anyone else cast spells, you like, let the spell let the spell casters do their thing first. And then the the fighters pick off what's left. Instead of jumping in there, and then they're trying to do AOE.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):We'll let, Mara and Melody throw out what they wanna throw out, and then, you and Genjiro could try to figure out whoever's left.
Jer (Joe):Ideally, I I don't have to do anything. I can just grab a coffee and watch.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It's like, ideally, the women will kill them all, and we can just hang out and smoke. Smoke them if you got them. Alright. Mara, do you have an attack?
Melody (Tay):Of course.
Mara (Jenn):Let me I'm going to cast, hail of stones to, homeboys off to the right here or Yeah. Those ones. Yeah. To that right? Yeah.
Mara (Jenn):So I'll cast hail of stones on them, and then, I'll come back down and do a seismic strike to the ground, the ones directly in front of me. Okay. So the hail of sim is gonna be a 35 meter area.
Jer (Joe):Okay.
Mara (Jenn):My damage doesn't make any sense. Yeah. So I did 1100 damage to the ones off to the left or to the right right right there.
Jer (Joe):And they
Mara (Jenn):have to first their burst their physical resist resistance negative 10%. And then the seismic strike to the front. They take a 175 damage, and it should be a 2 meter area times 5. So 10 meter area, all targets, and they get negative two actions.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. Sweet. Alright. So the I took off the the ones that were dead. Melody, it's your turn.
Melody (Tay):Alright. Mara, how much EPMP did you use real quick?
Jer (Joe):We just rested. All of it.
Melody (Tay):Did you say all of it? So
Mara (Jenn):400.
Melody (Tay):Okay. Alright. And you still have like a 1,000 left. Right? My EPMP?
Melody (Tay):Mhmm.
Mara (Jenn):I have 2,000 EPMP left.
Melody (Tay):Oh. Alright. So
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Good.
Melody (Tay):Alright. Cool. So I'm gonna go with this. I guess I'm the only one that has, like, nothing. So I'm gonna go ahead and use my lightning serpent
Jer (Joe):Okay.
Melody (Tay):For those dogs.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay.
Jer (Joe):Eat them dogs. Burglates.
Melody (Tay):Eat them dogs.
Jer (Joe):Yep.
Melody (Tay):I don't feel Blue. Okay. Sweet. So for the damage it says 2 SID times 1 fourth level for one turn times 1 fourth level.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay.
Melody (Tay):I don't know what that means.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It's gammoning your equipment, so or their armor and their weapons and stuff.
Melody (Tay):Oh, so it doesn't actually hurt them?
Jer (Joe):Oh, no. No. Oh.
Melody (Tay):Okay. So SID is for, like, equipment only?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):For buildings, inanimate objects, structural integrity damage.
Melody (Tay):Okay. Alright. Well, I guess we'll just pull up my old reliable of my lightning storm then.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. 3 d 12?
Melody (Tay):3 d 12. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. 3.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Roll the other two numbers because that's terrible.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. We're choosing a different die this time. That's 2. K. 7.
Melody (Tay):Alright. We'll take the 7.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):K. So you got it's it's 120 times
Melody (Tay):5.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):5 is 600 k. How many actions does it take for you to cast that?
Melody (Tay):2.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. This guy is injured but he's not dead.
Melody (Tay):Can I do it again for my last 2? Yeah. Alright. Doing it again. Do I have to roll again?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. Just roll your damage. You get might get a lot more damage this time.
Melody (Tay):I have a 2.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Roll that roll.
Melody (Tay):I'm gonna roll every day. 8.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Good. Alright. One more time and then you're then we'll add it together. So 10.
Melody (Tay):9.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. So 19. So a 190, 5, 950. Yeah. He's dead.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. There's 1 injured, one left right here. That's it.
Mara (Jenn):Come, Jer.
Melody (Tay):Alright, Jer. It's all you.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Ladies have cleared the board with the exception of 1 half half flight.
Jer (Joe):See what I mean? Yeah. And so, Mar took 2 of his actions too. Right?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. So he's doing nothing.
Jer (Joe):Alright. Well, I'm just gonna distance slash him.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay.
Jer (Joe):You know, if it has to, you can see the fork and hands. Okay. First one missed. The second one hit, and I have a chance to decapitate.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. Alright. Percent. Sweet.
Mara (Jenn):Nice. At
Dr.Awesome (Eric):least you're getting good with the criticals and the caps you're rolling.
Jer (Joe):Yeah. If I can if I can hit you, I'm cool, but I can't.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Hey, you guys cleared it out. Now you guys wanna roll your stealth and, pass without trace. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9,
Jer (Joe):9. So
Mara (Jenn):Do you have a negative?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. 15% because basically I didn't put all the guys on here, but there's war all around you.
Melody (Tay):We're trying to get under those numbers. Right?
Jer (Joe):Yeah. Yeah.
Melody (Tay):You don't wanna know what I
Jer (Joe):got. So what is the what are we rolling again?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Your pass without trace.
Jer (Joe):Minus what?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):15.
Jer (Joe):Hey. I got that one.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright.
Jer (Joe):The 19.
Mara (Jenn):Holy shit. I got it. A fucking 35%
Jer (Joe):chance.
Mara (Jenn):I'm I made dolian look bad.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):What what did you get, Mar, Melody?
Melody (Tay):You got an 84.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. So Melody ran straight into, like, a huge
Mara (Jenn):I know.
Jer (Joe):I'm a fight them all. Hold the back, bitch. Just hold the back.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So the bard just, I don't know, like, started playing a drum and walking through the middle of them, like
Melody (Tay):Well, while I'm doing that, can I do a distractive sound as my passive There's too much
Dr.Awesome (Eric):sounds going on as it is?
Melody (Tay):Yeah. Yeah. So
Jer (Joe):hold on
Dr.Awesome (Eric):a second. Wait.
Jer (Joe):Wait. Wait. Wait. Where where is the enemies again?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Here. I'll put I'll put some on there so you guys can see, but it's a lot a lot.
Jer (Joe):Wait. Where are we headed?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You guys are already over
Jer (Joe):here. Again.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You and Mar are major roles, so you guys are just chilling.
Jer (Joe):Oh, I see what you're saying.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So this whole area is like a freaking war zone. You know? They're all over the damn place.
Jer (Joe):Here's where you disrupt there. With with that one spell that does all the structural integrity stuff.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. You could try to bring down the stages on them or something, but no. No. No.
Melody (Tay):No. What? Those are the gnolls?
Mara (Jenn):Can I run my gnolls
Dr.Awesome (Eric):are the fit? Those those are the Flynn's and then those are the wargs. Knowles Flynn's wargs. Sounds like you're just talking gibberish. We're open for
Mara (Jenn):Can I roll my monster creature over to see what they're scared of?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Mhmm.
Mara (Jenn):I got it.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):They're definitely not scared of people. You'd say much bigger monsters.
Mara (Jenn):Are they scared of fire? Are they scared of light? Are they scared of roaches, rats, anything? So,
Dr.Awesome (Eric):roll under an 82% whoever wants to roll that.
Mara (Jenn):I got it.
Jer (Joe):Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So Ginjiro disappears. Alright. So, there's, blast of what looks like, shards and shrapnel of of iron and so forth that just blast through the the crowd, and a immense dragon coil coils up and uncoils and does a thrash through the group that's closest and lands about 2 meter 2 meters away from Melody. So let's see. Blast of iron shards is 5,000 damage.
Melody (Tay):So
Mara (Jenn):How fast can I get to Melody?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Just running back, it would only take one action for each of you.
Melody (Tay):Can I do my melody of serenity? So or can it see me, first of all?
Jer (Joe):Yep.
Mara (Jenn):It looks like he's protecting you.
Melody (Tay):Is this Genjiro? Like, did he become a snake?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Bingo. Juro is now a giant dragon. He's an iron dragon. This is strictly from the Eastern Empire. They don't exist in your guys' lands.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):They're more nature oriented. So you have time now to roll your escape again. Negative. I'm the negative. Because they're not gonna do anything.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Mara came up with a good idea, something larger that they're scared of. But remember, Genjiro said he has a trick he can do. He can only do it for so long. So if you want, you can roll your chance to escape. They're gonna be sizing up and figuring out if they're gonna try to do something here.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. Sorry. I had a bug that AD just got for me. Alright. I'm gonna go ahead and roll again.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):22. Alright.
Melody (Tay):I'm 22. I'm gone.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Well, Mara, before before Mara could run off, Melody comes and joins up with you guys here. So we're very close to the duchesses or to head over to the duchesses through the archway. The large iron dragon goes ahead and it basically, when it it does its thrashing around and stuff, it releases all these shards of iron that are are, like, basically the size of short swords that are launching at incredible speeds across the incredible speeds across the the enemies. That one, he goes through them, you know, really rapidly. The the ones the shards that are still on his back and everything, dice like blades.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So, you know, he's he's fighting them for a short period of time, but it's basically cutting enough off. And the between that and the Hytherian warriors coming through, seems like most of the monster horde in this area is just either falling back or outside of the castle again, so the square is clear for now. And then after a few more moments, the dragon disappears. So you guys can cross through this archway now. This would be the, east east facing archway that leads into the central parts of Ballonfort.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So you've made it through the plaza. There was no loss of life on the side of Hytherians. A couple of them might have wounds, but they their their fights were usually led up by a true blooded Hytherean who can turn a a stone skin. So that kinda negates a lot of the the worry there. But, alright.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So you guys can pass through there. Can I save this map? Alright. So as you get through there, you come you come in front of the duchess's estate, and you see the gate there with the little guard shack is all destroyed, and you see the dead guard outside. So what is your guys' move now?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You guys are now at the gate to the the estate. The gate is all crushed down and the guard shack is destroyed and the guard is laying there dead. So
Melody (Tay):Can we see another way to get into the estate, like, through the rubble or anything?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You can walk right over it, but pretty sure that this means that there's probably, enemies inside.
Mara (Jenn):I'll speak to the dead guard.
Jer (Joe):Okay.
Mara (Jenn):I'll tell him, forgive me for disturbing your rest. Any information. Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):He just kinda breathes and acknowledges your presence.
Mara (Jenn):How many are there? Do you know?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Many, many dozens.
Mara (Jenn):Is there anything besides just the monsters?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The monsters fell back. This was a surprise.
Mara (Jenn):Who's in there?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. At this moment, Jer, you feel the your sword rattle within its case and you and, all of you get a strange extreme cold bite come across you, and it gets really quiet. And the the garden of speaks no more. It's super quiet. And you see that the bars and stuff that are broken on the gate start to get frost all over them, and you it even gets dimmer than it was before.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):And you just, near, the silence is extraordinary, especially it goes from war zone style cannons and monsters and men to just being, I mean, nothing as you all stand here.
Mara (Jenn):I'm gonna I'm gonna cast armored intellect on myself.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. Oh, you're you're muted, Joe.
Jer (Joe):Sara's washing There
Dr.Awesome (Eric):you go.
Jer (Joe):Sara's washing dishes. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah. So I wanna use Iron Will.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. You just hear you just hear, something speak. It says release
Mara (Jenn):Don't release him. Don't release him. Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I says I will reveal you if you don't release
Melody (Tay):me. Can I whisper back into the void? What are
Dr.Awesome (Eric):you? I'm hungry. I hunger.
Melody (Tay):I hunger, father. I hunger.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I'll tell them who you are, Reaver.
Melody (Tay):So does anybody know what the hell this thing is? Can can I roll for, like, monster creature lore?
Mara (Jenn):I'm Sure. So Hold on.
Melody (Tay):23, my monster creature lure is 50. I got it.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You've heard of something like this before? According to the, record of the ages, it was the let me see. I'm gonna try to go back and find
Melody (Tay):Please don't be what I think it is. Please don't be what I
Mara (Jenn):think it is. I know it is what I think it is, I just don't want it to be.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. This goes back about 4000 years, so your knowledge of it is limited except for you've heard of the silent dark that used to come and take entire, settlements and so forth. In the middle of the night, they just vanish.
Melody (Tay):Jen, what is it?
Mara (Jenn):I think it's the dark end.
Jer (Joe):So Iron Will gives me a 10% chance, additional to resist mental probe for
Dr.Awesome (Eric):attack. Alright. He's not able to reach into your mind.
Melody (Tay):You said he is able to reach into my mind?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):No. He well, he's trying with Jer first.
Jer (Joe):So I just point with the sword to the, the mansion and look at everyone else and say, shall we?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. Okay. So you guys start moving forward. As you get closer up there, you see, 3 more of those Obsidian soldiers on the ground that you saw in, Lockmoor. Alright?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):One's got his his head looks like it was crushed into his chest. Basically, like someone just pounded his head into his upper chest cavity. The other one looks like, he's been bludgeoned in half. It's not cut. It's very nasty.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Like, he got hit and bludgeoned in half. The other one looks like he's been These
Mara (Jenn):are the, Obsidian guards?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Stabbed with a heart. Yeah. The Obsidian guards are are soldiers on the ground. Their weapons are pretty much toast too. The one that looks like he's he was, hit critically at least two times, is the cleanest to the bodies, but, you do hear you hear a female, like, fighting.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Like, you can hear her, like and she's it's right near the fountain.
Mara (Jenn):I'll run. Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You guys notice some strange as you guys are getting there, like a a draw on your power. You notice at first Melody, it's the most prevalent with you. Like, you're pretty sure you have 0, energy right now, EPMP.
Melody (Tay):So I have this, magic spell thing, the hymn, and it's called tune of bemusement. So it's it's like it says no spell casting. So is that for, like, things that are around us or, like, all of us including, like, my party?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):That should be your party too.
Melody (Tay):Oh.
Jer (Joe):We're gonna die.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. I don't know what to do. Like, like I did the monster creature lore and I got it and I still don't know what's going on.
Jer (Joe):We're gonna die. What's the what's the
Mara (Jenn):I'm I'm running towards where I hear the fighting.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. You're gonna try to do re regain power with your music?
Melody (Tay):Yeah. I'm gonna do some tune of rejuvenation at least just once to see if it will replenish, yeah, my EPMP.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright, Mara. You get to the top of that small hill where the fountain was, where the ground is, clear. When you get there, you see, Rilina fighting 2 of the soldiers and one of those lieutenants.
Mara (Jenn):That's not where it's coming from. I'm gonna go help Raylena. There's somebody else here. It's not that lieutenant. I'm telling you it's not coming from that lieutenant.
Mara (Jenn):I see that lieutenant.
Jer (Joe):My gosh.
Mara (Jenn):I'm going to cast. I see the lieutenant. Yep. Okay. I'm gonna cast Crimson Mist on him.
Mara (Jenn):See what how I do.
Jer (Joe):Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Oh, he failed his magic resistance.
Mara (Jenn):Let me tell you what I did. I did 5,000 damage.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. The, lieutenant is dead. His one of his soldiers on the right is dead, and, Ralena just killed the other soldier. But now you are 0e pnp.
Mara (Jenn):It took that much out of me?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Something's taking power out of you. Standing there, you you notice that you smell the blood on Ralina from where she's been wounded on her arm. Roll to resist attacking her.
Melody (Tay):Wait.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You have a 50% chance. Under 50, you don't attack her. Over 50, you do.
Mara (Jenn):Oh my gosh. Fuck. I got a 50.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Shit. Okay. You're right at it. So you're resisting it. So that's you're resisting it right now, but Raylena doesn't understand.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So she's over there asking you, like, are you okay? Alright.
Mara (Jenn):Can I tell her to run?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):She's not gonna run. She's a knight. Alright. So you're coming up the hill behind her, Jer, and you're behind Jer, Melody. So you're about to the top of the hill too.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. Melody is trying to rejuvenate your guys' energy, but you constantly you feel like no matter how much you play, it's giving you guys a little bit back, and then it's being drawn off again. Jared, what are you gonna do?
Jer (Joe):I'm going to stab a horse. Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright.
Melody (Tay):What?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):All 2 tens. Get under 40%.
Jer (Joe):No. No dice. It's gonna take
Dr.Awesome (Eric):more than one stab. Hopefully, the horse lives. Alright. While you're over there doing that, sir Gideon, Faulkner walks out. He's obviously confused.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):He watched Jar stab the old horse, and he's like but he comes over, and he sees Mara, so alright. He does a spell of peace, from peace and pacification called called, I can't look it up right now, but basically, it it steals aggression. So you're feeling a little more calm.
Mara (Jenn):I'll tell him we need to run. We came back for you. We need to go now.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. They they they said they've been fighting here for
Jer (Joe):a couple of
Dr.Awesome (Eric):hours, but they're, it's time to go. The a couple of the Hytherian warriors come running up into the the entrance to the escape that you guys are at, the cobblestone area. And and at first, they all stop, and Gideon stops and are kinda staring at each other. But they ask where the duchess is, and then Gideon looks to Raelina. He steps up and grabs onto her armor, and he says your mother is gone.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. And Rillina, they gives him a look like she doesn't believe him and she pulls back and tries to shove shove him out of the way And, Gideon looks at you, then he punches her in the stomach, and then he throw, you know, like She's conscious but she's weak and then he puts her on his shoulder and he points to the stables. We need to get out of here now. Alright. Therian saved most of the way is clear, but head out the west arch through the west gate.
Mara (Jenn):Perfect. Let's go.
Melody (Tay):I ran.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. You guys run to the stables. Try again, Jer. You got one more shot. This horse is gonna bite it if this shot doesn't
Jer (Joe):Oh, god.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. You kill the old horse. The only other option is to do to do the horse that wasn't broken in. He's not old. He's young, but you guys can't use him anyway because he's not broken in.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. The old horse he did.
Mara (Jenn):Why are you killing horses?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):21. Okay. So you when you stab it, you see the the dark purplish flame, the dark fire come out and go into the horse. And the horse has now his eyes are now the dark fire, and then there's a set of eyes above it that are just energy. And the horse just runs through the wall, just breaks it to pieces and runs off.
Melody (Tay):Are these the same purple eyes that we saw in Lochmoor?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yes. Very good. 250 experience points. Alright. You guys get to the horses.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Gideon puts the, Raylena on the horse with you, Mara. He says, I've gotta be able to fight from my speed. Jer, can you fight from horseback? Yes. You and I will lead the way.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Where are your friends?
Mara (Jenn):We're gonna leave
Melody (Tay):a note.
Jer (Joe):Scribble something on the wall. Scraping the
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Draw draw penis.
Melody (Tay):Mar was here.
Jer (Joe):Go this way.
Mara (Jenn):Peanut balls and an arrow. Yeah.
Melody (Tay):If you're looking for a good time, Mara. 8 857 6 Ma'am.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. So you guys start hauling ass on the horses. The city is getting reattacked again. But this time, the airships, you see the there's now 3 obsidian airships that come in low and start firing on the monster horde. Okay?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):What the hell? They're tearing up the monster horde like nobody's business, and soldiers are now coming down on on ropes dropping the ground and just starting back. They're they're reinforcing the imperials and just obliterating, the monster horde with, rifles, and they also have a lot more of those, those knights. So the knights and the riflemen are just tearing it up. But regardless, Gideon just looks at you and kinda gives a signal to just press.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Now, you're gonna each roll the 20 sided die. If you get anything divisible by 3, you and your horse get stopped up by the the battle, if that makes sense. Like, you're trying to get through the streets and stuff and head west. You roll anything divisible by 3, you got blockaded, and you couldn't
Melody (Tay):You girl got a 2.
Jer (Joe):Sweet.
Melody (Tay):Wait. Wait.
Jer (Joe):I haven't rolled yet. I'm just laughing. Oh, shoot. I hate.
Mara (Jenn):Okay. Hate. Get my old reliable out.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Old reliable.
Melody (Tay):She's making an unhappy face.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. Your horse rears up when it comes across an area with a bunch of the obsidian. 4 of the soldiers just turn immediately and fire at 17 so they're all hit. You can try to maybe block 1 if you want.
Jer (Joe):Mark, can I yell to her? Mark, can you levitate? No.
Melody (Tay):Wait. Are these the inanimate objects that I can do something to?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):What inanimate object could you do something to to stop her from getting shot?
Melody (Tay):The bullet.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The gun.
Melody (Tay):The gun. Yes. That one too.
Jer (Joe):Gun. Yes. That that thing.
Mara (Jenn):Yeah.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You can cast your you can cast a spell on those guns.
Melody (Tay):Okay. I'm gonna do my barrier of lightning
Jer (Joe):Okay.
Melody (Tay):To keep us safe, a barrier around us to those guns to make them go away. Alright. So the barrier of lightning, it says negative 100 and 25 physical damage, negative 1,000 damage for magic. So it says 3 s I d times half level for one turn times 1 fourth level.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. So the guns failed to fire then, love or Mara. So he lucked out. Melody just stopped all those rifles. Roll the 20 side and die again.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):No divisible by 3.
Melody (Tay):The face. No. Goddamn it.
Jer (Joe):Well, I'm stopped up.
Melody (Tay):I'm doing my part.
Jer (Joe):I'm doing my part. Alright.
Mara (Jenn):I take it.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. So the Hyperians come through and take on some more of the the soldiers. You guys got another chance to roll. Roll again.
Melody (Tay):We all need a roll now?
Jer (Joe):Okay.
Melody (Tay):Oh, god damn it. Damn it, Mara. I got an 18.
Jer (Joe):Got an 18. Oh, god.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. They fire and they miss. So you got All of you guys make it out of the the west gate or no. The east gate because you're heading you're heading east because the west is where all the monsters are. So you head east, you head out the east gate of the of Valon Fork.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You're now breaking into that light wooded area in between here and that cave from the river. So you guys can kinda slow down. It looks like one of your horses has been shot, and it might not make it very far. So you guys are gonna have to come up with a different plan. Now, Genjiro's not with you guys.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Machitus is not with you guys. D'Oleon's not with you guys. The Hytherians have already made their departure, the ones that are not engaged in fighting. So they did their part. You guys have Gideon with you, and Ralina.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Gideon says, I know of a safe haven we can get to, but we need to get, we need to go to the, Fox Run Hollow. Then
Mara (Jenn):Okay.
Jer (Joe):How are we gonna get word to Golian and Machitus?
Melody (Tay):I don't know. Carrier pigeon.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I don't know, but it's good that we're out of here because the last I heard, there was a dragon in the city. So it's time to get moving.
Jer (Joe):Well
Mara (Jenn):Dragon's not a dragon's with us.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You have a dragon? We should be using that.
Mara (Jenn):He says He's a friend.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I know of, some of the former knights of the, old alliance that have a home out in the Fox Run Hollow that we can go to. They'll give us a safe haven for now.
Melody (Tay):Did they have another horse?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yes.
Mara (Jenn):Cool. Do
Jer (Joe):I have a hood or anything?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. I mean, I figured when he went in and bought standard stuff, like, more of a travel, cloak and stuff for when it rains, you want that. So, I brought a face mask.
Melody (Tay):COVID's a pain. Face masks are important.
Jer (Joe):Oh, yeah.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):All of you guys are trying your best to weave and stay away from areas that are drawing a lot of attention. The battle seems to be more focused at Ball and Forth now. It's all all the hordes have kind of fell upon the city and the between the imperials and the the sudden surprise reinforcements of Obsidian, Empire forces that, they seem to be handling it pretty well. You guys make it to Fox Run Hollow. The heat the woods here are very dense, so you guys only ride in for maybe the first hour, and then it's time to walk the horses because of the you're not you're not on a main road.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So there that you could ride, but here you gotta you're kinda weaving in and out of trees and heavy brush. It's a hard, walk. By the time you guys reach a clearing, that Gideon kinda signals for you guys a small clearing to kinda, stop and take a a quick breather. Raelena is upset, but she hasn't talked to anybody. She's kinda just, in her own mind right now.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Gideon goes scout ahead real quick, but you guys are exhausted. You're going on a basically, like, the 3rd day of very little rest. I mean, the cave didn't give you a whole lot of rest. You know what I mean?
Jer (Joe):Go ahead.
Mara (Jenn):Can I draw my sword? Sure. I'm out of the night. Okay. I will draw my sword, and I will use a disarming strike on Jir, and hold my sword to his throat and then throw him.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. Roll.
Mara (Jenn):He's got a negative 20% to resist.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. Well, first you gotta hit him and then, try to disarm him.
Mara (Jenn):I got a 17. Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You hit, now roll your disarm. Or unless, Jerry, you're gonna try to dodge or Yeah. Absolutely. Okay.
Jer (Joe):What's my minus to dodge?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Negative enemy defense would be about a 10%.
Jer (Joe):Okay. Got that. So I wanna try to counter.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay.
Melody (Tay):What is happening?
Mara (Jenn):They're fighting.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):They're fighting over
Jer (Joe):a horse or
Mara (Jenn):what? My horse.
Jer (Joe):I got my own horse.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):That's Melody's like, I got my
Mara (Jenn):own horse. I got a 26th. Did you beat my enthrall?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Well, you have to You had to disarm him first.
Mara (Jenn):You beat Oh, you beat my disarm?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. He dodged and he countered.
Jer (Joe):I haven't countered yet.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Oh, he's trying to counter.
Jer (Joe):Yeah. I I countered.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. Roll to see if you hit. What do you get what are you gonna do with your hit?
Jer (Joe):Can I aim specifically at the weapon?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Sure. You just have to roll like 16 or higher, you hit what you call. So
Melody (Tay):Alright. Well, this is happening. I'm gonna play melody of refuge. So all enemies or all allies in the 5 mile area or 5 meter area, no movement. What the fuck is going on?
Mara (Jenn):Don't.
Jer (Joe):So I wanna do I wanna do defensive skill to lock blades. It gives me a 5% chance to disarm. Okay. And it forces a face off. 17.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. So now you guys roll twenties against each other. Go ahead and, does do you have to roll for that Melody?
Melody (Tay):No.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. So you guys would have to roll your magic resistance to try to stop from, Melody's effect. So it'd be negative 10% to your magic resistance or she's gonna stop all of your, actions.
Mara (Jenn):Negative what?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):10%.
Mara (Jenn):I got it.
Jer (Joe):Yeah. I got it.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. So you guys resist the magic. Roll your twenties.
Jer (Joe):I sheath my sword.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay.
Jer (Joe):I put my hands up. Alright. Like, what's going on?
Mara (Jenn):What what are you?
Jer (Joe):I'm a knight.
Melody (Tay):This is why we just talk. Just use your words.
Mara (Jenn):You lie.
Melody (Tay):Use your words.
Jer (Joe):Use your words, guys.
Mara (Jenn):I'll stand in front of Melody, and I'll say, you lie. You're a reaver. I heard what the demon said.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. Well, Raelena's watching this and stands near Melody and, just has her hand on her sword, but she hasn't drawn it. She says, can we trust them? She's asking you, Melody.
Melody (Tay):I don't know. I don't know who he is, but he hasn't hurt us thus far. He's saved my life a couple of times already.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. She's like, we're gonna travel together and we're in this situation. I was told by my mother my life is in your hands, lady Elderwood. So can I trust that you're gonna keep me alive? Are you gonna are we gonna be locking swords here soon?
Mara (Jenn):As soon as he says what he is.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. Gideon comes back from scouting ahead. He says, alright. The it'll it'll be about another mile, and we'll be there. I don't see anything in our way.
Melody (Tay):Alright. So for with my next 3 turns, because I used one turn for that, refuge, next 3 turns I'm just gonna replenish 250 MP per turn, so times 3.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. So 750 for you guys?
Jer (Joe):Is it
Dr.Awesome (Eric):just you or them too?
Melody (Tay):I'll go ahead and let them have it too.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. Alright.
Melody (Tay):It doesn't say that it doesn't go to them, so sure.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You guys are making your uneasy way the extra mile. When you get up about the last quarter of a mile, there, you live your lives a quarter mile at a time. Up ahead of you, you see a couple of, you'd see 3 people standing up front of the house, 1 person on top of the house. And Gideon, does a a salute to them, and then they salute back. And he's like, we're okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):We're we're safe here.
Jer (Joe):So I tell Mara, I mean you no harm. I'm only here to seek those who wronged me in my past.
Melody (Tay):Can I peer out from behind Mara and be like, what what's up with your past? Tell us more.
Jer (Joe):It's a long story.
Melody (Tay):Well, we're about to set up camp. Sounds like it's a campfire time.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It is.
Jer (Joe):All except
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Gideon says we can all share a little bit of information. He's like, I think it's only fair to say some of us probably have, a few things in our past that we'd rather keep buried, but some honesty should be, shared here at this this place. This is a safe place, and if we're gonna move forward, we have to be able to trust each other. So they have a fire going out back. You notice that the, 4 people that are here, there's one that's definitely an an archer.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):He was on the roof. There's one that's, got a pike almost. It's like a lance, but he also has a drake or a young dragon that he rides, which is out back.
Mara (Jenn):What?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):And then the one knight, there has no weapons, but he has heavy gauntlets on kinda like Machitus. And then the the last of the nights there has a bunch of shorter swords and so forth, but he has, one, like, very, it's an estoc. It's like a mix between a long sword and a rapier. And Gideon says all of these men served to, under the the old lions. In one time.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):And what I promised the duchess is that we would stand by Raylena if she decides to move forward with her goals, trying to bring back what once was. The people need it, and frankly, some of us need it. We need something to stand for again, something we believe in. You're welcome to stay here. There's more than enough food and water and shelter and warmth for the fires.
Mara (Jenn):Do you have any prisoners?
Melody (Tay):No. Damn. Can't you eat like a rabbit or something? Is that not not the same?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):A deer? No.
Mara (Jenn):A deer.
Melody (Tay):Oh, so I want some twilight. They they
Jer (Joe):ate What about the
Mara (Jenn):chef's roast?
Melody (Tay):Okay, JR, your turn. Your turn to share.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):We are officially at Campfire spot. So if you want to share, this would be the time.
Mara (Jenn):Campfire. The campfire.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It's your campfire time.
Jer (Joe):Okay. So my name is Jericho. I woke not long ago after my men were murdered, and now I'm here to seek vengeance for their death.
Melody (Tay):Do you know what killed them? Like, what are you seeking vengeance against?
Jer (Joe):Well, we were betrayed. Men who
Melody (Tay):were supposed
Jer (Joe):to reinforce my my position never showed up. And we all suffered because of that.
Mara (Jenn):Do you know who betrayed you?
Jer (Joe):Yeah. But give me a second so I can pull it up.
Melody (Tay):You're fine.
Mara (Jenn):He's digging to the depths of his memory.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):That boy was
Jer (Joe):You guys need to chitchat or anything. I'll I'll make the story a little better once I
Melody (Tay):So, Mara, why did you, put your sword to this man's throat? Like, what happened?
Mara (Jenn):We'll see if he'll tell you why in a minute.
Melody (Tay):Oh, so you can't tell me why, like, you did what you did?
Mara (Jenn):Yeah. Because I know it's
Melody (Tay):hella baby. Oh.
Mara (Jenn):So, so we're gonna go get Ariana in the mountains.
Melody (Tay):Yes.
Mara (Jenn):I think that's pretty important to do. Mhmm.
Melody (Tay):Do you have an idea of, like I'm assuming that, like, when everybody was talking about my guide, they were talking about a witch that was in the wood with ancient blood or she didn't have ancient blood, but I guess, like, something else in there had ancient blood. I'm assuming ancient blood means, like, vampire.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):That sounds about right.
Melody (Tay):So I'm assuming that the guide is you, Mara. Sounds like it. So you're, like, half of that. Now the other half was the key and the light. I'm thinking that the key is that, stone that I had shown you.
Melody (Tay):You know what I mean? From my yeah. The crystal with the lightning inside of it.
Mara (Jenn):Could be.
Melody (Tay):But I don't know what the light is.
Mara (Jenn):I think you are the light. Mhmm.
Melody (Tay):Do you know anything about Damias, who that is?
Mara (Jenn):I think he is the son of Decimus.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Now do any of you have the, record of the ages on on your on you right now? Or
Mara (Jenn):Mallory guys.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Saved or
Melody (Tay):Let me get the book. I didn't know that it was an actual book. I thought
Mara (Jenn):No. It's on the drive. I just have
Melody (Tay):the Oh.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Record. I'm gonna get a drink.
Melody (Tay):In that case, I'm gonna move this closer to me so I'm not hurting my back anymore. Oh, binder. Alright. So you said it's on the drive?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yep.
Mara (Jenn):Record of your age would be binder. Great.
Melody (Tay):Eric destroyed everything. Eric, what'd you do with
Mara (Jenn):all the binders up here?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It wasn't me.
Mara (Jenn):No. I had them all. Let me just go on the drive then.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. I'm pulling it up right now.
Jer (Joe):I I have it up if anyone has any specific questions.
Melody (Tay):Does it say anything in there about a damias?
Jer (Joe):Yeah. It's like
Mara (Jenn):Pretty sure that's
Jer (Joe):This is Desmond's son.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It's the devil baby. Devil baby boy.
Mara (Jenn):There's there's the offspring of the fallen that we are looking for. But I think it was brother Baelum that mentioned that, if I'm not mistaken.
Melody (Tay):Does anybody know how to read, star charts in our group?
Mara (Jenn):I'm not really sure what that would even be under.
Melody (Tay):You know, high fiving.
Mara (Jenn):Survival environmental environmental.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So under chapter 5 page 4 or paragraph 4 or whatever it is. C 5p4 is where it begins talk the record begins talking of Damien.
Mara (Jenn):So it says only one born of the fallen, because they would have godlike power. We have the prayer bell. I'm not really sure what that does, but at least we know who the fallen is.
Melody (Tay):Why can't I control up anything on this page? That's so frustrating.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Is it opening in Google Docs?
Mara (Jenn):Yeah. Oh, I
Dr.Awesome (Eric):hate that. Google Docs blows.
Melody (Tay):I'm trying to see if I can open it with, something else. Here. Let me see if I can open it.
Mara (Jenn):Okay. Hang on. They're opening.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Will it let you open it in, Word?
Melody (Tay):No. Word
Jer (Joe):Wow. Where'd
Mara (Jenn):you say it was, Eric?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):C 5p4.
Jer (Joe):So do the star charts correspond to a specific date?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. Basically, that between this this
Mara (Jenn):Okay. You ready?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Mhmm.
Mara (Jenn):It says, the prince of corruption and darkness, Damius, was so enraged that he used a portion of his power to bind Daedric to a curse, and then to impose a prophecy that if the eyes were to be reunited and placed under the light of the torch of chaos, then his fallen brother would rise again to serve him. Kargus would be again endowed with the might of the 3 demonic eyes, and his play would spread once again. Damias knew that by the next of great eclipse, he could use the power of the dark star to raise one of his demon Ken, once so powerful he could help revive Kargus. With Demias growing more powerful with each passing moon, he knew that if he could draw forth anyone from the abyss of chaos, he had decided that only a creature as cunning and wicked as he would succeed, who would call upon his brother, Deinos, the demon lord of death and destruction to come forth and assist him in returning Kargus to the mortal realm to carry out the plan Damias had originally intended for him. So I remember Deimos being the the, the demon lord of death, and he's the one that created the death knights.
Mara (Jenn):Kargus, I think, is the one that that raises all the monsters. Correct?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Targus is, the, demon lord of rot.
Mara (Jenn):Rot? Oh, okay. I'm I'm
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Rotting.
Melody (Tay):Gonna be like
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Blah blah blah. But, he's he's not very smart, but he spreads pestilence, disease because of his writing and stuff. But the the more important factor there, what you gather from that information, is the length of time. Because if you read further, you see basically Deimos in, unleashes his his plan to destroy the world, and he fails. He gets defeated by the chosen.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Well, he gets visited by Sariva, and that's in c 6p4 or after c 6 p 4. I guess it's c 6p5. Yeah. C 6p5. Chapter 6.
Mara (Jenn):I remember this. He had,
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The more the mortal form of Deimos was visited by a vision of the goddess Seriva who pleaded with him to show true power by giving mercy and protection to those who he had been dominating. Deimos laughed and told her he would show her true power, and upon the next day he led his armies into the southlands and butchered dozens of villages and burned the crops and homes of all the people he could find. Deimos then stood high in his deed and mocked the goddess. This is true power, you foolish woman. There is nothing left in this world that can stand before me.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I have the wealthiest, strongest and most elaborate kingdom the world has ever seen. He most laughed wickedly as he spoke. Sariva answered him in a power powerful flash of lightning and a blazing white light from the heavens. You're right, Deimos. You have the greatest lands and the greatest wealth.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So now I shall give to you what you truly deserve. With that, Sariva sent tens of thousands of blasts of tremendous energy that encircled all the lands around demo that Deimos held. The blast left enormous stone pillars standing side by side that stretched into the skies surrounding all of Deimos' kingdom. From this day forth, Deimos, you shall never leave your lands, and your lands shall never see the light of day again. And your armies and loyal subjects shall face hunger, disease, and death along with within the walls of your cursed kingdom.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So, basically, she entrapped him, and that's what became the dark lands blah blah blah. K? But that's basically letting you know that happened. Now if you go back to the timeline in the very beginning, it'll tell you when all that happened. So it lets you know how long Destin or Damias has been working on his plan.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Okay. So alright. That was in 4823. See, it says rule of lord Demos Vendrick of the Northlands was in 5049. So you guys are about 5000 years ahead of that time.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So Damias has been around for 5000 years working on this plan. According to the timeline, if the record of the ages is right, that's a long time. It's a long plan. So the record of the ages is good if you're starting to get names dropped on you, Melody, that you can go back in and find out some of who they are because at the very end of it, it it gives you the, names of all, like, older gods and ancient dragons and what they were the gods and goddesses of.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. I saw that. So
Mara (Jenn):So it's basically
Dr.Awesome (Eric):just a a reference for you.
Melody (Tay):Alright. And that's where I see Ariana. Oh, she's elven.
Jer (Joe):Mhmm.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Remember, the duchess mentioned that the elves worshiped the 4 sisters long before, the creationists included them in in the in their belief. Even though they were created by the per the peep the person the the 4 sisters were created by Sreeva who the creationists worship. They never worship the 4 sisters until later.
Melody (Tay):What is this alignment?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Always worship the sisters. Alignment is your where you stand in good or evil.
Melody (Tay):Oh, so n is like neutral?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yep. Good call. Charisma. So
Melody (Tay):it's t and l. Terrible. I don't know.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):True. He is true. Like, like, the the most like, if it's t g, it's true good. Like, there's no and then, l is lawful. That means that they they they don't lie.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):They they're honest.
Mara (Jenn):They don't cheat. Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):That kinda
Melody (Tay):Mara, do you see anything in here about this, like, child of light and, like, when they're supposed to come around?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):In order for Sariva to come, there has to be a child of light.
Mara (Jenn):Yeah. She needs an avatar.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):She needs a body like Aang.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. Who
Mara (Jenn):knows who that is?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. So we're at a good spot to stop. If you guys wanted to share information or talk or, you know, anything, do that. But I think this is a good spot to stop. You can ask MPCs questions if you want for a few minutes.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):If you have anything on the people that are here. I gotta take note and gotta try to fill in, Machidis and, Do Leon on, regrouping somehow in some sort of strategy going forward? Are you guys gonna head straight to the eastern pass, the tunnel that somewhere in those mountains, Ariana said she's imprisoned. Are you gonna head to Shadows Bluff, try to get a ship, and head to Arnea?
Melody (Tay):I know that we wanna go to the mountain. The mountain's also where we need to place that horn. Correct, Mara? Yeah. Okay.
Melody (Tay):So. Yeah. And then Julian said his wife is to the west of the mountain.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yes. And You guys don't really need to go to Shadow's Glove except for tran transportation.
Melody (Tay):Right.
Mara (Jenn):Yeah.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I mean, we've got refugees there, which is big time experience points for your guys' group because that's 17 people that were saved.
Mara (Jenn):But at that
Dr.Awesome (Eric):At 17,000 experience points right there just for those people.
Melody (Tay):Dang.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Not counting all your guys combat and stuff. Each battle you win is a 1,000. You guys didn't lose any battle time. So you guys can count 4 battles that were fought. All win, all all wins.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So that's an extra 4,000 experience points. Any of the enemies you defeated, I can give you their experience points.
Melody (Tay):Okay. So the Obsidian infantry, how much is that for 1?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Infantry are 500 a piece.
Melody (Tay):K. So if I got 7
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Plus 5, you got 12.
Jer (Joe):Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):You got
Melody (Tay):6000?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. Mara, you got 8 and then 4. So, yeah, you got 12 to the obsidian infantry guys the lieutenants counts you guys could keep track of that. They're a 1,000 each There's 3 of them Gotta keep track of that so I can add up for Genjiro's to, experience to try to level him. Inan, you defeated him, but he got a he might come back around.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Aynan was worth 12,500. He fought both Melody and Jer.
Melody (Tay):So for the lieutenant, it's only for the person that actually killed the lieutenant that gets those points. Right?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yes.
Melody (Tay):Okay.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The daggers in the alleyway that you killed were worth 250 each. That's 4 or 3 of them ran away if that counts. So that's 2,000 experience points, Mara, for them. The 5 guys are beaten to death. That's 25100 more.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Trying to think of anyone else that you guys killed.
Jer (Joe):Oh, the gnolls.
Melody (Tay):Well, the the the Flareon. Right? The those are 2.50 a piece?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The what?
Melody (Tay):I don't know. The like, I killed the one of the, the 2 dog looking things.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Oh, oh, okay. The warms are 250. Yeah. 250 experience points each. So, you guys got your experience for the duchess.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The library, you guys get, 25 100 experience points for the library. Bringing the Hyperians back through the caves to try to save the city, that's 5,000 experience points for everybody. Saving, Raylena and, Gideon, that's gonna be 5,000 total.
Melody (Tay):Should win our watch tonight. Crazy.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. I mean, you guys have kinda wrapped on, Ballenforth one way or another. I mean, there's no going back there for a while.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. Ballenford and Locmorr.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. I mean, Ballinford got rescued by the Obsidian Order or the Obsidian yeah. The Obsidian Order, but they're gonna consider you guys bad guys and outlaws now.
Melody (Tay):In balance?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Even though even though what you did was saving those people, unfortunately, the winners are the ones that write history. They're gonna write it up as you guys were part of the problem. All they have to say is that you guys were on the side that was attacking Battle and Forth and Lockmore and that they fought to save everyone.
Mara (Jenn):And the problem makes me
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Actually, though, you guys saved 17 people who could spread the word that you guys saved them and Obsidian killed them. But those those people are have their lives in danger. But remember, now you guys have remnants of the cult who are gonna not like you. You have the daggers who are gonna be after you because you killed some of the daggers of vengeance. The obsidian order is gonna put a bounty on your head because you guys are outlaws.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So those are people to keep in mind and that horse that Jer stabbed it ran away.
Melody (Tay):It's not gonna be like Jer.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yep. Horses everywhere will know that Jericho means business.
Jer (Joe):You're fucking a Jericho guy. He killed one of our peeps,
Dr.Awesome (Eric):and then he stabbed 1.
Jer (Joe):Oh, shit. Jericho, the horse slayer.
Melody (Tay):Alright. Jerry, are you ready to share your background? Did you find all of it?
Jer (Joe):Yeah. So like I said, my name is Jericho. I'm a knight of the Saruman Alliance.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):They don't exist anymore.
Jer (Joe):This company was overtaken? To be honest with you, I don't even know what year it is.
Melody (Tay):How are you asleep? What woke you up?
Jer (Joe):I was incapacitated in battle, and I awoke with all my men missing.
Mara (Jenn):What battle were you fighting?
Jer (Joe):We're fighting to protect the town, more specifically a widow and her son. And like I said earlier, reinforcements were supposed to be sent, and they were never sent. Eventually, our position was overtaken by I'm not even pulling up
Dr.Awesome (Eric):again. You guy did you guys share anything with, Jericho?
Mara (Jenn):Oh, yeah. We're not the you were not the tower.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):No?
Melody (Tay):We,
Mara (Jenn):we think the well, I'm sure you heard that. We think the the guide is me because my, my mother was a, a forest witch who basically rescue rescued my father, who was having a battle nearby, and my father's name is Rall. So he is, the main general to, King Velad and Prince Dimir. His that's my father, which we already visited. Or were you there when we came across him Yeah.
Mara (Jenn):Before? Yeah. So, yeah. That's my dad. So I'm I'm half vaccine, half witch.
Mara (Jenn):They call me a blood witch. Anyways, my father came looking for an amulet, which I wouldn't tell him where it was. And that's when he pretty much, like, hit me with magic and knocked me unconscious for 50 years. And something mysteriously woke me up.
Jer (Joe):No. I was saying my part of the year.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. Yeah.
Melody (Tay):4th time.
Mara (Jenn):Sleep much longer, though.
Melody (Tay):You said that things pull you, Jer. Right?
Jer (Joe):Yes.
Melody (Tay):Do you know what that is? Like, is it like a magic, or is it like an item that you have? Or
Jer (Joe):Someone speaks to me.
Melody (Tay):Have you talked back to this person that speaks to you?
Jer (Joe):I try.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Well, that's you've had voices speaking to you too, Melody.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. And that's why I was wondering if, like, he can talk to the the voices. Have you asked, like, what their name is, or have they said what their name is?
Jer (Joe):No. I've not asked. I've only been awake for however long I've been awake.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Been about a week and a half?
Jer (Joe):A week and a half. Yeah.
Mara (Jenn):What are they saying? Do you know?
Jer (Joe):They're guiding me to find those to find those responsible for killing me and my, I mean, killing my men.
Melody (Tay):Okay. So like we had alluded, I do have, a voice that talks to me. It's a disembodied voice. Mine's a female. Her name's Ariana.
Jer (Joe):You have a d b too,
Melody (Tay):Yeah. Mine is the sky goddess who is trapped, like being held prisoner. And she calls me sister.
Mara (Jenn):My
Jer (Joe):sister from another mister.
Melody (Tay):This, I'm I'm gonna go ahead and present the what I'm looking for. This. So this is the crystal that I need to find, and this is what I think is the key. So I know that, Mara is the guide, and as you had heard, there was the disembodied voice that said that I needed the, the guide, the key, and the light. So, yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. Well, it seems like you guys, as for one thing, I mean, common places, Mara was drawn to the to Balanforce to find you, Melody. Jer was drawn to Balanforce as well to find enemies that might have been responsible, maybe the same enemies that are trying to hunt you guys down. Strangely enough, Genjiro was drawn from across the oceans to come here to save 1 person, but ended up getting mixed up with your team. Machidis came from Curis, which is as about as far west as you could possibly go, all the way over to here.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):And you guys have all kind of intertwined. One thing to mention is that the widow White Hawk spoke in ancient, but when she did, she mentioned the lion, the dragon, the mountain
Jer (Joe):Mhmm.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):The guide. So those are all things that I mean, the that's the best translation. You gotta kinda think of it like, like the Bible. Okay? The Bible portions were written, you know, in Hebrew, some was written in Aramaic, you know, and then all of it's translated over time.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):So interpretations of that or over time translations and changes between, you know, dialects, some of the words and and meanings behind them, like what what Hebrew abomination of nature for for Hebrew is different than what we would consider as far as English an abomination. So it's the same with your guys' history and with everyone's stories. Some of these parts that you're trying to piece together, they may be called different things or spoken of by the ancients in a different way or the Chrytherians in a different way, but you gotta find the common ground between them all to try to make the little puzzle pieces fit together. But I think so far, you guys have gained a lot of the information from balance and so forth, at least to plug in the holes to to the oak the bigger picture of it's obvious that that that place held the importance of everyone coming together. For one reason or another, fate has everyone's paths crossing here, and then whether or not you follow each other's path or, you know, you guys all decide to make a path going forward with each other's goals in mind.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It's up to you.
Mara (Jenn):Mhmm.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):That's where we're at.
Jer (Joe):Interesting.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Interesting. Good job. Good job.
Mara (Jenn):Jer, I apologize for attacking you, but it's pretty nifty sword trick that you have there.
Jer (Joe):I learned it from, my family.
Mara (Jenn):What what's your last name? I don't think you ever said.
Jer (Joe):Are the knights around?
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yes. You can be honest and say, like, I'd rather not say, or you could say what it is. Don't you?
Jer (Joe):I'll tell you guys when we're alone.
Mara (Jenn):Fair enough.
Melody (Tay):I'm done.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Oh, good game, guys. I think, we've covered a lot of ground, and I would you know, I know, Willie wanted to be here, but he's not feeling good. But, hopefully, he can catch up, and we can give him a little bit of backstory before the next event and get rolling because, it's getting good. I'm liking to see the, the growth here and the and the work together. I mean, today today, you guys, the upgrades showed where you guys were able to use a little bit different magics and, a little bit different skills, plus coordinating as you guys fought was really good.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):I thought, like, especially when, you know, hey. Joe's like, hey. We'll kinda build the wall and protect you guys. You guys lay down the law. AOE's out.
Jer (Joe):We don't have to do anything anymore. Yeah. Get it. Old, that's no army pretty much. Shit.
Jer (Joe):Like That's a lot.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):It's good ways to go. And I mean, you know, it it's starting to build, like, you guys got a team where you got your, knight and your, warrior priest who can kinda put up that wall for you 2, and then Dolion would be good for sneaking around or laying down arrows and, you know, sneak attack. And then Machitus can just go crazy and run-in there, And then you guys can just blow everything up. You know? Hopefully not with Machitus inside.
Melody (Tay):But, he can take it. He's fine.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Yeah. He's a tough guy. But, no, I thought it was good. You guys did great. I enjoyed it.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):We'll we'll work,
Jer (Joe):Yeah. It was fun.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):We'll work on it and keep moving because, it's getting it's it's good. And I mean, we blew through its, what, 5 hours minus maybe 30 minutes of breaks and stuff. Four and a half hours, we're we're turning out like that's 2 more episodes, so it's awesome.
Melody (Tay):Yeah. Mhmm.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Alright. Well, thank you, everyone. I enjoyed it.
Jer (Joe):Alright, homies.
Melody (Tay):Alright.
Dr.Awesome (Eric):Have a good night.
Mara (Jenn):Cheers to you, gang.