Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:03 What's a wizard's favorite software spellcheck it's time for <inaudible>. Hello everybody. And welcome to compel a dual
Speaker 1 00:00:28 Berry and we are a
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Speaker 1 00:00:35 Last time on compelled dual for our Val side had several interesting revelations about the world around her that she previously had not considered up to and including meeting some kind of ancient forgotten Australian goddess.
Speaker 0 00:00:53 And the time before that on compelled duel Laravel Simon had a no good, very bad day. He had a brief moment of victory that was then snatched out from under him, by him being drugged and kidnapped. We're going to pick right back up where we left off with Julio. So you open your eyes and you have two simultaneous realizations. The first is that it has been sometime since the last moment you remember being awake, you feel kind of sore. And two, you are gagged and tied to a chair. I see you have dark visions. So the room you're in is pretty dark, but looks to be Stonewall. It's not super fancy. You see it next to you out of the corner of your eye in one chair on your right, is that stone bloom. Similarly tied up similarly, gagged and raising hell. You could actually hear the legs of the chair like tapping as he rocks back and forth, trying to break it. And out of the corner of your other eye on the left, you see remain surreal. Also do a chair still out. You think, let me check my spell sheet and see if there's anything I can do without somatic or verbal components. That is a third realization that you realize that your Holy assemble, your sugar is gone from around your neck.
Speaker 0 00:02:39 You can also tell you don't have any of your weapons on you. You don't have your armor on you. I start doing what side's doing, trying to knock my chair over the luck luxury, honestly, on that
Speaker 1 00:03:01 As a sixth. So you try to do that. Yes. You throw your full, not significant weights. My full a hundred pounds into this rocking you fall over the chair is now sideways on the floor. Your face is pressed up against the floor. It's not broken. You're still tied to it. I just look up and said, okay, that actually stops the rocking. As you fall over, you can tell he can't see it's too dark in the room for him to see what's going on, but there's a brief pause. And then the door on the other side of the room opens lets out a little bit of light and then walking into the room. You see King Isaac Ash, thorn with Q guards. I know Leo is gagged, but he starts cussing as loudly as he possibly can. She asked her and walks in and sighs deeply and then turns to the guards and nods at you and says, get them up.
Speaker 1 00:04:15 These guards, walk over, haul your chair back up cash door and holes. Another chair over from the other side of the room and sits down in front of you. Steepled his fingers. And then it says, I want you to know. I wish it didn't have to be this way. I am not an attack. Monistic man, by nature, I am doing what I've always done. I am protecting my city and I am protecting my daughter. I get no pleasure from this. Leo is just trembling in fury because he cannot do anything. I like just not themselves test. Right? Well, as soon as we can get in touch with the assuring consulate, we will get something arranged. Then resolve the situation. He turns to Zed and says, Mr. Stone bloom, you will be released just as soon as the issue here is taken care of. As soon as he says something about the Austrian consulate, Leo shifts from being angry to looking absolutely terrified, his eyes go wide and he immediately shuts up. Can I say acknowledge himself? And he says, right, we're all appraised of the situation then. And then he gets up. He puts the chair back and he looks at the two guards that he brought in with him. And he says, if you two could stay here to monitor and then he waves you. It says this whole situation. I would appreciate it.
Speaker 1 00:05:45 The gardens start lighting candles around the room. And Isaac leaves. I am going to pretend that something is drastically medically wrong with me. Okay? How are you doing that? I'm going to start
Speaker 0 00:06:01 Shaking and wheezing for air. Like I'm having some kind of alfalfa attack, poor performance, I guess
Speaker 1 00:06:11 Natural one.
Speaker 0 00:06:13 You like try and make like you're gasping for air and you accidentally inhale a fiber from the gag and start actually coughing. Cause that turns his head a little bit and like raises an eyebrow.
Speaker 1 00:06:28 I have pitifully, Kamala passes and another,
Speaker 0 00:06:33 And the guards they came in seeming very professional. But after a few minutes, they'd sit down and start playing cards at the side of the room and roll perception,
Speaker 1 00:06:44 Natural 20
Speaker 0 00:06:51 With a natural 20, you see the door open just a little bit and then close again very fast. And you see a shape sticking to the walls and the shadows you see to being all Iris, Amber eyes with big slit, you bulls. And then one of them links. And then a few things happen very fast.
Speaker 2 00:07:33 Those are to hit
Speaker 0 00:07:36 At sneak attack to the first one. So with a total of 21 damage, one of the guards he's just sitting there playing cards and then his throat erupts in a veritable fountain of blood as a Glint of metal discussing, then the other one stands up cursing, colorfully and goes for the door and it is blocked. And you see coming out of the shadows, a very slim figure on first glance, you would say, this is an Assurion elf, but like with the volume turned up, it's the best way I can describe it. There's a very slim figure. Moves very fluidly, a little taller than you. Not much with those big Amber eyes with the slip pupils, there are no white around the irises curly hair. That is the same color that is like French rated at the top. And then pulled back kind of dress like envy from full metal Alchemist tight-fitting pants, boots propped up. You watch as this figure, his lips curl into a big grin with very sharp teeth and then
Speaker 1 00:08:56 They not the guard and then tilt their head and kind of mock power. Say, darlin, you have the trouble with that. And then they're going to go for another attack, seven damage. So they get this guard in the shoulder with one dagger and pin him with the door. Holy shit. He starts to scream. And then this person's other hand goes over his mouth and they say, now there's no need to be kicking up a fuss. It's there and they're going to roll one final attack and that's going to hit. And they plunge a second dagger directly to the scarves that Whoa, and just leave him pinned to the door as they turn and smile at you and say, well, this is a bitch of an unsatisfactory situation in it.
Speaker 1 00:09:57 They Bob a little currency and then say the name is dominium Sundus. But uh, you can call me ma for short, they walk over and they circled behind you and you feel the gag come loose. Now give me a second to get you and your pretty friends here out of bondage as it works. And we can have a discussion. Can't wait, you are on gag. Now you can talk. Who said, well, that's not information you need right now. Is it? And then there is a clattering sound and they're going like a lock picking check hand. Yeah, that'll do it. That'll do it. You feel your arms get released from the chair. And then there is a very, almost imperceptible sound of footsteps as they go over and you watch them cut the gag on Zed, on tie him and then go over and do the same dura vein. And then they circle around the chair and do just like a little smack on a shake and say, all right, sweetheart up and Adam and her van comes through with that. It would appear
Speaker 2 00:11:14 That the situation has escalated far beyond
Speaker 1 00:11:16 Our control. Just go with it. He pauses and looks around Lake and says, what the fuck is wrong with you? We owe
Speaker 2 00:11:30 Sucks his teeth and shakes his head and leans back in his chair and says it would appear the, what the fuck is wrong with me is that I am really got to have stew.
Speaker 1 00:11:42 He had paused for a second and bends forward a little in the chair and says, no, I'm sorry. I need a second. I need just a second. And you watch as his grow a little longer and there is a puff of spores around him. And then he takes a deep breath. He goes, Nope, no, what is happening? Sorry. The last thing I remember, somebody came up behind me and grabbed me across the mouth. So I need to submit it to deal with that. I don't, I don't, I don't
Speaker 2 00:12:14 Anywhere else, Brooke fucked us over and it would seem he had help with that. And I was letting Eleanora lead me along on a Merry dance for the whole thing and pulled us over
Speaker 1 00:12:29 Cause set in his hands. Okay. Okay. Okay. And then Mia, apparently claps once and says, well, as interesting as all that is, we should begin out here before someone takes notice that there are two corpses in the room and then they take a step back and do another deeper curtsy and say, but as long as we're taking the time for introductions, hello everybody. I am <inaudible>. I am first and foremost, a connoisseur of all things fine. And uh, and then they wink and Zed and say pretty subconsciously
Speaker 2 00:13:13 Leo growls in the back of his throat, like a cat,
Speaker 1 00:13:16 They laughed and just a big musical laugh, like tip their head back. And then you watch as their posture straightens and you watch that lazy smile drop. They kick it the body on the floor and say, but it seems today that will be taken advantage of my other skillsets. Shall we boys, they walk over, take both baggers off of the body pin to the door drops and they fiddle with the lock of second. And then the door swings open again.
Speaker 2 00:13:52 I would ask, you know, who sent you? Why are you here? Are you here to kill me? Also? Do you know where they put my stuff? Cause I'm pretty useless.
Speaker 1 00:14:01 Oh, I'm sure we can find something, but to a tad you over til then. And then they pull out of their belt, a hooked JAG ID, dagger that looks to be made of some sort of organic material, possibly a claw or a horn of something and head to you. They should sit. You're fine.
Speaker 2 00:14:26 The checkout would have to make, to make sure it's not like cursed or something. Before I touch it. I don't trust them
Speaker 1 00:14:31 Making our project. Uh, our contract's going to be a big old 10 as far as you can tell, there is definitely a divine magic coming off. This thing you said, they look Syrian pretty much. The coloring again is weird. Like they don't have the cool undertones. They're pear skin eyes are all very warm. Amber colored, almost the same shade, just uniformly, but the other ones. Yeah, probably it seems likely that this is Sherry and elf talking to you for lack of anything else. All right. A tick, the knife, the second, your hand closes around it. You hear in your head, I scream and drop the knife that is getting up from the chair and stretching and he stopped. He goes, uh, what the knife just talked to me. All right. That's weird. I picked it up again slowly again. Lord cameral. There is a long suffering side that echoes off the edges of your skull. And the voice says after the week I
Speaker 2 00:15:53 Have had, and nothing would surprise me. Trust
Speaker 1 00:15:55 Me by the door. The figure that has identified themselves, as Mia says, listen, I would love to indulge whatever this is. It's very entertaining for me, but I am sort of on the clock at the moment. So I would appreciate if we could get this wrapped up. Okay.
Speaker 2 00:16:17 It's the knife like a magical item then? I mean, you said that there's magic, like divine magic off of it. Is it kind of, tuneable
Speaker 1 00:16:23 The magic item? Yes. I will give you the card for that later. Okay. Before we leave, I go ahead and attend to it. It also, I will say right now, doubles in function as a Holy symbol and a dagger mechanically. Okay.
Speaker 2 00:16:37 I could, if I needed to stab somebody with it.
Speaker 1 00:16:40 Okay. As soon as he realizes
Speaker 2 00:16:43 That he has the ability to cast spells back Leo visibly.
Speaker 1 00:16:49 All right. So you leave the room. Yes. I leave the room. The four of you all live the room. Um, ravine is not talking. You seem freaked. You think have been here before in a council meeting. You recognize as soon as you leave the room, the architecture of the castle at Esther meth, we oats
Speaker 2 00:17:11 Visibly hurt and angry as they're walking.
Speaker 1 00:17:16 Do you want to make a history check to see if Eleanor has told you enough about the architecture of the path that you can find your way around 23? I listened when my girlfriend tells me Chuck, in that respect when juice, um,
Speaker 2 00:17:38 I don't know how much respect I feel now,
Speaker 1 00:17:40 But you know, a fair bit about the layout of the castle because Eleanor is architecture nerd. She has geeked out on more than occasion about how there was a lot of thought and planning and the math that went into the architecture of the castle last semester. So it's just going to stand for probably long after everyone that has ever been in it is dead. You can tell, looking out a window that you were on probably the second or third floor. And by the light coming through the window, it is close to sunset. So you are on the West side of the castle. So you know that the door is somewhere directly below you. And that Eleanor has personal chambers are in the Northwest by on the second or third floor. What would that mean in terms of just going out the window? Cause it wouldn't be the first time I've done that.
Speaker 1 00:18:32 It wouldn't be good. If you're on the second floor, you were probably about 24 feet up. If you're on the third year, probably about 36 feet up closer to 40. Yeah. That's a lot of fall damage. Yeah. I don't have slow fall or anything. I don't know what ravine has. And he seems like he's not in any condition to help out. Well, and also we don't have our stuff. Like he probably doesn't have his wand or anything. No. In good conscience. I can't leave without our stuff. Cause like ravines wand is probably, they're my only symbols there. I'm not leaving that. Even though I've got the new one, I don't think you'd know off the top of your head where they would be keeping that hi investigation, check to see if I could tell. Yeah, it's not gonna do it. Um, you could make a guess, but it would take time that you maybe don't have Leo turns around and looks at, said and says, Oh, okay, well what should we do?
Speaker 1 00:19:34 Zed Nazi himself. And then Casey deep breath and says, uh, I think we should see if we can, uh, persuade somebody to tell us where our stuff is, the way I see it. We don't have a lot of time. The only person in this castle that would probably tell us anything is Eleanora. And I'm not, I'm not gosh, fucking idiot for sort of, uh, add options. I don't know if I can do what we would have to do to get her to tell us no, you know what? No. You know what? I can't, let's go. I know where she is. You head off towards where, you know, Eleanor is that a chamber is a roll of self check. Okay. I'm just going to group stealth 16. No one else scored under a 20. You were at ghosts. There's nothing, there are guards in the hall, but you managed like duck at a site. It's not a very far walk and you know exactly where it is. So it's not super hard to get there. You end up in front of these doors. Do you try the handle? You're just going to try the handle. Yeah. Unlocked. I go in. I'm going to roll perception real quick. So as you walk in, it opens up into not the room where she sleeps, but sort of a receiving area. So you hear her in another room, just kind of clattering around with something. You can hear her actually humming to herself.
Speaker 0 00:21:11 Leo gets that extremely hurt. Look on his face again because this happened and she's just singing to herself in her room.
Speaker 1 00:21:19 It's a closed door, right?
Speaker 0 00:21:22 Set up to be behind the door. When it opens and wave at the others to hide it.
Speaker 1 00:21:30 We'll say that self check just carries over. So that's fine. Wait a minute. And then the door opens. There is sound of footsteps and you see Eleanora walking past kind of adjusting. One of her sleeves still humming to herself, just seems unbothered, grapple Trek.
Speaker 0 00:21:50 I rolled a three. I rolled a three and she's got a plus four strikes modified.
Speaker 1 00:21:56 She wrote a natural 19. She wrote a 23
Speaker 0 00:22:00 With my modifier. It was actually a five, but
Speaker 1 00:22:03 Okay. So you lunge out and try to like grab her and without seeming the thing about it, she flips you onto your back. You hit the ground hard. And in a second, she is hitting you to the ground and has a knife to you. And then she stops and tilt her head and she says, Leah, what are you doing here?
Speaker 0 00:22:30 I'd ask you if you really think I'm that stupid. But given that I apparently am. It doesn't make sense to ask it alone. She sits back. She is sitting on, you pinning you down, but the knife goes away and she doesn't have the arm across your collar bones that she did a second ago. She squints and it says, what are you talking about? Why are you in my room? Because I got out of the prison cell that your father put me in and I need to know where my Holy symbol is. So if you would like to tell me that I'll be on my way.
Speaker 0 00:23:07 What are you talking about? Don't it don't makes too much sense. Right? You come along on all of the little adventures. You run back to daddy and port he and bothered to put their heads together. What are you talking? I got drugged at the gala and apparently dragged here unconscious. And now your father is getting ready to ship me back to Australia to die. Don't pretend you don't know what's going on here. What did my father offer you gold. I'm not pretending. Shut up. She backs off and has both hands up rolling. Anti-drug it's going to be at 26 to insight. Panera has no idea what's going on.
Speaker 0 00:24:00 She is genuinely surprised to see you here. She's genuinely freaked out by what you're saying, your backs down a little bit after noticing that just kind of looks confused. He is confused. Eleanora still hands up. She puts them down very slowly and then says, I don't know what's going on. I what, what are you talking about? Start from the beginning. I don't, I at the gala in Southwood, I went to talk to Robin about the land negotiations that I had set up and there was something in the wine bobbing knocked me over the head. Next thing I know. I wake up in a cell here and your father is talking about sending me back to Australia. I think they said you'd gone back to ivory early. I don't, I don't understand. They lied. It's not that hard to understand.
Speaker 0 00:25:06 There is a pause. She has her hand over her mouth and then Andrew peripheral vision that comes over and holds a hand out to you to like get you off the floor. Okay? Yeah. I, I take it. I get up. There's a moment of silence and you can see the gears turning and Eleanor's head. She takes a deep breath. She says, fuck, what, what do you, what do you know here? That I don't it's it's not, it's not that important. I, uh, they took, they took your Holy symbol, my Holy symbol, my sword, my Harbor's back and Stanwood Kimbrel knows what we're going to do about that for veins. Since that grimace is F as up a few personal items that I will admit could have with that way of the mountains, but Eleanora knives herself, she gets to her feet and she says, all right, uh, I know where they would have put this up. Let's let's go. She looks deeply upset.
Speaker 1 00:26:18 Okay. I follow her. She leads you out around a couple of corners, down some stairs and to a storage room. She immediately goes to a chest in this big storage room and starts handing stuff out. She didn't know what was going on here, but now that she has the full picture, she knows exactly what is happening is the impression that you got is all of our stuff there. Yep. Van looks a lot more sure of himself with his wand and his hand peeled Hannah, that he goes, everybody shut up and you watch him go through some added components of a smell. And sweetie, the skeleton version appears in a puff of smoke. Vervain takes a very deep breath. He goes, okay. All right. I am good now. Well, no, I'm not, but I'll, I'll, I'll be fine. Yeah. I feel like that's where all of us are right now, but I'm <inaudible> he actually looks a little mad.
Speaker 1 00:27:18 He likes slaps your hand away. He says, you got me kidnapped. You don't get to make up nicknames. My name is ravine shop. Okay. And then he just like rubbed his forehead goes. Alright. Alright. Alright. So, I mean, what happens if we get out of here? We don't know if Isaac's already gotten in touch with the Assyrian console. If they put a bead on where I am, shit is going to get really bad, really fast. All right. Knots. And it says, so they can't find out where you are. Obviously Virgin would probably still shield you. Uh, we could, well, that depends. There would be a council meeting about it. Uh, I don't know if we can trust any of them anymore. I mean, for all we know bobbin and your father were behind all of that bullshit and lock them too. This could go, it could be infecting the whole council.
Speaker 1 00:28:15 My father wouldn't do that. I, you seem to have thought that your father wouldn't drug me and kidnap me and try to sell me back to people to want my head on a pipe too. But he's, he's reacting. It's, it's, it's different. It's different with you or with Warren, it's it? He wouldn't, he's not malicious. He's just, I don't know. I don't know what to do here. And she puts her head in her hands. Yeah. We need to be somewhere private for this. Leo gets her by the hand and looks at Zed and her vein and Mia, like give us a minute. Vain leaves. Is that accord, still looking a little shaken and a little bit pissed off Zed bottling. He tries to pick up Mia and doesn't quite do it and just shove them out the door and that nods very seriously and just closes the door with his elbow. And you are alone in the storage room, puts his hands over hers, where she's got her head in her hands and just kind of leans forward and presses his forehead against hers. I can not bring whatever higher guys my father is going to send after me anywhere near you. I also cannot trust anybody
Speaker 2 00:29:42 On that council to protect me anymore. Not when I've gotten burned.
Speaker 1 00:29:47 I've got to get out of here. We knew that already. I just, Eleanor, I've got to get out of here. I can't stay in towards you anymore. It's not
Speaker 2 00:30:01 Safe. It's not safe for me. It's not safe for you.
Speaker 1 00:30:06 She pulls back more. What's the alternative. You can't go back home. You need to gather people. You need resources.
Speaker 2 00:30:14 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know the answer here. I've lost.
Speaker 1 00:30:18 Well, give me a minute to think I'll figure something out. I, I can figure something out. She like puts her hands back through her hair and nods to herself and just kind of looks around. Like, she's looking for an answer.
Speaker 2 00:30:33 He's concerned. Everything's out the window now because he got kidnapped by one of the people that he trusted to be in his corner. So what reason does he have to trust anybody else that has pledged their support?
Speaker 1 00:30:47 And as you come to that realization and just run out of alternatives, Eleanora stops moving and puts her hands down and just looks at you and you see tears in her eyes. And she says, I don't know what to do. Neither do I, I think I need to leave. So come on, go pack it back. Let's go. She takes a step back. Well, clearly we need to get out of here.
Speaker 2 00:31:24 We can just get out, get into the countryside for a while, get our heads on straight, figure out what we're doing here. You know, we evaluate the situation. We'll find somebody to turn this around. We always find a way to turn it around. Eleanora. Come on. Let's let's go.
Speaker 1 00:31:39 No, I that's not the answer. It's something else is the answer.
Speaker 2 00:31:44 There aren't any answers. And if there are, we can't wait around here to figure them out. I cannot explain to you how bad it is going to be. The Australian covert operatives. Come in here looking for me. If it doesn't get me killed, it's going to get some of your people killed.
Speaker 1 00:32:04 I can't just leave. Leo. What are you talking about? I can't go, obviously I can't go. I paint.
Speaker 2 00:32:14 You said you would at the gallery. You said you wouldn't. You said it wasn't a no,
Speaker 1 00:32:18 I can't just drop everything and go. I have responsibilities. I have my father. I have a city that I will be the queen of. At some point I drop everything and front off again. She has just peers. While I am in her eyes, her hair is all messed up. Her hands were in it.
Speaker 0 00:32:40 She looks freaked. She looks upset. Have just gets my hand on either side of my face. Again. I understand how full of an order this is. I don't think you do, or you wouldn't be asking. I've walked away from the last person I felt this way about don't make me walk away from you. Don't watch her realize what the situation is. And she grabs her hands off of her face and takes a step back. There's no ad of this where we're both happy as that. There's not. Maybe that was our mistake for ever thinking. This could have happened. Don't make me regret it. See you out of here. Let's just do that. What happens next? Heaven's next. Leo grabs her and kisses her. She gets back for a second. You start walking down the hallway. Eleanor, I get that part of the grip. It starts going Ravana, Mia fall after her at Zed hangs back and just clap the hand on your shoulder. Leo lets out one song and then fucking stops and straightens his posture tall as he can be shoulders as well.
Speaker 1 00:34:46 So you start heading down the hallway, kind of roll another group. Self-check LNR 15, zero to 12 or vain roles. A big goal seven, but that's fine. And Mia is eight 28. Jesus. Yeah. So you guys pretty much disappear. Eleanor starts leading you through the halls again, roll insight, 17. You see her pause at a corner and just one hand goes
Speaker 0 00:35:21 Up to her face and makes emotion like she's wiping
Speaker 1 00:35:23 Away something off her cheek. All right. That door's just down the stairs and you'll be good to go and writes. That happens. You hear bells start ringing.
Speaker 0 00:35:39 Fuck. There are thundering footsteps all over the castle. Eleanor turns back to you. She is wiped away visibly one, two year track down one cheek. There's another one just going. And she looks panicked for a second. Okay. The time for Sanofi is over. Everybody runs and then she takes off down the stairs. Okay? Now I'm running. After you get down into the grand entrance hall of this castle, just the high don't ceiling, the frescoes on the wall. It is beautiful and terrible because you are very aware that this is the last place you're going to see on a rash door.
Speaker 0 00:36:24 As you get in there, there are guards closing the front door at QC coming in from the other side, King Isaac Ash, thorn in resplendent shining armor with his sword in his scabbard untied. He locks eyes at the across the hall. And with one fluid motion holds his great sword out of its sheath in this booming voice that just echoes across the chamber says, let's be reasonable about this. I see no reason to be the only person that is in this situation. Eleanor, up ahead of you on the stairs, swears her shoulders. We don't have to do this. We don't have to do this. And as it says, Eleanora, get out of the way. Cool, cool, cool. By armor classes 14, because I have no arms,
Speaker 1 00:37:37 Matt, one Isaac rolled down 18, also rolled in now, but Zed roll also an 18 and he has a higher decks than the good King Ash though. Aren't Zed is going to get
Speaker 0 00:37:56 Past Eleanora down the stairs and block the stairway
Speaker 1 00:37:59 With his fists up. And he's gonna say, and crack his neck and draw this. Doesn't have to get ugly. The guards at the door start taking their sores out and said size. And he says, well, fuck. He looks back at you. This a rakish print goes across his face. And he says, well, this one's familiar in it is a real bitch. Huh? Leo draws a sword. How about numbered? Are we quite outnumbered? Every guard in the castle is converting on your location with that bell going, I'm going to dual wheel.
Speaker 2 00:38:36 Actually. I'm going to have my sword in my off hand. And my knife than Mia gave me.
Speaker 1 00:38:42 Yeah, I think that's going to be that his turn. He's going to hold the tag until one of the guards specifically comes up on you guys like Ash. The one with decisive, thundering footsteps crosses the floor sorta out. He is going to look in the eye and he is going to say move. And he is going to cast the command spill. So that's going to make a whiz save with a DC 17. Doesn't make it. He's going to cast it at a second level. And Eleanora is also going to make it a safe. That's not going to do it. That's a three Eleanora flattens herself against the wall, looks at you and says, I'm sorry. And I was like Ashlyn chart. Is that the steps? And he is going to make an attack on you with his bonus action. So he doesn't get as professionally about us. He just barely misses the sword. Gray has passed you. It cuts through your shirt as you lean back subconsciously, and then it is your turn. Would you like to tell me what my magic item does? Now? You have received the magic item camera's blade. Okay. And the special ability that it has is once per long rest, you can do max damage on our necromancy spell of your choice. And in the back of your head, you hear that hissing with Bert go. I don't have much of a choice.
Speaker 2 00:40:20 So I rolled a natural 19. Plus my spell casting modifier would be a 26 to hit with a third level inflict wounds
Speaker 1 00:40:28 That's going to hit. Okay.
Speaker 2 00:40:29 So, uh, inflict foods is actually a Melay spell attack, which means I can apply my channel divinity touch of depth to it, which allows me to add an extra 15 points of the chronic damage to any attack. Once per day, I would like to use my magical ability on Kim rolls blade. So that will mean that King Ash and will take a total of 65 necrotic damage.
Speaker 1 00:40:51 Holy shit. Okay. That has done just over half of his max health. You smack him with this blade and it does so much more force than you're used to. It bites into his hand and you watch just black veins of necrotic energy spread from where it hits down his hand, down his arm. He yells and staggers. And then your term is over. It is Eleanor is turn. She yells, stop everybody, stop and goes quiet. She is going to scramble up the stairs and she is going to put herself between her father. And yet she is like physically crying, hands up. She says, just stop. He's going to stop. Please stop asking. I'm asking your stuff.
Speaker 1 00:42:05 There's just a second where the tip of Isaac Flores and go, and are you running one of the hands that she has up, Leo reaches out and grabs and squeezes and whispers. I really did love you. And he books it out of the castle. Once again, makes the decision to walk away from someone he loves and leaves a huge piece of himself behind his heart is shattered. As you're going Zed, just knocks the guards at the door is out of the way, just a big Cannonball. He knocks them away. And one of them, I stick the lunge and Mia grabs him by the arm and twists. Oh. And his big smile says, I don't think you want to do that. And then just book that after you and you are out of the Catholic, you are, I would assume running to the front Gates of Esther meth. Yep. You are going, you are out, you are running.
Speaker 1 00:43:29 Yeah. I mean, I'm going until we find somewhere we can stop. That's either outside of estrogens territory or safely able to be hidden in, I think in a certain point, ravine starts to stumble and then picks him up and piggyback eventually night falls. That's when you kind of all stagger and clearing that says, okay, everybody stop reevaluate shit. Revenge from over his shoulders says, I'm good now. And this is got it. And just does. Now Leo just balls his hands up in his hair and puts his back against a tree and slides down to the ground. And just has his head between his knees staring at the ground, Mia in the middle of this pairing, clears the throat and goes, wow. It seems to me that we should plan out our next movements if anybody would like to volunteer. And I damn there's not fucking wait.
Speaker 1 00:44:34 Pardon me? And they like put a hand on their chest and say, did I, or did I not just save your sorry ass? Oh yeah. We've got the, uh, brutally efficient murderer that I just met. The kid that grew up in the woods, who I've already put in more danger than I agreed to and said, who's only around until Leo opens up his coin purse and starts counting and goes about a week from now. Assuming I decide not to eat Zed, puts the hand up and says, okay, let's, let's just slow down there. I don't want your fucking charity.
Speaker 1 00:45:09 I'll be fine. This is what I do. I hurt people and I run away. I'll figure it out. I don't, I don't need anybody. Ravine actually says, no, you don't get to do that. You agreed to help me with a problem. That is the reason I am here. That is the reason I got kidnapped. Apparently. Now that is the reason I left everything I have ever known behind. So no, you don't get to just give up. And then he knows himself and he says, I'm going to make a fire. And apparently stay up all night because there's not much keeping me from killing. All of you in the middle of the night right now is there. So I think the least you could do is get a handle on this and figure out where we're going next. And then he stops off into the woods. Leo stomps off in the opposite direction. He's not like running away or anything, but yeah, he gets up and walks away and I just go find the biggest tree I can crawl up in the roots. I use the sacred flame canter to make myself another sad little fire.
Speaker 1 00:46:20 After a minute, there's a rustling in the bushes and Zed comes around a tree and just sits down on the other side of your, a little fire with you and says, so smoke isn't necessarily what you want when you're trying to keep it. We hope stops the fire out. It's so small and pitiful that it's easily stopped out between me and vain. I think they have pretty good understanding of how to get some dry woods or not sending out the signal for anybody looking for us. If you would like to come and join the rest of us back in the ferry, they use that. I'd like to just sit here and feel sorry for myself for a little, I have lost five years in the space of one day. I don't know that I'll ever be able to go home now. And I just lost see a lot of big hits today and I am extremely good at getting hurt and then taking that out on other people. And I would just prefer to sit here and take it out on myself,
Speaker 0 00:47:32 Right?
Speaker 1 00:47:37 Grabs the back of his neck
Speaker 0 00:47:39 As well.
Speaker 1 00:47:44 Pretty experienced with hitting rock bottom. I have good news. Bad.
Speaker 0 00:47:50 Go ahead and tell me the bad news. Bad news is. That's also the good news. Just kinda settles back and just lays down on the ground.
Speaker 1 00:48:11 I have to lay out here in the cold of my miserable ass. I don't have enough money left to give you a bonus. Right?
Speaker 0 00:48:21 You've been giving me a lot of those lately.
Speaker 1 00:48:34 All right. I'm going to sit there and take my trance. But before I do that, I'd like to use my last third level spell slot of the day to send a sending spell to Wilamena Don chaser. Okay. Bob has plans for some skeevy shit. Ashlyn was in on it. I'm not safe. Have to go protect Warren, tell Bertrand. I said things. Okay. And she can reply to that. Yes. You hear our sponsor after a second. Well, I mean a chasers voice says, where are you send word Bertrand and I can help. You don't have to do this layout. I don't have any more third level spell slots. I, I can't yep. I take my tracks. We've established that you have like dreams and visions while you're trancing. Yeah. There is a long pause while you're dreaming, just kind of in that trancing half-awake state. And then you have this
Speaker 0 00:49:47 Fast, completely, still body of water that you were just sitting on. And you're trying to think position in front of you since camera bounce, just sitting there, just sitting there, his robe slowing in a slight breeze. There is a soft gleam of light that kind of pings off the tips of his teeth. And some of are annotation on Israel. And then he takes a very audible rattling breath. Thanks for the knife. He not slowly. And he says comes through sacrifice. I've never going to see her again, whatever power I'm going to get out of this, wasn't worth it. And I don't feel too powerful, stranded out in the middle of the woods with nothing Kimra slowly knots again and says sacrifice. You never know.
Speaker 0 00:51:08 So what the hell am I supposed to do? Now? I've got the clothes on my back by weapons, a negligible amount of money and the weirdest collection of people I've ever met. And five years of work down the drain. So, but did you come to tell me that I messed up again? The best choices I suppose, as clear and helpful has ever Campbell. Justin bouts is great horn head. Just way of things. What have I been doing? One hand reaches forward and grabs you out of the chin and in time with a flash of light behind you, the light in his eyes flashes bigger and brighter and then Dems. Again, we define success that incorrect on your jaw tightness. And he says, this only affects you. And then you wake up the fuck. Was that supposed to mean?
Speaker 1 00:53:01 Okay. And you hit the X. Okay, great. I've got another third level spell slot, I guess when you say something in the middle of the morning, is that next to you wakes up? It was huh? It was, Oh my God. Again. It's nothing. I hate it. When you say things like, Oh yeah, I talked to a God, don't worry about it. He didn't have anything to say about you. He puts a hand on your back and says, Leo, I would fucking hope not across the clearing. Vervain says, can we just decide where we're going? He visibly has a point of exhaustion. He has not slept. I, uh, I was able to get in touch with queen region, Dawn chaser last night, she's offering to help. But I think with as hairy as things are getting, I'm not willing to drive Warren back into the line of fire. We need to get out of, I think, from where you're sitting next to you is that it says, uh, I have a pretty good idea of where we could stop to regroup. I'm not going to like it, but when do I ever will kind of frowns out, can I roll it? InsideTrack go ahead.
Speaker 1 00:54:20 Natural 20. Where was that earlier? Where the fuck was that earlier? I wrote like three of them this session and they're all useless. I mean, I care about Zed looks resigned is the best way you could describe it. He kind of like shifts uncomfortably as you look at him and he shakes his head and he says, well, I don't love the idea, but my mother has room and we could use a break. We're going to go stay with your mom under the protection of the order of the golden Teske. Yeah. And that's what we're not going to end for the week. I need to go lay down. That's fair.
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