Here in the Dark | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 30 Part 2

Summary

Critical Role Campaign 4, Episode 30 Part 2 "Here in the Dark" – Summary

Date: June 30, 2026
Main Theme:
The party, fractured and battered from their journey through the underworld-haunted Obramis Manor, pursues their personal missions in the aftermath of a harrowing descent into darkness. Each group faces test after test—old family ghosts and secrets, necromantic monsters, moral choices, and an escalating sense of dread as the clock ticks toward the Taconis family’s return. The episode is a crescendo of intersecting storylines, key character deaths, and tense decisions as alliances and the bonds of found family are tested to the breaking point.

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Table of Contents

• Into the Crypt: Candlelight and Shadows (01:29–10:50)
• Visions of the Manor: Clues from Beyond (10:51–22:32)
• Splitting the Party: Urgency and Risk (22:33–37:00)
• In the Darkness—The Desperate Search (37:01–66:16)
• Battles Above and Below: Loss and Sacrifice (66:17–137:52)
• Tailor Shop Showdown: New Alliances and Vengeance (149:36–178:05)
• The Sundered Houses: Political Tensions Mount (178:26–199:59)

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Into the Crypt: Candlelight and Shadows

(01:29–10:50)

• The party regroups in the Obramis Manor crypt, now accompanied by Saramai’s summoned undead, Dame Gaia.
• Tension as the nature of Dame Gaia’s resurrection and obedience is established. Saramai confesses, “She's with me. She’s strangely far more useful now than she was before.” (02:50)
• The party explores a chilling “in-between” realm—a liminal space between the world of the living and the tenebral underworld, filled with funereal candles, shelves of bodies, and deep unease for the fae-aligned Thimble.
• The party’s knowledge of their environment grows as they press forward:
  • They find an iron bridge over a rushing subterranean stream.
  • The crypt contains a basin used by the Taconis family as a scrying window into the land of the dead.

Notable Quotes:

• “You feel yourself aging ... a place of death. Nothing grows here.” – Narrator (05:38)
• “I think right now the only way is forward ... Find Mara. Find what links your sister … the phylactery, or whatever it happens to be.” – Saramai (06:13)

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Visions of the Manor: Clues from Beyond

(10:51–22:32)

• Using the scrying basin, the party glimpses crucial scenes scattered through the manor:
  • A falcon (Mara?) is cruelly caged in an aviary filled with spikes (16:56).
  • Julian’s brother Coral is chained and muzzled, wracked by fairy magic, a gemstone (“a wisp of bright light within it”) at his bedside (18:00).
  • Slain friends and Julian’s mutilated father’s corpse on a ritual altar.
  • Letters, magical treasures, three mysterious gnomish statues, and the presence of Saramai’s formidable aunts.
• The party debates the best order of attack: rescue missions (Mara, Julian’s sister’s soul), confronting Coral Taconis, and gathering information/treasures.

Notable Moments:

• “It looked like an aviary ... at the top of a tower.” – Saramai & Thimble (21:14)
• “Try not to let my brother see you. But also don't necessarily kill him. He might be an ally ... if he sees you and we don't kill him, he could tell on us.” – Saramai (34:41)

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Splitting the Party: Urgency and Risk

(22:33–37:00)

• With time pressure mounting (the Taconis family is returning soon), Brennan introduces a mechanics-driven urgency: each time the party explores or splits up, there’s a chance the house’s guardians will be triggered and/or the returning family will catch them off guard (dice escalation rule explained at 23:54).
• Strategic peril is laid bare: Splitting up could lead to disaster; sticking together risks running out of time.
• Saramai relays Dame Gaia's advice: There’s a longer, safer way “through the bowels of the house” (28:00).
• The group splits up at the first opportunity:
  • Julian heads for Coral’s chamber/gemstone,
  • Octis and Thimble to the aviary (Mara/falcon),
  • Teor and Cid to search for the statues,
  • Saramai as support.

Quote:
“I trust that she is giving me the information that will help us hurt my family.” – Saramai (29:19)

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In the Darkness—The Desperate Search

(37:01–66:16)

Julian with Coral Taconis (41:03+)

• Julian reaches the barred bedchamber of Coral, finding him muzzled, straightjacketed, and swaying violently, haunted by a fairy melody.
• The gemstone, storing his sister Alba’s soul, is retrieved—but not without moral quandary. Julian delivers a chilling threat and, once certain of his purpose, delivers a coup de grâce:
  • "Every part of my being says I should dispatch you now just by the namesake you carry ... But your murdered and returned brother said ... perhaps there is still an ally within you yet." (46:14)
  • As he deals the fatal blow, the music and Coral’s endless dance stop, the table falls. Julian realizes his own shadow is acting independently, assisting him by rifling through papers.

Aviary: Thimble & Octis (54:29+)

• Stealth and skill carry Thimble and Octis up to the aviary. Dame Saramai’s fleeting return is heartfelt and sad, as she is dismissed back to the dark:
  • “I misspent my life. I will do whatever you ask for another chance to walk the world.” – Dame Saramai (56:16)
• In the aviary, Thimble finds Mara—the exhaused chained falcon, caged above deadly spikes.

Teor & Cid

• Their investigation leads to a deadly encounter with the horribly reanimated corpse of General Raymond Divinos, fused and grossly dismembered. He has become a necromantic hulk, ready to unleash destruction.

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Battles Above and Below: Loss and Sacrifice

(66:17–137:52)

Aviary Battle (66:17+)

• Octis, Thimble, and later Julian fight ghouls and spectral guardians (scorpion-clad knights).
• Notable spell use, creative tactics, and teamwork whittle down the undead, with Thimble’s flying combat and lockpicking freeing Mara at the last desperate moment.

Notable Quote:
“How do you want to do this?” – Brennan Lee Mulligan (128:01)
"Fireworks. I'll slice it across the neck and fireworks are going to explode through all of its little tingly things..." – Thimble (128:04)

Teor & Cid vs. Raymond Divinos and the Hordes (66:16–137:52)

• Teor demonstrates heroism, leveling up in mid-combat, dealing massive radiant damage—but is ultimately overwhelmed by zombies and the necrotic monstrosity.
• Cid, Teor’s brother, falls; Teor, battered, faces a final onslaught.
• At the climax, surrounded, Teor finds a last moment of calm and light:
  • “In those final moments the pain gives way to a sense of numbness and then calm ... not as dark as I remember it being. It’s actually quite bright.” – Teor (133:27)
  • As he dies, the lion’s head emblem glows and vanishes, to deliver a death boon to Wakander.

Memorable Moment:
“You could be wrong, but there might be some small mote of light left in it as you look within those eyes.” – Narrator (135:21)

• Julian, Octis, Thimble, and Saramai make a daring escape from the aviary, using Feather Fall. Thimble, not ready to abandon Teor, stays behind to search for him in the darkness.

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Tailor Shop Showdown: New Alliances and Vengeance

(149:36–178:05)

• Meanwhile, the B-plot party (Tyranny, Balare, Cadogan):
  • Return to the Murkinad couturier to repay a debt with the stolen mask.
  • Tyranny delivers a heartfelt apology and a clever deception, freeing Cadogan and enacting vengeance on their enemies.
  • Balare (inhabiting Ruleus’s body via the mask) and Cadogan confront and destroy Calastro. The scenes are laden with heavy, poetic, and dreamlike language, blending demonic/interpersonal suffering and release.

Notable Quote:
“Do you love your brother, you simple idiot? ... Thank the Lords of men.” – Balare (175:04)

• The team discovers the Murkinad’s workshop, a den where souls are spun into fabric, and claim the shop’s forbidden artifacts as their own.

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The Sundered Houses: Political Tensions Mount

(178:26–199:59)

• Back at the Via Aurora, political machinations reach a fever pitch:
  • Primus Taconis, Yanessa Haylovar, and the other great houses bargain over power, artifacts, and the ongoing threat of “The Cloak.”
  • Seeds of paranoia, betrayal, and coming conflict are sown, as Primus reveals Octis’s signet ring as evidence of internal intrigue—“Perhaps some enterprising little magpies have been stealing things ... someone’s just sat down at our table and I can’t quite see them yet.”
  • Family conversations are layered with veiled threats and intrigue. Primus’s daughters, Petra and Raya, hint at their own dark wishes.

Memorable Quote:
“Something is moving in this city, Yanessa. Something you should be aware of.” – Primus Taconis (186:38)

• Wakander, walking into the night, discovers the glowing lion’s head emblem—confirmation of Teor’s death.

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Key Quotes & Moments

• “In those final moments ... Teor looks over and he sees his brother, and he reaches his paw out for his [hand], and notices ... it’s actually quite bright.” – Teor (133:27)
• “Something is moving in this city, Yanessa. Something you should be aware of.” – Primus (186:38)
• “If you stay, you die.” – Julian to Thimble (148:41)
• “Is it Thursday yet? Best delivery yet?” – Brennan Lee Mulligan (200:03)

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Character Fates and Developments

• Teor: Falls heroically, his emblem delivering a “death boon” to Wakander. His last thoughts are for his friends and the light carried forward.
• Julian: Finds a possible reconciliation with his shadow, saves both Mara and his sister's soul, but faces moral ambiguity.
• Thimble: Rescues Mara but risks all to search for Teor.
• Saramai: Comes to terms with the burden of family, her control over death, and the painful necessity of sending Dame Gaia back to the dark.
• Balare and Cadogan: Overcome the Murkinad twins, revealing new magical resources and the high cost of vengeance.
• Tyranny: Solidifies her role as a redeemer-punisher, her demonic nature both a curse and salvation.

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a bittersweet tapestry of loss, peril, heroism, and moral complexity. Every character faces a personal crucible, the cost of fighting for chosen and blood family unmistakably high. With one party member fallen, major secrets revealed, and the broader threat escalating among the Sundered Houses, “Here in the Dark” marks a turning point—with the ultimate question hanging heavy: How far will the survivors go to withstand the darkness?

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For detailed play-by-play and further context, see the segment timestamps above. Skip to 133:27–137:52 for Teor’s final moments, or 41:03–54:29 for Julian’s showdown with Coral Taconis.

Transcript

[Julian]

Illumination.

[Balare]

Minions and Monsters.

[Octis]

You want to make a monster movie? And what are you going to use

[Teor]

for your monster this Wednesday?

[Thimble]

I know the perfect monster for your movie. Just try not to look too delicious.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Quick question.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I want to eat one of these

[Saramai]

funny looking yellow guys.

[Thimble]

Is that okay?

[Julian]

Minions and Monsters Rated pg.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Parental guidance suggested some material may not

[Julian]

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[Yanessa]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Stop.

[Narrator / Game Master]

This is Simplisafe.

[Teor]

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[Yanessa]

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[Teor]

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[Julian]

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[Teor]

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[Yanessa]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hello again, it's Brennan Lee Mulligan, and

[Narrator / Game Master]

you're listening to part two of this

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

episode of Critical Role. If you haven't checked out part one yet, pause this now and head over there first. What are you doing? Otherwise, let's jump right back into this adventure.

[Narrator / Game Master]

And in the world of Ahriman.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Dick twist, we return. Yes, we got it.

[Octis]

Cross it off your bingo cards.

[Narrator / Game Master]

We return to Obramis Manor. The stone door at the back of

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

the vassal crypt slams shut. The sputtering yellow light.

[Narrator / Game Master]

All of a corpse, candle flickers and octis as you hear the cries of the shadows out there. The emblem of how Saramai vanishes into smoke. And standing in the candlelight brought through the door, you see the undead visage of Dame Gaia. Saramai, your summoned undead, animated purely through your own craft of necromancy.

[Saramai]

Hi.

[Thimble]

Okay, I'm gonna fly over and land on your shoulder.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Have you done that before?

[Saramai]

No, first time. That was a lot.

[Thimble]

How are we? How is everybody?

[Teor]

We are a little sore over here. Is that under your control?

[Saramai]

Yeah.

[Julian]

You sure of this?

[Saramai]

She's with me.

[Julian]

She's strangely far more useful now than she was before.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You look Julian Green serpent's eyes stare out veil the fabric that was wrapped over her Ruined face, you hear? In your head, Octus. Her whatever ruined face and neck under that veil clearly does not give her the ability to form physical speech.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

In your.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Your head, octus, you hear? I want to snuff out his life. Can you command me to do this?

[Saramai]

Unfortunately, at this moment, that is not practical.

[Thimble]

What's not practical?

[Saramai]

Ah, sorry. I just learned she can speak to me.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Is anyone standing next to Dame Sarah? Mine?

[Thimble]

Fuck no. On his shoulder.

[Julian]

I think I have my rapier. Halfway between the two of us as I'm just inspecting the remains.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Would you say that you're within five feet of her?

[Julian]

I'd say within 10ft.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

In that case, you're fine.

[Teor]

Did the electric slide?

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Saramai]

Wait. Okay. This is a lot worse than I hoped it would be.

[Thimble]

Where are we now?

[Saramai]

I don't really know. I've never been down here.

[Thimble]

Is this the. Wait, wait. Is this like the in between? Didn't you say there's like a. Is this like a portal sitch?

[Teor]

Like in between Lysis, the gooch under the.

[Saramai]

I think we are in an in between area. Between the tenebro reaches and my family's home.

[Julian]

Oh, you just built part of your basement into the darkest space between the realms.

[Saramai]

Perfect. Same way your house. Or at least they were. You know, Golden Orchard was linked to fairy.

[Julian]

Yeah, you don't have to rub it in. So can we light or have light of some kind?

[Thimble]

We have the candles.

[Saramai]

Candles?

[Thimble]

Were there candles on the pathway? Were there lights on the pathway?

[Narrator / Game Master]

There is no. You don't even know that there is a pathway.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You just see that the floor falls away.

[Narrator / Game Master]

A sputtering little bit of candlelight, but you hear a noise off in the darkness, like running water.

[Thimble]

How does it feel as a fey creature, to be in this environment?

[Narrator / Game Master]

You feel yourself aging. You feel yourself. This is a place of death. Nothing grows here. There are no flowers blooming. It is anathema to you. Nothing feels good about being here.

[Thimble]

I'm going to hold on to octus hair. We have to leave. We have to get out of here as fast as possible. Octis.

[Julian]

I'm not done.

[Saramai]

Yes, I.

[Thimble]

No, I know. We just have to get back to the house. Please.

[Saramai]

Yeah, no, I know we have to get out of here, but I think right now the only way is forward. Yeah, two reasons. Find Mara. Hopefully. Find what? Link's your sister, the phylactery, or whatever it happens to be.

[Julian]

You tell me if you sense anything.

[Saramai]

I will if I sense anything. But let's go forward.

[Teor]

What does the ground look like? Going forward. And how far does the candlelight stretch?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Since we're hearing that liquid sound geometric marble of black and gray into a kind of dappled white

[Thimble]

shelves.

[Narrator / Game Master]

As you take a step forward, you begin to see wreathed in funereal shrouds that the walls probably have five or six rows of shelves ascending up lined with bodies.

[Julian]

I'm going to immediately spend riding the threshold hit dice to go ahead and take some temporary hit points just in case. Oh, cool. One.

[Teor]

Nice. We have in the. Is it you, Matt?

[Thimble]

If you roll a one on the hit dice, you get to roll it again.

[Teor]

I appreciate your consistency.

[Julian]

You still can't negotiate with me even as a fellow player, but I appreciate it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Can't knock the hustle.

[Octis]

The light is only like five feet around us.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yes, only five feet around you.

[Octis]

And we each have candles besides Thimble,

[Saramai]

who can't carry one? Okay, let's space ourselves out a little bit. Try and make this light last. Or cover as much area as possible.

[Julian]

Not too far. We lose you, we lose any reconnection to this place.

[Thimble]

What's the wick made out of on the candle?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Rendered tallow of an origin that would require a successful medicine check to determine. People.

[Thimble]

People. Okay.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I'm gonna start walking forward, moving forward through the catacombs. Go ahead and give me an investigation check.

[Teor]

I will assist you.

[Saramai]

Okay.

[Teor]

With my tail flipping back and forth like so, diffusing the tension.

[Octis]

I appreciate that.

[Julian]

It's making me more nervous, actually.

[Teor]

It looks really tense breathing biscuits into your back.

[Octis]

Investigation, you said?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Saramai]

22.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

22.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You successfully move through the catacombs. You arrive at a chamber that you see. You approach and can hear loud running water in here. It's an unsettling to hear something that can be as normal sounding as running water, but the volume of it, because it's moving so quickly, means you probably can't hear anything else in here over the sound of the water as you arrive. You see this is cold river water clearly coming from the mountains, going underneath the manor out towards Lake Nahami. And you can see there are a couple areas where an iron grate creates an easy bridge. It's about 15ft over this stream in this larger. The room opens up and you feel the quality of the air change as there's a vaulted roof. But I can't describe anything more than the five feet around each of you in sputtering candlelight.

[Thimble]

Does it feel like there's an obvious

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

path forward in this chamber?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Not quite. However, as you come out and spread onto this larger Area you see a similar door octus from the one you came to that you realize is going to the actual Taconis family crypt.

[Saramai]

Okay. That door over there leads to.

[Yanessa]

I can't hear you.

[Thimble]

I can't hear what you're saying.

[Yanessa]

The water.

[Teor]

Did you fly up next to his ear?

[Octis]

Points at the door over there. We're going over there.

[Saramai]

How do I yell in this voice?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You head over. I love how giggly everyone is. I find that that tends to happen when people are in a lot of trouble.

[Teor]

Everything's green and purple. Shit is bad. Our octave is gonna rise.

[Julian]

It's the bad butterflies.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's the bad butterflies. You go to the crypt and Gaia

[Narrator / Game Master]

moves to open the door. The door opens. On that 22 investigation, you see the interred remains of your actual family. Not all of them. The oldest are way back out in the old empire. But there are a few here in Overmiss Manor. And you see there are some empty places as well.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you walk out here,

[Narrator / Game Master]

you spreading out with the candles quickly find a couple of things different remains.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

On a 22 investigation, you also find

[Narrator / Game Master]

what looks like an oubliette. Those places that you put someone in

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

to forget about them.

[Narrator / Game Master]

A single sort of place that you would leave someone to rot. And you see there are a number of remains down there. And there's a word in old Obra Dae which is condemned to be forgotten over it. These are family members of yours that betrayed the family who they didn't want to leave their remains somewhere for anyone else to find. But have literally been dumped into a massive hole where they just commingle and faster here in the dark.

[Saramai]

Cool. Is there a possibility that they're keeping Mara somewhere down here as a punishment? Being down here, as I'm sure you can tell, is unpleasant. Especially for one connected so heavily towards the old path. I don't know if they would put her in a new blue yet.

[Thimble]

But are there any others around?

[Octis]

Is just one oubliette or are there more?

[Narrator / Game Master]

There's one here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The other spaces you see is there

[Narrator / Game Master]

are some open shelves. And you do have Tertia's remains here with you. You also see that there is an enormous basin in the middle. What was a sort of altar in the vassal's crypt is here a basin. And you look into the water there and you sense that this basin is itself a viewing window into the tenebral reaches.

[Octis]

Do I have any experience in seeing my family use anything like this?

[Narrator / Game Master]

You have definitely seen them use it. Okay.

[Octis]

So I kind of have an Idea of what they. At least the physical motions of what they were doing to activate this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Octis]

Can I make an arcana check to figure out how this works?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Go ahead and give me an arcana check.

[Saramai]

25.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Having hit that NAT20 to connect with the tenebrol gloom in this place. You see, Dame Gaia takes a position behind you, hand on her sword. You see that you guys have the sputtering corpse light here and can actually gather around in this place. Octis speaking the words in old Obra Diei. The waters glisten and you call out and view the nearness of death.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

One of the things your family knows

[Narrator / Game Master]

about the realms of death is that spirits of the dead can move almost instantaneously between the geography of the underworld. People that go there physically have a movement much harder time traversing it. Orpheus has got to walk. Right? But that doesn't apply to everybody else necessarily.

[Teor]

You

[Narrator / Game Master]

in looking. I'd like everybody here actually to make perception checks. And I'll allow you to roll them with advantage if you also make a wisdom saving throw.

[Thimble]

If we make a wisdom saving throw.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If you make a wisdom saving throw.

[Teor]

I like dipsticks. Why? Ljito save.

[Thimble]

That was a terrible

[Julian]

14. And I did not take the wisdom save.

[Narrator / Game Master]

14. You got it?

[Saramai]

Yeah. I'm not taking the wisdom save.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Great.

[Saramai]

That's going to be.

[Octis]

You said perception.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Perception.

[Saramai]

Okay.

[Octis]

19.

[Narrator / Game Master]

19, 12.

[Yanessa]

12.

[Thimble]

And I did roll with advantage, so I rolled a 17. Wisdom save great.

[Narrator / Game Master]

17. Wisdom save 17.

[Teor]

Perception check also rolled with advantage for a wisdom save.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Wisdom save. 19, 19. Teor and thimble. You hear whispers of the dead nearby. Julian Octis. You look and observe. And Octus, things ripple throughout you see, everything here is in the of name nearness of death. On those successful wisdom saves, none of you venture beyond the little fold in lost obsidia that is this house. The little fold of the underworld that they nestled into just the darkness at the bottom of this house. None of you leave the front door and go out into the wide world of.

[Teor]

Cid is also with us, right? He's not wandering off. Okay.

[Thimble]

Come on.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Cid looks fine.

[Teor]

Okay,

[Narrator / Game Master]

19 was the highest roll here. Right? All of you watch the same images earlier. We're going to turn this into kind of a group check here. Nearby, though you don't. No one got above a 20, so you don't see direct pathways anywhere. But you become aware of the following locations that are close enough by in

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

this tenebral gloom that they are either

[Narrator / Game Master]

in the crypts with this darkness or upstairs in the Actual house itself, which on a 19, it is high enough to actually unlock some of those locations. You see a wrought iron cage surrounded by other hanging cages in what looks like an aviary. This wrought iron cage has had the bottom of it, the ground covered in razor sharp rusted spikes. And you see with a chain around its neck, is a falcon that looks on the verge of death, who has been flying perhaps for days, because anytime it comes close to landing, it lands on the jagged spikes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you can see its eyes are

[Narrator / Game Master]

white, having rolled back in its head, unable to land. For some, that's so sad. That flashes by you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see as well

[Narrator / Game Master]

an image of

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

your older brother, but what you would

[Narrator / Game Master]

recognize as another Taconus Julian, you would recognize this as Coral Taconus, the eldest son of Primus, who you see is in a bedchamber with a. Basically a straight jacket on with iron bands around his legs. And he is screaming and moving. He's got a muzzle on, and he's

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

just screaming at the top of his lungs. And you can see it's rhythmically swaying

[Narrator / Game Master]

from side to side. You see a dark gemstone on the table next to him that appears to have a wisp of bright light within it, as though containing something beautiful and rare. You also see Julian in particular, slabs of marble laid out with your lovers, kinsmen and countrymen. Those that died in the Palazzo Divinos are here currently, somewhere in this place. And you also see, laid out in the midst of a ritual chamber, the monstrously mutilated body of your father that is still here somewhere within this place. You see his sword leans beside him on the sepulchral altar. You see flashing past you, Thimble, a desk filled with letters, one of which has Thiazi's name on it, written in person and correspondences. You see also a book that appears to be open that has the schematics of a ship. It looks like it has enchantments for enchanting a sailing vessel. We see Teor. You also see crates filled with straw near some wagons. And you see there are a trio of statues that look like they are being packed up. And it looks like three small armored gnomish warriors. Thimble. You also see a vault of treasures and magical objects that just seems to spill out in all directions. And Octus, you see in addition to that, Nalsha of Vakari, your aunt. And you also see your other aunt, Trimus Taconis, who are both present at home at this time. All of these images flash before you.

[Thimble]

Jason, that was A lot.

[Saramai]

Yeah, it was a lot.

[Thimble]

Where's the. Was that an aviary?

[Saramai]

It looked like it.

[Thimble]

Where is that?

[Octis]

Do I know of where an av

[Saramai]

would be in this house?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Unfortunately, you do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Aviaries.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You are in a crypt. Aviaries tend to be at the top of a tower.

[Saramai]

Okay, aviaries, top.

[Thimble]

You went the wrong way.

[Saramai]

Yes, we did. We did.

[Julian]

Where is the gem?

[Saramai]

Possibly in that treasure room.

[Thimble]

No, the gem was on a bedside table. The gem was next to that old guy who's screaming in a. Oh, that.

[Saramai]

Yes, sorry. Yes, that's my brother.

[Julian]

Do you know who your brother is?

[Saramai]

Probably in one of the rooms upstairs. But we also saw your family down here. I think not in this chamber. This is reserved for my family. But possibly out in the main hall here also. So much. Both my aunts still remain in the house. Okay, so that's gonna make things a little better.

[Thimble]

Where were they? In their rooms?

[Saramai]

Yes, I think so. It's difficult to pinpoint exactly where they are from just appearing in a room.

[Thimble]

Okay, so we get into the house

[Saramai]

and then go upstairs. We find my brother's room to get the stone and then we try and get to the aviary. First we have to get out of here, Right.

[Julian]

Then we just locked ourselves in. And there is a bunch of surviving shade.

[Thimble]

Well, there's a door right there. We can get into the house from that door, right?

[Saramai]

It's possible.

[Thimble]

So let's fucking do that.

[Saramai]

Give it a go.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Looking at the door at the beginning of this crypt, you come to the understanding or realize that opening that door, which was the thing that sort of.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If you remember the whole teor in the previous combat, closing that front door,

[Narrator / Game Master]

opening that door may release guardians in this room as well. If it functions on the same token

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

as entering the crypt this way. Why would they trap that?

[Narrator / Game Master]

If you're coming from inside the house, it's presumed that you should be in here. I also am going going to say above table, the time is of the essence. Yes. And I want to, in order to give your characters the best chance at making wise strategic decisions, I want to give you guys the above table game we are going to play

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

to deal

[Narrator / Game Master]

with the threat of being discovered at any possible moment. So

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

splitting up to cover more ground

[Narrator / Game Master]

exposes you to tremendous risk. You guys were in tremendous risk with all five of you fighting just in the previous combat. However, time is so of the essence because you have the Taconuses returning from the meeting of the Sundred Houses. And additionally to that, at any given point in time, Someone could discover the dead gate guard. Even if none of the others come home from the Via Aurora, there's still any amount of things to discover.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So I want to try to give

[Narrator / Game Master]

you the best mechanical insight into how urgent matters are after the next exploration. Basically, after the next scene, I'm going to ask everybody here to roll an eight sided die. If anybody rolls a one, the risk increases and we drop down to rolling D6s.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We start down rolling D6s.

[Narrator / Game Master]

If someone hits that one, which with

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

four people playing, there's a 50% chance

[Narrator / Game Master]

that someone will hit a one on a D8.

[Saramai]

Okay.

[Octis]

Math.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Matt.

[Narrator / Game Master]

50 percentage telling me to bag.

[Thimble]

It's raining.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

In that universe where someone hits a

[Narrator / Game Master]

1 on that D8, we would then roll D6s, however, to represent the urgency of splitting up and why splitting up,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

which is such a bad idea in

[Narrator / Game Master]

terms of challenge rating, but would be a good idea in terms of overall risk. After that first drop, you only roll with who's present in the scene, Right? Does that make sense?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So in other words, if you're all off on your own, you're only in groups of two. Someone hits that one, now just two

[Narrator / Game Master]

of you are rolling the D6s to see if it cascades and gets worse, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So if all of you go to

[Narrator / Game Master]

the next location, that's totally fine, but it will mean that everybody rolls D8s and if someone hits A1, everybody rolls D6s.

[Saramai]

Okay. Judging by when you open the door, this could trigger more things to wake up. I know you're not here for Mara. I know you are here to try and get your sister, which I fully understand. I can give you my memory of how to get to my brother's room if you want to go there on your own. Once we get out of here.

[Octis]

Here.

[Saramai]

I don't know why they have my brother wrapped up like that. There's every possibility it's good to leave that person alive if they could be on our side.

[Julian]

Maybe there's a reason they're quick to trust other toes. After what they've done to you, that

[Saramai]

is too quick to trust a member of my family. Look, I'm not going to argue with you. I'm just saying there's a possibility that we could have another ally inside the house. Of course. Well, first we have to get out of here. Are we ready to trigger that door?

[Julian]

Do you have a way of testing if there are actual bindings to release guardians within or know where it would trigger? Is there a way to bypass this?

[Saramai]

I could cast a Spell.

[Octis]

And then his eyes flick over to Saramai.

[Saramai]

But she'll go away.

[Julian]

I think we need as much as possible for what's coming ahead.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Gaia looks at you. If you are loathe to give her up, she speaks in your head and says, I can see in the darkness. There are paths back through the catacombs. It is shorter and faster to cut through the courtyard. But there is a way to creep up from the bowels of the house.

[Saramai]

She's saying there's a way to get up through the bowels of the house that is not through the courtyard. Although it will take longer, it might be safer.

[Teor]

I am far more in favor of going towards that door since we don't know what horrors lie behind it. Because the one behind us eats. Sucks ass.

[Saramai]

I agree.

[Thimble]

How much longer?

[Saramai]

Do you know how long it will take?

[Narrator / Game Master]

It depends on making the right choices.

[Saramai]

Okay. I believe what they are offering is a way through less physical means, meaning further through Tenebro Reach's area infused with this energy. It will be very unpleasant, but we may not wake the guardians here. But we don't have a lot of time. My family will be coming back at some point.

[Teor]

And did the candles last time bring more shade? Enemies? Once we were in that area, it wasn't the. Okay. They were just part of that area. It wasn't lighting the candles.

[Saramai]

No.

[Julian]

Well, there's no time. Do you trust Saramai?

[Saramai]

I trust that she is giving me the information that will help us hurt my family.

[Julian]

I like that.

[Saramai]

Let's go.

[Julian]

We take that plan.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Let's go. You guys head off into the dark. As you begin to move back out the way you came in, closing the crypt door behind you, the question becomes, as you begin to move through, do you want to remain together to navigate, or do you want to split up early and start making your way to other different locations?

[Thimble]

I want to get to that aviary as quickly as possible.

[Saramai]

I think once for it makes sense to me that once we get to an area that is actually in the physical realm of the house, then we split up.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Saramai]

That makes sense to me.

[Teor]

That feels really.

[Thimble]

I'm a little confused about physical.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Where you guys are.

[Thimble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Moving back out to that area of the river. You look out and hear that river

[Narrator / Game Master]

rushing off just into the darkness.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Just sucking down into an underground river

[Narrator / Game Master]

and vanishing past the. That you see there are a set of double doors that begin to move through what seem like ritual chambers that are still in this tenebral gloom. And you arrive at another series of catacombs on the other side of that. There are several doors at the beginning of those catacombs that you sense would lead towards staircases up into the main house.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So you can split up here or you can all try to get out

[Narrator / Game Master]

of the gloom together.

[Saramai]

From my memory

[Octis]

giving a rough idea

[Saramai]

of where we might be underneath the house and knowing where my brother's room might be.

[Octis]

Can I sort of make an educated guess as to which stairway would lead towards that and which stairway might lead closer to the Aviary?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Go ahead and give me a history check.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Just a DC12.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Saramai]

That is

[Octis]

16.

[Narrator / Game Master]

16.

[Thimble]

My brain.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I will.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I think that you on a 16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You know, you can give advantage to

[Narrator / Game Master]

anybody looking for your brother's room. That's a room you definitely have been to before.

[Teor]

Can we also just restate individual objectives?

[Thimble]

Yes.

[Teor]

Mara. Aviary.

[Thimble]

Mara.

[Teor]

I think that's mine as well. You.

[Octis]

I'm for Mara. Aviary. I'm helping you as much as I

[Saramai]

can to get to what your sister needs.

[Teor]

But your sister. Okay.

[Thimble]

You're not going for the statues? No. Why would you?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Were those three little gnomes, three little gnomish warriors.

[Octis]

I didn't recognize them at all.

[Thimble]

Are they the little sisters? I think they're the little sisters. I think they're the daughters of the. I really do. He made a face. I really did.

[Octis]

He did it on purpose.

[Teor]

I know the visions are alive.

[Thimble]

I think they're the daughters.

[Teor]

I think he's trying to distract us. He knocked the accent out of my mouth.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Tayor.

[Teor]

I gotta go find the statues.

[Thimble]

Do you know where those statues could be?

[Octis]

Did they look to be. They look to be in sort of like a anti Chamber. Anti chamber or something.

[Saramai]

It's still. I think they'd still be upstairs.

[Teor]

Upstairs.

[Thimble]

So when we get up, we split. You go for the statues. You are going for those stairs and

[Julian]

to get the gem.

[Teor]

That's like trying to. That's like telling me to find the pantry in a fucking castle I've never been in.

[Saramai]

Once we're up there and I can. Once I see where we are. It's just difficult to tell from down here.

[Narrator / Game Master]

He tried to split us up.

[Teor]

It did. It seems like it's gonna be great because we're gonna have a better chance when we roll. But also we're gonna get more fucked because we know where we're going.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cid looks over at you and says,

[Narrator / Game Master]

okay, I'm with Taor. But he looks and says these. The statues are.

[Thimble]

There are these three girls There was this really nice Normal man who helped us. And he said to look for his daughters. And I don't know, they might not be them, but I just really thought they might be them.

[Teor]

He keeps waiting for them to come home. They're hopeful that they would, but it's

[Thimble]

probably just some gnomes. Did it seem like girl gnomes? Can we tell from the statues?

[Teor]

It's also a hell of a thing for us to see. I feel like this place is reading my mind

[Saramai]

also. Just to throw it out there. The question of how we're going to get him out of here.

[Thimble]

You're right. You're right, you're right, you're right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Look at the fucking. We are very strong.

[Octis]

I'm sorry.

[Teor]

With 1, 2, 3, 4.

[Julian]

Going with me. I'm going.

[Saramai]

Okay.

[Octis]

I give you vague directions as to if we are where we think I am.

[Saramai]

Underneath the house.

[Teor]

Exactly how many doors are we looking at? 3, 4, 5? How many are there, Fred?

[Narrator / Game Master]

There's four doors leading out from this.

[Julian]

I ask as part of this essay, and where from your brother's room do I get to the Aviary?

[Saramai]

I do a little bit of. Okay.

[Octis]

And I give direction as much as I can remember through.

[Narrator / Game Master]

And we're going to have advantage on your investigation.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Check to get to Korol's room and

[Narrator / Game Master]

advance our investigation to get to the Aviary.

[Octis]

All right.

[Julian]

Cool.

[Saramai]

Fuck.

[Julian]

Where my gauntlet is on the metal side of it. I go ahead and scratch part of my cheek and draw a quick little sketch with my bloodlet. On the metal there.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Hell, yeah.

[Julian]

All right.

[Saramai]

Okay. Remember, both things can be a problem. Either try not to let my brother see you. But also don't necessarily kill him. He might be an ally. I don't know. If he sees you and we don't kill him, he could tell on us.

[Thimble]

Also, we gotta go.

[Saramai]

I know we gotta go.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Julian is going for Coral Taconis.

[Thimble]

Oh, Julian Octus.

[Saramai]

As he starts to go for the door, I take out of my bag and I slap a glyph on you.

[Octis]

I put it on your chest.

[Saramai]

Use it if you're about to be hit. It's a shielding glyph.

[Thimble]

It was mine, wasn't it mine?

[Saramai]

Yeah, it was a. But just.

[Thimble]

But it's. I'm too little. You should use it, Julian.

[Julian]

Appreciate it.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Julian heads off with his corpse like candle into the dark.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Octys with Dame Serami.

[Narrator / Game Master]

And are you and Thimble going for the Aviary?

[Saramai]

I think so, yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And Teor and cid.

[Octis]

Are you going?

[Thimble]

Which one are you going for?

[Teor]

Fucking go and look For a little.

[Thimble]

There's also a book. There's also the thing with the book with the ship and the letters. The ship is.

[Saramai]

See, the enchantments for the ship are

[Octis]

what they were using to be able to sail through the Tenebra reaches.

[Saramai]

If we do need to go there at some point, that book could be valuable. Yeah. Yeah.

[Teor]

Look, guys, splitting the party is a bad idea. I'm a giant lion walking around with another fucking lion in a place we're not supposed to be in. You want me to go look for statues or a desk?

[Saramai]

All I'm saying is that on our way out with Mara, we might be able to grab it on the way out. Okay.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Julian]

Then our friend Velis might show up to help us. Have a feeling.

[Thimble]

Yeah,

[Teor]

I think I'm going to go look. You're going for.

[Octis]

We're going for Mara the way first.

[Teor]

Going for Mara.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'll look for Sid looks at you.

[Teor]

Tao, we're gonna go look for statues.

[Julian]

I'm off.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You're off. Okay, so what I'm gonna need first off, first off, baby, is these are some DC This.

[Thimble]

How stealthy are you?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This investigation check is going to be a DC15. This is gonna be a DC15. But you're making a group check with your brother.

[Teor]

Yep.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You guys are making a group check as well to find Mara. This is gonna be a DC18.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Slightly harder to find Mara.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, so let's go here first. And then there are.

[Thimble]

Cause he knows the house

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

to find the. No, I said on that 16. You don't have advantage finding the aviary. So let's roll for Julian first advantage. DC15 investigation.

[Julian]

Okay, it's gonna be 16 plus zero.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, let's go ahead for finding Mara. Rolling. Investigation. It's group investigation. So you can both roll and we'll take the higher of the two.

[Saramai]

Before I make this roll, Kimble, do you want me to go with.

[Julian]

Please roll the next.

[Teor]

No, don't come with me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go look for Mara.

[Thimble]

Mara. Natural 20.

[Octis]

It's investigation.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Right? Investigation.

[Octis]

It's 15 for me, but. Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, okay, 15 for you. We are going to go with the higher of the two. And Teor, go ahead and roll for me. And you're going to roll, brother. Rolled a three.

[Teor]

Thirteen. Thirteen plus anything plus one. This is a 13.

[Octis]

Okay. Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Teor]

That's all I need to get to Pottery Barn. Fine.

[Thimble]

What does Sid roll? What does Sid roll?

[Julian]

3.

[Narrator / Game Master]

13 is not high enough. Yeah, so

[Teor]

grab some fucking garden gnomes and just call them gnomish. Get the fuck out of here.

[Julian]

Better not die and lose that hammer. I'm gonna be in big trouble.

[Octis]

Axe.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's an axe.

[Julian]

Axe.

[Octis]

I mean.

[Julian]

Sorry, I wasn't really paying attention.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Now. Now what I'm going to need. Now what I'm going to need are stealth checks.

[Saramai]

Okay, okay. Okay, okay, okay.

[Thimble]

Is it group stealth as well?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Group stealth as well.

[Teor]

Get advantage for being theoline.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No. You have fur on your paws.

[Thimble]

They are.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What's that?

[Teor]

Beginning of the end. It is a seven, my friend.

[Octis]

Okay, okay.

[Teor]

Not bad.

[Julian]

17 plus 6.

[Narrator / Game Master]

20.

[Julian]

23.

[Octis]

So.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Wow.

[Teor]

Really? I don't have like a

[Narrator / Game Master]

hex build with leather baby.

[Teor]

26.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay, what do we get here?

[Thimble]

26.

[Saramai]

15.

[Narrator / Game Master]

15. And Tayor got a seven.

[Teor]

Seven. Lucky, lucky, lucky seven.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Lucky seven.

[Thimble]

Number seven.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Thimble]

Lucky number 13.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Julian.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Slinking through the shadows.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You find your way upstairs as fast as you can. As you arrive you see there's a long hallway. Windows face out to a side courtyard. You look up and see gray nighttime sky overhead. And you see that there is a. You see that there are bars set over that have been added to the outside of this ornate room. And you hear muffled screaming from inside the room. You walk up and have been undetected here. You hear screaming from inside. Give me another perception check.

[Julian]

Natural 19 for a dirty 20.

[Teor]

Stop it. You're taking all my shit. All right. I just need some of that.

[Thimble]

No.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You hear fiddle music distantly. Something fiddling. There's a merry tune on the wind. Maybe a manor house elsewhere in the neighborhood.

[Julian]

It's not the same direction as the.

[Narrator / Game Master]

But no. It does feel like it's coming through the door.

[Julian]

Oh, interesting.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But there are these large bars set

[Narrator / Game Master]

over the door here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But they don't appear to be. They're only stop. You realize they are set to stop

[Narrator / Game Master]

something inside from getting out. What do you do?

[Teor]

He's enjoying this too much.

[Julian]

Okay, sorry. I'm just going to put this. So I hear the muffling sound. The sound. This music is coming from through a door or just further down the hall.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The door that you believe to lead

[Narrator / Game Master]

to Korol's room has the faintest possible fiddle music playing from inside. Right?

[Julian]

All right.

[Teor]

He really wants you to let whatever's inside.

[Julian]

Of course. What do you think I'm going to do?

[Thimble]

This is driving me crazy.

[Julian]

I'm going to rapier at the ready and as quietly as possible. Check to see if the door is able to be open.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You would have to move the bars out of the way. But going to the latch. The door is open.

[Saramai]

All right.

[Julian]

Shifting the bars quietly, one by one,

[Narrator / Game Master]

you shift the bars out of the way and can open into this inner chamber. As you walk inside, glowing embers from a fireplace. You see there is a. Basically a tabletop. It has no legs, but the ornate slab of polished mahogany is floating in the air as coral. Taconus has iron bands attached to his legs and he is lashed to the tabletop, which is floating like a kite in the wind, chained to a bolt in the ground. He is muzzled and in a straight jacket, twisting back and forth, staying as

[Julian]

low as I can and glancing within the chamber. Do I see anybody else?

[Narrator / Game Master]

A source of this music? Give me a perception check.

[Saramai]

I don't remember my brother being like this.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Correct. No.

[Saramai]

Okay.

[Julian]

This is a 12.

[Narrator / Game Master]

There's no one else that you can see. There's embers burning and you see that there's a bedside table. There's a desk with various writing on it. Is that the desk? And you see that there is on a 12. Perception. I don't think you see anything else of. No. You'd have to do a deeper investigation. It's quite a cluttered room.

[Julian]

I will carefully close the door almost entirely. Not entirely, but just to where if anybody's passing by the hall, at a glance, it would look like it would. At least the chamber is closed, but still easy to push through if need be. At this point, I'm just going to stand up and walk towards that bedside table.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You would walk. The maddening eyes of Keral Taconis look at you as he goes shaking his head side to side as you approached the bedside table.

[Julian]

I look at him. Do his eyes seem to be more perturbed at my presence or is he reacting as a warning?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Every vein on his face is standing up. He looks as though he's upside down. Blood is rushing to his head, and

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

it's hard to get a beat on

[Narrator / Game Master]

him because this table is twisting around like it's a leaf in the wind.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Like standing near this thing, you might get clocked. It's like that.

[Narrator / Game Master]

It's this.

[Teor]

No wind in the room, though.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No wind in the room.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Just.

[Teor]

You should definitely touch it.

[Thimble]

Of course.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Where else am I gonna. You can give me an insight check into him if you want to.

[Julian]

I would like to actually go for it.

[Teor]

This is where you close the door.

[Julian]

Hell yeah. This is my best one. All right. So insight. That's gonna be natural four minus one for a three.

[Narrator / Game Master]

There's something he knows that you don't know.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Julian]

I look at the table. I look back at Him. Daconis. I just hold the blade a little turn and say, your family has taken nearly everything from me and has definitely taken most everything from your own brother. Octis. I look in your eyes and see where you are now. Do you still consider your family kin? You feel you've been wronged by them, And you do or do not want me to have what's inside this.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Insane interaction.

[Julian]

Every part of my being says I should dispatch you now just by the namesake you carry. But your murdered and returned brother has said with grace and mercy, perhaps there is still an ally within you yet. I don't know if that is true or not. But I will look into this and find what I seek. And if anything untoward comes to me, your throat will spill at the first sign of my blade.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Give me an investigation.

[Teor]

Oh, my God. Brother. What the fuck?

[Julian]

That's gonna be 14.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You reach down and see a beautiful jet black gemstone. As you take hold of it, you look at the wisp of white light within haunted expression of Alba divinos.

[Julian]

Not for you, Evan.

[Thimble]

Yet

[Narrator / Game Master]

you recognize in this moment that clearly Koral was at fault. You look and see that the gemstone nearby his person, there is some magical connection to it. Give me. Give me a perception check again. As well as a. Call it a wisdom saving throw.

[Julian]

Perception check. Awesome. Four wisdom saving throw.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

16.

[Julian]

Minus 1.

[Narrator / Game Master]

15. Great. You have the gemstone in your hand. Coral is still here, swaying and screaming on this table, chained up in this room. But you hold the gemstone with your sister's life soul. Whatever horrifying Taconus necromancy sealed her in this spectral curse. But you have that gemstone here in your hand.

[Julian]

I'll take this gemstone, I pocket it safely and look to him and go.

[Thimble]

Hmm.

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I see perhaps the culpability that

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[Julian]

to permeate the entirety of your house. And here in the quiet side of this chamber, it is important to me to do what is right by my family. I wait for a moment where the silent wind seems to not keep him battering at bay and with just still, calm expression, dispatch him as quickly as possible.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yes, fuck it, Mercer.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The table swivels around and you see

[Narrator / Game Master]

that there's almost a pattern and you realize that fiddle music, it's swaying to the rhythm of a divinos dancing. Tune this to Konis. He was present at the Fall of the Golden Orchard. The reason that he is lashed to this table is that he can't stop dancing. Fairy magic has been on him ever since the orchard fell, and as soon as you recognize the tune that's playing with a dancer's grace.

[Julian]

Spin beneath and around, I time it to make sure that we keep eye contact as long as possible. As he spins, I duck. It's almost like following and leading a partner back and forth. I watch him acknowledge the slow eventuality before I come close and hand over the muffle.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Blood spills forward, gushes over the floor at the crescendo of the dance

[Teor]

and

[Narrator / Game Master]

the table collapses to the ground, his corpse still lashed to it he attacked me first. As you turn Julian on that 15, you stumble and feel that you are having a hard time exiting the room. As you turn, you look. Your shadow stretches from your feet as you cross the fireplace. And you look unmistakably. Your shadow is stretching out where your arms and shoulders would be. Reaches to the desk in the other room. And though you are standing with your hand by your rapier hilt, your shadow is thumbing through the papers on the desk. Oh, my God.

[Julian]

What the fuck?

[Narrator / Game Master]

It grabs a piece of paper and it seemingly levitates off of the table and then drops as though your shadow is stunned. My God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We are going to move from this scene. Hell, yeah. Hell, yes.

[Julian]

Fun.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Very fun.

[Julian]

Another notch. Sorry.

[Octis]

It's fine.

[Julian]

No, you know, I mean, it had to happen.

[Octis]

He doesn't know. I know. It's fine.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And that's our second tacon is down.

[Thimble]

Hey.

[Octis]

The first one fell in a waterfall. We don't know.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, we don't know. We don't know.

[Octis]

Well, Third.

[Julian]

Dead.

[Octis]

Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm dead. Fourth.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yes.

[Narrator / Game Master]

For octis and thimble.

[Thimble]

I'm thimble.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Octis and thimble, yes. Sorry. There's so much crazy fairy stuff happening.

[Thimble]

I know.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Octis]

You know, the character's been here the whole time.

[Thimble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You guys arrive at our next location.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You guys get up into a tower, climbing up as fast as you can. And. Yes.

[Saramai]

How much noise is. I hate this. I should roll stealth for Dame Saramai.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, yeah, you should go for it.

[Thimble]

She's dead. She's so quiet.

[Octis]

She's so quiet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We got a 20 something here. We got like a. I rolled a natural 20. Natural 20. Great.

[Saramai]

Where the hell. Okay, there we are.

[Thimble]

For investigation. For investigation, the stealth check was a 26.

[Narrator / Game Master]

26. Great.

[Yanessa]

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[Narrator / Game Master]

8.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. 26 stealth. And you rolled a 15.

[Octis]

So in hearing this, in hearing her being loud.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yeah.

[Saramai]

In that moment, you're too loud. I need you to go away for a while. I'll bring you back.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay. And she says, in your mind, you hear thimble of just her going. And octus, in your mind, she goes. I will do anything not to go back to the dark. Please don't send me away.

[Saramai]

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[Narrator / Game Master]

As you say, not yet. She raises A hand to your cheek. I misspent my life. I will do whatever you ask for another chance to walk the world.

[Saramai]

I understand. And I let the concentration go.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Shadows. And she's gone.

[Thimble]

Oh, shit. I don't know what you guys were talking about, but that looks intense.

[Saramai]

She excelled. Is coming to terms with the fact that she has misspent her life.

[Thimble]

Yeah. Good.

[Saramai]

Finally it's, you know, nature versus nurture kind of thing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You guys arrive at the top of a tower. Teor and Cid.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Yanessa]

What a Red.

[Teor]

All by ourselves. We don't need any.

[Thimble]

You know, if you'd have been with us, you would have fucked us. So it's probably good that you.

[Teor]

You don't know. I roll like king lately.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Teor and Cid moving through the shadows. Your candles here.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You get to an area where you walk through and see there are dead bodies laid out on altars.

[Thimble]

Cool.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Everywhere on that low investigation and low stealth, you enter and walk into a space. At the end of this area there is a chamber where you see there is one of the most horrifying corpses you've ever seen. At first, the corpse like candle. You just see fine breeches, soft leather boots. But at the waist, it looks as though the skeleton has been fully separated from the flesh. So if you can imagine a grown man's body, a warrior, if his skeleton bent over at the waist, but his flesh did not.

[Teor]

Stayed behind.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Stayed behind. You see a beautiful basket, hilted rapier. You've never seen General Raymond Tovinos, so you'd have no way of recognizing this body. Above in a tall tower and below in the most wretched ritual crypt that house Taconis has to offer, you will all be rolling initiative.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's fine.

[Octis]

It's gonna be fine.

[Julian]

Cool.

[Teor]

We're good.

[Thimble]

We're good.

[Teor]

We all get into jealousy.

[Saramai]

Where are you going?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Where are you going?

[Octis]

Don't leave us here with combat.

[Thimble]

Wait, Reddit.

[Julian]

Just kidding.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's getting masked.

[Thimble]

Can I. I forgot to say during Oz, I can. For my durable feet. I can heal with the bonus action. Can I say I've done that while we were.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, you have. You have five hit dice to spend. If you would like to have spent them, go ahead and spend.

[Thimble]

Yeah, I would like to spend one of them at least.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You got it.

[Thimble]

Or two of them. No, wait. What's my hit dice?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Five.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yeah. All right.

[Julian]

This seems fun.

[Teor]

Yeah, yeah, that's. Those are just Tesla coils. We're good.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You guys are good. And we're gonna go ahead and put our birdie friend in here. It's a little bit lumpy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's okay. All right. We have our aviary. And I am going to move it here and place Octis.

[Thimble]

Pin.

[Octis]

And Pin is dead.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Pin died.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sorry. Pin.

[Teor]

Pin evaporated last time and I haven't had a chance.

[Octis]

That spell wasn't prepared today.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, what did we get for initiative? Teor?

[Teor]

1917 plus 2.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What do we get here for Julian?

[Julian]

10 plus 4 for 14.

[Narrator / Game Master]

14.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What do we get here for Octis?

[Octis]

19.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

19. What did Thimble get?

[Thimble]

I got 13.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

13.

[Octis]

That's crazy.

[Thimble]

I rolled. Really? Shit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, I'm going to get our other location.

[Teor]

You don't need to. We can just do this one. I just win mine. We actually like. We just theater the mind it.

[Octis]

Boom, boom. We're just hitting the auto battle.

[Teor]

Pull the rest of us skeleton out of his meat sack body. We take the sword, we give it to Julian. No big deal.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Teor]

I don't think he went for it.

[Thimble]

Look at us.

[Saramai]

That looks like my bedroom.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Here we go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Two separate areas of the manor. We are going to grab Teor and your. Your brother, who we haven't. Your brother Tal Sidomir, who's got his own little.

[Teor]

Look at him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He looks so great.

[Narrator / Game Master]

The buddy looking dead.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, man.

[Teor]

Why are there so many coffins in there? You didn't warn us about the coffins. Complained of the decision making process.

[Julian]

You're right. Suddenly there's coffins.

[Thimble]

He said there were a bunch of dead bodies laying on the ground. He did see that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So you see indeed that on the table before you. Raymond Divinos is laid out. I'm also going to. And then Julian is elsewhere in the manor. But we will get to your initiative in a moment. What I would love is a perception check from Thimble and Octys.

[Teor]

First of all, I also think respectfully, we would have been a little further away from the table just for safety's sake sake.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But you only have candles that.

[Teor]

Oh, it's like five feet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's five feet of illumination.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Fucking gets better all the time.

[Octis]

21.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

21:15. So we are going to move into initiative order. As we do so, Julian, you. You are watching your shadow interacting with papers over on a desk. It's the first time you have really seen it move without doing a threatening

[Narrator / Game Master]

kill you kind of thing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You also, for you guys out here, Thimble and Octus, on that 21 perception, you hear the slavering clicking of ghouls

[Narrator / Game Master]

on the other side of this door.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And Teor and Chalcedomir. This chamber leads out into an area that had all of those dead bodies of the Divinos.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Plaza Divinos, all of Julian's countrymen.

[Teor]

We definitely shut and barred the door until we came in.

[Balare]

Right.

[Teor]

Just like standard operations.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You believed you were on your way to an outer courtyard with with some stone statues on it.

[Thimble]

You just went the wrong way.

[Teor]

Is that what happened?

[Thimble]

Mm. You rolled a three on investigation.

[Teor]

It was a 13.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Was it 13? Oh, it was 13. It was 13. Which is not a 15. I'm gonna die.

[Teor]

So close.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Octus. You hear some slivering ghouls in in the chamber beyond here. And we are going to begin.

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[Narrator / Game Master]

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And you see Teor and Talcidamir Raymond Divinos on the table. You're mostly his skeleton. The metaphor I believe you used was like a tennis club sweater over your back.

[Teor]

Yeah, club sweater, tied up.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

His boneless arms are tied over him, sort of embracing his chest. You see his skull, less fluid. Head of skin and brain. The eyes snap open.

[Teor]

Oh, God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The skeletons. The skull opens its jaw and the lips part on the flesh. And all of you hear a bellowing howl from within the manor.

[Yanessa]

We all hear it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You all hear it.

[Thimble]

Oh, no shit.

[Octis]

But we hear it not coming from the room, but from behind. Like from behind us. From below us.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You hear it so distantly you hear like a deep, deep low.

[Octis]

Yes.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Correct.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oct, you are first to act as

[Octis]

you turn to me and say, that's not good. You can see Octa's eyes glassed over and hearing the sound of ghouls is having. Is stunned because of what is sitting there.

[Saramai]

There are ghouls on the other side of this door.

[Thimble]

Okay. Are we gonna open the door?

[Saramai]

Sorry, they. My brother used ghouls to. Oh, it's okay. Just give me a minute.

[Octis]

I'm gonna lightly push open the door just to kind of look inside.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Give me a second. The stealth check is going to be

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

a very high difficulty because they're right

[Narrator / Game Master]

on the other side of the door. That door opens. Safety. The lions are fat.

[Octis]

Oh, no, it's a nine.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They are completely alerted to your presence and see you as you open the door and. Hey, it's your turn. That's your object interaction. And I'm going to need your action. Movement or bonus action.

[Octis]

Okay. Just reaches in. Still looking at Thimble. Just reaches into his coat and pulls out a small, sort of bound up, but full cat skeleton and just opens a portal. And the undead monitor lizard goes out into the room and goes and charges for one of the things that'll be my action. So I'm casting summon Undead Critter.

[Thimble]

It got really weird.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible. Go ahead and roll your attack.

[Thimble]

That. I didn't see you. Yeah, it's impressive.

[Saramai]

My weirdness.

[Octis]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go ahead and give me your attack roll.

[Octis]

All right. So this technically goes so after my turn. So I don't have a bonus action to initially use right now. So I will end my turn and go to my summons. Turn.

[Thimble]

Great.

[Octis]

Let me Pull up that thing. Here there is summon. Okay, so it'll run forward. How many ghouls do we see?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There are two.

[Octis]

Okay, so it's gonna run to say the one on the left.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yep.

[Octis]

It'll go over to that and it's going to be. It's gonna make a multi attack with. No, it'll make one attack.

[Julian]

Great.

[Octis]

With a rotting rend.

[Teor]

So.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And Tay, are you up on deck right after this?

[Teor]

Oh cool.

[Octis]

Great.

[Julian]

Palladium ones.

[Octis]

Give me a 17 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

17 to hit is a hit. That's correct.

[Octis]

Okay.

[Julian]

Kill him.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Get him away. Make him hurt.

[Octis]

You're making me so nervous.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Good, good.

[Saramai]

Where the hell is my D8?

[Narrator / Game Master]

There it is.

[Saramai]

There it is.

[Teor]

Detect magic spell. In theory. Outline anything past that five foot bubble of light from the candle.

[Octis]

Yes. So this is going to be 8. This is 12 points of necrotic damage from the rotting rend attack. And then if it's not immune to poison, it makes a constitution saving throw.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If it is not immune to poison, damage to poison.

[Octis]

The poisoned condition.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It is immune to the poisoned condition.

[Octis]

Then it does not make a constitution saving throw. So it just takes 12 points of damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This monitor lizard surges out towards his school, biting into it ferociously.

[Octis]

Just starts ripping back and forth that way lizards do where they're just trying to tear chunks of meat out of.

[Julian]

Yep.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible. This thing leafs out. Ghoul squares up with the monitor lizard deep down below. I will also mention here, the aviary above ground is not affected by the tenebral gloom. Is affected by the enhancement to necrotic damage.

[Octis]

Copy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So we can see.

[Octis]

But we'll. You can see Weirable. I am protected. And Thimble is protected.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Against necrotic damage.

[Octis]

Against necrotic damage. Cool, cool, cool.

[Teor]

Teor, we just have the one candle between the two of us, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No. Cid's got his own candle.

[Teor]

Yeah baby, of course we do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I remember I was making sure and Raymond on the table begins to howl and looks at you as this horrifying undead monstrosity.

[Teor]

Raymond, let's not fight. Let's be friends. And I'll swing the big axe towards Raymond and see how we fare.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He is prone, so you will get advantage on this first attack.

[Octis]

Let's go. Let's go.

[Teor]

Natural 20.

[Thimble]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh my God.

[Julian]

That's how you start.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, that's do your turn. At the end of your turn, you will level up to level five.

[Teor]

Amazing. Okay. I panicked. Okay. D12. And there we go. I've done this before. Where is that?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Are you Auctioning something off in my brain.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yes, Anne.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Teor]

Four, six. So that's 12 points of damage. I don't think it'll take any necrotic because.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, won't take any necrotic. But I don't think you're dealing that if you're smiting or. No, you're.

[Teor]

I am going to add a divine smite on this with my bonus action, which will be 3D8. Because it's undead.

[Octis]

Correct?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, 3D8. And you're doubling that, right?

[Teor]

Yes. That's an 8. That's a 6. That's also an 8.

[Octis]

Oh, my God.

[Thimble]

Jesus.

[Teor]

22. So 44. And what did I say?

[Saramai]

12.

[Julian]

12.

[Teor]

A 24. I can do math. That's 68 points of radiant damage for Raymond.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You what? With him on the table, you cleave one of his arms off.

[Thimble]

Boom.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Axe overhead. One of his arms flings off to the side.

[Thimble]

Skeleton armor, I think.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Skeleton. Skeleton armor.

[Teor]

Gotta keep the sword arm.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, I gotta keep the sword around.

[Octis]

It's like kind of sassy off one shoulder now.

[Julian]

I do like Halloween preppy, though. It's a good look.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is going to be. That is your action. And your bonus action was casting divine smite.

[Teor]

Yes, it was. I will move around. This is Cid, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, that's Sid.

[Teor]

You know what, I'll. I'll just move around to the right a little bit.

[Julian]

5. Now at the end of the turn.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Right at the end of his turn.

[Julian]

Yeah. So next turn you will have your extra and you have your extra attack, which is great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, you're going to move. You're going to move around Cid.

[Teor]

I'm going to move counterclockwise. Just kind of telling him like if he moves clockwise, we could be able to flank around.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Gotcha. So you're just going to try to squeeze in over here essentially, but you're trying to not leave his torture threatened area.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Gotcha.

[Yanessa]

Great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool. You get to the foot of the bed, like, let's go to fucking work on this guy. 60 points of radiance damage is fucking crazy.

[Julian]

That's how you open.

[Teor]

Where is bat at all? Campaign.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, it is the ghoul's turn.

[Octis]

Oh, bab.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What is the armor class of your monitor Lizard?

[Saramai]

It is.

[Julian]

Thank Ingrid Einfuzen.

[Octis]

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Here it is. DC or AC is. It is. Okay, so 13 13.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, that is one hit from the first ghoul that deals five piercing damage and six necrotic damage.

[Octis]

It is immune to necrotic.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Just five piercing five piercing. The other ghoul is going to rush you, Octis and is going to make a claw attack. Does an 18 hit?

[Saramai]

It does.

[Octis]

I will use a reaction to cast shield.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What does that raise your armor class to?

[Octis]

It raises it by 5. So that will raise it to 21.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You it misses the claw. Necrotic energy repels that attack. We are going to go back down. Raymond Davinos is going to stand. Raymond stands atop the table using half his movement.

[Teor]

Was the arm that fell off the one holding the sword or the one

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

holding the one sword left? He takes sprezzatura. He takes the blade of the Divino sword. He takes his family blade.

[Teor]

Do you want this important sword? The gesundheit sword?

[Julian]

Of course. Julian doesn't know.

[Teor]

Not okay.

[Octis]

Do you want the spetzel sword?

[Teor]

I don't like it when he reads this long. It's not going to be good.

[Julian]

Sure it's.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm sure it's fine. Okay. He is going to attack twice with his dread blade.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You could just do once.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's a 22 hit.

[Narrator / Game Master]

It hits and I assume a 26 hits as well.

[Julian]

You want to have your brother bring it me?

[Thimble]

Oh, no.

[Teor]

Those are really high hits. I'm sure the damage is.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The first hit is 12 slashing damage plus 22 necrotic damage on the first hit. The first hit.

[Teor]

34 points of damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

34 points of damage.

[Thimble]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Teor]

Good night. Unconscious. Did I burn a desperate measures as well in the previous one I did. The one that let me disengage. Right?

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Teor]

Which is one marked failure already in there. Oh, man.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You've done you. I will say this. You moved Raymond into bloodied status. So arm gone. He is. But they are breeding or constructing a necromantic hulk down here with the body of Raymond Divinos. You eliminated more than half of his hit points.

[Teor]

I was just looking for statues, Brennan. I wasn't looking for.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You rolled a 13 dog. So next time roll a 15 and you'll get the statue. Teor. You are unconscious. You collapse to the ground. He has a second attack. He is going to wield on Cid.

[Thimble]

Is it a two handed sword or a one handed sword?

[Narrator / Game Master]

One handed.

[Teor]

Good try.

[Thimble]

Yeah, I was just trying.

[Teor]

Good try. See how you didn't even have to, Sid?

[Thimble]

I know, I know.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm gonna roll this in front of the board to keep everything super honest down here. What's gonna happen now is he hits

[Narrator / Game Master]

CID on a 9 or higher.

[Yanessa]

Oh, lord.

[Teor]

It. How many hit points does Sid have?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

By the way, you healed Cid for a tremendous amount.

[Teor]

I think 20 or something.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You healed him for a tremendous amount.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Da, da da.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is a natural one on the die. NAT1, baby.

[Julian]

Watch that hit.

[Octis]

Stop.

[Saramai]

So good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Good bonus action. Raymond is going to.

[Thimble]

Everybody loves Raymond.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They didn't know.

[Saramai]

They didn't know.

[Octis]

They didn't know.

[Yanessa]

You already did it.

[Octis]

Only math heard me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Sid has to beat Sid. Sid has to get an 8 or higher on the die or become grappled.

[Thimble]

Come on, Sid.

[Julian]

Sigmad6.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cid becomes grappled. Teor as you are on the ground dying, Cid wants to get to you. And again. However, now, wait a minute. You just went down. You need to roll extra hit points for leveling up to level five.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Correct.

[Teor]

Because it was the end of my turn.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

End of your turn. Raymond went to the end of your turn. So let's go ahead and resolve that you might not be all the way down. Yes.

[Teor]

It's cocked. It's an 8.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

8 plus your con modifier is.

[Teor]

Is 3. So 9, 10, 11.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How many hit points did you have?

[Teor]

It was exactly the damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It was exactly the damage.

[Teor]

Exactly to zero.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So sorry, gang. You see an image of what might have been, but at the end of your turn, you level up to five. You are still up and standing. He misses. He misses.

[Thimble]

That's nine lives.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's nine lives. Call that nine lives, baby. Meow. You see that skeleton? Misses you on a NAT1 misses you on that NAT1. Second attack. However, behind you, you see the flesh, torso and arms peels off and grapples. Tal's stretching the skin of its face and head out to cover his head and breast.

[Octis]

Heinous.

[Thimble]

Awesome.

[Julian]

I love it.

[Octis]

Love it.

[Teor]

I'm.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. Handing Alex and the family that he asked for. You did this to us. Unbelievable. Okay, I will also point out. So go ahead and level up your character because I believe you also get another five points. Points of lay on hands as well.

[Teor]

Another five at the next level.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. And you have now because what you said, you got 11 new hit points. Yes. So you're at 11 hp right now.

[Teor]

Okay.

[Julian]

I can't not envision it like a wacky waving inflatable tube man.

[Thimble]

Like who Framed Roger Rabbit?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Julian.

[Julian]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You're in the room. There's your shadow at a desk. You hear a howl from down below somewhere of some undead monstrosity. What do you do?

[Julian]

So the shadow just was looking at papers and dropped one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Dropped one? Yeah.

[Julian]

I'm going to rush over, snatch whatever paper it was looking at, glare at my shadow and then go into a full sprint with my action to dash as well. And just try and follow the. Follow the remembrance to where the aviary is.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, so you're going for the aviary. Got it. As you head.

[Julian]

I don't know where the fuck you are.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know where the fuck he is.

[Thimble]

It's true.

[Teor]

Pottery Barn.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You're headed for the aviary, baby. Go ahead, give me investigation. You roll with advantage.

[Julian]

That's an 18 and a 12. So 18.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

18 army. 18. You surge out of there with the papers that you grasped. Go ahead and roll a one D four.

[Saramai]

Two.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Two. You will make it there in two rounds. Got it. As you are rushing forward, as you're sprinting through this place, you see your shadow peeking up behind you as you are racing through the halls of Obramis Manor. That appears to. You hear howls of other things moving. There are. There is one moment where you're turning a hallway. On that two, you feel yourself move in front of a torch. And your shadow, as it did in the desert, yanks you off the hallway into a staircase. And a moment later you hear skeletons coming around that you would have run right into. As you see the staircase ascending up towards the aviary.

[Julian]

So the shadow actually helped me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's correct.

[Julian]

All right.

[Teor]

Where did all this other extra shit come from?

[Thimble]

Wait, you have a lot of extra shit.

[Teor]

What the fuck?

[Thimble]

Do you have a spell now?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It is now going to be steam. Ba Ba Ba. It is now going to be Julian. The first of your two rounds of travel occur. That's round number one. You will have one more round of travel and appear the turn after that.

[Julian]

Sounds good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. Thimble, that is your turn.

[Thimble]

Okay. Okay. I'm gonna fly up and fly to the backside of the ghoul. So I flank it and I get advantage and I'm gonna hit it with my rapier.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Into the teacup.

[Thimble]

Gross. It still had some coffee in there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm so sorry.

[Octis]

Give it a quick.

[Teor]

Oh my God.

[Julian]

Love it.

[Thimble]

Okay. The coffee cursed me. It did not roll well.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Did you roll with advantage because you're flanking?

[Thimble]

No. Haha. That's way better. That was 14 plus 8.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's a 22. That is a hit.

[Thimble]

Okay. Oh, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You'll roll with sneak attack here as well.

[Thimble]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 8 plus 5 is 13. And then my sneak attack is. I remember 3D6. 1 2, 3, 7, 8. Okay, so plus 8. So 21. No, 20 points of damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

20 points of damage. Thimble you with the toy sword and just rotten blood comes pouring out of the open neck as the head falls to the ground in front. You have destroyed this ghoul in front of you here.

[Thimble]

Killa. I'm gonna flip around and go for the second attack on this other one. Over on the other one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. Go for it. Help.

[Thimble]

Oh, yeah. That's the one I was trying to hit. The one that Octis was attacking. Octus?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, gosh. Understood. The one attacking Octis.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

In that case, how much damage did you do?

[Thimble]

20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

20. That one is still up. So go ahead and take your second attack there

[Thimble]

with advantage because I'm still flanking.

[Teor]

Oh, God. Yeah, I got extra spells.

[Saramai]

Okay.

[Thimble]

12 plus 8 is 20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

20. Go ahead and roll damage. It won't be with sneak attack. It's just with your. And I don't believe you add your dexterity to this one as well with Nick. Unless I'm much mistaken, this is actually.

[Thimble]

That was plus nine. So it was 29. The first one was the rapier. And now I'm attacking with the toy sword.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, gotcha, Gotcha.

[Thimble]

And correct. This is just a 1D6 straight. So that's four extra points of damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It had two hit points left. That ghoul is destroyed. Incredible. Thimble, you take out the ghoul. Is that your turn?

[Thimble]

I'm going to fly up. I still get a bonus action, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, you do.

[Thimble]

Can I listen at one of the doors?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Give me your perception. No, actually, none necessary. You hear the fluttering through the open bars of the caged falcon in that chamber.

[Thimble]

Can I get into that room? Is there bars on that?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Effortless. You can see it's a barred door. You can fly right through that.

[Thimble]

Yeah, I'm gonna fly through and see what I can do in that room.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You fly through in there and you see a falcon absolutely exhausted past the point of reason that just cannot land lest it die in that cage. It is manacled around its neck to

[Narrator / Game Master]

a chain attached to the cage that it's in.

[Thimble]

Mara, we're going to save you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're going to get you out. That was your bonus action to get in there.

[Thimble]

Shit. The key's probably on the desk out in the other room. Huh?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You're not certain where the key is, but you do have thieves tools.

[Thimble]

I know I do.

[Julian]

Yep.

[Thimble]

Do I? That's probably not bonus action. That's a full action.

[Narrator / Game Master]

That's probably a full action.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Moving on from there. Teor. You hear the shuffling of bodies in

[Narrator / Game Master]

this chamber outside of this one. As the members of house Divinos begin to animate in the previous chamber.

[Teor]

God damn it. The one that we can't. We walked through all the bodies around the world.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. You walked through this chamber here. That door. Would you.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Honest question.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Would you have shut that door behind you?

[Teor]

Yes. But I don't think we would have barred it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So we, the undead that are out

[Narrator / Game Master]

there are not capable of fine manipulation. So they are just going to make attack rolls against the door.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They cannot open it.

[Narrator / Game Master]

They're just going to try to batter it down. Cool, cool, cool.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We are going to make an athletics check here. They will roll with advantage. You checked it the other way. They'll roll with advantage.

[Thimble]

What other way?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, this is an iron.

[Teor]

Like definitely adamant.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Unfortunately not. You need both of these dice to be a 13 or lower.

[Narrator / Game Master]

A 15.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The door smashes open as two zombies

[Narrator / Game Master]

thud into the room with more behind them.

[Thimble]

There's no other way out of this room. This is a closed room.

[Teor]

I'm feeling good.

[Thimble]

Maybe there's a secret passageway behind it's undead.

[Julian]

At least this is your specialty.

[Teor]

I don't have anything for that. I don't have any turn stuff.

[Thimble]

You don't?

[Teor]

Nope.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is the end of their turn.

[Teor]

I guess I build a bad paladin

[Julian]

Smite does an extra D6.

[Teor]

It does.

[Saramai]

Sorry.

[Julian]

That's good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's good.

[Julian]

Extra D8 for free.

[Octis]

For free.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Is there another door in the room? You forgot to tell me where the other door is. The secret one where you touch. It's my.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There was a universe where six full

[Narrator / Game Master]

health PCs were in this room. Yeah, yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Now.

[Teor]

But I had to go that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You take umbrellas with that?

[Thimble]

Sorry.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The

[Narrator / Game Master]

what's right here? I can't see.

[Octis]

There's a bookcase and then some coffins in the corner.

[Teor]

Does there a bookcase say exit on the top shelf?

[Octis]

No.

[Teor]

Okay.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Octis]

But there are two green lights over there.

[Teor]

There's two over here as well. And I would love to explore it.

[Saramai]

Maybe if you put yourselves in the

[Octis]

coffin they'll just think you did their job.

[Thimble]

There's also this thing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What's this thing called where you're manifesting here in the aviary with the two of you.

[Teor]

Oh.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Spectral undead appear.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see. Two knights of the House of Vakari

[Narrator / Game Master]

with the scorpion emblem appear.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Undead servants of the House of Taconis. One appears right in front of you. And you. You see. The other appears right in front of you.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Thimble.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Both of them looking out. The ghouls as kind of a physical get away from here.

[Narrator / Game Master]

But the true guardians of this chamber appear in this moment.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They are going to take their attacks. You still have shield up, correct?

[Octis]

I still have shield up. 21.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

21. That is one hit.

[Octis]

Okay,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What would have been. What would have been 24 necrotic damage is instead only 12.

[Narrator / Game Master]

With your resistance to necrotic damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's good, thimble. What is. Two attacks are coming your way. A NAT one and a nine. Does a 14 hit your arm?

[Thimble]

No, it doesn't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Two necrotic hits. As this spectral sword flashes out towards you. This ghostly creature out in front of you. That is going to be Talcidimir.

[Octis]

Did this skip my turn?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Sorry, did we.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no. Your turn was right at the very top. You went first.

[Octis]

Oh, we haven't even gone through one.

[Saramai]

We haven't gone.

[Octis]

Oh, okay. Sorry. I thought we were back.

[Julian]

We have three rooms together through.

[Octis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's going to be Cid's turn. Cid is going to come on, Sid, rush over here to you and is going to. He is going to cast cure light wounds and he is going to heal you for seven points of damage.

[Teor]

Not me, brother.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He looks and says, oh, we are not in a good spot.

[Teor]

We are not. No one else I'd rather be with, though. Except maybe the rest of our party.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Octus, that's gonna be you.

[Saramai]

Sorry, I was a little early.

[Octis]

Okay, so the one appeared between me and my lizard. Lizard.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yes.

[Octis]

So, okay, then in that case, seeing it appear ahead of me, I'm gonna go ahead and.

[Saramai]

What is the. There's no.

[Octis]

So I'm going to. This gives me. Using the spell would impose disadvantage because I'm in mace to base contact. But because I am flanking, this is just a straight roll. Jumping back from the apparition appearing in front of me. I reach my hands up and I draw in the air this sigil that glows with this sickly green light. And I bring my hands apart and kind of these dripping tangles, tendrils like a spiderweb, but dripping this poisony ichor before me. And I speak the word and a bolt of green energy shoots out. And I'm going to cast second level ray of sickness.

[Julian]

Okay,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

16 to hit the ghost in front of you. Yes, 16 hits.

[Octis]

Okay. Okay, so that is 3.3D 8.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What type of damage?

[Octis]

It is technically poison damage.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

you do 3d8 poison damage to the ghost in front of you. No roll necessary.

[Octis]

There you go.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Fully immune.

[Octis]

Fully immune.

[Saramai]

Great.

[Octis]

I still gain the temporary hit points from the spell with my Grim Harvest. Ability.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Octis]

Which six temporary hit points.

[Saramai]

Okay. Get over here.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Get over you.

[Octis]

Great. So that is my action. I will use my bonus action to misty step to the other side of the room.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Two level spells.

[Octis]

Two level spells. Can't do that. Thank you. So I will then end my turn there and then my lizard will take its turn.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great.

[Octis]

And it's gonna take that bite attack at advantage from flanking.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's gonna move out of threat and range of the ghoul.

[Octis]

Oh, sorry. I thought. I didn't realize the ghoul was.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, because Thimble made it one attack.

[Octis]

Okay, so then it will move.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ah, it'll hit that ghoul.

[Octis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'll attack the ghoul.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Octis]

But it's not flanking. So it's just a straight roll.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Straight roll.

[Octis]

Yeah, yeah, I know.

[Julian]

Aquatic damage. You guys are resisting

[Saramai]

the attack. There it is.

[Octis]

Okay, that is a 17 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

17 hits. Go ahead and roll damage.

[Saramai]

Great.

[Octis]

That is gonna be a total of 10 points of necrotic damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Exactly. Its hit point to the left. Each ghoul has gone down at the exact number you needed. A lizard and crushes you. Hear the cracking of bone as it sinks its undead jaws into the ghoul's skull, destroying it. The room is rid of ghouls.

[Octis]

It's going to use its movement to then move into base to base contact. Flanking the ghost. The ghost.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great Octis, that is your turn. Teor, we come back to you. You are side by side with your brother, Cid.

[Narrator / Game Master]

He looks at you. You are in dire circumstances.

[Teor]

Yeah, it's a little. But it's a little fuckerly in here. Okay, let's do. I want to do that spell. But it's an action I'm going to do. I have second level spells now. I'm in it to win it, baby. I'm going to use second level cure wounds on myself.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Hell yeah.

[Teor]

Which is 48 plus 3. That's a 1. 6.

[Narrator / Game Master]

7. 12.

[Teor]

13. That was ass. 2 ones. 13 plus 3 is 16 points of healing. 16?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Hell yeah.

[Teor]

Take it. I'll take it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. 16 points of healing. Along with Cid, you've healed quite a tremendous amount of hit points. Where's your hit point total at right now?

[Teor]

34 points.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Teor]

Could be higher.

[Julian]

Almost survive another hit.

[Thimble]

But he's bloodied. Just get another crit. And you'll take him out?

[Julian]

Well, you just gotta hit him instead of healing.

[Octis]

Oh, we're so supportive of each other.

[Balare]

I know.

[Teor]

I really should have done the other thing. I don't know if I'm gonna survive another hit.

[Julian]

No, it's all good.

[Teor]

All right, that's my turn. I want to open the Iron Maiden and find like the escape hatch that's built into it.

[Octis]

It spins. Oh, absolutely.

[Julian]

That has to be why it's there, right?

[Octis]

It's my turn.

[Teor]

I'm gonna stay right there because I don't wanna invoke attack of opportunity.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Get an attack of opportunity.

[Teor]

This thing, by the way, I have this thing called Find Steed.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yeah.

[Teor]

Fuck, she's done that. But that's okay. I thought a healing would be important.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I've never seen it before.

[Octis]

Ride out with me.

[Julian]

What's his casting time?

[Thimble]

Oh yeah, it might be a lot.

[Teor]

Shut up, Matt. It's instantaneous.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, Raymond Divinos is going to. Now that Raymond Davinos is bloodied

[Julian]

in

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

the Divinos fighting style to which he is accustomed, at half hit points, he becomes potentially much more ferocious.

[Teor]

Listen, I don't know the family history here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm going to roll. I'm going to roll in front of the board. On a 5 or 6, his multi attack goes from 2, 2 attacks per turn to 3.

[Teor]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

On 5 or 6 on a 1, any creature in melee combat with him

[Narrator / Game Master]

gets an attack of opportunity.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, so if I roll a one, it's a daredevil move. He's doing the same thing that Julian does of putting himself on the line, that it can get crazy out here.

[Teor]

I love it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So if I hit a one on this die, you and Sid both get a swing. If it's a five or six, he gets three swings.

[Teor]

Brent, I just want you to know I've always believed in you. I think you can do this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I made a monster that you get swings on. If he rolls back, I love it. I am nothing if not fair. One. Too powerful one.

[Octis]

Come on.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay,

[Octis]

so now is the time when

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

you roll forward, this is all going to happen in front of the board.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

Stop laughing. It's not funny.

[Teor]

It's pretty funny.

[Octis]

It's pretty funny.

[Teor]

It's pretty funny.

[Octis]

Oh my God.

[Teor]

Okay, the route of funny is fun.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

With +9 to his attack, what does

[Narrator / Game Master]

he need to hit? Your armor class.

[Teor]

You're asking me to do math now as I'm grieving.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What is your armor class currently?

[Teor]

It is 16. Sixteen in my grieved state.

[Thimble]

So does he roll higher than a seven?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You said yours is 16?

[Teor]

Yep. Seven will hit. Seven will hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's going to go. I'm going to say that because you both just healed each other. He's going to go for CID.

[Narrator / Game Master]

First he hits CID on

[Thimble]

A.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He hits it on a nine or higher attack. Number one.

[Narrator / Game Master]

18.

[Teor]

Brennan. Lower, lower. There's too much wrist in it. You just gotta do the Sam Riegel, you know, drop the poop in the toilet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's the Official technique Title 16.

[Octis]

We're all just over here all flicking ourselves. Good job.

[Teor]

Just hit myself in a gun or adults.

[Narrator / Game Master]

He's 30.

[Teor]

30.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He deals 30 points of damage to cid. Sid is still up but on death's door first tech.

[Octis]

So cid is still grappled though, right?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yes, he is.

[Octis]

That's correct.

[Julian]

So he cannot move.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, no. Sorry. Sid broke his grapple on his turn. Okay, Sid broke his grapple on his turn. Natural one.

[Thimble]

Natural one. Natural one, Natural one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Eight. That is a miss against cid. He is going to take another. He's going to take his final attack on CID.

[Narrator / Game Master]

19.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

CID turns to you as the first hit dodges the second one looks at you and goes.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Thank you for finding me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sword through the chest.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Cid falls to the ground.

[Teor]

I catch him as he falls to the ground. I lay him down gingerly.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You lay him down.

[Narrator / Game Master]

That is reminded turn. He is going to.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He is going to use a bonus action bloody claw attack against you. 21 hits. There is not tremendously that much damage here.

[Octis]

He lost an arm, didn't he?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Should I roll a 5050 to see if it's the right. See if it's the right arms.

[Thimble]

Yeah, but he's holding a sword in one. How can he do a claw attack in the other?

[Narrator / Game Master]

He's technically got four arms right now.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Two of them don't have bones in them. I can't ever stop the Dakotas. That is going to be. He deals eight slashing damage to you.

[Teor]

I would like to lodge a complaint, sir. Eight points. Copy that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And I would like a constitution saving throw.

[Teor]

Yeah, I'm not worried about it, Brennan. Watch six, which is a nine.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

One of his flesh arms whips out and grows claws that burst through the flaccid skin and flaccid slash across your neck and you feel a burning hot venom spread into your body. That is going to be Julian's turn.

[Julian]

Oh, I continue to run, I think as I get pulled aside and the skeletons rush by. Look at my shadow from up be like. I guess we have to have a conversation later. But for now glad to have you at my side. And I'm going to continue darting as soon as I have a moment to try and dart up in the direction of the aviary to try and meet Them. And this will be the last of my mm D4.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go ahead.

[Narrator / Game Master]

As you speak to your shadow there,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

give me an insight check with advantage and let me know if you beat a 15,

[Julian]

a 19 and a 16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you rush in that moment that you turn to speak to your shadow, you see a burnished candelabra. You can hear the cries of. You can hear Octys magic.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You recognize the sound of it up in the aviary. He and Thimble are up there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That was your mission coming here.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You have your sister's gem. The shadow suddenly stops cast behind you. You see this burnished candelabra sputtering. You look into the polished brass and see an image as you saw in the reflecting pool downstairs. Your shadow peering as if it was something like Octys, shades or whatever, the things that had made Dame Gaia appear. And it shows you an image of Teor locked in combat with your father. You are so close to Octys and Thimble and your goal in being here. And you have your sister's gems. A monster composed of your father's ruined body now threatens your companions in the bowels of this place.

[Julian]

Do I have any inclination in this vision where I might stumble upon them?

[Narrator / Game Master]

On that 19 insight, your shadow turns to you and points with a thumb down an opposing staircase.

[Julian]

It seems only fitting I get to help put him down a second time

[Narrator / Game Master]

as you are about to head off. I will say one last thing that would occur to Julian as you look at the stairs leading down.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Because you have your sister's soul in

[Narrator / Game Master]

a jam that needs to make its

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

way out of here.

[Narrator / Game Master]

But Teor is your father's memory and his honor and the lives of Teor and his brother. You hear your mother's words. Don't go die in a hole. What does Julian do in this moment?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

These are the meanest. I think this episode is the most mean choices I've ever put in front of me.

[Julian]

I love it. I love it. I think he as he's sitting there, frozen in the middle of his momentum, hearing that memory of his mother's voice in the shadow, tugging. His gauntleted hand is thumbing the gem. He looks down towards it and thinks of his younger sister, Alba, and goes,

[Teor]

Good luck.

[Julian]

I'm just gonna go turn to the aviary. They guess twice. Julian walks by. Tara went. Good luck.

[Teor]

The lion's alone tonight.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thimble, that is your turn.

[Octis]

Oh, my God. That was brutal.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That was. I made that choice as painful as it could fucking be.

[Yanessa]

No, no.

[Julian]

It was the moment of impulse and the image of that, and then the. That made complete sense.

[Thimble]

Oh, my God. I am assuming that Mara being next to me does not count as a good creature within five feet of me since she's chained up and.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Right.

[Thimble]

Okay, then I'm gonna make an attack on this ghost with my toa. So you got it. Nineteen plus.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Octis]

That is a hit.

[Thimble]

Okay. And so that does.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You don't add your sneak attack, but you add your.

[Thimble]

I do add my sneak attack because I got fancy footwork or one of those two.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, that's right. You're buckling all those swashes.

[Thimble]

Yes, I'm a swashbuckler, so I am going to get sneak attack here. And I also will get the 2D6 incorporeal force damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, yes, yes. Okay, so that's 1D8 plus 4D.

[Narrator / Game Master]

No. How many?

[Thimble]

5D6.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

5D6.

[Octis]

Do you want to poison it?

[Thimble]

It's immune. I think. Think.

[Teor]

I'm looking. I'm looking.

[Thimble]

Okay, these are three. That's.

[Julian]

Got to get out of there.

[Thimble]

That's only. That's only 15 points with everything because I rolled so bad on my sneaks. Oh, wait, no, it was okay. Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

15 damage to the first one as the toy sword flashes out. Any additional actions from you?

[Thimble]

I'm gonna hit it again.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, go ahead and roll your attack.

[Thimble]

Okay. The next one is an 18 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is a hit.

[Thimble]

Okay, so that's just another five points,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

but you add the 2D6 force damage.

[Thimble]

Oh, I can still do that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yep.

[Thimble]

Okay. Okay, so that's another four.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. Nine damage. Slashing out fireworks lights. And you can already see that you have rent the majority of this thing's spectral force. It is bloodied in condition without any actual blood, but it is still standing

[Narrator / Game Master]

in front of you.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And that's your action.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We are going to move now.

[Narrator / Game Master]

5, 10, 15, 20, and let me see, only 20ft of movement.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But they are going to use their

[Narrator / Game Master]

actions to dash and begin to swarm the chamber.

[Thimble]

You have a teleport thingy, right?

[Teor]

Teleport thing?

[Thimble]

Like a teleporting.

[Teor]

Just a paladin teleport ability. Yeah. I've just been sitting on it.

[Julian]

A palaport.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see the shambling undead. Shambling undead of House Divinos and Royce.

[Octis]

Can I ask?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yes.

[Teor]

As they came, I would. I wouldn't be able to see the door anyway. Right. Because it's beyond the garage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You hear them shuffling. Okay. You hear them shuffling. They enter the light of your corpse candle.

[Thimble]

That would be so Terrifying.

[Julian]

I only hear them shuffling.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You hear them shuffling, they surround you. But they only have 20ft of movement. So it's a dash and a movement

[Narrator / Game Master]

to get in here.

[Teor]

Might have just changed what I'm going to do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

CID is bleeding on the floor beside you.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Octis, that is your turn.

[Thimble]

Get Sid out. You think it's the to

[Octis]

having that in front of me now? I will use misty step to go to the other side of the room.

[Thimble]

He has a teleporty thing 10

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

here.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yeah, also, also,

[Octis]

he takes a step back from the creature and as it lashes out to him where an attack of opportunity would be, you can see him fade out in first skin musculature, Bones steps back into the tenebra, reaches and appears on the other side of the room.

[Narrator / Game Master]

That's cool.

[Octis]

Lands there and goes himmela. Are you okay? And then fires off as that was his bonus action. Now as a uses is a cantrip is going to fire a firebolt at the hell.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Give me your attack roll.

[Julian]

That's such a cool misty step.

[Octis]

Okay, that is

[Saramai]

14.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

14 does hit.

[Octis]

Oh God.

[Saramai]

Okay, and that is 2d10 fire damage.

[Octis]

What a set of rolls. That is going to be 11 points of fire damage. As this green flame sort of curls around his arm again and then fires off the front of his hand, slams into him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The fire races forward and as it does so, slams into that ghost. Looking quite damaged.

[Octis]

That's the end of my turn. And then my lizard go ahead and attack the other.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Presumably attacking the other ghost.

[Octis]

Yeah, it is attacking the ghost that I just attacked.

[Thimble]

I don't think I should get those extra four points of force damage because the second attack was with the rapier, not with the twice.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Thank you for your honesty.

[Saramai]

Good.

[Octis]

Looking at that is a 17 plus 7 to hit, which I assume hits 17 plus 17 hits.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay or no.

[Narrator / Game Master]

But the toy sword has the nick feature. That is the one that I think you want.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's the extra attack. Because you can't switch to another weapon to get that attack.

[Octis]

No.

[Thimble]

Right, So I hit first with that and then I have two weapon fighting so I still get the second attack.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Got it, got it, got it.

[Thimble]

Okay, but with two weapon fighting, do I get to add the proficiency with the.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, you get to add it with the second one.

[Thimble]

So I do get an additional five.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Well, there you go.

[Thimble]

All right.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Fantastic.

[Teor]

Duh.

[Yanessa]

Great.

[Julian]

Net plus 1. Look at that.

[Octis]

12 points of necrotic damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

12 points of necrotic Damage. 12 points of damage to that ghost.

[Narrator / Game Master]

It is unaffected.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Octis]

Okay. I figured. But at least it's harrying it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. Harrying the ghost.

[Saramai]

Love Harry.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Teor.

[Teor]

Mm? Are you ready?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's find out how ready I am.

[Octis]

I do want to point out that I said, thimble, are you okay? And you did not respond. So now I'm losing my mind. Yeah.

[Balare]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Teor, you are next to act. And General Raymond Divinos acts after you.

[Teor]

Okay. I will ask the question because I have this thing I've never seen before called Find Steed.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yeah.

[Teor]

I'm gonna use it until you tell me. I can't. I will summon a steed to myself and I will summon a Celestial direwolf. Okay, that works on my turn. I'm sorry. Not celestial. A fey direwolf.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Teor]

That lands next to me.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Octis]

And

[Teor]

I'm gonna. I guess that's the action to summon this deed, Right? Yes. So my bonus action would be using fey step, the steed teleports along with its rider to an unoccupied space of your Choice up to 60ft away from itself.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Teor]

But it's only if I can get on the steed.

[Thimble]

Can you just find steed? Tell like he'll operate between your legs.

[Teor]

The rules do say an unoccupied space of your choice with within range.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Because that's the whole thing of the zombies closing in.

[Balare]

Right?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Is that you are now not next

[Teor]

to an open space.

[Narrator / Game Master]

An open space.

[Teor]

There would be one maybe like over here. But I'd have to run through a bunch of chainsaws to get there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The way I think this is going

[Narrator / Game Master]

to work is this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It is completely doable to cast the

[Narrator / Game Master]

spell to summon a Celestial Celestial direwolf.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Absolutely doable.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You.

[Teor]

But I think if summoning it me and I would have to run through a bunch of opportunity attacks. I would probably skip it. And I would just swing away at his dad and go down in a. In a blaze.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Go down in a blaze of glory.

[Julian]

Fucking kick up the wall and backflip over my dad.

[Teor]

Yeah. Yeah. I would just probably swing on the big guy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What I will say is this. I want to play this as fair as we possibly can. Totally do.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Able to summon the steed in an unoccupied space.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are hemmed in from all sides. So it's shove attacks and all that

[Narrator / Game Master]

other shit to get out of there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You could also make a heroic athletics

[Narrator / Game Master]

check to leap over zombies and assorted other things.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But that's attacks of opportunity.

[Teor]

I think I would do the shove attack and maybe I would throw in as part of the ante. The last two failures marked from the desperate measures sheet because I can't think of a better time to use them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I got two left. You got two left. What are the two ones?

[Teor]

It says if your tag roll just

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

hit, don't do the hex. Instead, each damage die deals damage damage equal to its highest number. Okay. Or give a plus 5 bonus to a D20 test you just failed, potentially turning it into a success. So what. What we could do here, but here's the issue is this is an action. So if you're going to summon the steed, you don't have any attacks left

[Narrator / Game Master]

to do any shoving.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's just the athletics to like leap through these enemies. So we can action summon Steed. You have to give me the athletics to see if you can clear it. And even if you don't do clear

[Narrator / Game Master]

it, then it's the attacks of opportunity resolving.

[Teor]

I can't backflip over your deck. I think even if I do clear it, that tax of opportunity will be enough to take me down. So I think I will just swing on your pops with this axe at fifth level. Getting two swings this time.

[Saramai]

Let's go.

[Teor]

I'll just go for it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Potentially. You could potentially destroy him here.

[Octis]

Could.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It is possible to.

[Teor]

So I will take the first attack against him.

[Narrator / Game Master]

First attack. Here we go.

[Teor]

That is a 19 to hit.

[Narrator / Game Master]

19 hits.

[Teor]

19 hits. Okay. I will say, do I want to use the Divine Smart if I don't hit him the second time? Going to use it now. 12. 8 plus. I know if I crit, but I don't know if I'll hit the second time.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Do you want to use the Divine

[Narrator / Game Master]

Smite on this non critical attack?

[Teor]

I think so. Because if I don't miss this, you're going to crit.

[Julian]

If you're going to spend those two points, it means you just do max damage

[Narrator / Game Master]

if you want to.

[Teor]

Oh, that's true on this one. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do. Let's do that. So.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, if your attack roll, just hit. Don't roll the attack's damage dice instead. Each damage die deals damage equal to its highest number.

[Teor]

Right. So it be 12 plus.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Teor]

So I'll do the desperate measures. Two failures.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Mark all three.

[Thimble]

All three are done.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They're all marked up

[Thimble]

dead.

[Julian]

Dead.

[Teor]

Yeah. 100%. So that's eight plus six. I love it is 14. And then the three D8 will be the full D8 of the divine smite.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

24.

[Teor]

So that'll be third. It's a. Second level, but it's the same thing. It's 3D8.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

3D8.

[Julian]

But because it's undead. It would be 4D8.

[Octis]

Correct.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no, it's 3D8 because it's undead. Because it would be 2D8 normal at first level. But first of all, the second level. Oh, it would be 48.

[Teor]

It would be 48. I'm so sorry.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So it's 4. So it's 12. It's 12. Plus 32.

[Teor]

It'd be 14 plus 32.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

14 plus 32 is 46.

[Teor]

46. 46 points on the first hit.

[Narrator / Game Master]

General Raymond Divinos is at death's door. He is at death's door. Fucking door right now.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I mean, I want to be very clear that you could rid the world of a supreme evil. You're still in a room. I just want to set our expectations that there are a bunch of zombies here and it's very bad. It can still go very bad. But what do you add to your attack roll?

[Teor]

My attack rolls, I add. No, those are spells. Stop touching spells. I'm plus nine to hit.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I'm going to give you his armor class. His armor class is 17. So you need an 8 or higher on the die. And if you do, it is almost a certainty that you will succeed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

8 or higher on the die.

[Octis]

1.

[Julian]

I got a Marisha.

[Teor]

This here in the back of his mind, you hear?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Look at that.

[Thimble]

Oh, no.

[Julian]

What is that?

[Narrator / Game Master]

It's a four. It's a four.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is there.

[Octis]

Is there any way there's.

[Thimble]

That could be an advantage.

[Teor]

Oh, that's unbelievable.

[Julian]

Okay, I'm gonna sit back down now.

[Narrator / Game Master]

That's a four on the die.

[Teor]

Oh, shit.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Bonus action smite. You have your movement, but you don't have the ability to disengage if you want to make a leap for it and take the attacks of opportunity. But you also don't have a steed waiting for you. So people will close with you if you try to.

[Teor]

With my movement, I will reach up and I'll grab the ribcage of Papa Divinos and I'll pull him in and I'll reach in and I'll pull out the banner of the torn.

[Thimble]

Banner.

[Teor]

The torn banner and say, I have no secret. Someone that is looking for you.

[Narrator / Game Master]

It is General Raymond Divinos's turn.

[Julian]

Is he going to try to do his thing?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's going to try to do his thing. If he rolls in at one, you get an immediate attack of opportunity.

[Octis]

Oh, come. Oh, my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If he rolls. If this is a one.

[Octis]

No, I Don't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If this is a one and you get another chance.

[Octis]

Come on. Come on.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Almost popped out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No,

[Octis]

Brutal.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Your Armor class is 16. He needs seven or highers to hit.

[Octis]

Just two attacks, though.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Just two attacks. Six or lower.

[Teor]

Six or lower outs all day.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Six miss.

[Thimble]

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Six plus nine is 15.

[Teor]

I can't do this much longer, man. The stuff happened under the table. I need a diaper soon.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If this is a six or lower, he misses both of his attacks. And he's got almost no hit points left. Come on.

[Teor]

He given so hastily taken away somewhere.

[Julian]

Juleni's holding that shield glyph and going, I wonder if I need to use this today.

[Octis]

I'm so mad.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

10 slashing damage.

[Teor]

Okay.

[Narrator / Game Master]

And the necrotic is expected you to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I only.

[Narrator / Game Master]

So that was 10.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I only rolled. I only rolled a 2 and a 1. So that's 6. So 6 necrotic damage.

[Teor]

Still up.

[Octis]

Still up.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Teor]

Still up. Still up.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Still up. Surrounded by zombies. Still up.

[Octis]

Still up.

[Saramai]

Come on.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, that was crazy. Those were very bad damage rolls. How many hit points do you have?

[Teor]

10.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

10. Okay. Julian, you surge into the aviary. You are here. You are present.

[Octis]

Next to a ghost.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Next to a ghost.

[Julian]

There's a ghost.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. You have flanking.

[Julian]

Is the ghost the bad guy?

[Octis]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a type. Give me a. As you go up the stairs, you see the doors. You see the ghost, the lizard up there racing forward as fast as you can. You see, holding that gem. The gem alights and your gauntleted hand as you stow it away, you are filled with. You have just killed Koral Taconus. Your second Taconis is dead. You approach this ghost and you see through these slitted windows the sky of Dol Makyar. You are about to get out of this place with your sister's gemstone. And having killed another Draconis, as you arrive here in this battle, there is Mara, the wing who has all the answers. Julian, go ahead and give me your attack rolls for this ghost and do so with advantage.

[Octis]

Yeah. You have flanked him with my lizard.

[Julian]

All right. First. Next attack is going to be 15.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

15 is a hit. And I will remind you that you do have another attack as you level up to level five. Oh, you already did.

[Julian]

I get a bonus action.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, you get a bonus action.

[Thimble]

Great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Do that.

[Julian]

I'm going to be fourth level fighter.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, fourth level fighter. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Cool.

[Julian]

That's okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, you got it.

[Octis]

All right.

[Julian]

So that first attack will come in with the rapier Cool. Gets that.

[Octis]

That'll be.

[Julian]

Ooh, seven plus four for 11 points of damage on the first strike.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible.

[Julian]

And then I'm going to go ahead and bonus action with the gem in my gauntleted hand. Going to go ahead and swing the demi gauntlet. Since I did hit it with the rapier, which does have the Vex ability, my next attack on it is going to have advantage on it anyway. Which I would have because it's that also.

[Thimble]

Oh.

[Julian]

Actually because it would be the first attack of advantage. I would have sneak attack on that which is an additional six damage to that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Additional six damage.

[Saramai]

Okay, great.

[Julian]

Second attack. It's going to be actually 19. Yeah, that definitely hits.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sorry, you said six extra damage to it.

[Julian]

Correct.

[Thimble]

Great.

[Julian]

And then this bonus action attack is going to be five points of damage.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Great.

[Julian]

How's the ghost looking?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Another five points after that. Ghost is looking dismayed. But not bloodied.

[Julian]

Action Surge. I'm going to go in for another strike.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Here we go.

[Teor]

Dismayed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's like I don't like that spooky sad face. Stop doing that.

[Julian]

17.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

17. And you're rolling with advantage.

[Octis]

Right?

[Julian]

Correct.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

17 hits.

[Julian]

I'm gonna savage attack. And roll that again. That's better. Another 11 points of piercing damage from the rapier thing.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Looking fucked up.

[Julian]

Great.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Julian]

What's going on? We found her.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yes.

[Octis]

She's in another room with Thimble. But I think there's something else in there I haven't heard from Thimble.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thimble. That is your turn.

[Octis]

I'm okay. I've heard from then Wolf.

[Thimble]

Okay. I am going to Holmli Teor.

[Saramai]

He went to find the gnomes.

[Thimble]

Okay. Wait. I gotta look at this thing. Okay. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hit first with the rapier.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Thimble]

This time.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yep.

[Thimble]

That's only 10.

[Narrator / Game Master]

10 is a miss.

[Thimble]

Fuck. I'm gonna go for the fucking other one.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay, Here we go.

[Thimble]

That is a 17.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

17 hits. Thank God.

[Thimble]

So I'll just dump everything in this one. Oh, that's good. That's so much better. 11. 14. 18. 19. 26 plus 6.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

26 plus 6 damage.

[Thimble]

Uh huh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How do you want to do this?

[Thimble]

Fireworks. I'll slice it across the neck and fireworks are going to explode through all of its little tingly things. So it's going to look pink and purple and flashy and stuff as it goes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This ghost explodes into confetti and fireworks in all directions. And you have a bonus action. Oh no. Yes. No, you don't have a bonus action.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Anymore.

[Julian]

Sorry.

[Thimble]

No, I.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Do you use. Does that second attack take up your bonus action or.

[Octis]

No, no, no.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't think so.

[Octis]

It's part of the attack. Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So you do have a bonus action left if you wish to use it.

[Thimble]

But I can't pick a lock with a bonus action.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I'll allow you to pick a lock with a bonus action.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna try to pick the lock with a bonus action.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Give me a thief's tool Check.

[Octis]

Wild.

[Thimble]

What do I add to a dexterity

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

proficiency plus DEX bonus.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Narrator / Game Master]

16.

[Thimble]

21.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

21 picks it first. The lock of the cage opens and the falcon just flaps out into your arms and collapses. Choking itself on the ground. Letting itself just be choked just to let its body rest on the ground. As it flutters to your feet. There's one more lock on its collar affixing it there. But it's out of the cage. That is your turn.

[Octis]

As big as you though. It just landed on you.

[Thimble]

Well, technically it landed below me because I'm flying.

[Julian]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's valid.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Four attacks with advantage from zombies are coming at you.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Oh God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Your armor class is 16. They hit on a 13 or higher.

[Teor]

Yep.

[Narrator / Game Master]

17 is a hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A nine year old.

[Thimble]

20.

[Teor]

It's a nat. It's a nat.

[Julian]

20.

[Thimble]

There's no escaping this.

[Teor]

And a 15.

[Thimble]

They all hit.

[Teor]

They all hit. They all hit. At least we can't.

[Octis]

No.

[Teor]

I can call you not thorough.

[Thimble]

At least.

[Octis]

You'll just die immediately.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We'll roll the crit first.

[Teor]

All right.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Five damage.

[Teor]

Five left.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If these are all ones.

[Thimble]

Four.

[Teor]

One left.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Eight points of damage. Teor.

[Thimble]

Yes.

[Narrator / Game Master]

In the darkness at the bottom of Obramis Manor, The image of this monstrosity facing you in the sputtering corpse light. Your brother, who you traveled across vast reaches to save only yesterday. Torn banner in its scroll case, placed into the ribs of Raymond Divinos lion emblem at your side. Your entire life you walked within and beside a light beyond explanation. And here in the dark, that light may extinguish. And as it does, all hope of answering those questions vanishes into shadow along with it. In this horrid place.

[Balare]

You

[Narrator / Game Master]

watch as a doom you have avoided so many times. Countless battlefields of the Falconer's Rebellion. You should have died in the dungeons of Castle Dhalani. You should have died in Sloke. You should have died in the war. Whatever comes next, at least your brother won't have to go there alone. What is Teor's experience of this final moment? Injury's not anything new to him. It was in some ways always probably going to end like this.

[Teor]

I think in those final moments the pain gives way to a sense of numbness and then calm. And here in the dark, where so much has been obscured, Teor looks over and he sees his brother, and he reaches his paw out for his

[Saramai]

and

[Teor]

notices that it's not as dark as I remember it being. It's actually quite bright.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You can't even tell from which of the shambling figures the final blow comes. But somewhere in the dark something is glowing. And as Teor's spirit prepares to cross over to the true Tenebral reaches, perhaps to walk the old path, perhaps to linger there with his brother. Is there any thought given to any yet who remain in the world of Waking? Or is Teor's vision planted firmly towards the great beyond?

[Teor]

He thinks fondlee fimble and hopes that she will find peace. He thinks of Ket again and hopes that he will find resolve. And strangely, he thinks of Ser Julian with the most unusual thought, that perhaps he is a far better man than even he knows. And he welcomes the next adventure.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Collapsing to the floor beside your brother. The last leader of the Torn banner collapses. That object lost here in darkness. The Einfasen axe clatters to the ground. Embracers of oak and birch soaked with your blood. As you think of Thimble, Cadogan and Julian, The irises of your eyes closing in. The lion head emblem rolls away from you. You could be wrong, but there might be some small mote of light left in it as you look within those eyes. Of those three that you have mentioned, seeing the light reflected in the lion's eyes, which of those three are the last that your mind wanders to, seeing the emblem glow?

[Teor]

It is actually none of those three but Wakander, a man who has much in front of him and shares the same light as the lion.

[Narrator / Game Master]

As light envelops the emblem, it and it alone vanishes, and Teor's magic whisks it away from this place to appear at a later moment. At what? Wakander's side. Along with a character ability of your choosing, which will be granted as a death boon to Wakander Halovar. We'll speak more in private later.

[Thimble]

I've done some shit to you today.

[Teor]

Hindsight.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Teor has fallen.

[Teor]

They should have summoned the steed. Soda,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Travis, Willingham, everybody. We may be sending some after you very shortly, so we will continue in initiative order, please. We will continue in initiative order here. I need

[Narrator / Game Master]

think of me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I need wisdom. Saving throws from Your summon.

[Thimble]

I would have if you'd given me a boon.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wisdom saving throws from Octis, his summon, and from Julian.

[Teor]

You got it.

[Thimble]

Mm.

[Narrator / Game Master]

What do we get here?

[Julian]

Natural 2 minus 1 for a dirty one. Incredible.

[Thimble]

Wait, what is this?

[Saramai]

What are we rolling?

[Octis]

What are you rolling?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Just these ones over here.

[Saramai]

Myself, we have a 19, and my summon is a 16.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Julian, you take 17 points of psychic damage as the ghost before you unleashes

[Narrator / Game Master]

a horrific visage and howls at the top of its undead lungs.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Moving forward from there, howling at the top of its lungs, you sustain that

[Narrator / Game Master]

psychic damage, and that is the. The end of its turn.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We return to Octis at the top.

[Saramai]

Okay. Yeah. Just let me double check damage on something. Okay. Yeah. Seeing that scream, understanding.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Julian, you are also frightened.

[Thimble]

Cool.

[Julian]

I was before I came here.

[Octis]

But, yeah, seeing the frightened effect, doubly so.

[Saramai]

Then I will. When I dismissed Dame Saramai. The sword stays.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. You still have the sword?

[Octis]

I still have the sword. It is sheathed. Not something Noctis is used to being able to carry. It's big, it's cumbersome on him, but he has it strapped across his back.

[Saramai]

And he sees Julian there's with his

[Octis]

and doing what he does and has

[Saramai]

watched Julian a lot and knows he's not a fighter, knows he doesn't have the same footwork. Know what he can do?

[Octis]

He touches the edge, the hilt of

[Saramai]

the Saramai blade, and it feels heavy. And he gets an idea.

[Octis]

He reaches his hand out, and from the Sara' Mai blade, this oily smoke travels down his arm.

[Saramai]

And he says, sword.

[Octis]

And it goes and forms this sword

[Saramai]

of shadow in his hand.

[Octis]

And he rushes forward to stab at the ghost using psychic damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's do it.

[Octis]

Here we go.

[Julian]

Now, if you're flanking.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, flanking.

[Thimble]

Oh, my.

[Octis]

I rolled a natural one. Better. That is. That's 16 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

16 is a hit. Go ahead and roll.

[Thimble]

Damage.

[Octis]

And that is 2D8 psychic damage.

[Narrator / Game Master]

It's so dark in there.

[Thimble]

I know.

[Octis]

I'm trying to find dice. And it's so dark. There we go. That is 11 points of psychic damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

11 points of psychic damage. You reach out with this blade. Connect and sever the specter's head.

[Narrator / Game Master]

It is destroyed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You all exit initiative.

[Thimble]

Amazing.

[Saramai]

Thank you for the lessons.

[Julian]

Pick it up, quick.

[Thimble]

Mar. Mara's in here.

[Saramai]

Okay.

[Octis]

Run into the other room.

[Thimble]

Is it unlocked or.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The cage is unlocked. You still got the manacles up here?

[Octis]

I'm gonna flew through the bars.

[Thimble]

I flew through the bars of that door somewhere.

[Octis]

I Go to the door then.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, you go to the door. You look inside. Go ahead and give me another thief's tool check.

[Julian]

Let's see. Teyora's in trouble.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What?

[Julian]

I don't know where he is. I think he's down below. But he's. Last I saw he was. He was tussling with.

[Narrator / Game Master]

No.

[Julian]

The shadow of my father. I'm going to go ahead and use my last hit dice as part of when I ride the threshold to gain two temporary hit points.

[Thimble]

Cool.

[Saramai]

Oh, you have to go get him.

[Octis]

I have to go help him.

[Thimble]

Wait. What? What happened to Teor?

[Octis]

He's in trouble.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You go ahead and give me another tools proficiency check.

[Octis]

I'm trying to open. Is it locked?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, the door. Yes, the door is locked.

[Saramai]

Do you know how to open this?

[Julian]

I kick it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me an athletics check.

[Thimble]

15. 15.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

15 doesn't do it.

[Julian]

That's going to be a 13 plus 16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

16.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Boom.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You kick the door open. You guys rush into this next space here and see a thin chain around this Falcon with the shadow blade still in my hand.

[Octis]

Just trying to cut through it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go ahead and give me an attack roll.

[Octis]

That is a 12.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

12. Okay. 12 is enough to hit. Go ahead and roll.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Damage.

[Saramai]

Can I make it?

[Octis]

I give it a headache.

[Julian]

It only does psychic damage.

[Octis]

Seven points of psychic damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Psychic damage sort of pings the. You deal psychic damage to an inanimate object and it doesn't appear.

[Thimble]

There might be a key out on the desk. Wait. What'd you say about Teor?

[Julian]

Teor was somewhere down below being surrounded by many nasty things.

[Octis]

Where is he?

[Saramai]

Down below?

[Julian]

I don't know.

[Thimble]

20.

[Narrator / Game Master]

20 pops it open.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The Falcon collapses. Immediately unconscious. Stable, but unconscious.

[Thimble]

Teo. Can you heal her? Either of you?

[Julian]

I stab things. Don't really have much of a heal.

[Saramai]

I can't heal her.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You hear shouting and disorder from down below. The howl of the undead monster has alerted the.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Let's get out of here.

[Julian]

We cannot stay.

[Saramai]

We cannot stay. There's no people there. Fuck. Where? You don't know where he is. You just know he's down.

[Octis]

It's huge down that.

[Julian]

If you don't know where, then.

[Saramai]

I don't know where he went. I told him to go up the stairs.

[Julian]

That was his choice.

[Thimble]

What did you see? What? How do you know he was even.

[Julian]

I had a vision. It may have been false, but I saw him. A flash of him somewhere in the some distant bowers at the abode. Fighting the remnants of my father.

[Thimble]

Mara. Mara.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Her exhaustion is so great that there's

[Thimble]

no pick her up.

[Saramai]

Sorry. I'll go over and pick up the falcon.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You go pick up the falcon. You look out through the window slits and see that you are high up, sort of off to the side of

[Narrator / Game Master]

Obramus Manor through these thin window slits here. What is it you do?

[Thimble]

I'm going to fly out the window and see if there's anything I can see that will help them get down any ledges, anything that they can.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You fly out the window. Go ahead and give me investigation or perception.

[Octis]

Are these windows big enough for us

[Narrator / Game Master]

to fit out of?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, these windows are big enough for you to fit out of. 11 searching around. You don't see anything as you are

[Narrator / Game Master]

searching throughout this place.

[Thimble]

It's just a flat wall.

[Saramai]

Are we leaving him?

[Julian]

If he can find his way out, it's better than all four of us dying here.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay?

[Julian]

Five, including his brother.

[Saramai]

What do you think?

[Yanessa]

I can't be.

[Saramai]

I don't know him.

[Thimble]

We have to get out of here.

[Julian]

We have to leave.

[Saramai]

Okay, you remember the tower

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

nearby? You guys hear

[Narrator / Game Master]

of thunder. And you guys hear something thud into the tower roof right above you. You're at the very top of the Aviary.

[Thimble]

Shit.

[Saramai]

Jump out the window.

[Thimble]

Jump out the window and I go

[Octis]

running towards the window.

[Saramai]

We did this once before.

[Narrator / Game Master]

All right, what the fuck?

[Octis]

I jump out the window and we fall.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, you guys leap. Go ahead and give me a group acrobatics or athletics?

[Julian]

Check.

[Thimble]

You're holding Mara.

[Saramai]

I know I can do this with one hand. It's fine. All right.

[Octis]

That is a dirty 20 for me. Acrobatics.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay,

[Julian]

that's gonna be 14.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

14. We'll take the dirty 20 on that group. Check. You guys get to the window. You're holding Mara, you leap out into air. Just clearing the outer wall of Obramis

[Octis]

Manor as we fall and we are getting closer to the ground. I reach with the other hand, reach into my coat and pull out.

[Saramai]

Where the fuck is it?

[Thimble]

You're searching for it while you're falling.

[Octis]

I remember the fucking component. Yeah, and now we're dead. I pull out a small feather. It's just a feather. I pull it out. I'm so stressed. And I put it in my mouth again. I chew it up and then I spit spectral feathers out again into myself and into Julian. And we

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

featherfall.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Thimble, you're alone here. Teor is somewhere in the bowels of this place. Mara and your companions go out and you see them land on the other side of the wall of Overmiss.

[Balare]

Manor.

[Saramai]

I look up.

[Thimble]

I'm going to look for Teor.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You tell me that now.

[Thimble]

Go. Get her to safety. I'll be. I'll be out in a minute.

[Julian]

If you stay, you die.

[Thimble]

I'm really sneaky.

[Julian]

All right, fair play, Thimble.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I'd like you to give me an investigation check and a stealth check.

[Thimble]

Okay, stealth 22 investigation 8.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Little Fairy, you fly into the dark and we'll find out what happens to you when we come back to this table. Octis. Julian. I assume having rested Mara and your sister's gems, you're off.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's bring Team Spy back in here real quick.

[Balare]

Thank you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Dare you?

[Narrator / Game Master]

We're so cool. Moving from the events at Opera Manor,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

a carriage with a manacled Kadigan and Wulfric Tyranny holding Bolaire in probably a

[Narrator / Game Master]

satchel at her side or on her effects.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Back at the Via Aurora, Wakandra's speaking with Primus Taconis and Yanessa Haylovar. But we are going to resolve the tailor shop first.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Arriving at the Murkinat couturier late at night, you see the dim glow of some burning embers and some braziers. The thick aroma of incense. As the doors open and the demons begin to drag Cadogan and Wulfric into the shop. Enmity turns to you, Tyranny, and says, I will explain your desire to the couturiers inside.

[Yanessa]

I actually would prefer to have a word. I owe them an apology.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Very well.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that as the demons enter, our delightful

[Narrator / Game Master]

Ruleus and Calastro Mercanod appear, walking out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that Ruleus says, late hour to be calling and. Well, hello again.

[Yanessa]

Hello, Ruleous and Calastrod.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Kalastro.

[Yanessa]

Kalastro. I wanted to see you myself.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, we had a bit of a rude surprise.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Turns out last time you were here,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

you were not supposed to collect a

[Yanessa]

lapse of judgment on my part. You see, I was following our Lord Wicander, my charge. He made a choice and I chose to back him up. But what I should have done and seen the big picture. And for that I am so sorry. We have a new delivery for you. But first I believe a remediation in order. But I have a gift for you. Take out Boller's mask.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You see, they look and say. Is that the curator's mask?

[Yanessa]

It is. I was told to give it to you. I hope that this can show my deepest apologies. And I've heard that it's quite amazing on. I do hope you try it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, Ruleus Takes it and goes.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You have more than made up. Did you put an end to that wicked little man's life?

[Yanessa]

I wish I could say that it was me. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. And I knew who to get it to.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ah, Serenipity.

[Yanessa]

Once you put it on. I have a question. I know that really I'm here to make amends, but this person that's in my captive.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, well. Business first, yes?

[Narrator / Game Master]

And pleasure later.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see? He turns over to Enmity.

[Narrator / Game Master]

And you see Enmity says, this one here is for you to get to work on. You see Hand's small white velvet bag of gold. Enmity says, I was hoping some accommodation might be made for my sister. Tyranny. She wishes to cause suffering to this man before you get to work on him. You see that? Calastra says, for the gift of a beautiful mask, I think we can allow a demon some joy, can't we?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Enmity turns and says, do you wish for us to remain with you here, sister?

[Yanessa]

Thank you, sister. I really appreciate it. I think what would be best is to go inform Yanessa that the deed is done. And she will be so, so, so

[Narrator / Game Master]

proud in the wafting incense. Here. Go ahead and give me persuasion with advantage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Come on. Come on, dally.

[Yanessa]

Okay.

[Thimble]

Well.

[Yanessa]

Two 14s.

[Teor]

Those are good.

[Yanessa]

Plus eight.

[Narrator / Game Master]

22. Enmity turns to you and says, have your way with this filthy commoner and then we shall see you at the Via Aurora. Enmity holds your chin in her hand and says, I do not doubt that you have finally come to your senses. Which is why the Lord Wakander has returned. I know that you did not wish to see him break when he saw the truth. But all good things come after we break. Come, sisters. You see, Cruelty narrows her eyes looking at you. I just don't fucking know.

[Yanessa]

I'm here with you.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Are you? Because I.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see Agony face plants and goes, my teeth broke. And you see Cruelty says, you are so stupid. And then he says, no, we must

[Narrator / Game Master]

return to the Via Roar at once.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you see that Cruelty picks up

[Narrator / Game Master]

Agony, sneers at you and drags Agony out of the shop. You see Ruleus and Calastro drag Wulfric and Cadogan into the background room. This incense creates a disadvantage on wisdom. Saving throws in the entire space Tyranny.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that one of the brothers?

[Narrator / Game Master]

You see that Ruleus, who you handed the mask to, is still holding it,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

but now is sort of drooling over Cadigan here.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Looks over and Says, well friend, what brought you onto the wrong side of the Candescent Creed? I don't know what the fuck's going on. Is tyranny in our presence. Yeah, tyranny. Cause from what I understand, the chain

[Julian]

of events that have occurred.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yeah.

[Julian]

I do not know anyone's intentions at this point.

[Narrator / Game Master]

All I know that I was bagged and tagged by your sisters.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I have no idea what's happening.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that Ruleous is sort of

[Narrator / Game Master]

batting the mask back and forth in his hand. Just goes, well, we are going to secure the perimeter. But my lady, you see the mask again, just flopping around. He goes, have at him. Do your worst. I actually would to see the aspirants at work.

[Balare]

Has he noticed the writing on the

[Narrator / Game Master]

inside of the box? It looks like he's very close to. But it's just. It's just as.

[Yanessa]

Just. I do appreciate this. This is just for me, this one. He caused a lot of grief to the Lord Wakander and we can't have that. What is that? I'm so sorry.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Give me a deception check. You're being so kind. Put on a mask. Put on the mask.

[Thimble]

Put the fucking mask on, bro.

[Narrator / Game Master]

That's cocked.

[Thimble]

Is that cocked?

[Yanessa]

All right, it's cocked.

[Octis]

That's so.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's also cocked.

[Thimble]

Bad form.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm gonna use luck.

[Yanessa]

Oh, with advantage.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Disadvantage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What's that?

[Thimble]

Was that with advantage?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That was straight. But that was straight.

[Julian]

That was straight.

[Balare]

Do you wanna.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Do you wanna fuck with the roll?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Fuck with the roll. You have luck left.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I believe I've got luck left.

[Yanessa]

I've got two left. Yeah, let's go.

[Thimble]

Use it.

[Yanessa]

14 plus, what was it?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Deception.

[Thimble]

Deception.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Worth burning a luck though. 14 plus 8.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

22. You see?

[Narrator / Game Master]

He says, says what is what? Hollow, Infinitesimally small.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're going to roll a wisdom save, which because of how they set up their shop, because they think they're the ones slinging spells around here is rolled a disadvantage.

[Narrator / Game Master]

If one of these is a 13 or lower. It's on.

[Julian]

Let's go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Gonna roll twice.

[Thimble]

10.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No need for a second roll. Ucalastro says yes.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Do you want to keep him manacled up? We can splay him out. We can take his skin off. I was interested in seeing your studies here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm interested in seeing how you apply yourself.

[Yanessa]

Thank you so much.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

See, he looks.

[Narrator / Game Master]

He said as is.

[Octis]

As is.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Delightful.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What are we gonna do to him?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Oh, do you want us to take care of the dog,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Brother?

[Yanessa]

Not the dog. I want him to watch.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ah, you are a demon,

[Julian]

brother.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Should we get the wine out?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Uh, Bolair, you are looking at.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are looking at Calastro Murkinad, who just called you brother. And I'm gonna need everybody here to roll in this.

[Balare]

Whoa. I'll roll for two.

[Thimble]

Roll.

[Octis]

Come on.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You roll. Two. Here we go. Okay, I got a one.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I think I'm going later in the initiative.

[Yanessa]

I got a three.

[Balare]

I got a one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, here we go. You've already eliminated one of the opponents. Okay, what did we get? Khadigan?

[Octis]

I got a seven. Seven.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What do we get? Tyranny.

[Yanessa]

Three.

[Thimble]

Three.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And we got a one for Belair.

[Balare]

I got a three.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Three as well.

[Julian]

Okay,

[Narrator / Game Master]

Got it. Got it.

[Saramai]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Yes. You see that? Kalastra looks at you and goes, brother, should we get out the good wine?

[Balare]

Yes, I rather think we should.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me deception.

[Balare]

I will say I also. I'm going to walk up as I say this, and I'm just gonna leave. I mean, I.

[Saramai]

God.

[Balare]

Yeah.

[Saramai]

Let's see how this goes.

[Balare]

Give you a deception roll.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Give me a deception roll.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Number we're trying to beat here is just an 11. These guys don't have great insight.

[Balare]

Yeah, that's 19.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

19. Okay. Amazing. I'm gonna get the battle set out. Here we go.

[Teor]

Oh, my God.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Wait, what?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We just battle?

[Narrator / Game Master]

I'm gonna do desperate measures.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

By the way, guys, check out the critical role shops for all the merch. All the merch.

[Balare]

Okay, I'm trying to remember who was I talking to in the bar? Was it which of the brothers was

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

it you were talking to?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Both of them.

[Balare]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You were. Absolutely.

[Balare]

They're both a decent build, if I recall.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, absolutely. Tyranny, you are here as well. Bolair has just taken over ruin ruleous Murknod's body. And then we have our other friend here is Kalastro Murkinad right here. Having been successfully bedeviled but successfully deceived, Kalastro is going to

[Narrator / Game Master]

hit

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

withhold person believing that he's preparing Cadogan for your administration. Give me. Give me a wisdom save. I'll still prepare. Give me a wisdom save with disadvantage here.

[Saramai]

Cool.

[Thimble]

Good.

[Julian]

The worst of those was four.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, with a four. He hits you with the hold person here. That is going to be Bolair and tyranny. You act on the same initiative in this moment as he goes. Ha, ha, ha. The good wine indeed. He stroll. He. You guys see that? He actually begins to. He hits Cadogan with the whole person and begins to stroll to the back of the shop to get wine.

[Octis]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

My iPad just died.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, no.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Okay, good.

[Balare]

We've been here that long. I begin following him to the wine.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great.

[Yanessa]

Brother.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, Brother.

[Julian]

I

[Balare]

am so happy that you're here. And I love you so very, very much. It's so nice to have someone to share a life with, A sibling. Someone who's been there.

[Saramai]

I.

[Balare]

I just want you to know how sorry I am. And I slowly walk towards him. I'm sorry for everything you're about to feel and everything that you're about to hear. And I cast dissonant whispers.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. What's the save he makes there?

[Balare]

Wisdom 14.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is a failure.

[Balare]

Okay, you take 3D6 psychic damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

3D6 psychic damage. Okay, go ahead and roll it.

[Balare]

That's six points of damage. And you must immediately use its reaction. If a Belladoo is far away from as it can, using the safest route,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

he sprints back into this changing room. Over. Here goes. Ah, no.

[Balare]

I'm here for that suit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I wanted. He fails. Concentration, Kaddigan. You are out of hold person.

[Balare]

And my bonus time. My sword is out. And I am just walking like a fucking demon.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, brother. And Kadigan is your turn. Oh, my God.

[Yanessa]

Still shackled.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Still shackled.

[Thimble]

Wait, am I.

[Yanessa]

This is happening?

[Thimble]

Wait.

[Yanessa]

Happened.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, you happened simultaneously. Yes.

[Yanessa]

Oh, yeah. Okay. I go and I undo your shackles.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You have the keys. You bang spring him. Kadigan, you are unshackled.

[Yanessa]

Do you still think a demon can redeem herself?

[Julian]

Insight check.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is that possible on what you just

[Balare]

said to me inside.

[Julian]

Check away.

[Octis]

Does that work?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give an insight check. Yeah, I don't know. I don't trust her right now. Give it with advantage.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Oh, okay, good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Natural 20 on the second one.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Oh, thank you.

[Octis]

Oh, sorry.

[Balare]

Yeah, good, good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sorry. Sorry. On a natural 20. You got a natural 20.

[Julian]

I did.

[Thimble]

On the second one.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Kadigan.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you look to insight her tyranny,

[Narrator / Game Master]

you look into Cadigan's eyes and you see blood gushing out of tyranny's eyes. You feel no pain at all as you see the entire story of Cadogan's life with Mariana unfold. You see the image he saw at the lakeside. You see Primus Taconis killing his wife and daughter.

[Yanessa]

And

[Narrator / Game Master]

tyranny. You are a demon of suffering crafted by the shadow of suffering Sharavi. There is no greater suffering than losing what Katagan has lost. And Katagan, you see that reflected in tyranny's eyes. You understand on a NAT20 insight Tyranny's perspective that she is fundamentally warped. That she's an archetype and not a person. As she once said to you. You made the knife in her hand. This knife that has just cleaved through your bonds. As she opened your shackles. You look at her and know that she is absolutely right. That she is a demon. She's the demon. Demon. Whoever demoned. There is nothing wrong with her and that knife you made for her. Something within her understands your pain. There is something in her. Older than her body, older than her name. Older than this form that she has been given that is here in this world. Because she knows what is rending you apart inside. And she is here to protect you. She is here to save that which can be saved. And if it cannot be saved, she is here to punish those that destroy it. Did I deserve it? No.

[Teor]

No.

[Julian]

Do you?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Remains to be seen.

[Yanessa]

I think we're in a good spot.

[Julian]

I'm very angry.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You should be. Where did they go?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, Bolair is advancing all on

[Narrator / Game Master]

the other twin that is in this back room right there.

[Thimble]

You know that that other one is Belair, right?

[Narrator / Game Master]

What?

[Thimble]

Okay. One of them is Belair.

[Yanessa]

He's on our side.

[Narrator / Game Master]

The mask one, right?

[Saramai]

Yeah.

[Balare]

Okay, I missed it. There's four extra points of damage on.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, great.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Thank you.

[Julian]

Thank you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think in that space on that NAT20 inside, which is so crazy, when she's holding the knife you made for

[Narrator / Game Master]

her,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

you just feel. As that rage builds in you, a

[Narrator / Game Master]

visible demonic energy pours out of tyranny. The blood falling down the tear lines of her face.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you can see snarling demonic faces

[Narrator / Game Master]

made of blood and smoke trailing on the incense. And know for a fact that not everything born of demons world is wrong. Something good has come of the pit. Because the rage you feel right now is right.

[Saramai]

Yeah.

[Julian]

I'm going to take off toward my attacker.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Kadigan, you burst into the other room. You are as you do so. You burst into the other room.

[Narrator / Game Master]

And

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

in this moment, I think, Bolair. The glass appears at you. The distant whispers. You look around and see Cadigan surge past you. And Kaddigan go ahead. You are fifth level. Go ahead and give me whatever attacks you want. Whatever you're doing.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I'm going to use my two handed

[Saramai]

attack with the club, not the blade,

[Julian]

because it's meaner aiming for the back of the head.

[Narrator / Game Master]

That's a 19.

[Octis]

7.

[Narrator / Game Master]

26.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

26 is a hit.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Sweet. That is a 7 damage plus 4 for 11.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And then because you just made me

[Narrator / Game Master]

level 5, I'll take my second attack.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Which I just got. Which you just got.

[Octis]

Here we go, baby.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I appreciate it. That is another 19 for 26 again. Hell yes.

[Narrator / Game Master]

That's not as high though. It's a seven. So 18 total damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

18 total damage. Kat again. How do you want to do this? Oh, my God.

[Yanessa]

I don't.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Winning fights is so easy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Why can't. Yeah, it's just a non stop. Full unsheath at full speed. Double fisted, no technique.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Back of the head, club to the

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

bottom of the dome. The first attack rips the. His stupid fucking wig off his head in a cloud of blood. The back of his skull is made of glass or crystal. And shows that he has a burning fire in the center of his skull. And the second hit is lights out. Like a thick fucking light bulb cracking. Who cares what weird fucking thing this guy is? Anything hit in the head hard enough will die. And this guy, Boom. Lights out, eyes cross, blood shoots out of the nostrils. And he hits the deck dead as a doornail. Who was that?

[Thimble]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Yanessa]

We're here. Cadigan, you're dead.

[Thimble]

Okay. As far.

[Yanessa]

No, no, no. As far as the Candescent Creed is concerned, you have been killed. You cannot be seen around the halo of ours. Can we try something? I'm so curious. The Brother Ruliel.

[Thimble]

I only wrote half of it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, Ruleus, Ruleus. So Calastro is destroyed.

[Thimble]

Oh, no.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You're a Ruleus. Yes.

[Yanessa]

Okay, Calastro, can we string them up and see if.

[Thimble]

Does he have a soul?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So that actually is quite important.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Balare.

[Balare]

Yes, please. I'm very excited.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You have been after these two for a long, long time.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you feel ruleous screaming inside your mind.

[Balare]

Oh, I would love to have a brief conversation, if that's okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, absolutely.

[Balare]

As everything is going down.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yeah.

[Balare]

Ruleus finds himself in a theater. In a very small theater that is very dark. The stage is lit. There is a play being performed. He's not on stage. He is sort of wandering through the seats of the audience where I am sitting, watching this two man play.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Brother, Brother.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Shh, shh.

[Balare]

We're working. I begin speaking the pantomime for these two characters who are performing. And they're wearing papier shape masks. And they're dressed very gently and simply. And the stage is very, very basic. Obviously, this is a rehearsal. I am not wearing my hair. I am just wearing a simple peasant shirt and gloves. But there is no body. I'm just the mask, hovering where there should be one. There is no arm where the hands are and as I speak, my voice comes out of these two characters. As I am slowly directing it. When we were children, before we would go to sleep. What would our father say to us every night? A story, a poem or a tale of what tomorrow would bring. When dark night silence falls. And hope seems gone. A deeper roar still carries on. It shakes the stars.

[Narrator / Game Master]

It splits the night sky.

[Balare]

It lives in me and will not die. I. I cannot help but believe.

[Narrator / Game Master]

How did you find me?

[Saramai]

You're half a world away.

[Balare]

I'm so very clever, sister. And they embrace. All wrong and it explodes in paper. Can I have just one dream?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I want one wish I want one thing to be mine

[Saramai]

it just keeps

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

getting taken away over and over I finally have peace.

[Balare]

What an unexpected surprise to see you here. Do you love your brother? Do you love your brother, you simple idiot?

[Narrator / Game Master]

I. I do.

[Balare]

Thank the Lords of men.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Enjoy.

[Balare]

And I turn on his vision. So he can watch what the fuck happens.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Inside yourself. You hear?

[Julian]

No.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As Calastro goes down Balaire.

[Balare]

Rolling back in. And I'm gonna leave him there for now. And I will enjoy the sound of his fucking whatever.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I've had a day. As Calastro falls. Balare. What a day you have had. You look in this private room and see the staircase going down to somewhere. Gleaming red and infernal.

[Saramai]

Well, what's the plan?

[Yanessa]

Well, I want to see what these scissors do. I have a sneaking suspicion that they're cutting up souls and sending them to my dad. And if this guy has a soul, maybe we could do it to him.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I don't have the.

[Yanessa]

I don't know. I don't know if that's something inherent

[Balare]

that I. I have a sneaking suspicion he has a soul.

[Yanessa]

Can we find out?

[Narrator / Game Master]

The staircase.

[Balare]

Does he? What would happen if we tear his soul? I'm just saying this out loud to see how much louder the screams get.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Screams get very loud in tears.

[Balare]

Oh, I'm pretty sure he's.

[Thimble]

Take him downstairs.

[Saramai]

Okay.

[Thimble]

Kadigan, you don't have to stay for this. Get the.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If you.

[Yanessa]

I mean, do what you want, but I feel like we're gonna be in a lot more trouble. I kind of think it's a one to one thing.

[Balare]

Come with me, friend. I've heard so much about you.

[Julian]

Tell me what to do.

[Yanessa]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Khadigan. Wulfric is still out there. You free Wulfric. Yeah. You guys go down.

[Narrator / Game Master]

As you descend the staircase. Bolair. This has been a day of chaos, tyranny. You have rescued Katakan Kadigan. Wulfric. Licks at your hand as the shackles come free.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You know that you are a made

[Narrator / Game Master]

man from the Candescent Creed. But you tyranny has won you your freedom. You descend the staircase balare, a nine pointed star. More than 20 bolts of fabric, more jet than midnight that you realize are shadows themselves. These tailors have been turning mortal souls into bolts of fabric. You see shears of shadow, darkness spun suits. You see that you now stand in the heart of the warlocks trade in the secret shadow of the Candescent Creed. With all of the tools that the Murkinad have used to run their illicit business for the Fo tark. All of these artifacts that you know believe belong in the museum. And I'd like you to go to level five.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's go baby.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Oh, Rubious, you kinky boy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And we are going to move from you guys back to the Via Aurora. Let's go baby. I love it. I love it. You guys, he was here for you. You guys want to stay for his stay? Everyone stay. I gotta love him. I know.

[Julian]

I gotta love him.

[Teor]

I know.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This is a beefy one. This will be our last scene of the evening. I'm fine, I'm just sipping. No, come back to me. We return back to the Via Aurora. Primus Draconis is just shaking your hand. You see, Yanessa says,

[Narrator / Game Master]

indeed, my lord Taconis. Everything that I have heard, it must come to pass that Wakanda hears it as well. He is the scion of my house. Should I die. And you see, Primus raises an eyebrow and goes, should you die again, oh resurrected one. And you see, she says, it will come to be Wickander leading the creed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, he looks and says, and

[Narrator / Game Master]

not Goddard, your son. She looks and smiles. Wakanda is my heir, Lord Tecumseh. As I've said, amends will be necessary for you to make up what you have done here. Petra and Raya are both smiling at you as well. Here, Wikander.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you see that you very much on that high. You hit so many high rolls in a row. Primus doesn't seem perturbed that you are a part of this conversation. So you are very much in this conversation.

[Narrator / Game Master]

You see, Yanesa says it is incredibly important that we maintain these alliances. Why, Primus, where from this rush? Why this sense of urgency you disturbed so much this obsession with the orchard. You were trying to draw Erinessa out. I'm afraid I can't understand. What clock are you running against here? Primus puts a finger to his lips give me an insight check.

[Julian]

Sure.

[Narrator / Game Master]

12 plus 3?

[Thimble]

15.

[Narrator / Game Master]

15.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You just see him put a finger

[Narrator / Game Master]

to his lips and go, I was greedy with power, Yanessa. That is all. I stumbled. And on a 15, I think you. No, that's not right. But Yanessa lets it slide. In terms of asking why he was rushing, it's almost like there's a little gulp. He seems worried or concerned about something. He says, let us not speak. Instead of my hastiness and the failure of our plans with the date of Vindicta, plans that I would have been more than happy to align with the Hailifaron. After all, let us not forget that those houses out there at your buffet slaughtered members of our family in the Shaper's War. Are you aware of an entity known as the Cloak? You see? Yanessa cocks her head and says, I can't say that I am Primus. In our pursuit for Chalcidian, we came across. The remains of a halfling Celestial known as Oldblad. But before we could find the remains, it had been placed or absconded, been stolen and put into some perverse halfling coffin created by entity known as the Cloak that we believe were connected to the late Thiazi Fang. They had taken not only that, but another source that we had found in the Mourn Vale, the homeland of the elves.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yanessa says, was Thyazi aware of your machinations? Primus strokes his beard and says, we imagined that at first he might be. But I have begun to think that they have their own aims and ambitions. I do not think it was their intent to Stymias. I don't know if they were even aware of our plans. But I do know that they are searching for keystones, significant artifacts. I believe they're attempting to address some of the imbalances of the afterlife. Yanessa turns her head. She says, well, that doesn't work very well for your plans or for mine, Primus. The coffin slipped our grasp somewhere in Venatus. We know that it had been crafted and closed, some password created for it, the name of some confidant. But they might be trying to use it to reopen a door to Faerie. I just don't know. We don't know what they're up to. But they are vast and they are moving, and they are moving not against us, but perpendicular to us, and that is more concerning. The time for ignoring them is at an end, and I didn't raise it to the august body of the Sundered Houses. Because I thought that I'd be able to do so. You see, Yanessa smiles and says, as our new ruler. And he says something of the kind. You see that? Yunesis says, and Thiazi didn't he. Don't you have him?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you see that?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Primus says, I'm afraid we don't. You see, Yanesa says, but you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you see, she gestures to her chest.

[Narrator / Game Master]

And you see, he says, even so, he says, this cloak is of dire significance, and I can tell you more of what I know. But the important thing is to state that things are shifting. I fear they are amassing these keystones and if we are not careful to find out what it is they are trying to do, then, you see, Yanesa goes, should we? And gestures to the other houses outside, and Primus says, maybe not just yet. Yanessa nods and says, all right, well, I think you should figure out what you can afford on your tally. And he says one thing and he produces Octis signet ring.

[Balare]

Oh,

[Narrator / Game Master]

This is my son's ring. You see that? She squints and says, really? Specifically Octus ring. I know my children's signet rings. And this is his. You see? Yanessa says, so he was involved with the disappearance of the Lady Cornell. Primus goes, can't be. He would have been in the eternal night or somewhere between Reasongotel in there. There's no he left missive. Petra and Raya, my daughters. You see? Petra goes, we almost got him. We stood on the cliff face as he fled on a giant eagle. You see that? Ganessa says, sir, this ring, Primus yours was placed there not by Octis, but someone wanted us to believe. I don't know, Einfarsen trickery. And you see, in Esso goes, excuse you, Einfausen trickery. What next, Royce? Brutality? What are we speaking of?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that?

[Narrator / Game Master]

He goes, no, maybe not. The einfelser. He looks out the window, says, what are you imagining, Primus? He rolls the signet ring in his hand. Perhaps not any of our fellow houses. Perhaps some enterprising little magpies have been stealing things. Gazes out the the window. I think another player may have announced themselves in our game, Yanessa. Someone's just sat down at our table and I can't quite see them yet. He holds the ring in his hand. Something is moving in this city, Yanessa. Something you should be aware of. She says, leave the city to me, Primus. I will crack it soon enough. The council will finish its crumbling. Trust me. He looks and says, Do I have anything to fear from Otto? She again holds her finger and says, as long as he's shouting at you, you're fine. It's when he's smiling that you have to worry. He says, all right. I should return with Petra and Raya to Abermiss Manor at once. Once we have a member of the Cloak captured there. But she is wild shaped and none of my children are proficient enough to give the scar to one who is wild shaped, so I've had to wait for my return.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Once she has the scar, we can

[Narrator / Game Master]

kill her, and then we'll be able to drag anything out of her on the other side. You see that? Yunessa nods, says, did you really kill Octus simply for and you see? Primus goes, he had already betrayed our House. He was guilty for crimes that merited death. Regardless, I'm not a monster, Yanessa. Yanessa nods,

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Primes, turns to you here,

[Narrator / Game Master]

Wakandra, and says, keep an eye out for any sign of an organization known as the Cloak. You should be well aware of how dangerous they are. Anything you hear throughout your organization, perhaps. I don't know. I mean, there's nothing that I can't imagine. With all the commoners within the Candescent Creed, you'll find an answer.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that?

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yanessa cocks an eyebrow and says, do you discount the utility of commoners, Primus? He turns to her and says, obviously, Yanessa, they are Dretch and I do not conceive of a world in which we need listen to them for much longer. Inasa smiles and says, then again, I suppose to the shapers we were all commoners. Primus just sort of regards her. Silently. The doors open and you see Otto Einfassen and Adakani Kormurray both walk in. Lord Cormoray says, we will. We've considered your words, Lord Tarkonis, but you have damaged us here. Not only with the destruction of House Royce, which had been discussed but was not a firm plan. You lied to us. Should not have done this. And you see? Primus goes, words are not enough. My fellow lords, my peers, a transference of 10 million gold pieces to each of your August Houses and a grant of land and title. And once Telmora is fully overthrown, those ancestral lands, of course your families have far more claim to than mine. Lord Cormoray nods and says, 10 million gold pieces. It's a generous offer. Otto steps forward and says, you have light here in this room, Primus. 10 million is a base cost to barter your way back onto a seat of this council. I wish to know if your trickery and skulduggery is at an end. Have we heard the last of your schemes in this place, Primuseurs? Past what I have attempted, I am left only with the recourse of politics. I Do you give me your word, Lord Primus? Primus goes, Aye, aye. And you see that? Otto puts out a hand as if to shake and says, will you shake my hand and tell me true that there are no more arcane machinations and that your further efforts will be to the good of this alliance? Will you shake my hand and say it? You see, Primus briefly cast detect magic to see if something's going on here and says, I don't know if I. Will you shake my hand? He reaches out and shakes Otto's hand and says, no more arcane machinations. Politics taking over the Bero God, Destruction of the revolutionary council. Slow and steady from here on out, Lord Einfansen. Otto squeezes his hand. You can see Primus is a little uncomfortable as Otto says, please be prompt with the remittance of payment and takes off out of the room. Primus turns around Petra and Raya. All right, girls.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see? He puts a hand on Petra and

[Narrator / Game Master]

Raya's shoulders and says, very well done. You both have done an excellent job. And gives each a little kiss on the cheek and says, we'll make our way to the carriages. Yannessa, thank you for everything. I'll just nod to the Lord and just say, perpetra, Raya, if I weren't betrothed, I would. Well, things would be different. But it was lovely to see you. And how you. I kiss both of their hands, you

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

see, Each of them looks and you see, they say, oh, will you walk

[Narrator / Game Master]

with us for a spell to the carriage, my lord? Haylefar, it would be my honor. You see that your grandmother says, good job, weekend, and pats you on the cheek and says, what a long day. I am off to rest. Good job, lovey, as you walk with Petra and Raya for a moment, you see, they turn and say, strange betrothal.

[Teor]

No.

[Narrator / Game Master]

To one of the Dantonios. Lesser house. Whatever my family wishes is probably best for me. Yes. Unfortunately, many of our betrothals ended. I'm so sorry to hear that. Horrible, horrible fortune.

[Saramai]

Many.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Many that were promised met an untimely end. Well, I pray mine doesn't. Do you? You see, they turn and say. They say, yes, of course. Well, of course it means that we have been passed over as Heirs. Because those that would marry us cannot seem to remain alive long enough to hold a ceremony. You see that? Raya looks at Petra and says, it is ill fortune. But also we feel very. There would be something quite heartbreaking, I think, for us to wed. One of our heartfelt wishes we have had is. We have always been so close, my sister and I. And the thought that our children would simply be cousins to each other rather than true siblings has always made us quite sorrowful. These guys seem like very close siblings. Yes, that's a lovely sentiment. No, but it's a foolish thing. In ancient past of old Obramia, there were those that took more than one husband or more than one wife.

[Saramai]

But.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Oh, I.

[Saramai]

That is

[Narrator / Game Master]

the old days, eh? It was lovely speaking to you, Lord Hailuvar. It was lovely speaking to you as well. I hope we get to catch up again quite soon.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that they both curtsy and go and head out to the carriage with Lord Primus, leaving you your lonesome in the Via Aurora, Laura.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Oh, okay.

[Saramai]

Well,

[Narrator / Game Master]

Maybe I'll just retire to my room and goon a bit.

[Yanessa]

Sam just learned that one

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

wicander the worst inside joke. As you look out, you see that Felonious, your uncle looks over and says,

[Narrator / Game Master]

strange ducks those Taconis, don't you think? I'm sorry, who is this?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This is Felonious.

[Saramai]

Oh, Felonius.

[Narrator / Game Master]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes I am. It's a marvel that the Fotarch is able to keep her composure among so many different factions. All with so many different desires and secrets. Yes, they are a sinful lot. But for the time being, we must do as we must. Glad you're back, nephew of mine. Yes, yes. And you see that your mother and your little brother walk over to you as well. Long day. Have you had something to eat, Wakenda? No, not in quite some time. Tyranny. She's not here. I will have to get myself something.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh no.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I'll have a servant, do you?

[Thimble]

No, no.

[Narrator / Game Master]

I should learn to be self reliant, right? Perhaps I'll walk into the city and see what I can find at one of the shops. Oh no, no, no, no, no. We'll get you something, darling. I feel like a walk and some fresh air would do me good. All right. All right, my son. Do you want some guards sent with you? You know what? No, I think I. I think I'll go on my own, come what may.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a persuasion chance.

[Balare]

So he's gonna get tailed.

[Narrator / Game Master]

14 persuasion plus 721 have a lovely stroll we'll see you. And now we know you always return. I certainly will. Bye, you two. Walking out, you see the lights of the Candescent Creed throughout this neighborhood. You hear chanting and singing at the base of the city. You hear cheers from the theater,

[Saramai]

and

[Narrator / Game Master]

suddenly you feel warmth. And you see light looking down. Something at your side in a small coin purse like a small satchel, is glowing. I'll take it out and look at it. A wooden lion's head emblem is glowing within you, glowing in your hands. And you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Teor Pridesire has died this night. And we will continue the story on next week's episode of Critical Role.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Balare]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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