Knives and Thorns | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 6 Part 1

Summary

Critical Role Campaign 4, Episode 6 Part 1: "Knives and Thorns" – Detailed Summary

Date: November 20, 2025
Game Master: Sam Riegel
Featured Players: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Ashley Johnson (presumed as “Thimble”), and regular CR cast.
Setting: The tumultuous world of Ahriman – fractured kingdoms, ancient magic, and looming danger.

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Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into the hearts, histories, and tensions of Campaign 4's party as they recover in a mountain hermit’s home and then venture into the mystical, perilous Dehopshiny Wood. The group’s bonds are tested by temptation, trust, and the burdens of power. The narrative weaves together moments of warmth, intense roleplay, and an escalating magical confrontation that climaxes in a radiant burst of faith and fey power.

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Major Discussion Points & Events

1. A Glimpse into Vaelis’s Past (03:17–08:36)

• Prompted by Sam (GM), Thimble (Ashley) recounts Vaelis’ happiest memories: an idyllic, sun-drenched childhood filled with dance and ritual, sibling mischief, and family love.
  • “[Vaelis] was always outside, sunning, dancing… Not a care in the world. Freer and lighter than we’ve seen her.” – Thimble, 03:43
• The resonance of memory and the Elven trance: Vaelis’s mother’s wisdom on the importance of memory across the centuries.

2. Sleepless Conversations at the Inn (08:36–11:54)

• Kadigan and Vaelis have a late-night talk about their inability – or refusal – to sleep, tying their personal troubles and unusual natures together in a quiet, melancholy tone.
  • “You can bring yourself back from death. But you cannot make yourself fall asleep.” – GM, 09:46
  • “I sort of go elsewhere. I dream. I think about time past. Try to remember.” – Thimble, 11:02

3. Morning With Ulbid Morn, the Gnome Hermit (18:45–43:54)

• Recap and update: The group’s recent adventures, the pursuit of Cid, and the threat of Kasimir and House Taconis.
• Ulbid Morn, astronomer and enchanter, offers shelter, food, and crucial intel—including rumors of royal and Taconis movement nearby.
  • “I have many other traps and defenses. These [chanter’s eggs] are a means of last resort.” – Ulbid, 40:01
• Warm, homey moments—sharing porridge and awkward conversation—lead to emotional exposures around grief and remembrance. Ulbid shares the story of his late wife’s treasured kitchen knife, a precious relic with deep personal and magical significance.
  • “Only because I’ve been using it… Jasavi was born to the old city of the stars… This knife… survived the fall of the goddess of magic.” – Ulbid, 27:30
• Thimble receives a lovingly enchanted toy sword, a magical blade that can animate small toys.
• The party is gifted three powerful, perishable “chanter’s eggs” (magic items with single-use spell effects).

4. Temptation and Theft: Tyranny Steals the Knife (43:44–68:14)

• In a moment of unexplained compulsion, Tyranny (demon warlock) secretly pockets Ulbid’s knife (stealth/“dirty 20”). She feels a powerful connection to the blade, intensified as they depart.
• Tyranny confesses the theft to Wick, struggling with guilt and the sense that something archetypal and dangerous inside her demanded the act.
  • “I don’t know why… everything you said is about not stealing. But I took it. And I think it has something to do with who I am.” – Tyranny, 68:14
• The party wrestles with ethical fallout: Should they return the knife? Tyranny describes feeling out of control, as if possessed by a force tied to her demonic archetype.
  • “What I know is it felt like I’d explode if I didn’t take it. I don’t steal stuff… This is the first time.” – Tyranny, 74:12
• Kadigan, furious, takes the knife and sends his wolf Wulfric to return it with an apology note. The party hashes out where lines of trust, redemption, and responsibility are to be drawn.

5. Party Dynamics & Key Revelations (45:40–60:00+)

• The party gathers to clarify their motivations: finding Cid, revenge for Thiazi, Wick’s break with his dangerous family, and Tyranny’s contract binding her to Wick.
• Intense discussion around Wick’s reasons for betrayal (“There seems to be and rot among the Haylovars…” – Wick, 50:15), the threat of the Candescent Creed, and the price of idealism versus family.
• Thimble’s purpose is vengeance: “Yeah, I’m in it for revenge.” – Thimble, 59:56
• The group’s fragile, multi-faceted alliance is on full display, setting up the conflicts and choices ahead.

6. En Route to Hawthorne’s Glade: Magic Awakens (64:39–77:09)

• The group sets off; nature is alive with color, faerie energy, and portents of rot and past godly violence.
• Thimble’s nature and fairy dust respond to the air, and the forests seem subtly changed by their presence.
• High perception/survival checks (nat 20 and 19) cue the arrival at a site of power—a fey boundary marked by orchids and warning glyphs. The approach is laden with tension and possibility.

7. Combat & Parley: The Fey Stand Guard (88:01–105:15+)

• A pixie bursts from flower, casting sleep on Tyranny and Wick (Wick falls; is awakened by being kicked)—light combat.
• Swarms of sprite warriors attack, and a strange, bleeding fairy (Honeysuckle) with cold-iron boots launches a vicious strike, knocking Teor back.
• Combat teeters on the edge—Thimble and Kadigan both attempt diplomatic interventions by calling out, healing, and displaying powerful magical auras. Wick channels his radiant, angelic fate—invoking a memory of his mother and the core of his faith.
  • “What you beam, you become. And you’re my little beam.” – Wick’s memory, 114:04
• Wick’s gamble to seek a religious solution (religion check 21) transforms the battlefield: radiant light suffuses the clearing, swaying the fey defenders, amplifying local magic, and manifesting celestial wings from Wick’s back. The encounter shifts from battle to possibility.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Memory and Loss:
  “It’s so important to remember… an arrow flying from a bow must be kept straight if its flight is to last for centuries. You can’t forget who you are.” – GM, 08:36

• On The Sleeping Curse:
  “You can bring yourself back from death… but you cannot make yourself fall asleep.” – GM, 09:46

• On Compulsion and Demonhood:
  “I don’t know what came over me… it’s like the feeling I’d explode if I didn’t take it. And I don’t steal stuff.” – Tyranny, 74:12

• Wick’s Crisis of Faith:
  “I feel like maybe [my family] could be salvaged… maybe they could be shown the wrongness of their ways, and I could correct things.” – Wick, 50:01

• Kadigan’s Blunt Clarity:
  “I’m gonna kill whoever the fuck I want.” – Kadigan, 58:39

• On the Cost of Friendship:
  “Your intent is heard. …What will matter is what happens the next time you encounter this.” – Teor, 75:07

• Turning the Tides with the Light:
  “What you beam, you become. And you're my little beam.” – Wick’s Mother (memory), 114:04
  “The sun was killed 70 years ago, but the sun still shines… Forms break. Titles change, but truth remains forever.” – Brennan, 116:04

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Key Timestamps for Reference

• Vaelis's Memory Sequence: 03:17–08:36
• Restless Night; Kadigan & Vaelis: 08:36–11:54
• Arrival at Ulbid’s House / Breakfast: 18:45–43:54
• Gift of the Knife & Toy Sword: 25:59–33:37
• Tyranny Steals the Knife: 43:44–68:14
• Theft Revealed, Party Confrontation: 68:14–77:09
• Team Talk: Who Are We and Why: 45:40–60:00+
• Chanter’s Eggs & Magical Provisions: 38:12–43:16
• Into the Forest, Fairy Omens: 64:39–77:09
• First Sight/Combat of the Fey: 88:01–105:15
• Wick’s Radiance, Transforming the Battle: 109:01–116:04
• Cliffhanger & Episode End: 116:04–117:00

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Memorable/Comic Asides

• Kadigan’s Bluntness:
  “If my acting isn’t clear enough, Katigan is fucking livid at what just happened.” – Kadigan, 71:25
• The Short TL;DR Joke:
  “TL;DR was an ancient Elven wizard. Gave the shortest speeches of any…” – GM & Wick, 49:50
• Roleplay banter on “soft hands” and “demons making people sad.” Multiple points (47:01–47:17, 30:32–30:44)

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Tone & Style

The tone oscillates between evocative storytelling, tense character drama, and classic Critical Role table banter. Intimate, personal struggles are laid bare beside high fantasy intrigue, and the group's playful chemistry is ever-present—even as tensions and magical stakes ramp up.

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Conclusion

The first part of "Knives and Thorns" is a master class in ensemble storytelling, blending deep character arcs (Wick’s faith, Tyranny’s origins, Thimble’s grief), critical decision-making (theft and confession), and vibrant worldbuilding (Ulbid’s magic, the living forest, fairy defenses). The cliffhanger—Wick’s radiant act breaking the standoff—sets up a dramatic continuation for Part II.

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Next Up: The party faces fresh consequences and revelations as their parley with Hawthorne’s Glade’s fey guardians hangs on a razor’s edge. Part 2 drops Tuesday.

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(This summary skips all advertisements, product announcements, and sponsorships—including Alienware, T-Mobile, Dagger Heart folio pitches, and DSW spots—focusing solely on the story and character arcs.)

Transcript

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Teor]

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[Tyranny]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Tyranny]

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[Thimble]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Thimble]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Tyranny]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Tyranny]

In fact, wrap up my old phone.

[Thimble]

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[Tyranny]

Forget that. Aunt Liz will be jealous.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sounds like my family drama. Oh, I got it.

[Thimble]

I'll give it to my abuela.

[Tyranny]

I'll take reindeer paper with hey where are you going?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Kadigan]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Kadigan]

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[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Why hello there, I'm Brennan Lee Mulligan and welcome to Campaign 4 of Critical Role. Thank you for joining us on this journey as we explore Ahriman, a world of fractured kingdoms, tumultuous rebellion and sorcery.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

That rises from the graveyard of the gods.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You're listening to part one of this adventure, with part two arriving this upcoming Tuesday. Our episodes typically arrive on the Critical Role podcast network a week after our initial Thursday night streams on Beacon, YouTube and Twitch. But if you'd rather listen to a full podcast episode of Campaign 4 Right When it airs without any ads, consider.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Episode of Critical Role. Ashley, what was it like outside when Vaelis was at her happiest?

[Thimble]

Oh, There was a lot of light, a lot of sun. Phelis was always outside, Sunning, dancing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Not.

[Thimble]

A care in the world. Freer and lighter than we've seen her. The hope of youth. And she hasn't felt the.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Loss.

[Teor]

And.

[Thimble]

She just feels lighter and freer.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Something as light as a ribbon made of pure silk. White and red and gold and blue. Twining and twining and twining in a dance. A massive carved moss covered pole as your sister Meiwin looks at you and goes, well, 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. Under and over and under and over, braiding and braiding and braiding as you dance in this glade. Moss under your bare feet and suddenly.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A small globe of light as your brother Arthas. Bam. Just clothesline into your sister, tumbling over her as he catches something thrown from the wood line. And she goes, you Claude, you oaf. We had the dances tomorrow. The spring ritual is tomorrow. He catches and says, I want. I want your brother.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You see, he has golden and green skin that merges up almost into what.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Would look like this sort of bright red hair.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Your sister is sort of lavender and.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Then bright spring yellow.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

But you see her face flushes with.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Red as she looks at him and says, keep your game. To the woods where it belongs. You see a number of elven youths from the woodline go, Sorry, sorry.

[Thimble]

Come on.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, they say, you wanna come play with us?

[Thimble]

Yes, I do, but I can't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Your brother looks down and says, you could, you know.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You know the dance well enough.

[Thimble]

Maelyn, don't. Please. Just for a little bit.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

She looks at you.

[Thimble]

I know all of the moves. I know everything I'm supposed to do. Please.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

She looks at you. 3, 2, 1.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Grabs the ball from your brother and says, go. Go long.

[Thimble]

Book it. Take off. Bare feet. Just so used to running outside, stepping on rocks. Just Light as air.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You see that where you run, you and your sister leaving from this ceremony of Salandri, your mother, the goddess of life. You wonder if your goddess would be cross at you for abandoning this ritual. But looking behind you, in your footsteps, flowers bloom wherever your feet walk. You at the end of play, sweat across your brow. You see these young elven youths, their hair and skin red and gold and violet and green and purple and every floral, like a forest or a garden in bloom. And you look out and see your mother smiling at you as you collapse. She brings a silver platter of fruit. Off in the distance. You hear the voice of your father. She looks at you, your brother. I'm so tired. And you see that she puts this food in front of you.

[Thimble]

Oh, this looks delicious.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Ever ready. You need your energy for tomorrow, so eat up.

[Thimble]

I just pile in, just a mess.

[Tyranny]

Just taking in the food juice running down your chin.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

She looks at you and says. Touches her temples, and you see her eyes go white. For a moment, she smiles. You're very young. But I should probably teach you how to remember.

[Thimble]

What will I need to remember for her?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

She says, I myself am 600 years of age. And when a moment is perfect, I just like to remember it. And you see, looking at her three children, she smiles. Her eyes go white again as she remembers this moment with no sleep. It's so important to remember. And what I would like. Bayless, how many times in your nightly trances have you tried to remember that moment?

[Thimble]

Every single night.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

In your trance, you know the threat. Over centuries, you can lose moments like that too many years. An arrow flying from a bow must be kept straight if its flight is to last for centuries. You can't forget who you are. And as you look across this small, humble room in this inn in the Dvalmar Pass, you see a shape across from you, staring into the dark. Octis. Everyone else has gone to bed. Yeah.

[Kadigan]

I'm not really tired, though. I haven't been in a while.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You can bring yourself back from death. It's extraordinary. But you cannot make yourself fall asleep.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ah. Ma'. Am.

[Kadigan]

Do I see that Vaylis is awake?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Um.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Sorry if I'm keeping you up.

[Thimble]

No, I. It's nice to have company.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I just.

[Thimble]

You stopped sleeping.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I guess. I. It's. I just haven't been tired, or. I'm always tired. I don't know which one.

[Thimble]

I've always thought sleep was a waste of time anyway.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yeah, I can. I mean, I could see how that would.

[Tyranny]

Do you.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Not sleep?

[Thimble]

Not Really? I sort of go elsewhere.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

I dream. I think about time past. Try to remember.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

That's hopeful, I guess.

[Thimble]

Are you okay?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I don't know. Nearby, Julian, Tysha and Erinessa slumber. You cannot. You don't know if you're okay. But at least there's somebody else here that cannot rest. And we'll return to other adventures in the land of Ahriman on tonight's episode of Critical Role.

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Thimble]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, it's really running dry, isn't it?

[Thimble]

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[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

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[Thimble]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Thimble]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Thimble]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Also, credit cards or something.

[Thimble]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Thimble]

Also, it comes with a Daggerheart character sheet printed on dry, wet erase paper. I know you love that, Marisha. Erase, it's the key.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's the secret hat.

[Thimble]

Anyway, I hope you like it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thank you, Laura.

[Narrator/Announcer]

And in case you weren't already aware, the first three episodes of the Mighty Nein premiere on November 19th on Prime Video.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's right.

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Thimble]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Thimble]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Back to you, Sam. Ram.

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Welcome back to critical role Campaign 4.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Here at the soldiers table, our soldiers.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Happened to spend last episode finding not a fight, but friendship with several wonderful inhabitants of the Kavrosi Mountains, north of Dolmak Yar. Where you headed? Out. We met the scoundrel Abalang Howl, a Orcish dwarfish smuggler who was hanging up in a gibbet outside the Black Heron Tavern, not too far outside of town. With his of high spirits, but more to the point of higher altitude hanging in that cage, he had to get the hell out of there. And you guys were happy to help him. Both to get someone who might talk out of your hair, and also to get some information about the fact that.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Kasimir Gavndale, the man responsible for the death of Thiazi Fang, is making his.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Way north with Taconus guards. It seems that Kasimir's betrayal may in.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Fact have bought him a life of unimaginable luxury. No good deed goes unpunished, and no betrayal goes unrewarded.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Making your way instead where you thought more likely that Cid would have traveled. Knowing your brother, you took a risk.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Heading into the Dehopshiny Wood, given that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You couldn't exactly know for sure where his tracks were.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You went to the one place that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Due to Cadogan's skills in the forest, you could move faster than anybody pursuing you, which you might think. You're the caboose in this train of Kasimir chasing Cid and you guys chasing Kasimir.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

But we all know who's abandoned the sundered houses recently, and we all know that doing so probably does not come without some consequences. However, on a Nat 20, our friend.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thimble was able to discover a Nixie.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Hidden in a spring, Brook Meadow, who.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Asked if you were in grave danger, and then said, hey, are you headed for Hawthorne's glade? Brook Meadow. Being very cautious about your friends, but maybe not so cautious about, you know, doing her job of protecting. It's a hard gig. You're protecting Hawthorne's Glade, but you're also trying to find fairies that need Hawthorne's Glade. That's a hard call to make. You're not going to get that right.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

100% of the time.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So you guys headed deeper into Dahapschani and made the call to not risk being caught flat footed in the forest at night. And as Cadogan heard in his watch.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

The strange moans of the creatures off in the forest, you probably made the right call.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You also met Ulbid Morn, a buddy.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

A buddy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A gnomish astronomer who was happy to open his gates to you, was a friend of Abalang Howl's who directed you off in that way, who not only kept his telescope pointed skyward, working on behalf of the Old Path.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

The Old Path to kind of keep tabs on the storm rack.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That eternal storm.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

We say eternal.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's been 70 years. Maybe after 100 it'll go away. Does that feel like it'll happen? Ulbin Morn doesn't think so. Ulbin Morn thinks it's getting worse. But he also is happy to make life a little easier for himself by swinging that telescope around to keep keep.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

An eye on who's making their way up and down the Kingsway from Timony.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Where he acknowledged that yes, he had.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Seen some crow keeper wagons moving under the banner of House Taconis up north and also happened to spy a royal caravan of the King of Timny with three red hounds on a white field.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Headed south along the road towards either the Dvalmar Pass or Dhulmakyard. After that little bit of information gathering.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

He was happy to treat you to.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Some porridge and keep you safe for the night with his spider climbing goat ready to sound the alarm at any moment. And Connected was happy to work that evening collecting some of his daughter's toys, his daughter's tin soldiers, and was busy working on a sword for Thimble And Connected with Teor during his watch about.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

The fact that the banner outside of his home much thread worn over 12 years of standing watch over the forest says in Gnomish welcome home. And he's tended to it for a long, long time.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Morning has arrived and you guys have a little bit more hope than you had heading out from Dolmachyard that at least you're on the right trail. You know that CID at least made.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

It part of the way through the forest headed north.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you know that it's also good that he's not going to get caught in the immediate future by Kasimir.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

But you also know that they're headed to the same location and that Kasimir's got the road at his advantage getting through there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You don't know how fast CID can.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Move on his Own through the forest. Perhaps he's taking it thoughtfully and carefully. But he certainly didn't find Ulbhed. And you don't know what you would have done if you hadn't. Danger still looms over this forest. But it's morning and some bowls of the still from the night before.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This little cauldron of porridge is heated up this time, you see, the same sort of porridge is reheated, but with some different dried fruits and nuts added into it to freshen the taste profile from what you had the night before.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And Ullubud says morning.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Morning. One and.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Nicholas for you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's right, yes.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Or sorry. Wicander. Wick.

[Wick]

Yes is what I prefer to go by.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

[Wick]

Thank you for this. It's the same again, is it then?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yes. Normally one cauldron of this will do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Me for the week.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Cooking for one is what you do when you're sort of a hermit. Which is never nice to say out loud. But it is what I am.

[Tyranny]

Good morning.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Good morning.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I noticed you sitting on the chest of your friend. Are you?

[Wick]

This is very disconcerting.

[Tyranny]

It's just something I like to do. I don't really want to get into it. It's just like a demon thing. Good morning. I didn't introduce myself. My name's Tyranny, by the way. Thank you for having us. And I want to hear more about your wife. I want to know actually what. What her favorite stuff was.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Her favorite stuff as an object?

[Tyranny]

Well, no, I don't know. Anything that just reminds you of her. Anything that she liked. What was she into?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Go ahead and give me a persuasion check.

[Thimble]

If you lie down from above.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And I would like you to.

[Tyranny]

It's a little early in the morning to bring up trauma, I guess, to.

[Thimble]

Somebody about their dead.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Why?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'd like you to roll this with disadvantage, if that's okay.

[Teor]

It's too early for that shit.

[Tyranny]

It is too early. Sorry. 12 with that.

[Teor]

All bid.

[Tyranny]

Get his with 12 plus 7 is my 19th.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, he looks and says.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Her favorite belongings. Well, the house is filled with them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Only because I've just been using it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you see that he holds up a sort of polished ivory with a little bit of lapis lazuli in it.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

It looks like a nice kitchen knife handle.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The knife is small, serrated, good for carving through these dried fruits to get.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Them into bite sized chunks.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, this guy's got a lot of. As a father, has a lot of experience carving things into small bite sized chunks. And he says.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Jasavi was born into a family of some heritage from the old city of the stars. This knife was one of the few belongings that made it before the fall of the goddess of magic herself. But this was one of her favorite belongings, one of the few treasured things that made it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

He puts it down and says, it's very funny. Little objects and things that travel with you a long way. I've talked with some spirits and mystics in my life who I think.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Waved.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Away the material, that all of these things of the material world are somehow not as important as that in us, which is eternal. But I love this little knife. I think it's wonderful. I've always felt very strong.

[Wick]

It looks quite wonderful. I don't know that we need to bring up his label.

[Teor]

It's beautiful.

[Tyranny]

I know. I just love to hear about it. I'm sorry I made you sad. Thank you for sharing.

[Thimble]

I just. I love to hear about it.

[Tyranny]

Thank you.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Of course, of course. Absolutely.

[Tyranny]

Well, are you sad now? Did I make you sad by asking that?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm sorry.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

That's all right. I'm going to go outside. Thank you for the forage, and we'll. I'm going to go do an outside chore.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, he. He walks away. Give me a perception check. With advantage.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

If you be so cold.

[Tyranny]

Oh, no.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Jeez.

[Tyranny]

Perception.

[Wick]

Oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

With advantage.

[Thimble]

All right, all right.

[Tyranny]

10.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

On that perception check. On a 10. Perception check. I think that you. You. You gaze down at that knife and.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Just see that the handle of that knife looks gorgeous. That knife looks. It's just a stunning little artifact. What are you looking at?

[Tyranny]

I'm just looking at the knife. It's just. It's got this aura to it. You know what I mean? You can tell it's been imbued with. It's just got, like, so much power in it.

[Wick]

It's just his licensing knife.

[Tyranny]

No, it's not. Just his wife's favorite possession.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sure, sure.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

That's important.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We have bigger thing we should take.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna fly in front of her face. What are you doing?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know.

[Tyranny]

I just. Do you see this knife?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Tyranny]

I'm, like, transfixed by it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't. What? Wha.

[Thimble]

Why did you ask him about his wife first thing in the morning? Is that something you do? I haven't met a lot of demons since. Is this something you do?

[Tyranny]

I don't know.

[Thimble]

Do you make people sad?

[Tyranny]

I don't know.

[Thimble]

I am.

[Tyranny]

I'm just interested. I was Interested in hearing about his wife. And now I'm just looking at the knife and I don't take the fucking knife.

[Thimble]

It's all he has.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

As Ulbid walks back into the room.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He turns around and says, well.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

The sun is coming up, and I believe that there are some things in order. Thimbrel, if I could borrow you upstairs for a moment.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Outdoor chore.

[Thimble]

As I fly away.

[Teor]

Threw up, came back.

[Thimble]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what it is.

[Wick]

A breathing puke.

[Thimble]

I did that this morning. Thank you very much.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

He takes you up to the little.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Observatory area where he has a workbench.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And you can see that he's been working for a long portion of the night and presents one of the tin soldiers toy swords to you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, most of what he's been doing is actually making a small leather scabbard for it and sharpening it. Obviously, it was a toy, but as.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

He'S sharpened it, you notice that his workbench is very strange. There's a tiny little ceramic white standing cup, almost like an egg cup, that has tiny little diamonds, the kinds that you would like.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They're almost like grains of sand, they're so small.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

A couple different ink pots with several.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Different shades of five different shades of purple and then five of indigo and five of violet all the way around.

[Thimble]

Just going to walk through the pots and just pick up all the little things.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

He says, yes, yes. These are some of my accoutrements. The bric a brac of enchanter.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

If you be so kind and.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that he presents the sword.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

To you on these little fingers, and.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It'S in its scabbard for your size.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

This is a.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Effectively like a greatsword. It's like. It's like a beast. This would look. You'd look like a barbarian with this thing on your back. But it has the statistics of a scimitar. Right. Okay.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So you see that. But he hands it to you, and it is a. As you take it, the blade is sharp, and you can tell that it's a strong. He's done something to reinforce the metal of it. But it still looks like toy metal in that it is way more reflective than steel. It's almost like it looks like it's.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Made out of tinsel.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's very bright and glittery.

[Thimble]

This will blind somebody.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yes. Both with the reflection and with the point. The stabbing. Yes, absolutely. You see, he says, I have. It is an enchanted weapon.

[Thimble]

How did you enchant it?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Well, I enchanted it Actually, quite long ago. For my daughter Saravel. It's one of her warriors swords.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Small enchantment.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

It's not a powerful blade by any means. I told her when she was young, if she ever had haunts or dreams or nightmares or anything like that, that this sword, she could keep it under her pillow and it would ward them away. And that she could also knight any of her little toys with it, and they would rise to the challenge.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you see, he says.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And I say, much to my surprise, in that many of my enchantments don't tend to stick around very long. But this one stuck. I don't know why. Maybe because she believed in it so much.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So, in point of fact, you see.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

He takes the sword out and says, oh, here we are.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you see, he takes a small little deer that is sort of like.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

A little plank of wood that's painted.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And instead of its legs, it just has two wheels. It has four wheels, like two on the axles that can move around. And you see, he says.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I dub thee Sir Staggathy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Serve well. And you see that the toy scoots around on its wheels. And he says, stagothy, go downstairs and.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Make sure everyone's enjoying their porridge.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you see this. All of you watch a toy stag plunk on wheels down the staircase at his command.

[Wick]

Oh, dear.

[Teor]

Divine spines.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And he sheathes it back in, demonstrating this, I have ruined its ability to do that again today. But.

[Thimble]

So I can just bring stuff to life?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, Exclusively toys. And it doesn't work. Yes, it doesn't work on anything. I'd say much bigger than you, frankly.

[Thimble]

Still really, really cool.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Of course, as I've said, I am not a great. I am not a loy. I am not one of the great smiths of this world. But this spell happened to stick. And for that we can be very grateful.

[Teor]

Thank you.

[Thimble]

Oven.

[Tyranny]

While they're upstairs, I'd like to pocket the knife.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell, yeah. Give me a.

[Wick]

What is happening?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me.

[Teor]

Do you feed yourself with people's stuff? What is this?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Light of hand with advantage?

[Wick]

Do I or any of us see this?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm gonna be using your passive perceptions.

[Wick]

Okay, great.

[Tyranny]

Dirty 20.

[Teor]

Jesus.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

That beats all of your passive perceptions.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, what we see here.

[DSW Advertiser]

You.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Oh, God. The handle of that knife feels so warm. There's something so special in this knife, you can tell. And as you pocket it away, it vanishes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As Ulbid comes down with thimble, he.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Says, I do have some for the travels. You have ahead. Some other help here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I Need to stay somewhat armed myself.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Because I do live here alone. But if you'd like, I have some.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Perishables that maybe won't last another few months.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

They're at the verge of expiration, so it might be worth passing them on to you, seeing as you're headed into the thick of it. Danger.

[Wick]

Perishables like food.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Oh, I'm happy to part with some.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Rations for you as well, but I.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Meant more in object of defense.

[Teor]

That would be very, very kind.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, he gets a small. He opens up a beautiful wooden chest.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

That has a series of painted eggs.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

In it that are these beautiful. Some geometrical, some floral, some around. You see that they have small holes in the top and bottom where the.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yolk can be blown out to create a hollow egg.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you see that as he hands them to you, he says, these are chanter's eggs.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

These three are about to go bad, and you are welcome to have them. This is a blue chanter's egg.

[Wick]

What does a chanter's egg do?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, it's an egg where the egg part has been replaced with a song.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So the blue one.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

If you and your friends would ever like to remain unseen, simply smash it on the ground. As you take this hollow egg, it rests in your hand, maybe about twice as heavy as a normal egg, even with nothing inside it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's a mess. That's so cool. It's beautiful geometric lines around this egg, like triangles and diamonds and rhombuses painted around it, all in different shades of blue.

[Wick]

Yes. Thank you so much. I'm sorry, is it magical or.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yes, quite. But when I say perishable, I mean.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That the magic will wear off sooner rather than later.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And so therefore it is unlikely. I've had them for over a year.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I haven't used them yet.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I have many other traps and defenses. These are sort of a means of last resort. I was preparing to make more, and you might in the next month or so, have more use of it than I.

[Wick]

Thank you so much, sir.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Of course, these two as well, you see, he hands off a yellow chanter's.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Egg that you see, the lines are.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sort of curling around it almost like. Like vine or wind. It's much more curving, stylized. You see that they sort of the ends of the vines become like script or letters.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And you see, he says, this one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Smash it at your feet.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You and everyone around you will become very sick.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, so who's taking that?

[Teor]

I suppose I will take the sick egg.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And he says, and this one. And he takes a beautiful Ornate, multicolored one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

All these different patterns. And you see that the patterns, there are lines of geometric shapes, but there are also lines of figures.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Different.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Like humanoid figures.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Like holding hands, moving around a greater chanter's egg. If you throw this, I don't know what's going to happen.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Teor]

Amazing mystery egg.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But I can guarantee it will be helpful if what you need is for circumstances to change quickly.

[Thimble]

Okay. All right.

[Kadigan]

Not one to be trusted with this tyranny.

[Wick]

You should take it. As we always say, the honest path is the best. Take nothing unoffered, but a gift is radiant.

[Tyranny]

That's so true.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Lord.

[Teor]

How are you so fast with that shit?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Well, I think you wrote a real button.

[Tyranny]

I don't have a bag.

[Thimble]

You really did.

[Wick]

You don't have a bag?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't have a bag.

[Tyranny]

I just hold these eggs for forever.

[Teor]

I can hold for you. I will remember the mystery rainbow egg, you said.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

You can hold the eggs.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

Keep them safe.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And Ulvin smiles and says.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Well, I'll.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Leave you to finish your breakfast.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I will be upstairs. Time to observe what Stormwreck has been doing throughout the night.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But feel free to let yourself out.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And please, if you see Avalang again, give him all my rest.

[Thimble]

Hey, Ovid. You got a pretty big garden outside. I do. It's in need of some tending.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

It was made to be tended by more people.

[Thimble]

Have you thought about. Have you thought about a pixie clan?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

A pixie what?

[Thimble]

You know, I mean, there's so many looking for a place to call their own, and. And, I mean, my family, we tended the Golden Orchard. I mean, that was our whole thing, you know? We tended the garden so you could have someone. They'd keep it safe, and you'd keep them safe. If I see anyone looking for territory, I could send them your way.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Well, the Royces are a house of great sorcerers. I'm a. I'm an old man whose biggest ally is a goat. If you find any pixies that are that have the humility to think, to wish to aid an old fuddy duddy like myself, then by all means, you may.

[Thimble]

This is a great, great place. Don't sell yourself short.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

It gives my heart great comfort to know that there are many great places such as this humble hovel.

[Kadigan]

Take the offer. You could use the company.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

He smiles and says, well, if there are any Madam Thimble, that passes your muster has someone much more well traveled than I, then by all means, if they are a friend of yours, they are a Friend of mine, He smiles and heads upstairs, leaving all of you to finish your break.

[Tyranny]

I've never felt like this before. It's like you just get me. I feel like my true self with you. Does that sound crazy? And it doesn't hurt that you're gorgeous. Okay, that's it. I'm taking you home with me. I mean, you can't find shoes this good just anywhere. Find a shoe for every you from brands you love, like Birkenstock, Nike, Adidas and more at your DSW store or dsw dot com.

[Wick]

Can you please eat my porridge for me? I don't think I can. I can't eat the same meal.

[Tyranny]

We should have gotten the truffles, actually. That would have been so good.

[Teor]

Aren't you going to be hungry as we head out?

[Wick]

Probably, yes, but I just can't eat the same thing twice. It's just.

[Teor]

It's not very the same meal.

[Tyranny]

Anyway, we'll find some stuff right there.

[Wick]

Have a little congregation, really quick to figure out what on earth we're doing.

[Kadigan]

I mean, as soon as he mentions like talking and sitting in, dining, talking, Catagun, who's already bored out of his fucking mind, is just in the other side of the thing. And he just starts like, like doing like a morning stretching routine, like, like work, like waking up his body and just sort of moving around. And he just goes, yeah, I'm. Let's talk.

[Wick]

Not to put it too simply, but what are we doing?

[Teor]

This is to serve as a bit of a recalibration for us, our things that are chasing us, just in case we need to diverge at a moment's notice.

[Tyranny]

All we know is what his family is doing and that we are with you all now. And we appreciate your protecting us. We think that we could help, but also we don't know who anybody is. We're looking for your brother.

[Teor]

I think already this is going to serve well. We are not protecting you. I am protecting him. Khadigin is on some other shit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't.

[Kadigan]

I. I know next to nothing about what we're doing.

[Teor]

Do you know Cadigan?

[Thimble]

Oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ah.

[Tyranny]

He's got soft hands.

[Thimble]

Oh my God.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

That was really.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Why would you.

[Wick]

It was. It was in character. That was in character.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The RV is so deep. Why would you reach that in? Why did he. No one. You grab me so hard with your hand. Cuz I'm a man. I'm a real life man. I'm sorry about your finger.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I love you so much.

[Thimble]

Okay, it's broken again.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Delicately.

[Wick]

It's broken. Worse. He has quite. Quite a firm grip.

[Teor]

He does. Kadigan served with me on the Torn Manor, along with CID and Kazimir. So we all have a knowledge of those that we seek. I was there, too, if Thimble was.

[Wick]

You were a soldier.

[Teor]

Yeah, Closer to Thiazi than any of us.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh.

[Wick]

You just seem. Well, you seem small for a soldier, but I haven't met many.

[Thimble]

I have a new sword. I could show you what I can do.

[Teor]

Yes, could you?

[Tyranny]

I think. Don't. I think we should.

[Kadigan]

I think the last time she said that, she wanted to cut someone's balls off, so maybe I don't.

[Thimble]

I can do it now. I can do it.

[Kadigan]

I know, but don't.

[Tyranny]

So we're trying to find your brother.

[Teor]

Yes.

[Tyranny]

And so you have a little background about us. Because we're sharing information. There is a bit of heat on Wick here.

[Wick]

Thank you so much for getting me out of the city and safety. Yes.

[Tyranny]

Disobeyed. He disobeyed his family by going against the orders to execute the Azzi, as you know. And now has done that for a second time with you. And we don't know what his family is going to do. I work for him. I'm under a contract I would love, by the way, A contract that if I don't fulfill, I get yanked back to the Pit, and I don't to want to do that.

[Teor]

The Pit?

[Tyranny]

The Pit is where I come from. Stinks. Would love to be actually out here with you guys. We don't know what your family is going to do once this little ruse that we have started up of us being out on the streets and punishing people. I don't know. I made up a lie.

[Wick]

I feel safer now that we're here. I could stay here while you go off and.

[Kadigan]

No, that's a good question. What's your stake in this? I understand why, you know, you would do what you're doing, but why'd you betray your family?

[Wick]

Well, I mean, keep it.

[Kadigan]

Keep it brief.

[Wick]

Sure, sure, sure. The Tldr is. They. They were sort of.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Tldr was an ancient Elven wizard.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I am Tldr. TDR spell. Just as it sounds.

[Wick]

Gave the shortest speeches of any.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're gonna fight. Let's go.

[Wick]

I don't know what my family's up to, but there seems to be some rot among the Haylovars.

[Thimble]

Yeah, you think?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Wick]

And they were responsible for Thiazi's demise. But possibly working with this Casimir person or instructing him or in League with him? I don't know. But I'd like to find out where. The rot, I guess, how far the rot spreads in my family. The Candescent Creed, it's meant goodness and right for years. But I feel like maybe they're not the greatest of people. And maybe they could be salvaged. Maybe they could be shown the wrongness of their ways, and I could correct things, and.

[Thimble]

Maybe they'll all rot. Did you say the Halovars were working with the Taconis?

[Wick]

I don't know. I don't know who they were working with. But it appears that my grandmother had some hand in Thiazi's assassination, and.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well.

[Wick]

I don't know to whom she gave the orders or. I need to know more, and that's partially why I'm traveling with you. But also, I feel like there's good to be done out there if we can find the people who did this wrong to your friends. And maybe that will put us on the path to redemption.

[Teor]

Do you have siblings? Are there more children besides you?

[Wick]

I do. I have two. Yes. Two siblings. An older sister who. Well, she doesn't like me very much, and a younger brother who I'm worried about. He hasn't been sort of brought into the fold yet. And we saw this horrible monster creature that seems to be maybe the source of my power and.

[Thimble]

What kind of monster?

[Wick]

You know more about monsters?

[Tyranny]

He's an angel.

[Thimble]

Yeah, an angel.

[Tyranny]

Chained up in the GD basement. And I just wanna say, Wick, I'm really proud of you for saying that, because I think my guy here has learned some things about his family that he is very much still processing.

[Thimble]

And you have a change of angels. Not him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Not him.

[Teor]

Actual angel.

[Tyranny]

His family. This was something that was brand new. In fact, pretty immediately right before we met you, we learned this. And so everything. There's a lot of moving parts in terms of next steps, but what is for sure is, yes, he has siblings, AKA backups, and Wick is set to be the next Scion, So he still, technically, has some sway in and out the world. And we would like to keep it that way so that we don't die and I don't get yanked back to the pit before I get a chance to figure out what.

[Thimble]

But you're not the Scion anymore. Cause you're on the run. Cause you betrayed him.

[Tyranny]

No, he's not on the run. He's.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know.

[Wick]

I don't know anymore.

[Teor]

You stuck your knickouts.

[Thimble]

I don't know if you're on the run.

[Wick]

I'm on the run, yes. But I don't know if they're actually chasing me. Maybe they think I'm just on holiday or something.

[Thimble]

Where did they think you were going when you left? What did you do? What was the last thing you were supposed to do?

[Wick]

I was supposed to go make sure that Teo was dead.

[Teor]

And you said that your story is that you're out punishing people on the road.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You.

[Tyranny]

I guess that's what we told the guy up in the gibbet. I think the only way that our story clears is if you guys are generous enough to say that you are working with the Cantes and Creed as we go out and about and convert people and have.

[Thimble]

Why would you convert people to your family? They have an angel chained up in the basement.

[Wick]

Well, nobody knows that but me, I think.

[Thimble]

Yeah, but I don't understand this.

[Teor]

This is a fair point, though. Look, they are horrible people. But the ability to disguise ourselves amongst one of the most powerful families around here could prove advantageous if your cover is not blown.

[Tyranny]

We just need to find out some time before Wick decides what he wants to do about his family. I don't really have a dog in this fight. I've got a limited time here. Unless I figure out some things about myself. I will do whatever my contract is to him. I'll do whatever he wants. But it would be so great to not be executed immediately. And also, he has money and he has sway. So I think that we maybe can help if we get our story straight and don't act like complete fucking morons.

[Wick]

I don't like the language.

[Tyranny]

I know, sorry you don't like swearing.

[Wick]

But everything else she said was fine.

[Teor]

I am also not opposed to this. But, Wick, if your family decides they don't need you because you have betrayed them and because you have siblings, and if we are confronted with a decision in which you have to decide if it's your family or your idealism, are you prepared to make that decision?

[Wick]

Oh, definitely not. I. Yeah, that seems really hard. But I. I'd like to think that I could try. And if you need me to play a part. Hal. Do you know Hal? You know her?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You.

[Wick]

He was giving me elocution lessons. And also he was teaching me about acting a little bit.

[Teor]

Okay.

[Wick]

And I love to sort of play the part of whatever you need me to be.

[Teor]

So you are going to submerge yourself in this brutalist, Candescent Creed role?

[Wick]

If you need me to, yes.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I will.

[Wick]

I find acting just so interesting. I mean, you get to lie, but it's okay, you know?

[Teor]

Right?

[Kadigan]

I don't like the way he's smiling.

[Teor]

I don't like that.

[Thimble]

What if you're doing it now?

[Wick]

Acting?

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Wick]

Oh, you think that maybe I'm deceiving you with my cunning wit and silver tongue?

[Kadigan]

Oh, my God.

[Teor]

My dad. Kadigan and I, I have a score to settle in. I need to find my brother. Thiazi's murder is something I think we.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

All.

[Teor]

Are charged with uncovering. But your family concerns me, and I am forever grateful that you put your necks out to save mine.

[Kadigan]

I just didn't want you to slit my throat in the night. Hey, I think it's pretty brave that you told your family to fuck off, huh?

[Wick]

I don't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, you did.

[Tyranny]

In so many words. He did.

[Wick]

I just sort of left in the dead of night without telling anyone.

[Tyranny]

No, but you. You showed up at Diazzi's funeral, which they hated. They hated that you got a little slap on the wrist from mama. And then also us going and saving Teor. I mean, it's gonna take a minute. There's a whole crisis of faith thing happening here. But we're here now, and we don't want anybody else to get killed, right? We're all on the same page about that.

[Wick]

No, no. No one else gets killed. No, no one. And if we can. If we can manage it. I prefer for. If no one gets harmed in any way, can we. Is that our.

[Thimble]

No. Kasimir's gonna die.

[Kadigan]

I'm gonna kill whoever the fuck I want.

[Wick]

Okay, well, we could just arrest. Arrest Kasmir and.

[Teor]

No, it don't.

[Thimble]

He's gonna fucking pay.

[Teor]

But also, we're going to have to put our trust in those that the wilds is what Kadogan does. And if we find ourselves against your family or the Candace and Creed, we will rely on you for cues. Or everyone dies or your family dies.

[Kadigan]

Oh, and to be completely clear, every minute we waste talking right here is just leagues that our quarry gets from us, so.

[Wick]

Oh, we should go. But wait.

[Kadigan]

I'll go figure it out.

[Wick]

Sure. Young little one. I just don't think.

[Tyranny]

I think she's also a normal. I think she's an adult.

[Thimble]

I think she's so much older than you.

[Wick]

Oh, is that. Are you with the Azzi's friend person? And are you just in this for revenge then?

[Tyranny]

Yeah, I don't.

[Thimble]

I don't have any. Where else to go, really. Not since.

[Tyranny]

No.

[Thimble]

So, yeah, I'm in it for revenge.

[Wick]

What happens after you've achieved your revenge?

[Kadigan]

Worry too much?

[Thimble]

Why are we thinking that far ahead.

[Kadigan]

After we're not even to the first part, right?

[Wick]

I mean, revenge is sort of fueled by it. Darkness and shadow.

[Thimble]

Oh.

[Kadigan]

Is it super powerful though? It can really, like, send you straight to your. What you're looking for.

[Tyranny]

Let's save the proselytizing to. I'm just saying, the correct audience. I think that you just said something really important, which is that you have nowhere else to go. And we have that in common.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool. Cool.

[Kadigan]

One thing that bothers me, though, your brother, her pa doesn't match up for me. He said he's mixed up in this somehow.

[Thimble]

Sid was part of the rescue plan.

[Kadigan]

Yeah, but he he it up, right.

[Thimble]

Well, according to what's his at the Crows, Sid found out. Sid found out of Kazimir's betrayal and. Yeah, Kazimir came after him.

[Kadigan]

Oh, I missed some of the stuff earlier in the city. I wasn't quite picking up on everything.

[Thimble]

Yeah, okay, you were drunk, so if.

[Kadigan]

You put that finer point on it.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yeah, yeah.

[Teor]

But I think you also smelled, sniffed out that things were afoot and had to flee.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Kadigan]

So what do we do if we do find your brother?

[Teor]

We have one more on our team. And I think he would also be heavily invested in speaking with Kasimir.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Wick]

Fun.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Anyway, shall we?

[Tyranny]

Yeah, we trust you guys to lead the way. We'll do our best.

[Teor]

Are you a good, talented fighter?

[Wick]

I can.

[Teor]

I don't care.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We can fight evil with.

[Thimble]

Hey, Albid.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Albid comes downstairs.

[Thimble]

Can I take Sir Stagothy?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Just.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, give me a persuasion check. Give us all your shit. 19. You see, he says, Stagathy. Of course, of course. You see, he says. He.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

He says, sir Stagthy, we'll accompany you on your noble quest, as is fitting for a knight and a toy and a deer.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, he just looks sort of smiling and goes Stagthy.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

There are certain toys that I would be very unwilling to part with. But the truth is, Stagthy had fallen out of the rotation, even sort of early on. So I think he may well appreciate a little bit of time in the sun. I got better at making wheels as time went on. And so Staggarty, you know, was an early attempt. I love him, but I will miss him very much. That's a good dear.

[Thimble]

Hey, Teor, can you put him in your bag?

[Teor]

Yes, in my bag.

[Wick]

You just carry everything at your arm.

[Teor]

Keep your business.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

With that.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I think you guys have concluded your business.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Obed wishes you a fond farewell and.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Says, well, travel safely.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know what business brings you.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

North, and perhaps it's better if I don't. I am perhaps a little bit too open hearted to be involved in criminality as I am, but very few people come by here other than druids and the odd smuggler. So if I see anything, I will not mention that you pass this way. Unless you would like me to keep and mum's the word, safe travels.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And I would get moving. And the sun's still far to the.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

East, but that forest has a way of turning people around, especially as you get deeper into it. So keep on your guard.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thank you, Elvid.

[Tyranny]

Hey, for Jasavi.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You bringing up. You see, he turns, he turns around and says, what religion are you guys a part of again?

[Wick]

Never mind. Thank you for your goodness and your generosity.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You got it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I hope that someone close to you gets brought up and. He heads off.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And you guys make your way out of here. As you descend the mountain, roll a.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Luck check for me. Let me know if you get a luck check. 11 or higher. Let me know if you get an 11 or higher.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Rook is a luck check.

[Wick]

Make shit up as we go.

[Tyranny]

18.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you. As you get farther down the mountain.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Walking as you are.

[Tyranny]

You.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Feel something like a smell of sulfur and iron. And there's a smell of something powerful. Your heart starts beating in that way where your pulse is quickening. That happens before you're about to do something reckless, before you're about to tell someone how you really feel or punch them in the throat. Your heart picks up and you feel a warmth in your satchel around that knife.

[Tyranny]

Kind of hang back on the group for a little bit and just walk a little some more slowly and take it out and give it a peep.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

As you touch it, you look into the steel of the blade and you see a reflection. Red mist curls off your claws, infusing into the blade as it does. And you look down and see in the reflection of the steel, ulbid, turning the house upside down, looking for the knife. And you see, he goes, no, no, no, no, no. I can't lose anything else.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As he gets down.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And you feel something so powerful close within you as this kitchen knife becomes a magical object. Oh, fuck.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm sure it's a good one. Oh, boy. The light blaze.

[Tyranny]

I need you guys to know that I wrote. Is Brennan setting me up to steal the knife, yes or no? I'm circling.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. I'm circling. Yes. Oh, my God. You just look and there Is a.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And you just feel.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think you move back to some memory.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Of existing for the very first time. Agony, cruelty, enmity. Feeling your siblings nearby. And a voice saying, suffering is your domain. You will wear many faces. A face can change. A soul remains the same forever. And you look at the face of suffering on that gnomish man's visage as the light fades. And you are looking into your own rectangular pupils in that knife's blade.

[Tyranny]

Hey, Wick.

[Wick]

Yes?

[Tyranny]

Can you come here for a sec?

[Teor]

Sure. Sure.

[Tyranny]

I took the knife.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Wick]

You.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So.

[Tyranny]

I don't know. What. I don't know why I did it. I don't know why he was so nice. And I know that everything that you have said is very much about not stealing. But I took it. And I think that it's really important. And I don't know what's happening, but I think it has something to do with who I am.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And it's called guilt.

[Wick]

It's fine. You must repent and pray, and it will pass.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Tyranny]

I'll repent.

[Wick]

Unless we've been traveling, what, a half day now? Friends, could we go back real quick?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A half day?

[Thimble]

Are we really that far away?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You rolled an 18 on the luck check.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I think you've traveled about 45 minutes down the mountainside.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a survival check. Oh, yeah, sure.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

15. 15.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you suddenly hear talk about going back. 45 minutes is not that far away. Adding an hour and a half to this trek through woods to a place that you're going to have to look for once you even get within a.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Stone'S throw of it is not.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Maybe you wouldn't classify it as dangerous, but it's certainly not safe.

[Kadigan]

Has tyranny revealed to all of us at this point? Now that she has justwick.

[Wick]

Okay, just.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The conversation got a little bit louder as you talked about going back up the mountain.

[Wick]

Yes, we could go back.

[Kadigan]

Don't fall too far behind.

[Wick]

One second, everyone.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Hold on.

[Wick]

Hold on.

[Tyranny]

I'm asking you as my friend. Please don't tell them you want to go back.

[Wick]

Maybe one second.

[Tyranny]

He's hungry.

[Thimble]

You should have had your porridge.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm sorry, Jago.

[Kadigan]

Why do you want to go back? Did you leave something important?

[Wick]

No, no.

[Tyranny]

I took the knife.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh.

[Tyranny]

I took it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Tyranny]

I don't know why, but something is happening to me, and I don't know what you. I don't know what you know about demons.

[Teor]

Not much.

[Tyranny]

Not much. Okay. Ancient archetypal energy. They're not bad. They're not just bad, but they.

[Thimble]

No, I'm not evil.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I'm not evil.

[Tyranny]

I'm not evil. I promise I'm not. I don't want to cause pain. I'm not.

[Wick]

She's working on the evil thing.

[Tyranny]

Please don't think I'm bad.

[Wick]

It's all right. If you all wouldn't mind, we'll simply go back and apologize. Turn in the knife.

[Kadigan]

I'm gonna whistle and wait a few seconds. And Wulfric's just gonna come out of the. Come out of the brush. You take that fucking knife from that old man? Did you take that?

[Tyranny]

Yes, I did. I'm telling you I did.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give it to me.

[Kadigan]

Do you want it or not?

[Tyranny]

Can I.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give it to me.

[Tyranny]

Can I say something?

[Kadigan]

No, you give me that fucking knife.

[Wick]

Well, there's. Again, no need for swearing. Give it to me.

[Thimble]

Tyranny.

[Tyranny]

I'm gonna give you this knife. And I'm also going to tell you something about myself.

[Kadigan]

I don't care. Give me the knife.

[Tyranny]

Okay, you can have the knife.

[Kadigan]

Put it in my hand.

[Tyranny]

I put it in his hand.

[Kadigan]

I will just be clear. If my acting isn't clear enough. Katigan is fucking livid at what just happened.

[Tyranny]

I understand. I am not. I am not bad. I have an archetype that I have to fulfill. My siblings have. I'm the only one that hasn't. And I think that that is a key to it. Because I am not going to be free to do what I want in the world. Which, by the way, isn't hurt people.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait.

[Wick]

Wait. I'm sorry. The knife is key to it. What are you talking about?

[Tyranny]

Something happened. Something happened. I had a vision. I don't know. I don't know what's going on with me. But I know that demons all are representative of one ancient archetype, something that has been around for a long time. Okay. So far, I'm just having a nice time with my friend. But I'm sorry.

[Teor]

How often does this happen to you?

[Tyranny]

It never happens.

[Teor]

This is the first time.

[Tyranny]

This is the first time this has happened.

[Teor]

Did you feel out of your own control?

[Tyranny]

Yes.

[Thimble]

You just had to take it?

[Tyranny]

I don't know what came over me. I like him. I like Albert.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He was so nice.

[Kadigan]

Cadigan is just sketching a little note. It's very short on a small piece of paper, and he's gonna wrap it around the knife.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What?

[Thimble]

I'm so proud of you.

[Kadigan]

I'm a wild man, not an idiot.

[Thimble]

Strike me as the type that doesn't have any clue.

[Kadigan]

Oh, my God, what a morning. And Wulfric has a little pouch in his armor. And he puts it in the pouch, take it to the old man. He's gone. And Cadigan just stands up and he's no longer angry. And he just says, I understand what you are, but your actions are your actions. That's it. I'm going to keep on marching and Wulfric is going to go shooting back.

[Thimble]

See? All better.

[Tyranny]

I have a feeling it's going to be a lot worse.

[Teor]

What makes you say that? You said this was the first time. I mean, was it like being in a dream where you could see yourself, but you weren't in control of what was happening? I only asked because if it happens again, it's not just you and Wicked that is in danger. You compromise all of us.

[Tyranny]

I don't want to. I don't want to put anybody in danger. What I know is that it was sort of a. It was sort of like a. Like a feeling inside me that I would, like, explode if I didn't take it. And I don't steal stuff. I'm not, like, I haven't needed to steal stuff. I've been very much, like, cozy and comfy. I don't need to do any of that.

[Thimble]

But, I mean, stealing stuff is not inherently bad. It is, actually.

[Wick]

It's wrong.

[Thimble]

But don't take from someone who has nothing.

[Tyranny]

I don't know. I'm sorry. I think that whatever came over me, this probably won't be the last time it happened. And maybe we can give a signal. Maybe I can just say, like, that's a terrible signal.

[Thimble]

When I see. I'll make sure to stab you just to stop it.

[Tyranny]

Don't stab me. I mean, we got two big guys and a normal sized guy got pretty big. I will be as honest as I can. If something is happening like that.

[Wick]

This is growth. This is excellent. You came clean about something, and now it's being undone and everything's gonna be fine.

[Teor]

Your intent is heard. I think what will matter is what happens the next time you encounter this.

[Tyranny]

Oh, God.

[Wick]

You're holding off on me. I found that whenever you have.

[Teor]

We're walking again at this point.

[Thimble]

The blade is cursed. Do you think this is just me talking? Do you think we just killed Ovid?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What?

[Teor]

The blade. Your blade.

[Thimble]

I think the blade is cursed now, and Ovid's gonna die.

[Teor]

With the knife or the blade?

[Thimble]

The knife. The knife.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Teor]

Oh, red tendrils and shit.

[Wick]

Tierney. When I find myself having a Desire, a want for something.

[Thimble]

Does this mean by idea?

[Wick]

No, I. I like to push it down. I like to sort of bury it, Hide it deep within. That always works for me. So maybe try that next time.

[Tyranny]

I know that's what you do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'd love an insight check from Tyranny. And then I'd like our survival checks. You are no longer rolling with advantage. Oh, yeah.

[DSW Advertiser]

Is the sucky part insight?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Insight. Yeah.

[Thimble]

Natural 20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Natural 20.

[Kadigan]

Very nice. 19.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ooh. 19. Hell yes.

[Teor]

This is gonna come out.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

On a nat 20. And you rolled a 19 right on a nat 20 thimble. This sword on your back going through these woods. The woods are. The woods are.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I love that scene was awesome. You guys are great. It was so good. It was so good.

[Wick]

Robbie likes to yell at women and break people. That's just what he does. That's Robbie. That's not your character.

[Teor]

That's how I've always known him to be.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

What I'll say is this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

On a NAT20 survival thimble, the woods.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Come to life around you. You begin to head deeper into the dahopshony, where you see something pulsing in the life force of the forest itself. You can start to feel it. The gates to Faerie closed so long ago, but there were a few things that were powerful enough that came over that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Like. Like in the way that a picture.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Of the sun can still contain some feeling of its warmth. There are certain parts of the world that still have enough of that residual energy left that it feels like fairy is still connected to this world. The Golden Orchard. And somewhere in Dahabtioni, something must be strong enough because you begin to see in bright daylight. There are a couple orchids sitting pools.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

In the alpine rainforest.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And this is high enough altitude that you don't typically see lots of colorful plants around here, but a couple of massive purple orchids begin to open up. That a little bit of light comes from the water in the center of their petals. You begin to see that the forest here is truly healthy and well on that 19 survival check.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you saw a 20 as well.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Healthy forests smell like life and death.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There is both. For something to be truly thriving, there.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Has to be enough healthy soil. And what is healthy soil made out of? Rot, vegetation. The forest creating a cycle of life and death and rebuild over and over and over again. But I think you can smell death. Not far off, you see that there's a place where a massive tree.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The trees now are getting truly high.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Enough here that this is a place that they would harvest the masts of ships if they could get wagons and saws up this high. And how crazy the altitude is here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

One of these mighty giants of the forest fell some decades ago.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And where it did you see that the moss on it has grown up into all of these pools that you see different rainbow colored iridescent moths flying all throughout the pools of water on the moss here. And you look up and see how did this tree fall down? And you see some other fallen trees. And you realize looking at the mountain range, there is some rubble or scoring along the mountain range. Perhaps 70 years ago, a God did battle in this place. Moving deeper through the forest, you notice Thimble's fairy dust.

[Thimble]

Her light trailing behind her is a little bit brighter, a little bit more pink and orange and purple around her as opposed to the usual golden yellow.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

On a Nat 20. I'm going to give you something extra here, but I want you to pick between whether your attention is focused all.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Around and specifically thinking about Wulfric trailing behind you and thinking about the forest around you, or whether your site is.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Dedicated ahead at what you are looking for.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna say that I was looking ahead because I imagine Cadigan was doing the whole thing.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Incredible. So on that nap 20, you will not be surprised as we roll initiative.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait, what about just say spot it? Oh, no. Oh, boy. Oh, wait a minute.

[Teor]

Is this up?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is there a map coming up.

[Thimble]

Oh, nice.

[Teor]

There's a knife.

[Thimble]

Oh, that was your only weapon.

[Rocket Money Advertiser]

That's what you get.

[Teor]

That's what you get for telling the truth.

[Thimble]

Oh.

[Teor]

For being honest.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh. Whoa.

[Tyranny]

Ooh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Look at the flowers. Beautiful. Here we go. Bada boom.

[Teor]

Slide.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're going to swivel. Yes. Here we go.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Perfect. Okay.

[Kadigan]

Pretty.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So I'm gonna need everybody here to roll initiative for me.

[Thimble]

Do I roll with advantage because I'm not surprised or I just roll?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You roll straight. The four of you are going to roll with disadvantage.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Initiative.

[Tyranny]

Can I just say, this morning I cast mage armor on myself.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You absolutely can.

[Kadigan]

Disadvantage.

[Thimble]

So wait, the stats on that blade that it's just like a regular cemetery.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I will give it to you right now. I'm going to let you equip it. You have not yet attuned to it, which means that. But also he already used its little animation ability today. You will have to attune to it to get its extra magical stuff. But it is a plus one scimitar. So I will equip that with you right now.

[Thimble]

Oh, great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Bada boom. Here we go.

[Teor]

Oh, man, oh man.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Here we Go. Here we go. Here.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Here we go.

[Wick]

Soldiers. And a soldier.

[Tyranny]

I do have a weapon that I have to summon. I have a ceremonial candescent creed sword that I think is not going to do shit yet.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Lots of hell. You're going to be great.

[Tyranny]

We're going to have a great time.

[Teor]

I don't even know what we're an initiative against the fauna.

[Wick]

Bitching these.

[Teor]

Bitching. Look at that plants.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is that a sword?

[Teor]

Look at the difference between the bright.

[Kadigan]

Stuff and this happened relatively soon after sending Wulfric on his way back to.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This did not happen relatively soon. I'm going to need you to give me a survival check for Wulfrick.

[Kadigan]

For Wulfric.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Wick]

Thank you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

All right.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

15.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Wulfric has not caught up to you yet. Which is not a testament to him being in trouble. It is a testament to how fluently you have navigated this forest. In other words, your pace, even for a wolf with a 90 minute loss in has just been that you guys are tearing through the woods. It is probably this would have you were expecting to get there just in the nick of time. It's still early afternoon and you've already made it. You've been surging through the woods at top speed. The woods seem to by the way, as Thimble approaches like taking the lead places where you're going to have to hack through those vines. Oh, I guess I was wrong. They seem to have parted. It seems to be reacting moving through the woods very, very quickly. You have that weapon equipped now?

[Wick]

Yes.

[Teor]

Multi pass. He knows it's a multi pass.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and get us started here. What did we roll? Teor.

[Teor]

Teor.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

14. And then you're rolling. Disadvantage. Correct?

[Teor]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. Thimble, what do we get?

[Thimble]

Ooh, 12.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

12. Got it. Tyranny, what do we get?

[Tyranny]

14 plus 2.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

16. Hell yeah. 16. Wick, what did we get?

[Wick]

5.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Kadigan, what did we get?

[Kadigan]

I rolled a 20 and then a 3. For a total of 7.

[Thimble]

You were rolling a disadvantage, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Thimble]

Oh, everybody else was. Except for you. Oh, I see.

[Teor]

Tyranny.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh no.

[Tyranny]

Tyranny or symbol.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Quick.

[Teor]

Oh, you're a five. He's a seven.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yep. Got him.

[Thimble]

Rick is a five.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Disadvantage. Rough. Who was after Tyranny?

[Wick]

Tyranny. Teor. Thimble. Cat. Wick.

[Kadigan]

Thank you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Awesome.

[Teor]

Triple T's up top.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hey. Oh, hey. You guys see before you this forest. Approaching you is a tall plinth of stone writing. Approaching us or sorry, you approach. Approaching Stepping forward. Excuse me. One side, one side. Trail. Cat again. Here we go. Oh, my God. Tail. Let's go. Whoa.

[Thimble]

Thimble.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Look at that. Not of tyranny. Oh, my gosh. And Wick. Here we go.

[Wick]

See this man?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Official, guys. How about.

[Thimble]

She matched my nails.

[Tyranny]

Oh, my God.

[Thimble]

I'm a lot bigger than I thought I'd be.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Happy. Yeah. Yeah.

[Tyranny]

She's even got little bath.

[Teor]

Are we coming from near, you guys?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Approaching this direction, but go ahead and give me your marching order. Right around here.

[Teor]

Catty was up front.

[Thimble]

I thought I was in the front.

[Teor]

Oh, that's right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I was in the front.

[Teor]

You were activating the great.

[Wick]

Oh, God.

[Teor]

Where would you like it to go?

[Tyranny]

I don't know.

[Thimble]

Right about there.

[Wick]

You need one of those. Caddy was up front.

[Thimble]

I was under, like. Yeah, right there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And are. You're flying. So we'll call you, like, 10ft off the ground? More or less.

[Tyranny]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool.

[Wick]

Facey bets face.

[Kadigan]

Hey, what is your. Your fly speed if you're small?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If you're small speed, is it reduced?

[Kadigan]

Can you still do 30ft in the next.

[Thimble]

You know what's funny is shows my.

[Teor]

Walking speed, like, a little distance. Or right near.

[Tyranny]

Right near him.

[Kadigan]

But would the 30ft be proportional to your size?

[Tyranny]

Well, I was also just giving. Cat, I'm my knife.

[Thimble]

No, I'm really.

[Wick]

Oh, that was before. Yeah.

[Tyranny]

Okay.

[Wick]

That was 90 minutes ago.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is this the first?

[Tyranny]

No, for us.

[Teor]

For us it is.

[Wick]

For us it is.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Kadigan]

Because it happened in four.

[Thimble]

My page is not earlier than 30.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, you're walking. You're following.

[Teor]

We were on the bench 30.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible. So you guys are spreading out. Khadigan's in the back over here. As we unfold.

[Teor]

I'm wishing I was in the front now.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But you see, approaching on that 20. You're the only person who's unsurprised. Everyone else is walking. And Thimble pulling ahead. You see this plinth ahead of you.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You recognize this as a fey boundary stone.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's basically a Sylvan protection. There's a certain degree of writing on it. I don't know if you're proficient in Arcana or if you would know offhand, even though this is fairy, I speak Sylvan. You speak Sylvan. So the Sylvan you can see. You just recognize the sylvan glyph for warning. And go.

[Wick]

Oops.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And as you approach, you see in this flower right ahead, it lights up extra bright as iridescent in white light, transitioning to purple.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You see another Pixie bursts out of the flower and goes, fear not, sister.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And is going to cast sleep on tyranny and Wick. Oh. Night, night. I'm going to need.

[Wick]

This is such a lovely day in the forest.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, look.

[Wick]

Some sort of obelisk up ahead. Or stone of some sort.

[Tyranny]

I think everyone. Everyone's mad at me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I am going to need a wisdom saving throw from tyranny and wit. Oh, boy.

[Kadigan]

Yeah, it's happening.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's really happening. It's really happening. We are in combat. 7.

[Tyranny]

16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

7. Incredible. So, as this pixie erupts out of the flower, she flies about 20ft into the air and this glob of pollen and dust whips out and boom. Hits right in between the two of you. You get a full breath of it, Wick. And go unconscious. Oh, my God. Unconsciously. Yes. You have the.

[Thimble]

I think he fainted.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. Right now he just crumbled like a silk ribbon. Right now you have actually. You are not fully asleep, but you're falling asleep. You have incapacitated. Your limbs are heavy.

[Wick]

My blood sugar.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The smell of honeysuckle fills your nostrils.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

It smells so good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The moss is so soft. You gotta lie down. Yeah, there you go.

[Tyranny]

What's happening?

[Wick]

I just a little unnappy.

[Tyranny]

You're falling like a handkerchief.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Little nappy tyranny. You are next to act more my friend.

[Tyranny]

I'm not sleepy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are not sleepy.

[Wick]

Did you see the thing that did?

[Tyranny]

What?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She's about 20ft up in the air. Over. She's hovering on top of this tree right here.

[Tyranny]

Okay. Well, first tyranny goes.

[Thimble]

Hey, Thimble.

[Tyranny]

That thing made Wick sleepy and he's tired now.

[Wick]

Uh.

[Thimble]

Right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know that one.

[Thimble]

Yeah, that's what we do.

[Tyranny]

Well, can you tell him to wake him up?

[Thimble]

I'll try. Okay.

[Tyranny]

I kick Wick.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible. Good. Go ahead and give me the tack roll. You can roll with advantage. Roll.

[Wick]

2.

[Teor]

Deathly.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

2 and an 11 unarmed strike.

[Tyranny]

Uniron strike.

[Wick]

That's down.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Plus 3.

[Wick]

So 14 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

14.

[Wick]

My AC is 12.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. What is your strength modifier? Did you say 12?

[Tyranny]

Plus 1.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Plus 1, Wick. You take two points of damage as a hoof kicks you hard in the ribs and you wake up. The spell is. Ow. Why?

[Tyranny]

You passed out.

[Wick]

It's just one of those urges that you've had.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no.

[Tyranny]

Please don't hold that against me. Okay, you're up.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is your action. Any movement or bonus action?

[Tyranny]

I'd like to summon my Pact Weapon, which is my demon claws.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Nice. Hell, yes. Awesome. You get your claws erupt out of you. And you hear coming from over on the other side of the ridge, you hear demons approach.

[Thimble]

Fuck.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Amazing. You hear as a. A swarm of sprites comes straight for you.

[Tyranny]

Wiki wiki, wiki wiki.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

2, 3. They say repel the invaders of Hawthorne's Glade. Oh, we just made it to Hawthorne's Glade. You see? And they are going to take attacks on tyranny. They're going to roll three attacks in a row as they sort of strafe you with these small, little short bows. Each of them are only a few inches tall.

[Wick]

Ow.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

One of them gets a nat 20. And so right in the throat. You get a tiny little area. You take three points of damage. Literally this? Yes, literally that. Blam. You take three points of damage. Are you immune to the Charmed condition?

[Tyranny]

Ooh, where would I find that out?

[Teor]

It would be in your defenses.

[Wick]

Nope.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. These tiny little sprites who all look picture tiny dragonfly when they're wearing bark armor. They have little wood chip shields. You see, they have war paint made of different colored mud. A sort of white clay mud and a sort of blue blueberry streak on the other face. Little short haircuts. They all look like kind of lost boy. Little dragonfly, wood chip. And you see that one of them hits you in the throat.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You are immediately looking at the most.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Delightful little creature who flies up and goes, hawthorn's glade's a myth. You don't believe that.

[Tyranny]

Yeah, I don't believe anything.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are under the Charmed condition. A Charmed creature can't attack. Attack the Charmer or target the Charmer with harmful abilities or magical effects. Okay, that's all I got. Teor, that is going to be your turn.

[Teor]

Oh, my God. I'll shout out to Thimble. Do you know who these people are?

[Thimble]

Hawthorne's Glade soldiers.

[Teor]

Okay, that doesn't mean anything. I will. I'm going to run forward 35ft.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

25.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

30.

[Teor]

35. And just get up under this tree so I can see both. I'm not gonna look at the sprites. I'm gonna target that first. Yeah, that was up on the tree. And I'm gonna use guiding bolt.

[Thimble]

It's okay. Do your thing.

[Teor]

You want to be friendly?

[Wick]

He fights things. That's what he does. He's a lion man.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Teor]

Yeah. I'm sending a guiding bolt towards a thing before another swarm of pixies comes out. I will roll.

[Thimble]

Sprites.

[Teor]

Sorry, sprites. My bad. That is 17 to hit 17 is a hit. Is a hit on guiding ball. Okay, 46. This is my first guiding ball, guys.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Here we go.

[Wick]

10 immediate kill.

[Teor]

7. 17 points of radiant damage. And the next hit against it has advantage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see as the guiding Bolt moves out from you, you see that this pixie turns to look at you, leaping up and turns and sees the light coming and goes. Light gets hit by it, flies back, is not killed, but you do see is immediately knocked unconscious. You did not do more than double her hit points. But this giant smile crosses on her face as she looks at you with.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

A look of recognition.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As she flops into the tree.

[Wick]

Boom.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And tumbles to the ground hitting the ground. She suffers her first failed death, saving throw tear. That is your action. Any bonus actions from you?

[Teor]

Oh, that's a great question. Yep, I'm totally ready for all of these questions. I am absolutely going to. No, I'm good here. How are you?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm great. Great. As you look, as you hit this pixie, you hear a voice go honeysuckle. And walking out from the rocks, you've seen some delightful little fairies of the realm of Hallow. You have not seen any of the sort of darker fairies coming out from under the rocks. You see a man who's got a normal sized head on a body about the size of a doll. So like a human head on a body about that big. And he walks out. His cap is. Is the brightest red thing you've ever seen, and it is dripping blood down into white bushy mustache and beard. I'll give you this guy to take a look at. What? He kind of looks like a former PC of yours, I'm not gonna lie. Oh, he does. He's got a huge scythe.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Oh my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This is a sickle. What the hell? He should have done channel divinity. Was he hit by something, that guy? No, he's just bleeding.

[Teor]

He was calling out honeysuckles.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Now he called out the name of the pixie who just fell. You see, he looks at you and.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Goes, I'm not a nice fairy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And he starts to thunder forward. The forest shakes as every one of his boots hits the ground. And you can see that his boots are clad in cold iron.

[Thimble]

What?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He surges forward to close with you. Duh duh duh. He's going to use his speed and then dash forward. I'm going to need a dexterity saving throw from you.

[Teor]

Got it. That is 12.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is not going to do it, my friend. Sure about that? He deals.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He deals 20 points of damage as he Leaps up, kicks you in the chest. You fly back 20ft and go prone.

[Tyranny]

What the hell?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wow. As he goes up and he goes. I'm gonna die in my camp with your blood.

[Thimble]

What is happening?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're done. He'll not destroy your. Hawthorne's clean today. And I kill people every day. I kill them every day. What's happening?

[Teor]

Honeysuckle was beloved. I sent us down the wrong path.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thimble. That is your turn. No. Save us. Cousins. Cousins. Cousins.

[Thimble]

They're friendly.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. You are going to make this. Persuasion check with disadvantage.

[Thimble]

I shall get persuasion.

[Teor]

But the wolf's back, so you get regular.

[Kadigan]

Wait, I'm immediately after her. Can I do something to aid her in this at all?

[Teor]

Get naked.

[Kadigan]

Is it possible if that if my next turn. If I see us pausing on combat?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If you want to. I will say because you guys have your initiative right on top of each other. You guys can act together.

[Kadigan]

So you just screamed?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Kadigan]

Bewildered, Catagan goes, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. And I'm gonna sprint toward Honeysuckle and as fast as I can and just go and use Spare the dying on her.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, okay. This use of Spare the. Now we're gonna see here. Hell, yeah. 30ft full speed.

[Kadigan]

I got 15ft on spare the Dying, I think.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, so I'm gonna see here. If we can close distance and you're not affected by difficult terrain' cause you're a Ranger, right? 5, 10, 15. 20, 25, 30.

[Kadigan]

And then I have 15ft for Spare the Die.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm gonna do 30, right? Hold on one second. Bada boom.

[Kadigan]

I didn't see where she fell. She was on top of that tree, Right?

[Wick]

No, she's.

[Teor]

Wait, I can see.

[Wick]

See her thing.

[Thimble]

Oh, she's far.

[Teor]

She's far. I thought she's five feet short.

[Thimble]

Please.

[Wick]

Sorry.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let me stand you up. You are. I cannot believe this. Exactly 15ft away from where she is lying right now. Not movement wise because the elevation, but for spell range. You are exactly within spell range. For Spare the dying. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You move from thing disappointment to having advantage. Hey.

[Thimble]

Okay, so I'm rolling a persuasion.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You're rolling Persuasion to halt combat is going to be a difficulty. I'll call. Because damage has already happened. Because damage has already happened. I am going to say that a DC15 is necessary for them to continue to hear you out, but it will not stop combat from unfolding. DC20 stops combat immediately. On a DC25. You will, like, actually get them to move into, like, we've made a mistake. So 15 is necessary just for a conversation to happen. 30.

[Tyranny]

They suck our dicks.

[Thimble]

13.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

13. Got it.

[Thimble]

That's a. Not a 19. That's a. Yeah, that's a 10. Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

13 on a 13, you call out. If anyone has any other PC creep they want to throw in here of any other abilities or adding inspirations or anything else like that, you let me know.

[Tyranny]

I'm charmed. So I can't. I don't see anything as a threat.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Right.

[Tyranny]

I'm just doping around.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

These sprites have charmed you, but not.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Necessarily anything else in this moment.

[Tyranny]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you call out. Cousins. Cousins. You're looking around at this moment. Yeah. I think you're charmed by the sprites.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

In front of you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Any bonus actions from Thimble or Cadogan here?

[Thimble]

Cause that was a full action.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

I'll say.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's not your full action if you want, like. I'll allow that to be a bonus action. Persuasion check. We've had spare the dying here. Yeah. That's my only play.

[Thimble]

Can I use. The flowers around here? They're like, big and open.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Thimble]

I don't know what they do, but can I use druidcraft to make them light up?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You know what?

[Thimble]

To try to catch their attention. To catch the fairy's attention.

[Teor]

Go for it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But we have something here. We have a question for us.

[Wick]

No, no. Did I notice you said one of the fairies was infatuated with the light? Correct.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Wick]

As I see her. If I'm allowed to. To go out of turn as I see her sort of going. Trying to gin up some light. I can do. I think it's called celestial revelation.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Wick]

So the tattoos on my face and in fact my entire body start to glow with an angelic, divine shine. And I become a being of light.

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Oh, geez.

[Wick]

And also just emanating from me. And I'll try to step up underneath thimble flying, I guess. Sure.

[Thimble]

And maybe that happens at the same time that I make this flower light up at the same time. So it creates a bloom of magic.

[Wick]

Well, light will save us. It always does.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I love this. So I'll say this. You're casting Druidcraft. You're coming to do that. Rick.

[Kadigan]

And it is in our initiative order.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It is in our order. It is in your initiative order. That is true. I'll say. Yeah. Kadigan jumps for Spare the dying. You're jumping for this. You got a 13 on your persuasion. I'm gonna go ahead and say that if you're using your Turn to create this aura of light. And you're using druidcraft, meaning you're doing these non violent things. I'm gonna allow us to add to that roll to that persuasion roll on your turn. Thimble. If you're using your full action to do that, I want you to add a D4. You started at a 13, meaning a 2 or higher on a D4 will get you to that 15. And Sam can add to it on his turn as well.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Okay, cool.

[Thimble]

Why does it hate me?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is a one. That's a one.

[Thimble]

That was one.

[Tyranny]

All right.

[Thimble]

Listen.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I love that druidcraft. Boom. The flowers alight. There are creatures that go on initiative before you. But you can still. I will still allow you to add to that persuasion roll.

[Thimble]

Maybe you will roll so high.

[Wick]

I'm sorry. I'm rolling a persuasion roll.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But we're gonna do it on your turn. So it's not your turn yet.

[Wick]

That's fine.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cat again attacks. Spare the dying thimble. You reveal yourself as a pixie of this connected with the magic of this forest. I'm going to say we have. Khadigan has surged forward. Tyranny has been charm. Teor has been kicked prone. Stepping out from over here, you see a beautiful brightly colored fungal man. This giant mushroom steps forward.

[Thimble]

Whoa.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And looks down. I'm going to need a constitution saving throw from Teor.

[Teor]

Yes. Constitution saving throw.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

19 19. This figure overhead looks down and says.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Warbringer.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This is a place of rest and just spores cover your face. This guy's not super quick on the draw. So you cover yourself snout before any spores get in there. Just as an avalanche of fungal spores just get barfed on you. Surging forward towards you. You guys see another massive plant shape begin to begin to stumble forward. Charging. It closes with wick and tyranny, but is not able to attack. It has a slower movement speed. But you see this thing looks massive and tough. Thorny vines growing out of it. The last to act before Wick emerging from one of the trees here. Towering over. She has almost a chariot of moving thorn vines under her of briars. So you see her legs are almost. It is a chariot made of vines roiling underneath her that are also bearing her aloft.

[Teor]

Like a tank's tracks.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Like a tank's tracks. Just as she looks out and says, those who come to my blade bearing weapons seldom leave to tell the tale. She looks at you and says, are these folk under your protection?

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Huh?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Your whimpered. Yeah. Will have to depend on what Wickhelovar does. Next, you cast this ability. What is this ability that you cast to this light that you cast?

[Wick]

Oh, well, this canonically it emits inner radiance from my entire body. It causes damage to those within 10ft of me. So actually technically it would hurt you, but that's kind of all it does. It makes things bright and it hurts things around me. It turns me into a light being Wick.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Do you believe that the purpose of the light is to hurt those around?

[Wick]

Absolutely not. The light is to guide us to a better tomorrow.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I will allow you to make one of two checks here. You can make a persuasion check if you feel so inclined to continue to.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Move this in the right direction.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Or if you'd like, that persuasion check will sort of like build off of.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

What Cadogan and Thimble have started doing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Or you can make a religion check.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

In this moment if you'd like to see if the light is capable of doing something different. So it's up to you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

One of these is probably the more reliable and the other is more of a. As you're reaching for the light, you've only ever been told that this power can hurt people. Maybe it can do something different.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

It's up to you.

[Wick]

I am having a crisis of faith, as she said, which I think would mean that I would seek a religious answer. I don't know what my religion can do at this point, whether it can harm or heal. And so I will seek a relief religious answer to this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Awesome. What do you add to your religion?

[Wick]

Just a three.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Just a three. We're gonna do the same thing here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're looking for a difficulty. I will say the difficulty's move down now where 15 will be the third player character in a row taking nonviolent action. So a 10 will continue the conversation. A 15 will stop combat.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

A 20 will actually get them to heed you in this moment.

[Wick]

And just so I know is the one who just stepped out at the end there sort of the leader. Has a leader presented themselves.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This person referred to my glade.

[Wick]

Okay.

[Tyranny]

And she's got a tank.

[Thimble]

Yeah, she's like.

[Teor]

She's got some thorny tanks.

[Thimble]

Thorny tanks.

[Wick]

If possible, I will step forward. Light emitting from me and all of my tattoos just shining with radiance. I'll hold up my cane which is also sort of emitting radiance. And do I get to take an action on this or I'm just speaking with words.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Using this light based ability, you are going to see if your religion is effectively. Can you make this Gift. Do something it's not supposed to do.

[Wick]

All right, great. I will.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'll tell you right now.

[Wick]

Sure.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

This roll is very momentous.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh my God. Great. Thanks. No pressure. This is a momentous roll. About how the future of this battle.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

And therefore this adventure and your relationship and your religion.

[Wick]

I can only fall on my faith. Do you have any like some money?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, I throw.

[Wick]

I throw money at it.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

No.

[Wick]

I must go to my faith and to my teachings. The Spectral Codex Law of Echo. What you radiate returns anger, envy, cruelty. All emit dim waves. But what you beam, you become. So I will mutter that as I walk forward.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Forward.

[Wick]

And try to please her with my. It's 21.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You reach deep within yourself. You're summoning the light as you repeat these words. On that high religion check. The words come to you so easily. And you were taught these words by your mother.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

We haven't even met your mother.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I have.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

You didn't say goodbye. Is there?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Your grandmother, the fotarch, told you that.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

She never liked your mother. And didn't she say that you've been repeating these words that in some way you know are a lie? So what can they mean on a 21?

[Wick]

Well, I think they mean that the messenger might have been a liar in my grandmother. But the message contained within the words is right. That following the light can guide us to goodness.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Young boy, Sad, worried, frightened. Some play yard incident. The cruelties of young children and your mother kneeling down Iris, who believed so deeply in the creed. Wiping the tears from your face and saying, you don't have to meet darkness with darkness. What you beam, you become. And you're my little beam.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And all of you look behind you.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

As.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This clearing is filled with light. You feel your druidcraft spell escape from your own magic as the flowers, each of these flowers begins to grow as the light feeds into it. This shambling mound directly in front of you is a plant based creature of almost. No, it doesn't really have any intelligence other than befriend, you know, that's sort of its thing. It is filled with light. The shambling mound before you grows to about 20ft in height as its roots stretch into the ground. And as Hawthorne, this dryad, you see that even her, the magic coming from her hands is made even stronger as the light fills this place.

[Wick]

Vroom.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Tyranny.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You look to your side and see.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Made of pure luminescence. A pair of wings spreads from Wick's back. Holy shit. The God of the sun was killed 70 years ago, but the sun still shines. Forms break. Titles change, but truth remains forever. The shambling mound before you that can.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Barely understand what it is here to.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Defend turns to you and goes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And that's where we're going to take our break. You just became, I think of a God third. Golly, you did it. Oh, man. Hell, yeah. Oh, my God. That was a big risk. You went to your skill that had a plus three and not a plus. Whatever your persuasion is, it's plus six. Plus six. Wow. We gotta reward a risk, folks. We gotta reward a risk. Wow.

[Tyranny]

Holy shit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And we'll reward all of you at home with the rest of this episode.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

After this short intermission. And that's where we'll leave our story for now.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Part two of this episode of Campaign 4 drops this Tuesday. Thanks for listening and we'll see you.

[Game Master (GM) / Sam Riegel]

Soon for more critical role.

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