Trick of the Light | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 31 Part 2

Summary

Critical Role Campaign 4, Episode 31 Part 2: "Trick of the Light"

Date: July 7, 2026
Podcast: Critical Role

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Overview

This dense, emotionally charged episode continues the aftermath of significant events in the city of Dolmakiar, as the party navigates their city’s shifting political tides, mourns losses, and debates the ethics and consequences of powerful rituals. Secrets are revealed about their city, themselves, and the true stakes as they plan their next moves. Themes of trust, sacrifice, and what it means to belong run throughout, all set against a backdrop of magical intrigue, climactic confrontations, and deep personal loss.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Developments

1. Immediate Aftermath at Obramus Manor

(01:39–21:23)

• Wakander's Risky Visit: Wakander Haylovar attempts to gain information at the heavily guarded Obramus Manor, only to be forced by Primus Taconis into a brutal moral dilemma—slit a woman's throat or be killed himself. Under duress and charm, Wakander slays the innocent and narrowly escapes, traumatized.
  • Notable Quote:
    • “If you need me to prove myself... then, here’s my answer.” – Wakander Haylovar (18:34)
    • “My daughters cannot marry. There is no use laying with them. Their perverse tendencies are an embarrassment to our house.” – Felonious Haelovar/Primus (20:34)
• Consequence: The body becomes a zombie, reflecting the Taconis’ necromantic power.

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2. Political Intrigue and Revelations

(37:04–64:35)

• Meeting with House Einfausen:
  • Captain Naia is summoned by Otto Einfausen. With trusted allies, they present circumstantial evidence on House Taconis' necromantic ambitions.
  • Tensions rise between Otto's sons, Runebrom and Josefir, and his nephew Horondus, highlighting a fraught family dynamic and their ties to ancient bloodlines.
  • Critical Exchange:
    • “They aim to raise an army of the dead.” – Captain Naia (41:41)
    • “We are the blood of giants. Who would stand against us?” – Runebrom (56:10)
• Evidentiary Vision:
  • Murray provides an honest, unvarnished account via Minor Illusion, showing a prophetic vision of Taconis leading an army to the Underworld.
  • Notable Moment:
    • “I saw him on a boat... at the front. Trying to open a portal.” – Murray (49:12)
• Epic Persuasion:
  • On a natural 20 roll, Captain Naia secures their trust, causing the Einfausen to reconsider future alliances.
  • Quote:
    • “Inevitability is a more brittle concept in practice, I think.” – Otto Einfausen (64:12)

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3. The Street Festival & Potential Confrontation

(27:04–83:34)

• Joyous yet tense celebration erupts outside the theater after a triumphant, sold-out show. However, the atmosphere is undercut by impending threats from the Sons of the Dawn, the Sons of the Haylovar, magpies, and city guards.
• The magpie network is mobilized, and the party prepares for possible violence, only to diffuse a major confrontation through a show of unity, magical prowess (lightning strikes and magical signals), and diplomatic posturing.
• Notable Quote:
  • “May the beam guide you. And then under my breath, right back to your little fucking shit show.” – Vaelys (83:14)
• The Candescent Creed is made to retreat—conflict is averted, for now.

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4. The Gathering at Hal’s House: Reunion & Mourning

(84:20–102:46)

• Survivors regroup. The party mourns the fallen Teor and Telsadamir, tending to the bodies with care and ceremony.
• Thimble, in an exhausted, enlarged form, returns with the bodies and news.
• Cadogan, in grief, attempts a final spell of mercy for Teor: “It’s all he can do.”
  • Notable Moment:
    • “Spell vanishes into Teor’s chest.” – (103:16)
• The house swells with tension, sorrow, and the shadow of recent violence.

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5. Unraveling Mysteries: Rituals, Souls, and Shadows

(104:17–140:35)

• The party pools clues:
  • Julian’s shadow, previously unnatural, is understood to be haunted by Thiazi’s soul, cursed by disrespect at the funeral—an ancient druidic superstition turned pivotal plot point.
  • Bulair discovers that they are more "mask" than previously believed, as layers of magical artistry intertwine with soul-fabric and legend.
  • Murray reveals new discoveries on the powers and risks of soul-fabric.
• Key Revelation:
  • “Owing your soul to a fairy is not a protection—the old path is very old.” – (136:08)
• Under magical scrutiny, the group experiments with Julian’s shadow, confirming the haunting. Emotional confrontations and bitter truths emerge.

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6. The Ritual’s Consequences & The Decision to Move

(145:06–177:50)

• Mara (the rescued Druid) explains the high intentions behind the ritual: “If we could provide a place for souls... it could create the space needed for these souls.” – Mara (145:48)
• The team realizes: the flower-garden bridge they created in the theater is not just a secret tunnel—it is a beacon, open and visible to their enemies.
• The group debates their next moves, understanding that with their magic revealed, speed and boldness are critical.

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7. Splitting Paths: The Next Mission(s)

(177:50–198:07)

• Mara offers an invitation: travel north to consult with “the Professor” and what survives of “the Cloak”—the true resistance.
• Others must stay to defend Dolmakiar, dig into Sundered House secrets, and plant seeds (both magical and literal) for the city's defense.
• The group divides:
  • The new Seeker’s Table will travel toward the Golden Orchard, the next battlefront.
  • The new Schemer’s Table remains in Dolmakiar, plotting their resistance.
• Key Farewells & Promises:
  • “At a certain point, you’re gonna have to let go of my brother and deal with us.” – Vaelys to Bolaire (184:22)
  • Bolaire: “You don’t belong to anyone, and you know that.” – Hal (184:01)

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8. Cliffhangers, Farewells, and Epilogue

(198:07–End)

• Commitments are made:
  • Protect the enchanted coffin on its journey north.
  • Seek artifacts for future connections between worlds.
  • Use newly revealed networks and items (like the seed, soul-fabric, the magpie network, and glyphs) as tools for upcoming confrontations.
• Final heartfelt partings, gifts, and words of encouragement, as all steel themselves for the coming storm.
• Final Notable Moment:
  • “My brother told me to tell you it would be okay.” – Hal (218:31)
• Closing Words:
  • “The adventure continues for these beautiful, inspiring, noble and flawed and heroic adventurers. But it does not continue for us. Because that is the end of this chapter...” – Felonious Haelovar (218:59)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Highlight | |-----------|-------------------------------|----------------------------------| | 18:34 | Wakander Haylovar | "If you need me to prove myself... then, here’s my answer." | | 20:34 | Felonious Haelovar/Primus | “My daughters cannot marry. ... Their perverse tendencies are an embarrassment to our house." | | 41:41 | Captain Naia | “They aim to raise an army of the dead.” | | 56:10 | Runebrom | "We are the blood of giants. Who would stand against us?" | | 49:12 | Murray | “I saw him on a boat... at the front. Trying to open a portal.” | | 64:12 | Otto Einfausen | “Inevitability is a more brittle concept in practice, I think.” | | 83:14 | Vaelys | “May the beam guide you. And then under my breath, right back to your little fucking shit show.” | | 136:08 | Dungeon Master | “Owing your soul to a fairy is not a protection—the old path is very old.” | | 184:01 | Hal | "You don’t belong to anyone, and you know that." | | 218:31 | Hal (via magpie) | "My brother told me to tell you it would be okay." | | 218:59 | Felonious Haelovar | “...that is the end of this chapter...” |

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Timestamps for Critical Segments

• [01:39–21:23] – Wakander at Obramus Manor; forced murder, escape, and trauma.
• [37:04–64:35] – House Einfausen’s secret carriage meeting: evidence, persuasion, fate of alliances.
• [84:20–102:46] – Mourning at Hal’s house; Thimble returns, Teor’s death.
• [104:17–140:35] – Unpacking ritual consequences; shadow mysteries; emotional group scenes.
• [145:06–177:50] – Mara reveals the Cloak’s mission, explains the accidental power of their ritual.
• [177:50–198:07] – Group splits; plans set for Golden Orchard and city defense.
• [198:07–218:59] – Epilogue, farewells, legacy scenes.

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Tone & Language Highlights

• The tone shifts between heartbreak, gallows humor, sharp political insight, and intimate confessions. Players’ dialogue is often raw and colloquial.
• Black humor surfaces in moments of despair, with running gags about severed fingers, magpies, and party miscommunications.
• Emotional candor is emphasized, with confessions, apologies, and longing threaded between tactical plotting.

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Summary and Takeaways

• Moral Lines Crossed: Characters are forced into moral compromise and direct violence, highlighting the heavy cost of survival and loyalty.
• Revelations and Consequences: Their grand magical ritual, meant as a secret lifeline, is now a target—a public signal of hope and rebellion as well as danger.
• Shifting Alliances: Lines blur between friend and enemy; families and factions weigh power and necessity over personal loyalty.
• The Group Fractures and Grows: New alliances are formed, and characters face hard choices about where they are most needed—defending the city or forging new paths to restore the world’s afterlives.
• Legacy and Hope: Even in overwhelming darkness, small acts of creation and connection—magical trees, gifts exchanged, magpies relaying messages—offer hope and the sense that every action, even accidental ones, can change the world.

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Next Steps

• The Seekers will head for the Golden Orchard with the enchanted coffin, seeking out the enigmatic Professor for counsel.
• The Schemers stay in Dolmakiar to safeguard the new magical nexus and subvert enemy plans from within.
• Threats loom: As the afterlife's accessibility becomes a public fact, the sundered houses, creed, and other potent forces are sure to close in.

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End of episode.

Transcript

[Hal]

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[Wakander Haylovar]

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[Felonious Haelovar]

adventure and the world of Ahriman.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Alex said goon. We return. We return to the city of Dolmakiar in the Tanners under the skull like

[Felonious Haelovar]

edifice of Obramus Manor, leering out over this city's this neighborhood of the city.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You both are making your way to Hal's house. Got it. Vanessa, I love your work. As you are moving through the Tanners, I need a stealth check from both of you. Assuming you're trying to be stealthy. And I just want to say you don't want to beat a 20 here because there's actually a negative to beating a 20.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Not that you can control it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Not that you can control it.

[Julian]

That is going to be a 14.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

14.

[Tysha]

25.

[Julian]

25.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Great. So you are now going to be rolling a perception check with disadvantage. In other words, Julian, you're taking the side streets so well that it makes seeing the enormous hail of our carriage on its way to Obermus Manor. Like you're doing such a good job of being stealthy that it doesn't make too much sense for you to see him. So you're going to be rolling perception with disadvantage. We need the higher of these rolls to beat a 13.

[Azune]

13.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Exactly. Exactly 7. 7. It is a group check. So we take the higher. It was roll disadvantage. The DC I set was 13. So skulking through the thru back ways the Tanners again. It's where all the leatherworking and sort of rotted industrial butcheries and the bright lights of 10 Snow White horses and a teal carriage gleaming with the light of the candescent creed rocketing down the street towards. Towards the bomb arm towards Obramis Manor where you know a. What's the word from poker? A tilted primus Taconus. A absolutely unhinged, violent primus Taconus is

[Felonious Haelovar]

right at this very moment.

[Julian]

Is that Wakander?

[Tysha]

How do you know?

[Julian]

In the hail of our carriage going straight to my house.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Why would he be going?

[Julian]

I don't know. How far away are we from this character? Is it coming towards us?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see it? You see the light clipping ahead of you heading on a larger thoroughfare. So you're headed this way and it's going perpendicular but is going to bank around to the left.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Okay, faster. Faster, driver. Faster. I say.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You can say faster. The horses only have a certain speed. It's safe within the city for them to travel onward.

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Faster.

[Julian]

Say it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

If it makes you happy to say it. Say it

[Julian]

if that is Wakanda going. It's a terrible idea but I mean, we have to get a better look.

[Felonious Haelovar]

All right, let's see if it's stopping

[Julian]

maneuver to where it will be coming towards just to try and get a better look.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Effortlessly done. You guys can get in the way looking towards the oncoming carriage. Give me a perception check.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What's that?

[Julian]

5 1.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

It is a closed carriage with no windows inside.

[Tysha]

It's not worth the rest.

[Julian]

Yeah, no, it's not worth it.

[Tysha]

You should continue out the house.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

How it rolls. There you go. Incredible. You guys head off to Hal's house. See you guys later. Wicander this. That. One in five may be the end

[Felonious Haelovar]

of your character's life.

[Julian]

You shall see.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You shall see. Good luck. Don't buck it up. You arrive.

[Ad Voiceover]

I do.

[Julian]

Great.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You arrive at Obra Miss Mannai. You arrive at Obermiss Manor. The carriage pulls up. The gates are closed, but you do hear a frenzy of activity within the courtyard. Over the walls. You hear scraping and horses and things like that.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I felt that Teor is not with us anymore.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Teor has passed.

[Wakander Haylovar]

But I know who else was in the place.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Thimble.

[Wakander Haylovar]

So from the comfort of my driver. Wait here a moment. From the comfort of my carriage, I will cast message and just point it into the. Towards the courtyard. You said there was a scuffle or something.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yes.

[Wakander Haylovar]

And I will try to reach thimble. Let me 120 foot range.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I believe you point toward a creature within range.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Whisper message. The target.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Only the target hears the message.

[Wakander Haylovar]

If they're there,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

you do not get a response from Thimble.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Okay, I will try.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Octis. No response.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I don't want to talk to Julian. Julian.

[Felonious Haelovar]

No response.

[Ad Voiceover]

Shit.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Well, I should go find out. So I'll exit the carriage and go to the front door or gate or whatever it is.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You go to the front gate. The gate is closed and barred. There is a smaller servant's entrance some ways away. There's a small gatehouse next to this gate that is shuttered. Normally it would be open and there would be some attendant at the gatehouse here. But you can either knock on the giant main carriage gate or you can go knock in the gatehouse wooden door.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I will knock on the gatehouse wooden door.

[Felonious Haelovar]

After a moment, the door is open

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

and a Taconus guard has a half drawn longsword who goes.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Oh, dear, dear. May the light guide you. I am Wakander Hay Levar. I was wondering if I could talk to some of your.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The lords are indisposed.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The manor is closed for the night.

[Bolaire]

Oh.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Oh dear. Is everything all right?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see? He says, all is well within.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The lords herein require privacy.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Oh,

[Felonious Haelovar]

um.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Can I.

[Hal]

Shit.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Shit, shit, shit. What does this do?

[Wakander Haylovar]

No.

[Captain Naya]

Okay.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Please. I must. I must. I have friends in there. Colleagues, allies. I must know what's happening. Please tell me and I'll cast charm person on.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He looks and says, you have allies within.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Of course. We are all of one. Yes, I do.

[Tysha]

Very well.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Right this way.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, all right.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And he walks into the manor with you. I want you to roll a luck check for me. And you really don't want to get

[Felonious Haelovar]

a one through four on this.

[Vaelys]

Three.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Really good.

[Cadogan Vale]

You

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

walk inside the courtyard and see.

[Julian]

You.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You walk inside and you see Primus Taconis amongst a series of carriages. There are enormous crates being loaded up on the carriages. Different equipment. You see that they are using pulleys. Some of these crates seem enormously heavy.

[Felonious Haelovar]

That are going on to a wagon

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

train of about five different wagons, each with about 10 jet black horses. It's chaos in this yard. But you see Primus is screaming at Ethrend his son and jabbing a finger into the soft flesh of Etherin's cheek. As you walk up and the guard approaches with you. As you begin to walk up the guard with your charm effect on him goes, my lord Taconis, I present Wakanda Haylovar. Primus turns around and casts firebolt and kills the guard and goes what?

[Wakander Haylovar]

I take it this is a bad time.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Did he let you in? The dead God?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yes he did. He invited me in. He invited me in right away.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Then it's good he's dead. What can I do for you Lord Haeluvar?

[Wakander Haylovar]

I can see you are otherwise occupied.

[Bolaire]

I.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What brings you to the manor, Lord Halovar?

[Wakander Haylovar]

I'm just looking around as he's talking to see if I can see any sign of my friends, any sign of battle, any sign of any.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Give me perception.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

14.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

There is a blood soaked white canvas in the middle of a Druidic rune circle and it's over a dead body.

[Wakander Haylovar]

There is the shape of the dead body. I can't make out.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Can't make out. Humanoid. Doesn't look like Taylor.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Okay,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Roll me another luck check. You want a 14 or higher.

[Captain Naya]

Seven.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that? He turns and says as you look

[Captain Naya]

around

[Felonious Haelovar]

he says, what are you looking for

[Wakander Haylovar]

my lord? Forgive me. I was looking for your daughters.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Give me deception.

[Bolaire]

Deception.

[Hal]

14.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You want him. You want him to roll a six or under?

[Wakander Haylovar]

That's terrible.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You came here looking for my daughters.

[Julian]

They.

[Wakander Haylovar]

They wished. We had a lovely conversation earlier and I wanted to give them this. And I pull out one of my scriptures. This is the codex. Luminous. I was going to give them this book, but I can see that this is not a good time. And you know what? I'll leave this with you or I'll come back another time.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He swats the book out of your hands.

[Felonious Haelovar]

It's a book of filthy fucking lies and you know that. So I'll ask again and this time I'd like a true answer. What are you doing at my house, Wicander?

[Wakander Haylovar]

I speak to you truthfully, sir. I came because your daughters had

[Ad Voiceover]

been

[Wakander Haylovar]

very nice to me back at the Villa Aurora. And I wanted to repay them with a kindness. That is all.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Give me deception or persuasion.

[Captain Naya]

Your choice.

[Wakander Haylovar]

They're the same. Come on dice.

[Ad Voiceover]

13.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What was the last one you rolled?

[Ad Voiceover]

14.

[Captain Naya]

14.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So now you want to five or lower? Oh God.

[Felonious Haelovar]

That's an 18.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He's getting better.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I'm getting worse.

[Bolaire]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Um.

[Felonious Haelovar]

My daughters paid you a kindness. What sort of kindness did they pay you?

[Wakander Haylovar]

I. I don't want to embarrass them. It's not my place to say.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You've just handed me a book of your stupid religion's filthy text. It's not your place to say. You're here to evangelize. To my eldest,

[Wakander Haylovar]

I wouldn't say evangelize. I was just going to share some ideas and that. Dick, this is foolish. But surely, at least at one point in your life, you were young and flirtatious.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He puts a hand on your shoulder. My daughters wouldn't stop killing their fiancees, and so now they're not allowed to marry. And I've just discovered that my heir has had his throat slit in his bedroom by a coward who should have died. And I missed my chance,

[Cadogan Vale]

As I said.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Did you want my daughters to bed you so that their children would be true siblings? What have you stumbled into? Ah, boy,

[Wakander Haylovar]

this sounds like a really rough night for the Taconis crew.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I have an interesting thought. You're your grandmother's heir. Yes. I should have told you. And she's told you the truth of your family. You know it.

[Cadogan Vale]

Yes?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yes, we'd prefer if not many people did.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I don't know what her secrets are, but I know that she has them. And I don't believe a word of the filthy creed. So I'm interested in if you are truly Yanessa's heir or not. He holds out a hand, and one

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

of the cab drivers slides 30ft across the gravel yard. And he grabs her by the back of her head as she begins weeping

[Felonious Haelovar]

and says, slit her throat.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Has she done something wrong?

[Felonious Haelovar]

She's annoyed me. Slit her throat or I'm going to kill you.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I don't have any sort of blade or anything. I carry a cane.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Here's a knife.

[Tysha]

Oh, boy.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Come on. Spells.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He looks at you in there. He looks at you and says,

[Ad Voiceover]

Is

[Felonious Haelovar]

there anyone else you came here looking for other than my daughters? Any little birds? Any little fairies? I'm interested,

[Wakander Haylovar]

My lord. I know not of what you speak. But if you need me to prove myself to you, to spare my life, well, then, here's my answer. I'll take the knife from his hand,

[Bolaire]

I'll draw it back,

[Wakander Haylovar]

and I'll look him dead in the eye, and I will slash her throat,

[Felonious Haelovar]

Drawing the blade across her throat.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Blood pours out.

[Felonious Haelovar]

She drops to the ground, convulses. Blood soaks into the white stone.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Primus looks and says,

[Felonious Haelovar]

my daughters Are busy. I understand the sexual repression that abounds within your filthy institution. But maybe don't come and speak to their father about wishing to bed them. You may go.

[Wakander Haylovar]

You were right about one thing. I am my grandmother's grandson. I share her blood and I share her cleverness. And I do share her secrets. And if there's ever an opportunity for me to share some of those secrets with you, don't hesitate to ask.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Give me persuasion.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Slightly better.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, no, no, that's a one.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I thought it was a seven.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He looks at you and goes,

[Felonious Haelovar]

You are a fool. Though perhaps made of sterner stuff than I anticipated. My daughters cannot marry. And there is no use laying with them. Their perverse tendencies are an embarrassment to our house. Though they are proficient with magic.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

That's all.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Wakander, return to your grandmother's side.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Good evening.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He watches you walk across the courtyard. And the last thing you hear him

[Felonious Haelovar]

say is back to work. And the woman's body rises as a zombie and continues to load the carriage.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You exit Obermas Manor.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh God.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Okay, I'll get back in the cart and instruct the driver to go to Hal's house and cry my little eyes out the hallway.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Incredible. Tyranny.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You returned to the Via Aurora where you received news that the Lord Wakander

[Felonious Haelovar]

has taken a carriage out into the town alone.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

That's what you are.

[Azune]

Cool.

[Hal]

He left me.

[Murray]

I'm gonna try. Because I heard his voice in my head clear as a bell. I'm gonna try to do it back. Cause I don't know what. It sounded different than all the other times his voice is in my head.

[Hal]

Where the fuck are you?

[Mara]

Where the fuck.

[Hal]

Where are you?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Where are you?

[Hal]

Where are. Where are you?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

In the archway. You see that?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Kuhson message.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Give me a luck check.

[Hal]

All right.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

From the doorway it is now quite late at night. The Via Aurora is calming down. From the archway of one of the main gates to a side keep you hear. Who are you talking to?

[Felonious Haelovar]

And you see cruelty.

[Murray]

Cruelty. Things went so poorly. I should not have had you guys come back. I needed your back. It all worked out.

[Hal]

But

[Murray]

I should have had your back and you should have had mine.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'm sorry it didn't work out. What did? Like, did everybody die? Or some people escaped or something?

[Mara]

The Taylors are fucking crazy.

[Murray]

They killed each other.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Go ahead and give me deception.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Let me roll. Cruelty's insight first so you know the number. You have to beat roll in front of the board.

[Felonious Haelovar]

2, 6. Plus you have to beat an 11.

[Murray]

Fucking easy, bro. 11 plus.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Stuff.

[Murray]

Stuff. 11 plus persuades. Persuasion. What are they?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see, she says deception.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Deception plus 8.

[Murray]

19.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

She looks and says, what? The freaky Taylor guys killed each other.

[Murray]

Killed each other?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Why?

[Murray]

Over the mask.

[Hal]

I don't know.

[Murray]

It was. I don't know. They're up to some stuff. I don't think that we should get our hands in. Anyways, Kedogan got free and I had to.

[Hal]

I had to kill him myself.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, he's dead.

[Murray]

He's dead?

[Hal]

Yeah.

[Murray]

Oh, it's okay.

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[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, I thought you were gonna be like he escaped. Like someone kissed him before he ran out. You didn't have a lot of faith

[Murray]

in me, but I got Wick back safely, okay? Like, I need you to start trusting me. I'm your sister.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I don't have to trust you.

[Murray]

Well, you certainly don't. But we do have to work together.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah, whenever. I work When?

[Murray]

What are you doing when you're not working?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Killing people.

[Murray]

You're funny.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So Cadigan's dead?

[Cadogan Vale]

Dead?

[Hal]

Yeah, he's dead.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Do you have any proof?

[Murray]

Finger. I'm gonna eat it after.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Just don't.

[Murray]

It's mine.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Could I smell it?

[Murray]

No.

[Azune]

Come on.

[Bolaire]

No.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Fine.

[Murray]

I'm going to bed.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yeah. Do you remember there was that lady flying in the sky when we left?

[Hal]

Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

She landed and talked to the fo tark about the mask.

[Azune]

She did?

[Murray]

What'd she say?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

She said that because House Cormoray is in charge of the museum or whatever

[Felonious Haelovar]

that if we see the mask, we have to return it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And Emity already told her that you had the mask.

[Murray]

Well, I gave it to the Taylors, but they're dead.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Is it back at their shop?

[Murray]

I think it is. I didn't take it with me.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Wait. They killed each other? How did they kill each other? Like, at the same time.

[Hal]

Okay.

[Murray]

One of them put the mask on, he went fucking psycho. Put the other one up in a manacle, slit him navel to nose. And then while that was happening, Cadigan broke through and he fucking bonked him.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He bonked him. Who the fuck is Cadigan?

[Murray]

It's the guy.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Dirtman.

[Murray]

Dirtman? Yeah. He was so scary.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So he got out and he killed the other guy. And then you chased him down and killed him.

[Murray]

I didn't have to chase him down. We were in an enclosed space. But I did my thing.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Well, looks like an opportunity for cruelty to save the day.

[Hal]

Go get it, babe.

[Murray]

I gotta go to bed. I just killed a man.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Mask time.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see that? She turns herself into a Tiny little old man with an accordion and starts to hobble off down the street.

[Murray]

Hey, what's your name, sir?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Par.

[Murray]

Oh, my God, you're so bad at this.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Nobody a name.

[Bolaire]

Good luck.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I was going to think of it either way. Okay, I see she takes off. A tyranny. What do you do after that?

[Murray]

Okay, now that the coast is clear, I am going to borrow a horse, okay, and go to Hal's. Cause that's where he must be.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

That's where he must be.

[Murray]

And I am going to have quite a fucking word about him leaving me behind.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Let us then adjourn to Hal's house. You guys can step away. And let's get team theater in here. I'm a killer. I'm a killer, Coco.

[Julian]

Killer.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

That was nuts. Sam made me a killer. That was fucking nuts, dude. We return to team theater. Here you guys are out in Caravan Hill. People are playing. You have strains of Broken. Broken Wing. People are dancing and singing in the street. You see so many people coming around, rushing off and being like, well, I'm gonna go see it tomorrow night. Come with me and see it tomorrow night. And you see that Olgud comes to you. He's already hammered, and he's like, we're out of tickets. Hal.

[Felonious Haelovar]

We're out of tickets.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Hal, Hal, Hal. We're out of friend.

[Captain Naya]

Just.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Just enjoy the night.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

We're out of physical tickets. We're out of physical tickets. Like the Rolls. I have to go to our paper merchant and explain the whole lot we printed. The whole lot we printed for the run. The run. They're gone.

[Captain Naya]

They're gone.

[Vaelys]

Well, these are champagne problems.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Where's the champagne? Champagne. You see Nevada smoking this enormous. She has a cigar holder like a two and a half quart. Was a full stogie at the end. She's the best of us.

[Murray]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You hear Broken Wing, you see their celebration, but it is a rowdy, dangerous, boisterous. And you see it sort of spreading throughout. Strains of Broken Wing come out this Romyani folk song. You also see that there's a group of halfling that look like sort of halfling laborers or workers that are here from the fray that are singing what sounds like a halfling folk anthem from the Shapers War. The choruses were like 1, 2, 3, to the knees. 4, 5, 6, and someone goes to the dick.

[Cadogan Vale]

7, 8.

[Azune]

I am yelling to the dick every time.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

7, 8, 9 to the spine. 10, no more big men. And you see that being shoddy.

[Vaelys]

And I. Hal's put away the lute. And he's got out the bow round, which is like a little hand drum you'll see in an Irish pub. And Shadi and I, who both play this are with the halflings bit in the temple along.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You look out and see that there's a group nearby. Overwhelmed street patrol, which has now shifted over to being Einfausen house security. The Revolutionary Guard's been largely dismissed. You see there's a group of young Rungyani. These don't look like theater kids. These are not like the rookery crowd. These were like kids from the fray who just knew they were near the theater and came to see the show. And you see that all of them are walking along repeating this line from the play where in the very first act, one of the more comic relief characters says, welcome to our fair city,

[Felonious Haelovar]

and launches into a whole thing.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see a group of them, there's nine or 10 of these rowdy youths who walk up by these two Einfausen soldiers. And one of them goes, welcome to our fair city, sir. Welcome. And you see one of them throws a wreath of flowers around the guardsman in a way that is aggressive and says, as guests in our fair city,

[Felonious Haelovar]

I hope that you enjoy your stay.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And they all bow to these Einfassen soldiers. Enjoy your stay, guests. Enjoy it.

[Mara]

And fully just went colonizer.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I love it here.

[Azune]

I'm making that. That wreath is growing.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

But yeah, you see, it is. It is tense here. Are you all here drinking and partaking?

[Mara]

Yeah, I think Murray has just kept going and she's just talking the ear off of some pot bellied upper echelon guy. And she's just like, this is why we gotta fund the arts. You see what I'm saying? I think it's actually really important. I think I'm gonna have to go back and we're having. I always hated the Bardic show choir at the Pentevral. Cause I thought they were annoying. But I think I was wrong. I think I was wrong.

[Vaelys]

I think it's literally more important than food.

[Mara]

I am eventually though going to make my way to make my way to Izune. Hi.

[Captain Naya]

Are you okay? What's wrong?

[Mara]

No, I'm.

[Azune]

I'm great.

[Mara]

I haven't had a night like this in so long. We've been working so hard. We've been working so hard. It is so good to not do that right now. I feel so present in my body. Oh, I was gonna ask you something. That's right. I was gonna ask you something.

[Captain Naya]

Okay.

[Mara]

Where's Cadigan? At first I was like, oh, I'm a little, I'm a little tipsy. And then I was like I'm a little horny. And I was like, where's Cadigan? And then I was like, wait though, where's Cadigan? Cause he was supposed to be with us and now I'm actually starting to get like concerned and, and I probably should have been concerned like an hour and a half ago, but I'm concerned now and so I thought I would tell you that I'm concerned.

[Captain Naya]

Does he know that you were expecting

[Mara]

he was supposed to roll with us. Wait, what? I mean, if he doesn't, then he is a blind and deaf man and that is a different problem. But that I don't think. I think you're missing the point.

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[Mara]

Is he okay?

[Captain Naya]

I don't. I don't know.

[Mara]

You all were supposed to be rolling and doing patrol. Like, should we be worried?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Maybe I dropped my phone.

[Captain Naya]

I haven't seen him.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I haven't seen him. I dropped my Scarlet Murray and Azune. As you guys are having this conversation, a hand goes on your shoulder.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Azune.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you turn around.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I tense up. The Archmage Kolsturn is here. The woman you saw who was the attendant High Sorceress of four, Otto Einfassen.

[Azune]

Oh, hi.

[Captain Naya]

I turn around.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Greetings. Congratulations on the opening night of your play, Mr. Fang. Much obliged. Captain, I.

[Bolaire]

Yes?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Could we have a word?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Of course.

[Captain Naya]

I won't excuse myself from my peers. I disregard them and I will follow her lead.

[Vaelys]

I don't follow. But whatever that is finally brings Hal's feet down to earth.

[Tysha]

Yeah.

[Mara]

I don't want to be sober.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You look over yet? There's a lot of joy around here.

[Tysha]

Hal

[Felonious Haelovar]

Azane.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Lady Colsturm brings you around the corner to an enormous.

[Felonious Haelovar]

There are bighorn rams, slightly larger than

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Clydesdales, pulling a massive Einfausen carriage. That's like a double length carriage.

[Wakander Haylovar]

You.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

See her open a door and Lord

[Felonious Haelovar]

Otto is inside, along with two of his sons and the Lord Horondus.

[Captain Naya]

Okay. I give him a deep bow of my head.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You walk inside, give me insight right away.

[Vaelys]

Yep.

[Mara]

I'm watching this happen from a distance. I'm not going to take my eyes off this carriage.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see, the door closes behind him. But that doesn't mean everything, right? Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

It's just.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He's he's still there in the carriage.

[Captain Naya]

21.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You walk in and you see that Harondus is looking at you with that kind of smile of.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh good, his asset is here, right?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Lord Otto is very on that roll.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You don't read Otto, okay?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

But you read his two sons that

[Felonious Haelovar]

you haven't gotten to see too much much of yet.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

His eldest son, Runebrom. These are Ingrid's older brothers. Runebrom is about 23. He is six' one, broad, mighty. He's really stocky and muscular and he's got crazy giant runes tattooed all over his arms. He looks at you with this kind

[Felonious Haelovar]

of intense severe expression.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And next to him his younger brother Josefir, who is six' seven but way less broad and muscular. He's like a taller, slender, slenderer. He's also. Runebrom's brown hair is cut very close. Josefir's shaggier, extremely light blonde. And he's got these flint blue eyes that are behind big spectacles.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He's got a set of glasses on him.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that Runebrom is armed with a hammer. Josefir is not

[Captain Naya]

noted.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yosefir gives you a kind of warm smile, maybe a melancholy smile. And Runebrom looks at you with this intense look. But you think on that.

[Felonious Haelovar]

21.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Runebrom also seems to like you.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Just a vibe you get from him.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Lord Otto looks at you and says,

[Felonious Haelovar]

captain Naia.

[Captain Naya]

Yes, my lord.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The evidence you presented to us this morning was extremely useful. You have been a tremendous asset to the House of Einfasten and to your city.

[Captain Naya]

I am here to serve you. It is music to my ears, my lord.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Everything presented to us today was very carefully curated such that there could be no doubt armed as we were with both the candle you provided as well as the testimony of young Master Blix. In fact, the thoroughness of your report leads me to believe that you are a man of precision and accuracy. However, I am also not unworldly. And it is my belief that a detective of your status likely has very many leads, hunches, and evidence of a more circumstantial nature that would not be wise to provide in the formal context of earlier this morning.

[Captain Naya]

Of course.

[Felonious Haelovar]

However, there is a matter of trust that has developed between our house and you in a short amount of time. If you were to speak freely without the same standard of evidence. It is a matter of great interest.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And here you see that?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Otto's hand twitches to know whether you are aware of any unresolved arcane machinations of the House of Dracon.

[Captain Naya]

There are a number of ongoing threads that I am looking into and these are still developing my lord.

[Vaelys]

I

[Captain Naya]

believe based on some of these loose threads

[Felonious Haelovar]

that they aim

[Captain Naya]

to raise an army of the dead.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Runebrom hits the table and begins speaking in quick Helvarian, pointing accusatorily at Harondas. I don't know if you speak Helvarian or not, but it would be giant on your character.

[Captain Naya]

She yeah, I do not.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He speaks, gesturing with his fingers pointedly just going there's one thing you hear

[Felonious Haelovar]

which is like invite us to blow

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

like blood to reason which you think it means the blood of giants.

[Captain Naya]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

As he gestures at Harondus does look like accusatory he's pointing at Horondas. You see. Horondus raises a hand. You also suddenly puts in the give

[Felonious Haelovar]

me an insight check again in this one.

[Hal]

Okay.

[Captain Naya]

That is a 17.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

17. Horondus is in his early 40s.

[Captain Naya]

He's much older than them.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Much older than them. But you realize Harondus is the nephew of Otto. And you suddenly realize Horondus was in his late teens or early 20s when

[Felonious Haelovar]

Otto had his first children.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Which means he would have grown up his entire childhood believing that the seed

[Felonious Haelovar]

of Einfasm would have come to him.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that Harond is just speaking in Halvarion. He says the word to Konis a

[Felonious Haelovar]

couple times

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

and you see Otto says enough.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What evidence do you have of this? Again, not to the same standard, but is this a hunch or you have seen the something?

[Captain Naya]

I don't have hard evidence. I have part of our arcane investigation into the candle provided some gut feelings, some images. It was haunting, my lord. But of course I wasn't going to bring you that. I don't have any hard evidence. There was no way to present that to House Taconus.

[Bolaire]

Yes.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You saw this? Or another member of your investigatory group? My partner.

[Captain Naya]

My former teacher. I consulted her. We work closely sometimes as needed.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Otto points out and says she is here currently. I look around the door to the wagon opens.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

We're going to cut back out to you guys here. You see as this is all occurring by the way. You see that Lash has. Remina is sitting in Lash's lap and I want you four outside the wagon to give me perception checks

[Hal]

that feeling.

[Vaelys]

Natural one.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Natural one.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Great.

[Mara]

17.

[Felonious Haelovar]

17.

[Azune]

22.

[Felonious Haelovar]

22.

[Hal]

I'm out there too.

[Mara]

I just.

[Azune]

That's right.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Let's cuff.

[Julian]

Ooh.

[Hal]

All right. That's a 19 plus a million. Perception.

[Bolaire]

Perception.

[Hal]

Six. So 25.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Hell yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Velas and Tysha. There are groups of the Sons of the dawn, which is the mercenary company

[Felonious Haelovar]

of the Haylovar family, that are moving around searching.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And I think both of you guys

[Felonious Haelovar]

see that a group of them notices

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

your group and notices Hal in particular,

[Felonious Haelovar]

and they begin to move away from here, back to some other location.

[Azune]

I think Hala, who was just behind you, just marking you, you look a little unstable. Just the. Yeah, but then the deer is going to slip away and draw back. And I'm following wherever they go next. Cool.

[Mara]

Wait, where are we going? What is going on? Are we moving?

[Azune]

The deer just does that weird blow.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Give me stealth and perception. For the deer. Murray. The door to the carriage opens and the Archmage Colstrom says. Professor Magnassen, could we speak with you for a moment?

[Mara]

Yeah, yeah.

[Captain Naya]

Okay.

[Mara]

Big rams.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

She helps you up into the carriage.

[Bolaire]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Lord Otto looks at you.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I understand that you are in the midst of revelry. So take your time answering these questions.

[Azune]

Okay?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I do not wish for you to be made uncomfortable by my directness.

[Mara]

I can take it. I'm a grown ass woman.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Captain Nyar has mentioned the Taconis raising an army of the dead. I would like you to speak bluntly and truthfully about what you saw. Exactly.

[Captain Naya]

I'm going to reach out to Murray, who looks a little unsteady as she's been celebrating. I'm going to take your hand. Speak the truth as to what you saw. And I'm going to.

[Mara]

When you talk about what I saw. In which instance there's been a lot

[Captain Naya]

in my vision and I'm going to subtle spell cast, guidance.

[Azune]

Okay.

[Captain Naya]

Persuasion.

[Azune]

All right.

[Captain Naya]

Yes. You remember how well received our evidence?

[Murray]

Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

We have moved past evidence of a solid nature. Your exemplary work has earned you some trust from our house. And now I ask you to speak freely about what you saw.

[Azune]

Okay.

[Mara]

I mean, first and foremost, just like get it out there. Tool bags. The Taconuses don't like them. They're bad. I think they're bad news.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Bags of tools.

[Mara]

They are massive bags of tools.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that Yosefir and says something in Hilvarien.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Do you speak giant?

[Mara]

I do not.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Cool.

[Mara]

Speak dwarvish.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Hey. You see in this moment that

[Felonious Haelovar]

Otto says. I'm not asking you to opine on your opinion of a sundered house. I'm asking you to say what you saw.

[Murray]

Right.

[Azune]

Right.

[Mara]

I forget you all are still gotta play nice above the table. No offense.

[Felonious Haelovar]

So like you Marie, you need to

[Captain Naya]

get to the point.

[Mara]

All right? So here's what I Saw. I think he's gonna go on, like, a little cruise. He's gonna go on, like, a little sailboat trip, which I feel like so many men do when they start reaching, like, midlife crisis.

[Captain Naya]

I squeeze your hand.

[Mara]

Okay, so basically, he's gonna, like, go down to the underworld. And I saw him on a boat, like, at the front of the ship, like, full sailing with a hull.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I am asking you to say what you saw.

[Mara]

He's. I'm telling you, he was on a boat going to the Underworld and he's. He had a bunch of paladins, like, guarding him, and he's. And he's, I think, trying to open up a portal. I think. I think he's trying to make an.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Not what you think, what you saw.

[Bolaire]

Fuck.

[Mara]

I'm gonna cast minor illusion and show him what I saw. I'll make it. Do a little play.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that? Yosefir scratches his chin and says in Kahadi for you to understand.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The professor believes that all of us play nicely with each other. That's our reputation, Father.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see that?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Otto nods.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

They begin speaking in Halvarian again. Valis.

[Mara]

I know.

[Hal]

Am I anywhere near where I could

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

make Everyone here feels the ground shake when Otto gets in.

[Mara]

Okay, let me pull up my fucking notes. By the way, my vision, including the

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

crowd, it's so noisy that everyone's like, oh, weird. Was that a big something or whatever? But, Vaylis, you notice that something's happening in that carriage.

[Hal]

And they're closed in the carriage.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

They're closed in the carriage.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What was that?

[Azune]

Something in there.

[Vaelys]

And Tysha's still here. But you sent your deer.

[Azune]

Yeah, the deer dropped back.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

All right, you go knock on the carriage door.

[Hal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, boy. The lady, Coldstrom, opens the door and

[Felonious Haelovar]

says, the guests will be out in one moment and closes the door.

[Hal]

Oh, is everything okay in here?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

It is.

[Felonious Haelovar]

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[Captain Naya]

Right in here,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

you hear the Lord speaking in Helvarion.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Do you speak Giant?

[Hal]

I will say in Giant. Very well. Have a good evening.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

All of them whip to, turn to

[Felonious Haelovar]

look at you and nod their heads and wish you a good evening in Helvarion, which you understand is the language of giants.

[Azune]

Do any of them recognize. Wait, because we all met in reason. Gretel, right?

[Hal]

We meet.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, that's correct. I think Otto, did we meet?

[Hal]

Bella, we didn't. I don't think we met, boys. But we met. We know, Otto.

[Bolaire]

Yeah.

[Hal]

So. Wait a minute.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Hold on.

[Hal]

Sorry.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So you see, Otto looks up and

[Felonious Haelovar]

goes, what the blazes? What are you doing in Dolmarkia?

[Hal]

I came to see a play. The play tonight?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yes. The arts.

[Hal]

Yes. Big fan of the arts.

[Azune]

I still love him.

[Mara]

Me too.

[Hal]

Me too.

[Vaelys]

Baela's in the carriage now.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You're standing in the doorway. Yeah. You're still outside.

[Hal]

But I will say in Giant. Is everything okay here?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah.

[Hal]

Murray? Huh? Are you okay?

[Mara]

I'm gathering my thoughts and people keep talking.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that? The Lady Coldstrom says, it is a

[Felonious Haelovar]

pleasure to see you again, Lady Velis.

[Hal]

You as well.

[Felonious Haelovar]

She turns and looks and says,

[Tysha]

my

[Captain Naya]

Lord, I'm so sorry to interrupt, but it surprises me that you know the person that knocked on the door. This is actually someone I was potentially considering as a recruit. Since you were Asking me to expand.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that? Lord Otto actually looks over and says.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I actually he says. Could you come inside for a moment, Bayless?

[Hal]

Sure.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He says, when is the last you saw Octus Taconis?

[Hal]

This morning.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Where? Here in dolmarkia?

[Hal]

Yeah. How come.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He is being searched for not by us?

[Hal]

Could you be more specific?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Never make a request of me again. You are not asking the questions here. You are a guest in my carriage. Comport yourself with respect.

[Hal]

Apologies.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I have forgiven your sloppy dwarven friend because the ale has taken her mind. You, I believe, are sober.

[Mara]

Mine's still there. It's doing great.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He turns to you, Azune, and says,

[Felonious Haelovar]

the vision shown to me.

[Captain Naya]

Yes.

[Felonious Haelovar]

This is correct. Yes.

[Mara]

Do you want me to keep going with my little movie? There's more.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see, he looks over and says. Looks at several of you here and

[Felonious Haelovar]

says, it is true. If that is correct and Captain Nyah

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

says it and this is happening at Bayless, only you can understand what they're saying as they speak in Helvarian. You see that? Horondus holds his hands up and again, only you can understand this goes.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Says it is not. I understand you shook his hand, uncle, but we can't.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What resources would we use to actually

[Felonious Haelovar]

make a stand against the Takona?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see that? Runebrom shouts, and once again, we are the blood of giants. Who would stand against us? The faded power of a dead God?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Or the blood that runs through the heart of this world?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see Yosefir, Give me an insight check, Vaylis.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I love it here.

[Hal]

Oh, damn it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh no.

[Hal]

It's a natural one.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Natural one. You see? You see Otto, you see that? Otto goes enough on that one. He looks directly at you, knowing that you speak Helvarian. And you see, he goes, that is enough. Yosefir says once again. You see, Yosefir is speaking in Kahadi.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And I think you recognize he doesn't

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

like to speak a language. There's a politeness to him.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He doesn't want to speak a language. People who don't speak.

[Captain Naya]

Right.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He speaks up and says, father, Father. He killed his son. He killed his son. For the benefit of our house. Would you do the same,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Otto?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Otto says, thank you for your time, Captain Naya and guests.

[Captain Naya]

My lord. May I ask you one question, please?

[Felonious Haelovar]

You may and a second.

[Captain Naya]

During the Shapers war, how many Einfastens fell at the hands of the Taconis?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Runebrom straightens his back up and looks at you. And Harondas looks at you. Give Me? Persuasion.

[Captain Naya]

I'm gonna use that luck point. I'm gonna use a heroic inspiration to reroll one of those. Can you see what that is?

[Felonious Haelovar]

What is that? What is that?

[Vaelys]

That's a natty 20.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, no.

[Captain Naya]

Dude.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

No fucking way.

[Julian]

No.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh my God.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, my God indeed.

[Azune]

It only took 13 tries.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yeah, yeah, got it.

[Hal]

Jeez.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that? Otto looks at you and says, Captain, remain a moment.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Lady Valis. Professor, you are excused.

[Mara]

All right.

[Captain Naya]

Don't let go of my hand. Okay.

[Mara]

Help this carriage.

[Hal]

I help.

[Mara]

Thank. Thank you.

[Hal]

I help.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that as you leave. As you say. How many Taconus were felled?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Otto looks.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that? Runebrom begins to speak in Helvarian and Yosphir elbows him and he just speaks

[Felonious Haelovar]

in kahadi in front of you and says, we were side by side with the Cormoray and the Royce against the gods.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

4,000 years. The children of giants relegated to kneel

[Felonious Haelovar]

before those who sold their souls to the shapers. This world is ours, father, not theirs.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see that? Yosefir just straight up rolls his eyes at his older brother and says, no

[Felonious Haelovar]

good can come of following the Taconis, Father. They have already shown their hand nothing. They will stop at nothing. There's no reason for this. They slaughtered the Royce.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The only reason they did not slaughter

[Felonious Haelovar]

us is because we retain our power. What happens if that fails? There are no more giants walking the land, but the dead grow more by the hour.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see that?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Parondis just looks and says, if we stand against the house Taconis, we will spend every last coin and every ounce of blood to possibly survive that war. And watch as Kahad solves the problem of the Barodels and rules over this world for the rest of time. We will be a third rate power forever. The Taconis, devious though they are, disgusting though they are, have the magic we need for this alliance to work. There is no other option, uncle.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see that?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Otto touches his hands and looks at

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

the Lady Colsthurm, who then goes,

[Felonious Haelovar]

My lord, the Taconis are nigh omnipotent, which is why they were able to destroy the house of Royce completely. And she smiles. And Otto goes. What is it Kirzingblad said? And you see that?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The Lady Colsturm speaks in sylvan, says something in the language of House Royce, and then goes. And then goes.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Of my many gifts to you, the first Lady Royce, the first and greatest of all is luck. The Royce. Yetliv, I think we have made an Error, my lord.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see that Otto looks out, looks at Horondus.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Write a note of apology to Lord Taconis. We acted rashly. All smiles. From now on, while we gather our strength in secret, Yosefir prepare an envoy to what remains at the Golden Orchard. We will offer our understanding and our aid to the nearly gone house of Royce. He turns to Rune Braum and Harondas. I do not think the time is right now that when the time is right, we crush the skull. And he says, Captain Naya, thank you for your time.

[Captain Naya]

Thank you my lord, for trusting me with such a responsibility. Does this change the assignment that you gave me?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Lord Horondas is your superior. Follow his orders.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that Runebrom looks at you

[Felonious Haelovar]

and claps a hand on your side and goes Blood of giants. You are a good man for talking sense into my stupid cousin.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see he points right at

[Felonious Haelovar]

Harondas and calls him stupid in front of you.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

On that NAT20 persuasion, Horontus is not mad at you. That one line you said caught him off guard. But you don't think that he's.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Why did you remind them about the dead Einfaassen?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He's just like this guy is a true believer. He loves House Einfausen. It occurred to him to say that fucks my game up. But no shade, right? And you see that Josefir says, Captain

[Felonious Haelovar]

Naia, you are a steadfast and loyal servant. Thank you very much for the time and effort it took to compile this in such a way that it was unavoidably certain.

[Captain Naya]

I still worry. Condus is powerful. Everything dies. Angels, demons. They linger in the space in between for some time. They're the only House that rules over that. We're at their mercy. All of us.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see, Otto, as you say that

[Felonious Haelovar]

on the end of that NAT20 persuasion, you say the perfect thing to make Otto's back rise. Yes. Inevitability. A more brittle concept in practice, I think.

[Hal]

And.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And Lady Coldstrom smiles and gestures out of the carriage for you.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I leave.

[Azune]

Just kiss him on his bald head for me.

[Hal]

Love so much.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Let me get the perception in stealth for Hala. 11 perception 17 stealth 11 perception 17 stealth. Hala stays hidden. But on that low perception it is not like as you guys rejoin Vaelys

[Felonious Haelovar]

and Murray and you rejoin Nah. 20 persuasion. Jesus.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You guys rejoin the table. You guys see a battalion of. A battalion of sundered of Sons of the dawn are coming along with members

[Felonious Haelovar]

of the Gray Battalion.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Some Revolutionary guard. You would recognize this not as Arcane marshals but as part of the honor

[Felonious Haelovar]

guard for of the Revolutionary Council

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

are approaching. At the front you see Zabani Haylevar

[Felonious Haelovar]

and Oscuro Melanti, who is the arch preserver of the Archonaut. Like the leader of the Archonaut.

[Vaelys]

I think Hal has like a split second tug at his brain to just melt into the crowd to totally change his appearance and vanish. But I can see my daughters here. I can see all the people

[Felonious Haelovar]

living.

[Vaelys]

And instead I just smile and walk to meet my friends in the open.

[Azune]

I want to slide up to you because that's what Hala saw and I saw what she saw. To let you know. And if you want to grab anyone and get out of Dodge. Does it look like they are rallying to go somewhere or do something?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

They're approaching this tavern.

[Vaelys]

Yeah. Instead I interlace my fingers in yours.

[Azune]

How do we get ahold of the mercenaries that were in the theater? I love a street fight. Let's not let them get to the tavern, Azuna. Okay.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Hey.

[Vaelys]

Years in the making far exceeded expectation.

[Azune]

I am so proud of you. They're not going to ruin this night. I'll catch up.

[Vaelys]

They couldn't ruin this night.

[Azune]

And I'm gonna give you a kiss on the cheek. And I'm gonna drop back and find Azaneh.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Helya.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Are some of you intercepting the group

[Felonious Haelovar]

before they arrive at the tavern?

[Azune]

Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Tysha, you head out. Ahzane, are you accompanying her?

[Azune]

I'm following you immediately.

[Captain Naya]

Yeah, I mean if I'm out, I'm trying to keep it together. Slightly rattled.

[Mara]

That was crazy.

[Azune]

What happened?

[Mara]

Did you see how big that goat is? The biggest sheepies I've ever seen. Those goats, the rams. What happened? What did they say?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I'll explain later.

[Mara]

I pet the goat a little though.

[Captain Naya]

No.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see the Einfausen carriage heading for

[Felonious Haelovar]

the top of the city? They're headed back to Riesengerl right now.

[Captain Naya]

Let's join.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Where are the others?

[Mara]

They went to the. I don't know, I saw them whispering. I think shit's about to go down.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'm looking around.

[Captain Naya]

Are there any of the guards around here a part of this revelry?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

There are magpies everywhere.

[Captain Naya]

There are magpies everywhere.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yep.

[Captain Naya]

I'm going to go to the nearest one and I'm going to put my hand on his shoulder and I'm just going to speak the words that we have been sharing and tidings always.

[Bolaire]

For a friend.

[Captain Naya]

I think I might need a friend.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Do you need a couple?

[Murray]

Yes.

[Tysha]

Got It.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And you see, he peels off into the dark.

[Mara]

I take another minor illusion, make a magpie and just go to make it follow after him and start flipping through the crowd.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yeah, you can feel it happening already. This is also. You see, Tyche, you're going to be able to intercept them with plenty of time because it's so, as you said, it's a grand processional. It's a huge party. So even this group of Sons of the Dawn Ein Phos in security and

[Felonious Haelovar]

the Revolutionary Guard Honor Council, or Honor

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Guard, is having to pick their way through. It's like coming through Mardi Gras. People are going fucking nuts. So Tysha, Azune, Murray, Valis, you guys intercept them.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Correct.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you feel magpies nearby. You're staying back. You see that? Shadia looks over at you and says, where's mom going?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Is everything okay?

[Vaelys]

Come here, give her a hug.

[Hal]

Mm.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Hey, what's up?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

It was great.

[Vaelys]

Great night.

[Felonious Haelovar]

It was a great night. One for the record books.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yeah, sounds like it. We made like just on tonight. We're basically. If we have nights, more nights like this, that's.

[Vaelys]

That'll be pretty impossible to top.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

It's gonna be awesome. And you see, she looks out at where Tysha is and you can see

[Felonious Haelovar]

the sword at her side and she

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

looks like she wants to go, but you're hugging her.

[Vaelys]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You can give me a Persuasion if you want.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Call it a difficulty of. Call it difficulty 2020.

[Vaelys]

It's well beyond an hour since the end of the play at this point.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yeah, I think so.

[Vaelys]

Okay, so charisma gone or Charisma bonus? Gone. For persuasion, you say?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yes.

[Vaelys]

27.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

She stays with you and smiles and

[Felonious Haelovar]

is just here with her friend.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Hero's here as well. Tysha, Weather check.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What's that?

[Azune]

Weather check.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Quite stormy.

[Azune]

Cool is my call. Lightning.

[Mara]

I was gonna say, is my skywrite of the magpie still in the sky as well?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yes, it is.

[Mara]

I'm gonna take that. I look at Tysha, I'm gonna take that, and I'm gonna just swirl the clouds a little bit with that call lightning. You see a bolt of horizontal lightning cracks through it and it lights up the bird even further. And I'm just gonna start bringing it down a little bit. Once again, anything to start signaling the rest of our magpies. Have you heard anything from the rest of our group? I'm starting to get nervous. Thought I would have heard something from them by now.

[Azune]

Not yet. Stay with hell.

[Mara]

All right, you. Have you heard anything?

[Hal]

No. Fuck. Tysha. We sent Hanan to go to find Mara.

[Azune]

Yeah.

[Hal]

So.

[Azune]

Okay. Okay. That was what Tysha initially said to do forever ago. So that feels normal and good.

[Hal]

Okay, well,

[Azune]

we just need to regroup again. We know we're supposed to eventually get back to house.

[Hal]

Yes.

[Mara]

We can't stay out partying all night.

[Azune]

Yeah, I'm gonna break up this little street fair that's building and then I'll drop back and meet you there.

[Hal]

Do you need any help? I got it.

[Azune]

And then there's that first crack of lightning that strikes the ground.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

As lightning strikes the ground. Is anyone peeling off from this?

[Mara]

You said stick with Hal.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Mara]

What are you doing?

[Vaelys]

I am not fleeing. I actually urge Shadi to go hang with Elodie. And Hero.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yes.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Elodie gives you a big kiss on both cheeks. I mean, exceptional. Absolutely exceptional. My grandmother. Listen. And also with those ticket sales. My God, talk about a worthy investment.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You were marvelous.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And just because you weren't on stage

[Felonious Haelovar]

doesn't mean that I did not see every part of that on stage is the easy part.

[Vaelys]

We'll count the books tomorrow. I don't want the girls partying all night.

[Cadogan Vale]

Could you.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, and you can leave before it gets too rowdy. What, so I'm not allowed to party all night?

[Vaelys]

You can do anything you want. You're a grown ass woman.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I am a grown ass woman.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that? She goes to collect the girls outside. Tysha. Lightning hits the ground and all the crowd goes, oh, whoa. Because there's no rain falling, it's just sort of crackling. And people do that and then start laughing nervously. But the battalion approaching you suddenly stops faltering in their footsteps. You see Felonious Haelovar looking enormous and

[Felonious Haelovar]

airy, has two dogs, wrath and Judgment. There Zobani is to his side and

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

you see Oscuro Melanti, who immediately recognizes you. Oscuro looks confused for a moment and he's someone that has groveled and kneeled time at same the of your family for so, so long. You know, like. So you see they're walking up. He's got the council guard. Azani, are you side by side with Tysha?

[Captain Naya]

No, I'm going to actually step forward. And as soon as I see them approaching, I'm going to move ahead and let myself be known and kind of put myself in the way, in between the group and them.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Gotcha.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The group makes Tysha. Arch Preserver is there as you are walking up. You see, Philonius looks over to you and you see that the battalion splits in this weird way Where Oscuro starts approaching you with his four honor guard and the larger Sons of the dawn battalion walks over. Felonious makes a beeline right for you. Vaelis. Velas, Marie. Are you with Tysha or are you with Azune?

[Mara]

I'm gonna also hold back and let Izune do his guard thing. But I imagine we're all kind of squatted up, but a little in pockets.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Vaylis, in your perception check.

[Ad Voiceover]

Okay.

[Hal]

And I would be near. I would be getting near Tysha.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Cool.

[Azune]

Dropping a bolt behind the guards now just so we're aware about who's flanking who.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Gotcha. You drop a bolt behind the.

[Hal]

17.

[Felonious Haelovar]

17.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

As that lightning bolt flashes. This is like an outdoor. This is honestly kind of a New Orleans block in that there are balconies, second story with tables on them. As that lightning goes off, a bunch of people that look really sloppy drunk aren't as sloppy drunk as they look. And their coats and robes are over heavy crossbows.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Those are your guys Magpies up on the second story.

[Mara]

Fuck yes. Great. Fuck yes.

[Captain Naya]

Cool. With this commotion as I'm seeing Felonious and if he's approaching me, I'm going to start approaching him.

[Vaelys]

I'm going to look up as that

[Captain Naya]

lightning flashes, kind of turn around and look behind. I'm going to cast guidance on myself.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Cool.

[Captain Naya]

Deception. And I turn to meet him.

[Vaelys]

Good man.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Is this a good man on the inside?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Zobani looks over at him as he

[Felonious Haelovar]

says man on the inside. Almost like. Don't say that out loud.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see a squirrel? Melanti walks up to you and says. Ms. Lor.

[Felonious Haelovar]

How unusual but propitious to find you here. We are here to arrest your former partner, Hallendil Fang.

[Azune]

Why?

[Felonious Haelovar]

He's responsible for the theft of the Pariah Blades from the Argonaut.

[Azune]

He is not.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He.

[Felonious Haelovar]

How do you mean? Sorry? He. The Pariah blades are missing from the arcana. From the vault.

[Azune]

He's flying.

[Hal]

Oh.

[Azune]

Do we have a problem?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I'd like you to give me intimidate with advantage.

[Captain Naya]

And. Did that declaration of the arrest. Was I able to hear it or is that.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You heard it?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Partially. 1919.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see? He looks

[Felonious Haelovar]

and he goes. I am so very sorry. We were informed of this by our benevolent benefactors in the house of Haylovar. And there has been a misunderstanding.

[Azune]

Go in peace. One more lightning bolt behind them he goes.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Understood.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Is there any paperwork of the Loy

[Felonious Haelovar]

family withdrawing the Pariah Blades from the

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

generous loan to the Arcanade that we can expect just in the weeks or months to come.

[Azune]

We can discuss this in the morning.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He turns and starts making over. Felonious comes and says, the man Fang

[Felonious Haelovar]

is a bastard and a liar and a sinner. You see Zaban, he says he stole the Pariah blades. We told the Arch Preserver and we're here to throw him in in irons. But you can't do that, my lord.

[Captain Naya]

You are undermining. If I'm going to be your inside man, then you have to let me

[Felonious Haelovar]

do the job through the proper channels.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oscuro Melanti walks over in this moment. Go ahead and give me deception, if

[Felonious Haelovar]

you'd be so kind to me.

[Hal]

Yes, I'm going to start hearing a little bit of the conversation with Tysha. I'm going to start making my way back towards Hal and Shadia Lod, even though they're on the way, but I'm gonna start going back towards Hal.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Awesome.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You filed back towards Hal. What's your exception?

[Captain Naya]

Check.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He got nervous, I got nervous. So I didn't.

[Captain Naya]

But I got a three on my guidance.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, no,

[Captain Naya]

that's a one.

[Felonious Haelovar]

That's a nat one.

[Mara]

Wait, what was that for? Perception.

[Captain Naya]

That was for deception. Natural one.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Natural one. I do you have a luck.

[Captain Naya]

I do have a luck point, but I've been rolling them. I've been calling it first.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I will say I have been home ruling it with other players with the

[Felonious Haelovar]

luck feat that they can roll after.

[Captain Naya]

Don't gotta tell me twice.

[Wakander Haylovar]

DM.

[Captain Naya]

That is a 27.

[Felonious Haelovar]

27.

[Cadogan Vale]

Cool.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that? Oscar Melanti comes over and approaches Felonious

[Felonious Haelovar]

Haelovar and Zabani and says, my Lady Haelovar, there has been a misunderstanding. Mr. Fang has procured the Pariah blades with the consent and advisement of the Loi family.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see? Zabani goes, horseshit.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He did.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see that?

[Azune]

How far away is this conversation happening?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Give me a perception check.

[Hal]

Plus 8.

[Azune]

21.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You hear it? You hear Zabani say, horseshit. Do we have a problem? Zabani turns and strides right over to you. She says

[Felonious Haelovar]

a request was made of Hallendil Fang to revise some of the more indecent.

[Azune]

And what does that have to do with my family's blades?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see, Oscuro's eyes have gone so

[Felonious Haelovar]

wide and he says, my Lady Haylouvard, this complaint of yours was not shared with me prior to coming here.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see, she says, enough out of you, bureaucrat. And turns around and. And Oscuro goes, the Archonaut has no complaint nor the great Tower with any of the goings on herein. And snaps his fingers and says with me. And the honor guard of the Revolutionary Tower is out. He just starts leaving. And you see that Zabani turns with just these Sons of the dawn mercenaries behind her.

[Azune]

How many?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

There are about 40.

[Azune]

I'm going to look just past her and smile.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Um,

[Felonious Haelovar]

Nothing to do with your swords.

[Azune]

Okay. So what's the nature of the problem? It's been a very long day and the weather's turning.

[Felonious Haelovar]

It's very lucky you're here to speak on behalf of your family, to whom we owe so much for ridding the world of idols so that the true light could shine.

[Azune]

You're welcome. Now go in peace.

[Felonious Haelovar]

She looks over at her light.

[Azune]

Shine on you and I'll call down one more bolt of lightning right next to you.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

She looks.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Go in peace. And please tell Mr. Fang we'll be seeing you.

[Azune]

I don't deliver messages.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Well then we'll be seeing you. In the hearts and minds of the fine people of Dolmachyar. And she turns with Felonious as they are turning.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

That's awesome.

[Hal]

That's so cool.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

My baby daddy.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He had a big day. Hal. You see this entire thing unfolding and there is a moment of storm as

[Felonious Haelovar]

this candescent battalion is walking. All the lights and candles.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see all the people that are here. Just normal people like Romina, who's like laundress and actors and workers and laborers all looking at all of the ringiani in this place.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The candescent Creed walking, looking with this sinister sneer. And you see those young kids who are saying welcome to our city. And there's a moment of them gleaming, towering over them. The wind kicks up and a bunch of the candles extinguish one crash of lightning. That final one. And all of the eyes peering with darkvision at these interlopers in their city quandesscent. Creed sees for a moment. They should be afraid. They are hopelessly outnumbered. Creed leaves this space.

[Vaelys]

May the beam guide you. And then under my breath, right back to your little fucking shit show.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The Creed peels away. Incredibly handled and averted encounter, everybody.

[Mara]

Yes.

[Hal]

Damn.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

With that, the revelries conclude.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And we are going to, I believe,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

move to Howl's house. We gotta go to Howl's house. Gotta go to Hal's house. Great. Let's do it.

[Vaelys]

I was getting ready to talk, but you're just too good at tower defense.

[Murray]

Yeah,

[Hal]

I am.

[Mara]

Welcome to the schemers table.

[Captain Naya]

I know.

[Julian]

Yay.

[Mara]

That was very schemerly.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

That was very schemerly that as this

[Captain Naya]

was going on, I made sure not to be standing shoulder to shoulder with them.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

No, you were separate.

[Captain Naya]

Good. Separate.

[Tysha]

Neutral.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You were very separate. Very, very separate. Okay, cool. No, that was their only play was the Pariah Blades and Tysha.

[Mara]

Yeah, you're talking about the sword my

[Azune]

daughter's holding right now.

[Mara]

I'll kill everyone.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'll kill everyone here. Let's get the whole gang in.

[Hal]

Hello.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Here in the rookery, in the home where we started some almost two weeks ago at this point with the Farav of Thiazi Fang.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The first person to arrive here at Hal and Dielfang's home is Cadogan Vale.

[Cadogan Vale]

There's an open window. They trust their neighborhood. Big old sack full of goodies in first, second Wulfric poof.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Up, through, in. And then ha. One pinky less right hand pulls himself up another ha.

[Cadogan Vale]

Tuck and roll. Where the fuck is everybody?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You arrive, it's dark in here, no one's here.

[Cadogan Vale]

I immediately smash my shin on the coffee table.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Wulfric hangs out for a little while. Shortly after you hear a wagon pull

[Julian]

up,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

someone opens it up, rolls a

[Felonious Haelovar]

barrel to the front door, opens the front door, rolls a barrel inside.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see there's a young orcish like delivery person who goes, oh, so delivery apples.

[Cadogan Vale]

I'll sign for it, right?

[Tysha]

Right here.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Thank you very much.

[Azune]

Apples.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I just make an X.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Take an X.

[Tysha]

See?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He leaves it. He closes. He closes it and leaves. And a moment later, the thing of apples pops open. And you see Misha Undergore, who's supposed to be here under house arrest,

[Julian]

who

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

snuck out to see the play. He looks up and he goes, how?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, hello.

[Cadogan Vale]

Who are you? Apple person?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'm Misha. I'm the dramatis arcana of the hallowed round. I'm under house arrest, but I escaped briefly to see our opening night.

[Cadogan Vale]

I believe anything you told me.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, I saw you at the wake.

[Cadogan Vale]

Your Cadogan Vale.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Cadogan.

[Cadogan Vale]

Nice to see you.

[Ad Voiceover]

Pleasure.

[Cadogan Vale]

How the plague. Oh, I was supposed to be there, but I missed

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

was a barn burner. Oh, it was you. You think that a tragedy wouldn't get people so riled up, but they were. They were jumpy.

[Julian]

I'm.

[Cadogan Vale]

I'm sad I missed it. I'm not much of a man of the arts, but I saw a puppet show six months ago that really stuck with me.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You, as you said, as you say that at an extremely, I think that moment. Thinking about timelines here.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Timelines, timelines.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Momentarily after you, I think you Hear thudding footprints and octys and Julian arrive

[Felonious Haelovar]

at the house next.

[Tysha]

Yeah,

[Julian]

you can also on the way, a little bit of watery dark liquid has started kind of leaking out of the side of octos mouth.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Ew.

[Julian]

Is anyone else here?

[Ad Voiceover]

Sukum.

[Cadogan Vale]

Welcome to my home. I live here now.

[Julian]

I'm sure Hal will be terribly excited.

[Tysha]

Living up in the world, I see.

[Cadogan Vale]

What the fuck? Are you two and dude together?

[Tysha]

It's been a night.

[Julian]

Is anyone else here?

[Cadogan Vale]

Me and Apple person.

[Julian]

Who the fuck is Apple Person?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

See, Misha Undergar leans out and says, oh, evening.

[Tysha]

Sure, whatever.

[Julian]

I actually don't know your name.

[Tysha]

So where's Hal?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Should I make some tea?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Are we expecting company?

[Julian]

I think so.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'm under arrest here.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I can't leave.

[Tysha]

Where is Hal?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, yeah, I assume he's out having a drink before heading home. But it's big. Big opening night.

[Tysha]

Close the windows as others arrive. Hopefully there's trying not to call too much attention. Schumann.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Are these your. Are these your things on the table? Should I organize these? Are you gonna be eating here?

[Cadogan Vale]

Supposed to be a demon. Come scoop them up later. But maybe we can put them in a corner for safekeeping. I'll eat and drink anything you've got.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I'll put them in a corner.

[Tysha]

Let me be very clear. Celebrate as you must. The Taconis may be on the warpath. Lights low, windows closed. Be vigilant.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You got it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And you see that he. He turns over and says, all right.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Cleaning up.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

They said a demon is going to get this.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah, our friend.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, yes, yes, yes. You see, he starts moving stuff off into the back. And you see, he goes, all right.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Moving this fabric.

[Hal]

Hmm.

[Felonious Haelovar]

This is interesting. What the hell, Belair?

[Ad Voiceover]

Oh.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You are standing in Hal's home as Misha Undergore puts the mask on his face. Oh, no, no, no.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Ad Voiceover]

That was a.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Don't break him.

[Bolaire]

One moment. We will get into what I say, but I'm going to make it very pleasant inside of.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yeah, inside your black box theater. You see, Misha goes, I knew that

[Felonious Haelovar]

paradise would be a theater.

[Bolaire]

I've given him full access. Anything he dreams and writes and performs, he will be enjoying. There will be whatever play he wants to be in, he's going to be in right now. I'm going to leave him to his privacy.

[Hal]

God.

[Vaelys]

Does that mean we're seeing Balaire mask on elder green with, like, white hair?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Okay, yes. So it's just. There's no finery or wig. It's just Misha Undergore wearing the Baler mask.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yes.

[Vaelys]

Okay.

[Bolaire]

Utterly appropriate.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

As you guys thunder in. You guys hear a horse approaching tyranny, you arrive next.

[Murray]

Where's Wick? You made it. Oh, my God.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, okay, great.

[Bolaire]

Say not a bloody word. What?

[Hal]

I don't know.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I haven't seen him.

[Mara]

He's not.

[Murray]

He's not the Aurora we did.

[Hal]

He left.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What?

[Julian]

We saw a hail of our carriage heading towards.

[Azune]

Oh, hello.

[Julian]

Hi. We saw a hail of our carriage heading towards my house. We didn't see who was in it.

[Murray]

But why would he do that?

[Julian]

Well, to be perfectly fair, it couldn't. It could have been any of the Hail of Oz.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

God, he is so fucked. I'm so fucked.

[Tysha]

If he was a Helovar stupid enough to head towards that manor tonight, it would be Wick.

[Mara]

Oh, is there a drink on it?

[Cadogan Vale]

Off to the kitchen.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

There's about a half drunk bottle of Yargrass in there.

[Murray]

Yes, my favorite.

[Cadogan Vale]

I'm like Tom Cruise in Cocktail Babette.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, you're still bleeding.

[Vaelys]

You put the yard grass on the floor.

[Cadogan Vale]

His butterflesh wound.

[Ad Voiceover]

Here you go.

[Cadogan Vale]

For you,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Shorike.

[Mara]

A turkey.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Shortly thereafter, you guys hear more hoofs approaching. There are more hoofbeats approaching as a

[Felonious Haelovar]

hail of our carriage pulls up to the house.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Wicander you arrive at Hal's home.

[Felonious Haelovar]

No,

[Wakander Haylovar]

I'll knock.

[Murray]

I'll get it.

[Bolaire]

Go.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What the hell? Why are you bleeding?

[Captain Naya]

Give me your hand.

[Julian]

Wait.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You're bleeding in my legs.

[Julian]

Get him inside before you start.

[Hal]

It's not his blood.

[Julian]

Get him inside before you start yelling like.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Tell me what you tell your carriages.

[Mara]

This is horrible.

[Hal]

No.

[Murray]

You have to tell your carriage that you aren't here. Oh, my God.

[Mara]

Why would you have a condescent carriage come to here? Why would you do that?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I don't know.

[Ad Voiceover]

I needed to come here.

[Julian]

Would you please get inside?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Sure.

[Ad Voiceover]

Hello.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

May the beam reach you.

[Cadogan Vale]

Wilfrid trots up to Wick and starts like dogs do, licking at his tears.

[Wakander Haylovar]

This is Wulfric or you?

[Cadogan Vale]

What?

[Julian]

Honestly?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Could be either. It's Wulfric. Good dog.

[Murray]

Why are you covered in blood?

[Ad Voiceover]

I killed a woman.

[Azune]

What?

[Wakander Haylovar]

I need a drink. I think.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Alcohol.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yargras.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Here you go.

[Murray]

Your favorite.

[Ad Voiceover]

No.

[Hal]

Why did you.

[Murray]

You went to the Taconuses.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Did you kill.

[Ad Voiceover]

Wait.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Primus.

[Tysha]

Here.

[Wakander Haylovar]

You're here. You're not there. You're alive.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Where's Thimble?

[Julian]

I don't know.

[Wakander Haylovar]

You left her.

[Julian]

I didn't leave.

[Tysha]

She left us. We had to flee. There was no other way. If fate is with her, she will show. If she does not, she won't be the first we've lost this night.

[Cadogan Vale]

She'll be fine.

[Tysha]

She's with Teo.

[Julian]

Technically correct. The first.

[Bolaire]

The first we've lost.

[Tysha]

There's much to discuss as at this point, Julian is looking through the windows and looking to the sky.

[Julian]

Octys is just sitting on one of the chairs. Just slumped in a chair.

[Tysha]

Very different energy from a lot of other arrivals here. It is an intense. The jaw is clenched, the eyes are flicking about and keeping high to the sky and the horizon for any signs of dark streaks.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What you and Octis witnessed in that

[Felonious Haelovar]

courtyard speaks of a level of danger that very few have seen anywhere in this city tonight. Not immediately thereafter, but shortly thereafter, those who were celebrating in Caravan Hill do arrive.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So, Hal, Tycha Murray.

[Vaelys]

Is the hail of our carriage parked right out front?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Would you have sent them home or would you have told them to stay?

[Wakander Haylovar]

I guess I should go tell them.

[Tysha]

Send them the fuck away.

[Wakander Haylovar]

All right.

[Azune]

Do we see the carriage home?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Would you have done that immediately or would you have he brought it here?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Probably not.

[Azune]

I put a lightning bolt through the carriage.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Incredible. Do you want to put a lightning bolt through the carriage?

[Felonious Haelovar]

On the part.

[Azune]

Not where the driver would be.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Not where the driver would be.

[Azune]

Through the back axle.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The lightning bolt hits the axle, disables the carriage and you see the driver

[Felonious Haelovar]

sprint off into the night.

[Mara]

Uh.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Tysha.

[Julian]

Hal.

[Vaelys]

I would smash through the door. Why is there a Haylovar carriage outside? What?

[Wakander Haylovar]

It's mine. Sorry. It's my ride.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, Jesus.

[Vaelys]

I think Hal spots Bolaire on Misha. What is this? What is this? And I'll push.

[Bolaire]

I'm fine.

[Tysha]

It's fine.

[Vaelys]

I press him down to a couch. This isn't a thing. Why is this a thing?

[Bolaire]

He's fine. I just need someone to rest for a moment.

[Vaelys]

For how long? This is not a thing, Bolair.

[Bolaire]

I'll be leaving in the morning. I promise.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Is he all right?

[Bolaire]

He's fine. I will be leaving in the morning. I will be leaving in the morning.

[Mara]

Who are missing? Who's not here yet?

[Hal]

Where's Thimble?

[Tysha]

We're waiting on and Taor.

[Julian]

We're waiting on Thimble.

[Tysha]

We're waiting on Thimble.

[Julian]

Teor isn't leaving my house.

[Mara]

Is he still alive? Do we need to go rescue him? When? Where's Cid?

[Julian]

Also with.

[Tysha]

There is a chance.

[Hal]

You left Thimble there.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Thimble left Thimble there.

[Tysha]

Him. We had no other choice. We have. And I kind of gestured towards oxy and be like, tend to your exhausted charge, please.

[Julian]

Yeah, actually, someone wants to take this from me. He pulls Mara out of his jacket.

[Azune]

I'll immediately grab her.

[Mara]

And I grab Octis. And I look at Vaylis.

[Hal]

Yeah. I'm gonna walk over.

[Mara]

Sit down. Considering Baler and I were the ones who originally performed the ritual with the Stone of Night Song. Can I check him out?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Knowing Give me Arcana.

[Murray]

Okay.

[Mara]

Nope, nope, nope, nope. That didn't count. That didn't count.

[Julian]

That's incredible.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Icky.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What is it?

[Mara]

18 total? I rolled a seven.

[Julian]

Oh, that looks like a one from my angle.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

It's a seven on an 18. It's not the best on an 18. The stone of Night Song. You don't gain any special insight.

[Felonious Haelovar]

But he's moving. He's animated.

[Julian]

What are you doing?

[Captain Naya]

Why?

[Hal]

What?

[Julian]

What?

[Mara]

Valence, you want to explain? Where's that yard grass?

[Hal]

I'm gonna just go over and just check him.

[Julian]

Why is everyone touching me?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You haven't coming in your hands.

[Azune]

Second level cure wounds. 24 hit points.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Incredible. Go ahead and give me a medicine.

[Captain Naya]

Check with that.

[Julian]

Why is everyone touching me?

[Mara]

The Stone of Nightsong has been sundered.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Mara]

It was an incredible thing. Created a. A bridge.

[Julian]

That makes sense. I understand now.

[Mara]

It created the first bridge to the afterlife, but Vaylis sacrificed it to make it in Anchor, so.

[Ad Voiceover]

Oh.

[Mara]

We weren't sure how you would be doing.

[Tysha]

Julian makes eye contact with Octus and kind of nods. That moment.

[Azune]

Why?

[Tysha]

Looks back out of the window. Takes the R grass from. Takes a sip.

[Mara]

How are you feeling?

[Julian]

Oh.

[Mara]

Have you seen anything? Did you have any visions?

[Julian]

No.

[Mara]

Did you connect with another plane?

[Julian]

No. I just. I think I had a. What resembles a heart attack for me now. But I'm fine now. You can see the liquid remnants that are still staining his face that he spit up while that was happening. The unfortunate.

[Ad Voiceover]

Yes.

[Julian]

When you shattered it. Which is now I understand to be why I had an intense racking full body pains and then managed to push my way through it. So I assume I'm fine. At least currently. You can definitely see their puncture wounds and things through him as he has taken a lot of damage in the fights. I have very low hit points right now.

[Hal]

Did you see Hanon?

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Hal]

We sent him there.

[Julian]

I do regret to inform both you and Tysha that Hanon is dead. My father spoke the words to kill him. Hanan walked right up, right up to my family's front door, knocked, and then proceeded to do a ritual to cleanse the place of undead.

[Tysha]

If anyone gave themselves for a chance for both Thimble and Teor, it was him. At which point Julian looks out the window. Is there any sign, any possible sign of Thimble or Teor?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Thimble. The river leads, rushing through the mountains away from Overmiss, falling into Lake Nahami. Lashed as well as you could in the short amount of time you had, you fly over the river down to the lake to find lashed to their belongings, Cid and Teor, amongst the reeds on the far side of the lake where you once again hoist them over your now broad shoulders. After you resume that form and have the exhausting experience of running, a thing you rarely have reason to do up the entire length of the Covarossi mountainside to to find a stealthy path without traversing the city that happens to lead you to the first path to the rookery that goes right by Thiazi's grave. Roll a constitution saving throw for me.

[Azune]

Move with your legs, not your back.

[Hal]

19.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Stewarded on by the fairy magic now coursing through you from these bracers you. Have. You run for the better part of two hours straight, Julian. You look out and see a humanoid figure approaching you don't recognize with unconscious or dead bodies, one over each shoulder, approaching Hal's front door.

[Tysha]

Open the door. Open the door. Quick.

[Captain Naya]

I'll open the door.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

All of you watch.

[Felonious Haelovar]

A human sized thimble without wings walks into this gathering space with the bodies of Teor and Telsadamir.

[Vaelys]

Brightside Thimble.

[Hal]

Lay the bodies down.

[Wakander Haylovar]

No.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What the fuck?

[Cadogan Vale]

What the fuck is this? What happened? And Cadogan's gonna run over to Teor and this is a man with meager magical abilities. And out of desperation he's just gonna cast spare the dying. It's the only thing he knows to do. Like he tried to do two weeks ago to test the Ozzy.

[Tysha]

But this time it's not a test.

[Cadogan Vale]

It's all he can do.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Spell vanishes into Teor's chest.

[Azune]

No.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What happened? What happened?

[Hal]

I was too late.

[Azune]

They.

[Hal]

They were overtaken. It was too much. I'm gonna pull out the sword. And hand it to Julian.

[Tysha]

Julian's face, the weird distant emotional tensity fades at recognition as he slowly reaches out with his goblet in hand and accepts it.

[Hal]

They won't be able to desecrate him again.

[Mara]

I don't want to.

[Hal]

I couldn't leave them there. I should have. Yeah.

[Mara]

I'm sorry. Desecrate who?

[Hal]

They. They brought him back.

[Julian]

Who?

[Hal]

Who? His father.

[Azune]

It was awful.

[Tysha]

I take it he was responsible for. Of course

[Julian]

they went the wrong way. They went into the wrong part of the catacombs.

[Hal]

They never made it to the statues. It was my fault. Statues.

[Julian]

It wasn't your fault.

[Hal]

I'm gonna go over and hug Octus.

[Julian]

He just wraps his arms around you and just like, just starts losing it. I was so worried about you.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Why are you big?

[Azune]

I don't know.

[Mara]

I'm gonna go in. I'm gonna go to like get a wash basin and some rags and warm water and start basically handing out towels to everybody and start getting everybody more cleaned up and freshened up, especially to Octis.

[Tysha]

Julian hands you the bottle of Yoctis.

[Cadogan Vale]

Kadigan's going to go over to the corner where the soul sheets are and pull one out and to pull two out and drape the mobile cat. Get him sick.

[Hal]

Thank you.

[Mara]

Are you all right? Where were you? Where were you sick?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Are you okay?

[Mara]

I start wrapping his finger.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I got tricked.

[Julian]

I'm going to go over and attempt to assist Cadogan in preparing just cleaning them. Doing what I know to do to bodies.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The cleaning of each other. As Murray produces these washcloths very quickly turns to the communal task of repairing and honoring and washing the bodies in

[Vaelys]

almost exactly the same position that my brother laying. A little over a week ago, we met and started with one corpse. And now there are two.

[Mara]

Three if you count the druid, Hammond Hanon.

[Hal]

He didn't make it.

[Julian]

No. My father killed him on the spot.

[Hal]

He helped me get out.

[Julian]

I. We were watching.

[Azune]

You were there.

[Julian]

We were on the wall.

[Hal]

You were supposed to leave.

[Julian]

I wasn't gonna leave you in there. You don't know what it's like there.

[Hal]

I learned. I learned a little bit.

[Mara]

Well, please tell me that this wasn't in vain.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He got Mara back on a 16 medicine check. And with 24 points of healing, she will have the benefit of a long rest probably in the next 30 or 45 minutes. So she'll clear a level of exhaustion and be able to wake up.

[Azune]

She'll be fine.

[Julian]

We got the thing to help Julian's sister.

[Tysha]

Julian shakes out of his momentary thought process and both reaches into a pouch and produces a dark colored gem in his hand and glances over towards Murray.

[Azune]

All right. Yeah.

[Mara]

If there's anything, I'm going to mage hand it because I don't know what this is.

[Julian]

In the middle of the cleaning of the corpses, Arctis stops and. And snaps his fingers using his last prepared spell slot and pin pops back into existence. Reforming after being blown up.

[Hal]

Oh, he's so little.

[Julian]

Okay, everyone's here.

[Mara]

I'm going to take a minute to ritually cast identify.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The soul of Alba Divinos is contained within this wraith's gem.

[Hal]

Them.

[Felonious Haelovar]

If it is brought back to her side, a remove curse spell can be cast and she will be restored to the fullness of her health.

[Mara]

She can be brought back. It's not a magic that I possess though. It's more commonly a Dakona's magic.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

But

[Mara]

I can certainly help and try and ask around. You need her body though.

[Tysha]

As far as I understand, she lies in the remnants of the Golden Orchard. She's still there with Erinessa.

[Julian]

It wasn't fully destroyed. There is still some little bit there.

[Mara]

I may chain the stone back to you. What about you all? How was the little family meeting?

[Murray]

Well, I don't know what happened with you. I had to go get Cadigan from the Taylors. I learned some things about the way the Candescent Creed does business with the Teconises and what they're doing with soles. This doesn't seem like a super appropriate time to show you guys the bikini I made out of sole fabric. But it's sick as fuck and we learned a lot about how it works. Golden boy over here decided to go rogue. And presumably to rescue everyone from the Taconuses.

[Julian]

Was that what? Of course.

[Ad Voiceover]

Quick.

[Captain Naya]

You were in trouble.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I could feel that Teor was in trouble and assumed that the rest of you were as well.

[Hal]

How did you know Teor was in trouble?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I felt it.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I don't know quite how, but he was connected to the lights somehow. And I think I could feel it when he.

[Captain Naya]

When he fell.

[Vaelys]

Who did you kill? You said you killed the woman.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know her name. And it's just one more innocent person who's died tonight because of me.

[Julian]

Why? Why did you?

[Wakander Haylovar]

To save myself. Your father can be very persuasive and.

[Julian]

Okay, frightening. That wasn't your fault.

[Wakander Haylovar]

It was. I could have done the honorable thing and just taken it.

[Tysha]

There is no honor in the face of Primus, Dakonis.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yes. There's no honor in any of the families. It seems. We witnessed their meeting and they're all. They're all in on this together.

[Hal]

They've all got here.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yes. All of them.

[Azune]

Understood.

[Wakander Haylovar]

They've all got schemes and designs on different lands and different magic and different super weapons. But it's the Haylovars and Taconis that are Working together above all.

[Julian]

Of course.

[Wakander Haylovar]

And I'm afraid they're stronger than. They're stronger than us. They're stronger than me.

[Tysha]

We're all stronger than you.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yes.

[Murray]

Hey, next time you go for a rescue mission, could you just do us a favor and wait for me? It's my job to be there for you. Thimble. You should know that the candescent Crete is very much aware of you and is going to be looking for you while everybody here.

[Azune]

Yeah, and they tried to arrest Hal tonight.

[Hal]

They did. Mm.

[Mara]

Emphasis on trad.

[Murray]

I feel like you're more visible now.

[Hal]

Well, then I'm big. Yeah, I don't have to be big. And I'll go little again. Oh, your voice.

[Murray]

I feel like your voice changed too.

[Hal]

I was just trying out. I was just trying it out.

[Murray]

Sounds strong.

[Ad Voiceover]

Thanks.

[Wakander Haylovar]

They don't seem to be aware of Azune or Veelis.

[Hal]

No.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Well, Bolair, maybe.

[Mara]

Azune.

[Murray]

Bolair definitely no.

[Mara]

Azune's got' em wrapped around their finger a little bit. You wanna share with the class about our little carriage ride with the Einfossens?

[Captain Naya]

Um, yeah,

[Mara]

because I'm assuming based on the timeline of what you all are talking about, that this happened after the meeting. And so there has been some developments on the alliances within the sundered houses.

[Captain Naya]

There is still an alliance. They favor the way that they can all benefit each other, but they are certainly not friends. I guess they understand that eventually they're going to have to take each other out, but. But the time is not now for that. I do think that there's a potential to continue to distract them with each other, but to turn them against each other and create an all out war, that's going to be really hard. They understand that their casualties are not worth that kind of effort.

[Ad Voiceover]

Well, we.

[Hal]

We do have King Gus on our side.

[Captain Naya]

We do.

[Hal]

I'm gonna pull out the seed again.

[Captain Naya]

We do.

[Hal]

We need for this to be planted. Where did I pull it from? You don't know.

[Mara]

I don't know.

[Wakander Haylovar]

You have a pack.

[Azune]

You're so strong now.

[Hal]

It's like a backpack, you know? This is.

[Murray]

I just got like bags dangling from

[Hal]

my body as I fly.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Okay, drop niggles.

[Julian]

Apart from the obvious. Is everyone all right?

[Mara]

I had a great night. Sorry, I've had a lot to drink. That's probably pretty insensitive of me. But genuinely, I feel like you all should know that our efforts were seen tonight at the theater.

[Hal]

It.

[Mara]

It wasn't. It did manifest in. In a positive way. All of our planning and thinking

[Azune]

the Azie built a bridge.

[Hal]

So it was good.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You guys see that? The falcon in Tysa's arms, as you say, built a bridge. Flutters,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Flops to the ground.

[Azune]

So I'm gonna give her some yargas.

[Julian]

Bird cough kindly.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Somebody say bridge.

[Julian]

Oh. I wasn't actually expecting you to be able to talk. That was a surprise to me. She's a Druid. I. I know, but the second bird form. I thought maybe she's just bird. I could talk with her.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Aussie?

[Azune]

I don't know the Aussie.

[Captain Naya]

Mara,

[Hal]

how long have you been captured?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, sugar, I don't know. Am I dead?

[Julian]

Not yet. Oh.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh God. I couldn't land.

[Julian]

Yeah. We. We came and got you.

[Hal]

Oh.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Are you big or small?

[Hal]

Right now I'm little.

[Felonious Haelovar]

She goes. Oh, are you?

[Hal]

Oh.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And you're the kid. And you. You went and got the coffin. And you. One of the things that pissed me off the most about working with Diazzi is he would not let me meet you.

[Hal]

I saw you.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You did? I saw. I was probably a little hotter when you saw me. I kind of look like a bird these days.

[Hal]

Yeah.

[Vaelys]

And kneeled down by her. I'm Yossi's brother.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You're in my home, Mr. Fang. Thank you very much. I count myself honored to be a guest.

[Vaelys]

Welcome. And in that word, I'm going to hit her with healing. Word? Uhuh.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Even before I landed, I flew here. I flew to Dakar straight from the old empire. Halfway across Venatus. I had.

[Azune]

You left your nuts at the well.

[Julian]

Yeah, we saw.

[Felonious Haelovar]

No, now hang on a minute. I didn't leave. Between me and Thei who you think brought nuts to the holy site.

[Azune]

Fair enough. Fair enough.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I ain't got pockets.

[Azune]

That's on me. My bad.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You were there in. Well. Oh no. You didn't go to Tanasar when you went to go to Pascard?

[Azune]

It's been a long week.

[Julian]

It's been a couple weeks.

[Vaelys]

I'm asking were you there when the Aussie died?

[Hal]

I was.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I'm so sorry. And you see here. She looks at Teor and Cid. Doesn't seem to have any recognition for them. But you see looks at the shrouds over them and says I'm sorry for your loss then and I'm sorry for your loss now. If rites need to be conducted then I can.

[Azune]

I'll take care of it. You need to rest.

[Felonious Haelovar]

No, no. I didn't have resting up.

[Mara]

You should rest.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Did he? Can I ask something to you, Mr. Fang?

[Vaelys]

Of course.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Did the Ozzy have a way to get out.

[Vaelys]

Boy, that is the million gold question, isn't it?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Cause I saw the rope snap and I saw him there. I flew straight down and I didn't take care. I didn't take care to land in a way that I. Did he hang because he had no choice or did he hang with a way out?

[Mara]

Honestly, Mara, we were hoping that you could enlighten us a little bit on that.

[Julian]

Theoretically, he had a way out.

[Azune]

Theoretically, he's not down there.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

They didn't give him the scar.

[Julian]

No.

[Felonious Haelovar]

So you be aware he did have the scar.

[Azune]

Oh, did he?

[Felonious Haelovar]

He had it on his chest.

[Azune]

Yeah, he had the scar. But

[Felonious Haelovar]

how do they not. How do they not have him? How did they not have him?

[Azune]

If he didn't, he's somewhere else.

[Julian]

We're not sure.

[Felonious Haelovar]

That wily piece of. Sorry, I don't mean to speak ill of the dead.

[Vaelys]

No, we all knew him and saying the same things. Trying to piece together the puzzle.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I saw the AZI look up at me. I was supposed to be in the reaches. I was supposed to have flown through. Easiest way to get to the reaches is to go to the old Taconus homelands in Obra Demia.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And I got there and I couldn't pass. Taconis must have caught wise. We knew that we were fraying around the edges. I and suddenly see that she looks back and looks at a large group of people and she realizes she's talking very openly.

[Hal]

We all want the same thing.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I was supposed to clear away. I was leading the charge. I was supposed to get on the other side and make things ready. And Thiazzi was supposed to get there a safer way. Not coming with me. I was gonna be on the ground for a while and I couldn't get through. And I knew that they had our number.

[Julian]

Just so we're clear, you mean the Aussie was getting to the other side?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yes, but he was gonna be working with a fellow we know to do that in a way where they could can come back. That's something that used to be effortless for me to do, but takes some more preparation to do it safely. Or rather, as is the joke I tell everybody, anyone can plane shift to the underworld, it's plane shifting back this hard. So the Azzy was gonna do it the careful way where he and our associate could come back. And when. When I got stopped at the border, I knew that they had our number. I flew straight to.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

If you.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Well, if you made it to Tanasar. Was pass card successful?

[Julian]

Passard is dead.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I. I told. I stopped in Vanas. I told the drowned men, you got to make it to Tanasar. When I was being rebuffed at the order, I had visions of that fucking obelisk in the ground there. And I said, this is all bad. And I came straight to Dul Machiar, thinking, I'm going to find Thiazi. I'm going to find our friend and we'll get to the Underworld, the Heart. I won't be able to make things easy for us when we get there, but we'll all just go together. The way. If it's safe for him to go, I can go that way. And I got here in time to see him at the gallows.

[Hal]

And he saw you?

[Felonious Haelovar]

He looked up and he saw me.

[Hal]

And then what?

[Felonious Haelovar]

You think he thought he had a way out?

[Cadogan Vale]

He.

[Hal]

You mean he died on purpose?

[Julian]

I.

[Bolaire]

He had a way out and he took it. I'm tired of this.

[Julian]

He had a way out of the situation he was in. We didn't know he was trying to go to the other side.

[Cadogan Vale]

For anyone who was at the execution, a handful of us, if I recall. So this had been a minute.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah.

[Cadogan Vale]

Weren't his last words, if I remember them, to be fear, Almost fearful?

[Tysha]

Fearful?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He had a lot of swagger and then he saw something in the sky and he got scared.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yeah.

[Azune]

Why?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Mara looks and says, if he had a way to escape the gallows, which I know he would have wanted to do because of what we needed to do on the other side. But if he saw. He saw me.

[Azune]

No.

[Julian]

And he didn't take it.

[Azune]

No. The plot was foiled.

[Wakander Haylovar]

No.

[Captain Naya]

He didn't even try to break.

[Mara]

He didn't break the cookie. He had a spell, Cliff, and he didn't break it.

[Captain Naya]

Didn't even try.

[Julian]

So he let himself be killed to fix the problem that you encountered.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I should have fucking joined him. I didn't know. I thought maybe he just died. But he saw. Yeah.

[Captain Naya]

Why do you think he didn't break the glyph? Why would he choose to not take the way out? Yes, we know that it was hijacked, but he didn't.

[Julian]

He wanted to go to the other side. If I'm reading this correctly, him seeing you told him that your way had failed, and so he took the way he had.

[Mara]

It's quite a very quick snap decision in such a high pressure moment.

[Julian]

Correct.

[Hal]

He made fast decisions.

[Tysha]

He was a gambling man.

[Mara]

Can I insight check her? Mara Inside check something's. Something's not Feeling right.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Just roll a 20.

[Mara]

Guidance. Yeah, just roll a 20.

[Julian]

Yeah, that's how we solve all our problems.

[Vaelys]

Just do it. Okay, now roll the 20.

[Hal]

All right. 20.

[Azune]

20.

[Mara]

No, but not bad. That is going to be dirty.

[Ad Voiceover]

20.

[Azune]

Ah, colors old fashioned way.

[Mara]

Yeah,

[Felonious Haelovar]

it's hard to read a wild shaped druid's face.

[Hal]

She's a bird.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

She's a bird. But you see that there is a

[Felonious Haelovar]

nauseating look of self loathing that she is going. Yeah, that's what I should have done too.

[Mara]

Where are you from? Recognize your accent,

[Cadogan Vale]

sugar.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I grew up on top of the Sunset mountains.

[Mara]

Rich girl.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Rich girl.

[Felonious Haelovar]

No, no, not the top level. Actually on top of the mountains.

[Bolaire]

I'm a farmer.

[Mara]

Oh, I'm from there too.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You see, she goes, I'm recognizing the voice. Not that you can tell by looking at me, I'm human. But the Sunset Mound's always been really kind to my family. She says, I don't know why. Thiazi, I can't tell you for certain. And if he's not, if he's in the underworld and the Taconis don't have him, then I don't know. I don't know nothing. This was supposed to be our plan. It was supposed to work. And the Ozzy should have been. What kills me is that if I had had the gumption to do what he did. But then again,

[Mara]

if you would have done that, then you wouldn't be sitting here with us right now and it would just be you, a singular bird on your singular bird mission. And now you have a dozen people on your side.

[Hal]

Now we can go after him.

[Murray]

Did you know they don't have him?

[Hal]

The Taconuses don't have him.

[Murray]

He's hiding.

[Captain Naya]

Do we have any idea where or how to find him?

[Julian]

Well, we do know that some semblance of my father's plan on the other side.

[Hal]

I'm going to pull out the rolled up spear of ship papers.

[Tysha]

Julian sees this and snaps out of his stair outside the window and reaches into the inside of his doublet and pulls out papers that he had found in the chamber where he got the gem.

[Cadogan Vale]

Oh fuck, we got books too.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh yeah.

[Cadogan Vale]

I'll go into the sack in the corner and pull out whatever we have from the tailor shop and. And thump it on.

[Tysha]

All of it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Tons of candescent demon Sharavi stuff. You see all this different demonic script writing about the hail of ours being involved in the soul trade. Matt, I'm going to give you. I wish I had this on a tea stained Parchment?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I don't.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Because we've been doing this fast and furious.

[Tysha]

That's okay.

[Julian]

I have it on a tea stained car.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

There's several letters. Some of them seem less important than others, but you find one here from Korath. There used to be a letter he was composing for his father prior to maybe that curse advancing or getting worse on him.

[Tysha]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The letter says, once again, the blind spot in our efforts by our lack

[Felonious Haelovar]

of dedication to understanding the magic of the old path may have led to Fang's escape.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The Scar can bypass all protections, certainly.

[Felonious Haelovar]

But have we considered that some Druidic

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

version of the scar may not qualify

[Felonious Haelovar]

magically as a protection? What if some older or more powerful

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Druidic curse has compelled Fang's soul to

[Felonious Haelovar]

hasten itself down the path?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

If the Drowned Men can evade the Scar, so too could any meaningfully proficient Druid.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Provided they were not moved by sentiment to attempt to protect Fang, but perhaps punish him.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

There is a vast world of magic

[Felonious Haelovar]

outside of sorcery, when we ignore at our peril. So that's.

[Julian]

Did you say that out loud?

[Felonious Haelovar]

It's the page.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You put it on the page.

[Julian]

I put it on the page. Yeah. That's. They definitely do ignore other forms of magic, don't they?

[Tysha]

Hey. To speak. Speaking of strange magic, magic folk, you included.

[Hal]

Don't snap.

[Mara]

That's so.

[Azune]

That was crazy.

[Mara]

So rude.

[Tysha]

I've been through a lot tonight. Some of us weren't partying and getting drunk for once.

[Hal]

Really?

[Tysha]

That paper. I did not grab myself initially when I was in that manner. My shadow was acting on its own.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Your was.

[Tysha]

My shadow was acting on its own.

[Julian]

Sorry. That thing I. Your shadow fired magic at was not a shade. It was your shadow.

[Tysha]

I don't know if that was or not, but I. I saw it stretched across the room and it was rifling through these papers.

[Azune]

What was that letter? That was addressed to Thiazi. But didn't it call him Shadow? Taylor's the one from the professor.

[Mara]

Where's the letter?

[Hal]

I had the letter for so long. You have a picture of the letter. Shadow.

[Bolaire]

Strange since the previous funeral.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What do you mean you've had a. Jeez.

[Mara]

Do you think that was him?

[Bolaire]

There was something awful. We just didn't have time to discuss it.

[Hal]

I. Turn off the lights.

[Ad Voiceover]

What?

[Captain Naya]

Turn.

[Mara]

You need one. Turn off all the lights except for one light.

[Hal]

Yeah. And then I. I light up myself really bright.

[Wakander Haylovar]

How?

[Hal]

Next to. Next to Julian. Trying to make a shadow on him.

[Mara]

I see where you're going with it.

[Murray]

Look around, Julian.

[Hal]

Julian Walk around light spell or I have light.

[Ad Voiceover]

Okay.

[Tysha]

I walk around.

[Mara]

What's the shadow doing?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Julian's walking around with the shadow making absolutely every move that Julian is doing.

[Bolaire]

Hold on. I'm going to go into the bag and get the scissors.

[Tysha]

No, I'm fairly certain with everything.

[Bolaire]

I'm just going to tap the scissor point into the shadow.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Go ahead and make an arcana check for thank you.

[Murray]

Okay.

[Mara]

But don't do it all the way because that's how they kill people.

[Hal]

Don't kill. If it says you'll kill him.

[Bolaire]

Not pricking it, not cutting it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

That's absolutely helpful. Dirty 20.

[Julian]

21.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

21. Julian, can you give me a strength saving throw?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, you're fucking killed.

[Bolaire]

Just a prick.

[Mara]

Yeah, he could have. Yeah.

[Bolaire]

Honestly, if it moves before I hit it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

A dirty 22. Dirty 20. Julian, you hold back your fist from your. Like, shadows follow people. You're. But like, if it's a rule that shadows have to follow people, this is like your shadow making a movement that your body has to follow as you attempt to cold cockpit bol air.

[Tysha]

That's what's done me.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What the is happening?

[Bolaire]

Oh, calm down. We'll figure it out. Huh?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Is. Is this everyone's shadow or just his shadow?

[Mara]

He's cursed.

[Wakander Haylovar]

He's cursed.

[Hal]

Yes, the shadow.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Did you know this before?

[Tysha]

Did you know this before and nobody said anything?

[Julian]

Well, we were.

[Azune]

You don't remember being choked by the shadow of your own hand?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

We all seem to be surrounded by

[Tysha]

a lot of shadow. I just thought it was being in the bad place.

[Hal]

Nobody shadow chokes them.

[Murray]

We could cut it off.

[Hal]

Your shadow choked you when we were in fast.

[Vaelys]

Also, please don't punch my master of dramatis arcana. Thank you.

[Bolaire]

Also a very fair point.

[Hal]

Is it the Aussie?

[Mara]

Were you.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Were you at the. At the execution?

[Tysha]

I was.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Did you feel anything happen to you?

[Tysha]

I was a little drunk.

[Wakander Haylovar]

See, alcohol is never good.

[Azune]

I cast detect magic.

[Hal]

I'm just like flying all over just trying to make the shadow.

[Tysha]

Here's the thing.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Are you little now?

[Tysha]

I've had the shadow attack me when we were in danger. I certainly hope that wasn't the azzy, because that put us all in danger. The shadow did help me when I was getting through the manor, but then attacked me again when we went to wait for you. So I'm very confused as to whether or not this is friend or foe.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Both.

[Tysha]

Neither.

[Azune]

Thought, that sounds a lot like the Ozzy.

[Julian]

But was it an attack or was he trying to get you to go Get Thimble.

[Hal]

It's Thaz. Your shadow's Thaz. He was protecting me.

[Tysha]

Julian's face goes pale and there is a combination of confusion and fury. He goes, this better not be fucking true.

[Bolaire]

When I saw the shadow take him. Very long time ago. What was the moment again?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Give me a history check with advantage.

[Bolaire]

Oh, I think I know.

[Hal]

But laying on the ground hugging the floor.

[Bolaire]

History check.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yeah, history check.

[Mara]

What?

[Julian]

The moment I remember.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I remember it 24. You caught it in the moment that

[Felonious Haelovar]

Julian had paid his most private respects to Thiazzi's body.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

That fuck.

[Hal]

Oh, you spit on him.

[Mara]

Yeah, he spit on his corpse.

[Bolaire]

We don't know that.

[Captain Naya]

We don't know that.

[Murray]

I know.

[Azune]

Cause Hala saw it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, wait, is that true that Hala saw it?

[Mara]

Yeah, that's right.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

As you two Bueller have that reaction. Give me nature with advantage.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Sweet shit.

[Azune]

3020.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The letter about curses.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The letter about the fact that Coral

[Felonious Haelovar]

Taconis was basically saying, like, yeah, the

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

scar bypasses all protections, but the drowned men get around that by selling their soul to someone else.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And we can't grab it because it's not.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Owing your soul to a fairy is

[Felonious Haelovar]

not a protection on a dirty 20. The old path is very old.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

And it had to survive thousands of

[Felonious Haelovar]

years under the oppression of the shapers.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So a lot of it comes down

[Felonious Haelovar]

in folk stories and songs and rhymes and superstitions. One of the oldest superstitions is disrespecting a corpse at a funeral causes you to be haunted by the ghost of that you have disrespected.

[Azune]

Hey, Julian. What if I told you that you saved the soul of the Aussie fang?

[Ad Voiceover]

Don't.

[Azune]

All right, maybe watch where you spit from now on.

[Tysha]

I grab the bottle of Yaragraz and start walking outside.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I'm gonna follow.

[Hal]

I'm following Julian.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You follow Julian.

[Hal]

Follow Julian outside.

[Vaelys]

I do too.

[Hal]

Don't. Don't you. You're not leaving, right? You're not leaving. You're staying.

[Tysha]

I don't even know what to believe anymore. This is ridiculous. I've lost everything.

[Hal]

Do you understand what you're saying?

[Captain Naya]

This is what it comes down to.

[Murray]

I'm just flying in front of him, like flying backwards.

[Hal]

Do you understand how amazing this is?

[Vaelys]

Is the shadow visible in all her

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

flitting about as she flits around? It casts Julian's shadow, but Julian's shadow is staying faithful to his body. How it's moving. You recognize the times the shadow has moved were in the eternal night, which

[Felonious Haelovar]

is a barrow dell.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

In Obramus Manor, where the veil between realms is very thin. The shadow has not shown up willy

[Felonious Haelovar]

nilly in moments where.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Right, Tycha. You look at Julian walk out of here and understand on that dirty 20, the perfect parallel between you telling Octys not to walk the path anathema. And it saving the world. World. And Julian spitting on thei's corpse, getting himself cursed. And a curse bypassing the scar.

[Julian]

Stupid.

[Azune]

Clever. I think I'm just cussing. And like Reani,

[Vaelys]

I'm outside with Thimble and Julian. But I'm not looking at Julian or addressing him. I. I'm looking at the shadow. You crazy? Can you hear me? Are you here?

[Tysha]

You're all insane. This is Takona's bullshit. It is not the Aziz.

[Captain Naya]

It is.

[Tysha]

He's not that smart. He is not that good. You all have been tricked by a person with endless charisma.

[Hal]

Julian.

[Vaelys]

Julian.

[Hal]

Thank you. I know you did it in a shitty, shitty, shitty way. Thank you. Fuck.

[Azune]

Osnay, give me a hammer real quick.

[Vaelys]

Do me a favor. Hold. Hold up your left hand. I'm looking at the shadow. If you're my brother, drop that hand.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Here on the street where you and your brother grew up, the shadow of the hand stays faithful to Julian. Whatever happened inside with those shadow shears, it was but a moment.

[Vaelys]

Still keeps staring at her.

[Hal]

Did he kill him? Did Volare kill him?

[Bolaire]

I am outside, but far away from whatever you're doing. I am just laying. I'm just sitting against the house.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Mara flutters out as well and peers

[Felonious Haelovar]

at the shadow and says, look, I don't know what yalls plans are. Are you saying that there's some. What is there? There's some druidic.

[Hal]

Hold on.

[Azune]

She's like, then I'll follow outside. And I'm just looking up at the nail that I put over the door frame. If I want to pop it out. Bring me a goddamn hammer. Oz.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

It's already right there.

[Bolaire]

Yeah.

[Azune]

I want to pry it out and toss the nail to Julian. Catch.

[Tysha]

I mean, instinctually. He's not even thinking. He's so furious. But his reflexes are still quick.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You grab it. You watch Julian's shadow on the wall behind. Grab the hand and fall to the ground, writhing.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Drop the head.

[Murray]

Drop the nail.

[Hal]

Drop the nail.

[Julian]

What?

[Tysha]

Is it hurting him?

[Hal]

Drop the nail.

[Tysha]

Is it burning? His sweet little hands.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

It's perfect.

[Tysha]

Endlessly trying to throw it back.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The shadow snaps back into being Julian's faithful shadow.

[Mara]

So if this shadow was highly active in the Tacona's house, where the veil is thinner.

[Julian]

Can only act fully if it's close to the tenebro reaches.

[Mara]

Correct.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Give me an archonic check.

[Azune]

Go off, nerds.

[Hal]

2518.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Hey, you know a place that doesn't suck like Open Mist Manor sucks? Where the veil from time to time becomes a little bit thinner.

[Mara]

We just kind of made one.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Mara]

That is what you're talking about, right?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You said it so confidently, like, yeah,

[Vaelys]

hold on, we have a space elevator.

[Captain Naya]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

A beaten to a pope wizard. And a drunk wizard being like, I think over there.

[Cadogan Vale]

Well, inside. Cadigan is going to, with great effort, scoop up Teor's body and carry him toward the cellar where he knows where the drinks are at. And as he's walking him down, he's just going to say, I'd spit on

[Felonious Haelovar]

you, but I know you're down there

[Cadogan Vale]

raising hell with your brother.

[Julian]

Am I? This is probably. I didn't know. How is it feasible that I could lift Cid? Yeah, I have a relatively normal amount of strength.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah, you can lift Cid.

[Julian]

So I will lift Cid and I will follow Kadikin down.

[Murray]

I'd like to be thumbing through the text and learning as much as I can about soul fabric and what it does and how to get a sole out and what the purpose is. Any other cool patterns?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Go ahead, give me arcana.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I will say this too. As group goes out to investigate the shadow, you see Mara, who also kind

[Felonious Haelovar]

of can't believe what she's seeing, takes a moment as the attention returns to Teor and Cid. And as you, Murray, are like the hallowed round could be a place to go investigate this right now. Mara grabs you for a moment. Thimble, he says, listen, Thimble, I don't know everybody here. I can't. I'm sure that everyone's a good person, but I haven't lived how I've lived trusting people. Me and Theaz were. Sorry, she says, me and Theazi were part of a group called the Cloak. There's other people involved. His intention was always, if anything were to ever happen to him for us to contact you. I didn't think I was gonna survive. But now that I have, I need to fly north to find our. To find the Professor. And I have to tell him.

[Hal]

Who's the Professor?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I ain't telling you. You gotta come talk to him before he tells you his real name or hers.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see? She says. She says, but I gotta tell.

[Cadogan Vale]

I gotta.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I gotta tell the professor that our whole plan is fucked. The ritual didn't happen. I don't Know. Did. Did Hal ever. Sorry. Mind palace, she says. She says. Did the AZI ever mention paint to you?

[Hal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Azune]

He.

[Hal]

He made sure it was delivered. I think they said something. Something about the bridge. The bridge? You guys were trying to make a bridge, right? I read that in a letter.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Read that in a letter. The hell?

[Hal]

We intercepted a letter.

[Ad Voiceover]

Ow.

[Hal]

His name was Shadow, right?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Can I see this letter?

[Azune]

Sure.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You. You show her the letter and she says.

[Felonious Haelovar]

So this didn't even get to him before. Before he was arrested. God damn it.

[Hal]

Yeah, but they made it. They made the bridge at the theater tonight.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What do you mean they made the bridge?

[Hal]

That's what they were saying. They made the bridge at the theater tonight when we were at Taconis, you see?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Loud enough for everyone here, she says. What do you mean y'.

[Tysha]

All.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Y' all made the bridge?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yeah, the ritual that happened.

[Bolaire]

Wasn't that the point?

[Mara]

Honestly? Incredible.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Well, can you take me there? Can you take me?

[Mara]

Well, hang on, hang on. We're starting to learn the plan that you all were trying to accomplish. But there's still big missing piece. Which is why.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I work with a group of people that's trying to fix the problem of the underworld. I work with someone I call the professor, who believed, theoretically that it was possible to undo. To find the lost afterlives, to re anchor them or reroute them to Ahriman. And some were worried that that would just dump a bunch of souls into. Into an already packed underworld. And he was of the conviction and the belief that if we could do that, it would be either provide a place for souls that wouldn't let go, to go to an afterlife and get

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

the out of the Underworld and be so close to Ahriman.

[Felonious Haelovar]

But also that it would be a way. There were 4,000 years of people being it. Those souls can't just be lost out in the edge of oblivion. And solving them takes care of this overwhelm. If we can do this in the right way, it can create. It can create the space needed for these souls not to be constantly washing back into the living world.

[Mara]

And what was the personal motivation? It's a very noble cause.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I'm a noble bitch.

[Mara]

I'm sure you are. But everyone has their own motives.

[Hal]

What's yours?

[Mara]

Asking her?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I'll answer when you do, sweetie pie.

[Azune]

It's a draw off.

[Bolaire]

What about the sarcophagus? What was that about?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, the box. Why was it brought here? The. Oh, the coffin.

[Bolaire]

Yes. It's caused an enormous amount of.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Well, we're Trying to line them all up.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Look, the plan was

[Felonious Haelovar]

we went to the font of Gav Zidra Thiazi. I did the Druid craft, and the Azzy dove in and found the font and brought it back. And we worked with a lady here in town to. That was one piece. The AZI was planning on talking to you about calling back one of your swords.

[Azune]

Plowshares.

[Mara]

Plowshares?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah, Plowshares.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Handled.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And how he was planning on talking to you.

[Vaelys]

Well, despite being a shadow of his former self, he managed to leave breadcrumbs out for the lot of us to basically stumble onto the answer.

[Felonious Haelovar]

He told me that he didn't want to say nothing to you until. He knew that the round was a place that it could work, but he didn't want to ask until he, you know, it wasn't a sure thing you were even going to get it. And there were other options, worse options, but there were other places that we could try. And. Hal, you remember that the AZI got arrested a day and a half after the deed cleared?

[Azune]

I do.

[Mara]

To answer your question, my motivation, and most of the people's motivation here, is because this shit show got dropped into our laps without any type of knowledge or consent in wanting to take part in this. A lot of us are watching our city get commandeered and overrun by a bunch of sundered house fucks. And we were trying to prevent that. And then all of this shit started

[Bolaire]

spiraling out of control and it has not stopped. This is a breath, but it has not stopped. It is only going to get worse.

[Vaelys]

Breath.

[Mara]

So we did not agree to participate in any of this. So forgive me if I'm being a little pushy in asking what the motivations were around all of this.

[Felonious Haelovar]

None of you were supposed to participate in this.

[Mara]

Well, I caught Horse Ka Ka on that one. Because you literally just said that he was going to Lupin Tysha, that he was going to loop in hell. He was? Already?

[Azune]

Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

That's two out of the 12 of you.

[Bolaire]

What about me? What about my participation in all of this? Also, what does that box have to

[Mara]

do with me stealing stones from an ancient religion of sisters?

[Hal]

Sorry about that.

[Mara]

Having me move plenty of goods for him through the Penteval. So, yeah, he was kind of looping

[Felonious Haelovar]

all of us in. I'm not here to answer for Thiazi's crimes. You saved my life. And I'm very grateful for that. If you want to take it up with the man, talk to your friend Shadow.

[Tysha]

How you're out of your grass. Where's your wine?

[Vaelys]

Give me a minute.

[Cadogan Vale]

Down in the cellar. As we put the bodies to rest in the.

[Julian]

Cool.

[Cadogan Vale]

When we come back up out of the blue, Cadigan is just going to grab Octis by the lapel and push him up against the wine and say, hey, pretty boy.

[Julian]

The skin of Octos hand starts peeling back. As the sigil moves around, the skeletal hand comes in. Can I help you?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah, you can answer a question for me.

[Julian]

What?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Your family, what do they think they

[Cadogan Vale]

go when they're gone?

[Julian]

They go to a place of power in the Tenebra reaches.

[Bolaire]

All right.

[Felonious Haelovar]

One more question before we go up and join the rest.

[Cadogan Vale]

You were daddy's boy?

[Julian]

Most assuredly not.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Then you're all right by me.

[Cadogan Vale]

And I'll cast healing cure wounds on him.

[Vaelys]

I came down here for a few vintages.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Are we cool?

[Cadogan Vale]

Yeah, we're totally fucking cool, man. And I'll grab a couple of whatever off the walls and toss it up to hell.

[Julian]

They're fine.

[Vaelys]

That's very expensive.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see, Mara looks at you and

[Felonious Haelovar]

says, I don't need you to trust me. I got nothing in it for me if you trust me. I'm trying to be kind to the people that saved me. The Azzy stole from you. He stole from a lot of people. We went to Tanasar. We were raiding Taconis dig sites because they got more money and people than. And if you just go up and pick the breadcrumbs from their feast tables, you can put some interesting things together. I. I'm telling you what I know. I work with a small group of people that figured out a secret that if the powers that be knew that we knew, they would just kill us all. They're trying to. Anyway. They don't know who we are.

[Azune]

She was willing to get on the wrong side of her order, and they

[Hal]

were torturing her pretty bad.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I joined the circle of the hunt as a young woman because I said, the old path needs answers. It's been 70 years. We haven't healed the world, so we gotta fight. And then I fought for a few years and I said, hey, this fighting's pretty fucking stupid. We're just throwing fists at the dark. So the professor found me. I started working with Fiazi. I started working with other people in our order. And yeah, Thiazi stole that stone. Let me ask you a question, if I can. What good was that stone doing in an abbey? Is it doing more good now?

[Hal]

Yes, it is.

[Felonious Haelovar]

All right? The Ozzy was a bastard and a Thief. He used and abused people.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Did something happen at this theater tonight?

[Azune]

Yes, it did.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Should it not have happened?

[Azune]

It was so good that it happened.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Okay, then I'm done explaining myself.

[Azune]

No

[Mara]

quest for answers and knowledge is the most relatable thing you've said thus far. You wanna go see the theater?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I would love that.

[Mara]

All right, who wants to go on a little field trip?

[Tysha]

Mm. Uh.

[Felonious Haelovar]

We smash cut to the theater.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Things you. Things you say. At five hours into the episode, Mara looking at the theater goes, holy shit. Holy shit. She turns and says, look, I'm gonna break the Cloak's rules. I'm gonna break them.

[Azune]

Which one?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'm gonna break the rule about the

[Felonious Haelovar]

first of all, Cloak is gone.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Cause what do you did here?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I was supposed to meet a fella named Bogre.

[Hal]

Bogre. Yes, I was. You don't know how many times I thought about Bogue.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Boguery is a hot.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He's from my neck of the. He's from our neck of the woods.

[Felonious Haelovar]

She says.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

She says, but look, Bogre was gonna

[Felonious Haelovar]

take Thaz in a contraption of his. That's like a diving bell that can go into the Underworld.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

We were gonna find a back corner of the theater somewhere to make a very small drawing.

[Azune]

You should have clarified that in your letter.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What letter? I got wings. I ain't writing shit to nobody. Everything I gotta say, I gotta fly to tell somebody.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The coffin, to answer your question is,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

she says, the plowshare, the paint and the stone that creates one stable Trinity.

[Felonious Haelovar]

It was important that we tried this with the dimefields first, because that was something that. That was Thaz's connection. Thyazzi's connection to Hal, that was.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

It was the thing that made the

[Felonious Haelovar]

most sense to do first. Because Kahad has the only good Barrowdell. So we did it here first. It was a proof of concept, but

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

it was supposed to be a tiny portrait somewhere off the beaten path. A plowshare that we would take physically in that submersible to there. I would meet them there and the stone would stabilize.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The shapers never were able to create anything. Every one of their realms was carved off some other realm. And the Dying fields. Grotilik was taken from the pit. It was a gift of the demon queen when she married Oscra. So you need to stabilize in some other diametrically opposed realm. So we needed something rooted in fairy. And that's what the Stone to Night Song was. It wasn't anything blasphemous to your order.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

We just needed some artifact that had

[Felonious Haelovar]

connection to traveling to Faerie. Whose doors are closed. Everyone who. Anyone who wants to make an insight.

[Hal]

I am definitely making an insight check.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You do it with advantage.

[Hal]

I haven't gotten a chance to inside fails.

[Murray]

Oh, no.

[Julian]

2.

[Mara]

Yeah, I didn't do 9 everything.

[Vaelys]

I hear 21 more and more nervous

[Felonious Haelovar]

about what the 17 is. What'd you get?

[Hal]

18.

[Felonious Haelovar]

18, 21.

[Vaelys]

Back here.

[Felonious Haelovar]

19, 19.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The three of you get a similar

[Felonious Haelovar]

note as Mara mentions the doors close to fairy. That an iceberg in her mind is moved over swiftly.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

She says

[Felonious Haelovar]

so look.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Supposed to go to make a tiny, tiny path. Stable secret, like a prison escape tunnel to the afterlife.

[Azune]

Three big bridges and I may have made angels of paint.

[Bolaire]

To which afterlife did you put in that box?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Bol Breeze, too.

[Felonious Haelovar]

If it worked on the dime fields, it could work on the piper's down. We had to do this seven times.

[Mara]

Oh, is there still a little Paper Mario on the coffin?

[Azune]

Yeah, not saying anything about that yet. Because he's weird. Also, I didn't know he was a mask until today.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So that's weird.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah.

[Ad Voiceover]

Wow.

[Azune]

Point at me again.

[Hal]

I need a mask.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The drowned men threw a seeing your mask. She says the drowned men had like a magic mask.

[Felonious Haelovar]

They had a wartime mask that they threw into the coffin because it was elementally connected to that.

[Bolaire]

They threw a shattered mask that they found. Where did they find this bloody mask?

[Vaelys]

Try not to give my theater instructor a stroke, please.

[Bolaire]

He's fine. I will tell you all about it later. He will tell you all about it later. You see, she says his heart rate is very stable.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I couldn't tell you where they found it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I know that they threw it in

[Felonious Haelovar]

there and they keyed it to a password and the Azzi chose your name and.

[Bolaire]

Oh, my God.

[Cadogan Vale]

But.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The. But look.

[Bolaire]

Oh, my God.

[Azune]

She says, so you're a mask?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah, he's a mask.

[Mara]

It's a whole thing.

[Hal]

He's a really old mask.

[Azune]

Like, one of just one mask.

[Mara]

He was a part of a set.

[Bolaire]

One of six. One of six. One of which they threw into a box. One of six they threw into a box and brought back from the underworld and is now running around and is going to kill a lot of people. And it is not.

[Azune]

Is it named Figment?

[Bolaire]

What? No.

[Tysha]

What?

[Azune]

Unrelated. Continue.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Does Velis have the box with her here?

[Vaelys]

Okay.

[Hal]

Oh, yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see that? Mara looks at it and you see. Casts a spell and looks at the

[Felonious Haelovar]

theater and goes, oh, God, this is the most beautiful thing I ever seen.

[Mara]

A lot of restless souls from the first rebellion were Able to finally walk the path and go.

[Azune]

But only a small amount.

[Mara]

Only a small amount.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You see, she looks and says, proof of concept. We were gonna. We were gonna build, like, as I said, a little prison escape tunnel. Y' all have built a king's road. That's. That was not. You did. You didn't do the ritual. You did a ritual. And it's one that's far more beautiful than we did. But you have announced something here. And this is visible to anybody that knows to look for it. And if you. If you build a flower garden that's different than building a suit of armor. You've built the world's most amazing flower garden. But now anyone who wants to oppose us can come here and hurt this. We are vulnerable. The cloak is vulnerable. And the reality is, the reason I'm speaking so openly about my secret clandestine organization is based on what I'm seeing you have done here. We need to completely change how we do everything, because this is so open that if we don't scrap all secrecy for speed, it's a lost cause. Anyway,

[Julian]

this is what, you cracked the

[Felonious Haelovar]

stone for

[Julian]

all of this?

[Hal]

Partly, yes.

[Mara]

Also, a dragon came out of the lake.

[Hal]

Huh.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What? Girl, I don't know.

[Mara]

I was in Cage forever. Yeah, Zuni and Vela saw it.

[Hal]

So what color was. Was like a. Like a. Like a

[Vaelys]

Technicolor drag show.

[Hal]

Yeah, we got lots of colors.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Mara turns to you, Thimble, and says this openly for anyone that wants to hear.

[Felonious Haelovar]

She says, look, I'm. I'm still exhausted.

[Azune]

Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Tomorrow I have to fly north to find the professor.

[Cadogan Vale]

You.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And at this point, she gestures to the theater. Anybody who wants to come join can come with me. The. The.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

If it is possible.

[Felonious Haelovar]

If it is.

[Mara]

All right.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Does anyone here have the coffin still?

[Julian]

Is it still upstairs?

[Mara]

We got it.

[Captain Naya]

We have it.

[Azune]

I have.

[Bolaire]

It belongs to me.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, you made it.

[Bolaire]

I might as well have it made me.

[Hal]

Why are you so angry, Bel Air?

[Cadogan Vale]

Of all the people to ask that.

[Bolaire]

I appreciate that everyone is having their day. I appreciate that everyone can look at someone and see all of the things they love about them and use it to ignore every terrible thing that they have done, that's fine. But the recklessness of all of this, any of it that could have gone wrong, all of it that did go wrong, things that no one knows about that haven't been talked about.

[Julian]

Are you gonna say the people who

[Bolaire]

are going to die because of this foolishness?

[Azune]

What exactly do you find to be foolishness, Bolaire?

[Julian]

What did you expect us to do.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Oh, you.

[Bolaire]

I don't expect anything from you.

[Felonious Haelovar]

It's him.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

It's this.

[Hal]

You know.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He threw a box.

[Bolaire]

He made portals to the underworld without thinking what might be on the other side. He threw antiquities. He took magic and just tossed it around without thinking what it would do.

[Hal]

Valere, I know you hated him. I know you still do.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I didn't.

[Hal]

He didn't do anything without thinking about it.

[Bolaire]

I'm well aware. And I didn't hate him. I didn't. At least not until he taught me how. I didn't know how to hate. He taught me in the depth of me how to hate. I was just a soldier. And he showed me what hate is. And for that I hate him even more. And he put a pantomask. He put a weapon of. He put a God killer weapon into a box and woke it up. And it is now out there, insane, broken. And I am terrified. I am terrified. And yes, we've got a couple hundred souls out of one locked portion of the underworld. Fantastic. It's so delightful that someone who can have so much cruelty in their life can believe in such a just universe.

[Julian]

It would seem to me that of everybody who would be able to handle an insane mask running around the city, it would be you. Bullet there.

[Murray]

That's a good point.

[Bolaire]

She will murder me if I don't leave. She has already tried to kill me. She is so much more powerful than I am.

[Murray]

Can't you hide in plain sight?

[Azune]

So you're not angry. You're afraid.

[Bolaire]

I'm both. They are very well entwined. I have learned that as well.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You see, Mara looks at you and says, if you've been wronged, I offer you my apology. And if you wish, I offer you my protection. If you need to leave. And the box is yours. Come with us. Meet the professor. Speak to him. The azzy made mistakes. We all have. But he was not alive to see how you all conducted the ritual. He intended this to be small and safe.

[Azune]

Bolaire. You're not alone anymore.

[Bolaire]

I'm very much alone now. I am more alone than I have ever been.

[Vaelys]

Well, you're just as much in the frying pan as we are.

[Bolaire]

More so. And you will all be more in the frying pan if I do not leave.

[Julian]

What? We're more than everybody in the city trying to kill me.

[Mara]

Can we stop with a pissing contest?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Jeez, please.

[Julian]

We're all in trouble. We're all in a bad spot.

[Mara]

This whole thing is Wick's fault.

[Murray]

You're does Your family think you're dead? Or are they looking for you both? Oh, I don't understand.

[Julian]

Well, sorry. They know I'm dead. They're looking for me.

[Azune]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

Pretty soon we're going to have to start talking.

[Mara]

About what? I'm just wondering.

[Murray]

On paper, the Taconuses and the Halovars are still very much allies. And I was wondering who we know on the inside, besides each other.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I think we're it.

[Julian]

I have no contacts with my family.

[Murray]

Murray, Are you in trouble in the city?

[Mara]

As Hal just so very plainly put it, we're all in the frying pan right now.

[Captain Naya]

Some of us are more directly in

[Felonious Haelovar]

the crosshairs than others.

[Julian]

Yes. Some of us on site, some of us less so.

[Azune]

I don't think your family likes me very much right now.

[Hal]

We need to plant this.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Azune]

Do you know where?

[Hal]

I imagine it should be outside of the theater. Somewhere close to. To protect the area. Maybe next to the lake.

[Julian]

If I remember correctly. That will make a road. A ferry road for King Gus's men.

[Hal]

Yeah. So they'll be able to get here faster. And we could take it too. I. I know a pretty good location. I think.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Vaelys and Thimble, you guys can head out. As you are walking out, give me one last perception check.

[Hal]

Oh, it's so low.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You excitedly fly out with Vaelys to go to the lake's edge. Mara looks at you again and says, fuck. The offer extended to him, I extend to you. I need to rest. But with everybody here,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

all who are

[Felonious Haelovar]

here, if you trust one another,

[Ad Voiceover]

the

[Felonious Haelovar]

offer is extended to travel north with me. If what the Azzy and I and others, some of them, sorry. Unbeknownst you see, she gestures to Tycha and Octys. Because of the success and risk created here, the cloak cannot make slowly and in secret anymore. While this exists, it is an announcement for any that can see beyond this realm. And so we need to move fast.

[Hal]

I'll fly up next to Mara.

[Cadogan Vale]

No, I was going to ask, assuming abovetable as players, that we had a world map in front of us. What is to the north? Of consequence for those of us who

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

would know Timony is to the north. But I will say this too, just because we've been. This is a lovely long session of us all. If I were saying them as tables. There's sort of a mission of seeking the counsel of the cloak with Mara. However, you guys also have a lot of shit about Houndsport. You have schematic and you know the Taconis. Mara hasn't talked about what the Taconis are up to at all.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And you know that that whole white

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

banners thing is real and that's really scary. And then of course, there's all the shit happening with the Creed and Dolmak yarn.

[Hal]

Great. That's what I was gonna ask her. Are you. Are you still planning to follow through with what you and Thas wanted to do?

[Felonious Haelovar]

This was what we wanted to do. Our only next mission was to do a fraction of what you've all accomplished here.

[Captain Naya]

But to do it again in the

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

other barrels with the. With the coffin of Obalad is to.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Is to. Now, we are suddenly need to move with all haste and urgency.

[Julian]

Which means you need two more relics.

[Felonious Haelovar]

We need. We need three for each one.

[Julian]

Yeah, no, I meant for the next one.

[Felonious Haelovar]

For the next one, we need two more. Yeah, that's correct.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

This.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You see, she points at this and says the coffin is the paint. Essentially. We need another plowshare and we need another anchor. And this anchor, we need to be demonic because the piper's gown, the opposing energy.

[Murray]

I'm a demon.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I'm a demon.

[Julian]

I guess we would prefer it not being you.

[Murray]

Why?

[Julian]

Because you'll.

[Azune]

You'll be dead.

[Julian]

Dead.

[Murray]

Oh, I mean, death for demons, I don't think is the same thing.

[Azune]

Great.

[Julian]

We have another anchor.

[Murray]

Humans.

[Felonious Haelovar]

If you wish to come, you can.

[Captain Naya]

She would suffice as an anchor.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I. I don't think so. I don't think it's just any old demon. It's got to be. It's got to. I'm sorry, but I mean, it's just got to be an artifact. It's got to be something.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

This is why we got to take the coffin and go talk to.

[Julian]

The reason I looked at you is because I thought you might know of some sort of artifact.

[Murray]

I've been thumbing through lots of books. Do. I know.

[Bolaire]

I know a lot about artifacts.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

As you guys start to figure out.

[Vaelys]

Artifact.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Veilis and Thimble were headed to the lake.

[Hal]

Yes. And ta.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'm walking.

[Captain Naya]

I'll.

[Julian]

I'll follow if the two of them are going.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You can keep the whole party walking out to the lake if you want.

[Mara]

Yeah, we do that thing where we

[Azune]

try to drift off of everyone sort of inadvertently.

[Vaelys]

Oh, we're all going the same way.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Oh, we just said bye.

[Julian]

Oh, everyone's going to this

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Bayless Brennan.

[Wakander Haylovar]

As we walk. I'm just going to keep an eye on his shadow. Is it behaving normal?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Give me a perception or investigation check. And if you are using Magic about it.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Let me know I can cast light and sort of.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Yeah, do it with advantage. Give me investigation of a second. With advantage.

[Tysha]

Julian is shifting between drinking and looking at his shadow.

[Vaelys]

Still there. Fuck. Still there.

[Wakander Haylovar]

It's not very much. Only a 12.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Only a 12.

[Captain Naya]

Okay.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Shadow doesn't appear to be moving at all.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I'm just going to keep your eye on.

[Murray]

Let me get you.

[Julian]

I do kind of sidle up next to Wick and I said, are you all right?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Oh, no, not at all.

[Julian]

I just meant you went and spoke with my father, which is never a pleasant experience.

[Wakander Haylovar]

It's horrible. I don't know how. How were birthdays non existent? We didn't get parties every year.

[Julian]

No, terrible. Are you supposed to have parties every year?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Twice a year sometimes. You didn't celebrate your hey birthday.

[Vaelys]

Didn't you have a race car bag?

[Wakander Haylovar]

6 months between your birthday?

[Julian]

I was horribly abused.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Moving to the lakeside. Veilis. Do you do anything as you approach the lakeside with Tycha and Thimble? Is there anything you do here?

[Hal]

I just. I wanted to bring you both here to see what Zunay and I found while we were here. I think this is a good spot as any because there's an anchor of spiritual fairy energy that's here.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Then will you feel alive

[Cadogan Vale]

as you approach,

[Felonious Haelovar]

beings begin to look out from branches and you see sprites. There are nixies in the water. And you see with a small blanket spread out, Temelo is laying cards out off to one side of the glade. And Temelo sees you, Thimble and goes.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Thimble, hi. And reaches up and goes over and

[Felonious Haelovar]

puts her hand out for you to land and gives a little kiss. You've returned. Oh, this beautiful elven warrior.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

She's planted something here in the ground.

[Felonious Haelovar]

There is a moon crystal deep under here, a cave underneath. And you think about Hawthorne's glade and the quite small one they had out there.

[Hal]

How big is it?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Do you want to come underneath?

[Hal]

Yes.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You come underneath into the cavern and see it is quite a bit larger than a house. This massive, glowing, luminous, amethyst, periwinkle, glowing crystal formation.

[Hal]

She did this.

[Felonious Haelovar]

She sundered a holy artifact of her order to buy a chance for the people of the city. And with the shards, this one here called up something ancient from the river and together the two of them pressed it down. And now this energy flows throughout. I don't feel myself dying anymore.

[Hal]

How do I feel?

[Felonious Haelovar]

It is hard to say. But you do not feel as though the passage of time wears on you so heavily close to this place of power. I don't want to go to that.

[Ad Voiceover]

Right.

[Azune]

Wherever Thimble has stopped to hover, I'm going to immediately bury the seed directly under your feet and cast enrichment on this place.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Up above those that have not gone to the cave.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Underneath, a towering cherry tree bursts through

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

the ground

[Felonious Haelovar]

and immediately blossoms, covering the glade in falling petals. The crystal is wrapped and encased in a home of roots that naturally produce shelves and staircases and produce a vast hideaway here surrounding this place. Temelo looks at you immediately after Mara has said, please come with me, and goes, thimble, please stay. Stay. We have those of us scattered around the city.

[Hal]

It's beautiful, but I can't.

[Murray]

There's so much to do,

[Felonious Haelovar]

you see? She goes, well, is there. Is there any? We will tend to it in your absence.

[Hal]

Oh, yeah, you better. And this is protected now because it's on the road.

[Felonious Haelovar]

So as you exit the cavern, you guys look up ahead. And Thimble, as you look for it, this is like the edge of the forest by the lake. You look up and do see, wending its way from the cherry tree, a small dirt road. And in Tintasi Wood, where there has never been one before, you see an old mill up on the hill.

[Hal]

There may be troops coming through, but they're friends.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Safe passage for those that travel the road.

[Hal]

And death to the Halovars and Taconis.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Not all of them.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Let me write this down, because that's more than one thing. All right. Safe message. Death to Haylevar.

[Hal]

Death Tokonos. Except for those ones right there.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Not you. Not you.

[Julian]

I was just standing by the edge of the water, kind of just like kicking at the edge of the pool.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The fairies revel.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Mara is resting nearby. And you all have some big decisions to make.

[Mara]

The fate of our city is balancing on a razor's edge right now. One little gust from a Haylovar or Taconis or rebellion could tip the scales and is gassy.

[Julian]

It's true.

[Vaelys]

I'm very excited. It was a big night.

[Hal]

I'm gonna fly over to Mara. I can see why. I can see why Thass trusted you so much. You guys are a lot alike.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What'd you call him? Thus I called him that one time and he corrected me.

[Hal]

That's cuz it was my name for him and nobody else could have it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see, she. She looks and says, oh, that makes sense.

[Felonious Haelovar]

It's an honor to meet. And I know that there are many decisions before you. I know that you were the ay's right hand here in Dachyar. I'm sure they want you here. And it sounds like y' all got a couple names on a list you're trying to. To scrub off. And I don't think I disagree with that either. But if whatever happened in that theater, you're looking to make it happen as many times as you can, then feel free to come with me.

[Azune]

I think the neutrality of our people is a mistake. I'm gonna go to Dolrunia. I'm gonna go talk to the circumstances. Time we had a better conversation.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I mean this in the fullness of respect. You got the last name for it, sister. I can't do that shit.

[Ad Voiceover]

Cool.

[Azune]

All right, sure.

[Mara]

Are you going alone?

[Azune]

I got this.

[Mara]

Are you sure?

[Azune]

My grandma's really scary. I got this.

[Mara]

You're really scary.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Oh, my God.

[Cadogan Vale]

Thank you.

[Mara]

Yeah, it's amazing. And who wants to stay here and help crack some hail of our heads?

[Julian]

Couldn't if I wanted to.

[Murray]

I think we do.

[Mara]

Yeah.

[Murray]

I think we have to.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Absolutely. They took. They ruined my faith. They killed my friend. They took away my love. And they have now taken away my innocence. I. I want them to. To pay. I. I think Teor swore himself to protect me. And now he's gone. And it's only fair that I swear to avenge him. I'd like to. I'd like to kill your father, if that's all right with.

[Azune]

With get in line.

[Hal]

Yeah.

[Wakander Haylovar]

But I'm gonna do it with his own knife.

[Julian]

Everyone's creative.

[Murray]

How did it go tonight?

[Hal]

Everyone's so creative. To talk to him.

[Julian]

I don't.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Do I have your consent?

[Julian]

You have my consent that if somehow you are in the position to kill my father, please, by all means, go ahead. Great. But also, while you're doing things here in the city, if my sisters try and do something with you, they kill all their friends.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Fiances, I heard.

[Julian]

Oh, good. Okay, great.

[Murray]

Oh, this is a great time to also bring up My sisters can look like anybody.

[Julian]

Yes, we know.

[Murray]

Khadigan knows. Learn the hard way. Please detect magic accordingly. There are eyes on all of you. I would like to find out more about what the Halovars and the Taconuses are doing with demon stuff. And maybe we can poison the wall from the inside.

[Captain Naya]

Maybe we can.

[Julian]

I have a very incriminating book they also like.

[Mara]

I love a good book.

[Julian]

Apparently, people have been being me all over the place.

[Murray]

You just are easy to replicate, you know?

[Julian]

Thank you.

[Murray]

Your big features.

[Captain Naya]

Can I look at this book?

[Hal]

Yeah, of course.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I think she called you.

[Azune]

Simple.

[Wakander Haylovar]

For those who are staying in town, we'll be. We'll be snooping around inside my family and trying to learn what we can. Who else is staying and how do we communicate?

[Mara]

I think I'm gonna be working on that. That was a bag of gems that you brought back. Yeah, I think I can. I think we can utilize them. Bend them to our will a little bit.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yeah.

[Mara]

Yeah. Just need a little bit of time. It's been so fucking busy.

[Julian]

I've heard.

[Vaelys]

How does your family feel about you right now?

[Julian]

Great.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I think they trust me more than you guys do, honestly, which is not saying much, but it is. Yeah. I think. I think they're okay with me.

[Captain Naya]

I think you should maintain that stocks

[Murray]

in Wickander becoming the chosen in Sion are way up. They are very, very happy with him. And I think that we should use that to our advantage.

[Bolaire]

My witness to you in action. Trust you completely now.

[Mara]

Valere, are you leaving?

[Wakander Haylovar]

It's a 180, Valere.

[Captain Naya]

You said you had to.

[Bolaire]

I'm just staring through Thimble. Well, are we to trust the Ozzy?

[Hal]

I always have.

[Bolaire]

Very well, then. I belong to you. I am your weapon. What would you have me do,

[Hal]

Balare?

[Bolaire]

What did he used to say? Thimble, please tell it what to do next.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What would you have me do if

[Bolaire]

I don't belong to you? I belong to his brother.

[Hal]

Valere.

[Azune]

Yes.

[Hal]

You don't belong to anyone and you know that.

[Bolaire]

Are you saying that the Azure is wrong? Are you saying that his notion of what I am was incorrect? Did you ever tell him that? And I'm very good at telling when someone's lying.

[Vaelys]

At a certain point, you're gonna have to let go of my brother and start dealing with us.

[Tysha]

It's difficult when he won't let go of us.

[Azune]

I think you're dealing with that excuse.

[Tysha]

Yeah, great.

[Julian]

I.

[Hal]

I don't know everything he did to you. All I know is you only wanted to deal with me.

[Bolaire]

He wouldn't look at me.

[Hal]

Maybe he was scared of you, Belair. Maybe he just didn't like your ugly mug.

[Bolaire]

I was definitely scared of him. He told me everything he was going to do to me. And funny enough, he did it. My life is over.

[Azune]

I just.

[Bolaire]

I have lost everything, Bolier.

[Hal]

Then come with us. And you can tell me all about how terribly well was.

[Bolaire]

I need to stop my sister. I need to find my family. If you can help me do that, they will be powerful tools in your power.

[Cadogan Vale]

You say you Lost everything. And you still have a family.

[Bolaire]

I don't. I thought I had a family.

[Julian]

I thought.

[Bolaire]

I thought I might, but I don't. I really don't.

[Julian]

Family is different than siblings.

[Azune]

Should we show him the tr.

[Murray]

That brother.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Little guy on the coffin.

[Hal]

I'm just spinning the coffin as the lizard's just sort of curling its way around.

[Mara]

Is that yours?

[Felonious Haelovar]

That's odd.

[Bolaire]

Yes, I drew that. That's funny. I don't draw. I don't. I don't draw, but I do that.

[Hal]

Oh.

[Bolaire]

I drew it in the paint. Oh.

[Tysha]

Oh.

[Bolaire]

Is there a tiny. Oh, there is a tiny me, isn't there?

[Felonious Haelovar]

What does that mean? What is it doing there?

[Bolaire]

I keep seeing it flip around as your fly.

[Hal]

It's just sort of crawling around.

[Bolaire]

Why is it on the box?

[Hal]

Well, Taisha trying to get in the box. Got it over.

[Bolaire]

Why am I trying to get in the box? Why is my lizard trying to get in the box?

[Captain Naya]

Olaire, come take a look at this thing you created.

[Bolaire]

I'm not supposed to create things.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Do things dream?

[Bolaire]

I thought so, but apparently I was.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Can things create?

[Bolaire]

I don't know.

[Captain Naya]

It's the thing that people do. Maybe you are more person than you think.

[Julian]

And maybe Thimble.

[Mara]

Huh?

[Captain Naya]

Maybe journeying outside of what's been comfortable for you will help you understand a different version of the story that you've been telling yourself about who you are and who you can be.

[Julian]

But also put forth the argument that being a person doesn't necessarily require biological functions. Huh?

[Hal]

That's fair.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Balare, give me investigation or arcana. As you look at the bones,

[Julian]

they're both the same.

[Azune]

Anyway, I'll give you guidance.

[Bolaire]

It's guidance. Oh, it doesn't matter. That's 22.

[Captain Naya]

22.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You look at the little drawings and you see the lizard has the mask in its mouth, and the mask looks

[Felonious Haelovar]

right at you and goes, I'm Baulaire.

[Bolaire]

I'm Baulaire.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see the mask smile so broadly and tears begin to pop out of

[Felonious Haelovar]

it that are these bright, shining tears. And it goes, I'm not alone.

[Bolaire]

I touch the box.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

As you touch the box. As you touch the box, you hear

[Felonious Haelovar]

a distant fiddle playing and feel dancing. You were made to kill a God. And somewhere out there, technically, is an afterlife filled with things that, while they are there, cannot be free. Which means that the God you were made to destroy is still playing her last trick on those souls.

[Bolaire]

Can I get the mask and the lizard to run onto me from the box or. No.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The lizard crawls onto Your hand with the mask.

[Bolaire]

Hello, Figment.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Drops the mask.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'm Figment.

[Bolaire]

I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything. I wish it could have been different. And I wish I could have seen the play. So much my heart breaks. I really wanted to see the play.

[Vaelys]

Yes, well, we are imperfect.

[Wakander Haylovar]

You were made

[Felonious Haelovar]

to save us, and

[Vaelys]

now you must be imperfect with the rest of us.

[Bolaire]

It was poorly met.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I will go with you. Mara nods. Thank you.

[Bolaire]

I will need to be carried ore. I will need a vessel.

[Vaelys]

Yeah. I need my magic teacher.

[Captain Naya]

So

[Felonious Haelovar]

you will be protected. And let me be very clear, now that I know that you are the missing halfling weapon, I will die before I let someone throw you in a box.

[Julian]

I think I'm coming with you by default. I can't stay here.

[Felonious Haelovar]

She nods.

[Mara]

Izuna, you're staying, right?

[Felonious Haelovar]

I would love to go, but I, again, must stay.

[Hal]

You're really good here.

[Captain Naya]

I think I'm having fun.

[Hal]

I'm gonna fly over and rub your earlobe again. Just remember to stay calm, okay? You can do it.

[Julian]

Hey, can I have that signet ring back?

[Hal]

Oh, God.

[Bolaire]

Who has it?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Oh, I think your. Your signet ring.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Captain Naya]

You didn't give it to me.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I think your dad has it.

[Julian]

He what?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yeah, he sort of showed it off at the dinner.

[Julian]

Great.

[Captain Naya]

You handed it to someone else. Not me.

[Mara]

What about the rest of y'?

[Ad Voiceover]

All?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Ms. Tysha, I've got no idea what

[Cadogan Vale]

the fuck is going on. Before you leave, is there anything you can do about it? Oh, my God.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Just one.

[Hal]

Did I. Your finger's gone. I had.

[Azune]

That was me.

[Murray]

I had to.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Why did you take his fingers?

[Murray]

I had to prove that he was dead.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Yes.

[Hal]

Yes.

[Wakander Haylovar]

And when you presented it to your sister, was she vehement about looking at it and inspecting it and making sure that it had to be his finger?

[Cadogan Vale]

Did the plan work as we planned?

[Murray]

Believe me.

[Vaelys]

Do you have it?

[Hal]

Yeah, I have it right here.

[Murray]

But I think that I need it. I feel like Yanessa's gonna make sure. I feel like. I really feel strongly that I need it because she does not believe my sister.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You're so believable.

[Azune]

I bet you could use your words and that new bikini made out of

[Mara]

people's souls to conceal.

[Julian]

Really cool.

[Azune]

Please, may I have the finger?

[Hal]

You could say you ate it.

[Azune]

He's dripping on me. Please. Are you kidding me?

[Murray]

Can you just make a movie? Oh, God. Okay, if this gets me in trouble later, I'm coming for you, Tyson.

[Azune]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Stick it back on Give me a medicine check. Oh, no. Why'd I roll bad just then?

[Cadogan Vale]

11,

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

your finger goes back on, but there is a thin band of just wood. That's cheerful. Wood and metal. It's like it's kind of welded.

[Cadogan Vale]

Yeah, I've never been a pinky ring guy, but

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

that's weird.

[Julian]

I always thought you had one on.

[Azune]

I'll get you another finger.

[Murray]

No, no, no. I'll be fine. Listen, we figured it out. I'll figure it out again.

[Mara]

It's okay.

[Murray]

It's fine. We're gonna be fine.

[Captain Naya]

Mara.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Mara looks at you.

[Captain Naya]

When the sundered houses find out what this ritual at the hallowed round achieved, what do you expect their reaction to be?

[Felonious Haelovar]

They will attempt to undo it. I remind everybody here that yes, a few hundred souls in one night. Moreover than that, it is proof that the afterlives are not missing. Now maybe Dolmakjar is kind of a godless city. And that has translated in the past 70 years to not being considered consumed by matters of faith outside these walls. The creed reigns supreme in many lands near and far. And various circles of druids and other faiths as well. And the clerics of the totality. What was discovered here tonight, that the afterlives are not gone. That will shake the foundations of Ahrima.

[Captain Naya]

And it will draw a lot of attention to us, which I think is going to give you some coverage because their eyes are going to be on us while you go out there and try to do what we did here. Again.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Far be it from me to tell you your job. The most time you can buy before they know what has happened in this theater, the better.

[Julian]

Also the more souls that cross. By the time you have to deal with my family, the better they will get. Weaker. The less souls there are.

[Mara]

Where are you going?

[Murray]

Where you going?

[Mara]

Julian?

[Tysha]

Mara, you said you're going north towards Timony, right?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Well, that's not my final destination, but it's. It's headed in that way. And I, I, I would never go there if I wasn't flying. But I don't think I can fly if we're traveling in this group. That's all right.

[Tysha]

Do we think there's a way up north around about the Golden Orchard?

[Felonious Haelovar]

My path doesn't take me to the Golden Orchard.

[Hal]

We've got to stop by the Golden Orchard. We have to.

[Julian]

Oh, they destroyed it.

[Azune]

They did.

[Julian]

But my family tried to kill all of House Royce and Divinos. There's people there in.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I gotta, I gotta find the professor.

[Ad Voiceover]

I gotta find.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Find him. Is there

[Captain Naya]

a relic from the Golden Orchard that can serve our purpose?

[Felonious Haelovar]

Give me persuasion with advantage.

[Hal]

Guide him. Guide him.

[Azune]

No.

[Hal]

Fuck.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Guess what I rolled. What? You roll a natural 20.

[Murray]

No.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Come on. Oh, fuck.

[Bolaire]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see, she goes.

[Vaelys]

Golden boy.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Fuck, you're slick. What's your deal? Who are you?

[Captain Naya]

I have a friend that's a dragon.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

What the hell?

[Julian]

Look, talking to someone one time doesn't.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You see, she goes to me for a long time. You see, she goes.

[Felonious Haelovar]

That is a point very well made.

[Tysha]

Possibly, in looking to means of either re establishing where the fairy based afterlife might be, or possibly even a way to reopen the door to Faerie to bring our allies back for vengeance upon what has been wrought upon the Orchard itself. That would behoove everything you are attempting to accomplish. Yes,

[Felonious Haelovar]

it is a point well made. And more than that, while I need to tell the professor as soon as I can. I need to tell the professor as soon as I can.

[Tysha]

I'd very much like to meet this professor you keep talking about.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You see, she says what if. What if the professor met you at the Golden Orchard?

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Because I move fast solo.

[Felonious Haelovar]

If you can swear to me that you will protect that coffin, I can't fly with it anyway.

[Julian]

Then we'll meet you at the Golden

[Hal]

Orchard with the Professor.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I'll bring the professor if you bring the coffin.

[Tysha]

Consider it sworn. Yeah, by all that remains of the vassal house to Venus. Besides, if we're going, I get to hear you tell stories about how terrible. Thiazius. Maybe if we have those scissors, you

[Wakander Haylovar]

can finally pick the fucker free.

[Bolaire]

I had so many plans of what we could do to experiment.

[Hal]

Don't you? Give him those scissors.

[Azune]

Steal those scissors. Get big and steal those scissors.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.

[Murray]

I need that. I need those.

[Hal]

You. You don't.

[Murray]

I'm not gonna.

[Hal]

What? Okay.

[Murray]

It takes hours and two people. I couldn't do it by myself even if I wanted to.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You guys see Mara situation.

[Felonious Haelovar]

All right, I'll meet you in the Golden Orchard. I'll move as fast as I can. I fly pretty damn fast, if I can say so myself. By the time you get there, I should be on route with the professor and as many members of the Cloak as I can bring. Golden Orchard's not a bad place. Or God, what remains of it is not a bad place for us to have this conversation where we tell the world what it is we're up to.

[Mara]

From what I understand, while a lot of the Golden Orchard has been decimated, it does not seem like the Taconis Plans fully were successful, if that gives any hope.

[Felonious Haelovar]

It does. Vaelys, you're the one still holding the coffin, I think. It seems that Octus, Thimble, Bolaire and Julian are headed to the Golden Orchard. But Cadogan and Vaelys have not yet voiced what their wishes are. Varis.

[Tysha]

You hate the city.

[Hal]

Oh, I'm not staying in the city.

[Tysha]

And are you coming with us?

[Hal]

I have a question. The Mourn Vale.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah.

[Hal]

Is it anywhere on sort of the path towards the Golden Orchard?

[Felonious Haelovar]

It is extraordinarily far north from here.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Okay, but it's.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I mean, to answer your question, the Golden Orchard is to the northeast of here.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So it's a big detour. Going to the Golden Orchard is not. If your goal was to chase Taconuses,

[Felonious Haelovar]

you would head north to Timony and. And whatever they were doing in Houndsport.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

If your goal was to go meet the professor straight away, you'd fly with

[Felonious Haelovar]

Mara farther north to a place that she hasn't specified because she's not that bad of a spy.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Mourn Vale is on the other side of a sea from Timony. It's sailing north from Timony. Bay of Garathai, which is mentioned in the Taconis plants, is up there. Golden Orchard is Dvalmar Pass.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Rhysand Girdle. And then instead of going south to the eternal night, you go north to Tel Mora.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So not a direct path back there?

[Hal]

No. Okay. I would like to come with you. And maybe after the Orchard, I will

[Azune]

go my own way.

[Julian]

All right.

[Wakander Haylovar]

And Catechin?

[Cadogan Vale]

What puts me closer to Primus?

[Felonious Haelovar]

To Konis?

[Julian]

Physically or

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

emotionally?

[Julian]

I don't know.

[Bolaire]

I was really curious.

[Cadogan Vale]

Physically, look.

[Julian]

Physically.

[Cadogan Vale]

He said the underworld bashes fucking head in with a rock.

[Tysha]

Come with us.

[Julian]

Physically it is.

[Tysha]

That's the eventual.

[Julian]

You've been declared dead in the city by.

[Azune]

Don't kill him.

[Julian]

Trying to kill you.

[Hal]

We're gonna destroy it.

[Julian]

It's probably better if you come with us.

[Hal]

He's gonna die.

[Tysha]

Look, if the Azik can die and still stick around, we can figure out a way to kill Primus multiple times.

[Azune]

I'm just saying, if you kill him. Bring me a finger or something.

[Julian]

It's just a practicality reasons. If you stay here, they're going to figure out you're not dead. Yeah.

[Cadogan Vale]

Tell me where to go. I'll go.

[Julian]

Yeah, we're going to the Golden Orchard.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Sweet Felis,

[Julian]

I appreciate what you did here. I didn't see. Somewhat reassuring, knowing this place was partially created by the thing that once was my heart. Ish but did you think of what it was gonna do to me before you smashed it?

[Hal]

No, I did not.

[Julian]

Great. That's all I wanted to know.

[Captain Naya]

O'.

[Hal]

Lear.

[Bolaire]

Yes, Murray?

[Mara]

If y' all end up passing through Timony, they'll diminish. I said hi. Check in on them for me, will you?

[Captain Naya]

Of course.

[Mara]

I'll keep a close eye on the archonaut. I promise you that.

[Bolaire]

Be careful. We've made enemies. The apartment is. Is obviously available to both of you.

[Mara]

Toss me your keys.

[Bolaire]

Yeah.

[Hal]

And how would he have his keys? He's on another body.

[Captain Naya]

I know.

[Bolaire]

They're in my bag.

[Captain Naya]

His inventory transfer.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He's got a little mickey.

[Vaelys]

I'll miss our salons.

[Bolaire]

Thank you. Thank you. I miss. I hope one day to have the sorts of talks I was hoping to have and to tell you. I hope one day to tell you such stories.

[Vaelys]

Well, nothing is quite how any of us would want it.

[Julian]

Ms. Magnussen.

[Mara]

Yes?

[Julian]

While you're here and you're. If you come across anything dealing with the possibility of communicating with people beyond the veil. I'm encountering an interesting phenomenon that I don't know how to explain yet. And I would like more information if I can get it.

[Mara]

Do you want to elaborate or should I?

[Julian]

Just very much not in earshot of Tysha. Some of the things I've been bringing back are retaining pieces of their consciousness. And that's not something I've ever seen my family do.

[Mara]

Wizard shit.

[Julian]

Wizard shit.

[Hal]

All right.

[Murray]

Cadigan and Thimble. I haven't seen you in a minute. I just wanted to say I'm sorry about Teor. And I don't know how Wick and I are gonna do this without you protecting us. But we're gonna try really hard to not make things worse for you and Cadigan. We're gonna get him.

[Azune]

Yeah.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Something tells me you're gonna be just fine.

[Julian]

Hey, Julian, Can I have that piece of paper I gave you?

[Tysha]

Yes. It wasn't necessary. For me, anyway.

[Julian]

I appreciate it and I hand it to Wicked. It's the glyph of shielding. If you ever speak to my father again, have it on hand. It might help.

[Hal]

Oh, that was from Azune, by the way.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Oh, thank you, Azune, for giving this to Arctis, who gave it to Julie and who gave it to Arctis, who gave it to me.

[Captain Naya]

Who will you give it to?

[Julian]

Look, it wasn't used on our machine tyranny.

[Murray]

The sisterhood of the traveling have.

[Mara]

Like a shield.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Take this.

[Murray]

I don't want that. I have disguised self.

[Wakander Haylovar]

Baby, nobody wants

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

to give it back to.

[Mara]

So add one more to have that to the chain there.

[Cadogan Vale]

You don't want it?

[Julian]

I'll take it back.

[Wakander Haylovar]

No, no, no.

[Ad Voiceover]

I'll take it.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I love things that protect me

[Felonious Haelovar]

at

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

the sort of fairy glaive. Now

[Felonious Haelovar]

crystal glowing under the cave under the surface of the the lake wherein some draconic presence slumbers once again. A cherry tree blossoming in a distant mill on the hill. You all see the early morning sunlight coming in. You have been awake all night.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Keeps happening.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You retreat from the round. I think those of you who are going to depart the city are once again headed to the Valmar Pass. Which means that Hal's house is not a bad place to get a short rest before departing.

[Julian]

Yeah,

[Tysha]

I guess. Actually this is part of the question. Do we go to Timony and then to the orchard or the orchard then Timini?

[Hal]

I don't know the. The map.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I will show you.

[Hal]

Enough.

[Mara]

Please. I think.

[Cadogan Vale]

I think Catagan would know since he's been raging ranging to the north. Raging just for you.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'll say this. Actually. Actually, before we go all the way back to Howl's house, the funny thing

[Hal]

is you could do the Miller's Road.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

The Miller's Road gets you to Timony fast as lightning.

[Hal]

We can be quick about it.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

So even if they're equidistant, the Miller's

[Felonious Haelovar]

Road gets you to Tim faster.

[Hal]

We should just do the Miller's Rose.

[Tysha]

Let's do that.

[Julian]

And also they won't know where we are.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Dolmachyar Timini. And if you shorten the distance across

[Felonious Haelovar]

Timony then sailing across the Sea of Imlay, which would bring you to Houndsport to find out. Whatever you want to find out would

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

get you to Tel Mora faster than

[Felonious Haelovar]

going back to the Dvalmar Pass.

[Julian]

And we take a little rest here.

[Hal]

We can take a rest at the.

[Felonious Haelovar]

At the tree. You take a rest in the fairy cavern. Oh, Raisin Curdle Damn reason as you take your rest here. Cadogan Thimble Octus Julian Velis Balare. Julian, you've been getting drunk. Give me one more perception check with advantage.

[Murray]

Oh, sorry.

[Vaelys]

Move you to shit.

[Tysha]

Fearless.

[Mara]

We have a small table.

[Azune]

Secret vibes remain unknown and belair.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

My question for you is. Do you go. Are you just here where you are or do you go back to your

[Felonious Haelovar]

apartment before I am a little.

[Bolaire]

I will not go back to.

[Hal]

Well, don't you need a new body?

[Bolaire]

I don't have one there.

[Vaelys]

But he could ride along in a pocket I. Misha is not going.

[Bolaire]

Azane.

[Tysha]

17.

[Felonious Haelovar]

17.

[Captain Naya]

Yes.

[Bolaire]

I do not have words to express my gratitude for every conversation.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I am grateful.

[Bolaire]

I've been meaning to ask. Where does the name come from? Azane.

[Cadogan Vale]

Is that.

[Bolaire]

I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it right.

[Captain Naya]

You're not.

[Bolaire]

How does one pronounce it?

[Captain Naya]

Nobody here pronounces it right.

[Bolaire]

Well, I'm not going to be here for very long, am I? So I should probably pick it up. If I take it somewhere else.

[Captain Naya]

Do you like secrets, Bolay?

[Bolaire]

I am nothing but secrets.

[Captain Naya]

I whisper in his ear the correct pronunciation of my name. That has never been spoken at the stable.

[Felonious Haelovar]

It's like a recommendation of it.

[Captain Naya]

I don't know.

[Tysha]

It's a secret.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You whisper it.

[Wakander Haylovar]

I do. It's pronounced Keith.

[Bolaire]

I. I do have.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I have one.

[Bolaire]

I have one request and if you would do one terribly dangerous thing for me.

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[Bolaire]

Would you accompany me back to my apartment to gather some things?

[Hal]

Yes.

[Bolaire]

Would you help me leave this particularly kind gentleman behind?

[Captain Naya]

Would you like me to put on the mask?

[Julian]

Yes, please.

[Murray]

I did it before. It's okay. It's safe.

[Captain Naya]

Yes, I'll do that.

[Bolaire]

Thank you. Oh yeah. Go ahead.

[Tysha]

I was going to say before you do that.

[Ad Voiceover]

Uh huh.

[Tysha]

Before I lose you to this chaos.

[Bolaire]

Yeah.

[Tysha]

I go. You're all staying behind to protect what's important to you in this city. Of course. When he fell, Teor took into battle a symbol of alliance to some within House Einfasn. A place of which you've built some connection, from what I hear. Yes. Yes. It serves me no purpose. And it served him great purpose at the end. But. And I reach over in the belongings I have and pull forth the axe that Ingrid gave me.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Yeah.

[Tysha]

And say, I know you seem to be a bit like a protector, but there will come a time where it's about cutting down your foe before they get to you. And I kind of lop the axe into your grit. This massive, great axe.

[Azune]

It's not a lucky axe.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

You're still drunk.

[Felonious Haelovar]

You pass the axe to azune on that 17. Perception, I think. As we're parting ways and beginning to wind down. Thimble, you are resting in this fairy cave, dreaming sweet dreams. And Cadigan, you're remaining here to travel as well. I think Thimble and Wick are heading out. And. Tyranny, you have your last moment with Cadogan and Thimble before you and Wick have to depart back to the Via Aurora. I think. Julian, there's a Small fire fairies are dancing around it. And you look at your shadow on the wall and there is a moment of several shadows there. And I think only you see this. Of your shadow reaching out and embracing. Two figures holding them close as these three shapes on the wall, their arms tight locked around each other. Two other figures, manes around their heads, vanish into shadow. And you just see your shadow looking at them vanish.

[Vaelys]

Hell.

[Julian]

Before you leave. Yeah, I'm sorry.

[Ad Voiceover]

I know.

[Julian]

Are you coming with us? Timini? Okay. And I will see you when I see you.

[Azune]

I'm going to miss you very much.

[Julian]

I'm going to miss you too. Don't tell your grandmother about me. Yeah, she doesn't need to know.

[Azune]

You haven't met my grandma. She's as scary as your dad.

[Julian]

I love you.

[Hal]

I love you.

[Azune]

And I want to pull out just like a little sewing needle and like put it like tuck it into the lapel of your coat just in case you pins stitches get loose or mine. Take care of yourself.

[Julian]

Right.

[Mara]

You safe out there, Mama bear.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Hal Marie Azun. Wake and tyranny. Head off to the various parts of the city in which you sleep and call home. Except Azune, wearing bolair. You gather up and or destroy whatever in your apartment you need to. You find one and you release Misha to go back home with Hal.

[Bolaire]

Misha and I in my head, by the way, have been having a phenomenal talk about our favorite theater. I have been sharing plays that have long since died to antiquity. He's been.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

He's drunk as a skunk on mind wine, a good time. He gives you a big embrace on your way out. And as Azune wears you in his

[Felonious Haelovar]

home, you are able to.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

We can hash out all of the intricacies. But you do find one other thing

[Felonious Haelovar]

before you leave, which is left on your table is a note that says I owe you everything. And I didn't get to say goodbye. If you're ever in Timony, please call on its arch mage. And I made you something. And you see Demidus, who didn't get to say goodbye to you before he fled. And there is a small flip book that has a little black cat on it. And the flip book very simply says there once was a cat that was told it would die at the end of its story. And though it knew its doom was coming, it. And then in the flip book, the cat scratches the narration panels apart, jumps and leaps beyond the pages of the flipbook. And the rest of the pages are blank.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

That's radish.

[Felonious Haelovar]

I've cried enough.

[Julian]

Today,

[Felonious Haelovar]

Azane. You return him to the cave where his companions can care for him until such time as a body can be found.

[Captain Naya]

Yes.

[Hal]

I love it. Before Tysha goes, I would like to walk up to Tysha and

[Julian]

subtle giving space.

[Hal]

Thank you for everything. You have taught me so much in the short amount of time that we've spent together.

[Azune]

I am so sorry that the manner of our meeting and my behavior towards you was nothing like what I thought

[Hal]

we would go through.

[Azune]

And I will miss you terribly.

[Hal]

I will miss you very bad. You have made a very large impact on me.

[Felonious Haelovar]

And you on me.

[Hal]

Please be safe.

[Azune]

Avoid birds. They're so bad.

[Julian]

Yes.

[Hal]

Never again.

[Azune]

Never again.

[Hal]

Never again.

[Julian]

I give you a huge hug.

[Hal]

Yeah, I just grab you and I just hold on to you and hold

[Murray]

on as long as I can.

[Mara]

Come back if you can, Catigan. We'll get our date. Night next time, Dirtman.

[Cadogan Vale]

Promises, promises.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Hal, you return with Misha home where once again, bodies of loved ones.

[Vaelys]

You fell asleep, old timer.

[Felonious Haelovar]

What's that?

[Wakander Haylovar]

Oh, fell asleep.

[Vaelys]

Let's get you to bed.

[Felonious Haelovar]

To bed. I had such a lovely type of bow lair. He's so learned in his cellar.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Black Lodge. You see that? You see all around that.

[Felonious Haelovar]

Once again, you have a trip to a cemetery to make. As soon as your home was cleared of your brother's body, you now have these two. Their spirits, however, I think Thimble and Cadogan is. As you dream amongst the fairies, you hear distant roars of brothers who don't have to go on their next journey alone. You sleep and rest.

[Mara]

And

[Felonious Haelovar]

in the morning, our new Seeker's Table heads for the Golden Orchard. Our new Schemer's Table awakens in Dolmachyar. And I think fittingly, a one person soldier's table.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

I'm an army of one.

[Tysha]

Julian and Tycha just share one look from across the rest of the crowd and just gives like a. That's it.

[Vaelys]

I got one last thing.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Never going home. No, never go for it.

[Vaelys]

In the morning, when Thimble is sitting on a branch before you set out, a magpie lands on the branch next to you. A little bit smaller than you, warbles a little bit. And then you hear Hal's voice come out of the bird saying, my brother told me to tell you it would be okay.

[Bolaire]

And

[Wakander Haylovar]

maybe it will be.

[Hal]

Thanks, Hal.

[Felonious Haelovar]

The adventure continues for these beautiful, inspiring, noble and flawed and heroic adventurers. But it does not continue for us. Because that is the end of this session and indeed of this chapter of this saga for all of you. At home. Thank you for watching this extraordinarily hefty episode of Critical Role and it is my honor amongst all of you to ask, is it Thursday?

[Bolaire]

Ta da.

[Dungeon Master (Matthew Mercer)]

Thanks for listening to this episode of Critical Role. If you're enjoying this story, consider leaving a review on your podcast platform of choice. We're always looking for new critters to share our adventures with, and your review may help a new batch of wayward souls find their way to Ahriman, Exandria and beyond. Or, if you want to hear what the cast discussed after the episode, head to Beacon TV and check out our exclusive show Critical Role Cooldown. You'll be right there at the table immediately after we say, is it Thursday yet? And experience our cast's post show reactions.

[Felonious Haelovar]

We'll see you next time.

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