Visions of Shadow & Stone | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 16 Part 2

Summary

Critical Role Campaign 4, Episode 16 Part 2 – "Visions of Shadow & Stone"

Date: March 3, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode takes the party deeper into the shadow-haunted badlands on their quest to reach Tanasar, the legendary “Place of Wings.” Amid ancient ruins, brutal cold, and growing supernatural danger, the party seeks to unravel divine secrets and save loved ones—while struggling to survive ethereal threats that prey upon the mind and spirit.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Progression

Returning to the Shadowlight Waypoint (02:06–09:08)

• The party regroups at the Shadowlight waypoint after the halfling scholar, Dr. Talter, collapses from a prophetic vision. She describes:
  • Her vision: A tall orcish warrior, javelins in hand, defending a sunken holy site (Tanasar) from undead.
  • Divine origins: Tanasar—a historic oracular site, “Place of Wings,” tied to summoning or crafting Celestial beings.
  • The ancient powers: Tanasar is discussed as a site once venerated by both the priestly houses of Haylovar and Taconis (09:08).

“I had a vision of some kind. I saw wings and a warrior. A Berrowguard warrior defending against undead.”
— Dr. Talter (05:03)

• The party debates the significance, noting that texts suggest “crafting” Celestials involves divine permission and possibly personal sacrifice.

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Journey Across the Eternal Night Badlands (13:44–25:52)

• The group sets out towards Tanasar, traversing increasingly bleak landscapes:
  • Descriptions of the ancient aqueduct highway, the “Tiriavia”, and colossal, sand-buried stone titans tied to the warlike lost house Callistra.
  • Party members reflect on the origins of these colossi and past wars between the priestly and warrior houses.
  • A sandstorm in the distance and the policed borderlands heighten the tension of the journey.

"These people were so good at stealing that they stole a river and respect. Some ancient sorcerer emperor snapped his fingers at the Taconis and the Haylevar and said, bring me a river. They did. Y' all are the Worst.”
— Matthew Mercer (21:29)

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Philosophical Musings & Visions (25:40–31:56)

• Characters engage in a particularly rich conversation about faith, knowledge, and the reliability of visions:
  • Octys admits skepticism toward faith, believing it an “intelligence deficit” (29:03).
  • Dr. Talter counters with nuanced thoughts on the intersection of intellect and belief.

“In my experience, I have not found it to be the case that the presence or absence of faith is a predictor for the presence or absence of intellect.”
— Dr. Talter (29:16)

• The party establishes that Tanasar may hold the key to summoning a Celestial, but only as a last resort, tied to the death of the god Tansul.

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Pushing On Into the Wilderness (35:20–44:20)

• The party debates where to camp: atop the safe but freezing aqueduct, or in the unpredictable wilds.
• A coin toss leads them to press into the darkness, risking exhaustion and exposure.
• There’s tension over shadowy supernatural threats, with characters using magical stones and trinkets for protection.
• The first real eldritch encounter arises: Julian suffers the effects of creeping spiritual influence, almost lighting a torch when warned not to—resulting in a dangerous sequence involving his own shadow attacking him (45:40–54:23).

“Your shadow…is dragging you off into the desert.”
— Matthew Mercer (55:32)

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The Shadow Attacks & Party Survival (54:23–63:01)

• Combat erupts as the shadow tries to drag Julian away, prompting tense, creative, and coordinated action:
  • Bayless heroically leaps horses to lasso Julian back with the censer whip (57:06–58:14).
  • Octys and others snuff lights, realizing the entity attacks via torch-cast shadows.
• The party carefully deduces that anything casting a shadow is dangerous; commands and perceptions are unreliable under the "whispering" influence.
• They adopt safeguards: "If you hear something, say something. If you see something, scream.” (62:56)

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Seeking Shelter and Unlocking Ancient Lore (67:50–80:00)

• Exhaustion and cold force a rest in an ancient canyon—revealed through magical study to be the ruins of the fallen House Callistra.
• Octys uses a magical tome to commune with the sentient stone of the ruins:

“The stone spoke to me and showed me what it had to…Tansul gave human beings the ability, as we know, to create this thing upon their death…But also it requires sacrifice to create one of these things…What could be more precious to him than us…the heart.”
— Octys & stone’s memory (80:00–81:43)

• It becomes clear that the secret to creating a Celestial—possibly the key plot event—requires a human heart, hinting at a grim family sacrifice central to the story.

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Approach to Tanasar: Aftermath and Horrors (85:39–88:33)

• The party finds the entrance to Tanasar littered with the fallen Barrowguard—something is terribly wrong.
• Tysha desperately tries to locate her missing son with magic, but his trail remains cold.
• Investigation of the bodies reveals something undead:
  • One corpse suddenly animates, unspooling into a flock of hundreds of nightingales, enveloping Bayless, and leaving the episode on a cliffhanger.

“The clothes empty until there is nothing but bare white bones as a hundred nightingales fly through the opening of the helmet surrounding your body…”
— Matthew Mercer (87:53)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On ancient powers:

  • “It was called the Place of Wings because it was a place to summon celestial aid, the place of wings. And it was a promise made to Tansul to his followers.”
    — Dr. Talter (08:09)

• On encountering shifting supernatural dangers:

  • “There is something under. This is a strange thing to say. You could swear that there was something under your horse.”
    — Matthew Mercer (52:15)

• On magical revelation:

  • “The stone spoke to me…It showed me a vision…Tansul gave human beings the ability…to create something Celestials. But…there was different intonations…It requires sacrifice to create one of these things—human sacrifice, specifically pointed at a heart.”
    — Taliesin Jaffe & Matthew Mercer (80:00–81:43)

• On party dynamics:

  • “If you hear any orders, double check out loud before you act on them.”
    — Marisha Ray (62:06)

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Important Timestamps

• 02:06: Return to the Shadowlight waypoint; Dr. Talter’s vision
• 05:03: Dr. Talter describes the vision and ancient significance of Tanasar
• 13:44: The party sets out across the Eternal Night
• 21:29: Ancient aqueduct and sandstorm descriptions
• 25:40: Discussion on history, houses, and colossi
• 29:03–29:16: Faith vs. intellect discussion
• 45:40–55:32: Julian attacked by his own shadow after lighting the torch
• 62:56: Party establishes protocol for resisting supernatural whispers
• 73:11–81:43: Octys communes with ancient stone; learns about the ritual’s true cost
• 85:39–88:33: Horror at the gates of Tanasar; cliffhanger as undead magic triggers

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Episode Tone

• Haunting, tense, and atmospheric.
  Stark imagery of ancient ruins, spiritual peril, self-deprecating party banter as defense against fear, and a profound sense of history and personal loss underscore the journey.
  Character moments swing between gallows humor, grim determination, and philosophical introspection, true to the voice and improvisational style of the cast.

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Summary

Episode 16 Part 2 of "Visions of Shadow & Stone" drives the party toward Tanasar through deadly cold, magical visions, and the cunning malice of the eternal night. Wrestling with divine secrets, the moral cost of salvation, and relentless supernatural intrusion, the adventurers discover that the keys to Celestial creation demand the ultimate sacrifice. Their approach to the ruined temple, marked by an eruption of undead magic, leaves them—and the listener—on the edge, primed for even darker revelations to come.

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Next episode: What horror will the birds bring? What does the ancient temple truly hold? The stakes have never been higher.

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Taliesin Jaffe]

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[Matthew Mercer]

Peter Cook. We return to the Shadowlight waypoint where a tiny halfling woman has just collapsed in Tysha's arms. You see, she looks out and her eyes return to a normal shade. Are you okay, Tannizhar?

[Marisha Ray]

Mm? Where'd you go just now?

[Matthew Mercer]

Vision. A vision.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Of the wings. The place of wings. Where you're going to Tanasar.

[Marisha Ray]

On purpose.

[Matthew Mercer]

That means you know where Tanasar is.

[Marisha Ray]

Above game, is it not?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, that's a thing extremely known. A lot of people at the camp have been talking about it. Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes. What do you Think of when you

[Matthew Mercer]

think of that name, you see Obzaz is not far away from you in this moment. And turns around, just goes, oh.

[Marisha Ray]

I immediately snap him over.

[Matthew Mercer]

He comes over and says, Dr. Talter, some almost 200 soldiers that came in here a few days ago were headed to Tanasar. We were readying their packs to journey to Tanis. And she goes, I'm not very good at this.

[Marisha Ray]

It's okay, Brie.

[Matthew Mercer]

I thought I was focused on the stupid fucking sword. I was focused on the sword and on Clive. And you see that?

[Marisha Ray]

Clive, give me the apple.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see? He rolls it up a hand and elbow pops it over.

[Marisha Ray]

There you go.

[Matthew Mercer]

Which is full pops and locks an apple 100% just.

[Marisha Ray]

Arlem Globetrotters an apple into a doctor's mouth.

[Matthew Mercer]

He says, I'm have to explain I've missed a couple weeks of work. And you see the obsess looks over and says. She says, the Tanasar. Well, I didn't hear that that's where they were going or I would have remarked on it. She looks at you and says, tanasar. Well, she's like, it's not. It's not lock in. It's a place of deep interest to me. I should calm down. It's not a place that the entirety of the totality has been searching for with all of its might as the key to all of the world's problems. It is a very interesting place to me because. And just a moment, I. I had a vision of some kind. I saw wings and a warrior. A Berylguard warrior defending against undead.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. Ah, not here.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see? She says, uh huh, uh huh.

[Marisha Ray]

What did the guard look like?

[Matthew Mercer]

The vision I had was the back of him, but he a tall Orcish man.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, keep going.

[Matthew Mercer]

Javelins. He had some javelins. Nope.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, don't lose the plot.

[Matthew Mercer]

Keep going. And the vision I had didn't have a lot more than that. But I'm grateful for the vision just because it didn't have more. That's fine. I received a vision from my divine Cardinal Direction. Which is up. No, stop it. That's not up. There's nothing up. I am a cleric of truth and knowledge. Some of us want it to be knowledge. I like truth. But. When your Divine Cardinal direction is not personified or granted a personal agency, there is no reason or cause for it to take decisive action, even as an object of dedication. So people get visions from gods because gods want to send them visions. And when the thing you revere isn't a person, why Would it send you a message? But some of us think that sometimes it does. And I just got a vision.

[Marisha Ray]

Is this your first vision?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yep.

[Marisha Ray]

Doing great. You saw the back of an Orc

[Matthew Mercer]

guarding against undead in what looked like a sunken holy site. Tanasar is a place that I had studied because there's a. It is of extreme significance to someone in my line of study because Tanasar was a rumored oracular location associated in some texts in which it's. Well, it's referenced by both the Hail of Var and the Taconis as being a site associated with their houses. I don't know if it's possible that. Because the texts are across a couple different centuries, so it's possible that it changed hands, or it's possible that both houses had a role to play. They were the two priestly houses of the Obergemian Empire, but fundamentally, It was called the Place of Wings because it was a place to summon celestial aid, the place of wings. And it was a promise made to Tansul to his followers. Now, what's fascinating is Tansul, the writings of the priests of the houses of Haylovar and Taconis that received this missive from the Shaper of the sun indicated that there would never be a cause to require Celestial aid without requesting the aid from your shaper. In other words, why would you make a request to anything other than your shaper and assume that celestial aid would be imparted from him? Some of the texts, in terms of summoning the aid actually use a separate word, which is crafting aid. In which case, Tanasar as the place of wings, would have been a place where, for whatever reason, Tansul would have gifted his followers the ability should something happen, because there's actually in one of the missives, to make their own celestial.

[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

Yes. Thank you.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll go to Venatus if you want, but do you want me to come to.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. You're ours now. Come here. Do you have your own horse?

[Matthew Mercer]

Do you want to be.

[Marisha Ray]

You're on my horse.

[Matthew Mercer]

Lovely. And you see that she goes up on your horse and says. And what's your name?

[Marisha Ray]

We did do this.

[Matthew Mercer]

We did.

[Marisha Ray]

Tysha. Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sorry, I forgot. I was very focused on.

[Marisha Ray]

You were very focused on a sword.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you have that sword? Clive, get the sword.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that? Clive brings the sword over and says, I raise a lot.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, come on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sorry. And you see that she takes this great sword. For most of you, this sword is a letter opener. This is a very small it looks kind of archaically small, even for halfling or gnomish hands. Green knife. And you see. Yeah. She comes over and says. Yeah. Everything before Lord Taconis ruined this is gone from me.

[Marisha Ray]

But.

[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

I had already packed because I couldn't bear to be here. So everything great is packed and I'm ready to go. All right, Clive. Goodbye. And you see that?

[Bayless]

Me too.

[Liam O'Brien]

What a weird week he's had.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just on a ship being like. Explain exactly what you think I can do for you. You see that? Ambery walks up. Gaia is on her horse. You guys just see this halfling woman walk up again. Kind of like lovely little white and blue scholar's gown and vest, spectacles, a mousy face and some brown hair looking out. Hello.

[Marisha Ray]

Coming with us? Did you know Tanasar is a place where, back in the time of the shapers, you could craft your own Celestial?

[Matthew Mercer]

Where you were promised to craft your own Celestial. The secret was inscribed in words of the divine tongue. But the thing is that.

[Marisha Ray]

And you speak that tongue?

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, no one can or I speak. We are working on unlocking a word in that language. You are aware of some of this? This is the work of the Pentaveral as well.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's what the Pantiverel is doing.

[Marisha Ray]

These are words that if you were wondering.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sorry.

[Marisha Ray]

We were wondering maybe why your family sent one hundred and eighty soldiers to Tanasar.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes, we have been wondering.

[Marisha Ray]

To clear out the undead. To summon their own Celestial,

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Maybe.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Hence the good doctor.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Right?

[Matthew Mercer]

It's very funny because again, I struggle with mysticism. But isn't it so interesting that I'm here from a mistake, a wrong turn?

[Marisha Ray]

Stories are good.

[Bayless]

Do you know how they would achieve such a thing?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

Got it.

[Matthew Mercer]

But she looks over at Julian and you see. Gaia looks over at you and says, my Lord, we should make our way. We can talk on while we ride.

[Liam O'Brien]

Son of sleep. Slowly up, looking down at the doctor. Draw my rapier and just hold it right under her chin.

[Matthew Mercer]

She goes.

[Liam O'Brien]

Do you fear us?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

We'll be all right.

[Marisha Ray]

Don't worry about that. You're good.

[Matthew Mercer]

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[Liam O'Brien]

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[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, fair. Stay by me.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hurry up, you guys. Ride off.

[Marisha Ray]

Donkey, donkey wagon.

[Bayless]

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[Marisha Ray]

Stop hauling ass.

[Bayless]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

As all of you make your way further, As you of all people from this side of the table now. Betrayal. As you make your way from the shadowlight waypoint down the path, the road simply ends. You move through the field and finally the sun vanishes into the northwestern sky. You ride and watch barren badlands suddenly just birth themselves from land that has not known the touch of the sun in 70 years. There are some ossified carcasses of trees that look almost like shattered finger bones of some ancient earth deity as the wind has ripped the branches from them over 70 years, dried and desiccated. You approach on horseback up a sort of wide open plain, following a road that is literally only made of footfalls, right the sort of worn into the path ahead of you, going up towards where you have passed before, a place called the Titan's Bench, which is the saddle between two massive peaks here. As the night begins riding through this area, all of this is essentially the area that is the most policed by the Barrowguard. You look out and see on some of those tree carcasses there are rations or water skins hung up in caches for traveling rangers. There are some watchtowers built out in the ruins of the night. Out here in this place. This area between the edge of the eternal night, that shadow light waypoint all the way to the Titan's Bench is a wide strip of foothills that you can see are basically maintained by the Barrowguard. You see there are some valleys that actually have palisades across them. There are things here like defenses built out into the edge of the way wasteland here by the Bero Guard. Approaching the Titan's Bench, you ride up for about maybe two hours of riding, eventually getting up to that crest. And as you crest it, you look down and see falling away on the other side, down to the deeper lowlands of the ancient valleys of the Operdemian Empire. Vast as the horizon, rolling silver white sand stretching into the level distance. As the mountains of Helvar fall down towards the ancient borders of old Obrademia. You behold the beginning of the Tyria via an elevated stone highway built into the might and mass of an ancient aqueduct. Columns Some 150ft tall raise this road like a skyscraper over the desert sands below. As the columns advance, winding into the desert FL far away, this elevated highway providing you a bird's eye view of the shifting sands beneath the yawning faces of stone colossi partially buried in the sand themselves that towered over this elevated highway, some of them 200ft tall. These enormous constructions of the ancient stories sorcerous empire of the house which commanded the loyalty of the Taconis and Haylvar in ages past. You see, Dr. Talter looks and goes, oh,

[Marisha Ray]

you've never been. You've never been here before?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, no. This is exceptional. What was this ancient aqueduct is partially widened out. This highway is about 60ft wide, but built into this stone basin. So as you ride, you are literally riding your horses on ancient masonry stone out and over into the distance. There are large blocks of stone set on either edge to provide a sort of railing or guard. But those are only about three and a half feet tall. These are three and a half foot slabs of stone. So riding on horses, you actually have to fight a feeling of vertigo. Almost raised. This high up above the desert, heading towards the.

[Marisha Ray]

How are the wind like, is it just up here? Are we just being Bria?

[Matthew Mercer]

That's a great question. Would you be kind enough to roll a luck check? Oh, no. Oh, no. You really don't want a one and you don't want a six or lower?

[Marisha Ray]

Nine.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nine.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm never gonna ask a clarifying question again.

[Liam O'Brien]

Absolutely not. We're gonna ask all of them.

[Matthew Mercer]

On a nine. You look in the distance and see these skies are so clear here. The frigid air. It is as freezing as being in the far north during midwinter. It is far below freezing up here right now. But looking out into the distance, you see, though the stars are as crisp and clean as can be due to the fact that basically all of the water has just frozen out of the air. You can see in the distance what looked like clouds moving until you recognize that it is maybe 100 miles away. But a sandstorm that itself dwarfs even these sunken colossi in terms of its size, that might well well be over a quarter of a mile tall is whipping across the distant desert, burying more of these colossi in their hands. Anyone who wants to give me a perception check. 21, 9, 9, 21. 15, 15, 9, 9, 21. The sandstorm's moving a different direction from you. You've traveled on the Tiri Ofiya before. This aqueduct brought, essentially diverted a river from the eastern mountains of Helvar all the way to the core to irrigate the vast farms of the Obra Demian Empire. These people were so good at stealing that they stole a river and respect. Some ancient sorcerer emperor snapped his fingers at the Taconis and the Haylevar and said, bring me a river. They did. Y' all are the Worst. You see on that 21. Every, usually every five or so miles there will be either a long low incline ramp that will come down following the columns down to the ground level or there will be an actual even more frequently than that. Many of the columns actually have ladders or staircases in them to help service them, to help someone come up and cast mending can think of an empire full of first level sorcerers that can't fly but can take a ladder 180ft up to cast mending on a bunch of big stone columns. So you see, you perceive those on the horizon there. I think Octys on a 15. You just look over and see the colossi in the sand. As you are riding down the tiriyavia. You see far distant away from the tiri via the there start to be colossi. They're way in the distance. But there are colossi that you can see are standing looking towards Helvar and the west with massive stone spears. And their faces are totally neutral. The colossi sunken in the sands around here seem to have expressions of horror or rage on their face. And their limit are at odd angles as though they moved as they fell.

[Marisha Ray]

This is so fucking rad. And like my favorite poem,

[Matthew Mercer]

Bumo works humight disappear. Fucking freak out. We all know that poem. Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I wonder what could have animated these in the past, these colossals.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, you were death Hailovar was light, right? Was another family construct. I mean you all kind of picked

[Taliesin Jaffe]

a specialty, true, but that I don't know why. I don't know what that would be.

[Marisha Ray]

When you were a little lordling, didn't they make you recite all the names?

[Matthew Mercer]

Give me a history check if you like. Ooh. 24. The house of Obra die also held dominion over two houses equal in station to the hail of ours and the Taconuses, which were the warrior houses of Mennari and Callistra, all of whom fought to the very last. They did not wish to walk away from the shapers war. And you believe that looking at some of the colossi that it may have been that the house of Callistra knew to speak the words that would give life to these stone warriors? Well,

[Taliesin Jaffe]

there were houses didn't make it out of the shapers war. Some of them didn't want to give up on the shapers.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, you get what you get.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

House Callistra was one of the ones that might have been able to do something like this. I don't know for sure. It's just

[Matthew Mercer]

Half waste.

[Marisha Ray]

I mean, try something. Say the first word that comes to mind. See if we can wake one up. Do that one. He looks bad.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You, get up.

[Marisha Ray]

I figured you would try a magic word. Do they teach you nothing in school?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's not really a school. It's like.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm gonna call your professor Murray.

[Liam O'Brien]

You have to speak the statue's language. Turgid didn't work.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I don't speak stone.

[Matthew Mercer]

You. You see that? Dame Saramaia looks at you and says, the warrior houses, they died in legend. Yes. In the history of the Shapers War, they stood to the last. But I suppose it's interesting, looking at it from this vantage point that our houses did not. I wonder. NYC just looks down at the colossi staring out of the sand. The priestly houses of Halovar and Taconis change their minds. Dr. Talzar says. Well, it's funny to think that warriors might know more about faith than priests.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That is funny.

[Matthew Mercer]

Not haha funny necessarily. I don't know. Are we. What brings us here to Tanasar? What are you. We are finding your son.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

How did you.

[Marisha Ray]

I would have caught everyone up on vision.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sorry, do I know they had a vision?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I fully came over. Yeah. At some point when we were writing, I think I would have sidled up.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Finding the target of vision

[Marisha Ray]

might not be my second son, but probably is the javelins.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Makes you feel any better, I also had a vision about the same person or same picture image.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, are you. No. You're not a person of faith?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No. It has always been my understanding that. Oh, this is going to sound terrible.

[Matthew Mercer]

You have time to not say it? Oh, sorry. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

A person of faith, I always assumed, lacked a certain degree of intelligence. And that just might be the way I was raised.

[Matthew Mercer]

I, in my experience, have not found it to be the case that the presence or absence of faith is a predictor for the presence or absence of intellect. Good.

[Marisha Ray]

I would agree.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, I believe.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I don't mean to insult anybody, I just.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, I believe that. Well, I'll wait till we spend more time before I talk about what I believe together. Believe we'll spend more time together and then I'll talk about it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's fair.

[Matthew Mercer]

Tanasar. Well, it's just very extraordinary. Before, I had meant to mention that this Tansul in the writings exchanged between the hail of Ar, the Draconis and their vassals, speaking of this place, it was a place that was promised. And in one of the texts, one of the high priests that had communed with Tansul directly, that it had been crafted such that Tansul's death could be avenged should he ever be slain by Osgra, his brother. Which apparently, for some period of time, was a deep concern of the God of the sun and one of the few shaper of the Sun. One of the few shapers to speak openly of a possible Ent, though he feared it more from his sibling than he did from the hands that held the staves of night. Oop. Interesting. So. But the point being, he wasn't really

[Marisha Ray]

wrong in the end, was he? The hands that Oscar shaped.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, I suppose he was right. But yes, the greatest weapon that Oscar ever forged was the one that destroyed him. My point being that the power to summon or create a Celestial was not given prematurely in the text that I have studied to the Houses, that essentially it was in the event of Consul's destruction that they would not be left unarmed. Right. It was a.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

An insurance policy.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. So to speak. Right.

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[Marisha Ray]

Let's die of exposure.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ashley, would you roll a D20 for me? No.

[Marisha Ray]

Damn, that was the real issue.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, Bayless looking to a point six or lower. Definitely don't want a one.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, get a 20.

[Bayless]

Oh, 18.

[Matthew Mercer]

Love that.

[Marisha Ray]

Great.

[Matthew Mercer]

Great. As you guys travel, this section of the Tiria Via is one well maintained. You find no structures within it or anything like that that would give you any pause and arrive all the way. Riding for a few more hours. You will probably have to stop before you get to Tanasar. The question is, you have more riding time available to you. Do you want to camp up on the Tiriya Via and lose more time or do you want to press on but have to camp out in the wilderness?

[Bayless]

Both of those options is bad in both directions. Is bad. Both of them?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

I mean wilderness. For me the wilderness is more interesting.

[Matthew Mercer]

Why?

[Marisha Ray]

Why? Why? What do you mean when you say interesting?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm fascinated by plants.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's.

[Liam O'Brien]

You've traveled here quite often. What dangers do we think will beseech us on the road versus in the wilds?

[Marisha Ray]

If we want a guarantee of a good but much colder night's sleep, we stay up here where it's safe. If we stay in the wilderness, then the things that crawl through the endless dark will have a chance to seek Warmth. You're very warm. Sir.

[Liam O'Brien]

Julian.

[Marisha Ray]

Not emotionally like your blood.

[Liam O'Brien]

I got what you were laying down.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So nothing wants my blood anymore. So I'm just. Whatever.

[Liam O'Brien]

You're fine. The road then. Or.

[Bayless]

I mean I would be fine to press on but.

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't know what we should do.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

All right. Should have determined which number.

[Matthew Mercer]

I do that so much. All right. Flip a coin. Heads. Fuck.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

What does heads mean?

[Bayless]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Should we put high? High is press on.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Low is stay here.

[Bayless]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

18 press on.

[Bayless]

So we're pressing on. We feel good about this.

[Liam O'Brien]

Of course. There is no time to waste. And you know what? Maybe in the wilderness we'll find a place to stay out of sight to keep our warmth hidden and at least prepare something. Try and find its way to where we keep rest.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

As also I'm awake the whole time.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fair.

[Bayless]

Same.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Liam O'Brien]

Up here. And I look off on the horizon of that distant dust storm. Who's to say they won't come our direction mid sleep? And I would.

[Marisha Ray]

The dust storm. It's not going to. She's nice to know. I drew it. I pick up a little bit of stone. This is a stone that will keep the dust away as long as you keep it in your pocket and believe.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I could probably tell her.

[Liam O'Brien]

Do I believe her?

[Matthew Mercer]

You put it in your pocket. Go ahead. Give me an insight check. DC5.

[Sam Riegel]

Deception.

[Matthew Mercer]

Deception. 1010. What'd you get in your deception roller? Bria?

[Marisha Ray]

I got 12 plus 3. 15.

[Liam O'Brien]

I take the rock and look at. Your Protection is appreciated. And I put the rock in my pocket.

[Matthew Mercer]

You've now got a little flower and a little rock in there.

[Marisha Ray]

Drew is just handing you weird shit.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's possible I could figure out that rock's name. Interested in.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm sorry.

[Matthew Mercer]

What?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I have a book.

[Matthew Mercer]

What book?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Dinnerford.

[Marisha Ray]

You very specifically didn't.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Wasn't specific. I didn't mean to keep one of the things that your druid friends gave us.

[Matthew Mercer]

I have a book.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh God.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Come on. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Let's pronounce his name. The Kibenem Kdaz. It is. I pull it out of my bag. It's a book of. From what I can work out the names of stones.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

That does seem like something. Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Have you found it enlightening.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I read a little bit of it. It seems that I could use it to identify particularly interesting stones and their lineages.

[Marisha Ray]

What language is it in

[Matthew Mercer]

Stone? It's in Druidic.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's in Druidic. But I can comprehend the language if I concentrate.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

You can keep it interesting.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It just one of the things

[Liam O'Brien]

we press on.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That was the only other thing that we were given besides the charms as we press on.

[Bayless]

Something I would like to do. I don't know if they're already in there but I would love to prepare and put some of the embers of Erasque into my sensor hell.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Bayless]

For a little bit of light

[Matthew Mercer]

and

[Travis Willingham]

just have it in there for funsies.

[Matthew Mercer]

You place them in as they are now before any word is spoken. They simply glow with a deep warmth. And your censer fills your body with a feeling of resilience and comfort here in the freezing cold. As you ride down this way. I will need one last roll from Matt as you press further into the wilderness.

[Marisha Ray]

Roll like you're a DM clutching that

[Liam O'Brien]

tiny rock of storm protection to my side. And that's a 10.

[Matthew Mercer]

A 10. Great.

[Marisha Ray]

The rock works.

[Matthew Mercer]

You press on. You guys get down here. I think you guys are basically having to put those blankets or other warm clothes over yourself. Riding shivering in the cold.

[Marisha Ray]

That's why you rock players.

[Matthew Mercer]

Totally fine. Totally fine. As you move through the space crystals on my eye. Oh my God. You come all the way down this sort of a little bit too steep ramp that comes all the way down off the Tiriya via ride for a while. It's really slow going through the shifting sands. But eventually get to a little higher elevation where it moves from sand to a rockier area. And as you arrive at a series of gorges and other areas that would have been a little bit more hilly or mountainous. You see even some worked stone like places that were quarried here in ancient times. You arrive at an area that you can see the Bereugard has been to. You see the footprints through the sand, the shifting sand. Too much wind. Their tracks would have immediately vanished. But here you see some signs of the Baragar were here. And also see them doing something that the Berogard often does here in the eternal night. Which is there is a sort of higher elevation lake up here that is sort of an ancient frozen lake. And there is a water quarry here. So there's them hacking away at the ice to fill up their canteens and refresh water and move on. So you see a partially mined lake up at this higher elevation moving further in. You eventually get to a point time is not changing around you. So you're beginning to feel a bit dizzy trying to read the day based on your own level of exhaustion. Everybody go ahead and give me a wisdom. Actually you two are exempt But I need Tysha and Julian to give me wisdom saving throws.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh non sleeping ass bitches.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bitches, bitches.

[Marisha Ray]

Wisdom save dirty 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Dirty 20. Great.

[Liam O'Brien]

Natural one for a zero, baby.

[Matthew Mercer]

Good night.

[Marisha Ray]

He couldn't have it right here.

[Matthew Mercer]

As you guys are riding and pressing further on, I'm going to roll some saves for our NPCs as well. Save the donkey Phelous. You're feeling normal. You know how to listen to your body when it is time to stop Octus. You're in a different set of circumstances, Taisha.

[Marisha Ray]

Somehow the shadiest thing you've ever said.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm having my own problems, Taisha, even without the the sun being present here. You just see where the stars are in the sky and know that this is when you would normally be bedding down. The time has come essentially that you should begin to look for shelter, Julian, on that wisdom save of a zero. You look out at the horizon and you've been traveling mostly by starlight. The sand is sort of bright enough, but now that you've gotten into these darker, stonier areas, it's just a little bit more shadowy here. And you can hear Dr. Talter say, shadows are impossible to see. Can someone light a torch? I will say I want to get just Julian's reaction to that.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay. I'd say given the bleariness of the space, the readiness of preparation, the mind already preoccupied with six other things, hears that and just absent mindedly grabs a torch from his side pack and goes to ignite it.

[Matthew Mercer]

As you go to light it, you see, Dr. Talter looks at you and says, is everything all right?

[Liam O'Brien]

We asked for a torch.

[Matthew Mercer]

Dr. Tulsa looks at you. She did not ask for a torch.

[Marisha Ray]

Julian. Blow out.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes, get rid of that. I snuff it with prestidigitation.

[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

We have fun. We could have slept on the cold highway.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's my favorite place.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's better than a one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ooh. A six or an eight.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm so punted to the other six.

[Marisha Ray]

Ooh, it's Sandy.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's bad Sandy. Sandy.

[Liam O'Brien]

I think fine Sandy.

[Marisha Ray]

Pleasure being friends with you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That is a natural 20 initiative.

[Matthew Mercer]

Check.

[Marisha Ray]

Let's fucking go.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So 23 cause doesn't really matter.

[Marisha Ray]

It counts. It counts.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm gonna need you to look up the text of price digitation for me if you'd be so kind. No.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Can I snuff a small plane?

[Matthew Mercer]

Do I not know how duty works, bruh?

[Marisha Ray]

I feel like prestidigitation druidcraft and you

[Taliesin Jaffe]

instantly light or snuff out a candle, torch or small campfire.

[Matthew Mercer]

Great.

[Marisha Ray]

Perfect. Look at these horses. They're beautiful.

[Matthew Mercer]

Beautiful horsies. Everyone's got these lovely horses.

[Marisha Ray]

We just check in.

[Matthew Mercer]

How does your guys marching order look to you? Who would be in front? Who's where?

[Liam O'Brien]

You'd probably be closer to Front. Since you have the most experience in this space.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. And dark vision.

[Liam O'Brien]

But it wouldn't be too far from you.

[Marisha Ray]

Same.

[Bayless]

I think it would be.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Bayless]

I feel like I like where I'm at.

[Liam O'Brien]

Feels good.

[Sam Riegel]

That's a good work.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

I feel like if you were in the middle, you would also be throwing out a bit of heat with your embercepts. Embers.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hell, yes. What did we get for. We got a nat. 20 here. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

23 total

[Matthew Mercer]

for. 23 for Octis.

[Liam O'Brien]

17 for Julian.

[Matthew Mercer]

17 for Julian.

[Marisha Ray]

17 for Taisha.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ooh, Taisha.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Let's go. What do we get for Bayless Natural blend?

[Bayless]

Thirteen.

[Matthew Mercer]

Thirteen for Bayless.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Bayless]

So, Julian, Tysha, best places.

[Matthew Mercer]

We're there.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

100%.

[Marisha Ray]

Good job.

[Matthew Mercer]

Way to wait till then.

[Marisha Ray]

It wanted to remind me. It's like, just don't forget I love rolling one.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I sometimes don't like you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sometimes. Fuck you a little bit. Milk's on you. I don't know what I'm gonna do yet.

[Marisha Ray]

I need more time.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. Thirteen for Veilis. That's great. Octis, you are going to be first to go, my friend. All killing demons. So action preservation snuffs the torch, Correct? Yes. So the torch is lit. You snuff it. Julian, that is going to be you. Sorry, you or Tysha, who would act first?

[Liam O'Brien]

It'd be me acting before.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, that's why you wanted to know

[Matthew Mercer]

if it was an action or black at you. He's like, what do you mean? What it does. Da, da, da. Yeah. Between the two. Two of you. Who would actually. I know he's going to ask first. Julian, what are you doing in this moment? As the torch is suddenly snuffed out,

[Liam O'Brien]

Immediately go to repock and be like, sorry, I was distracted. And then looking at their reactions. Just glance around to see if. As I realize what I was doing absentmindedly. To see if anything nearby is moving.

[Matthew Mercer]

Looking around to see if you can see anything moving. Moving nearby. Go ahead and give me a perception check.

[Liam O'Brien]

With a disadvantage because of the darkness or.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, Disadvantage because of darkness.

[Liam O'Brien]

All right. I rolled two 17s in a row, so 18 total hot.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Marisha Ray]

What disadvantage? He sees everything.

[Liam O'Brien]

Disadvantage. You see everything

[Matthew Mercer]

Looking around. Looking around on that. There is something under. This is a strange thing to say. You could swear that there was something under your horse.

[Liam O'Brien]

I instinctually roll off my horse to the side and get my blade ready at the side and just glance underneath it.

[Marisha Ray]

Are you on the ground?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. You see, Julian gets off his horse Julian, over here.

[Marisha Ray]

I need something faster. What does your mom yell when she's mad at you? It takes too long to say Julien.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's the full name. So it's much longer.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. You look there on the ground, seeing, looking for what's there. On 18. There's nothing. You hurt? Something's going on. Something's. You're ready for any danger, but something in your mind is betraying you right now.

[Liam O'Brien]

Sorry. And I'll take the rest of my movement to get back up onto my horse and just try and shake it out of my head.

[Matthew Mercer]

Tycha, do you do anything on the same initiative?

[Marisha Ray]

Count magic on Julian? I mean, in general, but it's just laser focused on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Detect magic. As you bring up the magic, you look. Julian is surrounded by death everywhere, all around him. Pushing in from all sides. You remember the feeling in the Palazzo Divinos, the shades. As you go to get up on your horse. I'm going to need a dexterity saving throw with disadvantage.

[Liam O'Brien]

13

[Matthew Mercer]

on a 13. You look and see behind you over here, Looking under. Everything's okay. Behind you. You hear Gaia go, of course, lights a torch.

[Sam Riegel]

You.

[Matthew Mercer]

As Julian is suddenly wreathed in torchlight, stretching off into the sand. You see is his shadow that spreads on the sand behind him. As you go up onto your horse, there is a moment where your hand goes in front of you. Your hand goes in between the torch and your own throat, casting your shadow on yourself. You are dragged off your horse and dragged 20ft into the nighttime desert. And you take 19 points of damage. Oh, my God. We move further in initiative.

[Marisha Ray]

It's a full movement to leave Julian to die.

[Matthew Mercer]

What the fuck is this? Julian, the experience you have is your arm goes tight with rigor mortis, casting a shadow from. From Gaia's torch on your own throat. And you feel yourself being choked and crushed by your own shadow on your skin, dragging you off into the desert. Bayless, that's gonna be your turn.

[Bayless]

Fuck.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, okay. Bayless.

[Bayless]

Okay, okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Fix him. Fix him.

[Liam O'Brien]

Zeremi's torchlight is still burning bright.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, she looks confused as she's looking at you disappearing. She's holding the torch so Sara put it out. That is going to be. Bayless. That is your turn.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

All combat's gonna be prestigious torches.

[Liam O'Brien]

The worst component, I would blow.

[Marisha Ray]

Let's see here.

[Bayless]

30ft. Okay, so everyone that has a torch body down. Is Julian currently being dragged?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Bayless]

Okay, so I would like to do I see him.

[Marisha Ray]

So cool.

[Bayless]

Or has he gone into darkness?

[Matthew Mercer]

The torchlight, I believe, is 20 bright, 20 dim. Yeah. 20 foot radius and dim light for an additional 20. So he might be getting towards the very edge of the radius of light here.

[Bayless]

Okay. I do have darkvision for 120ft.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. You see, it has dragged him in exactly to the edge of the torch's radius.

[Bayless]

Okay. So what I would like to do if I can.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Bayless]

For flavor, I would love to sort of try. I want to like get on top of my horse so my feet are on the top of my saddle.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Bayless]

And try to jump across to Julian's horse.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Bayless]

And with try to get as close enough as I can within 10ft so I can wrap my sensor around his ankle.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hell yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Hell yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go. Go for it. So you use your movement, rush over to Julian's horse, leap from one horse back to the other and you can move this horse up to be within 10ft of Julian to wrap around his ankle as you do. So I'm going to need an attack roll. Okay. If Julian's not trying to stop this, you would roll with advantage.

[Bayless]

Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm not as I'm trying to like.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Bayless]

Oh, that's pretty good.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's pretty good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, that's good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's super cocked.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, that's worse.

[Bayless]

We'll go with the first one. Okay, that's worse. All right, so this would be an attack roll with the censer whip.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Bayless]

That is a 23.

[Matthew Mercer]

23 hits Julian's armor class, I believe. Yes. And you whip the sensor around his ankle in that moment.

[Bayless]

And I don't have the embers. I didn't light it up yet.

[Matthew Mercer]

You have not. It's a bonus action to light them up. Yes.

[Bayless]

That's still out, but they're in there. So. Yeah. I'm just trying to wrap it around. But I still am doing damage to him.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, you don't have to. Okay, great.

[Bayless]

I don't want to do damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

You just are on horseback. Lasso his foot to prevent him from going any further. Further into the desert. Yeah. That is your action. Any other bonus action from you?

[Bayless]

I would love to heal him, but I don't know if I do. I know that if you took damage.

[Liam O'Brien]

I mean, I got dragged a bit, got screamed.

[Bayless]

Yeah, I'm fine.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm like.

[Bayless]

But I have to be able to touch you.

[Matthew Mercer]

That was crazy.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I have to.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Bayless]

That's my turn. That's my turn.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that Dr. Talter, she's going to roll. All she can do is scream. She just starts screaming. Shh. Ah. That's her turn, Octus.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That is you turning and seeing. What's her name? Fucking light up the torch. I used my action again to snuff out her torch. Do not do anything unless I specifically tell you to.

[Matthew Mercer]

A tear forms in her eye. You did, my lord.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Something's going on here. Keep your eyes open. Unless you see my lips move, do not do anything.

[Matthew Mercer]

She keeps her eyes focused on your lips. The torch is snow. As the torch snuffs Julian, you feel the grip diminish.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

There's something here that exists in shadow.

[Marisha Ray]

A bunch of shades. You're surrounded by them.

[Matthew Mercer]

What?

[Liam O'Brien]

I look around.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, Keep look. Your shadow just ch. No, Julio.

[Matthew Mercer]

You rise up and you see that Dame Saramai looks at you and says. You didn't just say that. You didn't just say that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Didn't say what?

[Marisha Ray]

What are you hearing?

[Liam O'Brien]

Something is putting words in our minds.

[Marisha Ray]

Looking at her, do I see the same? Does she have a posse?

[Matthew Mercer]

Like with detect magic on? You do see that the same spirits of the dead are congregating around her? Nowhere near as full as around Julian.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't know what to do with that. What do you say? Some, but fewer spirits. So many do we. Can you tell them to stop?

[Matthew Mercer]

Me?

[Bayless]

No.

[Matthew Mercer]

Around me.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, yeah, sorry. I'm checking any around them.

[Matthew Mercer]

Detect magic on Octys gives you nothing. The walker's ward is working. Detect magic on. I mean, I think you can see some loose magic of him being like a wizard, but nothing that's sort of about him as a person. And then for Velis, nothing other than the magic objects that she carries. The Stone of Night Song is palpitating on her. But you sense that the dead are moving away from her, if anything. Huh?

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The two of you are surrounded by spirits.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

Should we mount our beasts and just continue quickly?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes. Yes. Are you good? You good to go?

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm fine.

[Marisha Ray]

If you hear any orders, double check out loud before you act on them.

[Liam O'Brien]

Already ahead of you.

[Bayless]

I am going to lay on hands, help him back up on the horse.

[Matthew Mercer]

And how much do you heal him for?

[Bayless]

Let me heal you.

[Marisha Ray]

4.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You took 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

I will kill you.

[Bayless]

I can heal you for 15 points. That's my max. That's all I got.

[Liam O'Brien]

You sure don't want to save that for later.

[Matthew Mercer]

Give me.

[Liam O'Brien]

Give me five. Five. Five will be plenty. Save the others. Look, it's. It's a great, helpful defibrillator, if need be.

[Bayless]

Yes. It's a little something.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll take it.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you need help, buddy?

[Liam O'Brien]

You touch Me, I cut off your head.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If you hear anyone tell you to light any light source, double check with them before you do.

[Matthew Mercer]

Agree.

[Bayless]

If you hear something, say something.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If you see something, scream.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, you stop screaming.

[Bayless]

She's just back there screaming.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see? As you are mounting up again, do you stay in the same riding order?

[Liam O'Brien]

I will look to vaelysm, like, perhaps it's best that I stay close, maybe behind you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think the two of you in the center. I'll take the rear.

[Liam O'Brien]

If you were driving.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

Maybe best I stay in your wake.

[Bayless]

I can stay on the outside, too.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Riding out from here, Julian, that feeling of your arm going stiff and being dragged off into the night, wondering what might have been waiting for you out there. You hear behind you, Dame Saramai going, what are the voices speaking to you?

[Liam O'Brien]

All that I've heard so far is to undertake actions that have proven to be against our best interests. Why? I look over my shoulder towards Saramai. What do they whisper to you?

[Matthew Mercer]

As you look over your shoulder, you see her face look confused that she has once again, she did not ask that question. You see that? She just literally buries her face in her hand and says, I'm not doing anything other than riding until we're there. I'm not going to listen to anyone. No instructions, nothing. I'm just going to ride that is safest.

[Liam O'Brien]

Look over towards Tycha like a twitch in my left eye and just continue on.

[Marisha Ray]

The moment I hear you pick up speed, I'm tearing, tearing off.

[Matthew Mercer]

You guys ride off as far and fast as you can. Are you going to make camp for the night in this area? You have pushed through deeper into the barrow. Dell?

[Marisha Ray]

I'm fine. Two of our friends are going crazy. They also tend to be the ones that respond to problems with violence, so I don't like where their heads are at right now. Maybe we should.

[Bayless]

Maybe we should camp.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We have to.

[Bayless]

I mean, or. Or how about we have the two other NPCs?

[Marisha Ray]

Do we have time for a camp and an exorcism? What are we going to do about the shades surrounding them?

[Liam O'Brien]

How far are we from the Build a Serif workshop?

[Marisha Ray]

God damn it, Motherfucker. If we push through, maybe we can arrive there exhausted.

[Matthew Mercer]

What if.

[Bayless]

What if one of you. One of you rides with each of us and you can rest? You two. I don't know what to tell you, but I don't know.

[Marisha Ray]

We have to rest.

[Bayless]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

We are walking into a fight against armies of undead.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's the closest thing we have To a windshield glance out on the horizon to see if there's any sort of

[Marisha Ray]

that place we fought.

[Liam O'Brien]

I mean anything similar to that. Where there is an alcove or a piece of terrain that we could use to block most of the wind.

[Matthew Mercer]

Give me a survival check.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Remember that any place that causes a Shadow is dangerous.

[Matthew Mercer]

17. On a 17, looking out into the rocky areas throughout here, you see that there are a number of the beginnings of promontories, little canyons or gulches. The wind is often moving in a pretty stable or fixed direction out here, so finding just a big wall will do the trick. On a 17, you see a little bit more distant, there is actually a canyon that looks almost so geometrically perfect as to be partially artificial. And I think on a 17, looking out, you see that whatever this hilly rocky area is, the terrain is starting to take the shape of an ancient city. Looking at that canyon, you realize that's petrified or sand caked ancient temple walls.

[Bayless]

How far does that go?

[Matthew Mercer]

Probably another hour of writing.

[Liam O'Brien]

That looks like at least one of these safer bets we can look for. Yeah.

[Bayless]

Can you make it?

[Matthew Mercer]

I can make it as I reach

[Liam O'Brien]

under my pouch and grab the little druid stone and rub it with my thumb.

[Matthew Mercer]

What? Yeah. Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, let's go.

[Matthew Mercer]

You guys ride on. I would like a d. Very low D.C. but like a D.C. 8 constitution. Save from everybody. Great. Natural one. Natural one.

[Marisha Ray]

Natural one.

[Liam O'Brien]

Literally exactly eight.

[Matthew Mercer]

Exactly.

[Liam O'Brien]

I was like, oh, that's a four.

[Matthew Mercer]

Tysha. I think that as you are traveling through, the cold gets to you. It is not even painful. It just happens over the course of an hour of riding with you taking the lead. And specifically I think Dr. Talter is with you and you're covering her. You get the boom of riding into the headwinds and it's been a long day and you take five points of cold damage as you essentially just feel your body's internal vitality just withering under the onslaught of this freezing wind. The eternal night is one of the barrow dells that is less. It is incredibly vulgar in terms of what it has wrought here magically on the way world. But everyone has walked in the night before. It doesn't seem that too terrible. But there is more at work here than just the night. There is a remnant of cold and malice here and a promise for no living thing to grow again. And I think you feel, as you often have in this space before, the spite resting in this place.

[Marisha Ray]

I think she just, you guys notice that she is just slowing down and isn't Intending to do it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Hey, you good?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. We're almost there.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We're almost there. It's okay, just hold on.

[Bayless]

I'm gonna pull up pace next to her. Just sort of. Just making sure she's not gonna fall off the horse from exhaustion. Just not so she notices. Yeah, because she's in charge.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah,

[Bayless]

but I'm just going to be there support just in case.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bayless, you ride up alongside Tysha. You guys enter into this gully and look and see the perfectly right angled canyon between these two massive temple walls. Huge flat stone on either side worn smooth by the sand. Dr. Coulter rubs a finger over it. And the stone here, worn by the wind is smoother than silk. Here in this place that seeks to rob all roughness or texture from anything, grinding the world down to sand. In this you are protected at a certain point as you venture further in and find a small corner and itself almost like an alcove in the stone. The horses will have to just huddle up for warmth. But there's enough space in here for you humanoids to be able to sleep in this small protected area. Do you guys rest here in this?

[Liam O'Brien]

Of course.

[Marisha Ray]

Texas is the first to dismount.

[Matthew Mercer]

Go ahead and give me a. Give me a survival. I want a DC5 survival check from everybody. Incredibly low, but the stakes are high. 13. 13.

[Marisha Ray]

22. Survival.

[Matthew Mercer]

13 13.

[Bayless]

Sorry.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, we're done. 12. 12. Great. All of you are able to take a long rest here. There's not a guarantee within the eternal night that you're able to actually find rest in sleep. So those of you that need sleep can go ahead and mark a long rest right now and re prepare spells and do whatever else you need to do. Does anybody take first watch?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Let's take it cool.

[Matthew Mercer]

Tycha, you'll take the first watch. As you take the first watch, you see Dr. Talter sleeping. Gaia leans her head sitting up. You begin to. I think you both begin to trance. Probably using this opportunity to do so.

[Bayless]

I'm going to skip.

[Matthew Mercer]

Skip. Okay.

[Bayless]

I'm going to skip tonight.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Yeah, I will.

[Bayless]

I have any problems if I do that.

[Matthew Mercer]

If you skip, you won't regain spell slots or lay on hands. So some of your abilities you will not regain if you do that.

[Bayless]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

These stones you said are partially magical in nature. As far as their construction.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Can I use the tome?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes you can.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll expend the charge of legend lore to learn about this place that we're

[Matthew Mercer]

in this structure like this canyon that you are moving through hell yes. Moving through this space, you read the names of stones looking deep within. You find these stones here, carved deep from the flat mesas of an ancient expanse moved here magically. You look out and see a robed ancient sorcerer, a laurel of green leaves around his brow. A sorceress emperor holding a out of hand and watching as slabs of stone some hundreds of feet long float through the sky as though floats in a parade. You see looks out as people clap and applaud. And with this sustained magical effort, an act of telekinesis carrying some thousands of tons of stone across the horizon. Towards this end you see them placed here, consumed by the sand. This is the ancient homeland of the Fallen. Or what would be called the sundered and broken house of Callistra. The last members of which either have been in hiding for 70 years or indeed are all dead. Looking at this holy site here, you see the stones placed in a massive temple to Tansul that are commemorating his beneficence, the glory of the sun. In this place, looking towards the west where the sun ever sets and you see the stone regards you. Speaking this word of power, the arcane, a memory of the stone. When young comes to you, you see a young priest of the house of Haylvar looking out. A massive brazier filled with shimmering oil unlit. A wide golden pan suspended over an image of the God of the sun. The fire lights. And within it, the stone remembers the face of a living God. You speak to stone that saw the shaper of humankind. A category you no longer belong to, though you once held that title. Ever sets the sun into the west land of shadow. The word shadow moves through and the stone feels it and remembers it. My lord. This place you have given us. There can be no use for it. There can be no use. We will never be without you. Why would you give us tools to use in an age without you? I cannot understand it. Father, please. Tansel speaks. Does the sun not vanish with the coming of each and every night? Ages, like days, come and go in the long march of time. Know that a day may come where I am gone, but a day will come where I return. Stone calls back out. You see this final memory here. To make a servant in your image. What will we make it from? Nothing can be made without sacrifice. Nothing can be made that is of worth without my dearest materials. What would be a sacrifice worthy of this weapon? Sacrifice? That thing which is most precious. And what could be more precious? Precious to me. Tansel extends a finger towards the heart of this priest. Then You. The light vanishes from this memory of the stone of the temple as you finish casting your spell and the stone tells you its.

[Marisha Ray]

Hmm.

[Matthew Mercer]

Huh? Hmm.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, sorry. I'm not used to you being up at this time anymore.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I'm good. You? Good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

This is my nighttime time.

[Marisha Ray]

Like, do I need to turn around? No, it's fine.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I just.

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I was using the book.

[Marisha Ray]

Amazing.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's the first time I've done it. I was. Honestly, I was. I don't mean this to be insulting. I was a little dismissive of a book that was like, we have the names of rocks.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, yeah, yeah. There's so many interesting druid things.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, I just.

[Marisha Ray]

Not feeling anything interesting.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I saw his face. I saw the.

[Marisha Ray]

The rock's face.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, it was the human shaper's face.

[Marisha Ray]

Tonsil.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

While reading the book.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It showed me a vision.

[Marisha Ray]

That's a good book.

[Matthew Mercer]

To be more accurate, the stone gave you. The stone spoke to you and showed you what it had to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The stone spoke to me.

[Marisha Ray]

Weirder. But useful.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Way, way more useful than I thought this book was going to be.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm just going to pat the wall. Good stone, but

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think it gave me a really big puzzle piece.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you want to share or do you want to sit on it?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, no, I can share. It's.

[Marisha Ray]

It wasn't. I just know I. We've been a little edgy. I'm sorry.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's fine. I'm just processing what I saw.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Tansul gave human beings the ability, as we know, to create this thing upon their death.

[Marisha Ray]

Sure.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

To create something. Celestials. But that's not how he said it. There was different intonations in his voice. It wasn't like I'm giving you a gift for when I die. It was, the sun always sets and then it comes back, rises. Okay, so he said he will go away and then return. But also it requires sacrifice to create one of these things in what is more precious to him than us in the general. Human sacrifices specifically pointed at a heart.

[Marisha Ray]

Like the heart your brother took out of your body.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Very same.

[Bayless]

So you are free.

[Marisha Ray]

Family killed you as the sacrifice needed to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

To make a celestial.

[Marisha Ray]

Possibly. I'm so sorry.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, you know, maybe that one will have sorcerer's ability.

[Marisha Ray]

Is it okay if I hug you? You can say no.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

She just gives you a big hug. I'm sorry. I.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Seems like the most likely explanation. I don't know if I mean, we'll find out, I think.

[Matthew Mercer]

But

[Taliesin Jaffe]

at least there was a reason

[Matthew Mercer]

to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Why I died.

[Matthew Mercer]

You have your rest here. The book of the Names of stones has given you the ability to speak with a part of your world very old that has seen much questions of what the past has to offer, if anything. You take your rest here. Julie in on that successful constitution save. The whispers eventually cease as you take your rest. The next day you emerge from the gully, riding forth hours upon hours through ancient crumbling stones. Here the sands do not shift. Instead they attack. Walking out from between corners, a sudden spray of wind will lacerate the face and eyes with sand. Moving across the wind on top of you, it's almost hard to see the stars as the sand whips over the raised edges of the canyons. You now travel through these these ancient stone structures until eventually it opens up once again before you a massive excavation. A place that was sunken long before the Shapers war. A place that had been buried in a time where gods still walked the world of Ahriman. Enormous obsidian obelisks, a temple made of volcanic glass at the base of an ancient quarry, unearthed by means both mundane and taconus to your sight. Sorcerous as well. Looking down a switchback road that lowers some hundred feet into the earth, you ride down, and only at arriving at the bottom do you look out and see some structures not of stone or glass. Here, under the stars and the shifting sands, there are banners fallen to the ground of the Barrowguard. The grounds of the temple before its massive gate littered with bodies. You do not know what state they are in, but you see them clash to the ground. The figures of fallen warriors here. What do you do as you approach?

[Marisha Ray]

It's not even a thought, just a natural reaction. My son is a fang, but he is aloy too. And I put a little spike through his ear. I want to find him. I'm here to save him. I cast locate object on the spike of metal I gave him as a baby. I am finding my fucking son.

[Matthew Mercer]

You rush forward as fast as you can. It is possible that it is here, but it is not within 1,000ft. His body is not one of the ones that lies on the temple grounds here. There are less than two dozen, but close to that number in this space. Anyone who wants to give me a perception check.

[Bayless]

Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

19.

[Matthew Mercer]

19.

[Bayless]

I roll a 19 too.

[Liam O'Brien]

12.

[Matthew Mercer]

12.

[Bayless]

24.

[Matthew Mercer]

24. Bayless on a 24. Something is wrong with these bodies. You're looking at them.

[Bayless]

They look taisha.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm pushing past them.

[Bayless]

Don't touch them.

[Matthew Mercer]

The closest one to you is about 30ft away. And as you're looking at you haven't gotten close enough to actually get a good look at any of them slumped over and prone, but you see one about 30ft away. It's moving.

[Bayless]

I'm going to walk to it.

[Liam O'Brien]

Soldier, Soldier, do you yet live?

[Matthew Mercer]

As you approach, Julian, do you approach as well?

[Liam O'Brien]

Of course.

[Matthew Mercer]

You both walk over my bannerman helm. Face down. Long sleeves, long breeches. Hands are crumpled under. There's some blood. There are some arrows that look like they should have pierced the body, but they've fallen to the side weirdly and you see twitching in some weird way. What do you do standing over the body?

[Bayless]

I'm going to sort of lean down and try to find his eyes.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm going to draw my blade just carefully.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, you lean down. Eyes. More than a dozen look at you. The front of the helm. There's something twitching there. And suddenly. Song, nightingale song. The clothes empty until there is nothing but bare white bones as a hundred nightingales fly through the opening of the helmet surrounding your body vaylis and lifting you five feet up off the ground. And that's where we're going to end our episode.

[Marisha Ray]

Nuh.

[Matthew Mercer]

Cool.

[Marisha Ray]

No, no, wait. No.

[Travis Willingham]

Just like, tell us what happened.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just like, tell us what happens though.

[Marisha Ray]

No, we. We have time.

[Matthew Mercer]

We have time. Do we?

[Marisha Ray]

We don't have time.

[Matthew Mercer]

I think we're good. Like, I don't have anything to go. Nothing to do. He's not b. You got be too many birds. Well, you got sparrows, nightingales, mag falcons. I love it. Hey, and we'll get. We'll find out what next episode's bird is. Next time as always. Is it Thursday?

[Marisha Ray]

Hey,

[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

Oh joy.

[Matthew Mercer]

Another day, another buzz delayed.

[Travis Willingham]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Travis Willingham]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

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