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didn't see you there but now i see everything i'm shreya and i'm your dm ethan welcome to ventureforth

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[Music]

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previously you had left the rest of your party in the zakir ruins and made your way west

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towards marstock after a treacherous battle with the climate and the environment around you

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you were able to make it over the mountains over the forest and to marstock itself

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after a brief exchange with hayfreed you were able to catch a teleportation circle to the city of saddle mount where you

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were immediately greeted by the bustling naval presence there

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ships being loaded with these arcane and intricately designed cannons

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you didn't think to spend too much time there as it isn't quite your scene

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and decided to instead continue on towards your final destination of key

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as you began flying in a northwestern direction you flew over esther grove and

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immediately noticed the deep oranges and reds that encapsulate this forest where you would

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normally see green on trees now you are seeing red leaves

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red branches red plants in this this beautiful tapestry of warm colors

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and as sunset came over the horizon you finally

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reached the town of keid after a little bit of investigation as a

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squirrel you were able to overhear two people talking about a member of the iron light a possible member of the iron

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light that they had seen just that day after some investigation

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they had told you that a woman was seen battling with a creature of the river

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now assuming that this to be an iron light member you decided to track them down into the

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forest where you heard rustling in the trees and retreated into the stone itself of

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this stone path before you and as you merged yourself within the stone

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two feet hit the path a cloaked figure

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pulled a sword from their side and with two taps lit the sword with green flames

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they seem to look around almost puzzled though you can't see their face their

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actions and their movements seem to be searching most likely for you

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so shraya as you have become one with the stone path

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and this hooded figure with a flaming sword only 10 feet away from you what would

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you like to do uh well first of all is there any point at which

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after this person lit this blade uh who i'm guessing at this point is bearing

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all the same descriptors and uh characterizations that uh kalyn right this matches the

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description you cannot see who this is they are fully cloaked oh they're fully cloaked you have not seen their face the

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only distinguishing thing is a sword that has green flames on it this sword

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has green flames okay yes uh okay at any point

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have they well in this case uh at any point would they have stumbled across

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or physically come into contact with me across the stone path as they've been walking around at this

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point you can see this figure darts around and takes a defensive posture

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gripping their sword with two hands and as they take one step back

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two steps back they continue whipping around looking trying to to keep their senses in a 360 degree arc

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and one more step back steps right on top of you uh

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as that step goes on top of me uh i am going to

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[Music] uh i'm going to cast

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the same spell that i had cast on timmy before uh i'm uh i'm a blue light glows from

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the area of stone underneath me as i cast resistance on myself and so this patch

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of the stone path glows with blue and pulses as

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this figure steps on me and as soon as that happens they take

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their foot and immediately retreat back a few steps pointing their sword directly down at the stone area that is

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shraya and as that blue outline outlines

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parts of my body uh i'm going to

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break my stone camouflage and reach my hand out

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with the blue still pulsing from the center of it and

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attempt to cast resistance on this figure as well if they're willing

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okay um seeing a a creature form out of this stone and attempt to cast something

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on them they are not going to be willing okay so is that uh is that a rule for me

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uh or does it just fail you know if if it's not willing then it just automatically fails okay uh do not

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accept it great uh

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they immediately point their sword at your throat take one step forward

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uh i'm going to jump back from the stored and

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please you're gonna have a moment please [Music]

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and you hear from underneath the hood who are you

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i mean you no harm i mean not many in this world very much harm

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[Music] my name is shraya

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i am a being that feels most at home above the

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surface if i'm being honest but

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who might i come to know you as who are you

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and as they take another step forward the

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flames that are dancing across the sword almost are enough to whip up into your face you

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just feel the heat coming off of the blade [Music]

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that is of no concern to you i suggest you go back the way you came

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and do so quietly and forgetting of what you have seen here

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i'm gonna tap my staff against the ground uh

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and change the color uh to the colors that i'd shown those two

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uh humans earlier and as the as the burnt blue and brown

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colors emerge from my crystal in the center of the staff

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uh i'm going to oh man i really hope you let me do this

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i'm gonna paint i'm gonna like slowly like try to slow down

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the rays of light and attempt to paint what i think i can remember might be

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an iron light symbol with like the combination of of drawing

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mist and molecule and light i'm basically making a minor illusion

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um for sure you are just able to capture the last few beams of of light from the

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sunset that are coming through this forest and you're able to make the symbol

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she walks up closer and puts her sword almost directly on your shoulder right next to your neck

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how can you buy this symbol one of the members

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one of the god i'm so bad at this i stay under my breath

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i come with a message from another who seeks their solace under this symbol

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that made me reach this place as soon as i could

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that and i look back up toward the symbol that the very

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purest meaning of this symbol had been cast into doubt

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and that them may be rumblings

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that could and as i wave my uh staff again

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could unravel it completely and uh as i wave my staff again to alter the

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illusion i attempt to crack the symbol from within and cause it to

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dissipate [Music]

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speak your next words very carefully how can by you the symbol

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and how in what way

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may i trust you as she just moves her sword an inch

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closer to your neck you must believe me when i say this that

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members of your order and you'll have to forgive my

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ineptitude with the lexicon in the language but you

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trusted sentinels of your order had bid me give you aid

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and i came to know the symbol because i fight alongside another in your order

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though i am not a member of myself

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are you here to kill me [Music] no kaelin

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if you could help me find this person if this symbol is familiar to you it is urgent

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that i give this person aid as soon as possible [Music]

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what type of aid do you seek to give caitlyn

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well one i have to determine the nature

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of [Music] a fallen ally

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and to determine the nature and make sure

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the nature of whether they are still in one piece and if they are still presiding here and

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what they may know about the treachery that might be afoot

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you say that you have befriended two members

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of the ironlight collective why did they simply not come to speak

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with me themselves [Music] they're in a far-flung far-flung corner

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of the world from here me and my natural state

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i'm able to travel great distances as i spread out my wings and uh

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at the tap of my wings uh as they reach their full apex um a

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spark of the magic uh that is uh of wild shape starts to gradually

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shift my body to give the semblance of how my physical form could change if i were to fully

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realize it and myself i myself am able to cover great

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distances and assume many forms it was entrusted to me

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this task by whom by a flynn fellow weave

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and a zorkhall they said in this form that i may get

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here with great speed and the time was inherently of the essence

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make a persuasion check for me oh boy

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uh 15. you can see her hand slightly relax from

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the sword she sort of slides it off of your shoulder still holding it in her hand

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flynn and zoko sent you well it happened upon zorkhall

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much by the fates he had been sent on a mission far far

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into the southland and we with our own personal stake in it

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[Music] well took it upon ourselves to go as well

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as there are chaotic forces in this world that i shudder to even speak of but

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zorkal had heard himself and his original intent was to come here

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himself to give kaelin aid or unfortunately

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there was a command from from higher up in the order

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at least that's what we were told that was preventing him from getting here

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you can see she sort of twitches her sword slightly as the green flames are completely

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extinguished she slides the sword back into its sheath

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she raises a hand up and slowly takes down her hood as you can now for the first time see

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a young half elven woman

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am i to take it that you call yourselves a member of

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the iron light collective itself not presently

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no but i

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did yes you bring word from zorkhall

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that is what you said yes yes

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[Music] is the name that i mentioned earlier

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galen familiar to you whatsoever

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that would be myself that is you yes that is me

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and based on what i know how might i have proof that you are in

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fact who you say you are well in a similar fashion and that i'm going to

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have to trust that you are who you say you are i'm afraid that same courtesy is gonna

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have to be extended to me well it just so happens

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[Music] my georgia friend entrusted me with this uh i'm going to

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look through search for the bow

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that flynn gave all right and it's right there right where you put it right this

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but also this and i extend my staff out and press my thumb to the back of it as the the

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letters tm glow on the staff itself and she sort of puts her hand up and and grips the staff

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as well and just very gently sort of rubs her thumb across the letters there

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before she puts her hand back down well in

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their absence i'm fortunate that i now have a friend

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who might possibly be able to aid me in what i am trying to do here

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[Music] importantly did

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zorkol give you any information to bring to me unfortunately time is

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of the essence with these things and communication is

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essential is there anything that he told you to tell me oh yeah i didn't think so and i'm gonna

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put my uh bow the bow from flynn back in the bag all right and as soon as you put it back um you hear

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a crinkle of paper and you don't carry around a whole lot of paper

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yes [Music] yes you you it's it's uh very recognizable as a crinkle of paper that

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normally wouldn't be there i'm going to reach in [Music]

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pick this up from and then uh open it out and what do i see

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uh you see a piece of paper there with um some writing onto it

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[Music] as as you read it it says

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meloru sent me south to follow up on a lead flynn brought in

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i will not be able to meet with you in person in kiev as originally planned this eccentric bird shall take my place

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as messenger for the time being whence is everything no suspicious activity within the castle

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yet meluru continues to coordinate with too many sentinels for me to track

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per your account i keep close watch on ilonar jeth and ori

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no suspicions have arisen yet flynn is now within the circle all else should be regarded with extreme

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caution signed zircon oh it appears

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[Music] here is that zorkol uh

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has information that i've verified with my own accounts and uh i hand her

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uh the the paper as well and as she's reading it i'm gonna gauge her reactions to it as well make

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an insight check for me yeah and an interesting thing to note

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as you are reading through this and as you hand over the paper you almost don't notice it at first until it's in her

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hand but all of a sudden when she has it you notice

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that this letter is red you didn't notice it because of all the red that's that's been around you

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but you do notice that this letter almost looks like it's it's

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soaked in blood almost it's it's this deep deep red but now that you hand it over you you sort of grasp it

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what was that inside check oh that was a that was 24. 24.

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she starts reading through it and her expression

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seems to go from from understanding to inquisitive

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to disappointed and then at the very end [Music]

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a little hopeful a little bit more cheery near the end where it says flynn is now within the circle

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[Music] well this is

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in some parts bad news and in other parts good news

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i am delighted to know that we are expanding our circle of trust

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at least in the very smallest part uh even that you trust me

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someone who's come from there are you uh aware of all of the

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happenings up here in the north what we are facing only very limitedly

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i uh was told very little but that i needed to reach

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you and i was told that you are no longer you've lost someone very close to you

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and that it was very important that you must not fall yourself

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well um [Music] kind words uh

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i don't know that i would put that much importance upon myself though

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the information is what is paramount i am here in keed attempting to find another

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sentinel who is stationed up here she

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sent a letter to the light castle that intrigued me [Music]

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as it appears the sentinels are being hunted and taken down

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i came to inquire about the letter and to see if i could find anything further unfortunately upon my arrival

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i've not been able to find the person i'm looking for it appears that

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this sentinel's ability to disappear into forests

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are greater than i anticipated i don't know what kind of eye into the forest you have

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but i would hope to gain an ally in attempting to find this person

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[Music] i know you are simply brought here as a messenger but in order for me to send information

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back i will first need to find this person would you be willing to help me

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yes if it will help the core reason of why i came to find

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you it is within my interest that your interests be brought forward

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also i might add i am very much

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in touch with all that you see here as i reverently uh sweep my hand out

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across the forest but before we move forward this leisure

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sent to the castle was it friend or foe was it an alert a

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foe or was it foe itself

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being in agitation of the central castle itself

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well you can take a look for yourself and she reaches into her bag and pulls out a

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letter it appears that this letter was a transfer it seems a transfer from an

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original and as she hands it over to you you read on the letter it says

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your request is adamantly denied it's an insult to the work i've done here in keyed and a disgrace to the oath we all

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took i'm sure you can find what you're looking for elsewhere but i will have no part in it signed donna moltora

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and as she takes the letter back this is the letter that i'm coming to inquire upon

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it appears that within our ranks

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at least donna was attempted to be recruited for some purpose

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i do not know that purpose which is why i'm here but

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donna eludes me unfortunately

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i simply wish to sit down and have a conversation with her and well see what she is denying and see

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what the request initially was maybe that might shed some more light on

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the deaths that i've seen [Music] indeed

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when you track a forest creature who's seen terrible things

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it may be in their very instinct to avoid contact with anything in the

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outside world it sounds like whatever request was made of donna [Music]

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might be causing her to completely shut herself out

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or in rather to the forest landscape that surrounds us that was my thought exactly i'm glad

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we're on the same page well

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and i glance over i glanced around

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i at this point have but one true lead

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and she reaches once again into her bag and pulls out um a

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little peach pit and she tosses it over to you

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grab it look at it examine the divots in it is it uh

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a seed are you giving me some nourishment i am quite hungry no i i would not suggest

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eating that oh um as you may or may not know peaches are not

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native to this part in the world they are native though

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to the town of yellowseed this is where donna is originally from

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[Music] i think perhaps

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she might be enjoying

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herself some uh some memories from home as

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no one else around here i can tell can even grow peaches what do you suggest as someone who knows

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the forest better than i do well

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maybe that perhaps i can and i shift my wings again uh and a

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flicker of the transformative effect uh happens once again it could be that in another form

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i might be able to track this scent much like

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a forging creature with great speed might do

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perhaps perhaps we can track this scent and see if we can root out

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where a fuller uneaten one of these might be

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you suggest we leave now or shall we take a moment before we begin our journey i suggest we start as

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soon as possible well then i fear that the more time we spend talking the less

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time we have until a possible uh assassin comes to

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take donna then we shall let time be our brother uh and

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at that i thrust my uh staff out uh the tip of it gleams uh it

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goes translucent as it corkscrews back into my arm as that corkscrewing motion

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then corkscrews my entire body into this cyclical uh stream of mirror shards as

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that collapses in on itself and uh from the core of this light and purplish

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light it goes to dark and turns the light becomes these spindles of threads

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and fur and muscle and sinew and tissue as these eyes pop out from the center of

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it and a head forms as the body of a wolf goes back toward

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uh the ground of the forest itself uh and as i assume the form of this direwolf i

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thrust my i thrust my snout uh toward the peach pit

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and see if i can glean the scent of that peach

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all right um i am going to have you make a check here it can either be

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survival nature or perception i'll give you the options oh that

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quite a bit depends on how you want to take this um i'm gonna go with perception first

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okay because you are a direwolf that is at advantage oh beautiful [Music]

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so that is a 22 in total 22 in total nice um

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you start to smell the peach pit and as you bring your nose away from the

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peach pit you're sort of you are your senses are almost attacked

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by all of the different smells around you the forest almost itself smells sweet

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um and you can you can smell the the earthiness of the dirt around you

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but you do just lock onto the scent

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of a peach not the one that kalyn is holding but one that is

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much more fresh follow that scent

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i raise my uh head and high in the air

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and give her oh as i uh

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gallivant in the direction of the scent all right um and the scent itself comes

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from deeper within the forest i look back to make sure that i haven't left

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[Music] kailyn seems to be doing fine okay great she's running right behind you great

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and as you dart in between the trees um going deeper and deeper into the forest

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it takes you the better part of a half an hour of of running and stopping for a

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couple seconds to reevaluate the smells in the air and get your bearings once more and then dart in and out of the

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trees moving and kalyn seems to be keeping pace with you pretty well after about 45 minutes the smell

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of peaches almost gets overwhelming as all of a sudden you look around

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and just off to your left one of the only green trees in this

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entire forest hanging just a little bit lower than the rest of the canopy

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you see a peach tree and just next to it a makeshift tent that has been set up

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there you can see a couple of close trees have sort of been um there's there's been a rope that's been tied

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around some of these close trees and a tarp that hangs down from it you can see a raised wooden platform um keeping a a

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bed a cot and a table just above the ground and the remnants

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of what was a campfire [Music]

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what would you like to do i'm gonna

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turn i'm gonna double back okay uh and i'm gonna

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nudge uh nudge alan with my nose

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and go very still and then slowly slowly walk toward the tent okay and

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seeing that you're moving forward kaelin stops posts herself up behind a tree

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puts her hood up and makes herself very small as she looks right at you as you move closer and closer in towards this

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camp what are you going to be doing uh i want to get i just want to glean

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first if this camp is occupied or not looking around it doesn't seem to be

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okay um in that case i'm going to start sniffing

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out the different scents of the camp okay make another perception check for me at advantage

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[Music] another 22. another 22. nice um

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you can smell the campfire

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and you can smell the burnt ashes within

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probably a light no longer than a day ago

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relatively recently put out you can smell obviously the peaches that

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are here you can smell a wide variety of dried meats that are

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here you can see a bag right next to the bed that is holding these dry meats

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you also get just a hint of iron

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in the air and as you investigate this this small little scent of iron

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you start to to look around and

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you sort of nudge the cot a little bit and as you nudge the cot you can

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just barely see a couple pieces of paper the same exact blood-soaked paper

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that zora call had given you these pages though are blank

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it appears that this is a way of communication between sentinels

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of the iron light you also see right next to those blood

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stained papers another stack of papers you move the cot even further and you

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can see what is probably 30 to 40 loose leaf

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papers underneath the bed you look through and you start sifting through them sort of like nudging some to the side with your

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nose and you can see several different bounties

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there are some that are letters for help there are some that are rewards

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all of them though being based around slaying creatures in the area surrounding

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you can see that some of them have big x's through them as though marked as as a completed task

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although one of them does not have this x in my in my will form black and white

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eyes etc can i still can i make out the text of or any kind of

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image or visage of what might be on the one this particular one that hasn't been marked through

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definitely um so looking through you can see um at the very top a reward of 500 gold

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pieces right below that you see a little description but the main thing that

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catches your eye is a depiction of a

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giant sea creature very squid-like

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but massive you then read the description in the text and discover that there is a

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a bounty out for an aquatic creature that

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has been for the better part of the last few months

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disturbing some of the waters of the river near keep um you see that there have been some

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accounts of um the the fish no longer being there

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being driven away by this creature you see some uh more extreme accounts

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of boats being flipped by tentacles coming out of the water

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and you see one death that has been

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as a result of this giant squid creature [Music]

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uh back to my first encounter with the river in the descriptions of

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the creature from the two humans and

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what they described uh before i leave the tent

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i want to see if i can go near the resting area pillows rucksack

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what have you to see if i can pick up a particular scent of a being

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unique and of itself definitely um going over to the bed and because your nose has been so keen

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these um during this time you very easily pick up the scent of a

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a human being who has probably for

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at least a couple years called this bed their home you can very easily pick up the scent

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and if i uh check the other parts of the tent or even

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uh areas outside uh how strong does this scent still hang on these areas

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away from the away from the bed um about the same as as the warmth of the

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campfire um you probably get that the campfire was probably put out at just about the same time as this person left

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most likely early this morning [Music]

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that's 22. if i get out of wild shape i can't go back in at this point so

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i'm walking over back toward caitlyn and

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she steps out from behind the tree at this point seeing that there's no one there puts her hood down

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uh and i'm going to jump up and

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pat my paws uh against the tent and then

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shift my body and then out toward the forest again and then

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pat my paws against the direction of out toward the forest uh but before i do anything drastic i'm

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going to point my nose up into the middle of the air and inhale deeply

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and see if there's any any aroma or even faint

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essence of what i smelled on the bed definitely um i'm gonna have you make one last perception check for me

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still under advantage here we go here we go all right we do a little better

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nope 21 21 um

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you sort of have to rid your nose of the peach smell first

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but as soon as you do you're able to pick up this new scent and

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you smell that it goes directly north i lift my head into the air

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and uh take off toward that direction all right and almost caught by surprise kailyn has to

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take a second before running after you but she does follow quickly behind you

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as you relatively quickly make your way out of the forest and once again into the open air you can see the river now

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um sort of starting to widen uh as it is getting closer and closer towards the

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ocean but you continue on and after a couple minutes of running

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you dodge your way in and out of the sparse trees that are now here you come across a small stone structure

41:21

there's a small wooden door at the front and it seems as though

41:29

that this stone structure goes into the ground it's almost angled down towards the

41:36

ground it doesn't seem like a full house or structure made of stone it

41:41

seems like an entryway into something deeper there is a wooden door on the front though what would you like to do

41:49

[Music] i'm going to as soon as i reach the structure double back

41:55

uh get up and pat my paws against the ground look

42:02

over my shoulder at the structure but then i'm just gonna then i'm just gonna pause

42:09

and look up and uh kind of open my mouth stick my tongue out and then just like pant a little bit uh

42:18

like looking up for some kind of uh response like eyes wide all right and uh

42:25

seeing that caitlyn once again puts her hood up completely shadowing her face

42:31

takes out her sword taps it twice alights it with these green flames

42:38

and slowly reaches her hand out towards the door she looks to you to see if you are in fact

42:45

ready and attentive yes and seeing that she opens up the door creaks open

42:53

and the first thing you hear is uh

43:00

as a chill runs down your spine as this cold air emerges from this tunnel

43:07

you can see in front of you a stone tunnel that now you being a

43:13

direwolf you would just barely be able to squeeze into descending down into the ground

43:20

kalyn cautiously takes a couple of steps forward

43:25

she puts her sword out in front of her as the green flames alight the tunnel on

43:31

the interior and you can just barely start to hear the echoing

43:36

of drops of water hitting stone echoing off of this small tunnel

43:43

calen moves in slowly are you following yes

43:49

okay as you follow deeper and deeper

43:54

into this tunnel the stone around you becomes more and more

44:00

wet there's there's this natural moisture in here that is almost rotting

44:05

the inside and you can see moss and at certain points almost uh

44:10

seaweed-like plants hanging from the the gaps in the stone above you i'm having

44:15

the urge to like pant and whimper but i have to stop myself realizing that

44:21

any noise i make might be picked up by whatever any noise that you make will definitely echo would echo for sure yeah

44:27

so i stopped myself so as you move down and down and down

44:33

you travel for the better part of 10 minutes down into this tunnel

44:38

before just off in the distance you can see a slight

44:43

almost turquoise glow as the room opens up in front of you

44:49

well it's still about 100 feet in front of you so what would you like to do wait what the

44:55

there's a turquoise light emanating from there you can see at the end of this tunnel there seems to be it

45:01

opens up into a larger room it seems like and it seems like this room is

45:06

lit by some sort of turquoise light the source of which you cannot determine

45:12

at this point i look up at caitlyn

45:18

do i see any uh reaction or indication from her of of of what uh of

45:26

what's what's going through her head you see steadfast determination you see someone

45:33

who has got their mind set on a goal okay uh

45:40

i'm gonna trace the wall of this place and see if i can

45:47

angle around to see if if moving over to one side will will

45:52

allow me to see more clearly into what's in the center of the room okay um you

45:58

as a direwolf you're pretty much each shoulder is pretty much scraping up against this

46:03

this uh stone tunnel so you would have to pretty much stick your head out of the end of the tunnel

46:09

into the larger room in order to see around ah uh then in that case

46:18

i would like to stick i would like to really quickly just dart my head out

46:23

of where the tunnel is and then pull it very quickly back uh into the tunnel again and see if for a split second i

46:30

can see what's happening in there okay for sure um you look out and in this brief moment

46:36

you see the carved stone tunnel that led you down here completely ends now it opens up into a natural

46:43

cavern all around you you can see um different levels within this cavern

46:49

uh of of um it seems water damage against the rock

46:55

and you can see the source of this turquoise light you can see a

47:01

a river of water moving along this the interior of this this cavern and you can

47:07

see on the inside there seems to be bioluminescent plants and algae

47:13

that have lit up this cavern making the entire thing this this blue green turquoise color

47:19

and just in that brief moment you saw on the other side of this

47:24

river or this this stream on the interior of this cavern two figures

47:30

two humanoid figures

47:35

just their outlines just the fact that they're there you see two silhouettes two silhouettes

47:41

uh so i do back in the tunnel uh

47:47

is there enough space to to like turn my body around completely in regard uh caitlin

47:53

or you'd really have to squeeze your attention but you would be able to do it yeah okay

47:59

it's my body around gotta squeeze and go around and look up

48:05

and uh i'm gonna attempt to communicate with kalyn i'm gonna put my paws and tap my

48:13

paw twice on one foot and tap my paw twice on another foot

48:18

uh sweep my nose up twice

48:23

uh and my intent is to communicate that there's like that there are people on

48:29

the other side so there are there are four of them

48:34

i shake my head and then i just tap twice on one foot there's two of them

48:40

shake my head in approval um did you or did you

48:46

see who either of them were uh i shake my head but then i also just

48:52

squint my eyes i see

48:57

well

49:02

i uh you you said you were confident that that you smelled donna scent coming down

49:08

here yes not my head in approval well

49:14

one of them must be must be her and you here now echoing off of

49:21

these caverns you hear a woman's voice

49:27

what are you talking about this is not

49:33

it's not what we do i'm not gonna be a part of this this [ __ ]

49:42

you're not gonna make listen i'm doing good work here and that is not gonna be

49:48

be stopped by your stupid agenda like you're taking a complete

49:55

left turn we do good work and yeah that's that comes at a certain cost

50:01

but i no i'm not we're not gonna be doing what you're asking i'm sorry

50:10

i do do i register can i register a change come across kailyn's face as she

50:15

processes this yeah you see um

50:20

she's almost almost inquisitive sort of confused listening

50:28

in

50:34

i turn around from from where she is and i like wrenched my body back so that i'm

50:40

facing toward the the entrance but then i assume like uh

50:45

kind of like the wolf like canine version of like getting started at the at like at the starting

50:53

line of a race or something i'm just like like rustling my back and and like getting

50:59

like inching my way forward toward the entrance as i tap my tail twice

51:06

uh behind me all right and as you do that

51:12

you can hear the sound that uh that

51:17

metal sliding on metal sound that you at this point know fairly well

51:22

of a sword being unsheathed rather quickly and then not even but a second

51:28

later you hear a second one being unsheathed as soon enough you hear two swords clashing

51:36

against each other oh i'm gonna spring out then from from where i'm hiding and

51:41

immediately uh dive my way in between

51:46

these two figures as quickly as i can i'm gonna have you roll initially yeah

51:52

18 18 nice all right so um as you get into that

51:58

starter position that that sort of running uh pose

52:05

kaelyn gets out just in front of you she sees that you've taken this pose and she with no hesitation um begins running out

52:13

from this cavern um she yeah she's gonna take the lead and

52:19

let's see she's gonna use her

52:26

bull movement

52:34

yeah she's gonna use her full movement to just get up um on this sort of uh

52:40

bank of the river that's running through this this stream she's to quickly take out her bow notch

52:47

and arrow and fire it at the two fighting

52:55

and how far did she move away how what was what is the distance she she moved 30 30. okay cool and was just

53:03

able to get up to the edge of the stream um and as she fires her arrow um it flies through the air and

53:10

it goes fairly wild you can't even tell who she's aiming at right as it hits the rock wall behind

53:17

these two that are now in combat next up shraya what are you doing

53:23

so i'm gonna tail uh caitlyn but i have i actually have 50 feet of

53:30

movement uh but i'm wondering because it looks like this river is is like

53:36

in some places it's shorter but in other places it's wider i'm wondering if as a

53:41

large beast i might be able to jump across this river in one of the parts of it

53:47

it would uh definitely be possible depends where you

53:52

want to do that well i'm gonna i'm gonna pull up right next to right next to kalyn and then

54:00

survey the river to see where that i mean that's gonna take an action to be able to survey the best spot to do that

54:06

definitely yeah um you can see just off to your left

54:12

you can see a good spot that is a little bit shorter unfortunately the movement that you've taken coming up

54:19

to the river you would have to take a couple of steps back to get a running leap and you just at this point just don't have enough

54:26

um movement but you you have determined the best place to jump across and you feel fairly

54:32

confident when when you're able to if you backed up 10 feet you'd be able

54:37

to jump across this very easily all right then i'm going to prepare to do that okay you prepare your jump

54:45

next up you see these two figures now that you're in the

54:51

cavern itself and that you're a little bit closer you can see a human woman

54:57

who is across the way you can see a green and brown pauldron on their side

55:03

with tufts of fur just underneath um and you know this to be a a symbol that

55:10

someone is a sentinel of the iron light collective that is sort of their their symbology

55:15

she has this pauldron on she has her sword out and she is currently clashing swords with this other figure

55:23

who looks fairly similar to the way that kaelin looks at the moment you can see a

55:29

long black cloak you can see a hood that is completely covering their face

55:35

and the only discernable feature is an arm

55:41

that is extended gripping a sword with a green flame on it

55:47

as these two go back and forth donna lunges forward with her sword

55:53

and this hooded figure darts to the side taking that momentum swinging the sword back around and

55:59

lunging forward at donna they make contact donna is just able to deflect it so it's not a deadly blow just able to

56:07

deflect it upward and this creature that lunges forward slices the area just

56:13

between their shoulder and their neck dealing

56:19

11 points of slashing damage [Music] and 6 points of fire damage

56:25

as donna reels back from that attack next up kaelin

56:31

kaelin's sort of seeing a similar route that shraya saw she's gonna also

56:36

back up 10 feet she's going to use her movement

56:41

to run and jump across this river as she jumps you can see

56:47

the depth beneath her it's about a 10-foot drop to this stream that's running through whoa

56:54

she flies through the air

57:00

a tentacle bursts from the river no reaching up with a splash of water

57:08

wrapping itself around kaelin and dragging her down into the water she completely disappears under the water

57:18

oh no next up shraya what do you want to do so so it was that fast like it was just

57:24

that fast [Music]

57:31

i run up to the river's edge uh i'm gonna scan the river for like bubbles

57:37

movements sloshing anything you can see

57:43

the water has been has been completely disturbed there is there's ripples in the water it

57:49

makes it very difficult to see what's underneath the only thing that you're able to track

57:54

is this magically lit sword that has these green flames you can just barely see the sword still

58:02

magically a light under the water thrashing back and forth though it does seem to be going deeper

58:07

and deeper i am going to dive into the river

58:14

and plunge like give myself as much of a running start that i was going to use to jump across is now going to be used to

58:21

dive as deeply toward that tentacle well that if i can even see it as i can

58:28

and and paddle as deeply as i can and my intent is to

58:34

bite the hell out of that tentacle if i find it okay um you

58:39

dive into it i'm gonna have you make a perception check cause all of a sudden you need to see underwater

58:45

okay i'm gonna make a perception 16 16

58:52

you dive under the water and this water is is nearly crystal clear once you once you

58:58

break the surface the surface itself was disturbed by all the activity but once you get under it you can see relatively

59:04

clearly you see not one tentacle wrapping around caitlyn

59:09

but a second one that is coming to wrap around her a third one and you can see lining the bottom of

59:16

this stream like veins these massive tentacles

59:22

and you can see them leading to a much larger body

59:27

down this stream i'm gonna have you make an attack roll for me as you plunge down

59:34

you're gonna try and bite one of the ten walls can i i would love to specify that the tentacle that i'm

59:40

like aiming to bite fix into bite if you will uh

59:45

is one that might be holding itself around the core

59:50

okay like of kalin's the one that has the best grasp definitely on caleb for sure okay make that attack all right

59:58

that is going to be a 12 to hit

1:00:05

a 12 does hit you are all to breach your jaws down and sink them into

1:00:12

this tentacle you can feel an initial um pull of the muscle within the tentacle i'm gonna have you roll your damage for

1:00:19

me yeah absolutely that is going to be

1:00:24

uh eight points of piercing damage eight points as my teeth sink into it okay you

1:00:31

can feel the tentacle um weakened as your teeth mash into this

1:00:36

thing is and as you rile back and forth you can feel it just starting to become loose it is not fully broken yet though

1:00:45

okay next up the two continue their battle above the water you have no

1:00:51

idea what's happening above the water um next up kalyn

1:00:58

she is going to seeing where you bit into the tentacle

1:01:04

she is going to take a reverse grip on her sword

1:01:09

uh lunge it forward and slice back over the exact marks that you had taken with your teeth

1:01:17

and the sword dives deep enough to do some damage that is gonna

1:01:22

be just enough damage to where she slices through

1:01:28

about half of the tentacle leaving only half but you can see this magical flame

1:01:34

that makes its way over onto the tentacle and burns away the other half as it completely snaps off

1:01:40

in a frantic motion um begins to to grip the tentacle and try and rip it off of

1:01:46

her as she becomes free and begins swimming up towards the surface shraya

1:01:52

what are you doing i'm following up toward the surface as well uh using as much

1:01:58

you know swift swimming as i can to uh and even if i'm behind her i'll like

1:02:04

push her with my snout to get to get her up faster okay i'm going

1:02:10

to have you make a dexterity saving throw for me raise one of these

1:02:15

these tentacles from the depths of this stream rise up and attempt to wrap itself

1:02:21

around your leg before you can break the surface okay

1:02:27

natural 20 natural 20. you can feel this this tentacle begin to come up and wrap

1:02:33

around your back canine leg but as you are swimming up towards the surface um your back claws just kick it away and

1:02:40

sort of scratch at it enough to where it retreats and jerks back down underneath the water

1:02:46

you break the surface what are you doing uh do i see kaelin climbing

1:02:53

uh am i i mean in my wolf form do i have enough i mean what is the what does the other end of this shoreline look like in

1:03:00

terms of our ability to get up onto the other side you see it is a pretty sheer cliff face about 10 feet on either side

1:03:06

um there are definitely rocks to climb up and you can see kalin's starting to grab some of those rocks and getting

1:03:12

footholds although for a direwolf it's gonna be tricky

1:03:17

i will say that uh so i'm going to first attempt

1:03:24

to climb it in this form uh using the

1:03:29

uh rivets of the and this might actually take you up even more movement based on

1:03:34

what i'm perceiving uh but i'm going to see if i can you know do the the side to

1:03:40

side switch backing to see if i can find a path up the sheer cliff face to inch

1:03:47

my way up all right i'm gonna have you uh because you are doing a switchback i'm

1:03:52

gonna have you make an acrobatics check [Music] okay in that case

1:04:00

acrobatics with the wolf it should just be adding

1:04:06

your decks okay great 16 16 it would take the rest of your

1:04:13

movement but you just are able to get your front paws up onto the top ledge which

1:04:20

ledge are you are you climbing the one of the entrance that you came in or the one on the side where um the two figures

1:04:27

are fighting the two where the two figures are fighting which i would imagine is the same one that the kaelin's climbing up

1:04:33

as well that is correct that's what i figured okay you are just able to get yourself up

1:04:38

to that crest is part of my body still exposed to the river

1:04:44

it is okay next up as you as you just crest over this top

1:04:52

you look forward and you see these two figures still engaged in combat each

1:04:57

um each clash with the sword sparks these green embers that fly off of their

1:05:04

swords you can see parries going back and forth um as donna makes one huge swing towards this

1:05:11

creature yeah you can see that they just jump back out of the way of of the swing

1:05:18

donna completely missing all of her attacks then you can see the hooded figure

1:05:25

lunges forward with their sword in a massive striking motion

1:05:31

once again hitting donna this time burying itself deep within her left arm

1:05:37

you can see it almost breaks through the bone of her left arm as her left arm

1:05:42

completely goes limp seemingly useless now as this figure has sliced

1:05:48

almost all the way through it you can see that they then take another attack

1:05:54

this time aiming for the the legs of donna [Music]

1:06:00

they lunge forward and their sword completely slices through

1:06:05

the thigh of donna as she reels drops down to one knee

1:06:12

and brings her sword back up to continue defending herself

1:06:18

next up [Music] kaelin finishes climbing

1:06:24

out of this stream she crests the top

1:06:29

passes you shraya as another tentacle reaches out ah

1:06:35

knew it but in a quick flurry with her sword

1:06:43

she turns around and deflects this tentacle and almost sends it back reeling into the water itself as she is

1:06:51

completely free to move forward she runs up towards the conflicting pair

1:07:00

using her entire movement as well as her action oh to make it up

1:07:06

wow as she used her action she's going to take a defensive stance there try what are you doing

1:07:11

uh tailing her i'm following her all the way up okay i'm gonna have you make a dexterity saving throw for me oh come on

1:07:18

come on come on come on come on come on uh 21. 21. um

1:07:25

now seeing that that kalin has deflected this tentacle it then seems to divert its attention to

1:07:32

you but you've seen kailyn uh deflect it so it doesn't come as a surprise to you as it lunges forward

1:07:38

you're just able to jump out of the way

1:07:45

all right what are you doing i am bolting right behind uh where kaelin is

1:07:51

and steadying myself next to kaelyn and

1:07:56

looking up and i'm just gonna i'm just gonna be right next to her waiting for her move

1:08:02

all right um you can use your full movement to run up and be right in the

1:08:07

fray yes all right donna seeing that new

1:08:15

creature she has she does not know if you are friend or foe

1:08:23

she is going to drop her sword raise her hand up in the air a

1:08:32

and and coalesce a ball of green energy within her hand she slams it down onto

1:08:39

the ground and in a very similar way that you have seen flynn cast before

1:08:44

uh she is gonna cast a thunder wave oh boy

1:08:52

all right i am going to have shraya make a constitution saving throw uh okay

1:08:59

okay that's a six so uh yeah that's gonna fail okay um as this this energy pulses

1:09:08

out everyone is gonna take

1:09:13

nine points of thunder damage

1:09:18

and you are all pushed back 10 feet away from donna

1:09:24

[Music] she as she desperately tries to to gain

1:09:30

any ground for her to retreat kalin's pushed back 10 feet

1:09:35

try you are pushed back 10 feet and the hooded figure is also pushed back 10 feet although

1:09:43

the hooded figure close enough to a wall where

1:09:48

[Music] instead of backing up the full 10 feet they are thrown up against this wall you

1:09:53

can see their back make full contact with the wall as the air leaves their chest

1:10:00

they drop down to one knee and from the inside of their cloak

1:10:06

try you can see a small totem fall to the ground [Music]

1:10:12

kalin is going to run forward towards this assailant

1:10:20

and take a couple of swings her first sword attack lunging forward

1:10:27

yeah the hooded creature parries her attack she takes a second swing

1:10:33

and makes contact with this creature's side almost near their ribs though it

1:10:39

doesn't seem to go deep the damage is done when kaelin forcefully rips the sword out seemingly slicing further into

1:10:46

this creature's side shrai what are you doing i'm gonna run up to the hooded figure and

1:10:51

uh launch myself toward

1:10:56

toward its but the area between his arm and his chest and try to sink my teeth

1:11:02

in right there with a bite attack okay make an attack roll and i have advantage in this because i

1:11:08

have an ally pack tactics which is good because that roll was really bad but unfortunately the other

1:11:14

roll was not that much better uh yeah that is a

1:11:20

nine to hit a nine does not hit um as this creature

1:11:27

brings its sword up to your your mashing teeth and puts the palm of their hand on the

1:11:34

blunt side of their sword and just forces your teeth away from from their body

1:11:40

next up donna is going to

1:11:46

reach into her her back pocket she's going to take out shreya what you

1:11:51

can see are it's like a handful of herbs she brings it up to her arm and mashes

1:11:58

these herbs into her her injured and at this point useless arm seemingly trying

1:12:03

to pack it she's going to spend her action doing that

1:12:09

next up the hooded figure [Music]

1:12:14

is going to raise their hand up in the air

1:12:20

a small coalescence of green energy forms

1:12:26

as they transfer that energy down to their leg slam it into the ground that is going to be another thunder wave

1:12:31

oh boy so i'm going to need you to make another constitution saving throw okay

1:12:38

and yeah this dies does not save going against me as

1:12:45

kaelin is also pushed back that is gonna be

1:12:51

10 points of thunder damage 10 feet

1:12:58

this creature is going to in blinding speed run up face to face with donna

1:13:06

they're gonna put both of their hands on their sword now um both on the hilt of their sword

1:13:12

and reel back and take a powerful powerful swing

1:13:18

[Music] as this hooded creature swings with their sword

1:13:26

and before their swing is even finished donna

1:13:31

is fully decapitated

1:13:37

a hooded figure takes the rest of their movement

1:13:47

to run towards the exit you can see now

1:13:53

a tunnel that continues on and leads further down into whatever catacombs lay ahead

1:14:02

kailyn is going to dash forward towards the

1:14:07

body of donna [Music] as she kneels down she's going to drop her sword take out her bow and attempt

1:14:15

to fire an arrow into the back of this hooded creature

1:14:22

as the arrow lands it buries itself deep into its shoulder but the creature continues running

1:14:28

continues their momentum shraya what are you doing i mean i've got 50 feet so i could theoretically catch up to the

1:14:34

hooded figure and take one more bite right that is true all right then that's i'm gonna

1:14:40

lunge forward with renewed strength and vigor after seeing donna fall

1:14:46

and reach out and bite at the eels of this retreating foe okay make an attack roll

1:14:54

for me [Music]

1:15:03

you try to but as soon as you can actually reach out and attack the hooded creature has already taken

1:15:09

two two more steps and you're just not able to sink your teeth in

1:15:17

as the hooded creature continues and uses their movement to run towards the exit

1:15:25

they get just into the tunnel once again raise their hand up

1:15:32

green energy surges down to their leg stomp it onto the ground shaking the

1:15:38

entire cavern around them as rocks fall from the ceiling

1:15:44

seal on from your advancement

1:15:52

the foe is now gone try what are you doing i'm

1:15:58

gonna walk up next to kalyn dejected saunter back up to

1:16:08

you can see kaelin has already spilled out all of her medical supplies onto the ground

1:16:14

whoa and as she looks amongst them you can see some herbal you can see

1:16:20

some potions but as she looks across them she looks

1:16:25

up to the fully decapitated head of donna and begins shaking her head

1:16:32

she cannot do anything i

1:16:40

just wander over there and i look into kaelyn's eyes and then look

1:16:47

back over it donna and and and just

1:16:53

bury my face in the ground and put my paws above my face

1:16:59

you can see kailyn's face as her eyes begin to water up

1:17:08

and as she stands she uh she sort of wipes the water away from her

1:17:14

eyes and you can see a change in her face almost a deliberate change in her mood

1:17:21

go from sad to

1:17:26

focused and then to angry as she starts pacing back and forth

1:17:34

damn it damn it damn it

1:17:40

[Music] at this point

1:17:46

uh i see my paws just completely

1:17:53

and totally bury my face in the earth below but this the sweeping motion of the

1:18:00

pause and its continuation almost seems to form like a

1:18:05

sewing machine's ferocity as my face and my head just completely get buried and buried and buried and then in a

1:18:12

spindle-like motion uh the the shards of of

1:18:17

transformation uh almost machine like like a like a like a ball of yarn being

1:18:23

unwound splays me back out into my original form as tria

1:18:29

and i roll over and use my staff to to pick myself up off the

1:18:36

ground uh afraid we weren't fast enough

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[Music] no i i don't think we were we might have been but

1:18:49

she walks over towards a little pile of rocks she picks up one of the rocks

1:18:57

she walks over towards the edge of the stream she looks down into the stream

1:19:05

she grabs you can't quite tell what it is but it seems to be a

1:19:11

some sort of plant a leaf from her back pocket she rubs it along the rock

1:19:18

she whispers an incantation into the rock as the rock all of a sudden glows green

1:19:25

she reaches her hand out over the ledge of the stream she drops the rock in

1:19:32

and you hear the rock hit the water boom and after a couple of seconds

1:19:42

as you can hear an explosion go off underneath the water [Music]

1:19:48

she walks back over towards you what what what was that what did you do

1:19:56

well not enough to kill it but if it weren't for that thing

1:20:03

you might have gotten over here sooner what what was that thing

1:20:11

i would assume that that was what donna was here to kill

1:20:19

and the figure that hastily escaped

1:20:24

i did not see who it was

1:20:34

[Music] would it be any kind of association that

1:20:39

that figure may have with the creature in the depths

1:20:45

[Music] by your estimation of this part of the world

1:20:52

i simply don't know if that creature has enough intelligence to be making deals with any other creatures

1:21:02

what of their conversation before donna perished it seemed to me that

1:21:09

there was other deal-making going on and that donna had rejected

1:21:15

one such deal it appears that her rejection of the

1:21:21

deal was what was her downfall [Music]

1:21:29

it seems to me that there is a sort of recruitment happening

1:21:36

and it is possible that anyone who does not wish to be a part of that recruitment is on the kill list

1:21:46

perhaps donna got in over her head perhaps

1:21:52

were you able to see any distinguishing features of that creature well

1:21:57

uh and i'd like to tap back into my creature memory banks for

1:22:03

anything my senses might have picked up about the figure as i attempted at least to bite it a few

1:22:08

times i don't think i ever actually got to sing my teeth into it um yeah

1:22:14

humanoid creature just under six foot

1:22:20

medium build you were not able to determine what race

1:22:26

they were that was just about all that you got would i have been able to smell anything

1:22:32

on them that would be distinguishing as i was you know close enough to bite them but missing

1:22:38

good question you uh

1:22:43

it is not a smell that you have deliberately picked up in the past

1:22:51

you don't really have a frame of reference as being a direwolf

1:22:57

you could pick up the the peaches from the peach bit because as a direwolf you smelled the peach pit and were able to

1:23:02

get that sense as you haven't smelled many other creatures with this king of

1:23:08

sense of a direwolf it's very difficult to place that it's so it's basically it it did have a

1:23:14

distinct scent it's just nothing that i would be able to match it to if you smelled that scent again as a direwolf

1:23:22

i'd be able to match it right correct

1:23:29

well um would you help me

1:23:35

take this body back with certain rituals of course

1:23:40

any way that i can help carry out the rights of a fallen hero like this

1:23:47

be more more than happy to do so now that i've found you completed my mission

1:23:53

to at least find you the only other business i have up here is to somehow

1:23:59

communicate back with the band of fellows from which i came

1:24:06

and to let them know but that can wait until these rights are carried out

1:24:12

[Music] well i'd like to deal with the body as

1:24:17

soon as possible of course but now that there is

1:24:22

not much for me to do here in keed i would kindly request that

1:24:27

if you indeed travel with flynn and zorkhall you might take me back to them

1:24:33

i feel like that might be my best course of action well i think the tentative plan was

1:24:39

at some point to meet with them anyway so if we stick together

1:24:44

we will see them again [Music]

1:24:49

all right help me with this body all right before before i leave um i just want to

1:24:58

didn't you say the uh it was like a totem or something that was dropped yes um it was a um as as

1:25:06

you're looking um you see a little um a uh little marble

1:25:14

totem probably only three inches tall

1:25:20

but it seems to be a carving of a [Music] bear i'm gonna see um a uh a little

1:25:28

string attached to it and that string on one end is broken where it seems to have uh been broken off of

1:25:35

wherever was hanging on this creature [Music] i'm gonna pick it up

1:25:40

uh this might be some sort of key

1:25:46

into how we could find this being in the future look it was drops during the battle

1:25:54

a single clue is better than none i suppose [Music]

1:25:59

more information that is always good does this have any sort of resemblance to

1:26:04

any kind of culture in these northlands none that i've seen

1:26:12

i tuck the this totem under my wing

1:26:19

all right we should get out of here yes i suppose so you have any suggestions on how we get

1:26:25

across the stream now um maybe quite difficult

1:26:31

may take some doing perhaps i could

1:26:37

carry them with my arms and try to fly across the expanse

1:26:44

i suppose that would work i guess i'll take her head

1:26:50

i winston hang my head down just for a second um just give me one moment and kaelin

1:26:57

lights her sword once more and um

1:27:02

somewhat gruesomely uh cauterizes the wounds where it is

1:27:07

where the blood is coming from so you will no longer have a bleeding

1:27:13

corpse with you but after she does that she sort of takes the head

1:27:20

lets you take the body i'm gonna have you make a strength check for me [Music]

1:27:27

all right [Music]

1:27:37

you take this body by the shoulders you fly it up as close to the ceiling as you can get

1:27:44

and come back down on the other side landing very gently as to be respectful of the body kalin

1:27:50

looks down over the edge she sees the tentacles writhing

1:27:55

in the stream she takes a couple steps back times her jump

1:28:02

jumps across and as one tentacle reaches up from the stream in one fluid

1:28:07

motion mid air she takes her sword swings back cuts off the tip of of the tentacle

1:28:14

lands on the other side and continues walking next to you badass

1:28:21

so as you are heading out of this tunnel you get to

1:28:26

the uh the end of the tunnel you get to the door you open it and you are greeted with a nice sky filled with stars

1:28:35

ugh my head back i haven't seen stars like this since

1:28:41

i remember back to the time where i was this far north on the

1:28:46

in the region of the world yes it's very nice um

1:28:51

i believe we should [Music] yes continue on of course

1:28:56

of course and she leads you into the forest and she stops

1:29:03

after a little ways she takes out her sword she starts chopping at some of the trees

1:29:10

getting some wood getting some branches together lays out a large pile of twigs

1:29:18

and some foliage she snaps her fingers and a very small

1:29:23

green flame appears between her her fingers she tosses it down under the pile

1:29:30

as the pile alights in green flame

1:29:35

you and her take the body put it onto the flames [Music]

1:29:40

and as the green flames overtake the body it doesn't simply burn as you would expect something normally to

1:29:48

it almost covers it and encases it and as these

1:29:55

green flecks of energy begin to fly away

1:30:01

the body disappears and dissipates and you look up as these

1:30:06

thousand points of of green light emerge and fly up into the sky

1:30:13

and drift away on the breeze the green fire before you dies

1:30:20

and you are both left in silence [Music]

1:30:29

well um that's it uh we're good to move on boys

1:30:35

as uh as the specs of the green sparks fade into the

1:30:41

to the air um i send up a couple of swirls of

1:30:49

of druidic energy from the center of my crystal that double helix

1:30:55

and pulse out into the night sky as well

1:31:01

i didn't know her but seeing the needless death

1:31:06

[Music] and reflecting on my own experiences with loss

1:31:12

the ways i've lost myself and feel distanced from the second

1:31:20

kind of longing longing for family now my found family is so far away

1:31:27

the true nature of sacrifice comes into my mind

1:31:34

and there is a newfound respect

1:31:41

and a knowing that i can't ever let this happen again

1:31:47

[Music] go wherever her soul is headed it'll

1:31:54

have a rightful wrist a gentle sleep among the ancient dead

1:31:59

[Music] and with that resolve in your head and

1:32:04

that that steadfast feeling to move forward in

1:32:10

your mission shraya you level up no way yep oh

1:32:17

yes where shall we go now

1:32:24

i was going to ask you that where are we meeting up with everyone else

1:32:30

i heard some rumblings as i was leaving [Music]

1:32:35

i don't know how well i was hearing this but that there might be a meeting point

1:32:42

in saddle mounts well

1:32:47

it's a long walk yes we better get started yes we'd better and that is where we're gonna end this

1:32:53

session we're going to call it right there as shraya and kailyn

1:32:59

begin their long journey back to saddle mount trek and trek back to saddle mountain no

1:33:04

no no longer being able to fly um that is where we're going to call it

1:33:09

thank you all so much for listening we can't wait to see all again next week bye nerds banners hey nerds it's ethan

1:33:16

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