Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth
welcome to ventureport
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previously you all had set sail on the open ocean to make your way towards oak inspire to save a friend of alma named
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xavier you guys had boarded this ship and with the promise of a little bit of gold were
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told tales of a mysterious island that might be lurking off in the distance
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unfortunately for some you actually saw that island off in the distance shrouded by fog and clouds
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and after everyone passing out on the boat you guys reawoke in new bodies
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shraya found yourself in the body of oma oma found yourself in the body of kellik
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and kellik in the body of shraya as you guys attempted to figure out what was going on
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the captain and one of the hands of the boat came up from the lower decks of the ship and had
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discovered that they had also swapped bodies having no idea what was going on you
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guys decided that the best course of action was to continue on to port and attempt to find someone there who could
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reverse this spell whatever it was as you guys continued on towards land
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you guys all took your long rests tried to get acquainted with these new forms that you
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were in and as we get to the end of the long rest
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oma you are the only one sitting above deck you are attempting to
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to prepare yourself for the next coming day trying to go through your mind and and
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scour this new information that you have locked deep within to to try and
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find how you're supposed to cast these spells it doesn't feel like it normally does
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so oma what would you like to do as the sun has not yet risen
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um i'm gonna um
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take a deep breath and um close my eyes and i want to try to feel
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where the magic or the the energy is coming from in my body
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okay um as you are on the ship and the storm that you guys sailed into is still
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well underway as lightning and thunder cracks off in the distance um the boat
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is rocking back and forth you are currently being pelted with rain um i'm gonna have you make a religion check
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[Music] 21. 21. nice um
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so as you're sitting there you sort of feel yourself present in this
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moment and you feel a slight warmth sort of at the base of your skull
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and you feel your arm your left arm with all the bandages sort of get a little
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bit numb and almost tingly as if it's falling asleep [Music]
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and as you're sitting there concentrating words and phrases of a language that you
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don't know that you don't understand start flowing through your head and you almost start hearing them as these
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slight whispers but it's more as if you're remembering them
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from a time that you heard them past and you sort of get an idea of of where
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this new magic comes from and you feel like you could possibly cast some spells
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um i remember that kellogg told me not to get his arm wet
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so i'm gonna try to like put my cloak over it a little bit
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[Music] but i'm i'm staring at it and and
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how is it wrapped okay like would you like to describe how it's wrapped uh it is a uh single bandage uh
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that is uh uh coiled from the the um upper part of
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the tricep all the way down uh to uh his hand like the fingers are
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exposed uh but it's uh like kind of doubled up around the center of the palm and you
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said his right arm or his left arm uh it's his right arm okay
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so um i want to peek under i want to peek under the wrapping at my hand
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um you see uh the uh flash as you've seen before that is extremely extremely
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destroyed uh it does not feel um
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like it it looks worse than it feels
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uh it looks it's not like a burn that has since cooled it is like an active
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uh uh it is it is as though it was recently burned uh it is this kind of um like you feel a
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little revulsion looking at it because it looks like it needs attention
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um it's got that kind of um throbbing quality to it
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um but it doesn't hurt you so much as you're aware of the like weight of it as you as you move
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this part of your body it's more that it um where you where you place it in the
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world seems to matter in a way that you can't really put your
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finger on for lack of a better expression uh and uh in the center of the palm
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is the uh three ring symbol that you've known uh
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uh kellektor around his neck is is a an exact replica of that is scarred into the center of the palm
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um it being big enough that it doesn't quite that there's sections of it that are missing on the ends of
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the hand and uh this the center the lowest circle is
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is the only one that is actually complete on the um base of the palm
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gross gross gross gross um
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you do notice looking at that symbol that um
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within the scar itself where normally there would be scar tissue
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uh or blood uh you can all you almost feel as though
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uh there's no end to the wound like if you were to if you were to like pull that
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flesh apart you could you could disappear inside it there's there's a limitless void beyond that scar
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ah i'm gonna cover it back up [Music]
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um do i feel i don't feel pain at all and i don't i don't feel like i'm any weaker
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because it's not healed ah correct you do not you do not okay
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i'm gonna yeah cover back up um and remember to
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ask gaelic about it later oh oh um and and uh is it dark or is it
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not dark it is currently dark yes i'm going to look at the um
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the the side of the boat that i'm standing at and i'm gonna listen to the sounds
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in my head and i'm gonna place my hand on the um like edge of the boat and i'm
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gonna say sandy nobis and cast light
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[Music] okay on the boat just unlike where my hand is
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on the boat okay um all right [Music]
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um you put your hand down and immediately uh this thing bursts into
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radiant light oh so pretty i did it [Music]
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um i went to try to change its colors to see if i can still do that
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so i think really hard and i'm gonna stay blue stays the same
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[Music] kelly's not as exciting as mine mine is still better
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and i'm just gonna look out at my glowing lights um and with that comes
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the end of all of your long rest um the rest of you who aren't currently awake are jolted awake as a massive wave hits
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the side of the boat and completely rocks you guys almost knocking a couple of you out of your beds um but at this
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point you are well awake and as you begin to wake up you're also
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greeted with um like a couple of drops of water even though you guys are below the decks some
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of the the just intense downpour that's going on outside has actually seeped through some of the wood and it has made
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its way down to um the the lower level so a couple of drops hit your guys's faces um as you wake up to this new day
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so for the rest of you what would you like to do uh how close are we if i'm if i as i
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come out to the to the deck how how can i see the shore uh
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or or how far we might yeah as you um look out you can just barely see beyond
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sort of that that haze that heavy rain gives um you could just barely see a coastline out there um you estimate
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you're probably a couple hours away sometimes i'll be thankful for
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we're almost there huh i say to anyone who might hear me
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um you and oma are the only ones who are currently on deck i guess
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kind of it looks like it over there
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i don't know boats though how long will it take it for us to get there do you think
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because i've been seeing that for a while right um
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be careful with your eyes as well as the sun gets uh
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closer to the peak of the sky what's gonna happen in my eyes it's gonna hurt for a little it's gonna hurt all the
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time uh yeah
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until it's until it's not light out oh hey caleb yes i'm gonna hold on my hand
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my right hand have you tried to heal this because it looks really bad um
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i've never talked to i mean i have a healing potion we could just like pour the healing potion on it maybe it'll help it i think that's a bad
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idea but it's all gross and it looks like it's never healing
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have you thought about this i mean you've had this rap the whole time i've known you how long has it been like this
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yeah you just you know you keep it clean and you you're wrapping up but it's um
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you know it's not um it's not my arm anymore
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whose arm is it uh i'm just staring at the arm is it gonna hurt me
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is it gonna attack me whose arm is it no no it's not like that alma it's it's it's an extension of
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a a greater power you know what's there to help us
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it's uh what tethers me to this other being a friend
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still working out exactly but
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the manner of the relationship is you know is a complicated fella as they tend to be
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but he's given me a better shake than my previous uh
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patrons so i'm inclined to
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let him stay a bit longer i think if i tried to heal it if i were to reject the arm
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it'd be rejecting the gift denying the bond we have i'm inclined to see it
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through does that make sense kind of i don't know about you but i want to go
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back into my body as do i i ruffle my feathers
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and and bloom up my my chest
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it's really silly to talk to you when you look like a bird
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it's silly talking as a bird your beak moves funny
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yeah i don't know how to use it i don't know how shreya manages
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we're not so different now from the crystal dwellers picking up the carcasses of those around us i guess so
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makes one wonder on the emphasis we have on our material form
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it's kind of what i mean about the arm doesn't matter if it's my arm or another's
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it matters what's done with it that's weird well even in my body with the arm as acryl
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you are ulma but am i i think you are
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you seem like homo to me i don't think the world would be able to deny you that but i can't do all the things that oma
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can do and this body feels all weird all right
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let's not go too hard on it so how can i be me if i can't do the things
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that i can do and and if i don't feel the way i feel and and and if i don't
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have the same experiences anymore because your body remembers things and
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when i move silly it doesn't it kind of hurts
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in ways that i usually move but my body doesn't hurt when i do that so the thing that i can't get used to is
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how cold it is that's uh that's a new one even for that party
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cold yeah um i wouldn't get too attached to
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you know sitting in the sunlight or sitting by a fire or anything like that
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even a nice duvet is not gonna do much for the feeling you have
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you're always cold i thought it was just the rain no that's
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that's a side effect of all this meddling and
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divine affairs well maybe you should stop being warm is nice
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hey yeah maybe i should hel i think you feel the way you feel emma i
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don't think there's any stripping that away and as for what the body remembers
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i can't speak to it um even in this form
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and i sort of do shoulder rolls just try and stretch the wings i don't really know how to
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operate them uh i still feel myself you know i still feel
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uh the same person maybe my uh
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facility with a sickle might be worse no and i i fiddle with try a staff
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and and for a moment my gaze lingers on the crystal and i can't move it away
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yeah i want my body back strange uh
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inclinations crystals do look lovely from these eyes
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so it's just the eyes that make them look a little really silly i don't know it's maybe it's just the
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habit of just lingering on shiny things i'm gonna um stand close to the mast and
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wrap up my hand in a fist and on my left hand not my magic hand
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and punch the mast what are you doing why would you do that
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you're kind of weak that's not true at all this part of your hand see
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yeah it's all like bleeding now yeah i haven't made a habit of wrapping it against swells on the regular whatever
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would you mind not just testing out me limbs on the hard surfaces of the world
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sure thank you how you should practice that
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no flynn and shraya at this point uh you guys are both also awake what would you guys like to do try
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uh or uma should i be saying oma oh no that
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sounds weird try uh where are you up i am ah
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a new day oh uh yeah i just um you see my uh limbs
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just like kind of going all over i start like pacing around the room
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uh just eyes darting uh uh what are we gonna do with this new day i feel all this energy
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energy that just seems unending uh i'm gonna look around are there any um portholes or windows um
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yes there is uh a couple on either side of you they're currently closed but they're you can swing them open if you
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want it's one of those like vertical opening hatches [Music]
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is is it are they uh big enough for my body to fit through them
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yes yeah awesome i'm gonna watch this
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what i'm gonna crawl into one of the fling open the window and like
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uh hold on and just like lay my body above the uh above the ocean and just
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kind of like i don't know plank out what are you doing i'll run over to grab
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his uh or her leg to keep them from falling off the edge what are you doing i just feel
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compelled to just try things get down from there i'm trying to pull his leg back into
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the boat is there anything on the side of the boat maybe i could climb up um a couple feet away you do see a
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ladder extending down the side of the ship ooh i'm gonna try to jump for it okay i'm gonna have you make an
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acrobatics check at disadvantage as the boat is being furiously rocked back and forth by these waves
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oh boy oh that's a yeah that uh
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that's uh that's a six okay no at advantage no no no
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yeah but i have a it's a plus six though i know wow okay fine it's a seventh
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you probably [Music]
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for me i'm actually going to have i'm going to have everyone wrong oh wow i'll figure it out it's that bad hey everyone
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um i'm at disadvantaged ability check still because i have one left level so i this is the disadvantage right yes okay all right try what'd you
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get uh that is a
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seven okay um so of course i rolled at 18 and then my disadvantage was a three plus
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four so i wrote a seven as well um do we go by decks who has that yeah
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so uh flynn what's your decks modifier plus uh my initiatives plus my dex is plus four
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okay shreya um what is in your new form what is your dexterity modifier i'm
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pretty sure it's plus three oh okay i thought okay glenn goes first
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um kellick five oh boy yeah and alma
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seven also what did the waves roll and uh for the sharks and the waves
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and my uh my death in this body is plus two okay so three of us rolled to seven wow
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incredible okay um you see her jump out she just or he
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just jumped off from the side of the boat like literally body just left what are
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you doing um do i see that uh oma or tria is not going to be able to make it
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can i maybe reach out and try and grab very clearly you see that his foot as he
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was like trying to leap off his foot slipped on the wet uh on the wet wood
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and it's probably not gonna i'm gonna try and reach my hand out and grab uh grab theirs and hold on potentially if i
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can get there okay um i'm gonna have you make a uh this is gonna be a i'm gonna make this a
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grapple check okay uh oh what do i need to do for that again so that is going to be either your athletics or your
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dexterity or my acrobatics or i'm sorry acrobatics i'm gonna try acrobatics but
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it's still a disadvantage [Music] 10 plus oops
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uh 17 17 shreya what is your new ac uh my new ac i believe is 11. it's 16.
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oh it's 16. oh [ __ ] okay um flynn you're just just able to
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you oh wait what did you roll i wrote a 17 17 you're just able to grab his ankle
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as he flies out i'm gonna have you make an athletics check to see if you can hold on oh this is gonna be the bad one
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all right uh a disadvantage i still roll pretty decent uh but 13
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minus one so 13. okay you don't have the strength to pull him back up but he's holding there or just holding him as
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he's hanging off of the side of this boat what are you doing don't worry flynn i can and then i'm gonna
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think into the urge of where i'm i'm gonna try to fly oh wait i can't fly
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hold on i'll swing you i'm going to try and swing uh i'm going to try and swing try it to the side so we maybe can grab
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flynn i'm going to say that that's that's your action i'm ruling
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what are you doing you're hanging off the side off the side of the boat uh have the urge to fly uh doesn't work uh
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i'm gonna try to steady and grab on to something that is
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in my immediate surroundings okay
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i'm just gonna try to get back to the window i don't know if i can do that from where i'm hanging um i'm gonna say
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the because it's the side of a boat um and it's pretty slick i'm just going to
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make and you're upside down i'm going to have you just make an athletics check to see if you can do one of those you know those crunches where you pull yourself
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up and try and grab at something that's near your feet um i'm just gonna have you make an athletics check for me
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fantastic 24. no there you go that body is fairly used to
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having to do crunches um yeah you find that um your muscles
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find this movement fairly easy to do as you your torso just flies up and you're able to actually grab onto the side of
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the porthole where you threw yourself out of um and you're able to climb back out uh without kellock or
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oma even hearing a thing you climb back into the boat ah i wanted to surprise the people on the
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top of the deck but that didn't go so well yeah maybe we just go up the stairs yeah but what
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it's not very fun you don't remember what happened yesterday do you i remember enough
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maybe we take it easy on the crazy stuff at least until we switch back or you get you all switch back into your bodies
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that would be sensible this is really weird yes it is very weird but look at this and i like flick
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my fingers and uh do sparks fly out that's my intention they do yes
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okay i'll i'll grab their hands and just kind of hold them maybe we wait
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and uh i continue to flick my fingers and try to peer into the center of the sparks as i can i i grab their hand and
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do walk-ups let's go come on i don't want to try and find the others all right
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bulma and kalec you guys see flynn and tria coming up above the deck
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guys we this one needs to calm down tell them they need to calm down no don't tell me to calm down
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uh and i'm gonna try to climb the crow's nest this feels utterly familiar
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doesn't it i don't know you guys i just have this there's all this uh i just wanna do things
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is that what i look like when i climb i mean i guess i mean i look pretty good at it right but it's
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not you so we should probably get them down and i'll turn to uh like try i'm cali can you go this
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would be a good time to try those wings out i'm not gonna do that uh i will try to climb up after hey ma i'm used to
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climbing he'll he'll be fine but go up higher higher
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no try it now is not a good time to have i reached the top yeah um yes at this point you have just about reached the
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cross i would like to uh jump do a flip and grab a rope and try to swing on the rope
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no boy you're just really making me do this make an athletic uh make an acrobatics
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check brilliant so just to be clear that was a jump a flip and then a grab of the rope correct
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if there's a rope swinging by as i would imagine on a sailboat there might be there's plenty of ropes okay great
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14 14. um it sort of slips out of your hand for a second but you're able to sturdier grip
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and actually hang on to this rope you are now swinging by a rope look at that oh my god that was so thrilling
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i'm gonna slide down the rope and then uh tumble and then stand up and do a little bow okay does
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that require a roll no at this point no it doesn't okay did
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you get that out of your system looking around maybe all right and i'll look off into
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the distance do i see how close we are to land uh you guys are currently about two hours away from land you can you can
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sort of see and feel uh the vessel veering in towards the coast i'll look
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to uh kelly so i guess what do we do do we go talk to the
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captain i i don't know uh what he meant about our
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our stopping point what the plan is here because like you you are all in different bodies he
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he's in it they're in a different body i think um we should probably find out what their plan is so we can do it as well hello
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wasn't there a person that we needed to that's that animal recommended
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uh enough inspire okay uh uh started with a z right zeta zeda oh okay that's maybe we go see
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them all right yeah let's find them uh um i should go into the galley though
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right because because that was my job or should i do the job that caleb you were assigned
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uh probably stick to your your job i smoked well i should go make
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breakfast then i'll see you guys later should i make breakfast too no let's go find timmy
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okay and then i rush down to the galley i'm gonna try to sneak some food i'll see if there's anything that we fetched for
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anyone suppose [Music] alma back straight
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shoulders back that's right lower your chin a bit no too low too low higher all right no
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just it's fine why does it matter where your chin is dignity always homer
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i have dignity yeah i raised my eyebrows my eyebrows try where'd you run off to
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all right kelli i'm gonna go find him good luck and her i'll be back and i'll run off trying to find out where try it
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ran off to okay um flynn you find try you said he went to
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the galley to get some yeah i'm gonna try to uh find the sweetest thing i can find uh
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and or uh but try to eat it or grab it stealthily so that no one notices okay
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i'm gonna have you make we're both in the galley though oh yeah both you guys both went to the galley um
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so try if you're trying to sneak this thing i'm gonna have you make a stealth check
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12. um alma what is your new passive perception [Music]
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18 18. um shraya has clearly come into the
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galley and is trying to rummage for something um i gotta smack his hand huh my my hand
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um try i'm gonna make breakfast go do your job
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i want something i wanted i wanted to eat something well you can wait
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okay i just sort of walk off my head down but before i leave i'm gonna try to
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sneak a street one more time all right fine make a slight of hand
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check yeah yeah
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16. oh that still doesn't no once again you once again you get your
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hands slapped away try it there you are come on let's go
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get find timmy see what what he wants us to do did we let me switch bodies too i can't
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let's go pastries do you have any of those pastries right i'll grab their arm and drag them out of the galley as we
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and try and okay all right i'll try and find
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flynn you go along with strya down below the deck um and you see uh timmy who is
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there he's currently packing up um different bed rolls he seems like he's on this um second level it's just above
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the cargo bay and he seems to just be cleaning up a little bit um sort of preparing the boat for for port hey
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hey sorry i saw that island yeah this is all your fault
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what do we need to do well i don't know now do whatever you want i guess
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timmy it's not your fault well yeah you think i just saw the thing
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i know i'm just frustrated all my friends are different now and i don't know what to
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do and this one and i hold up almost him and this one's acting all
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crazy now and i'm hopefully we can fix it when we get
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there do you need help packing up or something yeah could you just get those boxes over there roll on the other side
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i'll let go of uh try his hand and go help
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pack up okay all right i'm gonna start packing stuff up i'm gonna make it seem like i'm
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helping but i'm not really gonna help okay
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um all right kellick what are you up to uh
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i am uh looking for uh uh captain mccready
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okay uh for if he needs any assistance all right um you go to the captain's
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quarters and you see that the door is closed uh i'll uh observe the condition of
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tria's knuckles uh and gingerly so as not to
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uh destroy them any further uh rap at the door okay um
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you do and you hear um uh yes come in [Music]
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i open the door all right um you walk in and you see captain mccready um in his
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new form of uh prala holiday um you see prala holiday in captain mccready's body
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and you also see um the first mate there paston broadhammer um who is a dwarven man and
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um paston turns to you and you can see that they're sort of in conversation
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there and he says uh um
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ain't it a shame that our dear captain mccreathy has come down with such a terrible cold
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isn't that correct captain mccready and you see uh captain creedy's body
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occupied by prolly holiday um sort of lean off to the side and
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and the first mate says it's such a shame that uh he can't talk for for a couple of days at least uh as
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his throat is no longer working very well and i will be taking over most of the communications um it's a shame but
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uh i i think this is probably going to be the best for his voice to heal
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[Music] a shame i thought
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uh it's a nice little song and dance you have prepared there yeah um i just hope
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that it holds uh has there not been with all the
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rumors circulating about this island uh some precedent for this kind of uh
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abnormal occasion occurrence no i've been sailing on the sea for
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better part of 50 years and i've never even heard of anyone who had seen the thing
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before um let alone something like this happening curious
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i wonder too i i i hardly mentioned it might there's some kind of old
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uh the the the tail of the island is of some old spirit being held there perhaps
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i i uh well now anything is possible seeing our current circumstances
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uh sure uh i happen to be a bit of a i've recently acquired a a passion for
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history so just a matter of curiosity in addition to you know it seems to be
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have some relation to our current circumstances
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um but that's besides the point uh is there some way i can aid and uh in this uh
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charade years i mean as long as you have your correct paperwork we shouldn't be having any trouble coming into part
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um paperwork meaning just any business in oak inspire
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how we've gone about uh moving through caldor reason for moving through that's a good
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way to put it uh this requires documentation any sort of proof
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of anything that uh any business you have within the city i assume
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coming to oak inspire you guys have a reason to be here yes we do more than one
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um [Music] dm thinking back on our little
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letter we hash together would would that
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have included as good enough we we made that in the
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with the terms being um what's the word humanitarian
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uh mission uh um do i think that this would be adequate
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for that to that end you deemed that if it was if it was good enough to get you guys past that checkpoint um that you
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guys had passed through earlier it's probably good enough to get you guys through this port um especially along
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with uh the seal that seal that you guys have all right okay
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yes yeah it should be a okay they're real sticklers for documentation
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at this point we have to have and he points over to the captain's desk there and there's just like stacks of papers
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and we have to have documentation for the boat each member of the crew
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um each member each piece of cargo that we have and if that piece of cargo has individual units within it we need
37:39
individual documentation for each individual unit it's a pain in the ass
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yeah that's a it's a little bit of a fixation out here on kaldor this paperwork we had a bit of trouble uh by
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the uh at the attack point uh headed to dire hand
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i might call it paranoia more than uh caution that's how it strikes me as well does it
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not create a certain unrest among the citizenry oh no the people here like it
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they feel secured and safe [Music] i
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imagine feeling safe in this world um
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is there anything i can get for you in the meantime or uh any duty i can do to to earn me
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me six gold um from this point on uh just helping and docking the boat um
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and it's pretty simple um and once we get to port there's probably going to be
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an inspection on board and at that point just shot up [Music]
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i can do i would appreciate you advising
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the other members of your party of this too i know they might not have such an easy time with something like this all
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of the yelling and sort from last night well don't worry they always listen to
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me and that with that i give a uh a curt bow and i will
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head out the door ruefully okay all right um
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oma up in the galley um you are uh
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in the galley alone for a while you're making breakfast
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and [Music] damien the old man who had assisted you the
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previous night doesn't come up um i'm i'm preparing what i
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what was set out to be prepared for today um do i know where he is um
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housed do i know which cabinet is um you would you'd be able to sort of
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deduce you'd be able to pick like the closest cabin to the um i'm gonna knock on the door
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you don't hear anything um damien
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can i open the door yes you open the door and it creaks open um and you see
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in this tiny little room um a just barely big enough to fit one bed um
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damien laying there completely passed out um and a an empty bottle of something in
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his right hand uh i would like to look at what the bottle is okay um it is unlabeled it is
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a brown bottle um probably about a liter's worth and it is
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glass and like this rectangle shape until it gets to
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the the top where it sort of comes up and uh where you could place a cork
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does it look more like a potion bottle or more like an alcohol bottle the entire cabin smells of alcohol um so you
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deduce this is probably alcohol ugh i roll my eyes um and i
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smack him on the face but like wake him up
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damien go away but you have to prepare breakfast
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uh you do it uh but it's your job no no it's your job now and he takes his
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covers and he sort of rolls off to the other side and faces the wall do i get your pay too
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i'll give you i'll give you a silver piece just please do it two silver two silver um
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do i look like i'm worth two silver i can be really annoying and i can get just talk to you all morning i bet you
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have a headache oh my god one gold piece please
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good night and i walk away okay all right so um only you make breakfast
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for everyone what are you making um what do we have very bare bones there's uh there's bread
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and a little bit of dried meat there's some fruit as this was only a single day's journey so fruit stayed pretty
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well you've got some vegetables and um just in this tiny little
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um tiny little bread box off in the corner seems to be like some better
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ingredients some higher quality spices um and you saw from the previous night this
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is what damien grabbed from when he made the captain his little dessert okay so there's bread um are there eggs
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yeah yeah they're eggs okay i'm gonna like um make a little bread pudding so i'm gonna
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like break up the eggs and um make a little or sorry break up the bread into
42:42
little pieces and make a little mixture of egg and like a splash of cream whatever
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some cinnamon some spices pop in there i'm gonna make a nice little bread pudding um
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and make some fruit compote to put on top okay and one by one the rest of you uh
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see alma come by and give each of you your breakfast
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and once breakfast has been served you guys have about another hour before
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you get to port is there any last minute things that you guys want to do before you actually make it into port
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i'd like to take a couple practice uh stabs
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so to speak at uh activating the shelly on shai's staff
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and just kind of like kind of kind of whipping it in the air
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and like just like a little bit of pinkish energy is like pulsating and then it'll dissipate and then i like do it again
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i dissipate try one more time and i'll try to actually do it am i able to to charge
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the staffs make a nature check okay
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[Music]
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uh 16 16 yeah the shelly activates
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how that's something and you feel as as the first couple times it
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was just sort of like a reactionary thing that was happening the third time that you did it when it actually activated for a brief moment it
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felt like the staff was a part of your limb like your your
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entire limb and your nerves um and and all of your sensory um
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feeling moved from your arm and actually extended out into the staff
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oh i look around at the sea
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and the sky and i hold this glowing object
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and i close my eyes and i see visions
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of roots moving through dark soil
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and nutrients leaving [Music]
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the decayed
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forms of smaller beings and uh water dissipating into the leaves of
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new flowers and uh seeds
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uh exploding into life and i open my eyes and i just have like
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my feathers have like completely poofed out and i'm just uh
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uh completely soaked in the in the recent rain and i i just look around with the
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uh uh [Music] ecstasy
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in this moment so with that um
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the rest of you see the land begin to move in closer and closer and closer to
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you um and you guys can see um timmy flirt come up from down below and
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start to undo some of the knots that are on deck and as some of you follow and what he
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does he he undoes some of the knots gets them ready and as you guys actually pull up into port um
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the boat actually has to sort of dodge around and you can see um the first mate
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is is now at the helm and he's having to dodge the boat around these other ships
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some bigger some smaller just with the amount of of um boats here in this harbor it is a very crowded port um
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you guys are sort of weaving in and out of these boats and eventually come into an open dock and the boat slowly pulls
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up and timmy instructs you guys on how to um sort of tie up the boat he hops out
46:57
he uh he goes on to the dock itself ties up some of the ropes you guys toss him some of the other ones from uh on board
47:03
and then he himself actually climbs back onto the boat and the rest of the crew
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sort of lines up um in a row would you guys like to to join them in that lineup
47:15
keep quiet let them handle it all right i'll nudge try it that means you okay oh
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okay uh uh at some point during the docking of the boat if i'm holding on to a rope or
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something i just want to like jiggle it slightly [Music] but okay inadvertently and with like not
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too obviously all right you do that
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i am trying to um stiffen my shoulders and straighten my back and put my chin
47:48
at the right level um really really hard but not used to it so it's kind of weird
47:56
okay yeah i'm standing right next to shraya and oldman's body just
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making sure they don't do anything stupid yeah i am watching them like a hawk [Music]
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i have the note right the the the the i have the letter on my person
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i believe you do okay all right um so with that um you guys
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stand there in a line wait for a minute and after a minute or two
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you can see um these uh six dwarven guards come down the
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um the the dock there and actually hop onto that little plank bridge that connects
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your boat to the dock um they hop on and they just without saying a word to
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anyone begin walking around the ship um three of them go down below the deck
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you see don't see where they go um but then after another couple seconds you guys
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see another figure walking down the dock much much larger than these dwarves um
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a little bit bigger in stature than march was actually but sort of similar in how they look um you see this goliath
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man with tattoos adorning his face coming down his arms and onto his hands
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um you see him walking down the dock and you can see this heavy heavy plated
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silver armor um all over him from head to toe um and you can see sort of a um
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a fur almost collar coming around his neck as he walks on board the ship
49:38
hands behind his back and says welcome to port now who will i be
49:45
speaking to um to get you all debriefed and off the ship as soon as possible
49:51
and the the first mate passed in says i uh that will be me our captain has come
49:57
down with a bit of a cold these past couple days with the storm and all and it hasn't been
50:02
treating his throat very well so i'm going to be speaking on behalf of myself
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my captain and my crew here um so if you have any questions uh please direct them towards me now um
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i've come in and out of this port many a time um i just ask i've i haven't
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seen you here before um yeah i just i'm not imparting any disrespect i'd i just
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like to to know who's inspecting our ship here and um the goliath man turns to the rest
50:34
of the crew and sort of gives a gentle bow um and says i am captain barrett
50:39
hastel um i am not at my normal post this week i am overseeing all port
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operations for the better part of this week before i am uh brought back up to the main part of
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the capital i'm just here to make sure everything is running smoothly and make sure we have
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everything in order and all of my men are doing exactly what they're supposed to do so if you let them
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do their jobs i will be taking everyone's paperwork and making sure everything is in order
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and he takes a couple of large steps over towards the captain who's sort of
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um near the back of the boat and uh he gives him a quick little bow
51:21
the captain pulls out a couple of papers they exchange them um uh captain barrett hastel takes some of
51:28
the papers sort of shifts through them nodding his head every couple seconds just through another couple
51:35
all right everything is in order here he hands him back he gets the the papers from the first
51:40
mate oh okay very good oh everything seems to be in order here
51:48
um i assume you are part of this crew and he turns to all of you who are very clearly
51:56
dressed differently than everyone else on this crew um and he says um paperwork please
52:02
um i will step forward and um pull out the paperwork and
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hand it over to him i will try not to say anything i i just side eye
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almost so hard with my big bird eyes
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terrified looking and he reads through it and he takes a little bit more interest
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in uh this now i'm going to have everyone in the group
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make a group deception check no he's making an insight check no
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okay so i rolled a 19. okay oh that's good
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is that a one it's a two i roll a three chair has a minus one
52:50
shraya uh i actually my total is 21. yeah it is hell yeah
52:57
um i rolled a natural 20 but then i rolled a 10. so 10.
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okay 19 21 10.
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he reads over this note and he's sort of you can see him re-reading over one part
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[Music] and he looks down at the the the seal
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um okay and how many is this for how many does this
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cover obviously it's you and i see your ward
53:35
and then we've got our guard then i raised my hand i don't say anything just raise my hand
53:41
and our prophet and i point to if my eyes could go wider
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[Laughter]
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okay then all seems to be in order and oma he looks to you
53:59
and he leans in real close and he extends his hand to give you a
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handshake um which hand did he extend he extended his right hand
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i will extend my right hand and he grips your right hand
54:16
and this dude's hand is just so big and so beefy
54:23
and you can feel your hands sort of crumble a little bit under the weight and he says
54:29
[Music] i appreciate the work that you do out of country i know
54:34
it is not easy to be over there but i want to
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be the first to say welcome home and i appreciate all the work that you do
54:47
i just nod stoically mm-hmm okay
54:53
he uh moves down the list and he moves uh moves down the line
54:58
rather um and he uh he walks over to the cook
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damien who is there like you can tell very reluctantly standing
55:09
um looks through his papers oh good he goes to
55:15
um prala holiday who is actually the captain looks through those papers
55:20
okay everything is in order here um and he gets to timmy flurred who at the very end of the line
55:27
has his head bowed low his hands behind his back and no papers in his hands timmy
55:37
timmy is shaking like you can see him shaking you can almost feel it in the the wooden
55:43
boards of the ship and as he raises his head up
55:48
way up to look at captain barrett um you can see tears
55:53
streaming down his face says i'm so sorry i thought i thought i had
55:58
them i really thought i i don't know where i left them i i'm so sorry um
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i can i can try and go look again just please just let me go look again and captain barrett looks at him
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i'll give you five minutes don't waste my time and timmy backs away and runs down below
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deck and you can hear him begin to just turn things over you can hear things falling
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off of shelves you can hear things clanging and moving around
56:38
and five minutes pass dm can i assess were these crocodile
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tears or make an insight check this is sorrow sincere
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uh twelve yeah twelve um no
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yeah much different this kid is clearly quaking in his boots okay um this is a
57:09
young kid staring down the face of authority knowing what might happen um if he doesn't have
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his papers okay five minutes pass below deck
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six minutes pass captain barrett turns to
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the captain of the ship he says i would advise you go down and
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get your crew member or i will go down and get him for you
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and you can see captain mccready turn to the first mate [Music]
57:52
[ __ ] i'll go i'll go down and get him i don't want you uh moving around too much captain uh and you're in your fragile
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state and the first mate walks down below the deck
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minute passes first mate walks up above the deck
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timmy a couple steps behind him now his face bright red and you can see more tears coming down
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his face and as soon as you can see his head pop
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up from below decks you can hear him starting to plead please i i just
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i must have left them it somewhere at the other port i i
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i don't know where they went please and you can see captain barrett take a step back does well looks like we
58:45
have one of two things on our hands here either a stowaway or a spy and at the
58:51
mention of spy all six guards that had come onto the boat converge on timmy and
58:57
all grab him one of the guards takes out a pair of manacles from behind his back clasps them against timmy's hands now
59:04
also behind his back as they begin to drag timmy off of the boat you can hear timmy's wailing and cries
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please just someone please just stop no no no please please please just just
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give me one second give me one second i can explain no no no i can explain please please please as they drag him apart i grip my staff
59:24
very very tightly and i look at alma in my body
59:30
and i close my eyes what does the captain and the and the crew look like i want to see
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what the crew looks like when when when this happens make an inside check [Music]
59:42
12 12. um you look down you can't really determine the only thing that you can
59:49
see you can see some of them are looking a little bit antsy you can't really tell
59:54
what that is coming from though you do get one very clear read um and
1:00:01
that is on first mate paston um you can see
1:00:06
his muscle is starting to twitch a little bit and his hand very slowly reaches down to his side where he keeps
1:00:13
his two pairs of daggers and he very slowly clutches one of his
1:00:19
daggers and grips it real tight captain barrett sees this too
1:00:25
and immediately looks towards him and says now are you sure you want to do that
1:00:30
[Music] and paston releases his hand and puts it back down at his side
1:00:36
as now on the dock you can still hear timmy please i swear no no no i'm not i'm not a spy please no no no no just
1:00:44
just give me one second i can explain i can explain please no as they drag him down the dock you can
1:00:50
hear him continuing to kick and scream i just i look down
1:00:56
at my feet i uh i grab on to uh try his arm her wrist and just kind
1:01:02
of hold it and i kind of squeeze it but i don't move
1:01:09
i stomp my feet a little bit but keep my composure and
1:01:14
before you know it timmy is dragged down the dock thrown onto the back of a cart
1:01:22
and is taken off into the crowd and you can no longer see him you can no longer hear
1:01:27
him captain barrett looks to the rest of you says well the rest of your paperwork is
1:01:32
in order so have a good rest of your day and on behalf of the king and the rest of the
1:01:38
royal family welcome to oginspire and he turns he walks off of the boat
1:01:46
his men well the men that didn't carry timmy off of the boat um follow close behind him and walk down
1:01:52
the dock and off into the crowd i'm gonna call out after thank you mr sir uh i after this altercation i'll
1:01:59
turn to past and as we all sort of shake off the tension at the moment
1:02:08
what's to become of uh your boy tell me there what are they gonna do to him
1:02:15
oh [ __ ] and he immediately he starts walking back towards the back of the
1:02:20
boat and completely shoulder checks you as he passes by you um just almost
1:02:26
walking right through you he walks to the back of the boat down the stairs and below the deck good answer
1:02:33
[Music] i'm gonna i would like to walk over to prala holiday and and the captain
1:02:41
and i'm gonna look at them we're gonna try to find zeta and see if
1:02:47
she can help us at all in in in solving this this whole thing um
1:02:54
do you want to come with us i think that would be the best course of action um at this point i don't
1:03:01
know any other leads that we could have now that that island is gone um
1:03:06
really you're you're really the only option that we have right
1:03:12
okay yeah i think that's for the best um
1:03:18
shall we do you have to like tell paston or anything uh no i think he's he's fine staying here
1:03:24
with the boat and oh you hear bullet from below the deck you hear [Music]
1:03:32
what does it sound like it sounds like something is making contact with
1:03:39
some sort of wood inside the boat it sounds like there's like a heavy contact being made does it sound like something i would have heard before
1:03:46
uh yeah actually yeah you would you would know that sound um it is very clearly someone just wailing on a wooden
1:03:53
post have we received our pay no you have not
1:03:58
okay um captain uh we were all promised six gold pieces
1:04:05
hi hi um let's uh yeah let's go and he walks you all down um and you
1:04:12
guys actually to get to the captain's quarters have to go below deck as well um and as you guys do you see
1:04:18
um passed in right next to the center sort of central beam of this ship
1:04:25
that is sort of the the main um the main thing that keeps everything all
1:04:30
held together and you can see his knuckles are now bloodied as he's just punching into this this main
1:04:37
main support beam but you guys pass by him you guys go into the captain's quarters he opens up
1:04:43
a little chest of gold and hands each of you six gold pieces um when he hands me mine
1:04:51
why is he so upset um he's always the one to remind everyone to have their
1:04:58
paperwork and this sort of thing has happened to him before
1:05:04
and i don't know how familiar you all are with oak inspire or kaldur but
1:05:10
branding someone as a spy generally doesn't bode very well for them they'll put you to death just for
1:05:17
misplacing your paperwork
1:05:25
aren't they gonna ask him questions first like maybe they'll just decide he was a
1:05:30
stowaway they might they might ask him questions that
1:05:37
don't really apply like uh who was he working for and what was his intentions
1:05:42
in the capital and if he was there to kill a member of the royal family and uh all things of course he's not going to
1:05:48
be able to answer they're not going to be satisfied that he's not answering they're going to think that he's uh
1:05:53
keeping things from them and they will execute him nonetheless
1:05:58
some that has been my experience in these things so i mean maybe if if some people found
1:06:04
themselves in the prison maybe they could like
1:06:09
help him i mean not that we would ever find ourselves in the prison but like if we were in the prison maybe i wouldn't even
1:06:17
speculate on that you do not want to go to one of these prisons right
1:06:22
right these are not the kinds of prisons that you hear about the heroic prison breaks that you might in uh ondale and
1:06:28
ganbolder these are places that you go and you are never seen again
1:06:33
right well it's good we have no intention to go on there [Music]
1:06:40
so that's it you take people aboard this vessel and you take them across see and
1:06:46
[Music] if they're so much as misplaced a document they're as good as dead
1:06:53
how long does this process take depending on i've seen
1:06:58
i've seen people get away with it but i mean i don't think we were in too much luck
1:07:04
with captain barrett hastel over there being in charge of everything he's not
1:07:09
gonna let anything slip by him if he's new he might want to make a strong impression
1:07:16
ah world's free of evil that's why i prefer the open ocean
1:07:23
a lot less rules to live by shall we get to finding the sata person
1:07:30
hi um lead the way i've never heard of this person so i'll let you take the lead
1:07:36
[Music] great i will i will lead away
1:07:42
as i pass by um the cook though i'm gonna like stick my hand down i'm gonna try to sneak some
1:07:47
more sweets before we leave yeah you all right um that's right the kitchen is
1:07:53
actually fully open right now so you're able to to snag whatever you want um oma
1:07:59
i'm going to try to snag a lot extra okay all right um
1:08:04
your hand and damien very reluctantly reaches into his back pocket pulls out a
1:08:11
gold piece and hands it over plus you're doing business you missed a lovely breakfast by the way
1:08:17
i'm sure i did and then i'll walk away um as you guys get off of this boat um
1:08:24
for the first time you guys are able to actually get the scope of where you guys are you see that you are currently obviously
1:08:31
in the port section of the city um right up along the coast uh you can see docks
1:08:37
both big and small as far as the eye can see on either side of you much bigger
1:08:42
than where you guys just came from in dire hand even though that was a large port city as well um you look
1:08:49
ahead and almost rising to an impossible height the city seems to increase in elevation
1:08:57
as it goes into the distance you guys can see at the center of the
1:09:03
city rising well above anything else a central castle everything here made of
1:09:10
some sort of stone um everything here looks incredibly
1:09:15
sturdy and like nothing is going to knock any of this over
1:09:21
you guys see several walls and rings of walls as they circle this this
1:09:29
center castle um you guys see a lot of the streets at
1:09:34
this point are being lit by torchlight um a lot of these torches are now at this point covered um due to the
1:09:42
the heavy rain and thunderstorm that is still going on as you guys walk down the dock you guys
1:09:47
are greeted by one of the most dense crowds you have ever seen
1:09:52
um smells of dead fish smells of all of this different cargo that is being
1:09:58
brought on and off of these boats spices and clothes and all these different materials um being loaded and unloaded
1:10:07
so as you guys move off into the crowd where would you guys like to go um is there like a port
1:10:13
or like we're at the port so is there like a um um a directory or or like somebody standing
1:10:20
at a at a booth like any kind of any kind of like
1:10:26
guide make a perception check for me can i assist on that yes you can
1:10:33
17 14. okay um yeah you guys actually see
1:10:38
um sort of where there's less of a less of a crowd um you can see one man
1:10:45
standing at a like a a series of podiums um you can see him taking notes um some
1:10:51
people coming up and handing him little pieces of paper him taking them putting him in his book writing notes um and
1:10:57
then continuing on doing that um you see that he is a human man um very very
1:11:04
scruffy beard and long uh dark hair pulled back into a ponytail wearing very
1:11:09
simple clothes i will walk up to him hello
1:11:18
we are looking for the temple district
1:11:24
which one
1:11:29
all of them you're joking
1:11:34
how very funny um i'm gonna have you just step aside i've got i've got business coming through please we have a meeting with zeta
1:11:41
mala cass cool i don't know who that is um i'm
1:11:48
seriously gonna need you to to move along if you could just point us in the direction
1:11:53
of your temple district that would be great of any of them i'll chime in
1:11:59
perhaps the uh temple of zakir uh
1:12:04
is there we've got several of those um closest one is
1:12:09
that way and he sort of points off into a general direction
1:12:17
right uh do you have a map her chance so we could purchase from
1:12:22
it i don't um there might be one of these shops around here that might have a map for you
1:12:30
i suppose that'll do great i sort of just shrug it over i will turn to the captain
1:12:36
do you know any of these shops that one might have a map uh i mean we can try with this one over
1:12:41
here great lead the way okay and he walks you over to a series of buildings um mostly made of
1:12:49
like wooden stone and you can tell that the wood is just rotted away with uh the years and years of being this close to
1:12:55
the ocean um and as you guys walk in you see a um a
1:13:02
very hearty dwarven couple standing behind the front counter you can see a couple of other
1:13:08
patrons you can see a half orc off in the corner fiddling with some fishing gear
1:13:13
and then another couple dwarves sort of trying on some different like heavy weather cloaks hi
1:13:20
do you have a map that we can buy um we've got a couple what uh what kind of
1:13:26
map would you like preferably one that includes temples oh gosh okay um like
1:13:31
what are you looking for a map of elbor um no i'm not a logan spire
1:13:36
oh oak inspire um yeah i think i think we've got one of those and uh the the male of the two
1:13:44
dwarfs goes sort of reaches underneath the uh the front counter shuffles a bunch of things
1:13:50
um and pulls out a piece of paper that you wouldn't expect to be a map it's sort of ripped in some
1:13:56
weird ways um but you can see that it is actually a map of oak inspire um and
1:14:02
there are a couple of dots that seem to be sort of places of religious significance on it almost
1:14:08
this uh fella you spoke to uh told you about zayn i didn't happen to mention
1:14:14
from whence she drew her power i know that it's a t-fling
1:14:20
so all they have is the name i'm gonna pipe up and say does this map also include uh
1:14:27
barracks and uh the like no i don't think we keep any
1:14:33
any sort of maps detailing the prison system is that what you're looking for
1:14:38
no no just i have always dreamt of joining a
1:14:43
junior league of caldor's military and uh
1:14:49
i just don't know where i would go to realize these dreams hearing this voice emanate from alma's
1:14:55
body i just can't make eye contact with anyone like i just just just look away from i just look outside the shop
1:15:08
is that all i can do for you guys yeah yep that's all okay what um come back soon i guess
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what's the cost of this oh i uh
1:15:21
just the strange questions um made me almost forget that um that is going to
1:15:26
be uh we'll call it two copper pieces great
1:15:32
i will like start patting all over my body and then look to and then look to
1:15:38
shraya's body and look to kelly just like with wide eyes as i'm padding and i i just don't know where he keeps
1:15:45
anything yeah as i kind of noticed that
1:15:50
they're struggling to find i'm like oh that's right they're in different bodies i'll walk up and just reach into my bag
1:15:55
and i'll place the two copper pieces on the table there you go thank you thank you very much it's been a long journey we we're just we're just
1:16:02
out of out of our out of our minds at sorts thank you
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so looking at the map do we see um
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any temples nearby to zachariel might as well start with one
1:16:21
that we are connected to right the one with some foundation so you guys see
1:16:27
um this map is sort of it's got some like rough detailing on sort of the different
1:16:33
sections of the city um you guys can definitely see where you guys currently are
1:16:38
near the docks um and you guys see um
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there is just to the north of you um the merchants ward uh that
1:16:52
takes up a pretty decent section of the city that is just below sort of where the the
1:16:58
royal capital of the actual city is um you see that there are
1:17:05
two two designated uh temples two zachariah within this one's a little bit closer um
1:17:12
and then one's a little bit further and sort of snakes around um where the royal center is which one's bigger
1:17:19
the further one seems bigger but is is a little bit further
1:17:26
um which one do you think we should go to calek my gut says smaller i can't speak
1:17:32
do i i don't know we're looking for you know a very special person then they
1:17:37
might be the kind to stay a little more out of divination
1:17:43
okay sure and and she might not be there but maybe we can ask for like
1:17:49
a young tiefling that people might know of the name might ring a bell in the
1:17:54
religious community here that's right at least worth a shot okay okay
1:18:00
and we'll go to that one they're very um they're very accepting there at least if
1:18:06
uh past experiences to be believed i guess it depends the first person i
1:18:11
met who worshipped zachariel was a bit of a piece of [ __ ] uh so let's see i suppose
1:18:17
you guys begin moving off towards where this temple is marked on the district uh on
1:18:22
the district map i'm gonna have all of you guys make survival checks for me oh boy
1:18:30
[Music] and the hits keep coming
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yeah uh flynn got a seven
1:18:45
and try that is
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a natty 20 for me nice oh here we go nice okay so um being led by
1:18:58
shraya and oma you guys very quickly make your way um over to this this uh
1:19:03
smaller temple as you guys walk up um kalec sort of a familiar sight where
1:19:09
this temple is made mostly of stone from what you can see and seems to be um
1:19:17
very similar to the other temple that you saw sort of like rubbed in this darkened ash making the stone of this
1:19:23
building actually much darker than the the stone of the other buildings around it um
1:19:29
and all of you guys smell on approach something burning you can't quite tell
1:19:34
what it is but some sort of burning from with inside the the building
1:19:40
that'll be it what's that smell they keep a cauldron of
1:19:45
i'm not sure how much they use i don't know that the fuel source is really uh important to the ritual but they
1:19:53
they keep the fire lit just at the lowest point i kind of like it i wonder if it's
1:19:59
edible don't eat it if uh
1:20:05
if they're doing it in the traditional sense then it's probably bodies bodies
1:20:11
why yeah my bodies well you've seen the way that i send spirits to the beyond
1:20:18
oh you do it by burning them so is it like a funeral right
1:20:24
i uh i think this is more of a daily convention
1:20:30
it's not a special ceremony in fact
1:20:35
do they kill people every day no but i expect they preserve them
1:20:42
uh to be used uh in this way oh
1:20:47
i'm not sure though because uh you know i haven't i had a lot of formal training
1:20:54
in this particular order so i could be just i mean i'm just grabbing at straws here
1:21:00
okay so i should leave the way right right okay how long do we have to be here should i
1:21:07
pretend to be you or or should i just like straight up [Music] i'm in the wrong body
1:21:13
[Music] like what's our angle i shrug with my wings
1:21:20
great that's really helpful i don't know uh
1:21:26
it's not a crime to have swapped bodies for someone by accident as far as i know but
1:21:32
we're an untold territory here okay so maybe just ignore it and try to find zeta and then
1:21:39
deal with it uh yeah i think we can only keep up a charade for so
1:21:45
long right okay follow me and i just like try again to
1:21:51
straighten my shoulders and tilt my chin in the right direction and straighten my
1:21:56
spine and i walk in i sort of make like a
1:22:02
it's not too bad i uh grab on to
1:22:07
try his hand as we walk in all right i uh resist a little bit
1:22:14
but eventually just let him take me come on it'll be fixed soon
1:22:20
all right so um you guys all move into this building and immediately you guys
1:22:25
can see like little flecks of ash um all throughout the air in here and it's it's
1:22:30
almost making the air in here a little bit heavy um it's hazy and hot in this room
1:22:37
and you can see um all of these books lining the walls
1:22:42
and you see several people in these in these dark
1:22:49
gray cloaks moving all throughout the room you can see a couple of them have these
1:22:55
brooms and are meticulously cleaning up these bookshelves um and you can see
1:23:01
these wooden pews that are all set up in concentric circles
1:23:08
around a middle pit you can see in the middle pit
1:23:13
almost at first it looks like sand but is much darker and more more gray than
1:23:19
that and you can see it's actually ash in this 20-foot circle in the middle of
1:23:25
the room you can see one cloaked and hooded figure moving around this pile of ash and
1:23:33
moving a rake through it almost creating like this this zen garden within the ashes
1:23:40
and as you guys move in you see another group near the back off in the corner you can see about 10
1:23:48
people huddled around a stone table
1:23:54
a stone slab that has been set up there in the corner and you can see these 10 people are not in these dark grey cloaks
1:24:01
but seem to be in just normal everyday clothing on this stone slab you see a body that
1:24:08
is currently being covered with different wet cloths [Music]
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and you can see after a moment a couple of these figures
1:24:20
put their hands underneath the body lift it up and walk the body over towards this
1:24:27
center ash pile they place it down in the middle one figure comes out from a doorway in
1:24:34
the corner they're cloaks a little bit darker of a gray than
1:24:40
everyone else's and is adorned with these red stripes down it
1:24:46
they walk up to the body on the ground you can tell that this figure is probably
1:24:53
either dwarven or some sort of stout halfling something of the sword as they're much shorter
1:25:01
they reach their hand out and you can see
1:25:07
bandages wrapping their arm they close their eyes
1:25:14
they extend their arms out to either side of them closing their eyes
1:25:20
excuse me as the body begins to dissolve and
1:25:25
these wet rags begin to light into a dull flame as the body begins to disintegrate into
1:25:32
ash and incorporate itself into the rest of the ash that's there on the ground
1:25:37
the other hooded figure who was raking these ashes comes over
1:25:43
and rakes those ashes as well making it a smooth surface and continues to walk around almost like
1:25:50
guarding these ashes from extending beyond a certain point
1:25:55
you see the rest of those 10 figures who are huddled around the table all sort of console each other
1:26:01
and as a group walk out the entrance that you guys just came in
1:26:07
looking around uh are there any other like platforms upon which uh flames could like sit like how is the
1:26:14
room being lit the room is being very duly lit by not only
1:26:22
the slight dying embers in the middle of this pile of ash um but by
1:26:28
very very dimmed sconces around the room with just these these fires that are barely
1:26:36
clinging on to life ah how to see in here and this urge that i've been like
1:26:42
fighting since uh getting off the boat um just like wells up in me
1:26:48
as i turn inward like tap into this explosion of
1:26:55
like chaotic uh exuberance and uh
1:27:01
all consumption and i'm gonna point my hands in the direction of the sconces and uh
1:27:08
this should help um just cast a series of fireballs [Music]
1:27:14
what okay um you cast those
1:27:21
the um i'm gonna have you make an attack roll to see how accurate you are with these
1:27:26
no no yay there are six of them currently in the room so six d20 rolls okay
1:27:34
i mean i would probably try to stop you after the first one yeah okay
1:27:40
it's a good point yeah i'm gonna have to make one and then i'm gonna have everyone else see what they're doing 18
1:27:46
18. yeah okay and the the first one bursts into flame and the entire room you can tell gets even brighter
1:27:53
what are the rest of you so much better are we rolling initiative or something to see who what
1:28:01
i'm gonna grab my hands i'm gonna grab his hands and like put them down and say stop it
1:28:07
i can't see very well just close your eyes and it doesn't matter you don't have to see right now stops happening
1:28:12
what is everyone else doing around after that happens everyone else has completely stopped
1:28:17
what they're doing just frozen and is staring directly at shraya this is
1:28:22
serious we have to try to find someone you have to stop well i i
1:28:29
doesn't people can't they in order to stop talking to each other we are guests
1:28:36
we're guests here just put your hands down and be quiet okay
1:28:42
just trying to help shraya you see a at this point
1:28:48
unhooded dwarven man um with a a very short and
1:28:54
tightly kept beard um in dark gray cloak with red stripes going all the way down
1:28:59
it walk up to you put his hand up towards your forehead and i'm going to have you make a
1:29:05
wisdom-saving throat oh dear oh dear
1:29:12
uh eighteen eighteen
1:29:17
yes okay um try it you feel your entire body for
1:29:23
just a moment seize up and not be able to move
1:29:28
and then you're able to sort of relax and take it back and you see this dwarven
1:29:33
man very very angrily looking at you
1:29:38
you come to this house and disrespect
1:29:44
sacrifice i'm going to step in front of shraya and lift up my bandaged hand and
1:29:52
just say we're very sorry for this little girl
1:30:00
she does not know how to control herself that is so
1:30:05
clear and you can see his entire body is intense and he is shaking with
1:30:11
frustration we're trying and i just like shove alma behind flynn
1:30:18
oh i'll kind of take hold and and resume my my grasp on on the wrist of shraya
1:30:26
i i it was a punishment someone shh stop you've done enough
1:30:32
okay if your friend does anything
1:30:38
like that again i will not hesitate to call the guard
1:30:45
and have her taken away don't think that i'm beyond that because i'm not flynn maybe you should
1:30:51
take her outside that's a good idea just wait for her to see what goes on i want to stop come on
1:31:00
let's go come on that was kind of cool though but we just can't do that kind of stuff right now
1:31:06
this place is very scary as i look around and look back to the pit where the body was turned
1:31:11
immediately into ash come on let's go i'm gonna throw a temper tantrum outside the temple and like spies that are being
1:31:17
executed like maybe this is not the place to be doing this but i i pull tria out into the
1:31:24
uh into the streets as we stand out there for now their plate their things
1:31:30
they're meant to hold flames i was putting the flame where it's supposed to go i know i know but maybe you should
1:31:36
ask first this whole culture is about order i'm trying to restore order to the
1:31:41
top of the thing that carries the flame and i it's still talking i'll i'll
1:31:48
drag him further away down the street uh away from the temple as we continue
1:31:53
walking our deepest apologies she doesn't know the uh
1:31:58
significance of the ambers as you say that this dwarven man looks to you
1:32:05
gaelic takes a deep breath and [Music]
1:32:11
ah take a knee i take a beat and then i do so and he
1:32:18
walks up to you and and puts his left hand on your shoulder and his right hand over your chest right
1:32:24
where your heart is closes his eyes [Music]
1:32:31
welcome home as he puts both of his his hands down and takes a step back my eyes pop open
1:32:38
with surprise and i and i look over to alma you see me appearances can be quite
1:32:44
deceiving as i've found you can say that again i i see
1:32:50
the truth within your heart a truth that's not there is there on
1:32:55
her person but is not within her heart as she as he points over towards oma
1:33:01
um what's her name sir fonder
1:33:07
lean vacate it's honestly a great great relief to meet you founder
1:33:13
as you can see we've come upon a bit of an accident our hearts have been switched
1:33:20
it's quite interesting how did that happen i sort of like take a
1:33:25
a look at all my app like just discomfort
1:33:31
unclear we were on a boat and then there was a rockin and then
1:33:37
we fell and when we woke up i was in this body there was an island a
1:33:45
strange island that appeared we don't know if the island caused this though let's be honest
1:33:50
right but uh these are the facts as they stand quite interesting
1:33:56
um either way have you come to to pray and to commune with us we were
1:34:02
hoping you could help point us in the right direction of someone who might be able to help us switch bodies back
1:34:08
that's a tall order have you tried asking the
1:34:14
truths here who's the truth here she looks too calic
1:34:20
oh i uh i don't have uh i i sort of like
1:34:26
i take out tria staff and sort of like indicate the crystal really
1:34:31
oh that's interesting and that must have
1:34:36
been solely a mind transition i
1:34:42
would have thought of course that your abilities would
1:34:48
continue on with you with that wasn't the case this is striking to me i suggest you i
1:34:54
uh he kind of looks puzzled for a moment um
1:35:00
i i i unfortunately don't have this power myself um
1:35:06
i wish i did i wish i could help um
1:35:12
we've heard of a a magician of some repute
1:35:18
in this area um in oak inspire i guess uh zeta
1:35:25
molokas would you happen to know
1:35:31
the name zeda but not off the top of my head but
1:35:37
i do have sort of a log of some of the members of
1:35:42
our organization in the back if you'd like to accompany me
1:35:47
happily and um if you don't mind homework i would uh
1:35:52
be pleased to sit among you okay all right um so he takes you back into
1:35:59
uh sort of the back chambers um you walk through and you see that kalec
1:36:06
is sort of walking through with almost the level of familiarity down a couple of hallways
1:36:13
in and out of a common area and the um
1:36:19
sort of the head priest goes and opens up one of the rooms into a chamber
1:36:24
and for a split second you think you see someone in the room
1:36:31
you think you see writing on the walls you think you feel this subtle vibration
1:36:36
in the air as all of a sudden you're snapped back into reality and you
1:36:42
see it's it's a room full of books a table on the far side
1:36:48
um some different stations to to uh light
1:36:54
torches and burn things burn uh burn different materials in this room
1:36:59
kellic it feels familiar to you [Music] but he walks in
1:37:05
he goes and he sits down at his desk opens up one of the drawers takes
1:37:10
out a book plops it down on the desk and starts flipping through it
1:37:17
um you see that he he flips through his book and um
1:37:23
see he comes across a couple of names but these names are
1:37:28
written in a different colored ink these are written in a red ink whereas the
1:37:34
rest are written in black he says zeta
1:37:40
yes but she's not she's not a follower of zacharielle
1:37:45
i have here that she works up north in a temple to leytiel
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and that is where we're going to end this session we're going to call it right there
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with the possible discovery of zeta so thank you all so much for listening and we can't
1:38:05
wait to see all again next week bye nerds
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