Whispers in Wregate
Journey back in time with the Time Breakers as they infiltrate the Black Sun Festival, attempting to alter the fate of the city by thwarting a cataclysmic plot. But beware, for a greater threat looms that could overshadow even the consequences of their plane-shifting actions. Can this epic adventure be completed without too many rippling butterfly effects, or will they change the world for the better?? Come along and find out!
Whispers in Wregate
WiW 17: NoTa Smooth Ride
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What happens when a team of adventurers secures a piece of divinity and must navigate treacherous terrain to return home? Join us as the Timebreakers leave the mountain victorious, only to face an unexpected 15-foot gap that threatens to halt their journey. With their all-terrain cart and trusty horse, they debate the best course of action and set off into the unknown, showcasing their teamwork and ingenuity.
As they traverse the dense king's forest, they encounter a series of unexpected challenges, including strange noises from the treetops and mischievous apes. Sarah's quick reflexes save the day, while Gimble's expert cart navigation keeps them moving forward. Amidst the laughter and frustrations, an eerie feeling of being watched lingers, keeping the group on high alert as they decide whether to pause for lunch or press on to the city.
The adventure takes a dramatic turn when an unexpected blizzard engulfs them. The group's resourcefulness is tested to its limits, with Thaddeus's attempt at turning Sarah into a heater hilariously backfiring. Battling through the storm, they finally emerge into clear weather and reach the city gates, reflecting on their bizarre and thrilling journey. We also take a moment to discuss their unique reactions and our latest editing techniques, inviting listeners to share their thoughts and join our vibrant Discord community.
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hello, welcome back to whispers and reggae. I'm baron battlebread, the current game master and, I believe, last when we left off with the Timebreakers.
Speaker 2Timebreakers.
Speaker 1Time Timebreakers. They had defended their ship. They got in a fight with William. They defeated William and during their long rest the piece of divinity was found by Gimble placed in a jar and taken away from his ship. Thank goodness, the party woke up in the morning and are preparing to embark down the mountain on their trip back to Regate.
Speaker 3Did we jump out of the hole using the jump spell?
Speaker 1You want to use the jump spell to jump down the mountain.
Speaker 3No, to get out of the hole crater that we're in.
Speaker 1You are in. I mean you don't have to be in the crater. You could probably jump off the back of the ship and not be in the crater. That's how William got in he climbed up the back of the ship instead of going into the crater.
Speaker 4Yeah, but in fairness William's a vampire, so he might have been strawed in disguise.
Speaker 1You know we're not clear on that, but it is early morning, you are all fully refreshed and Elise is carrying the star in her dark. You guys have to figure out how you want to go down the mountain. You already know what's waiting for you.
Speaker 3We have horses and there's a road.
Speaker 1How many horses do we still have? Is it just the one? So you have a riding horse and a draft horse.
Speaker 5Hold up, there's only two horses, yeah well, what happened to my horse?
Speaker 3It got eaten. Shimmer is taking the riding horse again waiting for a lease.
Speaker 1I got a walking speed of 40 feet. I got this Okay. So you guys, you get on your horses. Are you guys doubling up again, or I assume that's what we're doing.
Speaker 5There's five people in it, so I'll be on.
Speaker 1Yeah but Gimble is very short. Hey, Gimble, do you count as a small or a medium creature? Gimbal, I count as a small creature. A horse might be able to hold three of you.
Speaker 3A draft horse would probably be able to hold three.
Speaker 2That can be Thaddeus, sarah and Gimbal Let me see Where's my description.
Speaker 5Oh, I never put my height and weight in here.
Speaker 6Oh goodness.
Speaker 5I was like three foot tall or something.
Speaker 1Yes, you are a little over three foot tall.
Speaker 6Uh, but you are also made of metal and weigh about 40 pounds. Well, I, I, I could definitely, I definitely have uh, a mobile uh situation. That could definitely solve our problems your chip not quite. Uh, good old gamby needs a little bit of uh r&r. She's gonna to need some work done. But when I do make ports, I do have a craft that I tend to utilize so that I can get around in more nimble situations. I have a cart.
Speaker 3There's a that's probably can it fly.
Speaker 6Once, like that's probably, can it fly Once?
Speaker 5Sounds like a plan to me. Well, I say we jump on the gnome's wagon.
Speaker 6Sarah sees nothing wrong with the fact that it can only fly once and then not work again no, gimbal does have a wagon that is specifically designed for getting over rough terrain and stuff like that, so it could haul everybody out.
Speaker 3He just needs some way to pull it, because he doesn't have any horses right now oh, shiver is just gonna take the horse and not connect hers to the thing and it's going to get tired and start trying to lead it away. Like come on, guys, she is waiting with her horse. Shimmer is waiting with her horse at the edge of the trail. Like come on.
Speaker 1Okay, who wants to use Gimble's cart and who thinks you guys should make their way through just on horses?
Speaker 4Yeah, I'll jump on the wagon.
Speaker 3Zimmer is not about to get in a cart with them.
Speaker 2The lesser beings, like out of everybody in this group. Elise doesn't care for most people. She's a misanthrope. But Shimmer is a noble which automatically earns respect in her eyes. So she's going misanthrope, but Shimmer is a noble, which automatically earns respect in her eyes. So she's going to go with Shimmer.
Speaker 3And also there's still the gap.
Speaker 1So Gimble, sarah and Thaddeus hook up the draft horse to the cart and make their way back down where Shimmer and Elise are going to ride the riding horse.
Speaker 5Yes, so basically, what I heard out of elise is that you plebs don't have any money, whereas she has money exactly well.
Speaker 2So here's the thing specifically about sarah. Elise doesn't realize that this character is sapience. Oh yeah, she doesn't show very well she's. She's not aware that sarah is a thinking feeling creature. It could just be, you know, faulty wiring programming, got it. It's not aware that Sarah is a thinking feeling creature. It could just be faulty wiring programming, got it. Until the conversation gets deeper, until there's actually a conversation between Elise and Sarah, she's not going to pick up on the fact that this is a real person.
Speaker 1Got it All right. So who's driving the cart? That would be Gimble Okay and Shimmer. I believe you. That would be Gimble Okay and Shimmer. I believe you're going to be leading your horse, you're going to be holding the reins, I guess.
Speaker 3At this point? Yes, okay cool.
Speaker 1So you guys start after everyone gets situated, you start making your way back down the mountain. The path is, you know, a little rocky, a little windy, a little annoying, but the first step is, you know it's pretty good.
Speaker 6Those in the wagon will notice that it's a relatively smooth ride.
Speaker 5It's not as bumpy as I thought On the way down.
Speaker 4Thaddeus says wow, this is a relatively smooth ride.
Speaker 1You guys continue down the path until you come to Shimmer's first fear. The gap In front of you all as you come down the path is a 15-foot hole in the path. We get a new brand of wagon jumpers.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Shimmer's going to range over to the draft horse and cast jump on it before touching her own horse and casting jump and then jumping gap. Okay, the riding horse gets a quick run up and you watch as it gracefully leaped the gap with no problem. Gimble, you're in charge of this cart.
Speaker 6Gimble. He pulls on a lever next to the reins and the horses and the cart just glide over top of the hole. It wouldn't be all terrain if a little something like a hole would stop us.
Speaker 1He said, the cart can fly once as such. I suppose that has happened.
Speaker 4I got to say this wagon's really jumping.
Speaker 2All right, if we didn't already have a title for our group, we could be called the wagon jumpers.
Speaker 1Boo, the jumping wagons. You guys continue to make your way down the mountain no particular issues this time around. Shimmer as the one in the lead and currently guiding your horse, roll me a survival check Survival. You guys continue to make your way down the mountain no particular issues this time around. Shimmer as the one in the lead and currently guiding your horse, roll me a survival check Survival there you are 22.
Speaker 1Nice, with the morning sun coming over and a fresh start on the day, you follow this path through the woods, no problem. You make it to the bottom of the mountain, you continue heading out along a path previously traveled, and you guys make it back to the edge of the mountain. You continue heading out along a path previously traveled, and you guys make it back to the edge of the village that you left previously and about half the time it took you to get up the mountain in the first place.
Speaker 1Nice, yes, and you know that from the north side of this village it's about a dave's travel through the forest and then over the plains to get back to reggae well shimmer doesn't know that shimmer might know that elise does.
Speaker 3I know elise does shimmer doesn't, because she was in the necklace the whole time, up until the village.
Speaker 1Oh, my goodness, that's right. Shimmer has no idea how long it took to get here. So the question is do you guys want to go through the village to get back on the north path, or do you want to go around the village?
Speaker 4I would like to go around the village please.
Speaker 5What's wrong with going through the village?
Speaker 4I'll explain later, okay.
Speaker 3Once we get past the village, I'm going to actually switch with Elise, because I don't know where I'm going at this point. Okay, if that's okay.
Encounter in the King's Forest
Speaker 1Yeah, so it takes probably another hour of travel making your way around the village, instead of cutting through it, to get back on the path that takes you north to reggae. As you make it through, it's probably just after mid-morning when you reach the edge of the king's forest. If at this point, you have switched, elise, you would be in the lead. So roll me a survival check. That is a 13. Nice. Okay, so you guys are on the path through the forest, making your way through with little issue. About halfway through what you believe is your journey, elise, I need you to roll me a deck, save 18. Nice, a large branch catches you in the shoulder, but you manage to hang on and you hear a chittering in the trees above you.
Speaker 5Just, that's a weird chittering.
Speaker 1It is.
Speaker 3How close did it get to hitting Shimmer?
Speaker 1It came from an arc above so when it struck Elise it kind of stopped rather than continuing. But you know they held on, they didn't take damage from it.
Speaker 3I'm asking because Shimmer might get offended at almost getting hit by a branch and just Eldritch Blast the branch.
Speaker 1Normally that wouldn't be a problem. Just Eldritch Blast the branch. Normally that wouldn't be a problem. But Eldritch Blast does not target objects.
Speaker 5You make an attack roll with it, so why wouldn't it?
Speaker 1Because that's not how the magic works. Eldritch Blast targets creatures.
Speaker 3But I want to use it to attack a branch.
Speaker 5Does that mean you can't use it to attack constructs? Well, constructs are creatures.
Speaker 1I know weird right. I believe it was intended to prevent the overuse of such a powerful spell being used on anything and everything.
Speaker 2Elisa whispered to Shimmer over her shoulder. I truly hate the wildlife of this fucking forest.
Speaker 3Shimmer will nod and hum in agreement, basically Roll me a perception check, elise Nine.
Speaker 1You look up to see what kind of creature could be making that noise. And just as you look up, you catch a fleeting glimpse of an ape in the trees above you. But it soon disappears and you continue on your way. That was about right. I hate the wildlife. As you continue down the path, you hear the chittering again, just the constant howl and screeching and teeth clacking of the creatures in the trees above you. Gimble in the cart.
Speaker 1Yes, owe me a survival check it's a nat 20 nice so 26 as you come along the path, the riding horse had stepped over this log with no issues. You driving a cart, you attempt to make your way through and, after some coaxing and pushing and pulling, do you have any other means of getting the cart over this log or do you plan on just crashing through it?
Speaker 6Like I said before, this cart is all terrain, so there is no terrain that is too difficult for this cart to get over.
Speaker 1All right, feed bump as you go, and the cart. You know, I like to think the cart has treads, so it just kind of rolls over. Yeah, pretty much as rolls over. Yeah, pretty much as the cart is climbing over this. You dodge out of the way of the same branch. That almost got Elise Thaddeus. However, roll me a dex save.
Speaker 4Five.
Speaker 1Thaddeus, you get smacked in the side of the head with a large branch that comes springing out of the trees above you. What the hell just hit me?
Speaker 5Samurai trials for a weapon.
Speaker 1You will take two points of bludgeoning damage and roll me a perception check.
Speaker 5Can I also roll a perception check?
Speaker 1You drew your weapon.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 1Uh, you won't need to. 23. Thaddeus, you look up and you see, at the end of the branch is a large ape just sitting in the tree above you swinging a stick around.
Speaker 4I turn to Gimble Gimble. There's something in the tree is a large ape of some kind that's swinging, sticks around at us.
Speaker 2I think my favorite is the word-for-word reinterpretation of what Red says every time.
Speaker 1So, uh, thaddeus gets hit in the head with a stick. You see the ape up there and Gimble decides to just keep driving no interaction. I will throw a rock see the ape up there and Gimble decides to just keep driving no interaction.
Speaker 5I saw a rock at the ape. Where did you get a rock?
Speaker 6This is not the Pokemon Safari Zone.
Speaker 1Catch him. Catch him, roll an improvised weapon, I guess. Roll a hit with a ranged attack. We believe in you, sarah.
Speaker 5It's just going to be what dex plus proficiency.
Speaker 1Yeah, d20 plus dex and proficiency 24. Okay, roll me a d4 plus your strength modifier.
Speaker 5Ideal five damage to it.
Speaker 1You guys hear a thud as Sarah throws the rock, it cracks against the ape. The ape falls out of the tree and hits the ground on the path behind you. How far did it fall? Far enough that it is unconscious. It was in the trees on the edge of the cliff, next to the path, and then you hit it with a rock and it fell down.
Speaker 5Due to the fact that it is not moving anymore. I will put away my weapon and sit back down and say don't mess with that.
Speaker 1Sarah, as you're sitting back down, I want you to roll me a perception check. Thank you, sir. Uh 10, you don't see anything, but you get this eerie feeling of being watched and you guys continue down the path. I would say that it's probably late morning, almost noon, around the time you make it out of the king's forest with your previous survival checks. There are no serious issues left along the way. You guys want to continue through your day, or would you like to stop for lunch? Finally, civilization. You can see the walls of the city in the distance how far is it until we actually reach that?
Speaker 2shimmer's asking elise, but I don't personally know how far.
Speaker 1Was it about an hour uh, a little more than an hour probably. You guys just exited the king's forest. It's just around noon at this point, so three to four hours travel.
Speaker 2If you're not, you know sprinting along it should be another two, maybe three hours until we get to the walls I prefer to get back to civilization.
Speaker 1I would as well after a brief lunch, probably eaten while you're walking along the road. At least least you're leading. Roll me a perception check.
Speaker 2My die in D&D Beyond is cocked but it came out to 15 perception. What do you mean On the screen? So on the screen it shows the die roll but it hit the corner, so like it wasn't actually flat. Luckily for us, d&d Beyond actually shows the results.
Speaker 3Yeah, I've had it do that before. The electronic dice is gone.
Speaker 1They made the physics too real.
Speaker 5They made the physics too real. Yeah, it stops on the corner of the screen and it's just like kind of is at an angle, oh geez. Or in my case, if I'm using it on my computer, it will just kind of stop wherever and sometimes it'll be like really diagonal well, with a 15.
Speaker 1From where you are, you can see the main road, and on the main road you can see a caravan of carts making their way towards reggae.
Speaker 4Quite a lot of people in them can I roll history to find out if, uh, this is part of the festival everybody gathering, if you want yeah, go ahead makes sense to me 22
Speaker 1yeah, the caravan that you see before you, especially with so many people attached to it, is likely a group of tourists coming in from the various surrounding small town to find a place to stay and get ready for the next day's festival I uh tell the party that, um, hang on, dang, it was going to have that all lined out.
Speaker 4I basically relay all the information to the party.
Speaker 2You think it'll be harder to get inside the walls. Shouldn't be right.
Speaker 4I don't see why not.
Speaker 3Weren't we specifically sent by royal people, we shouldn't have a problem.
Speaker 1You mean Prince Renor?
Speaker 3Well, shimmer doesn't actually know who sent us, so she's assuming it was one of the nobles Right, though she's assuming it was one of the nobles Right.
Speaker 1you were in the necklace for that too weren't you. Yes, I was. You went to bed in a house in Reggae and you woke up in a village a day's travel away.
Speaker 5Yeah, She-Ra was very confused, with a sentient skeleton in it.
Speaker 3Right. No, the skeleton became a non-sentient at the same time. I got pushed out of the thing, so she never saw the skeleton became non-sentient at the same time I got pushed out of the thing, so she never saw the skeleton. She never met Tom.
Speaker 5I mean, did anybody really meet Tom? Then yeah, I pulled it out, and then he said hey, and then that's where we cut Technically.
Speaker 3Sarah talked to Tom and Elise and Thaddeus. Well, thaddeus talked to Tom. Elise was there.
Speaker 1Yeah, elise was tailing them, Thaddeus and Sarah were talking to Tom. They got some information and everything turned into a pile of bones. That's right. Do you guys make your travels? Would you like to join the main road or would you like to travel across the plains?
Speaker 4I don't see where we'd have any difficulty getting in. We could just travel the main road and join everybody for the festival.
Speaker 3Whichever way gets us there faster.
Speaker 5Definitely won't have anything go wrong. Indeed Okay.
Journey Through the Blizzard
Speaker 1So you guys make your way to the main road, Because your carts and horses are not currently overloaded with people and other goods and things. You soon find yourself at the head of this caravan, having successfully passed them pretty quick.
Speaker 4Out of my way. Sunday drivers yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1After about an hour's travel, you know the walls of the city are growing larger. You're well on your way there. Suddenly the air around you grows cold.
Speaker 3I knew it.
Speaker 1The air around you is growing colder and clouds are forming in the sky, dark and gray. The wind picks up Just a chilling bite to it. You can hear the people behind you murmuring.
Speaker 2I hadn't realized it'd be a storm.
Speaker 4I suppose we better make it even quicker back to the city, indeed, as part of my history check, would I remember that there was a storm like this?
Speaker 1You would remember hearing rumors that a group of tourists had been waylaid by a blizzard on their way, and then the snow starts falling.
Speaker 4I vaguely remember something along this line about a group of tourists that were waylaid by a blizzard.
Speaker 1We were a group of tourists. You also remember that only a handful of them survived.
Speaker 4I also remember that only a handful of them survived.
Speaker 5That's not good. I will pull out my rapier casually.
Speaker 1The snow starts falling harder and faster, the wind picking up around you as the snow kicks up around you, you can hear the voices of the people in the carts behind you. Just you know they're murmuring. Some are shouting. Guards are gathering blankets and coats and anything else they could to keep people covered. What would you guys like to do?
Speaker 3Well, I don't think invisibility would help us at all, and plus that would just kind of leave the rest of the party behind. I got nothing.
Speaker 5I'm inorganic, so I don't think I'm cold.
Speaker 1No, Sarah, you wouldn't feel the cold.
Speaker 3I have resistance cold, so for some reason, oh yeah, I know why, I can tell it starts to affect my gears?
Speaker 5I don't think so, For some reason. Oh yeah, I know why. I can tell it starts to take my gears.
Speaker 2I don't think I'm having any issues. I don't really think there would be any preparation required if all we're doing is riding through a blizzard that's coming.
Speaker 5I just have my rapier out.
Speaker 4Thaddeus leans over and he tinkers with Sarah just slightly to turn her into a heater.
Speaker 5I am now generating heat.
Speaker 1Now hang on, Roll me a d20 plus your proficiency for your tinker schools.
Speaker 5Wouldn't that be an intelligence check?
Speaker 1No, because if he built you he would know how to do it. I'm just wondering if he can do it on a cart.
Speaker 4One second. I gotta stop laughing before I say this. I got a two with a proficiency bonus of two gives me a total of four.
Speaker 1Sarah, you are not emitting heat, You're emitting cold. You've been turned into an AC.
Speaker 5Can I pick up on what he meant in trying to fix it?
Speaker 4Question Since I am in close proximity to Gimbal, can I roll that again?
Speaker 1Gimbal, is that how your power works?
Speaker 4Nope, okay, never mind.
Speaker 1I guess not.
Speaker 4Thanks for asking, though you know I try to ask.
Speaker 1Sarah, you open your mouth to say something to Thaddeus. Instead of a voice, what first comes out of your mouth is a blast of cold air, and you guys continue to ride through the blizzard.
Speaker 5I think, with that being considered, I I'm probably going to start taking like freezing damage faster. Uh, because now I am an extra source of cold in the middle of a blizzard I fail to see how this is helpful.
Speaker 4Well, I thought I could actually do some changes and sarah would actually become a heater. I didn't know that I would basically turn sarah into a refrigerator. I thought I needed a frozen heart for that, boo.
Speaker 1Elise, as the person currently leading the party, roll me a perception check 17. You guys have been traveling for some time now and you realized that while your teammates are behind you you know they're having a conversation you don't hear any of the other caravan anymore. You turn to look back and all you can see is just the white of the blizzard. The snow behind you has stopped. You have come out of the edge of it, but you cannot see or hear into the storm. Ah, excellent, we are come out of the edge of it, but you cannot see or hear into the storm.
Speaker 2Ah, excellent, we are now out of the storm completely.
Speaker 5What Hold on? Can you repeat that?
Speaker 2We are finally out of the storm completely.
Speaker 5I thought we were in the middle of a blizzard.
Speaker 2still, Brett said that we had left the edge of the storm. Yeah, oh, that's the part.
Speaker 5I didn't pick up on, I was just like wait, wait, wait. We were in the storm, we looked behind us. All we can see is white and then all of a sudden, like we're good, we left it behind.
Speaker 1Yeah, pretty much, there's no more. You see a wall of blowing snow behind you and you guys are currently standing in what is essentially a nice summer's day.
Speaker 4Huh, that's interesting. Sarah, come here and I'm going to attempt to revert Sarah's settings back to normal so she's not emitting cold.
Speaker 1I mean, it feels pretty good now.
Speaker 4Aside from Sarah emitting cold.
Speaker 5I mean, due to the fact that we just got out of the blizzard, I feel like I'm still emitting a good bit of cold.
Speaker 1You guys continue along the path.
Speaker 5That's not how weather works. As I'm looking at the blizzard behind us and the nice summer day in front of us.
Speaker 1Yeah, it doesn't take much longer. As you ponder the effects of the weather around the space, you guys take maybe another hour, you come up to the edge of the wall and you guys find yourselves at the gate. No problem, welcome back.
Speaker 4Was I able to revert Sarah's settings back to normal?
Speaker 1Yeah, reverting it back when you're, you know, not in a blizzard. Pretty easy for you.
Speaker 4Okay, I also take note of those settings because I might need them in the future. Yeah, yeah. I also take note of those settings because I might need them in the future.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, next time you roll to change the temperature, I'll give you advantage.
Speaker 5Next time we're walking through a fucking desert or an area of extreme heat, just set me to cold.
Speaker 1Oh, you know what? I'll give you an inspiration die for learning something new about your creation.
Speaker 2Yay Nice.
Reflections on Character and Editing
Speaker 1Congratulations. You have successfully made it down the mountain back to reggae. Yay, that was far less eventful than I expected.
Speaker 2Good job, it helps when the characters don't care about the events.
Speaker 1It's a little weird sometimes I I will say but you're right, they would have no reason to handle things any differently I mean speaking out of character here. The blizzard's a little fucking alarming yeah, but that's all for now, and when we return next episode, I'm sure the time breakers will continue to impress us breakers time breakers.
Speaker 1We are currently testing out some new editing techniques. We have a new editor working on our stuff, so if things are sounding different, let us know if they're better or worse for how you perceive us. You can come join the discord link is in the description and, uh, you know, talk to us directly if you so wish. You can leave a rating, leave a review and tell us how you really feel. Thanks for for listening. Bye, bye, goodbye, thank you.