The Blackguard's Gallery Episode Nine - Look Up

Songwoven presents The Black Guards Gallery, a level-up, advanced-fit edition, limited-run campaign. Episode 9. Look up. You can catch this show live every Friday at 8pm EST on Twitch.tv slash Songwoven Show or watch the video version of this podcast on YouTube. This production is sponsored by Level Up, Advanced Fit Edition. To try out the game yourself, you can check them out at levelup5e.com. Thanks for listening. Hello again everyone and welcome back to Songwoven The Black Guards Gallery.

I am your narrator Tim Don Tran and of course a narrator is absolutely nothing without his motley crew. Say ahoy motley crew. Ahoy motley crew. I love it. I love it. It's great every time. It's perfect. Hello again and welcome back to The Black Guards Gallery. We're running towards the back end of the series. We got three left everyone. Three! So make sure to join us for the high thrills and what's sure to be just a super fun, completely emotionally detached time.

Everything's going to be completely A-OK. No one sends me jump scares in my DMs so I'm going to be very nice to certain people. I don't believe we have any announcements at the very tip top of the show. So I believe that now in record time we can just jump right into the game. Alright. Now who wants to take on the task of recapping what occurred last session? Do it Timmy. I would definitely not. I have my hopes up there.

So in the very last session of The Black Guards Gallery we started off continuing the incident where Hylgien Isuin was captured, teleported, vanished away by Aenarian Vanishers and brought to the mercy of Windfeld Lordegon, a long time rival of the Black Guards and Admiral of the Aenarian Navy.

After a slight tiny bit of gentle social torture with Windfeld revealing that he was waiting for Hylgien, and that he allowed him to survive their first encounter because he needed him to become more meaningful to people and to get more meaning. So killing him, dismantling him in front of people would drive the Black Guards to do something crazy. That's something crazy we have not seen yet.

With that we had One-Eyed Jane and Zachariah writing letters and coming to terms with the obstacles that are ahead of them, while Captain Aura has been managing the situation, full force forward with her. Of course, during this tumultuous time of figuring out if anyone else in the crew is also a turncoat, Daphne, alongside Humphrey, formulated a plan to manipulate a demon, which is a feet and a half, to her complete benefit, her own patron, Delphine, to which it was a complete success.

Delphine had promised to save Zachariah's significant other, Daryl, from the clutches of Brando Caligaris, and in return Humphrey is granted access to the Divine Spark. Which is going to be really exciting to see how that turns out. But of course, after Daphne completely finessed the demon in the terms of the deal, Delphine came to realization of the terms afterwards, and seems to be compliant in the meantime.

After which, after being tortured for a long day by a tall and crooked, cruel man, Helsin was assisted by a thought to be long lost companion of his, who had seemed to be captured by the Anarian army and seemingly broken down and transmogrified into an Anarian vanisher, Estelar. After Helsin seems to have gotten through to Estelar, Estelar vanquished the torture right then and there and is currently assisting Helsin. In a very, very tight spot.

Where we are now, Captain Aura, alongside her companions, and Clarence, and a few others, boarded the pardon to fly their way over to Anera, to mount a rescue for Hilsin, and perhaps a few others. And of course, on top of all of that, one-eyed Jane spoke with a long, lost family member. And she made a promise to save him. So we're gonna see how that goes in today's session of Blackguards Gallery. Alright. With that said, Give me one moment here. How's everyone feeling? Everyone feeling excited?

Yes. Yeah. I'm so excited. I want to puke up my cookies. So, We are, everything going forward now is occurring concurrently. We are starting with Captain Aura, Daphne, Zachariah, Humphrey, and one-eyed Jane. Is it just Jane now? Cause she has her eyepatch off? I want them to know who's coming. So yes, right now. You can just call me Jane. It's fine. Now, It's been a tense day, flying across, flying across the sea.

Well, normally the novelty of being able to fly through the, fly through the open air would be exciting. It would be whimsical for some. Now the situation doesn't really allow for, allow for such levity. The day had been spent planning. With tenseness in the air, slaving, slaving over maps, receiving new information from, from a set, from a sending stone that Jasper gave to you, Captain Aura, with his contact in the, with contact in the era. His name is Miguelos. Miguelos.

Throughout, throughout this day, you've been giving a more detailed drawing of a, drawing of a map to the best of your, to the best of a person's abilities. My camera is unfocused. Give me one moment. Hello. Hi everybody. It's like, are you guys trying to jump scare me? All right, thank you. It's been doing that a lot recently. Maybe because I'm so cool. Anyways. The lines of reality. It used to do it all the time. Like Humphrey. All right.

But like I said, it's been a tense day of planning of slaving, of slaving over a map. Clarence especially has been, has been up. More, more of his hair is turning completely gray as he's just pacing back and forth, thinking, thinking step one to step 20, adding more steps, erasing, just thinking about everything about his plan to blow up, to explode the lighthouse. A distraction for all of you. So, I believe we had a couple of sendings that people wanted to send out in the meantime.

It's a new day, right? It's a new day. Yes. You can start Albert, because you saved yours for Daryl, so I would say you'd be able to start. Okay, I mean, we don't have any others that we got to. I mean, I was going to try again to Lelantos, but if he's going to not give me information, I don't want to waste it, you know. Fair. Yeah, I'll, I'll just at some point, I'll like just sneak up behind Roland and just kind of grab him by the back of the neck and pull him into a room.

So, so, so, so, so kidnapped. Hey Roland. The fuck are you, you could have just said hello. Well, I mean, look, get a message time. All right, I guess. Yeah. Okay. How do I do a fucking Zachariah? All right. Hello. And he starts saying he starts talking in your voice. I'm Zachariah. Yeah. Were you always that good at impressions? Were you always that good at impressions? Are you copying me? Are you copying me? All right now. All right now.

That is uncanny. It's a cool party trick. Oh, isn't it? Yeah, I think it's pretty good. All right. What do you want me to say? Okay. How many made my spend? How many am I allowed to send? I didn't, I didn't actually talk. Oh boy. We want one for Hildrean. Yeah, I was gonna say one for Hildrean. So we have three, right guys? All right. And you can, he's gonna hear it in my voice? Yes. But you can make a request for any other voice.

No, I mean, my voice is fine. Just, you know, like, you've got to make sure you capture that charm, you know. Otherwise, he'll know it's not me. All right. I'll just lay back on the charm a little bit. I'm going down to your level, Zachariah. All right. Okay. So in that case, if he's gonna know it's from me. All right, we'll just skip. Oh, no, but he has to know it's 25 words. I wasn't expecting this voice thing. All right.

Do you need a beat, Albert, or are you good? I just need to get rid of six words and put in, you have 25. Is us typing up the recap? Straight faced. Yeah, that we have to put on Twitch. Please put everything in here. Okay. Okay. All right. Ready? Yeah. Okay. Tell him don't react. You have 25 words. Where are you? Destination? Overheard anything? Importantly, does he have an object he keeps close? Something he protects?

And if you can add in like a kissy sound to just a little X and O kind of thing in there somehow, I don't know. I think that's a free word. Yeah. Okay, cool. Does he keep any... he goes through, he goes, does he keep anything close? Not, no, because that's in reference to Brett. He'll know. He'll know. Put emphasis on he. Got it. Put like some anger in there, you know, he'll know. He'll know. He's smart.

He sensed, he sensed ascending. A moment passes. He goes, he says he's being transported in a wagon towards the upper, towards the upper parts of, of his end. That's far, isn't it? Isn't that far? Yeah, that's yeah. That's like, so the continent that it narrows on, which is to the west, it is north, north and west of Vanara. Oh shit, it's not even in the costume content. Wait, wait, north and... I need to look at the map. Vanara. Yeah, not Orhan.

He's near, he's in a completely different country. Wait, so he got him across the ocean? Yes. Teleportation something? Okay. He just goes, I'm completely fine. Something, I've noticed something about his eye. It's not real. His right eye. Fake right eye. Huh. Hello, Vecna. Okay. Surprise. He's been back there all along. If I think back on it, do I remember his eye like not moving or anything when he talked?

It's completely like, from what you saw, it was completely like, it moved it. Everything, yeah. All right. Does he sound okay or does he sound like he's just trying to keep me from worrying? Well, there's definitely that. I think it's just natural. But he sounds okay. All right. Well, we have other important messages to send out, but maybe I'll get another one through him. We're going to get him back. Yeah.

You know, Roland, actually, while I have you, when we get him, Daryl's actually a bit of a poet. He's a little embarrassed about it. He used to write poems about me all the time. He thought I didn't know. He came to the right person. Anyway, what I'm saying is, you know, you write songs, he writes poems. I think you two would get along. Just, you know, just a fun little topic of conversation to bring up, you know, maybe.

As soon as he steps on, I'm going to treat him like a part of the family. You don't worry about that. But also, I do have to read all of those poems about you. Maybe I'll write a song about it. Okay. Oh, please do. I'd love a song about me. That sounds wonderful. But on a more serious note, we're going to be getting into some real danger. And just you be careful. And also, if anything happens to me, just look out for him. All right? I want to make sure he has a friend.

Absolutely. But you're going to make it too. Yeah. None of that talk, you know, the captain doesn't like that. She'd kick her ass. I know. I know she would. I know she would. All right. I won't mention anything around her. I know she'll get worried. All right. It's a little nervous. No rocking, though. Going back. Wait, back? You've been you've been to an era? I've never been there. At least I don't think I have. Have I? I don't remember.

Yeah. I've been there. Basically grew up my whole life there before I met you guys. Maybe you can show us around a little bit if we have time to sightsee. Trust me. No sightseeing want to be sitting there. OK. Fair. He's a little. You can tell he's very nervous. But he just goes, All right. Anything else you want me to send? I don't I feel like we got it. We have other important messages to send out. But if we don't use them all today. I'll get you. All right. Breathe.

I'll just kind of like give him like a pat like on the stomach. Right. Right. Breathing. Yeah. I've done that my whole life. Yeah. Easy. Easy. Easy. Easy. Everything's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. Be fine. All right. I'm going to go throw a volleyball at the captain. See if that cheers her up. Right. All right. See you soon. Just kind of shrinks back. Go ahead. I'd like to talk to Aura. How does she look? How does she look? She acting like a

like how she was trained. She's just very mechanical. But still open and receptive to people talking to her. But she's kind of just going through the motions and really not taking time. Other than that. She approached you and she goes, Captain, can we speak? Yes, of course. She'll sign. She's about to go into details and then she just pauses a moment, like considers something. I know that you know better than anyone here with that man is capable of.

Do you also know better than anyone what Hilschen is capable of? If you're going to have faith in someone, have faith in Hilschen, not Lordigan. She gives a small smile and nod. She goes. We're going to do this and I've. I've done something. Actually, it'd probably be easier to explain if I told everyone about the inner circle. OK, would you like me to go get them? Just let's gather them up and OK, we'll do that real quick. Yep. Yep. Everyone's I check. I check the volleyball at you.

She kind of blinks, watches that it hits the floor and just gives you a nod. She wants to say something. Humphrey already knows. Because he helped me. And one night Jane saw her a few days ago. But my patron, who I've never met, appeared on board just a few days ago. Because she wanted to make a deal with me for the spark. After Hilschen was kidnapped. I made a deal with her. But not to give her the spark. Humphrey and I tricked her.

I wanted to keep it low and secret because I didn't want her to realize, but she realized the second the terms were set in stone. She's getting Darryl for us. She has to bring Darryl to me before we attack Afros Harbor. As per the deal, she is giving each of the inner circle, except for Zachariah, a boon to help with poison. And she is not allowed to harm anyone the captain or the first mate declare a blackguard. I've declared Darryl a blackguard. And I denounce Nellie. Question.

How do we get people on the list? Just, you know, just a... Per the deal, captain and first mate can declare anyone a blackguard or remove anyone. Which also means that you are not the captain, she says to Zachariah. Alright, listen, I'm the captain of the pardone. No. Tim's face is like, don't. Listen, question. So I also have a question. Patron? I feel like I'm a little behind on what... My father made a deal with a demon before I was born. That's why I turned out this way.

And I've always felt a connection to that power. That's how I pulled on it to learn my magic. Oh, so she's a demon. Drop my pen. Daphne drops her pen on the ship. She goes, yes, she is a demon. Wait, so you sent a demon after Darryl? I did. She can't harm him. She has to return him unharmed. And free of any spells that Brando might have cast. Isn't Darryl already technically with a demon? Undead. No, I would consider Brando to be a demon. Yeah. He sounds really shitty, so... And?

Is she scary? Is she like, fang? Sorry, I've never met a demon before. I wanted to let you all know because I think we need to be cautious. I think she's going to try to turn it now that she knows that I've tricked her. You tricked her. I agreed to give you the spark, but I looked at Humphrey rather than her. And she couldn't see Humphrey because he's so well hidden. And she knows this. Yeah, he's not even here with us right now. I'm next to you. I'm next to you. Fuck me.

Shit. I... I think the areas most susceptible to her trying to pull something are with Darryl or with the poison boon. And so she has to return Darryl to me, though, and she has to do it before we reach Aphrodis Harbor. Or with you, Daphne. He can't take away my power or anything like that because that's part of my father's deal with her. She can't harm me. She can. She might try to do something, sure. But I think she'll try to sabotage the deal if she does do something.

Or try to last minute make a pull for the divine spark. The deal is that if I hold the divine spark, I have to give it to Humphrey. Are you prepared for that, Humphrey? Not in the slightest. But if it's what we all agreed on, then I guess I'll do it anyways. We're not giving it to her, right? No. Okay. No. That's why I didn't make the deal with her. Do we need to talk about what the divine spark actually means? And if Humphrey gets the divine spark, is he gonna become a god?

Well, ideally, I don't want to take the divine spark anyways. Yeah, so we both agree neither of them get it, right? Is there a way to destroy it? I don't know exactly what it is. No one should have this. Jane. She signs very sternly. Can I? Zachariah. Just speak it out loud. Yeah, go ahead. You're not alive, correct? I don't really get it. I feel alive, you know? Maybe the divine spark could be used to fuel something to fix that, rather than somebody's ascent into godhood.

Guess it's as good as mine. You know what? I'm gonna grab the compass, kind of shake it a little bit. Hey, I don't know if you can still wake up. Can we break the thing? Can we get rid of it and destroy it? Hello? I think they're asleep. The compass? No, not the compass. Don't break the compass. I mean, just like, you know, like. What did they tell you about the divine spark, Zachariah? They said that I'll know what to do with it when we get it. And that we can't let Brando have it.

Maybe I can cook it into a soup and we can just all share. Humphrey? I like that idea! We can all become really powerful people. We're already powerful. It might not even be something that you can hold tangible. Yeah, they didn't give me like a description. They just said I'll find it when I find it and I'll know what to do with it. And you'll know what to do with it. It's a riddle in itself. Yeah, a riddle. You like those, right? She just looks at you, looks away. Signs to Daphne.

I am sorry you didn't feel like you could come and tell me this sooner. But I trust your judgment. It was because I would have told you, but I didn't want her to find out that I'd deceived her. I wouldn't have told you until after Daryl had arrived if I didn't feel that she knew the second we shook hands. And how did you summon her? How did she get here? She told me when she came last time I could summon her by pouring her a cup of wine. That's it? Can we like talk to her right now?

Just call her back? I don't know if that's a good idea. I don't want to. No. Well, I mean like she has beef with you, you know? Maybe if like I talk to her, maybe she'll be like, oh, never mind. You're kind of nice. I don't know. Since she's out to get Daryl, well not out to get, but since she'll get Daryl, she'll probably get in contact with, with, um, I forgot his name, the Lich. Jesus. Brando? Brando. My God. She'll probably come in contact with Brando.

What, is there anything that stops her from making a deal with him as well? Brando. He wants it too. That's what I'm hoping. Or your brother? I don't think my brother's a real concern there, to be honest. He's stupid enough to make a deal. That would be his problem. She can't hurt me. She can empower him. Can I make like an arcana roll of some kind? Like that just doesn't, like that a patron, yes, like obviously a patron needs its... Well, she's a blackguard, right?

So I check for the figure of what exactly? Just like more about patrons like impacting their warlocks. Like I just, I just, I feel like Daphne's on the chopping block right now. No, no role needed. It's just, I think like maybe war doesn't have like much knowledge about patrons. So we're just gonna, we're gonna have to act on that. But like, you know a thing or two about shady deals and it sounds like demons are like a part of that. They are creatures of a really petty nature.

So maybe your suspicion on that is that Daphne could be in some like a shaky watershed, but it's impossible to know what's going to happen exactly. Yeah. Okay. It's just something that I'll keep an eye out for then. Besides, well, I think she certainly is charismatic to trick, enough to trick Deacon to making a deal with her over something. There is the added hurdle that he would automatically, he will automatically resent her. He resents our father for what he did.

So should I don't see him easily approaching it? Should I warn Darryl that a lady's coming to grab him? I don't want Brando to find out if we can avoid it, but... Oh, speaking of, are we being watched or are we good? She's been detect magicking. Okay. Okay. I talked to, Roland sent a message for me. I should have checked with you first, but Roland sent a message for me to Darryl. He said he's noticed something odd about his right eye. Brando's right eye, that it doesn't look real.

Something's wrong about it. That might be the whatever that word was. Simulacrum. Yeah, that thing. Sure. Does to me, does weird magic right eye sound familiar to me at all? Nothing relevant to the past. Nothing you've heard of before. What about me, who has the magical eye? She's like, if I take one out now. It's your dad. He's your dad. You get an expertise die, but I don't think you know. And then also, he's going, so apparently he's being transported to the upper parts of Izan. That far?

Yeah. That's not even on the same continent. I know that I look at maps. Why are they up there? I mean, I mean, we have maps in here. I'm just going to get a map out and quickly unfurl it. Take a look. Does it look like there's a way for them to get from there to where the bandiwala is? Or is that completely out of the way? It's definitely a better position than where you guys are right now. It's yeah.

If we're getting to the bandiwala, like up to the upwards part of the ocean, like yeah, Izan's closer. He's transported to there, so he's not there yet, right? Was the wording. He's being transported, but he's in Izan. He's in the upper parts of Izan. Already in Izan. Yeah. Okay. You see Aura soften for a brief second as she asks and signs to Zachariah, did he sound okay? Roland said yes, that he sounded alright. I mean, I couldn't hear him. Roland, you guys know Roland does great impressions.

Crazy. Yeah, he's really good at it. It's a little bit weird. Yeah. Made me uncomfortable. Cool party trick. Anyway, yeah, so he sounded alright. Is this the first time Roland has done this on board or has he done this before in the past? This is the first time. Okay. I don't want to out. I don't want to med it too much, but Aura would clock that and go, very talented. Yeah. He tried to pretend he was like me at one point. He was a little off, you know. It wasn't his...

But. So we have one message sent, two more. Everyone hears from outside. Coco. One of the Coppons. Land ho! We're already there. Okay. I forgot that this ship traveled faster when I gave you that quote on how long it would take to get there. Yes. And you see opening the door to Squee. He just goes, alright everyone, hang on. The ship suddenly goes... As the ship is starting to like descend and it sends rapidly at first. Like the ship shakes and shudders for a moment. As everyone hangs on.

You hear Armin in the distance who's at the helm going, oh, sorry. I think I got it. You see the air outside where the door opened. Squee is holding onto the door for dear life. It descends rapidly for a moment. Gravity inside of the room is out of control. If you're not holding onto something, then you're going to be hanging in the middle of the air. But eventually it slows down enough. And I like trying to get to the door and trying to hold on to Coco so he doesn't fly away.

Give him a little more stability. Yeah. I'll say as you come out, because you're like, oh man, poor Coco out here. As you come out, you hear, weeee! And you manage to catch Coco by the foot as he's about to fly off the side of the ship. He's just, thank you, Wacky Sacky. I owe you my life forever. Quick preparation question. Not now, but before. So, you know, presumably I've rested in between. Were there any specific things we wanted in the Aether?

Did we want like one counterspell, one dimension door or something like that? I think Albert had a good idea to have a dimension door potentially for Mikhail and Lilantos. For one edge and to give them potential. Yeah, we could get them somehow. Do you want me to do both? Both dimension door? I feel like a counterspell would be helpful in the Brando thing, so I feel like we at least one. So I think maybe wait until we are sure that we can get it to them.

Yeah, the only thing about that too is that I have to spend my spell to do that. So if I'm not going to get the short rest before we have to do something, I'd rather do it in downtime. Well, we got we got to wait for the Eternal Smile ship to get here anyway, right? So we have like a day of prep. Well, B team goes first and then Eternal Smile and what was the other ship? We're hoping Marzarr comes in for follow up, right? But B team does move first.

Yeah. Oh, you can send them another message, right? Yeah, I can send him another one if you want, I can send him something just to confirm when he's going to get here. Yeah. Where are you? Where are you at? Yeah, I would say we wait before we put something in there because we only. Yeah, Kendra was going to say something. Yeah. Hey, Daphne, do you mind just like adding my brother to the list? Just, you know, kind of sarcify. What's his full name again? Mikael Creston.

Yeah. Mikael Creston is officially a Blackguard. OK, thanks. As is Lilentos Boreas. Anyone else? Do the declarations have to be made like on paper or is verbal enough? And can you say my real name just in case that's like a loophole? I'll start writing a list. Wait, does the first name or just like the full name matter? If I give context as to identifiers of who that person is, it's fine. That's how I got Darryl. What did you say? Said Sakuraiya in the Blackguard's gallery's boyfriend, Darryl.

I mean, we're more than that. Are you engaged? You're not married. Not yet, no. As the ship crashes down. Pssshh, a big splash. The ship finally crashes into the water and becomes a fucking ship. Sorry, I interrupted your description. I was waiting for it. No, that's it. It's important. That's important, though. As water shoots up and just shunts and explodes off the side with a rough landing, the ship settles for a moment, but everyone's frozen.

I don't know if there's anything else that was going to happen. We have to do is what you're saying? What were you saying, Tim? I was continuing with the description. Sorry, continue. Oh, you're just describing. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm just describing things. Don't worry. The ship settles and everyone's frozen from the initial shuddering, the adrenaline rush. The maybe, oh my god, we're going to die. Oh my god. Becky. Gosh, you're in love with that character.

As it settles out, you see Armin walk over to the door. It just gives a crisp thumbs up. We've landed. We felt. Sorry. As you all walk outside, hearing Land Ho, maybe it's the nervousness inside of you all. Maybe it's the dread, but something seems dark about the area ahead of you. Dark clouds gathered above. Maybe it's your imagination, but a malaise, a miasma is here. She's not. Okay. Maybe a malaise or a miasma has taken over the central view of the of the shores ahead of you.

Jagged rocks, tall trees. You guys decided to come not towards the harbor, of course, because that would be unwise. But you see it, the darkness ahead of you. The place of the place of dread and for some of you, a place you never wanted to come back to. Welcome to an era. This place sucks. It feels darker, kind of moody. If you ever been to Seattle, you know what I'm talking about. Everyone who has lived in my family, who has lived in Seattle, all of them has called it moody.

Like we're in the worst place on earth, Seattle. By the way, we call it for someone who lives in Seattle, we call it CEDAW. Okay, I'm just letting you guys know. Take a note about this. No, no, no, no. I relate greatly. But there is a perhaps shared by perhaps shared by everyone. Just this blooming sense of dread that hangs over you as the ship sails over rough, rough waves towards the jagged, the jagged cliffside. Well, presumably your contact is waiting.

Whose name I have written down as one second. My rose McGill. Even which one is it? You guys give just give two different. Yeah, I have my rose. Jasper's informant. Jasper said my rose. Jasper said my rose. But the name you were given to Jasper written down is McGill. What the fuck? Jasper, is it Miguel? Who's Miguel? Who's Miguel? Oh my gosh. Jenny, who's Miguel? It's Brandon's informant in Thieves of Kandor, Timmy's first D&D game. Oh, cool. He's a cool guy. Okay, we like him. We like him.

Okay. So Miguel is great. I'll take that. And we have the location of the safe house, which we need to send over to Hildren. We can just have we just have that happen really quick. That doesn't have to be a big thing. So as the we don't know if he's out yet. As the ship struggles to break waves and make its make its way over, you almost missed the calm maneuvering through open sky. And now you're back towards not now you are breaking against the harshness of the of the waves around an era.

But eventually you do make it there. As you as as as you do, eagle eyed people set see that there are pitons located along already like located in like a climbing position, all located throughout the jagged cliffside. However, it's very wet. And it's a very looks like it looks to be like a very dangerous climb, but promise that this was the safest way to get in to an era undetected. As the ship starts to like, quote unquote, dock by the cliffside, you hear.

Hey, boss. Up up on the up on the cliff, like very far in the distance. He goes, I assume you're the people I'm with. Or I can't shout. So she just looks at Daphne and nods. Yes. Does. Oh, shit. Sorry, I forgot here. I have a little telescope here. You can sign to me. She's not while she's climbing. This is going to go well. This is going to go well. Whoever's kept an aura. Can you go ahead and raise your hand if you're not if you're climbing, though, don't do it.

She won't climb. She won't climb it. If others want to climb, they can climb. But she'll just he'll just raise her hand and just say hello. Miguel's real quick is that that is who I assume I'm speaking with. That's correct. Hey, boss. Good day. Although I don't know how good it is. I'm the funky sucker you've been in contact with. Hello. Name's Miguel. Oh, hello. Thank you for your Intel that you have provided our crew. What are my fake names? OK. Hello, everyone else.

And everyone's climbing against the sharp rocks. Is everyone climbing as you say hello and you're standing down there like oh, fuck. Sorry, this is the best thing I could have come up with. No, we appreciate it. Thank you. We have a couple of people to grab, as I'm sure you're aware. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. The telescope's getting all kinds of foggy, so I think it's better if you come up here. Jesus Christ. OK, so then we who? Wait, no, no, no. That was Emma.

Emma is so stressed right now. I cannot communicate the stress I feel. I'm trying to shove it deep down because that's what Orr would do, but Emma can't handle it. So is Orr too short to grab the handholds or are they close enough that you can get it? They're accessible. Yeah. OK. Well, we'll probably do a thing like Jane and I can tie like a rope that way if anyone falls. We got them. Lend you my gloves of climbing if you need.

I think we're OK, right? I mean, if they're I don't think I think we'll just tie Orr, Coco and Squee together on like a rope. They can just dangle while we climb. Yeah. Claire's like, God damn it. You guys go ahead. I'm just going to. Do you want to get on the do you want to get on the rope elevator to Clarence? We'll just pull you up. Coco and Squee are like, we can carry you, Grandpa. Like, no, I'm fine. Just give me a give me a moment.

Everyone sees Brooke running up the wall, grabbing a pint, then running up the wall again. What the fuck? Orr woman. As the first person gets to the top, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and say Jane. As you make it to the top, Magolos goes, you are greeted with the sight of a very tall, broad half-orc man dressed rather nicely. He has you see he has a he has a monocle on one eye that he immediately when you when you look at him,

he immediately goes, this is not going to work. He just he throws it throws it off. I will try something new. Nice to nice to meet you. Anybody else there? Anybody else down there can't get up? I can I can assist them with that. I would think that also real quick, just real quick. Orr wouldn't or would it be the last one up? She wouldn't go up unless everyone else went up. Is everyone coming off the ship or is someone staying at the ship? Armin Armin.

Does Armin give me the thing things that I asked for? Yes, absolutely. OK, cool, cool, cool. You are like everyone, whatever you need, like you could believe a prayer prepared. Magolos looks down, he pulls out a bead. He just goes looking at the Clarence. It was a old man. You need some help? Motherfucker. Just climbing a sharp cliff, climbing a cliffside isn't exactly my speed anymore. Sorry, what I said climbing a. Yes, he needs help.

All right, you're going to have to catch this and really catch it. Don't let it hit the ground. All right, three, two, one. Wait, what? He throws down this. He just arc throws his bead downward. I'll see exactly as you're coming up, you see this bead just kind of like flies over your head. I stop and watch just to see what happens. Clarence goes, why are people assuming I'm ready to catch things? I can catch it if he doesn't, if he can't.

Yeah, I'll say like he's like he's like scrambling. You see Coco and Squee like. I'll say you just you just you catch it this fall, this falling object. Hand it to Clarence. I could have caught it. I know, but sometimes everyone needs a little help. I finally got me. I was lying. I get up there. You first. I need to say goodbye to Armin. How do I use this? Shunts. What do I put this? Can you hold on to this? He passes you a bead. And then all of a sudden Clarence just like it just in your hand.

Is he like sitting in her hand now? Yeah, is she like this? Just all think lifting him. Hi. Hey Jane. Put me down. Hey. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I just. Sits down like. Like goddamn heart. I'm like, hello. Hello. Sorry for everyone else. Just let's warm up. Just the one. Just the one bead. You don't. Would you be offended if I had more? I do. Yeah. Then I don't have more. Hmm. Capnora. So before she'll tell Coco and squeak, get on up there kids. And she'll go to Armand.

I assume everyone is concentrating on climbing the cliff because she wants it to. So I'll give her a squeak piggyback ride. He goes at the same time. Who knows? Yeah, you got them both hanging on. She'll indicate him to lean down to her. And she will take his hands and hers and will say telepathically. These hands have the power to create such beautiful and wonderful things. It has been an honor to be your captain. And we will see you soon. I'm looking forward to it, Captain.

And you see, because she looks to make sure no one's looking, and she'll just pull him into like a gentle hug. You know, just give him a nice warm gentle hug. He hugs you. And he goes, You probably see come back, right? Gives him a wink, and then she's off to climbing the wall. I like to think that Humphrey was standing right next to them. I think he just nonchalantly like climbed up. Or is like, I'm going to be the last one up and Humphrey is just. Surprise, bitch. Not this time.

Everyone waits for Captain Aura to. Everyone received like a couple of like a small scrapes and bruises like that. That sucked. It was wet. It was very high. There were no safety nets. There was nothing. But everyone, everyone climbed up and everyone sees eventually the head of the the teeth of the teeth. The halfling. Make her way up. And she's covered in dirt. I mean, like, they look like shit, right? But she still tries to hold like, you know, a regal air. And she just tips her hat and goes.

Hey, boss. Thank you. Of course, of course. All right. Now, I've worked with pirates before. So. Got some experience. Don't worry. You came to the right person. Now, I'm going to go ahead and take you right. I'm going to go ahead and take you right on over to where we're supposed to be. But I need you all. I need all of you to be careful. OK. This place right here. Activity all around. There's people about. I reckon people are keeping a careful eye out, but I picked a good place.

All kinds of important people, as I'm sure you know, are currently at the harbor. Now, I was told that you needed the location of where certain people were. I got that for you. Yes. The Crestons are currently staying at a place called the Grand Mastodon at the harbor. House Castel staying at a place called Ebony Crater. Now, as with all an area nobles whenever they ran out of place, they have to place all to themselves. Top notch security, I'm betting.

As far as the inside goes, I think it's all them. Now, you wanted the location on the Rhinellar. I got the map back at the safe house. Anything else you all needed? Do you happen to have confirmation on where one political prisoner, Melantos Borreus, is being kept? I assume our helmsman, Hildren, is at the location you will soon indicate to us on that map. Yeah. I just as far as I know that location is being kept on the down low. Maybe give me a couple more days.

I don't have my guys, though they don't have that much access inside. It's okay, Miguel. We don't have days. Thank you. Of course. I can help look around if I'm used to sneaking around the streets. If you need help. Yeah. We'll get there when we get there. Grand Mastodon, Crestons looks at Jane, Ebony Crater, Castells looks at Humphrey. Is there anyone else? I think that's about it. For you, pointing at Zachariah, you want a good way to get around town, I got a map for you.

On the ground sewerways. No one ever looks at the rats. I know, right? They're adorable. Alright, come on. And he starts leading the way. As you're all leading the way, I would say that Roland's kind of like hanging back. He's still inside of you all. His hands are clenched together, he's looking around and very visibly nervous. But he's still within view of you all, at the very least. I'll hang back and just kind of keep him busy. Am I right, just admiring the trees, I guess? Yeah, yeah.

Zachariah? Yes? Help keep an eye on me in case... Darryl. I was worried going up the cliff. You might try to time it with something like that. Ooh, yeah, don't climb any more cliffs. I just tell you back. That boy can't climb for this, just, at all. I would not like him to vomit to his death. No. Alright, got it. Eye on you. Alright, as everyone's following McGillis, Hylian. Concurrently, while that's happening, Hylian, the straps are off.

You see the red rash marks that the leather straps have embedded onto your skin, but they're finally off. As you see Estelar begins to work on your foot bindings, eventually your legs are free. The only place to step forward on is this massive puddle of blood that was created in front of you. I definitely would say that Hylian is pretty much on at, you know, as soon as he realizes that Estelar is with him and starts losing his straps, he automatically goes... How many guards? How much danger?

Too many. Too many. This place, where is it? Where are we? He unsheats one of his daggers and hands it to you. No matter what happens, brother, you can't be spotted. He takes the dagger. They have been making this poison here. Do they have also materials perhaps for an antidote? Hylian goes to get up and he has a moment when the getting up, his body just sort of gives him the reminder of how beat up and weak he is. And so as he gets up, he just has a moment of he stumbles and falls to one knee.

He moves to catch you. Yeah, and he ends up reaching, grabbing the arm and manages to not fall fully, but he has that moment of... And in that moment, having that brief moment of closeness to Estelar, he takes a moment to look at him and a smile crosses his face as he says in Elvish, it is good to see you again, my friend. And he's going to... Yeah, go ahead. I wish I could have been under better circumstances, brother. I'm not who I was. No, but you remember all your work. But I do.

And the person that I remember is the person that freed me today. So whatever path has led you to darkness, I can see that you know the way back. And he's going to move toward the body of the torturer, and he's just going to first he's going to look for anything he's just going to look for anything he can to arm himself up and any any tools or anything he can find before he goes anywhere. You do find like a set of keys. Like I said, of like a lot of keys.

Each of them, each of them scratched in a number. But as far as like, as far as anything else goes that's the only like useful thing like, if someone arming yourself, he gave you a plus two dagger. Okay. Which is good. He puts a dagger grabs, holds the keys, and he just says, Is there a half link here. The lanterns body is, do you know. Yes. There is. Can you take me to him. You need to focus on escaping. Elgin just has a moment, and he. What is this place called.

outwardly it's called the Rhino law. Graciously built, given to us by family in the south. It's more than that. You need to get out of here. You have to follow my lead. You understand. As soon as the land does to be executed. Once they get its way. They deem a person they want to die, then they will die. I don't want that for you. He starts taking off his pauldrons and removing his cloak. Go ahead. While he's doing that. Many years ago. I thought you did. I thought it not possible.

To see any of my brothers again. And yet here we are. Please. Do not tell me there is not a way. For me to get that halfling out. Have to try. They break people. They are make them. After that battle. They took me. They are made me. For years. Molded me into what they wanted. They turned me into a killer. Brother. Made me a prisoner in my own body. They are capable of such wanton levels of inhumanity. I couldn't believe what we were going up against.

We didn't know the depths of what we were fighting. And there's nothing more than I want. To get you away from all of that. But to bring you, I can get out just fine. But to bring a political prisoner out. You are asking me. For a lot. Perhaps in my younger years. When my mind was clearer and I appreciated the sun. I would have been able to do that. I would have thought me able. But now brother I've been shown. I've been grounded. And I've been told how the world works. Put this on.

He gives you, he hands you this folded up cloak. He takes the cloak. Are there any potions nearby? That's where we're going to first. You said that they break you. And then he nods toward the body. Is that part of the break too? We're going to do the same to you brother. Why didn't you let them? Because I saw you again. The eyes that saw me. They are not the eyes of a broken man. And if they are. Then you are telling me that even this moment right now is false. Is this trickery, Estella? A tear.

Builds up in his eye. He's been crying already. But his face hasn't been going along with it. It's been a very still face. But the tears have been coming through. And again with a shaky hand he wipes it away. Almost as if it's an alien motion. He's unsure. He just wipes it away. Put it on. And then starts putting it on as he walks really close to him. He gets just inches from his face. Just looking him straight in the eye. And he just says, look at me. Look at me. Don't make me do this.

You are a varen of the erin tirith. It's also part of the plan for you to make me believe that you were helping me. It's only illusion. How far is the halfling from here? Two floors down. How many guards between him and us? Too many. You can see Hildren. He just, he turns around and he's just looking at the walls of this place with frustration that would probably look more sturdier were it not for the fact that he's so weak. You need to be careful. There's a woman here. She's the warden.

Warden Willow. She has a withered face. She's extremely clever. She commands the vanishers here. She's van... These vanishers. Are they controlled by magic or just choice? Some by choice. Some have been broken. What about Wendel? Very well. Let's go to the potions. We will start there. Hildren, close your eyes right now and believe in the heart and the very fact that you don't want to be seen. Keep that cloak wrapped tightly around you.

Hildren nods lightly then closes his eyes and takes a deep breath and it's not hard for him to make a connection with that thought for he has done it during hunting many a times. There you go, brother. And as you open your eyes you're currently invisible. You're currently wearing a cloak of the cloak of the vanisher. You can go invisible for an hour or true invisibility for 10 minutes. For an hour or invisibility for 10 minutes? True invisibility for 10 minutes, yes.

True invisibility, so that means it's not detectable by anything? That means you can attack and still remain invisible basically. Really useful in a fight. Yes, very much so. What about you? He puts on the mask. I have to still abide by my current ways for a bit. Do you follow me? Don't run into anyone. Stick close. Estelle you understand that I am not done with this place even if I leave now.

So if there is anything that you can tell me about this place that I can use to my advantage upon my return anything I need to know. We must make sure this place is done with you first, brother. Yeah. I'll tell you everything but we need to hurry. Now. Lead the way. As you are now invisible he opens the door and a cold air brushes into the room. Even in here with a solemn just solo torch for a long while.

So the air outside is welcoming for someone who has not who has been in the same room for a long time but cold and chilly all the same.

I'm going to say also one thing that Hilton is going to keep is he has this thing called kindred spirit which means that he can intuitively sense when another wilderness expert is nearby and also he has his perception increases to detect hidden and invisible creatures within 30 feet of him and I instantly detect any creature that I can see that is proficient with stealth or survival.

Your senses open up to that to kindred folk and I'll definitely let you know as you're walking out you immediately see like another set another vanisher walking down the side of the building you see that these people who are wearing these uniforms this set of like armor the mask, the cloak they are terribly proficient experts in it. Even though they are moving with that heavy armor on the footsteps are quiet. Estelar moves along in the same cadence as the others.

You are very well versed in being naturally stealthy using the foliage and the nature to your surroundings but there's something else completely about not being seen in complete open areas that are brightly lit by torches something about it makes you feel naked. It's strange. But the invisibility seems to be working.

You are brought down this smooth stone corridor towards another room where Estelar makes his way in and as you quickly duck in you see that there are shelves of round flasks and different potions and it seems to be like an alchemic table here as well. Estelar immediately makes a move. None of these potions are labeled or anything. Grabbing a large vial and two smaller ones and offering it to the air to you. I'm going to...

You tell me if this actually would work but I also have a knack called healing salves which means that once per long rest I can spend... well never mind, I need to spend an hour on that. It's not going to work. I'll just take the potions and... yeah, I'll probably be taking the potion and cooking it, smelling it quickly and then just taking a sip first trying to see what it feels like. I definitely feel like... You've drank healing potions before but this one feels stronger immediately.

Okay. I... We'll go ahead and drink it. Alright, that is a superior healing potion. You heal 40 hit points. Total. Um... Estelar goes, are you feeling better? Heal Gen takes that moment feeling the energy surf through his body. He wring... wiggles his fingers and just takes a moment to feel the energy that is some of the wounds sort of starting to close in around his body and he nods. Much better. Then come. Let's be quick. I'm going to take you towards the top. I'm going to take you to the top.

I'm going to take you to the top. I'm going to take you towards the top. Towards the woods surrounding us. I don't know where you can go but you should not be here. Neither should you. Perhaps. I don't know. Estelar. You have been in the darkness for way too long. It is time to return to the woods. Perhaps you're right. I think you're right. He's standing up a bit more but you see some certainty is coming to him. I think he's coming to you. He's coming to you. He's coming to you.

He's coming to you. But first we must get you out of here. Let us get out of here. You haven't changed much. Brother. Even with the darkness I can still see the friend that I felt alongside with all those years ago. Estelar, when you remember him from before he's always smiling, a smirk, daring. You see the slight curve of the lip. A burning memory of who he once was coming back. All right, follow me. And as he reaches for the door you see the door knob turn.

I would say if I have the time I would probably move right next to the door behind the area where the door opens. Just lean against it, just hug that wall. Mm-hmm. Estelar just goes... As the door opens up you hear a slight... a slightly soft voice as you see in the doorway. A woman, she's aged, like a grayed hair swept back with black hanging in the back. She's wearing a coat, a coat of sorts. And you see that her face is... There's like a severe burn on the right side of her face.

And multiple scars, multiple old healed scars decorating parts of her face and neck. And you see two vanishes behind her. Which I will communicate. Already those odds are way overwhelming. Vanishes are very tough. He goes... What are you doing in here? I thought you were stationed with one of the...captures. She walks in. And she goes... Michael requested one. Michael requested a healing potion for the prisoner. He's unconscious at the moment. Is that right?

Hmm. She walks around the room, her arms crossed. And might I ask... Where is your cloak? I don't have it with me right now. I don't have it with you. Why aren't you on duty? She kind of cocks her head. Um... And she just goes... Estela. Two very strange occurrences. You can go ahead and tell me. What exactly is going on here? You see the two vanishes have walked into the room. They are past the doorframe. You can head on out. I'm going to go get them. Okay. I'm going to go get them.

Okay. Why don't they both just go to me? What about that? Jenny's like, I've had enough! Okay. Hildrean... Hildrean moves behind... starts moving after the vanishers pass. And he's... standing by the door behind these vanishers. He's looking in Estela's direction. And he knows that this is an impossible decision. He's... He's up the edge of the door, still looking at Estela. Is there... He's still staying to try to see if he can hear anything more. He's up there ready though.

He's up there ready if he needs to move or hide or run. You see Warden, Willow just pacing around. Estela, the two vanishers are just flanking him. He goes, It usually doesn't take one of my vanishers very long to answer me. And you see Estela's hands... reaches towards where the dagger is supposed to be very fast. And he grips the area. But it's the dagger he gave you. As he grasps the empty space, just by instinct. And is almost surprised when he doesn't find the dagger there.

Immediately the two vanishers grab onto his arm. And you see... And you see as he's being restrained, he's struggling against him. Willow looks down at his waist where the dagger is supposed to be. I see. That's a good thing he's just came in. She reaches behind her. Pulls up the back of her shirt. You see she has capsules. What the fuck is in those? A fill with a purple substance. And she... OOOOOO Pulls it out. And she pulls out the cork. I have no use for broken things. Oh fuck you bitch.

That's not a nice death either, that's a painful death. Death? Yeah. Wait Jenny, for not to mobilize just fucking murder? It's purple worm poison. Uhhhhhhhhh Though if he's a vanisher he's trained to be a racist poison. God damn it man. This is breaking my brain. Hey hey you have all the time, you have all the time. You're good. We only have two more sessions. I need time to think. I thought today was supposed to be Kendra and Kev. What? What is the...

What can I gauge from this warden from looking at like her attire, her whatever weaponry, whatever she may be wearing and carrying? Pistol on the side, maybe not the most skilled looking fighter. She's definitely in command though. She's a formal attire, the air she carries around her, the vanishes are going around her. I'm sorry Victor. It's okay man, it's great. It's a powerful decision. If you do attack your invisibility does wear off.

Yeah. The dagger that I have however, is it a poison dagger? It's plus two. It's a magical dagger but it's not poison at the moment. So it doesn't have the poison that I was struck with? It does not. Okay. Does she have more vials on her back? She does. Oh the same color? The same color, yes. Nice catch Albert. Yeah. So this is a question. Can Hingel attempt to use the dagger? Can Hingel attempt to use the dagger to stab through the vial into her?

Absolutely. So I'll tell you how I see this working and you tell me if it's doable the way that I see this. Hildin knows that he wants to make it back to Aura and to the crew but once upon a time he let Estelar be dead. And this would be a second time that he deliberately, knowingly would be giving them up and surrendering them to certain death. And in his head Hildin, things slow down for him, the world slows down and Aura's smiling face comes to his mind.

As he can hear himself in his mind say to her, forgive me my love. And in a combination of motions, as he moves and dashes forward with the dagger, his other hand also moves to close the door behind him to shut down, potentially reduce the noise from outside and also create a distraction as he's actually moving forward. And he thrusts from behind to pierce through the vials on the belt to pierce through it with the dagger into the warden. Please make an attack roll with advantage.

You have inspiration too. Just double checking, Hildin was also part of that poison boon thing right? Yes. Okay so, I'm trying to figure, I'm sorry I don't even know how to do this. Okay here it is. So that's a plus, okay so I'm rolling this and then I need to add a plus two. So that will be a total of 28. The sudden appearance of you. The gliding of the tip of the blade, crashes through the vial, coating your blade with poison.

And the last part of the sequence tearing through the flesh of the warden. A sudden gasp. She doesn't scream. She doesn't. She doesn't even. She doesn't say anything. The vial that she was holding she uncorks, she was going to apply it. She was going to apply it to Estelar. It falls from her hand. And as this falls, you become visible. You become a vanisher. One of the vanisher's spot you. Immediately both of them do. Yep, but here's the thing.

I'm going to use werewolf strike, which basically allows me to attack up to five people on my own, on my round. It's one of my maneuvers. So it's my free maneuver, I can make an attack against a number of creatures within five feet of me, making a separate attack roll for each target. And I can only attack equal to or less than my proficiency bonus, which I believe right now is at least four. However, these attacks do have to be normal. Vanishers cannot be surprised.

At least it's plus two to attack and damage because of the plus two damage. Is his blade also technically coated now? It is coated. Yes it is. In this terrible purple warm poison. That's 18. For the. Yep. I actually do have to check. That just hits. Oh my god. The other one is a 28. That hits. So I basically hit all of them with a poison dagger. I'm going to have them make con saving throws. Just give me a moment. 18. Which I believe fails because the DC is 19 on the poison and a 24.

So let me roll. Take it. Don't worry about the ward. She's gone. So as you as you as a sudden flurry just suddenly begins to exist in the world like cold and like cold and hot wind blowing against each other. This sudden burst of energy just flies forth in this room as blood glass and poison in circles the room. Hylian use you slash becoming becoming a flurry determined to not lose another person that you love to this cruel empire. You see the warden immediately falls to the ground.

And you see one of the vanishes that you cut through that thick armor. Grasp his grasp his wound with what you can't you can't see their expression. They're hidden behind a mask. The other vanisher however. Points the points his wrist towards you. And you see a bolt like a like a crossbow bolt jutting out of the with the rest. He uses his bonus action. He whips his back. He places the bolt in a in a vial of poison. And he's going to fire at you. And he's going to use aim because he hasn't moved.

One moment here. 22 and 27. Is it two attacks. Which is one it's one with advantage. Counter shot. When I see a missile from a range weapon attack and turn into a normal range of weapon that I'm wielding I can use my reaction to deflect it. Okay. So I need to. What's the what is the number 27. 27 which you did twice. Yeah. At advantage though because it was within five feet. With a range weapon. Let me do look at counter shot real quick. Just oh wait.

Yeah. He the the vanisher attacked within five feet. So it'd be a straight roll. Right. Managers have a. They have like crossbar. Yeah. I tried Victor. Yeah. Okay. What if you roll. Did you roll Victor. What's that. Oh shit. We talked about it guys but it's true. He's handling it all himself. Come back. I swear to you my breathing is shut. All right. Oh my god. Yeah. You you you literally see as these as this dart flows. You see Hill Jim do this upward motion with the dagger and just.

Manages to just swing and you just hear the ting of the dart. Flank like just ricocheting from from the dagger. Just deflected immediately. Yeah. I'm gonna go ahead. After you this well placed this very well placed shot you managed to deflect it just faster than light crossbow bolt. The other vanisher you see Estelar break breaks free. Pushing shoving with the shoulder the other vanisher to the ground looking at you and he just goes run.

And he begins to like like like pushing you for like opening opening opening the door and closing it behind him like just started sprinting throughout the hallway. As he as he does you hear a whistle. A look a very piercing loud whistle. Sign. It's going to be it's going to be a long few minutes. I'm sure it is. Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna have those I'm gonna have the environment around you be its own initiative but your first and Estelar second. Okay. Is that booze or water. Booze.

With this newfound vigor inside of you you definitely you definitely follow behind your definitely follow behind your companion as people are trying to figure out the situation. Estelar is wasting no time moving past like other people in the Indian area and army who are unsure of what's going on but your visibility is gone.

I would say as I say as you're maneuvering your way up the stairs. There's a man who's making his way down the stairs of portly man kind of like kind of like stop Justin like an important looking important looking outfit. Seeing Estelar and seeing you goes, isn't that the prisoner and as well as throws a dagger right at him piercing through his heart, forcing him to the ground. He grabs the dagger and just continues to move. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to.

I mean, I have a specialty on firesighted and hearing for my perception. So I'm going to be using that throughout this whole thing to try to navigate this environment as safely or at least as prepared as possible so that anything that I can sense approaching, I can communicate with Estelar quietly and try to make our way through. There with the census you see you sense people like scattering about like moving about. But above all you feel one presence that has been in close pursuit from behind.

And looking back, you see the mask of a vanisher as you as you cross corners, giving pursuit. I'm going to also cast detect poison so that I can actually keep awareness of any poison that is within 30 feet of me at any point. There's way too much. There's definitely on the definitely on the like the soldiers the confused folks. There's nothing like that, but vanishes. Yeah, the terrible poison that they carry are most definitely most definitely on the detect that.

Yeah, I just want to keep that awareness of that way anytime that I sense that poison approaching, I actually have. I'm more prepared to be aware of everything that's getting close to me. Now that I also know that I cannot be surprised. You begin to hear you you hear commands coming off from the distance, shutting down this line of command says shut the front gates. And so it goes, we need to hurry. That's this way. As you follow him to these like these narrow stone, very tight corridors.

There does come a moment when you're going down, you're going at a particularly the long hallway, which you know that if you go down this hallway, the vanisher will have line of sight on you. It will probably get a chance to fire off a shot. As soon as we turn into the hallway, I cast fog cloud. All right. As you see he moves and he begins to take aim, you just you come with with with a quick wave with a quick wave of the hand, the air around you begins to like coalesce.

And this thick cloud takes over the area. Let me see something real quick. Oh shit. Okay. He's going to use a cunning action for blinds. But he, he can see he can see he can see he can shoot accurately he does not get advantage. 14. That's a miss. But Hildrein does Hildrein have his armor on or no. He does not at the moment. That is a good point. I believe your natural armor is 10 plus your dexterity modifier. That would still be a miss. It's 15. A 15?

Yeah. Just sudden show some sudden like force like moves right past the side of your head, but it's missed. As you move through as you move through to the other side. And Exxon actually looks behind to see you catching up. He goes, move ahead of me. I'll give you instructions. I do so while I'm running with him. And I as I'm running I just I'm running I'm moving forward it's like I better not lose you. You won't. I swear to you you won't.

And he just keeps moving. I need you to I need you to roll me. Either acrobatics or an athletics check. And you do have two levels of physical fatigue in in events 5e there are different levels. Oh shit he can't dash or run right? Can't sprint or dash. There's a fatigue and there's strife. Fatigue is more towards the physical end. So am I rolling with disadvantage? I'm afraid you are yes. On checks for strength. On yes. Strength context.

But he also can only move at like 30 feet right? He can't move like 60 like his buddy. He can't dash. He might have like a higher movement speed because he's into what else right? I don't know if that's a thing. Ranger might also be faster I'm not sure. I have an athletics assess I have a five bonus even though my strength is crap so I don't know what to do. Is it proficiency? He's probably adding proficiency. It makes no sense for me to have but I don't know maybe. What's your strength?

Yeah 11. I remember talking about like getting like an athletic specialty or something I thought. Yeah. I think you have proficiency. In swimming right? He has it in swimming. Climbing and swimming. You have proficiency so you should have a bonus. So this does not include specialty I don't think when it's the role options. I'm sorry. Is that a nat one? You have inspiration? It's inspiration. 16. That's better. You cleared a DC by a bit. Oh god.

Okay. You're moving through like crowds of people confusion doors opening on either side. There are like mobile beds that you have to like jump over. But you're managing to clear these just fine even though like there are cuts on the bottom of your foot. There are the pain like the growing pain on your body. I'll say Estelar maneuvers you through another staircase and you feel this person again closing in behind you. Estelar goes. Sorry. Sorry. You said that it was a disadvantage right?

That's right. But to be fair, I thought it did roll. You would have rolled disadvantage with the disadvantage would have led to the one anyways. No matter what you'd roll. Yeah, but you would have rolled the 16 with your inspiration point. So that's clean. It's all right. Yeah. Oh, I see. Yeah, you're clear. You're clear. Don't worry. Okay. So I guess we're almost there.

As you as you as you're heading as you're heading upwards to this like more populated like area, you see you clear this sort of stuff for you. You clear a door towards like sort of like dirt outside multiple like I forgot. I forgot the keywords for forts, but like like fortified wall large gate a large wooden gate that's currently being turned by a crank to slowly close. Estelar keeps pushing you for keeps pushing you forward. Even though you see multiple people turning and you hear present.

But despite that, there's no stopping to look. There's no like there needs to be no hesitation in the situation that doors closing that that large front wooden gate is shutting. As you move as you move forward. I'm going to make one more attack role. For your action could you have been taking the dodge action since you can't dash. Good. Alright, this is with this advantage. I'm gonna always try and slash out of the air again. 23. 23 and a 24.

I am going to attempt another counter should I suppose. All right. No poisons. 15. Yeah, 15. 17 technically but doesn't matter. Here's what's going to happen. As you turn around. As you, as you attempt to slash at this dagger, but you realize you're not going to get there in time. We cut over to Daphne real quick. The boom Daphne. As you're following McGillis. You feel a small tap on your shoulder. As you look there's nothing. But then you hear in your head. One boom down. As promised.

We cut back to Hilsin. Hilsin. There is some supernatural speed from you're not sure. Estelar was far away from that bolt. But then all of a sudden. He's positioned right in front of you. And even he's confused. As the bolt enters into his back. He has training against poison and stuff so. He pushes you forward. Go. Daphne you here. Can I get him. He's still moving at this moment maybe I like adrenaline. He's still running with you, but he's like pushing hard.

This attack came from the Vanisher that is like right behind us. Let's be in chasing us. Yeah, it's been chasing. I'm going to. He doesn't have much to do. He continues to go. Still keeping an eye on him. And he uses. Druid craft. To cast a cloud of rain. At eye level in front of the Vanisher that is following. Hoping that that gives some level of distraction. Or break. To help them get out.

So he just has that moment where he looks back and just casts the thing and is suddenly there's a cloud of rain. And rain falling in this like place right in front of where the Vanisher is. This sudden expulsion of water and cloud just. Takes over the area. It's definitely flummoxed like the surrounding like soldiers. But you can still see the unfeeling like face of the Vanisher like the glint of the mask behind. The water. I'll say it's definitely scrambled everyone else.

As you as you as you cast that a hands wrapped around your waist and you are pushed pulled all the way forward. Hmm. Hillogen. The the tip of your nose touches as you squeeze past the closing gate. It touches the end of the door. And as the moment you pass you hear the large gate shut. Estelar reaches behind him. He helps him. You help him as you pull out the bolt. You see it on the tip of the bolt. A blooming purple substance. I know the poison because I cast the poison earlier.

It's purple war poison. Estelar grabs how quickly this is act. Enough time for me to get you away. Follow me. I'm going to follow. I'm going to say that. What kind of environment is this. It is a forest environment definitely something you're used to. Yeah. I don't know if I'm going to have the time but Hillogen is going to be well following. He's going to be spending his time technically would need to be an hour. I don't think I'm going to have enough time for that but I'm still going to do it.

I'm going to and I can do two different actions while scouting or moving. So he's going to be healing selves is going to just basically be looking and tracking on any particular herbs or things that he knows he can find in this forest to potentially build healing something healing against this. As you're navigating the force I need you to give me a nature check for that. Or survival check survival check actually. I guess this is happening. You know that we cut to the others.

28 Daphne you hear that you're welcome. Do I see anything because I was I keep my eye on Daphne. Maybe like that if that can react to that. Like what I know visible. She taps or on the shoulder. What not to alarm you. Someone attempted to poison Hillogen. I can tell because my patron cashed in his boon against poison that I asked for attempted is the key word. Correct. He's supposed to have a boon against poison. Well done Daphne. We keep moving.

She's in as much of a hurry as she can be knowing that they have there's still the time constraint no matter what's happening. Miguel's goes. We're gonna have to be careful coming up here. We're starting to get near the town. Safe houses near so. It's a good place. You guys wanted to do all your stuff in the town. So I got you hooked up for a place nearby and you see Kenway. Leap off of your leap off and start flying into the air fiercely flapping his wings zooming towards direction.

Do I know that he knows where he'll do this. We always have this mystical bond with each other. Or like body naturally starts to move. And then she stops. What what Oh God. What do we need to do first. Is that an open ended question that's an open ended question that is Emma asking what do we need to do first. Probably get out the safe house right get get to the safe house or get Hildren. Hildren. I feel I would vote Hildren to. Yeah well I mean we need to know where we're taking him though.

She's gonna quickly sign to Miguel. How far is the safe house. Just give it where. And we got a map. For fuck's sake. She points in the bird direction goes is he in the bird's direction. Is it in the bird's direction. No it's not. God damn it. I have a map. I have maps. He circles the place on your map. He just goes it's a dingy looking it's a dingy looking place. Worst building there. Can't miss it. This location. Thank you. And then she looks to the others points to Kenway and go let's move.

Should we send them a message. Is Roland with us. Yes. Before she leaves she signs to Roland. Tell him we're on our way. We're coming to get him. And if you can provide the court. Wait no we have the map. They don't have the map right. We have. Roland's with us. I have a map with the with the safe house. Aren't we splitting though. Aren't we splitting. I mean Roland can look at it real quick and send a message. Yeah. Yeah. I'll say give him the coordinates. That's it. Don't use an initial sign.

Do not use my voice. Hey Ocean. Here is scared voice. As you're looking for things you were 28 you're you're picking for plants purple warm poisons another beast completely but you're not entirely sure if this would help. I will say. But but particularly strong anti toxin plants you're looking for any sign of them. That's when you hear a voice in your head. This is. It's me rolling. We're here. If you can hear me. Go over here. Says he begins to he begins to read off like read off.

That's probably it's OK. He's only has what 25 words right. Yes. Probably he should use it for the rest of the description. Just where the safe house is. Be safe. I can respond correct. Yes you can. What was the name of the fort. Rhinol. The response is going to be. Escaped. Rhinol. Escaped right on dry no law. What's the name of the poison. The purple poison purple worm poison. Beware. Purple warm poison. Don't approach. Severe danger. Will. Find my way to you. The Rhinol. Two. Levels below.

Rhinol. Is it 25. 25 or 20. Couldn't. Get him. Would I know that he's still alive. What would I be able to gather that from. It's implied. Still alive. That's all related to you. Captain. She freezes when he says do not. Stop everyone holds up her hand because Hildren said do not approach. As in do not approach him right now. Right. Here. As you hold up your hand to stop and you still see you still do see Kenway in the air. I'm going to ask for you. Hildren. You see. Estelar.

Suddenly collapses to his knees. As a. As a trickle of blood. Falls down his. Fast falls on his face. Coming out of his. Eyes. He coughs. A big splatter of blood. As he. I go to him. Helgen has been looking and foraging blood. He knows. He knows that it's whatever he can find is not going to be. There's not going to be enough time. To keep going. Hildren. Just in case anybody would be following. And. Helps him. It down. He does. He does. He does. He does. He does. He does. He does. He does.

His face is pale. The veins on his plates are purple. Extruding from his face. Blood on his mouth. He holds his face. And. He. Just gestures for him and says. Look up old friend. Look. So he can look at the trees. Look at where we are. You could tell what the rest of his strength he's doing as you say. The whites of his eyes reddened. As he looks up. Towards the trees. You're home. You're back home. And with the last of his strength. He smiles. It's okay. It's. It's beautiful as I remember it.

Remember me. Brother. Always. This head leans back. Hill did. Just stares at him. And he allows himself a brief moment. He grabs his head and links his forehead to his. And kisses his forehead. Until we meet beyond the veil old friend. Thank you. For saving me. And he. Leans him back. So his head continues to look at that free sky. He places his hand on the tree that he's leaning. And if permitted, I'm going to use druid craft. To make the flowers of our homeland blossom and engulf his body.

And I'm going to give him a burial. So he will not be detected and his body will not be taken. He just becomes one. With the forest. A few days ago. You spoke. You can Jasper. He said. If we fight. We fight. If we die. We die. What matters most. Is that we did it while we're free. And perhaps even in this moment. In this quiet part. Of some stranger woods. That was once. Their homeland. He had finally broken out. The prison he's long been in. And in this moment. He's free. As you stand up.

Looking at the twine of flowers and. The I'm going to do it. As you hear. A fucking eagle. I can do it. And as you look up towards the sky. And everyone else sees this, too. You see Kenway in the same place. in the air towards you, Hilsin. I will say that as soon as I feel that connection and I hear Kenway and I can sense where they're coming from, I have Kenway actually divert so he doesn't keep going in my direction, but rather. In the middle of you giving command for him to divert, you hear.

Do I? A projectile spirals through the air. Not the bird. And the next thing you see is Kenway falling free, falling through the air. No, no, no! Do we see this? You all see this. No! We're going. Oh yeah, we're fucking going! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that hand is dead! Fuck, no, no. As you see in the distance, Kenway collapse free falling through the treetops. You hear more whistling. What's wrong with you? And another whistle, a set of whistles from another place.

With my connection to Kenway, is Kenway dead? No. Hurt. And is my, can I cast invisibility with that? Can I cast invisibility with that cloak right now or no? It has a recharge and a long rest. One moment. I'm sorry. Piljan has a feeling as if his own chest has been pierced. As he sees Kenway fall, and he's immediately rushing Kenway's direction. He still has detect poison and all this stuff and his awareness around him.

But ideally he's just trying to get to Kenway and potentially just grab them on the way. He would have taken the second dagger, the dagger that pierced Estelar. So he would have two daggers at the moment. And yeah, he would be moving through the woods. Yeah. Okay. You begin maneuvering through the woods, trying to get to Kenway. Everyone else, you're doing the same thing.

As you get there, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, due to your guys' situation, you guys were closer in proximity, you get there first. Captain Aura, you see that Kenway is currently like writhing on the ground, an arrow stuck deep inside his chest and he's in an opening. He's in the middle of an open area. I sign someone give me cover now and then I'm out and I'm sprinting to the bird. Aura. I'll run next to Aura being covered. I'll run next to Aura too. On the other side.

I look around for signs of danger. Give me a perception check. Okay. I have to look around where the bolts are coming from. Albert, do a thing. Oh yeah, I have run around. Albert, do a thing. 22. 22. The advantage is it's going to be like Humphrey though. Would scent apply here? No, I'm afraid. I don't think so. Smells like poison. I'm sure there's like eight different things that I need to add to that, so give me a sec. The net too. Or an 11, slash maybe more.

His passive perception is 21 though, I'll tell you that. So, OXMETH, sense for secrets. Sense for secrets. I don't think, I just have expertise with it. Nothing special I think. Yeah, you have a couple expertise days. Just saying like how many. I think just one before. There's definitely at least two. Oh. So, just to be clear, Jane and Zechariah are going with Cap'n Aura. Yep. Daphne and Humphrey are behind.

And I think I'm faster than Aura, so I'm going to like be running in front of her to be like a mountain. I'm also faster than her, so. Everyone's faster than me. I will move depending on what I see potentially, but she's surveying first. Daphne, you, as you kind of like, as you kind of like put yourself in your surrounding, you see a movement in the, you see a movement in the trees. As you see, blending in with the background somehow, a vanisher.

A masked man who aims, who aims the wrist directly towards Humphrey. And I cast darkness over the vanisher so that they can't see. Yes. All of a sudden, everyone sees this pitch black sphere just, just like encompass this part of the, encompass a part of the woods. And we know that's Daphne, right? Yeah. I think you were familiar with that play. The second vanisher, whom was, whom was, whom was hidden. I'm sorry. Just coming to the trees. Let's see, who do I pick? Oh gosh.

Jane, please give me a wisdom saving throw. Is she frozen? She is frozen. She looks frozen. Oh, damn it. Yeah, she's frozen. That's how you get out guys. Let's chuck those anti-toxins guys. I'll do it. Um, yeah, it's like, give me a wisdom saving throw. A wisdom saving throw. Is this a charm fatigue, frightened, paralyzed, or stunned? And is it a magical effect or spell? It is, it is a magical effect. Yes. But it is none of those conditions? It's none of those conditions. Got it.

Okay. Just change us how many expertise die add. Level up 5E everyone guys. Level up. It's amazing. Um, how bad would a net one be at this point? No, no, no, no. We all have inspiration. We all have inspiration. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I have. Hold on. I think I have a feature. Hold on. Hold on. When I am. Hold on. When an ally fails an ability check or saving throw, you can use a reaction to make them reroll. Don't use your inspiration. On it. Okay. Rerolling.

Okay. This is a wisdom saving throw, right? I love how I'm like, girl, she's grieving. Stop. Remember the eternal smile? Remember that session? I'm going to add Intrepid to it. Oh, I can only use it once. Okay, that's fine. That's worth it. 17. I think it's worth it. Son of a bitch. No. I'm sorry. It fails. I'm sorry. It's an 18 DC. No, no, no. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Come on. There's going to be something else. Is I added Intrepid and you're sure it's none of those effects, right? It's none.

It's a magical effect, but it's not a condition. What is it? And Zachariah, didn't you equip the luck stone? You know, the one we had. I don't have the luck stone. I do have the ring of mind shielding on. Okay. Okay. I don't know. I don't know if that applies here. Well, it does a lot of stuff, though. It might. It might. It might. See what happens and then we can talk about it. Um, did I equip any other things? Oh, I have a lantern to revealing, technically. You do.

I should probably light that. I'm going to light that. We're going to resolve this saving throw real quick. Oh, wait, I can use indomitable. I can reroll the saving throw. Okay. We roll it. Come on, man. Come on. Okay. That goes back to a natural one. So, okay. Everyone sees, um, you see walking out of the of the woods, another person with a mask, you see mist, a like a mist, a white smoke, like, like falling from the mask. Uh, and you hear a familiar voice.

Hello, Captain. Hello, Zachariah. Fucking Nellie. It's Nellie. This bitch! Because all of a sudden she's gone and Zachariah is gone as well. No! Can I sign bitch again? If Zach vanishes or a scream that it's not a scared one, it is rage. Um, Zachariah, you are all of a sudden brought into another plane. Um, you are inside of a, you are, it's, it's the same place, but everything is covered in a, like a thick mist. Um, it is, it is black and white and it is, it is, it is gloomy.

It's um, and it feels so incredibly empty here. Is anyone else in here? Did Nellie come in with me? Yes. Ah, yeah. Let's go, bitch. One v one. We could get some revenge features here at least. Didn't, didn't when this happened to Iri, didn't the Vanisher still, was, they were still on the material plane and that's why he had to flee when people showed up after that happened to me? Yes. Nellie's gone? But Nellie is gone. How did, ugh, whatever.

Uh, so you see Zachariah's gone, Zachariah you need to roll initiative. Ayyy, ayy boy. Alright, how far am I? You're getting, you're getting, just give us like one more round. Yeah, you were before the other people. I know, I know. Um, 13. Alright, with alert, I get plus five, so 30. Nat 20. Fuck off. Oh. It's for fun. He's immune to poison. At least. And I don't think she knows that. I don't know if he knows that. So it's all good. He goes, he just goes, you're always my favorite on the ship.

It's a shame. I usually am, to most people, yeah, that's true. Uh, bonus action, aim, actions, she's going to fire a bolt at you. Go ahead. Fuck her up, Zach. 28 and a, 21, so 28. 28, uh, 28, yeah, I mean that hits, yeah. She strikes, okay, one second. This is the damage, there's no poison damage. So you take 11 points of piercing damage plus sneak attack. 22 points of sneak attack damage. This is the most damage you've taken. So far. Oof. Alright.

Um, as this crossbow spirals and it just clutches through your shoulder, you feel your memories start to become shaky. Alright, she just goes, it's your turn. Alright, um, I will charge forward at her and I am going to close the gap and I want to do, um, I'm gonna spend one exertion point to activate perplexing flurry. So I'm going to make two attacks at her. And she's gonna have disadvantage on all attacks against me until the start of my next turn.

Okay. So hopefully that means no more sneak attack, because you can't get advantage. Yeah, that's really good. Uh, that is going to be, she's not part of my vendetta now or anything, right? Um. Can she? Can she? She's part of ours. Uh, 20? Hits. Hits. Perfect. Alright, so, and this is a maneuver. I see no problem with fucking her up. So this is going to be plus two to the damage. This game was so much lighter a few sessions ago.

Also she's being a dick up, like if she'd been like, I'm sorry, but now you're fault, we're killing you. We're like, we're eight years out of ten. We are hanging your body from the raptors. She's been there more than double the time I have. Twelve damage. Okay. Twelve damage. And then 25 to hit. Twenty five to hit. Uh, ooh, nice. Uh, uh, sixteen damage. Sixteen point to the, oh, goodness. Stop it. I know. Uh, and then. That was my action. I will bonus action. I don't know what she's got.

I'm just going to spend one point, uh, to do heighten reflexes to get myself an extra reaction. So now I have two reactions. Got it. All right. And she has disadvantage on you from now on, right? Has disadvantage until the start of my next turn. So you're the next turn. Holy. And I'm in her grill. All right. That fucked her up. Holy shit. Good. Oh, gosh. Run away, Nellie.

Go. So heading heading quick to the heading quick into the other under the material plane, Zachariah has just been gone, just disappeared. Oh, wait. She needs to make a concentration check for the plane. A two because two to two hits. She has to beat a. She has to beat a ten each time. No, keep her. Keep her here. Dang it. Keep her here. I want a one be one her. All right. She succeeds. So she's keeping you there. That's that. That's good. OK. Um, everyone's Zachariah is gone.

Hillogen, you are approaching the area. You see the sphere, a sudden unnatural darkness just hanging in the air. What are you doing? Um, oh, wait. Sorry. I didn't say what are you doing? And you see Captain Aura. You hear the angry screech. As I'm approaching with my detect poison, I'm potentially keeping awareness of any vanishing that may be around. And what I basically want to do is that as I am approaching the area, I want to see, I want to spot where Aura is.

I want to spot what the location of the vanishing in the area are. I just basically want to do that sort of like scout out as I'm approaching, which I am allowed to do with my two abilities just to see where they are and what may be the first thing that I'll do. So basically he's just running as he's approaching. He's just sort of trying to clock everything that he can to make the decision as to which direction he's going to go first.

Captain Aura is there, and he's going to take an active perception check to find out what a vanisher is. It's going to take an action. But you can see what everyone else is. You see Kenway. Everyone else, I'm maneuvering towards him. You know Daphne has a tactic of putting an enemy into darkness because she can see in the magical darkness. So you might be able to draw an assumption from that.

Yeah. And again, if my detect poison is still up, technically speaking, any poison that a vanisher would have would allow me to know the location of it. So even if I don't, my detect poison basically pinpoints for me all the poison around me in 30 feet. There is one moving away from the sphere at the moment, moving out of the darkness, positioning itself in the trees. So, um, Hildren is going to curve through the trees, sensing the poison, the one moving away from the shadow.

And he's just going to attempt to flank to then, he's just going to keep that distance, trying to see if he spots them, potentially trying to aim or clock any of the other members of the guard. And so for that moment to take that opportunity and just rush to them with the two daggers. Give me a stealth check. Normal. Even, even, even, even, you're supposed to roll disadvantage, but I'm going to have you roll normally for this one. 17. All right.

Currently focused on, currently focused on everyone else. You begin to make your way up towards the, you begin to make way up the tree. I would say that Humphrey and Daphne, since you guys are keeping an eye out, you do see a very injured, a very haggard looking Hildren. Definitely climbing a tree. Hildren, as you're making your way up, you're getting closer to where you're pinpointing the poison. It's really hard to see, but the person has taken a place on top of the trees.

And is currently taking aim at Aura. How far is this fucker from me? You are right. You're right there. I am, Hildren is going to attempt to approach, he's going to approach from behind with both daggers and it's just going to bring them down. All right. Back row with advantage please. So that will be a total of 28. All right. 28 most definitely hits. Says piercing damage six. I don't know if my daggers are still poisoned. Plus two also to the damage. All right. So eight points of damage.

He's going to make a con save. Wait your dex is a 20? Yes. That should be seven damage then because it's only adding plus four. Should ask plus five. Oh, I see. So yes. The arrow of my ways. So as you stab him with the poisoned dagger, I'm going to say the poison is not worn off now after three, more than three uses. It's worn off? Yeah. The poison's worn off with your dagger. Okay. I'm going to, do I have two attacks per round? I don't know. I believe you do. You have an extra attack.

Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and proceed since I have the two daggers and I am able to wield two weapons. It gives me also a plus one AC bonus. That's a 16. Is that, that's what a normal dagger? Actually, it's 18. Yeah. That just hits. Good. So I fixed the damage suppose. So it would be a total of 10 points of damage. How are they looking? With that poison, you see what happened to your friend. It begins to happen to them blood trickling down the, it's so much faster.

It's so much faster acting than your fortitude in this friend. Immediately, those two daggers sinking in, they use a reaction to tumble. What happens is it disengages and they move 10 feet away. As the two daggers sink in, you hear this loud, they seem bad already as they drop down from the tree. I attempt to drop on them. That's going to use your movement. Go ahead and give me an acrobatics check. It is going to have a disadvantage because of your fatigue.

Okay. 14. 14. He does roll out of your way, but you, as you land, land in the bush. I landed still within five feet of him, correct? Yes. Considering that it's still my turn because I was still attacking, I'm going to go ahead and spend one of my exertions to do rapid strike, which allows me to do an additional attack to a creature that I have hit. Okay, absolutely. Go ahead. Fuck. It's an 11. Everyone hears the... 13. Everyone hears the deflection of a blade in the trees.

And it's not what we're hitting. You see Hylgen. Fighting dagger to dagger with the vanisher. Upon seeing that, I think Humphrey's normally stoic visage drops and gets that grin that is very akin to his art and just nods at the nice dagger work. And if I can, I'll try to hide somewhere behind a tree and see if I can... They can't be surprised, but I don't know that. I still try to hide behind a tree. Bonus action hide.

And if I get a good feeling that I'm hidden, I'll try to throw my dagger at the one that is engaging Hylgen at the moment. The returning one. Yeah, go ahead. Make an attack roll. Elberg, if you would be okay. I don't know why I just jumped in. Finish. Attack roll, you said? You want to do a rapid strike? Or are you using one of your... Oh, a stealth first? First stealth, and then a throwing dagger. Stealth with advantage because of the cloak. Alright, let's go ahead and roll again.

25. And then he needs to add, I believe, he adds his wisdom to that, so plus 3. And then he adds 2 expertise dice. He's gone, okay. 34. Son of a bitch. And as soon as I feel like I'm properly hidden, I'll throw a dagger at the one that's... If it's within 30 feet, which is I think the range of a throwing dagger, I'll try to hit the guy that is fighting Hylgen at the moment. Alright. Can't be... Cannot be surprised, but it is a sneak attack because it's fighting next to Hylgen. So that hits.

9 piercing damage. Go ahead and roll a sneak attack. Should be 5d6, I believe. Or level 9. 5d6, yes. 21. Goodness gracious. 30 total. 30 total. Oh no, no, no. Wait a second. That's not in the script. Humphrey, how do you want to do this? How do you want to do this? Yay, Kael! Let's go! Let's go! That's not in the script. That's not in the script. Like, nodding at seeing how Hylgen, normally he doesn't really fight with daggers, just does it like so masterfully.

He kind of slides behind a tree and then waits for the right moment where like Hylgen like parries the attack of his opponent and creates an opening and then right at the throat just sinks in.

This fanciful dagger play, two daggers deflecting off of each other, all of a sudden, Hylgen, you're tired and as this opening is about to, you see this avenger is about to take the revenge of an opening, a smoothly thrown dagger glides right into the throat of this vanisher who clutches his throat and falls to the ground. You will see that Hylgen is on John Wick mode right now. Like he doesn't look to see where the dagger came from. He's not making any comments or marks or any awareness.

As soon as that dagger gets this guy in the throat, the first thing that Hylgen does, he starts disarming them from the throwing the dart thing and so he can put it on himself and take all the ammunition that he has on the thing. Anything that he can take from this person, armor, covering, anything that he can use, he's going to fucking take it. It crouched just like with incredible speed and just keeping an eye on everything.

Okay. Plus, we'll do this later actually because it's not it's not going right now, but I'll tell you later. Plus two more starts though. Nice. Rest of my movement, I'd like to just get close to Aura as well. With my perception check before, did I see any other vanquisher besides the one, oh, I'm not sure if I saw him, the one in the darkness and another one that Hylgen was engaged with? The one that Hylgen was engaged with was the one. It was one of them.

Okay. Yes. So now the only other one is the one we're going to have to deal with face to face. Okay. Then I'll still move up a little bit closer to Aura. So I'm within 30 feet. And just to be sure Tim, within 30 feet, there is, there are no, I don't detect any of the other ones. There are no other ones. Vanisher poison. I mean, as soon as that happens, I think the most likely Hylgen would just move to Kenway. Okay. I also catch my dagger again. Sorry. I'm sorry.

I was moving towards the vanisher originally because I was going to attack it in the darkness, but it's dead. So I go to Hylgen because I have a bow in the bag of holding. Is this a free round? Because if it is, Aura trusts her crew enough that she is going to stand in the spot where Nellie vanished, taking Zach and ready a pistol up so that it will shoot her underneath her chin through her face. You touched my kid! All right. Let's go.

So just to catch you up Kendra, Zachariah is completely gone, transported to another plane. Just one of you wanting a vanisher at the moment. He's being a jerk about it too. Yeah, Nellie's a dick Kendra. Let's make this very clear. There's no redemption. Let's just be fair. Let's be honest though. She still has good taste. I am still the favorite. You know, I'm going to kill you. Okay. Fight. It's many have tried. It's my turn now. It's Nellie's turn, not me. Fuck you Nellie. Fuck you Nellie.

She pulls at a dagger, rolls it around her hand and she's going to aim and hit actually her... One second here. I forgot that they could do that, which would have helped them, but don't worry about it. They're supposed to attack when they roll initiative, but that's okay. She got cocky. You wanted to use it to shit on Zach. Does a 19 hit? It would, but I am going to use one of my reactions to parry it with my rapier. All right. Give it a roll.

I just added D4 to my armor class, which makes my armor class 22, so it's a miss. I will use parry and thrust to immediately make an attack roll against her because of that. All right. Go ahead. 14. All right. She's going to use her reaction. The other thing I wanted to do is I would also like to use my take weapon maneuver because she missed me with an attack with my other reaction. That's right. You want a 14, right? That's the attack roll of parry and thrust.

They both happen when an attack misses. Can you read to me what take weapon does? Yes. Take weapon. Where are we? You snatch your enemy's weapon and use it against them. When a creature misses you and a melee weapon attack against you using a weapon, you can use your reaction to flip it out of the creature's hands. The creature must make a dexterity saving throw, and on a failure, it drops the weapon and you grab it from midair. All right. I'm going to take a save. All right. Take a save.

15. My DC is 19. The dagger flies out of me. I will immediately spend two exertion points to grab the dagger with my free hand and stab her with that dagger. All right. It's a plus two dagger. A is a plus 11. Fuck you, Nellie. 17 to hit. 17? Yes. I'm sorry. All right. 100. That's all right. I will use a point of panache to not have to spend that exertion point. I'll do that. Okay. To spend one less exertion point, rather. This annoys her. This annoys her. It's her turn, by the way.

Not Zax. You did miss. I feel like, let me clarify this. I did, but I have her dagger.

missed so let's see she's going to use her reaction to spend two points of exertion I need you to make a dexterity saving throw dexterity saving throw you got this is this any particular condition or anything like that um it's you could be knocked prone to be knocked prone okay that's the belt you have that just makes my strength higher right yeah dexterity saving through am I not proficient index no I'm not okay that's a plus five that's gonna be 17 do I have

any think it's a 17 17 mm-hmm yeah I think that's a 17 well congratulations you just beat the DC as you try to send with our dagger she attempts to take you by the wrist and toss you over her shoulder but you land on your feet as you as you're just thrown over I just like butt bumper from behind doesn't like that oh great it's your turn yeah what the fuck baby perfecting attack as I'm just going to try and like continue trying to knock

her off balance as I attack her does this dagger I look at it briefly because I've done like undercover shit or underworld shit does this look like it's still poisoned I'm at the moment no okay okay tagging with the rapier then 24 to hit the hits back in the dust that's a six plus two plus six is 14 concentration check that's right these attacks are non-lethal by the way I because I'm completely just messing with her because I would like for the

captain to be able to do what she wants with her okay no it's okay you do what you gotta do now I want to knock her out so that way we can I don't know beat her the fuck up immediately she gets knocked out and then or is 23 23 to hit 20 certainly hits that's gonna be four plus six plus two is 12 can you stop fucking soloing my my this is my scary my scary people no concentrate Nellie yeah concentrate Nellie don't concentrate Nellie

okay and I'm going to spend an exertion point to the bonus action to give myself another reaction so I've to read this is what Albert's been waiting for you're not supposed to solo you're not supposed to solo my vision who do you think you are yeah so I have a dagger I have thing is the sack with the with the chest hair okay that's what he is do I see yeah I have no armor on as well does do I see does she have any other like weapons on her yeah she has to she has the stuff on

her wrist a wrist mounted okay well she shot things out of gotcha gotcha but she has no more melee weapons about that yeah she's a bitch okay okay I'm sorry you know very strong choice no it's no it's fine it's fine it's fine no I know it's just I get this with Jenny all the time it's just it's just new all around yeah it's a cacophony of bitches just it's she if it just been like random I think it would be fine but she's been

with us eight years so mm-hmm personal by the way Nellie I always liked Armando more than you she's frustrated right now stop panning stop answering you're supposed to be scared everyone was so scared earlier okay she just looks at you up and down she goes working and she she flicks her wrist and you see a blade shoots out oh she oh she's figuring out um and she's going to go ahead and lovely she's gonna aim okay she's gonna try to and she's gonna try to strike

you I thought these are overpowered I thought like man these these maneuvers I'm gonna get this guy and then I guess it's always happens 20 I will I will parry that's a plus four to my AC which makes me a 23 AC I will this one doesn't look like I can remove it from her right yeah it's like yeah okay that's her wrist I will parry and thrust still then does a 22 hit I have most only heads this is not a maneuver so it doesn't have the extra plus two so it's gonna be eight damage all right

as she's pleased I smack it away and then I want to just like just when I like kind of like uppercut her with my elbow I would say as you as you smack it a smack it away slicing her arm and you up cut her with the elbow just as it strikes you see like behind them like it actually strikes her mask and you see as it kind of like goes loose she falls to the ground and she starts shaking she goes yeah can I insight this yeah all right I also have I have it stealing

mean you are eternally alert and aware ready for trouble you advantage on insight checks me to determine hostile intent or predict violence advantage then so this is violence you're trying to determine violence yeah okay that's a 13 on the die plus five that makes it an 18 think that's everything yeah wait Marshall Lord she is an expertise die on intelligence checks nevermind no so 18 I believe is he too yeah there is this shakiness to her there's this very like

like her complexion has been completely broken it's like she's suddenly changed oh no oh no oh no and Captain or where you're waiting you see the ground now she's on the ground you see that you see the missed plane of fall Zachariah as you are my standing when Nellie was no you're a bit away you're a bit away I will still point my rape you're like down at her but I'm not I was I was playing with her anyway I wasn't trying to kill Captain R as you're pointing the

gun up all of a sudden you everyone looks to see the vanisher like on the ground shaking tears coming down the chin she's underneath me now she's back she's underneath Zachariah it's in another place completely she wasn't standing in the same place she was before okay it's kind of like rape your on like you know under chin what did I do hey Humphrey you can't get a second eye on this this this girl yeah I'll be I'll be there and I'm I just make my way make my way over there

Elgin is on kill Jen is on Kenway can we seize you but um hurt but not dying he's been through worse okay he's going to attempt to you know clear the arrow as he just tends to Kenway all right you you're not allowed to die on me today yeah yeah yeah Humphrey's about to do something I believe I know I denounced Nellie I know um yeah as I pro I also want to cost um um Albert if you would go to my spells I have the thing where I get advantage on my next attack for eight

hours so even if I'm if I can't sneak from them just in case even if something with wind even if you fail this inside I can get the info and spend an inspiration okay I'll try hmm why not I'll make my yeah I'll just do that so I have advantage on the next attack in eight hours I make my way over to there and I'll be like so the turncoat hum what happened Zach she looks at him hands we played around a little bit it's fine I think she needs some weapons

training though I'm I'm going to approach to Sena Taff and hand and she's on the ground right yeah I'm you don't from go ahead I will thrust the sword directly next to her head that's three weapons just really don't even think about lying do you remember anything you did in the last few days I remember everything but I've been stuck like it can't control my own body yes I would like to if I can since since Zack already made one I would like to make a

an insight check as well with spot tell so I get an expertise on it if it's a deception check I'm not sure well I can't I can't know beforehand I guess okay so what are you doing running insight for me inside yeah and it's against detecting lies I have specialty as well and you have proficient with it and expertise if because of spot tell okay absolutely I would do the thing do the thing and if it fails Tim I'll use inspiration to

pass okay I think she I just think she's lying I think I think there's no point in me rolling I think Daphne's evidence makes her think she's lying that's a 13 that is a fail I would like to use inspiration I can use my reaction to spend my inspiration and learn any information that would have been gained by a successful insight check this is called a nose for trouble it's one of my inspiration features you has it too you automatically succeed automatically

succeed thing you'll Jim has it too all right so I guess I don't have to whisper anyone no she's really good at lying aura is going to walk up to her and shoot her in the fucking head and before she does she'll hear in her head you will never touch my kids again as we're doing that she was at the ready we are everyone's ready to strike for this one attack I need everyone ready to strike to roll initiative with the power of friendship you guys get an expertise die

because it's a class thing of mine what does that mean 15 is the number to beat actually get creatures and commanding presence gain expertise dies to initiative also when I roll for initiative I can switch my result with that of an ally I also I'm going to say that I get plus five of my initiative and I got trained since since the reason Daphne's at the ready is because she has reasoned out that she's lying because there was no magic aura can I reason

out using intelligence for my initiative not yes okay if not okay well what does the expertise die do you had a you had a d6 right Oh D for D6 D for yeah if it's one expertise as before if it's two okay a million weapons pointed at her so I wouldn't have been pointing my weapon at her I would have been scanning the area 20 23 for me total 23 22 as that's being here no Jane you're the one as everyone else's as Nellie's being okay no one's ever been as handled as much in history

as Jane as you hear the sound of gunfire and blades just going off you see in the distance coming out of the woodworks walking out another vanisher while everyone else is distracted and I go to attack them you attack them yeah all right making a roll make a roll and we all chug our edge toxins the end I'm gonna rage to just as I don't know what why we're also worried she was easy not 20 yeah okay oh and and because it's a not 20 I haven't been able to do this

yet wait okay I have um what is it called I have this thing where furious critical okay let's see are you gonna do a battle born to double all this to yes okay for real because yeah yeah yeah yeah one shot it one shot it yeah that's what I'm looking for Tim's NPCs right now okay okay so the damage you have a furious critical it's 14 I'm gonna invoke elemental wrath so my fury is so great that it insights the very elements to join you let's see I can additional

1d6 but I'm a what level are we or 9 9 okay so just 1d6 extra but then I'm gonna double all of that okay okay so 6 to me what about okay to you deaf hold on so that's 20 total so it'd be 40 okay 40 points of damage and then yeah and then I can still do a combat maneuver I believe and then since that hit I can take the attack action and so I can take an extra attack let's resolve the first attack first okay so 40 points of damage yeah okay is there a fucking everyone

else as you attack as Nellie is crushed I don't need everyone's assault no roles needed she was about to strike at the captain she just goes idiot and she she points the she puts her wrist at you and you as you strike her down Jane you see this vanisher just walk out into the open and as you lurch forward and you strike down with all of your might a large gash just opening up this individual no the person immediately just collapses no don't fucking do not

tell me that's who I think it is that envisage wears off definitely you here in your head he was unharmed not to me though and the visage wears off and bleeding on the ground is a young man oh shit did I see that did we all so I kind of do something let me be clear I'm pretty good he didn't attack how much damage was that it was 40 damage yeah Darryl has 21 hit points so he's alive he's alive if you wrote my point of damage we grew up on the streets okay he has he has one hit another fighter no

he's he's definitely unconscious if you wrote one point of damage he would have died instantly yeah I have a portion in the chat two hours ago I was gonna be like she's gonna disguise him as a vanisher that's what I was gonna say in the chat two hours ago I didn't attack Timmy can I can I do something um my turn yeah everyone's acting freely right now um you definitely said potion right yeah immediate reaction but soon as Delphine was in her head she was like

this you know and she would have known yeah and to be fair I don't know what he looks like so I would probably be in the middle of like I'm waiting for somebody to stop me I even know what's going on you guys see you guys see everything going on yeah so Daphne and Zach have to say something because the other we don't know what he looks like I am there I am yeah that's what I'm doing yeah 20 hit points from a greater healing potion this look like he just got

carved um we'll scar it'll be hot he's sorry Zach as he lays there's one you and you put the the potion side they put the potion kind of like putting on his throat he's he's barely conscious his eyes open just a bit is close complete orn but but then he just his eyes closed he's breathing he's alive Hilden is still going to be watching all of this while on a in one knee holding Kenway and keeping his per se perception of both hearing and farsight on alert

there is movement in the woods but then you see Clarence and his other folks sorry that was mean Clarence Brooke Rowland the Cobolds make their way forward Clarence is bursting through the woods what happened Zachariah and like doesn't fully know what just happened Hilden Hilden is also a little hazed from Hilden is going to stand up and just say to the group we need to move we need to move now there is many more in the fort we need to go and that's when everyone hears in the

distance come on let's go come on follow us I assumed it was a whistle yeah it was whistle yeah sorry I wish I can whistle I run to Darrell probably like push Jane out of the way and just scoop up and take off hmm all right quick question when when the patron whispers into Daphne's ear do I also hear that in her head because I'm part of the deal do I also hear that oh no in my head it's just her okay yes okay as you scoop up Darrell and

everyone begins to make tracks running away from the source of the noise following Clarence in the group you begin to all make your trek through the woods fiercely pounding fiercely pounding your feet and it gets to and it gets and it gets to a point of running and escaping and hearing hearing after after a few moments of you escaping the the scene leaving Nellie and the other vanisher behind there's a loud piercing whistle one you've heard before

illusion and it echoes through the place to multiple sources passed down hills and you actually know this call I mean you used it before it means man down and what that means is the whistles traveling through multiple vanishers now know that now know that some have been slain yeah so it's really good you left because you heard like five of those loud piercing whistles being carried through yeah yeah I mean he he's aware of that but he's just he'd

be rushing and everyone just making sure that nobody even hesitates if anybody were to like hesitate of slowing down he would just not let it hmm I would say that bursting through the trees and everyone moving as fast as they can everything finally comes to a slow at the very height of your almost breaching fatigue everyone stops Clarence stops definitely because he's really out of breath as you can see the as you can see the afros Harbor the the hint of

afros Harbor ahead of you a large lighthouse sitting on the on the edge of a cliffside currently like jutting up through the horizon the the signs of civilization you've ran far and I'll go ahead and tell everyone you know just for guarantee just so folks just just just so folks feel it like you guys are safe at the moment hmm hello as you see civilization ahead of you um but still parked in the woods cup Nora illusions here she's not looked at him the entire time and she will not

continue to look at him because if she does she will start crying and she can not afford to be emotional right now hmm he'll do this in a similar old place where like he's not he has Kenway in his arms and he's not going to like sort of like steam down until they're in a safe place yeah they're both like yeah yeah it's their wedding day they can't look at each other and look at the bride before the execution Zachariah navigating finding your way on a map and navigating through the

woods you eventually find you eventually find yourself at a it's an outer parts of the town more there's a slum to like this very small slum area and as this place is like a has like cattle like it has cows and sheep and such it stinks but no one's gonna look for anyone here you see a farmhouse which is where it's located on the map it's very decrepit old rundown and before you could question if this is the place the barn door opens you see Miguelos pop his head out and

just like ushering you guys in okay that's straight in yeah I'll sign to him we've got a man down we don't have much medical stuff in here but maybe it'll help he he moves a tarp opens up this trap door and you are as you move into this really old and it stinks in here I can't describe how much it stinks as you move down the as you move past this trap door down these stone steps you move into a very rectangular solid room with a table barrels of stuff maps different

equipment assorted a different way of equipment nothing too special nothing better than you guys have and as everyone moves in he closes the trap door I rushed straight to the table and I just sweep everything off and put Darrell on it he's breathing the blood has stopped the potion helped a great deal Hildren is going to probably find a corner somewhere where he can place Kenway and tend to them as best as he can to see if he needs to whatever tools are

available to see if he needs to like close a wound or any healing that he can get to Kenway he will okay you see as everything is spread out and people are frantically searching you see Roland just kind of like unfurl his loot he just goes all right all right all right he starts he plucked his strings a couple of times and he he makes his way up towards towards Darrell and he just he he plucks the string a few times you see this green like ethereal energy can like

form around his hand from around his hand as the music notes start swirling around his head and he just places a hand on his forehead that's in cure wounds keeping up a very persistent detect magic especially now that Darrell's here mm-hmm because of Brian no Brando will retaliate if he knows you sense a scry she don't she looks at it mm-hmm floating orb darkness she says quiet everyone or just shrugs are you Roland go fuck yourself he starts singing

casting a healing word on also casting healing word on Kenway as the wound begins to close up and restructure itself and the arrow fault the arrows pulled out of the wound um Hill's in would have held for the removal Darrell's eyes flash open he blinks a few times looking to you immediately Zack are waiting darkness just over those those would true sight see through magical darkness to me it would I think he might have true sight it would then we can physically block it

instead can't see through something physically she's gonna block it with anything she can find a good little barrels around it yeah we we and we all see the magic darkness so we get what Daphne is doing too yeah it's almost as if like annoyance but as soon as you start putting barrels around it as soon as you're about to put another one that the the scry is like gone yeah it's like it's gone with the it's gone with the urgency of like okay fuck you then yeah

good it's he knows what he needs to know he's with us I'm just laying down and I hug him you wraps his arms she thinks his arm slowly around you and behind your neck I guess I'm right no no you're gonna you're gonna be fine you're gonna live I've never stopped thinking about you you know you I mean I have something but you not not me and as the two embrace that is where we're going to put whoa yeah I don't know if you're gonna end the session but while all of that

was happening or would have liked to go over to Jane and gently indicated her to lean down yeah you see Jane she's kind of like standing in the corner like her hands are gripped onto the sword that almost killed Darryl and it's just her face is just painted in rage but if you come over she'll like take a deep breath then lean down and you feel these small tiny arms go around your neck and in your head you'll hear you did nothing wrong sweetheart it's okay it's okay

and gentle stoking on your hair Jane will bury her face into your shoulder as much as you can and you'll feel like a little bit of dampness that she just tries to pull herself together she'll hold you as long as you need that's it thank you does anyone else in this moment I think I'll save it for the start of the next round I think the next session I think Darryl I got a story to tell you I love stories that is where we're going to end today's session of Black Knight's Gallery

that was only one session in an era one we're not out of an era yet I know that was one yeah we could skip my um my Eric like I just I prepared a playlist it's called questions I think we all agree that Nellie she is a little bitch yeah also Jenny great call cuz we were all like and you were like nah I know she didn't even bloody me didn't even get me down to half it helps to that at least she's like she's like when would someone have cast a spell on you like what the

other Vanisher I would have sensed it so she's just like no no no I have never I have never had such a heart race my heart rate today that's been all over the place all over the place I mean amazing Tim you did amazing that was that was phenomenal but my god this session is going down in history for me can I just say that you're like the scariest villain I've ever encountered that and you're really good music choices have really just turned me into

an alcoholic so I think starting next session I'll already be drinking players that's what JT does yeah we're gonna see Kendra with like one of those hats with the alcohol here just a couple of straws hey we got we got house Creston and house Castel that's gonna be really fun now y'all by next week I'll I'll have my PC again or something similar I'll have I'll be back to like a proper camera I will hear the music and I will have my proper mic again and

it will be here but I'm sorry that my deal almost led to two people's backstories characters dying one well yeah well one was almost and one was yeah but Hillshins alive it would have been really bad if he got purple room poison I mean those roles came in clutch in the beginning they did that that whole story could have gone so different great like the dice gods just just my god I was like we're gonna have to play without Victor I was like we're gonna

have to play the last two times without Victor because Hilton's gonna die I was I was ready I was he would have just been Kenway it's fine yeah I would have been just because I was I was ready give me Armando give me your best rolling scares me because Timmy's just like he's like this is hard but I just have to trust that you guys will figure it out and it'll work and it always has worked he's never had a player character die except for kind of mine but like it's

always worked out and so one day not though like the original counter had four finishers yeah I wonder I wonder what would have happened thanks thank you for your internet going out because I'm I wonder how the fight would have gone of Jane versus Nellie yeah I targeted Jay and then you know when I was like okay I guess I go for Zachariah Jane not being immune to poison though and then potentially that could be real bad yeah honestly I was like hoping she

wouldn't save out because I was like I'm the best one to one v1 her right now it keeps her from attacking other people but if I died this session then I wouldn't have to deal with the emotional trauma that I'm sure is coming so you know did I win so here's the thing you would still have to deal with it because you just had to deal with with everyone else's emotional trauma and they're not your character you know you weren't there and yeah you had to deal with

Hildrean and his shenanigans yeah I don't know what you're talking about my whole thing has been ponies rainbows unicorns and the like the whole time you'll just have to play your brother if Jane dies when I jack no when I bring you that into existence no all right everyone next week we continue an era your Lord thank you all so much for watching I hate this place see you next time you can't have shit in there right bye