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00:00:00Hello, one and all, welcome back to another thrilling episode of Dimension 20, Dungeons
00:00:11and Drag Queens.
00:00:13I'm your humble Dungeon Master, Branly Mog, and with me, as always, are our questing queens.
00:00:17Say hi, questing queens.
00:00:18Hi, questing queens.
00:00:21Last we left off.
00:00:24It's beautiful.
00:00:29I shouldn't wonder that we're all exclaiming and making noise because we are in the depths
00:00:33of the Underworld right now.
00:00:36Last we left off, our four heroes, each for reasons of their own, some secret and some
00:00:40shared, had traveled down the Gallows Road after having met, before the adventure even
00:00:45began in the city of Darktide, where you all came together and realized that it was safer
00:00:49to travel to the Underworld together than separately.
00:00:52We went to the village of Greeley, where you began to see some strange conspirings.
00:00:58Villains were approaching the entrance of the Underworld as well.
00:01:01Rumors of a merfolk, possibly your cousin, Kena, of Everdeep.
00:01:05We had the smell of cedar on the breeze, a strange smell not smelled since the massacre
00:01:11of the Foehammer family so long ago.
00:01:15Rumors of a witch hunter that had driven Gertrude from her lakeside home and in a burst
00:01:23of mist after you defeated a disguised undead, the face of Zaria Hex, the blood queen and
00:01:29architect of the downfall of Titania and the fairy realms.
00:01:34Many eyes gazed on the entrance to the Underworld and many feet tramped their way to that fabled
00:01:42realm.
00:01:43You swiftly ascended the mountainside, got to Gargrim, the guardian of the gate to the
00:01:47Underworld and descended into the lands beyond.
00:01:52You journeyed to the River of Sorrow.
00:01:54We summoned a dead whale.
00:01:56We quickly dispatched a small army of the undead that sought to make their way to the
00:02:02lands of the living once more.
00:02:04We also remember that we could have just walked across the-
00:02:07We don't talk about that.
00:02:08I turned into a puddle.
00:02:10Turned into a puddle.
00:02:11I did.
00:02:12Very well.
00:02:13We also met your Uncle Kerwin.
00:02:14Yeah.
00:02:15The spirit of the long lost Duke Kerwin Foehammer of the Foehammer family.
00:02:19Kerwin suggested, because you were one soul short, as Troyenne must deliver a certain
00:02:24amount of souls, for what she believed was the cause of keeping Everdeep safe from dark
00:02:30forces at work within the deep sea.
00:02:32I had really thought.
00:02:33You really thought.
00:02:34And that is what you had been told by none other than your mother, the queen, Nira of
00:02:38Everdeep.
00:02:39Nira.
00:02:41You-
00:02:42No.
00:02:43Nira, I just met her.
00:02:48You journeyed to the long shadow, Bazaar, outside of the Archive of Forgotten Things.
00:02:52Oh, God.
00:02:53Not the Bazaar.
00:02:54The Bazaar to meet Nyarith, the jackal-headed demon.
00:02:57You got Bazaar, too.
00:03:01Successfully managed to steal a soul for a short time before some towering Jannari demon
00:03:05snatched it once again out of your hand.
00:03:09Easy come, easy go.
00:03:11You ended up showing up a little bit short on your quota to the Inn of the Empty Glass,
00:03:15where Demia, your old vampire friend, agreed to sell you sort of a temporary soul that
00:03:23can fool some of the servants of the Goddess of Death, but probably not the goddess herself.
00:03:28The princess kindly offered up some of her own blood.
00:03:32You got your soul.
00:03:33Gertrude made a wonderful tea that sort of revivified everybody.
00:03:37And you talked to Shalila, the sort of half-masked servant of Thanara, Goddess of Death in the
00:03:44Underworld.
00:03:45Shalila agreed to take the soul, but not before spilling the beans that it seemed that Nira
00:03:51of Everdeep wasn't protecting her people.
00:03:55She was selling souls to live forever.
00:03:58And some quick spellcasting from Gertrude saw that your father had been in that role
00:04:03before you and paid a heavy price to free the souls that he had brought to the Goddess
00:04:09of the Underworld.
00:04:11The four of you, your Uncle Kerwin, now face an endless waste, crimson storm clouds and
00:04:19red lightning, and far off distance, the Tower of Tombs, the realm and lair of the Goddess
00:04:25Thanara herself.
00:04:27Shalila and her entourage march out into the wasteland, and for your plan to work, you
00:04:33need to get there before they do, because that soul there is not a worthy one, that
00:04:38is the seventh soul in her amulet.
00:04:41What could await you in the Tower of Tombs?
00:04:44Miracles?
00:04:45The ability for things lost, family, and realms to come back once more?
00:04:52Answers about a long-lost father and secrets kept within a family?
00:04:57Or even answers concerning the gift of magic and immortality itself?
00:05:02All of this awaits as you delve finally to the very heart of the Underworld.
00:05:08We return.
00:05:09That was a big ol' recap, I just, you know.
00:05:10Yeah, no, it was amazing.
00:05:11Yeah, you nailed it.
00:05:12It was great.
00:05:13Previously on.
00:05:14Anyways, it's funny.
00:05:15So, all of you look out and see these sort of crimson storm clouds.
00:05:20You can see Shalila and her four guardians kind of moving towards a lonesome road that
00:05:26moves through the wasteland.
00:05:28The question I put before you now is, do you try to follow the same road Shalila is?
00:05:34Which is, of course, she's probably taking the fastest road to the Tower of Tombs, but
00:05:38she's not particularly in a hurry.
00:05:40So, the question remains, how will you want to try and beat her to the Tower?
00:05:46Well, we have lied to her.
00:05:48We've been lying a lot, my goodness.
00:05:49We did lie to her until we were going back upstairs, so she's probably not expecting
00:05:53us.
00:05:54She doesn't seem angry or anything.
00:05:56She seems pretty chill.
00:05:57She doesn't seem suspicious of anything, but maybe we should just be walking right behind
00:06:01her.
00:06:02Who is Shalila?
00:06:03She's the one that told us about my dad.
00:06:05You remember when we said four and he said a hundred?
00:06:07We're talking to her.
00:06:08Okay, okay.
00:06:09Well, okay, okay.
00:06:10Yeah, now I get it.
00:06:11She is expecting an invitation to board game night momentarily.
00:06:14At our palatial mansion, where we can seat 400 people.
00:06:18Yeah.
00:06:19Intimate.
00:06:20I'm excited.
00:06:22How do we get there faster than her?
00:06:23I mean, can we fly?
00:06:24It seems like she's not moving fast.
00:06:27We can go another route, just hoof it.
00:06:29Do we ever split up?
00:06:30Is that a thing?
00:06:31Is that dumb?
00:06:32I don't know.
00:06:33I don't think we should split up.
00:06:34This is not a scary movie.
00:06:35We're not doing that.
00:06:36Yeah, we're staying together, babes.
00:06:37I mean, you'd be the one that survived until the end, right?
00:06:41Yeah, which is why she's like, she's like, it's in you three's best interest to stay
00:06:46together.
00:06:47She's not wrong.
00:06:48Did you hear that?
00:06:49She's not wrong.
00:06:50Princess has been coming through Hercules and shit, okay, just breaking backs.
00:06:54And I think Twyla's escaped death all the time.
00:06:57And we are confused as to how.
00:06:59She probably can't die.
00:07:02You're immortal too?
00:07:03Probably.
00:07:04You don't know?
00:07:05She's assuming at this point.
00:07:06Twyla doesn't know a thing.
00:07:07She's definitely lucky.
00:07:08I'll say that.
00:07:09What if we beat up Shanita and we take-
00:07:14Who's Shanita?
00:07:15Oh, Shalila.
00:07:16That's her landlord.
00:07:17She's supposed to go settle a debt for her.
00:07:18She goes, what if we leave here and beat up Shanita, and then come back here and play
00:07:22What if we beat up Shalila and take her metal guys and use her, and use them?
00:07:31Okay, so you're-
00:07:32How do we do that?
00:07:33Or befriend her.
00:07:34Why do we want to fight Shalila?
00:07:35Shalila has been, she helped us.
00:07:37She told us stuff.
00:07:38I know.
00:07:39Shalila's not-
00:07:40But she told us stuff because she's kind of an idiot.
00:07:41I don't want to beat the shit out of Shanita.
00:07:42Don't you think?
00:07:43You're the one who brought it up.
00:07:44Do you think it slipped?
00:07:45I know.
00:07:46It's just, I'm floating ideas here.
00:07:47Okay.
00:07:48We're spitballing.
00:07:50I think we can, I'm an assassin.
00:07:52I'm very good at tracking people.
00:07:53Are you a lip sync assassin?
00:07:56I'm a lipstick assassin.
00:08:00I am really good at tracking people.
00:08:03I think we can just follow behind Shalila, because if we get there before her, what are
00:08:08we going to do?
00:08:09Wait for her.
00:08:10No, there's the other soul.
00:08:12What's the other soul?
00:08:13Another worthy soul.
00:08:14Because you know that Kena, you feel like Kena stole your kill, essentially, right?
00:08:18Yes.
00:08:19We lost that worthy soul we had was the one that got taken back from the guards, nevermind.
00:08:23Yeah, so you know that there's another soul in town that's worthy, but that demon has it.
00:08:27And your cousin Kena, you believe, stole the soul that you were supposed to get, as we
00:08:31know, famed producer, Monk Ronson.
00:08:33Yeah, absolutely.
00:08:34Part of me feels like, okay, this is crazy, but the Jackal guy, I mean, if this was a
00:08:39movie, he's such a great character.
00:08:40I would love to revisit him.
00:08:41I do, I would too.
00:08:42I kind of want to go back and like-
00:08:44So hey.
00:08:45Let's fight over the magic pie.
00:08:48Yeah, I kind of want to go back and be like, I know how this looks.
00:08:55I'm scared, but I like it.
00:08:58I mean, I'm not mad at going back to him.
00:09:00But you have to talk about it.
00:09:01So this time, I think the answer is this time we just got to be real.
00:09:04We got to just give this man what he wants.
00:09:06We cannot trick him again.
00:09:07We got to just give him what he wants.
00:09:09What if he asks if we're lying?
00:09:11Do I lie?
00:09:12Memories.
00:09:13Who's going to want souls?
00:09:14We'll say we lied.
00:09:15We'll say we lied.
00:09:16We found out some new stuff.
00:09:17She's an assassin.
00:09:18She's been doing this job.
00:09:19Also, are you going to-
00:09:20I'm going to sound like this the whole time.
00:09:21So we're going to be like, so we found a lot of stuff.
00:09:23We acted out of fear.
00:09:25We were afraid that her entire community, village, would be destroyed if we didn't get
00:09:29this one soul.
00:09:30Now we know it's not the truth.
00:09:31It's Monica City.
00:09:32We have over two million people.
00:09:33We're not in a village.
00:09:34It's in Metropolis.
00:09:35Tell me if this is crazy.
00:09:36I apologize.
00:09:37I mean, it's not Atlantis, but go ahead.
00:09:39Tell me if this is crazy.
00:09:40So one of my-
00:09:41It's kind of like the suburbs of Atlantis.
00:09:44So you know how one of my spells is to disguise, right?
00:09:47And it says, use magic to change your appearance.
00:09:49Is there a world where Twilight changes her appearance to look like the person, like Thanara,
00:09:55and to grab-
00:09:56Oh, no.
00:09:57Okay, we can't go so high.
00:09:58Yeah, why would Thanara be in town?
00:09:59They'd be like, what are you doing here?
00:10:00But Miss Thing is going to Thanara to give her the souls, right?
00:10:03My thing is, Shalila.
00:10:04Be Shalila.
00:10:05My thing is, what if we don't trick him?
00:10:07What if we just go in and we just give him something?
00:10:10Oh, I'm trying to trick Shalila.
00:10:12What if we-
00:10:13Because Shalila's bringing the souls back to Thanara.
00:10:15And I'm like, if she thinks that I'm Thanara, then she's like, here you go, Thanara.
00:10:18I'm like, thank you, sis.
00:10:19But what if she's like, why are you-
00:10:20Also, Thanara is massive, isn't she?
00:10:22She's huge.
00:10:23Like 18 feet tall.
00:10:24She's 18 feet tall.
00:10:25She can disguise.
00:10:26Go to Thanara dressed as Shanita.
00:10:27Maybe I can change myself into an airplane if I want to.
00:10:29That is true.
00:10:30I'm Twilight.
00:10:31No, but we don't have anything to give to Thanara.
00:10:32So I think, to your point, you describe yourself as Thanara.
00:10:35Right.
00:10:36And then she gives it to me.
00:10:37And she gives it to you.
00:10:38But what do we get from Shalila?
00:10:39Shalila doesn't have the worthy soul either.
00:10:41She does.
00:10:42No, we don't need that.
00:10:43Because Shalila doesn't have the worthy soul.
00:10:44Shalila has a bag full of souls and one unworthy.
00:10:46Time out.
00:10:47If we know-
00:10:48Why do I care to give her the worthy souls now?
00:10:50Because knowing what this is about now.
00:10:52Knowing what this is about now, you may well have decided that you don't want to hand those souls over.
00:10:57But the question is, given all the stuff that you do want from Thanara,
00:11:02you don't know how reasonable this goddess is.
00:11:04So I think there are questions for you about what your reception-
00:11:08It's very like, what's the wizard gonna think when we get to the Emerald City, right?
00:11:12What's Thanara gonna think of us when we actually get to the Tower of Tombs?
00:11:15So, it's true that you no longer care to uphold the deal your mother struck.
00:11:20But you do know that the goddess of the underworld is expecting seven souls.
00:11:24You could reasonably decide, I'm not interested in pursuing that deal.
00:11:27Or you could reasonably decide it might be worth it anyway.
00:11:29It also seems to know that if she doesn't get the seven souls, she probably won't be cool about it.
00:11:32And also, I think that I have never met Thanara.
00:11:34So I think what we're trying to do is-
00:11:35Okay, okay.
00:11:36Let's go.
00:11:37Disguise Thanara.
00:11:38Shalila gives it to us.
00:11:39And then you-
00:11:40I know what she looks like.
00:11:41I can describe her.
00:11:42Because I saw her in the memory, so I can describe her.
00:11:43Okay, yeah.
00:11:44Describe it.
00:11:45And then Shalila-
00:11:46So that way, we all have a chance to talk to Thanara.
00:11:48Be like, here are the things you want.
00:11:49We're all here.
00:11:50Can you answer our four wishes, basically?
00:11:52Well, okay.
00:11:53So I want to reassess what we're all doing here.
00:11:57Because I have not been completely honest with all of you about why I'm in the underworld.
00:12:03Is this out loud, or is this through the brain?
00:12:05I'm talking to you all out loud.
00:12:06Okay, great.
00:12:07You're all in a safe place.
00:12:08You're towards the edge of hollow grave in a safe place.
00:12:11You know, there is a curse on me where I can't die.
00:12:16But it's not fear.
00:12:17It's not immortality.
00:12:18It's not like, girl-
00:12:19It's not invincibility.
00:12:21It's just immortality.
00:12:22So it's kind of a curse, right?
00:12:24So when I came down here, I was hoping to just come down here and not leave, have my soul taken.
00:12:28Now I want to live my life.
00:12:30I've just got a new perspective.
00:12:31So I want to live my life.
00:12:33And I want to have a natural death.
00:12:35A natural death like everyone else is granted.
00:12:37But it doesn't have to be here and now anymore.
00:12:40So my perspective has changed as to why I'm down here.
00:12:43So I do want to go down to Tanara.
00:12:46I do not know if this woman is reasonable at all.
00:12:49But I do want to go and just kind of plead my case.
00:12:52She seems to be able to bargain.
00:12:54I watched her bargain.
00:12:55Like, she offered your father a chance to give his soul.
00:12:59She didn't take it.
00:13:00He gave it.
00:13:01Yeah.
00:13:02So she's not beyond reason.
00:13:04You know what I mean?
00:13:05I don't know if you're going to atone in the way that your father atoned.
00:13:08Because you've been doing this for a while.
00:13:10So I don't know.
00:13:11How do you feel about your journey here now?
00:13:13You know, I think that Tanara has – there is a lot of – I think she can grant me grace
00:13:18knowing why I have been doing this.
00:13:20And like you said, she seems reasonable.
00:13:22And I think talking to her and meeting her face-to-face, she will be able to remedy a lot of what's going on.
00:13:27She acts quick.
00:13:28Like, once your dad was like, I'll give my soul, she didn't even hear his next words.
00:13:32Boom.
00:13:33Eat it.
00:13:34Done.
00:13:35He just obliterated.
00:13:36It was kind of bananas.
00:13:37And Tanara probably, with all her soul power, she has the power to restore both of your family.
00:13:40She does.
00:13:41She does.
00:13:42And I think that's why Twyla's going down there.
00:13:43Because the only being that could restore the dead to life is her.
00:13:49But before you bring the dead back to life, I just want to say, life is a gift.
00:13:53But it's not everything.
00:13:55You know what I mean?
00:13:56So like, if you restore them back, to what end?
00:13:58Like, do they have unfinished business?
00:14:00Maybe they're at peace.
00:14:02Maybe there's some shop that need people to work in.
00:14:04They were taken away before their time.
00:14:07Yeah.
00:14:08And is there any chance that you're bringing them back without a consult?
00:14:11I mean, we should ask your uncle.
00:14:13Does he want to be part of that?
00:14:14We'll do a show of hands from the soul.
00:14:16Or a show of bones.
00:14:17Yeah, Kerwin looks and says,
00:14:19Well, if you remember when you met me, I was desperately trying to swim across the River of Sorrow.
00:14:24Yeah, it seems pretty common.
00:14:25They all want to swim out.
00:14:26Yeah, it's pretty common.
00:14:27Touche.
00:14:29You see, Kerwin also says,
00:14:31Listen, is there some world where there would be rest or peace after life?
00:14:36I would more than happily consider it.
00:14:38I don't know if you've taken a look around.
00:14:40You see, look at this howling purple wasteland.
00:14:42Right.
00:14:43It's like, I would describe the conditions of the afterlife as suboptimal.
00:14:48Yeah, it's no Everdeep.
00:14:50It's apparently the New York City of the ocean.
00:14:52Yes, it is.
00:14:54Greatest city in the underworld.
00:14:56Okay, so are we all on one accord?
00:15:03Squyla, can you describe to Squyla the Chicken Transformer?
00:15:06Or do we want to go see Thanos?
00:15:08Nyroth.
00:15:09Nyroth.
00:15:10Okay, oddly enough, Nyroth scares me a little more than Thanar.
00:15:13Who is that?
00:15:14The Jekyll-headed guy.
00:15:15Jekyll face.
00:15:16Yes.
00:15:17I'm so sorry.
00:15:19Listen, I know there are people watching right now.
00:15:22And they're like, What are these names?
00:15:24And Jujubee's there.
00:15:25Well, the audience has the benefit.
00:15:26They're going to see big art come up on screen every time.
00:15:29So we don't have the benefit of that.
00:15:31Okay.
00:15:32So how do we get there?
00:15:34Is the question.
00:15:35Should we just trail behind?
00:15:36Yeah.
00:15:37When I say we can, we can like.
00:15:38Trail behind.
00:15:39Conceal ourselves with a spell and trail behind her.
00:15:42We don't have to trail behind because we're going to walk right up to her.
00:15:44We're walking right up to her and saying, Hey, it's me, Thanar.
00:15:46I was going out for.
00:15:48We need to cut her off, though.
00:15:49I was stepping out.
00:15:50We need to cut her off so she thinks.
00:15:51We need to get to the castle before her.
00:15:53Do we have a reason why we're not on the throne?
00:15:56Yeah, that's a little fishy.
00:15:58You're like, What is she doing here?
00:16:00If Joe Biden knocked on your door, wouldn't you be like.
00:16:04If it was Joe Biden, no.
00:16:06I'd be like, wrong door, honey.
00:16:08What are you doing here?
00:16:09I kind of expected you in the Oval Office.
00:16:11Not.
00:16:12I was just delivering some classified documents.
00:16:14It seems.
00:16:15It seems.
00:16:16Y'all don't really think Thanar would leave the throne just to go for a walk.
00:16:19I don't know her.
00:16:20No.
00:16:21Maybe she's been locked up for seven days.
00:16:23She's getting over a cold and she's get 30 minutes a day to walk around.
00:16:27There's a small chance we could ask the.
00:16:29Okay.
00:16:30We could ask the Jekyll head guy for help.
00:16:34He's very powerful.
00:16:35What's his name?
00:16:36Nyreth.
00:16:37Nyreth.
00:16:38I don't know if Nyreth travels well.
00:16:40He's old.
00:16:41Why would he bring him with us?
00:16:43Because he's powerful.
00:16:44And he probably.
00:16:45No.
00:16:46He seems to bargain.
00:16:47He's very good at bargaining.
00:16:48I might say no.
00:16:50He has a business to run.
00:16:52So y'all want to go to.
00:16:53Or maybe we could ask him if he can give us something.
00:16:55I think we're all going to die.
00:16:56Maybe he has something that can help us.
00:16:58We're going to appeal to his sensibilities.
00:16:59And we're going to apologize.
00:17:00We're going to atone.
00:17:01Our options are pretend to be Thanara or go back to Nyreth.
00:17:06Which one seems.
00:17:07They're both very.
00:17:08I think.
00:17:09They're crazy.
00:17:10They're both.
00:17:11They're both very dangerous.
00:17:12We could definitely take Shalila.
00:17:13I don't know that we can convince her.
00:17:14I don't know if we can.
00:17:15I don't know that we can convince her that like, oh, yeah, I'm just out for a walk.
00:17:19Yeah, that does seem a little hard to do.
00:17:21Well, Twyla could start a rumor.
00:17:23About what?
00:17:24About.
00:17:25I don't know.
00:17:26Get people to fight.
00:17:27Then we can go take some souls.
00:17:28Well, souls.
00:17:29There are only souls up there, though.
00:17:30Oh, we're still downstairs.
00:17:31Unless you're going.
00:17:32You see Kerwin looks and says.
00:17:33It's true that all of the plans you're talking about seem very dangerous and reckless.
00:17:38But it's possible that down here there are no plans that won't involve some level of risk.
00:17:43Yeah, we got to.
00:17:44We got to risk.
00:17:45Okay.
00:17:46I think this is.
00:17:47Let's have a vote.
00:17:48My thought is this.
00:17:49We've dabbled in a lot of dishonesty.
00:17:51And it might be time to get honest and go talk to this jackal headed guy.
00:17:58Okay.
00:17:59And then run to.
00:18:00We're wasting time.
00:18:01He's all the way on the other side.
00:18:02We are.
00:18:03We are losing.
00:18:04We are losing time.
00:18:05Again, Shalila is not in a rush.
00:18:06She's leisurely pacing.
00:18:07If you look over, you can see that the bazaar is not far from here.
00:18:10If you want.
00:18:11If the goal.
00:18:12If the goal is to be honest.
00:18:13Then.
00:18:14All right.
00:18:15I vote.
00:18:16Yes.
00:18:17Jackal face.
00:18:18I'm going to vote against myself.
00:18:19I vote bazaar too.
00:18:20Okay.
00:18:21All right.
00:18:22We're going to go talk to.
00:18:23I think that's a good idea.
00:18:24Okay.
00:18:25Incredible.
00:18:26So you go to the long shadow of bazaar.
00:18:27You see there it is.
00:18:28The small shop with the golden embossment on the glass window pane of the door, Nyarith's
00:18:32Curios.
00:18:33And you.
00:18:34Do you all walk in?
00:18:35She goes first.
00:18:36Well, I.
00:18:37Okay.
00:18:38So I slowly open the door.
00:18:39So you see.
00:18:40Hey.
00:18:41Sitting on a.
00:18:42On a tall stool.
00:18:43Looking at.
00:18:44On a tall stool with one of those big like crane arm magnifying glasses.
00:18:48Looking at like a tiny little clock that he's fixing.
00:18:49This jackal headed dude looks up.
00:18:52Welcome to Nyarith.
00:18:53Unreal.
00:18:54Okay.
00:18:55And Gertrude goes.
00:18:56Before you do.
00:18:57Don't.
00:18:58Before you do anything.
00:18:59I'm going to level with you.
00:19:00This time I am being fully honest.
00:19:02And she decides to.
00:19:03Can I.
00:19:04Can I.
00:19:05Can I.
00:19:06Can I let him hear my.
00:19:07Thoughts.
00:19:08Can I be.
00:19:09Do honesty on myself.
00:19:10Can you.
00:19:11Do you want to like cast detect thoughts to broadcast your thoughts to him?
00:19:13Yes.
00:19:14So he knows I'm not lying.
00:19:15Incredible.
00:19:16So he knows I'm not lying.
00:19:17So I.
00:19:18I.
00:19:19I.
00:19:20I cast detect on myself.
00:19:21And give it.
00:19:22So he can hear what I'm thinking.
00:19:23Come on.
00:19:24So he knows I'm not lying.
00:19:25And I go.
00:19:26Now listen.
00:19:27You know.
00:19:28I got.
00:19:29This is a.
00:19:30All my cards are on the table.
00:19:31So can.
00:19:32Can I just let my friends come in here?
00:19:33Okay.
00:19:34So this is incredible.
00:19:35I'm going to say.
00:19:36With this degree.
00:19:37Of.
00:19:38Openness.
00:19:39I'm going to allow you to roll a persuasion check.
00:19:40And you can roll it with advantage because there is no way for him to not know that you're
00:19:43being honest.
00:19:44Yeah.
00:19:46So I'm going to say.
00:19:47Again with advantage.
00:19:48I'll say.
00:19:49If you were able to get a 15.
00:19:50He will hear you.
00:19:51Out.
00:19:52If you were able to get a 25.
00:19:54That will be like.
00:19:55He's blown away.
00:19:56My persuasion is an 8.
00:19:57So let's go.
00:19:58An 8.
00:19:59That's a 13.
00:20:0013 plus 8 is 21.
00:20:0121.
00:20:02Okay.
00:20:03Roll again.
00:20:04If you hit a 17 or higher.
00:20:05It's.
00:20:06So.
00:20:07That's an.
00:20:08That's already a success.
00:20:09Let's see what your second roll is.
00:20:1020.
00:20:1120.
00:20:12Oh my god.
00:20:13Yes baby.
00:20:14Yes.
00:20:15I got a 20.
00:20:16First.
00:20:17That's 20.
00:20:18What a roll to do it on.
00:20:19Okay.
00:20:20This is going to be good for us.
00:20:21This is going to be good.
00:20:22So you.
00:20:23Oh my god.
00:20:24So this unbelievable bit of magic.
00:20:27This is also.
00:20:28I feel like for Gertrude who spent her entire life as a hermit.
00:20:31Concealed.
00:20:32Hidden away.
00:20:33Not trusting the world.
00:20:34You completely open your mind.
00:20:37Vulnerable.
00:20:38Vulnerable.
00:20:39Oh Gertie.
00:20:40I'm getting vulnerable.
00:20:41I'm getting vulnerable.
00:20:42To a demon.
00:20:43You see.
00:20:44You see.
00:20:45So folks.
00:20:46All of you that are in the doorway as well.
00:20:47Look up and just see a man who.
00:20:48Let's be clear.
00:20:49You robbed.
00:20:50Three hours ago.
00:20:51Look up and go.
00:20:52I go.
00:20:53And I go.
00:20:54Okay.
00:20:55Listen.
00:20:56I know.
00:20:57I know how this looks.
00:20:58But I'm going to cast this spell.
00:20:59On myself.
00:21:00So that you know that I'm telling the truth.
00:21:01You can hear my thoughts.
00:21:02Can I let my friends come in.
00:21:03So we can atone.
00:21:04By all means.
00:21:05See them into it.
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00:27:00you have of deep magical significance,
00:27:04knowing already how deeply you value your memories.
00:27:08Play cards.
00:27:09Again, I gotta be clear,
00:27:10not gonna give anything magic for a deck of cards.
00:27:12That's, I'd hold myself to something of a higher standard.
00:27:17That's right.
00:27:18They're rare cards.
00:27:20The important thing is this,
00:27:21there is something you possess,
00:27:24and it is something that I think
00:27:25you deeply want to be rid of,
00:27:28but it is quite valuable to me.
00:27:33You have a curse on you.
00:27:35Oh my gosh, I do.
00:27:39So you go through a drawer,
00:27:40and you see he takes an empty vial
00:27:43of a deep green bottle glass
00:27:46that you see has a sigil on the bottom of it.
00:27:48There's like a rune inscribed.
00:27:50No, that curse was not put on you by me,
00:27:53and I do not have the strength to remove it.
00:27:58But if removed,
00:28:00should you carry this bottle on your person,
00:28:04if that curse were to be lifted,
00:28:07the bottle would suck it up
00:28:10and return once more to me.
00:28:14The carpet is yours if you agree to carry this bottle.
00:28:18And we can keep the carpet?
00:28:19The carpet is yours forever.
00:28:21Out of good faith,
00:28:22he's gonna trust that you're gonna do this.
00:28:24I'm just, I don't even want this thing.
00:28:25You see, he looks and says,
00:28:28you have shown incredible courage
00:28:31in revealing your inner heart to me.
00:28:34Most would not do such a thing to a demon.
00:28:36And though I am not the most benevolent actor,
00:28:40I am an honest businessman.
00:28:43So the carpet is yours
00:28:45if you simply agree to carry the bottle on your person,
00:28:49always.
00:28:50If you never manage to have your curse lifted,
00:28:53then you have the minor inconvenience
00:28:55of needing to always travel with a small green bottle.
00:28:58But if the curse is lifted,
00:29:00it enters the vial there and returns to me,
00:29:04and the curse becomes mine to do with as I wish.
00:29:07Oh.
00:29:08So Gertrude kinda like looks around.
00:29:11Everyone's looking at Gertrude,
00:29:12every, even the carpet.
00:29:13The carpet's like-
00:29:14The carpet's got a big eye on it.
00:29:15You see the eye, blinks.
00:29:16I was like, are you all right?
00:29:17So Gertrude slowly takes off her backpack
00:29:20and she lifts it open
00:29:21and she just holds it out to the demon
00:29:23to place the vial in and goes,
00:29:25my word is my bond.
00:29:27Pleasure doing business.
00:29:29And pops the vial in,
00:29:31and you see the carpet slinks towards the door
00:29:35and awaits outside.
00:29:38Work!
00:29:38Magic carpet ride!
00:29:40Right!
00:29:41You're amazing, thank you so much.
00:29:43We gotta run.
00:29:44Pleasure doing business.
00:29:45Always feel welcome at Nyarlath's Curios.
00:29:47Please don't rob me again.
00:29:49I promise, we go out.
00:29:51And we're outside, we're like, we're freaking out.
00:29:53This is amazing.
00:29:54That really worked out for us.
00:29:55Honestly, we gotta be honest.
00:29:57Yeah, we should have been honest in the beginning.
00:29:59We should have.
00:30:00But was it, but-
00:30:02But what?
00:30:02Do we trust the demon?
00:30:04Well, listen, I don't know what he's gonna do with this.
00:30:06He might take the curse and just put it right back on me
00:30:08and be like, ha ha ha.
00:30:09And we know that it's just your curse.
00:30:10It's like nothing else that goes in there.
00:30:12Which is your curse of immortality, right?
00:30:14Yes.
00:30:14And you don't want it anyway, so-
00:30:15You should just open the bottle and,
00:30:17oh no, it has to go to someone.
00:30:18I can't remove it myself, so we know who can.
00:30:20Who's gonna do that?
00:30:21Da'Nara.
00:30:22How do we?
00:30:23All we know is we're gonna try to get her to lift it.
00:30:25She'll think she's doing something fierce.
00:30:27Maybe we don't know what she's planning.
00:30:28Once she lifts it, it's gonna just zap back to the bazaar.
00:30:30And what he does with it is his business.
00:30:32She might be mad.
00:30:34So I think now that we have the magic carpet,
00:30:35we know we can beat Shalila there.
00:30:38I think we should give him the carpet
00:30:39and, okay, what's that plan?
00:30:41Are we gonna, we need to get the other souls
00:30:42from Shalila, though.
00:30:43Yeah, are we going to Da'Nara or Shalila?
00:30:45You're not delivering souls anymore.
00:30:47You were here to figure out what's going on.
00:30:49But why would we?
00:30:50We just got the extra souls.
00:30:52Well, we might need to bargain with her.
00:30:54We need to bring the souls
00:30:55because we need Da'Nara to help us.
00:30:57Yeah, so now we need to get to Shalila
00:31:00and fight her and these four guards
00:31:01and get that bag of souls.
00:31:02So it's five of them, four of us.
00:31:04We are rested.
00:31:05Yeah.
00:31:06Oh, you gotta look at me like that.
00:31:07Okay, we are all rested.
00:31:09Well rested.
00:31:11In hindsight, we should have asked the nine of us
00:31:13to give us some type of advantage.
00:31:14I think the advantage was Spi.
00:31:16I think he gave us what he had gained.
00:31:18So, and Kermit looks over and says,
00:31:21I forgot you're here, Kerwin.
00:31:22Sorry.
00:31:23I tried to let you all do your thing, you know.
00:31:26I don't wanna.
00:31:27Girl's night, right?
00:31:28Yeah, I'm along for the ride.
00:31:29I'm just honestly happy to be here.
00:31:30You see, he goes, depending on what you wish to do,
00:31:33we could either beat Shalila to the Tower of Tombs
00:31:36or intercept her on the road there.
00:31:38And if you wanted to try to swap the soul out,
00:31:41the worthy one you have, you could do that as well.
00:31:43It's up to you.
00:31:44I mean, you have the advantage either way.
00:31:45I think we-
00:31:46Oh, you like Shalila?
00:31:47Ooh, I gave you the wrong one.
00:31:47Ooh, can I get that bag again?
00:31:49I put my car keys in there.
00:31:52Okay, the honesty thing is that Shalila's not gonna
00:31:55give this bag of souls up, because that is her job.
00:31:56When he said, we're gonna have to fight Shalila.
00:31:58So what do we have?
00:31:59What do we have to fight?
00:32:00I have a fireball, I have a counter spell,
00:32:03I have a scorching ray, I have the thunder wave
00:32:05that can hit a lot of people at once.
00:32:07If we fight Shalila though, and we have to get physical
00:32:11when we get to Fennar for whatever reason,
00:32:13we will be not rested.
00:32:15We will not be well.
00:32:16We gotta sneak attack.
00:32:18What if we fight them?
00:32:18We will be tied, we have no place to rest.
00:32:21What if we befriend her and say, you know, join us?
00:32:26Is she friendly like that?
00:32:28You know her better than we do.
00:32:29It would be you to communicate with her, really.
00:32:31She was pretty nice with us before.
00:32:32She was not mean.
00:32:34So are we gonna reveal to her that we've,
00:32:36okay, too much honesty.
00:32:37Kerwin says, I know you're gonna hate me for saying this,
00:32:40but I am gonna say it.
00:32:41You could, there is a way you could butter her up,
00:32:43and you just really have to invite her
00:32:45to that board game night.
00:32:46Yeah!
00:32:48To the board game night.
00:32:49I tell you, we may have overestimated.
00:32:50Maybe not 400, but we can do at least one.
00:32:52We switch to Scrabble.
00:32:53No, we can just tell her that we already had 395.
00:32:56Well, she's gonna get there.
00:32:57If we switch to Scrabble.
00:32:59Yeah, we change of plans.
00:33:00Yeah, I don't think she's really set on the game.
00:33:02I think she just wants the companionship.
00:33:03Be included.
00:33:04Okay.
00:33:05I think she wants the camaraderie.
00:33:06What if she's like, well, I don't know how to spell.
00:33:08I never went to school.
00:33:09We have a lot of games.
00:33:10Okay, great.
00:33:11Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:33:12You know what?
00:33:13Uno, uno is good.
00:33:14Uno is really good.
00:33:15And you have your playing cards.
00:33:16And you have playing cards.
00:33:18Oh my God!
00:33:19Well, didn't I give one up?
00:33:20No, you didn't give anything up.
00:33:21Oh, thank you, Lord.
00:33:22We tried to rob him and almost died.
00:33:24Yeah.
00:33:25Okay, so let's get on the carpet.
00:33:26Let's get to Shalila.
00:33:27So we're gonna be friendly to her?
00:33:28We're not gonna like, we're not gonna like hit her?
00:33:30We can't afford to fight her.
00:33:30Why don't we stop by and be like, girl, you need a ride?
00:33:33Now, if she gets pissed off and attacks us,
00:33:35then we have to fight.
00:33:36If I say, let's not try to go at her.
00:33:37But then she'll get the first hit.
00:33:38We don't wanna sneak attack.
00:33:41She has four armor suits.
00:33:44Yeah, they're strong.
00:33:46She's not a bad person.
00:33:47I think the smartest thing is for Troyanne
00:33:49to start a conversation with her
00:33:50because there's a relationship.
00:33:51There's already a developed thing.
00:33:52Open and honest communication.
00:33:53I think so.
00:33:54And I just wanna quickly make sure
00:33:55I've taken off my detect spell
00:33:57so that no one around me has it.
00:33:58Yes, you're all good.
00:33:59Also, I'm gonna go back to 49
00:34:00because I am rested and healed.
00:34:01Yes, rested and healed.
00:34:02Everyone's back at their normal hit points.
00:34:04It's revealed that you're thinking, these dumb bitches.
00:34:06So, the four of you and your companion, Kerwin,
00:34:11alight onto this flying carpet.
00:34:14And.
00:34:15Vala begins singing a whole new world.
00:34:16But hole is spelled H-O-L-E.
00:34:18A whole new world.
00:34:21The carpet alights over Hollowgrave
00:34:24and you see the twisting sands
00:34:27and barren rocks of the underworld
00:34:28begin to race underneath you
00:34:30as ridges and mountains and different cliffs
00:34:33begin to peel away.
00:34:35It's almost the ground racing behind you
00:34:37as fast as possible.
00:34:39The wind whipping at your hair.
00:34:40You see red clouds and crimson lightning in the distance
00:34:45and the thrill of sudden flight.
00:34:47The strange feeling of the wind pushing you
00:34:49and yet, everywhere that your limbs,
00:34:51your feet, your hands touch the carpet,
00:34:53you feel soft fabric and feel completely safe
00:34:57and anchored to it,
00:34:57even as the wind races past you.
00:35:01As you travel, you see the road winding away.
00:35:04You've taken some amount of time to go to the bazaar,
00:35:06make this deal, and before long,
00:35:09it's basically, I mean, minutes
00:35:11before suddenly you see, ahead in the distance,
00:35:13Shalila and her entourage.
00:35:15So, what has taken her hours of travel,
00:35:17you in minutes have caught up on this flying carpet
00:35:20and do you descend and approach?
00:35:22I think it's on you.
00:35:23This is your friend, Troyanne.
00:35:25Okay, so the carpet goes up.
00:35:27Oh, it's good!
00:35:28Oh, we're in front of her?
00:35:29Or are we good?
00:35:30We just cut them off?
00:35:31Also, she sees we got a carpet?
00:35:32Yeah, okay.
00:35:33I mean, the carpet's loyal to me, I think.
00:35:35Okay.
00:35:36You pull up the carpet, sort of,
00:35:38there's no other, she's just back into a spot.
00:35:40Yeah, yeah.
00:35:41Hey, Shalila.
00:35:43My goodness!
00:35:44Very well, you've all arrived here
00:35:46and didn't know you had such a ride with you.
00:35:50That's incredible, where'd you get that?
00:35:51We just got it at the bazaar.
00:35:52Nyarith love him.
00:35:54Wow!
00:35:55It's a standard on 2019.
00:35:57Me and Nyarith, I know he's kind of grumpy,
00:35:58we kind of have a, we're cool.
00:36:00He likes me a lot.
00:36:02It is manual, though.
00:36:03I've never known Nyarith to like anybody.
00:36:05He certainly does not like me, so it's weird.
00:36:08Well, we wanted to talk to you
00:36:09because in lieu of what you told me about my mother
00:36:14and why I've been bringing souls here to the Underworld,
00:36:18we've done some thinking.
00:36:20We all have some requests of Tanara
00:36:22and we'd like to present her with the souls, not you.
00:36:29Well, now, at this point, I use the message
00:36:32to talk to Troyanna and go,
00:36:35I don't feel like this one we agreed to.
00:36:37This is, we're being honest.
00:36:39This isn't what we're doing.
00:36:40Okay, got it, okay.
00:36:41And then she sent it back and I said, okay, got it.
00:36:42You see Shalila looks at you and goes,
00:36:46you wish, you wish to present these souls
00:36:50to the goddess of death herself,
00:36:53my mistress, who I have long served.
00:36:56You foremore, you should not even be
00:36:59beyond the bounds of Hollowgrave.
00:37:02Journeying farther in here,
00:37:04the very winds themselves will drink your life force alive.
00:37:07Have you already had a night's sleep in the Underworld?
00:37:11And you know that you have not.
00:37:12You've only rested that one hour with the tea.
00:37:14Shalila, it's irrelevant.
00:37:18We respect your work as a hunter for the goddess.
00:37:22I thought we were being friendly.
00:37:24But we are all on a journey here as well.
00:37:27And we'd like to once again,
00:37:30kindly ask you to have the bag of souls
00:37:34to present to Thanara.
00:37:35Gertrude is, her eyes are beating from laughter.
00:37:38She is sweating profusely and afraid.
00:37:42She just keeps looking at Princess going.
00:37:46Twyla turns into a rock.
00:37:51Tran, please give me a persuasion check.
00:37:54Help.
00:37:56Big money, big money.
00:37:57No, we're gonna end the difficulty.
00:37:59A 15 means she will hear out some part
00:38:03of what you are saying.
00:38:04A 20 means that she'll work with you.
00:38:07And a 25 is like, perfect.
00:38:08Do I have any advantage?
00:38:10If anyone wants to give a help action, they can.
00:38:12Help, help, help, help.
00:38:13What do you say in order to help Troyann with?
00:38:16I look at Shalila and go, one moment, please.
00:38:18I pull Troyann to the side and I go, listen,
00:38:22I feel like we gotta be a little,
00:38:25we don't wanna upset this woman.
00:38:27The game night, what about the game night?
00:38:28Yeah, you can mention the game night to sweeten the deal.
00:38:31We can play Uno, we can play anything she wants to play.
00:38:34Tell her we have like 80 games.
00:38:35Yeah.
00:38:36Yeah, and turn back to Shalila.
00:38:40Do entreat with the goddess herself.
00:38:42She has not seen a living mortal since your father.
00:38:48Well, this makes me happy that we didn't
00:38:49pretend to be her and walk around.
00:38:51Huh?
00:38:52Yeah.
00:38:53I'm really a bit suspicious.
00:38:54We, this is, I'm glad we dodged that bullet.
00:38:59So, I hear you, Shalila.
00:39:01And you know, I do also want to tell you,
00:39:03we did formally invite you to game night.
00:39:05And you seemed very excited about it.
00:39:07And we would like to still invite you to game night
00:39:10if you and your four friends, gods, would like to come.
00:39:12Now you may roll with advantage.
00:39:14Let's go ahead and do this persuasion roll.
00:39:15Now, Gertrude does wanna know,
00:39:16did she disguise your accent?
00:39:18Okay.
00:39:19Yeah, I'd really like to know
00:39:21why you're speaking like that, Troya.
00:39:24Yesterday, before the nabbit, it sounded like.
00:39:27I'm literally pretending to be American here.
00:39:30Oh, wait, so I roll with the.
00:39:32You're gonna roll with advantage,
00:39:33so you're gonna roll twice
00:39:33and take the better of the two rolls.
00:39:35Or the better of the two rolls.
00:39:37Don't do that fucking double one shit again.
00:39:38Everyone think 20.
00:39:3920.
00:39:40We're thinking 20.
00:39:4120.
00:39:4211.
00:39:43Plus, and what do you add to your persuasion?
00:39:45Two.
00:39:45So, 13.
00:39:46So, this has gotta be a 13 or higher.
00:39:50If we all say 20 at the same time,
00:39:51one, two, three.
00:39:52One, two, three.
00:39:5320.
00:39:5419.
00:39:5519 plus two is 21.
00:39:57Incredible.
00:39:59There we go, there we go.
00:40:01So, you see she looks and says,
00:40:02this is highly out of order and extremely unorthodox.
00:40:09Sorry, and you see out of her one eye,
00:40:10it's like her by the mask, she cries a little bit
00:40:12and just says, I've just never really been
00:40:14invited to anything like that.
00:40:19Hey, you know, down here,
00:40:21when you are the emissary of the goddess,
00:40:24people either fawn over you or they cringe
00:40:27or they want something from you
00:40:28and it's just very nice to feel like
00:40:31people relate to you on a personal level,
00:40:34not just because they want something from you.
00:40:37Aw.
00:40:37We hear that, Shalila,
00:40:39and we will gladly have you at game night.
00:40:41We are playing Scrabble, Uno,
00:40:43and of course, your favorite, Parcheesi.
00:40:46Ah!
00:40:48I love Parcheesi!
00:40:50Wow, all right, well, I am going to make
00:40:53a buffalo chicken dip that will
00:40:54make your socks roll up and down.
00:40:58All right.
00:41:01Listen, I cannot guarantee what mood
00:41:04will strike her when you approach,
00:41:08but I cannot in good conscience say
00:41:10that it is unprecedented, as the previous
00:41:15hunter of Everdeep did approach her
00:41:19with seven souls, so I do not think
00:41:22I would be doing anything I am unallowed to do.
00:41:27She reaches into her satchel
00:41:29and returns the amulet of souls to you.
00:41:33Feel free to approach her yourself.
00:41:36I have other business in the wasteland
00:41:39on my way to the Tower of Tombs,
00:41:41but I assume you will get there long before I do.
00:41:46I would just say, be very careful.
00:41:52There are others currently at the tower
00:41:55entreating the Goddess of Death.
00:41:57Already there?
00:41:58I bet it's Kiki.
00:42:00Kiki.
00:42:01Not already there.
00:42:01We gotta hurry up.
00:42:03Yeah, we gotta book it.
00:42:04I would hurry swiftly then, my friend.
00:42:06I am, much business do I do with mortals
00:42:09in the town of Hollowgrave, and you have
00:42:12always seemed to your own business
00:42:15and held yourself with your chin high,
00:42:19but I have always felt, even amongst
00:42:22our very quick negotiations, the respect
00:42:25that you had for me, and I return it to you.
00:42:28Thank you.
00:42:29As we say in Everdeep, molasso cano.
00:42:33Is it normal or okay for me to do that back?
00:42:36You can do it as well.
00:42:37Molasso cano.
00:42:38You see that, again, she wipes that one tear
00:42:41and says, farewell, and good luck flying there.
00:42:44You will need all haste.
00:42:46You have your amulet of souls back.
00:42:48Honesty was the, this whole time.
00:42:51Isn't that funny?
00:42:51Don't.
00:42:52See, but you had to be stern,
00:42:54because if I came in soft, she would've took us as a punk.
00:42:56You had to come in stern, and then, you know.
00:42:58Molasso cano.
00:42:59Well done.
00:43:00Molasso cano.
00:43:01So we better hop on this?
00:43:02Let's jump on this carpet.
00:43:03We better hop on this fucking carpet.
00:43:03I'm gonna just fly right next to y'all.
00:43:05This good old shag carpet.
00:43:06I don't think you can fly as fast with the carpet.
00:43:08Baby, I'm Faye.
00:43:10She's the fastest one here.
00:43:12On her legs, just.
00:43:14Okay, fine.
00:43:14You know what?
00:43:15Right alongside.
00:43:16You know what?
00:43:17Let me just sit in the back, though,
00:43:18because I get, like, car sick.
00:43:19That's fair.
00:43:19All of you begin to take off on the carpet,
00:43:22peeling out over the wastelands here.
00:43:24As you travel, you see the tower off in the distance,
00:43:28and journeying as fast as you can,
00:43:30you look and see many sights underneath you.
00:43:34Anyone who wants to,
00:43:35go ahead and give me a perception check.
00:43:38Who's the lucky, the last guy with the lucky hand?
00:43:40And you can all make it.
00:43:41Oh, okay.
00:43:42Yeah.
00:43:43Perception plus seven for me.
00:43:45I have an 11.
00:43:4611.
00:43:47Dirty 20.
00:43:48Dirty 20.
00:43:49Incredible.
00:43:49Dirty 20.
00:43:50Two plus seven is nine.
00:43:51I have a 17.
00:43:53As you are flying, princess,
00:43:54you look down and behold racing over the wastelands.
00:43:58You see that there is a field beneath you,
00:44:01and much of the underworld is very barren,
00:44:04but you see this field that first almost looks like crops,
00:44:08or there's some sort of thing, something planted here,
00:44:09but you know that nothing grows down here,
00:44:12but you see it's actually a field of swords.
00:44:15You see that there are swords planted in the ground,
00:44:19point down, and there's an entire field of them.
00:44:24As you look down and behold them,
00:44:25you see that there are soft lights sort of dancing,
00:44:29almost like motes of starlight dancing
00:44:32in this field down beneath you.
00:44:36It's a strange sight that may not have any significance
00:44:39to you in this moment,
00:44:41and you're very busy moving as swiftly as you are,
00:44:44but you do see it,
00:44:45and it has a strange sort of eerie beauty to it.
00:44:49On that high roll as well, having gotten that Dirty 20,
00:44:53moving over it, you begin to see all of these swords.
00:44:56There's hundreds of them,
00:44:57and then you see other sorts like spears and axes,
00:45:00and you begin to see that their hilts
00:45:05are wrapped in like vines and leaves.
00:45:07There are holly branches in the cross guards,
00:45:11and I think you realize that these are the swords
00:45:13of fallen fairy warriors
00:45:16scattered all throughout this place.
00:45:20You do not believe that your companions have noticed,
00:45:22and perhaps it is, there's too much urgency to stop
00:45:27or to point it out, but I don't know,
00:45:29but it's up to Princess whether you want to point it out
00:45:31to your companions or not.
00:45:33Mm-hmm.
00:45:34Yeah, Princess taps Twyla
00:45:37and points at the field of swords.
00:45:40Twyla looks up at Princess and says,
00:45:44what are you talking about?
00:45:45She wants to talk to you.
00:45:46Mm!
00:45:47Mm!
00:45:52Okay, well, I think,
00:45:55what does Twyla do now?
00:45:56She's really confused.
00:45:58Does she want to talk about her feelings?
00:46:00I think so.
00:46:01I think Twyla's a little, you know,
00:46:04I think she's really sad now.
00:46:06Yeah.
00:46:08Are you, how are you feeling?
00:46:09Are you just a little like,
00:46:10because you've been,
00:46:11because all your people are gone, too.
00:46:13Everybody's gone, right?
00:46:14And then like, thinking back,
00:46:16the trading situation was,
00:46:19it was the memories that wanted to be gathered
00:46:22by that demon.
00:46:25Oh, he wanted, and you?
00:46:26He wanted my memories,
00:46:28and I think that because I've lost everything
00:46:30and my people, that's all I have left.
00:46:34So that's like, for me, to be down here
00:46:37and to finally see this,
00:46:38I think it's a step closer to finally,
00:46:43maybe, getting Thanara to bring the people back.
00:46:49Twyla, as you look down,
00:46:50the carpet just sort of slows a little bit,
00:46:52still in the air,
00:46:53but as you touch the playing cards at your side,
00:46:57you see all these little motes of light
00:46:59sort of begin to swirl.
00:47:01They're sort of down below you,
00:47:02but you see, they're sort of beautiful.
00:47:05They sort of bob along,
00:47:06and they begin to twist up.
00:47:09The ones like right underneath you
00:47:09begin to sort of twist up,
00:47:11and you see they're only about that big,
00:47:12a little small,
00:47:13and you see that they start to touch
00:47:16the deck of cards at your side,
00:47:19and just.
00:47:20They recognize you.
00:47:21But they're not playing cards, are they?
00:47:23Or the playing cards at least.
00:47:25They recognize you or something.
00:47:26They have memories.
00:47:27They also have memories attached to these cards as well.
00:47:29Yeah, anyone who would like to
00:47:30can make an arcana check,
00:47:32which is one of your skills.
00:47:33Is that how we all give it a roll?
00:47:34Yeah, yeah.
00:47:35Arcana.
00:47:36An arcana is for, anyone can do it?
00:47:37Anyone can do it, yeah.
00:47:38It's just to see if you know anything
00:47:40about what's happening.
00:47:41I'm a five plus seven, I'm a 12.
00:47:4312, okay, yeah.
00:47:45I'm a five.
00:47:46Five.
00:47:46I'm a 14.
00:47:47A 14.
00:47:48So 17 plus two.
00:47:5119.
00:47:52Twyla, you have heard stories about this before.
00:47:55These little lights coming up
00:47:57from the field of swords are called will-o-wisps.
00:48:00And basically, the souls of fairies,
00:48:04because fairies are almost like living spirits themselves.
00:48:07They do not become corrupted in the underworld.
00:48:11And rather than kind of like be in their bodies
00:48:14and sort of be like rotting and very like,
00:48:16like a lot of the mortals you've seen,
00:48:17they're still very attached to their lives.
00:48:20The fairies are so of life and of the present moment.
00:48:23What are they called?
00:48:24Will-o-wisps.
00:48:26She won Dark Rites.
00:48:27Will-o-wisps.
00:48:28Will-o-wisps.
00:48:28Will-o-wisps.
00:48:29Will-o-wisps.
00:48:30Will-o-wisps.
00:48:31Will-o-wisps.
00:48:32Will-o-wisps.
00:48:33It's the light spirit memory thing.
00:48:35It's the little, yeah,
00:48:36these are sort of like the living spirit,
00:48:38or these are, yeah, the spirits of fallen fae
00:48:42that are not corrupted by the underworld,
00:48:45but also by sort of like remaining pure,
00:48:49they just end up being these little motes of light.
00:48:51There's hundreds of them.
00:48:52I'm imagining that the fae people are made up of light,
00:48:56and when they come down here,
00:48:58they're just dimmed a little bit,
00:49:01so their light still exists,
00:49:03and Twilight's trying to release them.
00:49:06Is there anything,
00:49:07is there any way that we can find out
00:49:08a little bit more about her seed?
00:49:11Is there anything?
00:49:12The seed of all blossom.
00:49:13Does that light say anything?
00:49:14If you want to like descend down a little bit
00:49:16towards the field,
00:49:18I think you, you know, the carpet.
00:49:21Do I plant that here?
00:49:22Do what?
00:49:23Do I plant that here?
00:49:23I don't know.
00:49:24Is there a way to find out, or?
00:49:26Yeah.
00:49:27Let's say nothing can grow here with these veins.
00:49:29You land down, and you begin to look around,
00:49:31and Twilight, you look and see an axe
00:49:35that you remember was like Captain Martha's axe.
00:49:40You see a tiny little mound of sand
00:49:42that has a little sewing needle and a button shield,
00:49:46and all of these motes of light begin to dance around,
00:49:51bumping into you, body,
00:49:54but a lot of them, you can see them.
00:49:55It's almost like going to like a butterfly exhibit
00:49:57and having them land on you.
00:49:58It's like these beautiful little lights,
00:50:00and a lot of them are going towards those playing cards,
00:50:02and you realize, like Nyra said,
00:50:05like the memories associated with that object.
00:50:07Of the things you carry, you know,
00:50:09some of them remember, you know,
00:50:11oh yeah, I remember that.
00:50:12That was like Twilight's armor, her sword,
00:50:14but the playing cards were a thing
00:50:16that was meant to bring you all together,
00:50:18and meant to be a shared memory, a community.
00:50:20You gotta do something with those cards or something.
00:50:22Yeah.
00:50:23Alaska, you're good at this.
00:50:24Tell us what to do.
00:50:26I think in this moment, give me an insight check,
00:50:28and I think you can do it with advantage
00:50:30because your friends have helped.
00:50:31I'm helping you.
00:50:32Yeah. Okay.
00:50:33So go ahead and give me an insight check.
00:50:33They're all like, girl, what's going on?
00:50:35Tell us what's happening.
00:50:35Okay, insight.
00:50:37Yeah, we're just playing cards.
00:50:39That's a nine.
00:50:40And go ahead and roll, and you do have advantage,
00:50:41so you can roll again and take the higher of the two.
00:50:44This is insight?
00:50:46Insight, yeah.
00:50:47That's an eight.
00:50:48Okay, and what do you add to insight?
00:50:50Four.
00:50:51Okay, so nine plus four is 13.
00:50:53I think in this moment, you're racking your brain
00:50:56for like, what's a spell I can cast, or a thing like that,
00:50:58and I think that there's a moment of sorrow here
00:51:01as you realize that there is not some big arcane answer,
00:51:06but you see that they're bumping into the cards.
00:51:10You could just take your cards out.
00:51:11Take them out?
00:51:12Yeah.
00:51:13Should we play cards, ladies?
00:51:14We can play around the cards.
00:51:17Yeah, you just take them out and lay them on the ground.
00:51:20You take your cards,
00:51:22lay them out on the ground to play a quick hand,
00:51:24and as you do, you see all the little motes of light
00:51:27begin to bump into the face-up cards,
00:51:30and when they hit the face-up cards,
00:51:32you see they, and little diamonds,
00:51:35or the little clubs on the cards light up,
00:51:38and you see that all of them,
00:51:39and there's just this enchanting sort of feeling
00:51:42as all of the lights here in this monument
00:51:47of these fallen warriors joins the cards,
00:51:50and your deck of cards is glowing bright as the sun,
00:51:54and the light fades, and they feel warm to the touch
00:51:57as all the will-o'-wisps, every last one,
00:52:00enters the deck, and it feels warm,
00:52:03and your deck of cards contains all of that light now.
00:52:07You're like Gambit.
00:52:08So do you put them back in your,
00:52:10what do you do with these cards now?
00:52:12I think I'm gonna put it back into my Snatchel,
00:52:14and when we get to Thanara, we can have a discussion.
00:52:16Your little pixie fly, firefly fairy things
00:52:19have imbued you with a little fade.
00:52:21Yeah, there seems to be some help that can be, yeah.
00:52:23It's almost, I feel like almost,
00:52:25I feel like I've gotten to the point
00:52:27where I've collected all of the light,
00:52:30and possibly these souls,
00:52:34and now we just have to continue the journey
00:52:38to get to where we all need to be,
00:52:39because I think this is probably
00:52:41what we're gonna do right here, right now.
00:52:43Yeah, we're in a pretty good position.
00:52:44We haven't given up anything that we started with.
00:52:48We still have, all we gave up was one thing
00:52:49we just took from some zombie.
00:52:51That we didn't need it.
00:52:52Some zombie twink, you know what I mean?
00:52:54That's the only thing that we've lost.
00:52:55Right, right, okay.
00:52:57Zombie twink.
00:52:58Well, that was really beautiful.
00:52:59Now my people are with me.
00:53:00Okay, we're about to be at this house.
00:53:02You see Kerwin, who's the?
00:53:04Kerwin's still here.
00:53:05Kerwin's still here.
00:53:05I'm really, I'm still here, sorry.
00:53:07Oh.
00:53:08Should I announce?
00:53:08Oh my god.
00:53:10He's so quiet.
00:53:11He's so quiet.
00:53:12Again, just happy to be here.
00:53:13Just so, I thought I'd interrupt.
00:53:15That seems very sacred and quite beautiful.
00:53:18An issue that I foresee, looking in the distance,
00:53:21is we're in a lot of danger.
00:53:23And you see he points on the horizon.
00:53:26You look, and it's hard to see,
00:53:28because at first it looked like
00:53:28you thought it was part of the sky.
00:53:30But you see,
00:53:35dust, sand, rock,
00:53:38kicking up, going straight up from the ground.
00:53:42You realize, are you looking at a mountain range?
00:53:46You're looking at a wall of wind and sand
00:53:50as a storm races across the desert towards you.
00:53:53Oh!
00:53:54It is miles.
00:53:55It's moving.
00:53:56Miles wide.
00:53:57You look at it, at first it's so vast
00:53:59that you think you're looking at a piece of the landscape.
00:54:02And then realize, you see like a half a mile away,
00:54:05a small, weird little vein
00:54:07just get sucked up into the sky by a storm.
00:54:11It's like a desert sandstorm racing towards you.
00:54:14God.
00:54:14And as the wind moves, you see faces in the sand.
00:54:19Kerwin goes, soul storm.
00:54:21Soul storm, soul storm!
00:54:22A soul storm!
00:54:23There's a soul storm?
00:54:24Oh, God.
00:54:24Can I do a rope trick?
00:54:26None of our physical magic stuff's gonna work.
00:54:28Can we fly the fuck out of here with the magic carpet?
00:54:30We're gonna turn around?
00:54:32Oh, we got a carpet.
00:54:33We're on the carpet.
00:54:34Yeah, we don't wanna go back.
00:54:35We're trying to go forward.
00:54:36Can we just go higher?
00:54:37So where the soul storm is coming from,
00:54:38you could try to outrace it.
00:54:40It's coming right now from an angle.
00:54:42It's coming to us.
00:54:43It's coming towards you,
00:54:45but it's not coming from the direction that you're going.
00:54:47God, we're going that way, and it's coming this way.
00:54:48Yeah, it's coming from the side.
00:54:50So it's possible you could try
00:54:51to just get on that carpet and outrace it.
00:54:53I think so.
00:54:54Are there any speed spells, or?
00:54:56Yeah, who's the happiest?
00:54:57They should like, not be on this carpet.
00:54:58Hey!
00:55:00I'm just saying.
00:55:02I don't have any speed spell.
00:55:03Me either.
00:55:04Alaska moves the fastest, but she doesn't have speed.
00:55:06Oh, y'all know we're not on foot.
00:55:07Y'all don't have the spells.
00:55:08But nothing that makes us move fast.
00:55:11Y'all can't make spells with like, little items or something?
00:55:14I can't ask a forest creature to come down here
00:55:16to do anything.
00:55:17I think that we have to,
00:55:18maybe we just try our best to just like, punch it.
00:55:22Yeah, like outrace it.
00:55:24Oh, like go fast, not like physically go fast.
00:55:27Outrun that shit.
00:55:29Hell yeah.
00:55:29We just, we grab some of this rug,
00:55:32everyone grabs a tassel,
00:55:34and we just take a pull back,
00:55:35and we're like, yeah!
00:55:37Okay.
00:55:38Hell yes.
00:55:39All of you are sprinting,
00:55:39and you can see the stones around you
00:55:41like, shaking on the ground at the approaching thing.
00:55:44It's awesome.
00:55:44Yeah, you can see that the wind is kicked up
00:55:47like, through the sand.
00:55:48Now that you're looking through this, it gets closer.
00:55:50It's like purple indigo rocks.
00:55:51You see the wind screaming ghosts.
00:55:55Most of the undead you've seen have been corporeal,
00:55:57like rotting bodies.
00:55:59These are spirits that have been in the underworld
00:56:01so long that everything rotted away
00:56:03until it was just spirit left.
00:56:05Yeah, your father bought these souls here.
00:56:07They went back, sorry, they went back.
00:56:08Yeah, I released all my souls.
00:56:11Just, sorry, that was not the point.
00:56:14This is his moment, I have anxiety, I don't act my best,
00:56:18but I'm anxious.
00:56:19I don't want your daddy down.
00:56:22Screaming souls, like long trails
00:56:26of this ghastly, like, green-white energy.
00:56:30Ah!
00:56:31They scream, and all of you jump on the carpet.
00:56:34We are going to make some rolls
00:56:35as you move to outpace this storm.
00:56:37So, what we're gonna do is this.
00:56:39This is going to be acrobatics checks from the group.
00:56:44I have an eight.
00:56:44It's gonna be acrobatics checks,
00:56:45but it's going to be group checks.
00:56:48So we're going to use the two highest rolls, okay?
00:56:53Those lucky hands.
00:56:5415, 15.
00:56:55What's your acrobatics plus?
00:56:56Plus three.
00:56:57Oh, Monet, we really need you to.
00:56:59So, 15 means you keep pace.
00:57:03If you don't have your two highest rolls beat a 15,
00:57:08that's when trouble starts.
00:57:1015's the number you're trying to beat
00:57:11to keep pace with it.
00:57:12If you dip under that, the storm's gonna overtake you.
00:57:15So let's go ahead and roll these acrobatics.
00:57:16If we go over 15, we'll outrun it?
00:57:17You'll keep pace.
00:57:18You need to go over 20 in order to outrun it.
00:57:22So, let's go.
00:57:23The very top one.
00:57:24The very first one on skill.
00:57:2610.
00:57:27All right, I have 10.
00:57:2710 plus what?
00:57:29I got a 17.
00:57:3017.
00:57:3117 plus three, I have eight.
00:57:33Dirty 20.
00:57:34Yeah, dirty 20.
00:57:35I have a 14 plus five, 19.
00:57:3919, okay, 19 doesn't get us all the way to 20.
00:57:41So that's our second roll.
00:57:43Monet, we got?
00:57:44Eight.
00:57:4518.
00:57:4618 altogether.
00:57:4718, 19, 20.
00:57:4718, 19, 20, cool.
00:57:48So we're gonna go with that 19 as that median roll there.
00:57:51So it's not all the way to a 20.
00:57:52So you see, you guys, you're so,
00:57:55you're taking some time to try to ascend.
00:57:57So you're not getting far ahead of it.
00:57:59You're like going up, up, up.
00:58:01You see it's about like 50 feet
00:58:02behind the back tassels of your rug.
00:58:05And as we're going, Twilight slips a little bit
00:58:06and she's rolling off and I grab her.
00:58:07Boom!
00:58:08Grab her longbow.
00:58:09You grab her back, incredible.
00:58:11We're gonna roll again.
00:58:12Give me another acrobatics check.
00:58:13Okay, okay.
00:58:14Pulls her back on.
00:58:15She is just winged.
00:58:16Am I still a rock though?
00:58:17Wings are just, it's up to you.
00:58:19Wings just.
00:58:1918.
00:58:2018.
00:58:21I got an eight this time.
00:58:22Okay, 15 plus five is 20.
00:58:2520.
00:58:26The dirty 20.
00:58:27Two 20s to outrun the storm.
00:58:28Does anyone else get a 20?
00:58:29No, I got a eight plus three.
00:58:31I have a 10.
00:58:3210 plus, I think I got.
00:58:33All together, 10.
00:58:35So we got a 20 here.
00:58:37Jesus Christ!
00:58:39Don't touch the dice anymore.
00:58:41You see Kerwin going, we need to move faster!
00:58:43We need to move!
00:58:44And you see that he just starts looking around,
00:58:45just like throwing stuff at the storm
00:58:47because he can't help it all.
00:58:48He just like throws a knife at it.
00:58:50Is that helping?
00:58:51Now it's the third round we're doing this.
00:58:53Stakes are gonna go a little bit higher.
00:58:54So now, we need two 20s.
00:58:58If you get two 20s, it's the same thing.
00:58:59You'll escape the storm.
00:59:00Dirty or not.
00:59:01Fully.
00:59:02Dirty or not.
00:59:03But now, if you get under 18s, the storm gets you.
00:59:07Okay, so I think we should all say 20 at the same time.
00:59:10Say 20, okay.
00:59:11If that works.
00:59:12Okay.
00:59:12Two, three.
00:59:1320!
00:59:17Oh, Nat five.
00:59:17Not a 20!
00:59:18Not a 20.
00:59:19Six.
00:59:20I got a Nat one.
00:59:21Nat one.
00:59:22So one plus four.
00:59:22I have eight.
00:59:24Six.
00:59:2512.
00:59:25I have a 13.
00:59:2813.
00:59:29We're in a world of trouble.
00:59:31You see a mouth in the storm behind you.
00:59:36All of its teeth, screaming spirits.
00:59:39The storm, you feel the edge of the tassel
00:59:43going back into the mouth.
00:59:46Above you, you hear.
00:59:48Ah!
00:59:52Dead animals, too.
00:59:55Barreling down from the sky,
00:59:56you see a winged shape with a long tail,
01:00:01made of shadow.
01:00:02A dragon.
01:00:04Oh!
01:00:05Descending from the sky.
01:00:06You speak dragon.
01:00:07I don't know if he's gonna talk.
01:00:09With a rider on it.
01:00:12An armored figure.
01:00:14Descends from on top.
01:00:15As the figure on the dragon
01:00:16descends through the sky towards you,
01:00:18you see a rope lowered down.
01:00:22Twyla, you recognize this spell.
01:00:24I do.
01:00:25And you see a rope descends.
01:00:27It's a rope trick spell.
01:00:28I'm gonna need everyone here
01:00:29to make one last dexterity saving throw.
01:00:31So it's not acrobatics anymore.
01:00:32Now it's a dexterity saving throw.
01:00:33I got a plus three.
01:00:34Who's got a high one?
01:00:35I have a plus five.
01:00:36This is a lower difficulty than before
01:00:38because this person is helping you.
01:00:39So go ahead.
01:00:40Plus eight.
01:00:41Let's go ahead and roll.
01:00:43Oh!
01:00:44We need two of these rolls to beat a 13.
01:00:4813 plus eight.
01:00:5013 plus eight.
01:00:51Plus eight, 21.
01:00:52I have 19.
01:00:52I have 17.
01:00:5317.
01:00:5418.
01:00:55Hell yes.
01:00:56Oh, you win.
01:00:57Great, okay.
01:00:57So as the storm of this giant mountain,
01:00:59this dragon rider who appears from nowhere
01:01:01throws a rope down.
01:01:03The mouth, boom, comes down.
01:01:05And in the moment it comes down,
01:01:06you all touch the rope, grab the carpet,
01:01:08and vanish into shit.
01:01:11You all vanish into shadow.
01:01:14The rope trick spell momentarily
01:01:16creates a safe pocket dimension.
01:01:19You all look.
01:01:20You're in a strange extra dimensional space,
01:01:23but you see there's like a pane of dark glass,
01:01:25and you look out and see spirits and swirling sand,
01:01:30but you are momentarily protected
01:01:32in this magical bubble, this sanctuary.
01:01:34You were in the storm?
01:01:34You were in the storm.
01:01:35The storm's outside, but you're like protected by magic.
01:01:37You see the storm raging around you.
01:01:42On this platform of like darkened glass,
01:01:44protected by magic.
01:01:46And you see this figure with this dragon of shadow,
01:01:51who's like a smaller dragon.
01:01:52It's about like 20 feet long.
01:01:55It's not the size of like a skyscraper.
01:01:56Yeah.
01:01:57Is this dragon alive or is this dragon dead too?
01:01:59This looks like, it looks like neither alive nor dead.
01:02:02It looks more like a spirit, like a summoned creature.
01:02:04Got it.
01:02:04You see the figure remove her helmet.
01:02:08Long, beautiful raven tresses emerge,
01:02:12and you see this woman behold you,
01:02:14and smile and go,
01:02:19I'm very glad I was able to catch you in time,
01:02:22to save you from the soul storm.
01:02:25I am Norelle Blaze.
01:02:28I believe you met my grandson in life.
01:02:31Oh!
01:02:33Yes, I, I'm gonna write this name down, Norelle Blaze.
01:02:36I, my, my grandson may have referred to me as Norbert,
01:02:40but it is a pleasure and an honor to meet you here.
01:02:45Oh, okay, yes.
01:02:47Who's the grandson?
01:02:48When Norelle came to the house.
01:02:49The, the little, the little kid.
01:02:50Yes, when you were like,
01:02:51your grandfather Norbert was gay.
01:02:53But I misjudged, I misread it.
01:02:55I didn't read it right.
01:02:55I didn't read it right.
01:02:56I didn't read it right.
01:02:57Well, you see here in this moment that she,
01:02:59you see that you got her long raven tresses,
01:03:01and her face is like a long eye shadow
01:03:03that curls down at the edges.
01:03:05And she looks at you and says,
01:03:08my grandson found those treasures.
01:03:12And upon finding them,
01:03:14due to the magic of that treasure I hid,
01:03:17I found a little map of my own.
01:03:18And she takes a like underworld copy of the map you drew,
01:03:24and goes, and some of those treasures
01:03:27were capable of existing in both the world above
01:03:31and this one here.
01:03:33Thank you for the kindness you did, my grandson.
01:03:38It was my pleasure.
01:03:41And she scratches her dragon,
01:03:43who kind of purrs and shakes its head,
01:03:46and opens a saddle bag and says,
01:03:49consider this a token.
01:03:51You deserve to be paid with more than just a warning.
01:03:53I hope you and your friends succeed in your quest.
01:03:58And Norelle, she begins to just pull magical treasures
01:04:02out of this bag, and I have here
01:04:04a stack of magic items for all of you.
01:04:07Do we randomly draw?
01:04:09Oh, you don't have to randomly draw.
01:04:10There are.
01:04:11All of them are yours.
01:04:13God, we should randomly draw.
01:04:14That'd make it a little more fun.
01:04:16We'll take them all.
01:04:17Let her randomly draw.
01:04:18I'd like them all, Norelle.
01:04:19Come on, Norelle.
01:04:20Erika Norelle, okay.
01:04:23Hell yes.
01:04:23You see that she begins to hand them out to you,
01:04:25and I'll just tell you as the dungeon master
01:04:27what these objects do.
01:04:29She has a hunter's bow and a bow of this healing,
01:04:31which are plus one magical longbows.
01:04:34She has a greataxe of the mighty,
01:04:36which is a powerful magical axe.
01:04:39And she also carries with her a javelin of lightning.
01:04:44You see this golden, sort of like lightning-crafted javelin.
01:04:49And it's one I kind of like shrink to when I need it.
01:04:50I just tap this and it just gets long again.
01:04:52Isn't the bow yours?
01:04:55Aren't you the bow girl?
01:04:56We both have bows.
01:04:57We have longbows.
01:04:58There's actually enough for everyone to get two.
01:04:59Oh, nice.
01:05:00I'm excited about it.
01:05:01Two each.
01:05:02You see she also has a pair of magical boots.
01:05:05These like tall, sort of cuffed boots that you see have-
01:05:08Are those the Chanel magical boots?
01:05:10Yes, they are.
01:05:11Yeah.
01:05:12Yeah.
01:05:13Yeah.
01:05:16She has here as well, she brings out a crystal ball
01:05:19on an ornate silver stand.
01:05:22Oh, that's for me too.
01:05:23Monet, calm down.
01:05:25My God.
01:05:25You got the moods, you got the moods.
01:05:27Everything's for you.
01:05:28A beautiful, what looks like a sort of crystalline staff.
01:05:31It's like a letter that says, for Gertrude.
01:05:33That's me too.
01:05:36She says, most importantly for down here,
01:05:37several potions of healing.
01:05:39And finally, I'm not sure if,
01:05:41I'm not sure who this should be for, but I do have.
01:05:44And she takes out a very small, very subtle ring.
01:05:47Looks like a little sort of like almost white,
01:05:48like ivory ring.
01:05:50And she says, I'm not sure if any of you,
01:05:52you may not be interested in a power like this.
01:05:54It's a ring of invisibility.
01:05:55Oh, I don't need that.
01:05:56Oh, that's mine.
01:05:57That's mine.
01:06:01I don't know how worthy.
01:06:02Twyla excitedly says, oh, there it is.
01:06:06May I please have it?
01:06:08Incredible.
01:06:09All right.
01:06:09Finally!
01:06:10Ring of invisibility.
01:06:12It's like the one that changes my hair.
01:06:14Bob Sealy.
01:06:16We have the javelin of lightning here.
01:06:19Axe of the mighty right here.
01:06:21And then we have the, oh, staff of the war mage here.
01:06:25And our Volkswagen Beetle.
01:06:27I have a nice, I have a little quarter staff.
01:06:29This is much more powerful than the quarter staff.
01:06:31Speed boots.
01:06:32Crystal ball.
01:06:34And then you have four potions of healing,
01:06:37which if each of you wants to take one.
01:06:39One each, yeah.
01:06:40Yeah, here you go.
01:06:41Actually, I don't think Twyla needs any.
01:06:42I can heal, so y'all can keep it.
01:06:43Oh, okay, gotcha.
01:06:44Who's got the boots?
01:06:45Me.
01:06:46Okay, read the boots.
01:06:47Let's hear it for your girl.
01:06:48It's a bad-ass boots.
01:06:49While you wear these boots,
01:06:52you can use a bonus action
01:06:53and click the boots' heels together.
01:06:55If you do, the boots double your walking speed
01:06:58and any creature that makes an opportunity attack
01:07:00against you has disadvantage on the attack roll.
01:07:03If you click the heels together again,
01:07:04you end the effect.
01:07:06And when it's been used for a total of 10 minutes,
01:07:09the magic ceases to function until you finish a long rest.
01:07:13If you click them again, you go home.
01:07:15Good.
01:07:15To the land of Oz.
01:07:17Yeah, that's my law.
01:07:18So all of you sort of have gained a weapon
01:07:21that gives you a plus one to attack and damage.
01:07:23So your bows, your axe, your Staff of the Warm Age
01:07:25gives you a plus one for spells
01:07:27where you make an attack roll.
01:07:28Not every one of your spells involves an attack roll,
01:07:30but the ones that do, you'll have that plus one.
01:07:32And then the Javelin of Lightning
01:07:34effectively allows you to throw
01:07:36and it creates a line on the battlefield
01:07:38of lightning damage.
01:07:40The boots of speed increase your speed,
01:07:42which increases your jumping
01:07:43and makes you very good at running past enemies.
01:07:45And the Ring of Invisibility allows you to turn invisible.
01:07:50One thing to note about the Ring of Invisibility,
01:07:52attacking or casting a spell ends the invisibility effect.
01:07:56And then the Crystal Ball
01:07:57allows you to scry over long distances
01:07:59to see and hear things happening far away.
01:08:02Little recon.
01:08:03The storm rages outside
01:08:05and you see that Norell looks at you and goes,
01:08:09I'm sure you're aware that Zarya Hex
01:08:11has already moved across the wasteland
01:08:14and her army waits outside the Tower of Tombs.
01:08:18If you want to gain entry to the tower,
01:08:20you'll have to find some way around them
01:08:22or to sneak through.
01:08:24There are many thousands of undead soldiers
01:08:27outside of the tower.
01:08:28I know an invisible girl.
01:08:32You see that she then looks at you all and says,
01:08:35I know that Zarya has been waiting there for some time
01:08:38for two travelers from the mortal world.
01:08:43That I believe she has been waiting there for some time.
01:08:46I've been keeping an eye out as best I can.
01:08:48But I believe that there has been some force
01:08:53helping them navigate the underworld.
01:08:57I can't be sure.
01:08:59Shalila of the Half Mask or some,
01:09:01but I couldn't say exactly.
01:09:02But there has been someone helping Zarya
01:09:09knowing the ins and outs of the underworld down here.
01:09:14The underworld has always been a dismal place.
01:09:16But of late, it has grown darker still.
01:09:20Strange appetites of the goddess, the Nara,
01:09:24making deals with mortals above,
01:09:27rumors of bargains of immortality and such like that.
01:09:31I hope these treasures can be of some help to you.
01:09:35There was no hope for me to assail
01:09:37the Tower of Tombs myself.
01:09:38As a dead soul, the goddess of the underworld
01:09:41could simply banish me to the farthest edges
01:09:44of the underworld.
01:09:45Four living mortals might stand a chance where I would not.
01:09:50All right, so this is what we know.
01:09:52We know that we cannot fight our way through this one.
01:09:55No, what if we use our clasps
01:09:57and pretend to be undead?
01:09:59But they shall snap us away, maybe.
01:10:01But we can get through the army, at least.
01:10:03The clasps only, the goddess's power
01:10:06is not based on illusion.
01:10:08She only has power over the dead.
01:10:10The wraith clasps just make you seem dead.
01:10:12So she would not gain power over you.
01:10:15That's smart.
01:10:16But to get through the Zarya Hex army, I mean.
01:10:18Yeah.
01:10:19Because they're like guarding us.
01:10:20Maybe she'll think we're just undead coming in.
01:10:23No, that's not gonna happen.
01:10:25It's kind of like in Walking Dead
01:10:26when they just pretend to be zombies.
01:10:27So who is Zarya Hex keeping out?
01:10:28Is she keeping out the living?
01:10:29Because she's not dead.
01:10:31So is she keeping out the living?
01:10:33She's waiting for somebody, right?
01:10:35So she's expecting two living souls.
01:10:37She's expecting two living people.
01:10:39But if four dead people walk up,
01:10:40well five, because nerd.
01:10:42Thank you.
01:10:43Kerwin.
01:10:43You remembered me, I'm here.
01:10:45Yeah, I remembered you this time.
01:10:46Maybe they won't expect that.
01:10:48They're expecting us.
01:10:50Can Kerwin go first?
01:10:52Maybe we should.
01:10:52Let's see how convincing these wraith clasps look.
01:10:55Oh, okay, I'll grab mine.
01:10:56I have mine too.
01:10:57So at this point, Gertrude reaches into her backpack.
01:11:01She pulls out her wraith clasp.
01:11:02She looks at it.
01:11:03It's really quite beautiful.
01:11:04And she puts it over one horn.
01:11:07And then it kind of, once she clasped it in the back,
01:11:12all of a sudden she just feels her body
01:11:14like convulsing and shaking.
01:11:16She's foaming at the mouth.
01:11:17She's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
01:11:19And then her body feels like it's turning inside out.
01:11:23Then like a maggot starts to crawl out of her eyes.
01:11:25She's like, is there something on my face?
01:11:27Is there something on my face?
01:11:29Do you want there to be or not?
01:11:30And then her arm looks like it just falls off.
01:11:33And then she just all of a sudden looks
01:11:34like a half decayed zombie.
01:11:37And she's like, is it giving?
01:11:39It's giving.
01:11:40It's giving.
01:11:44You're giving me death.
01:11:45Yeah.
01:11:46Giving death becomes her.
01:11:48You see Norelle goes, those will work.
01:11:51Those will work.
01:11:52Let's try them on.
01:11:53I mean, I feel like Elle Woods at the party
01:11:55dressed like a bunny.
01:11:56Put yours on too.
01:11:58I put mine on, and all my makeup just comes off.
01:12:01And here we are.
01:12:04That was under there?
01:12:06Yep.
01:12:06Whoa.
01:12:07Whoa.
01:12:08And now she's dead.
01:12:10Embracing your natural beauty, I love that.
01:12:12I put mine on, and you know,
01:12:14when mer-people start to decay,
01:12:16I kind of look like I just have rigor mortis.
01:12:19Like, I just, all of my limbs swell.
01:12:21I just look, I look bloated, like I drowned.
01:12:23Ooh.
01:12:24Oh, gross.
01:12:25Yeah.
01:12:26And a princess puts hers on,
01:12:27and then she's just a really large zombie.
01:12:30Yeah, you look a lot like Kerwin, honestly.
01:12:35I was driving some company, you know.
01:12:37Like a twin.
01:12:38The storm passes outside, and as it does so,
01:12:43you see once again, passes into the distance.
01:12:46Your carpet flutters and awaits you.
01:12:49Norell bows her head once more,
01:12:52and says, farewell out there.
01:12:56If you were lucky, then more than just Kelvorda
01:12:59might be saved by your actions.
01:13:01And you take to the carpet, and whisk away.
01:13:05As you begin to approach the Tower of Tombs,
01:13:07you see it, monolith of obsidian basalt.
01:13:11Volcanic rock, seems to drink the light.
01:13:16You see the base of the tower,
01:13:17these red veins attached to the rock,
01:13:22as though this stone itself were the dead,
01:13:25unbeating heart of the ancient entity
01:13:28that was this underworld.
01:13:31Surrounding the base of the tower,
01:13:33that you can see from a far distance,
01:13:36you know, you're way, way up high.
01:13:38You see shambling hordes, zombie soldiers.
01:13:43And you see these are,
01:13:45unlike the dead souls you've met before,
01:13:47completely under thrall.
01:13:50They have no will anymore.
01:13:52Their unlife depends on the magical power of Zaria Hex.
01:13:57Hmm.
01:14:00I'm gonna put our acting skills to work here.
01:14:03chattering skeletons begin to move around.
01:14:08Now, here's the thing.
01:14:09Unfortunately, flying overhead will give you away.
01:14:12What do you want to do?
01:14:13Do you want to land and go through it?
01:14:14Hey, I think we park the carpet
01:14:16and just kind of like walk up from the side
01:14:18and just kind of like thrill her up to the gate.
01:14:22Da, da, da, da, da, da, you know?
01:14:26Is there a world where we could still use
01:14:28a Pass Without Trace spell?
01:14:30Absolutely.
01:14:31What's that one again?
01:14:31What does it do?
01:14:32So what happens is it disguises me, us,
01:14:35in shadows to aid in stealth and cover our tracks.
01:14:39I will say because this is so specific,
01:14:42I'm going to allow the plus 10 from Pass Without Trace
01:14:44to actually aid a performance check
01:14:47of you passing as undead in this space, right?
01:14:51So I'm going to say you summon those shadows
01:14:53and the shadows sort of fill the spots in your body.
01:14:57So even all that rotting the Wraith Clasps are doing,
01:14:59Pass Without Shadows like finds the wounds
01:15:01and actually opens the shadow in your torso
01:15:03so it looks like there are holes in your body,
01:15:06like true rot and like wounds and injuries from long ago
01:15:11and the spell manifests.
01:15:13Let's go ahead and we're going to roll
01:15:14a group performance check as you attempt
01:15:18to walk to the Tower of Tombs disguised as undead.
01:15:21Oh God.
01:15:23You're going to add 10 to all these rolls from that spell.
01:15:25Oh.
01:15:2610 plus what we have over here?
01:15:27Plus whatever you have, you're going to add to it.
01:15:28I have 25, 21 plus that, 31.
01:15:30I'm at 33.
01:15:3131, 31.
01:15:32I rolled an 18.
01:15:33Oh, I rolled a four.
01:15:34Gosh darn it.
01:15:36Well, I think we got 30, this is pretty good.
01:15:38Yeah, 17.
01:15:39So on a group check, you use the two highest rolls.
01:15:42So 34 and 31, what do you all start to do
01:15:45as you get the carpet and you know,
01:15:47park the, you know, get the carpet locked up
01:15:49and it sort of just rolls up into a roll and lies there
01:15:53and what do you, as you go over the ridge
01:15:56and it's just suddenly thousands of shambling zombies,
01:15:59what do you all do as you like?
01:16:00We start a conga line.
01:16:02Like tiptoeing.
01:16:03Yeah.
01:16:04So Gertrude looks at it and goes,
01:16:05all right girls, it's showtime.
01:16:07We just go like this.
01:16:08We should be doing the thriller dance.
01:16:09I think we should really celebrate the moment.
01:16:10Yeah, so we're doing this dance,
01:16:13but it does look very undead.
01:16:15It is very convincing.
01:16:17No one is suspecting us at all.
01:16:20We are writhing and like crawling.
01:16:23I'm using my one arm to just like keep scooting ahead.
01:16:27Who dropped the other one off?
01:16:28It looked like it fell off, remember?
01:16:30Incredible.
01:16:31Because I can't use it.
01:16:32It's still there, but I can't,
01:16:33I don't want them to see me using the gone arm.
01:16:36They go, hey.
01:16:37I've been just using the dead arm.
01:16:40As you begin to walk,
01:16:41you see the sort of shambling figures around you.
01:16:49Oh, they join us.
01:16:50And they all fired.
01:16:51We start a flash mob.
01:16:53Yeah, a flash mob.
01:17:00As you begin to walk, you're totally obscured,
01:17:02and you see up on a disk,
01:17:04as you sneak closer and closer,
01:17:05you see one of the veins in the base of the tower
01:17:09is sort of attached to the stone,
01:17:11but you see that there is a seam in the side
01:17:13and an opening into the base of the tower
01:17:15that can get you away from all of these
01:17:17hordes waiting there.
01:17:18As you move through and see the sort of flash mob
01:17:20of zombies is like disguising your approach,
01:17:22you just seem like one of many doing this.
01:17:25You hear a stern voice,
01:17:28and Twila, you hear a voice you have not heard
01:17:30in years.
01:17:32Minions of death, flash mob if you wish,
01:17:37but heed my words, the time has come.
01:17:46And you literally-
01:17:47That's very triggering to Dracarys, girls.
01:17:49The time has come.
01:17:49I know.
01:17:50Very triggering phrase to Dracarys.
01:17:53And I did not stretch today,
01:17:54so I'm a little nervous.
01:17:55The time has come.
01:17:56Oh, God.
01:17:57Especially for me.
01:17:58At first you're like, oh, is there like a throne
01:18:02or some kind of podium or whatever?
01:18:05And you see it's not.
01:18:06Skeletons and zombies literally crawl on top of each other
01:18:11to make a staircase.
01:18:13And a woman in blood red robes with a crown of blood.
01:18:18Zarya Hex.
01:18:20There she is.
01:18:21Whoa.

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