How do you wanna do this.
With prayers? I will do it nonlethal. So I'm.
Oh.
Really? Who doesn't deserve this kill?
He's going to go ahead and just put him down.
Oh, Emran uh, if you will.
All right.
So what you see is poo comes up and just as this guy is just on his hands and
knees, poo just PUMS him in the back of his head, right along the brain stem.
And he falls down unconscious, uh, you know, he's unconscious,
cuz you can see slight bubbles in the blood that's coming out of his nose as
he's laying per on the ground right before the throne and P looks towards
Emron and offers her the, uh, kill shot.
Should she show so choose to take it or if she should choose to show mercy in
this situation?
Yes. Has proven to be a very merciful.
Individual.
Yeah. Individual over the course of this campaign. Um, and in mercy,
I will say that she puts her blame against his neck and cuts his head off.
All right.
Because you know,
you have to move the body from the snake or whatever the head from the snake,
whenever it is, there's a saying about it.
All right. So puts the, to the neck of this.
Uh yte and uh,
just slices this head off B.
UNO, Alba.
Playing games, strangers, you know, there's
friends playing games with strangers
games, with strangers
games with strangers.
Uh, she will immediately look at stumble foot and say,
bring him back.
I can't,
he cuts him in half his beyond me power and to save. Now,
if you were in one piece, it'd be a different situation. Sorry, Las.
You said you could bring him back.
Hey, and if you were in one piece, I could.
Oh wait, wait, you, you mean you can't?
No, no. Revivify you will restore him, but it will not.
It will know, um, regrow his,
his body parts and bring him back to life just for him to bleed out again.
What if we were to sew him together first.
If you can do that in the next 12 seconds, then be my guest.
Can we do anything for his spirit?
We could take him to Tombo that's the only option we've got at this point.
Uh that's what, so if you could sew him together, that would,
uh, um, but okay, this is a long shot.
You have to do it now.
Keith, can you do anything? Like be like a little thread?
What? The time thread thing.
Keith looks at you and raises an eyebrow. Like I, I,
I don't know what you want me to do. I'll just.
Maybe will you, you can be like any object,
like thread and you can sew 'em together really fast.
I don't think there's anything we can do.
We can do something.
Right? That's not how our work.
If we take him to Tombo but we need Tom can,
we can resurrect him, but I can know. Not, not with him.
Cut in half. We need to go now. Hey we do.
Or, or Bugg is jamming the, his scroll of pedigree in the mouth of the lizard.
.
You guys hear marching coming from in the front, up the, uh, stairs.
I used my second wind to get some hit points back, uh,
Lucas from foot and said bring him to tumble. Um,
and then I'm gonna go start walking towards the.
Top. Um, before everyone disperses,
I'm going to use my channel divinity to get some hit points out to everybody.
I can distribute 35 hit points to people nearby.
I believe poo needs some hit points. How are you doing Emran.
If you know, if you were to look at me and say, boy, how much does that hurt?
I'd say it hurts about a 74 out of 111. Okay.
.
While you're give or take while you're healing, stumble foot,
you hear,
you hear a familiar voice coming from behind the throne and you hear a, who.
Is gonna kick that throne.
You hear a voice? Say, what the heck are you guys doing here?
Oh.
Not Emin. Um, is anyone you hear that?
I'm going to step behind the throne.
Do we hear it as.
Well? What's what's your passive percept. What's your passive perception?
15.
Yeah, I'd say you hear a voice come from behind the throne, but.
You didn't quite, Hey, John, just so you know orach is busy.
Slicing this lizard guy up. Uh,
he wants to cut him into at least twice as many pieces as Nick as was.
Um, okay. Alene.
Yes.
Your brother is behind this throne and he is perturbed at your presence in this
throne room.
Going to grab his ear and pull him to me.
And I'm going to whisper very politely and go.
What do you think you are doing here?
I'm doing my job.
When did your job become killing innocent people?
The innocent people. Have you been paying attention? Look,
there's PE there's guards coming up here right now.
You guys gotta get out of here. Follow me.
I'm not following you anywhere until you explain how a God who is
just trying to make ends meet is not innocent. We.
Don't got time for this unless you guys want to go up against an entire army.
I suggest you follow me. Now. I'll explain later. I'm gonna.
Grab him by the back of the neck, yank him out from behind the throne.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is an escape route this way,
if we could make our way away. So before we all die.
Who is gathering up.
NICU's Em's grip on her grave Titans. When she sees a Arlan.
And, and who is gathered up NICU, both half of him.
There's actually three parts of NICU, three parts.
And what, what, what should we do with NICU?
I can help, but he should stay here. And I'll point at Arlin.
Respectfully if he stays here. So do I. And if that's what you,
he's a coward. I understand, but everyone, I would appreciate it.
Follow of you would go through.
And man, we can, we can, we can deal with him outside.
Let's get away from here right now. Let's save your brother.
You still have other family.
Not now.
We we're. We, I mean, I'm, I'm heading out with making sure that Iran's coming.
Stumble. Foot's gonna move behind the throne and hide.
I wanna see who's coming.
I think all the guards.
Are, well. I wanna see if the someone else is with them.
I would like to stay, kill them all. But.
Who is, who is making sure that you don't.
Shepherded at the moment I'm being hurted, which I think is racist.
So what's everybody doing? I need to know. Thumb.
Foot is going to hide behind the throne in front of the entrance. Okay.
So that if I need to escape, I can slip out still.
Poo and M are going down the passage way. Mm-hmm uh, Wilder.
What are you doing? I'm gonna go down the passage way as well.
Orach what are you doing? I mean, I think I'm going down with everybody else.
Alene. What are you doing?
I'm going to cast greater in visibility on myself and Arlan.
Okay. And are you going down the passageway or? Nah.
No. I'm gonna stand behind the throne.
Okay. Uh,
so Arlene and stumble foot you, uh, Stuy.
I need you to make a, uh, I need you to make a stealth roll, please.
Being as you are hiding.
Okay. That's a 23.
Ooh, sneaky stumbly.
Yep. You are super stealthy. All right. So after several seconds,
when the others have left the room, uh, Alene and stumble foot and R and C,
about 70 drought warriors come into the throne room,
being led by Ashlyn and Ashlyn looks and she
sees the, uh, chopped up GTI and she goes,
we need to conjure up another vault.
That's gonna take a little bit of time in the meantime,
go down into the Dungeons and make sure that our esteemed guests
are still there. If they,
and hopefully they haven't been found yet.
I have a question.
Mm-hmm .
How close does Ashlyn approach?
Not very.
So she's staying back by the doors.
Mm-hmm okay. After she finishes, dishing out these orders,
uh,
she walks back out the doorway and the drought warriors start to pick
up the pieces of thet.
I want to try to sneak out of the room and follow her.
Okay. Alene. What are you doing?
How many warriors are there?
70.
Are they all clumped? Are they all clumped together?
No.
Oh, well,
I never mind then I am going to,
I'm gonna follow stumble foot. I'm gonna stealth behind him.
Okay.
So you guys follow behind Ashlyn and she
goes to a, uh, room that you guys did not go to on,
on a different level.
So there's something I want to do as soon as I'm within 60 feet of her,
I want to cash banish.
Okay. Um.
That'll do.
Let me take a look here.
Bitch. You didn't see that come into you.
I didn't
Eric and I were talking about this concept and I thought we were doing it a
different way, but okay.
Hey man, I saw her and that was like, this is my opportunity.
I don't know if I'm gonna get back in the castle again because.
You know, hys, it's fine. It's fine, Eric. This is,
this is the first time you have caught me off guard.
Usually you're a lot nicer to me than this. So.
I mean, if this doesn't work I'm hose,
I only got one shot of this because I'd had burned one of my two level four
spell slots.
So Eric.
You're being very nice to us.
Always fine. Another.
DM.
All right. So this is, this.
Was the plan all along, right? If we saw Ashlyn, we were gonna,
I was gonna try to banish.
Her so.
Well, the plan was kill vault. First we did, we did.
Sort of.
Done, we did it in the proper order.
To, to quote a former president mission accomplished.
Uh, okay. You attempt to send one creature received, blah, blah, blah,
Christmas saving throw. Okay.
So that's gonna be plus 10.
Nah, that can't be right. She's evil.
You're right. Evil. Couldn't possibly be alluring.
Nope.
I've never seen a charismatic person that did evil things. Never.
Ever son of a gun. Ha.
Okay. What's your, what's.
Your, my is 16. That's a 13.
All right. So are we done with.
What's been fun. So many just
worked on too games.
They left the planet.
John, on a scale of one to Ted. Just how are you feeling right now?
Let's play a game. Our next session is canceled. 13. Describe to me in.
13.
describe to me in detail. What you're feeling.
That's for talking game SQUI. Oh yeah.
I want to send lo home to who's home.
Mommy's home.
Byebye. Bye Felicia.
Okay. Alene. This is what you see.
You see stumble foot walk up behind, uh,
Ashlyn at a fairly distant pacing. And he raises his hand. What,
what would be an item that would be distasteful to this target?
I grabbed or bugs.
Scroll of pedigree out of the mouth of the yte. Yeah.
Just a.
Camera. And as, as.
Great. Honestly, my holy symbol probably would be honestly.
Okay. You hold up, you hold up,
you hold up your crucifix and what do you,
what's the ver what's gonna be the verbal comp component to this. Cause I,
I want to paint this picture being as you're cheap. Shoting me right now. So I,
I want to paint this picture.
Um, I'm gonna say in the name of the Lord, God almighty,
I banish the.
What's gonna be the, uh, somatic.
I'll do the good old, uh, spectacles, testicles wallet and watch wallet.
Watch. All right.
He makes this gesture with his hands and there's a faint pop as
Ashlyn disappears from reality.
And you hear Arlan who you,
whose ear you still have a piece of in your hand right now.
Say a word that you've never heard him say before.
but you're not entirely certain.
Fudge.
That you're not entirely certain where he heard it from in the first.
Place's gonna just neatly dust off his hands and say,
I didn't think that was actually gonna work.
Got rid of our pest problem. Well, apparently it did. Now the question is.
Did.
It get me all her lackies.
Stumble for? No, Wilder's still here. Eileen's she's completely invisible on,
right. I, I just hear Eileen and Arlan nearby.
So I'm um, I'm gonna turn around.
You probably heard Arlin whisper in the, the direction of their voices.
No, her Laki are still here. So if, uh,
one of you could grab me hand and lead me out of this place,
I'm thinking Arlin might know a way out.
Arlen's like, um, yeah.
As long as you don't do that to me and well.
I'm not doing that to anyone for the rest of the day.
Uh, and he.
So you have a day of reprieve.
He grabs you by the hands stumble foot and he starts running. Are,
are you going with him?
Uh, yes. It is time to leave.
And he takes you through a series of tunnels. Um,
and you see the rest of the group standing outside as you guys
come out.
I'm assuming that you're gonna drop the spell once you guys hit the tunnels.
Yeah. Once it's where once we don't need,
I don't think we were waiting for them. No, we.
Were, we were high telling it out of.
There. Oh right. You guys were going to, you guys were going to, uh, the,
your Tom Golin friend, Tom bog. Tom Bo's.
House. I'll wait.
Okay. Yeah, you guys. Okay. You guys see, uh, Felix outside.
She's gone.
Y'all crazy. Ex-girlfriend is gone. So, uh, oh,
where did everybody else go?
Wait, hold on.
I banished her back to the base.
I'm speechless.
I did not think it was gonna work. honestly, it was a long shot,
but I don't know. It must have caught her by surprise.
She didn't know we were follow. Not true.
You're good at what you do.
We should let the others know and we should get back to tumble. Right?
That's where they're headed. So we should catch up. I just,
I wanted to make sure you knew that's where we were going. So, uh,
should we head that way? Hey.
There's a, there's going to be a significant power vacuum and no.
And uh TowerFall and I think we have just a person to fill it.
Well.
It's P.
Oh, .
And we're off.
Eric.
A P for mayor. Oh, oh king.
Eric. You remember that?
You remember that episode of critical role when Liam
O'Brien get gave the, uh, artifacts to the, uh,
the queen.
Small.
Steps, John, that small steps, one foot in the front of the other.
Everything I can have.
Is
oh, this is what happens. When the DM plans a lot.
Do you need to mute yourself, John?
The players happen? That's.
What happens when you kill?
Well, we still got a lot of that's true. We still have,
we have a drought problem.
Yeah. But you can get, you have a plan to get your brother back.
I have no way of resurrecting the plot lines I have.
Aww.
Yeah, we haven't won. I mean, we've got a car problem.
We've got a XOs problem. We've got tower fall infested. Withrow I mean,
we got lots.
Of problems. Yeah. I have a list.
We've got 99 problems, but a low.
8, 1 8 1. All right. New
several, a, a couple hours later,
which is what about what it takes you to get to Tom Bo's house on foot?
You guys all meet up and run into Tom Bo's house and he's down there drinking a
cup of tea and he's like, oh, uh, okay, this is, this is a thing. Um,
hello to you then. And oh, okay. Did you bring dinner at.
Uh, Tom, Tom, uh.
And walks that out. .
Tom ballgame. Sorry, I would've, uh, sent you a message ahead, but, uh,
I'm all out of that magic for the day. Um.
We, we need your help.
Some good news and bad news. The.
Undressed.
Has been banished. King vault has been, um,
deposed. He wasn't really king vault. Um,
he lives in a rock now he's dead now, but the bad news is NICU,
uh, was killed during the fate.
And we were hoping you might be able to resurrect him. Uh,
I would've done it, but, um, the fake king vault cut him in half.
Looks like he cut him in thirds, actually.
Yes, that too.
He's not good at meth.
Um, but can.
Can you help us come please?
Hmm. Well, it all comes down to
if the Spirit's willing, I suppose. Yeah.
I am going to need a diamond worth. A thousand gold.
We still have the chest, right?
Yeah.
Okay. This is, this is risky,
but we're gonna open up the chest and go dig in for diamonds.
All right. As you open up this chest, uh,
stumble foot,
you are having a hard time finding gems in it.
I didn't touch it.
Am I having a hard time finding anything or just gems?
Uh, you see a room on the other side of the threshold of this chest.
Did they empty it out?
Uh, you see an empty room.
They emptied the room.
Oh, that's surely we can find diamonds. Tom Bo,
how long do we have a century? Oh, well that's plenty of time.
Right? What time of day is it?
Uh, it's getting towards the evening. P P who goes out to Toman.
Okay.
Um, Emran.
Is he better?
Uh, not yet. We need, we need to find a diamond. Um,
is this what we should be doing?
Is this what you want? What I mean?
Uh, I know, um,
that you had mixed feelings about us bringing you back.
I thought maybe I should. We, we should ask him for.
I got to make a choice still.
And my choice today got him killed. So yes,
this is what we should be doing.
All right. I ju I just wanted to, um,
confirm with you before we proceeded.
Uh it's uh,
it's a hard when you lose someone, you
care about.
Felix, I forget. Where did you leave? LL.
Leon came and got her.
Okay.
Welder, um,
would the thieve skilled have access to a diamond that we could buy from them?
Oh, that's right. They don't know.
I mean, it's worth a look.
Arlan knows.
I haven't been, I haven't checked out any of the stuff with George,
any of his stuff. I don't know if Kai knows. Uh, I could,
I could go back and look, uh.
What happened to George?
Oh, um,
he's gone. He's
he had to pay the price of, uh, my mistake.
Well,
maybe we can use your mistake to bring
NICU back. Maybe we can make some good out of it.
Good idea. Um, is Arlan with us too?
Eileen has a good piece of his ear. Okay.
No, I moved to his neck. Okay. The back of his neck.
Um, stumble foot is gonna give, um,
Wilder 500 gold and say, here, put this towards the price of a diamond.
I'm almost outta money, but this, this should help.
Uh, I mean, with what I've got and what he gave me, where at 800,
does anybody else have anything else? Just in case I need to.
Arlen goes, why don't you just give it to 'em? Why are you charging them?
I wanna replace the funds.
I was just trying to be, I was just trying to be fair,
making sure that we're not taken advantage. Yeah.
Well, you're the boss now. Just, well, they're inherited.
Do you have the ability to do whatever you want?
Wait, what?
You are the boss.
Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. I, I don't wanna be,
yeah. George left it to me and Kai is my right hand.
Everyone's in charge of you, but I think all of a sudden.
Yeah. Okay, fine. I'll go. And I'll be back shortly.
Uh, I'm gonna leave to go back to the thieve Guild.
Yeah. You go back to the thieve Guild and you go into your,
you go into your stores and, uh,
as you rummage through some of the things that your thieves have, th um,
you are able to find a diamond of about a thousand gold pieces.
Easy enough. Okay.
Well, I'll bring it back, obviously. Mm-hmm .
Did, did, did you get it Wilder?
Uh, yeah. I'm kind of surprised there was one in there actually,
uh, tumble. This is what you need.
Yes, yes. Um, yes. This,
this will take a little bit of time. I,
unless somebody has something to contribute to this.
In what way?
Uh, to draw the soul back the.
Like, what.
Something that might give the soul a reason to come back.
I mean, Emron.
Uh, I'm going to tell him to wait and then go get RDA.
All right. You get to your house.
Oh, I don't like the way you said that John.
And your dad is home. Who.
Who comes with you?
Oh, that's fine. Yeah. That's.
He covered in.
Blood. Don't even stop to say hi.
He looks at, you was like, it's good to see you home. Maybe.
I'm in the house.
What she's.
I just go inside. She's.
It's a pleasure to meet you. So rather busy at the moment.
I'm sorry. Did you just brush me off in my own home?
No, I said it's a.
Meet. You. It, you,
you distinctly tried to brush me off from talking to my own daughter.
Uh, I don't.
Yes. Well, I learned from the best, oh.
Oh.
You're back. Go into the bedroom. .
Um, yes. It's a pleasure to meet you, sir. Uh,
rather busy at the moment.
And who are you and why should I care?
Oh, well I'm no one in particular.
All right. No one in particular. I think you can go stand outside.
Oh, well, um, yes, I will stand out there and approximately.
You will do it now.
All right. Right now, would, would you care to stand outside with me?
And we could continue this conversation out there?
No, you can go out there now or I will call the authorities.
Um, so I will gladly go stand outside. Um.
Good days.
Oh, oh, uh, good. All right. I'll just be.
While they're.
Right out here while he's.
Here.
Doling.
I'm in as few of words as possible.
Just going to tell Rhoda that she needs to come with me quickly.
I have test it's about have to study for.
I need you to come with me so you can save. Nick is his life.
What the idiot do. Now.
I will explain on the way.
Dad, I gotta go. And he's like, no, you need to stay home and study.
You don't need to grow up to be how I was.
We've been called to a higher purpose now.
And you need to make sure that you are getting good grades on your test.
I will help you study when we get back.
She just kind of gestures at you. Like, you know,
doing the cool it for a second. She goes, yeah. Dad says I have to stay.
So, um, you know,
maybe some other time and she kind of gestures like go.
Yep. And we'll walk right past him again. Cuz I don't wanna talk to him.
all right. The moment you get outside,
Rhoda's already outside waiting for you.
Perfect. I love that little scoundrel.
Oh. Oh. Where where'd you come from? RO.
Uh, well when one font tar, well,
I can't really say loves each other very much, but.
No.
Sometimes a man font tar will give a woman font, tar a special hug.
RDA. I mean like you won't hear and now you are here.
That's usually how this story goes.
Okay. Well we, we gotta go.
We'll be walking. We discuss the finer things of wrote sneaking outta the house.
And I will attempt to relay the spark notes of the evening.
Gross. Maybe I, but you're,
you're certain that this Gowin friend of yours can bring him back.
Uh, he brought me back or gave me the option to come back.
It, it is, it is magic. So
we're not quite sure about it.
But okay. So we're, we're doing magic now.
Then she looks inquisitively at Cameron.
Wow. Between dad finding religion and you finding magic.
It's just been a couple days of surprise.
He's been sober for a couple days now. So.
That's what sober looks like.
You know, poo. I like you better when you don't talk so much.
I understand that. But I would ask that he's not rude to our family either.
Especially when he doesn't know our family.
A rotor. Well, it was my,
my mistake sometimes.
I don't think before I talk a rotor, you are correct.
But please forgive me.
All I know is that dad seems better now, so.
Well, that is a good, good thing. I, I, I suppose,
um, I, if let's, uh,
table this discussion as we focus on one, one thing at a time.
All right, so you guys, I mean to cut you off them,
whatever works, I guess. Anyway, uh, you guys, you guys, you,
as you guys are crossing the bridges, like you're coming to this island,
like no one comes here for a reason, you know that, right.
And we're still here.
Emran and poo and Rhoda come back to, uh,
Tom Bo's house and orach is no longer there. But uh,
uh, Tom bogs, like, are we, are we ready to do this now?
Yes.
Okay.
Do we have everything that we could bring to this to draw the
soul back?
Uh.
Yes. I don't know what you mean by that, but yes.
Anything to give him a reason to come back? Basically anything that would.
Yes.
Okay.
He begins performing this ceremony and, uh,
being as you are his sibling and you brought
Rhoda, I'd like you to roll. Oh gosh, two D one hundreds.
With my roles this evening. Mm-hmm sorry. Nick is, bye.
.
Roll two, 100. Mm-hmm
uh, 33 on the first.
1, 11, 11.
On the second. I don't know if that's good or bad, but.
Um.
They were both real low .
As he's performing this ceremony. Um, he's like I'm having,
I'm having a hard time locating him.
What does that mean?
I can't find the soul to draw him back.
Can anybody else,
does anybody else have anything that can present? We can,
we can try this one more time.
Um, your other brother, perhaps.
I think finding the rest of my siblings will be very difficult in this amount of
time.
But this one.
Point to the.
Yes, but he's like halfway across town.
Um.
Unless we don't have a time constraint, in which case I can find is I want.
Your.
Time constraint hundred years as like part of the essence or something. Well,
he's talking about during this ceremony, he.
Right. He's he already started casting, I assume.
Mm-hmm
that ha that has you pointed at that was from a brother? Um.
Um, yes. Yes.
Give it to her, give it to her.
I pull it off and hand it to Tom.
He places it on
the body. Uh, P go ahead and roll a D 100 for me please.
Oh, dear.
Okay. Let's see what we got.
Here, but that third aspect, uh,
lowers the threshold that we're playing with here too. So.
Okay.
The only thing in M's head right now is that big, giant thing, eating souls.
it's.
Fine.
That is a 32.
That barely cleared the threshold. Uh,
so you watch,
as you watch as this hat
dissipate into nothingness,
go ahead and take that hat out of your inventory. Poo.
It was never in there. I just wore.
Okay. I have one too, though. I forgot about that.
And uh,
you see the parts of
grow together.
He begins to sputter and cough and gasp as he comes back
into the realm of the living.
No talking.
I don't know about RDA, but I'm just hugging him and crying. All my characters,
get to cry today. .
And, uh, as he comes to, uh,
Rhoda looks at him and he goes, what's wrong with him? And he has,
what's commonly known as a thousand yard stare on his face.
Like he has seen something so far beyond his
realm of being able to cope with.
I understand. I will.
Just.
Hold his face and say it's okay.
Um, what, what, what I've seen,
I've seen, what I've seen is not okay.
Uh, P tries to get everyone to clear the room
and heads outside.
Nicholas, when you're ready, I can offer some healing.
I, I don't think,
I don't think
I can go back.
Back where.
To being okay. For any kind of heal, uh,
any kind of healing
you've seen this Emran.
Yes. Yeah.
It had me.
Well, it doesn't have you. Now.
I, I looked into ma
and I saw the inky black void of oblivion.
Have you ever stared non-existence in the mouth?
Uh, make a perception, check.
To keep up my trend of the evening.
Awesome.
I have world of five. Okay. Which keeps me up to 10.
All right. Um, it, well, 10 will work. This is pretty obvious.
His psyche is broken. Like he,
but his.
Body's better. So I mean.
Pros and cons, like he is here, but I mean,
he has some extremely severe PTSD going
on right now. And you're.
The, do you know what we do with those emotions? Nicks?
We shove them down inside.
I think you were the one who was calling the group out.
Not to do that earlier on this.
Do, as I say, not as I do.
Lene bake some sweets he needs to eat.
Yes. Uh, I she'll just, she doesn't have words for it,
so she'll just plug him.
Okay. So poo poo is going to Ben.
Okay.
Goodnight poo night poo.
A good night. What a day?
And if you ever need to talk, I'll be around.
Thank you, boo. And then put ghost it.
All right.
Wilder, Felix, whatever we want to call him.
Yeah.
as you sleep, mm-hmm.
.
You see a familiar lady in your dreams. Mm.
Wonderful.
Who is standing next to a very familiar blonde, 12 year old.
Even more wonderful.
In fact, she's down on her knee,
looking her in the eye and she looks over at you.
As she brushes some blonde hair out of LLS eyes. She goes,
this is a lovely daughter you have here.
How come you never let me know about her?
I forgot about her.
That's a shame.
I could never forget her about such a beautiful little girl,
especially now that I've been dispossessed of my vessel in your.
Realm. What do you want?
Why.
I wanna come back?
What's stopping you.
Oh, not a lot.
I just needed to find an adequate vessel. As she says,
as she brushes the ear, the,
the hair away from the other side of LL space.
Here, I think Callum would be a better option.
I, he knows who he is now. And I have,
let's just say he would have more power over my position than vice versa.
Mm.
Ah, so you are a coward too.
Not a coward. I just have an understanding of how hierarchy.
Works and manipulation.
Hmm.
Somebody's bitter.
I mean, considering you're not human or anything like that,
I don't think you'd understand losing, um, I don't know,
maybe three years of your life, uh, unwillingly. And then,
oh, imagine this imagine.
Three years of your life.
Oh yeah. Yeah. There's a lot that, you know,
being all powerful and all that you don't quite understand. So, um,
don't worry. I, I don't expect you to understand because.
My love, I was only with you for about six months.
Um, not talking about you
kind of funny that you wouldn't know that I wasn't
me. That makes sense
that I forgot who I was. Mm-hmm .
So you're going to blame me for your jumbled memories. Oh.
No, I don't blame me for those.
But what I'm saying is you wouldn't understand what I've dealt with.
So maybe being bitter about the fact that I forgot that I had a,
a daughter that I love and would die
for. I mean, that's,
that's something and you just, you won't,
you won't understand that because you are selfish and you'll do whatever it
takes to get your way, which makes you a coward.
Selfish and does whatever it takes to get your way.
I distinctly remember you doing whatever it takes to get your way as
a member of this thieves Guild. So hi pot,
have you met kettle.
Guarantee? I haven't called near as much damage as you have.
Just because I'm better at your job.
Doesn't necessarily mean that we're all that different, but I digress.
I'll see you soon. You have a lovely daughter,
TA
Eileen.
Yes.
As you sleep,
you see a gaunt black haired woman
approach you as you're sleeping. She goes,
we must do something about this.
This just kind of waves in your general direction.
This.
Oh, in watching you against spider,
you were a bit ineffectual. We need to give you
a little bit more, um, a touch of Gusto.
Well, I had that, but as you,
as you put at SP a ha neutralized, one of my best weapons.
Oh, I'm not talking about weapons. I mean, after all,
if you are going to represent me, I must have you in better,
better ability. I must outfit you with better capabilities.
And do I represent you?
Well, you have the essence of,
in my Herald sustaining you.
It only makes sense that you should at
least have some of his responsibilities. Doesn't it?
No.
Perhaps.
I mean, if you'd like, I can certainly withdraw him.
He made that choice.
Mm. He made that choice,
but I can choose to take him back.
I feel like that's a disrespect to his choice.
It's a funny thing about being a God. You can make whatever choice you want.
Gods are no respecters of people understand this,
but I digress. You shouldn't be fighting me on this.
As I'm only seeking your benefit at this moment.
I make no commitments. But at the moment, do what you will.
Uh, it'll be minor something to give you a little bit of.
And she waves her hand over you and you get the
war caster feet. That's how your dream goes.
You don't get visited in your sleep. You just have a nightmare
of naing teeth and Calista
and oblivion.
Par for the course. Yeah. Honestly, at this point.
Yep. Yep.
So you all wake up the next morning.
What would you like to do?
Um, before I went to sleep, I burned the rest of my spell.
Lots on healing, NICU. Okay.
Uh, NICU's uh, physical wounds look fairly healed,
but he is still pretty shell shocked.
Yeah. Well, I don't have greater restoration, so sorry. NICU.
Make a wisdom check for you please.
I rolled a six. Nevermind.
But as, as, as you awake, em, uh, cuz I'm assuming you guys crashed at, uh,
Tom Bo's place.
Yes.
Uh, Nick is just ha wakes up and he's just staring blankly off into space.
Uh, I think she'll
put RDA in charge of looking after him essentially.
And RDA RDA looks at you and she's like, what's wrong with him?
Uh, I think, I think she would've talked to rota the night before about it. Oh.
Once Nick went to sleep, just so it wasn't in front of him.
Mm-hmm , you know, rough conversation to have,
but she won't explain the details of what he saw, but just that
dying is an ordeal.
Right.
And then ask them if they want to go back home
question mark .
Uh, she, she says, well, where else are we gonna go? I mean,
obviously Nick is, can't go back to his job.
Yes. I would hope that he doesn't. Um,
I was thinking about taking him to Ethan.
What? To sell spice.
Well, not quite,
but for all of the thoughts that he had,
some of them were actually right.
And I think he would be safe there and no one would come looking for him.
Yeah. When you say this, you hear Arlin say.
M gives him a look so immediately as he opens his mouth no.
Are you, are you, are you talking about another font tar?
A little bit kind of sketchy in his thought process.
Like the queen is a spider lady and
a lizard guy for the king lines in the sky.
Since Arlan is not getting the picture. I will then look at.
.
He's a grown one, I guess. I'm sorry.
He and I need to have a conversation, but that's.
Gonna.
No, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just double checking.
Is that who you're talking about?
Yes. Perhaps you could double check in a nicer way or maybe a quieter way.
Well, no, I'm just, I'm just asking because he was the one who hired us.
He had full.
Killing Nikki. No, he hired me to kill the Queen's guards.
Right.
I'm going to kill him.
I may help you at principle.
Thank you. I appreciate it. Mm-hmm great.
Good. Love that. Thank you. I'm liking you more and more Arlin.
The more you say things.
I'm just.
Mm-hmm .
He just sits back and just like, he's like confused as,
as far as what he did wrong.
Like he thought he was helping the situation and doesn't understand why he
wasn't.
Hmm. Well that, Hmm. Raises some questions that I have
that I was not prepared to think about today or ever.
Well, maybe we won't go to Ethans.
Hmm. Oh, Eileen check out this cool thing I got though.
And he reaches in his bag and he pulls out this purple gem.
What is that?
I don't know. I found it while I was, uh, scoping out the castle.
It's that fault.
so you just picked it up.
It looked valuable. It's like a giant ETHS or something.
Is that vault stone?
That's that's true. So.
Should I should I guess, or,
or BOGO reach for it and uh, wants to see if he get to, so.
We all saw.
It before.
Right? Follow we feeling.
Off of it. Is it the same one we saw before?
It looks like it? Uh, or bog. When you grab it,
you get an immediate feeling of disappointment, paternal disappointment.
That that'd be the best way I can put it.
Well, we didn't know. There was a lizard guy inside you, so.
It's.
True. So we just like destroy this now.
He's.
Yeah. Do we just like, he's.
Talking to rock.
It's a soul stone. Olin it's vault soul is inside of it.
Do you understand about soul stone?
No.
Okay. Let's let's go have a chat.
Do we want to destroy it? Push him.
I don't think we want to destroy it.
Well, it's not going back in the body.
No.
Nor would we want it to go back in the body? I don't think.
Was, are we sure that that was my dad's real.
Body?
Oh no. That was an illusion.
The duner guy was inside.
I overheard Ashlyn saying that there were special guests being
kept down in the dungeon.
Maybe they're keeping vaults body down there along with some other people.
And we should probably get it like.
Ashland, Ashland.
I think we have a couple orders of business.
I think the first thing is we need to go back to castle Mangar and uh,
maybe try to rest control or, um,
or bug perhaps you need to get out in the streets and make a speech and
try to rally the people they'll listen to you.
Oh, we do both.
Yeah.
Um.
At the same time, perhaps, um.
Let's raise an army and storm the castle. Let's kick out the drought.
I quite like that plan.
So I had a visit from lo.
Oh, other than that.
Yeah. Um, she's trying to come back and
seems like she might try and use LL.
Where is Ella?
What? Uh, Leon had a blast.
So she should be safe.
Well, perhaps we should let Leon know that. Um, maybe,
uh, trying to get to hold of her. Is she still at your house?
Is LA at your house?
Uh, yeah. I'll I'll step outside and I'll get in touch.
Just,
we might want to take care of Ashlyn and vault
one way or the other.
I think she needs somebody with some sort of power here.
Anyway, I'll go. I'll go talk to Leona. So I'm gonna go outside.
Do you think we can gather, I don't know,
soldiers from Southern TowerFall that we could try to the ones who are still
alive, that we could take them with us. I don't think,
I don't think we're supposed to kill the drought
are, are the, the whole island has been riddled with as you know,
prejudice for many centuries. Now,
no matter how angry and everything we are,
we can't put that on them too.
We need to give them a chance for peace.
And we can use the fact that we defeated some pretty
powerful people
that we stand strong, but we don't, we don't kill them unless we have to,
unless there are ones who threaten us,
this could give us a chance to do what we've needed to do.
We've all said it at different times, about there being power vacuums.
There's definitely gonna be one now.
And we need to do something to deal with that.
If we can get some soldiers and we can talk to the
ones here. Now,
the drought here now that they will understand, and that they've probably heard.
Well for those that perhaps haven't,
it would be very important for you to make it clear quickly, um,
before they decide to come up with a plan in order to leave people to believe
that the king and queen are still alive, um,
perhaps someone should go to Southern TowerFall and see if there are any guards
still loyal. And perhaps when Wilder is done,
making sure his daughter's okay. Um,
could make sure that those that were at the thief skilled are alive, um,
after the siege and perhaps also still loyal.
I'm wondering if we can't also use the hard you to help us get
the words out.
It does seem like the easiest method in which to get news to spread across the
island. Um, if you would, you know, draft a statement,
but I think it's very helpful. If people see you in the castle.
You don't need to claim the throne.
I just think you need to establish leadership in this moment, right?
And lead the charge to free the kingdoms.
You can worry about who's gonna rule it later.
All I'm saying is right now, we're poised to make a difference.
And if we, if we sit on our hands, then we're gonna lose the initiative.
We've got to do something today.
Now we need to make a show of force. Right. Um,
we don't necessarily have to kill them. All right.
But if we show up with a whole bunch of people who are armed,
that's gonna be a lot more persuasive to making them maybe want to go home than
if it's just, you know, the six or seven of us. And we're like, Hey,
you should leave now.
Yes.
If we could collect the guards from Southern TowerFall or those in Northern.
TowerFall, the more I, the more bodies we've got the better.
If we really want to show a force, probably need to get.
That's what I, citizens too. We need you to make a big public speech. Yeah.
And the rally, as many of the people as possible, they'll listen to you.
I really feel like this is a, they can take away our lives,
but they cannot take our freedom kinda moment.
Easy. Their will, William Wallace. And on that note,
this is where we're gonna end it for the evening.
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