[00:00:05] Speaker A: You are listening to an Atomic broadcasting production. So sit back, Relax, and enjoy the feature presentation. And remember, do your part, such as, like, comment rate. And don't forget to tell a friend to tune in for an atomic time.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: Now, where did we leave off?
A a vicious linorm ambushed the team, fighting ferociously and Downing Val with its electric venom. Before they could bring it down, they had just enough time to revive Val when the linorm began to twitch and get back up.
[00:01:06] Speaker C: Don't make him spit all over the equipment.
[00:01:15] Speaker D: We'll have to get it some other time. It's not good unless it's genuine.
[00:01:19] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[00:01:20] Speaker D: Can Nana.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Somebody stop poking Sam, what kind of.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: ASMR are we doing?
[00:01:26] Speaker D: The good kind.
[00:01:28] Speaker E: There's your blooper reel.
[00:01:29] Speaker D: Hello.
Welcome to atomic broadcasting, the ASMR channel, the only ASMR podcast where we consistently poke. Sam, that was a nice poke.
Another good one right in the side.
[00:01:47] Speaker F: How squishy can one man be?
[00:01:51] Speaker D: That was a pinch. I'm not gonna lie. That one was a pinch.
[00:01:59] Speaker F: That's the best one I have.
[00:02:01] Speaker E: Oh, hey, Jordy, could you explain the regeneration thing to us?
[00:02:06] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: Yeah. So, yeah, why the heck did this.
[00:02:08] Speaker D: Thing get back up?
[00:02:09] Speaker B: In pathfinder twoie, there is a trait that creatures can have called regeneration. It is most commonly, notably found on trolls.
And what regeneration means is that at the start of a creature's turn, they will regain however much health is tied to the regeneration trait. This is regardless of whether or not the creature has the dying trait, they will still get that health back. And if a creature has active regeneration, they cannot die.
Even if you, like, cut off their head, cut them into tiny pieces, they're gonna wolverine themselves back together and get back up again.
[00:02:48] Speaker E: Could I have regeneration?
[00:02:51] Speaker D: Yes, but it's through a variant feat called the troll. It's under the troll variant.
[00:02:56] Speaker E: I think if I take that worm archetype, I can get it to.
[00:02:59] Speaker D: Oh, neat. There's a lot of my question. Every time we kill it, does it get knocked prone?
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Yes. So it will drop as if it has died, and then it will start regenerating and get back up again. So at this point, the linorm, since it's, like, starting to get back up, it's prone right now. You know, it has. It has been dead, essentially, and it's regenerating and getting back up. Now, every creature that has regeneration, there is some way to stop it. So, trolls. Pretty common. You guys are level six. You know, if you're up against a troll, you've got to damage it with fire or acid to stop that regeneration. Linorms. Lots of people have different legends and rumors about what you have to do. Some people say you have to wear your socks inside out. People say you have to do the final blow while your eyes are closed. Things like that.
[00:03:45] Speaker C: Someone get to change in their socks.
[00:03:47] Speaker D: My socks are always inside out.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Then why is it not done?
[00:03:51] Speaker F: Zafir doesn't wear socks.
[00:03:53] Speaker C: Zafir doesn't?
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Canonically, Zafir doesn't have socks.
[00:03:57] Speaker D: No, he doesn't wear them.
[00:03:58] Speaker E: He might have.
[00:03:59] Speaker F: He has socks. They're always in his bag, just in case.
[00:04:04] Speaker D: You never know when you'll need socks.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: And since Zafir is not wearing socks, the linorm, who has no feet, sees him as a kindred spirit and wants to give him a hug and lashes out as it spends one action to rise from prone.
[00:04:20] Speaker E: Could it attack me?
[00:04:22] Speaker C: No. Sam.
[00:04:23] Speaker B: Can't reach. You're far away.
[00:04:25] Speaker C: You are almost dead.
[00:04:26] Speaker B: It arises from prone and lashes out with its tail at Zafir.
[00:04:32] Speaker E: Great.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: And what is your Ac. Zapir?
[00:04:40] Speaker D: It's like 79.
[00:04:43] Speaker C: He's unhittable.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: Critical hit.
[00:04:46] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[00:04:47] Speaker F: 23.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: So this is a critical hit.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: Why did I have to open my big mouth?
[00:04:55] Speaker D: Sven, get out of here right now.
[00:04:56] Speaker C: You are kicked out of the pocket.
[00:04:58] Speaker A: I will see myself out for that one.
[00:05:00] Speaker E: Fired again.
[00:05:01] Speaker D: This is the third time we've had to fire you. Oh, my God.
[00:05:04] Speaker E: Actually, I think this might be the fifth time we fired.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Oh, that'll be 23. Bludgeoning damage. Ouch.
[00:05:10] Speaker E: How much?
[00:05:11] Speaker C: 23.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't double it.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you roll?
[00:05:18] Speaker B: I didn't. Yeah, he's still dazzled from the blood dripping in his.
Okay, 16.
So he successfully lashes out with a glimpse of redemption.
[00:05:31] Speaker E: Oh, they're both within 15ft of me, I believe.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:05:36] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:05:36] Speaker E: Either the linor must choose. Either my ally is unharmed by the triggering damage, or the ally gets resistance equal to eight. And after the effect is applied, the linorm becomes enfeebled, too.
[00:05:52] Speaker D: Nice.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: What's the phrasing on option a?
[00:05:54] Speaker E: The ally is unharmed by the triggering damage.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: I choose option a.
[00:06:00] Speaker D: There's an extra effect.
[00:06:02] Speaker E: Well, yeah. It's the lightning bite. It's biting, right?
[00:06:04] Speaker B: It's tail lashing.
[00:06:05] Speaker E: Oh, the free crab.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: So it starts lashing out with its tail. Val, you know, yells out at it. I don't know. What does glimpse of redemption look like?
[00:06:14] Speaker E: Oh, a glimpse of redemption.
[00:06:16] Speaker C: Of redemption.
[00:06:17] Speaker D: It's pretty selfish.
[00:06:18] Speaker B: Never had a glimpse of redemption. I'm a game master.
[00:06:22] Speaker E: It says, your foe has hesitates under the weight of sins as visions of redemption play in their minds eye. So I imagine some of those little kirby crackles fly around it seeing, and it sees some sort of mental, like, I wouldn't even know what it's seeing, but it's seeing something that is bringing it some sort of guilt.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: And you get that sense of hesitation. And that tail that was moving swiftly like it was gonna smack you instead just kind of slows down and starts trying to curl around you and grab you instead.
What is your fortitude?
[00:06:56] Speaker F: DC 21.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Okay, so regular success. So it doesn't deal any damage to you with its tail, but it does grab you in its tail.
Now, it does have improved grab. So that was a free action.
And then it's going to holding you close to this tail. Just try to bite you.
He gets a regular hit on you, not a critical.
[00:07:20] Speaker D: That's good.
[00:07:23] Speaker B: You take 18 piercing damage.
And then I will need a fortitude save first.
[00:07:29] Speaker E: All gonna be chaining lightning amongst each other.
[00:07:33] Speaker F: 18.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: Whoa.
[00:07:35] Speaker E: Oh, no.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: You start to feel the crackling of electricity where it bit you.
And you take 14 electricity damage.
[00:07:44] Speaker E: Buzz, buzz.
[00:07:46] Speaker C: How you doing, Zafir?
[00:07:48] Speaker A: About half.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: And you also become drained.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: One.
[00:07:51] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: That is the end of the linorm's turn.
[00:07:55] Speaker G: One d, eight damage.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Yes. He has harmed one creature. So he takes one d, eight damage, and he is still bleeding.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: Seven, one.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: And it just drops to the ground.
[00:08:07] Speaker D: Amazing.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: But now you all know that this creature will probably get back up in the next few seconds.
[00:08:14] Speaker E: Its eyes are good now. It's no longer bleeding.
[00:08:16] Speaker D: Oh, man.
[00:08:17] Speaker C: Dang it.
[00:08:18] Speaker E: And no longer dazzled.
[00:08:19] Speaker D: Well, that changes my turn. Sam.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not frightened either.
[00:08:23] Speaker E: You can go stout with this.
[00:08:24] Speaker C: We have to stop the regeneration somehow.
[00:08:26] Speaker D: Is like.
[00:08:27] Speaker E: Okay, do you want to just give me the spear and I'll finish it off?
[00:08:30] Speaker B: So I will interject real quick. A spear is a simple weapon. So all of you are trained or better the spear, depending on your training with simple weapons. The linorm is dead right now, which means it is off guard and unconscious. So it has an effective minus six to its armor class.
[00:08:48] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:08:50] Speaker B: And with that, it is Alwards turn.
[00:08:52] Speaker D: What I'm going to do on my turn, since it's downed, is I'm going to grab the spear of cold iron we got last time. We believe it to be fae as a linorm. And then I'm going to step to Val and then give Val the spear as an interactive action.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: All right, so, Val, you're lying on the ground. Your wounds are beginning to close with that healing potion. There's still the crackling electricity in your shoulder, but Alward steps up and hands you the spear.
[00:09:22] Speaker D: I know you're hurt, but can you.
[00:09:24] Speaker E: I'm gonna kill this thing.
[00:09:26] Speaker D: Okay, emma, Pat Val's shoulder.
[00:09:28] Speaker E: A little spark.
[00:09:29] Speaker D: Yeah, little. Little bitty sparks.
[00:09:31] Speaker E: And you can see now that when you go in to do pat, like, some of that black stuff's coming out of her wounds. Black stuff from her black veins near where her arm was left.
[00:09:42] Speaker D: Okay, we could talk about that later.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: And with that, it is Val's turn.
[00:09:46] Speaker E: She gets up.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: She starts her turn.
[00:09:50] Speaker E: Oh, no.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: With a fortitude. Safe.
[00:09:52] Speaker D: Don't die.
[00:09:53] Speaker C: Gosh.
[00:09:56] Speaker E: I got that. That's good. That's 22.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: What's that on the die?
[00:10:01] Speaker E: Eleven on the day.
[00:10:03] Speaker B: I just wanted to check, because that's a regular fail.
[00:10:06] Speaker E: What? I thought that was a success earlier.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: No.
[00:10:08] Speaker C: What?
[00:10:09] Speaker B: It was a nat 20.
[00:10:10] Speaker E: That was someone else succeeded.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: Nine. Electricity damage.
[00:10:15] Speaker E: I'm a. Okay.
[00:10:16] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:10:17] Speaker E: So the electricity begins flowing, flaring up in her as she's using the spear to help her get up, and she starts just limping her way over to the monster, and she just doesn't say anything, but looks very angry, and the veins are starting to kind of get stronger, and she's gonna try and stab right down in its neck with this cold iron spear.
Let us hope.
Let us. Wow.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: So it's a minus four status penalty for being unconscious and a minus two circumstance penalty for being off guard.
[00:10:49] Speaker E: 34.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: That's incredible.
[00:10:53] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:10:55] Speaker E: Nine points of damage with the cold iron spear.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: So, as you stab into it with this cold iron spear before, when it was reduced to zero gp, it would just sort of collapse and then eventually get back up with its wounds knitting back together. This time, as you stab it, it just kind of goes limp, and you feel like before, it almost had a sort of playing dead sort of sense, and now it just almost has just the sense of just being like a dead fish, just there, not moving. There seems to be no sense of any form of life or potential left in it.
But I will need a will save.
[00:11:34] Speaker D: Oh, no.
[00:11:38] Speaker E: 22.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: Hmm. Interesting.
As you land that final blow, and you're confident that you have killed the linorm.
[00:11:48] Speaker D: Nothing happens.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Nothing happens.
[00:11:50] Speaker D: I knew it.
[00:11:50] Speaker E: She's just gonna yell in anger and then just stab down again.
[00:11:55] Speaker F: So immediately after Val has thrust the spear into the neck, however many times she does, Zafir pulls out the dagger out of his right boot and imbues it with his spell strike of the ignite and starts to just carve as quickly as he can around the neck.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: As the two of you are working on just severing the head of this thing and just going at it with your fire imbued dagger and your cold, iron spear, I'm gonna need another fortitude save from each of you just tracking along with this electricity that's crackling.
[00:12:32] Speaker D: I'm gonna give Val guidance, okay?
[00:12:35] Speaker E: 26 with guidance. Yeah.
[00:12:40] Speaker D: Petite, petite.
[00:12:43] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[00:12:44] Speaker D: Do it. Do it.
[00:12:45] Speaker C: What did you roll?
[00:12:46] Speaker F: A natural one? I just spent a card.
[00:12:49] Speaker E: Please be better.
[00:12:53] Speaker F: Much better. 24.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: And the effect ends for both of you.
[00:12:59] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:13:00] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh.
[00:13:02] Speaker E: So Val leaves the spear just, like, plunged in its eye, and then starts limping away and just starts throwing up. And it's this mix of usual looking amount with some black mixed in with it and blood.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Uwe sees that, and anybody looking at him, you're just gonna see this very, very grim and sad expression just come on his face.
And he just slowly walks over to Val, and as she's heaving this stuff up, he places a hand on her shoulder, and he just says, how long.
[00:13:46] Speaker E: As you place your hand on her shoulder, she actually forcefully throws her arm out at you. And very not raspy, but not great. She's like, oh, hey.
[00:14:00] Speaker D: I'm sorry. Did you say away?
[00:14:01] Speaker E: Go away.
[00:14:04] Speaker D: Can I make a check to see what could have caused the black vomit?
[00:14:10] Speaker B: Make a religion check.
[00:14:12] Speaker E: She gets down on her knees. She's just weak.
I mentioned before, the smell change, it's getting more of, like, bad. Not quite like, rotting flesh, but something.
[00:14:25] Speaker C: I can, like rancid.
[00:14:27] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:14:28] Speaker D: 29.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: It's difficult to tell exactly what may have caused this or, like, what's going on, but these seem to be related to some form of, like, undead curse or undeath thing going on. The smell, the blood, the bile, it all has earmarks of some sort of progression towards undeath, Uvair.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: After she says that, he steps back and he looks at Cornelius, and again with that same face. He just says, hello.
[00:15:08] Speaker B: Cornelius notices you as you're looking. He just kind of, like, averts his gaze. He doesn't want to meet your eyes. He's just like, I think that's something for her to share with you when she's ready.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: Jordy.
These new symptoms, apparently. Can I make a check on those to see a progression?
[00:15:31] Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead and make a religion check.
[00:15:34] Speaker E: As you're doing that, she unbuckles her arm, her prosthetic arm. And kind of like, just puts it down aside her 24 uweir.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: You're familiar with ghoul fever. It's a well documented disease that you can catch when bitten by a ghoul, and it's nothing like this.
Ghoul fever would be more akin to having, like, a stomach bug or the flu or something, and you might see some vomiting and such like that, but it tends to be more that the digestive system is dying before the rest of the body. But what's going on with the veins and the bile in her blood, as far as you're aware, has nothing to do with the ghouls.
[00:16:18] Speaker F: Does it?
[00:16:19] Speaker A: Proc. Anything that I can. I've read or heard or anything.
[00:16:24] Speaker E: This might be a thing that I already told you, so it might proc something for you. She did mention that she, like, her arm was taken in, presumably some sort of, like, offering or sacrifice to Ergothoa, but anything.
[00:16:38] Speaker A: Arcana or ancient lore, ancient empire lore or anything.
Or would this be purely religion?
[00:16:45] Speaker B: This would be a purely religion situation.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: You get the sense that this is something unusual enough, given what you're able to witness, that you're going to need either more information from Val to figure it out, or you're gonna need to be able to do some research and compare cases.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: Uwe walks over to Cornelius, and he just says, in ancient Thessalonian, as Jenkins.
[00:17:16] Speaker D: Pricks his ears up, no, my headset was falling off.
[00:17:21] Speaker G: Is this doesn't seem like Safavir as I know it.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: No, it's.
It's something more.
I don't know what the end game is, and I don't know how long she has left or how to stop it, but I don't think she's of any danger to you or your friends.
[00:17:50] Speaker G: I'm not worried about the danger to us. I am purely worried about her.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: Well, that's a change.
[00:18:04] Speaker E: Oof.
Oof.
[00:18:09] Speaker G: Perhaps.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: Ver just takes a that with.
[00:18:17] Speaker E: Strahd.
[00:18:20] Speaker A: No.
Pondering more of. That's not how I've ever felt. But hurt offense. Trying not to show offense.
You can see that affected him, but not in the. Okay, that's fair. But more of. No, that's not true. But I'm not gonna argue it right now. There probably is a word for that, but I don't have one.
[00:18:47] Speaker E: Write in.
Let us know.
[00:18:50] Speaker C: What is that word?
[00:18:51] Speaker A: I want a $15 word for that feeling.
[00:18:54] Speaker D: If we like your word, we'll insert it into this episode.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: After the fact, I will learn to pronounce this word.
[00:19:00] Speaker E: So re listen to it a couple of times.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: This episode was sponsored by you, megalomania.
[00:19:09] Speaker C: My listeners like you.
[00:19:11] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:19:12] Speaker E: You're welcome.
[00:19:15] Speaker G: I don't know much about what could cause this, and I'm not going to pry into what caused this unless she asks.
But I do know people.
I do know beings that might have an answer that are far older and wiser than I.
We might be able to help her, and I am willing to try.
[00:19:54] Speaker B: Cornelius kind of drops his shoulders a little bit more in just a softer stance. He seems less on guard and is just like, if you want to help, then you'd probably better talk to her yourself. I'm not gonna be a go between for this. I don't want her to see me as someone who's enabling these friendships. Has to be something she's built on her own.
[00:20:25] Speaker G: That I do understand.
Perhaps later.
[00:20:30] Speaker D: After listening to that conversation, Alwards going to turn and tap Neros on the shoulder with a mage hand. And then the mage hand is just going to, like, point toward Val, and Aler's gonna be like, maybe you should.
[00:20:45] Speaker C: I, like, turned and was like, yeah, I was about to.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: I didn't.
[00:20:48] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:20:49] Speaker D: I can't read your mind.
[00:20:51] Speaker C: You just assumed.
[00:20:53] Speaker D: I just. She seems lonely, and I know you guys get along.
[00:20:56] Speaker C: Yeah, I was heading over there.
[00:20:57] Speaker D: I didn't. Well, then the mage hands gestures like, go on.
[00:21:01] Speaker C: Then I, like, give the mage hand a high five, and I walk over to.
[00:21:08] Speaker D: It's no longer mage hand. It's telekinetic hand.
[00:21:10] Speaker C: Oh, whatever.
I give the telekinetic hand a high five, and I walk over to Vegeta.
I don't say anything.
I just kind of kneel beside her, just as in a show of solidarity and comfort. But just to let her know that.
[00:21:30] Speaker E: I'm there, she leans into it and cries a little.
[00:21:35] Speaker C: I start crying.
Abby. Not Neros.
[00:21:40] Speaker D: Neros stone face.
No emotion.
[00:21:45] Speaker C: Neros will put her arm around Val and just try to comfort her.
[00:21:50] Speaker F: Zafir has just been sitting next to the severed head of the linorm, just on the ground. You can see now his eyes have returned to a deep blood red as he slowly drinks one of his healing potions.
He slides his dagger back into his not on fire.
[00:22:13] Speaker D: After Alord tried to give Nero a little nudge that she didn't need, she.
[00:22:20] Speaker C: Was heading over there anyway.
[00:22:21] Speaker D: Yeah, it happens. He's gonna go check on Zafir.
You good? It bit you too.
[00:22:31] Speaker F: I'm fine.
[00:22:33] Speaker H: At least I will be in a bit.
[00:22:35] Speaker D: Um, I. I don't think we have the ability to keep that head.
[00:22:40] Speaker H: It's okay.
Nobody needs it, especially not him.
Just leave it here.
[00:22:47] Speaker D: I thought you wanted a trophy.
[00:22:48] Speaker H: No, I literally just wanted to take the head off.
[00:22:51] Speaker D: People become kings for killing these things.
[00:22:57] Speaker H: That changes nothing.
[00:23:01] Speaker D: Fair.
[00:23:03] Speaker F: I start to.
No, I already put it up. I pull my knife back out and just start. Does it have scales, by the way?
[00:23:11] Speaker B: It does.
[00:23:12] Speaker F: Zafir just starts kind of scraping off some of the scales around the neck. Descaling it.
[00:23:20] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't know if I can cook that.
[00:23:23] Speaker H: No, I don't want you to cook it. I'm just gonna take a few of the scales with me.
How are you? You didn't get hurt at all? I don't think I'm fine.
[00:23:34] Speaker D: I'm fit as a fiddle.
[00:23:39] Speaker H: It's good to know that some of us are getting out of this unscathed.
[00:23:45] Speaker E: At this point, Val starts saying some prayers and then starts laying on hands on herself.
[00:23:53] Speaker F: You can tell Zafir is actively not looking to you for help.
[00:23:58] Speaker E: Okay.
She's actually not in the moment looking to help anyone. She's kind of just focused on herself right now.
Thank you, Neeris, for helping me.
[00:24:12] Speaker C: Are you alright?
[00:24:15] Speaker E: I don't know. I'm not sure.
The corruption I've been feeling in me has been getting stronger.
[00:24:23] Speaker C: Is that what that. And she points at the vomit pile. Is that what that is?
[00:24:29] Speaker E: I imagine so.
You know, she's got her. She has her prosthetic off, so you can, like, see all the veins on her arm? The closer I've gotten to it hasn't gotten that intense before.
Maybe it was because I almost died.
I don't know. Last time it flared up, it was when I killed Saito.
Oh, now this.
It's like something.
Like there's another presence here. I'm feeling it get stronger lately.
I don't quite know what it is.
I can only imagine it's some sort of influence from Argytho or something. Whatever that cult might have done to me.
[00:25:21] Speaker C: Well, we'll figure it out.
I don't know what it is either, but we'll figure it out.
[00:25:29] Speaker E: I hope so.
I don't want to hurt. I don't want to accidentally hurt anyone.
[00:25:35] Speaker C: Well, we'll try not to let that happen.
[00:25:40] Speaker E: As she's like, lays on heel hands again, she starts. She starts looking like herself and like, the corruption is starting to kind of die down again.
Is Sophia all right? I think I heard him get hurt.
[00:25:54] Speaker C: I actually don't know. I haven't checked on him yet.
[00:25:57] Speaker E: Okay. Yeah. About me.
Pray for another minute, and I can check in on him.
[00:26:04] Speaker C: Okay.
Are you sure you're going to be okay?
[00:26:09] Speaker E: No, but I have you guys. I have you, so it'll be fine. It'll work out. Frasmove is there.
[00:26:20] Speaker C: Instead of shelling, right, you can see, like, a wave of doubt.
Go over near us, face.
[00:26:34] Speaker E: Val kind of finishes that prayer and puts her arm back on, takes a very deep breath, and then gets up and starts heading over to Zafir.
Zafir.
Yes, you're right.
[00:26:52] Speaker H: I will be.
[00:26:53] Speaker E: Do you need some healing? I can help you out some.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: Really?
[00:26:58] Speaker H: Depends.
[00:27:00] Speaker E: Friends. What?
[00:27:02] Speaker H: I'm not sure where we're going or what we're doing from here.
[00:27:07] Speaker D: Sorry to jump in on the COVID The missions the same, Sofia. We're still looking for that person.
[00:27:14] Speaker H: Yes, but it seems that the trial that we were on with those quills seems to have died, so to speak.
[00:27:22] Speaker E: Wasn't there also the footprints, like, a trail of people down this way, I believe, kept track. We can find it again, and we can keep going.
Here, let me help you. And she's gonna reach out to Leon. Hands.
[00:27:37] Speaker F: He recoils just a little at your touch, just kind of accepts it.
[00:27:45] Speaker E: Okay, that's 18 hit points.
And she kind of takes that and takes a step back.
Frost troll.
[00:27:56] Speaker C: What? What?
[00:27:57] Speaker F: The linorm was dragging a frost troll?
[00:28:00] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:28:00] Speaker F: Yeah, I'm going to look at the frost troll and the direction that the linorm was dragging it from.
[00:28:07] Speaker D: Theoretically, though, Frost troll would still be alive because it also has regeneration.
[00:28:13] Speaker E: Yeah, it's been dead this whole fight.
[00:28:15] Speaker B: Though, so, yeah, it does seem to be dead.
[00:28:18] Speaker D: Thank goodness.
[00:28:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:20] Speaker F: I'm gonna open my cowl cape thing and call out for Rustaford.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: Rustaford flutters out and perches on your shoulder.
[00:28:32] Speaker H: Rusterford, it seems we are in need of your services once again.
I'd like you to just kind of scope out the area that you first saw that troll.
[00:28:44] Speaker B: Right. I will do. So, one moment. He flies off to the north, where he originally went.
[00:28:53] Speaker E: Val's gonna kind of go up close to Uwe, but she seems like she's keeping a bit of a distance, and she looks like she's gonna say something to you, but she looks hesitant, almost scared, like, holding back, maybe a bit of a tear, but she looks like she. It's directed to you, like, scared of.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: You, where he just looks like he's in deep in thought, as if considering a bunch of details. But when you walk up and he sees you and your look of possible fear.
He just gives you a big grandfatherly smile and just nods at you in an acknowledgement that you're there. He doesn't say anything.
[00:29:51] Speaker E: She's not. She kind of looks down and she's kind of fidgety, and she just, you know, there's that look of like she's kind of holding back tears or something, kind of that fear. And she's like, I'm. I'm sorry.
And then she walks away.
[00:30:09] Speaker G: For what?
[00:30:11] Speaker E: She just keeps going.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: Anybody that's looking up here at Uver, you'll just see this look of, like, deep sadness for what she's gone through.
And he once again goes back into that contemplation, but there seems to be a bit more determination and urgency to it.
[00:30:42] Speaker E: Val kind of collects herself for a second, does one more lay on hands, and she takes a deep breath again, and she's like, all right, everyone. Are we all good to keep heading out, following the trail?
[00:30:56] Speaker D: We're waiting on Rusterford.
[00:30:58] Speaker E: Oh, I'm sorry.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: And as if on cue, Rustford flutters back from the north.
[00:31:03] Speaker D: Good bird.
[00:31:07] Speaker B: And is like, the trail continues some ways to the northe, but from the footsteps, it seems like we may be approaching our destination.
[00:31:18] Speaker H: Wonderful. I think we should all get a move on.
[00:31:21] Speaker E: Yeah.
Everyone ready?
[00:31:26] Speaker F: I'm going to keep Rustaford on my shoulder.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: All right.
[00:31:29] Speaker F: He doesn't get to go back yet.
[00:31:32] Speaker A: Uvara will take point.
[00:31:34] Speaker E: All right, I'm gonna hug cigern and then have her kind of stay up in the trees enough that she can kind of watch up ahead, but not so high. She's getting stuck up in the trees.
[00:31:44] Speaker B: Which, these are very big trees. Plenty of room for that.
[00:31:46] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: So you continue on your way, moving north, somewhat shaken by your encounter, but patched up and ready to move on.
In the immediate north of this clearing where you were fighting, there seems to be disturbed brush and a bit of, you know, torn up turf where this body of the frost hole troll was dragged to where you found it. But before too long, you do start seeing those footprints again, where it seems that Lenorme had fought the frost troll and started dragging it from there. There doesn't seem to be any further disturbance north than that.
And the footsteps there, the footprints continue on to the north, and I presume you continue following them.
[00:32:31] Speaker F: Did the frost troll have anything on him?
[00:32:34] Speaker B: Nah, just like a dirty loincloth.
[00:32:37] Speaker D: Grab it. We can give it to pilgrim.
[00:32:39] Speaker F: I don't want to be exposed to that.
[00:32:40] Speaker A: I think Pilgrim can, you know, get enough. I think he clothing for himself.
[00:32:44] Speaker C: I make himself some clothes or something.
[00:32:46] Speaker D: I forgot who, but somebody gave pilgrim a dirty loin cloth from the zombies.
[00:32:50] Speaker C: Ew.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: So as you push on forward, you're moving to the north, following these footprints. And at one point along your journey, you dip down into a little dell. There's some mushrooms by the side of the road. It's cool. Move, Farsa. And quiet. Oh, my apologies.
[00:33:11] Speaker E: Oh, he said the m word.
[00:33:12] Speaker D: I did pause for Abby's panic.
[00:33:15] Speaker E: Geordie, how could you?
[00:33:16] Speaker B: I forget.
[00:33:17] Speaker E: It's all the people.
[00:33:18] Speaker C: I'm sorry. That was a visceral reaction.
[00:33:20] Speaker A: Do not use the m word.
[00:33:22] Speaker D: Nah, it's okay, Abby. The bad word's gone. It can't hurt you anymore.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: I forget to.
[00:33:26] Speaker A: The energy isn't even a good word.
[00:33:28] Speaker B: It should have been damp.
[00:33:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:30] Speaker F: I would love to interject something, but to get us off of that awful subject that on the way towards where we are, I am just making slight gashes with my dagger, just in case.
[00:33:42] Speaker A: The foot would stop that as soon as he saw that.
[00:33:49] Speaker F: Like to make deeper cuts than footsteps would. Something that wouldn't be washed away by erosion.
[00:33:57] Speaker A: No. No, I don't think so.
[00:33:59] Speaker D: We promised the forest.
[00:34:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:01] Speaker F: Okay then let's not do that. I was like three episodes.
[00:34:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know.
[00:34:05] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:34:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:07] Speaker D: Promise is a promise.
[00:34:08] Speaker F: He drops jelly beans.
[00:34:11] Speaker E: Candy trail. Candy trail.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: It would. It wouldn't do any good in the first place anyway. The forest moves.
[00:34:19] Speaker F: Gotta find our way back somehow.
[00:34:21] Speaker D: We still have the quilts. Maybe.
[00:34:24] Speaker B: No, they are seeming to thin out at this point.
[00:34:27] Speaker C: Yeah, it's probably the lenorme that was leaving them behind.
I mean, that's my theory.
[00:34:33] Speaker B: But you do continue pushing on. You go through that lower portion with the fungi and you come back up to a higher portion. And then you start coming to a small hillock and the trees around it are a little bit thinner. And there's actually some sunlight that's coming through. And it looks like the ground cover in the area has really taken well to the sunlight. And it seems like a large patch of lavenders and flowers. And the footsteps do seem to go directly through this patch.
[00:35:04] Speaker A: Great ticks.
[00:35:07] Speaker F: Magical forest. Magical ticks.
[00:35:09] Speaker A: That's not better.
[00:35:12] Speaker C: Do we all have our ticks?
[00:35:14] Speaker D: I don't.
[00:35:15] Speaker F: I wear pants with my socks from chicks.
[00:35:19] Speaker D: Um.
[00:35:22] Speaker C: You good?
[00:35:23] Speaker D: I'm trying to think about a reason why I should not believe Jordy with what he just said. Cuz I want a roll of perception check. Cuz I don't believe this.
[00:35:30] Speaker A: You don't believe that there's a patch.
[00:35:31] Speaker D: Yeah. I'm getting a weird vibe, but I can't think of a single reason. So let's just walk into this and.
[00:35:36] Speaker A: Hope we don't very conceivably have a reason.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: I feel like if Jenkins is suspicious, Albert could be suspicious because, like, you're in a magical, weird forest.
[00:35:46] Speaker D: Yeah. This is the first time we've seen an open area.
[00:35:49] Speaker A: That's not true. Where we can't.
[00:35:51] Speaker D: That was open because you pleased the forest.
[00:35:54] Speaker A: It was open before we got in there. No, it wasn't.
[00:35:56] Speaker F: Okay, well, it wasn't that open.
[00:35:58] Speaker E: It was kind of open.
[00:35:59] Speaker D: So. Yeah. Can I check for traps? I guess.
[00:36:03] Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead and make a perception check.
[00:36:05] Speaker D: What's my perception?
[00:36:06] Speaker A: I'm going on this just because of my one terrain lore.
[00:36:10] Speaker B: I mean, clearings like this are not that unusual in the forest, but this is the first time that you've come across such a noticeable clearing in the grungyear.
[00:36:19] Speaker D: So that was a natural 20 for a 32 because I had to use my turn back the clock ability. So depending on what happens, depends on how I frame my turn back the clock ability.
[00:36:30] Speaker B: Hmm. Good question. Because your turn back the clock is like, it doesn't go well. And then you do it again, and it goes right. Right.
[00:36:37] Speaker D: So it's. It does not go well. I do it again. I have to take the new result, but it's plus one because I've already done this before.
[00:36:45] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:36:46] Speaker D: So, like the previous example, the best example would be me falling off the bridge because I know where not to step.
[00:36:55] Speaker E: Split screen, 2 hours. You describe what's happening.
[00:36:59] Speaker D: Okay. On the left screen.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: So we get a split screen, and at the beginning of each of them, Alward like motions for the rest of the group to stop and steps out towards the edge of the flowers. In the left side of our split screen, Alward steps out into the field and is just, like, looking in every direction very carefully. Like, walks out into the middle of the field of flowers and then just sits down and is continuing to look at all directions very carefully. And then just lays down on the right side of the screen. Alward walks up to the edge of the flowers, looks at one closely, and then, much to Uwe's concern, plucks one of the flowers and looks at it closely, and then is like, this isn't lavender. I've never seen this flower before in my life.
[00:37:50] Speaker D: Real fast. Everyone but Uver and Zafir make a wisdom. Safe.
[00:37:54] Speaker F: Oh.
[00:37:56] Speaker E: 30.
[00:37:57] Speaker B: Cool.
Not you, Jordy Cornelius. Failed.
[00:38:00] Speaker D: Oh. Okay.
[00:38:02] Speaker C: Three.
[00:38:03] Speaker D: All right, Val, you remember the other side that went wrong. Instead of it just being a forgotten memory, that's, like, close to grasp. It's full in your mind, and you see what's happening.
[00:38:15] Speaker B: Oh, Zafir and Uver, you remember the original when Alward stepped out into the field and seemingly just fell asleep to your memory. Like, you don't know why, but you also, like, vaguely remember hearing the baying of a hound in the distance.
[00:38:36] Speaker F: The what of a hound?
[00:38:37] Speaker B: A baying of a hound.
[00:38:39] Speaker A: What do I roll?
[00:38:41] Speaker B: What do you roll?
[00:38:42] Speaker A: I want to know what that is and what the flower is.
[00:38:45] Speaker E: I want to know everything.
[00:38:47] Speaker B: Let me know. It's on brand for Uwe.
[00:38:49] Speaker E: That's true.
[00:38:51] Speaker B: For the flower. Let's do that. Second, because I'm sure Alward is also interested in the flower for the bang of the hound, which I'm gonna say, alward, you did not hear good enough because you were focused on what you were doing. It was very faint. But for the hound, go ahead and roll. Occultism.
[00:39:08] Speaker F: I would also like to do that since I heard it.
[00:39:10] Speaker A: All right.
[00:39:12] Speaker D: I'm sad that you didn't get to remember.
[00:39:15] Speaker C: Oh, that's okay.
[00:39:16] Speaker E: Nearest is still oblivious to time shenanigans.
[00:39:19] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:39:21] Speaker F: Occultism for the howl.
[00:39:23] Speaker E: That would be funny if Neros went, like, three books with never experiencing any of the time. She never. I would love that. Howard finally does it noticeably. And she's like, what? And everyone's like, yeah, didn't you know?
[00:39:36] Speaker F: Did I say twelve?
[00:39:38] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:39:38] Speaker F: I meant 22. There you go, 22. Occultism for the baying.
[00:39:44] Speaker A: 31.
[00:39:45] Speaker D: Ooh, that's good. That wasn't a 20, was it?
[00:39:48] Speaker A: The 19 on the die.
[00:39:51] Speaker B: You're not sure? Entirely Zafir. Not quite enough for success. But Uwe, with that result, as you hear that bang of a hound and you know what Alward was doing, just something stands out in your memory of something of, like, something that huntsdez those who might mess with time.
What?
[00:40:12] Speaker F: Oh, no, no.
[00:40:15] Speaker E: Oh, no.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: But you can't really put your finger on any more details. Just something you just suddenly feel like.
[00:40:20] Speaker D: Not what I thought was going.
[00:40:22] Speaker B: How safe are we when we do this?
[00:40:24] Speaker E: Oh, no.
[00:40:25] Speaker D: I don't like that, Jordy. I don't like that.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: And that's where we'll end this episode. No, wait.
[00:40:31] Speaker E: What about the flower?
[00:40:33] Speaker D: I have a time hound.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: All right. And the hero point for this episode is going to go to Sven for the interesting roleplay moments that are seeming to be leading somewhere engaging both between him and him and Cornelius and him and Val. So, here are your cards, sir.
[00:40:53] Speaker A: Ah, thank you.
[00:40:54] Speaker G: Thank you.
[00:40:55] Speaker A: Um, I am not hero pointless, which is lovely.
Um, I I gotta think that's what I'm gonna do after. I'm gonna go sit down. I'm gonna go think because, uh. Boy.
[00:41:12] Speaker E: Oh, think. I thought he was saying thank.
[00:41:16] Speaker D: I did not like that voice.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: And we'll see you all in the next episode.
[00:41:22] Speaker D: Bye bye.
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[00:41:53] Speaker D: My thing is real small. It was same literally, just to push you towards Neros.
[00:41:59] Speaker C: I am Neros.
[00:42:01] Speaker D: Sorry, Neros. It was to push you toward Val.
[00:42:03] Speaker C: I'm headed toward Val.
[00:42:04] Speaker E: He puts two mage hands around you. It just starts.
