The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 124 - Going Going Back Back to Valley Valley

Episode Date: October 10, 2017

With all four elements needed to relight Minderhal's Forge finally in hand, the party must find their way back behind the palisade surrounding Minderhal's Cathedral to rejoin their allies. For more podcasts and livestreams, visit glasscannonnetwork.com. To become an official member of the Naish, subscribe today at http://www.jointhenaish.com. Want to be a part of Glass Cannon Nation? Follow us at twitter.com/glasscannonpod instagram.com/theglasscannon facebook.com/glasscannonnetwork tiktok.com/@glasscannonnetwork Get the best apparel and gaming accessories in the biz at https://glasscannonnetwork.com/store If you enjoyed this, we have several other series featuring Call of Cthulhu - Time For Chaos Delta Green - Get in the Trunk Pathfinder 2E - Glass Cannon Live! Strange Aeons Pathfinder 1E - Legacy of the Ancients Traveller - Voyagers of the Jump and so much more! Join us every Thursday night for Campaign Two of The Glass Cannon Podcast – a playthrough of the Pathfinder 2E Gatewalkers Adventure Path! Videos premiere on YouTube Thursday nights at 8PM ET with a companion podcast available at midnight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast. Are you going down that path or are you continuing on with the journey? Stop it. I just need to ask. I have to do my due diligence. With the elements needed to light the forge in their grasp, the party must work their way back to the cathedral across miles of open terrain. The entire valley on the walk back.

Suspiciously quiet. Ominously quiet. Ominously quiet. Ominously quiet. Too quiet, you might say. Giving them time to think about the tough decisions that lie ahead. But he wonders if he's being foolish and if maybe throwing himself or throwing his

soul away would be worth the sacrifice to save everybody else. We're thinking about the unintended consequences of lighting this forge. And how they feel about each other. Let me tell you one thing. When you die, which you will, I won't feel bad at all. Will they make the right choice? I want to go down that path.

Yeah, exactly. But I also want to finish this goddamn book. The adventure continues now. Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Glass Cannon Podcast. It's your boy, Grant Berger, aka Baron Redheart. And for our Patreon supporters out there, you also might know me as Tishpak Sababa Abzu Shamash. Speaking of Tishpak, we got some exciting new bonus content on the way for our supporters at the Oops I Crit My Pants level and up. Not only do you get that really fun extra bonus content that we love to make, each new supporter gets us a step closer to Skidmar, the master, getting his very own Pathfinder actual play

podcast on the GCP network. And I'm just personally really excited to see that happen, because as a lot of you know, he was my first game master, and he does an incredible job at it. I know he just took me to the end of Book 5 of Rise of the Runelords, which I might be able to finish in the next decade based on the amount of content we have planned for you. And I've got some exciting stuff in the hoppa, as Troy might say, but I can't tell you about it today because if I did, Troy threatened me. He said he'd do me just like he did Barry Connick Jr. So I'm going to keep my mouth shut about that, but what I'm not going to keep my mouth shut about is being really excited for Pax Unplugged. We're going to be doing another GCP live there.

And the last Glass Cannon live show almost tore the entire podcast apart. Troy was fiendish. We'll see if he can keep that up. And hey, I really hope I get to run into you guys if you show up. Maybe we can hang out, grab a beer, non-alcoholic beverage, cheesesteak, burn some Eagles jerseys. I don't know. It's up to you. Anyway, I hope I see you in Philadelphia. And without further ado, here's episode 124. I want you to all imagine for a moment a busy port town. You see ships coming into the harbor, ships going out.

It's bustling. Cargo is being loaded on, being unloaded. Tons of sailors moving back and forth. Pedestrians filling the area, going in and out of bars and whatnot. As we zoom in closer, we see not only is it very busy in this area, but it's also pretty seedy. There's prostitutes walking around trying to sell themselves to sailors or just regular passers-by. You see kind of glimpses and alleyways of really shady stuff going on. Drunkards just passed out on the street. Maybe drug addicts walking around,

either selling drugs or nodding off. In the distance, you hear the faint sounds of cheering. Sounds like a crowd is really excited about something. And as you get closer, you hear that they're not so much cheering as they are yelling at something going on. And so you get from behind the crowd and start to see over it and you see just a little tiny pillar of smoke rising from whatever they're looking at. As it gets in close, you see that the smoke is coming from a woman being burned at the stake. The fire is just kind of like kissing at her feet

and the people are cheering at her. She's a witch! Where are the children now, huh? Where are the children, you stooge? And they're throwing fruit at her. They're throwing rocks. You see like a dung pile hits her off the face,

lands on her cheek, but she's standing pretty stoic. Although you can see the pain rising in her face as the flames begin to lick her lower legs. Her clothes, the robe that she's wearing is starting to catch on fire. And amidst this crowd of people yelling and screaming, you see a man standing there. And he's not joining in in the yelling. He's just kind of intently watching this. And he's up front.

The woman, right before the flames start to really take her over, looks at this man. And just points out a bony finger as best she can, with her arms tied to the pole. And she says, nine years. Nine years will you have to savor the fruits of your treachery. Nine years before you pay. Nine years before you pay. Nine years before you die. And the flames start coming up. Her clothes completely burn off and they start to envelop her. And the man just gives off a sickly smile at the curse that has been laid upon him. And then he looks to his left, and he grabs at a little boy who is turning his head away from this grisly scene, and he just kind of pushes the boy's face towards it, and he says, no. You look.

Don't you look away. You watch. And remember If there's any of her evil in you You'll end up up there someday as well And the little boy just kind of watches This go down We zoom in on his cold Grey blue eyes

And then we zoom out on those same grey blue eyes on his cold, gray-blue eyes. And then we zoom out on those same gray-blue eyes, now with maybe some crow's feet around them, some wrinkles, certainly not smile lines. The face of Nestor Coyne, standing in the Shrine of Fandara watching Della work with the clay.

Welcome to episode 125. Wow. Nice job, Betroy. What was that? None of you saw that. I know what it was. None of you saw that. Skit. I know what it was.

None of us saw it, but we all heard it. A little moment happening in Nestor's brain. Maybe a little memory, a little flashback. Where's a slag heap when you need one? That's just not something you hear every day. So last episode A short one By our standards Just a quick one

We apologize it was such a quick one last week We were in a real rush All I could think was It never felt like it was that long Well there was no stopping point No You just had to go on But when it ended I was like Was that over two hours? Well, there was no stopping point. No. Yeah, you just had to go on.

But when it ended, I was like, was that over two hours? What just happened? I had to go to the bathroom real bad. That's the only reason I was kind of like aware of the time. That was what that puddle was on my floor. The cats. Got to blame that on the cats, too? So you come into the Shrine of Fondara.

You see that it is in disrepair, but only in the sense that it's like old. There's cracked walls, cracked floors, but everything else seems to be in place, even the sluice still working. These clay statues come to life. You guys fight them. They burst.

They do crazy damage as the clay shards fly everywhere. And then you have this living ooze of worms, flesh-eating worms come to life. You guys finally handle all of them. And then Della goes to take these blocks of clay and turn them into usable clay for you to line the forge and has this vision of perhaps Mimrif the Maker laying a stone giant to rest, encasing his body in clay and slipping in these maybe magical flesh-eating worms to devour the corpse inside. And now you're all here.

You have all four pieces needed to relight Minderhall's forge. Perhaps has not been relit in centuries. Atena believes that her goal, her destiny as keeper of the forge for this to be relit, saw in the five of you, perhaps scions of these famous giant heroes to go out and retrieve this stuff,

bring it back. Now you have everything. What do you want to do? Well, we have to go. We've got to go back. Kate, we've got to go back.

We have to get back to the cathedral. We have to go. We've got to go back, Kate. We've got to go back. We have to get back to the cathedral. We have to go back. Yeah, and we just... And Del's pretty hurt. Yeah, Sir Will's banged up, and so is Lexington. Bad shape. Yeah. So we need to rest, and we have a disease.

Lexington has a disease. Della, do you have a disease? Yep. And so we don't know what it is, right? We didn't identify it, but it's eating away constitution, so it's deadly. I thought somebody did. It's worm rot. Worm rot.

Yes. Worm rot. Dr. Barron. Dr. Barron, M.D. I'm a sheriff A doctor And a son of a bitch There's a t-shirt Oh man

So yeah I don't We gotta go Yeah we have to go Yeah But we also have to rest Yes Well let's rest first

And I think we talked about Using the The sapling rod again. But we should wait. I also looked at the calendar. It has been, as of today, seven days ago is when you fought the peritons and planted it. So is it every week you can use it? Yeah, once per week. That worked out nice.

So, yeah, you have some options. Whenever you decide to use it, then we start to check it out again. And what does it bear? Does it bear four lesser restoration fruits or 1d8 or 2d8 or something? I will read it off to you. Let's see. The sapling rod appears to be a limbless trunk and branching roots of a miniature tree. It grants the wielder plus five competence bonus on survival checks, blah, blah, blah.

2d4. Yeah blah, blah, blah. Trust it. Yeah. Thank you, Matthew. 2d4 pieces of fruit. Which can be either cure moderate wounds or lesser restoration. And we get exploding dice on those, Troy said. Yes. Yes, that is now glass cannon. Yes! Is that actually true?

Sweet! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, awesome. Cool. Magical tree, magical fruit. Magical tree, magical fruit, magical wolf. What could go wrong? And the recipient actually decides if it's cure mod or restoration. Oh yeah, it's the recipient's choice. It's interesting.

You handed the fruit. You're like, that's a restoration. Very cool. But your thinking in wanting to wait, Skid, is you want to see this wormrod tick off a little more and see how much... Yeah, because we have a chance for it to recover. Those who have it have a chance to recover on their own. So if we can wait...

We'll heal our current con damage. Yeah, yeah. By resting. It's a brutal situation because you also determine from your heal check, I think it was a heal check, that it takes two consecutive saves and you can only make one save a day so let's say both uh della and lexington save great and then the next day you fail restart the counter i think i'm going to use knowledge pool to cast bears endurance on those of us who need it or at least those of us who are nice to me how long is that oh is Oh, that's going to boost your fortitude save. Yeah, boost the save.

Yeah. Well, who has the disease? Well. It's just you and Lexington then. Yeah. Well, I'll do it for Lexington because I like Lexington. Sweet. Lexington likes you.

So basically I'm going to have to prepare like all or two of my second level spell slots as Bear's Endurance tomorrow. That's okay. We're not going anywhere. Yeah, we're not. We're not going're not going to anticipate value but we are but it's still it's gonna take whatever whatever we do it's gonna take us a few days to get back to where we need to go yeah and we just need to we need to rest fingers crossed i don't have any random encounters let me just get my d1 hondo out Let's spend even longer in this valley Alright let's

Should we want to rest here or immediately start Let's rest here it's got to be late in the day This has been a long day Two hour episode it's got to be nice Well I mean we also had the Previous episode was the same day as well The fight with the tombstones With the trolls

That was the same day. That was the morning. The scrags. This was a little afternoon tumble. Yeah. Afternoon tumble. And I think that now it's time to rest. We also have a great means of alerting ourselves if someone were to walk into this place because those doors are so hard to get open.

Right. Yeah, that's true. This is a good place to rest. But most likely they'll come in the poop chute. So we'll just keep an eye on that. A keen eye. Can't go on an episode without mentioning the poop chute. All right.

So you're going to rest in here. Shall we burn off some healing? Burn some heals? Yeah. Yes. Let's do that. All right. So you do some healing.

You can do that on your own time. And you aren't going to do any sort of ability score healing. You don't really have access to that, right? That's what we need the plant for. That's what you need the plant for. Okay, so you'll each, Lexington and Della will cure one con overnight. With the rest... Get those hit points back.

Did you both take three con damage? Two. Two, yeah. Pretty nasty. I mean, so what does that put your con at with the one heal tomorrow morning, Della? Twelve. Twelve. What about Lex?

After the rest, Lexington would have 16. 16. All right. So there's some time, but the problem is as that con continues to tick down, your fortitude save goes down. Yeah, and he's sickened because of this disease which also hurts

the fortitude save yeah you're sickened I gotta roll high this is this is bad news when do we make the save now I mean

during the journey back because it'll be 24 hours okay frequency once per day it is so funny how often we're running

into these situations where if we just had a cleric, it's not an issue at all. But it's like a huge part of the campaign is dealing with this stuff that becomes life-threatening because we don't have a way to deal with it. Yeah, and things that just tick over time.

I've never experienced this before because I've always played with a cleric. Always play with a cleric, which is good advice to all of you out there. Always play with a goddamn cleric. Well, don't forget you're Umlo, right? Hey, who's Umlo to you? I don't want to hear any more shit about not having a cleric. Who is Umlo?

Who is Um's? I'm Umlo. Oh! A little grand action, Yone. The Burgermeister, Meisterburger. Always have been. I always have been. I always have been. I've always been the caretaker.

All right, so the plan is to what? Backtrack? Yeah, on foot. Backtrack on foot. With all possible haste. Towards where? Towards the Dark Passage? Want to do a forced march?

We're going to go towards the Dark Passage, right? Yes. So back the way we have come. All the way back around the valley. been. Back the way we have been. All the way back around the valve. Without going through the front gates. Right. Yeah.

Okay, yeah, because having to go through the front gates again, you would assume they've been remanned. They've been like, oh, somebody killed the Etten and Smilodons. We should probably put better guards up. Let's just recruit two new Smilodons. All right, so you guys are pretty far south. You know, you leave the shrine, and you get back to that boggy area where you fought the Scrags. You see that raft, and you just kind of trudge through it.

And you get to the other side, and then eventually, later in the day, you get to the stone bridge where you fought the two stone giants that tried and failed to knock you, especially Umlo, off. And you see that other path leading southeast.

Are you going down that path, or are you continuing on with the journey? Stop it. I just need to ask. I have to do my due diligence as a GM. Nestor, what do you think? No, no, no.

We're in a rush. Yeah, we've got to get back. We've got to get back. Okay. All right. He's a terrible person and my friend. All right, so you cross terrible person and my friend. All right. So you cross back over the stone bridge.

Strong wind picks up and you fall off. All right. There we go. I wish. I wish. All right. And then, you know, you continue up a little further and you see that path that leads back to the front gate. So now you know that you're heading due north

and this is where Della and Lexington start to feel like garbage. Oh, man. Roll your Fortitude. She very quickly bears endurance on Lexington. On both her and Lexington. Okay. So that's a plus four to con, plus two to your save, right? Yeah.

Plus two to Fortitude save. Okay. Okay. What are your Fort save? What's your to fortitude save. Okay, okay. What are your fort save? What's your fort save? With the bonus, I have a plus eight. Fortitude save.

Gotta roll well. That's why I'm saying this is lethal. This is lethal. Lethal injection. And Troy seemed to imply that touch of law would not be quite adequate for this. Yep. Natural one. Oh, no. No. Come on! Oh, God! Jesus. this. Yeah. Natural one. Oh, no.

Come on! Oh, God! Jesus. 25. 25. This is, by the way, my natural one die, which I have not rolled in weeks and weeks and weeks.

And I brought it back. This is a great time to break it out. Ugh. All right. Get ready for that one! Truly. Come on! So, Narn,

you're still sickened, but you don't take any further con damage. Make the save tomorrow, and you're cured of worm rot. Okay, great. However, poor Lexington does not have the same opportunity. Here is your con damage, Lex. Oh, no. Three points. Oh, no.

Get out of here. I didn't know because it was the die I got from Scotty's Brewhouse. And that's on the six? Three points. Get out of here. I didn't know because it was the die I got from Scotty's Brewhouse. And that's on the six? And that's the six. So it's three points. Can I roll my own? That's no fun. Three points of Condimage.

Condimage? Condimage? Condimage. Condimage-o. All right, he's now at 13 con. Oh, man. 13 con. 13 con.

Boy, I wish Aspera's endurance could last. I have 112 hit points right now. So Will can see him getting sicker, and he's going to lay on hands him. He's going to do all he can. Okay. He gets him eight more hit points back. Is he still going to ride him? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Ride him. Okay. He gets him eight more hit points back. Is he still going to ride him? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Ride him.

Ride him. Hard. Ride him. Hard. Alright, maybe when he gets below Tenkan, you might want to lay off. That's just abuse. At a certain point. But that's up to you. Anyways, eventually, you

get to the clearing where to the east you saw the scarecrows and, you know, to the north is Foxport Stadium. And it's time to bed down for the night. So do you guys need to do any other healing or you get back to full with a normal night's rest? No. Will and Lex are very far from full. So I'll burn the rest of my cures. And I'm going to have some channels now

and I have cure lights. I have four cure lights and we're not planting the sapling rod yet? We can. Let's just hold off for the moment. Okay. Between all of our stuff, I'm sure we can get full.

Bambit's got four cure lights. Four. Four cure lights. I have four Leon hands left. Del's got two. We've got Unlocking Channel. All right, so that's going to be enough to bring you back to full.

Luckily, you didn't get into any scraps today. In fact, the entire valley on the walk back Suspiciously quiet. Ominously quiet. Ominously quiet? Ominously quiet. Too quiet, you might say? You don't hear a bird. Every step you see, tracks going everywhere.

And as you bed down for the night, especially Della and Baron, we want to do tremorsense every 30 feet for the day. Earth glide all the way back. See you guys back in the dark, fans. As you guys bed down for the night, Della and Baron especially, you might realize that it was a week ago today that Barry Conant Jr. died. Oh, wow. It was a week ago?

A week ago. Wow. Felt like yesterday. Yeah, it feels like only yesterday. That you killed that bear that we all love. Yeah, I can see the two arrows going right into his skull. It feels like, honestly, like it just happened. I'm going to give you a scale of 0 to 100.

Any remorse whatsoever. Sorry, remorse. I'm like, I'm not... I don't... I don't... My vocabulary isn't quite like what yours is. Remorse. I don't have your five gold piece words handy.

I don't, you know... I don't know what that means. Let me translate it for your small little brain. Do you feel bad at all? About what? Killing him. What, the bear? Yes.

No, he's coming at me. I don't even... I can't even look at you right now. Everybody, Baron and Sir Will, look at each other like awkward, like... Baron pulls the collar that doesn't exist and is leather-armored and lets some steam off. You're far too sentimental about some fucking animal.

What are you sentimental about? I'm not a sentimental person. It's not sentimental. It's more practical, you know? Prostitutes? I like prostitutes. Well, I don't get sentimental over that. I don't get wistful, like, thinking about some, you know...

Well, there was one. But it's not... It's not something... It's just... My brain, like, it doesn't work that way this is the advantage that I have over all of you lot

is I don't I don't get bogged down by that sort of whatever it is emotion let me tell you one thing when you die which you will

I won't feel bad at all well I don't think that's true but even if it were I don't it doesn't bother me even if it were It doesn't bother me You're going to die just like the rest of us Eventually, yeah Probably violently

Well, yeah Probably more violently than the rest of us Yeah, but again, that doesn't bother me I don't care It's inevitability, so why worry about it? Will is going to get up and storm away. And he's going to go pray in the woods. He feels very unhappy about this.

Baron's going to say that you two have to stop talking about this for a little while. We've got a long journey and a forge to light, and we have no idea what's going to happen. while we get a long journey and a forge to light and we have no idea what's going to happen how could you possibly be concerned about a bear even though we loved him and he was a part of our party exactly when we have exactly what i was saying we have a chance to either save all of true now or go down in flames attempting to do so that That's what we need to have our eyes on. Thank you. Thank you. Della, were you listening? What? Sorry.

Yeah, see? It's like a brick wall sometimes, mate. I don't know what to do. She's hiding behind a curtain of hair. Does my aid in. So, this discussion happens. And a little salty. Battle does that to a party.

Sir Will goes off in the woods. Are you still writing letters, Sir Will? Here and there. Here and there. Yeah, there's nowhere to send them, though. There's no way to send them, though. Right, right. So you're not just collecting them?

No. I mean, he is, but he's only got a few. He doesn't do them every day. He's been focused a little more on praying now, I think. When was the last time you sent a letter? Would have been Chinerman's fortune. So I imagine that they had some sort of

ability to... The postman survived the onslaught. Exactly. The one government employee. Rain, sleet, or giant attack. I always deliver the mail. It's a weird creed to have. Oddly specific.

But yeah, when he wrote from Sherman's Fortune, he would have wrote, he would have written that he knew what he was getting into, so he might have been

off the grid for a little while. So you're out in the woods praying while they're, and you can hear in the distance they're kind of, eh,

not arguing, having a discussion. What's going on over there? What's going on with me? Yeah. Lexington's in bad shape. You think he could die. Yeah, it's really upsetting.

Will is praying. He's praying to Iomide, and he's trying to do this every day, and there was a time when he wasn't, and I think that that sort of correlates to when he was using the Infernal Healing and stuff like that, he was kind of getting away from it, and so since then he's trying to do his hour a day when he can, and in this case, it really was, he was motivated more by frustration with the group and the kind of petty arguing and stuff. And his prayers are about bringing people together because I think that that's a big part of Iomide's whole thing

is like armies in her name that, you know, unite together to fight evil. And for a while there, he felt sorry for himself because he was out there alone, and he didn't have a band of knights that were fighting with him, which is what he's always been used to. He's always in the past been part of this large group of followers of Iomedae that are fighting large groups that are opposed.

Whereas now, everything got a little bit more hard to decide upon a little more morally ambiguous and he's been put in the position to make decisions that he's not exactly equipped to make he's a little innocent he's not exactly prepared for this kind of stuff and so he lost his way a little bit and he's trying to find it trying to find it back through prayer but one of the main things he's praying about is he's focused on the forge and Minderhall and his brother. So he's trying to get some sort of guidance. I would imagine that he doesn't hear anything. He doesn't hear a voice in his head from Iomedae just telling him not to light the forge.

But he also worries that if he doesn't light it, they're all going to die here and the giants are going to take over. doesn't light it, they're all going to die here and the giants are going to take over. And I think that it's... He doesn't know if he needs to resort to these lesser means, these dishonorable

means, in order to save the small folk and the good people of the world, which is the whole point of Iomedae's thing. So, yeah, I think he's wondering. He's stronger of mind now. He's a little bit more experienced,

and he's looking down. Imagine like a camera, right? Like it pans down. It's been kind of on his face as he's silently praying, and it pans down, and you see he's holding in his hands a vial of demon's blood. And he's kept it close to him because he doesn't, he wants to remember.

You bitch. Because he wants to remember what exactly got him off the right path, but he can't bring himself to throw it away because he doesn't know if it could save lexington's life i mean he is dying he knows that he's dying and he doesn't know when they'll find a cure well maybe it's also like your alcoholics anonymous chip right exactly like two weeks without demon's blood right and that's been his intention like that's been his intention is to like keep it as a reminder but he had a few chances to just throw it away and he didn't and uh he doesn't he hasn't felt the temptation as strongly he he's been

feeling better feeling guided but he wonders if he's being foolish and if maybe throwing himself or throwing his soul away would be worth the sacrifice to save everybody else. How could that possibly be an evil act? Right. So, you know, that's what he's thinking. His question to Iomedae is not, do I light the forge? Do I not light the forge? Do I not light the forge? The question is, would a follower of Iomidae make a deal with the devil in order to save the followers of Iomidae? You know what I mean? If it was just me that had to sacrifice myself, should I do it?

And there's just no answer. And so he's really stuck. And he's trying to just focus back on the whole point of the tenets he grew up with, which is honor, loyalty, valor, never breaking against the most evil forces in the world, standing tall, dying if you need to, death before dishonor, all that stuff. Is this dishonor or is it selfish to keep your honor in this situation if it means the death of all these people? It's a very hard moral question for him and he's stuck.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the rest of the party, especially Della, Will is holding the vial that he lifted from Della the night after the fight with the Oculus. Hmm. So that's where that went.

So, you know, the party at a time when they need to be coming together is kind of all over the place, per usual. We kind of bounce back and forth. Yeah. Good days and bad days. This part of the valley tends to always be bad. Yeah, it's like there's this hovering evil element here. Well, it's hard to like,

just with the personalities involved now, it's going to tend towards Discord. Mostly because of Nestor. That's also not necessarily a bad thing all the time. People bicker.

Yeah, sure. People fight. Yeah. I don't want, just because she's not going to celebrate your death doesn't mean she wants you to die. Right, right. That want to fight? Yeah. I don't want... Just because she's not going to celebrate your death doesn't mean she wants you to die. Right, right.

That's how we took it. It doesn't mean she's going to murder you. That's how I took it. That's right. You know, it won't be particularly put out. This is what we're explaining to Will. You're not aiming for it, yeah. Yeah, we're like,

no, no, we talk like this all the time. You should know by now. I don't want him to... This is just how we... No, yeah. You don't want him to die, but sometimes mommy and daddy... exactly exactly so we have we have this sort of understanding that's all it is common ground common ground we found it i think the other thing that's happening

is umlo and baron are probably studying from uh the book of torag and we're considering dwarven history in general because of you know being confronted with the heir to Nargrim Steelhand's line my own heritage which is new to me and I think we're both hooked up and really attached to

the quest for sky and the unintended consequences of unleashing orcs onto Galarian's surface and we're thinking about the unintended consequences of unleashing orcs onto Galarian surface. And we're thinking about the unintended consequences of lighting this forge. And could we be just destined to make a mistake again? Or is there a way we can amend that? And as much as we're the chosen children of Torek,

perhaps dwarves are just destined to screw up the world in some ways when they endeavor to do things. So I think we're trying to find any textual references to where we could stop making that mistake when we get to the Minderhall's Forge. So with all this milling about your head, milling about the party, you guys go to bed, wake up on the night of Lama Shan,

Starday, ready to set out again back to the Dark Passage, back to the Cathedral. Lexington and Della get one measly point of con back. I'm at full now. Until pop, I fail the save today.

And then reset the clock. Off you travel, you go past where the passageway leads up to Adoromi's chapel. You go past where you fought Gristlecrack. Past where Finial Smick's bones were found in the fires. We hardly knew you, Finial. It's just around that time that Lexington and Della

just don't feel great. Bears Endurance. Bears Endurance, Bears Endurance. Fortitude set. And Sir Willis is praying hard as well, for Della as well. He wants her to get past this rough part of the day. They probably got a fever. They're probably running a fever. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Worm rot.

Yeah. Great name. 23 for Della. Lex. Lex he did. Come on, Lex. I'm sorry. I didn't have it up and I think it might have changed. Oh no, it didn't change yet. Okay, because he got one back. He got Bears Endurance, don't forget. Come on, Lexi.

27. Della is cured. Yeah! Right! And Lexington has one save to its... By the blessings of Iomaday, right, Della? Or my own spell that helped us both. I believe it was Iomaday.

Potato, potato, I guess. She saw the need for your presence in this valley, I believe. Right. Right. That's exactly what it was. Yeah, she does everything. All right, so... Hey, I know it.

Why do bad things happen to good people? Hello? Hello? So what could have been bad, with a little bear's endurance, Dell is cured and Lexington is one O'Brien roll away from one of two things happening. That was a beauty, a natural 19. There we go.

It starts to get dark again right around where you fought the beds. If not right up against that, but in that huge clearing where you basically had three different ways to go. With all the paths branching off of it. There's one path that you never did go down to the southeast. Oh, God. How many paths must a man walk down? How many paths must a party skip?

If you can exhaust the completist like skit, I feel like we should. No, I'm exasperated because i want to go down that yeah exactly but i also want to finish this goddamn book so you guys rest um is has the mood improved at all i don't want to role play it all out but or is there people still feeling a little uh saucy well Nestor, for his part, after the vision of his father and the memory that he was just reminded of back at the temple, he's remembering that as a very small boy,

because he was six years old when this happened, he's remembering that as he remembered it, his mother was devoted to a higher power. And it was in large part his father who steered him away from that. And so he's thinking that maybe

if this is a key towards reaching his ultimate goal, which is the death of Urthash, that maybe it's worthwhile to consider. Interesting. So he's thinking about that. Interesting.

Very interesting. I wish you guys could see into Nestor's head. I know. I know. And I think Will is actually going a little bit the other way today. I think he feels very optimistic by della turning making a turn looking better lexington at the worst part of the day seemed to make a turn felt a little bit better uh had a little more strength and in general i think he's trying to remember the faith

aspect it's like you don't know the right or wrong answer all the time. Sometimes you just have to believe that Iomedae is going to put you in the right direction. So he's feeling a little better today. So now you know you're getting closer. You know where you are in relation to the Dark Passage. You don't have to go all the way down south to where that underwater temple is. So you have a shorter journey at this point. If you go unmolested, you think you could make it to the Dark Passage by nightfall.

And then might as well just keep going. It's night. That's true. So off you go. Eventually get back to where the VEDS bodies are all decomposed. They've been eaten by probably drakes in the area or maybe some more smilodons. More peritons, who knows.

And you continue south following the stream, and there's that big bend in the river where you guys were hoping that this was going to lead back to where the crossroads were. Then it bends again south, and you see that small little footpath leading to where the black-headed beast was. Ah, yes. Keep coming back

down, and then it comes to a split again. If you continue south, you know that leads to the slag giant ruins, and eventually to the underwater temple that Rosag presided over. But you guys know you want to go east.

And so east you go, and sure enough, by nightfall, as the valley narrows, But you guys know you want to go east. And so east you go. And sure enough, by nightfall, as the valley narrows, you see the bodies of the peritones, also rotted, bleached by the sun, and the entrance to the dark passage, along with a number of other cave entrances, if you remember. What do you want to do? It's night.

It's not going to get any more lit in the Dark Passage. Find Fungfar. Yeah, we've got to go check in on Fungfar. We've got to go find Fungfar. Fungfar! I'll tell you what I really want to do. Meanwhile, back at the cathedral

I want to know what's going on with our stone giant It's been days Gonna have to get back to that cathedral Oh come on I want a lork perspective chapter We get back they're all dead I'll tell you what Pembroke and Isseus know

Yes So you guys want to go Wait Skid do you know Pembroke and Isius now. Yes. So you guys want to go? Wait, Skid, do you know? It's all that need concern you is that everything's being seen too. I just hear a message. Yeah. I believe I heard Pembroke. Pembroke.

Pembroke in my ear. Don't worry about it. Go to the Dagomah sisters. Go to the Dagobah sisters. Go to the Dagobah sisters. There you will... Oh, sorry. So do you guys want to go in at night, or do you want to wait?

I think we should go into our favor, going, resting in the dark passage. Get out of the open and rest in there. Don't forget, once you get through, if you do do that, it'll be day and you've got to get into the cathedral by day unless you wait for a double rest.

Might be better to charge ahead and then we can sneak towards the cathedral at night. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, it's either double resting or charging ahead. But Nestor's got the right idea, because if you don't rest, you're going to be pushing forward into the night, and you might be exhausted the next day. We can rest

under the spike with our friends. Yeah. Sure. How long does it take to get through the Dark Passage? You would think if it's about 7, 8 o'clock now, you could be through by 10. But you've been traveling

since probably 9 a.m. That's a hell of a passage. It is twisty and turny and dark. Yeah. I vote for charging ahead. Yeah, let's charge ahead. I'm all for it. I guess Baron and Umla will take the lead with their dark vision

And kind of Have a little rope leading from their waist To Nestor so he doesn't bump into things I'll cast light on Nestor's bow Thank you And in you go To the dark passage And you know your way around now

Baron's innate survival Says just go this way Do you want to go back to where the, just go this way. Do you want to go back to where the living cave paintings are? Which way do you want to go? Because you can go south, you can go past where you saw Fung Far, and they both can kind of lead around to the living cave painting. Or you can just continue

south along the way and see what happens. Either the most direct route or the Fung Far route are my votes. Direct or fun far. I'm all aboard that. I am. I would prefer Will would prefer direct. Yeah, I don't need to talk to him.

Although you can both survive off rocks now that you have that. That's true. I can just eat rocks. Well, gemstones. So long as you keep the cape on. Yeah. You could enjoy a nice rock meal together. You walk in, you see

the bodies of the Bagain and the other giants. Or were they... Cave giants, I think. Yeah. And then you continue forward and everyone will perception check.

Natural one. Come on! So it's a... 21. 31 for Baron and 22 for Umlo. Add two to both those scores if it's of no unusual stonework, as always. Well, it is pretty unusual stonework. But the reason Sir Will failed it is because he's tending to Lexington,

who feels really... Oh. Bears endurance. Bears endurance. Bears endurance. Okay. Come on, Wolfie. Come on. Here we go.

Here we go. Fail. Fail. Fail. Oh, no! Natural three. Oh! No! Okay.

Yeah, we did it, Malachi. It's too upbeat. Did you give yourself your point of con back from the healing? Be honest. I did. All right. Take one more con away. And the clock has been reset.

Back to you, Baron and Umlo. Unusual stonework it was because you hear stones being crunched in the distance. Like... Yeah. Probably... in the distance. Like, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,

um, um, um, probably, uh, uh, feng fa having fourth meal.

Eleven, eleven, yeah, it's eleven, yeah. All right, now that's, no,

that's morning. That's third meal. Yeah. So lunch. No, it's ten, it's fourth, it's fourth meal.

Breakfast, second breakfast. That's Taco Bell, that's the Taco Bell. Taco Bell meal? You don't have a television, so I'm just letting you know. That's the Taco Bell slogan. So is that the most I can get from that perception check?

Yes. You all hear something in the distance, and Baron and Umlo know that it's like the crunching of stones. Well, let's go see if he's putting fire sauce on those stones. Yeah. This week's episode is brought to you by Del Taco. Del Taco. Baja Fresh.

Alright, so you guys walk forward towards the sound. Pretty confident that you know the source. Sure enough, it's your old pal Thungfar. And he's just chewing on rocks and you guys guys come up, and he whips around. So Willow's like, ho, Fung-Far, good day, or good evening.

What are you guys doing back here? I didn't eat any rocks. Meanwhile, he's got rocks falling out of his mouth. It's okay, Fung-Far. I didn't do it. I just was feeling a little hungry. I thought I'd have a snack. It's okay, Fung-Far.

Della waves her flaming scimitar around some in a little hungry. I thought I'd have a snack. It's okay, Funfun. Della waves her flaming scimitar around in a threatening manner. Listen, I'm not doing anything. Della. Have you talked to anyone? I haven't talked to anybody. I haven't eaten any rocks. Where have you been? I've just been here.

I don't know how to get out of this place. All right, I'm satisfied. Set's motive. 29. Yeah, he seems genuinely lost. I don't want to go back towards the cathedral. I want to go back and get out of the valley. If you can help me.

Baron says, Fungfar, Fungfar. I'm so sorry you're lost. I'm wondering if you saw anyone else go through these passages since we last saw you. I haven't seen a single person. If I did, I would have asked them for help, too. Get some Lucas Tello now. Where did he go, George? I'm a bad boy.

Who's on first, Funkfire? I didn't do anything. If you let me out of here, I'll help you in any way I can. We don't have time, Fungfar. I'm so sorry. Oh, come on! We will be back to get you soon. See, we've

already come back once. We'll come back again. We always come back. All right. Well, I'm just gonna sit here and not eat any rocks. Promise. Okay, Fung Fung. All right.

Good luck storming the castle. Della points at her eyes, points at Fung Fung. He cowers. This giant rock troll. How's your hand? He clutches at his stump. No, actually, you regenerate. All right, so you leave stupid Fung Farr to his rock meal and continue south,

and you can see in the distance flickerings of light of the campfires of those giant families. You've reached the other side of the dark passage. those giant families who have reached the other side of the Dark Passage. Sir Will is going to start, he's going to ask Umlo for help. He's going to start de-armoring himself in Lexington to try to be a little quieter on this move through the valley.

So he'll put his armor in the bag of holding and put on some leather armor and continue as quietly as possible. And should we extinguish the light on Nestor? Yes. If that is indeed the plan. That's the plan, right? Yeah.

Just sneak by? Yeah, we're going to... Okay. Well, wait, but it's... Wait, no, we had a better idea, didn't we? We talked about this off-air. Well, one suggestion I had was to roll creating a diversion, and then the other option was...

Della could go ahead and retrieve the broom and using fly and invisibility and then send the broom. And then you could use the broom and invisibility combos to ferry people back. But isn't the shelter right outside the entrance of the Dark Passage on this side? I think we have to get we originally went through the poop chute. Oh, it's outside the wall. Yeah, you're outside the wall. We're still like a mile away from the cathedral, right? Yeah, what you've been doing is hugging

the wall. I thought the entrance to the Dark Passage was inside the wall. No. It's outside the wall. This map is very confusing. Then flight sounds like throw it away now the only thing is i think we're begging a drake attack at some point if we're not all invisible i can make a number of us invisible yeah but even if a drake comes like the worst case scenario we just the person just continues to fly like as quickly as they can back to the

group and then nester kills it in the first round. You are two miles from two miles of the spike drop. That's a while. That's going to require multiple fly spells. You got them? You got them to spare? I got some. I got three.

All my third level spells. So it would take days. But you just have to get to the broom. And then we can ferry people back and get to the broom. You just have to get to the broom, and then we can ferry people back and forth on the broom. I also can... If the drake comes and I'm flying, I can shadow walk myself to the ground or something

just to give myself an extra leg up on it. You'll be invisible. You'll be fine. Don't make me invisible, because I can actually just play the drake's bane horn if a drake shows up and scare them away. Which would be awesome. Yeah.

Now the other thing, Sir Will, before you get out of your armor, we could put you on a floating disc. You and Lexington could sit on a floating disc. It's kind of a visual joke there, but Sir Will, he puffs out his chest gets a cocky smile holds up the banner and just floats across the valley yeah um i mean what is the purpose of that just so you don't have to you can be fully armored in case something happens oh so we don't have to move got it got it yeah you wouldn't be clanking around yeah that's cool too so you could we could do a combination of stealth and flying. Because I don't think Lexington can ride a broom.

No. Yeah, no. Definitely not. That's a good point. So yeah, I guess we could just sneak. Well, no, not Umlo. So yeah, do the fly, do the brooms and send Sir Will. Because if Sir Will gets caught, he can jump off the disc and just run away anywhere. They won't

be able to chase him on Lexington's back. True. Okay. So what's your plan? You're going to do invisible, fly, invisible, fly, invisible, fly, and that'll get you there safely? Invisible the whole way and flying the whole way? I mean, maybe not. I don't know the whole way. Let's do takeoff. And then I'll do

one iteration of invisibility and I'll fly. And then at a certain point I'll have to cast invisibility again if I think I need it. Can we just do the math? How many miles per hour are you going to be flying on that thing?

60 feet per round. So 60 feet for every 6 seconds. Oh yeah, because right now you don't have to. 600 feet a minute. 600 feet a minute. And there's 5,000 some feet. 5,280. 5,280 feet in a mile.

So 10,560 divided by 600. 8.8 minutes. So you can definitely do it. So I can do it in one fly around. So Della just goes over there. I love that! Goes invisible and moves like cooks over the valley.

And you see all this stuff. You can see in the distance the fighting pits. Shit going on there. There's probably a big fight happening. It's Saturday night. It's Saturday night, so Saturday night fights. Saturday night fights. No, actually, no, it's Sunday

now. There's a little sonic boom as she takes off. Everybody looks towards the sky, and you just see, same thing, giants everywhere. The camps that you came through when you got through the gate to get up to the cathedral, and you go

over the palisade wall and touch down in the vicinity of where you left the... of where you left Lork, Pembroke, Aram, Ymir, and Razzmatazz.

Now, to do a message, I have to be able to see who I am. You have to point your finger at the recipient. Which I cannot do. So I will approach where I remember the tent being. And I will say the password.

What is the password? You don't remember it? Did we make one? I just made that up on the spot. Yeah, it was New England clam chowder. In this strange language, Della does not speak. She says, New England clam chowder. Is that the red or the white?

Is that the red or the white? Cross the desert. Sorry. It's only Della. I think it's the red. Manhattan. Sorry. Sorry. It's only Della. I think it's the red. Manhattan. No, no. It's disgusting.

Della, come in. Lark will sit up and pull back the tent and allow Della. An invisible Della slips in and becomes visible. Beautiful. So cool. Blue-haired. Kyle. She pulls back her hood and shakes the hair loose.

We're back. I require the broom to bring the rest of us here. Yes, of course. How are you? We are well. There have been some events taking place. Yes, yes. I'll fill you all in when you're here.

But some interesting things have happened, yes. Is everyone all right, Della? Has everyone survived? Everyone survived. Everyone. I felt a terrible feeling about a week ago. Everyone survived. Oh, okay.

You want me to roll a bluff check on that? Good to know. He's not sensing any motives, so you're good. Okay, so... I'm not assuming she's lying to me. Della will take the broom. Baron's going to have some bad news for this guy. Della will take the broom

and cast Invisibility and fly back. I think she can move a little faster on the broom, right? I think so, too. So, vroom, get back there. It's late at night now. It's getting to be almost midnight. I'm sure you guys exchanged even more pleasantries than we just

roleplayed out. So, v. So you get back on the broom. And do you still have invisible spells left? Yeah, it only took one. Because we said it's eight and a half minutes. That was one spell of flight, because nine minutes per level. Or nine minutes total. And that was figuring out the feet that you moved?

Yeah. Okay, wow. So you moved 10,000 feet in eight minutes? Yeah. Over 10,000 feet. That's great. Right. All right, so. Yeah, right? We did the math, didn feet in eight minutes? Yeah. Over 10,000 feet. That's great. Right. All right, so.

Yeah, right? We did the math, didn't we? I think I did it for one mile. So I would have had to use two iterations of each. Okay. So I have one left. So you used two to get there, and how many back? And one, two.

Well, let's say I did invisibility only to take off. Sure. It was 10,560 divided by 600, right? And that would tell you how many minutes. Sure. It was 10,000... 10,560 divided by 600, right? And that would tell you how many minutes. Yeah. So I would need two iterations. 17.6 minutes. One way trip. So two iterations there,

two iterations back. Well, no, I didn't have to cast Fly on the way back because I had the broom. And then I was going to do... Did the broom automatically make you invisible? No. So then I was going to cast Invisibility to take off. And I was going to ready In Does the broom automatically make you invisible? No, so then I was going to cast invisibility to take off and I was going to ready invisibility if I run into trouble. Okay.

So I become visible at some point up in the air. So you come, more importantly, you get back safely. No one sees you. You're hugging the wall, I'm assuming. But you've burned out three invisibility spells. Yeah. What's the plan now

so the broom can carry 200 pounds and fly at a speed of 40 feet or up to 400 pounds at a speed of 30 feet

yeah we should probably load up two people on there I'm low and barren I'm low and barren yeah are you guys under 400 pounds together?

We should be. With all your gear? Are you under 200 pounds? I can tell you exactly how much I weigh. You don't all have to fly. Some can stealth. I think actually Nestor's going to stealth. He's not going to use.

He's going to start his up. And we can take Sir Will and Lexington on the disc. On the disc. And Delican's self, too. I mean, with my gear, I think we can only take one at a time. How much do you weigh? I weigh 170, but I'm carrying gear, and so is Umla. I think we both weigh about 170.

Without gear? Yeah. That's like a pretty standard dwarf weight. Yeah, so you're definitely going to have to. All right, so Amlo will fly. You alone can only fly. It will be over 200. How fast is the broom? 600 feet a second?

No, no, no. It goes... 30 feet around. 300 feet a minute. Okay. I mean, it's over 200 pounds, right? So it's going to go the slower rate. Yes. You're already 30 feet.

Yeah. Okay. So I'll make Umlo invisible for the takeoff, and then hope all goes well. So Umlo's going by himself? Yeah. And Sir Will and Lexington are on a disc? On a floating disc. But visible.

Visible. But you're basically trying to increase your stealth. And you're going to stealth along with Nestor and Baron? And Della. And Della. Well, Umlo just flies solo mission over there. And does he have the horn now? I could give him the horn, although it's one of our forging items.

I think we should hold on to it. Umlo is part of our party. He's not going to run off with it. He's not going to steal the horn. But he's not a Scion. He's not a Scion. He is part of our party. He's not going to run off with it. He's not going to steal them or die. But he's not a Scion. He's not a Scion. He's not a Scion. He's not related to Geogra Thyr, and he could die on Wither. Yeah, you're right.

You're right. Poor Umlo. All of you guys, except Umlo, roll your stealth check. I don't know what my stealth check is. He doesn't make any noise. You don't make any noise. You don't move, so you're fine. Don't worry about noise. You don't make any noise. You don't move. So you're fine. Okay.

Don't worry about it. 21. Oh, boy. No. 30 for Della. You must have rolled a natural two. I rolled a three, yeah. I could touch a law, you. 30 for Della.

Baron? 24. Yeah, but that's only for one round. True. It's the middle of the night. You've done this before. There are no patrols outside of the palisade. You seek a pest.

Children. You go along the way. Meanwhile, Umlo, about halfway into his journey, hears something overhead and sees what appears to be a rift rake in the distance. Not too far away. 10% chance on a D100

that it sees Amla and straight up attacks him. It's not going to happen. We're fine. We're fine in front of you guys. We're fine.

Let me roll it. Let Joe roll it. You didn't make Umla invisible. Just for takeoff. For half of it. Oh, got it. 94. Well, it depends which end was it.

Yeah, right? If it was what you wanted to happen, then wasn't. Yeah, right. It was what you wanted to happen and it happened. So Umlo, by the skin of his teeth, flies over the palisade and you guys continue around, go through the poop chute. Della shadow walks

so she can avoid the poop chute. Okay. She appears in the tent. And you are all back at the magical invisible tent. Oh my god, amazing. Wow. You got Della.

You got Sir Will, Lexington, Nestor, Baron, Razzmatazz, Aram, Ymir, Pembroke, and Lork. Just outside the cathedral. All four pieces in hand. And Pembroke has a few things to say. Yeah. All right. We'll see you next time.

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