The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 131 - Give and Let Die

Episode Date: November 28, 2017

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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast. Though the prophecies have been written, they can be altered. Brander returns. Man, this guy, this guy. How evil do you have to be? The truth. They told me his name was Poudier. I am giving you the gift of knowledge.

The lies. It's better to say nothing right now because I don't want her to like kill me or go away. A look of horror crosses Sir Will's face. What? What? What the? In a finale so shocking. That was the beginning?

Oh my god. The heroes could never be the same. Oh my god! Oh wow! Oh, my God! The adventure continues. I have no problems destroying you, if I must. Right now. What is going on, GCP Nation?

It's your old pal, your old buddy, Troy. I don't know why I always say that. It's just connected with me now. I'm your old buddy, even though we haven't met. Although, I feel like I've met a lot of you at this point. And I'll hopefully meet a lot of you in years to come, before my untimely death at the tender age of 42 in a murder-suicide with Joe O'Brien. You know, I've mentioned this before in intros, in Twitches, on Facebook Lives, in person,

that all I want to do is be able to write, direct, produce, and act in my own TV series. That's what I want to do. That's what I want to do more than anything in the world. And one of the many reasons for that is that I just love the idea of being able to tell a story and get people captivated for a long period of time and the ups and downs of a bunch of different characters and do crazy reveals and whatnot.

One of the best parts of these great TV shows, you're lost, like we always mention, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and all that great stuff. Sopranos is the season finale. Nobody loves a season finale better than your old buddy Troy. And what makes a great season finale, I think, is an episode that answers a lot of questions and then asks just as many. That's what you want. You want like a little bit of like, ah, ah, now I see. And then like, what does that mean? And I think that's what we've done with today's episode. I don't want to say much more than that.

It has been a pleasure playing all of book three with you guys. Because let's be honest, we're playing as a group of much more than five at this point. We're playing with groups of thousands. Because all of you guys are in this story as much as Joe, Matthew, Grant, Skid, and myself. So please enjoy the culmination of months of storytelling with episode 131, Give and Let Die. Or to put it more simply, When you were young and your heart was an open book You used to say give and let give you know you did

you know you did you know you did but if this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry say give and let die give and let die.

Give and let die. Give and let die. I don't want to make any predictions, but I have the sneaking suspicion that by the time we stop recording today, we'll have finished book three. Wow. I have a feeling. I suspect it as much,

but it's exciting to know that that's definitely possible. You might be saying, oh, come on, spoiler alert. I didn't know that's going to happen. I'm not guaranteeing it. And what does it mean? Well, it means we start a new chapter. But a lot is going to depend on the decisions

that are made by every single character. Beren, Nestor, Pembroke, Firaza, Sir Will, Lork, Feren, and Aram. And of course, Brander. So we finished last week with this vision of Sir Will making a connection that Brander was this Dr. Forsythe. A special school for halflings. Well, we know Will never went to that school.

Will went on to become a possibly someday great knight. But what happened in between? someday great night. But what happened in between? I imagine Emmett Keswick, Sophia Keswick, and a young boy that is not Sir Will

and is not a halfling waiting patiently in like a side chamber. Emmett looks nervous. He's like squeezing his hand back and forth. Sophia still looks very upset. The door to the hallway opens, and Dr. Forsythe walks out,

followed slowly by little Sir Will. Well, he's not a knight yet. That's what he called himself on the playground. You see, I want to be a great knight someday. I said, call me Sir Will. Get out of here, Will. Emmett pumps up his chest proudly and walks forward.

Dr. Forsythe says, I thank you for your time This boy you rescued from certain death Is very special indeed I will confer with the other professors And we will get back to you shortly With our decision Emmett sighs a sigh of relief

Dr. Forsythe steps up to the other young boy Leans down and who might you be dear lad The little boy speaks up My name is Benrick Benrick Well look at you, you look like a good strong lad What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be the greatest knight

in all the world. Ah, yes. Now I see where your brother gets it. Well, you look strong enough to be a knight already. And then Dr. Forsythe lays his hand atop Benric's head to muss up his hair, letting his hand linger there

just a little too long. We come back to the sanctuary. Oh, man. This guy. This guy. How evil do you have to be? Oh, my God. As a look of horror crosses Sir Will's face.

When he kind of realizes everything, but at the same time can't quite put the pieces together, nothing makes sense anymore. Brander blasts his hands out. Everyone roll a will save. Oh. Oh, dear. Is it directional?

Actually, Ferrazza is out of the thing. Got it. 90-18, that's a 26. 25 for Baron. 26 for Pembroke. Nice try, Brenda. 20 for Naistar. Joe, just so you know, I'm not

fudging this. Can you just tell me what the DC of this spell is? DC 27. Oh no. I saw it. He pointed right at it. Hold person mass.

Oh dude, okay. This guy's a bit out of our league. Okay. Everyone except Farazza is frozen in place. Good thing Farazza was out of that, or she would have fallen from the sky. Yeah, yeah. And Farazza flies out of the cathedral. See ya.

She falls right into the lit forge. Wise man of chicken? Oh, shit. Okay. You'll forgive me for my precautions, but there is seven, eight of you and only one of me. I'll need but a moment. Brander unbuttons his tunic,

revealing a oddly strong-looking bear chest and a pendant hanging around his neck. He takes the glowing hammer of Aggramosh and strikes at the pendant, which shatters and releases a blinding light forward towards all of you. At that moment, what looks like either metal or maybe even bone starts radiating out

from the broken pendant. Yeah! And covers Brander's body with this, like, very impressive, but also very archaic-looking suit of armor. Wow. That, if you didn't know any better, looks to be melded directly into his body. Oh, my God. He then drops the hammer to the ground.

Now, dear friends, before my... He drops the hammer. Drops the hammer to the ground Now dear friends Before my He drops the hammer Drops the hammer to the ground It's work is done Holy crap Now dear friends I'm sure most if not all of you have business

You'd like to take care of with me But I suggest you listen to me for a moment Contrary to what some of you may believe, I am not your enemy. In fact, most of you are here with me right now because I helped edge the wheels of fate to get you here right at this very moment. If it's the hammer you want,

it's yours. I have no need for it anymore. Once I take what I came for, I will be out of your way. For now. I do warn you, however, that trifling with me is not recommended. I have no problems destroying you if I must. Though the prophecies have been written, they can be altered. But that need not happen. In fact, I'll even give you a gift, as it were, as a peace offering of sorts

for any ill will you bear towards me now he's standing at the forge all of you with the exception of Harazza are clumped together to the left of the bottom of the statue where Nestor was taunting the dead body of Urathash he walks right up to you guys, still

frozen there. Oh, terrifying. And walks slowly over to Umla. Looks up at Baron and says, Remember this, Ashpeak. I am not giving you the gift of life. I am giving you

the gift of knowledge. Learn am giving you the gift of knowledge. Learn from it, all of you, if you will ever be leaders of men. He bends down, lays his hand on Humlo's chest, and starts an incantation. Blue and white glowing light emanate from his hand and cover

Umlo's body in this strange glow that almost looks like you can see inside of Umlo's body. Flashes of like a skeleton back to the body. Flashes of the skeleton. Ah! Umlo awakens. What?

Then skeleton. Amlo awakens. What? Then he slowly walks over to Della and takes the form. His His body changes into a dragon. He grips Adela's lifeless body in his claws, and Indraconic says, Goodbye for now, my friends. And flies out of the cathedral. Oh my god! Oh my god. We'll see you next week. Oh no! Wait! Wait, you next week. Oh no!

Wait! No, wait, please. No, stop. That was the beginning? Oh my god. Oh. What? What?

No. Oh no. You're Razzy, you do get an attack if you want it. Oh no. And if you do, I'm being fully serious, you get an attack if you want it. However, the whole person is about to wear off.

And you could start a combat. I'm not going to start a combat. I really kind of wanted to cast pox pustules on him or something, just to make his journey that much more annoying. I hate acne!

No, Della, no, Della, no, Della's dead. Farazan obviously knows the virtues of when to fight another day. And all of you are released from the whole person seconds later. Oh my god. Oh my god. So, Umlo's walking around now? Umlo's like, looking up at you, his face completely

white, blue, like I try to detect alignment and I also spellcraft to see what he's under right now. Can I do that? Yeah, you can roll spellcraft. And we'll do detect evil. Farazza's going to land. She's still going to stay in eagle. She's also going to spellcraft.

Yeah, Pembroke will as well. 12 from bear. 23 for Farazza. 12 from Bear. 23 for Farazza. 12 from Bear and 23 from Farazza. 20 from Pembroke. 20 from Pembroke. Farazza, this... First of all, does not detect as evil.

Detects as Umlo. Detects as a neutral Umlo. Neutral Umlo. He's Umlo. He's Umlo. Don't worry about it. Party Umlo. There's only party bearers.

Umlo's a drag at parties, man. He's always talking about his mithril cooking pot. Skillet, Grant. Whatever. Farazza, you cannot figure out what this spell is that you rolled the highest that Brander cast. It's not resurrection, though. You know that.

But you don't know what spell he cast. Can I do a heal check to see if he's actually alive or if this is temporary or something like that? Sure. With her eagle eyes. She pokes at him with her talons She just lands on his chest

25 25 So Will is like a bird It just landed on his body Get away from here bird With a 25 you know he is alive But you can't That's all you can figure out

He's definitely alive He's not detecting his evil But you cannot figure out what this spell is it's certainly not a druidic spell wish uh pembroke kind of like waddles over and nester shakily kind of pulls himself up from the base of the statue and like kind of walks staggers over and like looks down and says no, this cannot, this can't this can't be. Is that you? Is it really you? Who's on lock?

I'm on lock. I was going to say, we didn't discuss because he was dead. Yes, it's it's me. I saw my sister. We were together in the halls of Torak. Why would you bring me back?

Why? Who did this? Brander did it, Umlo. Brander. I don't understand. What did he say? Why me? He said he wanted to give us a gift. Not of life, but of knowledge.

I don't understand. He reaches down his chest and, like like the blade holes have all closed up. Can we get a sense from the heel check? Like if he's at full hit points or if he's at just like one hit point or I know that's mechanics, but like, is he like fully vital? He from Della's heel check. One thing I could have told you. Don't don't. Excuse me.

For us. Your monster. Sorry. She's still new to the show. Farazan excuse me Farazan your monster your monster sorry she's still new to the show is that he's not at the same level that he used to be he has negative levels

okay just what Umlo needed a couple negative levels he'll be fine but yeah so he looks weaker. He's no longer a cleric. Aaron says, I don't know what

knowledge he particularly wanted us to have, but the knowledge I'm getting from this is that there's a life hereafter. And you saw your sister. Tell me what was it like? It was glorious. I mean Tell me, what was it like? It was glorious. I mean, sure, I was a decent fighter back in the day before I retired and became a cook,

but I was not a great fighter. I never fought the battles that we fought on this journey. But still, Torek led me in his halls. And she was there. And it was glorious. Do you still want to be here, on this mortal plane? Though this Brander was the one that brought me back.

I believe that perhaps Torak has other plans for me and I am here for a reason. Baron reaches into his duster pulls out his pistol and says I'm going to let you decide.

Just pull the trigger. No, no, no. He's not on his stake to make a decision like that. Put that away. I'm going to let you decide. Just pull the trigger. No, no, no. Nessar comes over and says, No, no, no. No, mate, he's not on his state to make a decision like that. Put that away. You're probably right. Sheriff, please. You're thinking crazy.

I'm also. It's a gift. We've been given a great gift. I just can't trust it when it's coming from Brander. I don't know what this means. I'm also not proficient in firearms. Yeah, he probably is. I'm low.

I'm low. I'm no. I'm no. I'm sorry. I'm genuinely sorry that we dragged you from, whoever dragged you from the great hereafter, but I cannot tell you how happy I am that you are back. And if you look like, Nestor looks genuinely happy, like, for the first time, like, in a while. He was devastated when he went down.

Yeah. So, I'm very, very happy that you're back with us, Mike. And he leans down and kind of pats him on the shoulder. Amlo just nods, still kind of out of it. I echo his words, Amlo. So happy to see you again. He eagerly

hops off of Lexington and helps him back up. He stands up. He's like, you must tell me all and more of what happened since my fall. I wish I had more precious and meaningful words to give you now that I've seen the hereafter, but give me time and hopefully I can impart some wisdom of what I've learned. Farazza is going to unwild shape back into her humanoid form.

And she's going to go over to check out the hammer. Ah. Hello, my friends. Hello, my friends. Can she spellcraft the hammer? Yes. Yes, she can. 20.

That's not going to do it. Not going to do it. Remember the last person to spellcraft the hammer? One Gormley call? One Gormley call. And all she did was the most powerful item that Gormley had ever seen. DC 40 to figure out. Jesus.

So I was going to automatically fail that. But however, you can detect the magic of the forge. Ooh. Farron slowly ambles past all of you and just kind of looks at you guys like, are you going to attack me? You're safe, Ferrin. I am overwhelmed by everything that's happened.

I do not know what to do, but I tell you this. I am not your enemy. I am not your enemy. I am not with him. And I promise I will be the keeper of the forge for you if you will have me. And we will turn around this place

from a worship of evil gods to a worship of good. Sense motive? Sure. Sir Will, turn to Baron. Can we bless this place in the name of Torag? It must become a forge of Torag. It feels right to me.

I don't think, traditionally, giants are Taurag worshippers in all candor. But if she has a pure heart, and I'm feeling a pure heart when I sense her alignment, I think she could be exactly what we need. What do you say, Farron? Together, perhaps we can make Mindrahal's cathedral rise to power again. But in the name of Torak. Yes. And Iomedae.

Yes. And Shalen. Yes. And Steve. That guy's awesome. Steve, most of all. That's awesome. Steve, most of all. That's awesome. She walks over to the forge.

She says she knew things pointing towards the tenor. She knew things about this place, about this forge. But she always spoke in riddles. You, she points to Nestor, you and poor Della prayed at the altar. That is an evil act, but I believe the altar has rewarded you for it.

Mechanically speaking, you and Della would have got this as well. Get a permanent plus two to sense motive and to craft checks. And old Jolter gains the unholy property.

Holy. Wow. Do you know what unholy is? It's electric and unholy? Yeah. I just assume it's the same thing as holy. Unholy weapon is imbued with unholy power. This power makes the weapon evil aligned and thus bypasses the corresponding damage reduction.

It deals an extra 2d6 points of damage against all creatures of good alignment. Oh, wow. Wow. It bestows one permanent negative level on any good creature attempting to wield it. Wow. Just throw it like hot potato at someone. Here, catch!

Hold this for a moment. You didn't even beat me. Take your best shot. Well, if we weren't 100% sure before that Nestor could instantaneously kill Sir Will, now we know. Yeah, yeah. Now we know for sure. Wow.

That's a paladin killer right there. Yeah, seriously. Righteous might my ass. Yeah. You got right through that. DR5 evil. Yep. She walks over to the forge and she says this.

This is unbelievable this is now a working forge and I'm sure I'm not the only one that detects the great magic coming from it she looks to Pembroke she looks to Paraza Sir Will Baron Aram this

can now create magical weapons, magical armor, magical shields. It itself possesses the craft magic arms and armor feat.

Oh, wow. Great. If someone already has that feat, it grants a plus five circumstance bonus on the craft checks needed to create any magical weapon, armor, or shield. This has great power. She would speak of

things, and only now do I understand what she meant. There are innate charges within this forge. Grinch shooting the sky. He's doing shooty motions with his fingers. You can make something whole that was broken. You can fabricate something. You can make a major creation. Is she like Billy Mays selling us like an infomercial?

What you did, Farazza, to Atena, it can do stone shape. Is she like Billy Mays selling us an infomercial? What? Stone skin. Stone skin. It can also give you an iron body. Is that what Brander did? I do not know. No, no, I don't believe so. What he did was something quite dark and ancient.

And lastly, it can turn stone itself... Into gold? Into flesh. Ah, stone to flesh, yes. Mechanically, Minderhall's Forge has ten charges which renew at the beginning of each day. A creature using Minderhall's Forge

can expend the listed number of charges to activate one of the following spell-like abilities as a full round action, which can affect all targets within ten feet of the forge. Full strength magic weapon and make whole, one charge. Fabricate, major creation,

stone shape, stone skin, three charges. Iron body and stone to flesh, five charges. And, again, this is for mechanical purposes, the forge itself has a caster level of 20, so it lasts as long as that.

Wow. So hold on a second. What does this mean, like, metagaming-wise? Is it like we bring people to the forge and either tell them to bend the knee or kill them on the spot with all souped up. No, it means we can build an army. We can raise an army against Volstis

and arm them and equip them for battle. Yeah, but all this stuff is only temporary, right? Well, except the magic weapons. If you wanted to make magic weapons. Magic weapons. Or crafting, yeah. The stone to flesh. I mean, we could have an army of golems.

Wow. You know, you can also... I mean, obviously it only stone to flesh. I mean, we could have an army of golems. Wow. You know, you can also, I mean, obviously it only lasts as long as it lasts, but some of those spells last for hours. But once Pembroke gets teleport, wherever you guys are, come here quick, go back into the battle. Yeah, that's totally true. That is so cool. That's great.

And Farron has offered herself to be the Keeper of the Forge. What does that mean, the Keeper of the Forge? Just somebody has to stay and stoke the fires kind of thing? I mean, she's basically saying she will stay here for centuries. Yeah. Wow. That's awesome. And I love this idea of, like, making this cathedral a cathedral of Torag and Iomedae and Shalen.

You know what I mean? And Steve. And Steve. Don't forget Steve. Now, the tools, do we have to use the hammer? Or is that only for Brander's thing? Can we use Torag based dwarven tools? Or is the hammer a part of the forge?

For the purposes of imbuing this stuff. You can use normal rafting tools. But it's a good question. If you ask that to her in character, she wonders about that as well.

And she says, So, Will, do you trust me? I do, yes. Come here and remove your armor. Umlo, would you help me? I haven't done this in a long time. And Sir Will is completely exhausted from all of this.

So it's like it's such a relief. And he's dirty. He's blood and cut up and everything. So just to get this armor off, it's like, ah. I thought you were going to say he's completely naked under the armor. He's got a shirt on that says, I went to Minderhall's Valley, and all I got was this t-shirt. Yeah, he slowly pulls all the armor off and then walks over to her. She says, I never believed that it could happen, but I wonder. Help me remove Vatana's armor.

And so you and Umlo and Farron take off this magical chainmail off of a tanner. Slay it upon the forge, Sir Will. Right in the fire? Right in the fire. Yes, right there, on the anvil. All right, so he puts it on the anvil. She picks up aggramosh and hands it to you, Sir Will. It says,

Strike it in the name of Iomedae. Wow. Alright, Sir Will will say a prayer and then strike it. In Iomedae's name. Chong! And the armor resizes on the forge to that of a halfling.

Yeah! Oh, wow. Holy crap. Awesome. Wow. I can't believe this. Wait, we must try something else. Give me a giant's weapon.

Grabs Urethash's hammer. Baron, you strike the hammer. Says a prayer to Torag, Keeper of the Forge. Clang!

Struck in the name of Torag, and Urethash's large, magical warhammer resizes to a medium magical. Oh, wow. I love it. This is the power of Aggramash. This is the power that has been lost for centuries, and now it has returned to its rightful home.

We will consecrate this place, and we will create all that we need to make the world a safe place for giants and small folk. Hear, hear. Now there is the problem of all of the armies

outside. Oh, right. The fighting pits, the families, the random giants that just don't get along, that have yet to be Oh, right. The fighting pits, the families. The random giants that just don't get along, that have yet to be pushed forward into Rathash's camp or moved on to other camps. I want you to know there are good giants out there, like me. They may be misguided, but they're not all bad. When word reaches them of Urathash's demise, they will eventually leave the valley.

They will need to protect the cathedral, keep them out, clean it, consecrate it, and somehow spread word about the camps of Urathash's death. What do you suggest we do? We cannot turn them to our side. With Urathash's death, we cannot convince them. Giants are very insular people. They stick with their own kind. Getting them to work even among themselves is hard. Getting them to work with other giants of different kinds is hard. Getting them to work for small folk.

While this conversation is happening, Nestor walks over to Urthash's body and just starts hacking away at his neck, sawing his head off. Oh my god. Like pulls ripping tendons, ligaments, and like tosses the head

towards the rest of the party. Yeah, show him that. As unsavory a decision, he may be on to something. You've also got a dragon, my friends. You have defeated a dragon. Yeah, there's a... Oh yes've also got a dragon, my friends. You have defeated a dragon. Yeah, there's a...

Oh, yes, there's a dragon body over there. There are literally bodies everywhere. Yes, perhaps these, for lack of a better word, trophies might be enough to let people know. I'm not sure how. You see, you just hear, I show them the head, they'll listen. And up in the choir loft, you see Lork on his stomach, sweating profusely.

Crawled all the way in? Crawled all the way in. Near the choir loft. I don't think he went up there and waited. He went from the outside. Right, right. The choir loft is still down the stairs. He went in the side door. Below the choir loft. Okay outside. He went in the side door.

Below the choir loft. Okay, so he comes in the side door. Anyway, he's on his... He took those stairs like a champion. He kind of takes to... Comes up on his knees and is just like huffing and puffing and is just like, show it to him. They'll listen. Roll a perception check, Lork.

18. Wait, no, I'm sorry Lork. 18. Wait, no, I'm sorry. That's, yeah, 18. Crawl on the door on your hands and knees. Pull yourself up on one of these giant pews with all your upper body strength, and you say that. And then you're like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3. Where's Della? Where's Della?

Where's Della? Faraz Della? Where's Della? Farazza just points out the door. Della died in battle. Sir Will doesn't even know this either. You saw Brander fly off with her body in his dragon talons. You haven't had time to process it. I mean, process everything that just happened. Well, yeah, I mean, I assumed as Sir Will he might...

Why would he take a dead body? I sort of assumed that she was. Well, yeah, I mean, I assumed as Sir Will he might why would he take a dead body? I sort of assumed that she was like unconscious. Ah, yes, so when you say that Sir Will here. Sir Will is like, she's dead. You know this? I rolled an excellent off-air perception check. And I was able to determine I saw the whole thing. I think we would have noticed

like her head was smashed. He caved into her chest with his war hammer. She didn't make it. I don't know why he took her. Why would he take her body? I don't know, but she's... He just kind of looks down at the grave. She's gone.

Lork is like... No. Lork, what's more? Brander has brought Omlo back from beyond the grave. Omlo, you fell. I... Brander brought him back. Why? from beyond the grave. Omlo, you fell. I brander-bot brought him back. Why?

We do not know. Give me ten minutes, I'll get over there. You know, Omlo goes over, Maeve Baron helps to bring Lork up to the dais as well. And as Lork's crawling, he's just thinking about Della, and he's just thinking of how upset he is that he couldn't have been there to try,

because he knew it was so dangerous, and he talked to her, and he knew that somebody could easily die and that it could be her, and so he wishes he could have been there. But Lork, what's more, not only do we know that Brander can bring people back from the dead, not only has he taken her body, Della took part in the ceremony to light the forge.

She committed a truly evil act before she was taken away from us. Sir Will is like, I hadn't thought of that. I hadn't thought of that yet. Baron, when we find time, we must... We must pray for her soul. Soon. Very soon. It won't be long before she's ushered into the gates of hell. We must prevent that from happening.

So he doesn't have to do it now, but he just wants to say a prayer at some point to pray that she can be judged to go to heaven. And of course, Nestor also joined. But I'm not sure what's going on with him. He seems to be hacking away at that Urathosh's body. Kind of want to steer clear of him for a while until he cools down a bit.

Whispering it, like in his ear so no one else can hear. Yeah. And Lork's response is just like, Oh, yeah, well, we brought him here to be a weapon, didn't we? And that's what he is. Look at him. He loves it. He loves it.

He loves it. There is a lot of XP to deal with and a lot for it to go around. I have to do the math, but I have a feeling that Pembroke and Farazza, if they don't level up, are pretty damn close. I would think so. I mean, Lork has some XP as well.

Obviously, you weren't involved in the fight, per se. Right. You might be a little bit behind, but... Lork, he did a lot in the last few episodes. Failed that save against Brander. in the last few episodes. Failed that save against Brander. So,

I'll deal with that between episodes. There is a lot of loot in this room. Oh, yeah. That is very interesting. I am just going to go through the loot. Okay.

Do spellcraft checks because we had nine battles in a row. Yeah. Wow. Our loot sheet is a fucking mess. Because we haven't been able Spellcraft checks, because we had nine battles in a row. Yeah. Oh, wow. Our loot sheet is a fucking mess. Because we haven't been able to go anywhere, so all I've just been doing is writing things down.

We can always listen back to this later to put it in the sheet, but remember now at this point, Agrimash has the power. Whoever's wielding Agrimash and strikes either a piece of armor or a weapon, it resizes permanently to the wielder of Aggramosh. You know who must be really pissed about that? Anyone who played this adventure class and took Titan Mauler? The archetype where you trade off all those things so you can wield giant size weapons. They're like, what?

That archetype where you trade off all those things so you can wield giant-sized weapons. They're like, what? The power of aggramage is so strong that magic or even intelligent items are always affected. Only artifacts receive a saving throw. I'd have to look back, but we have a bunch of stuff we picked up that was giant-sized. Absolutely. All those times you're like, what am I going to do with all these giant weapons? Just save them.

Just save them. Just save them. Just wait. So let's start with Atena. And again, whoever decides to keep these, resize them as you will. I keep getting them mixed up, Atena and Farron. And so for a second I was like, we're just going to kill Farron and pollute her body? Did someone kill Farron? A plus one flaming adamantine warhammer. Oh my god. that's what was killing eagles left and right oh that's right right out of the gate well let's resize that shit yeah that's awesome that that's

that's wait that's or with ashes or is that that's a tennis that's a tennis oh wow i was just thinking about making my next character a giant though t Troy. So can we not resize all of them? So a plus one adamantine flaming warhammer. Plus two, the one that Will already resized, is plus two light fortification chainmail. Wow. That is now halfling size. But if somebody else wants it, resize it up to medium. Nice, nice.

In terms of little other things she has, I'm pretty sure she has just a stone unholy symbol of Minderhall that looks to be a thousand years old. Millennia. Oh, smash it! So cool. Smash it, smash it, smash it.

Pembroke picks it up. He's quite interested in it. Oh yeah, I bet. From a scholarly point of view He's very interested You know who would love it? Who? Gormley Oh yes

Yeah Maybe you can revisit her grave someday And put it next to her tombstone Yes It's really useful to her now Thereby cursing her grave Right Let's talk about Morag

Remember the two-headed troll? Oh yeah About seven months ago? Yeah. He's got two masterwork scimitars. Oh. He's the one that did in Razzmatazz, right? Yes.

The stone giants, they just have great clubs. Nothing too fancy. The dragon is a dragon. You already stole all of his treasure. Mwahaha. So all that's really left is Urthash. Urthash.

Urthash has a plus one warhammer. Not as good as a tennis. A cold iron dagger. Dagger. Silver dagger. Masterwork artisan tools connected to armor and weapons. That'll help. Someone who takes the craft skill.

A spell component pouch. Also a stone unholy symbol of Minderhall. Ten gold pieces. So sad. He's a man of the cloth. He doesn't have a large salary. Ten days tomorrow. He was wearing a masterwork breastplate.

He also has a scroll of prayer. Oh, that's a good one. And two other things. The stone giants that came in with him had big bags. Remember? Full of boulders?

One of them is a magical boulder bag. Oh. I've always wanted one of those. Well, you got one. This immense bag is always full of hefty, good-sized rocks and can be carried over the shoulder or left on the belt of a large

or larger creature, though doing so does not take up an item slot. left on the belt of a large or larger creature, though doing so does not take up an item slot. On a swift action, a large or larger creature wearing the boulder bag can reach into the bag and pull out a rock two size categories smaller than itself that's suitable for the rock throwing ability. Don't know if it's going to help you guys too much. Golem shapes her will. Stone gets large, has a bag of rocks on this thing just could we ask farron to like be like kind of an operative for us and like take something like like this bag and sell it to giants and like take a cut and give us some money so we can get value for the bag it's not impossible

but i just don't know how many giants are going to... Well, there's all these camps out there. Surely we could sell it to someone who just thinks it's cool. We've got to go to Shinnerman's Fortune and sell them an endless bag of rocks so they can rebuild their town. That's true. All right, fair enough. That's actually a really nice gesture. We'll sell it to them for the low, low price of half its worth.

Grant, are you ready for the Inquisitor item? Oh! Item worth about 10,000 gold pieces. What? Is known as a Bane Baldrick. This ornate sash of embroidered velvet stretches across the chest from shoulder to waist. If the wearer is an Inquisitor, she is treated as five levels higher when using her Bane and greater Bane abilities. Wow.

Oh my god. If the wearer is not an Inquisitor, she gains the Bane ability of a fifth level Inquisitor, but must first attune a light or one-handed melee weapon to the Baldrick by hanging it from the cloth for 24 hours Yeah, I actually don't have Bane yet, so I think I would have to treat it. Fifth level's when it starts? I believe so. Yeah. Might want to hold on to it. Yeah.

Well, you can use it now anyway. Yeah, because it'll probably treat me like... Are you level two now? Level three. Level three? Ooh, you're closing in. So it'll probably treat me like a normal character that is an Inquisitor when I can hang something on it. Right, right.

Until I get the thing. Until you get the level, yeah. I think we've kind of forgotten Feyraza is standing there as well. Out of nowhere. Hello, my friends. Sir Will just wanted to go over and just sort of, with some level of ceremony, kind of put his hand to his chest and just say, My lady, I do not know you well, but you saved our lives.

Without your coming at this particular time in this particular place, we could not have survived this battle. I owe you my life. And he like very very ceremoniously like takes a knee and bows to her. It is nothing, my friends. I owe it to the

older gentleman and to our footless friend over there for leaving them behind. But I've been following you ever since. It is very good to see you again, my friend. And he gives her a greeting in ancient Assyriani. And she responds. It's good to see you

hail and healthy. Yes. May your fields be flooded in the rainy season and may the gleaming light of the pyramids shine upon your very footsteps. Wow. That's dope. That's the best. So say we all.

So say we all. But yeah, Farazza is... She'll just kind of tell you why she's here, because it never really came up when she met up with Pembroke. She unwraps her headscarf and she reveals the the brambled

branches hair she has and reveals herself as an aasimar which I don't know if you guys know this yet. I don't think the characters knew that. Lork gasps. At a young age my powers began to manifest and I was brought

in front of the elders of my community and told that I was the scion of a deity. And yet, not, as they said, the chosen one. They said, in a faraway land there existed another child, one they called the chosen one. And he would help to save the world from a great threat. And once I came of age, I came to find him. To assist him in this journey. In this mission. They told me to search in the little town of Trunau. And that his name was Poudir.

Oh. Whoa. Oh. Whoa. Wow. Take that back, Matthew, in layman's terms. Whoa. So, Farazza is an Aasimar, so she is in the bloodline of a deity. But she knew of another Aasimar

that was the chosen one who was supposed to be the great leader or the savior of the world from a great and apocalyptic threat. And she knew his name was Pudir, and somehow he had ended up in a town called Trunau. And that's what they had discovered through their searching. And this is the name of the boy that Lork killed in Trunau. And so he hears this and immediately is like,

his stomach drops out from under him. It's like, no wonder. He doesn't say anything. He's just like completely shocked. It's also the name of Brander's companion in the flashback when he was looking at the hieroglyphics. Right. That was his father.

Right. He said, your wife is with child, right? So Brander was already on to this, the one. Yeah. That was supposed to come. It's like he's herding these, following these people with this destiny. Yeah, yeah. Is Brander the source of the curse on Lork?

Uh. Or is Lork the source of the curse on Lork? He killed the Chosen One. He killed the Chosen One. He killed the Chosen One. Holy shit. Does Lork say anything or just buttons up? No, he just buttons up. He's not going to say anything.

I will tell you, as a player, I intend to tell her at some point. I mean, at this moment, he is completely shocked, and he's going to play it like, better to say nothing right now, because I don't want her to kill me or go away. And Baron not noticing your reticence to speak, he's just, he's picked up by the idea of an aasimar. This is a novel thing. He's read about them. He knows he's never met one in person.

And he says, this bodes well for us. This is the first bit of good news we've had in a while. We've stepped into the jaws of hell, and yet we have a little drop of the celestial here with us. I welcome you, Farazza. I thank you. And I know that journeys are long, and that we have a little drop of the celestial here with us. I welcome you, Farazza. I thank you. And I know that journeys are long and that time is short. But if you, the sheriff of Trunau,

as I am taken to believe by your badge, might at one point escort me back to the town so that I may search for Pudir, I would be in your debt. Absolutely. We'll introduce you to the town leadership. We'll have top men on it. I honestly thought you were going to say, do you need a new little deputy?

I thought that was where he was going. The badge is gone. The position's retired. Sir Will is... I'm taking a jersey from the Raptors. Yeah, Sir Will, what's going on with him? Sir Will is starstruck. He was just honoring a woman who he felt had this presence about her of a hero, right? And had done this great deed of good to help them.

And so he wanted to honor her. Well, as soon as he sees this, and then he knows, right? She says it, and he knows that she's divine, that she's Asimar, that she is celestial, and he can feel it. And he's, like, completely starstruck. It's like being around an angel to him. He's never been around an Asimar before. Maybe there were, like, Asimars in the Knights of Ozum that, like, were higher ranked and he never, like, interacted with but he heard about. And in this case, it's like, whoa.

It's a big deal for him. So he's going fanboy, but he's trying to not lose his cool. I also think he's got other things on his mind besides that. Yeah, yeah, 100%. So if that thing that I'm telling you that he's recognizing in that moment, that little flashback there, has he put the pieces together yet? I don't think so i think that the i mean for him to just remember that brander like put his hand on ben rick's head for like a little too long i think it's a bit of a stretch you know because this

is years ago it's a decade or more ago to like put that together right on the spot. I don't think so, but he's definitely less on Benric. He's more focusing on this fear that Brander was in his life at some point manipulating something. And so I think very soon he's going to make the connection. I just don't think he's making it right this moment. But he's definitely fearful, I mean, as much as he can be, that he has been manipulated, That his family has been manipulated. Right.

In the same way that, you know, well, I guess he doesn't really know. Glarus has been manipulated yet, so that has to come up, too. There's a lot going on. Yeah. Among all of our characters right now. There's a lot going on. This is my favorite game. It is so good.

It's great. I imagine Umlo just sitting there still kind of going through what it means to have come back from the dead and he's

flexing his hand back and forth. The steel hand. He says, who? Who is going to take it? I can see you probably didn't have time. But you made

a promise to me when I struck my own hand off. That if I fell, one of you would take it. Who among you was going to do the deed? Sir Will steps forward.

He says, very nervous, very, like, uncomfortable, not confident at all. He's like, I swore an oath. I swore an oath, Amlo. It was me. I said if you fell, I would take the hand. I will honor that promise should you wish it. You have given your life to this cause.

I can ask you to go no further. But for me, Dr. Forsythus, or Branda, whatever you call him, has taken Della. And I will not rest until he comes to justice. My fight goes on. And I will happily honor my side of the bargain and take the hand, should you wish it. Baron says, I can think of no better way to consecrate a temple devoted to Torag, Iomedai, and Shalen than to have the joining of the small folks' lines in one person. And just like my ancestor, I will stand by the steel hand, and this time, make sure we achieve absolute victory.

Yeah. Nice design. Yeah, mate. Yeah. Nice design. Yeah, mate. Yeah, it's yours. You earned it. You've worn it well. You do it on our... It's yours. Thank you, Sir Will.

Baron. And Nestor, I know I always haven't been kind to you. But I know you have my best interest in heart. Thank you, all of you. What is that? And he points at, like, that little piece of paper

that fell from the sash that Baron picked up off of Urathash. Do you pick it up, Baron? Yeah, I picked it up. It's a note written in giant. Do you read giant? I took giant, I believe.

I know a little giant. Yeah, I know a little giant. Conversational giant. I just got to go right back. It's on his resume. He goes, where is the bathroom? In giant. I can understand it when people talk to me,

but I can't speak it back. It's so fast, though, when they speak. They speak giant so fast. Yeah, I took the point in linguistics to get it. Two points. It says, Dear Earth Ash, the package arrives safely at Skiergard. What?

We will let Esk know what you have done. Esk, like with a period or something? Not E-S-S? No, S. Not the river Esk? No. Okay, good.

Do I know where Skarsgård is? I'm not done. Oh, sorry. Skarsgård. Skarsgård is... Peter Skarsgård. I don't know where he is either. Maggie Joel?

It's signed X and N, the letters. X period and N. Zvolstis? Now as for... Zvolstis? Zvolstis? Zvolstis? As for Skarsgård, or rather, Skirgard.

Skirgard, yeah. I'm Skarsgård? I have knowledge of geography Well more importantly Do any of you remember anything about Skirgard We have those maps from upstairs We could read those couldn't we If I'm not mistaken was Skirgard

The village of frost giants Like north of here That does sound Nordic Where the armed giants were heading that way To be tested It is south technically But yeah where the armed giants were heading that way, right? To be tested? Oh, it is south. It is south, technically. But yeah, you guys found that stuff in the middle tower.

I think it was the... Was it the room with the Cyclops and the Rux? I think so. It was the Rux. Oh, that's the one. It was like a big meeting room. Yeah, it was a big giant round table. And then there was a bedroom right upstairs. Yeah, we found it right around there. And then the top floor was where we's the one. It was like a big meeting room. Yeah, it was a big, like, giant, like, round table. And then there was, like, a bedroom right upstairs.

Yeah. Yeah, we found it right around there. Yeah. And then the top floor was where we fought the dragon. Right. Yeah, you found in that, like, trophy room, there were maps and drawings on the walls detailing the whole surrounding region, including Minderhall's Valley and the location of other giant strongholds within the Mindspin Mountains.

And one of the diagrams depicted a huge castle floating on a cloud. That's right. Yeah, I do. I do now, yeah. But you couldn't quite tell how accurate some of this stuff was. They don't have a Tom Exposition, a professional cartographer in the group, to map things out exactly. But the one thing you learned when later on,

I think it was when you were up after you defeated the dragon, you actually had a chance to look over this stuff. And you got to comb through the documents and the maps. And first and foremost, you realize that Minderhall's Valley was just a recruiting station for Volstice's armies. Orathash, as lieutenant, was evaluating the new conscripts here and sending the most promising recruits to a frost giant village named Skirga

for additional training. They're going to be martial arts masters, too? Oh, no. And one of the maps on the wall... Stone giant brawlers. Oh, no. Just switching feats left and right. One of the maps on the wall. Stone giant brawlers. Oh, no. Just switching feats left and right. One of the maps on the wall pinpointed the exact location of the training camp.

And it was about 150 miles southwest of the Cathedral of Minderhall. I will say, when we found that, if you said, do you think you'd be at Skirgard at episode 130? I'd be like, yep. I mean, definitely by then. You know, it's funny. What was the episode in Red Lake Fort where you first heard about the cathedral? Oh, that was... I mean, who knows?

There's no way to find out. We found the letter on what's-her-name's body. Gristlecrack. No, Grinsledeck. Grinsledeck. The love letter. The love letter, yeah. The failed love letter, yeah.

Was it around then? It was somewhere in that room. Maybe the room before you got to her. I think you found things like a cathedral. Oh, I'm just thinking about the beauty that could have been Granseldeck's wedding to the Storm Diary. In this very cathedral

walking down the aisle. Her father proudly carrying her down. It would have been resplendent. We'll put bows on every pew. Man. So much going on. And now you know that if Urthas is one of the lieutenants... By the way, so much has been happening.

Don't forget that Urthas, in his speech when he came in, was like, to hell with Volstis. I don't think that despot understands the true power of Minderhall. I'll help him out. I'll send him his little recruits. But in my mind, I am going to lead the revolution in Minderhall's name. I kind of wanted to...

I didn't want to overdo Sir Will's smite evil speech, but I kind of wanted to bring that up. And it was just kind of what I touched on. You think you're so big, but you are very small in the eyes of the gods and one of the things I wanted to touch on is like you're not going to do this great thing that you think you're going to do you know you're you're nothing and we're going to take you out that was one of the things he was trying to get out was like everybody wants to like top each other you know and Sir Will he just he hates that kind of attitude because he likes teamwork working together doing things together you know, and Sir Will, he just, he hates that kind of attitude because he likes teamwork, working together, doing things together, you know.

He would understand an evil team that was working together to force their will on people, but when, even within their own clans, they're working to one-up each other, he hates that kind of outlook on doing things. But at the same time, I think it humanizes these people, too, if you think about it in the other way. With Screed, with Grenseldek, and with Urath with earth ash these people all came from humble beginnings and they wanted more out of life they wanted more and they just made they made the wrong decisions they chose evil and you know what that's interesting it's probably a reason that sir will doesn't really understand

it because he did not come from humble beginnings he did not have a hard go of it he's had it easy all along yeah you know like he's had it easy all along. Yeah. You know, like he's had this privileged life. So he's like, no, you don't need to work your way up to anything. You just have to work together and everything's going to be great. Like, that's not so for people that grew up in a very different situation than Sir Will. So you figure out at this point that these giants were all being gathered here.

Earth Ash, in spite of his faults, a good leader, brought people. They are giants from all over. And the best of the best were sent to the fighting pits. And the losers died in the pits. The winners were brought on to the army. And the best of those

were then sent on to Skirgard. Wow. Destination Skirgard. Wow. Destination Skirgard. Wow. Lork, you left True Now in the middle of the night. Left your friends behind. Della never quite forgave you.

No, why? She didn't. Baron, maybe still on the fence. Baron's a little more understanding. I think Baron's come around. I'm very sympathetic to his... I feel like there's a price to be paid for any type of misgiving, and I feel like he's paid that price in spades. And now you know what can happen

when someone doesn't forgive. Della will never have a chance to say anything to Lork. Got him. But Lork, you left for a reason. The conversation you had with Kortresva, he knew of your curse and he wanted to help you.

And what did he tell you? Seek out the Skoln Kwa.ek out the Skonkwa. Yeah, Skonkwa. In the Bloodsworn Vale, right? In Bloodsworn Vale. That's a Shawanti tribe, yeah? Yes, sure is.

Yeah, and Lork had a run-in with these guys when he was with the Black Arrows. Not really specifically, but just they... They were known as dangerous people. You kind of stayed away from them. You didn't cross their lands easily. Right. Yeah, there's lots of different, I think they're quas, right?

Each one's a qua. Each tribe is a qua, yeah. These are the Skolm qua, not the friendliest people, but he said go there. Because they're involved in like the undead, right? They're like, their tribe is involved in undeath. Now, where you are in the Mindspin Mountains, who's got knowledge geography? Farazza does.

Pembroke also does. Roll some knowledge geo, some nat geo. 20 for Pembroke. 23 for Farazza. All right, Pembroke and Farazza both know. Both saw a nat geo special on the Bloodsworn Vale. Did you guys see that special on the Bloodsworn Vale? Yeah.

If you decide to continue with the mission and head to Skiergard, where it seems like all, you know, barren, that's got to be exactly what you want to do. You're going to Skiergard. That's 150 miles southwest of here. Whoa. A couple things that you need to do. You're going to Skirgard. That's 150 miles southwest of here. Whoa. That's far. Couple things that you need to know.

Finally, there will be some civilization. You can stop and sell things and gain information and learn more about how this giant uprising is affecting other towns

closer to the Mindspins. You also know that heading southwest is in the direction of Bloodsworn Vale. That in fact, at a certain point you will have to

continue on towards Skirgard. But if Lork wants to continue on his quest he will have to continue on towards Skirgard but if Lork wants to continue on his quest he will need to go west to Bloodsworn Vale. Could be a day trip could be his death if the tribe doesn't accept him Well, Shoanti love half-orcs

so I'm excited to see how that goes So, I mean, The journey ahead is going to be nuts. You have been in this valley for over a month, I believe. Maybe six weeks. And now you get to get out,

travel to civilization. And Lork, you're going to have a big decision that you have to make because you think they're going to leave their mission to go help you do that? Depends. Maybe you can find out some more information how far these Skonkwas, and then you can beg of the party, can we take like three days to go see what happens with these tribal maniacs?

And then we'll go to Skirga. Things to think about. Things to think about. But at the end of the day... We got to drag your ass along now? Yeah, and he also doesn't want to just continue to be this burden, so it's hard. Can we resize a wheelbarrow to put him in

so we can just kind of run along with him like it's a rickshaw? In the meantime, it's been a long day. There is lots to still deal with here. I mean, you guys have a decision you need to make. It's not like you're going to wake up tomorrow and be like, all right, let's head out. You guys have to figure out a plan to start sowing the seeds of descent among these giants so that they disband,

so they don't raid the cathedral. Think about this. You can't make that decision tonight. You know, Nester cut off the head of Urathash. You've got a dragon Maybe Farazza flies out there and just drops Urathash's head I don't know And sees what happens

But like, there might be some that are like Oh, if Urathash isn't here, I'm out of here There might be some like Well, then I'm going to the cathedral Things to think about But in the meantime Correct me if I'm wrong Everyone probably wants to rest

Yes Yes Yes, very badly Correct me if I'm wrong. Everyone probably wants to rest. Yes. Yes. Yes. Very badly. Yes. Very, very badly. You want to do a sort of cursory stealth mission around the rest of the cathedral to make sure it wasn't repopulated.

Yeah, totally. Clear the area, grog hall, all that stuff. It wasn't. It wasn't. The bodies of some things are still there. The bodies of some things are still there the bodies of others aren't like maybe the grog hall still has bodies in it but whereas like the tower doesn't have the bodies the cyclops and the rucks we clean those out but maybe over confidently didn't repopulate them so you could take a couple hours with what little strength you have left and just secure

all the entry points yeah Yeah, we do that. Yeah. For sure. And before we do any sort of resting or anything, Sir Will wants to pull Baron and Umlo aside and lead a prayer to probably Phrasma, I would think. Oh, for the dead. Yeah, understand that Della's final actions in life were meant for good, were meant to bring justice to an evil creature,

and that she should be ushered more to the heavenly side of the outer planes than hell. Well, I think we have to kind of beseech her. Did she remain an atheist until she died? Yeah. Well, she started getting into Desna because... Yeah, she did pledge herself to Desna, but whether or not she actually understood what that meant. Right.

But basically, to my understanding, you kind of need a sponsor from a deity to get into a positive afterlife in in the pathfinder universe so we either need to ask for asthma to kind of like take her on or we could say a separate prayer to one of our deities to say yeah no no i know it would be yeah it would be in ioma day's name and but but as far as i understand it in the pathfinder world this deity of phrasma her job is to when you die she's impartial and true neutral and she just ushers you to where you belong. And I think that there might be some confusion with Della, and he just wants to try to say a prayer that Iomide and Torag will, yes, ask for Phrasma because they are cool.

Like Phrasma is pretty cool with all the gods, good and evil. So I think that they can ask for this soul if we pray hard enough. Her body is being taken away by beast-dragon form Brander. Her soul is headed for the abyss, most likely. Right. So if you can pray in the name of Torag and Iomedae and maybe invoking some Shalen as well for her soul, it may help.

So I imagine Umlo and Beren and Sir Will just praying over it. And Umlo has been in the halls of Torag. He's seen the afterlife. And as the prayer ends, his eyes light up and he's like, I must stay here to protect the forge that

is why Torak brought me back this woman this slag giant she is good I know it why Torag brought me back. This woman, this slag giant, she is good. I know it. She will be the keeper.

And I will be the protector. Hopefully you will be able to come back once this valley again hopefully clears out. But in the meantime, I will stay here Come back once this valley again hopefully clears out. But in the meantime, I will stay here and protect it in Torak's name.

And Iomide's name. I will still be your servant. But I will help keep this forge. What say you? Keep this forge. What say you? The sturdiness of your faith is an excellent keystone upon which to build this new church. And you taught me a lesson today. About never doubting divine plans we can't understand.

Sorry for what happened earlier when I offered you a way out. Sir Will is going to put his hand on Umlo's shoulder. He's just going to say, We have spoken of your experience in the fort and everything that we've worked on since then. Then and now, you have shown how brave you are. You are a brave dwarf, and I am honored to know you. Pembroke says... He looks troubled somehow, but he says...

Yes, well, I believe you will make a worthy guardian for this re-sanctified place. You must do what you feel is right. And Nestor says, Oh, my... You're a better man than I am. What you need to do is just do it Umlo nods

looks at all of them looks at Lorne too everybody's standing around talking to Umlo he's the center of attention he came back from the dead yeah he's seen some things

and I mean you all have to feel like confident this is a good call you know Farron will do what she can, but you know Umlo can handle himself in battle.

And maybe, with Torek's grace, he can gain back his full strength. You can finally get him that restoration spell. Get some strength back. So that all being said, it's time to go to bed. Hey there, Ryan. Hey. You to go to bed. Hey, Ryan.

Hey. You guys want to do like a watch? I mean, you secured everything pretty well. But before, if we're all like gathered together, like before we arrange all that, guys, like Nestor is like breaking down emotionally. Like you see him. He's just sitting there.

He's just not studiously avoiding anyone's gaze. He's just got his head in his hands. He's kind of shaking. He never sees Nestor anything but supremely confident and at ease, even in the most dangerous of situations. So he's like, Nesta, is something wrong? He looks up. There's tears, like, in his eyes.

He says, no, mate, it's just not, you know, all these months that I've been looking forward to this moment, it's just driven by this revenge for what happened to me. Pointless teeth. And now it's like it's done. Yeah, it was like it was a thrill in the moment. But now it's, I don't know, like it's got this empty feeling inside. And he looks up at the rest.

Everyone else is like, this is, as you can imagine, this is not an easy thing for me to say right now. But you all know about my rather complicated family history. The family that I was settled with by fate was shit. Flat out, I'll say it, but you lot feel like, that was the family I was given,

I didn't have a choice, you lot feel like the family I've earned, and, I know I've been, troubled before, I've made some bad decisions, but I just want to say that if you'll have me I want to stay with you

and I want to see this thing through, that's it take it for what it is I understand your your emotion the end of a grand quest can leave one lost

but I appreciate what you say and you should know that the end of a grand quest can leave one lost. But I appreciate what you say, and you should know that I will stand at your side. I know that we see things differently, and we do things a bit differently, but if we are on the side of taking out Brander, Volstis, the giants, the evil giants of Sceogard, then I will be at your side. Thank you, mate. Thank you. I thought going into this place you'd be a useful weapon, and boy were you a useful weapon, but you're more than just a tool.

I know there's a man in there beyond what we found in that jail cell and I know regardless of what's happened in the past you're paving out a road out of debt and I'm happy to take that journey with you this time not as a ward of

true now but as a ward of true now, but as a friend. You might be shaking hands. Lork doesn't say anything. He's still pretty wary. Now, he doesn't know him that well. You know, he has an adventure with him. So he's, he just knows he's a criminal.

You know what I mean? So he's like, you never trust a criminal. Because he knows, because he's a criminal. You know what I mean? So he's like, you never trust a criminal. Because he knows because he is a criminal. He's known criminals. So he's just kind of like... They kill chosen ones and everything. He doesn't say anything. He just keeps it quiet.

Well, the other thing I was thinking about on top of this, this weight being lifted with Master, if you just think back to his archetype, he's an executioner. And executioners aren't always murderers out of cold blood. It's oftentimes just the only job they could get. And even if he's well-trained and like that,

I'm wondering if there's a redemptive path. I probably should have sensed motive on everything he said. But I'm willing to give him... Yeah, good luck rolling against his bluff. I know. I'm willing to give him a chance. I'm still against his bluff. I'm willing to give him a chance. I'm still watching him whenever he goes to the loot, though.

I'm not telling you that much. Sure. Emotional. Emotional day. Guys, barricade up. You want to do watches? Yeah. Who wants the first watch?

Sir Will will take it. Second? Oh. Second Baron. All right. So middle of the night? Nice Sir Will will take it second oh second Baron alright so middle of the night nice I'll take third watch

alright do druids have to rest the full eight hours like our canaan's belt casters I have to rest nine yes pass I'm sorry

there's only eight hours before the next boss battle I can see you guys probably taking like eighteen hours you know yeah just imagine how you feel should sleep in definitely Sir Will you took There's only eight hours before the next boss battle. I can see you guys probably taking like 18 hours. Just imagine how you feel.

I should sleep in, definitely. Sir Will, you took first watch, and you're probably just like, I really wish I didn't take first watch. Yeah, I'm just falling asleep. So the rest of you just out cold immediately. And then, Sir Will, you wake up Farron, and you're just like, man, it's your turn. And you're like on your last thing

Lexington's already out and I mean you must not you must barely get your armor off before you're you're out before your head

hits the pillow Farron you sit there and kind of look over everybody you look at Farron and Umlo and think about

what they're about to go into you think about your companions new some new some old and the journey you're about to go into. You think about your companions, new, some new, some old, and the journey you're about to go into. And you do your watch, uneventful. You wake up Nestor.

Nestor gets up. Nestor, you look over everyone as well. What do you do? So, Nestor, I'm going to spend one of my last two remaining bottle caps on a stealth check. Okay. 35. 35.

Everyone is sleeping. So their passive perception while sleeping is even worse. I don't think anybody can beat a 35. Correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah, I can't beat it with a natural 20. Natural 20s don't succeed on skill checks, right? No, just attacks. Even Lork on a natural 20.

He's got a high perception. I could get exactly 35 if I rolled a 20. How do you find your passive perception? It's just 10 plus, right? Yeah, minus 25. So yeah, no chance at a 35. Nobody moves. So, yeah, Nestor, nobody moves. So, Nestor silently pads over to Umlo.

And he gets down next to him, studies him, pulls out his short sword, and performs a coup de grace on him. What? What the? Automatic crit. Yeah. I'm low. Had not fully healed.

What? So that's 32 points of damage. So he has to make a fortitude save Of 10 plus the damage Or else he dies Fail You stick the sword in him And he wakes up for a moment Not unlike what Brander did

When Brander brought him back As he's bleeding out, I put my hand over his mouth. His hand's over his mouth. He says, Shh. I can see it. I can see that look of confusion

on your face. I said, I know why. I said, I know, I know, mate. I know. Listen, believe me, I've thought about killing every one of you lot, time and again. But, in fairness, they have saved my life quite a few times. So, the way I see it, we're even. But you, I couldn't suffer you to live.

You didn't see it, but I was quite upset when you were killed back there. Because I was robbed of the chance to kill you and myself. Oh, my God! I love scared so much. So I'm just going to take what's mine and leave. But you, this is it for you. And I just want to be perfectly clear.

This was because of the gutter trash remark. He twists the blade and finishes him. I killed him! Baron killed him. Who killed Umla? And you just,

you hear this like a sawing sound happening. And, say we cut to Nestor like slinking out the side door. Kind of like getting clear

of the cathedral heading towards the dark passage and he starts very cheerfully singing. He said, Hello. I must be going.

I came to say I cannot stay, I must be going. Glad I came, but all the same I must be going. Challa. I'll stay a week or two. I'll stay the summer through. But I'm telling you, I must be going. I would think probably the next person to wake up is

Fariza. Fariza Alsen wakes up and you look around and something just doesn't seem right. Not a sound. First thing you notice, you don't see Nestor, but you barely know the guy.

You know he's a little shady. Maybe he's off peeing. Doing Nestor stuff. Doing Nestor stuff. But then you notice a pool of blood near the base of the statue. You follow it, and you see Umla with a gaping open wound in his chest and missing the steel hand. End of book three. Oh!

We'll see you next... Chapter? Blackout. Epilogue. We fly over the small town of True Now. The walls have been completely rebuilt. Looks pretty new. Looks pretty good.

There's a crowd gathering in the middle of the inner quarter, right where you guys did battle months ago. Hub, hub, hub, hub, hub, hub, talking, talking. And you kind of go past the shoulders of these people Months ago. I don't know. Hub, hub, hub, hub, hub, hub. Talking, talking. And you kind of go past the shoulders of these people. And look at what they're looking at. They're surrounding a figure on the ground.

Clad in just rags. It's a woman. She stands up and you see that her skin is like translucent white blue. She says, where is my daughter? Now we'll see an explanation. Oh my God! Oh wow! Holy shit! Wow! Oh my god! Oh wow! Holy shit!

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