The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 132 - Leaving Lost Magus
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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast.
And now it's time to start book four.
I'm excited.
I am so excited.
A fresh new start.
I'm low.
Dead.
Nestor.
Gone. A fresh new start. Umlo, dead. Nestor, gone.
Sir Will snaps awake, knowing that the snake was in the grass the whole time.
And he let his guard down.
Your friend was not your friend.
Nothing you knew about him can be trusted anymore.
And Baron opens up the bag of holding.
Pulls out a tool you've never seen before.
Clang!
Clang!
Woo-hoo!
Ho-ho- Oh, baby!
The cathedral has been reconsecrated.
Ah, that all started.
It kicks Lexington out of the cathedral.
The adventure continues.
I got good news and I got bad news. What do you want first?
Right now. Welcome back to the Glass Cannon Podcast, everybody.
It's your old buddy Joe saying happy holidays to all of you.
Hope everybody had a terrific Thanksgiving and that you are all well ahead of me in your Christmas shopping.
If you've purchased one gift for anyone, you are well ahead of me in your Christmas shopping.
I've done nothing.
Except I did buy a set of heavy metal
dice for myself. That pack's unplugged. Don't think that counts, though. I gotta get on that.
So, in the interest of speed, let's talk about episode 132. We started book three of the Giant
Slayer campaign on October 4th, 2016. The finale last week released on November 28th,
2017. So for over a year, we have been traveling to or struggling in Minderhall's Valley. But today
marks a new day, a start of a new chapter in the story. Last week is one of those sessions that you will just never
forget. I can't imagine forgetting that anytime soon. Such an incredible, memorable role-playing
moment from Skid, and it was really fun to be a part of. But all in all, I mean, if you think about it in the grand scheme, and I got to kind of do my parent talk now, S-H-I-T definitely went down. So what happens now? How do the
characters move on from this? Well, it's a whole new story, a whole new show, and I'm excited for
you guys to hear it. I want to wish you and all of your friends and families
the happiest and healthiest of holiday seasons.
I said it last year, and I'll say it again.
I am so incredibly thankful and grateful to all of you for your support in 2017.
As Troy predicted, it was indeed a big year for the GCP,
and at this point, 2018 looks like it could be even bigger. And without you
guys, none of it is possible. So thank you. And on with the show.
This is a very special episode for a number of reasons. It's the beginning of a new book beginning of a new chapter
as it were and you know this is normally something we'd reserve for an intro but i thought it
important that we we bring it up right in the middle of an episode because this is where it
all began just episodes This is the last time
that we will be recording
in an apartment.
Yay!
Because as of episode 133
We're going to jail.
We're going to federal prison.
Minimum security federal prison.
We have negotiated
with our attorneys to be allowed to bring
our podcasting equipment
And books and books with us
We really misread that deal with Paizo
Who knew being so terrible
At min-maxing your character
Was punishable by jail time
I'll never violate an NDA again
I'll tell you that much
This is it We started doing this in Joe's apartment I'll never violate an NDA again, I'll tell you that much.
This is it.
We started doing this in Joe's apartment,
and we recorded probably the better half of, what, 60 episodes? 60 or so episodes, yeah.
In your apartment.
About a year.
Gormley died there.
Gormley died on your coffee table.
We started.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah, that's right.
I can actually remember
like exactly where i was sitting when that happened yeah oh that moment yeah it was the
same place we sat for 50 episodes well it's true i remember still it's the same place we sat the
first time we summoned gary the celestial dolphin oh I'll never forget that moment. Oh, yeah. I remember that. It's wonderful. I remember that.
A lot of firsts.
And then you had a baby.
Right.
And so we moved to my apartment.
We've also recorded a couple episodes at Grant's apartment, a couple episodes at Matthew's
apartment.
That was where Matt worked elaborate, where you had the damage written on the sheet of
paper.
Oh, that Grant's apartment.
That was at Grant's apartment.
That's right.
That's right.
Yeah. I remember Matthew's apartment. damage like written on the sheet of paper was that's right that's right yeah i remember matthew's
apartment you were in the middle of some sort of diatribe in character or as the gm really getting
into something and not realizing that matthew's radiator was going like full volume literally
13 inches from me i couldn't hear it you were so into it and i'll look at you i'm like just stop
i was like every now and then it will sound like the radiator is exploding It was literally 13 inches from me. I couldn't hear it. You were so into it. And I'm looking at you. I'm like, just stop. We have to stop.
I did more than that.
I was like, every now and then it will sound like the radiator is exploding.
That might have been, isn't it Romanticor?
That was, no, no.
We recorded in Matthew's apartment.
No, no.
Romanticor, that was at Grant's place.
That was at Grant's.
Big Willie style was at Matthew's apartment.
Classic.
When Skeet and Grant and Troy got into the huge knockdown drag out fight about the Times
4 crit on the gun.
Oh, yeah.
That was at my apartment.
Yeah.
That's right.
A lot of fights.
A lot of fights.
I'm sorry about breaking that bookshelf, Matthew.
It's in the mail and has been since.
And your living room floor is slightly uneven.
The whole apartment is slightly uneven.
So I couldn't move.
It would bump.
We had to edit all that out.
Well, the other thing about Matthew's place is he has, well, you seem to have got one
for Black Friday, it looks like.
But whenever we would say Lexington, it's not happening here, but Alexa would go off.
Yeah, that's right.
He had to cut that out a lot.
Lexington does.
Yes, what can I help you with?
Oh, she's going.
She's going.
She's doing it now.
I can't help with that question.
Damn it.
God damn it? Damn it. God damn it.
Damn it.
Troy, didn't you also kind of break Matthew's antique table?
No.
While we were recording that?
No, no, no.
No, that was during Jade Region.
Oh, that was Jade Region.
Get your story straight, Joe.
Oh, we also recorded in Skid's Cape Cod house.
That's right.
A number of episodes.
Where you did break my table.
That was, I fell over Matthew.
Yes.
There was a lot of things
that were broken.
You stepped on Matthew.
Hearts fell,
stepped on his crotch.
But that was...
Same thing.
Oh, we killed the Cyclops.
The Cyclops fight was there.
One of those.
God, that was...
Cinnamon's Fortune.
We were just starting.
Yeah, Cinnamon's Fortune.
Yeah, the Orm War Axe.
The preacher,
the local town preacher.
That's right.
The non-denominational preacher.
Oh, God, yeah.
Man, so in over two and a half years,
we have been recording piecemeal,
taking about, oh, a solid hour to set up,
another 45 minutes to take down,
wasting time to do these episodes.
And as of episode 133,
we will be in our own space.
We're going to call it GCP Studios, till we think of a better name.
In case you're wondering where your Patreon money's going, it's not going to our pockets.
I'd say a solid 20 grand went into the acquiring of this space.
Yeah.
Between first month's rent, last month's rent.
It's New York City.
Broker's fees.
Commercial space in New York City. Commercial fees. Buying brand new equipment for every single member. of this space. Between first month's rent, last month's rent, broker's fees, commercial space,
buying brand new equipment
for every single member,
extra equipment for guest
members, soundproofing the
studio, soundproofing the room.
We have quiet air conditioning.
That is the biggest thing.
Playing in the summer
in all these apartments and we have to keep
the AC off The whole time
And it's
And it's miserable
It ruins the show
It does
I would beg to take breaks
Every 20 minutes
Because these guys
Get very cranky
Yeah
I'm pretty sure
The Owega fight
Happened in 98 Degrees
It did
It did
I really enjoy pretending
I'm gonna do the right thing though
While we're recording
It's like a hot summer day
In New York And everything's about to boil over, and Skid's
about to complain about a fan critical, and everything's going to explode.
I don't know what happened anymore.
Throw a bathroom wastebasket through a window.
It's crazy to think what we've also recorded in an Airbnb in Philadelphia.
Oh, that's right.
I actually like that set-up.
Come on, one more in.
A real gem. I like that set-up. The sad thing is, that set up. One more in. A real gem.
I like that set up.
The sad thing is
that was the best place
we recorded.
I know.
Besides Skid's Cape Cod House.
That was the best.
That was pretty comfy, yeah.
A table.
Where else can you have
a mafia fight happen
right outside your window?
Yeah, that doesn't happen
anywhere else.
But yeah, thanks to Troy,
or thanks to the patron.
No, thank you.
You're welcome.
Thanks to Troy's
donation on the Patreon.
It's anonymous. We're able to get this. No, thank you. You're welcome. Thanks to Troy's donation on the Patreon. It's anonymous.
We're able to get this
locked down this commercial space.
Thanks, guys.
Like everyone who's been giving
been so incredibly
goddamn generous with us.
Like this is your space.
We can't tell you
how excited we are.
And it's going to make
such a huge difference for us.
It's going to make everything
we do so much more efficient.
We're going to be able
to do so much more. We're going to do more video do so much more efficient. We're going to be able to do so much more.
We're going to do more video content.
Oh, yeah.
Just all this stuff.
Twitch stuff.
Yeah, Twitch stuff.
Everything we're going to be able to do in here is just going to be so great.
And thank you all so much for helping us do it.
Yeah, and you guys have been so patient with us as we've turned this hobby into a full-fledged business.
We've turned this hobby into a full-fledged business.
And we're just really excited to take this to the next level and make this more than just a hobby.
And it's all because of you guys.
Not a cent has gone into our pockets.
It has all gone into making this something professional.
So thank you.
And now it's time to start book four.
I'm excited.
I am so excited. A fresh new start.
I got good news and I got bad news.
What do you want first?
Good news?
What's funnier?
They're both pretty funny.
If I do say so myself.
It's pretty much just the facts.
Neither of them are funny.
I think that in the history of the show, you typically give a bunch of good news and then really lay down the hammer.
So I was kind of expecting to continue in that vein,
but it's up to you guys.
Should we guess at what it is before he tells us?
I'm thinking the bad news is that the giants have developed an intercontinental
ballistic missile.
They found one of your broken guns.
No,
no,
just imagine Volstis with the same haircut as Kim Jong-un.
I want to see the giant propaganda videos where they all look like they're loving every minute.
You know what the small folk are doing over there?
Good news or bad news?
Good news.
Good news.
All right.
news is, I have painstakingly gone back from
episode 100
all the way to 131 and
calculated every single
dollop of XP.
That means when
Lork and
Phyraza and Orphis
rest in peace, and Pembroke
fought the Red Caps, XP for that.
For every other thing,
every single thing.
And as people were dropping and dying,
they didn't get XP.
Whereas people that lived and survived,
they got more XP when Amlo and Della passed.
The good news is,
Pembroke and Fai Raza are level 8.
Yay!
That's huge.
Pembroke is well on his way to 9.
Fai Raza a little little bit behind She's a little
Farazza
Farazza
Farazza
We pronounced it a million different ways
And spelled it even more
Farazza
F-A-I-R-A-Z-A
Yes
Matthew, you cannot get mad at people for that
You can also never ever get frustrated with somebody for misspelling Gormley either
I could, however, get frustrated at Troy for not knowing how to spell Gormley
for 50 episodes.
Well, Troy, yes.
Yes, yes.
Solid Troy.
It wasn't until I killed her
I was like, that's how you spell it?
I thought it was just a nickname.
I had to get it right for the tombstone.
We're only three.
Are you more upset
when people mispronounce Firaza
or when they call you Matt
instead of Matthew?
That's been happening my whole life. Get right out of town. He's from New Jersey. They don't call you Matt instead of Matthew? That's been happening my whole life.
Get right out of town.
He's from New Jersey.
They don't call you Matt.
When I was in first grade,
there were three Matts in the class.
It didn't occur to anyone to call one of us Matthew,
just to distinguish.
You were Matt, too.
Anyway.
That's the good news.
That's the good news.
So, Farazza, you're not far behind.
Lork, I'm sorry to say, you didn't have any.
He didn't really earn it.
You've earned some XP.
He did.
You were there for the Isseus combat.
The Isseus Charming, you got XP from that.
Yep.
I didn't share any of that with Brander.
But I did share with Pembroke, obviously, since he did the lion's share of the work.
And you also were there for the Red Cap fight.
You know, all the role-playing, that all adds up.
He had a one-round failed combat against Brander.
Right.
He just failed a wheel safe.
Right.
Every little bit, every dollop.
In that case, I took XP away, for example.
But you're getting there.
The bad news.
It's more sad than bad.
The reality of what we're doing.
Let's be honest.
We are spiritually halfway done with the story that we're telling.
Yeah.
The start of book four is an exciting start of the second half.
It also means that we are in the final push towards the end of this story.
It's like starting a Wednesday.
This is hump day, baby.
Yeah.
I'm not worried.
The final three years of this podcast.
Yeah.
I'm not worried.
It's so sad.
You'll stretch it.
In a short four to five years.
No one will ever remember the name Lork.
Yeah.
Pembroke.
Calabras.
When we were emailing about items back from book three,
and I was looking back at something,
I was like, we recorded this episode more than a year ago,
and we were still in Minderhall's Valley.
Where do we get that golden chalice,
and how much is it worth?
Well, let's be honest.
Faraza wakes up in the middle of the night.
Everybody's been taking turns,
doing their watch.
It's Farazza's turn.
She goes over and sees Umlo,
covered in blood,
a pool of blood trickling all the way
to the statue of Minderhall
that both Baron and Nestor climbed up to the top of.
And he's missing the steel hand.
There's just a soaking wet bloody stump there.
Umlo, dead.
Nestor, gone.
Everyone else is asleep.
What do you do, Farazza?
Farazza issues the wake-up call,
which goes something to the victim.
Caw-caw!
Caw-caw!
And then she rushes over to Amlo
and does a heel check.
Okay.
And he does.
Sir Will snaps awake.
Unarmored.
Grabs his sword.
Rose light.
Naked to the feet.
He sleeps naked.
Heel check on Omelette.
Nailed it.
12.
Correct me if I'm wrong, Skid.
It was a dagger directly to the middle of his chest?
It was like up under his ribcage.
Up under his ribcage. Up under his ribcage. And also, I wanted to point out that as part of Nestor's Czarny executioner trait,
any time he can use a sneak attack, which he did, it's particularly painful.
So he did it in the most physically painful way that he possibly could, in addition to.
What did you roll, Verizon, for heel chain?
Twelve.
Twelve.
All right.
So you don't know the extent of that, but you do see a rather jagged hole right underneath this chest.
Horrific mortal wound.
So at first glance, you see that the arm is missing, but then you just see this seeping wound.
Oh, he'd be absolutely soaked in blood.
Soaked.
He'd be soaked, yeah.
A professional did it.
Doesn't take long for you to put two and two together.
And I notice Nestor's not there.
Gone.
So are they awake?
Are you guys awake?
Yeah, yeah.
So we all snap awake.
Everybody sees this.
I guess, you know, Will calls Lexington.
He mounts Lexington.
He thinks, like, there might be under attack or there's somebody in the room or whatever.
Is it dark?
No, my friends.
It was the thief.
There's sconces lit.
There's a little bit of light in there,
but you don't want to draw too much attention
in case giants came knocking.
Look at the efficiency.
Your friend was not your friend.
Yes, he is gone. My worst fears realized. Your friend was not your friend. Yes.
He is gone.
My worst fears realized.
I'm sorry.
I did not see it.
I should have.
Sir Will.
I think he's gone.
But since you have the fastest mount among us
can you do a quick crawl around the perimeter
to see if he's still around?
Report back here after you see.
Ferraza, can you tell how long?
How long has he been dead?
Well, I know that.
Or can I do a survival check to see if there are any tracks
or how he got out?
Yeah, go survival.
Lork will do survival too in a second.
Sure.
Natural two.
16.
You can't tell how long yet?
Not quite sure.
I mean, the wound looks fresh, but you can't tell if it's been an hour or 20 minutes.
All right.
Ha!
Ha!
He kicks Lexington out of the cathedral, and, you know, he doesn't have to worry about it.
There's fencing all around.
The giants can't see him.
He's so small.
And he's going to do a loop around the cathedral.
All the doors are closed.
Sword drawn.
No other creatures in there.
Bodies everywhere from a five-encounter gauntlet.
As he's riding around and the cold wind is cutting into his eyes,
he starts tearing at the eyes,
knowing that the snake was in the grass the whole time.
And he let his guard down.
He didn't sense motive properly.
He let, you know, it's
his fault.
And he comes back around inside.
There's no sign of him, Sheriff. He's gone.
Faraz turns to Baron and says,
What could Umlo have
done to deserve this?
All Umlo ever did
was react to the cruelties of this world that were foisted upon him
he was enslaved as a pit fighter then he was given his emancipation and drug along with us and
forced to wear nargim Steelhand, his ancestor
but he was not well cast
to do that.
And then
he slogged through this valley with us
for weeks.
Nestor himself took away the restoration
he needed to get to full strength.
He was never meant to be
a fighter. He was meant to be a cook.
An artist.
And how does he get paid at the end of his life?
Well,
I know one thing for Raza.
I don't know where you're from,
what the asthma are talk about,
but I think that inadvertently Nestor has been cruel to be kind.
And he gave him the same kind of fate
that I wished I had been able to give him,
by his own hand,
at the end of the day.
But nothing good.
Umlo had found his purpose.
I know he is dead.
Well, the hand, as you say,
is missing.
Perhaps that was it.
That was his crime. His mistake.
Having that hand in the first place.
He has to stole it because he's a thief, an assassin, a murderer.
He took it for its value and murdered Umlo for it. He needed him to defeat Uruthash, avenge his petty insult,
and then he killed a man simply to take an item from him.
It's typical of evil behavior, Sheriff,
and I will not be a part of it again.
I will not allow you to let scum like this in our midst again.
If you do not mind me asking,
why did you allow yourselves to be associated with such a.
Despicable human.
Now well.
I appreciate that.
And I don't know if I'd be able to bring myself to.
Allow someone like that in our midst again.
But it was a calculated risk.
In order to save small folk of this world at least in belkson and i know that your outrage will not be quelled by
this but for the time being i'm operating on the assumption that the needs of the many outweigh the
needs of the few and we're all operating by Torag's plan in my mind.
We cannot discount the fact that he was quite useful in us
achieving our objectives here,
even though Amlo's lost his life,
but perhaps he wasn't meant to be alive anyway.
And can Pembroke do a spellcraft check to see what it was that
the spell
that Branders
cast to bring him back?
Yeah. Can I do that?
You absolutely can.
Right.
I think it's
you could also do a knowledge arcana. DC25
plus the spell level is to identify
a spell cast cast in combat.
But I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
After the fact, I don't know if that's arcana.
It's the same number anyway.
It's 34.
That'll be enoughed.
Enoughed.
That'll be enoughed.
That'll be enough.
In my mind, Brander began casting this spell well before he actually laid on hands
and subtly sprinkled dust on his body while you were all, with the exception of Farazza, held.
And it's so tragic for you to figure this out, Pembroke,
because he cast Temporary Resurrection on Umlo.
Umlo would have just died again 24 hours later.
That's an actual spell?
Yeah.
Wow.
He said it was the gift of knowledge he gave us.
Perhaps Umlo was meant to teach us something before,
but now he is gone.
It has certainly revealed a traitor in our midst.
He was meant to teach us.
He's a teacher. He is.
I know him.
Did I tell them that? I didn't tell them that.
I don't think so.
I know him.
Sheriff, all of you, I know him as Dr. Forsythe.
He's a teacher. He taught at a local school where I was raised.
I met him as a child.
He's a gift of knowledge.
It's taught us our weaknesses, our misunderstanding of those around us.
And Sheriff, I do not mean to suggest that any of us did not go into this willingly
I am just as guilty as all of us for letting our guard down with an assassin in our midst
I merely say, let us not make this mistake again
Let us be careful about who we bring in
Because while it is fine in my mind to work with those who are evil in the pursuit of good,
we cannot put the lives at risk of the innocent.
And Umlo was innocent.
And Baron and Lork, in your mind, you just have to, like, flashback to, like, Jagrin, Grath,
walking you guys down from the ivory hall into the jail
and telling you that he could be of great service to you,
but he's a killer.
Use him as a tool, and when you're done with him, get rid of him.
And you just, both of you, both Lork and Baron,
have to imagine walking down that long hallway, hearing the itsy bitsy spider in the distance and meeting him.
So you're both complicit in bringing him into the party.
Oh, yeah.
Lork definitely feels really guilty, but he's not saying anything.
He's kind of keeping it all in.
But he's definitely, I mean, he left.
He left them with him.
Yeah, that's even worse. Yeah, he feels terrible about it, but he's definitely... I mean, he left. He left them with him. Yeah, that's even
worse! Yeah, he feels
terrible about it, but he's not surprised
in the least. When he wakes up
and he finds that, and he finds he stole the hand,
he's like, disappointed
he didn't see it coming. He has a higher wisdom
than Sir Will. He has higher
perception. He didn't see it
coming, so Lork is going to immediately start
to look for
tracks to see if he can tell where he went.
It is interesting that he left the rest of us alive. He could have just as easily killed
a lot of us, taken everything, discouraged, stopped any pursuit. It was only Omlo that
he killed.
I don't think that it's necessarily true what they say.
That there's no honor among thieves, even though it
may not be something we can comprehend.
Something must have driven
him to spare our lives, just
as Pembroke said. He does not fear
us.
There is no
profit in killing us now.
He took what he wanted and he left.
There's plenty of profit in killing us.. He took what he wanted and he left. There's plenty of profit in killing us.
We have a hundred
thousand gold pieces worth of
equipment that we've managed to
gather on our journey.
He only took the hand.
Interesting.
What did Lork
roll for tracking?
33.
33.
You can see that he went out
the side door,
the very door
that he first peeked into
when he saw
Solarco speak up
and all he says is
he's kind of on his belly,
up, you know,
kind of holding himself up
on his elbows.
Sheriff,
he went that way
out the side door.
I'm not sure how long he's got on us.
I'd say it's a couple
hours at least. At least?
I don't think we'll find him.
Well, he would have killed him
if he was smart, which you know he was.
Beginning of his watch
to live as much time as possible to get away.
He's got at least
two hours on us.
Farron speaks of
towers above all of you.
Thirteen feet tall.
No!
This is just
awful.
A terrible start
to the new day
that we hope to bring here to Mindorhol's Valley.
Part of me wants to believe that all of this happened for a reason.
But now it's too close and too soon to know why. I do not wish to discount any of your mourning for Umlo or for Della
or for all the people you've lost.
But there is a greater threat,
not but a few hundred yards away,
in the form of camps upon camps of giants.
What do you plan on doing about that?
You may have your vendetta against this killer, but you've got bigger fish to fry.
Yes, the giant test is right. I think I have an idea.
Although, in fairness,
I doubt
Ferrin that he was killed over
a raisin.
It seems a remote possibility
at best.
But I think...
In slag giant culture, raisins are sacred.
They're like cows in India.
What is this India you speak of?
Sorry. I've been drinking.
I believe that if we provide
proof of the death of Urathrash
that the giants will disperse.
It was the force of personality
that drew them all here.
They know he is dead. They will leave.
I think if we are able to show him
show them the head, as
Nestor removed from his body,
I think that would possibly
be enough to disperse them all.
Aye, sure am that.
Who will be the messenger
though, Pembroke? Will it be
a small folk, or will it be Farron herself,
one of their own kind? That might be
the most wise way of doing it.
I don't think we need to engage them at all, actually.
If we use the power of flight,
which several of us have,
drop it right into their midst,
word will spread very quickly, I think.
Yes.
This just might work.
You must understand,
as I'm sure you already know,
that these giants,
they don't work well
with each other.
When they find out
of Urathash's demise, sure there'll be
struggles for power.
There'll be some
that try to stand up and take
the reins, but they don't
have the strength of Urathash.
And they don't know about the power of the forgefash. And they don't know
about the power of the forge. I'm sure they'll come
rushing in here. Some will try to take
over, but the god-fearing among
them will fear me at least.
It will not
take much to sow
discord among them
if you are bold
in your decisions.
Within a week they could disband, if all goes well.
But, it is my understanding, you don't have that kind of time.
So I would suggest doing what? The wizard suggests finding a way to let them know that Urethash is no more.
I will do my best to hold down this cathedral.
But you must go and sneak out while it's still safe.
Yes.
We must take Omlo.
We must take his body, Sheriff.
We cannot leave it here.
As an inquisitor of Torak,
who, as my god,
always suggests the wisest course of action.
In order to aid haste to our journey, I suggest that in the same manner as we dealt with his sister's body,
we deal with his and cremate him, perhaps on the forge itself, so that we may carry him more easily.
It would make a fitting sacrifice upon which to build our church.
This place could be consecrated.
His name forever remembered, his sacrifice,
remembered as a place, a foundation,
of this new temple of Iomedae.
And Shalen and Torak.
And Abadar.
And Steve.
Do not forget Steve.
Do not forget Steve. God of the
slag giants.
Della, I'm sorry.
Whoa.
Farazza walks over to where the pool of
blood where Della,
where Uratosh pounded Della
into the ground and
the scimitar is still there.
Yes. And she picks it up
and says, this is
druidic work.
Your fetchling friend was not as
lucky as Umlo to have a proper burial.
But perhaps
we can wield this weapon in her
honor and that will be her remembrance.
Yes.
I think it would be a worthy
remembrance if you were to carry on
her blade
in her name. And
with that said, Baron invites
Firaza
and Sir Will over to the forge in Pembroke
and Lork.
And he turns to Sir Will and Farazza.
Because the bellows to this forge are like giant size.
He asks them both to help wield it.
Not just in preparation for Umlo's cremation.
But before the cremation happens,
he pulls out his double beard pistol,
which he made on the chelish devil.
And,
um,
he says,
please begin.
And do you begin pumping the pillows to,
yeah. And Baron opens up the bag of holding. Again, pumping the billows to... Yeah.
And Baron opens up the bag of holding and pulls out
his gunsmithing tools.
And he puts down the double-barreled pistol
on top of the forge.
Pulls out a tool you've never seen before.
And he goes,
Clang!
Clang! Clang! and he goes clang clang clang
and he pulls it away
dips it in water by the forge
and lifting it to the altar
and to all of you says
it's been too long and lifting it to the altar, and to all of you says,
it's been too long,
that my pistol,
did not have a name,
and today in her memory,
I consecrate her Della,
now she has,
two barrels,
just as Della was of two worlds and of two minds.
And as I myself journey down this Inquisitor path where I attempt to use the enemy's own power against them,
I will use her name to remember never to go too far.
And I will use it in prayerful hope
that she will find
her way in the afterlife.
And then he
holsters it.
Nice.
Peppera comes up behind him and just
pats him gently on the shoulders.
Yes.
And then he takes out Dragon's Breath.
Does the same thing, but with umlo's name
he says
may dragon's breath
be remembered
in umlo's name
stout
strong
and ultimately
disappointing
just kidding
just kidding
but not really
and ultimately
misused by PCs
yes exactly I can't wait till the deli gun misfires and explodes and dies again Just kidding. Just kidding. But not really. And ultimately misused by PCs. Yes, exactly.
I can't wait till the Della gun misfires and explodes and dies again.
Della, no!
I reach into my bag, though, to pull out the first bottle cap of book four for Grant.
Yay!
And it's a Baron bottle cap.
Oh!
Nice job, buddy.
Congratulations.
And now it's lost forever.
And now it's in my cat's mouth.
Whew! Congratulations. And now it's lost forever. I got it in my cat's mouth. We should go.
Does anybody want to resize anything on this forge?
Oh, yeah.
There's some item creation stuff that we're not even 100% sure on,
but you can always come back to the forge once the valley is clear, hopefully.
George wants the valley.
It's clear, hopefully.
Yeah, I would like to toss out resizing the plus two giant defiant splint mail for Sir Will.
Was that large, though?
Or was that used by the Nirmathi? It doesn't matter.
It wasn't small.
That's right.
Right.
I think it was the Nirmathas guard.
Yeah.
The patrolmen that had that.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Where?
Where was this?
It was in the chapter house. In the bottom of the tower. patrolmen that had that. Yeah, I think you're right. Where? Where was this? In the chapter house.
In the bottom of the
tower. Yes, that's where their bodies
were all stacked. That's where Baron sat in the
chair and felt the presence of evil.
There was all those like busts.
Oh, wow. Busts. Yes.
That's your skolesome stuff there
I think too, right? I think so.
Didn't you show some stuff? He did.
He did, yeah. You guys walked in.
That's real close to where we got the fleas, right? I think so. Didn't he show some stuff? He did. He did, yeah. You guys walked in. Oh, that's real close
to where we got the fleas, right?
Isn't that where we got the fleas?
Yeah, you walked in,
killed the two hill giants
in their sleep,
got fleas.
Walked in the next room,
killed Tharg Three Eyes,
and then you went
to the next room,
and that's where
Baron felt the presence
of evil.
You felt all those
dead bodies piled up
and all of their weapons.
Yeah.
So you want to resize
the plus giant.
So what happens with that Scross armor?
I think we just hold on to it as an item that must be returned to Galavris.
I mean, that's how Sir Lork puts it in a role-playing term.
Sir Lork.
Sir Will puts it to knighted.
He's knighted himself already.
Knighted at level.
Doesn't even have any feet.
He's an OBE.
He's not a full knight.
Not even at level.
Doesn't even have any feet.
He's an OBE.
He's not a full knight.
No, Sir Will will, in a role-playing sense, he will tell Baron that he thinks it's time for Oscrow's armor to be given back to Galabras.
I think it still technically belongs to him.
Oh, no, no.
Because it's not dead.
So it's like, yeah. I mean, it always did, but Baron gifted it to Sir Will for, you know...
Outside of Warforce.
Never thought it was permanent, but...
The Nargrim Tomb, yeah.
Yeah, but just saying, like, he appreciates the gift that Baron bestowed upon him,
but he thinks that this might be better for what lies ahead with going to Skarsgård.
Skirgard.
Yeah. Skar...Ã¥rd. And Baron says he couldn't
think of a
better man who was as resolute in his
faith as Galabras was to carry it
for him while he was
unable to do so.
I thank you for that, Sheriff. I know I've had
my slips along the
way, especially in this valley, but
I am determined
to never let that happen again.
And all the events that
have unfolded here have given me
clear vision on what lies
ahead.
For all his evil
that lies beneath
Brando, Dr. Forsythe,
he did indeed give us a gift
of knowledge, and I for one will
use it
to bring the fight to these giants,
find Della's body,
and
continue to track this evil
until its end.
Your faith in the goddess
is matched by our faith in you,
my friend. It pats him on his shoulder.
Thank you.
Any other resizing?
Yeah, any other resizing, just mechanics-wise.
Yeah, I think that we're gonna
resize...
I think we're gonna resize
Heart Spit. Well, yeah, we'll resize Heart Spit
to medium
just in case Lork could ever wield it
because we can always resize it back, is what I was thinking.
It's not like it's a permanent thing.
We could always resize it back to huge if we ever got a hand.
If we ever found Nestor's body somewhere in a brothel.
Who's taking Aggramosh?
Poisoned, dead.
Who's taking Aggramosh?
I mean, Aggramosh is the one you have to strike it with, but is anyone taking Aggramosh?
It's got to put in the bag.
It's got to put in the bag. Would we entrust it to Farron, or no, we want to keep it with us? No, we can to strike it with. Is anyone taking it? It's got to put in the bag.
Would we entrust it to Farron or do we want to keep it with us?
No, we can't leave it here.
We have to take it with us.
This is the weird thing.
It's like you guys hope
that somehow Farron can hold her own here,
but there's a good chance
she'll come back and Farron's dead.
You just feel, if anything,
she's given you the slightest amount of confidence
that there's no one out there that will know the powers of this forge.
I don't think she'll be dead.
Certainly without the hammer.
If she goes down to the forge heart and is protecting the forge or keep minding the forge,
I think that the giants are going to be, from a religious standpoint, just like Orthosh,
afraid to go down there and mess with her.
Nestor saw and reported all back to you.
Every night that chapel was full of people listening to his sermon.
They're believers now, but they've lost their leader.
The faith was what held them together as an army.
It'll be shattered, yeah.
And you would need it.
But they are still religious.
And I think that maybe, like, if they know that whoever we are,
whoever we, we killed Urathash, and we also killed the dragon,
like, we've got to make sure that they know that, too.
That they might, that might also play into, you know,
intimidate them enough that if they wouldn't try to take over.
You also can't lose sight of the fact that
Menderhals Valley, without
the protection of an army,
is a terrible place for even a
giant to live. It's surrounded by drakes
and these creatures
that are half deer,
half stag, half...
All these awful creatures that could kill
even giants.
Well, not anymore.
We killed most of them.
Killed them all.
But it's also a holy place.
Like, this place was hidden for centuries.
And this is everywhere.
You know, this is like the Temple of the Mount.
So, for giants.
I think Sir Will wants to take Aggramosh as well.
And the idea kind of being, he's inspired
by Baron's speech
and the crossing over of
naming these things after
Della and Umlo, which is awesome.
And being of two worlds and all that stuff
and doing this in the name of
Torag, it all starts to kind of
carry over and Sir Will is like,
Baron, I would like to, as
a symbol of our union
that we've made here in the valley
and that we will continue on together
in Torag and Iomedae's name,
if you believe it would be okay
if I put aside the sword and took up the hammer
in Torag's name, along with Iomedae,
to represent that union.
Is that something that you think would be okay by Torag?
Will, you're a halfling who fights like a giant on the battlefield.
You're...
Generous.
Own story.
Don't ask this of me. You were having a moment, Sharp.
That was for Raza. You had to be nice You were having a moment, sure. That was for Robert.
Grant, be nice to me for a minute.
Generous.
This never happens.
Did the eagle just say something?
Sir Will, you're a small man who fights with the heart of a giant on the battlefield.
More accurate.
You're already a man of two worlds.
I couldn't think of anyone better
to hold on to Aggramosh
as we move forward.
And nothing more fitting
than another small folk
wielding a hammer
to end these bastards.
Yeah, I think I want to give it a shot.
I think that as a... I think it's odd for a paladin of Iomedae to not wield a longsword,
but I think that story-wise, where we are together, Baron and Sir Will, I think that
he should try it.
I think we should try it for role-playing purposes to have a paladin of Iomedae wielding
a hammer in Torag's name and have the union of these gods against this evil.
Any other resizing?
Baron has a boring, non-story-driven change shirt plus two,
which will improve his AC.
So there's no real story stuff to go with that.
I'm assuming the plan is to get out through the Dark
Passage, right? You're not going to go through the middle of the camps
again, especially with your low
stealth. But if you're able to
create this big hubbub
before you do it,
then it's going to provide enough of a
distraction for you guys to probably get the hell out
of there. Do you want to go through
the Dark Passage? I mean, that's really
your only option. Yeah.
We'll go through the Dark Passage? I mean, that's really your only option. Yeah. We'll go through the Dark Passage. We can utilize
Pembroke's casting abilities where
we need to, but I mean...
Honestly, I think Sir Will, if he's not
fully armored and Lexington is not armored,
he can be
so quiet moving through that
area and so small. I'm not concerned
about it with that kind of distraction.
Who wants to
drop the head somewhere?
Ferrazzo
turns to Ferrazzo and says, how do dragons feel about
pteranodons?
Giants, you mean?
Dragons.
How do giants feel about
pteranodons?
It's quite a non sequitur.
Ferrazzo wild shapes into a pteranodon. I will quite a non-secretary. Faraz are wild shapes into a Turanadon.
I will.
Oh!
I'm afeard.
Ah, this is...
Oh, you know what?
I think Pembroke will cast Fly on himself and join you.
We'll each take a head.
We'll each take a head.
Great.
Yeah.
We'll each take a head.
Great.
I can't imagine they would like that. Every time
they saw Jal Varaz
come down, they all
stepped back.
Only Uratash wasn't that afraid.
This will work
well, I believe.
Be careful. Don't be seen.
And then is your plan
to come back and make haste
out of the valley?
Yep. Or just meet
him on the other side. I guess we should escort
you. It would be good to stick together.
I think
we're fine. Just move quick.
May the light of all your gods
help you
in the journeys to come.
I will hold this fort
in Shalen
and Iomedae and
Torag and Gorum and
Abadar and Desna's name.
Good luck.
We'll return,
Farron.
Thank you for your service.
I only wish
Amlo was here to join me.
Don't we all?
So I imagine like...
Oh, how are we going to get Lork out?
Oh, yeah.
I forgot about Lork.
Does he want to ride Ferrazza as the Tyranidon right now?
Oh, wow.
That would look pretty cool.
That would look pretty cool.
Holding heart spit, resize heart spit over there. That's like pretty cool. That would look pretty cool. Holding heart spit, resized heart spit over the air.
That's like a heavy metal poster or something.
Riding a dinosaur, holding a spear down into, yeah.
So you guys, you have your ceremony for Umlo, where you burn his body in the forge.
Aram and the other faith-based characters say their prayers
over Amlo.
Beren really leading the ceremony, but the rest
lending their parts.
You collect his ashes
in some sort of
receptacle, and then you make a plan
between all of you, like, alright,
Pembroke and
Faraz are going to go do this,
and then we're coming back.
We're putting, like, Baron's going to be
dragging a lork and
we're going to put him on his back and we're going.
We're going to the Dark Passage.
But where are we going?
Out of the valley.
Oh, I had something to say, too, to the giants, like when we
dropped the heads. Okay.
Pembroke did.
So I imagine if we cut
to the fighting bits,
it's, I don't know what night it is
anymore, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night.
They're all...
Moon day night? Moon day.
They're all just like, there's a huge main event
going on.
There's like two giants taking
on some like
four-limbed abomination.
And maybe something they pulled from the valley that creeped up from the dark lands.
Or something they captured far away and dragged to the pits.
You hear people being like, hey, have I seen Kragmold lately?
These pits have really gone to shit since Kragmold.
Has it been around?
I'm sure he'll come back.
And they're just fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting.
And then all of a sudden,
Firaza and Pembroke come flying over.
Is Pembroke invisible?
No.
No.
No.
So come flying over.
Firaza in pterodon form.
And what do you say, Pembroke?
So the heads like plummet out of the sky,
like both drop to the ground.
The dragon and Urathash.
Right in the middle of the pit.
Yeah.
And Pembroke calls out.
He says, we have slain Urathash and we have slain the dragon.
The cathedral has been reconsecrated.
The cathedral has been reconsecrated.
Any who set foot within that hallowed place with impure purpose will be cursed by the gods for 10,000 years.
And then we fly up.
They all start...
You see one guy grabs Earth-Dash's head and holds it up
so that everybody can see.
There's a huge uproar.
Fistfights start breaking out through camps and whatnot.
I thought you were going to say, like, take a selfie.
Take a selfie.
We're burying it at sea.
Pandemonium breaks out as you guys swoop back to the cathedral, follow out your plan.
The pterodon comes down.
Baron and Sir Will help put Lork on the cathedral, follow out your plan. The pterodon comes down. Baron and Sir Will help
put Lork on the back, and you guys
make your way under all of this
craziness, because now the camps are starting
to make their way to the fighting pits,
but you're able to slink along the wall
while they're all distracted and get to
the Dark Passage.
Ooh!
Oh, baby! Sir Will
on top of Lexington.
Farazza, wild shapes.
Unarmored. You see, we're lightly armored.
Farazza could be a horse for Lork.
He could be a horse for Lork.
You could be anything you want at this point.
Lork is going to need a carrier.
He's going to need a mount.
Do you want to be a horse for the time being?
Let's get through the dark passage on foot,
and then once we get in the open air.
That's insulting.
Whoops. Don't say on foot or on the ark.
On stub.
Pembroke, Baron.
Guys, make your
way through the
dark passage. It's quiet.
It's eerily quiet.
Lork hasn't been here, right?
No, he came through
another way when he was captured.
He was taken by the dragon to the roost.
Farazzo? Maybe.
Oh, she's been here.
She's been through here as like a rat.
A little field mouse.
Pembroke hasn't.
Pembroke was taken with Lork.
Baron's been here a couple times now.
Let me roll a perception check.
18 for Pembroke.
Oh, natural 20 for Lork.
21 for Will.
That's a natural one.
I'm sorry, for Farazza.
We are getting all over the place.
Matthew, you're all over the map.
That's a 32 for Lork.
That's a 32 for Baron.
All right, Baron and Lork.
Because it's such a high perception check,
I didn't think anybody would hear it.
Here's like up around the corner.
Like...
No, it's not fun far
oh no is he dying just the nester kill him very very subtle sound nester killed fun
we walk around yeah quick you walk around the corner and sure enough it is fun far how lying in a massive massive pool of blood god troy but here's the
thing fun far wasn't just killed his stomach was completely cut open as if someone was trying to retrieve something inside of him. What does Nestor want?
What could it be, Sheriff?
Nestor can survive on rocks now with that one item he took.
Can Lork roll a survival check to see if fresh human boot tracks have come through here?
Sure.
Fraza will join you.
Fifteen.
Twenty-two. Farazza will join you 15 22 Lork you're like
Somebody's been through here and then Farazza confirms it
Yeah absolutely
Toots of the cat perhaps
A human
And Baron all you can think in your head
It's like I didn't eat the special rocks
I didn't eat them
I didn't eat the special rocks. I didn't eat them. I didn't eat the special rocks.
Yeah.
Well, maybe he did.
Wow.
They're gone.
And he's just...
Is he dead?
Like, is he...
He'll check?
Sir Will will lay on hands if he's not dead.
Yeah, you can lay on hands.
It's over.
These are the last moments.
He fades out and dies.
Unimaginable cruelty.
Ferrazza has to use two hands because his face is so big, but she closes his eyelids.
That's an incredibly deft maneuver with horse hooves.
I told you I wasn't wild shipping yet.
Fun far's dead.
Damn.
All right.
But we know how he escaped.
This greed is a poison.
Let us move with all haste.
You continue moving through the dark passage.
Still unmanned.
It was Earthash's incompetence still unmanned whether it was
Urathash's incompetence
that he didn't
restaff these areas
or his
hubris that he thought
I'll be fine
either way you get through
you get all the way back to where you
fought the Peritons
you have visions barren of Umlo running to the cave to pray.
Sir Will, charging at these things.
Nestor, fearfully running away after the shadow mark ability hit.
Continue on.
You get to a part where you can only go north or south
you can see off in the distance to the south
the slag giant village
where Barry Connick Jr. was killed
by Nestor
there's got to be a part of it that now wonders
if he did it on purpose
nothing you knew about him can be trusted anymore
you go north
you see that footpath that led off to where you fought
the black-headed beast in Kragmalt,
the leader of the fighting pits.
You obviously don't take that footpath this time.
You keep going up, and you get to that, you know,
four-way stop where you fought the drunken veds.
You know the way out of here.
You go north.
Back to where
one of the most brutal fights in all of Minderhall's
Valley took place. The Rift Rake
in the Etten.
I can imagine, like,
depending on the mood,
Baron recounting the story
to the people that weren't there,
Sir Will recounting the story like,
oh, you should have seen me. We thought we were all dead.
We thought Nestor was dead. Maybe we'd be
better off if he did die there.
Umlo certainly would be.
Della would be alive.
Actually, I think we would
all be dead if
Nestor was not alive for those final fights.
You get back
to where you fought the Lucratas.
Remember the Lucratas?
First encounter in the valley.
The ones that pulled Umlo in with a vision of Ingraham.
Yeah.
And then, after about ten hours of very careful travel through, you know, very dark memories for some of you, you exit Minderhall's Valley.
Oh, man.
I imagine Barron has the map.
He's looking at this map that you found
in what must have been Earthash's boardroom
or his quarters or something.
And you see that Skirgard is a good 150 miles south-southwest of where you are.
That's 12 days on foot.
Some of you have the ability to travel faster,
but you guys want to stick together as a group.
You don't have that mass travel faster.
Only one of you can turn into a horse.
Reginald's dead.
God damn it.
There
are two settlements
though
between you
and Skirgard.
There's Yanderhof
to your
west, a little bit south
where Umlo and Inrihold were from.
And then there's a little town called Skelt, which is kind of southeast of where you are.
If you want to hit up as many settlements, because you guys haven't been to a settlement since Shitterman's Fortune.
Oh, yeah, we need to get to a settlement immediately.
Any settlement.
Yanderhoff's the way to go.
Yeah, for sure.
And if, Lork, you're kind of peeking over the map,
you see that between Yanderhoff and Skel'd is Bloodsworn Vale.
It is impossible to get from where you are
to Skirgard
without all of you
going through the veil.
So if you do go to Yanderov
and from there you move to Skelt
or from there you just go straight to Skirgard,
either way,
you're going through the veil.
Aram left with you,
obviously. I didn't mention him.
He says his goodbyes
to you guys.
Because he's going to return to Shinerman's fortune.
He's going to return to Shinerman's fortune and do
the best he can
do Shinerman's stuff to
re-raise it. Do you remember
back in Raz to the Occasion when
Ymir, who we now know as Brander,
offered to go fight with you guys?
Aram said to him, no.
Brother, you must stay
alive. I will go because
if I don't survive, you can
go back and
bring Shinemon's fortune
back to strength.
We now know that's not an option.
Aram luckily survived, and he'll do his best.
You know, having adventured through this land,
that anything could happen between here and Shinemon's fortune,
but Baron especially, you feel somehow like this guy is touched by the gods.
And we'll make it back safely.
And before he leaves, I say, Aram.
Yes.
Give me one moment.
He turns to Sir Will.
Hands him back the dragon foe amulet.
And said, Sir Will, I once gave you a brooch.
May I have that brooch back, please?
Of course, Sheriff. At your command. And I take back a brooch. May I have that brooch back, please? Of course, chef.
At your command.
And I take back the brooch that was given to me by the elder of Shinerman's fortune.
Kaya Straum.
Yes.
I think, Aubrey's grandmother.
Aubrey's grandmother.
And says, Aram, I want you to take this back and I want you to put it on that baby Aubrey.
And I want you to tell her that everything that was done here
was so that she would have a happy life.
And I want her to do whatever she wants to be happy.
And that's from Sheriff Baron Ashpeak of True Now.
You let her know that.
I will tell her as much.
And if you need a preacher for the Cathedral of Minderhall,
who delights in many denominations,
I know just the guy.
Good luck on your journey.
I hope, I sincerely hope, that we meet again
when Shinman's fortune is back to strength
and all of you have saved the world.
Thank you. Thank you, Aram.
I've enjoyed our many conversations and time we've spent together.
Aram puts his hand on Pembroke's shoulder.
May your final journey be a beautiful one.
Thank you.
I do hope to see you again
before the end.
And I you.
And Aram Shineman,
having lost his father,
his brother, and everything,
walks off
in the distance.
You saved him.
You saved his life.
Yeah, and he kept Sir Will alive in that final fight.
Sir Will would have went down.
So off you go in the direction of Yanderhoff.
Grant, has Baron ever been to a Sky Citadel?
The Five Kings Mountains, I believe, are a Sky Citadel.
Helmhold, or what is it called?
Yeah, yeah.
There's a Sky Citadel in the vicinity
of those mountains. Nonetheless,
you've never been to Yanderhoff. I never have. This
is just a delight.
It's the only brightness at the end of this
terrible situation in Minter Halls
Valley. This is a big deal.
This is going to mean a lot to you.
I mean, to go back to
one of the classic, one of the few
remaining Sky Citadels.
I have to imagine it's got
you amped amidst all this
mourning.
Yeah, and Lork is
very excited too, because
he'll pull Baron aside and
basically say, like,
I was in Yonderhof years ago with the Black Arrows.
There was a man there, a dwarf, a priest.
He was very powerful.
He might be able to help me with my feet.
It's in a place like that, I think,
that you'd find the person you need
to take care of this
so I can stop being a burden
and I can start helping again.
Yes, I hope so.
Jarnohaf is one of the great cities
of the Dwarven people.
Anything that we...
I'm sure they'll provide
any number of services
that will be useful.
Has Pembroke ever been to a Sky Citadel?
No.
He went out in search of the Whispering Tyrant's grave,
and now he's going to one of the last remaining Sky Citadels.
Yeah, he's a pretty punk, too.
And Baron turns to Lork and says,
Lork, did you know that the hops I used in Jasun's Ale
were imported from Yanderhof?
No, I didn't.
I think that's a sign, my friend.
I think it is, too.
He smiles.
For the first time in a long time.
Let's get on our way.
Yeah.
Farazza, what are you feeling about this?
Farazza feels a powerful need to eat grass because she's a horse.
I was just going to say,
Ferrazza thinks
Lort could lose
a few pounds.
He hasn't been
active enough lately.
And so, well,
you know,
dwarves,
you know,
kind of on the same level.
You have a good relationship
with dwarves,
with Baron, for sure.
What are you hoping to get out of this?
To be honest, Sir Will is... We have to acknowledge the fact that he is a noble,
and he has been on the road so long
that I think that, privately,
he's kind of very excited to just be in a city again
and be like around some civilization and be able to sleep in a comfortable bed
and have a warm bath.
Yeah, bath.
None of us have bathed in weeks.
And eat some fine food.
And he also kind of, for his part, he's trying not to be too prideful,
but he feels kind of like a hero right now, you know what I mean,
in his own little knightly way.
He went, he did this mission, yes, there were losses.
I think he also feels like he's realizing the dark, dark underbelly of being a hero
and what the kind of loss you feel and go through.
And he's starting to understand how naive he was when he began,
but it has not deterred him at all in his ultimate mission, his ultimate objective.
He understands that the sacrifices that these people made
is something that he is going to live to continue to fight.
But by that same token, he's going to take a little comfort here, I think.
And he's going to buy some new quills and parchment.
And he's going to write home immediately and tell them he's alive and ask on Benric and tell them to write to either Yanderhoff or maybe he'll tell them to write to Skel'd.
If it's a large enough settlement that it'll have a post of some kind.
And Lork knows. Lork's been to Skel'd. It's a large city.
Yeah. So yeah, he's going to write home and try to get word from Highbury.
For three days, you guys travel, camping along the way, heading in the distance of the Anderhof. It takes
a little bit longer because you can't just go up the mountain and over. You've got to
find these passes through the mountains to get there. And then in the middle of the next
day, you're cresting another one of these hills. The elevation has been changing rapidly
as you make your way through. And up in the distance, I can imagine all of you can hear Baron's breath get like caught in his throat
at the sight, because just over the hill that you're cresting, you see the trademark massive iron curtain walls.
Marvels of architecture
in and of themselves.
Serving as a proud reminder
of what dwarven engineering
and architecture can be
at the highest quality.
Up in the distance, you see that you
have arrived at one of the few
remaining sky citadels left
in Galarian.
The city of
Yanderov.
There's no
gate to get in.
There's no
windows open. There are only tunnels, for most of the city
is underground. Whoa! You see, in the distance, tunnels guarded by armed dwarves in beautiful or splendid armor.
A 10th level Inquisitor gunslinger,
a 10th level Cavalier paladin,
an 8th level wizard, an 8th level druid,
and a 7th level ranger make their way to the city of Yanderhof,
hoping to save the world.
And we'll see you next week.
Oh, man.
That's going to be cool.
I can't wait.
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