The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 137 - Helter Skelt-er

Episode Date: January 9, 2018

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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast, the heroes ascend to the city of Skel'd. This is marvelous. Like, marvelous as in it is a marvel. Like, I think he is just a beaming smile on his face. And try to warn the authorities of a nearby giant threat. If your supply lines get cut, you'll die of it. Baron seeks to unearth the secrets of his past. I'm hoping to look through your records here to see if there's any mention of the Ashpeak family. Excuse me, what did you say your name was?

While Sir Will anxiously awaits word from home. He comes riding up with all haste. Is there mail for me? I'm Sir William Kiswick of Highbury. But something else awaits the heroes. And then he sits up screaming in his bed. The adventure continues now. What's going on, everybody?

It's your old buddy, Troy LaVallee, coming at you with another exciting episode of the Glass Cannon Podcast. Happy New Year! I haven't had a chance to say this to all of you in person yet, let alone on this podcast. So, Happy New Year. I hope that you're having a lovely, happy, and healthy new year, that you stuck to all your resolutions, and that all your dreams are coming true. We have had some hot episodes lately. Am I right? Am I crazy? I feel like we've really been on fire ever since we started book four, and this episode is no different. But first, we got to talk about some business.

You are hearing this most likely for the first time because I have only told the organizer. But on Saturday, February 3rd, in the beautiful state of Oregon, in the city of Portland, there is going to be a GCP West meetup. You guys know that, right? There's like over 50 people already signed up. Well, when I see that kind of commitment from our fan base, from one section of the country, I'm like, well, we can't just let that go without showing up. So myself, Troy LaVallee, and Skid Mar

are flying to Portland to be at that meetup. What? Troy, you maniac, what are you talking about? No, it's happening. I don't even know what we're going to do there besides have a ton of fun and drink some sweet, sweet Portland beer. So if you're coming to that event, I can't wait to see you again or for the first time to sit

down, hang out, play some games, have some beers, and just have a good old-fashioned fun time. Skid and I will be our own trivia team, though, and we will have no one else on the team, and we'll probably still lose. As usual, a lot of things happen in the GCP nation. Just minutes ago, I finished shooting a video with Grant, the GCP state of the nation address. The first one we've ever done. I just feel like there's a lot of things to talk

about. Everybody wants to know about Starfmite. Everybody wants to know about Ruins of Aslan. Everybody wants to know about video content and all the other things that are going on. Well, hopefully this video will cover all of those things. I think I laid it all out in no uncertain terms, what's happening, and more importantly, when. But folks, we got another episode to get to, so sit back, crack open a nice cold water or something else delicious, and please enjoy episode 137 of the Glass Cannon Podcast, Helter Skelter. Huh? Joe, I couldn't help but notice you're reading Elves of Galerion.

Yeah. That's right, gentlemen. Take a look. Look at that. There it is. It's beautiful. Why? Didn't you listen to last week's episode?

That's Marie... Oh! Should we spoil it for skits? Sorry, I just... You weren't caught up yet? No, I was just so distracted with, you know, the ball drop and all. Is it a good read, John? I believe that's Marie Ciel on the front.

Oh, it is. Dodging some, I don't know, woodland madness. She may be my favorite iconic. She's an incredibly awesome iconic. I really like her a lot. There's something about the art. And I've listened to some of the plays that they do. They do like these audio books.

They did an audio book of Rune Lords. It's not like an audio book. It's like a staged radio play. And she's awesome and uh yeah so i'm glad that you're her now i guess you are marisa yep yep how's everybody doing everybody uh enjoying the new year it's it's it's still january it still feels uh cold it's a cold one it's a cold one uh i don't know if everyone is a resolution type but have you uh if you did have resolutions have you been able to keep them have you cut out drinking cut out caffeine gone to the gym every

day matthew no i was gonna say he does all those things anyway drinking short boozing crushing coffee and hasn't been to the gym since christmas well i mean i wanted to to work out a little bit more but i haven't yet it's too cold we got a lot of recording to do. There's only so much time in the day. It's ridiculous. Grant, have you been a good boy? Have you been keeping up with your resolutions? Oh, Troy, I've been very naughty. I'm sorry I asked.

I don't think any of us expected him to say that. I really regret it. No, I'm really just taking stock, happy to be alive, air filling my lungs every day. Even if it's freezing, I didn't realize how awful January and February were until I moved to New York City. How long have you been in New York? Ten years. Ten years. Thirteen years in New York State, ten years in New York City.

Ten years, thirteen years in March. That doesn't make any sense, Grant. Three years upstate at the penitentiary this place is so nice with my window i should move in auburn state penitentiary how much time have you done up here grant that was that was not living folks that's why i don't count it in the 10th. 13 years in March. Skid, how's your new year going? Everything going as planned? Yeah. I don't know. I'm having trouble with my resolution because I resolved.

It's probably a mistake. I resolved to kill one able-bodied man sometime over the course of the year and get away with it. Okay. And I just don't think physically and morally I'm up to it. So I don't even know why I did it. I thought they were hot on your tail and that you're afraid of getting caught. No, no. You killed a couple, but they weren't able-bodied.

They weren't really able-bodied. One of them had kind of a limp. Right, yeah. And I'm not 100% sure that I got away with it. It's a lot of trial and error that I don't think I'm up to. You got 11 and a half months. I wish you all the best. Certainly announcing your return is not a hit podcast probably won't help with the getting away with it.

But it also may not help with the doing of it. Well, it's not a resolution if it's easy, Matthew. That's a good point. Skid, are you excited to be running Ruins of Aslan for our Patreon subscribers? Yeah, I was talking earlier. I was telling you guys how excited i am i really really am i've i've i've i had so much fun the only one that i've done was for the live show uh that we did in astoria and i had such a blast doing that and i think i've learned something since then and i've gained new appreciation i hate to say it but for what you do come on get out of here

but yeah no I'm extremely excited I cannot wait to run a game for you guys well I can't wait to play a human fighter I can't wait to be a human fighter I think the only people that are more excited than us to play is for the listeners to listen to the master

at work and that's coming soon that is coming sooner than you think but now we gotta get listen to the master at work yeah and that's coming soon that is coming sooner than you think yeah but now we got to get back to the gcp here lies the podcast at hand this podcast at hand back to the matter to the matter at hand the city atop a bluff skelton can you picture it can you picture these waterfalls making you know pushing down elevators to bring people up and down the drawbridges? And just imagine what this like, imagine like a makeshift scaffolding structure looks like to get to the top of the city. Now, Lork, you've been here. Had what transpired in 135 not happened, I would have said like, you must remember this. But now you probably don't remember anything. But there must be pieces coming in like, yes, yes, this, that. Yeah, yeah.

I think he's starting to remember it. And with the couple day journey, I think, yeah, slowly more and more things are coming back. He's becoming more and more Lork as he goes, just in a strange and different body. Can I – can Pembroke do a knowledge geography just to see like how much he knows like off on the face of things? Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah, can I do that as well? Because I actually have ranks in knowledge geography. Nope, only skip.

Please. 15. 15. 21 for us. 21. Okay. Small city. Population well under 10,000, probably closer to 5,000, 6,000.

Population, well under 10,000, probably closer to 5,000, 6,000. It is a very important city to Nirmathas. It falls under the purview of Nirmathas. It's another big dwarf settlement. I mean, there are other races there, but this is certainly not Yanderhof. It pales in comparison. Joe was asking me about it, and I said it's probably similar to the size of Windhelm in Skyrim. You know, that city. Isn't it Windhelm, or is it White Run?

No, it's Windhelm. Windhelm. Windhelm, yeah. But there wasn't a single city with 10,000 people in it. No, but I mean, I just picture that kind of size, and it was probably the big cathedral on the hill. It's no Yanderhof. It's no Yanderhof. But its main form of industry is mining and lumber.

So the dwarves like mine the mountains and then carry the ore up these elevators into the city. It's a very important city to the economy of Nirmathas and also to just the general protection of Nirmathas because it's nigh impregnable. It is a major trade route. And for a long time, it only traded with the dwarven city of Kragadan. But when Bloodsworn Vale was reopened again after the Shawanti made friends with everybody, or really everyone made friends with the Shawanti, now it's opened up the trade routes that they didn't have accessible before. So it can bring in a lot more money than it used to because now they can get to Corvosa, Magnamar, all over the Inner Sea region. get to Corvosa, Magnamar, all over the inner sea region. It actually made me think of Dunharrow from Lord of the Rings. Remind me.

Which is in the movies, just to dumb it down for everyone here. It's in Return of the King when the Rohirrim, like after the Battle of Telm's Deep, it's like the mountain, it's like the switchback trail that goes up to it. Yes. I always thought it was like, this is a more defensible position than Helm's Deep ever was. Helm's Deep has doors. Yeah, there's like a wall. So it's like, I'm trying to

attack him. Anyway. But yeah, it makes me think of that and Grant last week mentioned the Aerie from Game of Thrones. Troy did. Or you did. Oh yeah. We're now a couple now. Well Grant was here. Right. Grant was here.

But yeah it's like I think Pembroke as all these things these places that he's read about but hasn't been is fascinated. And he's just this is marvelous. Like, marvelous as in it is a marvel.

Like, I think he is just a beaming smile look on his face. I can't believe he's lived long enough to see this. Oh, I'm sure. Baron, and this is another dwarven city. What do you think? Is there a business you want to attend to? You've got to spend at least a day or two here, and then that's it. There are two things I want to do, Troy.

One. One is, are we, is it, what's the temperature? I thought you were like, is it raining? No, that's not what it's getting at. What's the temperature? It's 56 degrees out. Okay. But is this a generally warmer area, colder area than we're going,

where we're headed up towards Skiergard? Well, this is still a high altitude. Skiergard is even further south. Skiergard is farther south, but you just don't know until you get there what that situation is. You would think it's probably pretty cold up there, but it's just the top of a bluff. I'm going to invest, just in case, in a fur-lined cap, which I can put my headband of inspired wisdom on top of. You're buying a

new hat? I'm buying a new hat. You lost that outside of the tomb of Narcom Steelhand when you walked into the wind wall. Fighting that double crosser, nay, quadruple crosser. What's her face? A wigga. A wigga.

Yes. The other thing I want to do is I asked around. I didn't get any info. It wasn't on the podcast. It was so boring. I want to know if there's any more intel on the Ash Peaks. Ah, the Ash Peaks. Yes, perhaps in Skelt they will know more uh feyraza do you have any uh

business you want to attend to any party members you want to murder um i think she's got it out of her system what are your plans for skelt i mean she's keeping a close eye on lorik just in case she has to murder him again sure and bring him back to something else. I mean, he's so liable to be cursed. It's true. Genetically predisposed to cursings. And we all know, she's still got Brynnia's love, so just a knife to the throat. Right.

No, but in all seriousness, I think she's also pretty fascinated by this city. I mean, remember, she's never been to the Inner Sea region. She's spent her life, you know, down in Osirian. So I think she's fascinated by this i think the idea of the interplay between technology and nature that they're using here is probably very interesting to her um maybe she's a little dubious of it but we'll see um but yeah very cool and lork you uh

you have business to attend to you obviously want to try and find a cleric right yeah i want to try to find a cleric uh to deal with the negative level that I have and see if I can get that healed up. It's going to be a little pricey. And then, yeah, I guess just generally, yeah, that's pretty much it. I think mainly he wants to get going. Though I do think he might try to do some gear trading out because during this journey he's learning a little bit about his new body, and he's finding he's not as strong as he once was,

and he is a little bit more dexterous than he was before. You're making me think of a health ed class. I know. It's like there's hair where there wasn't hair before. Changes happen. Changes are good. Right. But, yeah.

Why is the gym teacher telling me all this? He may want to try to do some gear swaps. So he's thinking about that as well. And mainly his focus in doing so is to get the show on the road. Like he's so eager and excited to start tracking these giants to Skirgard and start taking them out one by one. I got to put you on the spot here. Did you cast the new elf version of Lork? I'm so interested to hear the answer to this question.

I did, actually. Wow. I really wanted to highlight what a huge change it is and what a ridiculously just... Charming's not the right word, but just a... He just looks very, very different from Old Lord. I have a guess before you say it. Okay.

James Gandolfini. It was not James Gandolfini. No. In fact, it is a... Jenna Elfman. Oh, that's good. Picture with long blonde hair... Jenna Elfman. Oh, that's good. Picture with long blonde hair. Jenna Elfman.

She has more shoulder length. And maybe slightly younger. Ryan Gosling. Oh! You handsome devil. I love it. I love it. Another Oscar nominee.

Yeah, yeah. We're only the best for the GCP. He's so hot right now. That's great. Yeah, he's a good-looking elf. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but Daniel Day-Lewis was on the short list, wasn't he? You should see how weirdly elven a young Daniel Day-Lewis looks. So, yeah, he was on the list.

And Matthew or Grant, one of them pointed out, I think it was Grant, that he was in My Left Foot. Yes. At around that age, so it would have been perfect. And then Grant also said under his breath that he'd be fucking furious if I cast Daniel Day-Lewis. You can't double cast a man. I mean, he's a very versatile actor. But Grant's excuse was he retired from acting. Right.

And this would be a young Daniel Day-Lewis who is totally available to act. Right, or he's retired. All right. And did you do any fun things with your racial abilities? I did. I did. I did do one thing. I actually really liked the elven racial abilities.

I think they fit the ranger really well, the ranger class. But I wanted to change one thing in particular, which is elves get elven magic, which gives them a buff to their magical abilities. That's what I was talking about, yeah. And so I swapped that out for, and I thought this was awesome, for one called Woodcraft. And I think that this comes right off of his visions. And the shaman of the Skowen Kwa reinforcing to him, like, he needs to remember what he went through in that place.

And I think that maybe he was affected by this in a way that it kind of affected his racial abilities, so to speak. So he has innate deep secrets of the wild, especially the secrets of forests. Elves with this racial trait get a plus one racial bonus on knowledge nature and survival checks. In forest terrain, they improve to plus two for each of them. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, so bonuses to knowledge nature and survival checks. In forest terrain they improve to plus two for each of them. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, so bonuses to knowledge nature and survival. Pretty awesome for a ranger which I already had ranks in, so those abilities get even higher, which is cool. Those skills. Well, survival is always going to come in handy if you're trying to infiltrate yet another giant camp.

Can I ask a question if Joe's been doing the reading? I know that in earlier versions of the game, in old Dungeons & Dragons, for example, that there were creatures who had souls and there were creatures that had spirits. And elves were creatures that had spirits. And it was, again, drawing from Tolkien, where it's like they're just of different stuff um do you know if that's still true i i haven't come across

that yet i i'm not sure yet um but it is in my reading not to get into specifics they are so fundamentally different elves like they're just so different i didn't realize how different yeah and it's going to be so strange playing an elf that is embodied with the psyche of a half-orc yeah someone who grew up spent 50 years 40 something years as a half-orc yeah 40 some years 44 years as a half-orc and now as an elf it's just so strange because he has this body but and he has some of these abilities and sensibilities but he also he doesn't have like a natural sort of like off-putting distrust of all races the way that elves do and he doesn't have the connection with elves and the world the way elves do yeah so i'm trying to instead of that focus on elves i'm trying to turn it more into a focus on the world

and his connection to the world and maybe even the spiritual aspects of it so i'm not even saying there there couldn't be a possibility for multi-class that's true that's a good point because that's part of the spirit soul thing is elves destinies are tied more to the the world they have more of a connection to the earth and all that's in it than men do men's destiny lies elsewhere yeah so that that makes a lot of sense yeah and i think it's interesting based on what we went through with the vision quest and and this is happening naturally like we we rolled elf you know it just sort of happened that way but it's all fitting together kind of nicely and him being a ranger class i think lork was a ranger that was more of a a militia guard kind of ranger or a hunter a giant hunter hunter. But now he is, while he still maintains all those abilities,

and while he won't necessarily out of the gate have the mystical properties of an elven ranger, he does have more of the sensibilities of connection to the forest and the earth and all that stuff. Really cool. This is straight from James Jacobs on one of the Paizo boards, with people asking about this question, because in the former iteration of the game, boards with people asking about this question because in the former iteration of the game, elves were fae. And so they dealt with this

sort of soul-spirit thing. He said, we deliberately made elves have no ties to the fae in Pathfinder as a way to separate them from other RPG games that did make this choice, or at least imply this choice. Having elves be aliens is actually a lift from

my homebrew game. I've always thought elves make a great fit for being alien visitors to a world. Oh, that's actually that's something they talk about in other yeah, now that you mention it. Right, this also allowed us to shift that role over to gnomes to help make them feel unique to Galarian as well, and to

get them out of the shadow of, they're just shorter kind of more magic dwarves rot that they've been uh in until then uh that said i suppose the idea of elves being phased so deeply ingrained in the minds of all of us now and then fey elf flavor sneaks into the game accidentally we try not to do that but it happens now and then but elves aren't from the first world that predated the current prime material. Yeah, and that I did know and did read, that they are from another world. Yeah, yeah. Literally.

They have portals connecting them between planets like Kionan. Exactly, which is what is so interesting. I think as we get ready to embark on Starfinder is that, because you read Starfinder elves and they're like, yeah, I mean they've been out there all along. They're more like Vulcans in this iteration. Yeah, they're like on Starfinder. Is that. Because you read Starfinder elves. And they're like. Yeah. I mean they've been out there all along. They're more like Vulcans in this iteration. Yeah. They're like on another planet.

They're already. You know they've been there. Yeah. So you are an alien now. Yeah. Basically. It's great. I'm wondering if those elven portals.

One got so huge. It subsumed all of Galarian. And that's where Galarian is. Because if you remember. Galarian is missing. At beginning of Starfleet. Perhaps it would explain the gap. Perhaps. Perhaps that is the answer.

Grant, write that down. You heard it here first. We're official. That's canon. Grant! That's the explanation for the gap. Everybody can stop wondering. Pembroke, anything you want to get done in Skelp besides just take in the grandeur? I just want to, yeah, I think he wants to take a look at the engineering

the hydro engineering this is another sort of avocation of his he wants to take a look at that see what's get a handle on it and

just just talk to the people get a sense of the place that's all he wants and what about Sir Will Sir Will is waiting on word from Highbury

so he had sent a letter in Yanderhoff, and now here at Skelton, he's looking forward to seeing if he's got mail. How do you think mail travels in Galarian? You think it's by Raven, huh, Joe? I don't know. I've never looked it up. I just said we could just do it that way.

What do you think, Skid? I feel like there's magic involved. You send a letter and it's like maybe this portal. Yeah, it seems strange to only have runners or horsemen to take the post in a magical world. Probably depends on the city. Maybe Yanderhoff has a really fast system of getting things places. Right.

But to get it from Highbury to Skel might take a little longer. Either way. My guess is quantum entanglements. That's a possibility. Definitely. Matthew concurs. You arrived in Yanderhof one, two, three, ten days ago. So it's not out of the realm of possibility that there could be something there for you.

Maybe. I don't know what the postal system is like. Maybe it's odd in a world with a teleport spell That you can't just like Get all the mail together And at the end of the day a guy just like Fires it over I think druids just do all the mail

I think they run the postal service Well that makes sense Eagle form, drop off some mail Mail some GCP merch I think it's perfectly logical Alright so you guys all have Not unlike Yanderhoff some business to attend to GCP merch? I think it's perfectly logical. Alright, so you guys all have, not unlike Yanderhoff, some business to attend to, but it's also

any last shopping you want to do, get it done, because it's time to get into battle soon. Alright, you guys roll up, not unlike Yanderhoff, a couple dirty looks, but Baron is able to assuage their fears.

This guy's cool. Don't worry about it. It's a hot-looking elf. Pembroke is exchanging dwarven greetings in dwarven with everyone he sees. And they like that. They think that's very charming. He's like tugging on his big floppy hat.

Hey, yes, axes of the dwarves be upon you. That's a battle cry. I thought you were going to say they're tugging on their beards. It's like, oh, what an adorable little I like your little chin whiskers. Not the beard!

Alright, so you guys exchange pleasantries. They allow you up and you guys go up one of these elevators. The water coming down, lifting you up. The drawbridge will lift one elevator over to the other, a lot of switchbacks and whatnot, and you finally make it up to the top

and unveil a town like I described. I really want to picture this like Windhelm because I have a very clear idea of what it looked like. You walk in, there's that little main square, you go around the back, and there's another area with a fountain. It's like way up north. It's one of the first major cities you get to where you go in and you have a – I know I bought a house there.

You do most of our crafting right there. Yeah, you buy your first house. Yeah, yeah. I'm just trying to remember where it was. And then it has – the Jarl is way up. You go up this long staircase in the back, and the Jarl is in there. Oh, that first town. Yeah, the first town.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. That's what I think of. So we're going to use that as a reference point. And the city is yours, gentlemen and lady. What do you want to do? Sir Will wants to go check the mail, see if there's a place where you go do that kind of thing.

Sure enough, there's the Skelton Post Office, SPO. He comes riding up with all haste. Is there mail for me? I'm Sir Willemette Keswick of Highbury. And you check with them, and they don't have anything for you. Shit. All right.

That's the end of the episode. Let's go home. We'll see you next week. End of that storyline. Sir Will kills himself. He jumps off the bluff. They have forsaken me. They say, I'm sorry, when did you send it?

Ten days ago? Try back tomorrow. How long are you in town? Did you put tracking on that? Yeah, do you have a tracking number? I really need more information here. Are you certified? Yeah, it's just really odd to actually think, like if they got a letter in, a little scroll, a rolled up letter, and it was like, for Sir William McKeswick.

And they're like, never heard of him. Right, trash. Yeah, wrong mail. Trash. There's a good chance we threw it out. Yeah. That's how we run the postal service here. But yeah, they said, you know, try back tomorrow.

Maybe we'll have something. Unfortunately, we don't have anything right now. Okay. What else? I think Baron would like to invite Pembroke on a stroll with him. We both appreciate Dwarven culture, the architecture. I saw him admiring kind of the elevators they've set up here. And I'm hoping, too, maybe, you know, as I'm looking for Ash Peak information here,

perhaps some of his knowledge, history would be helpful because it seems to be hidden by the sands of time. Yeah, Pembroke, I think he says, yes, no, I'd love to accompany on a little walking tour. I know we have a quest

and everything to go on, but I'm also, I'd be very happy to help you in your personal quest to find out more about where you come from, my friend. So I think that's an excellent idea. And there's a little sightseeing along the way. And I think in between the sightseeing and, oh, this sluice is amazing.

I can't believe how this water elevator works. I'm kind of every once in a while trying to ask Pembroke, Pembroke, did you ever want to tell me a little bit more about that dream? Did it ever bother you anymore? Did you learn anything from it? Well, it was a strange thing. I suppose it made a lot more sense once events played out the way they did.

I remembered when I was a boy, well, not a boy, but a very young man, I accompanied a, I was a member of an expedition into Galerion to find ancient artifacts. I was always interested in it, even from that age, and associated with the Arcanarium. We went down, we had our guide, a young Osirian man. He was quite deft.

Navigating the desert is no easy thing. It's like navigating at sea. But the stars are different down there. It might have helped. We had an astromancer with us, but it doesn't really help when the stars are different. So he was killed by a half-fiend cultist. Came out of a tomb,

and we were stuck. Sandstorm. Brutal. The heat of the day, the freezing cold of the night. We had very little water, and we didn't know how we would get out. Too far from civilization, or even had no knowledge of the nearest oasis well. And, well, to make a long story short, I witnessed the young man be brought back.

That was the first time I'd seen someone brought back from the dead, there in the desert. It stuck with me. It was terrifying and exhilarating all at once. And it's not something that is ordinarily under the purview of the arcane. It's fascinating to me. It's divine magic. And so it came to me in a dream at night. And now, and I do know why, I sensed that the same thing was happening nearby to a close friend.

Well, it certainly has been a bit of divine favor that Lork is back with us, albeit changed quite a bit. And as we're talking, I guess Baron's kind of keeping an eye out for any libraries or halls of records or anything. I'm sorry,

I don't mean to correct you, but I believe it's pronounced library. I'm so sorry. I know you're a man of letters. It's a common mistake. It's all right. I'm just a dusty old drifter, and I don't know how to say nothing. I have nothing but the utmost respect for you, sir.

Thank you. Thank you. Okay, yeah, you're passing along, and you don't see any sort of grandiose Hall of Records City Hall type situation, but you do see a place that may have some records. So I walk in, and I'm kind of, I don't know, do I see a huge stack of books or something? There are maybe seven or eight rows of books. They're pretty tall, and they have those ladders on wheels that move back and forth. I picture it carved into the side of the mountain like the treasury at Petra and Jordan.

Oh, absolutely. Yeah, definitely carved in. Very dwarven-like architecture. And there is a middle-aged dwarven woman sitting at the desk reading a book with glasses on. Good day, ma'am. How does this day find you? It finds me well. And yourself?

Well, it finds me in search of knowledge. I'm hoping to look through your records here to see if there's any mention of the Ashpeak family. The Ashpeaks? I wouldn't even know where to look. Is this a family of yours? To make a long story short, I may have found through supernatural means that

my true family goes by that name. Ah, yes, supernatural means and whatnot, yes. It's like a daily occurrence. Well, I wouldn't even know where It's like a daily occurrence. Well, I wouldn't even know where to begin to look. I mean, you're welcome to peruse, but I couldn't even direct you. Do you know where they hail from?

Motherfucker, I don't have my piece of paper scanned. Well, I'm sorry. I can't help you. Ma'am, I'm not sure where they might hail these days, but I know that the closest relative I know of served with Nargrim Steelhand ages ago. Steelhand, Steelhand, yes. Just a moment, maybe I do remember

hearing about this Steelhand. And she goes off into the books and you hear her talking to herself. She climbs up a ladder and like kicks yourself down the row. Really fast. Yeah. She's like, oh, what's this? Pulls out a book. Nope.

And slides all the way back. Surprisingly nimble woman. And then she comes down and she's like, oh, let's see here. Ah, yes, yes. There is some knowledge here of Steelhand. It's sort of a small folio with some uh some some of his family tree i don't know if that would be helpful at all and she hands it to you and so i start scanning through it and yeah and it just as you're looking at it you realize that if you were back at the tomb or

you probably etched it or at least etched it in your mind you might be able to place who all those people were on the mural by their name you know because their names are all like you know Fat Fist that's probably the guy with the fat fist Fat Fist the first

and you see that and you do see Ashpeak in there as well. And you see Magnus Ashpeak. Yes. Who may be the gentleman who wrote that note, correct? Correct. The M from the note. Any more information on Magnus?

There were abouts anything in these records or? If you, you know, a quick sort of scan through and if you kind of reference as much as you can, it seems that most likely these ash peaks came from, who knows if they're still around. There's no clues that would make you think there's even still around. Came from farther south. Okay. Somewhere in the mind spins. clues that would make you think there's even still around, uh, came from, uh, farther South. Okay. Somewhere in the mind spins.

Okay. Wow. And you're heading South. So possibly you're on the right track, but unfortunately, like you just look up at all these books they have, and this isn't even that big of a place and you wouldn't even know you could spend months in here

and still not find more information. It's like finding a needle in a haystack. I'm going to keep the name Magnus in my mind, and I always ask myself, what would Torek do as I go forward? WWTD. And then just, I thank her for her time and showing me the book.

Oh, my pleasure, yes. And I ask her, ma'am, is there a hattery around here? Oh, yes, of course. We have a number of hatteries. Millinery. Millinery. Millinery?

Yes, we have both. Right down there. Actually, I also sell hats. If it's hats you need. She opens up her jacket. All hats and records. All hats and records. For only's hats you need. She opens up her jacket and there's hats in each. All hats and records. All hats and records.

For only three, $400. Yeah, there's plenty of places where you can buy a hat. Okay, so I step in. Ding, ding. What you looking for there, sir? I'm looking for a hat.

Oh, we got all sorts of hats. What kind do you want? I'd like something appropriate for the mountainous climate. Oh, sure, sure. I tend to prefer something with a bit of a wide brim. A wide brim, yeah. And something that'll keep the sun out of my eyes. Oh, you got to keep the sun out, yeah.

And something I can pull over my eyes when I rest my weary head. Perhaps something like this, like my big floppy hat. Oh, you want a floppy hat? We got a floppy hat. and I rest my weary head. Perhaps something like this, like my big floppy hat. Oh, you want a floppy hat? You got a floppy hat. Maybe something less nonagenarian,

but maybe more in the youthful fashion. Kind of hippie. Something to keep you warm, pull over your eyes when you need to take a nap, wide brims. Something more fashionable, perhaps. Fashionable, maybe floppy. That's a little floppy. Ah, here's the perfect hat.

And he gives you exactly the hat you want. It is as if he read your mind, I think. How lucky of us to find a telepathic haberdasher. This hat is very similar to the first, but it's made out of really heavy wool and it kind of has like a fur trim. It's kind of like a Russian kind of like a knee dancer hat. So it's hopefully getting ready.

Hopefully it's not incredibly hot further south, but that's what he's getting ready for. He also asked, I didn't get your name, sir. What was your name again? My name is Roy the Hat Guy. Well, Roy the Hat Guy, I'll never forget your name. Be sure to tell your friends. If they need a hat, I know exactly the hat.

Always. Always. I can role play that hat in under 30 seconds. Enjoy your leopard skin hat. Leopard skin? Oh no. My companion's not going to enjoy that

at all. Alright, so a little more information about the Ash Peaks. Very little. But you know, you got a name, which corroborates what you read in the thing. And farther south you're heading that way stay alive maybe you will come upon that and also you would think if there is uh the ash peak still alive maybe the farther south you go the more you will come in contact with people that may know of them right um but you know yanderhoff nothingkelton, a little nugget.

So it also makes you feel like maybe there's nothing left and you are the last of the Ashbeaks. Take heart, my friend. It seems that we're possible that the breadcrumbs to the answers you seek may be along the trail we already follow. No, either way,

Pembroke, I think I found my new family and an adventuring party. I've got a purpose in life, but it would be nice to know if I were able to do so. So I'm not broken up about it, but I'd love to know.

That is good to hear. All right. Do you guys want to get an in or something? Yes. Okay. So you guys find... Check the Y or something? Yes. Yeah. Okay. So you guys find. Check the Yelp reviews.

Check the Yelp reviews. You find something that's affordable. With no traps. With no traps. I mean, we could do a price line, name your price or something like that, but you never know where they're going to put you. You could be far away from what you need to get. It's day of.

You probably have to use hotels tonight at this point. I'd like something with a waterfall view. It's going to cost extra. A waterfall view. It's going to cost extra. A waterfall view. And, you know, you guys have been doing stuff. Farazza, what have you been doing

on day one? I think Farazza is spending a little time by herself. I mean, she did murder one of her companions for a very good reason.

But I think... It's an emotional experience. It's an emotional experience. Speaking as a recent murderer myself, I know how difficult it can be. Skid can speak to this directly. But yeah, I think she's kind of wandering the city, checking out the waterfalls,

and just kind of trying to get in touch with the nature of this particular region. You're taking it all in. Yeah. Anything nature-related is right up your alley uh and lork do you want to like gather information about a cleric uh yeah yeah i'll do that all right um roll uh diplomacy to gather information he currently has a negative one to diplomacy uh natural two wow so that's a that's a total of one a total of one Yeah For diplomacy I think he just seems

You probably come off As really weird Super awkward Yeah Super awkward elf Are you going to change What voice are you working with I was trying to do

A bit of a higher pitched voice With a little bit of the accent Still there I like it Okay But he's a little more Upbeat and vibrant About what he's got ahead of him

Oh I like that He's more Irish He's more Irish It's's more Irish, yeah. It's easier to do the Irish when you can go lighter, Matthew. You spend the better part of six hours just weirding people out around. Hi, my name's Lork Iron Tusk, and this is my cat, Cat Benetton. That's his cat, Benetton. And they're just like, ah, ah.

Especially because it's a lot of dwarves and he is treating dwarves like he loves them because he does he has no problem with them and they are like what is going on here are there any elves does he see any elves around a couple more half elves than actual elves

but if you see an elf you just run up to him like yeah I have an elf too get away yeah so better part of six hours and you don't learn anything damn it so unfortunately uh well you know what in that time also with the post office down i'd like to do a role uh diplomacy gather information from sir will uh to ask about skier guard what anybody here might know about skier guard and and and the path there uh in terms of what dangers we

might face you know creatures that that sort of thing uh the wilds what have you uh that is a 21 21 diplomacy gather information skier guard about the journey to skier guard are you like bringing your maps and showing them the maps that you got at uh midderhall yeah yeah he's sort of he's he's kind of acting like kind of it's militaristic you know what i mean like he's like here's where we're headed he's canvassing for information about the area right um they want to know like how are you traveling are you on foot are you on horse yeah we're on foot on foot um well that depends how far how far away is it? They think it's probably another four days on foot. Four days on foot.

Four days on foot. And they don't know anything about Skiergard in general. They've never heard of Skiergard. Oh, a lot of people never heard of it? Never heard of it. Wow. However, if you start telling them what you know, they do say there has been a lot more giant activity in the area,

that there have been groups of people that have just been murdered or lost. In the town or just in the surroundings? Outside, in the surroundings, like people leaving Skelts to go travel through the Bloodsworn Vale. Have you seen giants within sight of these walls? The people you talk to have not seen any giants. They know sort of proudly that they're completely safe up atop Skelton, but they also feel for their relatives in other cities that aren't as safe. Who is in charge of the defenses of this city?

Roy the Hatmaker. Wow, double duty. He's really a servant of his people. Well, finding out who's in charge is pretty important to Sir Will just because he wants to notify them that he knows more information about the giant gatherings and frequent giant sightings and that they should up their defenses to the best of their ability. Right. And yeah, I mean, they can totally direct you to the captain of the guard or at least one of his patrol sergeants. Who's the captain of the guard?

Yeah. And so he would like to talk to them. Roy the guard captain. Busy man. I see. He's a man who wears very many hats. Good one, Grant.

Good one. So yeah, he just wants to talk tactics. Tell him, you know, there's frost giants within four days journey from here on foot for small folk,

which is probably half the time for giants. So just be aware and do what you can to keep an eye out. I know this position. I know this position is nigh on indefensible. Or defensible. Impregnable.

Impregnable, yes. But nonetheless, these creatures are extremely dangerous and must be must not be taken lightly. And yes, you don't gain admittance to the captain of the guard, but you speak to two of his patrol sergeants, and they say that they will inform him.

He is aware of the giant threat. He wasn't aware that there could be a camp of giants training nearby. Yeah. So they take this very seriously, but you also get the sense that they're a little cocky because of their positioning. You know what I mean? They're like, we'll let somebody else deal with this. They're not going to do anything to us. The worst thing they do is destroy our elevators and we'll just build more.

They're not going to get up here and kill us. They might not even totally trust him anyway. Right. Because who the fuck is this guy? This little half-little knight. And it is like what they would feed into the cockiness too. It's just like, yeah. No, I think it's okay.

We'll be fine. We got it, kid. But if their supply lines get cut out, they're going to die up here. Like, I imagine they rely on other people for food unless they have farming. If your supply lines get cut, you'll die up here. Well, yeah, and I think maybe they're more worried, if they have any concern, about the trade disruption than the actual loss of lives because they are safe in that respect, but they can always... They're safe from physical harm,

but yeah, they could have these trade routes completely shut down and then they won't be able to... And they've lost people. They have lost people, but they just don't... But even that would probably take months or years. Right. Just take a different route. It might take longer to get the food back, but... But mean they probably have supplies like a castle like has

like they're in a very an area that is very productive like a castle or a family of mormons five six thousand people months and months and months worth in the city yeah they've got this pretty well under control so you're it's you're not met with like a scoff but you're definitely they're like okay well thank you thank you're definitely, they're like, okay, well, thank you. Thank you. We'll pass that knowledge on. The captain of the guard's name is Fokum Barrelchin. Hmm. Whoa, that's a weird name.

F-O-K-K-E-M. Barrelchin. But you don't get to meet him. Okay. Ah, Fokum. Nailed it. Nailed it. All right, so you rest up at the inn

For the night Maybe do some boozing I don't know There's a little bar next door I could have a tip I think Lork definitely does some boozing And finds that his tolerance Is nowhere near where it used to be

And he gets like way too drunk Way too fast Falls asleep in a seat At a table Two wine coolers And he's down for the count. Exactly. Exactly. All of a sudden he really enjoys the fruitier drinks.

Zima's. More than Zima. Elvin Zima. All right. So, yeah, another night. How many more nights are you're gonna have left during the night uh we kind of come into the uh the in room where we're uh where we're sleeping and uh and you see lork elf lork is sort of like sweating kind of around the brow

in bed and then you see he's looking around in a small alleyway between two buildings uh in true now in the mud-tracked streets and it's raining and he's standing next to baron and behind him is gormley he kind of turns around and he kind of barely recognizes Gormley. And he looks forward and he can hear the sounds of battle. He looks down. There's a bow in his hand, but his hand is a pale white color. It's not a half-orc hand. And he's holding this bow and he looks down at the mud and his eyes sort of slowly roll up and there's a teenage human boy on his knees in front of him and he can see a knife right up to his throat and he

sees the boy and he knows immediately that like this is his son and that he has to save him. And it just slowly pans up. And the man holding the knife is Lork Iron Tusk. And he just slits his throat and he sits up screaming in his bed. And he looks down, he sees this cloth with the blood on it and he's like just trying to to make sense of it and gets no more sleep the rest of the night he's kind of like twitchy wow that's so fucked up but it makes all the sense in the world because he died you would think because of what he basically killed him. That's so fucked up.

I didn't even think until just now that Lorke and Jasun both died from a knife to the throat, too. That, too. Yeah. That, too. So he relives this moment, and it's so clear to him,

and yeah. You've now felt what Jasun felt. Right. You've actually sort of been in his shoes now. You've been on both sides of it now. Totally. Yeah. These memories are going to come hitting you,

and you have to know that these are coming back. And if this is any indication of what these memories are, they're not going to be pleasant. Right. The reason Feyraza took you out and brought you back. So with the exception of Lork, everyone gets a pretty restful sleep. You wake up the next day, and you have to feel like, what are we doing here? We're healed up.

We've got what we need. Maybe you want to do some exchanging of items. Maybe you want to get a couple more potions of restoration, a couple more cure light wounds or whatnot. But then it's time to go. At a certain point, you are belaboring it there's stuff you want to do but like you're gonna hang out and scalp for a week uh so you guys all get up and lork is not there and uh just within a few minutes of like getting up rousing getting awake you see he he comes in uh the front door and he's like kind of all sweaty and explains that he just finished a five

mile run because he didn't sleep very well so he figured he might as well work out and he feels like really good. He's like it's just a dream. I'm over it. I'm over it. I'm good and he's ready to start the day and he asks

if any of them or Sir Will could help him find a cleric because he's like, I've been unable to find anybody. Have you guys seen anybody that might be able to help out? And Sir Will is happy to help as far as rolling a diplomacy gather information to find a cleric in town. Yeah. Farazza would be happy to help as well. Oh, yeah. Her diplomacy is through the roof.

Not through the roof. Why don't you roll the rest of you can aid. It's alright. So we'll roll it. Another 21 exactly. Aid. Actually rolled a 26. So another 6.

So 27. You do hear of a cleric. Her name is Briella. She is a cleric of Sarenrae. Hmm. And they say she's a little bit ornery, but knowing what you need,

they're sure that she would most likely be able to help you. Okay. So he's going to... Give you the directions to that, and it's actually... You would pass the post office able to help you. Okay. So he's going to... Give you the directions to that, and it's actually, you would pass the post office on the way there. Okay. So Lorca's like,

we'll stop at the post office on the way and check if you've got your letter. And so they stop on the way, and yeah, we'll check the post office. All right, so 11 days after you sent a letter from Yanderhoff, you now come to this fantasy post office in Skelton. And there's a line 30 people long.

You're like, God damn it. We'll just come back later. What do you say? Sir Willemette. Good morning, ladies. Have returned again. It's all men behind you. Oh, did you call me?

You change staff every day, I see. He's like, is there any word from, would have been a note from Highbury in Mendev? Highbury in Mendev? Nope. Sorry, nothing. Oh, blast. Well, we'll just have to wait a few more days then. And like Lork as the elf kind of looks at him like,

I'm not waiting a few more days. I got giants to kill. As you're leaving, a voice pipes up in the back. What did you say? Highbury and Mendev? I said, yes, Highbury, Mendev. Mendev here. What is your, What's your name?

Sir Willemette Keswick Let me see what you have Hold on, do you know a Sophia Keswick? Yes Yes, I do That's me, that's for me I do have something here Here you go, this came in just this morning actually

He's like panting out of breath, heart is racing He goes over to grab it He hands you a letter What's your last name mr keswick i don't know and you have a letter from your mother oh wow hands are shaking how many letters have you sent her since you got since the last time oh Oh, hundreds probably. But, you know, since I left. Now, maybe how long since true now? A dozen probably. So she knows about your exploits with the Knights of Ozum.

She probably knows she knows about true now. She knows about true now. Yeah, she definitely knows about the you know, he sent a couple letters from from cinnamon's fortune. Right. And, you know know just updating her about the grave or the um the tomb of nargum steelhand and all that stuff so she's pretty up to date until you know everything in the valley it was a long time a couple weeks that

she didn't get anything at all um but he's writing her religiously like anytime he can. And so when he was in the Crusades in The World Wound, he was writing a couple times a week. When he was at the Knights of Oz, he was writing a couple times a week. He was constantly – and he didn't just write his mother either. He wrote his father. He wrote Benrick. He wrote multiple people. It was just a way to keep his mind off of some of the things that he was dealing with.

And sure. And he missed home. He was homesick. And he's very close to his mom. He's a mama's boy. Yeah. Uh, you unfurl the letter and it reads,

uh, dearest Willamette, I've read every letter you sent a dozen times each. They have warmed my heart low these many years since you left Highbury. Hearing of your adventures reminds me of the stories I would read to you as a child. Do you remember them, Will?

Who would have thought you would become the hero knight in those fairy tales? Who am I kidding? I always knew you were special. I always knew you were destined for great things. My little gift. As much as it pains me to not have you here with me, I know you are doing great things and spreading Shalen's grace throughout the world. Sadly, all is not well in Highbury. There's no gentle way to put this, and yet another reason I wish you were here so I could tell you to your sweet face.

But your brother, Frydric, has died. Our maesters worked around the clock to find a cause, but were unable to uncover anything. One minute he was the picture of health, then one day he became deathly ill, suddenly, and died in his sleep two days later. He was laid to rest three weeks ago in a beautiful ceremony befitting the heir of Highbury.

And therein lies the real reason for my letter. As Friedrich was the heir, there is a problem with the succession. We tried to reach out to Bartholomew, but... And there's like a lot of stuff crossed out. Like she started to say something and then no. Bartholomew is his other brother. His middle brother.

You can see some words like, for obvious reasons, can't take the throne. Crossed out. And then it gets to... And Benric, bless his heart, is still bedridden. There is much

to discuss that we cannot do via letter. Will, when can you come home to Highbury? For the Rose and the Light. Mother. Oh, shit! Wow.

Oh, man! It's so great that she signed it for the rose and light instead of love mother family first she's a badass um oh my god yeah so will sort of like it's gets kind of weak on his feet he leans back against the wall um He really, he was reasonably close to his brother. I mean, you know, not super close. They're very different in age, but he always really looked up to him. So, yeah, he's pretty, he's pretty devastated to hear that. And he doesn't know, like, when can he go to Highbury? I mean, no time soon, you know. And you guys can see him read this letter and see him visibly shook by it yeah pembroke comes over says are you all right

i fear there's ill news in this missive yeah he's his eye he's much shorter than you and his eyes scan up to you and they're just filled with tears. There's like tears streaming down his face. He's like, a death, a death in my family. It's hard news to hear in a letter as I'm sure you know. No, my dear boy, I am

sorry. He rolls it up and he says, she asks when I'm coming home and I don't know when that can be she was always there for me and I wish I could be there for her but

I'm so far away Pembroke we're so far from home I think Pembroke like looks up and exchanges a glance with Baron and Feraza and Lork. Well, if we have a quest ahead of us, if duty draws you home, we will make the best of it. Don't worry.

Pats him on the shoulder. Duty? My duty is here. It is to all of you. It's to my assignment, to now and Jagran Grath, and you, Sheriff. My duty is to you.

It's here. I do not wish to burden you with my troubles sir will sorry I'm just it's a shock is all you've got a duty to your family as well and you've proven to me these past few weeks and months of traveling together

that you're cut from a different cloth than most men you're also lucky enough and months of traveling together that you cut from a different cloth than most men. You're also lucky enough to have a family to go home to. You always knew that there may be no coming back from a mission, and you've gotten us past the hump to this point, but I, short of being able to order you, urge you to go home with all of my heart. We have Lork back with us.

We have Pembroke's spells by Raza's druidic powers. If you can go and sort things out at home, I think that's the best thing you can do for yourself. But a healer, Sheriff, you cannot go into this danger without the powers of healing.

Well, we'll have to stock up on healing rods and hope that we don't get too many curses or other afflictions that we can't handle on our own. But I have faith in Torag. I have faith in the church that we have founded within Menderhall's Valley upon all of our faiths. That we will have a light guiding us forward throughout this. I don't know, Sheriff. It doesn't feel right. It feels as if I'd be abandoning you in a time of need. I understand and appreciate your concern, but I am not an heir of Highbury.

There is no political need for me to be there. It's just there would be emotional support for my mother and my family, and she worries because of the things I have not told you about my brother Bartholomew. It could be a dangerous situation, and that is why I feel like I need to be home, but I also need to be here. Maybe I could think about it, Sheriff, and if I left, maybe just a short leave. To go home and sort out affairs and return with all haste. But I'm not sure I wish to do it yet.

May I think on it more? Think on it all you need and rely upon the wonderful post office here at Skelt to communicate more with your family. They are women one day, men the next, but they're always on time. Damn it.

That is great. All right, so very interesting. You must do what you feel is right. All right. So very interesting. You must do what you feel is right, of course. So, yeah, that's very interesting. Now, it hadn't dawned on me the idea of you leaving, but this may be what it comes to. And if Baron has given you the okay, Baron may not think he has the authority to tell you but you think baron does yeah i certainly do i mean i think that he might not agree that it's okay or a good decision but i think uh jagrin is it jagrin or jagrin

jagrin jagrin i think we said jagrin i think put, you know, put him in charge of me, you know, and he may have just that that field authority to make those decisions out here right now. And certainly when Jagger did it, I think Baron would know at this point that he thought he'd be a help, but like not that necessary. You know, not the one that was going to turn the tide. He thought maybe Nestor was the one that was going to turn the tide he thought maybe nester was the one that was going to turn the tide so i think that baron could feel comfortable in making a call like that right well i i think it's a difficult part i think baron also you distinguish yourself in the field so much but uh baron also doesn't want to necessarily have the power and authority to order you to stay with us when you have family that you could go home to and help. Yeah, yeah.

That's a big deal for him. He lost his family. You know, whether or not his family is asleep or dead, we'll figure out on another episode what exactly was the poison. But, yeah, I think that not knowing a ton about Faraza but knowing how aged Pembroke is and Lork's situation, I think he, in the same way that Lork was comfortable taking Orphos with him, because he just wanted to kill and he didn't care what happened in battle, Baron might feel a little bit more comfortable with the familial situations of everyone else in the group. Very cool.

All right, so you get that. Awesome news. Awful, yeah. So Sir Will's obviously super distracted. And then it's off to this cleric. Off to Briella, the cleric of Sarenrae. So you continue down this road, past the post office,

past Roy the Hatmaker's shop. Fucking Roy. Past the... Hats past Roy the Hatmaker's shop. Fucking Roy. Past the... Hat shop and guard captaincy. Past the little hall of records with the dwarven librarian. And you see a home. The direction has just led you to a home. It's not a church of Sarenra home. It's not a church. Oh, Sarenrae.

It's just a home. Uh, but there is a, uh, mark of Sarenrae on the door. Lork will walk up and, and gently wrap on the door. Hoop,

hoop, hoop. Neither time nor place. Uh, okay. You knock on the door and uh after a time a woman answers and she is

a bit older middle aged human human she looks like she was once very pretty in her day um time has uh taken its toll on her. And if not just time, maybe just a hard life surviving in this horrible land. Roll a perception check.

22. You recognize this woman what? really you can't quite place her and now it's been a few days you don't know if it's just

old age that has fogged your memories up or your recent conversion that has left you your memories up, or your recent conversion that has left you holes in your memory, but you recognize this woman. How can I help you? Hi, my name is Lork Irontusk,

and I'm... I'm sorry, have we met before? Excuse me, what did you say your name was? My name's Lork Irontuskin. You may not recognize me, I'm afraid it's a bit of a... What kind of a trick are you trying to pull on me, sir? I'm not. I was the half-orc, Lork Irontusk. You may know me as a half-orc.

What? I don't understand. Who are these people? Are you here to hurt me? No, no, no, we are... Are you here to hurt me as well? We're all friends. We're all friends of Skelton and followers of Sarenrae, of course.

How do you know the name Lork Irontusk? It is my name. It is I. I am him. You see, it's... If you would just let us in, I could tell you the tale. But it is I. I am him. You see, it's... If you would just put it at us in, I could tell you the tale. But it is me. I promise you that.

Then who am I? I recognize you, but I can't... In the spell that changed my body, I have forgotten things. Things from my past that I can't quite place. It's a bit foggy, but I know I recognize you.

And as you're talking to her, you just kind of trail off a bit. And it hits you. When you heard the name Briella, maybe it would have clicked for you if you were still Lork Irontusk the Half-Orc, but now it didn't. But twenty-something years ago,

this woman was one of a number of devotees that helped nurse you back to health when your unit came here through Scott. What made her particularly special is that you had a very passionate 72-hour romance with her. What? Uh-oh. passionate 72 hour romance what? had this romance with her before you left and then you returned to your duty and never saw her again

oh my god so it hits him and he's like uh who are you? allow me to explain no there was too much. He suddenly gets more serious and he's like,

you're Briella. You're... 20 years ago, you nursed my unit back to health. We had fought on the Storval Plateau or nearby and we came here wounded. You helped me.

You had a gentle hand. And we, I remember now. Yes. Your father, his name was... Dansome. Like handsome? Like handsome? Like handsome? Dan-some.

Handsome Dan-some. Come on. Her father's name is Dan-some. Absolutely. He's closely related to Roy the Hat-Baker. Is he related to Ted Dan-some? How could you know this? It's me.

I, this druid. Her name is Feyroza. Feyroza Alced from Osirian. I died in battle. There was a curse involved. It was very complicated. She brought me back to life, but in this new body. So it's me.

It is. I know it seems strange, but I'm very... I'm remembering. I'm remembering a lot, actually. So much you don't know. All these years I wondered

if you would ever come back. And here you are't know. All these years I wondered if you would ever come back. And here you are now. Not 20 years too late. 20 days too late. She is gone. She is gone. And now you will never meet her.

Who? Your daughter! What? We'll see you next week. Oh no! Oh shit! oh my god god damn oh my god oh shit I hope her neck's okay

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