Input: there, that'll be the rest because now you're in the water. You can breathe water from the spell that was cast. It's still half movement moving into it. So about anything beyond that line right there is going to be about-- it's 10 feet of movement per square you move. Kaelen: Okay. Just to be aware. Dorian: 10 feet per square. Yes. Kaelen: Got it. Your speed is halved, essentially. Yeah. All right, that finishes Nadia's turn. At the end of Nadia's turn... Is that it? At the end of Nadia's turn, it's going to use one of its legendary actions to use Defensive Shift after being impacted, and it's going to move 15 feet. Uh, that's not so bad. Defensive Shift. All right, Lyra, your turn. First of all, um, I'm going to-- this thing doesn't look that smart. I'm going to use my bonus action to turn invisible for one round. All righty. So you... Ca-hu-ceus. You're ridiculous. Green smoke, right? So we probably shouldn't let it get near us at all. Green smoke? Yeah. That's not a good idea. Because if any of us go down, then I can't do anything, so I'd rather keep-- watching. Pouring out of its nostrils and emanating from underneath where its arms meet its armor and through some of the gaps in it. I don't want to be judgemental, but, you know. No, I'd rather save options for when we go down. Thank you. In commercials, they don't use green smoke coming from the armpits to be good things. I'm going to start moving in the diagonal direction towards the water and about halfway there, when I've got three, when I've got Derek, Silas and Nadia. Yeah, Derek, Silas, and Nadia. I'm going to cast... Actually, not on you, I'm so sorry. On myself, Derek, and Silas, I'm going to cast Bless. All righty. So Derek, Silas, and who else? Derek, Silas, and myself. Not me. Well, that way I can keep it up because I get the extra d4 to the save. Selfish. You got it. 15 feet, you cast Bless and you have 15 more feet if you want to. I'm going to head out and start getting into the water and yeah, keep moving away from my family. That's as far as you can get right there. All righty. Probably, if I can get, yeah, if I can hide. Okay. You're invisible, so you're hiding pretty well. That finishes Lyra's turn. It is now the creature's turn. Nope. Here we go. You are not going to move. First-- Moo! -- it's going to go ahead and it's going to move right up to Derek, who's closest to it. As it rushes towards you, it's going to attempt to make a gore attack. No! Can you use your reaction to jump away from it? I use my reaction to jump away from it. That doesn't work, sorry. That's a 21 to hit? Yes. Quick, do you have a red cape? All right, and because it moved at least 20 feet straight ahead, you need to make a strength saving throw for me, if you don't mind. With an extra d4. Ooh. Thank watching.

Output: - The Dungeon Master explained that movement speed was halved in the water, resulting in a 10-foot limit per square. - The creature used a legendary action to perform Defensive Shift and move 15 feet after being impacted. - Maeve turned invisible and cast the Bless spell on herself, Derek, and Silas to aid their saving throws. - Maeve moved diagonally toward the water to hide while the creature rushed forward to attack Derek. - Gideon attempted to jump away as a reaction to the gore attack, but the move failed, leading to a required strength saving throw.


Input: We're all sad about Dieter. We're all sad about Dieter. Sorry, you guys. No, he sucks. You had the idea. That was more than we had. It was a very good idea. And further proof that he should really get laid. Yeah, you tried to invite him to a party. It was his decision not to come. Uh, should I light a ship on fire? I think we should probably blow up at least two of them, yeah. Let's destroy some ships. I like it. However. We're not at all worried that he's going to unleash the volcano's wrath in retribution? I was just going to say. I mean, yeah. Also, if we do that, then we can't play off the idea of Vilya going in and saying, like, yeah, we're here to offer you some more things. That's out the window. Thank you. All right, well then let's follow that plan. Say we go in the back door with Vilya saying, hey, we came in the back door to give you prizes. Then what? Do we give him something, or do we just attack? He seems to be pretty smart, right? I mean, we could make a present. I could put fluffernutter in some sort of a bowl or something, and we can hand it to him, and then make it blow up. While we're in a small confined room with him. Even if his guard is slightly down, it's still a fight. We're not going to sneak up on him or surprise him or ambush him. We're still going to him. Right. We're trying to see if we get him to come out, right? So it's worth the shot. Let's try to blow some things up. Try to fight him on his home turf. Underwater, by the way. Which we can breathe, but we're slow. That's not cool. And also, we can cast. Before we do it, I should cast Freedom of Movement, because it lasts for an hour. One hour. That eats into our Banish. DM, do we remember how long it took us to traverse from the first entrance to where he was? But it's important. From the first entrance, it was about maybe. Derek would remember. Probably about an hour or so of travel, but that's also because you guys were being careful and finding your way as Vilya was leading you at a casual pace. So Freedom of Movement at the last minute, right? Yeah. Right before we go in, yeah. Also, you do have the residuum for the Glyph of Warding thing you were also talking about last time. Oh, yeah, that's right. We could use the residuum for that. To put a bomb on something, right? Yeah. I mean, if we really want, we can also do a group Water Walk, if anyone's got that. Yeah, but that's for surface. I mean, if we want to just not deal with underwater at all. But he's completely underwater. He's submerged. Mm. And we don't know where we're going to be facing him. Okay. But good if he comes here. We have a couple Freedom of Movements, but it does cut into our Banishment. Yeah. It's just a matter of. Okay, okay. So far, our resources were: the

Output: - The group discussed their sadness regarding Dieter and debated whether his death was a bad idea or a result of his own choices.

Output: - Players proposed destroying ships and setting a trap involving a bowl of fluffernutter to ambush the underwater enemy.

Output: - They realized that attacking the enemy would prevent them from using a diplomatic approach involving Vilya.

Output: - The group considered casting Freedom of Movement to counter underwater slowness but noted it would consume their Banishment duration.

Output: - The Game Master confirmed the travel time to the enemy's location was approximately one hour.

Output: - The players reviewed their available resources, including residuum for Glyph of Warding and the option for a group Water Walk.


Input: here a couple of weeks. Tim: Wow. Clara: Very perceptive. Elias: Wow. Tim: Very perceptive. Cedric: I want to see the cisterns and see the sewers. I'm not going to lie. Tim: Actually, a sewer entrance is not a bad idea. Maeve: Yeah. Elias: There's sewers in this city? Tim: I mean, shit's got to go somewhere. Clara: That's very true. Elias: Okay. Julian: We will go. Cedric: Is there a sewer system here? DM: Not in the classic sense. Dorian: Oh man. Tim: (laughs) Dorian: Say no more. Clara: Someone was dumping out a-- Maeve: Yeah, like a-- Tim: That's right. Maeve: Chamber pot. DM: Certain areas of the city do have what are called dumping zones. There is one section on the eastern side of the cliffs outside of the Skids there where certain individuals make a decent amount of money by picking up refuse and carting it to the outside of the town and then dumping it all off the side of the ravine. Maeve: Gross. DM: There's one large ravine side that is a multicolored rainbow of all sorts of runoff. Whether it be organic or not, that lends this-- ERIKA: Awful. DM: This awful pattern of mineral gathering and depositing. Clara: Yum, yum, yum. Dorian: How many bodies do you think are down there? Cedric: Several. Tim: I imagine they're sludgy enough that you could not count. Elias: Well, I'm all for-- Dorian: Sludgy. Elias: -- Gideon rat, if you want to? Clara: Yeah. Tim: Serve a ball. Clara: I can go in. Elias: But how will you get out if somebody stomps on you? Clara: Well, I'll figure it out. Dorian: The princess has got this, okay? A little risk ain't never hurt anybody. Clara: I think so, too. Julian: Does the city have rats? Tim: This city does have rats. DM: Oh yeah. Julian: Okay. Tim: Tons of rats. It doesn't mean that we don't kill them. Clara: Well, I know. ERIKA: Let's just hang out and then maybe you can scamper in when people go in and out. Clara: Go in and out? ERIKA: Yeah. Julian: Did you want to do a perimeter walk all the way around first? Tim: Let's keep doing the perimeter. Maeve: I did want to walk around. Julian: Check out the whole thing. Clara: Let's do a perimeter walk and if it looks like there's a little area that I can skitter through, maybe a little hole underneath the fence or something, then I can-- Maeve: We might be more noticeable if it's the entire group of us doing an entire perimeter walk, though, just putting that out there. Clara: Oh, that's true, that's true. Dorian: I'll stay behind; I've got work to do, anyway. Julian: I'll go on your walk. Maeve: All right. Cedric: I'll stay with Chet. DM: Okay. Elias: Me, too. Do you want to-- oh, you'll be a rat. Clara: Well, not yet. Elias: I was going to say, what if you took that ring and wore it? That way we have an orb that would find you. ERIKA: We left it. Clara: We didn't get it because it was very expensive. Elias: We didn't buy the ring. Maeve: No, because he might go back and try to purchase it and we thought maybe we would be able to... If he comes into money, he might. I mean, it is very dear to him. Elias: Sure. Never mind. ERIKA: Okay. I'll join you on your walkabout. Cedric: If we catch him, I want to go back and get that ring. Elias: Sure. ERIKA:

Output:
- The group decided to investigate the city's sewer system and dumping zones after learning about the eastern cliffs and the runoff ravine.
- Clara volunteered to attempt to skitter through a small hole under a fence during a perimeter walk, despite the risk of being stomped on.
- Dorian chose to stay behind to handle his work while Julian, Maeve, and the others agreed to walk the perimeter together.
- Cedric and Elias decided to remain with Chet rather than joining the perimeter walk, with Elias noting he would be a rat if he took a specific ring.
- The party discussed the expensive ring they had not purchased, fearing a character might return to buy it if he gained money, and Cedric insisted on retrieving it if they caught him.
- Erika joined the walkabout, and the group prepared to explore the area to find a way for Clara to enter the sewers safely.


Input: There we go. You said the c-word. Do you have proof of this? Get in that brain. Huh? Get in that brain. Proof of this, proof of what? That the Cerberus Assembly is involved? Yes, this is quite an accusation. I-- Is it a paved ground that we're on or is there any loose dirt or rocks, or? We had evidence. It's a paved ground that you're currently standing on. Not necessarily paved, but stones and-- Gravel? -- gravel, but you're not far from a garden area, if you need open dirt. I take out a little pouch that's got a little sawdust in it just to always remind me of what's important and I sprinkle it on the ground, kind of like sand. I'm like: They were transporting a lot of these crates that had this symbol on it. And I draw the spires. That is indeed their symbol. That's not evidence, though. That was not the Perry Mason moment I was hoping for. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Would you like me to make this a little easier? I open the hole again. This is now what I do. This is who I am now. I actually have one of the crates in there. Hey! Well, fuck. I'm out here wasting-- I pick my sawdust back up. You had the wooden crate. It's got the symbol on it. The black crates. The special black box. Do we still have the special black box? No, Arthur threw it down a tunnel. Yep. Because he's paranoid. Oh, you motherfucker. I did? Yeah. I can hardly-- I throw things all the time, shit. Oh yeah, this is a whole different one. There's a lot of shit moving around. The proof is in the absence of proof. You see, we threw away the proof because we knew how important this information was. Of course, I do not follow this at all. We don't have anything? It was on the crates. Did she make a mark on you? Did she say a word that only you know? The orb-- can we scry? We do have-- mm. Maybe more important would be to consider that there's really no reason for us to make this up. There's a fair amount of trust that's being established here and perhaps just keeping it under consideration is all that we would ask. It doesn't have to reveal anything. Even if you take it with a massive grain of salt, I would start thinking about them. Which you shouldn't. Because salt is very bad for you. It'll dehydrate you. I am taking all of this under curious advisement. We can describe the man we saw. We can show you an image of him. Oh yeah. How? Does one of us have-- Don't you have Minor Illusion? -- Minor Illusion or something? Can you show an image of the man we saw? Do you want an exact image or do you want me to give my artist's rendition? An exact image. What if all of your Minor Illusions were like caricatures? They are. Now which man did you see? Big old head. Wait, did we see Ludinus or no? We saw Ludinus. You did not see Ludinus. No, we

Output:
- The players attempted to provide proof regarding the Cerberus Assembly's involvement by sprinkling sawdust and drawing spires on the ground.
- Dorian retrieved a crate from a hole, but Marcus pointed out that the evidence had been discarded because Arthur threw a black box down a tunnel.
- The group discussed whether they could use Minor Illusion to show an image of the man they had seen, debating between an exact image and a caricature.
- Marcus and Maeve confirmed they saw Ludinus, though the Dungeon Master corrected them, stating they did not see him.
- The conversation shifted to the trust being established and the implications of the information, with Marcus noting that salt is bad for you.


Input: okay. You take a moment to inspect all the pieces of the body and quickly begin to assemble and jigsaw them where they fit both-- uh I spent a lot of time with puzzles. This is very-- apparently, yes, you have. Well, not just that, but studying physiology in the presence of where your mother's work office was. One of those 3-D jigsaws of the human body. There you go. You're doing a puzzle at the beach? watching. Technically-- Best vacation ever! Please don't break my aunt. You cast Mending as best as you can across the pieces, once they're situated in there and they all fit together. The impact across the chest to side and the waist there there's a a triangular crack where it hit the impact initially is longer than a foot. Okay. So those parts are not Mended. Okay. So you can fit it together and most of it can clear, but there is still a large rift here and a large rift here. What if we combine the glue with the Mending? What if we put some glue and Mend it to where the glue keeps it together fully and then I Mend it? In, like, as much as I can-- um This wouldn't be a Mending thing. This would be hoping the glue is enough to do it for you. Okay. This is the which glue-- this is the--? I mean, that's the other thing. Not to be cheap with your dead relatives or anything, but this glue is, like, the most powerful glue in existence. So if we could maybe get some regular glue later and try-- I'm so glad I'm not listening to you right now. Marcus: I could save your work for now. And we could take them out of here and wait till we have everything perfect rather than risk it. Going to shove them in the haversack? Is that what we are doing? No, no, no, no, no. Dorian starts placing pieces of amber in a circle on the ground and begins to ritually cast Widogast's Vault of Amber with the statue. I don't have to finish this, but I can and they will be safe. I'm okay. Yeah, we-- Constance, is that all right? I mean, whatever you think is best. Her eyes are still wide, she's still swallowing hard, but she's holding strong. Tap. Dad, go talk to Mom. Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right. I'm going to grab Calliope and head over to the other broken one. Okay. You head to the other broken piece in the ground, you look through it and this one looks to be a maybe mid-20's or so dragonborn. You have no idea the scale coloration, as it is still stone. They are dressed simply, normal travelers' clothes, a heavy cloak and a sack, and they are broken into many pieces. I'm just going to try and gather them up a bit. I'm helping. You know this person? No. Oh. Can't even plant them. No, but do you want to, like, keep gathering them? I don't know. Should we--? Let's, let's take everybody who's injured to the cave and whoever's feeling strong do a walk around and see who else is here. Calliope, just let's make sure Mom and Dad go to the cave with Sarah. Just because we're here and there's

Output:
- The group inspected and assembled a human body puzzle while discussing Kaelen's background with puzzles and physiology.
- Maeve cast Mending to fit the pieces, though a large triangular crack remained unhealed despite the effort.
- The players debated using powerful glue to stabilize the body before attempting further magical repair.
- Dorian began a ritual to cast Widogast's Vault of Amber using pieces of amber to safely store the statue.
- Maeve and Calliope moved to investigate a second broken statue, which appeared to be a dragonborn traveler in simple clothes.
- The group decided to move all injured members to a cave while the stronger ones walked around to find others.


Input: about the Napoleon hat. I'm staring right at her while I do this. 15. We will manifest a hat. We will manifest a hat. Chant it together. You watch as very-- Close your eyes! Close your eyes. Think a bit harder. But I feel like if I use my eyes. Mage Hand! Manifest a hat. I'm thinking of Easter Sunday. You watch as gingerly, out of nowhere, it seems, this cartoony Napoleon hat, you know, the great Steve Napoleon of Wildemount-- thank you just drifts down out of frame of your vision and gently comes to rest at an awkward cocked angle onto Kaelen's head. Well, we have done it. The power of the Somnovem knows no bounds. Congratulations, and welcome to the Eyes of Nine, Beauregard Lionett. It's made of paper. No, it's not! It's made of actual hat stuff! watching Magical paint. Yeah, I made it out of my magic paints. I mean, I didn't make it. I'm saying he made it out of magical-- It's real hat stuff. The stuff that hats are made of. Fuck your D&D characters' names. Steve Napoleon in this bitch. If someone's not Steve Napoleon in campaign three. I feel like we should move forward with our plans. At some point this morning. Yeah. You have an eye on your neck? Where--? No, it's back here. Oh yeah, with your angel blood maybe you could... I want to just flick it. Oh, flick it. And just see if it gets mad. Okay. It's a stupid thing to do, but just to see if there's any response to... I'd be mad if you flicked me in the eye. Agitating it. Are you flicking it? Do you want--? I'm subtracting one hit point. She's raging. If I just tap on it. Whack! A steady hit. Likely a small welt will rise in time, but it doesn't seem to react. It's odd, and much like with Lyra in the time that you knew him, these tattoos, they look like tattoos. At a glance, it looks like ink, it bends with the skin. It's just an image. So it doesn't have any difference in physicality or texture, other than the fact that in a close look, it is smooth. There's no pores. Just where the eye is, it's just a smooth surface. Okay. Can I-- Give me one of your not-creepy daggers, just a regular dagger. They were all stolen, but I'll give you a crossbow bolt. Okay. I'm going to take a crossbow bolt and poke my finger until it bleeds. Okay. Then I go over to the eye and smudge it on the eye. It smudges onto it. Oh. That was a good idea. Well, sorry. That's gross now. I thought it would do something. Do you feel more powerful? Or do you feel sticky? I don't know. I still just feel awkward. Yeah. So that plan. Okay. So we know we're going to talk to your-- she's changing! Kill her! Kill her! Roll initiative! No! Our date! So close! We've mentioned shopping a few times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are we shopping for? Well, you need more crossbow bolts.

Output:
- The party performed a ritual to manifest a Napoleon hat, successfully summoning a cartoony hat that drifted down and landed awkwardly on Kaelen's head.
- After the hat appeared, the group debated what material it was made of, with Cedric claiming it came from his magical paints.
- Lyra investigated an eye tattoo on her neck, first attempting to flick it and then having Cedric smear his blood onto it to see if there would be any reaction.
- The group decided to end their investigation of the eye after it showed no response to the blood smearing.
- Rowan called for initiative as someone appeared to be changing, and the session ended with discussion about shopping for supplies, specifically crossbow bolts.


Input: see Rowan. This Game Master is serving up dishes! There's no Rowan. We're missing Rowan and Sarah. There's no Sarah. I'm shaking Nadia awake because he just won't wake up. What? Wake up. We need you. We need you. Okay. What do you need? Do you have a cramp? He said when, how far away it was, but he didn't say where. That's how I know something's wrong. We've got to find them. Can you track them? Smell them? I don't know. Okay. Hold on. Just let me get my clothes on for a second. (grunts) No, stay naked. You're going to transform anyway. Oh. That's true. Do it now. Put your boxers on. No, I don't think I will. (laughter) Let me go over here. Let me go over to where-- Wait a minute. (sniffs) This bed's-- Can I do hit die with a short rest? Can you what? Can I do hit die with a short rest? Oh, you can do some hit die with a short rest. Yeah, you can spend hit die with a short rest. I thought you said, "Can I do hentai with a short rest?" (laughter) Yes, I fucking can. (laughter) Give me 10 minutes! (laughter) I go over to Rowan's bed, but there's no scent over there. (sniffs) I go over to Fiona. (sniffs) Was she in-- Oh. Find them now! Yep, sorry. You got it. (sniffs) Can I use my, follow my nose, to try and figure out which direction they might have exited the tent? Yeah. I'll say either use perception or survival with advantage. Is that something that you actually have? Yeah. Yay! I got wolf nose, baby. Yay! I didn't know. Yes! That's right. That is a 15. 15. Did you say perception or investigation? I said perception or survival for tracking. Yeah. 15's good. 15's good. Okay. So 15, it takes you a little bit to really pick up the track of where Rowan had gone. Thankfully, she wasn't clomping, it was a slow maneuvering, and it leads you to the edge of the wall. And the scent just ends. Yeah, in open space? No, to the wall. You're in the courtyard and you get to the interior wall-- and her scent is gone. Well. Well. Fellows, here she is, the wall. I take out Pâté. Go find her. "Hey, what-- Ah!" He just (arcing) gets launched over the wall. How high is the wall? About 20 feet. Fucking-- Scan for Rowan and Sarah, I tell-- Oh, like tracks. Are we going up the bloody wall? Yeah, I think so. I take out the hammer, I take a jump, and I'm clicking a ladder point. Okay. So, there's now a stick that anyone can use to get over the fucking wall if they want. Oh, great. Oh, great. I'll just do Spider Climb. (creepy chittering) I'm going to Mage Armor myself and then-- Okay. I've got underpants, but I did put my boots on. Okay, so you got boots and underpants. Dorian, give me a boost. Hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Be careful where you grab. (laughter) That's

Output:
- The group discovered that Rowan and Sarah were missing from the camp, prompting an urgent search effort.
- Borlan utilized his tracking abilities to follow a scent trail that led to the interior wall of the courtyard, where the trail abruptly ended.
- Silas constructed a makeshift ladder using a hammer to help the group scale the twenty-foot wall to continue the search.
- Derek attempted to fly over the wall but was launched over it by an unknown force, while others prepared to climb or use magic.
- The team coordinated their ascent, with some members using spells like Mage Armor and Spider Climb to overcome the obstacle.
- Robbie assisted in boosting Borlan over the wall, and the group continued their pursuit of the missing characters.


Input: No, it's like-- Doesn't do distance. As you're walking through the bazaar, you can see the marker is shifting pretty quickly, which means you're getting fairly close. Okay. We'll continue distantly following-- In that direction. Yeah. Yeah. Elara's-- I will ping the groups' heads as we go on. You've got it. Little north, north-- You have the center line following the GPS and let's spread out into the distance. Okay. Tense as you all splinter off into your groups, independently, but still following the positioning. You, Elara, alongside Dusk, guide the pathway, watching it as it shifts and turns to the left. I'm going to be discreet. Yeah. Glancing down, it looks like it begins to move rapidly enough that you notice it's guiding you towards a large tent, like a multi-interior suspended tent of three different points that cascades outward on each side, and there is a large drapery that blocks the interior. Now, as you can see, the River of Renewal is the title to it. The River of Renewal tent! I don't recognize-- There's nothing in my memory of this kicking around, is there? This whole area is just, it's a essential trade post in the middle of the town. A lot of traders come through here, pawning off things, picking up things or just looking for goods as they pass through. So you know of it. You haven't spent a whole lot of time here because you never really had much to trade, other than the few things you'd fence or steal. All right. Is there more than one entrance to this tent or-- To converge. It looks like there might be a back entrance, but that's based towards the outer wall, the heavy wooden gate that encircles the courtyard, but it's probably accessible if you were to be careful about it. Do we hear anybody in there? Make a perception check. Nine. Nine? You don't hear anything coming out from the inside of it. How big is the tent? From end to end, from what you can see, it's probably about 40 feet across. So it's a decent size, but it's not like a circus tent of massive proportions. Can I ask everyone-- What's the deal with your pocket ball thing? I will tell you in just a moment. But I'm going to lean against the wall, the back wall-- Mm-hmm. -- next to the tent and keep my distance from everybody else. Then I will open up my mind and try to hear his thoughts or hear the thoughts of the people from the inside of the tent. Okay, all right. So as you-- Oh. So is anybody around? How many people would be near me? Two people. If you push everyone else beyond your radius-- Jesus Christ. -- then it would be only two other people. Okay, then I'm fine. Okay. As you allow your mind to expand, you bring down the barriers that you're so used to reflexively keeping up for your own protection. In doing so, that muttering static, that perpetually aggressively simmers at the outskirts of your perception begins to filter in. Through that wave, that rush of energy, both euphoric and energetic, but also loud, the two voices begin to whisper through and find their way to your ears from beyond. There are two individuals, male and female. One of them

Output:
- The group followed a shifting marker through the bazaar, eventually guiding them toward a large tent titled "The River of Renewal."
- Cedric and Julian coordinated the group's movement, splintering off to spread out while maintaining their position relative to the GPS center line.
- The DM described the tent as a 40-foot multi-interior structure in an essential trade post, noting a potential back entrance near a heavy wooden gate.
- Erika made a perception check to listen inside the tent but heard no sounds coming from the interior.
- Maeve leaned against the back wall of the tent and used her mind to expand her perception, lowering her protective barriers to hear thoughts.
- Maeve detected two individuals, a male and a female, whispering from inside the tent through the static she filtered in.


Input: with the damage. Fuck that, I don't like that roll. That's 10, 22 points of damage. How do you want to do this? Yeah! Yay. I am going to run like I'm about to knock down a fucking door and I'm going to scooch up right below you and go for the fucking glass jaw. Full on like shattering echoes. Yes! They get lifted off the ground by the sheer force of the uppercut. Technically they should fly 15 feet. And they do. Thank you. You win! Holy shit. Unconscious on the ground over there. Damn! Fiona, I assume you let go at the moment of impact to ensure you don't get dragged along, or do you wish to be dragged along? Well, can I see your initiative order really quick? I'm 13. Oh. Fiona, Chet, Ash, Aria. Clara, oh, there's a ways. Fiona, Maeve, Chet. Yeah, I had another d6, that's fine. I'm going to go with. You're going to go with? Okay. I'm going to ride him like a skateboard. Damn right. Whoa! You land of top of the unconscious bleeding body of the Willmaster. Okay. Wipe out. That, I believe, is all my movement. That is. I am, I suppose, going to spend a bonus action. That's pretty good. Just making the noise, trying to bring it in. Yeah, now there's a big raging barbarian and wolf out here, so maybe it's not as appealing to come back. Just the people unconscious are slowly vibrating towards me. All righty, that finishes your go. All of the various villagers that were running in, including the elder. Aw. And Dono were all starting to charge inward. They all quick gasp. You mean Elder Barthie was, too? He was going to attack us. Yeah. You were only looking outward. You didn't really notice nearby to see that they themselves were also pulled in by the influence of the Willmaster. But that breaks free for a minute and you see a bunch of them look panicked, looking at what's happened, what's in the middle of here, the fight, the unconscious and bleeding members of their village, and the Willmaster now knocked unconscious and thrown 15 feet through the air. They start to scatter. Seek shelter. That brings us to the end of Clara's turn. Willmaster is gone. Aria, you're up, with Silas on deck. What do the Shrikes look like? Are they still raring to go? The Shrikes are watching the Willmaster fall and hit the ground. Kind of glance at each other, look, and they're taking in as much detail about you as they can. Oh, shit, kill them. What? This is a change of heart for them, Silas. Why? Why so quick to judge them? Kill them! Okay, okay. We don't learn if we don't communicate. Willmaster's still alive? Possibly? Unconscious? We don't know? Unconscious. Unconscious. Yeah, we want to suck his magic. Okay. Ask your questions. Awesome. How many feet is the Willmaster from the door? How many feet? Yeah. He's about 30 or so feet from the door. Yeah. It's Will.

Output:
- The players engaged the Willmaster, resulting in a massive uppercut that knocked him unconscious and sent him flying 15 feet through the air.
- Kaelen utilized a bonus action to ride the Willmaster like a skateboard, landing on his bleeding body before the group decided to seek shelter.
- The villagers and the elder, Barthie, were initially pulled in by the Willmaster's influence but eventually panicked and scattered upon seeing the unconscious state of the combatants.
- The group encountered the Shrikes, where Julian insisted on killing them while Gideon argued for communication and understanding.
- Borlan and the others confirmed the Willmaster was still alive but unconscious, estimating he was approximately 30 feet from the door.
- The turn concluded with the Willmaster removed from immediate combat, and the group preparing to interact with the Shrikes and Silas.


Input: the hammer, I take a jump, and I'm clicking a ladder point. Okay. So, there's now a stick that anyone can use to get over the fucking wall if they want. Oh, great. Oh, great. I'll just do Spider Climb. creepy chittering. I'm going to Mage Armor myself and then-- Okay. I've got underpants, but I did put my boots on. Okay, so you got boots and underpants. Dorian, give me a boost. Hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Be careful where you grab. That's funny, I don't see anything. shrieks. He's got a handle. No. I'll carry him up with me if I can, yeah. Okay, yeah. So between your Spider Climb, your hammer, you guys can all slowly begin to clamber up the wall. Some of the guard are beginning to notice this chaos, and two of them emerge. What's going on? What's the commotion? Is everything all right? I don't know. Just keep a lookout for anything that seems untoward. I'm going to send a message. Right. I'm sending a message to Sarah. Okay. We don't want any guards to come follow us and join us? What's happening? What's-- Now, while this has happened, this has been quite a few minutes of their end of things. So we come back to this point in time. I have nothing. As this shadow Rowan and the odd refractions, the dark refractions all begin to slowly circle around you, Rowan. I'm going to cast Earthbind on the main one. Earthbind on the main one. All righty. Or the janky Rowan. The janky Rowan. Okay. Yes. This will be initiating combat. Fair. So let's roll initiative. Okay. Okay, okay. Oh shit. Oh shit. Can I see the creature, the small animal, hovering in space anywhere? No, it's vanished with its owner. Vanished with its owner. I have no spells. I'm in a bad spot. I don't want any fucking excuses. I know. I'm not. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. My head's in the game. My head's in the game. My head's in the game. I'm going to figure it out. I'll figure it out. Next time, think about that before your big spoon, okay? Fuck you. 25 to 20. 24. 24. We're not rolling. Not yet, nope. Okay. So, Sarah. 20 to 15. Sorry, I got a 21, sorry. 21, all righty. Oh my god. We're just leaving. Bye. She's like, nope. Bye. All righty, so, that being the case. Fuck. Oh no. No. Oh god, oh god, oh god. What did you do? I don't know! Why did you follow the sugar glider? Because it was so cute! Because it was a sugar glider. Because, yes! Oh my god. DM hooked you like a fish. He knows. He fucking knows. It's so easy. Give me a cute little creature. Up at this point here. Uh-oh. Sarah, you have been hiding flat over here. Wherever you want to, yeah. Whereas you had-- you're probably a bit further back about-- I think yeah, farther

Output:
- The group successfully used a hammer and stick to begin climbing the wall while evading guards who noticed the commotion.
- Silas and Borlan coordinated a boost for Robbie, who carried Borlan up the wall despite the chaotic situation.
- Aria attempted to cast Earthbind on a shadow creature and a "janky Rowan" to initiate combat.
- Initiative rolls were conducted, resulting in a high roll for Aria and a low roll for the DM, leading to confusion.
- Aria admitted to following a sugar glider because it was cute, which the DM noted hooked her like a fish.
- The DM established that Sarah was hiding in a specific location while the group discussed their positioning.


Input: don't respect you. They don't! I don't respect them either. As it skitters off a bit, the dust storm that had blown through here when you first emerged, it's still present, but it's not as heavy as it was a moment ago. You have a visibility out to about 30 or 40 feet and then it gets a bit challenging from there. It looks like it's dissipating slowly. You can make out more shapes of other folk who are starting to come out of their buildings or out of the hiding holes in the side. You can see other shadowed shapes as well as other of vidulch entities that are along the side mountainous wall where you were currently hiding and moving alongside, as well as patrolling the streets off to the direct path you're taking. After watching for a moment, Sarah, does he have a sense anyone paying attention to us at all or are we lost in the throng? Uh, you seem to be lost in the chaos of this. No one has directly had a reason to challenge or worry. Great. Gideon, what's happening? Are we waiting for this Planerider to come back? I can send another message. Are they able to get themselves off? I don't know. Rowan, snorts. Braius, I mean, anyone can if they try hard enough. Arthur, well, yeah. You try hard enough, you probably could. I mean, she has what, one arm? Could be difficult. Do you need two? Not bad. I mean-- Yeah. Robbie, how many--? Julian, where are you--? I mean, they might not be able to, you know... Robbie, how many arms do you--? Well, I mean, I don't know how hard it is for her to do it. You know? We don't know which one was the dominant arm. It could be a weird-- I could send her a message. Julian, there are some cantrips. If you want to-- you need no hands. Free up your spells. That's true. If you want to free up your spells, Silas. Yeah, that'd be great. Thank you. Arthur, all right, I'll send a message to her. Hi! Where are you? We're going to go down into the center of this planet moon and we could use help. Do you need healing? I thought you lost an arm. Were you bleeding? It's not 30 words. Sounds like too many. She just gave-- It's easier when you don't care, isn't it? Yeah. The trick is not to mind it. Okay. Whoever this is, I assume you helped as well. I need to get my bearings straight, so I'll let you know. I think they're okay. They'll let us know if they need to meet up or something. All right. Yeah. Well then, we should keep moving. Yeah. It's a shame, I know. If we had time, I could help with Ryn's arm. Oh well. Silas, you have that ability? Well, the Wildmother does with Seedling. Wow. You could-- Lyra, what is it, like a vine arm or something? Big wooden arm? Well, it's restorative. The blade is restorative, but Ryn would need to commune a bit. Sounds timely. Mm. A couple hours. Yeah, we don't have that. watching.

Output:
- The group observed the dissipating dust storm and noticed various entities patrolling the streets and hiding in the mountainous walls.
- Gwen asked Sarah if anyone was paying attention to them, but the DM confirmed they were lost in the chaos of the situation.
- The party discussed the physical limitations of a character named Ryn, who had lost an arm, and considered using cantrips or spells to free up hands for casting.
- Aria sent a message to Ryn offering help and asking if she needed healing, though the message was deemed too long by Dorian.
- Gwen explained that the Wildmother could potentially restore Ryn's arm using Seedling, but it would require a couple of hours of communion.
- The group decided they did not have the time to wait for the restorative process and resolved to keep moving.


Input: the name of it. This was on the side of the crates. Like it sounds, or a special-- There was some sort of temple. It's W-H, Ä with an umlaut, B-E-T-D-E-Y. Got it. Yeah. There was some sort of temple under this place, and Delilah and her husband messed with a lot of dead. Oh, she's a family person! Yeah. Maeve: See, she can't be that bad. Does she have kids and stuff? No, she's bad, she's bad. Sarah hated her. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Oh, Sarah didn't like her. Sarah did not like her. She did evil things to her. She did evil things to her. You all heard how Sarah died. Mm-hmm, strung up. Delilah did that to her. She's a strong woman, as well. It was bad stuff. What if we reach out and say... ♪ Hey there, Delilah ♪ No, no. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Mm, mm-mm, mm-mm. All right, all right. Is there anything that we can do during? How many days are we on this flying boat? Two days, three days? Four to five days' journey to Jrusar. Just Mind Sliver you really fast. Oh! So for four days, we have to keep this ship safe. We can send out various messages. Yeah. But that's all we can do, is just reach out to people. And keep an eye on the skies, because it's dangerous. Yeah, there are things. Is there anything else we can do to prepare ourselves, or--? Kind of it. Collect leads. Okay. Did we ever ask-- No, I don't think we did. Hexum about Thull? No. No. We didn't even talk to her. She comes with debt. She comes with debt. And favors and stuff. She's usually a lot to talk to. Yeah. But very viable. I figured it's the shipments thing. She's powerful as fuck. I mean, there's got to be some connection there. Yeah. My only real concern is the more she knows that we know, the more that can become complicated, I imagine. Fair, fair fair. She likes her privacy. Oh my god. (sighs) Oh yeah. Samuel. You're fucking terrible. That is-- What? It's good. -- terrible. It's a message of hope. Nope! I'm not against it, actually. Everyone pulls the Halloween stuff out so early. (laughter) I'm just glad that-- I know, Brian does Halloween all year round. Finally we get some Christmas crawl. Is all I'm saying. Aw. A lot of options. But we have a handful of days here to hammer out exactly what we want to do to do. We're going back to Jrusar. There are things we can do in Jrusar, some loose ends. It's going to be a bit of a wildcard what Eshteross tells us once he understands Thull and the threat that's now on his head and our heads. I know we want to go to Yios. That's now on the back burner. Yeah. Obviously, we're on a time limit with everything happening, but I feel like this has got to be more important, right? Yes. Yeah. I know what we are. Yeah. We're truth seekers. At this point, guys, we're friends. We got to look out for our friend.

Output:
- The group identified a temple named B-E-T-D-E-Y and discussed the history of Delilah, including her involvement in Sarah's death.
- They determined their journey to Jrusar would take four to five days and decided to keep the ship safe while sending out messages.
- The players discussed contacting Thull and Delilah, noting that Thull comes with debt and favors, while Delilah is powerful but private.
- Concerns were raised about complications if Delilah learns the group knows too much, leading to a decision to prioritize truth-seeking.
- The team agreed to return to Jrusar to handle loose ends and face the threat from Eshteross, putting their trip to Yios on the back burner.
- Ultimately, the group reaffirmed their bond as friends and their commitment to protecting their companion amidst the time limit.


Input: Stick it through. You can do it. No, don't. That's nine. That's nine, Nadia. It's nine or it's eight? Eight. Eight. Eight. I'm so sorry! You're on Ruidus right now. uh Stay safe. If you need help, thank you. That's it. Okay. No, it was good! You did it! It just looked painful. That look like it hurt. You hear back, relatively quickly, "Well." Oof! "A bit disoriented, but I appreciate the assist, I suppose. I don't know how long I was gone. I'm in some sort of dark chamber." What? Where did they go? What? What? She probably-- Probably just -- Dimensioned Doored. Panic Dimension Door. Misty Stepped. Well, isn't she a Planerider? She could have gone anywhere. Did she Misty Step or did she Dimension Door? I don't know. Would we have known what spell was being cast, or no? Make an arcana check. Dorian, do you want to arcana check, since you're probably a little better at this than I am? You both could. Okay, I'll give you advantage. I'm only a plus two on Arcana. That's more than me. Okay. I'll give you advantage. Four-- 15. 15? You've seen this spell a number of times. This is indeed a Dimension Door variant. Yeah. Dimension Door. Why is she in a dark room? She's close, she's got to be within 500 feet. She has no idea where she went. Oh. Shit. Can she bamf back, and-- Or we can-- Come back to the tornado. Come back the tornado and we can disguise her. Yeah. Oh shit, get out of here. You hear the heavy sounds of impact and some sort of weird, bass-y chittering sound as a shadow begins to come through the nearby storm of dust. something that looks massive. Regardless, I think it is time to scatter. 18, 20 feet tall. Oh god! Even wider, from what you can tell. The shape looks oddly insect-like. We need to go. We need to get out of here. That's one of those thingies. Let's move. Can you project images with our psychic connection that we have, or is it just talking? It's just talking. Just talking. Just like if you have a lightsaber. As this tornado moves with Tim and I, whooshes. As we start to move away from where we were. But Dorian is just doing that with his mouth. Yep. Just mouth sounds. Not just! They're fucking spectacular! At some point, we need to break off and let the tornado keep going. Yeah. Then dissipate, would be nice. I don't think so. Once the storm has begun, nothing can calm it. I take a swing. All right, so as you all cluster together at the base of this storm tornado burst, the shadowed shape seems to be following curiously on the outskirts of it, almost like it's following the source of the storm. I will send the-- I will start to send the tornado, as it gets smaller, off of the haze on.

Output:
- The group confirmed that Nadia had used a variant of Dimension Door to escape into a dark chamber, leading to confusion about her location and the specific spell used.
- Dorian and Marcus performed Arcana checks with advantage to identify the spell, successfully determining it was a Dimension Door variant.
- The party realized Nadia was trapped and potentially disoriented, sparking a discussion about retrieving her or disguising her upon return.
- A massive, insect-like shadow creature emerged from the storm dust, prompting an urgent decision for the group to scatter and move away.
- Dorian attempted to mimic the tornado's sounds using only his mouth, while the others debated breaking off from the storm to let it dissipate.
- The shadow entity was observed curiously following the tornado, leading Julian to attempt sending the storm away from the haze.


Input: All right. All right, for those of you that have woken, you go and gather up and begin to enjoy a fairly well-prepared morning meal for being on the moon. Oh gosh! It's very zen here. I can't believe we're on the moon! Yes. You've only seen just a little bit of it. There's so much! There's so much to see. It was so good seeing you guys. I'm so glad we got to meet you before we all perish in the great red doom. Arthur, that is not what's going to happen. Nope. That's not what's going to happen. thank you It was the cage! Oh no! It was the Nic Cage. Sorry. Last night's activity really shook the old noodle. watching It's okay. I don't mind that voice you do, Dorian. I always liked it. You always like it. uh It's a weird mix of chipper and pessimistic. Which one of you guys was it that was boning? Because we heard a lot of noise. What? What? What? No! That's... wow. You two. Good. Okay. So it was you two. That's nice. It could have been the big cow guy. Yeah. Can I ask-- I thought it was-- Cow die? The cow guy. Is there any time differential between in here and out there? Are we going to come out a couple days later or anything? What do you mean? No. Jesus. We are just one-- fucking asking yourself questions, fucking asshole. We are just one sheet of paper over on the multiverse, we are just one sheet of paper over on the multiverse, if you will. So that's not a problem. But we're still in enemy territory. Away from me, Satan. I mean, we're still behind enemy lines down here. So we're not at our destination. We have to go down further into this whatever. You people know where we're going, right? Yeah. Did you sleep okay? I always sound like this. I'm not talking about how you sound. Oh, this is a makeup mask that I wear. Oh yeah. No, no. They really big right now. There's collagen mask. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just keeps my face-- fresh. Yeah. Made from real collagen, clearly. Going with it. Yeah, no. We've been here before. That's why we're able to stay in this particular location. But I mean, this isn't where we're going, right? You know where we're going? Yeah, we're going further down. How do we get there? Down. Well, we get out of the building and then we secretly make our way through town. Makin' our way. We haven't been here before. How do we secretly make our way there? We walk. But like, how will people not try to arrest us, attack us, prevent us from going? Aren't you good at infiltration and stuff? Don't you have-- Yeah, but are we hiding? Where is everybody? Where? Oh god. They left me! No, Chet! Chet!

Output:
- The group gathered on the moon to enjoy a morning meal and discussed their surroundings and the dangers of the red doom.
- Dorian and Julian debated the meaning of a previous event involving a cage and Nic Cage, leading to confusion about who was boning.
- Marcus and Nadia clarified that they were the ones making noise, while Gwen questioned the time differential and location relative to the multiverse.
- Borlan explained his makeup mask and confirmed they were still in enemy territory, requiring them to infiltrate the town to move further down.
- The team planned to walk secretly through the town to avoid arrest, though Julian panicked about being left behind by the group.


Input: I trust with my life. The people in that circle, I don't know. I would want to talk to your people first anyway. Well, we can. These people said she's busy. Probably not anymore. Five days ago. Okay. Just a tree away. Just a tree away. So what do you want to do? I still like the Chandei Quorum. I mean, I want to go to the Chandei Quorum, but are we going to reach out to the Tempest, force the Tempest again first? Well, we could see if she's available and make our decision after that. Sure. You said your friend with her favor could possibly send us on our way? Thank you. I believe so. She has been helpful many years ago in helping me traverse long distances quickly. Mm-hmm. All right. But I'm not the authority. I'm just going with my gut. This tree thing. Does she come to us or do we go to her? Well, I guess it depends. Watching. Sounds like we have two options now, either Eshteross' friend can send us or she can come here. Ooh. Cool. If she's available. If she'll help us. Chandei Quorum. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Or do you want to send out a message first? That's fine with me. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Do you want to do it or do you want-- Oh, all right, sure. Yeah, I'll do it. Although she knows your voice. I'll do it. I'll do it. We're still waiting. We still need your help. Is your business finished? I'm begging you. Lyra is begging you. There is a bit of a concerning pause at first, before she comes through once more. I'm sorry. I believe I'm nearly finished here. I'll see what I can do. I don't fully understand what's being asked. But I'll try. Okay. Does she know how to bring someone back? If she can't, she knows people who can. But I don't want to be too late, so if we need to jump on a different path then we should just do it. She's not so righteous that she would turn us down. No. No. I haven't really trotted this out before but when I lost my family on that day, we tried to save my husband and my father, my father-in-law, and something-- It didn't work. It didn't work. Something about the nature of what they did when they struck didn't work. Oh. But I-- It's the same people. I know. But I'm telling you that the connection between the Tempest and these people in Whitestone-- I don't know, maybe there's someone here who can help, but Sarah was born and reborn over there. So it's the best idea I got. Okay. Oof. Something about how they killed those folk, they couldn't be brought back. But it was the sort of magic that they used or tried to use to bring Will-- Will and my father were cut down and something about the nature of their-- Was it the same spell that I used and Silas used to bring them back that failed? Or was it a different magic? I don't know what you do, Letters. Was it quickly after their-- Yeah. Pretty soon after. And it didn't work? No. Okay. But I didn't see Thull

Output:
- The group discussed whether to seek help from the Chandei Quorum or contact the Tempest to force a resolution.
- Cedric and Marcus agreed to have Maeve reach out to Eshteross' friend, hoping she could send them on their way.
- Maeve contacted the entity, who expressed a lack of full understanding but promised to try her best.
- Cedric revealed a tragic backstory about losing his family and failing to save his husband and father using similar magic.
- The party debated whether the failure was due to the specific spell used by Silas and Marcus or the nature of the magic employed by the attackers.
- They concluded that the connection between the Tempest and the people in Whitestone might offer the best hope for a solution.


Input: like to get ill. That is a thing. If you go to South-East Asia or a lot of places where the food standards aren't as high, It's true. It's true. - Yeah. No, it's true. I'm not throwing shade, I'm just saying facts here. Okay, guys? I'm saying facts here. You go to a fucking street vendor on the street, your just like, "How was this meat prepared? Where did this meat come from?" They don't fucking know. - "From the back of my truck." - Exactly. Exactly. I mean, it's all risk. It's all risk at the end of the day. You can eat raw chicken in Japan, and apparently here it's more safer because food standards here in Japan are higher. I don't know how true that is, how not true it is, but at the same time you're still taking a risk. - What if you're the problem? - I could be the, I could be- - What if your stomach's just weak? - Well, no. I mean, if the restaurant just gives me poorly stored sausage, I think that's their fault. That's on them. - Well, no. Because the one thing I learned from, when I was in the Philippines, is that, yeah, the food standards are a lot lower than normal, but people don't get sick because they just naturally have more of a resistant stomach from living there. - Well, not always. - Yeah. I'd say that's true, actually. I would say that's true. - Connor Not with everything, though. - Not with everything. - Not with everything. But with a lot of things that visitors to those countries would immediately get sick with. - I wouldn't say I have a weak stomach. I normally don't have a problem with gross foods or something that's a little off, but I mean, there are times where I've eaten something, and then I've gotten really sick. And I was like, "Why did I eat that?" - Well, what do you count as food poisoning then? Because, you go to a country or something- - All right give me an example. Throw things at me, and I'll be like, "Food Poisoning or not." (laughing) - Okay. You go to a country, you taste something that your body has never tasted before, it's totally new cuisine and your body's just like, "ooh. Ooh. - That's not food poisoning. - "I don't like this." And then you get the shits for five days. - No. That's not food poisoning. Shits isn't the food poisoning. - If it comes back up, that's food poisoning, normally, in my mind. - To me, It's like you need to have, Your body is literally physically reacting in some way, where it gives you a fever or a headache or vomiting. - I never get, - Something that's not normal. - I never get anything like that from eating food, but when I do eat, can normally remember what it was that gave me it because I very much felt rough immediately after eating it. - Yeah. Because I count food poisoning as I am conked out, in bed because I- - Throwing up. - Yeah. I'm throwing up. I've got a fever. Because that is, It's literally a bacterial infection. - Yeah. I think if it makes you feel a little queasy and it gives you the shits, no, that's not. You do have a weak stomach for that. But I think if you're throwing up, you have a fever, yeah, you have food poisoning. That's what I would, But then I wouldn't,

Output:
- The speakers discussed the varying food standards in South-East Asia and Japan, noting that street vendors often do not know the origin of their meat.
- They debated whether illness is caused by the food itself or a visitor's weak stomach, with one person citing their experience in the Philippines regarding natural resistance.
- A game was proposed to classify symptoms, where the group agreed that mere queasiness or diarrhea does not constitute food poisoning.
- The consensus defined food poisoning as a severe physical reaction involving vomiting, fever, or headaches, likely caused by a bacterial infection.
- One participant admitted to getting sick from unfamiliar cuisines but distinguished that from the severe symptoms they now associate with poisoning.
- The conversation concluded by reinforcing that throwing up and having a fever are the definitive signs of food poisoning, while mild discomfort is just a weak stomach.


Input: robes in the front, a set of spaulders that come out into these central curls on each side. It looks like there are elements of it that feel rugged, but are thrown over some sort of adornment that denotes station, an ornateness to some of the metals and the bones that are set within the set. Immediately, Barthie goes, "Oh, wow, well. Willmaster, wasn't expecting you quite so--" Sarah and Lyra: Oh god! Oh god! Lyra: Can we hide? DM: "-- presently, here." Lyra: We should hide! Julian: (laughs) I'm a fart! Borlan: I'm going to go into fart, too. Julian and Lyra: It takes a minute! Borlan: Never mind, never mind, never mind, never mind! Kaelen: You'll be there like this. Sarah: Go ahead and start! DM: And that's where we'll come back after the break. thank you. Kaelen: You can't start, you're frozen in place and can't do anything while it's happening. Sarah: You can still-- Kaelen: You're vulnerable. Lyra: No, I'm not doing it. I'm going to hide. I'm going to hide. DM: Well, you've got a little bit to think about what the hell you're going to do, except for Silas, who's turning into a fart now. uh, Julian: I said it, though. It would've been, what? How long before that person arrived? Borlan: Willmaster Edmuda? Okay. Gideon: 30 seconds? Julian: 20 seconds? 30 seconds? Sarah: Oh, we're going to find out. DM: Roll a d6 for me. Borlan: Oh boy. Julian: Okay. Four. 40 seconds. DM: Okay, so you've got 20 seconds left. Julian: Okay. Gideon: Guess we'll see what we do when we come back. DM: Yeah, we'll see then. Derek: Four rounds. Four rounds, if something goes-- Julian: 20 seconds, that's-- Derek: Four rounds. Julian: That's not that long when you're talking to somebody. DM: We'll find out, but yeah, nevertheless, we'll see what we all do shortly. Sarah: Yay! watching. Oh hey, it's us. Your friendly neighborhood ambiguous shadowy weirdos here to say cryptic things at you as usual. Are you ready for the third and final season of Midst? We certainly are. Some of you have been waiting a very long time. Good news: the wait is almost over. Midst, man. What the heck? A lot of questionable characters doing incredibly problematic things to each other in a series of increasingly insane escalating circumstances while struggling to follow their warped moral compasses and do what they think is hopefully the right thing. Can the Trust get… worse somehow? Can Phineas get less worse? How much longer can Lark outrun her past? Are there any objectively good guys in this story? Other than Moc Weepe. How can any of these threads possibly be resolved with only one more season to go? And we STILL don't even know what happened with that dang moon. Are we ever gonna get some ANSWERS? Yes. As a matter of fact… we will. The third and final season of Midst unfolds February 14th. Listen to the pure sound experience anywhere you stream podcasts or watch illustrated video episodes on the Critical Role YouTube channel. In the meantime, you can follow us at @midstpodcast or join the Fold on Midst.co to get early access to episodes, behind the scenes bonus content music downloads, digital artwork, and more. Everything's been leading to this. We'll be with you to the end. Do you Trust us? Derek: Delve into a new tabletop roleplaying game of investigative horror with the "Candela Obscura Core Rulebook" using the Illuminated Worlds System by Darrington Press. Roam the turn-of-the-century- inspired setting of the Fairelands, including the bustling

Output:
*   The group discussed the ornate robes and spaulders worn by Barthie before the DM interrupted to note the unexpected arrival of Willmaster.
*   Sarah, Lyra, Julian, and Borlan panicked, with Lyra and Julian deciding to hide while Julian and Borlan jokingly transformed into farts.
*   Kaelen informed the group that they were frozen and vulnerable, preventing them from acting immediately, while Silas also turned into a fart.
*   The players rolled a d6 to determine the time remaining before Willmaster Edmuda arrived, resulting in a countdown of 20 seconds.
*   After a break, the podcast hosts announced the release of the third and final season of Midst, highlighting the unresolved plotlines involving Phineas, Lark, and the moon.
*   Derek introduced the new "Candela Obscura Core Rulebook" and the Illuminated Worlds System, inviting listeners to explore the Fairelands setting.


Input: uh! Uh-huh. The cryptex! Aria and Dorian: (scream) The key is in the cryptex! We know! So if every other letter-- Times two. -- is the combination-- Did you say times? Times, like a clock. It's in the clock! But how do you open it? (uncertain noise) Okay. What is it? Okay, it's six. Two. Four. Yeah. 624? It's 6:24! Uh. Zero. [unlocking] (gasp) (excited noise) Guys, guys, I think I found it! But it's not opening! So how do you unlock this? That's not the cryptex. This is a cryptex. Wait, I think if I push my fingers into... No, that's not working. We just need the code word. What's a six-letter code? I think it's jammed! Arlo said that in order to find the answer we need, we have to look to the beacon. Uh-huh. Right. But Colonel Popcorn's telegram says-- (grunts) "Be Aware -(STOP)- "Exciting New -(STOP)- "Amazing -(STOP)- "Critical Role Content "Available at Beacon.tv. -(STOP)- "Oh my god. "No Idea How to Finish this Fake Telegram -(STOP)-" Reveal your secrets to me! Can either of you help me, help me with the-- That's not a cryptex! I am very aware. Okay. What about this? Huh? Um, it says, "Try using Beacon." (shattering) Hey, Julian. Could you help with the-- Not now, dude, I'm trying to save us! We've only got 90 seconds left! (shrieks) "10% off merchandise. "Members-only Discord. "Exclusive new series." Is that a clue? I don't know, it just feels too obvious, like something that a lazy writer would try and shoehorn into a script. (shrieks) Well, that would also explain this. I know. That's useless. Literally no one says "literally" anymore. Exactly. We're running out of time, people! Come on! Uh. Okay, we just need a six-letter word that unlocks this artifact and also unlocks amazing content! Also, would it kill you to try to help us, Nadia? What do you think I'm doing? While you all are busy sucking eggs in La La Land, I was making an improvised munitions charge that'll blow this door off with minimal loss of life and hearing. You don't explode a door, Nadia! That's not how an escape room works! Oh, really? Because that is literally what this is, an escape room. She just said "literally." "Literally." 30 seconds! Help! It's again! Fire in the hole! (scream) [lever slams] [alarm buzzes] [door clacks] Hey, guys. Uh, good job or not, I guess. Tried your best. Did we do it? Did we escape? No. No, no, you didn't. Oh, so close. It was the stupid cryptex. The code word was too hard. It was impossible! Was it? Yeah! What was the name of the detective? Detective Beacon. Yeah, it was Beacon. Yeah? And where did the murder take place? Beacon Street. Yeah, yeah. And what was the name of the law firm that hired Detective Beacon to exonerate the Beacon State graduate from the murder on Beacon Street? Beacon, Beacon, and Associates. And Associates. So what was the code word? It's Beacon! It's Beacon! Oh. Yep, see? Here's

Output:
*   The group struggled to solve a cryptex puzzle, attempting various number combinations like 624 and 6:24 before realizing the solution required a six-letter code word.
*   They examined a fake telegram and merchandise clues, eventually finding a hint that suggested using the word "Beacon" to unlock the device.
*   Nadia attempted to blow the door off with an improvised munitions charge, while Julian tried to save them from the 90-second timer.
*   After the door opened, Kyle revealed that they had failed to escape because the correct code word was "Beacon," derived from the detective's name, the street, and the law firm.
*   The participants realized the puzzle was designed around the repeated use of the word "Beacon" throughout the clues.
*   The group expressed frustration over the difficulty of the code word and the failure to escape the room within the time limit.


Input: is fucking macaroni art. Yeah. Are schools like well-funded where you're from? I would say yeah, well Bay Area is pretty. Everything in the Bay Area's well funded. All the parents donate money. Oh wow! Oh okay. Like one of my aunts constantly is donating money to her daughter's school because it just makes the program much better. The government's not giving enough money, so the neighborhood parents are just giving money. Wow! I remember when I did like badminton, there was only like 2 rackets out of 30 that weren't broke. That's just like school equipment, school facilities. The wiring is fucked on the nets to the point where it's like, you just can't play badminton properly. Yeah, we had like 40 acoustic guitars and only two of them worked. Oh my God! Don't fucking get me started on textbooks. Like when the fucking teacher says, "All right, time to get out the textbooks." I'm like, "Who am I sharing with today?" Like you're all huddles around one desk, right? Yeah 'cause like in my school, when you were reading from a textbook, everyone needed to share at least with one person. So everyone had a partner, like a textbook partner. Really? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We had that. But not by obligations because like 1/2 the class had just forgotten their textbooks. So it just became like a tradition to be like, it's my turn now. Do you have cooking classes in America? Yeah we have cooking classes. It's like home ec or something. We had cooking class as well. I never took it because I hated. Oh, we had no choice. Oh really? Did you have to cook in school? Nope. They made us cook. We had to do it for one year, yeah. They made us cook and they made us, you won't believe what one of the dishes was, we'd prepare a sandwich. That was no joke, one of them. British cuisine be like. Is it like a tuna melt? No, no. Literally your bog standard lunchbox sandwich. And when I told my mum, she had to buy me ingredients to make it. She was so insulted that she complained to the school. I would be 'cause that's a waste of an hour. She was like, "I'm not buying ingredients so you can make a fucking sandwich." I'll make you a fucking sandwich right now. How about I just make one. I made a quiche and I think it turned out to be an omelet or something. That's common. Yeah, I think certainly that happened and I was like, "I'm never cooking again." Yeah, just anything that uses egg turns into a different egg dish, just halfway through the process every time. I don't like that many egg dishes. This video is sponsored by Manscaped. It's time to bundle up with the Manscaped 4.0 performance package. Inside this package, you'll find the lawnmower 4.0 trimmer, weed whacker ear and nose hair trimmer, crop ball preserver, crop reviver toner, performance boxer briefs, and a travel bag to hold all your goodies. First off the new performance package, 4.0 includes the new lawnmower 4.0, if you're looking to cozy up this fall, this trimmer is essential. Their fourth generation trimmer features a cutting edge ceramic

Output:
- The speakers discussed the disparity in school funding between the Bay Area and other regions, noting that parents often donate to supplement government funds.
- They shared anecdotes about poor school facilities, including broken badminton nets, non-functional guitars, and the necessity of sharing single textbooks among classmates.
- The conversation shifted to cooking classes, where one speaker recounted being forced to make a basic lunchbox sandwich, leading to complaints from their mother.
- Another speaker described their own cooking struggles, mentioning that attempts to make quiche often resulted in omelets due to egg mishaps.
- The discussion concluded with a transition to a sponsored advertisement for the Manscaped 4.0 performance package and its included trimmers.


Input: wasting my daily meal on a bad, like on a bad restaurant experience, then my day is literally like. - It's scam. - Yeah. I'm just like, "You took this from me. You took the only little joy." - You took my time, my money. - You took the little joy I look for every day and you gave me an awful meal and I'm just like, "Yeah, that's just bad." And sometimes I literally don't understand sometimes, how some restaurants can serve bad meals. - It's sad to me that someone went through the trouble of opening up a restaurant to serve shit. - For seafood restaurants right now, it's kind of sad for Hokkaido at least. They're not getting enough customers to get new batches of seafood coming in. So their ratings have dropped because when the customers come in and it's like it's not fresh. Wow! I can't believe this has four stars. I'm gonna give it two. It's really sad. - Yeah. 'Cause like the reason it blows my mind is that how can just like myself following a random YouTube video I found, I'm just following that recipe. How can that taste better than me being served a restaurant meal, that has been cooked by a chef right? - You can master it. - When you watch kitchen nightmares it all makes sense. You're just like, "These people just want jobs. They don't want to cook it. They wanna work." - Yeah. - Oh yeah. At that point it's just like, it's just like why are you in the restaurant business? - Yeah. - 'Cause it's not easy to run a fucking restaurant. Like you don't have to run a restaurant to know that that's fucking hard work. So it's like, "Why would you spend all that time, money and effort to then just get a bunch of people come into your restaurant, hate your food, hate your service, and then leave disappointed." It's like, "What's the point?" - Yeah, I think I would rather my local restaurant to have more passion than whoever's doing surgery on me. I don't really need my surgeon to be passionate about it. I need my restaurant tour to be passionate about what they're doing. - Yeah. - Because who cares about doing open heart surgery? I don't care about that. He probably doesn't care about that. - Probably the person getting under. - The person getting under the fucking skull. - It probably doesn't mean shit if then you get the surgery you live and then you go to a shit restaurant afterwards. What's the point? (Joey laughing) So to me it's way more important that there are some jobs that need passion. - You say that as if you have open heart surgery, as often as you have a meal. There's a bit of a different story. - Even then I would still rather, him be dispassionate about it. There's some jobs I'm like, "You do need to be passionate about this job." Restaurant is one of those jobs. - Oh no, definitely. Restaurant's like sometimes it just, you can just feel the passion coming out of the meal. Right? - Yeah. - And from the people running it. Those are the best meals. - Yeah, 100%. 100%. - Do you like it when the chef comes out and asks you like, "How did you like it?" - I love it. That shows to me, he cares. - He cares. Yeah. - 'Cause this isn't just me he's probably doing it too. - Yeah, obviously it's shit

Output:
- The speakers discussed their frustration with bad restaurant experiences, specifically mentioning a decline in seafood quality in Hokkaido due to low customer volume.
- They compared cooking at home using a YouTube recipe to restaurant meals, concluding that professional chefs often lack the necessary passion for their work.
- The conversation shifted to a comparison between restaurant jobs and surgery, with the speakers arguing that passion is more critical for restaurant staff than for surgeons.
- They noted that restaurants where the chef personally checks on customers and shows care provide the best meals.
- The group agreed that while some jobs require technical skill without passion, the restaurant industry uniquely demands genuine enthusiasm from the staff.


Input: you that chose you, that gave you direction and purpose. You feel that overwhelming feeling again, but it is tinged with something deep in the pit of your stomach. Something that you know that your mistress, it curdles her stomach, so it curdles yours. And whatever curdles the stomach of death incarnate, that's pretty scary. You turn towards that feeling of gravity and you look at Opal, trying so hard to shake off whatever this is. You see it in a flash, in a caw, a bird song before it hits, and Opal, it's not that she raises or levitates off the ground, but she seems to grow massive and then she explodes out in every direction. Uh, I'm going to need my map now. We're going to get started. What? Oh my god! Okay, sure! Yeah! I'm sorry. Am I dead? Yeah, you can go home now. Okay, bye. Thank you. Actually, that's pretty funny. I think what I want to happen now-- Hey, DM? Oh. Yeah? Can you do me a favor? Sure. I think I'm going to need you to slide on over there for me. Oh! Over? Naur! Yeah, over there. Oh naur! Oh naur! Which way? In between who? This way. This way? Scooch! Actually, you go. Heartbreak feels good in a place like this. Let's do something a little fun. Yep. It was fun while it lasted, Aimee! Just slide it in there. Oh no! And I'll take it in. -- so much crap over here. All by yourself. Let's go. So much stuff. Whoa! It's so spooky! Woo! Y'all wanted this. There's a skull in that rock. No! Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. Things got spooky immediately! You ruined the whole thing! It got spooky, Aimee! It gets stupider if you look closer. I mean, spooky, not stupid. It gets more stupider like you went to Jupiter. Where are my little minis? Oh, here, here they are. I gots one. We're right here. Oh, everyone's got them. I'm just too short to meet you. Yeah. Where do you want them? You're going to be here. Oh, for fuck's sake! Whoa. Whoa! Yay! Oh, good slide. Slide mafia. Everybody, everybody. Everybody. Oh, it's so lonely here. Come this way. Oh! Everybody. That music video-- This combat is brought to you by-- Yeah! What? Let's go, DM! WizKids Minis! The Mighty Nein Box Set, available now, the Mighty Nein Box Set is now available! Find these and many more Critical Role miniatures at wizkids.io/crminis and your local game store. I got to do that, finally. Yay! Seamless. Good job! Seamless job. Good job! Don't worry, DM. Didn't even break immersion. DM, if you do enough of these-- It was perfect. -- you'll get the hang of it eventually. You know what I mean? Can I send you my reel? Yeah, you can, actually. Thank you, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Immersion. I can already tell it's going to be--

Output:
- The group experienced a terrifying vision where Opal appeared to grow massive and explode, causing Aimee to question her own mortality.
- AABRIA requested the DM to slide a map or miniatures over to the table, leading to a chaotic and humorous exchange among the players.
- Robbie and Anjali reacted with shock and laughter to the spooky atmosphere and the sudden appearance of a skull in the rock.
- The players gathered their miniatures, with Anjali noting she was too short to meet them, while Robbie confirmed he had one.
- The DM performed a sponsored segment for WizKids miniatures, which the group praised for being seamless and not breaking immersion.
- Erica and the DM discussed the DM's performance, with the group agreeing it was perfect and encouraging him to continue doing such segments.


Input: the dust from her hand begins to be swirled through the dust itself and create this weird, shining gossamer ribbon of a sparkly glitter-like material. (shudders) As it travels up, that cold rush causes you to shiver a bit, and then your body is filled with warmth and you lose two points of uh, exhaustion. Oh! Oh, yay! That's great. So what does that put you down to? Does that put you back to stasis? No. It puts me down to one. And you're at one. I'm at one. We're both at disadvantage on ability checks. Great. Ability checks. Ugh. Wow. As opposed to one transformation away from death. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yes. We hit six and you just die. Wow. So I think, actually, yeah. She shakes off her hand a bit and you see the few little remnants of sand that looks like whatever's left has lost its luster, falls free. Thank you. Of course. I only, I only wish I more to offer at the moment, but where I'm off to I have to keep a few resources at my disposal as well. But you seem to be better than you were a moment ago. I'm much better. I'm much better. Where are you off to? I'm off to traverse the length and breadth of Exandria. I have a few friends to stop at, some acquaintances to speak to, and some challenged adversaries to request their assistance. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. I'm but one of a number of diplomats on these missions, but I'm one of the fastest there is, and in some cases, the most underestimated. Happy recruiting. Thank you. It's nice to be underestimated. It means you can only impress people, for the most part. Indeed, and catch them off guard. If you need help from the champion of Asmodeus, If you need help from the champion of Asmodeus, I have his number, so I could pass that along if need be. What-- You see Tofor and Master Qi's heads turn over. You see Domade look over as well. New information, new, it's all new information. Yeah, all new information. All new information. Strange bedfellows and all that. You need all the help you can get, you know? No bad ideas. No bad ideas. No bad ideas. Not that strange. Just throwing it out there for-- Of course. I'll-- She takes your hand a bit and she pats your hand. She looks at the symbol on your finger. I'll let you, I'll let you know. Well. She takes her staff and knocks it on the ground a bit and her mantle, the cloak spreads out behind her. Sick. The colored leaves, the ombre fade of them-- Whatever. -- dragging behind. Not that cool. Basic. She tightens one of the belts on her leather travel armor and gives a nod. Good luck to you all, and wish me luck. Get some sleep. Once this is over. Then she steps out of the tent into the light of day and treks off as the wind gently carries after her. I actually run off after her. Okay. Keep pace for a minute. Sarah. A sight

Output:
- The group discussed the effects of a magical ritual, confirming that their exhaustion levels dropped to one and they were now at a disadvantage on ability checks.
- The DM character explained their departure to traverse Exandria to recruit friends and challenge adversaries, noting they were often underestimated.
- Aria offered assistance from the champion of Asmodeus, which caused Tofor, Master Qi, and Domade to react with surprise to the new information.
- The DM character patted a player's hand, acknowledged the symbol on their finger, and departed the tent to trek into the daylight.
- Marcus decided to run after the DM character to keep pace, and the DM acknowledged the request by addressing the character as Sarah.


Input: like, "Damn, I dreamed that. That was such a cool fucking idea. What the fuck? How the fuck did my mind come up with that concept? - What language do you dream in? As being as all three of us can speak two languages. What language do you usually dream in? - No. English. - English for me. I've rarely dreamed in Thai unless it's when I'm living in Thailand, and I'm using it more often. - It's so weird. 90% of my dreams are in Japanese. I don't know why. - Okay. What language do you think in, though? - Depends. - That's probably why. That's probably why. Because I don't normally think in Thai but there's been points where I've lived in Thailand and then my thoughts start getting jumbled up, and I start thinking in a different language as well, which is, How do you describe thinking in a different language to somebody who only speaks one language? I don't know how to properly describe it. - Thinking about how you think is also weird. Now I'm like, "I don't talk to myself when I think. I don't think so. But maybe I do talk to myself when I think. I'm not sure." - Some people can't, though. Some people physically can't think out in the air. - Now that you're telling me that I'm talking to myself while I'm thinking, now I'm doing it. But I'm pretty sure I don't do it. I think I just do things. (laughing) - I just do things. - Yeah. I don't think I talk to myself in my head. I talk out loud if I talk. - Yeah. Because I remember reading about deaf people thinking in sign language, and that blows my fucking mind. I can't even come close to conceptualizing it, but I know it happens. I know people do it. It's so weird to me. - This episode is sponsored by Express VPN. - When you use the bathroom, you always close the door behind you, right? - Of course. - You don't want a random passer by looking in on you. - Ewe. - So why would you let people look in on you when you go online? Using the internet without Express VPN is like going to the bathroom and not closing the door. - Did you know that your internet service provider knows every single website you visit? And what's worse is that they sell this information to ad companies and tech giants, who use your data to target you. (screaming) - Is that why there's milf's in my area? - Well, the good thing is, is that Express VPN puts a stop to all of that. It creates a secure, encrypted tunnel between your device and the internet so that your online activity can't be seen by anyone. - I use Express VPN on all of my devices. It works on everything. Phones, laptops, even routers, so everyone who shares your wifi can still be protected, even if they don't have Express VPN. - And the best part is using Express VPN is as easy as closing the bathroom door. You just fire up the app, press one button, and then you're protected. - So if you're like me and you believe your online activity is your business, secure yourself by visiting expressvpn.com/trashtaste today. Use our exclusive link, E-X-P-R-E-S-S VPN.com/trashtaste, and you can get an extra three moths for free. - Back to the show. (gibbers) - Back to the show. - I would love to be able (X-Files theme song)

Output:
*   The speakers discussed the languages they dream in, noting that one person dreams 90% of the time in Japanese while others primarily use English or Thai.
*   The group debated whether they talk to themselves while thinking, with one speaker admitting they might do it after hearing about deaf people thinking in sign language.
*   An advertisement for Express VPN was presented, comparing online privacy to closing a bathroom door to prevent unauthorized access.
*   The sponsor explained that internet service providers sell user data to ad companies, and that Express VPN creates an encrypted tunnel to stop this.
*   The speakers concluded the ad segment by directing listeners to a specific URL to get a free three-month trial of the service.
*   The show attempted to resume, with a speaker expressing a desire to be able to do something while the X-Files theme song played.


Input: You don't though. Sarah: I can't be poisoned. Right, so you take no damage. Both you guys take eight points of poison damage from the first attack. First? And the second attack deals six points of poison damage. Every time we attack it? Just melee attacks, right? If you're right next to it. It didn't happen when the Eldritch Blaster did it. It didn't seem to hit with an Eldritch Blaster. Like magic can do. And how far, well, how far did it look like the gas? Just around it, immediately around it. Okay, okay. You have a bonus action. Patient Defense. Okay, you got it. All right. That was a mature decision, Silas. All right. At the at the end of Silas's turn, it's going to go ahead and use two of its legendary actions-- Two of them?! -- to tighten its armor. To tighten? So now, you watch as the plates around its body seize up and condense, the quills themselves bending back and it looks like it almost hurts it to do so, but it seems to be a little more fortified for the time being. Does it looks like the plates are part of it, like, they're part of the body. Like they've grown out of it naturally, but also weirdly, you haven't quite seen a creature like this before. Okay, okay, okay. That finishes Beauregard's turn. Derek, you're up. Dorian, you're on deck. Shit. I will use half movement to stand up All righty. And sort of brush the hook marks off of me. It's right next to me, so I guess I should bonus action disengage. If you'd like to. Yes. I would like to. Okay. And then-- shit. How do I not get killed by this thing? Can you run up a tree? That's a good question. I can run up a tree. If you'd like to. How tall is that tree? Oh, that tree's about, I'd say, 20, 25 feet. But the lower branches are about 10 feet off the ground. But how much movement, I only have half movement. So I have-- You have 15 feet left. And I'm, like, 10 feet-- Or I'd say 20. Your speed's 35, right? 35, yeah. I'll say 15 to 20. But it's 10 feet to get the tree, at least, right? That's about, yeah. You might be able to get to the bottom branch. Might, I might... Instead, I will run that way. This way? 15 feet. At a diagonal? Yeah, and then cast Levitate and go 20 feet up. Oh, shit. Okay, so you (floating). Lift up off the ground. Yeah. Like bike pedal into the air. Okay. (panicked yelling) How hard is it to Extract Aspects at some point? I just-- Arcane Trickster. Oh, okay. I'm going to have to do Flurry of Blows, but I didn't want to give them-- All righty. That's pretty cool, actually. But yeah. I was just curious. This is nerve-wracking. Levitate from which one? (whispering) What am I doing, what am I doing? What'd you say? Levitate. Oh, at the only level I have, level two. The only level I have. [Inaudible]

Output:
- The group discussed the mechanics of poison damage and the specific range of the gas attack, confirming it only affected melee attacks near the creature.
- Silas used a bonus action for Patient Defense, while the DM described the monster tightening its armor and quills as a legendary action.
- Gideon attempted to disengage and move towards a tree, calculating the distance to the lower branches against his movement speed.
- Gideon ultimately decided to run diagonally and cast Levitate to float 20 feet into the air, prompting panic from Kaelen.
- Sarah and Maeve debated their spell options, with Sarah committing to a Flurry of Blows and Maeve asking about Extracting Aspects.
- The scene concluded with Gideon clarifying he was using the Levitate spell at level two while the group reacted to the chaotic situation.


Input: a really poor roll. That's going to be an eight, that misses you. You duck and it hits the stone, causing this dust to spray off of it from the impact. Thank you. That's going to end its turn. Derek, you're up. Aria: I pull out a handful of iron powder, and I throw it into it into the air so it's a big cloud, and my two hands go (sweeping noise), and Kaelen grows to twice her normal size. ALL: What?! Derek: Oh, shit. DM: For the purposes of that, we'll put Kaelen on this big old dice there. Gideon: Does that mean I do twice the damage? DM: Not twice. Marcus: Yes, it does. Aria: Then I will use my movement to get over to the corner near Gwen. If I could get around it, I would, but I'm sure I don't have enough movement. Uh, DM: Six is about as close as you can get, there. Aria: Yeah, so you're at advantage because of your size and all of your attacks have an additional 1d4. Gideon: (high-pitched) Ooh! Marcus: She's huge! Aria: She's 14 feet tall. Marcus: 14? Aria: No, you're six? 12 feet tall. Gideon: I'm like 5'11". Aria: 12-ish feet tall. Doubles it. Your weight is eight times its normal weight. DM: You have advantage on strength checks and saving throws, which is what your rage does, but your weapons do an additional 1d4 points of damage when you hit, which is good. Gideon: Excellent. I'm into that. Gwen: I've had this dream. DM: Derek, that ends your turn. Gwen: Question, quick retroactive one: Can I use my reaction attack when that thing attacked Dorian to do my Sentinel thing? DM: You can, yeah. Gwen: Can I do that? DM: Go for it. As it strikes and misses Dorian, you get one swing, but it's with disadvantage on the attack because you're poisoned. Gwen: Nope. DM: Swing wide, unfortunately you're hazy in your view, and you feel the poison start to seep into your veins, the diseased bite of the creature starting to infect your torso. Watching. That ends Derek's turn, Arthur, you're up. Marcus: I will shoot my thing at it! DM: You other three are up after that, at the same time. Marcus: 21 to hit. DM: That hits! Roll damage. Marcus: Is Kaelen-- DM: Yeah, they're adjacent, so you get sneak attack. Fiona: Whoa, that's good. DM: Oh, damn! Marcus: Okay, (counting) 19. DM: 19 points of damage. Marcus: Wait, you know what? If I'm going to be honest, that thing is beyond 30 feet, so I would have moved in closer so I don't have to fire at disadvantage. DM: Okay, so I'll put you about there to do that. Marcus: Then do I have any movement left? DM: Five feet. Marcus: All right, well then I'll dash and I'll go back around towards me, behind this corner and hide. Just duck back there. That's it! Take a swig. DM: Take a swig. It's a free action. All right, Dorian, Kaelen, and Gwen, you guys are going at the same time, so you decide who is going to take their action first. Derek: Ladies first. Gideon: We can go in that order. DM: All right, so Dorian, Kaelen, then Gwen. Dorian. Fiona: Okay, well he's right there, so I'm going to use Sacred Flame on him. Oh, actually I'm really close and he's already been hurt. I'm going to Toll the Dead on him. DM: What saving throw is that? Fiona: That is a wisdom saving throw! DM: Rolled a four. Three plus one. Fiona: I get

Output:
*   A creature missed its attack against the group, causing dust to spray from a stone impact before the turn ended.
*   Aria cast a spell using iron powder, causing Kaelen to grow to twice her normal size and increasing her weapon damage.
*   Gideon questioned the damage multiplier while Aria confirmed the new height and weight statistics for Kaelen.
*   Gwen attempted a reaction attack using Sentinel against a creature that had attacked Dorian but failed due to being poisoned.
*   Marcus successfully hit a target with a 21 to hit roll, applying sneak attack damage, before moving closer to hide behind a corner.
*   Fiona decided to cast Toll the Dead on an adjacent target, rolling a four on the saving throw.


Input:
The worst one for me is, uh, when I'm having a good dream, because I don't remember most of my good dreams. But I remember I wake up and I'm just like, "Man, I don't remember what I just dreamed but maybe if I go back to sleep, I'll dream it again." And so I go back to sleep and I don't dream it again, I was like, "No. It's gone forever."

To me, there's a point, Because, to me, I've had it before, where I've had really, really fun dreams, and you half wake up but before your mind fully wakes up, you're like, "Go back to sleep." And then sometimes I've been able to reinsert myself into the matrix.

I'm going in. I'm going in. So I know sometimes I wake up, I'm like, "If I go to sleep now, if I go to sleep right now, I can jack back in." And then I get so sad when I try to fucking will myself to sleep. Because you know when you try to will yourself to sleep, most of the time it doesn't fucking work. But sometimes I just try to will myself to sleep, and five minutes passes I'm just like, (sighs) "I'm awake now. Fuck my life. This is the real world."

I used to do that but I don't ever try that anymore. I think sometimes I'm like, "Yeah. Whatever. Just get on with it." "I'll just dream it again tomorrow night." Just dream it again.

Well, do you have a theme to most of your dreams? Are your dreams, Because they say that your dreams are normally reoccurring. They're similar events. No. No, not really, for me. It's all over the place.

I just die in a lot of my dreams. (laughing) Don't know what that says about me. There could be some dream expert, But even that. You know how people are like- Dreamologist. "Yeah. The dreams, they, Whatever you do in a dream, there's a real meaning to it in real life." Maybe. If you stressed out then you'll dream about your teeth falling out and stuff like that? Something like that. Where they think that every single thing that you can dream of has a real life counter part. Emotionally or feeling.

I'm sure there is to some extent, but there's definitely- Probably too complex for us. Yeah. Way to complex. to be able to solve it with modern science. Yeah. I get really high concept dreams sometimes. I told you the dream I just had, but sometimes I just dream and then I wake up and I'm just like, "That was a really cool fucking film idea." That was a really cool film idea.

How Garnt gets his videos ideas. Basically. I don't know. It's so weird, I don't know how my mind works, because sometimes I'm just like, "Damn, I dreamed that. That was such a cool fucking idea. What the fuck? How the fuck did my mind come up with that concept?

What language do you dream in? As being as all three of us can speak two languages. What language do you usually dream in? No. English. English for me. I've rarely dreamed in Thai unless it's when I'm living in Thailand, and I'm using it more often. It's so weird. 90% of my dreams are in Japanese. I don't know why. Okay. What language do you think in, though?

Output:
- The speakers discussed the frustration of waking up from good dreams and the inability to re-enter the dream state or "the matrix" when trying to will themselves to sleep.
- One speaker noted that they used to try to go back to sleep to retrieve lost dreams but have since stopped, accepting that the dream is gone forever.
- They explored the theme of recurring dreams, with one participant admitting that they frequently die in their dreams, while another noted their dreams are all over the place.
- The group debated dreamology and the idea that dreams have real-life counterparts, concluding that the complexity of these concepts is likely too advanced for modern science to solve.
- One speaker mentioned that their dreams often provide cool film ideas, specifically referencing how "Garnt" might get his video concepts.
- The conversation shifted to the languages used in dreams, revealing that while one speaker dreams in English, another dreams in Japanese 90% of the time, with Thai usage dependent on location.


Input: this all this time. The hierarchy. A seat. King or queen, it's more like-- No, not necessarily that. It's just, we're just very well known. We're just a very well known family. This feels so complicated. Yeah. You'd be like an influencer. My aunties worked at the court. I check the orb. Yeah. Thankfully, it has not shifted. Okay. Why would they leave the Fey Realm if they're so important and high up in the echelons of-- Well, because I-- Because their only daughter-- They were on a very, very, very important mission. You are? No, my parents were. Oh. They had to leave. That's why they had to leave me with my grandmother, because they had something very, very, very important to do. In where? What, well, yes. I don't know. But that was 90 years ago. Well, I-- You met up with them. -- maybe. What if she was-- The mission. The mission! Yes! How did you meet them? Do you remember? Do you have any siblings? Such an unreliable narrator. I'm sorry! I wish I had the answers, too. Sorry, I'm sorry. I saw you do a little bit of magic. Where do you get your powers from? I clocked the tattoo that you have. Mm-hmm. I have one that's similar to it. Oh shit! Is it covered or uncovered? It's uncovered. You can see part of it peeking out. Fuck yeah. Is it moon stuff? It's waves that terminates in geometric shapes. Ooh! How close is it to him? Same, but different. That's cool. Do you remember getting it? Mm-mm. Do you? Whoa. Do I remember getting mine? Yeah. Of course. Is that a sign of the Ashari? Or is it just a-- I think-- neat tattoo? I don't know. I mean. I would say it's a coincidence, but we are running into a lot of coincidences, aren't we? Did you choose to get yours, or was it part of a ritual, or something? No, I chose it. These waves, would they be from the Water Ashari? I mean, they're invisible, because this is D&D. Do they look like Water Ashari design to me? I mean, it very well could be. You've had minimal interactions directly with Water Ashari, especially of the warrior rank that take a similar, you know, tattoo spread as to what you have. But it seems like it very well can fit into a similar pattern, yeah. They're like-- Do they do anything? Is it like a...? Oh my god. No, they're just-- Does it give you powers? Water, yeah. They don't do anything. They mean something, but they don't do anything. What I noticed about you was your sword work is exquisite. Thank you. It's a good-looking blade, too, mm. You know, I don't want to-- Calm down, Marcus, Jesus. Sh-- They're good. Do you want to touch it? Your arm or the sword? Touch it. The sword. Okay. Can I try the heft? Yeah. I'm going to rip off your hat and throw it back

Output:
- The group discussed the hierarchy and the well-known status of Clara's family, noting that her parents left her with her grandmother 90 years ago for an important mission.
- Cedric checked the orb, which had not shifted, while Elias questioned the logic of the family leaving the Fey Realm despite their high status.
- Erika and Julian compared their tattoos, identifying them as geometric wave patterns similar to those of the Water Ashari, though Julian noted they were invisible in the game context.
- Julian complimented Erika's sword work and asked to hold it, while Dorian encouraged the interaction.
- Maeve interrupted the group by stating she was going to rip off someone's hat and throw it back.