Input:
so you can certainly inquire. I haven't attempted to go from the standpoint of a possible student, but you could ask.
Well, I have taken up enough of your time. That is all right.
I'd like to say thank you. Have a wonderful festival. Of course. You as well. Happy Harvest Close.
I turn a corner and fucking book it. thank you
As you return to the rest of the group, you guys are met by a strangely adorned Derek with an interesting ensemble. Got some new specs there. What do you mean?
What did you just get up to? New robes, too. I was sightseeing.
Oh. Do you need those and we never knew? Where are we right now?
You guys are on the outside of the Victory Pit. The crowds are starting to swarm into a central archway that's open.
Are they all around us or are we off to the side? Right now you are in part of the crowd as the people are rushing past.
Okay, so I lean down to tie my shoe and let the cloak fall around me, and I get down between Kaelen and Gwen, and when I come up everything is back to normal.
Your glasses fell off when you were bent over. It gives me a headache, so I took them off.
Where were you at? Exactly what I was saying. I was sightseeing, I was asking about their libraries of the city.
Lots of them around here? Not so many. Cobalt's a good color on you.
What? You look good in blue. (sniffs)
Okay, shall we go into the Victory Pit? Yeah, let's sign up!
You guys gather your strength, your interest, your nerve. You go in with the rest of the crowd that is now beginning to gather towards the front end of the Victory Pit. As you step towards the central archway into the shaded interior of the main entryway, we're going to take a break! watching
We'll be back here in a few minutes to pick up to this tournament and all that it entails. Aw, man. What a festival!
What a festival! Tonight as part of our Wyrmwood giveaway, we have a bocote tabletop dice tray from our friends at Wyrmwood. Very fancy leather interior, it's very pretty.
Aren't those the same kind-- That is, actually yes. You can have Dorian's dice box, kind of.
Tonight, the keyword is "celebration." If you'd like to, come into the Twitch chat and enter the word "celebration" to become part of the drawing, as long as you are in the US and Canada outside of Quebec, otherwise you cannot enter. I am very sorry, laws are weird.
Enter it only once. Any more than that and you may be disqualified. We will come back at the end of the break with a winner to be announced. Until then, we'll see you guys here in a few minutes.
You guys are so slow on the draw tonight. Welcome back, everybody. Before we get kicked back in, we have our winner of the Wyrmwood giveaway tonight which is mumbly_joe1212. Congratulations!
Danoba will get your information if he hasn't already, and we'll get that shipped out to you. Congrats.
Diving back in, folks. You have muscled your way through the crowd, making your way into the shaded interior of the front portion, the receiving chamber of

Output:
*   Aria inquired about becoming a student and thanked the DM before deciding to flee the scene to rejoin the group.
*   The party met Derek and Fiona, who noted Aria's new specs and robes while Gideon and Gwen questioned her whereabouts.
*   Aria explained she was sightseeing and asked about city libraries, then hid among Kaelen and Gwen to tie her shoe and avoid the crowd.
*   The group decided to sign up for the tournament and moved toward the Victory Pit's central archway before the stream took a break.
*   During the break, the DM announced a Wyrmwood giveaway winner named mumbly_joe1212 and explained the entry rules.
*   After the break, the party successfully muscled their way into the receiving chamber of the Victory Pit.


Input: 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, uh, 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 so many different petrified creatures I'm going to walk into the water until my head goes under the surface and look. For? I'm going to look and see if there are any other petrified statue things within view. Okay, make a perception check. Underwater. 10. 10? It's hard to tell. It's clear water. I will say, you do see a hand sticking up out of the soot maybe five feet ahead of you. Out of the soot? Yeah. A stone hand doing that. I'll walk over to it. Can I try and clear the soot or the silt around the hand? Yeah, as you clear it away, the arm goes boomf as you realize it's just an arm. That's unfortunate. Wait, what? What? Oh. I just found a piece of an arm underneath the water. Bring it up, if you wouldn't mind. No problem. And I'll grab it. Okay, so I feel a little guilty. So Dorian can you give us the pieces back, please? I'm going to try this glue. Let's wait, we'll wait, we'll wait. Are you sure? I also have an idea if we can get to Umagorn or-- Uthodurn, you mean? Uth, his son, what was his son's name? Who reforged the sword for us. Oh, gotcha. I'm sorry, yes. Did I get his name wrong? No, I think you may have gotten it right. I misunderstood. To do what? For what? If we can pour carefully, which is why I suggest him because he is so skilled, the correct amount of molten silver into the cracks, I can turn them to stone. She could pour paint into the cracks and turn it into stone. I can not turn paint to stone. She can turn paint to stone. Can you paint in stone? Of course I can paint stone-- hmm. The only thing is is I can't paint things connected to each other, so... I could connect them with glue I think I can just use some glue. Don't make any decisions till we get back and I'm going to just start walking with Calliope and anyone else who cares to join. I'll follow behind, but give them their space. I can do another Greater Restoration if you find somebody. At which point, Cornelius goes, we were-- I was talking with Eremis, one of the keepers here of the circle. Oh no, and points over and you can see that elf that you noticed earlier with the Avandra symbol. I mean, they're probably pretty helpful. Okay, I'll go over to that person. Okay. Cornelius walks up next to you and goes like, Aw, buddy, I'm so sorry. Pat, pat, pat. Pat, pat, pat, Greater Restoration on the head. Wake up now!

Output:
- The group gathered broken pieces of a sack and decided to move the injured to a cave while others searched the area.
- Dorian submerged himself in the water to investigate petrified creatures and discovered a stone hand sticking out of the soot.
- After Dorian cleared the silt, he confirmed it was just an arm and brought it to the surface for the group.
- Gideon attempted to use glue on the pieces while Marcus proposed using molten silver to reforging the items, though Kaelen questioned the methods.
- Maeve halted further decisions until the group regrouped, and Kaelen approached an elf with an Avandra symbol identified by Cornelius.
- Cornelius expressed sympathy to the elf, and Kaelen performed a Greater Restoration spell on the elf's head to wake them up.


Input: ship? Pretty hard. uh Arthur: I genuinely have no idea. Borlan: Besides, you know, we don't even know if this is going to work. Elias: Yeah, your Sending relationship with Mr. Turtle Man was iffy, if I recall, right? Borlan: No, he really liked me a lot. Derek and Elias: Oh! Borlan: Yeah, yeah. We had really good conversations. uh thank you Elias: Oh. Derek: How many times have you communicated? Borlan: Pretty much, like,-- I just talked to him, like, 10 minutes ago, and he was like, "Oh, hey Nadia, what's going on?" Sylvia: What is his name? Borlan: Dragon turtle. Kaelen: (laughs) Sylvia: Okay. Kaelen: Cedric. Sylvia: D Turtle. Kaelen: You've been very quiet. What do you think? Rowan: I mean, we don't quite have a plan yet to fight him, so we might as well try this. If we can get somebody else to fight him, and I'm sure when he dies, everybody will start to remember things. Derek: The dragon turtle or Vokodo? Rowan: Vokodo. Derek: Oh, yes. Of course. Arthur: Will we have to fight the dragon turtle? Kaelen: That's actually a good point. Rowan: We'd have to fight the dragon turtle. Kaelen: Or we could have to fight both. Borlan: The dragon turtle will probably be-- Whichever one made it out would be weakened. Right? Derek: Weekend? Borlan: In the weakened state? Derek: Oh. Sylvia: Well, what about this? Building on your idea, Nadia, what if you send your message to your dragon turtle? What if we holed up into the shipyard and kept ourselves hidden, and we kick off a kaiju battle there, and while Vokodo is occupied with your friend, D Turtle-- Sylvia: We attempt to-- You, and you, and I attempt to send him away while he's busy, rather than walking in and having all of his attention and ire directed at us. If it works. Maybe it won't. Borlan: If it works. Sylvia: But if it works, we don't let your friend handle it all. We lie in wait, hidden, and then from the peanut gallery, we attempt to banish him away. Kaelen: And you're talking about Guacamole? Borlan and Arthur: Yes. Sylvia: Ja. Borlan: And if it doesn't work then we just go in all on our own and try to fight a giant, almost godlike creature. Rowan: Wait, but what do we do with the dragon turtle once Guacamole maybe is gone? Borlan: Wait, what? Rowan: What do we do with the dragon turtle then? Borlan: Well, then, he'll have some ships and he'll probably-- Derek: Lots of treasure, as well, on the back of Vokodo. Rowan: He'll just stay in there. Derek: Well, or take it to his underwater lair. I think they drag ships down, and then take it to wherever-- Kaelen: You're sure he won't still have a personal vendetta? He's mainly just here for the ships, and not the murder side of it, right? Elias: We will have done him a great favor, though. Borlan: I mean, he'll get so much treasure from it. Elias: Also, I don't know anything, but I'm going to confidently say that he'll probably only take out one or two of the ships. There's lots. Derek: Mm-hmm. Arthur: I don't know. Transmutation tends to leave a sour taste. People can really hold that grudge. Derek: Wait a minute. Can one of you grow or shrink things? Sylvia: Yeah. Derek: Like, if the dragon turtle's a huge nuisance and it comes into the cave, can we (whooshing) shrink him down and go through the tunnel and then (pop)? Borlan: We polymorphed him

Output: - The group discussed the risks of communicating with the Dragon Turtle, noting its previous positive relationship with Borlan.

Output: - Rowan proposed a strategy to lure the Dragon Turtle into a battle with Vokodo at the shipyard to distract it.

Output: - Sylvia elaborated on the plan to hide in the shipyard and attempt to banish Vokodo while he was occupied.

Output: - The party debated the potential consequences of leaving the Dragon Turtle alive, considering its access to treasure and potential vendettas.

Output: - Arthur and others expressed concern about the long-term grudges left by transmutation magic.

Output: - Derek suggested using polymorph magic to shrink the Dragon Turtle if it became a nuisance, which Borlan confirmed they had previously done.


Input: Are you okay? Am I okay? Are you? I feel okay, but. He looked like Nadia. I'm going to open my fucking flask. I think we got just sort of caught. We just went too deep or something into his mind. I've never seen anything like that in somebody's-- It's like your brain opens up into this... Universe. Yeah. What does that mean? Nadia, I saw every possibility of your life all at once. What the fuck does that mean? I think you have-- You know, Milo put something in you that obviously they didn't understand. One of these. Yeah, in your head, and it connected you to some sort of pathway, some sort of river of existence. I mean, it's a Potion of Possibilities, right? I mean-- Fuck me. But you know, I mean, this is a good thing. I'm going to say it's a good thing because I don't know what I am, or where I've been, or who made me, but everyone keeps telling me I'm special and I think you might be, too. You're connected to something much bigger than yourself. If you could learn to use it, harness it, master it, maybe it could help you. Maybe it could help you. Oh my gosh. I mean, what if you have access to this potion all the time? What if--? I mean-- I thought she did this. I really did. Hexum? It's where everything started to jumble. I thought maybe she knew. Maybe it just wasn't random fucking chaos, but it is very much random fucking chaos. It doesn't seem like it's random or chaos. It just seemed like it's potential. Like, it's-- I'm not sure what the difference is. Well. I fell, I broke open, someone poured this shit into me, and now this? Sure, sure. That's clearly potential. When I saw all the endless possibilities of his life, was it Nadia as they currently are or was it with no-- Damage? Damage, exactly. Now that you think back on it, it happened so quickly. Some were damaged, some were not. Some had normal skin. Hm. I was wondering about that. Like, normal skin normal? Like human flesh. Like human skin? Yep. Every permutation. Yep. Thank you. I needed that. You feel any better? No. No. Fuck. If you could figure out how to control that trapping device, if Otohan ever gets in your head... Just to keep her there. Huh. Well, that's something to think about, isn't it? You know what's wild? We were looking, just looking to see what was going on in there. You owe me a gold. I'll give you two. Worth it. So, we saw you guys in there. What the--? It was like your normal fireworks and there were two little shadows, so. What? How is that possible? They were tiny-- Fucking-- Did it look like us? Were we like, hey! Well, I mean, I-- Minuscule, but one of you had one-- It's so small. They were shapeless, but familiar. It's hard to describe. Hm. I didn't see anything. You didn't? Yes, you did. Nope, not me. You probably did. You're just too old to remember.

Output:
- The group discussed the overwhelming experience of seeing every possibility of Nadia's life within her mind, which was described as a "Potion of Possibilities."
- Marcus explained that Milo had placed something in Nadia's head, connecting her to a pathway of existence, while Derek expressed confusion and frustration about the chaos.
- Maeve clarified that the vision showed permutations of Nadia, some with normal skin and some damaged, though the specific cause remained unclear.
- Aria revealed that she and others had witnessed tiny, shapeless shadows resembling the group during the event, though Dorian claimed he saw nothing.
- The conversation concluded with a suggestion to use a trapping device to contain Otohan if she ever entered someone's mind again.
- The participants acknowledged the potential danger and the need to harness this new connection, with Derek noting he needed a drink and joking about gold owed.


Input: that weird, dried mud-like thing that's built in sections. Okay. Like piles of it and bits of it are cracked. Okay, then the next thing is to crawl up to the ceiling and move to the closest one of these places that you described as having the bundles that we can't see past. Uh, be careful, they might be egg sacs or something. Oh, please, don't do that. Don't. No, look, I saw that happen one summer. It's fucking terrible. There was one time-- Don't pop egg sacs. There was one time there was a spider-- Don't tell this story. On the ground. I have to. There was a spider on the ground and I stepped-- I was wearing flip flops, and I stepped on it, and out from underneath it, came a thousand little teeny baby spiders and they all went squish and over my foot because I was in flip flops! Oh, how old were you? Like 20-something. Oh! Well, that's normal. So Clara. Yes. As you step forward-- No! Don't. Clara just told that story, though, so now flip flops are D&D canon. While Sylvia as a spider is slowly climbing through elements of the space, are you guys doing anything? I am keeping an eye out and thinking about how to get rid of webs. Okay. I am going to-- Perception check. --be keeping an eye on the holes, like looking for other holes that spiders might come out of and stuff, too. Perception. I'm going to pick up some of the spiders. Ooh, 25. You're picking up some of the spiders? Well, just so we have dinner, you know? 23! We all should be hungry later. 23, okay. You look at the alcoves where they were coming out of and glance over and look in. They're not deep. You look inside and there are elements still being pushed up in there, other small sacs, and as you're pulling apart some of the-- where are you right now? You're in the center of the room? Well, what you described initially, which was these sacks and bundles, I guess what you just described-- Okay, so you're going to those. Yeah. Okay. So as you're tearing them open and pulling them apart, it takes a bit of time because they're strong. But they're also loose, if that makes sense. As you open up and look on the inside, there's more of that weird muddy, caked material that's dried and it's all on the inside of these sacs. You also find in one of them-- actually, make an investigation check for me, if you could, as a spider. As a spider, damn. Not so good-- ooh! That is a 17. 17. No, no. That's a bigger subtraction, 15. 15. That's actually still pretty good, though. You go through a few of these and you find dark metal daggers, you find pieces of weapons and armor, and you find old leather that is all of that caked in this dark, brown, red mud. I would be just going like-- Yeah, trying to go, ting, ting, ting, ting. --chucking it down into the room. One gets stuck in the web and hangs there for a second. You do find one belt that has an iron ring on it and a large key hanging from

Output:
- The players discussed the dangerous nature of the dried mud and egg sacs while debating whether to crawl to the ceiling.
- Borlan recounted a traumatic story about stepping on a spider in flip-flops, which led to a chaotic encounter with baby spiders.
- The group performed perception checks to monitor holes for spiders while Elias decided to pick up spiders for dinner.
- Derek conducted an investigation check on the sacs and discovered dark metal daggers, weapons, and old leather caked in mud.
- The players found a belt with an iron ring and a large key, though one item got stuck in a web during the search.
- Sylvia was noted as a spider slowly climbing through the space while the others examined the alcoves.


Input: coffee bread. And it's just fucking terrible. - I've never seen those. - I've never. - Really? - Yeah. - Like here? - Yeah, yeah. I've had coffee cake, like coffee cake tastes like shit. - I like coffee cake, coffee cakes okay. - No, just get a tiramisu. - I mean that is a coffee cake. - But that's not like breaded coffee cake. - I need to take you to this place, where it's a $90 espresso. I had it three days ago. It was free though. - $90 expresso? - Okay. Wait, why was it free? - My friend is a regular there so. - Oh, well it's good for good for the- - Good for level. - No, no. - I'm not paying 90 fucking quid for an espresso. - Sorry, we're not well-connected as like the fucking top 5% here. - You can come with me. (laughs) - All right. - Okay, so I go out with you I get it for free? Why is it $90? (Joey laughing) - I don't know. - No promises. (laughs) - I'm just gambling if I'm spending $90. - And Meilyne's just like, "90 bucks." - No, you don't say anything if you're regular, you show up and then they pass you the glass, and it's the black glass and then they'll like. - What about it is $90? - Yeah, what about is $90? - The way they roast it, where the beans are sourced. - Fuck off no. - Isn't that like expensive coffee that's made from like that cat poop? - It's a civet poop, you mean. - Do you know that? - The most expensive coffee. - The most expensive coffee in the world is made out of this like wild cat poop. - It's like a weasel. - Have you not seen the bucket list? - No. - Kopi Luwak. - Oh yeah, Kopi Luwak. That's Malaysian. - It's like a big plot point in the bucket list. - It's like a big Malaysian wild cat species that eats coffee beans. And then they shit out the coffee beans, and then the stomach acid creates like the very special flavor of the coffee beans. People collect those beans, wipe off the poop and then grind it to make coffee. - Yeah. - Apparently it's really delicious. - I've had it. It's actually really fucking good. - Is it the best coffee in the world? - It's pretty up there. - Is it better than Starbucks? (laughs) - Obviously not. - Is it better than the Nespresso? - Nespresso's in a league of its own. (Garnt laughing) - That's readily available. - Have you watched like those coffee YouTubers? - Oh, I can't handle it. (all laughing) - It's like it's so fucking pretentious. - I like to watch it muted. - Yeah, they're like, "So I'm gonna make my morning espresso and they bring out like five contraptions and it's like, surely this is just not practical. Like cleaning this is just a nightmare surely." - Yeah. - Like the reason why I don't grind my own coffee beans and do all that it's 'cause the absolute mess that it makes. - And it takes so much time. Like I remember I got an espresso machine before like the Nespresso. It actually was a proper espresso machine where you have to like grind your beans yourself, put it in and it made so much fucking mess and it took so much time. - Cleaning it is such a bitch. - Like

Output:
- The group discussed the quality of coffee cake and debated the value of a $90 espresso.
- One speaker explained that the expensive coffee was free because their friend was a regular.
- They identified the coffee as Kopi Luwak, noting it is made from beans processed by wild cats.
- The conversation shifted to coffee YouTubers, with participants agreeing that the content was too pretentious.
- A speaker recounted their negative experience with a traditional espresso machine due to the mess and time required.
- The group agreed that Nespresso machines were more practical and that cleaning a proper machine was difficult.


Input: The scene just kept moving forward and don't want to backtrack, so-- No, no, no. Good to remember. You forgot. No, I didn't. No. (laughter) I still have the drugs from All-Minds-Burn, too. We could get weird before everything goes to-- Yeah, that could be fun to do with this group. We should go. Yeah. Yeah, no, we need to-- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go. Sarah, Derek, you're awfully quiet. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. I don't know what is fully going on, but yes. (laughter) We never got our fight in, by the way. Yeah, we'll have to table that for if we're victorious. (grunts) I give him a punch. That's so Nick Cage of you. All right, do you defend yourself? That's so Nick Cage. I was distracted. Let's go! Didn't see it coming. Sure, all right. If you're going to let it happen, then crack, one heavy hit across the minotaur's jaw. Oh, you knocked his face off! (laughter) How's that feel? Just a little love tap? That gives me an idea. Ow. Get you going? You want one back? Yeah. All right. (grunts) Elbow to the chin. (blow landing) Ooh! I was hoping for a horse kick. Catch yourself. (laugh) Feel the blood on your teeth. (shivers) Mm. Let's go! (laughter) Perfect! (laughs) (screams) Ah. (laughs) As you all begin to convene near the entryway to the tower, you all can't help but notice the numerous spectral cats that have gathered down from the various hallways and entrances and upper floors here to see you off. Sort of act like little lanterns in all the marble run entry holes in the passage. Cedric, goodbye, little meow meows. Arthur, bye, cutie cutes. See you next time. I'm going to try to surreptitiously paint a little symbol of Asmodeus on the wall. Okay. You can do it next to the dicks that are thrown around. Great. Yeah, it fits in nicely with the decor. Oh! I just got to get my-- this hair. It's coming off? (laughs) Let me stick a pencil in there. Don't do it, coward. Okay. I was trying that earlier. I got it, I got it, I got it. (laughter) Stepping from the doorway, you emerge into a lightless basement that is tight and enclosed, and with the final person stepping from it, the doorway vanishes and you are now all shoulder to shoulder. Light. (snaps fingers) Should we be in disguise already? Well, we're in a basement, but we shouldn't proceed past this point. So we are going to do Reiloran mostly and three Bormodo. Do I hear anybody moving around up there? Make a perception check. Thank you. Wha? The bigs are the Reilorans-- No, I don't. The littles are the Bormodo? No, you don't. That was a natural one. Nope! I'll do a little Hunter's Bane for fey, fiend, or undead. Sure. And just use the nose. 19. 19. Yeah. As you're all discussing this a bit, you hear a slight shifting up there, but very minimal. Can

Output:
- The group navigated a chaotic conversation regarding their status and past actions, including Dorian mentioning drugs from All-Minds-Burn.
- Nadia engaged in a physical altercation with Borlan, delivering a heavy hit to a minotaur's jaw and later an elbow to his chin.
- The party observed spectral cats gathering at the tower entryway and departed while Julian prepared a Hunter's Bane spell.
- Dorian attempted to paint a symbol of Asmodeus on the wall and struggled with his hair before the group moved into a lightless basement.
- Marcus cast a light spell and made a perception check after hearing shifting sounds, while Julian successfully rolled a 19 on his check.
- The group discussed the distinction between Reilorans and Bormodo, though the DM indicated their initial assumptions were incorrect.


Input:
15. That's actually still pretty good, though. You go through a few of these and you find dark metal daggers, you find pieces of weapons and armor, and you find old leather that is all of that caked in this dark, brown, red mud.
I would be just going like-- trying to go, ting, ting, ting, ting.
--chucking it down into the room. thank you. One gets stuck in the web and hangs there for a second. You do find one belt that has an iron ring on it and a large key hanging from it that was inside one of these and then scatters across the ground.
I go pick up the key.
Okay. I'm going to start trying to, you know, Mission Impossible through the webs to the other side of the door.
I'll grab that little dagger just so--
Okay. You grab it. It's got stuff on it and comes off like dried dirt, rubbing off.
Flakes off or dusts off?
It flakes off.
You guys give a pass of the room. You look over in the back corner of the mama coming out of that whole upper area where it had collapsed inward. Looks like there's a larger alcove in that area.
Sylvia, maybe take a look in the big alcove. Don't go too deep in there or anything. Just get a sense of what's in there, if there is anything living in there, maybe.
(gurgling)
I don't know what that means, but I assume that's okay.
You skitter up, up into the space.
Here, give me yours.
(laughs) As you make your way in, same thing, you see the caked mud everywhere. You see one very large sac that's pressed into the corner. Coloration's a little different from the ones that you were rummaging through earlier.
I have an intelligence of two.
I know, make a perception check.
The mud has a brownish color, grayish color?
Like brown-red, like a ruddy feel. Three. Looking around inside, you don't see much else other than just this large sac that's adhered against the wall and slightly upward and it has heavy strands holding it. It's hanging a little bit, bulbous.
Can I reach down and just scoop some of the mud and smell it?
Yeah, you go ahead and you pull it and pick it up and smell it. It flakes away and crumbles like a dull dirt. Has a tinny, metallic smell, but also like a sulfurous smell to it.
Again.
Do I get the sense that it... I don't know how to put this properly. Are we all right in here? I don't know how to put that other than this mud-- is any of this stuff feeling caustic?
Chernobyl-y?
(chuckles) Make a medicine check, if you want to look at it and see if there is anything organic about it.
Yeah, I'll make a medicine check.
Am I able to ascertain-- 15.
Okay. There are elements of it that feels like blood, but not, or it's a different kind of blood. It's strange. It's bunched in sections where it looks like it may have been more solid and congealed at times. The way it's dried out and become this caked mud. In some places, it's a layer. In some places, it's a bundle. Which, blood doesn't bundle.
No, but--
It coagulates.
I definitely know enough about, yeah.

Output:
- The players searched the area and found dark metal daggers, armor pieces, and a belt containing a key, which Borlan picked up.
- Sarah attempted to navigate the webs while Sylvia grabbed a dagger that flaked off with dried dirt.
- The group moved to a collapsed upper area and discovered a large alcove containing a massive sac pressed into the corner.
- Lyra instructed Sylvia to investigate the alcove, and Derek made a gurgling sound that Lyra interpreted as permission.
- Sylvia scooped some of the brown-red mud, noting its metallic and sulfurous smell, and crumbled texture.
- Lyra performed a medicine check to analyze the substance, determining it resembled congealed blood or a strange organic material that coagulates.


Input: take care of them? No, the-- I'm kidding. I'm joking. Go. All right. I love you. I love you too. I'll bring back a few more rabbits. Oh, and stop by Slayer's Cake. See if they'll send up some of the baked goods, the fresh ones. Of course, Mother. Please. I'll take care of it. (laughs) She just wanders off. They grow up so fast. So fast. Do you see how old she is? What is, what? Wow! She's a woman now. Yes, flirting and all that. Jeez! She's flirting? I mean, she was kind of flirting with Cerkonos. I didn't pick up on it. Me neither. Good. Let's go. Oh, nevermind then. Entering into the castle, indeed, there is the morning smell of a rich brewed coffee that permeates the halls. Some of the family attendants you can see are immediately already in a buzz at the prospect of your arrival, let alone the companions you bring with you. Kind of, "Oh, oh, oh! All right, um-- Ah!" They rush off into the next chamber, processing this unexpected morning arrival. Percival! Some footsteps come and peering around the upper staircase from the hallway in a beautiful off-white nightgown you see a red-skinned girl, probably no more than 11 or so peeking past. Hello. Hi, Gwen. Good morning. Hi, Gwen. You want to come down and say hi? No. (laughter) (footsteps tapping) She's going through a bit of a bit of a phase. Sure. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, I remember that age. Yeah. This is also your child? Yes. There's lots. How many? Five. How many? 13. (laughs) That's more than two hands. They got really busy. Your sweater's so cute. It's getting warm. You look so cute. (laughter) It was getting warm. That's great. Yeah. Having two layers on. You trek up, the smell of coffee beginning to fade until you come to the next floor down the hall and to the massive dark-wood-stained entryway to Percival's personal office. It is slightly ajar. As you remember the familiar, (chuckles) whatever a groggy morning with Percival brings, you gather yourself and step into the chamber. Percival, if you'd like to come to the table, please. Oh shit! Yeah! Get him out here! His hair is just so much. "Jon and Kate Plus 8" hair. (laughter) Jon and Kate! (Elias) It's even worse under this, so. It would've just made everything so much more awful. Elias! So Elias, how do they find you in your office this early in the morning? What time is it again? Oh, it's probably maybe 30, 40 minutes past dawn. Close to maybe 7:00 in the morning. Oh, that's so early. Okay, so I am-- Sounds normal to me. (laughs) In my nightshirt. Mm-hmm. I have not gotten dressed. My hair is wild and white. Cute. And a bit long. The beard has grown in. I am sitting at my desk just working on a few things. I like the early hours to get things done. Come in. I'm back, dear heart. Come on in, dear. I go in and I give him a big old smoochies.

Output:
- The group discussed sending rabbits and stopping by Slayer's Cake to pick up fresh baked goods before leaving.
- They arrived at the castle and encountered attendants buzzing about their arrival, followed by a brief interaction with a young red-skinned girl named Gwen.
- The party inquired about the number of children Aria had, learning there were five, though Nadia claimed thirteen, leading to confusion about the "Jon and Kate" hair reference.
- They proceeded to Percival's office where they found Marcus in his nightshirt with wild white hair and a beard, having just woken up.
- Marcus explained he was working in the early hours and invited the group in, after which Aria greeted him with a kiss.


Input:
hemocraft is largely misunderstood or embraced by people of less than moral persuasions. There are historical elements of blood mages and people that have used and harnessed blood as a power source and to do so you need a lot of blood. It usually involves a lot of bodies. So yeah, hemocraft historically is heavily frowned upon by most society and civilization. Those who practice it, there are different pursuits, but the orders are self-proclaimed keepers of the secrets of hemocraft and you've heard tales here and there about some of them doing good things, some of them doing bad things. They largely wander outside in the outskirts of civilization for that reason, for whatever their purposes may be. But that is what you would understand from your studying in the realm of what the Tomb Takers seem to be trained with.

okay so I would say I probably dithered about a bunch of that. Was there something specific?
yeah they mentioned they were as Sarah said a part of the Claret Order. I just assumed that was a thing like a temple or a religion or something. But does that mean there are more of them and if so is it a small group a big group? Is it someone that we should check in with to see if I don't know are the branches of the Claret Order that are doing the same shit? Or would they be unhappy that these five are talking to each other through a bunch of red glowing eyeballs?
it seems like that would've been a history. That would be history.
I was going to say would Kaelen have heard of this?
both could roll a history check.
27 again.
wow probably not as good. Well well what's 14 plus 16?
a lot.
30?
30.
30.
all right empire kids. it's the eyes the eyes give them special powers. it's true.
you know of the orders but any location of theirs or any specifics is pretty well-kept on their guard because if not they would probably be hunted or at least subject to all sorts of manhunts. But what you both would know is that they're a little nomadic. There is no central location that they stick to. The few that did exist have been burned and toppled.
oh.
probably once they were discovered by members of the Empire or even the Julous Dominion the very very beginning for those who were practicing hemocraft even before the orders really took place.
so it's a little bit like trying to find the Court of the Owls.
yeah yeah.
good ref.
yeah.
you would notice with your passive perception Julian as you're having this conversation and maybe it's the conversation about hemocraft maybe it's just the rude awakening that led you to being a little more focused in the morning but as everyone's getting their materials together donning their armor to start the day you notice beneath Rowan's undershirt this faint red glow that just ever so carefully catches your eye at this proximity. Right across where the sternum is poking outside of the shirt.
so I can see where you were looking. When we were in the quick hurry to get away Lucien while keeping his eyes on you sort of did a back swipe with his scimitar and when he did this arcane circle appeared on my chest and it burned real bad. And I only thought of it

Output:
- The party learned about hemocraft, a forbidden blood magic practice, and the Claret Order that practices it
- Tim and Rowan rolled history checks to determine what their characters knew about the Claret Order, with Tim rolling a 27 and Rowan rolling a 30
- The Game Master explained that the Claret Order is nomadic with no central location, and those discovered by the Empire were hunted and their settlements burned
- Julian used passive perception and noticed a faint red glow emanating from beneath Rowan's undershirt near the sternum
- During combat with Lucien, an arcane circle appeared on Julian's chest and burned him severely


Input: we're in a bubble on the surface. In a basement... uh... in the basement. of a building on the surface. Yeah. Yeah. Technically... um... a little bit beneath the surface. A little bit. We're in a cellar. Just a little underneath the surface. I understand. But what we got to do is get down, down... uh... a few feet. Okay. ... to the city underground. But we haven't seen the city since being here. We have... not since we left. Was it dangerous last time you were here? Yeah, there's a lot of bad guys. Yeah, we had to sneak down inside, barely made it, and then we... I mean, it was how we lost Letters, trying to get out. They've got people patrolling, they've got security, they've got psychics. It's a little rough out there. They've got the Weave Mind and the Weave Mind is everywhere they want to be. Do you think the Weave Mind would have any way to prevent us teleporting closer to it? I don't think so. I guess we'll just find out, right? I'm a little hazy on this point. Maybe one of you knows. Does the Weave Mind not have a base of operations for themselves that we can... I think they did. Yeah, that's where you're heading in. But where is that place? In the center of... Yes. So Kreviris, where we are, most of Kreviris is this sprawling metropolis underneath the surface. So what we are seeing is just the lower class shanty town. But underneath, it's like a city. There's a big glass pillar in the middle of town... column... that is connected potentially to Predathos. Is it shaped like that? Kind of. Yeah. A little bit. A little more jagged, less bees. Yeah, the Weave Mind is in the middle of that. You'll get us close enough to draw a map or something? I could draw a map now. Let's do it! Here you go. How is it? Uh... watching. Roll a dexterity or performance check. Performance check? What? Wait, am I... Okay, I'm Silas right now. Roll a performance check. Sorry, sorry. Pardon me. Excuse me. Guidance. Oh, thank you! Excuse me. Wait, you're Guiding her as... Oh yes, you're Cedric. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. She's very capable. Oh gosh. 15. 15. It's not bad. It's legible and functional. You can see it shows a loose interpretation of some of the neighborhoods and where the glass pillar is, and it marks a structure that's built into the side of the glass pillar that's labeled as the Arx Creonum. That's where y'all are going. Julian, memorize this! Got it. Okay. Now we don't even need it anymore. Oh, well... Uh... watching. That's how good he is. Okay. So how long do we stay together and support each other? Then, when do we split off to do our own thing? Well, we could, I guess, try to maybe meet up with Rashida. Rashinna. Yes. Yeah. Because they have a stronghold. Potentially. But they moved, remember? Because it

Output:
- The group clarified their location as a shanty town in the lower levels of Kreviris, underneath a sprawling metropolis connected to the glass pillar and Predathos.
- Aria described the dangers of the underground city, noting the presence of security, psychics, and the Weave Mind, while admitting they had lost Letters during a previous escape.
- Borlan asked if the Weave Mind could prevent teleportation, but the consensus was that they would need to find a base of operations to investigate further.
- Aria drew a map of the area, identifying the Arx Creonum structure built into the glass pillar as their target destination.
- The group decided to memorize the map details before splitting up to meet with Rashida at their stronghold, despite the stronghold having moved locations.


Input: in a sense right because yeah and even to begin with it's not even like they're they're being paid they're being compensated for this artwork being used uh it's that I think the main issue is that people just haven't consented their artwork being used to essentially yes okay and I'm and I'm against that personally as well of course yeah so like the audience got pissed off because by buying it or using it even though you're not using it for maybe nefarious purposes yes by using their services you're sort of kind of condoning it what yeah and I think that's the problem it's probably because like it's it's there's been such a shift within this just these past few months right because at the beginning of this at the beginning I was gonna say beginning of this year at the beginning of last year yeah hey I was just like haha look at all these funny things that computers and AIS can do oh look I search my name and it does this uh watching and now it's getting to the point where oh this is this can possibly take people's like livelihoods and jobs and now now we have to think what is morally acceptable in terms of how this AI has been made and how this tool has come about okay it's like I'll pose you a question okay so let's let's say there's an AI that has been trained to make YouTube videos to make anime Man videos or something like that and it gets to a point where your videos have been user trained or like your videos have been used to training I was gonna say to make videos about anime but you know you know it's been trained to make videos about Japan yes in the style of your style yeah but it can pump it out way more faster and way more consistently than you could ever and if it looks and it feels like a jury video that's a big problem right because yeah they've essentially used you to replace you and then you don't get a car so I think I think the problem is that the laws right now and the way that it all works is that this was never ever accounted for yes you know that that someone could just use your stuff and use it as training information because normally if you wanted to say uh learn how to play piano like Mozart and let's say there's video footage of it for some reason obviously there isn't but you could just watch it and it'll be up to you to try and figure out how to do it yourself and no one would bet an eye out there yes yeah but so if you give that to a machine and the Machine can just replicate it one for one and spit it out it's like okay well hold on I didn't agree to that yeah when I publish this video I want people to watch it I didn't want people to [ __ ] just replace me with it but but I think at the same time it's it's going to like say looking at it from the musical standpoint right like as someone who has been writing music my whole life it's like I find that as like uh you know maybe not the best way but it is a way to kind of push the medium further in terms of its in terms of its current limits right it's like okay Carly AI has gotten thank you

Output:
- The speakers discussed the lack of compensation and consent regarding the use of personal artwork by AI systems.
- They noted a significant shift in public opinion from viewing AI as a novelty to recognizing its threat to livelihoods.
- The conversation explored a hypothetical scenario where an AI trained on a creator's style could replace them entirely.
- The speakers highlighted that current laws do not account for the use of personal content as training data for machines.
- They compared the replication of human work by AI to learning an instrument from video footage, emphasizing the lack of agreement in the former.
- Despite the ethical concerns, one speaker acknowledged that AI might still serve to push the medium of music forward.


Input: poison damage. Derek: This spider says it's poisonous, so would it be affected or it's a different kind of poison that affects? uh, um... Game Master: It's a different kind of poison, this one. Does it have resistance to poison or an immunity to poison? Derek: Well, it just has a poisonous bite, so-- Game Master: Correct, so the poison still affects it. Derek: Got it. Game Master: Okay. That finishes its turn. Sylvia: These blood spiders-- Game Master: They're both going to stay there. This one's actually going to move around after being hit by Tim. It's going to try and skitter around this side. No, you know what, it's going to go ahead and scoot up the wall. Try and get away from this scenario, so now it's up in trying to crawl back into its space. You do get an attack of opportunity if you want to take. Derek: Yeah, I will bite its abdomen. Game Master: Go for it. Roll for an attack. Borlan: Now I feel bad for it. Derek: I do not at all. Lyra: You also have the d4, though. Borlan: He just wants to go home. Derek: 14. Game Master: 14 hits, roll damage. Sylvia: Nice. Sarah: Kill it. Kill it! Derek: (muttering) --range. Lyra: Just one of those emergency... Derek: That is an eight and then it has to make a poison save itself. Game Master: That's enough. Between that and the bow attack, you kill it. Marcus: Yeah. Game Master: It tries to skitter away and you grab it and snap the fangs into it and it falls limp in your grip and fangs. Lyra: Poor spider. Borlan: Poor spider. Game Master: So-- Marcus: Is that all of them? Derek: Nope, there's one left. Game Master: Oh, there is one left. You're right. Elias: There's two. Right? Game Master: There's one now. Sylvia: That's Sylvia. Marcus: There's one left! Game Master: It's just Sylvia. That was it running away from you. Sylvia, it's your turn. Sylvia: Kill that fucking big spider! Derek: Where is this thing's speed? Okay, so covered in ichor and guts, I spin around in place and see one across the way and I am angry, so I am going to just go jump on its abdomen and bite it as well. Sylvia: No, no, no, no! Elias: Big butt. Game Master: Sarah, you watch as a giant mom spider comes leaping in your direction. Sylvia: Fuck this place! Game Master: (laughs) Derek: Plus four. Six, oh, that's a low roll, though. That is 11. It doesn't hit. Game Master: 11 does not hit. Game Master: No. Lyra: Is that with the d4 even? Derek: Yep. Lyra: Oh. Game Master: Now there's a baby and mama coming at you, Sarah. Sylvia: Gideon, save me! Game Master: Gideon, it's your turn. Marcus: Oh, wow. Has that one taken any damage? Game Master: The one that's by Sarah? Marcus: Yeah. Game Master: It has not. Marcus: Oh, boy. I will shoot it with a crossbow. 27 to hit. Game Master: That definitely hits. Jesus. Elias: This is amazing. Elias: Yep. Marcus: Not as good, but pretty good. Derek: Pretty good, still. Lyra: I mean-- Borlan: Jeez. Lyra: Ew. Marcus: 30 points of damage. Lyra: That's just gross. Game Master: It leaps up and Sarah catches it in the air and you watch, all of a sudden, (whooshes) this bolt emerges from its head. It splatters on you. It's hot. It's not scalding, but it goes and it's like, ho, that's uncomfortably hot. Sylvia: Why is it so warm? Marcus: I'm going to say, we came to crash your website! Is what I meant to say the last time. Lyra: I don't get it.

Output:
- Derek confirmed that a blood spider was affected by a different type of poison and successfully bit its abdomen after an attack of opportunity.
- The group killed the first spider, but realized there was still one remaining, which was identified as Sylvia's turn to act.
- Derek attempted to jump on the abdomen of a second spider but missed with a roll of 11, while a giant mom spider leaped toward Sarah.
- Sylvia expressed frustration and asked Gideon for help, prompting Marcus to take his turn.
- Marcus successfully hit a spider with a crossbow shot for 30 points of damage, causing the bolt to splatter uncomfortably hot on Sarah.
- The group reacted to the gross nature of the encounter, with Marcus jokingly claiming they came to crash a website.


Input: extreme explosion revert back to your form and step back onto your hooves, the heat emerging around you in waves, you see is two of the shadow fragment Fearnes cackling. And themselves just shatter out. Oh, oh, oh, oh! Okay, so two of them! Yeah! Yeah yeah! Okay. Okay. Okay. Both of these look very hurt. They're very hurt. All right. All right. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Was that an action or was that a bonus action? That was a-- Gwen. I'm just saying. Is it a free action to drop the form? Do something else. Do something good. It was an action. Fuck. Then, I already did a bonus action with Mister flaming threw. Do you get a round of something or are you now just down? No. That's it. That's all she wrote. Okay. That finishes your turn? I just take two points of exhaustion now, so now I'm at three? Well-- Because I had one? Right, so it'd be three. Okay. Got it. (laughs) Well, you had two, because you hadn't finished the full rest, because you had two at the end of last time. So now I have four? So you have four points. What happens at four points of exhaustion, DM? I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's been at four points of-- Hit point maximum is halved. Oh wow. That doesn't matter for her right now. No. That's true. That's true. Wait, so-- Disadvantage on everything. Still can't cast? Your movement speed is slowed. Movement speed's halved. Got that chilly neck. Got that chilly neck. Got that chilly neck. Disadvantage on ability checks, disadvantage on attacks and saving throws. I'll be fine. I'll be fine. I'll be fine. I'll figure it out. All right. Does that finish your turn, Rowan? Yeah. All right. Oh, fuck. Cackling, this one is going to attempt to lift off the ground, but cannot because of the Earthbind spell. Oh! Yay! Did it drop? Something came in handy. No. No, she actually managed-- It held. I was able to keep it. She's going to dart up here. Why? Why? Why? And is going to attempt to leap onto the platform over there since it can't. Comin' up from She's on the corner. Barely, barely gets up on there. People's Elbow. What's she trying to do? What's she trying to do? I don't like it. There we go. She's dead! Pick up on the field. Nope. Theater of the mind. I need to put the-- Putty. The putty's going to be needed for this one. Putty, putty, putty. Putty. Put a motherfucker with the putty. (laugh) (laughter) You wanted to. That did well there. You wanted glue. (laughs) You wanted glue. This one's going to (whooshes)-- Too fast to understand. -- end up here. It took me a second. So they do not get their advantage on the attacks, but they're both going

Output:
- The players defeated two shadow fragments, causing them to shatter out after an extreme explosion.
- Aria took two points of exhaustion, bringing her total to four points after a clarification with the DM regarding previous rounds.
- The group discussed the severe consequences of four exhaustion points, including halved hit point maximum, disadvantage on all checks, and slowed movement speed.
- An enemy shadow fragment attempted to lift off but was grounded by the Earthbind spell, allowing Aria to keep it contained.
- The DM described the enemy darting up and barely reaching a platform before being defeated by the players' actions.
- The players engaged in a humorous moment regarding "putty" and glue while discussing the enemy's movement speed and positioning.


Input: C'mon, girl. All right, all right, all right. Cocked. Lure her out. But that first one that wasn't cocked was an 18 anyway, so 22. 22, that does beat your DC. What? So as you cast Polymorph, the effect blasts off his hide, and then reforms towards Beauregard and Beauregard, you suddenly resist an effect that's maybe trying to change and alter your physical form. Wait, you resisted it also? Is that something that can happen, that spell can ricochet off of a--? With him? Is that with him? So she saved? I saved. Oh, god. And to that point, actually, just double-check. This guy's got a lot of tricks up his sleeve, you guys. I forgot it earlier. Elara, if you can go ahead and make a charisma save for me. It would've been really funny to see you turn into a giant crab, though. Yeah. Pop pop! 20. 20? Yeah, you're fine. Cool. All right, Derek. That's your movement, that's your action. Yeah, done. You good? All right, Derek's done. That's tricky. We are now back to the lair action. Redirecting? That's tricksy. Oh, it's reflective. As a lair action, he gets a free Misty Step and is going to teleport 30 feet. Wait, is he moving? This way. As part of the lair action. Not a spell, it's a lair action, right? You got Sentry on his ass, right? As a lair action, it gets to cast, so it is a spell. Gets to cast? But it's him leaving my melee range. Do I still get to make an attack of opportunity? It's a teleport, so no, you would not. He just disappears. That's right. I'm not going to. Not going to. Okay. So with that, leaving Beauregard and Cedric behind... Oh, god. Julian! And Julian falls over. Julian! Slow-mo falling. Oh, I can swim. Yeah. Ah--! Oh, it's fine. It's fine. Teleports 30 feet back as part of Misty Step. You watch as he vanishes, and then suddenly this tiny little sparkle of fire goes across the water. Ooh. All of a sudden he apparates in place again. You watch all the water around him pull back and then immediately begin to shift. You can see the heat itself radiating is causing the visuals around him to warp. That's the lair action. Now it comes to Vilya's turn. Oh, fuck. So Vilya-- She's a orca. Killer whale. So she can do quite well over here. When is he up? When is Vokodo's turn? After Vilya. Same time as Vilya. But still has to-- Range on Call Lightning is 120 feet, so she can do it from there. She's going to fly up a little higher, or swim up as an orca, so she has a visual, and is going to concentrate for a second. The head seems to dip down and the storm above goes crackling lightning striking and strikes down next towards Vokodo, who fails his Dexterity saving throw. Damn. Yep. How many dice is that? 22, 25. So 25 points of lightning damage to Vokodo as the bolt strikes and hits him. That's going to finish her go there. No redirecting of that spell? watching

Output: - Kaelen and the Game Master confirmed that a Polymorph spell successfully ricocheted off a target, causing Beauregard to resist the effect.

Output: - The Game Master directed Elara to make a charisma save and clarified movement and action rules for Derek.

Output: - An enemy creature utilized a lair action to teleport 30 feet away using Misty Step, rendering Kaelen's attack of opportunity impossible.

Output: - The teleportation caused Julian to fall over, though he quickly recovered and noted he could swim.

Output: - Vilya, appearing as an orca, flew or swam higher to cast Call Lightning, striking Vokodo for 25 points of lightning damage.


Input: the worry of being scattered about. This brief, intense storm, within the next 20 or so minutes, passes over and gives way to a blue sky, which is a bit welcoming, though, now you don't know where all of your compatriots are. Are we all scattered separately? For the moment, yeah. How would you like to recover the rest of your troop? I'm going to start screaming. Uh, okay. Derek: I would've immediately stopped the air ship. We are not going anywhere 'til we find all of them. We are doing a full rescue. I don't care what condition we are in. We get proof. We get something to bring back. Is that understood? That's completely understood, and we'll go ahead and do that once the storm passes. Oh, we're still? Okay, fine, we're still waiting. I thought we had-- Right. I was assuming, sir, that we had moved. Yelling at the captain. This is the moment that you emerged from the storm. Okay, okay, yeah. So I figured now you wait the 20 minutes for it to pass. Xandis goes, "I understand you're a bit taken out of your preferred comfort zone from the way the storm has made this really bad. And I get that. Maybe your friends are still alive." It's been a real week. It's been a real week. I understand that. But if we go back down, we're all going to go and this is not going to help anyone for what we're looking for. So we're going to wait til it's done. So, look, it's going away already! We'll be fine. Just sit back, have a cup of cocoa. Wait, there's fucking cocoa? Sorry, Jesus. Dorian: There's fucking cocoa? No cocoa 'til we find everybody. Silas just starts shouting. Ah! Can we hear it through the dust? Any of us hear that? Well, the storm has now subsided a little bit at this time, and in that eerie stillness in the wake of the storm. Is it a flat landscape or is there? There are hills. All right. It's not very high, but there are dunes of sand, there are cracked ground that's broken up a bit on the badlands elements here. In addition to looking for figures that we might recognize, are there any holes in the ground near any of us? Oh shit. Mm-hmm. Make a perception check. Yeah, Lyra's going to hike a dune and do a 360 as well. You as well. Gwen's just going to lay on the ground, listening to Silas calling. Not great. 16. 16. Two 16s, okay. Getting up at your best perspective points, immediately around you, you don't see any sort of chasms, or sinkholes predominantly in your space. Elias, you can hear the screaming of Silas as well. Oh! I'll go towards it. You all, in this space, you can pick up, in this stillness here, you all pick up the sound of the scream of Silas. Ah! Whoa! Ah! I will move toward it. I'm going to take out my pan flute. Oh! -- and play some music so that I can be found easily. Okay, cool. So you start playing the music and you all can-- All except for Nadia can hear the music playing from above. In the interim, Nadia, watching.

Output:
- The group waited for the storm to pass while debating whether to move the airship immediately to rescue their scattered compatriots.
- Derek insisted on a full rescue mission and refused to move until everyone was found, overriding the captain's initial hesitation.
- Dorian and Marcus investigated the landscape after the storm, discovering hills and sand dunes rather than a flat plain.
- The party made perception checks, with two rolling 16s, and confirmed they could hear Silas screaming in the distance.
- Aria decided to play her pan flute to signal their location, while Marcus and others prepared to move toward the sound of the distress.
- The group coordinated their efforts in the eerie stillness, with Elias hearing the screams and the music playing from above.


Input:
discus because I think for most people food poisoning is an illness. There's no question about it.
If you asked me, Connor, what's up? Why can't you come in to record today? I'm not going to be like, I've been poisoned. I'd be like, No. I got sick. I got sick. But in my head, I would have this category, that I would label it. It just happens that now we have to talk about it, and I'm explaining it, and I didn't realize that people didn't see it this way.
So the next time you get food poisoning and you say, Oh, sorry guys. I'm sick., I'm allowed to call you out on that, or?
Yeah. You can be like, Who fucked up? Yeah. Who fucked up.
I'll be like, Did you eat another fucking bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Connor?
Was it you or was it the restaurant this time? Who was it? Who's the culprit?
Here's the thing. If I get sick from a restaurant, and you only know me, it's like, Oh, Connor, you. You don't know, Let's say this restaurant's poisoned 100 other people, then you would start being like, What the fuck is going on? Why is this restaurant still open? The only difference is you only hear my side. But obviously, normally a restaurant wouldn't be doing that. But still. I'm not crazy. This is just, it's perception. I sound like Alex fucking Jones. Turn the frogs gay with the water. You're just hearing one side of the story.
No. No. I agree that food poisoning.
It's just very hard to argue without sounding fucking insane.
I agree that food poisoning is in a different category than, let's say, the flu or tonsillitis, but I would say that there are a lot of illnesses that exists that can exist in different categories, from the flu and food poisoning. A lot of things. But at the end of the day, in my mind.
You count all.
They're all illnesses.
They're all illnesses.
Yeah. But if you asked me, Connor, are you sick? I'd be like, Yes. If I have both. But in my head, I don't treat them the same way.
There are millions of different illnesses, with millions of different ways to prevent it. To stop yourself from getting ill. All this kind of fucking shit.
I want to bear mind, that this is not some hard, scientific definition I put in my head. This is just a mentality I have towards thinking about it.
Don't worry. People don't come to Trash Taste for that shit.
I know. But there's always some of these comments being like, I've got to poke some holes through Connor's thoughts. And it's like, Well, yeah. Because I didn't really think that much about it anyway.
He's just talking out of his arse.
It's just a rough estimation of how I view it.
I just don't see the benefit in labeling food poisoning as a different thing.
I know.
I feel like that's more of copium on your end, to me. I'm not ill. I'm not ill.
Why not just say they're all illnesses?
I don't know. Again, this isn't something that I ever discuss with people. This is not something that comes out in the open often. Obviously, now I'm having to talk about it in front of a million plus people. That was not my intention. This is just a soft.

Output:
*   Connor discussed his unique mental categorization of food poisoning compared to other illnesses like the flu.
*   He explained that while he would tell people he was sick, he internally treats food poisoning differently in his own head.
*   The speakers debated whether it is possible to argue against restaurant safety without sounding insane or like Alex Jones.
*   Connor admitted that his view is not a hard scientific definition but rather a personal mentality he hadn't previously discussed publicly.
*   The group acknowledged that people might criticize his thoughts, but he clarified he was not intentionally trying to label illnesses differently.
*   Connor concluded that he doesn't see the benefit in separating food poisoning from the general category of illnesses.


Input: As it moves beyond, you can see platforms, two of them, that are affixed atop of these legs. There's no central body or any sort of humanoid form to it. This looks to be a moving platform with what at a quick glance is maybe five, six legs of different sizes and makes that move it slowly across the ground. You can see on the lower platform there are about five other Crawlers that are hanging onto cables and ropes, staring down and glowering over the rest of the crowd in the streets as they give a wide berth. On the upper platform above that, you can see a crow's nest scenario where one other Crawler is up there with a long spyglass and some sort of a mounted, long rifle reminiscent of some of the ones that you've seen designed in Whitestone. Though this one is more of a unique Marquesian spin on its particular make. But as they move past, (rumbles) it begins to take up speed (quickened rumbles) and move with a rapidity that you weren't expecting. Not anywhere near as fast as the skirmish-crawlers that you've seen within, but definitely this could move a large group of individuals quite a distance rather rapidly. Julian: Can Marcus clock or zero in on what is powering this thing that's so big? Uh, can Marcus clock or zero in on what is powering this thing that's so big? DM: Make a perception or arcana, your choice. Julian: I will do perception, always. That is a 18. Uh, I will do perception, always. That is a 18. DM: 18. Glancing amongst this particular structure, this massive automaton-like entity, there are three different places within its body. One that's affixed underneath the main platform on the bottom. One that rests on top and to the right and then one that sits catty-corner to the underneath base of that crow's nest portion of its design. There's these metallic cages that hold in them these faint, bluish-purple gems almost that crackle and glow with arcane energy. Occasionally, you see them spark. They flare and bits of arcane sparks shower out and flitter to the ground and scatter a bit. As they do, you can see waves of that same arcane energy flood through these little marketed rune-like grooves that run through the entire network of metal plates and odd bits of scrap that are affixed to it. Most of the coloration of it ranges from gunmetal to shiny bits of silver that are maintained well in some areas. A majority of it in that brownish red rust that has just let the elements take over. Still functional, not being eaten away, but definitely living within the aesthetic of Bassuras and the surrounding Hellcatch Valley. The funds aren't there to keep it looking pretty. Functional is really the main keyword. Which is interesting because as it gets quite a distance away, one of the legs suddenly showers out sparks as it buckles and the whole platform lists to one side and a bunch of them almost slide off and catch themselves. One person leaps off onto the ground and goes, "God fucking damn it!" And kicks the edge of it and shouts up to somebody else who throws down some sort of an odd leather bag and they catch and throw over their shoulder and start pulling through. You see them now trying to figure out how fix it and cursing themselves as you see more arcane sparks fly out. The sense of awe and wonder that you had kept for this is diminished slightly as the crowd begins to go about the rest of their business. The silence that seemed to have captured the center of this open area watching.

Output:
- The group observed a massive, multi-legged automaton platform moving slowly through the streets of Bassuras, populated by Crawlers using ropes and a crow's nest for observation.
- Julian requested to identify the power source of the entity, choosing to make a Perception check which resulted in an 18.
- Upon inspecting the structure, the group identified three locations containing bluish-purple gems that generated arcane energy and sparked within metallic cages.
- The platform's design combined shiny silver with heavy rust, reflecting the functional aesthetic of the Hellcatch Valley region.
- As the vehicle accelerated, one of its legs buckled, causing the platform to list and forcing a worker to leap off and attempt repairs with a leather bag.
- The initial awe of the scene was diminished as the crowd returned to their business following the mechanical failure.


Input: can also mean, can I have some dinner? - Someone could be like, "I'm gonna make tea." - Yeah what does that mean? - That could mean a meal or that could mean a cup. - Sometimes people say 'cuppa.' I don't really like the word cuppa. - A cuppa. - A cuppa. We say that in Australia as well. - British people say cuppa tea. - I think I saw one of you tweet about it. - I've never really grown on the word cuppa. I don't know why it's not really grown on me. - 'Cause some Australians especially those that have British parents, they sometimes say tea for dinner, even in Australia. - Really? - Yeah. - My people. - Like I had a few friends back in high school who had British parents obviously from the north, and yeah, they used to say tea. And I'm like, "I don't even drink tea, bro. Coffee all the way. Fuck off." And then when I realized they were talking about like the meal tea, I was like, "Do you drink tea with every meal? Like what does that mean? How British can you get?" - My mum, right? She microwaves bacon. Isn't that disgusting? - I know a lot of Americans that microwave bacon. - I know a lot of Americans using microwave for a lot of things including boiling water. - I was just a kid I always thought I hated bacon, but I realized I just hated microwaved bacon. Because the fat isn't crispy at all. It's just really soggy. - It's moist. - Sydney's dad microwaves eggs, to make scrambled eggs. - Oh no. - That's like a war, that has to go against the Geneva convention. That's a war crime. - I cook a steak in the microwave. - Nowadays though they're using air fryers. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - We get it Meilyne, you're obsessed with your air fryer. - Oh yeah, didn't you fucking buy an ice cream maker the other day? - Oh yeah, I did. - Don't fucking tell Connor by the way. - See ice cream is the best dessert right? - You're right, I should bring the ice cream maker here. 'Cause I've locked it away. 'Cause I started gaining. - Yeah, bring it here. Let's do it. - Honestly I would love an ice cream maker here. - Bring it here, we can make our own espresso affogatos. - No, no, no. Yogurt, frozen yogurt from this baby is so good. - Just like coffee flavored shit man. - Yes. - Like not coffee jelly. - Okay, here's the thing I've noticed actually. So I do love coffee, I love coffee. It's great. I love my grand dirt water, but I have noticed there's an awful of influx of things that have coffee flavored things that are shit, really shit. You get like get like coffee cookies or coffee bread. And it's just fucking terrible. - I've never seen those. - I've never. - Really? - Yeah. - Like here? - Yeah, yeah. I've had coffee cake, like coffee cake tastes like shit. - I like coffee cake, coffee cakes okay. - No, just get a tiramisu. - I mean that is a coffee cake. - But that's not like breaded coffee cake. - I need to take you to this place, where it's a $90 espresso. I had it three days ago. It was free though. - $90 expresso? - Okay. Wait, why was it free? - thank you

Output:
- The group discussed the ambiguous meaning of "tea" and the Australian usage of "cuppa" tea versus a meal.
- They shared anecdotes about cooking bacon and eggs in microwaves, joking that such methods were war crimes.
- Meilyne admitted to owning an air fryer and an ice cream maker that she had locked away due to weight gain.
- The conversation shifted to a dislike of coffee-flavored baked goods like cookies and bread, contrasting them with tiramisu.
- One participant mentioned trying a free $90 espresso at a place they intended to recommend to the group.
- The conversation ended with confusion regarding why that expensive espresso was free.


Input: You reach out and catch it. You look for a second. It's the heart of the creature. It squishes in your hand, but it also cracks a little bit. It's super dry, but it has this faint warmth to it and it's just sitting there in your hand with this very, very, very pale glow. Okay. Put it in the bowl. Can I put it in the bowl? I mean, it's not your turn. It's not my turn. Uh, Sylvia, you're up. Did I see any of that? I don't know, did you see any of that? Thank you. I was not looking for that at all. I was paying attention to the holes. I'm going to do what Sylvia would do. Sylvia sort of gets and looks over the edge. What exactly does he see? Like how far down does it go? Yeah, how far down that slope? The River Styx. How far down do I see? From how you look down, you can see down about ten feet or so where the edge of where the bodies begin and beyond that, from what little bit of light is here, you can see about 20 feet below and it's just bodies and bodies and bodies and bodies. Watching. The bodies that are ten feet away are what? Corpses coming up? Yeah. They're climbing. You see the pockmarks and the little elements in the outside. They're climbing them and coming out of the hole and joining you guys up on the platform. Oh, fire in the hole! All right. That's what he would do. So I am throwing a ball of fire down about 40 feet. Yeah. Okay. Deep explosion. You guys feel the ground shake a bit from the impact. Roll some damage. Oh god. We're setting free whatever is buried here and supposed to be entombed forever. We're fucking that up. Is there a door right here? Yeah. Yep. Nobody's checking that door? 29. 29. I though that's what the investigation was at the beginning. I thought it was sealed. It's a sealed door. Nobody's actually checked it? You didn't see any opening or space or--? We didn't check it. We didn't check it to see if there was a hidden latch, traps? Well, we're in the middle of-- No, I know. Looking at a pedestal. Now there's corpses coming out of holes. We're fine. We're fine. Just as long as someone actually does something, we're fine. We're clerics. Um, bodies and limbs and chunks of dried zombie parts go flying out of the hole and scattering across the room, hitting the far wall on the opposite side. Flung on the inside and you can see a whole section of it's exploded and then falls in to create this little pit in there. With a dismembered bitch slap as it comes out, like splats. Yeah, Sarah, make a dexterity saving throw. No! Aw, yeah! Make a dexterity saving throw. Damn it! A four. It slurps off the face. It's hooked on the tusk. The finger moves, the fingers try to climb their way-- Ah, no! No, you don't know where that's been, come on. That's creepier than the spiders. Thanks for that, Sylvia. Shit. Yeah.

Output:
- The Game Master described the creature's heart, which felt dry, warm, and pale, prompting Elias to suggest placing it in a bowl.
- Derek took the initiative to look over the edge of the slope, revealing the River Styx and a mass of climbing corpses emerging from the hole.
- Derek threw a ball of fire down the hole, causing a deep explosion that shook the ground and scattered zombie parts across the room.
- Borlan expressed concern that their actions were releasing creatures that were supposed to remain entombed forever.
- The group realized they had neglected to check a sealed door for hidden latches or traps while investigating the pedestal.
- Sylvia failed her dexterity saving throw, resulting in a zombie limb hooking onto her face with a finger trying to climb.


Input: more detailed than you anticipated. Upon inspecting a number of these entities-- uh, oh, Jesus, a lot of them. That's not good for my anxiety, thank you. A number of these entities, Lyra recognized members of his family amongst these statues, and as you begin to assess the scenery, you heard the heavy hoofbeats of a creature charging from the treeline in your direction. A metally-armored bull-like entity, swollen with muscle, and it seemed to be these piercing barbs that push between its metal plates, emitting some sort of a greenish feeling from between its various exposed underbellies, its giant carved horns pushing forward and hooked as it barreled towards you. You hear this large bellowing roar as its mouth opens up, not like that of a bull's, but like a giant two-part scoop jaw, It is unnatural, it is mutated, and it is charging your direction. I need, first off, you all to place yourselves on this battlefield. Lyra, you had just inspected your two members of your family right there. Cool. I'm near the water line. I like that we don't need to know where this creature is-- I know! (laughter) Of course! I'll go... Yeah. There you go. All right, Beauregard. I don't know. I'll be-- Not there! No, from, up a little bit from Lyra. Here? Yeah, that sounds good, that sounds good. Okay. I remember that I said I was curious about different kinds of animals. Let's put me by the moorbounder-looking statue. The young moorbounder there? Yeah. You got it. Okay, I feel like, I'm going to go-- that way, near the shoreline, because I was peeking into it. The other side, yeah, yeah. Here? Yeah. Just because, why not be alone out there. Nadia? Sorry, Chris, sorry, Chris. I'm going to say that I was near Sarah. So that'd be over in this region. Whereabouts? Let's be-- I'm going to be checking out this little dude over here. Okay, you got it. He's going to come in behind me and kill me. Derek would like to be in Boston at PAX East where you can check out the Dwarven Forge booth at Elderwood Academy booth where you can go check out Dwarven Forge and get a peek at their Kickstarter, Wildlands. Really? Find out more at DwarvenForge.com, but Derek can't be there, so instead, Derek would like to go closer to that tree. I like that you-- What tree? -- threw that over your shoulder and it landed directly in front of us. Yeah, because it was like, you're not done with this. Derek. Like here? Like up on the top of here, behind it? Yeah, which direction were we moving in? You guys are moving up along-- And we were walking-- I want to be not close to the water. That's true. So just like, yeah, where that hump is next to that tree. Right here? That'd be great, yeah. Okay, there you are. My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump. Check it out! And thereabouts just where it's coming from. What? Moo! No. That's the sound I imagine it makes. No! So need everyone to roll initiative, please. (groaning) watching

Output: - The party inspected statues and identified family members within the group while a mutated bull-like creature charged from the treeline. - Players discussed their positioning, with Dorian moving near the water line and Sarah placing herself slightly above Lyra. - Marcus requested to stand by a moorbounder-looking statue, and Gwen chose a spot near the shoreline to be alone. - Kaelen decided to check a small figure while Gideon moved Derek's character to a tree near a hump, avoiding the water. - The group engaged in playful banter about the creature's sounds before the DM called for initiative rolls.


Input: time is it? (laughter) By this point, I'd say it's early to mid-afternoon. Clara: Oh. I was going to say we could-- Let's go to bed. Uh, let's go to sleep. (laughter) Clara: Sleep on it. It's too early. Okay. Maeve: I'm going to start walking back to the-- Dorian: One day we can work on an exfil plan before we do anything. Cedric: Well, if it gets weird, once we get him in the black hole, we've got 10 minutes to figure out what the hell we want to do with him after that. Dorian: Yeah, we should have this-- I mean, we're trying to get him out of-- We're behind enemy lines. Right? Tim: Literally, we wouldn't even have to fight him. All we would have to do is push him into the hole, grab the hole, run, find a quiet place to pull him out, tie him up, gag him, and then figure out a way to get him back out of the city. If anyone-- Maeve: Literally keep pulling him up and down. Tim: Anyone comes looking or tries to find him, we just throw him back in the hole and fold it up and hide it. Dorian: I'm all here for it, I'm just trying to-- Tim: As long as we can get away within 10 minutes. Cedric: Are you saying every eight minutes we open the hole and close it again? Julian: That's right. Get him fresh air. Yep. Yep. Dorian: Shove him back down like a fucking Whac-A-Mole. (laughter) Tim: I mean, I've done worse things in my life. I'm not going to say I haven't done better things. I feel like a bit of a bad person for this one. Julian: He literally becomes an art print that you carry under your arm. Then we can just go from building to building through the entire city. Clara: So letter? Letter? Elias: Letter today, or are we-- DM: Arthur's gone. Julian: Yeah, Arthur didn't want to-- Clara: Oh great. Okay. Tim: Arthur's pretty smart. Elias: Well, I guess we're just going to spend the night here, then. Tim: We're going to spend the night. We're going to figure out exactly what the letter should say, where we want him to meet us, and see if we can just set a little bit of-- Julian: To get info on the owner. Tim: -- thing. Or a bit of a trap. We're just going to make a trap. DM: All right. Tim: That's all. Cedric: We have several options. DM: Arthur, you trek back to the Bank of Renewal, back to the River of Renewal What are you looking for? Maeve: I'm just going to walk on in to the River of Renewal. DM: All right. Maeve: Is there somebody at the front desk? DM: Indeed. The same two figures that were running it before, the gentleman who initially had the conversation from what you gathered in corresponding with Dusk, steps up, "Hello? Hi, can I help you?" Maeve: I'm looking for a present. DM: "Of course. What sort of "present can I find for you?" Maeve: Something that looks fabulous, but doesn't cost too much money. DM: Looks over to his associate, who gives a nod and pulls a small satchel out and begins pulling out these-- they're wooden drawers about that big and sets them out. "These are generally more of the-- "It'd be considered costume jewelry but not quite as poor. "They are presentory, but, you know, affordable "for those of us on a squeezed copper." Maeve: Right? Nothing too ostentatious.

Output:
- The group discussed spending the night and debated a trap involving pushing a target into a black hole and hiding it, with Dorian and Tim agreeing to the plan.
- Julian proposed turning the target into an art print to move through the city, while the group realized Arthur had left and decided to write a letter to set a meeting.
- Cedric and the DM confirmed that Arthur trekked back to the Bank of Renewal and the River of Renewal to search for something.
- Maeve approached the front desk at the River of Renewal and asked the attendant for an affordable present that looked fabulous.
- The attendant showed Maeve a satchel of wooden drawers described as presentory costume jewelry suitable for those on a squeezed copper budget.
- The characters finalized their plan to spend the night in the city to refine the trap and the letter before proceeding.


Input: and that's all you hear. He's interested, maybe! Was it on the way home already? Yeah, he said he was on the way home already. Uh, maybe tell him there's lots of them. Lots of ships. Lots of them. Exactly where they are. Unguarded. Unguarded, and time is limited. Okay. Good, good, good, good. Because we're going to take it and run soon. Okay. That's a lot to fit in. What side of the island is Heaven Falls on? East side? thank you. East side, yeah. East side of the island, behind the waterfall. Behind the waterfall. With your spell that you can make people understand things, languages? Yeah. Is it only reading, or is it talking? Well, it's two separate things. Can you make me be able to talk his language? Tomorrow. Okay. That upside-down waterfall's not going to uppercut him into the stratosphere, is it? Like it did us? Uh, watching. He's pretty big; I don't think it will do it to him. Okay, just checking. But that would be funny. We'll know when he gets there! Oh, wait. No, no, no. You could do it? I can do it, yeah. Because this is the same day with the everything is cake tower that we... Correct, yes. Yeah, I can do it. Good ref. Oh my gosh, okay, yeah! Cast it on me and then I'll be able to talk to him! Yeah, Nadia, yeah, yeah, yeah... Hold on. I'm just looking through D&D Beyond. Where did you go? D&D! D&D Beyond! Yeah. So he pulls out a little stone tower that you've seen once or twice, and I hold it up, and wave fingers at three points in front of your face and cast Tongues on Nadia. So you can understand any spoken language you hear. Awesome, okay. I'm going-- Can you understand what I'm saying right now? What the shit?! What happened to your accent, Derek? I don't have an accent. This is flawless Zemnian. Does that mean I'm speaking Zemnian? Does that mean I'm speaking Zemnian? Is that what I sound like most of the time? Yeah, like sort of a Baltimore thing. Is that in the Empire? Yeah. It does sound just like that, though. That's weird. Well, it suits you. Thank you. Say water. How do you say water? Water. I was expecting-- Wudder. The accent... it's cute. It's complicated. I'm speaking Zemnian right now. Can you understand me, Kaelen? Feel like she's spitting at me. She sounds really angry, right? Yeah. I think she's pissed at you. Okay, I'm going to send a message to the turtle. What are the points? Okay, the points are: Easy pickings. I'm going to say-- Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm going to say, lots of ships unguarded. Behind the upside-down waterfall. East side of the island. East side of the island, upside-down waterfall. Time is limited. Time is limited, 'cause these things are moving out! We're taking them tomorrow. Okay, well... Taking them tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow morning. Tomorrow

Output:
- The group confirmed that the ships were unguarded and located behind an upside-down waterfall on the east side of the island.
- Borlan asked Sylvia to cast the Tongues spell on him to allow him to speak Zemnian.
- Sylvia successfully cast the spell on Nadia, allowing Borlan to understand and speak the language flawlessly.
- The group tested the new ability by mimicking various accents, including Zemnian and a Baltimore dialect.
- Borlan prepared a message to send to the turtle regarding the ships, noting that the enemy was moving out tomorrow.


Input: solitary mirror. "Some believe maybe it's where the good dreams go to be kept. "Others think it's where the bad dreams go to die "and are left to become silt and dust. "Others... "it's a symbol of what happens if we don't focus "on the things that we want to accomplish, "and we too will be left there in endless darkness, "alone and pale." Jeez. Oh. Have we seen Catha in the sky since we've arrived? I'd say you've seen a little bit of Catha, a little bit of that curling just beyond when you first got here and now it's out on the open space. Uh, cool. Okay. So-- above table talk again, the Weave Masters-- Weave Mind. The Weave Mind usher the flares? Did you say what that looks like? It's just bright. Those are the Ruidian flares. Yeah. But yeah, we don't know what they look like on the surface. Because I asked if it was like boom. Yeah. They've been doing it a lot lately, which is their fuckery, which is whatever their big dick plan is. Yeah. Did you say what happens to them when the flares happen? The Weave Mind, you mean? The people. He didn't say. You can ask. Okay, I wanted to make sure I wasn't retreading territory. No, it wasn't clarified. Yeah, so I ask: When these flares happen, when they usher in flares, what does that do to you all mentally? Well, a flare, as you call them, we refer to them as a beat. It's the beat of the heart of The One Who Sleeps. In these moments, the land alights with a vibrant near-blinding red hue and a euphoric unified dream washes over all of us. What's the dream? It's not experiential. It's the closest I could experience to spiritual. It feels connected. like something-- Any sort of loneliness you felt suddenly cast away for a moment. Oh. Oh. That sounds-- Oh. You feel connected to everyone on this world? On Ruidus? Or feel connected to people? The Dreamers? Wait, what? What? I don't know. Maybe? Maybe. In your head, I'll say to the group. If a flare happens, there might be a way for Predathos to pull people, get control. That sounds very much like when I reach out to him, that's what I feel. It's hard to fight. The flares might-- Oh, like it binds them to him? Yeah. Yeah, under his control. If we're here when that happens, that'd probably be pretty rough. You also do know from the lore that you've acquired and the knowledge that you've both learned of your past that the Ruidusborn are those that are born under a flare. Historically, through all of Exandria's history, since the flare's been spoken of, that's what the Ruidusborn-- That's where the Ruidusborn started. I actually have a question. Another one. (laughs) Sorry, I don't know why I started with that, because I'll probably have more. When people are born here during a flare, does that mean anything? Generally, it means it's a rude awakening when they come to from the reverie, but, it's just considered a cause of celebration. Wow. Not to get graphic, but you mentioned you're all carved from Exandria. but you mentioned you're all carved from watching

Output:
- The group discussed the nature of dreams, the solitary mirror, and the arrival of Catha in the sky.
- Lyra and the DM clarified the terminology regarding the Weave Mind and the nature of Ruidian flares, which were described as beats of the heart of The One Who Sleeps.
- The DM explained that during these flares, a vibrant red hue appears and a euphoric, unified dream washes over the population, casting away loneliness.
- Julian expressed concern that the flares might allow Predathos to control the people, while the DM noted that Ruidusborn are those born under a flare.
- Borlan asked if being born during a flare held special significance, and the DM stated it is considered a cause of celebration despite the rude awakening.
- The conversation ended with Lyra noting that the people are carved from Exandria, though the transcript cut off before further details were provided.


Input: Just trying to keep up with you. (laughs) It's good to-- I feel like I don't have to hide as much, just even for this moment. uh, [engine rumbling] Must be all the airships. I told them they should go ahead and push off. So they'll be heading to Marquet. Oh, I saw Gwen earlier. Heading into a bar? Mm-hmm. Borlan would probably be with him. Yeah, I think so. Start there. Yeah. Then, Elias will jump at the chance. You think? He seems grumpy, but I think he's tired of staying at home. How is he? Grumpy! (laughs) But once you get him out, I think he'll be wonderful. Good. Have you heard from Kaelen? No. Me neither. We'll have to find him. I've tried to reach out from time to time and can't get through. Well, I'm assuming that that's on purpose. He could be on a three week bender in his mansion for all we know. (sighs) Start where we can. To the bar. All right. Let me just-- Get a jacket. Oh, yes. It's been cold. Ugh, this-- Bees. I walked through bees earlier and-- (laughs) Why are they stuck to you though? I don't know. (laughs) Tempest shit. Tempest shit. Walked through that Wildmother garden with that other group and, ugh. Okay. You really think they'll be able to pull this off? You know, I think back to when there was very little faith in us and how annoying that was. So, I try not to be hypocritical. Those names though, Fiona. Thank you. Was it okay? I was just-- They sounded so powerful. I saw their chests raise up as you said the names. I really think you did them a service. It's not just them either I had to come up with. Like Xandis, that guy, I've said three words to him. Then all these other people, just to try and get Vasselheim to respect them. (laughs) (sighs) It's so ridiculous. All right. Stupid titles. (sighs) Ugh. Got to respect the old guard though, I guess. Hmm, yes. Vasselheim. So much respect. Let's go. All right. Honestly, I could use a beer. Okay. It doesn't take too long to find the exterior of the Cluttered Cloister, one of the local taverns of Vasselheim that allows members of the clergy to come and drink non-alcoholic drinks while serving many to those who aren't and often serving some to those who aren't supposed to. (laughs) But entering the inside of the tavern, you can already hear the music kicking off of a jovial atmosphere that both reveals that of people who are blowing off some steam after a long day, a long week, and those that are blowing off steam before the coming of what's likely to be a very, very-- Wait, they do not serve alcohol here? Oh, they do. Yeah. Okay. They're not supposed to serve it to clergy. But they do-- Borlan instantly coming out. It's like, I'm fucking leaving. (laugh) Now what are you two up to inside? (Gwen)

Output:
- Dorian and Aria discussed the plan to find Elias and Gwen at a bar in Marquet, noting that Elias might be grumpy but willing to leave his home.
- The group decided to visit the Cluttered Cloister in Vasselheim, where Dorian had previously encountered bees and struggled with naming conventions for new titles.
- They entered the tavern and learned that while clergy were not supposed to be served alcohol, the establishment did serve it to others.
- Dorian and Aria laughed when Borlan reacted strongly to the alcohol situation, with Dorian joking about leaving.
- The atmosphere inside the tavern was described as jovial, with music playing and patrons blowing off steam.
- Julian and the group discussed the current situation with Gwen, preparing to determine their next actions inside the tavern.


Input: vanishes, and you see an opposing side open once again. Immediately bursting through, you see a large, nine-foot troll with elongated arms and legs start rushing into the fray, screaming this high-pitched yelp. As it runs, you can see its skin, as opposed to the deep forest green that you've read about or seen in trolls in your experiences, this looks like a dull teal-blue color. You watch as the dwarves, all of a sudden, rush in. The gnomes begin casting spells, and this assault goes back and forth. You see with each strike this cold mist off the claws of the troll with each blow. You watch as the gnomes begin to apply fire upon fire, and you watch as the entity burns, their intelligent knowledge of the creature causing it to prevent it from regenerating. Fairly rapidly, they make short work of it. They were prepared, and it was not as intense a battle as you were expecting. With that-- Derek: Did it look like they prepared anything with fire before the creature came out? DM: To your memory, you didn't know that. You didn't notice anything. With the final of the battle, the cheers go wild, the crowd goes crazy, and eventually, The Mountain Makers make their way back into the field. Anything else you guys needed to prepare at this time? Gwen: They had real good teamwork. Maybe we should come up with special moves. Marcus: Like what? Elara: Like heal. Marcus: Like don't run up so close, or at least wait a little bit first to gauge the beast. Gwen: What? Marcus: Don't run into the -- You're going to die! DM: "Out from the Menagerie Coast! The Stubborn Stock!" Marcus: Oh, that's not us. DM: Behind you, as the doors open, they move past you. Darrow goes, "Hey, wish us luck, friends," and enters into the sunlight. Fiona: Good luck! DM: The doors close. Looking out past the way, another door opens off to the side, and you watch as a 15-foot-long crocodile becomes barreling into the center, its jaws opening and snapping as it comes rushing in. It climbs over the wall that the guys are getting behind to defend and immediately snaps down on one of the soldiers, who gets hit in the side and screams out in pain. They all begin to rush in and assault, jumping off the wall and getting onto its back. You watch as Darrow climbs up onto it, taking a shortsword that one of his friends had dropped, and jams it into the top of the head. As he pulls out his battleaxe, he begins to hack away. He seems to be laughing. Another friend pries the mouth off of the one soldier that had been stamped on. He limps away as it spins around, its tail slapping one of its friends, sending him flying back ten feet as his weapon goes skidding into the sky. It hits the dirt off the way. He runs to try and retrieve it. The battle goes back and forth for a while. One of their friends goes down and one of his allies grabs and pulls him away from the battle zone as he begins to try and wake him up. At this point, you watch as Darrow makes a couple of motions to his friends, and they all cycle in and assault at one time, cutting at the throat of the large crocodile as Darrow takes his axe and carves out one of its eyes. As it pulls back, screaming in pain, they both come underneath and cut

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- A large, teal-blue troll rushed into the fray, but the gnomes and dwarves successfully countered its regeneration using fire spells.
- The crowd cheered as The Mountain Makers returned to the field, and the group discussed potential special moves like healing or tactical positioning.
- Darrow entered the sunlight to face a new challenge after Marcus noted that the "Stubborn Stock" was not their team.
- A 15-foot crocodile breached the wall, injuring a soldier and sending another friend flying with its tail.
- Darrow and his allies coordinated an assault, with Darrow carving out the crocodile's eye and cutting its throat.
- An ally pulled a fallen friend away from the battle zone to attempt waking him up while the fight continued.