2026-01-30

Tyram: Let's see what's the worst I can do. You can't roll worse than a 23 on your

Christopher Hooper: That is helpful. Let's see. So, this

Justin Hale: Where the

Christopher Hooper: is everyone who's going to arrive on time. Is that

Justin Hale: hell?

Tyram: acrobatics. Um, Zach said late, but I don't know how

Justin Hale: Nice.

Tyram: late that

Christopher Hooper: right?

Justin Hale: Oh, that's

Tyram: meant.

Justin Hale: true. Um, I bought a new truck today that you guys are going to

Tyram: Is it a Ford

Justin Hale: love.

Tyram: F-150?

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. A

Justin Hale: It's better than

Christopher Hooper: Maverick Ford 250

Justin Hale: that. I put a picture of it in

Tyram: Impossible.

Christopher Hooper: 350. Oh, gross.

Tyram: Why' you say love when obviously I would hate

Christopher Hooper: No,

Justin Hale: Discord. Oh, sorry. I

Tyram: this? You know

Christopher Hooper: actually I actually actually really like that

Ali Leonard: I thought it was going to be a

Ellis Taylor: I'm sure I'm going to love it as soon as I make it

Justin Hale: meant one other person in this group will love

Tyram: what's really funny is that like in reality I have no opinion

Ali Leonard: PT

Justin Hale: it.

Tyram: about pickup trucks at all. But like the the

Ellis Taylor: there.

Tyram: running gag about like F-150's rule,

Ellis Taylor: Oh, nice

Tyram: Tacoma's drool has become such a big part of the group dynamic they can't

Christopher Hooper: vehicle.

Tyram: let go of

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Ali Leonard: Cruiser.

Ellis Taylor: Tacoma. Is it a five foot bed? Looks like a five foot

Tyram: it.

Christopher Hooper: Is that a

Ellis Taylor: bed. Yeah. Lightly

Christopher Hooper: crew cab? Is that a crew

Ellis Taylor: lifted. Yes, it is a crew

Justin Hale: Yeah. Do

Tyram: Oh, apparently Zach is plugged

Christopher Hooper: cab? I feel like that's the

Ali Leonard: Yeah. Come

Ellis Taylor: cab.

Justin Hale: what?

Tyram: in enough to comment on that,

Christopher Hooper: biggest cab I've ever seen on a Tacoma.

Ali Leonard: on.

Ellis Taylor: I

Justin Hale: Yeah, that's what's on my uh on my old

Christopher Hooper: Oh, is it? Okay. I'm just remembering

Ellis Taylor: was on my Tacoma

Christopher Hooper: my Tacoma which had only the the bed

Tyram: but how long does it take to like power wash off a smell of

Christopher Hooper: seat up

Tyram: like regret and shame off of a new

Justin Hale: one.

Ellis Taylor: too. Never. Because they're the perfect vehicle.

Christopher Hooper: front. They are really good trucks and I'm really excited for uh the like when Toyota finally gets into the EV game because I want a EV

Ellis Taylor: No, I

Tyram: Tacoma.

Christopher Hooper: Tacoma.

Ellis Taylor: know. We looked at the hybrids, but they're like

Justin Hale: got some bad

Ellis Taylor: not worth

Justin Hale: news. That's there. So, the rumor is that Toyota's not going to move any of their stuff to FE.

Christopher Hooper: Well,

Ali Leonard: That's

Ellis Taylor: it.

Justin Hale: It's all going to be

Christopher Hooper: I'm looking at a article that says expected around 26

Ali Leonard: perfect.

Christopher Hooper: 27.

Justin Hale: hybrid. That was that was the hope. They're uh they're building a bunch of batteries for their hybrid engines now. They're they're pivoting at the

Christopher Hooper: So, um yeah, it's

Ali Leonard: What's

Justin Hale: moment. Everyone's pivoting at the moment. I

Christopher Hooper: really

Justin Hale: uh I'm sure it I'm sure it has nothing to do with

Tyram: Oh

Ellis Taylor: Nothing at

Tyram: man. Hello,

Christopher Hooper: annoying. You see

Ellis Taylor: all. What a happy

Christopher Hooper: them?

Ali Leonard: that?

Ellis Taylor: lady.

Justin Hale: politics. Look at them

Tyram: Francis. Looks like she's grown a lot since the last

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: Mhm. Rosie.

Justin Hale: cheeks. Camera making them that or are they

Tyram: time I saw her. Really feel like it's not that long

Christopher Hooper: They are very rosy because

Justin Hale: really

Tyram: ago.

Christopher Hooper: because she has been drooling and snotting and Yeah. You want to wave? Hi.

Ellis Taylor: Yep.

Christopher Hooper: Hi. What do you think? Can you wave?

Ali Leonard: Thought about

Ellis Taylor: Hi.

Justin Hale: He's like, "No, dude.

Tyram: Classic. Hey sir, red too. Or how's

Ali Leonard: it.

Tyram: it

Christopher Hooper: What was

Ellis Taylor: That looks very

Tyram: I just couldn't tell if was like coming in red like Astrids was

Christopher Hooper: that? Oh, no. It's brown. It uh it look it's

Justin Hale: Bye.

Christopher Hooper: it's a lot It's pretty similar to my my coloring.

Ellis Taylor: brown.

Justin Hale: Did neither one of them get your curly

Christopher Hooper: Uh, not yet, but there's still time. They're both It's both thick

Tyram: or

Christopher Hooper: hair, so we'll see.

Ellis Taylor: Mhm.

Justin Hale: hair? It's crazy. IA got my hair and my eyes and Ollie got Christina's hair and Christina's eyes.

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Do you have curly hair,

Justin Hale: I have wavy

Christopher Hooper: Justin? Okay.

Justin Hale: hair. Like it's it's real and like when I let it grow out, it's not like curly like yours, but like it'll start to curl

Christopher Hooper: Okay. I guess I guess the is not so much curly as just kind of like

Justin Hale: up. Hers is hers is pretty damn curly. Uh, Silia is convinced that it's going to stay curly like

Christopher Hooper: mess. That'd be

Ellis Taylor: or get curlier. My little brother had like

Christopher Hooper: cool.

Ellis Taylor: soft curls when he was little and then when he grew up it became like tight

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: corkcrew like Shirley Temple

Justin Hale: Yeah, I uh my parents didn't cut my hair till I was like four, so I had like

Christopher Hooper: Oh, that's

Ellis Taylor: hair.

Justin Hale: long hair as a and I had little ringlets, but not

Ellis Taylor: Wow.

Justin Hale: not to the degree that Thea has. Thea has like curly ass

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. Ted has my hair texture. It's so funny and blonde.

Justin Hale: hair. Yeah.

Tyram: Were you ever blonde when you were younger or was it

Christopher Hooper: funny.

Tyram: always

Ellis Taylor: I was I had like it was lighter, but my hair photo bleaches. So if I'm

Christopher Hooper: I feel like start of high

Ellis Taylor: out in the sun, then it gets

Tyram: darker?

Christopher Hooper: school. I remember I thought your hair was like fairly blonde to dirty blonde and it got darker and darker like throughout high

Ellis Taylor: light. Yeah. It's

Christopher Hooper: school.

Ellis Taylor: because I would go to summer camp every year, every summer. And so I'd

Christopher Hooper: Oh,

Ellis Taylor: be in and out of the pool. I've been in and out of chlorine. And then like there was no such thing as inside. And I'd be there for a month straight. So my hair would like every time I went people like, "Did you dye your hair?" I'm like, "No, just give it till the end and it'll be light

Christopher Hooper: right.

Ellis Taylor: again." And not on purpose. It's the

Justin Hale: Not on

Ellis Taylor: chlorine guys in the

Justin Hale: purpose. Yeah, mine uh mine used to do that. Mine used to do that from uh

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: sun. Oh.

Justin Hale: suntan lotion. So, I would like sun my face and we'd go out uh every weekend on the boat and my hair would lighten up

Ellis Taylor: Oh, that's

Justin Hale: everywhere that the suntan lotion was touching. It was

Tyram: I feel like you shouldn't be rubbing suntan lotion in your hair, but yeah,

Christopher Hooper: Mhm. I think

Justin Hale: bizarre.

Christopher Hooper: it's it

Justin Hale: Well, this and then it gets all over the place.

Tyram: whatever.

Justin Hale: My uh my mom was absolutely crazy about sunscreen because uh one of my buddies was

Christopher Hooper: happens.

Ellis Taylor: wild.

Justin Hale: uh he was a ginger like full on like blonde hair, not even orange hair that like white almost white hair and pale skin and he went out on the boat with us one time

Christopher Hooper: Uh oh

Justin Hale: and he forgot to reapply. He like applied sunscreen once then forgot to

Christopher Hooper: no. Oh

Ellis Taylor: Oh

Justin Hale: reapply. Ended up having to go to the hospital

Christopher Hooper: no. Oh

Ellis Taylor: no.

Justin Hale: for sun Yeah. So, ever since then, my mom was like,

Christopher Hooper: no.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Justin Hale: "Okay, no, we're setting timers. You guys are putting on

Tyram: Well, better safe than sorry with stuff

Justin Hale: sun every 30

Tyram: like that. I guess 30 minutes might be a little bit of a quick turn around,

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. I got some

Justin Hale: minutes." Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: poisoning. Oh, I bet. I got

Justin Hale: She felt so bad. She felt responsible for him

Tyram: but

Ellis Taylor: some poisoning as a kid. I've got like a scar on my chest that like

Justin Hale: for

Ellis Taylor: doesn't tan. It's like this white spot. Like just like this white scar.

Justin Hale: really. Oh, yeah. I I had one of those on my back. I had to get it cut out. They had to

Christopher Hooper: Oh,

Justin Hale: biopsy it because they thought it was skin cancer. Yeah. Mine Mine was like scary. Like it was like bubbling over

Ellis Taylor: Mhm. No. Yeah. I know. It's just like this kind of like area that's just like spot

Justin Hale: and like starting to

Christopher Hooper: wow. It It started talking to

Ellis Taylor: that just doesn't tan

Justin Hale: like Yeah. Yeah. Mine was

Ellis Taylor: anymore.

Justin Hale: like I was like, "Hey, you doing up

Christopher Hooper: you. I'm Kevin.

Tyram: Oh man, I don't know if I'm on board with like

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Justin Hale: there?" That's That's the origin

Tyram: aggressively Brooklyn and

Ellis Taylor: Oh, I finally

Tyram: Kevin. That's

Ellis Taylor: seen uh Minions or Despicable

Tyram: good.

Ellis Taylor: Me. Finally.

Justin Hale: again. Not or those are two those are both different movies.

Ellis Taylor: I've seen I we watched all of the pickles bulls that are out and then we watched the Minions

Justin Hale: Which one

Tyram: So, you've seen them all like that. I don't think I've ever seen any

Ellis Taylor: movie.

Justin Hale: did Yeah.

Tyram: of them all the way through except for the first one, but they're

Christopher Hooper: Nice.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Justin Hale: So,

Tyram: good.

Ali Leonard: I've I've seen the first one and that's

Justin Hale: really, I love the

Tyram: I

Ellis Taylor: Cute. I think the Minions movie is

Justin Hale: first one. I'll watch the first one. Yeah, the first one's

Tyram: mean, I feel like they hit a good sweet spot where

Ellis Taylor: funnier.

Tyram: like they're inoffensively funny, you know, and the minions

Ali Leonard: it.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: are, you know, funny enough that like, you know, just you

Justin Hale: fantastic.

Tyram: can see why they have like a million like memes and movies and s*** like

Justin Hale: Yeah, I I really like Despicable Me one and then

Tyram: that.

Justin Hale: I really like the first Minions movie. The rest of them just kind of fall off for me,

Ellis Taylor: Mhm. There's

Justin Hale: but those two for sure I really

Tyram: Well, there's the second Minions movie. Isn't it

Ellis Taylor: multiple minions

Justin Hale: enjoyed.

Tyram: basically just like Despicable Me prequel because it is like Kid Grew or something?

Ellis Taylor: moving. Oh, okay. Oh,

Justin Hale: Yeah, it's it's literally called the rise of grew.

Tyram: But, you know, I feel like the the real heavy weight from that

Ellis Taylor: jeez.

Tyram: era of movie making is probably the Kung Fu Panda movies.

Justin Hale: Yeah.

Tyram: Really f****** good. like genuinely great

Ellis Taylor: Are they

Justin Hale: Yeah.

Tyram: movies. Well, the fourth one's the fourth

Ellis Taylor: really? Cuz I saw an ad for another one. I was like, how is there another one of

Justin Hale: Yeah.

Tyram: one's fine. The first one is good. The second one is like genuinely one of the best animated movies ever made.

Ellis Taylor: these?

Tyram: Yeah. And the third one's pretty good,

Ellis Taylor: Really? That seems like a tall order

Justin Hale: That trilogy is really

Tyram: too. It's out

Ellis Taylor: for animated

Justin Hale: good. I mean, okay, first of all, the main character is

Tyram: there.

Justin Hale: Jack Black. So, like, come

Tyram: Jack Black is genuinely a treasure, especially in his voice acting roles. Hey,

Justin Hale: on.

Christopher Hooper: What do you think? You want to say

Ellis Taylor: Hi. Hi,

Justin Hale: Um, I

Christopher Hooper: good night? Good night. Good

Ellis Taylor: Astred. Good

Justin Hale: Good

Tyram: Ash. Sweet

Ellis Taylor: night. And but when you

Justin Hale: night. Oh my

Christopher Hooper: night. Say good night,

Tyram: dreams.

Ellis Taylor: say animated, you're all of a sudden sticking him in there with Miyazaki.

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Justin Hale: god.

Christopher Hooper: Taylor.

Tyram: Okay, there's so many there's a wide range of animated movies and like you know I guess like narrowing it down to one single like best is probably impossible

Christopher Hooper: Good

Tyram: because like you know they can be good for different reasons but legitimately Kung

Ellis Taylor: So

Tyram: Fu Panda 2 is a great movie. I'll just I'll just say it like that. How about that?

Ellis Taylor: Mhm. I'll have to watch it. Yeah. And that'll be easy one to talk

Tyram: Um, when it comes to Miyazaki, I have a hard

Ellis Taylor: Ted into

Tyram: time differentiating between best and

Ellis Taylor: watching.

Tyram: favorite. Like, I think the I think the best one is Spirited

Ellis Taylor: That's

Tyram: Away, but I think my favorite one might be uh Castle in the Sky. I don't know. That's a hard discussion. That was

Ellis Taylor: fair. I think my favorite's how's moving

Ali Leonard: This guy hasn't watched

Ellis Taylor: castle.

Ali Leonard: him. We just started watching Pirates of the

Ellis Taylor: Allie, good

Ali Leonard: Caribbean. No. So, we watched one and two of

Ellis Taylor: lord. Has he not seen that

Tyram: good. I never saw the fourth or fifth pirates. Are those

Ali Leonard: Pirates and

Tyram: okay?

Ali Leonard: then I mean I they're fine, but like one, two, three

Ellis Taylor: either? Do you remember

Tyram: Okay.

Ali Leonard: are like

Ellis Taylor: going Which one did we go see in theaters together? We

Ali Leonard: Yeah. No, no, no. That was Harry

Ellis Taylor: like went opening night dressed up as pirates. I remember writing in your

Justin Hale: Castle.

Ali Leonard: Potter. Mid

Ellis Taylor: that was no we've done that too cuz I went dressed as McGonagle mid transformation

Tyram: Is that

Ellis Taylor: cuz I was

Tyram: just cat

Ali Leonard: transformation. It was

Ellis Taylor: like I had a cat outfit and a witch

Justin Hale: Yeah.

Tyram: ears? Okay. Okay.

Ali Leonard: Yeah, it was

Ellis Taylor: outfit on at the same time. But I

Justin Hale: Yeah. Hear me. I gotta

Tyram: Um, I

Ali Leonard: like from my childhood like like costume

Justin Hale: go.

Tyram: remember I remember Ally and I had like a low stakes

Ellis Taylor: also

Tyram: wager over whether Spider-Man 3 or Pirates 3 would make more money and I obliterated her with Spider-Man 3 and

Ali Leonard: closet. I am a pirates girl till I die, but

Tyram: that and honestly Spider-Man 3 is probably the worst of that original trilogy

Ali Leonard: whatever.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. The first one was really

Tyram: but there was no way it wasn't going to make like a billion f****** dollars,

Ellis Taylor: good.

Tyram: you

Christopher Hooper: I feel like that's

Ali Leonard: I'm really bad at

Tyram: It wasn't a complete slam

Christopher Hooper: a pretty good wager. like Pirates was a huge

Ali Leonard: that.

Tyram: dunk, but I was pretty confident that Spider-Man was going to outperform

Ali Leonard: Huge.

Christopher Hooper: franchise. Plus,

Ali Leonard: I also didn't realize how at the time how big

Tyram: Pirates. It was really just taking off at that point. Like Spider-Man 3

Ali Leonard: like superheroes

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: was like three or four years before Iron Man came out. And Iron Man's what kicked

Ali Leonard: are.

Tyram: off the MCU.

Ali Leonard: But they were thirsty for it. They

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: Yeah. Well, yeah. like the Spider-Man movies and the X-Men movies really primed the

Ali Leonard: were thirsty for

Tyram: pump for uh for superhero movies for

Christopher Hooper: like

Tyram: sure, but I feel like um we're kind of circling back around now where like I you know

Christopher Hooper: But I feel

Ali Leonard: that.

Tyram: I'm in a position where like man I f****** love superhero movies and then everyone else is like yeah they're fine. And then like for a good 10year stretch there everyone was like yes f****** love superhero movies. And now we're kind of going back to where it's like, man, I f****** love superhero movies. And everyone else is back to

Christopher Hooper: like

Tyram: they're

Ellis Taylor: Mhm. Dude, I was over superhero movies like halfway

Christopher Hooper: It was really

Ali Leonard: I got lost.

Ellis Taylor: through the Marvel shenanigans. I was like, do we really need to keep doing

Ali Leonard: Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: this? I still have never seen a Captain America all the way through.

Tyram: fine. You're a fool because those are some of the best

Ellis Taylor: I just kind of refused to do at this point.

Ali Leonard: I like I think I did the Captain

Ellis Taylor: I mean, he's just

Tyram: movies. Winter Soldier is maybe one of the best action movies

Ali Leonard: America. I did the Iron

Tyram: ever made. Not just superhero movies, action

Christopher Hooper: fun.

Ellis Taylor: boring.

Tyram: movies. All right. All right. It's

Ellis Taylor: I'm also not an action movie person. I would rather be

Tyram: also true that I don't ever get tired of anything

Ali Leonard: Man.

Tyram: ever. Like I can watch the same movie. I can play the same

Ellis Taylor: laughing. This is

Tyram: games. I do not get tired of

Ellis Taylor: true. You and Ted will get along great. We're watching uh Billy and the Tramp for the eighth time tonight. Or he and

Ali Leonard: Anyway, I'm

Ellis Taylor: Keith are a night off

Tyram: things. Well, no. I think Ang's here.

Christopher Hooper: But this is one of the things I love about Astrid is that she likes to watch

Ali Leonard: sorry.

Ellis Taylor: somehow.

Christopher Hooper: different things. She likes to save things for later. Just just a a really great

Ellis Taylor: I mean, normally we can get him to watch something new or get

Christopher Hooper: kid.

Ellis Taylor: him really excited to watch something new, but sometimes he just is like, "No, I want to watch

Ali Leonard: Is

Ellis Taylor: this." Like, "Okay, at least it's not Bug's Life

Ali Leonard: it?

Ellis Taylor: anymore." Though, we've been reading the same book for a month straight, and it's driving me a

Christopher Hooper: Also, have y'all seen Cars

Ellis Taylor: little

Christopher Hooper: 2? No. It's

Ellis Taylor: crazy. Yes. is

Christopher Hooper: like so crazy, so all over the place.

Ellis Taylor: not. Mhm.

Christopher Hooper: And especially for a like a toddler, it's like totally incomprehensible what's going on cuz it's

Ellis Taylor: Mhm. Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: all like James Bond references and stuff like that.

Ali Leonard: What's

Christopher Hooper: Uh, is it

Ellis Taylor: 100%. Cars 3 is actually really

Christopher Hooper: okay? We'll have to check that one

Ellis Taylor: good. Yeah.

Tyram: I feel like there's like not really a much of a middle ground when it comes to Pixar sequels. They're

Christopher Hooper: out.

Ali Leonard: wrong?

Tyram: either amazing or they're like bad. They're not like bad by Pixar standards, but like Toy Story 3, one of the best movies ever made. Toy

Ali Leonard: Poopy.

Tyram: Story 4 completely

Ali Leonard: Yeah. Who's going to see

Tyram: forgettable. I saw that they really should have quit while they were ahead.

Ali Leonard: Toy Story 5? They should.

Ellis Taylor: Mhm.

Tyram: Like, yeah, Toy Story 3 was like the

Christopher Hooper: Toy Story 3 was the end. Like Toy Story 3

Ali Leonard: Yeah. Toy Story 5 is happening. Kill

Ellis Taylor: What?

Tyram: perfect way to end that series of movies and then they just made another

Christopher Hooper: was legit awesome. Like the end.

Ali Leonard: me.

Tyram: one, you know? That's just what it it just felt like they were just like spinning their wheels like they didn't have any good ideas. So, let let's just make a Toy Story movie is what it felt

Ellis Taylor: What?

Justin Hale: Yeah. I don't know why Toy Story 4 had to

Tyram: like. I mean, I'll

Justin Hale: exist. Well,

Tyram: reserve judgment till I've actually seen it, but yeah, I'm not excited about

Ali Leonard: or I'm

Tyram: it. It was not

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Ali Leonard: prejudging as I always

Justin Hale: yeah. The story was over.

Tyram: only over, it was very Yeah, it was so well

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah.

Ali Leonard: do. It had a perfect

Tyram: wrapped up. Like I have rarely ever seen an ending to a

Ali Leonard: end. A beautiful little button on the

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. Enough.

Tyram: trilogy that completely pitch perfect. And it was

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Tyram: also coming out like they timed it really well because the kids who saw the first movie

Ali Leonard: end just

Tyram: when they were young, it was about the age where they were graduating or going to college. So like it was so perfectly

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yep. Yep.

Tyram: timed.

Christopher Hooper: Yep.

Ali Leonard: like

Ellis Taylor: Mhm. Well, didn't Disney have like a panic about like new content and they're like I feel like Pixar themselves came out and said like, "Oh, our bread and butter is not going to be new new stories. It's going to be like old like retelling old stories or like sequels

Tyram: I doubt they would just straight up state that in a press release. That

Ellis Taylor: and stuff like that like after like Coco or something like

Justin Hale: Well, then it's

Tyram: sounds very like a very cynical thing for them to say,

Ali Leonard: Coco was so

Ellis Taylor: that. I think I

Tyram: but was

Ali Leonard: good.

Ellis Taylor: think it happened after Coco came out cuz Coco came

Justin Hale: time

Ellis Taylor: out during it was it was amazing movie but it came out during the pandemic so it didn't like make the money they

Justin Hale: Yes. Let's base all

Tyram: good.

Ellis Taylor: wanted. Yeah.

Justin Hale: of our decisions on a pandemic.

Tyram: I

Christopher Hooper: Why did no one go to theaters

Justin Hale: Like I hate Disney, dude. Disney gets on my

Tyram: mean, I did. Now, to be fair, I

Christopher Hooper: during a pandemic. What the

Ali Leonard: Just a quick little

Justin Hale: nerves,

Tyram: did not go see Elio, which was their most recent like completely new

Christopher Hooper: hell

Tyram: one. I did go

Ali Leonard: pandy. I haven't seen the last few.

Justin Hale: right? Wasn't

Tyram: see Elemental, which I thought was good. I liked

Ali Leonard: I saw elemental. You're right. Never mind. I I saw a bunch of clips and I went to

Ellis Taylor: Was

Justin Hale: that I love elemental.

Tyram: Elemental. Wild Robot was not Pixar. That wasn't them. That was

Ali Leonard: see that.

Ellis Taylor: wild was wild robot then? It wasn't. That was so

Tyram: DreamWorks. Wild Robot was really good. Like at first I

Christopher Hooper: everybody? Is that a good movie?

Ellis Taylor: good. Oh, speaking of good

Justin Hale: Yeah.

Tyram: thought when they showed the first trailer I thought it was going to be a dialogue free movie. I'm like, man, that's really cool. I'm going to enjoy the hell out of that. Then I found out it wasn't. And so I was like, ah. But then

Ellis Taylor: content.

Tyram: I saw it and it actually was still good. So, you know, kind of ran the

Ali Leonard: No.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. Oh.

Tyram: gambit on that one. Oh man. But

Christopher Hooper: That's one. That's one I

Tyram: um uh Wild

Christopher Hooper: want to watch. Is that a good one for like young

Tyram: Robot, I think it's fine for young

Christopher Hooper: kids? Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: Um, yeah, Ted watched it. It was fine. I had to

Tyram: kids. Now, some they do have a

Ellis Taylor: explain what was happening, but he wasn't

Tyram: somewhat pityless view of nature because like there's a scene

Ellis Taylor: scared.

Tyram: where like the possum thinks one of her kids had just been eaten by a predator and she had like no reaction. So, it is a little a

Ali Leonard: Oh yeah, I saw that

Tyram: little I guess I I used I'll stick with

Ali Leonard: clip.

Ellis Taylor: I thought it was funny as

Tyram: that. Well,

Ellis Taylor: a parent. I thought it was funny. Just like the overstress. She's just like an

Tyram: it wasn't like cruel or mean or anything like that, but like they had a

Ellis Taylor: overstressed parent who's got too many

Tyram: very unromantic view of nature, which is kind of interesting because

Christopher Hooper: Okay.

Tyram: they also show a lot of really gorgeous shots of like, you know, landscapes and like ducks flying and all sorts of like just amazing visuals of nature. But they also, I feel like, have a pretty, let's say, downto-earth view of like

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. Realistic view of

Tyram: Yeah. Well, yeah. like they do recognize that animals

Ellis Taylor: nature. I mean

Tyram: don't always give a s*** about their offspring, I

Ellis Taylor: also

Tyram: guess, or each other. Oh, yeah. They're all pretty

Ellis Taylor: for each other like they have to force them to hang out and not

Tyram: casual about like eating each other and s*** like that. So,

Ali Leonard: Oh my

Ellis Taylor: kill each

Tyram: yeah. But yeah, it was a good movie. I would recommend

Ali Leonard: god.

Tyram: it.

Christopher Hooper: Great.

Ellis Taylor: other.

Christopher Hooper: Um, everyone's here who promised to be here. So, um,

Tyram: Uh,

Christopher Hooper: should we dive into recap? Um, let's see. What should be the prize for the recap? H maybe maybe I'll dole out uh gold coins.

Tyram: sure.

Christopher Hooper: So we'll start the bidding at five

Justin Hale: Guys, guys, we have a unique and

Walden Briarhelm: You've given

Justin Hale: rare opportunity

Walden Briarhelm: us too much

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Justin Hale: here. If we

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, I'm not biting for

Justin Hale: if we maintain

Tyram: Maybe unionize and demand an increase to our wages real

Christopher Hooper: gold.

Ellis Taylor: that

Justin Hale: solidarity,

Tyram: quick.

Christopher Hooper: All right. Five gold

Walden Briarhelm: power.

Christopher Hooper: and a cursed

Ellis Taylor: change. You're

Tyram: We already have a curse

Ellis Taylor: not taking my cursed

Tyram: in the party that we don't actually use. What kind of incentive is

Justin Hale: I'm telling

Christopher Hooper: sword. All right. All right. No cursed sword.

Ellis Taylor: sword.

Justin Hale: you, we already got one pieces of

Tyram: that?

Christopher Hooper: Um, how

Justin Hale: s***.

Christopher Hooper: about um, let's see. A really stinky sock. Like, u

Tyram: Do you understand how incentives are supposed to

Christopher Hooper: magically magically

Ellis Taylor: I think Tober's just telling us he wants to do the

Justin Hale: I don't think he does.

Christopher Hooper: stinky. Um, all right. All right. All right. I We'll get some good things. Um, a party

Ellis Taylor: recap.

Tyram: work?

Christopher Hooper: hat. Uh, limited edition party

Justin Hale: No,

Christopher Hooper: hat. Goat

Tyram: What kind of

Christopher Hooper: armor.

Tyram: armor? Like armor that just has like

Christopher Hooper: Goat

Tyram: goat like aesthetics to it? Like what do you mean by

Christopher Hooper: armor. No.

Ali Leonard: Does it make you look like a

Christopher Hooper: Armor. Armor for a goat. Like you know the legendary like Skyrim DLC force

Tyram: that?

Christopher Hooper: armor.

Ali Leonard: goat? I have no dog in this fight. I can't do the recap.

Ellis Taylor: Why would I want an armor for a goat? I don't

Tyram: You do don't you you have a RAM? Is

Christopher Hooper: Um, we do have a

Ellis Taylor: have I have a

Tyram: that not close

Ali Leonard: It doesn't fit. Yeah, it wouldn't

Ellis Taylor: sheep. The fit would be all wrong. He's so fluffy.

Tyram: enough? So, could it be ram

Christopher Hooper: goat. Um,

Tyram: armor?

Christopher Hooper: a a um Oh, yeah. It could

Ali Leonard: fit. Then that would just be

Christopher Hooper: be ram armor. Oh yeah,

Ali Leonard: for the truck.

Christopher Hooper: dodrian. I feel like that would be a truck that

Tyram: Those are

Christopher Hooper: like broke down at the worst possible

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: time.

Ellis Taylor: Yes.

Justin Hale: No.

Christopher Hooper: Or y'all drive drunk. Y'all could drive a Dodge Ram drunk. I

Ellis Taylor: No.

Christopher Hooper: think that's that's it. Stereotype.

Justin Hale: I

Tyram: Tacomaomas.

Christopher Hooper: Um

Justin Hale: also I can't remember what happened last week. Too much has happened in my

Walden Briarhelm: We got on a

Justin Hale: week to remember what happened last

Christopher Hooper: Yeah, we got on the

Walden Briarhelm: boat with a

Christopher Hooper: boat. Um, let's see. Yeah, you

Justin Hale: week.

Tyram: I like how normally we just do this,

Christopher Hooper: and you chatted with Rafael.

Walden Briarhelm: wyvern.

Tyram: but now it's become like a drawn out negotiation.

Christopher Hooper: Um

Walden Briarhelm: No, we met Bafel, the Monk Brotherhood members who knew, finding out that a pretty big set of

Tyram: That's getting ahead of ourselves. Don't say that

Walden Briarhelm: news, which was that um

Tyram: yet. All right. Um, going in order because you're messing this

Walden Briarhelm: the

Tyram: up. Um, all right. So,

Walden Briarhelm: the Oh,

Tyram: the session started with us um in the

Christopher Hooper: um

Walden Briarhelm: okay.

Tyram: uh stronghold of the Order of St. George, the dragon hide, where um the people in the bar area um like to fight and they f*** all

Christopher Hooper: which was discussed as potentially just being a a Rocka's bachelor

Tyram: night. No, no, they're f****** But

Ellis Taylor: Come

Tyram: um I don't know. Maybe they are, maybe they're not. None of us stuck around

Christopher Hooper: party.

Tyram: to watch. But um anyway, but downstairs though, we got a full night's sleep. got in our long rest and in the morning we um talked to the leader of the order of St. George uh Tanninbon, I think her name was

Ellis Taylor: on.

Tyram: like Tannenbomb, something like that. It was like the German word

Ellis Taylor: Peace.

Tyram: for Christmas tree is what it reminded me of. All right, I'm going to go with tan and

Christopher Hooper: Um, yes, it's some it's something like

Tyram: bomb until I hear otherwise. Um so

Christopher Hooper: that.

Tyram: she gave us a um assignment. She wants us to take our dragon orb to a shrine and uh perform a ritual. Um, not only should this reseal uh our evil super dragon that's inside the ore, but Astro Namin, I can never remember the full name, but Astro. Um, but apparently they would use some um equipment to try to use the uh energies from the ritual or something like that to uh locate the other dragon orbs. And um so we agreed to go do that with them. And then Silas and Brew went to go talk with uh with uh I mean I can't remember our gang leader name. Their Sander. Yeah,

Justin Hale: Thanks

Tyram: we went to go talk with Thrander. Thirander appears to be mostly retired now. Like they've gotten out of the game. We did find out the Order of St. George people were using their sander as bait to try to lure out the uh the

Justin Hale: for

Tyram: iron claws. And so that's how ultimately they got blown up. Um

Christopher Hooper: Their standard did have a lead on of flower ice or something like

Tyram: probably Oh, I didn't take that seriously

Christopher Hooper: that.

Tyram: at all. So I just kind of I'm not going to talk about it

Christopher Hooper: I

Tyram: now. But um that's that's my

Christopher Hooper: know. All

Ellis Taylor: I thought he was just trying to get them to become

Tyram: was my interpretation. Yeah. So they

Ellis Taylor: bakers. Yeah.

Tyram: they're they are all the way in on baking. Like that is their whole personality now. Um well, we

Christopher Hooper: right.

Tyram: did find out that um okay, Tannondelle, okay, not Tannon Bomb. But um we did find out from Thrander though that the Ironclaws do hang out at our old bar, the Cog and Steam. So that's a quest line that Brew and Silas might try to pick up on later uh to try to take down the Iron Claws here in Greyport. Uh but does seem to be basically out of the game now. So uh we're just going to basically part ways from Thrander. So Xander's going to go back to just being a baker now, it seems. Um

Justin Hale: Right.

Tyram: um trying to think it was relevant. I don't think anything really relevant happened late until we uh got ready to depart. We're going to have to take a boat out to this ritual site. And that's where we did meet Rafael. And I guess Zach, if you want to tag in and tell your conversation with Bafael now. Go ahead.

Walden Briarhelm: Sure. Thank you. That actually was a really important detail that I just completely jumped past. Um, we met Bafel, um, one of the other monks from my monastery that is now destroyed, and he let us in on a pretty big secret, which is the order of, uh, St. George is actually working handinhand with the Eldorians and we don't like them. They're the ones who shot down the uh the moon that is or was my uh or's goddess that they worshiped and um he's let us know that they have bad intentions. So, we are

Ali Leonard: I'm going

Walden Briarhelm: uh scheming and putting together a plan as to what we're going to do once we're there. And also the uh the area that we're going to is both

Ali Leonard: to

Walden Briarhelm: a ritual site and where the moon goddess fell because it's kind of like a magical zone in general in this world. And that is how it has the power to re-energize the dragon orbs. And uh what's interesting is it's being protected or guarded. I don't really know yet. I don't know that any of us do. But there are dragons swarming it. and we are going to have to be taking

Ali Leonard: Hold up.

Walden Briarhelm: on several different things at once. And uh in charge of the uh the members who are part of the order of St. George is Bafel. So we have this unique

Ali Leonard: Stop.

Walden Briarhelm: situation where we are friendly with their leader who isn't really friendly with them. And I don't know

Ellis Taylor: Um, the

Walden Briarhelm: if there was any other big thing that happened before we signed

Ellis Taylor: most important thing was the rowing and Silas's complete

Walden Briarhelm: off.

Christopher Hooper: Oh yeah, that's true. That's so

Ellis Taylor: ignorance about how boats work.

Walden Briarhelm: So boat

Tyram: That was so not relevant that I actually completely forgot about that till just

Christopher Hooper: true.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: launching in this world

Ellis Taylor: I wrote it down in my

Justin Hale: It was arguably the most relevant part of last week.

Tyram: now. It whatever. Apparently boats in this setting are completely nonsensical in row instead of using motors.

Christopher Hooper: Well, it's because they're in the no wake

Tyram: Yeah. So just keep it on the lower throttle. That's just how they

Christopher Hooper: zone. I feel Listen,

Tyram: do it.

Christopher Hooper: you know, like it's okay if you don't if you don't know how harbors and boats like it's fine.

Ellis Taylor: notes. You don't need to get so upset, Taylor. You're being like really emotional

Walden Briarhelm: to

Ellis Taylor: and like a little hysterical, bud. Like, calm

Walden Briarhelm: be fair. Let's be fair. Silus Silus was right because you would use a robo to get in and out from Harbor. You wouldn't take your whole ship in. That's obnoxious,

Christopher Hooper: defend him.

Ellis Taylor: down. I love the

Walden Briarhelm: right? Like you would you would want

Tyram: But I guess one thing that is worth saying though is that like you said the

Christopher Hooper: Zack

Ali Leonard: Jesus.

Tyram: uh order of St. George had bad intentions. Arguably they didn't. They seem to think they're the good guys here. But um they have allied themselves

Ellis Taylor: size.

Walden Briarhelm: Sorry. Oh, okay. His

Tyram: with Elderan. And so that might be uh something we might want to look into as well as if we can it might be theoretically possible for us to convince these George folk that Elderan is not someone they should ally with. I don't know. just

Ellis Taylor: Do we know if Do we know if these

Tyram: it's I don't know

Ali Leonard: Beautiful.

Ellis Taylor: George folk are cool with like dragon born or

Tyram: if well dragon born don't exist in the

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Ellis Taylor: whatever? Yeah. What is the What is it the Oh, wait. They don't exist at all.

Tyram: setting the last campaign um the only

Ellis Taylor: Was that the last

Tyram: dragon born in existence were like the four that you guys met and they're gone now.

Ellis Taylor: campaign? Who were the people that came? Was it Telings then that came through the

Tyram: So these are the ones who came through the portal.

Ali Leonard: It's

Ellis Taylor: portal like long time ago? Okay, it was

Ali Leonard: already tempered.

Ellis Taylor: Telings. Okay, never

Walden Briarhelm: This does raise a

Ali Leonard: 120 seconds. I

Ellis Taylor: mind.

Walden Briarhelm: question I've wanted to ask since we signed off. Would there be

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: speedboats that are crystal powered in this

Christopher Hooper: Yep.

Walden Briarhelm: world? That's f****** sick. That was that was my big moment

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Um,

Walden Briarhelm: for today was wanting to know the answer to that.

Christopher Hooper: I thought Taylor al Taylor and Justin maybe

Ellis Taylor: Yes.

Christopher Hooper: were coming up with an interesting some interesting ideas too at the end about trying to

Ali Leonard: said

Christopher Hooper: sabotage the sensors

Tyram: Yeah, I put that on Discord last week.

Christopher Hooper: um or something like that.

Tyram: Yeah, that um one way we one thing we could try to do where we uh f*** over the Georgia's plans to go find the other dragon orbs and help the elder but also not make them our enemy at least immediately is we could try to surreptitiously sabotage their sensors and um that way they'd be like, "Oh no, it didn't work." And we'd be like, "Oh well, what a shame." You

Christopher Hooper: Um, I don't

Ellis Taylor: I want to know how long they've been working

Tyram: know, there's a lot we could ask about that. Yeah.

Ali Leonard: This is I want to

Ellis Taylor: with Elderand. Yeah, because

Justin Hale: Oops.

Tyram: Like I'd also be curious they know about all like the genociding that Elder Rand

Ellis Taylor: I want to know if they were like. Yeah. And if they were involved, you know, in the attack on High

Tyram: does. Yeah, there's a lot we could ask them

Ellis Taylor: Forge or

Tyram: about. So, if they know all those things and are still teaming up with Elderan, then

Christopher Hooper: All

Tyram: we're probably inevitably just going to be enemies with these guys. But

Ali Leonard: Fair

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: um if they aren't aware of those things, I don't know, maybe we

Ali Leonard: I don't

Ellis Taylor: Yes.

Tyram: can make them have pause about allying with

Christopher Hooper: right, we ready to dive in? Seems as good as anything. All right, so um right, so last we left off, we were on the route to the

Ali Leonard: know.

Ellis Taylor: Mhm.

Christopher Hooper: crash site in the ocean. Um you're on this boat.

Tyram: them.

Christopher Hooper: We're now beyond the harbor and uh the sails are let loose. The motor is running um and we're jetting away and at a certain point uh comes to you and

Ali Leonard: Foreign Foreign speech. speech.

Christopher Hooper: says have you spoken to your party? We should speak again before we arrive at the crash site.

Walden Briarhelm: Yes, we have spoken. You should come with me now.

Christopher Hooper: come to my port is is quite big. Uh and he uh he goes below deck. Um and he he has a room. Um he shows you and says, "Gather the others. I will be here."

Walden Briarhelm: goes and gathers the

Justin Hale: What time is

Christopher Hooper: Um, I don't know. What do you

Justin Hale: it?

Tyram: probably like midday, right? Didn't we like kind of get on out to the docks like late

Christopher Hooper: think? Yeah, I think

Walden Briarhelm: others.

Christopher Hooper: it's I think it's probably like just before noon time.

Walden Briarhelm: How does that influence Brew's

Justin Hale: Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what Brew would be doing at

Walden Briarhelm: decision? Is Is Brew comfortable on

Justin Hale: noon

Tyram: morning?

Christopher Hooper: Oh,

Walden Briarhelm: a boat?

Justin Hale: routinely.

Walden Briarhelm: I'm I

Justin Hale: Is there a reason he

Christopher Hooper: interesting. A lot of people are uncomfortable on boats.

Ali Leonard: He's from the back of a sea turtle, so I think Brew would be

Tyram: Yeah. Like I can't imagine any of our characters

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, he's

Tyram: having a problem with a boat for any

Justin Hale: wouldn't? I can't

Ali Leonard: fine.

Justin Hale: remember what dumb stuff I've said in the past either, though, so I didn't know if that was based

Tyram: reason. I don't nothing's coming to mind. In the last

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: fine.

Walden Briarhelm: I

Justin Hale: on some dumb comment I

Tyram: campaign, we did have a party member who was like deathly afraid of

Walden Briarhelm: No.

Justin Hale: made.

Tyram: modern transportation

Ellis Taylor: Yes, that was fun. She was a complete

Walden Briarhelm: That's

Christopher Hooper: Bring your

Ellis Taylor: ludite and it was a

Tyram: technology. I wonder how DNE would feel about like Formula 1 racers like Ellmith

Ellis Taylor: blast. Oh, buddy. We're gonna have to explore that one

Tyram: has. She is still alive.

Christopher Hooper: hand.

Ellis Taylor: day, aren't we? She's still alive.

Tyram: You m************ all like Fluke is the only dead character

Walden Briarhelm: funny.

Tyram: from the last campaign. All of you like, "No, no, my precious darling character is still alive 250 years

Christopher Hooper: I left mine

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. We all

Christopher Hooper: opened. You kept mine alive for

Justin Hale: Hey, you tried

Christopher Hooper: me. Yeah.

Justin Hale: to kill your own character during the campaign. I don't want to

Ali Leonard: Caspine could be dead. We have no idea.

Justin Hale: hear

Tyram: later. I know.

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: picked

Christopher Hooper: Um, all right. So, uh, y'all gather into Bafael's room. Say, and he says, "Oh, thank you. Thank you for gathering everyone. Have

Walden Briarhelm: You are

Christopher Hooper: you decided what you are going to do when we get to the crash

Walden Briarhelm: welcome. We have a few plans. Silus

Christopher Hooper: site?

Walden Briarhelm: and Brew have been working on something. What have you guys

Tyram: Why?

Justin Hale: I have concepts of a

Tyram: Sorry.

Walden Briarhelm: concocted?

Justin Hale: plan. I have concepts of a

Tyram: Second. Well, I mean, our concepts usually, you know, work themselves out, but okay. So, um, we are in a bit of a dicey situation

Justin Hale: plan.

Tyram: because if nothing else, these guys are our ride home. So, um, we don't want to mess that. You know, the fate of the world is one thing, but the inconvenience of having to find someone else to take us back to town is a bridge too far. So, um, we were trying to come up with a way to maybe thwart their plans to try to find more of these orbs and help the Elder people without necessarily giving ourselves away as their enemies. Say

Christopher Hooper: How much money do you

Tyram: what? What does that have to do with

Christopher Hooper: have? Do you have a lot of money on you? The boat is hired. And I selected the Dragon Knights with us. I chose this crew. I chose

Tyram: Anything you s***?

Christopher Hooper: them because fool listen. I chose the dragonites that do not care about being killing dragons or whatever. They are mercenaries. So if you have money, we can take this boat back.

Ellis Taylor: Well, that's good to

Tyram: What? No. That's a terrible idea. Why would we spend money when we don't have to? No, we

Christopher Hooper: Okay, you can

Ellis Taylor: know,

Tyram: we can have our cake and eat it, too. We don't have to like these guys are already hired out, so we don't have to pay them a dime,

Ellis Taylor: honey. Honey, do we need to talk about this? I feel like you and Naomi have already had this conversation about being a

Tyram: right? Okay. You know what? It's a

Christopher Hooper: swim.

Ellis Taylor: cheapkate and nickel and diamond. Like sometimes you have to just spend a little

Tyram: mute point. I have one gold coin in my purse right now, so I don't even have the money anyway.

Christopher Hooper: I think you

Ellis Taylor: money. What are

Tyram: No. like my ring

Ellis Taylor: you spending money

Tyram: and

Christopher Hooper: misunderstand. I think you misunderstand. Right now they have allegiance to

Ellis Taylor: on?

Tyram: stuff.

Christopher Hooper: St. George but only because of money. If

Tyram: No, I got

Christopher Hooper: you if you give them a price, they will swing. But right now, they are aligned with St.

Tyram: that.

Christopher Hooper: George. So if you do something, they will fight you unless you offer a

Tyram: Or we do something and they don't

Christopher Hooper: better price and a

Tyram: realize we did something and then they don't have to we don't have to pay them

Christopher Hooper: better

Tyram: s*** and they still just do whatever they were they just take us home, right? Who

Christopher Hooper: Okay.

Ellis Taylor: Okay, before before we figure if we're going to like, you know,

Tyram: cares?

Ellis Taylor: betray everybody, I feel like we need a little bit more information on the George

Tyram: They f***

Ellis Taylor: dudes. Um, these saints. Um, so do

Walden Briarhelm: Yes. Good.

Tyram: all

Ellis Taylor: you know do you do you happen to know how long they've been working with

Christopher Hooper: How long? Um, maybe. No, I do not. I only got here a month ago and

Ellis Taylor: Alderan?

Christopher Hooper: they were all already working

Tyram: night.

Ellis Taylor: Okay. That's just because, you know, we know for a fact was part of like my city sacking. So, and they've also done a lot of

Christopher Hooper: together. Other end stacked

Ellis Taylor: war crimes.

Christopher Hooper: your city. What city? What? The dragons sacked High Forge. That's where most of our recruits come from.

Ellis Taylor: So yeah, honestly I kind of think Elderan like staged it. They showed up way too

Christopher Hooper: Okay, that is news

Ellis Taylor: fast.

Christopher Hooper: to

Ellis Taylor: This is just a working theory.

Tyram: Well, okay.

Christopher Hooper: me. Okay,

Tyram: So, listen for a sec. They are going to try to during we this ritual, which we do need to do the

Christopher Hooper: so

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Tyram: ritual. That's another thing that's worth stressing here. Regardless of any future alliance implications, this ritual needs to happen because the evil dragon god in the orb needs to be resealed more thoroughly. So that's just a moot point, right? We just need to go ahead and just do that with them no matter what. But that only furthers the ambitions of Elderan, apparently, if they're able to use the equipment they have with them to try to locate the other orbs. What if we just sabotage their equipment? What if we make it look like it just didn't work, that they're not able to track it, and then they have no idea that we're working against them, and we just go home. We just stop working with them when we get home, you know?

Christopher Hooper: I ask you this though. What is your final goal? Are you fighting the dragons and elder?

Tyram: Look, we're No, I'm I'm I'm personally not super invested in the whole fighting against empires thing. I just want to deal with this dragon and then uh Brew and I have some

Ellis Taylor: Yes.

Tyram: ambitions to f*** over the Iron Claws. that I'm not really

Christopher Hooper: Okay.

Tyram: uh you know committed to the cause of any of these

Justin Hale: What the he said?

Christopher Hooper: You know, you know the tale of Luna and Noraxis,

Justin Hale: They have

Christopher Hooper: right? Yes. Well, Noraxis

Justin Hale: tails. Why do they have

Christopher Hooper: does. Because Noraxis is a

Tyram: groups.

Christopher Hooper: dragon.

Ellis Taylor: And his girlfriend was

Tyram: and they found out that they couldn't be

Ellis Taylor: the moon.

Justin Hale: tails?

Tyram: together and it was super

Christopher Hooper: Do you remember more of

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: sad.

Christopher Hooper: the

Ellis Taylor: It's probably in my note

Tyram: It was a few months ago. Um I think both for me the character and for the player.

Christopher Hooper: story? They well the important part they couldn't be together because they destroyed everything around them when they were

Tyram: Um,

Christopher Hooper: not when they were together in

Ellis Taylor: somewhere.

Christopher Hooper: love. We needed to create balance and separated them. I say this here

Tyram: yep.

Christopher Hooper: because not every destructive force is evil. It is in itself an aspect, an agent of chaos, an element of our universe moving forward. I say this because you you think, oh, they destroy my city. They are evil. Well, a scorpion is a scorpion, right? But is a scorpion evil?

Ellis Taylor: That is a scorpion

Christopher Hooper: Oh,

Ellis Taylor: chaos.

Christopher Hooper: what? There's a scorpion.

Ellis Taylor: I'm confused.

Justin Hale: How many

Tyram: Damn it, they're scorpions

Christopher Hooper: What? Well,

Justin Hale: scorpions do we have?

Tyram: now.

Christopher Hooper: I there is two at the zoo. They are very beautiful.

Justin Hale: All right. So, what do we need to do with these

Christopher Hooper: Well, do not put it on a on the back of a

Justin Hale: scorpions? Uh,

Tyram: I feel like putting on the back of a turtle would be fine because they'd be protected

Justin Hale: you Hey, Elmo, you hear

Tyram: by their shell. It's the back of a frog that's really

Christopher Hooper: turtle. Ah, you would

Walden Briarhelm: You

Tyram: susceptible.

Christopher Hooper: think. No, for us

Walden Briarhelm: are wrong. It is a very bad omen for

Justin Hale: that?

Christopher Hooper: it

Walden Briarhelm: what? One scorpion, three scorpion, five scorpion, but two

Christopher Hooper: tell that is how we tell

Walden Briarhelm: never. Thank you for bringing it up, Brew. That

Tyram: I feel as though we're kind of losing

Walden Briarhelm: was very

Tyram: the thread

Walden Briarhelm: important. Yes. You know, Bafel, I think that Silus and Brew have a good point. If we can trick them into

Christopher Hooper: it.

Walden Briarhelm: thinking that they've done something wrong or that the ritual did not work

Tyram: here.

Walden Briarhelm: because of their own mistake, then we get what we want. They've done what they came to do, failure or not. All we must do is allow them to fight the dragons. allow us to re-energize the old. find out maybe what happened to Luna and then we can

Christopher Hooper: I I think that is okay. But I worry that maybe this orb is the only way to bring Luna back. What other entity is strong enough to bring our god back into

Tyram: I thought this had an evil dragon who was not

Christopher Hooper: the

Tyram: Luna's

Christopher Hooper: sky. No, it is the the sister of

Walden Briarhelm: Hey,

Tyram: boyfriend. So, how does the orb help us in any way with Luna then?

Christopher Hooper: Noraxis. It is a very powerful

Tyram: But I feel like just any powerful dragon will

Christopher Hooper: dragon.

Tyram: do. That doesn't sound

Walden Briarhelm: You know, Bafel, they have discussing that there are many of these dragon orbs. Perhaps we should venture to find

Christopher Hooper: Yes.

Walden Briarhelm: the dragon orbs and use them all to bring back Luna. Maybe we should not rely on the power of such an evil

Tyram: right.

Walden Briarhelm: being. What do you

Christopher Hooper: Do you do you think the orgs are other dragons? I assume they were

Walden Briarhelm: think?

Christopher Hooper: all

Walden Briarhelm: I had grown a strong opinion based purely on their name uh and assuming that that they

Christopher Hooper: astral

Walden Briarhelm: would all be dragons.

Christopher Hooper: maybe. I don't know. I find it difficult to believe one god could fit in one orb.

Tyram: But okay, so circling back though to the big

Walden Briarhelm: H.

Tyram: picture here, wouldn't I don't think it's worth it to break open these orbs. Even if you get Lunas back, just release a big evil dragon. I mean, that's just that's a bad result, man.

Christopher Hooper: I've returned to original question. Why? Why is this dragon

Tyram: They f****** told me they were going to f****** eat the

Walden Briarhelm: This did

Tyram: world. It's not This is an unambiguously evil

Walden Briarhelm: happen.

Christopher Hooper: evil? They will eat it.

Tyram: dragon. That's their title, isn't it? Like they eat they want to consume

Justin Hale: That's what they

Tyram: everything. Wasn't that basically what they told me?

Christopher Hooper: Cool. So like uh if

Justin Hale: said.

Christopher Hooper: Noraxis is like a sun then this is like

Tyram: Yeah. Are they the They're the

Christopher Hooper: a like the

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah.

Tyram: void dragon. Isn't that their actual

Christopher Hooper: void.

Tyram: name? Correct me if I'm wrong. If I

Christopher Hooper: Okay.

Tyram: misunderstand the situation, please let me know.

Walden Briarhelm: I feel that you may be holding something back that you know you seem hesitant with our idea. What is it you know that we are not savvy

Christopher Hooper: I do not know your direction. I don't know. You seem like you think about what is right now, but I don't know what the end goal is. You fight the dragon.

Ellis Taylor: Honey, with

Walden Briarhelm: to?

Christopher Hooper: You fight the empire. Are you going to fight everyone?

Ellis Taylor: me

Walden Briarhelm: Wait, if you knew this

Justin Hale: if they want

Tyram: I

Ellis Taylor: probably. I

Walden Briarhelm: group as well as I have grown to know them, that is very typical.

Tyram: mean, I feel as

Ellis Taylor: am fully for the downfall of Aldorin at this point. Between the war crimes trying to take over my entire civilization, I want them down and the f******

Justin Hale: to.

Tyram: though you have Olivia has

Ellis Taylor: moon. There used to be one. Their moon goddess is fake. They broke the

Tyram: wrong opinions about like fake moon goddess.

Ellis Taylor: real one.

Christopher Hooper: Okay. Yes. I want to me I want to take down Eldoran more than anything and that includes working with the

Tyram: Yeah. The dragons are a good

Christopher Hooper: dragons. That is my belief.

Ellis Taylor: I just need to know wait what is the dragon's ing game and why are they linked up with Aldoran in the first place? Like I'm just not convinced we can trust these guys. Are they really that simple? Their in game is just kill all dragons cuz not all dragons are like bloodthirsty

Christopher Hooper: Hey, the Aldorans. My belief is the Aldorans wish

Ellis Taylor: killers. No, I'm talking about the dragon

Christopher Hooper: to the dragons seek to kill all

Ellis Taylor: dudes. I Aldorin Aldor just No,

Christopher Hooper: dragons.

Ellis Taylor: the St. George

Christopher Hooper: Oh yeah. No, they hate dragons. That's why

Ellis Taylor: guys.

Christopher Hooper: they come

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, I know. I'm just confused as to why they're working

Christopher Hooper: here.

Ellis Taylor: with the Aldorans and what their end game

Christopher Hooper: My understanding is that they

Ellis Taylor: is.

Christopher Hooper: are working to with the Eldorans because the Aldorans can finally kill the gods including the Draconic gods. Noraxis

Ellis Taylor: Why are they going to kill all the gods? Yeah, I

Walden Briarhelm: cuz then their god Eldora becomes more

Christopher Hooper: They

Ellis Taylor: got that. But like

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Walden Briarhelm: powerful. Well, they're they're they're like trying to pump Eldor to like more powerful god, and they found these guys who are just like a bunch of frat bros who like to chug beer and f*** all night and fight and kill dragons.

Christopher Hooper: are

Walden Briarhelm: So, like, how perfect. It's a bunch of just like knuckleheads who want to just slay dragons and they can just get paid to do it. So, that makes sense. If Aldora can build a fake moon, they can pay a couple of

Christopher Hooper: And I don't know if you've heard the news, but there are dragons coming. And I believe Noraxis is coming. So, we should decide whether we want the big space gun to shoot

Walden Briarhelm: mercenaries.

Christopher Hooper: Noraxis or we want to take down the space gun. and help

Ellis Taylor: We definitely don't want to help him. He is not a good dude. I'm not convinced the space gun's going to

Christopher Hooper: Norases.

Ellis Taylor: really hurt him. But like

Tyram: Isn't Noraxis

Ellis Taylor: what about nice dragons? Like big old

Tyram: a nice dragon? The

Ellis Taylor: dragons. Oh, is he a nice dragon? Is he the bad? I don't know their

Tyram: bad dragon is Astro. I think the good dragon

Ellis Taylor: names. Okay. Oh, yeah.

Christopher Hooper: Okay.

Ellis Taylor: No, we want the we want the nice dragon to be

Walden Briarhelm: the

Christopher Hooper: I you you followed tear

Tyram: is

Christopher Hooper: right I

Ellis Taylor: fine.

Christopher Hooper: think good to think of them as uh two sides of a scale.

Tyram: Wonderful.

Christopher Hooper: Noraxis is fiery hot

Walden Briarhelm: uh

Christopher Hooper: explosive. Astro is the void

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: endless. Everything ends in the void. That is their aim. But in balance we have

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. So, you're saying we shouldn't kill

Christopher Hooper: life or

Ellis Taylor: either of them, but we got to figure out how to make

Christopher Hooper: both.

Ellis Taylor: them or both. Yeah. And then hopefully we don't all die. Yeah. We don't do something we should have. We shouldn't

Walden Briarhelm: Do we does any feel uh

Ellis Taylor: have.

Walden Briarhelm: I I'm wondering if anybody in the group would know through passing or through having seen it in like the old vault rooms if these other orbs are as you or as Bafel implied they're like all parts of just Astro because there can that be rolled for or I'm trying to think if like I don't I think could potentially but the challenge would be extremely high. He was worried about moving the heavy stuff that or breaking those heavy stones.

Christopher Hooper: Um,

Walden Briarhelm: Meanwhile, other people were in the room and could see the map with like where the orb locations were. I'm wondering if that's a

Christopher Hooper: any anyone um I would say you you have like fairly complete knowledge. there was only one stone on that map and it seems like they might have

Walden Briarhelm: possibility.

Christopher Hooper: not known about all of them or maybe there are new ones. Who knows? Um, and I think I would make you roll, but I think both of those ideas are are pretty equal weight as far as like they could be separate or they could be uh like shards of a single, right? Or like split from a single

Walden Briarhelm: Okay. Got it.

Christopher Hooper: entity.

Walden Briarhelm: But to Olivia, Ma would say, "While I do happen to agree that the space laser may not work, that same space laser was what took down the Luna, so it is capable of taking down a

Ellis Taylor: Luna's not dead.

Walden Briarhelm: god."

Ellis Taylor: Unclear, I guess, cuz she she fell she fell out of the

Walden Briarhelm: Well, they were able to out of the

Ellis Taylor: sky, but she landed in this special squishy place. So,

Walden Briarhelm: sky.

Ellis Taylor: she's not dead. And she landed in a squishy space so the leader didn't kill

Christopher Hooper: It is hard to kill a god. It is

Walden Briarhelm: just took

Ellis Taylor: her. How pissed is

Christopher Hooper: true.

Ellis Taylor: Dragon going to be when he finds out his girlfriend got

Christopher Hooper: I think I think very

Ellis Taylor: shot? Pocket that went away from

Walden Briarhelm: over. Now

Ellis Taylor: when we inevitably have the conversation and could point him to where who we wanted to

Christopher Hooper: mad.

Ellis Taylor: kill.

Walden Briarhelm: you Now that spots

Christopher Hooper: Okay. I'm glad we had this conversation. I am

Ellis Taylor: Are

Christopher Hooper: equally confused. And I was hoping you had

Tyram: Okay, as far as I'm aware,

Christopher Hooper: uh a

Tyram: maybe has like some sort of play and with Luna everything, we have never had any sort of ambition when it comes to this godly conflict. As far as I'm

Ellis Taylor: you

Tyram: aware, I do not think that it has ever been on our to-do

Christopher Hooper: plan.

Tyram: list to like stop this war of the gods. We hate Elderan and we oppose them where we can. I do not think we have ever committed ourselves to this conflict between dragons and uh and uh the elder. Apparently, you want us to pick a

Christopher Hooper: I think that is the problem.

Ellis Taylor: I thought we were just trying to keep Just

Christopher Hooper: I mean if you can fight everyone if you

Tyram: side. I don't think we can beat any of them, let alone all of

Christopher Hooper: want Okay. You hold a lot of power

Ellis Taylor: I thought we were

Tyram: them.

Christopher Hooper: even in your

Ellis Taylor: trying to keep the I thought the whole reason we were coming here was the orb

Tyram: So

Ellis Taylor: and trying to keep that boy to dragon

Tyram: yeah, apparently I was I thought it was a more straightforward thing to do to reseal this dragon god. I thought that was unambiguously a bad thing, the dragon getting out, but

Christopher Hooper: backpack.

Tyram: apparently Raphael wants us to

Ellis Taylor: side question.

Tyram: reconsider. I don't

Ellis Taylor: How long's he been in

Walden Briarhelm: I don't

Tyram: know.

Ellis Taylor: there? I mean, if it's like a f****** long ass time, we've been fine for a f****** long ass

Walden Briarhelm: think we know.

Tyram: I've had the orb for like a couple of years now if

Christopher Hooper: There

Ellis Taylor: time. Let's just keep him in there. I mean, but like who put them in like these ancient ass people put them in there? We've been fine for

Tyram: so I don't know. I

Christopher Hooper: we could be fine. You could I feel like maybe you could thread the needle too. Maybe you maybe you use the elder ends to kill the dragons and then and then you take

Ellis Taylor: generations.

Christopher Hooper: them out, I

Ellis Taylor: Or we just stage it so that the elderans and dragons all just kill each other and we'll just sit back

Tyram: mean,

Christopher Hooper: guess. Okay.

Ellis Taylor: and

Walden Briarhelm: Mhm. Mhm.

Christopher Hooper: I hope you have a very good underground

Ellis Taylor: watch. I hope so. Well, I did until my city got

Christopher Hooper: bunker. Oh

Ellis Taylor: destroyed.

Christopher Hooper: yeah, maybe it's time to build a new underground

Walden Briarhelm: Yep.

Christopher Hooper: city. Okay, new plan. Underground

Ellis Taylor: I like where your head's

Christopher Hooper: city.

Ellis Taylor: at.

Christopher Hooper: Okay. So, the plan is continue the ritual and you want to uh do something to the the

Tyram: Well, yeah, they're going to use some sort of equipment, right, to try to track the other orbs.

Christopher Hooper: beacons. Yes, I have information for

Tyram: So, okay, if we do sabotage that, I feel like at the

Christopher Hooper: you. All

Tyram: very least that's setting back both groups because at

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, I was about to say, how are

Tyram: least I don't I don't care about finding them.

Ellis Taylor: we supposed to find

Tyram: Or do we want to find them? Okay,

Ellis Taylor: them? Yes.

Tyram: nerds. Instead of I guess straight up sabotaging it, could you steal their uh the info from them and keep them from getting it? I

Ellis Taylor: Yeah,

Tyram: will. Okay. I

Christopher Hooper: right.

Ellis Taylor: Rogue, could

Tyram: can't steal data. I We need nerds for that. This is

Justin Hale: Yeah.

Tyram: a nerd

Christopher Hooper: This

Ellis Taylor: we? Oh, I was thinking of swiping a piece of

Tyram: operation. Is there a piece of paper? I'll go steal the piece of paper. I don't

Christopher Hooper: is

Ellis Taylor: paper, but

Tyram: know how this

Ali Leonard: Like, yeah. You want us to steal the print out or like what are we

Ellis Taylor: sure.

Tyram: works. I don't know. Like, can you like redirect the signal to something you

Ali Leonard: doing

Tyram: can read and that they can't? I don't know.

Christopher Hooper: perfect.

Ellis Taylor: Pages go like click clack clack click

Tyram: Yeah, like I don't know how nerd s***

Ellis Taylor: clack on your special little gadgets and there's like vertical green text and you're like click

Ali Leonard: here? I mean, I'm not a coder. I

Ellis Taylor: click clack clack clack and you get all the

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah, like if only we had

Tyram: work. We have two

Walden Briarhelm: an artifiser who could come up with some sort of gadget, right? And what if they came up with a gadget that could just like transmit the

Ellis Taylor: stuff okay so I got it I got it we'll

Walden Briarhelm: right signal to us, the wrong

Christopher Hooper: Did

Ali Leonard: don't

Ellis Taylor: We'll get we'll sneeze and we'll get a virus and I'll sneeze it and I'll put it on a piece of paper on a little disc and we'll put it inside the computer.

Tyram: Okay. So, if we could do that, that'd be

Walden Briarhelm: signal?

Justin Hale: All

Tyram: a good way to really kick this can down the road a little bit because then

Christopher Hooper: you?

Tyram: the dragons would be set back because we resealed the orb and the elder ants would not advance because they want to get the information they want. Neither faction

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: is better off. And so at the very least, we

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Justin Hale: right.

Tyram: have not made either side better

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, I like that. f***

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Walden Briarhelm: What do you do? Artifisters, do you think you have the skills to make something to do

Christopher Hooper: Let

Ali Leonard: Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: Alderan.

Justin Hale: Yeah, I guess I come up with a bomb to do

Ali Leonard: See, that's the thing. Our expertise is really in cars and

Walden Briarhelm: this?

Tyram: off.

Christopher Hooper: me

Ali Leonard: bomb. So, I can think real

Justin Hale: that.

Tyram: Hey, I mean, I'm

Ali Leonard: I can squint my eyes and think real hard and see if I can come up with

Tyram: gonna be honest. I was really banking on you guys having a solution

Ali Leonard: something.

Christopher Hooper: Oh,

Ali Leonard: Can I roll for smarts to see if I can figure something out

Walden Briarhelm: Oh,

Christopher Hooper: Well,

Ali Leonard: on how to sabotage it, but also get the

Walden Briarhelm: hey.

Christopher Hooper: let me first tell you the

Ellis Taylor: like like intercept the signal or something like one one team

Tyram: here.

Ellis Taylor: sabotages but the other team intercepts the signal so we like get the data

Ali Leonard: information? We give them the wrong

Ellis Taylor: but then like f****** their machinery so they don't get the they can't

Tyram: I mean, Olivia laid out the path.

Ali Leonard: data, but we take the right

Ellis Taylor: like Yeah, something like

Tyram: Didn't you hear about all the clicketity

Christopher Hooper: setup. And then she put a

Ali Leonard: data. Yeah. If I click clack a

Ellis Taylor: that.

Tyram: clack?

Christopher Hooper: virus on the CD.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. And we can create a virus. I mean, I'm kind of I'm a little under the

Tyram: Hey, if Jeff Goldlum can upgrade

Ellis Taylor: weather, so I mean, I feel like I could come up with

Tyram: a virus from his f****** 1990s uh laptop and destroy an interstellar invasion force of aliens, this should totally be

Ali Leonard: lot. So, what do I have to roll for

Christopher Hooper: Let me tell you what

Ali Leonard: that?

Justin Hale: Put a stroll

Christopher Hooper: exists first and then we'll move from there.

Ellis Taylor: something. a

Tyram: possible.

Christopher Hooper: Okay. So,

Ellis Taylor: brainstorming

Justin Hale: together. What exists first? The chicken.

Ali Leonard: Both.

Ellis Taylor: role. Oh

Justin Hale: No, the egg. No, no, no. The chicken.

Christopher Hooper: Many histories

Ali Leonard: Both same

Ellis Taylor: no.

Christopher Hooper: describe a dragon species that mutated over thousands of years, eventually becoming a

Ali Leonard: time. That doesn't

Ellis Taylor: Both. That sounds

Christopher Hooper: chicken. Oh, but I'm getting distracted.

Ali Leonard: right.

Ellis Taylor: nice.

Christopher Hooper: So the crash site itself has three sensors around it but each of the boats has a relay to read the

Ali Leonard: I am

Christopher Hooper: sensors. Originally when we set up this expedition we did

Ali Leonard: a This

Christopher Hooper: not think we would have rang. So we were hoping to set up some sort of explosion energy something to ignite the site and send out the energy but that it was very low likelihood. mainly I was using it the ruse to see the crashing

Ali Leonard: was

Christopher Hooper: but since we can actually do the rebinding ritual I think that makes sense and the sensors will definitely work but there may be other boats with other relays this is the problem I think there on this boat is a relay you can try to sneak to get it or as I mentioned earlier, if we want this boat, we can buy it and everyone on it, which was what I was

Ali Leonard: kind of saying

Christopher Hooper: uh

Ali Leonard: earlier. Yeah. Circling back.

Christopher Hooper: Yes. So, there is a room. It's in the captain's quarters where we have set up the relay.

Ali Leonard: Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: Um but depending on your

Tyram: There we

Christopher Hooper: approach you will take different uh options. What do you

Tyram: go.

Ali Leonard: Okay. So, either sneak or buy

Ellis Taylor: Hi, we don't got the money to

Tyram: I mean, yeah, you got a bunch of gold there. Money

Christopher Hooper: think?

Ellis Taylor: buy

Walden Briarhelm: And we got to sneak.

Tyram: bags. We don't have that. No, I meant Rafael. He's like, "Oh, just buy them off. Buy them all."

Ali Leonard: me. I just always give my gold to Silus. I don't have any

Ellis Taylor: All right.

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah. Is this where like shows up and he's like, "Hey boss, I got a

Tyram: Jeez. Okay.

Christopher Hooper: He he shows up and

Ali Leonard: gold.

Walden Briarhelm: whole

Tyram: So,

Christopher Hooper: he's like, "I've got two

Tyram: above table talk. Um I think after we went to the dragon horde at High Forge, we should have like 20,000 gold for party loot. Um like

Christopher Hooper: cantalopes.

Tyram: everybody took like a thousand of it, I think, and bought s***. But

Ellis Taylor: Oh yeah, we do have

Tyram: then I thought it was like I think it was we had got

Ellis Taylor: 25k in the party inventory.

Tyram: a total of 26. I think we said everybody in the party can take a thousand and then we had 20,000 left over just for like party uh like I think that was supposed to be for like building the pocket village and s*** like

Ellis Taylor: I really like the idea of sneaking into the relay,

Tyram: that. I love that

Ellis Taylor: getting the information, then sending the incorrect information

Tyram: idea.

Ali Leonard: send me upload information into the relay or are there

Ellis Taylor: out.

Walden Briarhelm: Perfect.

Tyram: Yeah.

Ali Leonard: relays just receivers? You know what I

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. Do

Tyram: I feel like that's a

Christopher Hooper: Go

Ali Leonard: mean? But

Ellis Taylor: an artificer check. Smarty

Tyram: good way like I feel like we can all be involved because like

Ali Leonard: I just sneak in. I would have to sneak into the relay

Tyram: I can do the sneaky stuff. We just need you to do the nerd

Christopher Hooper: check.

Ali Leonard: room.

Ellis Taylor: pants. Oh, no. No, no. We've got a bag.

Tyram: s***. I can

Ali Leonard: I'll do the m s***, but I can't

Ellis Taylor: We've got a

Walden Briarhelm: You know,

Ellis Taylor: bag. We've got a bag of holding.

Walden Briarhelm: it sounds like we need a distraction. Do you think

Tyram: sneak.

Ellis Taylor: I mean, the distraction is most of us doing the orb thing and

Tyram: I feel like we should set

Ali Leonard: sneak.

Ellis Taylor: then the other half of the party sneaking and dealing with the

Tyram: the sabotage before we do the

Ellis Taylor: sensors. You think

Tyram: ritual. Well, if that's

Ali Leonard: like prep it, I

Ellis Taylor: so? Do you think? Well, I guess that's up to the artificial. Can they do it remotely or set

Tyram: possible, yes, I'd like to do

Ellis Taylor: it? Yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: How far away are we from the ritual

Tyram: that.

Christopher Hooper: It's still pretty

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. 20 minutes. Let's

Christopher Hooper: far. You've got You've got

Walden Briarhelm: site? It's

Christopher Hooper: time.

Ali Leonard: guess.

Ellis Taylor: go.

Walden Briarhelm: over. We have time. I I think Ma should uh put on his Ninja Turtle disguise and walk out onto the uh the ship like top deck and just start boasting about nobody's here is good enough to beat him in arm wrestling which will draw everybody over.

Christopher Hooper: All right. All

Walden Briarhelm: You guys can sneak off and do your thing.

Ellis Taylor: I'm gonna go up there and join you and also and challenge you

Walden Briarhelm: Even Even Brew

Christopher Hooper: right. Oh. All right. All

Ali Leonard: Sure.

Ellis Taylor: as part of the

Walden Briarhelm: can. Oh, yes. The first The first one is the lady who's got the muscle mommy. Look. This is

Christopher Hooper: right.

Ellis Taylor: demonstration. Granny mommy, come on. Muscle

Walden Briarhelm: great. Oh, sorry. Yes.

Christopher Hooper: Um

Ellis Taylor: grandma. Grandommy. Yeah, muscle grandmommy.

Tyram: Muscle granny.

Christopher Hooper: okay so I

Justin Hale: Grand

Christopher Hooper: think I think for

Ali Leonard: for

Ellis Taylor: Grand Mommy.

Walden Briarhelm: Great.

Christopher Hooper: this we are going to do what's called a tag team and daggerheart where you are both going to do a performance check and you can take the best one and we'll use that to affect the DC of our spy

Tyram: Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: crew.

Ali Leonard: mommy.

Tyram: Heat.

Ellis Taylor: Cool. Explain that again. I was looking at muscle grandmom pictures

Tyram: At least you're using the time

Ellis Taylor: and I didn't find a good enough

Christopher Hooper: focus.

Walden Briarhelm: You're going to share,

Christopher Hooper: Um, you're both gonna you're both going to roll

Ellis Taylor: one. I didn't find one I

Walden Briarhelm: right?

Christopher Hooper: a performance check um or

Ellis Taylor: liked. Okay. And a

Christopher Hooper: athletics.

Ellis Taylor: strength.

Tyram: well.

Christopher Hooper: Um, and You'll take the best of

Ellis Taylor: Definitely going to be

Christopher Hooper: uh which uh of the roles the both of you

Walden Briarhelm: So was I'm sorry I kept getting cut outs. It's performance

Christopher Hooper: do?

Walden Briarhelm: or the whole world.

Ellis Taylor: athletics. Should I get my new dice? I bought I got the honest dice. Did you guys see their

Christopher Hooper: Athletics. Are they like perfectly balanced or

Ellis Taylor: Kickstarter? It's an actually mathematically

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: something? Nice.

Ellis Taylor: balance. Yeah. Like instead of one being on the other side of 20, it's actually 19 is on the opposite side. It's like mathematically more balanced.

Walden Briarhelm: Oh, nice. Only

Christopher Hooper: first

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, cuz it's first roll. I'm so

Walden Briarhelm: rolls 20s.

Christopher Hooper: roll. Here we

Ali Leonard: It

Ellis Taylor: nervous. It's not too bad.

Christopher Hooper: go. 18 uh on the on the

Ali Leonard: doesn't matter at

Ellis Taylor: 18. Yeah. Oh, no. Sorry.

Justin Hale: Right.

Christopher Hooper: dice. Oh, okay.

Ellis Taylor: Well, 18 total. 18 plus my

Walden Briarhelm: I only got a 25 in

Justin Hale: Did you buy the whole set of

Ellis Taylor: eight of what? No, I

Walden Briarhelm: athletics.

Justin Hale: these of the honest

Ali Leonard: all.

Ellis Taylor: just did the Kickstarter for the D20. Oh, but wait, I can

Justin Hale: dice? Oh, okay. I was going to say the

Christopher Hooper: Um,

Ellis Taylor: do No, no, no, no, no. I I did not

Justin Hale: whole

Tyram: $75 for a f****** set of

Ali Leonard: 2. How

Ellis Taylor: spend that. No, no, no, no,

Tyram: dice. It was

Ali Leonard: much?

Ellis Taylor: no.

Justin Hale: $275$275 for

Tyram: 70. I was already thinking that was outrageous at 75.

Christopher Hooper: expensive.

Justin Hale: a bro. Hey,

Tyram: Wow.

Ellis Taylor: No, I

Justin Hale: but but it's discounted

Christopher Hooper: Well, those are the titanium

Ali Leonard: 275. Oh my god.

Ellis Taylor: spent Yeah. No, this is I'll look up what was on the Kickstarter. It was not that. There's

Walden Briarhelm: Are these made

Justin Hale: $400.

Ellis Taylor: my lucky. You can

Walden Briarhelm: of? What are these made

Justin Hale: Uh

Christopher Hooper: ones.

Ellis Taylor: get them at different stuff.

Walden Briarhelm: of

Justin Hale: there's the titanium

Walden Briarhelm: aluminum?

Justin Hale: ones 70 marked down to

Christopher Hooper: Honest.

Ellis Taylor: honesty. So for if I need to, I can use a lucky

Justin Hale: 449. That's

Ellis Taylor: point and make that and do roll again. But I think between an 18

Walden Briarhelm: Honest.

Christopher Hooper: I think it's going to be

Ellis Taylor: and a 25, we're okay right

Tyram: Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: okay. Um, so with

Ellis Taylor: now. Yeah.

Justin Hale: crazy.

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Christopher Hooper: that, um, we will set, uh, so we'll set we'll go ahead. I honestly don't think Silus can can fail this check. Uh but your stealth check is going to be like I don't know a 15 gets you in the room uh pretty easily. A 20 gets you in the room like as a ghost. Um without any like like it it def it like exudes that nothing is going on here. Um and 25 is like uh you are also able to cover for any like loud

Tyram: Oh, sick.

Christopher Hooper: noises and failures that might be coming in the

Ali Leonard: I don't know what you're talking

Ellis Taylor: Oh, yeah. I only spent I only gave them 30

Tyram: Okay, that's much better.

Christopher Hooper: room.

Ali Leonard: about.

Ellis Taylor: bucks. Yeah. No,

Walden Briarhelm: Is it resin the one you got or is

Christopher Hooper: Good titanium or aluminum

Ellis Taylor: it's metal.

Walden Briarhelm: it

Christopher Hooper: probably. Is it

Ellis Taylor: I don't know. It's metal. I can look. I'm going to look. That's actually I've got a magnet right

Walden Briarhelm: cool?

Christopher Hooper: magnetic? All right, then. That doesn't answer

Ellis Taylor: here.

Tyram: Yeah. Okay. So, now

Ellis Taylor: No. Either of those. Hold on. I can

Walden Briarhelm: Wait, wait, wait. You don't know

Tyram: we can narrow it down to who we already had it narrowed down to.

Ellis Taylor: check. It's aluminum. It's

Christopher Hooper: either. Oh,

Ellis Taylor: aluminum. Yeah. It's

Tyram: Okay. So, you want me to roll

Christopher Hooper: okay.

Ellis Taylor: like

Tyram: still? All

Christopher Hooper: Yeah, I assume they're pumping into the

Walden Briarhelm: how

Tyram: right. Yeah. Okay,

Christopher Hooper: the portable hole. It's

Tyram: guys. Get in the pee hole. Bruce said he watched

Ali Leonard: It has been washed,

Justin Hale: Yeah. I cleaned it

Tyram: it.

Ali Leonard: right? Because you didn't wash it

Justin Hale: up. It still smells a little bit, but like I washed it

Ali Leonard: and I know you didn't. What' you wash it

Walden Briarhelm: The pee hole always

Justin Hale: out. I did wash

Christopher Hooper: okay.

Ali Leonard: with? That's what I'm

Ellis Taylor: Let's stay tight.

Walden Briarhelm: does a

Justin Hale: it or

Ali Leonard: saying. You need to watch him. You have him watch the bee hole and then he washes it with more

Justin Hale: pee. It doesn't smell like old anymore.

Tyram: Well,

Ali Leonard: pee. I

Walden Briarhelm: little.

Justin Hale: It smells like new pee. It doesn't smell like old pee

Tyram: I'm glad I'm not going to the pee

Ali Leonard: would rather die.

Ellis Taylor: Oh, Ally, something very important you did miss

Justin Hale: anymore.

Tyram: hole.

Ali Leonard: Oh,

Ellis Taylor: is Brew is canonically colorb blind

Justin Hale: Oh

Tyram: Oh yeah, that was a

Christopher Hooper: Oh yeah.

Ellis Taylor: now. That's very

Walden Briarhelm: And it's like

Tyram: thing. Yeah, you were some

Ellis Taylor: important.

Walden Briarhelm: blue purple or what was

Justin Hale: yeah,

Tyram: weird version. It wasn't red green. It was some weird version of color blind that I don't think I've ever heard

Walden Briarhelm: it?

Justin Hale: it's

Tyram: before. Oh, my

Christopher Hooper: Mhm.

Justin Hale: No, no, no. It's it's deranopia. It's the most common one, but it's

Ali Leonard: good.

Walden Briarhelm: Brown.

Justin Hale: basically so duranopia you can basically see blue and no

Tyram: mistake.

Ellis Taylor: So you should never What do

Justin Hale: other colors like everything else is like a shade like brownish.

Ali Leonard: Yeah, they're

Ellis Taylor: you inside of your bombs look like? Like the red wire is never the

Ali Leonard: like he's like, "Cut the blue

Ellis Taylor: right one. They're all

Justin Hale: Also, historically, it

Tyram: I got to

Ellis Taylor: red.

Justin Hale: fits because everything that Brew made was blue and

Tyram: add 27 on stealth though.

Christopher Hooper: a 27. Okay, great. Um, with that

Ali Leonard: wire.

Walden Briarhelm: The door opens for

Tyram: Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: 27, uh, you

Justin Hale: yellow

Christopher Hooper: both, uh, we're going to do a group check, uh, with Brew and Ellmith. Arana check on this relay. You see it, uh, in the captain's quarters. Um, very simple. There's just this antenna with this like revolving um uh we recognize it as like a it's like a a dish with it's like a satellite dish looking thing with a little what is that called? Um where you have the

Justin Hale: Oh,

Christopher Hooper: dish and the signal like sticking out from it.

Justin Hale: the Yeah, the little receiver

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah. Um so that's just like revolving like spinning around. Um and it's at the base of it there is like a console.

Justin Hale: sim

Christopher Hooper: Um it is uh you

Ali Leonard: over.

Christopher Hooper: know the the technology era is like uh 1960s. So think that um uh type of uh type of wiring and stuff going on.

Justin Hale: So the so the satellite dish is

Ali Leonard: Yeah. Highly experienced

Christopher Hooper: Yeah, it's small enough to fit in a room. Yeah, but it's pretty

Justin Hale: gigantic.

Christopher Hooper: big. Um, and yeah, if I can

Ali Leonard: man.

Christopher Hooper: get a a group arpon check uh from the two of you. Um, do you want me to tell

Tyram: Liliana gave them bartic

Christopher Hooper: you? Do you want me to tell you?

Ali Leonard: 19 for

Justin Hale: Army uh 16 for

Christopher Hooper: Okay. And because of that 27

Justin Hale: me.

Christopher Hooper: from from Silus, uh you get one more

Ali Leonard: me.

Tyram: inspiration.

Ali Leonard: I think he's saying that

Justin Hale: Oh, that means we

Tyram: Would it be fair

Ali Leonard: we need one more

Tyram: to say that Lyanna gives

Christopher Hooper: try. Uh

Ellis Taylor: Liliana is there

Christopher Hooper: we're not gonna we're not going to say that. We're just going to include who's

Ellis Taylor: being like Go go go.

Christopher Hooper: here.

Justin Hale: did. Hold on. Hold on. Now you're freaking me out. Uh what is my flash of genius

Tyram: inspiration?

Ali Leonard: try.

Justin Hale: plus fork? Uh so that's going to be

Christopher Hooper: total.

Ali Leonard: I had

Justin Hale: 25 total for

Christopher Hooper: Okay.

Justin Hale: me. 25 total for

Christopher Hooper: Okay. So that takes you group check above

Justin Hale: me.

Christopher Hooper: 20. I will give you the DCs here. DC10 was you would figure out how the relay

Justin Hale: 20

Christopher Hooper: worked and realize you don't have the skills to sabotage it. Uh less than that you would have

Ali Leonard: 20. Damn.

Christopher Hooper: f***** it up. DC-15 would be that you can hijack the sign uh you can hijack the signal uh but you won't be able to sabotage it. The DC20 was to be able to hijack it and also be able to sabotage the relay network where only you will be able to get the signal. All right. So you're able you're able to work through uh the

Ellis Taylor: Cool. We did it.

Christopher Hooper: network uh through the console. you see that they're they're you're able to work where it will send erroneous uh signals to the other relays um and store

Justin Hale: Mhm.

Christopher Hooper: them um while saving a local uh instance of the actual coordinates of the other orbs here. Um all you will need to do is return to the ship to get them. Um cool. So, uh, what did they hear up up on the deck? Uh, uh, and, um, retired detective Olivia

Walden Briarhelm: I'll let

Ellis Taylor: I think they hear a lot of

Walden Briarhelm: Olivia Cooper go first here.

Ellis Taylor: people just like chanting like go go go go and

Christopher Hooper: Cooper.

Ellis Taylor: we're just like like full on like both trying to like trying to beat each other but also So trying to like ham it up so that that we keep

Christopher Hooper: Put

Ellis Taylor: their attention. I feel like but on a bit of a show but also like we're like I'm stronger.

Walden Briarhelm: So, uh, yeah, definitely. I, uh, I'd like to imagine before we started, I had taken a second to show off the belt that I have

Christopher Hooper: another

Walden Briarhelm: on, which is the, uh, belt of bear, the strongest man of Silsbury. It's a legendary, wondrous item that I have equipped. the felt of uh is it mountain giant strength or something like that and uh like you know because I'm in my wrestling persona really like oh yeah and uh uh I think what would be the thing that I would want to stand out as you can

Christopher Hooper: Ah,

Walden Briarhelm: see like even though I'm a to starting to like visually sweat because this gr muscle granny is keeping up

Ellis Taylor: Mhm.

Walden Briarhelm: and uh we're putting on a hell of a show this crowd is rolling It's not as loud as the main floor of the uh the dragon's hide, but it is stomping very

Christopher Hooper: you hear a rockus like there's betting going on around you as both sides as the as the bout goes on. Um but I believe Elizabeth or uh Olivia your athletics total was 18. Is that right? Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, he's going to beat

Walden Briarhelm: similar.

Christopher Hooper: So, Ma has the beating of you after a tense uh

Ellis Taylor: me.

Christopher Hooper: bout uh that seems to go on way too long back and forth. Uh Ma decides to put an end to this and slams home the win uh and uh uh is victorious. Um there's a huge cheer and jeers and booze and uh various uh money exchanged as the the bets are resolved. Um and uh soon I imagine um you see your uh fellow party members go back above deck uh seemingly unnoticed and uh join in the fun. Um the rest of the evening um is spent aboard. Uh and uh the captain at one point announces we'll make the sight in the morning. Uh get your rest and drink up. It's on St. George. Uh and at this point there's a huge cheer. Yeah. and they start opening casts of ale um that were uh put on board earlier.

Tyram: Oh god, we need to

Christopher Hooper: And there's a rockus party going on on the ship

Tyram: get below decks before nightfalls. Well,

Christopher Hooper: as

Tyram: I didn't make up their routine. We all know what it is, though.

Justin Hale: Gross. It's disgusting.

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Christopher Hooper: um All right. Uh, anything anyone wants to do overnight before we hit in the morning where we arrive to the crash

Walden Briarhelm: I uh Olivia I'd like to imagine and Olivia actually had a a moment last time where uh before a bed ceremony, we were both kind of

Christopher Hooper: site?

Walden Briarhelm: doing a uh I was doing Tai Chi and uh I think that she joined as she was stretching. Uh I'd like to invite Olivia to join with Ma and Bafel to do a similar Tai Chi like experience in like

Ellis Taylor: Oh, she'd love

Walden Briarhelm: their evening

Christopher Hooper: Oh, do you work out in the mornings too? It is a

Walden Briarhelm: time.

Christopher Hooper: great

Ellis Taylor: to. Oh, yes, honey. I'm not not quite as as in the Zen situation, but the meditation is a great break up for my normal normal kind of like lifting

Christopher Hooper: practice.

Ellis Taylor: routine.

Walden Briarhelm: I will be honest, Buffy. The first time that I had to go train one after joining this party, Olivia was actually awake before me. She

Christopher Hooper: Wow. You must wake

Walden Briarhelm: is very dedicated.

Christopher Hooper: with the

Walden Briarhelm: So, are we I'm like imagining some sort of like on the deck the sun is not even visible yet, but the sun is starting to light up in the

Christopher Hooper: birds.

Walden Briarhelm: horizon and there's just like two turtles and this

Ellis Taylor: Are you

Walden Briarhelm: beefy ass granny just doing like

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: cheating?

Walden Briarhelm: slow Yeah. Oh, yeah. The

Christopher Hooper: Sun sunrise coming over the the water's

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, we do

Walden Briarhelm: water is

Ellis Taylor: the the like foot swap in silhouette al

Walden Briarhelm: Oh

Christopher Hooper: edge. Uhhuh. I think we

Ellis Taylor: together.

Walden Briarhelm: yes, there's some coordination for sure.

Christopher Hooper: have an anime moment where even though we're doing Tai Chi, there's like and like air shimmering around us with like immense power sort of thing going

Ellis Taylor: Oh

Walden Briarhelm: Oh, one of the times we all bring our hands up at the same time and a huge

Christopher Hooper: on. Uh

Walden Briarhelm: wave crashes. Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: yeah,

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah. Straight out of water bending. What's everybody else up

Christopher Hooper: exactly. probably f****** asleep at this time of

Tyram: Yeah, for your early morning routine, Tyl is

Christopher Hooper: day,

Ellis Taylor: yeah.

Tyram: definitely f full on

Christopher Hooper: but um cool. Uh any anything anyone else wants to do before getting to the car

Tyram: asleep.

Christopher Hooper: site? Cool. All right. Um, you are sailing along in the morning and

Justin Hale: Okay.

Christopher Hooper: it's pretty early. Uh, at one point the caller says out says, "Hi, the crash site. It's almost air." And you see people scurrying to um the front of the boat. As you make your way, you begin to see this border where the the sea ends. Um, and you can make out a like open ring. Um, at a certain point you see some murmur like a worle, something like that. Uh, but then you see it's a sheer drop. You can see the other side of this ring. Um, and it is perfectly dry and you can start to see the ocean floor uh within this ring of of ocean like hundreds of feet below. And as you get closer, you can start to see over the sides of the boat. You see down swirling vortex has a very stark um wall and you measure probably 300 ft below is a dry ocean floor. And on that floor uh well um you want to see what you see on the ocean floor. All right. Hopefully I

Tyram: The Toeer had no followup to

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: that. He just wanted to ask to see if we wanted to see

Christopher Hooper: can

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, it's like Oh, wait.

Christopher Hooper: Well, tough s***.

Ellis Taylor: s***. This picture real quick.

Christopher Hooper: Um, can you see

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, muscle

Tyram: it. Now we

Christopher Hooper: that?

Ellis Taylor: granny.

Tyram: can.

Christopher Hooper: So you start seeing

Ellis Taylor: Yes.

Tyram: Oh

Ellis Taylor: Okay. Oh, she is dead maybe.

Christopher Hooper: um um there

Justin Hale: or she land

Christopher Hooper: is she land the

Justin Hale: a cushiony

Tyram: sick.

Christopher Hooper: cushion. What about the cushion?

Tyram: Those those aren't rocks. Those are all just like really big bean

Christopher Hooper: Um, and you see the

Justin Hale: place.

Tyram: bags.

Christopher Hooper: skeleton uh of a glowing winged figure. Uh, she appears to be about 400 uh feet long.

Justin Hale: That's very

Christopher Hooper: Um

Justin Hale: tall.

Christopher Hooper: is and uh you um you uh kind of shore up um right on the edge of the ocean uh right along the side. Um and there it is. At this point, uh you see um the anchors being dropped. Uh and um they're trying not to fall over the side of the ocean and uh you see that there are um repelling uh anchors being set uh that can take. But um at this point Bafael approaches says hello. Um it is time. And at that point he jumps over the side of the ship into the water and you see him kind of go in and out between the water and the air and he descends rapidly but catches himself in the water and then disappears. And then you see him walk um along the dry ocean floor at the

Ellis Taylor: Well, I'm not going down that way.

Tyram: Is it worth burning one of my limited use teleportations for this? No, probably not,

Justin Hale: I don't know. How much does uh a

Tyram: right? Oh

Christopher Hooper: bottom.

Justin Hale: goddess helmet sell for?

Tyram: s***. Wow. Okay.

Ellis Taylor: Honey, that is way too big to be back. She's

Tyram: Well, okay, but like people would probably buy

Ellis Taylor: 400 ft

Tyram: like filings from a goddess bone,

Ellis Taylor: tall. Are you going to

Tyram: right? There's no one around us

Ellis Taylor: defile's

Justin Hale: Silus. Um, listen, I may not

Tyram: right

Ellis Taylor: god?

Walden Briarhelm: I would think they I would kind of hope you

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: would like Zack hack hopes that your characters would still like we we can't

Tyram: now.

Walden Briarhelm: pass this up. It goes against our religion

Justin Hale: be

Tyram: Yeah, Silas is very

Walden Briarhelm: to not do

Tyram: um non rel to be sure. So, he wouldn't really

Ellis Taylor: I wonder if there's a god of the the of

Tyram: care. There's got to be,

Ellis Taylor: thieves.

Walden Briarhelm: this.

Justin Hale: All

Tyram: right? Um, okay. So, I'm going to establish psychic phone with the party here. I'm going to exclude Ma for a second and like just directed at Brew and um Okay, so this is a me and Brew conversation. All right,

Ellis Taylor: Just see your way

Tyram: Brew. It It's Silus. Um, that was a good idea. We need to find a way to get

Justin Hale: right.

Tyram: ourselves a little bit of a, you know, essence of goddess Bone, you know, like that would you can put your hand down, but I feel like that would

Ellis Taylor: out.

Tyram: definitely sell her a lot.

Ellis Taylor: Olivia's just like, "Yeah,

Tyram: This is

Ellis Taylor: guys, watching Ruby like this." Like, "Yeah, yeah, Tylus, I know what you're

Tyram: why This is why you don't put your hand up. It kind of You're

Justin Hale: What?

Tyram: kind of just defeating the purpose of trying to do this

Ellis Taylor: doing." I just walk over and like box both their ears and just lift them

Tyram: surreptitiously. Ow ow ow ow. What the

Ellis Taylor: up.

Justin Hale: But I'm Hey,

Tyram: hell? Oh, so hey, that

Justin Hale: I'm on the phone. I'm on the

Tyram: image on a Discord there, is that how jacked Olivia is.

Christopher Hooper: only when he's

Ellis Taylor: Sure, why

Walden Briarhelm: I hope

Justin Hale: phone. Sure, why not?

Ellis Taylor: not? Only was just flexing.

Justin Hale: Yeah. Yeah. Um I I I feel like the headdress could fit

Walden Briarhelm: so.

Justin Hale: up there in the crow's nest. Like just set it on the top. It' be fine,

Tyram: Okay. That might be a little ambitious, Brew, but like

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: people would probably like you could like get like a bottle of goddess bone powder and like

Christopher Hooper: flexing.

Justin Hale: right?

Tyram: put it in your bathtub, you know? That would that would there's a market for that. We should invent bath

Christopher Hooper: That's salt.

Ellis Taylor: Bath bombs. Are you going to invent bath

Tyram: bombs. Oh s***, that's perfect. Brew, you love

Justin Hale: Did you see

Tyram: making bombs. We'll make a bath bomb out of goddess bone

Justin Hale: that?

Tyram: powder, but like

Ellis Taylor: bombs?

Justin Hale: People hold. People want to put bombs in their bed.

Tyram: soothing exfoliating ones.

Justin Hale: Weird. Bombs aren't soothing

Tyram: That's why we're inventing

Justin Hale: or Well, they are a little Balms can be exfoliating in the sense that it will rip your skin off,

Tyram: it. Okay, we don't want that. Um, I feel like

Justin Hale: but the

[01:30:00]

Tyram: the defining feature of a bomb is just like a like a like an outward thrust, right? You know, no one asked

Justin Hale: soothing. You're not

Tyram: you. It's the f******

Christopher Hooper: What?

Justin Hale: in this. Who is

Christopher Hooper: Sorry, this was before the wall. Don't mind

Justin Hale: this? All

Tyram: DM. It's the damn dream

Christopher Hooper: me. Oh no, not the dream

Justin Hale: right. All I know is I have enough bombs to blow up a piece of that headdress. And I'm going to get me a

Tyram: master. I mean, honestly, more power to you, man. That's We can definitely sell that, too.

Justin Hale: piece. I can blow up some of the bones, too, if you want me to. Easily. Easy

Tyram: Okay, let's let's roll back on the bath bomb thing. But like it could be like a like a

Christopher Hooper: master.

Justin Hale: peasy.

Tyram: bubble bath, you know, or like so some people pour in and like rub on their skin. People get like f****** like rhino bones and like tiger bones and s***. We could do it with goddess

Justin Hale: Why do people do this? It sounds

Tyram: bones. I don't know. I don't I don't say

Ellis Taylor: Now they're creating the wellness

Tyram: it's a good thing, but people do buy them, so you

Ali Leonard: They create group.

Ellis Taylor: industry. Oh my

Justin Hale: dumb.

Tyram: know. Oh man, that would be such a great endgame for

Justin Hale: I mean, I got a lot of

Tyram: Silus

Ellis Taylor: god. The ultimate grifter

Justin Hale: problems.

Tyram: creating. I mean, yeah. I mean, if I could just like that is like the ultimate scam

Christopher Hooper: Hey

Tyram: setup. I just have to like kind of reflavor it as like this newagy like uh like you know

Christopher Hooper: guys.

Tyram: positive vibes b*******.

Christopher Hooper: Are you going to

Tyram: Yeah. No.

Christopher Hooper: sell this as like um boner pills or something like

Tyram: No. I'm pictur like rub it on your skin and like it'll make you like

Ellis Taylor: goop.

Tyram: youthful or whatever type of

Justin Hale: Yeah. Swallow this bone.

Tyram: thing. We want to counterize. It's

Christopher Hooper: that? Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: It's going to be like radium and everyone's going

Justin Hale: It's a bone or

Tyram: not like we killed her, you know? We're just She's not

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: to

Tyram: using them

Christopher Hooper: harvesting her

Tyram: anymore. Is she alive or

Justin Hale: pill.

Christopher Hooper: body. Um,

Ellis Taylor: die.

Christopher Hooper: and uh, at this point like everyone's pretty familiar with like um, two people talking over telekinesis. So, everyone's just like waiting for you to finish your conversation.

Tyram: not?

Justin Hale: What? I'm on the phone.

Christopher Hooper: Um, hey. Yeah. Um,

Justin Hale: Like just chill out. All right. I

Christopher Hooper: can I use a next? I need to call my

Justin Hale: guess I

Christopher Hooper: mom. Hey,

Justin Hale: mean All

Tyram: I'm very disappointed in you, son. Give the spoon back to

Christopher Hooper: mom. All right. Yeah, it was

Justin Hale: right.

Christopher Hooper: her.

Justin Hale: That was like

Tyram: Brew.

Christopher Hooper: Um, all right. Uh, are y'all jumping off this

Tyram: Let's jump off this

Ellis Taylor: Hell

Justin Hale: her. Yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: Uh Baf uh what Bafael did is an

Christopher Hooper: boat?

Walden Briarhelm: exact uh what did it's like we trained to do this

Christopher Hooper: Yeah, it's

Walden Briarhelm: exact movement. Uh I I don't

Tyram: boat.

Christopher Hooper: just

Ellis Taylor: no.

Walden Briarhelm: know what but like I I just felt necessary. I'm I'm drawn to the what looks to be remains of Luna and almost

Christopher Hooper: vertical. All right.

Walden Briarhelm: act without considering the

Christopher Hooper: Um, and you do some some wave dashing, too. Stingray

Walden Briarhelm: party. Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: style.

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah. Whatever cool s*** you got 360 noes or

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: something. Yes, for

Justin Hale: for Jesus.

Christopher Hooper: Um, all right, everyone else. Uh, so

Walden Briarhelm: sure.

Christopher Hooper: Olivia is definitely not jumping off the ship. Um, she spends the rest of the session on the

Ellis Taylor: Hell

Christopher Hooper: ship. Um,

Ellis Taylor: no. I'm waiting to see if the soldiers guys have a better idea if they've got like a boat or

Justin Hale: You're such a

Christopher Hooper: okay. Are you are you jumping off,

Ellis Taylor: something.

Justin Hale: party,

Christopher Hooper: Brew? Okay, great.

Justin Hale: Peppa. Of course I am. I got stuff

Walden Briarhelm: Does he pull a parachute and an

Justin Hale: to blow

Walden Briarhelm: anvil falls out instead? Like

Justin Hale: up.

Christopher Hooper: Um uh he accidentally used a parachute from his anchor. Um you see the uh other sailors and soldiers. Um they are playing shuffle board on the on the deck. Uh they've laid out some sand. Um, and they're running some pucks along the board. Um, and uh, you just hear like a huge commotion. It's very competitive at this point. Uh, they're taking turns. Um, it looks like they've set up some kind of tournament. Um, and uh, it looks like there's roughly uh, five different sailor teams and then the the the three dragon knights.

Ellis Taylor: What the f***? You guys are just We're just doing Oh god.

Christopher Hooper: Um.

Ellis Taylor: Okay. Well, you're not coming with us. Okay. Liliana's

Christopher Hooper: Huh.

Ellis Taylor: Ding. Um, I guess Olivia's gonna look at El's and be like, "All right, let's at least get a life fast before we do this.

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Um. All right. You grab a there's like two way fewer than you need for this type of boat. Um and they're they're pretty tattered, but you find them.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: Um it's by the one lifeboat. Um you you start clocking that if there's a disaster like you're going to be in a rough shape.

Ellis Taylor: Oh

Christopher Hooper: Um and you grab that those those life vests jump off. Um, and let's say uh unless unless uh you specify otherwise, you

Ellis Taylor: no.

Christopher Hooper: start doing the same thing that Ma and Bafel are doing, which is like uh swapping between the water in the air as you like slow your fall to the ocean

Ellis Taylor: Definitely going to

Christopher Hooper: floor. Yeah. Um,

Ellis Taylor: try.

Christopher Hooper: and fortunately there are these ropes. Even if you um a few times you like don't quite get your movement right, but you're able to to catch yourself on the rope and push yourself back in the water. Um, yeah. And you all able to make it to the ocean floor just fine. You see, um, that and have started um, making their way uh, to the head uh to the head of this um fallen god, goddess, and you begin to you begin to hear this voice in your mind. It's a very soft, weak, fragile voice. Uh she says, "Who who is that? I'm so weak my bones feel like they might break." And Um, it sounds like someone uh near the end. Um, the volume seems to get stronger as you get closer to um her head. Um, and you see that this is also where uh the um ritual site is. You see that there are some podiums around. Uh spots appear for the salt. Um you see four uh pillars that hold uh spherical objects. Um and uh Bafel begins to point you through uh the ritual site. Okay. I have learned this through my studies. I brought this big sack of salt and you said you brought the spheres of our lessons from the ship. Let us arrange it now. We must all pour our blood into the bowl. And he points towards the center of this um area. Right into the center is this pedestal with this large ceramic bowl. He says we must give our blood freely and then it will start the

Tyram: Good or bad for Silus to be

Christopher Hooper: ritual. Um

Tyram: approaching the bones with a file?

Christopher Hooper: and um yeah. Yeah. Do

Ellis Taylor: Olivia's definitely not letting you near

Christopher Hooper: you um you're walking along um do you try to file a

Tyram: No, we'll do the stinking world saving ritual first, I

Christopher Hooper: bounce?

Ellis Taylor: them. If she dies in the ritual, maybe you can try. You

Tyram: guess. Could all of us hear her voice

Ellis Taylor: can try. How about that? She's not dead yet. I mean, would Silus really

Tyram: or just the just the faithful here?

Ellis Taylor: go

Tyram: Could all of us hear her voice or just the

Christopher Hooper: Okay. Sorry. What's that?

Tyram: monks? Okay.

Christopher Hooper: all of

Ellis Taylor: try? Yeah. Would Silus really try if

Tyram: Okay. Probably

Ellis Taylor: he hears her talking to

Tyram: not. I do have some moral scruples,

Christopher Hooper: you.

Ellis Taylor: him? Yeah.

Tyram: but like not when it comes to dead bodies. I will piler the f*** out of

Christopher Hooper: Um um here go

Walden Briarhelm: I I I have

Tyram: those.

[01:40:00]

Walden Briarhelm: a whole like lorish

Christopher Hooper: ahead. Okay.

Walden Briarhelm: RPG thing. Is giving blood typical of a not like dark ritual? I feel like anytime you do blood magic, blood donation, it kind of has a a negative

Christopher Hooper: Give

Walden Briarhelm: twist to it, but I could just be wrong and I don't want to

Christopher Hooper: me either an arcane or religion check. Your choice.

Walden Briarhelm: implement my foot in my mouth here. What was it? Arcane

Christopher Hooper: Arcane or

Walden Briarhelm: or religion? All right. Big money. Do I have inspiration? I have inspiration from last time. I got a

Christopher Hooper: religion the

Walden Briarhelm: 16.

Christopher Hooper: 16. Um you um from your studies um you commonly know blood magic to be

Walden Briarhelm: Okay.

Christopher Hooper: um unnatural. Uh usually usually magic that is um uh like apo apostatic like um against the will of most gods. Um

Walden Briarhelm: f***

Christopher Hooper: and and usually uh evoked to fight uh usually evoked by mortals in a

Walden Briarhelm: you.

Christopher Hooper: resistance to the natural

Walden Briarhelm: So, this does stand out as suspicious to Ma that we would be making a blood donation for

Christopher Hooper: order. I guess to I guess it might ring stronger like what like what this was is that it

Walden Briarhelm: this.

Christopher Hooper: is a ritual u made by mortals to try to bind something that is immortal and godly in nature.

Walden Briarhelm: So blood

Christopher Hooper: And you have heard

Walden Briarhelm: is okay.

Christopher Hooper: of instances of necromancy and blood magic used in ways that

Walden Briarhelm: Okay.

Christopher Hooper: um were um ethically good um while being complicated from a religious and like natural standpoint.

Walden Briarhelm: Uh, I'm still cut off from the uh mental phone.

Christopher Hooper: Um, Taylor or Silus, uh,

Walden Briarhelm: Correct.

Christopher Hooper: what's status of, uh, conference call? Is

Tyram: Oh, I've opened it up to everyone now. Now that we're done

Christopher Hooper: everyone tuned in

Walden Briarhelm: Okay, I'm gonna um kind of say something to the group

Christopher Hooper: now?

Walden Briarhelm: and has had this moment where the the concept of the blood ritual kind of is suspicious. Not based on what everything that Toeer just shared, not because of anything more than like this seems a little bit just different. Something seems different about it. And

Tyram: scheming

Walden Briarhelm: I also start to realize that since the monastery had been destroyed, uh we'd all gone on our own journey. And I have not yet asked Bafael uh like how did you get into this position? and we've kind of just been taking everything he said at his word. I'm gonna ask I think it would be Silas and Brew if they notice anything suspicious or if they have noticed anything suspicious about Bafel.

Tyram: Um, if you're

Christopher Hooper: What is

Justin Hale: Um, I'm not

Tyram: worried about the ritual thing, we had another

Justin Hale: going

Tyram: source like the tablet back in the vault that told us all the blood magic stuff. Like that's not a Raphael original

Christopher Hooper: it?

Tyram: thing. Yeah, we can roll

Walden Briarhelm: Oh, okay. With that in mind, then I

Tyram: inside if you want though. I mean, it's probably a good

Walden Briarhelm: guess I I kind of I c I I I get a weird vibe out of it. And even if that's just me wanting to overthink a character, I I I want to know. And I'm I'm blind to my own

Justin Hale: If you're if you're asking us though,

Tyram: idea.

Walden Briarhelm: brother.

Justin Hale: I will flush a genius

Tyram: Okay, my worst insight is going to be um uh 20. So, do you guys want me to try to bend sight on

Christopher Hooper: I think um why

Walden Briarhelm: Hello.

Christopher Hooper: don't you all have this in character cuz I want to know what y'all

Justin Hale: here.

Christopher Hooper: are trying to to insight like is it about Bafael itself or the ritual or um you know like what you're

Tyram: him?

Christopher Hooper: trying to dig deeper into.

Walden Briarhelm: Um, I think I might just uh in that moment think to the group. I I need to ask Bafel a question and ask Bafel like you said that you did your own research on this. Where did you learn that this was how the ritual was supposed to

Christopher Hooper: I learned through the St. George books. They have, you may have noticed, they have lots of research on dragons, including this site. They even have the old strips.

Walden Briarhelm: go? I'm overthinking it. I need to go have a drink. I was sitting here like the Elderon would send the mercenary order of St. George to take care of this mission to go base it on this loose translation of a blood ritual to receal this orb. Like ah I'm I'm

Christopher Hooper: Maybe maybe maybe they got a lot of that research from them. Hard to say. Um, but what

Walden Briarhelm: overthinking.

Christopher Hooper: Bafael says to you is, "Yes, I got this from St.

Ellis Taylor: and Corette. Welcome

Walden Briarhelm: Okay. Okay. I I have I I find myself torn because more than anything it is an emotional moment to be standing beside the fallen body of my my god.

Christopher Hooper: George.

Walden Briarhelm: And I if anybody else has any concerns, please share them. Otherwise, I I believe that perhaps we should just move forward. I I cannot I cannot move past my own

Tyram: Well, I mean, Rafael's your bro, right? We're kind of I don't know this guy at all. I was kind of deferring to you on his p on his scruples here, you know?

Walden Briarhelm: feelings. I'm going I will trust my gut and say that my brother would never steer us in any

Tyram: Oh, I don't

Walden Briarhelm: direction but the correct way.

Tyram: like that. Um, let me go ahead and roll on this

Walden Briarhelm: Uh, so

Tyram: guy. Uh, 30 or sorry,

Christopher Hooper: Yes. 30

Walden Briarhelm: so I fix it.

Tyram: 29. Yeah. Am

Christopher Hooper: 29 and are you getting plaster genius too? Is that

Tyram: I Okay.

Justin Hale: Oh yes.

Christopher Hooper: right? 33. 33 is a 33 is big. What What was the dice

Tyram: 33. The dice roll was a 19 and then I have a plus

Justin Hale: Uh

Christopher Hooper: roll? Dice roll is a 19 almost natural 20. Okay.

Justin Hale: One

Tyram: 10.

Christopher Hooper: Okay. I think I think what you see in Bafhael is that he started this with just trying to get to try to get answers and he found St. George as the best way to do that because and he foresaw this moment

Justin Hale: What?

[01:50:00]

Christopher Hooper: where he was going to have to decide himself whether he wanted to help or actively hurt St. George. But he first needed them to help him get to this site to be able to make that decision to even know whether Luna was alive or not. He didn't really know what he was going to do when he got there. Now, it's clear that he he worked very hard to gain the trust of St. George. Is clear to that. You're thinking back to the way the commander talked about him that Rafael was setting up an expedition that he was leading this and maybe helped them a little too much to find this site and put all the pieces together and put it together to to actually get here. But in that he also had a hand in being able to select who was on the ship. he had this plan to get out um once he was able to see. And now he's really struggling with the real possibility that you hold this item connected to this godly dragon that very likely has the power to uh bring back his god. and he's he's personally still struggling with that issue because it seems like a huge cost to work with and unleash and and do that to but you know he's inevitably a a monastic member that follows this this Luna godly figure. And now he sees this site, this site that uses blood magic and this orb that is made of man. And it's very against his own nature. This this nature of man to fight against the nature of the universe itself. And he is getting pushed into this. He's he's swaying into that we should not even do this ritual at all. Um that we should instead figure out a way to to find some sort of way to work with Astro and Noraxis and not to find some some balance there to not destroy their world and to return to the balance that they had before. Um, that's that's what your 33 insight check gets

Tyram: Okay. So, I guess I'll uh you know, now that you mention it, it does seem as though your buddy here might be having second thoughts. We might need to talk it out with him before we try the ritual.

Christopher Hooper: you. You're muted, but I see your lips

Walden Briarhelm: Thank you. Uh I I too found myself uh beside myself actually. Uh being by the body has definitely skewed the the the quest that I was on when I first

Christopher Hooper: moving.

Walden Briarhelm: arrived. I sense that Bafel too is questioning his motives at this point. At this point, I'll just speak out to Bafel and say, "Baf, are you sure about

Christopher Hooper: No, no. But I You have a plan. It It keeps the status quo, right? We will think about this another time.

Walden Briarhelm: I'm going to do the classic like hand on the shoulder with support and be like I am with you

Christopher Hooper: You do you feel like you can give blood freely for this ritual?

Walden Briarhelm: I do have my doubts, but I believe that if this is what you have learned, I can trust

Christopher Hooper: You trust

Walden Briarhelm: you. Yes, Mafia, you are one of my

Christopher Hooper: me? I Oh

Walden Briarhelm: brothers.

Christopher Hooper: my I I I cannot lead you to this ritual. You lead me to this ritual.

Walden Briarhelm: What are the uh is the uh the shuffle board tournament still occurring or have any of the uh order of St. George joined us at the bottom of the let's see

Christopher Hooper: Give me per second

Ellis Taylor: I

Walden Briarhelm: here. Damn

Christopher Hooper: check.

Ellis Taylor: also have a question. Tier is all about like

Walden Briarhelm: it.

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Mhm.

Ellis Taylor: order and balance, right? Or is it more about the rule of law than or than

Christopher Hooper: Um, I believe it

Ellis Taylor: balance?

Christopher Hooper: is a belief that there is a structure that everything fits in that the

Ellis Taylor: Mhm.

Christopher Hooper: bad and the good has its role in the universe.

Ellis Taylor: Mhm. Yeah. Do I have like anything where I can talk to my

Christopher Hooper: You can you can pray if you

Ellis Taylor: God? I mean, I can always I can always pray. I was just seeing if I had

Ali Leonard: Let's all

Ellis Taylor: like anything that was like talk to him

Ali Leonard: pray. I'll I'll call

Ellis Taylor: directly.

Tyram: Man, believing in God seems like a real pain in the ass. Well, I

Christopher Hooper: want.

Ali Leonard: Tony. Yeah, they always want to talk and it's like I'm

Tyram: mean, I they clearly exist. I guess the word I should do is

Ali Leonard: busy.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: like uh being differential to gods is seems like a real pain in the ass.

Ellis Taylor: I want the trickster god just to like pop up in

Tyram: Isn't

Ellis Taylor: like you think you don't think I'm

Tyram: the trickster god like mostly dead? Like didn't Crowley like mostly eat

Ali Leonard: You

Ellis Taylor: around. Oh, I have no idea.

Tyram: him? Well,

Christopher Hooper: Hey.

Ali Leonard: invented Crowley. You would know

Ellis Taylor: Oh my god. What if Crowley becomes the trickster

Tyram: Justin invented the trickster god, so I don't know that whole

Ellis Taylor: god?

Justin Hale: Oh,

Tyram: deal. Oh, is that not the same thing? Because

Justin Hale: that's the chaos god.

Tyram: I was fully assuming that was the same thing.

Christopher Hooper: That's the thing about chaos. God changes his name every

Justin Hale: The chaos god is now bringing

Tyram: bastard. All right. So, one thing I'm confused, how would this orb

Christopher Hooper: day.

Tyram: help revive Luna? Like, how would that even logistically

Christopher Hooper: That's a question tailored to toer

Justin Hale: balance.

Tyram: work? Okay. Would my

Christopher Hooper: or silus to the

Tyram: insight have really given me like such specific thing about like using the orb to help Luna or would that is that a little too specific for

Christopher Hooper: world. That's that's

Ellis Taylor: Probably.

Christopher Hooper: um that's not really that your insight was

Ali Leonard: Let's

Tyram: insight his

Christopher Hooper: into to more of um Bafael and like what was going on with

Tyram: out.

Christopher Hooper: him.

Ali Leonard: see. I mean, I can ask Tony if you

Ellis Taylor: I mean, I

Justin Hale: Can we

Christopher Hooper: Um

Ali Leonard: want.

Ellis Taylor: can ask tier like tier like inside like tier

Justin Hale: hear our

Tyram: Okay.

Ellis Taylor: if you got an opinion about this whole balance s***.

Justin Hale: comics?

Tyram: I mean, by all means, looping in, you know, like I just I thought that we wanted

Ellis Taylor: I'd really like to

Tyram: to stop the dragon from waking up, but you guys, by all means,

Ellis Taylor: know.

Tyram: like, uh, let's let's get everybody on the line here and get a conference call.

Christopher Hooper: yeah, that's

Ali Leonard: Let's get a conference call

Ellis Taylor: I mean, tier, it seems

Christopher Hooper: it.

Ali Leonard: going.

Ellis Taylor: like it seems like, you know, I forgot Elderan's trying to kill gods. I don't want them to kill the gods, but the dragons don't seem like the best idea either. I don't know what to

Tyram: Everyone

Ellis Taylor: do anymore.

Christopher Hooper: Um, to that perception, um, do you see there is one Dragonite who is on board the

Tyram: sucks.

Christopher Hooper: ship probably uh like pretty far, but he seems to be like watching from the ship uh deck.

Walden Briarhelm: Oh, that's good.

Christopher Hooper: Um as you you all are discussing and and looking for religious um guidance uh Silas at some point uh emanating from your backpack. You hear I will help you sister. This world will remember the mighty love of Luna Enoraxis. And you hear that angelic voice again. Um, are you there? Please help me. And at this point, directed to you, at you, Silus, you hear, "Do what you want, Silus. I will not be

Tyram: That's right. Are you Astro or Nuraxis? I'm getting confused about

Christopher Hooper: stopped." It doesn't

Tyram: that. Yeah, honestly, who the f***

Christopher Hooper: respond.

Justin Hale: Who is this?

Tyram: is

Ali Leonard: What is

Tyram: talking?

Christopher Hooper: Um, but you're uh it seems to be the same

Tyram: No one asked

Christopher Hooper: astro that's been in your your

Tyram: you. Shut

Ali Leonard: this?

Tyram: up. Okay, guys. It looks like it looks like it's s*** or get off

Justin Hale: Who is this? Oh, yeah.

Tyram: the pot time here, guys. You guys get your word in from your god because you need to do it right the hell

Christopher Hooper: orb. Um, yeah. What are

Tyram: now.

Christopher Hooper: y'all What are y'all trying to do to What are y'all

Justin Hale: Hello.

Christopher Hooper: doing?

Ellis Taylor: f*** if I know I feel ill

Christopher Hooper: Doing some dice rolls. You want to You want to roll some

Ellis Taylor: informed. I'll do a dice

Justin Hale: And it was

Christopher Hooper: dice? You want to do a prayer

Ali Leonard: Yeah. So, first of all, I'll take out my fidget

Ellis Taylor: roll.

Justin Hale: nar. Hold on. Hold

Ali Leonard: spinner.

Justin Hale: on. Let's do this with science and

Christopher Hooper: circle?

[02:00:00]

Justin Hale: math. Can we like check the orb? Like is it resonating the closer we are to this this moon god or like is it doing anything that we can gleam from to see like how it would

Christopher Hooper: Um, okay. You're you're taking this from a very scientific angle, so go and give me a arcana check. Actually, I need a bio break, too, because I need to pee. So, let's take

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Justin Hale: work?

Christopher Hooper: a let's take a fiverr.

Justin Hale: It's a

Tyram: Oh man.

Justin Hale: cliffhanger.

Tyram: What are you doing? See?

Christopher Hooper: Are you enjoying this, Taylor? Are you enjoying

Tyram: Yeah, I'm just I'm truly like I feel really lost about what we should be doing right now is all

Christopher Hooper: this?

Walden Briarhelm: I think we have to pick

Tyram: Well, since

Walden Briarhelm: an alliance and that's where it gets weird.

Tyram: both sides seem equally bad, I mean, I don't feel any reason

Walden Briarhelm: Like Yeah, I

Tyram: one or the

Walden Briarhelm: know. It's a lose lose. And I'm like, do we have

Christopher Hooper: No, you could carve a third

Ellis Taylor: agreed.

Walden Briarhelm: to

Tyram: other. Well, I feel like original plan then to just like put a stopper on all of it for right now and just try to come up with some context might be the way to go

Christopher Hooper: way.

Tyram: then.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. I feel like I figured out Olivia's position while I was going to the bathroom is like I'm going to stick with like the wisdom of our elders and just put a stop on the dragon for now. like they knew how bad of a dude he was. They bottled him up. We've been fine ever since. So, we can we can deal with the Empire in our own time. But if it could save Luna, I would love to save Luna. I don't know if it involves destroying the orb, but

Walden Briarhelm: Oh, see that's a gamble. I don't like

Tyram: I had no idea that Luma was connected in

Christopher Hooper: or

Ellis Taylor: Oh.

Walden Briarhelm: that gamble. Rollings.

Tyram: any way at all with the

Ellis Taylor: I think it's just a very powerful magical object and basically we can like jump start her is kind of what I'm thinking. It sounds

Tyram: orb.

Christopher Hooper: And if that's the case, then maybe there's other ways to jump starter,

Ellis Taylor: like Yeah,

Christopher Hooper: too.

Ellis Taylor: it's true. Do we have any powerful magical items we want to sacrifice? Not my cursed bl. I don't know what that's going to do to her.

Tyram: It's not like you use it. Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: Stab her with the

Ellis Taylor: That sounds like a bad idea.

Tyram: As far as like cosmic level, I think we just have the orb right

Christopher Hooper: cursed

Walden Briarhelm: Clear.

Tyram: now.

Christopher Hooper: blade.

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah, I don't I don't

Christopher Hooper: I think

Walden Briarhelm: have anything

Christopher Hooper: um I don't think it's giving too much to say that like if violescence has the power to like down a god then who

Tyram: Well, like we know

Christopher Hooper: knows what it could be used for,

Ellis Taylor: That's true. Well, we use our

Walden Briarhelm: fancy.

Tyram: that Um, yeah, we know

Christopher Hooper: right?

Ellis Taylor: perfect violesence orb on her instead of the dragon orb. We've got multiple

Tyram: that Eldora has like basically become like a maybe call it like a hedge god

Ellis Taylor: orbs.

Tyram: where like she's able to bring together violescence but also at this point like genuine worship to like boost her up to god status, right? So, but we also know that vi concentrating too much violescence in one place could lead to a catastrophic situation like with the time gun. Like the time gun, the whole reason that that blew up the universe that you showed us was that they put too much power in one spot, right? And that might be what happens if Eldora continues her ambitions. So, we need to stop Eldora. There is no situation where Eldora's plans are anything but bad. But dealing with these dragons and

Walden Briarhelm: Well, that means

Tyram: everything also seems like a bad idea, too, because the dragons are also total dicks. Like they burned out like high forge like

Walden Briarhelm: that Well, like I I'm

Tyram: that.

Walden Briarhelm: recalling I think it was a recording. You held Silas held the

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

[02:10:00]

Walden Briarhelm: dragon orb and the human forms of the dragons all the way back at I Forge. They like I don't want to say they were intimidated, but like they cons they they respected you when you showed that you had the power to like bear it. And I don't know if that was recording or not or if that was a fever dream. Like I think I

Tyram: Um, not so much

Christopher Hooper: Mhm.

Ellis Taylor: H that was when we had the

Walden Briarhelm: recall that like

Tyram: like that was less I think a situation of respecting Silus and more

Ellis Taylor: car, the Bugatti.

Tyram: a situation where like they know that the orb can be used to compel them to do

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Tyram: s***. which

Walden Briarhelm: Okay. Okay.

Tyram: I haven't really used except to make the Well, I've used it a couple of times. I used it to make the dra actually Actually, no, I think I've only used the dragon compulsion thing one time, and that was to get the dragons to leave High

Walden Briarhelm: So, okay. So I I I think I strang together thoughts in the loose way. What if

Tyram: Forge.

Walden Briarhelm: we the sides might be maybe we're not looking out far enough. Maybe the sides aren't between what we've looked at. Maybe it's Elderon and by extension the St. George versus the dragons. Like they are all against dragons. But you have like a literal remote control for like dragons do

Tyram: using it. The reason why Silus isn't

Walden Briarhelm: this kind of thing. So

Tyram: just going around like dropping dragons on everyone is because using it is dangerous. Like the more I use it, the more

Walden Briarhelm: it is

Tyram: likely it is that Astro just breaks the bonds and comes out and I think eats the world. I don't know. It seemed like a bad thing for the Astro to get

Walden Briarhelm: it something cataclysmic. Yes. Okay. So, we can't just

Tyram: out. No.

Ellis Taylor: Okay, I have a

Walden Briarhelm: rely on the orb, but we could

Tyram: Um, as far as I can tell, like the orb is

Walden Briarhelm: use do

Tyram: a break glass in case of emergency type of thing. If it ever gets used at all, it should definitely not be used as

Ellis Taylor: vote.

Tyram: option A for any

Walden Briarhelm: it. Do I I'm I'm having another memory gap here. If the

Tyram: circumstance.

Walden Briarhelm: dragons show up and the order starts trying to fight them and we just fight the order, the dragons aren't going to be like, "Oh, cool. We have ad or we have like uh allies." They're just going to be like, "Oh, look, more things to fight." Correct. They're not going to feel like we're an

Tyram: That's hard to say because

Christopher Hooper: Dragons are dragons are

Walden Briarhelm: alliance

Tyram: dragons Yeah, dragons are smart. So like that

Christopher Hooper: intelligent.

Walden Briarhelm: with

Tyram: is Iro um lives in

Ellis Taylor: Where's

Walden Briarhelm: f***.

Tyram: Greatort. He lives out of

Ellis Taylor: Iro? Okay. Is he still

Tyram: Fluke. Well, actually that's something we might explore. I have a oneshot idea for Iro.

Ellis Taylor: small? Okay. So, I mean, we know

Walden Briarhelm: Okay.

Christopher Hooper: So

Ellis Taylor: that there are good dragons in the world. I I mean, us

Tyram: I mean, it's not I think it's

Ellis Taylor: players, not our characters

Tyram: common knowledge that like even beyond the whole like

Ellis Taylor: necessarily.

Tyram: uh individual dragon alignment thing, there are like dragons

Ellis Taylor: That's

Walden Briarhelm: Well,

Tyram: that are typically good and dragons that are typically bad with like metallic

Ellis Taylor: true. Yeah. Or like the gold dragon we fought, the

Tyram: versus

Ellis Taylor: zombie gold dragon we fought that one time.

Walden Briarhelm: You zombie gold

Christopher Hooper: Just do something.

Walden Briarhelm: dragon. You guys have so many tidbits of cool ass s*** you've done.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, but he was good. We healed him and then

Walden Briarhelm: They're just like, "No, we just called a zombie.

Ellis Taylor: he was like went to he went because gold dragons are good

Tyram: Gold dragons are the strongest good dragons.

Ellis Taylor: dragons, but he was zombified. Yeah. And so we our solution was to heal him and then he like went in

Tyram: Yes.

Ellis Taylor: peace. Oh, he died in

Walden Briarhelm: Oh, nice. All right.

Ellis Taylor: peace. Yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: Okay. Okay. Well, we don't need to use the dragon orb, but merely having it in your presence around these dragons and us fighting adjacent to them along their side. Perhaps that would be enough for us to be able

Christopher Hooper: Um,

Walden Briarhelm: to No,

Tyram: I think if we have an ambition

Walden Briarhelm: it's whole f****** army. It's an empire.

Tyram: to try to team up with dragons, we have to make that a proactive plan. I don't think we can count on them like just like, oh, hey, they're fighting Georgees. Let's team up. I think we have to do the recruitment. like we have to propose the alliance, you

Walden Briarhelm: Is

Tyram: know, but also we are like

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah.

Tyram: the plan A, as far as I'm aware, is still to like trap their god more thoroughly. So, they might not like

Christopher Hooper: Um, and one thing that I was looking back at, um, I believe

Tyram: that.

Christopher Hooper: that the like legend that you got about Astro like consuming the world and

Walden Briarhelm: that

Christopher Hooper: and that all comes from from the tablets and I don't believe it comes directly from her. Um, just wanted to clear that

Ellis Taylor: Who

Christopher Hooper: up.

Ellis Taylor: is her? Oh,

Tyram: Astro is the sister

Ellis Taylor: Astro's the female.

Tyram: of the dragon who is the boyfriend of Luna.

Christopher Hooper: Astro.

Ellis Taylor: Okay. Oh, lord. So, who's in the who's in the

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: orb?

Christopher Hooper: Astros.

Walden Briarhelm: Astro. The orb that Silus is carrying has Astro, who is

Christopher Hooper: is there's

Ellis Taylor: I need a family tree. I'm sorry.

Walden Briarhelm: the

Christopher Hooper: three there's three

Ellis Taylor: Okay. No, there's

Walden Briarhelm: sister and one of

Ellis Taylor: not. I can't swear there's

Walden Briarhelm: them. I I feel like a simple

Ellis Taylor: 15.

Walden Briarhelm: just a simple drawing or diagram would help. Two

Ellis Taylor: No,

Walden Briarhelm: dragons and a moon. One of the dragons like, "Oh,

Christopher Hooper: characters.

Ellis Taylor: there's three

Walden Briarhelm: yeah.

Christopher Hooper: It's

Walden Briarhelm: No, no, no, no,

Ellis Taylor: dragons. I really want to know the

Walden Briarhelm: no. We're gonna lose our

Ellis Taylor: logistics of a female moon goddess and and a

Walden Briarhelm: spot. Whoa. You're getting You're These are gods.

Ellis Taylor: dragon.

Walden Briarhelm: They love in a way that's beyond the physical mental abilities of

Tyram: I mean, even if we're just talking like

Christopher Hooper: It's

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, that's true. I mean, Zeus did

Walden Briarhelm: us meet people.

Ellis Taylor: get pregnant somewhere by becoming a shower of gold.

Tyram: physiology, I feel like both of them can eat just look like whatever they want to look like anyway. So, yeah.

Ellis Taylor: So,

Walden Briarhelm: Sure. You're in a We in a

Justin Hale: Oh,

Christopher Hooper: that uh Reddit I linked is is not safe

Walden Briarhelm: weird

Christopher Hooper: for work. Uh so just

Walden Briarhelm: So, I can't click

Christopher Hooper: but Yeah, it's on

Ellis Taylor: Is it on

Walden Briarhelm: server. Megan's

Justin Hale: wait. What? Why does this exist?

Walden Briarhelm: cars. I am so so glad I'm

Ellis Taylor: Discord?

Walden Briarhelm: doing. Yes, I'm over 18. Am I going to regret

Ellis Taylor: NSFW. It's still not showing

Walden Briarhelm: it? Hell yeah. First post first

Tyram: Yeah, penis part two is our first

Christopher Hooper: Discord.

Ellis Taylor: it.

Walden Briarhelm: penis part

Tyram: uh our first look

Walden Briarhelm: two. It is an

Tyram: here. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't

Walden Briarhelm: excellent drawing. I mean, this is

Tyram: that.

Ellis Taylor: It's way better than what I was

Walden Briarhelm: No, honestly, I'm kind of that is

Tyram: Oh, hey, they do have

Walden Briarhelm: now in my forever algorithm. My internet

Tyram: Caliggo Myasma of Night f****** an ice vehicle. So, hey, you know, I can get behind that. And apparently the dragon can get behind this ice vehicle.

Ellis Taylor: expecting. Okay. So, back on task. What is everyone's opinion right now before we get back into

Tyram: So, I like the don't choose a faction and

Walden Briarhelm: fingerprint. Oh my

Justin Hale: My opinion is should not have the

Tyram: Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: it? Yeah, to s*** out loud. That's just a given.

Walden Briarhelm: Ma's opinion is they don't like St. George guys. We all hate the Elderon

Justin Hale: internet.

Walden Briarhelm: Empire, but I have nothing against the dragons and I my interests are in my goddess Luna right now. Uh it sounds like if we do this ritual, we're going to better secure the existing dragon orb with Astro in it and potentially in the process of the ritual like shock the goddess back to life. So he is like we should probably do the ritual and see what happens. But if the dragons show up because we started doing some crazy magical s***, we should fight alongside

Christopher Hooper: It

Walden Briarhelm: them. So that's

Ellis Taylor: All All right.

Walden Briarhelm: my What is

Ellis Taylor: Olivia thinks she doesn't trust the dragons and she

Walden Briarhelm: Olivia's?

Ellis Taylor: hates Aldorin. I definitely don't want the dra let the dragon out quite yet until we understand

Christopher Hooper: is

Ellis Taylor: more. Um but she's definitely on team get the real moon back. Um whether or not that involves the the orb and the ritual or if we are using the violescence that we would be re using for the ritual to revive her like it might be an eitheror type thing like instead of using the perfect violescence spear for the ritual we use it to revive the goddess. I vote that because we still have time on the dragon orb and reviving the goddess gets my real moon back and puts

Tyram: Even if we

Ellis Taylor: back Eldor and like puts them a step

Tyram: brought back Luna, couldn't Eldora just shoot her with a moon laser

Ellis Taylor: back. Oh,

Tyram: again?

Ellis Taylor: hopefully she'll be smarter about

Tyram: Being a moon in the sky? I don't know what her is

Walden Briarhelm: That's kind of a really

Tyram: here.

Walden Briarhelm: good point. f***. Like, yeah. What's going to stop

[02:20:00]

Tyram: I mean, clearly she lost the fight. Would she be She'd only be in worse shape

Ellis Taylor: I'm still team get the moon real moon

Walden Briarhelm: him? Maybe we heal her enough to like a semi powerful god in like a form that is our ally that just comes with us

Tyram: now. Yo, hey, you maybe after we finish. Okay,

Ellis Taylor: back. What if we just have like a weak god join

Tyram: so it seems like Astro is kind of like giving us a shot clock right now. Let's deal with her and then we could maybe just talk to Luna. You know, maybe she can tell us if like what the what's what's the idea

Ellis Taylor: us? It's true. We haven't talked to her yet.

Walden Briarhelm: everywhere.

Justin Hale: Oh,

Ellis Taylor: She's just been talking this whole

Justin Hale: wait. I did an arcana trick before we

Christopher Hooper: Um, what

Ellis Taylor: time. Oh, yeah.

Justin Hale: cliffhangered. Did we? I rolled

Tyram: here?

Christopher Hooper: was

Justin Hale: a 19 uh plus eight. So,

Christopher Hooper: your seven? Okay. And uh, do you want to keep it at

Justin Hale: 27.

Christopher Hooper: that?

Justin Hale: What? You know

Walden Briarhelm: The 27's crazy already.

Justin Hale: what?

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Justin Hale: Uh, no. f*** it. I don't use flash of genius enough. So, no. It's going to be now because of your attitude. It's

Walden Briarhelm: Does

Justin Hale: gonna be a

Tyram: f***

Christopher Hooper: Okay. No, it's just asking the

Walden Briarhelm: Brew

Justin Hale: 31.

Tyram: yourself.

Christopher Hooper: question.

Walden Briarhelm: does does Brew take Flash of Genius? like as literally as he takes like the telephone thing and he like flashes his little goblin nipples if you flash

Ellis Taylor: She's

Walden Briarhelm: genius cuz like I would imagine that's appropriate for a little goblin dude to be doing and it's

Ellis Taylor: like, he's a

Walden Briarhelm: brew if if not then that's on recording and everybody can just roast me about

Ellis Taylor: little He has a little light bulb hat he puts on.

Christopher Hooper: Oh yeah.

Ellis Taylor: And he puts it on his

Walden Briarhelm: it. I like

Justin Hale: Thank you.

Christopher Hooper: Um, so

Ellis Taylor: friends.

Walden Briarhelm: that more.

Christopher Hooper: you are trying to figure out

Justin Hale: If if we like is the orb different the closer we get to the fallen goddess? Is there anything else like weird going around? I'm like I'm crazy

Christopher Hooper: what Mhm.

Justin Hale: perceptive anyway. So like, you know, mash those two things mash together. I've got to notice something,

Christopher Hooper: So you're so you're so you're studying like how this site and this goddess and this orb like scientifically are like working together, right? Or like how these are interacting. Is that is that kind of what

Justin Hale: right? I mean, I'm

Christopher Hooper: you're

Justin Hale: I'm, you know, I'm trying to do

Tyram: How much

Justin Hale: things. That's all I

Tyram: clearer could he be?

Christopher Hooper: a lot. It could be a lot

Justin Hale: got. No, you have to be

Christopher Hooper: clearer. Okay, I'll start with

Justin Hale: clearer. I come 90, you come

Tyram: To

Christopher Hooper: this. I'll start with this and and you and you can ask follow-ups if you need. So everyone around you

Justin Hale: 10.

Christopher Hooper: discussion philosophical religious going on and Brew is it just kind of like takes this orb off Silus and starts like walking around like going different distances

Justin Hale: Yep.

Tyram: What?

[02:30:00]

Christopher Hooper: uh with it. And um something you learn, you you picked up something from that relay and you've been seeing these like sensors around the site and um what you gather that this relay system does is it measures um like to to uh brew. He has a um mental model of uh the magic that exists in this world comes from the weave uh which interconnects um things and it's how um like interacting with the weave is how um you're able to imbue different magical effects. And what that relates to is basically crossing various boundaries between uh the realities and um you know that there are different planes of existence and the weave uh when you interact with the weave you're able to connect these threads through those planes and connect them to other planes of existence. what the the gods do and what makes them godly is the fact that they exist across plains. And um for us they are gods because they represent a um connection to one of those like core planes that represents um some aspect of our reality. Whether it's the aspect of chaos and structure or fire and wind or um like life and nature and um construction um like all these different aspects of our world. There are actual planes that are dedicated to those and the gods are able to serve as bridges between those. Um something you see something you've experienced already is um you know with Cwley and Joel and and Caspian is and others is connections with uh the the plane of the fay which is much closer to our mortal mortal realm than any of the other planes and like heavily influence where we are. All that's to say, when you have this orb, it's a little bit like a uh it's a little bit like putting up a door where normally a being would be crossing and freely interacting. Instead, they are stifled um to interact here. And still elements of that being are able to seep through like cold air uh through a leaky door, but they're not able to connect all the way through with a pure essence. Now, what you're able to see even through proximity is that there is an immense power coming from this orb. One that as you bring closer to various parts of this this fallen uh Luna, you see that there is an effect on the world. Now, what's odd about this is what you know about Astro, it's a being of the void. Um so where most power is imbued and um creates more energy, this one kind of pulls energy in a very interesting way. Um almost like in the way like a black hole will will pull towards it. Um but in return it is you do see it's able to imbue um uh by choice but it's latent state as you measure is to pull to pull energy and and power towards it matter even um you you see it almost as like um like heat escaping through the cracks of a window. Uh it's very minimal, but it it leaks through um even through this orb. All that said, what is it? What is its effect on this god, this altar? Um, as you get to the altar, odd things are happening. It's almost like, um, inversions are happening. As you bring the orb towards the altar, it begins to start spewing energy almost an inverse in the way that it was sucking in other parts. Um you even get um as you walk the corpse of Luna, you get different elements. You know, what is the power of the moon? What is the moon imbuing? But even that sort of like very esoteric understanding of what a moon god could be seems to invert as you get closer to the altar. And it seems like this point is probably a what you kind of are evaluating is that maybe this point is some sort of like like teeter totter in a way that you were able to uh affect the the balance of things and redistribute them at this point. And that's what your that's what your experiments as you're as you're walking around are. Do you have any other questions based on

Justin Hale: So when you were mentioning that pull, you were saying that's pulling towards the orb or away from the orb towards

Christopher Hooper: that?

Justin Hale: the goddess.

Christopher Hooper: So, normally away from the altar, the orb is just pulling like scant amounts of of matter and energy, basically treating them equal. Um, as you get to um really the the core of the fallen goddess, you you actually see the orb shoot out these like blasts of energy. Um, and they seem to like kind of like cast over over the skeleton and and it's almost like um like a Roman candle where it goes and then like dissipates dissipates and then but as you move towards the altar you get this like weird inversion in and in in activity from the orb totally is just very

Justin Hale: Okay.

Christopher Hooper: unpredictable.

Justin Hale: Does it does that uh was it noticeable if that like pulse towards the goddess was stronger the closer we got to

Christopher Hooper: Yeah, it's very

Justin Hale: it. Okay. And the closer we get to the altar, it gets more

Christopher Hooper: directed.

Justin Hale: sporadic. Okay.

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Tyram: Oops.

Justin Hale: Okay. I mean, that's that was my biggest question. I forgot the last part that you said, so I can't

Christopher Hooper: here. Yeah, same. Hope it hopefully it was

Justin Hale: remember what my other question

Christopher Hooper: transcribed. Um

Walden Briarhelm: uh was it was when you were by Luna's body, the energy was expelling outwards from the

Justin Hale: was.

Walden Briarhelm: orb and little like flares of energy, but as you approached the actual ritual site, now it seems to have inversed and it's I guess in that case absorbing

Christopher Hooper: yeah, so it was absorbing before and spewing as it gets as it gets to the ritual

Ellis Taylor: spewing and

Christopher Hooper: circle. Mhm.

Ellis Taylor: it's spewing.

Justin Hale: It's spewing.

Ellis Taylor: It's sucking

Walden Briarhelm: energy.

Justin Hale: She's

Ellis Taylor: when it's away. in.

Justin Hale: the car in this in this

Christopher Hooper: Yep.

Justin Hale: metaphor. Um, okay then. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell Well, I'm going to tell everybody what I noticed, but more but like most specifically to

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Justin Hale: um I'll I'll say Um, I feel like Rafael's reservation here seems valid. It It feels like the orb wants to be close to the goddess's body, not this weird alter

Walden Briarhelm: Uh, what uh what what are you seeing that makes you say that? What what do I not

Justin Hale: thing. There's like energy or something weird happening with the orb that it wants to go towards the skeleton thing, not towards the altitude. Like when it gets closer to the alter, it gets all gets all warbly and

Walden Briarhelm: Uh, should we uh should we tell Raphael?

Justin Hale: weird.

Walden Briarhelm: Bafel. Bafel.

Justin Hale: Probably

Christopher Hooper: Yes, what?

Walden Briarhelm: Wait. Wait. There is something. There is something strange happening with the

Christopher Hooper: Okay. What is happening with you

Walden Briarhelm: oil. As you approach the

Christopher Hooper: all?

Walden Briarhelm: ritual site, the the energy seems

Justin Hale: What the f***?

Walden Briarhelm: chaotic. And when you are closer to Luna's body, it seemed to have a more balanced uh interaction with its

Christopher Hooper: What are you even talking about

Walden Briarhelm: surroundings.

Christopher Hooper: right

Walden Briarhelm: Bafel, I I feel that perhaps the OB is going to it is not going to interact as we expect if you if we do the

Christopher Hooper: now? What do we expect?

Walden Briarhelm: ritual. I I feel something bad is going to

Tyram: I mean, Astro doesn't want us to do it. Maybe it's just

Walden Briarhelm: happen.

Tyram: Astro throwing a fit when we go towards the altar. That seems to be perfectly in line with what what I would have expected to happen.

Walden Briarhelm: Okay. Once again, Silus seems to have great intuition. I I do agree with

Tyram: Tell me if I'm misreading the situation here, but this all seems to confirm

Christopher Hooper: This is why he is your

Walden Briarhelm: him.

Tyram: what we

Walden Briarhelm: No, no. I I just needed to hear it, I guess.

Christopher Hooper: leader.

Walden Briarhelm: Uh Buff, I may have spoken too soon. I perhaps I am just very scared for the situation and uncertain of what will

Tyram: thought.

Walden Briarhelm: happen

Ellis Taylor: How do you think this orb is going to

Walden Briarhelm: next.

Ellis Taylor: resurrect your moon goddess? How do you thinking that

Christopher Hooper: What's are

Ellis Taylor: happens? Are you

Walden Briarhelm: like the the like the paddle George Clooney used. It's just like

Christopher Hooper: you my

Ellis Taylor: saying I mean my my question is is he thinking that we instead of putting the orb on the altar essentially we put the goddess on the altar and do and use the violesence to revive her think part of the ritual is going to revive

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. I don't know. I

Ellis Taylor: her or like the orb the dragon in

Christopher Hooper: don't I don't know it.

Walden Briarhelm: that.

Christopher Hooper: I I think the ritual is for

Tyram: If you just need

Christopher Hooper: binding. But there is power in the orb itself.

Tyram: a battery, what if we went and we stole something from

Justin Hale: It's

Tyram: Eldora and used it to help Luna? stole one of her artifacts, one of her items of power. I feel like that's two birds with one

Justin Hale: cracked.

Ellis Taylor: As long as Luna makes long enough, we could do

Christopher Hooper: We do need to destroy the

Ellis Taylor: that.

Tyram: stone. That's

Christopher Hooper: god gun.

Tyram: also true. Reviving Luna is just setting her up to get shot again right now.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, it would put a big damper on their followers. Oh, the

Tyram: It could be. And also it would

Ellis Taylor: moon's back. The real moon's

Justin Hale: That'll

Tyram: put a big damper on her followers, Eldero's followers, if we were to like pill for one of her holy artifacts, you know, be like, "Oh, I

Ellis Taylor: back. Or

Tyram: guess Ela is not all that hot s*** anymore."

Ellis Taylor: if we use whatever's powering the moon gun. What if we use

Justin Hale: work.

Ellis Taylor: whatever's powering the like whatever the superpower thing that's powering the god shooting

Tyram: Yeah, that could. Yeah, that's it. Now, if it's on the

Ellis Taylor: gun and we use it to revive

Tyram: moon, I don't know how we get there, but

Ellis Taylor: Luna. It's not a real moon.

Tyram: um it's still in space, whatever it

Ellis Taylor: It's fine. Is it in space or is it just look like it's in space? It's really just kind of like a

Tyram: is. Do we know how to get there? Because that's the

Ellis Taylor: hovercraft that they've sized perfectly.

Tyram: bottom line here. Okay. So, it's a

Ali Leonard: Jasper does. So

Ellis Taylor: No, I don't

Ali Leonard: we can ask Jasper.

Ellis Taylor: know. That's true. We can ask Jasper and we know where he

Christopher Hooper: Oh, okay. Where's Jasper?

Walden Briarhelm: I feel

Justin Hale: There's a

Christopher Hooper: Okay, good enough for me.

Ellis Taylor: is.

Walden Briarhelm: like I feel

Justin Hale: friend. Sounds a

Tyram: midpoint. Cool. Okay. So, we can kind of all get what we want

Justin Hale: lot like

Tyram: here. To hell with his dragon. We f*** over Eldora and then we use that to help Luna. Okay, everyone

Walden Briarhelm: like Yeah.

Tyram: cool. Let's do the

Ellis Taylor: I'm

Walden Briarhelm: Yes. Let's

Tyram: ritual. Say

Christopher Hooper: Um, does anyone want to help me with the salt?

Ellis Taylor: cool. 3 hours

Walden Briarhelm: do

Justin Hale: you.

Christopher Hooper: Will anyone help me make this salt? This bag is very

Ellis Taylor: later. I thought you said make the salt

Walden Briarhelm: it. Of

Ellis Taylor: and I was like wait hold

Walden Briarhelm: course, almost

Justin Hale: That's what

Tyram: what? Yeah. I need one of the beef

Christopher Hooper: heavy.

Walden Briarhelm: steps up and

Tyram: cakes to do

Christopher Hooper: Um

Walden Briarhelm: helps. I like that there's more than

Tyram: that. I like how uh Silus is kind of like cordoned

Walden Briarhelm: one

Tyram: off everyone in the party. They're either nerds or jocks. And

Justin Hale: I

Tyram: Silus is not part of either

Christopher Hooper: um

Ellis Taylor: on is like I'm the

Tyram: group.

Ellis Taylor: cool one and like sweeps his little bangs over his

Justin Hale: He's the

Tyram: Yeah. I'm just picturing Silus

Christopher Hooper: that's

Walden Briarhelm: All I think is Revenge of the

Tyram: if we're doing like high school stereotypes. He's more just like

Walden Briarhelm: Nerds.

Tyram: the like the weasel kid who's always trying to like

Justin Hale: hipster.

Tyram: like game the system for his own. I don't know. I don't know. That's Silus defies these stereotypes that the rest have completely

Ellis Taylor: face. He's like, I don't fit in the stereotype.

Walden Briarhelm: and there's the oneshot idea. Everybody's a Saturday detention as their teenage

Tyram: embrac episode. Okay.

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Ellis Taylor: Oh my gosh. Breakfast

Walden Briarhelm: son. Hell yeah. Even young

Tyram: Okay. Well,

Christopher Hooper: Nice.

Walden Briarhelm: Olivia shows up with

Justin Hale: What's the

Tyram: the relative age of all the different party members would make it completely

Justin Hale: the director of all that

Tyram: impossible for us to all be in high school at the same

Ellis Taylor: cup. It would have to be like some sort of like

[02:40:00]

Walden Briarhelm: bagels. Oh, no. This is

Ellis Taylor: alt universe Crowley does it again or

Walden Briarhelm: a Yeah, it's a it's a television

Ellis Taylor: something.

Walden Briarhelm: show universe from different timelines.

Tyram: time. You know what? Fair enough. If somebody really wants to make

Walden Briarhelm: Everybody's just pulled in and it just

Tyram: it happen, there's magical shenanigans, but let's do this f******

Walden Briarhelm: happens. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do the

Tyram: ritual. All right. Okay. So, I also like uh

Walden Briarhelm: original. We've We've finished our

Tyram: are we had some perfectly spherical violescence orbs, right? Does but like

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, we got some

Tyram: uh Rafael has his own, but we also have the ones we took from

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Thank

Tyram: Victor's uh factory back in High Forge. Do we only need Can we keep the ones that we have then because they're pretty

Christopher Hooper: you.

Tyram: valuable.

Ellis Taylor: Well, we're going to need them for the rest of the Dragon

Tyram: Good. Oh, you're right. Well, whatever.

Ellis Taylor: Balls,

Walden Briarhelm: Uh the

Tyram: We'll hold on to them for

Ellis Taylor: right?

Justin Hale: Wyvern orbs. They're wyvern

Tyram: now. It's just so fun to

Christopher Hooper: Sure.

Walden Briarhelm: dragon Yeah.

Tyram: say Dragon Balls, though.

Christopher Hooper: All

Walden Briarhelm: Uh uh what uh we we've completed

Justin Hale: orbs.

Tyram: All right. So, now we need blood. And we've done the

Walden Briarhelm: our salt stuff.

Tyram: orb, so we just need blood at this point,

Christopher Hooper: right. Uh yeah. So you place the four orbs on the mantles and you uh lay out the seven circles of salt. Um and before you is the altar with the

Tyram: right?

Christopher Hooper: bowl and um to contain blood freely

Tyram: All right. Silus does something

Justin Hale: freely

Tyram: he almost never does and takes out a real dagger instead of one of his psychic

Justin Hale: given

Tyram: daggers. All

Christopher Hooper: given

Tyram: right. It's a rare

Justin Hale: s***. Whoa. I almost never see him do

Tyram: occurrence. Normally psychic daggers do everything I need just fine.

Christopher Hooper: Um, you see the blood

Justin Hale: this.

Christopher Hooper: uh fall into the bowl and then collect into like a single like like droplet condensed droplet of blood almost like uh what's that like metallic liquid like mercury, right?

Ellis Taylor: Mercury

Christopher Hooper: Um yeah, like coaleses. Um and you see it uh shaking. Um anyone else

Ellis Taylor: here.

Christopher Hooper: uh giving their blood

Justin Hale: That seems kind of

Walden Briarhelm: Uh, Ma steps up and like does the classic tough guy thing and like bites his thumb and gets that little and squirts a little blood in.

Christopher Hooper: freely? All right. And it does the same. It collects and and it gets larger and larger. Um, it be it begins to

Justin Hale: gross.

Christopher Hooper: ripple. Um, uh, I think you're going to have to fill this thing

Walden Briarhelm: Okay.

Justin Hale: What do we have here? You said we need

Christopher Hooper: up. I think we need as much as we can

Ali Leonard: I'll give

Ellis Taylor: Oh, f*** it.

Justin Hale: seven. I

Ali Leonard: some and take it with

Ellis Taylor: Fine.

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah. How does Elsa

Justin Hale: mean, half the people here are little

Christopher Hooper: get.

Ali Leonard: you. Don't

Walden Briarhelm: do it though?

Justin Hale: that

Ali Leonard: worry about

Walden Briarhelm: Oh, like how does she get she just she just

Ali Leonard: it. It's already bleeding and you're like, "How is it

Walden Briarhelm: walks up and there's more blood in

Ali Leonard: bleeding?" Her hands are so

Walden Briarhelm: it.

Tyram: If Alison were still here, she just do like a f*** ton of

Walden Briarhelm: Very salty.

Tyram: cocaine, I guess, real quick and make her nose

Ali Leonard: chapped.

Justin Hale: Well, is everybody doing

Tyram: bleed. No, just the cool

Christopher Hooper: Everyone's doing it except you, Brew.

Ali Leonard: This is the gross thing you

Justin Hale: it?

Tyram: people.

Ali Leonard: don't agree

Ellis Taylor: Mommy, you do not have to jump off the bridge with the rest of us. It's okay

Ali Leonard: to. Oh my

Ellis Taylor: if you're uncomfortable. It has to be freely

Justin Hale: Uh, it's not really that it's gross. I just I don't know what's going to happen

Ellis Taylor: given. I know. Me neither. I was kind of really hoping silence would be enough,

Tyram: Oh, okay. I see how it

Ellis Taylor: but

Walden Briarhelm: How do you How are you going to love that?

Justin Hale: here.

Ali Leonard: god.

Ellis Taylor: No, I mean you're you're already good at resisting

Justin Hale: Um,

Tyram: is.

Ellis Taylor: the dragon. I figured all of the blood stuff would be

Ali Leonard: Yeah, this probably isn't going to end well,

Justin Hale: Bruce quite literally flips a coin uh and it lands on heads and he goes, "All right, I guess it's fine." And

Ellis Taylor: fine.

Justin Hale: just pours it

Walden Briarhelm: pours it. What is Was it in a

Ali Leonard: but

Ellis Taylor: You

Walden Briarhelm: container? You had your own blood in a like some sort

Justin Hale: in.

Tyram: You

Ellis Taylor: know, you know, Brew, if we thought this through a little bit Battery.

Walden Briarhelm: of Oh. Oh, you you

Justin Hale: No, he he cut his he cut

Tyram: know,

Ali Leonard: I thought you just had like an extra P in case you got stabbed

Walden Briarhelm: did the knife thing. Okay. Got it. Got

Justin Hale: his No, I did it. I did

Tyram: I could honestly see it. I could see Bringing in his back pocket and he had like

Ali Leonard: at some

Walden Briarhelm: it.

Tyram: a a thermos full of his own

Justin Hale: it. I had somebody's

Tyram: blood. Does it have to be our

Ellis Taylor: I mean, if

Justin Hale: blood,

Tyram: blood?

Christopher Hooper: It needs to be

Ali Leonard: point.

Ellis Taylor: we thought through a beat longer,

Justin Hale: dude. Oh my god, that would have been so much

Christopher Hooper: freely

Ellis Taylor: urine technically has blood in it. If we thought about it a little bit

Justin Hale: better.

Tyram: All

Ali Leonard: What if somebody freely gave it to

Ellis Taylor: better. Yeah.

Christopher Hooper: given. That's a backstory I'd love to get. Um,

Ali Leonard: Brew?

Christopher Hooper: okay. And I think there's I think

Justin Hale: Dead dead people can't

Christopher Hooper: there's only one other part of the ritual.

Tyram: right. f*** you, dragon lady. Let's

Christopher Hooper: Um, the last part is then speak

Tyram: go.

Christopher Hooper: the name of the worm that lies in the threads of

Justin Hale: sand.

Tyram: Okay.

Ali Leonard: What if none of us can say

Ellis Taylor: blah blah

Justin Hale: No,

Walden Briarhelm: I have never heard it

Justin Hale: wrong. Yeah, there what she

Tyram: Okay. Um, Topford put it fanatically in

Christopher Hooper: reality.

Ali Leonard: it? Second

Walden Briarhelm: pronounced so Perfect.

Ali Leonard: it.

Ellis Taylor: blah. Okay.

Tyram: Discord. All right. So, um, Silus

Justin Hale: said.

Tyram: like rolls his sleeve back or he wrote it down on his forearm.

Christopher Hooper: The phonetic is

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: Yes, both me as a player and Silus as a

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: character have never been able to get this name right. So,

Christopher Hooper: spelling.

Tyram: um, Astrolino Mini

Christopher Hooper: the the ball shoots from your backpack into uh above this

Tyram: Norox

Christopher Hooper: bowl and it begins to shake. You all then uh are are pulled prostrate above these seven circles of salt. I need you all to make a saving throw. You can choose to make a wisdom,

Ellis Taylor: What

Christopher Hooper: constitution, charisma or

Walden Briarhelm: Damn

Ellis Taylor: kind? All right, you guys can all get a plus three. Don't

Justin Hale: Oh

Christopher Hooper: intelligence. Uh

Ellis Taylor: forget for me.

Walden Briarhelm: it. Um,

Tyram: Nice. But what if

Christopher Hooper: please post it in uh our

Tyram: I think really fast and make it a dexterity saving

Walden Briarhelm: am

Tyram: throw? All right,

Christopher Hooper: chat.

Walden Briarhelm: damn Elizabeth has no

Justin Hale: yeah.

Tyram: plus seven. I'm going to

Ellis Taylor: I'm going to use a luck and just give myself

Walden Briarhelm: problems.

Tyram: use my inspiration to

Ellis Taylor: advantage just to be in

Walden Briarhelm: Um, so, uh,

Tyram: roll. All

Ellis Taylor: case. Nope, that was worse. We're sticking with the other one.

Walden Briarhelm: Ma can pop into a shell. When Ma's withdrawn, he gets a advantage on

Tyram: right. Oh, that's a good

Walden Briarhelm: his con save. So, I'm going to definitely gonna pop in real quick.

Tyram: one.

Walden Briarhelm: Come on, big money. Oh, and you said plus three

Ellis Taylor: from me for my aura of

Walden Briarhelm: from

Ali Leonard: What's the dragon boyfriend's name again?

Ellis Taylor: protection. Oh no. Poo

Justin Hale: I was

Ali Leonard: No, not the one in the orb. The dragon

Ellis Taylor: poo. goober

Tyram: Noxus or

Christopher Hooper: interacts.

Ali Leonard: boyfriend

Walden Briarhelm: your

Ellis Taylor: goober or

Walden Briarhelm: Oh

Ellis Taylor: poopsis. Can

Walden Briarhelm: s***. Got it.

Justin Hale: just got

Tyram: something.

Ellis Taylor: we just call him like boyfriend, sister, and

Walden Briarhelm: Damn.

Justin Hale: him.

Christopher Hooper: I'm going to

Ali Leonard: not

Ellis Taylor: chill? Or I guess he's not chill now.

Christopher Hooper: do this. Okay. Okay. All right. Oh, I think I have a song for y'all. Let me

Tyram: Do

Ali Leonard: Probably not

Tyram: either of You nerds want to throw a flash of genius at the blow

Christopher Hooper: see.

Ali Leonard: a good

Tyram: rolls? Each of you

Ali Leonard: song. Can I do it for multiple people or just one

Walden Briarhelm: Emmers.

Tyram: can do it for one person and they can't stack on um they can't stack on the same person, but you guys

Ali Leonard: person?

Tyram: could throw them out for two different people. So for probably for Brew and Silus because they have the lowest

Ellis Taylor: Oh, did anyone want to roll for

Tyram: rolls. Uh should we

Ellis Taylor: Helisana? Oh, not Helisana. Uh,

Tyram: toeer?

Christopher Hooper: I did. I

Ali Leonard: Malia, I'll flash of

Ellis Taylor: Liliana.

Tyram: Okay,

Christopher Hooper: did.

Ali Leonard: genius.

Justin Hale: Go. I've got one more. I can do it to myself,

Ali Leonard: Silus. Oh yeah, if you can't then I can do

Ellis Taylor: Okay. Does Lily Does Liliana need a toeer? We don't know what she

Justin Hale: I guess.

Ali Leonard: it.

Ellis Taylor: rolled.

Justin Hale: That puts me to

Tyram: thanks. Um,

Christopher Hooper: Um, and what is the 20? Uh,

Justin Hale: what?

Tyram: 20 is my modified role after getting flash of genius.

Christopher Hooper: Taylor. Okay. All

Ali Leonard: I'm

Justin Hale: 22. Yeah, same for

Christopher Hooper: right. Uh,

Ali Leonard: stuck.

Christopher Hooper: okay. So, you had an 18 and now it's a 20.

Walden Briarhelm: Pretty

Christopher Hooper: Okay. All right. So,

Walden Briarhelm: strong.

Justin Hale: me.

[02:50:00]

Christopher Hooper: um you all feel feel a searing um pain pulls through you. Um there's a moment Silus where it feels like uh your mind will be overwhelmed and you think you can maintain it but you get uh this through through your your conference call bond you seem to strengthen it further and you're able to deal with it. Okay. Um, Liliana lets out a but she seems okay. I need you all to give me

Tyram: from the same uh

Christopher Hooper: another uh round of saving

Tyram: options as

Christopher Hooper: throws. That's right. Hell

Ali Leonard: Oh, hell yeah. Not

Tyram: before. Hell yeah. Hell

Christopher Hooper: yeah. Hell

Ellis Taylor: Yay.

Christopher Hooper: yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: Hey, I hear

Tyram: yeah.

Ali Leonard: funny.

Walden Briarhelm: you. Elizabeth has been so stoic this entire session and just shows up in the most

Christopher Hooper: Okay,

Walden Briarhelm: important

Christopher Hooper: round two we have Jesus Christ 27. Oh my

Walden Briarhelm: time.

Christopher Hooper: god. All

Ali Leonard: Does anybody need a flash of

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah.

Justin Hale: second JM.

Tyram: Um, I'm currently at a second. I might need

Ellis Taylor: I think Time.

Christopher Hooper: right. 17. Let's see. And I'll do Liliana.

Ali Leonard: genius? I got two more. So I can flash a genius

Tyram: one. Okay. So now it's 21. Oh, okay.

Christopher Hooper: Oh. Uh, Liliana needs a fling

Ali Leonard: silence. Oh

Tyram: Never

Christopher Hooper: genius. Uh, what's the

Ali Leonard: well

Christopher Hooper: bonus? Oh s***.

Ali Leonard: plus

Christopher Hooper: Okay. Uh,

Ali Leonard: four. And she's dead. So

Tyram: mind.

Christopher Hooper: okay.

Ali Leonard: whoops.

Ellis Taylor: Oh, sorry. We killed her.

Christopher Hooper: Um, all right. Uh, okay. Another searing uh searing round of psychic. And you hear Liliana uh let out a this like she she let out this like grunt just like but now she's she really lets out a like ah like like more of a scream like as she's she she says my mind my mind uh and she

Ali Leonard: That's probably not

Christopher Hooper: suffers let's See? Uh 12. I rolled like s***. So

Ali Leonard: great.

Christopher Hooper: 12 points of psychic damage. Um okay, another

Ali Leonard: Jesus Christ. This

Justin Hale: Good lord.

Tyram: I mean, it's a dragon god, so you

Ali Leonard: is

Ellis Taylor: Jesus. One less each

Tyram: know.

Christopher Hooper: round. Wow. Wow.

Ali Leonard: a I'm going this is I charged my

Ellis Taylor: time.

Tyram: Nice.

Christopher Hooper: Oh my

Ali Leonard: dice.

Justin Hale: Oh.

Tyram: Nice. Man, you guys are really coming through in the clutch

Ali Leonard: So

Tyram: here. Go, nerd.

Christopher Hooper: god. Can

Justin Hale: Nerd. Nerds.

Christopher Hooper: someone do really poorly so I can do my big

Tyram: Well, here you go.

Christopher Hooper: damage?

Ali Leonard: nerds,

Justin Hale: Nerds. No, we'll we'll suck

Tyram: Um, I got 13. So, there you

Justin Hale: it.

Ali Leonard: no. I have one more flash

Justin Hale: Hey, Silus. What? What did I just

Tyram: go. Oh,

Ali Leonard: of genius if you want it.

Ellis Taylor: They're flashing you. Come on,

Justin Hale: say? Invite him to suck it. You can't.

Tyram: okay. So, back up to 17 then.

Ali Leonard: That's my last

Tyram: Thank you.

Christopher Hooper: Okay. Um, Liliana Liliana got a total

Ali Leonard: one. No one else need

Christopher Hooper: of 12.

Ali Leonard: it. Jesus

Ellis Taylor: Silus.

Tyram: Luke comes back next time. Well, you know what? It's his fault for not being here. Back next time. I was

Christopher Hooper: So

Ali Leonard: Christ. Yeah, nice

Tyram: like, "Oh, hey, sorry. Liliana's mind got destroyed.

Ali Leonard: ball.

Tyram: Sorry.

Christopher Hooper: yeah, I mean and much the same you you feel the same searing silence. you you feel it be the tendrils um begin to pull at you and then who gave you flash of genius? Um but then you you because of this psychic connection you feel pull you back from the void. Maybe Elizabeth you say something through

Ali Leonard: me. I think I just feel like I'd be like, "Get it

Tyram: Oh,

Ali Leonard: together. Come

Christopher Hooper: it. All right. I need to do

Ali Leonard: on." I'm like mentally slapping

Tyram: right. Psychic like slaps on the face.

Ali Leonard: you. Yeah,

Christopher Hooper: better. Um, you you

Ali Leonard: literally.

Christopher Hooper: you feel the energy and it filled it kind of felt like uh circling around the orb. there was a huge like bubble of your consciousnesses uh interconnected that's slowly uh moving in on the orb. I need you to

Tyram: Okay. I

Christopher Hooper: make one last round of

Ali Leonard: Oh

Tyram: am due for a double digit number, I would

Ali Leonard: no, do not let me

Ellis Taylor: Jeez,

Tyram: say.

Ali Leonard: down. I'm due for not one. So

Ellis Taylor: finally I did it.

Tyram: Okay.

Ali Leonard: I'm Hell yeah. Okay, still

Tyram: Oh, sorry.

Christopher Hooper: saves. 8

Ali Leonard: good.

Tyram: We got up. They're above round

Christopher Hooper: 18. It's

Ellis Taylor: Good. Yeah, I got it above

Tyram: four. But still the low roll. I

Ellis Taylor: two. I can present it

Christopher Hooper: okay. Oh my

Ali Leonard: And Liliana got a

Christopher Hooper: 25. And Liliana

Tyram: see.

Christopher Hooper: is fine.

Ali Leonard: three. Oh, hell

Ellis Taylor: again. Yay.

Christopher Hooper: 21. Oh, no. I

Ali Leonard: yeah. Oh,

Ellis Taylor: You're giving her the plus three, right, the whole

Tyram: You

Christopher Hooper: wasn't. But it's basically the

Ali Leonard: I haven't been doing

Ellis Taylor: time? Oh,

Walden Briarhelm: Oh yeah, plus

Justin Hale: Oh, we

Walden Briarhelm: three on all of them. You guys have been

Justin Hale: forgot about it after the first

Christopher Hooper: same.

Ellis Taylor: guys.

Walden Briarhelm: rolling that well without him. This feels like the actual me. Wait, you guys are not

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. I

Walden Briarhelm: using

Justin Hale: rule.

Tyram: fools.

Christopher Hooper: was worried that there would be one person who would like not be able to

Ali Leonard: that.

Christopher Hooper: get the uh challenge ratings I

Justin Hale: Whoops.

Christopher Hooper: set. But uh no, y'all are knocking out the pork and you got hurt a lot less than I wanted you to. Congrats. Um the

Walden Briarhelm: What's

Christopher Hooper: the uh spear collapses in and it you

Ellis Taylor: Yay.

Christopher Hooper: hear this wrenching rendering as it create you hear almost a grinding of metal uh like scratching against other metal as it binds this orb. And you actually see these um fantasmal chains um reconnecting around the orb. And then you all slowly fall to the ground and the orb lands into the blood of bowl. The the blood bowl that is now empty and it is calm

Ali Leonard: Okay, good. I was to say

Christopher Hooper: again. And uh you have just finished the ritual and that's where

Ali Leonard: gross.

Christopher Hooper: we'll end it tonight.

Ali Leonard: We

Tyram: Ah, good work team. Thanks for pulling

Ali Leonard: did

Ellis Taylor: Go

Justin Hale: We did the

Tyram: me back from the edge there,

Ali Leonard: it.

Justin Hale: thing.

Walden Briarhelm: Oh,

Ellis Taylor: team. Uhuh.

Walden Briarhelm: training.

Christopher Hooper: Too loud. Too

Ali Leonard: Anytime.

Walden Briarhelm: Is there like uh at the

Christopher Hooper: Scales of

Tyram: Elizabeth.

Christopher Hooper: loud.

Walden Briarhelm: end of the credits of this episode, is there like a

Christopher Hooper: night of light of the

Ellis Taylor: This

Walden Briarhelm: 5second sneak preview of what's coming on next episode

Ellis Taylor: public domain ta Taylor

Christopher Hooper: a winds Uh, it's an AI song, so it should

Ellis Taylor: toer here we

Walden Briarhelm: of Yes. is all I want to ah I want to know if Luna is

Christopher Hooper: breath the

Walden Briarhelm: still

Christopher Hooper: be

Ali Leonard: We'll never

Walden Briarhelm: jealous until

Christopher Hooper: Well, until next time. Did

Ellis Taylor: until next

Christopher Hooper: you Did y'all have fun with your uh

Ellis Taylor: week.

Walden Briarhelm: next

Christopher Hooper: religious

Ali Leonard: know.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. So confused

Christopher Hooper: sky of A

Ali Leonard: I think you're

Ellis Taylor: for so long and I love how we just ended up doing exactly what we were going to

Ali Leonard: still I think you're still

Ellis Taylor: do before.

Walden Briarhelm: This episode was a bunch of characters questioning what was right and

Christopher Hooper: questions?

Ali Leonard: confused. At least you settled on something in the

Ellis Taylor: We're gonna We

Walden Briarhelm: wrong and

Christopher Hooper: cosmic

Tyram: Yeah. Well, we have the

Ali Leonard: end.

Ellis Taylor: have a new story for Taylor interpreter, right?

Walden Briarhelm: survive.

Tyram: opportunity to make a more informed decision

Christopher Hooper: whistle at his As a song

Tyram: about if we're going to back one of these

Christopher Hooper: of chaos

Tyram: factions. Um, I actually I like the idea

Ali Leonard: Probably not. We'll back our own

Tyram: of like I'm all for like getting Luna off the mat here, but um yeah, like let's go let's

Christopher Hooper: hea

Tyram: let's multitask here. Let's get some

Ali Leonard: faction.

Tyram: superpowered juice from Eldora and use that to revive

Ali Leonard: And let's let Liliana start a cult. Liliana's

Ellis Taylor: Yeah, like that a All right.

Christopher Hooper: uses the sky. Your

Tyram: Luna. Yeah. Make her a god.

Ali Leonard: cult. Liliana's

Christopher Hooper: servants to the Dragon flies

Tyram: Yeah.

[03:00:00]

Christopher Hooper: The god you'll end up backing is the Eldrich rock If god.

Ali Leonard: cult. Tony. Tonyy's gonna be

Christopher Hooper: I offer you Yeah,

Ali Leonard: the best god.

Tyram: Okay. So, here's in the

Ali Leonard: It's got one truck mind and I like

Tyram: Discord. There's how I feel like our characters are at the

Christopher Hooper: probably. reward, I

Tyram: moment.

Christopher Hooper: I I see personally needed this session because I'm like Miracles in your storms. if if y'all fight everyone I put in front

Ali Leonard: it.

Christopher Hooper: We are of you then I don't know what else but to just like have a blessed. beatdown. So you got to ask these questions.

Walden Briarhelm: This

Tyram: I mean

Christopher Hooper: Um

Walden Briarhelm: is Mortal

Tyram: at ninth level I don't think we're world beaters just

Walden Briarhelm: Kombat.

Tyram: yet, you

Ellis Taylor: You know, we roll surprisingly

Tyram: know. Man, I was coasting on

Christopher Hooper: yeah.

Ellis Taylor: high.

Tyram: um that flash of genius on that last session

Ellis Taylor: Except you.

Ali Leonard: You have to charge your dice under the

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Tyram: there. I thank God. I mean, okay.

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah. Everyone remember to put your dice on the door

Ellis Taylor: Yeah. You must put him out for

Tyram: So, so overall

Christopher Hooper: seal.

Ali Leonard: moonlight. I'm just saying. I did it with Caspian

Ellis Taylor: Luna to bless. Come on. That's how this works.

Tyram: I Yeah, like overall I don't think artificer

Ali Leonard: and I just did it recently and look what

Tyram: is a great class, but Flash of Genius is a great

Ali Leonard: happened.

Tyram: f****** ability. It's maybe the best support ability in the

Christopher Hooper: Uh-huh.

Tyram: game. Maybe it contends with the Paladin's aura. Those are both just such good abilities.

Christopher Hooper: Crazy. It it is

Walden Briarhelm: You're

Christopher Hooper: like really interesting as a DM to like think of challenges. Um because it's like okay so the normal DC is like you know like 16 17

Walden Briarhelm: right.

Tyram: All

Christopher Hooper: 18. Oh but they could flash of genius like eight times or whatever between the two of you. Um, it's

Justin Hale: Yeah.

Ali Leonard: Oh, I thought there was for some reason I thought I could only do Well, diggity dang. Sorry about

Christopher Hooper: like how many times can you do

Ali Leonard: that.

Tyram: right.

Christopher Hooper: it? Four. Yeah. So, eight times total.

Justin Hale: So, four or

Christopher Hooper: Yeah, it's a lot. Um, cool. That's fun. I'm glad. I hope you all had fun. I had fun. We all got some answers or at least I did.

Walden Briarhelm: I got

Justin Hale: We we got we got

Tyram: Well, we accomplished a goal,

Christopher Hooper: Um

Ali Leonard: Four and I don't know how much I'll remember

Justin Hale: information. I don't know how much it

Tyram: but we accomplished something that was a pretty long-term goal for us,

Ali Leonard: of the information.

Tyram: and I feel like we are getting an idea of where

Walden Briarhelm: four.

Tyram: we should head next. So, that's all good

Walden Briarhelm: Yeah,

Justin Hale: answered.

Tyram: stuff.

Walden Briarhelm: I agree with that. I love me some tasty, juicy lore and

Christopher Hooper: yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: there was some good of that tonight. I enjoyed what

Tyram: Although, okay, so it sounds like dealing

Christopher Hooper: Yeah.

Walden Briarhelm: you had for

Tyram: with the factions leads us out of Greyport next. Um, but there's still s*** we need to do in Greyport, I think. Like with all the red claws and our iron claws,

Christopher Hooper: and

Walden Briarhelm: us. The

Tyram: sorry. And our VIP passes, although that blew the

Christopher Hooper: your VIP

Walden Briarhelm: red

Tyram: f******. So, can we even use those anymore?

Christopher Hooper: passes. You think there's only one bakery from from that uh bakery banks and something

Tyram: bakery, bankery, and brewery, right?

Christopher Hooper: else, right? Yeah.

Tyram: Okay. Well, hey, let's go cash those in next time. You know, let's just enjoy being in Great for a while, you know? It should be

Ali Leonard: Let's trick some

Justin Hale: Just have a

Tyram: nice. Yo, that's right.

Christopher Hooper: Yeah. I feel like we should have

Ali Leonard: erasers.

Justin Hale: great day, you

Tyram: And um yeah, Elsit's uh Scott Pilgrim

Christopher Hooper: a

Tyram: Evil X enemy army might still be in town. We don't

Ali Leonard: racists. I don't know. Maybe there's an evil corporation in town and one of them are heading it

Tyram: know. All

Christopher Hooper: Um, I

Justin Hale: know.

Christopher Hooper: do think the cliffhanger I think I have a better cliffhanger for you. um which is that the you do the

Ali Leonard: up.

Tyram: right.

Christopher Hooper: ritual. It's calm around you and at that point uh you do hear we've got a live one. And at that point you see three grappling hooks spring from the ship and pierce a huge blue dragon flying above. And that's where we'll end it.

Ellis Taylor: Yeah.

Justin Hale: Well, that's rude. Come

Christopher Hooper: And that's where we'll pick up next time. Is

Tyram: Yes,

Christopher Hooper: it Friday

Ali Leonard: Nobody.

Christopher Hooper: yet? Yeah, almost Saturday for

Tyram: technically.

Christopher Hooper: some people. Um, thank you all. I hope you um can anyone not make it next week that you already know

Tyram: That should be good.

Christopher Hooper: about? All

Ellis Taylor: I think next week is fine. I'm not

Justin Hale: on. Okay.

Christopher Hooper: right, cool, cool, cool. Sounds

Ellis Taylor: sure though.

Christopher Hooper: good. All right, we'll have a great weekend everyone. Have a great

Walden Briarhelm: Thank you

Tyram: There you go.

Christopher Hooper: week. See

Ali Leonard: Hey.

Ellis Taylor: See you.

Walden Briarhelm: everybody.

Justin Hale: Okay guys, bye.

Christopher Hooper: you.