Wanderfool | Yu Pheng Ep. 23: You're Always Where You Are Meant To Be | D&D 2024

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Hello there, wanderers.
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It's Jackie.
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So while recording this episode, I ran into some tech problems.
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If you listen closely, you might be able to hear some things in the background from my end.
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I did go back and try to fix what I could, and obviously with the background music, hopefully it's not noticeable.
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Please don't let that take away from the amazing episode.
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Both my players did really good this episode, and it's gonna be an amazing ride.
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So stay tuned.
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Yo, what's good, Wanders?
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This is your DM Jackie.
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She's we here.
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Your Ranger Lee.
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Without further ado, let's get wandering.
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The calm did not last.
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And you were once reminded again of the urgency surrounding Yuping.
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After uncovering the truth behind the Black Dawn, you learned of their true goal, finality, not destruction for its own sake, but the removal of anything that delays consequence.
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The barrier protecting the village from the corrupted spirit force had fallen.
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You fought your way back through corrupted creatures, through cotis, through chaos saving who you could.
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With immediate danger contained, Li revealed the truth of Yuping.
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This realm is not simply a land, it is a transitional plane between the material and the spiritual.
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And at its center, the spirit tree holds everything together.
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Without it, there is no balance.
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As the weight of that truth settled in, so too did everything else.
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What you've seen, what you've lost, and what lies ahead.
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Questions remain, but one thing is certain.
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The Black Dawn is here.
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Li and Shushui, how did the two of you prepare for the quest ahead?
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Um I think uh Lee would have, you know, stocked up on arrows and um I think he would have gone to Therion to see if she was able to find a sword for him.
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Uh Shushui would have gone uh around the village, kinda try to help like handle the aftermath, kind of move the injured people, use his limited medical like knowledge to try and like help out.
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So this happens right this is just pretty much the day right after the um the whole like the whole cultist fight with the creatures and everything.
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Um Lee, as you approach Darien, she just tells you that she didn't really have time to start on your weapon at all.
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Because everything was so sudden.
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So unfortunately, she did not she was not able to make any good weapons for you.
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Okay.
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Um you also learn in the aftermath that her forge or her home was destroyed during that whole, like, the whole ordeal.
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Okay.
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She sweet, you spent your time helping around, just trying to do what you can to salvage what you can, and you did your best to minimize whatever destruction you could.
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As the two of you leave Fenwin, you say your goodbyes to Sky as he continues to just get started on his own journey as well.
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Navara follows you too, not really taking no for your answer.
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You descend down, making your way back into the spirit for the moment you step into the spirit forest, you can feel the air change.
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It clings to your lungs, it's heavy, and you smell the scent of damp earth and something rotten.
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Each breath feels a little harder to take.
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Both of you, since you to the two of you are so um expertise in just scouting and just you know maneuver maneuvering around, you instantly notice that the ground under you is uneven.
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The roots shifts, but not enough to to trip you or anything.
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You see, as the leaves crunch and stick to your your shoes, your boots, whatever you're wearing.
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But your passive perceptions, I I I assume that both of your passive perceptions are pretty high.
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I know I know Lee's is pretty high.
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What is uh shoe sueze again?
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18.
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That's pretty high too.
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Yeah.
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Um you once again recall that, or you notice that the sky remains dark, the sun never comes up, even though it it feels like today, like at this current time, it feels like it should be morning.
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Have has the Black Dawn done anything like this before?
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Uh nothing on such a large scale.
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Uh there has been a few attempts before, but we managed to either uh contain it or stop it before it got to such a such a degree.
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Normally we find small clusters, just a couple of their members, but this is the first time that we've seen so many of them.
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Hmm.
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It must be.
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They must have really wanted to stop you from getting this fire element.
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I mean, like you said, he just needs us to not have all of them.
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So it makes sense he would focus on on just capturing one.
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That's all he needed to stop us.
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Um so are we heading to the spot where we found the mutated MDR?
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Is that where we're heading?
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Um, so you So the last time before you the two you uh set off on your quest, um, the quest given to you by Benwin was to go and either reset or recreate a barrier to protect Drenner from the forest.
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Okay.
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Um he mentioned that where he had originally set the barrier was where the fire artifact was at.
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Nefara rushes past the two of you.
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Come on! You guys are quite slow.
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As she just kind of gets in front of the both of you.
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Well, I mean, we haven't exactly been there before.
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If you know the way there, we'll be more than happy to just follow you.
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She stops in her tracks.
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No, I I've never been out here.
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I thought you knew.
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She looks at Lee.
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Aren't you like some kind of like expert scout or something?
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Well, this is uh I guess I can take a look, but this is a different situation than I'm used to.
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Okay.
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Uh she stops fully now.
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Okay, well.
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Let's do that quick, then I don't I don't like the the feeling of of this place.
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I mean the two of you still haven't explained anything to me.
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I'm I'm I'm just following along because I I I think without me, you guys are gonna die.
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Um I guess I'll start looking around.
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Okay, give me a an investigation check and tell me what you are looking for exactly.
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Okay.
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Um a two.
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Oh, jeez.
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Nice first row.
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Uh I would have been looking for any sort of magical residue, uh, but I'm gonna play it off as if I'm still looking for stuff.
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I don't want you know, trying to get Shisui to think I'm wise and I know what I'm doing.
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Uh yeah, you you kind of just like crouch down, you start like, you know, like listening to the wind or something, and then just start smalling around the air to see you can catch on to like any kind of scent.
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Um unfortunately you don't really can't gauge anything of interest.
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You can't it might just be like the forest not being exactly how it should be, and maybe something is it's block is blocking it, blocking you from finding what you need to find.
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Nefara looks at you.
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Okay.
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So what's gonna happen now?
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Something's gonna happen, right?
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Any any time now, right?
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Uh yeah, I think we should let we should let we should let Shusui uh show off his skills.
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Uh yeah, um I'll take a look around and I'll focus.
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Uh since you mentioned that like the soil and like the the floors' floors kind of shifting around.
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I'll just try and like look for which areas seem to be shifting more.
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Because I figured the shifting would start at like where the fire artifact was and it'd be spreading out.
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So using that I just tried to find the area that has like changed the most.
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Okay.
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Uh you can give me a investigation check.
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Okay.
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Alright, let's see.
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Let's see what I get.
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I'm ready for us to fail together.
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Okay, alright.
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I got a 22.
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Okay.
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22.
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You start looking and just trying to study the way the roots are are moving, they're how they're shifting.
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Something catches your attention.
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A whiff in the air.
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A scent that you're you're quite used to.
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The scent of of death.
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You've been around enough death to understand the scent.
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All of a sudden your nostrils are filled with this grotesque.
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The smell of dead.
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This whole forest smells like this.
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But with a 22, you manage to stand your ground, not let the smell get to you.
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While covering your nose, you follow where you think it's it's coming from.
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The strongest, the strongest you can smell it where it's coming from.
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And you just start walking a direction.
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Nefara notices you covering your nose.
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Is everything okay?
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It's just an unpleasant smell.
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A smell of death and decay, but I I I think I can figure out where it's coming from.
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It should be in this direction over here.
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You start leading and the two follow.
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With you in front, I need you to give me a perception check.
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Uh 27.
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Sheesh.
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Rolled high.
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Got expertise.
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As you're making your way towards the smell, this odor, with Lee and Nafar behind you, you hear a a sharp crack.
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Then you hear another one.
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With 27 perception check, you can perceive that it's not too far and that it's close.
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It seems to be coming from behind you.
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I kinda raised my hand up and trying to stop everyone.
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I go, Do you guys hear that?
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What is that?
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Don't I hear it as well?
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As soon as Shusui says that to you, uh, it takes you a little while, but you eventually pick it up.
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It's like your hunter your hunter instincts kicks in.
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Navara doesn't know what's going on.
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Wait, what?
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What what do you hear?
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You guys are freaking me out.
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Uh here.
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Uh stay here.
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I'm gonna try and check out what that is.
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If Are you sh are you sure?
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It it should be fine.
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Just uh don't move.
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And if you hear you know screaming, come help.
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I don't think that's a good idea, Shusui.
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Don't worry.
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I I won't go too far.
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Just last thing we need is to get ambushed.
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So I'll see if I can't figure out what's making that noise.
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She turns to Lee.
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Lee, this can't be a good idea.
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Come on, stop him.
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He'll be alright.
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And she just has she has like a look of like, are you guys serious?
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We're splitting the party again! We're doing it.
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Okay, uh she sure, how far do you go back?
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Uh I'll go like 50 feet, and then like I'll see if I can get a better like sense of what it is, and if not, I'll go like another 50 feet until I I just keep doing that until I can actually figure out what it is.
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It doesn't sound too far for someone like you, but Lee, you notice as Shusui turns back, even with how like vibrant and white his his clothing are, as he gets you know about 50 feet away, you notice he's like out of sight.
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You can't see him anymore.
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Lee?
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That can't be good, right?
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Uh just stay close to me, Nefara.
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Let's head towards him a little bit, but we can still let him take the lead.
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I don't know about this.
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Do I notice that I don't see them anymore?
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Or can't see them?
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Even though like I should be able to.
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As soon as you turn back to just kinda like see if um they're still there, you don't see them.
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At this point, with your 27 perception check from earlier, what you do notice is the trees around you seem to be growing tighter and darker, and they're kind of like closing in on you.
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Uh I'm just gonna draw my sunblade and try and like see if the light it casts off does anything.
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You take out your sunblade.
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Is your so I I I was gonna ask you this, but like so the original sunblade by itself, it I know we use your rapier as a sunblade.
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Yeah.
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But like mechanically, the sun blade itself is just like a like the hilt itself, and it's more like a lightsaber.
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Is yours like a lightsaber or is yours still your rapier, but it just like glows with you activate?
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It's just a rapier, but it's like has like golden like etchings on it and just radiates light.
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Yeah.
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Tight.
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You take it out, and as soon as you activate the the sun magic from your blade, you see as all the trees that all the dark corrupted trees that were closing in on you, they start to just retreat back.
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You even hear like a like a screech.
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And it just kind of goes back.
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And then all of a sudden you can see Lee and Nafara, like Nafara's like holding onto Lee's arm, and Lee is like slowly walking towards the direction that you were at.
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I decide to head back and join out with the rest of the group.
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Lee, you notice as Shusui is coming back, uh, you see everything that he did, you see that the trees coming closing in, and now they're like retreating away from Shusui's blade.
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Where Shusui is, he seems to be like uh it seems to look like as if the trees are coming in and they're retreating, coming and retreating.
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But behind Shusui, you can see the trees are just closing in on Shusui, trying to catch up to him.
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Okay.
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Uh I'll try and call out to Shusui, like uh let's let's regroup Shusui.
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Yeah, there's definitely something going on here.
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I kinda shift from a walk to kind of like a jog, trying to close the gap.
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The trees, they are reaching out to you.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I know that breaking the barrier would cause changes.
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I just they think they would be this fast or disturbing.
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But if it's starting to behave like this, we must be getting closer.
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Right as those words leave your lips, you start to hear roars, growls, similar to that of the corrupted wolves.
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You hear little chit-chatting.
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If you're trying to make it out, it's almost as if like they're just whispering.
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There it's it sounds as if they're speaking like common, but when you if you try to listen closer, it doesn't make sense.
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Uh Lee, passive perception?
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Uh 16.
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16.
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You start to see eyes, just yellow eyes, around Shusui.
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And they're closing in.
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They're not able to get close.
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You can see that as he branishes his sunblade around, not quite able to get close, but they are coming towards the three of you.
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Okay.
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Umfara, let's uh let's get to Shusui.
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I'll start walking towards Shusui.
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Quickly walking.
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Alright, you're speed walking.
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What are you doing, Shusui?
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Are you are you kind of like running back or are you just kind of like taking your time?
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Uh I'm still just doing like a light jog, and I'm kind of like looking around, trying to make sure like I don't lose track of the trail I found earlier.
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You guys start to get closer, uh, Nafara like gets right next to you, Shusui.
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Okay, light seems to work, and she just puts her hand out, and like you see as like a beam of light just sprouts from her hand.
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Um it seems almost as if it's sunlight, and um the the dark creatures they kind of retreat back.
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Alright, Shusui, this is this is the time.
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Come on! Which way?
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Uh can I still find uh do I still have the trail I was following earlier?
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Yeah, uh I'm I'm gonna give it to you because your perception check was so good.
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Uh yeah.
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This way, over here.
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Uh stick together, make sure we don't get separated.
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As we get closer, that there might be less space between us just disappearing from sight.
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I'll just lead the way, kinda just holding my sword up, trying to like bat away the trees and the shadows.
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Okay.
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How what would you say the pace that you guys are going at?
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What's the pace?
00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:21.680
Uh I'd say like a almost jog at least.
00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:22.880
Yeah.
00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:26.880
Seeming pretty intense.
00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:28.160
Okay.
00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:33.920
Give me a uh survival check, choose we since you're the one leading.
00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.240
Okay, I'm supposed to be good at these two.
00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:37.279
Let's see.
00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:39.599
Oh my god.
00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:44.319
Um don't worry, I have that's what inspiration is for.
00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:45.519
That's why I'm a human.
00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:49.200
That's why you're human.
00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:50.720
Okay, uh 19.
00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:51.279
Whoo!
00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:51.920
Okay.
00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:55.680
Um, yeah, you start to lead.
00:19:55.839 --> 00:20:07.680
You certified you kind of like trip over the the shifting roots on the ground, but you quickly catch yourself, you just kind of like slash at it with your rapier and you keep on going.
00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:10.559
Lee is following you easily.
00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:18.319
Um Nafara, even for someone who seems to, you know, be more of like a mage type, she seems to be holding herself pretty well.
00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:20.799
Um, she's keeping close to Lee.
00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:27.920
But you do eventually make your way far enough where the trees aren't able to close in on you.
00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:30.160
Well, that was strange.
00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:39.039
Um and I would like to cast one of my hunters mark.
00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:39.519
Okay.
00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:40.880
On Nafara.
00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:43.119
Uh Nafara.
00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:53.119
It gives me bonus damage, but it also gives me uh advantage on perception and like survival checks if I want to find her if she gets lost.
00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.640
Okay, great.
00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:58.720
So you see Navara's like panting now.
00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:00.960
Holy crap.
00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:03.039
Okay.
00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:06.960
Eventually you'll you'll have to tell me what's going on.
00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:09.839
Eventually, right?
00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:11.920
This can't be normal.
00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:24.400
Uh not not particularly, it's just let's just say the spirit world shenanigans are occurring, and uh weird stuff tends to happen.
00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:27.920
So I don't understand that one bit.
00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:36.480
To be honest, I don't think anyone really understands it, but just accept that weird things are going to be happening now until we get that barrier back up.
00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:44.079
So we just gotta focus, don't get lost, and uh we'll be okay.
00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:46.000
I mean we must be close by, right?
00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:48.000
They seem to not be following anymore.
00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:56.079
Well, either we're uh either we're getting close or we're going towards something that's more dangerous.
00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:58.480
So we'll see how that goes.
00:21:58.720 --> 00:21:59.759
Most things don't seem
00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:08.000
As you kind of collect yourself a little bit, you notice around you, um, it's still the same, you know, like the same dark black forest.
00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:13.200
You do not start to notice like stone pillars around.
00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:21.839
Even with the the dark shades, you can tell that this place was once quite a sight to see before the corruption.
00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:23.440
Where to next, Shisui?
00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:30.480
Well, before we move on, let's uh let's take a look around here, make sure we're not missing anything.
00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:32.880
Maybe we can find some clues.
00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:37.359
If not, then at least we can uh take a little rest.
00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:42.000
No need to exhaust ourselves before we even get there.
00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:43.519
That's a good idea.
00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:46.720
Let's uh let's not stray too far from each other.
00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:47.920
Yeah.
00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:54.640
Uh if anything happens, just uh you see my sunblade just uh head over towards me.
00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:56.160
What are you guys looking for?
00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:05.440
I think I'd kind of just take a closer look at these pillars, like see if I can figure anything about, you know, what who built them, what they are.
00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:08.960
Uh you can either give me a investigation or an con-check.
00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:10.079
Both plus zero.
00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:11.039
Let's go.
00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:12.880
Oh, but a 19.
00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:13.759
Take that.
00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:14.160
Nice.
00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:18.160
You start to just kind of like um, you know, just put your hand through them.
00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:20.000
Uh it is kind of dark here.
00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:21.759
Um, you are you're an elf, right?
00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:25.920
So you can see uh, it's just kind of like in shades of gray.
00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.839
It seems to be very ancient.
00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.519
They're kind of like whittle down.
00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.799
Um, there's no like particular symbols or anything on there.
00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:43.119
But I think you do eventually, you know, as you're going through the pillars, uh, there's like about like six or seven pillars.
00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:57.599
You're going through them, and um at first you don't make anything of it, and as you kind of like just uh go away from it, your finger just kind of brushes it, and you swear you can feel the letter K.
00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:00.319
I will see if I can find that letter K.
00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:07.839
Is it like more so like I sense the letter K or like I feel it with my fingertips, like you know, yeah, you feel your fingertips like the barrels.
00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:08.559
Okay.
00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:10.720
Um I'll look closer at that then.
00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:19.839
As soon as that happens, you quickly turn back and you just take a look at it, and carved on onto the stone puller there.
00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:22.240
You see your brother's name.
00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:23.359
Shusui.
00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:25.759
You might want to look at this.
00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:27.359
You found something?
00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:34.480
I head over and I kinda move my uh sunblade over the letter so I can actually read it.
00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:37.440
Yeah, man.
00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:38.799
I don't have dark vision.
00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:40.880
Nefara comes over too.
00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:41.680
What is it?
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:49.759
And then uh as you kind of just hover your your sunblade over it, you read the name in common, and it's Kenneth's name.
00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:52.640
Uh I just take a look at the pillars.
00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:57.599
There are like any other names or anything else of note, or is it just Kenneth's name?
00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:02.319
Um, as you start to look around at the other pillars just to see if there's any other names in there.
00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:03.440
You don't see any other names.
00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:05.920
Well, go ahead and give me an investigation check as well.
00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:06.160
Okay.
00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:08.799
Uh 15.
00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:20.000
You don't see any names, but you when you see the word Kenneth, or you when you see the name Kenneth, Shusui, how do how does Shusui feel when he sees his name?
00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:23.920
Uh a mix of confusion and intrigue.
00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:28.319
He doesn't really get why the name would be here, but he's also curious.
00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:32.400
Maybe this was like I don't know, like a memorial or something else.
00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:35.839
That maybe like Kenneth had been here, maybe he left it as a mark.
00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:44.480
With that thought, your eyes darts down and you see an arrow that points to the right.
00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:48.480
Uh Lee, what do what do you make of this arrow?
00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:54.799
Do you think this is something we can trust, or do you think this is uh a spirit world trick?
00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:56.799
Uh it seems strange.
00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:00.559
I don't think anyone from Drenner would have written his name.
00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:04.079
Finwin found out the same day I returned, so.
00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:04.559
Well.
00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:06.480
Navara's just confused.
00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:08.079
She's not too sure what's going on.
00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:10.799
We don't really have any other clues.
00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:16.480
The trail kinda just I say we follow it, but cautiously.
00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:17.920
Yeah, um.
00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:22.400
I'm thinking maybe let me go up first.
00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:24.079
I am holding the sun blade.
00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:27.440
If there is if this is a trap, they'll see me first.
00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:36.799
And if you and uh Nefara are further away, uh maybe you guys will be able to react or see something I can't.
00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.359
Okay, we we won't stay too far behind though.
00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:49.119
Yeah, just far enough to be uh not immediately like seen with me.
00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:50.319
Yeah.
00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:55.119
I'll uh I'll follow the arrow.
00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:59.200
Just taking a like casual walk.
00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:01.119
Not going very fast.
00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:06.640
Yeah, you follow the arrow and eventually you kinda make your way past all the pillars.
00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:17.440
Um there doesn't seem to be any any path, but you find yourself coming up to like uh just darkened bushes.
00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:22.720
Uh do I notice anything special about these bushes or are they just kinda like in the path?
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:27.680
They don't seem like they're special of any kind, they just seem like they're they're there to block your way.
00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:33.599
Uh Lee, since you're behind, how how far would you say you're keeping like a distance from Shisli?
00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:34.559
How many feet?
00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:37.279
Um, I'd say like 30 feet-ish.
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:43.359
Enough to where I can get to him quick if I need to, but still kind of stay in the shade.
00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:53.119
Yeah, so you can still she you can still see them and the button, you do hear, you know, just like little little growls here and there from behind you.
00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:58.880
Sometimes you'll you'll glance back and you'll see yellow eyes blinking.
00:27:59.200 --> 00:27:59.440
Okay.
00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:01.920
Can I tell if Shisui's found anything yet?
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:03.759
Or can he tell Shisui?
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:11.039
Uh well at this point I think he just sees me kind of taking a look at this bush before I just walk around it.
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:21.279
No idea what's on that's from, but it's probably a coming rider's not.
00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:22.240
It is.
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:23.200
Yeah.
00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:35.039
You start to try to make your way around the bush, but you see that as you move to your right, there seems to be another bush there.
00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:37.759
As you move to your left, there seems to be another bush there.
00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:47.119
Uh at this point I try to either like force myself through the bush or just hop over it.
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:48.000
Which one?
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:49.200
Which one are you doing?
00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:51.119
Uh I'll just try and hop over it.
00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:51.599
Okay.
00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:54.640
Give me a uh acrobatics.
00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:55.039
Okay.
00:28:57.440 --> 00:28:58.559
Uh 18.
00:28:58.880 --> 00:28:59.279
18?
00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:03.920
Yeah, you quickly just you know, just agile hop over it.
00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:06.960
Um, Lee sees you as he jump over it.
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:09.920
He sees you jump and then you're not there anymore.
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:12.400
Um, I'll start heading towards the bush.
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:14.160
Okay, you make your way towards the bush.
00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:15.759
Navarro's kind of freaked out.
00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:17.279
Oh shit, Lee.
00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:18.480
This is not good.
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:21.519
Shizui just can't keep disappearing like this every time.
00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:24.000
Maybe we should stay with him from now on.
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:27.920
Uh she gets a little closer to you.
00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:30.240
Okay, anytime, anytime now.
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:32.880
Whenever you're ready, I'm I'm gonna follow you.
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:34.000
You okay.
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:36.880
Uh yeah, we'll follow Shizui.
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:39.359
Try and jump over the bush.
00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:39.920
Okay.
00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:47.039
Uh go ahead and give me an acrobatics, and then also add a D4 as Nafaraka's guidance on you.
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:50.160
That is a 24.
00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:51.599
Sheesh.
00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:52.559
24, yeah.
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.119
With a 24, I would even say you can grab her along with you.
00:29:55.200 --> 00:30:03.200
Uh both of you hop on over, and all of a sudden, you see you're right there next to Shusui.
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:04.400
He's in front of you.
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:07.200
You almost kind of like push into him a little bit.
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:08.240
What happened?
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:11.599
What why'd you guys run over so fast?
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:14.240
You disappeared into the bush.
00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:15.039
Really?
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:16.240
Just hopped over.
00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:18.240
Didn't see like anything happened.
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:19.920
We lost sight of you.
00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:24.559
At this point, though, in front of you, you notice that there is a path now.
00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:26.559
Well, there's a path.
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:32.559
Let's see if uh if this arrow was something to help us or trick us.
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:39.359
Uh I suppose if I'm just going to keep disappearing and you guys are gonna run after me anyways.
00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:41.680
At this point we might as well just stick together.
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:43.519
Yeah, may as well.
00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:45.759
Good idea.
00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:48.400
Uh you said it was like dark, right?
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:49.440
Like nighttime.
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:51.759
Yeah, it's pretty much nighttime.
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:55.519
Okay, uh Lee, why would you take the lead?
00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:02.160
I'll uh I'll sheaf my sun blade so you know we don't stand out so much.
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:10.799
And uh if I need to to draw it so we have some light, I'll draw it, but just in case.
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:14.240
Let's try and uh try and remain hidden.
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:15.200
It's a good idea.
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:17.680
Keep it at the ready in case those trees come back.
00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:18.240
Of course.
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:19.920
Start heading down this path.
00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:21.839
Nefara goes to the ground.
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:24.240
Uh you see how she's like holding her head.
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:28.400
Uh yeah, something something must be close by.
00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:29.200
My head hurts.
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:34.960
Well, go I'll go back and like try and help her up, but can you can you still go on?
00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:36.160
I think so.
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:39.359
And she would just kind of power herself up.
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:46.160
I mean, did Finnwen even tell you what to do when you, you know, get to this place?
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:47.920
That would have been too easy, I think.
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:48.640
Shoot.
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:53.039
I mean it can't be that complicated, otherwise he would have given us instructions.
00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:55.279
I I he was half dead.
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.039
That's true.
00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:05.359
But I mean if it was really important, I feel like he would have managed to tell us.
00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:09.519
But or at least, you know, given us something.
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:11.279
I'm sure we can figure it out.
00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:11.839
Okay.
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:13.039
Uh yeah.
00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:25.039
Uh go a league as you start to lead, um go to give me a you can either give me a survival check or a perception check.
00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:26.160
Oh no.
00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:27.359
Oh no.
00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:31.119
Any chance I have uh inspiration?
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:32.480
That is a net one.
00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:34.799
Oh jeez.
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:36.799
What's the net one plus?
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:37.839
Plus anything.
00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:38.880
Uh plus six.
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:40.799
So it'd be seven or all.
00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:41.279
Alright.
00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:43.039
That's not too bad.
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:48.880
You start to how are you how are you like scouting?
00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:51.440
How are you trying to find the next, you know, the next destination?
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:52.960
How do you find how are you trying to find this place?
00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:59.440
How are you trying to find this area that you have no experience with, never been to before?
00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:05.279
Um what's your like go-to method of like scouting or trying to hunt down things?
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:12.640
Um is there I think I was under the impression there was some sort of path uh at this point.
00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:13.119
Yeah.
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:13.680
Okay.
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:18.160
So you're just following the path, but um Yeah, there's different things.
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:22.480
Yeah, just walk left.
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.839
Um you see, uh, you look like a Zoro just walking the wrong direction.
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:30.480
Um let me roll something.
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:31.680
Oh wait.
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:32.480
I don't know.
00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:39.039
Um even with your seven, uh Shusuya Nefara sees as you are just going off path.
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:45.359
And all of a sudden, you you reach like a like a dead tree.
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:54.079
But on this dead tree, there's this bot that's still like it's still vibrant, the color of you know how a tree would look like.
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:59.359
And you see etched there in common.
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:01.680
You're going the wrong way, brother.
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:16.079
Um when I see that I'll I'll turn around and as I walk past Nefara and Shisui again, uh there's something strange going on.
00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:18.960
Is it bright enough for me to read the tree?
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.079
Uh if you want to walk up to where Lee's at, you can.
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:25.679
Yeah, you can just kinda like put your sword up a little bit, you can see it.
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:26.800
No, it's fine.
00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:29.840
I'm I'm just curious if I actually like could see it.
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:33.119
You see the tree, you don't see the wording on the wording on it.
00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:36.960
Because you're quite you're still a distance away, like it's like 10 feet away.
00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:38.639
What's going on, Lee?
00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:40.239
Is is there something over there?
00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:43.199
There were more words written on a tree.
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:44.000
Oh really?
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:44.559
What is it?
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.079
Uh it was telling me I was going the wrong way.
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:50.960
Um but it called me brother.
00:34:51.280 --> 00:35:01.760
I mean, if the spirit world is bleeding into our world, maybe but no that that doesn't seem right.
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:10.239
If he met his end at red wave's hand, then the weapon would be similar to to black skies.
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:12.719
I I'm not quite sure.
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.599
Anyway, uh l let's continue on.
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:17.840
Maybe we'll stick to the path this time.
00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:19.280
Try not to stray.
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:22.000
Uh right, let's let's continue on.
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:23.760
I'll try and go the right way this time.
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:30.079
Yeah, you at this point you can just easily uh follow the path where it should be followed.
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:33.599
Um what's going on in Lee's mind?
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:55.519
Um he's trying to put this all together because, you know, seeing Kenneth's name here of all places and the trees referring to him as brother, you know, and something strange going on, but I don't know if he, you know, he doesn't know necessarily enough about the spirit realm specifically to know exactly what's going on in this moment.
00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:04.800
So I think he's got almost a sense of hope, but he doesn't want to like let it through too much at the moment while he's walking.
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:10.400
Eventually you follow the path, um, with Shusuin Afara close behind.
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:25.199
After a little while, it almost it's almost as if your sense of time is even with the sudden blade in hand, um, even with your dark vision, the darkness here, it's not natural.
00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:32.320
And you're not too sure how long you've been you know walking for.
00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:39.599
You occasionally get like glances of um little arrows here and there.
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:51.280
And you eventually come up to what seems to be more stone pillars, and behind the stone pillars you see a very ancient-looking stone building.
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:53.280
Shusui Nafara look.
00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:55.440
You're gonna have to describe it a little bit.
00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:57.519
It's a little too far for me to see.
00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:01.440
It's you know, I uh cannot see in the dark like you.
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:06.800
Uh some it's some sort of uh stone building or something.
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:10.079
I think we if anything, we can at least rest for a moment there.
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:11.760
We should be getting closer.
00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:19.199
Most of the uh artifacts that we found, they were near like temples or buildings, structures.
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.000
So we should be getting closer.
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:24.639
I'll uh start walking towards this building.
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:25.199
Okay.
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:32.320
Um you walk by, you see that you know, there's a a lot of the stone pillars are like broken.
00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:36.559
Um you see there's like a door that's just blasted open.
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:41.599
Um I'll just kind of like walk around and see if I can find anything.
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:45.599
Uh step inside if possible.
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:50.320
As Lee steps inside, Shusu, is there anything you want to look for while you're outside?
00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:57.199
Uh yeah, I'll draw the sun blade just a little bit just so that I can actually like see my surroundings.
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:10.320
And uh I'll take a look at like just like I don't know, the outside, see if there's any markings or like words or anything I can uh make use of.
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:10.880
Okay.
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:16.480
You draw your sunblade a little bit just to kind of get a better sense of everything that's around you.
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:26.480
Um you notice on the ground, you know the roots are still shifting, but as you draw your stone blade, the roots they retreat away from you.
00:38:26.800 --> 00:38:32.320
Almost giving you like underneath you, like the dirt again.
00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:38.639
Um you see the building that Lee was going towards.
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:46.559
You suddenly feel a small tug from your elemental artifact in that direction.
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:49.679
The forest like close behind you.
00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.159
Okay, so is Lee going to disappear now?
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:52.719
No.
00:38:53.039 --> 00:39:00.559
I think I was just gonna check the surroundings before I followed him, but it's odd that my artifact is reacting.
00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:09.119
It normally only reacts to other artifacts, but if Red Ways has it, then there shouldn't be another artifact here.
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:11.599
So there's something happening.
00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:13.599
We should uh definitely catch up.
00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:22.480
Lee, as you step inside, uh you notice that around you there are like broken chairs, broken pots.
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:27.199
Um it's dark in here, but you have your dark vision so you can see.
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:33.280
In front of you, you see what looks to be like a a shrine that's like destroyed.
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:50.880
There's instant sticks all over the ground, there's like offerings all over the ground, uh, you see a broken stone pedestal in the middle, and behind it you see a statue of something that looks like a a dragonborn of sorts.
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:59.519
And despite everything around here being like, you know, like broken and not, this statue it still looks pretty pretty durable.
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:02.159
Little cracks here and there, but nothing like crazy.
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:06.480
No no broken horns, no broken arms, legs.
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.800
It's holding like a like a giant shield in front of it.
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:17.440
Um I think I'd walk closer to the statue and uh try and get a better look at it.
00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:26.159
Um not touch it yet, but as you get closer to it, Shusui, you and the Fara kinda make your way to the door.
00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:30.639
Um, you see Lee now getting closer to the statue.
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:43.440
And you instantly recognize this statue as the same statue you've seen when you, Black Sky, and Walknu were in Dol Wong Village for the very first time.
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:46.559
Interesting that the statue's here again.
00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:52.719
Lee, as you're um, on a count of three, what's the first word that comes to your mind?
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:54.480
One, two, three.
00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:55.119
Shield.
00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:57.679
Sorry, I was thinking about the shield on the statue.
00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:04.400
You look at the shield and you see these and this engraving, this carving on it.
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:12.400
You see that that carved onto the shield, and then you see the the initials KF at the end.
00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:16.320
Shusui, I think I think he's been leading us here.
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:17.360
I don't know.
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:20.320
It's just I'm just reluctant.
00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:25.760
Because from what I know of red waves, his weapon should be like the edge of dawn.
00:41:26.559 --> 00:41:32.480
And if Kenneth fell to him, then his soul should have been consumed.
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:35.360
I unless he managed to get away.
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:41.760
Unless he I I don't know, it just I have a lot of questions.
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:47.440
Is the uh is the shield like part of the statue or is it like Yeah, it's part of the statue.
00:41:49.280 --> 00:42:01.920
I'm not I'm not too sure how this the blade that Sky has works, but I the signs I feel like they're hard to deny.
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:05.119
I mean I don't know who else would be writing these things.
00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:09.199
I know, that's why it's all the more confusing to me.
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:11.519
Because writing what?
00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:12.960
What does it say?
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:16.239
Nefar kind of peeks out from uh Shusui's arms.
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:18.719
It says took you long enough.
00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:29.119
And as you say those words, it seems as if everything just kinda stills for a little while.
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:34.639
You see mist fog starts to form on the ground.
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:39.280
Shusui, you instantly recognize this.
00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:50.239
You've seen this mist and this fog, this this thing before in Dawong Village the very first time you guys were there.
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:54.960
And from out behind the statue, a figure appears.
00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:56.800
That's right.
00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:58.960
Took you too long enough.
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:01.039
How are you here?
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:08.320
As you turn to look at the figure, you see an elven man.
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:18.159
Red hair, red banana, one arm, wearing like a green robish.
00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:20.239
Looks almost like a monk.
00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:22.880
He has a bowstaff behind his back.
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:24.719
What do you mean?
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:26.400
I've always been here.
00:43:26.639 --> 00:43:27.679
I've been waiting.
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:29.519
This whole time, I've been watching.
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:32.960
Oh, but you were with you're with Sky.
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:36.960
The one that you just disappeared.
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:39.920
He couldn't hear you, he couldn't communicate with you anymore.
00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:41.760
Renji steps forward.
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:47.360
Lee, at this m moment, you he's like pretty much right next to you.
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:49.280
He looks towards Lee.
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:51.679
Well that's kinda true, Shizui.
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:54.159
But not entirely.
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:59.119
You see, I'm I'm anchored with Duend artifact.
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.880
The moment Sky chose to separate from me.
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:09.119
That was when I was no longer able to contact him.
00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:13.119
But someone else has the artifact now, don't they?
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:14.639
And he looked towards Lee.
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:16.559
Shasui, who is this?
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:23.679
He's the previous guardian and uh possessor of the wind artifact.
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.639
We uh we met him some time ago.
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:30.000
It was from him that we got the first artifact.
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:32.400
And we started this whole journey.
00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:36.079
I'll uh pull out the artif the wind artifact then.
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:40.960
As you pull it out, it's not you're you haven't been able to attune to it yet.
00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:45.920
So you only get like small glimpses of its like its connection here and there.
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:53.039
But as you pull this out, you see as um it kind of just kinda it almost seems as if it's pulling you towards Renji.
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:53.760
Hmm.
00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:57.760
I guess you didn't really have time to try to attune to it, huh?
00:44:58.159 --> 00:45:01.199
Well, I haven't gotten much of a break yet.
00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:02.480
I can see that.
00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:05.440
Well well, what are you doing here now?
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:10.880
Well normally I wouldn't be able to talk to you unless you were attuned.
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:12.480
Something's going on.
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:14.079
Where's Sky and Wagnew?
00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:15.280
Separated.
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:21.599
They uh something happened to Wagnew and uh Sky's on his own mission to get him back.
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:28.320
I'm gonna assume that the spirit tree is dead or it's near the end of its life.
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:33.280
Uh, from what I've gathered from Wagnew and uh Sky, that seems to be the case.
00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:37.519
And that'll be the only explanation why I would be able to be here.
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:40.000
I guess in a way I'm not really here too.
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:41.280
Hard to say.
00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:50.880
I don't know enough about uh the spirits to know if you're actually you or if you're just an echo that's uh attached to the artifact.
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:56.320
Because none of the other artifacts seem to let us communicate with the previous possessors.
00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:58.960
So it's hard to say.
00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:01.840
So what's uh what's your goal here exactly, huh?
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:09.760
The barrier that uh I was protecting Drenor and house the fire artifact is broken.
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:11.840
We're here to try and repair it.
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:18.880
But uh with how things are the forest has become difficult to navigate.
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:22.000
We aren't even sure if we're headed the right way.
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:27.840
He looked he turns towards where the um the broken stone pedestal is.
00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:31.360
Well, this is where it would be.
00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:35.199
I don't know what you guys did, but I guess someone else got to it first.
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:36.000
Yeah.
00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:38.159
Red waves managed to get to it.
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:41.760
You wouldn't have to know how we could repair the barrier, do you?
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:44.000
You know, luckily for you, I do.
00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:49.760
The only thing is that you're gonna need to attune to the artifact as he looks towards Lee.
00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:50.800
Do you know how it works?
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:52.000
Not exactly.
00:46:55.760 --> 00:47:02.639
Uh I mean there wasn't much time, but it's not exactly a complicated process.
00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:08.000
I mean, I think the only one who had trouble was really uh Wagnew.
00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:14.800
But it's just something that takes time, and we haven't had much of it recently.
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:15.840
Exactly.
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:18.719
So I I actually know a loophole.
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:21.920
And uh at the end of it, it's your choice.
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:23.519
Lee, right?
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:24.159
Was it?
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:25.840
Yes.
00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:34.320
So your goal is to set up the barrier here to protect Jenner from the spirit forest.
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:35.599
Yes, that's our goal.
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:43.599
In order to do so, you need to attune to the artifact and use the artifact to pretty much set the barrier.
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:45.440
Now here are your choices.
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:56.559
You can either do it a safe way, which is try to atone it once a day, or three times.
00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:01.679
So at the minimum, we're gonna require at least three days.
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:05.599
That's the minimum if you if you don't fail at all.
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:06.960
And the hard way.
00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:17.199
And the hard way that I haven't told anyone is we can try to force attune it in one day.
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:22.480
But if if you fail, it's it's not gonna look good.
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:24.000
So it's your call.
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:24.719
Wait.
00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:27.599
Why do we need to go to such lengths?
00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:30.400
I'm already attuned to the earth artifact.
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:32.239
Can't I just use that?
00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:33.920
True, that's true.
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:41.360
Once you're attuned, you can pretty much set up the barrier here, and Drenner would be safe.
00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:47.440
The only thing is, once you do so, you don't leave.
00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:49.519
You become the guardian here.
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:52.239
And that's where I come in.
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:57.280
You see, I for some reason, and it's beyond me, honestly.
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:01.440
I'm so anchored to that to that ding artifact.
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:03.920
The only thing is I can't access it.
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:16.480
But in theory, if Lee attunes to it, we might be able to sp somehow I don't know, trick the magic of it.
00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:22.559
And instead of Lee taking instead of Lee being stuck here, I can I can try to take your place.
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:28.159
But of course, if you do that, then even after attuning, you will leave empty-handed.
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:31.760
You guys won't have the wind artifact anymore.
00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:40.239
Well my only concern with that is how do we save the spirit tree without the wind artifact?
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:42.320
That's gonna be for you to figure out.
00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:45.039
I mean, we can always come back for the artifact.
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:55.920
My question is, if we leave him, if we succeed, and the artifact has to stay here, what should stop Red Waves from just coming and taking the artifact again?
00:49:57.039 --> 00:49:58.800
He already took the fire artifact.
00:49:59.039 --> 00:49:59.760
Yeah, exactly.
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.519
Nothing can stop him unless he turns and just looks at both of you.
00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:08.079
Unless you guys do.
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:09.760
Okay, let's do it.
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:10.800
Are you sure?
00:50:11.280 --> 00:50:20.159
No, but uh I think I owe it to my hometown to try, at least.
00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:26.000
The far finally comes in between like the the three of you.
00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:30.400
I'm so frustrated.
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:33.440
I don't know what's going on at all.
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:36.159
Okay, so we need to do what?
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.159
Some kind of ritual?
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:40.719
And Renji just kind of looks at her.
00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:43.280
Yeah, kind of, yes.
00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:46.000
And how are we supposed to do that here?
00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:47.840
Everything here is corrupted.
00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:49.840
Renji looks at her.
00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:53.119
Maybe you can help with that.
00:50:54.079 --> 00:50:57.119
And sh you see, uh, she just has like an annoyed look on her face.
00:50:58.239 --> 00:51:03.440
And then you see Nafara just like slowly scanning around the area.
00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:04.960
Here.
00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:08.079
This is where it's the weakest.
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:12.400
Or at least where we have the best chance to make it so.
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.440
But we can't anchor anything on unstable ground.
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:20.079
And she looks towards Shrewsui and Shusui.
00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:24.159
See that there are there there are just like a whole bunch of like dark roots there.
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:27.360
Nothing like manual labor to get this started with.
00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:33.519
Let me see if I can uh find something to clear the the soil with.
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:35.440
Okay, how are you doing it?
00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:45.599
You see, it's just like the shift like the shifting roots uh outside, it's just like dead decaying roots on the ground.
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:48.079
They're moving a little bit.
00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:55.199
Well luckily for us, I have oil and I have alchemist fire.
00:51:55.519 --> 00:51:58.559
So time to burn.
00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:01.679
You arsonist! You become black sky.
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:02.320
Okay.
00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:04.719
Okay, I don't have magic.
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:06.239
This is the best I got.
00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:12.800
So yeah, I just do a trail of oil and then I uh throw an alchemist fire at it.
00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:19.599
Okay, yeah, you just kinda like you know, uh sprinkle put your oil on it and you lit it on fire.
00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:27.760
Uh it starts to just scream in agony as the roots they just kind of retreat away and burn away.
00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:35.360
Uh for a moment the ground is it's cleared, it's you know, it seems to be okay.
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:39.519
And then you see as the roots try to come back and cover it up.
00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:42.000
Uh Nefar just quickly comes in.
00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:44.559
You see her her hand just lights up.
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:52.239
It just blooms like a light, like a sunlight just blooms from her hand, and it keeps the the roots at bay.
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:54.880
She looks towards uh Lee.
00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:57.840
Okay, I can hold this, but not forever.
00:52:58.400 --> 00:52:59.599
This is where you come in.
00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:02.480
I'll look to the wind artifact guardian.
00:53:03.519 --> 00:53:04.800
What am I supposed to do?
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:06.639
Ever been in a trance before?
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:07.599
I'll go.
00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:14.719
I'll just nod and I'll go sit and kinda gather my thoughts.
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:20.800
As you sit down on the ground to gather your thoughts, Renji comes um like a little over you.
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:22.639
It looks towards Shusui.
00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:33.119
I guess I should have mentioned this earlier, but pretty much once you start the ritual to a tomb, the forest won't stay quiet.
00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:40.880
I don't know if you guys notice it yet, but you guys are you guys are the only peer souls here at the moment.
00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:45.679
So once it starts, they're gonna be attracted to this area.
00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:48.639
And so I leave that to you, Shusui.
00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:51.679
You can I'm sure you can defend your friend here.
00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:53.360
Well, I'll do what I can.
00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:55.119
Hopefully it'll be enough.
00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:00.719
Once you start, we'll hold the lines.
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:02.079
No matter what comes.
00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:07.119
I'll just nod to the two and I I trust you too.
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:18.719
Renji puts his hand on Lee's shoulder, and you feel just there's like a gust of wind that just kind of just goes through the whole shrine.
00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:21.119
Six hours.
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:22.800
I believe in you.
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:28.719
Alright, so before we start, uh I'm just gonna go ahead and try to explain this the best I can.
00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:36.079
This is my first time doing something like this, so it might not make sense the first time around, so just ask me questions if you need uh explaining, okay?
00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:43.599
Okay, so this attunement ritual, there are gonna be six stages of attunement.
00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:51.440
Um each stage, Lee, you're gonna have to tell me while you're trancing, right?
00:54:51.679 --> 00:54:53.679
What are you what's your character?
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:56.000
What is Lee like holding on to?
00:54:56.079 --> 00:54:59.840
What is he anchoring to, what is he thinking about as he attunes?
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:09.199
And depending on how you do it, what you you know, what you're doing, or how whatever you're thinking about, that's gonna affect the the uh the skill check.
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:15.199
So it'll affect like it'll affect make it like uh either arconic skill check, uh wisdom skill check, blah blah blah, stuff like that.
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:18.480
Okay, whatever makes sense during that that whole trance.
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:27.440
Um on a success, it means the artifact stabilizes, and then obviously six times, and then you attune.
00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:31.840
Every time you fail, the DC goes up.
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:35.599
Um and once it goes up, when you succeed, it'll go back down.
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:39.519
But it'll never go lower than its initial DC, which I won't I won't give you.
00:55:39.679 --> 00:55:39.840
Okay.
00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:45.840
Every time you fail, the waves of enemies they get tougher for Shusui.
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:46.559
Okay.
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:52.480
Uh Shusui, we are doing wave battles, but we are doing uh just theater of the mind.
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:54.559
So no initiative rows.
00:55:54.960 --> 00:56:00.000
It's just they come, you tell me what you're doing, and we just make the necessary skill checks for it.
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:00.400
Alright.
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:06.559
Um, obviously, there will be like, you know, we're gonna be doing damage and stuff, but meaning everything is just theater of the mind.
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:13.119
So your goal, Shift, is to just hopefully roll good and succeed.
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:13.599
Okay.
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:20.800
The better, the more descriptive your trance and or your thought is, the better your your chances are gonna be.
00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:21.280
Okay.
00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:23.360
Uh Shusley, your goal is to not die.
00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:24.159
That's it.
00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:26.320
Yeah, yeah.
00:56:26.559 --> 00:56:28.880
Uh that's a really good goal, man.
00:56:29.519 --> 00:56:37.920
Nafara is concentrating on keeping the area where Lee is at to not be corrupted.
00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:41.519
So she might be able to help here and there, but it's gonna be tough on her.
00:56:41.679 --> 00:56:42.320
Yeah.
00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:45.840
Uh Renji is not really there.
00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:48.960
He's a Dario, so he can't really help you.
00:56:50.239 --> 00:56:53.440
Hey man, these monsters are kinda like ghosts.
00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:55.199
You should be able to help.
00:56:57.039 --> 00:56:58.079
Uh okay.
00:56:58.320 --> 00:56:58.559
Yeah.
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:01.440
Without further ado, let's get this started.
00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:11.840
As you're you're uh sitting down, the wind artifact in front of you starts to just vibrate almost as if it's sinking.
00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:16.639
You feel the gust of wind just blowing towards you.
00:57:16.960 --> 00:57:19.519
It feels as if like a storm is coming at you.
00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:21.519
Uh Shizui, you guys can't feel this.
00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:30.480
It's it's just all the you're gonna have to channel your own energy into the artifact and try to synchronize with it and hold a setting.
00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:37.199
Obviously, this is um a high risk, high reward attonement ritual.
00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:45.440
So there are gonna be a lot of uh down like downside if you if you fail a check.
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:46.000
Okay.
00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:50.400
But that said, what is the first way you do it?
00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:51.760
What are you holding on to?
00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:53.280
What are you anchoring to?
00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:59.360
What thoughts, what memories are you thinking about as you are doing your first attonement check?
00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:06.400
I think my first memories I'm kinda attaching myself to are my memories of Drenner.
00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:15.119
Um, because overall I'm doing this right now in this moment to save Drenner to the best of my ability.
00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:30.639
Um I'm starting off kind of focusing on my time with Kenneth and uh Finwin when we were kids before I uh kind of traveled away for a while.
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:53.519
Um I'm gonna focus on, you know, how Kenneth and Lee used to, you know, train together under their sort of mentor figure, and when Finwin and Lee would kind of get up to trouble and get on the previous uh leader of Drenners nerves frequently.
00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:55.920
Um yeah, I love it.
00:58:56.079 --> 00:59:03.039
Okay, so as you hold on to that memory, the last part of that memory is you running away.
00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:10.159
You and Kenneth are both running away from um the past chief or past elder.
00:59:11.119 --> 00:59:13.360
As you both are making a jump.
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:20.079
And for your first attonant check, I need you to give me a dexterity check.
00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:20.719
Okay.
00:59:21.760 --> 00:59:24.639
Just dexterity or a dexterity savings throw?
00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:26.000
Just dexterity.
00:59:26.239 --> 00:59:28.880
So whatever modifiers you have for your dexterity check.
00:59:29.039 --> 00:59:29.360
Okay.
00:59:31.679 --> 00:59:33.599
That is a 13.
00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:36.000
13.
00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:44.880
The first check, you start to feel a strain.
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:51.519
This wind, this gust of wind almost knocks you down, but you hold yourself there.
00:59:52.239 --> 01:00:00.000
You feel the wind artifact, the power of it, just slowly moving away from you.
01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:19.039
At this point, around you, from the front door, you see about five corrupted dryads, the same one you've been fighting, just slowly appear and they're coming towards you.
01:00:19.119 --> 01:00:19.920
What are you doing?
01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:27.840
Uh, I run up to the doorway and kind of forced them to funnel in, so I'm only fighting one of them at a time.
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:38.480
Also, uh, because we are not doing like a regular, like obviously a regular battle, feel free to go as crazy as you want with the descriptions.
01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:46.239
Uh if it's too crazy, of course I would tone it down, but you know, feel free to think outside the box if it's you know if it's doable in the city.
01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:50.000
You're describing this because all I'm seeing is a montage, okay?
01:00:51.199 --> 01:01:01.599
Yeah, you rush towards the door, you uh brandish your sun blade, and you try to get the dry ass to just kinda funnel in one at a time so you can just swing at them.
01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:07.679
Um I need you to give me a let's have you do a aesthetics check.
01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:08.800
Alright.
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:12.400
As you hold yourself there to have them just come at you one at the time.
01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:13.519
That's late.
01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:18.320
You come in there, you put yourself front and center.
01:01:18.559 --> 01:01:21.360
Um, you did move a little bit already.
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:27.440
And you do manage to make us where they're footling, you know, one at a time.
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:33.360
But before that happens, like two of them comes and just slashes at you with their vines.
01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:39.760
You uh you take about uh two of them hits you first before you can just kind of like uh you know block them in.
01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:43.920
Um I'm gonna roll with the damage against you.
01:01:44.159 --> 01:01:45.920
It's not a lot, you'll be okay.
01:01:46.239 --> 01:01:50.079
Anyway, there's not even a track to see if they hit me, I just take damage.
01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:54.000
My AC is 9 beater to mind.
01:01:54.079 --> 01:01:56.320
You're too focused on trying to keep Lee alive.
01:01:56.480 --> 01:01:58.719
Uh you take seven points of stashing damage.
01:01:58.880 --> 01:01:59.119
Okay.
01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:04.960
But then you do uh after you take those two hits, you just brandish your sword and you just you know take them out one at a time.
01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:06.000
They're not strong enemies.
01:02:06.559 --> 01:02:09.840
With your sunblade, yeah, seven points of uh stashing damage.
01:02:09.920 --> 01:02:12.480
Okay, and you just pierce through them with your rapier.
01:02:13.679 --> 01:02:22.239
Lee, as you hold on, what's the next memory that you are thinking about to try to anchor yourself?
01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:47.840
Um, after, you know, thinking about the my time with Kenneth and Finwen, uh I think I would have inevitably thought about how Fenwin and I went to the cave when we weren't supposed to, and I ended up in a faraway place.
01:02:48.719 --> 01:03:00.719
Um, but I think I'd try and skip past the first bits and go to the point where I met um a woman who kind of saved my life.
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:09.119
You know, she took me in and kind of helped me figure out what was going on with my powers and such.
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:25.920
So I kind of focusing on her and how she was always able to to find me when I wasn't able to control my teleporting, and you know, I'd end up in the woods, and she somehow always managed to find me, so kind of focusing on that at the moment.
01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:27.119
Okay.
01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:39.440
As you focus on this memory of you blinking away, and you being in the material plane, and then this lady who always finds you somehow.
01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:41.280
You hear Nafara's voice.
01:03:41.519 --> 01:03:53.440
Come on, you got this! Go ahead and give me your second attunement check Arcana and a D4 for the guidance for Nafara.
01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:55.199
Okay, we needed that d4.
01:03:55.679 --> 01:03:56.559
Okay, that's good.
01:03:56.639 --> 01:03:57.840
Let's roll the d4.
01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:01.519
Uh 15 plus 2 at 17.
01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:03.119
Nice.
01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:11.920
Of a 17, you feel the gust of wind that was blown at you starts to get a little lighter.
01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:17.599
At this point, almost seem as if you're also blowing back.
01:04:17.760 --> 01:04:22.159
You feel the power of the wind artifact entering your body.
01:04:22.559 --> 01:04:41.840
Shui uh after you take care of those dryads, you start to see one corrupted shadow wolf of some sort that just comes out from the ground in front of you and it lunges towards you.
01:04:41.920 --> 01:04:43.119
What are you doing?
01:04:44.000 --> 01:05:02.000
Oh, I'm uh I'm just gonna try and uh parry it with my shield and uh I try to like get my uh sunblade to go to the maximum brightness so it does uh like what is it, 30 feet of bright light and then 30 feet of dim light.
01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:04.079
Okay, cool.
01:05:04.239 --> 01:05:13.039
Um go ahead and give me a let's have that be uh the parrying, let's have that be a dexterity check.
01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:19.039
Uh 23.
01:05:19.519 --> 01:05:20.800
Hell yeah, perfect.
01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:25.440
Uh it lunges towards you, you just you know parry the shield, you push it away.
01:05:25.599 --> 01:05:32.400
Uh you just put your hand up with your sunblade in hand, maximum brightness, the whole room lights up.
01:05:33.199 --> 01:05:52.159
Um even at this point, you give uh Nefara a little break as your sunblade lights up, and it makes it so that the roots around Lee recede away, and she takes this moment to look at you, and she casts cure wounds on you.
01:05:52.480 --> 01:05:58.079
Um you get three hit points back.
01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:10.159
The wolf comes towards you again, the shadow wolf of sort, and you just go ahead and you just pierce it with your sunblade at maximum brightness, uh easily taking it out.
01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:15.199
Lee.
01:06:16.239 --> 01:06:18.239
What's your next thought?
01:06:19.599 --> 01:06:33.360
Um I'm you know having a sort of like good reaction to, you know, with the wind artifact when I'm focusing on uh Edith, the woman that saved me.
01:06:33.440 --> 01:07:03.440
I'm gonna kind of I'm gonna start thinking of the time, you know, after weeks of her attempting to train me, where she uh took me out to the woods and tried to get me to be able to control the teleporting where um you know she would tell me to to lean into the power, don't just let it, you know, kind of take control of you, just lean, you accept the power when it, you know, when you feel it coming, you accept it.
01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:08.400
Um and that was kind of the first time after, you know, Lee finally understood it.
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:19.360
You know, he was he was still young, but um he he finally blinked where he meant to after kind of leaning into the the feeling.
01:07:19.679 --> 01:07:30.239
As you lean into that feeling, and for the first time you were able to blink to a destination where you chose, go ahead and give me a wisdom check.
01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:34.800
This is a 16 overall.
01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:45.519
You feel as the wind starts to whip at your body, almost as if it's slicing through your arms.
01:07:47.840 --> 01:07:58.480
You get like an outer like an outer body out of body experience, and you see as it's whipping through your body, it feels as if it's slicing your arms, but there's nothing there.
01:07:59.119 --> 01:08:00.719
It's not affecting you.
01:08:01.679 --> 01:08:03.519
That's your second success.
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:15.920
Shusui, you having two fights like this back to back, uh, you take a look at Lee, your sun blade's so lit.
01:08:16.560 --> 01:08:32.399
All of a sudden you see two shadow uh juvenile shadow dragons appear from You see them coming out from far away, but they're flying towards you.
01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:35.039
Yeah, is this man?
01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:36.880
I'm fighting dragons.
01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:41.920
Yeah, but a moment to react.
01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:43.199
What are you doing?
01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:56.880
Uh I'm just gonna stab my sunblade into the ground, and I'm just gonna draw my bow and try and shoot them before they get to me.
01:08:57.119 --> 01:08:59.119
Okay, row to attack.
01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:03.279
Uh that's a that's a 13.
01:09:03.520 --> 01:09:04.000
13.
01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:12.479
You ready your bow, you shoot it, and you see as your arrow uh just kind of like just goes right past it, and both of them just comes towards you.
01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:14.720
Um they're gonna try to attack you.
01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:18.560
First one is a 21, and the second one is a 23.
01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:20.640
Yeah, yeah, those hit.
01:09:22.159 --> 01:09:34.319
Um you are gonna take 12 points of slashing damage plus six points of narcotic damage altogether.
01:09:37.199 --> 01:09:37.840
Alright.
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:46.560
It's your next memory.
01:09:47.760 --> 01:10:11.920
Um I think just trying to stay focused on what he's doing, he'd probably wouldn't be able to help himself, but uh he starts focusing on a memory of him and uh Ravain and a couple other of the elves in Drenner uh playing hide and seek.
01:10:12.720 --> 01:10:25.680
And he'd think like he's he'd always watch Ravain kind of run right past where he was hiding, and you know, he's kinda focusing on the the memory of playing games with his friends.
01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:30.319
You see a Zarvan run towards you.
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:32.800
Uh what'd you go?
01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:36.560
And he's just you know, you're right there.
01:10:37.199 --> 01:10:40.079
But nobody can find you for some reason.
01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:42.319
Go ahead and give me a stealth check.
01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:44.399
Uh a dirty 20.
01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:46.479
Jeez, nice.
01:10:47.520 --> 01:10:48.720
If only it wasn't that.
01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:49.920
Yeah.
01:10:50.239 --> 01:10:53.199
Uh of a dirty 20.
01:10:54.479 --> 01:10:54.800
Um.
01:10:56.479 --> 01:11:02.479
It's almost as if a a little hurricane is starting to form inside your in your chest.
01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:04.960
You feel as if you're about to burst.
01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:11.520
But then you hold on to this memory of you just playing around with your friends in drenner.
01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:23.680
Of you hiding, of you being calm, holding your breath so no one can find you, and you calm yourself, and this little this little hurricane inside your chest just dissipates.
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:25.520
That's your third success.
01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:31.520
Shusui, as these two shadow dragons are coming at you again, Afar Yo is out.
01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:34.479
Shu Sui! How are you holding up?
01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:36.079
I'll I'll live.
01:11:36.560 --> 01:11:41.600
I uh at this point I drop the bow, it's not gonna help me.
01:11:41.760 --> 01:11:58.399
I pick my sword back up, and I will just uh kinda just brace myself to dodge and parry as much as I can, and uh just get hits in when I can't, and I will uh use my bonus action to uh second wind.
01:11:59.520 --> 01:11:59.840
Okay.
01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:05.199
Uh go ahead for the parrying and give me a uh dexterity check.
01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:10.479
Uh that's an 11.
01:12:10.880 --> 01:12:11.520
11.
01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:22.239
Um because the shadow dragons are so close to you, you pick up your your sun blade and you try to parry away the first attacks from from the uh shadow dragons.
01:12:22.319 --> 01:12:23.920
I'm gonna roll to attack you.
01:12:24.159 --> 01:12:25.439
Uh fuck.
01:12:29.760 --> 01:12:31.119
It's bad.
01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:34.479
I just rode both not 20s.
01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:35.199
Oh no way.
01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:37.119
I got double crit.
01:12:37.439 --> 01:12:38.720
It's bad.
01:12:39.680 --> 01:12:43.439
Um let me see.
01:12:44.640 --> 01:12:47.119
Alright, uh, let me just heal real quick.
01:12:47.199 --> 01:12:47.520
I guess we're gonna go to the game.
01:12:47.680 --> 01:12:49.359
Yeah, go ahead and give it a spiritual time.
01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:51.439
Get your get your second wind in.
01:12:54.399 --> 01:12:57.359
It's fine, it's all slashing and piercing damage.
01:12:57.600 --> 01:12:59.119
I have my artifact that will help.
01:12:59.680 --> 01:13:00.239
You haven't moved yet.
01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:01.359
You haven't moved yet.
01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:03.199
Oh no.
01:13:05.359 --> 01:13:07.600
I'm basically taking normal damage.
01:13:07.840 --> 01:13:14.000
So that's gonna be uh 42 points of stashing damage.
01:13:14.159 --> 01:13:15.359
You could have that one.
01:13:16.159 --> 01:13:16.479
Yeah.
01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:19.920
But you also take uh additional uh 15 a code damage.
01:13:20.159 --> 01:13:21.199
Oh my god.
01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:23.840
You're actively trying to kill me.
01:13:23.920 --> 01:13:27.439
Okay, uh how is it 42 slashing damage?
01:13:27.760 --> 01:13:29.760
It's from two, it's from two of them.
01:13:31.439 --> 01:13:34.479
Okay, so that's 21 and then 15.
01:13:35.920 --> 01:13:44.239
Uh okay, I'm gonna use my artifact and uh prevent me from dropping to zero health, so I drop to one.
01:13:44.880 --> 01:13:46.000
Oh snaps.
01:13:46.399 --> 01:14:05.439
Um tell me how that looks like it's just uh you see Shushui kinda stumble and almost fall, and then he just catches himself, he just kinda like stomps on the ground and forces himself to kinda get back up.
01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:07.840
Oh my god.
01:14:10.159 --> 01:14:11.760
You're in a farm from Banji.
01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:15.760
Oh my god.
01:14:17.760 --> 01:14:19.119
Are you okay?
01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:21.680
No.
01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:26.319
No, I I might need some help.
01:14:26.640 --> 01:14:30.319
They're uh they're hitting a lot stronger than I uh thought they would.
01:14:32.960 --> 01:14:36.000
Uh she tries to throw you an apple.
01:14:37.039 --> 01:14:40.800
And she rolled a three to toss it towards you.
01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:48.159
Uh you see as one of her arms is still like focusing on where Lee is at, she takes out an apple, she tosses it over you.
01:14:48.399 --> 01:14:54.399
It hits like the the nearby wall and bounces like about like 15 feet away from you.
01:14:57.359 --> 01:14:59.199
Dang it! It's there.
01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:08.239
Uh the little roots are moving towards you, but the the shadow dragons are in their way, so they can't quite get to you.
01:15:08.960 --> 01:15:11.119
But you're you're holding yourself up.
01:15:11.840 --> 01:15:15.199
Lee, what's your next memory?
01:15:16.399 --> 01:15:46.479
Um my next memory, I think, would be uh after 20 years finally returning to Drennor and you know, seeing things were different, but being able to see at least Fenwin again, you know, just trying to focus on the joy that uh Lee had in that moment, you know, seeing his friend from a long time ago after all he went through to get back.
01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:51.119
Um he's just kind of trying to focus on that in this current moment.
01:15:54.880 --> 01:15:56.319
Go ahead and roll me.
01:15:58.640 --> 01:16:01.359
The bonds of you and Fenwin.
01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:04.319
What would I call that?
01:16:07.119 --> 01:16:11.199
Let's make that uh charisma or like a like a history check.
01:16:11.359 --> 01:16:12.479
Yeah, let's make that a charisma.
01:16:12.560 --> 01:16:13.600
I was gonna say history check.
01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:15.039
Let's make that a history check.
01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:18.000
200 years and 20 years.
01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:19.840
Alright, come on.
01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:22.880
Friendship of 200 years.
01:16:23.199 --> 01:16:24.960
Uh it's a two.
01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:29.279
I really gonna die out here.
01:16:30.079 --> 01:16:35.119
You try to recall, you know, hold on to this memory of Fenwin and you.
01:16:35.439 --> 01:16:37.119
This is your best friend.
01:16:37.920 --> 01:16:41.039
But then this thought of doubt enters your mind.
01:16:42.640 --> 01:16:48.000
Like you start to thinking to yourself, do you even know Finwin anymore?
01:16:48.319 --> 01:16:51.039
Is he even who he says he is?
01:16:53.680 --> 01:17:06.399
And this just quick thought of doubt just makes it so you um the win artifact realizes it's from you, and all of a sudden you feel pushed down from the top.
01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:13.199
A pressure so heavy, and you just put your hand on the ground, put your put your hands on the ground to try to hold yourself up.
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:16.560
Unfortunately, you're not past this one.
01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:25.520
Should we the shadow dragons are coming towards you again?
01:17:25.760 --> 01:17:29.920
Uh you see one of them starts to go around you towards Nafara.
01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:32.000
And Lee.
01:17:32.479 --> 01:17:33.840
What are you doing?
01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:36.079
Is it flying or is it like on the ground?
01:17:36.399 --> 01:17:39.199
It's just crawling, it's just crawling on the ground, it's not flying.
01:17:39.439 --> 01:17:40.000
Alright.
01:17:40.319 --> 01:17:44.479
Well, first off, I will use my bonus action to second win.
01:17:46.079 --> 01:17:48.159
Oh god, I'm gonna die.
01:17:49.760 --> 01:17:52.239
Alright, that's uh 14 health.
01:17:52.479 --> 01:17:52.800
Okay.
01:17:54.319 --> 01:17:59.199
And then I can move uh half my movement speed without triggering attack of opportunities.
01:17:59.439 --> 01:17:59.760
Okay.
01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:05.680
So I will move the 15 feet to go pick up that apple and eat it.
01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:06.960
Hell yeah.
01:18:07.199 --> 01:18:16.720
Um, you eat that apple, and magically, mysteriously, uh, you gain the benefits of a short rest.
01:18:18.079 --> 01:18:20.319
Uh you're hearing a far from the back.
01:18:20.640 --> 01:18:27.760
I told you! An apple a day keeps the And then uh you see as the uh the shadow dragon kinda lunged towards her.
01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:29.680
Also give you an action.
01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:30.720
Alright.
01:18:31.039 --> 01:18:32.000
Theater of the mind.
01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:36.079
How many how many dice do I want to use the heal?
01:18:41.279 --> 01:18:42.399
Oh my god.
01:18:43.039 --> 01:18:44.399
These are like all ones.
01:18:45.680 --> 01:18:48.399
Alright, I rolled two dice, I got a two of the one.
01:18:48.800 --> 01:18:49.680
Oh no.
01:18:50.640 --> 01:18:51.199
It's alright.
01:18:52.319 --> 01:18:53.840
Get your second win back at least.
01:18:54.319 --> 01:18:55.359
Oh my god.
01:18:56.000 --> 01:18:57.439
Um alright.
01:18:57.760 --> 01:19:00.720
Uh so man.
01:19:01.920 --> 01:19:05.920
Remember that remember that you can think outside of the regular combat stuff too.
01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:16.159
So if you wanted to, you can't just describe to me how cool of a thing you want to do, and if I think it's cool enough, I can just make you row, and if you succeed, it happens.
01:19:17.199 --> 01:19:17.920
Alright, man.
01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:20.960
I'm just gonna fucking oh man.
01:19:22.239 --> 01:19:27.279
Yeah, I'm just gonna leap on top of the dragon and just start stabbing it.
01:19:29.840 --> 01:19:36.479
Okay, you chase after you hop on top of the uh the shadow dragon that's Legend 4 and Afar.
01:19:36.720 --> 01:19:39.199
I need you to give me a dexterity check.
01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:42.319
Oh man, alright, I'm ready for my Nat one.
01:19:42.399 --> 01:19:43.439
I'm ready.
01:19:44.479 --> 01:19:46.159
Uh okay, 22.
01:19:46.479 --> 01:19:48.479
2, yeah, you get on top easily.
01:19:48.560 --> 01:19:51.039
Uh your eyes are like filled with rage.
01:19:51.119 --> 01:19:53.520
You know, you you almost died pretty much.
01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:57.439
Uh you take your sunblade, you just stab down on it multiple times.
01:19:57.600 --> 01:20:00.640
Uh not even thinking about like, you know, what's gonna happen next.
01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:03.119
You're just like, this thing is gonna go after my friends.
01:20:03.199 --> 01:20:05.359
I gotta help Lee, I gotta help Nefara.
01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:15.119
Um this thought of you always being in the front line, always taking the hits, like it's like it's it's it's just too much for you at this in this current moment.
01:20:15.199 --> 01:20:25.119
You just keep stabbing down to the shadow dragon, just turn like it just keeps going down, it falls down to the ground, and you see it just turns into like a black dust shadow and it just disperses away.
01:20:25.359 --> 01:20:27.279
Uh you see one left.
01:20:28.399 --> 01:20:31.439
It lunges towards you, the roots are now closing in on you.
01:20:31.600 --> 01:20:35.439
Uh Lee, I need you to make you make your your next memory.
01:20:36.079 --> 01:20:36.399
Okay.
01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:55.520
So I think this time around he uh you know, after failing, or like, you know, losing focus for a minute, he kinda instinctively worries about Shisui and Nefara um and kind of starts focusing on them.
01:20:55.680 --> 01:21:26.800
Uh you know, as he's focusing on Shusui, he Lee kinda he I feel like a sense of like uh uh I can't think of the word for that, like remorse, you know, he uh after twenty years of trying to get back just for Kenneth to be gone, um, but focusing on Shusui in a weird way, it's almost you know, it's like there's so many similarities in between the two.
01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:52.000
Um Shusui and Frost um reminds him of how Kenneth and used to fight with his um his dog Moss, and and you know, the way Shisui hunts is similar to how Kenneth and Lee were taught when they were young, and I think he's just kind of focusing on how in a weird way it's almost as if Kenneth is still here through Shusui.
01:21:52.800 --> 01:21:59.199
As that thought enters your mind, uh you get flashes of memories of your brother and Shusui.
01:22:05.760 --> 01:22:14.800
You the last image you see is um Moss just sitting next to you and Kenneth.
01:22:15.920 --> 01:22:18.720
His tongue out as you pet him.
01:22:19.520 --> 01:22:21.840
Go ahead and give me an animal heming check.
01:22:22.000 --> 01:22:25.760
Oh, 16 plus six, 22.
01:22:26.319 --> 01:22:27.680
Dang, let's go.
01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:34.239
At this point, the wind was coming down towards you, and it was like it's as if it's pushing you down from above.
01:22:34.479 --> 01:22:48.720
Um, you just push down from the ground, you are able to kind of just like uh get yourself straight up again, and then you put your arms like in the trance position, and you just steady yourself and just calm yourself.
01:22:48.960 --> 01:22:51.359
Because all the time you've been fighting against the wind.
01:22:52.159 --> 01:22:59.680
And in just this very instant, you feel as if you are one with the wind and not fighting against it anymore.
01:22:59.920 --> 01:23:01.279
That's your fourth one.
01:23:01.680 --> 01:23:02.239
Shusui.
01:23:02.720 --> 01:23:04.640
With that success from Lee.
01:23:05.840 --> 01:23:14.479
Um the shadow the remaining shadow dragon looks at Lee and it kind of trips up a little bit.
01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:28.000
Uh it falls into your sun blade, and you see as it kind of like, you know, retreats from your sunblade a little bit, giving you a chance to just kind of react and do what you can.
01:23:28.159 --> 01:23:29.039
What are you doing?
01:23:29.279 --> 01:23:38.079
Well, I am uh I'm getting real tired of these these monsters, so I'm just gonna action search.
01:23:38.319 --> 01:23:40.640
I'm going to throw my cow traps.
01:23:40.720 --> 01:23:42.640
I'm finally using them.
01:23:42.880 --> 01:23:45.039
So I'm just gonna throw them all over the place.
01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:51.359
So if anything tries to get near Lee or uh Nepara, they'll just step on cow chops.
01:23:51.840 --> 01:23:55.840
And then I'm going in on this damn dragon that almost killed me.
01:23:56.399 --> 01:23:59.600
Okay, yeah, give me a uh attack row advantage.
01:24:00.159 --> 01:24:01.840
Tired of these guys.
01:24:02.399 --> 01:24:05.039
Uh 18 uh 20.
01:24:05.359 --> 01:24:06.159
Hell yeah.
01:24:06.319 --> 01:24:10.560
Um You you see this opening.
01:24:10.960 --> 01:24:17.920
You reach into your bag, the side of your pocket, you just toss up the bag of caltrops, and it just kinda flies everywhere.
01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:21.039
As as it's falling down, you just instantly move.
01:24:21.199 --> 01:24:26.159
Almost as if the uh it's in slow-mo, the celtrops are just raining down and you're just kind of moving through it.
01:24:26.319 --> 01:24:32.720
And you just go ahead and slash at this dragon who's who seems to be afraid of your sunblade and afraid of Lee at the same time.
01:24:32.880 --> 01:24:40.000
Uh you don't give it a chance to breathe, and you just kind of decapitate uh decapitate its head right off and it just disperses.
01:24:40.079 --> 01:24:40.319
Shh.
01:24:41.359 --> 01:24:48.880
Uh now the roots are the the character roots are coming in and they're kind of getting stuck on the caltrops, not able to move because it's not big enough.
01:24:49.119 --> 01:24:50.239
Li, the next one.
01:24:50.479 --> 01:25:02.479
Uh I think uh now after focusing on Shisui and you know how Kenneth and him are kind of similar, uh he ships over to Nafara and how they kind of met.
01:25:03.359 --> 01:25:34.479
And it's almost as if they have like similar stories in the way, and um he'll he'll kind of try and focus on uh you know how she's sort of like the light in the dark forest, the same as Shisui, and how uh, you know she's she's here planning to heal us when we need, you know, she's she's also willing to sacrifice herself to you know for Drenner, just like the rest of us.
01:25:34.720 --> 01:25:45.760
As you think of Nafara, you hear Nafara just like screaming the whole time while like Shusui's doing his thing, and then you hear her go like, I don't even know what's going on, oh my gosh! Uh go ahead and give me a medicine check.
01:25:45.920 --> 01:25:46.239
Okay.
01:25:47.439 --> 01:25:52.640
Same role, 16 plus it might be the same thing, plus six, twenty-two, yeah.
01:25:52.880 --> 01:25:57.439
As you focus on Nafara, it's it's so weird.
01:25:58.000 --> 01:26:08.640
Because you just met this this person, and at the same time they they talk to you as if they've known you for a while.
01:26:09.039 --> 01:26:13.359
They don't, you know, shy away from you or your group.
01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:21.439
Um they even try to help you, try to heal you without asking for anything in return.
01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:27.600
And in this moment you feel light.
01:26:28.079 --> 01:26:34.399
As if all the pressure that you have been holding until this moment have has it's just been lifted off your body.
01:26:35.119 --> 01:26:37.199
And you succeed for the fifth time.
01:26:37.439 --> 01:26:38.720
Yeah, one more to go.
01:26:38.960 --> 01:26:39.840
Shui.
01:26:40.319 --> 01:26:47.840
As the corrupted roots are getting trapped, you start to hear something big from far away.
01:26:48.239 --> 01:27:03.680
You look, you glance, um, you stick your sunblade into the ground, and you know, you're just holding yourself up, you'd look up, and you see a gigantic colossal corrupted MDR.
01:27:04.399 --> 01:27:08.000
It's still pretty far away, but it's rushing towards you.
01:27:08.239 --> 01:27:09.840
How are you preparing for this?
01:27:10.079 --> 01:27:11.760
Well, the classic.
01:27:11.920 --> 01:27:23.199
I'm going to just leave my sword stabbed in, grab my bow again, and this time I'm just gonna try and aim for the eyes, try to like off-balance the M deer.
01:27:23.840 --> 01:27:24.159
Okay.
01:27:24.560 --> 01:27:26.560
Give me a set of hand check for this one.
01:27:26.720 --> 01:27:27.439
Uh 27.
01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:29.039
27, let's go.
01:27:29.199 --> 01:27:33.680
Uh, you ready your bow, you aim for the eye, you let loose.
01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:36.079
Your arrow finds its mark.
01:27:36.880 --> 01:27:39.199
It's what can I have taught you all along.
01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:44.079
It's what you've picked up through your travels, your adventuring days.
01:27:44.319 --> 01:27:45.600
Uh throughout Yuping.
01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:56.319
While your family they were, you know, doing the cleric stuff, cleric duties, you on the other hand were well you've been practicing your shots, you've been practicing your sword play.
01:27:56.560 --> 01:27:58.479
In this instant, you know you won't miss.
01:27:58.640 --> 01:27:59.760
Not when everything is on the line.
01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:01.439
So you let loose.
01:28:01.760 --> 01:28:05.279
Your arrow finds this mark right in the eye of this colossal M deer.
01:28:05.520 --> 01:28:13.039
You see as it staggers, it starts to kinda like change direction a little bit, uh, it falls to the ground, and then slowly picks itself up.
01:28:13.520 --> 01:28:17.439
Chef, I need you to make your final possibly your final check.
01:28:17.760 --> 01:28:18.079
Okay.
01:28:18.319 --> 01:28:26.479
Um, I think now he's Lee is focusing on uh the timing of it all.
01:28:26.720 --> 01:28:37.359
Um he finally makes it back home and he just happens to run into this uh group of three planning to save uh Yuping.
01:28:38.800 --> 01:29:06.960
And how uh he doesn't really know how he found himself in this situation, but um working alone for a long time trying to find his way back, uh he he knows he probably couldn't do anything to this level um by himself, so he's you know uh thinking about how Wagnu trusted him and how Shisui is, you know, trusting him now.
01:29:07.680 --> 01:29:25.359
And Skye even, you know, Lee offered to return the wind artifact, and Sky uh trusted Lee to keep it for the moment, so he's kinda focusing on the group of three and um how he's been traveling with them in the in the moment.
01:29:25.680 --> 01:29:30.720
You think of your group, this newfound group that you found yourself in.
01:29:31.039 --> 01:29:35.680
Even as someone who was so hesitant at first.
01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:37.840
You've always been good at hiding.
01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:42.880
You've always been a stealthy person, you've always been someone who's been good in the shadows.
01:29:43.119 --> 01:29:52.079
And in front of you, you see two friends who are so bright that even the shadows don't dare come near.
01:29:52.640 --> 01:30:00.159
Stealth isn't just about being in the shadows, stealth is also about giving way to the light.
01:30:00.399 --> 01:30:02.720
Go to give me a stealth check for your final check.
01:30:02.880 --> 01:30:03.600
Here we go.
01:30:03.840 --> 01:30:06.479
16 plus 10, 26.
01:30:06.800 --> 01:30:14.560
Shusu, as you look up, in the blink of an eye, the the colossal MDR is like about 10 feet away from you.
01:30:15.119 --> 01:30:16.640
It's moving fast.
01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:24.479
It's coming, it's it's like charging you, it brings its head up, and it's gonna swing at you with its like gigantic horns.
01:30:25.840 --> 01:30:30.000
All of a sudden, around shift, or not around shift, around Lee.
01:30:32.079 --> 01:30:35.359
The wind starts to lash just wildly.
01:30:35.600 --> 01:30:40.079
You start to hear echoes of people you'd never met before.
01:30:40.399 --> 01:30:42.640
Images flashes into your mind.
01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:48.800
You get images of Renji and his past life.
01:30:49.680 --> 01:30:56.319
You get images of Black Sky using the wet artifact for the first time.
01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:04.239
You feel the potential of this artifact.
01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:08.720
And then all of a sudden your body gets a rush of energy.
01:31:08.880 --> 01:31:16.239
You start to uh Nefara looks at you and she notices that you're like blinking in and out where you're not going anywhere.
01:31:16.479 --> 01:31:19.039
You're just blinking in and out, but staying in place.
01:31:19.279 --> 01:31:23.680
For the first time, Lee, you understand the very nature of your power.
01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:26.000
Your ability to blink.
01:31:26.239 --> 01:31:28.000
The information is a lot.
01:31:28.239 --> 01:31:32.560
So I'm gonna need you to give me a intelligen intelligence check.
01:31:33.119 --> 01:31:36.319
Uh either a comma or insight.
01:31:36.880 --> 01:31:37.920
Depending on you.
01:31:38.239 --> 01:31:40.159
Um, I'll do insight.
01:31:40.640 --> 01:31:41.039
Ooh.
01:31:41.279 --> 01:31:43.760
Uh six plus three, a nine total.
01:31:44.159 --> 01:31:49.680
You start to understand the very power of your ability, but then the information is too much for you to handle.
01:31:49.760 --> 01:31:50.560
It's too fast.
01:31:50.720 --> 01:31:52.079
Your mind reels.
01:31:52.720 --> 01:31:56.640
You feel the power post through you, but you can't comprehend it.
01:31:56.880 --> 01:31:59.119
You can't make words of it.
01:31:59.520 --> 01:32:11.039
Your movements become jittery, and it's as if the force kind of like just kinda like it's almost as if you can feel the forest twist and shift.
01:32:11.439 --> 01:32:20.479
All of a sudden, a ring of wind just shoots out from you, pushes the colossal emder away.
01:32:20.640 --> 01:32:27.840
Um you see as this ring of wind just pretty much just splits it in half.
01:32:28.079 --> 01:32:31.199
And the colossal ender just starts to uh disintegrate.
01:32:31.680 --> 01:32:35.039
You turn around, and you see Lee.
01:32:35.840 --> 01:32:37.359
He stands up.
01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:46.399
Lee, you have a swirling halo of wind and light wrapped around your head.
01:32:47.119 --> 01:32:52.159
Your the edges of your clothes are it seems as if it's like in a storm.
01:32:52.239 --> 01:32:54.960
It's like whirling in a storm.
01:32:55.279 --> 01:33:00.079
Your eyes are like uh silver, shining silver.
01:33:01.359 --> 01:33:11.680
And it's as if you're a storm-contained, but then it's almost as if you're like the wind around the wind around you is dancing around you.
01:33:12.079 --> 01:33:21.760
You hear your hair is just like um it turns a deep white, and it seems as if the gravity around you is at your command.
01:33:22.159 --> 01:33:24.800
You've awakened the wind artifact.
01:33:24.960 --> 01:33:32.800
In this very moment, you can teleport up to 20 feet as part of your movement twice per turn.
01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:46.239
Opportunity attack against you have disadvantage, and when you teleport, all creatures within 10 feet of you, uh, starting or ending, must succeed on a DC-17 stream saving throw or be pushed 10 feet away.
01:33:46.479 --> 01:33:46.960
That's awesome.
01:33:47.119 --> 01:33:52.640
As you come out of this form, as you enter this form, uh you see Shusui, you look and you see Lee.
01:33:53.680 --> 01:34:02.000
Uh the buildings around you just collapse, and a whole like a whole army of shadow creatures just jumps and lunches towards all three of you.
01:34:02.319 --> 01:34:03.600
What are you doing, Lee?
01:34:03.920 --> 01:34:15.279
Um, I think, you know, as they kind of get close, I'll um I'll teleport to kind of the the shrine.
01:34:15.680 --> 01:34:22.479
Uh hopefully, you know blowing all the shadow creatures back with the with the wind.
01:34:23.520 --> 01:34:25.039
As I teleport to the shrine.
01:34:25.279 --> 01:34:28.399
You teleport to the shrine and all the creatures get blown away.
01:34:28.720 --> 01:34:31.439
Just we as as the creatures are getting blown away, what are you doing?
01:34:31.600 --> 01:34:37.680
Yeah, so while they're trying to get up from getting knocked down, I'm just gonna take out as many as I can.
01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:41.039
Yeah, you notice that some of the creatures are getting trapped in your cow drops.
01:34:41.199 --> 01:34:45.840
Uh, you take advantage of this, you're piercing them like with speed you've never known before.
01:34:46.000 --> 01:34:48.079
It's like you're running on adrenaline right now.
01:34:48.239 --> 01:34:51.359
Um you're pretty much doing like extra attack like five times.
01:34:51.520 --> 01:34:54.720
You're do you're freaking action surgeon like ten times.
01:34:55.680 --> 01:34:57.359
Exhausting yourself.
01:34:57.680 --> 01:35:02.560
As you're taking advantage of this uh this new power from Lee.
01:35:02.800 --> 01:35:08.319
Um Lee's you're pretty much just how are you taking care of the rest of the creatures around you?
01:35:08.560 --> 01:35:09.840
It's like a horde of them.
01:35:10.159 --> 01:35:19.199
Um I think uh I would be doing my best to shoot as many as them I can down with my uh bow, and if they get too close, I'll pull out my rapier.
01:35:19.600 --> 01:35:24.880
Um trying to, you know, if if any get too close, I'll try and use the wind artifact if I can.
01:35:25.199 --> 01:35:29.359
You take out your bow and your arrows, and you just start shooting.
01:35:29.520 --> 01:35:34.800
Uh instinctively, almost instinctively, you're just teleporting around the whole, like the whole field.
01:35:34.960 --> 01:35:39.199
Um and every time you go, you go exactly where you wanna be.
01:35:39.439 --> 01:35:42.000
Every time you land, creatures get blown back.
01:35:42.159 --> 01:35:45.119
Uh every time you leave, creatures creatures get blown back.
01:35:45.359 --> 01:35:56.000
At a point you almost you can even you seem to even be bringing them towards you, away from Shusui and from Nafara, and then you would shoot them and your air would just pierce through them all at once.
01:35:56.399 --> 01:36:01.439
Eventually you, Shusui, and Nafara fight off the horde.
01:36:03.119 --> 01:36:04.960
The sun doesn't come up.
01:36:05.760 --> 01:36:08.720
But about six-seven hours passed.
01:36:09.199 --> 01:36:12.960
Shusui've been fighting non-stop, and it wasn't for naught.
01:36:13.359 --> 01:36:16.880
Lee, and you in your new form, you turn towards Renji.
01:36:18.079 --> 01:36:19.840
Exhilarating, isn't it?
01:36:20.640 --> 01:36:21.520
You hold it well.
01:36:21.760 --> 01:36:29.359
Yeah, I'm just kind of standing there, still taking it all in, but uh uh how do we how do we put the barrier back up?
01:36:29.600 --> 01:36:35.359
He reaches out his hand towards you, and just kind of like point you towards the pedestal.
01:36:35.520 --> 01:36:37.600
Once you put it there, I'll do the rest.
01:36:37.760 --> 01:36:38.720
It's a shame really.
01:36:38.880 --> 01:36:40.640
I think you would have been a great guardian.
01:36:40.880 --> 01:37:02.479
I'll start walking towards the pedestal and as I walk by Shisui, uh I'll tap him on the shoulder and I'll cast cure wounds for 13 healing, 13 hit point, and uh I'll uh pull out the wind artifact and I'll look to Renji and I just uh it wasn't meant to be.
01:37:02.800 --> 01:37:05.039
And I'll set the artifact down.
01:37:05.279 --> 01:37:10.560
And the words that you said guess it wasn't meant to be comes out.
01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:26.560
When you set it down, you suddenly feel something go up, and you see as it heads towards Drennor, a light, a barrier of light comes up and covers from the shrine to Drennor.
01:37:26.640 --> 01:37:29.359
You're no longer the wind guardian.
01:37:30.319 --> 01:37:36.159
The power is short-lived, but you did what you felt was needed.
01:37:36.399 --> 01:37:38.399
Then you hear something in your head, meant to be.
01:37:45.199 --> 01:37:50.319
You just follow the like the sound of where the voice came from.
01:37:51.279 --> 01:37:59.279
You turn around and you just kinda look, and you start to walk almost like as if something is pushing you that way.
01:37:59.520 --> 01:38:12.239
You walk past the statue, the dragon statue, and you find tuck, uh, like just pears down to the ground in the little corner, uh, what seems to be looks like a rapier of sort.
01:38:13.439 --> 01:38:14.479
I'll pick it up.
01:38:14.640 --> 01:38:20.000
As you pick it up, you hear the words, Aw man, you found me again.
01:38:20.399 --> 01:38:22.560
It's like you're always where you're meant to be.
01:38:23.920 --> 01:38:27.520
It's the sound of your little brother Kenneth as a kid.
01:38:33.279 --> 01:38:35.039
You take a look at the rapier.
01:38:35.279 --> 01:38:38.239
It's uh a slender rapier.
01:38:39.039 --> 01:38:41.520
It has uh it's made of silver.
01:38:41.920 --> 01:38:59.920
You see as uh faint threads of light runs along the length of the of the blade, the guard curves almost like a bow, and the hilt, it's like worn leather grip, and on the leather grip right there, you see the the name Ken and then Lee.
01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:03.600
You acquired Ken Lee, the Brotherhood Rapir.
01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:05.039
That's where we stop today.
01:39:05.199 --> 01:39:06.479
Oh my gosh, no one died.
01:39:07.119 --> 01:39:08.159
I predicted it though.