The Unwritten Favor Part 2: The Goodbye

0:03 Tonight's episode of Chris Heavens is sponsored by Scribe Quill. Miss a plot thread in your last session? Scribe Quills got you. Upload your TTRPG session recording and Scribe Quill transcribes it, turns it into an engaging recap, and narrates it with text to speech. Dial in the vibe with thematic background music and pick from a range of voices to match your world. Share it with your party and kick off your next session perfectly In Sync. Preserve the essence, keep the momentum. Search Scribe Quo and start recapping today. Scribe Quo. Remember better play faster. Last session the agents of the Syndicant identified 3 Oath Binder Borne plans burning across Zebulon's wall map Black glass Causeway, Cinder Reach Vault Frost line Watchtower.

0:52 After deliberation they chose Frost Line. Osisa urge restraint, and the agents agreed reports would remain minimal until they understood who or what was guiding these fractures in the Shatter Peaks. The land turned against them. A marrying drift warped snow into ground glass and bent light into false paths. Savara and Zebulon faltered under the strain. Mimi moved with lethal confidence. Osisa read the distortion and guided them through. At the base of the tower they met Nick's Ember Coil, a pink haired artificer whose nerves settled only after the ledger's were revealed. The final ascent demanded intent. The tower tested them, but the agents forced their way inside. Within Frost Line, heat surged through a rupturing Syndicate conduit.

1:42 Ward. Rains failed and burned like dying embers. The structure felt wrong, overheated, alive. Then footsteps echoed down the stairs. Neros emerged, calm, unhurried. Amber light threaded his gaze as the tower answered him. He spoke plainly. Frost Line was not a weapon. It was a message built to fail. And now, with the agents present, he intended to complete its purpose. And then he spoke the name they had avoided, Castella. With a casual gesture, she appeared at his feet, bound and bloodied. The room went still.

2:27 Negotiation collapsed towards violence. Mimi bared her claws and pleaded for Castella's release. Zebulon surge forward, lightning crackling as a duplicate snapped into place. Osisa struck with prayer laced light. Glaive advanced like an oncoming storm. Nero's answered without effort. He extinguished Glaive's guardian with a word. He bent the pulse of the tower to his will. When pressed, he struck once with final precision. Glaive fell lifeless. Time itself seemed to yield as Nero's laid out his terms one favor. In exchange for Castella's life, Magistrate Elvis Corin of the Dominion would be forced to deliver a full public confession. Crimes laid bare, names erased, forced relocations, sentences passed without trial.

3:21 The testimony would be heard by the victims, witnessed by the unwritten, and preserved only long enough to be used. Fulfill this, and Castilla would be freed from Nearest's mark. Refuse, and she would remain. The agents agreed. Nero's vanished. Moments later, Castilla lay at frost lines threshold, barely alive in the snow. Orion, she whispered through the pain, was safe. The agents carried her through a brief Rd. encounter and sought refuge at the Whisper Fane. From there they returned to Syndicate headquarters and demanded Glaive's restoration.

4:02 High Syndic relvain and the healers refused. They named Glaive an abomination. Resurrection was denied. Mimi's Ledger burned with censure. Trust revoked, resources stripped, rage nearly turned to bloodshed until Castella steadied her with glaves body claimed and the syndicates authority cracking, the agents turned their attention to the Dominion High Administration complex. Magistrate Corin waits there. Another fracture in the truth, and this one must be forced. Open stop write this story I don't need the allegory please just tell me what's real.

4:45 But nothing ever seemed to be real. But she's some colors that don't exist. Painting my painting counterfeit. Bless every truth I knew just starts to twist can from a calm in a world like this. My tongue to the world's been dry. We're my old like a sheep disguise. I see the truth when I close my eyes. The hardest part was a great goodbye. I'm fake the ache can master pain. I've been lost inside my name. All the mirrors look the same, but I don't see my face face well stop. I've been running every way lost the blast somewhere behind. Maybe peace was just a.

5:50 Welcome back Criticism to another episode of Crit Happens here on Spotify, iTunes, player.fmpoddirectory.com, stitcher.com, tuneinradioiheartradio.com, and SiriusXM Radio and pandora.com. We are back with another episode of Crit Happens. Let's go ahead and say hello to our agents. Say hello, agents. Hello. Hello Adrian, we have got a record 8 players today so we are going to have a lot of chaos and I am very excited. We welcome back after a week gone. Savara, welcome back.

6:33 Welcome back. We are also welcoming back first time in a couple weeks. Jean Harkham, Welcome back, my friend. Yeah, I'm very jealous. And I'm sure he'd be just fine if I said this. He went to a show at the Grand Theatre a few weeks ago where Stevo was at the Grand Theatre, and he got to take Stevo to Taco Bell. And if that's not a life story, I I don't know what is. I was. Kind of crazy about that. I would literally drop anything to, if Stevo came to me, he's like, hey, you want to go to Taco Bell? Yeah, I want to go to Taco Bell. It's crazy because like, I was, I was just like persistent, you know, I was like, I really get my crunch signed by Stevo.

7:15 Yeah, I'm on crutches right now. And so I ran into his. I believe it's his girlfriend, Coral. And she's like, yeah, I just wait out here. He's taking a shower or whatever. And he comes out, he's like, oh, he's gone because I was hiding like from the cold, you know what I mean? I was like, I'm not fucking gone. I like hobbled out there. He's like, hey, let's get on the bus where it's warm, man. Like, so I got on his bus. So we're just chatting for like 10 minutes. I'm like, all right, I'm going to take off. He's like, hey, matter of fact, you want to give me a, give us a ride to Taco Bell? I was like, yeah, yeah. What do you mean? That's not even a question. Get in the vehicle. We're going. He is super down to earth, though.

7:56 He, yeah. Like when it comes to like talking about life or whatever, he's, he's very, yeah, very kind, yeah. So yeah, everybody here at CRIT Happens, me especially, very jealous of you. And so. Yeah. And we also welcome in a brand new player today, her name, I'm sorry, their name is Veronica. You can go ahead and say hello, Veronica, welcome to Crit Happens. I am glad to friendly join. Yeah, yeah, we are very excited to have you. So yes, we will have you introduce your character just a little bit later, Veronica. So today we've got Harkum, Kazdea, Mini Osisa, Savara, Zebulon, and we also introducing a new character as well, played by Jesse after Glaive's unfortunate demise last week.

8:47 Why don't we start real quick and we'll have Jesse go ahead and give us kind of a little bit of a rundown. Your character's name, what can we expect? And you know, you can leave out as much as you want. Sure. So I'm playing a female Riftkin, which is a home brew race. Oh yeah. Her name is Slip. Her call sign is the Seam Walker. She's a monk primarily, that has a habit of not being where she's supposed to be and on the flip side, being exactly where she shouldn't be.

9:31 Oh boy. We'll leave it. We'll leave it mostly mostly with that. I love that. And I'll be honest, you know, I've, I've played DND outside of crit happens many times with Jesse. He's, you know, he is part of my family. And you've played a monk before and it's absolutely disgusting every time you play a monk. So I'm very looking forward to that. Yeah, she's got she's got some tricks up her sleeve. Yeah, yeah. We'll we'll say that so. She doesn't have sleeves, but she doesn't have. Sleeves. There's tricks there. Absolutely. All right, so let's go on and continue on with Part 2 of the Unwritten favor. So last we left our party, as you heard in the recap and again, want to give a quick shout out to Valky Nicks on Instagram and Twitter for the amazing job she did on our recap today. And I think moving forward we will be working with Valky Nicks in regards to that because it was amazing and I loved it. And props to you Valkyrie Nixon, if you are listening. Thank you so much.

10:36 So we will again last left our party just having been told that Glaive, as far as Syndicate is concerned, cannot be revived or resurrected. He is an abomination. He is half elf, half machine and something that should not be, should not even exist. So we last left our party with that Mimi had gone. I'm just going to say ape shit on a few different people and her Ledger has been restricted as she receives A censure. So we'll whoops, we'll explain what that means in just a just a few minutes, but we will start with the party now. We also have introduced kind of a new mechanic here as well. Party has spent the better part of a week really planning how they are going to be completing this quote UN quote favor for Neros.

11:43 And as far as the party is, as far as I've been informed by the party, they do have a plan to attempt one last resurrection enclave. We'll get to that in a moment and then they'll proceed to the action belt to detain Elvis Koran and bring him to neuros his location. So we will go forward with that plan and the consequences that may come with that choice. We'll see what happens. So we will begin back. And Savara, go ahead and take an inspiration for my DM tax. Appreciate that. Let's start with the party having returned to the Whisper Fang. It's been about about 24 hours since the events at Syndicate headquarters where Glaive was labeled an abomination, and I will let you all go from there.

12:52 Cesar. Yes. I think, I think we should lay him to sleep well. I don't know if we could bring him back fully. It's beyond my powers if we. Want to try? I know a few people outside of the syndicate who might be able to help us. But they might corrupt his soul. I don't, I don't trust it. Let's just, let's just let him to rest and let him sleep eternally.

13:36 I'm going to go to my room. I'll be back. Mimi's going to head up the stairs. OK. And what are the reps? Kazan's going to follow Mimi. OK. And I guess I'd be trying to nonchalantly get the group together and discuss like what are the next steps here? I still think we need Glaive back but probably can't handle that job myself. I hope you get glaive back.

14:20 OK, is there anybody else that would assist with a possible resurrection of Glaive other than currently Zebulon and Savara? I might, but I would want to ask. I think Harcum. I'd want to ask Harcum, since he knew Glaive better than the rest of us did, what he would think Glaive's wishes would be. Probably. Glaive was all about completing what he was asked of him. Before we move forward with that, Harkin, go ahead and give me an insight check, please.

15:05 Insight check. Let me find my 20. Scroll of the day. Inside, inside, inside. That's 1818. Yeah. So you, you have a very good handle on what Glave would have wanted. So go ahead. I would, I would think that he would, you know, he was always about like what needed to be done, what was asked of him, because he was part of the Syndicate, you know, that's, he was what, three years old? So a better part of what he knew, I would assume would be the Syndicate.

15:46 For what I knew of him. I didn't know much of him though. We weren't always together before what I knew. He just wanted to finish the mission. And the way he I see it, the mission is not quite finished. So Arkham has always been like an object of the soul, you know? So I would I would safer whoever was closest to him outside of combat would have a better understanding than me. I just know he was always mission driven. Mimi obviously has formed an attachment to him, but I'm unsure what what we can do.

16:38 It's beyond my powers and I I worry about what would happen if we try to bring him back. I don't know much about bringing anything back when I'm hurt, I just have an ale and some Stew when I feel better so. Yeah, it's only. Easy. I'll, I'll talk to. I would say let the let the people more in tune with their with themselves because I'm not all that touchy on these kinds of subjects. Not harvest, which is not touchy. Zebulon and Savara, what do you think? I know if I went out like that I would want someone to try to bring me back.

17:44 And as I said before, his his mission really wasn't over. Still isn't over. OK, so why don't we leave Zebulon, Savara and Harkum? Osisa, were you going up to see Mimi? Is that what I understood correct? Yeah, I, you know, when when Kezdea first followed her up, I kind of like looking, nodding like. Yeah, like I'll be up in a second kind of thing. Yeah, OK, understood. So yeah, we'll currently leave Zebulon, Savara and Harkum. We will follow Osisa, Castea and Mimi currently located.

18:30 Mimi currently located in her room, Kasdea just getting to her door with Osisa following kind of behind just a bit. I think Kasdea would knock on the door. Mimi will in the door like a little crack and go. Hey, Mimi. I understand. I understand how you're feeling. However, the party seems to think, at best, that Glaive comes home and home is not where you place him. Does that make sense?

19:31 Yeah, I guess it makes sense. Tell me why you're against this all of the sudden. I mean, I don't know, Do we die? Is it right for us to come back, or do we come back as something else? I can't answer that I have not died however slave is not like. Hey guys recommend.

20:19 Oh Sisa yes please opens up the door. I hope I'm not interrupting. No, look, I, I, I can tell you what's right here. I, I just know that Zebulon and Harcombe seem to think this would be a good idea, and Savara's on board. But I know you have thoughts on this, and I don't want you to feel like we're making a choice without your taking your your feelings into consideration. Both Osisa and Kezdea, can you give me an animal handling check please? Yep, I got a 17.

21:06 OK. I got a 21. 21 OK Mimi, you can reduce your tracker by two. Pull up my tracker. If I remember correctly, Mimi, you your tracker was at segment 7, so I think that would put you down to 5.

21:49 Yep. So let's say you are currently down to five. You're still pretty heated about the events at the Syndicate headquarters, but not so nearly as feral, I guess we'll call it, Or primal, but you're still pretty uncomfortable with what happened. Just don't like sent to the kid something something doesn't feel right, something my senses might be off. I have no idea what is going on currently, but I know one thing's for sure and that they. Aren't.

22:39 Being truthful. Who isn't? The syndicate, I mean, they do. I think they don't tell us the truth because they want to help protect us and protect our safety and the safety of others. But like, at what cost? It's my question. How long until the lies pile up so big that they suffocate us? I just. OK. Do you want to try to get him?

23:20 I do want Glave back. I do want him to be back upon this material plane. But we need to balance it. I don't know. It just feels like natural. Whatever, let's just do this fucking thing, Come on. Maybe he's going to stand up and get downstairs towards Zebulon and Savara to join in. Castea and Osisa go ahead and give me an insight check please. Yep, I got a 16 + 11. Nothing plus nothing. I got a 16.

24:04 Patty, you said 11, right? Yep. OK, 'cause they you get the feeling that Mimi, correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but Mimi's not necessarily being totally truthful about how she's feeling about now. This kind of 180 from not one to resurrect Glaive to now wants to resurrect Glaive. She's almost put up like a mask all of a sudden. Yeah, I'd say that'd be pretty accurate. Yeah. So we're just going to approach Debbie Lawn and just go.

24:44 All right, Zeb. Hello, Portos. Let's get this shit done. 'Cause they is going to kind of look at Osisa, shake her head and then head down the stairs. This is just going to quietly follow away. Well, she changed her mind. OK, Yeah, I'm. Going to begin preparing A teleportation circle. And as you are beginning to start that in walks a a female kind of unknown to you a bit. She, she doesn't look like, I mean, everybody can go ahead and give me a, let's do a group check for a, we'll say insight, insight.

25:56 Yeah, 13. 1417 I got an AT20. Yeah, you did. Yeah, my God is 17. OK, so you all know that this female customer, as we'll call her right now, is kind of unknown to all of you as far as who she is. She's very muscular. Her muscles are almost dense in a way that feels like impossible for her frame, but she looks perfectly ordinary until she moves and you notice the she's kind of walking into the bar. You won't notice like a faint, almost like an after image when they turn, pupils splitting briefly, like prisms. And she will walk up to the bar and she will ask to speak to the owner of the establishment.

27:19 I knew I should have hired some staff. Nebulon I. Don't have anyone to say that I'm busy. Nebulon, I'm going to stand directly behind you and you're going to walk as one. I don't like this. I get the feeling like you're a little bigger. Than I am but. For sure. Hark, Harkin looks at Harkin, looks at it like, aren't you? Aren't you a stout one? Where's the dude with the weird face? Yeah, I'm going to walk behind the bar and just say, what can I get you? Maybe he's going to sit on the like on the top of the bar next to the person and just watch.

28:05 So you're you're that Zeb person? That's me. All right, That's who I'm looking for. I think I heard you're in charge here. That is correct. I am the proprietor of this fine establishment. What can I get you started? With. No, sorry, I I meant in charge of this. And she kind of just kind of gestures to other people around you. Right, Zebulon's in charge. Of the customers, what are we talking about? Yeah. Can we get you something to drink or do you want something to eat? I mean, I serve a pretty good. They're looking for the.

28:47 Party oh OK, I'll. Think we've assigned a formal party leader? Oh well, which one? Have you decided that it was a good idea to stop liking the Syndicate? That'd be me. That'd be my fault. What about all the conversations that I just listened to where it was definitely not just you, I mean. We have some mixed feelings of the whole. I'm pretty sure it's kind of a mixed pot of like, I don't know when, man, fuck these people and they're OK. So yeah.

29:32 Kasde is going to kind of like Kasde is going to kind of walk over and look at this new person and go and who are you to question us? Well, I'm slip. People call me Seam Walker when they're both trying to be polite about the fact that I don't always stay where I should be or where the world puts me. You might not have heard of us, but I'm a Rifkin. Basically, that means that I learned early that reality has its soft spots. Doors aren't doors. Distance is a suggestion. Things get loud a lot, but I don't have to dodge a slip.

30:14 So you're saying that you're you're always where you're not supposed to be? Preferably. So you're not supposed to be here? Why are we talking Park? And park. There's a person of chance. And then we decide. Well, if you're not going to buy me a ale, I don't got any words for you. OK, our. Girl as he as he puts his empty drink horn on the on the bar well. Sure, I'll buy you a drink. Is everyone or? Person. I'll take one water for the short weirdo over here.

30:56 Oh. I said a ale. Oh, OK, don't call him short. First off, maybe he's going to stand up and just brush yourself off and go. OK, So what truly brings you here? Shifter or rift shifter, I guess. I don't precisely know why you're here or who you are, but you have wandered into our tab room. You have called my teammate short. Am I wrong? I prefer stubby. Sorry, Duffy, but if you're wondering what I want from this group, I suppose it's simple. I think we have a vested interest in our, we'll call it curiosity of the syndicate, you might say questioning. I have to.

31:49 Experience. I need you to come be diplomatic before I punch him in the face and maybe he's going to back up. But ultimately, I think we share a similar goal. So I suppose I'll say I want you alive for right now. Oh, for right now. Oh shit, not another person like this man. I'd like you pointed at the right targets though, and I want you to understand one rule about me. If if you try to reach through my hand, I won't disappear, but don't expect it to be there. OK, so like, what are we supposed to do in a situation where like, you need us to catch you if we're jumping?

32:29 That's how what? The fuck are we? Supposed to do let you fall in the face. I've never needed a baby call before. OK, Osisa, what do you think? Cassadea, Zebulon. Savara. Harkum. Osisa's just watching this in the background and like facepalming. Like why? Why are we doing my has? They is going to kind of look, slip up and down, then look at me, Migo, whatever, turn her on and walk through the corner. She's going to pull out her Ledger and she's going to write something down. Savara. I'm just like looking at her honestly. Savara blink.

33:11 Savara blink. What? What? Hi Muscles, I don't care, but I I take out my hammer and I start like kind of cleaning them down the. Belong, Spencer. I think if they wanted to cause trouble, we'd know it already. Yeah, if if you wish everybody can give me an an insight check on on slip Mimi. Mimi, let me have you make it with disadvantage because it feels like you are.

33:51 You made-up your mind already. I mean, yeah, I am uncomfy, that is true. I got an 18. Debbie, if you want to look at your messages. So I heard 1819. 13. 13 OK. Can I get a ale please, Zebulon? Here's a a light beer coming right up. OK. So with everybody's insight chicks, yeah, I mean, you get the you get the the feeling that Slip isn't it is both trustworthy and untrustworthy at the same time. Trustworthy in the ways that would benefit the party. Untrustworthy in the way that may also benefit the party, but also may not.

34:54 In a sense. Pretty much another troublemaker. I like Troublemaker, all right. Welcome aboard. I guess I'm glad to be here. Anyway, we were on the way out. I'm going. To return to setting up that teleportation circle. Where are we going? Give me just a second here and she'll pull a piece of charcoal and draw a line down each of her forearms. Just a straight line. OK, I'm ready. We're heading to the still cold.

35:40 My dark humor just kicked in. I got to stop. Zebulon, I am going to have you make me a, I'm going to call it a history check for you to effectively recall exactly where the still cold, the location you're going to in the still cold is located. OK, I think it's like one of two teleportation circles that I know. Oh, that's right. You did leave that teleportation circle there. I tell you what, go ahead and give it that check to be with advantage then, because you do have that circle there all. Right.

36:23 Oh yeah. 19 and 17 not bad. Oh yeah, yeah. You know exactly where it is. All right, kids, get in the bus. All right. That was a Miss Frizzle reference anyways. Squeeze eight of us into a 10 foot circle. Yep. Ethically. Harkum slams his beard, puts it on the on the bar and kind of like, squeezes in between people's legs, you know, underneath their arms. Because he's like 2 foot 11. I mean, you can like climb onto my back if you want, I don't give a fuck.

37:04 He just rides you in the battle. Yeah, Tessa Day and I have done that before. Actually. It was pretty epic. I. Told you he was short. Hey, Dubby. All right, so you all will. Blue Skidoo over to the Silent Vale Monastery via teleportation circle. The teleportation circle completes without sound. Light folds inward, cold replaces motion. Stone rests beneath your feet. Not frost, not ice, but more of a work stone, which old and patient.

37:50 The circle beneath you is carved hot, shallow, it's runes worn smooth by repetition rather than age. No glow lingers, no heat fades. The magic ends cleanly, as if it was never meant to be noticed. The air is thin and still. Each breath feels measured, counted and accepted. You stand within an open cloister of pale stone. Snow gathers at the edge of the courtyard but never crosses the inner ring. The wind moves above the monastery walls, never through them. Sound dies early here. Footsteps almost feel intrusive.

38:32 Black candles line the perimeter. None are burning high, but their flames are small and unwavering, waxes dripping inward, never outward. Beyond the courtyard rise the monastery halls. Tall, narrow window slits reveal darkness rather than light. Bells hang from stone arches, motionless. No rope can reach them. Everybody give me we'll do another insight check here please. Do I still have disadvantage? No. You said that you're we're essentially where we're at is made of stone, correct? That is correct.

39:16 Yeah. It's it's, it's very well made of stone. So can I use my stone cutting action this tremor sense? So that's more of an, that's more of a history check that would be more related to like the origin of stonework, not necessarily. No, it says. It says as a bonus action drain tremor sense with a range of 60 feet for 10 minutes. You must be touching a natural or stonework surface. You're right, I apologize, I was. I was looking at the 2014 version. Yeah, in tremor sense, you must be a stone surface.

39:59 The stone can be actually working. You suppose action and tremor sense would get you. Let's see here you can automatically pinpoint the location of anything that is in contact with the ground. So. Yeah, I mean effectively with your tremor sense, you know the location pretty much of every, every member of the monastery within the Silent Vale Monastery. Everybody else, go ahead and give me an insight check please. 5. 12/4. 1918. 15.

40:55 If if we were rolling I had a 20 anyway, so net. OK, So what you all can get the sense of is that you're you are expected. From the far end of the cloister, almost a single figure awaits. He does not approach, and he does not signal. The silence is beginning to deepen, as if the place itself is leaning in closer to listen to a conversation that may or may not happen. OK, so we're in another creepy cult space, right? Yep.

41:43 I've been here before though, and made a good deal with them before. So yeah, I'm going to put on the cracked porcelain mask that they gave me the last time I was here and step forward at the front of the pack. I'm going to follow closely behind you, club at the ready. So Zebulon, as you approach this single figure, this single figure is familiar to you, and you know this to be Aelfis Vero.

42:25 And he is. He stands alone at the edge of the ritual hall. There are no guards that follow him because none are needed. He is tall and spare. Years of cold have pulled the warmth from his skin. His robes hang in clean layers of white and ash, stitched without ornament. They do not move unless he does. His eyes are Gray and unfocused, not blind but more looking inward. They never linger on faces. They wave presents. His hands are bare.

43:05 The left palm blares a bears a black candle brand, carved deep and healed almost wrong. The scar is still smoldering faintly, as if heat remembers where it once lived. The air is no longer I'm sorry. The air grows even more quiet when he speaks, not softer, but quieter. Flame brassieres dim without command. Sound feels almost intrusive here. He he doesn't greet you. He acknowledges you. Every word that he says is good would be deliberate. Nothing is wasted. This is a man who has refused gods and has answered with silence.

43:54 Damn, where do I sign up? And he it Mimi, are you saying that out loud? No. Hell no. Thanks for the clarification. So as. I guess I would step forward and more or less pull Glaive out of my bag of holding. Say I brought something of a. An artifact that we need restored is. There anything? What is that? There's our fallen friend Glaive Slip. I do apologize. That is the purpose of our travel here. We have lost somebody who's dear to us and we wish to regain him.

44:38 I mean, so OK. And he he looks down at Glaive and kind of kneels down half on one knee and kind of hovers his hand over Glaive. And he takes a moment, closes his eyes, and then you feel almost a A rush of still and cold, and he looks up at you. Zebulon.

45:18 And he goes. The one you name Glaive is not dead. He he persists, almost bound that state is and he as he's saying this, he's kind of recoiling his hand. That state is forbidden. Here he is an echo nailed to iron the veil. How do? We free him.

46:00 The veil does not unmake such things. Steel remembers nothing, Flesh remembers too much. He, he holds both. However, I I will not light the flame for the purpose of resurrection on Him. And you set him free. You set his echo free back into the veil. It let him return like he doesn't have to come back and stand up.

46:45 I just, I just want him to be free of this plane doesn't deserve to be kept here. Mimi, give me a persuasion check. OK, I need to open my tablet, iPad kid activated. I got an 1870 + 1 boom. He yeah, he Alfis looks at you, Mimi, and kind of gestures to you to come forward towards Glaive.

47:34 I'll step forward towards glave. And he kind of looks up at you and my child. Please everyone, take a, take a knee, kneel. And I'll kneel. He places both of his hands over Glave and he he closes his eyes and his hands begin to turn a bluish purple as he begins to almost silently to himself, begin a a ritual.

48:20 And he'll turn his hands over and look up at you, Mimi. And he won't say anything, but he's almost gesturing with his hands to take his hands. I'll take his hands. So as you take his hands, you feel this surge of powerful arcane essence and Alefis begins to whisper to himself words that you can't understand. But as as the words are being said, you almost hear them echoing in your head and you almost find yourself give me a give me an insight check. 16.

49:22 You are chanting the the words along with him and they're they're exactly what he's saying. You don't know what it means but you almost find yourself like uncontrollably chanting along with him and speaking the ritual along with him. And as you 2 are speaking this ritual together, you see almost white essence kind of lifting off of Glaive and it's lifting towards both of yours, your hands. And as it reaches your hands, Mimi, you yourself, nobody else hears this.

50:12 You yourself here in the voice of Glaive. Just say thank you Mimi, I can be free. And the essence then leaves the hands and begins to float up and will disappear into the foggy afternoon sky. And Aelfis will release your hands, Mimi, and put his hands over Glaive one last time. And your wish has been granted.

51:02 He is free. I know he meant quite a lot to you, my child, but you may go forward knowing that he died protecting those close to him. And he will. Stand up, Zebulon. He'll look at you and he'll go. No, I know that Glaive meant a lot to all of you, but it's time to move on. It's time to go knowing that he will be there for you all, whether you can see him or not.

52:13 He is there. And Zebulon, he'll look at you again, knowing you the most, even though you have on the cracked mask, He, he knows exactly who he gave it to. He goes. Sebulon, my child. Neros will consume memory and everything. You are all for Elios's last hope to stop him.

53:01 So with that being said, everyone must be at their best. And he'll look back at you, Mimi. Because as he was grasping your hands, he felt the primal instinct still kind of raging inside you. And he'll put out his hand. My child, your Ledger please. I'll hand him my Ledger. And as you put the Ledger in his left hand, he'll put the right hand on top of the censure mark and you will all of you will feel almost a shockwave of a bolt of energy. And as he removes his hands that that black centre page is gone. I have spoken with High Syndic Relvain. You are all under immense pressure. That does not mean that you are untrustworthy. And then he'll look over at Slip

54:33 my child. Your name please? Hi, I'm Slip. I know you are new, this group of this band of misfits and adventurers. It may not seem like it right now, but they are trustworthy. And Mimi, he will hand you back your Ledger.

55:21 I'll take it. And. Say thank you. And he will say there is one other I know that can be of some help to you. She goes by the name Joanna. She's just a few hours travel from here between the borders of the Ashen Belt and the still cold, and he will kind of give you a a map of sorts to her location. She may seem untrustworthy, but I know for a fact she is not. I have sent word to High Syndic rel Vein and the curator. She will join and assist you under one condition. Neros must be stopped, otherwise we sacrifice everything we know in Verelios.

56:51 And with that, he will wave his hand and create a rune of sorts, and he will then take both hands and effectively blast it to all of you and all of you until the end of next session. We'll have effectively a permanent bless that you will be able to use until the end of next session. My children, please seek out Joanna, complete your mission, then stop near us and he will turn and face away from you, and he will disappear into the monastery.

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1:00:28 After just releasing the soul from Glaive's body, the ritual ends kind of without spectacle. No surge, no resistance. The quiet flame does not flare. There's only absence. Glaive has been released now as you have been told or have been given information to. There is somebody that the Silent Veil believes can assist you in your adventures and mission to stop Neros. So again, you've been given a map of the last known location of this target, I guess we'll call them. So what would you like to do from there? Mimi all.

1:01:24 Right, go ahead. Did Max just scream her name? Nah, I'm just going to stay quiet. Y'all. Mimi, I love it. I'm. Gonna so slip's gonna like nudge Zebulon this time and say who is that guy? He was one of the higher ups in the Silent Veil monks. Yeah, Silent Veil. I know them. I know them Now he's now. Now she'll she'll nudge Cass Day and say I don't know them. Good for you Cassia is going to walk up to me and just kind of take her hand and look up at her and just nod she's. Going to nod back.

1:02:21 Well, I guess. Oz. She's still staring at a space. When's her go? So what I will say is that because of the ritual, we'll call it you, we are going to set your tracker at 0. This was a very intense and almost stress and anxiety reducing moment for you, especially Mimi. Cathartic. Yeah, cathartic. Thank you. That's the word I was looking for. And so, yeah, you will.

1:03:02 You will be at the most piece that you've. You are so composed that you will you almost look like a completely different person than you did 24 hours ago. All right. US cat or. That's pretty funny, dude. Ah, all right. So before before we leave, it takes out a hand axe and he because he has like braids in his hair, he cuts off one of the braids and pulls out a flyer that Glade gave him at the beginning trying to recruit and kind of wraps the flyer in the braid and sticks it in his hand. Says his mission is over.

1:04:00 He walks away. Yeah. So as long as. He's going to, oh, go ahead. Sorry. Yeah, I was going to say, as all of you begin to turn and leave, you do see Harkum complete that and lay that on top of the body of Glaive and almost have a just a moment to himself and Patty. Osisa, were you going to do something as well? Yeah, yeah.

1:04:40 So I just grabbed onto my amulet of Shantaya and bowed my head in a quick quiet prayer for for Clave soul and and to watch over him. And then, you know, take a deep breath and walk away. So as Harkum and those he said kind of say their last goodbyes to Glave as the rest of you have, they will turn and join the party as well. As you begin to leave the monastery and head towards this unknown adventurous last known location. And as you begin to turn away, the air begins to ease just a just a bit. Each step carries less weight than the one before. The veil, although with you, does not follow. Cold returns as you depart the inner grounds. Wind reasserts itself beyond the walls, snow resumes its slow advance, and the silent veil recedes behind you, unchanged. Travel north has ended.

1:05:48 Travel South now begins. Ice begins to fracture into stone. White begins to give way to ash. The border between the still cold and the Ashen Belt is not marked by walls or banners. It's marked by breath. Frost leaves the air. Heat answers in return. Snow begins to thin into steam along blackened rock. The ground here remembers fire and as and I assume Zebulon, you'd be kind of leading the charge.

1:06:30 Is that correct? I'm not like the best outdoorsman here, I don't think. Sure, who would want to? Is anybody? Else good at survival or. Mummy Savara. I'm I'm good at survival too, so. What's happening to sorrow? You want to. You're leaving the pack. Sure. Fuck yeah. Sure, with Harkins. The Harkins got survival. I got +5 to survival. Yeah, me too are. You in the front. All right, So I mean you 2 can kind of work in tandem here. So if you both want to give me a quick survival check. All right, Yeah, I do have proficiency in survival, so. Remember the thing I said about me rolling that? So great.

1:07:23 How about a 10? What a 19? That'll do it. So as you are both work together in tandem, leading the party to this location, you encounter a a lone figure waiting near a broken Obsidian rise where frozen earth is beginning to meet scorched stone cloaked against both climates. Almost still and deliberate.

1:08:04 They don't signal your arrival, but they don't hide it either. She's they're almost watching the line between regions as if measuring it. And when they turn to look at you, their eyes kind of track you one by one, counting who arrives and counting who didn't. And we will welcome Veronica's character to the table. Her character's name is Joanna. So if you want to introduce your character real quick and welcome aboard. Yay.

1:08:49 So Johanna is a the dark high rogue. She has been wandering for a little bit and she kind of looks like it. She has a black cloak that she always has on while travelling. The hood's up kind of hiding her black hair, white stripes. If you want to know what her eyes look like, look up a picture of a Philippine tarssier. Don't ask me to pronounce that it's a little monkey because of what she is inherently. Her skin is like kind of this medium shade of Gray, some darker areas where there might be veins.

1:09:41 And she's. She's quiet and she's watchful. Yeah, there's a sword on her hip, a staff on her back, and that's about all that can really be seen from underneath her cloak. Sure. So. Right. So so as she again be kind of tracks you 1 by 1 again kind of measuring who's arriving. And she almost has this look on her face that says good. No warmth, no judgement, only confirmation. Neros is moving.

1:10:39 The wind is shifting. Ash begins to lift somewhere deeper in the Ashen Belt. Fire is almost answering the call, and the favour continues. So from there, your next mission would be to arrive at the location of the Dominion High Administration Complex where you know Elvin Korth to be located at. Now I am going to charge you, Veronica. This will be new to you. I am going to be charging you guys a travel encounter.

1:11:22 So with you being the most new person to the campaign, why don't you go ahead Veronica, roll me AD 20 please. Oh fuck up. I'm joking, I don't. Know I I blame you. Let's do. Roll the two. All right, so. Oh. Shit guys, I should never open my job ever again. So with A2, as you are travelling together and we will do a little bit more introduction within each other in just a bit, But as you are all beginning to interact with Joanna and an obelisk almost appears to be standing half buried in ash and frost.

1:12:31 It's narrow Blackstone seamless. No markings announced ownership quite yet, but the geometry almost seems familiar with this. Anybody who would wish to do so? I'm going to have one player do this. I'm going to need an Arcana check. I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. I'm going to make this a check of any one of the five Arcana.

1:13:14 Sorry, Arcana, Religion, Investigation, Stealth or Survival all. Right. Who's that? Just the. Best I. Have. A big stealth stat. Oh. My. God I got a + 11 stealth too. I have a + 7 with proficiency so. It's 11 roll. I've also got so much stuff that like empowers stealth that can be invisible at will. Yeah, Zeb, it's probably you. OK, so go ahead and Zeb, give me a stealth roll. Can you be invisible and does it get advantage? I'm going to say no because the the object itself isn't necessarily.

1:14:11 Pause Cassadee House plus 12. Back it up. Well, we're all the 28. OK. That's great. That's Christ. It's going there. That works. So with a freaking 28, you kind of move in towards the the stone. There's no signal, no flourish. You kind of study the obelisk almost without looking at it directly. Each movement you make is deliberate, weight placed, nothing dragged. The detection radius of this obelisk is there.

1:14:53 It's almost designed to catch certainty and not caution, but you never give it either. Almost. That'd be you guide the path for the party with very small motions. Pause here, wider step over there. The party's following in your wake, feet landing almost where yours were already. The obelisk does not stir. No warmth, no pulse. When you clear the far edge, the pressure almost seems to fade in the sense of being measured in watch slips away. Behind you the stone stands completely unchanged, almost unaware that you had crossed its path.

1:15:36 And for now, this route will stay clean. So very good job Zebulon saved us an encounter. All right. So from there you are about, I will say 2-3 hours journey from where you know the Dominion High administration complex to be. We press on. What are we doing when we get there? Pause. I think investigating I guess.

1:16:19 Yeah, I guess. Getting the lay of the land to. Start. Yeah, we are, we are, we are we being a little rats or are we Norman the castle? Is this like a town where, yeah, common folk are just out and about, or are we going to like a military complex sort of thing? Where the fuck are we? Yeah, you're you're effectively going to the I I hesitate to call it the headquarters of the Dominion of Fall Reach, but that's pretty much what it is. So. Then yeah, we would slow down and approach with stealth caution for. Sure. Or we could approach with confidence maybe, like we'd like to speak to your Sergeant or something, but it depends you. Want to sneak in?

1:17:07 I like that approach. Or. Do you want to strut up and strut our shit? I think strutting our shit would be a bad idea. OK, Elsie said. You want to sneak in then, not. Like a with. Your chained armor. OK, I I, I, I. I was. I was with the confidence vote, but that's just me. Well, I mean, we haven't any previous chat, the stuff about how heavily guarded the tower that inn is in, I don't know if the rest of the area is that guarded.

1:17:49 So if we go around and now see that we're syndicate demanding, demanding to talk to leadership, I think we might get a lot of negative attention, OK. Yeah, OK, OK, cool, cool, cool. So you say you blew the charge, then let's roll. I'm not that sneaky. Well, what if they want us to do? Fucking write him a letter and send it up. Well, let's let's scoop out an. Official deal on it. I forgot what the plan was guys. OK, let's go. OK, so I'm understanding the party is selecting the option to get the lay of the land and do a little bit of investigation before we we go balls to the walls in there, correct. OK.

1:18:42 That's my vote, yes. So 1 by 1 I will ask you how you would like to do this and how you will be completing your check. This will be a group check, but done individually, which I promise makes much more sense in my head than you think it does. So we will be doing one of the five checks that I have just put in chat. Stealth, Perception, Investigation, Arcana, or Insight. I will go one by one through each character. You'll tell me which check you will be making and how you will be making that, how your character will be expressing that check by the by their actions. So we will start with Zebulon.

1:19:32 Go ahead and pick a check and kind of describe how you do that. So absolutely going with stealth because again, I've got the huge numbers for that. I also have invisibility that I could apply to more than one of us, so if somebody else needs a boost for stealth. Rogues or wait, where am I Osisa? In addition to that, I've got a handful of control spells, like suggestion. If we run into somebody, I can tell them to go away, Jedi Mind Trick style. So yeah, that's what we're starting with.

1:20:12 OK, go ahead and give me a stealth check. I rolled A1 so I got a 12. I can re roll a failed check either. I think I've got like a syndicate boon that lets me re roll a correct? Yeah, you still have that boon, so you can burn it and I would maybe suggest. Doing that, try that one again. This time I got a 19. Perfect. All right. And then I also understand that you are applying to your, you're applying invisibility to yourself and OSISA, correct? Yeah, I could apply it to up to like three other people without dipping into important spell slots. Oh, sure.

1:21:00 Do you want to do it on anybody else or just Osisa? Whoever needs it, essentially. I mean we could only use our ledgers as I. Say, I thought our ledgers had something that could help us. With invisibility. There's there's some stuff. We must take a quick pause to say hello to our official mascot, Miss Mabel, who is on Discord. Hello Miss Mabel, we are doing we are doing the big bad stuff. So everybody's going to get a + 1 to their role because you are the best girl.

1:21:58 Let's go. Yeah. Also my role. Wait before does it? Come a 30. 20 Animal Break. Is a 3020. Had a boy. Also, the question about the Oath binder's Ledger, you do have one charge of visibility. Maybe. So are you going to use Zebulon? Are you still going to stick to using your my? Dog is. Going to take. That cat power or no, should we all use our ledgers? Yes, again, I can apply it to three people without much cost.

1:22:39 I mean, because if then if I can't, I would, I would choose to use that and then have my Ledger available for use later, yeah. Yeah, OK. Absolutely. Still an option? OK. So I've heard so far just OC stuff for invisibility. Are we doing anybody else? I would add me on under Zebulons. Right and. Then one more person I think should use it so that you still have it. Who is the least healthy? Me. It might be you. I have a + 7. That yeah, it's guys put me. Under there.

1:23:20 Maybe what you got? All right. My stealth. Do you want to know what my stealth stat is? Guys, Are you ready? That's it. Oh, so I need to put our tablet. Oh plus 7? Never mind. Yeah. OK. So you're right there with hard. All right. No, but I will take the invisibility. I'll take the free invisibility. Hello, it's not a bad idea. Hello why am I helping? Does anybody else have under A7? Why am I helping? Does anybody else have under A7 and stuff? No. OK, then that's where we're going.

1:24:02 OK. All right. So Cisa, Savara and Mimi on top of Zebulon will have invisibility on them. So Zebulon will return to you with your role. Next we will go to Savara. You can go ahead and tell me which check you'll be making, how you'll be doing that. So I'm doing perception. I like I'm a center kind of like information gathering, right? Like we're just kind of walking around at first just to see. Yeah, we're still. Yeah. So I am going to do it once invisible and I'm going to be looking around looking for like entry points and seeing how many people just I mean, one using my background in in military and whatnot, just looking for guards and and things and places that I know would be strategically advantageous, if that makes sense. You got your.

1:24:55 Boots of Elvin kind too, so you could get up close. As long as you don't touch them, they probably won't know you're there. OK, Savara, go ahead and give me perception roll with advantage, please. OK, I've already rolled one. Let's do it again 24. All right, we'll come back to you in just a moment, Slip. I'm rolling one of those things. Yes, one of those 5. 21 and.

1:25:38 What are you doing? Oh, stealth. Stealth. OK, you wrote a 21. I'm. Sorry, I wrote a sleight of hand. Hold on. It's the same thing. It's the same box. Yeah. Anyone. You said 21, correct? Yeah. OK, What exactly is your character doing with stealth? Whatever Zebulon did, he seems sneaky, and that's what Slip will do. All right, then we will go to OSISA. What would you select and how would you be doing? That I would be picking Arcana and I'd be looking for like identifying magic spells or you know, protections that they have upwards and whatnot.

1:26:31 Well, as well as lore and history of those type of things. Along obviously with the invisibility I've got going on. So Yep. So you can go ahead and give me an Arcana role with advantage please. With advantage, yes. Are you sure? Never mind, I'll just take it. Invisible. We've got time to get a good look. Just say 40. 30. 030 Jesus Christ, I was like, how on God's green earth did you roll a 40? Yeah, I got a + 9 on Arcana and then plus one for the good dog go.

1:27:11 Yeah, so. All right, all right. We will come back to you. Mimi, what will you be doing and how would you accomplish that? I Oh my God, brain. Work. So I am going to use myself a kind of like scope out as we, we're looking for entrances, but I want to scope out exits and points of weakness.

1:28:01 Like if we were to try to, you know, schmooze our way in, it would be the weakest target as a predator. That's what I'm looking for. Beautiful. All right, go ahead and give me a stealth check with advantage, please. All right. Right, that is a. 25 OH. All right, Castea.

1:28:45 Yeah, I think I'm going to be doing stealth because I'd be stupid to not. I think Kazaa's going to be sneaking around in the shadows, just watching people, watching their movements, watching for like kind of like Savar, what what Savar is doing, watching for entry points. So. OK, go ahead and give me a stealth stealth roll, please. OK. I got an AT20 again with a plus one that's 21 plus my stealth that's 33. What?

1:29:32 You heard me 33, and if you need a photo of that 20 I can send it to you, OK? Oh damn. Thank you. Thanks for hearing me. We'll come back to you hot. Hot. All right, Johanna, let's have your first check of the campaign. What will you be doing? Go Johanna. Johanna's gonna also be doing stealth and she's in the silent. Gonna be listening for maybe anything unfamiliar or other voices outside of the groups along with looking along the edges for cracks or paths a little less taken that might be able to get us in or around a little quieter. OK, go ahead and give me a stuff check please. OK.

1:30:33 Drum roll. 25 add. A girl. All right, all right, Roll 5. All right, we'll come back to you, Harkham. Well I am going to have to do stealth because everything else is +0, but I would like to use the daily charge for the invisibility from the Ledger and also I would like to use my tremor sense. I'm assuming that we're on like stone of some sort.

1:31:19 Yeah, I would say you are. So what I will say is I will give you advantage on the stealth and any check that you will have that is regarding any sort of investigation or perception in reference to locating specific individuals and their current whereabouts in the complex, you will have advantage on. So if you want to just write that down and if I forget, just remind me, OK. But yes, so how would your character be using stealth?

1:31:59 So he'd be kind of like, you know, since he can feel movement in non movement through the stone structures, you know, So he'd be like trying to sense like weak spots in like the walls or like where like there's passages and things like that kind of sticking to where he knows there's no movement and there's no living entities. So I'm going to actually charge you an investigation check for that because that's more you're looking, you're investigating areas that would be able to be used as an exit strategy or some form of maybe an entrance strategy or keeping quiet places you would know that aren't being used so well. So yeah, I'm going to have you give me actually an investigation check.

1:32:53 OK. Would that be with or without advantage? Yeah, you'll have advantage on that. Yep. OK. And to be 100% honest with you as kind of Adm, you know, nudge, I don't know if necessarily the invisibility charge is necessary because you have an advantage of the tremor sense, but that's up to you. If you, if you want to be invisible during this first portion, that's that's completely up to you. I just want to, I don't want to see everybody burn their invisibility. I won't right away. I won't use it then though. I'll I will, I will. I roll the 15 and a 19 with the plus one that's a 3020 is a 30.

1:33:33 20 All right, tremor sense you roll the 3020. All right, so with all of your checks in Jesus Christ, you guys nailed this one. All right, so Zebulon, you will almost fade first invisibility settles clean, No shimmer, no distortion. You are moving with the discipline of someone who knows the cost of being seen.

1:34:15 You begin tracing patrol routes by absence and not presence. Guards step where they always have, never early, never late. You're mapping gaps measured almost to the heartbeat. You're marking where eyes never seem to linger, and you signal silently which paths are open. Savara with Perception, 24 with advantage. You're not so much watching guards, you're watching patterns. Traffic that's moving without or moving with purpose. Administrators entering through the east tier.

1:34:56 Armed purse, Armed personnel cycle from the lower annex of the complex. Spellcasters seem to almost avoid the main doors entirely, and you also identify with your 24 specific choke points where corridors narrow and ceilings are almost lower, almost like a kill zone built for containment, not defense. Guards overlap sight lines at three key junctions. None are overlapping. This place expects almost intrusion, and it expects order slip. With your 21 stealth roll, you're kind of following Zebulon's shoulders.

1:35:42 You're almost mirroring his movement without almost without copying it. Where Zeblon's moving clean you, you adapt. You're watching reflections and polished stones. You confirm the blind spots that Zebulon finds. No one notices the absence of noise. Osisa with your goddamn 30. In Arcana you can absolutely feel wards before you even see them. They're layered, not heavy, not crude, but spells. Spell origin Tracers bind to the floors and the wall, but not the air. Casting here would leave a signature. Every spell is remembered in these wards.

1:36:25 You also identify suppression glyphs tuned to teleportation and almost Planer breach. There's no full null zones, but instead more delay zones, enough to trap and almost to isolate. This is more administrative magic, Precise, patient and controlled Mimi with your 25 stealth roll with your advantage, you're moving directly towards the exits. You're testing doors almost without touching them. You're counting steps between corners, measuring how long it takes for guards to pass and not return.

1:37:05 You find 2 viable escape routes, one that is vertical, one that's through a service corridor used by scribes and never directly guarded. The fastest exit is not the safest. The safest exit you think is almost slow Tasdea with your natural 2033 in total. Go to hell. You disappear completely. People are moving past you, close too close, but none react. You're studying faces who enters tense, who enters relieved, who never leaves at all. You're marking the individuals who carry the authority without Insignia.

1:37:45 You assist Savara, confirming rotations. No deviation, no fatigue. Dominion discipline seems to always hold. Joanna 25 and stealth you're working the edges of the complex. You're listening more than you look. You're hearing hearing whispered orders carried through stone channels, identifying accents that don't belong to local staff. She find or you find almost like narrow service gaps in between the structures. Old build seems enough for entry and even maybe for escape. You flag down 1 route. In particular use the you flag 1 route that's used only during shift change.

1:38:32 This complex has scars and they were never truly sealed. Harkum with your investigation. Is a dirty 20. You kneel and stone speaks to you. Footfalls are almost echoing through the through the floor. Heavy where soldiers move, light where administrators move. Silence beneath The West Wing. Too clean, no living movement, no heat, no vibration whatsoever. You find hidden sub levels by almost just by absence alone. Old passages that were sealed but still hollow.

1:39:15 This is a space where the Dominion do not walk. So as a group result this was a complete success. You have a full functional map, patrol, timing, ward structure, entry points, exit routes. The Dominion has not noticed yet. You are standing at the edge of action with knowledge in your hand. The next move is your choice. And with that we are going to say goodnight and stop there on this episode of Crit Happens.

1:40:00 Very nice, everyone, Very, very nice. Whoa, wait. Any chance we could get all that in chat? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I will. I'll get all that. Yep, Yep, I'll get all that for you guys. So you guys? Yeah, I was like trying to take notes. I'm like, Oh my God. He. Started on my part and they went. Oh. Oh, oh, oh. Crap. It was absolutely finding a gift while you said my sexy. Yeah, it started. With I'm not when you when you guys got Zebulon roll, I also got a Nat 20. At that moment I would have had 32 and I was just laughing and I sent Katie a message says yeah, I rolled a Nat 20 on that, which is the reason that when I rolled another Nat 20 just started laughing. I started to sweat when he said investigation. I was like, Oh my God.

1:41:00 Yeah, the whole. List, except for stealth was. Either -1 or 0 for me. Yeah, my whole list is 0. Except for self today and I don't any plus anything to insight. I knew I wanted a perception anyways, so I didn't. Oh again. Well. There's something you have done with that. Mathematics. I would have loved that. I have a + 10 to athletics. OK. How's your talk? I'm here. I have more efficiency on like Insight and Perception as well. Stealth is just higher. Yeah, yeah, yeah 'cause I have. What is it?

1:41:43 I have +8 to Perception, plus 9 to Investigation and plus 8 to Acrobatics. Heck yeah. So. Well, let's stop echoing. To be honest, I can make a giant fish or in the wall and you can just go. Let's talk about that on that 20 and on wine. But for now, we are going to say goodbye here on Crit Happens. Thank you so much for listening here from everybody here at the P3 Podcast Network. I am Spencer Hart and we will see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye. But she's in colors that don't exist, painting my painting counterfeit this every truth I knew just starts to twist can from a calm in a world like this. I've been my tongue till the words went dry Where my old black achieved disguise.

1:42:40 I see the truth when I close my eyes. The hardest part was a great goodbye and fake the ache and master pain. I've been lost inside my name, all the mirrors.