4.24: The Promise of Power

[00:00:00] Speaker A: 3, 2, 1. [00:00:03] Speaker B: One day I'll clap like a normal person. [00:00:06] Speaker C: You only have five more chances. [00:00:09] Speaker B: I clapped like a toddler. I don't know why. There's been exactly one time, even when I was DMing when I did Goat Crashers, I was just clapped like a little monk. Like simple monkey. [00:00:22] Speaker C: I think that would be a good, like, rebrand. No more ghosts. Just a little symbol. [00:00:28] Speaker A: Monkey symbol. [00:00:30] Speaker B: I like my brand. Thank you very much. [00:00:47] Speaker C: We're recording this on a World Sea World. Ocean animals. So I think. What's everyone's favorite ocean animal? [00:00:57] Speaker D: Sea otters count as our icebreaker. [00:01:00] Speaker C: Yes. [00:01:00] Speaker D: Sea otter slay. [00:01:02] Speaker B: I like turtles. [00:01:03] Speaker C: Turtles. Cute. [00:01:05] Speaker E: I'm a coral guy. I love you. [00:01:07] Speaker B: Cool. [00:01:09] Speaker E: Supporting our ecosystems. [00:01:11] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. That's what World Ocean Animal Day is all about. I read the whole. [00:01:16] Speaker B: I don't know. That had the same energy to me as I got a rock. [00:01:23] Speaker C: Coral's way cooler than rocks. [00:01:25] Speaker B: Stupid. [00:01:25] Speaker C: Igneous rocks. Just kidding. Igneous rocks. I'm sorry. I love you. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Igneous is cool as volcano rocks. You take that back. [00:01:34] Speaker C: Coral is cooler. That's all I'm saying. [00:01:36] Speaker B: Yeah, because coral's alive. [00:01:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Instantly cooler if it's alive. [00:01:42] Speaker B: Well, because if you see, if you did, like, it just looks like a bunch of little alien dudes. It's cool. [00:01:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:01:49] Speaker D: When I. I was at an aquarium recently, and this aquarium included a spotted cusk eel. I had to really, really enunciate that. [00:02:02] Speaker A: That's my new vocal warmup. [00:02:04] Speaker E: Spotted cusk eel. Spotted cusk eel. Spotted cusk eel. [00:02:09] Speaker C: Red leather. Yellow leather. [00:02:12] Speaker D: But the funniest thing is that they like to bury their bodies in the sand so that just their head sticks out, except their heads make it look like they're dead. So I was walking past this exhibit and laughing, and a woman comes up behind me and says to her partner, they're like the possums of the ocean, and I think everyone should go and look up a picture of a cusk eel right now. A spotted cusk eel. That is your homework. Because it is a so funny. [00:02:47] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. They're so ugly looking. [00:02:49] Speaker D: So ugly. [00:02:51] Speaker B: So ugly. [00:02:52] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:02:53] Speaker C: What if I made an eel that was so bad? [00:02:57] Speaker A: I like jellyfish. I wish they didn't sting you because it is so disappointing. But these. The aquarium closest to where I live has a tiny, like. Like baby jellyfish that are, like, maybe the size of my pinky nail. Like, they are so small, and they live in this little tank that, like, circles the water because they can't swim very fast. And they just get to, like, hang out in a big circle and it's really cute. [00:03:28] Speaker B: Does the aquarium near you have a fucking ikaranji? What the fuck? [00:03:32] Speaker C: I don't know what that is. I'm sorry. Not one. [00:03:34] Speaker B: It is a. It is a. It is a tiny jellyfish that lives in. Off the coast of Australia. Because of course it does. And it is about the size of a pinky nail. It is nearly transparent, and it is so fucking deadly. [00:03:48] Speaker A: No, these are just baby. I think they're baby moon jellies. [00:03:52] Speaker E: They're like, raising jellyfish. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Yeah, they have, like, a lab. It's really cool, where they can, like, take care of all the animals and stuff. But they have these, like, tiny, tiny, tiny baby jellyfish that I think are moon jellyfish because those are the other kind that they have in the actual. Like in the other aquarium, they have adult versions of that. So they have, like, the tiny baby ones. [00:04:15] Speaker C: Greece. I'm blown away by your knowledge of jellyfish. The way you just pulled that one out. That was incredible. [00:04:21] Speaker B: I've known about that. I hyper fixated so fucking hard on Animal Planet and Planet Earth and Blue Planet when I was a kid. [00:04:28] Speaker C: I love that for you. [00:04:29] Speaker B: The amount of times that I have seen Planet Earth in a little bit upsetting because we had a DVD box set and my brother and I watched it all the fucking time. [00:04:39] Speaker C: I just love animal documentaries in general. I just think they're all so good. But I especially love. Oh, I'm gonna give it the wrong name, but there's this one that I was watching. It's called, like, World of Color, and it's all about animal coloration and stuff. It's very cool plugging that. I'm sure they don't need me to, but if you want something good, it's really good. [00:05:01] Speaker B: But yeah, with the Ikaranji jellyfish, if you go to any of the barrier islands in Australia or even the Gold coast, they have warning signs for that fucking jellyfish everywhere because you can't see it. [00:05:14] Speaker C: Whoa. [00:05:15] Speaker E: That's wild. [00:05:16] Speaker C: I love that. [00:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:17] Speaker C: I'm gonna send a picture for my buddies here of my favorite ocean creature. For the moment. I like, switch it up every once in a while, but right now. And the two that fluctuate first place are the whale shark, which I love always, and the blenny. It's a kind of fish. And they're so funny looking. Like, that is the perfectly named creature. They have, like, really googly eyes. They're really vibrant colors sometimes. Sometimes they're boring colors, but that's okay. And they like smile if you look at them head on. I have to find there's a very particular Blenny picture that. It just, just means so much to me. [00:05:58] Speaker B: I do like skaters, which are those really, really big. Not jellyfish, like the giant fucking stingrays that they put in the shark tanks mostly because if you go to an aquarium that has like a shark tunnel and they sit on top, they are just. You do just get to see little face. He's really cute. We went to SeaWorld once and my mom just watched me hyper fixate over the sawfish that were hanging out on the top. [00:06:24] Speaker C: Oh, they have such weird noses. [00:06:26] Speaker B: They got. They're weird little dudes. And my mom was just like, I didn't realize you liked sharks this much. And I was just like, honestly, I didn't even realize I knew this much about sharks until now. [00:06:36] Speaker D: I also. [00:06:37] Speaker C: There's just so. [00:06:38] Speaker D: Oh, sorry. [00:06:39] Speaker B: You're so cute. [00:06:40] Speaker C: No, I was just wigging out. I just like fish. [00:06:43] Speaker D: I also really like moss crabs. I think that if Ben were a sea creature, he would be a moss crab. [00:06:52] Speaker E: I appreciate that. [00:06:54] Speaker B: That's so specific. I love it. [00:06:56] Speaker D: It's because my. [00:06:57] Speaker E: Oh no, those are decorator crabs. [00:06:59] Speaker D: No, the moss crabs are here. There's some pictures that I took at the aquarium I went to that my roommate and I were like, this is Ben. So let me. Great, I'll send. [00:07:12] Speaker B: Oh, that is Ben as a crab. [00:07:14] Speaker C: Actually, I also love lumpfish. [00:07:17] Speaker B: Those are so. [00:07:18] Speaker D: Lumpfish are great. [00:07:20] Speaker C: It's the perfectly named creature. Oh, I open discussion. How do we feel about mola mola or sunfish? I know Ben's opinion on them. [00:07:28] Speaker B: They're so stupid. They're fucking dumb. [00:07:32] Speaker A: No, they're fucking dumb. [00:07:37] Speaker C: I know, but I like them anyway. [00:07:40] Speaker E: I do like. [00:07:41] Speaker D: Oh my gosh. No, I love them. Sunfish. [00:07:45] Speaker E: No, jade sunfish are the find the path of fish. [00:07:49] Speaker D: No, they're not. [00:07:50] Speaker C: Don't dare trigger me. [00:07:52] Speaker E: They are. They literally don't do shit. They just go. [00:07:58] Speaker C: No, they are good for the ecosystem. [00:08:01] Speaker B: I feel no pity for the sunfish that was so depressed that they had to put standees in front of its tank. [00:08:08] Speaker C: I'm sending a picture of a sunfish. Spoilers because of the sunfish Gore. [00:08:12] Speaker B: Wait, what is sunfish? I know. What is this fish that looks so alarmed about how blue he is? [00:08:18] Speaker C: It's a lump fish. [00:08:20] Speaker B: That's a lion. [00:08:22] Speaker C: Yes, they also orange. But this is a really funny picture to me of a sunfish getting. [00:08:29] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:08:29] Speaker C: Cuz they don't Give a by a sea lion. [00:08:34] Speaker B: They're so stupid. [00:08:36] Speaker D: I just. [00:08:36] Speaker B: These fish are so dumb. [00:08:38] Speaker D: I just like the sunfish and animal crossing. [00:08:40] Speaker B: Oh, so that's why it's still a dumb fish. [00:08:43] Speaker D: Dumb fish are allowed to. Fish are allowed to be dumb. Six level spells that require concentration are not allowed to be dumb. [00:08:49] Speaker B: You know what's a really cool fish that I never want to see in real life because it's really scary looking actually. Motherfucking oarfish. These are 12ft long. No, it's the same thing with like Atlas moths. I will appreciate and think Atlas moths are the coolest thing in animal crossing. If I saw an atlas moth in real life, I would scream bloody murder. [00:09:11] Speaker A: Like. [00:09:13] Speaker B: I would be so upset if I saw an atlas moth in real life. If a 12 inch moth was sitting on my screen, I would be very not okay. [00:09:24] Speaker C: Oh my gosh. I have to look. [00:09:26] Speaker B: I don't like creatures that are larger than what I perceive that they should be. [00:09:30] Speaker E: Atlas moths. [00:09:31] Speaker D: They're beautiful. [00:09:32] Speaker C: I was named the moth queen at a summer job. [00:09:36] Speaker A: That makes a lot of sense. Meg. I love it. [00:09:39] Speaker C: You can't see me because my camera's off. I do have little cartoon hearts spawning from my head as I look at moth pictures. [00:09:45] Speaker B: Yeah, like I can handle spiders really, really well up until they are a certain size. [00:09:49] Speaker A: I do think all spider. I'd be fine if I never saw a spider in my life ever again. Me too. [00:09:54] Speaker D: It'd be cool. [00:09:54] Speaker A: I'm fine with that. [00:09:55] Speaker B: I'd be okay without anything that can jump. We had, we had like spider crickets in my basement as a kid. Fuck those things. I don't like shit that can jump at me. [00:10:05] Speaker E: Spider. [00:10:05] Speaker B: Spiders just crawl. You know what you can do with something that crawls? You can just scoot it out the way. Oh, you want to if you, if you want a really dumb looking bug because they come in a lot of really funny looking shapes. Look up treehoppers. [00:10:18] Speaker C: Tree hopper. [00:10:19] Speaker B: They're really silly and I always love them. [00:10:22] Speaker C: Have you ever seen a long necked weevil before? [00:10:25] Speaker B: A giraffe and I can do without actually. I know treehoppers are very silly looking. They look really dumb. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Oh my gosh. [00:10:34] Speaker C: What the hell? [00:10:35] Speaker B: They come in a lot of shapes. [00:10:37] Speaker C: What is he doing with his body? [00:10:40] Speaker B: My friend Jess showed me what a treehopper looked like. And then I hyper fixated and then I went into a voice call with a bunch of other TTRPG people and I was like, guys, I found a really cool bug. [00:10:51] Speaker C: They are very silly. [00:10:53] Speaker A: They look like the dinosaur versions of bugs. [00:10:55] Speaker B: They're really goofy little guys, you know. [00:10:58] Speaker A: Where you're like, this is what people. People are going to think they looked like when there aren't any more on the planet. Kind of like artists designed them to look like. [00:11:08] Speaker B: Have any of you. Have any of you. Have any of you played Fossil Fighters? [00:11:12] Speaker D: No, I have not. [00:11:13] Speaker B: They look like. That is a shame. It's okay. I'm alone. [00:11:18] Speaker C: I've only played four video games ever. [00:11:20] Speaker B: Fossil Fighters is like a Pokemon esque thing where you get to like go look for. Look for dinosaur bones and then you can put them in a machine and they come back to life and then you get to make them fight each other. It's great. But tree hoppers, some of them do just kind of look like either Fossil Fighters dinosaurs, or just like Digimon. Like, I don't know what to do with this guy. Let me add this really dumb looking thing. Or in the case of later, Digimon. Let me just add like eight guns. And that's the evolution of it. [00:11:56] Speaker D: Speaking of adding dumb things and eight. [00:11:58] Speaker A: Guns, that's Myla's evolution. Yeah. Welcome to spells and whiskeys. Myla has evolved into eight arms for eight guns. [00:12:12] Speaker D: Octomyla. [00:12:13] Speaker A: All right. Like Octodad coming from Steam. [00:12:19] Speaker D: Octomyla with octoguns. [00:12:24] Speaker A: And each of those guns has eight arms with eight more guns. [00:12:28] Speaker D: Whoa. [00:12:30] Speaker B: You've just created a. You just created a hydra. [00:12:32] Speaker D: Man, Otter. [00:12:33] Speaker B: Isaac really got enough Hydra. [00:12:35] Speaker A: Why did my. Why was my home my buying agent just calling me? [00:12:39] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:12:40] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:12:41] Speaker D: Tell him you're recording a guy I. [00:12:42] Speaker A: Bought the house with. [00:12:45] Speaker B: I know that is. [00:12:47] Speaker A: All right. [00:12:47] Speaker E: Anyway, I don't know if that's his name. [00:12:49] Speaker A: His name's Derek. [00:12:50] Speaker D: Yeah. Derek. [00:12:51] Speaker A: So you were close. [00:12:53] Speaker E: My middle letters were perfect. [00:12:55] Speaker B: I thought you were about to say his name for me, actually. And I was just like, damn, then. [00:12:59] Speaker A: That would have been really funny. So last time on the airship to Ospy, Auden and Melwin had a conversation about Melan's mom. And Lexia agrees to help Myla try to connect to the prism. Although she does warn that it might take a very long time. But she can try. Everyone shows up to Melwyn's home in Auspi with dads and brothers hanging out. And everyone stays a few nights while Melwyn takes back the rest of her emotions and took some good damage for it. The following day, Mila did a very intense surgery on id, removing pieces of the bomb and putting his heart back inside of his chest. So that is Kind of where we are out on these rest days. From here on out. I kind of figured that this episode would be what you guys want to do to prep for a fight. Things that you might want to go buy or get made or find or, you know, learn and how long you want to do how long you want to take to do those things. So in my brain, it's kind of popcorn y and we, you know, we do it in a popcorn popcorn style. And if we need to clarify a timeline, then we will. But that's kind of the idea for the episode today is a montage of prep in order to go to this big fight you've been planning for. So what's the prep look like for everybody? What are you looking for? What do you want? [00:14:39] Speaker E: I can start because I'm super prepared. [00:14:43] Speaker A: Go for it. [00:14:44] Speaker E: I'm hella prepared. At some point, I imagine that we're taking our boat that flies back southernly direction, and in one of those stops, we stop in gosnesh. And in between sessions, Anastasia had told me that gosnesh is gonna donate some money things. So ID has about a thousand gold to play with from the government of gosnesh and their people's appreciation for him helping out with stuff and being communicative between governments for them and things of the sort. So while in gosnish, ID goes to a tailor and he gets a new cape made because his old one is, like, exploded and burned and dirty and gross and singed. And he gets a new one and he gets a design put into it that I'll talk about after. It's enchanted because he takes it to a church of blue magic and he gets it enchanted there to be functionally a cloak of protection. And I think that he is being very, very gentle and careful with it because embroidered into it are the same 12 stars that he had before, but they're, like, up higher towards his shoulders than they were before. So, like, kind of like right around his shoulder blades. And the. The top of the cape is the same, like, dark blue ish that he had before. But as it goes down towards the bottom, it fades into, like, sunset purples and then orange and then yellow. And right at the bottom, there are seven birds that are, like, silhouetted in, like, the little, like, V shape thing. There's one of them that's farther off to the side than the other ones, but there's some birds that are, like, flying in the sunset ish zone. And he flings it over his shoulders and clasps it into his armor. [00:16:58] Speaker B: And. [00:17:00] Speaker E: Goes and tries it out quite a bit because you have to get used to those kinds of things. Because Edna mode would be sad at not making sure he knows how capes work. And then he goes to a red church also in Gosnesh. Gosnesh being a very military based place. It goes and gets a like follower symbol of the red deity. And he goes to Myla and has Myla basically like weld it above the battery that's in his shield. So there's battery in the middle and then symbol above that. And this symbol is a like a combat holy symbol. That job is to protect the. The user of the shield a little extra. So this item is called a guardian emblem and it's got three charges. And whenever I get hit with a critical hit, I can use a charge and a reaction to make that a regular hit instead. Which is pretty cool. And that's. [00:18:11] Speaker A: It can also affect other people. [00:18:13] Speaker E: Yeah, it says the person who's wearing it. Wearing or using it. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Oh, I see it. [00:18:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. [00:18:19] Speaker E: So other. Yeah, it like a. I could attune to it and then give it to somebody else and then cancel a critical hit that's on them. [00:18:28] Speaker A: From what I'm understanding of this wording in my brain, you attune to the thing and then it can cancel a crit on you or someone that you choose within 30ft of you even though they are not wearing the thing. Oh, it just says you're right when you or a creature within 30ft while you're wearing the armor. [00:18:49] Speaker E: Yes, you are correct. [00:18:50] Speaker C: Nice. [00:18:51] Speaker E: And that's why you read everything. [00:18:54] Speaker A: So it's even better. [00:18:55] Speaker B: Which is even better. [00:18:58] Speaker A: So it protects you and your friends. [00:19:01] Speaker E: Yippee. [00:19:02] Speaker C: Auden does not have funds. But also like looking at stuff like she already has a plus one item. She doesn't wear armor. Like there's not a whole lot that like she could have. So I think in these next couple of days she just spends a lot of time and energy just. You know, I think she's doing sprints along the side of the ship and I think she's doing lots of drills and practicing combat against id. I think maybe she's roped Myla into it too. She's trying to do her best to get. To get ready to fight against multiple things at once. Trying to be flexible and just like ready for anything because we don't really know what to expect. And so she's very focused on that and kind of running herself rag, not running herself ragged. But you know, she'll wrap up and just kind of conk out at the end of the day, Just be ready for just another day of training and growing and pushing herself. [00:20:10] Speaker A: Perfect. [00:20:12] Speaker D: I think. Well, the first. I mean, the main thing Milo wants to do is try to connect to the prism. I think that if there's a way for her to make more of those, like, if they have time for her to make more of those, like, anti purple magic things, she'd want to make as many as she could. She's already done it. She has, like, a formula for it. Gladly will spend whatever money I need to to like, make however many I can, But I think that it's like prism that. And that's pretty much it. Like, she's essentially just trying to focus onto that stuff. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Sure. Can you remind me the last time you used those purple magic things? Because I don't remember what you're talking about. I just don't. [00:21:06] Speaker D: There was an anti cure for the created, right? Yeah. An unzombie cure. [00:21:11] Speaker A: Oh, the cure. Okay. [00:21:12] Speaker D: The cure. [00:21:13] Speaker A: Got it. [00:21:14] Speaker D: Play the cure music here. I love that. Don't do that. [00:21:17] Speaker B: The cure. [00:21:18] Speaker A: We're gonna get copyright and then demonetized on Spotify. Yeah. I will tell you that I do have a list of things that you can get from attempting to connect with the prism. Cool. The all of the things stack and they take a while. So I have things from one week to 12 weeks. And you can do that cycle as many times as you like. So if you were like, I want to spend a whole year, like, we can do that, but it will give you things. I will also tell you that for every week that you spend in this time and Erendo will either get some HP added to his stat block or damage for one of his damaging effects will go up. That's the trade off. It is supposed it is to represent him getting stronger over time. The longer that you wait, the stronger he's gonna get. But the longer that you wait, the stronger you're gonna get. So that is. [00:22:23] Speaker B: That is. That makes sense. [00:22:25] Speaker D: This feels like a group decision. [00:22:26] Speaker A: That is my trade off to you. [00:22:28] Speaker B: Little bit of a bummer, but makes sense. [00:22:32] Speaker E: Just throwing up. Can we decide, like, roll by roll? Because it's a rolls plus time thing, right? [00:22:38] Speaker A: It's not a rolls thing. It's just a time thing. [00:22:40] Speaker E: It's just time. Yeah. Then, yeah, ignore me. [00:22:44] Speaker C: I was just gonna say I don't think I'd want to spend more than like three weeks, which is for every. [00:22:49] Speaker A: Eight weeks of quote unquote downtime or whatever you guys can take a level in something. Except for my love the rest of you. [00:22:57] Speaker E: Whoa. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Could have a level. [00:22:58] Speaker B: I was going to ask if we could level up, but eight weeks is. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Too much and I'm not going to increase his HP by like 100. It's going to be like well here's 10 maybe. Right? Like it's not going to be my. [00:23:09] Speaker D: Question for you guys if we did. I know eight weeks is a long time, but if we did take a level, would it. Would, would it be worth it? Like for you guys at least? Like what are you gaining on a level up that would be, that would possibly be beneficial. Like would it up your proficiency? Like I, I don't know what level we're at right now off the top of my head but like would it. [00:23:32] Speaker B: Up or 10 ability. [00:23:34] Speaker A: It would be 11th level if you're not multi class. [00:23:37] Speaker E: Not. [00:23:37] Speaker B: I would get fifth level spells. Like actually fifth level spells. But that like I'm. I'm fine not taking a level up. That's what I get for multi classing. [00:23:48] Speaker C: I get relentless rage. Which means that that is very good actually. And I'm ragin it actually. [00:23:57] Speaker D: Bonkers. [00:23:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:00] Speaker A: It's Every. It's an eight week cycle. So if you wanted to spend 16 weeks, you can do two levels. It's that kind of. It's a, it's a. Yeah. A cycling thing I think just gets. [00:24:10] Speaker B: Me fifth level spells. But I can check. I don't think I can sub this 9th level sorcerer nut wizard. I can't read. I forgot what class I am. I'm both. Technically, technically, technically speaking, I'm both. [00:24:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:25] Speaker E: I get one more spell slot and improved Divine Smite which just adds a d8 of damage which isn't bad. [00:24:32] Speaker C: That's pretty good. [00:24:33] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Yeah. It gives me access to fifth level spells. [00:24:37] Speaker E: Fifth level spells is kind of. [00:24:39] Speaker C: I mean that could be pretty clutch. [00:24:41] Speaker B: I have fifth level spell slots. I just don't have the spells right now. [00:24:45] Speaker D: Yeah, but that could. I mean we're going to. [00:24:50] Speaker B: Okay. So yeah, I do have one fifth level spell already because of Melon's boon from Lexia and I took steel one strike because I can. [00:25:01] Speaker E: Hell yeah. [00:25:03] Speaker C: So selfishly it would benefit me a lot. So I'm team. [00:25:07] Speaker A: Sure. [00:25:08] Speaker C: Let's take eight weeks. I also think that that would make sense for Auden too just in terms of. She's thinking, I think during this time training, I think thinking back a lot to the conversation she had with Myla about whether or not she's planning on pursuing godhood after all. Of this. And I think that in her mind, there's a part of her that's like, obviously, we don't want Erendrill to get so powerful. We can't stop him. But the longer that we take, the stronger we get. And also, selfishly, the more time that she spends with people, and she knows what is happening in that time, and she knows what she is supposed to be doing and who she is with. And so I think, for me, I'm team, let's take eight weeks and level up. But I'm also more than happy to be upvoted. [00:26:13] Speaker E: I mean, it feels pretty positive to me. [00:26:16] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:26:16] Speaker B: Getting relentless rage for you is huge. [00:26:18] Speaker D: Relentless. [00:26:19] Speaker E: And we don't even know what benefits Jay is going to get. [00:26:21] Speaker C: Yeah, well, Jay doesn't get to level up. [00:26:23] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't get to level up. [00:26:24] Speaker E: But I get all her stuff from connecting. [00:26:26] Speaker A: Right? [00:26:26] Speaker C: That's right. That's right. [00:26:27] Speaker A: At eight weeks, she does not level up. [00:26:29] Speaker D: That's fine. I am okay with that. [00:26:33] Speaker B: What do you get? What do you get? [00:26:35] Speaker E: Then as 11th level paladin HP and another third level spell slot and a D8 of radiant damage on all my attacks. [00:26:45] Speaker B: You mean smite slot? [00:26:47] Speaker E: Yes and no, because I have actually good spells. [00:26:50] Speaker B: You do actually have good spells. It's just funny to say. [00:26:53] Speaker E: Yeah, it's just the smite slot, smite spot, plus maybe something else. [00:26:59] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, Milo wants this really bad, so she will spend whatever time. [00:27:06] Speaker B: Jay's sitting here like, Milo has zero complaints. [00:27:08] Speaker D: Yeah, Like, I. I don't think that she realizes eight weeks fully passes. I think that, like, she's so in it that, like, the passage of time means literally nothing to her. Like, yeah, that means I have to. [00:27:22] Speaker B: I have to pick spells again. Damn it. [00:27:25] Speaker A: So I'm gonna describe to Jay what happens during this time. Can the rest of you think about something that would happen in those eight weeks that narratively translates to this level up? Yeah, it can be really simple. It can be complicated, whatever. [00:27:41] Speaker B: I think melons is really easy, so that's fine. Yeah. [00:27:46] Speaker A: So Lexia is. You guys find a place to settle. It's not hard to find. You have good connections everywhere, pretty much. And she basically, during the day, like, cut, like, not in a rude way, but, like, cuts you off from your friends. Like, you don't need to be focused on them. They shouldn't be here because it's distracting. And if you want to do this quickly, then, like, that's the trade off you have to make. Now you can talk to them at, like, dinner. And stuff. But during, like, the day the two of them, like, leave to a very quiet, empty, forested area, she first teaches you how to open the visual window to see this thing. And she. Again, she can't do this anymore. So you're doing your best based on her descriptions. And is it easier for Myla to do it mentally or to try to physically see this thing? [00:28:58] Speaker D: I think. I think probably mentally. I think that she trusts her own brain enough to be able to be able to support what it is that Lexi saying. [00:29:16] Speaker A: Dude, I had a question. It, like, exploded out of my brain. She asks you to try to open up to the magic that you've known and felt, and then to feel past it and see if you can find the source. And day one is frustrating because the first source that you find is your brain. And you're like, well, I already know that. Like, that's obvious. And then day two is a little bit more like, you're like, maybe this isn't just in my brain. It's in my soul, which doesn't really have, like, a. A physical connection point and past that it goes into. Oh, you can kind of feel that something used to exist in her also. So it can't be source just in you, because she has it, too. And you kind of reach further until eventually you find the end or what feels like the end of all this, like, source reaching. What do you think it looks? I know you saw it with Arcanist Willow, but, like, what do you think it looks like in your mind? [00:30:32] Speaker D: I don't. I don't think it's necessarily a vision more than it is a connection. I think that she's just flavoring what you've already said. I think that she's searching for all of these things, and she's looking almost like it is internal, but it's almost up towards what's in front of her or just past the vision or just above. And I actually don't. And I think that she thinks back at a few days into this idea of, like, the wishing tree that grew from roots. And I think that she remembers the stories that Auden told her of finding that darkness in the ocean down below and that pressure. And I think that instead of looking for something, she starts trying to feel it. I think that she's searching for that same same sort of arcane pressure, less of a visual and more of this feeling, this rootedness that stretches down and beyond, reaching a core of some kind. And I think almost similar to the molten center of the earth in our real time, right it's almost like this pressurized core of magic like Bosskite and Luskite and all of these elements that are brought together with pressure and force. It's that at its core and it's deep rooted and it's down for sure. [00:32:14] Speaker A: And you get physically exploded backwards as you kind of try to mentally touch it, but you feel like a sort of buzz in your body just kind of everywhere. Your arms, your legs, your head. At the end of week one, which will give you plus two to any damage that you do. [00:32:39] Speaker D: Plus two to any damage. Is that weapon damage as well or is it just spell damage? [00:32:44] Speaker A: As long as it's semi arcane or magical in nature Sleigh, which I believe your gun counts as arcane. Yes, it does to our magical damage. [00:32:54] Speaker D: So I should also mention just. Well, I think that Myla is telling everybody about this stuff that she's like finding and the way that she's like searching for this, like when it's just them. But like at like the dinner table at the end of week one, she's like, oh yeah, this is what I found out. Blah, blah, blah. And like this is like. And she's like, now I feel like I can kill people better. Like, and stuff like that. Like, she's just like fully like, like describing like what. It's hard to put into words for her because I don't think she has that capacity. But like, she just describes it as this like amorphous feeling that's just like deep rooted and. Yeah. The killingest magic. [00:33:41] Speaker C: This one's for you. [00:33:42] Speaker A: This one's for you. [00:33:43] Speaker D: Arc dog. [00:33:45] Speaker A: Alexia is. You can tell that like most of mostly 99.9. She is very proud of you. She is slightly proud of herself for being able to teach this without being able to show the thing. She is just like very excited that you've found it even in the first place. Because that's like, I wouldn't say the hardest part. It's not. It's. It's a hard part, but it's not the hardest part. But she is like that. That's tough. Like a lot of people spend way more than a week trying to do that. The. The second week consists mostly of finding consistently finding the prism and getting closer to it without causing like, like physical effects to happen. I think you do get blasted into some trees a few times and you take some damage just from like, you know, like a touch. This thing explode backwards, which isn't fun, but it is seems to be like a necessary part. And so week two is about Trying to, like, exist with this thing without it, like, getting frustrated with you or whatever you want to call it. And the end of week two gives you an extra D6 of damage. So you have a plus two plus D6, which I know is annoying to track, and I apologize. [00:35:13] Speaker D: Okay, I got it. [00:35:15] Speaker A: The third week is mostly. At this point, she is trying to get you to be able to, like, fully connect with this thing because you found it, but now you have to, like, actually, like, plug yourself in, basically, and not get, like, just kind of sucked in or stuck there. This is probably one of the more dangerous weeks. It takes a lot of, like, mental energy to resist being, like, just pulled into this thing. But on the plus side, you are starting to under, like, use in your mind however you want to see this or feel this, that you are kind of understanding the split in the magic where it turns into different colors and different, like, convergence points where, like, red magic and yellow magic split from orange magic. So it's weird because you start to realize that, like, these things aren't actually discreet streams of magic. They're just kind of what people started to categorize in order to, like, make use of this at, like, its base level. Like, every single spell you've done in your life feels like, like, such baby work after all this. Like, it does not. You're like, the immense amount of magic source here is, like, blowing Myla's brain. Not literally, but just, like, is. Is truly so astounding. And, like, all of your spells, while they still cost the same amount of energy, like, spell slots, they do just. They're very, like, quick. I mean, there's no mechanical. Yeah, this is just for flavor that, like, they are very quick. They're very. You're very on top of it. It takes, like, like, almost nothing physically out of you, whereas it kind of does a little bit before. And, like, all that, they become easier. But I think finally, by, like, towards the end of week three, you're able to, like, hold this connection for about five seconds without being blasted backwards or fully, like, sucked in. But in order to do this, you had to focus your attention mostly on what you. What everyone considers to be, like, the blue or purple strands of magic. Like, touching the actual source is still really impossible, but you can touch, like, part of it, and that makes a big difference. Okay. So the end of week three gives you an extra spell slot of first level to represent you being able to, like, stand with this magic and use the magic as the source of energy instead of yourself. [00:38:13] Speaker D: Teehee, give me your Magic power. [00:38:18] Speaker A: The fourth week will give you a slot of second level as you are being able to hold on a little bit longer every time or hold on for the same amount of time, but redirect more energy towards yourself. Six weeks will give you that third level spell slot. You are starting to max out less of what your mind can handle and more of what your body. You know that your body can handle in terms of like spell and energy. And I think this, every time you try to connect, it gets a little bit easier. But even after six weeks, like, this is a long time, you are getting tired. Not in a way of like, not in an exhausted mechanical way, but it's just a lot of energy to continue to try to connect to this thing hundreds of times per day. And Lexia presses you really hard on it as well because she want and not in a way of like, you have to do this or you're gonna die. But like, in a, like, you asked me to do this quickly for you, and I'm doing as quickly as I think you can handle it. So she's pushing you pretty hard. And at the end of eight weeks, you are finally able to like reach in to this. Actually, let me ask, do you think Myla is focused more on blue magic or purple magic or some other kind? It does not have to be either of those. It could be any color, quote, unquote, any color. [00:39:59] Speaker D: I think she is more focused on purple magic based solely on the fact that she does not want Erendrill to have access to strong purple magic. And she's like, if it's mine, he can't have it. He, he, he. [00:40:16] Speaker A: That makes a lot of sense. As you start to get closer to the source of the prism, I guess, or this purple magic strand as well. Getting closer to that point where things diverge. You, like reach in and can feel a specific strand that is like. It just. It feels a little bit different. It could be brighter or warmer or softer or however Myla mentally pictures it. There's something that kind of stands out a little bit. And as you like reach in to grab absorbs into your mind and you kind of feel it sit there like kind of at the base of your skull, right at the back of your neck. And it kind of dissolves a little bit, but there is just some remnant that sticks around. And this one, you can take an extra spell of any kind for a spell slot that you have from any class, any list does not matter. [00:41:26] Speaker E: Find the path. [00:41:27] Speaker D: Shut up. [00:41:30] Speaker A: She doesn't have six level slots, so she can't do it anyway. [00:41:33] Speaker D: I say that with love. Shut up. [00:41:36] Speaker E: That, that is something that's wrong with that spell. Should not be 6 level. [00:41:40] Speaker A: It should be negative and concentration spell. [00:41:43] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Insane. And you are confident you'd like to stop at eight weeks? I mean, give me a conversation to the crew. [00:41:52] Speaker D: This is a hard one because Milo will. Will keep going unless people tell her we gotta go. So I don't wanna put the decision on everyone else. But I, as a player, I'm fine with sticking at eight weeks. [00:42:07] Speaker E: Can I swap over to like what we've been doing for the eight weeks and see how that impacts what we do? Heck yeah. [00:42:16] Speaker A: Sounds Great. [00:42:17] Speaker E: I think IDs doing a lot of training, which makes sense. Like he wants to keep his combat abilities up. I imagine a lot of that is with Audyn. I imagine plenty of that is with large groups of ghaznish, like warriors and soldiers and people who are like minded in needing battle skills. But I think outside of that, most of his time is spent in like war rooms, like trying to slow down Erendrill's progress or like push him towards the. The path that is harder for him to take. And I think in doing that there's a little bit more like battle strategy in ID's mind and a little bit more like mental fortitude in like the. I need to think about this for a long term or I need to think about this in a different way than I was trained to or how do we use our resources the best. And I think that's what eventually gets him the love level up. Because he's doing. He's just doing so much all the time. And it's like he uses his body to 100 and then people ask him to go use his brain to 100% but not the same 120% that Milo's using it for magical purposes. [00:43:40] Speaker C: Take it away, Grace. [00:43:41] Speaker A: What's Melwyn doing in these eight weeks? [00:43:43] Speaker B: Yeah, no, Melan is mostly studying. So I think, I think Lila gets days with her mom and then Melwyn takes nights with her mom to be like, hello, you know things. Please teach me because I'm not great at peopleing even with all my feelings back. Fun fact. [00:44:04] Speaker A: This is probably when she teaches you a couple extra spells. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:08] Speaker A: That you had taken earlier last session maybe. We had talked about it between sessions, bare minimum, that if you spent some time with her, she could teach you a couple spells. [00:44:18] Speaker B: Yeah, Melon. Melon. And by melon, I mean Grace takes two spells that I definitely have on hand. Like a pro Melon learns steal and strike and bestow curse just from working with Lexia on top of whatever the fuck I end up taking for level up and otherwise she's just. She practices with the spell that she made, which is Anna's name for it is disruptibility and I renamed it to nope because I think I'm funny. [00:44:49] Speaker C: Great film also. [00:44:51] Speaker B: So Melon spends time practicing that she draws as much energy out into make these little conduits as much as she can. She doesn't know what we can use them for necessarily, but she thinks maybe it's helpful. I think she practices one whatever wombo combo that her and ID ended up coming up with a little bit. And then I had like one RP thing, but it can wait. [00:45:18] Speaker A: What's up? [00:45:19] Speaker B: Moen wanted to talk to her dads because they seemed not thrilled that she brought her birth mom home. [00:45:24] Speaker A: Oh, sure. Yeah. Go for it. One hanging out in the kitchen. [00:45:30] Speaker F: Um, hi. [00:45:31] Speaker A: Hi, sweetie. [00:45:32] Speaker F: Um, to question. Yeah, you. I'm bad at reading people, so maybe, maybe. Maybe I read this wrong, but you didn't seem super thrilled that Lexia was here. [00:45:47] Speaker A: Oh. Kite turns back around to like, continue doing dishes and Furio sits down on a chair at the table. Is like. Oh, it's. No, it's. It's nothing. It's hard to see the person who let such a wonderful little girl go. That's. That's really all. It's not. [00:46:13] Speaker B: Can I insight check that? [00:46:16] Speaker C: Sure. [00:46:17] Speaker B: I put stuff in my dice straight knowing I would need to roll. [00:46:21] Speaker A: That wasn't smart. [00:46:23] Speaker B: Oh, right. I forgot this little bean is not. Not good at insight. Solid three. [00:46:32] Speaker A: Could be true. He is your dad. He could be lying to your face, you know, to protect your feelings. Who knows? Hard to tell. [00:46:40] Speaker F: Okay, you're being weird. Both of you are being kind of weird, actually. [00:46:44] Speaker A: Vera looks at Kite and just kind of shrugs and says, I. Why? How are we being weird? That's the honest to God truth. We truly just. We saw her once. Barely. Actually, I didn't even see her. It was Kite. He saw her because she dropped you off in the middle of the night and he just saw her out the window, so. Just kind of didn't think she would be back after a couple weeks of having you here. Didn't seem like she was just dropping you off for a vacation or something. [00:47:18] Speaker F: Oh, she's not staying. [00:47:20] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. He looks a little bit more relieved. They hadn't asked yet if she's like hanging out. [00:47:26] Speaker F: No, I don't want her to, actually. [00:47:29] Speaker A: Whatever makes you happy. [00:47:32] Speaker F: Also, Less fun conversation. Not that that one was very fun to begin with. [00:47:37] Speaker B: Again, she's got all of you. She just got all her emotions back. Her brain's a little scrambled. It's fine. Yeah, especially with the 40 points of damage I took from that. [00:47:48] Speaker F: Yeah, you don't. You do understand, what would leaving do, right? [00:47:57] Speaker A: Yeah. And honestly, if I thought asking you to stay would do anything, I would. But you seem pretty set. [00:48:07] Speaker F: I can't exactly leave them now, can I? [00:48:10] Speaker A: Yeah, we've been in our fair share of binds. I don't know. It was scary to have you leave before that. So, you know, when you came home and then you left again, that was hard. But you came back all in one piece, and your friends seemed to protect you. And that's. If you are determined to do this, then that is the best we can hope for. [00:48:41] Speaker F: I think. I think I want to travel a little more when we're done, if that's all right. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Sure. Maybe we can come with you sometime. [00:48:51] Speaker F: Sure. I mean, we went to. We went to the tree that you kept talking about. [00:48:57] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I've only. I saw it a long time ago. Did you. What do you think we may have. [00:49:03] Speaker F: Accidentally trespassed on the tree. Hypothetically. [00:49:08] Speaker B: Oh. [00:49:11] Speaker A: If this was Baldur's gate, it would say, like, Auden Violet ID attitude minus five. Oh, okay, cool. [00:49:24] Speaker F: I mean, it was an accident. We teleported and we just kind of ended up. It was an. It's like purely an accident. [00:49:33] Speaker A: It's like a plus three bag. [00:49:36] Speaker F: We did get to try. [00:49:37] Speaker A: Still an overall minus two. [00:49:38] Speaker F: We tried some of the fruit. It was really good. [00:49:42] Speaker A: Oh yeah? Yeah. They sell it right next. Right nearby, huh? [00:49:47] Speaker F: Yeah, it is good. We did get yelled at an awful lot, but it was fine. Eventually we didn't stay there long. We immediately got off as soon as we realized where we were on the. On the line. [00:50:03] Speaker A: Kite kind of like, chuckles slightly and Vireo looks at him and just because I want you guys to know this, he seems to laugh because it was like a. Like a. We've gotten into trouble together before also, but Kite seemed like more of the one to be like, haha, that was fun. And Variel's like, we just did a bad thing. [00:50:31] Speaker C: That's so funny. [00:50:32] Speaker A: That's correct. I think there's a little bit of the past kind of comes up between them in your statement. [00:50:40] Speaker F: But yeah, because we're gonna get going soon because we have to do things, unfortunately. [00:50:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Why don't you tell me more about where you've traveled? What's been going. What happened? We don't have to RP it. You can just say we. We have that conversation. [00:50:59] Speaker B: No, the melon makes a similar sound, admittedly. [00:51:03] Speaker A: I see. Got it. [00:51:06] Speaker F: Melwyn does just kind of like oh boy. Well, can't exactly say it's been fun. Which is part of the reason travel. After everything's said and done, I want to see what a lot of the places look like that we've been to. When. [00:51:23] Speaker B: Okay. [00:51:24] Speaker E: God. [00:51:26] Speaker D: Nope. [00:51:27] Speaker F: When we're not being chased by people that are constantly trying to kill us. [00:51:33] Speaker B: Grace had to decide if Mel would know enough to maybe not say that in front of her dads. [00:51:39] Speaker A: Yeah, he gets a slight more worry in his eyes. I mean. [00:51:47] Speaker D: I mean it's funny. [00:51:47] Speaker A: I'm go do the dishes. [00:51:49] Speaker F: That's so fa. It's fine. [00:51:54] Speaker A: We're fine. They trade places and Kite sits down. [00:51:57] Speaker F: I mean if it's any consolation, I'm really really good at healing people now. [00:52:01] Speaker A: Well that's fantastic. [00:52:05] Speaker B: No one's like completely flustered. [00:52:07] Speaker A: Just. [00:52:07] Speaker C: No wait. [00:52:09] Speaker A: Let me explain anything. Kite sits down, he says, is there anything else you want to share with us before you go on a suicide mission? [00:52:20] Speaker F: What to no. Should probably. [00:52:27] Speaker A: Well, we're listening very much the oh no. [00:52:30] Speaker B: I'm in trouble now. [00:52:31] Speaker A: Fuck. [00:52:34] Speaker F: More importantly, you should probably have at least one of these. And both of you are very smart, so you could probably figure out how to make more if you needed to. [00:52:47] Speaker B: Melwyn will hand over a vial of her vial that she has of the anti cremated serum, knowing that there is a wizard and artificer and two other boys that are also very good at that shit that could probably try to make some more if they needed to. [00:53:05] Speaker A: Cool. [00:53:06] Speaker F: This will keep you from being a zombie ideal. [00:53:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Thanks. [00:53:11] Speaker F: Good things. I don't know that they'll make it this far. We're gonna try and make it til they don't. But you know, just in case you've already kind of gotten booped by bad magic already. [00:53:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that wasn't particularly great, but all right. [00:53:29] Speaker F: Oh, I think I. I think. I think Myla's calling me actually. [00:53:33] Speaker B: And no one's like scooting out the door. [00:53:37] Speaker A: They do force you to give them a hug before you leave. Like ultimately from Ospod and Yeah. [00:53:47] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:53:48] Speaker A: Auden, you want to talk about your eight weeks? [00:53:52] Speaker C: Yeah. During the weeks of downtime, in addition to doing her training as mentioned previously, I think she also takes a little walkabout journey back to the ocean. I think she wants to revisit not her home, but the Shipwreck, where she met Nador, who instructed her. And she wants to kind of feel close to that connection, that physical connection of like training and getting stronger in a different way from her peers. So by being in that location, it kind of makes sense for her. So I think she spends a little bit of time there before she descends into the abyss, the deep, deep, dark water. And she probably spends like a week down there and then plan plus, like travel time on either side. I can. I'm guessing she probably would have been gone for two to four weeks. Does that sound right? Yeah. Before she returns, having spent so much time under deep physical pressure, she is stronger than ever and just kind of ready to go. And I think that she comes back sort of near the end of this eight week period, still tippy, tappy and fidgety and busy as ever. But I think there is a little more of a seriousness to her. I think upon coming back, she's realized that there is very much like a countdown from here on out of what she can expect and what she knows before that's gone. And so I think that she hitches a ride or whatever her way back to where the rest of the people are. And yeah, just kind of has that determined sort of feeling. But there is sort of a sense of unease with it as well. [00:56:12] Speaker A: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. It's odd. The shipwreck would have been upsettingly quiet. So are you guys wanting to stay any longer after these eight weeks? Myla's sort of cycle ends at 12, so it'd be four more weeks for you. [00:56:33] Speaker C: All we discussed. [00:56:35] Speaker A: Would you like to do that? Would you like to? [00:56:36] Speaker C: But could you give us an update on the Aaron Jerrel situation after eight weeks of our prep? What's he cooking up? [00:56:45] Speaker A: Yes, he has spent a few weeks in. I forgot the name of my own stuff. [00:56:52] Speaker E: Eblia. [00:56:52] Speaker A: That's what I thought it was. And then I was like, I really don't want to say the wrong thing. He has spent a few weeks in Eblia, seemingly conquering some extra villages, towns, cities, and then has spent about four weeks in Nazmoor in sort of the eastern half, moving in kind of erratic ways like backtracking and pathing. Weird. And it kind of seems like he's looking for something specific. [00:57:24] Speaker C: Hate that so much. Thank you. [00:57:28] Speaker A: I'm holding my little guy, Harry B. Here to ruin your lives. [00:57:36] Speaker D: Are you guys fine if I sell some of the. Less guy to get a plus one to my ac? Please? If we're not gonna Use it. Cool. Thank you. [00:57:47] Speaker B: Go for it. [00:57:47] Speaker D: I appreciate it. I'm doing it. I'm getting a plus one enchantment, so spending the 1500 gold pieces to do that. [00:57:55] Speaker B: You're smart. I'm committing to my awful AC now. [00:57:59] Speaker D: You're good. [00:58:00] Speaker B: Because if Melon's in melee range, something has gone wrong. [00:58:05] Speaker D: I just have flavor ideas, that's all. I want to be sexy and hot. [00:58:10] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:58:12] Speaker C: Then I think since we're so close to Myla completing her 12 week pro program at Prism School, I think we should push it. [00:58:22] Speaker D: I mean, I won't say no because. [00:58:25] Speaker C: I want to know. I want to know. And I know you want to know. I know so badly, Jay, that you'd want that. [00:58:30] Speaker D: I want it so bad. I'm trying to be really chill about it. [00:58:35] Speaker C: So I am going to put out that we hang onto our butts for a little longer and see that through. [00:58:44] Speaker E: I'm down. [00:58:44] Speaker A: Hehehe. All right, you guys stick around for the extra four weeks. If there's anything that the rest of you would like to do in these four weeks for flavor purposes, let me know. But as far as I'm aware, there will be no mechanical changes from here on out. Did we mention that Melwyn bought diamonds? [00:59:06] Speaker B: Oh, Melwyn bought three more diamonds for revivify purpose. So she has one for each of the people that will be going into the final fight with us. We decided as a party that Nadia is not going to go with us. [00:59:18] Speaker C: She's in timeout. [00:59:19] Speaker A: She's going to stay home. Poor girly's just a rogue. [00:59:23] Speaker B: Now you say that just steal things. You're kind of rough to watch your mom. [00:59:30] Speaker A: Poor girl. However, will she survive? [00:59:33] Speaker B: Poor sweet little bab. [00:59:38] Speaker A: So at your for the following two weeks, Myla, you get more confident using this spell energy. And at the end of 10 weeks, you will add an extra 2d6 to damage. So in total, over 10 weeks, there's been an extra 3d6 added plus the original plus 2. So 36 plus 2 in any damage. [01:00:11] Speaker D: I want to kill this man so bad. [01:00:16] Speaker A: And then the Lexia kind of warns you that the hardest part is continuing to do this and not just sort of using it for your own purpose whenever you want, but to sort of have a reciprocal relationship with with this thing. Because as much as the Arcanists have connected with the prism, it does not seem like as far as she knows from the last that she heard, that anybody knows where this source comes from. All of this magic seems very infinite in this prism. And they still haven't figured out why that is, but they have learned that they do better when they. When they sort of view it as a like, sentient being to sentient being relationship than like inanimate object to sentient being. Even though you aren't really feeling a lot of like, common symptom of sentience, this thing isn't like talking to you or breathing or anything like that, but you kind of get it. Like it is kind of alive in its own weird way. But I think that there is like a sort of point of enlightenment that you hit at this end of 12 weeks. What do you think that kind of looks like for her? Mentally, physically, whatever, spiritually? Any of the above? [01:01:53] Speaker D: I think that Myla has been searching for so long for anything, anything beyond what she could understand and anything that she could work for. And I think for the first time in her life, as she reaches this enlightenment, I think that it manifests as it not being a statistic in her brain anymore. I think that what probably happens is in this, like, this pressure, this darkness, this rootedness, as she's like trying so hard to tap into this thing. I think that there's this almost like visage of her, like just like hands outstretched on the ground of this amorphous, nebulous place. And I think there's a moment where it. She's. Her hands are almost in this ground, in this rootedness. And she has her brow furrowed and her eyes closed and she's concentrating so hard that as she feels this sentience, this presence, this idea of someone who is there to help and stand by her when everyone else besides her friends, she has viewed as against. And I think that as her. As she is stoic and concentrated and her hands are in the dirt, there's like a flash of an image of her as a child. And we just see from this camera lens or this third person point of view, this view of a little girl, tears streaming down her face, trying so hard to understand the way of a world that she cannot. And I think that as she feels that presence, her eyes open and she sort of sniffles. And her instinct is to wipe away her tears and to use her sleeve to get the snot off her nose. But her hands stay planted firm and she looks down and she sees different colored lights coming from each. Under each fingertip, there's a little bit of red and yellow and orange, orange and blue. And out of her palms, purple. And I think that it feels like a hand holding hers. And as she comes out of that and she comes back into Herself. I think that that little prick of purple at the base of her neck sort of branches up her scalp like tree branches almost. And the bottom roots of her hair are a little purple now, and it stems down into her armor that has a little bit of like purple roots of magic that are now emboldening it. And she feels whole. [01:05:40] Speaker A: Alexia kind of like breathes out like. [01:05:44] Speaker D: A. [01:05:46] Speaker A: Sigh of relief and then she kind of looks at you and says, the prism can know all and has to. So it's vulnerable. [01:06:09] Speaker D: I think. Myla takes a deep breath and she blinks. It relies on the people around it to keep it grounded. [01:06:30] Speaker A: She kind of nods. Yeah. And I think whether we know it or not, we need it to ground us too. Though most people do it subconsciously or not at all. [01:06:58] Speaker D: I knew there was something out there. Nobody. Nobody believed me, but I knew it was there. And the people who did believe me, they're here and. And I can help them. [01:07:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. They need you. [01:07:28] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:07:30] Speaker A: That's. That's it for today. She just turns around and walks away. The end of the cycle gives you a level in any spell casting or half casting class. So you can multiclass if you want or take another artificer level. And then we'll also let you learn a bonus spell of any castable spell slot you have. And that is that there is more out there too. It is easy to feel that, like this was the start, that beyond this connection with the prism is a stronger one, a longer one, an even more grounded one. [01:08:46] Speaker D: I think there's a moment where Myla sits there and I think she feels this infinite possibility. And there is something so powerful in knowing that, that it was nothing but work that led her to getting what she felt she needed and wanted and deserved. [01:09:20] Speaker B: Oh, fuck. [01:09:23] Speaker D: And I think she sits for the first time without papers in front of her and without notes and without blueprints. And I think that she relishes in her success. And I think for the first time, she feels proud. [01:09:45] Speaker A: You all finish your 12 weeks of various training, learning and connecting and head off to find Erendraw. Now, I did roll a luck check behind the quote unquote DM screen, AKA my computer monitor to see if Erendril found the thing he was looking for. I rolled a seven, which is a probably not. So your four weeks seem to have less effect than could have happened. [01:10:28] Speaker D: Eat shit, bitch. [01:10:33] Speaker A: And you all head off to confront him. I assume that you are going to request airship traversing. Yeah, that would be fastest and easiest, so. Which is not a problem. The Godsnesh government will donate the time. Slash airship, slash crew, Although they are not there to, like, help you fight and be soldiers slash allies in this fight, like, you guys are basically gonna, like, rappel out of this airship to the ground. They are not planning on landing. They just are there to, like, like, do some overland searching. And with some. Some time, you guys traverse the lands of Nazmoor over towards where your map that Amali gave you a very long time ago kind of shows like, like, heat signatures of Erendrill's sort of symbol and, like, frequency of this symbol. And it seems like it concentrates somewhere in what seems like the middle of nowhere in Nazmoor. Does anyone have anything else they need to do before this? [01:11:53] Speaker C: I'm torn. I think. Well, my big question is, I know that Myla was kind of giving, like, week at a glance updates to people. Would she have shared much after this final? [01:12:10] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, Yeah. [01:12:13] Speaker C: I think that Myla, like, change as a result of that, if at all. [01:12:19] Speaker D: I think that there is a very distinct change and difference. I think that the day, like, the day that it happens, she's probably just very, like. I think she's very, like, calm, and I don't want to say serene, but I think that there's like, a visible. Like. Like her shoulders are less tense and her posture is a tiny bit worse. And the, like, tilt of her neck when she's inquisitive or talking to people sort of has a. Has a softness to it. I think that the next day, she is just sort of in a really good mood, and she's just like, oh, my gosh, this is so great. And then I think the day that we all, like, get up for, like, fight day, she's all business. So I think it depends on where you catch her in this sort of in between time. But, yeah, I think that that's the emotional belle that is Myla's roller coaster. [01:13:27] Speaker C: Got it. Then I think I am good. Carry on. [01:13:35] Speaker A: All right, so you guys are flying over Nazmoor. Nazmoor is this country that was once absolutely ruined by some. Some people call it a plague, some people call it a curse. It's. It's kind of unknown why this land was especially. The eastern portion of this land was ruined the way that it was, but it became uninhabitable. It was, like, scorched down to the bone, and the dirt became untenable for different plants and crops, and everything just kind of crumbled. So this land is trying its hardest to bounce back as much as it can. But with almost no good dirt, there are very, very few. And I mean like one every, you know, like you see a little patch of green every like 50 miles. Like it is bleak here. What you do notice on the landscape is every so often you do see like points in the ground where a lot of smoke is rising. Not entirely sure why. And then across the land seems to be remnants of trees and flora, bones of people, animals, and skeleton remains of houses and churches and civilizations. They're all very much in ruins, but it just. It feels very quiet. On top of that, there are a lot of scraps of things that are unusable, things that won't decompose over time. Like a lot of old metals that are rusted but not entirely broken. A lot of trash, kind of. [01:15:52] Speaker C: A. [01:15:52] Speaker A: Lot of glass that, you know, doesn't degrade. It is really unfortunate to see all of this, like garbage. And then every. I don't know, maybe every 100 or 200 miles, you notice that there are these like rivers that are cutting through a lot of the ruins and the garbage here. But they aren't rivers of water. They are. They seem to be different kinds of wastes. Oil, human. You know, I'm trying to think of other, like dookie. Dookie, ew, nasty. [01:16:37] Speaker E: McDonald's burger wrappers. [01:16:40] Speaker B: Other liquid. [01:16:41] Speaker A: Other liquid, like waste products. Things that would degrade down to, you know, liquids or movable states like that. There is water here because it does still rain. There's. There's water mixed in, but it's. [01:16:59] Speaker B: It's. [01:17:00] Speaker A: They're not just rivers of water. They are rivers of other. Who knows what. You guys eventually come up to a what seems to be like an old city that used to be here hundreds of years ago that is now reduced to still standing pillars, partial walls, old garrison houses, old towers along a wall that might have surrounded this city. A pretty clear, like town square with a fountain. Couple town squares seem to be a large city. There are a few of these smoke places within this city. And Arendril is marching his army into this ruined city. But he really does seem to be looking for something. [01:17:56] Speaker C: I hope he doesn't find it while we are fighting him. [01:18:00] Speaker A: What do you guys want to do? [01:18:02] Speaker E: Thank the bus driver. Jump in. [01:18:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:07] Speaker E: Where we drop in? [01:18:08] Speaker D: No. Oh, gosh. [01:18:11] Speaker C: Tilted tilt towers. [01:18:13] Speaker D: We have like a. We have like a little. We have like a little hands all in Team Kumbaya moment. [01:18:19] Speaker C: Go spell the whistles. [01:18:21] Speaker D: I'm going to summon my badger. [01:18:26] Speaker B: So. [01:18:26] Speaker D: I don't have to do it for an Action. [01:18:28] Speaker A: So Ari is with you and Nadia is not. [01:18:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:33] Speaker A: Is Yarin with you? Genuine question. [01:18:35] Speaker C: I think he probably should be since he's a God boon. [01:18:38] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:18:44] Speaker A: I can't believe how much you hate this guy. [01:18:52] Speaker D: He's fine. [01:18:56] Speaker C: Out of character. I love him. [01:19:07] Speaker E: I have a question for you, Anastasia. [01:19:10] Speaker A: Because, I don't know, I might have an answer. [01:19:13] Speaker E: Maybe If I start casting magic circle and then move while I'm doing the casting time of one minute, does that stop me from putting the circle down? It says you create a 10 foot radius, 20 foot tall cylinder of magical energy centered on a point on the ground you can see within range. So it's not like I have to like draw it on a spot and then like make it happen. I can put it somewhere within the very tiny 10 foot range. [01:19:45] Speaker B: Just. [01:19:46] Speaker A: Sure you can do that? [01:19:47] Speaker E: Hell yeah. I'm gonna drop a circle on this dude. [01:19:52] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Guys, it's gonna blow up. [01:19:56] Speaker A: Sure. [01:19:56] Speaker C: It'll be fine. [01:19:58] Speaker F: Costing to explode. [01:20:00] Speaker C: Great. [01:20:01] Speaker E: Just to be clear, I. I want to be like ready to action. Yeah, like do that. As I'm landing right on top of him. [01:20:10] Speaker B: Basically, it's about to rain death from above. [01:20:13] Speaker A: Got it. You notice that he has about a thousand people with him. Like, when I say army, I kind of like meant army. Although a thousand is pretty small in terms of like modern army size. But for fantasy steampunk armor sizes, a thousand people would take over a village, no problem. So he kind of. He like seems to leave people behind if they're like not as good of fighters. And he's just been collecting like the better fighters of different villages and has about a thousand people with him that are slug. Sluggishly moving behind him. Opal is there. She is. Seems to also be looking for something in a slight splitting up, but not enough that it's like functionally gonna matter much. Maybe 50, 100ft. You know, she's looking in one direction and he's looking another way, but he does obviously notice the airship coming in and stops and kind of motions for the army to stop, which they eventually do when they like catch up to him. They're all kind of a thousand people spread out into these ruins. Like they're in the streets and kind of like stepping over walls and stuff of all of these scorched, trashed places. And he just kind of. He just kind of sighs as he sees all of you, like, exit the airship. Well, I see you've come back. Have you changed your minds? [01:21:46] Speaker E: My friends would be remiss if we didn't Ask you to stop nicely sleeve before I bit your ass. [01:21:51] Speaker F: Oh, no, he sucks. We can just hit him, actually. [01:21:54] Speaker E: Okay. [01:21:58] Speaker B: Melwyn with her emotions back, chooses violence. [01:22:03] Speaker C: It's not just a default. [01:22:04] Speaker B: It's an act of choice. [01:22:05] Speaker C: Let's go. [01:22:05] Speaker A: I will say this. [01:22:07] Speaker B: I will say this. And I will remind and I will put it into chat. So you have it for the purposes of tokens. But Melwyn will ritual cast find familiar while we are on route and summon an owl to help aid us in battle. Because Ben and I planned shenanigans. [01:22:30] Speaker A: He turns to Myla and says, well, that's unfortunate. We'd still like to have you. [01:22:37] Speaker D: Yeah, I bet you fucking would. [01:22:38] Speaker B: Because it sounds so pleasant. [01:22:40] Speaker A: He just smiles. It's not so bad. You know, you can't. It's very. It's really very calm. You can't really feel much or know what's going on. It's a fairly serene way to be. [01:22:56] Speaker D: You can't feel much. Oh, man. And I feel sorry for you guys. [01:23:01] Speaker B: Eh, Been there, done that. [01:23:02] Speaker D: Maybe that's why you're having such a hard time connecting to the prism. [01:23:09] Speaker F: Huh? [01:23:10] Speaker A: He kind of looks at you and he's. He takes. Takes it in and says, interesting. Who taught you that? [01:23:19] Speaker D: Oh, sorry. I didn't realize that I owed you any answers. [01:23:22] Speaker A: Merely curiosity. Mmm. Figured you could understand. [01:23:28] Speaker D: Oh, I do. I just don't like you. [01:23:31] Speaker A: I get that a lot. Well, I guess there's no time like the present, is there? [01:23:39] Speaker D: Maybe for people who don't have a future. [01:23:41] Speaker A: And he readies up for a fight. Let's go, gamers. [01:23:48] Speaker E: Let's fucking go. [01:23:50] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. [01:23:52] Speaker A: Next time on spells and we'll wreck their shit. Next time. What? Hey, hey. [01:24:00] Speaker C: Quick. [01:24:00] Speaker A: End the episode quick. [01:24:02] Speaker D: I did that. [01:24:04] Speaker A: Wait, before we end. [01:24:05] Speaker D: Before we end. [01:24:05] Speaker A: I took my other level. [01:24:06] Speaker D: I took another level in Artificer, so I get another infused item and two more known known infusions. [01:24:11] Speaker B: So I'm gonna work on that during the break. [01:24:15] Speaker A: Okay. I'm just saying that here. [01:24:18] Speaker D: I know. That's why I took another level in Artificer. [01:24:21] Speaker A: Right before combat. We'll go over the, like, list of what everyone has and active spells and active infusions and abilities before we fight so that everyone is on the same page. [01:24:35] Speaker D: Beautiful. [01:24:36] Speaker A: All right, we will catch you next time for the grand finale fight. Only three years worth of content to get here, game gang. We got it. Okay. See you next time. Goodbye. Hi, everyone. It's Anastasia here. I wanted to come in and do the outro and just earnestly say thank you so, so much for listening. We are getting close to the very end and it has been a crazy three years. 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